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THE ONLY DAILY PAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA THAT HAS i OVER 11,000 SUBSCRIBERS TTf 1.. , ,. ; f ' I - i ) 'Sl Si TUB WUATimil TO DAY Washington. D. CL, Oct. 21 North Carolina, -fair Thursday and Friday,' warm er in Interior Thursday; fresh northeast winds, t , ll 4.' .4 ivi - I fe tw II Kit t hJ l tvttl . Maximum .temperature.' 68; minimum temperature. 44; total precipitation fot 24 hours ending 8 p.: m., .0$ 'Inches. "- ' w ! V V o 7 VOLUME LXXXVI30.132 RALEIGI1, N. C.,FKI DAY, OCTOBER -JtM908 PRICE 6 CUNTS MM Diiilies io New WHITE HDDSEIS10U Foeceoi v - ' V i LJads Ml Mori lii Card s and. wsiEii T 1 REPUBLIC Here the Nation's i I i i i : I Chief ly to Sqheme and Plot in the I Interest oj a Party Dictator and His Chosen Hteif T II T i - tormcr tiiin i im- jiiau yi and Library oCtlw DcparUnent of State, at M alUuffton, , l weaves me I Republican Ranks Declare for Rrjan and Gives Ills Reasons fori so Poing Says Koowvelt U hTryiasr to Compel the Nation to Approve 1 DANCROF nOTABLE DIVER IIIsi.Vsurpation9 anu 10 Accept Juswlah to see. it revised in the direction LLLt'-mL. itim nMnrh nr f " "Lfmost raw -material On, the 4 fre Hat. the leonleV Government is Given to f After the example of President Roose- - - ana lorttti ipon I White House. With. Rent. Clerk I t 1 I'ect soon hecame one or he most pro Hire and Governmental j Resources,! found 4f "my policies.' and the cau All Free, Has Xojv Become Repub lican Headquarters. By t ho Associated Press. ) Chicago, 11U Oct. 22.--The Demo- cratic cause haa received a , notaoie recruit from Republican ranks in twe j persn 01 rreaenc uantrou, ii . of Washington. IX C. Dr. Bancroft Avas chief of the Bureau of Rolls and the Ubrarjr of the Department o. State., a - leeturer on law -ana y doijiicb in divers colleges and la now eamnp and completing the Memoirs of - far. Scburat." being published, in ilcciurats ilaeazine In answer to a!cter from a coitece professor. Dr. Bancroft writes, the i ollowinir letter. Which affords a ftn summary of certain of the issues in the campaign which-appeal to men of his type: 1 li My lear Professor Dodd:.? I have 1 mir letter of tho tenth Inst, askiagl what, ' I think! and where I stand In 1 this campaign. Party interests ant ties usually mean - out '.little 'more .to me -in politics than in history. My earliest and most lasting politicar en thusiasms1' have been , for 'the non partisan reforms advocated by George William Curtis. David A. veiis am Carl Schurz civil service reform an.l tariff reform i with the, ultimate ; aim of a' strictly revenue s-stem. Much later this school of reformers led the opposition to (what Is generally char acterized as -pimperialism.7:; . ; that is. onnoititlon t6 v foreien " conauesta. a colonial system ana n - extravaganv I and agsressive enlargement ot the army ard navy. To the monopolistic and unscrupulous trusts and corpora tions and to the secret use' of .vast sums of money in politics the opposi tion has recently- been thoroughly unpopular. Only individuals and or ganizations that hoped to proflt by these ciils have veutureti to oeienu litem. ' : Such seem to me ; o be J the leading- issues or tno campaign. ho campaign.: 1 election of Judge that I was on the could not1 favor the wrons side of each of tlse important questions. Here are my reasons:, q "Wliat Krocr violaUon of the spirit of eivU service reform could there be than for the President,. who . iki " . .i. ..u.i 1. ..i. I ntaiive and aHuch to KtaaT lcial ESrocafi?? and tneel to mSm?j 1 rfver nuWufta t'fJLFZZZ. ,"f: "'4. r"' "'mV rw .YihhT" - ,""ru;V T-"rv: xnAif a aiuMTKia9 - '. DrtA ittAlntlnn -r'u,.3 ar',Z X "Tu ll end of this campaign. The President. after taking f dictatorial control of the Republican national organization, and. by employing his presidential func- .1 - nh,.nnai n- i 4inn. A Conner the aUon Ho approve i TIms executive branch of the people's I I I. .4.