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VOL. XXXVIII.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JUNE 14, 1916.
NO. 45.
Cmmutm
C. E. HUGHES
THIRD BALLOT:
o
Way Was Cleared for Hughes
When Other Candidates With
drew. Fairbanks is Named
as Candidate for Vice-President.
Hughes Issues Clear
Cut Statement.
ROOSEVELT NOMINATED
BY PROGRESSIVE PARTY
Roosevelt Tentatively Refuses, Await
ing More Explicit Declaration of
Views on Vital Issues by Hughes
Before Final Decision. Progres
sives Name John M. J?arker of
Louisiana For Vice President.
Chicago. Charles E. Hughes and
Theodore Roosevelt, both of New
York, were nominated for President
by the Republican and Progressive
conventions at 12:49 and 12:47 o'clock
Saturday, respectively, the Roosevelt
nomination beating the Hughes nomi
nation by exactly two minutes.
Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana
was nominated for Vice President on
the Republican ticket and John M.
Parker of Louisiana on the Progres
sive. The Hughes nomination was
made on the third ballot of the con
vention, the Roosevelt nomination by
acclamation.
Colonel Roosevelt sent a tentative
declination of the nomination, with
the understanding that it was to stand
if Hughes turned out to be sound on
the issues of Americanism and pre
paredness, and that if Hughes turned
out to be pactifistic, pussy-footed, or
pro-German he would accept and
make the race as the Progressive can
didate. Justice Hughes broke all records by
accepting the nomination by telegraph
without waiting for a formal notifica
tion by the regularly appointed com
mittee, and declared his position not
only on the issues regarded by Col
onel Roosevelt as the test issues, but
also on the other principal questions
raised by the Republican platform.
For a long time a third telegram, this
one from Mr. Fairbanks declining the
Vice Presidential nomination, was an
ticipated, because he already had sent
a private one to that effect, but, in
stead, he accepted over the telephone.
The Conference Committee scheme
failed because the Republicans would
name no candidate. At the last minute,
after every effort to induce them to do
so had proved ineffective, Colonel
Roosevelt himself proposed union on
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts.
The two Conference Committees so
reported, but the Progressive Conven
tion laid the telegram on the table
and the Republicans paid no attention
to it.
The nominating ballot showed this
count:
Hughes 949 1-2; Roosevelt 18 1-2;
Lodge 7; Du Pont 5; Weeks 3; La
Follette 3; absent 1. Total 987.
Although Frank H. Hitchcock let
it be known that the Hughes men
wanted Burton for second place,
Ohio withdrew Burton's name, leav
ing the field to Mr. Fairbanks and
former Secretary Burkett of Nebraska.
The ballot for Vice President show
ed this count:
Fairbanks 863; Burkett 108; Borah
S; Burton 1; Johnson 1, absent, scat
tering and not voting 6. Total 987.
Leaders Seen Satisfied.
At 2:01 p. m. the convention ad
journed. There were expressions of
harmony from all the leaders and
among the delegates. The delegations
which on the final ballot had cast
votes for others than Mr. Hughes
made statements declaring their loy
alty to the nominees.
"Six months ago," said Chairman
Hffles of the National Committee, "I
said a nominee would be born in the
convention, and he was."
"I am very much pleased, of course,"
said Mr. Hitchcock. "It means a re
united Republican party and victory
in November."
The nomination of Mr. Hughes was
made possible so soon by an over
night break up of the allied favorite
sons' combination which ear'v in the
morning released its delegates prac
tically all of whom were known to
favor Mr. Hughes when freed from
their instructions.
Favorite Sons Withdrew.
When the convention began busi
ness shortly before noon the with
drawal of the favorite sons was an
nounced one after another and the
votes began flopping into the Hughes
column in solid blocks so rapidly that
the nomination plainly was assured
before the roll call had gone five
states. When it got to Colorado the
drift was so apparent that a proposal
to make it unanimous was made, but
Chairman Harding ruled that the bal
loting should take its regular course.
Greeted By Yells.
Each addition to the Hughes col
umn was greeted by . yells of exulta
tion from the rapidly accumulating
Hughes delegates and steadily stae by
state the votes piled up until New
Jersey carried it past the required
NOMINATED
APPEDTG
huul u
r
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES.
494 and the remainder was only a
formality.
