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It is presumed that the Governor of South Carolina has no skeleton hid in his closet. It appears that he has shown everything. The press dispatches state that the Governor of Arkansas pardoned 360 convicts in one day. That is almost equal to the pace set by Governor Mease of South Carolina. A dispatch from Trenton, N. J., announces that Wilson will fight the reactionaries in his party. Which means he will have a continuous fight during his administration. Many writers are already talking of Christmas egg-nogg. They have probably forgotten that this is a pro hibiton State and that even the sup ply of eggs has almost gone dry. A dispatch announces that Presi dent Wilson has his ear to the ground. However, it isn't at all necessary to get in such a stooped position to hear the rumblings from the split in his party. A Democratic exchange says that Wilson will probably enter the White House free from obligations to the pernicious interests. The "pernicious interests" are probably the ones that refused to give Wilson their support. President-elect Wilson says- that two-thirds of his mail is from appli cants for office, and has refused to see any of them in person. Presi dent Wilson may yet decide not to keep open house when he gets to Washintgon. When the members of the Gover nors' Conference rebuked Governor Ulease for consigning the Constitu tion to the lower regions, he prompt ly informed them they could go there too. However, as yet, none of the Governors have accepted the warm invitation. The Washington correspondent of the Greensboro News says that manu facturers show no alarm over a Dem ocratic tariff law. Then, it is evi dent that the manufacturers do not expect the Democrats to carry out their platform pledges. The Durham Herald thinks Gover nor Wilson's experience at Trenton will be of considerable benefit to him in Washington. Can't see how the Herald figures it out, as Mr .Wilson did not revise the tariff nor prosecute the trusts while acting as Governor at Trenton. Some days ago a friend of a grass widower In Buncombe County spread the news that said grass wi dower was deud. The news was spread with hopes of making the wife return to her husband, and this she did, though she may have return ed for the purpose of looking up the life insurance policies. One or two Republicans and some Democrats are trying to push a bill through Congress providing for a constitutional amendment to restrict Presidential tenure to two terms of four years. The bill is probably in tended to keep Colonel Roosevelt from being President again, but their bill, even if passed, would never touch him. Democrats are getting tab on all the available offices in the State and a complete list was published iu Tuesday's News and Observer, even giving the date that each office will be open for bids. But, should the Observer decide to publish the names of all the Democratic applicants for said jobs it will be necessary to get a special edition of the paper. REID DIES DON. IN LON- America's Ambassador at Court of St. Jame Since 1&0."5 Had Been 111 Several Days, But Ills Death Was Unexpected, London. Dec. 15. Whltelaw Reid. the American Ambassador to Great Britain since 1905, died at his Lon don residence, Dorchester House, shortly after noon to-day from pul monary oedema. The end was quite peaceful. Mrs. Reld and their daught-r, Mrs. John Hubert Ward, were at the bedside. The Ambassador had been uncon scious since 9 o'clock In the morning and at Intervals during the previous twenty-four hours he had been slight ly delirious as a result of the drugs administered to Induce sleep. Dr. Thomas Bartow, physician to the King, who was called In last week after Mr. Reid's illness became acute and his regular physician, Dr. William Hale White, issued the fol-j lowingbulletln as to the cause ofj death: Statement of Physicians. "A fortnight ago the American Ambassador had a slight bronchial attack similar to others which he had suffered at considerable intervals. On Wednesday asthma supervened and the asthmatic paroxysms came very severe, leading to extreme exhaustion." The King sent his equerry, Sir t Harry Legge, to express the condol ences of himself and the Queen. Dur ing the afternoon messages conveying the warmest sympathy were received from the Queen Mother Alexandra and other members of the royal fam ily, court officials, members of the Governments and of the various em bassies and legations. Washington Shocked at the News. Washington, D. C, Dec. 15. News of the death in London to-day of Ambassador Reid came as a shock to official Washington, for it had not been generally realized that Mr. Reid's illness was of a serious nature. President Taft paid an unusual tribute to the late Ambassador and expressed his grief in a cable reply to a message of