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THE RALEIGH TIMES THE WEATHER LOCAL SHOWERS , LAfjT EDITION Vol. LXXII. No. 22. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 8, 1012. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Double the Nvimber of Paid Subscribers in Raleigh of eoiy Other Newspaper. v MEESE HOLD COMEIICE WILL CALL WEBB THE I ROAD WORK III WAKE COUIITV CONVENTION W PRESIDENT Perkins Says There Will Be No Trouble About Raising Campaign Funds COLONEL TO TAKE REST Roosevelt and Johnson the Nominees Of the New Party Convention Finished Its Work Last Xjglit Leaders Holding Conference To day, Mapping Out Plan of Cam paign Candidates Immediately Notified of Their Nomination and Appeared Before the Convention. Chicago, Aug. 8.- Colonel Roose velt, the progressive nominee and his campaign managers remained here today for conferences. MoBt of the convention delegates have de parted for their homes. Roosevelt planned to leave this afternoon for Oyster Bay, where he will rest until he begins a tour of the western states. ...'--.- The national leaders reviewed to day the campaign plans, mapping out speaking tours and arranging finances. George W. Perkins, the New York financier, said there would be no trouble in arranging for ade quate financial support. The Nominations. Singing "Onward Christian Sol diers" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" the delegates to the first national convention of the new pro gressive party last night acclaimed Col. Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, as their candidate for presi dent, and Gov. Hiram W. Johnson, of California, as their choice for vice-president. -' Marking a new departure In the proceedings of national conventions, the two candidates Immediately were Informally notified of their nomina tion and in the midst of deafening cheers appeared before the delegates to voice their acceptance and to pledge their best efforts to the com ing campaign. For several long hours during the afternoon and early evening, the big throng in the coliseum had listen ed to a flow of oratory in nominat ing and seconding speeches In which the dominant note expressed was the belief that victory would come to the new party in the November elections. Raymond Robbins, of Illinois, and Glfford Pinchot, predicted a 300,000 majority for Colonel Roosevelt and Governor Jolinson in his home state of Pennsylvania. These statements were cheered to the echo. The party formally christened it self "The Progressive Party" leaving oui mo prefix "National" by which it has heretofore been known, but (Continued on Pago Seven.) -J ,f NEW FlGt HE IS POLITICAL LIMELIGHT ' William (i. MrAdoo, famous as the builder of the Hudson river tun nels which bear Ills name, and who In now figuring prominently in the political same a one of the chief advisers of Governor Woodrow Wil son In his campaign for the presi dency. Mr. McAdoo waa among the most energetic supporters of Gov ernor Wilson at the democratic con vention In Baltimore, and .gave Camnaiirn Manager McCoobs valua ble assistance la turning the tide VI WW"! Chairman Andrews to Have Straight Republicans ' Meet Soon Messrs. Wheeler Martin, Claudius Dockery, Wm. J. Andrews and Wil lis O. Briggs returned today from Greensboro, where they attended the meeting of the republican state committee, which called the state convention to meet in Charlotte, September 4. The meeting was well attended and the supporters of the republi can national ticket largely predomi nated. Mr. Andrews, proferred Wake county chairman, stated today that the county convention here would probably be held a few days before the state convention. The resolution, advocated by Chairman Morehead and passed by the state committee settles, it is claimed, the contest between the dual organiza tions in this county. Mr. Lester Butler, editor of The Caucasian, who also claims to be chairman in this county, is supporting in his paper the Bull Moose ticket, has called a county convention for August 24. Under the resolution adopted by the state committee this convention, it is said, cannot be regular, and t.an not send delegates to the state con vention, September 4, unless Chair man (?) Butler recants and comes out for the Taft and Sherman na tional ticket. Chairman (?) An drews will, it is said, call a straight republican convention and endorse the, Chicago platform and its can didates, Taft and Sherman. (Continued on Page Seven.) WILD FREIGHT TRAIN Washington, Aug. 8. Three men were injured, one probably fatally, when a freight train of sixty cars, ran away in the BalMmore and Ohio yards here today. K. D. Fox, freight clerk, may die. The runaway train crashed through the cashier's office at the freight station, demolshing the building. The train collided with another and both were totally wrecked. The cars' contents were destroyed. The dam age is a hundred thousand dollars. COURT K CHATHAM Judge. 