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4 The News and Observer -IT- The Hews and Observer Publishing Co JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Presidemt. Mw: News sod Obserrer BullAlnf, Fij etterllle Street. <TRADES COUNCIL^ ONLY NEWSPAPLJR PRINTED At State Capital Tliat Uee* the ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT, SUBSCRIPTION PRIC*: Per year $7.00 •lx months t.fcO Always strictly In advance. Entered at the poatoffleo at Raleigh, N. C., as second-cl&as matter. WEDNESDAY December 10, 1002. A MORNING TONIC. (John Skelton Y* T illlams.) “At this moment it is charged that the commerce and prosperity of the en tire South are threatened with the blight and oppression of vast railway associa tions which are attempting the placing of the control of the entire system of railway transportation in the keeping c: one man or set of men and at the mercy of one interest, which may be guided by this or that impulse, which may demand that our business shall be developed or depressed/’ THE SAM VICK APPOINTMENT A TEST OF ROOSEVELT’S HONESTY. The deep interest in the determination of the contest over the Wilson postoffice Is not because the country at large cares who is postmaster at that good town. It is not because of any interest in Senator Pritchard’s wiring in and wiring out upon the question of negro office-holding. It is wholly due to the, interest of the peo ple in testing Roosevelt's honesty and sincerity. McKinley filled Eastern North Carolina towns with negro postmasters when they voted and elected Pritchard and Butler to the Senate. Since the Democrats disfranchised most of the ne- ( groes over Pritchard and Butler's i opposition, McKinley and Roosevelt' have turned out every negro office-j holder in Eastern North Carolina except Sam Vick. He alone re- ! mains. Upon the 26th of November, 1902. Mr. Rrtcsevelt, in a letter to a gentleman thus defined his position upon tho ques- j tien of appointing negroes to office: “How any one could have gained the idea that I had said I would not appoint reputable and upright colored men to office, when objection was made to them solely on account of their color, I con fess I am wholly unable to understand. “But it has been my consistent policy In every State where their numbers war ranted it to recognize colored men of good repute and standing in making ap pointment to office. “I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope—the door of op portunity—is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. “It seems to me that it is a good thing from every standpoint to let the colored man know that if he shows in marked degree the. qualities of good citizenship j —the qualities which in a white man we feel are entitled to reward —then he will not h-' cut off from all hope of similar reward.” It was only fourteen days ago when | Mr. Roosevelt committed himself to the above views. This paper does not believe negroes ought to be appointed to office in the South, and thinks if Mr. Roose- ! velt wishes 'o practice his views stated above he ought to give them office at Oyster Ray and Boston. But he was ! writing to a South Carolina man with reference to a South Carolina appoint ment. Was ho sincere when he wrote the above declarations? It is the answer to this inquiry that makes Sam Vick a ; rational issue. In his Charlotte organ, which is help ing him to becloud the Wilson postoffice issue. Senator Pritchard is thus re ported: “The agitation of the Vick matter,” sardonically observed Senator Pritchard, after leaving the White House, “is not without its good results. Among other j things, The Italeigh News and Observer, 1 one of the rankest Democratic papers iu the State, has taken great pleasure in publishing articles written by H. P. j Cheatham and others in defense of the | colored race, and has also published aiti- . cles commending Mr. Vick as a gentle man of high character and standing. The leading Democrats of Wilson have also 1 written testimonials in behalf of Vick as i to his high character and standing, and in this way have given him a quasi en dorsement for appointment as postmaster at his place. All these things clearly in dicate that there is a wonderful change of sentiment in the Democratic part* ] in North Carolina with respect to the political rights of the negro. The people of the State are to be congratulated upon the fact that in future wc are not to be harassed by the race question now that Democrats, or at least those who under take to run the machine in North Caro lina, have done all in their power to bolster up the cause of Mr. Vick in his attempt to secure his re-appointment as postmaster at Wilson. I have done what I conceive to be my duty with respect to the matter, and