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Thursday, July 25, 1912. THE CAUCASIAN. tt?- DEMOCRATS DISAGREE Congressman LUtleton Dis sents From Ghairman Stan ley's Recommendations STEEL TRUST COMMITTEE Just Where the Democrat Were C ing to IHay Great Politic They Strike Another Knag Only Two of the Nine Members of Steel Com mittee Are in Accord With Chair man Stanley Littleton Will Sign Committee Report Only on Certain Condition Want Trust Commit tee Appointed. Wasington, D. C, July 23. Repre sentative Martin W. Littleton, of New York, member of the Democratic ma jority of the House Steel Tust Inves tigating Committee, formally present ed his views to the committee dis senting from the legislative recom mendations of Chairman Stanley. He agreed to sign the Stanley report with many reservations. That left but two other members of the committee of nine in complete accord with him. They are Repre sentative Beall, of Texas, and Mc Gillicuddy, of Maine. Mr. Littleton's views, to which much publicity has been given, favor principally a joint body of the Senate and House to study the trust question and the exclusion from interstate commerce of corporations in restraint of trade. He declines to support the pro posed bill to put upon a corporation the burden of proving it is "reason able" restraint of trade. Such a bill, Mr. Littleton says, "would preserve the chief fault of the Sherman law which is the policy of a belated at tack after a concern has gone up in stead of proving any means of .pre vention." Regarding the future, Mr. Little ton says: "The real vice in the treat ment of the problem heretofore has been the attempt to legislate solely against the result of effect of a se ries of acts, instead of specifically defining and prohibiting these acts." CRIME AND POLITICS. New York Policemen Get Graft Prom Gamblers Why Rosenthal Was Killed The Rotten Politics of Tammany Hall. The murder of Herman Rosenthal, a New York gambler, by five men at the door of a leading hotel, empha sizes the close alliance between crime and politics. Rosenthal was uncover ing the corrupt alliance between cer tain New York police officers and the gamblers of the city. He was; killed by men hired by the police-! men. who were under charges, or he j was shot down by gamblers. It is i regarded as probable that he was shot by the gamblers, who had an un derstanding that the police would "hands off" at the time of the killing. The plan for the murder of Rosen thal and the escape of his murderers as very near successful. The murder was accomplished and the escape of the murderers would have been ef fected except for an accident. For it was nothing less than an accident that a man in an adjoining building had idly, but firmly fixed in his mem ory thfe number of the automobile ' which stood by, as the scene was laid for the crime, and in which the mur derers fled after the crime at top speed. The police, if they had intended to protect the criminals, had to save their faces with the revelation of the automobile number. They were act ive enough after this revelation to satisfy their most severe critics. In ten hours they had the automobile and the men who drove the machine, as well as one of its passengers. But it has never been explained why two or three policemen at the scene of the murder did not arrest or attempt to arrest the murderers before they got away. It was to the interest of both the police and the gamblers to have Rosenthal put away. He had been a leader of the gambling element. He had been in touch with the political powers of New York city. He had broken with the police and he had told a circumstantial story of the partnership of at least one police of ficer in a gambling establishment, and he had told in detail as to how and when the gamblers passed out monev to the police. On the morn ing he was killed, he was to appear before the district attorney and make affidavit to his statements prepara tory to appearing before the grand jury. Here we have an illustration of the close alliance of politics andN crime. The criminals do not reply on graft for their protection; graft is a means of that protection, but it was distributed to only a small coterie of police officials. The politicians high er up did not get the money, but they lent the cloak of their influence for the protection of the gamblers. The gamblers- and the elements allied with with them were of value on elec tion day, and on election day they paid off their obligations to their po litical friends. This happened in New York. But such a condition prevails in many American cities. The one weakness of popular government is iu lax ad ministration of the criminal laws. No civilized country in the world ha bo many murderers walking free to day as the United Slate. There li no need for theorizing; the condition confront us. It is folly to assert that it is treason to popular govern ment to say that it is weak and inef ficient in the administration of iu criminal laws. Facts are facts and they are stubborn. Montgomery Advertiser. HEAL ANCIENT HISTORY. (Continued from page 1.) European country on the' map. Na poleon Bonaparte did not advertise hiz intentions. He wuz content to go ahead an flog 'em an talk about hit afterwards. Hit iz not new, but