♦ THE WEATHER TODAY. ♦ ♦ For North Carolina: ♦ ♦ Fair; Warmer. J VOL. LIII. NO. Leads all lorth Carolina Bailies in Hews and Circulation BUTLER IS THE DADDY OF lIDEPEIDEKTISM Pritchard Insisted That Indepmdents Should at Once Call Themselves Republicans. THAT WONT DO, SAID BUTLER An Eastern Democrat Must go Through Fire and Hell Before he is Willing to be Called a Republican. Pritchard Came to Butler’s Plan, But the Daddy Thinks he Came too Late. Ex-Senator Marion Butler is the originator of the plan of campaign Senator Pritchard is running in North Carolina this year, so he claims. It seems that he tried to get Pritchard to inaugurate it earlier, but Pritchard postponed it until Butler be came “disgusted.” The following is a portion of a letter written a few days ago by ex=Senator Butler to a prominent Pubnigen candidate for the Legislature in North Carolina: “On the ist of January 1 spent over half the day with Pritchard begging him to epcourage the Inde pendent movement and to assure every man who was known to want to break from the Democratic party that if they would call a State Convention that both the Republican and Populist parties would stand in the background and back them up. For some time he agreed with me that this was the best thing to do, but at last jumped the game and refused to do it. There was a hope of carrying the State if he had done this. The Independent movement was ripening all over the State, and instead of encouraging it he has driven back 9 voters out of 10 who were willing to leave the Democratic party, especially in the east. An eastern Democrat has to go through fire and hell be fore he is willing to be called a Republican. There are thousands of them who want to leave the Demo cratic party, but they want to leave by easy stages. They would like first to be called Independent Demo crats, and next Independents, and next anything to beat the Democrats, but last of all would they be called Republicans. Pritchard lives too far from the east, to be able to comprehend this situation. He could have been re-elected, in my opinion, this year, and the Simmons machine whipped if he had agreed to follow’ this course. “But the Independent movement has been so well rooted that while it has been discouraged and retard ed terribly in this campaign when it would have flowered and blossomed under proper encouragement that it may take one or tw o more campaigns for it to grow sufficent for it to carry the State. “As soon as I found that Pritchard and his com mittee would not agree to the only sensible course that w ould give a chance of victory, I w as so disgust ed that I decided not to make a single speech and to give my whole time to business. “I find, however, in todays mail, not only the let ter from you, but from so many other points in the State requesting me to make some speeches and hold ing out hope of possible victory, that I am inclined to do every thing in my power to drop all the business engagements I possibly can and get in 10 or 15 speeches if possible, towards the close of the cam paign.” THOMAS MEETS BTJTLEK. Joint Debate at Mount Olive They Sneak at Goldsboro Today. (Sp iial ,o News and Observer.) Mount olive. N. G., Oct. 22.—Hon. Ghas. 1 K. Themes an 1 Maj. George e. Butler met in joint debate hero today. Thomas Butler to admit that he did nm endorse the amendment. Thomas charged that Butler was undecided as what posi iten to assmqe until bis brother. Marion, telegraphed aim that lie should not run a a Republican or Populist, but as an Independent. Thomas, showed plainly D*ai Butler, while claiming to be Inde- I > od-'nt. wus u Populist, but now advo cating Republican policies under orders from h< id |ii:ii i,-rs in Greensboro, that he was neither fish. Resli. fowl or good red itvrrln.j. Butler criticised Thomas tor The News and Observed making tariff the issue and yet the tariff was (he burden of Butler's speech. The clash is on again at Goldsboro tomorrow. SMALL FIRE IN EDOEMOM. Riba Broken by a Xcle's Kick. Bitten by Hi* Own L'og. fijpecial to News and Observer.) Durham. N'. P.. Oct. 22.—There w» a t:ri In K'lgctimnt (his moffubg about 11 o dock at the residence occupied by \V. A. Black. Living in the house with Mr. Blacks n>ily was ihe family of a Mr. I rown. I'De lire originated from a Uc ftciive Hue. Nemly -|| (he lurnitun was moved oul in time to escape damage. The building, the roof of which was the only tiling burned. w : ,s saved I y the cf foi l, i-r the employes of lln !Mg< m<> it Dot!mi Mill . who tan a line of 10. . EALEIGII. NOKTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 23 1902. from the mill to the sccno of the Are. The loss will amount to some or MOO, covered by Insurance. The Golden Belt Manufacturing Company owned the building. L. 