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4 TUB CATCAIItA. tTaarfay, Jassary IS. Ui4 The Caucasian A2TD RALEIGH ENTERF publishes every TiiCBSDAT CAUCASIAH PUBLiSHCIG COMPACT . tjoo SUBSCHIPTIOS BATES x On Yea. Srx Motthj. THB.ZS itOVTUM. nciiT ron iiepuijlican TOHV JUST BEGUN. IV ( . .or rtmfT14ntfnff? Tbe lit Airy Leader, commenUng upon tbe action of the recent Repub- lican State Committee meeting at Greensboro, and also upon me per- eistent Democratic press reporu be- fore the meeting to the effect that xi- rn.t,M hafi railed the meet- - ing lor ine yuriuW ".Wn trlxt ond nrnvin tn h full of State Chairman, says: "John Morehead did not re sign, aa predicted, but he and the committee did some things that will proTO very pleasing to his friends." Tbe Leader is right when It says' had not had an opportunity to the Committee did things that would ow what could be done under it "prove very pleasing to Its friends." Did not th oGvernor promise the Every action taken by the Committee PPle that he and his Attorney was wise and showed that we are no General would vigorously enforce longer run by a referee machine, this anti-trust law? Has not the but that the chief purpose of Mr. trust evil during the last two years Morehead and the organization is n orth Carolina been as great and party growth and success. j even reater tiiaa 11 waa 111 The resolutions passed were com- the year when Gve""r Kitchin prenensive and forceful and attract- was elected? How strikingly con ed wide attention. Indeed, every-; trasted is this inaction and hypo body has been pleased by the action crIsy th Part of Governor Kitchin of the Committee, except the Demo- and th Democratic party in the cratic machine and those Republi- state to tne ereat record which is cans who did what they could to try beine made the National adminis to discredit Chairman Morehead and tration in enforcing the Republican to knife the ticket In the last cam- l paign. Of course, Mr. Morehead did not eral of the UnIted States, reviewing resign. Instead of giving up the the Past year's work of the Depart fight, he has Just picked his flint and ment ln the enforcement of the anti rolled up his sleeves to begia the ; trust laws' snows tnat actions are real fight for Republican victory in North Carolina. BRYAN AGAINST HARMON. . Those Democrats who are advo cating the nomination of Judson Harmon for President in 1912 have some hard sledding ahead of them. While Bryan will hardly attempt the race himself still he is a factor that the other Democratic leaders must reckon with and Bryan does not like Harmon. Governor Harmon refused to work or even vote for Bryan when he was nominated, and cdnseqeuntly Mr. Bryan and his close friends will not warm up to Mr. Harmon as their candidate for Pres ident. The next Democratic conven tion may nominate Harmon, but that will be far short of an election. In fact we do not believe that the Democrats would ftand any show of winning even with all their fac tions united on one man, and we feel very sure they cannot win with their forces divided. THOSE LOCAL BILLS. The little local bills are again hav ing their day in the Legislature. The bills to prohibit throwing trash in Juniper Creek and other similar bills are taking up the time of the Legis lature. It would seem that these matters could easily be attended to by the authorities in the various counties, and if they haven't such au thority then pass just one law giving them the power to control such mat- vers ana iet tne legislature pass up- onmattersof general interest to the - X 1 . ... f State. Every Legislature spends the most of its time in considering local bills about which they know noth- ing, and often-times careless, with the result that the important bills WasUington. Wnen tne next Con have to be rushed through at the : meets the Democrats Vill be in close of the session and without v, ti i proper consideration. A SUPERFLUOUS BILL. A member of the Legislature has introduced a bill requiring the South- -em Railway to operate additional trains on their line between Golds- boro and Greensboro. We do not know whether there is need for addl- tional trains between Goldsboro and Greensboro, or whether the company should attach extra coaches to the trains they are now operating. But that is not the point. In our opinion this matter should properly come un- der the supervision of the Corpora- tion Commission. If the Commission hasn't such power, then the Legisla- ; tare should give that body the power f to regulate such matters; they are in a better position to treat the mat- ter in an equitable way. - GOVERNOR KITCIII.Y AND TOE ANTI-TRCST LAW. We hATc been pste4 to tr to determine ion what Governor KStca meant la hi message to tbe Leg- islature with reference to the pres- at Democratic anti-tnm law. He gayg (we do cot know whether by I way of lament or apology) that the pretest law has cot been afforded aa epportuntiy to demonstrate what eaa be accomplished under It, . Then next be proceeds to insist that someer Democratic "food government more positire force be injected tnioU ohnon County. Worst of all Ujf T'Tln? ZVS the measure. th. condition ia which iheouaty all j J J1 'pSJS,! ! ix-A .nnnA h mr.