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'-T; M i : v. - J- i i: W : - Jvrj-.t ' Ji :;-ff r 11: 'vis , '!. -1 3 1 J' '.,:! : 'l.i I! Hi t J J f,fi .2 ;i-Ti; H..;s ! i.; . : i : t.-M; s f If J .- .-ii;r.- ii.H t if o'-t ':' if I 5. mi mi h'm ft. mm FAGS TWO Well, It Is Over. Teddy and Charley have had lunch together. It was a private dinner. It lasted two and a half hours and even the waiter was not allowed to hear these two men one just brought to life and with the cerements of the grave still clinging to him the other the man who agreed to assist in the crucifixion tell each other how Love welled up in the depths of their mighty hearts.' , Two hours and a half with a corpse just from the slaughter house. Two hours and a half of the love feast with the man who wrecked the republican party and gave us a president now denounced by him. ' Because Roosevelt led two million men astray because he deliberately set about to elect himself and allowed the party that had made him all he was to go against the rocks, many people thought Roosevelt should side step. But we behold him breaking bread with those who politically--' killed him. His desire to come back his clutching at the last straw presents a sorry spectacle as we view it. It is perhaps politics for these men to say that inas much as he has come into camp they must extend the glad hand. But when it is remem bered that he didn't come into camp volun tarily, but that he played his cards to the last ditch and only surrendered when he was whip ped to a frazzle, to use his favorite phrase, self respecting men should hot rush headlong to cheer him. It pains us to read that Taft has said he doesn't care anything about who' is for Hughes that he is for him and that he would speak trom the same platrorm witn l eaay proviaea Teddv was conducting a Husfhes meeting. That may be politics. If it is it proves the oft repeated adage that politics makes strange bed fellows. Roosevelt has gone so far as to say that he will take the stump for Hughes. How he could go out before the world and defend the party he wrecked and applaud the men he denounced with all his bitterness of vocabulary we cannot understand. Perhaps it is well that there are some things that should not be understood and if it is this is one of the things. Mr. Griss6m Hopeful. Mr. Gilliam Grissom running for Congress in the Fifth district has returned from a week among 'em, and reports that his chances for election grow brighter every day. Well, in this old world were it not for dreams there wouldn't be much worth while. Major Sted man sees that he will be elected and it is a cinch that one of these gentlemen will be dis appointed. . And where does Mr. George W. Perkins come in? Why wasn't he invited to that pri vate dinner? A Query. The News and Observer, ever thoughtful, wants to know p. d. q.: Proni time Immemorial the private secretary of the Gov ernor of North Carolina has been appointed to a place on the staff of the Governor with the raufc of Colonel. Shall it not .be Colonel May Jones, Governor Craig? . Why on your life 'twill be Colonel May Jones. And why not? If journalism hath its Colonels no less renowned than war why shouldn't the suffragists have their military titles if they find a woman big enough to wear 'em. And by my halbred don't you know that a woman who succeeds a Colonel in office also automatically becomes a Colonel herself. Allow us, Colonel Jones, to salute vou! Will It Be Recalled? When Mr. Hughes ran against Mr. Hearst, and defeated him, Mr. Hearst's able New York papers printed day after day horrible, pictures que and vivid scenes of Mr. Hughes' Whisk ers, and referred to the Judge as an Animated Feather Duster. Wonder if such scenes of shame and glory will be repeated? Wonder if William Alsorandolph Hearst will take a big part in the forthcoming campaign. He has been right much of a Preparedness man and also and on to Mexico enthusiast.' -o- To Be Sure? The 'steemed News and Observer wants to know : . lDteP0iSteo- cnaSrinea. lhat it has found no .Tune Biics ' SSf' e Greens'oro Kjcord now declares there's "no hWw8f "1 a mad dog' specially "a mad dog in Dnr haS? wby attempt to howl down a mad do in Dnr. Well, there would be use were there such a thing as a mad dog. But in these times when unmuzzled men who are mad are doing all the damage why not go after the real thing and let the little dogs prettily wag their tails whenever they are fed? ' o . y The Governor's Dilemma. And so Governor Craig has appointed a wo man as private secretary. This is not surpris ing when it is understood that Miss Jones is an experienced and wholly capable woman .But Governor Craig, not being a regular democrat, or, at least not standing on his party platform which demands equal suffrage is oo posed to women voting. He certainly cannot offer as an objection that he thinks woman's