T H EC A U C A S I AN .
VOL- XXX.
RALEIGH, N. C.t
MARCH 7 1012.
Mo. S,
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
In Ixmdon the suffragettes rage
and the people mourn.
Thf laEt Republican State Conven- !
ion fleeted a committee to serve the
;-ojSe.
Don't forget to pay your poll-tax
h. rore May lfit and ask your neigh
bor to pay his.
The Columbia State, Democratic,
intimates that its party is playing the
fool thiK year. Only this year?
Two or three of the Democratic
hand wagons have been stalled In
rome of North Carolina's bad roads.
The Iondon Huffragettes Btand a
better chance of serving a term in
ja.il than they do of getting the bal
lot.
i:ven the Democratic papers are
t hinning to admit that the Republi-
;tn party is composed of a fine body
of men.
A correspondent of the Wilming
ton Star asks "What's the matter
with Democracy?" Well, what isn't
the matter with it?
Notwithstanding the hunting sea
son is over, the mocking birds will
not take any chances until this Sen
atorial campaign is over.
Judge Clark may not open his
Senatorial campaign with any set
speech, but they do say that he has
been quietly sawing wood for some
time.
We note that among other things
what the Hickory Mercury wants is
a correspondent at "Jugtown." Bro.
( lick is in danger of falling off the
water wagon.
The Democrats are now busy tak
ing straw votes. As they stand, abso
lutely no show in National elections,
guess they should be allowed to play
with straw votes between elctions.
The Charlotte Chronicle and the
Statesville Landmark are giving the
dog question some hard knocks. Hold
on boys, "Even if he is a hound, you
gotta quit kickin' my dawg arounV
An exchange says that Governor
Kitchin's speech opening his Senato
rial campaign was an appeal to the
unthinking. Certainly, it is hard
for a Democrat to appeal to a voter
who thsnks for himself.
The News and Observer says that
the Democratic party stands united
on essentials. Suppose that means
in the chase for offices, as that is
the only issue on which they are all
united.
The Democratic politicians do not
seem to care what becomes of the
Confederate soldier, nor the school
children, but they do care for office
and that is the only reason they are
after your vote.
Ex-Governor Glenn is quoted as
saying that he favors Aycock for the
Senate. If he truly wishes to see
Aycock win, then Glenn will probably
be considerate enough to take no
part in the campaign.
One writer claims that the Demo
crats are collecting enough money
to not only give a four months'
school term, but to also give the chil
dren free text-books. Then what
becomes of the money?
The last Republican State Conven
tion declared that the people should
no longer be dictated to by a boss or
a machine of any kind. The people
"will make this declaration even
stronger at the next State Conven
tion. The Wilmington Star wants to see
the Democrats nominate a Presiden
tial candidate who will issue a pro
nunciamento that if anybody calls
him a liar he will retort that they
are "another." Then, the Star had
better withdraw its suport from
Woodrow Wilson and boost Marse
Henry Watterson for the nomination.
iK8 "CIVIL W.IK.
Prefer "Wu .tvreen the Htate"
for Yale Memorial Tablet.
New Haven. Conn.. March 2.
That President Taft favors "the War
Between the State,' Instead of "the
Civil War," aa part of an inscription
of a soldiers memorial at Vale it a
fact brought out to-day by the de
tails of the plans of the Yale fid
dlers' memorial committee. The
title, "the Civil War." will, however,
probably be chosen by the commit
tee. The plan favored by the commit
tee is a series of tablets with aristic
adornments at the inner entrance of
Memorial Hall.
All military titles of the fallen
Yale soldiers will be rejected and
only the full name and classes of the
men who fell on both sides used.
Deaths before the end of the year
iSGS will limit the names on the
tablets. The committee will report
to the Yale corporation next June
In the war 115 Yale men died in the
Union Army, and forty-nine in the
Confederate Array.
DEFECTS OF SYSTEM
North Garolina's Public School
System is of the Juggling
Variety
Books Adopted That Are of Xo In
trinsic Value and Partiality Shown
to Some Teachers Enough Mon
ey is Collected to Give a Four
Months' School and Furnish Free
Text-Books.
(W. W. Fisher, in Clinton News
Dispatch.) Ever since God made the world
and placed in the firmament above
the great Solar System, there have
been systems of every variety, but
never in all the tide of time has
there been a system so absolutely
base, or incredibly corrupt as the
present public school system of
North Carolina.
