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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-28

Lizzie Donahue, living at the Dewey
hotel Seventh street. near Jackson, was
arrested LAST evening on the charge of
stealing so from John Ewald. The young
man alleges the money was taken from
him while he was visiting the girl in her
room She denies the theft. Ewald is
charged with drunkenness and disorderly
conduct
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
WANTS NEGRO QUESTION SET
TIED

In Louisiana the negro question
matters can now be considered. In
North Carolina, the negro question
postpones the solution of every other
question. There is more evidence
every day that thoughtful men of all
PARTIES wish to eliminate the negro
from notifies in order to free the
white voters from the body of
DEATH We publish below IA letter
from a leading Orange county Repub-
lican. former candidate for State Su-
perintendent of Schools and Superior
Court Judge. advocating the amend
ment. He writes to the Chapel Hill
news:
Chapel Hill, \. c., May II, 1900.
Editor News:
Yes, after mature deliberation l
shall support the Constitutional
amendment. 1t is the only way yet
disclosed to me for the last thirty
two wears of my observation as Ike
publican to put at rest the VeNed
..negro question" and relieve North
Carolina of demagogical and machine
politics, of INSCRIPTIONS pdEt'>ans.
and put her in line of best prosperity
and happiness. Its accomplishing
these two events would be blessing,
vet we know, to both the black and
white races alike. and it should not be
made party issue. and | have not so
regarded it. ! regret to differ in this
respect with some good men Tor
whom | have the highest respect.
but this question is paramount. kept
hanging as it has been for years as
a nightmare and a burden upon the
body polite without solution. feast
for the demagogue and partisan and
as we'll seriously affecting the peace
and happiness of our whole people
and indirectly the industrial and ma
terial advancement of our State. Its
ratification would be the beginning
of a new era in North Carolina
freighted with so many good things
for all classes of our people. The
negro question: settled, the dema-
gogue out of a job. political parties
rehablitated and political principles
discussed on their merits, education,
morality and Christianity reinvigora-
ted and peace and happiness assured
and Astounding in every home. how
ever affiuent or humble.
| have spent - years Of my best
life in defence of the colored mans
rights.
JAMES b. MASON.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
NEGRO OFFICE-HOLDERS.

From time to time there have been
negro office holders in many OF the
eastern counties Chose counties in
which the negroes are in the ma
jority), but since the advent of Flu
sion rule in the State there has been
a decided increase in the number of
negro office holders, to say nothing
of the increase of insolence and pre-
sumption on the part of negroes.
The offices held by negroes have
been congressman, solicitors, county
commissioners, register of deeds
members of county boards of educa-
ton, school committeeman, justice of
the peace, constables, members of the
Legislature, clerks in the Depart
ments at Raleigh, deputies and clerks
of counties.
These have been in the State while
postmasters, storekeepers, gaugers.
clerks in the Revenue Department
have been filled by the national gov
eminent.
1t was shown during the campaign
in 1898 that there were over 1000 ne
groes holding offices in North Caro-
lima. In five counties there We're l43
negro justices of the peace, while in
the State there were nearly 300.
Tie counties in which negroes have
h2rd Offices are Granville. Vance,
Franklin, Warren, Halifax. New Han
over. BERTHE, Edgecombe, Nash, Pitt,
Wilson, Green Northampton, Craven.
Hartford, Columbus. Chowan. Jones,
Hyde. Beaufort. Caswell, Wayne, Car
teret. Richmond, Lenoir, Perquimans,
pasquotank. Wake, besides others.
Negro constables and deputy sher-
ifs have served writs upon white
men and white ladies and even taken
them before negro magistrates to be
tried. The school committee
men have visited schools taught
by white ladies. and white
men have been chained to negroes by
Fusion officers. In Craven county
alone there were 6j negro officials
and 81 justices of the peace. while in
New Hanover there were So negro
officials. 40 justices OF the peace.
These numbers of course include ne
gro officials in the towns and cities
of those counties.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

