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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03

liam Pinkney, of Maryland, and
Thomas Appleton, American consul
at Leghorn, Italy, were entrusted with
the duty of arranging contract with
Conova.
Mr.. Appleton soon learned that
Canova was not to be persuaded only
by money, as he was then oVercroWc-
ed with work, but the honor of peg
forming this work in honor of one
who had performed such sublime
deeds for the safety and liberty OF
his country induced Canova to accept
the commission.
The statue was completed in 1921.
1T represents the hero sitting as q
Roman Senator, with an air of noble
simplicity, ON an elegant seat raised
on double square base. The fin.
tunic which he wears is seen only at
the knee, being covered by an ample
ornamental cuirass, above which is q
magnificent mantle clasped on his
right shoulder and flowing down BIS
hind in majestic folds. Beneath his
right foot, which is extended forward.
is a parazonium sheathed, and a scep-
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recklessly extravagant in the appro-
priation and expenditure of the peo-
pies money. 1t has cost twice as
much to run the government under
Mr.. Roosevelt as it cost to run it un-
der Mr.. Cleveland, and the difference
would have been even greater if the
Republican party in the present Con-
gress had not refused to pass river
and harbor, public building and othh-
er needful business legislation, to
make a false show of economy and
retrenchment, to deceive the people
upon the eve ofNan election.
Corruption.
Not only has the Republican party
been extravagant in the appropria-
ton and expenditure of the people S
money, but its expenditure has been
characterized by a degree of dishon-
esty and corruption in certain great
departments at Washington, unparal-
leied since the day of the Credit Mo-
bilier. Bribery, fraud and forgery in
the land office, embezzlement, steal
ing and graft in the postoffice, swind-
ling, fraud and ROBBERY in the internal
revenue department. The full extent
and scope of these peculations and
frauds, Will never be known until the
Republican party is removed from
power, and the books are open to in
spection.
Force Public Opinion.
Under the force of great public
pressure. Four bureaus in that great
department were examined under the
direction of an officer Of the depart
ment Each one of these bureaus
was found reeking with corruption.
The stencil was awful. Suddenly be-
fore the Investigation was fairly be-
gun, and when exposure was follow
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in the United States ship Columbus
from Gibraltar to Boston, having been
brought on the United States ship
Peacock from Civita Necchia to G!-
braltar. Upon the arrival of the CO.
lumbus at Boston the statue was re
moved to the MARY Ann" and trans
ported to Wilmington. N. G.. 1t was
thence conveyed by steamboat 20
Fayetteville, and from Fayetteville
was hauled on a specially prepared
carriage to Raleigh, where it arrived
on Monday, the 24th- of December,
1921. A great procession was formed
to meet the statue and it was escort
ed with an imposing pageant An
address was delivered by Colonel VIII
liam Polk, and it was placed in the
Capitol under the supervision of Cap
tain William Nichols
When the Marquis De Lafayette
visited Raleigh in March 1925, he
went to see this statue. An epgrav-
ing was made of the statue with La
fayette at the base, of which Il copy
is now owned by Mrs. a. Il. Andrews,
of Raleigh.
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assumed powers and prerogatives
which find no sanction either in the
laws or the Constitution.
He wanted the Congress to pass
n service pension law. Congress hes
itated and failed to pass the law on
schedule time. By executive order he
ordained and Pre- mulgated a service
pension law to suit himself, and un-
aided by legislation put it in opera
ton.
Service Pension.
1t is charged by the Washington
POST great independent newspaper.
published in the shadow of the White
House, and not unfriendly to the
president, or his administration, that
hundreds of clerks on the pay roll
of the people, are now engaged under
hurry orders, in preparing pension
papers for applicants from the doubt
full and pivotal States of New York,
Indiana and Illinois. while applicants
from the States where a few votes
are not so material, must wait until
after he election.
Campaign Data.
He wanted campaign data for the
use of the Republican committee. 1T
is charged by the same paper, that
scores of clerks in the department or
the government presided over by his
Cabinet minister who is to be chair
man of the National Executive Com
mittee. neglecing the work OF the gov
eminent, are now engaged in prepar-
ing this data, and adjusting 1t to suit
Republican argument and contention.
Civil Service.
The civil service laws have now
and then got in the way of the Pres
ident. Disregarding his yaunted pre-
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and his party with the negro vote in
The close States of the North and
Middle West. To popularize himself
with this vote he spdt upon the most
sacred instinct Of the South, and IN
augur&ted social equality in the White
House.
Congress.
Congress was troublesome and in
his way as an embarrassment and
bother to his ambitious campaign
