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RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. JUNE G. 1911.
No. 22
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
glad to find &ome
i j, ay hlrn respect.
Ju-:noorau have deHded
aooI In the middle.
iK'rriocraiic row In
ring the weather?
.jtir "harmony" worns
, AayB, but performs
in
no
if North Carolina's anti
is yet able to sit up and
mocking-bird haa
been
;.-.V
in aKe ioumy ior iue;
1
severely criticising others for j
for protection, Congressman!
A"
himself ha3 flopped.
,. about all the Senatorial
! ,-'S claim to be poor, who is
t put up the money?
go::.-
Statesvillo Landmark says that
'r
tmmons is Kept uuj ucujr-
' r ; ::.fr..
Itumors, did you say:
Cunuressman Kitchln takes an-
fall as he did on the woolen
lule he may receive fatal Inju-
si h'"
ri-..
Seiuitor Simmons writes the Land
mark that he is not largely interested
in timber lands,
lands.
But, oh! you swamp
The Progressive Democrats in the
Northwest are favoring John Burke
for President. But who is John
Burke?
The Statesville Landmark says that
the ?elf-assumed dictatorship of Mr.
Bryan is galling. That must be very
trying this hot weather.
The Asheville drug-stores that sell
liquor must pay a municipal license
of $1,000. Probably they will now
sell a better brand in Asheville.
The position of the Democrats on
the woolen schedule shows that the
Democrats have thrown principle
side in a chase for the flesh-pots.
The "visiting statesman" was in
Raleigh again Monday, but laid aside
his statesmanship long enough to
dabble in the Senatorial situation.
If the State debt and high taxes
don't cause the voters to relegate
the Democrats, then the people are
"more long-suffering" than we think.
Judging from his Raleigh speech,
"Woodrow Wilson would not be
against protection if those who favor
ed protection were impractical
enough to vote the Democratic ticket
It is true that the sugar trust is a
Tery rich corporation, but don't be
lieve they can put up enough money
to elect a Democratic President next
time.
If Mr. Simmons is poorer than
hen he first went to the Senate it
would seem that the people would
fce doing him a kindness by voting
fr him to stay at home next time.
And. indeed, they would be doing the
State a kindness.
Woodrow Wilson said that when
People or corporations put large
Suis of money into campaigns they
expected to get it back. Which re
nds us that two or three of the
ocratic candidates for Governor
three J'ears ago spent $40,000 just to
set the nomination.
A thoughtful wag, after reading
the Supreme Court decision in the
Standard Oil case and the American
obacco Company's case, remarked:
The Supreme Court has now amend
ed the eighth Commandment to read
as follows: 'Thou haii t ct&oi
duly
or unreasonably.
Undoubtedly, many people in Ra
voted against the commission
orm of government without knowing
! UCh about it, but because the Ra
it SlLNews and Observer supported
We trust that the support of that
Per for the country-life school will
t result in defeating that measure
TRIBUTE TO CARDINAL GIBBONS, j
Over Fifteen Thousand IVople AU
lend the Celebration In lUIUmom
In I1U Honor -PrrM.Wit Tft ml
c,ionei lurdt r.y THtmt. u
the Cardinal.
Baltimore, Md.. June C. J arses
r 1 t t . - . .
i.aruinai titwn misel hU after-
noon walk to-day. For the nrst time
In years, one of the very few In the
ivmj-me years mat tie has been;
the only prince of the Catholic
Church In the United State, he misl
ed that afternoon stroll over the
streets of Baltimore where he listen-!
e4 to banker and beggar and took toj
heart the troubles of "his people."
Instead of the walk that had be-
j come a feature of that part of the!
1 city in which he lived, the Cardinal!
sat this afternoon on the temporary
- wbuvui,
1 and listened to the great men of the
nation speak In eulogy of hU life.
The Great Men Present,
President Taft, Vice President
Sherman, Chief Justice White, farm
er President Roosevelt, Ambassador
Bryce of Great Britain, Speaker
Clark, Senator Root of New York,
Governor Crothers of Maryland, for
mer Speaker Cannon and Mayor Pres
ton of Baltimore sat with the Cardi
nal and all of them except the Chief
Justice spoke in praise of him.
