Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-07-13

President Taft put the parting
touch on his part in the celebration
Of this city's "safe and sane" fourth
in q speech on Canadian reciprocity
at the Marion club banquet at Indian
apolis, Ind. The president made his
answer to the argument Of other Re-
publicans that reciprocity, as he has
proposed it, is not good Republican
doctrine, but Democratic doctrine. He
showed that reciprocity, as present
ed to congress by him differed, II
at all, only slightly from reciprocity
as advocated by James G. Blaine and
former President Mckinley. He de-
clared that the contention Of the oppo-
nents of his reciprocity plan that the
doctrine is un-Repubucan because it
affects articles that ire competitive
and not merely non-competitive arti-
cles as not sound. "The sound Re-
publican doctrine" said the president,
has become the imposition of duties
only where the conditions are natural
ly unequal and where duties are nee
essary in order to enable our manu-
facturers and other producers to meet
on a level the competition of foreign
agreement which has been made,
squares exactly with this doctrine"
Pope Plus X, in an autograph let
ter received by the apostolic dele
gate to Washington, applauds the lead
taken by the United States in the
worldwide campaign for international
peace. Although the pontiff does not
mention President Taft specifically b
name, a copy Of the letter was for
warded to the white house. 1t is ex-
pected that the president, because of
his well-known peace views, will re-
ply to the cordial sentiments Of the
ruler of the church.
While running thirty-ive miles an
hour an automobile crashed into a
tree on the White Bluff road three
miles from Savannah, seriously injur-
ing J. o. Harris, who was driving the
car and slightly hurting Perry Keller
Harris suffered a broken collarbone,
was badly cut about the head and
face, and is believed to have been
injured internally. The other three
were badly cut and bruised, but are
not badly hurt. The a was wrecked.
Gen. Clement A. Evans, former COM
mander of the United Confederate
Veterans, and member of the prison
commission of Georgia, died at four
forty o'clock Sunday afternoon at his
residence, 1877 Capitol avenue, in At
lanta. His end was a quiet and peace
full one, with the members of MS fam
lily at his bedside. Although mis- con
dition had been desperate for some
time, his passing comes as a chock to
hundreds, for his brave fight for life
had aroused high hopes of a possible
| recovery. General Evans had been
in poor health for several years, re-
| sulting from a severe attack of the
grip in 1909. Much of the time, since
that sickness he had been unable to
leave his home. Governor Smith will
issue an order on the death of Cen
aral Evans, closing the capitol for the
funeral.
Approximately 900, 600, 900 envelopes
will be required to supply the govern
ment during the coming four years,
and Postmaster General Hitchcock
/ awarded the contracts for them, the
cost being $630,822, a saving of $780,
32s, as compared with the contract
prices of the past four years. The
contracts are exclusive of those re-
Gently made for the postal service on
which a saving of $4,000 was made.