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No.h Carolina Led thewets . Sssday u4 Monday, . , , VOL. CXII. NO, 60 THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY. . RALEIGH, NT C, SUNDAY MORNING, .AUGUST ; 29, 1920 THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY. PRICE: SEVEN CENTS HARDING URGING REAL LEAGUE HOW V BACKED BY FORCE Republican Candidate's Tribu . . nal Would Be Part of l V .League Machinery. LEAVES HIRAM JOHNSON TO SHIFT FOR HIMSELF Anything Now To Get Article i Tta Out, of Covenant and Slip It Somewhere Else Ub der Camouflage; Republicans Come To Time and Admit Necessity of "Teeth" 1 Ths New nd Observer bureau. - m. District National Bank Bid. (By Special Leased Wire.) Wsshingtoa, Aug,, 18. Senator Hard' v ing'i proposed substitute ; for . the ' League of Nations, ss outlined in his i speech today at Marion, ia a Hague tribunal "with teem" in it, or the League of Nation! ao revised that American interests will be protected. The candidate is said to expert liha . . Boot to bring back a plan based on 4he permanent court of international justice which he has aided in organ i icing under the League! of Nations, Those who are well acquainted with the Boot view on the League of Na ' tions cannot understand why he should ' faror a Haroe tribunal "with teeth" or a League of Nations "without teeth." Mr. Myron T. Herrick, just back from Europe, has, announced that Mr. Boot win . -clear -up ' the whole situatK, when he arrives. A cabled dispatch from London to The New York Times says that there is a strong impression there thst the ' permanent court of internatioaal jus- . tice will ultimately develop the plana to apply the processes of law against would-be peace breakers much aa or- " dinsry courts issue injnnetions to- rjre- - vent inf rina-eTsents of Nations! law. That plan, it ia claimed, would meet the Republican objections of America te entering the present League of Na- - lions. r; Part 't Lsagaa Machinery. It must be that this is what Mr, Harding baa in mind , as his Hague . inimnal "with teeth" in It, or the league revised so that-American inter ears will be protected. The old Hague tribunal certainly had no "teeth" in it. i he Republicans, driven into the open, now evidently mean to offer .this per manent court of international justice jfs' their substitute for the League of Nations. With Article X is aow the teta of. ttasjeourt. So he admiu that ' there musrbe a policeman with night atlck, but he would the policeman and me magistrate one. Aaytning now to get Article X out of the covenant of the league and alip , u in somewaer else under a camou flage' for the Republicans have at Iaat admitted that -whatevsr nrv.ni.m ih.t keeps the nations out of war must have . teeth. it mutt- be endowed with , rorce. it must be able te whip any Jhiug that cornea up againat it. Harding Ceases to Ties. - At last Mr. Harding haa to admit that he wants something with "teeth" in it. But somebody haa got to furnish the teeth. If there is an effective -League of Notions or Hague tribunal or anything of the kind with another name, it must have the physical power ui aiiuice pun navies to OSCE It. , But Mr.' Harding and hia party 'tell the American people that they must not . furnish any of theae "teeth. We are now engaged in this campaign to protect you irom saving to, do that very thing, they say. Look at the war between Rue. bis and Poland, shouts the candidate, Our boys would be btere now fighting ana aying it we had joined this League Our boys would be there now fighting us. " - So that ia apite of all the threats of V O- L ' TT T . . s m ui uj BCMgri auan tfuanns ana Borah there is to be a' League of an association of nations and its got to have teeth. But it ia 'too into now for Hiram to roar that he will walk out, a ad Borah ia about to take the stump for Harding. Think of what ke must Navy Secoad to Neae. . think, ' ; ' 1 Secretary Daniels has repeatedly aaid - that the -American navy should be see end to. none in- the world. Ia 193 the Secretary's