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1 A ROBESON! AN Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cent LVOL XLffl NO. 73. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1912. WHOLE NO. 2807 . ' i i 1 A DEMOCRAT INDEED. Senator Simmon, in whom There is no Treachery or Shadow of Turning from True Democratic Doctrine Mr. N. J. Rouse of Kinston Upholds the Record of the Senior Sen ator as One of Which the State Should be Proud. Mr. N. J. Rouse of Kinston spoke at the court house Monday evening in the interesH)f the candidacy of F. M. Simmons for the United States Senate. He tnadra strong, convincing argu ment in favor of the return of Mr. Simmons to the Senate, de claring that he was right in ev ery one of the votes for which he has been criticised, that by ability and hard work he has won a commanding position in the Senate and that he will be returned by a large majority. He spoke for a few minutes more than an hour and was heard by a fair-sized audience. He""was introduced by Mr. Frank Gough, president of the local Simmons club. ' -If iTmrlfKrtlfir'thair1l man should vote right, " declared Mr. Rouse, "than that he should vote with a majority of his par ty, and Senator Simmons voted right in every one of the votes for which he has been criticised for voting against a majority of his party. ' Senator Gore, the great progressive blind Senator from Oklahoma, declared that Simmons voted right and that the majority of the Democratic Sen ators voted wrong in the 19 votes for which he has been criticised on reciprocity, when he declared in a speech in Raleigh that it would be a fatal mistake to nom inate Champ Clark for President because he had favored the re riprocity bill. "Senator Simmons has declar ed that if you- put the th'ngs the , agricultural classes buy on the free list he would vote to put the things they sell on the free list. That is Democratic doctrine, just doctrine. Simmons is not the first man who has been twitted with being a protectionist be cause he fought for justice for the people of his State. Vance was twitted in the same way, and he said: 'No man can charge inie with being a protectionist, but you must not protect the things you sell my people and buy free the things my people sell.' Aycock, in the speech he had prepared to deliver in open ing his campaign for the Senate, said the same thing when he said he was in favor of a tariff for revenue only but was not in fa vor of protection for New Eng land and free trade for North Carolina. Simmons stands for the same thing, for equal justice to all, for treating all sections alike. Mr. Rouse paid high tribute to the character and ability of Sen ator Simmons, whom he has known practically all his life. He said that he has practiced law with and against the greatest lawyers in the State and that he has never practiced with or against anv lawyer who impress-! pd him more with his ability than Simmons. Hence he declared that while some people seem to take with some degree of sur prise the statement that Simmons is a leader in the United States Senate, he is not surprised at it at all, for he brieves we have as able men in Nrth Carolina as there are in the country; and it is no wonder thut Simmons is the peer of any man in the Senate and that be was called to lead the great tariff fight last sum mer. "Gov. Kitchin, while he was a Congressman drawing a salary of $7,500 to look after the inter ests of the people in Washington, left his duties there and came to North Carolina and made a fight for the office of Governor, which pays $4,000, branding Locke Craig as a traitor, just as he is now saying Simmons is a traitor; and he made that fight in order to fight for Simmons' seat in the Senate this year. ii senator eimmons is repur licanizing North Carolina, as Kitchin charges, isn't it strange that it is conceded that Craig will be elected by such a large ma jority, with pratically no oppojsi ...tionl ;. Simmons vote against tree lumber was right. The same sec tion of the platform that called A LAST APPEAL. For Contributions to the Wilson Marshall Campaign Fund. As chairman of the finance committee for North Carolina for the Wilson-Marshall campaign fund, J received on the 28th inst. the following telegram : New York, Oct. 28, 1912. "A. W. McLean, Lumberton, . N. C. "You have done splendid work in raising funds for the National committee and we desire to con gratulate and thank you. With but a week remaining, we are still in need of funds with which to meet the urgent necessities of the situation. Demands upon us come thick and fast each day this week and we hope you will continue your work until the last in order that we may meet all our obligations and not be con fronted with a deficit when the election is over. Wm. F. McCombs." Henry Mergenthau." We are making a positive effort now to get the balance of $25, 000 for North Carolina. Up to date we faave"aDaut": S22f.UOO ahd want to make the amount $25: 000 bv the end of this week. We earnestly urge all who have been canvassing in Robeson county ti make a final effort in their vari ous communities to secure further subscriDtions and forward them not later than Saturday. Ac knowledcement will be made in The Robesonian and The News and Observer and the contribu tions will be sent to the Nationa chairman at New York. A. W. McLean. for free lumber called for placing trust controlled products on the free list, and it would not have been fair to put lumber on the free