-nv. n anH f.11 r, xvhuT resour all free, has now.becorae RcpubUcan Headquarters, x jierc the .1 J i nAmWwo hieetM, not as formerly to eonttatt woioiv about the national ilfare, but rhirfly t , Mm t tioen nnlltiral lolr. ; Here party ; managers of high and of low degree are j summoned and 5, furtively slio 'in by night and by day to give reports to trecerve reproofs and to take f instructions as to hW to : be icret emissaries are dispatched. -pas- Sionate. auu. uuuiguiucu uvuipciauunR and1 ardent appeals are cast to the four winds, and party bulletins are daily, often twlee daily, aent, forth by the should-be president of he whole People. In President Arthur was sup posed to have forced thev Republicans of New York to take Beeretary of the Treasury. Judge f oiger.- a man of tiS: . v taiiuiMu.v k BUI p. .15V nFaDlni. UU a piuiainy ut favor of Grover Cleveland, the Demo cratic candidate, tho New York R - pubucans of twenty-six years ago re - minded the i amiable Arthur that It was Mcrious offence for a President to interfere with tin popular selection ox ranatoates for onicc. A tew yeart ADQUARTERS Cabinet Meets &cro we saw Governor Odel! try? to combine the highest executive office In New "York with the chairmanship of the Republican Stata Committee, He was soon hurled from his hlffh estate and la hardly more likely than Lucifer to rise acaln. Certainly iPrcsl dent ItooscveJt merits a rebuke ttn- President -rtlnir or Governor jpdetl Tecctyed. And Judge TaftWho fkiary of Ircsldcnt Roosev elt's I viobM - "0 andcentvH TO vice, deservenao be the object jof the Cencernina the Tariff. As to the tariff. Judge Taft; is ; na longer taken serioufilv hv nersnnn hv of & strictly revenue systemi with Ivelt. he once ventured K sniinrt 4he keynote of true tariff reform; but deep and eternal silence on that sub- tious Judge now sings only af "pro tection." The vIkHc scheme of tills so-called "protection" hs been one of favoritism for the rictv the etrons nuS8 of neooie: and nearly all tariffs by the Republicans have sur. passed In favoritism and . folly the (Continued on Page Four.) THElil Hit - ..jr ti. '1 r tl! rvIilRflnR 1 naT nRnimil- --"-? - .. --"r-"T" cans Don't Control. Prosperity ! 1 1(1 WEST uemocraey s xjenaer carries ixis wax- . - f vihi. i ! v.n. thasiastically Received Everywhere KrMAk u Manv Farmer and speaks to awu . na 3Iiners Ovations and RouslngjRe- ...uno rirtH, 1 i : 1 ceptlons uiven. (By the Associated Press.) -m,r -w- ' w Zn 8?fe"L S w ' airfare I LSrTi irJ '"Jf Ytl' JSfi, L Vinlwhi 1ST V," ' v?,: jZTa,Z, TZa rl nVr,Sl tSitW S $'lSiJ..jLll fyJ J1,? SfiS had but four and a ha? t hours, rest following his .campaign In Ohio es terday- ne waa out on the Ilatfornt a arly a seven o'clock, telling j th farmers, in his opinion, why they should vote the Democratic ticket. The Republican-party ha. no policy to offer which would bring .them re Passing on into the coa! district, hej Uvoted. much: attention to the labor r W"!L!?i.VJSS ff eJf f Snf filt!; Se?Sl a ISSmJI2 i SSZl of Labor. He repeated his warning to Jaborins men not to be coerced by their employers into voting against th 55- - iB UlOW aecorde-d him waa at Charleston.! He i'ffLiS fJ-JJ f.aJfa; h AZlA every building was decorated with 1.,. ; , ILTJa V ? J EiJZL VSS JLS 1 1 - - , t. i . j! II florth CaTOlina Pine ASSOCiatiOH in Semi-Annual Session in ; Norfolk I ! (By the Associated Press.)! I Norfolk, Va., Oct 22. The Norkh j Carolina Pine Association, controlling the large lumber mills in Eastern Virginia, Maryland. -North and South 1 , - , i vwviiimh .uictuciE tvuay in m;iuiui J nro.Mini. Tt,.-.1 . 1 7 " t,m 1 iue Associauon.to dq in good I condition,-' with many new members 1 rp-ni,a io.i- I 1 u.,vw. j m session, 1 !- tU HtSU BnYAl Kill i IT boodle sFi to i PAST . BSIDifflR nORTHCAROLiNA ipnrc jur BUSY m YORK Duncan Jsuaded She!