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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
Aycock for Vice-President.

Newton Enterprise.
Judge Alton B. Parker, of New
York, being virtually agreed on as the
Democratic candidate for President,
politicians in every State are now
casting about for a suitable running
mate for the distinguished New York
juriSt
There is strong disposition =, the
North TO name Southern man, and
the two men most often mem
toned are Gov. c b. Aycock,
of North Carolina and Representative
j. S. Williams, of Mississippi. Both
are brilliant men and represent the
strongest type of Southern statesman
ship. Gov. Aycock is the greater ora
tor of the two, and we believe is the
strongest and most captivating politi-
cal orator in the United States today.
And oratory is a very important quail
ification in q candidate for Vice-Pres-
ident. The speeches of Thos. A. Hen
bricks in 1876 and 1884 will ever be
memorable. They were vote-makers,
and were leading factors in placing
the majority on the right side in the
close Northern and Western States.
Aycock's speeches would electrify the
Northern and Western voters. He is
a son of the soil, with a heart that
beats in sympathy with the American
people. The voters in every State
would recognize in him a champion
and friend; a man great in intellect.
great in heart; free from deceit and
guile He would tell the people of
the North of the South's loyalty to
our common flag, of the rush Of our
boys to the enlisting offices to avenge
the destruction of the Maine and Inc
insult to our flag; of the welcome
we give Northern people to our sunny
land when they come seeking health
full homes and profitable investments.
of our struggles in building up de-
vaStated country and giving Tree
schools to the children of all colors
of the wealth that is brought TO the
common country from the sale to for
eigners of the South's cotton, iron and
timber. He would tell them why the
people of the South are Democrats,
whether born under Southern or
Northern skies. He would convince
many Northern voters who nave
thought otherwise, that the bloody
shirt which is hoisted in every Presl-
Dental campaign should be buried
forever and that the South and the
North should be friends.
We are convinced that the Demo
Gratis at the North who think IL the
part of wisdom, as well as JuStlce'
to put a Southern man on the DEM
cere and correct in their judgment.
Instead of weakening the ticket. as
some Southern Democrats in their
anxiety for Democratic success ana
their modesty in pressing their own
deserts fear, it would ada strength
Especially would this be so if the Sc
lection should fall to North Carolina,s
brilliant and noble son, Charles 3.
Aycock.
North Carolina should at once start
an Aycock campaign. similar to that
in New York for Parker. In South
Carolina, Georgia and Missouri his
name is already frequently mentioned.
In New York, especially with conser-
vative men like the editors Of the Ike,
view of Reviews Worlds Work and
men interested in Southern education
and development, he is favorably
known and much esteemed
Let the ticket be Parker and
Aycock.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
Let Us Have IA Bill of Particulars.

WadeSbOro MeSSenge r-Intelligencer.
For some time several State papers
have contained editorials the tenor of
which would lead q person not famil-
lar with political conditions in the
State to believe that the Democratic
partya was about to commit direful
wrongs against the people of the State
These papers intimate that the party
is going to the demnition bow vows
if a halt is not called in the baIefuI
course it is pursuing, at the same time
protesting that their animadversions
are prompted because of their great
love for the Democracy
We do not suppose that it makes a
great deal of difference what some Of
these papers inSinuate against the
party, as the people long ago learned
to discount their political utterances
but we do submit that OF all modes of
political warfare this eternal COM
planning against the party you profess
to belong to is the most inexcusable,
that is unless there is real cause
therefor. Any old granny can sit
around and complain about what 9TH
ers are doing. 1t takes neither cour-
age nor brains to do this, but it should
be beneath the dignity of any paper
that desires to be fair to engage in
this sort of innuendo.
But what we started out to say was
to suggest to these papers that if they
know of anything rotten in the Demo-
cratic party, in it's organized capacity
in the State, it would be much more
manly in them to stop insinuating and
come out in the open and make di-
rect charges.
BY all means, gentlemen, let us have
a bill of particulars of the abuses you
so persistently hint at, but do not
name.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
Sectional Feeling in the Way.
Raleigh Christian Advocate.

