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VOL. XXXVI
ASHEBORO, N. C, AUG. 10, 1911
No. 32
WASHINGTON LETTER
Taft SurrounJed by Ben "Who
Know WhatThey Want", Wiley's
Enemies Exposed Democratic
House Has Accomplished Much
By Clyde H. Tavenoer, Special Washington Cor.
fespoudent ot The Courier.
Washington, Aug. 8. Today, on
the eve of the mimeatous occassion
when President Taft mast sign or
veto tariff Iqgielitiun of vast impor
tance t : the people, he is atili sur.
rounded "oy men wlio Know exici-ly
Nviii the j viulii," jus ua io Wt.&
when induced to sign the iniquitous
Pavne-AVlrich bjll,
Th? hviini-offisial pia enr-ui given
vouoby n..f Whiti "il i.iti!iyt-'
bureau (oewcUiy Hum, jI jioiJ
that tne President intends do veto
all tariff revision which Congress
may send to him, indicates that the
men "who know just exactly what
hey want," (and expression coined
by the late Senator Dollivor,) also
know what they do not want.
The President's advisors are op
posed, vf or instance, to legislation of
any kind thai would interfere with
the Payne-Aldrich protection wall,
which gives to the American tariff
trusts immunity from competition
by virtue of which they are free to
charge consumers exorbitant prices
without outside interference.
Why Tart Failed
When the history of Mr. Taf t's
administration is written, his failure
to win the sympathy of the people
will no doubt be attributed to his
selection as advisers of men who are
not in sympathy with the needs of
the people ot tne country.
Let us see who the men are, sur
rounding President Taft, who know
exactly what "they" want; and who,
through having practically amonop.
oiy of the President's ear, have
been able to deceive him into the be
luf that he is acting the part of a
real statesman if he vetoes legislation
of the very character that he promis
ed the people before election in or
der to secure their votes.
"Know What They Waut"1
In his cabinet Mr. Taft has Secre
tary of State Knox, former steel
trust attorney, Attorney General
Wickersham, former sugar trust at
torney, and Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Nagle, former attorney,
for the Waters-Pierce (Standard)
Oil company.
Then in his immediate' family cir
cle the President has Brother Charles
Taft, who is so constituted temper
mentally and financially that he can
view legislation only from the view
point that ''Big Business" views it;
and also Brother Henry W. Taft, a
member of the New fork hw firm
of Strong & Cadwallader, which
represents the sugar trust, Wall
street and the great industrial cor.
porations. .
For substantiation of any advice
the President may-receive from these
BOurceB, he has but to call in Sena
tor Lippitt, Aldrich's successor from
, Rhode Island. Mr. Lippitt is one
of the millionaire beneifioiarics of
the struggling cotton trust, and
knows exactly what he wants.
Others who know what toey want
and upon whom the President relies
are Penrose, Smoot, Guggenheim,
Dn Pont and the balance of the ring
of special privilege servers in the
Senate.
And here is a list of the men
whose advise is not sought by . Mr.
Taft: LaFollette, Olapp, Cummins
Bristow and all genuine progressive
republicans.
I'litse facts tell their own story.
There's no chance for the President
to do anything for the peopla as
bug as be has his present advisers
around, and from present indica
tions he has no intention of taking
on a Bsw set of advisors. ,
More About Controller Bay.
The attention of the Graham in
vestigating Committee which is
probing tne action of the Piesident
in secretly aiding the Ryan lani
' grabbers to ecize the Controller bay
in Alaska, has been directed to a
report of the geological survey which,
shows that the entire tract is under
laid with oil. The land which
President Taft thre open for ex.
ploitatioti, it now develops, is of far
greater value than was at first
dreamed. In his recent attempted
explanation of .the Controller bay
jugglery the President attempted to
make it appear that the tract is re.
. ally of little value. He claimed that
the grant did not give Speculator ties and partly through the elimina
Ryan, supposed agent of the Mor- tion of joker's and special privilege
gan-Guggenheims, a 1 transportation, provisions. .
Death of Mrs. Hancock.
Mrs. Bertha Hancock was born
Sept. 17, 1883 and died July 18,
1911. She was a daughter of W.
S GatHn, of Ulah, and a grand
daughter of the late Uriah Pres
nell. She was married about
three and a half years ago to
Rufus Hancock. She is surviv
ed by a husband, one child, aged
two and one half years, a father
and two sisters, Mrs. Nettie
Moore, of Carthage, and Mrs.