'l'. Harvard, of East Durham, is suf fering with two broken ribs, the result of a kick from a mule. His condition is reported as favorable as can be expected under the circumstances. Alderman \V. T. O Brieu is in Balti more, where he w?nt to undergo treat ment. A few days ago he was painfully bitten by his own dog, who was thought to have hydrophobia. The canine was killed soon after biting its master. Mr. O'Brien’s condition at the present is not the least alarming. He went on to Bal timore merely as a matter of precaution. F.orrel Cates, while at work in the Duke factory on Tuesday afternoon was hit on the head by an elevator. Dr. J. M. Manning attended him. The injured young nan is said to be not dangerously hurt. Forty New Engines Ordered. (By the Associated Press.) Roanoke, Va.. Oct. 22.—The Norfolk and Western Railway Company today placed orders for forty new locomotives. The engines contracted for are what are known as Class “\V,“ freight engines, end the work of building them will be divided between the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the American Locomotive Works, each concern erecting half of the number demanded. This makes 139 freight engines and six passenger engines con tract ad Tor by the Norfolk and Western during the last ton months. IT TIES OUR HANDS Principle Ennunciated in the Samoan Case. We Will pay the Damages Assessed but Re fuse to Accept the Principle as a PrecMien*, (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Oct. 22.—An intimation has been received here that King Oscar, of Sweden, who is acting as the arbitra tor of the issues between the United States, Germany arid Great Britain, grow ing out of the Samoan rebellion o f 189 b. will decide that the facts presented to him in the briefs of counsel,'which have been pending for nearly a year, warrant him in proceeding to assess the damages sustained by foreign residents of Samoa as a result of the landing of a combined foree of American and British sailors tend marines, and the destruction of property incident to the ensuing fight with the rebels. By the terms of the treaty, under which the three powers agreed to submit these claims to arbi tration. the arbitrator was first to de clare whether or not the Americans and British were at till liable for damages, and if so, then he was to determine the amount of that liability. He has, it is understood, concluded to decide the first question in the affirmation. The next step is to fix the amount of the damages, and this must be done by King Oscar upon the basis of the facts now to be presented by the representatives of the governments concerned. The German claims are far larger than the others, amounting to $103,918, while the Ameri can claims are *77,605, and the British only ?6.255. It is not the amount of money involved in this approaching decision of the arbi trator that concerns the Government of the United States, but rather the enun ciation of a principle which, if accepted as a precedent, would be most unpalata ble, and would so seriously restrict the assertion of American rights in foreign countries in case of revolution or rioting jeopardizing the lives and property of our citizens, that it would amount to (he total withdrawal of protection. This can never be admitted, and so it may be positively stated, that while the United Slates Government will accept the arbi tration loyally and pay any damages as sessed against it, it will utterly refuse to be bound by such a principle or t o recognize it as establishing a precedent. Otherwise the United States Government would be held liable for enormous dam ages in cases where it lands troops upon the Isthmus of Panama resulting in a collision with rioters or rebels, even though the government is solemnly bound by treaty to preserve free traffic across the Isthmus. The United States could not land marines in any of the West Indian or Central and South American ports in any emergency without risking liability for heavy damages. These considerations will lead to the declination to recognize the decision as a precedent, and incidentally, to the sub mission of the next similar case to The Hague tribunal in the hope of another and different decision. Patterson Puzzles Chapel Hill (Special (o News and Observer.) Chapel Hill, X. C„ Get. 22.