North Carolina Newspapers

0 1 VOL. XXX. RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1912. No. 3 1 -i .1 5 EDITORIAL BRIEFS Uarnura U dead but Dr&?derlck Cook la on deck. It might not be arnisa to as e ! Wilson supporters, "Who killed co robin?" The row over Woodrow Wilton Is about to eclipse the Senatorial fight In this State. Wouldn't ex-Gov. Glenn and Dr. Frederick Cook make a good double header on a lecturing tour? Democratic politicians are now de voting some tlmo to the discussion of the "high cost"-of securing the nomination. The Democrats tried to knock both ends out of the "pork barrel" at one time when they passed the Federal pension bill. The Democrats says they have plenty of presidential timber, but the people don't want any Democratic free lumber. The News and Observer had Just crawled on the Wilson band wagon when the spokes began to drop out of the wheels. An exchange tells of a city treas urer who refused an increase in his salary. No he was not a North Caro lina Democrat. We believe that Zeke Bllkins is the only person who ever reached the North Pole. Dr. Cooke to the con trary notwithstanding. An editorial headline in a Demo cratic exchange says "the truth is brutal." Have noticed that many others view it in the same light. The Democrats now want to inves tigate t'Ae money trust. Probably they want to find out if there is a sufficiency for campaign funds. The Democrats in Congress voted for a big pension for the Union sol diers, but did not vote a peiny for the Confederate soldiers who fought In the same war. Judging from the way many of them talk the Democratic politicians seem to think they know better how to run Republican politics thap their own political matters. The Thomasville Davidsonian says Woodrow Wilson seems to be un steady and changeable. That is very true and many of his friends seem to be in the same boat. National Chairman Mack says the Democrats will probably name a dark horse, and then Chairman Mack gets before the mirror to see if he re sembles a dark horse. Massachusetts elected a Democrat ic Governor and now it is announced from that State that the number of divorces are growing daily. It seems that one evil follows another. The Democrats are terribly anxious to know whom the Republicans in tend nominating for Governor. The chances are, they will know more about It than they want to before the campaign is over. Can't say whether the Penitentiary farms are making a profit or not but they should, aa tha number of crimes being committed under Demo cratic good government should give the Penitentiary authorities a good working force. Down . in Lumberton, North Caro lina, the Democrats have instituted suit to restrain the sheriff from col lecting the Increased taxes. But how are they to pay the increased salaries to Democratic pets If they" don't squeeze the tax-payers? The fact that Cdl. Henry Watter son is opposed to Woodrow Wilson as a candidate for President has caused one paper to observe that the Colonel hasn'U picked a winner in some time. But ' in that respect Marse Henry Is no worse off than all the other Democrats. H.t ACCIDKXT XKAIi TItOY. Two Children of Mr. Smith llanwl to Death and Home Itafttroyed. News has reached Raleigh from Troy, Montgomery County, telling of the death by burning of two little children of a Mr. Smith,' who lives on the farm of Col. J. R. Blair, which located on Pee Dee River, some ve miles from Troy. The father oibe little children, one three months and the other three years old, was away at work, and while the mother went to the spring, the little children caught Are. It is thought the older one walked too close to the fire, and then run to the cradle of the little one. Both were afire when the mother got back to the house. She carried the children out and made frantic efforts to save the building, but was unsuccessful in her efforts. FATAL IIAILROAI) WRECK. Four Prominent Business Men Killed Illinois Accident. A special sent out Centralla, Illi nois, Monday night says: James T. Harahan, Sr., former president of the Illinois Central Rail road; Frank O. Melcher, second vice president of the Rock Island; E. B. Pierce, general solicitor of the Rock Island, and Eldridge E. Wright, son of Luke E. Wright, former Secretary of War. were killed in a collision of two Illinois Central Railroad trains at Kinmundy, ill., twenty miles from here early today. Three trainmen were injured and the passengers were badly shaken up and bruised. Nejrro Farmers to Meet at Colored A. & M. College. President James B. Dudley, of the A. & M. College at Greensboro, has completed arrangements and pro grams for the third annual "farmers week" to be held at A. & M. College, the event this year beginning Mon day, February 12 and ending Satur day, February 