The man to elect to succeed Presl-
dent Alderman is the man who has
the same ideal of that venerable in
stitution to which DR.. Alderman gave
expression when he became its Presi-
dent. He said:
Il have an ideal for this Cnlver-
sity. My desire would have 1T place
where there is always breath or
freedom i'm the air: where sound
and various learning is taught heart
ilv without sham or pretense: where
the life and the teachings of Jesus
finnish forth the ideal of right liv-
inc and true manhood: where man
ners are gentle, and courtesles daIly
multiply between teacher ana
taught: where all classes and condl-
lions and beliefs are welcome ana
men NAV rise. in earnest STRIVING by
the might of merit: where wealth IS
no prejudice and poverty no shame;
where honorable labor. even rough
labor of the hands. is gIorltied by
high purpose and strenuous desire for
the clearer air and the larger view:
where there is a will to serve all high
ends of State struggling up out of
ignorance into general power; where
men are trained to observe closely.
to imagine WILDLY, TO reason accurate
w.. and to have about them some hu-
mility and some liberation: where.
finally. Truth. shining patiently IKE
a star. bids us advance. and we VIII
not turn aside.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
A DISHONEST SETTLEMENT.

A DISHONEST SETTLEMENT.
Statesville Mascot.
The Populst party proposes TO still
allow the negroes to vote, but to sub
nit an amendment to the State Constitu
ton disqualifying them from holding Of
flee. This would be a nice arrange
ment for the Republican and Populst
office seekers. They would still have
100000 negro voters to elect them to
office and would not have to divide the
spoils with the negroe politicians. This
is not an honest settlement of this ques
ton, for no race or class who are al
lowed TO vote should be deprived of the
right 10 hold Offices, if they can be elect
ed or appointed to them. AS a settle
ment of the evils of negro suffrage it does
not reach the spot for good govern
ment in North Carolina suffers almost
as much from the white men elected
TO office by negroes as from negro off,
GERS themselves. The white man elected
to office by negro votes has to pander
TO the negroes and make himself in
his personal and official conduct very of
fensive to white men. To illustrate, that
great man, the lamented Judge Armfeld,
related in his life time that he was
holding court in one of the negro coun-
ties which had a Republican sheriff,
whom we will call Bill Smith, for we have
forgotten his true name. Judge Armfeld
said the sheriff was standing on the
side walk in the county town one after
noon after the adjournment of court
talking to a group of gentlemen, when
one of the negro leaders of the county
drove up in his buggy. The negro stopped
his horse and called out to the sheriff:
bill Smith, d-n you come and hold
my horse while | go into Tom Jones
bar-room and get me drink of liquor.
With a flushed face and sheep killing
dog look the sheriff went and stood in
front of the negro's horse while the nc
gro went into the bar-room. The Demo-
cratic party don't want negro officers
and it don't want white officers who owe
their election to negro votes. 1t pro,
poses not only to disqualify the ne
groes from holding office but to pre-
vent them from voting as we'll 1t wants
white officers elected by white men. and
good government, law and order in North
Carolina demands nothing less.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
THE CAMPAIGN NOW OPENED.

The Democratic campaign was for
mally opened when Chairman SIM
mons announced the first appoint
ments and Mr.. Aycock laid down
the Democratic doctrine at Burning
ton in April. Every day since then
the editors and speakers have been
placing the truth before the people,
and the truth is making converts
daily to the cause of White Suprem-
acy and the amendment. one and in
separable.
But one thing was lacking; the il
Illustration of Democratic doctrine in
the form of cartoons by Mr.. Nor
man +. Jennett. the North Carolina
Davenport. His pencil did as much
to restore the Democratic party to
power in 1898 as any other agency.
and the people of the whole State
will be gratified to learn that he has
returned to North Carolina to de-
vote few weeks to help redeem his
native State from the jeopardy of
again falling into the corruption and
incompetent rule of 1S95-'99. AS soon
as the necessary material arrives.
the bennett cartoons will begin to
appear in these columns, and he will
''let no guilty man escape.
Recently Mr.. bennett has finished
work on important art exhibits that
have been sent TO the Paris EXposi-
ton. He holds responsible and lu-
crative position in New York, where
he is rapidly climbing to the top, and
makes Il sacrifice to come to North
Carolina to take hand in the
mightiest struggle that has been
waged in his State over the most i'm
portant question in his generation.
But his love for North Carolina is
deep and genuine-and when he heard
the cry of the white men Come over
and help u.s., he comes to enlist his
heart and pencil and talent to make
better permanent conditions in the
old Commonwealth
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
BERRIES PAID WELL.