-r. hr thin, that i kept, or rather unkept. The pris; mintnn ntfth f We suppoie be means by this, that . ... .l. at lf-ax t one or two oia tee in 01 ine or two oia leeui oi vae 1 1 .. . ortWe variety snouia ue tnseriea the Xoom Uw , Go?ernor KitcMn u lQ arncst on I queatlorj( and meana wnat' Jq hU CJUapafgn for elcctIon nni hr doM h not a,k the Legl8lature t0 pas3 ; . .... lne Texas anti-trust law. arnica naa teeth, and good teeth? It is to be regretted that Governor Kltchin did not explain to the Legislature and to the people In his message why it was that tbe present toothless anti-trust National anti-trust law! The report of the Attorney-Gen- uuuei Vl aeamai. me following trusts: Tobacco Trust, Standard Oil Company, Sugar Trust, Harri man Lines,, Hard-Coal Trust, Powder Trust, Terminal Rail way Association of St. Louis, Towing Trust on the Great Lakes, James A. Patten and others for an alleged corner in cotton, Beef Trurit, Wholesale Grocers' Trust, Butter and Egg Trust. Others were fined as follows: Paper Trust, $57,000; Night Riders, $3,500; Window-Glass Trust, $10,000." Since this report was issued, the Turpentine Trust has been convict ed and a fine of $17,500 imposed upon the corporation, and two of the! officers of the trust have been sen tenced to three months jail each. Also, an injunction has been secur ed against the Hard Coal Trust, and proceedings begun declaring it an illegal combination and in conspir acy with the railroads to advance prices. In this connection it should be re membered that every trust that has ever been indicted and convicted in this country under national laws has been indicted and convicted by laws passed by the Republican party. The so-called Democratic anti-trust law passed under the Cleveland admin istration has proven to be as tooth less and as big a fraud and a hum bug as Kitchin's State anti-trust law. The Democratic anti-trust law was such a transparent fraud that the Groves l vcTciavA auuuuiBuauvu yii i a i a i I never even attempted to Indict a single trust under it. POU AND KITCHIN CONTEST. There is a storm b re wine in th Norta Carolina Democratic colonv in , v.vifcw ui iuo uuusci auu mejr are already quarreling over who shall receive appointments on the various committees. Congressmen Kitchin and Pou are both in a hot chase for a place on the Ways and Means Committee, and there is much feeling between them and their friends. Some days ago it was announced that Pou had withdrawn from the chase and that he would probably be appointed chairman of some minor committee. But he must have found that his chances for appointment on some other committee are very slim, for he is again working hard against Kitchin. This fight threatens to split the North Carolina delegation at the very outset. And the North Carolina delegation ia not the only one that is having troubles. The Georgia delegation hare served eottee ea Champ Clark j IHIYAK WILL KOT ATffS&iX that the cesser en the Ways"as3 j Uu Bryaa ha assess! thai he Means Committee frost their State wln r.ot attend the Democratic Coa atwt he retained. And this la oaiy the j fertmce ia BalUscre ea Jacaary itth beginning. The next Dessocratic Con- j fcecaute hit policies are sot approved grew ii acheduledor a regular men-) br the new leaders. Mr. Bryaa U at key and parrot time. SOMK DEMOCRATIC VERMIN. A recent Issue of the Smithed Joarnal tells of a very bad condiUoa in the adciinistratioa of affair ua-f I Pt. OT rather unkept. The pris-; nnH o ret nnt half ir Vnt In ; 5 - m- r- !... a it j! mtrt roiim a Tin vrnT-r ri 5 b ii urn i rirratfi t - to makc the acquainUnce of a eri - table army of body lice. The recent grand jury In Johnston County Tis!t- ed the jail and made a report that j will call for some indictments. The portion of the grand jury's report In ., v m-k regards to the condition in which they found the prisoners was as fol lows: "We have Inspected the coun ty jail and find the same in an unsanitary condition. The pris oners complain of being half fed and cold, and their bodies are Infested with vermin. We rec ommend that the prisoners con fined In said jail be transferred to some other jail or guarded until said jail can be fumigated. We also suggest that the iron or steel framing inclosing said pris on be re-painted and that a new lock be put en said jail door and new lights be put in lieu of those broken. "We extend our thanks to the Court and officers for their cour tesies shown us. "Respectfully submitted, "E. B. McCullers, "Fore of Grand Jury." After the report of the grand jury, the judge ordered that the county physician examine the unsan- Itary condition of the jail, which he did, and we understand that the doc tor's report confirmed the one made by the grand jury. It would seem that the sheriff, jailor and a few others down there are liable for Indictment. This Democratic incompetency and criminal neglect of the officials in Johnston County has not been pub lished in the News and Observer or any other Democratic paper