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ILL A IS 1"S L ETTEIt .
Tis home where the heart is, and the
most of uiiueis here. The epicure filled
his stomach with choicest food and ex
claimed, "Fate cannot harm me, I have
dim-d today," ard sol have filled my
henrt with the sweets and comforts of
home, und feel defiant of human misery.
Fate cannot harm me, for my home is
my casile where, as Blaekstone sayc,
"the king of England dare not enter
uninvited." But an old man did enter
not long ago and said he came to stay
a few days if it was convenient. I saw
pa naggage on me iron seai in me ver-
indau. lie said, "1 travel tree and
lodge free and mix with none but the
beet people, and sol have come to abide
with you for a few days. I hope it is
convenient." Well, it wasent conven
ient, for my wife wag at Rome and my
daughters away, and" I had never heard
of him, and so I told him it was not
convenient. He seemed surprised and
asked me if I was a Virginian. I told
him no, I was a Georgian, and he said
tnat Virginians seemed to be scarce in
this region and he feared that old Vir
ginia hospitality had not reached here;
that Bishop Nelson had entertained
him in Atlanta, and he had found a
welcome among all Virginians. ''What
are yon going to do with rrie?" he ask
ed. "I am lame and tan't walk; I was
told you had a carriage and would drive
jrliie auywhere I wished to go." "No,
Bir, I have neither carriage nor buggy,
' bat "J will go down town and get a ve
hicle and take you anywhere you wish
to go." Then he said Brother Bealer
told bim that if I would not take him,
there was a poor widow across town
who would, and he would speak to her.
So I took him there and left him, and
will pay his bill if Brother Bealer did
ent. There are religious tramps as well
as sinner tramre, and they are not an
gels unawares. Iwas down in the
wiregrass region for nearly two weeks,
and have most pleasant memories of
my new found friends, but the last day
was the best, for I was on my journey
j home a,ud counted the milestones as we
speeded along. Happy faces and lov
ing kisses greeted me when I came,
and .here I am going to rest until the
larder gets low and my wife insists that
I had better make another venture.
And now 'let the procession proceed.
Let the war go on. It is none of my
begetting; it might have stopped at
Santiago, but our yankee brethren seem
to love the nigger afar off and have
bought 8,000,000 at two dollars and a
half a head, which was cheap enough if
Spain coJld have delivered the goods!
But they have cost, ten times that, now
and are still in the woods. We used to
advertise oar runaways and say "Ten
dollars reward Runaway from the sub
scriber my boy Dick, 25 years old, 5 ft.
V 10 inches high, black complexion and
very flat nose. The above reward will
be paid on his delivery to me or his
lodgment in the nearest jail." Why
not try that on Aguinaldo and the
other runaways? But if they catch
them I don't know what they are going
to do with them; they woulrient let
Aguinaldo set up a barber shop in Ma
nila no more than they would in Boston
or Chicago. Frofessor Council, who is
president of the colored agricultural col
lege in Alabama, understands this
He is the smartest and best leader of hi-j
race, and when he speaks or writes to
the public always says the right thing.
I have great respect for him.
But this awful muddle with China,
which was precipitated by our aggres
sion upon the Philipines, seems to have
no end in sight. Kev. Dr. tlaiderman,
of New York, who is said to be a very
learned man, says that he demonstrat
ed a vear atro from scriptural prophecy
tha tthe present year would fiud all the
nations afwar, and there would be
.mighty Btruggle between, Russia and
China, and that Russia would eventu
ally gain the supremacy; but that for
a time the hordes inom uninawiu nreaK
in an awful avalanche upon the western
nations and the greed, the rapacity, the
Chriattess, Godless selhshness of Euro
nean nations will get its reward, and
Scr9. wilt be a terrible balance fheet
nirRinst those Christian nations who
;have poisoned China with opium and
mdp them look unon all Christians as
rapacious foreign devils.
