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COIJEIEIi T5he COURIER Leads in Both News &nd Circulation. T5he COURIER stng Columns ZJ "Its FT Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. Per Yesr VOL. XXXV ASHEBORO, NJ C, THURSDAY, Sept. 22, 1910. N0J8 THE . Big Plant for Greensboro. The announcement cornea from Greensboro to the effect that the So'uthern Power Company is to es tablish a steam auxiliary electric plant in that city. The erection of this mammoth plant will cost in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars .and will mean much for Greensboro and that city will hail with delight its com ing, as much competition has it en gaged in with other towns, as Dur ham, Charlotte, Salisbury and Lex ington made inducements in order to have it come to their respective towEfs. The contract for the erec tion of the mammoth plant will be let at once to North Carolina cdn tractors, and the company expects to have the plant completed within six or eight months. The capacity of the plant will be 10,000 horsepower. The Greensboro News of Sunday gave out the following interview which it had with a South ern Power Company man concerning the prospective North Carolina in terurban line : "If the conditions are favorable and the proper encouragement is given along the proposed route by the public, the line will be extend ed from Greenville via Spartanburg, Gaffney, Blacksburg, Kings Moun tain, Mt. Holly, Charlotte, Concord, Salisbury, Lexington, Thomasville, High Point, Greensboro, Burling ton, Graham, Haw JS'ver t Dur ham. ' '"The road is to be built of 85 pound steel rails, will be rock bal lasted with 1 per cent, maximum grades, and over the road will ran high speed electric cars, capable of making 65 miles per hour. - Heavy duty locomotives will be put on and solid train loads of freight will be carried over the line. Stout-Farlow. The wedding of Miss Jane Far. low to Mr. Silas C. Stouti occured yesterday morning at 6:30 at the nome of the bride on Tomlinson Street, Squire Matt ecbrest per forming the ceremony. ' ' Immediately after the ceremony the couple left for a visit to rela. tives in Randolph county, followed by the good wishes of their friends, High int Enterprise. Guilford Superior Court. v Guilford County Superior Court convened on Monday for a one week a criminal term. There are .twenty three prisoners in jail awaiting trial, and the entire doeket contains eighty five cases, with many cases sent up by - the magistrates on appeal or bound over under bond. The most noted case on the docket, and the one that will attract much attention, is the case of Dr. Vestal, charged with making a criminal operation on a young woman at High Point. It is charged that Dr. Vestal made a criminal operation ' upon a young woman of that town last July, with quite a number of accomplices in the crime. Prominent legal talent has been retained by the accused and much interest will be put into the trial or the case. Odd Fellows' Meeting. ' ". From the four corners of the earth, twenty-five thousand strong, the Odd Fellows have been in annual session at Atlanta, Ga., this week, their meeting coming to a close ou day after tomorrow. At this meet ing ' the grand secretary reported ' total receipts tor tne year as nearly a half million dollars ahead , of - last year S toiai WlDU tut epeuuii.ures for relief 01 approximately $144,011 less, la the' homes of the order there are now 3,261' inmates. The total cost of these homes, including property values, is . given a $2,226,- ' 676. " ' ' A It is now predicted that by 1919, the 100th anniversary of the order, the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows will number 3,000,000 members if it continues its pserit rate of in- 'crease. . .- - : ' Blind Senator Makes Fine Speech. Toe address of Senator Gore in Greensboro on Tuexjuy night of this week ' aroused ni , . enthusiasm. He completely a s-red the sen rational attack of tbe G.eensboro News, and made such a telling speech that one man was heard to remark that it actually looaed like Mr. Gore had had tbat speech printed in , tbe Ns j ist for - ie purpose of Mnseriug u. Great Educational Rally at Trinity. On Saturday, the J 7th, there was a great educational rally at Trinity under the auspices of the Junior Order" of American Mechanics. Trinity Council, No. 307, although organized only a year ago, has al ready attained a membership of Seventy and is one of the most en thusiastic lodges in the state. It is evident that the lodges of the Jnnior Order supply a long felt want in many of the smaller towns and rural sections of the state. Wo are a rural people, more or less scattered, and yet there is the same feeling for friendly intercourse with one another that there is in the larger towns and cities. The problem that confronts our citizens is how to gratify this feeling of social solodarity in the pro per way. Those who nave studied this Sroblem are of the opinion that the unior Order