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v. l i5sis 81. HANNE BROS, "'rf Y,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
GAVE GENERAL SATISFACTION.

The people of Raleigh owe d debt
of gratitude to the City Democratic
Executive Committee for securing the
adoption of q law giving Raleigh a
legaliZed primary under the Australian
ballot, drawn by Mr.. B. c. Beckwlth.
Their thanks are particularly due TO
Mr.. Joseph e. Pogue, City Chairman,
who has devoted much time to the in
telligent and necessary work of put
ting this new law into successful OPP
Grafton. 1t is the most popular lnno-
walton of this decade. 1t could be inn
proved only by requiring every voter
to go into the booth and prepare his
ticket. Yesterday some voters prepared
their votes in the view of the poll
holders. But, with that change and
not opening the primary until twelve
O'Clock noon-(an all day primary is
not necessary new plan is as
nearly perfect as it can be made.
On all hands yesterday were heard
words of commentator of the new
system. 1t sounds the death-knell OF
the large successful use of money in
the primary, of the ability of the
ward-worker to corral the voters, the
control of the vote by persuasion or
intimidation. Under this system, no
person-not even the poll-holders-
knows how any man votes in the pri-
mary. That encourages full vote.
Heretofore in Raleigh everybody
knew how the vote stood every hour
in the day, so that early in the after
noon it was generally known which
candidate was in the lead and then
there was a hurrying to get on the
"band-wagon." Yesterday everybody
was kept guessing until the actual
count and every candidate hoped that
the men in the booth had voted for
him.
One thing is certain: Raleigh is
pleased with the new system of hold
ing a primary, and it will never go
back to the old system.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
FRANCE AND TOBACCO.

Most Of the governments of Europe
control the manufacture of tobacco in
all forms, and it affords large source
of revenue. According to the Southern
Tobacco Journal the French govern
ment's statement of last years re-
ceipts from the tobacco monopoly
shows a clear profit of 81, 100000. A
feature of the statistics is that the
largest sum was derived from the sale
of 2-cent cigars, the proceeds of
which would suffice to build three new
battleships. If the tobacco trust sue
eeeds in preventing all competition,
there will be advocates of following
the same course in the United States
should that be the only method of
saving tobacco farmers from the
trusts and keeping the price OF to-
bacco above the cost of production.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
John Paul Jones.

Editor of the Dispatch.
Sir.-I notice in your editorial of
the 18TH on John Paul Jones, you
state that it is not known how he ac-
quired the surname of Jones. l would
like to call your attention to the fol-
lowing extract from "a Genealogical
History" by Colonel Cadwallader
Jones:
General Allen Jones resided at Mt.
Gallant, in Northampton county, at
the head of Roanoke Falls.
willie Jones lived at the grove
near Halifax These old mansions,
grand in their proportions, were the
homes of Astounding hospitality. In
this connection, 1 may mention that
when John Paul Jones visited Hall
fax, then a young sailor and stranger,
he made the acquaintance of those
grand old patriots. Allen and Willie
Jones. He was a young man, but an
old tar, with q bold, frank, sailor
bearing, that attracted their attention.
He became a frequent visitor at their
homes, where he was always welcome.
He soon grew fond of them. and as
mark of his esteem and admiration,
he adopted their name, Sc wing that il
he lived he would make them prUGq
of it. Thus, John Paul became John
Paul Jones-it was his fancy. He
named his ship the Bon Homme Rich
ard, in compliment of Franklin, he
named himself Jones in compliment
to Allen and Willie Jones. When the
first notes of war sounded he obtained
letters from these brothers to Joseph
HeweS, a member of Congress from
North Carolina. and through his in
fiuence received his first commission
in the navy. | am now the Oldest liv-
ing descendant of General Allen Jones.
/ remember my aunt, Mrs. Willie
Jones, who survived her husband
many years, and when a boy | heard
these facts spoken of in both families"
This statement is accepted by Mr.
Cyrus Townsend Brady, one of the
biographers of Paul Jones, but reject
ed by Mr.. Buell., another. 1t is hard
to see how this statement of Colonel
Cadwallader Jones can be rejected
without impeaching his great ability.
Yours truly,
S. S. ALSOP.
Enfield N c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

