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"-' ..." .. .. . ' ' ... - . i - ('-. ..f.i:.r i-; A jf1? r rej-i : ""-f T , , ' ' .... . ' t.- if;. ; i i THE WEATHER TOTAY.; toHCMt for Norm Caro lina, warmer Saturday with fair la rut and rata i .Maximum ' ' ieu4jeratm, 5Jj mlnimitm- temperatani. ..- est portions: Sunday rain maiternte sonth wind. i U: 11-11 Vy ax; . ouu prcciptianon iw noora mawg p. m voLinvns Toxxxvii, No. ?7 t r BAIiElto, ciTEBAY.3lAiXCn , 1909 PBICB 5 CENTS Lead ; - -' ' 1. - ' - - - -S- ' 't i all North Carolfaa aed'Cifculatloe DRAMATIC PLEft IT Attorney for State tlakes Masterly Argument EXHAUSTED AT THE EfID A Her Five Hours of ,Spwh Captain l'itzhush is Vlterly Worn Out Ills Aikin-ss a Masterpiece of Loerloal Argument aitd Bluer Iuvcirtivc Strung; Effect on Jury. (By the Associated,'. Press.) Nashville. Tenn.. March After Caputin ruzhuKn tiaa completer tne l-nins; arKimnt tor the State this s:itornMin in the case anaJrm Co!. Dum-arf rt. and itoltin J. Cooper ana John 1). Sharp charged with the mur ter or i.irraer V. S. Senator E. W. Car-ma-k. Juile Wm. Hart ordered the jury withdrawn and thanked the spec tators tor their good order. Captain Kitzhturh made a strong and striking- argument. It lasted over ue hours and when he concluded he wus exhausted. j ho -ottrt rjMm was packed to suf focation, the ventilation was poor and i ti the spectators felt the effects ol tlie vitiatt'tt atmosphere. KitzhuRh Is a dramatic orator and his exertions . ltM't him nearly a physical wreck. The otitiK -letnpiiis attorney's speech Is considered a masterpiece ot logical iirsument and hitter invective, and it hs-.d a noticeahle effect on the jurors, who leaned forward and listened breathlessly to every word snoken. titzhu)rh was a close friend of Sena tor Carmack and he is in the case at the special request of Mrs. Carmack. His proration was especially dramatic. There will be many argument made to you." he said, "to touch your heart. You will be asked to be gen rous and sympathetic They will talk to you of this -boy.' Why, gen tlemen, he is 21 yeara old aad some oi the greatest achievements of men have been accomplished before a man is thirty. And they will point to Cot. Cooper as a. 'gentleman p.-; th old school'; as the 'last flower of the old Southern chivalry." . Do you believe it? Was' he a gentleman when he tisod that-awful languaKe in the pres ence of Miss Lee? And when they lalk to you of sympathy just look over there. You see in sable garments the widow of E. W. Carmack. You see on hrr arm the t?n-year-old boy.wh was the ' pride of . E. V. Carmack'? life. Did Duncan . Cooper or Robin Cooprr think of this widow or this iv when they shot down the hti8 Uind or the lather? Would it not have been better if liobin Cooper, In stead of shoorins the Senator, hud said to his father. 'Father, do not kill the father of this Httie boy; do not slay the husband of this fon J wife." but he did not. The question to bo decided H whether or not the law is to he enforced. That question is to be derided by you. If murder is to be committed in the streets of onr cities without fear of punishment, can you tell who win be tho next vctim? The very liberty of the presses at stake; the security of the common people. It all rests wHh you and Into your hands 1 place it unreservedly. Gentlemen. 1 thank you." Murder He Declares. After the necessary preliminaries In presenting the State's case Captain Fitzhugh said: "I have shown you that it is mur der when a man takes a life upon a sudden impulse. How much more is it murder when a man's heart is go full of malice that he spends all day Sunday and most of Monday devising ways to take the life o the man he despises so bitterly?" Captain FiUhugh then took up the threats of Colonel Cooper against Sen atr Carmack. With dramatic force he re peated Cooper' words to Craig. "If my name appears in the Ten nesson again, Carmack -.or -1 must die." Think of it, gentlemen. This man who is a self-confessed lobbyist ,for a railroad, this man who is charged by rcpiit.iMo men with having embexzled money intrusted to his care: thia man h(v nme has been bandied about tho state: this man whose dark and . devious ways have now been uncov ered, dared to send to an honeat and upright journalist the. threat that if nis name appearea in 'the Tennensean ir:i!n. one of them must die. Think of it. "And when the tragedy was over the defendants began to look 'for a miik- ?nd what did they find? That STir-or Carmack had referred to 'that - M'Me ra!d-htaded angel. Dune Coop er: had asked, did the angel come from jihove or from below.' and was there the smell of sulphur on his wings? . -; Ths speaker said Cooper never ob jected to the alleged remarks or Car mack until after the murder. A Stinging Arrainrnment. "He toW his son that "day after nay his name was used in the Tennessean and that Carmack was shooting pols- vnHt arrows at him. and that it was becoming unendurable.' They brought only three editoriols here and one of them was written October 21. entitled An Awful Threat." - "-. : "He oblecti to this because his name - "-.