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. . ' : 7 -. :;?":;;;5'Ifl .9 f'ik li's "v V- . -! "5.' r' - r-t a ,: 1 v. ;BESSEMERleiiM;Cp6 4, 1912. NO. 32. sill? & i f pii .'v ' Uftlii rftHi l J ibU t H bu IAFT IS. SILENT ON MEAKtio ; .PHOqRESSIVE ; CAND! DATE F09 GOVERNOR HEARD IN CHARLOTTE. LARGE AUDIENCE HEARS HIM H e Discussed the Social and the In dustrial Justice, the Minimum Wage Scale and Other ; Important . Topics f the Day. Charlotte. Preachliie the Osospel' of progressiTlsm Tfith ?ui -attractive tal nt and inten.sity,xHoii, Iredell Meares, candidate for Governor 'on the" ticket of the National Progressive party, ad dressed a number of Mecklenburg and. Charlotte people in the county - court house. " Theweather ''initiated, against a large and representative j crowd, such as' the Roosevelt " forces claim they can muster in behalf, of the in terests of their leaders, but those who heard the speaker parade the vitrues cf the new principles, lift the tenor and temper of his. address above the pl&ne of abuse and in vestive and for get himself for the promotion of the cause which, he champions were held by his eloquence. Mr. : Meares de monstrated that as a platfdrm speak er, he could measure ,with the two o?.her distinguished - candidates, for Governor, representing the two : old line parties. . '' '" ' :, :: :: The campaign of the progressives' was formally opened with his speech. He said that it was fitting to . choose Mecklenburg in which to begin a se ries of speeches 'which will be made throughout . North . Carolina r-rn. f advo cacy of the - principles which'; Theojiorje Roosevelt " has r incorporated injhls platform for the Presidency. r' Meck lenburg, being the home pf the lovers cf liberty, where - the fathers broke ttie shackles or - oppression angwere Urst to announce for liberty.- offeredJ n fine setting for the. introductloitrbf the campaign whicb proposes "to turn the drift of popular opinion from the constricted channels of the old parties and into the new and ever-alluring way that has been opened up in the United States by the ColoneL . Ohio Farmers on Prospecting Trip. Raleigh. Secretary Elias Carr of the state department of agriculture, is just back from accompanying, a party of 25 Ohio - farmers on a pros pecting trip through the black drain-; ed soil sections of and says that ; the , eastern . Carolina, entire -party was enthusiastic and that, probbly a ma jority of them will locate in this state; They declared themselves convinced that the North Carolina soils they in spected are three; times as productive as soils that are available In Ohio. North Carolina New Enterprises. Raleigh. Charters are issued for the Stanley Ginning Co., of Gaston county; capital $5,000 by CV B. Car penter and others; the Richlands Val ley Orchard: Cd.V Of Waynesville, capi tal $50,000 authorized and f 4,000 sub scribed by W. S. Booke and others; and The Imperial Pharmacy Co., of Fayetteville, capital $20,000 authorized and $10,000 subscribed by M. I. Perry, P. A. Teeming and others. Old Man Killed By Train. Henderson. Mr. George .Clark, aged 65 years, was struck and instantly killed by .southbound strain No. 43 Mr. Clark, who was very -deaf; attempted. , w cross the tracks wnen tne train, running about 45 -milesvah hour, was within 70 feet of him. it is. supposed that he neither saw nor heard the locomotive. The deceased was a re apected and prominent, citizen. ' . Politics in Durham County Durham. The three candidates . for the legislature on the : Democratlo ticket opened the campaign in ? this oounty at Rougemont. .; The - speakers nd the candidates for r the legisla tive offices are Victor S. Bryant, S C Brawjey and G. S. Staliings. -A num ber of people from .jthis oity were there and the meeting was a most en thusiastio one in every respect. - Capture' An llliolt Distillery. Durham. Revenue : Officers Knight, Merritt and Constable Hall captured a big illicit distillery, some four or "five miles from Durham and with it three white men, Iiuther and John dollar and another man by the name t Ferrall. The officers had informa tion, that there was 'a plant in opera tion in the neighborhood of the city jumping station, ; and w.ent to a point