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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN'HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES;
BURLINGTON, N. C, APRIL 24, 1912.
APOLOGY
T’re i' iirov uf the News feigns;
isisuited, atourar-
Ivy v/hii^n appeared in last
issue of the Dispatch
i'S'ecl; TAKING HIS FIRST
F^SON, and has written us de-
iiaiditig a retraction. And if
o "ail to retract he demands
moof Now we emphatically re-
Leto retract, unless he or some
one a.-tin« to h™. »>■■?»?» 0«t
wUrein we have hbeled him or
his paper,
There were two whole
then we have been too charitable
aj^eady and you deserve'all and
niore than was said about you,
of this w^ have no way of know-
possibly you will enlighten
us at some future time. Again
you say, Hareafter when you
want to make a personal attack,
: do it in person. WHO START-
; ED THIS ATTACKING BUSI-
NESS AS YOU CALL IT ANY
WAY. IN YOUR ISSUE OP
APRIL 3rd, UNDER THE CAP
TION, THAT SEVENTEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS. You
used these words, The way of
the ward politician is like
the transgressor, it's hard. He
iolunins of the article every word
which we believe to be the \ must vent his spleen, spit gall
th the whole truth and noth-
n? but the truth, mildly stated
at that. We have the proof for
every statement made, and if
the Editor of the News will enter
a general or specific denial ol
any of the allegations, the prooi
will be forth coming. But wo
will not be bluffed or bull dozed
into making a retraction by an y
veiled threat of recourse to law,
or persona) chastisement. When
in the right we have no fear of
the law, and the threat of per
sonal chastisement does noi
strike us dumb with terror. We
reproduce the Nf^ws Editor’s let
ter in fall with our answer, and
will let the public deciue who
is eniicled to an apolog-y, the Dis
patch or tiie News.
Burlifigton, N. C.,
April 12th, 1912.
The Stale Dispatch,^
Burlington, N. C.
Ge?'itlemen:
In your issue of last v/eek .\oi:
attack the reputation of the Edi
tor of the News for truth in u
manner that was unfair and un-
ur.worthy a decent paper. Yon
both by insinuation and in
timation Ronght 1o create the
impression that the Edicor
of the News lied, No’\v
as we regard truth to be th^i
centrpj virtue of manhood with
out :vhich there h no real charac
ter, we shall not suffer such an at
tack 'ogo unchallenged. There-
iore we are demandmg that you
retract what you said relating to
this or bring forth your proofs
at once. Hereafter, when you
want to make a personal attack
do it in person, without having
any connections wdth a political
issue. You will therefore do me
the kindness to prove what you
have charged by implication or
retract, if you believe at all in
fair play.
I am Sirs, yours truly,
R. M. Andrews,
Editor.
Now Mr. Editor, you state
we attacked your reputation for
truth in a manner that was un
fair and unworthy of a decent
paper. Now we are not surpris
ed at your saying this, because
no Republican paper is a decent
paper in the eyes of a democratic
politician. But will you state
for the benefit of those thou
sands of democrats who are not
politicians, and who believe that
a reputable republican Newspa
per which is- trying to show up
democratic incompentecy and
mismanagement of the tax pay
ers' money, is a decent paper,
wherein your reputation for truth
nas been attacked. We stated
in our article that we believed
the Editor of the News to bfe a
high-toned God-fearing Christian
iTian, is this the attack that you
refer to as being unfair and un
worthy of a decent paper, if so
you probably know better what
you are talking about than we do,
and v/e are willing to take your
^'ord for it. You state that^ we
soughtlby insinuation and inti
mation to create the impression
^at the Editor of the News lied,
BUT WE USED THIS LANGU-
AbE, Knowing you as we do, it
Would be more charitable to say
that you were imposed upon, and
that you would hasten to set
yourself right, not only in justice
to us, but in justice to your read-
a majority of whom are hon
est fairminded men, even if they
partisans. Is this what you
construe to. be an attack upon
your reputation as unfair and un
worthy of a decent paper? Of
course you know whether our
