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VOLUME-XVII
BREVARD. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JULY 1. 1912.
1
. NUMBEB-27
WOODROW WILSON WINS ON
THE FORTY SIXTH BALLOT
After More Than a Week of Balloting, the < New
Jersei: Governor Was Nominated, After
Making Steady Gains From First.
Grovernor Woodrow Wilson of
New Jersey was made the presi
dential nominee of the democ^t-
ic national convention at the af
ternoon session Tuesday when
on the forty-sixth ballot he re
ceived 990 votes to 84 for Champ
Clark.
The Missouri delegation which
had been faithful to Clark to the
end, then moved that the nomina
tion be made unanimous. The^e
was a great chorus of approval
and the long fight was over.
Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana
was nominated for vice-presi-
dent
The deadlock in the democratic
national convention over a presi
dential nominee seemed more com
plete than ever when adjonrnment
was taken at 13:43 Tuesday morn
ing. Woodrow Wilson had made
Steady gains during Monday’s bal
loting up to the fortieth ballot, but
began to lose a little ground in the
forty-first and forty second. The
highest mark reached by Wilson
Monday was 501% on the thirty-
ninth and fortieth ballot.
Speaker Champ Clark reached
the lowest ebb of his candidacy on
the ballot where Wilson was high
est. He went down to 422 votes at
that time, but immediately began
to pick up, and had gone to 430
when adjournment was taken until
Tuesday at 11 o’clock.
The speaker was in Baltimore
Monday evening, but returned to
Washington shortly before mid
night. Governor Wilson and Oscar
Underwood have remained away
from the convention, and neither
have expressed any intention of
going there.
Another sensation was sprung
while the twenty-seventh ballot
was being taken. John B. Stanch-
field, a delegate from New York,
denounced William Jennings Bryan
as a “money-hunting, favor-hnnt-
ing, publicity-hunting marplot from
Nebraska.”
A resolution was introduced by
John P. Knox of Alabama deplor
ing the bitterness of the convention
and calling for a united front in
order to facilitate the work of the
convention. It was referred to the
resolutions committee without
reading.
At the close of the twenty-eighth
ballot it was announced that ar
rangements had been made to ex
tend all railroad tickets, making
them good until July 10th. “1912
or 1913?” demanded a delegate, but
there was no reply. Some of the
delegates have already gone home.
Scattering votes have been cast
on many of the ballots, among
those being thus complimented be
ing Bryan, Kern, Foss, Gaynor,
Baldwin, Marshall, William L. Sul-
zer of New York, and Ollie James
of Kentucky.
Below is given the result of the
different ballots on the leading con
testants up to the forty-second:
Clark
Wilson
Underw’d Harmon
1—
440>^
324
117H
.148
2—
U6}4
329H
141
3—
441
345
114>^
140^
4—
443
349;^
112
136>^
5—
443
351
119}4
141;^
6—
445
354
121
135
7—
449 M
352>^
123>^
129H
8—
448)^
351>^
123
130
9—
452
352}i
122
127
lo
556
350
117}^
31
ll—
554
354>^
ns}i
29
12—
549
354
123
29
13—
544^
356
115}^
29
14—
553
361
111
29
15—
552
362
111>^
29
16—
551
362>^
112>^
29
17:-
545
362K
112>^
29
18—
535
361
125
29
19.__
532
358
130
29
20...
512
388>^
121)4
29
21_._
508
395
118)4
29
22...
500>^
3%K
115
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23...
497>^
399
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24...
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25...
469
405
108
29
26...
463;^
407>4
112)4
29
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469
406)4
112
29
28.„
468^
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112)4
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29...
468
436
112
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30...
450
460
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31...
446K
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32...
•446;^
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447^
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433>^
494)4
101)4
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,434)4
496)4
98)4
29
37...
432
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29
38...
425
498)4
106
29
39...
422
501)4
106
29
40...
423
501)4
106
28
41...
424
499)4
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27
42...
430
494
104
27
43...
329
602
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44...
306
629
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45...
306
633
97
FARMERS’ UNION
About seventy-five farmers, com
ing from all parts of the county,
met in the court house Tuesday
morning to hear the address of J.
Z. Green, state organizer and lec
turer of the Farmers’ Educational
and Co-operative Union. Mr.
Greea’s address dealt with the
benefits to be derived from the
organization of Farmers’ unions,
outlining their principles and ob
jects.
J. F. Farmer of Asheville, county
organizer, has worked up eleven
local branches of the organization
throughout this county, and in the
afternoon delegates from these
unions met in their first county
meeting and elected the following
oflftcers for the ensuing year:
President—T. C. Henderson, Que
bec.
Vice President—H. C. Fisher,
Route 2, Brevard.
Secretary-Treasurer—H. P. Nich
olson, Pisgah Forest.
Chaplain—Judson Corn, Brevard,
Route 1.
Doorkeeper — Monroe Tinsley,
Brevard, Route 1.
Conductor—R. J. Orr, Brevard.
Executive Committee—G. G. Bal
lard, T. C. McCall, A. B. Corn, H.
