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BURLINGTON, ALAMANCE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLiNA, tCESDAV, OCTOBER 20, 1914.
de Front; Repulsed Everywhere
Halting ef a Most Sa&gniaary Gharacter is Noted, £s-
he Coast, Wiiere Tlte Germans Are
yp xeinforGements—Hisilenburg is Con*
WHAT A REPUBLICAN VICTORY WILL MEAN TO BUSI.VESS.
The business and political conditions! in this country today are .simliar
to those of twenty years ago under another Democratic President And f'jl-
lowiag a tariff revision downward by s. Democratic Congress. Demorravic
legislation had paralyzed the industrial interests of the country to the ad
vantage of foreign manufacturers.
^ What did the people do? They went to the polls in Novembar of that
year and by an overwhelming Republican vote all over the North and West
overturned the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives aid
supplanted it with the largest Republican majority in the history of cn-it
body. In Pennsylvania a Republican Governor was chosen by a majority
of two hundred and forty thousand, and in the entire State, but two Diemo-
craV* were elected in a delegation of thirty members.
It was determined to put an end to the liiiaehieTOiii! nnd destructive
acts of a Democratic Congress, and the determination succeeded. The argu
ment that because the President was a Democrat anil s,till hod more than
two years of his term left nothing could be accomplished made no impres
sion on ft people aroused to the importance of pix>tecting themselves. No
isjch revulsion of party sentimsnt had ever before been recorded in the po-
liticsl annals of the country. Its sole cause was Democratic blundering
with the tariff. But it resored confidence and wa sac’eped as the presage
of a better future.
It I’orecust the election to the Presidency two years later of William
McKinley, the nut'nor of the much-maligned tariff Act of the Hai risor. Ad
ministration, the misrepresentation of which hati brought the Democrats
inlo power. I;i the McKinley Administration the Democratic tariff was
s.wp!;rsede‘i by a Republican revision made in the iijterc.sts of the American
peopic, and not for the benefit of foreign manufacturers and under that Re-
fiublican tariff Act this country entered upon and enjoyed a period of pros
perity un^urpaEsecl in its hi.story.
What the country now is an ekction result in Noveniher .similar
to that of J834. The reversal of the party majority in the National House
of Representatives restoring the Republican parly to control in that body,
will not only be a just and timely repudiation of Democratic legislation
tiiat has proven so destructive in its results, hut it wiil call an instant iiiiu
cfTcctual halt on furtiier iiusinesa smashing; Acts from which the coualiy
cannot hope to lie free while the l>cmocratio party wiili its present !ea;tcr-
j-hip is in power.
If the election of a Republican Congress will not give the party f'.ill
power to build up it will annul the power of the Democratic party to further
tear down and destroj'. It will restore business' confidence; it vvill do imu'h
to release capital for investment and io enable labor to iook forward to
're-employment; It Will foretei! the election of a Republican President two
years hence and a compiete return io the American policies of the ReputiU-
c.'m party and another ora of industrial prosperity.
THOS. C. CARTER.
Thomas C. Carter, of Mebane, Nomi
nate for General Assembly on
the Republican Tidfet.
ThoS. C. Carter, a young and prom
ising attorney of Mebane, was nom
inated for the General Assembly by
the Republican Convention on Oct.
3rd, 1914, at Graham, N. C., to rep
resent Aiamance County.
We are more than gratified at the
action of our party when they select
such men of ability, integrity, high
moral character and who hold their
citizenship on such a high plane as
Thos. C. Carter, of Mebane, and his
nomination is a precourses of mak
ing many a vote that would have been
cast in the manger of the donkey
barn, come where it rightfully be
longs to the G. O. P. of strength and
prosperity.
Mr. Thos. C. Carter was born in
THOS. C. CARTER
COST TO TAX I’AVEKS.
According to the sworn statement of C. I>. Johnston, Clerk to tha
Board of County Commissioners, in hit an:iual exhibit for last year, whic.''.
was pul>lished in The P-Brlington News, under date of December 24th, 191.?.
This report shows that the Register of Deeds office cost the tax payers
of Alamance County last year as follows:
Salary of C. D. Johnston ¥1,(!00.0''
Clerk Hire to C. D. Johnston, .. .. .. (100.00
Fees Paid C. D. Johnston, as per bis statement 987.2‘
'Total Amound Paid C. I>. Johr.ston, as per his statement .?3,187.2E
The tax payers will please understand that this amount is what Mr.
