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(T. A T T(r A QT A "if VOL. XXVI. RALEIGH, N. C.f THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908. No. 32 EDITORIAL BRIEFS We are witnessing again this year th battle of brandy-wine. Probably Mr. Craig thought a little judgeship was not worthy of con .slderation. Mr. Bryan must be worth a great iK-al financially, if he can guarantee bank deposits. The Democratic National Commit tee are offering premiums to every contributor to the campaign fund. Those who haven't a choice for President are very fastidious. There are bIx candidates In the field and one in the penitentiary. If the Democratic National Com mittee would offer to give green trading stamps to every contributor to the campaign fund it might help some. Dispatches state that visitors at the Bryan home, near Lincoln, Mon day saw snakes run across the yard. We thought Lincoln was a "dry" town. - A dispatch announces that the wireless telephone is now a reality, if some one would now Invent a plan for wireless politics he would be the greatest benefactor of the age. Some one has asked as to the whereabouts cf the old Simmons machine. The last we heard about the thing it was laying out In the back yard of a second hand junk shop. There are only forty-five Demo cratic candidates for office In Union County. The Democratic politicians are very willing to serve their county when there is good- pay attached to the job. i After voting .some of their men two or three times Saturday, then the Democrats in Wake County fail ed to poll more than half their vote. It is easy to predict how the others will vote this fall. Mr. Josephus Daniel has gone to Lincoln to tell the Bryan'forces how to conduct the campaign, and inci dentally to get that $200 back which he and Governor Glenn contributed to the national campaign fund. The Asheboro Courier says that the Democratic party is a white man's party. You may be right, but the evidence is against you. If the Democratic party wins this year it will only by aid of the negro vote in the North. If you want to help along the cause for which we are fighting, get up a club of five campaign subscrib ers at twenty cents each and send us at once, and we will send them The Caucasian from now until November 15th. Buncombe County has built a new jail and a new scaffold for hangings, as may in the future occur in that city, and has advertised the old scaf fold for sale. This is a fine chance for some of the political Judases in this State to spend their thirty pieces of silver to good advantage. If North Carolina can not be car ried Republican this year, then it can never be carried. All that is needed is a good ticket and ordinary horse sense and honest management from State headquarters. The Cau casian will do its part. Send a club of five subscribers and we will send them the paper from now until the election for only one dollar twenty cents apiece. The first of the fall elections this year will be held in Vermont. The election for Congressmen, Governor, and other State officers will take place on the first day of September, and the politicians in both parties will look forward to the result with a great deal of interest, as the pro portion of the Republican majority will be taken as something of an index to the sentiment throughout the country. A great many, of the Democratic papers of the South ajeamazed that the contributions to the Democratic national campaign fund should come in so slowly. When It was .announc ed that the farmers alk over the country would be permitted to con tribute $1.00. the leaders doubtless thought that the farmers would fal over each- other trying to see which could be the first to contribute to the cause hut they haven't, and HON. MAHIO.V KUTLKK WRITES. Ksprew- HI Appreciation for the Selection of Him an a Candidate for Governor of North Carolina, Bat Decline to Accept. To the Editor of The AuTora. My Dear Sir: Have Just received a marked copy of your valued paper containing a communication sug gesting ray nomination for Governor. I desire to take this means of ex pressing my high appreciation of the very kind references to mpersonal- iy contained therein, but, at the same time, I wish to say that I could not accept the nomination at this time, even If it were tendered to me. I do not take this position, however, because of any feeling that the nomi nation this year would inany sense be an empty honor. It is because of business and other reasons, which It Is not necessary here to enumerate. On the other hand, I desire to say that there is now a better opportun ity to carry the State this fall than there was in 1894 when we did car ry it with a sweeping victory. The apathy and emoralization are greater and the. divisions deeper in the Dem ocratic ranks now than then. Also, there Is now undoubtedly a much larger independent vote that looks to men and the issues rather than to the party label than there was then. Besides, Taft appeals strongly to the very elements of the Democratic par ty that distrust or fear Bryan most. Let us now nominate a candidate for Governor who will appeal to the same elements as against Kitchin, and we c?.n not fall to carry the State if we do our duty. In short, there could