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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07

very fine army, ETC.
+ The testimony Of various other officers
could be quoted 10 show that tho Feu-
eral commander had between 1900 and
1000 men on the field Of battle ut Cedar
Creek, and that including escorts, tram
guards and Powells Cavalry (2,2si mem
he had an army OF 5000 men.
How many men did the Confederates
have when they charged into tho camp OF
this host on the early morning OF October
tho 10th, 1864: General Early says In his
memoirs that he had 8,bGO muskets. 1,2c0
cavalry and a little over forty pieces OF
artillery, amounting TO l0,4O0 men, or just
one-fourth as many IA his adversary, Lit
tie remains to be said It was n desperate
chance against heavy odds; yet the day
which opened with such bright prospects
closed In gloom and defeat,
8a I have not endcavored to lay tho blame
for mistakes OH anyone, My opinion Is
that all did the best they could and the
all sufficient reason for failure was lack
OF men.
From Two Points of View.
Back sights are better than foresiEhts,,
It is easy to say how thing should have
been done after 1t has happened. Crit!-
I cisn and regrets are Eunavaillng recriml-l
nation is worse. The Confederate plans
& out, and the officers and men deserve
all praise, Who can name another ex-
plot like 1t, numbers and circumstances
copsidered? Did General Gordon at Fort
steadman encounter such odds2 Yet he
failed there. No one can ever make me
believe that General Early restrained
the ardor Of any officer or command at
Cedar Creek. He WAS not that kind of
man. Wrapped In his beloved Confed-
crate gray, and freed from mortal strife,
the hattle-scarred hero sleeps In SOL
y dler's grave, overlooking the scene OF
,nne Of his earthly conflicts. and the set
+ ting sun shines with kindly rayYupon tho
place where tho warrior rests. Secchd
to mono among the lieutenants In his de-
yotion TO Robert II. Lee and the cause
he loved, let not detraction mar his
memory,
In conclusion. paraphraslng m ancient
latin I1uphemlsm. rArlna loctta sunt,
oausa nerdita est'' Though tho cause
submitted to the decision OF tho sword
was lost yet truth abdes and the record
Of high endepvor and heroic lives re-
mains @ priceless heritage for gil time.
While the voice of the world shouts ITS
chorus.
The pean for those who have won,
& While the trumpet IL sounding triumphant
And high to the breeza and the sun
\ Gay banners are waving, hands clapplng
si and hurryiDs feet
Thronging after the laurel crnWned vic
tors who stand on the fields OF de'
feat.
Speak, History! Who are life's yictors?
unroll Thy long annals and say
Are they those whom the world calls the
= ~ q 4 Y 3 4 VI !. ID ! + ~
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
DUTY OF \ PUBLIC OFFICIAL.

1t is the duty of a public official to
see that the laws are enforced. 1t is
only their business to enforce the laws
NOT to arrogate to themselves the
right to amend or nullify them. 1t is SO
often true that public officials assume
not to enforce laws that they do not
like or that may make them enemies
that when a public official resolutely
enforces laws he is commended highly
or condemned according to the view
of the critic, simply for doing his
sworn duty. 1t is because SO many
officials do as little as they can that
the public halls with joy an official
who is not afraid to do his duty.
At the Mecklenburg Fair the author
tiles licensed the same gang of fakirs
who play little games of chance that
wore licensed at Raleigh. and they
would have swindled the people as
they fieeced the folks at Raleigh but
for the nerve of the Recorder. Shortly
before the date of the Fair Mr.. Orr,
manager of the Fair. sent Recorder
which the Recorder declined with
thanks saying that he had made a
rule to accent no free passes. That
is the rule that every public official
ought to make. In the same letter,
dated October 18th, Recorder Shan
nonhouse said:
Il will call your attention to the nu-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

