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VOL. XXVIII.
RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY.
29. 1910.
No. 35
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CAUCASIAN.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
And thou. too. Bryan."
A
:.ew paramount issue for the
-atfi. "We want pie!"
Mr. Daniel3' "unterrlfled" have
ttii;ny become panic-stricken.
It seems that the Democratic
rlr-K ' In Wake ia still able to jingle.
We haven't seen an editorial in
()!. Unreliable" on the flop of Mr.
j;re!-3 Bryan.
r rhaps we shall now hear of some
i
::.) rats who are worse than those j
i Republicans. !
Tin' Wake Jo-Jo crowd will find In j
Na ember that "Sikies" have gone!
it. of style.
i
N'tr.v that Mr. Bryan has set the
!!ii(le many other Democrats will
an they please.
Kvrn the News and Observer ad
n.i'i.Ml that Gov. Kitchin and his leg-,-l
itnre were a failure.
in next Legislature should pass
act protecting mocking birds
an
against the Democratic party.
If the Democratic politicians do
not oppose free schools why is it
they oppose free text-books?
Aycock has made about a dozen
speeches so far, but he hasn't sung
the "mocking-bird song" once.
From the expression of the face,
one would judge the Jo-Jo crowd had
"bitten off more'n they kin chaw."
"Doc" Faison, by denying that he
Tas a notorious red-shirter in 1900,
gives the lie to the
Oio Unreliable." i
"Bryan bolts the Democratic par
ty," ays a news item. Mr. Bryan has
so: an example that many Democrats
will emulate.
if the Democrats are alloweu to
monkey with the tariff they are apt
to commit another "act of party per
fuly and dishonor."
"The next House will be Demo
cratic," predicts Champ Clark. Champ
has been predicting this so long it
has grown into a- habit.
Tom Watson is awfully anxious tc
know how much of Hoke Smith's
$17,000 campaign expenses went for
booze, and Hoke won't tell.
"The Democratic party is a party
without statesmen," says Senator
Gore. He meant this was before he
joined it, though it still holds good.
Some persons propose a fine or im
prisonment for citizens neglecting to
vote. However, it is even a worse
crime to vote too often at one elec
tion. Mr. Heike, the sugar trust man
convicted of defrauding the Govern
ment by underweighing, thinks the
judge overweighed things in sentenc
ing him.
Mayor Gaynor has described the
sensations of being shot. Many per
sons have described the sensation of
being half-shot, but the mayor goes
them one better.
WThen the editor of the Raleigh
afternoon paper cannot find some one
to write an editorial for him, he just
grabs a handful of the Democratic
hand-book and slings it in.
Wonder how much certain Demo
cratic papers are receiving from the
Democratic campaign fund for pub
lishing malicious falsehoods on cer
tain members of the Republican par
ty in North Carolina?
An exchange says that an office
holder in the East has given uP his
job because there was so little to do
that he thought it a shame to draw
the money. We will wager a year's
subscription that the conscience
stricken office holder was not an east
ern North Carolina Democrat.
A BRAZEN RECORD OF HYPOCRISY AND BROKEN PROMISES
Read the Facts! How Can Any Patriotic Citizen Vote to Approve This Record?
When Gandidate, Making Bold
As -the election approaches the
Democratic leaders will again attempt
to make the voters believe that their
party is opposed to illegal combina-
tion in restraint of trade, trust and
monopoly, and that they favor the
enactment of, and enforcement of,
such laws as will make their exist
ence impossible. The wilful viola
tion of their platform pledges since
the last election in this State proves j are tho?e wno say: 'This is no time
conclusively their insincerity in this ! for radical action. Let's be conserva
respect. The Democratic platform j tive Lefs do other things and wait
adopted in Charlotte in 1908 con- j to carry out the anti-trust pledge two
tains this plank: j years from now. That is not the way
"Private monopolies should be de- j the candidates talked last summer
stroyed. Conspiracies by prospective and fall. They derided the stand
purchasers to put down the prices of still-business falsely called 'conserva
articles produced by the labor of ; tism' and declared it was a betrayal
others should be made criminal, and ; of the people to sit while the trust
all persons or corporations entering . were robbing the people and exerting
into such conspiracies should be pun
ished." When the Legislature assembled in
1909, Senator Lockhart, to carry out j
this pledge, introduced-an anti-trust
bill, the main feature of which was
contained in what is known as "Sub
Section A," viz.:
"(a) For any person, firm, corpo
ration or association to make or have
any agreement, express or implied, to
lower or prevent the increase in price
of any article or thing of value which
any such person, firm, corporation or
association may desire to purchase
within the State of North Carolina."