from L homeior' &dzooks ! he takes one l T, mC and Puts her in his office to do a man s work. - He cannot argue that woman is intellectual ly incompetent to perform the man's job be cause the gentleman whom Miss Jones Suc Governor Craig cannot imagine that a Wn man should not be mixed upn poises cause he has appointed a woman to a position that a politician had a right to expect It is just one of those things that' bnnPn wS!Ulate ,hC overnor upon his Atrocious. While the Old World is bathed in blood and tears while the New World stands trembling in the balances wondering if it, too, must un- sheath the sword ; with Mr. Carranza wearing j whiskers and M r. Hughes and Charley Fair banks doing the same thing the wonder grows why atrocities multiply. But they do. Recently the esteemed Wrinston Journal made decided improvements in its news service putting on the full morning report of the As sociated Press and naturally Colonel Santford Martin felt good over it. The many friends of the Journal commenced to write him congratu latory letters letters telling him that he had done something worth while. And he printed them. All of this was in order. All of this was what most any appreciative man would have done. But this morning among other things, on the front page of his interesting paper he hands out some verses written by Rev. D. P. Waters Feeling in a fiendish mood; feeling that we would as soon fight as eat ; feeling that we have a right to further perpetrate the atrocious rhymes we proceed. The first volt runs like this : . '.. ' ' The Winston Journal is good and true, A. cleaner sheet don't come to you ; It stands for truth and all that's right, you'll find it thus both day and night. You see where the parson got and held the divine afflatus firmly by the back of the neck in that first verse. He understands that often what is true and right in daylight often goes to the bad when night gently pulls her curtains down and pins them with a star. He reads his Journal in the morning: and then looks at it again through the long vigils of the night and finds it stands risrht. there -all 'the time. The next verse hits the bull's eye. It isn't so much about the paper as it is about our friend the Colonel, who edits it.' It says: The Editor does all he can To make his neighbors bettor men. While in some cases he may fail. You never hear him raise "a wall. Unrescrvedly, we pronounce that The Stuph. Then the next verse. It is trranhic. It is spell-binding. It is Idealism on the cob. It is word painting regardless of grammar or first base. It is just a genius loose on the home stretch with eyes shut and his tail over the dashboard, telling us that if wc get the blues we are liable to bust a sock or rend a shoe. It is Caution speaking in a whisper. It is Philo sophy asserting its conclusions. It is ne plus ultra, Kalamazoo and well, the word wc want to employ does not occur to us. but Wonderful half way expresses it. It reads: The most of men who's workinp hard To bless the world and serve the l,ord. Will sometimes pet what we call "blues" Which tears their socks and rends their shoos. And the next verse. O, tragic Muse O. Pegasus O, all men who know true Art and worship at the shrine of Poesy and Song list to this heart throb: And then they'll raise line and crv And make you think they're going V die, t'nless you knew it was not so Right into spasms you would go. Think of where Truth, Eternal, causes one to escape the entrance into Spasms! To think .thatuch ethereaLthings.are of the. earth that they have been turned loose in Winston. : But we must hurry in our chore. Sadlv we take our departure from this sparkling fount of inspiration and information. The last two stanzas the last two throbs follow : The Journal keeps itself in line The Wire Service just makes it fine. The news we'll get right up to date Both in and out of our own State. It goes to earth's remotest bounds To kings and . queens whose heads are crowned To bear the news of this good land And tell the world for truth to stand. Imagine for a moment, O. reader if thou art calm enough to control your contending emotions, kings and queens in far-off lands aye, the remotest bounds of the sad old earth getting up early in the morning before they have had time to take off their pajamas and put on their crowns, reaching out for Colonel Martin's Album of Song. Why, Maria, it is scandalous! A Great Problem. . Lost in the interest of the war news of today is the great question confronting the nation regarding the unsolved problem concerning the strike threatened by railway employes if the railways refuse to grant the demands made by those operating trains. A vote is being taken. The employes refuse to arbitrate. The railways insist that it is a physical impossibility to meet the, demands made. If it should happen that a general strike is ordered there