1t is to be regretted that the two
enterprises which mean. so much to
North Carolina and the whole South
seem to be foredoomed to failure. We
refer to the Appalachian Park and
the Inland Waterway. The bill to
establish the former passed the Sem
ate. but there is hardly a ghost of a
chance for it to pass the House. The
Inland Waterway has received but
scant support. Sectional feeling is in
the way of these great enterprises.
Yet there are some who speak glow
ingly of the effected obliteration OF
all sectional rancor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
Judges and Contempt of Court.
Monroe Enquirer.

Did you ever sit in court room
and hear the judge threaten to send
men to Jail for contempt of court?
We have heard that threat but once
or twice and it grated on our ears.
That threat smacked of too much
power welded by one little man. We
believe that our laws in regard to con-
tempt of court should be changed. To
give a man absolute power in his own
case, to make him judge of the often
der when he (the judge) is offended
usually makes it hard on the one who
receives the sentence. Human nature
is so weak that it is dangerous to let
a man Judge his own case. 1t is fortu-
nate that our judges and magis-
trates are men of such fine sense of
justice, otherwise the almost unlimited
power given them would be more fire.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

other causes men to do or try to UNI
oertahe more than they can and of
the terrible consequences that have
and will continue to flow from it."
The lives of the railway employees
and the travelling public and the
property of the railroad companies
alike demand that the practice of con-
sidering men made of flesh and bone
as tough as a steam engine must end.
More men should be employed and
hours of labor shortened.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
New Subscribers Pouring In.

Wadesboro Messeng r-Intelligencer.
The Raleigh News and Observer
richly deserves the handsome new
spring dress in which it appeared
Tuesday. 1t has wrought we'll for
the State the past few weeks, and its
friends everywhere will be glad to
know it is doing so well.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
we Shall See What We Shall See.
Smithfield Herald.

Judge Robert B. PEBBLES, who has
recently gained more newspaper no.
torlety than any other judge in North
carolina in recent years, will hold
Cumberland Superior court next week.
He has given notice that he will have
the Robeson county bar before him
iof the alleged contempt of court. 1t
is the opinion of the press of the
State that Judge PEBBLES should not
hold this hearing, since it is held that
no man is competent to pass upon his
own case, or in a case in which he
is greatly concerned, with perfect i'm
partiality." If Judge PEBBLES is not n
partisan he has been greatly maligned.
We shall what we shall see. The bar
OF public opinion is the court of last
resort and though its verdict may
sometimes be an unjust one to a GER
tain degree, all the courts and trbu-
nails of the land cannot change it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

Not long ago there died in America
a public man whose name and posi-
ton were known in every hamlet
of the Republic. He came into pub
lie lie by the introduction of sordid
corruption upon a scale that astonish-
ed the corruptionists who had pre-
ceded him. He syndicated political
corruption, monopolized the purchase
of delegates and voters, and made
legislation a ching of merchandise. he
strobe upon the stage a brief day and
passed away. When he died, those
political COZ ruption, did not recur to
it. Instead. they accepted the words
of his friends of his devotion to fam
lily and friends, his charity 10 the
poor, his kindness anu courtesy to
those about him, and helped to make
him flair in death" Wisely or un-
wisely their allegiance to mil de
mortuis" was creditable to their good
ness of heart. How was it repaid?
The press that IS subsidized, the press
that is captious, the press that bows
down and worshirs Success, turned
upon those public men and journals
and denounced them as having ira
duced the dead man while ne was
alive and rraiSing him when he was
dead. They declared that he was al
most a saint and the men who had
pictured his delinquencies were vile
slanderers because, forsooth, they did
not repeat their harsh and just criti-
cisms at the grave of the dead man,
and because they chose rather to be
slandered than to speak harshly of
the dead! They had written truthfully,
but in the solemn hush of death they
were dominated by the Roman max
i'm. Ought they to silently submit to
misrepresentation or follow the ex-
ample of Samuel Bowles?
There are not wanting folks who
hope to make cheap capital for them
selves by abusing the living by over
praise of the dead. No eulogist of a
dead man, who really wishes to do his
memory honor, is ever guilty Of the
gross improperly of desecrating the
occasion by denouncing the critics Of
the dead man. If mil de mortuis"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
No Judge Should Sit on Case Where
lie is On Interested Party.

