A PKOCRK ■=: REPUBWCAN JSEWSPAPER DEVOTED tO THE VPBUH-DING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES
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BVKI^GTQN, AhAUA^ee »UNTjr, NORTH CAROLiNA, FiBIDA.Y, NOVEMBER 6, 1914.
AS IT AFFt%”S
PRESIDENT WILSON.
The action of the people on Tussday shows how completely the Pi-es-
) ident misinterpreted the public will, hov^ i^ossly he was misled by his in-
fo^jnants as to political affairs.
* The people respect the President, but they reject his policies.
The Empire State has defe&ted men whom he supported, and whose
oleirtion was asked for as a vindication of his administration. Pcnnsyl-
va7»i\, the keystone of industry, has overwhelmingly rejected his low-tariff
scheme, arid turned out of office all his fo'.lowers in that State. New Jer
sey, h,is own State, has substituted Eequblicari^ /for Democrata in the
H.u*e, as a protest against the agitatKn), business depression and havd-
shif of the last two years. New Engiand, a beehive of activity in noiTna!
times, has regristered its protest against j'Olicies which closed factories
and put men out of work. The middle West, has sent old-line Republicans
to Congress who are stout advocates of protection to .American industries.
Kevr more serious reverses have bet-ii recorded in American politic.;:
fr.a.i the reverse experienced by the Presiiient in 1914.
The President disregarded the 'act that he had been electad because
oi a split in the Republican party; thnl a majority of the voters favors
eil protection and voted for his opponents, and that his election could not
pos-si-ily be construed into a mandr.te iiy :i riiajarity of the people for free
trade.
In spite of his failure lo receive tVvis mandate, the President inoceed-
cd iti put into execution a policy of -.'adical downward t-irifT revision anil
a policy calculated to tear down the 'legitimate business acUvitic.'i of the
countr.v. The result was v;idespread ilejnession in times of fat harwests,
a. depleted Treasury, busines.s stagnation, and iinally an extra tax of
.5100,000,090 to tide over the (rovernmcni, although the country was at
peace with al\ the world.
The President wat-: mi.sled by poo;- ailvisers and politicians posing as
his friends. They not only gave hint t‘.ilse information, but induced him
to throw his own persona! popularity iiao the scale, in the hope that they
could pull through, not Oii their o'.vn niei'it..!. but on hi» prestige. It was
not fair to him, nor did it prove of Vi;liie to them. The letters written by
iJbe President placeii him in an awkwanl poi^ilion of asking approvi;! of
the administration iiy elcrtin);- men wh;- were not at all approved by the
Basinets Will Improve.
The result of tKe ejection Tuesday
will cause all lines of business to im-
pr'^Ve within a v^iy short time. Con^
fidcnce w^ich took wings upon the
election of President Wilson and the
D*mocratic party to power, will 2e-
tiivn, and everybod.y can loo^n up the
piir^e strings*, and begin to make
their fall purchases, the business ele-
mev.t of the country now feel that
reii»on has returned to the voters and
that the- future will be safe for furth
er iiiveslments. Mor.ey will loosen up
aJ! alonp: the line, and trade will be
brisker, bigger, and better than for
n\ai^:,' days past, js:et ready it’?, cotn^
sr’fr.
0
SUCH GALL.
Oui- esteemed contemporary The
Burlington New:i in chronicliijg the
result of Tuesday’s election in regard
t'> tins county said» Democracy Again
Triumphs over Vile Traducera^ But
i*. failed to state how this triumph
WH> accomplished. It should have
told its readers, that in order to tri
umph it was necessary to vote men
who.^o :mme did not even appear up
on the resristration book^. ITiat it
svas rifcces.sary to vote men who reside I
N\ :ih their family at Spencer, N. C..
ant* who has not been residents of
thi.'- county for the Uu^t six months,
that it was necessary to
BttOADEK INQUIRY FOR INVEST-
MENT IS NOTED.
Re&ult of Elections Tuesday Wa:» Re
flect^ in More Cheerful Financial
Tone~“Steel Trade j^inproves.
