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VOL- XXX. RALEIGH, IV. C. JULY 11, 1912. 'V; IWo. 2G. THURSDAY. EDITORIAL BRIEFS , -r. the National Prohibition Con ,.ri had a steam roller. has b-en discovered that Wood Wilson has also written a book. Worder if Woodrow Wilson still tbat deaire to knock Bryan into , k-d-hat? fhj Democratic papers keep on m,' Wilson's picture, they will his defeat certain. at l.-ant, all of the Democratic of-.-:i(,Id r8 in this State believe in .. third term, and then some. Wouldn't you like to know who j.ri,? the free lumber and reciprocity j,;a:ir:s out of Bryan's platform? lion. William J. Bryan is to meet in Chicago July 15th to decide on the program for Wilson's campaign. If all those Democrats who are putting up for Wilson are good Dem- o;rata, then somebody has lied them terribly. on Bryan now accuses some one of stealing his sidewalk while he was attending the Baltimore Convention. Probably some one mistook it for his platform. An exchange says Simmons is pleased with the platform. Well, why shouldn't any kind of a platform suit Simmons, if he doesn't expect to stand on it? One paper says party sentiment never counted for less than it counts for now. That being true, the Demo cratic vote in the South will be sure to dwindle. A news item says that Wilson will conform to precedent. If he does he will be defeated, as that is the prece dent set by the former Democratic candidates. If the Democratic Committee should decide that a Democrat is one who believes in every plank in the plat form, there will be very few to vote in the Senatorial primary. Judging from an editorial in the Louisville Courier Journal, the editor of that paper has not definitely decid ed whether he will vote for W'oodrow Wilson or for his Satanic majesty. The Democratic leaders say they are delighted with the nomination of Woodrow WTilson. No matter who had been nominated at Baltimore the leaders would be talking just the same way it's a habit with them. The Baltimore Sun says Wilson is the ablest candidate the Democrats have had since Grover Cleveland. Certainly the Sun does not expect Messrs. Parker and Bryan to sub scribe to that statement. Will Senator Simmons have the nerve and the cheek to stick up again for his "friend Lorimer" when the test comes again this week? We ex pect to see the "brave" Senator have another case of cold feet and take the hack track. The Democratic State Committee held a meeting in this city Tuesday night, lasting until 2 o'clock Wednes day morning, trying to decide what is a Democrat, but adjournment was taken before the much mooted ques tion was decided. The progressive Lincoln Republi cans of Michigan are preparing to hold a great meeting under "the oaks" at Jackson in that State on July 20th, where the Republican par ty was born fifty-eight years ago and declare again for human freedom and this time to denounce white slavery as well as black slavery. The Democratic papers have told all about Woodrow Wilson, his fam ily, domestics and all, but they have failed thus far to state whether their candidate for Vice-President salts his cattle every morning before break fast and whether he takes a long horseback ride across the mountains every day. Of course all this infor mation must be furnished before the Democrats will know whether to line UP solidly behind him. PROHIBITIONIST MKKT. Will Name Candidate For President and Vice-lreident To IHru Woman Suffrage and Initiate Ref erendum and Recall. Atlantic City, N. J. July 7. The National Prohibition Convention with nearly 1,000 delegates In attendants, will open in this city Wednesday morning to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President and map out plans for the fall campaign. The Prohibitionists believe that the party is in a position to make a strong bid for national support In No vember and the convention promises to be one of the most Interesting in years. In addition to the vital question of prohibition traffic in liquor, the con vention expects to wrestle with the problem of women suffrage and some form of the Initiative, referendum and recall. Many delegates already arejn the city and practically all the members of the national committee for the meeting of that body tomorrow night. This meeting is expected to be a live ly one. National Chairman Charles R. Jones will have several opponents when he comes up for re-election, one of the most formidable spoken of being W. G. Calderwood, of Minne apolis, secretary of the committee. The race for the Presidential nom ination appears to be an open one. Eugene W. Chafin, of Illinois, and Arizona, who headed the party ticket four years ago, is again urged for the place, and there is a decided boom for his running mate at that time, Aaron S. Watkins, of Ohio. R. H. Patton, of Springfield, Illi nois, is another candidate much talk ed