GreenVIIIe RtIIeCIOT.
AS this is a matter personal to
Judge PEBBLES the hearing should be
before some other judge. No Judge
should sit on q case where he himself
is an interested party. If he persists
in hearing it the lawyers should move
for change to hearing before an
other Judge.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
Nobody Takes ii Seriously but the me
ToOs" and Those Higher Up"

Wadesboro Observation-Disclosures.
1t is really amusing to observe the
gall of some half dozen papers in the
State in claiming for themselves
monopoly of all the independence
there is going. According to these
papers, in the nauseating euiogies,
they write of each other, all editors
VINO do not fill their columns with
puerile complaining against the Demo
cratic party are necessarily subser-
went and cowardly. But those of US
VINO do not happen to belong to this
seiect circle may console ourselves
with the knowledge that the opinion
OF a person who fools himself into be-
neVing ne is big man, because he
mas SAID so himself, it not worth
much.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

quently abused. Occasionally. how
ever, an arrogant fool, puffed IN with
his own sense of greatness, is put in
position to judge his fellow citizens
then woe unto the man who for some
act is held in contempt by the little
judge. Our laws ought to be so franz
ed that when man is charged with
contempt of court that some other
than the judge whose court it has
been charged has been treated con-
temptuously should hear the case and
pass the sentence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

closes the mouth of the critic of the
dead man, common decency ought TO
cause the eulogist not to SANDER the
living by over-praise of the dead.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
THAT GOULD STORY DENIED.

In the last issue of the Manufac-
turer's Record, Mr.. F. S. Landstreet,
vice-president of the Maryland rail-
road, which is to form the eastern
outlet at Baltimore tideWater of the
Gould system of railroads, denies that
there is any truth in the story that the
Gould system has any intention of 60
ing to Hampton roads or elsewhere on
the coast for another tidewater ter
minal He also disposed of the story
that the Gould system had purchased
the Norfolk and Southern Railway
from Norfolk into Northeastern North
Carolina.
1t will be remembered that, few
days after the story that Gould had
purchased the Norfolk and Southern
this paper gave reasons why the story
was improbable and why 1t was al
most certain that the real purchaser
was the Atlantic Coast Line. Mr.
Gould's denial shows that the first
surmise was correct and later on it
will probably be shown that the prop
ertv has heen purchased by the At
lantic Coast Line. That purchase
would leave no competitor to the At
lantic Coast Line in Eastern North
Carolina. To suppose that the wise
men who own the Atlantic Coast Line
would permit another system to
purchase the Norfolk ana South
ern would he to suppose they had beeh
caught mapping. In advancing the in
terests of that system its owners
neither SIN M hel, nor SlGeP.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
Spirit of the Press.
Growing i'm Popularity.

Warren Record.
The News and Observer appeared
in a new spring dress Tuesday morn
ing Josephus Daniels always gives
his readers the best and the Observer
is growing in popularity. Long may
it live and continue to prosper.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01
No Man Should Hear His Own Case.
Lumerton RobeSonian.

AS a judicial question, how does the
idea of a judges occupying the dual
position of judge and plaintiff in an
action strike the fair-minded people
of North Carolina? We ask for in
formation and for the law, or prece-
dent.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

Virginia is in the throes of a school
book scandal. The stencil can be
Whitfield over the borders. Turn on
the disinfectants.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

Knox says 81 do not consider it
compatible with the public good to
state whether the government VIII
commence criminal prosecutions
against the guilty Northern Security
Comnanv low breakers. Such impud-
ence to the neople's representatives
shows how executive usurpatlon mas
changed the character OF our govern
ment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

All gold doesn't get chance to slit
ter.
The Rich Hill tribune., 1904-04-28
Ola Couple Remembered.

Quite "a crowd of nelghbors aud
friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. d. PYLE. who
reside ON West Austin street, called
on that excellent couple Wednesday
evening, it being the occasion .of
their golden wedding anniversary.
Rev. g, IL, Cosper delivered "a brief
addnass IN which be presented a tive
dollar gold piece 60 each OF the old
people a. a gift trom their friends.
judge g. q. Burton also made nn an.
propriate addrcss. which was highly
enjoyed by al present Refresh.
ments were served aud all enjoyed "a
social time with Mr. aud Ars. Pyn.
who have long bevn resldeuts of tbls
eity.-Nevada Herald.
The Rich Hill tribune., 1904-04-28
strike n Balance

