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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04
Sunday: Sermon.

My son, ATTEND to my words. For
they are life unto those that find them,
and health to all their flesh.--Proyerbs,
iv., DOPE
There is one thing which impresses me
more and more, namely, the relation be-
tween our frame of mind and our bodily
health. Our usefulness in the world, orlr
success in life and the degree of happi
ness we enjoy depend very much more ON
what is going on within us than
our surroundings. Not how much mon
ey you have. but what you habitually
think about is the decisive factor In
your career.
The history of the church furnishes MS
with startling illustration Theological
evolution from the low level of discourag-
ing dogma TO the higher level of inspiring
doctrine means the development of a
larger faith. We never give UP thought
unless we have something better to
take its place. The world is not moving
in the direction of agnosticism, but of
wider and more wholesome truth 4
backward step is as impossible as for
a flood tide to suddenly check its upward
flow. Men love the truth. and truth they
must and will have. If what we We're
taught will not stand the test of our
greater knowledge we reverently lay it
aside as having fulfilled its mission. In
doing this we simply prove that child
of God can never rest until he has
reached God Himself. There are many
doctrines in which our fathers believed
and in which they found comfort. bu,
We can no. more accept them than we
THAR inf
crave something different and better. We
have more light than they and can see
some things more clearly. They We're
right IN their day. but not right for our
day.
Would We be true to ourselves if we
insisted on retaining the social GUS
toms of the last century? The telephone
and telegraph, the modern modes of To-
.con1otion. the printing press, which rains
literature on every corner of the globe,
have given us "a new outlook We call
that progress, and any attempt to revive
.flfe past by reviling the present would
meet with UNIVERSAL protest. What we
have is thousand times better than
anything which our forbears enioyed.
Into our new life have come many con
veniences, and we have a divine right TO
make use Of them. even though their use
involves surrender of old methods. The
world is larger for us than it was for
our fathers. We believe more. ard our
belief is stronger. but it is different
SO in our theology. The final truth
has not yet been reached. and until it
is reached each new generation will
discard what its predecessor looked upon
as sacred. In doing this it is performing
solemn duty to itself and to posterity.
1t would be false to every high standard
Of excellence if it refused to do it.
And it is thrilling fact that our larger
vision results in a general cheerfulness
and hopefulness, which affect not only
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04
BLACKBURN THREATENS AssAS-
SINATION.

A little while ago Senator Butler the
chief of one wing of Jim IounS's army
of the Black-and- Tan, in q speech in
Raleigh threatened that his gang would
WHIP OUT OF THE STATE" the
advocates of White Supremacy.
Now comes Spencer Blackburn, chiefly
known to fame as the spouter of the
story Il cannot beat otreat' and
threatens the Democratic leaders with
assassination. Hear him at Newton:
"Goebel was shot down at the steps
of the capitol because he WAS the arch
perpetrator of this hellish scheme. 1t was
no more than might have been expected
Then drawing himself UP to his full
height. he houted: North Carolina
Democrats may take warning from the
fate of William Goebel.'
AN the world knows that Governor
Taylor and the L. and y. Railroad Off
Gals are the foul asSassins of Mr.. Goeb-
ell. Who is TO be the assassin who
shoots in the dark in North Carolina and
no is to be the first victim?
Republicans have treated US to corrupt
government. assaults upon women. in
suits TO decency and to dishonesty
Now a Federal office-holder threaten
us with assassination. What next?
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad"
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RICH MEN AND DEMOCRACY,

In 1896 quite a number of rich men
left the Democratic party because OF its
silver declaration, though many of them
remained true TO their political faith. Re
ferring to the recent flop" of Sibley
twho was denied the vice-presidential
nomination at Chicago because of his
Pacific railroad votese, Mr.. VIM E. Cur
tis writes that he asked Champ Clark,
the philosopher of the House of Repre-
sentatives, whether under existing politi-
cal conditions il is easier for camel
TO go through the eye of needle than
for q rich man to remain in the Demo
cratic party. Mr.. Clark replied:
'"That question is far-reaching and phil
osophic in its nature. Speaking general
~, It depends not so much upon the
amount of mans wealth as Upon how
he obtained it. If he secured it by honest
industry and by fair competition with
his fellowmen, he could still be Demo
GRAFT in theory and in practice, though
richer than Croesus; but if his wealth
came to him because of unjust federal
1t-SlSldlioiL, HASNtDS w do SnttOf'u w
become the beneficiary OF the labor and
sweat of his fellow-citizens he cannot
be n Democrat. If one originally he will
inevitably drift into the Republican par
ty, ON the biblical principle that the OK
knoweth his owner. and the ass his mas
ter's crib. As naturally as the sparks
fly upward, a man who has gathered
gear by reason of the high protective
tariff, the gold standard OF trusts, Will
be Republican"
The rich man whese wealth was honest
" acquired, who understands the truth.
knows that the Democratic party stands
for the rights Of property, and that it is
his best protector-just as the man whose
riches depend upon special privilege
knows that it is his natural foe.
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HE was NO DICTATOR.