sorrow from King George of Great Britain, which reach ed the White House to-day. Presi dent Taft also sent his sympathy to Mrs. Reid. President Taft Will Appoint a Suc cessor. Washington, D. C, Dec. 15. The American Ambassadorship at London will not long be left vacant. Al though President Taft was said to night not to have decided at this time upon a successor to Mr. Reid, it Is understood that he wii! fill the place in a few weeks. The Presi dent regards the diplomatic prob lems, in which this country and Great Britain are at present entangled, as too important to leave the United States unrepresented, even for a few months at the Court of St. James. MAY MEAN CHEAPER COAL. United States Supreme Court Decides Against the Railroad Owned Coal Companies in Pennsylvania Vio lated Anti-Trust Law. Washington dispatch, December 16th says: "The Supreme Court of the Unit ed States to-day cancelled as violative of the Sherman anti-trust law the contracts by which railroad owned coal companies In the Pennsylvania anthracite fields had Purchased the output for all time of 'independent' mines. "Attorney General Wickersham to night expressed the belief that the de cision 'will so completely destroy the combination which now controls the price of anthracite that it must re sult in a distinct measure of relief to the public "The court also ordered dissolution of railroad control of the Temple Iron Company, by which 4he principal rail roads and their coal companies were found to have strangled a project to build a competing road into the anthacite fields in 1898 and by which monopolizing schemes could be put Into operation in the future. The Government failed, the court held, to show 'general combination' to apportion the amount of coal to be put upon the market annually by the various roads. -The Government's other charges as to a general combi nation were characterized as 'indefi nite " An Expensive Shot. (Clevleand Star.) One day lost week Mr. Erie Blan ton, the son of Monroe Blanton of the Sharon section, killed a ' bird In the field below the barn and was walking back to the house when his gun accidentally discharged and kill ed a fine mule standing in the yard. The mule was the finest Mr. Blanton owned. - WHITKLAW DA TO AM APE filTCCTfflM rAIuUilAuE UUUllUll ! Is Now Uppermost in the Minds of Democratic Congressmen and Senators HOLDING UP OF NOMINATIONS Their Views About the Civil Service , i Have Lndergone a Great Change Since the Election Cheap Farm j Credit Why Should the Govern - fhent Loan Farmers Money From tle Postal Saviiur Rank al A ! Cheap Rate of InterestFarm "Doctor Needed in Every County Rosoevelt's Great Idea Rearing ! LVuit (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 17, 1912. Since the assembling of this Con gress the Democratic members at both ends of the Canitol have dls- n n cqd Ha nnnctlnn nt to t rrn a tra i more than any other subject. It is ; 8chee and make supplemental ap astonishlng how their views aboutProtIon er,eto fr the Purpose the civil service have changed since be-Uhe electiorr and th-y see visions of(D""T me pie-c-uuuiei. " weic uui. ln..MaMMl i m it, ' -,fr,M f o rovnlcinn nf n,,MI eontl- ment, we think It safe to say that the next Democratic Congress would wipe. out the whole civil service system, . ' Indeed, there has been much serious discussion of how to evade or nullify the civil service laws in order to se cure more appointments. The Holding Up of Nominations. This spirit has also been manifest-, ed in the determination of the Demo crats in the Senate to refuse to con firm appointments sent in by Presi dent Taft and to hold the same up until the fourth of March so that va cinre nan Iip filled hv Democrats. I So earnest and serious have the - Democratic Senators and Congress men become over this matter. that a caucus was held to take action. The caucus determined that all political appointments should be heT&fep and that only those whose : appointments were regulated by law or whose terms expired at the pleasure of the President should be confirmed, like foreign ambassadors or ministers, who can be recalled at any time. It was also decided to let army and navy confirmations go through, in asmuch as they were promotions un der the law. Here we have a striking illustra tion of one of the defects of a govern ment run by parties. There seems, however, to be no remedy under a government like ours for such condi tions as long as human nature re mains as it is. ! Cheap Farm Credit. The other day the Governors who had been attending the "House of Governors" in annual session at Rich mond, Va., came on to Washington and had a conference with the Presi dent and also with a number of the members of Congress about some of the more important subjects discuss ed at their Richmond meeting. One of these questions was to de vise a scheme