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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
VOL. I.
BURLINGTON. N. C, FEBRUARY 17, 1909.
NO. 40
WASHINGTON LETTER,
From our Kesular Correspondent.
Washington, ,Feb. 13. ! There
has been some agitation during the
week with reference to a change in
the canal type from tae lock system
adopted some four years iago; to the
sea level plan as was proposed by a
majority of the distinguished engin
eers once sent there. Informal re
ports and speeches by the President
elect and information from the dis
tinguished civil engineers would
seem to indicate however, that the
lock system is still, in high favor.
Colonel Goethals ia now in the city
and will appear before the House
and Senate Commitees on Intero
ceaoic canals these will doubtless
receive much first hand information
from him.
Prepnrations for the inauguration
now less than three weeks distant
are going on. Every precaution is
being taken to prevent overcrowd
ing of the Capitol. No person will
be admitted to the floor or to the
inaugural platform without a card
signed by the committee on arrange
ments, except they be members of
the Senate and elective officers;
members of the House of Represen
tatives and elective officers? ex-vice-
presidents: justices of the Supreme
Court and officers; the Admiral of
the Navy and his aid; the chief of
staff oi the' Army and his aid. Cards
of admission to the floor and tickets
of admission to the extent ot two
each have been given to senators for
their friends. That -is a smaller
number than has been gi ven out on
previous occasions.
Pennsylvania avenue has begun
to assume quite a baseball like ap
pearance. , Seats or bleachers have
been erected at open -spaces alone
the avenue where the thousands of
people may secure seats at prices
varying from fifty cents to two dol
lars. Much will depend on lb
weather, which, of course, is always
a doubtful element on the fourth ot
March.
As the present administration
draws to a close, the legislative body
finds itself embarassed with a num
ber of problems that in all probab
ility canuot be solved at this session
The President has vetoed the Cen
sus bill which contained the objec
tionable provision authorizing the
appointment of census employees by
members of Congress instead of
througbcoeapetitive examination un
der the Civil Service rules. The
President's .attitude towards this
question and toward other peodiag
measures may result in the failure
of a number oi important bills i
the present Congress. It is thought
by the leaders of the House that tbe
Sundry Civil Bill wbictreontains
appropriations rfbr the maintenance
of the Secret service and possibly
one or two other supply bills aud
the Census bill will fail o( passage
this . session. In such case, they
must be taken up and put into tbe
form of law at the special session t
called in March. The determina
tion to defer action on at least one
appropriation bill and to lay over
the Census Bill, will of course open
the way for much general legislation
and this suggests that n&any meas
ures other than that relating to the
tariff will come up for consideration
and probably be passed at the
special ' session. A committee on
the Census met' yesterday to con
sider the President's vetoed measure.
No formal action was taken, but
discussion in committee indicated
that it would be uuwise at this late
day to try to pass the Census -Bill
, over the President's veto".
The House yesterday passed the
Agricultural appropriation bill with
an
amendment providing that ail
discoveries made by the Department
t Agriculture incident to test of
paper making material shall be
patented in the name of the Secretary
of Agrisuiture for the benefit of the
whole people.
There are indications amounting
almost to certainty that the small
junta of leaders in the' Senate, Aid
rich, Hale, Gallinger and Foraker,
will find their influence much cur
tailed after this session. Foraker,
who is perhaps the ablest, man of !
them ail, will retire after March the'
fourth, but the real cause ot the de
clining strength of the clique that
has long ruled is the determination
of some new senators, headed by
Senator La Follette ot Wisconsin,
to take a hand in legislative matters.
Senator La Follette showed the
strength of the opposition and its
determination tw have something to
do with senatorial busiuess yester
day when he balked Senator Hale's
plan to expedite the naval appropri
ations. He was extremely sarcastic
in debate with Senator Hale, the
autocract of the Naval Committee,
or as he is sometimes called "the
owner of the United States Navy."
His language was:
"I have the hardihood not only
to doubt the divine perfection of
the present arrangement, .but to al
most believe that the business of
the Senate could be distributed
among its ninety-two members in-1
stead of being taken care of by less
than one-third of this body.