The difficulty with most Of us l. TO
learn 20 live sensibly and sancly.
We Hrc in danger of going Ia cx-
tcmcs. We either take too serious.
iy. or we dwadle ahoutitllkc lazy
bones Tho thing II TO strike an 81.
frctiye middle course. Most of ~
nowadays seem 60 regard it "a a
grvst min In which the sarller We gu
TO work nnd the later we stay. the
better for all concerned. We want
10 do grent deeds: to accumulate u
lot % money; 20 rrforn somebody or
something Now. ~ II certainly
wrong not 60 lee awake Co our priv.
ilcgea and opportunities for work
ana not 10 got joy out oi doing
somcthlng that viii make the world
happier. iiut there IL time 90 loal
and he glad. also. There Is virtue
10 being n happy citizen. "a well hs
au active one Lie Is serious, but
not 80 serious that wenard go about
with a sour countenanee nnd "a book
of rules. The wlsc man h the one
who hits a nice balance In his affairs
who il neither wearisomely strenu
ons nor "a fiaccld shlrk.-May WO,
mans Home Companion.
The Rich Hill tribune., 1904-04-28
rnE nRooKrIEnD MErnOp.

Brookfela, Mo IS 4 good Town.
and BrookHcld has thee almost
ideal newspapers. The following
from arecens issue Of the Brookfeld
Budget explains The situation there's.
Treated the papers right. The
three papers Of Brookiield have all
ways been as unite IN advocating
all measures that were deemed best
forthe city. None Jagged, nor none
viewed with indifference the best
interests of the town.
"rhis fact the city fathers have
all along recognized and have risen
above party lines in dividing the ia
vors at their hands equally among
the three papers. While the city
council is overwhelming Republi-
can, in the dispensation OF all the
printing that body has recognized
the Budget and Argus in the same
generous spirit that il has its own
party organ, the Gazette. This
spirit of bipartisan citizenship is
appreciated by the Budget, and il
the new council is Democratic,
which is more than probable, we
trust that the same courtesy win be
shown our Republican oontempor-
AIRY in the favors to he dispensed by
that body.
"Ths interests of whole COM
munity should be regarded as oi
greater moment than those OF a par
ty. There could be no greater
agencies for building up and adver-
tisipg a CITY than a united press.
Brookfeld papers have all alike
been loyal to the towns best inter-
ests, and the council has shown its
good sense by recognizing the mer-
its Of the three papers "Its a
good precedent and should be fol-
lowed 10y the incoming Democratic
council.
The Rich Hill tribune., 1904-04-28
KEITH

A ilnc time for iishing, as there u
plenty of water IN the hig lakes be-
tween here and the river,
Who can beat thls9 Planted beet
seed Saturday morning, and they
were up by night CUp and swim
ming)
Glen Boron arrived home last
week from Cody, Wyoming, where
he has been the past few months,
Wonder Il his trip home il to see the
world's Fair. or a fair one?" Dick
Thomas came as far as sheridan
with Glen, He win he in soon - Is
homesick now.
several of our neighbors went to
town Saturday afternoon, and got
a ducking We wasn't in town hut
had TO wade through water to help
with the chores
According TO the old saying about
killlng the first snake. we are alright.
Killed big one the other day.
Uncle Ike Neat and family ieasted
on fresh hsh last week. Uncle Ike
met his old friend, Squire Hickcm OF
Papinsvillc, i'm town, Tuesday, with
"A wagon load OF fish.
Some big heavy native lumber Is
on the grounds, aud that big mud
hole Is going 70 be fixed soon and
then the natives around here viii be
happy, aud the new buggies will
spin TO town.
J. A. Wright, of Summeraeld. Kas..
spent several days last week visit.
ing his daughter, Mrs J II. Boron.
Mr. Wright was also on a business
mission. as he bought property in
Rich HIN and win move soon. Let
the good Kansas Republicans come.
Missouri needs them and Kansas
has plenty left.
Wm. Wheatley went after his cat
tie Tuesday morning. down on the
Island, expecting TO find them
swim ming.
Cotton 4 Robinson, the new gro
Gerry firm In ButlCr. served hot coffee
to their customers saturday after
noon. so the Bates County Record
said In their advertisement Lance
and Frank no SO well known
around here. that their store viii De-
a good placc for theiririeuds to stop
at when IN Butler. We wish the new
firm success, and as We failed 20 get
our cup %! eofi,e they might send u-
souvenir The ladies were to re
ccivc souvenirs. and a. we dllln't Z
can. they might send one anyway
SUNSHINE.
The Rich Hill tribune., 1904-04-28
washInRton Letter

