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RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 15. 1911. No. 23 EDITORIAL BRIEFS has yet written Glenn: .a no one s an "off year nxt year be? In politic,! If W i i i Trn if Bryan Woodrow Wilson MniH that Locke Craig's boom , . (. Governorship need Inflating. Clark probably thinks the appeal to the court of last Ml 7 he Democrats will probably wish fV-'it they had revised the taxes t ArjwanJ. ' Visiting Statesman" was also s KaW'iRh when the Hook Trust was Tvir.K to secure the State contract. V are Klad to know that the Charlotte Observer Is pleased with at !.ast on- phase of King George's coronation. An exchange scores ix-iiux-racy says that Bryan It is much easier to score Democracy than to make Democracy score. The Charlotte Observer wants sign boards on the highways. Probably bo the Democratic party can see where it is going. Some of the Democratic politicians are predicting an easy victory next year. The Democrats always see an easy victory until the day of election. The Iredell County jail is infested with vermin. Iredell should get rid of both the vermin and democracy and thereby rid itself of all pests at once. Bat, even if the Charlotte Observer should succeed in having sign-boards erected on all the highways the Dem ocratic donkey couldn't read the signs. Durham is thinking of asking for a special term of court for that coun ty to try the blind tigers. How is that for "Democratic good govern ment?" An ex-Governor of North Carolina to a former ex-Governor of North Carolina: "I will support you for the Senate of you will in turn sup port me for the Senate." Down in Columbia, S. C, they in tend celebrating the Fourth of July with square meals. They must think there is danger of electing a Demo cratic President next year. Ex-Govcmor Glenn in his letter supporting ex-Governor Aycock for the United States Senate has virtual ly eaid I will tickle you if you will tickle me with the same tickler. If Locke Craig should be elected Governor, wonder if he would recom mend to the Legislature that it pass a bill debarring all paid lobbyists from the hall??? A Wilkes County paper says there 13 general dying of chestnut trees in that county. The trees may be dead, but the Democratic politicians still have the chestnuts. An exchange says Champ Clark des not shrink from the mention of hls nam as a Presidential nnsRlhil- lty- Well, Democratic office-seekers are not noed for their bashfulness. Hendersonville, N. C, reports the , Pture of 10.000 gallons of liquor vniat tOWn" EvideiltIy Henderson- e's press agent thinks he is mak g a ten strike for summer tourists. crar addition to the present Demo c omce-holders there are four J6 CandIdates for the Senate who ready to save the State and still CuZT waIks the state llke a tinue to t. yuuucians con- oL US W and eco- eovem; 7 y are the State to rT1' and they continue - e btate deeper In debt 'ar. Vn . . " w" every Vomica,, .heIr or DIRECT ELECTION" OF SENATORS. Hill ra the Senate Amending the CVmsUtutloo Tb BrUtow Amend mment Giving Federal Gorm. ment Supervision of Such Elee tions Waa Adopted. Washington, D. C.. June 12. The Senate to-night, by 64 to 24, passed the resolution amending the ConiU tution to provide for election of Sen ators by direct popular vote. The Brlstow amendment, giving to the Federal Government supervision of such elections, was adopted, 44 to 14, the Vice-President casting the deciding ballot. The House has al ready passed the resolution. Senator Reed, of Missouri, protest ed against the Vice-President cast ing his deciding vote. An amend ment by Senator Bacon Qualifying the Brlstow amendment to prohibit Federal supervision of election unless! the State Legislature refuse or fail! to act was defeated, 46 to 43. The resolution as amended was then fi nally adopted, 64 to 24. The debate on the resolution look- ing to the election of United States j Senators by direct vote of the people j began shortly after noon. It soon I became a political affair. Democratic Senators criticised Senator Bristow's change of attitude. Mr. Brlstow framed the principal amendment, in the nature of a substitute to the main proposition and he sought to continue the supervision of Senatorial elec tions in Congress instead of delegat ing it to the States, as proposed by the House resolution. In the last ses sion the Senator voted against an amendment offered by Senator Suth erland, of Utah, which would have had the same effect as his own pro vision of this session. The Resolution Adopted. "That in lieu of the first para graph of Section 3 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States and in .lieu of so much of paragraph two of the same section as relates to the filling of vacancies the following be proposed