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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER '4 ..; ti Th Nrwi and Observer . KKW AKO OMBaVKB rUBUBH jOfckPttUS DANIkXa VBaesimoN mwoii Payable fal Advaeee. w WJt Taree stasias Om Inlk ... One Week ... IITa I M .1 .IS Raters- the Pa-nwfaie st slWh. forth CmIim, as iiim slssi a-attav MORNING TONIC (Holmes.) Bi bu meay tools, but lie is ths Sadie which Cta them all. UNCLE WALT MASON TOMORROW'S T ANGLE. "Tmrm'i taagte to the wlade re alga" eld Onar aetd. Bad Ikaa la oae - Brief Urn, Bet fertk wiedees thaa Mat poeta spring. In all the esrs throogh which they llvr aad .Inf. With preeeat griefs ataa fearlewal) rombata; ke palls their aara sad kicks them In tka alala; aad. Ilka a knight In armor gone afield, ka aaite enjoy. Ika tilting that they yield. Bat, having whipped Uw dragons of today, with manner held and debonair aad gay, ha feels tka ardor la kla breast expire; "To. aserrww's dragaaa aad rbiaaaraa dire," ha matter low, "will aelie at by tha throat, reniore aiy srslp aad near away L any goal Tomorrow's dragaaa. may ka oaa taxa tall; ten-orrow'e treablee Buy aad cobm at all. . If yea today bare faagkt a goodly fight, forgot yonr frarm.rad aleap la peace tealght, aad whea yoa wake the good old aaa will ehlne: taaeerrew'a taagla ta tka wlada raalgn. We can well aee that to those farmers who la reat In hogs, hens, anil bounty, here will (mm happiness. We hardly believe that Villa will he pleased as ha reads hia oliituanes pub lished in the Ameriran prraa. Tliia week we go to it In the North Carolina baseball league. And we aliall aoa many eadravors to ''Hwat the Ply" oat of the reach ff everybody. And anon life days of the sweet girl graduates anl the diplomas tier) with daintv blue or pink ribbon They put 'em on yesterday A refer Tin' to itl bring Kaster Monday an those fetching spring I t.t, ulu, h t!n- dcar girls put mi cihil. i . . . n Tii i to lie lii. J v urn 111 North Carolina, with tin opening games of the North Carolina baseball league unl the Democratic Mate com .-id i.,u. Ani with unanimity the various Dc-jin.c i at e- count, conventions voted their full support to "favbrite'snns" of the counties which have candidate in the f iel.ls for nomination to cttire The spring IWhPTmnrf- doesn't rare Whether or not the worm w ill turn. They feel thst Jhey eau turn him to good pur pone I iy turning up the ground anil feeding hi ting him to the fishes the entertaining dents of the present ! to learn from the uewspapers aad the mra who have iliu fought tha primary law that it is no good But the folks at home oho do the rot tag think, differently. la hailing the beginning of the North Carolina baseball league season t hia waak w express our hop that tha Baleigh team will net bo found guilty af putting the ant la peauaat, but will TCMIt lAtrf OfFICB i MU ImI Hw w-ses Aes-se- - - "a gi rr" iHiiiii tlpSrtWMi 4tl'a?anyseov-wlft fttffM iw... ., t t tw fce eeraemlwVrrd that Htate , ,. Caairman Thomaa D. Warrea eiten.la -f-fS waleoaia to Drmoerata of all aeetione ; ! earn to tha Deoioeratie Htate Con fi wamboa U Kaloigh on Tkarthlar of thia aad naka the event a great Demo ' Tai rally. i'i ,r I"flortl nomination for - veiiiwwr vi AgTicnitura it la a -t tmraw-eoraerad raea bow that A. J. Me , ' aJiioi, or Maxtoa, kaa thrown hia hat i w i or awnua u looaod ' ',lf Coaamlaaiaaar Oraaam aaj Ifr. S. B . aUfeha. of CliaUa, would bo the only omtriM. l "Maay Chlekema Are Aa Tot Caelai t m. aeauiuaea u Urewaaboro Sm. It I----' rJl aoaoaamry u remind I, taa) Oloriooa GirU that Uia ii Loop Toar mi that tluy omI hara ta wait to bo -A ill hty kae. h) i, i, jet I "- grwa, a4 kaeo tloiaaaaU ail taolr owa. II k taaMar at rogro k tk teoa - artptt tha oaakar Lao 8. OvwtavM ma. aH bo 'ablo to 1M WaatUacte t ttaa4 tha Btato Do. 4 AmI. f. m - l K , w. m am aaiawfa Oa Tkara- . ll7.VUU4 tt imiTy ta rVaali la WaaUajtM . fadgr fat tt Bonate, .rVJb U priaUo aa foawpavarw