Maie Hearn, of Ulah.
Her one month old baby died
July 28 and was buried by the
side of its mother at Flag
Springs. i
Ht death was a schock to the
couiUiunity, having been ill only
one week-
Everything that physicians
and loving hand3 could do was
done, but to no avail, but she is
gone and let us hope is now
wearing . a golden crown and
walking the golden streets of
that happy home beyond the
skies where parting is no more
and sickness and death never
come. Until we die -we shall
remember the gentle spirit of
Bertha and hope to meet her in
the great beyond where parting
is no more. Correspondent.
Dave
Thomas' Fine Yield
- Wheat.
of
Mr. Dave Thomas, who lives
on Thomasville Route 4 made
196 bushels of wheat on ten
acres this year. The land has
been in wheat three years in
succession.
The cost of the wheat was:
$11.25 for seed; guana, $15.00;
labor for sowing $16-00; harvest
ing etc $5 00? total cost $47 25.
His clear profit was $158.75.
monopoly to the great Bering river
coal fields. Both former President
Roosevelt and Gilford Pinchot de
clare that the President's statement
is a misrepresentation, and that to
all practical ends he has given away
valuable public rights which-it was
his sworn duty to protect.
Wiley's Enemies Exposed,
"I want to say' frankly to you
that the referee board was organized
and put into action for the very pur
pose of conserving the interests of
the manufacturers, so you would
have a safe hearing."
Secretary of Agriculture, Wilson,
sometime ago made this statement
to a committee of manufacturer?,
according to testimony just pre
sented to the committee on expen.
dttures in the agricultural depart
ment. .
It will be recalled that the organ
ganization to which Secretary Wil
son was alluding the" Remsen
board reversed the findings of Dr.
Wiley when, he ruled against the
use of benzoate of soda by embalm
ed beef manufacturers. The san.e
board overruled Wiley many times,
finding excuses for letting aown the
bus to the food dopers on the
merest pretense reas6np.
The weird rulings of the Remsen
board caused friends of honest foods
to suspect that it had been organized
to thwart Dr. Wiley, and the "con
sumer" the interests of the manu
facturers instead of to conserve the
public health, and Secretary Wil
son s frank statment to the manu
fackirerJmerely col Gram the jus
tice of that suspicion.
Playing Favorites.
.Allowing 3? of the S3 men under
criminal indictment in connection
with the wire trust to go fees with
Jihe payment of puny fines npon their
withdrawal of "not guilty" pleas, is
an illustration of the Wickershani
policy of trust breaking. This sys
tem would stem to make the viola
tion of the anti-trust laws merely a
business proposition. The men run
ning the trusts may pile up millions
by paying no attention to the anti
trust laws, and then escape punish
ment by paying a few thousands in
fines.
Much Already Accompfshed.
Considered together, the four bills
already passed by the Democratic
House reciprocity, free list," wool
and cotton constitute a most com
prehensive beginning at revision of
the Payne-Aldrich law. The revis
ion accomplished by the House
means enormous relief to the public,
partly through the reduction of du
COMBS GETS 30 YEARS
Jury Returned Verdict for Murder
m Second Degree and Judge Dan
iels Gives Him The Limit.
Reuben Combs, was sentenced by
Judge Daniels Tuesday to serve 30
years in the state prison for the mur
der of his wife, Mrs. Bessie Combs,
whom he poisoned on the night on
May 25. .
The case which bad been on trial
since Thursday, was given to the
jury Monday evening at 7 o'clock
and a verdict for second degree
murder was rendered at 11 o'.
clock.
The inrv first stood four for
first degree and eight for second de.
gree murder.
The court was reassembled to near
the verdict and then adjourned until
Tuesday morning when sentence was
passed the limit of the law being
given. '
Not until the iadee delivered his
charge tj the jury wasit known that
a verdict for second degree could be
rendered. v .
Married.
At the home of the officiating J.
P.. W. A. Pressnell, at Seagrove,
Mr. P. R, King and Miss L ira Bo
ling, of Seagrove No. 2, were mar
ried.' Mr. King is the son of Joshua
King. The bride is a daughter of
Mr. W. H. Boling. ;
Randolph County Fair.
