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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-12
kERENS ENDORSED
IN THIRD DISTRICT.
Republican Committee Turned
Down HitchcOck's Man for Post.
mastership at Bethany.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Kansas City, Mo-. Jan. n-Although this
is not in the district. the members of the
Republican Third Congressional District
Committee met here to-day and fiayed Sec.
rotary OF State Hitchcock. They turned
down Hitchcock's personal representative.
william Leeper. to the extent of not invtt-
ing him to be present at the meeting.
Kerens was Endorsed in the following lan>
guage:
Nine of the ten counties in the district
being represented. We hereby and now an.
nounce allegiance to the Honorable r. c.
Kerens, National Committeeman from Mis-.
souri,. and unqualifiedly indorse his course
and conduct in watching out for the inter-
est of our party. knowing him to be broad
minded. loyal and devoted. unselnsh. untir-
ing and thoroughly representing the Repub-
lican party"
Another resolution, framed to emphasize
The attack on Secretary Hitchcock. indorsed
Frank Hampton for the postmastership OF
Bethany. Hitchcock is backing William
Leeper. senior.
1t was decided to call the congressional
convention on March l. at Excelsior
Springs.
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son WAITING
o HIS FATHER.

Howell, her youngest boy, was standing
near a window. looking into the yard. His
nose was pressed against the pane, in boy
ism fashion, and his young thoughts We're
evidently far away. Presently he began TO
cry. Tears coursed down his checks in lit
tie rivulets. Then he sobbed aloud. The
mother heard and turned to him.
What's the matter, SOM" she asked.
Il was just thinking" said he. Il would
have liked to have growed up into an
old man. but if l nave to wait that long
to see papa I don't want to be SO old"
The parent and widow rushed to her
son. embraced him. and herself wept. Such
painful reminders of her husbands death
must constantly occur, and yet she keeps
her strength. Since a short time after the
killing she has slept in the room where
her husband was shot. The arrangement
Of tho furniture has not been changed in
any particular. and the ami is now
lust as it was outlined before the Coroner's
Jury. the Grand Jury, and as it will be
mapped out before the trying court.
Theory after theory has been ingenious
~ spun. and spun chiefly out of the evil
dence at the Coroner's inquest. to point
out the slayer. In Savannah there can
be found few persons who have not formed
an opinion. and opinions are very diver
gent. Querying among the merchants of
the town shows only that among a con-
siderable element exists an undercurrent
of belief that Mrs. Richardson knows more
tina she tells.
The arrest of Stewart Fife. a youth of
but % years old. is regarded as an event
correlated to the Richardson case. The
tracing OF this connection seems purely to
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ACCUSED WIDOW WILL CALMLY
FACE PL.ATTSBURG TRIBUNAL.

Mrs. Richardson Has Lived a Quirt Home Life Since the Mysterious
Killing of Her Husband a Year Ago Christmas Eve. Showing
Tut Slight Trace of Her ordcal-Revew of Facts
Surrounding The Case.
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OJTWARDLY CALM.
HER BEARING PROUD,

In the presence of all this stir. and the
buzz of tongues busy with her name, Mrs.
Richardson is cool. never outwardly show
ing emotion, walking erect and proudly
about Savannah when she leaves her home.
The sentiment of about go or 30 per cent Of
her home towns citizens is against her, and
she is conscious of It. But not from her
actions could IT be known. When recogni-
ton is given her by a one-time acqua;nt-
snce. she bows politely; when friends who
have befriended her throughout pass by.
she greets them unceremonious'y and I'M
concerDedly. in the unconventional way of
Texans. for she is a Texan, and distinctly
a Southern type of woman. The woman of
savannah have remained her truest
friends. and many call upon her frequently.
but she seldom returns a call. volcing no
reason. The explanation supplied by her
friends is that she will not press herself
forward while the stigma of accusation,
which she has borne for more than a year.
rests upon her.
Ike has admitted that she was near her
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BY \ STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

BY \ STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
Savannah. Mo. Jan. lO.-Mrs. AGdie Rich
arison. once a beautiful. vivacicus. laugh
t"r-iovinE happy wife and mother. will ap-
pear next Monday in a court Of justice TO
plead innocent To the charge Of murder. to
deny knowledge of the Identity of him who
stew her husband. Frank W. Richardson.