ambition will be prac tically reached by the United States. We shall 1 have the first navy ' in the world and it will be largely due to Secretary Daniels efforts. The French -Maritime paper. La Vie Maritime -Et Fluviale, says that the question came us in the Brtish House of Commons as to the relative powers of the Amerl can and English navies and the gnawer of Mr. Lung, the First Lord of the ad- ' snlrslty. created considerable exciter . stent Hia answer was as follows "Battleships which will bo resdy ia 1923t IS inch guna, America 16, Eng- aone., . Shirs having a speed of 33 11 knots - or morel Battleships America Krtg ' land aone. Light cruisers, America 10, England aone. , ' "ia considering the 'vessels of the ..' dreadnaught typo alone, America had ia Idle tea of theae ships. "Nino other dreadnaughta were being - completed, or were put oa the stocks, dnrin the first vsir of the war. The Tennessee in this aeries, haa Just been" is equipped. .- . "At this same period, foreseeing the possible entry of tbs United States into the ' Eufdlwan -tonfliet, a aot wishing to be found unprepared. Mr; -Daniels had the naval board draw ap aa extensive programme and succeeded ia hsving it sdopted by Congress. , High Praise For Daniels, " "This programme comprised the potting on the stocks of 1 10 capital ships. For soma time the English press held the- view that this aavsl activity - was the act of a politician pre-eeeupied ' with the future elections,, but It soon was obliged to recognize, that it was thanks to his owa tenacity of purpose aad to hia energy, ' that this eminent statesman, ia spite of a certain amoant : Continued oa Page Three-) AMBASSADOR DAVIS AND FAMILY X RETURN TO AMERICA FOR VACATION 'i If JL Joha W. Davis. American envoy their daughters, who have returaed to .America for aa autumn visit. Mr. Davis denied reports thai have been circulated to the effect that he intends to resign his ambaassdoriaJ position. The ambassador expects to stay ia New York 'about ten days and probably will ace Governor Cox, the Democratic presides tial nom inee, when the latter apeaka here. He was greeted uooa his arrival bv the West Virginia inenas. ine oeiegsuoa rrom coming. celebration for ninu Harding Breaks Ground for A World Court of Justice Republican Nominee Says League Wreck Beyond Hope of Reconstruction FOUNDATION TIMBERS FOR NEW PLAN GIVEN Would Bnild On Hague Tribunal and Better Features of Versailles Pact Marion, 04 Aug. 18 Turning away from the Versailles league of nations as a failure and a wreck "beyond possibility- of . reconstruction,' " Senator Harding broke groaad today for a new international peace Structure he hopes to erect about the principle of a world eburt ot justice. As . foundsMon, .timbers he proposed to ue the better features of the pres ent Hague tribunal and of the cove nant of the "failed league" aad ke promised thst from the day of hia elec tion he would give to the task his best effort in counsel with the ablest statesman of the world. Detailed epeel flcations he aaid he could not yet sup ply' in. the changing atmosphere of world condition and ' opinions. ' ! Regain Moral Leadership. The Bepublieaa nominee's deliver anee wae made ia a front porch speech. Hia greatest ambition and the corner stone of his - program, he said, was to regain' for America the moral leader ship it has "lost when 'ambitioa' sought to super-impose a reactionary theory of diaerodited autocracy apoa the progressive principle of living, glowing democracy." To Mexico and the other western re publics he declared himself ready to extend a helping- hand, but he pro nounced a solema admonition to the world that all the resources of the United 8tstes would guarantee protec tion to American life and property everywhere. Imnoteaer of Leaaae. . Prof essin'g "also his desire to aid the stricken peoples of the Old World, the candidate recounted how this senti ment had led him to vote "with grate misgivings" for ratification of the 1 euros eoveasnt with-reservations. He affirmed ihatihe would do so aow