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AX OPPORTUNITY FOR GOV. WIL
SON. A special dispatch from Trenton,
N. J., to the Baltimore Sun Bays that
a charity and correction association
In New Jersey have found out that in
some districts of the State men bar
ter away their wives or will swap
wives for a little "to boot." That
many are living in adultery and
many children really have no one to
care for them.
Before Governor' Wilson starts in
to reform the nation wouldn't it be
well for him to return home from
Bermuda and reform his own State
before giving up his office as Gover
nor of that State? He announced
some days ago that he would not yet
resign as Governor as there were a
number of reforms he wanted to
make in New Jersey. This is an ex
cellent opening for Mr. Wilson to re
turn to New Jersey and start up his
reforms.
SENATE MAY BE REPUBLICAN.
The death of Senator Isador Ray
ner, of Maryland, will add one more
Republican Senator in the present
Congress, and in fact the new Sena
tor will serve until January, 1914.
While the Democrats have a majority
in the Maryland Legislature, still it
will not meet until 1914. Governor
Goldsboro, who is a Republican,
will appoint a successor to Senator
Rayner probably this week. While
the Governor has not intimated
whom he will appoint, yet it is cer
tain that he will appoint a Republi
can. Governor Goldsborough's appointee
will serve through the special ses
sion of Congress and the death of
Senator Rayner makes it doubtful
whether the Democrats will have a
majority in the next Senate.
SENATE WITHOUT A PRESIDING
OFFICER.
With the beginning of the ses
sion of Congress next Monday, the
Senate will be without a presiding of
ficer and without any definite pros
pect of being able to agree upon one.
Since the death of Senator Frye
the Senate has been unable to agree
upon a President pro tern.
The Democrats are anxious to
name Senator Bacon, of Georgia, for
the honor, but he is objectionable to
the Progressives and will not re
ceive their support.
Since the death of Vice-President
Sherman the President of the Senate
will draw the Vice-President's sal
ary, which amounts to $12,000 a
year. There is something more than
honor in the position and there will
probably be a scramble for the place.
Unless the Progressives and Re
publicans can agree upon one candi
date the Senate will have to wag
along without any President, in
which event the honors would prob
ably alternate between Senator Ba
con and Senator Gallinger, of New
Hampshire, which has been the ar
rangement inthe past, when Vice
President Sherman was absent from
the Senate.
WHY NOT BE FAIR?
For the past three months the
Democrats and stand-pat Republicans
have been abusing the Roosevelt
forces because they did not give way
and allow Mr. Taft part of the Presi
dential electors In California not
withstanding that under the State
law Mr. Taft was not entitled to any
electors in that State. But how many
Democrats and stand-pat Republicans
have raised their voices against the
Republicans in Oklahoma because
they denied the Roosevelt electors a
place on the ticket In that State?
Wasn't it just as bad to deny Roose
velt electors on the ticket in Okla
homa as it was to deny the Taft
electors a place on the ticket In Cali
fornia? If so, why haven't the Demo
crats denounced the action of the
"stand-patters" In Oklahoma? Neith
er the Democrats nor the stand-pat
Republicans will gain "anything by
grossly misrepresentnig Col. Roose
' velt and his followers. ;
DEMOCRATS RUSH TO SELL COT
TON. The Raleigh News and Obierver
reports that the Superintendent of
the penitentiary sold 838 bales of
cotton a few days ago that was pro
duced on the State farms.
The article further states that the
majority of the board considered It
wise to sell at this time.
Isn't it strange that a Democratic
board should have considered it wise
to sell cotton before President-elect
Wilson and a Democratic Congress
takes control of the reins of govern
ment? If they are expecting better
times under Wilson, wonder why
they didn't hold the cotton for a bet
ter price? It would appear that they
i haven't any faith in the Democratic
claims.
CAUSE OF IOSTAL DEFICIT.
