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VOL. XXXVIII.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, MAY 3, 1916.
NO. 39.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS JJFJHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
Mexican News
Columbus, N. M., reports that a col
umn of cavalry about four miles long
has moved from the base camp there
and has encamped at Gibson's line
ranch 15 miles west of Columbus. It
is stated that this column will cross
i he border.
Military authorities state that there
is no connection between the dispatch
of reinforcements to General Pershing
and the reported arrival of four traln
loads of Carranza soldiers in the Guer
rero district.
Reports are to the effect that Villa's
scattered adherents are being pushed
; the wall, and are fleeing for cover,
morale broken, the men half starving
and almost physical wrecks.
The news of the battle of Toma
chic, in which Col. Dodd routed 260
Villa adherents, was received in El
Paso, Texas as a confirmation of re
ports that the activity of the Amer
ican troops had encouraged the ban
dits in northern Chihuahua to unite
and resume their depredations.
Mexican officials in Juarez claim
that the Mexican government is ham
pered by the presence of the Ameri
can soldiers in Mexico, as the Mexi
can leaders have refrained from ex
tended operations for fear of clashes
with the American troops.
The seven Villa followers who were
captured after the raid on Columbus,
X M., and convicted of murder in the
first degree, have been sentenced to
die on May 19. The prisoners pleaded
that they were ignorant of where they
were going at the time of the raid.
It is stated that the majority of the
United States troops are concentrated
near Xamiquipa.
Behind a formal announcement that
President Wilson had approved a plan
for redisposition of the American
troops in Alexico, there was a plain
intimation had determined .to main
tain a military status quo beyond the
border until the Mexican de facto gov
ernment has demonstrated its ability
to capture or crush Villa and his ad
herents, and prevent repetitions of the
Columbus raid.
The new military plan leaves the
pursuit of Villa completely at a stand
still. European War
There has been some infantry ac
tivity along the front in France held
by the British, but along the rest of
the western front only artillery and
aerial activity is apparent.
Artillery engagements both east and
west of the Meuse has been violent.
French and German airmen have
been making the days and nights hid
eous since the advent of warmer
weather. No decided advantage is re
ported. German aeroplanes droped bombs
on the Russian battleship Slava in the
Gulf of Riga, and the Germans claim
severe damage was inflicted.
Xo important actions are reported
in the Austro-Italian or Russian-Turkish
zones of activity.
German battle cruisers appeared
off Lowestoft, England, and opened
fire and killed two men, one woman
and a child.
Great Britain has sent an answer
to the American protests against al
lied interferences with neutral trade.
The message states that an impartial
commission has been appointed to find
ways to minimize delays, and pledges
the allies to make as little restraint
on trade as possible.
Dispatches from Holland to London
state that the breakfast tables in Hol
land are carrying war bread for the
first time. This is said to be due to
submarine warfare and the recent loss
of Dutch ships.
Almost coincidental with the cap
ture of Sir Roger Casement, leader of
he Separatist faction in Irelana,
while he was attempting to land arms
from Germany on the coast of Ireland,
there has occurred in Ireland, at Dub
lin, a revolutionary outbreak of con
siderable proportions.
Artillery bombardments are taking
I ace on the French and Belgian
fionts.
The scenes of the greatest activity
'f the war now are Le Mort Homme
and the Argonne forest, with the Ger
mans aggressors in the former and
the French in the la.ter.
French aviators have dropped shells
on German positions at Longuyon, Ste
aay, Dun and near Montfauoon.
Trieste was attacked by Italian air
men, in which nine were killed and
five wounded.
Sorties between the Germans, Aus
trians and Russians on the front con
tinue, with no advantage to either
side The same is true of the Austro
Italian zone.
The British in German East Africa
continue successful.
The Turks are losing in Egypt, and
the British are hopeful that peace
will soon reign in that province.
The British are pressing on their
efforts to lift the siege at Kut-el-Ama-ra
in Mesopotamia.
Th? British government is meeting
with scant success in the effort to
Purchase Roumanian corn.
It is claimed In London that the
Irish rebellion was planned in Ger
many. The Dublin Irish rebels have been
driven out of their positions in St.
Stephen's Green with bombs, after
sustaining heavy losses.
Four hundred Irish rebels were
made prisoners when the troops cap
tured St. Stephen's' Green and drove
them out with bombs.
