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The news & observer., 1905-10-24
A DISGRACE TO THE STATE.

The existence of cruelty and wrong
in the county homes and convict
camps in several counties in North
Carolina disgraces the fair name of
the State. We have published particu-
lars of brutal treatment in Cabarrus
county. In that county the guilty
man was removed. If he has not
been punished, he should be given the
severest penalty imposed by the law.
And now comes news Of a like outrage
from Yadkin and is detailed as fol-
lows by the Winston Sentinel:
Judge Long, of Statesville, and
Solicitor Hammer, of Ashcboro, passed
through the city last evening, return
ing to their respective homes from
Yadkinville. where they have been
holding court - - - =. ~; q &
solicitor Hammer reported that no
important cases were tried at this
term, though a rather serious charge
was lodged against the keeper of the
Yadkin county home, Mr.. M. H. Bry-
amt who was arrested and required to
give bail in the sum of $500 for his
appearance at the next term of Yad-
kin court. The grand jury had been
discharged by Judge Long when wit
nesses were examined by the solicitor
in the county home case, otherwise
bill against superintendent Bryant
would have been drawn and sent in
at this term.
Cruel treatment to the inmates of
the home on the part of the superin-
tendent is one of the charges against
Mr.. Bryant. Solicitor Hammer was
furnished with evidence to the effect
that Mr.. Bryant had not only whipped
an old woman several times but had
kept her in the mad house several
days at a time. The solicitor was also
advised that ilIegitimate children had
been born at the home.
1.-The investigation | had made of
the Yadkin county home, said Sollcl-
tor Hammer, was at the suggestion
of the State Board of Charities.
The people of all parties will stand
behind the officials in prosecuting the
inhuman men in Cabarrus and Yad-
kin counties. All the officials in Ca
barrus are Democrats and all the Off
cials i'm Yadkin are Republicans. The
good men of both parties abhor the
conduct of these officials. 1t cannot
be charged to either party, but both
parties will be responsible unless they
see that the guilty parties are pun
iShed.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
GRAFT ON THE SIDE.

Some months before the public be-
came acquainted with the graft in the
Equitable, prominent citizen OF
North Carolina who carries a policy
in the Equitable desired loan on his
policy. He was offered a ridiculously
small loan at five per cent and little
while after he received an offer from
the Equitable Trust Company to loan
a much larger sum at six per cent. The
trust company belongs to the big graft
ers in the insurance company. See?
The Springfield Republican tells OF
a New England policyholder, whose
2O-year deferred dividend contract
was about to expire, who had the
same experience as the North Caro-
lima policy-holder. He made his ap-
plication recently under Morton's man
agement and as this same graft goes
on. it is evident there is need for more
reforms Will they ever be made by
rebate-giver?
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

ever visited this city. All Georgia is
paying honor to the most popular
man in the world today. This demon
strates that patriotism is stronger
than party prejudices and that DEM
ocrat can honor a Republican WHO IS
so worthy of honor"
That was like Sam Jones. The next
day the Atlanta Journal had the fol-
lowing:
"Mr. JONES'" said President Roose-
welt Friday at Piedmont Park, in the
presence of fifty thousand people, ad-
dressing Rev Sam p. Jones, OF car
tersville 1.-The next time you Vlsit
Washington 1 want you to telegraph
me in advance. and L want you to pc
my guest during your stay in the cap
ital city.
Mr.. Jones was presented to the
President on the platform in front OF
the grand stand After acknowledge
ing the introduction the President
asked for Mrs. Jones, stating he would
like to meet her. Mrs. Jones came
forward and was introduced to the
chief magistrate.
evangelist President Roosevelt eX-
pressed great pleasure.
"Mr. jones'" said he, 'you, in
YOUR way, are doing for this country
and the people what l am trying to
accomplish in mine. l heartily en-
dorse your good work and hope that
success will continue to crown your
efforts"
There are many points of resemb-
blance between Mr.. Roosevelt and the
Georgia evangelist. and it is natural
that they should form a mutual ad-
miration society.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
HEARST UpsETs CALCULATIONS.