as an amendment to the constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States. "The Senate of theUnited -States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the peo ple thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislatures. "When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate,v the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of elec tion to fill such vacancies: Provid ed, that the Legislature of any State may empower the Executive thereof to make temporary appointments un til the people fill the vacancies by election as the Legislature may di rect. "This amendments shall not so construed as to effect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Con stitution." The amendment resolution now goes into conference between the Senate and House and some Senators predicted that the House would re fuse tQ accept it. OHIO LEGISLATORS INDICTED. Three Members Indicted on Charge of Receiving Bribes. Columbus, Ohio, June 9. Three members of the General Assembly and an attache were indicted on brib ery charges to-day by a grand jury which then adjourned subject to call. Its investigation of legislative brib ery is not complete but it will not be resumed for the. present. Those indicted are: Senator Thos. A. Dean, Democrat, Sandusky Coun ty, whose name has been attached to nearly all the liquor bills during the last three sessions of the Assembly; Representative Frank -II. Calvey, Re publican, Cuyahoga County, member of the House Calendar Committee; Representative George M. Nye, Pike County, also a member of the Calen dar Committee, and already under three indictments for bribery solicita tions; Stanley F. Harrison, Cuyaho ga County, . Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate. All were indicted twice and all fur nished 5,000 on each indictment. New indictments against Dr. Nye, who was recently acquitted on a bribery charge, allege that he solicit ed $700 and "certain moneys from Al bert Corrodi, a local real estate agent, and J. H. Bradford and J. H. Smith, local merchants, to prevent a passage of a bill to protect game birds. Har rison was indicted for acting as in termediary in these alleged deals. Calvey was indicted1 for allegedly soliciting $200 for Mortimer H. Lowndon, of Cleveland, secretary to ex-Governor Herrick and an unnamed amount from W. R. Hopkins, of Cleveland, in connection with the Ed wards underground railway bill. STEEL All D SUGAflTRUSTS Department of Justice will Now Direct its Attention to These Combinations DEMOCRATIC HYPOCMSY T.ielr Opposition to Amendment to Constitution Providing for Direct Election of United SUies Senators Shows Gross Inconsistency Re publicans I lead y to Adopt Amend ment President Tart Will CeJe-1 brate Ills Silver Wedding Ann! versary Next Monday. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C. June 13. mi. j President Taft will rAihrt m President Taft will celebrate his silver wedding anniversary on ri.r i day, June 19th. This will be the third! time in the history of the cotintrvU that a President ha celAbratwi m - m- , ,viicic OUUUIU W Ciavti I U twenty-fifth anniversary in the White j the hands of the public, along with House. Already over four thousand ! thd telegraph and telephone. We invitations have been Issued by the' must have them In our civilization President to his friends and acquaint-! and we cannot have adequate perma ances all over the United States. , nent competition in them. The Steel Trust and the Sugar Trust "Adequate taxation of the idle Suits Next. ! lands of the country on the other ... hand, will break the monopoly of all It is announced by the Department; the great trusts. Their true control of Justice that the next prosecutions! iie8 in the lands they hold and which under the Sherman anti-trust law by! they force to lie Idle." the Government will be against the; Representative Francis, of Ohio, great steel and sugar combines. It: favnr Q r!na,0- a,, nn ,f has been known for some time that the Department has been awaiting the decisions of the Supreme Court in the Oil Trust and the Tobaco Trust cases, in order to get any additional light that might be given by such discussions on points of difference, against the other two great above named trusts. These constitute the four greatest trusts in America and in the world. In this connection it should be remembered, however, that the Department of Justice has not been idle since instituting proceed ings against the Trusts, but has been constantly pressing suits against a large number of other trusts, includ ing, the Lumber Trust and the-Beef Trust and other similar industrial combinations. It is also reported to-day that the Department of Justice will probably institute a suit against the Great Har vester Trust which controls the out put