New Vork, Nov. 5.—The result of
tlu? elutions was reflect^ t^day in a
broader inquiry for investment issues
aod general advances in the prices of
listef’ securitie.^ bein^- traded in out
side the stock exchange.
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“NOT A REBUKE."
Election Placed to Credit of
European War by Champ Clark.
. Bowling. Green, Mo., Nov.. 4,—To-
Champ Clark, speaker of the na
tional House of Rej5resent»tives, com-
rae».ting on the Republican victories
in a majonfy of the States in which
elect iohs were held yesterdiiy, said
the vote was not u rebuke to the Wil
son Administration, but ju£:t one mors
thmg that could happen durir.jr these
day" of European wur.
Koitor’s Note: You will note they
art blaming everything upon the war,
ihey even blame the i*esult of the
olcction upon the war.
SCOOPIXt; THE NEWS.
Wo want t«) ramitvi our reador.s
of the servirt* we are {riving
lecessary to vote men i '■'''>•-“■1 retun^.s. We
wh.- had not paid their thatjP-'-'
it w;,s reces..ary lo .induce to
i.erjvn- themselves by swearin? that ! -™"
pecple. Tiie outci.nie U a hun.i!iali..M- an itnpairnient of the pre-itiire of , ^
i __ i_ _i . • . t_ . j ;
ibe Presides^y.
0»i Ovlobei- 18 The* ro:^ pointed «>ul selftsimest: of somo of the per-
who did not shrink fron) Iryjna- v.'-v the President for their own
interests. I'he Po«l said:
‘•Of course ihese dom^ijfognea arc .-!)e;ikiNj^ for Iheinsclvi’.^. It i.- not
d';e President’.s svelfare tlijji conkX’!‘n> Lheiii—it is their ovai. Tliyy find
’nM>im polilifiU strength a^ul vesour.***, They wish lo draw upon it. li'
ho will p:el into the inudc of politic:^ unn jn'o^titut.e hiS position, he e.-ui save
* rh:'ni. So ihey hoid before him ti*.e 'vv .'cities nT the .shield- uii om*
\ vinuKation victv>vy, popular u)'>ul:5‘;sf iv new leurv* r,f power ii
i;c wili only lend a helpinK hand to xlonuijroj^ue-;; on «he othur .sido, popu
!jii- disapproval, pai'ty r».?verse-s, loi'-s psestii-e. and a proj^peci.
for
“The Presidency wa.-; fjol orcaied !’or the purpose of peddJJnjr out it.
inthi'Mices and prestige in exchange for the doubtful support of seifi.sh pol-
itiviansi. The Prei^idei^t U ihe leader of the Democratic parly, it is true.
en« f.yh to know the tfenemi ro.^ult,
had not. ar:; i.i some case,-: had | W- pave you Ihe county report early
I iir:^ (^.vL-n lliten their taxei*. All thirf |
I *j«‘cu;-red at the pre«.iiu't in North and
i V/eanesday in'^rnin^r. also the result
Sir, Tenth North Carolina, an’.i the m\-
'Soi’th Rurliiifjtun, a.'i rh
!,sho\v. When such base u:-e
I of the election machinery by the ma-
|ji>ri?y party, and i-y who are
i >w(.^‘n to uphold the di|?r.ity of the ■
records will j
mad.** - appx-ci’iat-* ihi.-- .ser*
! vioj, and wt; feel >-iire you do, ii’ you
I art- not already r. subscriber, became
oi.c today, join our army of Projrres>,-
|!,-,v.. Why not ho fair and say, That j'
j l^'i’jucrai'y triumphs ov^r their op- — —O
STAND BY OUR ADVERTISERS.
■ We ask ail aur friends and reader.^- to stand by those -business men
whose advei-tisemenf appears in the columns of this paper from time to
time. . The business .men who advertis'’ in this p;>.pe.r are broad liberal
‘minded men, who want the patronage of all the people, they are wide awake,
progvessive business men, who are on th^ alert for customers, .and they
aie ifuch men that you can depend upon treat you right, their w^%rd can
be taken for face value, they recognize ihaL politics is nothing more than
a business, proposition, that must be played every two years, and they
do not mix politics with business, they are in business to serve you with
honest high ^^i-ade goods at modei-att prices. I.frt us ask you again to
scan the pages of this paper for the live progressive merchants who want
your trade, and who descJTe it becausc. they are live and progressive, you
oun depend upon them to live up to theii adverti-semeiits. Patronize thejn
because they deserve it.