The postoffice department at
Washington states that political cam
paign material transmitted free of
postage through the mails accounts
for the difference between a postal
surplus and a postal deficit for the
last fiscal year, ending June 30. An
account of franked mail forwarded
for Congress, the executive depart
ments and other government estab
lishments, shows that postage at the
ordinary rate on this matter would
have netted the government nearly
$20,000,000. About $25,000,000 of
this would have been paid on politi
cal documents.
As the Democrats claim they are
economical and want to save the gov
ernment all the expense possible,
they will soon have an opportunity
of showing that economical streak
by abolishing the franking privilege
and pay postage on all their cam
paign documents. This would cause
less campaign speeches to be made
in the halls of Congress. But will
they do it?
TRIFLING WITH THE PUBLIC.
It appears that the Democrats at
the last session of Congress were only
trifling with the President, and with
the country when they passed the
"pop-gun" tariff bills. The following
editorial appeared in a recent issue of
the Charlotte Observer:
"According to a staff correspond
ent of The New York Evening
Post, writing from Washington,
this conversation took place be
tween Chairman Oscar W. Un
derwood of the House Ways and
Means Committee and a New
England manufacturer several
weeks ago: 'Don't you know,
Mr. Underwood, that if your bill
reducing the tariff on cotton tex
tiles had become a law it would
have catised a panic in the cotton
industry?' Mr. Underwood did
not admit that he knew any such
thing, but he said: 'We knew
that it would not become a law.'
The writer adds: 'There is a
world of significance In these
two remarks as regards the
changed point of approach from
which the new Congress will
meet the subject of tariff re
vision. It is serious business
now, not politics.' All of which
we take from a newspaper ad
mirable in every respect except
that of often letting theory run
away with sense, especially
where the tariff and the negro
are concerned. But even The
Post recognizes that there is a
condition and not a theory con
fronting the Democratic party at
present; for editorially it has
made just about the same obser
vations as we quote from its
staff correspondent here."
A "squib" in Monday's Raleigh
Times says:
"The man who is too lazy to
work is always seeking a public
officei"
The Times may cause its readers to
believe that there are a lot of lazy
Democrats.
The alienist decided that Colonel
Roosevelt's assailant is insane and
the presiding judge issued an order
committing Schrank to an insane hos
pital. Inasmuch as Schrank had admitted
shooting Colonel Roosevelt, it seems
that he could have been committed
to the insane department of the peni
tentiary where his confinement would
be more secure.
Many of the Democratic papers
claim that President Wilson and the
Democratic Congress understand the
tariff alreadv and that it xrfU h uga.
.
less to have a tariff commission or
have any public hearings on the tar
iff before framing the bill when the
extra session meets. The Democrats
may know more about the tariff than
anybody else, but the chances are if
they frame a bill and pass it hastily
that two years hence they will have
a quiet time at home In which to repent.
"Yancey County U in a tur
moil. The Republican and the
Democratic candidate for the
Legislature tied, each receiving
1,102 votea. The election board
met yesterday and proceeded to
untie the tie by announcing that
the Democrat was elected. This
man Is a member of the board
and over this action a pretty row
Is on. Wonder how they arriTed
at their decision?" Greensboro
Record.
Certainly the Democrat is no more
entitled to the place than is the Re
publican. He should not be allowed
to decide his own case.
Eugene V. Debbs, the Socialist can
didate for President, prophesies that
the Republican party is in a dying
condition nad that the Progressive
Party will disintegrate.
If Debs doesn't hatch up some new
scheme to catch the voters it will be
his own party that will disintegrate.
The Socialist vote fell off consider
ably in the last election. Debs has
been running for President nearly
sixteen years, and still Colonel Roose
velt entered the field and within three
months' time corralled more votes
than Debs could command after
working at the job for sixteen years.
The newspaper men that have been
picturing President-elect Wilson as a
man of such even temper will now
have to note a few exceptions. While
Mr. Wilson was basking in the sun
light on the "Beautiful Isle of Some
where" a few days ago a photogra
pher snapped a picture of the Gover
nor which caused his wrath to rise
and he threatened to thrash the pho
tographer right on the spot.
Don't you know that exhibition of
temper will cause the office-seekers
to tremble when they go to the White
House to have him settle their
squabbles?
