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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
WHIPPING POST IN NEW YORK.

Recently man was convicted OF whip
ping his wife in New York and Judge
Aspinwall, imposed the maximum SEN
tence of five years Imprisonment and
81 900, and in imposing the sentence said
to the scrowling prisoner:
81 have sentenced hundreds OF men,
and can't say that I ever did so with
pleasure, but in this instance it really is
a pleasure to give you the maximum pen
atty, which you richly deserve. 1t will
make your wife, now over fifty years OF
age, free from your brutality Tor some
time, and may deter other sO-called hui
man beings who are brutes from follow
ing your example,
This leads the New York American to
say, 1.-The lash is the right thing for all
SUCH" and that the case of this man 5
ga powerful argument in favor of the
whipping post
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
WHAT'S THE BAR ASSOCIATION
FOR?

The great bulk of the North Carolina
lawyers are men of high character and
illustrate the high ethics of their profess
sion by honorable conduct, personal and
professional. 1t is unfortunately true that
there are too many who seem to regard
the profession as a cloak for disreputable
acts. Every year there is printed in
the papers stories of some conduct by a
lawyer-even sometimes by judge-that
calls for public condemnation. There is
voiced the public indignation and then
the people wait for the Bar Association
to act. The Association meets. 1t hears
an address by some big lawyer from a
distance-often man who looks to see
the law made an agency by which trusts
may legally ply their trade of robbery;
addresses upon important legal topics by
able attorneys, officers are elected, and
the association adjourns without even a
plain declaration against the patent I'M
professional conduct of men who disgrace
large measure of confidence in our courts.
Here is an example of the least reprehen-
sible conduct of a certain class of legal
shysters, who do not lose standing at
the bar, because of their conduct, as told
by the Greensboro Record:
ga well known lawyer once said that
the Lord fed and cared for the lawsers
just as he does for the birds, but it has
been suggested that the Lord always
likes help and that it may yet become
necessary to place them under the care
of the Audubon Society TO protect them.
A somewhat noted lawyer has just let
it out that he defended a man charged
with killing his wife and got him off
viii life sentence, although the defend
ant at the beginning, had confessed to
him that ne killed her. The distinguish
ed attorney was bemoaning the TACT that
his client, pending an appeal for par
don, had made public confession, other
wise he would have secured his release.
1t is an adage that a lawyera first duty
is to his client. 1t should be amended to
read his first duty is to his State"
he owes his first duty. How often is it
the case that lawyer regards it as his
first duty to clear his client, regardless
of the means employed? Not as often,
we believe, as the popular mind puts it,
but too often for the reputation of the
legal profession. Lobbying has come to
be too common among North Carolina
lawyers-it ought to be outlawed. Solicit
ing business, a crime in the olden times,
is said to be practised by some men who
have been licensed.
Are these things true, of even the
smallest fraction of this great profession?
The Bar Association ought to investigate
and reprimand men guilty of such I'M
professional conduct, and then expel any
who bring disgrace on the profession.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
TOO BUSY FOR POLITICS.

The candidates and their friends are
more or less discouraged because they
find that the people of North Carolina
are at this time taking very little in
terest in politics. Though several can
didates for governor are actively at worl:
to secure the nomination. the people
generally are not ''lining up as early as
heretofore. What is the reason? The
Roanoke Chowan Times partly explains in
this answer:
Our Jackson correspondent notes that
local politics is claiming the attention
OF citizens of that town. The voters of
the Rich Square section are too busy
Just now planning to make a big crop Of
cotton, peanuts, hog and hominy to give
politics thought
1t is the same way in most sections.
But the same thing was true in 1900, toe,
and yet the people early in the year were
taking deep interest. Why the difference?
Then the great issue of the constitutional
amendment was at stake. In prior cleo
tions it was a red hot, hand to hand
fight This year everybody knows that
the Democrats will win. There will be,
of course trouble here and there, but
the Democratic State ticket is as certain
to be elected as it is certain that it will
be composed of men worthy to serve Lac
State With this knowledge, is it any
surprise that, after ten years OF strenu-
Gus political warfare, the people should
wish to have a shorter campaign and de-
cline to be aroused before the first bird
Of spring utters note?
At the proper time, as the warm wealth
er comes on, the people will take hold OF
politics and they may smash some calcu-
lstions made in cold weather They will
be on hand and will see to it that true
men are named and then they will go
to work to elect them. But they know
it can be done within a few months and
they refuse to have politics strung out
a whole year, now that there is no neces-
sty for it.
The National Convention has been called
for July 9Th This would indicate that
the national campaign will be shorter
than usual. We feel sure that the people
of North Carolina prefer shorter cam
paign. 1t will be necessary for the State
Convention to be held by July 1st. There
Is really no reason why it should be
held until the middle of June. That will
give plenty of time.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

