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CAUCASIAN.
VOL. XXVIII.
RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 19IO.
No. 23
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EDITORIAL BRIEFS
The Wake County Democrats are
giving gome lessons In frenzied politics.
The Legislature will not meet in
evtra session. Another cause to be
thankful.
Roosevelt is now on the
Still it can't be said that he
Col.
ocean.
Is -at
sea."
Even with the high cost of living
there has been no increase in price
for Buffalo calves.
those politicians who have led in
And this row they are having in post-election betrayals. The leaders
Wake County is another instance of in Xorlh Carolina are making the
party a party of insincerity. They are
-Democratic Harmony. usng the party princlples and prom.
ises merely to induct themselves to
Even the mosquitoes have not dar- office. We are not keeping the prom
ed show themselves while the Demo- ises made to the people. As a result
cratic row is on in Wake.
Notwithstanding the state i3
"dry," there are more snake stories
this year than ever before.
If every little helps, Liberia should
be very friendly to us, as our govern
ment has just sent her a Crum.
If Ex-Gov. Glenn feels that way
about it why didn't he try to do more
for the negro while he was Governor
of the State?
In Spartanburg they have white
washed the jail, while in Columbia
they have whitewashed fellows who
ought to be in jail.
You may not believe it now, but
when Governor Glenn was a candi
date for office he, too, was a howler
for "white supreemacy."
It will be noticed that the Demo
cratic politicians were not patriotic
enough to buy up those bonds in
orfler to save the State's credit.
Every good Republican should at
tend his primaries and county con
vention and not permit the pie coun
ter bosses to defeat the Republican
party.
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According to one of the Democrat-
ic dailies in the state, bribery, fraud,
rioting, and corruption are some of
the results of Democratic good gov
ernment. i
Four new offices have been created i
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in
the Agricultural Department at j
sleigh. This IS done right on the
political campaign, and
eve of a
ought to help some
Webster's Weekly says the Demo
cratic leaders in North Carolina are
making the party a party of insin- j
cerity. And Webster's Weekly is in :
a position to know. i
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With a Democratic mudslinging j
campaign now on hand, the "seven-!
teen-year locusts" due this month,
Wake county has troubles of her
own, and to spare.
A man in Rowan county reports
having seen a white snake near his
home. Such sights are probably due
to drinking "white lightning" in the
place of "yellow corn."
Some one has been rude enough to
intimate that the financiers in this
State took all those bonds just to
ward off the perils caused my a
special session of the Legislature.
A Democratic exchange says trusts
arp nnor, xt u , ;
--s iu WIUUua m;
restraint of trade. Then why doesn't ;
the Attorney General of North Caro- !
llTIS frat Ki.nn JS r 1.1 '
UUOJ, auu euJ.urte tmj oiatesmui.vj.
anti-trust law?
A California doctor has removed '
an aneurism of the thoracie aortal
from a patient, a most difficult oper
ation. He might be induced to try
his skill on the Wake County Democ
racy after that.
National Chairman Mack says he
does not think Bryan will be the
Democratic nominee for President,
hut admits that Bryan may be the
candidate again in 1916. Even side-
HKMOCKATIC PERFIDY.
Webster's Weekly, ( Ietiwcratie , )
KhoMH lp the Prenent State Ad
ministration Thinks the Governor Other MeatUfeS to be P&Sted
Ha Gone Over to the Truta.
Webster's Weekly (Dem.).j
No newspaper is free from criti
cism. In fact a newspaper that does
not merit criticism will not do much
good for the community in which it
circulates. Evil forces always have
and always will oppose the good. The
Weekly has not escaped. And this
has come becau.se The Weekly has
dared to stick to the word and spirit
of the Democratic platform and to
plead for the carrying out of Demo
cratic promises, the while censuring
the State is fast verging towards Re
publicanism. Another round of Dem- bill, two of the most important re
ocratic insincerity and the State will form measures urged by this admin
be in the hands of the Rads. It is Istration, is practically won. Both
better to suffer criticism now in an bills have passed the House and the
effort to save the State to the Demo- Senate, and now simply await the ad
cratic party. justment In conference of the
It would be better for the Demo- amendments by each House to be
cratic party to come out openly in come a law. President Taft will
sympathy with trusts and corporate have accomplished a great victory,
interests than to win the people's even if he should fail to get any
confidence by their antagonistic ut-
terances and then betray these utter-
ances. Two years ago W. W. Kitchin
was the people's friend and the Amer-
ican Tobacco Company and the other
trusts were fighting him tooth and
nail. His position then, when he was
appealing to the people was one thing
today it is another, and we are
sickened at the sight of the American
Tobacco Company and the other injunction againt the railroads of the
trusts lining up squarely behind Mr. country in order to prevent them
Kitchin. from increasing their rates before the
The Democratic party should : Railroad Rate bill should become a
either change its position on trusts or j law was a fine stroke of statesman
repudiate those leaders who betray ship. This has brought the railroad
its platform utterances. ! people to terms. They have agreed
j to make no further effort to increase
Below is another warm one that ! rates and to abide by the law.