NEWSPAPERS HARD HIT.
Fr^ink P. Noyes, president of the
AH.4ociated Prea.s, in a signed art’cle
in The New York Sun, points out the
bui'ltjj i-ai’j-ied by newspapers ;;s a
res'.5’l of the present war. The follow
ing i-xi2-acts are especially intereJ^t-
i»^:
"Ihe new.'jpapcr Is prolrably a heav
ier i'rnanfial suf^'erer in the busines*
worhi through war tlian ar.y save
those whose propeity is physically
destroyed by it.
thi:s side of the watej vlie bur-
dei if the present Kuropcan vrar i.~
PKKSiDENT WJLSON'S HOME DIS*
i RICT GOES AGAINST DEMO
CRATS.
Early Returns Indicate UepublicaR
llains—State Assembly Also L»t.
T/tr-ty, N. J., Nov. :i.—President
\Vi!.*'on’s home congressional district,
du Fourth of New Jersey, today eject
ed Elijah C. Hutchinson, Republican,
to rucL'eed Congressman Allan B.
Waish, Democrat, by about :?,00 plu-
vulU.v.
Mcapv returns indicate strong Re*
j.'ublican gains throughout the State
l„id lit'iivie^t jii'wspaper publish^;".'j;j-id the Democrats probably wil! have
of 11 our bu.siness men, nioi'- thaii foui* or five of the twelve
'The newspapyrs of ‘aigi; ciroiihi-
tio:* )ii hi.~ country are alnioct with
out. f.xcvpti'Wi oiio fo.:f newsj'jnpe
congiessmen. In the present delega-
[V n are ten Der.iocrats. The Demo
crat.' probably will retain their ir.i-
The p:.per fur paper-1 joriTj in the Sutc Senate, but appar-
more tbuii the wholosiile sdlinu | ontly hiive control of th.' as.-it;tn-
Thcre is a h'.--; *;ji ovrry ••J'py !,;y.
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APPRECIATION.
This paper appreciates the Iil^^ny
ne*v nuV>sciibers that have joined The
Oisp.'-toh family w'ithin the lai^t .sixty
Wf aie infornjel Ihnt niei- who j fJay . We apprecii5te ail our Muhscril)-
, voted the Oemocratic licVct ii'. a \ but especially those who v'onie
! i^y Trickery* Kraud and iVr
i jur:..
He wishes it lo remain in control of na^jonal affairs. Bsjt his generalship -bir of precincts over the county had i i.j us when wo needed them -io badly,
does not extend to the waging cf queslioniiblo eampaigiis in local districts | not i;aid their poll ta.-ics, and in some | wl- hope y()u wili stiiy with us, and
,*!'Where loot i:; the prize sought for, i ’^.-i -'ad of honuraUo pai'ty siM'vivc. for : instances was i.ot even registered, we , we will endeavor ta give yon the
) :he public welfare. IKsk '-v this to be tnie as to Nori.h Burl- • ant! :n«»si readable paper puhHshtnl in
Veteran observers of }>oiilical aiV.ais agrei'd with ’t'he Post ih;ii the jirk^ai and ;rahani precincts, and yecjth:-: county, Homeir/uer \\c Cinne t')
President acted unwisely in yieUiinu t* the importanities of self-seekinjr otn- Den\oeratic friends have the gadjyoi iwii'e each week at the same price
piU'O.
:^.Ak\ anti ihe y:ro{ilo;- ih.‘ t/uii
IhL' rrore ihe ;
liie iu-'S.
“in rrdiv:-uy \in^v;'s [\\\ h»> h
iip '.y a([v .Ttijiviii- receipt.-:. It is •;!-
viti;.}"'. how'over. ihat nothii:;.'; i.- iv
cvivefi for the ;aivcrli4nji‘ in ihi,-.