John Redmond, leader of the Irish
Nationalists, says the Irish rebels
have struck the last blow at home
rule.
Only aerial and artillery activities
mark the progress of the war on the
European fields, but the British have
met with reverses in Mesopotamia and
in Egypt.
An attempt to relieve the beleaguer
ed force of General Townsend in Kut-el-Amara
failed when a vessel loaded
with supplies grounded in the Tigris
river, four miles east of Kut.
Airment have been active in the
Asiatic field Turkish and British air
men have been putting in busy days
and nights.
German newspapers are now taking
a more serious view of the German
American situation.
It is stated that Americans attempt
ing to leave Germany by way of Switz
erland are encountering difficulties.
Foreigners now in Germany have
been informed that none will be al
lowed to leave before twenty days
have elapsed.
The German troops northeast of
Celles, in the Vosges mountains, took
the first and second French lines
upon and opposite height No. 542.
The British government reports that
the Irish situation is well in hand,
and little trouble is feared, as it is
stated that the ring-leaders have been
apprehended.
In a statement compiled by New
York bankers, it is asserted that the
war in Europe is costing ninety mil
lion dollars a day.
If the war continues until August 1,
it is stated by financiers that the
cost will have been over forty-five bil
lion dollars.
The unanimity of sentiment among
the world's neutrals for the protec
tion of neutral rights is recognized in
the British note which has been sent
the United States.
German submarines continue to de
stroy merchant steamers. The Ital
ian steamer Joseph Agost Teherzee is
the latest ship sunk by a German sub
marine. The crew was landed.
The British steamer Feliciana has
been sent down by a German subma
rine, according to the report of the
captain and sixteen members of the
crew, who were picked up by a steam
er. A later report says all the crew
was rescued.
A Turkish report says that the Brit
ish losses at Felahie were more than
three thousand.
Washington
An official declaration of the atti
tude of the United States toward arm
ed merchant ships reiterates and ex
plains the purpose of the American
government to recognize the right of
peaceful vessels to carry arms for de
fense and at the same time, while re
ferring only to warships generally,
clearly, sets forth the conditions un
der which the United States hold sub
marines may attack merchant craft.
Twenty-five thousand telegrams pro
testing against war with Germany
have been received by Senators Sher
man and Lewis of Illinois. There was
nothing in them to indicate who had
prepared the telegrams for the sig
natures. William F. McCombs, chairman of
the Democratic national committee
has notified President Wilson that h
will be unable to continue in his pres
ent position after the national con
vention and will be unble to direct
Mr. Wilson's campaign for re-election.
A draft of the naval appropriation
bill, reported by the subcommittee to
the house naval committee, carries
$217,652,174 for the launching of the
proposed five-year building program.
A report has reached Washington
from Shanghai, China, that more
than a thousand soldiers of men of
the crew of the steamer Hsin-Yu were
lost when the vessel sank after a col
lision with the cruiser Hai-Young,
south of the Chusan islands. The
steamer, it is stated, was acting as
a transport, and was taking troops o
Foo Chow.
Domestic
Rev. Josiah Strong, who originated
the "safety first" movement, and who
was president of the Social Service
Institute, died at his home in New
York City. He was also known as
an editor and author.
The remarkable expansion of the
coal industry, due largely to the Eu
ropean war, is indicated by the enor
mous increase of tonnage reported by
the bituminous carriers.
Since the beginning of the war
more than $350,000,000 worth of mules,
horses and automobiles have been
shipped to the entente allies in Eu
rope. In a running fight in the hills near
Gore, Okla., a posse headed by Sher
iff Barger of Muskogee county, shot
and killed Joe and Dave Smith, out
laws, said to be sons of "Famous"
Smith, a notorious bandit of territo
rial days. The fugitives used riot
guns stolen from county officials a
year ago when Dave Smith escaped
from jail. The two carried safe-blowing
apparatus. None of the posse was
injured.
Decatur, Ala., was the sceDe of a
million dollar fire when the compress
of the Gulf Compress company wa:
. destroyed by fire.
REBELS AT DUBLIN
ARE SURRENDERING
OVER SEVEN HUNDRED PRISON
ERS ARE TAKEN BY ENGLISH
TROOPS.