his companions, whose secrets he tells
TO save himself Nevertheless, the law
has need of him. His uncorroborated
evidence goes for little, but it guides
investigation 1t leads to better evil
dence. Mr.. Lawson charges against
the insurance companies are already
bearing fruit Because of them these
great depositaries for widow and or
phan will be less rapacious. They will
probably reach the same condition as
savings banks, and the lurid pictures
of Mr.. Lawson will have brought that
day nearer. He has charged the di-
rectors with much of which they are
innocent but his charges have shown
how wrongs can be committed under
the current system, and sometimes are
committed. The excitement with which
the Equitable troubles have been fol-
lowed is largely due to him. He has
prepared the people to protect Them
selves. He has set in motion a force
which will hardly stop short of serious
reforms.
Mr.. Kemble once planned a cartoon
which he unfortunately never drew
Lawson, as vain and dishonorable in
appearance as anybody could desire
was yelling and screaming with such
intensity that the sleeping guardian of
the peoples treasure was beginning to
awake, and the men who were rob-
bing the peoples safe were preparing
to escape. If self-goVernment is the
Wisest form of government, we shall
be able to make good use of Mr.. Law
sons information without being misled
by either his fabrications or his eX-
ample.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
WE'LL CLEAR NAN, THEY SAY.
A Conversation With the Play Girl in
the TOmbS.
(By the Associated Press. }

New York, April 20.-The three
lawyers who are acting as counsel for
Nan Patterson in her trial for the
murder Of Caesar" Young had a con-
ference with her in Tombs prison to-
day at which the plans of the de-
Tense and the personnel of the jury
were discussed. Lawyers Abram
Levy, Henry w. Unger and Daniel
O'Reilly were present. Miss Patter-
son expressed her pleasure at the
composition of the jury, which was
completed yesterday, and disappoint-
ment at the delay in postponing the
taking of testimony until Monday.
81 am sure of an acquittal this time, -
she told Lawyer Levy, "and every day
only adds to my misery in the TOmbs.
Ten months and three weeks is a
long time to be shut up in prison"
Lawyer Levy said today:
eve have new witnesses who will
establish Nan Patterson's innocence
beyond a doubt. We go into this trial
one hundred per cent stronger in point
of evidence than we did the last trial.
We are not going to rely upon the
failure of the prosecution to prove its
case for an acquittal. We are going
to prove the innocence of Nan Pat
terson."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

organize an insurance department that
shall write insurance on the lives OF
its people, save them the eXtraVagant
sums they now pay, keep in the state
the money that now piles up SO high in
New York that it is wasted in r1otous
living, and put life insurance within
the reach of all it's citizens. Every
able-bodied man is worth money to his
State. 1t he dies without insurance, in
many instances the support of his fam
lily falls upon the tax payers of the
State. If he leaves even small
amount of insurance, instead of his
children depending upon the bounty
of the State, thew early become wage
earners and add TO the wealth of the
State The same reasoning on the fl
nancial side, that calls for the educa-
ton of children in public schools will
be invoked by wise statesmen to pro-
vide life insurance that will enable
every man of small earning capacity
to leave one or two thousand dollars
to his family in case of his death"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
The Commonwealth of Insurance.

