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VOL. XXIX. , N. C. THURSDAY, MAIICH 16, 1911. No. IO RALEIGH EDITORIAL BRIEFS! ' .'.."-.in i Tb.. ...!- Uh died a-borning- J j It has gotten so mat tbe mocking f bird Li afraid to sing. Th sound of the pistol has been Trj frequent the pat week. The open season for muck-raker seems to be all the year round. It has again been observed that; Democratic pledges are made only to in on. Tho principal trouble with the Democratic party is that it Is never Democratic. Doubtless the Fifth District com bine will re-organize and increase its aj.ilal stock. At least Texas and New Mexico aro making a good thing out of the army maneuvers. Kren the News and Observer will bo forced to admit that the recent Legislature was a failure. If they were to extend the time of the Legislature they would simply in troduce more local bills. If those who voted for prohibition would practice it there would not be near so many blind tigers in this State. If the papers and the public do not stop criticising Senator Simmons he may get mad and resign his seat in the Senate! The Durham people have reported seeing several snakes in that town recently. They must be drinking a very poor brand in Durham. A magistrate is allowed "to try a drunken man while he himself is druijk. But such is Democratic "sood government" in North ' Caro lina. rv ,. m : r: i v. i Congress will probably be on "How I Led the Redshirts in the Third District." If the Democrats would allow lo cal self-government then the Legis latures might get through with the important measures on schedule time. The Democrats tried to pass a bill to make all their voters swear that tbey would stay in the Democratic party. But they encountered too many kickers. " " The Charlotte Observer says Sen ator Simmons is being cussed rather extensively because he voted for Lor imer. If that was all, it might go easier with him. Practically all the young men who are doing their own thinking are are joining the Republican party, which shows that the hope of the country is in the young man. Senator Gore will probably be the Democratic leader in the next Senate. The same old story: when the people ask for bread the Demo cratic party gives them a stone. Champ Clark says he thinks he would make a good Democratic can didate for President. That is just what Mr.' Bryan thought of himself, but the American public thought oth erwise. The tax valuation of property In 1901 was about 100 million and for 1910 it was over six hundred millions, and yet the Democrats can not find enough to fill the feed trough for the . Democratic officeholders without Issuing bonds every two years. - We notice that the newspapers of the State generally, regardless of Party, are commenting upon the late unlamented Legislature, as being es sentially a "do-nothing" Legislature. As for our part, we wish to congrat ulate the , State that ft was a "do nothing" Legislature, because if we are to judge what it might have done by what little it did do, then the State has escaped much by what was not done. TWO LEADING TOPICS -W-Denlocrati Di8cussio tfae M Movement of Troops to Mex- ican Barrier nnri fho Tariff. S0UE SHARP CRITICISllS While Othcrc Claim Tliat the Govern ment la Ikfns the Iroper Tiling The Forty-Seven Varieties of Dem ocrats and the Tariff Practically All of Them Are Local Protection ist Simmons and 1 1 1. Lo rimer Vote -Proposed Fusion Between Progressive Democrats and Pro cess! ve Republicans Falls Through (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, March 14th, 1911. While many Congressmen and Senators have followed the Pres ident's example to run out of Wash ington on trips of recreation or busi ness before the convening of the ex tra session, yet there are quite a number of statesmen still here. Many of the newly-elected Congressmen are also arriving The two leading topics of discus sion among these statesmen and also among the vistiors to the capital found in the hotel lobbies are (1) Over the action of the Govern ment in rushing twenty thousand soldiers to the Mexican border and a number of war vessels to the Gulf of Mexico. (2) As to the probable action of the Democratic House on the tariff revision. Democrats Disposed to Criticise the Administration. The general trend of opinion among Democrats is that the admin istration will be open to criticism, if not investigation, by the Democratic House when it meets, for rushing such a large number of troops to the banks of the Rio Grande. Outside of the question of cost, it is claimed by some that the President had no au thority to assemble -these troops- to help the Diaz government to put down the revolution. One Democratic