paign contribution he wins as stakes the
right to illegally rob the consumers.
Every protected interest knows il 1t
Stands pat" its bounty in the shape Of
high taxes on the people will be the stake
it earns. Now we hear much OF ship
subsidy. All ship owners who see this
stake in the game are ready to stand
pat" Imagine Abraham Lincoln and
Charles Sumner making their appeals to
the young Republican party in the YER
nacular of the gaming table! In this
day, when the worship OF the dollar seems
to hold sway with many, these appeals
to greed and to gambling, may not out
rage the sense of right of all the people,
but as sure as God rules in the heavens,
the time will come when men vino regard
the science of government in the light Of
a game of poker will be driven from the
civic temples.
Let us see how the use of gambling
terms by leaders is followed by the lesser
lights. Only one day last week, Mr.. Will
liams, the Democratic leader, who has
several bills pending to reduce the tariff,
was urging the Republicans to vote for
those bills that would give free coal.
when this little debate took place:
1T was only a few days ago." Mr..
Williams continued, that the great l
am of the Republican party delivered
a speech in which he said: We hold the
ace Now l had private and confiden-
tial conversation with gentleman Of
this house this morning and he told me
he did not know a single game of cards
in which the ace wins"
Il viii tell you what we have got that
wins" intcrjected Mr.. Palmer, of Penn
sylvania, eve have a straight flush
"Well,' rejoined Mr.. Williams, Il don't
know what a straight flush is, but you
have not got quite as much of flush
a. you used to have. Things are not so
flush rs they were a while back"
AS long as the men in power see moth
ing higher in legislation than a game OF
poker, just so long will the gamblers
calling themselves trust magnates, pro
lection advocates, ship owners, and other
grafters who get special privilege-taX
the people for their private enrichment
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
THE BAD EXAMPLE OF GENIUS.

Ebert Hubbard the head of the Roy.
croft colony, having been divorced from
his wife, has married Miss Alice M.
Moore, who was named by his wife as
correspondent in his suit for divorce. He
admitted her affidavits and pays her ali
mony OF $4,000 year. His new wife is
brilliant and it is said her original intel
lectuality has greatly assisted Mr.. Hub.
bard as author and lecturer. Perhaps he
lntlmated her assistance when he wrote
Genius is the faculty of getting some
one else to do your work. Here are
three maxims written by Hubbard which
illustrate his faith:
should genius marry, let him follow
the example of Goethe, who used to re,
Ter 10 his wife as convenient loaf of
brown bread.
Love and marriage are private affairs,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
WHY THEY USE POKER PHRASES.

When noted party leaders employ poker
politics and craftsmanship. 1t shows that
they regard them in the light of a gan G
Of chance with offices and the right to
tax as the stakes for which they play
Allusion has been made IN these columns
to Mark Hannas phrase "stand pat" and
I'VE have, the ace" He is the recognized
head of the party founded by such think.
ers and scholars as Charles Sumner. They
appealed to mems conscience. Mark Han
ma appeals to their pocket book and to
nothing else. Every trust manipulation in
America is gambler. He knows if he
Stands pat" and puts UP big cam
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
A CONNECTICUT CONSCIENCE.
New York Times

