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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 1003. JACKSON & BELL, C03IPAXY. Entered at the Postofflce at Wil mlngton, X. C, as Second-Class Matter, April 13, 1S79. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. POSTAGE PREPAID. ' THE DAILY MESSENGER by mail me' year f G.OO; six months $3.00; tree months $1.50 one month 60 enti. Served In the city at GO cents a month, one week 15 cents, $1.50 for three months or- $8.00 a year. THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER (two 8-page papers), by mall one year fl.OO; six months CO cents, In Advance. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. BRYAN AND HIS PARTY. TV. J. Bryan's action regarding the campaign in Ohio shows that he is de termined to rule or ruin the party if it lies in his power. He is determined that none who refuse to bow down to him and acknowledge him as leader and accept his tenets as party faith shall le recognized as democrats. He goes even farther than this Those who opposed his candidacy in 1836 and 1000 are thrust outside the democratic fold, even though they ex press willingness to accept the Kan sas City platform, unless they are also "willins: to humhle themselves before iiim and apologize for the personal af front of having stood in opposition to him as candidate for the presidency in former years. After having acted as Tom Johnson's champion and best man in his success ful fight for the gubernatorial nomi nation and agreed to stump the state in has friend's interest, he cancels all oi ills appointments in the state for the reason that Johnson's man for the senatorial nomination is John H. Clarke. Mr. Bryan's objection to Mr. Clarke is that the latter opposed him as candidate for president in 1896. He :will not raise his finger to aid the dem ocrats in carrying the satte of Ohio because he has a personal grudge against the candidate of the party for the senatorial nomination. He will see the party loose this state and every other one in the union before he will forgive any man who dared oppose hie candidacy. Such selfishness, narrow-mindedness ana vmuictiveness m any man, no matter how sound might be his politics, should preclude him from party lead ership. and especially should it bar him when hLs political principles have been so repeatedly repudiated by the party and the people. Bryanism can not win can only Taring defeat to the party. Then why any longer tolerate him a self-constituted leader and spurious exponent of democratic prin ciples? Bryanism is not democracy and the democrats of the country will not support it. Further than this, Mr. Brvan haa shown that he wiii not even assist in an effort to secure victory for Bryanism if he is not given the selee tion of the men who are to fight for his principles as the nominees of his party. How can the democrats allow such a man to dictate to them? He is not a democrat. There is only one man In the party to which he belongs and he is V. J. Bryan. The Turkish authorities still insist that there was no attempt to kill the American vice consul at Beirut. Our Eovernment insists upon a thorough in vestigation of the affair. Even if the Porte's contention is true the warships "Will not be recalled, for there is other work for them to do on the Syrian coast in the way of forcing Turkey to protect the American citizens of Beirut and other cities. The naval demonstra. tion will not be made only on account of the Magelssen assault. The Wash ington administration ha.s several old scores to settle with the Turkish gov ernment in the way of promises broken by the latter. (That was a lively time Sir Thomas Upton had at the theatre the other night when there was a special per formance complimentary to him and a livelier time he had behind the scenes with the chorus girls after the perform ance was over. He is not as bashful about kissing as our own Richmond Pearson Hobson. That sheriff of Showneetown. Ills,, deserves credit for the bold and success ful stand he made against the mob which tried to storm the jail for the purpose of lynching a negro. Japan's refusal to allow the vessel to enter the Corean port of Pongampho looks like deliberate defiance of Rus sia. We are going to have a first-class war somewhere ovtr in the east yet. It looks as if th revolt in Turkey has gotten beyond the stage of mani festos by the Macedonian committee. If the dispatches are to be believed there is war war of a most barbarous' kind. Turkey thinks Secretary Hay would make a good vice president.. She has heard something about a man who takes that position being shelved politically. BOOKER WASHINGTON'S DILEMMA. Booker Washington seems to have gotten between the devil and the deep sea. Between the upper and the nether millstones of white men's opposition at the south and negro hostility at the north it seems likely that his useful ness to his race in the former section and to Mr. Roosevelt in the later will be ground to atoms. The southern white people abuse him for branching out in to politics and aspiring to become a factor in the advancement of the negro politically and socially. The