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VOLUMN XLV. LOUISBURG, N. 0., FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1916.
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NUMBER 28.
BICKETT OPENS CAMPAIGN IN
ABLE ADDRESS ON NATIONAL LINES
Great Gathering of "The Unterrified" From' All
Portions of the County.
COURT BOOM CROWDED WITH EA
GER LISTENERS.
Democracy's Red Lettej; Day. Inspi
red By Splendid Crowd. Candidate
for Governor Spoke With Telling
Effect. Drawn Stjorm of Applause
In 1118 Championship of Wilson.
Graham, Aug. 19. ? In a masterly
address on national Issues Attorney
General Blckett, Democratic candidate
for Governor, opened the North Caro
lina campaign here today before the
Democratic hosts of Alamanne coun
ty who crowded the historic old. court
house almost to suffocation.
Every precinct and neighborhood in
the county was represented by the
strongest men In the party. Mebane,
Haw River, Burlington, Elon College,
sweepsonvllle, Pleasant Grove, and the
remotest divisions had their delega
tions of men who have fought Demo
cratic battles for forty years sitting
?We by side with youngsters who were
receiving their first training in the
battle line . Half an hour before '
County Chairman W. H. Carroll call
ed the convention to order every seal
was filled, around the four sides of
the big court room men were packed
and Jammed, the aisles were crowded
and windows blocked with stalwart
voters anxious to hear he next Gover
nor of North Carolina deliver a speech
that was to start the political pot
abolllng In Alamance. ?
Democracy's Red letter Duy.
It was Democracy's red letter day
Since early In tlie forenoon men be
gan to ride Into Graham from the
country districts. The well paved
streets were crowded with automobil
es. single and double harness vehicles
While from alleys and hitching sheds
repeatedly sounded the song of the
horse. Meq arrived on trains from
cast and west, by trolley as far as tlia
cars run, they came In Palm Beaches
and shirt sleeves and a splendid De
mocracy typical of a North Carolina
political potach prevailed everywhere
it was a return to the good days when
men assembled for a set purpose, their
leurts bent u>;r Artery. They wore
i-i merry humor Crops were good,
tobacco was commanding a high price,
there was a promise of a continuous
flow of milk and honey and peace and
plenty was scattered over every neigh
borhood.
C'onnty Convention liny.
While 'It was county convention day
when men were to be chosen from
among their fellow citizens for honors
there was none of the intense seeking
after votes frequently witnessed, at
conventions. I'lg'and broad and prln
clpled men hid rrnounced to their
friends and neighbors that they ,wcr6
aspiring to place, and let it stop there.
They were Democrats willing to ac
cept the judgment of the people,
charging no unseemly methods, going
Into the convention standing straight
up and talcing victory or defeat with
no thought but the conservation or
the best interests of their county and
State .
Presented by J. Elmer Long.
It was to such a crowd of men liter
ally packing and Jamming tne oourU
house that Attorney General Bickett
was presented by Seaator J. Elmer
Long, of Burlington. The nomlree
for Governor was inspired by th?i
splendid crowd, the enthusiasm of his
greeting, and the memory of how Ala
mance county had showed her loyalty
%o him time and again. He paid a
splendid tribute to the lighting char
acter of the men Who had stamped
their politics on the history of North
Carolina.
Brawn Storm of Applause.
Warming up in his humorous criti
cisms of Hughes and the charge that
he was vacillating In hla foreign pol
icy, when he aald: "I was in Raleigh
Just & few days ago and listened to an
address by tbat great newspaper man
Melville E. Stone of the Associated
Press. He described the horrors of
tli* wa& that is now devastating and
destroying millions of men tn Europe,
a war that has cost a million lives and
made a million widows and left more
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millions of homeless and hopeless
children. Mr. Stone spoke of condi
tions In this country, saying that if
there was a man in that audience who
believed in a God he should go home,
get down on his knees and thank Him
that there Is one who sits in Washing
ton who believes that the command
'Thou Shalt Not Kill' is as binding on
a nation as upon an individual."
