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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
COL. BENEFITS BRILLIANT
SPEECH.

There is no man in North Carolina who
is always SO original and interesting as
Col. Risden Tyler Bennett, of Arson
county. His latest short speech was one
made in Wadesboro introducing Judge
Walter Clark at Confederate gathering
1t is so unique that we give it in full
as follows:
Ladies, Men of Arson County:
You have a distinguished citizen of
our State as your guest today. 1 am
constrained by his relation towards cur
rent events and by the proprieties of
this occasion to omit the civic distinc-
tions which adorn his career. These
you will rehearse in your own conscious
ness. You will take official notice OF
them.
II must leave you to burn your own
smoke.
Entering the military service of the
Confederate States at an early age he
served with the Thirty fifth Regiment of
North Carolina Troops as adiutant OF
the command. and was then self-reliant
and resourceful. With this command he
took part in some of the iercest engage
ments fought by the Army of Northern
Virginia. l have heard that he perform
ed a feat of unusual daring under the
immediate eye of Stonewall Jackson at
Sharpsburg. Later in the war he was
commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of
Regiment of Junior Reserves. With this
command his military service terminated.
1.-THE browning mercy of his eventful
life is Vouch- safed in the records filling
five volumes, wherein the living present
and distant ages will find true relation
of the many regiments and battalions
and companies marshalled by our dear
State to her standard and herein pavil-
toned as they exhausted their numbers
and were worn out by the process of
attrition.
"Our ordinary speech serves only the
middle range of emotion and passion,
while in supreme moments man is re-
duced to eloquent silence or to an in
articulate cry.
IF your orator should content himself
with a tribute to Anson's worthless, his
theme is noble.
"Anson was the first county in the
State to tender the military to Governor
Ellis in 1861.
'She had fewer deserters from the
colors than any county in the State, ex-
cept Cumberland and Warren.
If the speaker should ascend to the
lofty and imperishable theme, the New
Nation The Confederate States, 1
should feel in my bursting heart that we
ought to stand support for him while
he traces the great black tears of a peo-
pie, streaming at the very affairs of God
II heard Wade Hampton, our Wade,
say after his return from Europe that
he conceived an affection for Tennyson,
as by the unanimous voice of his neigh
bors he was the devoted friend of the
South during our war 1 borrow from
this perfect poet my closing words to you:
Sir, if a State submit
At once she may be blotted out at once
And swallowed in the conqueror's chron-
icle-
Whereas in wars of freedom and de-
fence
The glory and grief of battle won and
lost.
Soldiers race together-yea, tho they
fail.
The names of those who fought and fell
are like
A banked-up fire that flashes out again.
From century to century and. at last
May lead them on to victory. HOPE so,
Like Phantoms of the Gods. "
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
A MISTAKEN IDEA,

The Southern people as rule have
opposed the administrations policy in the
Philippines. Because they have advo-
| Gated suppression of the ignorant negro
votes in their own States, it is presumed
that the Southern people would con-
sistently favor the same course in the
new possessions. This is based upon an
incorrect understanding. ut is a condi-
ton, not a theory" that confronts the
Southern people. They advocate restrict
ing suffrage because it is necessary to
secure good government at home, but
they appreciate that, while it is neces-
sary it is not such an ideal condition as
to wish it extended. In fact their own
experience makes them oppose any addi-
ton of negro or Asiatic people. They
are opposed to annexing the Fi1ipinos
and, giving them the ballot They know,
that would be dangerous. They are OPP
posed to taking in any more citizens and
denying them the ballot. They were OPP
posed to giving the ballot to the newly
enfranchised slaves. There is danger
in that. Therefore they are strongly in
favor of giving the Filipinos their
liberty helping them to establish a gov
eminent of their own as we helped Cuba
Even the Springfield Republican, clear
headed and broad minded, does not grasp
the true position of the Southern people,
for it says:
1.-The South's treatment of the negro
is indefensible as it can be. and cannot
be too strongly arraigned. But the at
titude of those Southerners who justify
the political and social suppression of
the black in their midst, and at the
same time denounce the United States
government for it's course in the Philip
pines, IS at least more reasonable than
that of the Northerners who denounce
the South and uphold the policy of crimi-
nal aggression upon colored people fur
Their away. These Southerners simply
say, in effect, that they must maintain
white domination at home, but would
not go outside of the nation to extend
it, But the Chambers would assert their
white domination over distant colored
races in the most absolute, aggressive
and bloody manner possible, while COM
pelling the South to abandon the mani
festation of similar spirit in it's own
particular midst. Where, then do we
find the better example of the lordly and
contemptuous tyrant--in Ben Tillman or
Bill Chandler?''
The only wise and safe plan for this
Republics welfare and honor is to help
the Filipinos to establish stable govern
ment of their own. We don't want them
as subjects or as citizens.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
A MORNING TONIC.
phillips Brooks.)

