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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

the chief addresses he was to make
Mr.. Cannon's reply was that he had
no comics because b. had written no
speeches: hat he never wrote out his
speeches beforehand. This practice,
no doubt, account for his remarkable
performance at the Guilford college
banquet. The speaker in his ex tenn
pore remarks spoke his sentiments, but
had he put them in cold print and
read them over, he would never have
delivered that speech. At heart lie
and there are many other northern re-
publicans like him-believes the south
ern people are in the right in the
course they are pursuing on the race
question, but party demands prevent
his giving expression % his views On
the subject.
We are glad that Speaker Cannon on
that one occasion gave reins to his
feelings and sentiments and expressed
his honest views on the subject. We
hope The Dispatches publication will
cause Mr.. Cannon to give to the pub
lie his stenographer's copy of the
speech. 1t is only right now that the
correct speech should be published.
The Lexington special dispatch to
the Raleigh Times says:
Stating hat it got it's information
from a prominent Lexington man who
was present, The Lexington Dispatch
will print a story about Speaker JOS.
c.. Cannon's speech at a banquet at
GuiIford college which it says has not
been published by any paper, n IN
which it says Speaker Cannon made
| a sensational talk sc ultra southern
that his private secretary secured
promises from newspaper men VINO
were present not to print the speech
at all.
Tt is said that Mr.. Cannon openly
declared hat the south is handling
| the negro question as it ought to be
handled. He aid that the southern
people only knew the ms and outs of
the problem and his sympathies were
! with them. Without calling the con-
stitutional amendment by ame he
praised such q measure, throwing re-
strictiOns, as il does around the bal
lot box. It is further said that he
! spoke strongly for states rights.
This sort of talk naturally surprises
those who heard the car of the house.
His hearers were amazed and his
friends alarmed. for there was no tell
ing how much damage it might do UP
north among the negroes should such
a tale leak out. Accordingly it was
suppressed, and the Lexington nan e
pressed deep surprise that the in
teresting story was not handled while
hot and fresh. The full, accurate ac-
count Of the affair MAY now be expect
ed to come out since this report, in
complete and, perhaps, inaccurate in
some respects, has been printed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11
GOVERNOR HUGHES CAUSES A
SENSATION.

When Governor Hughes accepted
the nomination and declared that if
elected he would do his utmost to
bring about much needed reforms in
his state he was making nc hollow
promises just to secure votes; he was
in earnest, however little he was sup
posed to be SO by many who helped
nominate and elect him. Mr.. Hughes
is not satisfied with the progress the
legislature has made ia the reform
movement and has sent another mes
sage to that body which has caused
quite a sensation in republican head
quarters. He tells the members that
he has not abandoned a single n of
his plans as outlined in his first mes
sage. He urges, in funtherance of the
reform movement, the passage of bills
on the following subjects:
Provision for investigation by the
governor of administrative depart
ments.
Amendment of the primary election
law so as to make proper provision for
direct nominations and official prl-
| mary ballots.
Amendment of the election law SO
as to make more effective provision
against corrupt practices. Also the
farther limitation Of the amounts
; which can be expended in connection
with elections.
Provision for inquiry and the for
mutation of plans with reference to the
development and use of water power;
and their proper regulation and con
troll by the state.
Amendment Of the tax law SO as tC
include for purposes of taxation, with
in the term special franchise The
crossing of streets, highways or public
places within the limits Of cities an(
incorporated villages.
The friends and supporters Of the gov.
ernor declare hat he will be sure tC
carry his points and secure the desir
ed legislation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

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Remarkable Rescue.

That truth is stranger than hctlon'
has once more been demonstrated IN
the little town of Fedora, Tenn, the
residence of c.. V. Pepper, He writes:
81 was in bed, entirely disabled with
hemorrhages of the Illgs and throat.
Doctors failed to help me, and all hope
had fed when l began taking DR. Kings
New Discovery. Then instant relief
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

The announcement that the two
Carolinas produced rhe entire output
of monazite of the United States last
year" reminds us that it is r~easona-
bly, certain that in 4 former year the
two also produced the entire output of
Andrew Jackson-CharIcston News and
Courier. Hedging. by George. While
The Observer worsted Il in the debate
The News and Courier claimed ex-
elusive pro~prietorship Tor South Caro-
yer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

1t is rumored that Commissioner of
Agriculture Patterson intends resign
ing On account of bad health. If he
does so we learn the friends of DR..
W. J. McLendon, OF Wadesboro will
urge him for the appointment. Gov
ernor Glenn could not make a better
selection. DR.. McLenlon is a good
farmer-on the farm and not on paper,
though he is an educated farmer. He
is a man Of good judgment and a
plenty of hard, horse sense. Of late
taken much interest in improved farm
methods.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11
WILMINGTON. ~. G..
TUESDAY JUNE II, 1907.
TARIFF REVISION TO BE THE
ISSUE.

