North Carolina Newspapers

HElC AUG ASIAN. ' RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1912. EDITORI AL BRIEFS "Kxn tTOn TO The editor of the SrxHthfif 1 1 Jour nal should take something for his liver. Corpse Ojnr,! Kje and Aked if it Wasn't IJralnin- (Yrm.l nK-perned. It Is not often a person com to life after one being pronounced dead, but thlt Is what happened In the' case of Robert Smith, an a red resi dent of the South Hominy pectioa ot aura ... , WILOUM LUDliiU bKUUiiUir,so m cm Colonel Watteron etoo 1 on the burning deck whence all but him had the county. lt bad been known for months byitffior Tlfl ; his friends that Mr. Smith was Incur- Ufc IAU1 Suppose this row in the Democratic ablv M and a8t week he apparently i uiea ana was " a d out" and I i The UtM.tett Tlk. Political Washington is Dis-j rmBg the pat rk the? ieen promlscnt polIUciis.. in cluding tie G Jof THE AlICIBir HISTORY tfta rcaxUV tot Ss cussing J Wilson-Harvey-Wattcrson Controversy The Early Days of the French Republic orrr.or of a samWr State, who hate visited ei-Preii- 1 Ik"1 X;;". 'hub;ro. ilaiamiBiaY fjfulib nr tiAitdniriii &ji come mr de UF auiKLYUl ; daring that they are In fa tor of the rrwdrd to IIU Ttirw ? ranks is all in the interest of party ; harmony. every one left the death chamber. Some hours later several persons entered , . , ... . ltho room again and one who had It now looks as though oodrow , helpe( tQ shroud tfae Wilson has been "knocked into a ; that one of the arms was not In its Hi 1'rienriw Claim He Would Accept the Nomination. Though He U Not H1 admit that they are authorized ? . ... .... "m a, . nomination ot the ez.Presideat and that they are going home to work for him. None of them, nowe'ter. Candidate Dr. Abbott Urt0 that Co!oCel HooieteU w I candidate, but they all fay cocked-hat.' Savoyard, the Washington corre- original position. He started to re-1 - wucu r. omiin openea one eye slightly and ventured: "It's "a yaller Democrat, new brand. Uut that is no w I f 1 . A a ... - f spondent, says William It. Hearst is 'rt,H'n' ,an 1 li; All in the room uiu pressing Dusiness elsewhere, buti they gathered courage to return later I and through the day listened to the occasional remarks of Mr. Smith. The next day he was pronounced dead ill be Make Statement in Xett Imuc of f h-v r,A t ttA- . - v. mcum kui iui no. li the Outlook Ireident Taffs ,natcd and Jted. and they are satis .w. . . !fied tbat be cancot and will not re- 4 1,tJ,ua ,w isoose-ifug the nomination if if I. tnrA 1 him- 4 Ik F It tt t aj ff atty s r it 9 t& t I3t. catry a r1 fSfcfattia, Afif tu, fUe t. iHlf v lUt aft a.J;r for , aaf4 tSt IUt fern. !! ra??4 Uttt.'U rtH trfa! arsy is r tt aa tsfti s lo a -t? ja. Csarlrw ta4 at fr at ti. i. , ... ... M ii!tr le& l a T&ila arrr4 1 t El OISS, tBt fclRf 6ft kit Had a firand T1m la Italy aad ne at lh frl or U, ract IClajr. Nearly Cafotuml t!e Vo4rr ilaiTBloc In the SrtenUt CVntary lVfia Itade Cjmi1, atl Iterame The politicians at Washington pre dict that Congress will be in session until dog days. Since the Democrats have placed their trust in money they will hardly prosecute the money trust. again, but his people took no chances and did not bury him for three days, i This time he remained dead. Mr. ! C I I V, j. . . ! ouum was seventy years oi age and! had suffered for years with tubercu losis. Union Republican. The Democrats want cheaper tin plat'. They probably want to lay in a supply at the pio counter. Nothing in Sight to Have a How Over. Wilmington Star. velt Will Make Any Effort to Get the Nomination and Feel Confident President Taft Will lie Renomi nated. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C. Jan. 30, 1912. The chief interest in conversation not only on the Hill among Senators and members of the House, but also in every hotel and in every part off the capital for the past week, has been about equally divided between the prospect of the name of ex-President Roosevelt being presented to the i" Ispljfe4 hit r2a. M ! ffifaated. Hut . Taaklloc, at oar When a Hundred Thousand IWndi atarted Id cathrf a fort to tttrt tf Soldier IHed. ' troqbU. which ror rty afr I tll tatlifartorilly ctUlal. 1I S? SrjSS Corre.pond.nce of The Cauc,,a.Ka . - rmant1, i fi ?r the Pa Earl' in tfc Century CharJe. an- wh.a Tlloa &tr. t'.mTnt K,Pra " 7 6 aml Charles Martel. the ruler or France. ; ed the diet at Ucteheim b wut ar- statement. This means an aeiE;res-U,- .. ....1 . ... . .t,4 k ...... " " uifiauwu uRai uy a numueri of the President's admirers In every vi u ii i i i til irita f fill n t rv T f-rrt wt n " VWMMVw a.va uu- f nftnnrfri" rmmtrl lv n-.. . 4 w t v . w . 