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CAUCASIAN. ' ' H i VOL. XXVI. RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY. APRIL 16, 1908. No. 14 ! I i 1 EDITORIAL BRIEFS. a Congressman Hobson thinks that ar with Japan Is Inevitable. We think that Japan knows better. i A din patch states that the Japan (.-. ' ar learning to drink milk. That js nothing the people In North 'Carolina are learning to drink water. ! Th- only argument the Republi- 'cns -a ill need this fall will be to fr.-a Y. the articles the Democratic can alii!. .u-.-i have published on each other I 1 The Wadesboro Messenger and In- fj. ;!: iif:-r intimates at some of i r( rai- managers haven't been wear f ;,tc (In ir Democracy straight the past (.-,v v-ars. I " Governor Glenn has at last decided I he will not make the race for the I I'nited States Senate against Over I man. Jt took him a long time to flg- I u re out that he stood no chance for f w job Charlotte is making great prepara tions to entertain the North Carolina Press Association, .which will hold its annual convention in the Queen City on Wednesday and Thursday of in-xt week Some of the Democratic leaders of the Sixth Alabama District are pre paring to wage a fight against Con gressman Hobson because he is not friendly toward Bryan. 'The best thing that we have yet heard in Mr. Home's favor is that if elected he would not forever be trav eling around the State ballohooing." Durham Herald. The editor of the Herald is guilty of les majeste, or words to that effect. Wonder what Senator Overman thought of the Federal grand jury at Greensboro for returning true bills against eight persons for peonage the next day after he had delivered a speech in the Senate denying that peonage was practiced in the South? The name of the little prince of Spain is Alfonso Pio Cristino Ed wardo Francisco Guillerino Corlos Enrique Eugino Fernando Antonio. If that name does not kill him it Kill be useless for the anarchists to try their hand. Locke Craig and W. W. Kitchin, two of the candidates for the Demo cratic nomination for Governor, will speak in Charlotte Thursday night but not from the same platform. Their friends have decided to keep them apart since the small skirmish at Wadesboro some weeks ago. The Charlotte Observer says that its Republican friends need not rest too confident that the Democratic party will nominate Mr. Bryan. Even if Governor Johnson, of Min nesota, succeeds in landing the nomi nation, the Bryan forces, or a ma jority of them, will not support Johnson. So, what is the difference. Solicitor A. L. Brooks and Prof. J. A. Holt, two of the candidates for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fifth District, opened their campaign in Greensboro a few nights ago. Professor Holt charged that Brooks had collected money that did not belong to him. Brooks intimated that the charges was a lie. Of course some may think this was a mild de bate, but the campaign has just be gun. If you haven't paid your poll tax for 1907, you should do so at once This poll tax must be paid before the first day of May or you cannot vote this year. There remains only two more weeks in which to qualify your self. If you have paid your poll tax, but know of some friends who has not paid his. ask him to pay it before May 1st so he will not be disfran chised, and can cast his vote for good government this fall. If the Supreme Court had not de cided some days ago that it was not unlawful for citizens of Anson Coun ty to have more than a quart about them at one time the city officials of Wadesboro would now be above the limit. A few days ago two police men of that town rescued five bar rels, twenty-five jugs and nine bot ties of whiskey from one man, and a few days later one' of the same of ficials shot at a negro-ajid made him drop a three gallon jug which was added to the other collection. TIIK CURSE OF THE PARTY. The Growth of the Republican Part in the South 1 Prevented by the C J reed and HHfUhnew of Pedera Ofliceliolders What Mr. Oliver, of TenneftKee, Kays The Cortel- you Conspiracy. Washington Post. W. J. Oliver, the Knoivllle con tractor, who la a candidate for Re publican national committeeman from Tennessee, arrived in Washing ton last night from New York. It has been said Mr. Oliver may lead the opositlon against Taft from the South in the National Conven tion. When seen last nigh Mr. Oliver did not deny that he had been ap proached in this connection, but he added, significantly, it is not his cus tom to "run with the fox and bark with the hounds." "I am not a politician," said Mr Oliver, "I am a business man and contractor, but I have been drawn into the political fight in Tennessee through peculiar conditions, and I am in the contest to stay. Genesis of the Strife. "Tennessee has been run by Fed eral office-holders for so long that things have become intolerable. Sanders and Evans and their follow ers have dominated the partyby the use or Federal patronage, and the rank and file of Republicans have had to submit to their dictation. 