—Hon. Liml sav Patterson, Independent candidate for Congress from the Fifth district, but who is really a Republican sailing under false colors, spoke hepe tonight to about seventy-five students, and a small num ber of citizens for over an hour, taking ns the paramount issue of »he campaign the Congressional record of his opponent, Hon. W. W. Kltchin. Why it was that if Mr. Kihhin had such g. dark record that Mr. aPtlerson did not agree to have a joint canvass with his opponent, and thereby force him to ac knowledge his Impolitic record, is a «iue»- ti«m that puzzles the citizens of Ch«pel Hill. r HIS BLACK KABOS UPON HER THROAT Heaven Sends Help to Struggling Woman ! -i - ATTACKED IN HER HOME Honor and Life Assailed. Saved as by a Mira cle. The Negro Takes lo Flight. Searching Parlies Scouring the Wtods, (Special lo News and Observer.) Goldsboro, N. C., Oct. 22.—Sheriff Scott received a telephone message from Princeton tonight, stating that a young white woman had been outraged bv a negro man and asking that blood hounds be sent at once. Deputy Sheriff Henry Grady left at 7 o"block with dogs for the scene of the ciriiie. A later phone message brings the in formation that the lady is the wife of Mr. Hymbriek Johnson. Jr., and that she lives on the public road about one mile and a quarter from Princeton. The brute who attempted the crime is a strange negro who had been working in the neighborhood for about three months. His first name is John. He wont to the home of the lady this after noon while her husband was off at work, and while there was no one in the house with her but her ten months' old baby. The negro made improper proposals, which were resented, and he then re sorted to force. In the scuffle be had torn the lady's clothes from her body and bod dragged her into the yard, where he had begun to choke her, when Mr. John Daniel Edwards came down the road with a team and a load of wood. The negro broke nod ran-across the field to the woods, and has not been seen since. When Mr. Edwards came up to the house he learned the particulars of the assault from Mrs. Johnson. Mr. Edwards went on to town, where he told ihe news. Searching parties were soon organized and the woods being hunted every where for the brute who. if he is caught, will have swift and terrible punishment meeted out to him. *j» .j.-j, .j. „j,.j,.;. ,j. z. .j. t THEY'VE MONEY TO bUEN. * •J* .% *»- »*. ♦9 And aro Spending it Lrvishly for the In *•* dependtnt Ticket ♦> ❖ (Special to News and Observer.) Durham, X. <’., Oct. 22.—About *:* •5* four thousand of the “Pearson *:* Pritchard. Patterson and Pros- *:* «*» perity’’ posters have been put upon a *-■* the bill-boards, walls and fences •> £ throughout the city. To be exact, *s* »> the new bill-boards to advertise y their Republican placards cost *♦* S2BB. 1-Jven some of tin Independ- ’?* ❖ cats admit that there is consider- ? T able money being spent to elect X their candidates. X ❖ ❖♦>»>♦> ❖ *> ❖ 6—J* ♦> ❖❖ •>*> ❖•> ❖ *{* 6* *H 6- »> ♦> ♦> REFUSES 111 PATIFr I he Landsthing 1 ies cn the Bill to Cede Danish West Indies. tllv the Associated Press.) Copenhagen, Oct. 22.—The Landsthing today rejected the second reading of the bill providing for the ratification of the treaty between Denmark and the United States in regard to the cession of the Danish West Indies to the latter country. Tne vot > stood 32 to 32, a tic. The an nouncement caused the greatest excite ment in the house and demonstrations on the part of the spectators. The predominant sentiment throughout Denmark is undoubtedly prosale and the rejection of the treaty is attributed chiefly to a domestic political effort to embarrass the government and bring about the resignation of the ministry. The question of the sale of the islands may uot remain dead for any length of time. The inability of the Rigsdad io agree on a policy for bettering the condi tions of the islands s exported to be a factor in again forcing the sale of tlm islands to .in issue. The result o? today's vote was doubt ful until the last moment. Oue member had not .taken a definite stand and it was uncertain whether two sick members would be able to attend. The Uabliv't hell a meeting Imme diately after the rejection of the bill and (he ministers unanimously agreed that the action cf the, Landsthing did no, necesci’ate (heir resignation. IT IS NOT A HARD LAW So S»y* a Ex-FoahnaMor of the Kegis tration Law. (.Special to News'and Observer.) Scotland Neck. X. Get. 22. —So few as m«y be judged from, what they are say ing about it, the madges of »h<* negroes here do not care a fig about registering. Only a very few ha registered, and perhaps mest of iio n Ido not even try. Your eorrcspoiiT-ut interrogated an e\- po-n master, a colored) tnau who held office under M< Kiulcyy and he aid he found no trouble in registering, ami that the registrar treated him pleasantly, and did not seem to have any disposition to stieklc