in terest! that Bonaparte wuz actu ally arrested, tried and sentenced ot life imprisonment on a lonely Island in the Atlantic some two hundred miles from he French coast after France changed rulers. But he didn't stay long, escaped somehow, made hiz way to France, landin' at a lonely spot on the coast. Proceedin toward Paris, Bonaparte soon met with an old soldier who had served under him. The meetin' in the lonely wods must hev been dramatic. "What are you goin' to do?" ask ed hiz old comrade in arms. "I am goin to Paris an' raise an army an' whip the national guard ov France," said Napoleon. "I volunteer for the war," said the old soldier, and Napoleon accepted him on the spot. Through the old soldier the President ov France, for he wuz he King, commullcated with certain tried an' true officers in the army, held conferences with,them se cretly, laid plans to recapture hiz sea az ruler, ec. Old soldiers an' even young ones rallied to the stand ard ov Bonaparte, even many compa nies ov the active national guard, an' in three weeks they had whipped awl ov the national guard an recruits who would fite for the government an' had won an' Napoleon resumed hiz rightful position az ruler ov France, an he held hit, too. The pol iticians had tried to down him but could not. Hiz remains were buried by he French government in Paris in what iz said to be the finest tomb in the world an' soldiers guard hit day an' nite. Bonaparte, like our friend Roosevelt, wuz not down an' out; he wuz simply the victim, for a time, ov a desperate gang ov red shirt poli ticians. Az ever, ZEKE BILKINS. (To be continued.) Thinks North Carolina Republicans Can Vote for Roosevelt and Main tain Party Regularity. Shelby Highlander, Ind. What attitude are Republicans of North Carolina going to take toward the split within the party ranks? There are now tw onew parties! The Saturday Evening Post this week says that two new parties have now taken the place of the old Re publicaas the Tories, or reaction aries on the on hand, and the Pro gressives on the other. Where will North Carolina Repub licanism go? If the rank and file of Republicans in this State count for anything, the party in its State Convention next month will commit itself to the Pro gressive the Roosevelt wing and will instruct its electors to support Colonel Roosevelt. That is what they are doing In a number of Northern States. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vir ginia, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, the Dakotas, and the entire Northwest, are some of the places where the Roosevelt sentiment is literally taking the country by storm and none of these States to say nothing of many other States not mentioned will stand for a dishon est nomination, secured by theft! North Carolina 4 Republicans can legitimately instruct their electors for Roosevelt and still retain their party name, if they so chose, and this should be done. If North Carolina does this, Roose velt will come to this State to cam paign and to make the Old North State a campaign battleground will be and advertisement for the State such as he has not had for more than fifty years. Want to Reform Method of Arbitrat ing Cotton Claims. New York, July 19. A change in present methods used by foreign cot ton exchanges in arbitrating claims growing out of cotton shipments abroad, looking to more equitable treatment oT"American interests, was strongly recommended by a confer ence of representatives of forty-one cotton exchanges of this country held at the New York Cotton Exchange to-day. Resolutions were adopted setting forth the reforms desired by the American cotton exchanges and these resolutions were sent to the Livsf pool Cotton Association and to the Brenen and Havre Cotton Exchanges for consideration. George W. Neville, President, of the New York Cotton Exchange, who is topsail for Europe next week, was authorized to use his efforts while abroad to bring about a conference of all European and Amer ican exchanges early in 1913 in an endeavor to arrive at some working agreement In time fo rthe crop of 1913-1914. : . GOV. DENItS CHARGES But Felder Says South Caro lina's Ghief Executive Will Land in Jail Say There U More Eclnite Kvi- dence Showing Thai Governor Blesute i Corrupt Titan There U AgaJ&M Many Who Are Now Hrrv Ing Terms In the reoJtentiary Will Wait Till Hi Term of Office Expire Before Taking Further Action. In the last issue of The Caucasian was a report of corruption against Governor Cole Blease, of South Caro lina, in connection with the dispen sary scandal and his pardons to crim inals. On Saturday the Governor gave the press at Columbia a promised state ment, refuting The charges brought against him by Thomas B. Felder, of Georgia, and W. G. Burns, the detec tive. Including copies of affidavits, the statement makes about sixty pages of typewritten manuscript. Each and every charge or rumor is taken up separately and answered by the Governor. - Blease says Felder erred when he says he went to Charleston between the two primaries in 1910 to get mon ey from the tigers for his (Blease's) campaign expenses. He says the statement that he is getting graft from the Charletson blind tigers originated with Mayor Grace, of that city, owing to the Gov ernors