schemes. The order went forth that
Congress must go home, and Con-
gress was sent home before it's time.
Restraints.
Despite the restraints imposed upon
him by his succession to the Presi-
dency, despite the restraints imposed
by his ambition for the nomination.
The President has been during his pre-
sent term, admittedly headstrong ana
hard to manage. If he is elected
and succeeds to the office in his own
right. and these salutary restraints
are removed the people of this coun-
try will likely learn more than they
now know Of the methods of the kai.
ser and the Gar.
Against this man the Democratic
marty should nominate for the Pres
idency man of known conservatism.
of profound respect for the law ard
the rights of the people-a man who
will not aspire to make the co-ordi-
nate branches of the government sub
ordinate to the Executive, a man who
will be content to execute the laws
and leave Congress and the people 20
make the laws man who is the an
tithesis of the President
Extravagant Taxation.
TIE Republican party has been
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The statue of Washington, by Cam
ova, was one of the tributes paid by
the State of North Carolina to the
father of his country. AS this great
work of art was unfortunately de-
Stoyed when the Capitol at Raleigh
was burned in 1881, it has passed
very much out of mind. and the story
of its creation will be entirely new
to most of our readers.
Antonio Canova. the greatest of
modern Italian sculptors. was born
at Possagno, a village situated at the
foot of the Venetian Alps, in 1857.
and began his career as a sculptor
at the age of 16 He died on the 18th
of October. 1921, having prosecuted
to the highest degree of eminence his
plastic art. Popes and emperors de-
lighted to do him honor. 1t was said
of him that the fascinating influence
which the grace ard beauty of his
female figures exercised on the senses
and the emotion produced by their
tender and voluptuous expression, has
caused him to be called by many the
sculptor of Venus and the Graces, but
it will not surely be said by posterity
that the statue Of the Three Pontitfs,
the colossal group of Hercules ana
lichas, and of ThesSeus and the Cen
taur, the Pugilists, Hector and Ajax,
Washington. the colossal statue or
Napoleon DOndpdIle, lliC SiooP VI
Piety, or the equestrian monuments OF
Naples were imagined in the Garden
of Cythera.'
1t was in 1915, when Canova was
at the very summit of his fame, that
Thomas Spencer, q member OF the
House of Commons for the county OF
Hyde, North Carolina. introduced
resolution in the General Assembly
of North Carolina, in session at RAJ
eigh, authorizing and requesting the
Governor to purchase, at public ex-
pense, q statue of General Washing
ton. to be placed in the Capitol or
State House. No limit whatever was
made. as to cost, and Governor Will
liam Miller decided to get the best
statue possible.
Senator James Turner then repre-
sented North Carolina in the Senate
of the United States, with Nathaniel
Macon as his colleague, was applied
to for information and advice There
was. as usual a conflict as to whether
the work should be done at home or
abroad.
Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Hop
kinson recommended Antonio CanoVa.
of Rome. as the greatest sculptor or
the day, and that to him should be
confided the execution of the work.
and their advice was adopted. The
American minister To Naples, Will
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tensions as a civil service advocate
and reformer, he has suspended these
laws sixty different times. Civil ser
vice is good enough for others out
if il gets in the way of the President
and his friends, il must take the con-
sequence.
He wanted to recognize the inde-
pendence of Panama before Panama
had actually achieved her independ-
ence. The treaty of 1S46 was in his
way. He squelched that treaty. The
law Of nations was in his way. He
trampled the law of nations under his
terrible feet.
Comrade.
He wanted to promote one of his
comrades who fought with him at
Santiago. from a little a big mill
tary office. The law and precedent of
the service were in the way. He
threw the law and precedent aside,
and jumped his friend from the office
of captain to that of brigadier gem
eral, over the heads of eight hundred
officers entitled TO precedence over
him.
IndianOla.
He wanted to force negro post
mistress on the people of 'Indianola.
The people of Indianola would not
have negro postmistress In defiance
of the plain letter of the law, he clos
ed the doors of the Indinola post
office, and for more than a year de-
prived the good people of that -four
ishjng town of the benefit of govern
ment postal facilities.
Negro Vote.
He wanted to strengthen himself
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tre, signifying that the successful teT-
mination of war and the history Oh
what had rendered them now useless
The hero is in the act of writing on
a tablet held in his left hand. IFS
words are George Washington TO the
People of the United States. Friends
and Fellow Citizens"
This statue was cut out OF the pur-
est Cararra, marble and was OF ne
role size. Upon it's completion II was
brought by Commodore Wllllaln
cambridge, of the United States navy,
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Canova's Statue of Washington
Destroyed with Capitol at Raleigh.