It looks like tariff revision will be
one of the chief issues in the next ma
tional campaign-perhaps not whether
there shall or shall not be revision,
but how and by whom it shall be
made. H-A-i
It can hardly be doubted that the
democrats, in their platform, will de-
mand an adjustment Of the present
tariff schedules and the reduction OF
the duty on many articles. They will
force that issue to the front and claim
that the advocates of tariff reform n
the friends of lower schedules are the
proper ones to make those changes IN
the law.
On the other hama here are many
members of the republican party who
are loudly calling for a reduction OF
duties on some articles and a general
revision of the present system. The
leaders of that party declare that il
there is to be a revision it should be
made by the friends Of h tariff
Few Of these leaders want any kind
of revision at this time. They declare
for standing pat on the Dingley bill. 1t
may be, however, that the revision
sentiment in their party will increase
so greatly by the time the national
convention meets that the party will
be forced to declare FOR some kind OF
revision through fea" OF the results OF
tariff reduction being made an issue
by the democrats. Already it is seen
that some of the prominent republi-
cans are beginning to o with favor
on the idea as a mates of expectancy
Mr.. Taft, among others, has declared
for tariff revision, it is said tina
in his Indianapolis speech as origin
ally written Mr.. Roosevelt had a par
agraph advocating the movement, but
that prince of standpatters, Speaker
Cannon, induced his to strike it out
and to say nothing on the subject.
Should the republicans put such 9
plank in their platform, still the issue
would be raised by the declaration Of
the democrats, and The question fol
the people would be in which party
could they put the greatest faith fo1
carrying out pledges of this kind. l
the re~visionists in the republican part,
should win over the st%andpatters, suct
Il large portion of that party woult
still be opposed to revision that they
could not pledge to the country sucl
substantial changes rs would be pledg
ed by the democrats, and the men il
that party who desire revision would
have their doubts of the sincerity o
such pledges made by men known t.
be opposed to the principle and WIZ
make promises solely for the purpose o
catching votes and not with any ide;
of performing them.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

That is a sensational report, in
deed, which N from Lexington,
by way of a special dispatch to The
Raleigh Times, giving an account Of
a speech made by Speaker Cannon at
the banquet at Guilford college last
week.
We give the special below. The
Lexington Dispatch, which the tele-
gram says will contain an account OF
the speech has not yet reached our
office. We are anxious to see it if it
contains anything like an accurate re-
port of the language used by Mr.. Can
non. It is most remarkable that he
should have made a speech even to a
North Carolina audience so extremely
southern in tone on the negro question
that his stenographer saw fit to Sc
cure the promises of the members or
press present not 20 publish 1T because
OF the effect it might have on the al
leglance of the negroes of the Eorth
to the republican party. The request
must have been made at Nj. Cannon's
solicitation or at least, with his
knowledge. and consent:
Before Mr.. Cannon left Washington
on his visit to this state a newspaper
correspondent asked him for copies of
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

that the descendants of his forbears
contemporaries were a class OF civil
lied. educated and refined people. II
he were so greatly surprised at the
state Of civilization and refinement
that he found, We feel inclined TO ex-
cuse him for his former reluctance to
visit the old home OF his parents and
the place of his nativity. No doubt
he expected TO find a lot of saVages
roaming the primeval forests-at tho
best a state of half civilization or semi
barbarism. He seems 10 have been
struck with establishment that the peo-
pie OF this section should be as civil
lied and refined as those with whom
he has been accustomed to associate
in his adopted state. He was %astound-
ed to find that the city Of Greensboro
was populated with men and women
who would compare favorably in the
matter of education, refinement and
business qualifications with those in
the cities north of the Ohio. The
conditions in the south were a revela-
ton to him. Hear what he says to a
reporter of the Washington Herald On
his return from this supposedly be-
nighted and savage country:
The trip l have just made to my
| native county in North Carolina WIS
| one of the happiest incidents in my
life, and | shall always be glad that
l made it
There were, of course, no people
| there with whom l had personal &C
| u~uaintance, for / was only -four years
old when my father left the state,
| and yet I was familiar with scores OF
family names of residents of that
community. They showed me the
g~raveyards, now a century old, IN
which lay the remains Of my ma.
ternal grandfather. Isaac HOllings-
| worth. Among those who established
! Guilford college, where l spoke to
| the people, was my own father
It was pleasant to get back to the
native heath 1t was inspiring
| to see how we'll the old state is
| striding along in the path Of pros
perity. Why, Sir, if I could have
| been landed in Greensboro blind
| folded, without knowing what dl-
; rection I had taken, l would AVE
! thought myself in some live, hustling
| we'll built city OF Illinois or Ohio
| Here is a southern town that IS
as redolent of the modern spirit OF
$3.50 nc ,11,I1 90 n rI-
thing we have north of the Ohio
| river.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

