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i XHE CHARIiOTTE NEWS JANUAhY 20. 9l3 4 f --- -- - i " . . i i 1 i ft tit M ... i --i mm i .n . . . MBHM - The Charlotte News Publisheu Dally and Sunday by THb NEWS PUBLISHING CO. IV. C. Doivd, President and Ge. Mgr. Telephone t City Editor Business Office Job Office. ... - m lis 1530 1. C PATTON MRS. J. P. CALiWELX.. A. W. BURCH .......Editor. ..City Editor. ...Adv. Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Chrlote Swi. Dally and Sunday. Pne rear I ix months ". . Three months Dne month. Dne week 00 00 60 60 12 i. Sunday Only Dne year . Six raonths Three month. Tlm-B-D-mecrat. 00 60 60 Sami-Weekly. One yeaf Six months Three months 1.00 .B0 .21 ANNOUNCEMENT. The attention of the public Is re spectfully invited tothe follow- 5: . In future. Obituary Notlcec. In Me moriam Sketches. Cards of Thanks, communications espousing tho cau. of a private enterprise or a political candidate itid "like matter, will be charged foi a.. tne rato cf Jive cents a line. Tfcsre will b no deviation from this rule. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1912. TAT "BREACH" AGAIN . There seems to be a disposition among thinking and unbiased newspa pers to penetrate the sensation thrown about the now-famous Harvey-Wilson" conference, and the more the light is turned out, the more creditably Governor Wilson shows up. Vyy few newspapers, outside of a few already committed to only one riew of the situation, take the flimsy tatement of Col. Henry Watterson seriously. His condemnation of a man for doing exactly what he had previously advised, and his other in consistencies rather take the strength from his position. There are few fairer-minded news papers in the United States than the Philadelphia Record, and we find this excellent editorial in today's is sue: "First impressions are often wrong, and the worst of itis that they of ten stick. All the more important is it, therefore, that one's first impres sions should not be even partly the result of prejudice, and that they should not be produced by evidence even unconsciously tinctured by per sonal animus. - "Regarding the "Wilson-Harvey epi sode we have no word from the two ;persons most intimately concerned that i3 discreditable to either. Henry "Watterson's testimony of what took place at the memorable interview hardly justifies his uncomplimenta ry remarks on the "character and temperament" of Governor Wilson. The latter is reported to have ad mitted, in answer to Colonel Har vey's direct question, that the sup port of the publication conducted by the latter was injurious to his presi dential aspirations. It is not alleged that he volunteered the assertion. "It is stated by Henry Watterson that he himself 'as far back as Octo ber last had suggested to Governor Wilson that, in view of his supposed (Morgan) environment, it might be well for Colonel Harvey to moderate somewhat the rather aggressive char acter of Harper's Weekly In the Wil son leadership;' and the Kentucky colonel intimates that- he .had said as much to the New Jersey, colonel. Why should Henry Watterson, there- - fore, have been shocked at Governor Wilson's candor? Was it a greater of fense for Governor Wilson to admit that the Harper's Weekly advocacy of his candidacy was having an in jurious effect than it was for Colonel Watterson to first suggest It to the governor and afterwards say . it to Colonel Harvey? "Governor Wilson might -have tem porized and thus saved himself from Colonel Watterson's disparaging crit icism of his statesmanship. But it would seem fairer to give the gover nor credit for. his uncompromising honesty. Had the jfcovernor been a coarse-grained demagogue he might have tried to make political capital by denouncing the damaging friend ship of Harper's Weekly from the housetops. That he preferred to make the undersirability of the support of that journal known in a private interview indicates kindly and gentle manly, rather than ungenerous, im pulses. The interview, as Colonel Watterson asserts, was constrained; and this was quite natural. The sit uation was a painful one, and not conducive to the development of feelings of good fellowship; and we infer that Governor Wilson was as deeply hurt by the necessity of being absolutely truthful with Colonel Har vey as the latter was by the gover nor's frankness. But we don't see how an