II
Do not dare to live without some clear
intention toward which your living shall
be bent. Mean to be something with all
your might Do not add act to act and
day to day in perfect thoughtlessness,
never asking yourself whittier the grow
ing time is leading. But at the same
time do not dare to be so absorbed in
your own life, so wrapped up in listening
to the sound of your own hurrying
wheels, that all this vast pathetic mu-
sic made up of the mingled Joy and sor-
row of your fellowmen shall not find
out your heart and claim it. and make
ycu rejoice to give yourself up for them.
And yet, all the while, keep the upward
windows open. Do not dare to think
that child of God can worthily work out
his career or worthily serve Gods other
children unless he does both in the love
and fear of God their Father. Be sure
that ambition and charity will both grow
mean unless they are both inspired and
exalted by religion. Energy, love and
faith-these make the perfect man. And
Christ. who is the perfectness of all
of them, gives them all three to any
young man who. at the very outset of his
life gives himself to Him. If there is any
young man here who generously wants
to live a whole life, wants to complete
himself on every SIDE to him Christ the
Lord stands ready to give these three.
energy. love. and faith. and TO train them
in him all together, till they make him
the perfect man.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
INDEPENDENTS AND OFFICES.

II is a sound word and word in sea-
son which the Wadesboro Messenger and
TnteIligencer speaks in it's latest issue.
1t says:
.sWe always regret to SEGA young man
NJ narts land character take the unwise
step Of becoming an Independent candi-
date for office. In all our experience we
have never known a person do this who
aid not live to have reason to regret it.
Ours is a government by parties, and it is
absolutely necessary for every party to
have strong organization or it can never
succeed. The independent candidate and
the independent voter set themselves up
as being better than their party, but
the truth is that nine times out of ten
they are either lusty office seekers, or
sore heads, who are mad because the
dog viii not consent to be wagged by the
tail.
Party organization is an absolute ne
cessity in order that the greatest good
may be done for the country. man
here and q man there as an Independent
can never accomplish far reaching re-
suits for the good of the people. He may
secure the office for himself, and thus
benefit himself alone, but the politician
who is seeking the salary alone is not
the man to be chosen.
No, the Independent is not a factor in
great results. He usually either sinks
out of sight or finding that his course is
mistaken one, goes back into party
organization, and becomes a factor in the
immense power of united effort, but with
much time lost from which no benefit
has accrued
Inside of his party is where the 'nS-
yidual should make his fight after he has
chosen a party. If it's policies do not
suit him he should endeavor to have these
changed. but failing in this he should bow
to the will of the majority. remembering
that all knowledge is not bound up i'll
him. and that the others may be right
after all.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31

In another part of this paper is print
ed an extract from the Boston Herald
consisting of a letter in which Judge
Joseph Story, of Boston. tells that he
believed that North Carolina was being
maligned by men in their rash statements
about the Munroe Rogers requisition
case and the able reply to his questions
by Col. D. Worthington. of Wilson, now
visiting in New Hampshire. Col. Worth
ingt0n gives to the Bostonians the true
state of affairs leading to lynchings, and
is fortunate in reaching the northern ear
through Judge Story, who has become a
friend to North Carolina because he has
mingled with the people of the State and
recognizes that they are the equal of any
in the Union, fair minded, just and law
abiding.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
THE QUESTION ALREADY ANS.
WERED

rs the Republican party able to eman-
c1pate itself from servile attitude to
,, High Protection and from self indulgent
inactivity regarding great Industrial
combinations asks the Worlds Work.
That question was answered by the last
Congress in four votes
/. proposition was made by Mr.. Bah
cock, now Republican chairman of the
Congressional Committee, to reduce or
remove the tariff on the products of the
steel trust. That proposition was defeat
ed, showing that the Republican party in
the House could not "emancinate itself
from a servile attitude to High Protec-
tion'
2. Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt
both promised reciprocity to Cuba, but
it was defeated at the behest of the
Sugar Trust that held off the measure
unless it was given the pound of flesh
nearest the heart.
3. After Congress had passed all the
resentative Richardson proposed that it
remain in session to consider the vari-
Gus antitrust measures that were pend
ing and enact legislation that would carry
out the promise in the platform of all
parties. The Republican members re-
fused to do this, thereby showing that it
cannot emancipate itself "from self-in-
diligence regarding great induIgent in
activity regarding great industrial COM
binations.''
T. The President and other Republicans
mad been advocating publicity with re-
gard TO trusts. which the Worlds Work
calls great industrial combinations, "
but no bill in that direction had been
offered by any Republican. Senator Du-
bois offered an amendment embodying the
publicity commended by Mr.. Roosevelt
and EVERY REPUBLICAN. SENATOR
VOTED AGAINST IT. showing again that
the party is not able ito emancipate it
self from servile attitude to High Pro-
lection and from self-indulgent inactivity
regarding Industrial combinations"
Why cannot the Republican party
emancipate itself?" Because it does not
wish to do so. 1t belongs to the trusts
and legislates as they command just as
1T has let the protected interests write
tarin tax schedules for their own enrich
ment
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
The REPUBLICAN PROGRAM.

