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THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES.
VOLUME 27.
RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1906
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PROTECTIVE TARIFF
NOW, IN DAYS TO COME
AND FOREVER, HE SAYS
Roosevelt Makes the Posi
tion of Republicans Clear
as Light
REVISION POSSIBLE AT
SOME INDEFINITE TIME
Such Revision Ho Declares, "Will
lie Undertake Whenever it Ap
pears to the Sober Business Sense
of Our People That on the Whole
the IScnelits to He Derived Will
Outweigh the Disadvantages;
That is, When the Revision Will
Io Mora Good Than Harm" He
States That the Question of Hevls
inj; the Tariff Stands Wholly Apnrt
From the Question of Dealing
Willi the So-called Trusts "That
is With the Control of Monopolies
And With the Suervisioii of
Great Wealth in Corporate Form.
(By tho Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 20. A letter
written by President Roosevelt to
Congressman James E. Watson 'of
Itushville, Ind., reviewing and ap
proving the work of the present con
gress and declaring that "to change
the leadership and organization of
the house at those times meaas to
bring confusion upon those who
have successfully engaged in the
steady working out of a great and
comprehensive scheme for the better
ment of our social and civic condi
tions," was made public today
through the republican congressional
committee. The president also
declared that such a change
would result in a hurtful os
cillation between the extreme radi
cal and the extreme reactionary. He
added that he hopes the present con
gress will enact laws prohibiting po
litical contributions by corporations,
lowering the duties on imports from
the Philippines and limiting the num
ber of hours for railway employes.
Roosevelt on the Tariff.
Of the tariff Mr. Roosevelt says:
"We stand unequivocally for a pro
tective tariff and we feel that the
phenomenal industrial prosperity
which we are now enjoying is not
likely to be jeopardized; for it would
be to the last degree foolish 10 secure
here and there a small benefit at a
cost of general business depression,
but whenever a given rate of sched
ule becomes evidently disadvanta
geous to the nation, because of the
changes which go on from year to
year in our conditions, and where it
is feasible to change this rate or
schedulo without too much disloca
tion of the system it will be done;
while a general revision of the rates
and schedules will be undertaken
whenever it shall appear to the sober
business sense of our people that on
the whole the benefits to be derived
from making such Changes will out
weigh the disadvantages; that is,
when the revision will do more good
than harm.
A Thing Apart From the Tariff
"Let me add one word of caution,
however. The question of revising
the tariff stands wholly apart frorp
the question of dealing with the so
called 'trusts' that is, with the con
trol of monopolies and with the su
pervlsion of great wealth In business,
especially in corporate form. The
only way in which it is possible to
deal with those trusts and monopolies
and this great corporate wealth is by
action along the line of the laws en
acted by the present congress and its
immediate predecessors. The cry
that the problem can be met by any
changes in the tariff represents,
whether consciously or unconscious
ly, an effort to divert the public at
tention from the only method of talc
ing effective action."
Mr. Roosevelt says that if only
partisan issues were involved in this
contest he should hesitate to say any
thing publicly in reference to it, but
he does not feel that this i the case.
He feels that "all good citizens who
have the welfare of America at heart
should appreciate the immense
amount that has been accomplished
by the present congress, organized
as it is in the urgent need of keep
ing this organization in power."
A Phenomenal Work.
The president declares that "with
Mr. Cannon as speaker the house has
accomplished a literally phenomenal
amount of good work. It has shown
a courage, good sense and patriotism
such that it would be a real and ser
ious misfortune for the country to
fail to recognize."
Mr. Roosevelt then enters on a re
view of the work of the congress
and the important measures passed
by it. Measures which, he declares,
are important not in a partisan sense,
but are important because they sub
serve tile welfare of the people as a
whole. Of the Panama Canal he ex
presses the opinion that It is tho co
lossal engineering feat of all ages v.r.d
the credit for the acquisition of the
canal .strip is given to congress.
The Canal nnd the Navy.
