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sjr - . . . . . . .fc.,..,, . VOL. XXX. RALEIGH, IV. C, THURSDAY, APRIL, 4. 1912, No. 12. EDITORIAL BRIEFS Alamance has borrowed $17,200. That is what Democratic good gov- rnn.tnt has done for that county. An exchange says It should be rye or rrirason clover. Now watch and c,.f. if the most of them don't take I now appears that the Allen gang in i -irroll County, Virginia, are noth-jr.- ;::ore than Democratic redshirt- A South Carolina Democrat Is run ritiK for sheriff of Davie County, this (a!'. He certainly has his nerve V. i hirn. i;ryan calls Governor Harmon a (U -.'rter. That may be another move for Democratic harmony, but it doesn't sound like it. Kven if the Democrats had free lumber they couldn't make a plat form large enough for the various candidates to stand on. The Macon (Georgia) Telegraph thinks the houn' dawg is apt to be come the emblem of the Southern Democracy. Well, keep on kicking. The Hon. E. J. Justice thinks Os car Underwood will not do at all for President. And isn't the same true of the other five Democratic candi dates? A dispatch says that Mr. Bryan threatens to bolt his State Conven tion if it endorses Governor Harmon for President. And that doesn't sound like harmony. Governor Judson Harmon has an nounced that he is willing to serve the people. We had expected as much, especially since the serving pays $75,000 a year. Alabama is preparing to elect a Democratic Congressman-at-large. Viewed by an outsider, it appears that practically all the Southern Con gressmen are running at large. A traveling man told the writer some days ago that the political ho rizon looked to him like another Cleveand year. Evidently that man is having a hard time on the road. The Maine Democratic Convention adopted a local option platform and then kicked Mr. Woodrow Wilson down the back stairs, notwithstand ing local option was one of the planks. Endorsing a political; candidate at a religious meeting may be all right, jet it must have sounded very strange to many present in the Ral eigh auditorium Sunday afternoon. An automobile concern has offered the sum of $2,000 to any one who will run an automobile backwards from this State to New York. Some Democratic politician should get that money as it is perfectly natural for them to go backwards. Some of the Democrats in Iredell County have issued a call for a mass meeting in Statesville Saturday to throw off the yoke of Democratic ring rule In that , county. They may yet have to join hands with the Repub licans in order to get local self-government. Referring to the action of the Dem ocratic Congress in pension steal, the Statesville Landmark asks where are the friends of the people. "Why they are at home waiting for the people to vote for true representatives of the people, instead of from blind Prejudice. The Progressive Democratic League of Ohio says that Governor Judson Harmon is Wall Street's can didate for President, and heretofore the Democrats have tried to make the voters believe that their party has never had any connection with Wall Street. If this fight continues the Democrats may be persuaded to tell at least a part of the truth on ech other. TO K TAKE CIIAHGES. Claimed That .More Than $23,000,000 a Year Is Now Being Ixt by Houtb crn Grower Secretary Wilson Interested. A Washington, D. C, dispatch dat ed April, says: "Efforts to save more than 125, 000 a year, now being lost by South ern cotton growers through tare charges, are being made by the De partment of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson has written to the Liverpool and other foreign cotton exchanges for suggestions as to how these tare charges might be reduced and has re ceived replies from all of them. " 'If cotton could be baled in bet ter shape,' says the Liverpool Ex change in its reply, 'there is no doubt that European exchanges would be willing to pass by-laws for such cot ton be sold "actual tare," provided uniform length and weight of canvas be adopted for every bale.' "This exchange lays the whole blame for the loss on the American export merchant and planter. " 'There is no article of similar value which is so wastefully packed and of which so little care is taken in transit as American cotton.' Con tinues the letter: 'If the cotton were baled in the same manner as the growths of India and Egypt, freights and Insurance premiums would be lower.' "Dr. B. T. Galloway, Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, said that in his opinion the problem would be practicaly solved after the commun ity system of cotton growing had once been established." THOUSANDS HOMELESS Mississippi Levee Breaks, Sweeping Away Many Houses and Other Property Tents Shipped to Hickman, KyM to Shelter the Homeless Scant Food Supply Causing Much Alarm President Asks Congress to Take