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rOME TO THE DEESTRICT SKULE BREAKIN' TONIGHT The Stamly News eraM TiejUbemarle News Established in 1880. The Stanly County Herald Established in 1918 rprtieth Year. Albemarle, N. C Tuesday, March 1, 1921 $2.00 Per Year in Advance Lak Horse That Could Cry j Eye-w itness Tells in Graphic Original Section 23 of Bill, and Some Little Irregularities, But Excerpt From Votes Taken Dur- Gasoline in Tank Caught Fire Got the Boats or rany 01 i i asmun ins v ersion or. i section VI, Which Has -No Keal Evidence is mg Statesville Hearing 1'rove hen He Used Light to Small Boys. I Horrible Wreck. j Been Amended. Uncovered. This Conclusively. j to Look In It. fTHER INTERESTING NEWS Norwood, Feb. 28. For once this riter has to differ with the editor of On la.-t Friday mornig: when the in- Is Dr. Campbell making a direct! One of the most horrible accidents vestigation proceedings in the Dou. etfort to challenge the vote of ex-sol-j ever happening in Stanly County was ghton-Campbell Congressional Con- diers who cast their votes at the last that which occurred on Monday niorn- h 1 1 1 ti-han flia PonQrliiin . Ian T.,. ' nHnr V... L "-. 1 LI.. rri. i . L 1 1 - - i. 1 a 1 .. .: i 1 ! 1 .1 4.1 :-:.. i ir: 1. ...1 A some 01 tne uuys neie uicit; ........ ....v. vatwuiau nU uic iiiicisttticjturii uj, intr vieiifiiii rtsseniuiy. 1 tie : u'M runveiit'.i ai Lne court iiuuse ac eieiwun wunuui navmg yaiu men t my, ui luiseaueuner wnen v.ieo. -rie, there were many interes- poll tox? The position taken by him! of Lower Rowan, was burned so bad at3 and Republicans pres- and his counsel would indicate that ly from a gasoline explosion that he tool. Such a queer animal it wris. ; lively, crashed at a crossing. It was favorable report by the Senate com- ent to see the big stunt long pvomis- he is challenging such votes. In the died within a few hours thereafter, fc: As they tell it they were just!3 diamond shaped crossing, permit-; mittee, but it was not a copy of the ed by the Republicans. Many Repub- investigation here last week evidence : Mr. Arey was driving a Ford car. ling through the woods hunting fon-lrg trie Aew lork tram, which hit ; bill as originally prepared and in- licans were there with the expectati- was brought out to the effect that and, as he supposed his gasoline was owl's nest and they found what 33 llle other sprawled, derailed, .reduced in the Senate. We did not on of seeing the evidence of red-hand- Dunlan Hathcock and Charlie Swar- exhauster!, he used a light to s ? ly supposed was a dead horse lyingcver the intersection, to rake two Mi- have an opportunity to see a copy of ed fraud laid bare to the cold, mer- inger.. who voted at Norwood,' were how much, if any, he had in the tirk. r a tree. One of them said: See ! cnigan cars instead ot cutting them the ongir.al bill but wired one of our ciless gaze ot an outraged populace, both ex-service men, and the question the gasolm? caught from the lint. Stanly News-Herald. According forenoon from the wreck last night j road law which is now being consid- krtira hovo fliAVp nor. i when the Canadian am? fhp Tnlarcf-jfo PWfl tlio Honm-al lucamklir TVio Knly was a strange-looking animal limited on the Michigan Central and j bill as printed by us was an exact j this place. Irking in the woods near the grade:! the New York Centra! Lines, respec-; copy of the one that was given a '. ted Democi bse, stretched itself, and began to Ldward W. Fierke, of Grand Rap-1 which he sent and which we printed list of witnesses, including some of as to whether or not these voters had j burning gas. He was so badly burn- Ik along. The boys became fright- '"S, Mich., who stood on the platfovm last week, of course, as amended, the leading citizens of the county, paid their poll tax. As the investi- ed before names could be extinguish ed and ran. In a short time, see-, of the day coach of the Michigan Cen- j The fol. owing was cut out of the were sworn in and rigidly examined gation proceeds in this county other ed that it is said his finger and toe V that the horse did not follow rfiiem , tral train, just a few feet from the ; bill by the Senate Committee and we during Friday, Saturday and today, similar cases may deveiop of where nails fell off. while the skin slippe 1 ky sat down on the banks of a PPlnt where the iew lork Central; think wisely so as it shows on its no great election frauds or political Doctor Campbell is directly challeng-1 Irom his tlesh. He was wrapped in Jeam and began to shout: "Thera engine hit it, and wno saw the pas-'face that it was designed for the rascality has been shown. It is true ing the votes of