the weekly hands out to the Reids- j It has leaked out during the last
ville Review, which paper has been J few days that the scheme of the rail
criticising the Weekly for not back- j roads was to try to intimidate the ad
ing up Governor Kitchin. Webster's ' ministration, and that if they failed
Weekly says: j in that to manufacture another panic,
"Here is a specimen of what The , as they did in 1907-1908 when they
Review handed Webster's Weekly failed to control President Roose
during the blooming June days of velt. Our readers will remember that
1904: (during the last few weeks there has
"It is useless for the Review to ; been in certain quarters a lot of talk
attempt any defense of Capt. Glenn, j
He is known by every woman and j
child and by every other etaoinpupu j
child ana by every voter in tnis coun-
, ty as an honorable man and an hon- I
: est gentleman. Vituperation and j
I slander hurled at him by Webster's
! Weekly can do him no harm."
That was "before talking.". In less
tnan two years The Review was
oTiarnlr rrHipiBinP' Onvprnnr fll Pn n
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the head of the Democratic party and i
w artnallv fiirnishine thunder for
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the Republicans to use in the cam-;
i paign. The Review said in its issue
I of December 8, 1905:
1 "Governor Glenn is a remarkable
man, if we may be forgiven for agree- ;
ing with our neighbor, The Weekly. :
During and preceding the campaign ;
he solicited and received votes from
the iskey people here in Rocking-
ham and in other counties upon the
grounds that he was in favor of the j
principle allowing each locality to j
settle the whiskey traffic, and as soon ;
as he had warmed the chair of the j
Governor's office he advocated in ! accorded the most remarkable recep
speeches the submission of the ques- tion which has ever been tendered
tion of prohibition to the State at by the American people to any man
large enabling the eastern and other j either in public or private life. Not
sections to have an equal say as to ; oniy. wni the Republican party and
what Rockingham should do." its organization be on hand for his
welcome, but it now appears that the
POSTAL BANK BILL PASSED THE ; whole country, regardless of party,
HOUSE. i wll 3in n the welcome to the most
t ' distinguished citizen, not only of the
Every Republican and a Few Demo- United States, but of the whole
crats Voted for the Measure. I world. It is the general concensus
I of opinion here, not only from the
Washington, D. C. June 9 By the, friends of Roosevelt, but even his
overwhelming majority of 195 to 101 ! enemieSf that he will not only be ac
the House tonight passed the Postal corded such a reception, but that he
Savings Bank bill as recently agreed ; deserves it. and that the country will
upon by the Republican caucus of ; be nonoring itself in making such a
the House. Not a single Republican demonstration and welcome for him.
voted against the measure on the j
nnai ron can.
pr.or tQ tn.s acUon tQe House byj
113 t0 196f rejected the Democratic :
substitute for the bill proposed by the !
tni'nni-ifl
President Commutes Sentence of
Arthur Ipock.
Washington, D. C June 11 Pres
ident Taft today commuted the sen-
tence to one year of Arthur Ipock, of
North Carolina, who was convicted at
New Bern, N. C, of conducting an
illicit distillery.and was sentenced to
eighteen monts in prison. The Pres
ident was moved to sympathy by the
fact that the man had old persons
depending on him and by misfortune
in thoafamily.
Between twenty and thirty people
lost their lives at Montreal, Quebec,
Monday. The Herald building crush
ed in.
THE RAILROAD BILL
by This Session
of Congress.
PRESIDENT'S VICTORY
Firm and Ieeiive Action of Presi
dent TJt in Preventing Increase
in Freight Rate Before Railroad
Rill is Passed Certain Railroads
Tried to Manufacture a Panic, but
Were Thwarted by More Level
Heads The Homecoming of Mr.
Roosevelt.
(Special to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. C. June 14, mO.
Rate bill and Postal Savings Bank
The great fight over the Railroad
other measures passed; but the out-
look now is that within the next two
or three weeks, before Congress ad
journs, that one or two other meas
ure3 will also become a law.
The President's Master-Stroke.
The firm and decisive action of the
President in instructing Attorney-
General Wickersham to sue out an
about a panic and hard times coming
again, which all came from the same
source. In short, the panic under
Koosevelt s administration was a
manufactured panic, and the scheme
was to have another manufactured
panic.