under similsr circumstances, but added that conditions hsd chsnged and that the Polish crisis had showa the league so Impotent that ita ageneies were not van jtllA IntA nn. ' - Bad the United States assumed the obligations of - Article X, he asserted, would long einee have been called upon to stem the tide ol jcussiaa in vasioa, .and could not have refused without "appearing as a welcher be fore the world. ' Quotes British Premier. He quoted a declaration of Premier Lloyd George that it waa impossible to send aninternational army to Poland because the Eurepeaa nations could not furnish the troops, fcnd tie United States hsd withdrawn front co-operation. That meant, in plain words, said the nominee, that the United States had i not completed the obligation "to furnish troops. ' - , To support his assertion that this country could not hsvo resisted a call fo- help in' Poland under Article X. Senator Harding quoted the statement of PresidentWilson that the moral ob ligation of the article' was stronger 1baa any legal obligation. The aont- inee added tlt if the President really wanted to help protect Poland he easily might call oa Congress to declare war.' No Hope ia Congress. , 'it is rensonsDiv sate to Itsume. however,"- Senator- Harding continued. "that i the President will not pursue thst eourse. Fortunately, he is. under ao 'compelliag moral- obligation' uader the league to do so. His recent un happy experience, moreover, ia asking Congress t send American bora to police Armenia would hardly encour age repetition." ? c i Turning to hit discussion of recon struction measures, the nominee sail he hsd :m expectation whatever" that aegotiatioa of a separate treaty would be required to put the aatioa on a peace basis. Faassse of a resolution declaring peace, he asserted, waa all (Continued oa Page Two, 1 1 to Great Britain, with Mri. Davis and nia nome mate is preparing a: home . PEASANTS REVOLT Bolsheviki Overthrown In Num ber of Important Towns; Rebellion Spreads Harbin, Manchuria, Aug- 27. (By the AasociiUd Press.) Western Siberian peasants have overthrown the Soviets at Tomsk, Novo Nikolaievsk, pmsk, Bar naul, ana other important towns, it reported nere rrom . reliable sources. Isolated peasant uprisings, which have been in progress sin re spring, appeared to have eulmiaated in a general insur rection. This was led by aa uprising uy-tao jurgnja trioeamen. Which-- fol lowed the-withdrawal of the Bolaherikl troops, presumably for ths Polish front. The tribesmen were joined by Cos sacks and detaehmenta of anti-Bolshevik troops, which furnished them competent lesdership. This force marched oa the more important centers, but found them already ia the hands of insurgents. Two thousand Bussian officers relessed from Bolshevik prisons slso are said to have joined the new anti-Bolshevik foreea. The insurgent movement is reported to be spreading- Outbreaks are already irequent i the jrar tast, where it is expected the Soviet regime will aooa fall- . Eastern Siberian authorities are dated by the suddenness of the tew develop ments, me main support or the upris ing appears tc corns from the Mujik fanners of the provinces, of Altai, romu, Tobolek, Hemipalatninsk and Awmolintk, whieh are the richest farm' ing districts of Siberia. CONSIDER MOVING ' PEACE CONFERENCE Par'ii, Aug. C8. The Soviet govern ment haa auggeated a small town in Esthonia instead of Minsk, for the peace negotiations, according to the foreign ministry, which adds that the suggestion is not likely to be acceptable to the Poles beeause'Esthonia ia dominated by toe peas. - - The foreign ministry states that France will demand reparation from Germany for the incidents at Breslaw, where the Polish consul is still missing. FOBEICst MINI3TER AND , M. DOMBSKI WILL CONFER. Warsaw, Aug. 28. -(By the Associated Press.) Prince Sapiens, the Polish for eign minister, left hero this altera ooa for Brest-Litovak, where on" Sunday he will eonfer with M. Dombski, bead of the Polish delegatiba at Minsk. Word reached ths foreign office todsy