2v .Efcifctao p 1 3E A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPER FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY PEOPLE. - VOL. 6. NO. 4. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1910. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Democratic Convention in 6th District. A Stormy Affair-Police Called to Restore Ordcr-CIark Nominated a Bolt Likely and two Candidates Named. Wilmington, N. C, July 22 After the most turbulent session the sixth congressional conven tion ever held, early this morn ing on the 43rd ballot they nomi nated Hon. 0. L. Clark, of Clark ton. The nomination followed one of the most sensational con ventions ever held here. The delegates were divided into two factions the Godwin followers and the field. The Godwin forces refused to vote in the con vention. After Clark's nomina tion, early this morning, the God win forces met with George H. Bellamy, deposed as chairman by the field, presiding. The Godwin forces decided to hold a meeting later on today. The advices from the beach now say they are in session and sensation al developments are anticipated. The delegates are at daggers points. It was.a deadlock yes terday afternoon when the God win forces attempted to throw out the votes of Cumberland and New Hanover. They claimed that those delegates were ap pointed by executive committee and not elected. A meeting of the executive committee was called, at which Geo. H. Bellamy, temporary chairman, was de posed and Wm. E. Springer elected instead. When the con vention was called to order both chairmen attempted to preside. Great disorder reigned for hours. The house was in a perfect tur moil. Policemen from the city were summoned and these got the convention to order at 8 p. m. last night Gilbert F. Patter son, of Robeson, was elected permanent chairman. Springer retired, but Bellamy kept his place as chairman of the Godwin forces. The convention proceed ed to balloting. The Godwin forces refused to vote in the con vention, declaring that they did not recognize the legality of the organization. They were in the minority, ratio 104 to 148. There was much jockeying on the bal lots. The votes swinging from one candidate to another. Chair man Patterson ruled that where the Godwin forces would not vote, the vote could be cast by the minority delegates, : there fore the full vote of the conven tion was polled on every ballot and the Godwin votes' were counted. The break came at 1 a. m., Hon. 0. L. Clark, of Clarkton, being nominated. The house was in wild disorder. The Godwin forces immediately with drew, saying . that they would hold a meeting today with Mr. Bellamy as chairman to take action as they may see fit. The situation was tense. Pande monium reigned. There was one fisticuff. Order could not be secured on the floor for six hours, until policemen secured from the city, arived. Whenever the majority would attempt to proceed with the business the Godwin forces would drown out everything with megaphones, yells, etc. It looks now as if the Godwin element will nominate their man mf, -twV ctroZBucklen's Arnica Salve--earth's congress. If this is done tneT . . , , . , - , i 1 a i: matter will probably go to the state democratic executive com mittee for adjustment. Many former Godwin followers are in censed at the position assumed by Bellamy and his cohorts, and the sentiment of course is with Clark. THE COW. The dairy cow, if able to ex-1 press herself in a way which the ' human family would comprehend might well lay claim to ' being J man's best friends. She might1 establish such, a claim by calling attention to the fact that from her product and from her carcass man manufactures more of the necessities of life than from any other similar source. She fur nishes these necessities to him from infancy until such a time as temporal things are no longer associated with his existence, and she does it ungrudgingly and constantly. In addition to contributing to man's necessity and his pleasure, the prosperity of an agricultural community is more closely iden tified with her than with any other of the domestic animals. The horse is quite essential in tilling the soil, but where necess ity requires it the sturdy son of the cow can take his place, as he has t done in every agricultural section on earth The horse can only furnish labor and can only return a profit to his owner when conditions are right for returning satisfactory grain crops. It is a well known fact that the dairy cow is the salvation of the farm er in times of poor crops ; as ; she is 'able to convert the rough crops which are never a total failure, into dairy products which always have a cash value. In addition to this she furnish es skim milk and butter milk for the calves, pigs and poultry and fertility - for r the soil, without which a farm becomes less valu able each year and the whole country less prosperous. The-elimination of the dairy cow would necessitate an almost revolutionary readjustment of man's tastes and requirement. It would mean untold suffering and hardship. Of course she will not be dispensed with but her value can perhaps best be appreciated by contemplating such a loss. t She will continue to be man's best friend as long as the human family exists and will keep on supplying him with his greatest needs just as she has done through all the ages. SPFNDS STAMP TO TEST CENT. Washington, July 18. One of the new .Lincoln pennies has reached a woman at Palermo, N. D. Its unfamiliar appearance worried her. She sent a letter to the postmaster general, saying she had 4 "one of them new cents with A. Lincoln's picture on it and 'Liberty,' " and inquiring "if it's as good as any. other cent."r The writer says in her letter that the penny bears the name of the man who made it, "E. Pluribus Unum," and she wants to