The Chatham Record
ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878.
McLEAN makes great
AT PITTSBORO ON TUESDAY
PEMOCRATIC candidate for governor came ai-
MOST UNHERALDED BUT HEARD BY REPRE
SENTATIVE BODY OF BEST CITIZENS.
. SPEECH strong, effective
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Mato Unanswerable Presenta
tion of Achievements of
Democratic Party.
The fiction that A. W. McLean is
rot a speaker was exploded here Tues
dav afternoon, when the Democratic
c am luiate for the governorship held
a small but representative audience
thoroughly interested long enough
to review many achievements of the
Democratic party in the State and to
answer completely the contentions of
Candidate Ike Meekins.
The appointement for McLean was
made only last Saturday, too late for
announcement in the Record. The
consequence was that few knew of the
speaking and only a small crowd wa s
present to hear him. Undaunted, how
ever by the small audienc, the speaker
made a set speech of an hour or more
and did himself and his cause great
credit.
He was introduced by Mayor A. C.
Ray who merely cited the fact that
Mr. McLean was big enough to serve
through the eight years’ term of
Woodrow Wilson as assistant secre
-1 tan' of the treasury and as a mem
ber of the War Finance Board, a per
iod when more money was handled
by those two departments than ever
in a like priod and came out un
tainted by oil or any other form of
filthy lucre. - -
Mi. McLean launched forth with
very little preliminary. He declared
that the people are inclined to be too
indifferent to the ballot, which is a
sacred thing as the pople in America
are the sovereign and the ballot is
the means of asserting that sovereign
ty. It is the duty of the citizen not
only to cast his ballot but to do so
only after having dilligently consider
ed Vhat is best for the country and ,
the people. Party government is nec- !
essary in America. How reach a con
clusion as to how to vote? As a tree
is known by its fruits, so is a party
by its record. It has been the aim of
i the Democratic party to bestow as
great benefits as possible upon the
people with the smallest possible bur
den to them.
The Blessings of Government.
The speaker here reviewed the
achievements of the state government
under the Democratic admin
istrations. He first cited the record
as to education.. When the Ru c sell
regime closed twenty four years aero,
the public school funds for the year
totaled a million dollars; they now
total thirty millions. The’school prop
erty of the state 24 years ago was
worth a million, now 64 millions,
teacher schools have been replaced by
the large consolidated schools—the one
room building by fine brick structures.
The goal is not yet reached, but the
state T ill sro toward under Democratic
rule till North Carolina has as good
a school system as any on the face
of the earth. The rural children must
have every whit as good advantages
as those of the city. These things have
f’ome under the wise leadershio of the
Democratic party. Taxes of course
must be higher when great ad
vantages are provided. But the poor
er peonle pay only a small portion of
the school taxes. A small property
owner complained of his taxes being
twice as high as in former years. Yet
when shown that he was getting ten
times the amount of his taxes in the
cost of educating his six children and
that the value of his property had
trebled during the period of high tax
e* 5 he declared he should never utter
another word of complaint.
Ha next cited the value of the greats
health system in the state, Epidemics
us typhoid diptheria, the prevalence of
nook worm and other contagious dis
eases have almost been eliminated.
North Carolina is heralded far and
wide as having the highest birth rate
and the lowest death rate in the
world. There are more baby cradles
and fewer coffins in North Carolina
than among the same number of peo
ple anywhere else. Foreign experts
oorne to North Carolina to study its
.health system. The National board
borrowed Dr. Rankin to teach other
rtates how it is done. These blessings
nave come through the Democratic
leadership.
The deaf, the blind, and the feeble
minded, the crippled children and the
bad boys and the fallen girls have
been provided for, and the institutions
tor these classes are doing untold
.good. Everyone who can see what is
being achieved in these respects must
!v a better citizezn and love his state
ana his party better.
Instead of SIIB,OOO in pensions for
o, d soldiers, tihe state is now giving
® million. Yet the funds for all these
things come from only ten percent of
the people. There is no state property
tax but all state funds come from in
income inheritance, and other similar
taxes to provide for the afflicted and
-•or the eld soldiers, The average man
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does not contribute a cent to these ob
jects.
Similarly, the agricultural work has
placed the state at the head. The State
makes the best crops, and sold for the
highest prices till the Republican ad
ministration smashed prices. Yet Mr.