Mr.. Samuel +. Moffett in Golfers.
The nearest approach to that Co
operative Commonwealth of which the
Socialists dream has been made theo-
retically in the business of life insur-
ance. Here are the most gigantic
combinations of capital in the world,
with the widest diffusion of owner
ship. 1t is safe to say that a clear
majority of the sixteen million fami-
lies in the United States are joint
owners of the insurance capital of the
country, constituting the most colos-
sal cooperative organization ever
built up in the worlds history
Any wild notions about danger to
the policy holders may be dismissed at
once. These huge American insur-
ance companies are now the strongest
financial powers on earth-very much
stronger and more solid than the
Bank of England. Their failure
would be inconceivabe. Now that
the business has passed the perils of
infancy, life insurance companies in
America do not fail. If Lawson's
alarm bell and the Hyde-Alexander
mud batteries should put an instant
stop to the insurance of new policies,
and if half the present policy holders
should drop out, the business would
go on without a jar, automatically
providing for the remainder. The
system is impregnable.
Nor is the speculative element in
insurance investment altogether a bad
thing for the policy-holders. If the
companies were restricted, as the Mu-
tual was by its original charter, to
mortgages on real estate in New
York, United States bonds and New
York State and city bonds their re-
turns would be so small that the
policy-holders would have to pay con-
siderably higher premiums for the
same amount of insurance, and the
field of possible investment would
soon be exhausted The restrictions
of the savings bank law would have
a similar effect. Under the present
arrangements there is certain
amount of gambling, but it is gamb-
ling with loaded dice. The insurance
companies are not at the mercy of
the market-they control it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Spirit of t he Press
How Much of Liar is Lawson?
Norman Hapgood in Golfers.


In the past Thomas w. Lawson has
battled VIGOROUSLY with the demon
Of obScurity. In the future he Will
not do less. BY the reckoning of an
expert had he been compelled to pay
at ordinary rates for notice recently
received, it would have cost him three
million dollars since July. To acquire
fame, at rates so moderate, as MI.
Fales accurately concludes, in his en-
PERTAINING little biography of the Bos-
ton saint and martyr, would, II Mr..
Lawson had been a chewing gum or
corn cure, have made fortune for
his owners. Throwing pennies to
newsboys from a hotel window only
cost him $40, and secured him $4,000
worth of space. Securing Mrs. Gard
ner's box at the horse show was al
most a free advertisement. Some think
that Lawson pink actually cost but
$4,000. In the why Priests Should
Wed" sensation Lawson is supposed to
have hired the preacher whose arrest
enabled Big Hearted Tom" to step in
and pay the paltry fine and secure no.
tice worth many times the price.
"Frenzied Finance" is the hottest adj
vertisement he has encountered yet,
but surely we have not seen the last
of his resources.
Mr.. Lawson is the greatest advertis
ing genius since Phineas 7. Barnum.
He is also histronic, and, like other
actors, he does not always distinguish
between himself and the role which lie
assumes The histronic nature is inn
pulsive on the periphery, emphatic.
easily moved to as much emotion as is
needed to make expression easy.
That Mr.. Lawson is a knave ] have
no doubt. He has proceeded all his
life on the established brigand scheme
of decrying a property, buying it,
boosting it. and selling, letting the
devil take the purchaser. His finan-
cial morals are the same today as they
were in the days which he describes
half with mock-penitence and half
with pride. Fraud is the expression OF
his nature. He is gentleman of for
tune, an adventurer, charlatan and
liar. 1t is a foolish lamb that trusts
him. Moreover, nobody honors the
man who turns States evidence. He
is the man he was when his admitted
crimes were done, and meaner than
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Farmers Should Reduce Acreage.

Duplln journal.
Not only Sully who has been the
greatest friend to the cotton farmer
on Wall street for some years, but
also the entire organization of the
Southern Interstate Cotton Associa-
ton and the separate State organiza-
of acreage and the increase of price
II cotton is held on this reduction
plan. Cotton has gone up l cent in
price since this plan is at work, should
it fail then cotton will go to cents
in 30 days and another big crop will
find no market above 4 or cents.
If farmers can make it at cents
and get rich just fail to reduce the
crop; if not then don't be fools enough
to attempt it. The cotton crop of
Duplin county cost 10 cents a pound
to make it and ii the farmers can't
stand together for that price then the
quicker they stop making it, or get
so poor they can't get credit to plant
a crop, the better. sympathy is a
good thing for a fellow in hard luck
but when it only adds to the folly of
a fool cotton farmer it is the last thing
he needs. Chloroform would be better
for him and he would no longer add
to the surplus of the crop.
Should the cotton farmers now fail
by their own folly to control the price
of cotton now and for the next few
years. it would be we'll enough to feed
those who fail to reduce on their sur
plus crop for a gnort time and then
let them swallow a little fire.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
G czema Cured


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N. c.
Louish N C. ApriG,
Co e ty,
the o
the similarly afflicted
face itching
took
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Yoursve truly s.
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
MAYOR EATON AGAIN.
Voters of Winston Wisely Give Him
Unanimous Reelection.

