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. N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1911.
EpiT0RIAL BRIEF
i Hi-
it nalv will have Turkey
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Of lt-
roted last year for a
KIMMOXS AND THE HPKOAI, ITIiTlli IlftCrC fUl IHf ITCTI
iiiuii uurr.3 uuoiiiw
TKKKMTH.
Wilann has
v (tf ill i ii n w
r.iiai"' " v
, ,Umr.nta but not Of
Mar.
(j. O. P. Elephant will now
. rai.c the turn-. "Maryland, My
nor
,nd elected a
nnd the uaiumore
all over but the pouting
Republican
Sun
:-'
,vf.r: have
ft.reed ?
Senator Vance Said He Wan I'nfit fori
Office.
The Reldtville Review ig ringing
with the changes on Webster Week-
and small change at Mr at Reldtville about its recent
1 cnange or Heart in regard to v. M.
Simmons. The Weekly has criticised
Simmons In the past, but recently it
has become one of his champions.
The Review in one of its recent edi
torials says:
"We hare followed the record of
Senator Simmons since he has been
in the Senate. His vot has too fre
quently been cast contrary to the !
declarations of his party, and we say !
it regretfully, against the interests:
of the masses and In behalf of thej
special Interests. We have in our!
memorandum book some thirty or I
forty marks against him for votes we;
did not like. These things being so,
we are witholdlng from him our sup
port we loyally gave him eleven years
ago.
"The Weekly evidently likes the
record of Simmons, although it was
severely criticising him up until five
months ago, as we have shown, but
The Weekly did not like the record
of Simmons eleven years ago as will
be seen in the following from its is
sue of October 4, 1900:
" 'Mr. Simmons in an open letter
to Mr. J. D. Allen, of Wake County,
says that Senator Vance did not op
pose his confirmation as Collector up
on personal grounds. In this he is
Democratic Politicians Hid
Expected a 'Democratic
Landslide in Last Week's
Elections
HIT HARVESTER TfflJSTi
rut. rim ru;rtaTi rau
. ftwlf tm f"Srml trt
bopreme Court ox flissoan t ti akh a.
j Orders Harvester Trust to ; j
ifcTrwt Vrnm,
NOW BUSY tXPLAINING
I Tt JP5a 4tNkt ftmm WasJs
at
ir Governor Kitchin was
veto power if he would
the State anti-trust law
tf N!r nird doesn't think anybody
s ,o read Mr. Butler's Raleigh
r'h, then what is Mr. Bird holler-
,nr about?
billed to speak
Then watch
'v.omn (Mark is
l uai-
.. ii, tVita month.
the Democrats start the thirteenth
presidential boom.
Harmon is about the only available j contradicted by the Senator himself,
- V n TT A IfiTf -
dilate .he Uemocrau, .
a ineuu ui
and be is known as
Street and the trusts.
Ex-Governor Aycock has again an
nounced that he will stay in the
Senatorial race, which is further no
,,v to the mocking-bird to move on.
The capture of both branches of
the New Jersey Legislature by the
Republicans has given Woodrow Wi -.
i j ni ooniiidflcv a black
i'resiucuua
who wrote to the Ashevilie Citizen
from Tampa, Florida, February 5,
1894:
" I shall oppose Mr. Simmons'
confirmation on personal as well
as public grounds grounds con
nected with his unfitness to
hold the position for which he
has been appointed.' "
son s
eye.
Tie Democratic papers claim that
Mayor Gaynor's speech in New York
City saved Tammany from utter de
feat. But that is nothing to Gay
nor's credit.
New Hanover County wants a spe
cial term of court to try sixty-one
1 1 ,.,uOS9nd "hit" under Demo-
cratic "good government" in a prohi
bition State.
The Wilmington Star says cotton
has often fleeced the South. Only
twice when the Democrats had con
trol of Congress and tinkered with
the cotton schedule.
It seems that the caterpillars, the
boll weevil and the Democratic poli
ticians have combined forces to de-
v nnHnn industry In the
euujr liic vunvu -
South.
The Democrats are boosting Wil
son and Harmon for the Presidentia
nomination next year and still neith
er of these men supported the Dem
ocratic ticket in 1896.
The Robesonian says the result o
the elections last week was encour
aging to Democrats. Well, it was en
TVTTiocrats who
vuuiagmg hj tiiwv -
want to see the election go over
whelmingly Republican next -year.
If Woodrow Wilson should miss
the nomination the Durham Herald
thinks he would make a good man
for the Senate. However, the New
Jersey Legislature will he Republi
can and they may think different.
