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THE MORNING" F03T 2 SUNDAY. DECEMBER 7 190a aaaa Avl J TEA TABLE TATTLE e Br TEEBEE. There b been some flrurin. as I fcnve fc'ard. to how that the Demo crats mad" big galna In North Caro- .l.na at the election lat f'- 'toboOy wuM be better plea.-eJ l. ,to tlT that If it re ; and " ry be ito for lUl I know, but it i my 7 tefortuae not to be able t r " h I Vr. I w wif bright at arithmetic ny Var. and that may be the reason fcy I canrot mork myself up to the I-oUt of Jumping on top of the fence, ike n old rooater. nnd crowing oir t c atn when the flsrures show that m received fewer vote than were 9n our aiJe of the official returns two y-ar before. Tut. an before observed, that may be my rr.l- fortune. That t fctar b my fault Is distinctly repuJi- ted. . tmlrjr to particular. I have h.ir3 Al s!d that the Democrat ma Pjv 'in sixty-two counties compare .with the vote for Aycock In Now, af- cardiac to euch calculations as I have leen ab to make, you may strike out "sixty" from this statement, and the remaining "two" will show th r.um Vcr of counll In which Democratic fiir.s were mad". Here are the two counties, with the flrir: Randolph 4J. VHke 33. It may b Interesting to observe in this cenrfvtion that th F.pub'J'ans.mnd gains In five couu- !.,. follows: Oraham 2 New IMn- over ?. Richmond ss. i;owwn frotUnd 1?. I the negroes very much, theoretically. I If you talk about Democratic ma- ,but h,s belt friends would not suspect JrUles In a comparative way, which him of an jntPntlon to appoint to of 1 something entirely different, I grant j fic anyboj:. ur,o coul 1 not give a jou that thr have ben increases In l(OOS,t to his boom In 1904. And has the rcargtrs of difference In th num- j J)0t Senator pritohard already prpm ter of coutles state!, amounting, af- tne electoral vote of North ter the decreas In thirty-five counties I tTaroIIna I t firared off. to a total of wnicn. In view of t-.e fact that the i;. ne gro rot usually cast against .us In former elections, was r.ot In the equa tion this time, is not calculated to rvake a sobr minded Democratic roas ter crow very loud. The method of extracting comfort from the election returns so as to show Democratic gains is on this ise. tak ing th vote in Wake county as an 11 litrat!on: Dem majority in 1-- ...... 2JJU Xm. majority In 1 ?....-... l.tSI I TVm. rain 2.137 Another way of looking at it is this: Dem. rote in IW 5.732 Dem. vote in M?S Dem. loss 1-531 4 Pursuing this method of calculation . for the entire state, we have this re sult: Dem. vote in iw.r-o Dem. ote In 1?2 13...S40 . Dem- loss 5.S1 Treating the Republican vote In th -rtate the same way, these fibres op-1-ear: i:p. rote in l't'O ICb.-C Rep. vote In 1K2 Rep. los. T... v.nh!ln rote n 1 e used to say ith-n we were ringing the j due-d the first day of the present ses rhanxes on ngro domination, em- f congress, and that committees braced some 1 black and tan vo- ot bolh hous are laboriously endeav ters. whereas th- Demotic voters j Xrf" a measure, it pa.ns were all white. It Is ar parent, there- ne to make note of the fact that not fo. when we consider that not more ! "Ingle one of the many bills is fram than S.C0O negroes, at the highest es-, f1 th jessing exigency of ilmate. voted this year, and many of whIch 1 hav lken; and even though them cast Democratic ballots, that a large part -of the white Democratic vote of 1550 was transferred to the Re publican column In 1W2. This is some thing that is calculated to make Dem ocratic mathematicians put on thMr thinking caps and take another look at the figure if they have been nurs ing the dilution that big Democratic gains have re?u!t?d from the Novem ber election. Ar.othr thing worth thinking about Is the fatt that In many counties the combined vote for both parties In l?rt2 was less than the vote for Aycock In 1. Not referring to some of our lvrge eastern counties, where, for rea sons that do not appear on the face of the returns, the Democratic vote In I) was abnormally large, and taking only a few of the counties In the cen tral part of the state, where ro one will seriously contend that the elec tions were not fair, we have this re sult; Aycock im Durham.. M .. 2.7S7 x'Tanklln 2.2l ;ranvl! z.Z4i 3Jecklubu'g.. .'. rrson., . .. .. .. l.r17 lr!on.a .. M 2.273 "Wake 5.732 Total 2.T 2.24 A table, carefully calculated from the Aycock and Adams vote in 4300 and the Joyner and Long vote in 1S02. shows Democratic gains In two coun ties and losses in ninety-five, and Re publican gains In five counties and losses in ninety-two. It Is worth tak ing note of the fact that the Republi can loe In met of the counties was Ifss than the number of negroes enti tled to vote In I according to the t .-r.su. The exceptions to this state ment are thirteen, uhich shows that the Republicans ma.lo Inroads on the white vote In eighty-four counties. This Is a s-rlous matter, worthy of ihe earnest thought of every Democrat who is supposed to take an Intelligent view f the drift of the political cur rent. If one Is disposed to extract humor from the election returns he may find material to gratify the b-r.t of 'his mind In the fact that the Republicans made gains In New Hanover, Rlch rionds, Rohen and Peotland. It should not be necessary for me to ex plain where the laugh coms in. The fact that the Democrats made gains la Wilkes should also excite a smile. One thin; that strikes me as down Tight funny is the list of counties In which the Republican losses were - a T Vw )' greater than the number of negroes eligible to rote, according to the cen sus, and evidently disqualified by the amendment. Here Is the list: Ashe. Cherokee. Clay. Jackson. Wncoln. Ma con. Madison. Mitchell. Rutherford. Swain. Watauga. Yadkin and Yancey. These, for the most part, are Republi can stragholds. and a glance at the map shows that all are situated in the section of the state where the Re publicans felt most secure as to the result of the election. There Is also a grain of Democratic comfort to be found here. It Is feared that the opportunity to institute a chapter or me the "White Stone at the conference in Wilmington has been overlooked. The patriarch. It Is learned with regret, ia prevented by other engagements from attending the conferen.