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EDITORIAL BRIEFS
And Progressive Democrat would
be another new brand.
They have reduced the size of la
dij& hats but the price remains the
am.
Tbo extra session of Congress will
rtat Tuesday and sorao predict it
will last until "dog days."
Then those progressive Democrats
try to re-organize within tho party
something is going to burst.
lr. Cook talks about "the dogs of
the editorial chairs." Dr. Cook Is
probably fishing for more compli
ments from the editors.
Tammany doesn't seem to be able
10 fleet a United States Senator in
New York, and still will not allow
aay one else to elect one.
If Justice and Daniels form a new
Democratic party probably one of
them will run for Governor and the
other for the United States Senate.
This war fever seems to be con
tagious. Since Wilmington couldn't
go to the Mexican border, it has de
cided to declare war on the mos
quito. A writer in the Charlotte Observer
says that Senator Bailey preaches
free trade and practices protection.
But haven't the other Democratic
Senators been just as inconsistent?
If Tammany Hall can't have Shee
han elected Senator they might nom
inate him for President next time. He
could be as easily beaten as any one
else.
If the Democratic Senatorial con
test gets much warmer the mocking
bird will again have to seek the tall
timbers.
A New England woman boasts that
though, she is worth a fortune she
has not bought a hat in forty years.
That is probably why she still has
her fortune.
The Democrats are eo anxious to
get hold of the money that they have
decided the people must give in their
taxes a month earlier.
The New York Evening Post wants
to know if Mayor Gaynor is a Demo
crat. Can't tell you, since it has not
yet been decided what is a Demo
crat. The extra session of Congress will
convene Tuesday, but the Democrats
will have to rehash their campaign
speeches before they can get down to
business.
Buffalo Bill, the circus man, wants
to go to the United States Senate.
If he lands he can engage Jeffries,
Davis and Tillman and continue his
three ring circus.
A Washington dispatch says that
a New Jersey woman has lost her
teeth in the mails. She is now in a
position to sympathize with the
North Carolina anti-trust law.
The Baltimore Sun refers to the
leaders of the Democratic machine in
that "city as political pirates. Politi
cal conditions must be almost as bad
in Baltimore as they are in North
Carolina.
A Boston paper says that "Peer
less" Bryan spoke for two hours In
that town a few nights ago and dur
ing the whole time he never hesitated
for a word. That Boston paper prob
ably didn'.t know that talking is Bry
an's long suit
It must be that Senator Tillman
wishes his party to commit suicide.
He says he hopes the Democrats will
tackle the tariff as whole, not In
spots, but adds that every party that
has tried to revise the tariff has
gotten it in the neck. "
Ex-Speaker Justice says that some
"evidently belong to the Democratic
party in order that they may con
tuse its counsels and pervert its
aims." And in passing It might be
a!d that the class to which he refers
now seem?to have the party by the
mck with a down-hill pull.
INSURGENT DEMOCRATS
Much Interest in Washington
Over Movement to Over
throw Simmons and
Kitchin.
DEMOCRATIC PIE HUNTERS
Saw Camping In Washington Wait
ing for tha Distribution of Pie by
the House Committee -Much IM
satisfaction Among the Democratic
Leaders Over the Chairmanships of
the Various Committee A Divis
ion of Opinion Over Tariff Matters
-Mexican Situation a Much Dis
cussed Question in Washington.
(Special to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. C, March 29, 1911.
The newly-ejected Democratic Con
gressmen have been arriving here
for more than a week, and, indeed,
nearjy all of them are already on the
scene for the extra session. The Sen
ators and the older members of the
House are slower in coming. The
fight over committee places in the
House has kept quite a number of the
most prominent Democrats, who feel
that they are entitled to committee
chairmanships, on the spot contin
uously. It is rumored that there is much
growing dissatisfaction among lead
ing Democratic members of the
House over the unsatisfactory infor
mation which they are receiving
about their chances for 'prominent
positions. There was a rumor to-day
that there might be a fight started in
a Democratic caucus to overthrow
tho report made by the committe on
committees of the new Democratic
House. It is stated this evening that
there will be a Democratic caucus
held on Saturday night to pass on
what will be done as to the commit
tees, etc.
A Great Rush by Democratic Pie
Hunters. It is reported that the town is fill
ing up with a small army of hungry
Democratic politicians from one end
of the country to the other . seeking
for jobs of various sizes to be given
out by the new Democratic House.
