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THE CAUCASIAN. VOL. XXX, RALEIGH, C. THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1012, Mo. 11 1 EDITORIAL BRIEFS There are some Democrats who hope to see Underwood come from unl'r. y-" ' - y Democrat V If Simmons Isn't a .must bo a plutocrat, for certainly he in't a Republican. , The State doesn't need any more i judges, but some now on the circuits I Ti -d to K"L a move on them. I Speaking of respectability, no par- ty that is respectable will uphold J vot-st'aling and ballot-box stuffing. The Democratic voters should eith er repudiate their representatives in I Congress, or change their platforms. I According to reports, the Lumber i Trust is backing one of the Uerao- I I cratic Senatorial candidates. Won- I f der which one? The Bladen Journal announced last Thursday that the ground hog days were over. But evidently the weath er didn't know it. I Judge Clark may not take the I stump, but there is a report to the i I effect that he is still sawing wood close to the stump. I The Democratic politicians claim f they are for free sugar, but it will 1 take more than that to make the vot- I ers get sweet on them. The Democrats will not be able to settle on the candidate for President until ex-Governor Glenn finds time to express an opinion on the sub ject. The Maxton Scottish Chief thinks I Senator Simmons has betrayed his party. Yet, that is no reason they should try to poke him off on the Re publicans. It is announced that ex-Governor Aycock will fire his first gun in Ra leigh next month. The mocking birds are fearing the worst and are moving on. Last week's murder record in North Carolina was one for every day in the week, which is not a very good record for Democratic "good government." The Indianapolis News says when a man feels like making a fool of him self it's a sign he is in love. How do you know that it isn't a sign that he is going to vote the Democratic tocket? There is a report to the effect that Simmons was really opposed to the Senatorial primary. Simmons thinks 1 ne can manage the machine poli- f ticians, but evidently he is afraid for the voters to get a whack at him. Oscar Underwood's managers are I spending a lot of money in North J Carolina advertising his candidacy I for President. The Durham Herald J and Webster's Weekly are wonder- I ing where all this campaign money I is coming from. 1 Collier's Weekly, in an article dis- I cussing the records of a number of j United States Senators, whose terms expire with the next election, closes j Us discussion of the record of these I Senators with this statement: "One of these Senators who ought clearly to be defeated is Senator Simmons, ! of North Carolina." When a witness or a juror is sick he must send a doctor's certificate to e excused from court duty, why shouldn't the same be required of a judge when he fails to show up at court? The absence of one witness or one juror doesn't necessarily tie UP the court, but when the judge fails to put in his appearance that blocks the whole game. f Champ Clark has slapped the South In the face his vote for the Fed eral pension steal. Still he expects the Southern Democrats to walk up and Vote for for the Democratic nomination for President, and worst f all, a lot of them will walk u f ote it straight without blinking their I eyes. BEEF TIIUHT'XOT QUILTY. Chicago Meat Packer Indicted for Violating Sherman Anti-Trust Law Are Freed by Jury Were Given Benefit of the Doubt. After being on trial in Chicago for fciore than three months the meat ..X-ikers TtienrfAT ver f r Kv th V 'ejon of the Jury. A dispatch U om Chicago Tuesday after- jnoV d8: t -4 .... ... A ffuiity was the verdict the jury od in the trial of the ten Chicago ers, accused by the Gov ernment .'violation of the criminal sections of the Sherman anti-trust act. "The ten defendants accused by the Government and acquitted are ( Louis F. Swift, president; Edward F. Swift, vice-president; Chas. II. Swift, director, and Francis A. Fowler, man ager of the dressed meat department of Swift & Company; J. Odgen Ar mour, president; Arthur Meeker, di rector and general manager; Thomas J. Sonner, director and general super intendent of Arniour & Company; Edward Morris, president and Louis II. Heian, manager of the beef de partment of Morris & Company; and Edward Tilden, president of the Na tional Packing Company. "All the defendants were in the court when the verdict was read. The court-room was crowded. The verdict surprised many who feared the long wait meant a long drawn out battle in the jury room. District Attorney Wilkerson, deeply affected by the verdict, refused to comment on the results. "J. H. Edwards, one of the jurors, said: 'We gave the defendants the benefit of the doubt. We did not be lieve the Government made out a strong