list, and the platform never so intended, while trust-controll ed products were on the protected list. Kitchin does not tell you that while Simmons voted against free lumber in thePayne-Aldrich bill he voted three times for free lumber in bills which provided for taking the tax off of trust controlled products. And the I Dlatform adopted at Baltimore does not call for free lumber but does call for free trust controlled products. In voting as he did on lumber Simmons voted to pro tect the interest ot every man who owns a foot of timbered land. Senator Simmons' vote on Lor lmer. declared the speaker, was a lasting monument to his cour age and he ought to be honored for it. He was in the position of a sworn juror and he would have been guilty of perjury if he had voted against Lorimer on the first trial when he did not be lieve that the evidence was suffi cient to convict him of fraud. In the second trial it was entirely different, for in that trial there were 8,000 pages of evidence, which disclosed much more than the first trial, when there were only 700 pages of evidence. In the 19 votes on reciprocity for which the Senator has been so much criticised for voting against a majority of his party, Gov. Kitchin does not tell you that he also voted against a ma jority of the Republicans, not Progressive Republicans, but against Root, Lodge, Smoot, Lorimer, the very high-priests of the Republican party in the tem ple of protection. President Taft was trying to force through a bill to puc on Le free list the things we raise and protect the things we buy. For instance, wheat was to be free, but flour was to be protected. It was un fair to the agricultural interests. In those 19 votes Simmons voted for free flour, free bagging and ties, etc He was right in every single one of those votes. Senator Simmons was endorsed by the people at the State Demo-! cratic convention and Governor Kitchin is attacking the party organization and is himself now off the platform and is attacking the party, but the spirit of the party is behind Senator Simmons and he will be nominated by a large majority. Mr. Rouse paid a splendid trib ute to Gov. Wilson and Locke Craig, than whom, he said, no better men had ever been offered as candidates of any party. Mr. Rouse spoke at Fairrtioht Monday and left here Monday night for Hope Mills. VICE PRESIDENT DEAD James Schoolcraft Sherman Passes Question of Succes sion. Utica, N. Y.. Dispatch. 30th. After a long illness, Vice Presi dent James Schoolcraft Sherman died at hi borne in this city at 9:42 o'clock tonight of uremic poison, caused by Bright's dis ease. New York, Oct. 30. -The death of Vice President Sherman gives point to the serious discussion of the question of the succession. There is no provision of law for filling a vacancy caused by the death or retirement of a Vice President. The fact that Mr. Sherman was a candidate for re election at the time of his death s giving much concern. It will not be neccessary to make any change in the ballots already printed for November as cast directly for the Vice Presi dent Electors are chosen to cast the ballots of their consti tuents for candidates for Presi dent and Vice President and rhSe tlcr is a-aor&l roga tion resting on those electors to support the nominees of the party, the instructions are merely directory and not mandatory. The death of Mr. Sherman will relieve them if elected from the moral obligation to vote for him. As it is a party matter and the governing body in the party is the Republican National committee, it will be the proper function of that committee to recommend to them a candidate for Vice President to be voted for by them. It will be essen tial to have concerted action in either of two contingencies first if the , Republican ticket is successful, and second, if the election is' to be thrown into the House of Representatives. Meeting of County Board of Can vassers. The attention of the registrar and judges of election in each township in the general election to be held on Tuesday, Novem ber 5th, is hereby called to that part of the election law (Sections 4348 4349) requiring thtm lo ap point one of their members to at tend the meeting of the board of count canvassers, which is to meet at the court house in Lum berton, at 11 o'clock a. m., on Thursday. November 7th, for the purpose of canvassing and tabu lating the vote of the county. The member from each town ship attending the meeting of the county board of canvassers will carry with him to Lumber ton the original returns of the general election in each town ship. The chairman requests that as soon as tne election is over ana votes counted, that the registrar or the Democratic pollholder in each township will inform him by 'phone (at the expense of the chairman) as to the results of his township. S. B. McLean, Chairman. Notices of New Advertisements. Economy and savings Farm ers & Merchants Bank. Prevent diseases Sanitary Steam Laundry. farm for rent. Walter Clark to the people of North Carolina. W. VV. Early announces candi dacy for road commissioner and C. K. Morgan retires. Popular, standard and classic sheet music Crump & Floyd. Fitting eyes with proper glasses Dr. W. W. Parker. Mule for sale and combination horse wanted. , . Notice to Lumberton taxpay ers. 