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VOL RALEIGH, ISJ. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2G9 1012. No. CO EDITORIAL BRIEFS A Merry Christmas to all. It is alarming bow the State debt eontinues to grow under Democratic "good government." Another anti-trust law "with teeth" will be introduced in the next Legis lature, but that is about as far aa It will get. The Progressive leaders have an nounced that the party doors are open. It is your fault if you don't walk in. Let one of your New Year resolu tions be to send The Caucasian a new subscriber. And mind, that you don't break this resolution. The debt of New York City, under Democratic rule, now exceeds the entire national debt. Isn't it time to turn the rascals out? Nothing but the fear of an attack on the great American principle of protection keeps cotton from going to 15 or 16 cents a pound. If the courts would dispose of other cases as quickly as they do di rorce cases, there would be no con gested court dockets in this State. There have recently been many new evidences that Simmons and the Democratic machine renewed and ex tended the mortgage on the State to the trusts and corporations. Mr. Wilson says he dares any one to start a panic during his adminis tration. Of course it is to be hoped no one will take his dare, but it will be surprising if they do not The Democrats expect to fix up their tariff bill next month during their idle moments. And the country win probably have many idle mom ents if their proposed program be comes a law. President-elect Wilson says those who apply for offices will be least likely to get them. That certainly is chilling news for the million or more Democrats who have already made application for office. The express companies have an nounced they will reduce their rates January 1 to compete with parcels post rate. Thought the express com panies had been claiming all along that they could not reduce their rates without loss to the company! Wonder what the governors of South Carolina and Arkansas would say should any one propose a pardon ing board to relieve them of the pow er of the wholesale pardoning of con victs. The air would probably look like an electrical storm was in pro gress. The next legislature in South Caro lina will be asked to pass a bill for compulsory education, but Gover nor Blease has already announced that he will veto the bill if it Is pass ed. Governor Blease believes in everybody doing as they please, lav or no law. The readers of this paper will find the Washington letter very Interest ing this week. In fact, the Washing ton letter each week is worth the subscription price of the paper. If your neighbor does not take The Caucasian, get him to subscribe so that he, too, may enjoy the paper each week. Governor Wilson says there are dany reform measures he wants to get through the New Jersey Legisla ture before he resigns to take up the job as President. Some one should write Mr. Wilson a confidential note and tell him that his State is the home of what the Democrats term the "oppressive trusts." Senator Overman saw Governor Wilson a few days ago about some Federal jobs and reports that Mr. Wilson is a fine listener. Most poli ticians are good listeners but Over man will find out that the office seekers want more than simply lis tening they will demand results, and there is where the rub will come. WIPING OUT SECTIONAL LAWS. Republicans and Democrat in Con gress Join In Striking Oat Laws Pased in the Bitter Days. (Washington Dispatch to Baltimore Sun.) This session of the Congress has so far been notably marked by steps taken by the Senate and the House to strike from the statute books pu nitive laws passed during the bitter days of and immediately after the Civil War and aimed to humiliate and embarrass the Southern people. The House the other day passed the Watkins bill, which permits Southern people to prosecute their claims for property seized after the war ended by Union soldiers and agents without the question of their loyalty being considered. Under the old statute, if the Southerner could show that he was loyal to the Union, he was virtually kicked out of court I with his claim. There are $5,000, 000 in claims involved in changing this statute. The Senate has not been far be hind the House in taking steps to efface all sectional feeling, despite the fact a majority of that body are adherents of the Republican party. In considering the omnibus claims bill the upper chamber has agreed to an amendment which directs the Gov ernment to pay the heirs of Confed erate generals who resigned from the Union Army and afterward Joined the South certain claims under the lon gevity allowance. The old statute, which Senator Johnston, of Alabama, succeeded in getting the Senate to agree' to amend, prevented the United States Treasury officials from recognizing the claims of the Southern warriors who had been Union soldiers before 1860 for longevity pay. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, was one of the men who strongly supported the Alabamian in getting the Senate to accept his amendment. RAILROAD RATE DISCRBIINA TIOX. How the State Has Been Robbed by Democratic Perfidy. Winston Union Republican. North Carolina's business Interests have suffered greatly from discrimi nation in freight rates by the rail roads. It is one of the most import ant questions that will be brought to the attention of the next Legislature which will meet in January. Wheth er the Democratic party will measure up to Its responsibility in this respect remains to be seen. Thus far that party "has been weighed In the bal ance and has been found wanting." But this is not to be wondered at. Selling out itself to the railroads in the past for campaign funds was not calculated to afford relief in Demo cratic legislative halls. But the busl- ness men of North Carolina are J political debts. He referred to a chap aroused and are determined to havener in one of his books In which he relief and the next Legislature will be called upon to do its duty and give to North Carolina such laws as will place her in fair competition with other States In regard to freight rates, whether Democratic obligation jto the railroads conflicts or not. If Democratic law-makers still persist in serving the railroads to the detri ment of business interests, the growth and development of our in dustries, etc., then the Republican party may be expected to be called upon to come to the rescue and do for North Carolina what It has so ac ceptably done in past year for the nation. Democratic Officers and "Prohibi tion Southport News. We are told and believe that more liquor is sold by blind tigers In Southport now than ever before. We are told the exact location of several doing a big business here, and while everybody seems to be aware that liquor is illegally sold, one on inquiry, will be told that there is no way to stop the sale, and so men and women tigers go on for two more years unmolested. Did we not hear at school ages and ages ago that "where there was a will there was always a way?" Better Make a Payment on Demo cratic Indebtedness. The Review would like to see the incoming Legislature appropriate a nice sum to defray the expense of sending the entire State Guard to Washington on March 4 to attend the inauguration of a Southern man and a former resident of this State. Let's let the natives and foreigners know that North Carolina is on hand when Woodrow Wilson is Inaugurated. Reidsville Review. The Legislature can apply what money it will have to dispose of to a far better advantage if for no other purpose than to make some payment on the ever-increasing indebtedness of each succeeding Democratic ad ministration. Union Republican. A QUEER COMBINATION The Majority in the New Congress b a Noted Aggregation of Kickers AGREED ON ONLY ONE THING That is Wan tlx Jobs for Hungry Constituent-Now Abasing the Civil Service Lw and Trying to Find Some Way to Get Around It Joseph us Daniels Heads the Hun gry Horde for Himself Wilson Says He May Look for Biggest Men for His Cabinet, in Which Event Daniels Will Aot Land What a Tar Heel Who Was at Baltimore Says. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 24, 1912. The new Congress, which Presi-) dent Wilson will call into extra ses sion soon after the 4th of March, next, is a queer combination. It is a noted aggregation of kickers that does not agree about anything with one exception that is, wanting jobs for hungry constituents. They are not only hot after every Job in sight, but they are damning the civil service! law and trying to find some way to get around it. We are indeed sorry for these Democratic Senators and Representatives for they are being beselged by an unusually large and hungry horde of office-seekers. Daniels Heads the Hungry Horde for Himself. Chief among these hungry office seekers is Josephus Daniels of North Carolina. He has not only had him celf miffed in every possible way by the newspapers, but he has just had Senator Overman to go to see Gov ernor Wilson and specially press his claims. After Senator Overman left, Governor Wilson in answer to the newspaper men for the news of the day said that he had given most of the day to his duties as Governor of New Jersey and that then he had heard a plea from Senator Overman for Mr. Daniels to go into his Cabinet an dthat then he had been shaved by his negro barber, and that was all. Senator Overman