11. B. Peebles .Presiding. Other News.. (Special to The Times.) Plttsboro, Aug. 8. Judge R. B. Peebles is holding Chatham Supe rior court this week. Only civil cases are being tried. The drough its very distressing in this section. Many creeks and branches are drying up. Corn Is suffering for the want of rain. The dust of the slreets here is two inches thick In some places. Mr. Richard P. Smith, of Mat thews township, made 308 bushels of oats on 37-8 of an acre. This ia said to be a pretty good yield. A very inferior quality of tobac co is being cut and cured by to bacco raisers In the eastern part of the county. Chatham boasts of many curiosi ties. The latest is a double-headed snako a head on each end. This snake was killed In the barn of Mr W. R. Perry, of, Centre township, a few days ago. His snakeshlp's heads had eyes and two mouths the same as a single headed snake. On going to a swamp nearby Mr. Per ry killed the snake's mate. They were white spotted. Chatham's commissioners have re duced the tax rato 4 cents on the poll and 82 2-3 cents on property. Last year the tax was 84 cents on properly and $2.22 on the poll There has been a falling off on tax able property of about $ 2 5,000 com pared with last year. The Plttsboro High School begins Its fall session Sept. 2. Mr. F. M. Williamson is the principal: Mr. John W. Taylor, who died so suddenly at hie home near Moncure Monday night, was burled here yes terday afternoon. His death has cast a gloom over the whole com munlty. A PHYSICIAN, NOT A SURGEON. New York, Aug. 8. Gov. Mar shall visited Democratic headquar ters today. Regarding Wilson's ac ceptance speech, Marshall said: "It Is most pleasing that the country's will be treated by a physician and not a surgeon." Marshall conferred with National Chairman McComba. President Back In Washington, Washington, Aug. 8. President Tbft returned this morning fronr Cincinnati, where, with Mrs. Taft he attended the funeral -of John W. Herron, her father. The president was driven to 'the white house where a medal cabinet meeting consider ed t,he- president's probable veto of ?0l Jrlff UUlS, , MORE EVIDENCE OF THE POLICE GRAFT New York, Aug. 8. Four or five high police officials are envolved In the evidence collected before the grand jjury investigating police blackmail. Indictments will soon ne drawn. Witnesses examined by Prosecutor Whitman corroborated the confession of "Bald Jack" Rose, who gave a list of gamblers whom Lieutenant Becker compelled to pay blackmail. Several gamblers un willingly admitted that they paid blackmail to certain police inspec tors. One witness told Whitman he was threatened with death If he gave the grand Jury any information about the police. One of these Inspectors kept such a close watch on the gam blers that he examined their books and made them pay blackmail In DroDortion to their profits. Rose sent Whitman Word that he was ready to Identify the four murderers of Rosenthal. John D. Rockefeller, .Ir.'s private Investigation into "underworld" con ditions, particularly the white slave traffic, developed one source of valu able Information in the police graft probe. Neither Rockefeller nor Whitman will divulge I he details but it 4s generally credited that through establishing what purported to be a disorderly house in the tenderloin Rockefeller's agents gathered facts which dove-tailed with the evidence Whitman secured that a police In spector received six hundred dollars monthly from such resorts for pro tection. . REPII5LICAX COMMITTEE Many Regular On Hand Conven- tion Probably Oo Charlotte. Greensboro, Aug. 8. More than a hundred regulars were on hand when Chairman Moreiiead called the state committee to order. It is un derstood all sessions are to be open, though the first hour has been occu pied in presenting Invliations from Charlotte, Oreensboro and Raleigh. It is practically certain that t,he con vention will be called to meet In Charlotte, September 15. While outwardly appearing calm, it Is plain that the old regular leaders are greatly perturbed and all gossip has centered around Roosevelt and the