9 i v fy V i nlz alliance an protection ui ilic- Ited by awlmott awl or the rulers or When it comes "down to bras3 on the point instead of on the head. I ' Democrats would have very few 1 noxt National Republican Convention ; rows if they would consider what then the Republican side and the Wil i row is about. I eon-Harvey-Watterson controversy on ! th Democratic side. Democratic harmony doesn't stand any more show in the nation than Aycock's mocking birds do in North Carolina. v (lucss all this row in the Demo cratic ranks has caused Woodrow Wilson to wish for some more of his "animated moderation." WANTS A SQUARE DEAL Children in Other States Have Better Chance for An Education Some of them in Greensboro thought they had caught the Demo cratic spirit but later found out that it was only the measles. According to a statement accredit ed to Col. Henry Watterson, money and not patriotism counts with Dem ocrats in a Presidential campaign. "The Crooks seem determined to elect Wilson," says the News and Observer. But the straights are just as determined to elect a straight Republican. Wilson Has Lost Ground. The net result of the discussion I abotu candidate Woodrow Wilson is j that he has lost ground. ! Immediately after the first an ! nouneement that Colonel Harvey, the editor of Harper's Weekly, had ceased ; to support Governor Wilson because A Comparison of Our Public Schools j Col aTy and lenJl Patterson j wanted him to agree to let Mr. Thom- With Those of Other States Shows j as F. Ryan finance his campaign, it ; caused the people from one end of the country to the other at once to 1'p North Carolina in Bad Light Our System Needs Revising. In a recent issue the Biblical Re corder calls attention to the poor sys tem of public schools in North Caro lina and shows how conditions could be improved. The Recorder says that the country boys and girls have ad vantage of ninety-three days' school term a year, and as a matter of fact, many of them have only eighty days, and in many instances the schools are so far apart the small children cannot attend in the wet or cold weather. The Recorder savs: j "North Carolina is not giving the j boys and girls of its elementary j schools a square deal. In proof, let : us make three comparisons. I "(1) Compare our schools with ; those of other States. In his Found ers' Day address at the Greensboro j Normal sometime ago. Mr. Clarence I Poe stated that the average child : outside of North Carolina has a 50 Candidate Champ Clark says he is f?er cnt bf"er chance Kfor an educa" tion than the averaee hov or eirl in BUt thetho Ctofj Tha qvaroiTQ lnn-tK V. A North Carolina lawyer is appear ing as attorney for some French peo ple in a suit against the State Uni versity. Is this attorney a traitor to his State? position. Later, facts have come out which have much modified this view. It now appears that Governor Wil son accepted the support of Colonel Harvey and Harper's Weekly when he was a candidate for Governor of New Jersey, and that he also accept ed the support of of a number of leading New York financiers during that campaign who contributed be tween seventy and eighty thousand dollars to his campaign fund. It appears that when he became a can didate for President that he was will ing to accept the support of the same influences, and that Colonel Watter-; son was appealed to by Governor Wil-! Ul the next National Convention in favor of his nomination. It was pointed out to-day by an enthusiastic supporter of President Roosevelt that the only objection that had been made to the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt was that the people vould not support him on account of the prejudice against the third term. Thi3 he promptly answered by saying that the fact that no other objection the III chose him for a protector; aa offered to shake oh the yoke or the Greek Kmperor, an inrest him with the dignity ov Roman Consul. But tefore the arrangement could be completed Martel died in the y'r 7 41. Iliz three sons succeeded him in rulin the country. But Grippon. the youngest, wux only able to play second fiddle to the other and poo a became dissatisfied. He seUed the arch. At th trial Utr hit duho. etty ut proten aa he wt atr&c4 to lo hit head. Hut the Fr&?h Kief chanjeed It to life tmprto&ett an Bavaria wut aaneted to Kranre He toon defeated the Hun la battle. alo the !ta!U&. Bat the Haet continued to afet Kreech territory an create trouble, Cbaric tarHftl an army into their country, tat tt epidemic ov !cVnet ror.?; !! m to retire before he could brlif tatat (Continued on page S I 1B. . ... coum De raisea against his nomina- city ov Lohoa, hlz mother idln with uon proved bis strength and avail ability, and he further stated that every one knew that the only objec tion to a third terra, so-called, was that a president of