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VOL. XXVI. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. DECEMBER. 3. 1908., No. 46 EDITORIAL BRIEFS They will now have to pass a law against the drug habit. The Legislature will meet January 6th 'and begin passing laws. Tennessee has come to the front with something new in the way Of a legal lynching. If Mr. Bryan wantg the nomination 8 gain how is the party going to help itself. Wilmington Star. Mr. Kitchln will be inaugrated on January 13th. Evidently he is not superstitious about the 13th. Look at your tax receipts and see If you think "Democratic good gov ernment" is worth the price. If the Republicans bought Mr. Taft's election, the Democrats ought to be ashamed of themselves for sell ing out so cheap. A Democratic exchange says that Bryan's popularity Is on the wane. Same is equally true of the party that he represents. We had to pay $4.81 more city taxes in Raleigh this year than last year. Democratic good government certainly comes high.' We have had a question put to us that .we will have to pass up to some of our contemporaries. The question is: "When is a town dry?" A cotton stalls paper company, with a capital of $500,000 has been organized in Atlanta. We will get even with, the paper trust yet. If the Democrats hope to make any show it looks like they will have to Join hands with the Social ists that is, of course, providing the Socialists do not object. Zeke Bilkins may decide to hunt lions and tigers with President Roosevelt in South. Africa. We are sure the President would be glad to have the Major along. An exchange wants to know what we shall do to decrease the high death rate In this State. If our na tives would stop shooting at each other the death rate would greatly decrease. The next Legislature will be peti tioned to . create four new judicial districts in this State. This would mean four new judges to be appoint ed and four brand new solicitors. We had an idea they would create some new offices, but we didn't know that it was coming in this shape. If our tariff is exorbitant why Is it that other countries ship so much of their products to this country? Isn't it because we are prosperous under Republican administrations and have the nioney to pay for what we want. Oh, yes, we are going to revise the tariff, but we are not going to bankrupt our country. Taft says he is a friend of the South. Let's convince him that he has made no mistake in assuming such attitude and will lose nothing by remaining so. Wilmington Star. That's the right kind of i sentiment, if all the Democratic papers and politicians in the South would live up to it. Zeke Bilkins, our special corre spondent, expects to start on his trip around the world in January, and a weekly letter of his travels will ap pear in The Caucasian. If you are not a subscriber you should subscribe at once so you will not miss a single issue containing his letters. If you are already a subscriber, but behind on subscription, you should renew your subscription at once so you will not miss these letters. Major Bil kins Is an interesting writer, and his letters alone will be worth the price of the paper. The man who said he would kiss the first ten cows he met, and the man who said he would roll a wheel barrow over town in his barefeet if Bryan was elected have all paid their debts and are now' enjoying Repub lican prosperity. But those who said many years ago that they would neither 6have nor cut their hair until Bryan was elected well we feel sor ry for these men, but unless these men repent and vote the Republican ticket, there is no help for them. LETTER FROM RILKI58. Old Folks Still t the Front HchX Method Are Xrrj Faulty Tim Preacher and Deacon at it Attain. Old Almanacs Southern Politic nd Politician The Subject of BK Hogs. Correspondence of The Caucasian Enterprise. Bilklnsville, N. C, Dec. 1, 1908. I see by the papers that an' In diana woman who Is seventy-three years old hez Jist won the prize in a spellln' match. This shows that we old folks air still in the flte. She larned ter spell erway back yonder when I larnt, an' Bhe larnt hit rite. The way they teech spellln' now. by sound, an by main strength an' awk wardness, won't go at all. The old Blue-Back spellin'-book lz what the boys an' girls need. This thing ov payin' teechers a big price ter teech children ter spell by sound an' by lookln' at objeck lessons won't go at all. Some ov the RnplHn'-hrk he a plcter ov a cat In them an' rite under the plcter iz the word 'eat," an' so on with picters ot dogs, chick ens, rabbits an' everythln' you kin think ov. Well, the result lz that the boys an girls go ter school fer erbout ten ov twelve years an' when hit iz awl over they can't spell "bis cuit," even If you give then one with preserves on hit. School lz one ov the most useful things in the world, except religion, an still hit iz gittin' ter be a plum fraud with awl the new-fangled ways they hev ov usin' the school moneys. Ontill they quit hit, I'd advise peo ple ter keep their children at home an' larn them how ter workf" I met a college graduate not long ergo that didn't know who the father ov this country wuz. I see that the preachers an decans her'' bin fioldin' a big meetin' out West, an one ov them, Bishop Har ris, sed that the visit of the Ameri can fleet Ov battleships to Japan re cently had advanced the cause ov Christ ten years. This iz a new ar gyment fer a big fleet, an ov course, the pollytishns will use hit fer awl hit iz worth. The plan in the future will be ter carry religion ter the heathen lands in battleships. An' I guess they will shoot hit into them j comln' an' goin'. I'll hev ter becum a missionary yit, I reckon, az I am fond ov a gun. These pollytishuns an preachers do beat awl. What they can't think ov ter git your money lz not worth thinkin' ov. I see that a copy ov the first al manack printed In the United States recently sold fer $555, a pretty gude price, I think. The feller that; bought that must be purty fer be hind, fer hit wuz printed erway back in the year 1600, nearly 300 years ergo. He could hev got one ov them Salem almanacks that would, bring him rite up ter date fer only ten cents an' hit iz rite full ov gude okes, too; or he could hev gotten one ov them medical almanacks that would hev told him how ter git cured ov most anythin' fer nothin'. Sum peeple air so wasetful. I notis a number ov clippin's in a big Southern newspaper from news papers that alrdisgusted on account ov the result ov the late eleckshun. Most ov them air In favor ov nomy natin' a Southern man fer Pfeser dent on the dymakrat ticket. Now, I don't know much erbout pollyticks; but I'd jist like ter see 'what sort ov a caper they would cut with a South ern man. He would carry most ov the South, ov course. He couldn't help that. But what else would he do? The 'Red Shirts" an' the "night riders" an' the Ku-Klux would throw up their hats, ov course, an' the Ole Boy chunk in a few more loads ov dry wood an' brimstone. But whar would they be with their Southern man after the eleckshun? He'd lack erbout two milliun votes ov carryin' az meny az Billy Bryan did, an' he didn't hardly muddy the vcrxck. 1 reckon I am erbout az big a fool'az the average dymakrat. But when I git ter the pint whar I favor any sich az that, I'll apply fer admission ter the nearest insane asylum, an' if they don't let me in, I'll break in an lock myself up in the strongest cage they hev. The trouble with most ov us dymakrats iz that we don't know what we want an,' we wouldn't hev hit If we did know. Every one ov us orter buy a kickin masheen, git in front ov hit, turn our faces the other way, an let the masheen run till hit would wear out, or wear us out. We play the fool after the eleck shun an before the eleckshun, an' durin ov the eleckshun, an that iz the whole thing in a nutshell, we started out wrong after the war, an' the further we go, the worse we git. We hev had everythln in our plat- fnrm from foreordination ter final damnation, an still we can't fool but a small ner cent ov the voters, an Vp can't keeD them fooled more than half ov the time. Our campanes air nothin' but bluff an' bluster, an we ,rcAlves. don't believe half we say, so far-az polyticks air concerned. If we wuz ter adopt the Ten uommana ont fpr a nl-atform we would f oiler hit up by nominatin the devil fer preserdent. If I wuz a mule, I'd turn loose an kick the, whole buzi ness ter pieces an then bray like a jackass fer the next six months, day W1 TlttO This iz a grate country up here in the Western part ov the State fer big hogs. At any rate, somepeeple riT,i, lt Iz. An iz. The cli- .mAo the water iz gude, an, best bv awl, the hogs air jist dyin MINE EXPLOSION About Two Hundred Men Were Caught in the Death Trap. VICTIMS ARE HOR , RIBLY MUTILATED All of the Bodies Have Not Yet Been Itecovereil Keport la Circulation That There is Danger of Another Explosion Accumulation of Dan gerous Gases Makes Work of Res cue Slow. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 28. A report has just reached here that an ex plosion has occurred in the Buffalo Joena mine at Marianna, Pa., ten miles from Monongahela, and two hundred miners are entombed. The explosion occurred in the. Ma rianna mine of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company. The shaft is com pletely closed by the debris and, it is impossible to reach, the two hundred victims who may all .be dead. A special train carrying officials of the company left Pittsburg at 12:20 this afternoon for the seen of the disaster. -"Pittsburg. Nov. 29. Twenty-five bodies, all but two of them horribly mutilated, were taken to-day from the mine of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company at Marianna, forty miles south of here, where an ex plosion occurred yesterday, killing many men and casting into gloom what until then considered the model mining town of the world. There is no doubt that the death list will reach 13 8 men. Officials Of the company who last night stated that not over 12 5 had been killed, to-night admit that 138 men went down the shaft to work yesterday morning. As In nearly all mine disasters, there seems no way at present of knowing how many men went to work. The number check-off system has again proven defective. It is possible that the exact number killed will never be . known. Up to dark ness to-night twenty-five bodies had been brought to the surface in an Iron bucket. Arms, legs or heads were missing from some and the trunks of others were burned, bruised and cut. The opinion was expressed to-day by a number of expert miners that the mine will not be cleared of vic tims for several days. Early to-day a small fire broke oat n the mine, but it was extinguished before any serious damage was done. Reports have been in circulation all day that a second and more ter rific explosion Is likely to occur at any moment. The company officials assert this is not true. There is con siderable gas in the mine, however. ter eat a heap an' grow fast they air beginnin' ter git the best breeds ov hogs here now. You can't hardly get into a crowd without talkin hogs, since the eleckshun iz over. Me an' Bill Moody fell in with George Turner an' Bent Brown the other day an' they awl got ter talkin hogs, especially big hogs. "You useter raise some pretty big ones, did you?" sed ter George Turner, fer I seed that he wuz laborin' under a burden ov some sort an' had bin hintin that he knowed more or less erbout hogs. "Yes, I useter alarm the nabor- hood erlong erbout hog-kilin time. I wuz better with, pigs than grown up hogs. I killed one pig that wuz six months old that weighed 330 pounds. I jist had ter kill that pig, fer hit growed so fast that the na- bors wuz gittin' scared awl erround an' some ov them wuz talkin erbout gittin' out an injuncktion an com pel me ter kill hit before hit got any bigger." "I guess you hev killed some equally az gude," sed I ter Bent Brown. "Wall, I guess so," sed Bent. But I awlways wait till a pig iz old enuff ter. wean. I killed a pig four years ergo this fall that wuz ten months ov age ter a day, an hit weighed 548 pounds. I thought that wuz fairly gude pork raisin'." After a few "moments ov silence, George Turner sed he'd like ter hear from Major Bilkins in regard ter the big hogs raised down in Wake County, which he had hearn wuz a fairly gude farmin' country. I seed hit wuz up ter me, an' I sez "Well,- we do raise a few hogs down on Terrible Creek, fifteen miles from Raleigh, I remember that I killed one shoat which wuz erbout two years old. Hit had bin petted an' pushed hard, gittin plenty ov feed. Hit weighed forty-six pounds hair an' awl. Bill Moody snickered out loud an went ter git a drink ov water. George Turner an Bent Brown wuz perfect ly quiet an looked very solemn, so I changed the subjeck az quickly az I could. ' Az ever, . ZEKE BILKINS. picas Go To Pieces. The Democrats have many plans for winning, but they all go to pieces about election time. Durham Her ald. ... ' : i TI1E IlEPUBUCAN GADtS IX .NORTH CAROLINA. Ramon That the Ilepohlkaa "Man agers" Did Not Want to Win Wbj They Fear the Coming of ' Recruit- Local SeU-Gorernment Wvuld Hare Beea 'a Winning iMue Republican Need Only to Develop Breadth Unselfishness and Ordinary Common Sense to Work Sonus Change. ' New Yor.k Sun. J The Democrats have won in North Carolina, but in such fashion as to rob the victory of its substance. Governor Aycock's majority of 60, 000 in 1900 was cut down