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LAURINBURG, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 10. 1910.
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TIDAL WAVE OF DEMOCRACY.
Sweeps Nation Democrats Elect Majority to
National Congress Many Republican States
Swept by Democrats -North Carolina Elects
All Congressmen Democrats Majority in
State 50,000 or More.
The Democrats won the great
est victory of thirty years last
Tuesday, electing Governors of
many heretofore Republican
States, and have won a majority
in the lower house of the Na
tional Congress and made great
gains in the National Senate.
Among the heretofore Repub
lican States which went Demo
cratic Tuesday, the more import
ant ones are New York, New
Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Indiana and Illinois.
In New York the victory was
complete and the Republican de
reat was disastrous. Col. Roose
velt lost his own town of Oyster
Bay.
In North Carolina, which has
been represented in Congress by
seven Democrats and three Re
publicans, the victory was over
whelming, all ten of the Repre
sentatives being elected Demo
crats. The State repudiated But
ler and Morehead by 50,000 ma
jority or more, an increase of
upwards of 12,000 over two years
ago.
In Scotland county the vote
was light, but the majority was
about as usual, being something
over 500. There were about 62
Republican votes cast in the
county.
The majority of Congressman
Robert N. Page, Democrat, from
this District, will be even great
er than two years ago. It will
be upwards of 3,000. Most of
the Democratic Congressmen
made gains in their majorities,
while in the three Republican
districts they all won out over
their Republican opponents with
good safe Democratic majorities.
Skating in Laurel Hill Township.
There was a rather serious
shooting affair on the 3d inst.,
near the farm of Mr. R. E. Lee,
about four miles from town. Er
nest Moore went to the home of
Louise Johnson, an aged color
ed woman, and was creating
some disturbance with the chil
dren. She came out and ordered
him away from the premises,
when he became enraged and
shot her in the side with a shot
gun. It is not certain that she
will recover. The negro who did
the shooting has not yet been arrested.
MANY NEGROES HEAR THEIR
0US LEADER.
FAM-
Resolutiins c! Respect.
Whereas, our Heavenly Fath
er in His infinite wisdom has
called to Himself our dearly be
loved sister, Mrs. Henry D. Gib
son; and whereas, we, the mem
bers of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society of the M. E.
church, Gibson, N. C, wish to
express our deep sorrow for one
who was worthy of our love and
1st: That in the
death of oar sister, our Society
loses a faithfil member and
worker, and one who was always
ready to do all in her power for
the advancement of the cause.
Resolved 2d: That not only will
she be missed by otir society,
but by the church, and we bow
in humble submission to His will,
realizing that our loss is His
gain.
Resolved, 3d: That we extend
to her bereaved husband and
daughters our deepest sympathy.
and pray that God may comfort
them in their sorrow.
"Earth hath no sorrow
That Heaven cannot heal."
Resolved, 4th: That a copy of
these resolutions be sent to the
family of our sister, a copy to
the Raleigh Christian Advocate,
and a county paper, to be pub
lished, and a copy be spread
on the minutes of our Society.
Mrs. T. J. Adams,
Mrs. N. F. Gibson,
Miss Lola P. Gibson.
Send us a Dollar !
Dr. Booker T. Washington Spoke te a Large
Crowd at Ball Park Colored Citizens Tamed
Out in Large Numbers His Speech Remark
able in Many Ways Full o! Sound Sense
and Safe and Practical Advice Points.
Dr. Booker T. Washington, the
noted Negro educator, spent a
few hours in Laurin burg last Fri
day afternoon and addressed a
large crowd of negroes and a
number of white people at the
ball park. The leading colored
colored citizens of this commun
ity had made all necessary ar
rangements for the entertain
ment of the party and for the
speaking. A large canvas-covered
stand or platform was erected
in front of and facing the grand
stand in the ball park, the plan
being to have the crowd occupy
the grand stand, but owing to
the unexpected cold wave and
strong and cutting wind, it was
found that this was not practica
ble and the big crowd mainly
stood up in front of the speaker's
stand. Sufficient chairs were
provided for all the white people
present, but the greater part of
the colored people stood during
the address. They did not seem
to get weary or restless, however,
which shows how thoroughly the
speaker made himself understood
and how .interesting his words
were.