would proceed to give relief to the
people, starting against the biggest
robber trust first, and coming down
the line. He would not only enforce
the civil and criminal law, but would
demand that all articles controlled by
a trust be put on the free list. We
may not expect Mr.. Roosevelt to take
the last step. He has not promised
to do it and it would make rupture
in his party. But he can do very much
if he will press his victory in the
Northern Security and Beef Trust
cases to the logical end. The defeat
of the Northern Securities transporta
ton trust was a very great victory,
but it did not affect the transportation
trust in existence. However the meas
ure to give the government the power
to regulate railroad rates will be the
next natural step to curb railroad eX-
tortion, and Mr.. RoOsevelts Raleigh
speech rang clear on that line. But
the Beef Trust victory, so far as it
affects the people, is barren of results
unless further aggressive action is Ia
ken. The nominal fine paid by the
trust amounts to nothing and since
that was paid the same men have or
ganized trust that will control sew
enty-five per cent of the tanneries and
taken the first step to advance the
price of shoes. twenty-five per cent.
The country, relying upon what Mr..
Roosevelt has done and said about
trusts looks to him to prevent that ac-
ton and to compel the beef trust to
cease it's extortions upon every person
in America. If that trusts rapacity
is not successfully tackled" the
prosecutions of trusts will fall far short
of what the people have "a right to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
RAILROAD GRAFT SHOULD BE
MADE PUBLIC.

There were three fatal accidents on
the Southern Railway on Thursday.
This is d stern call to President Spen-
Ger and e-Presdent Andrews to
quit running politics and devote their
attention and best thought to running
trains If all the money the South
ern Railway has spent in substituting
newspapers, hiring lawyers buying
legislators, entertaining judges and
executives had been spent on improV-
ing the road-bed and equipment, the
public would be twice as well served
as it Is today.
Railroads have no more right to
spend their money to run politics, sub
sidiZe newspapers, and buy legislation
than the big insurance companies. If
some State should investigate the
Southern Railway, as the Mutual Life
is being investigated, the expenditures
of the Mutual Life for politics and
legislation would "look like thirty
cents" iii comparison with the sums
spent by the railroad for such pur-
forty per cent more FOR freight and
passenger transportation in North
Carolina than they ought to do Why
shouldn't they be investigated and let
the public see the fancy salaries, po-
litical contributions, Legislative ex-
penses," claw department" subsidiz-
ing newspapers and the like? They
impose heavier tax on North Caro-
lima than the State, county and num-
cipal governments combined. If the
extravaganza and graft of insurance
companies, which enjoy no right of
eminent domain, are matters for pub
licity and probing, much more is the
public entitled to know what goes with
the money that goes in fancy salaried
railroad officials and in the other
channels that seek to control legisla-
ton and political parties.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

merous gambling games and devices
on the Midway last year, and l take
this opportunity to notify your Asso-
| citation that no gambling or games OF
chance of any kind will be permitted
| this year, and / hope you VIII permit
none l would dislike very much 10
| do anything which would interfere
with the success of the fair. l do not
believe that it's success depends in any
degree upon the permissible violation
of the laws against gambling. on
| the contrary, | feel that the great
number of young boys who attend the
fair and visit the Midway should be
protected against the robber gamblers
and fakirs usually found at such
places
But there was a sentiment that these
little so-called innocent games" ought
not to be tabooed, and the mayor held
that view. However the Recorder Gall
honor to himD held to his correct po-
sition, and refused to let down the bars
and on Monday gave further fair
warning to the manager of the Fair,
writing as follows:
81 desire to notify you that when l
visited the Midway at 2:3O p. m. to-
day | found everything wide open,
gambling tables of various kinds In
full operation. l want to again call
your attention to the notice | gave you
some days ago-that no gambling
would be p 'rm'ted.
IF it is permitted again I shall issue
warrants and put under arrest every
person engaged in their operation, and
also the members of your Association
permitting and deriving profit from
it. l appeal to you as a citizen and an
officer of this city to notify your Mid
way purchasers that the law must be
| obeyed."
AS result gambling games
ceased" says the Charlotte News. OF
course Mr. Shannonhouse will be de-
nounced as a Puritan, a believer in
blue laws, as "a crank, and all sorts
of fellow for simply doing his sworn
duty.
What Raleigh needs is to extend the
corporate limits to include the fair
grounds and have it's officials to fol-
low the good example set by Char
iCttes Recorder
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
ROOSEVELT AND BRYAN.

