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'r ' THR ' CHRONIC LK vor a presidential tern,; and to Ueat its andis solmenpl '11 lJLi . Vxl 1 JL LtaLA maitJZ th ' adiWiftkm of an eofPie lltsilt the "presidency, x' ore mtesvwere to be had by -facia? - t 'SLSff JSS&?5- t --1 - ' - heer way ,-he turned about with a Published SemuWeekly Dy, ; j" presidentr of the United states Wr. vvusons imianntni nX,:r.nf ; PT , CHRONICLE PUBLISHING Subscription Rates One Year i UM Six Months -l-L- .50 Three, Wonths, 0 ' Entered as second-class matter Au pist '8, 1913 at the postofficei at Cori- cord, North Carolina, under the Act .March 3, 1879. - MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1916. . :jv--- -- - - 'REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET ' - President . CHARLES E. HUGHES. Vice-President CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS. . " STATE - Governor . , , FRANK A. LINNEY. Lieutenant-Gorernor L. L. JENKINS. Secretary of State. R. L. STROUD. Attorney-General .. JOHN J. PARKER. Auditor J. Q.; A.' WOOD. Treasurer .ROBERT W, HARRIS. Superintendent of Public Instruction CLARENCE R. PUGH. f -. Insurance Commissioner ': JOHN W. HARDIN. Commissioner of Agriculture A. L. FRENCH. . -Cemmissioner of Labor and Printing W. J-JORDAN. Corporation Commissioner H. J. FAISON. Congress 8th District , H. S. WILLIAMS. " COUNTY TICKET A. M. JAMES, Senate. THOS. M. WIDENHOUSE, Legis. HOWARD W. CALDWELL, Sheriff. J AS. F. HARRIS, Register , of l)eeds, J. HARVEY , DORTON, Treasurer. JOHN W.-WHITE. Cotton Weigher. H. SWENDELL KLUTTZ, Surveyor. CARL L. SPEARS, Coroner. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. , LUTHER' A. WEDDINGTON ! WILLIAM H. OGLESBY WILLIAM A. CASTOR J. FRANK GOODMAN A. WATT MOOSE , . WHY HON. HANNIS TAYLOR CANNOT SUPPORT WILSON In a letter from the"; HonV Hannw Taylor was minister to Spain under tfcan Committee of New; York city, entitled "A Review of President Wil son's Administration," he gives the following reason along wih many others why he cannot support the 'president for re-election. It will be remembered that Mr. aTylor was minister to Spain under the Cleveland administration and i the 'author of many textbooks on Con stitutoinal and Internatoinal law which are considered standard - au thority, not only in this country but in all European countries. " Indeed he is the most distinguished author that our State has ever produced. One of his books is the "Origin and Growth f the Ensrlish Constitution." This book was so " appreciated in England that the University of Edinburg con f erred upon him the degree of LL. D. and a. similar ' desrree has been . con f erred upon him by a number; . of American universities. ' Mr. Taylor was born at New Bern, N. C. and is an alumnus of our State university, where he' was invited to deliver the annual commencement ad dress several years ago, which was vfirv hitrhlv Draised by the "'Demo- ' a " cratic Dress of our State. , Mr. Taylor's letter in. part folldws: : Mr. Wilson's Flagrant Breach of HU Solemn Covenant Not to Be : Candidate to Succeed Himself.; Mr. wiicnn pniovs the iverv unen- viable distinction, of being: , the" nrst president ever accusea, so iar- as Know, of breaking the solemn Vprom- Hin -with the people in the party platform . upon which he sought and obtained their votes. Under our rigid and complex constitution the honor system,- under which the people give their suffrage in exchange for the "promises and covenants" given by nomfaiees -in party platforms, is at once vital and fundamental. Senator. Norris bit the nail on the head when he said in speeclv delivered at Washington a few months ago: "The greatest wril in American politics today is the dlS; honest nominee." The question of questions involved in the approach ing election is this: Is Mr. Wilson a dishonest nominee? Despite the... te- bored and sophitical efforts maoe oy his partisans and apologists J ob scure the real facts involved, they are too plain to be misunderstood. Un less, it is legitimate to argue, asDe Quincy did, that "murder is a fine art," it is unnecessary to say that when anominee is accepted under our American honor system the nominee pledges his sacred honor to observe part and clause of the party platform as completely as if. he took an oath to that effect in a court of justice Such has always been the distinct under standing of . the American PoPje since our honor system began. The plain facts in Mr. Wilson's jcase are these: The Democratic platform of 1912, to every clause of which he KaiimMa . Trt-r r-plMtion. and ?,we ' i i!iV1.' ...nliuri'inn anrl 'tiro 1 , Wgrninir. tii rrta a nohpgn vi a . rv-' , , j. , . pledge i the candidate -wf , this conven tion to this principle." , k - ' If ever a man had the right to speak fore another, Mr. Bryan, the po litical creator of .Mr. Wilson, "who took the nomination away from.. the Hon. Champ, Clark in order to give it to him, had the 'right not only, to speak f or.