THE CAUCASIAN.
zi ' ' 1 - "" - ' i .11.. , , n .y
VOL. XXX
RALEIGH, No C.f THURSDAY, JUNe 13, 1012.
No. 22.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
Everybody bad a voice In the Dem
ocratic Slate Convention, or at least
it sounded that way.
7he Democratic politicians will
probably try to Investigate the mon
,v truft when they try to raise their
campaign fund this fall.
Th Democrats can't nominate a
dark horse" though they may trot in
a donkey who Is not at present on
th running list.
Kven the extended speech of ex
Governor Glenn failed to make the
democratic State Convention resem
ble a Sunday-school meeting.
Judging from the action of the
Democratic State Convention, the
fnderwood typewriters failed to turn
out as much work as some others.
The Charlotte Observer had a po
litical mishap Thursday morning. It
was for Underwood but crawled over
and fell on the Wilson band wagon.
The Democratic Convention not
only endorsed its few officials vho
have stood on the platform, but also
endorsed all those who had fallen!
Tom Watson says his mission to
the Baltimore Convention is to exter
minate Bryan. However, Watson may
find that Bryan will refuse to be ex
terminated. While waiting for their show to be
pulled off the Democratic politicians
should go over to Chicago next week
to see how a National Convention
reallv looks.
The Wilmington Star says the
democrats are opening the eyes of
the people of the country. If that
is true, this country will never have
another Democratic President.
The Democrats are planning to j
create a new office at Baltimore Con-;
vention. The Democratic politicians;
love office, and all who have the j
price will be on hand.
nv, tr. u n rv, ,,., t
The French Government wants to
Know wno owns tne air. imu. v,ov -
ernment should send a special envoy j
to the Baltimore Convention and j
there find the answer.
There are twenty-one advertise
ments in a Union County paper of
twenty-one Democrats seeking office, I
but not a single advertisement of the
office-seeking a Democrat.
A Durham negro drank five half
pints of whiskey and two hours la
ter turned up his toes to the daisies.
The News and Observer should use
this case to point out the evil effects
of blind tigers upon a community.
The Democratic politicians "cuss"
the trusts during campaigns still they
are now planning to name Senator
O Gorman, a Tammany Hall man, as
chairman of campaign committee so
as to get In touch with Wall Street
and the trusts.
The Democratic State Convention
last week endorsed all its office
holders, which Includes about all of
the fifty-seven varieties. In fact, the
Convention didn't seem to be very
particular about who or what it en
dorsed. Some of the financiers in Wall
Street are betting odds against all
the Democratic Presidential candi
dates who are now in the race. These
financiers must see a big dark mule
hitched out in the woods somewhere
near Baltimore.
While presiding over the Demo
cratic Convention last Thursday Hon.
Francis D. Winston referred to "try
iQg" days before the Amendment
as passed. That was probably when
Winston was trying to get the color
ed voters to support him for office.
The Democratic politicians are
now advocating a six-year term for
the President. They know if they
ever fool the majority of the voters
into electing another Democratic
president that the people will only
and him for one term, and, there
ore, the Democratic politicians want
l&at term as long as possible.
DEMOCRATS ENKMIES TO COTTON.
Mr. D. A. Tompkins Says That the
Democratic Congress In Its Attack
on the Cotton Schedule is an Ene
my to the Cotton Resources of the
South.
Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte,
has given out an Interview In which
he attacks the policy of the Demo
cratic House of Representatives, as
shown in their cotton goods tariff
bill. He shows that this proposed
attack upon the cotton schedule of
the tariff bill will affect the cotton
Industry of the South and have the
certain effect of lowering the price
of raw cotton as well as manufac
tured cotton. We make the follow
ing extracts from Mr. Tompkins' long
and comprehensive statement:
"I note in the press dispatches
that Mr. Underwood has re-introduced
his cotton goods tariff bill.