Fortunately, there were among the
railroad people of the country a few
wise heads, including President Hill
of the Great Northern Railway and
oi a r t. nt c.tv.-r,
mi.
rwanway. l uey put Lueii iuui uuwa
on the scneme to manufacture a
paniCj and now it is announced that
both of these roads, instead of cur-
tailing Wnrt on dovpinnmpnt nrni fnr
extensions of their lines, have just
issued .orders that all contemplated
developments shall be continued and
that additional orders shall be placed
for equipment.
Roosevelt's Home-Coming.
On next Friday, former President
Roosevelt will land in New York, and
from present indications he will be
Confederate Monument Unveiled in
Ohio.
Sandusky, Ohio, June S. In the
,nrPAnra nf covornl hnrfH Snnth-
, erners, representing nearly all the
j States in the Confederacy of 1861-65, ,
a monument to the memory or the
206 Confederate officers and privates
buried on Johnson's Island, Sandusky
! Bay, Lake Erie, was dedicated today.
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i Wisconsin Republicans Meet.
Milwaukee, Wis., June 9. Adop
tion of a platform strongly endors
ing the national administration, the
selection of William D. Connor, of
Marshfield, as state chairman, and
the choosing of a campaign commit
tee of twenty-two members, was the
extent of the business transacted at
the closing day's session of the Re
publican State Convention.
DF.CLIXED TO SEK OU.XUIIKSSMAX
irrMet Taft Refit! Audience to
0njcrrtiuui Ifarriwm. of Xewr
York on Arrount of II U Attack oa
the Chief Kxeemite.
Washington. June . President
Taft today declined to receive Rep
resentative Franci Burton Harrison.
Democrat, of New York, who called
at the White House in company with
two other representative, to intro
duce a number of Jewish Rabbis who
took up with the President the ques
tion of the expulsion of Jews from
Russia.
The President received the delega
tion and chatted with its various
members for fifteen minutes or more.
Representative Godfogle, of New
York, acted as spokesman for the
rty, and so adroitly had the situ
ation been handled by Secretary Nor
ton that no one of the callers knew
anything of the incident until Rep
resentative Harrison returned to the
capitoi and there made a statement
to the effect that he had been re
buffed by the President.
Mr. Taft based his refusal to see
Mr. Harrison on statements attrib
uted by newspapers to the report in
connection with his resolution in the
House calling upon Attorney General
Wickersham for full Information as
to the connection of his office with
the Ballinger-Pinchot episode. Mr.
Harrison, according to the White
House version of the matter, charg
ed the President and the Attorney
General with having wilfully attempt
ed to mislead Congress in the back
dating of the attorney general's sum
mary of the Glavis charges against
the secretary of the interior.
RIG COTTON MILL DEAL.
Marshall Field & Company, of Chi
cago, Ruy Controlling Interest in
Several Large Mills at Spray, X. C.
Charlotte, N. C, June 14. Prob
ably the largest deal in cotton mill
stocks that has ever been made in
the South has just been consummat-
ed by which Marshall Field &. Com
; pany, of Chicago, secure the control
! ling interest in several mills at Spray,
this State.
' The purchase includes the contrV
: of the American Warehousing Com
pany, mammoth finishing plant,
warehouses, etc.; the Spray Woolen
i Mills, one of the largest wool manu
j facturing concerns In the world; the
1 Lily Mills; the Rhode Island Com
I pany and the Nantucket Mills,
j Through the deal Field & Company
! acquire control of practically all the
manufacturing plants at Spray, ex
; cept three, these being the Spray
j Cotton Mills, the Morehead Cotton
Mills, and the Leaksville Cotton Mill.
The purchase price was not dis
closed. The newly-purchased textile plant
j of the Field Company embrace some
' of the best managed and most thor
oughly equipped mills in the State.
SCORES THE SOUTH.
Kx-Governor Glenn Says Negro is
Not Treated Fairly in the South,
Especially in Matter of Education.
Cleveland, Ohio, June 8. A severe
araignment of the Southern States
for their failure to properly educate
the negro was delivered here to
night in an address by former Gov
ernor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina.
Mr. Glenn declared that in eleven
Southern States where the negroes
form 40 per cent of the population,
only 15 per cent of the school fund is
devoted to their education. He was
speaking at the Euclid Avenue Chris
tian Church.
"This leads," he said, "to an in
crease in crime and immortality and
is especially noted in the illiterate
leadership. There are 30,000 negro
preachers who exercise an enormous
influence over 9,000,000 negroes.