the question is now in the hands of the President, and 1 pro- | sumo he will make some disposition of the case in the near future.” The readers of this paper know there ; I is no foundation for this statement. The , News and Observer has never said any thing about Sam Vick except this: “He Is the best negro in North Carolina,” and it is the truth. It has not “mistered” him or done any of the things stated by Pritchard. Certain Democrats of Wilson have said that they were urging the appointment of no one as post master at Wilson, but they “took pleas ure in certifying to Vick's high character as a citizen and his good record as post master,’’ as Pritchard's Raleigh organ published it. Four years ago and more Senator Pritchard recommended the appointment of Sam Vick as postmaster at Wilson. No Democrat endorsed him. Pritchard didn’t ask a single white man about it at all. He appointed Vick because Vick, as the leading negro of the town and the leading Republican, had secured the election of legislators who supported Pritchard for the Senate. Then Sam Vick was a power fully good man in Pritchard’s eyes, and he didn’t care a rap whether the white folks of Wilson liked the appointment or not. Not only in Wilson, but in other Eastern towns negroes were appointed postmaster over the protest of Demo crats. Some of them were sent to the penitentiary, some were removed for 'cause, and this year and last all have been removed except Sam Vick. He is the only negro left in a Presidential of fice in the State. The Democratic posi tion in the Vick fight is thus expressed by the Democratis delegation in Con gress: “We respectfully request that a competent white man of good character be appointed postmaster at Wilson,” and no misrepresentation can change their status. The issue in the Wilson postmaster ship at Wilson is clear cut. Sam Vick is a negro. If the administration will follow the Democratic precedent he will not bo appointed simply because the Democrats of North Carolina do not be lieve in elevating any negro to such posi tion. If Mr. Roosevelt removes Sam Vick he will do so simply and solely be cause he is a negro, and in his Crum letter he said he would do no such thing, but that negroes should not be discrimi nated against in making appointments to office. All over North Carolina Pritch ard's supporters are declaring that Pritchard will leave no negro in office in North Carolina. In his letter of Decem ber 2nd, Pritchard said: “I have been criticized because I would not recommend the appointment of col ored people tb office in Eastern North Carolina.” A special from Washington yesterday to the Morning Post, a paper that helped Pritchard to launch his Dily White party at Louisburg, says: ‘‘Senator Pritchard is not fighting the re-appointment of Samuel H. Vick as postmaster at Wilson because of the color of his skin ” The Washington Stax yesterday made the same statement. It begins to look like the President has told Pritchard that he cannot afford, in the face of his Crum letter, to remove Vick because he is a negro—the only charge heretofore preferred. In order to give Roosevelt an opportunity to remove Vick and allege another reason thau his color,' Pritchard has announced, for consumption in Washington city but not in North Carolina, that he is not opposing Vick because of his color, but at this late day has compiled his charges against him in the following letter: “United States Senate, “Washington, D. C., Dec. 8, 1902. “Dear Mr. President: I have the honor to submit in writing my reasons for op posing the reappointment of Samuel Vick as postmaster at Wilson, N. C. “In the first place Mr. Vick has, dur ing the past three years, done every thing he could to obstruct those who have been endeavoring to carry out what I conceive to be the best policy for the Republican party in Eastern Carolina. At the Weldon Congressional convention two years ago Hon. D. W. Patrick, a gentleman of high character, was a can didate for Congress. Mr. Patrick is a gentleman of large means, and stands exceedingly well with the best element of the people of his district. He has never, so far as I know, held any Fed eral position, I was of the opinion that the very best thing that could have been done at that time for the Republican party was to nominate Mr. Patrick. Mr. Vick was a delegate to the Weldon con vention, and the convention was evenly divided between Mr. Patrick on the one hand, who was not a Federal office holder, and Colonel J. J. Martin on the other, who was postmaster at Tarboro. “Under the leadership of those who have done all they could to disrupt the Republican party in North Carolina, I am informed, Mr. Vick gave the easting vote in the Weldon convention in favor of Martin, and thereby