Besides the several who com
posed Washington's party and
the local management of the oc
casion, a number of our white
citizens occupied seats on the
speaker's stand. "
Dr. Washington was introduced
in a brief talk by Mr. M. L. John
just after Dr. J. M. Rose, pastor
of the local Presbyterian church,
had led in prayer. The speaker
began by saying that it has got
to be somewhat embarassing to
a public speaker sinee the news
papers of the present day have
formed such a habit of reporting
and repeating a man's speeches,
for usually his sermon gets ahead
of him. He said that he is like
some preachers, he often changes
his text but preaches the same
old sermon, As there had been
some delay and he had only a
short time to stay in Laurinburg,
he promised to cover the ground
he desired to cover in as short a
time as possible. However, he
seemed doubtful of saying all
that he desired in the time at his
disposal. He cited an instance
of a custom prevailing in his old
home community when he was a
boy. Every Sunday morning all
the children were allowed two
spoonfulls of molasses. He said
that when his molasses was put
into his plate, he always turned
the plate about every way so as
to get the molasses spread all
over the bottom of the plate.
And, he declared, it would take
a mighty good mathematician
even now to convince him that
there was not more molasses af
ter it was thus scattered out over
the entire plate. He prefered,
if he had the time, to spread out
his remarks.
mi r j i i i i a.
ine nrst tnmg ne aia, alter a
few introductory remarks, was
to create, by his words and man
ner, a perfect sympathy and un
derstanding between himself and
his colored audience. How this
was accomplished is impossible
to tell. He made himself one of
them. The negro, he declared.
is the only race of men on earth
which has ever looked the white
man in the face and lived. The
American Indian had tried it but
he died; others had done likewise
and likewise had perished before
his gaze, but the Negro had ac
tually looked the white man in
the face and lived. The Negro,
he said, is in this country to stay.
There are several reasons for
this: he is not an intruder, he is
here under a special invitation; of his white neighbors but he
in fact, he was sent for; and ; must solve it or his opportunity
again, this country, and especial-; will one day pass from him.
ly the South, is the best place for j And then, the speaker, declar
the colored man on the face of ' ed, the white man can help the
the earth. Further, the negro j negro and in doing so can help
wants to stay here and the south- j himself. The white man has al
ern white man wants him to : ready helped and is still helping
stay. And not only is the South because he is the negro's friend.
the best place for the negro, but ; There is a great responsibility
the country, the farm, he declar
ed, is ;the place for him. He
warned the colored people a
gainst a desire to leave the South,
against a desire to leave the
resting on the white man, for
the negro patterns largely after
his white neighbor in everything,
dress, habits of life, religion and
morals. How well the white
country, the farm, for the town, J man is meeting his obligations in
and against the habit of moving
from place to place. He begged
them to settle down and not do
like the family of colored people
in Alabama which he knew.
They moved on the first day of
January to celebrate their free
dom and thought they had to
move every first of January.
They moved so much that a roos
ter in the family became so ac
customed to move on that day
that he got so on the first of Jan
uary he would come up before
the cabin door, lie down and
cross his legs to be tied. He said
some colored people moved so of
ten they never staid anywhere
long enough to win a reputation
for reliability. In this connection
he told of the hardships of the
laboring man in other countries.
He pointed out the fact that in
many countries of Europe there
were more laborers than jobs and
wages were exceedingly low,
that these people would be only
too glad to come to America
especially to the South where
there are more jobs than work
men and better wages. The
southern wiite man prefers the
southern negro to do his manual
labor because the southern nero
can do it better, but the 8iutU
negro must be progressive, he
must keep up with the develope
ment of southern labor, must ap
ply himself, establish a reputa
tion for reliability, must learn to
keep his word, must learn the
lesson that there is dignity and
honor in all labor when it is hon
estly performed, must pay his
debts, otherwise, the southern
white man will begin to look a
bout him for another race of peo
to do his work. The speaker
especially stressed the point that
the southern negro lives better
than any other race of laboring
men in the world and that he has
the greatest possibility for ad
vancement and progress than
any other, but this depends ab
solutely upon the condition of his
keeping up with the times and
becoming not only a hard worker
and a trained worker but an ab
solutely reliable worker. He
wanted to see the time come, he
said, when not every negro who
had learned to read and write
shall feel that the next morning
he is called to preach the Gospel.
He declared that there is as much
dignity and honor in any other
line of service honestly and man
fully performed as in preaching
the Gospel or teaching school.
He said that the South is great
ly misunderstood in many places.
