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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-01
GOVERNOR GLENN'S LETTER.

We publish elsewhere today letter
written by Governor Glenn to Mr.. f.
H. Wilson. of Winston Salem, in re-
Spouse to an inquiry as to the threat
ened suits which will probably be
brought against North Carolina to try
to make the State pay the Special Tax
bonds The Governor has received
many similar inquiries and he pub
fishes the letter to Mr.. Wilson for the
information of all who make inquiries.
In his letter Governor Glenn clearly
sets forth the difference between the
fraudulent Special Tax bonds and the
bonds like those held by Schafer and
South Dakota: gives brief history of
the honorable action of the State in
adjusting and settling it's State debit
shows that it has made provision fer
the settlement of every honest debt;
gives the unanswerable reasons why
no portion of the Special Tax bonds
has been paid, and why the State has
by a majority of over one hundred
thousand votes forbidden any public
official to pay anything on these fraud
ulent bonds; and declares in unmis-
taxable terms that he will use every
honorable effort to protect the state
against this attempt to force the col
lection of bonds issued by corrupt
methods. In his vigorous and plain
declarations Governor Glenn Will nave
the warm approval of the people of
the State who will uphold his hands
in the wise course he has marked out
The letter of Governor Glenn, fol-
lowing the accurate. elaborate and de-
tailed history of the illegal and cor
rupt smethods used in securing the is
sue of these bonds by Capt. S. A. Ashe,
published last Wednesday, will give a
clear understanding of the conditions
surrounding the issue and vindicate
the people who repudiated the bonds,
and justify the Governor in the hrm
and patriotic stand he has taken.
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MORNING TONIC.
civilian Jennings Bryan.)


Mayor Weaver's great victory in
Philadelphia illustrates the power OF
conscience when applied to public al
fairs. The conscience of the people
was aroused and the people lmme-
diately won a signal triumph But
while Philadelphia had the reputation
of being the worst governed city III
the United States there are other cities,
large and small. in which graft and
corruption are rampant, and 1T is hlgh
time that good citizens bestirred them
selves.
MAYORS who know of corruption
should point it out: councilmen who
are aware of graft should speak out,
citizens who have information OF the
subject should make it known. There
should be in every city citizens good
government league and this league
should see that honest and 1ncorruptl-
BILE candidates are brought out by all
parties. Every betrayal of trust by
officials gives new men chance to
become known and to win public
confidence Every crisis teaches again
the truth that men are of little value
except as they assist some. worthy
cause. and the best way TO impress the
public is to put the cause above the
individual. The men who forgets NM
self in devotion to the public welfare
is more likely to be remembered than
the man who is chiefly concerned In
his own advancement.
If each citizen will ask himsel1
whether he is doing his full duty and
then courageously follow the dictates
of his conscience, there will be great
political revival in this country-a
revival which will result first in purel
CITY government and then in better
State and National government
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-01
HARNETT'S CELEBRATION.

Harnett county is fifty years old
and the patriotic citizens of that coun-
tv have organized to celebrate the
semi-centennial in a fitting manner.
Committees from every township in
the county have been named for the
celebration that will be held on the
first Thursday in August. Preliminary
to the celebration Mr.. j. j. Belden is
writing 70, the Dunn Guide an inter-
esting history of the form alton and
early days of the county. The propo-
eition to establish Harnett county was
one that affected the political FOR"
tunes of more than one public man
i'm Wake and Cumberland counties
half a century ago. How do you
stand on the Harnett question: was
an inquiry that made candidates for
high office tremble in more than one
section of the large counties from
which Ha1 lett was formed
For many years after its formation
Harnett labored under serious disad-
yantages because it had no transpor-
tation facilities and its people were cut
off from the outside world, but with
all it's disadvantages, while 1t did not
get rich. ii made men and women who
in virtue and in patriotism were not
surpassed by the people OF any other
county in the State. Within the past
few years. Harnett has come to en-
Joy exceptional transportation faclll-
ties. 1t is on the main line of the
great Atlantic Coast Line; ii is ira
yersed in the Southern portion of the
county by the Atlantic and 1adkln;
the Duke road runs from Dunn 10
Apex and is being extended to Dur
ham. giving connection with the Sea-
board Air Line, Southern and Norfolk
and Western; the Raleigh and South
port puts Raleigh and Ellington in
close touch and that road is being
extended through the entire length or
the county; Mr.. Edwards and asso-
ciates are building a railroad from
Jonesboro to Ellington; and there is
talk of extending the Duke road from
Dunn to Goldsboro to connect with
the Atlantic and North Carolina road.
A large and fiourishing manufacturing
town, Duke. has been built in the
heart of the pine forests and near
abundant water power, and it and 9TH
err Industries are making Harnett
prosperous, while the intelligent Guilt
walton of the soil and convenient trans
portation have made agriculture more
remunerative.
The celebration at Ellington will
bring together Harnetts sons who are
scattered abroad and those who re-
main at home, and scores of others
will go to Ellington to take part in a
notable celebration.
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\ NOTABLE BET'ROTHAL.
Mr.. PulitZer's Engagement Recalls In
teresting Fact.