A. Orr, G. T. Glazener.
A business agent will be elected
by representatives from the differ
ent locals of the county at some
future time. The business agent
keeps the farmers posted as to the
condition of the markets for the
different products of the farm.
The next meeting of the county
organization will be held the first
Saturday in August at 2 p. m.
LIHLE RIVER ITEMS
EDUCATIONAL RALLY
On Tuesday, July 23rd, an elec
tion has been ordered in Selica
school district on the question of
compulsory education. Selica is
tbe first district to take advantage
of the law passed by the last legis
lature providing for compulsory
education in Transylvania county.
A petition was circulated several
week’s ago and signed by a large
number of the qualified voters of
the district, the result of which
was the ordering of the election.
On Saturday, the 20th, preceding
the election, there will be an edu
cational rally at Selica school
house. In the afternoon Prof. A.
C. Reynolds, superintendent of
Buncombe county schools, will be
present and make an address to the
people of the district on compulsory
education. Prof. Reynolds is a
man of ability and large experience
in educational matters. At the re
cent meeting of the trustees of
Cullowhee Institute he was elected
president of the school. He will
have much to say that will be
worth while for the people to hear,
and his subject is one of vital im
portance.
Attention will be called again to
this meeting and to any addition
made to the program.
BOOSTINC SOUTHEAST
By increasing and strengthening
its freight traffic agencies in the
North and West the Southern Rail
way company is pnrsning a policy
that will be of material aid in ex
tending and opening up markets
for the products of the Southeast
ern states. The company has regu
larly maintained freigh traffic rep
resentatives in the Eastern and
central Northern states. Its or
ganization in this territory has re
cently been strengthened by the
appointment of commercial agents
at Buffalo, New York; Detroit,
Michigan, and Peoria, Illinois.
Heretofore its freight traffic agen
cies west of Chicago and St. Lous
have been limited to a general
agent at Denver, Colorado, and a
commercial agent at San Francisco,
California. The great northwest
ern field has not been occupied.
President Finley is personally
familiar with the opportunities for
a larger business between, the
southeast and the northwest, and,
by his direction commercial agen
cies have been established at
Omaha, Nebraska; Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and Seattle, Washing-
ington. At the same time the rep
resentation of the company in Cali
fornia has been increased hy the
establishment of a commercial
agency at Los Angeles.
One of the most important duties
of these agents will be the develop
ment of traffic from the territory
traversed by the lines of the South
ern Railway company into the ter-
ritoriies in which they are located.
With this end in view they will
disseminate information relative to
the products of the southeast and
aid as far as practicable in building
up markets for those products.
On account of the rain the farm
ers are getting behind with their
crops.
A number of young people of this
place went to Crab Creek to the
prize singing last Sunday.
Fred Kilpatrick of Brevard was
a visitor on Little River Sunday.
The Farmers’ Union of this place
is progressing nicely.
Vernon Merrell has returned
from Florida.
There will be union services here
next Sunday; also Rev. M. R. Os
borne will be ordained as a minis
ter of the gospel. All the sur
rounding churches are cordially in
vited.
^‘Aunt Caroline” George is very
ill, Touoh-mb-not.
WHERE THE TROUBLE IS
The Ohio Farmer, in considering
the unsatisfactory condition of the
country schools in that state, says,
“Good farmers will not patronize
poor schools.” Why not say that
good farmers will make an effort to
have good schools. That is the
truth of the matter. All over this
broad country wherever you find a
community of poor, shiftless farm
ers, there you will fipd - a poor,
shiftless school.
The prime cause of poor schools
is in the farmers themselves, just
the same as it is with poor farming.
We have kno«7n farmers who were
in such a low, sunken state that
they were not even ashamed of the
miserable school that existed in
their neighborhood. That is get
ting pretty well down, we admit,
but there’s lots of ’em. When the
American farmer takes on the true
spirit and pride of the civilization
that surrounds him, he will see
v^hat shameful neglect towards his
own home school he has been guilty
of.—^Hoard’s Dairyman.
IMPOtTANT VISIT OF
THE ftSSENGER MEN
ENTERTAINED BY CITIZENS
OF BREVARD
Special Train Load of Passenger
Men Made a Stop Here
Last Friday.
The Southeastern and Southwest
ern Passenger Associations paid
Brevard a visit last Friday morn
ing, and their coming will long be
rememberer by the citizens of the
town, and it is safe to say that the
railroad men will not soon fSrget
their reception.
These two organizations held a
three days joint session at Lake
Toxaway last week with about one
hundred members present. This is
the firpt time in the history of the
organizations that they ever met
together. Their coming to this
section to hold their meeting will
be of great advertising value to
this part of the country.
The men composing the two O'*-
ganizations, among who are some
of the most important railway offi
cials of the country, together with
a number of ladies, wives and
daughters of the members arrived
in Brevard on a special train short
ly after ten o'clock Friday. They
were met at the station by a num
ber of citizens of the town. Car-
riages were in waiting for all and a
parade was formed, headed by a
number of citizens on horseback,
after which came the KaDell-
Kritchfield brass band, followed by
the members in carriages. They
were conducted to the court house
lawn, where a welcome was ex
tended to the visitors on behalf ol
the town by Welch Galloway, who
spoke from the veranda of the Ap
palachian Club Estates builciing.
