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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-29
THE EDITORIAL CONVENTION,

The North Carolina Editorial ConVen-
ton held its annual session in
Hendersonville this week. 1t is an ideal
Mace for the gathering of the clans. The
convention met in Hendcrsonville last IN
1887, and it was in many ways one OF the
most delightful sessions ever held. The
people of Hendersonville gave them a
generous and elegant hospitality.
Many changes have taken place in these
years that have interviewed. Henderson
Vile has grown to be one of the largest
towns in Western North Carolina,
popular resort, and its growth has been
of the most satisfactory character. 1t
is solid town, growing in everything
that goes to make a city prosperous and
beautiful. There has been wonderful
change. too, in the press since that day
In no single particular has North Caro-
lima made greater strides than in its
ncwspapers In 1887 there was not per-
fccting press or type-setting machine
in North Carolina. The introduction of
these two ''revolutionizers" of journal
ism are only the most conspicuous evil
denccs of journalistic progress the
nest marked are in the character of the
journals and in their news service. More
rrogress in printing all the news in an
attractive shape has been made since
1887 than in the previous forty years.
There has come a new conception of
the value and Importance of the press.
| journalism is coming to be profession,
calling for more versatility and varied
talent than any other profession.
| Charity and Children prints an editorial
suggested by the annual gathering of the
editors that contain much sense and more
| wisdom We quote it:
Next week the newspaper men meet
| in annual session in the town Oh men
Jacksonville. They are teachers IN as
high a sense as are those who met last
week at Morehead City, and there is
| this difference in favor of the EDITORS
Their pupils are older and more ma
ture than children of school age TO ,he
academies and colleges. And the
teachings of these men are more potent
and POWERFUL because Of the character
and influence of those who are learn
ers. Next to the minister in the pull
nit stands the editor in his office IN
the Importance and influence or MS
| calling All of us are not what we
ought to be- few among us regard
our newspapers as the place for the ex-
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THE CHARTER MEMBERS.

The suggestion that there be one hun
dred original incorporators of the COM
pany to be formed for the Roanoke Is
land Celebration and that the charter
itself, which is to be an historic docu-
ment, be suitably ornamented and de-
signed, arc among those which the COM
mittee will have under consideration at
its meeting on the island July oath next
Whether the incorporators should be
chosen one from each county or they
should be chosen from among the irat
who subscribe or the committee should
select one hundred North Carolinians,
without regard to location, are all mat
ters which they will have the wisdom to
properly decide; it is understood the
committee will be large and representa-
tive.
If the charter is to be highly or1a-
mented and artistically designed scme-
body may make a reputation by con-
Meeting Sir Walter Raleigh's coat of
arms with that Of the State of North
Carolina. Have we the artist within
our borders? In fact the artist will play
a very important part in this celebra-
ton anyhow, for it is not to be COM
mercial as we understand but historic
and educational. and its chief features
will be scenes and pageants represent
ing the landing of the colonies and tho
other events to be commemorate.
The author OF John Vytal missed a
rare opportunity when he failed to visit
Roanoke island and the Banks adjacent
and devote time enough to their de-
scription to make a piece OF permanent
literature. His book is read because it's
principal events are located there and it
deals with the Lost Colony: but his de-
scription is so general that no one could
say with certainty that he ever visita /
the spots he undertook to describe.
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Lockhart for Associate Justice.