Among the six hundred guests seat
ed on the platform behind the Presi
dent, the Cardinal and other speak
ers, were members of the House of
Representatives. Probably a more
distinguished gathering was never
held in this country, outside of Wash
ington, and the wheels of Govern-1
ment came pretty near a stop while
those who sit in charge over them
paid honor to the Cardinal.
The armory holds 15,000 people,
its builders say, and it was crowded
to the doors.
The Cardinal sat in a red plush
chair in the center of the stage. To
his right was president Taft; then
came former President Roosevelt
and Chief Justice White and on the
Cardinal's left were Governor Croth
ers, of Maryland, Ambassador Bryce,
Speaker Clark and Representative
Cannon.
The ovation that greeted Mr. Roo
sevelt as he came up the steps with
Chief Justice White was remarkable,
but that which greeted the Cardinal
as he climbed the stalre with Presi
dent Taft was far more remarkable.
The Cardinal wore the red robe,
the skull-cap ofi red and the deep
green ring of office. Through all
the speeches he sat, smiling, every
changing expression of his wrinkled
and kindly face and his bright eyes
attesting to the pleasure that this
tribute afforded him.
He smiled like a boy when Presi
dent Taft introduced him to Mr.
Roosevelt. He laughed with glee
when the Chief Justice shook his
hand, and the ghost of a grin flicker
ed over his face when Speaker Clark,
mixing for a moment politics with re
ligion, declared that he had been a
potent force for good "among both
Catholics and Republican."
The President's Speech.
Following Governor Crothers, who
presided, President Taft made the
first speceh. He said, in part:
"This assembly, I venture to say,
can find few counterparts in history.
We are met as American citizens to
congratulate the American primate
of one of the great Churches of the
world upon the twenty-fifth anniver
sary of his accession to the highest
office in his Church, but one and up
on the fiftieth anniversary of his en
tering the Church as one of its
priests. We are not here' as members
of any denomination. We are not
here in any official capacity. But we
are here to recognize and honor in
him his high virtues as a patriotic
member of our political community,
and one who through his long and
useful life has spared no efforts in
the cause of good citizenship and the
uplifting of his fellow-men.
"As American citizens we are
proud that his prominent part in the
church brought him twenty-five years
ago the rank of cardinal. The rarity
with which this rank is conferred in
his Church upon bishops and priests
so far from Rome is an indication of
the position which he had won
among his fellow churchmen. But
what we are especially relighted to
see confirmed in him and his life is
the entire consistency which he has
demonstrated between earnest and
single-minded patriotism and love of
country, on the one hand, and sin
cere devotion to his Church upon the
other. One of the tenets of his
Church is respect for constituted au
thority and always have we found
him on the side of law and order, al
ways in favor of peace and good will
to all men, always in favor of relig
ious tolerance, and always strong in
the conviction that complete freedom
in the matter of religion is the best
condition under which churches may
thrive.
"Nothing could moVe clearly show
the character of the man whose Ju
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THE SPLIT ON WOOL
T Fart tfcp. nprn(wnf ire
4r. iaocrM ana tM
not United on my Political
:
P rinClDlC
BRYAN SCORES LEADERS
If atlmftnlfchfMt Tfirrn Sat t tdtl II'
,,,lfc,, Tft v,t t t.t.i m.
Iocrly to tli Sin Ttiy Are Omii-
mitting Against the Party Irac-
.... m
ticallj Accuse Them of Stealing
and Then Trying to Hide the ;
Theft "Alrich Ierwcrat Are
Favoring Tariff on Wool Con
gressman Kitchln Flops on the
Wool Question.
(Special to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. C, June 6. 1911.
The fact that the Democratic party
is not united on any political princi
ple is so notorious that Democratic
partisans have frequently pointed to
their position on the tariff as being
one on which Democrats were gen
erally united. This has been made!
possible on account of the broad and i
vague slogan called a "tariff for reve-j
nue," under which forty-seven differ- j
ent varieties of Democrats can shel-j
ter, each one having varied views, j
and often diametrically opposing
' " r c j
views as to how to raise revenue by j
giving protection to some pet Indus-land
try.