meets this requirement; it furnishes the opportunity for so cial intercourse, for recreation and fun, for all these attractive features of the saloon without the demoraliz ing and degrading side of the saloon. If to the work'of the Jnnior Order perse is added a reading room, a library, and the ether adjuncts of a men's club we shall have an organi zation that will make for the perma nent upbuilding of the community. One of the tenets of the Junior Order is hearty and unstinted sup- ort of tbe American rublio school Ivstem. This fact was in great ev idence at the meeting in question. The Rally was under the direct aus pices or tMtXrinity uouncu assisiea bv tbe Uouucil at caraway anu those at Thomasville and High Point. The master of ceremonies was Mr. Sechrest, of High Point.who has a state wide reputation as a leading Junior. The speech of the day was deliv. ered by Professor Charles E. Brew er, the head of the chemistry de partment of Wake Forest College, a man who is not only a well known Junior but one of the leading cbem ists of the state, educated at the John Hopkins University, he long since attained distinction in chemis try circles and returning to his na tive state has devoted all the powers of his heart and' mind to the ad vancement of practical education. The subject of his address was 'Education and the relations of the Junier Order to the American Public School." He spoke for -nearly an hour and practically without notes, giving a masterly survey of the whole field and treating some of the educational problems that confront us in North Carolina and which the Order is helping to solve. The pic ture which he presented of educa tion in North Carolina is not a flat tering one. For instance he'told us that while there are in round num bers about ten thousand . children of school age in. ' Randolph county there are only some seven, thousand enrolled in the public schools and of those enrolled some 1700 do not at tend. The report of conditions in Wake county, the seat of the state capitol and of various high grade colleges is evn worse than in Ran Uolpbjfor there ba.dlyraore taan fifty per cent of school subjects aie in attendance. The speaker poin ted out tbat perhaps the most serous obstacle to f uller attendance was the desire of the parents to secure "another hand in carrying oa their farm work." By this means they gain a "hand" but lose a l:f$. The obvious remedy for this indifference to " the ; opportunities offered . the speaker suggested was compulsory attendance and while compulsion is not a term that sounds pleasantly to free American ears the state may be forced to adopt it to protect itself from the growing power of ignor ance. . While there was the most abun dant feast of things intellectual and spiritual there was not less at tention paid to the physical wants ot the people. The Juniors bad prepared a whole ox for the table; tbe community bronght chiokens, bread, pickles, pies, cakes and other good things in abundance; all these were spread on a table 200 feet long which was set in the shade' of . the trees on the college campus and the table was served by the matrons and young ladies of the town in a way wbicd made all the men folks crowd around the tables v asking to be helped by fair hands and recogniz ed by wioniLg' eyes' and smiling faces. Dr. Frank H. Wood said j tne invocation before the dinner and - Kt-v. L. E. Stacy opened the mora ' mg session with reading and prayer. I vtr. L f. Uartsell, sute nouns !- B IMIT ! Joint Discussion. There will be a joint discussion between Robt. N. Page, the Demo cratic nominee for Congress in this District, and J. J. Parker, Esq., the Republican nominee for Congress in this District in the Court House at Asheboro on Wednesday the 28th day of September. Mr. rage is one of our own peo ple, lives in an adjoining county, a plain man and knows the needs of the working man, the farmer and the business men. Let the Demo crats come from all over the county and make this a big day for Demo cracy and good government. Come and bring your neighbor. .In the Superior Court at Wadee- boro Saturday afternoon, Milton Tillman was convicted of murder in the second degree for the mmrder of Tom Burch and given ten years in the pen. being present. , He was to have spoken on the principles of the Junior Order as was also Mr. T, H; Spencer who was to have presented the Bible to the school. Mr. Spen cer's p'a:e was taken by Col. D. H. Milton, of High Point, while Mr. O. B. Webb in presenting the flag to the school spoke of the princi ples of the Order. The Bible was accepted in a few well chosen words by Professor N. Ci English and the flag was accepted by Dr. Stephen B. Weeks, who in a short talk summa rized the meaning of the emphasis laid on the Bible in the public schools by the Order by showing tbat while there were few people . in North Carolina who opposed such reading there were in other states many sucb; that while here we were in no danger from the cat