' ' ie says that the Chinese are fighting
for their homes and institutions, and
.know that the Christian nations are
seeking to rob them, and that their
missionaries are backed by guns and
'swords and Godless soldiers jeady to
kill and slay. This infuriates them,
tand they look upon any white man as
: devil who should be slxia. He says
that while this impending and destruc
tive war is ordained of God and fore
told by His prophets, yet the sin of it
lips at the doors of Christian nations.
Offencca must needs coma, but woe
unto those by whom they come. The
love or money is still the root of all
evil, ''Trade will follow the flag" is
the ehiboleth of commerco, and if the
tlig has to be stained with blood it does
not mattrr."
These are my convictions, and hence
I can't work up any enthusiasm nor
any revenge. In 1841 England bok
Hong Kong. In 1848 England made
Coina pay $20,000,000. because she
destroyed 20,000 chests of opium
that bad been stored there by English
merchants. In 1858 Russia grabbed
all the Amoor country, containing 000,
000 square miles, and when the United
States grabbed the Philippines the
suspicious Chinaman said, "The Chris
tians are coming; they want more."
No, it is none of my war. The blood
of it ia on somebody's hands.
I see that General Gordon is going
up yonder on another missiou of
peace trying to mix up the blue and
the gray and make a compromise color
that will satisfy both sides. He can't
do it, but maybe he enjoys the fun of
trying. Here and there you will find' a
good-hearted, clever federal pensioner,
but most of the clever ones come down
here and stay. The malignant ones
don't come; they are afraid to come.
That is all right; let them stay there;
we had rather live with the negroes
than mean yankees. Here is an Oiho
paper (The Monroe Chronicle) that was
sent me last week a marked copy
that is mad because our " people talk
about building a confederate memorial
at Richmond, and says H Ought not to
be allowed, and that our loyalty to the
union is all a pretense, and that Bill
Arp, a noted rebel and writer, shows no
love for a restored union. He savs
that such a memorial is an insult to
the nation and makes treason hon
orable and loyalty odious; every confed
erate monument is a bloody ehirt, and
the republican party ought to die, and
die eternally, if it ever allows the return
of those rebel flags which are an iusult
to the union dead and to our disabled
veterans. He denounces our rebel
songs and rebel tributes to treason; and
there is a lot more of such stuff, and it
is in keeping with General Shaw's
utterances in Atlanta about what we
shall teach our children. Old as I am,
I can lick that fellow in three minutes
by the clock, and as he has singled me
out, it would do me good to maul some
grace into his malignant soul. I am
afraid we will have to whip them again
But I am not going to let every fool up
there make me mad I havent got
time I'd rathei work in the garden or
play with the grandchildren; they keep
me amused, and I can love them with
out a strain. Last night 1 had to play
Trimbletoe with them, and had to be
the elephant and let them ride home on
my back. How far away that sounds
"Catches his hens and puts them in
pens; some lays eggs and some lays
none; wire briar, limber lock, three
geese in the flock," etc. One of these
little girls, not yet four years old,
disobeyed her mother yesterday and
was prom ised a whipping. "Mary Lou,
this is the second time you have
opened the ice chest and turned oyer
the cream. I told you that if you did
it again I would whip you. Nw come
along in the other room." She is a
good child, loving and smnrt, but willful.
'Mamma, peas don't vip me hard."
Her older sister, Caroline, had followed
along out of sympathy. Mary Lou
saw her and said, "Now, Talline, you
go back; me doh vast you to see
mamma vip me and hear me quy
It s none of your bisnese; it s just my
pisness. You go pack, Talline, and
she laid herself across her mother's lap
ready for her pisiness. The mother
couldent stand that; she relented and
kissed her child, and the little thing
pr nmsed again.
And so it goes on in every loving
family promising and repenting
from childhood to old age, we sin in
hasta and renent at leisure. May the
Lord forgive us and bless the children,
is my prayer.
' ' :' " Bill A nr.
l'aNKiiig Events.
