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II, J. O. Kay 8, W.
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H. E. Penninj?ton 5, J.
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A PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
VOL. V.
BURLINGTON. N. C, OCT, 9, 1812.
Na 20
NO. VOTES
63000
56000
frames of Those Who Have En
tered the Dispatch Contest.
Bertha May Home
Addi®
A-irelia Ellington,
;4ebane, R. No, 4, 48000
W J, Brooks 4570C
Marv Coblo, R. No.l 48{>00
Waller Workman 17700
LiSie Cheek 13100
Bettie Lyde May IIDOO
W I. Braxton, Snow Camp, 7900
Martin L. Coble, R. 1» 4300
T F, Matkins, 3700
Gibson ville.
Carrie Albright, 4900
Haw River.
\ffs. B. L. Shoffner' R. 10, 3000
J R. King, 1100
Greensboro.
May Carr Hall 1000
Margie Cheek 1000
Doyle Heritage 1000
-^anr
Roosevelt's Ctethes Worn Out By
Admirers In West.
Oyster Bay, N Y., Oct. 2 —
When Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
rer.ched Oyster Bay today, among
£iie tirst men he found it neces
sary to consult was his tailor.
\\ hatever other important duties
he may have rec>gniZ9d there
wiis none quite so pressing as the
absolute necssity of getting a
new suit of clothes. For vvhile
the colonel himself returned from
his strenuous tour of the country
in splendid physical condition,
his clothes were a complete
wreck.
.4round the bottom of his coat
hung pendants of the torn lining.
Whenever he raised his arm in
an emphatic gesture, the ra^ed
interior of the coat became pain
fully apparent to every one ex
cept the colonel
“I got this tear,” the colonel
explained, indicating a rent ia
the lining of his coat which had
almost separated the two, ‘ ‘press
ing throujgh the crowd in Lios,
Angeles to get tb the platform
where 1 was to speak. This
smaller tear in the ^ck was
caused by an enthusiastic Kansan
who either wanted to hold me
back or expected me to pull him
along.
"A lady who grabbed my coat
as I pushed through a throng in
Oklahoma City added this dis
figuration to an otherwise good
garment. The other rents I at-
tibate to admirers in the south.”
The colonel started on this trip
with only one working suit. He
had a suit for Sunday wear, but
it was as useless for rough cam
paigning as it had been left at
Oyster Bay.
His one working suit ’ was new
when he started but began to
show signs of hard wear before
a week had passed.
It did not look ragged however
until three weeks had elapsed,
but in the last week the colonel
was absolutely reduced to the
necessary of using pins to keep
!E together.
New Part? Comes to Stay.
The progressive movement has
come to scay,. just like mathe
matics and astronomy. The
world’s advancement, morally
and socially, in invention, gov
ern ntienc, art and the sciences,
furnishes eloquent answer to the
evasion by our adversaries of the
real issue. As well might the
reactionaries le^slate against the
law of gravitation as attempt to
turn back the wheels of human
progress. The defeat of bossism
is Illustrated in the story of the
cowboy.
They were having a dance in
T. R. Hits Democrats on the Cost I ProceediDgs of the County Commis-
of Living.
New York, Oct. 3.—In the cur
rent issue of the 0 utlopk Theo
dore Roosevelt discusses the high
cost of living, criticising the Ite-
publican and Democratic attitude
to the problem, particularly the
Democratic party. H«r says in
part: V
“The Democratic platfonn afc
fects to find the entire cause of
the high cost of living the
tariff, and promises to remedy it
by free trade, especially free
trade in the necessaries of life.
one of the large towns of Texas. > In the first place, this attitude
Roosevelt On Penrose.
In his testimony before the
senate committee last Friday,
Colonel Roosevelt stated:
‘ ‘Mr. Penrose testified that he
advised Mr. Archbold to have
the Standard Oil Company submit
to the blackmail and that he did
it ^for fear they should incur
hostility in certain quarters. They
could incur my hostility only if
they violated the law.
So that the purpose oJ Mr.
Penrose in advising Archbold to
nave the Standard Oil Company
^ake that contribution could only
nave been secured against gov-
p'nment action, taken because it
violated the law.
