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THE CAUCASIAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY B Y.TIIK CAUCASIAN PUB.CO. SUBSQRIPTIOM BATES. Oaeyear is Months, Tare Months, l.GO .60 8 Ho. 11. TRAOES HT? COUNCIL POLITICS AND CUIMES. It Is well known by those dis posed to seek the truth that no po litical party has a monopoly of crim inals, and no party administration enjoys entire immunity from an oc casional spasm of lawlessness. So It has ever been and must ever be, un less human beings reach a higher degree of perfection than has ever yet been attained upon earth. Truth is truth and must not be lost to view even In the heat of discussion. ho far as we have heard no one ever claimed that the Fusion ad ministration of public affairs in .North Carolina was perfectly flaw less. This much admitted, it is not boastful to state that in many re siect3 the period from 1894 to 1898 was a most propitious and prosper ous era in our State's history. The people ruled. If mistakes were made by the people's representatives these could and would have been corrected had the rule of the people contin ued; but unfortunately there were freebooters so intent upon public plunder that in their passion for power no means was deemed un worthy of their purpose even though carried into effect at the cost of hu man life. There were big prizes to be taken and the trade of a bucca neer ignores legal and moral ethics, concerning itself only with possibil ities of success. A recently deposed hord of ofiice- hungry adventurers led by that Arch political juggler the Hon. Secret Circular Simmons, swooped down like a wolf on the fold," and es sayed to accomplish by the arts and cunning of jugglery and theft the destruction of majority rule and thereby the people's undoing. A deep-laid and most diabolical scheme was first to prophesy a gen. eral condition of lawlessness as a re sult of Fuslonrule, then to bring about such condition by inciting their henchmen to provoke as many as possible of the opposite party to -violence, and failing in this to do "Violence themselves. The plan ought not to have suc ceeded, but the people in the main "were honest themselves and could not see how it was possible for men to be so base and so lost to every principle of honesty and truth as to .bring about such a condition for the sole and only purpose of gaining po litical advantage. The charge was made by Simmons and his under takers that there was a fearful con dition of lawlessness in the State, and that the same was due to Fu sion rule. The remedy of course Was to put him and his gang back in power when peace and tranquility would be restored and maintained under democratic good government. The people forgot themselves and re-instated the hungry gang, and what is the result? If Democratic papers are to be believed conditions were rarely, if ever so bad in this State as now. We quote below a few paragraphs In proof of . this statement. . Hear the Salisbury Sun on the subject of lawlessness, and the farcical conduct of the courts, also the Morning Post and the Charlotte Observer on the feud-Vendetta business. After read ing these extracts let your mind re vert to a time when it was consid ered an act of patriotism to kill a negro for daring to register his name as a voter, when men were actually defended by Act of the Legislature forth crime of stealing votes, when red-handed mobs waited with guns on speakers to prevent the truth from being told and were ad judged guilty of no crime. Consider whether the present condition is not due to such high-handed methods. We quote first from the Salisbury 3un. ' N "It seems now that all the mar deters of Jones at Wilson have man aged to escape. And yet the fact remains, that Jones was in his room asleep and a mob of ruffians came to Tito l-aWklr! t- iahtm - dered him in cold blood. One by one they have " slipped the halter, cheating the gallows of what was justly due It. The ghost, however, will not down. The blood of a mur dered man goes unavc?ed end the white wings of Justice have Uea dragged in the mire." To which the Union Fepublkan add: It has been tald that the murder ers of Jones gave valuable assistant e in the campaign Just prior to tbe murder. Just how much figure this fact cuts with the courts of justice and the officers in that paction we