In rapid succession as the vote went
on Du Pont was withdrawn by Del
aware and his solid block was cast
for Hughes; Illinois withdrew Sher
man; Ohio withdrew Burton; Iowa
withdrew Cummins; New York with
drew Root; Massachusetts withdrew j Burton 1, Dupont 1, Roosevelt 5, Fair
Weeks. Practically all of these new banks 1. Half vote off Absent one
votes were cast for Hughes, only a half.
few remaining in compliment to the , Texas Root 1, Fairbanks 1, Bur
favorite sons who brought them. j ton 1. Weeks 1, Hughes 1, Sherman 1,
Candidates Pledge Support. i Roosevelt 1. Cummins 1, Borah 1,
Then one after the other, Senator
Weeks and Senator Lodge took the
platform pledged loyalty to the nom
inee and asked all their supporters
to do likewise. Similar announce
ments were made from all the favor
its sons delegation.
Burton Goes to Fairbanks.
With the end of the balloting for '.
the presidential nomination and the
official announcement the balloting
for Vice President began. There ware
some surprise when Governor Willis
of Ohio withdrew Barton's name and
cast the whole block of Ohio votes for
Fairbanks.
After Chairman Harding had offi
cially announced the nomination of
Fairbanks, the usual resolutions were
passed. Chairman Hilles called a
meeting of the new National commit
tee for organization, and the conven
tion adjourned.
Notable Convention.
The convention was notable in po
litical history for many things. A
man who had steadfastly refused to
seek the nomination had been chosen;
it was the first Republican convention
since 1888 which had been forced to
take more than one ballot to agree
upon a candidate, and it had been
marked by a lack of riotous demon
stration and nervous enthusiasm
which hitherto had been a feature
of such gatherings. It did not touch
any of the existing records for sus
tained demonstrations, but despite
the fact that it was wholly and decid
edly "unbossed;" it moved with a pre
cision and quietness which had not
been equalled since the McKinley con
vention in Philadelphia.
ROOSEVELT DECLARES THAT
HE IS OUT OF POLITICS.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. Theodore Roose
velt reiterated that he is out of poli
tics.
"I want to tell you newspaper men,"
he said, "that it's no use for you to
come here to see me. I will have
nothing to say. I will answer no ques
tions, so please don't ask me to. I
am out of politics."
If the former President has any
plans for the immediate future other
than to continue his literary work, he
has not made them public.
A flood of telegrams has been re
ceived. It was announced that most
of them approved his action in de
clining to become a candidate upon
the Progressive ticket.
While Colonel Roosevelt would not
discuss the question his intimates
considered it alto -ether unlikely that
he would reconsider his conditional
refusal to head a third ticket. He
has not yet made it clear whether or
not he wifl support the candidacy of
Mr. Hughes.
First Ballot.
Alabama Sherman 1, Burtjom 1,
Weeks 3, Fairbanks 1, Roosevelt 1
Borah 1, Hughes 8.
Arizon Hughes 4, Burton 1. Roose
velt 1.
Arkansas Fairbanks 2, Sherman
2, Burton 3, Root 3, Weeks 3, Cum
mins 1, Hughes 1.
California Hughes 9, Root 8, Bur
ton 1, Weeks 3, Fairbanks 3, Sherman
2. i
Colorado Roosevelt 6, Root 5, Faid-
banks 1.
Connecticut Hughes 5, Root 5, Bur
ton 2, Weeks 1, Fairbanks 1.
Delaware Dupont 5, Roosevelt 1.
Florida 'Hughes 8.
Georgia Roosevelt 1, Burton 2,
Dupont 3, Hughes 5, Weeks 6.
Idaho Hughes 4, Roosevelt 4.
Illinois Sherman 56, Roosevelt 2.
Indiana Fairbanks 30.
Iowa Cummins 26.
Kansas Weeks 3, Root 2, Fairbanks
! 2. Sherman 2. Burton 1. Huehes 10.
Kentucky Fairbanks 15, Hughes
10, Roosevelt 1.
Louisiana Weeks 3, Sherman 1,
Root 1, Burton 1 1-2, Fairbanks 1 1-2,
Hughes 4. I
Maine Root 1, Roosevelt 2, Weeks
3, Hughes 6.
Maryland Hughes 7, Weeks 5,
Roosevelt 3, Root 1.
Massachusetts Hughes 4, Roose
velt 4, Weeks 28.