The Split on Wool.
cratic
in
on
cretely and emphatically to the atten
tion of the country a few days ago
when the tariff on wool was under
consideration. It was well known
that the Democrats in the House were !
The want of unity in the Demo-; Democrats" again gave ur their nrin-! -f " l" u luruer re8,aeni!
party on the tariff question I f.. .v, ..fl.c,..a f i.- : uu uie campaign as an active stump gluo
fact, the radical split in the party! 4 ; speaker is problematical, but that; rUht,
ii.., , ! Mr. Kitrfiin's Awkwjinl IVwifion. i the forr nf hiss npr&rtnaHf v will Ha
tuiic question, was Drougnt con- , oi m
very nearly evenly divided on thejthat Mr. Kitchln then aquarely crit-t
wool questionn, about one-half stand
ing squarely for free raw wool,
while the other half claimed that j
they were for a duty on wool "for
the purpose of revenue," and still
others announced boldly that they
were in favor of a moderate protec
tive duty on wool for the protection
of the wool growers.
This deep and wide split in the
party caused Mr. Bryan to rush to
the front in defense of the Demo
cratic doctrine of free wool. In a
leading editorial in his paper (The
Commoner), he drew?4 the issue
squarely and denounced all who are
opposed to free wool as being not
only traitors to the Democratic
party, but also "guilty of the crime
of hyprocisy" In addition when they
claim that they were for a duty not
because they were protectionists, but
because they were In favor of raising
revenue from a duty on wool. Mr.
Bryan, In his editorial, said:
Mr. Bryan's Bold Charge.
"The Democratic voters have a
right to Insist that the protectionist
Democrats shall be as honest as the
protectionist Republicans.
"Let no Democratic advocate of a
tax on wool masquerade behind the
pretense that he is voting for a reve
nue tariff; let him not add hypocrisy
to the sin he commits against his '
party. j
"If the Democratic party is to bej
Aldrichized, let the change of policy
be made with audacity at least. The
man who does wrong boldly may j
mislead a few, but the man who does;
wrone bv stealth and then tries to i
conceal It by equlvocaiton confesses!
his consciousness of guilt and cannot!
hope for a following." I
Leader Underwood Replies to Bryan, j
' "
This bold declaration on the parti
of Mr. Bryan caused Democratic
Leader Underwood to come out in a
caustic interview, replying to Mr. i It Is feared that the burns will prove j The two men were together about a municipal election next month. The
Bryan. Mr. Underwood took the po- fatal. Beth Pridgen, another young j ten minutes beyond ear range of any j last Legislature passed an election
sition that a duty on wool was justi-jman of Pender, was also hemmed in I other person. Afterwards it was said j law for this city containing the so
fied for the purposes of raising reve-i DT the flames and seriously burned, that they "talked about Mrs. Taft's j called "grandfather" and property
nue, and that he was a Democrat j The territory in Pender burned is; health." The President invited the j qualification clauses, designed to dls
standing squarely on the Democratic I about three miles in length and two .Colonel to Washington on June 19th franchise negroes In elections for lo
platform for a tariff for revenue and! miles wide. j to be his guest in the White House j cal officials, and the heavy negro
that Mr. Bryan did not have any au
thority to criticise him and other
Democrats who held that position.
Mr. Underwood, in his defense
went further and tried to show that
a duty of 20 per cent on raw wool
would not increase the cost of cloth
ing in woolen goods.
The Action of the Democratic House
Caucus.
When the Democratic House cau
cus met a few days ago to pass on
this troublesome and tangled wool
question, it was clear that the two
wings of the Democratic party were
as wide apart as the Poles, and much
feeling existed. The House caucus,
however, finally voted unanimously
for a 20 per cent duty on raw wool,
and it was given out by the Associ
ated Press that the House Democratic
caucus had, unanimously repudiated
Mr.4 Bryan. This is not the exact
truth of the matter, however. Grad-
sally the fan ha leaked ost, as4
they tees to be at folio;
The Democratic &tr44le.