progressive convention rather than over Tart. One does not hear Taft mentioned while on every' hand Roosevelt and the effect of this ac tion is being considered. WILS'JX (JOES TO NEW YORK TO HAVE PICTI RE MADE. Seagirt, Aug. 8. Governor Wil son went to New York today to have a portrait drawn. The picture will be reproduced for campaign photo graphs, the governor was cheerful and refreshed this morning after the busy ordeal of 'yesterday. As he boarded the train, his secretary handed aim a number of telegrams of congratulations on the speech of acceptance. The governor spends today and tomorrow at the artists' studio, returning here Saturday. Na tional Chairman McCombs and oth er national committee members may meet him during his New Ysrk stay. Plans for the Maine campaign are completed. Governor Marshall will stump Maine before the September state elections. Wilson won t speak tft?rT WM al.t?r W el,cH0M' NOT BROUGHT HERE Alleged Murderer of Clarence Layden fe Jailed. Ben Vann Carried to Elizabeth City For Safe Keeping, Feeling Ilelng Intense Against Him in Commun ity of Disappearance. Adjutant General Lelnster today received a telegram informing him that Ben Vann, a white man, charged with the murder of Clarence Layden, of Belvidere, has been car ried to the jail at Elizabeth City and would not b(i brought to the state's prison at Raleigh, as was at first suggested. Vann, it . is said, nar rowly escaped lynching for the al leged kidnapping and murdering of the Layden boy three weeks ago. The following special from Eliza beth City gives the details of UiJ affair: " ' : The skeleton and clothes of young Clarence Layden, who mysteriously disappeared from his home at Bel videre on July 11, were found to day, by two men named whitehead and. Harris, in a desert about, live miles from -this place, ouiig Lay den was last seen alive between Winfall and Hertford on a bicycle riding in the direction of Elizabeth City, accompanied by a man nmiicd Vann, also of Belvidere. Neither Vann nor Layden returning !o their homes, an alarm was given and a thorough search was Immediately instituted but without results. Suspicion pointing direr. ly io Vann, warrants were issued charg ing him with theft as he had failed to make a depodk given him by his employer, a merchant of . Belvidere, in the Hertford bank. Vann wus captured several days ago In Nor folk and was taken to Hertford, and lodged In jail, without bond to await developments. That young Layden was murdered by some one is ob vious. The desert In which his skeleton was found is Hie most Isolated traci of land in the county, being densely covered with underbrush and infest ed with bacilli, also inhabited with wild animals, where human beings would seldom ilaro venture, making It an Ideal place to cover up a hor rible crime. Public, feeling was extremely st ron (i and a lynching was momen tarily expected. The naval reserves wore called out yesterday. Vann refuses to make any state ment whatever concerning the case of which ho Is now charged, being both alleged murder and thoft, Mrs. Mrokaw Want Aboslute Divorce New York,, Aug. 8. -Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw, who in 1910, secured a legal separation from the million aire, W. Gould Brokaw, after a sen sational trial, was granted permis sion by the court today to serve Brokaw with papers In her absolute divorce suit. She names three co respondents. President of Haiti Ijcmt Life In Fire, Port Au Prince, Haiti, Aug. 8. Gen. Cinclnnatus Leconte, the presi dent or Haiti, perisnea today in a fire that, destroyed the national palace. A powder magazine ex- f'4efli . , , BOB SNIPES TRIES TO Los Angeles, Aug. S.R. C. (Big Bob) Snipes, confessed North Caro lina moonshiner and murderer, is being held by the police until the southern officers arrive, is hi a seri ous condition, as a result of four at tempts to commit Biilride. Snipes last tried to sever an artery in the wrist with a piece of tin. ATTACK OX MEAT TARIFF. "Willi .Tariff oh Meats Steaks will go to Ten Cents u Pound." Niagara Falls, August 8. An at tack upon the nioa' tariff was made by Milo Westbrooke, chairman of the legislative committee,' in his report before the International Stewards' Association here. Westbrooke con cluded Iris remarks - with ' the state ment that "with the I a riff off meats, round steak will po to ten cents a and other cuts will be proportion ately cheap." By a vote of the convention the legislative committee was -instruct ed to start a vigorous campaign to hnve