returned soldiers. blankets and rushed to Salisbury, but toothing in these woods, we are not sengers in this coach trying to escape i purpose of legislating every particle certain evidence was brought out by j As there has been considerable nothing could be done for hi3 relief. laid!" when immediately they saw as the headlight bore down on them, of authority away from the County some of the Democratic witnesses ex-i newspaper talk of the Doctor's at- and he died shortly after reaching to same animal walking up the bed gave a graphic description of the Commissioners, except the power to amined. showing some harmless ir- titude at Statesville during the in- the Salisbury hospital. the creek pnd crying like a baby. wreck today. Beginning at the point ! levy taxes. Tne following is a copy , regularities, but no fraud or illegal ; vestigation there, and as some of Dr. I Mr. Arey was a son of Mr. and Mrs. bir description of this animal is where the Michigan Central train de-of Section 23 cf the original bill as.methods have been developed, and the Campbell's friends rather denied that Jacob Arey, of Lower Rowan. H fierce that some one asked them if railed and came to a stop across the ! .ntroduced: investigation, so far as Albemarle is ; he attempted to challenge the votes , was 2" years of age, and unmarried. Iv Hid not think it was the Devil New York Central tracks, Fierke said Section 23. That the Road Com- concerned, would so far, prove abso-! of returned soldiers who voted with-! The horrible occurrence has cast a rsuing them for breaking the Sab- ln part: kh. One little fellow said he was i The car swayed suddenly and left e it was not the devil, for he would &e tracks. We bumped along the RRIBLE ANIMA 1 iFORFf-TWO VICTIMS OF IGINAL F BY BOYS NEAR NORWOOD! TRAIN WRECK LOCATED PROPOSED ROAD BILL- BY SO-CALLED EVIDENCE I GEO. AREY IS BURNED TO THE EX-SOLDIER VOTES DEATH AT MISENHEIMER WAS THROWN FIFTY FEET IT IS A WISE AMENDMENT, NEWS-HERALD WINS FAME FOR BENEFIT OF DOUBTERS DIED IN A SHORT WHILE Porter, Ind., Feb. 23. Forty-two j In our last issue we published a bodies had been collected early this I copy of the proposed Stanly County Lt dead horse," and immediately it.at r'Sht angles. ! State Senato-rs to send U3 a. copy, However, despite the fact that a long , was asked the witness, J. C. Dunla.p, exploded, covering his clothes witli mission of Stanly County shall be and , lutely nothing that in fairness would ; out paying their poll tax, and being ! gloom over the community where he it is hereby vested with all the pow- ? hake Mr. Doughton m the least. j desirous of doing Dr. Campbell no j lived. Those who saw the accident era and authority, and shall perform For instance it was shown by Mr. J.I I injustice we secured a sworn copy of j and watched the man bum to death go after bad boys, for he did not,ties for 8 few feet at full speed, jail the duties which have heretofore j A. Little, Clerk of the Superior Court the record of the Statesville investi- j a.v that it was the most awful sighj le to. Those boys imagined all rom one side I heard the blast of a W of things, some of them were i whistle. I looked out. There was te that they had heard of a still anothrer train bearing down upon us It was captured in these very i at full speed. bds and a man had been shot. He 1 I couldn't move. My tongue stuck p riding a gray horse, just like.uP in the roof of my mouth. I tried one they saw. The strange thing: to open the door in the day coach and k that no one else had heard the Shout to the people inside. My hand ry. However, they were running I refused to function. fast up the railroad track after "It perhops wasn't over thirty see- e terrible thing appeared the sec- onds between the time I saw that big time that they were not very i train, and the moment it hit U3. It e how things were. One boy had i was ten years to me. knives open ready to cut, but he The light from the headlight of the f running. Another one had two j approaching train made everything is teeth so badly loosened, having; as bright as day. I thought I was so hard against a tree, and one surely going to be killed. "As I stood I could see in the day coach. On the side tie New York Central train was approaching. I could see that other passengers had seen the train. A woman jumped up from her seat. She held a little girl looked as though she were about eight or nine years old to her breast. ftLjn jumped up one even started for the door, where I was standing. "Then suddenly the side of the car buckled in. My last conscious im pression was of everything dissolv- been performed and exercised by the that he had been the custodian of