You may advocate the election of
United States Senators by a direct
vote of the people, or any other is
sue that may present itself but so
lmportan is the education of this
generation that it is better for you
and your posterity that your Sena
tors, your Congressmen, and even
your Governors be appointed by some
outside power, if it would only re
store to the people the right to select
the men to manage the great public
school fund which means so much
to the poor boys and girls of the
State
The State Text-Book Commission
is granted the exclusive right to
make contracts with publishing com
panies, and to secure books best
suited to the public schools of the
State; the teachers are required to
teach the books adopted by this Com
mission or receive no compensation
for their work, then if the publish
ers do not publish the books until al
most a year after they have been
adopted by the Commission (like they
are now doing), what can the
teachers do but stand about in idle
ness until they perish, and let the
poor children grow up in ignorance
and illiteracy, or ignore that section
of the public school law? And if you
can ignore one section, you can ig
nore it all, and the whole public
school law is not worth the paper
it is printed on.
But the greatest and most serious
defect of the Text-Book Commission
is the acceptance of text-books from
publishers without any regard to the
merit or intrinsic value of the books.
A sufficient proof of this may be
found in a careful investigation of
the text-books now in use throughout
the public schools of the State. Sec
tion 4167 of the Public School Law
of North Carolina says: ''That the
failure of any teacher to attend the
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Secretary Gilliam Grissom, the Man
in Charge of the Details.
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POUTICAl ACTIVITY
IN REPUBLICAN CAMP
Senator Dixon is in Charge
of Roosevelt Headquarters
in Washington
BOTE! FACTIONS ARE COS-
FlflENT OF VICIOIIY
Senator Dixon Claim That ltooe
velt Will Have the Delegation
From Oklahoma While the Taft
Forces Claim He I Growing
Stronger in Pennsylvania Much
Interest in North Carolina Fed
eral Office-Holders Will Not Con
trol the Conventions, Neither Will
Any of Them Go as Delegate to
the National Convention Delega
tion From This State Will be Free
and Independent Tliat Democrat
ic Free Sugar Fraud.
(Special to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. C, March 5, 1912.
With the opening of Roosevelt
headquarters here by Senator Dixon
as manager there has been a mark
ed increase in interest in political
activity on both sides of the Republi
can camp. Senator Dixon is
known to be a fine organizer and a
hustler and has had much experi
ence, being one of the backbones of
the Republican campaign four years
ago.
Senator Dixon to-day gives out a
statement to the effect that he had
received several telegrams from the
State of Oklahoma to indicate that
the primaries in that State have gone
more than two to one for Roosevelt.
He says that it is now certain that
the State Convention which meets
next week will send a Roosevelt
delegation except one district, which
selected its delegates several weeks
ago before it was known that the
former President would accept - the
nomination.
Senator Dixon points with much
emphasis to the fact that the first
State to take action since it was
known that Colonel Roosevelt would
take the nomination has declared
overwhelmingly for him.
Senator Dixon also gave out a
copy of a letter which he says has
been sent by President Taft's man
agers to a postmaster in the North
west urging him to get active to se
cure the President's renomination.
The name of the postmaster is not
given; and it is claimed by the Taft
supporters that the letter is not gen
uine and that the matter will soon
be cleared up.
On yesterday, Senator Bristow read
on the floor of the Senate a letter
from a postmaster in Alabama, giv
ing his name (a Mr. Lewis), who had
complained that he was being brow
beaten by a post-office inspector be
cause he had declared for Roosevelt.
Senator Bristow offered a resolution
providing for a committee of inves
tigation. The Senate has not yet
acted on the resolution.
In the meantime, the Taft head
quarters report that they are receiv
ing cheering news from every quar
ter of the country. One of the
statements given out by them is from
Senator Oliver who has just return
ed from Pennsylvania, in which he
says that several Congressional Dis
tricts that have before been conceded
for Colonel Roosevelt are now con
ceded to be for the President.
Much Interest in North Carolina.