Twenty years ago North Carolina
did not grow enough strawberries to
more than supply the North Carolina
market. 1t was about that time that
the Messrs. Westbrook began to grow
berries on a large scale for the North
ern market in Duplin county. The in
dustrv has grown until it has become
one Of inc largest and most profitable
in, Eastern North Carolina. 1t has not
only enriched our own peoples it has
been the chief factor in bringing a
class of desirable immigrants into the
Eastern part of the State. 1t is graft
fying to know that the berry crop
this year has paid well, the growers
realizing at least 800 per acre. The
Chadbourn- Messenger. published in
the centre of the colony of Northern
and Western farmers. brought into
the State through the efforts Of State
Senator Joseph A. Brown, has this
item:
This strawberry crop has furnish
ed employment for about 1000 per-
sons, and both employers and
employees have made good money.
The average picker has made
over dollar day. and the growers
have realized at least one hundred
dollars net. on every acre OF berries
up to this time. and the outlook for
marketing the entire crop at good
prices is now fair.
North Carolina largely owes its
growing prosperity TO its diversified
interests and intelligent study of mar
l,etS
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
Whitsett Commencement.
Especial to News and observer.)

Especial TO News and Observer)
Whitsett, N. c., May ia very large
crowd was here for the society entertain
ment last Saturday evening. Rev. w. p.
McCorkle. of Graham. presented the
prizes in a most excellent speech.
Tonight the second of these society en-
tertainments will be given by the Dialec-
tic Society, and already visitors are ar
irving,
The programme for the commencement
exercises for the remainder of the eXer-
cses is as follows:
Saturday May 10. p. manual de-
bate by Athenian Literary Society.
Sunday, May 20, II a. m-Annual Ser
mon by Rev. Charles B. King, A. NJ,
President of Elizabeth College Char
lotte, n. C.
Monday, May 81, p. m-Declamation
Contest by Dialectic Literary Society.
Tuesday, May %, ? p. m.-Annual Re-
union of the Literary Societies.
Wednesday, May %: Commencement
Day: 10 a. Vibrations by Society Rep
. p. m.-Literary Address by
Hon. Josephus Daniels. Raleigh, n c.:
p. m.-Graduating exercises of the Glass
of 1900. s p. m.-Consert.
Music by Whitsett Mandolin Club, and
Archdale Cornet Band.
The unusually large student body this
year, numbering two hundred and thirty
four, insures a very large crowd here for
all these exercises, and numerous visitors
will arrive this week to be present dur
ing the coming week.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
THE FLAGS WORST ENEMY.

The men who resolve most for lex
pansion" do not 90 to fight for it. and
they do not send their sons. There
have been SO suicides in one year
among our soldiers in the Philippines,
and 1000 sent from their various
posts to the Military Insane Asylum
in Washington. Six officers have
committed suicide. Sixty Americans
have been killed and wounded 2,721
Filipinos have been killed and wound
ed. Senator Hoar Secently said, and
it is as true as holy writ:
Certainly the flag should never be
lowered from any moral field over
which it has once waved. To follow
the flag is to follow the principles
of freedom and humanity for which
it stands. To claim that we must fol
low it when it stands for injustice or
oppression is wickedness and fraud.
The American flag is in more danger
from the imperialists than there
would be if the whole of Christendom
were TO combine its power against it..
Foreign violence at its worst could
only rend it. But these men are try
ing to strain it
The cost up to date of the Philip
pine war has been $165.452. POI. The
people of North Carolina have so far
been taxed four million dollars to
carry on this unholy war to violently
obtain a chance to sell little cloth
TO people who dress in the costume
adopted by Adam and Eve.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20

has just returned from Louisiana, where
he spent several days studying the work
ings of the Constitutional Amendment in
that State. While there he interviewed
some of the ablest lawyers and leading
men of the State. He has embodied his
observations and interviews in a series
of letters to his paper. which will be OF
service TO the Democratic party in this
campaign. No stronger campaign docu-
ment could be placed in the hands of
those who have their doubts about the
amendment. These letters should be pufy-
lished in pamphlet form and sent to every
neighborhood in the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.