on technicalities. Being asked if he thought it a hard law, he said he did not. but believed that if such a law had been passed twenty-five years ago it would have been much better for the negroes. Mr. John Mizzell, who live near Palmyra, a few nights ago lost his house by lire. Nearly all the contents were lost. He saved his valuable papers. It occurred about 11 o’clock and the farm hands being away at a meeting in the neighborhood, there was not help enough at home to save the house. The fire was caused by a defective flue in the corn room. The house was a nice farm home, built of the best of material, and in old time style. It was worth perhaps, ?2,a00 and there was no insurance. Mr. Mizzell was sick at the time and had been for several weeks, his wife was blind and ids son's wife was also sick in the house, Ho will build a new home. New Bank for Asheville. (Special to News and Observer.) Asheville, N. C., Oct. 22. —A represen tative of an outside bank is looking over the situation here with a view to the establishment of a State bank. Those concerned have boon favorably impressed with the outlook and have determined definitely to establish the institution, which will be organized to do a general banking business. The new concern is to be located in the front of one of the ground floors occupied by Green Bros., on Patton avenue. SHOT Ilf HIS WIFE AnJ Dragged Her Screaming Into the Street. I Bru'al Deed of Man Whose Wife Lift Him Be cause of Cruelty. He Flies Pursued by Bulle'f. (Special to the News and Observer.! j Greensboro, N. Oct. 22. —Jas. J. Hankins is manager of a laundry at Salisbury. Hi:; wife left him last March, charging extreme cruelty. Two months ago she came here and secured a posi tion with Dicks steam laundry, boarding lon Gorrell street. Sunday night she ' alleged Hankins came here and fhreaten ! ed to kill her, but she hid from him. i Yesterday afternoon he came down again i and after telling her he would kill her. i so she avers, she went to the residence 1 of J*7. R. Miller, on South Greene, man ager of Dick's laundry, to spend the j night and get protection. Hankins came ,to the house about ten o'clock last i niirht. After being warned by Mr. Mil ! ler to stay out of his house, Hankins ; secured a “search warrant" for his wife ! and Constable Dave Scott accompanied the whole crowd to see Justice Wolfe. After hearing ali sides he told the officer to take the woman back where he found her, saying that any further proceedings I would be had today. But Hankins kept j hanging around Miller's house and about j four o’clock this morning Mr. Miller saw j he was going to make an effort to break i in. and having no pistol or gun in the j house he went to the Guilford and se cured one. Meantime Hankins broke down (lie ! front door w ith a crash and on i terinc the hall fired three shots into the J ceiling, terrifying Mrs. A!i Her and Mrs. ! Hankins, who were alone in the room. I as well as Mrs.’ Be a and her daughter. | who occupy the adjoining residence—in ! fact the whole street was in great alarm, ; but there was too much shooting to venture out in the street —besides the shooting was over before any of the neighbors got out of bed, though they had been kept awake most of the night by the quarrelling. Then making his way to the room where were Mrs- Han kins and Mrs. Miller, he grabbed his wife and dragged her screaming out into the street. At this juncture Mr. Miller returned and rushed toward them, but just before he reached them Hankins, holding the woman by one hand, shot squarely at her head, but she dodged and the bullet sped by. Mr. Miller then shot at Han kins and thinks he hit him. though he ran. shaking his head. Officers Jordan and Patterson showed up almost at the same time and the first named fired several shots. Miller says he fired five time in all- but Hankins kept on run nine up West Market and disappeared. Search was made for him until after day light. but he was not found. This is one of the most high-handed outrages ever committed here. Hankins hod said te Miller and his wife: “You both die before morning," and it seems he intended it. Salisbury's chief of police 'phoned this morning that he thought Hankins was in that place, but would know later. If In* can be located he will be brought back. S, A L not Crippltd by Lack of Coal. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Oct. 22.