know if it is true that the gov ernment is paying a premium for 4 'them kind of cents, " "Ef you ain't the one what knows," she concludes, "pleas send this letter to him as does." A reply containing full enlight enment has been sent to the woman at raiermo, North Dakota. A Frightful Wreck. of train automobile or buggy may cause cuts, bruises, abrasions, sprains or wounds that demadd greatest healer. Quick relief and prompt cure results: For burns, boils, sores of all kinds, eczema, chapped hands and lips, sore eyes or corns, its supreme. JSurest pile cure. 25c at J. T. Under wood's next to Bank of Randolph; Relative Effect and Cost of War and Disease. The ratl of mortality in war, for two hnndred years, has been 4 from disease to 1 from bullets. In the Mexican and Civil wars this ratio was 3 to 1. In the Boer war the ratio was 7 to 1. In the Spanish-American war, owing to lack of sanitary authori ty, this ratio reached its maxi mum 14 to 1. In the Russo Japanese war, where the laws of sanitarion were enforced with rigid military discipline, the ratio of centuries was reversed, and the mortality was 1 from disease and 4 from bullets. , More lives are lost each year in the United States from pre ventable disease than have been lost in all our wars combined Indian, Revolutionary, War of 1812, Mexican, Civil, and Spanish American. -In ' the Spanish American war about live sholdiers died from typhoid fever to every one killed by shot and shell. The United States mustered a hun dred thousand soldiers to rid Cuba of the Spaniard, and sent three men to Cuba to rid the island of yellow fever, the plague of the tropics. The Spaniard was driven out and the yellow fever was conquered. The city of Havana, from 1850 to 1900, suffered an annual average loss of 750 lives from this disease. In addition, there was an annual average sickness from this di sease of 2,250 others. The finan cial loss through the destruction of productive energy from death and sickness, from diminished trade as a result ' of the preva lence of a fearful epidemic, and from expensive and unnecessary quarantine, amounted to an an nual average loss of over $200, 000. Since the discovery of the easy method of controlling the disease that is, since 1900 there has been an annual average of only four deaths from yellow fever in Havana. Most of these cases contracted the disease else where and developed the fever after visiting Havana. Com merce is now v no longer afraid to enter this harbor, even when a case or two of Yellow Jack (there are never more) exists. No more expensive and unneces sary quarantine burdens the tax payers. And, as in Havana, so in Riode Janeiro, the Canal Zone and elsewhere. Major General Leonard Wood has said that the discovery of the method of con trolling this disease saves the commercial interests of our coun try each year more than the en tire cost 'of the Spanish Ameri can war. Disease is far more costly than war, and the results of disease prevention more humane and more valuable to the race. And yet, of the total annual expen ses of our National Government for 1909, $800,000,000, $560,000,- 000 or 70 per cent went for pen sions and the army and the navy, or for wars past and wars antici pated; only 3 per cent was spent indirectly for health, and only 1 p.er cent was spent directly for health. Our own State Govern ment is spending two dollars for military equipment to one for public health not too much for our three regiments, but ..too little for our people's lives. More of this next week in a picture from life, "The Little Mother and the Big Fat Hog." G. W. Sanders passed through the city Monday enroute to Rich land township where he has several farm houses to paint. THE COST OF LIVING. The high est of living is not exclusively an American prob lem. The cost of food is increas ing slowly but surely in England Bacon within a month has ad vanced two cents a pound owing to scarcity and speculation. Cheese has gone up two cents a pound, an increase English peo ple will feel keenly because cheese is used more as a sub stantial food there than as trim ming to a piece of pie. Sugar, owing to a short supply, is up half a cent a pound, while that English breakfast standby, marmalade, is up in sympathy with sugar, says the New York Sun. Soap, too, has increased in price and is now almost a cent a, pound dearer than it was six months ago, The increased cost of soap is due to a shortage of the tallow supply. Cocoa, however, is eight cents a pound cheaper than a year ago, while sardines are a drug on the market and two cents a pound cheaper than last year. Butter is always cheaper in London than New York, owing to the many sources of supply Denmark, Russia, France and Ireland in addition to the domestic English supply. Two months ago the best French butter was thirty cents a pound; todap it is twenty six cents. Flour is cheaper than last year and is down in price two cents on the fourteen-pound bag. Eggs are bringing less than the New York prices. The best English new laid eggs are twenty-six cents a dozen, while eggs guaranteed to have been laid the day before yesterday are thirty cents. Egg and poultry merchants, however, say that eggs and poultry must go up in price before long owing to the shrinkage of foreign supplies. The import of eggs during the last year was 15,000 tons below the preceding year. Germany isn't contributing large supplies, as heretofore, owing to the fact that German prosperity is enabl ing the masses of the German j people to eat eggs nowdays, whereas in the past they couldn't afford them. ROOSEVELT WILL NOT HIMSELF. COMMIT Since the return of ex-President Roosevelt from Africa ef forts have been made to induce him to commit himself politically both factions of the Republi can party being anxious to have him indentify himself with