He said that he had been in pla
ces where the prevailing idea of
the Southern white man and his
relation to the negro is that it is
the custom for the average sou
thern white man to go out before
breakfast and lynch a negro to
whet his appetite. He knew that
while much had been said and
written about the details of the
problem, which existed more in
imagination than anywhere else,
that the southern white man is
the negro's best friend and that
the average feeling between the
two races in the South is one of
sympathy and love and a will
ingness to help and befriend each
other. The real problem is an
industrial one and the colored
man nas tne wouueriui oppor
this respect is shown in the re
markable fact that he has taken
a race of people from a state of
barbarism and absolute savagery
and in two hundred years civiliz
ed him and . christianized him.
But the southern white man is
inclined to give the negro child
credit for having more sense
than he really has. For instance,
he thinks that the negro child
should learn as much in a four
month's term of school as the
white child can in an eight
months' term. This, hedealared,
implied entirely too great a com
pliment. He then begged for
better schools for the negro, lon
ger term3, better teachers with
better pay. He said this would
keep the best negroes on the
farm where they belong. He
also asked the white man for
better houses for the negro lab
orer on his farm.
He dwelt at some length upon
the necessity of the colored man
EX-SHERIFF McLEOD BADLY INJURED.
October Hancr Roll.
Autembile Collides With Train Car Demoksh
ished and Occupants Iajursd.
A very sad accident occurred
near Roeford last Thursday
which came very near resulting
in the death of three men. An
automile in which Ex-Sheriff
Geo. B. McLeod and a Mr. John
son, of Lumberton, and a Mr.
Pate, who was driving the car,
were riding, collided with a train
on the Aberdeen & Rockfish
railroad. The automobile was
completely demolished and the
occupants injured, although Mr.
Pate and Mr. Johnson escaped
with but slight injuries. Mr.
McLeod was more seriously hurt,
however, and he was hurried to
Fayetteville on a special train
and placed in Highsmith's hos
pital. At the last accounts Mr.
McLeod was resting very well,
but the extent of his injuries
seem to be somewhat in doubt.
Week of Fires.
Last week was an eventful
one in Laurinburg from the
standpoint of the number of
small fires, if in no other respect.
Besides the two or three report
ed in last Week's Exchange, an
other broke forth Friday morn
ing. This time it was the resi
dence of W. P. Evans, on the
northwest side of town, that was
afire, and there wa3 really some
danger for awhile, for the wind
wa3 very high, and if the fire
to save at least a part of what he had succeeded in getting a little
makes and quit the habit of
spending it all. . He begged them
to start a bank account, to work
all the year round and never
come to town without bringing
something to sell and thu3 quit
a ways staking back .something
irom town and never bringing
anything to town. The white
folks don't draw the color line on
your chickens and eggs, do they,
he asked. And then learn mod
ern methods of farming, work
more, work better, raise bigger
crops, be reliable and learn to
save and live clean, wholesome
and righteous lives. The soil
draws no color line, the rains
draw none, the sun draws none,
except in favor of the negro, and
with the friendship and help of
the white man, with a reputation
for reliable and honest service,
with something saved each year,
with clean habits, the negro's
prosperity and progress and hap
piness are assured here in the
South.
The address was a remarkable
one in many things. It was de
livered to and for the benefit of
a crowd of colored men and wo
men, in the main from the farms
of the country and possessing
little education. It necessarily
better start it would have cer
tainly burned the house. There
was a fire at the pot in the back
yard, and it is supposed that a
spark was driven by the wind
upon some clothing hanging on
the . back porch. . This porch was
covered with lattice and the
clothing set fire to the lattice,
and it was thus communicated to
the house. It was discovered be
fore it got much of a start on the
house, however, and was not be
yond control. The fire company
made as quick a response as pos
sible to the alarm, but several
colored people had got to the fire
and checked it before the hose
arrived. The damage was slight,
the principal damage being to a
number of clothes hanging on
the porch, which were burned.
Aged Syrian Lady Dies in Laurinburg.
Last Friday morning at an ear
ly hour, Mrs. Fetny Anthony, a
very old Syrian lady, died here
at the home, of her son and
daughter. She wTas a native of
Syria and came to America from
Lebanon, Syria, a little more
than six years ago. All of her
children live in America, two in
had to be simple in words and j Laurinburg and two in West
expression, the thought, the line ', Virginia. She had been living in
of logic, the manner of develop- Laurinb since M with her
rag his ideas and expressing T . ,, J , , ,
n n tn hp thorouffhlv un- son, Mr. K. Anthony, anddaugh-
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Tne following pupils in the
Laurinburg Graded Schools hav
ing made an average of over 90
per cent, during the month of
October, have been placed upon
thejionor roll for that month: . :
Tenth Grade Louise Biggs,
Eunice Gibson, Irene Gilchrist,
Nellie Maxwell.