Especial to News and Observer)
Winston-Salem, N. c., April 20.-A
large vote was polled in the Demo-
cratic primary held in Winston this
afternoon for the nomination of the
mayor and candidates for nine alder
men.
Mayor Eaton was re-nominated, he
having no opposition. In the first
ward A. S. Hanes, r. S. Galloway and
sterling Smith were nominated for
aldermen. In the second ward w. T..
brown, }. K. Norfieet and F. j. Lip
fert were re-nominated.
In the third ward, George r. Brown,
j. L. Casper and w. G.. Crawford were
re-nominated.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

The Salisbury Post says that Spencer
Blackburn is to take a trip West Civ
ing particular attention to the territo>
ries which are applying for admission
meantime his henchman, whose bully
ing secured his domination (See DR..
Motif, are undertaking to kill brave
editors who write the truth. Mr.
Yerkes must act or accept responsible
ty for shielding law-breakers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

vi CSIlSDOIO ISl@SLSiIIl
a dispatch from Columbia, South
Carolina, says that in the investigation
before the Corporation Commission of
that State, of the Badham wreck the
fact was brought out that the freight
crew had been on duty forty hours
and forty minutes. One of the con-
ductors testified that the railroad
worked their men as long as they
could stand UP when occasion re-
quired, and the contract which re-
quireS continuous service of not more
than eleven hours involuntarily, and
sixteen hours voluntarily lis not re-
garded; that he feared to demand rest
as some of the engineers had been
discharged for demanding rest. The
of the railroad.
sible but, doubtless there are many
cases similar. The railroads are, in
many instances, hard put toeget a suf-
ficient number of capable men. The
work must be done-the freight must
be moved-and the railroads work
their employees too long and too con-
tinuously. 1t may not be generally
known but safe. honest. trustworthy
and capable man in any line. is about
the ScarceSt article on the market. The
railroads may be doing the best they
acn under the circumstances. And in
some instances. il is quite within the
range of possibility that they are not
doing the best that they can. Such
complaints as that coming UP from
South Carolina should be rigidly in
vestigated to ascertain where the truth
lies.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
MORNING TONIC.
(Phillips Brooks. }

There are no times in life when
opportunity, the chance to be and 10
do, gathers so richly about the soul as
when it has to suffer. Then everything
depends on whether the man turns
to the lower or the higher helps. IL
he resorts to mere eXpedlentS ana
tricks the opportunity is lost. he
comes out no richer or greater-nay,
he comes out harder, poorer, smaller
for his pain. But if he turns to COD,
the hour of suffering is the turning
of his life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Raleigh Sets the Pace.
Burlington News.

We notice that the Raleigh police
men are enforcino the vagrant act, and
are Kidding the city and county OF
worthless characters. There is not Il
county where the law needs to be APP
piled more rigidly than in this coun-
ty. There are men in this county who
are sitting around living off the earn
ings of the women folk and children
who ought to be put on the chain gang
and worked. or made TO move on.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Ought to Have Been Punished.


j. J.. Casper, one Of the firm Of Cas-
per DiStlling Company of Winston,
was convicted at the Federal Court in
Greensboro last week for violating the
internal revenue laws, and was fined
$4,000. This ne of course can pay
by putting more chemicals in his hell
ish stuff, and selling more of it. He
ought to have been punished. This
was no punishment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Public Ownership of Tobacco.

southern Tobacco Journal.
Japan seems to be highly pleased
with it's tobacco business. The profits
to the Government exceeds the calcu-
lations of the knowing ones. This is
another argument for Government
ownership of public utilities not say
ing, however, that tobacco would come
under this head.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

If Mr.. Roosevelt would employ a lit
tie strenuosity in kicking things and
corrupt men out of the revenue SER
vice in North Carolina (see letter of
r. u. Linney and ]. j. MOTIF instead
of killing Colorado bears, he would be
applauded by good men. But he would
be giving great offense to the Repub-
lican bosses in North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
No Law Stronger Than Public Senti-
ment.
Goldsboro Argus.