for establishing a sys tem of farm credits, by which the farmers of the country could borrow money at as low a rate of interest as could business enterprises. There are a number of systems of this kind now in operation in Europe. The one in operation In France is probably the most successful. In short, the plan is one by which , tne farmerg caQ invefit their m in what might be called a farmer's bank or depository, for the purpose of being loaned to each other at a low rate of interest on farm land for security, but the same to be operated under Government supervision. Some countries go further and provide that a part of the nation's surplus funds in the National Treasury shall also be loaned under the same system. Clearly, this should be done in the United States, because we have al ready established the precedent of lending the Government's money to Wall Street whenever Wall Street gamblers manufacture a panic or call for Government deposits on one spe cious plea or another. If there is no other way to give to the farmers of the country sufficient capital at a low rate of interest, then it is the duty of the Government to provide funds for that purpose and a banking institu tion for making the loan. This should be done by the Government even if it were necessary to sell bonds t$ raise the money. But now since the postal savings bank system is established and the people are depositing their funds in these banks all over the country and the Government is paying them only 2 per cent interest, why should not the Government lend this same mon ey to the farmers at two and one- half per cent, or three per cent at the outside, which is much less than half the average rate that farmers are forced to pay to-day? 0ce of tbe sreateit questions that' confronts the statesmen of America' 1 to-day Is to stop the tendency of farm a vfcu atu tuc as turn ax is fef ing to tbe cities. This tendency has the people in the United States live' In towns where they do not create! wealth but where they must be sup-; ported by those who produce. j No one can blame the farmer's son , from going to town if he can there better his condition. The problem Is I fof Government to uJlti eTeryj effort to make conditions on the farm- ' ; and comfort of farm life, but also in jits profit, so that a maprity of the! m . a . t .s ji i ; Iar Wl maucea 10 remain . Agricnltoral Extension Departmenta. ; In this connection, there is now pending another Interesting proposi-j tion before Congress. A bill has; passed the House and has been favor-) ably reported already In the Senate ' providing for an appropriation from the National Treasury to be appor-j tioned among the States where the Democ rats of the Lnlted States Sen State Legislatures will pass laws In are engaged In a struggle for harmOny with the Government. V1 "T1"6 T n4ni va i r Asttne v Ka TTn if- cvj ili ivro n iiu vcaii li s la scat uici , . j uuv tU Uittive UB IttUU U1U1 C UUUf, live Mrf Wilson, the Secretary of Agri- culture, In a statement In support of A l I 111 IJAl A. this proposition, said that every com munity had Its doctor who looked af ter tbe health of the people of his neighborhood; that that doctor's duty -was to find out what was the matter with each person when not in prime' health, and then to apply the remedy or show the patient how to apply it. He said that that was ex actly; what this bill meant for the farmers of the country. It meant that we should have at least one "farm doctor" in each COUntV. who would be competent to look at every man's j farm, at its different soils and con ditions, and tell the farmer what was necessary by way of drainage, of fer-L tufzatlon, and of adapting the right crop to the right soil, to enable the fatsaer with the same amount of work and effort to produce twice 'the amount of produce. This is truly a great scheme and one which the Government should at once undertake. The present bill carries an appropriation of only three million dollars, but of course when the system is inaugurated the appro priation should and would become much larger each year. To-day not more than 1 per cent of the vast sums of money appro priated by our Government is used to help the farmer who must feed and clothe the whole nation. There are but few people who stop to think that If the farmers of this nation should go on a strike on the first day of next January that before the end of six months every bank in the United States would close and every railroad would stop running. Roosevelt's Great Idea Bearing Fruit. In this connection, it is proper to remember that it was Colonel Roose velt, when President of the United States, who inaugurated the move ment for the improvement of the farms and the uplift of country life that has already brought forth both of the Important movements mention above. A number of the stand-pat