The speeches of Roosevelt and Bry-
an have been often compared Both
are recognized as able men-the ac-
knowledged leaders of their parties.
The Louisburg Times this week has
this paragraph:
after reading President Roosevelt
speech delivered at Atlanta last week.
gentleman made the following COM
ment in hearing of the editor of the
Times: If | had been listening to this
speech, and not knowing the speaker,
would have sworn that it was Will
liam j. Bryan
The man who made that remark
should have said after reading this
speech" instead of listening. Mr..
Roosevelt writes strong English and
his speeches in the South have
breathed the same spirit of American
ism and hostility to graft and special
privilege that characterize the
speeches of Mr.. Bryan. But there the
parallel ceases. Mr. Roosevelt has
improved as a public speaker and
bears himself well, but he is nothing
of an orator and as master of an as
semblage is not in the same class with
Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Roosevelts utterances have the
weight of the great office which he
holds and that gives a public interest
to what he says greater than to the
speeches of any other man. He speaks
as one having authority. He has made
his chief reputation as "the man who
does things and in some most impor-
tant matters he has ''made good" par
ticularly in the coal strike and the
peace conference. He has achieved
an even greater victory, provided 1t is
used to relieve the people of the bur-
dens imposed by the trusts. He has
secured the power to prevent the
Northern Securities Company and to
prevent the continuation of the opera
lions of the trusts. The Big Stick
against the exactions of monopoly has
been put in his HANDS by the Supreme
Court He has made a great start
Will he use the Big Stick? That is
the question all America is asking.
Some Oh MS pOllllCdl supporters VI Sc
him mot to run amuck' by prosecut-
ing trust magnates and praying the
full penalty of the law. SO far as he
has gone. he has done well. Will he
relieve the people of the extortions
by vigorous prosecution of the trusts
Most people believe he is honest and
courageous and that he will not stop
with the lame and impotent conclu-
sion in the beef trust case. 1t amount
ed only to an admission that the trust
can be made to stop robbing the peo-
pie if the administration follows its
victory to the logical end. Will Mr..
Roosevelt meet the just expectations
of the people and pray judgment on
these outlaws of commerce?
Nobody doubts that Mr.. Bryan
would do all that Mr.. Roosevelt has
done in securing judicial construction
giving power to proceed, and that he
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.

All the candidates for mayor of New
| York profess to favor municipal own
| ership of public utilities. Mr. Hearst
/ is making his whole campaign on that
issue, but as both the other candidates
declare in favor of municipal owner
cut. The Republican candidate thus
expresses his position:
1T is impossible to tell how great
| that particular form of wealth is that
| has been created by the community
as a whole, and which has passed out
of the property of the community into
the proprietorship of individuals, said
Mr.. WINS. But / will give you an IL
lustration. We today need the light
of gas practically as we need the light
of day. 1t is an absolute necessity
to our daily lives The plants which
! supply us with that gas have cost, as
l understand it, according to the re-
| port of the late committee, about $50
| 100000; but the value of the fran
| chises. the value of the property, and
| the value of the unearned increment
! in that situation is about $35O,00O, 900,
according to todays quotations, and
| these $35O,O00,00 900 ought to have be-
ought not to have belonged to the Gas
| Trust.
Now, l propose first of all, if elect
| ed mayor. to do all that lies in my
power to remedy that wrong, so far
as it is the subject of remedy. Leaving
aside the question paid for these fran
chises, / should insist that the city at
once enter into the possession of those
plants, and it can be done very readily
and very easily, and it can be done In
| time and not in eternity.
Mayor Johnson declared himself in
favor of city ownership of water III
Raleigh and the time is now at hand
when steps ought to be taken to bring
| it about. A few weeks ago the Manu-
the attorney of the Wake Water Com
pany who desired literature against
municipal ownership" The water
company is resolved not to sell un-
less it can make the city pay for stock
which represents nothing at all ex-
cept the paper it is printed on. If Raj
eigh does that. it will be taxing all its
citizens to put a subsidy in the pock-
cts of the favorites who own that
stock
Just one year from now the fran
chise of the Wake Water Company
expires. The City Government should
take action early in order that there
may be time to put in new plant if
the Wake Water Company tries the
game of "hold up" The people of Raj
eigh are in no humor to continue to
pay present high prices for water or
to paw for watered stock. They are
willing to pay what the present plant
cost or what it would cost to replace
it, but not one cent for bonus or sub
sidy, or for watered stock!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
Namo of Cigarettes should IL
Changed to Coffin Nails.

