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 f 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 ♦—- — 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. NEXT GOVERNOR OF N. C. maSM' K * id™ Ha \ wt 1 [ JlllliM ■Bit i W wmmlm Si ||jp j| v. - * JWr . m * <88388888888*?; dllilillliaMBtBIl? “ : ?■= MM * » J1 W|l. Jill : BKk ■ Jmmi 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. , " i VOTERS, ATTENTION! -*5?- . 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. 1— % 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. .. <*■- 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. im i " THE RED CROSS ROLL CALL. To Be Made in Chatham November It to 12. ~ m * 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. i THE COTTON GROWER who dumps ■ his cotton on the market is hurting himself and his neighbor, ' 1 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 in the future* * *' NUMBER 19

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