Mr. Galloway’s speech was a mas
terpiece.
In view of the fact that the dele-
gales contended that they could
stop here only twenty minutes Mr.
Galloway limited his speech to one
hour. He said he could not offer
them the keys of the town, as this
town is a “stem winder.” After
the speech the visitors were con
ducted to the dining room of the
Aethelwold, where a light lunch
was served to all, consisting of
sandwiches, salads, fruits, ice tea,
and various other good things.
The entire party was in the very
best of spirits, and all seemed to be
having a good time. Even the
most staid and dignified of the vis
itors “loosened up,” and their
praise for the reception was not
stinted.
Contrary to the usual custom, all
toasts were sung, led by Mr. S. H.
Hardwick of the Southern. Among
the toasts so given there were sev
eral for Brevard, one for the South
ern, the Aethelwold, Mr. D. C. Sin
clair, Mr. Hardwick, Mr. W. E.
Breese, Jr., Mr. Galloway, and even
the editof of the News came in for
one verse.
After the repast at the Aethel
wold the visitors were driven to
the Franklin hotel and over the
Boardman estate, after which they
were ta^en back to the station. At
the station an informal, very in
formal, ball took place, led by Mr.
Hardwick, in which only men par
ticipated.
The special train left shortly be
fore twelve o’clock. Every one had
a good word for Brevard. The
coming of these men will be of great
value to the town, as they go into
every section of the south and
southwest. They will undoubtedly
speak a good word for the town in
their travels.
Th'e party arrived in Asheville
shortly after one o’clock, where
they were ventertained by the citi
zens of that town.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN
The regular July meeting of the
board of aldermen took place last
Monday night, and the full number
of aldermen were present. Mayor
Henry presiding.
The question of granting a fran
chise to the Brevard Telephone
Company.was taken up and consid
ered. It -was agreed to grant a
franchise on certain conditions and
with certain amendments to the
privileges asked for by the com
pany. These provisions were: To
reduce the time of franchise from
fifteen years, as desired, to five
years; to cut off the proviso as to
increase of rates; to place phones
in the city hall and in each of the
policemen’s houses free of charge,
the town to bear the expense of
wiring. This last provision was
made for better police protection.
The street committee, which had
been commissioned to inspect the
streets laid out by F. E. B. Jenkins,
asked the board of aldermen to go
over said streets before any action
was taken in regard to their ac
ceptance.
The light committee was given
power, by action of the board, to
deal with the questions of main
taining illumination on the public
square, and to agree on the amount
to be paid by the town. It was also
ordered that some arrangement be
made with the Brevard Light and
Power Co. fot an additional num
ber of small lights over town.
A petition was filed 'asking the
board to build a bridge over King’s
creek at the end of North Caldwell
street. As a large per cent of the
cost of building the bridge had been
made up by private individuals the
board ordered that the street com
mittee, in conjunction with Alder
man Cooke, be authorized to take
up the matter and let the contract
at once.
Alderman Kilpatrick was ap
pointed to revise the special license
tax schedule and report to the
board.
And RasemblM H«r M«th«r Sem*.
TheloveUest girl ‘at a party belongs
to the mother of each girl there.—New
I Xork Press.
FOURTH OF JULY PRIZES
Following are the prizes offered
for the athletic contests for the
fourth of July:
Sack race—First prize, pinless
clothes line, p;iven by T. W. Whit
mire ; second prize, half dozen ci
gars, by Fuller & Loftis.
Three-legged race—1st, cake by
George Phillips; 2nd, six tickets to
moving picture show, given by
Brevard Amusement Co.
■Tug of w^—1st, $1.00 box Kern’s
candy, by Duckworth Drug Co.;
2nd, $1.00 barber check, by Chas.
Jollay.
Fifty yard dash—1st, knife, by C.
M. Doyle ; 2nd, one flag, by J. M.
Kern.
Hundred yard dash—1st, solid
gold scarf pin, by P. R. Ayres; 2nd,
silk hose^ by W. P. Weilt.
Standing high jump—1st, base
ball bat, by Stone Hardware Co.;
2nd, six cigars, by C. C. Yongue.
Running high jump—1st, base
ball, Miller Supply Co.; 2nd, one
pound coffee, T. M. Mitehell.
Standing broad jump—1st, $1.00
barber check, by John W. Smith;
2nd, six tickets to moving picture
show.
Running bcoad jump—Fifty cents
in cash, by O. W. Clayton; 2nd,
necktie, by O. L. Erwin.
Putting shot—1st, one year’s
subscription to Sylvan Valley
News; 2nd, fifty cents, by W. P.
Whitmire.
Mile race—1st, fountain pen, by
S. M. Macfie; 2nd, fifty cents cash,
D. L. English.
Relay race—1st, six tickets to
moving picture show; 2nd, twenty-
five cents cash, by V. Fontaine.
Shoe race—1st, pair suspenders,
G. M. Glazener; 2nd, pair half-hose,
by J. E. Clayton.
Potato race—1st, scarf pin, by J.
O. Dermid; second, six months sub
scription to Sylvan Valley News.
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