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CAUCASIAN. J-J. VOL. RALEIGH, IV. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1013. No. 14. WILSON HAS XO DEFINITE IDEAS. Has Not Made a Clear Definite State ment of Hi Position on jnj Im portant Subject. Notwithstanding that President Wilson claimed to have very decided opinions on public questions before elected, it appears now that he has no definite' policy and is in a quand ary over practically every question j that comes up. The Lincoln Times, commenting on this fact, says: "Following are some of the head lines appearing in the daily papers within the last two weeks: 'Mr. Wil son Still Undecided Whether to Re voke Taft's Order .Placing Fourth Class Postmasters Under Civil Ser vice'; 'President's Mind Not Yet Made Up as to Putting Sugar on the Free List'; 'The President Undecided j Whether to Recommend the Adop tion of One Tariff Bill, or Take it Up Schedule By Schedule'; 'Mr. Wilson Has Not Definitely Decided Whether He Will Recommend Currency Legis lation at Extra Session or Not'; 'The President Has Taken No Stand as to Woman Suffrage as Yet'; 'The Presi dent Will Consult the Leaders of Congress and Try to Recommend Such Legislation as Congress is Like ly to Pass. "From the above one is led to con clude that our President has definite Ideas on very few of the great prob lems facing the country. And after thinking about the matter, can you name one thing on which the Presi dent has made a clear, definite state ment of his position?" DOUBLE KILLING IN GOLDSBORO. Well-to-Do Fanner Shoots Another Man's Wife and Then Attempts Suicide Jealousy lrobably the Cause. Goldsboro, N. C, April 14. Quite! a sensation was caused ir Goldsboro this morning when the nws spread that Mr. Cleveland Prince, a well-to-do farmer of this county, had gone to the Goldsboro Hospital, shot and killed Mrs. May Carter Lomax and then shot himself, the wound being fatal. Mrs. Lomax, a prominent milliner, and the wife of Baggagemaster Lo max, of the Southern Railroad be- J tween Goldsboro and Greensboro, had been confined to the hospital from injuries which she received a few nights ago in an automobile ride with Prince and four other persons. No definite motive for the shooting has been given, but rumors are that rivalry and jealousy over a traveling man with whom Mrs. Lomax had been in company was the beginning of the trouble. Mr. Prince went to the hospital, called for Mrs. Lomax, and was shown to her room. When he opened the door he pulled out a pistol and shot her dead ,and then fired a bullet through his own head. He was carried to the operating ta ble, where his brains were running out of his head, and the doctors give little hope of saving his life. Both parties are well-known in Goldsboro, and the affair has caused quite a bit of talk here. Later Mr. Prince, since the above dispatch was sent out, has died. Pitt Couiity Youth Slain By His Com panion. Greenville, April 12. Today May or F. M. Wooten, acting coroner, went to Belvoir Township to hold an in quest. Last night there was a party in a school house out there. After the party, two boys, Wade Moore and Moses Tyson, both less than seven teen years old, had a fight and Tyson struck Moore across the temple with a strip of board. Moore died early this morning from the blow. Tyson was brought here this afternoon and committed to jail. He is deeply grieved over slaying his companion, and the youth of the boy arouses much sympathy for him. La Follette Says Wilson Appointed a Friend of WaU Street. Madison, Wis., April 11. In a signed article in his magazine to-day Senator La Follette criticised Presi dent Wilson's appointment of John Skelton Williams of Virginia as As sistant Secretary of the Treasury in stead of Robert F. Wooley, also of Virginia. The Wisconsin Senator intimates that President Wilson has been im posed on by "the system" in this ap pointment, asserting that Williams "has qualifications that would be rec ognized anywhere in Wall Street." Suffragette Meeting Caused Wild Dis order in London- London, April 13. The weekly at tempt of suffragettes to hold a meet ing in Hyde Park against the opposi tion of the anti-suffragettes was made again to-day. Tire crowd howl ed down the speakers and hurled missies at them until the police were forced to intervene and escort the suffragettes from the park. IS MR. BRYANIGNORED ? Announcements That Should he Blade From His Department are Made by Pres. Wilson A RUPTURE IS EXPECTED The President Is Ignoring Reaction ary Senators in Matter of Political Appointments He .May Hand Messrs. Godwin, Simmons, ami Overman a Lemon in the Appoint ment of a Postmaster at Wilming ton Southern Cotton Mill Men Protect Against the Democratic Tariff Bill Mr. Hearst Also At tacks the Sew Tariff Bill The Gridiron Dinner. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, April 15, 1913. Senator Simmons and Senator Ov erman on the one hand and Secretary Daniels on the other, with their re spective followltis, are still much stirred up over the appointment of a Collector for the Western District of North Carolina. It is understood that the President does not want to appoint Mr. Watts, the Simmons reactionary candidate. There is, however, still a doubt as to whether Secretary Daniels is serious ly opposing Mr. Watts. If he is, then it is almost certain that the Presi dent will appoint a Progressive for Collector in the place of Mr. Watts. The -President has already shown that when a square issue is made be tween a Reactionary and Progressive, that he will stand with the Progres sive even though he alienates the Reactionary Senators. In Maryland Senator Smith and his standpat or ganization squarely endorsed one of their machine men for postmaster in Baltimore. This office pays $8,000, and is the best office in the State. The Wilson Democrats of that State, though having no Senator here nor any member of the Cabinet to speak for them, yet protested so strongly against the Smith machine candidate that the President has appointed a candidate selected by the Progres sives. He would, of course, do the same thing in the case of the North Carolina Collector if Daniels does not desert the Progressives. The Wilmington Postoffice. There is a big fight on here for the position of postmaster at Wilming ton. Congressman Godwin and Sen ators Simmons and Overman have joined in recommending the appoint ment of J. J. Furlong. The Progres sive Wilmington Democrats have made a great protest against the ap pointment but it is not known wheth er or not Secretary Daniels has taken a position with the Progressives or whether he has ducked. The Pro gressives are pushing for the appoint ment of Mr. H. McL. Green. It is announced that Doctor Edwin A. Alderman, President of the Uni versity of Virginia, has asked for the appointment of Mr. Green, who, by the way, is his brother-in-law, and that the President may give Mr. Green the appointment on Doctor Al derman's endorsement. This may be a clever blind behind which M. Dan iels is hiding, or it may be that the President is more disposed to listen to the recommendations of college professors than to the recommenda tions of Congressmen and Senators. H&wever, there is here material for another big row of the political fam ily. Is Bryan Being Ignored? There is a persistent story here that the President is trying to force Mr. Bryan out of the Cabinet. On every hand attention is being called to the fact that, so far, every import ant matter affecting the attitude of this Government as to foreign gov ernments, which should have been announced from the State Depart ment, has been announced by Presi dent Wilson from the White House. Three of the most striking in stances are as follows: (1) When the administration felt called upon to announce its policy to ward Central and South American Republics, under the Monroe doc trine, the statement was given to the press from the White House. (2) When the administration de cided to reverse the "dollar diplom acy" policy of the Taft administra tion, that the announcement was made, not by Mr. Bryan from the State Department, but by the Presi dent himself. (3) That when the administration decided to recognize the Republic of China, again Mr. Bryan was denied the flghf to issue that statement, and the President, himself, announced it from the White House. Besides, it is known that Presi dent Wilson appointed Mr. McRey nolds Attorney-General in his Cabi net, a man who had never supported Mr. Bryan and who had always strongly oppmd him. It U a bo known that President WiIon offered the Dosition of