Judge Long Intimates that he
might be induced to he a candidate
for Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court It is now in order for all
Long enthusiasts to write him urging
that it is his patriotic duty to make
the sacrifice.
The Democratic politicians aTe
welcome to all the comfort they can
Set out of the result of the elections
held in the various States last week.
Mississippi wus the only State that
went solidly Democratic and the
Socialist came near ; capturing that
State. .
COURT APPROVES PLAN
Dissolution Plan of American
Tobacco Company Accepted
by Court With Some Changes
Court Says the Dissolution Must Be
Consummated Without Delay
Counsel for Independent Compa
nies Oppose the Court's Decision
and Will Ask the Supreme Court
to Review the Case.
The litigation which the Federal
government began four and a half
years ago to break up the American
Tobacco Company as a monopoly in
restraint of trade is approaching the
... mi. TTttil
stage or completion, ine umieu
States Circuit Court in New York
has accepted the plan of dissolution
rhich the American Tobacco Com
pany submitted in accordance with
the mandate of the United States Su
preme Court.
No one of the judges regarded the
plai as perfect, but all declared that
the ideal was beyond attainment ana
that as a practical, substantial com
pliance with the law, the plan, as
siigntlv modified, appeared the best
attainable. Each judge assertea nis
belief that the plan is honest, and
that there is no question of the good
faith of its authors.
The features of the opinions are
that the dissolution should be con
summated without delay; that the
reauest of Attorney General Wickers-
ham for the reservation by the gov
ernment of right to apply for fur
ther or other relief within & period
of five years if the plan did not re
sult in harmony with the law, is de
clared not to be within the power of
the court to grant; that the court
does enjoin for a period of three
years the 29 individual defendants in
the suit from acquiring any addi
tional holdings in the companies in
which the trust is split; and that the
applications made by independents
for dissolution of the Unitea cigars
Stores Company lay outside the au
thority of .the court, hut that this did
not preclude any independent action
later against the Cigar Stores com
pany as an individual corporation.
Independent Companies Appeal.
The announcement of the court s
action was followed by the declara
tion of counsel for several of oppos
ing Independent tobacco interests
that an atempt would he made, to
have the decision reviewed by the
United States Supreme Court.
Remarkable Republican Vlctorirt in
Some of Uw Staten lreldrot Has
Returned to Wahington and f at)
Work iin II U Meae to (Yrogre j
The Tariff Hoard I IJuy
Work UeiHrtN of the lloatrd
Awaited With Great Interest Why
Are Some Anti-Organization Re
publicans Blowing the Praise of
Simmons.
(Special to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. C, Nov. 14, 11 1.
The discussion in political circles
here during the past week has been
interesting and amusing, even if not
instructive. The Democraltc politic
ians were all expecting to see a
"Democratic landslide," and were
preparing to start a great whoop for
the next national campaign. It has
been very amusing to hear the vari
ous explanations that Democrats
from every part of the country have
been trying to give as to why the
Democratic landslide did not happen.
About the only enthusiasm that
any Democrat has been able to ex
press has been in pointing to what
they call the big Democratic victory
in Kentucky. It is true that that
State has a Republican Governor, and
that last week it elected a Democratic
Governor by about twenty-five thou
sand majority. This, however, is the
normal Democratic majority in that
State. As every one knows, a Re
publican Governor was elected there
at the last election before this one oa
account of the temperance split in the
Democratic party. ;
Remarkable Republican Vfrtotie.su -
tsstry xd abroad, prTli&c ti
ijrd eta fislth it report is tl
Thd tart If board It sow festily at wsrs
oa lu sttr.
It if welt kiiown that this tar4 tt
csspod of DesaocraU' is well f
Renubllci!!. it i utedttHuo $ .
thit their report will t- smasimoatj fQttlt BusiflCSJ IQ State
a to the factj. It l andefitooJ far-1 , u ftM MllSi4 td stf t?
thtr thu tb PrUst UI cot m Qf Jjj !UP0:H! to ! HtmM U
the board to make any rerosrua4-; an$ tt ;?rt Ut Cte-
toliu, but will only ak them to tut- f Kf mtl feot f M a r4?S lamf
GUh him the fact, and thit he will j Th n Uut ik 144 Before 4a-f tTxVi& t(L tumult tntXt
furnlh the junie to Coaitre! wit mrm . , AM. .fmm iJtfm) it.nraMUu!H tEt Ur, Tart It aki i
, ! hit letCa1a to ir c m
tomay Man nie IW f H , UcMlca Uf M ay
WUtlnjCBeM i IVwiplf With ttij tsAf rriU. rtf.!y nt ttey tta4,
, , .. . ,w.iat s4 It s!ia t&at fc fffr
t rsi to t& Ssac la it r
t e Mie 4.Vurt lrUrT 11 i uUtioa of cS3mfT aiifoarU4
thrftujcSi l4ral charters re14
hi recommeadatioas for reforrsiaf
the tariff according to ih fact.
