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Thursday, Pace Pour. THE CAUCASIA!?. The Caucasian!!"1: Aim RALKTGn ENTERPRISE. PUBLISHED EVtBT THURSDAY mt CAUCASIAN POBLISHIKG COMPANY SlfliSCIUPTlOA KATK2W ,0c Year. S x Mowth. . Thk Mouth. t!00 HOW FEDERAL OFFICE-HOLDERS CAN IIKLP THEIR TAHTV. We have received a number of let ters endorsing the leading editorial in our last issue giving the reasons why Federal off ce-holders should not ask to go as delegates to the Natlon al Convention. We make the follow ing extract from one of these letters: "I wish to thank you for your editorial headed 'The Duty of Federal Office-Holders to Their Party.' I agree with you that the next State Convention ought to pass a resolution to the effect that no one holding a Federal office shall be eligible to serve on the State Committee or go as a delegate to the National Conven tion. "I read not long since an arti cle in a leading magazine which showed that the State Commit tee in nearly every Southern State was packed solidly with Federal office-holders and that the delegations from these States to the National Convention were also made up solidly of office holders and of practicaly the same men that composed the State Committee. The article went on to show that these office-holders become active in pol itics every year to get them selves elected as delegates to the State convention in order to perpetuate the power of the pat ronage ring which gave them of fices, and that when this was done that then they, as a rule, made no effort to. win victories for Republican principles on the day of election. "This kind of thing has not only brought Southern Republi cans into great disrepute over the country generally, but I know myself that it has hurt the party in this State and kept many a young man from joining us, even though he was tired of and disgusted with the Demo cratic party. You hit the nail squarely on the head when you state that it is the duty of Fed eral office-holders to show their appreciation for the honors which they had received by re fusing to go as delegates, and further that if they did not do this they would prove that they were not the right men to have been given positions of honor and profit from the party. Ev ery Republican in the State who wants to see Republican prin ciples, triumph at the polls will endorse your position about this matter." , In this connection, we wish to call attention to a recent bit of history. In the campaign of 1892, one of the leading charges made against Presi dent Harrison for re-election, was that he was not the choice of the Re publican States that could give elec toral votes, but that he was nominat ed by the wholesale use of Federal patronage, and that he got his nomi nation by solidly packed delegations from Southern States made up of men who held offices under his ad ministration. It will be remembered that President Harrison was defeated for re-election, and this in spite of the fact that he was one of the ablest men in the country and one of. the best Presidents the United States has ever had. Now, we submit that it is the duty of every Federal office-holder to-day to see to it that our ODDonents can- not, in the coming campaign, make this same charge against the Republi can nominee for President. This is one way in which Federal office-holders can help their party in the State and Nation. . TENNESSEE MAY HAVE REPUB LICAN SENATOR. The Governor of Tennessee now has the opportunity to appoint s Republican United States Senatoi from that State. The death of Sen ator Bob Taylor Sunday makes a va cancy and it now falls upon Governoi t Hooper, a Republican, to name the successor to Governor Taylor, whe will serve until the Legislature meet next year and elects a Senator. If Governor Hooper appoints a Repub lican to fill the vacancy, and it it presumed that he will, he be the first Republican United States Senatoi from Tennessee in over forty years It is thought Mr. Newell Sanders, oi Chattanooga, Republican" State Chair man, will receive the " appointment. wu elected Gover nor or Tennessee, as a itepuoncan. but was endorsed by one f action of the Democrats in tbat State. lie has been a very popular Oorernor and stands a chance of re-election. NKKIS KKI'UIILICANH GUK.SS. IS COV- I The President of the Cane Grow ers' Association in Louisiana thinks it is time for that State to send Re- j publicans to Congress to truly repre sent the interest of the people in Louisiana. The New Bern Journal, a Demo cratic paper, commenting on the ac tion of the Cane Growers' Associa tion, says: "The President