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CAUCASIAN. VOL. XXX. RALEIGH, IV. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1012. No. 13. PRESIDENTIAL EC. v. Col. Roosevelt Wins by Q Majority in the Illinois Primary MR. TAFI GETS LOUISIANA There May be Two Delegations From That State The States of Ver mont and Kentucky Divide Their Vote Delegates-at-Large From New York May Go Uninstructed Mr. Ia Follette Polled Small Vote in Illinois Champ Clark Defeat? Woodrow Wilson in That State. Chicago, 111., April 9. Winners in the Illinois preferential, advisory and direct primary elections to-day are indicated by sufficient returns to warrant a prediction, are as follows: For President: Theodore Roose ult, Republican; Champ Clark, Dem ocrat. For Governor: Charles S. De nccn, Republican; Edward F. Dunne, Democrat. Colonel Roosevelt's State managers claim his majority over President Taft as from 100,000 to 150,000. Returns indicate his vote was nearly r, to 2 of that for Taft. Presidential delegates were not named on the bal lots and will be elected by Congres sional District and at large, the ef fect of to-day's vote being only to serve as a guide to party officials as indicating party feeling. Roosevelt and Clark Run Strong. Fosbun, Chicago, 111., April 9. Returns fro mdown State precincts indicate by their figures that Roose velt and Clark have carried the State. Macon County, 25 out of 39 pre cincts indicated that Roosevelt would have a majority of 2,300 in Congress man McKinley's (Taft's manager) home district, and that Clark was running 2 to 1 over Wilson. Incomplete returns gave the same indications with Knox County, Kane, Kendall, Will, and-Peoria- bounties. The Vote in City of Chicago. Chicago, 111., April 9. The city press association, which is assembling election returns for Chicago newspa pers, says early returns indicate that in the Presidential preference pri mary Champ Clark has defeated Gov nor Wilson in the city of Chicago by 50,000 an dthat Roosevelt's plurality in Chicago over Taft will b eapproxi mately 30,000. La Follette polled only a small vote. Alexandria, La., April 9. A solid Taft delegation of six delegates from the State-at-large, instructed to vote as a unit for the President as long ns his name is before the Chicago Convention, was elected at the Louis iana Republican State Convention controlled by the Herbert-Loisel fac tion, at its meeting held here today. Several negroes, who declared that they were delegates from Caddo, Jef ferson and the third ward of Orleans Parish, presented their credentials but after they were given a hearing by a sub-committee of the credentials committe, they were not sealed. A guard was stationed at the door of the convention hall and instructed to admit no negroes. He said his in structions came from Sergeant-at-Arms Cambon. The negroes held an Informal con ference. All the negroes say they came here instructed for Taft. Af ter the convention adjourned John L. Rogers, who headed the negro dele gates from Caddo Parish, declared his constituents would hold another mass meeting upon his return and send a rival delegation to Chicago. Vermont Also Divides. Montpelier, Vt., April 9. Half the Vermont delegates to the Chicago convention were chosen to-day and Taft and Roosevelt supporters split even in the struggle for control. The delegation will be completed to-morrow at the State Convention, with the choice of the four delegates-at-large. New York Delegates-at-large May Not be Instructed, But Claimed for Mr. Taft. Rochester, N. Y., April 9 The Re publican State Convention held its first session here to-day and after a "keynote" speech by Temporary Chairman Nicholas Murray Butler ad journed until to-morrow to permit the all-Important committee on 'reso lutions to draft a platform, select "tour delegates-at-large to the Na tional Convention and try to deter mine whether it would he for the best interest of President Taft to send an instructed delegation to Chi cago. Rochester, N. Y.t April 9. Dele gates to the National Convention will not be "instructed." Instead the committee on resolutions of the He- jbllcan State Convention voted al- - J mdi , nomlru "ivorlng President Taft's re- and urging the entire State del. nation to carry out the par ty's choice. Kentucky Divides Delegation. Louisville, Ky., April 9. Presi dent Taft got nine uninstructed dele gates to the Republican Convention in to-day's district conventions and Roosevelt one. Roosevelt men walk ed cut of the Eighth and Tenth Dis trict Conventions and Taft men out of the Eleventh, in each instance two conventions being held and two sets of delegates to the National Conven tion chosen, one instructed for Taft and the other for Roosevelt. Taft got six delegates at yesterday's con ventions, giving him fifteen unin structed delegates and Roosevelt one, with six seats subject to contest. EX-GOV. AYCOCK DEAD Expired Suddenly While De livering an Address in Bir mingham, Ala. Body Was Brought to