About 10 per cent of these have re
ceived more than a primary educa
tion and the remaining 27,000 are
ignorant men who are framing the
destinies of millions of their fellows."
The speaker praised highly the new
school for negroes which had been
opened at Durham N. C, by Dr.
James E. Shepard. This institution
offers industrial education, and also
is Intended as a training school for
colored preachers and teachers.
Storm Did Much Damage in Southern
States.
St. Louis, Mo., June 10 The South
today is recovering from the effects
of the worst storm that has struck
it in years. Assuming proportions
of a cyclone, at times, and accom
panied by lightning, deep, heavy
thunder, hail and rain, the storm
unroofed houses, destroyed crops,
washed away railroad bridges and did
immense damage late yesterday and
during the night. It is still raging
today but not so severely.
Many buildings in this city were
unroofed and several burned.
Reports from Arkansas, Mississippi
and western Tennessee indicate that
much damage has been done by the
storm. The lowest estimate of the
loss thus far is $500,000.
WELCOME!) TEDDY
Great Reception Awaits CoL
Roosevelt When He
Lands in N. Y.
RETURNS ON SATURDAY
The "FirM Citlif- of th I nltcl
State, After Fiftrrn Month Sprtit
in Africa ami lkonJ the Sra.
Where He 'Itob-ohhHl With Roy.
ally" and "Broke Bread With Hu
ll rat hen Savage. Return to lit
Home, Still the Mt Popular Citi
zen in America.
Kx-President Theodore Roosevelt
will arrive In New York Saturday of
this week (June ISth) from Europe,
after an absence of fifteen months
from the United States, fully a year
of which time he has spent "beyond
the pale of civilization" in the Jun
gles of South Africa, shooting big
game with great success.
He will land In New York, and all
this week preparations have been
making to give "the first American"
now living a reception that will sur
pass anything of its kind on record.
Next week The Caucasian will tell
you all about the forthcoming event.
Iu the meantime our readers, as well
as the balance of the world, will be
interested in the arrangements, and
the following particulars are printed
for their edification. At the same
time they will accentuate the belief
that there has been no other "private
citizen" so popular, nor one In whom
the public has manifested so univer
sally popular interest.
Lands in New York Sat unlay Morn
ing. A dispatch from New York says:
"When Colonel Roosevelt arrives
in New York harbor at 9 a. m., Sat
urday, June ISth, he will receive the
most remarkable welcome ever ac
corded a private citizen in the United
1 States,. The city, not content with
i pouring its huge throngs along
Broadway and Fifth Avenue, will be
gin the welcome down the bay, where
hundreds of steamers, yachts and
crafts of every description will roar
a steam-voiced salute, while bands
play and the multitude shouts itself
hoarse.
"From every corner of the United
' States, and even from Canada and
Mexico, will come thousands of vla
, itors to add their voices to the tu
mult when the Kaiserin Auguste Vic
toria, on which the former President
and his party are passengers, easts
her anchor at quarantine. Foremost
among the boats to meet Colonel
Roosevelt will be the revenue cutter
Manhattan with Roosevelt's relatives
aboard. Close at her stern will be
the cutter Mohawk, carrying two rep
resentatives appointed by President
Taft to meet the famous hunter,
scores of Congressmen and Represen
tatives, Governors of States, and
members of embassies, who will go
down the bay unofficially, and promi
nent citizens from every State In the
Union.
"Colonel Roosevelt will leave the
Kaiserin and board the revenue cut
ter Androscoggin, which will have
Mayor Gaynor's reception committee
on board, and followed by a great
flotilla, the cutter will proceed up
the bay and past the battery to Fifty
ninth Street, where it will turn, and
a half-hour later, land at Pier A.
Here, on the broad lawn of Battery
Park, where upwards of 250,000 per
sons can witness the ceremonies.
Mayor Gaynor will receive the dis
tinguished citizen and he will respond
to the address of welcome.
"The park will be gaily decorated
and will contain a court of honor,
through which Colonel Roosevelt
will pass to his carriage. The pa
rade will begin immediately. In ad
dition to the police, mounted band,
Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and the
committee, there will be in line the
Spanish War veterans to the number
of 3,000. All other organizations
will be placed along the line of march
on Fifth Avenue from Eighth Street
j to Fifty-ninth Street. Many of these
j organizations will have their own
band, and several, it is understood,
j will throw arches across the thor
l oughfare."
IJGHTXIXG .STRIKES A OOTTOX
311 LL.
An Employe Found Dead, Supposed
to Have Been Killed by the Same
Bolt.
