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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
ADVERTISING ESSENTIAL.

Some people get altogether too smart
They have large slice of the world and
get greedy for the whole world with a
barbed wire fence around. Ten years ago
the bicycle companies, which had been
making big money, thought to kill the
hen that laid the golden egg and get rich
quick. Forty two of the bicycle compa-
MES, with capital of 100000, 900, and
controlling more than seventy-five per
cent. of the bicycle business, organized
the bicycle trust for Economics of COM
binations,' as the trust always put it.
The immense bicycle advertising, which
appeared chiefly in the great magazines,
was stopped at once. Very soon there
after there came slump in the bicycle
business, and the use of bicycles went out
OF fashion so that the trust has largely
been a failure.
Some things can be sold without adver-
Using, but they are only the necessaries
OF life. To sell luxuries there must be
constant and convincing reminders to the
people. Most of the trusts, which started
out, they said, to save the money paid
out in advertising, have begun to adver-
tise again on an extensive scale. They
keep their goods before all probable con-
sumers and thus avert the fate of the BIZ
cycle trust.
Col. Albert A. Pope, a pioneer in good
roads and the most successful manufacture
er of bicycles the country has known, has
purchased what is left of the American
Bicycle Company. He will endeavor to
rescue it from its present state. If any
living man can restore the bicycle bust
ness to its old position, Col. Pope is that
man. He has enterprise, genius and the
most progressive American spirit.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

North Carolina, Wake County-In Su-
perior Court.
H. H. Harris. administrator of T. l. b.
Harris VS.. s. G. Vann, w. W. Rob-
bins, ct al.-Notce.
The above defendant, w. w. Robbins
will take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in the
Superior court of Wake couut, 10 fore
close a mortgage upon real ate in
Wake Forest township, Wake county, n
c., and the above defendant viii further
take notice that he is required 10 appear
at the next term Of the Superior court
of said county, to be helc on tao cgh Mon
day before the 1st MonCay ing Tutv. 903,
at the court house of said county in
Raleigh, n. c., to answer or aamur to
the complaint in said action or aa plain
tiff will apply to the court for sha relic
dmanded in said complaint
This March 25th, 1903
VIM. RUSS. C. S. C.
3-2G-1w-Gw
$4,000 was paid for the CraeD ee lot in
Elizabeth City on which .he new public
building is to be erected.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
JUDGE CLARK FOR PRESIDENT.

Charlotte News.
The statement that Mr.. Bryan has de-
clared for Judge Walter Clark, of this
State, as his first choice for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination, may, OF
course, prove apocryphal, but any one
who knows the relationship existing be-
tween these two of our ablest public men
viii not be surprised at such a possibility.
Ever since 1896 they have been close
friends and have carried on constant
correspondence and recently Judge Clark
visited Mr.. Bryan at his nome. Judge
Clark has contributed to the Arena and
other magazine articles upon political and
judicial reforms that have attracted wide
attention and showed him to be of Presi
Dental size. He has been sincere and
consistent in his support of the Nebraskan
and his opinions upon matters of party
policy have frequently been sought by Mr.
Bryan. who esteems him most highly as
jurist, scholar and statesman.
While the time has probably not ar
rived for considering Judge Clark seriously
in connection with this honor. it may BIZ
proper to say that in attachments ant
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
AMORNING TONIC.

(Alfred Austin.)
So long as Faith and Freedom reigns
And loyal Hope survives.
And gracious Charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For Intellect or Will
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
Spirit of the Press.
MEANS BETTER THINGS.