This bill was referred to the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee. On Feb
ruary 3, 1909, Senator Lockhart ap
peared before the committee and urg
ed its passage.
The News and Observer in its issue
of February 4, 1909, quotes him as
saying:
"He said the Democratic State
Convention adopted by a unanimous
vote of the Platform Committee
pledging the enactment of this law,
and the candidates on the Democratic
ticket were most outspoken for the
law. The speaker declared that he
was astounded when he came to the
Senate and discovered opposition to
the bill. If it disturbs any business,
he asserted, it disturbs a mighty bad
business such as depresses the price
of products of the soil. . . . Mr. Lock
hart said he introduced his hill be
cause it was the one specifically prom
ised by the majority party. With
the party pledged to it, it was the
duty of the Legislature to pass it,
their honor also being involved in it"
Ex-Senator Reid was also before
the committee and is reported by the
same paper as saying:
"It was a new departure for him,
he said, to come before Democrats
and ask them to enact into a law the
solemn promises of their party made
1as than voar atm Thi TVmo-
cratic platform, National and State,
the people, Right and Common Hon-j
esty he declared, stand for this law. ,
...... The three candidates for
Governor on the Democratic ticket '
fell over one another in their prom-,
ises to the people to give this law to !
them." ' I
The News and Observer in its is-
( How Gentlemen,
vL ' V TEETH TOO
Promises When Governor, Dodging and Hedging Now Trying to Explain to a Betrayed
and Outraged People
sue of February 3, 1909, commenting
on this pledge, said:
"The Governor and all the other
State officials and the Democratic
members of the General Assembly
were elected upon a platform that
promised an anti-trust law with
teeth Trust domination and
trust extortion are real evils and felt
in ever home in this State. There
too much influence in politics. Every
year that passes gives the trust a
stronger hold and robs the people
tht much more. Why delay to carry
out the most important pledge in the
platform! On every stump the Dem
ocrats promised such a law."
The News and Observer in its issue
of February 5, 1909. said:
"Upon the duty of passing the anti
trust law with teeth, embracing the
provisions in sub-section A, the News
and Observer as a party paper, and
every Democratic official chosen last
November, is instructed by the high
est authority of the party. The ques
tion is closed so far as the Demo
cratic official is concerned. He has
been instructed to vote for such a
law, whether he believed in it or not.
The News and Observer would no
longer be worthy to be counted as
the true exponent of Democracy if it
did not fight for such an anti-trust
law now as earnestly as it promised
it in the campaign. This paper and
every Democratic paper, and every
Democratic candidate last fall, upon
the authority of the State platform,
told' the people that if the Democrats
were entrusted with the power in
North Carolina they would end trust
extortion. The people heard that
pledge, they gave the Democratic par
ty control of the State government,
and now this paper insists that the
Democratic officials shall carry out
the pledge made in the platform. Is
this driving anybody? Why does this
paper urge compliance with the plat
form? There can be but one rea
son: it has told the people that the
Democratic party can be trusted to
deal with the trust evils and pointed
to the Charlotte platform In proof of
that declaration. If that pledge is
not kept, what explanation can loyal
and devoted Democrats make to the
voters . -
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' un ine eQllonai Pa&e OI in18 same
Vper, r eurujtrjr isvj, uiese para-
graphs appear:
In 1907 the Democrats could truly
say that the Democratic platform had
not specifically approved sub-section
A. The Charlotte Convention put
that strong approval in the platform,
The people have been promised an
anti-trust law with teeth, and the
speeches voiced the sentiment of
.
of the people of North
Carolina."
In a further hearing before the
Judiciary Committee on this bill
on February 5th, 190S, Hon. E. J.
Justice, former Speaker, addressed
the committee in which he is quoted
by the News and Observer in its Issue
of February C, 1909, as saying:
"Mr. Justice said Sub-Section A.
was put in the Democratic Platform
at Charlotte, the language of the
bill being modified only so much as
was necessary to put it in the plat
form 'I don't believe the
time will ever come,' he said. 'I
would be surprised, mortified, dis
tressed, if it ever should come, when
the Democratic party should say a
thing and not believe it. My party
does not write platforms to fool the
people with, but as honest men, and
they write platforms because they ex
pect to live up to them."