The Mayoralty fight in New York
has many of the aspects it bore in the
campaign between Hewitt, Roosevelt
and Henry George. Many Republi-
cans then voted for Hewitt in order to
defeat Henry George, who was thought
by them to be dangerous. This year
many Republicans will vote for Nc
Clellan because they regard Hearst as
a more dangerous man than Henry
George. 1t is certain that the candi-
dacy of Hearst for Mayor on an ag-
gressive municipal ownership platform
is giving Tammany scare. Ten days
ago the general sentiment was that
Mcclellan would win in a walk. The
betting still favors him to 1, but the
candidacy of Hearst is giving Tam
many a lively fight. for most of Mr..
Hearst's support is coming from a
vote that is nearly always with Tam
many. Here is the Herald's story last
night:
But no one in politics seems able
to get his moorings just now. The
municipal ownership candidacy of
Hearst, aided as it is by anger against
men who have misused wealth and
against both political machines, has
created a remarkable situation and
that is why it is necessary to bark
back nineteen years to find anything
approaching it.
Polls straw votes, canT4SSeS, all
shows a tendency on the part of the
working men-clerks. laborers. street
car employees, printers, mechanics,
draymen and porters-to vote for
Hearst. - 1t has become sort of craze.
The employees of the traction, elevated
and subway lines and of the ferries
have been told that if Mr.. Hearst is
elected he will make the city take over
all the public utilities will protect
them in their places by civil service
and give them an eight hour day and
increased wages.
Whether they believe it or whether
they will believe it when election day
comes is not to the, point just now.
The point is that they say they believe
it and more than seventy per cent. of
them say they are going to vote for
Hearst. This sentiment extends to
dry goods stores, saloons and restau-
rants, hotels and telegraph offices.
Union labor in all five boroughs is
swelling the Hearst chorus.
There are two ways in which Tam
many will endeavor to combat this
threatened wholesale desertion. One
will be to train the batteries directly
on Mr.. Hearst, and he has already
been accused anew of having inspired
Czolgosz to shoot President Mckinley.
The other is to point out that Mr..
Hearst, as Mayor, could make no more
headway in accomplishing immediate
municipal ownership than Mayor
Dunno has done in Chicago"
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
Spirit of the Press.
The President In The South.

Col Henry Watterson in Louisville
Courier Journal.
Certain puzzle headed newspapers
affect to see in the warm welcome met
everywhere by the President on his
journey through the South a variance
from the storm of Indignation which
followed the Booker Washington Incl
dent. Their surprise, where it hap
pens to be genuine, is the offspring of
a liberalism equally without sympathy
and imagination, or else it is the fig
ment of a sectionalism which has put
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
Too Early Yet and The Frost Might
Nip Aspirations in the Bud.
Hendersonville Hustler.

Hendersonville Hustler.
The News and Observer agrees with
the Hustler in the suggestion that it
is yet too early to pledge support to
aspirants for office. No man should
have an office simply because be wants
it and the individual who goes around
begging for support is usually untitled
for the place The modern Idea, pre-
valent in some sections, that nomlna-
tions are for sale to the highest bid
der. is extremely dangerous to n de-
mocracy and ought to be dfscOunte-
nanced everywhere. In this enlighten
ed age the people car be depended
upon to select worthy and competent
officials, and he who also ran is
going to realize this fact to his sor-
row one of these days.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
BEHEADED WITHOUT A HEARING

The order of the President that
Cabinet officer may remove civil
service clerk if satisfied that he is
"enefficient or incapable without
hearing" has caused much harsh critl-
cism in Washington where 1t is pest
understood. Heretofore member OF
the Cabinet could remove clerk, put
the clerks position and support could
not be taken from him without near
ing. In the civil service as heretofore
understood a clerk has rights. Under
President Roosevelts order a civil SER
vice clerk can be deprived Of his Job
without so much as word. Magma
Charta guaranteed that no man could
be deprived of his rights without due
process of law, but the President de-
crees that a Cabinet officer can De
head a clerk by an order to get out
Usually Cabinet officers are just and
fair, but what person desires his ten
ure to be at the will OF one man VINO
may be made the victim of gossip ana
slander-things not unknown IN the
departments at Washington?
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY.