During the progress of a whiskey
trial in the Superior court, now in
session here, Judge Fred. Moore took
occasion to say that whenever you
see a town or community ready and
willing to enforce law and order and
good government they are going TO
do it. When it is not enforced it is
the people, not the law, and in this
he is right. No law is stronger than
public sentiment. No government is
better than it's people. When the laws
are not executed the people them
selves are to blame. Frequently the
very people who complain most of
the non-observance of one law turn
right around and violate another.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
The State and Life Insurance.

OIItlIIOII0 -NON >.
We clip the following from the
News and Observer. which is a strong
advocate of the State establishing
life insurance department in order to
bring life insurance down to a plane
where the cost will be reduced to a
minimum, and thereby brought with
in the reach of every citizen of North
Carolina:
THE new governor of Florida, a
man of ability and practical states
manship, recommends that that State
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

The Republicans lead all other relig-
ious bodies in their contributions to
missions. At the session of the Fay
ettevilIe Presbytery in session at Car
thage last week, it was developed that
the Fayetteville Presbytery is now
paying for foreign missions fifty-seven
cents per capita, whereas only a few
years ago just nine cents per member
was given for missions.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

Elsewhere we publish Mr.. Norman
Hapgoods estimate of Mr.. Lawson. 1t
is too vicious and extreme to be ac-
cepted. Mr.. Lawson does not claim to
be q saint but no man in this decade
has so we'll uncovered the methods
of The System. The public owes him
q debt of gratitude
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
CANCER CURED.

We want every man and woman In
the United States to know what we
are doing. We are curing cancers,
tumors, and chronic sores without the
use of knife and are Endorsed by the
Senate and Legislature Of Virginia. II
you are seeking cure. come here and
you will get it.
We Guarantee Our Cures.
THE KELLBM CANCER HOSPITAL
hichmond. Va.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Wreck on WilIxcsboro Road.

Especial to News and Observer
Winston, N c., April 20.-Six
freight cars were wrecked in a cut
near TobaccovilIe on the Wilkesboro
road this afternoon The track was
torn up for some distance and the cars
We're badly damaged. The track was
blocked for several hours.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
LAS Corrupt as They Are Cowardly.'
NiDslt hon

The brutal beating of editor Deal
at Wilkesboro by two revenue DULLES
cannot be too severely denounced
and should be severely punished. 1t
may serve the good purpose of call
ing attention to and exposing the ras-
cality and corruption of the revenue
service in this State. Many of these
revenue officials are utterly regard
less of all laws, human and divine, and
are as corrupt as they are coWardly.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Would Save Millions Of Dollars.


We hope that the efforts to organ
iZe an insurance company in this
town will meet with success and we
would like to see them in other towns.
They would save millions to the State
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Natural Depravity, as Taught i'm the
Shorter Catechism.
Salisbury Sun.

There is a good deal of natural
perversity in the average voter. The
moment he hears of an upright can
didate he is seized with burning de-
sire to turn him down.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

The recent grand jury of New Han
over county declared that three
fourths of the crime in the city of
Wilmington was due to whiskey and
pistoi-toting. The moral is plain.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

North Cardinals biggest and best
papel" is the way the Carthage Blade
That's what over 10000 subscribers
say.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21

Ex-Governor Jarvis will deliver the
memorial address at Greenville on
May 10th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
Most sincerely,

So far not a Republican paper in
the State has had a word to say about
the vicious attack upon Editor Deal
by two revenue officers. You never
catch a Republican paper condemning
any excess committed by a revenue
officer. Why? The revenue officers
boss the party and dominate its lead
erS and writer's.