New York Times.
Senator Platt, is not a hypocrite. 1t is
his sincere and unalterable belief that
everything done by the Republican party
is sanctified, everything attempted by
Democrats is in its origin and nature
sinful. His ethical sense is completely
satisfied by the Nicaragua allegation.
If President Roosevelt had personally
led United States troops against the
forces of Colombia; if he had used the
treaty of 1916, the Declaration of indie
pendence, the Ten Commandments, and
the Revised Statutes to light his camp
fires, and the Constitution to wipe his
ensanguined blade upon, Orville H. Platt
would have offered no word of criticism.
Anybody who denounced the Presidents
acts he would have exposed to the world
as a Nicaragua schemer, and so have set
the President right. Sin might smear its
crimson stain all over the Republican
party, yet it would seem as white as
snow to the color-blind conscience OF so
good a thick and-thin partisan as Senator
Plat of Connecticut.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
NO HECTORING BY NEWS AND OBJ
SERVER.
Franklin Press.

We read very carefully the controversy
between Editor Bailey, of the Biblical
Recorder and Editor Daniels, of the
News and Observer, and can see no ex-
cuse for Railey's pitching into Daniels
about hectoring the church except that
Bailey wanted to be meddlesome and of
ficious and put his foot into matter
that did not concern him at all. There
seemed to be more of the spirit Of hector
ing on 13ailey's part than on Daniels S,
for Daniels was giving attention to mat
ters within his own province, while
Bailey was intruding himself into fami-
ly quarrel that in no way concerned
him. Daniels got the best Of the con-
troversy, though.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
GIFTS TO EDUCATION.

The spirit of giving to education seems
to grow with the increase of large for
tune. Some one predicted that the time
would come when no rich man could die
and be respectable in Massachusetts, UT,
less he remembered Harvard IN his will.
That time will not come soon, but more
and more rich men feel their obligation
to be generous to promoting education,
libraries and charity. The exact figures
for 1903 are not known, though several
newspapers have made figures. They diff
fer widely. Of gifts exceeding $4,000, it
seems safe to say that last year at least
fifty million dollars was given. OF course
many gifts of less than $4,000 were made
and they aggregate very large sums.
The following are the largest gifts OF the
year:
John y. Rockefeller to Rush
Medical Institute, Chicago. 81, OOO,OC
Andrew Carnegie, to various
Public Libraries .............. 6,6i9,000
Andrew Carnegie Endowment
fund for relief of Homestead
men injured ............ 1900, 900
Mrs. ]. w. Winthrop to Prince
ton Seminary ............. 2,O00,O0d
John D. Rockefeller to Chicago
University ............... 1856, 600
John d. Rockefeller to secondary
schools of Chicago .......... 1885, 900
Harvard University, Cambridge,
additions to endowment. 49,. 1,655,OOO
Miss May P. Ropes, to many col
leges 1,OO0, 900
Mrs. E. NJ. Anderson, to Bar
nard ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000, 900
The Wyman gift to Johns Hop
kins 1000
Mrs. f. F. Thompson to Teach
ers' college ................ $50, 900
NJ. Hartly Dodge to Columbia
University OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 800, 900
Orthodox Jewish Seminary en-
aowment ................... 100000
Isaac M. Wise Memorial Hebrew
Seminary endowment ......... 275, 900
Andrew Carnegie to Mechanics
and Tradesmen's Institute 49,. 100000
John D. Rockefeller to Vassar
College 200, 900
II. NJ. Hanna to Western Re
serve COLLEGE .. 100, 600
If the scriptural idea of the poor widow
giving her mite, put in more than all
the rest, the one horse Cumberland
county farmer who rents his land, who
gave three dollars, made a larger con-
fTI hlIts Ion h., e too
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
THE WATCHMAN A HERO.
Charlotte News.