The interests banded together to
oppose the canal, says the letter, "are
numerous and bitter, and most of
them with a peculiarly sinister basis
for their opposition. Had congress
been either timid or corrupt, and had
not the leaders of congress shown
the most far-sighted resolution in the
matter, the work of building the ca
nal would never have been begun
and even if begun, would now have
halted. The opposition to the adop
tion of the treaty by which our right
to build the Panama Canal was se
cured, a part at least of the opposition
even now being now to the ratifica
tion of the Santo Domingo treaty,
which is one more step In the effort
to make peaceful and secure the wa
ters through which the route of the
canal leads; the constant effort to
delay on one pretext and another the
actual work on the canal all prove
how essential it is that If the Ameri
can people desire the Panama Canal
to be built In speedy an defflcient
fashion they should uphold the hands
of those who in the present congress
have so effectively championed this
work."
Strong approval is expressed of
the attitude of congress toward the
upbuilding of the navy and then the
president takes up the measures deal
ing with government regulation of
business. "The tremendous social
and industrial changes In our na
tion," he says, "have rendered evi
dent the need of a larger exercise by
the national government of its pow
er to deal with the business use of
wealth, and especially of corporate
wealth, in interstate business. It is
not too much to say that the course
of congress within the last few years,
and the hearty agreement between
the executive and legislative depart
ments of the natlbn in taking the
needed action each within its sphere,
have resulted in the nation for the
first time definitely entering upon
the career of proper performance of
dutv in these matters. The task is
peculiarly difficult because it is one
in which the fanatical or foolish ex
tremist and the reactionary, whether
honest, or dishonest play into one
another's hands; and they thereby
render it especially hard to secure
legislation and executive action which
shall be thoroughgoing and effective
and yet which shall not need less they
jeopardize the business prosperity
which we shall share, even though
we do not all share it with as much
equality as we are striving to secure.
It is a very easy thing to play the
demagorue in this matter to confine
one's self merely to denouncing the
evils of wealth, and to advocate, of
ten in vague language, measures so
sweeping that, while they entirely
fail to correct, the evils aimed at, they
would undoubtedly succeed in bring
ing down the prosperity of the na
tion with crash. But it is not easy
to do as the present congress and its
immediate predecessors have done;
that is, sternly to disregard alike the
self-interest of those who have
profited by the present evils, and the
wild clamor of those who care less to
do' away with them than to make
a reputation with the unthinking of
standing in extreme opposition to
them. But this is precisely what
the present congress has done,
interstate Commerce Law.
"Instead of enacting anti-trust laws
which were either so vague or so
sweplng as completely to defeat their
own objects it has given us an inter
state commerce law which will en
able us to exercise in thorough fash
ion a supervision over the common
carriers of this country, so as, while
scrupulously safeguarding their
proper interests, to prevent them
(Continued on Page Seven.)
EVIDENCE OF
A FOUL CRIME
Young Girl Murdered, Thrown!
Into Marl Pit
DISCOVERY OF BODY
A Mysterious Tragedy Houses to
Feverish Excitement the People of
the Fremont Section Traces of a
Struggle Neur the Marl Fit.
(Special to the Evening Times.)
Goldsboro, N. C August 20. The
people in the section around Fremont,
12 miles north of hero, arc wild with
excitement over the finding of the body
of a young lady in a marl pit early
this morning. People of the whole
countiy for miles around have sus
pended work and are gathered around
where the coroner is holding the in
quest this afternoon.
The particulars could not be ob
tained from parties who are here at
tending court from that section because
they left heiv before the body of the
young lady was found and before the
news of the tragedy had become
known.
The coroner and deputy sheriff were
notified by a 'phone message about ten
o'clock this morning and immediately
left for the scene. But the latest in
formation regarding the horrible affair
came in a 'phone message from Fre
mont at two o'clock this afternoon to
this correspondent. Miss Waddell, a
I young lady about sixteen years old.
and a daughter of George Waddell. a
prosperous farmer living about four
miles from Fremont, left home yester
day afternoon about four o'clock to
visit some neighbors by the name of
Holland. There was no one at home
at the Holland residence, and it is pre
sumed that she started back home
when she met some villain on the
road who carried her into the woods.
There her umbrella was found and the
ground bore evidence of a struggle.
