THURSDAY, July, 14, 1004. H. A. LONDON. Editor. The Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President are Chief Justice Alton 13. Parker, of New Yorkj and ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia. They were nominated last week by the Democratic national convention held at St. Louis. Parker was nominated on the first ballot and Davis was nominated by acclama tion. This convention was one of the Most notable ever held and will ilever be forgotten by any of the thousands who attended it. The immense building in which it was -lield was crowded to its utmost capacity during all the sessions of the convention, which were held Vith short recesses from noon on "Wednesday until after, midnight 5 on Saturday night. One session '-was all night, like our State con tention at Greensboro. But it was unlike our State convention in one respect. Our State convention spent most of its time in nomina ting its candidate for Governor and yery little time in adopting its platform. The national conven tion spent most of its time in adopting its platform and very little time in nominating its candi dates. The platform is a compromise : between the gold standard and free silver Democrats, ana is one oil "nomnnvifshnfll Htv- an and Cleveland-can stand con sistently. The financial question being settled and no longer being an issue there is no reason for Democrats to be divided on this dead issue anymore than to be still divided on the dead issue of carrying slaves into the Territor ies. Consequently there is no al lusion in the platform either to the gold standard or to free silver. The platform is outspoken, how ever, and utters no uncertain sound II it 1 I . J i. 1 , . on an cue live ana lmpoiiant issues of the day. There is one great dif ference between this platform and that of the Republicans, which should secure for it the support of all white men in the South: and that is, it does not demand a re duction of the South's representa tion in Congress and the Electoral college ueuause oi iue uwuau- chisement of the ignorant negroes. With this platform and these candidates the Democrats all over the Uuited States are once more happily reconciled and reunited. "With this platform and these can didates the Democrats all over the United States will stand united and present a solid front during the comin rr r o tyi noi mi The North Carolina Press As sociation will hold its annual meet ing on the 26th. and 27th. of this month at Morehead City, and it will be a most pleasant and inter esting meeting. An attractive pro gramme has been arranged for the meeting, the notable feature of which will be an address by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Morehead City has been unusual ly attractive this summer and has been more largely patronized than usual. This is due to the excellent management of the Atlantic Hotel by Mr. A. J. Cooke, who is now in charge of it and is one of the most capable and courteous hotellists in the South. "Time seta allJhiiigs : right." This old saying was forcibly veri fied by the vindication of ex-President Cleveland at the national convention last week, when that great body went wild at the men tion of his name. He had patiently bided his time, in nowise heeding or disturbed by the unjust cen sures heaped upon him. His vin dication has come at last and is full and complete. Those who now yelp at his heels are too insignifi -cant to notice. Parker's telegram was a mag- mncent exhibition of moral cour age and honesty of purpose. He completely refuted the allegation of those who had accused him of i not having any . decided eonvic ; tions. He had shown for several v.weeks that he was wise enough to i be silent when "silence was gold , en," and this remarkable telegram ..showed he had the courage and klyisdom to speak when his silence i might be misunderstood. Our nominee for President is a man of simple habits and as "plain as an old shoe." He was born on a tarm, where hewor.kea until ne . was sixteen years old when he be sran to teach a country school to get the money to help pay his ex penses at College. He is one of our country's great self-made men, rising from. a young country teach- j or to be Chief Justice of the great-1 est State in the Union. His life , is a fit example for the youths of; our country to emulate and imi tate. The announcement of his nomi nation for President was made to Judge Parker as he was coming out from his usual morning swim in the stream near his house. The day after his nomination to the highest office in the world he went to church and as usual handed round the plate just like Any other church official would do. After church some of his neighbors call ed to congratulate him . and they sat on his piazza talking and tak ing things as simply as any neigh bors would do in visiting.. He is a man of the people and with him as our President the people's in terests will be safe. Our nominee for Vice-President was for: twelve years a United States Senator from West Virginia and is extensively engaged in the mining and industrial development of that State. So popular and in fltiential is he in West Virginia that he will carry that State for the Democrats, although for sev eral years it has gone Republican Southerners were conspicuous at the