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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
CIVIC RIGHTEOUSNESS TRIUM.
PHANT.

The result of the city election in
Richmond is triumph for civic right
eousness and journalistic devotion to
a high duty.
For weeks the contest between two
candidates had waged hot and the
result was in doubt up to the night
before the election. Then a secret
meeting was called of the liquor deal
ers in the city and they decided to
throw their influence to one of the
candidates. If their plan of secrecy
could have succeeded, the man of their
choice would have won, but the two
daily papers Of that city were "onto
their little game" and their attempt
to control the politics of the city was
promptly exposed. The people of the
city were called upon to resent the at
tempted dictation of the liquor deal
ers. They responded to the call to-
duty, and the man who had obtained
the support of the liquor dealers was
defeated.
There was no call upon the saloon
element to thrust themselves into poll
tics. No question affecting license was
pending. They were ambitious to
dominate and challenged the good
people to a fight. Though having a
few hours notice, the people rallied,
and defeated the attempted dictation.
Richmond has set a good example
to other cities. There is a disposition
among many good men to neglect the
performance of their duty as voters
because they say: I'VE can do moth
ing. The tough element or corruption
lists will control and we do not care
to have anything to do with dirty pol
itics.'' 1t is because of such civic cow
ardice that cities get under the domi-
nation of grafters and unworthy Off
Gals. There is not a city or town in
America in which the CRATER element
cannot be driven out if the people who
wish nothing but clean government
would unite to drive them out. What
Richmond has done every city can do,
and people who suffer such govern
ment as the liquor dealers sought to
give Richmond, have themselves to
blame. If they would have the cour-
age to fight for good government they
would get it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
FOLK MAY BE CONSIDERED.

The Missouri people say they will
present Senator Cockrell for President.
He is an able and honorable old-fash-
toned Democrat worthy to fill any po-
sition of trust. But the fact that he
served in the Confederate Army makes
him ineligible, though it ought not to
do so. The North still has more war
prejudices than the South, for South
ern voters gladly voted for Hancock
and Greeley. But they would wave
the "bloody shirt furiously if any ex-
Confederate were nominated. That
will bar Cockrell. If any man from
Missouri is named, the way to spell his
name is Folk. He is nearer, like Til
den than any man yet mentioned fol
the presidency.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
MORNING TONIC.
(Thomas Jefferson.)

The rule of my life has been never
to harass the public with fendings and
provings of personal ISLANDERS. t..
SANDER l have thought best to leave
to the scourge of public opinion. The
man who fears no truths has nothing
to fear from lies. / should have
fancied myself half guilty had l con-
descended to put pen to paper in refu-
tation of their falsehoods or drawn to
them respect by any notice from my
self.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29

The culprit in the felon's cell curses
the power that has exposed his viii
lainy. But the solicitor pays no at
tention to his rawlings and continues
to receive the thanks of honest men.
An honest journal exposes harlotry
and is uninjured by the vituperations
of the vile.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
Mistake of The Head.

Salisbury Sun. .
A number Of North Carolina h edi-
tors are saying harsh tni h ,,nwJi tl :
Judge PEBBLES that wouiu " Wbatava,,
ten did they know the maii tic imdicia J
opinion one may hold OF ne ~ ahijiis,
temperament, he is Ill., ILL., acouaint-
anee With sthti pin extending over pc
Rod of fifteen s years has s Sc be bt to
strengthen the impressloi indigo orr
erred in his CO pacity as ., |uuG imn oJF
faith in the mans intesi'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29

The cur which is dangerous to
community and is cast into the pound
barks much at the officer of the law,
but the poison of his saliva is known
to all and his opportunity has passed
to do more than bark.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
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FINNEMORE
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29

Salisbury Sun.
The News and Observer was entirely
right in a criticism a few days since
of the unseemly haste to further the
interests of such gentlemen as hoped
to succeed Judge Simonton, who was
still living This is not the first in
stance of the kind but none the less
disgraceful. Common decency should
have deferred speculation as to sue
cessor until Judge Simonton's death.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
The Smile That Don't Wear Off.