In his speech at Newton, Senator
Pritchard said: Senator Vance went
all the way to Raleigh to defeat the
Payne BILL" Senator Vance never did
anything of the sort. he was not ac-
customed to come to Raleigh 10 set UP a
machine and dictate legislation. He be-
lieved that the peoples representatives
were capable of legislating and he left
it to them. Whenever he felt moved to
declare his views on any question he did
SO in public speech or published ley
ter. and appealed to all the people upon
the highest plane Now Senator Pritch-
ard, accustomed at Washington to take
orders from Hanna before he casts n
vote. can no more understand Vance 5
high methods than he can understand
how legislature cannot attend 10 its
business without dictation. Vance was
never seen in Raleigh to dictate legis-
lation. Vance would have scorned to
resort to such base methods to influence.
his party.
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THE KANSAS CITY CONVENTION
New York Journal. =. T.

The Democratic National Committee
met yesterday to lay out the campaign
of 1900 in circumstances whose cheerful
ness recalls the time, eight years ago,
when the preparations We're made for the
triumphant election of Cleveland. Not
since the first month of the ill-starred
Administration that followed have Demo
cratic prospects been so bright r.
1t used to be said that the Republican
party would AWAY be saved by Demo
cratic plumbers. This year the Rcpubl:-
cans have piled blunder ON blunder, and
the Democrats have to do is to take adj
vantage of them. The Republicans IN
Congress have made the Democracy a
present Of the Constitution. the Declare
mon OF Independence and the American
Flag. Never, even in the days of the
Alien and Sed:tion laws, has n party
ever been stricken with such madness as
that which now afflicts the organization
once led by lincoln, Seward and Chase.
Thu splendid humanitarian outbuTst
that carried the American arms to Cuba
in q war of liberation has been degraded
into spirit of base comnlercialism. And,
pulled in opposite directions by shame
and greed the Republican party stands
to appear as philanthropist or high
wayman. 1t has involved itself in such a
hopeless tangle that whatever the action
of Congress may be the result cannot be
anything but Republican humiliation.
Either the Republican President or the
Republican organization in Congress
must be beaten-bOth cannot win.
The surrender to England in the Mica
ragua Canal matter, the invitation to the
powers of Europe to come over and tie
our. hands, and the abandonment OF
rights for which the Government of the
United States has contended for twenty
years, have profoundly angered the
American people.
The subserviency of the Administration
to the trusts which are absorbing the ma
tional wealth by hundreds of millions of
dollars year. the readiness of the Re-
publican Congress to vote subsidies 10
corporate beggars already swollen with
riches to the bursting point, the deter1ni-
nation to put the national finances in the
hands of a moneyed clique and to per-
petuate the public debt in the interest of
the banks, have all helped to store UP
wrath.
The day of the Democracy is at hand.
The Kansas City Convention will name
the next President of the United States.
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the. mind but the body. To think Of
I God, for example, as stern and relent-
less lawgiyer who, "for His own pleas
ure, as the. old phrase runs, elects some
to- endless happiness and others to end
less misery, is 10 make it very difficult
to worship Him with love instead OF
fear. There is no exuberance Of joy in
such n thought and no grateful spontan-
city of action. 1t presents religion Of
gloom, and spiritual despondency is the
natural result. When we read the words
of Christ in the light of more advanced
scholarship, however, and discover that,
while He is lawmaker and lawgiver, He
Is, more than all and above all, a Father
who searches fOrsthe lost sheep after the
ninety and nine have BEEN folded, there
is a reaction which makes religion tho
most desirable thing in the world. The
whole outlook is .changed.sthe sky bright
ems, living is a delight and even dying is
a privilege. Such a discovery sets our
blood tingling, and every heartbeat is
peace, confidence. and love. The state
of mind in which we know that all is
well, since He is with us; that we have
a Friend who will never desert us, is q
physical as truly as it is spiritual rem
edy. 1t is ozone, il Is oxygen, invigorat-
ing and health producing.
The old ideas of the other world have
also been invaded and conquered by the
new revelation. Death was once a mon
ster of such frightful mien that we chung
to life in utter despair, and heaven was
such an artificial and unnatural place Of
abode that no amount of faith could
make us glad to go. 4 St. Paul's words
were ringing in the air. ITO die is gain, :
but they were never heard. or if heard
were not trusted. We parted with our
dear ones and it seemed like an eternal
farewell. Our hearts broke. and if with
fearful eyes we cried. Thy will be
DONE the fact that the heart. was bro
deepest black. Think of black as a
symbol of a glorious resurrection 1t IS
sacrilege; it is the emblem of serious
misunderstanding.
But all that is OF the past The sun
shines now as never before. We have
climbed to loftier eminence. from. which
the turrets of the New Jerusalem are WIS.,
ible. Our whole attitude toward the fu-
ttlre is charged. We still weep, for
even temporary separation is sad, but
there is a rainbow in the sky which tells
us of fair weather on the morrow. The
pilgrim who walked by our side has been
suddenly ordered to n station which we
shall reach by and by. and when we
arrive those loving arms will be ABOUT
us once more and the severed relations
will be renewed. We have learned 10
be CHAD that the struggle for him IS over.
for he Is now in the restfui Snaoo"
of rho imnnrral Efe to which we also are
Fastening,
Such thoughts as these make religion
boundless joy. There is no gloom. no
fathomless grief, no depressing mystery
in it, If we have heretofore lived in
shadow we should rejoice when the sun
Greens above the hilltops and dissipates
the darkness. That kind of religion has
its effect on the body also, and We learn
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Hon. Theo. f. Davidson, Of Asheville.
is in the city on legal business. He said
last night in reply TO a question that, so
far as be knew, his name would be pre-
scented by friends TO the next Demo
cratic State Convention for the nOnlna-
ton for Governor Il am not making
AN active canvas or asking for pledges
Col. Davidson continued, mot that l
think that either is wrong, but you know
l. was raised in the old school and We
never did things that way. / SHALL OF
course, feel fattered if the nomination
is given 10 me, and shall give the party
my best services in any event. just
now, however, it looks like Mr.. Aycock
will receive the nomination
How do you find the sentiment of the
West with regard to the amendment"
was asked.
Until very recently have b. en- great
lly engToSSed with business, but latterly
i have found some time to devote to the
question and / find that the sentiment is
exceedingly favorable to the proposed
especially in my own county
With: which / am best acquainted. |
should be willing for Buncombe county
to vote on the measure tomorrow. /
'fnd that our people are well acquainted
with questions at issue and are quite
able TO meet the argument of the oppo-
isitionL i have talked with numbers Of
Republicans, men Of the quiet sort who
igo about their business and talk little,
but. who are tired of their enforced re-
llations with the negro in the Republican
party and they tell me they will vote
for the amendment - .<
Col. Davidson says that the Demo
cratic party will come east of the
mountains with its full vote.
Col Davidson Is one of rh.. States
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04
HON. THEO. F. DAVIDSON
Whose Name Will be Presented to the Democratic Conven-
ton For the Nomination For Governor.