of the Cane Growers' Association is quoted as saying: I say frankly I be lieve the time Is ripe for Louis iana to send Republicans to Con gress. Protection to Louisiana industries has always come from Republicans.' This is the busi ness announcement that the cane growers object to the Demo -cratic party because It favors putting sugar on the free list. It Is this abnormal situation, the conflict between local self-interests from a trade viewpoint, and the demand for political al legiance based on prejudice or past issues, that is confronting the voters in many sections of the country. It would be better in every way if politics, that is political elections, were deter mined by natural local condi tions. Take the cane growers' position in Louisiana. A tariff for sugar is their wish, and the Republican party is the politi cal party to which their vote naturally belongs. Certainly no by-gone Issue, no old-time prej udice should force these inter ests asking protection to vote a Democratic ticket. When hon esty, every-day common sense, a clear study of the problems of the hour, are the governing factors for the voter, instead of some party alliance that is pure ly sentimental there will enter into our elections natural poli tics, a condition that will place men right everywhere, for they will vote from the dictates of a clear judgment unhampered by prejudice." May the day of natural politics ar rive at an early date when all men will vote from the dictates of their conscience instead from prejudice. But referring again to "free su gar." That isn't what the Demo cratic bill means. It means that the sugar trusts can get the raw product without duty, but it doesn't mean cheaper sugar, for the trust can still sell the refined sugar at the same old price, if it so desires. We are giving up some of our edi torial space this week to make room for some communications and other important matters that should go in the paper. We are also printing a number of articles on timely topics taken from other papers, that our readers may see what the other ed itors in the State are thinking and 'writing about. WITH THE EDITORS. If some of the fashions for women are going to be what is indicated by the news from Paris, men will have to wear blinders. Union Republi can. We have rec elve a Utter saying that plate service boosting Under wood has been ordered sent us free of all charge, express prepaid. Not a thing doing, Pauline. Davie Rec ord. Now that you have paid your equalization" increased ment, do you still feel inclined to continue in power the Democratic party that imposed it? Union Re- publican. High up officials brag about what is being done for public schools. They either don't know what they ?ay, or are trying to deceive the far mers. Hickory Mercury. It is"a safe proposition that the man who is tolerant and deals ex clusively in ridicule and abuse of his Dpponents, is afraid for the light of eason to be turned upon the ground he stands on. Lincoln Times. Greensboro's police record for March shows 1,448 arrests of which 181 were for drunkenness and 183 for retailing whiskey and cocaine. The drug-stores also did a good pre scription business and presumably :he Express Company handled a lib eral quantity. Truly crime and pro libiton keep pace. Union Republi can. The executive committees of their espective counties have issued calls !or county conventions as follows: Forsyth, at Winston-Salem Satur lay, April 20th; Surry, at Dobson, 3aturday, April 20 th, and Chatham, at Pittsboro, Monday, April 15th. HOOSKVKIT IX FIGHTING MOOD. Chicago Give the Yormrr I trident llojal Welcome -A TrrtnetKloo Crowd Par kit Auditorium. Chicago, III., March 27. Colonel Roosevelt's roost stinging campaign speech thus far was delivered here to-night. He lashed his opponents and charged some of them with us ing fraud and trickery to defeat him. Colonel Roosevelt said it was a fighting speech. It was delivered be fore a throng which packed the au ditorium and cheered him enthusias tically. The primaries in New York yesterday furnished the text for his speech and he cited a number of in stances in which he said his oppon ents had resorted to improper prac tices to defeat him. He expressed belief that in the great majority of districts of the country, the people were with him and that the opposition was attempt ing to defeat him by methods which he characterized as "Infamous." Part of Colonel Roosevelt's speech was devoted to "big business." He opposed "our present policy of chaos" and gave his own Ideas of the meth ods which should be pursued to in sure