caair n or tat ?aattoa, ak( auaa Uo brute nfoaak. TEI TWO MtTHODf. The artioat of DtmoeratU aal BopvV lieon eaadidatM for nominttloa J tialr reapeetiro partiao tlluitr(aa tha dlfftr eaee bctwoon tha two partiof la a moot atriking maaaor, aai la fuea a ttrii ing maaaor aa to reflect tha fraatoot crnfli oa the Democracy of Korth Car lina. Thia la to bo fouad la tka troatmomt being given tao BtaU-wido legal lto4 prt- aiary art by tha Uemoeraey aad Bopple UeaaUat. Too Demoerati haro aetoptod the act aad have eatarod ataidlvldiiaia ior the eoataat, each Maa auUlag' tha fight for himeelf. Oa the other aaad the Republleaaa through their party autehinery havn made it ao that there li snry one let of Bepablicaa eandidataa for aomlnation for State omree, hence aa real eoateat botwoea aaadidat-ea for aoaaiaatian. Tha Bepublkaa maohlae kaa aarood the candidate, lad no other ontrira of Bopubirrani having been made there ii not oen the pretenae of a eoa teat, the unoppoaed Kepublieaa candl datra automatically becoming the party nominee for office Take the eaoo of the content between the partlea for the office of Goveraor. tiepubllean Htata Chainaaa Prank A. Uaury. of Watauga, ie bow the Eepub lleaa randidatr fur Governor, aa no Be publican haa entered the liete agninet him, the aWpubUcaa Htata eiecative com miitc' having given him it endorae nient On the Democratic aide of the home the eonteat it between Attorney-(i.-n.-rnl T W. Rirki-tt, aad Lieutenant liuvernor K L. Danghtridge, the ennteat li.twi itlie two lieing a atreiiunne one, a rent HKlif for the nomination, frlenda of ra. Ii of tha randidateo elainiag that their rnndidute haa the beat of it, while the State looka on at a fight to the lininh betweea two good men, two Ktrrliug Itoniorriits, eerTi with a record of party aorvira. Ami the maa who wina ie going to have no walkover, if there ie anrtniug to be jmlged by public comment and by the activity of the work of the nmnngrra and frii-mlii of the two Democrats. By mean of their nidentepping the Republicans will he able to keep their voting etrcnglb hidden out, while the '.lckctt IiiiughtMdge content, aa well aa the eonteat between Democrats for the other omcea on the lint, la going to bring nut the Democratic vote at the primary, la thia matter the Democrats are again allowing that they trust the people, whilo the llcpublirans have again been caught at hack room machine methods in the so lev tun of party candl dates by the "ring," and giving no chance to the Republican voters. Indeed nil that the Republican boines want of the Republican voters is that they ap pear on election day and vote as they are told to Tote, while the Democratic plan ia to have the voters at home name the party aoaiineeo and then to tight for their election liecauae the nomi nee rcpieiont the will of the people. In other words the Democrat of the Stiite are being entirely honest in u-iiiu the Htiitc mtc primary law, "liile the Hepiililii nm nre doing all they no I., nub it. p it And the Republican i invention howled itself I. link in the line in loll oe;it lll a State wide legalized pr i ma r I.Ol .E OF THE RAILROADS. It would aeem that with the pa.-Migiv f tune the railroniN would recoiiift that it is to their advantage to .leul .justly with the people of the different retion of the i ntry. but every little while there comes a case in which the niilron.ls are found to be increasing the railroad tariff to all the traffic will bear and then acme. North Carolina lias suffered from such iiieuatieea of railroads and it has had to fight for any redress that It haa gained. Not one time have the railroads dom things to remedy in justices agniiiKt North Carolina without bring pressed to the nalllo getdhc change. This tune jt is by lulling n technicality in differeB tia.1 rates that they are enabled to In crease the rates on grain and grain pro ducts iutu North Carolina from New Orleans.. In IPI4 when there was a general re adjust men t