-tloned in connection with Fan Murray and two others. One of th-r. h swo"e. hod en Indicted and ccnvlcted 8"d the other he sold wbj- t rcimtrfer. ' He had to admit the wert day that "the man ha swore was indicted had .lot. been.- And as nr - the ramMer. e Co'onel hd been a . aambler himself. Bi't It l not on record that he cer paid a debt out of his lanre winnings. "Now th second, editorial' appeared the same day and it never meitlonM Cws nme t rlmnly attacked the machine. Cooper In his not to Car mack said: 'I am a private citlsen." yet a eoon as the machine la men1 ' tioned this rrlrati cltlisn roar : out . In snger. - , v -. - ; "The third editorial produced by the ., (Continued en Page Five.) ,' MISSOURI 2 CEIIT RATE NULLIFIED Fight will Go On Say . State Officials BUS II HIPPY Attorney Declares - That Action of Court Mean Death Knell of All Similar Lrrbitalion ia All Parta of the Con n rrr Freight Rates .ire Also Affocled br DecH-Jon. (By the Associated Press.) Kansax City. Mo.. March 8. Mis souri's two-cent passenger and maxi mum freight laws were tiulmiea a decisjon handed down today In the United States district court by Judge Smith McPherson. of Red Oa. Jowa. As a result, it Us believed, there will be a cick return in Missouri to. J- cont fan-s. Frank Hagerman. for the eighteen companies involved, asserted today that the decision sounded the di-ajh-knell of ? the . two-cent rate in every State in the Union. Judge McFherson held that both the commodity- and passenger laws were confiscatory and unconstitution al, and Mr. Hagerman declared that It Is not conceivable that If the two- cent rate I confiscatory in Missouri n; can ne compensatory in other state-. The 8tte. on the other hand, de clares emphatically tliat Missouri's fight for lower rates wilt be contln- tcontinued on Page Five.) Greensboro Uw- yers After Job . (Special to "News aid Observer.) Greensboro, N. C. March 8. There are already four avowed candidates for the position of judge of the muni cipal court created by an act of the Legislature latv;week, .They are Mews. N. L. Eure. S. C'enn Brown, Junius 1. Scalosssnd Charles A. Hines. four well-k.iown and popular mem bers of the local bar. Friends of other younger -members of tho " bar have been urging them to enter the race, but the above-named are the only ones so far who nave announced themselves. i The office is a.n attractive one. nav- Ing tl.000 or $1,200 a ' year. If. th board of aldermen so desire. The act creating the court stipulates that the judge shall be ia licensed attorney, therefore thin eliminates several -lay-, men who had contemplated making tne run. . . His physicians are -very much en couraged today over the condition of Engineer li. H- Smith, who was so frightly burned Jrhen his engine turn ed over on him. It the wreck of a local freight train at Walnut Cove Saturday morning. Mr. Smith was not extricated tor several hours - and a special train brought him Were Satur day evening. . He was taken to his home. 805 Dlllard street, and the phy sicians worked heroically to save hl life, which was; despaired of several times during Saturday night. The-patient rallied, however, and today Is re potted to be resting fairly well. He received a number, of serious , burnt about his right shoulder a.id arm and back. i , , While the Legislature made some changes in the State Audubon Society law In taking fifty-five counties from under the control of the Audubon So cietv and placing them It the con trol of the different boards of county commissioners, ; j the -work of the Audubon Society will Toe contlnuea tn the remaining -forty-three counties and the society will not let. up in it fight for game protection.' ' . Mai. Cha, M. Ptedman has accepted he office of chairman of the Visiting" committee of the State University, At an enthusiastic -meeting ? Oreensborn Council No. 2t united Commercial Travelers he!d Saturday officers for the; ensuing year- were elected es follow: H. C. Marley, f. (Continued on Page Six.) . -, EDITOR MOUELL IS ILL STRICKEN c WHILE X HIS OFFICE IX CHABIiOTTB OBSEBVEU -SOOX WILL BE OfT. Charlotte. :N.. O. . March : P. Caldwell, editor of the Observer, put fercd a slight stroke of paralysis yes treday afternoon a little after 4 o'clock while at work in his office tn the Oh server building, .r : ' . v" ; ;. Mr. Caldwell had Just returned, froni luneh and was about to begin his ac customed labors of the day when he experienced a peculiar : sensation , Id his. right hand and right aide.