—With reference in a recent|v published statement that the freight traffic of the Seaboard Air Line is almost crippled by the scarcity I of coal. Vice-President J. M. Harr, of the itv aboard, said today: "There is no truth ! in the statement. There have been no I trains annulled, no failure to move freight, nor any loss of time on any freight or passenger (rain us« (his nc- I count. All i»ec f, -«sj«ry arrangements have been maile to pi event any shortage,“ | SENT CARRIAGES FOR NEGROES Pritchard Loved Them so in 1897 that He Treated Them With DISTINGUISHED CONSIDERATION It was Only After Their Votes, Which put Him in Office, Couldn’t Keep Him in,That He Kicked out of the Convention the Negroes He had Sent Carriages for in 1897. The Democrats do not ask and have never asked for the votes of negroes. They disfranchised as many of jhem as they could legally and constitutionally disfranchise. But they have always treat ed the negro with kindness and fair ness and they will continue to do so. solely because the party is great enough to do right. The action of Senator Pritchard to ward the negro in this campaign has been such as 1o make him forfeit the good opinion of fair-minded men. The worst sin in life is the sin of ingratitude. Sen ator Pritchard owes bis political elevation and prominence to the negro vote which he obtained by promise of political ele vation of the negro, which promises ho kept by putting 1,000 negroes in office. Is it any wonder that self-respecting ne groes should feel indignant at such in gratitude as Pritchard now shows—now (hat he is appealing to white votes and the negro has been disfranchised? Scotland Harris, (col.), who was elect id a delegate to the Republican State con vention, was a member of the Legisla ture of 1*1)7 that elected Pritchard Sena tor. Ho was the recipient of great at tention by Pritchard then. At tin* Re publican State convention he was "bowd aeiortsly" > kicked out by Pritchard's or ders. Ho has written a letter in which ho makes a severe indictment of Pritch ard. He says: “Just five years ago I was a member of the Legislature of North Carolina from the historic county of Halifax. “And one night as I was sleep at the hotel with the rest of the colored mem bers I was suddenly awaked by a mes senger from Senator Pritchard urging me to arouse the other negro members from sleep and to come at once, to his room at the Park Hotel—and that 110 had carriages at the door for us to take us to said hotel. I got the boys up in less time than it takes me to tell it. And>in a few minutes we were in closed carriages rolling to our political doom. When w c got there we found Senator Pritehard crestfallen & dejected—and with a voice choked with tremulous fears, he told the sad story, ‘That some of the white Republicans, (these lily whites), were conspiring with the com mon anoßiy to defeat him —But at no time had he doubted the loyalty of the colored members—but he desired that vc would sign a card, pledging him our support that these 'lily white fighters’ might see that uselessncjss of their oppo sition.’ “This is an instance that this .!. (’. Pritchard used the loyalty of the negro to whip his lily whites in line. “He further stated. 'That h* could not be elected without our votes.' and as a. consequence of his inability—he made promises & pledges to us as no man in N. C. ever made to his constituents. “And as a matter of fact not one of which Isas ever been fulfilled unless it. was when I was elected a delegate to the Greensboro Convention by the unanimous soncent of the Rep. convention of Halifax eo.—That T was with the rest of the Colored delegates unceremoniously kicked out of ihat so called Rp. Conven tion, and threatened with r?ob violence if we took seat in that said ' convention, even as spectators. The doors being guarded to prevent our entrance —thus this convention of political mountebanks, and the rejected of all political parties— lifted the roof off the Citv Hall when the Chairman —said. 'That he thanked God that the rep. party had been delivered from the body of the dead.' If we were so dead, why did Sena tot Pritchard send closed carriages for those eleven dead bodies at the hour of midnight during the Legislature of 'J>7? Yes. he wished to crawl over those dead bodies in the r. S. Senate, and when he had ore vailed, upon us, to throw ourselves down for him to walk into official hon ors. entirely beyond his fitness. — no sooner had his foot cleared our (should ers, —he wiped his foot on us and slammed the door of the party in our face. “And again this political viper who was warmed in die bosoms of negro voters, crawls out his sick Lm «1 i<. cringing his way in Alabama, that his poisonous fang might pierce the political heart of tin* negro there ns had already been communicated in North Carolina. “Not content with the work at home, he is reaching his internal talons into oth’*r realms, declaring that the negro must