secured the de feat of Mr. Patrick. “During the last campaign, I am in formed, he did everything in his power to prevent the success of the Republican legislative ticket in Wilson county. It is a notable fact that the Republican State ticket did not receive a single vote in the precinct in which Vick voted, and the legislative ticket only received two votes in his precinct, and I am informed that both of those votes were cast by white men. Now, I can well understand why Vick, who has always opposed me, should have voted against the legislative ticket, but I cannot understand why lie should have voted against the Republi can State ticket, containing, as it did, the names of some the best Republicans in North Carolina. In consideration of his services to the Democratic party, the leading Democrats of Wilson now come forward and endorse him as a gentleman of high character and standing. “If ex-Congressman White and the leaders of the Democratic party of Wil son are to be consulted about this matter. I have the honcr to suggest that you send to interview a majority of the peo ple of character and intellligence in that community as to whether or not they prefer the appointment of Mr. Vick to that of. Mr. Boykin, whom l have recom mended, and that he require them to HIE NEWS AND 0 state their preferences in writing; or, if this plan does not meet with your ap proval, in that event I suggest that you require Mr. Vick to secure letters from this class of people, including those who have already recommended him as being a gentleman of high character and stand ing, requesting his appointment as post master at that place. “If he can secure endorsements from this class of people, then you may, in the exercise of your discretion, take such action as you may deem proper, but I must still reserve the right to say that in my opinion it will be a mistake undei the circumstances to appoint Mr. Vick as postmaster at Wilson. “With best wishes and high regards, I am, “Sincerely yours, “J. C. PRITCHARD. “P. S.—l herewith enclose copy of letter from the chairman of the county executive committee of Wilson county.” All this pettifogging docs not change the issue. In order to curry favor With Lily Whites, Senator Pritchard demand ed the removal of Vick in pursuance of his policy to remove all negroes holding Federal office in Eastern North Carolina. Certain Democrats, living in Wilson, certified to the standing of Vick as a negro of good character. It is false to say that they did so “in consideration of his services to the Democratic party.” Democrats of Wilson have never dick ered with negroes in politics. This went far toward emphasizing the issue, to-wit: that Pritchard’s only reason for oppos ing Vick's re-appointment was his color, just as his reason for favoring it eight years ago was because Vick was the leader of the negroes and Republicans— synonymous terms in Wilson. Then the Democratic Congressmen made the issue still plainer by asking the Post master General to appoint “ a competent white man of good character.” There upon, when the issue can no longer be beclouded, Pritchard Xittempts to 3hift it, saying this opposition to Vick is not because of his color but because he isn’t a good Republican. In North Carolina he opposes Vick be cause he is a negro. Since the Crum letter, in Washington he opposes him, as he says, because of disloyalty Re publican party. This dodging and shift ing and now-you-see-it-and-now-you don't policy fools nobody. Pritchard is having white registrars indicted in Western North Carolina because they wouldn’t let enough negroes vote to elect Jim Moody to Congress; in Eastern North Carolina he favors turning out a negro postmaster because he thinks it will help him get white suckers into his party. Is it possible that he thinks white voters can be thus hood-winked? It is up to Roosevelt. Will he listen to the Democrats and appoint a “com petent white man” because no negro ought to be appointed to such an office in the South? Or will he live up to his Crum letter and repudiate the advice of Hon. Claude Kitchen, member of Con gress frem the Wilson district, concurred in by all the other Democratic Congress men? IT SHOULD DEOP. The Greensboro papers note a report that another application will be made to the Governor to pardon Roscoe Murrow. It is to be hoped that this rumor is un founded. When Murrow was convicted, the Judge agreed not to send him to the roads if he would pay a fine and a cer tain sum to the young woman whose life he has blighted and for the support of their child. His father, a gentleman of character and high standing, so it is stated, was willing to pay the amount fixed by the judge, but the young man said to do so would bo to admit his guilt and ho