their particular wing of the party, but so far all efforts of the leaders to get an expression from him showing his attitude toward these warring factions of the party have been fruitless. The weight of his influence is fully recognized and for this reason both wings of the party are anxious to have him align him self. The ex-President is an astute politician and every step he takes may be depended on to advance the interest of what ever policy he may favor. Elkin Times. Stranger (in Drearyhurst) Is there any place in this town where I can get something to drink? Uncle Welby Gosh, yes sir, onless you're mighty blamed hard to please. There's four town pumps, a sulphur well an' half a dozen places wThere you can get root beer. Chicago Tri burte. . Subscribe for the Bulletin and get the tampaign news straight. III. Godwin Nominated, f:t'i District Holds Another Convention-Ignore Regular Convention, Naming H L Godw.n-State' Executive Committee May Se.tle Row. . Wilmington, N. C, July 23- The insurgent branch of the sixth congressional convention met at noon yesterday and nomi nated for congress Hon. Hanni bal L. Godwin, of Harnett coun ty. He is the present incumbent and is completing his second term in the national house. At the conclusion of the majority convention the godwin forces were organized and practically intact. They immediately ar ranged to hold another conven tion, after Clark had been nomi nated and so at 10 o'clock yester day morning they -met and the credentials and permanent or ganization committee asked for two hours to complete their work. The convention re-convened at 11:20 o'clock. The report of the committee on permanent organization was adopted, Hon. Geo. H. Bellamy being retained as permanent chairman. Mr. L. S. Peffel, be ing named as secretary. Mr. Bellamy expressed his gratitude for the honor and declared that "this is the real congressional convention of the sixth district, and referred to the use of force by the organization of the oppo sition convention last night." The credentials committee de clared that all counties were properly represented except Cumberland and New Hanover. Of the Cumberland vote 6.63 were given to Godwin, 33.37 to Cook. Of the New Hanover vote 11.50 were given to Godwin, and 30.50 to 'McClammy. Congress man Godwin was placed in nomi nation by J. C. Clifford,' of Har nett, who declared for the bene fit ,of the onlookers, among whom were as many participants in the convention of last night as there were delegates on the floor, that "you may place a re publican against him, or you can place a good democrat against him, but Hannibal L. Godwin will sweep the field in Novem ber." No other nominanion was made and the voting proceeded at once only one ballott being required as a matter of course. The strength of the other candidates, according to the credentials com mittee of the convention, was voted by the delegates on the floor and the vote stood as fol lows: Godwin, 134.54; Claik, 34.96; McClammy, 31.43 Cook, 34 58, McKinnon, 16.11. A committee was appointed to bring Mr. Godwin in and the con gressman made a short speech of a ppreciation in which he dechie tne convention of today tue regular" convention and that he would pile up the largest majority the democrats of the sixth district ever saw. There were about two hundred of the five hundred delegates on the floor today and the action of the convention of yesterday and last night was"scrupulously ignor ed. There . are two courses that may be pursued in the sixth dis trict. The matter may be settl ed by the state executive com mittee or the two candidates, O. L. Clark and H. L. Godwin, may make the race. In the . latter event there is little doubt but that the republicans will place their strongest man in the field with excellent chances of winning BILIOUS CONSTIPATED HEADACHE? FOR NearhJ Everybody TATCTifl SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR WHY NOT GRANT TOWNSHIP r SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION , TO BE HhLD AT SPOON'S CHAPEL JULY THE 31, 1910. Opening at 10 o'clock A. M. , Programme Devotianal exercises, Rev. Nelson Hayes. Address of Welcome M. E. Kimery. Response W. A. Humble. Song. Enrollment of Delegates. Address on Sunday School Work Prof. Lassiter. Song. Parents Duty to the Sunday Sehool-E.vF. Cagle, John M. Trogdon. Collection for Sunday School Work. Intermission. Song. Reading Reports from schools. ' Sunday school teaching Prof. Wright. How to increase attendance in Sunday school Prof. D. M. Weatherly. ' Election of Delegates lo coun ty convention. Election of officers. Song. P. Brown, President, Ethel Brown, Secretary. All Sunday school workers are invited to attend Napo eon's Grit was of the unconquerable, never-say-die kind, the kind "that you need most when you have a bad cold, cough or lung disease. Sup pose troches, cough syrups, cod liver oil or doctors have all failed don't lose heart or hope. Take Dr. King's New Discovery. Sat isfaction is guaranteed when us ed for any throat or lung trouble. It has saved thousands of hope less sufferers. It masters stub born colds, obstinate coughs, hemorrhages, la grippe, croup, asthma, hay fever and whooping cough and is the most safe and certain remedy for all bronchial affections. 50c. $1.00. Trial bot tle free at J. T. Underwood's next to Bank of Randolph. It is more probable, however, that the state committee will settle' the matter and in that event the decision will hang up-, on the question as to the power A.I 1 J ot tne cnairman to rule tnat a county's delegation shall not be settled before referring to the credentials committee and as to the power of the district execu tive committee to. depose its chairman and elect another as was done Thursday. SPEEDY RELIEF VOW

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