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10 SEE 1 NEW ERA IN POUTIOAL LIFE NOMJNEES OF E-OTH POLITICAL PARTIES ARE GOING TO BE HARD PRESSED HEN TO EK OUT "RINGS" Attorney General Manning Rules that Winning Candidates on 11th Hour Ticket can not be Counted Out The entrance of women into the po- itical life of North Carolina means hat both republican and democratic lominees for county offices in some sections of the state are going to be lard pressed in the November elec ions, if reports reaching Raleigh are o be relied upon. There is going to be a wholesale repudiation of nominees in some counties where for years the "ring" is charged with having its own way in the selection of candidates. This is •particularly true in counties of east em North Carolina, so the story is told by suffrage advocates. And Johu Palmer, of Warrenton, is authority for the statement that such a condi- tion exists in Warren county the women voters, tired unto death of ■the "ring" domination, have set about *vith determination to wipe the slaie clean and begin anew. Already these first-class voters have heard from Attorney General Man ning as to the legality of placing in eleventh hour ticket in the running after naming candidates in mass meet ing. The attorney general is quoted as telling the ladies that vox popull cannot be disregarded. If the elev enth hour ticket carries over both op ponents there is no way under the sun of counting its candidates out. The author of the story, for years a suffrage advocate and who has tasted defeat in more than one political fight because of his progressive ideas, thinks that the women generally will vote as their fathers before them, but also believes that there is an element over the state that will not be held in line. Improving Pullen Hall The repairs and alternations to Pijl len Hall at State College are going forward rapidly, and it is hoped that ithe auditorium on the second floor of the building, where most of the work is being done, will be ready for use early in September. Faculty of Ten at A E The State College of Agriculture and Engineering announces a faculty of 10 for the department of mechani cal engineering. Prof. L. L. Vaughan heads the department vice H. 4 E. Sat terfield, who resigned during the sum mer to enter the contracting business in Raleigh. First Woman i-i Register Probably the first woman to regis ter in North Carolina is Mrs. Milford Aycock, of Ruck Swamp Township, Wayne county. She was attending a meeting in her community August 26, rwhen the news was announced of Sec retary Colby's proclamation of the 19th amendament to the federal con stitution. The local registrar was al so present, and Mrs. Aycock register ed for the special school election, which is soon to be held. Good Work of Auditor's Office Within two days after the general assembly had ratified the bill the forms, made in quadruple, for 25 separate corporations to list their franchise taxes under the revaluation cw>t had been printed nud placed in the hands of the taxpayers. This work was done by clerks in the state audi tor's office without any additional as sistance. Opening of School for Blind Under the supervision of Superin tendent G. E. the final ar rangements are being made for the opening of the State School for the Blind September 23. Many new mem bers have been added to the faculty, End the teaching staff as before is to be devided into the three main group 3. -Some Census Figures Washington, (Special).—The Cen sus Bureau has issuec" population fig ures for North Carolii a counties: Orange County, 17,895; increase, 2,- 831. Rackingham County, 44,149; in crease, 7,707 or 21.1 per cent. Durham County, 42,219; increase, 6,- i) 43 or 19.7 per cent. Surry County, 32.464; increase, 2,- 759. Henderson County, 18.248; increase 986 or 12.2 per cent; Hendersonville, 720. Convict Granted Free Pardon Charles B. Plyler, of Union county, .who escaped capital -punishment after conviction of first degree murder, oy the commutation of the death sen tence by Governor W. W. Kitchen to life imprisonment, goes free after ten •years of service in the State Prison. Pardon was granted by Governor Bickett on representations from lead ing citizens of Union county, who as sert that circumstances have left the conviction in the county that Plyler •committeed the crime under great iprovocation. Agents Must be Cltizeria Although the special session nf the General Asembly of North Carolina was called upon to do inumeratle things, aside from the work of subniitt.ng amendments to th-2 otate constitution relating to suffrage and taxation, only two matters espe cially relating to the State Depart ment of Insurance were acted upon. The revenue bill, designed to lessen taxes for the counties and cities, in creased franchises and license taxes all along the line, for State p;;r;>. . In this way the fees for all local .a surance agents were x*aised from one to three dollars, and the fee for spe- cial agents and organizers were moved up from three to five dollars. To this latter class was attached this important section: "and no license shall issue to any person who is not a resident of the State of North Caro lina and who has not been a bona fide resident for at least two years