that M. Dombski hsd passed through the Bol shevik lines aad hsd been received by the Poles. Prince Sspiena and M. Domb ski are . both expected to reach Brest Litovsk late toaight. ' According to word reaching Warsaw the Polish delegstes at Minsk art vir tually prisoners and are looked apoa as spies. Ia addltioa to not getting eaough to eat, it is declared that ths food they receive does ot suit their taate. How- over, their chief complaint ia ia lack ot communication. The Brest-Litovtk conference will have to do with the progress of the Minsk negotiations, of which Warsaw professes to have no knowledge owing to difficulties of communication. The American note to Polan ! relative to the i American views concerning any Polish advance bey on I ths ethnological frontier haa been received, but tliere is no announcement as ti whea Poland will reply. Ia diplomatic circles the note is considered in lins with th. America policy as set furth ia Secretary Colby's note to Itsly, of which ths delegates at Minsk hsd b:ea informs Every dsy the Minsk conference con tinues increases the hope ia diplomatic circles that it may eventually lead to peace of at least' aa armistice. '- - - Clearing House Condition.' ' New York, Aug. S The actual eon- ditioa of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows that they bold i,Z33,iuo reserve la excess of tee-sl requirements- This is aa increase of 12,804,520 from last week. - - AGAINST SOVIETS L! ODGE DENOUNCES LEAGUE IN SPEECH AT MASS MEETING Republican Senate Leader De Clares It Has Been An Ab 11 solute Failure C00LIDGE ALSO JOINS IN CONDEMNING PAC Lodge Says League Has Done ' Nothing, But Is Full of Men ace, and People of Europe Are Pretty Well Sick of It World's Peace Not Tied Up In Versailles Paet Boston, Maes, Aug. 28. The league of nations waa condemned by Senator Lodge la aa address at a. man meeting of the Bepublieaa League of Massachu setts at '"Braves' Field today. "The league, which has got all members ia it but one," he said, "haa been aa absolut and total failure. It hasn't accomplished nything." "It msy be impossible to ratify with rerervstlons," Senstor Lodge added. Mt' m: be undesirable to do so, it may be n.eeaaary to enlarge and strengthen the reservations, or it may bo best to put aaide thia ill-drawn, ill-conceived leasue and to take up under the auspices of the united States a new agreement. ss soelatlou or league composed of all 'the nations of the earth nnder the leader ship of the United States. . Thst's a sola tlon which commends Itself. I believe, to Senator Harding. Coolidge Alas Deaooaees It. The foreign policy of the administra tion was denounced by Governor Cool idge, the Republican candidate for vice president, in an address devoted almost entirely to a discussion of foreignf- ralra. "The policy of the preaent administra tlon, whie their candidate ia bound to continue," he saM, "can only result in a continuation of the discredit of the nation abroad. " The other speakers Included Helen Varlck Boswell, who waa a dolegato to the .Republican National Convention from New York State, and Col Baymon Bobins, or Chiesso. Louis K. Linerett. presided ana resd a telegram of greet tnrs from Senator Harding. , Mrsie was furnished by a Republican Glee CI -b of one hundred voices, and alter the apeaking ljwo Amhirst men who sat la a special section, Kd in cheer ing aad singing in honor of Gov. Cool idge, who ia a graduate of the eollege. . Leagao Baa JDoao MoUtac , He Bator Lodge charged that th. leans had "neve lnt rfered with the invasion of Poland by Russia, had never later fered to hold back Turkey from Ar menia, bad wed done anything la the matter of Persia, and. bad never done anything to reach a aolution of the Flume question. ' "It baa dons nothing, he said, "and yet it is full of menace. Europe. I think is pretty well sick of it.and would be glad to be rid of it. They don't feel about our President as they d d. I doubt whether it will ever be possible to make the battered hulk of Mr. Wilao'a league sea-wortny. He