Democratic national conven tion. It was called to order by ex Senator Jones, of Arkansas; its temporary chairman was Congress man Williams, of Mississippi; its permanent chairman was Congress man Clark, of Missouri; the chairman of the committee on plat form was Senator Daniel, of Vir ginia; and Senator Bailey, of Tex as, and Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, were among the most in fluential men in the convention. This was in pleasing and strik ing contrast to the Southern men and their influence in the Repub lican national convention, and forcibly illustrated the difference between the two parties in the South. The friends of temperance every where are greatly encouraged by the glorious victories won last week at Charlotte and New Bern At each of those cities prohibition defeated the saloons by over whelming majorities, very much larger majorities than the most sanguine prohibitionist had hoped. The victory for prohibition at Charlotte and New Bern will en courage the temperance forces at Greensboro and Wilmington, where elections for a dispensary will be held on the lGth. and 27th. of this month. Truly will the advocates of temperance have cause to rejoice when the saloons are voted out of such important cities as Wilming ton, Charlotte, Greensboro, Ra leigh, Durham, Fayefcteville and New Bern. Ants Destroy Boll VVeevi!. Washington, July 11. The ef fectiveness of the Guatamalau ants in checking the ravages of the boll weevils in the cotton fields has been tested, and Air. Cook, the ex pert of the Department of Agricul ture, in a telegram to Secretary Wilson today, announces that the ants promptly destroyed the wee vil and the Texas red ants as well. The telegram, 'which was the sub ject of great satisfaction to Secre tary Wilson, was from 'the chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry and is dated Victoria, Texas. It is as follows: . "After four weeks of captivity and of sugar diet, the Guatemalan ants promptly destroyed the Tex as boll weevils and also the Texas red ants, the harmless species which it was feared they might resemble." Color Line in New York. Oyster.Bay, N. Y., July 11. There is intense feeling urn oil jr the negroes of the village today be cause a negro clergyman was put out of a white man's barber shop here Saturday night when he in sisted upon being shaved by a white barber. It is believed by many to have been a carefully plan ned proceeding on the part of the negroes to give expression to the declaration of a more liberal pol icy toward the negroes in the lie publican national platform. At any rate, the negroes say they will make an effort to have the matter laid before the president at once, and they are confident he Will uu hold them. Washington Letter. Summer School at the A. & M. College. Imour Reeuuroorrnonn, I Jjjjtqjj ' JULY 9TH- Washington, July 7, 1904. EdiWBecx). ' Peace and quietude reign m This is the largest meeting corn Washington. iLven conversation posed , principally of country is carried on m subdued tones. It teachers ever assembled in North would suit J udge Parker as a res-1 Carolina. There are nearly GOO idence first rate. Congress and !wuo have taught 'onlv in conntrv Catherine wheels, ltoosevelt, ro-1 schools. man candles and rockets have gone To one who never saw very ex off, and the smudge is being rapid- j tensive eating goino- on, it would ly dissipated. ' While waiting for ; be a matter of considerable inter confirmatory news from hot St. jest to take a peep into the dinin uouisour people sii, ou meir snauy lswns and hail each other with "How cool it is!" There is no ex cuse for going out of town this summer. Meantime, the usual thousand or two come from the Gulf States and settle down in our hotels and boarding houses con fident that they have arrived at a northern mid-summer resort. Two or three of the Filipinos "Commissioners" linger at the capita and they freely call atten tion to President Schurman's tren chant remark at the New York banquet that "if Ave were able to prepare the Cubans to be fit for self-government in 24 months, and the residents of Panama to be fit to govern themselves in 21 hours, it ought not to take 21 years to train the Filipinos up to that point." Secretary Taf t and 'White law lveid were present at that ban quet and said a whole lot of irrev levant things but did not reply to this cnustic observation. Steamboats on the Potomac are running about a quarter full on their excursions, and the owners are sad-hearted at the lack of a dividend. The Slocum horror hangs upon the shoulders of . Sec retary Metcalf, of the Department of Commerce, like a veritable Old Man of the Sea. A large part of his daily mail consists of petitions and appeals for the punishment ot the criminals who are guilty - of that massacre of a thousand wo men and children, and other large bagfuls consist of remonstrances from steamboat owners agaius! "mere sentimentalists" robbing them of their dividends. The Sec retary is sorry that the dilemma has two horns and would be hap pier if he were not alio wed any option in the matter. The Presi dent insists that "the guilty must be punished," but he did an indis creet thing in attending his nep hew's wedding up in NewKugland instead of attending the mighty funeral of eight hundred