Christmas Eve, 1899. in his home at this
riace.
The same charge rests against Stewart
Fife. formerly a young society man of Sa-
Nannah, who was recently arrested at North
Yakimi. Wash. But attorneys state that
this does not affect the case against Mrs.
Richardson, which Is docketed has murder"
in the Circuit Court of Clinton County at
Plattsburg. Mo-. where the trial will take
place on a change of venue from Clinton
COUNTY, OF which Savannah /. the county
seat.
Prosecuting Attorney Lloyd Booher of
Andrew County. who will conduct the
prosecution OF Mrs. Richardson. says that
the latter is held to be an accessory be-
fore the fact" and that she. with Fife, can
b. equally guilty and liable to the same
penalty.
Because Of the prominence OF the Rich
ardscns. the Flies. Others who will figure
as witnessesss. because of the eXtraordi-
nary circumstances surrounding the killing
of Richardson. and because of the mys-
terry woven about the crime. so that the
volumes Of evidence adduccd at the Cor
oner's inquest seemed only the more to be-
wilder. the trial to come is the chief topic
for conversation here. at 81. Joseph and
other adjacent cities.
Will IL clear a way through the mass Of
conflicting testimony, and point 10 the gull
~? Will Mrs. Richardson he indicated?
VIII other names. hitherto connected with
The killing only in town gossip. be involved?
Or will the investigation. which must con-
tinue long. and cost the State much. leave
all still unexplained. a matter for Doubt
ing?
Any of these conclusions are possible,
though the attorneys for both sides prom
Use new evidence and are confident.
When the taking of testimony COM
mences. which probably will not be until
a week from next Tuesday. Savannah will
he half depopulated and Plattsburg filled to
Overlooking. About forty witnesses are
listed by both prosecution and defense.
though many of these will be called by
each side. Nearly all live at Savannah. and
the presence of many Will be required in
court upon the same day. Such a number
but interest In the proceedings. especially
when the chief witnesses testify. viii. he a
lodestone which will attract every citizen
OF this and other adjacent communities
VINO can spare the time to attend.
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enough to stand calm in innocence. neither
crying out against nor speaking harshly of
her r%evilers. saying only. as If disinterested.
that the evidence will show.
saw Mrs. Richardson in the st.
Joseph Offices of two of her attorneys.
a. W BrewEe and S. 2. Huston.
She was sitting in the outer Office. I'm
noting her. l passed into Mr.. Illusions pri-
vate office. though the dividing door re-
manned open wide and she could hear all
that was said.
Il have come about that Richardson
womans case" ] said, undipiomaticdliy.
after self-introduCticn.
At that instant ! saw and recognized
that Richardson woman She eaZed full
at me-. the turn-down mouth very grim,
pcrtriis33-quiver and ayes cleaning. Then
she seemed TO smile. Her teeth We're barely
visible and her mouth opened ever so lit
tie. That was all. No impulsive movement
or sudden start at what must have been
to her a brutal remark Such self-pcsses-
sion seems hardly natural, showing how
she has steeled herself against surprises
against the thousand things that she must
hear. and which may be the most unjust
calunnies ever voiced.
GREETED At HOME
BY Her LITTLE ONES.
In the afternoon she went to Savannah.
which is but fifteen miles from st. Joseph.
She walked the two blocks from the train
10 her home alone. though at the gate two
of her little sons ran forward TO kiss
Mamma When her husband met his
tragic end there remained of the family
herself and three sons-John. Frank and
Rowell-1t. l. and 10 years old. respectively.
Since that time her aged father. Andrew
Ia Wreuca who il 30 years old and whp=a
home is at Fort Worth. Tex. has lived
with her. Her daily life, as testified to by
her ~neighbors. has been very quiet, broken
only by the several steps in the lega, pro-
cedure against her. and by frequent con-
sultation with her lawyers. She is 4 regular
attendant at the Christian Church of Sa-
vannah, and generally steps silently into
the little frame house of worship. preceded
by her three sons. at IL o'clock every Sun
day morning. She does her own shopping
and daily can be seen downtown.