?*^ggestion, that you had been
Imposed upon or not is true, and
u you were not imposed upon,
and published, the statements
ifiat you did of your own Yoli-
not kjjovdng or. caring
^ethtr were true ®r mat,
and sling mud whether he feels
like it or not because his living
depends upon it; so whenever
his ravelings get low or the pros
pects of his party get dim, he
hies himself back to his old uvo
cation, like the hog that returns
to the waliOw he returns to his
political tricks and terms. Now
who were you talking about
when you wrote and published
this political dppe of the average
democratic spellbinder. From
this it would seem that you are
somewhat of an attacker of
’.nen’s characters yourself, are
you not? But just as soon as we
lay it on McDuff, you cry aloud,
hold enough. And once again
in the same issue of April 3rd
and in the same article you say:
Now v/hat about this flaring
headline of insinuations; there is
just this and it ought to be known
10 the remotest comer of the
county, Speak it out upon the
house-tops, declare it upon the
street corners, This party that is
out, whose leader made this at
tack in their county paper, is af
ter pie more than your or my
good. Novr who lold you to say
this? You could not have done
it by yourself, but when backed
up by ypur political counsellors
you are ' an attacker of men|s
characters that ♦he democratic
party should be proud of, and
we have no doubt but that you
will be suitably rewarded, should
the opportunity ever present it
self. Now when you have thor
oughly digested this, and again
feel that you have been attacked
in a manner unf aii* and unworthy
of a decent newspaper we will be
glad to have you again demand
retraction, which of course will
be forthcoming just like this one.
This article like the others was
prepared by our contributing Ed
itor, J. Zeb. Waller, But the Dis
patch assumes full responsibili
ty therefor. And should you de
sire to carry out your implied
threat of i'ecourse to law, ' the
Dispatch will be only too glad to
meet you in the temple of Justice,
But should you prefer personal
satisfaction Mr. Waller stands
ready to meet all comers.
this like I have been doing it, a-
buse hin;i, abuse him, but do it
in a way that the people will
know who you are abusing, and
if you cannot do it in the good
old fashioned democratic way,
why just let me at him. I am
an old offender, I have had years
of experience, I have received
the blows of his sledgehammer
truths in the past, but I atti out
of his reach now, and the vemon,
hatred, and prejudice upon
which my democracy exists is
aroused, let me at him, let me at
him, and he opens up the putri-
fied chambers of his political
chess poll, and belches forth near-
ly^a column of abuse and person
alities, in an effort to convince
the tax payers and his former
readers that he has been lying to
them for twenty years. Don't
worry neighbor, don’t worry, the
people as well as the tax payers
have had you correctly sized tip
for nineteen years three hundred
and sixty-four days. This ac
counts for your not being here
now, but if you will come for
ward like a man that you ought
to be, and make a clean breast of
why you butted in. That having
sold the present Editor of the
NtiVv’a a gold brick, when you
transfpred to him the News,
and wishing to pacify his injured
feelings as far as p'l^ssible, that
you might escape his wrathful
indignation for driving a hard
bargain, and wishing to do him
a good turn to ease your lashing
conscience, if for this reason you
espound his lost cause, all will be
forgiven, to use your own recent
language, While the lamp holds
out to burn, the vilest sinner
may return.
GREAT STEAMSHIP
NO. 50
rhail carriei^in a class with the
Big Editor of th« Durham Sun.
I; repeated in substance what I
ll^rd not thinking of being
drawn into a three cornered news
papeilcontroversy and I write this
only in selfdefence.
This article was cffered to the
Editor of The Burlington Ne »vs
who refused publication. Butin
as much as he published the at
tack he should have extended me
the courtesy to have printed my
reply. I presume this is whut he
calls fair play.
W. J. BROOKS.
Names «f Those Who Have £n
tered the Dispatch Contest.
NAME
NO.
VOTES
25000
24500
24300
A Frame Up.