of rates mere was a change ninde in differentials which placed New UxliMMS arid Meniuiijj ua tha Mime 'slit ferential. Thia adjustment lowered the ratrt from Neve Orleans to Xorth faro ' lina pointa from two to eight n nt on the 1(0 pounds The carriers have re vently found a differential which they had overlooked and which they found could add to the New Orleans rate, this increaaing the rate on grain aad grniu products 17 centa oa tha 100 pounds to New Bera. 10 cents to Spring Hope, centa to Baleigh, cenU to Madison aad relative adrunceo to other North Carolina lx'tuts Thia iucrense ia a rauk injustice to the State aad it is to be ripertrd that the Corrxiratioa Commission of this StatO will Join with the New Orleans Jolat Trade Bureau and the Hatou Rouge Chamber of Commerce in the protests against the increase which those orgaalrationa have filed with the Inter atato Commerce Commission. The rail reads concerned, the Southern, the Sea aad. the Comet Line, haro ttattl May 10 to f ka their reply Uit. We foal aure that Governor Craig will aee all tka power of tao fcuteto. defeat maa Went iajnetiee. The railroads will fad that tasty aro hartiag themselves by aee king- areT opportuaity to get aa advaatag over oar people, and o toee a friendship which can aaly coaie with fair treataseat aad Juat rato . KXPKMES OP A rIMAtT. r Tao attacaaapoa tka 8tato-aido lagal- laod primary aro booomiag rnoro ptrom aoo tlo alooar to U tao 4a wVaa for to ftnt tima U KorU Qaraliaa tha nrlmarr will bo ptrt t aoa. I a loBff aad fcard Aght to got a taa otatato booki tho proae&t primaiTi , aad whilo It If Mot Q that tha frietdj of priaaary law wUhod, It kaa made a begia aisj tad If 1U frlrada arc diilgoat It oaa bo Improved aad aaado of mora aarv tea to tho poopla. Ob favorlU pan of attack npoa the primary Uw la that "It ooota tao candi dates too maak, It kaopo a poo maa out of tko raoo." tao evident purpooo of aaek aa attaek kwiaf to dioerodit tka primary before maa of small or moderate aaaaaa. And It will bo f ud that thia Hat of at tack If being porta ed by papora aad in dividuals always ia oppoaitio to tko primary, tko hope boa4o axoao aaatl- meat to tko uadolng of tka work which H aaa takea year of aaraoot ofTort to aeeompliaa. This plea, of "a priaaary coating tko candidate too much" ia offered to catch suck era Cadar the oorrapt practices aet a candidate for office ran apemd more thaa half tha year's ealary of tho offiee except that eaBdidateo for Oovernor or raited fitateo Senator can apoad an amount equal to the entire year'e salary and it wUl bo aaea Uaat by roaaoa of this there raa be ao ualimiUsd spending of money which weald ahot oat anoa of ederate means. Nor aa it bo aerioiuly contended that a candidate far of free under the convention eyatem eau win a nomination without spending money for It, if there ia any rooWet at all for the office. There are 100 count lee In North Caroline,, aad with aa as pen so of $13.00 a county there ia II, W0, which would be light eipeaaes in seeking a aomlnation by convention methods, yet the candl- datoo for aomlnation for Htate offices which pay $1,000 a year are not permit ted by the corrupt practices act to apead in eicesa of 1,500. No, It Is not tho matter of expense which ia (exciting tho ire of the oppon ents of the State wide legalised primary. And it must never bo forgotten that nominatioBS by primary put tko matter the hands of the people direct. 