near the plant, concealed themselves and awaited developments. While in the act of making a run the men wen completely surprised. : - I Ulllll I U III I ii MnTiinrr MISSOURI ; GOVERNOR- WANTED PRESIDENT TO , TAKE BOLD St AND FOR" REFORM. DOME WITH TH E BOSS RULE The State Committee Demands That the. Executive Cancelf Speeches of jEle.Pledge Hine Wire Hadley's Proposition!' -":;: - Z! i - , St. Louis, Mo. No word ; from. Pres ident . Taft. came in reply to .Governor Hadley's ultimatum to the State Re publican Committee as to, the terms on which he would support the" Presi dent; in "the present campaign, v; This was." explained by4 Col. Otto .R; Stifel, member of the advisory committee of the Republican National Committee who said that he had wired President M Taft the text of Governor Hadley's ultimatum and , had failed to hear from the President and . had sent the President a .. second telegram saying mat no immediate reply was neces sary, v ".; " .Colonel Stifel explaining this action in a statement, declared that he had Informed the President that the con sidered "Hadley's speech at the open ing jot. theS.tate Republican campaign as an endorsements of Taft . and a promise to support him." ' Governor Hadley's ultimatum was that he w.ould support President Taft for re-election only bn condition that the President would at once - declare himself for presidential : ; preference primaries and nonoss controlled del agtlons from; Southern states tt Na tional convenions in order 'to prevent. recurrence of tne charges: of fraud such as arose in the. last Republican ixauonai vonvenuon. cy.i-i:. V" &uiei ent TUf t by long distanfceelephone but the connection was had and he couia nox maKe me rresiagni 4unaer stand Governor Hadiey's proposition. The President told Colonel Stifel to . submit . the proposition n. writing i or to go at once with it to Washington, where the President would meet him. Paving Way For State Convention. New York. Democratic leaders be--gan their advance 'upon Syracuie- for the " Democratic State Convention. Charles F. Murphy leader, of Tammany Hall, United States Senator James O'Gorman and John - M,. McCooey, a Brooklyn leader, ' left for Syracuse. , Senator O'Gorman and Mr.:- Murphy ; .traveled; together, haying ; adjoining seats in the drawing room ' compart ment. ; The Senator declined to com ment, on the fact. Some one asked Senator O'Gorman if ... the Syracuse gathering would be an convention," "Of, course "unbossed" it wUI," he replied. , "There wwilV be no one man director of this convention. An Entire Family Drowns. : Toronto, Ont. Five members of one family were drowned in the Pig eon River the victims being William ' McCaffrey of Toronto, sales manager of the Canadian General Electric Com pany, his mother, wife and two child ren. "A, ' fourteen-pound -. muscalonge which had been - hooked by Mr. Mc Caffrey was responsible for the deaths of the family . party. Mr. " McCaffrey ; had come here with his family - to spend a short holiday, with, his pa rents and his wife, mother and two children started out in a canoe down the - Pigeon River in quest of . musca longe. ' ' : , Again Assumes Peaceful Air. Augusta, Ga. Another conference between Mayor Barrett, other city of ficials and representatives of. the Street Railway Company in an effort to bring about J a settlement of - the street car strike proved unavailing. The city has again assumed a peace ful air after the exciting events of the past few days, in which three- citizens were shot to death by membersof the state, militia and two Tcompanies of soldiers on iguard ; duty - here were sent to their home stations. Economic Importance of Corn. Washington. Some idea regarding the economic Importance of corn may be had by a realization that in the United- States it exceeds' in acreage, yield and value, wheat, oats, barley, flax, rye, buckwheat and potatoes com bined. .An increased .value of : one cent per bushel , would mean an ad ditional -. Inc6me to the farmers of the United States of $25,000,000, while an Increased production of but one bush el per acre at 50 cents .ier bushel would add $50,000,000 annually to the national wealth. :;-' -' . 1 . FAHquSlUOMl i I " - ' ! - ' f ' '-' y: -"'tV ?