KILLS HERSELF IN
WASHINGTON, !
Beaufort Woman Commits Suicide,
Was III For Some Time.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 12.
With photographs of her two small
children beside her on a folding -cot,
Mrs. Susan H. Yonce, thirty-aine
years of age, wfco came here frouj
Beaufort, N. C, was found dead in
her room with ifive -gaskets turned on
Mrs. Yonce, who was employed
as a clerk in the Burea of Statistics,
Department of -Agriculture, retired
to her room late last nieht. After
disrolHir she turned ofFt&e light
and ffren aeain turned OQ 11 five
jets. be was 'tound Dy ner aanaia
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Mrs. You nee left a brief note oo
her bureau in which she said: "Let
Senator -Simmons and Represents
rive John H. Small know." The
names of Harry and Arthur Mayo
also appeared on the note. There
u-fls srwsiie other writing wnicn was
illegible.
I)r Hilton stated today that he
had treated Mrs. Yonce for somi
time and .that she had been addicted
to the use of drugs. The physician
said further that he had been'Called
ti sp her vesterdav afternoon. She
had asked him then to give her mor
phine, but he refused te do so.
Mrs. Yonce, whocarae here-about
tea years ago upon the -death of her
husband, had been era&loyd-an the
Department of Asrrcukare-.far sev
era! years, and for a tiise wa .in the
censas -office and the Treasury De
partment. Her friends ay he was,
regarded as exceptionally intelligent
She wits a graduate of a -Southern
college.
Focw children, Mrs. C. W. Senk
ins and iBrown Yooce, of this, city
and tw& .younger children, too re
;ide in Baltimore, survive.
Mrs. Yonce had written tar. will.
When Dr. Hilton called torseeher
yesterday afternoon she handed him
four slips of paper. Thinking they
contained -only some poetry which
was written on one side, he placed
them in his pooket. Upon her death
this morniog he examined the writ-;
ing and found she had made a will
for the disposition of her property.
The physician turned the will over
to the police.
Remember, we are pulling for
three thousand subscribers. Ladies,
gentlemen, girls and boys, read our
offer and Vet part of that beautiful
silverware on exhibit at the Bur
lington Hardware Company.
NFfcDED A beautiful set of
silver knives and forks for the table
on Sunday. Read our proposition
in another place in this issue and in
a few days, if you try, the - answer
will be "Have".
A large number of our friends
have entered the contest and are
working like heroes for a part of
that silverware-which we offer to
give away.
Barbed wire 3 cents pr lb. at
Graham Hardware Co.? Graham,
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A- STRIKING
Views of Editor Crowson ana Former Editor
Hunt on Governor Kitchin.
Editor crowson's views.
When Gov. W. W. Kitchin de
livered his inaugural address, one
or two State papers that had been
severe in their criticisms of him be
fore the election, declared that the
address was a sound one, and stated
that they were agreeably surprised.
As much as to say that they had
been afraid of him, but had been
reassured.
There is net n more conservative
citizen or public official in North
Carolina than Governor Litcnin.
The only trouble is he has been
man enough to stand on the JLemo
cratic platform at all ifimes, and
those who had been criticising, were
criticising him when he was stand
ing for the principles off the party
while they were not. It he was
Populistic it was along those lines
upon which the platform was popu
listic. In politics, the man who
dares to stand for flie people,
to stand for the right is condemned.
As long as he does not raise his
voice against oppression nod Join
with the oppressors, he's ail right.
So lorier as a man does the wiHtf
the devil he haawo trouble with hhn
so long s a man keeps fore place a
mong the sinners he's hsil fellow,
well met, but when be turns nd
walks away begins to fitit ev3, he
becomes the target fortrbuse. A;
man can drift with effort, but must
fight to go un stream. Mr. Hitch-:
in has dared 4o stand (for all that isfl
pure in politics, and 'today is 'the?
chief citizen of our strffee.
Years age, the editor of elais sheet
was running a little paper in, Cas
well county. Our press day was at
hand. Owr "patent outside asin
the express- office, "marked',C.rO.
