North Carolina Newspapers

THE FASTEST GROWING NES PAPER I ORTH CAROL I MA 1 i H NIGHT EDITION PAGES TODAY re a te r C ha r S o t t e s H o m e N e w s p ape r 99 Established: Daily, 1888 Sunday 1910.. CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1914. Price: Daily 2c; Sunday 5c 5. ws G TO HUEKTA mm Unt resident May Take M at ter Before Congress Monday MUST ACCEPT AT ONCE OR PORTS MAY BE SEIZED WITHOUT AWAITING ARRIVAL OF FLEET ORDERS " FLASHED TO OUR SHIPS NOW IN MEXICAN WATERS-HUERTA HAD REITERATED n REQUEST FOR SIMULTANEOUS SALUTE. Washington, April 18. Huerta will salute the Amer ican flag at Tampico before 6 p. m. Sunday or President llson will go before Congress in joint session Monday and ask for authority .to take such measures as may be necessary. This statement was issued at the White House: ' - PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT. "General Huerta is still insisting upon doing some thing less than has been demanded and something less than would constitute an acknowledgement that his rep resentatives were entirely in the wrong in the indignities they have put upon the government of the United States. The President has determined that if Huerta has not yielded by six o'clock on Sunday afternoon he will take the matter to Congress on Monday". MUST SALUTE IMMEDIATELY. Huerta has reiterated his counterproposition for a simultaneous salute; President Wilson has informed him that the United States stands on the original demand of Rear Admiral Mayo, and that he must accept immdeiately. MAY SEIZE PORTS AT ONCE. Secretary Bryan prepared President Wilson's an swer which was immediately sent to Mexico City. It set forth that unless Huerta accepts the American demands immediately the plan for seizure of Tampico and Vera Cruz will be carried out without awaiting for Admiral Badger to reach Mexican waters. ALSO RAILWAY. The plan seizing Vera Cruz-and Tampico also in cludes the seizure of the railway from Vera Cruz to Mexico City as far as a trestle about twenty miles west of Vera Cruz. ORDERS TO SHIPS FLASHED OUT. While President Wilson's final message was in trans mission to Mexico City orders were flashed out from the navy department setting all the' forces already in Mexi can waters in readiness to enforce its terms. There were no orders to the troops at Texas City. No Further Delay. i jVIiite house officials announced that -n:c5 Huerta saluted the flag accord 's to President Wilson's demand as ?oor. after receipt o today's message v aa physically possible action rvo -je taken without ?.ny further Cabinet Sumrnoned. iembers of the cabinet were sum RiOner to the white houseTor confer f'! Postmaster General Burleson the first to arrive. Others left T;f': offices and hurried to the execu te offices. "Very Grave Business." ' '- President Wilson, Secretary k ; ta. and Secretary Tumulty return o the white house officer .their vere grave and they were tilenL filers and those who had engage s w'ith Mr. Wilson were turned i th the word that "very grave ess" was being considered. May Address Congress. . , board of aides, the executive of the navy, went into a secret 'nce to complete plans, for the ment of the fleet and marines. It sported in official circles " that '!nt Wilson might address con- A:: d - It- Monday. 'y Take the Matter to Congress. Huerta has not yielded at 6 p. KJay President Wilson will take -alter to congress Monday. This onounced at the white house. Dramatic Scenes. ; .'' ' attending the morning's de; cents' in the Mexican situation 'iiamatic. President Wilson . had ;ross the Potomac to a secluded i-re he played golf. ' ',nf, Charge O'Shaughnessy's ' dis- 'nf;,; Were deciphered and their im "n iir-came known to Secretary -Bry-u an( Mr. Tumulty, a hurried attempt 9 I 6 P. M. Sunday to Salute F lag Reply Invites Crisis was made to get the president on the telephoe. Secretary Bryan and Mr. Tu multy started in a fast automobile and while they were rushing across the Virginia hills the white house tele phone had succeeded in reaching the president, who hurried back to the club house and started for Washington. .Secretary Bryan and Mr. Tumulty met thp Dresident and out on a red' dusty road and in the sun of a bright blue day the important dispatches were communicated and the journey was continued to the white house. The president went to his study where he wrote his statement giving Huerta until 6 o'clock Sunday night. He tvned it himself upon his personal typewriter-as is his custom with im portant official documents. Then he de cided that inasmuch. as tnere proDa hlv would be no action before tomor row night he would change his plans and 2o to' White Sulphur Springs any way and bring Mrs. Wilson back , to Washington. At the navy department, in the ab sence of Secretary Daniels, who is at Cleveland; Ohio, today, the board of aides, the executive arm of the service, went into session to make the