Mr. Underwood and tio Dmso -
7" !uEull,M Mr;
t?r,r; AW rich Detr;orrts fried
10 Put through their probities of &
protective tariff duty of 2 jr test
on wool and failed Thn Mr Kltct-
en. of North Caroling rushed t the
rescue ufa a compromise proposi-'
". offers! a reoiutton dtckr
lag that the Iaiofra'k party iexi
by ju time-honored principle of "frw
raw material." but that HepubUcao
extravagance had made it necary
for the DemocraU for thtPrwat to
sacrifice their principle by toting for
a duty on wool in order "to raise
reenue to run the Government," but
that the party itood pledged aad
committed to reduce thU protective
tariff duty as fast a possible- The.
resolution Is as follow: i
"Resolved, That the bill revl- I
Ing schedule K, as presented to
this caucus by the majority
members of the Ways and Means
Committee, Is not to be con
strued as an abandonment of any
Democratic policy, but in view of
the Democratic platform demand
for a gradual reduction of the
tariff and of the depleted and
depleting condition of th public
treasury as a result of Republi
can extravagance, a tariff of 20
per cent ad valorem on raw wool
is now proposed as a revenue
necessity."
Under cover of this straddle and
v.uc iun ui una aiituuie iiuu
dodge they all hugged and made up
voted
unanimously.
Democrats"
Thus the
protection Democrats" again
i clared that they were for "free !
trade," and thus the "free trade!
Mr Tv'UMiln'c flon V. -1 1
question has called sharp attention ' fact isrnot f1 lo Pe pleas -
to the position which he took whening RePlicani favorable to Roo -
the last tariff bill was up in favor of ;
fr lnmW Tt tl-iii ho romAmhAri I
"
icised Senator Simmons and other
Democrats who tried to justify them-
selves in voting for a dollar duty on
lumber, on the ground that they
voted for it not as ap rotective tariff
duty but as a Democratic revenue
tariff duty.
Mr. Kitchin at that time called at
tention to the fact that this explana
tion of Mr. Simmons was very thin,
because he and Senator Aldrich
agreed entirely about the one dollar
duty. Now we find Mr. Kitchin vot
ing for a duty on wool and giving
exactly the same lame excuse for do
ing so that Senator Simmons did in
voting for a duty on lumber.
Where Speaker Clark Stands.
During all this heated controversy
and final straddling compromise.
Speaker Champ Clark, Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, looked
much worried but never opened his
mouth. Some of his friends, how
ever, called attention to the fact that
it was not only necessary to vote for
a duty on wool to raise revenue, but
it was also necessary to hold the wool
States in line for Clark for President,
and to get the electoral vote of those
States for a Democratic President.
V. 1 J 1 1 A A A i
1L:Z lSZ
would have no chance to elect a Pres-1
ident unless they could hold the wool
States for the Democratic candidate.
And here seems to be the "cat in the
meal-tub."
Men seriously tturned in Forest
Fires in Pender County,
ww-. -w w we.
Wilmington, t,., June o. wii -
liam Hufham, a young man of Pen-j
der County, was severely burned yes
terday while fighting a forest fire and
was brought to Wilmington this af -
ternoon on the steamer Alice and car -
? ried to the city hospital. He was
fearfully burned about the body and
New Renublican Congressman Elect-
. ed in Iowa.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 5.
Judge W. R. Green, Republican, was
elected to Congress to-day to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Judge Walter I. Smith by an esti
mated plurality of 1,200. His op
ponent was W. S. Cleveland of Har
lan. The Canadian reciprocity agree
ment was the Issue, Judge Green de
claring against the pact.
The Fish-Hook Twenty Centuries
Old.
New York Evening Telegram.
The fish-hooks used to-day are of
precisely the same shape as those em
ployed twenty centuries ago. The
only difference is in the material of
which they are made. Then they
were of bronze; i now they are of
steel.