President Roosevelt and Rev. Sam
Jones formed a mutual admiration So
ciety during the stay of the President
in Georgia. On the day that the
President reached Atlanta. Mr.. Jones
wrote to the Atlanta Journal about
the visit of the President and said:
This is Roosevelt day at the fair.
Atlanta has the largest crowd that
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

ness, faintness, lassitude, excitability,
irritability, nervousness, sleepleSs-
ness, melancholy, "all-gone" and
"want-to- -be-lcft-alone' feelings, blues
and hopelessness, they should remem-
ber there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound at once removes such troubles.
No other female medicine in the
world has received such widespread
and unqualified endorsement. No other
medicine has such a record of cures Of
female troubles.
The needless suffering of women from
diseases peculiar to their sex is terrible
to see. The money which they pay to
doctors who do not help them is an
enormous waste. The pain is cured
and the money is saved by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Ex.
perience has proved this.
1t is well for women who are i'll to
write Mrs Pinlham, at Lynn, Mass.
In her great experience, which covers
many years, she has probably had to
deal with dozens of cases just like
yours. Her advice is free and conf
Dental.
DCund Succeeds Where others Fail.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

able representatives of the Govern
ment to examine the books of the rail-
road companies.
Mr.. Roosevelt seems to be in favor
of opening all the books-eXcept those
kept by the Republican National Com
mittee
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

Prof Nicholas Murray Butler says
that statutes will not put moral prin-
ciples where they do not exist But,
as the New York Sun truly says, I'VE
know of one thing that statutes would
do if properly applied: they would put
some of our leading life insurance
men in iaiI.''
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
Telegram No. 1.

CoIumbia;~ S. c., Oct. 1S.-Thomas
Dixon Jr. The De Soto, Savannah, Ga.
In the Morning News of Tuesday you
are quoted as asserting the Kissing of
yourself in Columbia Theatre was IA
put-up job by Gonzales, editor of The
State" | cannot believe you guilty OF
such mean and Willful slander. viii
you, by wire at my expense, affirm or
deny the report?
(Signed) GONZALES.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
Opening the Books
New York World.

New Ork World.
The act creating the Department
of Commerce empowers the bureau
OF Corporations to eXaIiiltie I'll ca poohS ,iA
of any corporation. joint.stock COM
many Or cornorate combination en-
gagged in Interstate commerce, except
common carriers 1
Roosevelt advocated lesiSla alion tllat
would supply this dehclelicy anu en-
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
Memorable Day For Teddy.
Wilmington Star

Says our esteemed contemporary,
the Asheville Citizen: "It was a mem
orable day for the widow of Stonewall
Jackson when the President of the
United States paid tribute to the
memory of her illustrious husband.
1t was a still more memorable day for
Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t is once in centuries
that a President has the opportunity
of meeting the widow of a StOneW
Jackson.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

All the candidates for Mayor in
New York are declaring for municipal
ownership. 1t is as certain to come
as any just reform that has ever
helped mankind. The streets belong
to all the people and their use for prl-
vate enrichment is a robbery of the
many for the enrichment of the few.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

In their last circular letter j. ii.
Parker & Company say that in their
judgment "all trustworthy informa-
ton seems to point to only moder-
ate crop, at best not exceeding 10h
million bales, and possibly falling far
short of it.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
SCOTCH NAME AND PRINCIPLE.

Mr. F. T. Bizzell retires from the
ed by Mr. Mac. Cameron. He has
the right name to edit the paper of
Scotland county and will no doubt
make as good a paper as his name
promises He starts out well by two
"ial paragraphs, as follows:
..e Exchange does not belong TO
anv class or clan, but will be pub
lished in the: interest of. and for. all
the people: "<-2'~ 80 - = = y" - =.
1.-The change in the management or
The Exchange does not change its
politics-its still Democratic. three
hundred and sixty-five days to the
year."
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
Raleigh On Deck.
A AShpVilIp i

] Asheville iCtizNn.
Atlanta made a strong eHoTt TO
capture the honors of the preSldenual
| trip but Raleigh appears to have
! been in the running.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
MORNING TONIC.
edward Everett Hale.

