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f HE COURIER ISSUED WEEKLY. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOLUME XXXXIIL Asheboro, North Carolina, Thursday, October 31, 1918 M'MBER NORTH CAROLINIANS IN I THE CASUALTY LISTl WHAT THEY PROMISED Reported Oct. 23. Died of disease J. C. Wingate, Lincolnton; W. F. Malpass, Wallace. Wounded severely J. T. Murphy, Spray. Wounded, degree undetermined J. H. Ball, Winston-Salem; Walter Smith, Charlotte; C. C. Watson, Oval. Missing in action Johnnie John son, Windsor; Willie Daniel, North ampton. Reported October 24. Killed in action Burley Waycaster, Black Mountain. Died of wounds Cumbee Peace, Sa luda. Died of disease A. L. Ader, Tyrell. Wounded severely Dallas Corder, Dobson; J. W. Morrow, baxapahaw; J. C. Johnson, Ramseur. Wounded slightly J. L. Brown, Wadesboro; W. O. Brown, Bennett. Missing in action P. R. Fain Spray. Soldiers previously reported missing are now reported as follows: Killed in action Dillard S. Pear son, Moravian Falls. Wounded severely Charlie C. Mc Auley, Troy. Returned to duty Walter L. Smith, mston-Salem. Reported October 25. Wounded (degree undetermined) C. S. Bell, Troy; J. H. McKinzie, Car thage. Wounded slightly L. ' C. Carver, Rutherfordton; B. D. Cox, Pisgah; J S. Deese, Monroe. Reported October 26. Killed in action J. J. Sykes, Pee Doe; Claude Petteway, Snow Hill. Died of wounds W. H. Beaver, Kannapohs; C. R. Jones, Mount Olive Died of accident and other causes L. F. Townsend, Connely Springs; B. D. Clapp, Whitsett; Henry Boyd, loungsville; S. W. Smith, Spencer Wounded severely B. F. Jester, Boonville. Wounded (degree undetermined) S. S. Nash, Tarboro; J. W. Boyd, Pinetown. Wounded slightly W. F. Haar, Wilmington; S. A. Wilson, Gastonia; J. McD. Michaeal Woodrow; C. H. Mc- Pherson, Franklin; R. N. Sentelle, Waynesville; Abraham Willis, Henry; W. T. warren. Belmont. Missing in action tF. C McAuley, DunlaD. ReDorted as prisoners of war Lieu tenant Edwin C. Klingman, Oxford; at CamD Rastaat: Private Pleasant K. Fain, Spray; at Camp Rastaat. ReDorted October 28. Killed in action B. L. Field, Greens boro: J. C. Miller. Fairview. Died from wounds J. Q. Colston Wadesboro: Novitzy Smith, Creek Died from accident and other causes Jimmie Griffin. Cardenas. Died of disease G. R. Hardesty, Baylau Heights; H. B. Connelly, Win- ston-Salem. Wounded (degree undetermined) J. H. Pittman. Wilmington; B. B, Ipock, Cove City; W. E. Bryson, Bal sam. Wounded slightly Curby Bare, Wagoner: Le Roy Bennett, Reelsboro J. S. Ambrose. Williamston; C. W Gunter. New Hill; J. N. Evans Spray Welzy Dodd, Just; Roby Tysinger, Randleman: D. O. West, Columbia. Missinsr in action J. W. -Mills, Winnabow. Renorted October 29. Died of disease Sam McLaughlin Maxton. Wounded severely M, C. Fowler, Hamlet; J. L. Parks, Seagrove. Wounded (degree underterminea) V. P. Rousseau, Charlotte. Wounded slightly Jfi. M. Green, Waynesville. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IS READY ENTER PEACE NEGOTIATIONS 1 Austria-Hungary In notifying: Presl Vtnnf WO.nn that it (s Mariv tjt enter Spon peace negotiations and arrange an armistice, asks President Wilson, in lta reply to him, to begin overtures son the subject. The Austro-Hungarian foreign mln , . . f . 1 1 . I . . ITT lsier msiniciea uie Ausiro-nunganan minister at Stockholm to ask the Swedish government to send the fol lowing note to the Washington gov ernment: In reply to the note of President Wilson of the 18 (19 T) of this month, addressed tn th Austro-Huncrarian ' government, giving the decision for the President to apeak directly with the Auatro-Honnrian government on the question of an armistice and of peace, the Aostro-Hungarian govern ment has the honor to declare that iuafly with the preceding proclama ion of the Preaidest. it adheres also o the same point of view contained h the last note upon the rights of vuatro-Hungarlan peoples, especially )oae of the Czechoslovaks and the goslavs. - j 'Atiitrie-Hunganr accepting all the xuiuona ui President has laid down T i S Btl7 Into negotiations for an t ce and peace, no obstacle exists, rowing to Judgment of the Austro !!ng ? rnment to the begin ,,Lor eae negotiation. . ' Aostro-Hungarian govern nt oecUrea Itself ready, In eonso "nce without awaiting the result of 'r negotiations, to enter mto ne--lationa upon peace between Austria 'igary and states in the opposing '? and for an Immediate armistice 1 1 all Allstro-Hunfrnrian fronts, t aV prr-.i.irtit V.iUon to be so c' t 1 , nvr.t ,re on this The road question was draeired in to politics by the Republicans in their campaign of 1916 of this cor.r.ty for no other purpose than to stir up