A short distance from this place Is
a marl pit. the one in which her body
was found this morning. Her lips were
badly cut and her neck was terribly
bruised. It is a very mysterious case
and until more evidence is obtained all
is conjecture, but it is thought that
the yojunjr lady was choked t death
and thrown into the marl hole.
FEAR FATAL TO DOTH
Mother and Daughter Stood
as if Paralyzed
The Train Rushed Down 1'po.i Them,
Killing the Mother Instantly The
Daughter Died Later After Hours
of Sun'erin.
(Special to the Evening Times.)
Asheville, N. C Aug. 20. The two
ladies killed by a work train two miles
this side of Bushnell in Swain county
Sunday afternoon were Mrs. Margaret
Gibbey and Miss Sarah Gibbey, mother
and daughter. The mother was in
stantly killed, while the daughter is
said to have lingered some time.
The ladies were walking the track
and rounding a curve met the work
train. The engineer was unable to stop
the train, while it is supposed that th?
ladies became paralyzed with fear.
They remained on the track and were
run down. The superintendent hero
had not this morning' received confirm
ation of the report that Miss Gibbey
was dead.
ILLINOIS PROVIDES
WORK FOR EX-CONVICTS.
(By the Associated Press.)
Chicago, August 20. The state of
Illinois, through the agency of its own
free employment bureaus in Chicago
and other cities, beginning next Mon
day will provide employment for and
give, wholesome, helpful assistance to
the women and boys released from the
various penal and reformatory institu
tions each year.
Governor Deneen, who has been inter
ested deeply in this problem, and has
considered it with his advisers on the
several boards, has placed his ap
proval on a carefully mapped out plan
to entrust to the state employment
agencies the duty of securing work fori
those who have either served out their
sentences or, by good conduct, have had
their punishments mitigated.
PACIFIC MAIL BOAT
IS ON THE REEF.
(By the Associated Press.)
Honolulu, Aug. 20. The Pacific
Mall Steamship Comfany's steamship
Manchuria is on th reef at Rabbic
island.
IS BRYAN'S CRY
Or Else Do Not Instruct!
Delegates for Me
AND SULLIVAN LAUGHS
Judge Thompson Has a Dispatch from
the Nebraskan Declaring He Wants
No Instructed Delegates to tile Na
tional Convention Unless Sullivan
is Put Out.
(By the Associated Press.)
Peoria, Ills., Aug. 20. William J.
Bryan, according lo his friend, Judge
Owen P. Thompson of Jacksonville,
Ills., desires no instructed delegates
from Illinois in the next, democratic
national convention unless the na
tional committeemen from Illinois,
Roger 0. Sullivan, is repudiated by
tomorrow's state convention.
Judge Thompson made I he an
nouncement immediately upon his
arrival in the city that he had re
ceived such a message from Mr.
Bryan. When asked today for B copy
of the dispatch Judge Thompson
said
"I canot give out a copy of the
message as it contains other matter
which should n t be published. I
can, however, (jilolo verbatim all that
it contains relative to Hie instructions
by the convention. This is 'oppose
instructions unless Sullivan repud
iated.' "
"What is Mr. Bryan going to do if
Sullivan is upheld by the convention
and instructions are given for Mr.
Bryan despite Mr. Bryan's protest?"
"They will never do such a thing
as that." replied Judge Thompson.
"Do you suppose that any man will
attempt to compliment Mr. Bryan
with instructions, when he has been
informed by Mr. Bryan that it is not
In his power to compliment him. I
don't, believe it."
Mr. Sullivan merely laughed when
asked what t ho convention would do
about endorsing Bryan.
"We will not oppose any instruc
tions in favor of Mr. Bryan. We
have never thought of doing so. If
delegates come to the convention in
structed for Mr. Bryan, they will
have to vote that way I guess."
The actual fight for the control of
the convention will not commence
until 10 o'clock tonight, when the
state central committee will meet.