MANY INCENDIARY FIRES
Damage is Estimated at Ten Millions
Conditions Are Reported to Be
More Satisfying.
Dublin. All the leaders of the in
surrection are reported to have sur
rendered unconditionally. It also is re
ported that the Four Courts district
has been re-captured.
London. An official announcement
concerning the situation in Ireland
says: "Seven hundred and seven pris
oners have been taken, including the
Countess Markieviscz."
"The general officer in command re
ports the situation in Dublin much
more satisfactory. Throughout the
country there was still much more to
be done, which would take time, but
he hoped that the back bone of the re
bellion had- been broken.
"Messengers were sent out from the
rebel leaders in Dublin to the rebel
bodies in Galway, Clare, Wexford,
Louth and Dublin counties, ordering
them to surrender, and priests and the
Royal Irish Constabulary are doing
their utmost to disseminate this infor
mation. "As regards the situation in Dub
lin, rebels from the areas of Sack
ville street, the postoffice and the
Four Courts are surrendering freely.
More incendiary fires took place in
Sackville street last night but the fire
brigade is now able to resume work.
"It is further reported that up to
the present 707 prisoners have been
taken. Included among these is the
Countess Marktovsicz."
GEN. TOWNSEND'S ARMY
OF 10,000 TAKEN BY TURKS.
Ill Fated British Campaign in Meso
potamia Ends With Surrender.
London. Another phase of the ill
fated British campaign in Mesopota
mia has closed with the surrender of
General Townsend and the garrison at
Kut-el-Amara on the Tigris River,
about 130 miles below Bagdad. Some
10,000 men in all laid down their arms
to the Turks, after having destroyed
ail their guns and munitions.
The British Mesopotamian ( am
paign, waged along the Tigris from the
Persian Gulf northward, almost to the
gates of Bagdad, had as its chief ob
ject the capture of that ancient city.
To divert the Turkish forces from
Gallipoli was another object. When
almost at the point of achieving Its
main object late last year, the effort
broke down at Ctestphon, 18 miles
from Bagdad, when the Turks, alarm
ed for the safety of the town of fabled
memory, rushed up reinforcements, in
flicting a defeat upon the British and
compelled their retreat 110 miles down
the Tigris to Kut-al-Amara, where the
Turks had them securely bottled up.
General Townsend held out for 141.!
days, his supplies steadily growing
lower as he waited the relief of the
army which, first under General Ayl
mer, and then under General Gorringe,
battled its way up the Tigres toward
him. This army encountered strong
positions of the Turks below Kut on
both sides of the river and, although
several of these were carried, it has
not been able to work much closer to
the beleaguered garrison than a score
of miles because of the stubborn Turk
ish resistance and flood conditions on
the Tigres.
PROSPERITY CONTINUED ITS
INCREASE DURING APRIL.
Washington. The monthly survey
of business conditions throughout the
country reported to the Federal Re
terve Board by agents in each reserve
district, shows that prosperity con
tinued to increase during April in vir
tually every section of the United
States especially in eastern manufac
turing centers. A synopsis of the sur
vey by districts follows:
Richmond Business continues to
show improvement. Farmers are in
better financial condition than for
some time past.
Atlanta General conditions are un
changed; outlook for future conditions
favorable. There is a general sellirg
of the cotton crop.
Boston Business continues to im
prove; comparison with a year age
shows that in many cases the im
provement is exetreme.
New York The volume of the goods
produced and sold last month was
probably greater than in any March
record.
PERSHING'S TROOPS WILL
REMAIN IN MEXICO.
El Paso, Tex. Mexican and Ameri
can conferees over the disposition of
the American forces in Mexico mark
ed time while Major Generals Scott
and Funston awaited word from Wash
ington as to the next step to be taken.
In the meantime, the following facts
developed: That to date the appar
ent intention of the Washington Gov
ernment to keep General Pershing's
command in Mexico, has not been
changed.
COTTON FUTURES
BILL IS ADOPTED
FTER SPIRITED DEBATE HOUSE
AS A WHOLE VOTES
101 TO 23.
IDENTICAL WITH FORMER
Two Cents Pound Tax on Future Cot
ton Sold in Exchanges and Other
Similar Institutions.