8o whenever you hear a maa arguing ngxinat tho primary call his attention to the fact that for many years ta North Carolina candidates for the Democratic nomination for Oovoraor aad Senator have demanded primaries, have demand ed that they be allowed to go to the people to aotttle their elaima aad that such primaries have coot tho candi dates vastly larger sums thaa aro sow required under the Htata wide legalises! primary Uw and the eorrupt practices act. DRMOCBiTTIC STATE CONVENTION. That there will be a large and enthu siaatie Democratic State Convention in Raleigh thia week may now be writ down sa a certainty, fur that U the news which U sot out by tho Democratic county conventions held last Saturday The reports in the papera, the reports which have come by betters and by word of inoiith are such aa to show that De in iK-racy ia guing to make the Demo eratie Ktnt Convention a Democratic Rally Day for Raleigh, in which men from all parts of the citato will take part. The Htate ( omentum this year will make uo nominations for Htata offices, but on the other hand the delegates to it will elect uu increased ntrrnber of party officials. At it the keynote speech will be Dinde by Henator Himmona who haa accepted the invitation of Htate Chairman Thumas I). Wurren to preside aa temporary chairman There will lie Democrats from all sections who will come to Rajeigh to hear the addreaa of rienator Himmons, for it is recognized that hia poaition ns one of the great leaders of the party in the nation is such as to make his address one "with authority." The splendid support Hena tor Himmons hss given President Wilson haa been such as to add to bis strength aad prestige, and the IVruocracy of North Carolina will give him a warm welcome on hia visit "back home." At the Htate Convention there will re elected four delegates at large and four it It e ran tea to th Democratic National Convention while two rresideutial elee tor. aill be o.,.ated; ; tayjfe will be a Stiite platform adopted by the convention. At awme period of the e sion the State convention will be subdi v ided into ten Congressional ronveti tions, these composed of delegates- to the Htate convention from the counties in the ten Congressional districts. At each Congressional convention there will Is elected two delegate aad two alternates to the Democratic National Conieution, and il in e misers of the Demojyratie Htate ee-utive committee while at each a Presidential elector wlil lie nominated Though there haa been no plan announced wa suppose that the Htate convention will also I ditided into twenty judicial conventions o as to elect leinocratie eieeutic committees for the judicial districts It will ! seea therefore that the Htate convention of Thursday of this werk ia going to bo a lively oae, that there will he enough be-in ess going oa to keep thiara moving That there is going to be the greatest kind of enthu aiaani for. the party ia eVrtain, for taw is going to lie another Pemorratia year which will give us four more years of Witaorf CHAIRMAN MCOMRS RESKiXS. The IiemwratTeparty has beea, fnrtu Bate ta- having bad for aone ywaraao the chairman of Its national eHv in :Ue-r ttillinm l McComba, for Mr. ilcCoinbr aaa ucBioBswaieu a.i ability' ta t'i slrawtlows gad to doml with them U eom dawtU ama ol tko groatoat of Dosao atatfls aaaspaiQa. tka of Ull which shots I Woodrow Wllaom aa Preaideat of tkkl aoutry. Tkat Mr. atoOoabs bar tac oatoro4 tab a, bow partnership for tka paotioo af Uw tads tkat bU butd aoaa 1 auk tkat ka will aot bo ablo to tako abararo of tko aoxt national earn paiga la mattaw wbieh will be board witk lagioal by Dasaoerato everywhero. Mr. kioODmba aad tko Uto Tom Pence wars tka asm who kept anatters moeiag; to aecsxa tko assalaarlna of Geroraor Woodrov Wilaoa, af Now Jersey, aa tka Psataeraaia akateo far PraaidenL Tko two moa aovor loot kopa aad worked skoaldar to skonlder. Wkaa victory bso to tkoir oaadidato for the aomi aatioa it was bat natural that Mr. Me Oosabo a haw 1 14 kaeo boaa tko aheice of Oovoraor WiJaaa for okairasaa of tko Daaaeeratia Natloaal Ooaaanatteo, aad tkat klr. Paaoo akoold have bosa mads i assistant. Aftar tko elocttoa it waa uadarstoswj tkat kir. MeCombs refused elnea, aad U will bo rotwoasbered that Uter ha decttaed tko poaition of Am rmasadnr to aVaasto, Ckairasaa ateCoatba has doas a epieattid. work aa the chairman of tko jieiiiee ratio National Committee. He kaows tka aoantry, and wkaa ia his let ter to Preaideat Wilson he