-Mr, Walsbn ';. but . to bind him by. his words. As his accredited representative and spokesman, " Mr. Bryan canvassed the country in his interest, making many speeches, in all of: which he declared to the people what his-r-Mr.; Wilson's--understand ing was as .to his candidacy for a sec ond term. At' a great meeting held at Indianapolis on-October; 17, 1912, Mr. Bryan said : "We .present him Mr. Wilson not only qualified in ev ery 'way, but we present him pledged to a single term that he' may-be your president -and spend no time , dividing patronage in order to . secure dele gates; that Jhe. need spend no time in planmng ior re-eiecuon; rnai ne may give ,you all 'his thought and all his hpa.rt .and all his enercrv. - ' I believe that when a man is . lifted, by his countrymen, to this pinnacle of power iitk nntrht-. " f a fAni -fmm hist .'hp'a'rt. v- ery tiiought of ;, ambition and on .his bended knees . consecrate his term to his ' country's service. , That is our iHpnl nrpsideti't. and ' we.nresent to von "a mnn who - measures utt ' to that ideal.'!- I was in Indianapolis at thel time and neara tnpse woras as xney were spoken by Mr. Bryay to at least 7iftfW)TpnTi1e assembled in "front of the Stateliouse; When5 that part of , Mr. Bryan's speech pledging ?. Mr, wilson to a single term was republished in rnmTa fnr November 6. 1915.'!' call; ed his 'attention to it, and he"said that he had seen it: r So far from auestion-ing-- the accuracy of the ' publication, 1 1 1 ' 1 ' J A.1 ne aaaea tnat ne .naa saia me. same rjnng m an nis speecnes everywueic Will any honest man undertake to say that nf t.pr Mr. Wilson Dermitted Mn Bryan, as Ms t. accredited representa tive and spokesman, to. canvas the country . anp; pieape mm xo a single term, as his Mr". Wilson's construc tion of the Baltimore; platfonn, he was not as completely bound in honor is if he had made that pledee to the neople in his .own words? If that is not so then the political morality of Machiavelli. governs here; . then . the merican .nonor system is at an ena: then all such pledees as Mr. Bryan ??ave to the people as Mr. Wilson's "enrespntative i are absolutely worth ess. Nobody has ever claimed that Mr. Wilson protested. at; the time that Mr. Rrvnn ;wks 'not authorized to Tedge hftt to a sinfrle temi as his- Mr. -: Wilsor-'j construction 01 tne '''tjiltiriftr nlatform. Painful and humiliating: as tne. iact i oiust be to every high-minded' pi-jit it can not be denied that, des- pite? the solemn pledges made to tne people byj Mr.-.Bryan in his name, Mr. Wilson, while president-elect, set himself to work to' find some loop hole" through which to escape from'tht double obligation by which . he was' bound hand and foot. A sensitive mnd, iuiiVj conscious, ox tue wuiik--i.-ina' rtf "rirehhrsd' ah 'eonvenants."' vciuld -have been ap jaHed by the dif- . la J 1 - . C MtinW-lm lC'ulies men, jn -wic way ui tjuvji hj mdertaking. On June 4, 1912, Mr. "Haylbnof Alabama, as chairman of "he judiciary committee ol tnv nocse, u?.d offered n anieudn ent to the conV rtitution makmg the president men-1 rible for a second term. It was tnat lendincr amendment " ' to - which thf Baltimore convention that-, -met on " m - W TTT!1 June 25. . directly reierrea. ml wu- ion was. therejqre bound oy every u-incipale" of honor and of duty, to in - ist that the ' then pending amend nent, to . which he was pledged, not inly by the : platform but by the solemn promises fiven to the people by Mr. Bryan in his name,r should be made at once a part . or . tne iunqa Yiental' law. . Under - such' circum stances what did he actually do - Did He strive to secure the adoption; of he amendment or did he deliberately