17. ANOTHER ROW BREWING Final Fight is Deferred Until Monday . Threatened Trouble in Democratic Caucus Over the Sixteen Million Public Building Omnibus Bill Some of the Democratic Members Begging for Higher Tariff on Cer tain Products. An Associated Press dispatch sent out from Washington Tuesday night says: "After an ineffectual effort on the part of some members to place steel rails and big iron on the free list and increase the proposed duties on lead and zinc, Democrats of the House in caucus to-day ratified the iron and steel tariff schedule drafted by their colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee adding an amend ment to include baling wire in the free list. "The threatened fight between ma jority leader Underwood, Represen tative Fitzgerald, chairman of the Appropriations Committee and other leaders and Democrats who approve of the recommendation of the Com mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds for a $16,000,000 public building bill was postponed until next Monday night when a special caucus will be held. "Representatives Rucker, Taylor and MartJn, of Colorado, made a vig orous effort to have the proposed du ties on lead and zinc increased. All of them declared they were pledged to their constituencies for higher ta riffs than those proposed on these items, but their efforts were unavail ing. The proposed duty on lead In the bill is 25 per cent, zinc in blocks 15 per cent, and zinc ore is placed on the free list. Representative Rucker and Representative Taylor asked to be absolved from their caucus pledge. The only amendment to the bill was one to place baling wire on the free list with barbed wire and all othar fencing wire." . IN LINE FOR ROOSEVEIiT. Special to The Washington Post. 3 Chicago, 111., Jan. 20. Tha Natien al Roosevelt committee, which has as its aim the election of Theodore Roosevelt for a third term as the Na tion's Chief Executive, was formed to day at a meeting held in the-Union League Club. The Chicago Roosevelt Club, or ganibed independently a week ago, to-day adopted the following resolu tion to explain the reason' for its be ing: v . : .v "Resolved, That Theodore Roose velt should be the next President of the United States, because the people want him, and that's reason enough.'' mr. Hitchcock is on r' r . v e t i Gives Oat Interview Dechr-j ln lit is for CJcnomination of Mr. Tali CAUSE OF TEE IOTEfiHET? Much Talk About Mr. Roosevelt Jui a Candidate for IVealoVotPrrtJj. dent TafVs Friend Say They Are Sure of His I If nomination and KlectJoti The Talk About Demo cratic Presidential Candidate- The Watterson-Harvey Episode Urn Apparently Hurt Governor Wilson's Candidacy The Democratic fovea tigatlng Committees Have Created Expense But Produced no Other Results. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, Jan. i 23, 1912. Postmaster-General Hitchcock to day, declared in an Interview he was for the renomination of President Taft. One sentence in the interview has been the subject of discussion during the day by politicians. It is as follows: "I am for Taft as strong as a man can be, and did not realize until a day or two ago how far these stories of my alleged dif ferences with the President were going." The comment that has been most frequently made about this state ment is that it Js strange that the Postmaster-General should not have known or heard, until a few days ago, of the many and sundry rumors about his alleged disloyalty to the President, and also the strangeness of the fact that he should wait eyen "a day or two" after hearing these rumors for the first time to make a public statement that he was for. thai President for renomination. ft This interview has caused a discus sion of tha action of the Postmaster General In attempting to get a sub committee appointed by the National Committee at its meeting here last December to manage the next Nation al Conveniton, and that he should have selected this committee without consulting with the President; and attention is also called to the further fact that it was necessary for the President's friends, when they learn ed of such action on the part of Mr. Hitchcock, to go to the meeting of the National Committee and make a fight to get a committee of five ap pointed who were known to be friend ly to the President. Another Strange Act of Mr. Hitch cock. Of course, the recent action of the Postmaster-General in giving out an interview sayirfg that he would rec ommend ' to Congress in his annual message the purchase of all of the telegraph lines, without having con sulted with the President,, has been recalled by every one, and especially the explanation which the Postmaster-General gave to the effect that he had intended to consult the Presi dent, but that he had given out this statement