To the Editor: Two Associate Justices
are TO be nominated for the Supreme
Court one for the East. and one for the
Western part of the State OF those men,
toned for the Western vacancy, all are
excellent gentlemen. Not word can be
properly said in dispara cement of any
of them. For myself | am particularly
interested in one of them, Mr.. James a.
Lockhart, who has some kinspeople liv-
ing here among us, and / beg to solicit
the favor of our friends in Wake county
in his behalf. Mr.. Lockhart has few
superors, if any, in this State, whether
we consider him, morally, mentally, as
a party man, or as a jurist.
AS man and citizen he is an honor TO
his community and to the State. He is
very clear headed; a man of unusual in
telligence; of broad. liberal views; an
elegant lawyer; a gentleman free from
fault and blemishes; a sterling man in
every vocation of life.
He would adorn the Supreme Court
bench and he would wear the mantle of
a jurist with credit to our State and
people.
/ hape that Wake county will give him
a heary support. His friends ~ Arson
county and throughout tho State will
greatly appreciate such faVCr 10 this
admirable and beloved representative of
the Peedee section. S A. ASHE.
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ploitation of our own personal virtues
and dignity Now and then one may
be found who imagines that an editor
ought to be venerated and feared as il
he were a monarch on throne, but we
are glad to believe that the great ma
jority of North Carolina newspaper men
have the proper conception of their
calling which is to advertise others
while concealng themselves, and to
help the community by a life of self
sacrifice. The editors are not the cap
tains nor the admirals on the ship of
State-they are the stokers. and their
business is to furnish the power to drive
the vessel, but not to command it.
Sometimes one of our folks imagines that
he is entitled to an office on the upper
deck, but he soon learns that he has
made a mistake and he is speedily sent
below, a sadder but a much wiser man.
However. though the public has decreed
that the editor is not fit to hold office.
he holds one all the same. His mission
as we have said, is equalled only by the
minister of the gospel, and his labors
though sometimes unappreciated and I'M
known, are of surprising value to the
commonwealth. We hope the gentlemen
who handle the pencil and the scissors
will greatly enjoy the mountain tops,
and the communion with each other
which these annual reunions always
give; and that they will return to their
workshops refreshed and strengthened
by a few days soiourn in one of tho
loveliest towns in the wide world"
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But He lid Say It.

To the Editor: In your Sundays issue
/ find an exceedingly interesting article
by Col +. a. Odds, describing the monu-
ments in the two cemeteries of Raleigh.
Especially interesting it is to me, for
very nearly all my boyhood days were
spent in Raleigh, that is, between 1888
and 1S4S
l was very fond of roaming over the
town. BY the way, | remember thinking
that Raleigh was next to London in size.
Yet l think i knew, not only nearly every
white citizen, but also their places of
residence, and when directing stranger
inquiring for certain persons resi-
dence we would invariably tell him near
whose house the person lived Few
citizens knew the names of more than
five or six strects-ard no house was
numbered.
But TO the special cause of this pres
ent writing. Mr.. Olds says that a gem
tleman told him that it was not true,
that President Johnson said, speaking
of the man 10 whose memory the brown
stone monument IN the old cemetery
was erectedD "of the man said to have
been my father leaving an impression
on the reader that he said nothing of
the kind. Now. / happen to know all
about it. I have a vivid recollection OF
most Of what occurred that day.
| was standing together with Carson
Murray and William White, two old
school mates, both now dead, within
twenty feet of the speakers. on TIE
pavement in front of the Marlborough
House. We heard the speeches of Mr.
w. II. Seward with his jaw still swollen
from the bone broken by the assassin.
who attempted his life the same night
that President Lincoln was shoU and of
dent Andrew Johnson, who stood on a
balcony on the second floor of the hotel.
The President distinctly used these
words: Il come today TO take part in
the ceremonies connected with the cree
tion of monument over the remains of
man whom l claim to be my father"
am certain that the above words are
absolutely correct.
Mr.. Seward had the bad taste to jeer
at the large crowd assembled. Among
other things he said, in substance: You
did not expect to see old Bill Seward in
the South, did We. Yes, but look there, -
pointing to a squadron OF cavalry sitting
on their horses with drawn sabres,
drawn up in semi circle around the
crowd You can't hurt him-he has
protection"
General Sickles. with his one leg and
two crutches stood near in uniform.
But this will do for this time.
RICHARD H. LEWIS.
Kinston, n. c.. June 23rd.
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Wireless Telephone.
fThc Tar Hecl.)

