CASIAN "VOL. XXXI. RALEIGH, IV. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1013. No. 6, 5 EDITORIAL BRIEFS Many of the Democrats have put on a new coat of whitewash, and now everybody Is a progressive An army of Democrats are In Wash ington trying to shake the plum trec.i and it hasn't even bloomed yet. I j The whole country la more pros-j unuuB man cvei uciuic, jci iuci " ' Democratic machine. has succeeded In ( bankrupting our great State. ! i Senator Tillman wants better ven-j tllatlon In the Senate Chamber in i Washington. He is probably antici-j ... ! air.' A press dispatch announces that Mr. Wilson is not worrying. He may not be, but there are thousands of Democratic office-seekers who are worrying. j Is the mortgage which Simmons! ...... .. . nlar.ed on the Stat in favor of the otw, mnnnnu0 oHii , r; V 'u""1"Jha3Va8t,ym0rethanvlndIcatedth0Se rvice who has shown exceptional The action of this Legislature will , pioneer advocates who had suffered i ability and qualifications for his posi show. the slings and arrows always ready tion. Those Democratic leaders who thought their followers were work ing for the love they had for the par ty now have another thought com ing their way. The Democrats in Congress are j wondering who will be the man toj speak for Mr. Wilson during his ad ministration. Mr. Bryan has not left the country yet. The Democrats claim they want the Filipinos to have self-government, but at the same time they are not willing for the people here at home to rule themselves. President Wilson says there will be an "open door" to his office when he" takes up his duties at the White House. However, the open one will probably be the back door. Senator Simmons, a friend of the lumber trusts, and of other trusts, who has heretofore been known as a reactionary Democrat, now says that he is a Progressive. When Mr. Wilson declared he would not be bound by the Democrat tic platform, but would work out his own policies, he probably had in mind the fact that Mr. Bryan had inserted in that platform a plank binding Mr. Wilson to accept only one term. The whole Democratic administra tion at Washintgon will have a good excuse for not carrying out pledges they made in their last national plat form. They can show that the ma jority of the people voetd to repudiate this platform and also to repudiate their candidate for President. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature requiring that bees must be kept at least one hundred yards from the roads in Pender County. If that , bill becomes a law it will be necessary to appoint several bee policemen in Pender to see that these animals do not overstep the law. Mr. Wilson is not sure what recom mendations he will make to special sessions of Congress, and Congress is not sure what policy it will pur sue. However, before the campaign Wilson and the Democratic Congress knew to a certainty what the country .needed, and how to secure it. What a change! Governor Wilson has announced that he will not appoint to his Cabi net small men to pay off political debts, but that he will look for the biggest and best qualified men in the whole country for these Important pioneers. If he sticks to this, it looks bad for Josephus Daniels. A press dispatch states that some hoys have found some very old whis key on Roanoke Island that was probably left there hjjr the early set tlers, and the whiskey now could not he bought for $50 a bottle. Wonder if it is as good as the old rich whis Icey which the News and Observer once praised so highly? COUNTRY AT LAST WAKING UP. I It Took Twenty Years for the Coun try Ifam That PopulKt Doc-! trine Was Sound and Progressive, Washington Times.) j It took more than twenty years of ! persistent agitation to get a pure food I law passed When it was a year old. nobodv thought of changing it. ex- j cept to make It more rigorous. j Nineteen years of progressive i emasculation ny courts ana antaK-i i . t . . : , . i . . ., . trttam r 1 1 r.i ic i 1 1 1 .-. .- f II f. ... J i the passage of the first interstate! commerce law. Then, in 1S06, a! vigorous Executive extorted from an ' unwilling Congress amendments that! made regulation regulate. The for-' 5rd movement was denounced as an ; effort to destroy the railroads. It I o- - r ous, more Independent than ever be fore. When Federal meat inspection was proposed it was assaulted as an effort to destroy one of the greatest indus tries. Ignorance and selfishness I united to fight it. It won, and now j none would dare oppose it. j A r At 1 . m . 1 ;x Keueiauou mm more oi agita - tion preceded creation of the parcel ! 