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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
YOUNG BIRDS RACE.
Phil. Krous Winner Of Average Speed
Diploma for 200 Miles.

The third young bird race of the Wash
ington district took place on September 10
from Kittrell, n. C., 203 birds from thirteen
lofts competing. For some unaccountable
reason, the birds did not, reach the liberia
ton point on schedule time, thus losing an
ideal day. Unlike the other two races,
there was a great difference in the time
of arrivals of the different lofts. the win
ming loft being five minutes ahead of Its
nearest rival. They were liberated by Mr..
Ira T. Hunt, jr., who wired: Birds lib
Grated SIP; clear. east wind" At home
clear northwest wind.
The following is the entry and the average
speed of the first return to each loft:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
Railway Sued for Damages.

The Anacostia and Potomac River Rail-
road Company was today named defendant
in suit for $4,000 damages filed by Emma
c. Szegedy. through Attorney Patrick
Ryan. The plaintiff claims that she was
injured January 8, 1902, by falling from a
car of the defendant company at 18th street
and New York avenue. She alleges negli-
gence on the part of the company IS en-
ployes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
AaG1Es WORKING HARD.
Open the Season Here With Georgetown
Next Saturday.

The Maryland Agricultural College foot
ball squad now numbers over thirty men
and they are having hard work every after
noon under Coach Marley in preparation
for their opening game with Georgetown
University in this city next Saturday The
tackling dummy has been erected and the
training table started.
The most promising old men that are
back. besides Captain Gill, are Meyer, Bow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
Heavy Storm in Loudoun County.

Mr. W. c.. McMichael, who returned to
Washington this afternoon from North
Fork, near Purce1lville, Loudoun county,
Va, reports that heavy wind storm, ac-
companied by hail and rain, passed over
that section last night. There was sud-
den lowering of the temperature, he said,
and the mountain streams were SO
swollen by the great downpour that
travel was impeded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
OLYMPIC ARCHERY.
Williams of This City Secures Second
Place in the First Days Shoot.

The Olympic archery championships open
ed at the worlds fair stadium, st. Louis,
yesterday. The contest is being conducted
under the rules of the National Archery
Association. Archers from all parts of the
country were present. On account of the
unfavorable weather only American double
rounds were held. Philip Bryan of Boston
defeated Robert Williams of Washington
after the latter had lead of 80 points in
the first half of the American rounds. The
results of yesterdays shooting for the first
three men follow:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21

The diploma winners are: Phil. Krous,
first and second; Riley A. Hunt. third and
fourth, and ]. c. Ladd, fifth and sixth.
The diploma offered for the best average
speed for the series of races was won by
Phil. Krouse with an average of 976 yards
winning the arm chair offered by P. Grogan
Furniture Company.
The next race will take place from Rem
merit, n. c., next Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
and. Diggs, Cooper, Mackan, Cockey,

land. Diggs, Cooper, Mackall Cockey,
White Long and Graham.
The new candidates that are showing up
well are King, LIE Gore, Youngblood, Camp
bell, Heyman, Darby and Whiting.
The lineup for Saturdays game is I'M
certain, but a better team is expected than
was had last year. Coach Marley is being
assisted in rounding out the material by
Mr.. William Wharton, captain of Della
ware College in 1902.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
Bodv Washed Ashore.

LONDON, September PA body be.
lieved to be that of Charles B. Spahr of
New York. was washed ashore today near
Broadstairs, Kent, England. Consul Gem
eral Evans has received dispatch from
Broadstairs saying that the body probably
was that OF Charles B. Spahr, but COM
plete Identification has not yet been made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21

In the WOmen's American doubles Mrs.
NJ. c. Howell of Cincinnati won by a score
of S67; Mrs. H. c. Pollock of Cincinnati
$50 points, second; Mrs. C. S. Woodruff
Cincinnati, SAT points, third.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21
Appointed Receiver.