Cireat latere Among CVxnmen
and Politician. I
There i the greatest interest here)
among the Congressmen and ioll-
li t: inr. of both partiea a to tV r-
? tart r.f tftlm luiifil Th it ft Ti! Iran
( ttniixiny Ua OrjgaaUed lf lle
Trwt ,simjly to Kde t!e tf
Um Slate of MtMout.
realize that if thia board makea an
accurate and intelligent report, thai
the Republican party cannot b? beat
en in the next election; on the other
hand, the Iernocrau realize that if
they can not pick flaws in the report Slate supreme Court Tuesday
of this tariff board, that they will be COurt's decision sustained the
The International Harvester Com
pany of America n outed frc-m
Missouri and fined $ SO. 000 by the
The
end s
fsrtf14 for cctrorsiia&a certaia 4
noed Ustllatloct. IU let tt V keawa
that ahould that prov iapotalU, hm
ou!4 tniorm amrndtae&tt to lh
Shereiaa law pointtsc out freiiraily
what "bit buaiae' may not do.
in the position of being forced to!tnffS of ttft Special ConmUnioner who!
JtlUT IMCKKRH ATTACK TtIK
law.
vote to reform the tariff as recom-1 r.ported to the court that the com-j They Claim Art a !ftterree4 bf H-
mended by the 1'resldent, based onjpany violated the common and anll-i preme Court Wltttoot omv.
facts, or they will face inevitable de- tru&t ,am8 of Mls,souri. j lftilrl mf MJ.k at ri
fnt f . . v. The Indicted meat packers of Chi-
The court ruled that the tine mut
I, . . , ; vno nmr uim e raac a lanocr
Koine North Carolina PoliUo. ue pa a r.o e . V'tM effort to aroll trial and to hat U
and that if the International liar
A prominent Republican from theegter Compiiny )rorea to the courts
State, who was here a few daya ago.
said that it was becoming noticeable
that certain Republicans who are not
loyally supporting Mr. Morehead and
the Republican State organization are
busy blowing the praises of Senator
Simmons. This would seem to con
firm the opinion expressed by The
Caucasian recently that Mr. Duncan
had entered into an agreement with
Mr. Simmons to try to get as many
Republicans as he could control to go
into the Democratic primaries and
1 rnta fnr Qimmrma.
by March 1. 1912, that It haa ceiled
all connection with the International
Harvester Company of New Jersey.
which he court held to be unlawful,
that the ouster of the International
Harvester Company of America will
be uspended.
The Harvester Company mut file
proofs of its wilingneta to comply
with the judgment of the court, and
the proofs must be approved by the
Attorney General of the State.
The opinion handed down by the
Sherman antl-trut law void mad of
no force. The indicted packers fear
surrendered to the t7<ad SUUt
Marthalt and made an tmtaedlata ap
peal to the Uniud 8UU Circuit
Court for a writ of habaas corps.
The argument will b beard lo-4ay.
The request for a decision on lb
constitutionality of the She man anti-trust
law before u&dtrfot&f trial
was said to batt been taken as a
necessary step to carry the 5a be
fore the United State Sapreme Court
J without the cost or delay of a trial.
court found that competition was
Recently, this writer was told by a SIcsgened and tnal practlcally all of
Republican member of the North lhe harvester business in the State
Carolina Legislature that he was in- waa done hy the rcgpondent company,
formed in Raleigh last winter by Re- ,t heJd that t was contrary to the
publicans that the present postmas- laws of the State of Miouri for one
term Kaieign naa aavisea uepuun- rnmn-nr to conduct the business of
cans not to vote the Republican ticket j another, as in this race. f
at the last election, saying, in sub-! The International Company was1
stance, that "we are not interested Ini or lzed Jn ,902 ,t auSOrUed uc-
It is true the Democrats re-elected tnis election, and we do not care any- j ce8slvely tXle McCormiek. leering, j
A DESTOUCTIVE CYCLOM
Caused Many Deaths and7idc
sprcad Destruction in Three
States
i fhlnir nKmit orntnor n tVta rtrklld anrl
Governor Foss in Massachusetts, but fe .. .
voting, ana otner tais pi inai itina.
Why has the Raleigh News and
Observer ceased to refer to the
Greensboro Daily News as a "subsi
dized organ"? It must be because
tho Greensboro News, like cotton.