unpleasant fact could have been communicated in a manner more considerate than this was although Colonel Watterson mistook the gov ernor's embarrassment for austerity . and an 'autocratic, if not. tyrannous, manner.' "Colonel Watterson's real judgment of Governor Wilson, imbedded in the midst of qualifying phrases of more dubious import, is this: 'I yet think Colonel Harvey made no mistake in his choice of a candidate. And, when he states facts rather than reflects impressions, he .says: 'Nothing of a discourteous kind, nor even of an ' unfriendly kind, passed during an interview of more than an hour.' The rest of the story is headlines 'gin ger' and Colonel Watterson is a fine headline writer. Judge Ewing gave a sensible ver sion of the Harvey-Wilson conference one apparently free from bias, and it throws an entirely different light upon an exceedingly small incident which had been sensationally played up as one of all eclipsing importance to Abe salvation of the human race. WHAT OF THE NORFOLK SOUTH ERN. r Does " Charlotte want the Norfolk Southern? Can the business interests of the city afford to let this opportu nity pass by? What Is needed just now, as Mr. Kuester aptly puts it, is men and money? A conference has been called for next Monday. Fifty men are asked to give the day over-to the work of pav ing the way for the coming of this great railway. Let us not take a step back by playing indifferent to this great op portunity. - Pull for the Norfolk Southern. THE SUN'S ' PLOT. The Columbia State makes out a plain case of conspiracy against Woodrow Wilson, planned and plot ted and executed chiefly by the New York Sun. Those who really desire the facts with regard to the "breach" should read what the State has to say. Very pertinently it asks since when Col. Harvey, who supported Taft as against Bryan, has come to be clothed in the habljiaments of Mother Democracy. As for one we hardly think two or three newspapers will be able to discredit one of the most brilliant statesmen of v the day, especially two or three whose de mocracy has never been on straight. FROM OTHER SANCTUMS But the People Are Awake. There is a fear in some quarters that the will of the people will be thwarted in the coming national democratic convention. Mark Sulli van, the able member of the staff of Collier's who is detailed to keep up with the' political situation as he sees it at Washington says in the last Collier that if the voice vo'f the people prevails twothirds of the states will cast their vote for Wood row Wilson. If the- newspapers of North Carolina correctly express the sentiment in this state Woodrow Wilson has nine-tenths of the people. The Waxhaw Enterprise says: "Woodrow Wilson is now the lead ing prospective candidate for the next democratic nominee. If it should be left for the people to decide Wilson would get the nomination at a walk; but as it is mostly at the disposal of political sharks, he will have a hard time, no doubt, to land it." But, Brother McNeely, the people are awake and alert, andrwhen they are aroused as the systematic "Big Business" unfair war on Wilson has aroused them, no political bosses of moneyed interests can' prevail against them. They have decided to make Woodrow Wilson the the next presi den, and they will do it in spite of the reactionists, the time-servers, the money power, and the trusts. News and Observer. The Harvey-Wilson Split. Amazing disregard of the ' public's ability to comprehend and a desper ate desire to break Woodrow Wilson's hold upon public confidence, are the only logical explanations of the 'gro tesque effort to robe one George Har vey in the habiliments of the democratic-party and decree .that his flout ing of Woodrow Wilson is equivalent to the political demise of the gov ernor of -New Jersey. j We should" laugh mirthfully were there not evidences of a conspiracy as wide, at least, as from Charlotte, j North Carolina, to Omaha, Nebraska,' to undermine progressive democracy j and give the party over to thosewho have knifed it from within for many years. - ! Knowing Colonel Watterson we hold him guiltless. He has had no part in a conspiracy, but we fear he has, in his ppen-hearted confidence, been hoodwinked. George Harvey, editor of Harper periodicals, both owned at last ac counts . by a gentleman of some fig ure in the business world, named J. Pierpont Morgan, lives in New