and monopoly organs attempted to ridi cule President Roosevelt when he in vited all the Governors of the United States to meet at the White House to consider these and every other problem that would make country life more attractive to the young man by making the soli more productive and by making general conditions of country life more pleasant and attrac tive in every way. This great conception and bold ac- tlonn the part of Colonel Roosevelt put the whole country to thinking. and already we see the important fruits resulting therefrom. It is a wonderful thing for a great country like this to have had a great con structive statesman like Roosevelt in the White House, and as time goes on his invaluable work for the uplift of the people of this country In every di rection will be more and more appre ciated. Fish Sold at Beaufort at One Cent a Pound. A dispatch from Beaufort, N. C, December 14, saysj "Fish at one cent a pound was plentiful here to-day when power fishermen came into port after one of the greatest catches within the memory of the oldest inhabitants. The vessels' as well as their holds, were loaded. Six hundred thousand pounds of fish, it is estimated, com- posed the haul. The market was glutted and as there is no cold stor - age plant here the sea food was sold their stock can be brought to a nor at a cent a pound and then all was1 mal condition. The business has been not disposed of by the fishermen. heavier this fall than ever before. DEIOCRACY IS SPLIT. m w IF) ice rrogressrfe and Keacboaary Straggle for Control TWO FACTIONS HAVE LINED UP liefer Uw Fight I Kadrd Imldrat Wilton Will Re Forced to Choos iwtnmx One Wing or the Other J Irogreive Democrats Are Doom ing Hoke Smith and luke Ia for Ieaden The Fight Among Demo crats In the Senate Is the First Sign of the Break In the Party. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington. D. C, 17. The first "Pllt in the victorious Democracy has taken place. The progressive and reactionary control of that body which is exciting extreme bitterness. The two factions have lined up over the question of the continuance! of Senator Marshall, of Virginia, a friend of Thomas F. Ryan, the Wall ctwt mairnjit th lrlf fh o- ' Democrats In the Senate. It is a situation pregnant with the most important political conse quences. Before the fight it ended President Wilson will be forced to choose between one wing or the oth er. He cannot ride two horses tug ging in opposite directions at the same time. He may try it at first, but if he should cast in his fortunes later with the forces of reaction he will suffer the same criticism that has been leveled at President Taft. Oppose Rule of Conservative?. The progressive Democrats in the Senate have been moved to act be- ctuse of the necessity, in their view. of preventing the control of Congress by the conservatives. The two great questions of the Wil son administration, as Mr. Wilson has pointed out, will be the tariff and the "money trust." The Ways and Means Committee, presided over by Mr. Un derwood, will fortunate the tariff bills. - The curbing of the "money trust" will be confided, as it is at present, to the Banking and Currency Com mittee, the chairman of which will be Representative Carter Glass, of Virginia. Mr. Glass is not ranked as as progressive Democrat. Both of these matters are consid ered by the Finance Committee of the Senate. If Mr. Martin should be named as Senate leader his appoint ment of Simmons as the head of the Finance Committee will mean that a protective tariff Democrat will have control of tariff revision In the Up per House and a conservative on Banking and Currency Reform will have charge of the legislation leveled against the money combination. Progressives Likely to Win. The progressives have twenty-two votes pledged against Martin up to Ldate. They need only three more to assure a majority. It is evident, therefore, that Martin will be beaten, that he will not secure the Chair manship of the Appropriations Com mittee, that Simmons will not be ap pointed Chairman of the Finance Committee, Bankbead Chairman of the Postoffice Committee, and men of the same conservative character chairmen of any of the important subordinate bodies of the Senate. The movement of the progressives is not for any one man as leader. It is against Martin. The two men prominently mentioned for the Dem ocratic leadership are Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and Luke Lea, of Ten nessee. The former served In Cleve land's cabinet and was Governor of his State before he came to Wash ington. He is a progressive. Lea is a young, forceful, active statesman, who knows politics. He was one of the Wilson floor managers at the Bal timore convention. First Sign of Party Break. It is not too much to say the fight among the Democrats in the Senate is