Stanly Enterprise.
A young man died in Greensboro q
few DAYS, ago. He had been smoking
cigarettes for three years and had sue
ceeded in deceiving his mother dur
ing all that time. and when the doctor
pronounced his disease as one directly
attributable to cigaretteN the mother
was 10th to believe it. The incident is
one frought with a double ana terrible
moral to all boys who smoke cigar
cites and add to it the graVer ofense
of practicing a deception against thelr
parents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
MOVE IT TO PINEVILLE.

The report that Col. j. r. Blair, of
Troy. had his one hundred dollar dia-
mond stud removed from his shirt
front at the Mecklenburg Fair, shows
that Charlotte has a shrewder gang of
pick-pockets and thieves than infested
Raleigh during the State Fair.
1t IS now in order to start a crusade
to move the Mecklenburg Fair from
Charlotte to Pineville. There is much
less graft in Pineville and the people
there would take great pride in having
better exhibits and in protecting visi-
tors from the thieves who rob citizens
of other counties who go to see the big
pumpkin instead of being robbed of
fine diamonds. t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
Kin and Adventures
Asheville Gazett-News.

ASHpVIIIG ddHGll-NtWS.
The matter of distributing FEEDER
al patronage hereabouts has Tong
since resolved itself into question
of consanquinity. That is known of
all men, and now it seems that Re-
publicans of known party loyalty are
to be removed further than ever
from the party councils, while party
affairs are being placed in the hands
of politicaf adventurerS
But once more we desire to dis
claim any desire to appear critical
of Mr.. Butler. The versatility is to
us a constant and increasing source
of admiration. Mr. Butler leads.
And why should not the spirit of this
Butler mortal be proud?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
Spirit of the Press.
Roosevelt Standing on The Democratic
Platform.
Chatham Record.

Chatham Record.
But the main part of his speech,
and that which will attract the great
est interest throughout the Union, was
his strong advocacy of governmental
regulation of railroad rates. He OPP
posed governmental ownership OF
railroads but earnestly advocated
governmental control of them. His
position on this important question is
exactly that of the Democratic party
as declared in it's platform adopted at
it's last national convention. He will
urge Congress at its next session To
enact law on this subject, and 1t
will be vigorously opposed by many
of the leaders of his own party, and
then will be presented the strange
spectacle of Republican President
relying chiefly on Democrats to sup
port him against opponents in his own
party.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

Who can tell how much more roy
atty will come to King Cotton? the
Atlanta Constitution says that Mr.
Drake, of Oglethorp county, had on ex-
hibition at the Atlanta Fair cotton
that made six bales to the acre. II
every farmer could do that, he could
afford to buy cotton pickers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
CANCER CURED.

We want every man and woman IL
the United States to know what we
are doing. We are curing cancers,
turuors. and chronic sores without the
use OF knife, and are Indorsej by the
senste and Legislature Of Virginia. Ii
you are seeking cure, come here hno
you will get il.
We GnRr3 1tee Our Cures.
THE KELLAM CANCER HOSPITAL
Richmond. VA
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

Mr.. Sully predicts that cotton will
bring twelve cents by the first of De-
cember and will be bringing fifteen
cents by March. The whole South
hopes Mr.. Sully is as good a prophet
now as he was when he predicted the
price seventeen cents which cotton
reached
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
PRINCIPLE FIRST: HOSPITALITY
SECOND.