'It is fitting that the campaign this
year should begin In Alamance, for it
is the settled purpose of the unterri
fled Democracy of the Stat? to lick
the Republicans from A to &c. The
campaign this year presents In a new
phase the world old struggle between
the few who conceive that rJl power
and privilege arsrthelrs by right dl-.
vine, and the many who believe that
the people themselves are the wisest
and safest custodians of their own
welfare. It is eminently proper that
the first gun In such a campaign
should be fired in a county that was a
pioneer la the long fight for political
liberty and for industrial freedom.
Here the.Regulats poured out their
blood In the first battle for American
independence and here was establish
ed the first cotton mill In the South,
&n enterprise that has grown to gigan
tic proportions, and has worsed might
ily for the Industrial freedom of oui
people. May the spirit of Alamance
Courthouse, and of those farseelng
builders in our industrial life, baptize
this occasion."
The Attorney General declared that
this year Democracy comes before the
jury of all the people with the best
case that has ever been submitted to
this high inquest, a case supported by
a Ujw so plain and facts so convincing
that an ex-Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States temporari
ly in politics, after studying the- case
for six weefTs, in a speech ot accep
tance said "No case for the Republi
cans, cuss out the other stop -
"Two shining and colossal (arts
stand out.^rhlch clouds ot argument
cannot hide, and which sophistry can
not explain away," he said. "These
facts are that while half the world is
at war, and millions of men are be
ing ground in the mills of death, and
debts are being piled up on the peo
ples of Europe that It will take Un
generations to pay. in America peace
prevails and prosperity abounds, and
according to ?.n article that recently
appeared in Use N'ew Republic, attack
ing the foreign policy of Woodrow
Wilson, the belief of all Americans in
France, and all who have been <r> Eu
rope is that America has been kept out
of- the war by 'the whltelivered obsti
nacy of Woodrow Wilson.' May hi?
liver grow' whiter, and his obstinacy
increase! "
Reviews Foreign Polloy.
The Attorney General reviewed tile
foreign' policy of the President say
ing: "In the face of this record we
find the Republican candidate for
President concentrating his feeble fire
upon Wilson's foreign policy, and
harping forever upon his dealngs with
Mexico. Mr. Hughes does not say
precisely what ho would have done,
nor what he proposes to do, but In
vague sentences he hlats that Wilson
ought to have recognized Huerta. and
I maintain that hie reusal to do so Is
to Ills eternal honor. Huerta assassi
nated his bosom friend, betrayed ths
Mexican people who had trusted him
Attempted to set up a government
whoee foundation was assassination
and treachery; whose purpose was to
continue to grind the faces of the
Mexican people, and- when all the
smoke and dust shall clear away, the
calm Judgment of a Christian civiliza
tion will be that Huerta had precisely
the same claim to be recognized as
the hed of Mexico as Judas Iscariot
had to be recognized as the head of
the Church. Again Mr. Hughes com
plains that the President was not
firm with Germany; thtft he was net
flint with England, and that h?.should
have laid down hard and fast rulei.
and then stuck to them without regard
1 to consequences. Such a course would
have been the sublimation or folly.
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ATTEND THE MEETING
TONIGHT
AT THE COURT HOUSE
At 8 O'clock
And Lend Your Presence and Support
to Devising Some Means to BooSt the
Town and Its Markets. :
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You cannot prescribe uncnangeable
rules In dealing with conditions that
change every hour. When a man
finds himself bounded on the East by
yellow jackets, on the West by rattle
snakes, on the North by man-eating
sharks, and on the South by hell flr*
and damnation, he has to make llghtr
nlng changes In his position or he will
soon have no position to cnange.
"But mark you,, every change was
made In (he Interest of the safety and
the prosperity of hts own people, and
commenting on the lost note that Wil
son wrenched from Germany's mighty |
and militant Emperor, the New York
Sun declares that 'great and immeas
urable calamity was avoided without
obliteration of a single bright oand la
the spectrum of this Republic's honor.')
uncT certainly no man has ever a c cur
ed the New York Sun of being in qpy
way connected with the Democratic
party either, by blood or by marriage
The Vital Thing.
"When a traveler employs a guide to
carry him in a frail canoe through
some of the rapids of the Colorado
River as they sweep through the
Grand Canyon, the traveler is not
much concerned about whether or not
the guide paddles according to the
rules and regulations laid down in the
books, the one thing of vital concern
to him is to get safely through the Ha
pids. For the last two years this na
tion has been 'shooting the rapids.'
With a skill well nigh miraculous our
pilot has dodged the rocks and weath,
ered the whirlpools, and to<}ay, while
the water is still swift and turbid, the
boat Is running more smoothly than
ever before. The vague Insinuations
of. Mr. Hughes, and the torrential ti
rades of Mr. Roosevelt can never
make the people forget that while the
balance of the world is at war. Amer
ica is at peace. Besides this one in
escapable and indestructible fact the
peevish criticisms of Wilson's enemies,
look like an eastern sandhill by the
side of Mitchell's lofty dome."
Considers Business Growth.
Mr. Bickett then reviewed the vast
business growth of the country during
the last two years, and said that while
rulers in other lands have brought up
on their people epidemics of disease,
famine and death, Woodrow Wilson
and the Democratic party have
brought upon the American people an
epidemic of prosperity. Our mills are
running on full time, laborers are re
ceiving the highest wages ever known,
the farmer is getting unprecedented
prices for all his crops, the ends of
the earth are buying our products, the
gold of other nations is flowing Into
our coffers. The American dollar has
taken the place' of the English pound
as the standard of value, and Ameri
ca Is the clearing house for the big
financial transactions of the whole
wofrld.
"This amazing prosperity, ? tie stfld,
"Is largely due to the wisdom of the
Democratic legislation, and to the
courage and patriotism of Democratic
officials. If, when the war fell like a
bolt from the blue sky, the country had
been under the old Republican finan
cial system, controlled by tne selfish
ness and greed of a few private Indi
viduals In Wall Street, the worst panic
In the world's history would have des
cended upon us, and today Instead of
riding this high tide of universal pros
perity, we would have keen wallowing
in the mire of universal bankruptcy."
Reviews Construction Legislation
The speaker reviewed the record of
constructive legislation made In the
last three years, the Federal Reserve
Law, the establishment of the Depart
ment of Labor, declaring that the es
tablishment of this department for the
first time In American history gave to
the man In overalls a seat at the coun
cil table of the nation equal in impc.r
tance and difenity to the man in a
dress suit. He dwelt upon the estab
lishment of the Federal Trade Com
mission, designed to Serve as a light
house to the honest business man who
wanted to obey the law; he explained
the operation of the Rural Credit Bill
saying that it opened a new door of
'fcoper and opportunity to all who jsajlL
fed a vine and flg tree tliey could call
thtyr own; the wonderful activities of
the, Department of Agriculture; the
passage of the Good Roads bill and its
beneficial effects upon the farmer were
fully discussed.
In summing up. Mr. Bickett said
"with what does the Republican party
meet this magnificent record? Words!
words! words! When Mr. Hughes was
a receptive candidate for the Republi
can Presidential nomination, he shrou
ded himself in silence, ana as the ac
tive candidate of that party for elec
tion he shrouds himself In words. Sc
far as public enlightenment Is concern"
ed, the two processes have nad pre
cisely the same effect,
The Hughes Acceptance.
"The nation waited oh tip-toe for
Mr. Hughes speech of* acceptance. A
distressed and disheartened Republi
can party listened for the -clarion
, notes of their leader as wistfully a?
the prisoners at Lucknow listened for ,
the strains of the Scottish bagpiper I
but when the speech came it brought '
to the Republican party a disappoint
ment as pathetic as that which camc
to Jacob when he had worked .seven ?
years -for Rachel and woke up and
found that he was married to Leah.
In the whole speech there Is nothing
specific; not one constructive policy t?
advanced. He says not one new
thing, nor an old thing in a new way,
but hands out to his hungry followers
a string of moth-e&ten platitudes and
insipidities, and the only certain thing
about that speech is the crrtamy thai
no mortal man will read it twice.
"I have tried fairly and faithfully to
present to you the unvarnished re
cord, for if the Bcmocrattc party de
serves to be continued in power the
'record is tLs reason," said the Attor
ney General in conclusion. "It mas
ters little to Woodrow Wilson what
the verdict of the people shall be at
the polls ? his record Is his reward, it
declares Its own glory. His position
In American history is forever secure ;
time can never diminish but can only
heighten the splendor of his fame.