of farming machinery of the United Staes. The Election of United States Sen ators by the People. The Senate, on yesterday, adopted a proposed amendment to the Consti tution of the United States providing for the direct election of United j ft T a f no Qonotrirc hw Vz rwwr1n TVi I Democratic party, through its Nation al platform and on the stump, have been for years demanding such a con stitutional amendment. Now, when the Republicans have acceded to their demands, and are ready to join with them in adopting this amendment, the Democrats raise a new question and declare that they are not in favor of the amendment unless there shall be tacked on to it a provision to re peal Section 4 of. the Constitution of the United States, which reads as follows: "Section 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislatures thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regula tions, except as to the places of choosing Senators." The Republicans generally have ob-1 jected to changing Section 4 of the Constitution on the ground that the! law of the land as stated in that sec-j ion has been in operation ever since j the foundation of the Government, and applies to the election of mem bers of the House of Representatives as well as to the Senators. The Dem ocrats, on the other hand, contend that when the election of Senators is changed from a Legislature to the di rect vote of the people, that then Congress should have no control over the election of both Senators and Representatives. They claim that there will be some danger of force bills being enacted to affect the Con stitutional amendments and election laws affecting the colored .vote in Southern States. The absurdity of this contention is seen at once from the fact that Con gress has had this power ever since the foundation of the Government, j The Democrats of the House arei threatening to defeat the amendment unless the Republicans will agree to the striking out of Section 4 from the Constitution. This would seem to show their hypocrisy and Insincerity in claiming that they were in favor of the election of Senators by the people. 'r '; ij : Mr. Bryan still has his opinion of Democrats who are not Bryan Demo crats. Durham Herald. DEMOCRATS STILL ItXUSG DesaocraOc Omgrescmaa Frm Ohio' ' ppoaea Any Redaction Whatever j2 01 Varc-urenrr CO. "lnthWlenSchaaje--0r.i Ajfilfiit Anr-rlm Tfihiffo f aivri wvmWBCH! Ownership of Pnbilc Villi tk. Washington. D. C. Jan l Q. Th declarations of Representative Henry George. Jr., la favor of single taxa tion and the Government ownership of railroads, and the opposition of Representative Francis of Ohio, Dem- crat, to any reduction of the duty on l raw wool, were the features of to-; day's debate of the Democratic wool? tariiX In the Houte of IleDrcnt-i i tives. ! Mr. George followed a plea for tax-j auon or the unearned Increase in r k , 7 v eul he believed th conntrr tiltlm.lrf WM ..Ki, IT - all Public utilitfe. He was skl hrt ,, ; "ior tne alleged trut methods of the people of single taxation of lands! u .v. . Umi .k 7 " VT Mon-irMo" WUrm reaca ine &reai rauroaa cor! railroad9 ,houW tt nnhii. mw.. t. r. "t ck.u v. tured wooleus, but said a lowering of the duty on raw wool would wipe out, the sheep industry of the United states. Representative Tribble of Georgia, Democrat, favored the pend ing Democratic bill to reduce all wool and woolen duties. WILL BE A LARGE EXHIBIT. Southern Products Will Take a Prom inent Part in American Land and Irrigation Exposition to Be Held in New York. Washington, D. C, June 7.; In ac cordance with their policy of attract-' inghe attention of the outside world to the manifold advantages of the South, the Southern Railway and al lied lines have arranged to make a comprehensive exhibit at the Ameri can Land and Irrigation Exposition to be held in Madison Square Garden, New York City, November 3 to 12. The materials used in making this exhibit will be drawn from the terri tory served by the Southern Rail way, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, the Alabama Great Southern Rail road, the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway and the Geor gia Southern and Florida Railway. This exposition will be visited by thousands of just the class of peo ple it is desirable should become citi zens of the South. The exhibit will be a splendid advertisement for the section. Invitation is extended to farmers throughout the South to make indi vidual exhibits and compete for the attractive prizes to be offered, which include a $1,000 cup for the best short staple cotton, $500 in gold for the best twenty-five boxes of apples, $1,000 cup for the best thirty ears of corn, and $1,000 prizes for alfalfa, potatoes, wheat, and oats. In an effort to enlist the aid of the farmers of the South