prej- uaice ana get votes, it was claimed by the Republican leaders that there had been extravagance in the rse of road funds and that $45,000 to $50, 000 of the money had been stolen or misused. "Sefas" Bowman the cheer man at the time and others claimed they were opposed to the way the road money had been used. On practically every stump candi dates promised that roais would be built and kept up and taxes wmld be reduced in the campaign. There were some of the unthinking who may have been influenced by these demagogical promises and every one who took the pains to investigate knows the record of the road building in Randolph coun was more remarkable by the Demo cratic party of this county than by any other county and far less money The tax rate was only 86'2 cents on the $100 valuation of property. Has there been one-half as many miles of good roads built in the past two years as there were in the two years previous and at what expense. Trie roads almost everywhere are going to pieces owing to failure to repair them. If the Democrats mis appropriated $45,000 to $50,000 the first thing should 'have been done was to collect the amount and build 250 miles more of pood roads. Let the people remember the charges on every stump that half of the road funds was stolen or misap propriated. Why didn't they collect the stolen or misappropriated funds and do something with them. Never in the history of the county have the Republicans done anything for the people. Surely they didn't issue bonds with out the vote of the people and all of this done by Allen Bailey and Wiley and "Sefas" standing by acquiescing without writing a word dissenting thereto. I call upon all who heard the speeches of Wiley Ward and Allen Bailey Coltrane and "Sefas" Bowman in the campaign of two years ago make their promises and pledges to the people, write The Courier and tell What th. promses and pledges were, ana Keep : wiese promises ringing m their ears until their hypocrisy and demogogery are known of all men A public office is a sacred trust and those who violate political pledges to the people should be held as sacred as any other promise. And what about Mr. Wright, the present clerk's promises. The writer was present and heard Wright make a pledge to his people what he would do if elected and he has not done it, and it is time his record was shown up to the people. He has done and is doing the opposite of what he prom ised. And then what about bonds in their meeting of April, 1917? I saw where the county commissioners of Randolph have sold $50,000 worth of 5 per cent bonds at a premium of only would have been at a premium of only amounting to $7,500. This should have been at least 15 per cent which would have at at a premium of only which would be $7,500. This should have been gotten in New York where call money was at that time only one and three-fourths per cent. Who got this as a rake-off? Money should have been gotten in any of the larger cities lor lour per cent, rne new income tax law provides Countv, State and United States bonds are ex empt from taxation. And the money king in large centres were buying in bonds in such large quantities that this class of bonds had risen in vaiui to such extent that they had greatly increased in money at that time. Ow ing to the extraordinary amount of gold In the United States money wa cheap and was seeking investment more than ever before. Does any body remember what Ward, Coltrane and the whole "canoodle" said not three months before they issued the bonds without the vote of the people 7 Wonder if A. B. Coltrane knows anything about the record of the Re publican party in Kandoipn county from 1894 to 1900 of all the counties in North Carolina that have been un der Republican rule. No county has ever 'been worse governed than has Randolph by the Republicans. There was not an our during the period from 1894 to 1900 they were in charge or the affairs of the county after once rettinr ra full control of the finances of the county that county scrip would bring par even the Touchers for pay for members of the board of educa tion for services were, not in some cases cubed for six months after is suance owing to the fact there was no money in the treasury and yet the school funds less and the terms short er than before or since this rule of wreck and ruin. There was stealing and misappropriation of funds, failure to settle shortage of accounts, and other offenses while the Republicans were in control of the county. I do not moan that all of them were dis honest at all times while they were in office. There was stealing, misappropriation or failure to account for funds by some officials, and they know it and it has never been denied. And under their present rule they have only been able to pay county orders even for court expense the last term by using the county credit to borrow motw y. . ',;:.