be dehumanized and treated as a political renegade, and hut out from nil the councils of the patty to which he has clung with uncompromising fidel ity and unswerving devotion since the dawn of Din semblance of freedom. No one man in all th«* hi lory of Ameri can politics has created nttndj sea'i imrut and misgivings amoug the negroes. ♦ THE WEATHER TO-DAY t ♦ ♦ ♦ For Raleigh: ♦ X Fair; Warmer. X PRICK FIVK CK'TTS. i not oven Ben Tillman, of {South Caro* ’ lina.” “And what is more astounding about it is, that it was not only the. eleven negro 1 votes in the Legislature that made his ; election sure—but the negro cast 3-4 of j all the votes that elected a majority to that Legislature of '97. “And for these political elevations by the negro—he smites the hand that gives him bread. “And by his every act nnd purpose de ' dares the 1 the negro shall never enter the councils; or conventions of the Re publican party or enjoy the emoluments of office so long as he enn have the ear of the administration as h* did at Oys ter Bay just before the State convention, and as he did on it Southern trip through Wogtern North Carolina. “But after Senator Pritchard has met. one of the most overwhelming defeats on record, November 4 th. he may apply to th •» administration for that substantial aei and patronage fer his fight fn North Carolina & tho South against the negro, “But let him bear in mind, that if any ! such claim is honored by tIW adminis tration it will be done over the protest of 2 millions negro voters of this coun try. and as to where the administration stands on this 'Lily White’ move in the ; South will no longer be a question. For on this one man the eyes of ‘be world are fixed. “A hint to the wise is sufficient." RECTOR OF ST ANDREWS Carnegie Installed. Appeals for tho Creation of the United States of I urope (By the Associated Press.) St. Andrews, Scotland, Oct. 22. Andrew Carnegie was today formally re-installed as Rector of St. Andrews' University in the presence of a large and brilliant as semblage, over which Principal Donald son presided. Mr. Carnegie’s rectorial address eon j sister! of a lengthy study of the coin para - I live growth of nations in the paths of industrial ascendancy, with a striking commentary on their future. In his t speech, which was replete with notable statistics and important economic prophecies, perhaps the most remarkable feature was an appeal to Emperor Wil liam to use his Influence toward th** 1 eventual creation of the United States of Europe, under the form of a political and industrial union. In this way alone, Mr. Carnegie declared, can Europe conquer the foreign markets or repel the Ameri -1 can invasion. France, Germany and Rus sia, who had already taken joint action against Japan, would suffice to ensure a , satisfactory union in Europe. KILLED BY FALLING OJRDTR. Two Men Lose Their Livas ia the Steel Winks at Steolton. (By the Associated Press.) Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 22.— Two uteri were killed, one fatally injured and two others seriously injured today in the bridge and construction deportment of the Pennsylvania Steel Works at Steelton, near here today, * The (load: NELSON B. FETTEROFF. fit) years. FRANK HIRT, 27 years. Injured: k Jere Laak, 37 years, fatally Injured. William Miller and John Shank wore seriously hurt. Shanks’ home is at Shiremanstown, Pa. The other men lived at Steelton. The men were painters and were work ing on a row of steel girders weighing about ten tons apiece. The girder on which they were working fell with them and the others piled on top of it. Fet teroff was crushed to death and flirt died soon after being taken out of the mass of steel. FUNERAL OF MRS. H. W SCOTT The Church Crowded With Rorrowing Friends Many Floral Offer mgs. (Speyial to the News and Observer.) Graham, N. C., Oct. 22.—Mrs. Henry \V. Scott was buried In Graham this af* tenioon. The funeral was conducted by her pastor. Rev. E. (Murray, of the t’r sbvt< ria» church, and former pastor, Rev. | »r. \V. P. McOorkle, of Savannah, Ga. The church was crowded with p'O !>b* front alt parts of the State. Floral offer infgs came in all day from In r friends over tile Stale. Mrs. Scott is mourned by every man, woman and child in Graham. She was loved by itll tvl»o knew her. Col. L. Banks Hob is quite ill to- Hiht. A World'* Record ia Pncit (By ‘he Associated Presr.) Memphis, Tens.. Oct. 22. V world’s !*i .-nnt vns mad - at the Memphis Trotting Track this afternoon in th* first race, a free-for-all, pave, to wagou. with amn (•■ill drivers. Bdvith W wen belli teat , , • aeh lacing pac’d 'll

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