111 ,CDa ltiau iron, uk post, in less than a month fro establishment its stupendous success ior me cranK ana tne extremist"; with an idea. i Int TZl rvo I tmot Ar I ir --ij-k-F-tj-. .v.,.. h-- ic-cmuu.co , i the lesson so often read. It points' the certainty of victory for other j lueas mat are ngnt. Popular elec-: non or senators could not get out ot a senatorial pigeonhole for half a century. It was venomously at tacked as an insiduous plan to wreck our precious system or govern ment. But popular election of Senators has at last been submitted, and in dications are that every State Legis lature in the Nation will ratify it! Initiative and referendum were heresy, populism, anarchy, when first proposed. But today they are the cornerstone of the best govern ments in the land, and certain of nation-wide adoption in the near fu ture. . . . Today, they are talking on Capitol Hill of the need for a constitutional convention to reorganize the funda mental law of the land; to modern ize it, to bring it within the era that has given us steam, electricity and modern organization of industry. Who can be sure that another five l years will pass without that great convention of the State calling to gether a sanhedrim of the best lead ership, brains and patriotism of this Nation, to give us a twentieth cen tury system of government? It is certain to come. ItEACIIKI) "SQUEEZING" STAGE. Congress Will Have to Crowd Two Years' Legislation Into Three Weeks' Work Democrats Absorb ed With Pie. A Washington dispatch of Satur day says: "Congress has reached the 'squeez ing' stage of the session. Important legislation that has accumulated dur ing the last two years must be crowd ed into the work of the next three weeks and must take its chances of success in the jam of appropriation bills still to be considered. Active managers of the two Houses, who bear the responsibility of 'getting things' through, consequently are wearing troubled looks and wonder ing how much actual business can be transacted in the few remaining working days before March 4. "It is not an unusual situation at the end of a short session, but expe rience of former years apparently has had little influence on the handling of the big supply measures this ses sion, there remaining to be consider ed appropriations for nearly a billion dollars' worth of public expenditures. "Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are absorbed in questions of party control, patronage, tariff, currency and general legislative plans for the opening days of the Wilson administration." Two Editors That Should Get Re ligion. One use of Lent is to prepare for spring weddings. Greensboro News. And another is to allow the society women to get a little rest from the club meetings and other social af fairs. Statesville Landmark. The editors of the Greensboro News and Statesville Landmark should make a desperate effort to get religion so they can see things in their right light. Local Self-Government Would Save State Lot of Trouble and Expense. (Durham Herald.) If the Legislature would pass a law permitting the counties to run their own affairs it would save lots of the time of future legislative bodies. FAVORS CIVIL SERVICE D f - realt WllSOQ S oUtcmCRt That he Will Sustain Civil Service Creates Excitement DEMOCRATS ARE CONFOUNDED 1 1 .... I 1 If i r 1 . mnr nunicoi ranj Workers Are to be Rewarded Un less Mr. Wilson 1U 'axes Many Int(xrtant Kvents But Pie Counter of Chief Interest to Democrat United States Sends Warships to Mexico and May Land Troops in Mexico City to Protect Americans. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, Feb. 11. 1913. Word reached the capltol yesterday from Trenton or Princeton that Pres- jdent Wilson had decided sustain the civil service la not only toj w, and pro-' tect all persons who are now under the civil service, but that he intended to go a sten farther and keen n fice every man. not under the civil! it is upwIImr m mv thatthia r. ' port has caused the wildest conster-, . . . i nation amone tne Democratic on i- tinlsns horp and ain amnnf tho nom.' I - " - " " r v. ocratic Congressmen, every one of whom had an immense army of nun- gry office-seekers at home, with some of them already camping here at their door. Many Important Kvents of World Wide Interest. The people of the national capital, not only at the White House and in the halls of Congress, but also at the hotels and over the whole city have to-day been discussing, with unusual interest, the terrible calamity of the loss of Captain Scott and his party in the Antartic circle after they had j has been a failure, so far as this ses reached the Pole and found tlje flag;sion is concerned. The bill, as the ana nut of Captain Ronald Arrr.