prior to the date when such application for license is filed with the Insurance De partment." Deputy Insurance Com missioner Wade, pronounces this a most valuable aid to the department in clearing the State of professional long-distance stock sellers, who coma under the provisions of the "blue sky" law. He expresses gratification that .already several cities in the State are for their boards to scruti nize and examine these concerns be fore they sell stock. Raleigh Farmers' Conven. Welcomed Women The election of B. B. Miller, well known farmer of Rowan county, as president of the state farm conven tion and the hearty welcome extend ed to the new women citizens of the state were among the concluding fea tures of the state farmers and farm women's convention. Paid Adjutant for Legion The sentiment for a paid adjutant for the North Carolina Department of the American Legion is growing throughout the state, from all reports. The Legion has reached a point where it is too big to be handled as a side-line. There must be found a man who is big enough to hold down the job and then ways and means must be found of paying him for do ing it. Another Big Paper Mill Cincinnati, (Special).—Official an nouncement was made at Hamilton Ohio, main office of the Champion coated Paper Company, the Fibre Trust Company of Amercia that the corporation had decided to soon be gin the erection of an extraordinary comprehensive paper mill in North Carolina, owing to the exceptional timber supply to be foujid in that State suitable to the purpose of that corporation. Champion interests have at present A vast plant for the manufacture of paper fiber at Canton, N. C. Sheep Building is Completed Col. Joseph E. Pogue, secretary of the great State Fair, announces that a new sheep exhibition building 22 by 162 feet has just been completed at the State Fair grounds. The new structure is well built and convenient ly located just to the south of the swine barn and will comfortably ac commodate more than two hundred head of sheep. A force of convicts in addition to the regular labor is at work at the grounds filling in low places on the midway and the foot paths for pedes trians throughout the grounds. The purpose is to so improve the fair grounds as to eliminate the mud in case of rain. Considering Better Salaries. The council of state met to consid er increasing salaries under the bill providing for such a course. Increas es were agreed upon, practically, but details remained .'o be arranged fore announcement could be mad of th result of nhe conference. The state commission has sent copies of the revenue bill to all coun ties of the state. By the tim 3 the bill was passed, almost, copies were in the mails being borne to their various .destinations. The statement of J. W. Bailey that he was through with argu ment for the sake of party ha.mony came as a re .ef to ihose wa> have been watching recent controversies. Some New Coorporations Charters were filed with the Secre tary of State by the following corpora tions: I. L. Sears Tobacco Co., of Durham, with $75,000 authorized capital and |3OO subscribed, by I. L. Sears, J. A. Pugh, and E. M. Sears, all of Durham. The Davidson Wholesale Company, ,of Thomasville, with SIB,OOO authoriz ed capital and $5,000 subscribed, by C. A. Moore, C. C. Cox, and C. M. Cox, Burwell Parker Motor Company, of Gastonia, with $125,000 authorized ■capital and SIO,OOO subscribed. Suffrage Ass'n to Disolve Now that the ballot has been won for women the equal suffrage associa tion will disolve and be recognized into a league of women voters it was stated. There is no longer need for a suffrage association as the fight is over and women are citizens on the same basis as men. It is probable, it is said, that the new organization will be officered by the same efficient corps of women who stuck to the guns and went ovei /the top with flying colors. . —iiepuhiicuii .Nation.. ...... . ..ciint a.tr committee un campaign expenditures. 2 —Scene during the pageant at Truro, Mass., celebrating the tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims. 3 —Minister of War Tamaka. who is called "the man behind the. Japanese throne." NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Managers of Both Parties Are Raising Big Hullabaloo Over Campaign Funds. LAW VIOLATIONS CHARGED Gompers Asks Union Labor to Sup port Cox—More Trouble in Mining Fields—Poles Destroy Buden ny's Red Army in Galicia. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Candidate Cox and the managers of both the Democratic and the Repub lican campaigns have created a deal of noise and fury with their charges and counter-charges relating to the campaign funds. Accusations and re torts, denials and admissions have been flying thick and probably will not cease for some time. The senatorial investigating committee seemingly is determined to get at the truth with out fear or favor, and if certain of the charges are sustained, legal pro ceedings are likely to result. Republican managers assert that Cox's charges that they had conspired to buy the presidency with huge sums of money have been completely dis proved. Homer Cummings, former Democratic national chairman, told the senators he could find no evidence of