‘If it were proved tome when
I was police commissioner that
any policeman had done in re-
lerence to a law-breaking liquor
seller or gambler what Senator
“enrose admits he did—he, a
senator of the United State—ia
coiinection with the Standard Oil
Company, I would have thrown
^nat policeman off the force, and
\ nold that senate of the United
states should thrown Mr. Pen
rose out of the senate on the
admission that he has himself
-Slide before this committee.”
A cowboy just in from the i^siiries
Avent up to the hall and entered.
The master of ceremonies led him
gently to the door a id put him
out. The cowboy went bick.
The master of cerem ';nes hmtled
him out a second tim i. Tae cow
boy went back. Tiie master of
ceremonies seized him by the
back of the neck and kicked him
rudely down the stairs. The
cowboy gathered himfelf up slow
ly and looking back at the hall,
said wisely: “I know what that
means. They can’t fool me.
They don't want me at that
dance.”
When the bosses have been
kicked ou t often enough they
will know that their presence is
not desired. We hurl back their
intolerable dictatorship and claim
of superiority, and the rallying
‘cry is “America is free.”
W. Westley Miller.
Ardmore, Pa., Sept. 13.
A scientist man says men don’t
know how to eat. Perhaps
tneyv’e forgotten since the food
prices went up. '
Guthrie—Moody.
Last Wednesday afternoon at
4.00 the honie of Rev. and? Mrs,
J. 0 Guthrie was the scene of a
beautiful home wedding when
their daughter Miss Petrie
Guthrie was married to Capt. W,
S.M^dy, assistant State Treaur
er oi Raleigh. The home was
profusely decorated with Ever
greens and cut flowers. The at-
tenda;!itff were Miss^ - Jliouise
and Ada Guthrie and Meissrs. W.
W. Newman of Raleigh and Har
ry Stubbs of Williamson. The
bride entered, accompanied by
Mr. Stubbs. Rev. J. O. Guthrie
father of the bride officiated,
assisted by Rev. T. A. Sikes
pastor of the Front Street Meth
odist Church.
While the bride groom and at
tendants were entering the wed
ding march was played by Miss
Lola Lasley.
Immediately after the cere
mony the bridal party left on the
five o’clock train for Raleigh
where they will make their home.
The bride was beautifully at
tired in a gray coat suit with ac
cessories to match and carried a
bouquet of brides roses.
The large number of presents
which attested the popularity of
me bride arid groom were both
expensive and beautiful.
Upon arriving at Raleigh the
bride and groom were met at the
station by the band the groom
being Capt.of the First Regiment
Among those who attended
the marriage were: Mrs. Bynum
of Concord, Mrs. J. M, Pugh of
Greensboro, Miss Elousie Guthrie
of Greensboro, Mrs. E. N. Spen
cer, Miss Bessie Guthrie and
Messrs, Jno. Sheets and A. E. S.
Lindley of Raleigh.
The membership of the local
lodge of the Brothehood of
Locomotive Engineers in Nash
ville, Tenn. is made up of 220
men, A straw vote of the lodge
just taken brought these results:
Wilson 3
Taft 0
Debs 1
Roosevelt 208
A straw vote of 450 farmers at
the Ostego, Michigan County
Fair, resulted as fellows:
Wilson 35
Undecided 8
Taft 7
Roosevelt 400
and yet some Detroit papers claim
that state for Taft.
Roosevelt 52; Taft, 11; Wilson 8.
Reading, Pa., Oct. 3.—The
literai’y society of the Washing
ton Street Presbyterian Church
held a debate last night on the
question; “Resolved, that the
Negro Should Support Roosevelt
as the Presidential jandidate.”
A straw vote was taken, with
the following result: Roosevelt,
52; Taft, 11; Wilson, 8.
ignores the patent face th^t the
problem" is world-wide, that
everywhere, in England and
France, as in Germany and Ja
pan, it appears with greater or
less severity; that in England for
instance, it has become a very
severe problem, although neither
the tariff nor, save to a small de
gree, the trusts can there have
any possible effect upon the situ
ation.
“Lt the second place, the
De.iiucrntic platform, if it is sin-
must mean that all duties
will be taken off the products of
the farmer, y et most certainly
we cannot afford to have the far
mer struck down. The welfare
oil the tidei'of the soil is as im
portant as the welfare of the
wage-worker himself, and we
must sedulously guard both.