Baleigh and Laid to Rest in Oakwood Cemetery Large Crowds Attended Funeral and Paid Last Respects to the ex Governor Was to Have Opened His Campaign This Week. Ex-Governor Charles B. Aycock died suddenly last Thursday night while addressing the Alaboma Edu cational Association at the Jefferson Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama. Ex-Governor Aycock had been in poor health for many months, and had been away for several weeks for his health prior to going to Birmingham to deliver a speech. Mr. Aycock was Governor of North Carolina from January, 1901, to January, 1905, and had practiced law in Gqldsboro, un tirh'e moved to Raleigh'a few years ago for the practice of his profession. Mr. Aycock was one of the Demo cratic candidates for the United States Senate and had planned to open his campaign with a speech in Raleigh to-morrow night. Ex-Governor Aycock was born in Wayne County and was fifty-three years old. His body was shipped to Raleigh last Saturday morning, and after being taken to his home the body was taken to the Capitol where it laid in State until the hour for the funeral Sunday afternoon. The funeral was held in the First Baptist Church at 4:15 o'clock, the services being con ducted by the pastor, Rev. Mr. O'Kel ley, Elder P. D. Gold, of Wilson, and Bishop J. C. Kilgo, of Durham. The remains were laid to rest in Oakwood Cemetery. A very large crowd at tended the funeral, many coming from a distance. GOV. AYCOCK'S LAST WORD. A Birmingham Paper Gives an Ac count of Aycock's Speech at the Time of His Death. The following story of Governor Aycock's last message to the people a message cut short by death is tak en from the Birmingham Age-Herald of Friday, April 5th, the morning following the Governor's death: Audience Was Stilled. "In the midst of his address at the Jefferson Theatre last night, Charles B. Aycock, former Governor of the State of North Carolina, staggered, seemingly made a strenuous effort to regain his balance, and fell prostrate on the stage. He was dead. " 'He has simply fainted,' cried Governor O'Neal, but his effort to prevent a possible stampede was un necessary. The audience under the stress of excitement was stilled. "The stricken man was borne to the rear of the theatre where heroic efforts were made by Drs. Heflin and Hambrick to restore circulation. The stethoscope indicated no movement of the heart, and after a few minutes, death was pronounced. "Following the removal of the body from the stage, the audience got to its feet, and a babel of sound per meated the building. A. F. Harmon, Superintendent of the Public Schoojs of Selma, and Prof. O- D. Wanna maker, of Auburn, fainted. Governor Grew Noticeably Weak. "Governor Aycock had spoken for an hour.- Towards the end of his ad dress he grew noticeably weak. His voice trembled. " I have fought long the battles of education stated the speaker. 'I stumped the State of North Carolina for four years in an effort to arouse public sentiment against illiteracy. (Continued on page I.) KEEN INTEREST SHOWN Tuesday's Primaries and Con ventions in Various States Watched by all Parties TOE PMIMBY IN ILUSOIS Governor of That State Had Called a Special Session of the Legislature to Enact a Primary Law for Tues day Election Convention System Prevails in Most of the States Neither of Republican Candidates Have Yet Secured Majority of Un contested Delegates The Situa tion in New York and Kentucky The Tariff Board is Endorsed by Southern Manufacturers. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, April 9, 1912. There has not been a day since the Presidential contest has been on in the two great parties when there was aa keen interest in the results that will be determined before midnight as there is to-day. The great State of Illinois, the third State in the Union, is to-day holding a State-wide primary for both political parties. When the polls close at 6 o'clock this afternoon the die will be cast as to whether Roose velt or Taft are the choice of the Re publican voters of the State and as to whether Clark or Wilson are the choice of the Democratic voters of that State. It is stated that the ac tion of Illinois to-day will have an almost deciding effect as to the re sult of the contest in both the Re publican and Democratic parties for the Presidential nomination. The People Will Rule in Illinois. It will be remembered that a few weeks ago Governor Deenan, of Illi nois, at the request of Col. Roose velt's friends, called a special session of the Legislature to enact an official State-cwide primary law so as it-net rid of all machine bossism in the election of delegates, and to enable each voter, no matter how humble, to register his choice for President in his local precinct home. Thus the people of that State have this year for the first time the right and op portunity to get the expression of ev ery voter of both parties within its borders. If Colonel Roosevelt fails to get the State, it will practically mean