A Richmond correspondent of the
Washington Star has discovered that
1.-The Virginia Democrats would nomi-
President" There are many reasons
why this statement is entitled to nc
consideration: One will suffice. Mr..
Roosevelt is not Democrat. but 4
Republican. Virginia Democrats glad
ly welcomed the Chief Magistrate,
were pleased at his evidently sincere
praise of Lee, Jackson and the men
who wore the gray, but such pleas
ure did not convert them into Republi-
cans or make them ready to support
Mr.. Roosevelt because he stands OH
the Democratic platform with refer
ence to government regulation of
rates They bid him God-speed in
trying to enact that Democratic meas
ure into law and will rally for its
passage. They accept his assurances
of goodwill as withdrawing his past
utterances that grated upon the South.
but they could not vote for him or any
other Republican. With them 'prin-
ciple is principle; yesterday, today, to-
morrow. forever" And the same thing
is true of the people of every other
Southern State. Political principle Is
first, and it is deep-seated.
The Southern people were the host:
of the President, and they acted the
part of courteous and well-bred hosts.
They gave him the best they had,
welcomed him, applauded his utter
ances they approved, were not so rude
as to raise questions of difference with
their guest, and .sped the parting
guest" But, though he did not take
occasion to avow his Republicanism,
nobody in the South except the enthu-
siasts believes he is going to desert
his party because Southern hospitality
gave him kind greeting. And it is
equally absurd-even more so-to
suppose that any Democrat is ready
to desert his lifelong convictions and
principles because of the President S
acceptance of one plank in the Demo
cratic platform or of his eulOgy Of
Jackson and Lee and his other like
expressions showing that his Amerl-
canism has grown broad enough to
embrace all portions of the Republic.
The Presidents visit to the South
has done him a world of good and
the South has found him personally
the sort of man it loves to welcome
But it has not changed the vote of n
single man, unless the President,
finding the Democratic platform foi
government regulation of rates 20
good, decides Ito go the whole hog.
He will find the other planks just as
good and wholesome. and Will md
that the Southern Democrats are as
honest in their opposition to railroad
regulation of government as they are
sincere in their advocacy of the gov
eminent regulation of railroads.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
SCOTT'S EMULSION
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion


the old story, told times
without number and repeated
over and over again for the
last thirty years. But it's
always a welcome story to
those in need of strength and
health. There's nothing in
the world that stops wasting
diseases as quickly as SCOTS
Emulsion.
Wen send you sample, free
SCOTT & BOVINE. 4os Pearl Street. NJ" York
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

Those newspaper men who were
paid 81 line to say that 'McCurdy
created a distinctly favorable impress
sion on the stand earned their mon
ey. man who would print as big a
whopper as that ought to be paid 81
a lie and 81 line, too.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

Remember also that the white man
who can be of most use to the colored
man is that colored mans neighbor.
1t is the Southern people themselves
who must and can solve the difficult
ties that exist in the South. "--Presi-
dent Roosevelts speech at Tuskegee.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
The Robbie Burns of Southern Scotia
Presbyterian Standard.

Mr.. Mcneil is as modest as he is
worthy and it is not going 10 hurt nm
to have this cup or the praise tnal
has followed, for, successful as ne has
been, he is, we trust, put at the De-
ginning of his literary career. we are
all proud of the ROBBIE Burns oI our
Southern Scotia and we al "an an 20 DC
prouder still. He has lne sllt, dho
the South shall have in him the poet
who shall sneak TO the heart of the
world
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
WHY Not Ten children?

Apex Journal
The happiest man in the world is the
fellow who has a good wife, SIX child
rem and a good farm, with tobacco at
% cents and cotton rising like the tide.
These, above all, are the best and hap
piest on earth.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28
Loos'n Up, Teddy.

Wilmington Star.
President Roosevelt has been
speaking to us about railroad rate
legislation. Panama canal matters
and how to be good, but we'd like to
see him loOS'n up on the tariff ana
tell us why the trusts are still in the
ring with the smile that won't come
off
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

Every Democrat in the Senate. who
does not bolt his national platform,
will support government regulation of
rates. not because the President has
got on the Democratic platform. but
because it is both right and regular.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

That Chicago policeman who grabs
every cigarette he sees a boy smoking
is doing a righteous act and will be
upheld by every worthy father and
mother
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-28

Rockingham. n. c., Oct. 27.-Mr.
Stafford Gibson, one of Scotland
county's Oldest citizens. died at his
home near Gibson recently.