Those who have had packages
so marked and badiBo money, know
what rhose letters ment. We were
wbus ted" rand hd couclttded to let
her go, arad quit. We went to ''the
nostoffice ;and opened a letter. It
contained a check or $o.00 with
instructions teenS the paper one
year to five ''good iDemfterat;." The
check was signed W. V. Kitchtu.
W. W. Kitchin "syasayoungeian
then, unknown to us. Had just
been noflainatefl to Oongress. The.
pf 5.00 saved the :kfe .ofthe.paper
and we went to work, -and helped
to redeem old Caswell from Repub
lican rule, and ince then she has
foeen givtiog a iajottty of from (00
to ilOOO Democratic whereas be
fore she always went Republican.
VV. Kitchin has always been
a Democrat way 'back yonder fee
ifore '9& be was a Deciocrat, and to
day no mao appreoietesjlthe honor
ithat has been eonfenred upon him
more than this writer; aed those
whp know Gov. JKitehan know that
he is, has 'been aud always will ba
Democrat, -standing oa the Demo-
-cratic platform, awl kno k tha h is
"safe, sound and same ' yard
wide, and wwnt run down ,a -the
heels as time goes on.
JFORMER EDITOR HUNT VIEWS.
It is a well known fact that there
were hundreds and thousands of
Democrats in North Carolina who
last year voted the ticket of the
party under protest -some for the
turn the liqu.ur' business had taken,
but more from the fact that the par
ty has gone too far in the Populis
tic idea, and sought by platform
promises to persecute certain busi
ness interests in the State, as well
as the disposition of the majority of
the party to run rough shod over
and read out of the party' as alieus
and mountebanks, all who have
dared to lift hand or tvoice against
be;ng cairied where they know
not I say .these are facts well
known to all who want to know,
and who will be taught. That is
not all; you hear it every day and
in almost any crowd that if the
present thinirs "of vvhip-cracking and
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CONTRAST
the persecution- of legitimate busi
ness, or in short if the leaders of
the party, self-constituted 'or other
wise, persist in being fools, then
there will be such a change in the
line-up of parties within the next
few years that there will be a new
set that has not been in control
lately, and that is the Republican
party. I say these things are talkr
ed, and men are heard to ay that
they do not care how soon, if the
present party can do no more than
at each General Assembly try to
disrupt the confidence of all the
State ia the ability of the party to
legislate wisely. Every one knows
what happened two years ago; how
the State was disrupted by rate leg
islation, how the matter had to be
adjusted, 'hofa near the subjection
"A" came to passing, and faow the
business xf the ceunt;ry went down.
Yet in't&e face of all that, the or
gan squalls itself black 4n the face
for the passage of . radical legisla
tion!
Writ in the platform! Printed m
black! Hell and danatnatioa if von
i
dont! The -party said so! Damn
business, when the party platform
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ts at state:
That 'is ithe strain that one hears
every day in the yar, and tfhe rot
is piled hrigh on the desk of every
member of the Legislature day al
ter day.
TheState press has had little to
say as a whole, seve to say that the
present Legislature has done wel
iu that it has to date done nothing
save pass local bills sod consider
what was best to do, and it seems
that tiie business world of the State
has been resting in peace in the' be
iief'that the Governor would lie
still with all the glaring lights be
fore him. .However, such reckon
ed without their hosts.
Now review the field and see
what has happened:
It is well known that Mr. J. S
Manning was the jietatenant of Gov
ernor Kitchio in the campaign for
the nomination, and it is known
to how well he marshaled his
hosts for hjs man. Few perhaps
have followed the trench elo&ely
enough to see that the same general
ship may be workiisg about die law
making body now in session here
More than half tihe time allowed
the Legislature to sit has passed
yet'it'oas retnaines to tnis late oay
for the Governor to suggest, any
thicg; that he thought ought to he-
conae a: law. But to ero back. One
of 'the first thing's of any inspor
tanoe to be uirpdaeed was, the Man
ning bill to enlarge the powers of
the JtUirney General: that not get
ting the breeze some expected it to
raise, the Lockhart bill, the trust-
buster, fell on dtdl ears and the
Legislature did net take " it away
from him or pass at. Then the or-
a.
gan or organs got busier than ever
;and the condition grew to be des
.perate. Meeting after meeting was
:keld, delegations and wind produc
ers were irrfported and the first sign
of a lobby appeared; not to prevent
but to force, legislation. All- that,
with the thunder of black lines
kept at the masthead and spread
over the House and the Senate, has
failed to create more than a ripple.
