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Vol 3
MEBANE, N.C^ THUBS?AT, SCPTEMBE 12 1912
NO 33
PERSONAL AND LOCAL BRIEFS
people who come and go
Items of interest Gathered by
3ur ReDo»*ter
Mr. ajui Mfs W. L.
sumlav in Greensboro.
Mrs. F. L. Whit2 is
litives at Wakefield.
Buhman spent j
Thompson and Thompson m add tion
to keepings a first class resturant will
sail ice and buy hides. Any oi e
neeci ig any thing in their line will
be given the best of {attention.
Mrs. Nannie Williams of Raleigh
was in Mebane Monday night, stoping
at the White House. Mrs. Williams
came here in the interest of the
I Streeter home of Greensboro.
visiting her re-
Mrs. B. F. Warren is visiting her
parc'iit^ near Eflanfl this week.
Mrs. J. C. Ray of Hillsboro is spend-
ini’ a few day at Mr. J. T. Shaw's.
Mr. W. W. Whitefield isspend-
itig t>me time in Person county.
Mr. But Whitefield of High Point
Tas ill town Thursday.
Kev. W. O. Sample of Cross Roads
church was in Mebane Tuesday.
Special sale of notions now going on
at H. E. Wilkinson store.
Mrs. W. O. Sample and daughter
went to Charlotte Tuesday.
Mr. P. H. Hays, the drug drummer
wjs in town Tuesday night.
Did you put up the job? Well it looks
like your hand and it will do to remem
ber.
Holmes-Warren and Co., have been
receiving and placing new goods all
the week. Buster gives some good
advice in the advertisment found on
foujth page. Don’:| fail to read it
always interesting.
The Store of quality is the watch
word of H. E, Wilkinsoon and Co.
Mr. Wilkinson has been receiving and
placing the new stock he purchased
north, all this week. Ho says he has
the goods, and to sell.
Mrs. Wall and daughters, Maridi
and Gertrude have returned to High
Point after spending some time at Mr.
J. 1. Shaws.
Leaf Tobacco Market
The leaf tobacco market i»f Mebane
will open next Tuesday the 17th day
of September. The buyers will all be
in by that time. The opening day
promises to be one of unusual interest.
Main Republican.
SIMMONS TO OPEN
CAMFIUGN.
Initial Gun of Campaign
to be Fired Thursday night
In Charlotte.
Hon. Purnifold M. Simmons, senior
United States Senator from North Car
olina and now a candidate for re-elect
ion to that office, will open his cam
paign in Charlotte Thursday night of
this week, September 12.
A telegram to this effect was re
ceived in Charlotte. The news it con
veys is of the keenest interest to the
ft)ters of Charlotte and the surround
ing counties.
Senator Simmons has been on his
farm near Newbem where has been
recuperating since the lecent term of
Congress. It is not known what fur
ther campaign plans the Senator has
made, except that he purposes to pro
ceed from Charlotte on a State-wide
canvass, meeting as many people as
time and his physicial condition will
permit him to meet. ^
Jt is believed that he will be in
splendid shape after his two weeks’
rest and that his address will pack the
Academy of Music with auditors from
Charlotte and the surrounding coun
try.
Mrs. A. M. Cook left last week
for a visit to her parents in Person
county.
Misses Connie and Myrtle Wilkinson
is visiting their brother Mr. H. E
Wilkinson.
Miss Leonorah Harris returned Fri
day from a seven weeks trip to Ten
nessee.
Mr. Walter Malone’s new house will
soon be completed and will be an up to-
"iate residence.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brachett of
Greensboro was in Mebane Sunday
."toping at Mrs. J. Y. Holt.
Miss Mary Ed Scott left Sunday eve
ning for Winston-Salem to spend a
few days.
Mr. Quince S’ott of Winston-Salem
spent Sunday with his mother Mrs. H.
A. Scott.
Mr. H. C. Tingen has returned fmm
Nichols S. C. where he had been book
keeping for Mr. Ferguson.
The law of equation will ballance
the account, no matter how much you
may seek to disturb the red line.