It is estimated that there are already
in town at least twenty applicants
for every place.
The Democratic Legislative Program.
There is still much speculation as
to what legislative program the
Democratic House will adopt.
One element is in favor of taking
up the revision of the tariff on gen
eral lines, and making a fight for po
litical advantage and staying here, if
necessary, all summer.
Another element is in favor of tak
ing up the reciprocity measure, with
some possible amendments attached
thereto, and letting general revision
of the tariff go over to their regular
session.
Another element is in favor of go
ing into the tariff reform business
as to a few important schedules in
cluding cotton, woolen and steel
schedules, and letting all others go
over to the regular session.
These divisions of sentiment rep
resents several more or less impor
tant groups. In addition, there are
individual sentiments, more or less
different from these positions, from
a large number of representatives.
At this writing it is not possible to
forecast just what policies will be
adopted.
The Mexican Situation, .
There is - much discussion in the
hotel lobbies and around the Capi
tol over the more or less critical sit
uation as to the future government
of Mexico. - The Democrats general
ly declare that they are in favor of
investigating 'conditions and to chal
lenge the right of the Government in
sending down troops and threaten
ing Intervention. (
Some Democrats charge that Wall
Street is behind the sending of
troops into the Mexican ' borders.
There are others who charge .that
still another element of Wall Street
is behind the rebels in Mexico. There
Is, of course, always talk that Japan
or some foreign country was also
iritefering in the situation which
caused our Government to take such
prompt and vigorous action. L
It is proper to state, however, that
the general senliment of the taost
conservative, and best' informed mem
bers of all parties is that the Presi
dent has acted with due .considera
tion and with just caiise, and will be
vindicated when - ; all v the facts are
known by the Democratic House as
well as by the Republican Senate. W
The Democratic Insurgent Movement
C ; : : in North Carolina. , : . :
, No little interest has been develop
ed here by .- the Information thai
there ? is being organized by' some
body what is called a "progressive"
(Continued on Page 5.)'
MAM
...
Greeted by a Tremendous Audience Uhere
He Exposes and Denounces Sim
mons, Daniels and Others.
LYING, COWARDLY SLANDERERS Rflfl
He Produces Proof Conclusive to Show That He 1 not Xow and Never
Ha Had Any Connection, Either Directly or Indirectly, With Fraud,
ulent Carpetbag Bonds He Shows That These Bonds Were Con
ceived and Engineered by Conspiracy of Leading Democrats, and
That They Looted the State, and Not the RepublicansHe 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 Man Unworthy of
the Confidence of the Peopleof the State He Showed How Daniels,
With Baseless Ingratitude, Ilad Hounded to His Death a Man Who
Had Befriended Him and His Widowed Mother, and Also How He
Betrayed and Misrepresented Senator Vance to His Grave-The Speak
er Was Given a Warm Welcome When He Entered the Hall, Was
Frequently Interrupted by Vociferous Applause, and Was Given an
Ovation at the End of His Speech.
(Coi tinned from last week.)
Locke Craig Also Gets Jealous.
"Another Democratic politician,
who has been a standing candidate
for every office in sight and out ofja
sight, and who is reported now to' uan m ms lown maae a uovern
be especially hungering to again try I raent depository. Indeed, requests
his chances for Governor of the State of every conceivable kind come to me
Mr. Locke Craig, of Asheville, da after da and ar week,
has also become jealous of the lead- 1 have responded to all of these re
ership of Mr. Daniels and Mr. Sim- Qt where the, cause seemed to me
mons. As the campaign has pro
gressed, it is noticeable that he has
tried each day to deal in more dirt
and personal abuse, in order to at
tract attention to himself and to get,
if possible, in the class of those two
low grade hybrids, Simmons and
Daniels. For some days he content
ed himself by repeating, parrot-like,
the base and slanderous charges and
the low abuse which those, two men
had originated, but within the last
few days, judging from the reports
of the newspapers, he has tried..like
Mr. Overman, to , out-herod Herod.
"He is reported in the Democratic
press not only to have repeated all
of the false and lying, charges about
'Butler and Bonds,' but to have gone
even a step further and denounced
me as being not a citizen of the
State, but as an outsider, who dared
to come in and dictate to the people,
and also as having referred to me as
not a North Carolina citizen but as
:a cheap common Washington lobby-,
jSk , a single case where I ever lobbied for
Mr. Craig as a Hired Lobbyist. hIm, or against and charged a fee.