refusal to allow Grace to con trol the constabulary there. The Governor further denies that he received pay from lawyers for par doning criminals. Governor Blease threatened the newspapers that failed to publish his statement accurately. In a speech at Barnwell, S. C, a few days ago Governor Blease referred to Governor Joseph Brown, of Geor gia, as "that watermelon-headed, sapseed Governor," who refused the requisition for Thomas B. Felder, as "the low, cowardly thief who is afraid to come to South Carolina," and to the investigating- committee as "a dirty, filthy crowd," and invited them to see him personally at Columbia if they did not like what he said. Felder Says Blease is Headed for the Penitentiary. Atlanta, Ga., July 20. Thomas B. Felder, the Atlanta attorney who made sensational charges of official corruption against Governor Cole L. Blease, of South Carolina, before the special investigating committee of the Legislature of that State, to-night made the following reply to a state ment made by Governor Blease to day: "He (Blease) substantiates his statement by the affidavits of men who have bene convicted of felonies and pardoned by him and by men who are under indictment for graft ing in South Carolina. Further than that, the reply that will be made to him will be as soon as he is relieved of his Gubernatorial robes. "It is just as certain that he will be landed in the penitentiary as it is that the Ohio grafters, the Atlantic City grafters, the McNamaras, Abe Rufe, of San Francisco, and the land robbers of Oregon were placed be hind the bars. "We have better and more conclu sive proof against Blease and his as sociates than Dectectlve William J. Burns has against any of those people who now are serving terms in vari ous penitentiaries of the United States." Senator Xorris Asks for the Voice of the People. (Washington Star.) Representative Norris, of Nebras ka, progressive Republican, and a Roosevelt supporter, in a letter sent to-day to John L. Kennedy, Chairman of the Nebraska State Republican Committee, asks for another Sena torial primary, in which his Republi canism is to be tried and a new set of instructions be voted to candidates for Roosevelt and Taft electors He proposes that electors for both sides stand by the result. v Mr. Norris made the proposal in reply to criticism in his State, and published demands that he support President Taft or get off the Re publican ticket. Believes in Recall. "I am a believer in the recall," said Mr. Norris in his letter. "I am willing that it should be applied to me, and, if since my nomination, my course in refusing to recognize Mr. Taft as the Republican nominee is unsatisfactory to the Republicans who nominated me, I am not only willing, but I believe it is my duty to withdraw. "Under no circumstances can I be induced to support a man for office whose nomination I conscientiously believe to have been obtained by the corrupt and unlawful methods which I believe were perpetrated in the so called renomination o President Taft and if my nomination, or even my election, must depend upon such sup port, then I much prefer to remain in private life." Representative Norris defeated Norris Brown in the primary" j for Senator. , WILL NOT VOTE FOR T.UT. Two WirAia t3rfor Will Name Foad da Lac. V$.. July It. Otto J. Zander, of Bullion, a Republican nozst&re for Presidential tWt&r. la letter to the- State Central Commit- tee to-day, said if elected he oald! be anable io catt hit vote for fre4- dent Taft. but would vote for Robert M LaFoilette or some other Kepabtl - can wnorn ne regarded as progressive it. ... . ... . ... civ aaaea u nit plan did not meet with the aproval of the committee he . . I A i Col. John Hieki. &uhliihr of ih' Oshkosh Nona western, and one of i pro"W,Uoa) n7 to hear of Wat the Wisconsin Retmhlican PrMtd. ! 0,i anaacetaect and says: Go. tial elector at large, in a statement! Aft i indorses Zander petition. He aaya that in his opinion all the thirteen Republican electors from Wisconsin would caat their vote against Taft, He added there was no thought of throwing the votes to Wood row Wil son. COLLECTOR REFUSES TO RE SIGN. Ala hama. Official is for Rooter el t Say Department Can Remove Him if They Dedre, But Will Sot Re-in- Birmingham, Ala., July 23. Jo seph O. Thompson, Collector of Inter nal Revenue for Alabama and Mis sissippi, to-day declined to tender his resignation, which had been called for by Secretary MacVeagh "on au thority of the President." Mr. Thomp son, who is head of the Roosevelt forces in Alabama, made public the Secretary's letter and his own reply. Mr. Thompson writes that he has! twice verbally offered the President! his resignation, which was refused, and that he will not now gratify thej Secretary, even to the point of "les-, sening the difficulties in which you' find yourself involved" by sending him his resignation. He says further i that the President has the power of j removal and has the liberty to use it. J Irish World Comes Out for Colonel Roosevelt. Shelby Highlander. New York, Special. In its current issue, the Irish World, the powerful weekly journal edited and published by Patrick Ford, comes out squarely for the new National Progressive par ty, in commenting upon the approach nig