to 35,000 for Kitchin. The Republicans car ried three CongHsional districts hitherto Democratic, made material gains in the State General Assembly and otherwise exhibited a rplrlt, a courage and an address that have extorted from the Charlotte Observer these philosophical re Sections: "It would be folly to predict what four years will bring forth, but it Is to be seen by a blind man that a serious breach has been made in the Democratic fortress in North Caro lina, heretofore supposed to be im pregnable. If the ratio of decline In the Democratic majority which the past eight years have witnessed is maintained, it calls for no argument to show that another eight years will see the majority disappear." There are rumors throughout North Carolina to the effect thai the Republican "managers" did not want to win and that but for their indifference if not secret antagonism the Democratic shortage would have been much more pronounced. This grave accusation has been warmly denounced and repudiated by the aforesaid "managers", but certainly it is the. past history pf the party in the South that the professional Re publicans have always been jealous of accessions from the masses of the people. In almost every State they, have formed tight little coteries de voted to the delivery of delegations at national conventions and the sub sequent parcelling out of the Federal offices within their respective baili wicks, and it has long been notorious that they neither seek nor welcome recruits, being entirely satisfied with a very profitable Industry. How- it has been this year in North Caro lina we do not pretend to say. Other factors were at work. For one thing, not only all the Democrats but many Republicans as well want ed to see Senator Overman re-elected to the United States Senate. His present term of office expires next year; he is universally popular, and after all, North Carolinians are of one political family in a way. This consideration had much to do with maintaining lines that were sadly wavering and weak, and on top of that was the superstition, or the am bush, of the gubernatorial primaries which was utilized to the lull extent by the Democratic machine. In North Carolina as in Virginia the obliga tions, real or supposed, of this art fully arranged deadfall were pressed home with frantic energy and urgent eloquence, and it is entirely safe to assume that many thousand votes were constricted and suppressed in the interests of the Democratic party That party's triumph, therefore, was largely one of superficial appearance. Indeed,, if the Republican orators and workers had possessed the cour age to conduct a perfectly harmo nious campaign in the matter of local self-government local option, as regarded the Demon Rum and in respect to other burnipg domestic issues the Republicans might have carried the State after all, despite the sentimental devotion to Senator Overman and the alleged hostility of the close corporation known in North Carolina as the "Republican party." Among those who conducted tie fight with special force and courage we note the Hon. Thombs Settle, of Asheville, formerly of Greensboro, some time a Representative In Con gress son of a former governor of the State, born and bred a North Can linian and far removed from the sus picion of office seeking with a sordid end in view. He was not alone of course. Good 'men and true were with him, shoulder k shoulder, and if he had been supported in good faith by the 'organization" there Is no telling what might not have hap pened in North Carolina. The oppor tunity has passed, but if ,the Repub licans here in Washington or else where who pretend to manage things should ever by any chance develop the breadth, the unselfishness, the ordinary common sense to begin at the South a policy of dignity and in telligence, the solemn forecasts ' of the Charlotte Observer would be jus tified not only Jn North Carolina but In many other Southern States. . Secretary Root Will Succeed Sena tor Piatt From New York. Hot Springs, Va, Nov. 29. Timo thy L. Woodruff, chairman of the New York Republican State commit tee, to-day eliminated himself from the senatorial race In favor of Secre tary of State Elihu Root. ' This action was taken after a pro tracted conference with President elect Taft, and was followed by state ments by both Messrs. Taft and Woodruff., Aside from these state ments, each of which concedes the election of Mr. Root to succeed Sena tor Piatt on January 19 th next, no details of the conference were made known. THE SPEAKERSHIP Several New Candidates in the Race Against Mr. Cannon. SOME INTERESTING STATE NEWS Waa the Bankruptcy Proceedings of the Industrial News Intended to Freeze Out Precent Stockholders? The Remarkable Campaign bj Con greasm&n Morehead- Some Inter eating Storiea in Connection With Judge. Taft's Special Train Through This State. Special to The Caucasian. Washington. D. C, Dec. 1. 