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P5" j " s?z " c" C" ; - - ' . . , 7""" . , v, T ' .sc r-7, Hs VS-y - cJa- rfnTi . cr., "3 r - '. J ;- I VOL. XXVIII. . , . ........ X . ' ii '"' HADE GREAT PROGRESS Congress Has Made Good Time and Has Pushed Through Many Important Bills. 10 CURB THE SPEAKER Democrat Will Iks Forced to Far or Sach a Measure When They Take Charge of the Houm; Tariff Re vision, One Schedule at a Time j Republicans Making a Record for Kconomy Election of Senators by JMreci Vote President Thinks Highly of Mr. Morehead as State Chairman- (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. 1910. On to-morrow Congress will ad journ for the holidays until January 5 th. There has been greater progress made already during this short ses sion of Congress in pushing forward the great appropriation bills than ever before In the history of the Gov ernment. This has been done at the special request of the President In order to clear the way as early as possible for considering the other legislative reforms which the admin istration is urging. tariff Revision One Schedule at a Time. Following the pronounced position taken by the President in his mes sage to Congress to the effect that as fast as facts were gathered by the tariff board as to the difference in the cost of production here and abroad, that the same would be sent to Con gress with special messages urging a reduction on each schedule according to the facts. There has been a re markable unanimity of sentiment in support of the President's position by all Republicans. This position taken by the President was at once hailed with delight and approval by all insurgent and progressive Repub licans, and It is noticeable that the leaders of what is known as the Wand-pat" faction of the Republi can party were- not long in declaring that they also favored such a policy. Even Senators Lodge, of Massachu . setts, and Aldrich, of Rhode Island, have admitted that the President's course is the only wise and scientific one, and that all Republicans should join him unitedly for such a revision, based on the facts. The Speaker to Be Shorn of Power. For sometime after the election Mr. Champ Clark, the Democratic leader and candidate for Speaker, would not say where he stood on the reform agitated by the progressive Republicans at the last session of Congress, at which time the Demo crats pretended to favor taking from the Speaker the power to appoint committees to be selected by a com mittee to be appointed by the whole House. But so strong has grown the sentiment in favor of this reform that the Democrats have been forced to at last take the position that the Progressive Republicans were right, and that they would follow this pol icy when they took charge of the House. Chief Justice White. On yesterday Justice White took the oath as Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of the United Staes. This is a most notable occurrence in the ihislory of our country. It is notice able for the reason that this is the ! first time that an Associate Justice rhas ever been promoted to the posi tion of Chief Justice. It is still more noticeable in that it is the first time the President has appointed for Chief Justice a man of an opposing party. This is all the more noticeable he cause Chief Justice White was a Con federate soldier, and during the Civil War fought against the Union and to ' establish the Southern Confederacy. Nothing since the establishment of kis Government has occurred to em phasize the stability of our institu tions more than this magnanimous aai patriotic act on the part of Pres ident Taft In appointing a Democrat aa3 a Southern Confederate soldier ;at the head of the greatest judicial tTttmnal in the world. George Washlngtln, in his farewell message to Congress and to the American people, pointed out the one great dancer which he thought might possibly wreck the Government of the United States, and that was blind partisanship which would put success and prestige above the wel fare of the country. ' This action of the President would, if Washington ere living, remove forever the last Vestige of that one fear the "Father i his Country" had for our future. A Record for Economy. - President Taft's administration is taking a remarkable record for econ omy and efficiency. Our conn trv is - great and so rich that It has be- ( Continued on page 3.) CONSUMERS HAVE REMEDY Organize oC-opcrative Associations and Ray Direct From Producer. Says Secretary Wilson. The Washington Correspondence New York Tribune says: .The Sec retary of Agriculture places the re sponsibility for the high cost of living squarely on the middlemen, whose operations as distributors he finds add approximately 100 per cent to tho price of farm products before they pass into the hands of the ulti mate consumer. Following the Con-J gressional Inquiry of last year Into the high cost of living. Secretary Wilson caused