Lord Roberts is actually feeding at
Pretoria the families of burghers who
are still in the field against him.
The war in South Africa has doom
ed the Highland kilt as a fighting
dress, and it will now survive as a pa
rade uniform only.
The pineapple crop of Florida will
break all previous records. The value
of the crop on the east coast alone
will be in excess of $300,000.
The Frince of Wales recently con
tributed a hundred autographs to a
charity bazar in London, the profits
of which were to go to the South Af
rican relief fund.'
Edward Atkinson has temporarily
dropped the Philippine question in
order to inform the world that in 3,
300 years the supply of potash will be
exhausted, and the human race will
perish.
Mrs. Amelia Folsom Young, one of
the wives of Brigham Young, made
her first journey to Utah forty-five
years ago ago, largely Dy wagon, anu
is now at work upon a volume of
memoirs of early Mormon times.
The free kindergarten is about to
be spread broadcast through Russia.
The advance will be made at the in
stigation of Mme. Klokof of St. Peters
burg, who opened the first Russian
kindergartens, pay schools, twenty
five years ago.
Voted lor JTIcHinley.
Charlotte Observer.
The Observer is informed that half a
dozen citizens wer standing in front of
a store on North Tryon street, last
Thursday evening, discussing the elec
tion news whn an old darkey came up
the street and halted near the group
A man asked him if he had voted.
"Yes, sab, boss," he replied. "Who
did you vote for?" This question
seemed to puzzle the negro, who finally
said, "Boss, de only man I'se certain I
voted for is McKinley." And, then,
with an air of happiness he lifted his
hat and strolled on up the street.
THE CENTURY'S PROGIIESS.
St. Louis Republic. 1
When the remarkable achievements
of the Nineteenth Century in strictly
utilitarian, material respects are exam
ined the imagining of romancers as to
what the Twentieth Century will do gain
credibility. Professor Dolliver of Tufts
College epitomizes them as follows in
the Philadelphia Times:
1. This centurj received from its
predecessors the horse, we bequeath the
bicycle, the locomotive and the auto
mobile. 2. We received the goosequill and
bequeath the typewriter, r
3. We received the scythe, we be
queath the mowing machine.
4. We received the sickle, we bequeath
the harvester.
5. We received the ha'nd printing
press, we bequeath the Hoe cylinder
press.
6. We received the Johnson's Dic
tionary, we bequeath the Century Dic
tionary. 7. We received the painted canvas,
we bequeath lithography, photography
and color photography.
8. We. received the hand loom, we
bequeath the cotton and woolen factory.
8. We received gunpowder, we be
queath nitroglycerin.
10. We received the tallow dip, we
bequeath the arc light and the Stand
ard Oil Company.
11. We received the galvanic battery,
we bequeth the dynamo.
12. We received the flint lock, we be
queath automatic Maxime.
13. We received the sailing ship, we
bequeath the steamship.
14. We received the battleship Con
slitution, we bequeath the Oregon.
15. We received the beacon signal
fire, wo bequeath the telephone aud
wireless telegraphy.
1G. We received wood and stone for
structures, wej bequeath twenty-6toried
sky supports of steel. ,
17. We received ordinary light, we
bequeath the Roentgen rays. '
18. We received the weather unan
nounced, we bequeath the Weather
Bureau.
There is, however, another possibility.
As the magnificent civilization of the
Greeks and Romans was followed by
the dark Middle Ages, may not a simi
lar period of intellectual stagnation visit
the world at some future time? It is
frequently contended that the Chinese
knew gunpowder and the mariner's
compass hundreds of years before the
civilized nations became familiar with
them. Reported discoveries of strange
wires in ancient Egyptian structures
have been made the basis for a theory
that the Egyptian civilization which
preceded the Greek and Roman knew
of the electrical transmission of mes
sages. The refinement of scientific knowl
edge are easily lost. They are locked
up in the heads of men in laboratories
and in technical writings, which need
technical knowledge for their compre
hension. It has been said that if 3,000
chosen men of the caliber of Edison
in their re spective sciences were swept
from the earth a quarter of a century
of progress would be lost at one blow.