Not only cures, but keeps well. Is sold
by an organized company of responsible
business men and has the endorsements
of thousands of Clergymen and noted
people throughout the country. We
speak of that wonderful instrument,
Electropoise, and ask your careful exam
ination into the cures it has wrought.
Col. A. p. Nunnally, of the Inter-Ocean,
Chicago, writes: Nearly three years
experience with Electropoise only con-
firms the truth of your claims. | say
to my friends that this instrument is Il
most wonderful invention and l would
not part with mine if / could not get
another" Send address for our book Civ
ing letters from people who have been
cured by ElectropOse ELECTROPOISE
CO, IL Fourth Avenue, Louisville. Ky.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
Another Republican Comes Out il
Favor of the Amendment.
(Watauga DemocratD

(N atauga Democrat
Editor Democrat:
There is a great question before the
people of North Carolina this year. 1t
is the question of permanent white SUI
premacy or permanent negro equality.
men who are trying to save the negro
from eternal and just obscurity, are
telling the white men OF North Caro-
lima who are unuble to read and write
that they are in danger of being dis
franchised.
Now, there is not a sound minded man
in the State who if he will but stop a
moment and reason, that will believe the
silly arguments put up by these so-called
leader.
Mr. Editor, | am a Republican, but
when it comes to a direct question of
whites VS.. negroes, l can not, in justice
10 the Anglo-SaXo blood that flows
in my veins, array myself on the side
of the African. l am for White Supre-
macy first, last, and all the time.
AS a Republican, l consider that the
Republican leaders in the State have
made serious mistake in placing them
selves as a hnderance in the pathway
of progress for it is a self-evdent fact
liIdl Tie OlO MI III oidtc Sdh hCNNl w
anything of which to be proud so long
as we have negroes in the halls or
Congress and in QUE State Legislature.
White Republicans who do not believe
IN negro equality have but one course
to pursue and that is to repudiate the
leaders of the party in the State and
vote for the Amendment. If ! have not
made myself plain enough, | will write
still further on the subje.-.
Very truly.
THOMAS p. SMITH.
Silverstone, May tn.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
DESERVES CENSURE.

Some pretty politics is being play
ed now i'm the Northern Methodist
General Conference. After a warm
fight. the ma jority of the committee
on resolutions decided to recommend
to the Conference a severe censure
of President Mckinley for his viola
ton of the law forbidding canteens.
The friends of the President in the
Conference will try to strike out the
censure, and secure the passage of a
milk-and- resolution. If they
succeed. it will be disgrace to North
ern Methodism.
The law against the canteen is
plain and the business of the Prcsi-
dent was to enforce it so that Con-
gress would repeal it if bad. law.
Instead of doing that he has lodged
the law and is responsible for the
canteens. AS the Methodist Church
has fought the canteen system, it
would be a sorry spectacle of a back
down to withhold censure of Mr. Nc
kinley because he happens to be a
Methodist. In truth, If he has viola
ted the law, as we believe, his own
church ought to be much more ready
to censure him than if the President
belonged to some other church.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
THE CUBAN SCANDAL.