Something seems to be constantly
doing to stir up friction between the
United States and Japan. The ''yan-
KEGS of the east are entirely too sem
sitive. They are forever looking for
Sights from the yankees of the west
where no slight is intended. There
seems to be an effort on the part of
some japanese of high standing to
create a hostile sentiment in Japan
against the people OF this country. If
this thing is continued there is danger
of the international relations becoming
very strained-so strained, in fact, as
to make wal at some time in the near
future a possibility # not a probable.
i+y
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

Yesterdays News and Observer was
a dandy edition. 1t was a especial
Raleigh edition." the occasion being
the formal opening of that papers new
quarters in it's own building. The pa
per contains ninety-six four-column
quarto pages, with portraits of the
leading journalists who have been con-
nected with that paper or those which
anteceded it and from which it evolv-
ed by consultations, etc. 1t contains
the speeches of the former newspaper
men made at The News and Observers
house warming of the night before.
The paper is strictly a News and OBJ
| server issue, containing a history of
the present paper and its predecessors
from the time of Joe Turner's Senti-
| mel. 1t is also an interesting write
up of Raleigh. Congratulations to
| you, MI. Daniels and members of your
staff and mechanical department.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

A prompt, pleasant. good remedy
for coughs and colds, is Kennedys
Laxative Cough Syrup. 1t is esPeci-
ally recommended for babies and chill
dren. but good for every member q
the family. 1t contains no oplates
and does not c~onstipate. Contains no.
ney and tar and tastes nearly as good
as maple syrup. Children like it. Sold
by r. R. Bellamy
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11
SPEAKER CANNoN's SURPRISE

Speaker Cannon seems to have had
a good time down in his native state
Had he known what a civilized set of
people we were no doubt he would
have paid a visit to his place of nativ-
ity long ago.. He seem to have been
greatly surprised at what he saw. He
found, apparently to his amazement,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

Governor Hughes wants the legisla-
ture of New York to enact a law pro-
chises the crossing by railways, etc,
of streets, highways 0" public places
within cities and towns. What a howl
such a proposition would raise in this
state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

For scratches, burns cuts, insect Bit
es and the many little hurts common to
every family DeWitt's CarbolizedWitch
Hazel Salve is the lest remedy. 1t is
soothing, cooling, clean and healing.
Be sure you get DeWitt's. Sold by R
r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

1t looks like the next friends of
Mrs. Eddy will succeed in having their
case tried on its merits, thus securing
an accounting of her estate by those
who have had charge O. it for so long
a time. The public nay now find out
the truth about that lady and her
estate.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

w. R. Ward, of Dryesburg, Tenn,
writes: This is to certify that I have
used Orino Laxitive Fruit Syrup fol-
chronic constipation and it has proven
without a doubt, 10 be a thorough,
practical remedy for This trouble, and
it is with pleasure that I offer my con
scientious reference" Sold by Jos. c.
Shepard, J. Hicks Bunting.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

1t is all right for that New York
woman to cowhide that other woman
who has been too familiar with her
husband, but how about the husband?
Oughtn't she to give him a taste of the
cowhide, too, or get some strong man
to do so for her?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

Report has it that Mr.. Hearst will
attempt to resurrect the pOpulist par
ty and give it a new name. 1t was not
to be supposed that Mr.. Hearst had
given up the idea of making trouble
for the demOcrats.-Durham Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

If you will make inquiry it will be a
revelation to you how many succumb
to kidney or bladder troubles in one
form or another. If Il patient is not
beyond medical aid, Foley's Kidney
Cure will cure. 1t never disappoints.
Sold by Jos. c. Shepard, ]. Hicks Blunt
ing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

If this kind Of things keeps up we
| shall o need a new cabinet officer
to be known as secretary Of presiden-
tial Observation-Disclosures Dis
patch.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

Charleston, S. c. has recently Eeeu
host to a whale and a sea COW. From
the company that city is keeping Il
would be led to look upon everything
marked "Charleston'' as rather 'fishy'
-CharloOte News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11
xx'iU Cure Consumption

A. A. Herren, Finch Ark, writes:
"Foley's Honey and Tar is the best
preparation for coughs and colds and
lung trouble. I know that it has cured
consumption in the first stages You
never heard of any one using FOleys
Honey and Tar and not being satisfied
Sold by Jos. C Shepard: J Hicks Bunt'
ing Drug Co.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

There is no need Of looking for
warm weather until somebody thaws
out the Fairbanks boom.-New York
Mail.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

The king of Portugal has a big stick
too, and his subjects are silly enough
to like the looks CT it.-New York
Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11

Well, have you made enough money
to retire on?
Better yeti have made enough to
stay up all night on-Cleveland Lead
ar
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-11
He Fired The Stick.

