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Latest Note to Geimany
Marked by Friendly Terms
The Imperial Government Asked for
Assurances for Safeguarding Amer
ican Lives and American Ships—
The Alternative of Refusal is Not
Stated.
The United States in its Jatest
note to Germany formally asks
the imperial government for as
surances that measures hereafter
will be adopted to safeguard
"American lives and American
ships" on the high seas. The
alternative in case of refusal is
not stated.
It was this note to which Wm.
J, Bryan refused to attach his
signature, resigning instead his
portfolio of state, thereby pre
cipitating a dramatic cabinet cri
sis. Robert Lansing, secretary
of state ad interim, signed the
communication which went forth
with the approval of President
Wilson and his entire cabinet.
Friendly terms characterize the
document, which renews repre
sentations made in the American 
note of May 15, after the Lusi
tania was torpedoed and sunk.
The German government, it is
declared "must have been misin
formed" when it assumed that
the Lusitania carried guns, as
official information is at hand to
corroborate the original conten
tion of the Washington govern
ment —that the Lusitania was an
unarmed passenger ship - which,
since it did not resist capture,
couid not be sunk without trans
f fering passengers and crew to a
place of safety.
The communication informs
Germany that it is "on the prin
ciple of humanity, as well as up
on the law founded upon this
principle that the United States
must stand." Opportunity is
given to Germany to submit any
evidence that American officials
did not execute their task thor
oughly in inspecting the Lusitan
ia before she sailed, but the car
dinal fact—that the liner was
giving no warning and made no
resistance and was primarily a
passenger ship—the American
government declare-, throws into
the background any special cir
cumstances of detail and lifts the
the case "out of the class of or
dinary subjects of diplomatic dis
cussion or of international con
troversy. I
The text of the American re-*
joinder to the German govern
ment's reply to the note follow
ing the sinking of the Lusitania,
follows:
The secretary of state ad inter
im, to the American ambassador
at Berlin:
"Department of State,
"Washington, June 9 V 1915.
"American Ambassador, Berlin:
"You are instructed to deliver
textually the following note to
the minister of foreign affairs:
' 'ln compliance with your ex
cillency's request I did not fail
to transmit to my government
immediately upon their receipt
your note of May 28 in replv to
my note of May 15, aud your
supplementary note of June 1,
setting forth the conclusions so
far as reached by the imperial
German goverment, concerning
the attacks on the American
steamers Cushing and Gulflight.
I am now instructed by my gov
ernment to communicate the fol
lowing in reply:
"The government of the Uni
ted States notes with gratification
the full recognition by the im
perial German government, in
discussing the cases of the Cush
ing and the Gulflight, of the prin
ciple of the freedom of all parts
of the open sea to neutral ships
and the frank willingness of the
imperial German government to
acknowledge andmeet its liability
where the fact of attack upon
peutral ships 'which have not
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
been guiltv of any hostile act' by
German aircraft or vessels of
war is satisfactorily established;
and the government of the Uni
ted States will in due course lay
before the imperial German gov
ernment. as it requests, full in
formation concerning the attack
on the steamer Cushing.
"With regard to the sinking
of the steamer Falaba, by which
an American citizen lost his life,
the government of the United
States is surprised to find the im
perial German government con
tending that an effort on the
part of a merchantman to escape
capture and secure assistance
alters the obligation of the officer
seeking to make the capture in
respect of the safety of the lives
of those on board the merchant
man, although the vessel had
ceased her attempt to escape
when torpedoed. These are not
new circumstances. They have
been in the minds of statesmen
and of international jurists
throughout the development of
naval warfare, and the govern
ment of the United States does
not understand that they have
ever been held to alter the prin
ciples of humanity upon which it
i has insisted. Nothing but actual
forcible resistance or continued
[efforts to escape by flight when
i ordered to stop for the purpose
of visit on the part of the mer
chantman nas ever been held to
forfeit the lives of her passen
gers or crew. The government
of the United States, however,
does not understand that the im
perial German government is
seeking in this case to relieve it
self of liability, but only intends
to set forth the circumstances
which led the commander of the
submarine to ailow himself to be
hurried into the course which he
took.