Washington. The house, sitting as
i committee of the whole, adopted the
Lever cotton futures bill as an
amendment to the annual agricultural
measure, after a spirited debate. The
vote was 101 to 23. The Lever bill
is identical with the former cotton
futures law, which was held uncon
stitutional, by Federal Judge Hough
of New York on the ground that it
was a revenue bill which had improp
erly originated in the senate, instead
of in the house.
Under the provisions of the meas
ure, a tax of two cents a pound would
be levied on all cotton sold for future
delivery in any exchange, board of
trade, or "similar institutions or
places of business."
Adoption of this measure came af
ter the house had passed, by a vote
of 184 to 86, a special rule providing
for consideration of the cotton future,
grain-trading, and federal warehouse
for agricultural products amendments,
as a rider on the agricultural appro
priation measure. Under the rule, a
little more than five hours' debate on
the amendments was permitted.
STORMY DEBATE OVER
NOMINATION OF BRANDEIS.
Committee Members Predict Unfavor
able Report on the Appointment.
Washington. A stormy debate over
the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis
for the Supreme Court broke in the
senate, and, before it was over, pre
dictions were made by two members
of the Judiciary Committee one a
Democrat that an unfavorable re
port on the appointment would follow
when the committee reached a vote.
Discussion was precipitated when
Senator Sutherland of Utah, a Repub
lican member of the committee, read
to the senate an interview published
quoting Senator Ashurst of Arizona as
charging that Republican members oi
the Judiciary Committee were filibus
tering in order to delay a vote on the
Brandeis nomination, until after the
national political conventions.
Senator Ashurst stood steadfastly
by the quoted statement during the
heated argument, which followed, un
til assured by fellow-Democrats on
the committee that there was no such
fiilibuster. He withdrew the charge,
at the suggestion of Senator Brande
gee, after he had denounced execu
tive sessions and charged that the
Republicans were angered over the
Brandeis nomination because he was
a champion of the masses.
FEDERAL GRAND JURY.
INDICTS EIGHT GERMANS
New York. The federal grand jury
returned an indictment against the
eight Germans recently arrested on
the charge of engaging in a conspir
acy to place incendiary bombs on
ships carrying munitions for the En
tente Allies and against Dr. Walter
T. Scheele, president of the New Jer
sey Agricultural Chemical Company,
the alleged leader of the conspiracy,
who has not yet been arrested.
It was at Scheele's factory that the
bombs were partly manufactured, it
is alleged.
The indictment was found on testi
mony given by Capt. von Kleit, who
was employed in the Scheele factory,
and Ernest Eecker, an electrician
aboard the Hamburg-American Line
steamer Friedrich der Grosse.
The others are Capt. Otto Wolpert
and Captain Eno Bode, of the Ham
burgAmerican Line; Carl Schmidt,
chief engineer, and Frederick Kar
baide, Wilhelm Parades and George
Praedel, assistant engineers on tb.e
Friedrich der Grosse.
FRENCH AEROPLANES
SHELL GERMAN POSITIONS
Paris. The following official com
munication states that:
"North of the Aisne the cannonad
ing has been rather violent in the
region of Bois De Buttes. East of
the Meuse of a violent bombardment
was directed against our positions be
tween the Cote du Poivre and Douau
mont. During the night of 27-28 our
aeroplanes shelled he station at Au-dun-le-Roman,
some military huta
near Spincourt.
FRACTURED SKULL AGAINST
SIDE OF U. S. BATTLESHIP.
Norfolk, Va. Ccy.swain Marvin B.
Hunter, aged 24, ff the battleship
New Hampshire, we.s killed here while
loading and officer's cutter. The
cables broke and Hunter was hurled
against the side of the warship, sus
taining a fractujed skull. Private
Andrew Holstein, a marine, rescued
Hunter from the water, diving from
the deck of the warship. Hunter lived
only a few minutes. Hunter is a 60n
of J. B. Hunter of Pryon, Ark.
J. W. GERARD VISITS
GERMAN
EMPEROR
LEAVES BERLIN FOR ARMY
FRONT AT REQUEST OF
KIASER.
REGARD VISIT AS HOPEFUL
Ejection of Kaiser's Personality Into
the Situation is Expected to Pro
duce Good Results.
Berlin, via wireless. James W.
Garard, the American Ambassador to
Germany, has gone to the German
Army headquarters where he will be
received by the German Emperer.