strict regulation of large corpo rations. Chicago gave the former Presi dent a lively welcome. Crowds cheered him at the station when he arrived an dwhenever he appeared during the nine hours of his here. The auditorium was large enough to hold only a part of those who sought admission. Though two other meeth Ings were held many persons who wished to hear Colonel Roosevelt were unable to do so. Two hours before the auditorium was opened a crowd had gathered at the doors. A line of persons four abreast was formed and increased steadily until it extended for two blocks in each direction. Here Colonel Roosevelt entered the building, and the people arose with a cheer. During his speech he was frequently interrupted with ap plause. During his brief stay in Chi cago Colonel Roosevelt found time to meet the leaders of the Roosevelt movement in Ilinois and several hun dred political workers of Chicago. After stating that discussion of business was an important subject, Colonel Roosevelt declared that there was a still more important subject that he wished to touch upon. He said, in part: "The fundamental issue in this fight is an issue of honesty, decency, fair play. Have the people the right to rule.' Have the masses of the Republican party, the rank and file, the plain people in whom Abraham Lincoln trusted, the right to express their will as to who the nominee for President shall be? Or are they to be bullied and defrauded out of that right and is the nomination to be en trusted to the representative of pow ers of pillage, the men who, with the backing of big crooked business, work through the lowest kind of po litical machinery and count on the silence or support of every newspaper that is owned or controlled by, or direct or indirectly responsive to, those great financial powers that work in the darkness? Boy Wanders Away From Home and Meets Untimely Death. Last week's papers gave an ac count of the untimely 'death of an unknown boy in Rockingham County. The last issue of the Wilkes Patriot throws some light on the case and gives the name of the unfortunate lad. The Patriot says: "Early Tuesday morning Boss Blackburn, a young man aged about twenty years, of Roaring River, came to this town searching for his young er brother who had wandered away from home over a week ago. The young man explained that his broth er was the unfortunate possessor of a weak and shattered mind, and that he frequently left home and roamed over the country, but that he always returned. He had found no trace of him this time until he came to this place and learned that Mrs. Hender son, the postmistress here, had re ceived a letter just a few days ago from Stoneville, Rockingham Coun ty, containing an account of the piti ful and tragic death of an unknown boy there one night last week. The letter stated that the boy's body was found near the railroad track, torn and mangled, so that recogniton was impossible. No clue to his identity was found except a card on his per son addressed to Frank Blackburn Wilkesboro, N. C. This and the de scription of the boy and the facts of his death was enough to convince the young man that It was his brother who had met such a 'terrible and sud den end." Iocal Self-Government. Hickory Times-Mercury. When a man runs for a legislative office, it's the duty of any voter to know where he stands on all ques tions. We believe In repreentative government Republican government run on Democratic principles, that is, let all public officers whose busi nes sit shall be to handle and dis burse the peoples taxes be chosen and elected by the people, such as County School Boards and County Superintendents. It's the onlv wav to break up the partisan political school machine now located fn p.i. elgh. ' STOUV OF A LADY-HOHO. Ircferrrd Traveling Around to Liv ing With IteUtlvr. and Finally Dlrd In Poor Hoaw A Fortune That Came Too Late. Greensboro Record, 25.1 Mr a. Nancy Wood died yesterday at the County Home, aged around S9, and with her passing there went out one of the most peculiar characters of Guilford County. For two or ! three months the has been an in j mate of the County. Home, but be fore that she was the great original "lady hobo," and a mendicant by choice. She had many well-to-do rel atives, nieces and nephews, who would gladly have given the old wo man a good home, and In fact, of fered one to her many times. She never accepted, but went her own pe culiar way rejoicing. Anent her mendicancy, she has been known to come all the way from Lexington, Liberty, or some other town as far distant, to claim 1.50 from the Guilford County