the first sign of the break in the par ty. The conservatives, in urging the progressives to accept Martin, are telling them that harmony is essen tial and the disruption of the party win De on tneir neaas ir tnev an tagonize the established order. The progressive Democrats are responding by saying that if the Senate Is con trolled by the. reactionaries the Dem ocratic administration's doom is fore gone. Factories Working Over-Time. (Mount Anry Leader.) Every furniture factory In this city is now working over-time and some .of them have ceased to ship until Moosftiiisixtt ix tiik jorot. There I No Mg-a of Abtratt Pe rUrr the (VmmlioT ! later suil Revenue Mo4 trr let la the "iHj" Stale. A Washington. D. C. dispatch of I v rater IS says: 'Moonshlntng and 'boot leg stag continue without a si en of abatement. declare Royal K. CabetU Commissioner of Internal Revenue. In his annual report tssde public to- UJ u,,u Jr 2.4S illicit distilling plants were eUed. about the same number as the previous year, and the Coatalssiontr admits that the Government did not get all of the t Maters of the law, A great number of 'moonshiners stilt are operating, resulting ia a Urge losa of revenue to the Government adds. " 'Illicit distilling is most preval ent says the Commissioner, 'in the States of Georgia. Alabama. North Carolira. South Carolina, Tennessee, land Virginia "The total number of corporations Inthe United States duriu lgM2 as shown by returns under the corpora tion tax law was SSS.SSS with capi talization of 160.067. 138.925 bondeJ indebtedness of $32.163. S37.6 1. and an aggregate net Income of $3,213.- 707.247. Capital stock lncreaed over 1910 by more than $2.180.; 08.000, and bond and other fndebtedress by $1,448,201,000. while the net Income decreased by $146,543,000. "The corporation tax. which yield ed $28,583,259 on the 1911 returns Is expected by Mr. Cabell to become a constantly increasing source of reve nue to the Government. "The Commissioner recommends the revision of the oleomargarine law because, as at present constituted. It results in evasion and fraud. '.'He estimated that internal reve nue receipts during the current fiscal year will reach $326,000,000, and during the fiscal year 1914 probably $328,000,000 breaking all previous records." HANDCUFFED MEN ON TRAIN. Arrested at Morgan ton and I tared In Jail Two Men Claimed Tliey Were Handcuffed and Robbed la RalHgli Htory Not Betiered. Morganton, N. C, dispatch, De cember 15: "Two unknown men with hand cuffs on their wrists, and who had evidently escaped from officers some where, were arrested here last night on the arrival of train No. 35. They had been handcuffed together but had succeeded in breaking the chain and each had one cuff on his wrist. The conductor of the train noticed the handcuffs and telegraphed to ths officers here, who made the arrest. Both men are young and fairly well dressed, one being rather tail and the other about average size. ""Nothing can be learned from them as they will not talk further than state they were handcuffed to gether and robbed In Raleigh by a man who claimed to bo a policeman N and who became frightened and ran, leaving them handcuffed togeth er after which they broke the chain with a railroad iron. "No credit is given their story as they seem to know but little of each other, one claiming to be from Mem phis, the other from Atlanta, but telegrams to these places discredit their story. They are being held in the Morganton Jail until further in formation is received Congressmen Should First Turn Loose Their Graft. Greensboro Record. It does not sound very Jrell to hear Congressmen talking about cut ting off graft here and there when they are engaged In tbe tame busi ness in the mileage grab. They are allowed twenty cents, when It costs about two cents to travel. Effort af ter effort har been made to eat this out, but it falls every time. Some brother handy at elucidation, ex plains that tbe purpose of the law In making It twenty cents was to en able a Congressman to take his wife with him to Washington so that she would act as a restraint on him. As a matter of fact. the mileage was made twenty cents away back before the day of railroads when It actually cost this mnch to travel and when precious few wives of Congressmen ever saw Washington unless they happened to live close by. People of Oregon Voted to Hang Four 3Ien. Salem, Oregon, dispatch, Decem ber 13: "Four men were hanged In the penitentiary In this city to-day de spite efforts to save their lives that are unprecedented. The quartette bad been under reprieve granted by Governor West for varying periods In order that , the electorate of the State might have an opportunity to pronounce Its verdict whether the men should hang. The verdict was given on November 5th and was in favor of hanging." j pi I I HI 8 id !