(hti'i!;ai a:ul k‘ni;j';r;.ry ;-It■•nl.jii;*'
The ivvvi'se :-f !hi . | . U to-. J
all time'' uf ;‘iU? ri.i .
din.i.ii.hi-s: .i-.*
L-einnnis of i-ui tht?y nro .[»•■
vatlic anti onK* pi ove tUe vul«‘.
‘if this Pica-'ni .nl tin* ■>:* tl;
to ihr {. vN'.'U.t} i
lrlnj;s lhi.‘V would tV
WHV SUGAR IS HIGH,
yca;'.-^ ihwi* biiVi* bfoii altnmpl.^
ifi beot cullare in thf;
Statf.-, measure ' •f su--
C'j.-' ln».; :.ttaiirt'd, nlth»iii.;b the
> ! >i bei'.’. :i' satl.'fa*tni*y
j.jiirht. ! t)n‘ i-a.'C. jestei!
!.u-ely i.ji*':; *.'oiuitin.‘ J'roi'-*‘iioii in
'-rT.-U-iiy If. it -J .):•
>' reiyru sugar, iiut the Uemocratis
'Variif Aot. with tlutles buvoretl al ojk*i‘
;:r^i in ihc n^ar fultirt*,
h\ih 't'vt,';'tr biow lo the sugar beet
;hat w.i/i j; ,i i>,iry. With l»*s.'>'ntMl j'ro(?uction
,1’m roin'.lry v\i;l r.iO'‘o at ih',' niiM
I pcHiicians, and thereby low-iring the l«-.ne of the great office he holds;
! bu\ the counsel ef indiscretion prevailed, and many letters were written.
1 It might be well if the President Wf^uld make- a list of tJie persons who
^misled him by flattery anti falseirifom.-ui.on regarding public opinion;
^who wheedled him into indorsing ur.wortKv t^ar.didates; who induced him to
^ riik his own popularity as an issue in -he eanipaign. These very persons.
I !.■» holler, nnsrepresentatioi\. mis- ; ai' othera charge for once a week. Our
•sfatjment.s and vile slanderers. Gov- luw.-. is fresh and up-to-date in every
jernor Craig Elected Gen. J. J. Britt, j re^piH't. If yon want double value
j of the tenth district of North Caro-' with The Dispatch family.
jlir.i by heaping personal abuse upon' O
!hi*. . and the party ft'hich he had the SPKNCER HAPPV'NiNt*.'^.
i now^that they have used the President, are r.ow proclaiming that Tuesday’s ; honor lo represent, and such tactics as : --o —
I oleclion is a direct rebuke to the aci.unistration, ami a command that jour l)emoc:«tic friends are employ-j Southern Railwiiy Shop Men Are Now
1 destructive policies shall be atandoned They see the handwriting on the j inf: in this county will cause ihe worm Working Only Three Days a Week,
wa^l and do not hesitate to desert the leader they misled and misused. j to turn here, mark the prediction. The Sjencer, Nov. 5,—The Southern
All patriotic Americans deplore *'.ny acfion tending to lower the dig- j Ropublieans do not want to win in Raihvfiy Company’s employes are on-
u!*y of the Presidency. They lige to rcganl the President, whoever he jar' election when it becomes neeess- ly v/orking three diiys per week, nine
tna? be as the President of all the pe ople. They expect him to guara \ ary to encourage our voters to perjur; hoiM > per day. All the men who were
jealously hir, influence which he derives from them ajid not permit it to he
son'c^what \cor.>f ujf ilian the aver.uro • •• i f '■n;ca: pniUurei-;uul
b;i.'-i!ii-ss Tor wiih dinniii:^h-i |'it.- SuB-'r Ti'u^i al home—iha.i be-
;u?vi*r!i?.ing carninjirs tht^y woi:!»J br'jvo;/.tc Th^> .u’i v:{J ;.wgar bet'i bu'-iness of
K^.it'pv v.-ns ci'e;itfd largely ihi*ouirh
^uvcrnnu-ra.Cil aid in thi‘ i\nw\ oi'
s'..unlii‘S anti by i'avvu-aljle TarilY pro-
\In Tbo l’nit;.‘d Staler the
iJenux-ratic .adnsir.istralion anl Con-
have iior4‘ as far n>- iht‘V could
*is !;ill otf donie.^lir .-u«'ai' prvw{ui*Lioj».