returned to Wash ington that night, when he was tak en suddenly ill and was taken to a hospital for an operation for appen dicitis. There is, of course, no con nection in the incidents, but at least quite a coincidence. Not to Have a Cabinet of Politicians. A few days ago Governor Wilson stated that he did not intend to fill his Cabinet with politicians to pay off said that he thought Mr. Cleveland's J Cabinet would have been stronger if he had looked for the biggest and best men for these great places and had given his active political supporters smaller places according to their ca pacity. He further stated that he still held to the same view, but that he might yet put a few of his active political supporters in his Cabinet. What a Tar Heel Who Was at Balti more Says. In this connection what a North Carolinian, who was at the Baltimore Convention, says is quite interesting. He calls attention to the fact that while Mr. Daniels was very out spoken at one time for Wilson in his paper, that yet he was equally out spoken at the same time against any machine or trust candidate for the United States Senate. That later af ter Mr. Daniels made a trip to Wash ington that the paper gradually changed until it became a very good Simmons organ. That the delegation from the State to the Baltimore Con vention was such a Simmons delega-1 tlon that sixteen out of the twenty four delegates voted for Parker, the Wall Street candidate for chairman against Mr. Bryan. That this same delegation was also for Mr. Daniels to be re-elected National Committee man. Now, mark you, the delega tion was against both Bryan and Wilson, yet it was strong for Dan iels for National Committeeman. Queer, it is true, but there is a rea son. The same reason that made Daniels desert Senator Vance and go over to Cleveland and Ransom, when Vance would not himself sur render to Cleveland and Wall Street. Further, that at the Baltimore Convention he could not learn where Daniels stood, especialy while it ap peared that Wilson stood no chance. But as soon as Wilson was nominated that then Daniels, true to his strad dling and scyhophant nature, jump ed on the band wagon and yelled loud as the original Wilson man and is now asking to go into the Cabinet as an original Wilson man. This conduct, however. Is only -what one would expect from this cowardly po- litleal hybrid. This is simply one short chapter of political deal and trickery; there are others to follow. GOV. OF ARKANSAS BREAKS A LOOSE. Defends His Pardoning Record and Thinks Those Who Oppose His Po sition Are Bound for the Lower Region. Little Rock. Ark., dispatch, Decem ber 20: Characterizing the Arkan sas penitentiary "under the lease systela aa a burning, seething hell, consuming human beings" who are being fed into it in a manner which results in nothing but making for tunes for contractors,' Got. George D. Donaghey today issues a lengthy statement in defense of his action last , Monday in issuing pardons to 316 State convicts. Sharp criticism of the governors actlen from State officials and citi zens have previously drawn from the executive the statement that "all those 'who oppose the abolishment of the Inhuman convict system, which we now have in Arkansas, are, in my opinion, bound in the direction of that place spoken of by Governor Dlease in connection with the consti tution of his State, and it is my be lief they are going to land there in spite of every effort of mine to pre vent them doing so." Again the governor was sharply assailed and his statement today fol lowed. According to a newspaper compila tion, based on the State records, forty-three of those pardoned by Gover nor Donaghey were convicted of mur der and manslaughter. JUST LISTEN. Winston Union Republican. Again the Raleigh News and Ob server comes to the front demanding a "trust law with teeth." It has been the platform pledge of Dem ocracy for many years, and not a trust in North Carolina has been brought to account. But such is not to be expected when In the recent Senatorial three-cornered fight it was revealed that though the campaign managers some years ago the jurty sold" out to the railroad for campaign boodle, called an extra session of the Legislature to fight the railroads and let the railroads pay the expense of the gathering. Issued State bonds to meet extravagance and debt and as a last resort the American Tobacco Company came to the rescue, bought the bonds and saved the credit of the Democratic party and the State. No wonder trust laws have been passed with all the teeth extracted and no relief can be hoped for or expected while such conditions exist. The people have asked for bread and have been given a stone. Possibly the new Democratic national