Prompt , Action. - . A special from Hickman, Ky., Tuesday afternoon, says: Two thousand people are home less because of the flood waters of the Mississipi River which broke through west Hickman leevee and poured a muddy current, eight feet deep, through the business streets, and the factory and residence dis tricts. The homeless people were temporarily sheltered by residents in the highlands last night. Tents were shipped here to-day by the State militia. The scant food supply is causing great concern. Provisions on hand are insufficient to last the refugees through the week. Steps have been taken to organize a com missary. The west end of the levees went out about nine-thiry last night, at a point where it was supposedly the strongest. Most of the inhabitants were in bed when the crash came. .There was much distress among the women and children before they reached places of safety. The prop erty loss is estimated at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Stores are flooded. The factories sustain ed great damage. President Acts Promptly. Washington, D. C, April 2. Pres ident Taft took quick action to bend the energies of the Government to ward stopping the threatened floods in the Missouri and Missippi River valleys. Following conferences with Secretary of War Stimson and Gen. Wm. H. Bixby, chief of engineers, and several Senators and Congress men from the States bordering these two great streams, he sent a message to Congress urging an immediate ap priation of $500,000 to be used in strengthening the levees and trying to prevent farther flood damage. Woman Preacher in Court on Charge of Vagrancy. Hickory Mercury. , Miss Amanda Laws, of Wilkes County, a Christian worker and preacher of the Church of God so called was up before the Recorder here Monday charged with vagrancy. She came here about two weeks ago, and has been making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Enis. She has been selling books. Ennis wife has been in bad health and became crazy. They she objected to the woman's staying at her home. Some thought perhaps there was something wrong with the Laws woman and Ennis, but nothing was proven in court. The Recorder released her -with the un derstanding that if she did not leave town at once, he would send her to jail. The case against Ennis was nol prossed. I LOST IN THE SHUFFLE It Appears That There Will be no Honest Investigation of the Money Trust THE PRIUARI S IN NEW YORK vored the catsage of this resolution The Returns Showed Large Major- appointing a special committee while ,4 . . . , . MM all of the Well Street Influences lined ity of Delegate for President Taft, up aganft thu reso,utlon aoJ for a lint Colonel Itooevelt and His ) substitute resolution which provided Friend, Have Denounced the Pri- KhM Reinvestigation should.be con- ducted by the Committee on Bank i nary Election as a Fraud and a I Ing and Currency. Farce Four New United States ! i Senators Take Their Seats This i Week The Charges Against Sen- I "Wall Street Uesolution." These ... . . T . J North Carolina Congressmen, how- ators Stephenson and Lorimer and . " , ever, became so frightened at the Attitude of Simmons and Over- j criticism that came up from the man Democrats Again Refuse ! whole country to the effect that this action meant "no honest investlga More Battleships Will Finish j tion" that they came out In a public Panama Canal by August, 1013. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, April 2, 1912. The news which reaches here from Mexico shows that conditions there are getting worse every hour. It now looks as if the Madero Govern ment has not only failed to restore order, but that its downfall is near at hand. All foreigners in that coun try are very much alarmed not only for their property but for their own safety. England, Germany, and all the other important foreign countries are urging our Government to inter vene there for the protection of their citizens as well as ours. The Presi dent and his Cabinet are giving most careful attention to the situation and are prepared to send troops and bat- -ships to Mexico whenever it is eemed to be absolutely necessary to do so, and it now looks as if that time is not far distant. Democrats Again Refuse More Bat tleships. So many protests came up from all over the country against the Democratic House for refusing' to vote a single dollar for a new battle ship that the House Democratic cau cus was called to meet a few nights I since to consider reversing their for mer action. However, the caucus again adjourned after voting down a resolution against providing for any more battleships. It was announced that this was done by the Democratic House cau cus in support of their economy pol icy. This explanation will not be sat isfactory to the country, in view of the wanton extravagance already shown by