an Investigation to be made with a view to determining how far the farmer profited from the enhanced cost to the . consumer of his products, and, having com pleted his inquiry, he now asks: "Why do not consumers buy direct from the farmers?" To show the advisability of direct trade between the farmer and the consumer the Secretary "cites the farm price and the retail price of a variety of commodities, one of the most striking of which is potatoes. He asserts that city consumers paid last year from 50 to 75 cents a bush el, and often more for potatoes, while the farmers sometimes received only 20 cents, and in many localities where there was an over-production as little as nine cents a bushel. Mr. Wilson says the method he proposes has already made considerable head way in Great Britain, where it has proved entirely practicable. Organize co-operative purchasing associations, buy your farm products direct from the farmer, and In car load lots, and attend to the distribu tion yourselves, is the admonition of Secretary Wilson to those to whom the increased cost of living is prov ing a hardship. Whether or not a feasible method of obtaining milk direct from the farmer can be de vised, the Secretary does not say, but he does point out that the farmer rarely receives more than half the price the consumer pays for that commodity which, by the way. Is also true of eggs and a number of other things. FINAL CROP ESTIMATE. Important Farm Crops for 1010 ,An---njranced by Department cf Ajricui. ture. ' Washington, p. C, Dec. 15. Final estimates of the important farm crops of the country for 1910 an nounced to-day by the crops report ing board of the Department of Ag riculture as follows: Corn, 3,125,713,000 bushels, of weight, from 114,002,000 acres; to tal farm value $1,523,968,000, or 48.S cents per bushel. Winter wheat, 464,044,000 bush els of weight, from 29,427,000 acres; total farm value, $413,375,000, or 89.1 cents per bushel. Spring wheat 231,399,000 bushels of weight, from 19,778,000 acres; total farm value, $207,868,000, or 89.8 cents per bushel. All wheat, 695,443,000 bushels of, weight from 49,205,000 acres; to tal farm value, $621,443,000, or 89.4 cents per bushel. Oats, 1,126,765,000 bushels of weight, from 35,288,000 acres; total farm value, $384,716,000, or 34.1 cents per bushel. Tobacco, 984,349,000 pounds from 1,233,000 acres; total farm value, $91,459,000, or 9.3 cents per pound. Rye, 24,510,000 bushels of weight equivalent to 5,930,000 bags of 186 pounds, from 722,800 acres; total farm value, $16,624,000, or 67.8 cents per bushel. Barley, 162,227,000 bushels of weight from 7,257,00 acres; total farm value, $93,785,00jD, or 58.8 cents per bushel. - Rice, 33,039,000 bushels in weight from 2,028,000 acres; total farm value, $23,840,000, or 72.2 cents per bushel. Buckwheat, 17,239,000 bushels in weight from 826,000 acres; total farm value, $11,321,000, or 65.7 cents per bushel. Flax seed, 14,116,000 bushels in weight, from 2,916,000 acres; total farm value, $32,554,000, or 2,30 cents per bushel. Potatoes, 338,811,000 bushels inj welght, from 3,591,000 acres; total! farm value, $187,985,000, or 55.5 cents per bushel. Hay, 60,978,000 tons, from 45, 691,000 acres; total farm value, $747,769,000, or $12.26 per ton. The total value of crops above specified on December 1st, was $3, 735,464,000, against $3,971,426,000 on December 1st last year. The av erage of prices was about 8.5 per cent lower on December 1st this year than last year. Norfolk, Va.. Dec. 17. After cruising about In Chesapeake Bay for several weeks the bark Kingdom, which sailed from Portland, Maine, with a party of the Holy Ghost and Us sect, who were Intent upon finding upon the shores of Virginia a suit able location for an eden, cast anchor off the Norfolk shipyard to-day. RALEIGH. N. C. THUOSBAV, DECEMBER '" ' MARION BUTLER'S Greeted by a Tremendous Audience Where He Exposes and Denounces Sim mons, Daniels and Others. LYING AND COVJAROLY SLAnPEnERS RAH ne Produces Proof Cone! a five to Show That JJa Is not Now aad Sever Has Had Any Connection. Either" Directly or Indirectly, With Fraud talent Carpetbag Bond He Shows That These Don&i Were Obo. ceied and Engineered by a Contrary of Leading Democrat, and That They Looted the State, aaf 2Tot the RejroMJcan He Exposed the Miserable Record of Hypocrisy of Simmons, Daniels, Overman and Others He Proved That Senator Vance Had Denounced Stn itfona aa Being an Unscrupulous Politician and a Man Unworthy of -the Confidence of the People of the State II Showed now Daniel, With Baseless Ingratitude, Had Hounded to His Death a 3 tan Who Had Befriended Him and His Widowed Mother, and Also How He nad Betrayed for a Price Senator Vance to His Grave Use Speaker Was Given a Warm Welcome When He Entered the Hall, Was Frequently Interrupted by Vociferous Applause, and Waa Given An Ovation at the End of His Speech. (Continued from last week.) (Continued from