Tobacco hogheads are being shipped
into Mebane preporatory to the opening
of the leaf tobacco season.
Mrs. W. B. Lynch and daughter, Mrs.
Chas. Lartigue of Orlando Fla., is
A. Scott.
this
Tha Sta^e election held in Main
j week was carried by Main, they won
j back the governorship, secured three
of the four congressmen, and a suffi
cient majority o.t joint ballot in the
legislature to aesure the election of
a republican United States Senator.
Sign Your Name
We want to impress upon our rural
correspondents that they must sign
their names to the communications
they send us We will not publish
your name unless you wish us too, but
we want to know from whom the
letters come. We have sp>oken of this
matter before, and hope oar correspond
ents will bear it in mind.
Skies Deluge Coast
Rainstorm now sweeping California
from the Oregon line far to the south
are the heaviest experienced at this
season for 63 years. Only once in the
history of the Weather Bureau has it
rained so early in September; never has ! trust officers in the penitentiary,
it rained so hard.
Kitchm at Charlotte
In the memorable debate between
Locke Craig and Kitchin at Charlotte,
Kitchin insisted that he would put the
trust officials in the penitentiary.
Craig said he wanted to regulate the
trusts. That was the only difference
between them. .Kitchin insisted that
he was pursued by the Southern rail
way and the American Tobacco Com
pany. Craig wanted to know, if it
was true that the American Tobacco
Company was after Kitchin how it
happened that Mr. Manning was his
campaign manager and how it hap
pened that in Durham county the
North Carolina home of the American
Tobacco Company, Kitchin received
in the primaries fourteen hundred votes
and Craig, accused of being friendly
got but one hundred and seven vote-i?
This was what happened. We at
tended the meeting; we took notes of
the speeches and there is no doubt
about Kitchin’e proposition to put the
We
I have t he original notes and the article
• written at the time.— Everything
visiting Mrs. H
Dr. Poteat,
Forrest College
president of Wake
spent a night at the
home of Mrs. F. L. Mebane.
Mr. Murray Ferguson who have been
in Nichols S. C. selling tobacco will
return to Mebane this week.
Miss Minnie Bright returned Friday
evening from a two weeks stay in the
North, where she had been selecting
her fall and winter millinery.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Holmes and Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Warren spent a pleas
ant day Sunday at the home of Mr. A.
1-. Holrt.es near Efland.
Mr. J E. Bowling of Durham came
up Monday. Mr. Bowling will be
located here during the fall and winter
as a leaf tobacco buyer.
We are requested to say in the Lea
der this week that if the people would
I>tiy up their preacher that there would
be hope for rain. Try it.
The Automatic Sprinkler Companys
force arrived Monday and are at work
installing the sprinkler system for the
Mebane Bedding Co.
Oave Tayloe of Washington N. C.
who was a student at Bingham school
last year is spending a few days in
Mfcbane on his way to the state Un
iversity.
Mr. C. W. Lashley left Monday for
Augusta, Ga., to open a large landj
^ale for the America Reality and
Auction Co., of Greensboro.
Mr. John Ross of Concord that once
traveled for the White Furniture Co.,
'^ as in Mebane Tuesday, John i? a very
i'- ver young man and has many friends
ill Mfcbane.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stainback and
• 0 1 was in Mebane Tuesday and paid
the Leader a pleasant call. Mr. Stain-
back put his subscription forward an
^- her jear.
F. A. Terrell, the barber who has
hcen installing a bathing arrangement
i n his shop, had it surficiently
'ompleted for Mr. John Holmes to
t ake a plunge Tuesday.
The Graded School
The prospect for a successful year in
the Graded school is very encouraging.
The teachers, trustees, pupils and
patrons seem to be working in co
operation with each other, with one
interest in view, and that; to make our
school one of the best m the county.
Thus far, a hundred and fifty four
students have been enrolled and work
is being done thouroughly and
accurately through eight grades. It
is hoped that this interest will continue
to grow and that we may have the
very best school that Mebane can
afford.
Greensboro.
A Good Sprinter.