WITH THE EDITORS.
The little politicians will find out
that they cannot get as thick with
the big ones as they could before the
recent election. Durham Herald.
The one fiy in the ointment is the
prospect of having some Democratic
"revenoo doodlers." Who could have
thought the party would ever come to
that?
The Republicans are not the only
people that Mr. Wilson will have to
watch to keep from running his ad
ministration in the hole. Durham
Herald.
If the Democrats do not make good
this time the Progressives will get
some Democratic votes next time if
they will only keep in the middle of
the road.
Of course it was annoying, yet it
would have been a dickens of a come
off if Mr. Wilson had lit into that
photographer and come out second
best. Durham Herald.
The Democrats themselves know
that they can't reduce the "high cost
of living" without hurting the farm
ers, but still they say they "are going
to do it. Say, Mr. Farmer, do you
get this? Clinton News-Dispatch.
The Democrats have all the rope
and no doubt will hang themselves;
but what we dread about it is, the
rest of us will have to drink soup
while the Democrats are turning up
their toes. Clitnon News-Dispatch.
They began to name their babies
after Wilson before the returns were
all in. They did that way in Cleve
land times and then some of them
changed the names after four years.
Yellow Jacket.
The Greensboro Record notes that
on Monday, November 18, Congress
man Stedman received eight letters in
his morning mail and every one of
them was an application for a job.
Union Republican.
Trouble-makers now on the scene
in Washintgon are arranging the
stage for the initial collision between
Bryan on one side and the Democrat
ic leaders in the House and Senate
on the other. It is assumed that
fight is inevitable. Just where Wil
son is to come in is not clearly fore
cast as yet. Union Republican.
Mexican Federal Troops Have De
stroyed 25 Villages.
Mexico City, Nov. 24. No fewer
than twenty-five villages have been
destroyed in the State of Oaxaca in
the last ten days by Government
troops.
The administration, believing the
rebels in that region have been suf
ficiently cowed by the terrible war-
fare which has been waged, has nows
sanctioned orders for the retirement ?
of the greater' part of the Federals
from that State, leaving the final pa
cification to local troops.
In spite of the fact that the Fed
erals In all the districts invested by
Zapatistas have been freely using the
right conferred by the suspension of
the guarantees to execute summarily,
there is little if any improvement in
the general situation.
FIGHTING MAY CONTINUE.
Turks Ketone to Ar to Proposed
Term Other GouatHes May Be
come Involved.
The firhtln between Turkey and
the Balkan States may continue. Roosevelt on the night of October 14
Turkey has refused to agree to the in Milwaukee, is Insane and was late
proposed terms of peace and the-war .this afternoon committed by Muni
may continue to the bitter end. The cipal Judge A. C. Baskus to the
prospects are that other countries Northern Hospital for the Insane near
may become involved. Turkey really Oshkoih until cured.
Is in no flKhtine condition. Besides! Before being led back to Jail to
the epidemic of cholera there is a
famine among the civilian population
and a state of anarchy exists.
Fire and Famine in Turkey.
Mustappa. Turkey. Nov. 27. Fire.
famine and anarchy afflict the bese ig-
according to reports brought here by
fugitives. Refugees who escaped
through the lines of Investment
which are being drawn closer every
day, say the vicinity around Selim
Mosque is afire. Other districts are
deeply Inundated with the waters of
the rivers Maritza, Tunga and Arda,
which have overflowed their banks.
The civilian population Is short of
food and a state of anarchy, it is said
exists.
Money for War Supplies.
Berlin, Nov. 27. An item of over
thirty million dollars entered on the
new financial budget is declared un
officially today, intended for paying
for enormous reserves of clothing
and provisions for man and beast,
which the army and navy has accum
ulated against the possible outbreak
of war.
Call
for Reservists.
Frankfort, Ger., Nov. 27.-f-The
Austro-Hungarian subjects here be
longing to the army reserve, have
received orders to report to their
regiments. The Austrians and Hun
garians employed in German mining
districts have received similar or
ders. MEDALS OF HONOR TO SIX.