Meekins claims credit for all of these
things for the Republican party. It
should make a horse laugh. He told
of the old negro wfhio wished a divorce
from his wife because she recommend
ed herself too highly. Mr. Meekins is
guilty of the same offense for himself
and party. Four years ago farmers
of the West went looney and were
crying “Harding or bust”. Later it
could have been changed to “Harding
and busted.”
Os th« road svstem he need mt speak
Even the rabbits in the woods know
about the roads. Yet because the Dem
ocratic administration in its spirit of
fair-dealing placed two or three good
Republicans on the State Highway
Commission they are claiming credit
for the whole. They are like a man wh
after his wife had killed the bear
boasted to his neighbors of what he
had done.
The speaker declared he entered the
campaign with the intention of saying
nothing hard against his opponent, but
he is compelled through the behavior
of his oppenent to recall the corrup
tions of the Holden and Russell ad
ministrations. Mr. Meekins has a
nerveto go about speaking of corrup
; tion in North Carolina when the rot
j tenness of Teapot Dome and the hos
pitalization fund frauds of the Re
publican national administration are
known to all men.
His opponent harps on “machine”
methods in the Democratic party. The
candidates of the Democratic party
were selected by the people. The Re
publicans do not permit the rank and
file to have a say in the choice of
candidates. A handful of office-hold
ers and would-be-office-holders smet
in r room at Raleigh and made a slate.
It went through the convention the
next day like greased lightning. A
I Republican, asked how many were I
1 present in that room, said, very few,
and that one must know the pass word
to get in and that pass word was
P-I-E.' Asked what kind of method
that was, the Republican said Marion
Butler calls it the “hog combine”, and
the speaker tells it, as Marion Butler,
the brains of the Republican party
in eastern North Carolina, so calls it
and he was given his informatioa by
a Republican.
He told how Meekins changed his
attitude toward Senator Simmons. At
first he was berating the Simmons
machine. Some friend put a bug in
his ear. It would not do to berate
Simmons since if Meekins Should be
appointed Federal Judge, Simmons’
aid would be necessary for confirma
tion. Then, he began to praise Sim
mons. This brought Republican criti
cism. Then he split hairs and said
there are two machines and that the
big Simmons-Dawson machine is a
splendid thing, but that within this
there is the little Watts machine that
is rotten.
Mr. Meekins offers nothing con
structive and refrains from speaking
of what was done by his party when
last in power. His is mosquito politics.
The mosquito pops his bill into the
man at work and sings a bit and is
gone, and that is the help he rend
ers.
The Republicans have harped on
corrupt elections and Mr. Meekins
is pleading for the Australian ballot.
Yet in several counties in which the
Republicans have been given the Aus
tralian ballot they are angry about it.
He cited the Campbell-Doughton con
test. The Republican Congressional
committee that (heard the case, told
Campbell to take his hat and go home
and gave Doughton the seat. A Ran
dolph county jury, composed largely
of Republicans, acquitted a man ac
cused of election frauds. On appeal to
the Federal court, a Republican judge
approved the acquittal. When govern
or !he will see that any man guilty
of election frauds, no matter how
big a Democrat he may be, shall be
punished. The state will not suffer
such things; it has outgrown them.
He spoke of Mr. Meekin’s charge
as to high cost of text books and his
slander of the banks of the state and
showed how he had since crawfished
out of (his earlier statements. Meek
ins is a professional orator and
Jefferson said that a professional or
ator is a dangerous animal, that he
is thinking more how he shall say a
thing than what he shall say. The
speaker is glad that fiie is not an ora
tor.
Why doesn’t the Republican candi
date tell about the Fall corruption,
the Forbes steal and the other rascali
ties of the present Republican admin
istration? But even the president has
given Denby a chromo and a rec
ommendation of chararter- Young
Roosevelt who admitted being the
messenger in the Teapot R 0 ”*
action «iaa beennamwl as caudate
fnr governor of New York. The navai
officer in . the deal-has been promoted
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1924.
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HON. ANGUS WILTON McLEAN.
over others to the rank of rear-admir
al. Thus it is apparent that the party
has not repented and is not ashamed.
The Republicans have destroyed the
morale of the nation and diserdited
its honesty and morality abroad. The
nations of Europe and Asia idolized
Amerca during Wilson’s administra
tion and looked upon Wilson almost as
a new savior of the world. Now even
the Bolsheviks of Russia point fing
ers of scorn at us. Secretary of State
j Hughes considers the discussion of
* these frauds by the Democrats humor
ous, alleging that the people have
forgotten. But the people have not
such memories. Even honest Re
publicans are disgusted when they
see such things condoned by the lead
ers whom they have formerly honor
ed and trusted.