Lumberton Robesonian.
Mt is. gratifying to learn that some
sections of the country are realizing that
our educational future lies in the estab-
lishment of schools maintained by especia
tax The Rex district in Lumber Bridge
township, last week voted especial tax
for this purpose. 1t is encouraging and
promises a future with improved school
facilities in ,lipv section and furnishes
an example of progressiveness which is
worthy of emulation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

The New York papers have begun
another agitation for currency legislation
that give more money, and they want an
elastic currency" A few years ago soma
of those same folks told US that the
trouble was that there was plethora Of
currency.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

ability he is the equal of any man whose
name has been presented. He would get
the electoral vote of his own State and
the solid South and but for the geo
graphical disadvantage of living in the
section which lately underwent recon
struction" he should be as strong with the
country at large as Judge Parker and
Others who have been mentioned
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

So far no paper in the South that gave
loyal support to the Democratic ticket
in 1896 or 1900 has declared for Cleve-
land. The Southern men and papers that
have declared for Cleveland no more rep
resent the South in advocating Cleveland
than they did in boiling Bryan.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

The title business is now working the
other way. A Virginia man is to marry
a Bavarian Princess. He is a New York
broker.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

The Washington correspondents note
the presence of Hon. John G. Carlisle in
the capital They put him down as
thinking Judge Parker viii be the nomi-
nee in 1904
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
Raleigh grows.

If the Southern Railway officials had
spent less money on that rotten Post in
Raleigh and more for sound cross-ties,
that horrible accident near Raleigh on
Tuesday would not have shocked the
State.-Rhamkatte Rooster
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
THE WRECK--THE "ORGIN" SAYS
NOT A WORD ABOUT ROTTEN
CROSS-TIES.

Every man, woman and child, who Wis
tied the wreck on the Southern Railway
near Raleigh, was outraged to find two
hundred rotten eross-ties within few
hundred yards. 1t was the chief mat.
ter of comment in every circle. Even the
few railroad men. who doubted whether
they were &c immediate cause of the
wreck agreed that one tie in every five
was rotten. So indignant were fair
minded people that they everywhere de
clared that the railroad officials ought to
be convicted under the common law for
criminal negligence.
And yet. with the rotten ties so mum
erous that blind man could have felt
them by having his stick sink into them,
and deaf man could almost hear the
Numbered indignation of a people who
had good cause for their severe criticism,
the Southern Railroad Morning Post
yesterday morning did not even hint at
the rotten cross-ties which brought forth
not. It did not dare to do it. All rail
road officials, are forbidden, under penalty
of losing their situations, to talk about
wrecks. The hireling Post obeyed the
general order. m order to do so it sup
pressed the very piece of news that every
body wanted, to-wit: the cause of the
wreck The readers of the wheezy old
railroad organ got no more light upon the
cause than would be given them by any
other employee of the Southern Railway.
If any additional clinching proof were
needed of the abject subservience of the
columns yesterday furnished it. It's edi-
torial columns have always been dictated
by Southern Railway bosses. It's news
columns are also subsidized, as yesterday S
report proved.
The people of Raleigh and North Carolina
have only contempt for a muzzled or sub
sidized newspaper, such as the Post Yes
terday showed the necessity of newspa-
per that would get at the facts just as
they are and fix the responsibility where
it belongs. This the News and Observer
did, and its exposure of the criminal care
lessness of the Southern Railway officials
was everywhere approved. Without ex-
ception, every man seen who visited the
wreck said the News and Observer had
done high public service in printing the
true story about the rotten cross-ties.
The railroad employees on the train who
came near being victims of the criminal
negligence of the Southern Railway au.
thorities, are worthy of all praise for
their faithful and efficient help to the
injured. This is particularly true of Mr.
Henry Griffin, who, with the blood pour
ing from wound behind his ear, forget
ting himself, was working to rescue the
passengers and help them to place where
their injuries could be treated.
former. railroad engineer, who in a
long career on the road had seen many
wrecks, said that never in his life had
he seen so terrible wreck of passenger
train. He added that he could not un-
derstand how any passenger escaped I'M
hurt. 1t is, indeed, providential mira
Gle
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

The South is in the lead now and no
mistake Philadelphia is shipping cotton
to Southern cotton mills
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

The sweet girl graduates are all right.
They have position, top of column, next
to reading matter. If they don't see
what they want, all they need to do is
to ask for it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

And now the postmaster general wishes
he hadn't asked Mr.. Tulloch TO ''speci-
fv
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

Some of the cotton spectators in New
York are predicting fifteen cent cotton
All the soaring does the farmer nc
good He sold his cotton at ten cents and
under.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

SMOKE La Josephine" and Young
Fritz"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

For LaGrippe and Influenza
use CHENEY'S EXPECTO-
RANT,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21
CURED OF RHEUMATISM.