Washington. Announcement In
press dispatches from Berlin that Am
zassador Gerard would confer with
Emperor William was regarded by of
ficials as significant. Official infor
mation on the subject was lacking, but
the opinion was expressed that the
Emperor might have in mind supple
menting Germany's reply to the Am
erican note demanding the immediate
abandonment of present methods of
submarine warfare with a personal
communication to President Wilson.
Ambassador Gerard in visiting the
Emperor is not acting under instruc
tions from Washington. Consequent
ly officials assumed that the visit Is
at the Emperor's invitation.
In both official and diplomatic
quarters the injection of the Emper
or's personality into the situation was
regarded as a hopeful indication.
President Wilson expects to receive
the German reply within the next
few days, it became known, although
the basis for his expectation was not
revealed. Up to the present he is
entirely without definite information
of the German Government's inten
tions. NEW FARMER'S SOCIETY
IS NATIONAL IN SCOPE.
Gov. Stuart of Virginia and Fairfax
Harrison Are Named Directors.
New York. Gov. Henry C. Stuart of
Virginia, and Fairfax Harrison, presi
dent of the Southern Railway, were
elected directors of the National Ag
ricultural Society, which has just
been organized here.
The avowed purpose of the organi
zation will be to serve as the mouth
piece of the farmers of the United
States in agricultural questions of
Nation-wide interest. Some of the
subjects which will be taken up, it
was said, are rural credits, uniform
agricultural legislation, the promo
tion in congested cpnters of popula
tion of an interest In rural activities,
co-operation in the conservation of
natural resources, and cooperation
among farmers in establishing better
methods of marketing and distribut
ing farm products.
James Wilson of Iowa, Secretary
of Agriculture, in the Cabinets of
Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and
Taft, was elected president of the
society and Theodore N. Vail, presi
dent of the American Telegraph &
Telephone Co., was elected vice presi
dent. GREAT ACTIVITY ALONG
THE BRITISH FRONT.
London. Great activity at various
points along the British front is re
ported in the latest official communi
cation. The Bedfordshire Regiment
carried out a successful raid near Car
noy. There has been artillery activity
at La Boisselle, Hebuterne, Monchy
auJBols, Neuville-St. Vaast, Axmen
tieres and Frelinghein.
At Frelinghein the Germans enter
ed the British trenches but were
driven out. Similar attacks on the
British trenches on hill No. 60 and
at St. Eloi were repulsed.
The sectors of Avocourt and Muml
eres, northwest of Verdun are still
under heavy bombardment. The Ger
mans have attempted no infantry at
tacks here, according to the Paris
communication, but those artillery
preparations usually presage an at
tack. The Germans on the front of Had
ramount and Traumont and between
Duaumont and Vaux, essayed attacks
following violent bombardments but
the French curtain fires held them
to their trenches.
Artillery engagements have featur
ed the fighting on the other parts of
the line in France and Belgium, al
though the French aircraft have car
ried out boombing operations against
numerous German positions. The
German guns are keeping up their
heavy bombardment of the Russian
position at the Ikskull bridgehead.
The Russians have captured the vil
lage of Chrooiakoua along the Rovno
Kevel Railway and put down a counter-attack
there.
SOUTHERN R. R. PURCHASES
MUCH NEW EQUIPMENT.
Washington. Southern Railway has
just purchased 45 locomotives, 60 all
steel passenger train cars, 1,500 all
stee lcoal cars, 1,507 steel center sill
box cars, amounting to millions of
boose cars, amounting to millions of
dollars, as a result of increasing pros
perity in the south.
DEMOCRATS
AT
E
SENATOR SIMMONS POINTS DEM
OCRATIC STATE CONVENTION
TO MATCHLESS RECORD
OF NATIONAL PARTY.
SIMMONS, OVERMAN, CRAIG.
AND CARR ARE DELEGATES
Youth, Vigor and Enthusiasm in Great
Gathering. Delegates and Electors
Are Elected and State Platform is
Adopted.
Raleigh. Youth, vigor and enthusi
asm stood out prominently in the
State Democratic Convention which
met here, for it was essentially a con
vention of young men although it was
seasoned with a springling of the vet
erans who have fought the battles of
Democracy.