Charlotte News.
That Waterman at the State Normal
College deserves to go down IN history
as a hero. From what we can learn
about that deplorable confiagration it was
this humble man who saved the lives OF
the young ladies in many sections o.
the big dormitory. The State OF North
Carolina, to say nothing of individuals.
owes this man lasting debt OF gratitude
and one, too, she or they should not soon
forget.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

1t is a pity more ex-chief justices are
not sent to the Legislature. Ex-chiet Jus
tce Guffy is member Of the Kentucky
legislature and he has introduced a bill
reducing the number of pcremptory chal-
lcnges IN capital offences from fifteen to
five. Dollars to doughnuts. most of the
little lawyers will fight il. They think
it helps their business tc have an undue
number of peremptory challenges.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

The Wadesboro Messenger and Intel
ligencer in Little Shop Talk tells the
good news that it's weekly circulation has
now reached 1850. 1t is one of the very
lest weeklies in North Carolina-newsy,
sensible, courageous, progressive, fit
representative of the patriotism and vir-
tues of the "unterrified'' of Arson
county tes
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

The Philadelphia Record says that tie
amazing confidence of the Democrats
that they will win this year is giving the
president a great deal of trouble. He VIII
have even more when he rides down Penn
sylyania avenue on the morning of Marcn
4th, 1905, in carriage with his Demo
lcratic Successor
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

There are two communications in the
Winston Republican proposing Teddy Tor
President and Charles Reynolds for Gov
ernor. Evidently the Winston postmaster
would like to make the race Is he anx-
ious enough to resign his fat Federal
job or does he wish to shoot behind brick
walls?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

The Democratic party is not up for
sale. Those who hold out the tempting
bait of a plethoric campaign stronghold.
if the party will give the trusts the
wink, are the worst enemies of Demo
cracy The party will make the fight
against present evils and on living issues.
and will not 'go over" to the money
power, as some folks wish it to do.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

In Virginia if any person receives anv
money for the purpose of securing the
passage or defeat of any measure by the
General Assembly he shall be confined in
Jail not exceeding twelve months, and
fined not exceeding S., 0OO.' The virginian
Pilot tells of case and calls for the en-
forcement of this law.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

Hillsboro is an ideal residence city.
Joseph A. Harris editor of the Observer,
says he has lived there twenty-three years
on a cash capital of thirty cents and
still has ten cents left
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

The Nashville Graphic reports that
county by Wholesale Is it due to Leap
Year? Oh to fifteen cent cotton? Or to
both combined?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

Down in Mississippi they call white
Republicans the "R F R's"-Republlcan
fer revenue 1t accurately describes nine
tenths Of the tribe
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
A MORNING TONIC.

(Kipling-"The Light That Failed }
All we can do is to learn how to do oul
work, to be masters of our material
instead of servants, and never to be
afraid of anything.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

AT last a location has been found for
the Crittenden Home in Charlotte. That
worthy work of saving will now have a
home that will do untold good.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

Theodore Roosevelt, the man." writes
Richard H. Yancey, SIS a serious PROPOSE
ton that this country has come up
against His dangerous personality will
constitute the chief issue in the next
presidential campaign. 1t has been saio
that the Democratic party was in search
of an issue on which to join battle with
the Republicans, and if that be true the
President has in his own person furnish
ed it. Mr. Charles NJ Harvey, in a re-
cent article in the Atlantic Monthly,
made note of the fact that all Presidents
twice elected have accentuated their per
sonal tendencies in the second term.
What Mr. Roosevelt may do if encour.
aged by a reelection, and the indorse-
ment of popular vote, is, in the light of
what he has already done, sufficient to
give all sober-minded Americans pause. -
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
PkGE VS.. BASSETT.

Thomas Nelson Page in very thought
iul article In the January number of the
North American Review or the subject
OF Lynching of Negroes, says:
ITO the writer it appears plain that
it (the crime of ravishing and numbering
wCmen) is due to two things; first to
social antagonism and to the talk OF
social equality, from which it first sprang,
that infiames the ignorant negro, who
has grown up unregulated and undiscip-
lined"
What an outrage then for a professor
in one of our State colleges to suggest
the idea of social equality
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
Spirit of the Press.
PEOPLE LOVE IT FOR THE ENEMIES
1T HAS MADE.
Salisbury Sun.

Salisbury Sun.
The best advertisement the News and
Observer ever had is the attack recently
made upon it by the ex-Rev. Babb, who
figured SO VIGOROUSLY during the life OF
fusion in North Carolina as chaplain ct
the penitentiary. Babbs effusion should
add 500 names to the News and Observer
circulation list
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

Very few poems have been received on
the destruction of the old capitol of Geor-
eia. Can't the poets find any inspiration
in burnt bricks?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24
WHAT ONE WOMAN DID.