administration may do something on the "trust bust ing" line, but like doubting Thomas, The Republican will have to see it to believe it. One Result From a Democratic Vic tory. The Snare Deal. A poor fool in New Hampshire, who got so happy because he was elected to the Legislature in the re cent election that he went crazy and shot and killed his old aunt and wounded his poor old uncle and then committed suncide, must have thought ' that the millenium had set up for business sure enough, and wanted to make sure that his uncle and aunt and himself would be among the first to meet Moses, St. Peter, Isaac, Jacob and all the bal ance of the old-time boys. Sixty Thousand Tons of Batter Corn ered. Statesville Landmark. Sixty thousand tons of butter, said to amount in the present state of the market to an absolute corner, is held in cold storage, according to facts gathered by a corps of twenty Gov ernment secret service operatives in connection with the suit filed in Chi cago to dissolve the alleged butter trust. Profits amounting to between $11,00,000 and $17,550,000 may be realized from the store of butter, which is enough to supply the entire consumption of the nation for sev eral weeks. Another Democrat Takes a TTwork at Bryan. Greensboro Record. Bryan hasn't refused to take a place in the Cabinet because he hasn't as yet been asked. We take it that Mr. Bryan would refuse aa he is one man among the many mil lions of free born American citizens who insists upon enjoying the in alienable right to shoot off his month whenever it is loaded. "What makes your baby so head strong?" "He was raised on goat's milk." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. WHAT DEMOCRATS DID Tht Lait Dcsisoxtk AfeHdr&tka Grszied Sptml FaTcrs to H Tresis That Applied THEIR "ECONOUY" PROGRAM They Increased Salaries, Created New Ooccs, Also Increased the Public Debt and Issued Bonds In time of Peace.' Notwithstanding That the Democratic Platform Ceiled for Rigid Economy Sugar Trast and Tobacco Trust Were in Their Glory During Cleveland's A dminU tratlon What of the Next Administration? (Thomas E. Watson, in The Jeffer sonian.) Tou will remember that, some years ago, we Democrats elected O ro ver Cleveland, and everybody else that wanted anything. Our platform called for rigid econ omy. As soon as we got all the offices, we immediately began to show the country how much more virtuous we were than the Republicans could ever hope to be. These wicked Republicans had elected General Benjamin Harrison, and that little man had actually had the insolence to be honest. He began to pay off the public debt In a way that scandalized Wall Street. Before they could stop him, he had economized our expenditures to such an extent that he could lessen our National debt by more than $150,- 000.000. He was a pig-headed little fellow, and the Wall Street Money Kings just couldn't do a thing with him. Tou would hardly believe it, but It is the. truth that when his Secre tary of the Treasury went over to New York, attended one of those fascinating banquets, and waa be gulled r into promising Wall Street a new issue of bocds, the pig-headed Republican President sternly forbade the Issue, although his Secretary had so far presumed upon Harrisons acquiescence as to have the metal plates made, on which the bonds ! were to be printed. Wall Street was greatly displeased Long heads were laid together and It was decided to put Harrison out. Accordingly, we Democrats went back Into power, with Grover Cleve land at our head. Grover had been one of J. P. Mor gan's lawyers. Thereby hangs two or three tales. Let us proceed, however, with the direct narrative. We Democrats had an overwhelm ing majority In every branch of the Government. Whatever we wanted to do, we could do. Then we proceeded to do it. We wanted to give the Tobacco Trust a complete monopoly, and we did so. That's one reason why Thomas F. Ryan got so rich, and why there was murder and arson throughout tho Black Belt. We wanted to give the Whiskey Trust additional favorsand we did so. After they had used John G. Car lisle as they did, in getting those Governmental favors, it was a shame that the millionaires of the Whiskey Trust allowed him to die a pauper. and his pallid remains to go back to Kentucky in a freight car. We Democrats had gotten stacks of money from the Sugar Trust to pay our legitimate campaign ex penses, and therefore we felt under moral obligations to allow Henry O. Havemeyer to come to Washington City and dictate to one of our Cabi net officers the sugar schedule, just as he desired it. Henry did so. He came there, and the late, be loved Senator Gorman, of Maryland, took charge of him. The Lite, deplored Senator Gorman was a great