The farmer, the producer of the
necessities of life, can himself
live only if he raises these ne
cessities for a profit,
“Oa tiiie other hand, the con
sumer, who must have that far
mer’s product in order to live,
must be allowed to purchase it
at the lowest cost that can give
the farmer his profit, and every
thing possible must be done to
eliminate any middleman whose
function does not tend to increase
the cheanness of distribution of
the j)rQdu£t; and, moreover,
everything be done to stop
all speculating, all gamblihgwith
the breadbasket, which has even
the slightest deleterious effect
upon the prod-ucer and the con
sumer.
"Through the proposed inter
state industrial commission we
can effectively do,away ^Inth any
arbitrary control by comfeinations
of the necessities of life.
“Ihere is urgent need of non
partisan expert examination into
any tariff schedule which seems
to increase the cost of living, and,
unless the increase thus caused
is more than countervailed by
the benefit to the clas^ of the
community which actually re
ceives the protection, it must of
course mean that that particular
duty must be reduced. Tl^e sys
tem of levying a tariff for the
protection and encouragement of
Ameri can industry so as to secure
higher wages and better condi
tions of life for American labor
ers must never be perverted so
as to opferate for impoverishment
of those whom it was intended to
benefit.
sioners.
Graham, N. C. Sept 2nd. i9it
The Board of County Commis
sioners of A,Iamance County met
in the Court House on the above
date at ten b^clock A. M. in reg
ular monthly meeting with the
following members present; ^ ^
Geo. T. Williamson, Chairman
,W. H.
E. L Daiiiey
J. E. Stroud V
T. B. Barker
The following business was
transacted.
Ordered. That the Supt. of
Roads be instructed to in vestigate
the cart way asked for from the
bridge at Hollraans’ mill to the
land of J. M. Stout and report
to this Board at its next meet
ing.
Ord ered. That Fannie Simmons
be admitted to the County home
as an inmate.
Ordered. That the city of
Burlington be allowed the use of
the Road Scraper when.the coun
ty can spare it. The price to be
agreed upon.
Ordered. That the report of
Dr, Geo., W. Long, Supr.. of
Health be received and filed.
Ordered. That the report of
A. B. MoKeel, Supt. of the Coun
ty home be received knd filed.
Ordered. That the report of
G. Ab. Fogleman. Supt, of the
Roads be received and filed.
Ordered. That Sam Coop^*r
and G. Amick Foust be appoint
ed a committee to lay out tihe
road from the macadam road
near Dave Bivens to the road
near Sam Cooper.
Ordered, That the little change
in the road in Morton To vnship
/ letter from Aiir.
Mr, J. A. W. Thompson,
Swep?onville, N. C.
My dear Sir: '
Replying to your lietter in the
Burlington News and^Statt ,0i.ST
patch last week diretfted to me
as Chairman of the Dmoeri^tic
Executive Commitfee ani W.; W.
Brown, Chairman of the Pro-
gjesiSive Party, I hiave -t) say
thiat I have read your let^i*: tare-
fully in these two papers But to
date, have not received a letter
from you. ' ■ .
I quote you: ' ‘Having igntered
the present political campaign
and DEMOCRATIC ; candi
date having : EXPRESSED
TO ME their DISAPPilOVAL
OF THE USE OF MONEY IN
THIS CAMPAIGN EXCEPT
FOR ACTUAL LEaiTIJSlATB
EXPENSE,' I hereby challenge
you to take a decided stand with
reference to this issued”
Now, VIr. Thompson^ I am
confident that you have express^
ed t.he sentiment of every Dem
ocrafcic aoaiinee in Alamance Co.
I have talked personally with our
candidates for the Legislature,
sheriff, treasurer, and register
of deeds, and they all in a decid
ed speech decliared their disap
proval of vote-buying arid your
opponent, Mr. G^ D;: Jlbhhston,
has on severaloccasionS, private
ly c.nd incur meetings, urged
that no money be used expeet fbr
actual expenses in sending out
literature and other like legiti
mate expenses.
It is a keen delight- to me to
have you publicly admit that the
Democratic cjvndidatep have ex-
mm TICTORT.
ill the Mlcattns
near the .Waywood School hou8e|PJf®«‘^
be allowed the petitioners to ,?*
make the change without ex- J" ballot and
^ iS merely to kno*iV my position.