finishing plans for moving ships and marines. - There was no activity at the war de partment and no orders were issued for the troops at Texas City. At the state department Secretary Bryan called a hurried conference with John Lind, the president's personal rep resentative in Mexico, who has just re turned from an eight-months' stay in Huera's country and brought bacjc first-hand information. After a con ference with Mr. Lind Secretary Bry an hurried back-to the white house where 'otheY cabinet officials had col lected and although with grave faces.. (Continued on Page Nine.) ASSAILANT OF EL arraigie Trial of Michael -P. Mahoney Will Be Exxpedited If Not Adjudged Insane He May Get 20 Years in Prison Cor poration Counsel Polk Will Recover, District Attorney Whitman After Examining Many Letters Written by Mahoney De scribes Him as of "The Em bittered and Sodden Type of Hobo". By Associated Press. New York, April 18. Arraignment today on a charge of assault with in tent to kill of Michael P.. Mahoney to whose erring aim Mayor Mitchel owes his life, marked the first move of Dis trict Attorney Whitman for quick trial of the would-be assassin. An imme diate indictment is expected to be re turned by a grand jury, making it pos sible to bring Mahoney before a su preme court justice for early trial. Mahoney faces a possible prison sen tence of 20 years but should he be ad judged insane he will be committed to an asylum. Frank L. Polk, corporation counsel, who was struck in the jaw by the bul let intended for the mayor, spent a restless night and suffered much pain. The bullet was removed early last nigtit and the patient is expected to re cover rapidly. .His physicians , an nounced" today" that' he' would -be able' to leave the hospital within two days and after a rest of two weekss he would be able toresume his official du ties. From the many incoherent , letters written by Mahoney in which he at tacked official acts of Mayor Mitchel, Mayor Armstrong of Pittsburgh and of Colonel Goethals and after a two hours study of the aged man District Attorney Whitman expressed the opin ion that Mahoney was of the "embit tered and' sodden type of hobo." This statement forecast the probable ac tion of the district attorney; that he would not oppose action to have the prisoner judged insane. The atempted assassination caused Police Commissioner Woods today to assign a secret service squad to guard Mayor Mitchel. The commissioner has ordered that the mayor be guarded night and day. The squad will watch his home, accompany him to and from his home and city hall and go with him on trips about the city and out of town. Mayor Mitchel, after seeing that Mr. Polk was made as comfortable as possible' at the hospital, returned to his office and finished his day's wrork. Last night he attended a dinner at j the press club, where he told the mem i bers of that organization that he ex pected some such happening as the act of Mahoney but that "it does seem unfair that one else would have to take the consequences of the hazard that properly belongs to me." The mayor said ne did not Denee the attack on him was due to the concerted action of a group ot agi tators. He believed, he said, that "we have not come to that point in this city or in this country and that we never will where things of that kind are the result of concerted action by any group. We have no plots; we have not nihilism in this country. When such a thing as that does happen it is the product of the disordered brain of some unfortunate individual the man who does not think straight, who warps the facts that he partly gathers from the daily press in recordingHhe action of government." To Police Captain Tunney, Mahoney told the story of his life, which was confirmed by entries in his diary and which gave little ground for belief that Mahoney acted under commands from another or in a concerted move to kill the mayor. . . He told Captain Tunney that he had called at -the city hall to remonstrate with Mayor Mitchel and had been "in sulted" there.' "I then decided to kill him.'' he said. "I went down to the city, hall Wednesday with the inden tion of killing him then, but I cooled off. Today (Friday) I went down there with the intention of finishing the job." - ' Mahoney came to the United States from Ireland about 60 years ago. In his diary Mahoney appeared to have a special griavance against the Masons and Odd Fellows and he also appeared to hold notions of wrongs against An drew Carnegie. - ; . - Army Fottball Practice Begins. '- West Point, N. Y., April 18. Spring football practice for the army team started here today. Fifty candidates will participate. The army team will lose six-men by graduation. There is plenty of good material, however, with ' which to fill vacancies. - MT wwwinrwwit iraipirwwwif ? is-wV X WEATHER FORECAST: Forecast for North Carolina. X Fair in east, unsettled in west i' portion tonight and Sunday, prob portion tonight and Sunday, i'z probably local rains; warmer to- i night. Moderatersouth and south- X- i':- west winds. '- 1 CANDIDATES' MASS MEET! PROGRESS AT COURT HOUSE The mass meeting of citizens called for noon today for the purpose of dis cussing candidates for the board of county commissioners was called to order at 12:30 o'clock and was still in session at 2 o'clock. Mr. Hugh K. Reid of Sharon, on re quest, called the meeting to order. He stated that he did not know the ob ject of it, but supposed that whoeveV had had it announced was present to explain it. 