of. Joshua Levering of Balti more, the prohibition standard bear er in 1896 and Madison Larkin, of "Scranton, Pa., both appear to have an enthusiastic following. THE NEW OFFICIAL FLAG. National Emblem With Forty-Eight Stars Goes Into Effect. A banner that never before was seen on land nor sea now floats in the breezes not only in up-to-date places in Charlotte, but throughout the United States and on American ships, consulates and embassies throughout the world. The flag which went into effect yes terday contains forty-eight stars, two more than the Stars and Stripes have ever hitherto borne. The two addi tions are emblematic of two new States, Arizona and New Mexico, which were recently admitted. By long-standing custom, the change wrought by the addition of one or more States becomes effctive on the following Fourth of July. The flag which passed into history at midnight of Wednesday had been official since July 4 ,1907, when Oklahoma as sumed the rights and the dignity of full-fledged Statehood. Those who have a passion for or der and regularity (other than par ty) will be pleased at the change. The best that could be done in the arrangement of forty-six stars has been to lead off with one row of 8, follow with a row of 7, then two rows of 8, one of 7 and then one of 8. The new flag has 6 rows containing 8 stars each. Charlotte Observer. Liquor Furnished Free in Democratic Primary to Those Who Voted "Bight." Hickory is a "dry town," except a little must be kept up with for par ty's sake. ,Must not hurt party, you know. In campaigns we are 'bliged to have a little for the boys or they mightn't vote right. It's said there's plenty round now, and only one ticket out and the cam paign hardly begun yet. Read the following clipped from the Land mark: "Since the advent of prohibition not only has liquor been tabooed in Statesville drug-stores, but the town has never had a liquor cluh locker or any other kind nor a 'ni-beer' saloon. If liquor is sold here at all it is by, blind tigers, and these are very few and far between. There is no semi-legalized business. At the recent Democratic primary liquor was unusually plentiful, but it was furnished fre eto those who voted 'right not sold." Heavy Snow Ties Up Mountain Rail way. Washington, D. C, July 6. To the newspaper men who mopped their brows and railed at the Wash ington summer, Acting Secretary of the State Wilson this afternoon gave out copies of a dispatch stating that traffic on the Trans-Andean Railway between Valpariaso and Buenos Aires was blocked on account of "an unusually heavy snowfall." The American Consul at Valpa raiso, a much-envied man from a weather point of view, scent the mes sage. The dispatch said that it is improbable that the railway qan be re-opened before August or September. REPUBLICANS CONFER! i Will the Republicans of the! State Determine Between Taft and Rooseveit? TOE BESOLUriOHS ADOPTED Conference of Itooerek Supporter in Greensboro Monday Wa Har monious and Unanimous in it Ac-; f tion Not Binding L'Kn the Alle giance of Republican. Favor In structing the Twelve Electors In) This State to Vote for Col. ILoo!e-j velt as the Legitimate Candidate i of the Party for President. A number of prominent Republi cans in this State met in Greensboro Monday to agree upon a plan of con-) 1 1 . 1 I A - 4.1 A. .. f certea action as 10 iae course 10 ue taken by the Republican organiza-j tion in this State in regard to thej Presidential electors, as well as oth er matters for the good of the cause. The call for the Greensboro meeting had been Issued by National Commit teeman Richmond Pearson, Hon. Zeb Vance Walser, Roosevelt State Cam paign Manager and Col. W. S. Pear son, Secretary of the State Roosevelt organization. There were a number of prominent Republicans present from all sections of the State. Among those present and who participated in the meeting were National Committeeman Rich mond Pearson of Asheville; Hon. Zeb Vance Walser, of Lexington; Ex-Senator Marion Butler, of Elliott; Col. W. S. Pearson, of Charlotte; Ex-Con gressman C. H. Cowles, oi Wilkes boro; Mr. McGuire, of Surry; Col. V. S. Lusk, of Asheville; Chairman Hiram Worth, of Guilford; James N. Williamson, of Alamance; Dr. Pear son, of Wayne; and W. S. Bailey, of Nash. The conference, which lasted for about an hour, was j executive, but after adjournment .Hon. Richmond Pearson and Ex-Senator Marion But ler, authorized to give a statement to the press, reported that the meeting was unanimously harmonious. They further reported that it wras stated in the meeting that a majorty of the North Carolina delegation that de clared Col. Roosevelt the Republican nominee for President. Many of those who attended the meeting in Greensboro Monday were delegates to the Chicago convention. The Resolution Adopted. By unanimous agreement it was decided to submit the question of