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Tir NEGRO GROWING RESTIVE
Southern Republicans are just now
confront: with a most vexing problem,
noneoth t than the brother in black,
who is insistently knocking at the door
of their conventions and exhibiting an
altogether restive spirit, threatening
even to appeal to the court of last re
sort in the party—the national conven
tion —for recognition. They have, so
far, only been extended the marble
heart, but the end is not yet. As for
his ever again endangering white su
premacy in the south th«;-e is not the
remotest possibility, but the negro is in
position to cause no end of worry to
southern Republican leaders who have
to stand well Vith the powers that be
in Washington. Coached by Geo. H.
White, negro congressman
from this State but now living in Phila
delphia, Pa., the colored voters are de
manding admission into the cou; cils of
the party they so long constituted the
voting strength of and when refused in
(
some instances they have held conven
tions of their own. Any way it may be
looked at it means confusion for Repub
licans, and we are sincerely 6orry for
them.
While the busy toilers concerned with
their own affairs may not have waked
up to the fact, there is every prospect
of the approaching political campaign
being a most strenuous one. And the
friends of the prohibition cause should
see to it that the issue doc-s not get
mixed up in and get lost in the shuffle. !
It is a nonpartisan- and this fact j
should be impressed upon ti-e voters.
Those who supported Major Sted
man's candidacy four years ago when
he was defeated in the convention held
in his own home city might disagree
with those who consider it a Craig
victory that this year the Democratic
State convention is to be neld in Char
lotte, as to the value of the victory at
least. To us it appears simply a victory
for Charlotte—nothing more.
The fact that Evelyn Nesbit is suing
for divorce from Harry K. Thaw would
indicate that she knows more of the
true character of that moral degenerate
than she has told to the *orld.
Hon. B. H. Bunn In Memnrian.
Before the State Democratic execu-,
tive committee at Raleigh last week
tributes were paid members who have
died since the previous meeting of the
committee, and Major H. A. London,
an intimate friend of ex-Congressman
B. H. Bunn, of Nash county, in speak- (
ing of his hfe and service to the State
said:
"Having been called on unexpectedly
to take the place of the gentleman, un
avoidably absent, who had been expect
ed to deiiver an address upon the life
and services of Captain Bunn must be
my excuse for the imperfect manner in
which I shall speak of our departed |
friend. It was my privilege, and I shall j
ever esteem it a pleasure and honor to j
have been an intimate friend of Captain
Bunn for many years, and L can truth
fully say of him that he was true to
every trust and faithful in all things.
He began his public service at the early
age of lo years as one cf the first volun
teers in the Confedera e army, and by j
his conspicuous bravery and devotion |
to duty, made a record of which any
soldier might well feel proud. During
the la3t two years of the war he wa
commander of the sharpshooters of hi-, j
brigade, a most responsible and danger
ous position, the duties of which he dis
charged with conspicuous ability and
bravery. v
"After the war he studied law and
soon after obtaining his license entered
upon a lucrative practice and became
one of our State's most successful law
yers.
"He was elected by the people of his
county to represent them in the consti
tutional convention of 1875, which was
composed of the ablest men of this
State, and in that body of able men he
attained an enviable prominence. He
was a member of the North Carolina
House of Representatives in 1883. In
1888 he was elected to Congress in th s,
the fourth district, by a large majority,
although at the preceding election the
Republic m candidate had been succe. s
ful. fte was re-elected in 1893 and
1892, thus having served six years in
Congress, and during his last term
being chairman of the important com
mittee on claims.
"He was several times a delegate to
our national conventions, and was also
presidential elector for this district in
1884. For many years he was a mem
ber of this committee, and his wise
counsel was also heard and heeded with
pleasure and profit by his fellow mem
bers. He was a hater of shams and
hypocrisy, and as true to princible as
the needle to the magnet. Less than
this I could not say any more than this
might well be said. Suffice it to say
that chose who knew him best admired
him most, and in nis death the Demo
cratic party and the State of North
Casolina have lost one who was ever
devoted to their best interests, and
whose highest ambition was to serve
faithfully both his party and through
that his State."
STATE NEWS.
The Southern Railway laid off 200
men at the shops in Spencer last week
and a number at all its division head
quarters.
A $50,000 f.re occurred in the Coolee
mee cotton mills at Cooleemee, Davie
county, Friday.
A Kitchin Club was organized at
Kinston Saturday, with vice-presidents
for every township in the county of
Lenoir.
Solicitor A. L. Brooks will resign his
office to be a candidate for congress
before the Democatic convention of the
fffth district.
Fire broke out in the furnace room
of the First Baptist church in Raleigh
Thursday and did SI,OOO damage to the
handsome new auditorium.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, will make
the principal speech at the annual ban
quet of manufacturers of High Point
to be given the first of April.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Yad
kin Knitting Mills at Lexington, Fri
day, causing a loss of sil,Coo. It is
believed to have been incendiary.
Walter H. Page, a Nvrth Carolinian,
editor of World's Work, New York, will
deliver the commencement address at
Trinity College, Wednesday, June 10th.