Norway and Sweden Asa: Privilege
Under Favored Natfons- uurasw.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Norway and Sweden, through
thA dinlomatic representatives have
requested tho United States to grant
them, under the favored nations
MansA of their treaties the same priv
ileges given Canada by section of the
reciprocity agreement by which wood
nHnt naner are aamineu
I free of duty into the United States.
it was the kind of a victory that spells
defeat. Two years ago Governor
Foss was elected by thirty-five thou
sand majority; this year, he squeezed
through by less than seven thousand
majority a loss of 27,000.
In Maryland, the Democratic can
didate for Governor, who was Sena
tor Gorman's son, was defeated in a
Democrat State.
Woodrow Wilson, who carried
New Jersey two years ago, campaign
ed his Statd in this election and made
a personal appeal to the voters, pos
ing as the prospective Democratic
candidate of that State, for a Demo
cratic Legislature. The voters turn-!
ed him down by a tremendous major
ity. In New York State, Governor Dix,
who appealed to the people to give
him another Democratic Legislature,
was turned down by a big majority.
Republicans have the strongest work
ing majority in the Legislature that
they have bad in many years, and
thus it has gone in the pivotal States.
Indeed, the Republican victories un
der the present uncertain conditions
is truly remarkable.
President Taft and His Message.
President Taft has returned from
his great Western trip and is now
busy at work on his message. He is
very much pleased at the receptions
which he received. The contents of
the message have been pretty clearly
outlined by the President in the
speeches he has been making for
the last few weeks. He will stand
squarely for upholding and enforcing
the Sherman anti-trust law as it is.
He will strenuously oppose the effort
which is being organized by Wall
Street and the trusts to try to have
the Sherman law repealed.
In this connection, it is interesting
to note that President Taft has not
only carried on successfully all the
trust prosecutions started by Presi
dent Roosevelt, but that he has in
augurated, during the first two years
of his administration, eighteen civil
suits against the big trusts, including
the Tobacco Trust, the Standard Oil
Trust and the Steel , Trust, and has
instituted sixteen criminal cases
against the heads of trnsts. Indeed,
his record up to date ; has almost
equalled the records of the whole ad
ministration of President Roosevelt.
During President Roosevelt's admin
istration he started eighteen civil
suits, the ; same number - that Presi
dent Taft has started, and also Insti
tuted twenty-five criminal actions un
der the Sherman law. V : f
The Report of the Tariff Board.
The next most important question
which the President will discuss in
his annual message, or in a special
message will be the facts reported by
the tariff board giving the differ
ence in the cost of production In this
This also confirms what The Cau
casian has repeatedly charged, and
that is, that the remnants of the old
referee patronage machine in North
Carolina did not loyally support Mr.
Morehead and the Republican party
in the last election, but that they
wanted the party vote to be small, so
as to make it apepar that Mr. More
head had not made good.
A day of reckoning for such as this
will soon come.
Bushnell and Glessner, Milwaukee
Keystone, Minnie, Piano, Altaian it
Miller. Buckeye Company, and the
D. M. Osborne Company. The Inter
national Harvester Company, the
Commissioner declared In his report,
by reason of Its enormous capital.
$120,000,000, could not obtain a li
cense In Missouri, so the internation
al Harvester Company of America, a
selling agent, was organized and ob
tained a license. This concern, the
Commissioner said, was organized
simply to evade the laws of the State.
A Virginian Wins Prize for Growing
best Thirty Ears of Corn.
For growing the best thirty ears of
corn exhibited from any portion of
the United States, W. H. Dorln, of
Clover, , . Va., has been awarded the
$1,000 silver cut offered by a Har
vester Company at the American
Land and Irrigation Exposition, now
in progress at Madison Square Gar
den, New York, Mr. Dorin winning
over exhibitors from every section of
the country, among them L. D. Clore,
the famous Indiana Corn King, hith
erto undefeated in a contest of this
nature. Mr. Dorin's corn Is now on
exhibition at the Southern Railway's
booth and is attracting a great deal
of attention. Farmers from all sec
tions are showing extraordinary in
terest In the award since it is the first
time such a prize has been won by a
Southern corn grower.
Mr. Dorin plowed his land ten
nches and subsolled twelve Inches
. .
more, tie usea two pounas 01 pnos-
phate, his only fertilizer outside of;
clover turned uner. His seed was
carefully selected from an acre on
which he made a splendid yield in
1910 and the. corn which took the
prize was from an acre cultivated un
der the methods of the United States
Farm Demonstration Bureau, the
yield from this acre being one hun
dred and thlrty-seTen bushels. The
soil is the ordinary type of Southern
Virginia, a gray sandy loam about
eight Inches deep with a good clay
subsoIL --'a5" , J .