And yet this man Craig, this self-
"To this young, small-sized, itch- confessed lobbyist, who is now suing
ing politician I want to say, that it for a fee that they say he didThot
comes with extremely poor grace deserve, dares to refer to me as a
from him to refer to me, or to any- comm0n hired lobbyist, (Loud ap
body else, as a cheap hired lobbyist i piaUse.) I brand the charge as false
even it the charge were true. With- an(J denounce the author of it as wil-
In the last few weeks, the newspa
pers have published the account of a
suit which this man Craig has insti
tuted against certain people, at
tempting to recover a fee which he
claims they offered to pay him for
lobbying In Washington last winter
and spring. The defense, I under
stand, will be that they did offer
to pay Mr. Craig a lobbying fee, but
that he turned out to be so worth
less, even as a lobbyist, that he did
not earn - the - fee promised. The
suit is for a fee for lobbying dur
ing the fight over the tariff bill In
Congress. .
"While Mr. Locke Craig was in
Washington as a self-confessed hired
lobbyist (and . who is now suing for
the fee which it is said he did not
earn), I was also. there, and if I did
any lobbying it was for the benefit of
the people of my State, and I did It
without charge of any kind to any
one. More than one person from
North Carolina, who were Interested
In schedules In that bill that affected
the welfare of the people of North
Carolina, came to my office for con
sultation and advice and help. Every
one who came from the State inter
ested in any schedule that protected
the capital or labor ,of North Caro
lina, go the benefit of my advice and
assistance free of charge. (Loud
applause.)
Butler Has Always Given His Ass is t-
c' ance to His Fellow-Citizens Free
of Charge.
"Fellow-citizens,' since this ques
tion has been raised, I want to take
this opportunity to say that no North
Carolinian, either while I was in the
Senate or since, has ever appealed to
me to help him In the State or In any
matter in Washington or, elsewhere,
that I have not freely given him my
time, advice and assistance, and done
so without the charge of & single
cent. When I am in my office in
Washington, hardly a week passes
often a day does not passthat some
one from the State does not write me
or come in person and appeal to me lina, and while I was a Democrat, in
to help about some matter in tho In-J which party I was born and my an
terest of the State or the people. (Continued on page 3.)
wmil
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"One will want a free rural deliv
ery route established. Another will
want a site in his town selected for
Puolic building. Another will want
just and proper. I have been tender
ed a fee In hundreds of such cases,
but never yet have I accepted a dol
lar for such services.
"More than once I have been ap-
- Proached by two
seta -of attorneys
irom one town wnere tnere was a
rivalry over the site for a public
building, each side offering to em
ploy me as attorney to assist them.
In every such case I have looked into
the facts. First;'- which site is most
convenient for the Government ser
vice, and most convenient for the
citizens of the town. When that
question was once settled to my sat
isfaction, then I would offer to help
that side and oppose the other. I
would not be employed in such a case
on a side I thought was not right, and
on the side which I thought was right
m . . - m
whatever my Influence and efforts are
worth have always been gladly given,
and free of charge. I challenge any
man in North Carolina, from moun-
tains to the sea, to point his finger to
fully making a false and base charge.
As to the Charge That I Am Not a
Citizen of the State.
"The fase, cowardly and insidi
ous charge that I am not a citizen of
the State, that I am an outsider, and
that I am daring to come into the
State to dictate to the people how
they shall vote, is being circulated, I
am informed, quietly by many of the
county and township Democratic poli
ticians from one end of the State to
the other. Only recently my atten
tion has been called to the fact that
the authors of this dirty campaign
have stooped low enough to give or
ders to, their local henchmen to in
dustriously and insidiously circulate
this story among the voters in their
respective precincts.
C "Fellow-citizens, what are the
facts?, I pay more taxes in North
Carolina to-day than a single one of
the cowardly hounds who are bark
ing behind my back and dare not
face me on the stump. I am not a
leech on society like many of them
are. I am, on the other hand, a
wealth-priucer. I am helping each
year andch month to create a part
of the wealth that has made this a
great and rich State and which has
made this the greatest and richest
country in the worlds I am trying,
and I am succeeding. In making 'two
blades of grass grow where only one
grew before., I- raise more cotton,
more corny more pea3, more hay.
more fruit, snore cattle and hogs, and
sheep, than anyone of the lying das
tardly " cowards who are slandering
me behind my back." j(Great ap
plause.) Why They Want to Crush Butler.