Saturday when two negro convicts on
the Wilson county chain gang attempted
to escape Guard J. B. Johnston shot
andr killed one of them. Frank Johnston,
while the other got away.
The South & Western Railway, which
runs in western North Carolina, has
changed its name to Clinehfleld & Ohio
Railway Company an 1 increased its
capital stock from $6,000,000 to $27,-
000,000. * * »
Governor has com nuted to life
imprisonment the death sentences of
Bob McDowell, of McDowell county,
for killing a rait way fl tgman; and Major
Guthrie, of Durham, who killed his
wife.
At Fayetteville Saturday night D J
McDonald shot Henry Brumer, one of
the bullet's taking effect in Brumer's
spine. Shooting was brought on by too
marked attention Brum-n* paid Mc-
Donald's wife.
After some words between R. F. W.
Alston, a prominent citizen of Tryor,
and Deputy Sheriff Lee Fisher, about
some work the latter was doing for the
former, Fisher pulled his pistol and shot
Alston dead, Saturday.
The body of Owen Smith, a colored
restaurant keeper of Wilmington, was
found in the Cape Fear river last week.
Two murders had been committed in
Smith's place and rather-than give evi
dence before the courts he killed him
self.
Claiming justification under the "un
written law" for his act, James Frady,
a well known citizen of Buncombe
county, gave himself up to the sheriff
and told him he had shot fatally Paris
Sumner, whom he found with his
(Frady's) wife.
Miss Cora Bunton and her male com
panion, by the name of Grover Cleve
land Blalock, both of Durham, were
arrested in Danville, Va., last week
charged with circulating raised cur
rency notes. The girl is refined in ap
pearance and quite pretty.
A dispatch from Wilmington says:
The trucking conditions at the present
in this entire section are considered to
be exceptionally fine and growers are
anticipating a most prosperous season.
Already a few baskets of lettuce of the
new spring crop have been shipped.
A wreck occurred on the A. C. L. at
a log siding two miles from Greeaville
Friday afternoon, when an extra train
from Kinston ran into the open switch
and into a fog train on the siding,
smashing the two engines and injuring
quite severely Engineer Laughing
house, of the log train.
In the last act of a play in the theatre
at Winston-Salem Friday night, in
which the villian was supposed to be
electrocuted, the act was more real
than intended. By some carelessness
the electrician placed the plug in the
wrong hole and C. A. TeafF recaived a
shock of 120 vcltf, renderinj him
unconscious.
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The Rocky Mount Record, Thursday, March 19, 1908.
ONLY NECESSARY TO TREAT
THE STOMACH, SAYS COOPER
The new theory advanced by L. T.
Cooper relative to the human stom
ach has attracted such widespread
attention that the public in cities
visited by the young man has been
joined by many physicians in a dis
cussion of his beliefs and medicines.
Mr. Cooper says that human health
Is dependent almost entirely upon
the stomach. He says that no dis
ease can be conquered without first
alleviating all stomach disorders. He
further says that most men and wom
en of this generation are half-sick,
owing to degenerate stomachs. And
lastly, he claims that his New Dis
covery medicine "will rejuvenate the
human stomach In 90 days.
Cooper has been traveling from
one city to another, conducting in
each what he calls a campaign of
education. For the past year he has
met the public In the larger cities
of the country, and his success has
been phenomenal. Thousands of
people have fiocked to his headquar
ters wherever he has gone, and the
sale of his medicine has been beyond
anything of the kind ever before
witnessed.
Possibly the most Interesting fea
ture of the attention this young man
has attracted is what his army of
followers, whom he has converted, to
his beliefs through his medicines,
have to say on the subject. The fol-
L lowing statements are from two well
known residents of Chicago and Boa
ton, respectively, and the enthusiasm
of these is characteristic of Cooper's
admirers generally.
Mrs. H. B. Mack, oi 3201 State
street, Chicago, says: "I have been
suffering for 12 years from a com
bination of stomach troubles, catarrh
and constipation. I had a gnawing
pain in the pit of my stomach, a sort
I Opera House, It/V«n* OQ
Saturday Night, Iwldi • mO
The Lyman Twins and Their Big Company
\ in The Funny Musical Comedy
( r~r,
% I / A host of pretty girls,
funny comedians, clev
er dances, original nov
-1 / / elties. The big fun
■ / f* crowd. Beautiful scen
ic ery, costumes and ef
| fects. . . . . . .
I ramme £ s ' ....
John Puckett surrenderee! to the of
ficers ixi King's Mountain for kidnap
;> ng the sen of C. M. Crowder. a con
tractor of Gasto::ia, bat refuses to talk,
and the belief is that he hopes to com
promise with the ather of the boy.
The trustees of the Eastern Carolina
chers* Training School met at
Jretnville last week and selected the
ite on which to locate the school. H.
Buckingham, of New York, was elected
landscape designer, and Hook &
R..»gers, of Charlotte, and H. Y7. Simp
son, t)f New 8.-rr, architects.