explained that the European situ ation waa "changing every day," and that beeause of thia realization he had taken "the ground at Chicago that ths senate deserved the approval of the Be (Continued oa Pago Two.) ECONOMIC RESOURCES OF BOLSHEVIKI THREATENED Alliance) Between General Wrangel and Kuban and Don Cossacks Cause Washington, Aug. 28. The allianes between General Wrangel and the Ku tan and. Don Cossack not only has ma terially improved ths strategic Position Of the anti-Bolshevist forces ia South Russia, according to official advicoa re reived here todsy but has seriously Inresteaed the chief economs resources of the Soviet government. The Donets coal baain. main coal rupply of the Moscow government, lo cated ia the country of , the Don Cos- racks and has been threatened by Gen eral Wrangel' advance, while the - oil and manganese supplies of the Bolshe vim must pais zront ths csuessns through the Kubsn country, the re port say's;1 v Despite gap of a hundred miles betweea the left flank of Wrangers army, and the Rumanian front, west of Odessa, capture of the Donets coal basin eaa be accomplished by a turning movement on the left-flank and main taining the left wing, on the Denieper ths report continued. Should -Wrangel, however, desire td press his advances t. is... v. ....u 1- J- 2 cording to ths statement, by advancing bis left flank snd exposing it to at' tack from Ukraine failing a Simultans ons Rumsniaa advance or the reinforce Kent and -extension of the 11ns. VtTr LEADING BAILEY II TEXAS BY BIG MAJORITY ON TBS EARLY RETURNS. Dallas, Texas, Ang. IlyPat M. Net? of Waco led Joseph W. Bally of Gainesville, former United States Senator for Tesaa, by M.ITi votes la . contest for the gaeernatoral Inatien In today's Dsmocratls ran off primary, according to a com pilation of IStSU voice 'rem 13 coonUes, anaeenced at 11 o'clock by the Texas election aareaa. Oa the face of these resorts, and Incomplete returns, the Dallas Mora lag News aaaeuneed Mr. Nege nom ination by "a Urge majority." . Texas atactica, bareaa estimated thst todsy s prlmsry would fall sev ers! thousaad below that la Jsly pri mary, whea Mr, Bailey led NeC by 3.52! votes, aad weald be betweea 424,00 and 47l,0O votes. ROOSEVE LT scores F OF G. 0. P. NOMINEE Resulted From The Disastrous vlsn' It AwfulMabel' Touring of Hughes DEMOCRATIC PROGRAM IS MOST PROGRESSIVE Vice-Presidential Nominee As serts Governor Cox's Expo- Ture of Republican Party's Campaign Honey Methods Demonstrates Its Tendency To Go Backward Grand Island, Neb, Aug. 28. Frank lin D. Boosevelt; Demoerst, Vice-Presidential candidate, speaking at the Union Paelfle station here today, declared the Democratic party this yesr offered the most progressive program presented to the American electorate. The front porch rocking ehalr plan of presenting issues by the opposition party, he said, resulted from ths disastrous "Isn't it awful, Mabel touring of Hughes in 1918, and he added that the disclosures of Governor Cox with reference to earn, paign expenditures would demonstrate to the people that the Bepublicsn party's sneeess would; mean going back ward, placi administration of the country's affaire largely in the hands of the selfish few. " Big Campaign Issue. This contest betweea progressive and reactionary ideaa, he declared, was the biggest issue before the peoplo. "It wss a handful of reactionaries which elected the Republican nominee in a quiet room of a hotel at 8 a. m. on a vague platform. At San Francisco it was a light in the open resulting in the nomination of a candidate who haa given Ohio not only a progreaslve ad ministration, but also a modern consti tution This candidate stood on a for ward-looking platform. Not only in our domestic affairs did the platform appeal to the stomachs of men like an old full dinner pail slogan, but in international affaire it alao evidenees hope nd prog-ree--tbe hope and aim that with the nations ef tho v.orld gathered around the table with ths purptao of averting war, wan would be averted.' Special stress wss made