authorities to help provide her living. During her life-time she traveled thousands of miles by rail and often made the trip between Indiana, the home of her late husband, and her stamping grounds in North Carolina and Guil ford County. She had no money except what was given her and she never spent any of this on paying railroad fare. Instead she would enter the train go ing where she wanted to go and calm ly seat herself without money or ticket aqd she always got through. She loved to travel and possessed many of the traits of the nomadic Gypsy. It is peculiar that the old lady died just when she reached the point where she might have satisfied her craving for extended travel and paid her own way at that, for she had just become heir to a goodly bit of property and the details of the estate from which it came had not been settled up before the end came. Democratic Extravagance in Ala mance. Burlington Dispatch. Have your taxes been increased under this Democratic county admin istration. They have borrowed $17, 200 to pay the running expenses of the county during the last month. And do you see any benefits from having this party of good govern ment administer your affairs? If so, vote the ticket again. But if the scales are beginning to drop from your eyes, and you are tired of be- j ing buncoed, in the name of good government and democracy, vote the Republican ticket. The party, you know, has given you good county ad ministrations. Some of State's Judges Are Blamed. Charlotte Observer. We find several of our State ex changes, and correspondents writing to several of them, in the attitude of complaint against alleged dllatorl ness shown by judges of the Superior Court. The Lenoir Topic, for one, expresses discontent because, where as court is set to meet at a certain hour and all jurors and witnesses not present may be heavily fined, the judge may arrive late and neither pay any fine nor make an explanation, although a laarge number of people are inconvenienced and the county suffers financial loss. "The Topic," it declares, "has known cases where jurors and witnessed summoned to be in court Monday morning at 10 o'clock had to leave their homes and families Sunday in order to get to court in time. And others living near er had to leave before daylight Mon day morning and drive through mud and slush under whip and lash, only to find that the judge would not ar rive until the afternoon. The Topic calls upon the voters to end this state of affairs. On the part of the Scot land Neck Commonwealth another complaint is made. In its opinion, the public's need is for. more Indus trious judges rather than for a nu- For All Particular attnH popularly called EASTER WEEK. readiness of the BERWANGER STORE for this attend needs; hence, we call your attention- The man who demands the BEST in hU aimaS !' COnven,en of the BERWANGER STOK For over thirty years "BERWANGER LABEL n Prfce is the nt to serve. ness, quality, and a modest price. n a "aent has been a guarantee of style-eifaf:Tr per suit. Kindly note the perfect ness the grace. Then note the exclusive patterns Vho T Clothes' the drape of the coat, the nattf BERWANGER CLOTES are dlrtlncuiwl of grays, gray. tan. and bro Prices range from $15 all the way up to $35. 6 ordlnanr kind, yet the prices are no Boy's Clothes For !Pir- iwr Hardly a shop anywhere can equal the bp a xTr Sler NOW Ready , Pleasure, as well as economy tohop hefe WANER dplay B07- Wearables, and moTbers wffl Give due thought to the Quality of the will be made at BERWANGER sv c othe for the new Eeason-nm, .,i.. ri rovr it a tion and up to $9 Bat and ball free with every suit. Haberda Ties; Gloves, Half-Hose, Underw ISISBWyARKEETS. meritally increased bench. 'The prwet Judges." it argue, "ar only reqpirrd to wink forty-two weeks la the year and some of them are not actually engaged more than twenty eight or thirty weeks. We hae It the ca when there was a two weeks terra of court for a county, the first two day of court would be taken up in trying criminal case. the next two In disposing of civil cases, and by the fifth day the Judge would be on his way home." Our Halifax County contemporary recog nizes that this is not always the fault of the Judge, because the lawyers are unprepared to try many cases on the docket; but it insists that a two week's term should be nothing It If the cases exist and that every judge entering a district should serve notice upon the lawyers accordingly. TWO .MOItK CAITUKKI. (Continued from page 1.) in a carriage shed at the home of his father. Jack Allen, eight miles from here. He cheerfully