Johnston says that he received. If you doubt it sec copy of Burlington
News, Dated December 24th, 1913. If Mr. Johnston did not receive it, he
should not have said that he did, and if he did receive it, he should be
manly enough to say that he did. This paper does not say that he receiv
ed this amount, we say that he said he received it over his sworn .signatur.'?.
This is more money than tho register of Deeds office ever cost the ta.i
payers in the way of fees and salaries since the office was created.
This information is given so that the tax payers of the county may know
how much this office cost them, and they can act accordingly.
TWO MEN EOLD SIX OFFICES.
Two men iii this county hold six oifices, and they ure as follows:
Deputy Sheriff, salary S! ,000.00
Constable, fees, estimated 600.00
Cotton Statistican, for Alamance and Guilford Counties, Fees,
Estimated ,560.00
Total amount for the three positions $2,100.00
The above offices are held by Mr. C. D. Story, the other officers are
as follows:
Register of Deed.', salary $1,600.00
Clerk to the Board of County Comn;issioners, fees last year .. 987.28
Trustee ior the County Sinking Fund, fees last year .. .. ,. 35.00
Total amount for the three offices, $^,622.28
With two men holding six positions, no wonder ther^ is no positions
for anyone else, and yet there are j’eopie who do not believe that there
is a court house ring. This iiifomation is given for the benefit of the ta.'i
payers and they can act accordingly.
Patterson Township, of poor and hon
est parents, liis father left his mother
a widow with u large family whiie
young Garter was yet in his teens.
The boy Tom as soon as he became
strong enough to work, hired himself
out doing odd jobs to help to main
tain tho family. He attended the pub
lic school of his district and by con
stant application and hard study soon
became competent to teach school.
His manliness in taking care of his
mother and younger brothers and sis
ters and the fervent Christian life thst
he led, attracted to him many strong
friends of an older generation than
he, and helped him to enter the pro-
fes.sion of law where his tastes called
him, and he graduated from the Uni
versity of N. C-, in 1913. He then
located in Mebane to practice law and
v.here ever since he has resided, gain
ing the respects of all and making
rj.pid strides in his profession.
Mebane and Aiamance County
should be proud of having Thos. C.
Carter as a citizen, and producer that
he has been chosen as their repre
sentative and champion, a herald bear
er “without fear and without re
proach. Such nominations as that of
Thos. C. Carter always means an elec
tion for party lines are dropped when
candidates of his standing are put
(forward by a party.
On to victory Thos. C. Carter, for
in these days of low price cotton,
no money, scarcity of everything, ex
treme high cost of living, and war
taxes, when the country is not at war,
we need you!
JAMES D. GREGG, D. D.,
Liberty, N. C.,
Randolph County.
O
G^AND RALLY.
At Oakdale Academy, Tucsd;ty
night, October 27th, 7:30. Every
body invited.
E ndorses Repnbiican-
Progressiye i icket.
Burlington, N. C„
Oct. lErth, 1914.
i)ear Mr. Editor:—
It has reached my ears that it has
iieeir’said by some of the Candidates
foi Political Office in the County i!;at
1 am opposed, to the Candidates Nom
inated by the iiiass Convention which
was held in Grah:»m a few weeks ago.
In this connection I feel that ‘t is
dije my friends to know just where
I stand in this matter.
1 stand as an out and out Progress
ive opposed to fu.ijon or amalgamation
in ai.y form wii.h other political par
ties but like* other ft^gressive? 1
stand for honest Government arid a
fair and economical distribution of
the Counties funds.
I hav« recently been absent from
home, and have taken tittle active in
terest in Politics thie time, but 1 un
derstand that the Mass Convention in
Graham a few dayf ago Nominated a
Ticket composed of good honest men
made up of Democrats, Progressives,
and a few Repu'-iUcans, that the tii.-ket
is composed mostly of Progressives
and for this recson I propose to sup
port the ticket, and I advise every
Progressive in the County to do so.