to the press and had gone out of the city and forgotten all about it, as the reason why ha had not consulted the President Every day since that occurrence the papers have been full of more or less statements to the effect that Mr. Hitchcock would soon resign; also statements to the effect that he was In conference with those who wers opposed to the President's renomina tion, and many other similar stories. A prominent Republican from North Carolina, who was here to-day, said that the fact that the Postmaster-General found it necessary to de clare that he was in favor of the President's renomination and re-election was as strange as the fact that Mr. Duncan found himself In tha po sition recently where it w&a necessary for him to declare for the first time that he was also in favor of the President's renomination aad re election. Much Talk About Roosevelt's Oaav didaey. During the last week the political world in this country has been stir red as it seldom has been by the re vival of talk for the nomination of Roosevelt for President In many dif ferent quarters of the country. Some say that this Is a spontaneous expres sion of the opinions of the people; others say It is a part of a well or ganized movement. One day the city Republican committee of St. Louis passes resolutions declaring in favor of the nomination of the former President; another day the Governor of West Virginii. and next the Gover nor of Michigan conies out in an in terview to the same effect; another day the leading Republicans of a Con- - ; gff-4G&l District In Illinois tseet Itslons, and at see Repahllcaa Roosevelt dab are forced all er;i Um.m c. k. t . ec-hewl tyna t la 1 that district. Another day the u- llr: "C0lcr Says Use rfJUyfU u f Ujkitt twm. Pelican chairman of the State off Ohio gives oat an interview for' Roosevelt and calls for the ercaalta- f PtlCO VOfa f tor a wSil a f0tra&M ly m Uoo of Rofv!t clubs over the ! j for rW a csir Bute, which is Use President' tomt ' mtrnv nmrc amrrrrn ,d si tn 5 Another day it It anaoaacd that aI" flLtill r All 13 fttbUXIiiJ jraa ferxa f cimfasstal It li vtty Urge number of Roosevelt RepubH- I ettry fer tie io &frr4r4 can clubs hate been organiied la the Mr. Joyiter fjie IK Kt)Uw!r. rUM. It ttat cetftg ta I State of Oklahoma, and that the work 1 fdaa by tt roiiti! sa4 ttry Is being pushed by a committee of i l ut ,h 1 utt ,u1 frosa t saaa ta Aa4 progressive Republicans. This is simply a sample of the an-1 nouncements that have been made j every day, and sometimes three or four or a half-dotea from different ! parts of the country to the same ef fect on the same day. This has set all of the politicians here, and all who come and go in the national capital,, to discussing what It means and what the result will be with an interest that is most unusual. . In the meantime, the President's friends are quietly at work and meet all of these statements with the great est confidence that the President Is already sure of a renomination, and that his re-election Is of course ex pected. The Talk About Democratic !rel dential Candidates. There has been during the last week an unusual amount of activity among Democratic politicians in Con gress and over the country. The Watterson-Ilarvey episode has appar ently hurt Governor Wilson, for, as a result of it, several prominent men who had formerly supported the New Jersey Governor for the nomination have turned to Speaker Champ Clark. They charge Wilson with base Ingrat itude. A wise and experienced politician, v C r l . to-day, said that he believed that Governor Wilson had already reach- ed the flood-tide of his popularity, and that he was liable to lose ground insieau oi gain Deiween now ana we Democratic Convention. This politician, in reviewing the candidates and the situation, said that Governor Wilson would never i be able to get two-thirds of the dele gates to the Democratic convention; that Governor Harmon could not be nominated, and indeed that no one of the leading candidates would ever be able to gain any votes after the con vention met, and that a deadlock was therefore certain and that the result of the deadlock would be the nominatiin of Speaker Champ Clark. He pointed out that the .Speaker was not antagonizing any body, and that he would be the only candidate on whom the friends of all the other candidates could and would naturally unite. A prominent Democratfc politician, who has always been a strong sup porter of Mr. Bryan, who heard this statement, remarked that he thought that the convention was more likely j to turn as a result of a deadlock to Mr. Bryan, because the policies which he had advocate were stronger to-day than ever, and that Mr. Bryan him self had grown steadily on the coun try. The Democratic Investigating Com mittees. The many