statesman, dis cussing this phase of the matter, said: "My ancestors were revolu tionists. We considered our ances tors who revolted against the rule of King George, which was not one tenth as bad as the rule of Diaz, as patriots. Now if President Taft is going to use the army of this Repub lic to suppress the efforts of revolu tionists in Mexico, who are striving for liberty and a larger measure of self-government on account of the autocratic and tyrannous rule of Diaz, who is really a Czar and not the head of a Republic, then-such ac tion is un-American." Another Democrat, discussing the matter, said that if the troops have been instructed to prevent the revo lutionists, or "insurrectos" as they are called in Spanish, from getting ammunition from the United States, then that action can not be sustain ed, because it was held by the Su preme Court that when the Cuban revolutionists were endeavoring to buy ammunition and supplies from the United States that they had a right to do so, and that our people had a right to sell such supplies. A Broad and Patriotic Need. Another Democratic statesman, who was more cautious and conser vative, said 'that he was willing to consider this matter more as an American than as a party man; that the administration must have more information than any individual could have, and therefore it was the duty of every patriotic citizen, re- gardless of party, to uphold the hands of the administration until it was certain that some improper step or action had been taken. Continuing, he said: . "If I were President, I should under the Mon roe doctrine send a body of troops to the Mexican border, there to be ready to enter; Mexico, if necessary, not only to protect American citizens and American interests, but also to pre vent" England and Germany or any foreign country from claiming the right or excuse to enter Mexico to protect the citizens of their country and their investments." The view of this conservative and patriotic Democrat is unquestionably the one that nine-tenths of ; the American ; people take of the situa tion, , regardless of party. This is necessary to uphold the Monroe doc trine. - The Forty-Seven Different Varieties ,! of Democrats. 7 The sudden turn of the last elec tion in giving the House of Repre sentatives' to the Democrats, has de veloped greater divisions in the ranks of that party; than ever seen before. The Democratic party when in the (Continued on Page. 5.) MARION BUIlfR'S Greeted bv a Tremendous Audience UhirA ue exposes ana mons, Danlejsand Others. LYING, COWARDLY SLANDERERS RAN lie Produce Proof Conclusive to Show That He Is not Kow and 5erer Has Had Any Connection, Either Directly or Indirectly, With Frand ulent Carpetbag Bond He Shows That These Bonds Were Coo eelfed and Engineered by s Conspiracy of Leading Democrat, and That They Looted tho State, and Xot the Republicans He Exposed the Miserable Record of Hypocrisy of Simmons, Daniels, Overman and Others He Proved That Senator Vance Had Denounced Sim. mons as Being an Unscrupulous Politician and a 31an Unworthy of the Confidence of the People of the State He Showed How Daniels, With Baseless Ingratitude, Had Hounded to His Death a Han Who Had Befriended Him and His Widowed Mother, and Also How He Betrayed and Misrepresented Senator Vance to His GraveThe Speak er Was Given a Warm Welcome When He Entered the Hall, Was Frequently Interrupted by Vociferous Applause, and Was Gives an Ovation at the End of His Speech. (Continued from last week.) The Other law-Grade Hybrid. been supported, reared and prepar "Now. let us look at the other low 6d for lifo br the generosity of this eradA hvbrfd Josnhua naniels. la he any part or parcel of our great, fair and partiotic people, who have made such illustrious history? No. Who is this man Daniels and where did he come from? "As far as I am concerned, I am willing to draw the mantle of char ity over the past and let the past dead , stay buried. I am willing to try this man Josephus Daniels simply on what he is, and what he has done, from his cradle up, without looking any further back. Indeed, I am will ing to admit and state as a fact that at a very early age he became an orphan boy, and that his widowed mother, with other orphaned child ren, was forced to face a serious and desperate strugggle for bare exist ence, and thus give to Daniels what- ever credtt or paHiation WW.M for his subsequent conduct on ac- count of these facts. "Then we see his unhappily widow ed mother and these orphaned child ren in a plight immediately following the war, that should and did arouse sympathy and pity. But in that hour of their disconsolate distress, who was it that came to their