- don to Send Corruption Fund WSm HI -BED YORK nepubllcans in'Gotltam Denounce as a -Foor Errand Taffs Visit to the 8ontl-A Waste of Good Money They . Say, to listen to, Duncan's Tale Ttiat Cash Spent Here Would Help Their Cause. , - j Special to News and Observep.) New .York, N. Y.. Oct. 22. There is some complaint1 here "Where thei Re publicans are up against a hard prop osition because Committeeman" Carl Duncan persuaded Treasurer." Shelton to send some , campaign, boodle to North Carolina. They aenounce is "a fools errand" Taft a visit to the. South and a waste of good money to listen to Duncan's tale that cash ..spent Id North Carolina will help the Repub lican party, j They ay the . gbt is here and that Taft should have saved his voice fot New York Instead 01 wasting it in a wild goose chase in strong Democratic territory., -r I v But "they- care less about wasting hl voice than about the dollars Dun can peuaded th National Commit tee to send to North Carolina. They need it here: and they do not like to se a dollar go where it will not help MLueS 'Khf. X-PliS!S2 ticket ; The fisht- here, is so hard a that- the Republicans have! de- spalrart of earning it by appeals to reason or to logic. The Wall street gamblers, are being compelled to p.. up each to pay for a big (Continued on Page Four.), : What Republican I'".'' ' ' FUND Boys and Girls of CI ay ten High School Contribute and Aulander Four teen Year Old Boy Raises Fund With' a jump the Bryan-Kc-rn fund passed $3,500 yesterday and l it now amounts to J3.635.10. The ! lists it yesterday . increased the fund by $117-85. . . . ' There were two notable additions to the I list ! yesterday, one being a sub scription of $15.00 from a newly or ganized Bryan-iKern Club of the Clay ton j High School, the boys and the girl contributing to help in the elec tion;. - The young folks deserve high praise for their work, ..y The other notable subscription list was that sent in from Aulander, the fund being raised by C. W. Mitchell. Jr., aged 14. I son of Hon. C. W. Mitchell, who shows" he will make as good a Demo crat as his father. j.1 There was, received also a1 goodly Mzeid list from the Melville Democratic Club of Mebane. lists also coming in from Mount-Olive,' Wilkesboro, Stan cell. Hamilton, , Fremont, i Laurel Springs and a number of individual contributions, among these one of $50 from "A Friend," Raleigh. Thfi rime for tho election is close at hand and all 'who will aid are urged to 1 send in money at once. It is (Continued on Page Four.) Prosperity Brings Bill Taffs' Ftdl tvarioon by Van Daien suv. mcjsn, Padded Registration Rolls With Thousands of .... I . 1 Names : i WILL FIGHT Democratic Executive Committee Ap points a: State. Law . Committee, Who Will Be Aaslated .br ; Special Deputies to See trliat Ballots Are Honestly Cast and Counted, j . . (By the Associated Press.) New York. - Oct. 22. Charges - were made today by ; William J. Conners, chairman of the Democratic 1 State Committee, that the Republican or ganlzation in up-State counties had padded the registration . roll with from 10,000 to 2 0,00 1 names, and to prevent the sting of ; a fraudulent vote, the executive committee has ap pointed a State law committee, with tormer : Judge - Alton ' B.- "Parker " . as chairman. S Mr. Connors said that the law committee would be composed of about 5 0 attorneys, and that art elec tion day these attorneys would be as sisted by special deputies in each elec tion district to see that ballots were honestly east and counted. v Mr. Connors Bald; : There will - be no voting of dead ro ry,he Repub'icans in thl elec tion," and the. State Committed .will t! ji onr opponents are not per mitted to rtm men : over from' Penn sylvania and Canada to vote them in this Male. Already rwe have) dUv covered hundreds of rases of fraiula- lent registration ' up-State and! liave succeeded tn Xiavlng the names strlck cn from the ltsta,. , : . ; We want a square deal. We are Dinner Pall. . i;. COMERS It is Only When date Thit He Gives a Correct Delineation of trie Character of the Gcirig of Doodlers not spins to buy the", election, and we have not 'got the money to bay It with, anyway. We. don't propose to ha vq. the Republican rob us, as they have done in tlte- past.4 : " National Chairman Mack declared tonight that the, change of Mr. Taft's plans by which: he will speak In thirty four cities and i towns in this '.State. instead of speaking in only a few of the larger cities, as (previously an nounced, indicated that the Republi can managers felt - th? necessity of carrying this State, which was vir tually acknowledging! that they felt that they were losing Ohio. Indiana, Wisconsin and Kansas. Mr. Mack said that If the Republicans were cer tain of the Middle Western States they would not need New -York. Speaking of the letter of President Roosevelt: demanding that "Mr. Bryan declare . himself on the labor question of the day, Mri Mack said today that if there was any labor man in doubt about voting for Bryan the reading of ; the President's . letter would con vince him that he should cast his vote for the. Democratic ticket. c . Mr. Mack said he . had .received re ports - from 'fOhio that the i reception tendered Mr. Bryan; in the Buckeye State yesterday was the greatest dem onstration ever given to a Presidential candidate. - ,. ' ' - Mr. Eryan't meeting In the city next v Continued en Page Six.) TAFT TUfC Till. PiiiICElLI! "Fliaw and Current" of Prosperity, ''Be Gad" 11 Tart Endeavors to Scare Voters With PromLse That, If Bryan U Elec ted : the -.-"Flow and Cwrrent .of Proa perlty Tliat . Has PrefaUed WU1 - Cease- Means "Flow and Current Towards theTrasta. . . (By the. Associated Press.)- ; Evansville. Ind Oct. 22, William H: Taft has talked to more people to day than any previous day on his cam paign. In each of his arXteen speech-, es, the listeners and applauders have numbered thousands. ,. - " Judge Taft talked today to many labor! audiences, and it was noticeable that what he said was more educa tional than heretofore. ; At JJnton, where he spoke to several thousand coal miners, he gave them the history of, the writ of Injunction, something he has not previously done.' . At .Terre Haute, he made a clear distinction be tween the Republican and Democratic platforms on the use of the injunction, and declared business to be prosper ity. While Mr. Bryan has not. been o t iiooked during the day. there were iv(. occasions whi n Candidate Debs came in .for1 attention. These were at Terre Haute, the home of Debs, and at the two meetings at Evansville ad dresed by Judge Taft today. In both instances Mr. Debt was classed as a social iBt. a doctrtne regarding which the candidate i expressed thei belief that the American people were not prepared yet to accept. The largest out-door, gathering : Mr. Taft said he bad addressed. wa assembled " at Terre Haute when the Taft apectal ar rived there this v afternoon. " There were many'.tn car-load of local poli ticians who escorted the candidate to the city, that said it j was the largest gathering the State had ever had. d The injunction waa the feature' of this speech, and the candidate declar ed with et vehemence:- 'That (Contiyuei on Page 8Ix.) WROTE M'S! PLATFOHM Atlorney-6en. Vade Ellis Holds That the Maintenance of Separate Schools for Negro Pupils Is Illegal 4(By the Associated Press.) Columbus. Ohio Oct. 22. Attorney Qeneral Wade H. '.Ellis, of Ohio, to day held .that the maintenance o separate schools tor negro pupils Is Illegal and brings out: that such a vio lation exists in Huron county.;' The opinion, holds that the dental to. col ored children of equal rights in a graded school ' established tor white children is, unlawful. ODIAOA MUGHSURRRiSE He Isn't a Candi DID THE II STfiliT III 01110 III GEliiQ Of AH ;tlte People AVIio Were Sur prised at the Republican Candidate's Swallowing Ills Words of Two Years Ago in His Recent Speech at Greens- . bora, Mr. A. R. Pariliurst, Who Was Then : 3Ianln; , Editor . of f the 'In dustrial News, tlie Radical Oron, and Who Quoted Ills Forme Words In Tliat Taper, Was the Slost Sur prbied 3Ir. Parkhnrst Again Quotes Taftfs Words ; of ,Two ITcars Ago. - -' '-''- V -7" ' ' (Special to News 'and Observer.) New York, v Kv r T, Oct 22. Mr. , Taft's speech at Greensboro, last week, la which ha tried to explain away what he said at Greensboro two years ago, not only created surprise in North Carolina, but elsewhere as well, r- - Mr. A. R. Parkhurst. who