TAFT AI!D ROOSEVELT
ft V - a - .
OL KOOStVeil Will OUDDOrt
the President For
Rcnorninatioa.
MEETING IN BALTIMORE
Prr-Mtlrnt al -tt-rrfcSrat IUfr4
C tmiUl iirrinx to IUb f Hltrf
Werr in !tr.Utwr ftt r!ia!
(HMwn' Jubilor Mr, 1U
!nHte! to Attend tike lrvidt
Silver Wedding tm June ISHlu
Washington. D. C. Jus . Prel-
dent Taft la hit csndldary for thi
Presidential nomination In m ill
receive the unqualified endorsement
of former President RooeveU, mhlch
, will be uttered Just as cordially at it
j was prior to the campaign of ISO,
j ThU it the bet political &et Mr.
5 Taft ha received in many months,
j and It cornea to him In a manner that
leaves no doubt as to its authenticity.
! The information that Colonel Ito
j sevelt under no circumstances will
allow his own name to be presented
j to the Republican National Conien-
, tion was conveyed to the
to the White
House several dny ago. but It did t0 KQ back to tQAt certlscation. Fur
not become known until to-night. lhcrmore. Sretary Knot espUla4
That Colonel Roosevelt feels that the s to th comm!ttee that it improper
; Taft administration tbould be con-; t0 prQaUCe lh booki bat thrt7
( uuuea si yrougni qui partly at tne
rti1t tf i t . f ( . . .
f coraiai greying between
; jubilee In Baltimore to-day
Vll' b? !Velt ..fppro!al
win
far
! with the President is assured. This
" 1 lcoiuc"1 a i uis
eveltu,f a candIate Many of these!
Republicans, no doubt, will refuse to;he- lh President, would detrmln
ahanilnn VirtrkA until Cnn Daaco.'
" . .
"1S yu3,lluu . reafc8; ..If , have reaon to believe that
the silence concerning the adminls-; the Utter alternatlve ia the true one
tration which he has maintained since tbe PresIdent added, "then I ahall di
landing in New ork on his return rect you to gubmlt retull of your
from his African hunt. Investigation with respect to the
The information that Colonel Roo- Item t0 the commUtee. In mtAn.
seveit wouia do round aligned with
the President rather than against him
was brought directly to Mr. Taft from
Mr. Roosevelt by a mutual friend
high In official life who was connect
ed with both the Roosevelt and Taft
administrations in a capacity that en
abled him to gain and retain the con-j,,,, the (Vmrt Ur Accepted a
ftdence; In fact, the warm personal) IJribe am, iwiUe to TH, All.
friendship of both men. The meet-j
ing at Baltimore between the Presi-j Columbus, Ohio. June 5. What
dent and Mr. Roosevelt was only In- Prosecuting Attorney Turner and At
cidental to the celebration of Cardl- ; torney-General Hogan have been bop
nal Gibbons' jubilee, but It was an In- ,n5 for during the several weeks
cident that awakened the political in-! came aboiU to-night, when a member
terest of the Senators and Congress-1 of the kegilatur. Owen J. Evans,
men and others in official life who j confessed in open court that he had
saw the two men together. TheyJ accepted bribe and declared his will
met first in the reception room in'lnne8S to &o before the grand Jury
the Fifth Regiment armory, where nd make a c,ean abreast of all his
the jubilee celebration was held. J knowledge concerning Illegal legisla
They talked together there for tentIve corruption.
minutes. They shook hands with old Evans afer he had been fined $500
friends; they chatted, laughed, and;went before rand Jur7 nl Ul
behaved just as they used to do when! a witness to-morrow.