-c; but the chairman of the executive committee and other officials of the order, as is well known, are present and promi nent in the proceedings. It will b in order to call them to account when they come home. If PresiJent Roosevelt adopts the rritchard idea that the North Caro lina negroes have turned Democrats the disinterested efforts of George White In b-half of Sam Vick will be t jm hiucn sweetness v,u?hm - ---itrt air. Thf mesident doubtless love3 Since reading the president's message I have been wondering If his proposed amendment to the constitution will be broad enough to cover the hen com bine. As I understand it. there Is no more wicked monopoly In existence to day than the hen trust, and the worst thing about it Is that It is a strictly agricultural close corporation. For months and months the biddies have been living up to an agreement to limit the production of eggs and keep up the price until the farmer who owns one of the "lay an egg every day and has to go barefoot kind of hens" is in a position to excite the envy of the magnates of finance In Wall street. But. to return to the hen trust. Here is Christmas coming on with both feet, and hen's eggs at this writ ing are as scarce as hen's teeth, and the good housewife sees no prospect of obtaining a supply for her cakes and custards, whllf biped of the masculine persuasion, who are prone to Imbibe j eggnog during the holldays.are brought face to face with the prospect of tak ing their stimulants straight at the coming season of good cheer. And the question arises, what are we going to do about it? While I am pleased to announce that something les than a hundred bills de- !gna rrguiaie iru? were imiu- henslve enough to reach the hen trust. it Is to be feared that the tendency of the Solons at Washington to spout whenever a matter vitally affecting the public welfare is brought up for con sideration, may delay action until after the holidays and give the hens anoth er opportunity to goue our shallow purse. 1 ; - a - Speaking about hens reminds me that the Chatham county hen is sul gene ris. a my friend. Dr. Clarence Poe of the Progressive Farmer, would say. A letter that lies before me as I write Informs me that a lady in Uncle At water's county, niter mourning the loss of a diamond from her ring and giving It up for gone, was overjoyed to find the missing Jewel in the crop of a chicken that she killed for dinner one day last week. From the same source of Information it Is learned that a country hen bought In Pittsboro the other day was found to have two nuvgets of gold in its crop v.hile the cook was preparing il to grace the ta bic. And this suggests the thought that. 4.2;s,f hs will not lay eggs for ua we l!;oi ,r,a' sti11 us them to advantage by l!33 Caching them to find diamonds and solJ nuggets, -p.y the way, did you ever hear of Mrs. Partington's son who fed the chickens with gold beads and was tickled Into fits because the "Jam fo!s thought It was corn?" The measure proposed by a Virginia Solon to squelch the human kissing bug shouid be labeled "An act to fill the Jails and penitentiaries." The said Solon, who Is a doctor, was actuated by a desire to prevent the spread of disease through contact of the lips. but his bill Is the product of misguided eal with a benevolent motive. Dol- na Decn narsi in " measures in ref lar to doughnuts th:.t Ivj In a soured ! eronce to Mrs" Svsrratt. Mr. Brophy old bachelor. A young man at my elbow suggests that the passage of the bT?? would re sult In a wholesale migration of Vir ginia girls to North Carolina; so it , might not be such a bai thing after all. a Dr. Brigg?, who writes hot stuff for the Evening Times, thinks foot ball should be reformed or abolished be cause It has such a long list of fatali ties to Its credit or discredit, which ever he prefers. But he does not seem to have given due weight to the sug gestlon that the strenuous pastime re lieves the fool-killer of a great deal of disagreeable duty. There are two sides ... . thins good may be urged even in ia- favor of foot ball. ARNOLD'S STORY OF LINCOLN CONSPIRACY (Continued from 13th page.) Douglas, wife of Lincoln's old-time ri val out In Illinois, the Little Giant. Dashed Bsyenets Mrs. Douglas, too, had come to plead Mrs. Surratt's case. Ir. Brophy was by her side In an instant telling her his errand and entreating her to get him access to the President. Mrs. Douglas was a woman of resolution and fur thermore a dazzlingly beautiful woman. She dashed straight at the bayonets and they lowered almost in homage be fore her. The civilian guards beyond the bayo nets tried to stop her, but she swept them scornfully aside with an impera tive gecture. What no one else in all that crucial forenoon could do was pre cisely the thing