There is a strong feeling among
Southern cotton mill men that these
cotton goods mostly made In the
South have always had the least ad
vantage of the tariff. Therefore,
these feel that a Democratic Con
gres ought not to proceed to reduce
this first of all. It is a question,
whether those grades of cotton goods j
made in the South have not always j
been on the low limit. In a general
way we do know that the South has!
suffered because of Northern advan
tage in the matter of tariff. Yet
Southern statesmen, from John C.
J Calhoun to the present time, have
! always in their movement to equal
ize a revenue, as a protective tariff.
nave
started in to reduce some
Southern interest.
"In the present situation ths price
of cotton is dependent upon the
Southern cotton mills. It is these
which have given other occupation
to excess labor in the cotton fields.
It is these whose working population j
makes markets for farm products j
other than cotton, and this helps to!
relieve the competition in cotton j
production, and this helps to keep
the price up. Shut down the cotton
mills and let the working operatives!
in them go back to the cotton fields, ;
3 a. 1 i . e a. j. ij i i !
uuu iiit; price 01 cuuun wouiu urop at
once and the values of perishable
farm products would be lost, immedi
ately. Indeed the basis of a lot off
the latter day prosperity of the South j
would be gone at once. !
Tariff Commission.
'We cannot have free trade be-
cause we must have revenue to run!
; the Government. There is required 1
about one billion a year for this our-i
pose. In the present situation about
one-third of this amount, or some-j
thing Qver three hundred mmion8(
must be raised by means of the
tariff.
"Why should the Democrats in
Congress always turn the fight on
Southern interest for an alleged ad
vancement of Democratic politics?
The South should get its fair propor
tion of this tariff. We should have a
tariff commission with judicial func
tnons of its own to investigate each
item separately and report findings
to Congress. Such a commission
might determine the items of a fair
revenue and how to lay such a tariff
that It would best foster and protect
American industries and wages.
The Comprehensive Question.
"Sometimes we hear that the cot
ton schedule is to be attacked again
In the Interest of politics. Of course
the tariff is an important element in
the trust's question. .Of course it is
important to the American people,!
that It shall be fairly and equitably
laid for revenue purposes, and I can
see no reason why in laying a tariff
for revenue it should not be made to
incidentally protect home industry.
The only way I can see to do this is
to have a judicial commission to in
vestigate one item at a time, a. a law
court investigates a case in law.
i
. The Need of the Hoar.
"The tariff needs a comprehensive
overhauling. Some of the items are
too high and some are too law. The
South benefits by the tariff least of
any part of the Union, yet it pays its!
full share of the tariff. It is about;
like the pension list." i
Condemned Man Tried to Kill His j
Daughter Just Before He Was
Hanged. j
Washington, Pa., June 11 With!
only a few hours to live, Jan Rinarik, j
J -X A. J!- j.1 ' 11 A.t I
tuuueiuueu iu uie uu me gauows 1111s
morning, attempted to increase his
victims, when he tried to strangle
his daughter when she appeared in
his cell to bid him good-bye. An
tonia Ribarik testified against her fa
ther at the trial. This morning when
she came to his cell, and stepped for
ward to kiss him, he lunged at her,
gripping her throat with clutched
hands, and was in a desperate strug
gle when the guards heat him off
with an iron bar. Later he was led
to the gallows and hanged. He was
convicted of murdering three neigh
bors who sheltered his daughter after
he had turned her out of his home.
ROOSEVELT MEMS. 10
PEOPLE TO RESCUE G. 0. P.
Nomination at Hands of Present Leaders, He
Declares, Is WorthlessDenounces
"Theft" at Chicago
Colonel, Angered at Ninth Alabama Decision, Urges
Voters to Save Party Repudiated Bosses,
He Says, Are Ruling Against Peopl
Robbery Not
Oyster Bay, N. Y-. June 8. The
Republicans of the country were call
ed upon tonight by Col. Roosevelt to
protest against the action of the Re
publican National Committee In rul
ing upon the contest for seats in the
National Convention from the Ninth
Alabama District.