the gation which shows conclusively that! imajrinable. Ihe automobile was Board of County Commissioners of registration books between elections, j the contestant, Dr. Campbell, will completely destroyed by the flames. his clothes badly torn. Someone to the boy who had his clothes I: "James, you will certainly p to get some new clothes now pre you can go to Washington." Teplied that he had made up his d not to go to Washington. In ird to that horse, it was almost 1 to the one used in the Trojan it was no good except for what inside of it, and connected with it kery particular were some persons enjoy a practical joke. So af- all the whole strange animal was lanuf.ctured article, which frigh-'nK 'n front of me. I remember see Stanly County (except power to levy ! where as a matter of law, the Keg.'s- taxes,) or by the road officials of the i ter of Deeds is the proper custodian, several townships within said county (but Mr. Little testified that it had now, or heretofore acting under au-J always been the custo:n of the Clerk thority of existing law in relation to ! to keep the registration rooks, and the public roads and bridges of said county, whether under general or special laws; and a; powers pertain ing to reads and bridges conferred by the general laws of the state, on the County Commissioners are here by conferred upon the Road Commis sioners of Stanly County with full power and authority to act under, and in accordance with, said laws, in as full and amply manner as if its name was designed in the original act conferring said powers. We are informed that section 12 has since been amended, cutting out the most objectionable feature, that of penalizing a land owner who might not see fit to agree with the Board of Highway Commissioners. Section 12 as amended reads as fol lows: "Sec. 12. In opening new high ways or roads, widening, straighten ing, improving, altering, or changing old roads and repairing the same; he had not gone to the trouble to in vestigate whether or not this was a part of his duties, and he further stated that when the Register of Deeds was a Republican, the Clerk also -kept the Registration books. Ir regularities were also shown regard ing absentee votes, but these appear ed to have been, as in the case of the Clerk and registration 'jooks, harm less irregularities. A. C. Huneycutt was placed on the stand and uestion ed for nearly an hour regarding the publication of the famous negro wo man letter, also regarding the publi cation of the political edition of The Badin Tribune, which appeared on Saturday before the election. What purpose Dr. Campbell had in getting this evidence is somewhat of a mys- challenge the votes of returned soldi- and another person who was nearby ers in this district who voted without! at the time of the explosion bare!y paying poll tax, even though these ! escaped a horrible death. ex-service men were expressly ex- empt by the county commissioners of! The following in a sworn copy of ; an excerpt taken from the record as recorded of the Statesville investiga tion by the official stenographer, Ola H. Cruse: NIGHT RIDERS ACTIVE IN NOR THERN ALABAMA. Chattanooga. Tenn., Feb. 27. Re newed activities of the night riders around Bridgeport and other Alaba ma towns resulted in an appeal to day to federal authorities for pro- R. L. Doughton, Contestee, objects tection by residents who have been to any evidence being introduced in the course of this investigation, in this or in any other county of the District, tending to show that any soldier who served in the World War was disqualified to vote in the last election by reason of his not having paid his poll tax for the year 1919. This objection is based upon the in herent and natural justice of the sit uation, and also upon the fact that in every county of the District, as will hereafter be shown, the county tery, as the same witness testified to j commissioners expressly exempted all similar literature having been circu- j soldiers and sailors from the payment lated by the Republicans about the of poll tax. same time. I ... : - in rejoinder to the loregoing od- Id about a half dozen boys. Some be grown-ups felt that these boys no business out there on Sunday p-noons, but if you want to know to run just ask James and Ml Campbell, Clinton and Geo. lock, Henry Smith, Charlie Hatley Pearlie Surratt, for they have art down to perfection. rs. D. N. Bennett was the charm- hostess to the Laf-a-Lot Club on Wednesday afternoon. This be so short a time from Washing- f birthday, the color scheme 'was ed out in the room and in the heshments. A delightful four- he luncheon was served. Mrs. fiett at all times makes