case.' " HONOR THE MAINE DEAD President Taft and Other Of ficials Attended the Burial at Arlington The Last of the Sixty-Four of the Maine Dead Laid to Rest in Arling ton Cemetery - Near Washington Saturday High "Tribute Paid to the Heroes of the Spanish-American War. A Washington, D. C, dispatch of Saturday says: "With all the pomp and solemnity a mighty nation can pay its heroes of war the last of the battleship Maine's dead were laid away to-day in Ar lington Cemetery. Side by side with the bodies of the men brought back from Havana after the war they were buried, while the nation paid its last measure of honor to the "unidenti fied" of that great catastrophe. "Seldom in the country's history has there been paid a higher tribute to the memory of any man or men than was paid to-day to sixty-four dead of the Maine. Government bus iness here was suspended by execu tive order. President Taft, members of the Cabinet, the kighest officers of the army, navy, marine corps, depart ment officials, an dmembers of the diplomatic corps, participated in the exercises. Over Government build ings flags hung at half-mast. Con gress adjourned for the day. The booming of minute guns and the tramp of soldiery adde dtouch of military pomp. An elaborate program was followed in the ceremonies of burial. Beginning with the removal o fthe dead from U. S. S. Birming ham which brought the bodies from Havana, and ending with firing three volleys over graves in Arlington, the exercises showed all honor and re spect to the martyrs of the doomed battleship." We Need Few Laws and More Rigid ly Enforced. Why not "pass a law" prohibiting the chewing of tobacco? Why is it the various health and civic leagues do not jump on it and put the habit out of commission? The court-room of the county court-house is being overhauled, renovated and refurnish ed. So much tobacco "juice" was found behind tt radiators that they had to be removed so the stuff could be shoveled out. There was no other way to do the job, which being the case, is it not high time to "pass a law?" Greensboro Record. Tobacco may come next. We have passed ,4aws for almost everything else, 'igarettes have already re ceive! attnetion in some municipal ities and the plug and pipe may be lugged in next. The truth is, there if a super-abundance of laws. Fewer ws, carefully drawn, better observ ed and more rigidly enforced would e the best policy. Simplicity in jboth laws and medicine is what the - - ' " . tvayianng man, tnougn a iooi, needs and should have. Union Republican. THAT PENSION STEAL Has Scared the Democrats and They Are Rerising Political Program TOE PRESIDFNTUL CONTEST The National Capital is Much Inter ested Over the Contest for the Nomination for President in the Republican I tanks Governor of Illinois Has Called Special Session of the Legislature to Pass a Pri mary Law Before Delegates Are! Elected to Chicago Convention : Reports of the Tariff I Hoard A False Economy Slogan. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, March 26, 1912. The National capital is stirred to day as it has not been before in many years over the contest for the nomination for President in the Re publican ranks. President Taft has a long lead in instructed delegates, but the fight waging to-day in In diana and in New York has aroused the greatest interest not only among Republicans but also among Demo cratic leaders and the people gener ally. In the Republican State Conven tion in Indiana held to-day the fight was very close, with the odds in fa vor of the President. The last news is that there were 167 contested del egates, and that when the convention had passed upon these contests that the Taft forces had 105 majority. It is further reported that upon the decisive vote on these contests that the Roosevelt delegates with drew from the convention and held a separate convention. Therefore, there will go from that State two sets of delegates to the National Conven tion. Of course, the Taft delegates will claim to be the regulars; on the other hand, the Roosevelt delegates will claim that they would have had a majority if the contests had been properly decided. The Contest in New York State. The news from the primaries be ing held in the State of New York is also being watched very closely. It is conceded that President Taft will have a majority of the delegates from that State, but there is the greatest interest in the number of delegates that will be secured by Colonel Roosevelt- On the heel of these contests there comes the report that the Governor of Illinois has called a special ses sion of the Legislature to pass a pri mary law to go into effect at once, un der which the delegates from that State to the National Convention will be elected. The Roosevelt support ers have been appealing for the call ing of a special session