As has been said. the women Of Savannah
believe in her. and many of the most So
Cialiy prominent are her stanchest SUD-
porters. Among the most intimate of her
friends are Mrs. Sophie Parviance. Mrs.
Doctor Kerr. Mrs. Mary s. Russell. Miss
Lily Bedford and Mrs. j. l.. jenkins. The
ladies all express sympathy for Mrs. Rich
ardson. and maintain her innocence.
1t will be remembered that early on The
Christmas Eve before her husband was shot
she was decorating a Christmas tree. which
was to be a surprise for the children on .he
morrow. This Christmas there was no
Christmas tree. nor Christmas gift-giving
in the household. The joyless anniversary
she spent at home with her children and
her father. One of her attorneys. julie San
ders of Savannah, visited her on the after
noon of this day. and was the witness of
an affecting incident, showing the woman
ly womanliness in her.
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A VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN.

DR.. Walter Skies, of Wake Forest Col
leSe, opened the discussion of what
might be done for the public schools in
the country. His theme was a "Nigor-
Gus Campaign." He argued that only a
strenuous campaign would change edu-
c%atiOnal ideals in North Carolina, and
that the people must be talked to face.
He said among other things: THE bust
ness men of our State must furnish the
shows of war for a new educational
system, therefore they must be enlisted.
When they cry: Forward, march,"
then will the army strike it's tents, and
march on the road of progress, then only
Will our augean stables be cleansed.
There is needed in rural districts a
community pride such as towns have
The towns first won freedom in England
and in Europe, but a vigorous campaign
can make the country as ready to act as
the towns. In 1776 the counties of Vir-
ginia were as ripe for freedom as the
towns of Massachusetts.
"Moses struck the rock and the thirst
of all his people was quenched, but
North Carolina will need many masses
for her people are scattered. One Moses.
though he may have the gift of Aaron
cannot do it. WASHINGTON entrapped
CORVALLIS because Marion and Sumter
were his guerilla chieftians. With such
chieftains Gov. Aycock will never be
able to entrap his foe.
All great movement have this cam
paign to precede them. North Carolina
has had her educational missionaries
who have prayed for the carrying OF this
, day. Col. Toon, like Simeon OF old,
watched or the threshold of the Jennie
till he saw the sun rise and then rested
in peace. The hour is now ripe for great
things The new civilization that is com
ing with the hum of wheels and the click
of the hammer is the friend of education
1t was when the quays of Alexandria
We're crowded with bales of commerce
that her great schools and library -four
ished. The islands of the sea poured
their wealth into England and not till
then did Elizamethan literature come ia
its full bloom"
1he speaker closed by saying that Gov.
Aycock was the young and princelv
David of young Israel, singing a song of
a triumph and inspiration to the Saul of
old Israel and call the old State to high
er and nobler heights.
CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRICTS.
he second speaker was Hon. c.. II.
Mebane, ex-State Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction, who said in part:
The great mission of Calvin H. Wiley
was to organize a system of schools and
preach the gospel of education for all the
people. We are now enjoying abunrant
fruits of his labors.
From 1865 to 1868 we had no State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction. Rev.
,. ,. Ashley came into office during the
latter part of 1868 or early part of 1860.
He seems to have been a fanatic on the
subject of negro equality and mixed
schools. He appointed one "Bishopn
Hood a negro Methodist preacher, as
Assistant State Superintendent.
| During the years from 1872 to 1875 AL
exander McIver was State Superintend-
ent. I have reason to believe that he
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Page. entitled 'The Rebuilding of Old
commemorative / consider that this
book is one Of the best products of, and
will be one of the chief forces in, the
awakening of the public mind. Surely
the time has passed in North Carolina
when we consider that he alone is our
friend who f~latters us rather than leads
US. Surely the time has come when his
native State can appreciate the work Of
che who with all his fame and his OPP
portunities for culture in the metropolis
OF the country still turns fOndly back to
his own people and writes thoughts that
breathe and words that burn in behalf
of the forgotten men OF the mountains
and the am
1t is not necessary to underrate OIner
forces ia making our claims for educa-
ton; the church if it realizes It's duty
to change as conditions change, the press
as the friend of every good movement,
the Industrial order as furnishing the
basis for a much needed prosperity; all
of these ard other forces must have
much to do with the regeneration of our
people. Along with these movements
and cooperating with every healthy ZEN
dency the school, developing in accord
ance with high ideals Of Righteousness
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have made useful men. AS it is their
Intellectual life is a failure forevermore.
The worst of it is that it is not their
fault. but the fault Of an educational
system that is causing the slaughter Of
many innnocents.
THE TEACHING IN ENGLISH.
beg you not to think that l am over
stating the case. The task to which l
call you is not one Of a year or of a de-
cade, but we need to begin on it IS if
indeed we have already begun. If we
hav all been won TO the cause of uni
versal education; if college men at a
great sacrifice of time AVE lone their
part in this revival about which we hear
so much, then we demand that all of YOU
superintendents, teachers, rally TO this
much more difficult work of the adjust
ment of our institutions to one another.
and the maintenance of educational
standards. | can perhaps show the sig
~nificance of intelligent cooperation of
all of us if l refer to the teaching OF
English. The work of the common
schools in this subject is fifty years be
hind the time. 1t is deplcrably bad and
ought to be righted. Literature that
ought to be the inspiration of every
young child in this State is denied them
and instead we have miserable gram
mars and rhetorics, and worse still books
about literature that are no substitutes
for real literature. Great good will come
from the establishment of the school lib
critics, provided we change our method
of teaching English in these schools.
Otherwise they are a failure.
What / have said Of English might be
said of other subjects. And the prob
lens suggested by these facts belongs to
all of us. President Elliot, of Harvard,
the prime minister of our educational
system, says in his paper on The Unity
of Educational REFORM: I'm this pro
cess of educational construction, so new
so strange, SO hopeful, | believe that
the chief principles and objects are the
same from the kindergarten through the
university; and therefore | maintain
that choOl teachers ought to sympathiZe
and understand with university reform
and progress, and that college and uni
Nersity teachers ought to comprehend
and aid school reform and progress"
In setting a knowledge of facts neccs-
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believed in carrying the schools TO the
people.
John c. Scarborough inauSurated !
system OF Normal chools for the tram
ing of teachers and sowed seed that nave
brought forth much fruit.
s NJ. Finger urged the establishing OF
a State Normal School for our women
| education. and increase oil
taxes for schools. and the carrying OF thc
schools to the children.
What policy was pursued by I. ii.
Alebane as head Of the public educational
work?
So far as any information l have been
able to get hold of, he is the first state
Superintendent OF Public instruction TO
plead for the policy OF CARRYING THE
CHILDREN TO THE SCHOOLS in
stead of CARRYING THE SCHOOLS
TO THE CHILDREN, or in other words,
! 10 plead for fewer and better houses and
more children brought to the better
houses. In short the consolidation OF
school districts.
The total number of schools taught IN
| 1896 was 7,249. in 1897 this was cut down
to 6, 400, or a decrease in one year OF SD
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night teachers in colleges who have to
do school work, there are school men
who are attempting to do college work.
To put it another way, there were dur
ing the past year boys in secondary
schools who ought to have been in pri-
mary or elementary schools, and there
were scores of boys and girls in colleges
who had no business there, but ought to
have been in secondary or even elemen-
tary schools. These conditions bring us
face to face with the most important
problems that we have to face-the at
tempt to define the work of the common
schools, the secondary school, the col
lege and the university.
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and service and the emancipated college
standing for new thought and scholar
ship. must be reckOned as prime factors
in this period of transition. Nor must
we think that the ends are to be reallz-
ed in q short while. The millennium Will
not come within a generation. The way
is a long and hard one. The best that
many of us can hope to do is to help lay
the foundations for those who come at
ter US, and he labors best who is willing
to set in motion forces that have the
eternal years of God in which to realize
themselves.
THE CORRELATION OF OUR EDU-
CATIONAL SYSTEM.
If it has been our task during the past
year to arouse an educational spirit i'll
the State, if many OF us, led by our dis
tinguished governors, AVE plead the
cause of popular education, what is our
problem here tonight and for the future
days of this assembly? We need to know
facts, to consider in a sensible way the
best results of other mems experiences
We sometimes talk of education as if
it were in Il lump. The real difficulty
comes when we attempt to organize our
system on intelligent and rational lines.