For the benefit OF suffering humanity,
1 desire to state that I suffered severely
with Muscular aud Sciatic rheumatism
for five years. During this time I tried
a variety of so-called remedies, as well
as the prescriptions of several physicians
which afforded me very little if any relief.
The pain in my back, bps and legs was
agonizing and almost unbearRble. ]
could hardly walk, and thought / would
be obliged to abandon my business.
A friend Of mine advised me to try
URICSOL, which did reluctantly, and
greatly to my surprise, one bottle cured
me sound and well. I cheerfully recon-
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also very fine tonic. 1t increases the
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up the general health. You can use this
as you think best.
Very truly,
w. Il. DeLOACH,
311 Auburn Ave, Atlanta, Ga.
November 9Th, 1902.
Druggists sell it at $1.0O per bottle,
Send stamp for book or particulars to the
URICSOL Chemical Co., Los Angeles.
Cal, or Atlanta. Ga.
For Sale by w. II, KING DRUG CO..
Raleigh. N. C.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-21

A former, railroad engineer, who in
wrecks. said that never in his life had
he seen so terrible "a wreck of passenger
train. He added that he could not UNI
derstand how any passenger escaped un-
hurt. 1t is, indeed, providential mira
Gle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
BUCHANAN's NOMINATION TIED UP.
Senator Morgan Moves to Reconsider Con-
frmation.

Washington Dec 19-In the executive session
OF the Senate to-day Mr.. Morgan moved to
slider the motion by which the nomination of W. I.
Buchanan to be minister 10 Panama was confirmed
on Thursday and the motion was discussed for
half an hour. without action. Senators Morgan
and Bacon said they had intended to oppose con-
frmation OF Mr.. Buchanans nomination. but had
not observed when 1t taken up in the Senate.
and therefore had not been prepared for the
nouncenept of his confirmation. They not
even aware of the fact that the nomination had
been reported from the Committee Foreign Re-
lations. Senator Morgan said he present at
last Wednesdays meeting Of the committee, when
the nomination supposed to have been taken
ur; that he The only Democratic member in
attendance and that he had noticed when the
nomination was brought the attention of the
committee. Both he and Senator Bacon said that
so far as they are advised, there is no per-
sonal objection to Mr.. Buchanan. and they based
their opposition the act OF sending any repre-
sentative to Panama at this time. They did not
enter into a discussion of conditions on the 18TH
mus beyond saying that every knows what
those conditions are, and that the situation is still
a matter Of Congressional inquiry. Senator Cul-
lom, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations replied that there had been intention,
either in committee in the Senate, CT getting
the nomination through SurreputioUsly and that
IL had been taken up matter of routine busi-
ness Considering it as SUCH he had made no COM
ment upon II.
No vote was taken on Mr. Morgans motion. but
II has the effect OF tying the matter up. notice
OF the Senate's action had not been sent to the
President before the motion was entered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
TALK WITH PRESIDENT.
White House Conferences on Pana-
ma and Land Frauds.