the Democratic House in voting seventy-five millions of dol lars to pension a lot of Northern men who never were irr a battle and who never fired a gun. Seventy-five mil lion dollars would build a whole fleet of battleships. Everybody knows that there was no honest demand for this great increase in pensions, and that its only purpose was to try to buy the Northern vote "for a Demo cratic candidate for President. Suppose that the United States should need more battleships than it has in the event of having to inter vene in Mexico or in the event of trouble in China. Think of the hu miliation that would fall upon this country in not being able to uphold the Monroe doctrine and not being able to protect the Integrity of tke Chinese people in thus being dismem bered by Russia and other European and Asiastic powers. Stephenson Wins by Six Majority. A Senate committee has been in vestigating the charges of bribery and corruption used in the election of Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin. It was proven in the investigation that Senator Stephenson had spent over $107,000 in cash that could be traced. How much more was spent no one will ever know. The vote was taken last week on a resolution declaring that he was not entitled to his seat. On this resolu tion Senator Overman voted in favor of Senator Stephenson, and Senator Simmons did not vote at all, but was paired against him. It will be remembered that Sen ator Simmons voted to keep Senator Lorimer in his seat at the last ses sion of Congress. The evidence against Senator Lorimer was much stronger and uglier than the evi dence - against Senator Stephenson. Therefore, It would seem that Sen ator Simmons has been inconsistent in voting for Lorimer and against Stephenson. ' The Senate will soon have to vote again on some new charges filed against Senator Lorimer that are much uglier than those that were be fore the Senate during the last ses sion. It will be Interesting to see whether Senator Simmons will vote for Lorimer or whether be will take j the back-track and vote against bita. The Money Trut Investigation. Many people are inquiring a to what has become of the lavestlsratioa of the money trust. It will be re membered that when the resolution warn before the House to apjK!at a special committee to investigate the money trust that Chairman Henry of the Committee on Itules strongly fa- It wil! also be remembered that every one of the North Carolina Con gressmen voted for what is called the statement declaring that they were j in favor of "an honest investigation j of the money trust" and were assured ! hir 'tho Via rt lr In rr anH rtiTranfv Cnm- mittee that they would make such an investigation. Since that time nothing has been heard of the investigation of the money trust. It begins to look as if Chairman Henry and those who wanted a special committee were right when they charged that Wall Street did not want a special com mittee, but wanted the Banking and Currency Committee to take charge of the investigation which they do not seem to fear. The Primaries in New York. The Republican primaries In New York last week, on the face of the returns, resulted in electing eighty- three delegates from that State for President Taft and seven for former President Roosevelt. This result is claimed as an overwhelming victory for President Taft and his friends. On the other hand, Colonel Roosevelt and his friends have denounced the so-called primary election as a fraud and a farce. . -They have asserted as a fact that the Republican State organization of New York, which was hostile to Col. Roosevelt, did not have tickets at the polls in many places until just before they were closed. They have also pointed out that in many places the polls were closed before the hour fixed by law. They have also charged that the ballot, which was fourteen feet long, was so fixed up and print ed as to make it difficult for those who favored Colonel Roosevelt to find the names of his delegates and to vote for him. Besides, it has been further charged that the law was a very inadequate one and had many loop-holes in it under which fraud could be practiced in a wholesale manner. It is noticeable that up to date these specific charges made by Col onel Roosevelt's friends have not been denied. Colonel Roosevelt's friends have appealed to the Gover nor of New York to order "another primary election. The Governor has considered the matter, but has de cided that under the law he has not the authority to do so even if the facts as charged are true. If this primary election is permit ted to stand, it will be a heavy blow to the chances of Colonel Roosevelt to be nominated. If the charges of fraud, however, are true, it will cer tainly hurt the chances of the Repub lican nominee to carry the State this fall, and will result in causing a prote3t from the rank and file of the Republicans of the State. On August, 1013, First Ship Will Go Through the Canal. Colonel Goethels, the Chairman of the Panama Canal Commission, who is now in Washington, has stated to a Senate Committee that the work on the Canal is progressing most satis factorily, and that he is satisfied that the work can now be completed earl ier than he had first estimated. In deed, he asserted that he was now satisfied that he would be able to take the first ship through the Pana ma Canal not later than August or September of next year. Four New United States Senators. Four new desks have just been placed in the United. States Senate Chamber. This is made necessary by the election of two Democratic Senators from Aribona and two Re publican Senators from New Mexico, all of whom will arrive in Wash ington this week and take their seats for the first time from these two new and last States of the American Union. These are probably the last States that will ever be created. There is no more territory contiguous to the United States, and it is highly im probable that we will ever create a State from any outlying territory be longing to the United States. - REAL MCIENT HISTORY French People Refused to Make Tax Returns FHOCH KING 0T HAD Some Curious Hale ad ItrgiilaUotti More Trouble to Gala lletltms Liberty A UU of Modern ItUUiry ia Which Ue Ileal Truth It Told About How Near Germany Came to a Whipping at Mantla, I til lip- I pine Inland. vj Bilklnsville, N. C. April 1. 112. Correspondence of The Caucaalan-Ka- j terprise. J In 1756 the French parliament fell j under the displeasure or the Kins, j The people went so far ax to refute to register (return) certain kindf of property for taxation, a pretty sure.; way to avoid paying taxes, provided j the authorities didn't Insist upon a strict enforcement ov the law. Ax . the extra taxation wuz regarded ax necessary to raise funds for certain war purposes, the government wux "in a hole," ax we scribblers say. King Louis got mad about this an discharged some ov the lawmakers who had been very active in opposi tion. If the President ov this coun try would adopt such a rule it mite be a gude thing to pull on some or them bull-headed fellers up at Wash ington. But I am willln' to admit that Congress would then be a mlty one-sided affair. Simmons, Tillman and a lot ov them would hev to waltx betwixt the plowhandles the balance ov their lives. The King caused the lawmakers to be respected an pro hibited the legal judges from punish ing people who refused to receive the sacraments at the hands ov the arbi trary Catholic priests. This caused fifteen members ov the great chamber an' one hundred an twenty-four or the different parliaments to resign their offices, for they seemed to be under such a powerful Influence ov the Catholic officials an' so preju- dicd against protestanism that they could not show even a little liberal ism in religious matters, it wuz plainly apparent that regligious lib erty and tha fight for it, were still to be won, the several apparent vic tories against the government an the Catholic denomination had been rather . premature. About this time religious fanatics began to get in their work. One ov them gained ac cess to the King's paiace by subter fuge an attacked the King unexpect edly when be wuz practically sur rounded by palace guards. He wounded the King before he could be restrained, though not dangerously. Of course, the good Christian patriots were not responsible for this attack, though the fanatical Catholics would naturally feel that they probably were, an charges to that effect were soon goin the rounds. Christianity had received a backset for the time being. The fanatic wuz imprisoned an tortured. He declared that he did not Intend to kill the King, but to wound him, that God might touch hiz heart an' cause him to restore peace to the people ov France. But we awl know somethln ov cranks an' their unreasonable claims, an' we know that the world still contains a few. The war in 1755 had brought France close to financial ruin, coupled ax it wuz to the results or many recent wars in the past. Spain wuz then fairly prosperous an Louis detrmined to seek the aid or that country, about the only friend then on that side ov the great oceans. What wux known az the "Family compact" wuz signed up. In this the citizens ov Spain were naturalized an given full privileges to boecome an' remain citizens ov France, if they so desired. The comparatively small Spanish Kingdom wuz densely popu lated an' her people desired a new outlet nearby, an France wuz about the only chance. Spain had owned much territory throughout the world, and still controlled much; Cuba and the Philippine Islands, for instance, az well az a portion ov what iz now the western part ov the United States. But Spain never could manage