will be the most confused lot of people this country ever saw. To stop the railway trains in America for even one day means the loss of millions of dollars not to the railroads alone but to all people. When Grover Cleveland was president he saw to it that the mail trains ran. The railroads arc ap pealing to the government to take the case to settle the difference between employer and employe. It is a grave question and right now it is a most critical situation. Let us all hope that both sides will do what is best. Evidently arbitration is the only way out. o Judge Buxton Looks Ahead. At the meeting of the State Bar Association former Judge Buxton, of Winston, made some timely remarks ' concerning the ease With which men secured a license to practice law and suggested that there should be some re- lorm along this line. This is doubtless true. Too many men un fitted to practice law are given permission and therefore the profession suffers. True also with doctors. In what we are pleased to term the learned professions" is stands to all rea son that a man should be learned. But the growing tendency is to admit a half hundred who make a centre rush for the sheepskin and the result is the general public is fleeced. The profession of law is high and honorable and those who are really entitled to be called law yers should see to it that none but learned and honorable men are given authority to hang out their shingles. We understand that a youmr hZTv 18 uKm -ne makin&- But there should be rules which will prohibit every Tom Dick and Harry from applying for and securing a license to practice. We know what Judge wemSnmealand ?e-0pie neraUy knowwhlt vve mean although it doesn't appear in so many words. 1F 111 so The New York Sun. With Frank Munsey buying the New York Sun a distinct publication will doubtless pass. The Sun will no doubt continue to "shine for all" as it has been doing for so many years, but it will be a changed newspaper. The distinct personality of the Sun a personality given it by Charles A. Danna, has in a large part been preserved, but now that it goes to one cent; that a newspaper man who prims papers for news and revenues has charge it will get in the game on another plane. There is genuine regret to many people in this announcement. The hope is that the editorial page of the Sun will continue to be a distinctive feature. Through all the years it has never had an equal it has been "the Sun" and that explained it. The Sun no doubt has been the organ of the moneyed men and be cause of that the "common people" were un interested. But they should have been deep ly interested. It has alwavs been our con ten- j tion that we should protect banks, railroads and all legitimate interests. Instead of making pounding bags out of them we should let them have their right of way. Do not let them ex ceed the speed limit, but if they are big enough to go sixty miles an hour let them go. The fellow in his F.ord will get there after awhile but the man with a million sees bigger things j than the man with thirty cents. The man with i thirty cents and a grouch has stopped right i there. Then he is envious of the man with a j million. Wc are all in the game' to make money ' and we should applaud the fellow who knows j the game best. But we stone him. The Sun ! stood for the interests and ablv defended them. ' The fact that it has passed into other hands shows, however, that the interests didn't care much about the support of the Sun. Had they they would never have let it get away. o : Should We Allow It? Colonel Wadc Harris has been in Colorado out where the Rocky Mountains do a continu ous stunt in Majesty every day; out where i ikc s i eaK rears its snow covered head de- Ill II 1 . . . . . fiantly to the sun the vear around; out where I ne scenic beauty is not surpassed anywhere j this world of woe out there drinking in I the charms and beauties of Nature and writ- i ing stuff back to the Observer about it. while wc less fortunate devils toil and paste and write and sweat and cuss. Should a man be allowed these special privileges? Should one newspaper man be thus allowed to put it over the remainder of the crew? Verilv, wc sav not. -o- Why, They Don't. The Durham Herald says: i To hear them talkiug of raising the pav .f soldiers. , pensioning their families and the like, one might think thai the people would not have it to pay. It was only yesterday that an old gentleman who had borne the brunt of life's battle for nearly seventy years came to this office and protested against the state paying anything. ! "Them fellers up thar at Washington has 1 plenty of money," he said, "let the gineral gov- ernment pay the soldiers. That's what the 'gneral'government is fer.r And the old patriach assured us the people shouldn't have anything to do with paving sol diers. He insisted that if "them fellers" in