'Hale defeated Austin for the Congressional nomination four years ago by methods that, to say the least, were unworthy of a good Republi can, and as I am Mr. Austin's friend it was natural that I should resent t. Upon my suggestion Mr. Austin resigned his post as consul at Glas gow to become a candidate against lale for the Republican Congres sional nomination this year, and this has involved other political ques tions. Tried to Throw State to Cortelyou. "I became a candidate for nation al committeeman. When Taft was on the water, in the course of his tour aroundthe world, certain Fed eral office-holders went to Tennessee and effected an organization, the ob ject of which was to obtain the Ten nessee delegation for Secretary Cor telyou. The Sanders-Evans;Hale crowd co-operated with these office holders, and were ready at that time to turn the State over to Cortelyou, or any one else besides Taft. There upon, I organized thirty-five clubs in Tennessee, defraying all the expenses myself, and began a regular cam paign, from general headquarters at Knoxville, for Taft and against San ders and company. "I knew we had a lot of dirty lin en to wash, and I preferred to have it done within the State. I made suggestions to the Sanders-Evans people that we could settle the fight in the primaries and counties, with out taking it to the State Conven tion, but they would not listen to such a proposition. Fight Begins in Earnest. "Then the fight began. We beat Sanders and his faction in a large majority of the counties, and San ders, the State chairman, had his seat in the State Convention in con test. When it came to the meeting of the State Convention, we beat the opposition at their own game. They had planned to exclude us, not even to give our regularly elected dele gates their seats in the convention, but they were barking up the wrong tree. "The story of how we won the day at Nashville is now old. Our con vention was regular in every way. It was called to order by W. J. Davis, a member of the State Committee, whose seat as a delegate to the State Convention was not in contest. We opened and closed the convention and did it regularly, elecing dele gates to the National Convention, and doing the other business we . nti a. j ri were tnere ior. ine nexi aay Dan ders and his men held a convention and elected delegates, etc., but our delegates are regular and should, and I believe will, be seated at Chi cago. Approached by Allies. . "Yes," admitted Mr. Oliver, "I have been approached by the 'allies' with a suggestion to lead them in the South. But I am no welcher; I am not a liar. Taft knows where I stand. The situation in Tennessee is unfortunate, but it exists. I can not trail with men who are ready and willing to change color any day, merely because they are controlled body and soul by their desire to hold Federal office. The sooner the State of Tennessee is delivered from such a crowd the beter it will be 'for . the State and the Republican party. "If I am elected national commit teeman I guarantee to organize a campaign in Tennessee that will give the electoral vote of that State to the Republican nominee for President. "There will never be a Republi can party in the South until the Fed eral office-holders of that section are made to obey the law and keep out of active politics." A Flood Does Great Damage in Montana. The portion ' of Montana lying along the Missouri River has been flooded for the past two days caused by the breaking of the great Hauser Lake dam on the river. . One smai town was swept away and there was a great loss of live stock. Thus far no lives have been reported lost. BIG FIRE III BOSTO I Twenty Business -Blocks Wiped Out Entirely. THE LOSS OVER TEN MILLION Two Person Perish and Fifty In- Jured Fire Originated From Hpontaneoujt Combustion More Than One Square Mile of Manu facturing, Ilufcinew, and Tenement District Devastated. Boston, Mass., wag visited by Are Sunday which devastated more than one square mile of the manufactur lng, business and tenement district of Chelsa, entailing a loss estimated at fully 110,000,000. The fire started near the