of the Legis lature to pass' such a law, and the Taft supporters have expressed their willingness to meet the issue square ly before the people. The result of the primary election In Illinois, to gether with the pregnant results of to-day's contests in New York and Indiana, will largely determine the contest. It is apparent that there will be more contests at the next National Convention than ever be fore. In the past most of these con tests have been from the South. This year most of them will be from the North and West. The next most important State is Pennsylvania. It is conceded, how ever, that in that State President Taft will get a majority of the dele gates. Again, in that State, it is a question, as it is in New York, as to how many delegates Colonel Roose velt will secure. There will be con testing delegations in that State also. Again, to-day, a suggestion has been heard from more than one level-headed politician, who is more con cerned in Republican success than who is nominated for President, that if the fight continues to wax as warm and bitter as it now promises to be, that It will be the duty of every Re publican, who wants to save the coun try from the calamity of another Democratic National administration, to look for a third candidate at the Chicago Convention who can unite the party. The Cotton Report of the TarifT Board. The' Tariff Board has made a re port to the President on the differ ence in the cost of production of cot ton goods under the various tariff schedules in this country and abroad. The president sent to Congress to day the report of the Tariff Board, together with a message, urging Con gress to pass a bill making such re ductions in the cotton schedule as the facts contained In the report of the Tariff Board would warrant. The Democratic House now has before it not only reliable fact but a recorn- j mendatioa of a Republican President j favoring certain substantial reduc- j ttoas in the cotton tariff schedule.) and if that body will only prepare a I bill In accordance with the facts such a bill will pass and be timed by the President, and such substan tial reductions will at once be se cured. Also the Report on the Woo! Schedule. In this connection, however, it will j be remembered that at the beginning . of this Congress the President sent a I report of the Tariff Board, giving the ! facts as to the difference in the cost j of production here and abroad, on J the woolen schedule and a message j urging Congress to pass a bill xnak- t Ing such reductions. Up to this good j hour the Democratic House has re- I fused to pay any attention to the! message of the President, when they ! know they could secure a substantial reduction in the woolen schedule by passing such a bill. The Democratic House, Instead of securing such substantial reductions in the tariff, which they and every body knows could at once be secured. has, on the other hand, been prepar ing and passing pop-gun tariff bills on a free trade basis which they knew could not Dass. Evervbodv knows that these bills have been prepared and passed by the Democratic House simply to be used as campaign thun der. This kind of campaign clap trap has worked in the past, but it is believed that the American people are to-day so well informed and so alert to the tariff situation that the Democratic House is destroying its last chance of winning a victory in November by thus trifling with the American people. The False and Fraud Economy Slogan. Ever since the election of the pres ent Democratic House they have kept up, as a standing party slogan, the cry of "reform and economy." One of their first moves was to refuse to vote a single dollar for keeping up the naval program of adding two battleships to our naval strength each year. The 'Democratic House claimed that they did this in the interest of "economy," and yet "the "next move made by the Democratic Congress was to offer and pass a bill increas ing the pensions of the Northern sol diers $75,000,000 a year. This was done in the face of the fact that the Democrats have for forty years charged the Republican party with wasting the people's money by ex travagantly pensioning the Northern soldiers. This year the Democratic House not only re-enacts the old Re 000,000, but they add to It $75,000, 000 more, giving pensions to Noth ern men who were never i na battle, being just that much more than has ever been proposed to be voted in pensions by a Republican Congress. The protests which have come up from the people in every State in the Union against such hypocrisy and ex tragance have been so strong as to frighten the Democratic House. They have called a caucus o fthe Demo cratic members to met to-night to consider revising their political pro gram. As General Grant said, the Democrats can always be depended upon to do the