Ambassador to Eng land, to Mr. Olney. who was Mr. I Cleveland's Secretary of State, and ? who has always strongly opposed Mr. Bryan. Wnc-n Mr. Olney declined the appointment, other men were considered for the poeitoa. who were not supporters of Mr. Bryan. Finally Mr. Walter H. Page, the editor of the World's Work, was of fered the position, and he accepted it. The last issue of the World's Work severely criticised Mr. Bryan in an editorial. It is clear that when Mr. Page wrote that editorial that he was not a candidate for the position of Ambassador to England, knowing when he wrote it that Mr. Bryan was already Secretary of State. It is now suggested that President Wilson must have decided to select Mr. Page for this position after seeing his editorial criticising Mr. Bryan. It is not be lieved that Mr. Bryan can much long er submit to such treatment. There are not a few, however, who criticise President Wilson for thus j treating the man who is responsible i for his nomination at Baltimore. In fact, a number who have never been supporters or admirers of Mr. Bryan have expressed tin? feeling that Presi dent Wilson is not giving Mr. Bryan a square deal. The Protest of the Southern Cotton Mills. Last week over five hundred lead ing cotton mill men from North Car olina and other Southern States came to Washington to protest against the new tariff bill which had been pre pared after consultation between President Wilson and the House lead ers. They not only interviewed the President and leading members of Congress, and made personal protests but they held a meeting and passed resolutions declaring that a reduction of 50 per cent in tariff duties on cot ton goods would mean the closing up of many, if not all.of their mills. Mr. S. B. TaDner, one of the lead ing cotton mill men of Charlotte, is reported to have said to one of the leading Democratic Congressmen: "You may put us out of business this year, but we will put you out of Con gress next year." These cotton mill men, however, have no one to blame but themselves, for nearly every one of them voted the Democratic ticket last year. Mr. Erwin, of Durham, another prominent cotton mill man, is report ed to have said that when they sup ported the Democratic party they had no idea it would pass any such tariff bill. Mr. Erwin should remember that the Democratic party, in its plat form adopted in Baltimore, declared that any tariff duties for protection were unjustifiable and unconstitu tional. He should remember that the only logical way for the Democratic party to carry out this declaration is to lay a tariff, for revenue only, on articles not raised or made in this country, such as tea, coffee, etc. In that way the largest amount of reve nue could be raised, for all of such articles are imported, and then the Democrats could escape even the "evils of incidental protection." The fact is, that the Democratic tariff bill is not near as bad as their platform declared for. Therefore, the only complaint which Mr. Erwin can make is on the ground that he did not think that the Democrats meant a word they said in their plat form. While President Wilson is a free trader, it is true that he has had enough mercy on the cotton industry, at this time, to make a reduction of the protection duties of only 50 per cent, on the ground that he does not want to hurt business any more than possible at the present. The cotton mill men have, no doubt, reached the. conclusion that it was unwise to give him a chance to hurt business at all. Mr. Hearst Attacks the Tariff Bill. Hon. William R. Hearst, the editor of the New York American, and a half-dozen other newspapers from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coasts, has published a signed statement pro testing against the Democratic tariff bill. He says the bill will not only se riously damage American industries of all. kinds but that it is drawn so as to help foreign manufacturers, for eign laborers and foreign farmers and all other foreign wealth producers. He says in his statement that he h&s a large cattle ranch in Mexico, and that he ship3 his cattle from there to the United States. He says that the present bill, taking the protection du ties off of. cattle, will mean a large profit to him on all cattle which he raises in Mexico and ships to