last week.) Other Reasons Why Such a Campaign Was Inaugurated. "During these past two years," Mr. Butler continued, "of , Demo cratic inactivity, hypocrisy, incompe tency and treachery, let's see what the Republican party, which has had charge of the National Government, has been doing. "There is on the statute books of the Nation a great anti-trust law, placed there by the Republican par ty.' President Taft has been busy in performing his duty as President of the Nation in enforcing that live and effective law, which has proven to be a law with teeth In it. "The President has had Mr. Hol ton, the United States District Attor ney for the Western District of this State, and. Colonel Skinner, the Dis trict Attorney for the Eastern Dis trict, to get facts as to the oper ation ot the-great trusts in North Carolina. These facts have been in telligently and honestly gathered. In possession of these facts, and other facts gained about the operation of the same trusts in other States, the Attorney-General of the United States has brought an action against " tna t n: rt crma toct trii oto in tna wnrlrt 0 , the Standard Oil Company and the American Tobacco Company. This 4he State and Nation, and every one I action was brought in the Federal ' of them stated so simply, clearly and I "Uf' ?e frm neafby clllei Courts of the State of New York, concisely that there can be hereafter , . v w Both trusts have been found guilty ' no controversy as to whether or not I McMassIe is one of the best post in the District Court and in the Clr- the party has kept its promises. In-led men in thIs country oa thi 8y- cuit Court and the cases are now of the United Staes, and in a few more weeks that greatest judicial tribunal in the world will have final ly passed upon the guilt or Innocence of these great corporationa under the Republican Federal anti-trust law. "If the Democratic party in this State had passed the Texas anti-trust law, according to their pledge, and if Governor Kitchin had kept his sol emn promise to enforce this law, his efforts in gathering facts In North Carolina and also in bringing actions under the State laws, would have bee t of immense help to the National Gov ernment in the suits which it has brought and that are now being pressed to final conclusion. "Governor Kitchin when making his pledges to the people in his cam paign for election, was particular to emphasize the fact that he could be trusted to do his duty as far as it was in the power of the govern ment and the State to bring these trusts to justice , but that it would require the honest and active co-operation of the National Government, along with the State Government, to regulate the great trusts and to pro tect the people. In his campaign the Governor intimated, if he did not charge, that he could be trusted to do his duty, but the only doubt was about the Republican National ad ministration doing its duty. "This is just one simple illustra- tion of the incompetency and treach- ery of the Democratic leaders in North Carolina, and it is sufficient to show why they dare not face the peo ple of the State in this campaign to defend their past record of broken promises and why they dare not face the people and say where today they stand on the great live economic Is sues. . "These are some of the reasons why it becomes necessary for them to inaugurate and conduct this miser able, dirty campaign of abuse, slan der and appeals to prejudice In order to try to divert the attention of the voters and to escape the condemna tion which they deserved from a great brave, honest and llberty-lorisg peo ple. Does it not now appear perfect ly plain what their real reason is for refusing to meet me In joint discus sion in this campaign? It is not be- IKS1H2' SPEEGiJ cause they are 'too respectable,' but it is because they are themselves too much wanting in respectability. ai vais point tne sneaker was greeted with a great burst of prolong- ed applause. The Platforms Briefly Contmstenl. At this point the speaker held up the Republican State platform, and eaid that here was a straightforward and honest platform, containing great promises, expressed in plain and simple terms. He called attention to the fact that any party or any indi vidual who believed In anything never had any trouble in making the public understand what they meant. He said that when a party intended to keep its promises that it was willing to make these promises clear and em- Dhatie and couch thm In lsnnniro j so simple that a child or a way-far-1 ing man could understand them. ? Continuing, 1 said: . "The Repub- rcan party believes in Something. .It stands for great and progressive prin- ciples of government for both State and Nation. The Republican party never fears to make promises and to make them in clear terms, because It is a party that doe3 thines and kppn, ft nmn.i.M Thta l r r ' ' , v, . i , .wixecxa cx UUIHUCI UL great yrOUilbeS, every one