any office should not use his power and patronage to secure his renomination, and that the spirit and substance of the objection to the so-called third term was com pletely answered when a man was MANCHUS TO ABDICATE out of office and a term had Inter vened, though it should be admitted that the President had terms. This Roosevelt supporter also pointed to the fact that there were a 3? J m ber-, fStales i oOhe Union, tliat provided in their constitutions that no Governor should be elected for a him in the row. Hiz two brother! raised a large army an" captured the place an placed Grippon in prUon. They awlso placed the'.r mother in a monastery. In 746 Carlonian. the other brother, resigned. leaSn Pepin in full control ov France. Hlz ruel v.-uz praised by most ov tne ancient historians. But Childeric wuz the rnlrrlod That the Imperial Tamil ngntim neir to tne throne. An ap- A Meeting of the Cabinet Today to Arrange the Details peal wuz made to the Pope an' he de cided that Childeric wuz incanable served two, an' that Pepin ought to be continued on account ov hiz ability to govern. After this Childeric wuz confined In and Prince Are to Iterelve IVn loni of $2.iKH,RM- Twenty-One Beheaded in Street of Mukden. Peking, Jan. 30. It if understood second term, and yet that in every i a short time later while such State where a Lieutenant Gover- force an entrance into Italy. So nor had become Governor that no j Pepin wuz still King ov France an question has ever been raised against without a rival. the nomination and election of such j pepin secured the submission ov person for another term having ! th Snrnn an' latr rtm.rt nnnv He next undertook the protection ov Pope Stephen III against Astolphus, a monastery for life an Pepin held j that immediate abdication of th on , to the job, finally assuming the j throne has been decided upon, at a title ov King. Grippon wuz Anally result of the conference between tho released from prison an' wuz killed Krapres Dowager, Prince Chan, the served a part of one term as Gover nor, though having been elected as Lieutenant Governor. standing on his own feet. Speaker should remember that even those who stand on their own feet slip sometimes. Don't know whether Colonel Wat terson has made a mountain out of a mole hill or not, but Professor Wil son will find that the mountain is there all right. school term in North Carolina is 101 days, while in the entire United States it i3 155. Japan, a heathen country, with one-tenth of our wealth gives its country boys and girls a term of ten months. In North Caro-' Una, the country boys and girls are ! The President's Friends Confident. If! J A t A . . . son's friends to raise a goodly sum! auust au OI inis iaiK wmcn is, or of money, and that he did so. It also I course- interesting to all the friends appears that Governor Wrilson did nott dna suporters oi tne administration, Durham Superior Court granted thirteen divorces last week. If this condition keeps up the people will soon be coming from Reno to North Carolina to get a divorce. It really looks as though the lead ers of the Democratic party are go ing to get together, hut what they will look like when their friends get them apart again is another question. J. F. Spainhour is quoted as say ing the preachers should get into pol itics. If its Democratic politics Mr. Spainhour is talking about, can't see why he should want to drag the min istry into the mire. A Northern exchange refers to the last Governor of this State as "ex Governor Glenn,. of South Carolina." That Northern exchange is fixing to get into trouble with South Caro lina, which already has troubles enough in the form of its present governor. The Winston-Salem Journal thinks the people of North Carolina might bave "had new wine in old . bottles and sugar plums for desert by doing our best to raise a sweat instead of rising "cain" most of the time." Hush! Don't you know it is against the law to put new wine In W botles in North. Carolina? getting 93 days, for the 101 days in clude both rural and city schools. "(2) Consider the State's distribu tion of its educational funds. For the benefit of the 735000 children of school age in its borders the State gives annually $225,000 to Its ele mentary schools, and $604,500 to its higher educational institutions. In other words, out of the State Treas ury is going more than $100 annual ly to each student in the higher in stitutions, about $12 to each student in the thigh schools, and only 30 cents for each student in our elementary school. "(3) Think also of the State's sources of revenue for its education al work. The law-requires every man to pay 21 cents on the $100 for State purposes; hut out of this State fund thus impartially collected the Leg