that we have seen. It is characteristic of the News and Observer, and others of its kind, to cover up all the meanness and shortcomings of members of its party. They only print the news when it is to their advantage to do so. But if such conditions had been found in a Republican county the News and Observer would have ex hausted all the poke-berry juice in Wake and adjoining counties in her alding the facts to the world. CATAWBA COUNTY CARRIES OFF THE STATE PRIZE. The Hickory Times-Mercury, com menting upon the success of Mr. W. Ernest Starnes of that county in winning the prize over the whole state In the Corn Club Contest, says: "It is a source" of much gratifica tion to the people of Catawba Coun ty that one of our own boys carried off the prize in the State corn con test.. Catawba takes the cake in most every contest." The Times-Mercury has also no doubt noted Ihow few Democratic papers in the state , have published and commented on this fact. Is It possible that this is because Mr. Starnes belongs to the party of pro- gress and prosperlty? It IS also nntiPPahlfl that nt o M single Democratic newspaper has nhifhi th w t published the fact that The Cau casian gave a free trip to Washing ton to the winner of this prize. When last spring the Secretary of Agriculture appealed to some public spirited citizen, newspaper, or or ganization to offer a free trip to Washington to the young man in each state who should win the prize, The Caucasian was the first to re spond from this State and its offer was accepted. We of course did not know then whether the winner would be a Democrat or a Republican. We did It, however, from state pride and to help a most worthy cause that was destined to mean so much for the uplift of our great agricultural interests. We submit that it is not good for a great State like ours to be ruled and dominated by a political ma chine that Is so blindly and intense ly partisan. , - Those who hold partisanship above the truth and the welfare of the state are not . fit to govern the destinies of our brave and patriotic people and' the - future of our great state. - t - I I present sulking la hit teat, bat he is j prepsring to give trouble ' to those j overboard at the neat Na- J tIool conveatioa. I J miagtoa pit pacth. w iha ri-..-K v...i - y.tvu vw&v j. If we hare not been misinformed the DlJfpatca h&M a devil la rt of. ? WITTI TlIE EDITOILS. j IileCwoat1riIedS ir tne btate would turn in and go Republican. Durham Herald. But then if some of them did not introduce bills they would not get their names in the papers. Durham Herald. The public has never seen a real row until the Democrats undertake to distribute offices. Mount Airy Leader. With' Mocking-BIrd Aycock and Trust-Buster Kitchin after him. Sen ator Simmons is destined to be kept busy. Mount Airy Leader. That meeting of the Republican State Executive Committee not only means that Mr. Morehead is to con trol, but that he will be re-elected Chairman. Mount Airy Leader. And it seems from the way they are indicting 'em up in Ohio that vote buying is the way the Democrats car ried the election in the Buckeye State. Clinton News Dispatch. The Legislature not only devotes its time to passing local laws that could be attended to by the coun ties, but It also undertakes work that should be looked after by the differ ent State Departments. -Durham Herald. What is the matter with the State Department of Insurance and the trained head of that department (who is a Democratic official) that Representative Koonce (also a Dem ocrat) wants a special commission empowered to investigate the fire in surance business of the State?- Greensboro News. We have no patience with "The Nigger," the show now touring this section under that name. Anything that has a tendency to further arouse and keep alive racial feeling and prejudice is wholly evil in its effect and it is no less than a crime for people to make money buy such methods Greensboro News. Preacher Living in the Church. Statesville Landmark. Rev. C. Parker Lackey, colored, is the shepherd of the flock that wor ships at the Congregational church in Rankintown, the colored" settle ment on the north side of town. The congregation has no parsonage, or manse, or whatever the Congrega tionalists call the preacher's house, and the Rev. C. Parker Lackey has been living in a hired house. Re cently the owner of the house, de siring the domicile for his own use and . he requested the Rer. C. Parker Lackey to vacate. Thereup on the divider of the word moved his household goods and gods into the church yard near by and took up his abode therein. This was some weeks ago and at last account the preacher was still living in the cburch. Many -of the members of the con gregation, it is said, were indignant at the pastor's action, and some of them offered to pay a month's house rent for him If he -would move out. But for some reason the reverend prefers the church as a place for abode and at last ac count he was holding the fort. Some of the disgruntled members proceeded to hold services In a schoolhouse near the church, on ac count of Lackey's family living there, but it is said the Rev. C. Parker Lackey went Ito jthe schoolhouse, nothing daunted, and joined In the worship. What the outcome will be : re mains to be seen. - Finds He Was Mistaken. Wilmington Star. ' ' We thought all Democrats were good till we won the election and some' prominent ones began to show signs of wanting some big office. When a man wants an office the op position begins to read his pedigree or play fantastic tricks with ihe flaws of his political and civic reputa tion. Mr. Morehead Has the Party Behind Him." Mount Airy Leader. . .... The Republican State -Committee made no mistake in endorsing Mr. Taft's administration or endorsing the candidacy of Messrs.