Would Repudiate Nomination.
The Colonel served notice upon his j
opponents that, in his opinion, the
party as a whole, would repudiate a;
nomination if it were obtained in j
"defiance of justice." j
He declared that every man who j
wishes to see the party continue to
exist should protest at once "against j
those who are deliberately trying to
wreck it."
Theft No Test of Regularity.
"The leaders," said the Colonel,
"speak as if they were regular Re
publicans. I do not concede that
theft is a test of regularity."
, uu-evd. 1
f ? X & 0nfereCe Whif
lasted all the fternoon. He was in
constant touch over his private wires
J 2 A. 1 J lit. O A. r!
-! n Hi. i j, a.
uunng me uay wnu oenaior iJiiuii
and his other lieutenants in Chicago.
Ht also consulted with a number of
his supporters who visited him.
Col. Roosevelt's Statement.
Col. Roosevelt's
follows:
statement is
as
"In view of the action taken by the
National Committer esterday in nn-4i,tb in the National Coiiventioa-UanJ a 1m88 ting for Friday afternoon It 1. admlted by Democrmtlc polltl-
seating the two duly elected delegates a repeater has to vote at an election. I whJcn w sd at Chicago. -clans that the action of the Repub
in the Ninth Alabama District, and "The majority of the committee-i f rgeSt theate: as a pPwtaar pre-; lean Convention at Chicago may de-
replacing them by men who have no
more title to sit in the Republican
Convention than the have to sit in the
Democratic Convention, I would like
to make as serious an appeal as is in
my power to every good citizen who
regards the Republican prty as an
instrument for good government
which it is wicked lightly to destroy,
"Alabama is entitled to 24 dele-
gates in the convention. As regards
several, of the districts where tere
ave been contests, it is my sincere be -
lief that the right was as much on
our side as on the side of our oppon-
ents. But in these districts there was
mnm fnr nnnpst n rm nt nnn talkinf
" . ' 0
the matter over with Senator Dixon,
we both agreed to advise the Roose-
velt members of the National Com-
mittee to support no contest in any
district where there was room for
reasonable doubt as to the right of
tne Kooseveu aeiegates to De seated.
Accordingly in all the Alabama dis-
tricts in question the Roosevelt men
in the National Committee voted with
the majority, and this in spite of the
fact that, as I have always said, we
1 At- 1 1 At T" 1
regaru me claims 01 tne itooseveu
men in certain of these districts as
being as good as those of their op-
fr v
Facts In the Ninth District.
"But in the Ninth Alabama district
two Roosevelt delegates had been
unquestionably elected. The facta
are as follows: The Republican com
. JS ... rt
iuiii ui iu uiBuritl couia a
members, met to call the convention.
.
Eighteen members were favorable to
my candidacy, twelve to Mr. Taffs.
The. Taft men rnnreded that this was
the regular district committee, and
began by participating in the meet-
ing, but as soon as it developed that
the Roosevelt men were in the ma-
jority the twelve Taft men left the
meeting and called a convention of
their own, leaving eighteen members,
a clear majority of the regular com-
mittee, to call the regular convention
in which the Roosevelt delegates
were named.
"No serious evidence was present-
ed before the National Committee to
contravene these facts. The contest
against these two regularly elected Tne Question is now merely whether
Roosevelt delegates had literally no the deliberately expressed judgment
foundation whatever, even of the of the great majority of the rank and
most flimsy description. There was file of t&e Republican party is to be
no more ground for unseating these no less deliberately nullified by the
delegates than there would be. for veiTr men whose leadership has just
example, in unseating the Taft dele- been repudiated by this same ma
gates from Rhode Island or in any iorty. t
district in any State where there is no "A nomination obtained by the
contest whatever.
Legal Delegates Unseated.