The one thing for them to do is to
go to the ballot box and drive this
discredited party from power. The
Democratic party is not engaged in
partisian politics, but in common
wealth building. He himself is not
in politics for office. He has never
been a candidate for office before, and
is now a candidate because he desires
to do something for the state.
He had talked with a western North
Carolina Republican who said that he
would vote the state and county Dem
ocratic tickets, and he had asked him
if he should vote for Coolidge if he
would not appear vto be excusing and
condoning the fraud of the present ad
ministration. Thousands of Republi
cans are disgusted and will not
condone such dishonest acts as
have characterized the last four years
of Republican rule.
The speaker closed with the quo
tation of Paul’s injunction to the Phil
ippians, to think upon whatsoever
things are honest, pure, etc.
The address was thoroughly apprec
iated by the seventy five rep
resentative Democrats present.
BIG GUNS COMING.
A. L. Brooks, Congressman Garrett
of Texas and “Hot stuff”
Ward to Speak.
Chatham people are to have the
opportunity of hearing some of the
big guns in the Democratic campaign,
as indicated by the following ap
pointments, and those in another an
nouncement: ,
Hon. A. L.. Brooks of Greensboro,
will speak at Pittsboro next Tues
day, Oct. 21 at 12:30 p.m.
' Congessman Dan Garrett of Texas
will address the voters at Siler City
Friday, October 24, at p.m.
_ Former Congressman H. S.. Ward,
of Washington, N. C., well known
as “Hot stuff” Ward, will speak at
Siler City, Wednesday, October 29, at
7:30 p.m.
DEATH OF M. T. WILKIE.
Mr. Mont T. Wilkie, rural carrier
on route two, died at his home at
Moncure Sunday morning at 1:20 o’-
clock after a few days of illness but
he had not been feeling well for some
time, but kept up his daily duties.
He had heart trouble and he realized
that death was near. His obituary and
appreciation will be sent next week.
DO NOT SELL your cotton to get
money. Deliver it to the Cooperative
Marketing Association. They will give
50 to 60 percent the day you deliver.
Senator Brandigee, noted senator
of Conneeticutt, committed suicide
Monday night.
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VOTERS, ATTENTION!
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Hon. A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro,
i will address the voters of Chatham
l 1 county, at the courthouse on Tuesday
1 1 October, 21 1924, at 12 o’clock noon.
I Mr. Brooks is one of the best pub
lic speakers in North Carolina. ,
! Evey voter, be he Democrat or Re
publican, who desires to hear discus
! sed intelligently and forcefully the
| political issues of this campaign
should come to Pittsboro on the above
! date and hear him.
It can be truly said of him that he
is an orator, scholar, debater and
without an exception one of the ablest
lawyers in our state.
I invite every one to hear him.
W. P. HORTON.
Chairman of Democratic Executive
Committee of Chatham County.
HELPING ONE ANOTHER.
(Crowded out last week) '■
Merry Oaks, Oct. B.—The Rev. Mr.
Piland filled his regular appointment
*at the Methodist church Sunday af
jtemoon at 3:30. His text was taken
from Romans, 6:23, and he handled his
subject very ably. His appointments
here are at 11 A.M. on the 4th.j Sun
day and hereafter at 3:00 P. M. on the
first Sunday of each month. All are
cordially invited.
Mr and Mrs. D. M Stanley of Ral
! eigh motored to Merry Oaks Sunday
1 afternoon, attended the service at the
Methodist church and were supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Bur
gess.
Miss Alma Thomas of Henderson,
is spending the week with her cousin,
Miss Ima Burgess. f
Three cheers for our new editor and
our county paper. I think every one
of us Chathamites should be very
proud of it and give it our loyal sup
port.. It brings the entire county to
gether into one larger family. I es
pecially enjoy Brickhaven arid New
Hill correspondence, Mr. Joe, Snyder
and several others.
Mrs John Holt spent Monday in
Apex.
Messrs T. H. Windham and J. W.
Maynard spent Monday in Raleigh.
Mr. Clyde Maynard, of Lemon Springs
formerly of Merry Oaks, is very iIL
Her sister, Mrs. H. H. Cotton, is at
her bedside.