md actively. intrigue to deteat it .' Let the answer to that question come rom his able and experienced . advo ;ate an dapologist, Mr. George Har Very," who; in ; attempting to. make a ?ase for him .in the North American Review for. February, 1916, made in stead admission that render all future attempt to defend him" hopeless. Mr. Harvey said: 4'Rut after, tiie alection ofMr. Wilson uponia plat !orm pledging the candidate to "the principle avowed, - the proposition Was revived in the senate, and on February 1, 1913, it was adopted by that body, 1J anti-Roosevelt. .Republi cans t ; voting affirmatively and only . l Democrat; ' Mr. Shively, - of Indiana, voting ih the negative.' The senti ment of the house was overwhelming ly in favor of the resolution, but the Democratic 'leaders, feeling that their newly elected president was entiuea to consultation' upon7, a matter . of so' much Importance , and having- no late information respecting nis attituae, deferred action until his views could uk aanaYalnaA -. - Meanwhile the presiden1elct intervened -m-'-the letter to jar. j.. mitciieu rumna, ed February 13, which was duly ex hibited to Chairman Clayton 'and oth er prominent - representatives,' who promptly -bowed to the wish, of their new leader and buried, the. jesolu- tion." - V" Thus,, in by : far, the most stddied and formal effort made to apologize 1W Wilcnn'e urn n tvn . POTirJlict j4n iUl 1-. . f xov.. " . . this regards his advopate . admits that the amendment, to whps'e adoption he anlenmlv bound by a double pledge,' after its adoption by the sen ate, was'defeated in the house,' where the sentiment "was overwhelmingly in favor" of it, by the active personal solicitation of Mr. Wilson,' intriguihg through" a letter directed to Mr. A. Mitchell Fahner, not as an individual, but as chairman of the Democratic caucus. In describing that letter,. Col lier's for November' 6, 1915, said: "Mr. Wilson dictated a"-long, reply, about 1,600 words in length nd, sent it t: to" : Representative .A. Mitchell TolTmr vf Pennsvlvania. then .chair man of the "democratic caucus.' - Thus even Mr. Wilson's advocates ana.apota ogists are forced to admit that the machinery , of the Democratic party ' tr,i ' , Jifnonng timj-part ttf tne wammore ,.v... . fc Single Term. Mr. Wilson has :, demonstrated v' by his conscienceless ijconduct, as de scribed abore, ; the lengths -to ..which an - abnormally' ambitious and selfish man, lustful of power and office, may go in chasing tne phantom of , a sec ond term. , He trampled upon .those things which most men hold 7 most dear by actively intriguing to destroy the smglerterm plank, of the Balti more platform, through the -use . of Democratic : party'; machinery, even before his first , term began. How pathetic ; and humiliating - it all is when we recall Mr. : . Bryan's golden words: . "We present . him - (Mr. Wil son) ot only qualified in every 'way, but we present him pledged to a single .term, that he ' may be your president and spend no time dividing patronage in order to secure dele dates; hat he need spend no time in planning for re-election; that he may give3 w all his thought and all his heart i id all his energy. That is ,our idealSt Honest and noble-minded i as a-mar-Vtvho . measures up to rthat ideal. 1 IbHnest and noble-minded as he,, is, Aw sore at heart Mr. Bryan must r I when he looks down on his fallen" pl.who has done all the things he sai Iher would : not do. . : The . best work jr." Bryan has ever done hag been jbodied in his efforts to pro tect bi country against the. terrible and gASving evils of a second term. In the Indianapolis speech; in which he pledged Mr. - Wilson to ft' "single form: ) said; "'RioitiVn vaaM enrn Lwhen Hwas a young man; a member 01 conM-ess, a miroaucea a resolution submit wig an amehdment limiting the prtftdent to a single term in of fice.' . , ' ' ..'..