- There are many good men in the rank and fl of the Rrpublican party who M vnn the JinrrtfWrafic ticket if X GERMAN PLEA FOR AN ARMISTICE SUBMITTED TO ALLIED GOVERNMENTS WILL BE DICTATED FROM THE FIELD No Negotiated Peace Is Possible, But Surrender of the German Nation is Demanded In Mean time Allies Will Make Impossible a Resump tion of War If Fighting Once Ceases Scath ing Denunciation of German Rulers. Washington, October 24. rresiden , Wilson has submitted the German pica for an armistice and pea e to the allies, and at the same time has informed Berlin that there can be no armistice ex cept upon terms that would make it inriossiule lor Germany to re new hostilities. While consenting to deal further vith the present authorities in Germany, the President has given them this warning: "If it thc United States) must deal with the military masters, and monarchical autocrats of Germany now, or if it is likely to have to deal with them later in regard to theHnternational obligations of the German empire, it must demand not peace negotiations, but sur render. Nothing can be gained bv leaving this essential thing un said." TEXT OF PRESIDENT'S NOTE The Allowing is the text of the comtnunication: "From the Secretary of State to tile Charge de Affairs ad In terim in Cha' ge or German Interests in the United States: "Department df State, October 2:!, IMS. g:r: 1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of t e -jind transmitting a communication under date of the 20th from the German government and to ad'yise you that the President has instructed me to reply thereto as follows: "Having received the solemn and e,xblicit assurance of the Ger man government that it unreservedly accepts the terms of peace laid down in his address to the Congiess of the United States on the 8th of January, 1018, and the principles of settlement enunciated in his v;;bspiiient addresses, particularly the address of the 27th of Sep tember, and that it desires to discuss the .details of their application, and that this wish and purpose emanated, not from those who have hitherto dictated German policy and conducted the plesent war on Germany's behalf, but from ministers" whp speak lor the majority or MEMBERS OF COM PANY K WOUNDED AMERICAN'S MAKE BIG CAPTURES he Reichstag and for an overwhelming najority of the German peo X pie; and having received also the explicit promise of the present Herman e-overnment that the humane rules of civilized warfare will be observed both on land and sea by the German armed forces, the President of the United States feels that he cannot decline to take up with the governments with which the government of the United States is associated, the question of an atmistice. Renewal of Hostilities Impossible "He deems it his duty to say again,. "however, that the only ar mistice he would feel justified in submitting for consideration would be one which should leave the United Stfljtes and the powers associ ated with her in a position to enforce any.arrangement that may be ... - j . . 1 1 i i allfti ' ( ti '11 I IT VT Several members of Co. K have been wounded severely and otr.er.-i klightly. As to the number and ex tent of such deaths, little information has been obtained. Two letters receive:' vo-teruav from First Lieut. H. W. Walker, ef Co. K, state that he was wounded slightly and gassed, and was ai the time of I the writing of these letters, dated October 5th and Dth, in an English I hospital, having been taken across the I channel from the Frenc'-. battlefields. Second Lieut. Landis, of Co. K, has also been wounded, this being his sec ond wound. Mrs. Ernest Bunting has received a cablegram irom her husband, ser geant Punting, another member of Go. K, that lie was lnji.rcd ana in a hospital. Information has also been received from a member of headquarters Co. 120th infantry, that there have been a number of casualties and deaths in Co. K. This letter was received bv a lady in High Point from a Ramseur member of the Headquarters Co. 120th iniantry. A young lady in Asheboro received a letter irom Sergt. Kooert Llovd, member of Co. K, written on the 2!)th of September, containing statement v.hich indicated that Capt. Dixon and Jake Brown "had either been seiiously wounded or killed in action, b;it r.o other information has been received, and the friends and relatives of ::eith or in this county or elsewhere m the State have heard anything to con firm the statement. The mother of Capt. Dixon writes