submitted to ar rest, and to-night occupies a cell in the Hlllsvllle jail with his cousin. Claude Swanson Allen, who surren dered without resistance to the detec tives yesterday. "Only Sidna Allen, a man of mid dle age, and his young nephew, Wes ley Edwards, both bold mountaineers of reckless daring, are fugitives to night. They are the last of the out law band whose fusillade killed a judge, sheriff, prosecuting attorney. juror and bystander on March 14. "Friel Allen two days ago desert ed the two men still at large and brought back to-night their ultlma- tion of defiance. Both are prepared to resist until death. A father's anx iety to have his youngest son spared a terrible death in the mountains is assumed to be the cause of Friel Al len's capture. Jack Allen was not In volved in the court-house shooting, but it is known that since his son Friel joined the outlaws he has been endeavoring to advise him to submit to the mercy of the law. Just how the parent communicated with the boy has not been disclosed. "Hillsville had hardly digested the excitement incident to Claude Al len's bloodless capture yesterday when Friel Allen galloped into town jlate to-day, the prisoner of Detective Thomas L. Felts, leader of the moun tain campaign against the outlaws, and Detective F. C. Payne, who to gether made the arrest." Pay Your Poll Tax. says upon this subject: "No person shall be entitled to vote unless he shall have paid his poll tax for the previous year on or before the first day of May. "Every person liable for such poll tax shall, before being al lowed to vote, exhibit his poll tax receipt and unless such shall bear date on or before the first day of May, such person shall not be allowed to vote." In connection with the above if you are not prepared to pay all of your tax by the prescribed time, you can pay your poll-tax, at least, re ceiving a receipt therefor, and there by save your vote. The important thing is to pay your poll tax. Every Republican vote will be needed in North Carolina this year. Union Republican. Goldsboro Boy Kills Negro Over Five Cents, A Goldsboro dispatch of April 2nd says: "Because he had not paid a nickel that a fourteen-year-old boy claimed was due him, an old neero. Npw Jones, living in Georgetown, about a quarter or a mile from the citv. v shot and instantly killed about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon by the bov James Hill. J' ;The boy stood at the corner of hfa own home, about three hundred yards u10utace, ana, using a small 22-cali- ure nne. area two shots at the old negro, who was seated on a porch talking to a neero woman Discriminating Men hnM Dert fron custom tailors costing f 15 to $20 c57 er Suits at $5; regular $6 values others as io f J1, -r. Caaes. SoIu. Ml , Tflne dDme ! SECOND KTHTKn r mux nnru3:N rn RIH M i l e L Printed In Pamru, Sent !rr at 5 c F J 1 The first Uro speech has xv. uexaana n& cost:--, M that It Las be3 wL print a teco&d eiiue"7 Republican bo party grow and t.- fkhN as well as th v,.. get up a club of at ? tI. twenty for thu 4 in his order rUht a) The speech ouotr-o Bra re Fa ml rn -. . ' the favts which br& Democratic mac h Sr. V. t . . uaic iH-fii mit nr . RenubUcan nart ..... 4 to thte effect that ihey ty of issuing the ' Knnrln nriil ! ,vU)s Mr. Dutler stated that oery copy of !. Fraud Commission lU; ?' been burned or dertroycj . ' as he knew, except ill 01, (. facu to show that St ing Democrats and not r..V cans who were repoai:t; v. what looting of the Sut t ' done. The speech not onlj Nt)lJ tory straight for the cm u on this important matter, also gives the recordi of parties, and besides presecuat great living issues aow Ui the people in both State uj Nation. If a copy of this i; . is put In the hands of every t?.. er in the Mate, It will rr.eas u defeat of the Democratic iu. chine, which they so richly serve, and which the fct;i growtn and prosperity of State demands. ( Now is the time to dlstntn oui.u mciaiuic uinie ID Jecj can read and think. It i;i& ten times as much pood no It will during the heat of a aa palgn. rr v. , .... iue secona eaition is jro. fast, so send In your orient once. Address, lillii UAUL'AS AX 1 . . ING COMPANY. Raleigh, N. C. 1 1 Saved By His Wife. one s a wise woman who u: just what to do when her husbi life is in danger, but Mrs. II. J. Fix Braintree, Vt., is of that kind. Insisted on my using Dr. Kins'i Discovery," writes Mr. P.. "fori dreadful cough, when I was to si my friends all thought I had ct;ji short time to live, and it compirtt cured me." 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