Former Congressman Williams, for
mer Congressman Kerns and Judge
C. C. Boggs are mentioned for tem
porary chairman, After this matter
Is adjusted, the fight will be shifted
to the com mi l tee on resolutions. Na
tional Committeeman Sullivan and
his friends do not wish tho resolu
tions endorsing Mr. Bryan to con
tain anything beyond that endorse
ment. The opponents of Sullivan de
sire that it contain a condemnation
of Sullivan and a requast for his re
signation from the national commit
tee. The matter will undoubtedly come
before the convention in tho shape
of majority and minority reports.
GO TO NEW IBERIA TO
STAiMP OUT FEVER CASE
(By the Associated Press.)
New Orleans. August 20. Advices
from New Iberia, 126 miles from New
Orleans, where a negro was reported
yesterday to be suffering with yellow
fever, report the arrival today of
President Irion, of the state board of
health and members of his staff. Syste
matic fumigation and screening is to be
pushed under the direction of the
health officials.
The fact that the case is in the Iso
lated outskirts of the town encourages
the belief that there will be no further
infection. There is no excitement at
New I bulla and no exodus, the people
having faith that science will control
the case. Quarantines have not been
Imposed, but for a time indiscriminate
travel to and from the town will bo
prohibited. Doctors think the present
case was probably imported from some
point along the Mexican coast.
THE EARTHQUAKE
JARS MARTINIQUE.
(Bv the Associated Press.)
Fort de France. Island of Martinique
August 20. - Earthquake shocks of more'
or less severity were felt in the Island
of Martinique at 1:13 p. ra. yesterday!
nnd at 1:4., 4 a. m. and . a. m. today
No damage w as done.
PLAN TO MuRDER
PALMA OF CUBA
And Overthrow the Gvern
ment of the Island
I MANY ARRESTS
MADE
An Extraordinary Session of the
House Will Discuss the I prising
All ('oust Itoads From Havana
Guarded Government Censorship
Over Press Dispatches.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, August 20. A cable dis
patch to a morning paper from Havana
says that following the arrest yesterday
of several prominent men in connection
with an alleged conspiracy to assassi
nate President Palmo and overturn the
government, Speaker Ficyre had a
consultation Willi I'rosiitem ranna iasi
night and decided to summon ail ex
traordimiry session of the house this
morning to discuss tho uprising.
The dispatch adds:
Numerous bands are joining l'ino
tlueria. A suspicious looking schooner
is off plnar Del Rio.
All the coast roads from Havana are
closely guarded. Many motorists who
attempted to leave the city esterday
were turned back. The rebels have
seized the mails of the steamship Con
sola.eion. The government has estab
lished a censorship over press dis
patches; ami all telegrams at
The officials maintain silence
situation.
delayed.
S to till
DIGGING INTO CIKIIjI.O'S
KECOItD OF ANARCHISM.
(By the Associatd Press.)
Marseilles, Aug. 20. The police
have discovered papers indicating
the connection with a band of an
archists of Cirillo, the anarchist ar
rested here yesterday on the charge
of plotting to assassinate President
1'alliercs.
At the residence of the prisoner,
who is an Italian, the police also dis
covered explosives and mat srlals for
the manufacture of bombs.
THE ISUCKHORN POWER
Completion of the Plant Now
a Certainty
Court (.rants Petition to Stockhold
ers Allowing Receivers to issue
Necessary Certificates It Means
.Much to Cape Pear Section.
(Special to The Evening Times.)
Fnyetteville, N. C, Aug. 20. The
completion of the Cape Fear Power
Company at Buckhorn is now as
sured. The court has granted the
petition of stockholders which will
allow tho receivers to issue certifi
cates amounting to $11,600 to com
plete the plant. This means a great
ileal to this section, as contracts
have been made for power for some
time and a great number of plants
In and around Fayetteville have gone
to considerable expense in arranging
for the same. It is understood that
the plant will be completed at once.
SUICIDE BY THE
LAUDANUM ROUTE.
(Special to the Evening Times.)
Elisabeth City, N. ".. August "O.r
Thomas Walston, a young farmer of
Nixonton Township committed suicide
by drinking laudanum yesterday. The
cause is unknown.
Commissioners' Special Session.