'The store that always makes good" R. D. Caldwell & Son. Overcoat lost. The conviction of William E. Breese and Joseph E, Dickerson on an indictment charging con spiracy to embezzle from the First National Bank of Ashe ville was Monday approved by the Supreme Court. The in dictment was brought in 1897 and has been fought ever since. -For earache,, toothache, pains, burns, scalds, sore throat, try Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil, a splendid remedy for emergencies. LUMBER RIVER IMPROVEMENT. Major of Corps of Engineers of War Department Wants to Meet Citizens Interested in Government Improvement of Lumber River. Mr. R. D. Caldwell, president of the Lumberton Industrial and Commercial Club, has received the following letter from Major G. P. Howell, of the War De partment, located at Charleston, fa. u, anu in charge of a corps of engineers: "The rivers and harbors bill passed by Congress July 25,1912, directed examination of Lumber river from its mouth to the Turn pike bridge in Hoke and Scot land counties. I intend at an early date to send a party over the river to make examination of it and would like to meet citi zens interested in it at Lumber ton and find out from them the nature and volumn of the com merce over it if it were improved and other facts that would aid me in arriving at an opinion as to whether it would pay the gov erorrkto imnrgivehe stream. Will you inform me whether you can arrange for such a meeting and the approximate date there of?" This letter was brought to the attention of the club at a busi ness meeting Tuesday evening and Mr. Caldwell will appoint a committee to take up the matter with Major Howell and arrange for the proposed meeting. It will be recalled that the ap propriation for this work was se cured by Senator Simmons. The improvement of Lumber river will mean a great deal to this en tire section and there will hard ly be any difficulty in convincing Major Howell that it will pay for the government to undertake the work. WILSON CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. A. W. McLean (in addition to $100 100 00 previously $2 50 1.00 given ) J. P. Russell T. A. McNeill, Jr. J no. A. McCormick, Pembroke J. T. Rapp D. A. Reel J. S. Thompson T. A. McNeill, Sr., John French T. N. Higley J. A. Brown, Chadbourn Previously acknowledged 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 5.00 1.00 2.00 1.00 185 50 Total $302.00 Most of the new contributions acknowledged above were secur ed by Mr. W. S. Wishartof Lum berton. It is not too late to help if you will contribute at once. This State is expected to raise $25,000 and contributions to date amount to about $22, 000. Send in your contribu tion at once if you want to con tribute to the fund to help elect the next President of the Unit ed States. Your contributions will be ac knowledged through The Robe sonian and The News and Ob server. Get a $ Button. Some Wilson-Marshall $ but tons are waiting at The Robeson ian office for all who contribute! as much as $1. Don't fail to get one of them. Superior Court Convenes Next Thursday, November 7. A 2-weeks' term of Robeson superior court for the trial of criminal cases will conveneThurs day of next week, November 7, instead of Monday, on account of election. Judge C. C. Lyon of Elizabethtown will preside, an exchange of courts having been made with Judge S. C. Bragaw of Washington in order to place the judges as near their homes as possible on election day. Up to date there are 124 cases on the docket. There is only one capi tal case, and in that the defen dant has not been caught. Mr. A. J. Tinkham has sore nose, xesterday ne was trying to crank an automobile when the handle of the crank flew off and struck him on the nose. The lick broke Mr. Tink ham's nose, but it didn't feaze him -much. He had a physician to straighen it up a little and went on about his busings. I. & C. CLUB MEETING. Local Matters of Importance Considered at Meeting of the Club Tuesday Night. At a business meeting of the Industrial and Commercial Club Tuesday night several matters of local importance were consider ed. Mr. W. Lennon, chairman of the committee recently appoint ed to look into the matter of se curing free mail delivery for the town, reported that he had been in correspondence with the Post office Department and that a man had been detailed to come to Lumberton as soon as possible to ascertain local conditions. This man is expected here within the next few days. Lumberton is entitled to free mail delivery, having passed the mark of $10. 000 a year receipts, and it is con fidently expected that the work of Jhe committee looking after this matter will result in secur ing it for the town at an early date. Some sidewalks may have to be improved and houses will have to be numbered, but in otijr respects 4s thought ' jfcf the town will meet now all the requirements. The committee appointed some time ago to take up the matter of a new hotel reported that nothing definite has been done and it was instructed to corres pond with some good hotel men with a view to getting some one interested in a hotel here as soon as possible. The matter of improvement of Lumber river was brought to the attention of the club, as men tioned elsewhere in this paper, and there was brief discussion of the Yadkin River Power Co. and what it might mean for it to en ter the town for the purpose of furnishing power to any indus tries that might use it. A com mittee will be appointed to inves tigate this matter. A charter was adopted for the club and the secretary-treasurer, Mr. W. Lennon, was instructed to advise all delinquent members that unless all dues up to Octo ber 1 are Daid by