Michigan Henry Ford 30.
Minnesota Cummins 24.
Mississippi Burton 1, Weeks 1 1-2,
Fairbanks 2, Roosevelt 3 1-2, Hughes
Missouri Fairbanks 6, Weeks 8,
Frank 6, Willis 3, Hughes 18, absent
1.
Montana Cummins 8.
Nebraska Cummins 14, Ford 2.
Nevada Root 2, Hughes 4.
New Hampshire Weeks 8.
New Jersey Hughes 12, Root 12,
Roosevelt 2, Weeks 1, Fairbanks 1.
New Mexico Roosevelt 2, Hughes
2, Weeks 2.
New York Hughes 42, Root 43,
Roosevelt 2.
NORTH CAROLINA Weeks 3,
Root 2, Hughes 6, Roosevelt 9, Bur
ton 1.
North Dakota LaFollette 10.
Ohio Burton 48.
Oklahoma Burton 2, Cummins 1,
Fairbanks 2. Hughes 5, Roosevelt 2,
Root 1, Sherman 1, Weeks 6.
Oregon Hughes 10.
Pennsylvania Brumbaugh 29, Knox
36, Roosevelt 8, Hughes 2, absent 1.
Rhode Island Hughes 10.
SOUTH CAROLIA Roosevelt 1,
Fairbanks 2, Weeks 3, Burton 2, Root
1, Hughes 2.
South Dakota Cummins 10.
Tennessee Hughes 9, Weeks 3 1-2,
1, Taft 14.
Utah- Hughes 4, Root 3, Roosevelt
Vermont Hughes 8.
Virginia Fairbanks 1,
Roosevelt 1 1-2, Root 3,
Burton
Weeks
1.
3,
Hughes 5 1-2.
Washington Root 8, Hughes 5,
Roosevelt 1.
West Virginia Burton 7, Weeks 5,
Dupont 2, Fairbanks 1, Hughes 1.
Wisconsin LaFollette 15, Hughes
11.
Wyoming Hughes 6.
Alaska Weeks 1, Hughes L
Hawaii Burton 1, Weeks 1.
Phillippines Fairbanks 1, Root 1.
Official first ballot:
Hughes 253 1-2, Root 103, Burton
77 1-2, Weeks 105, Dupont 12, Sherman
66, Fairbanks 74 1-2, Cummins 85,
Roosevelt 65, LaFollette 25, Brum
baugh 29, Ford 32, Knox 36, Borah 2,
Willis 4, McCall 1, Taft 14. Not vot
ing 2 1-2. Total 987.
Second Ballot.
Alabama Burton 1, Weeks 4, Fair
banks 1, Roosevelt 1, Hughes 9.
Arizona Hughes 4, Burton 1, Roose
velt 1.
Arkansas Burton 4, Weeks 3, Fair
banks 3, Root 2, Sherman 2, Cummins
1.
California Hughes 11, Root 12,
Fairbanks 1, Sherman 1. Not voting
1.
Colorado Root 5, Roosevelt 6,
Fairbanks 1.
Connecticut Hughes 5, Roosevelt
5, Burton 2, Weeks 1, Fairbanks 1.
Delaware Dupont 5, -Roosevelt 1.
Florida Hughes 8.
Georgia Hughes 8.
Georgia Hughes 6, Burton 2, Fair
banks 2, Dupont 3, Weeks 4.
Idaho Hughes 4, Roosevelt 3, Root
1.
Illinois Roosevelt 2, Sherman 56.
Indiana Fairbanks 30.
Iowa Cummins 26.
Kansas Weeks 3, Root 2, Fair
banks 2, Sherman 2, Burton 1, Hughes
10.
Kentucky Fairbanks 14, Hughes
11, Roosevelt 1.
Louisiana 'Hughes 6, Sherman 1,
Weeks 1, Root 1, Burton 1 1-2, Fair
banks 1 1-2.
Maine Hughes 8, Root 1, Roosevelt
3.
Maryland Hughes 7, Weeks 5,
Roosevelt 3, Root 1.
Massachusetts Highes 12, Roose
velt 5, McCall 1, Weeks 19.
Michigan Roosevelt 2, Hughes 28,
Minnesota Cummins 24.
Mississippi Burton 1, Weeks 1-2,
Fairbanks 2, Roosevelt 3 1-2, Hughes
4.