Boston negroes have by public resolution de nounced him for deserting the cause of the advancement of the negro. The truth is both are right. He has had his head turned by the attentions that have been paid him and he now aspires to be the president's adviser in all political matters pertaining to fed eral patronage at the south and to the negro question the country over. He has departed from the position occu pied by him before the president brought him into political and social prominence, which was that of in struction of his race in the struggle for its 'industrial improvement and has taken a position and demeaned himself in a manner that he would not have thought of a few years ago. On the other hand, in his public speeches at the north he has taken a position regarding the attitude of the negroes toward the white people which is not at all in accord with the feelings of the former who wish to follow up the president set by the precident in the Booker Washington dining and the mixed reception at the White house. His acts displease the white people of the south and his words anger the ne groes of the north. .His usefulness to his race is gone and he and his race have to thank President Roosevelt for the fact. If the sentiment as expressed by the Suffrage League of Boston, in the reso lution adopted a few days ago, spreads to any extent among the negroes of the north Mr. Roosevelt will find, that in playing for the negro vote in certain northern states he has been perform ing to an empty house. How about a tobacco factory for our city? If the price of raw material re- mains low there are bis. profits in its manufacture. If the price goes up there is still money to be made and such an enterprise would greatly aid our leaf tobacco market. Either way a tobacco factory here would bea bene fit to the city and to the tobacco grow ers, besides making money for its own ers. The assassination of the negro. Plav ing near Oscar. La., was a horrible af fair. Were the charges against him true they did not warrant the taking of his life. But this incident shows to what a pitch public sentiment has been raised by recent events in which the negro leaders of that class figure. One of the serious results of the re cent conduct of Booker Washington is the bill introduced in the Alabama leg islature to withdraw from the Tuskegee institute and all other negro schools the usual allowance annually made by that state. The Hartford Post thinks a man should be willing to. meet an office half way. Most politicians are willing to chase the office all over the constit uency and consider themselves for tunate if they overtake it at last. Governor- Aycock has struck one ap plication for pardon which he has to turn down without considering it at all. Wonder if Bryan will put up a can date for senator in Ohio against Tom Johnson's man? TRYING TO SWIM IX CHANNEL. -MonlnRue Holbein Expects to Get Across In 1( or IS Hours. Dover, Eng., September 1. Montague Holbein started from here at 6 a'clock this evening to swim across, the chan nel. The weather and water conditions were favorable. Holbein has already made three un successful attempts to swim the En glish channel. Holbein left Dover on a tug for the South. Foreland, where he went ashore. He entered the water on his cross channel swim at 6:50 p. m.. starting on the to.o of the flood tide with a quiet sea and no wind. Should these favorable conditions last Holbein ex pects to reach the Fr .'- coast in from sixteen to eighteen hours. He will be accomnanied at a close distance by the tug and several small boats from which nourishment will be administered to him. Half- Sick " I first used Aver's Sarsaparill3 in the fall of 1848. Since then I have taken it every spring as a blood - purify i n g and nerve strengthening medicine." S. T. Jones, Tichita, Kans. If you feel run down, are easily tired, if your nerves are weak and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old stand ard family medicine, Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It's a regular nerve lifter, a perfect blood builder. Sl.OOaboal. AlldritrUU. Ask yonr doctor what he think of Ayer' Srspa.rllla. He knows all about this grand old family medicine. FoUow his adrice and we will be satisfied. J. C. ATXR Co., Lowell. Mass. ARMY OF THE PHILIPINES. OHicers Elected and Reunion Comes to a Close. St. Pa'-' September 2. The National Society of Army of the Philippines to day elected the following officers: President General Charles King. Wisconsin. I First Vice President Col. J. W. Pope. Colorado. Second Vice President Captain C. E. Lucke. Colorado. Third Vice President E. S. Schutte. St Paul. Fourth Vice President Captain H. A. Crowe. Pennsylvania. Fifth Vice President Col. W. 53. Mef calf. Kansas- Sixth Vice President Major u. S. Fairchild. Jr.. Iowa. Secretary A. E. Fouts. Missouri. Treasurer J. E. White. Illinois. Chaplain Captain James M. Mailey. Nebraska. Aside from the election, of officers the feature of the day was the parade which was participated in not only by the Philippine veterans, but by the local G. A. R. posts. The reunion came to a close tonight with a campt