Jersey. A long time ago he took a liking to Woodrow Wilson and praised him. Wilson was a big man when Harvey first-new him, and his growth con tinued. He became governor of New Jersey after a campaign that attract ed attention from Maine to California. And the deeds of the man while gov- ernor,have made him the most con spicuous figure among those demo-i crats with presidential aspirations. Meautime George Harvey hoisted Wilson's name to the masthead In Harper's Weekly and boomed him for president. The fact that Harvey, advocated Wilson's nomination was a turxrising thing to many of the New Jersey governor's friends, because they knew that for Wilson to be politically agreeable to Harvey, the editor must have undergone radical change of views since the last demo cratic campaign, when he supported Taft against Bryan. The only expla nation was that Harvey, discovering he Was, so jfo speak, the original Wilson man. and seeing Wilson de veloping into a powerful national fig ure, experienced a tickling or his vanity ' that overcame other consid erations; his pride of opinion held him firm. , Colonel Watterson is blind to Im agine that Harvey "made" Wilson, and he is momentarily forgetful of a public man's obligations to himself and the public when he intimates there is ingratitude to Harvey in Wilson's preference that a Morgan owned journal does not carry his name for president at the head of its editorial columns. Had Col. Roosevelt evinced a lik ing for Wilson and promised him support, would there be a flurry in democratic, ranks on -the-announcement of a "break" between them? And yet wherein was Col. Harvey more of an asset to democracy than Colonel Roosevelt? When has the party, outside of the Wall Street contingent, permitted him to speak for it? Does the circumstance that Wilson does not wish the .'support of Har per's Weekly unfit him for the pres idency? According to Harvey et aL.it does. Were they supporting him with the sole expectation of using him, and do they abandon hin when they find he can not be used? It seems so. Carpers' and . some, crooks V ' 0)1 n a. LfU v y . u r i 1 , Absoluicfy Puro The only Baking Powder made from Royal G rape C ream of Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE have censured Governor Wilson for not supporting James Smith, Jr., boss, against .the declared policy of his party, because Smith supported him. He has been charged with ingratitude to a benefactor. Now he is charged with being an ingrate for coming to plain understanding at this early date with the man who appears to Imag ine he has the democratic party in hils control. - , , On the day Watterson gives out a statement, Mayor Dahlman, away off in Omaha, Nebraska, holds a con ference wth democrats called in by himself to repudiate Wilson because of his break with Harvey. That break, says Dahlman, "is the collapse Hemphill has left him, says Dahl man; that is the place to laugh. Will Dahlman say just how many times Editor Harvey has punctured Bryan's boom? Since when has Harvey's poli ties' dominated Western democracy? And "simultaneously a "former Wil son man" drops out of ranks in dis tant Milwaukee because of the al leged break with Harvey. . We fteely concede that the game was well planned. It had real busi ness organization, and when the but ton was pressed the anti-Wilson dem onstrations occurred simultaneously all along the line. The only large miscalculation was in expecting the people of this country to imagine that George Harvey, who has never sup ported 'other than a new York can didate i'or the presidency, is the high priest, of democracy whose frown is withering. Columbia State. Wilson's Tariff Doctrine. The big question in American poli tics is the tariff. Cleveland won the presidency upon that issue in 1892, after the McKinley tariff act had produced almost as much revul&ion of feeling as the Payne-Aldrich tariff created last year. - It is not the only question, but it not only imposes heavy burdens upon the people, but is likewise "th. mother of trusts." In his remarkably able speech on Jackson Day at Washington last week. Governor Woodrow Wilson rung clear on the tariff. His position is substantially the same as that of Tilden, Cleveland. Bryan, Carlisle, Beck, Mills, Vance, William L. Wil son, and the other great tariff apos tles of democracy. His declaration has beeiv widely commended, both