It was good to look upon this body
of youthful militant Democracy rep
resenting the best manhood and the
best interests of North Carolina. The
magnificent personnel must have im
pressed itself upon all. It was live,
enthusiastic and harmonious. It rep
resented ideals. That it was here for
continuing the Commonwealth's gov
ernment on its present high plane in
stead of personal aggrandizement or
selfish aims was apparent. The spirit
of optimism radiated throughout the
immense auditorium.
Endorsement of the Administration
of President Wilson, the preparedness
program, proposed National rural
credits legislation and the declaration
that more important National legis
lation had taken place In the last
three years than in any decade of
American history were the outstand
ing features of the platform adopted
here by the State Democratic Conven
tion. The mention of President Wilson's
name always brought applause show
ing the keen hold that the chief ex
ecutive of the nation has upon the
hearts and minds of the people of
North Carolina.
Because the new primary law took
from the convention the privilege of
nominating candidates for state offi
ces the delegates had before them
only the adoption of a platform, the
election of delegates-at-large to the
National Convention, nomination of
presidential electors and considera
tion of a successor to Secretary Dan
iels as National Committeeman. State
officers will be nominated in a pri
mary to be held on June 3 and in the
primary the electorate also will ex
press its preference for a presidential
candidate.
Senators Simmons and Overman,
Governor Craig and Gen. Julian S.
Carr of Durham, were elected delegates-at-large
to the National (3pn
vention by acclamation and Cameron
Morrison of Charlotte and J. O. Carr
of Wilmington, were nominated as
presidential electors-at-large. Dele
gates to the National Convention from
the 10 Congressional districts were
elected and presidential electors nomi
nated at district conventions held earl
ier in the day.
Several of the district conventions
departing from the usual custom of
electiong two delegates and two alter
nates elected four delegates, each
with half a vote, and dispensed with
alternates.
A. W. McLean of Lumberton, was
elected National Committeeman, the
first time in the history of the party
in his state, that a convention had so
acted. Secretary Daniels after serv
ing 20 years as committeeman, de
clined to seek re-election.
As regards state affairs, the platform
declared that so long as the Demo
cratic party remained in control the
suffrage amendment to the constitu
tion would be maintained, assuring a
state government "conducted by
white men." A continued policy of
economy in handling the financial af
fairs of the state was, pledged and the
widest publicity as regards state and
county financial transactions and fre
quent audits were urged. The plat
form also pledged the party to con
servation of the public health, en
couragement of highway construction,
development of rural communities
and recommended the construction of
state warehouses for the storage of
farm products.
Senator Simmons, temporary chair
man of the convention in the keynote
address declared the Democratic par
ty in seeking the re-election of the
Administration war. making the cam
paign solely on the record of the par
ty. Since the election of President
Wilson, he said, the party had done
nothing it was ashamed of an$ it had
no apologies to offer. His address
dealt entirely with the history of
Democracy in North Carolina and the
achievements, of the Wilson Adminis
tration. By vote of the convention a com
mittee waited on Secretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels and Governor
Locke Craig with an invitation to de
liver addresses. Secretary Daniels
was the first to appear on the plat
form. He was given a rousing ovation
while the convention arose to its feet
The work of the Administration
RALEIGH
DORSE
WOQDROW WILSON
was discussed in an impromptu ad
dress by Secretary Daniels. He
stressed the fact that the United
States was at peace and fold of some
of the plans for preparedness against
war. As regards preparedness, he
said the War and Navy Departments
had profited by the experiences of
European Governments since the war
l egan and already had taken steps
to put into practice plans which the
belligerents did not consider until af
ter the conflict was a year old.
In a brief address, Governor Craig
declared that after due consideration
he had concluded Col. Theodore
Roosevelt would secure the Republi
can nomination for the presidency
and that the election in November
would be a declaration for or against
war.
That the United States now was at
peace, was due to Woodrow Wilson,
he said, and his re-election was neces
sary. The election of any candidate
other than Mr. Wilson would mean
the participation of the country in the
general conflict, he asserted.
The convention was called to or
der at 12:15 by Chairman Warren.
Dr. J. E. Underwood, presiding elder
of the Raleigh district, led in prayer.
No time was lost in preliminaries.