of them for the welfare of deed, the platform Is so clear and ex - State admits that he understands every plank in it except one, and in asmuch aa thpv rlaim that thoro ia one plank that they do not fully un- derstand, I will take up that plank first. Local Self Government. "The plank which they claim not. to understand is the one declaring in plain and simple, but in broad, clear and concise terms for the restoration of local self government to the peo ple of this State. It is a declaration for local self government without any 'ifs' or 'ands' or conditions. Our Democratic friends who claim that they do not understant this plank simply succeed In making themselves ridiculous. "The Democratic party, six years ago, had this same plank in its plat form, and at that.. time every Demo crat in the State claimed that he un derstood what local self government meant. - If there Is a Democrat in this audience who now claims that he does not understand what local self government means, I say to him his only trouble is that he does not want to understand. I say to such a Democrat that if he does not under stand what local self government means, then I am. ready to wager that for the same reason he will claim that he does not understand what the Ten Commandments mean. "By way of illustration, I will read the Eighth Commandment for the benefit of such" Democrats, if there be any here. It is as follows: Thou shalt not steal. Is there any Demo crat in this audience who will claim that he does not understand what that Commandment means? When the Lord handed down these ten great rules of action to guide our feet day by day to make us better citi zens, he couched them in the plainest and simplest language possible. I am aware of the fact, however, that there are certain Democratic machine leaders in North Carolina, headed by one FrM. Simmons, who claims that they do not understand the Eighth Commandment. Mr. Simmons and his machine of ballot box staffers claim that that Commandment should bo amended or construed to read as (Continued on Page 3.) 22. IDIO. POSTAL ftAYIXG tUXKS 3&XVAXST - 3trd . I 4 la Uact i&m$m? nil iitiimlsmiM. I WaiMsftoa, p. CX Dt. S tv Pt j - algal that avcrtaln will b la r41- j for Ut poul savificji tsa&ia la i Hhe various Slates asd Territories 1 m o?!U&g day cf & 6t year. The task of dr&wi&g up tttnUllz. forms aa4 i&jtrscUos to po toas ters and thm gcseral public h an nounced, has proTe&e4 to mtU an extent as to assart the begiaaing of operation at tb etperisesta! oSca. Ono experimental oSoe will b opened with a view to snake tae first test of the servita as thorough as pos sible under tho limited appropria tion, The oSces dei mated art all of the second tlx and la localities I where the conditions arc exceptional ly favorable for the development of postal savings busineas. Sevtrat of the oEces selected are in the eosa- manitiea inhabited by foreign-bora Americans who are remitting annual-1 ty considerable sum. of money to their naUve countries by po.ta! ey order. ! During the past few days the post-! m.t.r ,t r.ir Av. i K ' Rocky Mountains and Pacloc Coast States have been In Washington at the request of the PotUaaster-Gea-eral for a conferente. While hero these postmaster were thoroughly Instructed as to how the new system shoukS he intt ration and ho the business should be conducted. Within the next few days post masters from the remaining thirty six offices will convene in Washing ton for a similar drilling. Among these offices are: Bessemer, Ala.; Stuttgart Ark.;ff itTJi Z i ' v" tw i , Middleboro Ky.; New Iberia J. I.; Gulfport Miss ; Salisbury. N. C.; Gymon Okl.; Newberry, S. C; John- fvJ 9'1 and Grafton, . a. TORRRXS IsXSD SYSTEM. Such a Bill Will ile Introduced In the I South Carolina Legislature Some? of Its ProvUIons. f 4 ikif ,i v, J X irVZri j - .... "Spartanburg. S. C, Dec. 16. Eu-i gene C; Massie. of Richmond, Va.. delivered an address in this city on the Torrens system of registering ldUU u"f- .ine .M.arw was maac at the Chamber of Commerce rooms i nnfl fhor. wora monir rr,n I " . iI-T-iI. L-T a 1 Wi registering iue onemaip oi devoted much thought to the method. He con- vinced most of those present that itihnm f thtt TMWrt mtt, frt . Mm was the best manner to register land , f posaessea many aurao- I f g ovcr the sy8teni tnat ls prae" ! "It makes real estate a more ready asset and it may be disposed of wlth- out requiring the buyer to have the title investigated, as the State guar antees all titles registered under this plan. "A number of those present asked Mr. Massie many questions about this system, all of which he answered clearly. It will require some? years before the people would become ac customed to registering their prop erty under the new system aad until then no perceptible change would be noted. This system is now In vogue In eight State and IL K. Osborne. Representative to the State Legisla ture will introduce a bill for