"Yet the national committeemen be worthless to the man obtaining it
who are supporting Mr. Taft voted to and would be indignantly repudiated
unseat the two men properly elected by the party as a whole. Apparently
and to'seat in the National Conven- certain National Committeemen and
tion two men who, as I have said, lit- certain of the bosses who from out
erally have no more right to appear side influence the National Commlt-
Regularity.
as delegates in that convention than
they have to appear in the Demo
cratic National Convention. They
represent nothing whatever in the
Republican party except the deterrni-i
nation of certain members of the Na
tional Committee who have
them-
selves been repudiated by the Repub-jof
ucan pariy, mat tne majority of the
' nui o permilieu to deciuei
whom they wish to be the nominee
for President
"Now. I wish to call the attention
not only to all good Republicans, but ; was directed at Gen. Wood and that Ju,y nd Plbly no wo August,
of all good citizens, to just what this; it had been inserted by the conferees11 b J practically decided
type of action means. As yet there is without the consent of either House. th1 Congrrss will not adjourn for
no law to govern national nominating The provision also would affect unfa- lh Republican National Convention
conventions as there is to govern na-s vorablv Gen. Funston and Col. Goe- lnal convenes In Chicago neit week.
uunai elections, aitnougn in certain
States the nomination of candidates
is carried on under the law of those
States precisely as are the elections.
IHiTet-onro "Vnf in KnMlltr
! mission to consider the discontinu
"Because of the lack of Federal ; ance of many army posts throughout
law acts, which if done to influence ' v. ,,rtrv it wan nV arvA that in
elections, would be criminal, can be
Perpetuated with impunity so far as
national nominations are concerned.
But this is a difference in legality.
. C3 -T
and not in moraiity Again and again !
wp hAVP Rpnf tft th nnitntiav oi. i
tion officials for deeds morally not
one whit worse than was done by
the members of the National Commit-
t ,n ncMtoH twn
elected delegates in this Mntn Dls-
ItrfPt of AlVSarr. orl cKctUo for
them men who have no more right to
men thus voted to seat in the Repub-i
liean Convention men who have no
shadow of right to represent any por-
tion of the Republican party any-
where, and who have no more right
to sit in that convention than any
other two outsiders. Nine of those
committeemen came from the Repub-
lican States of Illinois, Kansas, Mis-
souri. New Jersey, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and
West Virginia,
,
Every One Repudiated.
"Every one of these nine National
Committeemen has been repudiated
i i . .1
uia oome voters, .oiuue ui meui j agers, privately, have expressed abll -
wiU SUCCeed himself on the Na- ity to secure a block of fifty or more
tional committee. Each of them for their candidate. In case the de -
represents a State which at the re-.cisions by the National Committee in
cent primaries has declared over-: the contest cases send President Taft
whelmingly against Mr. Taft. The ' and Colonel Roosevelt Into the con -
nine states, in the aggregate, haveUention on practically an even basis
302 delegates in the convention, of
which 258 are for Roosevelt, and
oniy 34 for Taft Tne 9 commlttee-
men are for Mn Taft. the delegates
from their gtates are 8 to 1 against
him.
. . . . a nt
wfaat factg foreghadow that j
. . m. mv an. . ber!
11 to III men UL lucoc 1 La auu !
judgment of all men who believe that!
the usefulness of the Republican par-!
ty has not ended. Every man who i
wishes to see the Republican party!
continue to exist should at once pro-
test aeainst those who are deliber-i
atelv nroceedlne to wreck it. The
- - - reg -
,eaaers PeaK 48 11 mey were tne reg
ular Republicans. I don't concede
Republicans.
that theft is a test of regularity.
"The Republican party Is not in)
commission, or has it appointed as iu ; Do Your Duty and a Little More,
receivers the nine repudiated com- An(Jrew Carnegle ,n a reccat
1 ave i address before a graduating class in
thei' 0t?ertlC11?agUeS.Ihl.h? iNew York, gave some excellent ad-
w,7 "'Ivice to the young men on how to at-
..po.puiar oie 01 luc
01 tneir btates.