- Holton and Brown for District Attorney and Col lector and last, but not least, stand- lag ..by Caatrsaaa Morwhead la the disposal of Federal ssatro-ajkt ia thU tut. No ssatter what the m?H of election was, C&alraas Ms, bead baa already pro em wise lead er asd thtre if no fear that the Na tioaal adstattiraUoa will fall to rrc ofalte hi wishes is issuer ptml2 tag to aepotatastsl for the best leader asd the raak asd tU of the party t behtsd him ta etery political action. Jorfho4 Voot TeO Aad thote Crave a Coaety SciaU were alio going it at a high rate; cow what do yoa thlak of thtss, Jose ph ss? Gaes yoa are too bajy with the LegUUturt to talk, but whea only one of Sasaptoa Couaty o fa cials got la trouble wta years ago, yoa fouad pleaty of time, space and black type to herald it to the world, but whea we get op with a lot of Democratic rascality yoa run off and hide. Come out of your hiding, Joie phui, and tell the world all about IL Yes, tell 'era that Democrats have been stealing and playing the devil this time. The Same Old Story. Biennially the General Assembly meets and biennially there Is znuca talk about the body doing business from the jump go, making '.he neces sary appropriations, and disappear ing promptly. Good white paper and good printers Ink are thus wantonly wasted. The Legislature would be in session six months if the law allow ed per diem, and every ay would tee the intreduction of freak bills and tbe liberation of much hot air. Like Colonel Boyden, of Salisbury, we believe that a session once in tea years would suffice. Catitvba Coun ty News. Should Indict the Ballot-Box Thieve, Too. Clinton News-Dispatch. And that good Democratic govern ment of Johnston County that we have all heard so much about has at last materialized. It seems that the grand jury has indicted the tier iff, jailor and the whole bunch of county commissioners. They ought to also indict those ballot-box thieves who stole the election in that county and should not stop until they put the last one of them in the penitentiary where they rightfully belong. 'Two Events Which Are Not Likely to Happen." Mount Airy Leader. There are two things that the Democratic party desires, the resig nation of Mr. Morehead and the re pudiation of Mr. Butler, two events which are not likely to happen. THE POU AND KITCHIN FIGHT. The Georgia Democrats Hare Also Served an Uultimation on Their New Leader. Washington, D. C, Jan. 10. With the organization of a Democratic House nearly a year away, the threats of insurrection against the assumption of authority by Champ Clark, slated for the Speakership; and his immediate lieutenants, have materialized into declared opposition on the part of Georgia delegation. An ultimatum was carried to the prospective Speaker by a committee of three, bearing the staement that the Georgians, by unanimous vote had declared that Representative Brantley of that State must be re tained on the Ways and Means Com mittee, when selected by the coming caucus of the Democratic members-! elect of the Sixty-Second Congress. At the same time Representative Pou, of North Carolina, Issued a statement, in which he announced that he had not authorized any one to declare that he had withdrawn as a candidate for a place on the com mittee. Representative Broussard, another Democrat on the present Ways and Means Committee, is known to have ideas just as decided en the subject. Some of Mr. Pou's friends say that the North Carolinian will get the support of a majority of his delega tion and that Mr. Kitchin, his col league, will lose strength. Preachers Charged With Murder and "Mcwnshinlng." Ell jay, Ga., Jan. 9. The Revr Jas. A. KImmons, who, with his brother, the Rev. Benjamin Kimmons. is charged with the killing of Carter! Lingerfelt at Mount Piigah Church, in Gilmer County, several weeks ago, was arrested last night, togeth er with his son, James, and his son-in-law, John Scruggs. The Rev. Ben jamin Kimmons has not been cap tured.. The killing for which the preachers are wanted occurred in the church-yard at the same time Fed eral officers were raiding an illicit distillery nearby, which Lingerfelt was said to operate. Lingerfelt, it Is claimed, was trying to break up a church service at . the time of -the shooting. Reward has been offered for the capture of the preachers. Standard Oil Pays Fine of 823.760 ForEebating. j Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 