To put it concretely, there are here to-
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THE PROBLEM VIEWED FROM
STANDPOINT OF COLLEGE
TEACHER AND STUDENT.

Let us look at these from the stand
point of the college teacher. Suppose I
have in the same class boys who have
finished at the best school in the State,
and those who come from our ordinary
common schools. In addition to the nat
ural inequalities of men | have t con-
tend with the qualities arising from
the difference OF preparation. l have
taught Freshmen in English who had
read most of the classics Of American
and English literature, and men who had
read nothing but the Royal Path of Life
or Hostetter's Almanac. If the college
man under those circumstances teacher
for the poorly prepared, the work is a
dead loss to the other; if for the well
prepared man, then the man of meagre
requirements might as we'll be in the
cornfield. he whole question oc schol-
arship and honor is involved in seeming
ly as small a thing as the maintenance
of standards.
If we consider it from the STANDPOINT
of the college student, we see a still
greater need for the maintenance of we'll
defined standards. And yet | heard a
college president make this plea: 4
cannot send away a bright young man
! that comes to me from the country, eager
for a college education and unable to go
to a high school. One of those bows led
his class last year" He failed to speak
of many other men who had dropped out
of college because they had not been
able to keep up with the work, dis
Z, appointed and heartencd for all life's
work. If they had gone to some good
school,, where they belonged, they might
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-06-17
DR.. T. D. BRATTON TO-DAY
He Will Preach the Annual Sermon
Before the Assembly.
ECHOES FROM THE WEEKS GATHERING
The Fishing is Fine and The Breezas Have
Been Delicious Every Day During tn,
Session. The Retiring and
the New Officers.
the New Officers.
Especial to News and Observer.)

AtIanti Hotel, Morehead City, n. c.,
June 11.-Today has been a day full of
life and zest in the work of the Teach
crs' Assembly, and the addresses have
all been of the very highest order. All
who are here are deeply interested ard
highly entertained.
The crowd has grown with the day and
tonight there was a splendid audience
in the Assembly hall, when President
Minis delivered his annual address and
Judge Conner spoke of the Literary
Awakening in North CarOlina.'
The assembly met at nine o'clock this
morning and after devotional exercises
the report of the Assembly's Committed
Oh Legislation was read by State Super
intcndent Joyner.
This was followed by Il general discus
sion on the report led by Prof j. T.
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a desire to appropriate the best. wherever
il NAV come from, the same effort 70
come to an agreement With each otHti
as TO certain uniform standards and re
ouirements, if applied 10 the other parts
of the system will bring about the ldea
that | have been pleading for. / propose
what others before me have proposed as
a committee of this assembly. who Will
take I'D the practical questions in the
correlation of our system-wise men,
earnest men nd experts. Let this cen
trail committee nominate
on zach of the subjects taught IN the
schools, who will give definite suggestions
as to subjects of thought, methods OF
teaching subjects TO be taught the relative
to be devoted to each subject. etc. etc.
When these committees have reported
let US hear them and adopt their sug-
gestions. From such a plan. II we nave
the men who are willing TO undertake II,
will come a desirable uniformity IN our
educational work and a more harmonl-
Gus co-oDertion of all our forces.
Standards and methods of work VIA
not be all that we seek for. After all
the ultimate end of all our institutions
is the building of character. We shall
find. however, that character building
will be an easier thing if we proceed
upon the basis of a we'll directed and
harmonious system of education.
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JUDGE CONNOR'S ADDRESS.

Following this address the audience
was entertained by Judge Henry u. CON
nor. of Wilson, whose theme was. 'Ihe
Literary Awakening in North Carolina.
1t was a most interesting presentation
of the present literary conditions IN the
State, past and present conditions being
treated in an admirable manner.
Tomorrow comes another great pro-
gramme and during the day will occur
some earnest speeches on the present
educational awakening. Governor Ay-
cock will be present and will take part
in the exercises.
The interest and enthusiasm grows, and
the success of the Assembly'S session
this year is assured.