aayi "The Democrat is orgaaiaatioa ia loyal to your policies aad purpooee. We all feel aa wired of a triumphant result "for you aad for tho party nominee throughout tho country ia November," we feel as sured that ha speaks with a full kaowl edge of conditions, president Wilson in expressing his regret that hair maa Me Combo finds that ks is unable to retain hU position., Tok-oa the feelings of the Democracy of tho country, for National Chairmaa MeCom bs bee rendered service of the greatest value to the party. Dc mocracy everywhero will wish for him the greatest success ia his new business connections. As had been the opinion, the race for the Demuerntie nomination for Gov ernor is to lie between Lieutenant Gov eruor Daughtrldge and Attorney General T. W. Bickett, aa other entries having boea made. Aad the gait that is being struck by each of the two shows tkat tho race ia to bo a lively ons. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS Minority Presidents. Philadelphia Heeord. Wkaa Joseph li. Choate sneers at Woodrow Wilaoa aa a minority Preai deat ko should remember tkat Abraham LtBcola waa also a astaoritr Preaideat wry snack ee? iadeed aad that avaay oecopaata of the White House have fail ed to com stand aboalnto majorities at tho eleetora. Had Colonel Roosevelt os Professor Taft boea sleeted Preaideat la 1911 it could oaly have boea as a anlaority President. Carter the Asosrt caa system of choosing Presidents it oij even kappoa tkat oae is elected wke kaa less votee. ahaa his principal competitor. This happened la 1878 aad (a 188, whea Rutherford B. Hayes aad Benjamin Harrisoa, both Republicans, were returned as elected, though they failed to receive aa many votes aa Hejuuel J. Tilden aad Orovcr Cleveland, Demur rata. Other minority Presidents have been .lames K. Polk, Zachary Taylor. James Buchanan, James A (tarfii Id and Orover Cleveland. It is also citreiuely prolble ia view of the present political mil up, that tha Pres. teat to be selected Beit November will receive only a plu rality of the totes, net a majority, and will thus lie a minority etioice. None the lose he will be entitled to the sup port of the whole America people, juat aa all Presidents are. Mr Choate, bv the way, is talking a prodigious ! of nonsense these days. He does not r.-.il,,- the fact that when, s. man h:i pi-. I the age of Hfi he is apt to In,; -.; - riuoiis ou the stage as a statesnwwi Ti1( often wisdom has Hererrte-d (,-, htm. Thia aeents to te rthe case w ith ...u , i ambassador to (irear Britain. Preparing the oaatry For Defense. Richmond l'i,-,v D.patch. No loan h of the movement for ns tiunal pi epar -loess promises greater re suits th:,n that auiii iince1 in anothet Oilumn of The Times Dispatch this no: u ;ng, uiidi rtakeu by the isaH-ialwl engi neers and chemists of tha I'nited Htates. Narrowed il.mn to its essentials, it means that .io.issi highly trained mea of the best t.M) have agreed to devote much of their time ;ind skill and knowl edge to m.kir.g an inventory of the in dust rut I ei.iptnent of thia country for war. If there is oae leaaoa the present war lbs , htij;bJ.-.,iM,tt. . .(figfihigr- tkitn. tuiy ol&er. it Is tJtat mere possession ol nhting men daes tioi Trrwpare a nation tor war After the 4rst few weeks of ntodern warfare, soldiers are like tin iadrd guns, unless they are constantly supplied with arms, asnaitions and other equipint nt Tliese csoaot be turned out by a cuunttv't nanufaetw.rers at a mo ment's notice, or a week'a or a month's, or rirn n it-nr's notice. Only sysi -matte and sci.ntiric orgaaiaation of rc sotiices, sc. tired by inaewtigation, c i psrimeat and preratioa, eaa equip : country for modern war. It ra this sort of orgaairation. per iectcsl by vesrs of reparatiHi, that has enabled Isrminv to keep its war n, i chine nt twe hiatb4 i-f efficiency. And it ia this sort of organization that thsset lastnotic ntiens are engaged in effect ing. To accomplish their admirable