tlnc lar feSlb
The people along the banks from
Frisco to Buxton arc interested in the
transmission of words by telephone where
there is no connection. DR.. J. J. Davis,
of Buxton, has a private wire from his
home to Crecd's Hill L. S. l.. S. Station,
a distance of six miles and has no con-
nection with the telephone owned by the
government and connecting the life saw
ing stations. A. !. Fulcher. of Frisco,
also has a private wire from his store
to Creeds Hill, but has no connection
with tho governmental telephone or the
one owned bv DR.. J. J. Davis. The
Frisco line has as a terminus an old out
house. The Buxton line enters the l..
s. Station but is more than twelve feet
from the governmental line. Any mes
sage on either line can be heard on the
other two lines Still more strange per-
haps, the ticking of the wireless tele-
graphic key could be heard by phone at
Dr. Davis more than mile away.
WIREI. ESS TELEGRAPHY A SUCCESS.
Prof. FessendCn, OF the U. ). weather
bureau had three stations in use IN ms
experiments. Each consisting OF a tall
pole supported by ten wire braces by the
aid of which he received the sounds. the
stations are yet to be seen at Hattcras
rear Buxton, Roanoke Island and Care
Henry.
The largest message sent was l'j
words and that in less time than II Gsu-
ally takes by the system of wires. Prof.
Fessenden has a system which he says
is distinct and separate from the Marconl
system, one entirely his own.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-29
IS \ REVELATION.

J. Davis, Supt. Mt. Airy Graded
Schools: Your Ten Years of Educational
Progress" edition is a marvel. Even to
these engaged in the work during this
decade, your splendid summary is a
revelation. This edition is a magnificent
feat in journalism and places the News
and Observer in the forefront of North
CAROLINA newspapers in advocacy of the
education of the people-all the people,
This special number going into thousands
of the homes of the State will stimulate
the people in many localities, to solve
their educational problems by showing
how these problems have been solved
elsewhere. | regard this Ten Years OF
Educational Progress" edition a potent
factor in The future development of the
States highest intcrcst-the expansion
of intellect
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-29
The Romantic Story Of Bow William Writ
Was Saved.
christian Inquircr.D

christian Inquircr.)
want to tell you true story today
about a young man who became IA
nous. Like many another poor fellow
he was a slave of the fearful habit Of
drink. This is the story:
One day, when rich an talented young
lady from Richmond Va. was out driv-
ing, she came upon a young man who
lay beside the road drunk. Moved by
pity, she alghted from her carriage and
placed her handkerchief over the young
mans face. then continued her ride.
Some days later, the young man called
to see her, and said Il am ashamed
to look you in the face. l am the man
you so kindly cared for the other day l
found your name on the handkerchief,
ard have come to thank you for your
Kindness. ! have signed the pledge.
With my hand on my mothers Bible, l
have sworn, God being my helper, that
| will never drink another drop OF in
toxicating liquor"
He kept his pledge. His rescuer be
came his wife. He was young man
of rare talents, and it was not long De
fore he became widely known as an
orator and as Il brilliant writer. HIS
name was William Writ. He became
the Attorney General of the United
states and was once nominated for the
Presidency.
This little act gave to America one OF
her greatest lawyers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-29
THE PROPER WAY.

Those Democrats who oppose the nom
nation OF Judge Clark as Chief JUST. C
are pursuing the proper course in voting
for some other able lawyer in the coun-
ty conventions. The interest of the par
ty requires full and free expression
of opinion. and the settlement OF this
matter in the various county conventions.
In every county except one up to date
Justice Clark has majority of the in
structed vote. 1t is to be hoped that 4
vote will be taken in every county and
that every Democrat will voice his cor
yiction Then the nomination will be vir-
tually made before the Greensboro Con-
vention by the people in their respective
counties. This paper has all along urged
this course and is graSifed to see that
it is being adopted in nearly every
county.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-29
Mr.. E.S. Park-r, Jr, Coming Back
(Alamance Gleaner.)