not be a more favorable opportunity for suc cess than now lies before us, yet such an opportunity can be thrown away, and this js my only fear, the one ining mat -stands in tne way or a Republican Governor,- a Republican egislature, a United States Senator, number of Congressmen, Judges, Solicitors, and other State officers, to-gether with the electoral vote of North Carolina for Taft and Sher man. In 1S92 there was a fine oppor tunity to carry the State. There were then abundant elements of suc cess lying before us, all that was necessary on our part was to intelli gently take advantage of them, or ganize them ,and make an honest ef fort to win. " Did we do it? No. Why? Because the Republican or ganization was in the hands of the aves federal patronage machine, and they said "No." The trouble was, that they did not wmt the ate to go Republican, and, besides, they were probably Incompetent to appre ciate the situation and effectively utilize it even if they did desire to carry the State. In 1894, unfortunately for the country generally, but fortunately for us, there was a Democratic Na tional administration, and hence the Eaves federal patronage machine had disbanded, and therefore it was possible to take advantage of anoth er fine political situation. Those who organized the elements of suc cess and conducted that campaign were allowed largely to have their own way, and the result was that the great victory was easily won. I have heard it said a hundred times by prominent and observant men that we would not have won n 1904 if there had been a Repub ican national administration, and I must admit that there is force in the observation. If there is any cause in the way of victory this year, t will be the same obstacle. Is it possible that we must throw away this great opporunity and wait until the country suffers from" another Democratic national administration before we can win another victory in North Carolina? It should not be so. we snouia oe a Die to carry me State when we have all the powerful federal offices easier than when we are witnout tnem. ine men who have not only the honor and pres tige, but also the liberal emoluments of the many federal offices are in much stronger position to give more of their time and means to help carry the State than they would be without these positions, and the party is in a much stronger position than it would be if these offices were held by the opposition. Surely, we Can fight the Democratic party to better advantage when we have all these influential and well-paid posi tions, and they are without them, than we can when they have them and we are empty handed. And if the head of the organization who hands out these offices, : sincerely wanted to elect the State ticket, this would be true. But this whole situation, however, is still within the control oi me party and can be adjusted at the next'State Convention if we have a convention that wants to do it, and any convention that . truly represents the rank .and file of jthe party will do it. 1 If we can have such a convention it will nominate, a ticket from Gov ernor down composed of men of the highest character . and capacity,- men fit to be elected and who will make a vigorous fight for victory. We have an abundance of material for such a ticket, but such men would not accept the nomination if the patronage machine policy is to be followed. They would not serve on the ticket simply to run for a fall, with a view to being candidates inter for federal jobs. Therefore, if the latter policy is to be followed, a different class of men will be" on I the ticket, and then no campaign TAR POPULAR IN THE SOUTH Dr. Ray a WeU-Koown Divine Says Mr. Taft Will , PoU Heavy Vote Hereabouts. DUTIES CARRY HIM ALL THROUQH SOUTH Dr. Graf, a Democrat, is Recording Secretary of the Home Mission Hoard of Southern Baptist Church, and Has Felt Southern Pulse. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 15. Pre dicting that William H. Taft will receive the largest vote in the South ever polled by a Republican candi date for President, the Rev. Dr. D. B. Gray, of Atlanta, Ga., correspond ing secretary of the Southern Baptist Church, arrived in Baltimore recent ly after an extended trip through many. of the Southern States. Dr. Gray registered at The Rennert, and will remain in the city for several days. Politically, the Southern divine Is a Democrat, but he is one of those Democrats who do not believe that Mr. Bryan has any chance of success at the polls in November. Sitting in his room at the Rennert Dr. Gray did not hesitate to say to reporters that Taft would win an easy victory and that more votes would be cast for him by the people south of Mason and Dixon's line than have ever gone to the support of a Republican candi date in the South since the party was organized. v Tho Republican candidate, Dr. Gray went on to explain, was consid ered a far safer man than Mr. Bryan. He stated that the conservative ele ment much preferred to trust the arge business affairs of the country to the sound judgment of Mr. Taft. He declared that the big men, that is, the men who are behind the large ndustries of the Southland, will not- support the nominee of the Demo cratic party, and that it is among this