in thus adver tising their section to the world, the Southern Railway through its Land and Industrial Department is send ing out a circular to the farmers giv ing details of the prizes to be offered and how to procure space for mak ing exhibits. Any farmer interested who will address M. V. Richards, Land and In dustrial Agent, Washington, D. C, will be afforded every possible aid. The Southern Railway and allied lines are making this exhibit for the purpose of attracting desirable set tlers to the territory which they serve. They have made such exhibits at numerous fairs and expositions throughout the North and West in the past and have found this one of the most effective ways of advertis ing the South. Negroes Attack Foreman and Eight Are Killed. Hammon, La., June 9. Eight ne groes were killed at La Branch last night when they attacked Foreman Boutwell, of an Illinois Central bridge force, and Conductor Green Story, of a work train, according to reports reaching here to-day. ' The negroes, employed as section hands, conspired to kill BoutwelL When an attack was made on him the foreman shot three of the negroes dead. Conductor Story then came up and he and Boutwell killed five more of the conspirators. f Three persons were killed, several seriously injured, wires prostrated, trees uprooted and buildings dam aged by an electrical storm in Phila delphia Monday. THE TRUST SUIT CMJirj Co. Now On. Asks $ 1,200,000 DA RAGES The Tebaeto Trat CtfcargvwS With tTa- lag i'nfalr Methods ta Deatre? j the Jury Trial May Gonaa Mare Titan Three Weeks Win be a! it lUrd Ftmght Oaae, rii M i aa aa:- damage suit of Ware-Kramer Co - v . r.--r ' Pnr T- Amencan Tobacco company, . eomDtlilon that ; wkL, domtr ware-Kramer Company Pre - ivramer company was giving !n.!?. P44' u i cearmg ana ar- them in the cigarette butineas. hran!" gumenu will consume two or three " jrwai;i oy ia weeks' time. Democratic mnaera. mho hectiiled The morning session was marked ltb fnntri x otleg the t)mo by the select ion of the Jury and the cra!lc t!ckel- ur RepaMteaa ia reading of the complaint and answer. grr ns orators warned the farmer. The complaint and answer were!but h v ao b4- lu u Uktag read by sections alternately and con- 11 cul BOW ,a cumJe or flooay sumed two hours of the morning e-j,nence' premising what ha will do to slon. the iurr harlnr Wn lh Democrats next line. 1 can re- within two hours' time. The com plaint sets out a series of acts on the part of the American Tobacco Com pany to destrov the nlalntiff at n. com. netitor. an esnociallv notahu iwJon vot the Democratic ticket lat tion being the substitution of Amerl-S can Tobacco Company goods for sev eral car-loads of cigarettes shipped by the Ware-Kramer Company to China, the Ware-Kramer goods never having reached their destination and the American Tobacco Company goods being found in their stead sup plying the China trade the "indepen dent" goods were intended for. How ever, the Ware-Kramer Company set out that their check for their ship ment came in due time and they would never have known of the sub stitution had not a representative ound the American Tobacco Com pany goods on sale. , General trust,, methods of stifling competition constitute the principal charges made. A notable feature is the charge that, through a conspir acy between the American Tobacco Company and W. M. Carter, the lat ter who had been long in the employ of the American Tobacco Company, secured stock in the Ware-Kramer Company and was put in charge of the sales department and set about destroying the trade of the plaintiff as rapidly as he could by shifting salesmen from their well established trade to new territory and by circu lating report detrimental to the Ware-Kramer Company. Yesterday there was read to the court and jury affidavits and deposi tions that were taken by the plain tiff's counsel from officers of the American Tobacco Company. . The counsel in the case are C. C. Daniels, F. A. Woodard and F. D. Swindell, Wilson; N. T. Green, Nor folk; F. S. Spruill, Rocky Mount, for the plaintiffs; and Junius Parker, W. R. Perkins, New York; F. L. Fuller, Durham; H. G. Connor, Jr., Wilson, and Aycock & Winston, Raleigh, for the American Tobacco Company, and W. M. Carter, who is made a party defendant in the case. The Jurors are Robert W. Wright, Franklin County; Joseph P. Burke, Chatham; J. David Womble, Chat ham; W. P. Bremar, Moore; Ken chern Taylor, Northampton; Barnes Daniels, Jr., Wilson; Daniel Long, Person; W. F. Garrls, Richmond; Phillip Lee, Wfake; Franklin Barber, Wayne; J. M. Parrish, Johnson; Jno. PowelH Warren County. Country Spending $1,000,000 For Roads. Day Washington Dispatch. The money that will be expended on the roads of this country during the next six months will be more than ever before in