"Your excellency's note in du-!
cussing the loss of American
lives resulting from the sinking
of the steamship L jsitania, ad
verts at some length to certain
information which the imperial
German government has received
with regard to the character and
outfit of that vessel, and your ex
cellency expresses the fear that
this information may not have
been brought to the attention of
the government of the United
States. It is stated in the note
that the Lusitania was undoubt
edly equipped with masked guns,
supplied with trained, gunners
and special ammunition, trans
porting troops from Canada, car
rying a cargo not permitted
under the laws of the United
States to a vessel also carrying
passentrers, and serving, in vir
tual eff£Ct, as an auxiliary to the
naval forces of Great Britain.
Fortunately these are matters
concerning which the govern
ment of the United States is in a
position to give the imperial Ger
man government official informa
tion. Of the facts alleged in
your excellency's note, if true,
the government of the United
States would have been bound to
take official cognizance in per
forming its recognized duty as a
neutral power and in enforcing
its national laws.
"It was its duty to see that the
Lusitania was not armed for of
fensive action, that she was not
sefving as a transport, that she
did not carry a cargo prohibited
by the statutes of the United
States, and that, if in fact she
was a naval vessel of Great Bri
tain she should not reseive clear
ance as a merchantman; and it
performed that duty and en-
forced its statutes with scrupul
ous vigilance through its regular
ly constituted officials. It is able,
therefore, to assure the imperial
German government that it has
been misinformed. If the imper
ial German government should
deem itself to be in posession of
convincing evidence that the offi
cials of the government of the
United Stites did not perform
these duties with thoroughness
the government of the United
States sincerely hopes that it
will submit that evidence for con
sideration.
"Whatever may be the conten
tions of the imperial German
government regarding the carri
age of contraband of war on
board the Lusitania or regarding
the explosion of that material by
the torpedo, it need only be said
that, in the view of this govern
ment these contentions aie irrele
vant t) the question of the legal
ity of the methods used by the
German naval authorities in sink
the vessel.
"But the sinking of passenger
ships involves principles of hu
manity which throw into the
background any special circum
stance of detail that may be
thought to affect the cases, prin
ciples which lift it, as the imper
ial German government will no
doubt be quick to recognize and
acknowledge, out of the class of
ordinary subjects of diplomatic
discussion or of international Con
troversy. Whatever be the other
facts regarding the Lusitania,
the principal fact is that a great
steamer, primarily and chiefly a
conveyance for passengers, and
carrying more than a thousand
souls who had no part or lot in
the conduct of the war, was tor
pedoed and sunk without so much
as a challenge or a warning, and
that men, women, and children
were sent to their death in cir
cumstances unparalleled in mod
ern warfare. The fact that more
than one hundred American citi
zens were among those who per
ished made it the duty of the
government of the United States
to speak of these things and once
more, with solemn emphasis, to
call the attention of the imperial
German government to the grave
responsibility which the govern
ment of the United States con
ceives that it has incurred in this
tragic occurence, and to the in
disputable principle upon which
that responsibility rests. The
government of the United States
is contending fcr something much
greater than mere rights of pro
perty or privileges of commerce.
It is contending for nothing less
high and sacred than the rights
of humanity, which every gov
ernment honors itself in respec
ting, and which no government
is justified in resigning on behalf
of those under its care and au
thority.
"Only her actual resistance to
(Continued on Page Two.)
Marriage Announced.
Mrs. A. C. Link
announces the marriage of her
daughter,
. Marguerite Douglas
to
Mr. Clifford Earl Abernethy
On Thursday June tenth
nineteen hundred and fifteen
Hickory, N. C.
At home
After June twentieth
1200-E!eventh Avenue,
Hickory, N. C.
NOTICE.
The Hickory Township Road
Commissioners will meet at 8 p.
m„ at the Chamber of Commerce
Rooms on the last Saturday of
each month to transact such bus
iness as may come Defore them.
Any one wishing to be heard
must file his petition or claim
tfith one of the (fficers of the
commission at least one week
prior to the meeting in which he
wants to be heard.
. S. DASfIEB, Sec.