Washington wanted a waj "them fellers" should pay the bill. And we dare say that a ! great many well intentioned people never stop , to think that the "gineral government" is sim ; ply the people in the country. o ' Handed It To Them. President Wilson didn't mince words when he told the. audience at the Press Club in New j York that he didn't want war with Mexico, and that his political fortunes would not be j considered in what he did. This was the right I kind of talk, but there will be many to doubt ! his sincerity. Take it from this o'n and the democrats will not give Hughes credit for any j thing and in turn the republicans are not go ring to accept Wilson. It is a fight to a finish I and outside the tariff end of the platforms we ,uu i Lin uiHcrcHcc in wnai tnev are talking. Both candidates are clean men both in earnest. - .Wilson does not stand pat. He changes his" mind too often to suit many peo ple, but those who defend him say a wise man changes his mind and a fool never docs. How ever the lines are being drawn. When Bill Taft says he will speak for Hughes from the same platform with Teddy, if the line up is that way, take it from us that the boys have on their fighting clothes and before November there will be something doing. Both parties . are going to it with determination. ' o Osborne Exonerated. i It is good news to know that Thomas Mott Osborne has been fully exonerated of charges ; preferred against him concerning his manage- ' rrient of Sing Sing prison while warden. It was a political frame-up a crowd that didn't want Osborne to continue. He has fought his ! battle and he has won. j Thomas Mott Osborne is a sincere man - a ' strong man and he battles for the underdo ' The story of how he went into prison for &a I week went in under an assumed name and ' lived the tortures of the hell hole where hu- ! man Deings were helplessly confined; of how he saw where reforms were necessary and pro ceeded to inaugurate them reads more like a romance like the wildest fiction than it does like truth. Osborne's work in Sing Sing will result in great goodto humanity over all the world. Not for a day or a year, but for all time, and those who are interested in penal reform those who want to see the meanest of our kind at least humanely treated will rejoice to know that Osborne made frond 5n thn rhro ... " .... v...6W,abdmM j mi it wT about Hughes beating Wilson or Wilson beating Hughes amounts to nothine VVhat must be done is to ascertain the ques tions to be settled and then discuss them in telligentlyand vote on them. There is a world of difference in opinion as to the tariff question. -o- Wonder what TeHrK- rll ATr . his Heroic mould. Wonder if Teddy confided abouAt gC he had always felt this way In The Harness. We receive the Lexington Herald carrying the name of T. T. Henderson, as editor and manager. The "papcr looks bright and of course Henderson will edit it. If he will take our advice advice given freely but worth while because we gained our knowledge by bitter experience John will not undertake to regulate the universe. He must keep within the bounds of reason. If he discovers a ring in Lexington he must let it ring. If the people want it broken let them take the initiative. Let the fellow who is more interested than an edi tor proceed. In these days the paper that sees good in all parties; that recognizes harm in all of them; that understands a paper's mission is to print the news and sell it well, that paper will prosper in any intelligent community There will be strong "party" men who think an editor should shout for party and live on half rations ; there will be men who know how to run a newspaper, although they never ran one expressing their opinions but the editor who bravely goes to it and doesn't attempt to please any faction will find a whole commun ity back of him. And as we want to see Hen derson succeed we proffer the above advice in a kindly spirit. -ti- He Might Have Known. Jesse Clement, a Salisbury man, has been arrested, charged with having thirteen gal lons of whiskey in his possession. Think of it a man defying the Fates in that manner. Didn't he know that thirteen was an unlucky number and why didn't he drink a gallon just as he was apprehended. This might have saved the day. -o- Ford All Right. Henry Ford has again been slandered. Thev told the story on him that if any man in his works started to join the army a vacancy at once occurred. Ford conies out and savs'nnv , mm who wants tn Hrrht for fln,r ; . i .' aiUte. aii 1113 v I W mn .m firri, o.t ' u- j place will be there for him. This is the way i wc thought it was but the world likes to in j vent troublesome stories and give a man the trouble of. denying them in hot weather. -o- Must Be Done. If the government has a right to make rail road rates, to say what is too h:gh and what is too low, in a word, if in