like creep ot Rome, other states were in such danger and that the Roman Hier archy was perhaps more powerful today in the United States than in Italy or even in priest ridden Spam; he showed further from the TJ . S. Census that the New England States once the foremost defenders of Pro testantism, were today states a ma jority of whose population took their orders in things religions from the feei of Rome, But the mem part of Dr. Week's speech was devoted to a review of tbe condition of education in the United- States. He quoted Woodrow Wilson to the effect that for the last twenty years we have failed to instruct, have failed to ed ucate; have failed to make efficient men and women out cf the pupils entrusted to the schools, lie be lieved that the cause of this was that teachers had adhered slavishly to the old curricula which were evolved years and centuries ago when the church was all that, there was in Hie worthy of emulation and when Latin and Greek ruled tbe minds of men. He saw the coming of brighter era with the rise of the Agricultural Colleges and Farm Life Schools which will undertake to do for the 94 per cent of school pupils who never go beyond the elementary grades what the agricul. tural colleges are doing for these further advanced. He ended witb a strong and feeling plea for more sympathy and anion among , the people of the Trinity section in school matters. He pointed to the 13 stripes on the nag and . showed how out of the thirteen disconnected and often hostile colonies had been evolved a great Nation and pleaded that this community taking the flag of the Nation for its guide would seek to arrive at a similar unity. . That this unity is coming to the community is evident in the meeting itself. The whole went off . without a jar; the meeting is itself - an evi dence what tbe community can do when they will, it has had a good effect already and with the com munity and the Junior Order behind the school there is no reason why it should not continue to develop and prosper until it becomes one of the Best schools of its kind in the state, The High School opened on Monday the 19thf with Dr. Weeks in charge as principal. - The attendance is is already large and promises to be larger, The pupils are bright and ambitious and this should become the Farm Life School for Randolph county. Of the pupils who were here last year four have gone to other institutions to continue their work: Miss Lina Gray to the Southern Presbyterian College at Bed Springs; Mr. Frank E. Ellis to Trinity; Mr. J. E. Carpenter to the University and Mr. Charles Paririn i.o the A. and M. College. . Morehead a Missionary. One of th bricht.fist. and heat young Democrats in the county has sent The Courier one of Oh air man Morehead's missionary circu lars, in which the Republican State Chairman asks that a missionary campaign committee be organized, consisting of three or more Republi cans in each precinct to talk to ev ery fellow Republican and cultivate any dissatisfied Democrats who will join, them in the two-faced liquor plank which looks both ways for Sunday, .The speculation coun ter or i game table would suit him better Did you ever hear of a letter pitched on a lower level? His ' idea , of the low level upon . which an appointive office should be filled is a brazen offer of traffic in the appointive power. He holds out an inducement to sorehead Democrats who are mad about something;. .- Morehead's idea of elevating i and making the Repub lican party respectable in this State is a corker sure enough. It is a dis graceful method of offering offices for missionary work and for deser. tion of one party to join another, and the bid is made to the prose lytes and not to those who vote the ticket from principle. He puts a premium on party perfidy and party dishonor, on the turncoat, sorehead, and political renegade who is in it for what he can get oat of it. More head is getting along rapidly mak ing the party respectable he is pro gressing backward. But hear our young friend who writes so truly and well : Mr. Editor : I am no politician, no office-seeker, never have been and have no desire to hold office, but I am a Democrat, always have been and always expect to be so long as I have to choose between the two great political parties of the United States now in existence. If you ask me why 1 am a Democrat I reply by saying that I believa in Democratic principles and doctrines in prefer, ence to Republican hypocrisy. Yet I love and enjoy reading clean and honest Republican literature, and think the Republican party have some of the best and most able news paper editors in the United States. But this does not apply to Ran dolph county nor to the State of North Carolina.. For since our Democratic county convention we have received several copies of the Randolph bulletin and we hope the editor will continue sending out his weekly issued to, all the Demo crats ne possibly can, for we are con fident by so doing he is aiding