Congressman Payne says that no
greater compliment has ever been
paid the Republican party. by those
who profess 20 Dc opposed To be op-
posed 20 It's policy, than that cnu
tained IN the platform OF the New
York Dcmocrats. promulgated nt
their state convention. The silent
Judge Parker, boomed by tho rcgu-
lars for the Presidential nomination.
Is credited here with inspiring that
declaration. AT his suggestion It il
admitted that the money question,
the Panama project. and the Philip
pine question. are out OF politics,a and
therefore no longer debatable, being
part Of the settled policy OF the
government. Therefore no issue Is
TO be made on the stump over these
Important matters. And 10 placate
Wall street, with the hope OF oh
tanning campaign funds, the trust
question is to be straddled Judge
Parker appears TO be wiser than
uany members OF Congress who
have. in season and out, denounced
the government on all these points.
Whether this admission of insin-
cerity will be regarded at the polls
as eminently judicial, coming as is
does from the supreme bench OF New
York, cannot now be determined:
but in any event there is little cause
for alarm on the part OF Republi-
cans. On the whole, this platform
is an admission OF the courage, JUS
tice and patriotism OF President
Roosevelt. and confession that
neither imperialism" nor trusts
are dangerous. Facts are stubborn
things and as all the facts which
make for peace. prosperity and gen,
erd advancement are IN possession
OF the Republican party. the Demo-
Gratis find themselves confronted
with the anomalous necessity Of
pleading in confession and avoid
ance. They propose to make "a per
sonal war upon the President, as
unsafe" aud reckless" while at
the same time they accept as wise
and settled all the great things
which he has accomplished. Not
what the President has done, but
what he possibly might do. II he
felt inclined. There all the danger
liesl Wen may Republicans view
with amusement the parade Of Dem
ocratic fakes and hobgoblins as II
passes along the political pike.
The Cabinet and the President
have been discussing the possibility
of the government taking control Of
wireless telegraphy. The current
opinion is that II would be desirable
in case OF war, especially along the
sea board where stations for the m
ceipt OF wireless messages are spring
ing up. The Weather Bureau has
been doing some OF this work, and
not long ago the See'y Of Agricul-
ture announced to the President
that a clerk In his department had
perfected a wireless telegraph.
Commissioner james H. Garfield
after brief visit TO Chicago where
he went 70 learn all about the beef
business. il back again iu town.
editing "a list Of questions which the
beef trusts will be required 10 an
swer II is not the purpose OF the
government 10 contract the business
The Rich Hill tribune., 1904-04-28
Fruit Not Injured.

Word received at the state Univer-
sity indicates that the recent cold
spells have not seriously injured the
fruit crop. Reports indicate that n
little damage has been done to the
strawberry and other crops now In
bloom In south Missouri But where
the fruit has not yet Eloomed pract-
ically no damage has been done by
the cold DR. J. G.. Whitten Of the
University Of Missouri says that the
damp weather accompanying the re
cent cold snap has had much TO do
with preventing injury to the fruit
crop. ''The dryer the weather is,
said Dr. Whitten, "the more likely
the cold is to do injury" Reports
Indicate that the South Central part
OF Missouri win have a full peach
crop. In the Southwest and South
east parts Of the state and along the
Mississippi and Missouri river there
VIII probably be twenty-five per cent
OF ii crop. In other sections OF the
state according to reports received
there win be no peaches except on u
few trees particularly well situated.
The prospects for apples. pears and
most plums is better than il has been
since 1891 when Missouri produced
her banner crop OF these fruits.
The Rich Hill tribune., 1904-04-28
Gets Columbia Fenowship.

Chas. Collins OF KirkwoOd. Mis-.
souri, 1908 graduate Of the Unlver.
sity of Missouri has Just been elected
fellow IN Romance Languages In
Colunbia University. lie held "a
scholarship in the sano Institution
last year aud the fellowship Is given
him because ol the high character Oi
his work. Only a few OF those who
hold scholarships ever receive fellow.
ships