sad necessary purt,,se, they must have tint hearty co rut ion of all the iwople. all the manufacturers in particular. They are doing tic ir imrt t.i prepare our coun try, aot for r o.iejoest, but for defense. CITS UH RT VERBIAGE The American bar. asjrs the Knnans City Htsr. may ! shocked st the new evacuee of the decline aa I fall of tha science of juris-nru lenee in Tag'tind, which romes with the intro '.uct.on in?d, legal Ji roe reset there of t He new 'h.Ket aseats act. Tins net dne-a l.o'.Kinir !ee than completely e-rturn that siKii'i.f' monument oi court ps-srtiae, sicw.v til paiafalltr Laiit ap threwgh s lives y cvaitnriea. , '"f Owe f tkee f mw etsfi rt- -.. -t-fci a.lmlre.1 ! ,. the Arne-teaa be-, ia a a in, vuitmcat -.tana uuvi nstKe iwwca' SOMETHING in an Old Healer esse, wiiich was w yards long, and Included 14f counts. An other dseply embedded atone, the one, indeed, oa which the whole superstruc ture was believed to rest and without which it could not stand, was the ancient form which recited that a person ac cused of aa indictment of murder did not "have the fear of God before bis eyes," but was "moved and seduced by the devil." These stones are uprooted by the uew aet aad thrown out, aa is even the chief cornerstone of all that bore the hoary inscription of "his malice aforethought," and It U now possible to indict for murder In Knglsud and, indeed, obligatory on the Government n fewer word a than are ueed in America to fit" the place where the murder was committed. As to the deeeriptloa of the crime that department of legal literature in which the lawyers used to pile up words aa high aa Babel the act re quires that: "Tbs statement of offense shall describe the offense shortly in or dinary lanruage, avoiding as far as pos- albls tbs use of technical terms, and without necessarily stating til the es ssatial elements of the offense. That is ta say. If the accaaatioa is oae of murder It shall be sufficient to say so withoat setting forth that the said de fsadaat then and there unlawfully in tending the said victim to deprive of hia life, unlawfully, wilfully, felonious ly, deliberately, premeditatedly, on pur pose snd with malice prepense did mur der, kill and slay him the said victim aforesaid with powder aad bulleto dis charged into his tbs said victim's body by means of a certain deadly weapon, to wit a revolver, against the pearo and dignity of the Htate and all rules of grammar and punctuation. Aa a pre caution againat anything like that ever again finding its way into au Lnghsh iudiel ment, the uct imposes penalties In costs "where it appears to the court thst an iiilictnieiit contains unnecessary natter or is of unnecessary length." To encourage the desired brevity the aet expressly sanctions tho use of "ligures and, nbbreviat ions in an indictment fifr expressing anything which is ruintmiu- ly expressed thereby. This revolutionsry procedure will con vince inuiiy that eld KiiKl'mii is done at last. The ttpirit of Wat Tyler ia abroad in that unhappy land. Having no written constitution to uphold and no Supreme Court to interpret it, the Goxtrnment ia ,ust naturallv emtio to snuish. And vet Kiiglisn law an I law procedure have withstood some inigfity blows in the past. The country rocked on ita fuujidaliuua aUc.u Uie practice pf making an accused person walk bare footed on hot ploHsliurcs was alian doned. Much to the surprise of the lawyers, it survived that shock, and may possibly survive this one. SMI IK AM) UK HAPPY In wicked Now Tork svsn the eggs are not what they should a-e. Off with old hat, en the new. The better the job the ellmmar the chanco of getting it. Doctor a-cheque "and o :". t m-Kt H invaiwL - m IHSI-ts 1 ! ... - TT. """isV Wi svS ELSE TO WORRY ABOTT SAVOYARD'S LE1TER A H0081ER OUTRAGE. It has again broks loose, not In Georgia, this time, but In Indiana, nnd that radiant cherub of patriotism, James K Watson, is tbs victim. Here is a veteran of that campaign, when a lordly Junker ordered the Indiana drill sergeants of the "party of Great Moral Ideas" to "Heparats the floaters into blocks of five and see that none escape," made the victim of a clumsy piece of contemptible demagogy that waa ancient when it was employed la the log cabin, coon skin, aad hard-eider campaign of 180. The Ilea. Watsoa complains tknt the Hon. Xsw, who beat him for the Republieaa nomination for United Htates Henator, the other day, achieved his vic tory by circulating cbe report that klr. Watson had stated tkat a dollar a day and a pot of beans waa good enough for any working man. "A falcon, towering la her pride of place. Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and klli'd." It la scandalous aad it must fetch joy to the hearts of the Philistines when such a pure, guileless dauntless and voieeful statesman as Jim Wsteoa U thus undone by a trick so clumsy and so obsolescent. What was the Hon. Watsoa doing when thia preaioao arti fice was pulled off f Was the old machine nut of gear had ii slipped a cog J It is as mysterious as it is outrageous. Now, if that hud been practiced ujwn a Democrat, It would have been legitt mate and altogither lovely, but for a Htnii Ipatter to so victimize another Standpatter ia not only unpatriotic, but iudeeeiil. and the Hon. Jim ought to huc his n. t ion of battery n iinst the Hon Harry. Th Hon Watson broke into Con gress in IS)l whun4be Democratic party was ua enough to repudiate the great oinu whom it had elected President of the I nitcd ."states. He waa pointed out as the young man who had beat "Ob-l.-etor" Dolman. Horace (ireeley said it took fourtieu things to make an orator, ona, of them ltntfs, and then he nildc-d. "John A. I-gan haa lungs." Ho has ,Min Watson, and when it w-ns de miiiist rated I hat he coiibl speak a piece the le;olers Uiude a pet of him oud CX ploited him iifoo the Ittritesf provoca tion. And he was a IfM- good Bkirmi-ati er, eijunl to Charlie Indis, indeed. He had a good voice, and was a better sing er th;tu he was an orator. Hpeaking about voire, a Mr. Hanly, another ineui ler of the Fifty fourth Congress from Indiana, always recalled to your mind that discriminating old Grecian who held that the human voice Is the most terrible thing in the world. Possibly the Hon. Hanly got to the Governor of Indiana sad was strong for prohibition. I am not ao aure but that he followed the grand young man and got to be ons of "he Hull Moose herd. It was the regime of Dave Henderson, snd Jim Watson, now Republican whip, shone respleadeatly in that saturnalia of monopoly that earns in with the Me K tli lev administration. All a predatory frttttfrtsTd twIq to billet itself on th people waa to contribute liberally to trie Kepublieaa campaign fund which it was eager to do Ta e6BTrreTsIT6"ortn'eIert it was allowed to write ia tho Dingley A Id rich tariff. Thus fur sixteea yean the harpies fed on the public till the Democratic party came to ita senses, elect.,! Woodrow Wilaoa President, re formed hte tariff, aad choked tko THE IMPOSSIBLE" By PHILIP GOODMAN (Copyright, 1916, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Whea Gladstone heard tkat aa iaveation had' beea perfected ia A-aeviea whereby a maa eonld con verse with another maa aulas away be said, "Never again will 1 say a thing ia impossible." The impossible is only the possi ble not yet perfected. Tbe impossible isn't a condition it's a frn-as of mind. " ' During the first f osrteen hna dred years of tko Christina era, ear only books were tkoee wrttta-a by the hand of maa. A machiae te print them I Waal aeasenee! It cast be doaot Ifs Impossible! ' ' Yet Jehaaa Gutenberg dldal think so. ' And the pi hi ling press was tbe Hrwt of a set ws of ia-reatloas whk mora thaa anything etta BESIDES MEXICO "malefactors of great wealth" public erib. off the When the I'nderwood tariff went into effect we were warned by such states men as the Hon. Watson, the Hun. New, and the