II rives us pleasure to state that Ned
Parker is coming back to Graham 70
locate and practice his procession. "A
little over three years ago he moved 10
Knoxville, Tenn, where he was one OF
a firm of three lawyers who did the lead
ing practice in that city. His success
has been all that he or his friends could
have desired. But owing to the advice
of his family physician he has for few
months contemplated a change of resi-
dence for his wife's health, hence his
decision to return to his native county.
Throughout the county his friends Will
learn with geneuine pleasure that he is
coming back home and all will give him
hearty welcome.
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The HendcrsenVille Hustler is urging
the people of that progressive town 10
make an attempt to get III" railroad
that is to be built from huthcrfordton
to Asheville to run by way of Hender-
sonville 1t says: ut has been our
hope for years that some time the Sea -
board Air Line would extend its line 10
Hendersonville. Now the news comes
that the extension is to be made, but
not to Hendersonville. If we lose
the road and a branch road is built from
Asheville up the French Broad river to
the Mills river section HenderscnvNle
loses more than she will be able soon to
regain"
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Roanoke Island Celebration.

To the Editor This proposed
celebration of the historical events
lcadirg M to the settlement
of North Carolina, is destined to
become of far wider scope than the modest
gentlemen who have been SO patiently
urging it, at first conjectured The mi
tial stage is still on, and the idea grows
continually; charging, widening and alb
sorbing. On the oath Of July. next the
committee chosen TO determine the date.
scope and plan, will meet on the his
torc ground to formulate and perfect
plans for the great event. This commit
tee is composed of from fifty to seventy
five of The best men in the State; they
do not go to rush through in a perfume
tory way, a public duty but being deeply
interested in the subject and cognizant
of the great responsibility resting upon
them in providing d celebration com
mensuratc with the Importance Of the
historical events and at the same time
with the present status OF North Carolina
in the sisterhood of States, It's G2libcra-
tions and action must be most carefully
matured.
The opening ball at Wade Mecum Spring
on June 2lst was Q very brilliant affair
They drew from New York to Florida,
and Winston Salem's pleasure seeking
population was there in large numbers
The music and floor are unsurpassed and
the white glow OF the acetelyne lights
added a charm unusual. Tho great dia-
mond lake was fairly alive with I'll the
tports of rowing, swimming. shooting
the chutcs The crowd is surely heading
towards Wade Mecum this season.
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Spirit of the Press.
THE PLATFORM OF 1904.
Henry Watterson

Henry Watterson.
The Democratic platform of 1895 and
1900 are as dead as the Democratic
platforms of 1860 and of 1862. If we are
to carry the country in 1902, as we have
good prospect of doing-sure of carrying
the next Congress in the coming autumn
elections-we must omen up a fresh set
of books We must turn our backs upon
all by-gones-on' much mayhap that was
rood-on much assuredly that was i'll
in favor of such ali alignment upon the
living issues of the time as shall bring
us within close range of the common
enemy This does not in the least imply
any abandonment of principle, or con-
viction. There are men still living in
the South who conscientiously bclleVe
the institution of African slavery OF
divine origin and best for both races
Does such a man sacrifice anything of his
conscientious belief when he admits that
the institutions of African slavery no
longer exists and loyalty accepts the
amended Constitution of the United
States? In like manner, touching IN
dividual beliefs about questions no longer
vital, they should be allowed to sleep,
each separate Democrat reserving to
himself the right to think as he pleases
to think, but making this concession to
the general community of interest. III
we read Mr.. Bryan Alright, he is not
willing to do this. He insists upon at least
such a recurrence to the platforms OIL
1896 and of 1900 as will keep them ever
present in the public mind This, 1T
seems to us, is to play directly into the
Republican hand. 1t is certainly what
the Republicans would have us do. Ii
they can by any hook or crook escape
the frghtful record they have made.
and are making, they have a safe thing
ahead of them. Seeing this clearly, the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-29
Where Moses Stood

Coincidences of ludicrous character
are liable to occur on the most solemn
OCCASIONS, says the New York Christian
Advocate. AS an illustration, we recall
that the Rev. G. II. Moses of Virginia
a Baptist preacher of considerable re-
nown. once spent a Sunday in Richmond
soon after he had visited the bcautltul
regions around Mountain Lake, in GlleS
county, Virginia Being invited by one
of the city pastors to preach, toward the
close of the sermon he gave as an Illus
tration vivid description OF the Won
derful landscape scenes which he had
Just beheld. and as he closed called on
the choir to sing something of their own
selection. They struck up the old hymn
beginning, "There is land Of pure de-
light" but when they reached the fourth
stanza these words confronted them:
Could we but stand where Moses stood,
And view the Landscape Ger.
They tried to sing, but broke down.
The congregation followed their eX-
ample, and the service closed in general
merriment
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INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
Winston Journal.