'Squire W. D. Alexander, of this city, was made first temporary, and then permanent chairman of ",na meeting and Mr. V. S. Stephenson secretary. There seemed to be much nesitancy on the part of those present as to the object of he meeting. Mr. Bob Bryant explained that he understood it was to name a board of county commission ers. He thought, that since "we al ready had a board of commissioners and had a primary set for May 16 to -choose neAK. ones, ifinecessary that -the meeting ioaay wa somewnai uncanea for in respect to the commissioner ship." He made a ringing speech to the effect that those present should be in favor of securing competent men for the place but that should, by all manner of means not be chosen on the promise of what they would do for this or that neighborhood, but as to what they stood for in a constructive way for the entire county. His speech was warmly applauded. ' Mr. S. T. Stowe and Mr. R. B. Hun ter also made short talks. Mr. Stowe said he understood the issue before the meeting was called as to the basis of representation on the board be tween city and county. He . thought he county entitled to a majority of the membership of the board, as in times pat and that it would harmon ize 'all elements for the city to have one man on the board, who might be chairman. He merely stated this, he said, as his understanding" of what the issue was before the board. Mr. R. B. Hunter said the personnel of the board was an important matter and that he was not in favor of chang ing it entirely at one time, leaving no former memper on the board, all new members being inexperienced. He favored rotation of terms as in the United States senatorship. Up to 2 o'clock, the hour of going to press, there being but one edition of The News on Saturday, the meeting was still in session, no action having been taken. The forenoon air was surcharged, as Colonel Henry might say, with an interest so intense that it was seen and felt of all men. Groups of the county's citizenship held the corners and hugged the curb, one theme be ing uppermost, "Who shall be who" in Mecklenburg county for the next official term of office. T&ward noon-' the crowd drifted by two, threes and fours toward court house square. The yard, the lobbies, and the corridors became scenes of animated discussion, a prologue of the story the meeting, or conference would .tell. . City and county were about equally represented when the curtain rang up. 4 The first act was nearly over at the hour of going to press. Uf the de nouncement Sunday's Ne,ws will tell. THE SOUTH TA ORDERED DDT By Associated Press. Washington, April 18. The armored cruiser South Dakota with 260 ma rines was ordered to sail today from the , Bremerton yards to San . Diego, Calif. there to await further orders. The South Dakota will stop at Mare Island to take on 600 additional ma rines which cannot be accommodated on the collier Jupiter. The Jupiter and the South Dakptawill then pro ceed south together. SHIP'S CARGO BADLY DAMAGED. By Associated Press. Mobile, Ala., April 18. Damage' to Ship and cargo estimated at $150,000 is indicated from fire yesterday in the hold of the Norwegian steamer Aim. . - THE LEADER OF THE FUTURE WILL BE-THE SCHOLAR So Declares Secretary Daniels In Forceful Address to Stu dents of Western Reserve University-Must Stand Fear less of the Sneer of the Boss. More "Schoolmasters" Whom Bosses Despise, Are Needed in Our Legislatures and in the Halls of Congress The Scholar Will Help to Purify Politics. By Associated Press. Cleveland, O., April 18 Appeal for the enlistment of well trained, scholar ly men in the cause of clean politics and better government was made to day by Segretary Daniels in an ad dress to students of Western Reserve University. The leader of the future, Mr. Daniels said, would be the scholar the man who stood fearless of the sneer of the "boss." "I bring you this message that you students in this historic institution of learning are making the leaders of the future," the secretary said. "Our coun try has suffered too much from the lack of the scholar in politics. ,"Our system of government with its legislative, judicial and executive departments, is ideal, but these three departments should not look with jealous eyes upon each other but should co-ordinate their respective