determining what a railroad shall charge for its services the gov ernment can say the final word, it must, per force, come in and say what wage the railroads shall pay. There is no other alternative. It will not do to say that the government can fix a rate, based on certain cost today, and that to morrow that cost can be increased because of demands of labor, and that the railroad shall lose money. If Uncle Sam can say a certain toll must be charged that it shall not exceed a certain amount, then he must assume the authority to say that labor shall not demand more than a certain, amount. Labor must go to the maximum and minimum rate" the same as freight. This- would only be fair. If Uncle Sam savs to railroad conductors vou cannot charge to exceed a certain rate then there would be no trouble. But as it is now a rate is hammered down because of popular clamor; the inter state commerce Commission looks over the facts and finds a rate too high. It finds it so because the cost to the railroad is a certain figure. Accordingly the rate is lowered. And just about when the lower rate goes into effect, presto, here comes the long procession of lab orers and says it must have a raise. To grant the demands means to operate at a loss. ine law snouid be that rates should be fixed, based on a certain wage scale, and if the wages were raised by threats or a strike, then the railroads should be allowed to raise their rates in even proportion. This would be noth ing but fair. It would be business. And when that happens the talk of strikes will cease. The railroads are willing to increase wages provided they can increase rates to pay the increase. When every commodity used is go ing up when labor is demanding more for its services communities arc insisting that rates be lowered. AH of which is a physical impos sibility. Indeed it works a hardship on the general public. It means decreased service or it means bankruptcy to the roads. The present great problem before the coun try is more serious than the Mexican situa- ?n" j f d.n0t knmv what thc government will do, but it is a safe bet that it will not allow the big strike threatened to be pulled And the strong arm of Uncle Sam is thc only thing that can stop the strike and the genera'l demoralization that must follow. ' V- -o- Or Any Other Days. The Editor of the esteemed Raleigh News and Observer, as he laid down his nalm lf tn.. A. I .1 1 ! m ' an, turneu on tnc electric tan and pushed his shirt waist down further in his trousers re- marked : We arise to remark that in these .Tnlv davs we tren nonsly object to having a place in the sun. Now as we understand it, and old man Fla marion is our authority, if a man were to find himself suddenly lodged "in the sun" he would be cooked to a crackling in less than a hun dredth part of a second indeed were one tn j approach the sun to within a million miles of it there wouldn't be a decent grease spot left of the late lamented and here is the Observer man objecting to finding lodgment right in the ball of fire. It may be, perhaps it was the in tention of the aforesaid perspiring editor to explain that he wanted to be in the shade. That would be a horse of another color. But to become a sun spot neverd The Lynchers. .It reads all right to see that the state of North Carolina is making some attempt to punish the men who hanged the old negro, guilty of nothing much. But it will read a great deal better if the machinery of the courts is so applied hat those who participat ed in the cold blooded exhibition of savagery' are placed behind the prison walls for a period ot well, say a period of twentv vear That wouid indeed, be a step in the right direction. ti- . . . . j j - GREENSBORO. N. We Rejoice. Caring nothing for the contemptuous marks of Colonel P.nttr .f u x. 1 lu,,u: re- server who attemotcd tn l-,,. ews. aml 01,. "awRht ff,r vviiui wj uuiib sum wnen wc un.Wt, f. 1 alt and bring from its debasement the !'l-Cx" gold plated insect known as the Inn labored on. And reward i our ! JUiit l',U, WrP tnnlir him hrmr in A t.-. .1 . . ...... ..w...v. aim SUl IJl 1 hf- fir r .1 talked with him. He talk 1,-. 1 rJl an: Mexican situation and predictco t Hughes was not elected Wilson would J thought Carranza would stand a bettor u : ai .u A ui uxc wunu 10 come jt he would cut off v whiskers before ihw : j . . m nis - - .... iivn 'fjniicci tie I pi that the time had come for the ., eved tion to be cleared up, and said the tariT ' exican sitUa- UV- paiuiiiuuill. Then we took the gold plated l,carv an,, ut him down in the grass on the lawn im good by and told him u. Z J pu h other mate; to remain under the treo a" friendly jaybird builds her nest-am 5 tf-3 VLSCC? Zd hc. h "othing else1:: iiu, w waitn i nc Kecorci grow nf delighted to have regainedE hi ft our thanks. -o- How About It? Looks like it is about time for Mr Huhec to dine