Not only this i.ut I advise every
thinking man in Alamance County to
cGi.sider the present State and Conn-
ty Tax rate that lie is paying iri this
county and 1 am sure that he will
know and feel that such a rate is
amjilf to meet the requiremenlt; of
th;- County, and if this is the case, ilo
wc i.ot i:eed a change, an(l a ^:iowd
that %vill be more ecotioniicai in the
expenditure of the Counties funds,
an(‘ Set stop this continu-.l is.oueing
of H'jiids for the purpo.-^c •)! meetin;;
the ieMritimate expenses of iiur Ojuii-
i;v.
I'runi the list of the nien on the
tH:Kc-t iroUen out l:y the Ma.i.s C.oiiveTi-
lion 1 :i!ii certain they are represenla-
tivo mer. in every respect and worthy
to be supported by all good citizens
who favor economy and a judicioui!
3;iper.riiturc of the Counties funds.
Vour.' vciy Ti'nly,
.IAS. N. Wil.LIAMSO:'?. JR.
Dear Editor:-
Since it has been declared liy .-^onie
who are not properly ' informed that
the Progressives of the County are
not ftoiiig to support the ticket nomi
nated oy the Republican Progressive
Mass Conventioii held at Graham. Oc
tober ;i, 1914, I take this opportunity
to say that, so far as I know the Pro-
gres^ives will most heartily support
thi.s tickets The nominees are all good
men and most of them are, or have
been, Progressives. We stand firmly
by this ticket iir.d pledge our unqual
ified support.
(Signed) \V. W. BROWN,
Chr. Executive Committee of the Pro
gressive Parly of .\lamancs
County.
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BE .NOT DECESVEH.
The above caption is not original
wilh us, but is so timely we have
borrowed it for the tinie being. This
campaign is not being fought in an
open and fra^ik way by our opponent-',
they started out to do tins apparently,
but made such a poor impression with
the voters and tax payers, that they
have right about faced so to speak,
they are now trying to engender
hatred, malice, abuse and misrepre
sentation, they realize they cannot
longer fool you unless they can work
upon your feelings and arouse your
passions, and this they are dilligently
endeavoring to do, they have held a
consultation of war and have con
cluded that the tax payers are too well
posted upon the mismanagement of
the financial affairs of this county to
longer fool them, but they must win
at all hazards, what then must they
do to win, to use a war term they
OyElllllilll, IN MS ASKS
HErroR
OTHER SENATORS JOiX *N WEEPING FOB CO.NDITIOIV OF SOUYU
—CBEDIT NOT CHARITY—NORTH CAROLINIAN TELLS COX-
GB£SS THAT NEGRO TENANT FARMERS MAY SOON
FACE STARVATION.
Washington* Oct. 17.—Sfjnator Overman made the best speech he ever
delivered in the Senate today in support of the Hoke Smith cotton amend
ment. He cried while he spoke, and several other Senators joined their
tears with bis. But the attitude of President Wilson, who does not think
that such legislation as that proposed by Mr. Smith is wise, helped to kill
the cotton amendments.
Senator Simmons voted for the Smith and Overman amendments both
of which were defeated.
Senator Overman spoke for 15 minutes showing considerable emotion
as he reviewed the dark days during and just after the Civil War in the
South, He spoke first for the Smith amendment, and then for hi.s own.
Senator Overman did not join the conspiracy to defeat the war tax
bill, lie ^tood aloof from that. He went as far as he could.
“We of the South,” said he, ^‘coine not to the Senate and ask for alms;
we spurn them. We do not ask for any gift. We ask simply that this
great Government lend us its credit to take care of our own situation. We
ask for Justice.’’
“We men here, pleudiiijf for the people oi the South, are as serious as
if we stood in front of the cannon\s mouth; it is serious question. We
do net know what is going to happen in our section of the country with
15,000,000 bales of cotton on hand that cannot be sold at all. Some few
bales are Ijeing sold at five and six cents but the cotton mills do not knov/
what to pay for ii.
CANNOT GET LOANS.
“Wiil the banker^a lend money on it? No. Why? I would noi loan
money on cotfon myself if 1 were a banker. I would not as the trustee
for the depositors of iny hank loan money on cotton today at si.v ecnt^ when
tomoiTow It might ;ro down to five centj: or four cents.