-nd- sen, who had been there a month or more before their arrival. The bod ies of Captain Scott and the mem bers of his party were found frozen in the ice, but on their bodies were the records of their trip to the Pole and what they saw there. Next in order of importance is the remarkable turn taken in the revolu tion in Mexico right at our border. The Madero Government, which was turn on the calendar. MEXICO IN THROES OF REVOLUTION HEAVY FIGHTING IN STREETS OF CAPITAL Felix Diaz Released From Prison and Leads the Rebels in Bloody Charge Estimated That 1,000 Persons Were Killed in Tuesday's Battle Three Americans Known to Have Been Wounded by Stray Bullets Uncle Sam Sends Warships to Mexican Border. Mexico City, Feb. 9. The army, which is in revolt in Mexico City, took possession of the public buildings, shot down Federal adherents in the street, released General Felix Diaz, leader of the Vera Cruz revolt, from prison and, falling into line under his banner, practically captured the Mex ican capital. Francisco Madero, President of the Republic, and members of his Cabi net, took refuge in the National Pal ace, where they were besieged, but, with some royal troops at their backs, succeeded in defending the Palace from the assaults of the revolution ists. General Diaz, who is the nephew of the deposed President, Porfirio Diaz, is now at tne neaa or a major- rumaies oi ine casualties run as blizzard which overwhelmed them, ity of the capital troops, including high as one thousand, although ac- The last part of Scott's message im most of the artillery, and is in poses-, curate information cannot be obtain-: piored the British nation to care for sion of the arsenal in the city and the ed at this time. The dead certainly those who were dependent on the vic powder works nearby. I will be counted by the hundreds. tjRls. His dying appeal has had an The day was marked by four sepa-; Foreign residents for the most .. electric effect through the British rate engagements, the most sanguin- part kept under cover, but three 1 Umpire, and steps were immediately ary of which took place in front of Americans are known to have suffer-; taken to make comfortable the future the National Palace. But the most l important was that which terminated in the artillery barracks. It is believed that not less than 200 people were killed in the fighting.' Among the number was General Ber-1 Reyes, a strong adherent of' io Diaz, and ex-Secretary of, nardo Portifirio War. The mutinous troops were led by students of the military school at Tlalpam, a suburb. They marched to the prison to which General Felix Diaz had been transferred for safe keeping and released him. General Bernardo Reyes was also freed from the Santiago military prison, there being no resistance in either quarter. At 8:30 o'clock, the first encoun ter with loyal troops occurred in front of the National Palace, and General Reyes, whose long record as an army officer, was broken little more than a year ago by a farcical revolt, wa3 instantly killed by a bul let through the head. established a the result of a rctolu- tion let by Madero. again! Prri- dent iMax, seems to be on the e Ice of to-oay ta uffnt. Sa the tr!5-f of being overthrown by the new rrtolu- .v-nor Be Ijr lUrrx aad the d'.piomt tion haded by General Dial, a r;ep-,tic rrpreM-ntatUe. to wrrni a fur htw of the former President. The th-r attempt to prt-vrst another t4t danger to American and KuroiH-an tie within tht city. citizens and their property has be- S nor I -a ilarra iw-nt raeAjr coae fo imminent that several Amer- to President Mdro oTrtns la t:? Scan battleships have been ordered to his servict tn an Sort to brlut the M-ene and it looks as if armed in- about peart tervention In Mexico, as formerly oc- Madero replied, thanking him. but ciirred in Cuba, may soon become, declaring tht no ?rra other thn an necessary. unconditional surrender could tx Next in Importance is discussed ! made with Din. the renewal of hostilities between the ? That the Preidnt ! determined Balkan Allies and Turkey. There has to make this a nnuh fight is evident, been a frightful less of life within j though no more ihj than IUax. who the last few days, on both sides, but realizes that there will be no clem the victories have all been in favorncy in case of surrender, of Bulgaria and her Allies. Almost within a stone s throw of On top of all these stirring events each other these two fighting forces, of world importance, has come thejach armed with more than twenty report of the Interstate Commerce cannon, apparently expect to continue ; Commission, which shows that dur-! the struggle regardless of the loss of ing the last year there was killed by! Bfe. me rauroaas or tne cnnea siaies iu.- i5 people and tnat mere were in- jured, more or less seriously. 