Mayor Johnson made a brief address
of welcome, followed by a short
speech by Chairman Warren, in
which he drew a picture of the ideals
of Democracy and compared it with
that of Republicanism, and reviewed
party history for the past 20 years,
paying high tribute to Senator Sim
mons, whom he introduced as tempor
ary chairman. Senator Simmons was
received with much enthusiasm.
Following the speech of Senator
Simmons the temporary organization
was made permanent on motion of W
E. Brock, of Anson, and A. J. Maxwell,
Stacy Wade and K. B. Council were
made secretaries.
Senator Simmons turned over the
gavel to Judge J. D. Murphy of Bun
combe, who presided during the re
mainder of the session.
The election of delegates to the
St. Louis convention occupied but a
few moments. Judge Biggs of Wake,
placed in nomination Senator Sim
mons, Senator Overman, Governor
Craig and Gen. Julian S. Carr. They
were nominated by acclamation.
Mr. Brock put in nomination the fol
lowing for alternates to the national
convention: E. L. Travis, J. C. Biggs,
Thomas D. Warren and J. D. Murphy.
Mr. Cameron Morrison, of Charlotte,
arose at this point and said that he
wanted to see Wade Harris, one of the
distinguished editors of the State in
cluded among the alternates.
Both Chairman Murphy and Mr. E
L. Travis said it would give them
great pleasure to withdraw in order to
allow Mr. Harris to become one of the
delegates.
The following being nominated sing
ly were elected: Wade Harris of Char
lotte, J. Crawford Biggs of Raleigh, J.
D. Murphy of Asheville, T. D. Warren
of New Bern.
District delegates and electors hav
ing been elected at the morning dis
trict meetings, were announced as
follows :
First district Col. W. G. Lamb, of
Martin; A. T. Baker, of Chowan; F.
G. James, of Pitt, and E. F. Aydlett
of Pasquotank. Elector, H. C. Car
ter, of Beaufort.
Second district W. O. Howard, of
Edgecombe; H. G. Connor, Jr., of
Wilson; J. A. Albritton, of Greene;
Thomas Gilliam, of Bertie. Elector
G. V. Cowper.
Third district L. I. Moore, R. O.
Johnson and J. A. Tingle, elector D.
E. Henderson.
Fourth district Edward E. Brit
ton, of Wake; E. W. Pour, of John
ston; A. J. Harris, of Vance; E. R.
Pace, of Wake. Electors, T. T.
Thorne, of Nash.
Fifth district W. T. Brown, of
Forsyth; E. S. Parker of Alamance;
E. D. Broadhurst. of Guilford; Julius
Johnson, of Caswell. Elector, Thomas
J. Gold, of High Point.
Sixth district T. H. Steadman. O.
L. Clark, T. A. Lyon and G. B. Pat
terson. Elector, Bayard Clark.
Seventh uistrict K. R. Hoyle, of
Lee; J. A. Jones, of Scotland; J. W.
Lambeth, of Davidson; D. M. Reese,
of Yadkin, and Mitch Benoy. of
Wilkes. Elector, Clegg Ashcraft, of
Union.
Eighth district J. S. Henderson,
of Rowan; R. L. Smith, of Stanly;
Walter Murphy, of Rowan and C. P.
Matheson. of Alexander. Elector.
Mark Squires, of Caldwell.
Ninth district John A. Parker, of
Mecklenburg; C. B. Armstrong, of
Gaston; Guy V. Roberts, of Madison,
and W. C. Erwin, of Burke. Elector,
W. M. Wilson, of Charlotte.
Tenth district W. E. Moore, of
Jackson; J. F. Alerander, of Ruther
ford; S. W. Black, o Swain; C. P.
Rogets, of Henderson. Elector, Felix
E. Alley, of Haywood.
Each district has two votes in the
National convention. In most cases
the delegates named above expect to
attend and each will have half a vote
After the delegates were named
the convention adjourned until 4
o'clock to give the platform commit
tee an opportunity of forming the
party's platform.
Following the address of Governor
Craig. Edward E. Britton presented a
.memorial resolution in honor of Tom
Pence. It was adopted in silence by
a rising vote.
To make the necessary arrange
ments for the North Carolina delega
tion to the National Convention. A. L.
Watt put in nomination Edward E.
j Britton to act as committee af one
i The. motion was carried and Mr. Brit
! ton will undertake all the detalia of
tl i St. Louis trip.