which Mrs. Douglas did. She got to the President. But there her triumph ceased. She entered the room with her face flushed with energy and hope. She came out of it with bitter .hopeless disappoint ment In her every feature and every movement. She looked at the con vulsed, tear-stained face of the young girl whose mothers life was trembling in the balance and could only shake her head. "Oh. don't give up so!" sobbed Miss Surratt. "Don't Don't. Oh, do go to htm aealn. He won't refuse you. He can't. Do go to him again!" "Show htm General Hartranft's note again." cried Mr. Brophy. "Ask him if he rot the statement I sent him of Weichman's confession to me. Make another appeal to him, Mrs. Douglas. T will." said the spirited woman. "I will; it Is of little use. though. I feel that It Is of little use." Tht Final Fallare Past the bayonets, past the guards, she once more forced her way to the President's presence. But she had pre dicted truly when she said that it was of little use. There was no vacillation in Johnson now. He firmly and posi tively refused to intervene. The state ment of Welchman, he said, had come to him. It was wholly without weight. With this reply Mrs. Douglas came back. "We have done what we could. Miss Surratt," said Mr. Brophy to the half dazed girl. "Come with me if you would see your mother again while she lives." So Into the army carriage waiting at the door Miss Surratt and Mr. Brophy got and again there was a mad gallop through the Washington streets. They were all but deserted. For all of Wash ington at that hour there was just one magnet the arsenal, where Lincoln's murder was to be avenged. The crowd that surged around the building reached blocks away and was impenetrable. Mr. Brophy's carriage was brought up sharply at its outer borders. It was a complete blockade. There was no budgl-g an inch. Meantime the minutes were flying. The time which would mark the limit when mother and daughter never would meet again this side o fthe grave was close at hand. For Miss Surratt and her companion It was a moment of agony as trying as the long wait at the Presi dent's door. Once more it seemed a case for sheer despair and once more .1 carriage came dashing up to the res cue. A Tearstilntd Fae ' There was a clattering of horses hoofs, and when Mr. Brophy turned in the dirction from which it came he saw a guard of cavalry galloping on each side of a swiftly approaching carriage, in which appeared the handsome, sol dierly face of General Hancock, then the general in command at Washing ton. The General saw the confusion about Brophy's carriage, recognized the army vehicle and saw the tear stained, distracted face of a woman. He brought his vehicle to an instant halt. Then he left his own carriage, walked to that of Miss Surratt, and hat In hand and with the chivalrous dignity which sat so well upon him, asked what the trouble was and what he could do. Mr. Brophy briefly ex plained that it was Miss SurratJ trying to speak to her mother once more on earth. The soldier's face flushed and Mr. Brophy Is sure there was some thing very like tears in his eyes as he grasped the pathetic situation. "Poor child!" he said gently, and then beckoned an officer to him and gave to "him an order. Then he returned to his own carriage and the squadron of cavalry formed about both carriages. A lane through the crowd was quickly cut and Miss Surratt reached the arse nal and her mother's side In time to bid her a last good-by. After the execution Miss Surratt went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Brophy, and was married from their house some years afterward. Seme Altar Kffact When General Hancock was a candi date for the Democratic nomination for the presidency many Southern dele atM rP"'el him. believing that he went to General Hancock's friends and volunteered to make a statement of the Genera Ts action above related as well ns of the fnct that on the morning of the General had posted a mounted cav alryman on every block between th arsenal and the White Hcure,' w ith or ders to bear a reprieve, in case on come for Mrs. Surratt, in relays and at top speed to General HartranfL With the publication of this statement Southern opposition to General Han cock ceased. Mrs. Surratt was a Catholic, and when General Hartranft ran for Gov ernor of Pennsylvania, the fact that he was the provost marshal general In Washington at the time of the execu- to almost every question; ana - tion waa used in an effort to unite Catholic opposition to him. Mr. Bro phy was on a lecturing tour in Penn sylvania at the time and his narration of the incident of the note to Presi dent Johnsan and he delayed execu tion did much to break down this par tlcular scheme on the part of the Gen j eral's opponents. A curious climax to the story of that tragic morning in Washington is the fact that Preston King, one of the men who headed off those who would have pleaded with the President for Mrs. Surratt, committed suicide by filling his pockets' full of shot and Jumping off a North River frryboat in New. York, while the other, General Lane, ' com mitted suicide by blowing out his brains somewhere in a Western State. ARNOLD'S NARRATIVE TO BEGIN TUESDAY Mai Publication Will Ran Sally ad Snaday Until Concluded. Comprise 30,000 Words The statement of Arnold consists of about 30,000 words, or about 25 col umns of ..matter. This has been di vided Into 13 chapters, which The Post will publish in serial form, beginnlnj Tuesdaj. 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