108. Washington 1 beginning to take on a busy air. The whole atmosphere of the capital of the Nation is affect ed by the return of the Senators and Kepresentatives preparatory lor the opening f Congress. Of course, the opening of Congretut each year brings to the city not only a very large num ber of people from every part of the country, but it also brings to the city many residents who live here only during the winter, or rather during the Congressional season; hence at this season ot the year there is not only activity in the hotel lobbies and around both ends of the Capitol, but the actual population of this city is greatly Increased. Who Will Re Speaker? The chief topic of conversation continues to be the attitude of - President-elect Taft towards Speaker Can non. The oppositon to the re-election of Cannon (the Speaker) be came so pronounced during last week that the Speaker came out in an in terview and declared that he was in favor of not only the revision of the tariff, as pledged by the Republican platform, but also that he would not stand in the way of the reform pol icies of Roosevelt, which are to be carried forward by President Taft. This interview, however, has not stopped the opposition to his re-election. During the last few days other names in addition to Burton, of Ohio, have been mentioned for Speaker, among them being Mr. Townsend, of Michigan; Mr. Fowler, of New Jer sey, and Mr. Gardner, of Massachu setts. The general opinion at this stage is that President Taft will have to be thoroughly satisfied that he can rely upon the co-operation of Speaker Cannon, not only upon the revision of the tariff, but all the way down the line, or else it Kill be made known that the President desires the election of some one else for Speaker who will work in harmony with the administration. Freeze Out Stockholders. A prominent Republican of North Carolina, who was here a few days ago, called attention to the fact that the small clique, which has been dominating the Daily Industrial News, tried to make it appear that it was the creditors of that paper who forced it into bankruptcy, while it developed at the hearing before Judge Boyd that it was the managers of the paper themselves who had drummed up these creditors and in duced them to make an effort to put the paper into bankruptcy. Some of the names signed to the petition, as it has turned out, were unauthorized. one or more of them having made af fidavit that they did not want to put the paper into bankruptcy. This party further said that it was believed by many that it was the de sire of Chairman Adams to discon tinue the paper, and that the ground for this belief was the fact that he had on a former occasion attempted to suspend the publication of the pa per, and also the further fact that he has made no proper effort to make the paper a success, but has been busy using it as a personal organ. even while it waa on its last legs That Republican said, however, that his view was that it was the purpose of Adams not to suspend the paper, but to -put it into- bankruptcy, so as to freeze out all of the stockholders who had put up their money to es tablish the paper and run it so that he and his small clique could buy it in cheap and re-organize it them Belves. Me said that it was also thought that some deal had been made some where to raise a goodly sum of mon ey from one of more sources to fi nance the project. He called atten tion to the fact that immediately af ter the first effort to put the paper into bankruptcy, that Adams gave out an interview in which he said that the paper would not suspend but that it -would be re-organized and its publication continued. Be asked how Adams knew this when the paper -was reported to be in dire financial straits, unless a deal had already been made to this effect. He said this made it seem that the put ting of the paper into bankruptcy was the first step in the Bcheme to freeze out the stockholders and to re-organize the paper? How Congressman Morehead Was Elected. i More stories from the State have come here as to the remarkable