Universal war can accomplish such
things. Stagnation of science is not
impossible.
AiUl-ryplioltlal Serum.
Atlanta Journal.
Dr. Wright, professor of pathology
in the British Army Medical School,
makes a report on the results of in
oculation with anti-typhoidal serum,
which is sure to attract ' much at
tention. When he was besieged in jjadysmitn
General White had 12,000 troops and
the garrison had to drink very impure
water. The result was a great deal of
typhoid fever. Of the 12,234 men in
General White's command only 1,70.3
allowed themselves to be inoculated
with the anti-typhoidal serum, the
other 10,529 preferring to take their
chances without such treatment.
The comparison oi results among
the inoculated and the non-inoculated
soldiers makes a fine showing for the
efficiency of the serum treatment.
ilmong the 10,o2l) non-inoculatod
soldiers in Ladysmith there occurred
l,48y cases ot tvphoidal lever; among
the 1,705 inoculated soldiers, 25 cases.
Stated otherwise, there was one case
of fever to every 7.07 non-inoculated
soldiers, and one case to every 48.
inoculated soldiers. In other words,
for every one inoculated soldiers. In
other words, for every one inoculated
soldier who took enteric fever, there
were almost seven non-inoculated
soldiers who took it; and this is a
disparity in number sufficiently strik
to make people stop and think.
The value of the scrum was de
monstrated in the comparative fatality
as well as in the number of attacks.
The number of deaths among the
non-inoculated was 320, and among
the inoculated 8. Thus, therefore,
there was one death among every 32
non-inoculated men, whereas there
was only one death among every 213
inoculated men!
Tvphoid fever is one of the most
frequenand most fatal diseases in
this section and Dr. Wright's report
deserves consideration.
Hon. W
. T. Crawford
fur Congress
has been re
in the ninth
nominate d
district.
THE SITUATION IN CHINA.
Baltimore Sun, 4th.
A cablegram from Chefu, China,
states that the Pekin Government,
according to every indication is at last
awaking to the gravity of the situation.
Instead of dealing with the problem by
direct methods it is trying to throw the
responsibility on the Boxers, and by
stirring up international jealousy seeks
to checkmate the foreign powers. For
eigners at Chefu declare the use of vig
orous measures.
Li Hung Chang has become boider
in his dealings with the powers, and his
latest attitude is regarded as an open
threat. United States Consul Goodnow,
at Shanghai, cables that Li told the
French Con 8ul no messages would be
delivered to the Ministers because the
foreign army was advancing on Pekin.
Mr. Goodnow also cables that Li is still
trying to dicker with Secretary Hay on
the basis of holding up the advance of
foreigners on condition that the Minis
ters are delivered safe at the seacoast.
Such a proposition, it is stated in
Washington, will not be considered un
der any circumstances.
It may be questioned, however, if Li
is really representing the Chinese
Government in this atttiude. Yuan
Shih Kai, Governor of Shanrung, has
informed Consul Fowler at Chefu that
the Chinese Foreign Office has tele
graphed him that the Ministers are well,
provisions have been repeatedly sent
them,and "relations are most friendly."
A conference, according to the Foreign
Office's message, was taking place as to
measures to be adopted for sending the
Ministers safely to Pekin. The Foreign
Office thus officially declares that it is
preparing to do the very thing the
powers want.
Another message from Consul Good
now is ominous as paving the way for
the worst news from Pekin. He cableB
that Li Ping Hang, a rabid anti-foreign
agitator, is now commanding the troops
in Pekin. Li Ping Hang, according to
the Consul, beheaded two pro-foreign
members of the Chinese Foreign Office
July 27 and ordered the Paoting Fu
massacre. The fact that be had the
power to decapitate two of China's most
prominent officials shows the extent of
his sway and also the helplessness of the
foreigners under such conditons.
A dispatch from Shanghai says it is
reported there that the allied army has
advanced 35 of the 78 miles from Tient
sin to Pekin. The advance has been in
progress since last" Sunday. Three
hundred Japanese, comprising a scout
ing party, lost 28 men in a fight.' A
Tientsin dispatch, dated July 27 and
delayed in transmission, said that all
the troops were then ready to move
exctpt the British, whose tardiness
caused criticism.
Baltimore Sun. tith.
China, seeing the storm that threat
ens to overwhelm her, is beginning to
make important concessions. In this,
it is believed in Washington, she is ani
mated by a hope that an assault by the
allied armies on Pekin may be averted.
A dispatch to the Paris Temps from
Shanghai says the imperial edict auth
orizes the Ministers to communicate
with their Governments "without re
striction," which would amount to al
lowing cipher messages. It alao says
the departure of the Ministers for Tien
tsin has been "ordered."
It is said in Washington that the
Ministers will probably prefer to remain
in Pekin until the arrival of the allied
forces. This is partly explained by the
fear of treachery should they leave their
present comparatively secure position.
Consul James W. Ragsdale, at Tien
tsin, has received a message from Edwin
II. Conger, United States Minister in
Pekin, under date of July 21. This
message is as follows:
"All well. No fighting since the lGth
by agreement. Enough provisions.
Hope for speedy relief."
Taken in connection with the com
munication from Sheng this is believed
to make it reasonably certain that the
Ministers are still safe.
Baltimore Sun, 7th.
The allied armies advancing on Pekin
have had a hard fight almost at the
outset. 1 he allies fought the Chinese
at Peitsaug from 8 to 10:30 A. M. Sun
day, losing 1,200 killed and wounded,
chit fly Russians and Japanese. The
Chinese were reorted to be retreating
Admiral Remey in another cablegram
stated that the unofficial report is be
lieved to be reliable and that about 10,
000 of the allied trooDS took part in the
fight.
Peitsang is 11 miles northwest of
Tientsin, the allies' base, and 67 miles
from Pekin.
A Shanghai dispatch to the London
Daily Mail savs: "The Pekin relief
column is reported to have suffered a
check. The Chinese are said to have
adopted Tugela tactics and after several
hours of fighting to have retreated."
DrR. E. Diffenderfer, who has ar
rived t San Francisco on the transport
Lgan with a large numbers of refugees
from China, was in Tientsin during the
ombardmtnt of that city bv Chinese
in July. He says' the bombardment
was probably caused Dy an attack on a
body of Chinese imperial troops ordered
by a midshipman in charge of a small
party of foreign marines.
Ilepontiince is more than sorrow
for
sin: it leaves tue em vt-hiud.
STATE NEWS.
tTTl .
vv no is to succeed juarion iJutier m
the Senate? This is a question that is
to the front for consideration now. It
will be decided at the primary at the
time of the November election.
There is beginning to be talk about
thenational campaign and also of who.
will succeed Marion Butler as Senator
There are several names mentioned,
among them F. M. Simmons, Julian
S. Carr, A. M. Waddell and M. H.
Justice, and there are, of course, other
aspirants. This year, for the first time,
the people will really choose their Sena
tor, as they will make the selection on
election day in November, when a
Senatorial p, imary is to be held.
There is a very interesting question
in regard to which county this year won
the honor of being the "banner Demo
cratic county" in the State. Robeson
rather claims it, because it gave Aycock
for Governor 4,100 majority, more
than any other county gave him, while
Mecklenburg bases its claim upon its
having given the constitutional amend
ment 3,553, which leads the State.
Mecklenburg will say that the amend
men was the supreme issue and that,
therefore, the majority for it is what
counts.
Duller Says "Every Negro County
Has Gone Democratic."
Raleigh, Aug. 3. Senator Butler
said this afternoon the election returns
he had were not definite enough for an
estimate by counties and added:
"Every negro county has gone Demo
cratic and the majority for the constitu
tional amendment can be anything
desired. Certificates of election will be
given, I should say, to 70 Democratic
Representaitves and 30 to 32 Demo
cratic Senators. Of course it could be
more, because stealing capacity is
unlimited." The Senator says" he
expects to Bpend next week fishing and
resting after his campaign, which is
the most disastrous on record in North
Carolina
James II. Pou, ex-chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, 6ays:
"The election was peaceful, orderly and
fair. There was no fraud and no
occasion for fraud, because the Demo
cratic party was thoroughly united and
the opposition was broken all to pieces.
Thousands of white Republicans voted
for the amendment and for our State
ticket. Leading white Republicans of
Raleigh publicly supported the amend
ment and ticket. Butler knows this
as well as anyone, but has deliberately
chosen to misrepresent his State in the
eyes of the nation."
Steamers on the Dead Sea.
Washington Dispatch. I
"The Dead Sea, which for thous
ands of years has been a forsaken
solitude in the midst of a desert, on
whose waves no rudder has been seen
for centuries," says United States
Consul Winter, at Annaberg, in a let
ter to the State Department, "is to
have a line of motor boats in the
future.
"Uwing to the continued increase
in traffic and the influx of tourists, a
shorter route is to be found between
Jerusalem and Kerah, the ancient
capital of the Land of Moab.
"The first steamer, built at one of
the Hamburg docks, is about 100 feet
long and already has begun the voy
age to Palestine. An order has been
given for the building of a second
steamer. The one already built and
on the way is named Prodomos (the
fore-runner) and will carry 34 per
sons, together with freight of all
kinds.
"The promoters of this new enter
prise are the inmates of a Greek clois
ter in Jerusalem. The management
of the line is entirely in German
hands.
"The trade or Kerikwith the desert
is today of considerable importance.
It is the main town qf any commer
cial standing east or the Jordan and
the Dead Sea. Its population con
sists of about 1,800 Christians and
(5,000 Moslems. The merchants of
Hebron arc among the chief frequent
ers of the markets of Kerik."
Let Them Go.
A negro preacher in Massachusetts is
endeavoring to induce the negro to
emigrate from North Carolina since the
adoption of the amendment. 'In a ser
mon at Cavalry Baptist church, Spring
field, last Sunday, he spoke of the
adoption of the amentment. in North
Carolina and added: "Black men, who
cannot read or write, will no longer be
allowed to vote there. This being the
case, our people should leave North
Carolina. They should 'go where their
rights as American eitiz3ns will be re
spected. I suggest, therefore, that you
write and advise friends and relatives
in every part of the South, where their
rights are not respected, to emigrate
North." -
The Last of Ills Kind.
Atlanta Constitution
Governor Russell, of North Carolina,
will become notable hereafter as the last
of his kind.
Every country has its bloodless and
soulless men, who have lost all resect
for kindred and all love for the tradi
tions of ancestry. North Carolina can
afford to close the list with the name of
the man who was callous even under
the appeal of the women of his state.
GENERAL NEWS,
Frank B. Gary and A. Howard Pat
terson, candidates for Lieutenant Gov
ernor in South Carolina, had a rough-and-tumble
fight before a thousand
Laurens people, men and women, last
week. They fought with desperation
and determination until Jim Tillman
and others separated them, aad then
they wanted to get back at each other.
Suffolk, Va., was shocked on Friday
by an unaccountable homicide. Charles
J. Cannon was killed by First Assistant
Chief of Police M. II. Prince. They
were thought to be fast friends and had
walked along the streets in the most
friendly manner, then stopping and
talking without apparent signs of dis
turbance. Suddenly Prince drew his
pistol and shot Cannon five times, the
last time with the pistol near his vic
tim's head. Cannon died instantly and
Prince gave himself up.
Rey. Henry M. Wharton, D. D., of
Baltimore, was placed under arrest at
Ocean City, N. J., Saturday. Mr.
Wharton is charged by Miss Somers, of
Ocean City, with obtaining money
under false pretenses. Dr. Wharton
went to Ocean Gity at the close of the
Spanish American war, and . appealed
for a home for destitute and orphan
children. Miss Somers, it is Baid,
offered a home for the purpose. The
home was to be put in trust, but it is
alleged that Dr. Wharton secretly had
the property made over to himself.
Fond Farewell of North Carolina
Negro Voters.
The Philadelphia Record contains
the following account of the "fond
farewell" taken by the negro voters in
their State of the ballot :
Charlotte, N. C, Aug. 1. "Come
on hyar, you limbs of Satan, en kiss
dis ballot box far'well !" commanded
an old cotton headed negro, as be led
his following from the Southern Com
press to the election box of his precinct
Thursday. Stepping proudly up to the
ballot box he gave his name, adding :
"En right arter de wah, I could vote
when lots ob de white folks couldn't."
Then he handed his anti-amendment
vote to the judge, and, when it was de
posited, leaned over and kissed the bal
lot box a fond farewell. "Dat's my last
one," he said. "I knows datl kin vote
dis fall, en de nex' fall, but arter
dat I can't so hit ain't no use to vote
no mo'. Far'well, ole fr'en', far'well !
Marse Abe Lincum gib me er vote, en
I'se' voted de 'Publican ticket ever
sense, but now dey say I se gwme ter
be disfranchised." The old man turned
away and limped out of the room, while
his followers came fDrward, and, one by
one, silently cast their vote, kissed the
ballot box and walked slowly away.
Though the polls will be open to them
until 1902, after that such of these ne
groes as cannot read and write will not
be allowed to register. This is the effect
of the conntitutional amendment which
was adopted by the people of the State
on Thursday.
The Next Governor.
Charlotte Observer. '
The Goldsboro Argus, in a handsome
tribute to its fellow-townsman, Chas. B.
Aycock, Ejq , who has just been elected
Governor, says that "his canvass has
been conducted on a plane worthy of
the man and the great cause he repre
sents, and by his dignity and eloquence
and honesty he has won tha respect
and confidence of the entite people of
the State." It is true. As able as hia
canvass wag, it was marked by nothing
so much as its dignity the high plane
on which it was pitched. lie said
nothing that any woman might not
have beard; he said nothing to arouse
the anger or wound the heart ot any
man of any party. He was dignified,
argumentative, considerate, kindly,
always. That these qualities in hust
ings speakings are effective, that .they
appeal to the pecpl?, is attested by the
immense majority given him a ma
jority for greater than that auy candi
date for office ever received in North
Carolina before; and to-day, after having
traversed the State from end to end and
spoken in nearly every county in it, he
is by far the most popular citizen of the
Commonwealth. The Democratic
party made no mistake in nominating
this man for Governor and the people
of all parties made no mistake in electing
him. He will justify all their confidence
and regard and will do what few men
do go out of office as popular as he
was when he weut in.
fcenator Frltt-hard.
Raleigh Post.
The Charlotte Observer in but iust
whea it commends, by comparison, the
dignified conduct of Senator Pritchard
throughout the campaign. Months
ago the Post expressed surprise that the
Senator should take a position against
the amendment. He did so, however,
and goes down in the wreck, but in his
campaign he discussed the question,
from the standpoint of an opponent,
not only in a clear manner, but with
ability, "making the worse appear the
better cause." That hev. stood aloof
from the management of the campaign
of his party and the'dickenng and fu
sion mess the nartv machine indulged
in was iudicated some days ago when
he replied to a Post correspondent that
he reallv "did not know what was
being done" by those running the ma
chine of his party. All of which are to
his credit. We hope the lesson he has
learned will serve him a good puriHjse
hereafter.