do not know, but it in passing strange that none of thU mob was puni&hed and no eriou attempt was made to bring any of them to justice. This is a fad commentary on the 'good government' regime." J Lead the following from the Hal elgh Post of May 21: "RIVAL, OF KENTUCKY" "Are we, here In North Carolina, where we boast of law abiding citi zens and W3 have them to become the rival of Kentuckey in its feudal days. In the vendetta business? God grant that we are not. In the hhootine from ambush ol II. Clay Grubb the Cliarlotte Ob- server sees signs ci a venueua. Orubb was acquitted in Rowan Su perior Court last week of the charge of murdering hi3 brother-in-law, Obe Davis, at Piney Grove church in Davidson County last year. TheseJ two men had strong friends and strong enemies, and, the Observer says, were afraid of each other, as well they might have been. The Observer further says that these men lived in a community of lawless, desperate men, and the kill inc of Davis, followed bv the ac quittal of Grubb, is not calculated to nromote the peace of mind or a, trivfl anv greater assurance of the safety of life in Boone township. The recent transactions at Piney rhurch and in Rowan Court are quite sure to deepen the vendetta feeling. This is already proven by the event of yesterday morning, which was maifestly the result of a conspiracy. His enemies will get Grubb yet, perhaps in the next at tempt, and his friends may then be expected to take reprisals, if they do not begin before he is killed. The situation at this time appears to be as well developed a feud as even Kentucky ever witnessed." I.1QUOR VS. SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. A Sunday's issue of the Raleigh News and Observer (yellowest of the yellows, except when for pur poses of intimidation and murder, it dons the traditional red-shirt) con tains this screed from the N. C. Baptist: "A Virginia applicant for license to run a liquor still argued that he ought to have a license because he ran a Sunday-School in his still house. That still was not licensed by the judge. And he did right. A dozen Sunday-Schools would not make a liquor still any better. It is poor logic to run an institution that debauches folks and then set up a Sundy-School to try to reclaim few of them. The two things are diametrically opposed to each other." What must the N. C. Baptist and other religious papers think of the motives of a dispensary organ who reproduces and lays before his read ers such items as the foregoing? Were they to sneak or write their estimation of it the verdict would probably be unanimous in pronounc ing it a case of the devil rebuking Sin. Such hypocrisy is despicable, and yet there exists in some quar ters a morbid appetite for falsehood and inconsistency as well as for sen sation and filth, such as this sensation-monger is in the habit of dish ing on j to its readers, espscially on Sundays. While it is true as stated by the Baptist that "A dozen Sunday Schools would not make a liquor still any better," or at least could not make it a hloy place, is. it not equally true that a big whiskey shop is not a sacred institution, because operated as an adjunct to the church and Sunday-School and championed by church and Sunday-School peo ple? If "it is poor logic to run an institution that debauches folks and then set up a -Sunday-School to try and reclaim a few . of them,?' as we admit it is, then by the same token what becomes of the Observer's pet, the Raleigh dispensary, which sells more liquor, makes more money and debauches more people than any dozen distilleries that ever operated in North Carolina? "WATTS AND WARD XiAWS ARE DEAD LETTERS," As stated in a recent issue of this paper the Democratic machine in this State is much concerned about an issue for the next campaign. They tried to work the negro racket again during the last campaign, but it was no go. It has leaked ont that the machine has now decided to make an issue by attacking the Internal Revenue System of the State. But they will have to manufacture an other issue, as their own papers have condemned them. Such Democratic papers as the Charlotte Observer and Wilmington Messenger atate that the State ofii- eitls are doix2 nothing to break up blind tigers and Illicit wbfekey bu ine.s In this State and that the Fed eral officials are the