corruption in the Republican plan for raising campaign funds, and added that his own party organization was trying to raise funds by the same method used by the Republicans. But, he complained, the latter had been the more successful. Neither Mr. Cum mings nor any other witness heard by the committee was willing to admit that the presidency could be "bought." Mr. Cox elaborated his statements by making public a document entitled "Campaign Flan in Larger Cities," which he said proved the Repub lican national committee was seek ing to raise sums ranging from $5,000 to SIO,OOO. Treasurer Up ham disposed of this by explain ing that the plan outlined in the document was not ratified, but on the contrary was vetoed almost without discussion because the national com mittee was determined to try out the SI,OOO limit plan. How closely this was adhered to was told the senators by National Chairman Hays. He said : "During the period from June 14,'1920, to August 20, 1920, there were 12,359 men and women contributors to both the national committee and to state committees through the joint collect ing organization, an average of $82.11. Of these none have been over the thou sand-dollar rule except eight, which eight have given a total of $13,500, an average of $1,687.50. The highest of these was $2,500." On Tuesday Mr. Upham supplement ed this by submitting the full list of contributors to the Harding fund. Fewer than a dozen, he said, had given more than £l,ooo and two. sub scriptions of $5,000 each were the lai'gest received to date. The quotas for the national fund, Mr. Upham said, totaled $4,857,000 approximately, with SSOO,OOO additional quotas for special state funds, but that it was a case of "50 per cent off for cash." He said the glowing "bulletins" sent out to Republican fund workers and quoted extensively by Governor Cox were "bull" and "salesmanship." The Re publican budget, he insisted, was for slightly more than $3,000,000. But the Democrats were not out of ammunition, by any means. The next thing they brought to the attention of the senatorial committee was the "de luxe" book, "Republicanism in 1020," which William Barnes of New York was said to he getting out. The sena tors were shown a list of wealthy men who had pledged some $37,000 for this Barnes effort, and Wilbur Marsh. Democratic treasurer, said that to his mind it indicated a plan to collect large campaign funds independently of the regular Republican machinery. He named a number of organizations that, he said, were engaged in similar ef forts, mentioning the National Young Men's Republican league, the Southern THE COURIER, FOREST CITY, N. C Protective Tariff association, the Committee of American Business Men, the American Defense society and the Republican Publicity association. As for the liarnes book, the Demo crats assert the Republicans are break ing the law by accepting for this cam paign effort contributions from cor porations. The senatorial committee decided to hear more of it from Mi. Barnes, probably in Pittsburgh. Provoked into recrimination, the Re publicans are making various accusa tions against their opponents. In the first place Chairman Hays asserted the Democrats were planning to raise a fund of $10,000,000 —which the lat ter promptly denied. Then Mr. Hays charged that the liquor interests were actively engaged in supporting the campaign of Governor Cox, and he produced a letter signed by the pres ident of the New Jersey Federation of Liquor Interests which said the organization had set out to do its part toward the election of Mr. Cox and called for assistance, financial and oth erwise. The reply of the Democrats to this is that they have received no contributions from either the wets or the drys. More serious, perhaps, was the ac cusation made before the senators that the Democrats were breaking the law by assessing federal officeholders for campaign money. W. D. Jamieson, director of finances for the Demo cratic national committee, was ques tioned closely concerning this and partly admitted its truth, but said the soliciting letters were sent to the homes of the officeholders and that he was soliciting funds from Democrats as Democrats, not as federal officials. He said his office had sent out about 300.000 letters of appeal. He told of a card index of 500.000 Democrats — with incomes. But he said the income estimates were made by Democratic leaders in the various neighborhoods, not from the income tax reports in the department at Washington. The combined efforts of Senators Reed, Spencer, Edge and Kenyon brought out from Mr. Jamieson the fact that federal officials generally were solicited; that they were in formed of the exact amount they were expected to give, and that only those who were so poorly paid that Mr. Jamieson "didn't think it worth while to waste a 10-cent special delivery on a 1-cent man" were excepted from the assessment. Samuel Gompers and his associates in the management of the American Federation of Labor have finally an nounced themselves in the mat ter of the presidential campaign. The "nonpartisan political com mittee" of the federation has is sued a report on the candidates for the presidency in which Governor Cox is proclaimed a stronger cham pion of