HICKORY, N. C., TUESDAY, JUNE IS, 1915
INTEREST NC ITEMS
OF GENERAL NEWS
Condensed Paragraphs of Im
portant Happenings the
World Over.
Huntsville, Ala.—Deputy Sher
iff Lonnie T. Baites and N. L.
Pier on a search warrant raided
the Southern Express Company,
and se?z2d sixteen cases of whis
ky.
New.Decatur, Ala. —Butter in
in Decatur has gone up five cents
a pound, following the receipt by
a local produce house of an order
from Chicago for 10,000 pounds
of butter.
Savannah.—The Southern Pa
cific Steamship company's steam
er El Paso from New York for
New Orleans, put into Savannah
harbor with her engines de
ranged. Repairs will be made
here.
Atlanta. —Roy D. Moulton, of
Portland, Ore., was elected presi
dent of the Greeters of Ameri
ca, a hotel men's national organ
ization. at the closing session of
the annual convention here.
Muskogee, Ok 1 a. —Un i t e a
States Senator "Robert L. Owen
left hurriedly for Washington.
The senator had intended to
spend a day or two in Tulsa but
news of Secretary Bryan's resig
nation hastened his departure.
Douglas, Ariz.—Henry S.
Ketchem, an American machinist
employed by the Mectezuma Cop
per company at Pilares, Sonora,
was shot and killed Sunday night
by Oscar Tolano, a Mexican, ac
cording to a message received
here.
Weatherford, Tex. —When a
dairyman named Bennett lost
nine head of cows State Veteri
narian Chrisman was sent for by
panic-stricken farmers who
found sick cattle in their herds.
They were amazed to learn that
the trouble was caused by green
oak leaves.
Natchez, Miss. Willing to
wait for her husband while he
serves fifteen years of hard labor
in the penitentiary, Miss Sallie
Beard was married to P. B. A.
Warren, Jr., just before sentence
was passed upon him in the Con
cordia district court. The cere
mony was performed in the jail
cell.
San Antonio.—Eight hundred
sheep owned bv Americans have
been seized by Carranza troops
on the Craig ranch near Rodrig
uez, just across the border. Nine
ty head were slaughtered and
the others are held. Formal
complaint was filed with the
Mexican commander at Nuevo
Laredo and United States Con
sul Garrett has notified Washing
ton of the affair.
Clarksdale, Miss.—A deal has!
just been closed through the
combined efforts of J. P. Hill,
jr., and the Clarksdale Progress
ive club for a site for a cotton
pickery to be established in this
city. The site adjoins the Peo
ple's compress, and the construc
tion of a building to cost not less
than $5,000 will be begun at an
early date.
Atlanta.—Several employes at
the crematory had a narrow es
cape from serious injury or pos
sible death when the big electric
crane used to transport the gar
bage to the furnaces broke and
fell in a heap. While the break
of the crane will not delay the
work of the plant, it will be some
time before the crane can be re
paired and put back into service.
Montgomery.—The building of
merchantmen rather than battle
ships was urged by Senator Os
car Underwood in a public ad
dress delivered at Andalusia.
"We need transportation facili
ties,'' said the senator. If we
had a number of merchantmen
there would be a way to trans
! port our cotton and there would
have been no depression of busi
ness in the south."
Gadsden, Ala.—ln the heart of
battle at Petersburg, in 1863, A
Christopher, of company F, tenth
Alabama C, S. NA., found le
would not be able to carry all his
luggage away and buried his
skillet in the dirt, thinking he
would return and get it. He did
return, but it was last week,
while attending tin reunion at
Richmond ani it was fifty-two
years after the battle.
New Orleans.—A temporary
injunction was issued in civil dis
trict court here restraining the
city from enforcirg the ordi
nance requiring every vehicle
carrying passengers over a pre
scribed route in the city to be
bond for $5,000. ,It was aimed
at the jitney busses, but the New
Orleans Railway & Light com
pany was required to post a bond
of $2,675,000 fcr its 535 street
cars,
Atlanta,—The story about the
thirty pound Bristol baby, sent
out from Atlanta, has brought to
light the fact that the handsome
youngster of Bristol is not the
only claimant to heavy-weight
honors in the infantile class.