Preference Not an Issue.
the question now at issue
one to tne personal preierence 01
ftePUOUCdU 1Uf u' "4 llv-"itt4
ior rresiaeui ui iui
trines which that man embodies.
votes of delegates seated in utter de
fiance of justice, as two Alabama del
egates haTe just been seated, would
te hat yet to itara that the raas
as 4 file of the Republican party csast
be treated as la masters and cot the
Republican party cannot coatias to!
rfW l
obr and deliberate jedgmv&l ot
the majority of the party
WOl'LD OCKT (JEN. WOOU.
tf Senate IUU to Adopted aad Mgrd
by lreldeat It Will Dethrooe lb
Head of the Army. j
A Washi&ston. D. C. dispatch of
June 10th aays: j
The Senate today by a vote of 37
to 24 adopted the report of Senate i
and House conferee containing a
number of anti-administration pro-
visions on the army appropriation j
bill. One of these provisions would i
wt.i.t. t of nn ir,.r,i
n- a m- r
army. As agreed to. the bill would i
I ra nl rm mrmv nfflrr arflnr as rhlf ,
itaff aflerMarch4 net. to havt- at
least ten years service in the line
with r.nk holav nrlr.dUr anrl. i
iTne pr0rUi0ns were the subject of aj
three-hour bitter debate, it was con-
I .k f ...w rUin,iinn
thals. The House has not yet adopt-
! e(j tne report.
The discussion was acrimonious at
times. Adverse criticism was voiced
against the provision creating a com
thl8 matter also the conferee.
exceeded their authority,
,
( 1 " r'-'
had
ALL CAXDI PATHS ARK IH'SY.
UooeVelt Force. Plan a Rig
Meeting in Chicago Friday Night
CandicU Trying to Win
" ' r..A J "
Chicago, III.. June 11.-
Roosevelt
leaders to-night announced details of
iimmary 10 ine opening oi me
publican National Convention next
Tuesday. Congressman Wm. Kent.
of California, who made the an-
nouncement of the proposed demon-
stration said that the principal ad -
dress at the meeting would be de -
livered by Judge Ben B. Llndsey, or; tour contest cases decided. Kvery
Denver, and Attorney Francis J.ione of them, nave one, have been de
Heney, of San Francisco. Also it 1. elded In favor of President Taft.
probable that Governor Johnson, of; Thl. fact ha. created the Impres
California, and Governor Stubbs of ! sion among many people that the ae
Kansas, will speak. tion of the committee bis strength-
Although many of the unin.truct-j ened the position of President Taft
tA Hlpeat A alrariv hive hopn
Uih kv atat loorfor. i.h.r!nn,.rh t. m v- i .v'
Taft or Roosevelt, campaign man-
! ... . . '
the uninstructed men may determine!
the final outcome of the fight, it is
argued. jby hi. campaign manager, and has
R. R. McCorroick, of Chicago, was been counted in the table, that have
to-day named by William Fllnn, of j been published from week to week.
Pittsburgh, a. the chairman of the! N- . v . lf . .
committee which will meet and
jj
rect the activities of Roosevelt dele-
gates before and during the Nation-
1 Convention. Mr. McCormlck will
name his own list of associate., who
number about one hundred,
While the work of the Roosevelt
and Taft leader, held the foreground
during the day the Cummin, and U-
Follette men were bu.y with plan.
Uor furthering the candidacy of the
Rnatftr ,n(! fh. wi.cnn.in on
!Iowa Senator and the Isconila sn'
I ator.
;uin guccesg ln llfe Am0Q other
.things, he said:
"There are several classes of
, young men. There are those who do
nQt dQ aJ, tneir duty there are tno
whQ profest to Ao tbelr dnty andj
there is a third class, far better than
the Qther t that do tbeIr dut
and a jlttIe moTe
"There are many great pianists,
but Paderewskl is at the head be
cause he does a little more than the
others. There are hundreds of race
horses, but it is those who go a few
seconds faster than the others that
acquire renown. So it is in the sail
ing of yachts. It is the little more
that wins. So it is with the young
and old men who do a little more
than their duty.