flames put a stop to their work and
they were forced to retire, leaving
Canova's masterpiece to its fate"
After the fire nothing remained of
the statue except fragments so small
that a restoration was impossible.
During his recent visit to Richmond
Colonel A. M. Waddell. of Whining
ton, said that it was his father who
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
Leads all North Carolina Daies i'm News circulation

ing exposure in rapid succession,
without rhyme or reason, except the
exigencies of Republican partisan
politics, the doors of the investigation
were closed with a slam and bans
III The very face of the people, and
all the powers and influence of the
administration were exerted and eX-
hausted to prevent an investigation.
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Strenuous Opposition

In all his career, President Roose-
welt has never exhibited greater
strenuosity, determination and re-
sourcefulness, than in heading off eV-
cry proposition of an investigation OF
these departments by the people. The
Republican party has for the present
succeeded in keeping the books clos
ed. and they will hold their secrets
until after the election at least, but
sooner or later the people will force
them open, and when they are opened
predict they will disclose condi-
ton of rottenness in the public SER
vice, which will at once astonish and
shock the nation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
Taxing Powers.

The Republican party has used the
taxing powers of the government, to
establish and maintain in this coun-
try an organized system OF monopoly
and pillage. The tariff system Of tax-
alton inaugurated and maintained In
this country by that party, discrimi-
mates against one part of the people
in favor of another part, and the
monopolies which the trust breeding
schedules of that system OF laws has
brought into existence, discriminates
against the consumer of this country
in favor of the consumers in the bal
ance of the world.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
VINO Made This Prosperity.

But, fellow citizens, what and
who made this prosperity? Was it
the DingIey tariff which with all of
it's exclusions, prohibitions and high
price making schedules. was so I'M
potent to help its beneficiaries or its
Continued on Second Page.)
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He wanted to strengthen himself
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02
.S S Il
ON RAIL
WETzEL COUNTY AUTHORITIES
HAVE NOT GIVEN UP HUNT
FOR MURDERER OF
MRS. SIX.

NEW =tALARTINSvILLE, W. Va,
July 2.-There are no new develop,
ments this morning in the case of the
murder Of Mrs. J. w. Six. The sheriff
OF Wetzel county and posse are on
the trail of the murderer, but there is
no clue.
The theory that the crime was com
nitted by tramp is now abandoned,
and it is said the woman was murder
ed with an axe by a neighbor. Sus-
picion points TO certain man, but
there is no evidence warranting the
arrest OF the suspect.
There is great excitement in the vi
entity OF kingtown and should evil
dence crop our connecting the sus-
pect with the crime he will undoubt-
eddy be lynched.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02
RULING PROTECTS
OSTRICH INDUSTRY
FEATHERS ARE ORNAMENTAL,
EVEN WHEN THEY ARE JUST
PLUCkED FROM THE BIRD.
MEANS IS PER CENT.
ADVANCE.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July lin
porteTs OF ostrich feathers are dealt
a telling blow in a custom decision
announced at the Treasury Depart
ment. AS a result the price of feath
ers, it is said, will go sailing slSyward
and fashionable young women fond
of decorating themselves with the gay
plumaSe of the Australian bird will
have to pay much larger sum for
the privilege.
The decision has sweeping effect
in raising the duties on all imported
feathers. since it classes all ostrich
feathers, even in their crude state, as
'ornamental.' This makes a differ
ence OF some So per cent in the amount
of duty levied upon them.
Heretofore importers of p1uEes have
been importing them in their crude
state at Is per cent. ad valorem. Re
Gently the matter came up before the
collector of customs at San Francisco,
who declared that ostrich feathers,
even when just plucl1ed from the bird,
We're ornamental
An appeal was taken by the import
ers. The case then went before the
board of general appraisers at New
York, who have just announced their
decision, sustaining this Interpretation
ii the law.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02
THE DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK.