-':i; . s::C ft- dj im& m imm - J . Our phonograph shows a street sc ehe idfront of the Mosque, of St. . So phia, "Constantinople, one of the most .famous- "places of . worship" ; in the -world, which, it is feared, is about to collapse -due to the damage caused by : a recent earthquake which shook Eubpeaa . Turkeys The church, j which measures 250 by 235 feet, was begun in ih year. 582 by Emperor Justinian and completed within five years. It, is ol bridk, faced with marble and is in' the fdrm of a cross. The central dome is 180 feet high and 108 :Zeet Jn diameter. After bnquering Constantinople n 1458, Mohammed 11 con verted St. Sophia into a place for Mohammedan -worship. ' ' v i - RESULTS OF NEW JERSEY PRIdlARIES Hughes of Paterson, Democratic Choice for U. S. Senator SENATOR BRIGGS A WINNER Candidate Selected ty Governor Wil son to Make Race. Against Former Senator Wins by Overwhelm , -, ' ing Vote. , Trenton, N. J. At primaries that were turbulent and disorderly in Es sex and Hudson counties, but tame in other parts of the state, the Demo crats of New Jersey indorsed William Hughes of Paterson for United States (Senator over former United States Senator James Smith, Jr., of NewarK. Hughes carried most of the; twenty- one" counties, Smith capturing Essex, his home county, by about 3,000'. , Senator Briggs received the entire Republican preferential Indorsement for . another term. - Ie was. the only Republican to file a petition. : The Progressives,, who nominated candidates by petition in Hudson county and ; then fought for their in dorsement bv the Republicans, car ried Hudson county, nominating the twelve men-for the Assembly and three for Congress The men named for ; Congress oyer George li.Record, the Taft men are . Harland Besson and Harold Bouton. :. y x v 1 t - v Not only was - Smith ' beaten, but practically all the; Wilson candidates for nomination throughout the state, outside of Essex, Smithy home coun ty, were, successful. ;' - ,f f -'l:' All ' told, each party selected sixty candidatesTfor the Assembly, six can didates for state : senator, . twelve can didates for Congress and manjr-municipal offices. - . ' ' The vote was light all over the 'state as a rule, indicating that there was more1 noise than genuine interest Jn the primary campairn' of both parties- FOSS WINS IN BAY STATE. Ex-Speaker Walker Gets the Republi can Nomination forvGpvernor. Boston.- Gov. Euget.e N. Foss was renominated by the Democrats in the primary election, defeating ' District Attorney J.?'C. Pelletler of SnlfolK county by 25,000 votes. Joseph Walk er, former speaker of : the Massachu setts House of Representatives, won the Republican . nomination; defeating Everett C Benton' a former member of the. Governor's Oouncil. : The Republican vote was light com-' pared :to that of the, primary a year ego.. . - i . - DANGER OUR CROPS WORTH $,uuu,uuu,uuu Degree of Prosperity Affected by Harvests Abroad FARMERS LUCKY THIS YEAR Europe Will Call Upon This Nation for Food Supplies Question Is ; if Farmer or, Consumer Will Profit the More. Washington.- One of the best things about : agricultural prosperity -in ; thi3 country, finnancial writers tell you, is that it has a way of coming when other agrarian nations are in the grip of c famine. The result is : that the great crop in the' United States helps to feed the other countries of the world whose fields have lain sodden atv harvest or' have buined in unre lieved sunshine. The restriction of the supply j raises the prices and - the American farmer gets the benefit, which is "parcelled out to the Ameri can - manufacturer, tradesman and workman. - ; With a wheat crop that will meas ure nearly .710,000,000 buchels and has an approximate value to the farmer of $603,000,500, a corn crop of al most 3,000,000,000 bushels, with a farm value of at least 41,350,000,000, an oats J crop : which is,, reaching the record breaking total of 1,290,000,000 bushels and has a value on the farms of about $387,000,000, and crops of barley, rye and other farm products running near the top; notch the present value of breadstuffs to the farmers of the United States can be put roughly at more than $7,000,000,000.' m ' By December 1; the date from which the government figures the farm value of grain, the gross value of this year's crop to the farmers will be. many mil lions more. 11 - - In .