President Taft Presents Them to
Members of the Sixth Cavalry.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 23. Five
men "of distinguished courage
among men of courage,"as Mr. Taft
called them, received formal acknowl
edgment for their bravery in the
White House to-day when the Presi
dent presented them with medals of
honor awarded for exceptional serv
ice on the battlefield. Four of them
were young cavalry officers, the other
an enlisted man, a sergeant.
The men honored were Capt Ar
chie Miller, quartermaster's depart
ment; Capt. Julian De Gaujot, first
cavalry; First Lieutendant Arthur H.
Wilson, sixth cavalry; Second Lieu
tendant John T. Kennedy, fifth cav
alry, and Sergeant Joseph Hender
son, sixth vavalry.
"I understand this medal is grant
ed," said President Taft, "not "for
that courage that -Officers and men
are expected to show under allvcir
cumstances; for valor of that extra
ordinary character which to use the
expression of my predecessor, 'puts
a fine edge on the fine courage lhat is
shown' and entitles you to bear a
mark of distinction among men of
courage."
The sixth cavalrymen honored to
day all won their spurs in the Phil
ippines. They were under orders from
General Leonard Wood when they
went on the trail of Jikiri, who had
killed hundreds of Chinese and Mo
ros and had become the terror of the
Jolo Archipelago.
BLACK MOUNTAIN FIRE-SWEPT.
Only One Store Building of Any Con
sequence Left in the Town.
Asheville, N. C, Nov. 25. Fire of
unknown origin started at midnight
and destroyed early to-day the busi
ness district of Black Mountain, a
town with a population of 1,000 near
here. Only one store building of any
consequence was left standing. The
damage is estimated at more than
$50,000.
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SCHRANK GOES TO ASYLUM.
Colonel Rooreife Awailaat Must
Remain In IIopltal Until Cared.
Milwaukee. Wla Nov. 22. John
Schrank. who shot Colonel Theodore
await preparations for the trip to the
asylum, Schrank said:
"I had expected they would find me
insane, because it was In the papers
two days ago. I want to say now
that I am sane and know what I am
g a lhe tlme , am not a luna.
tic and never was one. I was called
upon to do a duty and have done it.
The commission has sworn away my
life. Each member went upon the
stand and said I was uncurably In
sane. They can bury me alive If they
see fit. I don't care what happens
now."
Commitment was pronounced fol
lowing the reading of an exhaustive
report of the commission of five alien
ists In which the defendants was
unanimously adjudged Insane, and
following the introduction of prima
facie evidence of several witnesses.
Conclusions reached by the com
mission were as follows:
"(1) John Schrank Is suffering
from insane delusions, grandiose In
character and of a systematized va
riety. "(2) In ourtpinlon, he is insane
at the present time.
"(3) On account of the connection
evisting between his delusions and
the act with which he stands charg
ed, we are of the opinion he is unable
to confer intelligently with counsel
on the conduct of his defense."
SEVERAL WOUNDED IN FIGHT.
Desperate Encounter With Negroes at
Railroad Camp Near the Yadkin
River.
Greensboro, N. C, Nov. 25. In a
desperate encounter with negroes at
a railroad camp near the Yadkin Riv
er early yesterday morning, Rassie
Butler, of Liberty, was shot and giv
en wounds which it is said will likely
prove fatal, and a white man whose
name could not be learned, was seri
ously wounded. Two of the negroes
are known to have been shot by But
ler, who, it is said, opened fire upon
a body of negroes who had attacked
his companion and who, ia turn, gave
him a Very desperate wound. Young
Butler was brought to this city last
night and hurried to St. Leo's Hos
pital, where an examination showed
that a number of shot, evidently fired
from a shot-gun at close range, had
entered the pit of his stomach. But
ler is about eighteen years of age
and hails from Liberty, of this coun
ty, but had been at work with a con
struction force near the Yadkin Riv
er. He Is a son of G. F. Butler, of
Liberty.
Gets Forty-one Bales From Only
Twenty Acres.
The Dunn, N. C, correspondent
it the News and Observer says': G.