Boston Blacking Company's works, on West Third street, near the Everett City line, and crossed the city, a distance of one mile and a quarter to Marginal, oposite tne East Boston snore. There were two fatalities and half a hun dred persons injured. Among the ttuildings burned were 13 churches, Frost Hospital, Chil dren's Hospital, City Hall, Fitz Pub ic Library, five school houses, a dozen or more factories and about 300 tenements and dwellings. The residential section of the city where the wealthier classes reside. escaped the flames. In the retail section, through which .the fire passed were twenty business blocks which were destroy ed. The United States Marine Build- ngs were not damaged. Two women are known to be dead as a result of the first. Neither body has been identified. The fire originated in the rear of the Boston Blacking Company's works on West Third street, near the eastern division of the Boston & Maine Railroad and in close prox- mity to the Everett City line. The flying embers and the showers of sparks were carried across Chelsa creek to the East Boston district and the East Boston Engines were oblig ed to return from Chelsa to protect property in their district. A militia call by Mayor Beck, of Chelsa, brought out the first com pany, coast artilllery, in order to guard property moved into the streets from buildings in the path of the flames. The marines at the Charlestown Navy Yard, volunteered the services of the Fifteenth com pany stationed at the navy yards and on the request of Mayor Beck the company was sent to the fire. Rear Admiral Swift, of the Navy Yard, also sent out all the men from the receiving ship Wabash who were not already off on leave. These sailors were not already off on leave. These sailors were instructed to give their services wherever needed. ! Marines were fixed bayonets held back the crowds, while the militia and sailors helped families remove their goods. Advance squads of the military and police were sent ahead warning families living in the path of the fire, which leaped block after block with astonishing rapidity. The crowds were easily handled. Oc casionally some excited house owner would burst through the cordon of militia and marines to dash into a house for some forgotten valuables, but the presence of so many uni formed guards overawed the rougher element. "Carpetbagger." A Princeton graduate who died recently was the inventor of the term 'carpetbagger." He was Col. Jo seph Hodgson, 56, of New Orleans, prominent at law and in politics, a Confederate colonel, and editor at various times of the Kansas City En cfuirer, the Montgomery Mail, the New Orleans Picayune and the Mo bile Register. It was while he was editor of the Montgomery Mail and engaged in the discussion of the re construction acts that he invented the epithet "carpetbagger," and first used it against the members of the Alabama convention of 1867. Ex change. Bryan and Watson. Charlotte Observer. "There is very litle difference be tween what Mr. Bryan believes in and what Mr. Watson believes in," remarks The Catawba County News, In commenting "upon the Populist National Convention's proceedings, "so those who wanted to wait and endorse Bryan after the Democrats have nominated him were not to wide of the mark, as some people might suppose." We don't believe anybody ever supposed; for a micro scope of diameters magnifying pow er would be needed to detect the slightest difference between the Bry an and Watson creeds, and very few command. Mr. Bryan' people have such instruments at command. - Mr. Bryan and Mr. Wat son stand for the same things, they are both honorable men; and if one excels in physical emotional energy, the other is greatly hi3 intellectual superior. Mr. Watson might be termed the brains of Populism and Mr. Bryan its tongue. Mr. Bryan, if nominated at Denver, will receive official Democratic sanction; other wise, choice between this Westerner and this Southerner, whether regard ed as a choice of evils or the re verse would be the nearest possible approach to no choice at all. - LETTER FROM BILK1XS. The Major U -RaMycatia' - La the Vrtero Part of the htat A Few Facta and fcttatttfkr Iiegardlag I'aper Collars aad Their Use Boiomoa Was Lacky lived la a Day Whca U Was Xot DiSralt to Be Wis. Correspondence of The Caucasiaa- Enterprlse. Bilklnsvllle. N. C, April 14. I am off in the Western part of the State rust yea tin an' tryia ter gain a little appytlte an kslth, an' I find that hit ix erbout the hardest Job that I em undertook; an' hit Iz aw !8o a job that they ain't much pay in. When a feller