77,175.! This frightful loss of life which has! occurred here in our midst, In pro-! found peace, is fifty times as great as! the loss of American soldiers in the; of-!panlsn War, and also causes me losses that have recently occurred in battles between Turkey and Bulgaria and her Allies to pale into insignifi- cance. While these great questions are being discussed generally by every-- t i i j A i i A uouy wno reaos or ininKB at an, yei it must be admitted that the npws . . . . . . . which has recently come from Cover- nor Wilson about the limitation on, the pie-counter have overshadowed all of these great events, in the minds of the hungry Democratic politicians, j Fight May Have IJeen Futile. Washington, D. C, Feb. 11. Sup porters of the Webb bill, to prevent shipments of intoxicating liquors into "dry" States, elated by the bill's pas sage in the Senate yesterday in place of the Sheppard-Keyon bill, discover ed to-day that through a parliamen tary error, their long fight probably Senate passed it, was identical in its provision with the House measure, but when it was substituted for the Keyon-Sheppard bill in the Senate, the Senate bill's number was allowed to remain on the passed bill. House Parliamentarian Crisp says this makes the measure an entirely new one, so far as the House is concerned, and it will have to go to the Judici ary Committee and take its regular Many fell in this engagement and among the scores of bodies which strewed the streets were those of mi nor officers, women and boys of the lower classes and members of the great crowd of spectators which had gathered at the firing of the first shot. One Thousand Killed in Seven-Hour I Drawn Battle I Mexico City, Feb. 11. The Mexi-j can Federals and Rebels fought aj seven-hour drawn battle in the heart; or me city to-day. Wtien darkness I Put an end to the fighting neither; side appeared to have gained any marked advantage. ed Injuries from stray bullets. They,0f the relatives left by the dead ex- are Lloyd Osbourne, an author, who' was shot in the thigh; Dr. R. H. Mc- Crosson, of Lincoln, Neb., and Mark Johnson, a negro, of Madison, 111. j Artillery played the chief Dart in! the day's fighting, but rifle fire wasj kept up continuously, though more or! j less ineffectively. President Madero' and his ministers expressed satisfac-! tion to-night with the day's work and ventured the opinion that to-morrow j would see the overpowering of the! enemy. - General Feliz Diaz in his arsenal! stronghold. aDneared as defiant as at? any time since he was released from prison by the mutinous soldiers and promises a repetition to-morrow of terrific bombardment, the fierceness of which is attested by the many par tially destroyed structures within a radius of half a mile. The greatest loss of life resulted in a charge of rurals, which moved against a Rebel battery which mowed Joa uiezi asd hor T- -irutotj doa ir; tb prolonged ecrrtnvst cf vM,.uai v, eyuuue con- uru vue.r uuuni.. wuen ugnunr p-; peared inevitable, to ue care vi themselves in the best way possible. President Madero has not answered "e note in wnicn ne was asked by the diplomats if he could protect for- Ceneral Diaz has said that he is unable to supply a force to pro consulates ami foreign property. l'nitel States SnI Battleldp to Mexico. on Monday the United States or- , pri tiiw haiiUMnn mi., .,. (n ,n(nM ... iv i i7 iu iiutcvi Aiuri iwiis UIIU .A 1 1 1 " f 1 - (.an industries. As a result of an early Tuesdav morning conference at the White nuse, three additional battleships will he scnt to the eagt coast of Mex. , ico and orders will be issued at once ! for the immediate placing in commis-; sion oi two army transports or troops 10 Mexico nty ior tne protection or ; preat record in the matter o com the lives of Americans and foreigners, nierce upon the eas. Durin the ad should the situation there grow any ministration ov the lato queen. In worse j stead ov growin', the tea traffic had I fallen off about one-third. King SOUTH POLE EXPLOHKKS PEltlSII i James not onl' ha(1 to ehoulder that. j but things grew worse. To add to hit Captain Scott and Four of His Men awl the trusts were gettin a start. Freeze to Death in Blizzard Hal j The average reader may think that Discovered South Pole. trusts are new an' few understand that in some form or other they her v. ,o .Ciucu, the world to-day that Captain Robert F. Scott, the - British explorer, and four of his companions, perished in the Antartic while on their return Journey from the South Pole. The dead, in addition to Captain Scott, are Dr. E. A. Wilson, Lieut. H. R. Bowers, Captain L. P. S. Oates, and Petty Officer E. Evans. They reached their goal on Janu ary 18, 1912, about a month after Captain Roald Amundsen, the Nor wegian, had planted the flag of his country there. Then they turned back toward the bases they had formed on their outward Journey, but were overtaken, overwhelmed and destroyed by a blizzard. News of the death of the explorers was brought to civilization to-day by the captain of the Terra Nova, the ship which had taken Scott's expedi tion to the South and which had gone again to bring them back after the accomplishment of their task. A searching expedition recovered the bodies and records of the party. Captain Scott's Last Message. London, Feb. 11. "Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, and endurance of my com - ... ... Panions wnicn would have stirred ev - er' Englishman's heart. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell tne tale." Tnis was captain Scott's farewell message to tne world dlBCOvered with nis records when searching par - tief; reached the dead bodies of Stt and four fellow-exnlorers at the Enotafter 1,e went on tn throne ii he. where they starved to death in the plorers. vi xi t w wri-vni.-i TKN ,,KAI AM MAM WOl.MihU.j . . . J ltU ot. CSTh 'J?!? (mic an,,! stnker ln et Virginia. j Charleston, W. Va.. Feb. 10. Ten persons are dead and a score wound - ed as a result of a battle to-day be- t ween strikers and authorities nearlto worship according to the orders Mucklow. W. Va., in the Kanawha r the King. He tried to dictate a coal strike district. Seven of the j dead were strikers and three mem-j bers of the mine guards and railroad! police. Of the injured, fifteen are i Pan WI1Z not to observe Sunday fcard said to be strikers and the others (,y at awl. The people were badly guards. ! torn up an hardly knew what to ex- j pect from such a ruler. The King real John and Robert Freeze, sons of opposed anythln' like a strict obser- Mr. R. A. Freeze, of Belmont, aged seventeen and fifteen years, respect ively, arrived in Raelgh Tuesday to take the Pasteur treatment for mad dog bite. HP If 1 ITpirTJT UICTADV KtAL AilLlbll 1 lilul UKl When Enf Und and Scotland United and Great Britus Was tie Result JAMES RULED COMBINATION te I tiUati Nw trwlttc IUctel i W-Utm Trt4 Ibt to ttrri tmit Utriiom Tw Ilundretl Vlr-n lte Wortd ll the Throat Ulira the lVlrwhw1 Wav in Hie 'vwj.jr Kmc BWieiW. BllktnsvUe, N C . Krb 11. 11 J Correspondence of The Caucasus Knterprls. The ancient history ov K&ctand bet bJn ,lUb,hld ,n ,b. rolumlli OT thlm pipt.r p to the ear H03 Aboot th.t . ... t- Ucd wer, unlu, 'j, known d n' the combination ht (Jreat Britain From that date Kret th!nreeo greater than er Wforr. may b rtordd Hut our purpe is to & the cream on!. an' in a brief form at that Jarui-i. VI ov Scotland. Kni King o the combined roantrt on March r.l. Iu3. He w ui the grand son ov Margaret, eldest daughter ov Henry VII This ruler had bn named by Queen Klijabeth while practically on her death-bed. King James took charge under the most -i -.-. i.i n . ......... ... & found the job too Urpe for hire In fart Jh ,.ui n0rd imoiuuM- in uuifum m iiai n thing to get in a tanKte. n' the new King only added to the trouble. Kng- j land had awlwaya tried to make a been d0,n. DUBlneiJl gJnce .he - tion. About this time the great ocean traffic controlled by IJrUlnhera, cost ly residents ov Ixndon. corered by far the larger portion ov the trad ov that country, an' the whole world had to pay tribute, ov count. If figures will tell the Btory hit U only needless to say that the shipping trust at that early date worked so ef fectively for Ixndon an their own pockets that London an' the great shipping trust, composed ot only about two hundred men, U said to hev done a business amoutnlng to one hundred an' ten thousand pounds & year, while the shippers who were not In the trust only did a business or seventeen thousand pounds per year. An' English pound amounts to about five American dollars if any oae lx not acquainted with money az count ed in Great Britain. So the 200 London ship-owners were rakln' In more than six times az much business per year az the whole ov the indepen dent ship-owners ov the entire coun try. The two hundred men were msk- in' more money than thousands ov ' men. The shlppin' trust could con trol freight rates both ways on awl outgoln' an' Incomln freight. To ! raaKe ma"e worse, tne King em- I f n stant Vr Vi a irv n AtvvtM A p" T rate' he dldn 1 be,P to Put the mon- P0,if8 out ov business. The King "even went so fa ras to deelar In a ! 8Pech to Parliament that the people j must understand that "thdr priri- ' ,eea were derlv'1 from blm an his ! ancestors." This wuz eighteen years ov couri"?' had bf'n ,n harness long enougn to ne more discreet. Dunn hiz entire administration, the people had to live under a ruler with such views. He granted them no real fa vors in finance nor In religion, for he wuz Just az narrow In a religious way. Ov course, Great Britain didn't prosper to any great extent. He de- manf3e1 ffeat sums ov money to ar- ry out Dlz PIaJ1 an hit bad to come regardless or who suffered. The King awIso undertook to conduct tka re- i,gion ov the people. He wuz firat an Episcopalian, second a Catholic. The other people had to take what they coujd ,,et an that WUI but mUe m : VR tried to establish certain re- j Hgious forms according to hlz own ! Ideas.. Many or the people refused foria for Sunday observance an this wuz out ov harmony with the Ideas or mot people, etpecially when hU I a . vance or the Sabbath, though he did not care to say so In plain words. Finally, things got so warm that a plan wuz hatched up to blow up the (Continued on page 4.) i -' " - -