to friends in Ashe boro sending conies of letters from her son, which do not indicate that there is anything the matter with him, although they were written prior to the 29th of September. Capt. Dixon said the following in one of his let ters: "My company did not fai-e so well as my brother Wright's company, as there were several casualties, but none serious." Lieut. Bob Little, formerly of Ashe- t boro, and a member of Co. L, son of Mrs. Martha Wright, whose first hus- 7 I rio1 woo a T ) 4-4-1 a Viae ttfctai ursvuiflAf) 4 A. 1 Entered into and tonake .W many lmpooHlultJ. I ire jritraiucuii iuu, bircivxvic, waiiomibLcu iub wi' respondence with the present German authorities to the govern ments with which the government of the United States is associated as a belligerent with the suggestion that if those governments are disposed to ecect peace upon the terms or principles indicated, their military advisers and the military advisers of the United States be asked to submit to the governments associated against Germany the necessary terms of such an armistice as will fully protect the inter ests of the peoples involved and insure to the associated govern ments the unrestricted power to safeguard and enforce the details of the peace to which the German government has agreed, provided they deem such an armistice possible from the military point of view. Should such terms of an armistice be suggested, their accep tance by Germany will afford the best concrete evidence of her une quivocal acceptance of the terms and principles of peace from which the whole action proceeds. Extraordinary Safeguards Demanded "The President would deem himself lacking in candor did he not point out in the frankest possible terms the reason why extraordi nary safeguards must be demanded. Significant and important as the constitutional changes seem to be which are spoken of by the German foreign secretary in his note of the 20th of October, it does not apear that the principle of a government responsible to the Ger man people has yet been fully worked out or that any guarantee.-, either exist or are in contemplation that the alterations of principle and of practice now partially agreed upon will be permanent. More over, it does not appear that the heart of the present difficulty has been reached. It may be that future wars have been brought under the control of the German people, but the present war has not been: and it is with the present war that we are dealing. It is evident that the German people have no means of commanding the acquirs ence of the military authorities of the empire in the popular will; that the power of the king of Prussia to control the policy of the empire is unimpaired, that the determining initiative still remains with those who have hitherto been the masters of Germany. Feeling that the whole peace of the world now depends upon plain speaking and straightforward action, the President deems it his duty to sa , without any attempt to soften what may seem harsh words, that the nations of the world do not and cannot trust the words of those who have hitherto been the masters of German policy, nnd to point out ounce more that in concluding peace and attempting to outdo the infinite injuries and injustices of this war the government of the United States cannot deal with any but veritable representatives of the German people who have been assured of a genuine con stitutional standing as the real rulers of Germany. If it must deal with the military masters and the monarchical autocrats of Germany now, or if it is likely to have to deal with them later, in regard to the international obligations of the German empire, it must demand, not peace negotiations, but surrender. Nothing can be gained by leaving this essential thing unsaid. "Accept, sir, the renewed assurance? of my high consideration. "Signed) ROBERT LANSING. "Mr. Frederick Oederlin, Charge d'Affairs of Switwrlaml ad Interim, in Charge of German Interests in the United States." X X X InfluHixa Situation Improving The influenza aituation throughout Randolph county la now improving, though there are a number of caea yet. There ia not a caM at Trinity. There are said to be about forty cases Vereaillr Conference Agrees on Main Pointi of Armistice A London dispatch of last Tuesday ays it in reported there that the Ver sailles Conference has agreed on the main points of the armistice terms at Frankllnville, but all are reported i which are now to be considered by the to be improving. There Is still a good military commanders. The final peace deal of the disease at Randleman, but terms, it is said, will be submitted to it is subsiding there as well as at