this country, and that everybody else who raises cattle in Mexico, Argentine Re public, or any other foreign country, will profit in the same way, and all at the expense of the American cattle raiser. He also points to the fact that he (Continued on page 3.) BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Pope Pius X.. of Rone, bead of lne Uomn Cltbo,lf l harcb- u ln V condition itb bronchli! trou ble from which he may not recover. Postmaster-General Durleon Rave out a statement Monday in which he stated merit and not politic would prevail in appointments in the pott- office service. ' H. L. Gibbs. of Oriental. Alleghany! County, says the mercury stood at 26 j at that place Wedneday morning and the ground was covered with a mantle of snow. A large chair factory, owned by a stock company, was burned at Wal kertown near Winston-Salem. Mon day night, entailing a loss of 000, with no insurance. SU-, Fire at the Kansas State peniten tiary a few days ago destroyed four vent back to ee president Billy Wll buildlngs, the estimated loss being "son about that thar job in the in 1500.000. Six prisoners and a guard j terior department. The President were slightly burned. j axed me why I had got stuck on the j interior department. Sez I, "Accord-.' Twenty passengers were killed and! in' to the old blue-back epellin' book forty injured in a wreck on the Mexi-j whar I learned to spell an" the dick can Central near Tula, State of Hid-1 shunaries an' sich thing the word algo, Mexico. The train was ditched "interior" means inside or words to on a curve by the rebel forces. jthat effect. Knowin' that ix mil-! ! lions ov dymakrats air rite behind The political strike in Belgium be- j me or ahead ov me., maybe. I wanten gan quietly Monday and at midnight j it was estimated that 200,000 work-j men were out in the country. In- dustries are practically paralyzed. ; The conference at Chicago on mar-; people to get killed. Why hit look vomin io it ennjit. rrienottiip. Ala keting and farm credits have appoint- j like court week in Durham at Wash- manct? CouIlt'. cloe Mx-onJ a ed a committee to go to Washington j ington a ready an' lots ov dyraakrata ; a P01"1 lnner with 17. Horner and confer with President Wilson asjhaint hearn that Wilson wuz elected 1 M1Ulry Inltu1 cm third with 1C. to some means of ameliorating condi tions. F. M. Davis, an aged white man of Asheville, was instantly killed Fri day by being struck by a Southern passenger train a mile east of Bilt mpre. The deceased was deaf and it is presumed that he did not hear the aproaching train. Melvin Home, former deputy sher iff of New Hanover County, wanted for embezzling $500 of tax money and for retailing, has returned to Wilmington and surrendered. He claims he lost the money. Home is in jail in default of $1,500 bail. A malarial commission was organ ized at St. Louis Saturday as a de partment of the National Drainage Congress; Joseph Hyde Pratt, of Chapel Hill, told the Congress of the vast possibilities of the reclamation of swamp lands in North Carolina. The funeral of J. P. Morgan was conducted with imposing ceremonies in New York Monday and the body later laid to rest in the family ceme tery at Hartford, Conn. The casket was banked with red roses, which was the favorite flower of the great financier. The Greensboro News says W. H. np . . l. t : . i x o ir lu' wulie 1UU auuui 03 earB! house could be found in Washington; of age and a painter by trade, wasithm whinm. foik ,ir w shot from ambush and instantly kill - ed, in that city Wednesday night. Three men, two negroes and one white, were seen running away soon after the shot was fired. Proposed anti-Japanese legislation in raiifnmin ia ,HvW .Jf . . .,, , at Washington, lest something be un- u ; : , uci lancu i xi tx i is 111 viuiauuu ui tl CALJ obligations with the Japanese nation. The newspapers in Japan are criti cising this country for allowing Cali fornia to discriminate against the Japanese. William R. Hearst, owner of the New York American, the Atlanta r9 m Georgian, ana a siring oi newspapers over the country, has started a suit Georgian, and a string of newspapers for $26,000 in Greensboro in the United States Court for the Western District of North Carolina against F. L. Seely, former owner and publish - er of the Atlanta