a federal law passed that will adniil meat ' 'ti '.the l'liil"d States free of tint v. .."According to the year brink of the department f agriiiili ure" said the i.pcplier "the number of .milch con a in this country has not. Hi; created during, the pas! five years I he milch cow i:i the source- of I lie supply of beef v e cannot look for any immediate increase in the domestic supply. We therefore must continue to pay cxlioibitanl for meat or turn 16' the foreign mar kets for a supply adequate Io meet the growing demands. "The lines: of grass is grown in abundance in the Argentine liepul lie" continued the speaker "this with iperfeel climatic conditions niiil-.es the Argentine an ideal place to raise cattlo and rheep for they graze out in the open 1165 days in the year Considering, the fact that only HeV en percent of the acreage of the Ar gentine Republic is under ctiltiva tion and that their exports of meats have increased 500 per cent during the past ten years We need not wor ry about, nn ample supply of ineiit If our Legislators will amend the laws by removing the tariff on i mid thereby open the doors for the Argentine Republic to dispose of their -rapidly' Increasing surplus Mrs. (irace Sends Husband a ( aid Newman, On.,; Aug. 7. "Many happy returns on your thirtieth birthday. Hoie to he with you on your thirty-first If. van say bo This message, on a postcard, was received by Eugene H. Grace. was a souvenir of Savannah, where his wife, Daisy Grace, recently ac quitted of attempting to kill Eugene stopped before Bailing for Philauel phia. The card wus unsigned. New York Farmer Kills His Wife Watertown, N. Y Aug. 8. Gor don Priest, a farmer, told the an (ViorttlOB yesterday that he foiin his wife, robbed and murdered In their home, when he returned from work. The woman's bo.iy wa found in bed with her head spll-. with a hatchet. Her year old bnhy was beside ber unharmed. The po lice this morning said that Priest hat contesserL . Elected Head of North Caro lina Home Insurance Company Mr. Alexander Webb, of this city, has been elected president of the North Carolina Home Insurance Company, of Raleigh,- to succeed Hon. Richard H. Battle, deceased. Mr. Webb was vice-president, and general manager of the company from April 15, 1 S ! 1 , until his elec tion yesterday as president, the rec ogination being well earned. When Mr. Webb became an offi cer In tile company the surplus to policyholders--was $60,000.-. It has increased this surplus to ?2t7, :431.2", and in addition has paid regularly annual dividends of ti pel cent. The company has $18,000,000 of insurance in force and has olio agents in North Carolina, South 'arolina and Virginia. The com pany has had an honored and suc- uessful existence for all of its 4.i years and has been proved so thor ough that the chamber of commerce went on record as endorsing it. President Webb was born at Ridgeway, Warren county, Decem ber 17, 1870, and moved to Ashe- ville in 1891, where lie did news paper work for three years. Enter- ng the insurance business, he or ganized the agents into the North Carolina Fire Underwriters Associ ation, becoming the - first president. He has displayed a genius for the business and the North Carolina Home Insurance Company with him at. its head will continue its career of success. . SIXTY FOR SCHOOL Washington, Aug. 8 Senator Simmons' bill appropriating fift thousand dollars to erect school buildings for the Croatan Indians at Pembroke.- N. C, passed the senate today. The bill also appropriates ten thousand for the first current. year after the erection for mainten anrc. ; REIH'CE TAX RATE. l.encir County Commissioners and Kiiiston Aldermen Roth Make Re diictions. (Special to The Times.) Kinston. X. ('.. Aug. S. The board.' of county '-commissioners at tho regular monthly meeting, redm ed the tax rate for '-Lenoir- from 0:t 2-:: cents on the .'