-v; $ "Thrffc times when I was a candi date f 6? office, I announced immedi ately ffper my nomination that if I were vested I would not be a candi date fdja second term." Mr. Wilson has ma Jif ested his ingratitude for all Mr. Brjfc&n has done for him not only by forcing him out of his cabinet and becoming a, candidate for a .6econd term, but by wrecking the cause for which Mr, Bryan has battled so long, and . so unselfishly. In Mr. Wilson's so-called" St. Louis platform ..there . is not a - word about a second' term. Those who understand Mr. .Bryan's4 character know perfectly well that he has a courage that can, when aroused, rise tothe height of any occasion. The great moral and patirotic duty of his life is upon him now. He knows", as no other man knows, how wretched and fijMess Mr. Wilson's conduct has been in violating his- solemn pledge not to seek a second term. He there- tore owes it to nimseu, to Ms repu Demo-Ctation for. consistency, to stand by the uajjci lie lias yiewuvu tw luuff buu aft fnrpfvfiillv. v.-H nwps '"it- . rh American people, he owes it to the hrntVi and iiict.ipo fn iiej in fits nioh olace. in -this nation and, sinking oart- V A i? 'sansium in-patriotism, aenouaee but. yViison'candidacy because he knows presence1 of Mr. Wilson's broken vovs to the joeople, for whose . perform ances h solemnly pledged himself as guarantor, how can Mr. Bryon sup oort him; for a 'second term? ' Mi Clemenceau certainly had. Mr.' Wilson in mind, when, in defiining a symbol he said??" A man about whom the peo ple still 'believe what was never truei Is it -'-.possible that " such a man as Mr. Wilson, who, to promote his in ordinate and sefish ambition, has de liberately violated the solemn "promo ;se and covenants" for whose Der- formane he . 1 plighted his sacred honor fjo the. American peopler can. their votes tothe chief magistracy 'of this nation ? '" Tha.t. ts now the oiiaji. tion of questions, the issue of issues', i-: -i- - - -i. 2 wl xt. i w ii ri it. mvn vhh 1 11 . i.na.. m 11 tmi Hitmitv nf tho nonnlA- nt th TTnitxl States, ican neither be concealed nor ignored! Mr.' Wilson'a partisans with m the Democratic oarty, "who rhave been v-recreant in their duty to .the ancient ana nistonc organizauon which J eff erson ' founded, may : shout A.i Sll 1 A .. . - x as wiey win. uui . . - - . - ... "Nor florid TJrose nor honeyed lines oi:rnyme, . ' . .- Can blazon evil, deeds, or consecreate a enme. . No matter -whether Mr. Bryan does his dtityf or not, the American people must arid 'will do theirs. For .more than 30 years I have made a special atiid-u nf our mmnln AmArlMn pad. stitutionj for the fast 14 years I have livod .lait" WnishintA. nrntr T ' hav watched its practical ' workings 'day oy . uay,'- just as , a macninist mignt watf h:the movements of a Corliss en gine. In the light of that study and experience I do hot .hesitate to say, gravest defect in Our national consti tution; that brings more 'evils to the people than all others combined, id reorpse-nteH ' hv ithe lack of that amendment prohibiting a second term which Mr. Wilson s selfish ambition has for the moment- defeated. His almost insane desire to succeed him self has deprived him of the power to be- really .useful' at a critical, nSo ment in our history. His ceaseless pursuit of that will-o'-the-wisp called a second term' has led him into all kinds of bogs and. morasses; it has entagled him .Jh hopeless inconsist encies ; it; nas put ;him on both sides vf naki-lir iririr niKHf mioctinn it has lie man would have dared to do. The typical illustration of course is his sudden abd vioefl change of front as from ' tolls ift omat built by Am'eri-, can brains and American moiiey through . Amirican territory; . .Reprer aentatiVe Meeker uj Missouri, says Mr. Wilson is tbi -greatest president a word to ,sy now as to the merits lireat jsnxam ver naa. i ov nut of the tolls nii0n,as to wnicn gooa oTiri wiap mTi riftv ffisaffreed. It is not necessary to go further than, the, statement hat honesty and ure from theloMvo mandate on that subject 01 toe xwwmore putuorro which he 9tmi ihd earnestly adVjto tha war. voo oas ow pwmw-w . -mm m vocated before tne peopie in orr.er to him, which declares! that. ''-Our pledges are' made" to be kept while in office as well s to be relied poa jiuring the that like Iting Jol; he , also fa, king. whomno oths can bmd;" tnat ne is a man whom "even treachery can not trusts V At one time Mr. Wilson gave us brilliant and " conclusive" reasons rti tfka eaniliniy nf nvme HTIlf mtlfll.. tinne IritA "M-reioa: 'irfiicri- mav be used against 'ourselves,-was a wrong not to oe toterateo. ' wen witn . me wmu RhiftMli''h demonstrated in the same brilliant and .' conclusive - way that such treasons : have no real value at alL -t wonder if