and strengtueuiug tne Democratic party. Why '( Bcaus; of hid inconsistency, humbuggery and hypocrisy, and were I inclined (which, thank the Lord, I aui uoi) u cuauge iny poli tics, after readiug Cue Bulletip I could not honestly and conscientious ly join the Republican party, for did 1 not srr within a few feet of the editor of the ' Bulletin during Aycock's speech at the Democratic county convention and hear our ex governor tell him how he had misrep resented him when lie spoke in Ashe boro ten years ago, and how the ed itor proposed to pay Aycock's -expenses it he would come back to Randolph and make that' sama speech all over the county. But how was it the Bulletin misrepre sented Aycock ? Aycock said in his Bpeech at Asheboro ten years ago, "You Republicans charge that we Democrats hold the power in North Carolina by force and fraud." But how did the Bulletin quote him? The editor said, Aycock says, "we hold the power in this State ' by force and franu. Many of your readers saw and wit nessed how severely Aycock scored khe editor on this occasion, aud I thought the editor looked more like a sheep-killing dog than anything else I could compare him to. Again this editor comes out in the' Bulle tin and says the Democratic chal lenge for a joint canvass is hypo critical. Yet, in his next issue, he says the "issues" will be openly and boldly disouBsod by the Republican candidates, and that the Democrats will be asked to render an account of their stewardship, or something to the effect. In the name of com mon sense, honesty and common reason, where and how could the is sues of the day be better discussed than by and in tbe presence of both political parties ? But the Repub licans of Randolph say?, No, no". We won't join the Democrats in joint debate because the Democrats will "avoid" the issues. Did you ever hear a poorer or weaker excuse ? Can any reasonable person aocept that as an excuse? No, and more than that, it is not their reasons for not having a joint can vass, for their real1 reasons are per fectly plain, for if they had a joint canvass the Republican speakers could not go out, m they will do, and make their wildcat statements, because the Democratic speakers would show the voters what extrava gant and absurd statements the Re. publican speakers had made, just as Aycock did in showing up the ed itor of the Bulletin for having mis represented him, but without a joint canvass the Republican speakers can and no doubt will go out and mis represent the Democrats to their heart's content, as no Democratic speaker would be allowed to reply, i and the Radicals can then all go home in peace, believing every word their Republican candidates have said. But with a Democratic speak er present who could show the in telligent voter how false tbe Repub lican charges are, there might be some disoord in the Republican camp, and I suppose tbe Radicals think they have enough of that all over the United States already. I notice in tbe Bulletin of this week that M'. Lewis, chaiimn of the Republican executive cooiint t:e 10th judicial disuict, answers tne challenge of Mr. Worth for a joint can vass between Mr. Hoi Con and Mr. Hammer. Mr. Editor and readers . of The Courier, isn't Mr. Lewis' reply a particular weak ex cuse ? Now, the Bulletin says the Republican party is not boss ridden, yet in this instance it says the ac t:on of the chairrt an, Mr. Lewis, is oontrary to Mr. Holton's Jesire and judgment, aud that he (Holton) re quested the committee to permit him (Holton) to make a joint canvass with Mr. Hammer. Now does or can any sane man believe Holton really wanted to meet Hammer in joint debate? No, a thousand times no, for Holton and the Republican bosses knew that Hammer would totally destroy him, tooth and toe nail, even his very existence, so far as being in the race for solicitor is concerned, therefore the bosses de clined Mr. Worth's challenge. Again, I notice in tbe Bulletin of August 18th, after quoting the Ral eigh Evening limes concerning two men who had been convicted of murder in the State, says where was Governor Aycock and his mocking bird song while these murders ivere being committed ? I can tell the editor where he was. He was going over North Carolina denouncing the Republican party as he did the ed itor of the Bulletin for misrepre senting Democracy and practicing hypocrisy, and yet the editor of the Bulletin has not had the moral courage nor manhood, to have said one single word in the way of apol ogy for having - misrepresented Aycock. But how could be and be consistent with Republicanism ? for their only hope is to fool and de ceive, the people. Otherwise that party would take a back seat from a political standpoint, and that is what they will have to do when our next Congress convenes. The Bul letin appears to be greatly concerned because two persons had been con victed of murder in North Carolina, but if it has ever even expressed re grets at the murderous attack on Mayor Gynor, of