Missouri Hughes 22, Fairbanks 12,
Weeks 2.
Montana Cummins 8.
Nebraska Cummins 14, Hughes 2.
Nevada Root 2, Hughes 4.
New Hampshire Weeks 2, Root 3,
Hughes 3.
New Jersey Hughes 16, Root 3,
Fairbanks 4, Roosevelt 22, Weeks 1,
Wood 1, Harding 1.
New Mexico Roosevelt 2, Hughes
2, Weeks 2.
New York Hughes 43, Root 42,
Roosevelt 2.
NORTH CAROLINA Weeks 3,
Hughes 6, Roosevelt 9, Root 2, Bur
ton 1.
North Dakota LaFollette 10.
Ohio Burton 48.
Oklahoma Burton 4, Cummins 1,
Fairbanks 1, Hughes 5, Roosevelt 2
Root 1, Sherman 1, Weeks 5.
Oregon Hughes 10.
Pennsylvania passed while count is
being completed.
Rhode Island Hughes 10.
SOUTH CAROLINA Hughes 4,
Fairbanks 3, Weks 3, Burton 1. ,
South Dakota Cummins 10.
Tennessee Hughes 8, Weeks 4 1-2,
Root 1-2, Roosevelt 5, Burton 1, Du
Pont 1, Fairchilds 1.
Texas Fairbanks 5, Root 3, Weeks
3, Burton 3, Hughes 3, Sherman 2,
Roosevelt 2, Cummins 1, Dupont 2,
McCall 1, Willis 1.
Utah Root 2, Roosevelt 1, Hughes
5.
Vermont Hughes 8.
Virginia Roosevelt 1 1-2, Root
Hughes 8 1-2.
Washington Weeks 7, Hughes
Fairbanks 2.
West Virginia Burton 7, Weks
5,
5,
3,
Fairbanks 1, Root 1, Hughes 4.
Wisconsin LaFollette 15.
Pennsylvania Knox 36, Roosevelt
23, John Wanamaker 5, Hughes 8, Du
pont 2, Root 1, not voting 1.
Wyoming Hughes 6.
Alaska Weeks 1, Hughes 1.
Hawaii Weeks 1, Hughes 1.
Phillipines Root 1, Fairbanks 1.
Total Hughes 328 1-2, Root 98 1-2,
Burton 76 1-2, Weeks 79, Dupont 13,
Sherman 65, Fairbanks 88 1-2, Cum
mins 85, Roosevelt 81. LaFollette 25,
Brumbaugh none, Knox 36, Harding
1, Wanamaker 5, Wood 1, McCall 1,
Willis 1. Not voting 2. Total 987.
Third Ballot.
Alabama Hughes 16.
Arizona Hughes 5; Roosevelt 1.
Arkansas Hughes 15.
California Hughes 26.
Colorado Hughes 9! Roosevelt 3.
Stevenson, of Colorado, moved nom
ination of Hughes by acclamation.
Delegate Stevenson, speaking for
the delegates who have been support
ing Colonel Roosevelt, withdrew his
name from further consideration.
Connecticut Hughes 14.
DuPont's name was withdrawn and
Deleware cast for Hughes.
Delaware Hughes 6.
Florida Hughes 8.
Georgia Hughes 17.
Idaho Hughes 8.
Illinois Hughes 58.
Governor Willis, of Ohio, withdraws
Burton.
Hayes, of Indiana, withdraws Fair
banks and cast delegation for Hughes.
Indiana Hu?hes 30.
Wadsworth, t f New York, withdraws
Root.
Iowa withdraws Cummins and votes
for Hughes.
Iowa Hughes 26.
Kansas Hughes 20.
Kentucky Hughes 26.
Louisiana Hughes 12.
Maine Hughes 12.
Maryland Hughes 15; Roosevelt 1.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Massachusetts Weeks 1; Roosevelt
3; Hughes 32.
Michigan Hughes 30.
Minnesota Hughes 24:
Mississippi Hughes 8 1-2; Roose
velt 3 1-2.
Missouri Hughes 34; Weeks 2.
Montana Hughes 7 ; Roosevelt 1.
Nebraska Hughes 16.
Nevada Hughes 6.
New Hampshire Hughes 8.
New Jersey Hughes 27; Roosevelt
1.
New Mexico Roosevelt 1; Hughes
5.