because he enunciated sound doc trine, good for all time, and because he recognized the wisdom. of "grad ual reduction" to the revenue basis. The New York Journal of Commerce, the greatest commercial newspaper that has, no back door into the bffice of "the interests," discusses Governor Wilson's tariff doctrine in an appre ciative way. as follows: "Whatever else may be said of Gov ernor Wilson, of New Jersey, as an aspirant for the nomination 01 his party for president, he boldly and clearly declares his adhesion to the traditional tariff policy of that party. in his speech at the national demo cratic club in this city, he said: Taxation must never be used for the benefit of some at the expense of oth ers. The .power of the government must never be loaned to those who cannot sustain themselves. The only legitimate object of taxation is reve nue for the support of, the govern ment. This is old-fashioned demo cratic doctrine and has never been more valid than" now. "Governor Wilson, however, recog nizes the fact that an established sys tem cannot safely be torn down all at once to clear the ground for a new structure. He doubts whether we can have absolute free trade in this coun try, because he deems it 'wise and necessary that we should leave direct taxation for the most part to the states for the maintenance of their government and enterprises.' He tninks it probable that the federal government will always derive the greater part of its needed revenues from duties on imports; but he says that "it is possible, as it will be wise, and in the long run imperative, to base those duties upon the revenue theory of protection and not upon a theory of protection.' He says noth ing about 'incidental protection, as any part of the final object, and his general criticism of the policy of pro tection and the results- that come from it indicates that he would have duties adjusted solely with reference to obtaining the', needed revenue in the most effective and economical manner, and without the least refer ence to protecting any industry from foreign competition. "While this would apparently be the ultimate airar he does not expect to accomplish it all at once. 'This change cannot be brought about sud denly.' he says. 'We cannot arbitra rily turn right about face and pull one policy up by the roots and cast it aside, while we plant another in vir gin soil. A great industrial system has been built up in this country un der the fosterage of the government behind a wall of unproductive taxes. The changrf must be brought about, first here, then there, and then there again. We must move1 from step to step with as much prudence as reso lution.' "We cannot say , how far this an cient doctrine of the democracy and the manner of putting it in practice may, in present conditions, appeal to the party that used to profess it as thechief article-of its faith; but it is refreshing to get once more a clear cut statement of it as a living prin ciple. The first steps for putting it in practice would not differ widely from what is proposed by 'progress ive republicans' r and virtually ac cepted by President Taft m his advo cacy of gradual revision downward schedule by schedule. The essential difference is the goal'to be aimed at. The object of one policy is to get rid of protection in the end, the . other to preserve and perpetuate it as nec essary to the salvation , of American industry, though no country affords .., V . . .greater advantages for diversified ' nnri nrnfifahlo Indnatrv an1 fnr trade Z AU. 1 J . 11 a m 1 .1 A iu lue euryius prouucis ut jui wu.ix tries, than the United States of Amer ica." News and Observer. A New One on Venus. Mary, an older sister, had spent the morning shopping in town. Among her purchases was a square of dark red velvet which she intended to use as a background for a beautiful little beautiful little statue of Venus De Milo, which had recently been present ed to -her. Just as she had temporarily fasten ed the velvet on the wall back of the Venus, her small brother Bobby, aged 5, walked into her room. "Well, Bobby," said Mary, "how do you like my Venus De Milo? Would you leave the velvet there?" Bobby looKed thoughtful for a mom ent or so and then replied, "No, Mary, I wouldn't. I'd take it down and w'ap it awound her!" ' - Divinity and Humanity. The first sight of Sheba's queen threw King Solomon into