635-
pense to the county.
Ordered. That the Schobl
Comnfiittee in the said distaict be
appointed a committee to hsiye
y I jcpaa; pijened.
Ordered. Thai Jas.: M; Me?
Pherson, John D. McPherson and
D. H. Thompson be and are here j
Now then; here it Js: UT
TERLY AND : UNAL1®RAB^
LY OPPOSED TO THE USE OP
MONEY IN Jim
NM OR
ICAN CITIZEN. , .
by appointed a committee to open i Now sir, I am wilKftff ,|o
a cart way across the lands of W. purestmotiyes in thi^ for the
A. Stout from the end of thejP^ W of pitctog^
bridge at Hollmans mill to ^ , ^
land of J. M. Stout and assess'P.*^^”^,®'*^^^®'^ ®
the damages if any and said
damages and cost if any to be
paid by J. M. Stout.
Whereas the term as Highway
Commissioners of Alamance
County of C. P. Albright afid R.
W. Scott having expired it is or-
singular one. ReaStoh would
suggest that your first step would
be to get from the candidates of
your own party an agreenient to
avoid the corrput use of money
in this campaign. But I want
to say to you frankly that since
TT » IICIVAIJK AO vX y « i ' 1
dered that they beand are here- make su^ a pl^singadmis
Death of Mr. C. F. Neese.
Mr. C. F. Neese was born near
Gibsonville, Guilford County,
N. C. in the year 1850 and died
at Greensboro October 4th 1912
being little more than 62 year**
old. He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs; Neese. When a
young man he moved to this
town and opened a jewely store.
He was twice married, first to
Miss Bell Huffiman and later to
Miss Amanda Tickle to this first
union was born one son Mr. Fre
eman Neese. Beside this son
Mr. Neese leaves two sisters,
Mesdames Haywood Loy of this
place and Geo. Nicholson of Ral
eigh, also two brothers Messrs.
Joseph and Thomas Neese of
Greensboro.
The funeral services were con
ducted Saturday at 10:30 at the
Episcopal Church by Rev. P. H.
Fleming of High Point a minister
who Mr., Neese always liked and
went to hear while a pastor of
the Burlington Christian Church.
The services were assisted by
Rev. J. B. Gibble pastor of the
Episcopal Church. The burial
taking place at Pine Hill Cemete-
rv.
” Thus a good honest business
man has passed from our midst.
by elected to succeed tnemselves
as Highway Commissioners of
Alamance County for a term of
four years.
- Wilson Not the Man.
This is what “Wilson National
Progressive Republican League”
got instead of an enrolled voter:
“Gentleman:
“I am in receipt of your letter
of the 24th inst, suggesting that
I depart from the Republican
Party and vote for Governor Wil
son for President. I wish to
say at the start that I am for Col.
Roosevelt for President and I
could not under any consideration
vote for |Mr. Wilson. If I had
any ideas of voting for him, I
would not see my way clear to
do so under the title of National
Progressive Republican League.
Dr. Wilson is the candidate of
the Democratic Party, and as
such he should go before the peo
pie and not try to be using the
title of Progressive and Repub
lican and attempt to make the
people believe he is a Progressive
or a Republican.
“This National Progressive
Republican ^League movement
was started to defeat the Pro
gressive party. If 1 gp to a
restaurant land want pumpkin
pie, I expect to get and if any
one wishes to vote the Progres
sive rticket, they can |vote the
real .Progressive ticket without
sion in regard to the position of
our Democratic candidates, it
seems to me that your communica
tion should have been addressed
to W, W. Brown. Chairman of
the Bull Moose party and not to
John H. Vernon, Chairman of
the Democratic Exe^cutiy^ Com
mittee. Furthermore I teke it
that since you have been thus
informed by our candidates and
since, in spite (rfeach informated
you address your letter to me
without sending me a copy of it
by mail or person and without
speaking to me personally and
congratulating nie and the crndi-
date of our party for their bold
iand courageous ppsitiOn, that
your communication, so far as I
am concerned, was merely pub
lished by you W POLITICAL
ADVERTISING.
Respectfully,
John H. Vernon,
Chairman Democratic Executive
Committee
SwepsonvHle Empbyee.^ are given
a treat.