he' ever remembers when engaged in these perilous acro batic penormances, wmcn oiy a sua Hwia and fatalistic vanitv could in- lspire,' the Jterms-in which he denounc ed Jefferson, ",an aristocrat and yep a philosophical radical,? who, he says rueiioerateiy pracucea tne arts o. the nolitician. and vet exhibited often flnua tk uirf - fVioinppritv "which subtile natures yield to without tiw loss ot -essential mtegnty." . uan tne Amor?i7i nnnlA an stretch its mantle of J3hristian charity as' to bring', the "subtle'' Mr. Wilson within his own saving; clause? Can they force them selves'tb believe that he has been' able tn crimmit his sraver offenses "with out the.; loss of . essential integrity ?'' ROCKWELL, ROUTE 1, ITEMS. The. farmers; of this section arc Very - busy preparing- ground and sowing wheat and: oats. Cotton ia oneninff r verv slowlv- in M . - ,-- - 7. -w - - - this section. -' " '-" .Prfiachinf at Lowerstone the third Sunday s in October by Rev. H. A. Welke, the regular pastor. ; Misses Vida' Wagoner, Katy Fish er ajad Dovio Barringer are attending school cat China Grove. .. The Fisher , reunion was held at Mr. SamuelvR. Fisher's last Saturday,1 7, with A: good success, This being . the first ; held by the Fishers' it was de cided to be held annually and in Au arust. ': Historians and committeemen were selected from different, parts of the section. . Mrs. Lizzie Troutman who has been sick .for the past several weeks is bet ter at ;this writing, wa are glad to note.;-', ' : V . -;' . '.:' z-' - ' Mr. R. L. Holshonser has purched Ford touring car. - - ' Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fisher, of Con- cordspent Saturday bight at -Mr. C. M;r Troutman's ; , r ; ..V ' SLIMBOY. THE WILSON POLICIES v . ,--' IRRECONCILABLE ' WashingtoiL Oet ' 18-rrThe Repub lican Publicity - assoeiation, through its' president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr. today gave out tne xouowing statement at its Washington head quarters: In the last' few days President Wilson" has given." utterance. -to the three economic policies that- are ab solutely v irreconcilable. - He asserted ,that- American pro ducers . should - compete on - even terms' with the producers of all the rest of the -world.- ' "He advocated the eight-hour day. !He. opposed a protective tariff. . "If the' American .workman is to Have an eisrht-hour day and no'; pro- tective itariff, how can he possibly be 'oh even-terms' with the. foreign pro ducer who works; ten or twelve or even longer hours? - "If - the American workman " is to be placed 'on even terms with'" the foreigner, he- must work; nearly.; the sajrne number of hours and adopt prac tieallv the same-standards of living While it is true that a man working eiirht hours wiU produce, more per hour than' the man who works 12, it is utterly impossible' ...that' American nmrlrmon lahonhir eicht hours at Vii'o ' waxro can , nroduce commodi- ; o . ; . .. ties. as cheaply . as Chinese laborers working'12 hours at wages ; wmcn would scarcely buy even the .butter for the Atoerican-table. a ; "It is incomprehensible that any American workn ;vnll : rea4. these thread tjolicies of President Wilson and then declare -by his ballot that he considers Wilson a possible leader in solving the economic ; problems that confront the people, of tiie . United States. v; v '.' "The American workman must not be placed on even terms' with the foreign producer, either urtne matter of wages, hours of labor, or; standards of living. The difference must be egnarded by a protective tariff.'' ! " President Wilson says he has no use- for a man who closes his mind to facts. Very well, here are some facts, shown bv the records 6f ,the depart ment -of "conunerce, presided dyer by one of Wilson's appointees: r or sev eral months before5 the . war .brtke' out in Europe, our- sales to . the countries f inunediately , after the war began, f. . rtlTrlui!Mlft div i their purchases rapidly increased, and ivoyr amount to more, tban-300,000,- dOO more than the normal -rato. xemr ocratk campaign:, managers declare that our great export trad not, due '.. - a " I - Mil - I 1 1 ta tne xactsi THINGS THAT 4 Copyrigh"T- L Ht "-Z7 -.V r t Idle Money; cent If you would be I 17 1 Yonr you; should make your money work too. 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