on the point that "Germany herself looked forward to the League of Nations for recon struction and justice and it waa Amer ica' a high duty to aid the German peo ple themselves, now that the wsr was over, as wen as it was the duty to aid other European nations. Taming to the question of campaign expenditures, Mr. Boosevelt said he would dovote more attsnton to that In hia addreas at Omaha tonight. He do clared -that unquestionsbly a certain amount of publicity waa legitimate and required funs; but that the fund being raised by he Republicans was so vsst ss to warrant the fixed conviction advance that it could not all be expend ed legtimately. Time Not Passed, Tet. 'And this was attempted at a time When the publie had begun to believe we bad got by the lavish expenditures of money in a political campaign aad the Contributions of corporations and individuals for selfish purposes. Mr. Boosevelt received' some! applause oa the League of Nations reference but more on his remarks addreased tq earn' paign expenditures. POST-WAR IMMIGRATION RECORDS AGAIN BROKEN Nearly 19,000 Aliens Pour Into Ellis Island In Week; Much Congestion New York, Aug. 18. Arrivsl here of 18,691 aliens during the week ended to p$ay broke all immigration records at Ellis island since before the war. in apeetions of 15,438 of them Vers com pleted up to this morning, with 3,253 yet to be passed upon. Probably the worst congestion in the history of Jie Immigration station eon fronted Ellis Island authorities tonight whea considerably more then ,(0C must be housed and fed. : In. a statement tonight Commissioner of Immigration wallia said: "Judging from information received from ateamship agents, l must, conclude thst next week will bring more aliena to New York than the reeord-breekins figure thia e.k. Every ship is corning loaded, and some big stcerag -carrying vessels are due to arrive. "From now on it will be merely a mat ter of ships. I ndreds ojt thousands of people in various psrts of JEurops are lamoring for a chance to come to Amer ica. The passport regulations, altiounh restrictiv in their nature and opera tion, are having nothing to do with the number of immigrants, for thre are thousands more who qualify with psss ports than our limited number of ships eaa oring nere. ANADA'S IMPORTS AND EXPORTS ALMOST EQUAL Ottawa. Can-. Jtusv 21 Canada's ex ports snd imports almost balsncs for the twelve-months endins July 81. ie- eording to a sdmmsry offCanadian trade, issued nere today by nonunion s bu reau' of statistics. The total imports are valued at tl.- Z03,ll,735 and the exports at 1,261,410, 337. Figures for the previous year cov ering the same period in 1919 were: Imports 1870,850,691 and exports II, 273,443,272. ' - Imports from the United States -to talled $881,147429 while the exports to that country totalled 1499,746,802. Canada's cotton imports were luJr 800,887 in 1920, which wss the largest item In the list. ROflT PORCH PUN COX SPENDS BUSY DiGAAIGNMG PROMINENT LEADER : DIES AT BEAUFORT . ' i v . -in - . - . - ;. ;'taW - . , ,- ' " J - S w ' ; I "" 1 , MR. E. C DUNCAN, OF RALEIGH us a., vt uvnvini DIES AT BEAUFORT Prominent Republican Uader and Business Man Succumbs After Long IHfttss 1 Mr. E. C. Dubcob, former Republieasi National eommitteemaa from- North Carolina and prom went business maa of Raleigh, died this morning at 1:30 o'clock at the Davis House ia Beaufort, where be had been critically ill aiaee hia return front the Bepublieaa National convention in Chicago last June. Ur. Duneaa was a delegate-at-Iarge"to' the convention from thia State. He had beea ia bad health einee last spring whea he went to a Baltimore hos pital for treatment. He retained aa ac tive interest ia affairs until the last and it was not until about tea days ago that it was realized that the end wss near. Members of bis family were called to hia. ibedaide. Funeral sorvieoa will be held at Beaa fort Monday afteraoa, the hour to be named later. Edward Carltoa Duncan was bora la Rcaufort, North Carolina, March 2d, 1803 son of