I II the Democrats nominate Judge
Parker. he will get a small, though
! eminently respectable vote, as Mr..
Bryan's followers will not take much
| stock in the silent jurist; if they nomi-
nate Cleveland, he will get many of
| the old line Democrats, a few dis
gruntled Republicans and majority
/ of the independent voters in the East
I but he will fail utterly where he most
needs votes, that is in the middle. and
western States; if they nominate
Judge Gray, the entire West will slip
away from him and ne will likely lose
New York by a pretty heavy majority;
if Hearst should be the nominee, he
would poll heavy vote among the
discontinued rabbTe and get all the
ardent admirers of Mr. Bryan, arous-
ing more excitement than any other
man who has been mentioned. but
he would get the fewest electoral votes
on the list; We're Mcclellan to get the
nomination, he would arouse consid-
cradle enthusiasm in the East. but
he would be unable to stand the
stigma of being Tammany Halls can
didate, and be would grow weaker as
the campaign progressed: the carl
caturists would defeat any man under
the dominance of the New York Tiger.
There is not q really able or popular
man in the whole list OF Democratic
possibilities SO far mentioned, were
other conditions favorable and aus
picious. But on issues Democracy is |
more seriously handicapped than on
candidates. It finds itself obliged to
repud!ate all Of it's paramount is |
sues for a generation back ard it is
utterly at sea for slogan or cam
paign cry. The ST. Louis convention
even has to so back to Thomas JEFF
ferson to get portrait to hang in it's
hail. and it will probably be as anti
quated on planks for the PLATFORM
But the Democracy does right in thus
honorinS jefferson, for it is his spirit
which has kept the party from dis
The Democratic organiZa-
ton certainly is persistent. No other
party within our ken could stand the
setbacks and humiliation it has suf-
erred and still retain a name But
his year will probably put it out OF
business unless a better showing is
made than that Of four and eight
ears ago.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02
The local Democracy, we are told

The local Democracy, we are told,
are having 4 lot Of trouble in getting
up county ticket. Nobody wants
to be a candidate for the House of
Delegates-that is, no one who has
been consulted on the subject, and
another man who is slated for a very
important office will not consent to
stand for it unless he has the assur-
ance of certain prominent mans
support without which he feels sue
cess would be impossible. AS the
prominent man is out of politics, CIV
ing business his entire attention, it
Will be necessary to make new
slate. He won't give any assistance.
hence the outlook in this county is
so discouraging to the Democracy,
especially the F'airmont end of it, that
they have about concluded to aban-
don their slate work and let things go
any old way, believing that no mat
ter what they might do defeat awaits
them.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02

1t is not the peoples game that is
being played in the G. O. P. in West
Virginia. 1t is cut-throat euchre by
political pirates played with stocked
decks and marked cards and there's
nausht of honesty about it.-Wheel-
ing Register.
Remembering how it's own party in
this State used to behave and that
its behavior finally resulted in its
downfall. the Register would like to
believe that the Republicans have
reached the same demoralized and
disreputable stage.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02

tfSee our line Of ladies, white aprons,
up from 10
See our line Of neck beads, up
See our line Of infants, summer caps
See our line of table damasl, at
- per !a1d "a
See our line OF embroideries, nice
line, per yard, up from 03
See our line of fishing tackle, at
just .......... 2
See our line Of ladies' gloves up
See our line of hosiery, at 3 pair
tor %
See our line OF gents ] sc linen col
lars, at 3 for 25
See or line of gents fancy dress
shirts, at As
See our line of knives and forks,
per set, up from ..........39
See our line of laces, per yard, up
See our line Of memorandum books,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02
FARMS
THE THING NOW
INVENTION OF ISRAEL HOGE-
LAND PROMISES TO REVO-
LUTIONiZE AGRICULTU-
RAJ PURSUITS.
THIRTY ACRE FIELD CAN BE
PLOWED IN ONE DAY, AC-
CORDiNG TO THE INVEN-
TORS ESTIMATE.