NEST distinguished men and is apt to
receive Il most f1atterng vote in; the
convention. He was born in 1S45 and
is therefore 80 years old. His father
before him was one of the ablest law
years in Western North Carolina Col.
Davidson was being prepared for Annap-
oils when the war broke out and though
but Is years old he volunteered for the
army and served as member OF the
Buncombe rifles and afterward in the
Thirty ninth, Col. Coleman's regiment.
in which he was made sergeant major.
He served through the Tennessee and
Kentucky campaigns on the staff of
General Robert Vance and later on the
stats Of Generals Palmer and Martin.
being on the staff Of the latter when
the war ended.
After the war he was admitted In
the bar and practiced for time with
his father. serving as solicitor for Clay
county. After moving to Asheville he
took an active interest in politics. sery-
ing for ten years as chairman of the
county committee and six years rs chair
man OF the Congressional committee In
1873 he was elected to the State Senate
and was reelected in 1880. serving with
distinction in both bodies. He was active
lin securing the building of the Western
North. Carolina Railroad and the West
tern Asylum for the Insane After leav-
ling. the Senate he served as Judge Of
sBuneombe county court and in 1884 was
nominated and elected Attorney General
In 1888 he Was renoIriinated by acclania-
ftion and was elected again, leading his
ticket. He declined third nomination
and has since. practiced his. profession.
except when for term he served Ashe-
vile as mayor, having been chosen to-
that place in his absence from the city
and wifhouf his knoxxl6.3c,, - 81 9.
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In his speech at Newton last week.
Senator Pritchard was reckless in his
statements. Here is a sample: $50
Il call you all to witness, here and
now, that, if the amendment passes.
both white and colored will be disfran-
chised alike"
In the United States Senate he said
that the amendment had been fixed so
as 10 disfranchise negroes, but not to
disfranchise illiterate white men. ana
was unconstitutional because it dis.
eliminated against the negro.
Another equally wild statement was
this: :. " IL
Under the last Republican admtnis-
tration. no county in North Carolina was
under negro rule ~
The Senator evidently thinks that per
feet domination by negroes does not con-
stitute negro rule. The presence of
hundreds Of negro office-holders, State
and national, Is his idea of proper gov
ernment. The people in 1898 knew there
was negro domination and voted TO Ban
ish 1T for two years. In August, 1900.
they will vote for the amendment-a1l
thus secure White Supremacy. Such
wild talk as Pritchard engaged in at
Newton will make no votes for the ne
gro party among white folks
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An Effect Of Religion.
kansas City. Journal.l