committees appointed by the Democratic House to Investigate any" and everything, where' they hop ed to find something against the Re publican party to use as Democratic campaign material, have been very disappointing to the . Democratic House. They have not yet unearth ed a single thing that could be used by them effectively In the campaign, while, at the same time, the "econo my Democratic House" is met by re quests from all of these committees for appropriations for farther money to pay the expense of continued in vestigations. It is plain that the result of the work of these committees Is not only very disappointing, hut that their continued existence is becoming to be embarrassing to the Democratic leaders. They not only have found nothing for campaign material, hut they have often made themselves more or less ridiculous in attempting to conduct these Investigations. A recent case was the appearance of Mr. Carnegie before the committee investigating the steel trust Mr. Carnegie simply made a monkey of tha investigating committee. Knocked Into a Cocked Hat. From the Chattanooga Times, Dem. We shall be somewhat surprised If the verdict of the country following this Incident is not that Governor Wilson has at last "knocked Bryan into a cocked hat" by outdoing: him at his own game selfish perverse aesa and wilful disregard of the ob ligations of personal friendship and political partisanship. It Is melan choly, too, that It appears so, for Governor Wilson was at one time the most promising figure among; all the Democratic entries for the Presiden tial nomination. PUD LI J SCHOU SYS I EH 8eQC System IS VorSC Thin -Only HO Dmj fkhtmd While Arer; I am In rVlt1 la f.Vt lltrta.t f by tsaa to areussslate wealth aa4 j Wbere theHcbool Are Longer It U jnore the oat thla that so vitally U by Special Tai Detaocrmtie Vmrf frcU tess ta Sort Car loliaa? Cannot IVInt Will IHUie to tts! -M it Legiaiaiioa foe School. Duriag the campaign when the Re publicans charged that the public school system in this State was rot being operated to the best Interest of the school children of this State, the Democratic politicians said the state ments were untrue and that the charges were being made simply for political purposes. Since that time, however, many educators and many Democratic papers have not only ad mitted the statements but many of them have even made more serious charges against the public school sys tem, as now conducted, than was ever made by the Republicans. The following article by a Klnston corre spondent of the Raleigh Evening Times gives further evidence of the mismanagement of the public school system of this State. "Mr. Hooker on the School. j"To the Editor of The Times: i "Our free school system, or the lack of system, or maybe too much gystenit however the failuro lo . ft raKOnahift RPhnl trm in hnth j ,ength and kiud u tne cauge of lhIl , criUclsm of our BChoola Jugl now. While all the schools and colleges that have their origin and mainten ance through and by the taxation of the people have prospered most won derfully, and while the wealth of the State has Increased r 25 per cent In the last ten years, "the free schools stay the same. Ninety per cent of the people that create this wealth are patrons of the common schools and have no other means of educat ing their children, yet by the creator of this system they are not consider - ed of sufficient importance to share in this increased prosperity of the State Mr. Coon says that it is a patch work system; I hardly think so, for as my mother used to use patches they were applied to the garment in its most needy parts. It is not so with Mr. Joyner's school system. It puts each patch of good cloth where the garment is the best, or worst still, he gives the patch to the boy that already has good clothes while the-little fellow with ragged breeches (often times no fault of bis) Is left without protection. Our Democratic party can never point with pride to its legislation In the Interest of the people as long as the present ar- I rangements continues. I fail to see how a more unjust set could be de vised. As it now stands the patrons of the high school after getting their share of the common school fund come in and take further of the lit tle fellow's already depleted ward robe. Mr. Poe says that we have 101 days elementary schools only two States below us, while the aver age of the United States la 155 days. If that be true, we have nothing, as he says, to be proud of except the op portunity to Improve. But have we 101 days? The schools around me have only 80 days. Are they not an average? Where do the other 21 days come from, and who gets them? Will somebody please tell us? Are they the result of the combined help from the State Treasury, and what Is taken from