wrong thing at the right time. LEAVES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Thousands of Democrats in North Carolina Will Stop Voting for Amusement Will Support Either Taft or Roosevelt. While there is no excitement In politics, I wish to make an assign ment of all that I am worth as a Democrat, to the four winds of the earth, and fully sever myself from the party I am satisfied that there will be thousands of Democrats who will quit voting for amusement and vote for themselves, their fam ilies and their country. I feel sure that if Colonel Roose velt is nominated to lead the Re publican party that they had as well postpone their convention indefinite ly. In the last election what did our leaders say? Let's elect our Con gressman, and help to get a major ity in Congress, then we will work miracles. What have they done? In my mind when we sum up what they have done for the country's best in terest, and for the salvation of the Democratic party as representative giants, they represent no more than the body of death. So I am looking forward to better things, and expect to rote in the com ing election for all the - Republican nominees, from either President Taft or Colonel Roosevelt, down to the township officers. And as I leave my Democratic brethren behind, I must say to you, that I expect to rote the Republican ticket and you tan pad dle your own canoes.- C. H. Warren, In Wilkes Patriot, Hays. N. C. REAL ANCIENT IBSTC3Y Something About Marriage Customs in the Seventeenth Gentury KLS'G SENT DIS tTlFE D0IIE MinWter Henry Was For P Preach King Tried Again to Whip England -The French lUModrrtx! Material Aid to America During the Revolutionary War Catho lic Again Ilayed FoolUh -A Great Religion War Over "Twee-die-Dee and Twe-cdle-Dum" ItU kina, About to Supplant the "Peer less One"; Make a Free Coinage Argument Bryan' Real Jonah Named Walt for the llig Change Now Due, Correspondence of The Caucasian-En terprise. miklnsville. N. C. March 25, 1912. In 1719 the King ov France mar ried the infanta ov Spain. In real ity, the marriage had been started some time previous. But, according to the customs among royalty in that day, the marriage wuz not consider ed complete up to that time, when certain formalities were observed. What he wanted with a Spanish wife wuz more than I know. She came to France an' for some time wuz treat ed az queen to-be. The Kin wuz quite young, a mere boy, an as he grew into manhood. It wuz easy to notis that he had learned to hate the young queen. The chief minister ov France finally sent the girl back to Spain. This made the queen ov Spain very angry, for she wut an xious for her daughter to become the wife ov the young French King. In fact, war between the two countries wuz regarded as certain for some months. The dissolution ov the mar riage wuz the last act ov the Conde administration; an' the procuring ov a-jae.wraatch. wuz the first act ov the new adminlstrtaion; Cardinal Fleury attending to this. The princess se lected wuz the daughter ov Stanl laus Lesczinski, King ov Poland, who had been deposed by Charles 12th, ov Sweden. The new queen wuz not pretty, but iz said to have had many excellent qualities. Cardinal Fleury continued to pur sue a peaceful course in conducting government affairs, with a slight in terruption when Russia an Poland engaged in a war. Poland lost out in his war, being too weak for the big, but awkward Russian braves. Spain an' England had some words in 1737, but France again kept hands off. Minister Fleury not only kept France out ov war, but sought to act az peace-maker when some other countries were about to break the peace. He brought a peaceful settle ment to a war goln on between the Genoese an' the Corsicans. He also caused the Turkish ruler to kiss and make up with the German empire. The Turks were awlways hard fight ers an they were about to whip Ger many at that time, though Germany hez become too stout for the Turks at this writing. The King ov France still nursed a desire to get even with England on account ov the whippings that coun try had given him. He wished for time to recruit hiz navy for one thing for England persisted in owning the best an' largest fleet on the seas even at that early date, an' the same Iz true to-day, though the United States is a close competitor now, not in umbers, but in efficiency. In up-to-dateness, an I believe that Eng land would now hesitate a long time before she would start a moral or other form of warfare with the Unit ed States. We whipped her in the latter part ov the seventeenth cen tury when we were nothing but weak colonists, an' what we'd do to her now would make her old bones rat tle. Our navy awlso knocked the English navy out again in 1812. But England had to bring her old-fashioned sail ships across the ocean both times to fite us and