Nobody ought to be surprised at the
scandals that have been waited to
Washington from the carpet-bag gov
eminent There has never been
time since the pro-consuls of Rome
robbed the provinces that the peo-
pie of a country in remote sections
governed by men appointed by CEN
trail authority. were not robbed by
their offce-holders. Sometimes they
know no better than to steal outright
like the vulgar Rathbone and the
clumsy Neely. but usually the money
goes into extras. ''incidentals,
rents" travelling expenses" and
the like. When the carpet-baggers
were in control in North Carolina.
they furnished their private resi-
dences and charged the items up to
carpets and furniture for the capitol.
and such methods were the most
modest of the stealings. And Raj
eigh was within ten hours ride of
Washington.
The Washington Post has been
studying some of the expenses of our
appointees in Cuba. There appears
an item of s.. 500 for rent for Governor
General Wood in addition to his reg
nlar salary of $500 and his addition
al salary of $500, making in all
$500. or more than is allowed our
Ambassador at the court OF st. James.
In Rathbone's department only $685.
900 was paid out TO transport the
mails while $4,000 was paid out for
salaries. OF the entire expenses OF
government in Cuba. more than one
third was for salaries for civil officers,
the officers and soldiers being paid
out of the United States Treasury.
The Post adds:
Indeed. when the salary list is
scrutinized the qu6a.ion will natural
~ arise as to what the army officers
are doing in Cuba anyway. 1t would
seem as if they were either doing
nothing or else that the civil employees
were enjoying sinecures of the fattest
character.
When Mr.. Jefferson was an old
man he was requested to write
constitution for a people who desired
to set up free government planned
after the American Republican, he
declined to write it. giving as his rea
son that no man outside of the coun-
try to be governed was capable of
drafting constitution for them, that
n free people must make their own
constitution and choose their own Of
fcers. In sublime indifference to all
the lessons of history and to the adj
monitions of jefferson. this admin
. istration sent a lot of ''carpet-bag-
gers" to govern Cuba, with no check
upon them and with carte blanche
to do what they pleased. The result
is what might have been expected.
No people are competent 10 rule 9th
ers. 1t is hard enough to govern
their own county.
the administration is: Get out of
Cuba according to promise. Let the
Cubans manage their own affairs.
They will hardly steal more from
themselves than we will steal from
them t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20

Judge Martin. of Little Rock Ar
kansas. the new Moderator of the
Southern Presbyterian General As
sembly. is a man of courage as well
as ability. He prevented the Corbett-
Fitsimmons fight taking place at Hot
Springs and upheld the antitrust law
of his State. There is great need of
such men in the highest councils Of
church and State. and it is crafty
ing to see such iursts take the lead
in the Legislative work of their
churches.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
TRUSTS ARE RESPONSIBLE.
Greenville Reflector.

GreenVllIe Reflector.
What is true of Danville is true OF
every other town that is regarded among
the tobacco markets. The tobacco indus
try, as builder of towns and producer
of profitable employment for any consid-
cradle number of people, has seen its
best days. The handling of tobacco and
business incident thereto has been the
making of some towns, but those that
expect much progress from now on must
turn into other channels. And the trusts
are responsible for this. 1t was reached
out and taken such control of the market
and business as to kill competition and
destroy the sources of labor and income
for large army of people. All is being
manipulated in the interest of the great
octopus. and until its power is broken
no town need look for much more pros
perity or development from the tobacco
industry.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20
Prof. Howell's Trip.

Especial to The News and Observer
Chapel Hill. n. c. May 19.-Prof. E. V.
Howell, of the Department of Pharmacy.
has just returned from a meeting of the
Pharmacopoeial Revision Committee at
Washington city. On his return he stop
ped over at the meeting of the American
Pharmaceutical Association. The oath
Prof Howell will leave for England. Ger
many and France, where he goes to visit
the Pharmaceutical Departments, of the
great foreign universities.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20

We are beginning to Ee proud of
North Cardinals form of government,
seeing that our neighbors think of
initiating North Carolina. The Nir-
ginians praise our economy. and now
we see that Hon. Washington Dessau.
of Macon. wants Georgia to rotate its
Judges on the North Carolina plan.
And yet. with all our neighbors en-
ioying our splendid system fixed by
the Constitutional Convention of
1873. the uiack-and-tan party here
wants to put the State in incompe-
tent hands.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20

Each new trust emphasizes the
trust question. The more important
the article controlled by the trust the
closer the question is brought home
to the individual. Everybody ought
TO understand and it is only a ques-
the subject if trusts continue to in
crease in number and ma"niNde. =
william Jennings Bryan.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-20

The Kentucky Republicans are
rather OVERRIDING expressions of con
tidence in" usurping Governor Taylor.
when they elect him delegate and
his wife an honorary delegate to the
Philadelphia National Convention. He
ought to be hung for the moral muir
der of Goebel instead of associating
with men who are innocent of muir
der.