Roy Thompson, Mayor Shaws Chief
of police has got a strong scent for a
fellow that is trying to escape the
clutches of tne law. Last Saturday,
he got on the trail of a negro that had
been hanging around Mebane for a few '
Rural Routes and the Par
cels Post.
Incicential to the inauf?uration of
the parcels post, which will be put into
effect January 1, 1913, increased pay
has been allowed the rural route car
riers, 30,000 men being affected on
standard routes, paying from $1,000
to $1,100 a year. This will be an in-
cieaseof $4,000,000 a year.
There are $42,031 rural route car
riers, whose aggregate compensation
has been $40,455,740. Under the new
order all the carriers will get increas
ed pay.
An order has been made, directing
that all rural mail carriers, on com
pletion of twelve months service, shall
be given fifteen days leave with pay.
Mebane kM No. 2.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Boone visited at
Mr. J. F. McAdams Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Thompson spent
last Wednesday jn Burlington on
business.
Mr. Rot>ert Hohnes and family of
Graham spent Saturday night and Sun
day with'Mr. A. G. Sykes and family.
Mr. J. F. McAdams spent last Friday
in Hillsboro.
Among those who called at Mr. L.
W. McAdams Sunday afternoon were;
Mr. aiid Mrs. J. R. Bom, Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. J. F McAdams
and family and Mrs. F. W. Nelson and
family.
The protracted me^ng begins at
Hebron next Sunday there will be two
services.
Messrs. Julian Gill and Kennett
McAdams trade a flying trip to Hills
boro Sunday afternoon.'
Mr, and Mrs. G. L. McAdams spent
Sunday in Mebane with relatives.
Mr. Brodie Thompson of Chapel Hill
spent Saturday night and Sunday with
his parents on No. 2.
Mr. Herbert Gill called at Mr.
Thomas EzzeUs Sunday afternoon.
“Country Girl.”
Mebane Rfd No. 5
Well papa girls is not dead yet how
are all ot my old friends and 'Editor.
Rev. Mr. Hurley filled his appoint
ment Sunday and a large crowd was
oat to hear him.
We are glad to have Miss Rosa Coal
with us again, she started her school
last Monday at Lebanon.
Mr. Oley Aulbert. and Miss Sudie
Miller spent Saturday and Sunday at
Hurdle Mills with their aunt, ask Oley
how many more trips he will take till
he will be married.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sykes spent Sunday
with thei|^ mother Mrs. W. R. Ward.
We are glad to see Mr. Frank Aulbert
back at home again, he will return to
High Point Sunday.
Mr, and Mrs. John Milier and children
spent Tuesday in Hillsboro.
Mr. W. Hr- MiU«r Rmile a flying trip
to Burlington Sunday.
Mr. Albert Tinnin is all smiles for
it is a boy.
Mr. W. H. Miller and Misses Ressie
Sudie and Claud Sykes called on Misses
Emma and Nan Aulbert Monday night.
Mr. Joe and Ethel Spencer is visiting
at Mr. P M Sykes.
Mr. W. R. Ward and daughter Jennie
spent Tuesday in Mebane.
Mrs. Will Jefference and baby spent
Monday at Miss Nan Aulberts.
[ will stop for this time, hoping to
hear from all the correspondents this
week.
Papa Girl.
Cei Jn Types.
There are certain people who take
the lead in the community and com
mercial life of every community. They
come in contact w’ith the stranger as
well as the native and is supposed to
be in touch with every movement in or
towards that community. We are
accustomed to regard such people as a
sort of fetish. Recently we learned of
a fellow who although he wanted
people to come to town and he wanted
the town to prosper enough to make
him money yet he was one of those
fellows who refused to take his home
paper because the Editor would not
donate it to him. It was a good paper
so long as it came for nothing, but soon
as he was assured that his money must
come for it like other people's money
he stopped it and would not pay for
the time he had taken it. Now we
say we pity any community that is
represented to the travelir>g public by
such a type of people. So sordid that
he could be interested only when
the money crossed the counter to his
s'de. What can such a character add
to the community? He who is so
narrow that he would not support his
own paper, when it was run for the
benefit of the community. His selfish
ness could not spare a dollar from the
till to help to bring hundreds of dollars
to the till. Such people will fail,
ought to fail, and the sooner they pass
out of leadership in any part of the
community the, better it will be for
those who are in touch with them.—
Burlington News.