naval ves sels were so inferior then in com parison to what they are to-day. that the, English ships were about ready to go to the scrap-heap when they ended their two or three months' voy age across the sea. Our navy put the finishing touches on most or them. The French army an avy aided us some, too, during the revolutionary war for England an' France were tahen bitter enemies an' continued so up to recent years. About the year 1800 the French Catholics, still quite strong, an az foolish as In the old days, made an other effort to get everything their own way an' choke off the Protest ants throughout France. What wux known az the Jansenists an the Je- f s!t cot c? a tioUzt 4U?t of b r points o thoicf la tau J tie Klag. it! fcy tS. J.au$ft. T&m tdupsax 6i ssaiRlj la rtr4 ta fr jwtlV an U tUut &r!y ai I bittrr at th tow cttr fr a lisslted ctsitar of lr la As&ericaa $UUc taty or tMny lars a so. I Uo fest litU aVl th xsrrlts ov ihm Vrttteh ccatrry ?aa ear but as to ?b ei&t qurottoa. 1 know taat tt ft rota jac toj rr tot far frta rtsal, though ota tsa tDjr ht uitt jextrcm pomo& Jo&a t Cifcn:. i Irel4rs.t I.lcroJa. .?&tor Vt or i MU.ouri. Oa?Numa& !Ufci at i ; ara itate. Sritnr Vsfc o oar i State, W4i Hripun otfc C&ro jlias. in thoutn of otfcrf rrrat ' men. the i;retet la our laaS ta taaay jeaur. were u&jleldlac 4oUe jllver coin an' ov siitrr eurreovy; aa lbt adtoca.e tl4 not an do tint ov belong to any one or the to Irsdin political parties, but r. an r. to be found In both parties If Mr. W. J. Ilryan had belonged to a sub stantial party, an' if h bad ca ticued to make the rolnage qaeattoa s real "paramount" instead ov craw fishln' at a critical period, h mite her landed, or he mite jet ee-upy the Presidential chairs at Wathlcc ton. Hut Mr. Ilryan It top-n with a party that Is never rit an which daeao't wUh to be rite. Wors still, Mr. Bryan permitted a political barnacle like Joephus Daniels to at tack himself to hiz peroa an that mistake within Itself wut enough to sink any political ship. I am unwill ing to believe that the great an Ruler of this universe would permit Mr. Bryan or any other man to oc cupy the Presidential chair or this country, the greatest an' most high ly favored portion ov awl this world, (Continued on page .) THE COTTON SC0EDULE President Taft Transmits to Congress the Report of the Tariff Board President Also Asks for m Deficiency Appropriation to Continue the Work o fthe Hoard on Steel, Ha gar and Chemical Schedule. Washington, D. C. March 26. President Taft to-day transmitted U Congress the Tariff Hoard's report o nthe cotton schedule with the rec ommendation that that rectfon of the tariff law be taken up for revision and reductions In the rates of duty. The President advises Congress that the Board's Investigations hate shown that the duties on some cotton yarns Is two and three times In ex cess of the difference of the cost of production In the United States and abroad. The duties Imposed because of finishing processes are In excess of the difference In the extra cost due to finishing and are often In ex cess of the total domestic cort of finishing. Prices paid by consumers in the United States are higher than abroad even when prices received by manu facturers in both places are the same. This Is said to be due to the higher cost of distribution hre. Plain clothes are as cheap here as any where, but on fancy fabrics the do ties are In excess of the differences in cost and In many cases the duties are greater than the conversion cosU in tho mills of the United States. President Taft asks a deficiency appropriation of $60,000 for the Doard to continue Its work during April, May and June, and urges Con gress to further continue the life of the Board that It may prosecute la- ' vestlgatlons of the metal, leather. chemical and sugar schedules which the President has directed. The President's message Is a com prehenslve summary of the Board's findings. As In Its report on the wool en schedule and the pulp and paper schedule, the Board makes no recom mendations and suggests no duties In its review of a very complex subject. The President says he bases his rec ommendations on the declaration of the platform on which he wa elected "that a reasonable protective tariff should be adjusted to the difference In coat of production at home and abroad." Took Fourteen Rooms for Colorado Man and Ills Sons. Denver, Col., March 22. Two by two, fourteen youths, ranging in age from six to sixteen years, filed into the lobby of a local hotel to-day. A stout man following them approach ed the desk. A11 mine." be said to the clerk, "and thsre are thirteen more back In Coodland, Kansas." He wrote "Nathan Alexander? oa the register. "Single rooms, and 15 of then," sals! Alexander. "I never doubled, them up yet, and I don't purpose to da It now. , V x.