only oSJcers try ing to enforce the law. Else where in this Isue will be found an article from the news col umns of the Charlotte Observer stating the awful condition of af fairs in Carthage, Moore County. The Charlotte Observer comment ing on this editorially traya: A special from Carthage, Moore County, tell of a stir there over al leged illicit liquor trafic tnd of ef forts United States erne-lab are mak ing to enforco the law. The State authorities, it h added, are doing nothing. Thus the evidence I ac cumulating that In many sections of North Carolina the Watts and Ward laws are dead-letters." CAN IT 11 K A CHANOE Ot HEART! The Haleigh Post says that when Governor Glenn and his party were In Washington last week that they spent a very pleasant half hour at the White House with President Roosevelt and that Governor Glenn told the President that the people of his State were very anxious to meet the President. Wonders never cease. During the campaiirn last fall Governor Glenn 8a id on the stump that no self re specting white man in the South could vote for Roosevelt and he was verv harsh in his denunciation of the President. Now how could the Governor sit down and talk socially with such a man and invite him to meet the peoplo of his State? Has the Governor had a change of heart, or can it be that he himself did not believe what he told the people about the President last fall", but was only tryiner to prejudice the voters by his venomous speeches? THE DISPENSARY A CURSE. Mr. W. T. Bundick of Virginia Declares That Christian are to Blaine for an Awful State of A fl airs. Mr. W. T. Bundick of Virginia, delivered a temperance lecture at the Metropolitan Hall in this City Sunday afternoon. He took for a text St. Matthews xx 11-21: "Ren der, therefore, uuto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and to God the things which are God's." The service of the government, he declared, is part of the service of God- The lack of practical Chris tianity in practical politics is rapidly becoming the bane of our govern ment. If our republic ever tails, the fault will be not so much with the ignorant and vicious as with the Indifferent, negatively good people, who hold themselves aloof from participation in politics. We can't escape from the responsibility of citizenship. Speaking of the sources of corrup tion in political life, bribing, Mr. Bundick characterized the bribe of party fealty as the most dangerous of them all, because the most com mon ''Stand by the party on princi ple!" he exclaimed, "God save the mark! Though you violate every principle of manhood to do it.'. 'Alcohol is king!' declared the speaker. 'There is the naked truth. You are the subjects of a monarch His popular levy is $1,200,000,000 every year 14 per capita on every man, woman and child. The church levy is about 150,000,000, schools $170,000,000, bread 300,000,000 meat 900,000,000. AU together will barely foot up to the leyy of King Alcohol. His tax gatherers are licensed and protected by state and natural laws and take in the tribute over the counters of saloon or dispensary." At this juncture a gentleman who was in the audience, interrupted the lecturer and said, pointing through the window to- the dispen sary: "Right across the street elia one of those kiners. and his name written across his brow the angels of the citizens of Raleigh." "Tbank you," said Mr Bundick The speaker explained that it was not alone from the slaves of the king that came, but indirectly from all the citizens for. alcohol is the father of crime, disease, want and poverty, the support of our jails poor-houses, hospitals. The lecturer put the blame for the present awful state of affairs squarely on the shoulders of the Christians of the land, who could by their united ballots he declared, dethrone the awful tyrant. "If only the Christian ballots," said he, "were torn from the base of the tyrant's throne, the whole throne would totter and fall at your feet." Rev. S. J. Betts, followed with a brief address, in which he referred to the local liquor situation some what &3 follows: Are we to hand out 58,000 every year for laying our streets with In animate pavement and .educating our children. The mortar is com pounded of the blood of broken hearts. The very water used is the tears from starved souls. The Caucasian is the