The Republican program this year is
substantially the same as in 1900.
In that year the negroes were told to
"go way back. and sit down.
Then they were told to do this in order
TO let the Republicans wage a vigorous
campaign against the suffrage amend
ment But on election day the negro was
told to be on hand and vote against the
amendment. He obeyed orders.
This year the negro was told again to
go way back and sit down" And he is
obeying. This time he is told that it
is for the purpose of inducing respect
able white men to join the Radical party.
after they get into the party and are
fully committed" is the way the Radical
leaders talk to the negroes they will
be as anxious for you to vote as we are.
You be quiet till we get them bagged and
then they will help us to restore the bal
lot to you." 1t is because of that prom
isc that the negro will keep quiet this
year, though in some sporadic cases he
will murmur for short time and then
be as quiet as a mummy.
Everybory who has a thimble full of
sense knows this to be the Republican
attitude. If they can get enough indie
pendents to run and make division in the
Democratic party to win plus $4,000 ne
sro votes, they will find way to put
the negroes on the books if the National
Republican party has to bust the Con-
stitution to do it.
Pie-loVing men, once Democrats, may
sell their birthright for a mess of pot
tage. Men with convictions who labored
to win in 1898 and 1900 cannot be tempted
TO desert in this important hour
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
aoN. RIB. GLENN's WITHDRAWAL

The withdrawal of Hon. R. B. Glenn
from the contest for the position of
United States Senator to be filled by the
incoming General Assembly of North
Carolina is a graceful act, done in the
interests of>that harmony which should
prevail in Democratic ranks and which
does prevail where men are not led from
the safe moorings of true party allegiance
to selfish grasping after their own in
dividual benefit
In presenting the name OF Hon c. B.
Watson to the convention of Forsyth
county, that he might receive it's unani-
nous endorsement, Mr.. Glenn has given
his county the opportunity not only to
give a solid support to the gentleman
whose name it will present to the State
as it's choice for the Senate, but it will
in Forsyth county and in that section
two gentlemen would necessarily clash,
be a source of strength to the Demo-
cratic party.
In subordinating his worthy ambition
to attain to the high office of Senator,
Mr.. Glenn exhibits that spirit of De-
mocracy for which he has ever been
noted A strong man in the active work
for party success, he has shown no less
strength in his withdrawal from the race
for Senator It is unselfsh and il is
noble
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
WIDE OF TIE MARX.

Worlds Work is either an inventor or
a discoverer. 1t says that "by nature Mr..
Roosevelt is conservative and never
rash.' That is wide of the real Mr..
Rooseelt. He is courageous, he is indus
trious, he has great ability in many
directions, but he doesn't know the mean
ing of the word conservative and his
whole public career shows that rash
ness" characterizes him. Senator Car
mack wasn't far wrong when he said
that Mr.. Roosevelt was like a certain
horse whose natural gait is running
away"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31

We see that the Republicans are bragg
ing about the former Democrats who took
part in their State Convention. and the
three they advertise the most are Capt.
Charles Price. of Salisbury; Capt. Bill
Day, of Raleigh; anud Col" Harry
Skinner, of Greenville. Not one of this
trio has voted the Democratic ticket for
ten years. Capt. Price and Capt Day
are the brag decoys that the Republic
cans used when they organized the Lib
eral movement. Col. Skinner holds a
81, 500 job under Mckinley. If these men
ever had any influence to decoy Demo-
Gratis into the Radical party, it was ten
years ago. Now they are as well known
as Radicals as Pritchard and Jim Young.
And all five of them sleep together in
the same political bed-Rhamkatte Roas-
ter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
BY THEIR FRUITS.

The Republican party, the greatest foe
that in North Carolina ever arose against
the public schools now tries the other
tack. One time it had the schools by
the throat, and it throttled them, squan-
dering the money with its scandalous pro-
eeedings. When the Republicans prate of
friendship for schools look at the records.
See school houses closed. the University
deserted and then apply the practical
value of what the party did as against
vehement promises.
When the devil was sick,
The devil saint would be.
When the devil got we'll
The devil a saint was he''
Under Democratic rule the schools
have grown in influence, they have null
tiplied in power. Now new school houses
are being built in every portion of the
State and the past summer by the efforts
of the Democratic leaders the people
have been set on fire for education. The
Democratic party is the party of schools
and education. now as in the past, and
the people know it, and knowing they
set the seal of approval upon it.
''Not words. but Deeds" is the reply
of the Democratic party to the fimsy
pretence of the Republicans that they
are the friends of schools.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31