Georgian. Hearst Alleges that the accounts of the paper were larger than represented to him. Mr. Seely is now living In Asheville. Brave Guilford Girl Holds Up Burg lar. Alone at her home in Guilford County, a young daughter of Mr. J. W. Barker saw a negro come out of the smoke-house with a ham, go to the coop and get a chicken and then walk away as coolly as if the deed had been done in darkness rather than the light of open day The young lady who saw all this thought j around a bit an' git the cramps out "narrowly escaped today being the ric matters had gone too far, and thejov my legs. I took a gude look at tiro of an anarchist attempt against first thing the colored man knew he j the White House. Hit don't seem to his life. Three shots were fired at was facing a shot-gun in the hands be any whiter than hit wuz before, j the King this afternoon in the streets of an angry young woman. At her if az white, for Joeseefus Daniels an Of the capital by a native of Barce command he laid down the ham, the some ov the others in the cabinet j lona, Rafael Sanchez Allegro, who chicken, and an old pistol and then was allowed to go, which he was doubtless glad to do. Statesvilie Landmark. lliUiljlfl If AjUlilulUIl The Major Plays a Return Engage ment oa "HoseysGckle Hill" STILL CHASING JOB Vore Than a Mala f W tj- New HtrtH and All full of Ue FdUthul WlUtttt Ma Say. IeiroM-y I a IKmumw Hide Hub -Wtme th SwrrirM Critter frti Karth, Hut 4kH Smbm 1 Kye-Oproer -Appointing Negror. J Corret pendente of The Caucasian-En-j terprise. ! BilklnsTiUe, N. C. April 15. 1512 j Ax the folk say around them? here "P the rnd It In lte FUe-cent cot- theater. I hev bin piayin' "a return -ton cap the rtlmbai OJUs hoa i engagement" at Washington. D. C. I ter air packed around the capitol get on the "inside" and avoid the scramble, for they iz goln' to be lota ov people killed and crippled before this thing ends. Hit ill be worse nor the war in Greece an Turkev fer ! yit. They hev done built seventy-1 live whoppin' big hotels in Washing- wuu - Iom,B respectively. ll. v. ton an' are organizin' big stock com-iiGrwn' of Cary- Wke County, waa panies every day to put up hotels that i ,ne lndlvlJuaI tar of the tueet. win will cost from two to five million dol-jninK four nm ,Uce vnt nd total, lars apiece. "Washington capital-! ,,nK up 23 ,olnU for th Cr h,h ists must think we fellers hev money to spend," sed I to my boardin' house keeper. "Yes," sed he, "the dyma krats will awl blow in their last dol lar when n dymakrat gits in the Pres ident's chair. Then, when the pick ins air awl taken up they will go home and eat their old red shirts fer food an' pray fer another repub-in,gh likln administration, fifteen-cent cot ton and other things in proportion. But a gude many ov them will vote the dymakrat ticket rite along. De mocracy iz a disease, not a political machine at all. Hit is a cross betwixt insanity and jimjams, with some of the symptoms of hydrophobia an the old-fashioned itch.' Why you hardly ever hear the dymakrat party men tioned except in North Carolina and South, Carolina, which air controlled by such men as Senator Simmons and Senator Tillman. But for the split between the Taft and Roosevelt fol lowers last fall the dymakrats would hev been beaten by at least two mil lions ov votes." I soon seed that he wuz a repub likin an' I made up my mind that I'd change boardin' places. But I couldn't find anybody who wuz will in to say that a dymakrat boardin ful QV their reputations. . , , . '"u" mj T ,77', OB,n" Washington on the last tr p. Bob f i Jl ! I had taken him the first time. But, I tben ne mite s 8Cared at tnem ! wom" suffragists who wuz paradin around thar howlin fer the privilege 4. , , . . . ov votin or wearin pants. I can't say which. WImin air the sweetest critters on earth az long az you kin confine them to household duties an' sensible livin. But they air not worth fifteen cents a dozen when they git to prowln' around hollerin fer votin privileges an sich tomfoolery. If I j ever catch my wife at a votin place jm appiy for a divorce within an ; hour an' I'll wear colored specks the ; hour an' I'll j ballance ov my life to keeD from ; even lookin at another woman. If j wimmin votin means democracy I'll j vote the socialist ticket hereafter or ! else I'll burry