Its right to be the champion
baby of Georgia has already been
challenged. The challenger is a
7-mor.ths-old infant by the name
of Glenard Grady Jake Clemons,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Clem
ons, who resides a half mile from
Tifton and tips the scale at twen
ty-seven pounds.
At the State Hospital
The hoard of directors of the
State Hospital at Morganton was
in regular session Wednesday.
Directors Davis, Shuford. Mathe
son, Clarkson, Tate and Clark
were present.
The report of Supt. McCamp
bell for the two months inter
vening since last meeting show
ed that there are now on the
rolls 1,404 patieqts. Sixty-five
wer.e admitted during the two
months—36 men and 29 women;
42 were d'scharged—l2 men and
30 woir.en; and 18 died—s men
and 13 women. Admissions have
been more active recently on ac
count of the openin? of the new
cilony building. Dnring the
pa9tmonth 62 patient i were or
dered admitted but not ail had
been received and al these do
not figure in the abovj account.
The recent enlargement of the
capacity of the institution la;
temporarily in a measure relieved
the strain in demand for admis
sion of patients, but at the rate
at which they are being received
all the ro)m will soon be taken
and the condition will be as it
was before.
The pipe for the new water
supply has been bou jht and the
committee of the board having
in charge the installation of the
new water line hope t >push that
work to completion as rapidly
as possible.
Recently there liave been some
aggravated cases of t^9pass on
the Hospital grou id-. The ordi
nances regulating conduct on the
grounds were re ised and the
superintendent i istructed 10
have them enforc )d and to re
strict the visitors to certain
roads on the ground.'
James A. Burnett, an Ashe
ville lawyer, notified the board
of a contemplated suit for dam
ages on behalf of a nurse form
erly employed at the Hospital,
While the nurse was employed
at the Hospital a pitient slam
med at the door w iich caught
the nurse's finger and mashed
the end of the finger. After go
ing oyer the facts in the case the
board decided that the institu
tion was not liable and the at
torney was so notified. —Land
mark.
K. Booth Surrenders Himself in
Montgomery
Montgomery, June 9.—Knox
Booth, federal revenue agent for
several years at Nashville, sur
rendered to the United States
marshal here today. Charges of
conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment of whisky revenue were
preferred against him ten days
ago. Warrants charging con
spiracy to defraud the United
States are made returnable to
Fort Smith, Ark, J
Iredell and Catazvba
Commissioners Can't Agree
On Line Betw
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
PLEDGES HIS SUPPORT
Issues a Signed Statement Lau
datory of Wilson's
Actions.
New Orlean?, June 11. —Form-
er President Theodore Roosevelt,
in a signed statement received
here tonight from Breton Island,
La., pledges his support to Presi
dent Wilson in "all the steps
which he may take to uphold the
honor and the interests of this
great republic,"
4 According to Mr. Bryan's
statement," Colonel Roosevelt's
statement says, "he has left the
cabinet because President Wi'-
son as regards the matters at is
sue, wilh Germany, refuses to
follow the precedent set in the
thirty-!nc'usiva arbitration com
mission treaties recently negoti
ated, and c eclines to suspend
action for a year while a neutral
commission investigates ths ad
mitted murder of Amarican men,
women and c .ildren on the high
se2s and furthjr declines to for
bid American citizens t> travel
on neutral ships in accordance
with the conditions guarahteea
to us by Germany herself in sol
emn treaty.
" 4 0.- course, I heartily applaud
the decision of the president;
and in common with all other
Americans W'JO ace loyal to the
traditions handed down by the
men who served under Washing
ton? and by the others who fol
lowed Grant anil in the days
of Lincoln, I pledge him my
heartiest support in all the steps
he takes to uphold the lienor and
the interests of this great repub
lic, which are bound up with the
maintenance cf democratic liber
ty and cf a wise spirit cf human
ity rmonsr till the nations of man
kind." • •
Retrospective.
The writer was going to school
at Newton in the spring of 1865.
He went to the depot one day
soon after dinner and found A.