fire, at which General Irvin Hale made an address defending the army in the Philippines from at tacks, saying in part: "Investigation has proved that - the improprieties committed in the Phil ippines were remarkably few under the provocation, and that the army in the face of maddening hardships and dif ficulties and exasperating treachery and savagery, has conducted a war so humane in general that it has aston-. Ished the observers of foreign nations and even the Filipinos themselves. The developments have also established that this country has followed the only pos sible course with decency to ourselves. European inhabitants of the islands, the masses of the Filipino people, and that the results have been and will con tinue to be .beneficient. Whether or not the constitution technically follows the flag, that flag wherever it floats has brought and always will bring hu manity, justice, civilization and good government." THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS. State Ticket Nominated and Plat form Adopted. Harrisburg. Pa.. September 2. The democratic state convention today nom inated the following ticket by accla mation: Auditor General Senator Arthur G. DeWalt. of Lehigh county. State Treasurer Senator Joel G. Hill. of Wayne county. Judges of the Superior Court Ex- Judge Calvin Reyburn. of Armstrong county and John A. Ward, of Philadel phia. The platform adoDted is briefer thnn the usual democratic declaration of principles and Is devoted pntirelv to state issues. The greater part of its deals with the last legislature and its work and the conduct of the state gov ernment. The Grady-Salus libel law- is strongly condemned. The convention was well attended for an "off year" in state politics. The campaign will be conducted by Chair man J. K. P. Hall, of the democratic state committee, from the headuuarters in this city. The nominees for Auditor General and State Treasurer and Sena tor Webster L. Grim, of Bucks county, permanent chairman of the convention were members of the last legislature and voted against the Grady-Salus libel bill, which will be one of the principal issues in the campaign. Agulnnldo Advises His Countrymen. 'Manila. September 2. Aguinaldo. the ex-revolutionary leader, but now a pro nounced supporter of the policy main tained by the United States in the is lands, has just addressed a letter of advice to his countrymen. In this he ur them to forsake their besetting sin gambling: to improve their meth ods of agriculture anrt to attend the public schools so generously provided to furnish them educational facilities. A New Trial Refused to Knapp. Hamilton. O.. September 2. Judge Belden today refused a new trial for Alfred A. Knapp. the self-confessed murderer of two of his wives and hrA other victims. The court fixed Decem ber 12th for the execution. Knann took the decision with indifference, and made no statement. He will be taken tr rv- iumbus for electrocution. Pad uk Cup Won by Bable Allerton. Cleveland. September 2. The Cleve land championship pacing cup. the fea ture event of the inter-city matinees today was won by Babe Allerton. The other winners were Carrie Bel. Vmnki Billy Foster Boy. Shuttle and Natalien. An attempt was made by Mr. Billings to drive the Monk and Equity to pole to beat the team record of 212 1-4. The pair finished in 212 1-2. Great Crowd at Grand Circuit Meet. Providence. R. I.. September 2. Fif teen thousand persons attracted, by the principal contest of trie firand fivnit meeting here the $10,000 stake for 2-1 1 class pacers gathered today at Narra- gansett JPark and saw Star TT.ii . brown horse owned by W. L. Snow.' of Hornellsville. N. Y.. capture the race and the purse in three straight heats. Creseeus Fails to Lower His Record. Gelesburg. 111.. September 2. Against a high southwest wind blowing across Williams track. Creseeus was unable to lower his trotting record of 2:02 1-4 trk- day. The big stallion made a great ef fort but could do no better than 2:06 1-4. ihe track too hrad for good footing. Time by quarters: :31 1-2. 1:03: 1:35. 2:06 1-4 Testimony Against Major Howie. Manila. September 2. The board of inauiry into the charges of cruelty for mulated against Major Robert L. Howze through Major Hunter, has fin ished hearing testimony and adjourned. It will later consider the arguments of fered on both sides of the case at the close of which the records will be sent to Washington for final adjudication. Schooner Robert McCHntock Ashore. New York. September 2. The schoon er Robert McClintock of Baltimore from Patchogue. (or a southern port, while getting under way today, drifted on Farm shoal, north of the Fire island light house. The life saving crew went abroad the schooner and it is expected that she will be floated when the tide rises. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER OFFICIALS OF NORTH, JERSEY ST. RAILWAY CO. ON TRIAL. . v i The Chnrsen Grew Out of the Dis aster in February When Several Children Were Ivilled Two Wit nesses Examined. Newark, N. J., September 1. The trial of the eleven directors and execu tive officers of the North Jersey street railway company who are accused of manslaughter in connection with the grade crossing disaster on February 19th, was resumed today. ,. Christopher Condron the gate man at the Clifton avenue crossing, testi fied that on the day of the accident the trolley tracks were covered with dry lumpy snow. He noticed the cars slipping down the grade and he called the attention of a conductor to the fact. Prosecutor Riker asked why he had spoken to the conductor. "Because the cars threatened to go through the gates" was the reply. Oscar Barcliffe the engineer of-the passsenger train who was 'crushed in his cab in the collision and was uncon scious in the hospital for several weeks after the accident, was a wit ness today. He is still apparently an invalid and when he took the stand shook as if afflicted with palsy. Barcliffe testified that on the morn ing of the accident the snow had in terfered with the working of the break by getting between the brake shoes and the wheels and stopping the friction. He said he saw the ill fated trolley car approach the cross ing when he was about 150 feet away. He realized from the excited actions of the children on the platform that the car was not going to stop and he ap plied the emergency brake, but too late to avoid a collision. He said that he lost consciousness when the crash came and that his locomotive stopped of itself .the brake having been ap plied. He said that it was ?ustomary for the trolley cars to run so close to the gates before stopping that the en gineers could never be sure that a car was going to stop. Other witnesses testified that the motorman applied the brakes, that there was no sand or salt on the street car track and that the car and platform were crowded. STATEMENT BY" TIIOS. F. RYAN. Corrects Recent Reports Regarding Purchase of Metropolitan Securi ties Stock. New York, September 2. Thomas F. Ryan, president of the Morton Trust Company said today: "On my return to New York this morn ing. after a week's absence at my farm in Virginia. I heard for the first time, of the exaggerated and. in some in stances, inaccurate statements which have appeared during the past few days in the newspapers, regarding the purchase of Metropolitan Securities stock from Messrs. Kuhn. Loeb and Company. "On July 30th I concluded negotia tions with Messrs. Kuhn. Loeb and Company for the purchase of their stock, and within two or three days thereafter, bought several blocks of stock at private sale and through the stock exchange. Mr. Whitney had noth ing to do with the transaction, and I have not spoken to him on the sub ject. "The statement published yesterday that Mr. Whitney and I made represen tations which were inaccurate. is abso lutely without foundation. Nor is there the slightest truth in the statement that We were or that anybody was forced to take back securities or that Mr. Schiff or anybody else ever made any such demand to us directly or indirect ly." DEPENDS ON MINISTER LEISIIMAN. What Disposition to Make of Ameri can Warships In Turkish Waters. Washingon, September 2. The ad ministration has come to no decision regarding the disposition to be made of the American warships which are now sailing to Beirut. Whether the Brooklyn and San Francisco will re main in Turkish waters will depend en tirely upon the report which Minister Leishman makes concerning the situa tion in Turkey and the necessity Which exists for warships to protect American interests. It is exected that the report of Minister Leishman will receive the consideration of the president before any determination is reached. It is understood that Minister Leishman's complete report will reach Washington about the time of the arrival of the squadron in Turkish waters. Estimates for Expenditures at Nor folk Navy Yard. Washington, September 2. Following estimates for improvements and expen ditures at the navy yards named have been submitted to the chief of the bu reau of yards and docks, the figures having been prepared by the civil engi neers attached to the yards: Norfolk, Va.: Total $2,518,000. the principal items being: For slips and dry docks $405,000; two 10,000 ton coal sheds, wharves, eta, $225,000; general 6torehouse $400,000; remodelling building No. 31 $125,000; ship-fitters shop mould loft, pattern shop, etc., $300,000; office building $110,000; launching ways $100. 000; powerhouse $150,000. Co-Receiver Wanted for Hampton Roads Company. Norfolk, Vt., September 2. Proceed ings were instituted before Federal Judge Waddill todaw in the form of an application for a co-receiver for the Hampton Roads Railway and Light Company, recently placed in the hands of R. I. Mason third vice president of the Hampton Roads Company as re ceiver. In the absence of Attorney R. G. Bickford, of Newport News, who asked for the appointment of Mr. Ma son as receiver, Judge Waddill declined to hear. W. J. Nelms, who the court is asked to name as co-receiver, is president of the Hampton Roads Company. Mr. Hartley Succeeds Mr. Norvell. Norfolk. Va.. September 2. Effective September 1. 