The Present Editor of the
News, and the former Editor of
the same sheet, having been
caught in a questionable conver
sation regarding the best meth
od of keepitig the tax payers
hoodwinked in regard to the ex
posure by the Dispatch of the
reckless expenditure of the pe9-
ple’s money by the democratic
county officials. Have put their
cunning heads together, to de
vise ways and means to shift the
subject from a political to a per
sonal one, by attacking the char
acter and standing of a certain
federal official who is a stock
holder in the Dispatch Publish
ing Co. But the ruse won]t
work, the people are on to their
game, and will not be fooled dr
led astray by these personal as
saults upon a man whose vera
city has never been questioned
by any one who possessed any
standing and character _ them
selves. The present Editor of
the News, having waded into
deep water, the sea of democrat
ic politics in Alamance county,
and becoming engulfed by the
overwhelming proof and logic of
the Dispatch as regards the
county’s financial condition, hies
himself into the August presence
of that veteran Dodger, Stramer,
and sidestepper, the former Edi
tor of the Ij^ews, and loudly ex
claims, What must we do to be
saved. And straightway comes
the answer, Lie like h—1—1 and
stick, to, it, and then he add,s un
der his breath, so low the
cottl4 nolJ it, ,||
ytm hftven^t got Ae ability to «•
In Self Defense
Editor of The Burlington News,
Dear Sir;—
In the last issue
of your paper there appeared in
the first column of the first page
an article signed by the former
Editor of The News Mr. 0. Es
Crowson concerning a certain in-
ddeht in thie controversy between
The News and The State Dispatch
with reference to the financial
condition of the country. In this
article Mr. Crowson contempti-
ously refers to ‘ ‘The Little Mail
Carrier” who overheard the con
versation and hastened to head
quarters with the news.
As I was present not as an
eavesdropper, ps Mr. Crowson
intimates when the conversation
refered to in Mr. Crowson’s ar
ticle was had, and as I have been
informed since by the .present
Editor of The News that I am the
little mail carrier alluded to by
Mr. Crowson I wish to say in self
defense that The Big Editor of
The Durham Sun well knows that
my attention was attracted to the
conversation by a criticism of the
service by the local Rural carrie
rs in regard to the delivery of ihe
Burlington News. The Big Edit
or of The Durham Sun and The
Editor of The News know full
well that the conversation was
had in my immediate presence
and that it required no stress of
the auditory nerves to hear what
was said and that no breach of
news paper etiquette or of pro
priety as between man to man to
report and publish such a conver
sation.
I was charitable enough to re
gard the conversation as to the
“Lying" as a sort of good hum
ored joke and spoke of it in the
presence of Mr. Waller as a bur
lesque on him. But it would
seem from a perusal of the arti
cle of the aforesaid Big Editor of
The Sun that he had been serious
in the business for twenty years.
Wh6n the Big Editor refers to
me as the “Little Mail Carrier”
I do not know whether he refers
to my physical statue, my mental
capacity, or my official position.
If he refers to my physique I do
not mind that from him. If he
refers to my mental capacity, we
are told by the holy writ that the
weak often confound the mighty.
If he refers to my official position
then he offers insult to no less
than forty thousand of his fellow
countrymen who regard themsel
ves as much entitled to considera
tion ashe. ,
The Big Editor of The Durham
Daily further charges I repeated
the conversation with variation.
We have seenthat he confessed
thati h^ had been in the variation
bui^li^flfor twenty yearss and so
W «B^niciotttIy plaeei little
Addie Ray
W. J. Brooks
BeHha May Horne
Aurelia Ellington,
Mebane, R. No. 4, 23800
Mary Lee Coble, R. No, 1 21900
B^ttie Lyde May 90001
Lizzie Cheek 8100
Waller Workman 7600
W. I. Braxton, Snow Camp, 5700
Carrie Albright, 3300
Haw River.
T, F. Matkins, 3300
Gibson ville.
Mrs. B. L. Shoffner, R. 10, 3000
Martin L. Coble, R. 1. 2300
J. R. King, 1100
Greensboro.
May Carr Hall 1000
Margie Cheek 1000
Doyle Heritage 1000
Republican Fifth North Carolina
Congressional Convention Called
For May The l4lh. 1912.
New York, April 15.—The White
Star Liner Ticanii;, the world's
greatest steamship, has ^gorie
down some 500 miles off Cape
Race with 630 of her 1300 passen
gers and her full crew of 860
men on board.