The Randolph Agricultural and
Educational Fair promises to be a
very valuable as well as a most en
joyable week to all the people of our
county.
To make the fair the greatest pos
sible success, it will require the sup.
port of every man and woman, boy
and girl in the county, and as the
fair belongs to no one organization
and is operating in the benefit of the
entire county. I feel that each one of
us should do our pa't to make the
Randolph County fair the best in
North Carolina. Already it seems
that there will be several hundred
dollars to be given for the first pre
miums, but it is hoped that we can
have attractive smaller premiu ms to
give for those exhibits which are
not awarded first premiums. To do
this it will require the support of
many families and business concerns
in the county, in the giving of
prizes.
The Department of Agriculture,
the County Commissioners, the
Farmers' Educational and Co-operative
Union, the Randolph Jlub, and
several private business houses and
citizens have already contributed to
the premium list.
In next week's papers we will
publish the committees in each
township who we are asking to co
operate with the management of tne
fair in disseminating knowledge
about the fair to all the people of
the county.
Geo. R. Ross, Mg'r.
Married-
At the home of the officiating
J . P-, W. H. Lawrence at Cara
way, Mr. George B. Kindley and
Miss Myrtle McDowell, August
6th.
Mr. AUen J. Robbins, ,of Cara
way and Miss Sarah E.
Maness, of Biscoe, were married
at the home of Mr. J. F. Jarrell
at Caraway, August 4. Mr. Jar
rell, J. P. officating, About 20,
were present to witness the
ceremony.
Conditions in Mexico Beyond Control-
"Conditions here are beyond
control and I would ask that
you return and take charge of
the situation," reads a cipher
cablegram said to have beea sent
by Provisional President Fran
cisco de La Barra, of Mexico, to
Jose Yves Limantour, now in
Paris.
Miners in Texas will hold a
meeting eoon to take action to
ward: protecting the lives and
property of Americans in the
Southern republic-
Real Estate Transfers
Cicero Lofiinto E. G. Morris on
.North Fayetteville Street, one cot.
tage and three acres of land.
J. U. Ross, JS. G. Morris et al to
J. H. Groitsman, 1 house and lot on
Sunset Avenue.
John M. Rammer ta I. C. Myrick,
one house and lot on Salisbury
Street.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS
Admiral Togo, Japanese hero of
the Ru iso-Japanese war, is traveling
in America.
Gov. Kitchin has revoked the
pardon granted in 1910, to Wiley P.
Black, of Asheville.
L. M. Sandlin, of Wilmington,
who was convicted last week of the
murder of his wife on June 27, will
go the electrio chair on October 13.
Lewis Mclver shot and killed
George McDuffy, colored, three
miles from Fremont, last Saturday
night.
Joe Crosson. a steel and iron
worker, fell from a water tank
near Jamestown Saturday after
noon and sustained such injuries
that he died later.
Oa last Saturday morniEg Rose-
borough Cloer, the 14-year-old son
of M. G. Olojr, of Lenoir, met in
stant death while trying to jump off
a moving train. .
A serious wreck occurred at Ma
jolica, 5 miles from Salisbury, last
rriday, when the eastbound passen
ger train No. 22 was derailed, 26
people being injured.
As the result of a kereosene ex
plosion in a hospital at A nder'son,
ES. C, the superintendent, Miss Ma
bel Thompson, is dead and a nurse
and orderly are badly burned. '
The Catawba county commission
ers have approppriated $50 a mile
for the central highwiy and ordered
the county engineer to at once sur
vey the route from Mooresville river
bridge to Newton.
Thomas L. Hisgen, who was
the Independence league candi
date for president three years
ago, denies the report that he
intended to run for governor of
Massachusetts this year.
Southbound passenger train
No 33 of the Seaboard Air Line
ran into an open switch at
Petersburg, Va. and collided
with a freight train Monday.
Engineer Dan Hick, . of Raleigh
was killed and others wounded.
W. C Warfield, of the World
Publishing Company has been
found guilty of attempting to
form a pool to use $1,500 to se
cure some 4 friend " in the de
partment of education of the
state to secure the adoption of
certain books.