New York Hughes 87.
NORTH CAROLINA Hughes 14;
Lodge 7.
North Dakota Hughes 10.
Ohio Hughes 48.
Oklahoma Hughes 19; Roosevelt
1.
Oregon Hughes 10.
Pennsylvania Hughes 72; Roose
velt 3; absent 1.
Rhode Island Hughes 10.
SOUTH CAROLINA Hughes 8;
Dupont 5.
South Dakota Hughes 10.
Tennessee Hughes 18; Roosevelt
3.
Texas Hughes 26.
Utah Hughes 7; Roosevelt 1.
Vermont Hughes 8.
Virginia Hughes 15.
Washington Hughes 14.
West Virginia Hughes 16.
Wisconsin Hughes 23 ; LaFollette
3.
Wyoming Hughes 8.
Alaska Hughes 2.
Hughes, 949 1-2; Roosevelt, 18 1-2;
Lodge, 7; Dupont, 5; Weeks, 3; La
Follette. 3; absent. 1. Total 987.
RUSSIANS TAKE
E
CZAR'S ARMY TAKES TOTAL OF
108,000 OF ENEMY DURING ONE
WEEK.
ALSO GUNS AND MUCH BOOTY
General Techitshyn's Force Alone
Took 18,000 Austrians. Turks At
tacks in Caucasus Repulsed With
Enormous Losses.
Petrograd, via London. Continuing
their offensive movement adds, over
whelmed the Austrian troops, took
prisoner 409 officers and 35,000 men,
says the official statement issued here.
The Russians also captured 30 guns
and an enormous quantity of booty.
The army of General Techitskyn
alone, operated in the direction of
Czernowitz, Bukomina, the statements
adds, overwhelmed the Austro-Hungar-ians
and took 18,000 prisoners.
Since the present offensive was
started one week ago, the Russians
have taken about 108,000 prisoners.
"Our offensive in Volhynia, Galicia
and Bukowina, have obtained fresh
successes. The enemy armies con
tinue to suffer enormous losses in
prisoners alone.
"The fierce attacks of our troops
are throwing into our hands thous
ands upon thousands of prisoners and
booty of all kinds, the exact estima
tion of which is as yet impossible.
"For instance, in a single sector on
the enemy front we captured 21
searchlights, two convoys, 29 field
kitchens, 47 trains of machine guns,
12,000 poods of barbedwire, (a pood
is equivalent to 36 pounds) 1,000 con
crete planks, 7,000,000 cubes of con
crete, 10,000 pounds of coal, enormous
depots of ammunition and quantities
of arms and other material.
"In another sector we captured 30,
000 rifle cartridges, 300 boxes of ma
chine gun cartridges, 200 boxes of
hand grenadtes, 1,000 rifles, four ma
chine guns ,two range finders and a
Norton portable pump for the extrac
tion of drinking water.
"The capture of such enormous
war materials prepared by the enemy
for various operations affords proof
of how opportune was our coup.
"The Turks in the Caucasus region
repeated attacks on our positions in
the Platana region but were repulsed
with heavy losses, abandoning in
front of our trenches hundreds of
dead. In the direction of Gummes
han we have occupied first line enemy
trenches. In the direction of Diar
bekr, we are advancing and have
taken prisoners and captured boxes of
ammunition."
MSXICAN BANDITS RAID
TWO RANCHES AND ESCAPE
Troops of U. S. Cavalry Go to Scene
Which Was Near Laredo. Take
Two Prisoners.
Laredo, Tex. Fifteen Mexican ban
dits attacked four employes on the
T. A. Coleman ranch at San Mauel,
40 miles northeast of Laredo, drove
the ranchmen from cne corral and es
caped with 83 horses.
The same party, it is reported, raid
ed the Johnson and Coleman ranch in
the same vicinity and captured two
American cowboys, George Conover
and Arthur Myers, who were taken as
prisoners into Mexico. Conover and
Myers were released after being taken
a short distance by the Mexicans and
reached Laredo unharmed.
A troop of cavalry has been sent
to the scene.
George R. Alexander, foreman of
the Coleman ranch, with three men
left the ranch at daybreak taking the
horses to a pasture. When 12 miles
from the Rio Grande, they were sud
denly attacked from the rear by Mex
icans who evidently had been follow
ing them. The ranchers were com
pelled to take to the brush abandon
ing the horses, with which the bandits
made off.