victims of his inspectors which took place on the same day. To be sure, they were neither Bough liiders nor voters, but there are times' when sentiment seems' to be in order. Contrasted with this is the per sistent refusal of Grover Cleve land at the beginning ot" his first administration, to dismiss a Bep publican Supervisor of Inspectors who had shown himselE remark ably jefficient. " ' "! " The Department' of' Agriculture is &bout to muster ants into its service in the war that is being made upou thi boll weevil in Tex as. Dr. O. F. Cook, of that De partment, arrived in New Orleans from Guatemala ou Tuesda7 bring ing with him across the Gulf bl) little bags filled with the curious auts which aie supposed to be the deadly toe of the boll weevil. Be fore this reaches the reader's eye they will have arrived at Victoria. Texas, where a division of the Ag ricultural Department is stationed, ready to find out what these iu sects are worth as exterminators. The boll weevil is a very dainty feeder and he dies in a day or two if he is kept where" he cannot get any cotton boll. He is a strict Veg etarian, and above all things he is fond of the blossom of the cotton plant. The egg is laid in the bud where the larv-i and pupa enlarge to the mature weevil. In this pro cess the nectar distillery is de stroyed and the ants who largely live on tiiis nectar are not only disappointed but enraged. They thereupon set their police upon the track:iiud hunt the weevil to his lair and destroy him, by stinin"- him to death. They sting nothin eise, Dut are very loud of the sweet liquid found in the nectar ines of the cotton plant. I called yesterday at the Depart ment of Agriculture and obtained the above mentioned facts and others. Dr. Webber, of the Lab-1 oratory ot I lant Breeding, said, vouiv xuuuu coiion ana the boil , yet shrouded jn 'mystery. Police weevil growing in Guatemala to- 1 n Rnniinmio,! t .. t.u oiw. h.at gether. At first he thought he bad' night found bothv men lying un discovered a new kind of cottouVotisnna ; Hm .4,.nf riii, .OVA that the weevil would not attack, but further investigation showed ' that there was an ant nreseut : whose activity kept down its uat-: ural enemy, the weevil. Whether one, is bloody all over and the ra this red ant will act in Texas and 7.m hxr Hip rhor li,ae ,..,,,iafQ,i Louisiana as he acts in Guatemala, is- me question, ;...q v: .... i i , i ii . an he survive condition oi the. man shows that theGult btate winters? Will he Lee who wielded the razor, is be compelled there to make the having a close race for life with wsevil ms prey in order to get his . Colemau, who used the club. The breakfast, as he is in Central Amer- latter is p.nt. . tl ica.r ueuu not Know, out we suan the throat, on the shoulder face cooperate strongly and actively and right arm and has lost 'much with Dr. Cook. The ants will not blood. Lee shows that the club be given their liberty at present, broke his nose, possibly his skull of course. In company with an and one arm and his face is pound mfested cotton plant a few of ed into a jelly. Both men are-dan-them will be confined in a coop gerously near death, and officers covered with mosquito netting, so are feeling no concern about their that neither ant nor weevil can escaping arrest. get out, and they will be left to ; , m secure the survival of the fittest. If it works well, more will be was a very severe storm brought. The sad fact is that some at alelh on last Friday after drastic remedy must be found. If uo,ou' Y ,, Jhtning killed two this little ant fails to protect .us, ;01()rea einldren and the wind blew there is great danger that the wee-; f?own several large trees, vil plague will; in fifteen years i Dr, John L. Williamson, of Ala more extend over the entire Gulf , mance, died on last Saturday ao.ed ; region. r00m of the A. & M. College at meal time, when more than 300 hungry teachers are doing justice to the good fare set before them and asking no questions. It seem ed a very extravagant expectation when Mr. Chas. J, Parker, the sec retary, some weeks, ago said he be lieved there would be nearly 1,000 who would attend this school. I find no one who now doubts that the total registration will reach 1,000 or even more. I am sorry that Chatham county has the smallest representation of any county adjoining Wake. Some counties not adjoining it like Ala mance, have Sent as high as 40; and Duplin,. Wayne and Robeson have large delegations of teachers here. , The corps of instructors is all that could be expected or desired, and the lecturers are coming up to the announcements formerly made. It would pay any of our teachers well to be in this school. They would go back to their schools able to do the work more easily and efficiently, and give better re sults to their patrons. One diffi culty seems to be in the waj' of some of the teachers is that they cannot take it ail in. There is so much instruction given at the same hours that they must select a spe cial course in order to get best re sults; though some of the teachers change from one recitatfon room to an other, and thus try to get a little of ail. Tne vocal niusic'ciass has nearly 250 in it. Dr. Winston ana all the mana gers are doing all they can to make every one leel ts comfortable as possible, and that they have suc ceeded in so doing is shown by the i;ict that no complaints about rooms, lodging or fare are heard. ALany teachers board at the .Bap tist University for W omen and at ttie Deaf A: Dumb Institute. I am lodging with Mr. F. E Sloan, quite near the College, and a- more com fortable place could not be found anywhere. I was quite sick for about two days, wheuMr. and Mrs. Sloan, who are almost doctors and are practically ' "trained nurses," gave me every attention, and witn the aid of .Dr. 