Chatham Record.
The good that may be accomplished by
one woman is forcibly illustrated IN the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

If the scriptural idea of the poor widow
giving her mite, put in more than all
the rest the one horse Cumberland
county farmer, who rents his land, who
gave three dollars, made larger con-
tribution than any of the millionaires.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-11-22
LOST HER
SUIT FOR
ASSAULT

Mary McCaughey lost the sui. 10 re-
cover 5000 damages for alleged assault
and battery brought by her against James
Dempsey. Plaintiff and defendant are
residents OF Pawtucket No jury trial
was chaimed and the case was heard by
Judge Dubois today.
The McCaugheys and the Dempseys
had tenements In we same house on
Prospect street. Pawtucket. in 1902. and
harsh feelings arose between then due,
II is said, 10 the Dempsey children. The
latter made too much noise. II Is claimed,
and also wanted 10 play in the yard, 10
which the plaintiffs folks objected.
one night Mr. Dempsey got home late
and found the outside door bolted against
him He says he simply knocked hard
no awaken his wife, who was IN bed In
her tenement on the second story. Plain
tiff claimed that Dempsey kicked At the
door and when she demonstrated. he
chased her as far as the nearest 1re sta
ton. would not let her into her house and
threatened To do ~ the whole OF her
friends
Mr.. Dempsey denied every statement
made by plaintiff. Sergeant Gardiner and
another officer testified they walked with
plaintiff 10 her home and that when they
got 10 Dempsey door he opened n and
appeared 20 have just got out bed. Mrs.
Dempsey said her husband went right
10 bed as soon as she opened the door
for him.
One Of the officers said. 1T was n case
OF two skies" Judge Dubois gave de-
cision for the defendant j. J. Fitz-
gerald was attorney for defendant.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-11-22
SPECIALISTS
CHARGES
DISPUTED

Judge Dubois today heard exper. tes-
timony as 10 charges OF a specialist The
case before him was that OF o. Fletcher
Best NJ. D., against Amelia p. McAuslan
Dr. Best performed a surgical operation
on the defendants son. The doctor
claimed there is due him 1904 That Is
$500 for the operation, 75 visits at s. and a
few office visits for which 50 a visit was
charged. DR. Harvey. the eve and ear
specialist, said as he recalled II he got
S25 for assisting Or. Best i'm the opera
tion.
on cross-exa mination Or. Harvey ad-
mitted that for such an operation as DR.
Best performed on Mr.. MfAuslan $30t
would be a good fee in this city. Dr
Best said he waited year after sending
In his bill before he asked any money
OF the defendant.
In an interview he had with Mrs. Nc
Auslan. the doctor said she told him her
son thought the charges very much toe
large DR.. Best denied that he had told
Mrs. McAuslan that when he got n rich
patient he charged more than he did
charge a poor one. He also denied ssyine
he had 10 get the expenses OF his college
education from the rich. There was q
good deal OF discussion about 81 being a
reasonable charge for visits.
George II. Huddy. Jr.. was attorney for
the plaintiff and r. u. Bassett was at
torney for the defendant
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-11-22
HEAVY SNOW
STORM IN
ENGLAND

London, Nov. z. Keen frosts and heavy
snow squalls are reported from all parts
OF the United Kingdom. A gale ragged all
night long over the coast. driving yes
sells 10 shelter and seriously dislocating
the telegraph wires especially in the
north OF England and Scotland.
Binding snow storms are causing deep
drifts and rendering traffic difficult in
the country districts and arc necessitat-
ing a cessation OF outdoor work In many
OF the provincial towns. In London little
snow has fallen but a sharp fall In tenn
perature IL accentuatinR the distress
among the poor which Is already preva-
lent
The snow is 90 deep AZ Chatsworth that
the king or Portugal and others OF the
house party there have been prevented
from shooting. Some small craft have
been wrecked. Up 10 the present Novem-
Der had been unusually mild and the sud
den change is causing much misery. Win
try weather seems general I'm Europe
frost being reported so far south as Ma
pies.