*'\Ve do not waul maney; we wasil a markijt. (livc your cj‘‘dit anti
we will njuke a market and iiuu is :sil we
“SenaVor.-ii laik auoul precedents. 1 hope to God, there i:ever wili
need to foiiow' this precedent in the United t'tuiH-:; r^^ain. Thcrv never has
b(?en need tu ePtablisOi such a j«recede^!t and there never will be ajjair,.
“Mr. Prc:sident, thi.‘ lianks of the South jrct their money from NfW
Yoik. Th«;y di.scounL tiieir ptii-vr in New York for the [nirpo.st of li:iani‘in^
their ci yp:-. in thv Sou!!i. The i-ankers Lnd the money to the njerchanl.^ to
'Upi.ily ti\c i'iie riUv>ii >il;i;Uer ."Upplics tho poos’ It-iiant
farmer •-:n'.d ab-iut }/.'j ' .-rit. tJ)e v’tiUtm jcrwwcr.s are the jJOvir c.‘lort*d
men of the Soulfj. i)»en today i-afuiol >ell their eotioii. WhaT ),■ Vj
l»tM'oim* of them tiie winliy iiKinths ci what i;' to become of the
whiie tenant i'arri’ei .-^ ?
“i tel! you, niy ccruiitry>nei:, if is ni»t lUuu? for (hi.s iSouthero
country in the tu*r.r future, ^narvation will ^-tar«; us in t'tu- faci’ and a millio;;
poor co)orc4. aieii whom we havt? beeu Iryinj^ to taUv iraie ol', who have no
h-.r.u anii who have heon livinj*- or. the .'^apjjliej; ^ived to them uy the planters,
wili be roaming up arid down the South begging; for bread; iip.d hovi’ can
we give it to theivi if wo are threatened finaneially ami in a condiiion oi
rum and distress?
“We simply ;u«k ihaL yiu write upon a pic-jo oi* paper a bond ami ^ivo
•L to and let us ti.ke these balcjs t>f euttoii and ;'ave them anvi
koid them uniii thsy may be sold and you can get your money back. Under
those conditions ihe taxpayers of the South wil! help «»iil if i.ho coiion doe>
not pay Imck the an»ount of the bonds we ask th^kt you tax us for the pur
pose,. so that the (.Joveriunent of the United Staie .shall not lose a cent
on its eotton. Wo wili pay it ourselve«;; we wiM bea*- bu)dens but we
ask yon to help us to save ourselves from bankruptcy, sister States. Uaw
we not done duly to the Uniou? Have we not bec-n loyal?"
Editor’s Note: Wc dc-.sire to particularly t-all the voters and tax payers
attention to the fact, that not one word was said by Senator Overman aboui
the war being ihc cau;;c of this awful rondition. Read this and n;;‘ajti.
and then again, and see if you can tind one v.oi-d about thp war causing the
.H’A'ful conditioris here described. Conditions which made the Junior Senator
shed tears as; he described them. This should be a lesson to other candidate'?
and public speakers upon the Democratic side, to refrain from declaring
that the war is solely responsible fur this terrible .ondition. Now what is
the c*ause, Wo say to you in all sincerity, that th-? greatest factor is that our
mills hax*e been standinjr or running pan time, and have not consumed the
usual amount of cotton, this together with a large crop, has iepressed the
price. Now why has toe mills not run full time this fall, it is J^ecause the
foreign manufacturers have come into our home markets and undersold us.
why could they undersell us, because the Simmojis-Underwood tariff law re-
duced the tariff upon this class of goods. Now. what is the remedy. \>te
the Republican ticket, that the party may p.. into power and amend the
tariff so that ihe foreign manufacturer ca: ..ot undersell our home manu
facturers. There is no other adequate remedy, ro one has any other. There
is none. Whot will you do. The place to act is at the polls, will you do it.
Nve shall see.
organized a right and left wing co»:i-
posed of the present oMcers and will
endea^or to envelope us by arousing
those they can with appears to pas-
sion, hatred and nialice. The county
officers them.selvec are trying to work
up strife, and to get their followins
mad so that they will not listen t‘>
reason. Do not be deceived, keep cool
and calm, listen to reason, then vote
as you please, whether it pleases any
one else or not. You have got your
own burdens to bear, no one else wiil
bear them for you, then think and act
for yourself.
The Registration Books will close
Saturday, October 24th, at Noon. One
minute after twelve you cannot reg
ister for this election. Are you reg
istered? Get busy.