"No one can cheat a young man
out of success ln life. You young
lads have begun well; keep on. Don't
bother about the future. Do your
duty and a little more, and the fu
ture will take care of itself. Exchange.
all eves era ccciso
All 01 WasruntCn it Talking
a Qreat Contest Between
Taft and RocqtcII
i
After Ail IW lWie lt4 IWa
I Heeled Xrw Tor Itermld Gitvm
l Tart 4 Ml Vce If TalM
Voir to Xmiitiiifr THm taia
i
crwrted Delegate Will Deride tle
(oatrM Is Very Viom &mi lfcb4
fal Vml ajmS t,ptrtcJc -Krws-otnf
of the Demwcvmtie Howjm
Why They Want to Abotith the
Tariff lkrd KJmmon ! H weal
ing CKrr the ldmrr e.
! Washington. l. C. June 11, lW.
i Special to The Caucasian,
The prevailing sentiment in both
i Houses of Congress now is that Coo-
' gress will not adjourn until Ute in
i or lor in imocratic i onvcntion
that convenes in lUltlmor the wek
at v . . . m t
lirr nowem- in" f mocrauc
, II - 4 t . jk
'uJuin or lUf
which It can do without the consent
of the Senate, to attend the Balti
more Convrntlon.
All Kyr On Chirac".
Practically every legislator in the
capital and all public ofSclals In
Washington and visitors at the ho
tels talk of nothing except the great
contest between Taft and Roosevelt
" J ha. eveV before
! nK ,Ue th,U CDtfl b 7 f0'
j Wen i? e history of Amer can
I politic. The lemocratlc politician.
are as greatly interested in the Re-
publican outcome in Chicago as are
the Republicans themselves. Indeed.
; it-rrmiie uie acnon oi ine iM?rnocrauc
Convention at Baltimore.
Th Situation in Oiicago t-to4!atr.
Since the meeting of the National
Republican Committee at Chicago, to
. hear the two hundred and fifty and
odd contest, there have been eighty-
: In that h hm n rln 1 a v
future, enough vote, by the action
or tne committee, to nominate him
The fact, however. 1. that the ac-
1 tion of the committee in deciding
j the eighty-four contested case, up
i to date in favor of Prealdent Taft
j ha. not added a .ingle vote to hi.
; strength in the Convention, as everr
contested case already settled in hi.
! favor haa heretofore been claimed
j - - - - v . mnm m m u r rw
Th table published by the New
York Herald on last Sunday, after
all delegate had been elected, gave
to President Taft 41 1 votes, while It
takea 540 to nominate. In the table
of 458 rotes there waa included by
the Herald every one of the eighty
four contested votes that have been
decided in Taffs favor. Every other
contested case to come before the
committee, with the exception of 14
Totes in the State of Washington
and 34 votes In the State of Texas.
haTe only been claimed by the Taft
managers, bat are Included la the
Herald Uble of 4tg Totes. There
fore, if President Taft wins every
contest except those named in Texas
and Washington be will still be 4 2
Uotes short of the nomination,
j Beside., after the National Com-
, mittee has finished its work in mak-
ng up the temporary roll, it must
be remembered that the Convention
Itself will appoint a credential com-
mittee and review all of these con
tests, and that the Convention itself
wui Tote upon the report of the
Committee on Credentials. There
fore, it will be seen that the action
tion of the committee, as one-sided
as It appears to be. may not haTe
any material effect upon the action
of the Convention.
The Content Very Close and Doubt-
foL
It U true that the Committee, In
deciding contests against Roosevelt
and in faror of Taft. increases the
Taft strength in the ConTentlon in
that the delegates seated by the com
mittee will haTe a vote upon the re
port of thj Committee on Creden
tials. In this way the action of the
(Colntinned on page 4.)