large class of men who are creating the wealth of the South that Mr. Taft will be found particularly strong. Souherners Like Taft. "I have always been a Democrat," asserted Dr. Gray, "but I must say that I do not believe Bryan has any chance whatsoever of being elected. Everywhere Judge Taft is looked upon as a big man, equipped in every way to govern he affairs of this coun try in a safe and sane way. In the South he is especially well liked, and you may say for me that he will poll a surprisingly large vote. My duties carry me all through the South, and I know pretty well the feelings and tendencies of the people. Among the men behind the large industries, which are doing so much to de velop the resources of the Southland, Judge Taft has surprising strength, and his vote down our way will be large, exceedingly large." worthy of the name would be run; and in such a campaign, so-called, no recruits would be won and our own people would be discouraged. One of these two policies will be adopted by the next Republican State Convention. If the first policy is adopted, I will give as much of my time and effort to help elect the ticket and deliver the electoral vote for Taft as any one else in the State, and victory will then be within our grasp. Shall we seize the opportun ity or shall we throw it away? Yours very sincerely, MARION BUTLER. CONCORD HAS HALF-MILLION DOLLAR FIRE. Mill No. 4 of Odell Manufacturing Company Entirely Destroyed. Concord, N. C, Aug. 15. Mill No. 4, the largest of the .group of five owned by the Odell Manufacturing Company here, was destroyed by fire to-night, entailing a loss, of half a million dollars. The fire originated in the basement through a hot-box and the flames were communicated to the floors above the belting. The burned mill contained 35,000 spindles and 1,300 looms. Balloon Explodes, Killing Two and Wounding Others. London, August 14. The huge balloon with which Capt. Thomas T, Lovelace, the New York aeronaut. once connected .with the signal corps of the United States army, has been giving exhibitions at the France- British exposition, exploded while being inflated here today and killed two spectators, frightfully burned a dozen others and caused the injury of scores in a fearful anic. Captain Lovelace himself was dan gerously hurt. Miss Hill, eighteen years old, sec retary to Captain Lovelace, was one of the persons killed. , She was burn ed to a crisp.- The shock of the explosion was terrific. The exposition grounds were' shaken, as if there, had been a small: earthquake, , windows in many of the beautiful exposition grounds were shattered. " . . MR. Irfidmt of the National Aaocialio of Slaamfactam-v Goes for the recrleas Ofi- Declares Ilryaa's I'Ut form is Fle Characterises Uio Guarantee Fund Plank m Ylcioss. St. Louis, AnMt 1. James W. Van Cleave, President of the Nation al Association of Manufacturers to day issued an answer to a recent reply by William J. Bryan to an ar ticle by Mr. Van Cleave, a few weeks sgo which pointed out certain es pecial reasons why, according to Mr. VanCIeave, business men should vote against Mr. Bryan. Speaklag today also, he says for business men, Mr. Van Cleave says that the injunc tion, tariff and banking planks of the Denver platform assail the in terests of every iran In the country who is engaged in any sort of trade. "The falsity of the Insinuation in the Denver platform that labor unions are outlawed." Mr. Van Cleave says, "is shown by the fact mat tneir members continue in their regular employments on every work- ng day in the year In every town in the United States. Every member of the Lincoln Typographical Union, at whose banquet he was a guest on the evening before his formal notifi cation of nomination could have told Mr. Bryan that there was not a ves tige of truth in the pretense that any act of Congress or any ruling of any Federal Court ever forbade any labor union to organize, to ask such wages from employers as the union saw fit to ask, or to make any terms to employers which would be agree able to both parties." His Platform False. He then asks: "Does not Mr. Bryan as a lawyer and a public man, know that his platform is false?" He tells Mr. Bryan that the Na tional Association of Manufacturers like the courts, has always recogniz ed the rights of the unions to get any terms from employers which in ami cable agreement, could be gained. but that the association always op posed the intimidation and violence which, he says, have sometimes been practiced by some of the unions. "Does he personally favor the le galization of the boycott" Mr. Van Cleave asks, and he adds that the country is interested In getting a plain direct answer from Mr. Bryan on this point and In getting it just as quickly as he can give it. A Vlcioua Proposition. Speaking of the guarantee fund which the Denver platform urges for the payment of depositors of insol vent national or State banks, Mr. Van Cleave asks: "Does not Mr. Bryan know that 'this vicious pro vision would penalize the honest and careful banker for the benefit of the . banker who is dishonest and reckless? Can he not see that this scheme would remove all the safe guards which our present laws have raised up against such plungers and grafters as have