the common school fund in the counties whre these dis trict high schools are located. The common school fund was raised for common school purposes. The tax la levied and collected for that specific purpose. To change that money In to any other channel other than the education of all the people can he termed nothing less than absolute theft sanctioned by law. The farm life schools seem to have met with hut little success so far, and may It ever be so. For a county to spend aa much in equipment and maintenance of one farm-life school to train fifty boys and girls aa it does in its whole free school system to train 3,000 boys and girls reminds as so very much of the tail wagging the dog. Craven County I don't believe Intended to do that, but they were told of the great good that would come to them through a farm-life school, and that there was only a few to be given out to the largest counties, and that it was, necessary to vote quick and avoid the rush, and also the falkire on the part of the people to Investigate Its real worth accounts for Its adoption. However, there are still nine left, and I tat ft ca4ftt m e? I try r tl rc;t .r.4-?U ta re?! a rafr&3gu ly a fw wfctt in tt u la tls a ?!&31f ttv ajai&f t tb eoMall&s rUl trust if we eaa't be trusted to gtt every child tn this State a fair stir of the State's presftrl? la the tern of public acboolt, sad to fo rer elttal&ate the poifcl!liy of oae taaa'a domt&attcg the VibUe schools. We had as well fare the caxe4 facta that North Carolina has mighty comtsaa. common schools, aad If there had bees as math effort to thtlr behalf as there has been la behalf of farta life schools, they would hate been far better thsa they are to-day. Tha Agricultural Department la both this State and the Nstioa are trytag to I rap ret on the farmer tbv Import fit of a thorough preparation of thm solt to Insure a satisfactory harvest. How much more necessary It la then that the thousand of free arhool children all over this State should be well trained to meet the duties and re sponsibllltirs. and at the same time 1 enabling them to lire the life more fe (accordance with the wishes of our P. A. HOOKER. j Creator. "Klnston. N. C." All fl If) 111 ft ICCIICC PAI I UHhIIIMAH lObUtb lALL ! . Republican State Executive Committee Will Meet in Raleigh Feb. 20th. Will Decide on Time and Place of .Next Stat Convention. Which Will Select the Foar IMcirate-atLn: to the National Itepuhllcan Oonren lion. ) ' ! Hon Jbn M. Morehead, chairman, h Jued. a caU t0 lho of the Republican State Hiecutlre Com mittee to meet in IUielch, Wednes day, February 2fc, to select the time and place of the next Republican State Convention and to transact any other business that may properly come before the committee. The call re&dsy-as folio : "Dear Sir: Notice Is hereby given that a meeting of the Republican State Executive Committee -will be held in Raleigh, N. C, on Wednesday, February 28, 1912, at the Yarbor ough House, at 1:30 p. in. "The object of the meeting Is to designate the time and place for the holding of the Stale Convention td name delegates-at-large to the Re publican National Convention and for the transaction of such other busi ness as may properly come before the State committee. "This meeting at the beginning of the National and State campaigns Is important, and you are urged to be present. Be kind enough to write and indicate your purpose of attead Ing. -Signed by the secretary." The members of the committee are as follows: John M. Mojehaad of Spray, chairman; Gilliam ,G lissom. Spray, secretary-treasurer; district members, I. M. Meekins, first district; D. W. Patrick, second district; George E. Duller, third district, J. J. Jenkins, fourth district; R. S. Robert son, fifth district; 8. A. Edmund, sixth district; F. W. Ilanes. seventh district; C II. Cowles, eighth district; Charles E. Greene, ninth district; F. A. Fanning, tenth district. Members-at-large Thomas Settle, ex-oficlo, chairman, Asheville; Harry Skinner. Greenville; J. IL Gas kill, Tarboro; C C. Van a. Roe R1I1; James P. Parker, Smlthfield; XL G. Campbell, Greensboro; L O. Tucker, Whiteville; Dr. J J. Mott, States ville; Ed. A. Smith, Charlotte; G. J. Harris. Dillsboro. Iroppinjr Away From Tilsom. From the Greensboro Record, Dea. Begins to look as If that last shot at Woodrow Wilson hit him. Here tofore he has never been touched, but that Harvey episode la certainly not doing him any good if we are to Judge, not by the opinions cf his enemies, hut by what some of his hitherto warm supporters are sayln;. . . . . . The worst sign Is that cons of Wilson's best friends have desert ed him, while few of then can cUnd to him now. His action was fearfully cold-blooded. Colonel Watterson urs It was tyrannous. He was present and ought to know.