Mr. Baker who has charge of
the mill at Swepsohville has
decided to give as a treat to his
employees, a free trip to Raleigh
to attend the great State Fair.
Several hundred many of whom
who haver never had the
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opportunity of being present at
an occasion like this will go. And
voting for an ^imitation as tjaerei that it will be enjoyed is riot he-
is a real Progressive ticket in the cessary to |ay
The Dispatch a year for $1.00,
field this year,
Very truly yours,
F. M. Gardiner,
Attorney and Counsellor at
Law Forest City, Pa.
Amo/jg the nunftber of improve
ments which are being made by
this town it is putting electric
lights in the homes of its emp-
jloyees.
A girl may have “taking ways” | Speaking of worshipping the
who is never a kleptomaniac nor; golden calf, have you , tried to
a camera friend. j buy any veal cutlets Isitely?
The proof of the pudding may i Uncle Sam,, it seems, will open
be in the amount left over. the Panama Canal with four acres
FIGHT IS AGAINST WILSON
FVERYWHERL
New York, N. Y., October 7.
-^Colonel Roosevelt was deep in
his canapaigh yesfeorday in hk
borne on Sagamore Bill, Oyster
Bay. He gathered about him hii
campaign advisers.’ All agreM
things look weil. There. were
prei3ent Goyernpr Hiram W.
Johnson of California, nominee
for Vice President; Frank A.
Munsey, George W. Perkins,
Chairman of the Executi ve Com
mittee of the National Progres
sive party: Seftator Dixon Chair-
aian of the National Campaign
Coriimittee: Oscar S. Straus,
nominee for Governor, and Emleu
Roosevelt, cousin of CJol. Roose
velt
The conferences reached Saga
more Hill e«rly in the afternooo*
arid were in conference with the
Colonel until long after the sub
set on the Roosevelt home.
Having returned from his great
trip through the Western and
Southerri Stateis, the candidate
was full of confidnce, and hi«
information will give impetus to
the camjpaign here, ©sear S,
Straus was just b^k from his
tour of the state. Col.; lt6osey(>it
is convinced the Nationa] B|?o-
gressiye ticket will win. Letfew
andtelegmms have beei^ieceiv^
by him and by the' campaign
managers fii*om all sections of t*ie
country vsrhich plainly show thue
trend of opinion every where is
the Bull Moose ticket.
Th^e comiQunieations show
there is no wea^^ning at anjf
point; that there is a steady
growth in many States and that
the upward swing is noticeable
everywhere.
SUCCESS IS COMING.
Cdlonel Roosevelt looked af
rugged yesterday as though he
had spent his entire summer en
joying hiins^lf in Sagamore Hill.
There was riot the slightest trace
of the severe ordeal he has been
through on the long tour just
ended. He said he enjoyed every
moment of the trip and wa«* de
lighted with the enthusiasm of
the people wherever he spoke,
Oscar S. Straus and Governor
Johnson, too voiced their en-
thusaism in the conference.
In, comparing notes on the ex-
I^rimences three campaigners
found they all had discovered
sijmar conditions. The candidate
for Vice President was enthusi
astic about this State arid Con
necticut: The candidate for Gov
ernor was convinced that victory
will conae to the State ticket of
the National SProgressive party^
as well as the national ticket
The general conftd'^nce as to
the resalt on'^Eletrican Day, how
ever, will i4ot decrease the act
ivity of the candidates or the.
managers. Colonel Roosevelt is
anxious to get out the road again
to round up the voters in cities
he has not yet touched, so he
will start to-day on another
crusade to the Middle West which
will keep him going until next
Saturday, His scneudle for t^
week is: y
On Tuesday a speech in Sag
inaw, Mich.
On Wednesday in Houghton,
Mich.
On Thursday iri Duluth, Minn.
On Friday, Oshkosh, Wis.
On Saturday, Chicago, ill.
TAFT VOTE FADING
In the conference yesterdm
the talk of a decided decrease in
Taft ^'sentiment was discussed.
Colonel Roosevelt and the cam
paign managers all had facts be
fore them to fshow &hat there is
not a break in the National iPrb-
gressive party ir^nks. The evj»
derice before the conference was
th^t there are acctwaons to the
ranks constantly in every sactioa
and that all of the clubs in the
cities are enrolling members so
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