Roosevelt's rightful nomination to the Republican precinct primaries when delegates are selected to the State convention. This was present ed in the form of the following reso lutions, which were unanimously adopted: "First. We cannot endorse the ac tion of the recent National Conven tion at Chicago, or recognize such ac tion as binding upon the allegiance of Republicans. "Second. We favor the submis sion of the issue as to which is the rightful nominee, Taft or Roosevelt, by way of referendum to the precinct primaries throughout the State. "Third. We will abide by the ac tion of the next Republican State Convention, based on instructions given in such precinct primaries. "Fourth. We favor instructions to the twelve electors to be chosen by the State Convention binding them to vote for Theodore Roosevelt as the rightful ana only legitimate candi date of the party for the Presidency." The party will not send any dele gates to convention to be held In Chicago August 5, as they have al ready nominated Col. Roosevelt, but any Republican who desires can at tend the convention. The Chicago Convention. An editorial from the Detroit News, which before the National Con vention was a supporter of Mr. Taft, was read in the conference by Na tional Committeeman Pearson, and he afterwards gave a copy to the press, because he said it defined the position of those who were in attend ance at the Greensboro meeting. The editorial referred to follows: "There were ten men at the Re publican National Convention in Chi cago writing for the Detroit News. All of these men are writers of wide experience in political affairs, some of them having attended every National Convention for twenty years. Each was at liberty to write reports of current events just as he saw them. Two have a dislike for Theodore Roosevelt that amounts to almost a hatred, but every one of the ten agreed on one proposition. It was that William Howard Taft did not have enough duly elected delegates to control the convention and nominate himself. The reports sent to this pa- per arid to erery other pajxr of the! country that had enough reprersta-j tives at the convention to get the do-1 lags of the convention from every; angle indicate beyond doubt that the! National Committee of the Repubii-j can party being deeply partisan in j . "'"'long as you pray and go oa like tali not have enough delegate to control! .ueaiioa. ana aeuoeraieiy set , about it to unseat duly elected dele-j gates opposed to Mr. Taft and seat made by L H. Walkr. bo v c&ed! hn friend. The extent to which thli,;5 and cost by the trmc Coun.jTrtl was practiced differ somewhat in tb'ty circuit Court on a char of dls-i report. The least number by any re-i lurb!ajc religious worship H mp liable writer place the figure at lev-Jpeajea the ce to the Suprm Court' enty-two, while other, including Mr. ( Which has Jut affirmed the lower j Roosevelt's strongest advocate. court. j place it at ninety. In either case, j Walker U a prominent politician enough were taken to insure a Taft! of Lawrence County and made !be majority and leave a few to spare' raCe for Representative in the last! should there be a slip on the part of i campaign on a single tax platform.! a few delegates." i His stepdaughter joined the Christian j State Convention In Aujrut, J Church, or Church of the Disciple.! jat Oppostlon. Walker went to the The next State Convention will beichurch that evenlnc and a.ked tvr-' held in August, probably on the 15th. j mission to mak a .tatement regard The opinion of many of those who at- ing the baptism of hi daughter. tenaea me Greensboro meeting that the sentiment among the Republican j in the State was ten to one for Roose- velt and that they will predominate the next State Convention over whelmingly. JILTED PItlNCK ATTKMITS SUI- SUICIDE. Said to Have Wanted to Marry Mi Mary Duke, of Durham. A New York dispatch of July 4th says: The Sun prints a cable from Paris which says: Prince Ludovic Plgna telli; reputed a distant relation of the King of Spain, shot himself last night as a consequence, it is said, of dis appointment in his suit for the hand of an American girl. According to report, the Prince has been brooding for several months over his failure to win the American girl. The Prince is well known to many Americans both in Paris and in New York, where he was at one time re ported engaged to Miss Mary L Duke, daughter of Benjamin N. Duke an'cl heiress to $60,000,000. The ixjuce is ..in his thirty-iourth -year and his family is also reputed wealthy. The young Prince was twenty- eight when he toured America in 1908. His last visit was last winter, when he met Miss Duke. Their engagement was denied and it was said a question of religion prevented the Prince's marriage. He is a distant cousin of the King of Spain. FORTY KILLED IN A WRECK. Dnager Signals Were Not Displayed and