New York, I have never been able to read it in his pa per. He does not ask where Gov. tJughes was, for he knew Gov. Hughes was somnwhere looking af ter the G. O. P., and that is excuse enough for any Republican. Take for instance Mr. Hitcncock, .Post master General, who is supposed to be looking after the postoffice de partment and who draws his salary as Postmaster General, yet who is out in interest of the Republican Earty trying to harmonize matters lat from the Bulletin's standpoint Hitchcock is attending strictly to h'S business because he is looking after the success of the Republican party. But I have already occu pied too much of your valuable space and regret t ask for more, yet cannot refrain from saying that we have also received a copy of the Republican State platform with cir cular letter from Mr. Jno. M. More head, asking for names, precincts and postoffioes of "all" Democrats North Carolina Happenings. Mr. T. H. Siler.yof Siler City, passed away at his home in that town last week. Something like 100 postmasters from various towns in the State are expected to meet in . Winston-Salem September 23rd and 24th to attend the State Postmasters' Association. Ben F. Dean, for whose arrest Montgomery county had offered a reward of 50, was arrested last Thursday at Cheraw, S. O., and brought back to Troy. It is to be remembered that Dean escaped Mont gomery county authorities some two weeks ago, being charged with a serious crime. A dispatch from Raleigh says that Booker T. Washington, the negro educator, beginning on Octo ber 28th, and ending November 3rd, will make an "Educational Pilgrim age" through North Carolina. This tour, as has been the case in other states, will be made for the purpose of seeing what progress the negro race has made and to encourage them to greater effort. A dispatch from Beaufort one day the past week said, if the 300,000 ' pounds of mullet landed here during the last three score hours extended head to tail in a straight line, and moved in tbat direction, they would reach from Beaufort to Greensboro. The sounds and bays as well as the ocean in tbe vicinity, are alive with mullets and about six hundred peo ple are enjoying the catch. Charged With Murder. Charl Js Ashby, a white man who formerly lived at Ramseur, this county, is now in the Lexington jail charged with the murder of his wife, who is a daughter of Mr. Will Allred, of Liberty. Tbe particulars in the case say that Ashby is of a brutish disposition and had been mistreating his wife for sometime. And when she died on last Thurs day and bruises were found on her body suspicion1) were soon . awake, which led up to an autopsy. This investigation revealed traces of pois on in tne woman's stomach and led up to tbe arrest of Ashby, The preliminary trial that came off in Lexington last Saturday afternoon caused the court to place Ashby under a $5,000 bond, which he failed to give and and was placed in jail. He is about 28 years of age and for the past two months had been in the employment of the No mokis Cotton Mills of Lexington. Mrs. Ashby was about 20 years of age, aud left a baby about five months old. who are dissatisfied that he may send them "literature ;" but I en close this circular letter' tbat you may read it, though I suppose the county is Hooded with them. But it is ; they don't appeal to Demo crats, for we are not like the Repub lican, except it be the "weak kneed" and -"office seeker," and them we don't want, and when a Democrat gets it into his head that he is the only man fit for any particular of fice, the best thing we can do is to turn him over to tbe Republicans and let Mr. Taft pass sentence on him, which he has already done on the Republicans of North Carolina, and that sentence was very severe, too, yet the Republicans of, North Carolina swallow it with apparently good grace, for in their State plat form they say, we pledge our con tinued "loyalty" to W. H. Taft. In other words this looks to mean no matter how much Taft my abuse us for we admit we are nothing within ourselveB never have been and never expect to be anything unless Mr. Taft sees fit to give us a crust of pie, and we farther admit that be gave to the Democrats of North Carolina the best, the largest and sweetest piece that could have ben given in tbo way. of a federal judgeuhip. But We realize as our Presideat said, as yet we are un worthy of the high and dignified offices of the State, yet we endorse all Mr. Taft says about us and hum bly submit to all his disrespectful remarks concerning us because with out so doing we mi gut be pi evented from eating tbe era tint fall our way in tbe wy of a uttl post office now and then. Tn- . I o, Mr. Taft, we are yours to c nuiai.ii. Mr. S. W. Langhlin wedt to Ral eigh Tuesday for the purpose of submitting plans of the waiei w rks for Asheboro to the State Board of Health.
The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.)
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