Ninth Grade Evie Stone, Hat
tie Wallace, Lee Gibson, Alec
McKenzie.
Eighth Grade Mabel Brooks,
Ralph Calhoun, Ned Clayton,
Clifton Fairley, Nathan Gibson,
Frank John, John Maxwell, Mor
rison McLaurin, John Paylor,
Lula Sanderson. ' !"'
Seventh Grade Berrie Bryant,
Lizzie Gibson, Donnie Morrison,
Irene Prince, Lena McLaurin,
May Siler, Ruth McKinnon, Mar
garet Wilkinson.
Sixth Grade Grady Gudney,
Kate Calhoun, Larence Calhoun,
Tom Covington, John Shaw, Sa
rah Smith, William Cooper.
Fifth Grade Agnes Buchanan,
Edwin Gill, Thelma Gibson, Mary
John, Aggie Morrison, Edgar
Whitaker.
Fourth Grade Leila Cowran,
May McArn, HaMead Coving
ton, Eva;t Walters, Bertha San
ford. Third Grade Katharine Mc
Kinnon, Maggie Muse, Mary
Fields, Beulah Hunter, Sallie
May McLaurin, Floise Jones,
Frank Whitaker, Louie Gattis,
Harold Covington, Marshall
Prince, Henry Ingram, Harvey
Joyner.
Second Grade Ora Carmi
chael, Bernice Fountain, Marga
ret John, Sarah McArthur, Ruby
Russell, Eugene Norton, Etta
Quick, Lizzie Cooper, Eva Hud-eony-Iva-Lee
Ingram. -
First Grade-Lauder Cattouh,
Carrie Coleman, Frances James,
Ruth John, Grace Lockey, Aleen
McCall.Hezzie Avant, Holly Cald
er, Mary Davis, Ruby Hargrave,
Sallie Laudon, Lillie McArthur,
Douglas Norton, Odel Bryant,
Johnnie Edwards, Tom Gregory,
Ralph Godwin, George Jacobs,
James McAbee, Duncan McFay
den, Clarence Renish, Chesley
Waller, Herbert Strichland, Lau
der Williams, Ethel Barber, Nez
zie Carpenter, Mollie Landon,
Louise Rivenbark, Bessie Terry,
Ethel Waters.
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thinking I was a doomed victim of con
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writes D. T. Saunders, of Harrods
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every attempt to cure a lung-racking
cough fail. At last I tried Dr. King's
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colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, hemor
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tunity of solving it with the help I ered.
derstood was nothing less than
wonderful. It bubbled with good
humor, flashed with beautiful
thoughts simply expressed, was
tender with deep pathos ana
feeling for his people and shone
bright with hope and promise
for the ultimate well-being of his
race and the whole country, and
was crammed and jammed full
of sound sense, wise, safe and
practical advice for his people.
Without doubt he is a wonderful
man.
After the address, the party
was hurried over to a hall in New
Town where a banquet was serv
ed in honor of the .distinguished
visitor and his party.
It is but fair to the colored cit
izens of this community who
were directly instrumental in
getting Dr. Washington here and
who arranged the occasion and
bore the responsibilities of it,
that they measured up to the de
mands of the occasion mighty
well. As a white man expressed
it to the writer, they did as well
for their big man as we could
have done for one of our distin
guished men, all things consid-
ter, Mrs. Sasseen, who occupy
the old Fields residence next to
the post office. Her other two
children, Annie and Zedin An
thony, came to Laurinburg from
West Virginia, but did not arrive
before her death. She had been
sick for a long time and has
been confined to her bed most
of the time since coming to Lau
rinburg. She was buried Satur
day morning at the Laurinburg
cemetery. Her husband still lives
in "the old country" and has
never been to America.
A Card of Tk&sks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Lindsay Har
grave desire to express to their
many kind friends of this com
munity their great appreciation
and thanks for their kindness
and thoughtful sympathy during
the recent illness and death of
their little girl.
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A party of young folks com
posed of Misses Kate Sutherland
and Bessie Bryant and Messrs.
George W. Goodwyn and Morris
Morgan, and chapperoned by
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hammond,
went up to Charlotte on Fri
day last to attend the play
"Havana," which was played
there that night. They made
the trip through the country in
Mr. Morgan's automobile, leav
ing Laurinburg about 10 o'clock
in the morning and expecting to
reach Wadesboro by dinner time
and Charlotte before night, go
ing by Cheraw. They made the
trip alright, had a good time, got
to Charlotte in time for the play,
and made the reuurn trip Satur
day without mishap.
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