would not consent to have his father pay the money. There is not room to doubt his guilt. If he is un willing to recompense in a small way the wronged woman, sympathy for him in misplaced, though too much sympathy cannot be felt for his noble parents. The Governor has refused the pardon, and there the matter ought to rest. Writing of the matter, the Greensboro Record says: “It is hardly necessary to add that the friends of the girl will be heard at the renewal. Believing in the justice of their cause and the reasonableness of their position they say that they will continue their protest and will present to the Governor a stronger case than has vet been made out. It is unfortunate that the agitation of this ease should continue, but if it must, it is only proper that both sides should have a fair hear ing. In stating yesterday that the Gov ernor’s action in the refusal of the par don meets with universal approval among our people and in making the above sug gestion The Record is not taking sides but is simply moved by a desire to see fair play and justice done.” The matter should drop unless the sug gestion of the presiding judge is complied with. The Governor will never pardon Murrow until provision is made for the unmarried mother and the child. The Asheville Citizen says that Rev. R. G. Pearson, having found th" strain of evangelistic work too heavy in his present state of health, has accepted the chair of the English Bible and Evange listic Methods in Cumberland Univer sity, Lebanon. Tenn. Mr. Pearson was an ideal evangelist and if all the evange lists would sit at his feet and learn of him, they would win the respect cf men of all creeds and of no creed. Greensboro, N. C., Dec. 9-—The West Market Board of Stewards, in special session last night, instructed the organ committee to at once give the order for a new $5,000 pipe organ for that church, and it is expected to have it installed in time for the Easter services. BSERVKR, Wf.DNES -AY MORNING. DEC. 10. 1102: Spirit of the Press. A FOOTBALL SUGGESTION. Memphis Commercial Appeal. When in the old Roman days one glad iator had another down and at his mercy the spectators decided whether the fallen fighter should live or die. Thumbs down meant death, thumbs up, life; and when the victor read the verdict of death ho plunged his sword through the body of his foe. Would not seme such device ns this be advisable in football? When half a dozen stalwart fellows are piled upon one lad. why not leave it to the spectators to say whether .they shall break his neck or spine or stamp him to death with their spiked shoes? Certain ly we can afford to be as humane as the old Romans. WHAT'S IN A NAME? Wilmington Messenger. We are told tfiat “there is nothing in a name,” but what a difference there ; s between the plain name of Darnall for a North Carolina boy and that of d'Ar nalle after be becomes a noted pianist. Among the Railroads. Greensboro, N. C., Dec. 9.—Mr. John B. Lending, the railroad financier, who is interested in the construction of the Durham and Charlotte Railroad, spent the morning at the Guilford in close con ference with other railroad men, but de clined to state anything of consequence for publication at this time. He ex pressed great hopes for railroad develop ment in the whole section, saying that nowhere in the United States was there a better field, in his opinion, for all kinds of investments. Greensboro, N. C., Dec. 9.—Chief En gineer George C. McGregor, of the Raleigh and western, came in from Cumnock today on a visit to his survey ing corps, located now several miles south of here. Mr. McGregor doesn’t hesitate to say that his road will be along here before another December rolls around. STATE NEWS. Congressman-elect Gudger has ap pointed Mr. Benj. Kirkpatrick, cf Hay wood, as his private secretary. The Kinston Free Press speaks in the highest terms of Rev. P. B. Hall, the new pastor of the Christian church. Dr. W. P. Exuni, Jr., of Goldsboro, has located at Spencer and is asso ciated with Dr. Young in the practice of his profession. The Caswell Democrat pays a high and deserved tribute to Mr. Robert L. Mitchell, tbe first Democrat elected to the position of Clerk of the Court in Caswell county in twenty years. Louis M. Bownie, Esq., city attorney of Asheville, has drawn an act to extend the corporate limits of Asheville by tak ing in Biltmorc, Victoria, Kenilworth, Mont ford and Ramotli, making a truly “Greater Asheville.** 1 Fred. Phillips, Jr., is home from Kast man's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he recently graduated with honor and distinction. This young man will probably next spring take another special course and then, strange, hut still more gratifying to relate, he expects to farm. Southern agriculture needs just such material.