Under date of February 5, 1909,
the News and Observer published on
its editorial pages, for the Informa
tion of its Democratic members, an
article from the Cincinnati Times
Star, in which it is said:
"When the Supreme Court of the
United States on Monday affirmed the
decree of the State's Courts of Texas
imposing a fine of $1,623,900 on the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company, of St.
Louis, and ousting it from the State
on the charge of the violation of the
Texas anti-trust law, a death blow
was struck at a system of profitable
piracy which flourishes in three
States.
After referring to the conclusions
of the Court, said "and these mo
mentous conclusions from part of
one of the most important decisions
ever announced in this country (and
quoting from the opinion), viz:
"That State Legislatures have the
right to deal with the subject matter
and to prohibit unlawful combination
to prevent competition and in re
straint of trade and to prohibit and
punish monopolies is not open to
question. Having the power to pass
laws of this character, of course, the
State may provide its own method of
procedure and determine the method
and means by which such laws may
be made effectual."
With these things before the Dem
ocratic Legislature of 1909 their
platform pledges, the universal con
struction put therein, the decision of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, the Democratic leaders delib
erately violated their pledge and in
stead thereof passed a substitute for
Sub-Section A. which was known as
the Manning Substitute, which all ad
mit had no teeth," and since proved
j to De harmless, for under It no prose-
Mm . . . . . . . m .
cuuons nave neen mstitutea in tne
courts, xei ine iasi uemocrauc State
nine-tenths
Convention, 1909, comes back to the;can Tobacco Company, the Steel Cor -
people wiin a piatiorm aecianng:
"Private monopolies in restraint of
j trade are inconsistent with the
I growth and development of internal
j affairs of the State and the liberties
s of the people should not be allowed,
We are opposed to illegal comblna-
tlons In restraint of trade, trust and
w . m m m .
monopolies and favor the enactment
and enforcement by the State and Na
tional government of such laws as
will make their existence impossi
ble." This declaration of their hostility
to trusts, following a deal on their
part whereby through a call for an
extra session of the General Assem
bly last spring, they secured these il
legal combinations, trust and mon
opolies, doing business In North Car
olina to take the State's bonds to the
amount of over one million dollars,
thereby putting themselves under
bond to keep the peace towards these
corporations for, the next thirty years.
With these broken pledges upon the
subject of trusts and under these cir
cumstances, what explanation can
the Democratic party make to the
voters with the hope that they will
again be trusted In this respect?
The News and Observer of May 23,
1909. said:
"The Legislature of 1907 passed a
pink tea anti-trust law which the real
foes of the trusts declared wasn't
worth the paper it was written on.
Several Solicitors tried to prosecute
trusts under it, but it was found to
be so full of hiding places for the : OJ nanje- Amiaaa iook possession
trusts that It was ineffective. InthejOT the contry In the name or
campaign of 1908 the trust question j Queeii Elizabeth, or England,
was uppermost. The Democratic I a APr 1585, an expedition
State platform promised that 'prirate ! Sa,Ied from England for America
monopoly should be destroyed,' and j wUh a vlw to tt!ement. This
the people elected the men who prom-' wux commanded by Sir Richard
Ised to see that the trusts were given ! Greenrille. The party consisted or
no quarter. When the Legislature ! about one hundred and ten persons,
of 1909 assembled, in the face of the ' Wh4t bcnie or them U still a rayi
fiasco of 1907. a 1909 sublerfuge was!tcrr- Tey were probably killed by
put upon the statute books." the Indians, however. A second ex-
The News and Observer of March Potion cum orer an landed fifteen
10. 1909. said: : men on Roanoke Island off the North
"The Lockhart bill, too moderate, j Carolina coajt- The men awlio
was defeated in the Senate. The i dUaPPared- Later, John White, ac
Texas act. shown to be effective and companled by eighty-nine men. Sev
ille very thine needed, was defeated i enteen women and two children.
in the House.'