prac tically every other point In the county. The situation in Asheboro is clearing Germany at the same time as the arm istice terms. As part of the terms of the armis- up wonderfully. There are still some,tice, the allied nations will insist upon cases in town, but few if any are now, the surrender of the German fleet, in considered serious. eluding all the German submarines. and upon the occupation by allied Wed forces of all the fortified towns on the A small child of Mr. and Mrs. Fr.nW ' Rhine, Prevo died at the home of iU par ents in Randleman one day last week. A small child of Mf. and Mrs. Lind say Walker died of influence north of Asheboro last Tuesday night McAdoo's Statement leaders to cultivate prejudice. , They have taught voters to star away from Democratic speakings and nave stren uously endeavored to kp tbm from T'ndinir Democrat! litrMure. lliw "The President needs the support of able and loyal men in this particu lar crisis In America's life and In the life of all the people of the world. That support must proceed from men who are in sympathy with his views on the war. and the gnral policies for which be stands. The. prst)g I " 1 "T ff V PrrMdont and th The best we can gather is that inJ the terrific drives on the 28th and 29th of September that Capt. Dixon, Lieut. Walker, and other line officers of Co. K, and a number of other members of Co. K were wounded along with many others, reports of which have not yet reached aut-.onties at Wash ir.gton. There is no doubt of the fact that the injured and those killed in action in those terrific days are many, not only in Co. K but in the various companies and regiments comprising the 30th division, the bravery of whom has called for special letters of com mendation frcm General Haig. Every effort has been made by The Courier to secure information as to ti e injuries, even a telgram to the Adjutant General has failed to bring any information. Sergeant Rufus Routh was wound ed in going ever the top on the 20th of September, having both of h arms ann one ankle broken. He is in a hospital in Portsmouth, England. A Y. M. C. A. worker wrote his father that Sergeant Routh was as helpless as a baby, but that in a few weeks he could get out. He has the best of care. News come that Reggie Auman, a former employee of The Courier or Private Wallace was injured by the breaking of his leg. It could not be ascertained which it is. He is to be sent home immediately. (Since writing te above our in formation is tat Mrs. Reggie All man has received a letter from her husband Corporal Reggie Auman, say ing he is in a hospital wounded.) Western Battle Front Comparative! Quiet Allies Continue to Gain Financial Panic in Berlin While both Germany and Aurtria are a.--king for a cessation of hostilities and Turkey is reported to be in favor of peace, the Allied armies on all bat tle fronts are giving no ":eed to peace proposals, hut are continuing without mercy to drive the foe before them. In all the battle zones, the Allies are meeting with marked success. In France, the German battle line is slow ly crumbling under the violence of the Allied attack; in Northern Italy, the Austro-Hungarians are being forced back by the British, French and Ital ians with heavy losses in men killed, wounded, or prisoners; near the shores of the Meditteraneian in Albania, the Italians are driving the Austrian to ward the Montenegro frontier; and in Asiatic Turkey, both in Syria and Mesopotamia, the French are fast clearing the Turks from their former strongholds. The Americans have begm impor tant operations against the Germans northwest of Verdun. For the tnt time since entering the war, they have opened tire against the back lines of the enemy with their new Ion?; range guns. On Monday, they were lepoited to be bombarding Longuyon. some 15 miles from lirst line positions. Since the Americans began the pres ent battle, they have inflicted more than 70,000 casualties on the enemy, freed forty villages and 487 square Kilometers oi rrencn territory, ami captured 20,000 prisoners besides the German wounded who fell into their hands. During the week ending last Satur day, the Allied troops in France and Belgium freed four hundred square miles of territory from the grasp of the enemy. Tuesday's report was that there was comparatively little fighting going on along the western front, but in what there was the allied troops retained the upperhand and were taking pris oners, guns, and war stores. The report came on Tuesday that civilian departures from the lower Rhineland and. part of the Westphalia,. , leguri on a "small scale" when the' first allied bomb hit Cologne, had develop ed into