best weekly paper in the State. Subsribe and get the latest news. Only 1.00 per year. BL1KD TIGEBS 111 CABfHAGK si ate AUTHOtrms Alton msf YIQLATOIS CF THE LAW UMDI5 POTiD AUTHORITY. White federal Aathorttlre ara Bmtj Ar- reUead trrlmg Ewr? Pareoa Ua4r Saspleioaw The following is taken from a special to the Charlotte Observer from Carthage, Moore County: "The illicit liquor' problem has deeply stirred the people of Carth age for the past few weeks. Two weeks ago an anonymous letter In a local paper signed, "a Mother," charred that the town was full of blind tigers;" that they indiscrim inately sold wbiskkey to boys and men alike, and thai the men of the town wero well aware of the exist ence of such traffic and that he (A Mother,) did not expect any help from them. etc. The next issue of the paper brought forth a reply to A Mother,' from 'Fair Plsy, in which he resents the gratuitous In sult offered our leading men by A Mother,' and suggests that there are other fields of endeavor for him. (A Mother.' J Fair Play' reminded A Mother' that a . mere assertion carries no weight unsupported by proof,' but A Mother' in the last issueof the last .'issue of the paper challenged Fair Play to meet him, ('A Mother,') at the court-house Thursday during the court recess at which time 4 A Mother, asserted he would prove that Fair Play' was liauor seller and a blind tiger or forfeit $25. There was no' meeting at the court-house, however. Mean time the Federal authorities here are arresting and trying every per son upon whom a suspicion rests. Some are sent on to court, while others are allowed to go because of no evidence. The State authorities allow undisputed priveilege and no cases are brought from that source." LEASE OF A. fc X. C. CONDEMNED. Board of Commissioners Directed to In vestig-ate Legality of the Lease, and if Possible to Set the game Aside. New Bern, N. C At a meeting of county commissioners to-day i strong resolution offered by M. D Lane, of Fort Barnwell, condemn ing the lease of the Atlantic & North Carolina railroad to the Howland Im provement Company, was carried by an almost unanimous vote. It was directing the board of cbmmieioners to investigate the legality of the lease, and if possible to set the same aside. Batter Consumed in the United States. Over one and one-half billion pounds of butter are consumed an nually in the United States, accord ing to Clarence B. Lane, of the Dairy Division of the United States Department of Agriculture. Wri ting in the June Cosmopolitan on "Butter, Cheese and Condensed Milk as Factory Products," Mr. Lane says that -factories . have now almost wholly transferred the making of butter from the faams. The' milk producers co-operate in organizing, building, equipping and managing the butter factory and disposing of its products. In a factory of this kink all expenses are deducted from the gross receipts of sales and the remainder divided pro rata among the patrons upon the basis of the milk or crerm contributed. The use of machinery and of various testing appliances has quije revolutionized modern dairying. The article is fully illustrated. Pas a Law J Newberry, 8. C, Herald and News. Certainly. Pass a law. That is the thing to do. Not only in North Carolina but ia South Carolina and in the town of Newberry. If a cit izen is trying , to do something for himself and is attending to his own business and trying to be progres sive stop him pass a law.' Don't encourage hinj, bqt stop himpass a law if you can't , do it any. other way. , If anything is being done .that someone thinks ought not to be done pass a law and stop him The town or the State might grow. - Seriously, we have too much of "thou shalt not." Why not encour age people to do these things which are good and for the uplifting of hu manity and the advancement of the State materially and then there will be no need of so many prohibitives. The White Brother in Stats Prison. Chalmers L. White and Thomas J. White of Rowan County, were placed in the State's prison yesterday to serve a sentence of six years for the murder of Russell Sherrill in September, 1903. As they were un der bond they came to Baleigh a day ahead so as to avoid the trip as pris oners of the sheri.f. , A BAD SCABE. Some day von will get a bad scare. when ycu feel a pain in jour bow els, and fear appendicitis. Safety its in Dr. Kintfs New Lire mis, a sure cure,- for alllK) wel and stom ach diseases, such as headche, bil iousness, costlveness etc. uuaran- teed by all Druggists, only 25c. Try Them.. . .