islature gives back unequally to the children as above stated. Moreover, the last Legislature ignored the need and call of the public schools for more money out of the State Treas ury; for though it made ah advance from 18 to 20 cents on the $100, this does not come out of State fundsf but is an extra tax levied, collected and spent in each Individual county. , "Manifestly, our common schools are not getting from the State what they deserve. We are profoundly convinced that they should have much more money out of the treas ury than at present in order to have more teachers, more competent teach ers, better equipment, and longer terms. , s . : VTo the next Legislature we look for improvement here. And thIsgood hour Is the time for the people of North Carolina to see that no man is sent to Raleigh next winter who will ignore the common, schools or refuse to give them a square deal." object to the support of these parties or of other friends who were putting up a large amount of campaign funds until the fact began to leak out and certain of his progressive supporters began to protest. Indeed, the net re sult seems to be that Governor Wil son was in favor of accepting the sup port of all of the people whose sup port he now repudiates as long as such support was kept In the back ground. In this connection, attention has they have, however, not only appear- ed serene but more confident than ever or the renomination election Of tho PrpSfrtPnt Tha nneiJ tion of the supporters of the Presi dent is that while one Democratic candidate might be stronger than an- the King ov the Ixmbards. who had seized the exarcate ov Ravenna an'! wuz insistin' that he wuz the King or ; Rome. The Pope appealed to Pepin in person and wuz a guest at the pal- ace for a time while recoverin' from a serious illness. When he got well.: he Placed the diadem on tha head or and re- v- rrnnn v. I gai unciion upon niz two sons, an maae tnree princess Patricians or , Rome. This seems to have had the tryin to ex-Regent, and Prince Chine, the ex- Premier, in accordance with condi tions laid down by the republicans, namely: That the Imperial family and princes are to retain their empty titles, reside In Pekinr or else where at their pleasure and re ceive anual pensions aggregat ing 3,000,000 Ueli (J2.000. 000) and that the trantfer of power will be effected with as little lots of dignity to the throne as possible. The Empress Dowager has. suns I rooned a cabinet meeting to-morrow j to arrange details of the abdication, j Premier Yuan Shlh Kal. In a ttate jment to the newspapers, aren his t readiness to accept almost any told- other, that yet the President would ir:: TV '"u " .TH ln which will Insure peace. been called frequently during the past week to the fact that Governor Wil son has only recently become a pro nounced progressive. That for all of his life until he became a candidate for President he was known as a con servative and had the support of what is known as the conservative interests in this country. Attention has been called to a num ber of books and articles which Gov ernor Wilson has written within re cent years. A book which he wrote and published on the American Gov ernment took most conservative posi tions. Indeed, he took the side of capital against labor. Governor Wilson has been one of the greatest admirers and defenders of President Cleveland. He has up held arid defended President Cleve land as being wiser than his party and a defender of vested interests, and has attacked all who opposed the position that President Cleveland took on the money question, the trust question, and all other similar ques tions. It has been pointed out that a man who not only held such views, but who wrote books and articles and made speeches in support of the same after having reached mature age and essayed to be not only a speaker but a teacher, could not suddenly change these views, and that if he did the public should be entitled to an ex planation for such a change. The newspapers and magazines are beginning to publish extracts from such speeches and articles by Gover nor Wilson, and this is "only the be ginning. Already this has turned the rise in popular tide for the Governor in the other direction, and many wise politicians are now saying that if he is nominated that this kind of litera ture circulated all , during the cam- with a powerful army. Astrohphus resisted but not for long an wuz at last compelled to make a full surrender an agreed to observe awl things demanded ov him at the time. Astolphus soon smash ed the treaty, however, an the Pope made a second appeal to Pepin. He again carried an army to Italy an made things harder for the ruler ov I that country by requirin him to pay a heavy annual