-' H ought to Investigate. . aware that something was 1 wrong, and felt Dr. E. C. Register, 'who was close at, hand. was called In and he pronounced the attackV slight stroke of paralysis,. the sensory nerves only of the right side being affected. The motor centres were not Involved. - Tho condition of Mr. Caldwell to en couraainr today. - He will probably be able to return to his desk within a few cays. - fljUFTEJTHE '". ' i .-. ' .. ,. '. S00I1 TO GET ElliE : 0(1 TUFTS POLICy the Southern Republicans Hove on White house lit BUT GREATLY PLEASED Intimation That New President Will Consider Wbdies of Better Element of the Peoplo Oarrics -o Balm to tlie Hepublican IVwmcs Judgeship Candklatcs and Sponsors SU11 Busr. By THOM.S J. PEXCE. Washington, Jf. C, March 8. With in the next few weeks President Taft will make a number of appointments In the South that will largely determ ine his policy in that' section. With this knowledge Mr view a number of old line Republicans have remained in Washington since the inauguration In order to get in a word with the chief executive. The first opportunity came today and they moved on the White House under the chaneronage of Postmaster General Hitchcock, who. It Is stated, will have general charge of Southern appointments fn.- the ad ministration. They haMUy had time for . more than a hand shake by reason of the rush. There were among a he rush. There wtre among the callers. Cevil Lyon, the Republican National committeeman and boss ia Tcsa: H. Clay Evans, of Tennessee; General ' 'Continued on Page Two.) UJOULON'T ACCEPT TIE KESIIIP Senator-Simmons Says Duty is in Senate -i (Special to Xews and Observer.) New Bern. N. C. March 8 Senator F. il. Simmons arrived In the city from Washington this morning and was heartily congratulated by his le gion of friends upon the great honor that came to him in the closing hours of the last Congress. . Speaking of his appointment as a member of the National Waterways Commission, the Senator said it was very gratifying because It wonld give him opportunity, while serving the country, to do 'something for his State and section. He said while nothing had yet been settled upon it was prob able the. commission would begin its studies of the great question commit ted to It In Europe. He said Chairman Burton, the great st authority on rivers anV harbors In this country, had made two trips to Europe to study their systems and methods. To your reporter's Inquiry about the rumor connecting him with the ap pointment to the Eastern Federal 'udgeshlp. Senator Simmons said tnat It was a most attractive place, re plete with dignity, ease and salary. and that there were few places more to be desired than it, but he said that even could he get It, he could not take it He said he had reached a nosition in the Senate after eight years of patient worK when he thought he could do for the country and his State something worth the doing and his duty was there. The State and the Democratic party had been, he said, too considerate f him to let his selfish interest and de- rtre control him In a matter In which they were concerned as wcU as him self. The Senator will leave tomorrow tor his farm In Jones county, returning to Washington Saturday. - i - m V 1 ' . Celebrated Kvangellst at Winston. (Special to News and Observer.) XVInBtan-flarnm. V C, March 8.-- Mtaisterial Association h Invited, I. H. A. Torry. an evangetist or world wide reputation to hold four weeks" meeting lh a -tobacco warehouse her beginning June 20. Dr. Torry win bring his co-workers. Including n noted soloist. fJiB. 17ATS 3 II LITTLE BETTt R SHOWS SOME IMPROVEMENT BUT piitsiciaxs are not hope- . (Special to News and Observer.) - Winston-Salem, ff. C. March I. Uon. C: B. Watson, who Is critically 1U with diabetes aad Brlght's disease. has shown slight . Improvement today, His heart action Is weak, however, and physicians hold out little encourage ment, for .his recovery. , - -, , IIIla ; Wlfeandi. SeJf (Rt th AsMciatecl Press.) Doston.' Mass.. March Daniel C Sbniana, a policeman, was found dy. ing earlv- today In his home In East Baston, front the . effect of a-bullet wound, believed to hava been self Inflicted, while the. body of his wife lay on the floor besde him. Bplllans died later at the hospital. It ia said that Splllano, who had been a police man 22 yfm. was orsnged trom two yearr Bro...'