her colonies rightly an the territory had managed to slip away about az fast ax it wuz gained, through unsuccessful wars and by sale. "Uncle Sam" put Cuba and the Philippines in hiz vest pockets only a few years ago, you will remember. He gave Spain a nice sum la cash, though not obliged to do so, just to show that he wuz willln to be nabor ly; an' the Spanish people are now our friends, I think, though the scars left by many hard-fought land an naval engagements are ' hardly thor oughly healed. But Spain will not get up another row with us for. some years, If ever. Unc!e Sam Ii the real thing when nothin but a fite will do. H j ta urtsj ov tie Ta sally r-? pmtV ta ay rrase or ot S;tta wer to r losal fea at t2e aaUfoaltt or t'.a roat?ie Hal last coaU set 414 act ti Wis fc4 tt&at V.UU im H ftf-aia years aro, u strictly fctrU m far at 1 As so far at t kto. Grs&xstf wt lh oa!y rr?t lTr;a roafttf? b!ta rmv. or trie4 l f mora! er other a4 t Srs-Jo. for Hf zaacy tfcea &r&or4 a t&r ts United State, aa soia tSl too thin wax roia to airlift ta tfce -boraood ov VUails la ta Pat!!9N plaes, Geratay burr lei a pretty treat atval ff,tt to tat ctty fro a her atvat statloas la aad aesr Caiat, When Dewey had pet lb SaalaA Ceet at tbe bcitoa or MtalU bvy he wux about out or atamttainca aa4 a ux four taoutaad tailes from hoat, alo short ov coat for the ecctoea ov the baUleshtpt. Witalag to de stroy or cause the surrs&dcr or the capital city before be quit the job. he turned hit guns upon tbe city !!!f, for it wux tbe headquarters or tbe Spanish army, row pretty larxe. Without nay In much aboat It. the German admiral who eommiaded that division or her nary, tot up steam aa la the right time placed hit ships between Dewey's U. H. battle ships aad the city. Dewey dlda'l care a great deal about this, or would not have cared If be had beea better supplied with coal and ammuait'en. both or which had become low oa ac count or the long cruise aad the tab sequent fite. But be didn't shed any tears. He probably held a prirate conrersatlon with the admiral or the English fleet an' told. him he needed (Continued on pace 5.) TWO MORE CAPTURED Gluade Swanson, and Fricl Allen Now Behind Prison Bars Sldna Allen, the Ieader of the Gang, and Weley Edward, Are 8UI1 at Large and Hare Stated They Will Fight to the Hitter Knd. Claude Swanson Allen and Frlel Al len, members of the lawless gang that wiped out the court In Carroll Coun ty, Virginia, March 14, bare been captured and placed behind the bars, but Sidna Allen, leader of the gang and Wesley Edwards, are still at large: A Hlllsrllle. Va.. dispatch telling of the capture of Claud Swanson Al len, says: "Starving, sleepless and fatigued. Claude Swanson Allen, namesake of a United States Senator, came out of the laurel thicket in the Blue Kidge to-day, pointed two six-shooters to ward the sky, gave himself up to the posse which for nearly two weeks has hunted him. Complacent and al most happy, he sat down, sheltered from a driving storm by the little brick jail, a stone's throw from the Carroll County coart-bouie, where on March 14 the Allen gang rengefully killed the judge, tbe prosecutor, the sheriff,, a juror and a by-stapder. De tective Lucas and four men were working toward Floyd Allen's house when suddenly twenty-five yards or so off the Mount Airy road a figure creeping stealthly through the under growth was dimly seen through the midst which orerhung the mountain slope. Close behind Lucas the other men brought their rifles to their shoulders, when, to their surprise, Allen stepped cut Into tbe road with hands upraised, a pistol in each. "I'm glad to get a chance to come In," be said. "I haven't slept In a bed since the shooting. I'm hun gry." In the presence of a detect! re young Allen described his own part in the court-house tragedy; admitted that he had een Sidna Allen shoot and that he himself had aimed for Clerk Goad's head four times. He told a graphic story of the assatslnatioa. "I don't know who started the shooting," said Allen. "After It be gan I shot four times at Clerk Goad and aimed for his head every time. I saws Uncle Sldna shoot at some body, but don't know who. "When the shooting in the court house was over I went outside and saw Uncle Sldna on the ground shoot ing at Goad, so I shot at him, too. My brother, Victor, called to me to stop, but I had shot all my cartridges. Then we all went away." It developed that Allen was really taken in North Carolina, probably 150 yards over the line. The Capture of Frlel Allen. . Another dispatch from Hillsrille, dated March 30, says: "Frlel Allen, a blue-eyed" strip ling of seventeen, youngest of the eight Indicted for the five murders la the Carroll County court-house a fortnight ago, was taken late to-day (Co In tinned on pago 4.) . s
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