A. Shuford at the depot. He
was talking with hi 3 first Cap
tain M. L. McCorkle. Mr. Pink
Dellinger was with him. They
went to the army together and
came home at the same time.
They were released from prison
life and were allowed to ctme
home. They came to Newton on
Friday. The teachers at Cataw
ba College allowed me to go
home that day with my brother
A. A. Shuford. Mr. Pink Del
linger left us at the Lutz school
house and took the Hickory road
for home.
My brother and I soon reached
the house of Mr. Daniel Rhyne
and his son Luther took us across
the river at the Sandy Ford. We
soon reached the Minerva school
house where we went through
the woods until we reached the
peach orchard which was in
front of the house. Passing
through the peach orchard we
came to the house. After pass
ing through the dining room we
entered the sitting room in which
there was at the time our father
and mother and Adelaide Shuf
ord, the wife of the late A, L.
Shuford, our oldest brother. The
sudden appearance of the soldier
caused some excitement in the
room.. Some food was placed
upon the table but the soldier
said he was to much excited to
eat.
It was not long until the neg
roes on the old farm came in the
house to see and shake hands
with Marse Abel.
After supper the soldier sat in
the room and told us much about
his prison life. A few weeks
after this time Lee surrendered
and the soldier was allowed to
gtay at home.
I J. H. SHUFORD
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New Series Vol. I, No. 7
The conference of the county
commissioners of Iredell and Ca
tawba counties and representa
tives of the Southern Power
Company, held at the scene of
% •
the Power company's operation
on the Catawba river Tuesday,
for the purpose of adjusting mat
ters between the counties and
the Power company, was appar
ently of definite results.
The question of the county line
occupied first place in the con
ference, little attention being
given to the question of a bridge
across the river. The bridge
matter, however, is expected to
be taken up later.
The Catawba river is consider
ed the line between Iredell and
Catawba counties, but at the
point where the big dam of the
Power company is being erected
the river diyides, leaving a long
island between the two water
courses, and thus bringing about
a dispute about the county line.
The dam crosses the lower por
tion of the is'ar d and when it is
Closed the water will C( ver the
island above the dam. The land
of the island has been returned
for taxation in Catawba county,
but Iredell does not consider that
this means the east prong of the
river is the county line. Hence
ihe Iredell commissioners pro
pose to establish the line on tho
island at a point just half way
from the outside banks of each
of the divided water courses and
let the portion of the property on
the Catawba side of the line be
returned in Catawba and the
property on the Iredell side be
turned in Iredell.
By reason of the fact that the
power company's buildings will
be located on the Iredell end of
the big dam, the Catawba peo
ple do not consider the establish
ment of the line in the center of
the»island as fair to that county
and they declined to agree to Ire
dell's proposal. On the other
hand the Catawba commission
ers proposed that the entire
power plant be assessed as a
whole and then divide the tax
value between the two counties.
But the Iredell board would not
agree to this, leaving the ques
tion still unsettled.
Beth the Iredell and the Ca
tawba boards were represented
by counsel at the conference.
County Attorney Caldwell and
Mr. Dorman Thompson appea -
ing for Iredell.
A representative of the South
ern Power Company will meet
with a committee of the Iredell
board in Statesville next Tues
day to discuss the assessment of
the power plant.—Landmark.
Brings Suit Because of the Death o!
Son.
Newton, June 10.—Summons
has been issued in two cases to
be brought by Mrs. Margaret
Fox, of Clines township, thU
county, against the sheriff and
jailor, J. A. Isenhour and J. O.
Gilbert, and the bondsmen on the
sheriffs official bond, P. E. J.sen
hour, Thomas E. Hunsucker and
Edgar V. Little, for alleged dam
ages for the death of the plain
tiff's son, Eugene Fox, who died
in the county jail about two
months ago.* while serving a sen
tence of 30 days for an affray.
In the action against the two
officials damages will be asked
on the gronnd of mental anguish;
and in the action against the of
ficers and the bondsmen dam
ages will be asked for the alleged
wrongful death of the plaintiff's
son. The complaint has not be en
filed. The plaintiff brings the
suits irfforma pauperis.
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