F. Walter Bfanderburg was today APP
pointed receiver of the assets of Charles II.
Ernst, trading as Charles II. Ernst Com
pany, who yesterday filed petition in vol
untary bankruptcy. Chief Justice Ciabaugh
fixed the penalty of the receivers bond at
5000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER JUDGE

Cumberland Superior Court con-
venes May End 1t is then that action
will be taken by Judge PEBBLES with
reference to the alleged contempt Of
the Robson county bar. The White
Vile News says Judge PEBBLES told a
member of the bar that the only rea-
son he did not act at Columbus court
was that he had been and was still
suffering from a painful trouble, 'but
the Lumberton lawyers will be posi-
lively arraigned Providence permit
ing at Fayetteville Monday, May End
The opinion of the press is almost
unanimous, if this matter is to be
heard judicially, the hearing should
be before some other Judge No man
is competent to pass upon his own
case, or in a case in which he is
greatly concerned, with perfect i'm
Partially.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
THE PANAMA STEAL.
The Administration Tired of the Little
South American Jackass.

To the Editor:-South Americans,
when they see the signs of the times,
say: "Que es esta? Que muee doc
trina es esta ?" They are persuaded
that they have as much right to Sc
cede from any agreement, that may
have been made to support the Mon
roe Doctrine by their forbears, as
Panama had to secede from Colom-
bian control. Men will not patiently
submit to a bad bargain. Autonomy
and the right to dispose OF property
at will have the appearance or mar
ienable rights Life, liberty ana tAe
pursuit of happiness are lntertereo
with, if a paramount power mas Ihe
right to demand most favored ma
tion" treatment at the expense of the
rest of the world.
The benefits to be conferred upon
South America by the construction OF
the isthmian canal are obvious, but
the world power from North America
would not do a tap of WORK en- lhls
great public Improvement sIliIply 70
help her neighbOr. Every dolldi IN
vested there Will be appropriated ana
it will turn itself over a Soou many
times during the current cehlu1 y: Ia
it's way it is calculated 10 Collt ~
to expansion as much as Iie I- '.Hl
ana Purchase did in the laSt CIilrulS
"A naI1On CdllllOl Jain
ic triumphs in a continent poPuioI
nv inferior races, until it has nlaIerial
interests to defend therein w nlie
the McKinley-Ha Roosevelt Ie6 me nc
has been paying special a'teu 4in1s ot
Asiatic affairs, some OF lhe Ia, ~
Western Europe have stG 80 ,,,onnv
handed in South America me IiIoi d~,
wasted in the colonial eApI hiiIio,
pertinent mounts up TO hiIIior
OF course our country - 49,
dollar country; but premlsiLiSa to,'
e-,olI1 on or,oHnt Of money had been
snent to promote home MADE eApdl-
sion we would have obtalleuI :" &c.
stake in South America by 'irD itI, ~
full method of growing up nd back
continent. We have now .u u, +ir1o 70
and round from the Orient III III faetano
catch outlanders in the act ,UarId NJ
ing to the soil of the Ne"
rOpean civilization. irg about
Instead of cheerfully ss,uti;nn5S with
the business of comp ta,yIedgment
these intruders by acklio cots the
that the best hound Se'S ~
'possum, an underhandeu "ie az
Cd is tried. The noIicv of
termined supporter of the no no a sia
sticking Uncle Sans nose ground
would hardly defend it on III VI to onan
that 1T was 81 flank moveil non South
the way for encroachmenl Initial fair
America. Belief in the esso handicap-
ness of our Asiatic pollcs will
ped with the Monroe 10 x,iew. that
lead to conversion to ny ., was equal
our ultimatum to CololipI little South
and exact justice. inns diplomats
American jackass made ou0 on the
tired; so they said by na altion regard
provisions of the CONSTITUTIONS but
| ing the alienation of terlltoiS' ""'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
CLEVELAND AND BUTLER.
Were Once Democrat But Have Fal-
len Like Lucifer.

To the Editor. AS a plain blunt
man without words worth or utter
ance, it is funny, l wish to say, how
our friends of the uncircumsized gloat
over the fate of the old sheriff Wlned
and dined Fred Douglas.
Admitting the truth of the charge,
Cleveland is very unpopular with the
masses of Democracy, and his ardent
admirers admit the fact.
Cleveland seems ashamed of the
fact wants to deny it, and does deny
it. Roosevelt on the contrary seems
delighted, and cherishes the Booker
episode as a sweet memory.
One of the uncircumsized in dlIat-
ing on the Cleveland and Douglas
episode declares that Fred Douglas
with his white wife and their coal
black daughter were much in evidence
with wedding garments.
AS Fred Douglas was three-fourths
white and his wife a Thoroughbred
Caucasian, how came Them with a
black daughter?
Cleveland is not pet of mine, and
it would be about like him to eat with
! free "nigger" For that reason great
| men like Henry Watterson, Ben TILL
| man and | read him out of the Dem
| ocratic party. Your uncle Parker
your uncle Adlai Stevenson, your uncle
| German, and your uncle Billy Bryan
| don't eat with "niggers, or If so they
| don't prove it on EN-.
Don't bother good Democrats with
| Grover Cleveland, nor Marion Butler
s. Both were once Democrats but are fall
len, oh. Lucifer
MELVIN l.. WHITE.
Shelby, n. c., April 26.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
THE LID NOT SCREWED DOWN
ON PANDORA'S BOX.