Party platform pledges go nowhere,
. i l i . i
it seems, as toe legislator who is
houee-t iu his intentioua thinks of
the god he may do business by
getting thrjuifh and going yliorae so
that all feeling of dread as to what
mav bv accident be done here will
blow over, and business only be thys
slogan. So much for that.
What has gone before leads ' to
the present and to the. point of all
that was meant to be said here,
namely, that the message of Ihe
Governor" asking that trust-busting
legislation be made or done is the
last link in the- chain, arid the very
fact that he asks for the work to.
! he done through the Attorney Gen-
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eral, is thought shows that the
first thing done was the quiet way
of getting the Manning bill to en-
arge the powers of the Attorney
General through the Legislature,
aid catch some one , asleep at the
switch. That erot its death in com
mittee and the other, failing to date
and the old party whip singing like
mime balls in the air, with death
and, damnation promised to the par
ty and all. who fail to help busra
trust, and failing to raise even a
small stink, the last card has been
played: the mandate of the Gov-
ernor to the dominating party.
while it is all in mind as to how
the very devil of the trnkts and the
Southern Railway and the Char
lotte Observer ran on the Govern
or's trail and haunted him day and
night. If these things do not move
the Legislature to act, then it can be
said that sanity has come to the
front. C. W. Hunt.
JOSEPHINE HOOD LOST AGAIN
Victim of Bigamist Evades Family
Rather Than Return Home.
xAsheville, Feb., 11. Miss Jose
phine Hood, the Asheville girl,
who was located in Tucumcari, N.
Mex., yesterday after a search last
ing since her marriage in 1906, to
"Lord" Reginald Sholto Douglas,
the notorious bigamist, has disap
peared, and all efforts to locate her
today were futile.
Several months after her mar
riage to the bogus "Lord" the fam-
uy of Miss Hood, , aided by th
State Department, instituted a dili
gent search, but were unable to find
a trace of her. . It was believed she
had been murdered, until several
days ago a letter from a friend told
the family that she was living on a
ranch near Tucumcari. A telegram
was sent there today by her brother
Edwin Hood, but when the chie
of police received the message the
young woman had disappeared.
A dispatch from the New Mex
ico town tonight says Miss Hood
arrived there in October, , and took
up 160 acres of government land,
and spent much money on it. She
was known to many of the residents
of the place and was regarded as
wealthy.
It ii said that when theN bigamist
deserted Miss Hood a few days af
ter her marriage she begao-a strug
gle for her livelihood rather than
bear the shame of returning tocher
family, and it is believed now that
she is determined never to allow
her family to locate her.
Relatives here are almost crazed
by the latest developments in tfce
mystery.
The Official Result
The United States Senate and
the House ot Representatives met
in joint session last week to canvass
the electorial vote cast for president
m accordance with the returns from
the election last November.
W. H. Ta, Republican, had
321 vofes and W. J. Bryan, Demo
crai, nau roz vote3, tnus giving
Judge laic 159 maiority, a major
ity almost as large as Bryan's total
vote in the electorial colleere. All
o
the Democratic papers during the
last campaign delighted to dish out
to thfir readers ihe fact that Judge
1 aft had held office nearly all his
life by appointment through the aid
r'a l i i . i i
oi lunueuuai inenus out ; nau never
been elected by the votes of the peo
ple to any office, leaving the im-
pjessiou that the Jude did uo&
have personal popularity enough to
tfin in a popular voting contest a
raong the people, but the result on
ly proves howMinreliable is the read
ing matter placed before our Demo
cratic brethren when they need
calm, cool conservative council the
mosU-
There may not be such streneous
doings in the White House after
March the 4th, but things more
"weighty" are likely to be in evi
dence there for the next four years"
Barbed wire 3 cents per lb. at
Graham Hardware Co., Graham.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
FORM ELON COLLEGE.