- addition to that enormous sum can be figured the money accruing to the railroads ! f or . transportation, t the incidental profits of the commission buyers', in the fieldi 'and the brokers on the' exchanges, the steamship companies for carrying -part of - the crop; abroad,' the elevator owners,, the millers and the : others who deal di rectly with the grain in the process of putting it-"In the hands :of the con sumers. :;il;v'c: '. V.-ri-'.: The deduct-on' from the' reports Is that the United States will: be called upon for an . unusually large" exporta tion of grain. ." It is noteworthy that the present visible, stock of wheat in the United States Is nearly, 20,000,000' less than it was a year ago.: :This, In the face of a probabl ? heavy demand from abroad, accounts for thei read!-- ness : witn . whicn onerings , or wneat are being- picked -up In the western markets. K : ' - - CARAGUAS REVOLT EtIDS Rebel Chief and 700 M6n Sur- rendered to American Forces TO EXILE GENERAL L1ENA Bluejackets Relieve Starving ' Popula tion of Granaa-dmiral; Southec. land ; Likely to Send Mena to Pana g ma Martyr if Given to Nicaragua. -Washingtdn. With the ; surrender of General IMena- to Rear Admiral Southerland at Granada, officials here regard the' Nicaraguan revolution at an : end, after two months of turbul ence and anxiety. Minister Weitzel cabled that Gen eral Mena had surrendered with 700 men at - midnight ,on( the night of Sep tember" 24. ' His surrender was accept ed with the understanding - that Gen eral Mena would be permitted to go to Panama and thence into perma nent exile ' from Nicaragua. " Minister Weitzel stated that there was great rejoicing in Granada and in Managua, the capital; ' when the news of the. surrender, was received. He de scribed the conditions found in Gran ada -as most distressing,; and the in habitants of the city-in a most pitia ble situation. Food supplies, donated by . the American Red Cross are being distributed, together , with other , sup plies brought from ; Managua by the American forces. The marines and bluejackets are ; practically running the city, f eeding the; people, maintain ing order and also operating the trains on the railroads and the steamers on the lake. v It is presumed that the numerous prisoners confined and tor tured by Mena's men have been re? leased. : S':'' '. : 'v.1 ' It is believed now-, that nothing re mains but . to i "get Mena out -of the country, restore order and get the peo- ielbafiiitheir.icus of living, turn over, the ; railroad "and other property to their , private 'own ers and the Nicaraguan '. Government, and then arrange f6r an open and free election- under" the supervision of .the American forces. 1 . . Thevindictment of the "tJnited'States against Mena and , Zeledon includes violation . of repeated pledges to keep the peace upon the part of ' Mena, seizure of 'American; property and .re fusal to surrender it when1 demand was made, volation of ; armistices Jind flags of truce, violation of the person of officers of the United States, bom bardment of C unfortified towns, ; with deliberate firing upon " the American Legation the slaughter of two Ameri cans at Leon on the ' occasion ' of Hhe massacre of i 500. federal, soldiers and defiance of the laws of - humanity , and civilization." - THAW'S CAPTOR A SUICIDE. Wife Wounded and Two Girls Hit by Stray Bullets. New York. Policeman Anthony Debs, who was attached to the staff of Inspector Farrell of the Seventh . Inspection District . in the Bronx? and who on the night of June 251906,! ar rested Harry K. Thaw for killing Stan ford White, committed suicide, after having dangerously wounded his-' wife and two young girls who got in range of his bullets. Debs led in the j; Hood Wright Hospital several hours after he shot himself. His wife "and the two girls are. all, expected to re cover. ; . ;V'"";.;::; ' ' "'f -'; Debs was 34 years old. He had been married some ten, years, -and until a" few years jtgo his home life was seemingly- happy. Then there came a. change, and, according to his neigh