Apex News.
We make our best bow to the News
and Observer on the occasion of its
appearance in a new, fresh looking
garb. It's like seeing a new smile on
the face of an old friend.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29

The Illicit distiller of whiskey paws
the air in his fury against an honest
officer who discovers his lawlessness
The officer does not suffer but re-
ceives his reward for performing a
service to his State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29

1t is characteristic of harlots-
journalistic as we'll as the other kind
to seek to smirch the character of the
virtuous. But nobody pays any atten-
ton to their sland--s.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29

The stencil of some cess-pools defies
the law of gravitation and comes from
"HIGHER up
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
Common Decency Requires 1t.

the conclusion that it has been a mis-
take of the head.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29

The friends of Hon. r. Il. Linney
are talking about bringing him before
the Republican State convention as
a candidate for Governor.-Taylors
vile Scout.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
Political Chat.

We endorse heartily the suggestion
of the Charlotte News that the Dem
ocratic State Convention instruct fol
Governor Aycock for Vice-Presfdent
This would be the fitting and the
handsome thing to do. And no bet
ter nor greater man will be named by
the st. Louis convention.-Clevel
Star
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29

Why have the railroads made this
new rule? Primarily, of course, 10
put larger sums in their strong boxes
But is there not another reason? Here
is the way. the Norfolk Virginian-Pllot
looks at it:
''The Virginian- Pilot is persuaded
that legitimate business considerations
are not at the bottom of the increase
in freight rates made by three great
trunk lines for Virginia points, and it
wishes to say emphatically that the IN
| crease should be fought to the last
ditch by the business interests al
fected.
THE Virginian-Pilot is however, OF
| the opinion that this increase is the
petulent and impudent retort OF these
railway companies to the successful at
/ tempt of the State of Virginia to es-
tablish measure of salutary control
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-01
SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS

The Bar Association would do well
not to make itself the medium of any
mans antipathy to the Supreme Court
or, for that matter, to any other court.
If it becomes a personal spite machine
its usefulness will be destroyed While
i. is the duty of lawyers as we'll as of
laymen to work against judicial APP
pointments which threaten to degrade
the bench and pollute the administra-
ton of justice, no such appointments
are slated for Hawaii and there is
, every prospect that the President win
choose wisely between the names of
the excellent men who have been sug-
gested to him. Between such aspir-
ants as Frear, Hartwell Perry, Hatch
and Highton there is a wide latitude of
acceptable choice and any three of them
would constitute a high-minded and
intellectual bench. There are other
names before the public but those of
them we recall are not under such close
| consideration at the White House as to
make it necessary for the Bar Associa2
ton or anybody else to take them up.
The gentlemen who have been named
as the probable beneficiaries of the
SCllelne winch lies DICK OF the call lot a.
Bar Association meeting cannot afford
to let themselves be put in the position
of grievance candidates, especially
when the chief grievance is that of a
disbarred lawyer who earned disgrace
many times before it came to him.
They can do better to rest their claims
upon their acknowledged merits as law
yers and gentlemen irrespective of the
schemes of any man who has the thirst
of revenge to slake. The President, in
comforting with the Governor, will not
be misled as to persons.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-01
THE GAME OF WAR.

j The Russians seem to think that
Japan has lost a golden oportunity by
not invading Manchuria when its de-
tenders were comparatively few, but 1t
may turn out that Russia is the one
that has lost by not occupying Korea
before the Japanese did. All depends
ON the Japanese plan of campaign. Ii
the Russians are right in thinking
that the Japanese intended to invade
Manchuria, then surely much valuable
time has been lost. But IL may turn
out, as the Advertiser has said before
that the Japanese have no idea of GO
ing further than Korea, the desire to
control which was their incentive for
taking the chances of BATTLE and that
their object Will be to hold II against
Russia and incidentally, while the war
lasts, to smash the enemy's navy and
to make Russia's fortified ports un-
pleasant places to live in.
This theory finds some color in a
statement made last summer TO travel
ling Hawaiians, by a British diplomat
in Asia, that Japan cared nothing for
Manchuria, but by bothering Russia
about II hoped to compromise on Korea.
Let it be remembered that, when Japan
did not ask for Manchuria; all It want
ed on the mainland was a strategic
foothold on the Liaotong peninsula. In
the nature of things Manchuria would
be an unwise possession for Japan just
as Normandy was to England. Korea
would be poor acquisition also but for
its proximity TO Japan and the abso-
lutte need of an outlet for the surplus
population of the island empire.
If Japan has indeed decided to b.
content with the capture of the ter
ritory it wanted and with the command
of the sea, the difficulties of Russia in
this war will be vastly increased. The
Cars strategists have laid out their
campaign on the theory that the Jap
anese will advance and fight them on
their own ground, far from a base. II I
the japanese refuse to do this, as they
may without loss of prestige, then Rus
sia must either drop the war or take |
the offensive, giving battle on ground {
chosen by the enemy-and an enemy I
who, by that time, will have been well .
SO 1t is an open question about gold /
EN- opportunities" 1t may he that Rus
STA, with infinite deliberation and care !
has played the game of Japan.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-01
NO LOBBYlr G THIS TIME.