that he is out of the running for the nomination. There are only eight States with such a primary law. The others are controlled by the convention system, except the State of North Carolina, where the Republican party has pro vided in its plan of organization a simple device by which every Repub lican voter can record his wishes as freely and effectively as they can in the State of Illinois. It Colonel Roo sevelt should carry Illinois it will, of course, means that the fight will con tinue. If Colonel Roosevelt should carry that State, then it will be the belief of his friends and supporters that if there was such a primary law in ev ery Stat that he would carry a ma jority of them. Roosevelt in 1016. Colonel Roosevelt said in a speech on yesterday that whether he was nominated or not, that "his hat was still in the ring." This means, of course, that he will start at once and fight for State-wide primaries in all the States of the Union and keep it up for the next four years. A wise politician to-day, viewing the situation, said that he did not be lieve that Colonel Roosevelt would be nominated this year, but he felt that the brave fight that he is now making means that his nomination is certain four years from now. There are many who are not supporting Colonel Roosevelt this year who hold the same belief. Now, as to the Democratic situa tion, it Is believed that if Speaker Clark gets the endorsement of Illi nois to-day that he will rapidly con tinue to gain in strength and that Professor Wilson's chances for the nomination will be largely on the wane. The Situation in Kentucky. v In addition to the intense inter est over the Illinois situation there is in the Republican camp also great interest in what will occur to-day in Kentucky and In New York. In Kentnckyr both the Roosevelt and Taft forces are claiming a vic tory. The district conventions act to-day and will indicate the result of the State Convention which meets on to-morrow. Neither side has a majority of delegates uncontested up to date, and it looks as If therefore the contested delegates will hare the balance of power. The Situation in New York. Recently, when the Republican pti marie were held la the State of New York. It was announced that Colonel Roosevelt had gotten seven delegates in the State, and that all of the oth ers, more than seventy in number, were for President Taft. It develop, however, that none of the Taft dele gates were Instructed. To-day the Republican State Con- vention is in session in Rochester, and a great struggle is going on be tween those who favor an Instructed and those wh ofavor an uninstructed delegation. The State Chairman and his followers are standing squarely for an uninstructed delegation, tak ing the ground that they believe that the delegates of the great pivotal State of New York should go to the convention free to be in a position to stand for a third candidate if it should appear to be in the interest of party success. On the other hand, the partisan supporters of President Taft have rallied and are making a desperate fight to secure an instruct ed delegation. At this writing the result is greatly in doubt. If New York should send an uninstructed delegation to the National Convention, it will greatly increase the possibility of practical politicians from one end of the coun try to the other turning their heads toward the selection of a nominee who could unite the party and make a Republican victory certaing. Endorsing the Tariff Board. The National Convention of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, which was held in Wash ington a few days since, passed a resolution endorsing the work of the Tariff Board or Commission and declaring in favor of revising the tariff only upon facts gathered by such a non-partisan commission, showing actually the difference in the cost of production of each arti cle here and abroad. The action of this, convention is significant, in view of the fact that a majority of its members were from Southern States and a large majority of them have hitherto been Democrats. BALLOT WITH 5,300 NAMES, Chicago Furnishes Splendid Argu ment for Shorter Ticket. (From Collier's Weekly.) Petitions from the city of Chicago alone for names to be placed on the primary ballot have been filed by 338 Republicans and 555 Democrats. In addition, each precinct elects one Re publican and one Democratic commit teeman, the names of whom are not printed on the ballot but are written or pasted on, and there are at least two candidates for each party in ev ery precinct. Assuming that there are four can didates in the 1,325 precincts, this makes 5,300 candidates. Adding the 388 Republicans and 555 Democrats, gives a total of 6,243 people running for office in Chicago at the present time. It has been suggested that there might be a parade made up of 6,000 or more candidates. Possibly that might show the need of the short ballot. Wife of North Carolinian Killed. A dispatch sent out from