Elou College, Feb. 12. Safur-.
day evening, Feb. 6th, the in ter-
mediate department in music : gave "
4ts annual Pianaforte recital in J the
College chapel to adarge discrimina-
tiug and 4 appreciative audience of
music lovers. Twelve young ladies
of the pupils of Miss JElise Ramsey, -assistant
in piano, took part in the ,
program and rendered to the delight
of all present choice selections from 4
the master composers of instrumen
tal music. The following young
ladies figured in the program: Miss
Estelle Butler, Newport News, Va.;
Miss Annie TLaurne Wicker, Elon f
College, N. C; Wilnier Winn '
Baltimore, Md.; Vannie Howerton,
Greensboro, N. C; Aliene Pattbn,
Elon College, N. C.j7Lillian Ald-,-ridge,
Union RidgeN. C; Ruby -
Michael, Gibsonville, N. C; Virgie
Beale, Windsor, Va.; Jessie Brink-
ley, Norfolk, Va.; Macie Farmer,
News Ferry, Va.; Louis Davidson,
GhVonville, N. C; Beulah Foster,
Burlington, N. C. The various
selections of the program were ex
ecuted, with perfect tecnique and ,
merited the general applause which
they each and every one received.
Dr. Moffitlt, this week, received
from Rev. F. S. Child D. D.. Fair
field, Conn., secretary of the Fran
cis Asbury Balmer Foundation for
the unlifting of education in Ameri
can Colleges , and Institutions, ,a
check for $500.00 to be applied to
curreut expenses in the Institution
This gift comes at a most acceptable
moment for the Institution and is .
very .much appreciated.
Dr. J. U. Newman, Professor of
Greek and Biblical Literature in the
institution, has been giving for the
past three mouths a series of studies
in the Psalms to the student body
on the first and third Sundays in
each month. These addresses are
highly intertaining, richly instruc
tive and profoundly inspirational
and spiritual. They have received
the favorable comment ot all who
have heard them. These addresses .
have been published in the Herald '
of Gospel Liberty of Dayton, Ohio, -and
received a wide , and generous
reading at the hands of the "public.
It is hoped that Dr. Newman will
collect these addresses in book form -and
give them permantly to the
world of Biblical scholarship.
Invitations are out to the Annual
Entertainment of the Clio Literary
Society. This celebration coms an
nually on the 22d of February and
will fall on that date this year. An
interesting and varied program has
been prepared, and as this Society
maintains its reputation ot former
years for excellent reodit ion and
thoroughness of performance, those
who may chance to attend this en
tertainment will be highly delighted
and entertained. Program is to
consist of two voice solos, a trio,
two orations, a humorour reciation,""
a cornet solu, a chorus by the Socie
ty Giee Club and a debate oh the
question, Resolved: That a Nation
al Law Should be Passed prov iding
for the guarantee of bank deposits
by the banks or each State. The
debaters are Messrs. G. S. Cornwall,
Dory, Ya J. S. Lincoln, Wakefield,
Va.;4 representing the affirmative ,
and Messrs. R. L. Walker. Burli
ton, N, C. and . P. Farmer, Newsy
Ferry, Va , representing the nega
tive. Ttie marshal Is are Messrs. J:
F. .West, Jr., Waved y, V , Ohif
P.. U White, Marion, U C, and -M.
T. Whitley, Windeor, Va. The
puijHp is cordially . invited to be
present at this enteriinmeut.
President Moffitt is a buy m-m -thete
days occupied with"' plans and,
interviews with reference to raising '
the 50,000 endowment, upon 'the
presecution of which he enleid ac-
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tiyely last week. Encouraging re- '
ports are coming in from every "
source with reference to this ?reat
work and Dr. Moffitt is meeting
with encouragment on '"every hand
and has the sympathy of the - entires -field
of influence df the (College and .
all are wishing" for him hearty sua-
oeiin thisaipwardi movement. -'-.-.
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