rescue? "Down in the town of Wilson, N. C, where they lived or existed, there was a big, brave, noble heart, whose utmost sympathy was aroused at their condition. That man was Col. G. W. Stanton, the Republican leader of the county of Wilson. "Col. Stanton had a number of ac tive and useful political lieutenants who were looking to him for poltical reward, and the largest and most cov eted plum within his control was the United States postofflce at the town of Wilson. Col. Stanton, with this widow and these orphaned children appealing to the greatest depths of his pity and sympathy, tendered that greatest political plum within his power to Mrs. Daniels, who could give him no aid or support in return. "I am told that the young and active political lieutenants of Col. Stanton protested and claimed, that this important office should go to one of those who had been his ardent and continuous supporters in strenuous political struggles . He was told that the widow had no claims on him, and could render him no support in re- turn. Col. Stanton, brave, true, bold, big-hearted man that he was, turn- in his character, and we all have ed down the appeals of his strong and some, and yet a man with many de active political lieutenants and hand- fects, and some serious ones, can be ed over this important office to the a man who still has many noble and widow and her orphaned children for redeeming virtues. I submit, how their support and maintenance. Not ever, that when a man shows him only that, he made her bond for her, self to be a base and cowardly in going on the bond himself. It was grate, he thus advertises once and a brave and noble deed, and all good, for all to the world that there is not true, fair and honest people in Wil son County today honor his "memory for the act. This office gave to the widow and to her orphaned children their bread, their clothing, and fur ther, enabled the children to get an education. "When the four-year appointment ran out, I am' told that the political lieutenants of Col. Stanton again erate soldiers that ever wore the unl made a strong protest and appeal to j formI see a man that is a hero him that he had done enough for j among men a man who has every the widow, who had no claims upon t day of his life, before the war, dur him, but that Col. Stanton turned; ing the war, and since the war, been them down and said that that office , an open book, and has commanded should go to support that widow and the admiration of his friends and the to give an education to those poor, I profoundest respect of his bitterest disconsolate orphaned children. And enemies. ml refer to Dr. B. T. Per thus, year after year and term after son, of Wilson, yet a man of vigor, term, Col. Stanton continued; the though whose head is white and widow in thatpffice and put bread in whose beard has silvered, the mouths of her children and gave. "I call upon Dr. B. T. Person now them comforts and the means of edu-' to rise in this audience and state, to cation, and an uplift in the world, j these people whether or not what I "This boy, Josephus Daniels, was have said here about Josephus Dan not only thus supported, but was ed-jlels and his miserable treachery, and ucated until he grew up to young perfidy is correct." " manhood, if the term manhood can j At this point Dr. Person's v tower be used in such a connection. After j ing form rose up In the middle of the this man Josephus Daniels had thus (Coninued on page 3.) MEW SPBECHiPsioitiT i;i ATiAiimj . " ZZ "mr renounces Sim great Republican leader of his coun- ffv'11 wa hla fim PUDjic act? Wasjeousness and justice." 11 w MOW a cramuaei No. Daniels Untrue to Himself. 1 am told that his first public act was to take his savings, or his mother's savings from this Republi can office, and to establish a news paper in the town. Was it a Repub lican newspaper? No. His first act was one that showed his small size and low grade fiber. He established, not a Republican newspaper, but a Democratic paper. "If Josephus Daniels had any polit ical principles, they were Republican principles. Then we see him not only a born Republican, reared and supported by Republican generosity and kindness and charity, at once sell and barter his political Drin- n t . , .. , , ... . !