'Rogers, "I am out again and abairf as ,vveil 'as ever. heu the recitations and lec tures aie all oyer for tne day, it is a pleasant sight to see a crowd so large gather on the beautiful green awn of tiie campus .ill. front of the College and under the delightful maple shades, anil to see school boy and school ..girl . life displayed so plainly., that even a passing stranger could easily conjecture that these are members ot a school. Then there are"' a lew among the crowd, who owing to the fact that ihey iire not young boys, but old enough to have "some dignity about them," do not display so much boyishness, but I can assure you they do not frown down the jollity of this lively assemblage nor in Muy way discourage it. I have only one regret about it and that is that there are so few Chathamites hf ie. I expect more from Chatham. next Monday. R. P. Johnson. Nsgroes Have Bloody Fight. Special in Clutrlutte Observer. Greensboro.' Julv 7. A bloodv and most brutal fight occurred here last night about 1,1 o'clock between two negroes named John Lee and John Coleman. They had an altercation yesterday morning amounting to nothing more than a determination to have it out, when they were better prepared, liy j agreement they met last night on .East Market street. Dee had a razor, Coleman a solid liglitwood club, four feet long and about the size of a man's wrist, and as heavy almost as lead. Doth men are of iiiiu'prfnl lnilT" l"winr nvpr iv feet tall and weighing at least 200 pounds each. ' Tjiet actual fight is taken to their homes, and at 12 o'clock today were unable to give nv acPiMn.t ,i a i Tim lilitwnnrl i; blood all nvor t'h w.ii '' tu " .. "" auul" eighty years. . "lead l, avi uos Fatal Railroad Accident. New York, July 10. Seventeen persons were killed and 40 injured, some of them seriously, as a result of a regular passenger traur cm the Greenwood Lake branch of the Erie Railroad running into an ex cursion train which was taKing water at Midvale, N. J., at noon to-day. ' A Murderous Madman. St. Petersburg, July 11. A peasant named Michealolf yester day became insane in the village of Almusin-a. He killed his wife, brother, his brother's wife and his aged mother, with a hatchet. He injured several persons who inter fered with him, set fire to his mother's home and the blaze spread destroying fifty other houses. The madman, in the height of the fire, jumped into the flames and was in cinerated. A Strange Death. (Special to Charlotte Observer. ' Goldsboro, July 0. A very strange death occurred at Fremont last night A heavy storm of wind, hail and rain swept over Fremont Wednesday afternoon in which many valuable trees were damaged.' After the storm had passed a Mr. Rose went out into his orchard where many of his trees were blown down and otherwise damaged In attempting to pull a limb from one of the large trees he ruptured a blood vessel, which resulted in his death. He was about GO years of age and leaves a wife and ; several children. Killed In A Well. From The Charlotte Observer, North Wilkesboro, July 11. William Harrold, who lives on Rock Creek, fell in a well this morning and will die from the ac cident. He had just made a blast with'. dynamite aud had gone down in the well to work. He filled one box and told the men at the wind lass to draw him out. They start ed to do so but when he vas about 23 feet from the, bottom he let loose and fell. A man went down to tie him to briujr him out and he came near being asphyxiated. In about a quarter of an hour a dar key went down and succeeded in fastening him and he was drawn out. Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea: Af.er '1 en Yearb of Suffering1. 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This institution with a patronage, of more than 200 pupils from live different States, covering an area of 1000 miles in diameter, dsires immediate correspondence with any young lady who wishes to go off to school. A postal . card or letter, will bring immediate reply and interesting information. The 23rd Annual Session will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1904. J. M. RHODES, President, Littleton, N, C. THJE NORTH CAKOLlM State Normal and Industrial College, -COURSES- Literary Commercial Classical Domestic Science Scientific Manual Training Pedagogical Music. Five courses leading to Diplomas. Advanced courses leading to De grees. Well equipped Practice and Observation School. Faculty num bers 50. Board, laundry, tuition, and fees for use of text books, etc., $160 a year. For non-residents of the State $180. Thirteenth annual session begins September 29, 1904. To secure board in the dormitories all tree-tuition applications should be made before July 15th. 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