"Fellow-citizens, this vicious and
unscrupulous personal attack- upon
me is nothing new. The Democratic
ring is not; abusing and lying on me
simply because to-day I am associat
ed vwith the Republican party. They
began this attack as soon as I first
appeared in public life In North Caro-
A ucnmoiE disaster
One Hondrcd and Fifty Per-
ish in Ucxt York
Factory Fire.
tlAIIY JIOED TO DPATfl
ialtvSLrULen Girt tp
I3erenthwf7 to lasja Des4l Ml tpoa t tl
Boitding Kot Provided With Hre! C.09 n4 fMtlf caSfeg Ue
nsrspe levator I4hfi ad!dlh of M SSstl
Worn Fire in Xew Vortt Sine.' Thm gr urfd at t U a. ts. t3
The Steamship earrai
Was Horned la lXl.
KewTork, March 254re huedred! A $ U w?
and fifty souU nine-tenth of thetaf !ar,i!o1 J21,
girls from the Kau Sl4e mere; Rrt?ea, " t0Jl3JL ,
crushed to death on the pavements,!. J U,UU,8f tety Ut ls
mothered by tmofce, or shrircled; eaaa rscew.
criip this afternoon la the worst fire? 1 111
New Vork has known since the TORXADO DAJ&IGE
steamship Siocum was burned to the! '
waters edge off North Brother 11-1
and in 1904. j
Nearly all, if not all. of the victims
wre employed by the Triangle Shirt-
waiit Company on the eighth, ninth!
and tenth floors of a ten-tory loft 1 Monroeville, AJa., March JTv
building at 23 Washington place, onfTwo men were killed 14 29 pfftosi
the western fringe of the down-town! 'ere Injured by a tornado which
wholesale clothing, far and millinery wept through this part of tfce EUU
district. The partners of the firm.f ytrdf evening. At Joeet Mill,
Uaac Harris and Max Blanch, escaped l Stephen Byrd sad Alexander Sfe
unscathed from the office on the tenth j Croy, farmers, were killed acd IS
floor, carylng with the over an ad-j Persons more or less serfoosly hcrt.
joining roof Dlancks two young) Several buildings were blown down
daughters and a governess. There Und a cumber of persons injured at
was not an outside fire escape on the j Excel. 'At MaaUte, Ala., Dr. 11 1L
building. j Harper and Miss Alice Lambert wero
How the fire started will perhaps badlr ourt
never be known. A corner on the! fUUzard Sweeps Washington, Pa.
eighth floor was Its point of origin1! .
and the three upper floors only were! . Washington, Pa.. March 27. -A
swept. On the ninth floor fifty boi-nn"rd iwepl "hlct0
ies were found; sixty-three or morei0 to-night and the thar
persons were crushed to death by ' nmmeter dropped 30 degree. In eight
jumping and more than thirty clog-! h,oura 8,fy f dcks at McDoa
ged the elevator shafts. The loss tojald were lwl-" cauatnAT lota ot
property will not exceed $100,000. j 125.000. Oil operators announce
Pedestrians going home tnroU5hj tnat the wrecked ttrnctares will ba
Washington Place to Washington! " ii-n teei ones, ai 7ccs
Square at ten minutes to 5 o'clock.) bur tombitone were picked ap by
were scattered by the whiz of some
thing rushing through the air before
them; there was a horrible flop on
the pavement and a body flattened
on the flags. Wayfarers on the op
posite side of the street shaded their
eyes against the setting sun and saw
the windows of the three unner floors;
of the building black with glrls
crowding to the sills. There were no
fire-escapes
"Don't jump! Don't Jump!" yell-
. . t. . A
alternaUve. The pressure of thfe!
maddened hundreds behind them and
tjie urging of their own fears were
too strong. They began to drop to
the sidewalk in a .terrible rain of
flesh and blood.