The army recruiting officer at
Indianapolis has advised the War
Department that Private George
Peters has been accused of being an
Austrian secret agent. It is thought
he is there to obtain the secrets of
manufacturing the powerful explo
sive used by the United States gov.
eminent.
A. E. Birges, a tenant of John
N. Whitaker, of Siloam, attempted
to poiaon his employer's family by
putting pans green in the spring
from whica they usai water recent
ly, He also put the poison in the
stock fool and as a result a fine
horse and cow are dead. Burgess
has not been caught yet.
Prof, Andrew Bell's latest inven
tion is us ice stove, the use of which
is to do for ar dwelling in summer,
what the ordinary stove does in win
ter, render the temperature com
fortable. The stove is very simple.
Anyone who can dump a cake of
ice in a box and turn an electric
light key can operate it.
Charles R. Jones of Chicago-
chairman of the prohibition nat
ional committee, has been mak
ing an extensive tour of the far
west consulting with the leaders
of the party in regard to the ad
visability of holding . the next
national convention of the pro
hibition party in that section of
the country.
Wilbur F. Wakeman, of New
York, treasurer-general ' and
secretary of the American pro
tective tariff lea?u, the organi
zation of the advocates of a high
protective tariff. ha3 announced
himself as a candidate for the
United States senate to succeed
Elihu Root, whose term of office
will expire March 3, 1915 .
The Republican leaders in
Pennsylvania hope to reduce the
Democratic delegation from that
state by the election of a Republic
can from the Fourteenth district)
where a vacancy exists by the
death of Representative George
W. Kipp, democrat. A special
election to fill the vacancy will
be held next November.
A party of Asheboro's ' 'Young
Folks" went to Worthville Monday
evening on a moonlight drive.
A bill granting Statehood to
New Mexico and Arizona has
been passed by the Senate-
John W. Gates, the American
financier who has teen ill at
Paris, died last Tuesday.
Governor Wilson of New Jer
sey has been invited to address
the Geogia legislature.
An inter-State Convention of the
North Carolina and Virginia Far
mers' Unions will be held in Greens
boto Aug. 25 and 26.
Arthur P. Gorman, son of the
late Senator Gorman is a candi
date for the democratic nomina
tion for governor of. Maryland.
Mr. N. O. Skeen and family of
Palmetto, Ga., are visiting at the
home of Mr. W. J. Miller, on North
Fayetteville Street.
Robert MatthewBon, the 13 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Mat
theson, of Chicago, was drowned at
Lake Toxaway, Saturday alter noon.
Charles B. Crowell. secretary and
treasurer of the Bobbltt-Wavne Co..
of Raleigh died at his home last
Sunday.
Little Richard Wilson, the 3 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wil
son, of New Orleans, died at Salis-
burv bnndav nmht from injuries re
ceived in the Majolica wreck.
The Commissioners of Cumberland
county have ordered an election to
be held in that county to vote on the
question of issuiag $200,000 bonds
to build roads.
Capt. R. L. Simpson, age 40, of
Spencrwho had suffered from cancer
for some time died last Sunday
night. He was employed as conduo
tor on the Southern Railway.
Mrs. H. L. Biower, and daughter,
Miss Annie, of Newman, Ga., are
visiting Mrs. Brower's brothers,
Messrs. John and Lewis Bulla, and
others this week.
Joim McCarthy, "an engineer on
the Caroiina, Chnchfield and Ohio
Railrtad, was killed Monday by
being caught under an engine
which turned over.
The Prohibitional National
Committee will meet December
6 to choose the time and place
for holding the party's presiden
tial convention.
Senator James B. McCreary,
the democratic nominee for the
Kentucky governorship, filled
that office something like a gene
ration ago.
The proposed loan of $30,000,000
which the Guatemalan government
has had under consideration for
sometime, 'will be placed with
American bankers within the next
few months. -
Mrs. W. R. Ellis of Advance, re
ports her wheat crop this year at
550 bushels. Uae of her tenants,
Jess Myers, rasied 159 3-4 busbels
on five acres of land and used no
manure or fertilizer. Sue offered a
prizj and Myers won oyer all the
others tenaatj. Davie Record:
After a long and bitter fight
Timothy L. Woodruff, former
Lieutenant Governor of New
York and former chairman of
the Republican state committee,
has been forced to relinquish
control of the Republican organ
ization in Kings county, (Brook
lyn), where be lives.