A mob of 50 negroes opposed to Greek
immigrants working in the cooperage
shops at Bellhaven, last week sur
rounded a house in which 15 recent ar
rivals were staying and riddled the
house with bullets, severely wounding
several of the Greeks. The militia was
necessary to restore order.
Dressed up in some of his wife's
clothes and claiming to be a woman
visiting in the house Richard Gill, well
to-do negro farmer of Wake county
was allowed to pass through a line of
infuriated "white cap" illicit distil
leries, who surrounded his house Thurs
day night to take revenge on him for
his having, as they believed, revealed
to revenue officers the location of a
blockade distillery in the neighborhood.
Gill had received a note with skull and
bojies, coffin and other gruesome sym
bols warning him that he must leave
the neighborhood or face death. He
had ignored the note and the "white
cappers" came, a great company of
them, and began firing on the house.
•+
Improvements at the "Gem."
The management of the "Gem"
theatre have added many improve
ments to this popular amusement re
sort, recently, and will in a few days
install opera chairs for the greater
comfort of the patrons. The floor of
the auditorium is elevated from the
rear and from every point in the house
one can see plainly the pictures as they
are thrown upon the canvas. _ Especial
attention has been paid to safeguards
against panic or danger in the event of
fire and thi building has exits in front
and rear. The cage where the elec
tric machine is kept is made almost
absplutely fireproof with tin and
asbestos and the lighting arrangement
is excellent. The "Gem" has been
doing splendid business during the
winter and the popularity of this class
of amusement will increase a3 the
warm weather approaches.
of a dull pain that I could not quite un
derstand. Then there was a dull head
ache, and my mind seemed to be
wandering continually. I could not
eat, and what little solid food I did
eat I could not retain on my stomach.
I tried every remedy I could think of,
and also tried out a number of patent
medicines, but without any apparent
result. It was through one of my
friends that I heard of Cooper's prep
aration, and I immediately decided
to try some of it. It is two weeks
since I took my first dose of it, and
I fee! like a new woman. The head
ache seems to have disappeared, and
the pain in my stomach along with
it. The medicine is worth its weight
in gold, and I want to thank Mr.
Cooper for what he ha 3 done for
me."
Mr. Edwin F. Morse, of 20 Oakley
street, Dorchester, a suburb of Bos
ton, says: "For three years I had
not a well day. My stomach was in
frightful shape; the mere thought ol
food would nauseate me, and I really
had a horror of anything to eat. All
solid food would cause me extreme
j indigestion, bloating and gas on my
stomach, and nothing tasted right.
Some time ago I got some of this
Cooper's medicines, about whicbt
there Is so much talk. I actually*
feel as well and strong as a boy ever
since the first bottle. Every sign of
stomach trouble has disappeared, and
I have a hearty appetite and eat
three square meals; every thing
seems to taste good. Anyone who
knows what chronic Indigestion la
can appreciate what this means to
me. I consider this the most remark
able medicine I ever heard of."
We sell Mr. Cooper's medicines,
and find them to be all he claims.
—May & Gorham.
Republicans F^ght.
(News and Observer.)
Goldsboro, March 12. —The Kepubli
' can county convention for the election
of delegates to the State and district
convention met in the court house tor
cay. From the beginning the conven
tion seemed to be in the hands of the
office-holders. Assistant Postmaster
Simpkins was cho3en temporary chair
man, who, on taking the chair, asked
Postmaster Dobson to act as secretary,
but the latter declined. Although not
a delegate, Mr. Dobson seemed to be
the dominating influence of the conven
tion.
The negroes had their delegates
present and demanded recognition which
was refused, notwithstanding the fact
that not a single white delegate was
present from those precincts from which
negro delegates presented tneir cre
dentials.
The negroes then walked out of the
hall, headed by George H. White,
colored, formerly of this congressional
district, but now a resident of Philadel
phia, who arrived in the city last night
and was present to see the goods de
livered, together with Rev. C. Dillard,
George Reid and Wm. Hagans, all
colored. These proceeded to another
room of the court house and held a con
vention of their own and elected dele
gates but adjourned without any en
dorsement.
Ex-Judge W. S. 0. B. Robinson in a
speech said that they could not have a
clean Republican party in North Caro
lina so long as it was dominated by pie
eaters and pap-suckers and also ex
pressed himself as disapproving of the
negroes forcing themselves on the
white Republicans. Inasmuch as they
were out of politics they ought to stay
out.
At this stage of the game Postmaster
Dobson took personal offense at these
remarks and retaliated by saying words
in effect that Judge Robinson was mad
because he was not an office holder.
Whereupon a ensued. When the
smoke of battle cleared away, Post
master Dobson had a disfigured eye
from which blood was streaming over
his clothes.
Judge Robinson expressed his regret
at the occurrence and apologized to
the convention and Mr. Dobson, which
apology the latter refused to accept.
At a trial this afternoon before
Justice Peterson, judgment was sus
pended upon t ie payment of one-half
of the cost by each defendant.
The white convention endorsed the
administration, Taft and Adams, £nd,
after the election of delegates ad
journed.
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