In the announcement formally made
this morning of the engagement OF
Miss Webb to Mr.. Ralph Pulitzer, DR..
and Mrs. Seward w. Webb are spoken
of as the parents of the fiancee, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer as the
father and mother of the young man.
1t might have been also reported that
Miss Webb is not only a great grand
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt,
but also a grand daughter of General
James Watson Webb, for many years
prominent as an editor of New York,
one of the closest friends of William
II. Seward and for some years United
States Minister to Brazil.
There is a special appropriateness
i'm thus calling to mind Miss Webb S
paternal grandfather. For it is a most
interesting and happy coincidence that
brings this young man and young
woman into betrothal relations if it is
borne in mind that the newspaper OF
which James Watson Webb was so
long the editor and proprietor was the
identical newspaper which was the
nucleus of the New York World OF to-
day Therefore, after two generations
have passed there is good prospect
that this great journal VIII be, through
the marriage of Mr. Pulitzer and Miss
Webb. brought into family ownership,
as it was 3 years ago brought into
common ownership through the pur-
chase of the Courier and Enquirer by
Alexander Cumming.
James Watson Webb was pre-emi-
ncntly identified with the journalism
that followed the introduction of
steam transportation and the electric
telegraph. and also with the powerful
political journalism. of thirty years
before the Civil War. just as Joseph
Pulitzer may be properly considered
the protagonist of the modern journal
ism that watches the world night and
day. that is in instant touch with the
remotest corners. that represents a
magnificent and perfectly systematized
machine that receives an income and
meets expenses in a single week great
er than the income and expense ac-
count of the Courier and Enquirer
for six months. possibly for longer
time.
With the single exception of James
Gordon Bennett, none of the great edl-
tors of the last century retired or died
with any son succeeding. Mr. Greeley
had no son who lived to maturity.
Henry j. Raymond's son sought edl-
torial connection elsewhere, and
George Jones son. who had native
gift for mechanical industry, and VINO
knew every joint. bolt and nut OF q
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HOkE SMITH is RIGHT.