-?,. with the leaders of the opposition party that happened to be in a strong majority in his town and county. "Some one may be charitable enough to say that this young man Josephus DaRiels owed it to himself, if, upon reaching the age of majority, he was struck with great and deep convictions that it was his duty to change from the Republican party to the Democratic party, like unto Saul of Tarsus. Jf this man Daniesls was a strong man, with known strong con victions on any question, it might be possible to take this charitable view. But his acts as editor of that paper have dispelled any idea that he was moved by any feeling or sense of con viction or duty. A Base Insrate to Obi. Stanton. "He conducted his newspaper not only as a Democratic paper, abusing and villifying the party that had sup- ported him from his cradle up, but he turned, and used the columns of his newspaper to abuse and villlfy Col. Stanton, the friend and bene- factor of his widowed mother and her orphaned children. In order to curry favor with the Democratic ma- chine, whose feet and shoe-strings he licked, he abused the man who was the benefactor of his mother in the darkest hours of her distress, and hounded that great, noble, brave soul to his grave. (Loud applause.) "A man may have many defects one good redeeming quality left in his miserable carcass. (Applause.) "I have never taken the trouble to investigate the details of this story, which I have heard many, many times, butt I see in this audience a grand old Confederate soldier from the county of Wilson. I see In this audience one of the bravest Confed- Wo,M "4 Before Soatisera Cotu. Co3grt3 the SQirnvs pnocorss "" i Hut ffct&cr tsi a tt Its Growth la Wealth Has OsSfbtSoa lUs to ! few ? M te4 Ctmuy to the Crowth of th84 teT i mr w f msrrt. ff tJs Increase ef jwr Cunntry An Appeal to the Xm; a&&fsrlami a4 fcr lh wvzz&XH. Men of the iwmth to Take Up P- Wutr I cexrstaUte tltl , , . ;y5 ca fcu jtm fests t cs- Utlcal Iu Irom a t!ro4 andjcrsuU! y, n yf prms&, Uheral hUndjini Ttir President t The Japan Treaty. peadia Severml Days la AttsnMa.1 mml isrcrUM Xklzg it MUnt. Gs., March lO.-Ia a not-l V able speech before tHe c!os4nK ses- f fft Tt, -ess te tmth ion of the Southern CoamrcUliUU f th tMf H tS day from a broad ini wt! M c raty ... - ! point and to eliminate from ihr consideration all narrow psrtisanshlpf"f f TZt . ,aftlfy- .t .,1 . " of tlse present ststitt uaJcr wMca and eectionaUfm. "Come fully into our national com munion' ssid the President, "with the patriotic purpose of silmaiatin the Progress Of our rlvlllxattm, I every rleht rfir.ti " . , latlcg 1U wealth, but always in sub ordination to higher ethical stand ards and to the promotion of right- 1 The PregJdent reTlewed hrlsf!r t. accomplishments of the sixty-first J r ... . . - . f aeciann te three vs.Boiwu.a jusi ciosea, 11 nan enacted more helpful legislation than any Congress since the civil war. Mr. Taft asserted that the greatest ac complishment of the short session, ended March 4th. was the ratifica tion of the Japanese treaty. The greatest disappointment, he said, was the failure of Congress to ratify the reciprocity agreement with Canada. In the hope, perhaps, that tariff legislation may be avoided at tho extra session, the President today pledged himself to furnish to the Democratic House at its regular meet ing in December next; a report from the tariff commission on Schedule IC of the Payne-Aldrich act, the wools and woolen schedule. Other speakers of national promi nence, at the closing session of the Congress to-night were Gov. Wood- L 7 V n J, JeC"if thc Sfcat t0 act to call an extra retary of Uar J M. Dickinson , essJoo fop tbe of RhJrfv lul d6?i &"ret 5LAt,aBt; ln "tiflcation agreement. My ?rL.ft:r I , ? t0?ayana Plo U that a majority of both JiV . "tluuliiUl or Kysia, where he is to have a nine days' va - cation. ; Country's Rapid Growth. The great commercial and indus trial development of this country the last twenty years has been so rapid that the statistics startle us," said the President. "An examination shows that proportionately the com mercial and business " growth of thc South is greater than that of any other part of the country. A cotton crop that sells for a billion dollars Insures prosperity, and when in ad dition to that you raise a corn crop worth half a billion dollars and in clude the tobacco you raise, the pro duct of your iron industry, your cot ton manufacturing and your truck gardening, as well as the naval stores of the Carollnas and Georgia, and the sugar and rice of Louisiana and Texas, the fruits and the lumber of all the Southern States, one begins to get a conception of the marvelous progress of the South. For years after the war the South was poor, and was engaged in a long and bit ter struggle to recover from the dis astrous condition in which she was left by the civil war. She could not maintain a proper modern and ade quate educational system because it was impossible to find taxable re sources of sufficient extent to raise the requisite funds to establish a broad school system. In tbe gloom of