The Democratic leaders realize the j "oanoke Island. Here wux born
dilemma regarding their anti-trust Virginia Dare, the first white child
legislation. Governor Kitchin in his born on the nw continent, and the
address at Spray on the 5th instant! "CItr of Rle!gh" wux formally laid
published in Webster's Weekly, re- out 00 Roanoke Island, but wni
ferring to this subject, said: : Iater moved to what iz now Wake
"If the Democratic voters remain ! County, a much better location. The
under the misconceptions which bare I settlement on Roanoke Island pro Ted
been circulated, the party will suf-ia fHnre. some or the historians
fer. For if it be true that the Dem-1 noIJIn lnat ihe """bites amalgamated
ocratic Legfalature betrayed the peo- with Indiana. This Iz only a
pie. and was guilty of enacting a sub- j tbory, however. Sir Walter Ra
terf uge, as has been published, then ! wuz finally Imprisoned and la
defeat would be deserved. ; . . . Injtr waz beheaded In 1618. though
1907 the ablest leaders of the Legis-he lrai gnllty or no crime.
lature, including the lamented Sen -
ator Reid and Speaker Justice, heart
ily sustained by the State press, real
ized that it was impossible for any
State to destroy any of the great na-
tlonal monopolies organized beyond. dare kill the members or that col
its borders, and knowing that great jony, not all or them, at any rate,
national trusts, such as the Ameri-i Capt. John Smith wsz a fighter.
poration, the Sugar Trust and others ; colony In a manner that enabled hit
are operating in every State in the to succeed. But the Indians finally
Union, even in Texas and Arkansas. 1 got Capt. Smith, and mite her killed
whose Legislature, unaccused of trust j him but for the fact that Pocahon
influence, have enacted an anti-trust j tas, an Indlast maiden, daughter or
law, and whose people are still an-1 the great chief, Powhatan, stood be
nually robbed of millions of dollars j tween Capt Smith and the Indian
(Continued on Page 8.) (Continued on Pago 8.)
BILKINS WRITES OF
N. CJilSTQHY
Not All New Bat Some of it
it Not Generally
Known.
THE LOST COlOalES
4 Kale f Mr Waller !UM TU
Nmm Hmilh Itat lb IVireI Kf
fret TThe lUrly Hri t rr- ltwfd
Serte on Jwrtcw Oartot
Inx In the Cim.I OKI lj. WHm
'IWara llkV SeneI CH
Itelisfoti lUtbltht fly Uw,
luiunMin. n. c srt 2. me
Fuller, a prominent writer, author
of "The Holy War. ld: "History
inaketh a young man to l M. with
out either rink! or cray hairs;
prhtliglnj; him with the etperlenr
of ape. without either the la&rznttle
or Inconvenience thereof."
In attemptin to Rift an lnttte Into
some part or th history or North
Carolina and what h bin done, an
is no doin. I will not stick very
closely to any certain tit But !
will plv hit truthfully an In my own
words. Myle, etc. And 1 will try to
din up home more or le new fact,
either unknown, or, if known to the
educated reader, other, epclally the
boys and plrls, may not t familiar
with the history, for history, llk
other thinpf, may an' often it,
-oon forgotten, in part, at least.
America wuz dleored In 1492
by Christopher Columbus, v Spain.
Columbus wut a sailor an' be got hit
Into biz head somehow that they wut
a great country far aeroH lh briny
waters of the Atlantic ocean. An
Col'imbus couldn't rest any more till
he did pome dlscorerln. .The Span
ish ruler helped him to fit up tome
ships an he set sail to find what It
now called America. Ho fourd the
new country after a. long search and
went back and reported. Hut hit
didn't create much excitement. A
new continent or two In those days
wuz ov but little importance V my
except n few people. The SpanUh
at that time wcr an easy poln peo
ple, and they seemed to think that
America would never amount to
much. Hut the d!.corery caused
more or less talk an then hit sorter
died down.
In 1 497 John Cabot, an Knicllsh
man, headed an expedition to look
at the new land. He landed on thu
coast ov Labrador an looked around
a little. Dut hit wuz not until 1S84.
nearly a hundred years later, that
Sir Walter Raleigh, an Englishman,
started out to see what the nw con-
! tinent might amount to. Hit ships
sailed from England In April. 158 4.
and landed on the North Carolina
shore in July of the same year. Sir
Walter Raleigh did not accompany
the expedition, however, hit beln un
der the command or two captains.
Phillip Amidas and Arthur Barlow
1 t a a a m .
formed a settlement on the end or
: In 1607 a colony wuz planted at
Jamestown. Va.. by Capt. John
Smith. The Smiths beln' a very nu
merous an' war-like people, the In-
j dlans probably rot scared and didn't
! an he managed the affairs or the
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