9. The Stan dard Oil Company paid Into the Fed- eral Court here to-day $23,766, the' fine assessed against It for accepting re Dates. After the Legislature Tadjourns, the Kitchin-Simmons contest will take the front seat. txcui aoK Aatnf is toe sah-dle. film mi aa tarut Balla- Uom V4 Ar!sti u Speaker fa tat Lt MayH ttr rrer tall t Hlmt UMstatnt Thai JNhbh of th iHttH rtu !nber Wrrv lU?wi In TNr Voting. Wahisrios D C Jan. Striker Caa&oa had hU hosr r trssmp-h ta the Hoa t2ay. iu:r taltertd ia the three 4ays ttrc that sr;l the Hosw tail and tore frees hlca casta of the that had been hU, the Sr "cata backla a way that bronchi a grim tsUle of aatUfacUca ta hu rugged couateaaace and left hi ai riest e&eaSea, the "tru-argtatt," de cidedly dUcosasted. Today the Speaker was sutUisoi by an overwhclmiag majority a a ruling which waa Identical with th one he made lail March. wha tho House angrily overruled hU dcU!oa through a coablaatloa of taaargeat Republicans and Democrats. Today, oa the eve of their return to power, the Democrats voted almost solidly to sustain the ruling of the chair. The laturgenta 27 of them tood by their guns and fought the Speak er bravely. But robbed of Demo cratic support their battle was a losing one from the start. It was the first big political man euver of the preteat seaiioa of Con gress and the regular Republicans were elated over the results. They taunted the Democrats unceasingly for their change of front. Taunted for his Incontiftescy. Representative Fitzgerald of New York, one of the Democratic leader in the rule fight, retorted for the sake of consistency he didn't propote to be foolish. Representative Underwood, of Ala bama, joined Mr. Fitzgerald ln frank ly admitting that he thought the Speaker was right ln his ruling last March and, that he ruled In line with the precedents of tbe House. "But," said Mr. Underwood, "wo voted to overrule the Speaker be cause we thought the time had corao for a revolution and forth e majority of tbe House to express its will." "Then when you voted to overrule the Speaker you admit you engaged in an unlawful enterprise?" snapped Representative Mann, of Illinois. "It was not unlawful; It was ne cessary," Interjected Mr. Fitzgerald. . "Poppycock," said Champ Clark, when told of this. "Every man voted as he pleased. That was my advice to them. The vote had no signifi cance whatever as a party proposi tion." Representative Sims of Tennessee, a Democrat, contributed some real excitement to the debate by declar ing that he was amazed at the state ments of some of the leaders on his own side that they knew that the Speaker, was right last March, but had voted against him. "I am one. of the Ignorant who be lieved the Speaker was wrong then and that he is wrong now. And I would rather be ignorantly honest than knowingly dishonest," he said. Representative Hardy, of Texas, took Mr. Sims to task for employing such harsh language. He said the whole truth was that Mr. Sims did not believe in false pretenses and neither did he. Today Representative Fuller, of Illinois, offered a resolution amend ing the rule regulations to the dis charge of committees from the con sideration of bills. It was purely technical. A point of order was rais ed against it, and the Speaker, de claring he would ignore the prece dent set by the House last March, when it overruled his ruling in the Norris case, held that the Fuller res olution was not privileged. An appeal from the chair was im mediately taken. It was by a regu lar Republican, Mr. Gaines, of West Virginia, who demanded aye and nay vote. The Speaker was sustained by 235 to 53. STANDARD OIL CASE NEXT. Argument In Tobacco Trust Case Fin ished Yesterday. Washlngtoon, D. C. Jan. 10. The Standard Oil dissolution suit will ad vance to the center of the stage ln the Supreme Court of the United States to-morrow immediately after arguments are concluded ln the To bacco dissolution suit. For the re mainder of the wek. at least, the court will give its attention to a con sideration 4 of this second problem under the Sherman anti-trust law. For the Government there will ap pear Attorney-General Wickersham, Frank B. Kellogg, and possibly C. A. Severance. Opposed to them axfd defending the Standard Oil, will bo John Q. Johnson, John G. Hilburn and D. T. Watson. The Government's chleb object Is to have the court declare void the cor poration of 18P9. whereby the Stan dard Oil Company, of New Jersey, with Its increased capitalization ex changed Its stock of the stock for ninteen other oil corporations, which controlled in turn a great many more such corporations. It is claimed that this amalgamation of the stocks of all these companies in the Standard OH' Company, of New Jersey, result ed in a combination more closely and effectually held together than before and In restraint of trade. The resultant control of oil through 1 the subsidiary corporations is said to cons ti tute a monopoly. Both results, the Government contends, are la violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.
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