Hon. iAndis, that aoine opulent paupers, with more than the wealth of either Ind, would flood our country with cheap goods snd send us all to the -or house. Hitter salt tears were shed over that grievously injured infnut, the Leather Truat. American labor waa to cease fashioning anything ia the leather line. What do we seef Under the Demo cratio tariff the imports of leather goods have actually decreased, while our ex ports of leather goods have augmented 100 per cent! Now when Jim Watson mounts the raging stump in Hooeier dom this fall he it going to be as mute as to the leather schedule of the Cndtr wood tariff aa the lady whose husband waa hanged for horse stealing is on the subject of a rope. see But there is wool. The Hon Jim will be voieeful about wool. We imported in 1 P 1 5 grsat quantities of that staple free of tariff. Indeed, the increase was 230 per esnt over the last year of tho Payne Aldrieh monstrosity. Imsgine the eloquent Jim exclaiming to the Hooser farmers, "O, my country, how he bleedst" aa he expatiates on Sche dule K. Bat the Hon. Jim will be silent about the export phase of the wool busi ness for oar exports of woolcvi Jinder the Democratic tariff exceed like im ports under tbe Repnbllean tariff 828 per cent) Now, remember that states men of the Hon. Watson's ilk solemnly warned us that we w-nild aot eiport a single manufactured product while this wretched Democratic free trade last, d. The Republican Idea Is, sell every. thiiiK and buy nothing. The Democrat it idea is, sell and buy in sll markets. In legitimate trads it is as profitable t buy as it is to -sell. Your Republican tells ymi that if two men trade one is going to gain snd the other is gomj to lofe. The Democrat fci-lis ypu that if it is legitimate trade lotof them will gain. e . Hut It is precious litj attention the public are guing tch pay to the tarif this '..imnaign. Other fish will be ffie I. The people long sgo made up th. ir minds about ths tariff and they haie come to ths conclusion that I " tic le Nuui is no longer a baby, too stupid to take care (,f himself in ATreoevcitli a pauper, m- niiybndy clse-fWetgn or domestic. Mnce the foregoing was writ, the .e- pUu-alle diiatk of Mr. Hhiw ly baa niaJa a vacancy in the Indiana detegntimi in the United Htates Senate, and the G. . P. of Hnoaicrdom has given the nomin-i-tion for the succession to Jim Watson, possibly to compensate him for the cruel nn.l inhuman injustice visited upon him by '.be friends of Mr. New when they circulated that hoary old campaign yarn alKiut a dollar a day aad a dab of l-sked beans Washington, April 32. RACY OF THE SOIL Killed a Bear Sunday. Waynesville Mountaineer. George K. Palmer, of Cattaloochee, came to town Monday with two large hind quarts re of a bear which he killed Sunday two anT ft tuilf ta!!e abote lilt home on Big Cattalooekee. f Mr. Hrhui- hoder readily dispuaed of 0m bSai mist for him at bis markor. klr. Palmer says the bear weighed about 400 lbs. and was chased by a small flee dog. He killed the animal witk a 38-raHbre v. in dicator. Bruin had killed a sow and ten pigs for kiss before this. kelped to let bt tka light that brought aa ead ta tko dark agee. Tkea ataa tko propositions tkat Inquired la to tka state of tko aal one; of tko shape of tka-eartki of tke character of tko kamaa. body. Aad wkaa tko world said eonlg aet be done, was daa-e by OalUeo, Cwperaiswa, Msgslk-a, Harwtr aad ftlmpeeev Later aex, tka Wasfita of qaiekat locomotioa). af epistle if faster oemmaaieatioa, af considered, sag let again gave a enter plana te tka impossible" ka tka works af Wat Btepheaeoa, Arkwrigkt, Bat rr eaves , Wkltaey, Howe, Ba Mores, Edison aad Halts at Tnri tke InpoMfMa of y tot or day it tka rvAolutiea f today, ami tke aceoa-tpliahutat at toaaerrew, '
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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April 25, 1916, edition 1
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