cam paign made by John Motley More head and his campaign manager to carry the Fifth Congressional Dis trict. It lit generally believed that Adams 434 hotai&g lo , hlp elect MorehteaJ. bat, on the other fa ad, it to UUrd by many, if uot by lior bead himself, that Adaea did not att him elected. Oa thing ta to b certain, that Morehead and &U managers did not depend upoa Ad ams in lh leaat, bat. oa th other ha&d, organised their separate and independent campaign and kr(t their plana and prospects wif from the iMxalled Republican State Headquar ters, and It seems safe to say last no one la the State waa more surprUed at the election of Morehead than vu Adams himself. It has also been aaid here by peo ple coming from the State that prac tically the same la true with refer ence to Grant in the Tenth DUtrict. Of course, the Eighth District Is a natural Republican district, and could only be lost to the Democrats through Republican division. It is also believed ,by not a few people that Adams not only did noth ing to help Walser In the Seventh District and Smith In the Ninth Dis trict, but that he did aot want them elected. A Republican here from the Third District, a few days ago, called atten tion to the fact that that district could hare been carried this year if the State machine had desired to car ry it The upper end of the district made large Republican gains, and the only thing that prevented the elec tion of a Congressman was the lower end of the district, which Is domi nated by the mach.ae. Some Other Storiea. There was another story to the effect that Adams tried to prevent the special train bearing Judge Taft from stopping in the Congressional District in which ex-Attorney-General Walser was running for Congress. ndeed, we are told that it had been several times announced by Mr. Ad ams officially that the Taft train would not stop at Lexington, the home of Mr. Walser, and the county- seat of one of the other candidates seat of one of the other counties in the State through which the train would pass; nor at High Point, the home of Mr. Cox," the candidate for Governor, but that It would stop only at Salisbury and at Greensboro. It is said that Mr. WaUer had to take the matter up by wire with Senator Dixon, the Chairman of the Speak ers' Bureau, and get authority from him to stop the train, and then get on the train and show this dispatch to Judge Taft In order for arrange ments to be made to stop the train at Lexington. ' IiOcal Self-Government. An intelligent and observant Re publican of the Ninth Congressional District said here a few days ago that If Senator Butler's amendment to the Republican platform at the Charlotte Convention declaring for local self- government, without any "ifs" or 'ands" or strings to it, had been adopted, and, if the fight made by Smith had been properly backed up by the State organization, that Smith would have been elected. The same party also observed that there never was a finer opportunity which any party ever had on earth than the Re publican party had to make local self-government the leading and winning issue from the mountains to the sea; that the Democrats had completely deserted this great fun damental principle of free govern ment, and that If the Republicans had not themselves deserted the is sue, but had taken it up and appealed to the people, that it would have come nearer to making a political revolution than anything else that could have been done. SHERIFF OF BRUNSWICK KILLED Fatal Shot Fired by a Man Named Walker Whom the Sheriff Wm Trying to Arrest. Wilmington, N. C Now. 30. Sheriff Jackson Stanland, of Bruns wick County, was shot and fatally wounded Sunday night by a white man named Walker, upon whom he and a posse of three others were ser ving a warrant for store-breaking. the scene of the shooting being at Walker's home, four miles below Shallotte, In a remote part of the country. Walker is said to be a de serter from aja army post la Georgia and came to Brunswick several yean ago, marrying a daughter of Mr. Frank Leonard, a well-to-do citizen. For several weeks -the sheriff had been unable to locate him, until Sunday-night when he and three other officers, John E. Robinson, A S. White and James Long, came up on him at his home while at supper Walker opened fire oa the party with an army revolver. Sheriff Stan- land falling with a bulletin rough his kidneys before the . man was overpowered by other members of the posse. Mob Performs Operation on Negro Instead of Lynching Him. Special "to Charlotte Observer. Spartanburg. S. C. Nov. 28. Ac cording to reports received here to day from Westminster, Will Dickson, colored, accused. of writing an lm proper letter to the daughter of the cashier of the bank at that place, was taken out last night by a party of citizens and a delicate operation performed on him. The men who did the job, it is said, first thought of lynching him; but After discuss ing the matter decided on making the punishment fit the crime, by forc ing him to undergo an operation. THE OFFICIAL VOTE The Republican National Ticket Gained Over One Thousand Votes BRYAN RUNS BEHIND TICKET !Mafo Hoard of KleetloM QmnyWie lis Work Moaday Ttl Veto Thi Year Mc Larger Tha fNna Year .g--4MHall 101 a f air fl Xvt la the lilal. The Stata Election Board torn- p'eted It work Monday. The ofielal vote for President, State oSclala a4 CongreMffien is here gives: For Governor: KJtealB. Demo crat. 145.102; Cox. Republican. 10T. 760. For Lieutenant GoTeraor: New- land, Democrat. 14 6.14?; Toms, Re publican. 107.851. Scretary of State; Crimea. Dtta- ocrat, 1 45,26; Thompson. Hvpab- llcsn, 107,848. State Auditor: Dicon. Democrat. 145.060; "Wood. Republican. 107.4 848. . State Treasurer: Laey, Detaoerat. 14 5.155; Griggs. Republican. 107.- 790. Superintendent Public Instruction: Joyner. Democrat. 145.021; Lylerly, Republican, 107.71X. Attorney-General: liickett. Dem ocrat. 144.900; Newell. Republic. 107.872. Commissioner of Labor and Print ing: Shipman, Democrat. 145.071; Ray. Republican, 107.844. Corporation Commissioner: Ay rock. Democrat. 144.989; Elmore, Republican. 107.864. Commissioner of Agriculture: Gra ham, Democrat, 145.049; Mewborne, RrfTlblican, 107,721. Insurance Commissioner: Young, Democrat, 145,069; Norris, Republi can. 107.791. Superior Court Judge Fifteenth Judicial District: Adams, Democrat, 14 5,005: Lusk, Republican. 107.618. Tbe Board of Elections declarac the North Carolina rote for Bryan to , be 136.92S. and for Taft. 114,817. giving Rryan a majority of 22.041. arker's majority orer Roosevelt four years ago was 41.670. Tbe Tote fpr Congressmen was aa follows: John H. Small, Democrat, was elected In the First District by a ma- ority of 7,776 over Meek ins, his Re publican opponent. In tha Second District the majority of Kitchln over Ferguson, his Republican opponent, was 8.914. In the Third District Thomas, Democrat, defeated Hill. Republican, by a majority of 1.648. n the Fourth District Po, Demo crat, was elected over II rig g. Re public, by a majority of 4,497. In the Fifth District Morehead, Repub lican, was elected oyer Brooks, the Democratic candidate, by a majority ot 348. F. S. Blair, Prohibitionist. received 2 rote and J. P. Taylor, Socialist, 174. In the Sixth District Godwin, Democrat, waa elected by a majority of 6,157 orer Slocomb, hli Republican opponent. Tn tho Seventh District Page, Democrat, niceired a majority of 4,328 orer tbe Repab iican candidate, Walser. In the Eighth District Cowles, Republican, had a majority of 1.375 ott Hockell. the Democratic nominee In tho Ninth District Webb was elected tnrer his Republican opponent. Smith, by a majority of 3.016. In the Tenth District the election went to Grant: Republican, over Crawford. Demo crat, by a majority of 361. The Social in t Vote. Tbe votes received by the candi dates of the Socialist party In this State were: Governor J. A. Transoa, 310. Lieutenant-Governor F. A. Dor- sett, 312. Secretary of State 0. F. Wilton, 311. State Auditor E. C. Barkley. 111. Treasurer E. B. Weill, 313. Superintendent of Publie Instruc tion Nat M. Pickett, 313. Commissioner of Labor R, J. Smatbers, 314. Corporation Commissioner W. J. Newton, 291. Commissioner of Agrieultnra P. E. Burke, 317. Insurance Commissioner R. J. Morton. 3 IS. 'Night IUders" la Wilson County. Wilson. N. C, Not. 2. The new cotton gin of the Walstonbarg Gin Company, located fifteen mile east of Wilson, was destroyed by fire last night, presumably by slgat riders, an several gins in that section nave been warned to shot down on account of the low price of cotton. The loea is 34.500 and Insurance $2,000. A party on horseback -waa aeen to com from the direction of the gin on s run a few minutes before tbe fir was discovered. Southern Educational Asaocfatiosi to Meet la Atlanta, Washington, D. C. Nor. 27. The nineteenth annual meeting .. of the) Southern Educational Association will be held at Atlanta, Ga Decem ber 29, 30 and SI. !
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