It will be news to the people of
the State that the meeting of the
Republican State Committee at Ra
leigh and the great Morehead ban
quet, which was one of the largest
banquets and most significant politi
cal gathering ever held in the State,
was not given a single line in the
news columns of the Washington pa
pers. Reports of this meeting must
have been sent to Washington, but
nobody has yet been able to learn
why the reports were not published.
An account of the meeting, how
ever, has reached Washington from
various sources, and has been the
subject of no little comment. The
fact that the Republican State Com
mittee of North Carolina is not pack
ed with Federal office-holders is be
ing commented upon here as a most
remarkable fact for a Southern State.
When it is further learned that the
State will probably send an unin
structed delegation to Chicago, and
that there will not be a Federal office-holder
among the delegates, such
information is received by some with
incredulity, by all with surprise. In
deed the comments generally are
that it cannot be true that the Re
publicans in a Southern State can
manage their affairs without being
dominated by the Federal officeholders.
Qz Northers Republican to
day: "What Do yon 111 ts I tat
w will a delegation frocs os
Southern Stat at the National Cea
vefctlon mlxh tto oSce-boldero is It.
and that they will b iter frc to
vote a they plea?" Wtto a3fd
that that u the xstixneet of it
Republican la North Carolina, and
that they had already overthrown the
referee ytea tn the State, there
wa the greatest Inter! tnanlfete4
by tbi ItepubUcac and by all who
heard the statement. Indeed, tfce
political revolution which took place
in North Carolina two jar ago did
not at that time attract the attention
of the country, and is Juit now being
looked upon by the people of the
North and West a nothing lew than
a marvel.
A Western Republican, commtat
ins upon this situation, to-day. said:
'"Well this sounds too good :o
be true, but if it is true, the
Democrats may look out, for it
means that the South will soon
be sending up electoral voles for
a Republican President."
That Democratic Free Sugar Fraud.
The Democratic House of Repre
sentatives has been striving ever
since the beginning of this session
to make political campaign capital
for their party. They appointed a
large number of investigating com
mittees to try to unearth frauds or
rottenness in the Republican admin
istration. They have completely
failed in this, and they have also
realized that everything else they
have done through their hypocrisy
economy plan has lost them votes
with the people.
In their desperation they have
now turned to try to get up some
pop-gun tariff bills, which they know
will not pass, for campaign thunder.
The last one which they have
brought forth is a bill declaring for
free sugar. Their action in doing
this has caused a broad smile on the
faces of all politicians who can see
so clearly through the transparent
piece of hypocrisy.
In commenting upon it, every one
says that if they wanted to reform
the tariff why did not they offer a
bill making substantial reductions on
certain important schedules which
they know would be adopted by the
Senate and approved by the Presi
dent. It is noticeable that the Dem
ocrats have been careful not to offer
any such tariff reduction bill.
The Washington Evening Times,
in an editorial commenting upon this
Democratic free sugar bill, says that
it will fool nobody, and it is clear
to everybody that it is done for cam
paign thunder and not with a view
to getting it passed. In concluding
its editorial, the Times, which is a
progressive paper and in favor of
tariff reform, says:
"It will please the sugar trust
and the beet sugar people because
it will make impossible any
change at. all. So long as they
considered plans that were in
tended to have a chance of be
coming a law and giving the
people real advantage, they were
hopelessly unable to agree. It
vas only on a fantastics proposal
that could not possibly have a
ghost of a show of enactment
that the Democrats could get
together."
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Hon. John M. Blorehead, Chairman Republican State ExecutlT Oom
mlttee, who was Host at the Big Banquet In TUldgh
REPUBLICANS AT
MOREHEAD DINNER
They Feast as Guest of State
Chairman and Heax Rights
of Oratory
TOOL! AS SEITLE PRESIDES
TOAM LIASTLu OF FEAST
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and the Stekrr Orate ca lb
(.l.-rint of ltrvuMKitU.rn aal How
It 1 Tluit the leticrl are Worw
Than liver
Nerly lite Humirv!
lrtetil i the I"rli lWrd.
The above are the headline that
appeared in tfc Uaieich NV and ,
Oberver on Thursday raorcltic. Krb ;
ruary 29th. or the jrport of the
great Morehead banquet. YV pub-
lUh blow thf report Ktvm of that
banquet. tth ub-head and all. Jut
aa it appear.nl in that paper. Wr
do this bf-cauae thta cornea nearer to
being a fair and decent report of a
Hepublican tneetlnK than any other
report ever publiahed In that paper.
