The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-06-15
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Mention Made OF Many Important News
Items About the Capital City.
Special Correspondence.

Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey,
spent last Sunday in the city at the
New Willard. While here a num-
Der of prominent Democrats and
many Republicans called on him.
Senators, Representatives, officials,
Princeton alumni, newspaper men,
and citizens shook his hand and
chatted with him. He heartily in
dorsed the House caucus action on
wool, saying that it was step in the
right direction.
President Taft's speech last Satur-
day night at Chicago on reciprocity
with Canada, in which he charged
that there was cooperation between
the manufacturers Of print paper
and those who control the lumber
supply Of the United States to de-
feat the bill, has aroused much re-
sentiment among Senators who have
heretofore opposed the bill, and
some of them declare that the Presi-
dent has injured the chances Of pass
ing the bill. We will see.
Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Ore
gon, says ex-President Roosevelt
and Gov. Woodrow Wilson reflect
on the integrity Of the American
people and judges by their opposi-
ton to popular government in the
application Of the recall Of the judi
ciary. He says: "It has been COM
mon to refer to popular action under
the recall as mob rule, losing sight
Of the fact that no officer can be re-
called without majority vote. No
where in American history can there
be found single instance in which
the people, acting under fair election
laws, manifested a spirit that can be
called mob rule" In Oregon,
where the recall is in operation,
there has not been any suggestion Of
recalling any judge, State, or coun-
ty officer, thus far, but the people
should have the right, if they desire
t, act on it, to recall corrupt Off
Gals.
On Monday night Sanatc Joseph
w. Bailey, OF Texas, at the Elt. Ver-
non Place Methodist church, made
the speech of his life in honor of
jefferson Davis, president of the
Confederacy. The meeting was held
in memory Of President Davis, and
the large, commodious church was
filled to overfowing. Senator Bal
ley said in part, after eu!ogizing Mr..
Davis, that Gin the solving of the
negro problem we have to solve the
problem of the negro who thinks he
is good enough to come to the front
door. The only way in which the
two races can live in peace is for the
negro to realize and recognize his
inferiority. We must be generous
with the negro, but he must never
expect a place at the white mans
table. The Indian refused to live at
peace with his white neighbor, with
the result that he has been pushed
farther and farther to the west until
he saw his fate in the sinking sun
behind the western horizon. If the
African repeats the folly Of the In
dian he will share like fate. The
truth Of history was with the Con-
federacy. The North has yet to
vindicate her course in the days of
1861. There was no man, North OF
South, to whom the impending wal
was more abhorrent than jefferson
Davis, or who strove harder to avoid
it. The responsibility of that wal
lies with the five Republican states
men who sat upon the Crittender
committee, and who, by their re
fusal to accept the report compiled
by that committee, made war newt
abe. Jefferson Davis, as a soldier
and statesman, was vastly superior
to Abraham Lincoln, and as Chris
tian gentleman was the peer of any.
Senator Bailey is son Of Mississippi
from whence jefferson Davis came.
The President has rcprimandeC
Colonel Gerard, of the army post a
Fort Meyer, near here, for making
preiudicial remarks against privat
Bloom, young Jew, who wished t
take an examination for promotion
saying that in few communitie
, were the Jews received as desirabl
associates Not only did he refas
young Bloom, but he went out OF hi
way to insult the whole Jewish rae
in his remarks he wa, very prop
eriy reprirlanded severely, but Ii