In dismissing the Virginia applica-
ton to annul the new suffrage law, it
will be observed that the Supreme
Court did not pass upon the merits
of the new restriction upon suffrage,
but said the request for the relief
prayed for had come too late. While
it is gratifying to see all these cases
thus put out of court, the failure to
take the bull by the horns and declare
the suffrage amendments conStitu-
tional and unassailable leaves the in
centive to negropholists to continue
to bring cases, in the hope that they
may bring one that will require a de-
cision of the suffrage laws on their
merits. Even the famous Mississippi
decision, upon which all the Southern
States have relied, left hole through
which a two-horse team might be
driven, if the court in the future
seemed DESTROYS of inflicting the
South with another era of Recon-
struction, by restoring the ballot to
all negroes twenty-one years of age.
1t has been given out that, in case
he is reelected. Mr.. Roosevelt has
promised leading negroes to take ac-
tive steps "to protect the rights of the
negroes" What that means, is not
yet known. 1t may mean a fight to
restore full negro suffrage, reduction
of Southern representation, or it may
be a mere campaign pledge to get the
solid negro vote for Roosevelt in the
doubtful States, to be paid for by in
viting Booker Washington to dine
again at the White House or to keep
Crum in office. In the past the ne
groes have been satisfied with a
"crumb," but it is doubtful if a full
meal in state at the White House for
Booker T., or a big piece of pie for
Crum, will give the proper inward
satisfaction" for the whole negro race,
anxious for a right to control every
county and district in which the ne
gro population has majority of in
habitants.
Pandoras box has not been open
ed, but the Supreme Court has not
screwed the lid down securely, as we
had hoped. 1t is still possible to
open the lid and let out all the evils
happily ended for the present by the
suffrage amendments
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
THE HARLOT OF NORTH CARO-
LIMA JOURNALISM.

There is one newspaper in North
| no other term than "the harlot of
North Carolina journalism" 1t stands
and has stood for every shameless at
tack upon virtue and decency in
North Carolina since the Southern
Railway and the Cigarette Trust
breathed into it the breath of life.
Whether it was, at the dictation of
the Southern Railway, conspiring to
make Russell Chief Justice, the crown
ing piece of official infamy ever sug-
Bassett in his advocacy of equality of
the negro, at the dictation of the CT
garette Trust; to set on foot a con-
temptible and demagogical attack
upon temperance legislation, at the
dictation of the Whiskey Ring; to con-
spire with McBee and Finch to steal
the A. & N. c. r. r., and basely SLAM
der honest public officials, at the die
tation of looters "HIGHER UP, for
these and all other attacks upon pub
lie virtue, the Morning Post has come
to be known as 1.-The harlot of North
Carolina journalism" and decent peo-
pie entertain for it nothing but con-
tempt
The Charlotte News of Monday
prints the recent letter of Mr.. Henry
A. Page published in Sundays News
and Observer), and closes it's editorial
with the following:
but the really serious charge is
that against The Raleigh Post, that
the .tenor of its articles comes from
HIGHER up No graver accusation
can be brought against a newspaper,
than that its opinion columns are for
sale to the highest bidder instead of
being loyal to the truth as the editor
sees it. This is the yellow journalism
of the golden hue of which The News
wrote the other day. If the Post, as
has been charged by The News and
Observer and now corroborated by
Mr.. Page, is indeed the organ of the
Southern Railway and other corpora
lions, then it's subscription list should
be as small as it's Influence deserves
to he. The people can forgive i
journal that is biased in favor oe the
corporations and believes that those
who attack them are demagogues.
But if it gets it's orders from any
source, while pretending to call it's
soul it's own, it deserves the eXecratiOn
of every honest man. The Post should
go about the work of clearing itself
of that charge, even if it takes libel
suit to do it. In the memorable words
of the late editor of the Columbia
State:
1.-THE public, when it buys
journal, does so under the i'm
piled contract that it is TO secure
for its money not only news but
honest and interrupted opinion"
THE harlotry of journalism is
something that the people of North
Carolina and of the South will not
tolerate"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27