But to this people It matters mv.cn
what they shall do. for not Woodrow
Wilson but the American people are
on trial In this campaign, for it tests
their ability to appraise at t'jeir true
value those wlio hunger to do them
good, and those who thirst to use them
for selfish ends.
"To my mind the very saddest inci
dent to all history is when the man o?
Galilee, filled with a divine longing to
serve his own people, exclaimed '0
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that kill
est the prophets and stonest them
which are sent unto thee, how often
would I have gathered thy children to
gether, even as a hen gatheretli her
chickens under her wings, and yet
would not.' My countrymen, my pec
pie, shall It be written of you in the
coming years, that a prophet passec
your Tfcay and you knew him not:
that wisdom cried aloud In the streets,
and you did not hear; that justice
knocked at yout door and you did not
open? e>"
"I believe that in he hearts of the
ninety and nine there Is a great long
ing. to know the truth and to do the
right. I believk that In this year
when they shal/kuow all the facts the
people will safr to Woodrow Wilson,
and to the great party wnose leader
and prophet he is:
You have served us with unselfish
wisdom.
Tou have piloted us safely through the
storm, '
You have guided us Into prosperous
ways,
Ycu have opened for us a wider door.
You have filled us with a larger hope.
"Therefore let It be heralded from
every housetop, and certified on every
ballot that the cause of Democracy is
the cause of humanity, and that Wil
son is the man it delfghteth the people
to honor.
Interrupted by Applause.
Frequently throughout his speech
Mr. Bickett was interrupted by long
applause. His stories illustrative of
some point he was driving home pro
voked laughter and cheers. His word
picture of war and famine and desola
tion that would have been visited upon
America had not Providence specially
put a man of calm judgment In, .the
White House brought tears from e
long unused to outward emotion, i.'.
perorations rose to the height of elo
quence time and again as he was
swept away upon the wings of some
great principle of right government.
''The greatest speech 1 ever heard,"
commented one old gentleman who
confessed to being eighty-nine years of
age. "The Republicans are going to
make the' fight of their lives", sai'l
Representative John Vernon, "but
they will never be able to put out the
fires that have been kindled by Bick
ett this day."
The Attorney General was as pleas
ed with his recepion as the people
were with his speech. They crowded
about him at the conclusion or the twe
hours address, and it was a long time
afterward when he finally reached the
door and was hurried down the stairs
by friends in waiting. ? News-Obser
ver.
From Yoangsyille.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Minor return
ed Monday from a visit to Fuquay
Springs. ?
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cheatham, Mrs.
B. H. Winston and Mrs. J. H. Tim
berlake returned Sunday from Rich
mond, Va.
Miss Ella Harris returned Wednes
day from Shelby, where she spent
some time visitirfg friends.
? Miss Mary Eaves left Mondfiy for
Bales Creek Academy.
Miss Frances Poole, of Knlghtsdale,
visited Miss Hattie Purkerson last
week.
Misses Pattie Lee Murphy, Lucy
Phelps, and Prlscllla Pittman,. of
Loulsburg, are visiting Mrs. J. L.
Brown .
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Morris, of Ox
ford, visited Mr. W. P. Morris last
week .
Mies Number Wilder, of Loulsburg,
is visiting Miss Lizzie Underwood.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hatch, of Fay
ette, Mo., visited at the "home of Dr.
P. R. Hatch last week.
Messrs. W. O. Roberts and S. Ii.
Tharrington returned to Camp Glenn
Monday.
Mr. O. C. Purkerson, of Knights
dale, spent a few days with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. V. It. Purkerson.
this week. *
The Youngsvlllo tobacco market an
nounces Its opening sale for Sept. 5.
Warehousemen are making great pre
parations for a banner year. Chea
tham Bros, have annexed about four
thousnd square feet of floor spac*
Buyers for the Imperial, American.
Leggett and Meyers, Dibbrell Bros,
and R. J. Reynolds have been secur
ed 'lor the season .