November 15 their names will be dropped from the club membership. ELECTION RETURNS. Will be Received at the Court House in Lumberton Election Night. Arrangements are being made to receive complete election re turns at the court house here on the night of election, November 5. An effort is being made to arrange to flash the returns on canvass and this will probably be done. Any who want to get the returns as they come in will find warmth and light and plenty of company at the court house. Seaboard freight train No. 14 was wrecked yesterday after noon atCouncils and on account of the wreck passenger train No. 39, due here in the afternoon at 5:47, didn't arrive until 1:30 o'clock this morning. Several cars of the freight were derailed Ex-Sheriff Geo. B. McLeod returned Tuesday morning from Baltimore, Md., where he had been for something ever two weeks with his brother, Mr. Sandy McLeod. who is undergo ing treatment in the Presbyterian ear, eye, nose and throat hospital. Mr, .lcLeod had to have two operations and has had a serious time, but his condition has im proved considerably and it is ex pected that he will soon be able to come home. Saturday afternoon a young negro giving his name as John Leslie, claiming to be an em ployed of the drainage force now located near Back Swamp, hired from Mr. H M. Beasley's livery stable a horse and buggy to drive out to the camps of the drainage force or at least that was the spiel he put up to the liveryman. He was to have re turned in about 2 hours, but as yet Mr. Beasley has heard noth ing from the negro or his horse and buggy. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Colonel Roosevelt was 54 years old on the 27th inst Mrs. Grover Cleveland has an nounced her engagement to T. J Preston, a professor of Wells CoHge. BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS License has the marriage of Robert Young. been issued for Lela Regan and The city's water tank, stand ing near the county jail, is receiv ing a fresh coat of paint. The Barnesville band will furnish music for the Hallowe'en party at Blcomingdale tomorrow evening. Niagra Falls as seen in win ter will be the feature film at the Pastime theatre tonight It is said to be a beauty. Mr. E. M. Britt is carrying his right arm in a sling as the result of a fall in which his wrist wes severely sprained. Canada Scott of Elrod has a live rattlesnake in a barrel at his home. The snake is about three and a half feet long and has 8 rattles and a button. He caught it in Back Swamp last Thursday. The condition of County Treasurer M. G. McKenzie, who has been very sick for something over' two weeks, continues to improve and ft 1repec'tedthat ' he will be able to be out again soon. Mr. J. A. Brown of Chad bourn, presidential elector for the sixth district, passed through Lumberton yesterday on his way to Pembroke, where he spoke last night, and again this morn ing on his way to St. Paul's, where he speaks this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. C. M. Barker returned Saturday from Andalusia, Ala., where he spent a few days on business. Mr. Barker says that that section of the country offers some fine opportunities for young men, but he thinks the indica tions of easy life are better in the "Old North State." . The price of cotton has been climbing up a little for J.he last two or three days. Quite a num ber of bales has been marketed here today and prices paid have been ranging around 11 1-8 cents, some of the best grades bringing a little more and some poor grades some less. Two advance agents are in town today making arrangements for the coming of that famous attraction "Mutt and Jeff", which will be presented at the opera house next Thursday night, November 7th. Thirty-four peo ple are with the show, sixteen of the number being chorus girls. Mr. Peter Vallace, Greek, proprietor of theDixie cafe, sent Tuesday to New York $50 to be forwarded to Greece to aid the Greeks in their war against the Turks. Peter raised the money here in town among his friends and the contribution ranged in amounts from 25 cents to $10. -Mr. R. L. Gregory, of Raft Swamp, returned yesterday morning from Charlotte, where for several days he had been un dergoing treatment for a throat and head trouble that had been bothering him for several years. The trouble was caused from catarrh and u Slight operation was necessary, but it is thought that he will r.e will soon be en tirely well. Miss Ida Sessoms has ac cepted a position in the Lum berton postcihce and will be- gin work Tomorrow. one came nornf Monday evening from Elon College, where since the first of September she had been a student. Miss Sessoms stood a civil service examination here some months ago and, mak ing the highest grade, was eligi ble and entilled to the first open ing, so she went away to school expecting to return u lenaerea this position. The killing in White House township Saturday afternoon, mentioned in Monday's Robeson ian, wherein Harlen Strickland shot and killed Sam Britt, was not at Mr. II. L. Curtis' store, as stated, but was about 1J miles from there at the home ot John Horn. Mr. S. M. Bntt, who lives in White House, was in town Tuesday and asked that this correction be made, and he also said it might be well to say that before the shooting there were three Sam Britts in the township. His name is Sam and he has a son named Sam. there fore the other one is the one that . was killed.
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