$'100 valuation to Nl 2-.i. .ir seven cents. This nn nreciiihln redllelion whs mnHc tinsKi lite by the Increased tax valuation of property last year and this. The city Council -applied, the knife in a new tax levy,, and reduced the rate from .V cents to 10 on the tion A movement is on foot here t re pair Parrot t's bridge, nu'R'icienl wooden sttui'ture spanning Neusi river at the foot.; of. ('aswi.ll street. condemned for several years past be cause of its dilapidated conditim. The bridge bads to-Tarrott's park Ibe beauty SiH of the country, sur rounding 'Kinston. and the decision nf the authorities to consider its re storation is meeting with iiuiiular approval. ( oniniittees of the coun- l and city'. boards are now inve gating the, worth of lb" old' slniel- n re as !! public .convcnicicc, and llir irciha ll : it y is Dial it. Will be rec'nn- strui-ted. The bridge was weaken ed almost Io destruction by flood about a dei ade aii. and has sinei become, so unviable us In vau:-:c easiness. The good government league of Kinston is pla ining a public mass meeting lor one Sunday of lid month,' at which a noted public speaker will make the "principal ad ilress. cornier meetings ol the kin 1 have been attractive Io large ine f 'cs -. anil Inn Icnmliiir occhshim will be part of the league's program of public, betterment, work for the omlng fial 1.. It is said that !ln ston's moral stains Is far better tin" at any previous time In the cltv' history, a condition which the league helped .materially In bring! ig about WILSOX IX NEW YORK Will DNciiks the Individual Plank of the rbitfiuiii in the Campaign New ..York. Aug. 8. -Gov. Wilson wants to save .'ammunition for th campaign," explained Wilson when asked why he omitted to discuss many of the platform planks In hi acceptance speech. "I merely took the heart of the platform, said he "and what seemed to be the heurt of the situation throughout the country. I'll discuss later lndlvidua topics.'" The governor intimated that he would say a good deal about the navy at some future time, but he didn't wish to Interfere in th present "battleship tangle" in the house. The governor's reason for ignoring the single term plank is known to his closo friends. It is likely the governor will go through the campaign without uttering Single word, 93 the subject,, onmissioners Provide For KV-jpg All Highways iu'wnships Q BE SA i FACTORY Relieved That New Plan Will Be Satisfactory io All Townships Raleigh Township to Get Its Share of Work for First Time No Section of County to Be Neglect ed Full Text of Resolution. If the board of county commis- oners adheres to its resolution with egard to the distribution of the road forces in Wake county for the coming year, much more work than sual will bo done, it is declared, and he various townships will be bet- er satisfied. Incidentally Raleigh township, by far the most impor tant to eveybody of any in the county, will receive its proportion f improvements, and will not be sadly neglected, as has been the case in the past. It is purposed to keep one half f the road forces in this township nd 10 distribute the other half in the other townships, no force to re main longer in a township than six months. By this means it is hoped o do some good work in every sec tion of the county. The resolution passed by the com missioners is as follows: 'Resolved. That the following line of Work shall become and remain the basis of road work for Wake county for the ensuing year: That the convict forces as now constituted (four in number) work as far as practicable only on the main lines, one half of the forces remaining in the Raleigh township and working the main lines to the five mile, the other half devoting their time to the outside townships, remaining not longer than six months in any one section of the ounty. "2. That the present machine forces four in number be placed as follows: (1) To work Falls oad, Neuse River and Rolesville roads and tributaries; (2) Raleigh and Oxford by Penny and Hesters, Leesville and Cary and Apex road and '-.tributaries; (3) Raleigh and Holly Springs, Fayetteville and Gar ner roads and tributaries; (4) Rock quarry, Pool and Tarboro roads and tributaries. "The said machine forces are to be paid out of the 800 per cent. fund allowed The several townships at the rate of $12 per day while at work on township roads. It Is agreed and understood that the ma chine forces doing township work re to lie at the disposal of tho township supervisors when working township roads, and that said ma chine tones are to so anern.ue every three weeki! from one road to an other." Even' a fat woman may have a slim chance in the matrimonial mar ket.. : Al(ilSTCS OWSLKV STANLEY, I'nited (State representative from Kentucky, who, aa chairman of the congressional steel Investiga tion committee, has just presented to the house the most drastic of all the bills lie Iium drawn for the pur pose of controlling corporations. Ry this last measure he seeks to pre vent trust, after being dissolved, from doing bualnesa in m way to chenf lie jubUc anJ Jhe wnrja, r ..aam I ! V i.,r"v m 1
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