the same period of time. The expenditure for this purpose in 1911 will aggregate about $140,500,000. Exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, the outlay for roads will amount to $1,000,000 a day during the present road-building season. This includes all funds re ceived from local taxation, bond is sues, State appropriations and pri vate subscriptions. "Every State in the Union." aald Logan Waller Page, director of the United States Office of Public Roads in telling of the results of the great campaign for highway betterment, "seems at last to he thoroughly aroused to the benefits derived from investments in improved highways. "In Pennsylvania the State aid ap propriation will probably amount to over $2,000,000 , and a $5,000,000 bond Issue is being c6nsldereL "The prospect for a complete sys tem' of public roads throughout the United States is better now than ever before in the history of the country." &rjUae liecaramay, 4 VtlmK Ay That the IVavn mt UU Ma Are Jl $m nxt fee flatU flow They Wevw S1Ktta4S at DvrvvS hf th Upo ta Shp Th WaaMsfte Fmt la V tag as t&tertW a few dr an f Settlor Hereaway, f tllla&it, y; U res si feed fsr feraf &6M&r Hesenay. f tfctsviiW Ife4 to 4e- fditidiit ia a is g&i. otar a arrival la Wahi&ie "Tar has heea a ren?fca Chag of aU!st ia oar since th Ut election, iaily amoat taf artsert. wao n&4 &at& (a co laora!ic taajrity ftf i., " 7Z .Vt " y r v.v.-r rv i or tfe Is'oa of feUac isotc --- rr".."T T v S J!T " . - v " 7' call an Instance In my own teetioa. A prosperous farmer, with evral grown ont, was ambitious to make a fine profit on steers. !( and hit year "g that th price of iteera would fo up. " Tb'n came the Democratic House tinkering with the tariff, and steers went down with . dull theddertng thud. My former l1end and his tons lost $1,200 by the drop In tteers. and $1,200 it looked upon aa a good year'a salary, and then some, in ec tiont of my State. My Indiana farm er cannot figure out any other cause than the projected tariff meddling at this end, and he. with hit tons, will hasten back to the Republican fold next time. Thlt It a homely Instance of the feeling that has come over the farmers out West and all ovtr the country. My friend watched those steer "with fond anticipation, even counting each day the pro flu, only to be thrown into the slough of de spond when the Chicago market an nounced a depreciation and lutle de mand. There la a general demand In Indiana for a return to good old Re publican dayt, and stoers will be of ten mentioned during the next cam paign M PRESIDENTS TRIBUTE TO NAVAL 4 HEROES. Mr. Taft Presents 3fedala of Honor to Six Sailors for Their Bravery I hir ing an Accident on the North Da kota. Washington, D. C, June 13. The Cabinet was kept waiting to-day while President Taft, aa Commander in-Chief of the Navy, paid tribute to six unlisted men in the service. In th presence of Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Captain Wiley, of the bat tleship North Dakota, the President presented the men with medals of honor, the highest distinction which this Government can bestow. The President t poke in praise of their heroic deeds when on Septem ber S, 1910, an oil fuel expoaion on the North Dakota killed three men, put in jeopardy the lives of scores of others, and placed the battleship itself in danger. . Thomas Stanton and Karl Westa, chief machinist's mates; Patrick Reld and August Holtz, chief water tenders; Char lea C. Roberts, machinist's mate, first class, and Harry Dlpscomb, water tender, made up the honored half dozen. These men waded in water op to their waists, in dense smoke, on bearable heat and fumes of burning oil and gas and steam, to rescue their comrades and to prevent further ex plosion. In addition to the medals of honor, a gratuity of $100 was given to each man. "It is a great pleasure to' me, men," said President Taft in present ing the medals, "to be the instru ment of conveying to you the grati tude of the Nation for what you have done." Prisoner Escape Through Window "of Moving Train Near Noriin. Tampa, Fia., June 1 3. Sheriff -Jsckson of this county has been noti fied of the escape at Norllna, X. C, yesterday, of W. F. Pounds, who waa being brought to Tampa from Paw tucket, R. I., where he was recently captured. Pounds took the o fleer, who was escorting him to this city for trial, unawares and plunged through an. open window of a fast moving train, making good his es cape. Pounds has given the officers a hot chase since January 15th of i this year, covering several States and some foreign countries, and that he should again escape, after once helng in the clutches of the law, is some- what discouraging to those who have followed his trail so closely. i '7
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