The Wake county
Blotters held a sin
afternoon to receive
templated work on
house and other
board of conunis
bla) meeting this
bids fur the cbh
the jail ami court
properties of the
county. The only immediate business
accomplished was to receive bids and
hear explanations from two steel fix
ture men, who have subiniltod bids for
overhauling the prison bouse, other
bidders In different lines will be heard
this afternoon.
The Saratoga Races.
(By the Associated Press.)
Saratoga. N. Y., Aug. 20. First
race, 7 furlongs, Selling Mares,
three year olds and up: Anneta
Udy, 10 to 1 and 6 to 2, first; Sil
ver Wedding, : to 1, place, second;
Azelina, third. Time 1.2S.
AN APPALLING LOSS
OF LIFE IN THE SOUTH
AMERICAN CATACLYSM
FIVE CARS TORN UP IN
WRECK NEAR FOUR CMS
(Special to the Evening Times.)
Fayetu ille, N. , August i0.A
freight wreck oh the main line of the
Atlantic i 'oast I, hie near Four Daks
about noon today was caused by brake
rigging falling under a car, which de-
j niollshed Ave freight cars and tore up
fifty yards of track,
No one was killed or hurt. A wreck
ing train is on the way to the scene
of the wreck, but the debris cannot be
cleared away go that (rains can run
through until twelve o'clock tonight.
All through trains on the Coast Line
arc running by way of Wilmington
today.
LIGHTNING FIRES
CROWDED CHURCH.
CBv the Associated Press.)
Lufkin, Texas, Aug. 20. John B.
Itoper, the man witli many aliases,
who murdered without cause two
fellow prisoners named Trawick and
Crowder in the count jail here on
August. 15, by beating them to death
With a heavy bucket as they slept,
ended his life by hanging himself in
his cell late lasl night, using a strip
from a blanket.
He acknowledged a few days ago
that he was a member of ihe Da Hon
gang of bank robbers at Long View,
Texas, in 1892, Sheriff Watts also
lias evidence that Roper was the man
wanted in Arkansas for the murder
of Sheriff Boyd in 1K92. Roper ac
knowledged various other atrocious
crimes in Texas,' Louisiana and Ar
kansas. TWO MURDER CASES
TRIED AT MARSHALL.
(Special to the Evening Times.)
Asheville. X. Ci, Aug. 20. Robert
Watts and wife of Madison county,
"liarged With the murder of Bill
Culberson in Madison during June,
were acquit tod after tha jury had de
liberated thirty minutes. It was
charged that Culberson was mur
dered for his money, and that the
body was robbed of several hundred
dollars.
-..lohu Pate, charged with tho mur
der of .loiina Crowder in Madison
several sears ago. was tried at Mar
shall and convicted of murder in the'
second d igree. He was sentenced to
the sttiie prison for thirty years.
The hearing of t ho peonage cases
at .Marion is sel for Saturday, August
2Ti. Tin- government will be repre
sented by District Attorney Holton
and his assistant. Much interest at
tache:; to the hearing. While it is
believed Hun some of the contrac
tors building the South & Western
road between Marion and Spruce
Pino have gone beyond the bounds
of ill" law, titer;: are also said to bo
mitigating circumstances, The Ital
ians, il is said, take every advantage
of the law. and after getting the
contractors "in" to the extent of
railroad fare and board, became sul
len nnd work only when they chose.
KSCAPF. or HKLINZQFM
Dili TO CAKKI.F.SSXKSK.
(li
IV
the Associated Press.)
rsburg, August 20. Colonel
St.
Solovieff, jvho investigated the escape
of Belihzoff, the leader or the band of
Moscow bank robbers from the train, on
Which he was being conveyed to MOS
COW for trial, has found thai his escape
was entirely duo lo the gross careless
ness of the guards. Tl. j colonel says
the report made by the latter of the
affair was simply designed to relievo
them of responsibility. Instead of
jumping through a window of the
train it turns out that BelinzofT was in
(the toilet room, with a guard outside.
The prisoner locked the door, raised
the window, quietly lowered himself to
the Step of the ear and jumped off.
His escape was not discovered until
half an hour later. The shattering of
the window by the guards, the colonel
adds. w;ts a mere blind. The gen
darmes forming the guard have been
summoned to St, Petersburg lo answer
to their neglect of duty.