was man- aging editor of the Industrial News, of Greensboro, .when Mr. Taft speke there In 1906 was the most surprised ma a in America when he read that Mr.;. Taft had tried: to explain - away what be had said -then. . Mr. Park hurst is an atte and careful journal- -1st and people- in Greeistero know that he .:put : into ..the ilndnstrial News all '. the good - it had aa a newspaper. The .pap-auckers there kuow that, he insisted on printing the news as it was and ? pretested against printing false news which they wished to print to bolster up the Adams tight to control the Republican machinery. ? i , Referring, to the fact that Mr Taft tried, to escape from his faithful de scription of Republican oifiee-holders In North Carolina. Mr. Parkhurst yes terday wrote the following statement for a paper elsewhere: . ; . - Mr. Taft Then and Now. "In the course of his recent whirl wind tour of the South. William H. Taft found it" necessary to swallow the words he v uttered just twenty-seven months ago when he was dragged to Greensboro, N. C..by that most astuto Of all Tar Heel-Populistic-Republicans, ' former Senator Marion Butler, in or der, to settle a factional fight that threatened to disrupt the party at that time. ' "". iy"' .,- -; r.-; r ; f:- . "Two years ago last, July, 3Ir.' Taf t in an address before a vast assem blage In the Grand Opera '. House at Greensboro, said: The most serious handUap which the Republican rty pf the South, and North Carolina - In particular, is afflicted with, Is the per nkloos political activity of the Fed eral : office-holders.. TliCT have I only their own axes to grind and rare noth ing . fur . the growth and progress of the party. If I liad my way and could not find good, clean, and honest Re- -publicans to replace the . present en- . cumbents, I would fill every offft.'e With Democrats, for I know : that they highest type of the Southern gcntle uun is to be found In the Democratic lrty.V ' - :' -' . "Iast week there were thirty thous and visitors in Greensboro, due to the celebration of that most thriving litUo city's centennial anniversary, yet when Mr. Taft was conducted to the Grand Opera House . for, his return speech, less than two thousand people greeted him. He later a ppeared In the New , Audi tor him. which seats ( more than twelve thousand people, yet the seats were not half filled when Mr. Taft Spoken ; l l?-- ' "Much interest was ; manifested In Mr. Tafta remarks for his previous utterance -was still fresh in the. minds of those who had assembled to greet him.' r. ; :-, vv-' j-'-i,-,- - MMr. Taf t opened his address by.aayi ng- "i think it only right for - me to preface my address today by stating that I was grossly misquoted whMjs . visiter to your city two years ago. I'dJdotrattaek the .Federal office holders, nor did -I-aay that I : would eplace rthem with Democrats, Ixawl I ' the epportBnity. - . , "That waa 1LT Mr.- Taft bad swal trtwed his words r else given the lie direct to these - "who r reported - hfs' rpeeeh. and this to the very faces ot hundreds f GreensVoro most Intrllt ent citizens who had heard his effort of two years aga. " Pear In mind that the above wad written by the , gentleman who was, managing editor of" the Industrial Nws 1n Greensboro at:the time that Mr. Taft made-the speech h' is now tning to ' get away from. - He eeuld have ,no rotire , In making anything but a tnithfni statement. 'Mr. Taft, setnr that bis trnthftil ebursrterJm flon ef ,the: TfepuMl-an bffl-hodira snd leaders In Vorth Calms didn't tp v well. , Is cesfy persuaded tbat he didn't ; say exactly - what he did ;y. Tn t' matter he is merely deinar what be - did tn Ohio. ' Two years a he went to Ohio , and made a neoh de rtrtoncln Cx. tbe Pops of dn'Mnnti. . tms yar Mr. Taft is "hob-nbln with . Cox and msde 'him a , deleeta fOTn,Oho to. the .Natlonl ccrtvCT,n, T Is on'y when b in't 'enate tbt ' be gWs a correct dVn'on of v, rhprrfr pf th grt"T In Ohln and." North. Carolina upon wh'm he is de pendent to carry the ltctloju - .-., r j- -
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