—Tarboro Southerner. Speaking of the address of Hon. Locke Craig at Elk Lodge as Winston, the Sentinel says: “The address by Hon. Locke Craig, of Asheville, was one of the finest specimens of true eloquence ever heard here. No speaker was ever given closer attntlon —nn evidence of interest and appreciation. Mr. Craig fully sus tained his reputation as an orator. He spoke for an hour and he held his hear ers spell-bound throughout ” Greensboro, N. Cl-, Dec. 9.—This morn ing Mr. Stephen A. Douglas, m son of Supreme Court Judge R. M. Douglas, who recently received his license to practice law, left for Santa Fo, New Mexico, to locate, while Mr. P. Baydrus Faison left for Yuma, Arizona, to ac cept a position on a big ranch there. Mr. Charles L. VanNoppen left for Dallas, Texas, to look after his publishing in terests. He is now manager of six States for the Nichols Publishing Co., and will make his headquarters in Dallas. Greensboro, N. C.. Dec. 9.—Two more local tax elections for schools have been carried in Guilford county this week. Yesterday. Deep River church district, in High Point township, by a vote of 16 to 1, adopted additional local tax. (This comprises nearly every voter In the dis trict). In Groome district, Sumner town ship, the election was overwhelmingly in favor of the tax. This makes nine dis tricts in Guilford, and not one so far failing, for local taxation for adcktional school facilities, Mr. Chas. H Ireland at Ouk Ridge, (Special to News and Observer.) Oak Ridge, N. C., Dec. 9.—Few ad dresses have ever been made at Oak Ridge Institute of greater power and elo quence than that made by Mr. Chas. 11. Ireland, of Greensboro, on Friday night, the sth. His subject was “Success in Life.” and for more than an hour he held a large audience of students and citizens breathless by his burning \vord3 of wis dom. Only one has even been compar able to it in interest to the student body, and that was by Hon. N. B. Broughton, of Raleigh, some years ago. President Venable, ot the Sate I -Di versity, will address the students here next Thursday night. "Mrs. Sarah Alexander is Dead. (Special to News sod Observer.) Charlotte, N. C„ Dec. 9.—Mrs. Sarah Alexander died this morning at 1 o clock a L her home in this city. Mrs. Alexan d r was an old resident, a septuagen aiian, being 71 years of age, and was one ot the best beloved old ladies in ( har lc ie. She was the relict of I)r. Bliss C. 1 Alexander, for many years county ph.’sician and prominent as a citizen and in his profession. Mrs. Alexander is survived by three sons and three daugh- ter:-; For Whooping Couch use CHENEY’S EXPECTORANT. BTJBIAL OF REV. W- C- NOEMATT. A Largo Number of Friends and Relatives at the Grave. (Special to News and Observer.) Lexington, N. C., Dec. s).—The last sad rites ever the remains of the late Rev. \V. C. Norman, one of the best beloved ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church in the State, were held at the cemetery here at 10 o'clock today. Revs. F. H. Wood. D. D., of Durham; .T. D. Arnold, of Lexington, and F. M. Sham berger, of Rockingham, conducted the services. The remains were accompanied to their last resting place by a large number of relatives and friends of the deceased. The grave was completely hidden by the many beautiful floral tributes sent by friends from Raleigh, Durham, Lexington and elsewhere. The remains arrived here at nine o’clock last night from Durham, accom panied by Revs. E. H. Wood, W. H. Pegram, Gen. Julian S. Carr and Messrs. J. H. Southgate, J. D. Pridgen, Thomas J. Lambe, J. S. Mesley, J. L. Whitmire, Dr. R. A. Moore, of Durham; Messrs. Jesse A. Jones, E. T. Rollins and Joseph G. Brown, of Raleigh; Misses Annie Pegram and Linda Clements and Mr. W. W. Wood, of Greensboro; and Mr. Eu gene P. Albea and son, Norman, of Winston, and Rev. F. M. Shamberger, of ( Rockingham; and Mrs. Norman and Mrs. C. C. Hargrave and Mr. R. S. Hargrave, of Lexington. The remains were con ducted to the old Hargrave residence at the corner of State and South streets, the homo of Mrs. Norman's girlhood, where the body lay in state till this morning. The deceased was well known and much loved here. Col Phelps Dies at Aiken. (By the Associated Press.) Charleston, S. C*., Dec. 9.—A special to the News and Courier, from Aiken, S. C., says: Colonel Sheffield Phelps died here this morning and his remains will be taken to his home in New Jersey for interment. He was a son of the late William Walter Phelps, and at one time editor of the Tersey City Journal. A few years ago, he built a winter cottage here and has spent each season here since. He also owned u game preserve of 2,000 acres. 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