gits gude an' sick for a long time hit takes awl the starch out or him jist ike a hard rain takes hit out ov a paper collar. But I don't reckon many or your readers ever wore paper collars, so they won't understand that part ov the gave. Paper cokars was in fash ion fifteen and twenty years ergo. That wuz before steam laundries wuz Invented. The boys that wast ed ter put on style an' look purty awl wore paper collars in them days an,' they looked mity nice when they wuz first put on, az long az hit didn't rain an az long az a feller didn't git too warm under the collar. But axldents will happen, an' the feller with a paper collar on had ter walk a chalk line or else change collate. Before the day ov paper collars preachers an' other speakers wuz mlty keerful when they got up ter speak on a hot day. Short sermons wuz mlty popular then durin or the summer, an they air still sorter fashionable In sum seckshuns or the country. An' I reckon they are the best sort, after awl. A feller can't git use ter bein' tole erbout hiz meanness an' he hardly ever gits in shape ter injoy belli told, 'specially if he iz very mean. They iz one class ov our people that hardly eVer go ter preachin' an that iz the large class called polly- tishuns. They can't stand the pres sure. Foliyticks an' religion air generally goin in opposite dlreck- shuns an' they don't mix much az a rule. But they air times when the pollytishuns git ter feelln real gude an' they try ter scatter good gov ernments, gude pollytieks, religion an' a lot ov other blessin's from the same masheen. If you will keep yer ers open an' yer ears ter the ground you will notis more or les3 ov that sort ov business goin' on now an' n the future. But I am, gittin on posted land when I writs anything ov that sort; hit won't dovter expose the games ov the pollytishuns, fer they air our most enterprizin' siti- zens. Every one ov them Iz In love with us an' we can't git efround ovin' them, no matter how hard we try. The people up this way air still waitin' fer cotton ter go up, some ov them air at any rate. But they air goin' anead gittin' ready fer an other crop, an' they ah? buildln' up their hopes that they will be able ter, put me ter wurk when the grass gits limbered up an begins ter grow. But they hev not counted the cost. They may be able ter make a grass- killer out ov me, but hit will take several bosses ter run the job an' that will make an' expensive hand n my case. But I may subsitute Bob in my place an' let them use him ter cultivate the crops. Bob iz a dandy gude mule an he will be worth a gude deal in a grass killin' fite. In fact, that iz Bob's specialty since he got out ov pollytieks. We air havin' so many different styles ov pollytieks in the State now that Bob iz not able ter keep up with them an' I think he will do better ter retire ter private life fer a little spell till things git ter runnin' smoothly. If Solomon wuz livin' now he would not know the ropes well enough ter run in the sort ov politicks we air sufferin' now. In fackt, I think Solomon would shake hiz hed an' give hit up without mak- n' much ov a struggle if he wuz nere. Solomon wuz a very wise man, but he probably had some slow ones ter , deal with an' that wuz what made hit eazy fer him. If he had got up ergin the tariff, the finan cial qtfestidn, he moral issue an' a few other things we hev on hand nowadays, he would hev called fer assistance in less than two days, an' hit iz more than likely that he would not hev made any reputation az a wise man outside or Loulzburg or Smithfield, fer we hev sum mity smart men here in North Carolina. I see that the pollytishuns air lay- in' their pipe lines up this way fer the voters this fall. Hit Iz the sam old game with a few changes. Polly- ticks air sumpthin that don't never change ter any extent. They air er bout the same' in every country on the globe so far az I kin hear. Sum times the pollytishuns kin fool us worse than at other times an sum times hit seems that they kin fool us eazier than they could before, but hit iz just erbout the easyiest bunco game that hez ever bin invent ed, an they ain't no law ergin hit. I reckon that iz why pollyticka air so popular. If a feller wuz ter go over the country an do business like the average polytishun runs pol lytieks he would land in the peniten tiary in a very, short time. But he kin run the perlitical game fer years an' not git in jail, purvidin'- he leaves the public funds in place. Ov course the voters insist that the funds be handled awl rite, no mat ter how much the pollytishuns fool them by buncoing them with prom ises that air never kept. Yours truly, ZEKE BILK1NS. " I - wmm STiHD OIL OUSTED Deskd Use Right to do Business in Tennessee, DECISION OF STATE COURT Company Charged With Kewtralaiag Trade at CaUaiioa, Tean. WUi Take aa Appeal to United Maie Kupmnp Court. By the judgment of the Supreme Court of Tennessee in an exhaustive opinion delivered by Justice M. M Neill. the Standard Oil Company is ousted fro the Slate of Tennessee for the acts of this company at Gal latin, Tenn., in restraining trade. II y the judgment of the Supreme Court the Standard Oil Company can only engage in Interstate commerce as far as Tennessee is concerned and the court holds in affirming the de cision of Chancellor J. W. Stout at Gallatin that in the trial of the case at Gallatin, the Standard Oil Com pany did violate the provisions of section 1 of the acts of 1903, chap ter 140, and the punishment im posed In section 2 of that act should be imposed, viz: "That the Standard Oil Company be denied the. right to do business in this State." The counsel for the company have taken an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED By the Duplin County Republican Convention When State Chairman Should be Elected. We, the Committee on Resolutions, do unqualifiedly endorse the admin istration of President Roosevelt and approve of his policies, and we en dorse his untiring zeal In fighting the corporate wealth in behalf of the great masses, and we wish to express our strongest endorsement of his great effort to restore the govern ment to the people in which the pow ers granted belong. Resolved 2. Realizing that Presi dent Roosevelt will not be again a candidate for re-election, and feeling that the country needs a continua tion of his policies, we, therefore, recommend that our delegates to the State Convention cast the votes of Duplin County for the nomination of Hon. William H. Taft, in whom we recognize as a true exponent of the administration and to continue the policies of the present administra tion. ' We further resolve, Whereas, the plan of organization of the Republi can party of Ndlrth Carolina calls for the biennial election ot the State Chairman to the party's State Con vention, by which is meant the Con vention held for the nomination of a State ticket; and, Whereas, this rule should be ob served for the reasons that the State Chairman's chief duties are to man age the party campaign for the elec tion of a State ticket, and other nom inees of the party, and for this rea son his selection should be only by the body of delegates called together to select and nominate the party's candidates in order that his selection shall be In accordance with the wish es of the candidates who may be chosen to take the banner of the party and lead the fight for success rom the Governor down. Now, thes&fore, it is resolved, that this convention instruct its delegates to the State Convention, to be held at Greensboro on April 30th, to vote and urge that the election of a State Chairman shall not be had until the meeting of the State Convention to nominate a State ticket, for the rea son that an election before the hold ing of such a convention will be con trary to the party law, and, besides, very unwise and detrimental to the election of the party tickets to be la ter nominated. This convention, theretofC sends this appeal to the State, as we deem it of the greatest importance to the party in the State that the election of the party's can didate for Governor and other State officers should be made the chief con sideration of the coming campaign. Delegates to State Convention: H. C. Faison, D. if. Garner, and J. C. Vann. Alternates: C. M. Middleton, J. C. Albritton, and James P. Shines. Delegates to Congressional Conven tion: Q W. Sutton, Oscar Ward, and D. W. Fussel. Alternates: Felix Edwards, R. A. Parker, and Simon Garner. MORD TAYLOR, " Chairman Kenansville, Duplin County, N. C, April 6,. 1908. Thomasville Boy Shot While Being Hazed. - The Thomasville correspondent of the Charlotte Observer states that news had been received there from Wake Forest that Mr. J. Mills New ton,, a member of the Freshman class in Wake Forest College, and a son of Rev. J. D. Newsom, of Thomas ville, with three of his friends, was coming out of the society hall, Fri day night, when he was attacked by a band of masked men, who ap peared from behind an evergreen in the campus, overpowered and black ened him. During the scuffle he re ceived a flesh wound in the shoulder from a pistol ball. The college sur geon removed . the ball Saturday morning and anticipates , a prompt healing of the wound. A REMARKABLE SITUATlOfl ft Looks Like Taft Will be Komi. Mted While the People CUrnor for Roosevelt. THE DEMOCRATIC SITUATION Taft in Ihrrj Way Highly 0it&rl. Hut lias Tbrc 1 tJMlk-( Thought That llryaa Mitit IHmO. My Wta if !icK.nr!t U V Soml Mini--Tin Trt and MuKf)ltr Would Like a Deadlock I Vdrral Offlre-iluldrr SriMod fur lrr tUriottt lrtian Artivitr. Washington. D. C. April 14. 110$. (Sjwclal to The dutasisn.) In the fight for del?g!o to the Kepublie&Q National Convent Uti the tide seems to be running more strongly each day in favor of Taft. t now looks as if th Scretary might be nominated on the first bal lot; jet in the fa to of this conditloa. the desire, and it may be said. d raand of the peple that Roosevelt should serve another term, is not di minished. This presents a remark able situation. Never before, in the history of the country, have the peo ple with such general accord ex pressed their desire for a man to serve them as President while he steadily refuses to yield to the un questioned wishes of the American people. Bryan and the IemocratJc Nomina tion. In the race for delegates to the Democratic National Convention Bry an is not only far in the lead, but his nomination seems to be certain. Even if those who have been ttying to organize a counter movement against Bryan should succeed at the convention, it seems certain that their nominee would be doomed to as bad defeat as overwhelmed the Par ker nomination. Indeed, the general opinion is that Dry art" is the only man that the Democrats could nominate this year who would have any possi ble chance of succeeding; and It Is generally admitted that if Roose- elt were the Republican nominee that Bryan would be defeated before the race began. There- is, on the other hand, a growing feeling among Democrats, and it may be said that the feeling extends to some ndependent voters and even some Republicans, that Bryan may give Mr. Taft a close fight. This is ad mitted by those who greatly admire Judge Taft and who are supporting him. Taft in Every Way Qualified. Probably no man in America is better equipped and qualified from experience and in every way to Berve the country as President than Secre tary Taft; yet many who recognize this feel that his nomination would not inspire as much enthusiasm as the nomination of Roosevelt, on the one hand, or the nomination of Bry an, on the other; and besides, it Is feared that the labor vote and the colored vote will be very widely and trongly organized against him. One Thing in Bryan's Favor. Besides, it is evident that some of the great industrial and financial interests that are most opposed to resident Roosevelt and his policies are inclined to look with favor upon the election of Mr. Bryan, for the reason that if there Is a Democratic resident and a Republican Senate that the result will be a deadlock, and that no affirmative legislation carrying forward the Roosevelt pol icies can be enacted. What the trusts and monoplies want is not legislation in their be half, but simply to be let alone, and thus they would secure exactly what they desire by the election of a Dem ocratic President. Republican Handicaps. This fact, in addition to the other two handicaps mentioned, may turn the scale in the campaign against Mr. Taft. This view of the matter has recently caused some prominent Republican politicians who - do not admire Roosevelt, to admit that it may be necessary to force him to take the nomination in order to save the part7 from defeat. Ex-Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, has addressed an appeal to the Republican voters to Hike Sen ator La Follette for their nominee in preference to Secretary Taft on the ground that if Roosevelt will not run that La Follette comes nearer standing for his policies than any other candidate mentioned, and, be sides, he charges that he does not believe that Taft can be trusted to carry forward vigorously the great reforms already started. It is indeed a most interesting and complicated situation. Civil Service to Be Enforced. The attention of the Civil Service Commission was last week called to the pernicious activity of a Federal office-holder who is under Civil Ser vice employed in the Public Print ing Office, which has resulted In an Investigation. It was charged that this office holder had been taking an active part in the campaign in a Maryland district where his home is, in help- 1st ta fr !! rat!atJea 4 fWTwaMft Prr. as a twstt t&is tsvUi!