Winston Journal
1t will be encouraging to our State
educators to note the action of the School
Board and the Board of Aldermen in the
matter of inaugurating an industrial de-
partment in our public school system.
The establishment of this branch of
study will greatly assist our young men
in deciding in what branch of industry
they are to assist in developing our dear
State. The points brought out by our
city school superintendent, Mr.. Tomlin-
son. in another column should BE closely
considered by our people. In discussing
the urgent need of the development Of
skill in our schools Supt. Tomlinson said:
1--WE have more dirt in North Carolina
than anything else, but we are actually
hauling dirt into Winston from other
States, in the form of pressed brick, be-
cause we haven't the skill to make
them"
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GIFTS TO SMALL COLLEGES

z
Going back into past times in our own
country and reverting to colleges not
Catholic when the old, manly training
yet swa.eG the minds of all good edu-
Gators, we know well that modest col
leges, of mean exterior and scanty
means, sent forth the men who made
this nation what it is. and it may be
said here, too, that the land would not
be what it is today if those men had
been moulded on some grouping elective
system. They would not have had the
clear range of intellectual vision the
comprehensive grasp to do what thcy
did, and it is due to the old-time system
now so much maligned as antique that
ave owe the best clements of our citizen
ship.
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WHAT THE TEST SHOWS.

For many weeks the organ of the South
ern Railway in Raleigh has devoted all
its energies and exerted' all its influence
to compass the defeat Of Hon. Walter
Clark for Chief Justice. For some days
it has been trying to make the people Of
the State believe he was weak in Wake
county. The only answer that Democrats
have made to the utterance of that Re-
publican paper has been: Wait until the
Democratic convention of Wake county
meets-that will guage the strength of
Judge Clark in his contest for Chief JUS
iice. 1t met yesterday in Raleigh and
was composed of 300 delegates A mo-
ton was made to instruct the delegates
to vote in the State Convention for Judge
enthusiasm.
That vote correctly guages the influ
ence of the Morning Post in the councils
of the Democratic party in Wake county.
1t is zero. The Democratic voters know
that it's voice is the voice of the South
ern Railway, the voice of the hrcling
of corporation domination, the voice of
the insidious foes of Democracy. It's adj
vocacy of an honest man, if it occasion
ally stumblcs into doing So makes good
men suspicious of the man it com
mends 1t has come to pass that public
men stun it's approval as they do
pest, knowing that its commcndation in
jures their reputation.
When the Southern Railway, after the
experiment of running the Tribune rs u
straight Republican paper. started The
Morning Post as so-called Democratic
paper, it fooled some Democrats for
| time. 1t posed as a good Democratic Ia
per, and sought to gain standing in the
party that it might make it the agency
of corporation greed or compass its de-
feat One by one the men who were
deceived by it have learned its true
that it violently assails a public man
to feel sure that he is worthy of public
confidence. It's hostility to Judge Clark
has smoothed the way of that gentleman
to the office of Chief Justice.
II is we'll for Democracy that this rail-
road organ made its systematic attack
upon Judge Clark and let the whole State
CO, @f inf, in,
the Democratic party in the county in
which it is published. 1t has shown That
it cannot influence a single vote OF the
!, 200 Democratic voters of Wake county.
OF course there are few good men in
Raleigh who did not favor the nomina
ton of Judge Clark and they might have
been able by thorough organization to
have polled enough votes against hin
| in the entire county to have entitled
them to one delegate to the State Con-
vention, but when the Post began to lead
in the fight against him, they surrcn-
dered and gave up the fght un2er
such leadership the best men who OPP
posed Clark would not follow.
The exposure of the utter want or in
huence of the Morning Post in Demo-
cratic conventions is one of the best
things that has happened to the Demo-
cratic party recently. Now that tic par
t. fully understands and has passed upon
the Posts right to speak for the Demo-
cratic party, it is shorn OF power TO
Ia, he