functions. x o this end we need scholarly, well trained leadership waiueu ieauersnip. uur statesmen have stood too much in fear of the sneer: 'Those d literally fellows.' The idea of the schoolmaster in the senate or the house or the vhite Louse does not appeal to the boss, for edu cation is the enemy of bossism. The failure to send the scholar to the legis lature and to congress has aided much in the lease of power which the boss has all too long enjoyed. "The educated men and women of our country have not fully realized that their study should have been for the benefit of the people, and not merely for the gratification of their own minds or for the advancement merely of individual ends. A good educa tion is a public trust. As long as there is an unsettled problem that threatens the public welfare; as long as there is an unrighted wrong in public life and God knows there are yet many evils that need to be corrected the people need the leadership and the in flunce of every man and woman who has been blessed with highe- training. "After you have expended upo,n mak ing a living for your family what is necessary, you will have a surplus of educational power left which should be placed at the disposal of the public good. Washington put his fortune as well as his sword at the disposal of his country. Robert Morris poured out his wealth freely into the treasury of the battling colonies. "Massachusetts gained a vorld-wide fame fer many years for keeping in the senate two of the most scholarly men in America, George Frisbee Hoar and Henry Cabot Lodge. It is tc the glory of Mississippi that she keeps in the United States senate that wielder of Damascus blade, John Sharp Wil liams of the University of" Virginia and Heidelberg. "We are beginning to mend our methods and return to the ideals of Jefferson, the most scholarly of all the presidents unless it be the present oc cupant of the white house and Jeffer son gloried not in the public positions of trust which he had held, as he did in the authorshi' of the national dec laration,, the Virginia bill of rights and the establishment of the University of Virginia. "I cannot but commend to you who are on the threshold of life a study of the scholars in politics, and beseech you to realize that you are needed in the world; work with your splendid preparation and your uplifted ideals, and set about before hand here in the University yielding these qualifications to the good of your fellowmen." AMERICAN TEACHERS AT TACKED BY BRIGANDS By Associated Press. Constantinople, April 18. American teachers from the Beirut American College were attacked and robbed by brigands and one of them slightly wounded by a bullet while they were on an excursion yesterday to the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias.) The Syrian Protestant College, founded by Rev. Dr. Daniel Bliss, an American congregational clergyman, is generally known as the American Col lege. The American ambassador called the attention of the Turkish authori ties to the outrage and was assured that the property of the American teachers would be recovered and the brigands punished. It Is Now To G o v Coleman CAMPAIGN OE CAILLAOX STIRS GREAT INTEREST By Associated Press. Paris, April 18. The campaign of Joseph Caillaux, former premier and minister of finance, for re-election to the chamber of deputies is attracting tremendous attention because of the assassination of Calmette by Mme. Caillaux and the alleged influence used by M. Caillaux to postpone the trial of the swindler Rochette. While Mme. Caillaux awaits in pris on the opening of her trial for murder, her husband's political friends are busy seeking the support of the voters in his constituency of Mamers, in the department of the Sarthe. He has rep resented this constituency in the chamber since 1898. Baron D'Estournelles de Constant Senator from the Sarthe, is Caillaux's principal supporter. Efforts of the ba ron and other Caillaux partisans have been so vigorous that the usually cold and cautious peasants of the distirct are beginning to regard Caillaux as the victim of reactionary plots in Paris and are inclined to give him ardent support. Argument used in behalf of Caillaux are that his adversaries have not hesi tated to use any means to ruin him. It is stated that he is threatened daily by blackmailers. Baron D'Estournelles de Constant al luded in one of his campaign speeches to anonymous letters to Mme. Caillaux. He added: "I, myself, receive daily anonymous letters saying the loss of my son last j-ear was a punishment of heaven." Adversaries of M. Caillaux allege that the influence of the government is being used energetically in favor of the former premier. M. Caillaux himself is taking no part in the speech making. MANY PROBLEMS Zy Associated Press. 1 Opelousas, La., April 18.