with George W. Perkins and let (IcorL tell him just how he delivered Teddy to the enemy. No doubt the work done by Mr p., kins was highly gratifying to the Old (luani aim me wonuer is: iel!v kn. w thn Ueorgc had set the bear trap? -o- Peace At Any Price. j How soon we slip from our moorings. ThcKc j who have been talking of peace at any price j are today wondering- why Congress does not i declare war. They see the dead American ol- diers on the alkali plains of Mexico and the i primal law, the first law, looms large in their ! minds. They say there must be reprisal. They say that this country must go into Mexico. And peace at any price has disappeared. And the cry today throughout the Nation is on to ; Mexico, and every man living under the flag i will sustain President Wilson when he savs ; the word. The Pay Of Soldiers. Judge Walter Clark writes a letter to Con gressman Kitchin in which he tells him why soldiers should be paid a decent wage. AlPnf us agree that any man is worthy of his hire, but Uncle Sam and all other Uncle Sams have always insisted that a soldier live on half ra tions. Any Nation wanting to maintain an army should first of all undertake to pav the soldiers enough money .to live on. " No use to wonder wh3' any longer. Vice President Parker is going to run it bull moo no matter about thc other fellows. There i the real hero Teddy talked about! . ' o . Looks like it is hard to get up much enthus iasm about the election. They are all talking about Americanism and a tariff commission. But it is politics if you look deep enough down. The Butter On Their Bread. It is apparent that the "big fish" in the Bull Moose party are taking- no chances. The "small fry" seem to be the ones who are discon solate. In reading of the things which happen we see, as an illustration, this news note in a New York paper: Among those who called for this purpose were H. P. Gardiner of .Maine. F. I. Oorriek of Nebraska, .nid 11. W. Austin of Tennessee. Mr. Gardiner is Progressive natioo.il committeeman from his State. Mr. Cor'rick is chairman t the Nebraska Progressive State committee and u.-ts al secretarv of the linl! Mnn innrmniAn -,. ci. ....! ir. I Austin has also been a Progressive leader in his Sui. I Their coming was gratifying to Mr. Willcux. addim; to il ' In.inp ! .. . . ....... l . i. . . - .... . . ' i ......... ...-..-..! ,iu.t up Has received iotu person.-iiiv :in'i letter of the intention of Progressives to follow the a1 vice of Col. Roosevelt. These fellows who had switched; who were willing to wreck the republican party and who contributed largely to its defeat were brave and defiant until after the Chicago convention. They were in the game to play politics, to get; place and pie. But as soon as Teddy threw up the sponge, was crucified by the Old ( luard, then these recreant ones rush to thc new man, I Mr. Wilcox,- and extend the glad hand. They I want assurances, no doubt, that in the event ! of Hughes' election there shall be a place for j them. And that is politics. That is the game, j But the million or two privates; the million j or two deluded ones who strayed from the pith and followed Teddy, all the "consolation there is for them is the assurance that they can come I back if they feel like it. Perhaps a large per j centage will return to the fold. Perhaps they will feel that it is their duty but we cannot. Skf-'J-h... n . 1 1 ' 1 1 ,.,.'ni1ii j 1,41 uuiscu, see now a man couiu-mniniuv i to ow Roosevelt or endorse anything' that he endorsed, politically, after his treatment of ms Diinci ana reckless followers, tint n vy can see it, doubtless it is exclusively .heir business. Truly, it is no serious concern f ours. -o- Not Making Much Noise. Big Business hasn't as yet made much roie. Big Business is just as much, and no more in terested in good government than little big ness. Each is dependent upon the oiher. The hope is that in this campaign Big Busine will calmly tell the people what should happen anl then let the people go to it. There wiil no cry of a full dinner pail. There will be no great slush fund raised. The election i 'in? to be clean and we predict but little t :ie- i ment. The middle west, will decide the uh"- business. The Solid South will remain -oiiV The north will be questionable ground - -hut the middle west agricultural, will go one way or the other solidly. There is where the hat- tie must be fought. We insist that the Tan si. will be the question out that way.' o . The Asheville Times, more or less esteemed, says it patted itself on the back. WeH v.ovc t why didn't it n.it i tself on the front. The irom ! page is always the first seen i - i - luu-s i.' warn, in me man last niMit tie box and in the box was a fnc V-? h dressed to the editor. The box L i ' Z1' perforated and the June Butr livoil " "u,v ay v
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