Democrat: Incidentally, he was also one of the grandest ras cals that ever lived. He Introduced Havemeyer to John G. Carlisle, and this member of our Democratic Cabinet wrote down the Sugar Schedule at the dictation of Havemeyer. Ton of course remember the rest. Cleveland pretended to "cuss out" Congress, because of its failure to keep our promise on the tariff quee- tlon; nevertheless, he allowed the Gorman bill to became a law. He saved his face by railing at It, and he saved the bill by not voting it. Then, aa yon recollect, he had that midnight deal in bonds with his cli ent, J. P. Morgan, In which deal he sold to his client the gold bonds of this Government for a smaller sum than the negroes of Jamaica ware getting for their bonds. He and CariUSe d the iTf piste that Wfadoa had prepared, and which Ilarrlfoa for hade fcta t9 la a few snaths oar Dessoer&tia President. Graver Cleveland, had la created oar NaUosal dtM ta aheat the same extent that the wicked Re publican President Harrifoa had 61a lathed lu mad we Dtaocrat war ust aj happy as we coald he. We all agreed that tt waa rtrf taaeh better to increase the fcnfcUa debt that to lower St. We also agreed that the expeaaaa of the Government osght to he ea- iarged. We enlarged them. We also agreed that there were not oCeee enough. We made more of thea. We also agreed that salaries were not high enough. We increased the salariea. And now WE are hack ia power again. We have already decided that there Is to be no more niggardly economy. Cheese-paring Is not statesman ship. We now go in for statesmanship. Old Glory, and liberal appropriations. We want every nag pulled out of every one of our rivers. We want good roads, all the way from Kennebec to Hell's Half Acre. We want every one of our Coa gressmen to have an automobile. We want his private secretary to have one. We want his stenographer to hare a motor-cycle. We want everything done in prince ly style. We Democrats have got the whole situation by the tall, and we mean to have the time of our Uvea. We are hungry, and we don't care who knows It. As for Uncle Sam, If he doeea't like it. he can lump It. He can't help himself. 11$ must take whatever comes along. We Democrats are on top of the corn pile, and that's where we mean to stay. RECALL OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS. Amendment to-Federal Constitution Proposed By Senator Briitow. Statesville Landmark. The initiative and the recall of Ju dicial decisions, as amendments to the Federal Constitution, have been proposed by Senator Bristow la reso lutions laid before the Senate. The first resolution would permit the President to submit to popular vote at a Congressional election any measure he has recommended to Con gress and upon which no action has been taken for six months. The sec ond would provide that "if the 8o preme Court shall decide a law en acted by Congress is In violation of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, the Congress at a regular session held after such de cision may submit the act to the elec tors at a regular Congressional elec tion." Under each amendment It is pro posed that the questions submitted to the people must have a majority of the popular vote In a mapority of the State, as well as in a majority of the Congressional DistricU of the Nation. In a brief explanation Senator Bristow declared the amendment af fecting the President would enable him to appeal from a dilatory or ad verse Congress to the people, and that a President could not, as an ex cuse for signing an undesirable meas ure, say that It was the best he could get from an unfriendly Congress. Senator Bristow, In support of his amendment affecting decisions of the Supreme Court, declared that It would "give to the people an oppor tunity to state whether they desire the law, enacted by Congress and ap proved by the President, to stand as the last expression of their will and judgment." The resolutions were referred to the Judiciary Committee. Davie County Folks Heir to a MUlioa Dollar Estate. (Advance Correspondence Winston JenrnaL) A man by the name of Zimmerman has died in Texas, leaving a million dollars to his relatives, most of whoa are here in Davie County. The mat ter, we understand, has been placed In the hands of Zeh Vance Walser. of Lexington, and Mr. Walser has gone out to Investigate. The heirs are numerous and If the amount doesn't fall a great deal from the reported million, we may expect much benefit therefrom In thia section. The Girls He Met Did Not Have . Enough Money. The Square DeaL A French count (no account at all) who la visiting In this country to taoana the fact ha has so far not k ceeded in meeting an American girl who xaeasurea op to hia Ideal. i