--With prac tically all the state's evidence submitt ed in the trial of W. C. Walters, charg ed with kidnapping 5-year-old Robert Dunbar, speculation today centered on the effect the verdict would have on those directly involved. The life of Walters is in jeopardy while two wom en are claiming one boy as their son. Any verdict wil bring disappointment to one woman or possibly leave legal doubt as to the boy's identity. Mrs. C P. Dunbar, of Opelousas, accepts the child taken from Walters when he was arrested as her" son and the state is trying to prove it. Julia Anderson, of North Carolina, maintains the boy is Bruce Anderson, her offspring, and the defense contends it has witnesses tc bear it out. Two points are undisputed that the boy the Dunbars have in their posses sion was the one found with Walters in Mississippi and that Walters left North Carolina with the boy known as Bruce Anderson. This has raised th question that if the child is identified as either Robert Dunbar or Bruce .Anderson, where is the other? The defense has indicated it will at tempt to show that Robert Dunbar was not stolen from the vicinity of Lake Swayse, near Opalousas, as charged, but fell' into the lake and was eaten by alligators. Dragging the lake failed to solve the mystery. If Walters is found guilty he may be ;ent to the sallows. - Those who have watched the case closely, however, say that efforts of each side to prove the boy is the one they contend him to b might raise the question of reasonable doubt as to Walters' euilt. This would make possi ble a verdict of not guilty and leave tery . BIG LUMBER PLANT BURNS. By Associated Press. Vancouver, B. C, April 18.Fire to day destroyed the plant of the. Al berta Lumber Company, with a loss of half, a million dollars. INVOLVED IN WALTERS CASE Up e i n o 7 B I e a s e If The Encampment of The Or ganized Militia of Southern States is Held in Isle of Palms Blease Must With draw Former Statments. This is the Mandate of Secre tary Garrison After Confer ence With South Carloins Representatives Encamp ment May Go To This of Some Other State. By Associated Press. Washington, April 18. "If Gover nor Blease comes down as he did once before the encampment of the organized militia of Southern States will be held on the Isle of Palms," said Secretary Garrison today after a conference with Representatives Whaley and Brynes of South Caroli na. They had called to request th Secretary not to revoke orders des ignating the Isle of Palms for the encampment. He told them that Gov ernor Blease would have to withdraw all of his ''contradictory and irre-concilabl-; correspondence" with the war department or else the camp would go to one of the other states, ' The Isle- of Palms ' was ' selected by the war department and the adjutent general of the South Carolina militia. In exchanges between Governor Blease and Secretary Garrison the governor was said to have declared he must be consulted personally or he would not permit the camp on the Isle of Palms. Afterwards, when he said he wanted the camp there, -Mr. Garrison asked if that meant that he had withdrawn previously con flicting statements. To this Gover nor Blease replied that he stood on his original grounds. Mr. Garrison told Representatives Whaley and Byrnes that only a full disavowal of this by governor Blease will save the militia cmp from going either ta North Carolina, Florida or Georgia, the other states whose militia is to be mobilized for summer maneuvers. iSSPORTNER HAR RIES BY FLOOD By Associated Press. Washington, April 18. The weddin? of Miss Anna B. Portner of Wash ington to Representative Henry.. D. Flood of the tenth Virginia district to take place at All Souls Church at I o'clock this afternoon was expected ta be one of the largest of the season. Numerous invitations had been re ceived in official and society circles. Owing to the present status of the Mexican situation the1 presence of Mr. Flood, as chairman of the house for- eign affairs comimttee, is required near Washington and it was reported that he and his bride . would spend their honeymoon near Manassas, an hour's run from the capitol. . VILLA'S I- By Associated Press.' ' ' Torreon, Mexico, April 18. "I do not believe the .Tampico incident will result in war between the United States and Mexico," commented Gen. Villa today. "I regard the complication as ont existing between President Wilson and President Huerta and question whether even the bombarding of Tampico would be construed as an act of war against Mexico, since Huerta is the offender and illegally holds that port." - ' "MOTHER' JONES MAY ' GET HEARING. By Associated Press. Washington, April 18. "Mother . Jones may have a hearing before the houso committee investigating the Colorado coal strike.' Chairman Fos ter so announced today after receiv ing a request for a hearing from offi- cials of the United Mine Workers Her testimony probably will be taken , here next week. N PN .r a it' 'si r '-I ' 'f .1 .1. r I i- i: ' i: J