That the greatest catastrophe
in maritime history has occurred
to a vessel of their line, is admlt-^
ted late tonight by the officials
of the White Star Steamship
Company in New York.
The li’^er Carpathia, the first
vessel to come within sight of
the Titanic, rescued all. Titanic’s
Iffeboats, jin which were 670
persons, most of women and
children. Many women and
children, however have perished.
When the Carpathia reached
the ill-fated vessel no sign of life
w^as'to be seen anywhere, the
mountainous swells giving mute
evidence to the stupendous dis-
aster-
Early reports stated that all
passengers and crew of the Tit
anic had been taken off by the
Allen liners, Virginian, the Par
isian, and the Carpathia, but
wireless messages recieved
night discredit these reports in
every detail.
That the sinking of t]ie Titanic
was witnessed from the bridge
the Carpathia, which was
By virtue of the authority of
the Republican Executive Com
mittee of the 5th. North Carolina
Congressional District, a Conven
tion is hereby called to meet, at
the County Court-house, in the
City of Greensboro, North Caro
lina, on the 14th. day of May,
191^ at 1:30 o’clock, P. M., for
the purpose of electing two dele
gates and two alternates to the
l^publican National Convention,
which is called to convene in the
city of Chicago, Illinois, on the
18th, day of June, 1912, to nomi
nate 'Candidates for President
and Vice-President of the United
States, and for the transaction of
such other business as may pro
perly come before the Convention
This the 30th. day of March 1911.
JOHN T. BENBOW
Chairman.
J. ZEB WALLER,
Secretary.
Senator Dizon Gave $200 to School
At Snow ^Camp.
Greensboro, N. C., April 24.—
Senator Joseph M. Dixon, while
in the city Monday, showed the
appreciation of the esteem of the
people of his birthplace, by mak
ing a gift of $200 to a school
building, now being erected at
Snow Camp, Alamance county.
This is known as the Hammer
memorial school, being construc
ted at a cost of $30,000. The
larger part of this fund was giv
en by Mr. Hammer. It is plan
ned to make this a demonstra
tion school, where ' agriculture
and other things of practical va
lue may be taught. The trustees
of the fund have purchased a
farm surrounding the school.
The tnistees of the Hammer
fund are Jeremiah Cox, N. C.
Stuart, W. P. Stout. T. H. Horn-
aday, J. A. Hornaday and Lydia
Stuari
01
leading the Parisian and the
Virginian to the rescue is believed
here tonight. That the vessel
was seen tiirough the glasses of
the Carpathia's captain , to be
afloat is regarded aV the source
of thebe early encouraging re
ports. ^ i
No hope is held out at the
offices of the White Star Line
that any man on bo^ has sur
vived to tell the story of'the final
sinking of the leviathan, although
some of the women in the bootas
may have witnessed the sinking.
Only by a miracle it is pointed
out could any person who stood
by the ship escape the great
vessel's powerful suction as she
sank to the bottom.
The Titanic carried the moSt
notable list of passeng:ers ever
borne across, the Atlantic by one
vessel. Homecoming American
tourists arranged their sailings
weeks ago so as to ride the new
wonder of the seas on her maid
en voyage.
Tonight's d[ispatches state that
the Titanic went down at 2:20
o'clock this morning. The delay
in the transmission of the news
is attributed to the fact that all
dispatches have been subject to
difficult relays.
The collision of the Titanic
with an iceberg is now known to
havfe been a head-on crash that
occurred while the liner was pro-
ceding at little less than her
best speed. She was a day
ahead of her schedule, and it is
considered probable that an at
tempt to have a record-breaking
voyage was the sole ambition of
her crew.
Her forward plates were com
pletely wrecked, a gaging wound
opening below her water line and
letting the water into her forward
comgartments. In the mean
er of the Olympic, who ijisplayed
almost superhuman power of
mind and .body as the world’s
most horrible disas or erovvn-
ed his long and honors ole carvser
on the high se. s!
A wireless message from the
Victoria says that the occupants
of the lifeboats which she picked
up have be«® trahsiferred to the
Carpathia, %hich is proceeding.
to New York.