the fact was carefully eclipsed from
our people, that Colombia was being
deliberately bull-dozed with a view to
making her mad. Whom the Ameri-
can gods would destroy they must
first make Incorporate.
The ColOmbians would not agree to
become second fiddle to the United
States. I'VE do not desire to make
our constitution conform TO the Gu
ban model" was the answer to the re
quest for privileges. Some of the pa
triots in the Bogota oligarchy, who
played such fantastic tricks before
high heaven, on this occasion, may
have been willing,at other times to
disregard the sacred character of the
constitution when personal ambition
was pushing them to accomplish q
revolution. But that was an entirely
different matter, compared to bowling
down and WOrshipping the ambition
of a Yankee. So they held their
noses, and wagged their heads, and
raised the price. What could this
poor, distracted diplomat do, who
was trying to find a place to plant
both feet on terra tlrma, so solidly,
that Europe could not dislodge him
He might cut the Gordian knot by Of
fering the Panamaians ten millions for
a satisfactory constitution. For be it
remembered that while Congress in
structed the expenditure of ten mil
lions for a canal zone, it was under
stood that Panama would get it for
an innocent provision in her new con-
stitution. AS fast as Panama can
grow she will be protected, and the
beauty of the scheme is the natural
order of increase assured for North
American World Power.
JAMES E. FREE.
Billings, Montana, April %, 1904.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
MIR. HEARST AND THE BABY.

William Randolph Hearst, being
now the father of a fine son. the
| Brooklyn Eagles poet thinks he cares
little for the Presidency. Why should
he? Why should any man, rich and
| happy enough to be the father of a
new baby, care for the bothers of the
Chief Magistracy? Dignified and Sc
date grandfathers comport more with
that office than the youthful father
of his first born son and heir. Mr..
Hearst will find ten fold more pleas
ure, than in being annoyed by office
baby, whose unfolding mind will each
day give him a new thrill of pleas
ure, than in being bothered by office
seekers and giving audiences to In
dams, Filipinos, Porto Ricans, Alas
kans and the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. These things would
harass him while the companionship
of his son will be a delight, both by
day and night-particularly at night
when he has the collie and no paregor-
ic is handy. Our word for it, Mr..
Hearst the Presidency will bring only
carking care, while the prattle of your
son will he we'll spring of joy.
The Eagle poet is not friendly to
Mr.. Hearst, and this paper is too
friendly to him to wish him to sacri-
flee his happiness by Imprisonment in
the White House. The poem is print
ed because it is good, though we
could wish it were better. Here it is:
"Oh, I'm a proud papa am,
For boomlets / don't give "a,
My cash / can't ladle,
While rocking the cradle,
don't care to be Uncle SAM
bid Oregon slacken her pace,
And shut up the Hoffman House place,
Just quiet the boys
I'll quit Illinois,
Don't mention Iowa-Ma pays
Connecticut, she may go hang,
m done with the blooming shebang,
There's no solar plexus
For me down in Texas.
I'm saying good by to the cang
For Fourier / don't give "a,
Independent of Brisbane / am,
I'm equal, it may be,
To rocking the baby;
l don't care to be Uncle Sam"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
SOUTH CAROLINA HONORS GOV
ERNOR AYCOCK.