Mr. Roosevelt was in the White! A new and lar n,t of IndictmenU
House and Mr. Taft was Sretarr ofi
War. They carried the apirit of, uou- ,ie waB n'ea voree weea.
friendliness up to the platform. and,iaS for fcolicltlng a bribe, and vu ln
sitting side by side, they conversed In) dIcted twIce for Bolicltln and
undertones through much of the af-? accepting bribes. To one Indictment
ternoon ; ne Pleat,d guilty, and at the sugges
Mr. Roosevelt reached Baltimore! tion of Prosecutor Turner, the court
before the President and was waiting ! imposed only a fine. Instead of a pris
for him at the armory. 1 on sentence. The other two indict-
"Hello, Mr. President!" said he, in;
(tne nign-pitcnea voice tnat wasn-i
ington usd to know so.welL "Vmi
so glad to see you. I want to Ipquire
! about Mrs. Taft." I
! Hello, Theodore!" replied the
a . . mm)
j President "How are you?"
Shortly after Mr. Mr. Roosevelt
j was taken aside by the President,
j at his silver wedding anniversary.
Mr- Roosevelt said he would try to
; manage it.
When the score of more Senators j
and Congressmen entered the recep-j
tion room the conference was over.
Although some of the men in the
crowd were never classed as his!
friends in the old days, he was ready
for them all
"If I go forward to greet them,
said he to one of the party, "they'll
say I'm forward and if I don't they'll
say I'm sulky."
So he went forward and he wasn't
sulky by any means.
As he had to return immediately
to New York from Baltimore, Mr.
Roosevelt declined an invitation to
be the President's guest here to
night. The President arrived in
Washington at 7. o'clock. After the
meeting broke up both men walked
over to congratulate Cardinal Gib
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WUl llrM Uk tin m tw rt4
ly rstf-ofj or ti t: r Ut
fms a Cst. !?- :.6! f?v:r,f e5
U1 to4j a &t surury
Pf-i4s? Tft. Uy Sf?
the ror4 of it far it
trait
f
JK-?irlrjF of St! lf,
on the 12.40 tour&er dro for t&
raycsat o? tte portrait. Art:t Ro
&ttl receSied oaly far ait
work fct.4 h II, a U jt i&ae
counted for.
Ttie Srei4et Ua4.
The President b14 tHal th IJ.IJO
u pid out of the emer ftacr faa4
for unforeseen e mere rs cte la
diplomatic and co&aular rcm aa4
for etetdinc diplomatic tnitrrosrt
with forclf n nattonc. vhtrh Coerrtas
bad provided need not be areoatsl4
for If the President certlCe thai aft
Item should be paid from ths fund.
Precldent Uooevlt had mad a crti.
fic.ttntl nmldm&t Tfi hlt.tAJ
Cither tindUr!ntv! itn a rnA(.
-
turt.A would be revealed. Secretary
plete hi investigation Into whM be-
; me of the money and to report the
facts to the President.
Chairman Hamllln, of Missouri took
with the Secretary's asserted
to refuse to proJuc the record
e expenditure.
Th Pre dnf mdd.i tKit hn
j Secretary Knox concluded bla Jnves.
; UraUon of lhe particular expenditure
an(1 8ubraltted the matter to
him.
e
... . -
dishonestly and Improperly mlsappro-
s - " v
tIme I do not deem It proper that you
should submit to the committee tbe
telegrams and other steps, or partial
details of your investigation."
t
OHIO SE.VATOIl ro.VFKSHEg.
Predicted .. a re.u.t .of Kr.n". ac
At I If m J
; men is were aio away temporarily.
REGISTRARS ARE IV IIIIIIXG.
Afraid to Register Negroes and
Afraid Not to I)o So.
Anneolis, Md., June 5. A unique
J situation exists here with regard to
j the registration of negro voter for
i vote waa practically eliminated at
the last election. Tbe negroes ap-
i pealed to the United States District
Court, which decided that the law it
unconstitutional and the registrars
are liable for damages.
The case was taken to a higher
court, where it is pending.
To-day was the first of three days
for registration, and tbe registrars,
who faced an infraction of the State
law if they registered more than half
a dozen negroes who could comply
with the law, or a possible violation
of the Federal Constitution If they
refused to do so, neither qualified nor
put in an appearance at the places
of registration.
What Did She IXean?
On bended knee I begged her fof
a kiss. ;
And hat did she say?
Told me to get up and be practical.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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