Mr. Jake Hudson has been very sick
for several weeks. The people of Mer
ry Oaks are taking care of (him and
his old wife, and the good ladies of
the community are gathering his
cotton.
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Crosses Atlantic in Three Days.
The great dirigible ZR-3 built for
the United States by Germany reach
ed its (hangar in New Jersey yester
day morning, only 80 hours after it
left the home base in Germany. This
is the fist time an airship has ever
crossed the ocean without tedding
somewhere on the route. The Germans
built this great ship as part reparation
for prewar damages. Under the terms
of the agreement it cannot be used
for warfare. A great German air
captain guided the monster aqross the
watery wastes. ..
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CORINTH ITEMS.
Marriage of Mr. Jones and Miss
Yearby.—Mr. Wilkie Delad.
. Mrs. M. A. Arey, of Albemarle, re
turned to her home Saturday, after
a visit with her daughter, Mrs. R. S.
Parker at Buckhom.
Mrs. —•. —. Ritchie and four chil
dren, of Badin, are spending a few
days with Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Parker.
Mr. Con Harrison spent Sunday
with his family at Corinth.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Cross, of Ral
eigh, spent Sunday with relatives at
Corinth.
Please note that the Corinth school
does not open until Monday, October
20th. Some people have not yet got
their cotton picked. That is the main
reason for the postponement.
We spent an hour at the Siler City
Fair Tuesday aftemoon.lt started off
with a good attendance and some
splendid exhibits and from what we
lean was quite a success this time-
We congratulate the Brickhaven school
and community which took two Blue
Ribbons on their exhibits.
A son arrived at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Williams last week.
This is a grandson of our neighbor,
Mr. J. W. Williams.
Many people in this community will
be interested in hearing of the marri
age of J. A. Jones and Miss Gertrude
Yearby at the home of her mother
in Raleigh on last Saturday.. A simple
but impressive service was conducted
Iby Rev. Charles L. Greaves of the
Tabernacle Baptist church, where Miss
Yearby had sung in the choir for some
time.. They left by ‘Essex coach” for
a month’s trip through the mountains
to Kentucky (Mr. Jones’ old home).
They will return byway of Washing
ton, D. C.
Mr. Jones has about completed a
beautiful new home at the Mordecai
place in Raleigh, which they will oc
cupy upon their return. Mr. Jones is
Supt. of transmission lines and sub
stations for the C. P. & L. Co.
Mrs. Jones was a valued employee of
the auditing depatment of the same
company. She is an accomplished, most
likable and popular youg lady.
Their friends in this community all
join in wishing them success and hap
piness through life.
Mrs. S. W. Harrington spent a part
of last week with her daughter, Mrs.
M. I. Ellis at Bonlee.
We are all were sorry to hear of
the death of Mr. Mont Wilkie, at
Moncure, on last Sunday. Another
good and useful man has passed on to
his rich reward beyond.
That was SOME World Series in
baseball last week. Never have we
seen so many local followers of the
national game become so jubilant.
All were rooting for Washington. Why,
There may be several reasons why,
but to our mind the principal reason
is the gentlemanly game that the cap
itals have put up during the season
compared to the scandal and attempt
ed bribery that has again crept into
the New York bunch. We witnessed
the playograph one afternoon in Ral
eigh and many who have radios got
the news right in their home just as
it was played, so that instead of there
being 30,000 people watching this
game a closer estimate would have
been thirty million people.
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THE RED CROSS ROLL CALL.
To Be Made in Chatham November It
to 12. ~ m
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Mrs. N. M. Hill, Red Cross chair
man for this community, advises the
Record that Red Cross roll call this
year will be held from November 11
to November 27.
The Red Cross is doing most val
uable .work in this country and is
worthy of the support of every good
citizen in Chatham county. One dol
lar will purchase a membership but
larger contributions will receive due
credit. I
Let trouble arise anywhere and the
Red Cross funds and agents are
promptly at work. There is no tell
ing when our time of need will arise.
But there is always need of a mod
erate relief fund in every community
and part of the funds collected dur
ing the Roll Call period remains in
the community, we believe, as a lo
eal fund for such contingencies as
may arise.
CARL BARBEE DIES.
—Mr. Carl R. Aarbee, the seventeen
year-old son of Mr. H. B. Barbee
of Williams township, died at Watts
hospital, Durham Monday, after an
operation for appendicitis. The burial
was at Mount Pisgah Baptist churdh
Tuesday, Rev. Mr. Mills conducting
the funeral services.