'1 he Superintendent at West Point.
San Francisco, Calif.. August 20.
Lieutenant Hugh E. Scott, formerly
governor of Jolo, has arrived on the
transport Thomas from Manila, en
route to Washington. He is to relieve
General Albert Mills as superintendent
ot the military academy at West Point.
Five Hundred Are Reported
Dead In Valparaiso
Alone
DESTRUCTION SWEPT
HALF II DOZEN CITIES
the First Clear and Connected Story
of the Disaster Indicates That the
Initial Reports Were Not Over
drawn The Losses in Property
May Kim Into Hundreds of Mil
lions, and a Financial Crisis is
Feared In Valparaiso One Hun
dred and Forty Prisoners Were
Buried Under tin? Debris of Down
Crashing Walls Measures Are
Being Taken for the Relief of the
Suffering, Many of Whom Are Now
Living in Tents Among the Ruins
of Once Beautiful Homes.
(By the Associated Press.)
Santiago, Chile, Aug. 20. Five hun
dred persons are dead at Valparaiso as
a result of the earthquake shocks, ac
cording to the latest advices on the
reports of refugees who reached this
city this morning.
The monetary loss at Valparaiso runs
into the millions. Six or eight other
cities have been destroyed. The rail
road, street railway, telegraph and
telephone systems are thoroughly de
moralized. Tire known dead in this city number
twenty. Madame Montt, wife of Ad
miral Montt, who was reported ktlled,
is alive, but seriously Injured. It is
expected that the street railway and
lighting systems in this city will be
restored today.
Details of the Disaster.
Santiago. Chile, Sunday, Aug. 19.
The situation is becoming clearer. A
committee was organized here today,
and the street railroad service was re
sumed. It was feared that Santiago
w ould be plunged in darkness owing to
lack of coal to supply the gas works,
but the officials of the gas company
say that they have a sufficient supply
to last a week.
Carlos Edwards, one of the
proprietors of the Mercurio, of
Valparaiso, has arrived here on horse
back from that city. He confirms the
reports that the Almendral quarter
and the principal avenue of Valparaiso
have been transformed into heaps of
ruins. When he left the city the in
habitants were wandering about look
ing for relatives and friends. The ma
jority of the inhabitants, he says, have
sought refuge on the hills, tn the parks
and along ihe seashore. The adminis
tration building and the Victoria the
atre hud disappeared even to their
foundations. The marine arsenal was
only slightly damaged, but not any of
the private residences were habitable.
In spite of the desolation perfect order
was maintained by the troops, which
were bivouacked on the grand avenue
and Victoria square. The military am
bulances were gathering up the wound
ed and the dead.
When Mr. Edwards left Val
paraiso it was impossible to de
termine the number of persons killed,
but according to his estimate the num
ber of lives lost was small, when the
extent of the catastrophe was taken
into consideration. At one depot he,
saw fifty bodies. The main hotel was
standing, and all the guests escaped in-'
jury, but Mr. Edwards' regards Val
paraiso us being uninhabitable for the
present. . The squadron of cavalry
forming the presidential escort has
started from heijp for Valparaiso with
instructions to requisition all the cat
tle met with between this place and
Valparaiso and to drive the herds to
that city in order to prevent a famine.
A large number of people have sought
refuge on the various ships at anchor
In the Bay of Valparaiso.
The report that the naval school afr
Valparaiso had escaped destruction is
confirmed today. A number of families
have sought refuge In the schools,
where they are being cared for by the
naval authorities.
Commercial Crisis Feared.
Medical supplies have been sent front'
this city to Valparaiso, and everything
possible is being done to asslk the
homeless people. No accurate estimate
of Ihe damage done by the earthquake,
can yet be made, but it is considered
certain that it will run Into the. hun
dreds of millions of dollars, and1 it is
feared that a commercial crisis wife fol
low the earthquake disaster. It IS be
lieved that steps will Immediately WB'
taken to meet this situation. Business
is being slowly resumed here and it
Valparaiso. , ,'
The ministers of war and of the lam
(Continued on Page 2.)