Four alarms were rung within fif
teen minutes. Before the engines
could respond, before the nets could
be stretched or the ladders raised,
five girls had fallen from the eighth
and ninth floors so heavjly that they
broke through the glass and iron
roofs of the sub-cellars and crashed
through the very streets into the
vaults below. In an hour the fire was
out; in half an hour It had done
its worst; probably the death list
was full In twenty minutes. ,
, Seven hundred hands, 500 of them
women, were employed by the shirt
waist company. They sat in rows at
their whirring machines, the tables
be fore them piled with flimsy cloth,
the floors littered with lint, the air country are credited to the two coa
itself full of flying, inflammable dust. cerng Ia tne lagt few yeart
an explosion. Operators died In their A UnIteT sutes coambsloaer held
chairs, their lungs seared by Inhaling ArcaU winner In $7,000 bail for the
flame. Others were crowded Into the Fcdera! grd jary; Emmett a Wis
elevator shafts after the cars had Eer ,a 5000 bail, and G rover, &
made their last trip. Still others Tmu jn ti,500.
were pushed off In the inadequate in- werc comraUted to the TtaaU
terior, fire-escape. Tne caarge the mails to de- "
In such a horrible stream did the fraud by selling wortMess stocks,
bodies overthrow from the windows The specific charge I that the Wis
that the fire nets, stretched by thef ners through mail correspondence
first companies to arrive, were ioon:
gorged beyond capacity. Twelve bod
ies weighed one net to the bursting
point, but the bodies kept on thump
ing to the pavement through meshes
that could no longer support t&em.
"JImmJe" Lehan, a traffic f squad
Doliceman. dashed no e!?ht flfehts nf
stairs when the fire was at Its height,!
braced his shoulders against a barred
door and burst It In. I He found a
score of girls mad with fright. He
ordered them down the smoked-filled
stairways but they balked. He used
his club and beat them down to safe
ty. - Not one of the number perished.
Big Steamship Jin to Operate Be
tween New Orleans and Brazil.
. New" Orleans, La., May 2 7.-Bra-zil
has tentatively agree dto co-operate
with New Orleans and other Mls
sissppL Valley cities In establishing a
$3,000,000 steamship line between
this port and BraalL?;" The South
American government will send a
representative to this city to Investi
gate the feasibility rf the project.
f. Aifes&r, s Hanife it, rim
jteitttef xttf !o4y dtnsTis ii
! swept by a hl& lad &cims Izut
ctlKK roarts to i!e c44 wIsul
Two Men Killed and Twenty tnjered
in Alabama Stora Xtain Jlcf U
Damage la IVnajylvanU IttUs&rd
t WhlaguB, ls.
the wind ana carried from a ceme
tery Into a road some distance away.
Philadelphia. Pa., March 27 A
severe electrical storm, accompanied
by a high wind which at times blew
with cyclonic force, swept over the
Northern section of this city shortly
aftt; 6 o'clock to-night leaving de-
tmctlon and death In Its
The Pol,c tAt,on at Tacocy was
demolished. The evening squad of
PolIc n"nJ?PtlJ?JXlZ
for their, beats when the roof of the
,llTmr. wa
blown off and every
window broken by a sudden burst of
wind. Many houses In this auction
were unroofed or completely demol
ished. In the manufacturing district of
Kensington leTeral factodei were de
stroyed, while numerous, buildings
lost their roofs.
Til BEE STOCK BROKERS AR
RESTED. Plared In Jail on Charge of Using the
3Uils to Sell Worthless Oil Stock.
New York, March 27. In a raid
today on the stock brokerage offices
In Fifth Avenie ncctipied by Wisner
& Company and te Standard Securi
ties Company, pr-MoCce , inspectors
charged that Irregularities amounting
to more than $2,000,000 had been
brought to lleht. Transactions in ex-
of fio.ooo.000 throarhont the
rcpreiented to stock purchasers that
the California Diamond Oil Company
was actively at work when as a mat
ter of fact,' according to the charge,
the company was dormant and had
lost title In 1908 to the property it
was claimed to be operating.
Twenty-two Piowr Manufacturing
Companies Merge.
Mollne, III., March 2T-A merger
of 22 plow manufacturing coapiales
Into one corporation with a capitali
zation of $50,600,000, was announc
ed to-day "at the offices of Deere tz
Co. The name of the consolidation
will be Deere 4k, Company, and Its
headquarters will be In Mollne.
The concerns which comprise the
new company have factories in sev
eral States and Canada and the scope
of the industry will be eactended to
include the manufacture of all kinds
of . Implements.' M: l ; . ' .
-.;rA'V feature of the consolidated In
dustry will be that employes will,
have an opportunity to acqulro
stock. '