the days that followed the war, in the reconstruction period, and In the time of the slow, growing business of the South, it was impossible for the Southern people to avoid the resent ment against the rest of the nation, which the memories of the recent civil war engendered and which their hard lot emphasized. But with the coming of prosperity, with the resumption of com fori in their lives, with a grow ing sympathy on the part of the North In their working out of the serious problems confronting them, and with the sense of triumph in their success in overcoming their great difficulties, the Southern people have mellowed. The Northern people have met them half way and never before In the hia tory of the country have the two sec tions been so friendly and In sutth complete union as they are today. . Wonderful Growth of the South. The growth of the South In wealth. In education. In civil order ,and la civilization has contributed greatly to the growth of the country. By making a greater South you have made a greater country. With what 7 M-iJafi-rji,i r as ts&mpif tm tW greet yw Mm ttfft t tt tf r44 tre. tt lltf S&'SU JB'S jaJy r- pm$m9 tss Uttswt tlt ;:m 1 f r$r u3uUa tortt jti? la4sttfU3 s&4 ffUtrt i sucr. jfei f;riuuf at tie eat it Cor Into effect oacr cosii- " " ' Japan is nertelf U&lii&c tb lmU KTstioa of tier peopls lato tse coaci- try. and all this without the taferc j Ing of any restrictions a ear part. '"m " m"f var pru wueoat e5es4lng tcs pstrteUc portant nation policy, it stare the continued friendship of a ioi progressive and powerful nation iia aoe development we have bees In tlmstely connected since Commodore Perry opened her ports. The Canadian Treaty, Of course the greatest disappoint ment of the session was the failure or the Senate to follow the lead of the House in ratifying the reciproc ity sgreement made with Canada. "The South Is particularly Inter ested In the fact that vegetables and cution seed oil are both put on th free list by the removal of rsther a heavy duties on both. But I do not ask your support on the grounds of any local advshtage. I ssk it because I regard this treaty. If adopted, as the beginning of a new relation be tween our rapidly growing neighbor I on the north aid ourselves which will injure greatly to the benefit of both. "Under my promise to use my ut most efforts to secure the ratification of this agreement by Congress ! hafA f in! f If mv sflttv linnn t h . failn.. houses, disregarding party lines, will n rrr.nt 1 nnn,,,,,. seize a great national cDrtunStr f and promptly ratify tbe agreement j before proceeding to other buiinets i If it be deemed wise or necessary to proceed to other business. "I earnestly appeal to the young men of the Socth to take up these and other political Issues from a broad and liberal standpoint, to elim inate from their consideration .nar row partisanship and sectionalism, and to come fully Into our national communion with the patriotic pur pose of stimulating the progress of our civilization in every right direc tion, maintaining our country's pros perity and accumulating its wealth, but always in subordination to higher ethical standards and to the promo tion of righteousness acd justice." REMORSE DROVE HIM TO SUICIDE Beaufort County Farmer Put Shot Gun to His Temple and Pulled Both Triggers. Washington. N. C, March 13. A sensational suicide was committed in this county this morning, about three miles from tbe town of Bath, when Mr. J. E. Tetterton, a white fanner tenanting a farm belonging to Mr. J. W. Oden of this city, killed himself by placing & double-barreled shot gun to his temple and palling both triggers. Tbe load of shot shattered his skull and scattered his brains In all directions, killing him Instantly. The facts in the case, as nearly as can be ascertained, &re that Mr. Tet terton had been drinking rather heavily for the past several days and yesterday afternoon was la Bath, where he attended a religious ser vice for men only, la which the preacher scored drunkenness very scathingly as one of man's worst vices. The address made a very deep Impression on Mr. Tettertoa and' be returned home full of remorse. He bad been accustomed to beat lag his wife whea intoxicated, and she knowing of his conditon, had left his home aad taken her child rea to the home of her brother-in-law for protection. About 1 o'clock Mr. Tet terton went to his brother's home and induced his children to return home with him, but his wife refused to do so. He then tried to Induce his brother to tarn her out. but Ms also was refused. He then shot him self and died Instantly. Mr. Tetterton was about 40 years of age and Is survived by a widow and several children.