We are sorry that it got to the "old
mans" ears about that dance of his
boys, but our ''Sassiety Editor some
times slips things in at which we our
selves are amazed This is noted because
Editor T. ]. Lowry, of the Mount Airy
News arises to say that Herbert Low
", our boy, who is at present employed
On the Pilot News, has been dancing"
so we learn from the News and Observer.
We wouldn't thought it!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
TWO INSTANCES OF PROFANITY,

The Raleigh Times has a well con-
sidered editorial on "a Form of Pro-
family" called out by two instances, one in
politics and one growing out of the strike
of the miners. The tendency to a fiippant
use of sacred things is seen every day.
Bible texts, sacred songs, and all holy
things are made the subject of light con-
versation, with the result that it tends
to lessen reverence for them.
At the Fayetteville Congressional con-
vention, this scene is given by a reporter
who was present.:
''Col. Preatt rushed down the aisle, on
tip-toe, following the lead of his corpu-
lent girdle, bracing himself against the
edge of the platform, shaking threat
ening finger at the little chairman and
putting and blowing like spent engine,
he said:
"'All Hale the power Of Bellamy's name.
Let Patterson PROSTATE fall,
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown Bellamy Lord of ALL
The gentleman guilty of this profana-
tion was laboring under political excite
ment-that is the only palliation for the
offence. He never thought of irreverence,
but it was none the less irreverent.
The second instance condemned by the
Times is thousand fold more irreverent.
if indeed it is not really blasphemous. 1t
is certainly pharisaical and sacrilegious.
About week ago an appeal was made
to President Bear, of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company, to end
the coal strike ION the basis of practical
Christianity" Here was his contemptu-
Gus and hypocritical reply:
Il beg of you not to be discouraged.
The rights and interests of the laboring
man will be protected and cared for,
not by the labor agitators, but the Chris
tian men to whom God. in His infinite
wisdom has given the control of the
property interests of the country. Pray
earnestly that the right may triumph,
always remembering that the Lord God
Omnipotent still reigns, and that His
reign is one of law and order, and not of
violence and crime"
The assumption that God in His wis
DOM gave the property to the men who
own the coal mines is so impious that
it is a wonder that the tongue of the
man who uttered it was not palsied. God
permits wrong; God permits robbery; he
permits unholy accumulation of wealth
He is not the author of either. Most of
the fortunes in the coal mine regions
were obtained by the robber tariff. God
did not write that law which permits one
man to put his hand in the pockets of
the many for personal enrichment. The
combinations, contrary to law, that has
further enriched the coal operators,
We're not directed of God, and it is
sacrilege to so contend. For a man like
Bear, who is taking a course for selfish
reasons that will bring suffering and
privation to thousands, to assume to be
the representative of the Most High is
little short of the proclamation for which
men fell over dead in the early history
of the church. 1t is shocking that it
should be used in the light of this
Twentieth Century.
The coal operators and railroads. made
rich in part by tariff and unlawful dis
have a legal right to con-
tinue the strike. and if violence is at |
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31

Uncle Sam does not seem to be wor-
ryng himself in an endeavor to foster
the agricultural interests of the country
At it's recent session Congress appro-
priated $500, 624, 496 and the smallest sum
of any of the bills passed was the agri-
cultural, which got Sc, POS, 500.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31

The cause of temperance grows. Pen
sion Commissioner Ware is letting it be
that a proved charge of in
temperance brought against an official of
his department, will result in dismissal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31

AS the summer draws to close it looks
as if the coal man" who has any in his
bins is to be the real article in the mil
lionaire line.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31

The most successful lawyers now are
the ones who keep their clients out of
court
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31

Most marriages would indicate that
women are natural-born hypnotists.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-17
THE SARGENT STRIKE.

Ninety Moulders Quit Work There Yes
 terday-South Foundry Men Still in.
 A new chapter in the Sargent strike was added yesterday, when ninety iron moulders quit work there. These men are said to have been dissatisfied with the work of their helpers, who are non- union men. The regular gang of mould CTS helpers quit work last week and number of men have been taken in to take their places. These men have not proved satisfactory and the result was that the regular iron moulders left the factory in a body yesterday morning. they found an extra large number of nOn-union helpers there.
 The strikers are still of the opinion that the strike will be long one. for they say they will not give in a point
 The arbitration matter has been drop ped temporarily, and nothing was done yesterday toward a settlement.
 There have been many reports about the actions of the strikers near the fac tories, some to the effect that extra po- licemen have been detailed there to keep order Everything is peaceful in the neighborhood of the shops, and at no time has there been any violence shown by the strikers or non-union men,