William B. and Sarah A. (Ramsey) Duncan. He was edaratcd. ia public achoola of Beaufort aad begin life as a f ishsrmaa and a farmer. He waa a licensed pilot aad boated la the waters adjacent to Beaufort harbor. At this time Morehesd City aad the Atlantic Hotel was the Summer eapitsj ef North Carolina, and thia began Mr. Duncan's large acquaintance with the most prom inent people in the State. Ia 1S9U he waa appointed Collector of Customs of the Port of Beaufort, and served until 1894. Wss elected member of the North Carolina Lrgiala- ture and served during sessions of 1895 and 1897. Waa appointed Collector of Internal, Bevenue at Raleigh In 1898 and served until he resigned ia 1908 t become one of the Receivers of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, whieh property he helped to administer with such aignsl success thst it is oaa of the few receiverships of ,-largo railroads which wss diachsrged without-the seal ing of any bonds of the railroad. Mr. Duncan for maay years was ac tive in politics, dating prior to the time nf his appointment aa Collector of the Port of Bcanforti a 1890. He waa I delorate to the Bepublieaa ational Con vention In 1894, 1900, 1904, 1912, 1910, and 1920. was Republicsn National Cora mlteeman from North Carolina for twenty years, was Sigh ia the party councils and Is the only Southern maa who haa ever ' been selected to help manage a Presidential campaign', being one of the Sub-Committee of five who successfully managed President Taft'a campaign in 1908. Ia June, 1920, although at that time not fully recovered from a serious Oper ation st Johns Hopkins Hospital, "Mr. Duncan attended the RTublieaa Na tional Convention at Chicago as dele- gate-at-large from North Carolina, and took psrt in the prpeefmgs, bis eoun sel Tieing' southt by the party leaders. whose sorrow at his sickness and death have been evidenced by many letters and telegrams from men of prominence, including Presidential Candidate Hard ina and others. Mr. Duncsn commenced his railroad eii'CricnTe many years ago with tho old Atlantic sV North Carolina Railroad, of which he was a large Stockholder, hav ing for qnite a long while controlled practically all of the stock not owned bv the PtateJ It will be recalled sev eral Legislatures ago Mr. Dunjpn made proposition; to the Mate to purchase a holdings of .stock in the old Mullet Road. Mr. Duneaa was for years a di rector of the Norfolk South era Railroad Company, and as suck was largely ia- sfrumental in the consolidation of the varions small roads which now compose the Norfolk Southern system east of Baleiclu He. ..was directly in charge of the punjhav) of the. right-or-way and . 1 1 - . . i. - i: . x-- terminals of the line west of Raleigh to limriottc, and is reslly considered by railroad men to be the father of the present Norfolk Southern system in North Carolina. One work of which Mr. Duncan was especially proud was the extension of the old Atlantic North. Carolina Rail road from Moreiiead .City to Beaufort. hia old home, In accordance witV the original plans of ths Mate whetrins rii-'l w:.s chartered. Mfi Duneaa never lost his love for his home la Carteret county or his love for tho water where he first commenced his work in life. He wae largely instrumental ia help- Democratic Nominee Hurries Through Program Crammed .j With Speeches, Parades, ' ; Receptions and a , '' Luncheon SPEAKS AT FIELD DAY EVENTS OF POLICE AT GRAVESENDRACETRACiq, Principal Address Made al Democratio Luncheon, ' at4 , Which Nominee Was Intro dueed By William O. MeJ Adoo; Continues His Attach .