kansas City Journal9
AT the free Methodist revival in Al
mena. Nortonfcounty, last weeH writes
q correspondent OF the Mail and Breeze,
IAN amusing incident occurred. The min
lister was laboring earnestly for the SAL
walton of souls, when farmer arose to
tell his experience and make an open
confession. Among the startling dis
closures made by the farmer was one
where he confessed that he. had applied
the torch to his neighbours house last
winter He also told Of DESTROYING 9th
err property and stealing stock, but how
he had reformed and was repentent. He
proceeded at once TO pay 500 to the
owner OF the house he had destroyed
aud. in company with the minister. he
called upon those he had wronged BY
stealing hogs and various other plumber
and asked forgiveness
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04

Referring to the Rev. DIR. Sheldon 5
proposed experiment. ''Zion's Herald
Methodist, of Boston. observes: There
is sreat amount of senseless talk
about an ideal and Christian daily
mainly from people who know the least
about editing papers. We deny en-
phatically the imputation that there are
now no clean. and excellent daily pa
pers. There are many that are prac-
tically Christian. They stand for the
higher moral ideals, pure literature,
pure politics, pure homes, honest bust.
ness. They are the bulwarks of right
cousness. aud condemn all forms OF
wrong and evil unsraringly. In looking
for an impracticable and visionary ideal
we must not forget the excellent daily
press which we now possess.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04

The suggestion of the extension of the
Atlantic and North Carolina railroad
from Goldsboro to connect with the Sea.
board Air Line near Warren Plains is
one that will be warmly approved by the
people along the route OF the proposed
extension 1t would run through one
of the best sections Of North Carolina
parts of which badly need railroad ia,
cihties. The building of railroads is
essential to the development of the State
and there cannot be too many built.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04

Railroad attorneys and others will
learn after awhile that abuse Of the
News and Observer is not a paying bust
ness. The people know that this paper
stands for right and justice TO all p arsons
and corporations, but that it is not to be
bulldozed into silence when the weaker
litigants ask for justice for injuries that
have permanently manned them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04

Thirteen divorces were granted at the
recent term of Guilford Superior court.
There is need of repeating some OF our
recent divorce laws unless North Caro-
lima wishes To take the place long held
by North Dakota. Divorces in North
Carolina have increased fifty per cent.
within the past ten years. Ut is time to
call halt
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04

the next National Convention ON indie
pendence Day, Mr. Bryan said The
party will proclaim second declaration
of independence this year, and I deem
it especially appropriate that this be done
on the nations day OF freedom. "-~-'%
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04

Another coloTed postmaster's arrest
shows what McKmley's Administration
means in North Carolina. The few
white men who voted for Mckinley did
not desire to vote for negro postmasters,
and they will vote white this year from
constable to President.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04

tStraws show which way the wind
blows. The Utah Republicans endorsed
Mckinley's Administration pro forlna,
but did not say word about expansion
or Imperialism They are hearing from
the people.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-04

Simonton seems to be the present help
of the Southern Railway and the To-
bacco Trust IN the time of trouble.
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TO live healthy. as web as happily. 1t -
the religion OFT Christ, and we shall never
be at our BEST until we acceVr at,
GEORGE HERWORTHse
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SPIRIT OF The PRESS.
QUEER JUSTICE.
Durham Sun.

Durham Sun. t* 81 -
Justice is queer thing. Molineqx
goes to the electric chair in New, York
on suspicion of sending bottle of pois-
on to a man who gave it to a. woman who
drank 1T and died, and fiend m Wash
ington who cut young girls juG,Ilar
Vein with a razor is relegated to the
luxury of a fine penitentiary for life.
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