her guests the cheer of home, but at this licular time the guests voted her pst delightful hostess. pout half of our town is attending Campbell-Doughton contest this Jt in Albemarle, also numbers of people from around here. iss Jennie Russell, of Monroe, the Pttive neice of Mrs. Lizzie Kee- spent several days here last week Mrs. W. H. Moyle, of Salisbury, psiting in the hor-e of Mrs. Kee- present. is. Hattie Beachuni has returned i- a visit to Washington, D. C. spent quite awhile there with her pter, Mrs. Dunlap Hathcock. iss Fay Parker is snendinir this f n Clements, N. C, visiting her lids. Jr. and Mrs. G. Gresham, of Geor- visited in the home of Mr. EiM Harris the naat wmV. ssrs. Farmer and Mabry have a FCt to naint t.ho hnmn nt Mr T ""inger. The Messrs. Lentz are pesisng nicely with Mr. C. A. !s house. If this i m pro vpm pit WTipti Jftp T.pp tvpnr nn flip cfanH lio the Road Commission, through its ' even went far enough to give the : agents or employes, are hereby au- j Stanly News-Herald credit for the , behalf of the Contestee, R. L. Dough thorized to enter upon any lands and election of Cameron Morrison as Gov-' L r""es J; as cosel f01 scream tha I will nov A make all necessary surveys, and b- ernor, and stated that in his opinion j '"I'". "I"""'" ; hand of about 13 or 20 night rider. "--' a- - . , ,i .. .. - mittea mat under tne constitution Cn. r ing the nose of the engine. I remem ber the lights in the car going out IJ 1 V 1 . tuaueniy. i remember hearing a attacked in their homes. The jail at Scottsboro is under special guard of state law enforcement officers as an aftermath of night riding in that as a precaution against mob violence sec tion the past week. According to reliable information reaching her today, the farmers in. the Bridgeport and Stevenson section are keyed up to a high pitch of ex citement over developments of the past few days. Jodie Beavers and John Brown, two farmers, arrested Saturday by state law enforcement officers, sent to Jackson county by Governor Kilby are confined in the jail at Scottsboro, and Brown is suf fering from a wound alleged by offi cers to have been sustained in the course of a raid on the home of Har rv McGowan Thursday night by a then came darkness. Icate, relocate, build, improve, change, j the publication of the famous negro pavprs and Rrown. it is said. .. .1 i .. r . u t-. . r XT iu - t .oD ,m u alter, widen, and reDair such hish-i woman letter in Stanly County caus- ul u,c VL " wl-!have been identified by McGowan as . . ' .1 ' i .-m b L. ft.. I-.,-Ji.f- ..tt!M f lift, i " voters ma.V be exempt from tin neany mty ieet. l lit on the ground the breath knocked ut of me. As I sat upJ saw the whole middle of our train was. gone. It was a little hell there for a few minutes. "I wish I could accurately describe the sensations of that moment that I waited for death. I can't understand even now how I am alive. When I could get to my knees I stayed there and gave up a prayer. "I'll never forget the expressions on the faces of those poor souls as they died. The staring eyes of one man looked directly into mine. His face is going to come before me for the rest of my life." Fierke, outside of numerous bruis es, wa3 not injured .o .,! Tf tl,. .,;,! T?.,1 !orl tho immorliaN. rir.trfitinn nf fiflv ! "". " 1:1 -' members of the tranir of a es-ed rii- Commission and the owner of said i thousand Democratic women in North I Paent of P0'1.4 n the grounds ers who stacked his home. Both of land can not agree as to the damage Carolina, which meant Parker's de-iur fove?y "nd ,nt,1fence on, an" if any. the said Road Commission feat and Morrison's election. ( We ! th.at. ,s b-v the count commissions shall, within sixty days after said i might state right here that it pays road or highway is completed cause to advertise in the News-Herald.) i of the county in which they liva. which exemption must appear of re- to be summoned three disinterested! Ray Sossamon, Registrar for Furr j corfd' and be lnJhe orm f a Pub,'c freeholders of said county, who un- j Township, was rigidly examined for "rfficate capable of proof and ad- U. W f vi.. .kf on ,,- c.rHino- thB nllpo.l i mIn,Stratln ' tlme the C0Un- '"" " " - "t, n - If for condemning rights of way for I conduct of the election at Locust, but railroads, shall go upon the lands and assess the damage done the owner, and in so doing they shall take into consideration the special benefits re ceived by the owner, and in determin ing such benefits, consideration shall rigid examinations. It be given to the benefits the owner tj,e examination of Mr. Dunlap, that has derived from the fact that any I ,..