- On Sepublioait Methods off ' laiaing Campaign Money and Eeiteratei Charges ofl if teen Million Dollar Slush !und; McAdoo Refers ToJ Hays and Upham, Republicarf Chairman and TreaiuferJ espectisjs-jr, An '"The OoMf Dust Twins"; Cox faytt lerelations Just Startad New Tori, Ang fS. Governor Co spett today hnstliag through a trsmmedl program of events. J Speeekes, parades, reespttous, lunhl . eon at a prominent hotat. (. .at rrwSLrwd'Lt 200,000 was addressed, aad a dinner witW party leaders tonight gsve the Demc- eratie candidate the busiest day of hisl campaign. ..... ,;, , i The Governor's principal address was) at the Democratic luncheon, attended byj hundreds of party notables. At GravesJ end thia Bfteraoon the Govsraor euffl short hia remarks after a fifteen nUnutsf speech, cordially received. Another brief address wss delivered to a crowd? at the public library, where he stopped! ea route to Graveeend. , ; ReHeratea His Charges. J Ia his luncheon address, Governor Cos reiterated his charges that eoartiba' tions were being collected by Bepublfc eaa leaders toward a $18,000,000 W ruptioa fuad" aad promised farther revelatioBs, but did aot give aay addi tional iaformatioa today. World peace, by America's art rases into the League of Natioas, industrial problems and! picas for Amerraaniaation ef foreigs- born citizens, also featured the ssndi daU'a addresses. Ia all he predicted! Demeeratis victory next fall. During his visit here, the Governor was seeompsnled by scores of proati-4 neat Demoerdts. I Ceweeatrate Oa 6. O- P. Faad. Fire of Governor Cox and also other speeches of Democratic leaders was coa-1 eentraUd oa the Bepublieaa eampaigttf fund. The Governor wss cheered loudly! ss he reiterated that the contributions! Involved aa attempt to "purehsse tho' presidency." . I The enemy haa aouiht to deny mr, charges," he aaid, "but none of them" makes the same kind of denial. Hays' Bays the fuad is $3,000,000, Upham aaid! it was about eight million. . , I : "We have aot yet started In the reveJ lationa which will be made to the puH.' lie, 1 Are Cold Dast Twins, I William G. McAdoo, who introduced' Governor Cox at the Democrats' luneh4 , eon, also assailed the Republican finane-l Ing. He referred to Chairman Hays aad Treasurer Upham of ths RepublH eaa national committee aa "the gold', dast twine." . I I want to express my- unqualified admiration of Governor Cos for briar ing this so forcibly to ths attention of the publie, said Mr. McAdoo. .The governor remained for1 an hour, watching and applauding the athletic? contests of the polleemen. whom hl praised in- his address for their publics' aerviee aa the nearest representatives ef government to millions of persons,' The Lesgue issue wss emphsaised by! the governor as paramount in the cam-1 paign to be waged, he said: betweea' champions of progress and reaction. I "Thia is a great fight," he said, "foe a great principle and a fight which way will know to be a victorious fight . '. Pleas for industrial peace also were). msde by ths governor in his sddressee st the Demoeratie luncheon and at Grareaead. f ' "We cannot have national tranquility, i he said at Gravesead, "unless we havo commnnity tranquility. Publie opinion' has always settled Industrial controvert 1 eies aad publie opinion always will. Declaring that publie opiatou wooiq. (ContlBBed oa Pegs Two.) . ing at ths ti ne of his death a directory breakwater at Cape Lookout for tho Harbor of Refuge, and it was his ambls - tioa ia life to see this great work eom. pleted and the railroad extended te, Cape Lookout. . j Mr. Duneaa for many years waa proon . inent in banking circles ia Raleigh, be ing at the time of his death,. dirtiitor . the Commercial National Bank, as , well as being a direotor and officer ia' aumbrr of other companies. He was for years a member of the Methodist church, Tieing always interested la help- ' ing dlhefsV Sill Of his hobbies being helping young men, he hsving assisted hundred or more young men to secure1 aa education. He helped ia every eivle . enterprise, working with and serving a -term as president of the Chember of Commerce. Mr. Duneaa was twics married, his rt "wife being Miss Carris King, of. Beaufort, from which Union survive two sons, William B. and Charles U Dub-: cat. of Hal ,h, and oae daughter, Mrs. T. Stokes Adams, of Union, S. C. Ho is also survived by his wife, who was Mis Alma Speight, and four brothers, W. E. Thomas, Julius F. Djnean, ef Beoufery aaaj Jaraea 8. Duncan, of Greensbor.. ' I