The Governor makes no mistake in
warning the office holders of the Terri
tory against lobbying with the Legls-
lature. one of the crying evils of
legislation here in the past has been
the active work of Office holders to get
more salary from the lawmakers, and
that of job-chasers to get themselves
on the payroll. 1t is not in the prov
ince of the Governor to deprive the
latter class of access to the Legislature.
but he can check the former, which is
the one that does the most mischief.
Heads of departments will be pretty
sure not to forget the Governors in
junction so far as they themselves are
concerned; but they will not fail, if in
sympathy with the spirit of the Execu-
tive policy, to warn their subordinates
to leave the Legislature to its own de-
vices. A demand for the resignation
of any official, high or low, who at
tempts to influence the Legislature for
his own benefit or that of his friends,
should follow the offence.
Strict conformity with these ideas
may bring about a short session and an
adjustment of outlay to income.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-01
CHRONICLE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Chronicle says editorially: 1t is
desirable that the American people fol-
low very closely the course of the local
government of Hawaii, because the
time may come when some reorganiza-
| ton is absolutely necessary. Mushy
sentimentalism has such a hold on the
people in certain parts of the United
States that failure to confer universal
! native male suffrage on the islanders
when the Territory was organized
I would have created howl which no
government could resist. 1t was best
to give all the native Hawaiians a vote
and see what came of it, and 1t was
done. What has come of ii is appar-
entity Legislature majority of whose
| members are absolutely corrupt and
are controlled by INSCRIPTIONS half
breeds. 1t is only by reason of Ameri-
can control of the executive and judi
ciary, and the fact that Congress may
at any time intervene, that the Hawai-
, ian Government is not as disGraceful
as that of the worst of the negro State
governments of our Southern States
during the reconstruction period.
The last Legislature passed local
e''NA iAl'VllN law N4llNH bllt supreme
Court declared invalid, an incident
which might happen anywhere and
which recently did occur in the state OF
Ohio Under existing law this leaves
the last tax law in effect so far as is
necessary for carrying on the govern
ment. ENtravagant salaries, however,
fixed by the Legislature, make this in
sufficient, and AN extra session is about
10 be called. Every meeting OF the
Territorial legislature however, is the
scene ~ a scandal from the opening
To the close OF the session and the
Governor has 10 aocede 20 much that
Is improper in.order 10 get any legsla-
ton az all what viii como of am
extra session Is not known, but some
new scandal is looked Tor with conh-
drncr Tho natives control the Lrsis-
lliuro. and pretty mess they are
making of u, II must b. confessed,
however that one would hardly like 90
see tho planters In run control again,
ana yet. under United states laws, it
h hard ln see what harm they could
dn. This endowment of such rarrs Hs
ihr South sra lslAniora WIN ran gov,
rlnW,nlsl powers b. dangerous bust,
Nrsa hut Nr uhlll probably mNr io
learn NprrlWfnlHllY that snmn ragfs
900 incapable pf popular HelfrHllrru'
wnni
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-01
FORTS BY LOBBYING.

The Government has not been wont
to regard the fertilization of Pear
Harbor as a matter of purely local i'm
provement, to be determined by the
amount of pull" Honolulu could bring
to bear at Washington. For years it
shaped it's diplomacy so as to acquire
these islands for the defence of the
Pacific Coast: and there are libraries of
matter at Washington, written by eX-
perts to prove that Hawaii is the
strategic key to the North Pacific and
must be possessed and defended by the
United States to assure the integrity
of greater and richer possessions.
1t is with surprise akin TO astonish-
ment that Hawaii now hears that the
development of Pearl Harbor into a
naval station and its protection by bat
teries, must come, If at ALL as the re-
suit of an educational campaign to be
carried on at Washington by our own
people. We are invited to lobby in
Congress and in the War and Navy
departments to convince the Govern
ment that it's own conclusions about the
strategic value of Pearl Harbor are
correct. AS laymen we must button
hole admirals, generals and military
and naval committees and assure them
that they We're indeed right about iia
wall from the start and should go ahead
and do what they have long advised.
Hawaii held a better idea of the gem
eral American plan of defence than
that it would be Influenced, much less
decided, by the wishes of this or that
constituency; but ii appears that a
place with an influential senator or
lobby may hope to get guns and sol
diers to be put where they can be of
no possible use in time of war and
that "a place without political leverage
may not expect to get such things even
though its defence be vital to American
supremacy. If this is a fair conclusion,
the United States, as a military and
naval power, is in bad way.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-01
LUL Al oREytfIrS
trrom wednesday.s dallrl