(EuWdTU TLVCTUll IIdIV'I
We must serve the world, not like
tho hand craftsman for a stipend ac-
curately representing the work done,
bur as those who deal with infinite
values and confer benefits as freely
and nobly as does nature.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

Bishop Potter and others of the
Four Hundred continue to urge that
moral suasion is the only way to get
men to do right. If that's so, let's re-
peal all criminal laws and blot out all
the Thou Shalt Nots.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

Rev. L. c.. H. Williams the new rec
tor of Christ's Episcopal church in
New Bern, has begun his work. He
comes from Americus. Ga. The New
Bern people are greatly pleased with
Mr.. Williams.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

One of the reforms present discus
sions of insurance should bring 1T to
reduce the cost 1t has increased
steadily, having been increased fif-
teen per cent. in 1879 and increased
again in 1899 There was every reas-
on to decrease except the desire of Of
ficials to pile up big surplus and pay
fancy salaries.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

Folk declines to take hand in the
New York municipal row. Wise Mr..
Folk. The situation there is too much
like crazy quilt for an outsider to
render help.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

The Atlantic Coast Line declared an
extra dividend of twenty-five per cent.
this year and the Southern earned
over twenty four per cent. on the
North Carolina road. And yet freight
and passenger rates remain so high
as to impose an unjust burden on all
travellers and consumers.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

Private car cases have been post
poned. Full relief cannot come until
Congress gives power to the Inter-
State Commerce Commission.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
GONZALES
Telegram No. ,.

Savannah, Ga. Oct. 1S.-W. e. Con
zales, Columbia, S. c. You misinter-
pret my interview. The job to which
| referred was the misleading report
about the kissing, which you wired
over the United States. L was loath
to believe you guilty of such thing
until in ormcd here that you are the
representative of the Associated Press
in Columbia. | do not accuse you OF
the kissing, but of something worse
of sending out the extra a-Ordinary
story concerning it.
(Signed),
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

McCurdy says he will not resign.
OF course not. But he will be kicked
out by the policy-holders.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
HERE'S HOT STUFF.
Tclegraphic Correspondence Between
Thomas Dixon, Jr., and ". h.
Gonzales.
charleston News and Courier.)


In a special story to the Savannah
Morning News from Columbia, printed
yesterday, the following kilograms
passing between Mr.. w. e. Gonzales
and Mr.. Thomas Dixon, Jr., were
printed; the occasion grew out of
statements made by Mr.. Dixon in that
cit
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
A TRAINED NURSE
After Years of Experience, Advises
Regard to Their Health.

Mrs. Martha Pohlman
Of 55 Chester Avenue,
Newark, N. J., who is a
graduate Nurse from the
Blockley Training School,
at Philadelphia, and for
six years Chief Clinic
Nurse at the Philadelphia
Hospital, writes the letter
printed below. She has
the advantage of personal
experience, besides her
professional education,
and what she has to say
may be absolutely relied
upon.
Many other women are
afflicted as she was. They
can regain health in the
same way. 1t is prudent
to heed such advice from
such a source.
Mrs, Pohlman writes:
81 am firmly persuaded,
after eight years of experience
with Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, that it
is the safest and best medicine
for any suffering woman to
use.
Immediately after my
marriage l found that my
heath began to fail me. I be-
came weak and pale, with Sc
we're bearing-down pains, fear
full backaches and frequent
dizzy spells. The doctors pre-
scribed for me, yet / did not
improve. / would bloat after
eating and frequently become
nauseated. / had an acrid
pains down through my lin
hardly walk. 1t was as bad a
trouble as / have ever kno
Pinkham's Vegetable Compo
cured me within four month
time have had occasion to re
a number of patients suffe
forms of female difficulties, a
while it is considered unprofe
ommend a patent medicine,
recommend Lydia +. Pinkhs
Compound, for / have found
female ills, where all other me
is a grand medicine for sick '
Money cannot buy such
this-merit alone can proc
suits, and the ablest sp,
agree that Lydia E. Pinl
table Compound is the
sally successful remedy f,
diseases known to medic
When women are trou
regular, suppressed or 7
situation, weakness, leuC
placement or liberation Q
that bearing-down feelin
ton of the ovaries, bacl
ing Tor fiatulence), genera
digestion, and nervous pl
are beset with such symp'
Ur,l:o = n;nAVo W,
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

To show the white heat already in
New York, they are charging that
Hearst inspired Czolgosz to kill Nc
Kinley. Later they'll charge McClel-
land with inspiring Guiteau to Kill
Garfield and Wins with inspiring Booth
to kill Lincoln. Politicians who in
vent these roorbacks should remember
that the people are not asses.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
FLESH BUILDER

The liver of the cod fish
produces oil that is a won
derful flesh builder. No fat
or oil can compare with it
in that respect. Toget the
best out of it, it must be
emulsihed and made like
cream. In SCOTS Emul-.
sion it is prepared in the
best possible form to pro-
duce the best possible re-
suits. Thirty years have
proven this.
Wen send you sample tree.
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street. New York.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
Telegram No. ).