Fayetteville. X. C, June 10. Dur
ing a thunderstorm here about 7.30
this evening the Holt Morgan Cotton
Mill was struck by lightning and set
on fire. James Garven, an operator,
was found dead near the entrance,
and is supposed to have been killed
by the same bolt. The fire was ex
tinguished without great damage.
X. KLKSX VritXtH OS TTtUU
TvterChrr With Thaauk tVaft aJ
Wife, Etta VtmtU ttrcS WHJ
piracy to lrfra4 the fter
meat tt-o!lre lafwrtor (tr
dace Ihaa-t l;Mee m
IlhwIuMler ftet I f.
A tpe-la! from fIfnVr!- to
"la tfce Fe-derai Court !v4ay tat
rate eaargtnc N Willutat.
Tfcoma Craft n t t?e. IHiia Craft.
ilh cxmprtf !eff a4 the C, it.
eTr.s.r r.t. - ras?-!4e4 A
larer raiaUr of te
amlned by the Cnernment. rkisf
to MtjMub the charge thai N ;.. ra
William h4 secured the apjwlr.:
cier.l of Mr Craft at potriH:ret
at William, in YaJUa Count. -!t!j
the understanding that the t. be
paid by hira ITS per quart.., an 4
that the profit of celling tau ; our
and atote thii aum to ti him
Witi; were examined h' lei
fied to having heard Mr. f'raft. in
the presence of hU mfr. the pot
mistrea. ataie that WiHUun era
ploed her at ITS per purler an 1
checks were ihon f orroSorsttng thii
alleged partnerhlp Under crot
exaajination by ihe dfene. every
one of these itn ere ahoao to
have personal enmity to the defeul
ant William. It a hon that
the Government allowed a prcea
tase to the potmaater for the cancel
lation and sale of ttamp. and th
nrst evidence introduced a by gov.
ernment expert, who exhibited the
books for 1907, showing that a very
large number of stamp had been
furnished the office by the Govern
ment. They were In turn purrhaael
b- Williams, who aold them In New
York at 3 per cent dUcount. Pot
office inspectors produced one pack
age which had been intercepted in
the express office at Greensboro,
which contained $517 worth of
stamps. They were directed to the
New York firm of stamp broker.
Other evidence was offered hoing
that more than $3.00 worth of
stamps had been thus resold and dis
counted In New York.
"The case will probably not be con
cluded before Wednesday night.
Wilkes Rlockariera !!ale! I'p.
"A posse of sixteen revenuera un
der the direction of Deputy Marshal
C. H. Holland, made another big
raid In Wilkes County last Saturday
and Sunday, and as a result, five men
were brought here last night to an
swer charges of Illicit distilling at
the present term of United Stale
Court."
Mil. KRODIF. Pl'KK MARRIED.
Durham Millionaire Take Unto Him
self a Fourth Wife Ceremony
Performed by a Justice of the
Peace at Camden, X. J.
Washington. D. C, June 11.
Brodle L. Duke and Miss Wylanta
Rochelle were married today in
Camden, X. J. The ceremony was
performed by Justice of the Peace
H. F. Harrison, and the witnesses
were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hill.
Frustrated here yesterday In his
attempt to take unto himself a
fourth wife by unexpected and most
unwelcome publicity and by the an
tipathy of a Presbyterian minister to
the marriage of divorced persons,
the tobacco magnate of Durham. N
C, and his protege and would-be
bride vanished from this place and
were gone until late this afternoon,
when they returned to the local hotel
where Duke was staying before his
disappearance, and the name of
"Mrs. B. L. Duke. North Carolina."
was added to the register.
Mrs. Duke is a native of Durham,
and prior to her marriage, was at
tending school In this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Duke will return to
Durham in a few days where they
will reside.
ROY SAW MOTHER SHOT
Then His Father Blew Out Hi
Brain Ri!intond Cliurrh Treas
urer and Hit Wife Quarrel e I All
Night as Lad Listened.
Richmond. Va., Jnue 12. Allen
B. Paul, treasurer of the Pine Street
Baptist Church shot and instantly
killed his wife and within five raln
' utes blew out his brains today.
The shooting followel an all-night
quarrel. Mrs. Paul was kll'.ed in
defending her 8-year-old son, Leslie.
jThe father, who bad retired shortly
before the deed was committed, en
tered the boy's room soon after,
armed. His wife, who had been
, watching him. rushed In just as he
; pulled the trigger, the bullet taking
effect in her left arm and penetrat
ing her lung.
Crying for the lad to run "for his
life." the mother fell to the floor.
and standing over her body, Paul
.fired another builet Into ter left
' breast, resulting In death a few min
; utes later. The son escaped and gave
' the alarm to neighbors, wlio found
that Paul had cheated justice by
. taking his own life.
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