Waycross, Georgia, Saturday night, says: "After shooting and fatally injur ing a woman named Mrs. Bunting, with whom he was driving, J. N. Mills, a merchant of this city, turned the pistol on himself, committing suicide. Mills leaves a wife and fam ily living here. Mrs. Bunting's hus band is said to be a railroad engineer in North Carolina. She and her 11-year-old son have been living with Mrs. Bunting's father here for some time. According to the police the shooting took place while the couple were driving in the outskirts of the city. Mills, it is said, asked the woman for her money and check book, and, when she refused, grabbed a pistol which she had in her stock ing. He fired two shots at the wo man, both" taking effect, then, stick ing the pistol in his mouth, he killed himself." Clementine Barnabee, the negress who killed seventeen members of her race in Louisiana a few days ago, in order, as she explains, that they might gain immortality," Is to be tried next week. The grand Jury re turned several indictments against her. Mr. David Settle, brother of Ex Congressman Thomas Settle, was charged with shooting a negro at his country home near Greensboro some time ago, was tried In Greensboro last week and acquitted. Two children of Mr. Bj. M. Lewis, of Atkinson, were playing with a gun a few days ago, when In some way the gun was fired, killing one of them Instantly. They were twins, about 10 years of age. i REAL ANCIENT HISTORY England Was A Genuine Game I Cock at One Time ! ABOUT S0UE LOCAL DYPOCRITS The French People Had Morn Troo- i 1 ble in Trying to timak Itetlgioaa and Political Bonds An Effort to Corner the HHfpfoa of Franc An Infamous Political Organisation J Weighed Down the French People j for Some Time France Shaken j by Another Scheme. BllkinsviUe, N. C. April 8. 112. Correspondence ,of The Caucasian Enterprise. Peace wuz concluded at Paris in 1763 an' England wuz again game cock ov the earth. But peace with her foes did not bring prosperity nor tranquility to the French people. The Catholic politicians (for they were nothing else at that time) could study up more Infernal mean things to do, an could meddle more effect ively with the peace an prosperity ov the masses, than any gang who ever disgraced the holy sanctuary, unless hit wuz Josephus Daniels an his lit tle squad ov allies who act in one ov the political parties in this State. They awlso pretend to advocate a form ov religion an in that way de ceive some very respectabl epeople. Remember that I'm not talking poli ticks now; I'm Just denouncing po litical and so-called religious hypoc risy because I am an humble citizen ov North Carolina, an' I believe a right to take a fall out ov such peo ple now an' then. If all people who try to be honest would do more ov this we'd get more for our produce an' we'd hev fewer sheep-klllln' dogs, for such dogs don't run long if prop er means are taken to stop 'em. About this time the French Catho lics made a fresh effort to corner the religion ov that country. The parli ament, a national body something like our own Congress an Senate, undertook to down the Jesuits, a re ligious organization whose plans dis pleased the Catholic authorities. An' old history in my possession says the trouble grew out ov the fact that the Jesuits had trie dto "enforce the bull Unigenltus." This wuz some fool French fad an' I cannot explain what it wuz because I don't know any rea son why a law or a law-makln' body, should call anythin' a bull unless hit lz a bull; so when I strike such var mints In historical language, I pass it on to the gentle reader with my com pliments. The history I refer to says the once powerful organlzaiton wuz now "at the brink of destruction." Let us hope that It wuz destroyed. The order must hev bin a sort ov a "red shirt" political organization whose motto wuz "git thar anyway you can" az per Simmons & Company, ov North Carolina, for I notice that hit had at the time mentioned form ed a conspiracy against the King o Portugal, hlz death beln' the object sought. The Portugal ruler had a narrow escape an' when the world realized that a vast band ov red shirt murderers had clubbed togeth er, the indignation ov every European King wuz aroused. Soon afterward it became known that the low-down secret order had engaged In some criminally fraudulent practices. Le Velllte, the chief ov the gang, had a scheme to monopolize the West India trade, when the war with England began in 1755. Two French nfer chants, said to live in Marseilles, ex pecting to receive tw omiliion dollars worths ov merchandise through the scheme, advanced one and a half mil lion ov dollars to the conspirators an' accepted bills drawn by the Jesuit leaders for tw omiliion dollars to be paid them if the plans carried. Thus they hoped to add a half a million in profits to their own profits. Ov course that couldn't last. When the plans were finally put into operation an ships were engaged in transportin' the West India products to