Ralhroads Bach Day Kill
32 And Hurt 500 People
WORK AGAINTS
WORDS.
The Progress ivism
Senator Simmons.
of
The Regulars
Half Mad.
^ , , Tne regular Republicans held their
days, that was wanted in Durham for . . .. • /-.u i i i. w j
^ ^ state convention in Charlotte last Wed-
rocking a train. It seems that the
negro saw Roy was after him, and as
soon as he got reasonable close the
negro started out on a two forty gate.
Roy took after the negro, and for a
mile, they had a hard race, then the
negro got short oi> wind, and held up,
Roy wanted to run an other quarter of
a mile as he had just got limbered up,
but the negro had enough, and quit.
Roy would make a good morathon
racer. ^
Alamance Co. Democratic
Convention
You will bear in mind that Rawls of
l^urham is making the jrenerous offer j
to pav your fair to and from the Bull
‘'ity to all whose purchases equals
$15.00 Rawls will treat you right.
They have a big stock to select from.
The Democratic county conven^ion
of Alamance was held at Graham last
Saturday. It was said by some of the
older citizens that it was the largest
attended convention held in Graham
for years.
Mr. A. L. Brooks of Greensboro in
troduced by Mr. E. S. Parker of Gra
ham delivered the principal address.
At the conclusion of Mr. Brooks’
sjeech County Chairman Vernon called
the convention to order, naming Hon.
Alf W. Haywood as presiding officer, i
the same being made permanent. The
convention was largely attended by en
thusiastic and sound Democrats. With
out confusion or bickering the following
ticket, which will be elected by a
large majority, was placed in
field:
Senate: J. L. Scott, Jr.
House: J. Elmer Long.
Sheriff: R. N. Cook.
Register: Charles D. Johnson.
Treasurer: Albert Thompson.
Surveyor: Lewis H. Holt.
Coroner: Dr. Charles McPherson.
Commissioners: W. H. Turrentine,
George P. Williamson, C. H. Roney,
Wm H. Fogleman, C. F. Cates.
i nesday evening and after some pre
limenories nominated the following
tickets:
Governor—Thomas Settle of Buncom
be.
Lieut. Governor—J. R. Gaskill of Ed
gecombe.
Attorney General—David H. Blair of
Forsyth.
Secretary of State—W. J. Andrews
of Wake.'
Treasurer—Daniel W. Patrick ot
Greene.
Auditor—^J. Q.A. Wood of Pasquotank.
Superintendent of Public Instruction—
Cyrus P. Frazier of Guilford.
Commissioner of Agriculture—A. L.
French of Rockingham.
Commissioner of Labor and Printing
—J. B. Goslen of Forsyth.
Corporation Commissioner— W. E.
White of Alamance and John Shatp
of Iredell.
Insurance Commissioner—J. H. Cook
o^ Guilford.
For Sale
Overland car for sale. Twenty five
horse power, four passenger touring.
Just worked oyer and repainted.
Model 38 with surry seats that can be
changed into a roadster in five minutes,
the i Will sell for $300.00 for cash. Csll or
write R. G. Sloan at Greensboro Motor
Car Co. Greensboro, N. C.
There seems to be an impression
among some Scientist that a number
of men in the world who have distin
guished themselves as geniuses in their
particular c%lling have been men half
mad.
Prof. J. Grasset, of the University of
Montpelier, has in his book “Demi
fous et Demi-responsables, ” designated
as half-insane (Lombroso would have
deemed them afflicted with “genius-
insanity’') such men as Pascal, Comte,
Balzac, Hugo, Moliere, Wagner,
Schiller, Descartes, Cromwell, Goethe,
mozart, Byron, Tolstoi, Ampere, Dante
Columbua—even Shakespeare-—and
many anather. Obviously, when one
considers auch men demi-fous, there is
something wrong with the definition
Did St. Paul or St. Francis se« visions?