my head in the sand an leave my feet stickln out like j they say an ostrich does whar they run wid jn 80n,e furrin lands. I had a long, hard trip to Wash- ! ington on mule back, but made gude'ater trough and feed rack, and the time. The first thing I did wuz tojnlre Dlaat lectrlcallj lighted. : git another shave, the second In sev-;!ne re eet Prf for cattle 'enteen years. Then I hunted up a'rora tne quarantined area and are place whar they sold eye-openers at i Prated from the others by a solid I ten cents per. When a Tar Heel iiti-jooard wall ten feet high, zen gits over the State line he iz . mitey apt to take a cold or the epl- zootick. I haint bin clear ov a bad . cold in forty years nohow. After j jvisitin' the refreshment shop I chew-f ed a clove an then concluded to walk i hev done begun to appint niggers who air az black az the ace ov spades and who smell like rotten coal oil to big jobs in the departments and the new yostt I f tetwy rr4. tw I rtxl hlg its 4; r.t k-iCa RitNf fc!4 i Cm'H'l way ; feet her bit u i65f " at e-M&f Uhmi is tsrtla th r!!Ul ml Wia&cl0f list t:i Satth Car ' l!tUn. fr:iT'Uartx.ik tlUrr$. Mrt ot!4 j fee tbacM t&tt i in !r ihati raoata after ta "liUr jbHf" ;rt e&t la HUtj WiUa, William Jktifii&ft llrj0 a Jar Turn iUaWU o4 he him $ftaUa buck fircrc to ots v the taatt te- pofetsbi fUm uc4rr ttn An" I 'had thought thU a white mta't co Jrmaitai X am coin to look lato thl It Qijttrr atr to t cta th ery Crl Job l a demo lta nil awl, I'll twoom a& a&archUt r anything before I'll wa!lr kh political tsi It Simmon. Daniels 4 Co an th American Tobacco Company an the other frtifc who air runttio' North Carolina down to dUfrar krp this buUvlln' two mile deep a I'll be to rayport tbe result ov tay trip to ou next wek. At ever. 7.KKK IIILKIVS HONORS TO h)T Wake County lloy the Individual Star at I'irUX ami Track Mert ml Cftw4 Hill. Chapel 11111, April 16. Hiith Point ou th t?rtrt number of point i,n lh olnt iencho!atlc and dl- trict track and field meet held registering in :i CnIl l"11 Friday. Raleigh and Greensboro scored 1& school. More than etchtr entries were made for the met by high school pupils from scattering sections of the State. An outlay of thirty two medals and three cup were awarded to the victorious teams In the meet. The decaiamation contest of the east central district of State RchooI conjunction iia ttin.tHic coatect. mo nine ae- claimers in the content speaking on Friday night. A. C. Reid, of Church land high school, Davidson County, waa the successful competitor for the declaimer's medal. Durham lawyer and Resident of Kdgemont Arretted for Coot erupt in Search and SHiur Cae. A Durham dispatch of Tuesday says: "W. B. Guthrie, a promlneut at torney of this city, and W. C. Pltgen. a resident of Edgemont, were arrest ed for contempt o court to-day In a case growing out of the seizure of 4,000 bottles of beer from Charles Evans and P. Caulder. alleged blind tigers. Evans and Caulder were ar rested for selling liquor and the beer seized, whereupon the attorney and the other man took out claim and de livery papers for the stuff. "The beer was seized under the j search and seizure act passed by the last General Assembly, giving of ficers authority to search premlws where they have reason or knowl edge sufficient to justify them in the belief that the place may contain liquors stored for illegal purpose. There is much interest in the con tempt caie." Southern Railway Jfa Greatly Im proved It Stock Yard at Spencer.. Spencer, N. C, April 11. To pro vide improved facilities for properly handling the growing movement of live stock to Eastern and Virginia markets from the South .States, the Southern Rail war Is now completing a modern nlant for rear. inr and feedlnr toek on nrnMrt a. J joining the Spencer yards. I The plant consists of thirty-three pens, twenty of which are covered, j All pens and alleys are paved with : one foot of cinders and are located on I a gentle slope, providing natural j drainage. Each pen Is provided with Third Attempt to Asa!aate the King of Spain. Madrid. Spain. April 13. For the. ; third ti'ne in his reign King Alfonso I was immediately overpowered. King Alfonso owes his escape to his own courage, quickness and skilled horsemanship.
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