the es tablishment in this State of such a system. Many of the State legisla tors are giving the matter much thought and State Senator H. B. Carlisle will also be instrumental In this act" MEMBERS BOOM TAWNEY. His Friends in the House Want Him Appointed Governor of the Isth mian raT,i zTfcf. Washlntgon, Dec 17. A boom for Representative James A. Tawney. of Minnesota, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, for the Governorship of the Isthmian Canal zone was started in the House to-day. Mr. Tsftmey was defeated for re-election. Both Republican and Democratic members have expressed themselves in favor of the Presi dent's recognition of Mr. Tawneys services In some appropriate office. ' Representative Burleson, of Texas, a Democrat who is a candidate for the chairmanship in the next House, said to-day that Mr. Tawney would have his endorsement for any office that the Minnesota member, after eighteen years In the House at the head of a committee passing on ex penditures of $500,000,000 annual ly, was leaving Congress a poor man. iuvi, Aii-iwju Victia, Her Fcticr tzi Niece Tfcea Hzrcz . " 1 ft "T H TM T f fpt 11 IT A f TVn f V rd WUJi th 'rfe4laSi Cvtwv Ar rt4ed and ttromtt ta lUktSi tcr &af Seef4n-H IHady UsZTi IVted ear Well CUrTls f-Mrt I Pad at tils tlom Xegm Do- Guilt. Oxford, Dc. 2d, GranvUto Coma ty awokt this tsomlai to a rc&!i 1 Uoa ikst itkla brr bardtrs o&a of i tho most atrocious cris Ui tta htstory of tbo State had bea , ; " " ,i , . UtUT' fU tU4fl l lh w" trSs ui t Lta Smrt BfRro a raUeaikry cfcrf imlaal asaaaiU tt rd of his victim. Mis KitU Sanders: btr fsthtr, J. T. &&rt and niece, Irene Or erica, and arson; the latter crime being added la a futile attempt to enacts) lb foratr. The borne was completely destroyed by fire. The crime was eocmUted about 10 o'clock Monday night, aad at tooa as the facts became known la tho neighborhood a posto quickly grnth errd and a lynching was narrowly averted. Sheriff S. M. Wbreler escap ing with the negro sad carrying h!a to Durham, arrivfeg there this mora- at . 0.docV. Mr- Sandert yesterdty morale l,tcok W,f wif to Oxford to viift frjc0(js Itetumlng to bis home bo lM a neJghbor in killing hogs, dauhler &d randaibSr were also at the killing, as was tho negro, who helped In the work. Shortly after tho members of the family returned to their home last f !Kht tb roung fTirl was attacked ju,t outi,de the beDM tr BCro. nd f rom the peartne of tho VtUP a F5?i. 1 r ner are. uieoa was rouna ai i arouna int nouse, ana ine Knire irjii fhe nefrro had used during the day a found covered with blood. Tho bodte. of the thre wr tnnA hd. ; dled together In the charred ruins i t the home. The first alarm given the aeigh- ! bors of the awful tragedy was when they saw the house ablaze. They hurried to tho scene to assist In ex tinguishing the flames, when to their horror they saw that one of the darkest crimes In the annalt of the State had been committed. A posse was soon formed and Sheriff Wheel er was notified. He hurried to the thero MthInf,. wa, buftlc4 Inlo a buggy and carried at breakneck speed to Durham for safe-keeping. The negro Is about 30 years old. A large crowd gathered at the, scene of tho tripple murder this morning. Mr. Mr. Sanders was a man about 60 years old. He was a well-to-do farmer, and the ciUxena of Granville County held aa Indigna tion meeting to-day. Prisoner Brought to Raleigh. Durham, Dec 20.Becaue threats poured In from aU sides against Na than Montague, charged with asaaslt and murder of Miss Mattle Sanders, the murder of ber father, J. T. 8ax ders, and her niece, Ireno Overton". Sheriff Harward this altera con rushed the negro across the country in an auto aad be Is la the State penitentiary to-night. Suspicion fell upon Montague la a remarkable way. He bad bees help ing in the Overton family, who mar ried a daughter of Sanders, to butch er hogs, and the girl was there. While at work upon the slaughtered animals he was seen with the same knife that was found near the welL Immediately when a neighbor saw it be exclaimed: That's Kathaa Montague's knife. He tried to sell It to me to-day The murder was not known until the neighbors, attracted by the fire, ran first to Overton's and asked for the inmates of the house. Their rel atives ran back to the burning house and while the bodies were visible. they were in the thick of the fire. The old man and his granddaughter were dose together, having been In the corner of the bouse. The daugh ter was several feet away. At the - Inquest to-day, where neighbors gathered. It was learned that the girl's screams were heard about 10 o'clock, pistol shots follow ing cries of murder. In the negro's home were found a pistol with threa empty chambers and the bloody skirt recognized Immediately by the girl's mother, who said she had worn It the same day. Mrs. Sanders was vb (Continued on page 3.) s ! V f
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