a panic flight. Many German banks were being stormed by depos itors who were withdrawing then savings in German bank notes of as high a value as are obtainable, says the Hague correspondent of the Lon don Daily Mail. Financial panic is even reported in Berlin, and the paper currency of the empire has vanished. RALEIGH LETTER (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, October 28. There is a great deal of interest manifested dur ing the closing days of this more or less "politicsless" campaign, especi ally in the election of members of Congress and particularly in the re election of Senator Simmons the man at the head of the most important committee and the ten men upon whom much may depend in retaining a Dem ocratic majority in the House. Every supporter of President Wilson's war policy should make it his duty to go to the polls and vote November 5th. If the President did not believe that a Democratic Congress the next two years is vital to the success of his administration he would not have made such an urgent appeal to that end as he did a few days ago. As for Senator Simmons, there is no man in Congress standing for re election whose defeat would so cripple the Wilson administration. Of course, no one seriously believes that he will be defeated. But there is always dan ger in over-confidence. He can be de feated if the voters fail to vote in large numbers. The safe thing to do is for every man to take upon him self his vote, with the purpose of pil ing up for him, the largest majority ever i revived by a candidate for office in North Carolina. He deserves it ;.no the State and Nation would be proud of the victory. Advices received here from Wash ington arc to the effect that the Re publicans are trying to influence the rlrction with money in the third, Whartley, Jonas and Britt in these dis- has seen overseas service, addressed tncts; that $75,000 has been sent into those present in a very enlightrning the state to be used in efforts to elect United War Work Organization Gives Luncheon Thr United War Work organization of the county gave a luncheon at the Ashlyn hotel, in Asheboro, on Tuesday, in the interest of the greaU-r war work campaign that is to be put on in this county, and through out the entire country from the 11th to the 18th of November. Those who were present were the representatives of the county and different township organizations. Mr. Thomas, a i. M. C. A. man who and instructive manner, giving them a more real and vivid idea of what the greater war work organizations are doing for our boys in camps and overseas. . Among other things he said that the Y. M. C. A. and other auxiliary organizations are doing for your boys just what you would do or would want to do if it were possible for you to be with them in the front line trenches, first aid stations, field hospitals and other places of danger and suffering. The people of Randolph county will be called upon during the next month to contribute to the greater war work fund. We will be called upon to con tribute our quota of the fund that Is to be raised In the UnlUd States. Ever dollar that you give will lie used ovei seas and in the different ramps on this side. The dollar that you give may not be used In giving comfort to yotir own son, but it will comfort the son of some one, and some one's dollar will comfort your eon. We cannot there fore refuM te rive gladly and liberally. Thousands and thousands of boys have given their live, and the least that enn r!o Is to give our monry to wr wnamey, jonas ana unit in i.nse dis tricts, $25,000 of it, it is alleged, hay ing been sent last Saturday. In this connection it Is well to re call the circula recently issued by the Attorney General of the United fjtntes with reference to the provisions of the new Corrupt Practices law and th enforcement of that law against any one who shall "promise, offer or give, or cause to be offered or given" an money or other thing of value in con sideration of a vote at any general election for United States Senator or Congressmen. District Attorney Wm. C. Hammer has called attention to the matter. He and District Attorney Carr are charg ed with, the prosecution of such of fenders in North Carolina and If they "get the goods" on any violators It ia safe to say the penalty of one year and $1,000 will be paid by them. Reports from over the state show . that while the Spread bt influent is being checked in some places, it is still raging in many other loreliUr. In Raleigh the situation is prrtty u r!l In hand, but thrre sr r ; i r ! 'e-l rnrS dir. '01 - .' .... ( . t . .. --. . "aBB" ssssseswB
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