What would civilization be if they had
not? Did Beethoven **rough-house’'
the homes of his princely friends who
sought to relieve his needs? What
matter to any one who has heard the
Ninth Symphony? Was Caesar an
epileptic? Was Napoleon a degenerate
and a hypochondriac? Was poor Chopins
immortal music tinged with the toxemia
of his consumption? Was Poe an
alcoholic? Schopenhaur a misanthrope?
Did Newton abatractedly stick his
fiancee’s finger into his lighted pipe?
(He died a bachelor.)
Darwin used to surprise his friends
by starting all sorts of apparently
crazy exf.erime;.ta. Of what matter
all these things; of what use to call
such men as these neurotics or hysterics
or demf-fous? Where would humankind
be to-day had not they, and such as
they, lived? Who would not, if he could,
be in such company?
It perhaps is true that there is a
kind of semi madness in every man
whose mind seems illumined with the
devine afflatus, who has been able to
do, and tell wonderfull things.
An average of thirty-two persons
were killed and 500 injured daily during
the months of January, February and
March by the railroads of this country. \
All the rebellions and revolutions south
of the Rio Grande combined were not
so injurious to life and limb as the
common carriers by rail.
The killed numbered 2,481 and the in
jured 43,475. according to the bulletin
issued by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The killed included only
those who died within twenty-four
hours of the time of the accident. A
conservative estimate is that 10 per
cent, of those whose death is caused
bv railway accidents linger fot more
than that length of time. Therefore
the revised number of killed should be
2,959, or an average greater than the
thirty-two.
Assuming the annual earning power
of each person killed or injured to be
$500, so as to allow for the women and
children included, the daily loss in lives
snuffed out, capitalizing the earning
power on a 5 percent, basis, was $320,-
000. Assuming that the injured were
incapacitated for fifteen days, the tem
porary destruction of capital amounted
to $8,000,000 a day. The loss in wages
of those injured, on the $500 a year
basis, amounted to $9,665.
The number killed in train ^ccidcnts
numbered only 2,348 and the injured
20,499. The word only is used because
the total when the whole sacrifice is
counted is the much larger figures be
fore given.
The value of the engines and cars,
ties and rails smashed was $3,368,125.
Unless the property damage amounted
to more than $150 no report was made.
Unless the railroad employee was
incapacitated for more than three days
he was not listed among the injured.
Persons other than railroad employees
who were incapacitated for a whole day
were listed among the injured.
It was the worst quarter since that
ending Sept. 30, 1907. During that
period there were 4,650 accidents, of
which 1,674 were collisions, 2,229
derailments, 504 miscellaneous, includ
ing boiler explosions, and 243 accidents
not causing derailments.
The accident insurance offer to pay
double indemnity to the person killed
while a passenger on the train of a
common carrier is still good business.
That is, there are more chances for a j
man to be killed while walking along
the street than if he is a passenger in
a railway coach. Only thirty-three
passengers were killed in train accidents
and the total of all passengers killed
was only seventy-ore.
The big passenger train wrecks that
occured early in the summer, obvious
ly, cannot be included in a bulletin cov
ering the first quarter of the year. The
number of papsengera injured was
3,774; employees killed, 1049; injured,
37,539; other persons, trespassers and
non-passengers, killed, 1,361; injured,
2,162.
Mr McNich writes to The Observer
and says:
Governor Kitchin’s manager, pays
The News and Observer to advertise
that The Commoner says that Senator
Simmons is not a Progressive The
Chief Justice ef the Supreme Court of
North Carolina says that Governor
Kitchin during his twelve years in
Congress made no record at all. The
Commoner, if it is looking for a
Progressive, is certainly not for
Governor Kitchin.
Mr. Bryan wrote the Democratic
platform at Baltimore, and it is a
Progressive platform. It is the chart
of progressive Democracy. There is
no plark in the platform that Mr.
Simmons does not stand on. As to
some measures the platform follows
him who led the w%y. It fits his record
exactly. It reasserts many long
established Democratic principles for
which Mr Simmons stands^ and then
it advocates progressive measures, all
of which Mr. Simmons has advocated.