bors, the policeman began to treat his wife unkindly. - Debs. lived on the fourth fiooT of the apartment house at 188 Wes,t 101st Street. It was In front of that house that he shot his wife and the girls. He shot himself in his apartment later. . , ' , DEFINES "PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS.' Wickersham in Formal Opinion Deals "' ' with New Postal Law. ... Washington. In an: opinion . con struing the povisions of section 2 of the last postoffice appropriation act .requiring publishers , to file sworn statements semi-annually of their "paid ) subscribers," Attorney-eneral Wickersham . holds ' that , "paid" ' sub scriptions . include all : newspapers con tracted for and taken regularly wheth er? the 'subscriptions r are Individual or injbulkvt Regular sales .to-news dealers,- to be delivered daily 1 are to be counted as paid 'subscriptions. :; - Thie opinion was requested by Presi-; dent Taft,, in- a letter sent to the attorney-general on Sept. 14, byhe postmastergeneral vat the Presidents dU'ection. s 1 HEDGES MAIVIEDEW FOR COVER W Mew ; York Republican $tati : Convention Ch'oosos Ticket SELECTED OFI THinb DALLOTj .v,..-f Jarre .W. Wadaworth, Jr., for.JLlai , - t..t.C.....&lUflltliii ; lwh V1.1 J i 1 . for TreasurerOther Noml- natioiis. : ..i-n....'.'' Saratoga, N." T. The , RepubiieM rV state ; convention nominated ; the K fot-; '' lowing' candidates for state offlcera : 4 ' For Governor, Job E. Hedges of New - .York cpunty?.;f V t)'XP - For .Lieutenant-Governor,' James- W; ' Wadswerth Jr.; of Livingston nsi - Fr; Secretary of State,' Francis 111' Hugo of Jefferson. :-- ' r'js f,;."l.? For Comptroller, William D. - Cun- ; ningham of Ulster. ' V " , 1 f v . ; i For. state treasurer, William , Archer . of Westchester. .:'7;;: i X For Attorney-General, Meier Stein-1. brink of-Kings. '--. . .;-,";,-' t' ; c5 '.- For State' Engineer, and Surveyor Frank M; Williams of Orange. ;"'"; . v ; For- Associate Judge of the fiourt ofJ , Appeals, "Frank H. Hiscock of OnooH ; daga, now a Supreme Court Justice for-the Fifth Judicial District) andean Associate. Judge of -the Court of Ap-, ' r ; peals by designation, "X'- -'7 t'vT rr Six names ; had,-been placed betote ; V the convention in nominating speeche V -. y and six more were, voted : for. named in the speeches "were :";Jamea joBi.EH.'tibfiEs..:;. vy:''; - ; W; Wadsworth, Jr; of Livingston, Job X , E. Hedges of New York,, William' S ' Bennet of New York,' Wiiiiari. Hfjan- i iels of Biiialo; P W ' Cullinan'of Os-f Ci ' we g?h f p rmer stat excls e com ms sion ; er, anSenato;EdgafiT? Brackett;. 1' Three ballots" had been rtakenfor ' ;r ; " . governor. When the: thlrdV ballot. had been completed a rush to-change their ballots was made by a dozen .delega tion chairmen. Chairman Backett atx ;". first rii1ipi1 h1 khtion WflH. iltZA kndV ' I called lor a further: ballot, but, Qhr th; ' point of- order. ; being raised he re-: ; versed himself, and Hedges was Tnomi- '. . hated!. 'before th'er "result ' 61 the third . ballot was made public ai intjon ; to make the Hedges npninapn:. unanl- , mous was made aad carried, by' a tUh l ing vote. ' vt--; '":-'-i M Mr.: Hedges was escorted., Into the convenUon : hall, .where;ia; the ;midst ; ; of an oVationV be made .an informal : , " speech of acoeptance:. Mr; - Wads worth, .V JAMES W. WADSWORTH. who was also on hand,: was called to fri the platform, and : also was cheered -warmlykfter he bad pledged .himself f to. put up a valiant fight. for.Republi- can victory. - "' j For , one place on th3. bench of the . t Court of Appeals the convention did : hot name a candidate, ' A committee- v: waV provided, with full 'powers, to ar- A range for the indorsement of any euit-v ,' able' candidate the Democratic state ' convention, Syracuse mayhoose, or.J : in case the choice of th Democrats ' v should not appeal sufficiently to jus-N : tify an' ; indorseos ent, t6 ' select - a.." straight party candidate for; tW place. . : . v The committee on' notification for, . Governor -1 and 7 jLieutenant-CJpvernor M was then named and , the cohventioa adjourned.. -v- .Those 4- " f' ' v - " ! .' :- : '!'' Zt ': V- "S ' .'
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