1903. Mr. B. H. Hartley Is appointed commercial agent of the S. A. L. railway, with headquarters at 127 east Bay street. Charleston. S. C. succeeding Mr. H. I. Norvell. resigned on account of ill health. PROSPECTS OF A. & M. FOR THIS TERM THERE ARE nvr.R 9 4io STl'DEXTS PRESENT. Prospects for the Year Are Fine. Virginia Trying to Secure Several of t? College Athletes. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C, September 1. Though the Agricultural and Mechanical col lege does not open until Thursday, yet nearly four hundred students are here tonight, and 350 took supper in the mess hall. Winston-Salem has the largest representation outside of Raleigh. The greatest gain is in the textile and agri cultural departments. There are two young lady students, one taking the textile course and the other chemistry and botany. The students are found to be better prepared than ever before. The university of Virginia is found to be making an effort to eecure several of college athletes for its foot ball team and is making great offers to two of them. A man from the university of Virginia is here. The athletes say they will not leave but will be loyal to the college. Many of the graduates of other colleges are among the students this term. PACKING COMPANY ORGANIZED. Stock Men Come Together to Com pete With the Packers Trust. Kansas City. Mo., September 1. Twenty-five stock men from different parts of the western grass country met in this city today and arranged o perfect the .organization of a packing company to compete with the alleged packers trust. The new company was named the In dependent Packing Company. Articles of incorporation will be drawn and signed tomorrow. The company will have a capital stock of five million dol lars and will be Incorporated under the laws of Arizona. Of the total capital ization, fifty-one per cent, will be so disposed of as to be held in Escow by the board of directors of the company. This will insure stockmen who interest themselves in the plan that lie company will always De controlled bv stock in tereiSfs. The Independent Packing Company will build one plant in the Missouri Valley. Another plant will be built later, probably in Texas. THE POSTOFFICE INQUIRY. Indictments Liable to be Returned Any Day by the Gran- Jury. Washington, September 1. A number of the inspectors who have been in vestigating the affairs of the office of the assistant attorney general for the postofflce department were in consul tation today with Assistant United States District Attorney Taggart, re garding postal matters before the grand jury. Although it is possible that the jury may reach an agreement to return one or more indictments any day, it is not now anticipated that the decision of the jury will be reported before Friday. Fourth Assistant Postmaster Genera Bristow is devoting a great deal of time to the preparation of his report Mr. Bristow confers every day with the postmaster general regarding mat ters connected with the inquiry. Today he refused to venture an opinion as to when the investigation can be closed or when his report can be placed in the hands of the postmaster general. ST. LOI'IS NEXT MEETING PLACE. Society of the Army of the Philip pines in Session. St. Louis, Minn., September 1. The army of the Philippines held a two hours session todav and selected St. Louis as the place for the next annua' reunion. In an address of some length. Gen eral Irving Hale delivered a eulogy on the work of the armv in the Philippines. General Hale scored .a hit in his ad dress when he declared that the na tional society of the army of the Phil ippines was here to stay and that it was not to allow itself to be absorbed. The name of General Charles King is frequently suggested fr president of the society. Lieutenant MacRae of Council Bluffs is also ominently men tioned for the presidency. Letters from President Roosevelt, General Miles and Admiral Dewey were read today. Governor Jelks Deplores Peonage in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala,, September 1. In his message to the legislature which met today. Governor Jelks dwelt at length on peonage in Alabama, con demning those guilty of the crime, and deploring the wide publicity given them by the press. He declared the conditions here ave been greatly ex aggerated. In Georgia, he said, similar cases have been tried, the guilty con victed and no great hue and cry has been raised about them. While Geor gia had not escaped the crime, it had escaped the notoriety which had been given Alabama. Recent Popular Novels. The Mettle of The Pasture, At The Time Appointed, The Grey Cloak, The Under Dog, His Daughter First. The One Woman. Gordon Keith, The Call of the Wild, Flower O'the Corn, The Spoilsmen. We have all of the above in our Circulation Library and on sale at $1.25 Robt. C. DeRosset, THE STATIONER, 107 MARKET STREET. ELIZABETH TURNBOW WE WANT the heirs ' of Elizabeth Turnbow, a widow, who came to Texas from North Carolina in 1S34 r 1833. Ad dress J. W. Laurence & Son. land agents. Austin. Texas aug 23 St SALT. SALLSALT (Fine and Coarse Grain.) BAGGING AND TIES. Bagging and Ties, Cheese, Cakes, Candy, and other Seasonable Goods write us for quotations for present or fulure shipment. 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