Senator Simmons has supported and is
now supporting the following measures:
1—The income tax.
2—Election of United States Sen
ators by the people
3—Tariff revision downward to a
revenue basis.
4—Parcels post.
5—-Extension of rural free delivery.
6—The farmers free list bill (as
passed by the Democratic House,)
7—Tariff reform bills (as pas:ed by
the Democratic House.)
8—-The bill (now a law) to prevent
corrupt practices in elections
9 —Every measure to prevent trusts
and monopolies.
10—To restrict forei^ immigration.
11—He opposed the dollar-a-day
pension bill.
12—To improve and develop the
rivers an^ harbors of North Carolina.
13—To build the inland waterway.
14—r> protect and preserve the
forea4;s s»nd the water powers of North
Carolina.
15—Government aid to post roads.
With such a record as this, meas
uring up to the most exacting stand
ard of real progressivism, Senator
Simmons can well afford to dispense
with the ipso dixit of any one man and
entrust his standing as one of the
forefront leadeis of the Democratic
party to tho Democrats of North
Carolina who know him of old, and who
can be relied upon to conduct their
affairs without the aid of outsiders.
He is subject to the dictation of no
man. His leadership has been in
variably successful. He will not cater
to the whims or bow to the threats of
the ambitious. And while these facts
may set some against him, they are
his strongest advocates with the whole
people.
The real test is works, n'^t words;
deeds, not professions* performances,
not promises. And he is willing that
his works, deeds and performances
shall auswer for him against his de
tractors. ^
Sam L. Rogers.
Times Absent tiom Con
gress.
We herewith produce the record of
Governor Kitchin in the Sixtieth Con
gress, for which he drew full salary.
This, it will be remembered, is the
year he deserted Congress to canvas
the State for Governor. His record as
Governor is worse than that of Con
gressman, if possible. Here is his re
cord month by month by month for the
session of 1907-8.
December, voting 1.
January, voting 0.
February, voting 1; not voting 3.
March, voting 1, answered present
1, not voting 4.
April, voting 15, not voting 43.
May, not voting.
Summary for session—Voted 18
times; answered present, 1 time; not
voting 172.
How is that lor representation? Yet
Governor Kitchin in the face of this
ask the voters to return him to Con
gress. Oxford Ledger.
When Col. Bryan wrote “The First
Battle” af*^er the campaign of 1896 be
gave much praise to one Marion But
ler of North Carolina as one of the
great leaders of the cause. Two years
later he urged the Democrats of this
state to fuse with Butler. The ad
vice was not followed. Now Col. Bryan
advises the Democrats of this state
to defeat Senator Simmons. The ad
vice wiU not be followed this time. The
Butler dose was sufficient. The peo
ple in North Carolina know, and they
will not forget Greensboro News.
Kitchin’s Why
(Political Dope, in The Laurinburg
Exchange.)
While you Kitchin men are search
ing for your candidate’s record, please
be so kind as to also tell us of a sing
le Democrat with whcm the Governor
has ever contested for a nomination,
whose Democracy was not assailed by
Candidate Kitchin.
Burbank a Socialist
(From The Lexington Dispatch.)
Burbank, owner of The Winston
Sentinel, the paper that started the
slanderous story about Senator Sim
mons and Penrose, is a socialist.
Whether that has anything to do with
his ardent admiration of Governor
Kitchin or not we do not know, but
certainly it is rather hard on the com
paratively honest socialists of this
State to have such a person calling
himself by their name.
Many of pur cares are but a moi B
bid way of looking at our privileges.
We let our blessir.gs get mouldy, and
t len call them “curses.”—Beecher.
For Sale
Recleared seed apple oats will weigh
49 to 42 pounds per bushel, price 90cta.
Chas F. Cates.
Swathmoor Farm Mebane N. 0.