81 have fired the walking stick I've
carried over 40 years on account OF a
sore that resisted every kind of treat
ment, until l tried Bucklen's ATnlca
Salye; that has healed the sore and
made me a happy man." writes John
Garrett, of Mort Mills, ~. c.. Guaran-
teed for piles burns etc, by r. r. Bel
lamy, druggist. Csc
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See here. cried the boys father, II
YOU don't behave | will whip YOU.
I wish you would, replied the bad
boy.
You do, Ell?
Yes. because when Il is all over ma
will gimme some candy.-Phlladelphla
Press.
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NC. 81

the Union, and at the same time open
new channels of trade to an extent not
dreamed of.
The total cost Of the waterway inn
provements, according to the hast in
formed authorities. will be onlv q ser
cent. of the AMOUNT required to make
the now urgently needed railroad i'm
provements. We are going to ask the
Government for the 8 per cent, with
the hope of minimizing the demands
the railroads are making and will
have to make, in case the So ZOO, ,OOO,-
600 are expended by them, from the
public in the shape of trans sportation
profits for interest and dividend pur-
poses.
In either case the pub bile pays the
piper. If we improve our waterways,
and the Government issues a loan of
S3OO,O00,O0O for that purpose, the pub
lie, through the Washington Treasury,
will pay, say, 3 per cent. interest an
nually, amounting to $4,000, 900.
Should we not relieve the situation by
waterway Improvement. and the rail-
roads come to the rescue by spending
S., 600, 100000, the people will pay into
the pockets of the bondholders annual
interest of, say, 5 per cent, amounting
to $3.50, 900 900, or a yearly sum almost
equal to the total amount needed for
waterway improvement, besides other
huge amounts required for sinking
funds, maintenance, speculation, etc.
Broadly speaking, this is the big
issue involved. We are going to Mem
phis in October for the purpose of
| talking these matters over and map
ping out a plan of action to put the
$500. 100000 project into practical
shape.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-09-05
TODAYS' PARDONS.
Governor Exercises Executive PrerogatiVs
and Likewise Refuses to Exercise 1t.

(By Special Wire to the ARGUs.)
Raleigh, Aug. 3O.-His Excellency
Governor Glenn today pardoned one
Carroll Harris, convicted at Wilson
court in 1907, and sentenced to fiftee n
years for manslaughter. The Governor
says he became satisfied that Harris
was the dupe Of an older criminal. and,
that the judge who sentenced him now
says the length OF the sentence was ex-
cessive.
The Governor likewise pardoned j.
F. Barnes and James Williams, con-
victed in Rowan county of highway
robbery in 1906, and given five years
on the roads. It turns out that the
prosecuting witness is himself fugi-
tive from justice and bad man, and
there is little doubt that the defend
ants are innocent.
His Excellency refused pardons fol
Mary and Hattie Lipp, of Ashe county
for keeping disorderly house; to Bob
Cables, of Forsythe, for larceny, and tC
Madison Watt, of Guilford, tor murder
in the second degree.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-09-05
ENORMOUS BRIDGE C0LLAPSES
Eighty-Fom Lives A,e Lost and Millions Of DOL
lars Sink In the Ruins of Structure.

craah of artillery. Terror lent fleet
ness to the feet Of the frightened work
men as they sped shoreward, but only
few of them reached safety before the
last piece of iron work on the south
shore was dragged into the river.
Near the shore the wreckage of the
bridge did not go below the surface of
the water and eight work. men who re-
mained above water were rescued and
taken to the hospital at Lewis.
The steamer Glenmont had just
cleared the bridge when the first Sec
ton fell. The water thrown up by the
debris went clear over the bridge of the
steamer. The captain at once lowered
boats. The small boats piled back ward
and forward over the sunken wreckage
for half an hour, but there was no sign
| of life. The twisted iron and steel had
its victims in terrible death grip. A
few floating tim nbers and the broken
shore were the only signs that anything
unusual had happened. There was not
a ripple on the smooth surface Of the
ST. Lawrence as it swept along toward
| the gulf.
All the men drowned were employ es
of the Phoenixville Bridge Company
and sub-contractors of Quebec and
! Montreal.
The Quebec bridge was begun about
seven years ago and it was to be fin
| ishad in 1909 SubSidias had baap
granted by the Federal and Provincial
governments and the city Of Quebec
and the estimated cost of the work was
SIC, 900 900. The Phoenixville Bridge
Company, of Pennsylvania, had the
bridge and were working from both
| sides OF the river.