worked their way into the control of many of our banks, that it would immediately and immensely increase the number of such bankers and that it would pre cipitate an era of extravagance, wild speculation and corruption which would wreck our whole financial sys tem? Is not Mr. Bryan aware that his wildcat banking scheme of 1908 would bring chaos and ruin to the country even quicker and in larger measure than his silver debasement of the currency of 1896 and 1900 would have brought It?" Carried Minnie Ball in Thigh Forty- four Years. Wilson, N. C, August 15. Our townsman, Mr. J. A. Privett, who was shot in the thigh during the Civil War, near the old shot tower, near Petersburg, Va., yesterday had a minnie ball removed that he has carried for forty-three years, eleven months and twenty-three days. He was a member of Company K., from Franklin County, this State, Ransom's Brigade. The ball weighs, half an ounce. His son, Mr. J. J. Privett, who is a jeweler, will mount this old war relic and present it to his father for a watch charm. Democratic Deputy Sheriff in Jail for Drunkenness and Assault. , Wilmington, N. C, Aug. 17. A. G. James, who says that he is a dep uty sheriff and his home at Pern broke, is in the city prison here awaiting a hearing before the mayor to-morrow on the charge of assault with, a deadly weapon upon Dennis Murphy, colored, on whom he Is al leged to have drawn a pistol. The prisoner came here this morning on the colored excursion run from Ham let and immediately became intoxi cated. High Point Negro in Jail Charged With Serious Crime. High Point, N. C., August 15. Jim Pool, a plumber, .charged with assault on the person of Mrs. Will Smith a mill ' operative, was. -tried before Magistrate W.,E. Johns, Sr., last night and -sent to jail without bond to await court, which convenes in -Greensboro September 21. ' The woman says the assault was committed yesterday afternoon while her husband was away, and 'that she struggled to prevent. the foul deed. MIL VAN CLEAVE IIOASTS BZiXABf. TOWN UNDER LYNCH LAW Fearful Work by Mob at Spring field Illinois. MANY HOMES DESTROYED Enraged Citizen Killed Many Ne groes and Hunted Their Homes Because One of Their llre Had Assaulted a White Woman The Militia Wm Called Out, Hut Wm Powerless for a Time. Springfield. 111 . Aug. 15. The city is under martial Uw today, fol lowing the reign of riot, arson and slaughter last night, which resulted In the death of three men, the wound Ing of fifty more and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property by an infuriated mob. Charles Hunter, a negro por ter, has been lynched. Throughout the night five thous and men searched the negro quarters in an attempt to find the negro as sailant of a while woman. The ne gro had been spirited out of town, and when they learned of this fact. the mob turned In fury upon the other blacks of the city. The negro quarters were fired and when the department responded to the alarm the rioters kept them from fighting the flames. Police and special dep uties were overawed, and not until the arrival this morning of com panies from Peoria, Pekin and De catur to reinforce the local company. which had already been called out, was even the semblance of order restored. Throughout the early hours today additional troops reached the city by special trains. It Is believed the sit uation Is now under control and that there will be no further outbreaks. The community, however, is still at fever heat. All the saloons are closed today. Taking In a long rectangular sec-j tlon of the city the mob burned every home occupied by a negro. The mob was starting to fire the houses of the better class of negroes when the soldiers arrived and the first bloodshed followed. The troops ordered the mob back. Two volleys were fired overhead, but the mad dened crowd came on. A third vol ley was then fired into the mass of rioters, the soldiers aiming low so that they would not kill. Immedi ately following came the lynching of Hunter. The negro was set upon by the crowd and badly beaten. He1 then drew a revolver and fired. The mob swept him down In a jiffy, a rope was secured, tossed over the limb of a dead tree and the miser able wretch swung into eternity. One of those Injured was Eugene W. Chafin, prohibition candidate for the presidency, who was struck on the side of the head trying to protect an escaping negro. Plans were made early today by Governor Deneen for caring for ne groes whose homes have been de stroyed. The State arsenal will be thrown open and tents will be pitch- d for their accommodation. Guards will be placed about them. Negro's Brutal Crime. The woman assaulted was Mrs. Hallam, whose husband works at night. She was dragged from the house at midnight and outraged. There had been a number of crimes in the city by blacks, and this last thoroughly aroused the people and they went on the warpath at once. The lynching of Hunter was the most atrocious act of the night and a finale to the maddened and infuri ated barbarity that grew greater as the mob became drunker with frenzy and liquor. Hunter was accused of shooting a white man named Jim Hayes. He escaped and it was short ly after two this morning when he was seen standing hi the doorway of his home. A