No thought, no word, no act of man
ever dies. They are as immortal as
his own soul. Somewere in this world
he will meat their fruits in part; some
where in the future life he will meet
their gathered harvest.—Anonymous
And They’ll Do It
Mr. Simmons was of the opinion that
instead of Mr. Bryan, four years ago,
the Democratic party needed a new
candidate. He said so, being a rarty
directly interested. It is not now eo
very surprising that Mr. Bryan thought
his Commoner should say the Demo
crats of North Carolina need a new
man as senator, although the Demo
crats of North Carolina might be very
properly left to attend to this matter
as they see fit.—Ashevill Gazette News
The Bull Moose People
Tha Bull Moose people or those led
by Mr. Roosevelt neld their convention
in Charlotte last Thursday evening and
nominated the following ticket:
Governor—Zeb Vance Walser of
Davidson.
Lieut. Governor—Charles E. Green
of Mitchell.
Attorney General—E. S. W, Dameron
of Alamance.
Supreme Court Judges—T. T. Hicks
of Henderson; W. S. O’B Robinson
of Wayne,
Secretary of State—D. H. Senter
of Harnett.
Corporation Commissioners—>George
E. Butler of Sampson, J. N.
Williamson, Jr., of Alamance.
Supeiintendent of Public Instruction—
Charles Ij. Coon of Wilson.
Auditor—J. F. Click of Catawba.
Treasurer—D. L. Gore of New
Hanover.
Commissioner of Labor and Printings
J. Y. Hamrick of Cleveland.
Insurance Commissioner—Clyde Eby of
Craven.,
(Commissioner of Agriculture—J. M.
Mewborne of Lenoir.
Presidential Electors—Iredell Meares
of New Hanover, Jake F. Newell of
Mecklenburg.
It seems that Mr. Marion Butler who
was a party to the Bull Moose con-
vention,“was rather a discorded back
number. Mr. Butlers day is past.
When life ceases to be a promise it
does not cease to be a task; its true
name even is trial.—AmieJ.
Notice
To whom it Tray concern: This is to
notify all persons not to extend any
credit to my wife, Addie Rogers, t*
be paid by me. I wiU not pay any
debts made by her.
This 6th d ay of Sept. 1912.
ED ROGERS, Colored.
Governor KItctains aftin-
ity.
Mr. S. L. Rogers manager of Sena
tor Simmons campaign, in his expose
of Kitchins methods, has this to say:
*‘But what shall be said of Mr. Kitch
in’s manager’s course as shown by
this letter of August 27th?
That Mr. McNich’s course is but
the reflex of his candidate’s, is, I re
gret to say, only too evident I have
before me reports of Governor Kitch
in’s speeches on the present canvass.
I notice he is quoting Colier’s Weekly
and the Denver ‘Colo.’ Express by
way of bolstering up his attacks upon
Senator Simmons It is rather inter
esting that the Governor is going so
far from home to find men or papers
that will serve him in this matter. It
is an unintentional complimeut to the
Senator. But it is a graver matter
that one of these papers is Republi
can and the other a Bull Moose, muck
raking organ, for which decent people
in North Carolina can have only con
tempt. I refer to Collier’s Weekly.
It is known to infamy as the only pa-
per of apparent standing that took up,
printed and circulated the unspeakable
slander of the negro Manly, of Wil
mington, upon the white women of
North Carolina. I deem it necessary
only to remind the decent people of
North Carolina of this fact. It suf
ficiently explains the antipathy of
Collier’s Weekly to Senator Simmons,
but how shall (iovemor Kitchin’s af
finity for Collier’s Weekly be ex-
plained?” ^
And Why is It?
Why is it that when people begin to
tell slanderous things they do not be
gin at home? simply because they wish
to divert the public mind from the
sins of their own household. The bible
injunction is to keep your self unspoted
from the world, the worlds injunction
is to so spot the other fellow that
people will look away from your spots
There is many a family with skeletons
enough in their cVoset to stock an up-to
-date museum of anatomy yet they
they go around like common social
vandals harping about what the Jother
fellow and what gthe other fellow
has done may be the largely exager
ated lies that you are uttering, that
you have put in motion. It is said
there is a motive for every thing done
this ia the first thing a good detective
looks for, is the motive. If there is
a persistent lying slanderer in a com
munity what is his motive? Is he
simply carrying out his contract part
of an infamous conspiracy, or is he
yielding to his vicious nature? let us
find out.