INDIANAPOLIS, July lon ac
count of its economy and the speed
with which it does the work, the in
vention Of Israel Hogeland for doing
| farm work promises to revolutionize
| modern farming.
MIR. Hogeland has prepared an es-
innate of the cost of an equipment
and the cost of operating. He has
compared it with the cost of operat-
ing a farm with horses and the result
is astonishing. Mr.. Hoseland has
submitted these estimates to Editor
kinSsberry, of the Indiana Farmer,
who indorses the estimate as fair
By the use of electricity a thirty
acre field can be p1owed in one day
The cost would be 81 for the electric
current and $3.50 for a motorman,
making total cost of $3.50. To pillow
like field by horse power it would
require one team and driver for
ten days, and at $3.50 a. day would
bring the cost of blowing the field up
to S45. The cost of blowing by cleo
tricity would be 25 cents an acre,
while the cost of doing the ploying
by horse power would be- $3.50 an,
acre, or six times the. cost, to. say
nothing of the saving in time. The
Indianapolis Light and Power Com
pany has agreed to furnish twenty
horse power motor with a current
for 81 a day.
The cost Of installing plant for
operating the farm by electricity
would amount to about S1,5g1
Tot ~
could be done by the motor, but it |
is in fact adapted to do all the work,
such as wheat threshing, shredding,
corn cutting, grain drilling, harrow
ngs and rolling the ground.
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1t is an awful fling at the Young.


1t is an awful fling at the young,
vigorous and progressive (pardon
the irony, it was due to a slip of the
penciD Democrats of West Virginia
to drag poor, old ex-senator Davis
out of his retirement back to the
mlre OF politics He is old enough
to be making preparations to die, but
instead of that he is again to be ex-
posed to the wiles of the evil one by
entering the political arena 1t does
seem hard for the old man to look on
and see what a terrible botch Nc
Graw, McCorkle, Charley Wells, ct
al have made of things, but it ap-
pears cruel to harass the old man
with affairs for Which he is not re-
sponsible and for which he can GER
tainly have no liking
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02
Any Old Thing Will Do.

And now they are talking about
running the president of the great
PENNSYLVANIA railroad system for
President of the United States on
the Democratic ticket. Wonder how
they harmonic the thought with the
walls they have been putting up
against railroads and other corpora
tons for life time. But when it
comes to finding issues any old thing
that strikes them for the time being
is to their Misunderstanding Tele-
gram.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02

up IRON y III
See our line of small notions, an
10c articles, Sc to -gls
See our lire Of zoe table oil csott,
per yard.
See our line of calicoes, all kiIstas.,s;S5}5
per yard, rs
See our line Of pencils, all Bargains
at. .-....... 80. .-5.
See our line OF razors, up from 4ssS
See our line of neckwear, all Kintls,f
up from
See our line OF stationery, all kinds
tablets up from =. M 4
See our line Of tinware, complete
stock, 3 tins for 2 :: e II s1E55S5s
See our line of umbrellas. up ffr1un-35
See our line Of ladies' summer vests,
up from 50. -
See our line of white Indian L5r1oza,
per yard 3. -saS&
See all our lines, we can save you n:
money Why pay Toe for an ar
ticle We sell from 3 to rs
Monday-store Closed
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02

With Judge Alton B. Parker head.
ing the national ticket and Senator
Henry G. Davis the State, Democracy
VIII win in both State and nation. 1t
IS Democracy's year!-Wheeling Reg
lister.
The Register is in serious if not
hopeless condition if it believes that
a dummy and an old fossil could sue
cessfully cope with the stalwart Re-
publicanisna OF West Virginia.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02
al soon toI be8 made part 81 his SUP 3.

was soon FIJI be made part Of sup
per 38s
Mr.. pgar was wal king along the
north branch Of the Raritan river,
which flows through. his place, when
he suddenly spied san enormous bull
frog. After considerable maneuver-
ing he managed TO capture the frog
alive. He says It measured thirteen
inches from tip to tip
How about that, Maxwell, of the
Morgantown Chronicle?