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THE COTTON GROWER who dumps
■ his cotton on the market is hurting
himself and his neighbor, '
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THREE FINE DAYS l
OF ENTERTAINMENT.
People of Pittsboro to Enjoy a
Fine Program by Home
and State Talent.
The people of this community have
before them several days of free enter
tainment by local and State talent in
a Chautauqua program to be render
ed under the auspices of the school
authorities and the Pittsboro Woman’s
Club.
The arrangements for three big
days are under the direction of Mrs.
W. P. Horton and Supt. Thompson.
A Japanese operetta by community
talent is being directed by Mrs. Shan
nonhouse, president of the Parents-
Teachers Association.
The Program.
The program of the occasion will
appear in full detail next week. It
suffices to say that it embraces three
lectures by Rev. Isaac Wayne Hughes,
of Henderson, President W. L. Poteat,
of Wake Forest, and Dr. Walter J.
Matlherly of the University School of
Commerce, choruses and operetta by
home talent; music by Dr. Paul Weav
er, Mr. Theodore Fitch, and Mr. Fred
erick Hard, all of the University; and
a sermon by some prominent minister
on Sunday morning, October 26.
The chautauqua promises to be a
real treat and should be attended by
not only the people of Pittsboro but
by people from all parts of the coun
ty. ,
MONCURE NEWS.
A Record of Comings and Goings in
The Junction Town.
Messrs Jennings Womble, Sam and
Clarence Crutchfield, Robert and
James Utley, who are attending Eloji
College tfhis year, spent last week-end
with their parents here.
Mr. P. S. Kelly, the superintendent
of the ware house for the Phoenix
Utility ompany for a year or more
left last Saturday for Cenfuegos Cu
ba, where he will still work for the
same company. We regret that Mr.
Kelly has left our town for he was
thought so much of by all who knew
him.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stedman and
Miss Minnie Jones of Durham spent
last Sunday afternoon with his moth
er, Mrs. Julia Stedman and his broth
er, Mr. W. W. Stedman, on Providence
Farm.
Rev. J. J. Boone and little daughter,
Mary and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Wom
ble spent a while with Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Stedman on Providence Farm
last Sunday. "
Capt. J. H. Wissler is at Cedar
Springs, Va., for two weeks, visiting
relatives and friends.
Miss Sarah E. Smith, who has been
visiting in Nw York City, Raleigh and
other places for some time, is at Mon
cure for a while.
We were sorry indeed to lose Miss
Lona Bell McLean of Durham as
music teacher in Moncure school for
she had done so much in one month’s
time. Her pupils all loved her and
liked to practice and did practice.
Miss Kathleen Nolan, who was 3rd
and 4th grade teacher for the first
month of school, will take Miss Mc-
Lean’s place as music teacher, and
Mrs. Roy Walls will take Miss No
lan’s place as 3rd and 4th grade teach
er.
Miss Etta May Olinger, who has
spent several months visiting at Mi
ami, Florida spent last week with her
sister, Mrs. J. E. Moore.
It was a treat to hear Rev. J. J.
Boone preach at the Methodist church
last Sunday morning and evening. He
is an excellent preacher, for he studies,
and communes much with his God and
his message is so Spirit-filled. He and
is looking well and preaches most
earnestly.
Mr. Johnson, of Sanford, was in
town last Monday putting in meters
for the Carolina Power & Light Co.
From now on they will charge month
ly by what the meter says.
DO YOU OWN A DOG?
If you do, you had better read the
law on the subject.
Section 1680 of the Consolidated Stat
ues of North Carolina reads as fol
lows :
No person shall allow his dog over
six month old to run at large in the
night time unaccompanied by the
owner or some member of the owner's
family, or some other person by the
owner’s permision. Any person in-*'
tentionally, knowingly, and willfully
violating this section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon convic
tion shall be fined not exceeding fifty
dollars or imprisoned not exceeding
thirty days, and shall also be liable
in damages to any person injured or
suffering loss to his property or chat
tels.
When you are out of trouble, keep
out. It is better to keep your dog at
home at night than let it prowl around
over the country. Read the law again.
The firm of Perry and Gamer, who
have been running a grocery store
on Hillsboro Street for tftie past sev
eral months has been dissolved, Mr.
Robrt Perry buying Mr. Gamer's in
terest in the same. Mr. Gamer has
moved to Sanford where he will live
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