s. In a speech at Madison, Georgia
opening his campaigns for Governor.
Hoke Smith declared that the rail-
roads were collecting 100000 eX-
cess in freight rates from Georgia
every year. They are collecting a pro-
portionate amount from North Caro-
lima. The Railroad Commission can
and should relieve in part, but until
the Interstate Commerce Commission
is given power there is no help for
most of these extortionate charges.
This explains why Samuel Spencer
and the rest of the railroad presi-
dents are so active i'm opposing the
bill to give the commission power 10
regulate rates.
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machine, was content to sell the New
York Times newspaper, reserVing TO
himself the Times building. Mr.. Paul
Dana for time succeeded his father,
but through change of ownership
resigned his editorial connection.
But Mr.. Pulitzer is evidently to have
a son who is to be a worthy successor
of the creator of the World news
paper. When a mere lad Ralph Pulit-
ger had more than the interest of
child in his fathers vocation. Those
who were privileged to witness the
LAYING of the cornerstone of what
is now the Pulitzer building were
specially attracted by the keen intelli-
gence, bright eyes. earnestness and all
absorbing chances which a lad just
entering his teens, dressed in most
attractive sailor suit, holding silver
troweI in his hand, revealed. He was
Ralph Pulitzer, then first formally
identifying himself with his fathers
property.
He went through the perfunctory
and mOmentary ceremony OF ldylhS
the cornerstone, but there was no
spectator or participant in that cere-
mony who took keener delight IN IL
than he did. He seemed to have an
aDnrecistion more than that of chlld
Of the meaning of it all for him. so
his entire career since that tllne mas
been based upon the CONSCIOUSNESS
that some day he would IN all prop
ability become the director OF the New
York World property. But IL mas lllaue
him a serious minded youth ana IN
fluenced his selection of his studies at
Harvard But though serious-mlnd-
ed, he was always companionable ana
thoroughly democratic. He was grad
uated from Harvard in 1900, ana
some three years later met Miss WEBB
somewhere in the West.
This daughter of Or. and MIS-. Sc
ward Webb is not only brilliant girl
but she is distinguished for most prac-
teal common sense. She, too, is a
true democrat in the sense that she
estimates every one by personal worth
and not by the amount of money pos
sessed. Her judgments in the circle
of the very rich to which she has al
WAYS been accustomed are based upon
what those who have wealth are doing
with it.
She has high ideals as to the respon-
sibilities that wealth brings. She is
impatient with all of those who, hay
ing wealth, are idle, and it doubtless
was not the least of the attractions
which she found in young Pulitzer that
she knew him to be an industrious
and honorably ambitious young man.
realizing his responsibilities ana MS
opportunities.
The Communications which come
from those who know Mr.. Pulitzer are
similar in some respects to the warm
encomiums which all of those who
have been the schOolmates and girl
mates of Miss Webb have been glad
to express for her character and per
sonalty.-New York Cor. Philadelphia
Press.
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THE WATKINSVILLE SCANDAL.

Outbreaks of mob spirit like that at
Watkinsville. Georgia, on Wednesday
night. are as contemplate in them
selves as they are well-nigh ruinous In
their results. The shooting of eight
helpless men awaiting trial for varl-
Gus crimes can be accounted for only
by the out-cropping of vicious bar
barity. 1t is such occurrences as that
i'm Georgia which inflame prejudice
against the South and. while not justi-
flying. is naturally productive of the
most harmful general censure.
Peculiarly situated as it is. with its
vexng problem ever to contend with.
the better men of the South have Ia
bored long for a solution which
would bring protection to their own
and maintain the dignity and the pre-
eminence of the law. For one crime,
lynching, whether it be justifiable
morally or not. will never be punish
ed i'm the South. That is one of tho
cxigencies which face a nation thrown
by war face to face with the most
battling of conditions. But that men
charged with murder, whose trials had
been delayed because the evidence to
convict was not at hand, that other
men charged with petty offenses,
should be killed by mob without "a
trial and with british disregard of
Justice is crime that the State
should exert it's utmost power to
punish in way adequate to the hor-
rcr of it's commission. The lynch
ing" crime did not figure to any ex-
tent i'm the passion of this Georgia
mob 1t seems to have been swayed
solely by thirst for blood Its or
canization and its deed constitute a
lasting disgrace which can be wiped
out only by the most inexorable pun.
ishment of the law.
Just when the South seems to have
outgrown such barbaric practices.
there seems to come along some ad-
ditional instance of fiendishness. 1t Is
disheartening. Let the same de-
termination that the brute who out
RACES a woman shall die, apply also
10 the brute who kills a man whom
the law has seized for trial and to
whom justice owes in the meantime
the fullest degree of protection.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-01
WHAT is A ..YELLOW JOURNAL"
(Rhamkatte Roaster.)