Washington. Dec. 19-President Roosevelt had
important conferences to-day with several men,
bers OF his Cabinet, Secretary Moody had an
early interview, at which the latest advices
from the naval forces along the Isthmus of
Panama were considered. No specific informa-
ton regarding them was made public. Secre-
tary Cortelyou took up with the President de-
partment matter which, he said, was Of no pub
lie significance. He was followed by Secretary
Root who remained with the President a con-
siderable time. The nature of the conference
was not disclosed. Later Secretary Hitchcock
and Attorney General Knox had extended
talk with the President on the land frauds in the
West. in which arrest already has been
made and others are likely to follow. The matter
is now in the hands of the Department Of JUS
tice. Both Secretary Hitchcock and Attorney
General Knox stated that nothing more could be
said at this time.
Senators Lodge Spooner, Kean and Dryden
also had interviews with the President, but little
information concerning their visits could be OBJ
tanned. 1t is known that the opposition in the
Senate is making strenuous efforts to present an
unbroken front against the treaty with Panama.
This has been the subject Of some talks the
President has had with Republican Senators.
The President has expressed a desire to avoid
even seeming interference in matters pend
ing before the Senate lest his motives may be
misconstrued, but he talks freely with his per-
sonaI and political friends in the body about
such questions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
HOTEL RATES FOR CONVENTION.
National Committee Will Take Measures TO
Prevent Extortion in Chicago.

Washington. Dec 1a-What seems to be an at
tempt the part OF Chicago hotel managers to
raise their rates for the Republican National con
vention is to be nipped in the bud by the National
Committee Postmaster General Payne has te!e-
graphed to Chairman Hanna In New-York that
evidence has come to him indicating that extor-
Tomato rates have been fixed for the convention by
the Chicago hotels, and suggesting that unless as
suranCes are at once forthcoming that regular
rates 10 be charged the National COMMITTEES
should take prompt action.
The evidence referred to by the Postmaster Gen
eral is telegram To a prominent member OF tho
House OF Representatives from one Of the large
hotels in response to a request for reservation or
a room for the three days Of the convention Ths
rate fixed was so day, and no reservation would
be made for less than five days. This member has
been stopping the hotel in question when IN
Chicago for the last ten years The rate has been
s. day for two in a room. and s. 90 FOR one
He figured that his room should cost SIS for ths
bill $l0O.
Mr.. Payne also sent a telegram To the Managers
OF the hotel. citing its telegram quoting me "
crease IN rates, and announcing that n th8t w.
the the National COMMITTEES would reSClnA
its action in selecting Chicago the cCnyeT
city. Mr.. Payne said later that he had no douoS
the matter would DC adjusted saJistactcry- -
committee by correspondence. unless the sN-
tOrtionate rates were dropped, but he did nor o.
heye the hotelkeeper5 would fail to put the raves
q fair basis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20

nouncement OF this official action in the form
of a decree of the government at Lima was
cabled last night to Senior Calderon. the PERU
Wan Minister at Washington. who commune
Gated it to the State Department this morning.
1t is the Impression here that Perus action, in
advance OF other South American governments,
was due not only to her anxiety that the 18th
milan canal should be built as soon as possible.
but. in greater degree. to demonstrate her
trust in the motives of the United States aud her
confidence in the attitude of this government
toward all the Latin-American republics
The State Department continues without deh-
mite information regarding the intention OF the
other republics, from Mexico to Cape Horn,
except in the case of Ecuador, which is unof-
ficially known to have conveyed assurances OF
support to Colombia, and in those Of Cuba and
Nicaragua, which have appointed consuls at
Panama, but have taken steps toward enter
ing into diplomatic relations with the new re-
public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
THE WOOD INOUIRT.
Senate Rules Forbid Public Hear
ings on Nominations.
TFnoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU

Washington, Dec. 19-Those Senators who
objected to the movement to make the hearings
the nomination Of General Leonard Wood
public are earnest in their prOtestations against
the bad faith Of the opposing Senators, who
first attempted to hold open hearings, and when
prevented from doing Immediately informed
members Of the press thet such and such Sen
ators had voted them down.
The fact is that no Senator or Senators could
under the rules of the Senate. hold open hear
ings on nomination Rule xxxvin. Section
?, provides:
All information communicated or remarks made
by Senator when acting upon nominations con-
corning the character qualifications of the per-
shall be kept secret. If. however charges shall be
made against a person Nominated the committee
but the name of the person making such nom ma
ton has been made. or that it has been confirmed
or rejected shall not be regarded as a secret.
In view of the existence of this rule. the state
ment is made that the Senators who pretended
to want the Wood hearings public and who
then protested against those who called atten-
ton to this rule acted in bad faith and sought
to create wrong impression. 1t is pointed out
that the Senators who held that the hearings
could not be public were merely acting in &C
cord with a standing rule of the Senate and
were not exercising their own judgment or dis
erection, was we'll known TO those who sought
to create an opposite belief in the public mind.
1t is held, moreover, by Senators whose opin-
ions are entitled to respect that while this rule
may have proved an injustice in the Wood case
1t is most essential regulation. Charges which
are preferred in the Senate affecting numerous
nominations frequently without foundation
and their publication would work the gravest
injustice to many innocent nominees. on the
other hand it Is maintained that were there no
rule of secrecy applying to charges against nom
inees, in some important instances Senators
would be impelled to refrain from bringing to
the attention OF the Senate facts which the in
tegrlty OF the administration demands shall be
made known. 1t is said, moreover, that desDite
the leaks in certain cases. they constitute an
extremely small percentage of the whole number
considered by the Senate.
1t Is believed that unanimous consent will he
given to motion to make the Wood testimony
public after the confirmation is accomplished
and then the public will have an opportunity to
judge of the merits OF this interesting case and
Of the methods of those who have sought to de-
feat confirmation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20
ENCOURAGING COLOMBIA.
DANGER IN WILD TALK.
Democratic Speeches Nay Haze
BanefaI Consequences.
LFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU

Washington, Dec. 19.-The constituencies ef-
forts OF the Democrats in both houses of Con-
gress to create campaign material out of the
Panama situation are a source of grave anxiety
to members of the administration The fate of
the Panama treaty is not. has been reported,
causing the administration to worry, but the
serious effect which the irresponsible talk of
the Democrats and of Senator Hoar is all too
likely to have on the Colombians, and possibly
on other South American countries, is the occa-
sion Of no little anxiety. If the Democratic Sem
ators determine to defeat the treaty, which, il
is not believed, they will dare to do because of
the inevitable popular censure the Republicans
will abide by the result. But the encouragement
which the condemnation of Spain afforded to
the Cuban revolutionists, and, still more
Gently, the serious results of the attitude of the
Democrats and of Senator Hoar toward the
Filipino insurgents which resulted in the death
Of hundreds of American soldiers and unfortu-
nate Filipinos. is too fresh in the memory to
permit the recent debate to be viewed with
equanimty.
That grave consequences may follow the
travagant utterances of members Of Congress
is realized by those conversant with affairs in
Colombia. While these speeches will be appre-
ciated in this country at their true Pickwickian
sense, 1t is also understood that, translated into
Spanish and circulated broadcast in Colombia
and on the sthmus, their effect may prove most
baneful.
Chairman Hit of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, has heretofore deprecated dis
cussion in the House Of the Panama situation,
and to-day he repeated his views on the danger
which may be involved in political talk on such
a subject in the House
There is a practical side OF the wrangling
over the Panama question that is deplorable in
the results that may come" said Mr.. Hit.
Every bitter and inflammatOry thing said here
at home against our governments course tow
ard Colombia is repeated and spread broadcast
there, inflaming people who are always ready
for disturbance. 1t may at any hour precipi-
tate some rash violence and boodshed. 1t will
encourage every passionate, ignorant, broil seek
ing Colombian. General Lawton told of the hOr-
ribe fruits borne In the Philippines of the bitter
things said here against our government by poll
ticians which were repeated there, and inspired
the brown assassins who murdered our own vol
unteers from covert like young Logan and af-
terward Lawton himself"