- ..m nllf ns tn rh.rlie Swa- it seemed that nothing fearful devel oped from the questioning of this wit ness. J. C. Dunlap, registrar for Norwood, and Henry P. Efird, regis trar for Big Lick, were each put thru i ty from which the same is issued, and that on behalf of the said contestant any poll tax of any voter in the Eighth Congressional District of North Carolina not regularly paid or exempted in the manner herein indi cated will bp rhflllpnirpH nprnrrlincr in was during. ,7" t ineir tenor. old road right-of-way has reverted ', Counsel for the contestee, R. L. The car platform on which he stood l said owner oy reason or me re-: was smashed into fragments. i r I-. I . . i. . ringen, a discharged soldier, and Dun- I 'UUS"1"". rep.y o me encry. , the men deny having participated in the raid. The convening of an American con ference in every state, followed by the assembling of a national congress, to be attended by Americanism directors, and representatives of schools, indus tries, and various civic and patriotic societies is on the program of the Americanism Commission of the Am erican Legion for 1921. The Legion's plan was formed as a result of an Americanism conference in Massa chusetts, which was held under the auspices of the Bay State Legionnaires. (location of the new road: Provided, ! laP "amcocK, ""'"s "; that no suit shall be Instituted by the! (Continued on page four.) sires to have it made a matter of record that neither the laws nor ' poll tax is legal and proper subject of -hallenge and may be legally and soon have a town to be proud of. Rev. Daniel Austin preached an inspiring sermon at the Baptist Church Sunday morning. He has been kind enough to preach for the different congregations several times recently. He and his splendid family ere making their home with Mr. Ed M. Harris, and we are very glad to have them in our midst. Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Hart and fam ily spent the week end in Charlotte visiting relatives. There have been several exchanges I owner for damages on account of the location of the road under this . act, or the taking of timber or mate-! ! rial until sixty days after the com-; pletion of said road; and no suit shall be brought by any land owner unless the same is commenced within sLx months after the completion of said road; Provided, further, that either party shall have the right of appeal from the award made by the said jurors to the Superior Court; Provided, however, that after all ne cessary surveys are made and the location or relocation of the road de termined upon, it shall be the duty of the Road Commission to serve no- the Constitution of North Carolina in . properly challenged, and that the' . ., , IT u 'any wav requires or caits upon coun-'i , ., . .. . them that the road is to be located, ... ... . .. .. laws of the State that in any wi.e of home3 here this week. Duce Furr sold his home to Gus Kimrey and in ! tice upon the owner or agent or par- f'nues as it has begun, we shall turn bought G. M. Henderson's house.v ' charge of said lands, notifying upon said lands; under the authority of this act." We think that this amendment is also a wise one, as section twelve as amended reads more like a law passed in a free country than the origmai bill. We dont see how any person o Anglo-Saxon descent could read sec tion twelve as originally introduced without righteous indignation. While the same was in accordance with a recent state law, yet we believe that it was not only tyrannical and re pulsive, but unconstitutional and in capable of being enforced in this State. sel or parties to this investigation to challenge the vote of any soldier on account of the non-payment of poll tax, and when the Contestant does so he does it not as a legal necessity, but of his own free will and choice. prohibit it. To which counsel for Contestant rejoins that while neither the Con stitution nor laws of North Carolina require the challenging of any voter upon the ground of non-payment of tax any more than it requires A. to sue B on a right of action, neverthe less, in all ases where, in the mat ter of inquiry, the question of wheth er any voter has or has not paid his 1921 I, Ola H. Cruse, court reporter, do hereby certify that the foregoing tes timony is a true and accurate copy of an excerpt taken from my notes in the hearing of James I. Campbell, Contestant, vs. Robert L. Doughton, contestee, held before Monroe Adams. N. and Commissioner f Testi mony, which hearing began Febru ary 14th, 1914. OLA H. CRUSE. Official Stenographer. Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 25th day of February.
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