"Old Subscriber" who is puzzled
because a religious paper called Sec
ular paper yellow" for urging the
Bible punishment for Bernard, aNs:
What is a yellow journal"
A yellow journal in North Caro-
lima, according to those who talk most
about it, is newspaper that thinks
tampering with juries in the interest
of trust magnate is as great a crime
as if it had been attempted for an
humber sutton; that sees no differ
ence between Dreyfus trials in France
and in North Carolina; that denounces
corporations that seek to dominate
politics so they can get special favors
from government, and escape just
taxation, and charge eXhorbitant
rates; that declares against wrong-do-
ing in high places, insisting that nigh
roller gambling Migrants be put on
the roads along with negroes who play
craps; that demands of public officials
that they enforce the laws in accord
ance with their oaths or resign ana
make way for those who Will enforce
the laws; that points out that officials
are elected to enforce laws and not to
virtually repeal them by multiplying such
laws as they think are unWise or
which it is troublesome to enforce;
that believes hell-holes whether the
Illicit stills, the pool rooms, where
gambling is permitted, dives or llleg-
al bad houses of all sorts should be
shut up as the law directs and punish
ed by Imprisonment on the roads or In
Jail. instead of the ineffective method
of imposing moderate fines; that be-
licves in public and private virtue and
opposes the election of any immoral
man to any office, knowing that no Of
fetal will rise higher in public service
than he reaches in private living; that
takes a stand against the do-nothing
policy of public officials until criminals
escape paying the penalty of their
crimes; that has no back door where
the trust cormorant or the vicious rich
can say "let up on the criminal class
OF reSpecIdDle SOcldI SJdI1ulnBi lldI
loves party and advocates it's princi-
pies, but serves it's party best by de-
manding that its officials live up
rightly and fearlessly perform their
public duties or get out of public po-
sions; that believes in the literal teach
ings of the Bible and shocks mawkish
sentimentalists by declaring that the
Bernards are certain of going to hell
for their crimes.
So far as we can see that is "a
yellow journal according to the state
ments we have recently been hearin ;
expressed by certain parties in these
diggings.
by gum" said Billy Drinks. who
lost leg at Gettysburg. and who
hasn't got any better sense than to
believe that violators of the law ought
to be punished. To whom the above
definition was read, "if that is what's a
yaller journal | don't want no other
sort. That's the sort that suits Billy
and the sort needed in 'Rhamkatte to
protect virtue and secure good govern
ment."
And then and there Billy put down
hi; r,ctey for a whole years sub
scription for the Rhamkatte Roas-
ter gs
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-01
A DANGEROUS MISTAKE
Raleigh Mothers Should Not Neglect
Kidney Weakness in Children.

Most children have weak kidneys.
The earliest warning is bed-wetting
Later comes backache, headache,
IT'S a mistake to neglect these
troubles,
TO blame the child for its own dis
treSS.
Seek to cure the kiJleys-
Save the child from deadly kidney
ills.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick. kid
neys.
Raleigh parents recommend them.
Mrs. A. c. Howell. of 215 r. Davie
st, says: my little boy suffered from a
kidney weakness. The secretions from
those organs were thick and he al
ways complained of being unable to
retain it and often wet the bed. He
had a sallow look and his back ached
a great deal and he also had much
headache. / had doctor attend him
but he seemed to grow worse instead
Of better. l noticed Doan's Kidney
Pills highly recommended in our pa
pers and l got a box of them from
Bobbitt Wynne Drug Company's
store. Before the boy had taken half
Of them there was a decided change
for the better. The secretions from the
the kidneys became natural, he did
not complain of backache of headache
and there was a wonderful change for
the better in his complexion. Doan's
Kidney Pills are all that is claimed
for them and ! will only be too glad to
say SO at any time.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo, n
y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan sand
take no others.
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is accomplished in any way save by
actual violence, will of course sympa-
thize with the men. But there are a
few of us who believe that the man is
the greatest sinner as a general rule,
and that if he gets load of shot he
has no kick coming. He takes his
chances, and if he loses he has no bust
ness to whine. Therefore we have no
sympathy with the man who gets shot.
Our sympathy is with the father and
other innocent members of a ruined
family. Let those who place the
blame on the woman.if they be faith
ers of daughters or brothers of sis
tiers, take the case home and reflect.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-01
Spirit of the Press.
Take the Case Home and Reflect"
StateSVille Landmark.