? over tne aeatn oi l-year-ol4 daughter. ' HOUSE OPI the eoimiB Resolution by UoKon Laid on IThe Table n 911L .IS - PISSED After Two Ttcathe Senato Adopts the KluUs RexoUHion to Enconrage the Rulkling or New Rnada In the State, earning an ApprOiirfaUnn of 910, 000 AnuuaHrrWcntat!oa of SU ver Service to Lirntcnat-(ioernor Newland. K' - .( - Yesterday was a day 'of felicitations in both the Senato and house. Whilo important general nod local laws were pHed by 90th bodlett the day was a happy one. with expressions of com radeship .and good will. . The Senate was up with Its calendar and awaited only actions by the Housa. One of the most exciting contests of the ses sion occurred on the -JChitts resolution for the encouragement of the building of good roads, rryifi5"an annuo! p- porprtotlon of Slft.ooe. which passed the Senate after every move had been made to defeat. There were two ties on the resolution.' the Chair. Pres ident Newland. -breaking them both In favor of the resolution.- The res olution finally passed Its third reading and wss sent to the Hons, - A roll eall In the House showed thatf seventy-nine members had . remained (Continued on Page Four.) PRESIOEIIT EllOT Eagles Hold LI emoiialSer- vicesbther fiews (Special to News', and Observer.) Asheville. N. C.. March 8. Presi dent Eliot, of Harvard University, who is making a tour through the South. will be the guest of Asheville March 2nd. President Eliot will come here as the especial guest of the Pen and Plate Club of- this city and Monday evening, March 22. win deliver an address at the Auditorium under the auspices of the Pen and "Plate Club. While here President raiot will also visit the educational i institutions of the city. Including the Normal and Collegiate .Institute, the High School. the public schools. Bingham School. the Asheville School and the BUtmore School 0.1 Forestry. js . Eagles Memorial; Exercise. The first annual memorial exercises of the Asheville Aerie No. 1377. Fra ternal Order ,of Eagles,, hekl in the Grand Opera house yesterday after noon at 3:30 o'clock, were largely at tended and Impressive. Alderman P. C. -Cocke was orator tf the occasion and delivered, the memorial address in finished mannar. ,!; An Interesting "musical program was rendered, including' selections by Con nell's orchestra and vocal solos by Mrs. O. C. Hamilton,. ThV services were held In memory 3 of Fred Ward. P. A. Mariunrdts F. H. Haskell, Robert J. Banse. p. Fi; Walsh. Thomas It. Harrison-. J. Jl. Loughran. Lee Ixndon, J. Hi Miller, J. W. Boling and M. Doogan. Arrangements for the service was in charge of a com mittee composed of Judge Reynolds. J. II. Lange and J. E, Sugg. - Bingham's Baitehall ttrannn. ' The baseball season; Of the Bineham School, of Asheville. Viwill open next Monday when the cadets win go up against the Christ School here for honors. The outlook! tor baseball winning ball-at' Bingham this year is "Brighter than for many- seasons past, and the; boys are looking . for ward with keen. Interest to tho open ing of the season.- The athletic asso ciation believes that It has a winning team this year, and Shat it will do plicate the result-of the- football sea son when' the Bingnam team went through without losing a game. The baseball schedule at Bingham calls for t games to-be played here, and nine away from home. The three most Important games1 are those sche duled with Davidson,; college, wage Forest and ewanee.h T. E. 8 pea, who will play; hehlndrthe bat. It cap tain of. the team thtt year, witn e. c Lisle as. manager and: Cleveland Nor ton, coarfi. - - - !. -'-1 Knnerfor Cwrt Convenes. Superior court, for tho trial of civil cases alone, convened here thfti morn ing with Judge -Garland 8. Ferguson presiding, j The Urrnof court la for four weeks and daring the term It la expected' that - muctvf court business will be attended and many causes now pending either tried or otherwise dtsnosed of.- There are a number of Important ' cases ' on 4ho trial -. docket al this term of 'court several of which are aaaiiist this Southern Rail way having to do with personal Injury and other damage suits.' In fact the Southern Is right Well represented as a defendant at thia 'term of court, practically: alt the -cases set down for trial during-one week having to do with suits of first one kind and an other against the railroad corporation. - ; Shot by Bnlh Froni FIre.;.';.' - ..'- .i VpHaw-te A . ' Oastorilav ?r! C March-Mrs. En gene Ratchford, who lives three miles east of Gastonla was perhaps mortally wounded-etterday, morning X . bul let from -a. stray cartridge, which she had awept Into tne !:., tace. TO VISITIIEIIII1E ' t 1 . '."! ',.' -i ' ..-.. r '.- TS US BIEU0II II WO And yet Roosevelt Kept Asking lor More BI6 DEFICET III SIGHT Government Expenses Have Amount ed With Alarming Rapid During the- Roosevelt Regime. To Con. grew. Not Exeewtivr, Belong-) Credit For Callment, says Tawney. -Washington. March 7. "In no pe riod except in time of war. have the expenditures of the Federal Govern ment Increased so rapidly, both In the aggregate and per capita, as these expenditures have increased during the past eight years. This is the comment which Repre sentative James A. Tawney, chairman of the House Committee on Appro priations, makes upon national tex- penditures during the administration of Roosevelt. A large proportion of the excess is due to the rapid growth of the military and naval establish ments. Mr. Tawney is of the opinion that the great increase in expendi tures "is attributable chiefly to insist ent executive recommendations and a misguided public demand for the In auguration and execution of new pro jects without a due realization of the consequent dangers. Appropriations for public expendi (Continued on Page Five.) TWO HOMICIDES III Double Killings-Shot Guns Used in Both Cases (Special to News and Observer.) Asheville, N. C March 8. News has been received here by telephone from Marshall, Madison county,, of two homicides occurring in that couaty last week. One of the killings occurred Saturday night about 7:30 o'clock on Bailey's branch, when Hartly Bryan shot and killed Zeb Brooks, the slayer of Brooks using a shot gun. The other homicide on the Tennes see line, Wednesday, ; whn W. M. An drews was shot and killed from am bush by Elias Pate. The story tele phoned here is to the effect that An drews, v-tio had made a presentment before the grand Jury against . Pnte went over Into Tennessee to buy a cow. and that Pate, learning of this. followed Andrews. It is alleged that Pate met Andrews coming back and. hiding behind a tree, suddenly stepped out as Andrews came in range and, using an ugly word, shot down Andrews with a shot gun. Andrews livd until Thursday morn ing when he died. He made a death bed statement to the effect that Pate had waylaid him and killed him. Andrews, in his statement, said that Pate declared before shootltis that Andrews had "lawed him" and called Andrews an ugly name. . la connection with the killing of Brooks on Bailey's ranch, it was stated tht all parties had been drink ing and that Bryan and his wife ha-1 got Into a nuarrel when Brooks- In terferred, using a anbjo on. Bryan's head. Bryan then took his wife and went to Jack Caldwell's house. It ie alleged that Brooks followed him to Caldwell's house, when Bryan met Prooks with a shot srun and killed him. Brooks was Bryan's uncle by mar riage. Bryan has surrendered. - - e ; Bucket Shop at Philadelphia. (By the Associated Press.) ; Philadelphia. Pa., March 8. The battleship Georgia, one of the big tdiipt, that went around the world, arrived at the Philadelphia navy yard thia af ternoon from Hampton Roads and will be placed In . reserve during I which time some repairs will be made to- the vessel. 'The Kansas and Kearsage, or tne .oattiesnip fleet, are also, at the navy laro AUTO , HITS LITTLE BOY CLAIBORNE CARR. OF DURHAM, OTTXER OP MACHINE BLIND - . TIGERS RAIDED.' j (Special to News and Observer.) ' Durham, N. C, March 8. This af. teraoon about 3: SO o'clock the eight- Lyear- old child or U. Dixon, M lives In the Edgemont - section, was badly 'Injured by an automobile being driven by Clatrborn Carr, sen of Gen eral Julian S. Carr. ! The child, from all reports, , darted out Into the street te catch a wagon, not noticing the ap proaching automobile. Ho ran Into the street at such a short distance In front of. the machine, that the child' was struck. - ! - The little bov. was.' knocked against the curb atone and hh) head . hart by the. contact.. When the physician ar rived he wss bleeding from the-ears and waa suffering from other braises. It is not thought at this time that th hurt will bo of a fatal nature Several doctor were summoned and attended the little one. J t -i, ;4f. :..X Mr.- Carr didall In his power to give help and is hurt on account o COS 50 GDUNTY PLAY GAME LIKE POKER 1 ' .- 1 -j If They Can Bluff Opponents Into Withdrawing From flews and Observer's Great $10,000 Voting Contest They Consider ita Keen Piece of Busi- j ness by Which They will Profit Largely j the accident that he could not pre vent. This morning the police made a general raid on the blind tiger men of the town and landed five of thorn In the lock-up. They were arrested on information given by one man who was haul I up for examination last evening. The caves will bo tried to morrow morning. This was the only feature of the recorder's court this morning that was of more than pass Ing interest. The case will be fought out tomorrow. To Be Tried for Slaying Friend. Laurens. S. :, March 8. Acting virtually under Judge Prince's instruc tions, the grand Jury today indicted Wade Cothran Pin son. charging him with the murder of his friend. Thorn well Boyce. Miss Mary . Brown, the only eye-witnesa of the killing, which the defense admits was done by young Pinson, will be the principal witness for the State. The case will come up for trial probably Thursday. TO put UUI LUII DOTY OIIE HALF New Tariff Uw will Also Make Hides Free (By the Associated Press.) Washington. D. C. March 8. A cut of one-half In the duties on lum ber and manufacturies of lumber, is understood to be one of the changes provided by the new tariff bill which is, being printed, preparatory to its final revision by the Republican mem, hers of the House Ways and Means Committer. Another change that has ieen made, according to information from reliable sources, ia that hides have been placed on the free list. There has been much contention over the duties of these two articles. and while none of the members- of the committee will verify, the correct ness of the report, they are general ly accepted by those who have been following the work of the committee. During the hearings on the lumber schedule, the testimony was of such a character as to lead to the impres sion that lumber would be put on the free list. Such action was known to have much support. It being claimed that the forests of the country could only be conserved by admitting foreign lumber to, this country free or duty. Lumbermen, have been working en ergetically : to prevent the placing of lumber on the free list. They contend that the rates of duty should be In creased In order that the American industry may compete with the cheap er labor employed In Canada. The effort to obtain free hides is made as often as there is revision of the tariffs. It Is principally advocated by the New England shoe and leather manufacturers and Is strongly op posed by the cattle men of the West. While nothing can be learned regard ing the action of the tariff, framers In regard to the duties on leather manufactures, it is said they have Iteen materially reduced. An Impression prevails that the plan' Is to. have the hide and leather schedule fixed In conference after the questions have been thoroughly threshed out on the floor of the House, in the Senate finance commit tee and on the floor of the Senate. Champ Clark, the minority leader of the House, and the ranking Demo crat on the Ways and Means Commit tee, spent considerable time today with Representative Underwood, of (Continued on Page Five.) OIL TRUST WinB ABA! II CVERJODZNT LAWYERS WARN ED BY COURT TO MAKE OUT A STRONGER CASE. if . - Chicago, Ills.. March 8. -Government attorneys In re-trial of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana for al leged acceptance of rebates from the Chicago and Alton Railroad on ship ments of of! -from Whiting. Ind., to East St Louis, Ilia, were told today by Judge Anderson that unless they In troduced . further ' proof - sustaining their -contention that the oil companv acepted a rebate- from the. Chisago and Alton Railroad, they might as well cease their efforts to convict- t - ; Judge Anderson, after considerable arsrument from both sides, admitted tentatively tariff No,. 1203 of--tho Chi cago and Alton aad the Wiggins Ferry Co, tariff sheet, . Before, admitting th documents In this way. the .court poke of the "fatal discrepancy" . In parts of the Indictment against " the Standard Oil Co.- V : - . ; - i'lt tho government 'ciif ' furnish "ho further proof, said he, 'In support of. its contentions-: than the-, tariff sheets already introduced,- it m?y as I well ttop. - - . IIIMDCQ UL OF WAYS TO WORK CAMPAIGN t . I North Carolinians Are Just Beginning to Realize What an Enormous !(Af- fair Tills Contest Is and tlie Splendid Opportunities it Affords to Win a Useful. IXxiraMo and Valuable Prize For Just a Lhtlc Expenditure of Effort ami Energy .- f . The contest man knows, of course, that you never did this yourself, libut isn't It a fact that you do know seme friend who has trk-d at various times in his life to ,ut a kink- in the tail ot the great American tiger? Sli hi 'no. the blind variety as it flourishitk in the Tar Heel State, but trt real good, old American type that is commonly known as draw poker. Bless your heart, no, the contest man isn't Im plying that you ever -dallied j with Ithe calico-backed cardboards, not for ithe world would he harbor such a sus picion, but he's just sort of trying to get your mind on the game for an in stant for purposes of illustration. Now then, if you ever tried to fill a straight, open in the middle, whilfc the other fellow stood pat, map be you'or goingoto understand what Uhe , contest man is trying to get at. - Tou ' didn't "fill," of coarse, but there i sat Bill with a pat hand and it was or to you to transfer the ownership of that little stack of white chips standing out so boldly In front of him. Wihst did you do? Why you "bluffled" didn't you? Certainly! It waa the only chance you had and it was your play to make Bill believe you had all ithe real cards in the deck. But old Bill had seen some life himself, so he just gently called you for the size of i his pile .and you then wished you had pur sued different tactics. j Lot of Bluffers. ; 1 All of which hasn't a great deal to do with a contest like this 110,080 Tot ing proposition of the News and Ob server's, hut it will illustrate a point very nicely. For instance, the con test man is willing to wagtr a box of candy or a pair of gloves that jyou have heard abot some particular con testant in your particular district who has a "cinch.' no chance for anyhbdv else, all the prizes simply sewedf tin in a sack. That particular candidate is either circulating, or permitting to be circulated, reports to the effect that he or she has several hundred thou sand votes to be turned loose, when ever it is considered policy to do so. That is just pure bluffing. Th contest department doesn't feel thftit it has a right to interfere in the gaane. If a candidate can have a, mesne sent to another that he has c-verj-tVmsr in sight in the wa" of votes, and! that other candidate is weak cno.ih to give up, that is strictly a maltter for the candidates themselves. (in stances have been known where sfimo. of the most successful candidates rtav' been driven out, of a race sunplyj by a story to tho effect that some oher contestant had a large number ot votes in store and was Bimply trifling along, waiting for y the finish, to csiini the first prise, when as a matter of fact the "bluffing' candidate hann enough votes to pad a cnijch fr a disabled partridge. i Don't Believe All lou licarj More and more every year Itb- greater percentage of the busifies' transacted in this country is eore'.n to be done on pure, plain "bluff." The manufacturer bluffs the producer Cr.nd then bluffs the salesmen Into believ ing they must sell a certain amount of his product. The salesmen fcluT the merchant, and' the merchant bluffs the customer. It's positively terrify ing, this bluff business. So If you hear that Mr. Surethlng hasr a million or more votes tuolced away In the. toe -of the old blue soak, don't let it dis turb you for a moment because I It's quite, likely .that Mr. Surethtag Is sim ply trying to play a pair of deucos as hard as if he had a royal flush. iAnd If It should come to you "from si re liable source" that Miss So and Sol hat a bundle of votes big enough to choke a rhinoceros, sticking away up In. her kin-ana sleeve, just sale the story (well and let it alone for a day or twd. At the end of that time It. will occur to you that the chances are about aa tnine to one that Mr. Surethlng-and Miss So and So are simply adapting them selves to present day conditions they are bluffing. They are trying! to scare yon out of the race. - The "Hm- tnat ion of competition hi a fine thing, in the contest business but - If you'll consider for a, moment, ft is Just as hard for your competitor to secure subscriptions as It is tor 'yourself you are all confronted by , the same con dition. - Just another case of the rain falling on thef jast, and tho. unjust alike. -" . ' - Eight Contests In One. f ' For instance in each of the eight, districts, there must go five vriiesjThe first of. these is a magnificent 1400 piano, an instrument that would grace any home ana worth every rent ot its : advtsrtlsed vaJue. The merchant from whom It was purchased will guarantee that, .and it ia .on- exhibition at hta place of business. . If you have been giving this-conteat- matter- any atten tion you will know where he prises - (Cor;' -sued on Page fc" x )
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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March 9, 1909, edition 1
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