Alexander rode to Minera and re
ported the incident to army officers
here by telephone. Arrangements for
the result immediately were begun,
ferry steamer's crew.
ENTIRE ITALIAN CABINET
RESIGNS FOLLOWING CLASH
London. The Italian cabinet head
ed by Premier Salandra, resigned.
This action of the ministry resulted
from the failure of the Italian cham
ber of deputies to pass a vote of con
fidence in the government after the
presentation of the budget of the min
istry of the interior. A Rome dis
natch received here by wireless
telegraphy said the ministerial crisis
would soon be ended.
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PRISONERS
RUSSIANS
WE
DECIDED GAINS
DRIVE ENEMY BACK FIFTEEN
MILES IN FIVE DAYS OF
FURIOUS FIGHTING.
CRUMPLE OPPONENTS' LINE
From Kovel-Sarny Railway to Buko
wina Austrians Left and German
Right Turned In Lutsk Sector by
Gunfire Sweeping Barrier.
Patrograd, via London. Five days
f furious offensive by the forces of
General Brussiloff has crumpled their
opponents' lines from the Kovel-Sarny
Railway line to Bukowina, driving
them back an average of 15 miles.
In the Lutsk sector the Russians ap
pear to have completely broken
through, turning the left flank of the
Austrian armies and the right flank
of the German forces and capturing
Lutsk, the center of a number of ra
diating roads and railways. At sev
eral points the attacking Russians
have crossed the Ikwa and Styr Riv
ers and further south they are ap
proaching the Stripa River.
The victories are attributable large
ly to the avalanche of gunfire which
swept away dozens of lines of entan
glements and opened the way for the
troops, who swept through in inre
sistible numbers. In some places the
Russian barrier fire cut off large Aus
trian units, which surrendered. This
accounts for the large number of
prisoners officially reported captured.
The operation began in the vicinity
of Olyka, where skirmishing has been
frequent lately. Both sides appeared
to have been feeling for a weak spot
in their opponents' line. The Rus
sian advance from this point, which
is 25 miles from Lutsk, was accom
plished in two and one-half days. Dur
ing the long period of inactivity the
Austrians constructed strong fortifica
tions in this section. The topography
of the country also formed strong nat
ural defenses.
Military observers regard the oper
ation as an extraordinarily brilliant
achievement and emphasize the able
leadership of Generafi Brussiloff, who
conducted the Carpathian campaign
and made a record for prisoners, guns
and munitions captured.
Lutsk is an important link,
strengthening the conection between
the southwestern region and the
northern section, and the possession
of it by the Russians is regarded as a
valuable step toward the recapturing
of lost territory. The possession of
Lutsk is a direct menace to Lemberg,
upon which place the Austrians now
are massing their forces.
MORE DEMONSTRATIONS
AGAINST AMERICANS
citizens of United States Leaving
Border in Large Numbers Un
easiness at Washington.
Washington. Anti-American dem
onstrations in,,, northern Mexico con
tinue, according to official advices, par
ticularly in the States of Chihuahua,
San Luis Potosi and Neuvo Leon, and
consular agents have reported that
the temple of the people appears such
that any eventuality might be possi
ble. Americans are leaving for the
border in steadily Increasing numbers
and border agents have been instruct
ed to urge those seeking to return to
Mexico not to do so for the present.
Officials here showed considerable
uneasiness.
A mass meeting was held at Sal
tillo at which many speeches resenting
the presence of American troops in
Mexico were made. Similar meetings
have been held or are contemplatd at
other points. The only violence
against American property reported
was at Chihuahua City and Monterey,
where there are no consular agents.
It is said bat while General Oar
ranza's forces were trying to overawe
the demonstrators, their control was
not to be depended on entirely in
some districts. Army officials have
no fears for the safety of the Ameri
can expedition.
GERARD REPUDIATES
INTERIEW ON
PEACE
Berlin, via wireless. The American
Embassador James W. Gerard, has re
pudiated an interview recently at
tributed to him on the subject of
President Wilson's peace efforts the
Overseas News Agency says.
The ambasador also is quoted as
asserting that the Count Friedrich von
Westarp, a conservative leader in the
Reichstag, desired Mr. Gerard to have
a spurious interview published recent
ly but that the ambassador declined.