Europe, the war began in earnest. England had a strong old-fashioned navy an' many other sailln' craft. The vessels were manned by armed men, each commanded by experienced naval of ficers an' they swept the seas for ves sels carry in' the large among ov West India products, an' few ov the ships ever reached the Freich coast. War had caused the financial bubble to burst, the s econd great fraud France had suffered wuz only an un pleasant memory the' Mississippi land frauds I mentioned a few weeks ago beln' the first fraud ov gigantlck proportions. The French Jesuits were obliged to apply to the Jesuits at large for assistance. They either could not or would not do anything an the whole ov France suffered on account ov the crimes or a few. Many merchants stopped payment for a time an this added to the calamity, now well-nigh universal in- that eottttry. Caarr wr VfostM tn j lh attaUoa v j?!Ut. ffrtKa jib iast! gallo elra fvlio4 ta j coattltatioc as tyU or tfes Jr i lis wr ttlbJt4 aa ta vfech con spiracy wut alrv-i Hit t proven that ta Jesstts rr, of Ua4 to b. a distinct I as 4 ov Frsats cul sas. subject ozlj to la ord ov t&s ." CMf," and ty dii not car to tab- nil fo any ov th cocsssoa la ov Its I laad. sales said law was ;t wfcst suited their psr$ts. An' list at reminds ts that North Carol I aa fct an tt fell ov Jot srh hUUa d ac inars so far at politic sr coacera ed aa both ov th political parties la the Stat, for thr ar but to really grrat parties. hat bo domi nated by the so-called leaders ov oc jov the parties worMnc la collusion with th so-called leader o lb axaallr ov th to parties, throwfa. az far as possible, tb strength ov one to th upbuildln ov th other, I "got on 'to this rbem om )crs ago an' eipoved hit tlcc a&d again (Cotnttnued on pc 4.) A TOP-HEAVY SYSTEI Why the Democratic Party Keeps the School Machinery in Hands of Legislature Teacher iri About $I4 m Year While buperintendcnU Offlce Costa Over 4.000 The llyporrty of the Icmocratlc Party on the School Question. I want to call the attention of your reader, especially the brads of families who have children to edu cate, to the report of the itrand Jury of Wake County, published In the News and Observer of March 30th. which Is as follows: Hoard of Hduralton. "We find that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, that the super intendent of public instruction's of fice cost for maintenance $2,937.21 for salaries. $491.75, for traveling expenses a total of $3,428.96 for of fice expenses and are Informed that the County Board of Education al lowed the superintendent of public instruction two months vacation to atend a course in college on full sal ary, with $250 for expense account. We are of the opinion that this Is an improper use of the public school funds. "We recommend that the County Commissioners provide an ofUce for the superintendent of public Instruc tion that will be more convenient for the lady teachers of the county to reach than by having to climb to the third story of the courthouse as at present." This report says the superintend ent's office costs $3,428.96 with $2S0 given as a bonus to the superintend ent making a total of $3, 78. 96. The average teacher gets $40 a month, which for a four month's school pays him $160 a year. He is forced to spend more or less of this every year attending a county Insti tute which must cost the average teacher in hotel bill, books, etc. $20 or $25 a year. This would leave the hard worked teacher, the one who comes In contact with the children at best about $140. net a year, out of which mutt come board, etc. for the four months, leaving certainly not more than $80 or $90 net a year to the average teacher. This means that the superintendent's orace costs as much of the school fund as tt would take to pay forty additional teachers or as much as forty teachers do actually get for their year's work. If this Isn't a shame and a dis grace then I am badly mistaken. No wonder the Democratic party keeps the school or rather all the school machinery 1 the bands of the Legislature. No wonder they have developed the free school system Into a great political machine made to do valiant service for the Democratic party. This was illustrated to me a few days ago by a party talking about this who spoke of a school district In Abbott's Creek township in which there were only three Democrats and these formed the school committee for this district, when as a matter ef fact neither one of them had a child of school age to attend sehooL Some day the hypocrisy of the Democratic party on the school ques tion will be made manifest to the people when they will exclaim with Puck "What fools we mortals be and they will run In their wrath and drive the Democratic party from power as Christ drove the gamblers from the Temple. Justice, In Union Republi can. Robert Lee Currle. the fifteen-year-old boy who shot his father In de fense of his mother in Richmond, Va., some time ago, was discharged a few days ago. ! i 1 i