The report in full la aa follow:
What waa universally declared to
have been the greatest function ever
given by any State Chairman to bia
co-workera and to member of hla
party, waa that concluded thia morn
ing in the big Auditorium, the trib
ute of Chairman John Motley More
head. There were i&sued 4 28 regular in
vitations, but far more than &00
were in attendance, a great number
attending the meeting of the State
Executive Committee here yesterday
and Incidentally being caught by Mr.
Morehead and his friends. It waa
estimated that 700 sat down to a
magnificent dinner and there was
history about it.
It has been observed that great
events not infrequently find their
origin about the banquet board, pres
idential booms are started and cru
sades are given hedft. One would
not know exactly what to put his
finger upon it he attempted to give
the dominant note of the banquet.
One of the stipulations of the host
was that there should be no political
discussions as touching the more vi
tal and sensitive issues now con
fronting the party. It was hard to
refrain from it, and it wasn't alto
gether done. Consequently there
was not a little talk that Indicated
the feeling of the guests of Mr.
Morehead. And one must say, as
suming noise as the touch-stone, that
Roosevelt's adherents outnumbered
those of Mr. Taft greatly, though
clamor in the Hooseveltian way of
being counted.
The banquet's product, politically
speaking, may be put down in two
apparently reliable things. The first
would indicate the springing of the
local self-government issue with
Toastmaster Settle as the Guberna
torial candidate; the second, the
supplanting of National Committee
man E. Carl Duncan by former Sen
ator Marion Duller.
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Stylish DfCSSCd Women Smash
Windows in the Principal
Streets in London
They Kmulate ihe CaJ Mrikm a ad
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London. Mrch 1 Hm-ium lh
coal miners had ben able to a a! a
noGovernment recocnitlon to htlr
grievances by threatening the busi
ness of the country, the suffracetta
late to-day also entered upon a pol
icy of menace to trade. And they
carried it out suddenly and with an
ardor that reached In heavy financial
losses, brought consternation to
merchants of the moat prosperous
shopping district of the city and
paralyzed business.
The pollec were taken completely
unawares and before they wr able
the muster forces and restrain tha
women streets were covered with
shattered plate glass from the show
windows of stores. It a as a window
breaking expedition solely and a
thoroughly organised one.
Hundreds of window in many of
the moit famous shops in the world
and in sevral Government ofSces and
clubs were wrecked by the suffraget
tes. The damage will segregate
many thousands of pounds but is
largely covered by Insurance against
breakage. Oce hundred and fifty
women were dragged to the police
stations by police or excited and In
dignant merchants.
Many others, however, escaped.
All those arrested were released (his
evening on ball, coupled with prom
ise to refrain from further window
breaking. The trouble centered about Tra
falgar Square ranged along the
Strand, eastward and westward, and
up Regent Street. Plccadily and Ox
ford Street, where are situated the
fashionable Jewelry and dry goods
houses.
Mrs. Kmmeline Pankhurst. the
veteran of many a suffragette bat
tle, struck the first blow. In an
automobile, accompaled by Mrs.
Marshall and Mrs. Tukes, she drOT
up to the Premier's residence In
Downing Street at o'clock. The
three women leaped from the ma
chine and drew out stones concealed
in their muffs. Four windows crash
ed in before the police, who are con
stantly on guard, could reach the
women.
The trio were arrested, hut while
being led to the station managed to
heave missiles through the windows
of the Colonial off.ee.
Pandemonium broke out In the
shopping district at the same tine.
The taxlcabs were the favorite ve
hicles of approach usd by the suf
fragettes and large numbers of Inno
cent looking women were helped out
af them by store porters.
Without hesitation the women at
nce attacked the show windows
lth bricks or hammers. The sur
prise of the porters was so great
hat a majority of the miscreants
vere able to lose themelves in the
rowds before the guardians of the
ihope could collect their senses and
estrain them. The women who did
lot use taxlcabs merely walked along
he streets cracking or smashing
rindows with hammers, while the
rowds followed cheering and boot
ng.
The police were wholly unable to
leal with such a wholesale and wide
spread outbreak and at least nine
:enths of the window-attacking army
scaped. The air was filled with
sounds of police whistles, yells, the
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