raptures. "Divine!" he murmured, says Puck. . . But before he committed himself definitely he caused his secret ser vice men to do some investigating. "Look," directed his majesty, ''at the queens's throne not her best throne, but the throne she uses every day. , Especially the nooks and cran nieslet no nook nor cranny escape you." The secret servce men did even as they were bidden, and came back to the king. "Under the arm of the throne, this!" they succinctly reported, holding up a wad of gum. Solomon's face fell. "Human ! " he s-ighed. Somehow or other-it doe&n't seem to require so much agility to pat your self on the back as to kick yourself. A woman can always see something to admire in a man, even though it may only be the fact that he admires her. ,. A woman is just as apt to wonder why a man swears when he gets mad as a man Is to wonder why a woman weeps. . - : PAINFUL BURNS (Are Healed Without a Scar By THIES' SALVE BLAKE'S DRUG SHOP On the Square. Prescriptions Filled Day and Night. For Sunday We have several of the best known 5c and 10c Cigars jmt up in small packages that cost no more and fill a long felt want for Sunday smokers.' John S. Blake Drug Co. 'Phones 41 and 300. Registered Nurses' Directory s sine is the happiest woman in Charlotte, her husband-has just T purchased an Artistic 1 - - tiefff t i .1 i -f t i Player' PIANO. .The player piano you J can t tell from a fine Pianist. I Chas. M. Stieff J 4, SOUTHERN WAREROOM 1 5 West c X CHARLOTTE - . N. C. I 7 C. Uc WILMOTH, v Cigars r- 11 j- 1 1 ';'"f " ilFlrl i . I , , , I I !" BUY YOUR WHITE GOODS roiecia Final Lot No. 1 all Trimmed Hat and shapes that were 98c, $1.48, $1.75 and $2.50. Monday . ...... 48c Lot No. 2. AH Trimmed Hats and Shapes that were $3.00, $3.50 to $5.00, for a choice and quick clear ance. Sale price. . . 98c BEAUTIFUL LACES AT 4c YARD. r - Thousands and thousands of yards of these - pretty laces to select from. Dainty Val Edges, Insertions and headings,) the pretty popular Clunys that promise again to be ,all the rage this season, besides 50,000 yards of all pure linen edges, bead- - ings and insertions that for under wear trimmings has no equal. Many values almost three times our special sale price .4c yard EMBROIDERY BARGAINS FOR WHITE SALE Not necessary to get in a crush to buy these and the values are just as great, probably greater. eilk ! White PineCough Syrup With Tar A reliable combination of stimulating expectorants for the relief of coughs and colds, bron chitis and hoarseness. V ' Tryon Drug Company 11 N. Tryon. Phone 21 and 1043. v Giffars FOR Every Saturday at Woodall & "Sheppard's Phones 69 and 166 Oil 25ds. V A BIG 01 f ' :- i Safe Winter CI .Br Imported and Domestic Toilet Waters Perfumes and Soaps Reese & 1 DRUGGISTS. t H A V E; YOU OiirFamiiy You will find . It economy both in time and money. Your clothes returned promptly rain or shine; all the bed and table linen ironed smooth and ven; all other pieces starched, ready for pressing. . ' ; ' ; " FIVE CENT,S PER P O UN D Sanitary Steam Laundry '.V During the next two months is the time for Children to wear Sweaters. It's not cold enough for heavy Overcoats and yet they need something lighter. . The Sweater, is the only practical thing itb, youngsters. We have reduced ; lows: -' . ' -: . " ';.:.; T $1.00 Sweaters for.... .... .... 50c $1.50 Sweaters for .......... V.. $1-00 And $2.00 Sweaters for. ... $1-50 These are new Wool Sweaters and you cannot afford to pass tbefli ...'-(.. by. No shdddy stuff in our establishment. E0. MELLON WHITE SALE WILL C0N TINUE ALL WEEK Otl JMMtfl earance J 38 to 50c values in 27-inch Flouncing 25c Values up to 1 75 and 85c in 2 7-Inch Flouncings. Sale price 49c AT t 1- WT i i 1 ... . 4 i-iuuxj. j; iuuuuug ill ueauunll flat J terns, suitable for children, values The lacy or plainer Embroidery Flounc ings, 27-inches wide, values $1.00 and $1.25, at 69c NECK WEAR REDUCED FOR TH . ' ' SALE All 25c Neckwear;- our very newest styles. Sale price.... igc All 50c Neckwear, including the lace collars, side effects, etc. Sale price. ' 39c One More Week of Sale Prices on Sheets, Pillow Cases, Napkins, Tow. els, Table Linens, Nainsook, Long Cloths, : Muslin underwear, Etc. AT- Alexander . Cor. 4th and So. tryon St 392 Phones-393 A prices for the entire week as -.v- fol- TRIED Wash ? ----- - . 4
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