Columbia, Oct. 20.-Thomas Dixon
Jr., The Players Club. New York:
have no wish to handy words with an
INSCRIPTIONS demagogue and inherent
blackguard. If your opinion were OF
consequence the fact that since assum-
ing the duties of editor, nearly three
years ago, l have personally sent
nothing to the Morning News (another
performing that work under the old
signature, Gonzales" y could be read
lily established-could doubtless have
been established in the office of that
paper.
w T.. GONZALES
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

News comes from Minnesota that
during the last campaign an insurance
company offered Governor Johnson
$4,000 if he would promise to appoint
one of it's henchmen State Insurance
commissioner The offer was declin-
cd with indignation. The charge is
made that the same company paid $5,-
900 for the suppression of report
concerning the condition of the COM
Z pany THESE iareeathe sort OF folks
Who prated of preserving the national
honor" and assailed good men.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

The transportation trust wishes to
give cars or prompt service. not as
matter of right but as a matter or
favoritism. Under present conditions,
they have shippers at their mercy
the sch-Townsend law would give
shippers the privilege of standing up
right and demanding their rights
without fearing they will be denied
cars promptly. and efficient service.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

And now they want to put the State
Fair on wheels and "let her roll. 1t
is fixed to the soil and will "stay put
For half a century the people OF
North Carolina have been in the habit
of attending the State Fair at the
State Capital, and they'll keep on do
ing it for an hundred years to come.
You can rotate crops and rotate
judges, but the State Fair at RaIelgh
and the National Capital at Washing
ton have a fixed and permanent abode.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
THOS. DIXON, JR.
Telegram No. ,.

Columbia. S. c., Oct. 1S.-Thomas
Dixon, Jr., De Soto, Savannah: You
are almost as unfortunate in form oil
interview as incorrect in fact. Any
statement that [ sent or instigated the
sending to the Associated Press (ot
which [ am not the agenD or other
wise, of any report concerning you
is a cold lie. You may have been
honestly misled, but had you been
willing to credit the South with haV-
ing reputable journalists you would
not have recklessly published without
investigation this slander, with the
accompanying imputation to me OF
the meanest motives. That is not the
practice among men of honor in this
or any other part of the country.
(Signed) w. E. GONZALES.
Last night the following telegram
was received by The News and COur-
ier from Mr.. Dixon (thrOugh his agent
who is with the company, with the
request that it be printed:
The news & observer., 1905-10-24
Telegram No. 4.

Fayetteville, n. c.. Oct. 19.-To w.
E. Gonzales, The State, Columbia, S.
c.: The editor of the Savannah News
told me that his office received from
you the lying message about the Co
lumbia kissing job. 1 take his word,
not yours. The coidflie; which, you $50
brave1y proclaim, is at your own door
VIII you acknowledge it's paternity or
try to wriggle out of it. Brother
Robert ogden will yet invite you to
dinner with one of his negro guests if
you keep up your good work.
THOS. DIXON, JR.
The news & observer., 1905-10-24

lydia Pkham Vegetable COMPOUND SUCeedS Where Ohers Fail
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-01-27
got away from us this mornin' an we
just got him located"
EVEN

The committee of Plain People, sent
to Washington to investigate Senator
Graball, was ushered into the presence
of the Great Man.
Thrusting his right hand into the
bosom of his left breast the Great
Man bowed and asked:
And now, gentlemen, what can do
for my well beloved constituents?'
Senator Graball," said the spokes-
man in an awed tone of voice. cit is
charged in our state that you owe
everything to the great corporations.
We have come to see what basis there
is for the charge, and to ask you about
it,
Gentlemen" Numbered the Great
Man. There is no basis for the cruel
charge. l owe the corporations moth
ing-absolutely nothing. l ask you to
go right ahead with your investiga-
ton"
So saying the. committee of Plain
People was majestically bowed from
the room. AS the last of the committee
disappeared the Great Ma smiled
grimly, dropped into an easy chair and
muttered:
mo, I owe the corporations nothing
1 have paio them in full
Having no access to the corporations
books the committee of Plain Peo-
pie was compelled to return and report
accordingly.