&a tU UfcUf t ta ?4n3 ! if t& irrmu it kr sfcost tlx ttlti activity at Ui f t 2Urfe;4rs ii &t of Nota CsroUaa I tr. tfc aast t si mnlm a tar4 caws ta last Hut ttxl r as Cagraai aa til Ma?U&4 jum. It Sl t rtsisaWr4 tfest Prl dst Uonmrrlt la4 sa er4r last fail tfcat rdrsl SaUr &oai4 &ot t tffu!tU4 ta take am tir ri tss (ujdltka to ike sitaat of ct& tbtts ss 4lft ta lib ronveeiiobs. The Civil Strvte tVtsRlMloa has aftoftrv4 tkst It Hi t&force this order. a4 yt ta pr from North CaroUaa aa &oattr tfcst the postmsstsr st Ul rica U a& artiv sad pvralcWas rasv didst for 4-!ct to the NsUoaat A Itlttil iail CUXTOfTAXT. NiKiih Carolina Nrgro WaaU L gmre's Ht ta Qagrv 1 . The Waa&iBgton corrvspoadsat ol the Charlotte Observer s&4s his pa the following bit of IsfortasUoa: In the House on a rr sst site a coal black, tn!ddl-rd ftrgro at the cornfield type, risd i& clerical suit and celluloid collar. "Who is the agro mtmberT ask transert. 1 don't know who he ls.M the average Congressman vlll reply. I was here nearly three moBlhs U'fore 1 learned s& thing stoat the old dark, t thoutbt all sloag that he was an inalde doorkeeper, wao had tfio privileges of the floor, bt recently 1 wss told that he was hare o contest the seat of Kepreesala Ive George 8. Legsre, of the First district of South Carolina. The Hon. Aaron P. Prlo)aM ta the man la Question. He claims that South Carolina has buncoed l.iin out of his rights at the polls. The vote in the district stood: Le- gare, 3.965; Prloleau, 28, and T. L. Grant. 1. The brief filed by Prloleau de clares: "The first ground of contest Is that at the genersl election held on the 6th dsy of November, ltd. for Representative in the Sixtieth Con gress, First district of South Caro lina, the whole number of votes cast. counted and returned from the coun ties that compose and constitute the Baid district for the election of Rep resentatives in the Sixtieth Congress were not the popular vote and will of the voters and cltltens of the said district, as shown by the following certificate from the Secretary of the State, which shows that there were only 3,99 4 votes cast In this election and returned by the managers for Representative in the Sixtieth Con gress from the First Congressional district of the State of South Caro lina, while the population of said dis trict is 196,390, as shown by United States census of 1900." After the Expense Money. The government allows a contes tant $2,000 for expenses. Prloleau has conducted two contests before be started this one. He furnished the affidavits and Congress gave him the $2,000. In all, after this con test is over, he will have received $6,000 of Uncle Sam's cash. Twenty-eight votes to his oppo nent's 3,965! The negro contends that 7,532 men, entitled to vote un der the constitution, were not per mitted to register. Prloleau Is a good-natured darky. He seems to see the humor In this contest. But has an eye for busi ness as well as a sense of the ridicu lous. The sum of $2,000 each con test is not bad. It costs something to get up affidavits, but Prloleau does not mind that. He takes a no tary public in the buggy with hint and goes to call on all who would have voted for him. He learned from former contests that there is money in such things. Then, too, there is Bomeftlng In being permit ted to go into the House and sit with statesmen. "That's Mr. Prloleau," TislUug negroes are told by their friends la the Capitol. Tiring of the easy-going life here Aaron returns to the Pal metto State and 'muses with hie con stituents. The brief filed with the committee of the House devotes CS printed pages, telling of the wrong done the contestant. All hands are weary of such con tests, and newspaper men do not consider news of him good copy. Prloleau served three months In pris on for purloining a letter from the mails. After all. It Is Just as well for him to contest. Two other negroes In South Carolina have contests of the same sort, hut Prlo leau is the favorite contestant. Sometimes, when Prloleau forgets his exalted position. Tie bows to Mr. Legare and says, "Good morning, Marse George, how is yon today?" The $2,000 is good all the same. Serious Strike at Pensacola. The conductors and motormea on the street cars at Pensacola, Fla. went on a strike some days ago which completely tied np the street car traffic of that town. The torn pany brought in outside men to fill their places but the strike breakers were stoned and many of them run out of the town. The militia was called out to preserve order and on Tuesday the cars began running, ami no further trouble has been reported. I : f ; : t . v -J - N I
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