bystander described what followed: "There was no one near while a man stood half a block away, lifted a gun to his shoulder and fired at the negro. Three shots rang out and the negro fell back into the house. The shooting attracted a crowd and Utey made a rush for the house. Hunter was carried into the yard still alive. A rope was then tied about his neck and he. was dragged around the block, to a new brick two-story building in which a saloon occupied the ground floor. In front was an old dead tree. A man climb ed the tree, carrying the rope, pull ed the body up and fastened the rope and the the mob tried to burn the body, hut the flames would not catch. The feet dangled within the reach of men and boys, who played with the corpse by swinging it back and forth against the building to hear the dull thud it would make The face of the negro was covered with blood." W. H. Bowe, a young clerk in the county treasurer's office is dying from shots fired by a gang of negroes who pursued him. After shooting down-Bowe, the negroes robbed him of a -diamond ring, stud and his money. The Governor has ordered out the entire Fourth and Fifth reg iments. -4 - -The Caucasian in clubs of five from now until November 15th for only twenty cents each. TAFT TV AIHUUXH VUXIMAX. Hrr 3,000 Will fee IW la lire III Hpeerh On Agv4 2Ml lie Will ! ttC Hfrifec for m 1-Whia Trip and Will Ttwei tk to Clariaaatl for Remainder of Cas- Hot rtac. va., Aag. i.--Arrangement are t&eartag cotapietioa for the one political west ta watch Mr, Taft it to participate before leav ing here, the rally of Virginia Re publicans next Friday. John A. Noutin and 11. T. Voorbee. of Staunton. Vs., In charge of the ar rangement. hav Informed Mr. Taft that the railroad excursions alone 111 bring i.OOO Virginians to the mountains to bear Mr, Taft a peak. Tho famous Stonewall brigade band, organised la i7, will rotas from Staunton. Two of the charter members. Char lea E. Haloes and Kobert A. Hamilton, are still with the band, and will be here Friday. The speech of Mr. Tsft will be the feature of the program. He will be introduced by Col. S. Brown Alien, and a nhort speech may be mads by Representative Slemp. Candidate Taft and party will leave Virginia Hot Sprlnga Friday, August 25th, for a week's fishing In Iake Krle, at th end of which he will go to Cincinnati September 5th or 6th to remain until election day. Mr. and Mrs. Taft will be guests of the Middle Basa Club, the headquar ters of which are on middle Baas Island, a short distance out In Lake Erie from Put-In Bay. The club claims distinction for having had as members Presidents Hayes, Garfield, and McKinley, and being the host on a number of occasions of Presi dent Cleveland. Mr. Taft Is fond of fishing, and has been Induced to believe that the change for a week from the mountains to the lake will put just the proper edge on his con dition of fitness for the front porch work he Is to do in his native city. UXCLK SAM PURCHASES AIllKHIP Will he Ued by the Signal Corps of the United State Army The Ship Breaks All Records of Aerial Navigation in This Country. Washington, D. C, Aug. 15. The Baldwin airship landed at Fort Myer to-night after making a flight which broke all records for aerial naviga tion in this country. For two hours and five minutes the big military di rigible, built for the United States Army, flew back and forth over a course nearly five miles in length in the official endurance .trial. The airship is now the property of the signal corps of the United Slates Army, a few formalities only remain ing to be gone through with before Captain Baldwin turns his aerial craft over to General Allen, chief signal officer. The members of the board of signal officers, who have conducted the tests, were elated over to-day's showing. The airship has withstood every test required of it by the terms of the contract between the Government and Captain Thomas S. Baldwin. The rate attained In the speed trial yesterday was surpassed on the third trip over the course to-day, when ,an average of nearly twenty- one miles an hour was attained. On the outward half of this trip the ship sailed across the sky at a rate of nearly forty-five miles an hour. This probably was due to the aeronaut's striking a swift current of air. The total distance covered In to-day's trial was between twenty-eight and thirty miles. In to-day's test It was required that Captain Baldwin remain In con tinuous flight for two hours, at an average speed equaling 70 per cent of that attained In the speed trial yesterday, 19.16 miles an hour. This would be 13.34 miles an hour. It is estimated that the average maintain ed in to-day's flight was about seven teen miles an hour. Another condition Imposed was that sufficient fuel be carried to run the motor for two hours, and that excessive heating of the engine should not occur. Both of these con ditions were easily fulfilled, there be ing two gallons of gasoline' of the five taken on the trip. Another Earthquake in California. Eureka, Cal., Aug. 18. Three sharp earthquake shocks which knocked down more than a hundred chimneys, shattered about forty plate-glass windows In the business portion of Eureka, broke much crockery in the houses and sent many people