In case- Governor Deneen seeks
a third term, which now appears
a probability, the primaries in
Illinois next spring will see all
the out-going state ofticers can
didates for renomination, with
the solitary exception ' of Ithe
state treasury, who is barred by
constitutional provision from
succeeding himeelf.
A reorganization of our nation's
disploniatic corps has recently been
made. J no. U. ijeisnman, now am
bassador to Italy, goes to Germany
as ambassador, Thoa. J. O-'Brien,
present ambassador to Japan, is
transferred as ambassador to Ger
many. Chas. Page Bryan now mm
ister to Belgium will be ambassador
to Japan. L. Aadenon is appointed
minister to tfelginm. John K
Carter is transferred from minister
to the Balkan States. Arthur M.
Beaupre, Scow minister to the
Netherlands will be minister to
Cuba. Leoyd Bryce is appointed
minister to the Netherlands.
- LAYMENS MISSIONARY
MEETING
Dr. E. L. Moffat Elected Chairman
Executive Committee County
Convention to be Held in Ashe
boro, September 28- 29
The pastors and Missionary com
mittees of the various churches of
the town met in conference with Mr.
John McEachern, of Greensboro,
State Secretary of the Laymens Mis-
sicniry movement of North Carolina
Sunday August 6 th for thepirpose
of making planBf or organizing the
county. At this meetirg an execu
tive committee was appointed com.
posed of three laymen of each de.
nomination in the town. Dr. E. L.
Mcflitt was e.ected chairman of this
committee, Mr. L. F. Robs vice
chairman and J. M. Scarbero, secre
tary. This committee decided to
hold a lavmans convention in Ashe-
boro, September, 28 and 29. Ar
rangements will be made to have a
number of prominent speakers pres
ent. All christian denominations
in the county will . be expected to
take part in this convention.
Mr. McEacbern spoke in the in
terest of the lay mens missionary
movement Sunday night in the-
Graded School Auditorium to a large
audience and a f reat deal of enthu
siasm was manifested in the work.
The executive committee will be
glad to arrange to send speakers to
any part of the county, Fcr infor
mation in regard to tne work ad.
dreea either of the above named of.
fleers.
Farmer's State Convention Raleigh,.
August 29.-3 1
The Ninth Annual Farmers"
State Convention will be held atr
Raleigh in the rooms of ' the
North Carolina Agricultural and
Mechanical College, on August
29, 30 and 31 1911.
After the institutes have been
held all over the state during the
summer it has proven to be a
good, idea to bring the several
institute parties and'a good repre
sentative number of the farmers
of the state together, to consider
the affairs of the state, in its
relations to the different sections
of the state and as it effects the
state as a whole.
" At this round-up institute there
will be more then twenty-five
speakers on practical farm ques
tions: selection of seed corn ; pure
and adulturated seeds; curing of
tobacco; hog raising; dairying in
North Carolina; rural co opera
tion, etc, with a special program
for the ladies.
The farmers' and their families
will be given rooms, free at the
rVtllorra a-nA nrill Ka m-nich.
ed ' meals at the College at
twenty-five cents each, or they
can go to the cafes and hotels of
the city for their meals.
Each person will be expected
to take with them sheets as fhe
boys when occupying these rooms
during school furnish their own
bed linen.
It is to re hoped that several
farmers of this county as well as
those in adjoining counties will
attend this convention' held at
the Capital of our state
For complete program addvessi
I. O. Schaub, West Raleigh, N.
C
Farmers' Institutes.
Farmers' Institutes will be held
at the foliowicg dates and places:
Trinity, August 18th.
KundlemaD, August 19th,
, Rir.seur, August 21st.
Asheboro, 'August 2&)d.
Farmers, AnguEt2S'd.
. The institutes will be conducted
by Frof. C. R. Hudson and an effi
cient cwps of men and women as
sistants from the agricultural de.
f artmetit of the A. & M. College at
(aleigb.
Interesting and instructive 4ro
grams will be prepared and every
farmer should attend. vEveribody
is mvited.
Died
Hannah Spencer, colored, of near
Hoover Hill. Back Creek townahin.
died last Moinday. , She wag an
aged and highly respected woman.
She belonged to the estate of the
late Nathan Spencer and remained
in the service of the family for many
yean after their freedtm.