Take the Case Home and Reflect
Statesville Landmark
The Raleigh case mentioned today
is not case of seduction as that term
is usually understood According 10
the evidence so far submitted the
girls seem to have gone to their ruin
willingly. They are not blameless of
course. but the responsibility of those
who enticed them to ruin is greater.
OF course we shall hear now that the
girls had been bad before That is al
ways the story when a man ruins a
woman-that she was already bad.
But so far it appears that they bore
good characters up to the time of this
occurrence. Great indignation is ex-
pressed because one of the men was a
married man; sympathy is expressed
for the unmarried man But there is
no difference in their guilt so far as
despoiling virtue Is concerned nee The
married man vlol ;ro his 81, i'id =
greater, Those people who think that
only the woman is to blame if her ruin
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-01

A prominent citizen of Greensboro,
in a private letter, says: "A very able
and fine critic of the Bible here today
after reading The News and Observer
editorial on Ivey's hell and the hell of
Josephus and st. Paul, said that in flu
ture his platform should be: The News
and Observer and Hell-the one to
protect the cause of democracy and
morality. the other to protect inno-
cent confiding virtue against Ber-
nardS'"
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is more thorough, more adroit than
that There is of course nothing sen
sational or hysterical in referring To
an old and poverty stricken preacher,
suing powerful men for money dam
ages for destroying his usefulness In
the world, as a prosecutor; it is not
violent but it is effective.
We can appreciate the Advocate ,
motives in the Kilgo case, little as we
can admire the way they are I'M
pressed; bat its irritation at the dc"
mand that public officials cleanse the
city of its cancerous spots OF vice Is az
inexplicable as it is evident
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-01
Must be Broken Up.
Warren Record.

Warren Record.
Judge Fred Moore did the State
good service in sentencing those two
men in Wake county to Jail for thirty
days for tampering with the jurors
in the Gattis-Kilg case. This thing
of tampering with jurors and using all
manner of means to get certain men
to serve on juries must be broken up
and the only way to do this is TO treat
them as Judge Moore did. We must
keep our jury system pure and be-
yond suspicion.
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a FATHER IN DEMOCRACY.

The Charlotte News, which has come
to be the most prosperous and popu-
lar afternoon paper in the State,-it
courageously stands for the right
prints a weekly paper which is called
the Times-Democrat. In it's issue yes
terday it published the following letter
from Randolph county Democrat
who is now seVenty-three years old,
which is as fellows:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-01

The first duty of the lawyer was
therefore, in his view, to determine for
himself the question of legal right.
Some can bring all their learning, abil-
ity and skill to the support of any
cause. Lawyers of Mr.. Cowan's class
can never put forth their best powers
unless they have first convinced them
selves that their cause is just" The
above is an extract from a eulogy of
the late James K Cowan. of Mary
land, by Hon. Judson Harmon. That
ought to be true of every lawyer.
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Isn't it at least singular coinci-
dence that both the Biblical Recorder
and Raleigh Christian Advocate re-
Trained from telling their readers that
the men sent to Jail for trying to
tamper with the jury were asking ito
help out DR.. Kilgo and Mr.. Duke. =
But the readers of those papers would
never have guessed which side was
doing the 'tampering.'
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This Paper Merely Quoted Portion
of the Bible Sentence.
The HarhinGer.

He FfdFDIIIgtT.
We have thought all along that Edi-
tor Daniels could WELD a great intiu-
ence as regards the punishment OF
mortals on this earth, but were not
aware that the power had been dele
gated to him of condemning them to q
certain term of punishment in the re-
gions below.
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One Crime That Cannot be Remotely
Traced To Whiskey,

GrCcnsbOrO Record
We thought when Raleigh got hel
dispensary every evil would vanish.
How about that shooting down that
way? OF course liquor caused it. II
causes everything. Who sold the Ii
QuOr.
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Some contrary people would rather
have a pint of trouble than a bushet
of happiness.