Two Passenger Trains Collide. Corning. N. Y.. July 4 Westbound Lackawanna passenger train No. 9, from New York, due to arrive at Corning at 4:47 a. m., composed of twro engines, a baggage car, three Pullmans and two day coaches, in the order named, was demolished at Gibson, three miles east of Corning this morning by express train No. 11, due at Corning at 5:10 a. m. Forty one persons were killed and between fifty and sixty injured. Many of the victims were holiday excursionists bound to Niagara Falls, who had boarded the train at points along the line. The wreck was the worst in the history of the road. Its cause ac cording to Engineer Schroeder, of the express, was his failure to see signals set against his train. The morning was foggy and he said he could not make them out. NEGRO 'INDEPENDENTS fcOLT Because Their League Would Not Condemn Taft and Roosevelt Over the Brownsville Affair. Philadelphia, Pa.f July 7. A bolt of one-third of the convention, led by four officers of the convention, occur red last night at the convention of the National Indejendent Political League, when that organization of negro voters failed to pass resolu tions "condemning both Taft and Roosevelt for their attitude in the Brownsville affair." The bolters declare that in "failing to censure Roosevelt and Taft, the convention has receded from its stand taken four years ago." The platform adopted commends the work and worth of ex-Senators Foraker and Bulkley, who are de clared to have met "political death fighting for the colored race." Other planks call for Congression al action making lynching a Federal crime under the sole jurisdiction of the United States courts; and State and National laws making it unlaw. ful for trades unions to discriminate against negroes. "Jim crow" cars and the segregation of negroes in places of amusement and elsewhere are protested against. ciuiatki! i:xc!Ti:mi:t ciirum. Father W Afraid tU4tn tt'oald Kill IIU ftattglttre ! Mde Sfwh la Oiurrb Va KtaeU. Ut(1(k Hock XfX Jal C. "As m Ju,t maklBg ,our mmy to b,uj a, ttat M you CAa t,u 1 which wa granted. He said that he and his wife objected to the baptism of their dauchtr. on trrount of h.rl health. fearing she could not stand 1 the ordeal, and she had been afflicted with heart trouble. "You are not doctor," said Wal ker, "and If you go ahead and bap tize my daughter and she die In the attempt or in the act. her mother and I will hold the congregation repon- elble as murderers." One witness said that Walker ap peared to be looking for a club. Wit nesses testified that Walker was wildly excited. One woman fainted and was carried out. Walker denied looking for a club. explaining that he was looking for his hat and disclaimed any Intention to disturb the congregation. He said he spoke as mildly a he could. In passing upon the case, the Su preme Court hold that "it is not es sential that the accused should have the specific intent to disturb the con gregation in order to constitute the offense. It was only necessary In this case to show that appellant ma liciously or contemptuously acted In a way to disturb an disquiet the con gregation assembled for religious worship. The disturbance of a sin gle member of a congregation as sembled for religious worship, in contemplation of the law, is a dis turbance of the congregation. SENATOR IJOUItXE AGAINST PRESIDENT TAFT. Must Look to the Fraudulent Dele gates for His Election. (Washlntgon Post.) "My attitude toward the re-election of President Taft was publicly announced many months ago in an open letter to the voters of my State," said Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon at the New Willard last night. "I then declared that if Mr. Taft should be renominated in a fair and lawful manner, in accordance with the expressed wish of the Re publicans of the country, I would support him, but if he should be nom inated by the steam-roller methods that have too often prevailed in the past, I would opose his election. "There were In the recent conven tion at Chicago 1.078 delegates, of whom 54 0 were required for a ma jority. Mr. Taft received 561 vote, but In these were 251 vote, cast by delegates chosen by steam-roller methods from the States, Territories, and island possessions that never cast an electoral vote for a Republican candidate. The representation from those Southern States is out of all proportion to the Republican vote in the general election. "By no manipulation of figures can Mr. Taft demonstrate that he Is the choice of a majority of the Republi cans of the United States. He has chosen to force his renominatlon by using the Southern delegates! Let him look to them for his election." Has 152 Living Descendant. (From the London Daily Mail.) 4 Henry Small wood, aged ninety one, formerly employed as a chair maker of High Wycombe, has 152 descendants living, including ninety three