Into every assembly in which he
has ever entered, Governor Aycock
has been regarded as second to no
man of the company. Upon no ros-
trum that he shas spoken-whether
with the President in Charleston, the
greatest educators in the National
Educational Conference, in State con-
his primacy as an orator has been
everywhere admitted. Upon his re-
cent visit to South Carolina where he
delivered the address at Converse Col
lege, he made a profound impression.
Already in these columns have appear
ed extracts from the South Carolina
papers about his great speech. The
)artansburg papers continue to give
preston to their high estimate OF
orth Cardinals Governor The Spar
nburg Journal says:
They are talking about Aycock for
ice-President in North Carolina. The
Id North State has but to say the
ord and South Carolina will back
er in anything she may propose for
overnor Aycock.'
The Spartanburg Herald, which q
year ago had suggested Governor Ay-
cock for Vice-President, said after his
visit to that city:
THE recent visit of Governor
Charles b. Aycock, of North Carolina
to this city, has confirmed our belief
that he is the man to be placed OF
the ticket with Judge Parker. There
are not two cleaner or nObler men il
this whole republic and hard it will
be for any one TO find aught agains
either. With these two as the Demo
cratic champions it would be ability
conservatism, high personal and ma
tional integrity against the flashy va
carries of grandstand pitcher leaguet
with a VIGOROUSLY corrupt, bold Sc
of governmental grafters."
We have never thought that the Ma
tional Convention would name
Southern man this year, mainly be
cause the party leaders will feel it ne
cessary to take both candidates fror
doubtful States, but if Governor Ay
cock should be placed on the tickle
his speeches would stir the old-fash
toned Democracy of Illinois and In
diana in a way that would reca
Douglass and Hendricks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
An Indiana Incident.

Washington Post.
1--WE must go to Indiana to find the
most emphatic reputation of the
rights Of the negro. A man up there
has sold his farm on conditions, one
being that if any part of the land is
sold or rented to a negro such part
shall Immediately revert to the giant
or or his heirs. M obile Register.
Indiana has long been noted for
intensity of feeling on the negro ques-
ton in all it's aspects. 1t was in
Vincennes, Knox county, Indiana,
some years ago, that on the occasion
of a political demonstration, the pa
thetic appeal, Fathers, Save Us from
Negro Husbands" shone out in huge
black letters on a broad white strip
surrounding a float on which rode a
party of beautiful maidens. We have
reason to believe that prayer was an
swered. 1t is not recorded that it
failed in a single instance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
Among the Railroads.

The material for the cars having ar
rived work was commenced yesterday
on making the new mail cars for the
A. and n. G. railway. The carpenters
who were laid off last week have been
taken back.-NeW Bern Journal.
Mr.. e. F. Reid, general passenger
agent of the Carolina and Northwest
ern railroad, is trying to make an ar
rangement with the Southern railway
to run a train from Lenoir to Char
lotte and back every day, by the way
of Gastonia. If the two roads can
get together a train would leave Lee
noir at in the morning, pass Gas
tonia at 9, and arrive in Charlotte
about 10; the same train would leave
Charlotte at in the afternoon stop
at Gastonia for supper, and get back
to Lenoir at about 10 at night.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
Judge PEBBLES Ought Not to Try the
Case.

Lumberton RobeSonian.
The action of this bar in declining
to try the cases on docket before this
official was no reflection Whatever CT,
the judiciary of the State, but was
a simple protest against the person.
atty of Judge PEBBLES. 1t w0ull be,
almost beyond the possibility o. jud;c-
lal fairness that he could hear Ibis
cause and render a verdict untinc-
tured by personal feelings. 1t strikes
US that in so doing, he is placing him
self in a position to become the Sub
ject of adverse criticism.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
"CollusiOn OF Wilful Ignorance"

Greensboro Record
Judge Boyd opened his court his
morning and will hear another of
those whiskey fraud cases in when
the government has been mulched as
far as known for over a hundred
thousand. One gauger has already
been convicted. The scheme has been
worked for a long time, but the gov
eminent is at last on to the game and
if the matter is pushed as seems
probable, some gigantic frauds will
be unearthed Such things could not
have been consummated without col
fusion or wilful ignorance and the
public need not be surprised at any
thing that happens.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
An Indecent Piece of Business.
DISPATCH

The folks at Washington are NAM
ing Judge Simonton's successor while
the Judge is on his death-bed. In the
name of decency, let the applicants
not hasten his death in order to get
his job.-News and Observer. It is
bad enough to scramble for a man s
place after breath leaves him, but
this thing of Fastening the death of
one in office to get his job is a cruel
indecent piece of business. And The
tendency in that direction is growing
worse every day.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
Stands Right on Moral Questions.

Lumberton Robesonian.
The High Point Enterprise says
that the News and Observer has
taken a determined stand on the
whiskey question which is pleasing
to the people of that section. Men
ton other moral questions if you
will and point out those in which the
News and Observer of recent years
has been on the wrong side, if you
can,