scurrying from their beds into the streets occurred here early to-day. Death of Judge Fred Moore. Asheville, N. C, August 14. Judge Fred E. Moore, of the Supe rior Court bench died here this evening shortly after eight o'clock from typhoid fever. Judge Moore came to Asheville ten days ago from Barkersvllle, a very sick man. . An operation was performed late this afternoon in the hope of saving his life, but without eflject. Homicide Near Roper Sunday.. Roper, N. C, Aug. 17. As a re sult of an all-day free fight 'yester day at Woodley's Store and vicinity In Sklnnersville Township, . Buck Whitt, farmer and a man of family. fifty years old, is dead, and John Halsey, his slayer, is in jalL Wood- ley, the keeper of the store, and George Gray, a farmer, are badly bruised and will be arrested. dig :m JAW SUIT Fo&r Tbotrs2c4 lzzz Criaj Soil to Recover Larft Sea. RiAUD AKD B3JBEKY OF JUDQES CHARGED 11. AdasM sussaed ta fHHUm mm Ifmm f thm JwnXcm AlWqfx4 Hae flee llrtbed t IUb Ut ! The IUhU t Tbe la dlaava llat Already EWa tWrrred by tt l ft. Hyrin (Wrt Adama and lit ladiaa (Wrt lie. Vrred thm DeeftaUi of the H. prrtur CVwirt ta Fstue t4 the Ai torwey. Guthrie. Ok la, Aaf, 17. A peti tion la equity has been filed la tae United Stale Circuit Coart. lllftLth Circuit Court. Kaatera IMttrict of Oklahoma, by four ttoutaod ladlaaa of the Choctaw and Chlcaaaw trtb. to attetjpt to recover their property claimed In the funds and lands of lhee tribes, of which they were de prived by the Indian Cttlieaahlp Court. The rights of theae 4.000 Indiana had already been judicially Investi gated and determined by tha United States Courts and had been cocllrm ed on an appeal by the Supreme Court of the United States. In the face of this final declalon of the So ureme Court ta favor o( theae In dian claims, a firm of attorn) known a Mansfield, McMurray it Cornish, who represented the other faction of the Indian trlbea, entered Into a contract to go lo Washington and try to get legislation from Con- gresa to set aside a declalon of the Supreme Court. They made a con tract to receive. In addition to their regular $10,00 annual fee, a certain per cent of the property of theae 4,000 Indians, which had been con firmed to them by the decision of the Supreme Court. If they could suc ceed In depriving all or a part of them of such property. The amount of property which would have been given to each In dian under th decision at the Su preme Court waa $4. $00. So It we 1 11 be seen that for every Indian ho could be kept off the rolls and de nied his property rights there was the large aum of $4,s00 for division between these attorneys and the oth er faction of Indians. In some way these attorneys suc ceeded in getting Congress to psss a law creating a new court known as the Choctaw and Chickasaw In dian Court, authorized to review the action of the Supreme Court In these cases, and, strange to aay, no appeal was allowed from the decision of this legislative court. The result Is known to everybody. This specially created court proceed ed to reverse the decision of the Su preme Court of the United 8tats and rendered a decision which took from each one of these 4,000 Indians his property, amounting to $4,S0O for each one. This, of coarse, re sulted In giving the attorneys a very large fee. The suit that ! now brought op by these 4,000 Indians, Is to ask the Federal Courts to review the de cision of that Indian Cltlxenshlp Court on the following grounds: 1st. That these Indiana had a vested right la their property which Congress did not have the right to take from them directly and, there fore did not have the power to cre ate a special court to pass upon thclf rights, which had already been ad judicated by a regular and constitu tional court. 2nd. On the ground that the whole proceedings was based on fraud. 3rd. On the ground that the court that deprived them of their rights was bribed by the attorneys. It is understood that the first question that the Federal Court will pass upon In considering this peti tion, is as to whether or. not It has jurisdiction. If the court should de cide that it did not have jurisdiction, then, of course, the case would be dismissed and the questions of fraud and briber could not be taken up. But If the court should take jurls ductlon, then, those questions would be thoroughly ventilated. The twelfth specification of this petition now on file in the Federal Court is as follows: Specification XII. That by the Act approved June 10, 1896, appeals were provided for from the decision of the said Com missioner In all "citizenship cases coming from the said Commissioner under said Act, to the United States District Court in the then Indian Territory; that appeals were taken . under the provisions of the said Act, In cases Involving the rights of about five thousand persons to"citlsen shlp" In the said Choctaw and Chick asaw, Nations; that said cases were heard and 'determined by the said United States District Court and Judgments were rendered In favor of about four thousand claimants en titling them to nave their names placed upon the "citizenship' rolls of the said Nations; , that said jadg- ' (Continued on Page 4.) i "ill i 4 t ft " fi ? ?- s -. v. a v u: 1 s : - f - there's a reason.