great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchlldhen. He has a brother aged ninety-two and a sister aged eighty. A son, a grandson, a great-grandson and a great-great-grandson are all named Henry. Lack of Harmony at Baltimore. Wilmington Star. Too many hisses! Too many Jeers! Lack of harmony among Democrats has been too much in evidence at Baltimore. The differing elements in the National Democratic Convention were too srtong for any man to have been so full of folly as to have sprung any question that would have divided the convention Into two strong fac tions. Harmony onght to have been the first thing on the program, bat it wasn't. It is the last thing on the program. SOME MODERN HISTORY Great Excitement at Bilkina rilie Over Politick! Sit uation A REAL SAD MISTAKE UeyMoe Water to ? h the Atrrmco tVtnorralle XoniAh "" .twhi8ig Abuctt h&mm Ibrreftt l4lUcl !UfpetsMr lhtmrrm4ir f ai rtalkm Hle Ilgnre ta the t oort The ratal rd Ilrmtew asut W. J. llryan U4 Thing Happen 4 llalUnsore Nrtchiiig At Hit Mr. lUMMtrll. )Un of rrrwldetitial Caliber Tt Major U Ftr Itowtrlt aa4 Itf ten CVftt CuMoa. nilklnsville. N. C. July f. Correspondence of The Caucasian- Enterprise They It still grate exsltemrat la Iillklnsrllle on account ov the way politick, both State an national, air runnln'. Things hain't bin so bol an mUed lnc th mBt o our population got alarmed several years ago an' voted the prohibition ticket awlmost unanymou under the lmprelon, I suppose, that ticker would be made better In quality an more plentiful In quality It we'd vote hit out altogether. Lota or our lead in' ltlzen who had an' otts bee bus xln in their bonnets hain't landed yet. an' they admit that the drouth It well-nigh unbearable, for they now her to haul their drinkables from Virginia. Kentucky an Chattanooga Tenn.. an' awl admit that the Ten nessee limestone water tbey get by express at $2.50 an' upwards, with the express added, lx not apt to sooth the savage dymakrat stomlck. Well, pollltlcks air warmln' up a bit. We hev bin watcbln' the paper some lately, an' hev found that the Taft. Duncan, Harris an' Daniel Co., (11 rait id) carried thing In the so-called Republican National Con vention lately held at Chicago, an that Woodthrow Wilson an W. J, Dryan, (limited) an' Jodeseevus Dan iels an' Funnyfold Simmons carried the day at Baltimore. At least the police records at llaltimore air beln used az evidence that sich lz a fact, j Hit hez got so lately that Dymakrat ' Conventions nearly awlways figger In ! the police courts. I see by the pa- pent that hit took the aid ov nearly two hundred policemen an practl call the entire Are department ov Baltimore, to say nothln' ov the painted braves from Back Bay and Calhoun street to comb William J. Bryan's hair every mornln' durln' the prevalence or the National Dy makrat Convention at Baltimore; an' hit took the convention fire or more days to do twenty minutes' work. Hit iz further reported that the Dy makrat ov Baltimore an' most or the counties or Maryland became ex cited durln' the slttln' or the Dyma krat National Convention, an though the election lz yet several months hence, tbey went out aa' stole 50,000 votes between the plant ov the Maryland Steel Co., near Bal timore, an the Blue Mountain Hotel, In Western Maryland. Ye. Mr. Taft. a citizen ov Ohio, a man who hez bin high) honored by the American people, got some kind or an endorsement at Chicago some days ago. What he got wuz un American; hit wuz not like what we had been led to expect at the hand or a man who had been been given the greatest political ofis on the earth, not like what we expected from tlx friends. An' Mr. Wilson, an educator ov prominence, iz the pro duct or a howlln mob or red shirt citizens in part who met at Baltimore a few days ago an' made a bid for support at the hand or people bet ter than the party he belongs to. Well, candor compels us to admit that the Baltimore convention mite her done worse, hit mite her flaunt ed Mr. Bryan in our face again Bryan the smart but dlsturbln' ele ment In American politics; Bryan the man who ought to know better; Bryan, the man who. if newspaper reports be true, acted the baby In politics no longer ago than durln the recent national conrentlon or hlz patty less than ten days ago. or I am no judge or how a grown-up man ought to act, fresh proof to my way or lookln at things that be lz unfit for the responsibilities or a great of fis. such az the presidency. But the Baltimore convention did "throw a tub to the whale" by nominatin Mr. Wilson, Mr. Bryan's man. so Mr. Bryan Intimates. But if either , or the several candidates placed before the Baltimore convention had been chosen, we her no guarantee that he would not hev been the choice or Mr. Bryan; he would her thrown tip hit (Continue) on page 5.)
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