Mr. Dorin's success shows what can
be accomplished on Southern land
and is the more remarkable since he
is a former resident of a Michigan
city and knew practlcaUy -; nothing
about farming until six years ago
when he purchased 561 acres in Hali
fax County, Virginia, on the Southern
Railway's Richmond and Danville
line, paying eight dollars per acre
The award of this prize to" Mr. Dorin
will prove a valuable advertisement
for the Southeast as a corn growing
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DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN A
TILLER.
DIS-
Democrats of Rockingham C'-ounty
Holler P roW bition. Bat Hare a
Liquor Distiller an Their Lerier
More Political Hypocrisy Won
der Who the Combination Will
Favor for United States Senator?
ramim' llotno Deatroynl ami Dam
age inrreaed by Heavy Downpour
of Rain Many Hotnele Driven
Out Into the Snow and Si ret Mae
Person Killed In One Town.
Cyclonic storms passed over Wis
consin, Iowa, and Illinois Saturday
causing many deaths and destruction
of property.
Near Orfordviile, III., twelve per
sons were killed.
At Virginia, HI., several are found
seriously, perhaps fatally, and fifty
others slightly Injured.
In Iowa, a fifty-degree drop In tem
perance, accompanied by a driving
many hours.
Nearly every public building la
Virginia. HI., was demolished; farm
ers' homes were wiped out In Wiscon
sin and the damage was Increased by
the heavy downpour of rain, sleet
1 and snow.
The following news item appears sere weather conditions are re
in the Stoneville (Rockingham j ported au tne wajr trm Rocky
county) News in its local column: Mountains.
"Mr. William Young, of Reids- Two persons were reported killed
ville, chairman of the Democratic j by the gtorm at Milton, Wis.
county convention, passed through j ,n chjCJlg0 the wind blew forty
town a few days since en route toifour mIlea an noar and jQ bellow
his distillery at Phllpott. Va." I ftone Park and at Helena. Mont, the
If thl3 item Is correct the chair- j thermometers registered eight de
man of the Democratic party of j RrceK below zero.
Rockingham county is a Virginia dls-1 XIne person, wcre injured and
tiller, which seems very strange, , nearjy nalr a minioa dollar worth of
knowing the loyalty of the most j property was destroyed at Janesville,
nromlnent Democrats of Rockingham t
10. ,
county to prohibition. However, If m
may be found of practical advantage:
to have the owner of a still as Dem-j MAV IJK "EAUV BY 1P13.
ocratic chairman about election!
times while prohibition is supported ! Un 01 engineer says That Pan
the balance of the time. i m WiU B Used for Trade
Still it is a little strange that even 1 n V Operat-
the liquor element of that party "lwul
would select as their standard bear- Major F. C. "Bomcs. of the United
er a man who was at the time under j states Corps of Engineers, in charge
Indictment in united states conns
for defrauding the government of
tax on liquor.
Wonder who this distilling pro
hibition element will favor for Sena
tor, as the combinations looks formidable?
J - Of course the Independent manu
facturers are disappointed, but we
fail to see how they can hold the
administration, and especially the
President,. responsible for! the action
of that New York Circuit Court.-
i Durham Herald.
No Wonder They Disagreed.
SL Louis Republic
A Jury, confronted with the ques
tion, "What is champagne?" took six
bottles into the jury room with them
and disagreed. Did some of them
agree with the Cleveland machinist's
helper who said It was "darned poor
elder?"
The Durham Sun gives Democrats
the following "nut to crack":
"If Mr. Simmons was given more
power in the Senate we do not know
as that would be of any especial ben
efit to the Democratic party or to
Democratic policies, considering the
way he haa been voting ,
of the work on the Panama Canal, In
a letter to a member of the Progres
sive Union at New Orleans, says:
"I am directed by the Secretary of
War to Inform you that, while the of
ficial date of the opening of the can
al has been set for January 1, 1915,
It is the Intention to allow v errs Is to
utilize the canal Just as soon a prac
tical, probably, by the latter half of
1913. However, It is too fax In ad
vance at this time to fix any definite
date. ;
1 "Shipping interest will be advised
as soon as the Commission feels as
sured that vessels can be passed
without unnecessary delay."
Do you ever rea4? good letter?
Can yon write a good letter? Do you
realize that letter-writing Is practi
cally a lost art? :The Craart Cst,
which has established a department
to revive this branch of literary en
deavor, publishes in its December is
sue some human documents of extra
ordinary interest.
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