w. o. Smith is not expected back
until April Goth.
C. c. Biting left for the Hilo court
term by the Kinau, to return on Sat-
urday.
Deputy Sheriff and Mrs. Coney re-
turned to Kauai last evening per the
steamer w. G.. Hall
The regular meeting of the Republic
can Territorial Central Committee will
be held at headquarters Saturday
evening.
Judge Dole made an order instructing
Marshal Hendry to sell. as perishable
goods, a quantity of sake i'm the bank
rupt stock of Hirose Shoten.
Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Macintosh
and Miss Marie Won Holt will depart
for England per the Alameda next
month to be absent several months.
Chief Clerk Henry Mossman of Depu-
ty Sheriff Chillingworth's office, was
passenger on the w. c. Hall last even
ing for Kauai. Mossman goes on a
two weeks vacation for the benefit of
his health.
The daily tests made by the Superin-
tendent of Public Works prove that the
chief causes of Interruptions in the
wireless telegraph service between the
islands are bad weather and failure to
keep the batteries always charged.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-01
AMERICAN PROGRESS.

The Statistical Abstract of the United
States for the year 1903, issued by the
Department of Commerce and Labor
through its Bureau of Statistics, has
just made its appearance. 1t is solid
mass of $50 pages of figures with
scarcely a line of "reading matter
other than the tables of figures and
their necessary headlines. Yet study
of its tabular statements develops
many interesting facts about the Uni
ted States, its progress, development.
and relation to the other countries of
the world. 1t is interesting, for ex-
ample, to observe, as shown on page
564, that the exports of domestic prod
ucts from the United States now eX-
coed those of any other country of the
world. They amounted to 1882, 23l 900,
against S1,379, 2S3, 900 from the United
Kingdom, 81, liz, 313, 600 from Germany.
sS20671 900 from France and 1882, 975, 900
from Netherlands. In imports the
United States stands third, the world $
largest importer being the United
Kingdom. s2,57l 100000; Germany sec
ond, $3.50, IFS, 900; the United States
third, 81 OPS 49, 900; Netherlands fourth,
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-01
THE ONE WAY OUT.

Amid all the talk about help from
railroads and steamship lines I'm carry
ing out our tourist plans, there Is not
a word said about lower rates. And yet
I "A rate such as Is given to competing
\ points is essential to the Success of the
crusade. Some few people will come
| 20 Hawaii without them; but these,
| judging from recent experience will
cost Hawaii in advertising and salaries
about as much as they come to in re-
turn outlay. To be successful the To-
| cal propaganda must lay down a hum
dred tourists where 1t now does ten;
and that it can do so with cheap rail
and ocean fares admits of no doubt
whatever. There are multitudes who
want to come here, but so long as they
ON go to the West Indies, to Florida,
the City of Mexico, California and even
to Europe for less money, they will
yield us only stragglers.
Transportation facilities are getting
better fast, so that steamship COM
panies win not be able to say that they
have all the business they can do at
top-notch prices. The Manchuria and
Mongolia are coming. The Globe
Steamship line is considering the wis
dom of calling here with 5000 ton
steamers. When business crowds, the
Oceanic line would naturally run two
ferry boats between here and San
Francisco instead of one. More steam
ers are seeking trade in this sea all
the time. There are plenty of steam
ship owners who would be glad to con-
slider low passenger rates in return for
a guarantee of trade. Is it not time
TO do something with them?
The Promotion Committee is doing
good advertising. People are attracted
by it so that they write hundreds if not
thousands of letters of inquiry-and
then COME here in blocks of five. But
there is one advertisement, simple in
form, requiring no literary skill and no
Illustration, which would bring as
many people here as the hotels and
boarding houses could accommodate.
1t is this: