Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-27
THE RECORD WAS BROKEN.
A Great c'oAd to See the Almost Countless
Attractions The Tobacco Growers of
the State Meet and Organize for Mutual
Protection The Strong Address of Judge
Walter ciark-A Marriage Announce
ment-A Republican Who Travelled
West Virginia With Bryan.

fair grounds was there Thursday-a
crowd OF more than twenty thousand,
from every town and county in the
commonwealth. A great crowd it was,
Jostling and pushing it's way along the
aisies of the main buildings crowding
the grand stand and making merry
iun on the fantastic midway: u demo-
cratic crowd, the laughing school girl
with the aged farmer, the millionaire
touching elbows with the laborer. All
sorts and conditions of men they were.
and more than twenty thousand of
them.
Secretary Pogue promised that he
would break the record. He has broken
the record in the matter of exhibits
The finest lot of exhibits ever seen in
the State. The midway is the largest
ever seen here without a gambling ma
Ghine or robbing booth in the whole
!ehEth OF 1T. And the crowd is the
largest that ever came.
me regular entrances TO the grounds
mat are generally sufficient to accom-
MEDIATE crowd of any size We're en-
ufeiy Inadequate Thursday, and two
parcels OF the fence had 10 be pulled
down to let the crowd in.
The school girls and school boys were
IN evidence by the hundreds, the NOR
tar boards and colors of n hundred
schools were seen on every hand.
Prominent citizens and professional
men, merchants AID manufacturers
from every part of the State were
here.
And above all the hum of myriad
voices and the tread of thousands
could be heard the wild music and
"hirl of the midway. A thousand
sound-waves beat on the air and every
tune in the and-organ from Dixie"
To Just Because She Made Those Goo
al was the shrill voice of Esaw's guar
uinn, who asserts In megaphone tones:
She actually bit on their heads and
positively eat them alive"
TOBACCO GROWERS ORGANIZE.
Mr. j. Bryan Grimes called the meet
ing of the Tobacco Growers together
and expiancd it's purpose in a short
anu rinninG speech. He said that by
the operation of an organization. the
price of tobacco was cut down to al
most nothing. That If the farmers
would work in unison, he believed they
were in position to right their
wrongs.
Secretary Parker read an address by
Judge Walter Clark that received the
heartiest assent, which dealt with me-
thocs or destruction of Illegally formed
trusts and combines.
Judge Clark's address dealt entirely
with trusts. He defined a crust as any
arrangement for the purpose of increas-
ing the price of any class of products
beyond the price that would be fixed
by the natural demand and supply.
He showed that Congress and the Leg
islature of North Carolina had both
passed laws making such arrangements
Illegal. and fixing severe punishment
for them. He insisted that the rene
dy is in The peoples hands. Elect only
such public servants as will enforce the
present laws against trusts. He sug-
Eested as additional Legislation that
trusts BE refused the rights of courts
In collecting debts. when they sell
goods on credit. The fact that the
creditor is n trust should be a bar to
recovery. The Craig law should be rig
idly enforced; n graded inheritance tax
should be adopted and a statute en-
acted empowering the Superior Court
to issue writS of injunction against n
corporation formed for the purpose of
destroying competition. lie spoke of
the unjust cXactions. of those modern
Dick Turpins, who set asitte-f,ertiens
Of their illegally gotten gains for the
purchase or control of newspapers for
donations to educational institutions
which shall indoctrinate our youth with
sentiments of the holiness and beauty
OF trusts and the lberality of trust
magnates, and in the debauching of
electors ana the manipulating of Leg
islaturcs and Congresses through lob
bystS and other well known and rep,
rescntative methods.
The following resolution was offered
w
Resolved: The Tobacco Growers
Association of North Carolina are con-
fidcnt that the present depressed condj-
ton in tobacco growing can be relieved
by the thorough organization of the to-
bacco farmer of the bright belt and our
purpose Is to continue this fight until
we are successful.
We urge the farmers of North Caro-
lima to restrain their acreage to present
area.
we pledge ourselves as we organize
to help local factories by patronizing
local brands to the exclusion of trust
goods. We call upon the farmers and
county association TO take steps to Sc
cure the handling of independent made
goods by our merchants to the eXclu-
clusion of trust made goods.
We demand the enforcement of anti
trust laws now on state statute books.
We invite our sister States 20 assist
in upholding our hand in our antitrust
fight
made an extremely enthusiastic speech,
showing the tyrannical cNactions of the
American Tobacco Company. He said
that there was too much coWardice
against those flghting the trusts You
won't allow me 10 offer you $3.50 for n
$1,000 hog, but You take anything the
American Tobacco Company offers you
for your tobacco"
The following general committee was
appointed: j. +. Phillips, CO w. Ford.
John S. Cunningham, j. 4. Jordan. w.
II. Ra gsdac.
Legislative Committee-R. II. Hicks,
F. w. Barnes. f. y. Lea.
Nh r. II. Hicks, of Rocky Mount,
stated that he was sure that as much
as $4,000 can be raised in Rocky Mount
To aid in carrying out the purposes of
the organization. Other members said