U. S
.WARNS AGAINST
GOING INTO
MEXICO
El Paso, Texas. United States cus
toms officials here warned Americans
that owing to conditions in Mexico it
Is expedient to attempt to visit the
interior of that country. These warn
ings were issued, it was said, on in
structions .from Washington.
Reports that customs inspectors had
been instructed to permit no Ameri
cans to cross the I xntier are ground-
I
TO UNVEIL STATUE
OF VANCE JUNE 27
CEREMONY WILL TAKE PLACE IN
THE STATUARY HALL IN
WASHINGTON.
ALL TAR HEELS ARE INVITED
Committee Sends Out General Inv'ta
tion to All North Carolinians to
Be Present.
Raleigh. The statute of Zeublon'B.
Vance, presented by the State of
North Carolina to the United States,
will be unveiled in Statuary Hall, in
Washington, June 22. An invitation,
addressed to the people of North Car
olina, to attend the unveiling cere
mony, has been issued and signed by
the committee.
The statute governing the placing
of statues in Statuary Hall allows to
each state the privilege of selecting
the two sons which each one deems
most worthy of this memorial. Some
states have had an embarrassment of
riches from which to select; some
have had an embarrassing poverty,
and ludricous choices have been
made in both instances. But in the
case of North Carolina, though there
have been many who might fitly be
assigned to this post of eminence in
the halls of time, there was never
any doubt and there is no division of
opinion as to Vance's right to a place
there. If his name had been submit
ted to the popular vote, the answer
would likely have been unanimous.
Whatever the secret of his grip on
men, his absolute sincerity, his thor
ough whole-souled humanness his
lack of cant and hypocrisy, his per
sonal courage and his genuine love
for his fellowmen must have had much
to do with it.
The following Invitation "To the
People of North Carolina" has been
fssued :
"On the 22d day of June, 1916, in
Statuary Hall, the Capitol, Washing
ton, D. C, there will be unveiled and
presented to the people of the United
States a statue of the late Senator
Zebulan Balrd Vance.
This is being done by direction of
Governor Craig and the Council of
State, under a joint resolution of the
Legislature of North Carolina, 1907,
and pursuant to the Act of Congress
dedicating this hall to the purpose of
thus honoring the memory of the
good and great men of the nation
and giving to each state the right to
place therein two of her distinguished
citizens, illustrious for civic and mili
tary virtues.
You are cordially Invited to
be
present.
W .A. HOKE,
' MRS. M. V. MOORE,
MISS LAURA CARTER,
CLEMENT MANLY,
JOHN HENRY MARTIN,
Committee.
Inspect Beaufort School Children.
Washington. The county commis
sioners and the Board of Education
each made an appropriation of $250
for the purpose of having every school
child in Beaufort county undergo an
inspection by the state board of health
at the start of the next term. It is
believed that this appropriation will
become an annual event and that a
yearly inspection of the children will
be made in the future.
The board of health official will
visit each school in the county. He
will make a personal inspection of
every child, paying particular atten
tion to eyes and teeth.
Weaver vs. Justice in Truth.
Raleigh. Official notices went
Zeb Vance Weaver and Judge M.
to
H.
Justice from the state board of elec
tions that it will be necessary for
them to try out a second primary in
order to settle the contest for the
nomination for Congress.
Vote in Seventh District.
Raleigh. The vote in the Seventh
Congressional District was Robinson
6,316; Spence, 3,600; Varner, 2,528; T.
B. Finley, 1,583.
Pou Bill Passes House.
Washington. The House passed a
bill introduced by Congressman Poti
authorizing payment of $225,000 to
mail carriers of the south who served
from January to May, 1860. Approxi
mately $15,000 will be distributed In
North Carolina among carries or their
heirs.
Congressman Pou, chairman of the
Claims Committee, has been gather
ing the data on these claims for sev
eral years. No contest came from the
Treasury Department, where the
books showed the claims credited.
Street Paving at Klnston.
Kinston. Kinston's assessment
street paving program, under which
this city has paved more streets in a
year's time than any town in the coun
try of similar size, will be brought to
an end this summer in order that the
expense may be totalled up and the
bonds disposed of in the fall. The
cost so far has been almost $400,000,
It is estimated, of which about half
has fallen upon individuals who peti
tioned for paving. The municipal au
thorities served notice that thev will
j receive no petitions after June 19.