The Titanic struck the berg at
10:25 last night and foundered
at 2:2o this moirning. At day
break the Carparthia sirrived on
the bcene and her passengem
and crew beheld only the sm«dl
boats with their precious human
cargoes and a dismal scene of
wreckage.
“Sinking by the head, and the
women are being rushed into the
lifeboats’' wei*e the last words
that sputtered into the wireless
room of the Virginian from the
Titanic. All through the night
and until her Wireless station
was silenced, over hundreds of
miles of sea from the antennae
^^^^of the giaiit liner flashed the
^“ mystic and magic ‘ S; 0. S.*’
the world-wide cry of distress
on the occasion. Every wirelesB
operator within range of the
naimed vessel dropped her other,
messages to locate her, and
ineantime recieyed the fatal
three dots, thre^ dashes, arwJ
three dots to the world.
The collision occuired in liati-
tude 41.46 ho^th and longitude
50.14 west, 1,150 niileis east *of
New York and S450 miies south
of Gape Race, the most wesferly
point of New Poundland.
Contrary to e^rly surmises,
there was no fog when the ves
sel struck^the weather was
clear and the sea-W^i
Alrnc)stias soon |s the
picked lip the distress signal it
Wiis recorded by the operator on
the Olympic, the TitaTSic's sister
ship, and next to her the largest
vessel Etfloat. That was at mid
night. At that •hour the Olympic
was 200 miles froni New York ea
route to Southampton. .
The Olympic forged aheajii
under full Steam, but tonight's
wireless dispatches indicate that
she r^ched the scene too late to
be of any assistance.
The Baltic—famous for her
rescue of cho piu$seijgers of the
steamer Republic and for Jade
^Binns,, who sat aloft and braved
death to summon helpwas the
next ship to pick , up the brief
story of the Titanie’is plight
She was on her .way from New
York to Liverpool^ but turned
about and pot on full speed to
wards the Titanic’s position^
The Parsian, according to her
messages,' reached fiotilla of res
cuers soon after the Baltic.
A wireless message from Cap.
tain Haddock tonight confirilK^
the fears of The White Star Line
officials—that all but the 678
women and children who escaped
in the. small bokts from the
$10,000,000 ship had perished
A part of this niessage was vrith-
held, but enough was divulged
to thes newspapers to ni^e oer-
time the lifeboats were
manned! tain the appalling extent of the
Government Depository.
The Alamance Loan and Trust
Co. has been made a depository
of the United States which means
that Unde Sam will now become
one of the many depositors of
this well known and substantial
Institution.
M(»iey toiLend, S«« Gr^am
liOan li Trast
and into them were placed as j
many of the women and children |
as they could hold. Three boats}
were put off while there was yet
some hope of holding the levithan
afloat until her wireless messages
could bring help.
Later and more comprehensive
messages tell of great bravery
on the part of the men t>asseng-
ers. There was a minimum of
disorder.
John J. Astbr- who, with his
bride, wgs returning from their
long honoymoorf abroad, saw his
bride placed bn a lifeboat and
safely away. Coloiiel Astor was
drowned.
The work of getting, the life
boats away, the work Of allaying
the fears of the gr^t crowd of
passengers as'much as possible,
t^e work of keeping the pumps
iii operation and the engines
throbbing--these taiks and
^untless dthors weire directed
% Captain Smith, the v^^ble
c^pmmahder of4He Mtaxile,- and
'or« iadv0Bt
catastrophe.
Not until Captain Haddodc
filashed “Horrible Disaster—all
but 670 lost,” would the White
Star officials believe that the
mightiest ship ever launched h^
gone down on her maiden voyage.
The scene in the White Star
offices tonight was pitiful.
Brought to a realization of the
stupendous wreck—the complete
destruction of the fruit of their
dreams—grayhaired men, many
of them vetetan seamen, wep.t
Washington, April 22.—Witli
succor only 5 miles away, the
•Titanic Slid into its viratery i^ve,
carrying with it more than i,'600
of its passenger* and crew^ white
an unidentifi^ steamer, th^
height have saved all, failed
refused to see the frantic aign^k
flashed to it for aid.
This pluise of the ti;agie disas
ter was brought oat today, bef^
|he Sen^t^Jnvestig^ng
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