tribute to France. Astolphus didn't lire long thereafter an the rule ov Italy passed Into s - It Was Not the "Xefcro Vote" But So- other hands an changes called Democrats That Elected defeat any Democrat who would be nominated. They also express confidence that while President Roosevelt's friends will continue to talk for him and work for him that Mr. Roosevelt him self does not want the nomination and will himself make no effort to get it, and that President Taft will be renominated by acclamation. WAS WHITE MAN'S CHOICE. South Carolina Governor. Charlotte Observer. "Governor Cole Blease was not loaded upon South Carolina by the votes of the ignorant negroes; no ne gro, Ignorant or otherwise, had any say in the matter. He's in Wade Hampton's chair because South Caro lina white men voting all by them selves in a Democratic State primary put him there." This is the very just comment of The Hartford Courant, and It is the severest thing that has been read Jay anybody about the situation of things in Lower Carolina. , It does not re flect so much on Governor Blease as It reflects upon the people--the white people of South Carolina, and if they do not squirm under it, they are, indeed, lost to all sense of decency But for their votes, Blease would not have been elected Governor of their State; but for their votes Blease will not be re-elected. Talk about the pri mary system of choosing . candidates for public office after the experiences the people of Sfi-sth Carolina and the people of Alabama have had with this device of the Devil 'After voting for the pension steal, we can't see how Champ Clark could expect the support of any Southern Democrats, even In his own State. The Rowland Sun-Democratic. came about. The interference In the affairs ov Italy, no matter how good the Inten tions of Pepin, finally resulted In dis aster to him at home, for on hlz re turn to France he fond that the Duuke of Acquitaine had ravaged Burgandy. Pepin raised hlx army ax rapidly az possible and went after the Duke, who made a show ov fight for a time. But he finally lost hiz title an' hiz life. Acquitaine wux again annexed to France. But Pepin didn't live long thereafter to enjoy hiz enlarged gingdom. Fever ended hiz life in 768. On hiz tomb wuz In scribed: "Here lies the father of! Charlemagne." Pepin bequeathed hlz government) to mz two sons, Charles and Carlo- man. The latter died In 771, leavin Charles sole master ov France. He lived for years. But for thirty or more years he wuz Involved In a ries ov wars with the Saxons an that kept him busy. Didler, King or Lom- bardy, seized Pope Stephen IV, an Iter killed him, an' tried to control Adrian I, hln successor. Adrian ap plied to the French monarch. He caused the capture or Didier an he wuz brought to France. Hlz king dom wuz dissolved an became tribu tary to France. In 779 Charles visited Italy. carry In hiz two sons. He entered Rome. The; Italians greeted Charles with a hearty .welcome. In the presence or the Pope he divided Prance an out- Many soldiers were killed by the explosion of a dynamite mine under an imperalitt troop train, which was proceeding from Slaokan. thirty miles north of Hankow, to Ho-Nan. A bomb was thrown at th Viceroy who was traveling on another train, but It struck the car adjoining, kill ing a number of soldiers but not In juring the Viceroy. General Liang-Pi. the former com mandant of the Imperial Guards, who was injured on January 27th by a bomb thrown by a Chimvman while the General was alighting from bis carriage at his home in Peking has since died. Gouged Out Eye of Their Victim. Peking, Jan. 27. With the Throne vacillating between abdication and an attempt to rally the still loyal troops to oppose the Republicans, massacre and terrorism ruled In China to-day. Twenty-one members of the revolu tionary council at Mukden were seized by Imperialist, who gouged out their victims eyes and then be headed them In the street as a warn ing against sedition. Ground Hog Day Friday. Ground hog day approaebeth. It comes on Friday, February 2nd, and men who pin their faith In the mys terious animal are awaiting anxious ly the coming of his annal visit in order that they may get a line on the character of the weather that is to be. Of course, as everybody knows. If the ground hog sees his shadow on this day, he will return to hit lair and spend forty days, this indicating that the backbone of winter has not been broken: on the other bind, that It has been strengthened. If it falls to see Its shadow, spring will Boon burst from the bosom of bad weather and winter will hare no more chills of consequence. It is an Important event In the annals of meteorology or atraosphericaly tpeaStlnr, either. Charlotte Observer. . . ,i .