The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-11-18

foresight to see that those who were
behind this movement were not only
the enemies Of the Roosevelt policies
but also at heart 30 much the enc
mics of Taft's administration as
Roosevelt's.
1t Is thought that the sugar trust,
whose outrageous frauds and thefts
from the Government at the New
York Customs House, which has
been so vigorously exposed by Col
lector Loeb. was one of the infiu-
ences backing this conspiracy. 1t is
noticeable that the President, as a
reply to such efforts. has let 1t be
known that he thoroughly endorses
the action which Mr.. Loeb has taken,
and that no efforts will be spared to
put not only the smaller criminals
but the high-up officials of the sugar
trust who are guilty in the peniten-
tiary.
The State :. .sti.wrust Law.
A prominent North Carolinian said
here on yesterday that it would be
interesting to see what steps Gov
ernor Kitchin would take to enforce
the State antitrust law which his
predecessor totally failed to enforce
or attempt to enforce. He said it
would be peculiar spectacle to see
Democratic State administration
whose only stock in trade CATER the
negro domination cry) was to charge
that the Republican party was owned
by the trust, do nothing to enforce
the State antitrust law, while the
National administration was making
such vigorous and successful prog
ress in that direction.
This same North Carolina Repub-
lican said that he believed that an
overwhelming majority of the voters
of the rank and file of the Repuli-
can party of the State would most
heartily endorse the position taken
by The Caucasian in it's issue of last
week, that it was necessary to put
the party in North Carolina under
such progressive and patriotic lead
ership, in order that the charge that
the party was being run by patron
age machine and that all of the can
didates nominated by the party were
simply candidates for federal jobs
and did not want to win, could not
successfully be made in North Caro-
lima as it seems to have been made
in Virginia.
Supreme Court Imprisons for Con-
tempt.
There was an impressive scene in
the Supreme Court of the United
States here on yesterday. 1t was
when the Chief Justice announced
the decision of the court sentencing
Sheriff Shipp and Jailor Gibson, of
Tennessee and four other parties for
contempt Of court.
This is the first time that the Su-
preme Court of the United States has
ever sentenced any one to Jail for
contempt of that court. There Is
only one other case of contempt be-
fore that court. and that was in
1875 John Childs, business man
of Texas, was adjudged to be in con-
tempt of court and fined two hun
dred and fifty dollars for disobeying
the mandate of the court prohibiting
the dealing in certain Texas indem-
nifty bonds.
This case arose as follows: A ne
gro named Johnson had been tried
and convicted for assault upon a
white woman in Tennessee, and the
Supreme Court of the United States,
on appeal, decided to consider the
appeal of Johnson from the verdict
of the Tennessee courts. AS soon as
the news that the appeal to the Su-
preme Court was granted was receiv-
ed, a mob was formed and that night
they took Johnson from the Jail and
lynched him. The evidence before
the Supreme Court shows that the
sheriff and jailor made no attempt
to prevent the mob from lynching
the negro, and the four other parties
sent to Jail for contempt of court
were persons who took an active
part in the 1ynching.
The evening papers here this even
ing announce that Postmaster Gener-
al Hitchcock has selected E. G. Dun
can, of North Carolina, as one of his
assistants in the Postoff1ce Depart