organized labor than Senator Harding. Consequently members of unions are urged to vote for Cox. The report, which is signed by Gompers, Matthew Woll and Frank Morrison, lists as "favorable" or "unfavorable" to labor the legislative record of Sen ator Harding as a member of the Ohio state senate and in the United States senate on measures in which organized labor had a special interest. It does likewise with Mr Cox as a member of the house in 1912 and as governor of Ohio in 1913, 1914, 1917- 19-20. The records of the candidates are summed up as follows: Harding —Favorable, 7; unfavorable, 10; paired unfavorably, 1. Cox —Favorable, 00; unfavorable, 0. More trouble has broken out in the mining fields. President Wilson, after receiving and approving the report of the wage award made by the federal commission for the anthracite miners, telegraphed his urgent request that the men also accept it. The miners' scale committee did this under protest, but a strong minority in GO locals refused and voted to take a "vacation" until better terms were granted. In some of the bituminous fields also work has ceased. In Alabama the men struck on order of President Lewis because, he says, the terms of the agreement are not being carried out by the op erators. In lowa the miners and op erators failed to reach an agreement, but there may be no strike there. New York was badly tied up by an unexpected strike of about 8.000 em ployees of the Brooklyn Rapid Trans it company, which concern is in the hands of a federal receiver who re fused the wage demands of the men. For days very few cars were operated. The railroads of the country began operations on their own resources on September 1. During the six months in which their earnings were guaran teed by the transportation act they cost the government about $100,000,000 a month. The only further aid they will get from the government comes from loans from the revolving fund created by the act. The Tennessee house of representa tives tried to undo its action in rati fying the suffrage amendment by ex punging from its journal all record of the ratification and voting to noncon cur in the action of the senate. Next day the senate refused to join with the house in its attempted reversal of the ratification. Secretary of State Colby says woman suffrage is an ac complished fact and that there is no chance for reconsideration. Another great victory for the Poles was recorded last week. General Budenny's bolshevist army, which had invaded Galicia and was threat ening Lemberg and the rich oil fields of that region, was cut off and virtually destroyed. Only a c few detachments escaped and these were reported in disorderly re treat. Budenny's men, mostly mount ed, were advancing on Lublin and had nearly surrounded Zamosc, midway between that city and Lemberg, when the Poles flanked them and attacked from the east, putting them to rout. The Russians had walked into a trap deliberately set by the Poles. The losses of the reds in men and mate rial were heavy. The "retirement" of this army was officially admitted by Moscow. In the north the Russo-Polish war de generated into a confused series of isolated battles, various units of both sides being separated from their main commands and in some cases forced across the East Prussian border. In general, however, the Poles continued their successes of the former week, and they even advanced into Lithuan ian territory for strategic purposes despite the orders of Lithuania to the contrary. What Germany would do with the many thousands of reds who took refuge in East Prussia was a pressing question. The Poles feared these men would be permitted to re enter Russian territory and rejoin their army, and there was reason for this fear. The Germans complained they had not enough troops there to guard the interned reds, but their hatred of the Poles is so great that their motives are open to grave sus picion. What promised to develop into an other severe blow for the soviet Rus sians was the drive started by the Ukrainians in conjunction with Po land. They began by forcing the reds across the Dniester river near Buczacz and capturing that city. They have another force operating along the Dniester river and it is hoped that it can unite with General Wrangel. The peace parley at Minsk broke up, hut the bolshevik government an nounced its willingness to resume the negotiations at Riga. Dr. Walter Simons, German foreign minister, tokl the reichstag that pro posals had been made to him to co operate with Russia against the west ern powers as a means of breaking the bonds imposed by the treaty of Ver sailles. but that he had rejected them because they would mean that Ger many would become the theater of war. He said he had also rejected proposals to unite with the western powers against Russia. "No power at war with soviet Russia," the foreign minister added, "need count on our support." At last reports Lord Mayor Mac- Swiney of Cork had not succeeded in starving himself to death in Brixton jail, but was growing mysteriously stronger. The riots in Ireland and efforts elsewhere in his behalf did not cease, but the British government flat ly refused to release him. Frank P. 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