- rsotf oun xxenasors. SqaJfee S)f ! Wa If Cafc- WUk oar Pi seaaa Daring the abort admlnUtrmUcn of Mr. Roosevelt there have been more prosecution against persona in the employment of the government than bad been for many years pre ceding and the frauds bad been going on for many year. If there could be a Utile of tht kind of work done In the State government It might be well for tbe State. North SUte. Many people in North Carolina would be pleased to know If the State' Governor has turned in those free naanea he has been using for years, or is be still deadheading on the railroads. Charlotte People's Paper. Some candidates are so consistent that they will give a testimonial to a brand of whiskey and a Prohibi tionist the "glad hand" in the same campaign. Staunton (Va.) Leader. Storm Did Mack Dansae. It is reported that the hail storm in Chatham County, near Bynum, last Wednesday evening was the most destructive in the history of that section. The storm was two and a half miles wide. It killed chickens, geese and did much dam age to truckers. After the storm was over men and boys could walk over the fields on ice as In winter. It is also reported Irom Lolly Springs, Wake County, that the hail did much damage to crops. From Harnett County it is re ported that the western section of the county was visited Wednesday afternoon by a most terrific wind and hail storm. In the section about Barclay8Ville the growing cot ton and tobacco was entirely de stroyed, and will have to be planted again. At Kawles station, on the Mills road, a small station house was blown across the track for about thirty feet, and was completely de molished. The farmers in that sec tion are reported to have suffered a great losi. " CUT HIS OWN THROAT. Mr. John Fleppin was the Third Member of this Family to Die In this Manner Pilot Mountain, N. C, June 6. A large congregation gathered at the funeral of Mr. John Fleppin ten miles from here Sunday. lie cut his throat a few days ago while plough ing corn. His boys found him just as he was dying. The mule was hitched, and the man lay in a puddle of dlood near by. This is the third member or the family that died with a cut throat, his sister having committed suicide in this manner, and his mother was found dead with her throat cut after being missed for several days. Progress of the Colored A. fc M. Collere at Greensboro. The work on the new dormitory of the Colored Agricultural and Me chanical College at Greensboro, is in progress and the College authorities are expecting soon to have another large dormitory added to their equipment. The building will be a three-story brick structure con taining forty-eight rooms with steam heat and electric light. The plans for the building were drawn by Prof. Afam Watson, Director of the Mechanical Department, who is himself a graduate of this school. All the work is being done by stu dents. Belters In Klsslnr. Bristol, Va., June 5. There are ten thousand German Baptists in this city attending the annual con ference of the denomination. To day was devoted to devotional ser vice and a discussion of missionary and Sunday-School work, it being shown that the denomination has grown greatly in both. In a sermon to-day Elder Beahm, cf Bridgewater, Va., ' speaking of the ordinance of kissing observed hy the brethren said: When we get too proud to kiss each other tothat extent has - God gone out of our hearts.'? .- .. Robbers Enteral 'Sayan Residences Salisbarr . " la Salisbury, N. C , June 6. What appears to naye been an attempt at wnoieeaie burglary developed here last night. No less than seven homes wore attacked near, the midnight hour. Tne intruders were fired upon at the home of Mr. Quffy and vera rrigmenea away at all other Places atter tne Dea-rooms bad been entered. .a a t V DYING OF FAMINE , - . is, in us torments, like dyio of consumption. The progress of eon sumption, from the beginning to very ena, is a long torture, both to yiciim ana mends. - "when I bad consamjetlcn n its first stiffe," writes Win. liver, of Ce&rfosj. Md . fatter tryir e different rnedieiW and a good doctor, III vain, I at last took Dr. King's New Discovery, which quickly and perfeptly cured me Prompt relief and sure' enr. for coughs, colds sore throaV bron chitis etc. Positively prevents pneumonia. Guaranteed bv all Druggists. Price 60s and one tinn a sottlt. Trial feottl free. ETiUS, then Epilepsy. Dr. Miles Restorative Nerv ine has been so successful in curing these brain-wrecking diseases that there is every reason to believe that even the most hopeless cases can be benefited, if not fully restored. We will be pleased to refer any one thus afflicted to many who now enjoy the. blessing of health, after years of hopeless suflerine;. -I hav a on that bad brain trr ha two rr 14. foiowd by fits of tb worst tjrp. and h was prooounct Inc-uraU. 1 pnt hundreds of dollars for him. without rlf. Aftw about Rftevn yr i tcra mo bad that wa aot him to Ixmgciltt hrltal for tba lnaan. at Lofanaport. It4. Ha was thrt nearly ihreo jrcrnra. but ha con tinued to a row wor. ao wa brought .Mm hoina JuIt 10, 13. in an awfut condition. 11 had loat his mind almmt rnUraJy. ! hardly knw on of I ha family; could not vrm find bis bad; wai a total wrrrk. If had from 6 to 10 Bt a dr. Wa wra ttrvd to try lr. Mile' Nrrvlo. and bfora tba flrat boil! waa used, wa could me a rtianaa for tha better. Wa hava tirrn it to Mm aver ainca. and h has had but two vry light noaUa si nee last August. and UiwT ht was not well other ways. Wa pronounca him cured, aa ha can work and so anywhera. If any ona wishes t ask any questions concerning this, they ar at llertjr t d ao." K. it BUNNELL, Uncotn. lnd. Dr. Mllss' Nervtna la sold by your druggist, who tw guarantaa that tha first bottle will benefit. If It 'alls, ha will refund your money. ' Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lnd WANTKD-HY 01110400 If AN UFACTURING House, person ol trustworthiness and souaewtiat famil iar with lcal territory at assistant Id branch offl:e. Salary $13 pat a weekly. Permanent pi ition. o intestineo' requited. Business established. Pre vious experience not essential to en- t-aginf. Address, Mantger Branches, 323 Dtarborn Bt , Chicago. Raleigh Marble Works Trin ITY juq nunarca anti t veiny kiaauaie aru umiergraiiuato courses! a si a . Of study in department of 1 in r. lur",Hts nrj f hcleiuv and Philoso phy. Well-equippe 1 UtNratoriB in all fJeitartineim of science. Large library faciliti". Oymtasitin TumUl'Ml with Ut ap'a rains, aspens a very monraie. Ala tor wormy fouiix men.. Broad and national spirit. Trinity College Has the Largest . Endowment of Any College ia the South Atlantic Slates : : : : : For catalogue and further Information, address TV xv wpusnu xiiutw V HERMA0 STRAUS & SOBS CO.. LOUISVILLE. KY- A .CEC0RD.0F .33 YEARS A3 ILOUISYIUE'S: ttOSTLPOPULAI PSCSCUS.Yf This Shirt Waist Yte boaght all the this low pries mads of nnnofactarer WHITE INDIA L1NON, trimmed with EMBROIDERY, VALENCIENNES CLUSTER TTJCK9, and V ' FAGOTTING, a ueo PLAIN UNOIN LINON TAILORED . EFFECTS Jfivery One Worth $2.00; Only 18 Mention Bust Mf-asure. Writ to D'jiartinont Z. THESE COST TH E Y ARE A BSOLUTE L Y FR E E. SAMPLES" OF GOODS FOR MAKING SHIRT WAISTS . r SAMPLES OF SIICS, SAMPLES OF LACES, SAMPLES OF EMBRQI 3 J J WHITE US JL LETTEU TO-DAY! HOKR MILITARY SCHOOL ' Two Bishons. a Presidior Elder a York lawyer from one olass The best educational advantage ear begins flBPTBMBfiR 7. Itt4.fi, WRITE FOB Times-Mercury Weekly la the Bute, Kn fKea on all sot-Jerts-tha siuJ Machine a specialty. YbihU v tt aaja, and says, what u u,., Only Sl.00 a Year Try US, or 12 iuogU ja. fan J F CLICK. UlCKOUY, k. a University QMOlTttlCAtailiA. ACADEMIC DKl'AHTUfcM, Pharmacy, Law. Free tuition to teachers u ministers' sooa. HcluWrMt loans to tbo needy. 820 8TUCEHT3. 67 USTlUCTOti Hew Dormitories, Uyuius slam. Water Work, IW tral Hosting Bysfcui. : CSrFall Term begins BiipteiuWr i 1904. Address, FttANCIfl P. VKNABLK, Prt, CuarXL Hill, N. C. CMiCHrSTCR'S NailSM CCA aw CII lOlifctfl Kill Imj ITS Shipments made to any part ot the State at same price at at shop. MONUMENTS COOPER UXIOH,, l'royrlutora. Raleigh, N. C. When writing f advertisers mention the Caucaslti send for Catalogue. College a P17H0AM, N. C. by Uail Only 98c. bad, thcrsfors On 't. YOU KOTI IHG, Knnert. r!nn J..irand s area 3e - In the South offered. The fiitj-fow 7 I J CATALOGUE. -C3
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