L. W. Jackson, one of the most pro
gressive farmers of this section, made
a bumper cotton crop on part of hi?
farm near town. He has gathered
and marketed from twenty acres of
land forty-one bales of cotton. He
measured off this twenty acres and
has given It most careful attention
and has kept a record of all expenses
and the amount of cotton picked.
Fire on the Vanderbilt Estate.
Asheville, N. C, Nov. 25. Fire is
levastating the Pink Beds, one of the
best timber tracts of the George W.
Vanderbilt estate at BUtmore, and an
axtra force of over a hundred men
has been employed to fight the flames
which are sweeping through this
choice piece of timber land.
The fire has been in progress for
the past three days, but has not been
made public, the managers of the es
tate preferring to fight It out alone
without any publicity.
GOV. WilloiroT
Wanted to Whip cnrm
IIaM.lt. &
elect Wood row wna . '
lively dUpute with AJM
tographer. which alt: Z
exchange of blows, u
The photographer took a
at Mr. WlUon In mpite c v.
lion. Mr. WU.cn tW'"
exclaimed: '
"You are no tniUts.
want a good thrh!nc kJ5 ,J Tt
I can take care of ajj.
things! 1 came fcer
avoid pbotorranhor. " " 7
Mr. Wilson psi tv
of his residence.
SOCIALIST LKADUIH l.NDtCTta
Charged With Induing
Leave Country; AUo Wik P
of the Malls.
Fort Scott. Kas , Not :j
Federal Indictment rtsrtj ?
against Eugene V. D-b, Soruii. J?
dldate for President; Fi5 r
ren. editor of The Appl t0 r"'
a Socialist newippr. p.jf,.,,
Girard, Kansas, and J. I. SbVirt
Warren's attorney, Wtrrea aaj
pard, were arrested here to-Uyt
Deputy United States MrhU f 1
indictment charged "obttruaW
justice by inducing wit net-! t3 u.
the country."
Warren and Sbepptrd were r;,
ed on $1,000 bond each. The oJn
charged in the indictment it HWri
to have been committed in rosa-t
with the case of J. A. Wa;Us. e,v
er of the Appeal to Reason, City tl
Itor Pfifer, of that paper, aad Frj
Warren, accused in a Federal i
rant of misuse of the mail ia
obscene matter conceminR tfct jr.
eral court.
Debs, Warren and Shepptrd
cited for contempt by the Fe4r:
court in Topeka three montbi ts
the same charge which led to toiiyl
arrests. They were dlacharuH t:
that time by Judg Pollock.
Gompers is Re-elected Prridnrt f
American federation of Lab.
A Rochester, N. Y., dispatch ofS
vember 23 says: Samuel Goct
was re-elected President of the Afr
ican Federation of Labor thli af:
noon over Max Hayes of the Iate
national Typographical Union.
vote was Gompers, 11,974; IUC
5,074. It was the first time la n
years that there had been oppoiitks
to Mr. Gompers, who hai bees re
elected annually since 1SS5. All eti
er officers were re-elected.
The convention defeated the rr..
ed Mine Workers' resolutJoa tiUizg
for future elections by a rsferfsdss
vote of the Federation's mo c'.Uiw
members.
Seattle was chosen as th 1HJ
meeting place.
Must Serve One Minute in Jail 4
Pay One Cent.
Woodstock, Va.. Nov. 21. Jwi
Sheetze, a married man of near Ed'.s
burg, was to-day found guilty of u
lawfully secreting Miss Dors Geti. of
the same neighborhood. After s trUi
lasting more than four days, the Ter
diet was one cent fine and one c
ute In jail.
The defense was set up that ti
girl left her home because of ill
man treatment.
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often paves the way for deadly ty
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out the malaria germs froa tit
blood; give you a fine appetite 8
renew your strength. "After 1
uttering," wrote Wm. FretweH.
Lucama, N. C. "three bottles dro
all the malaria from my Z'l
I've had good health ever s ince."
for all stomach, liver and kidney I
50 cents at all druggists.
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