conveniton to be held at Chicago on August 5th. In a previous editorial the World predicted the certain defeat of the Republican party in November, as the result of the outrage perpetrated in the Chicago convention, when the nomination was stolen from Thedore Roosevelt; and, placing the responsi bility for what happened at the door of special privilege, said: "These special interests fear and hate Theo dore Roosevelt. They, therefore, passed along the word that he was to be defeated." The editorial in the current issue, discussing the coming Progressive convention, says: "The time is ripe for the new po litical movement. There are thou sands of Republicans and Democrats who have lost faith in either the will ingness or the ability of the two old political parties to curb the power of the predatory, who are bent upon de spoiling the public. The convention that will meet at Chicago on August 5 will mark a new departure in American politics that promises to leave a deep impress upon the future of the country." The Irish World is the most pow erful Irish-Catholic paper in America. Editor. TO WESTERN WHEAT FIELDS. A Number of Mecklenburg Boys Have Gone West to Help Harvest the Crop. Between forty and fifty young men of Mecklenburg County left Monday for the West to aid in harvesting the wheat crop. Wheat is the largest pro duct in many of the Western States and it is often impossible to get enough labor in the community to harvest the crop. The following is from Monday's Charlotte Observer: "After carefully turning over in their minds and saying and advice of Horace Greeley to "Go West, young man," and studying the matter out for themselves, a large number of Charlotte young men are really go ing West; in fact they went west ward this morning. "The Great Northern Railway makes a special offer to the men from all this section or the country annually to induce them to go West during the harvesting season all through to Dakota and Montana. The offer made was that the rail road fare of $40 should be paid by the young men and in return there for the railroad would guarantee them a job in some of the wheat fields at a good salary. This being the time of year when all long for a vacation of some time, a trip of this sort naturally appeals to young men. "The work they are to do consists of reaping, binding and threshing the wheat and as soon as the season closes, the train will run them home, that is some of them, as several hold firm to the belief that they are going to stay West after they once get there. "The trip will cover a period of about two months and will be an ed ucation in itself, as the journey there and back wil be through the x&etvt tatrti& awttfcui f t&7r e!4. aad fee tSre&jtaiag Nortinmt and Wett, T&e ct to-1 Us&ty, a&d tieetffeity as4 ctaef catloa of the difetvM ca has scira2UJ aetata wet tr$4 wUa&st b"3 decided an yet, as 4 wtU tot St tfar ts e-fatag ef 0 Ul they reach their deatlaalloa, j Fearta of Snif cvUfcraiJca scrst4 Sots will tster the StMt of SotJU5& itwmUf a Ut al4 DaHota asd aosae will stop lei Jf c- j tie, both Stair vutltf a Urr secsWr of toss tsea. ' ' " " j ttmcrUc Itanao ta Crd. ; Shelby Hit blander.) Tom Wataoa. wLo mvtx4 Ua- derwood so viroronaly to Georgia, has iaonoaeced that he wilt ssp&ort WU a The Atlanta Journal (strongly ercor Wllaea doea aol deere thtt additional infamy. II has done uotb ing for which he should be patae4 la this way. Hit political record la clean, and that far. hit caxa&aica it! untainted by It it a pity the pralae of Walton. n3 re Pr. waea laey ta taat the pare limpid ' a4ema laelr oa record. re- ttream of Democracy shall be pollut ed even to an extent tafia'tealtaally mall by thU political tad-pole." Tit a pity that politics should eageader to much bittern eta. But appare&tly It hat always been so only more to. We grow away from Jbltterneaa and abuse aa we become civilised. Doctors Kxploded Flrrrrackrm to Hlceoajeha. Logan sport. Ind.. Dispatch.) Physicians exploded a giant fire cracker at the bedside of Jamea Mc Gowan at a hospital in the hope that the nervout shock would ttop hit hic coughing, from which he had been suffering for five dayt, but though he! was quieted, he died of exhaustion. McGowan, who was forty-eight E( mm Hart-Ward Hardware Co. Wc have Moved our store to new building 125 Eat Martain Street Wc have 10,000 square feet of show rooms with Electric Elevator, every floor on the ground floor. Right in the heart of thebusinett center of Raleigh We will be pleased to sec all fiiends customers, ann the public generally. Our stock it complete and our prices the lowest. HART-WARD HARDWARE CO. Wholesale and Retail 125 E. Martin S Raleigh, N. C IF YOU ARE GOING NORTH TV el via THE CHESAPEAKE LINE Daily Service Including Sunday. The new Steamers just placed in service the "CITY OF NORFOLK" aad 4 -CITY OF BALTIMORE" are the moat elegant aad up-to-date. S teamen be tween Norfolk and Baltimore. ( QUIPPED WITH WIMLESS-TEIIPHCKE IN EACH ROCtt DEIICIOUS LTAIS ONBOARD. IVERYTH 116 FOR COUfORT MID COKVEI.UICL Steamers leave Norfolk (Jackson St.) 6:15 p. m. Leave Old Point Com fort 7:15 p. m. Arrive Baltimore 7.00 a. m. Connecting at Baltimore for all points NORTH, NORTH-EAST and WEST. 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