All men are fools, of course, but
bachelors are not reminded of the fact
as often as married men.
the Roving people.
SOME ?%U KNOW, SOME YOU DO
Ti&I KNOW.
Many oil Business, Many on Pleasure,
Others to be Going, But All Going or
Coming.
Mr. James Massenburg returned the
past week from Warsaw.
Miss Nettle Parrlsh, of Durham, Is
visiting Miss Lillle Hale.
Miss Helen Pleasants has returned
from a visit to New Berne.
Mr. Wm. H. Ruffln left Wednesday
for Beaufort on a business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hale are vis
iting her people at Four Oaks. (
Mr. E. Li. Jones, of Kentucky, was
a visitor to Loulsburg this week.
Miss Agnes Lacy, of Raleigh, Is vis
iting Miss Eleanor Cooke this week.
Dr. J. Herbert Fitzgerald, of Sel
ma, Is visiting Mr. Malcolm McKlnne.
Mr. B. B. Massenburg, of Co. D.
Camp Glenn, Is at home on a rurlougrt
Mr. E. C. Perry and children spent
Sunday with relatives in Henderson.
Mr. J. P. Winston, of Wake coun
ty, was a visitor to LoulBburg the past
week.
Misses Nellie and Grace Wyckolf, of
Rldgeway, are visiting Miss Llllle
Hale.
Mrs. Dr. H. A. Newell left Satur
day to visit her husband at Camp
Glenn. ' . ?
Miss Louise Thomas returned the
past week from a visit to relatives at
Raleigh .
Postmaster R. H. Davis left Satur
day to spend a few days with relatives
at Salisbury.
Mr. Edward ? Dement, of Co. D.,
Camp Glenn, Is at; .home on a visit to
his people.
Miss Fair Polk, of. Warrenton, has
returned home accompanied by Miss
Mildred Scott.
Mr. J. H. Doughton returned Fri
day from a trip through Western
North Carolina.
Misses Agnes and Annie Belle Pe
gram, of Henderson, visited Miss LI1
lte Hale the past week.
Mr. Frank Rpth left Sunday for
New York, to purchase more goods for
his fall and winter trade .
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. McKlnne and
Mr. H. L. Candler spent the week
end with friends at Thomasvllle. >
Mr. C. W. Winston and wife, of
Raleigh, visited her brother, Mr. J.
R. Wiggins near town this week.
Mrs. G. E. Crowell and Miss Ida
Maye Yow, or Thomasvllle. are visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. D. F. McKlnne.
Mr. C. M. Vauglian and wife re
turned Tuesday from a visit to his
daughter, Mrs. T. A. Conwoy, at
Klnston .
Mr. Hiram Best, wife and children,
of Fremont, were among the visitors
to Louisburg Sunday, guests of Mrs.
R. Z. Egerton.
Mrs. 'Julia Scott has gone to New
York and other Northern cities to
purchase her millinery stock for the
Fall.
Miss Sallie Williams returned the
past week from New York, where sne
has been taking a special course in
music .
Messrs. Cheatham Alston and C
H. Stal lings of Co. D. Camp Glenn
spent several days with their people
liere the past week.
Misses Kate and Lillian High, Miss
JeSBica R. Smith and Mr. N. B. Alls
brook returned Monday from a week
end visit to Panacea Springs.
Supt. E. I*. Best returned Satur
day from New York, where he has
been taking a special course in School
work at Columbia University.
Mr. Charles McLaurln and little
daughter, Ida, en route from Norfolk
to his home In South Carolina, stop
ped over and spent Sunday with rela
tives .
Miss Sallie Pleasants has returned
from New York, where she has been
taking the summer course at Columbia
University. She also visited the cit
ies of Albany, West Point, Washing
ton, Annapelis and Baltimore.
Mr. J. B. Fulghum and daughters,
Bertha and Kathleen, and son, Jess*,
and Miss Pat Fuller and Mr. Graham
Grlffln attended the funeral of M"r. J.
L. Rideout at Rldgeway Tuesday af
ternoon. Tlje depeased was the fath
er of Mrs. Fulghum.
Ice Retards Budding.
Ice Is made use of in a Texas or
chard to retard the budding until da
sired.