\V;ih suy;ar vising up hy leaps and
iccM a^ed l iivnlation lo.s~os.
'‘Th«* tnir of wof' of thy iiew.'ij;ini‘J v
it.1^ unly beffvin. h«nvevor. The nsual
hudness concern who*? tratie i.s bad,
whelivr frtmi w-*r or v.'hatevt-r th:?
cau.'.o oi the depression may i»e. trints
ii,.s .'ails for the stonn, curtails the
working force, reduces ihe output.
:»,v rc.eaas to the newspaper an im-1 lion.'ds, the housekeeper is lu'i. likely
nief!i:iU‘ ami ti'omendous iiu’reast' ! i i if inipi!-^s;,Ml with the erth'iicv of
noi'rnti;* in reducing Iho cost
ro.^t nf production,"
U3;d by unscrupulous c&mp fcUower.^ r.nd ^‘intimate friends.'’ We re
gret that the good advice tendered to tl.c President last month was ignor
ed. If heeded, the returns of Tuesday, while they might have been disap
pointing, would not have carried with them a sting of humiliation, and
X sharp reminder as to the proprieties which the public insist shculd be ob
served in the Presidencj',—Washington Post.
CongE*essman Gudger of the Tenth MOVING INTO NEW QUARTERS.
■ Ncrth Carolina District, leads all oth- j The Burtner Kurniture Co., are
cz candidates in the United States * moving into the«r new building'this
in the amount spent in hi.s campaign, week and A'ili have something to say
I ti!f-ni:'.ftlves in order to vote the Re-. laid off some time ago. hav'e bten put
j pab’icar* ticket. "We have never done baci. to work and the whole force i
j i:. a!id we never will, men of character working short hours.
I anl standing who believe and know
j such tactics are wrong will iiot always
bljndiy follow a paity who has to re
sort to such tactics to win the eleo-
liop- God hasten the day when they
w^l! rebell.
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THK RING IN COMPLETE CON-
The total amount spent up to October
i 23W, was $5,574.10; but as he will
have to submit an after-election re
port of expenses these figures will be
greatly increased. Mr. Gudger is the
champion campaign 3pcnder.
Spent enormous sums and got de^
^feated—this shows what the Moun
tain section thinks of Democracy.
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In our last issue in the article
'The Cotton Fashion Show” we
;fhc\^)ld have given the credit to Miss
'Kargarc^i^ Ff«eman as the originator
of The Ctf tton Fashion Show iii place
>f Mias Uti^ Freeman-
to the readers of this paper in next
week’s issue. They have a handsome
n"w building in the Rauhut block on
Front Street, which when fully com
pleted will be one of the best in the
State. Watch for theU* announce-
meni in one of our issues next week.
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HOUSE DEMOCRATiC MAJORITY
ONLY 23.
And this will skidoo in 1916.
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They do say, up in Buncoi*U>e, that
Uierc is one James J. that can come
buck very successi'uliy.
THK ELECTION PLEASES WALL
STREET.
Bat Effect Neutralized by German
Victorie.s at Sea—European Kates
Jump — investment Market Con
tinues to Improve.
.N^ew Vork, Nov. 4.—W'aU Streer
TROL AGAIN.
The court house" ring is, again \ic-, ^e.t^porurily abandoned its interest in
ton, us in this good county of Ala-1 i»'t i national affairs today to consider
n^i'-r.co, haviiiB- won hy i^ubstantia!, thf i>utconoe of the election.s. V/itli
minorities in Tuesday’s cieetion. The the .itov-k market still under closure,
election should not be taken as an an- Heie was no way of measuringr the
tloiitment of the men or their meth- siKnifi-‘dnc»* of the overturn in terms
ods, tut owing to the general apathy 1 ‘'>f security values, but conservative
aud feeling of helplessness of the' Oi>ii';on inclined to tlie belief that
v.iters they did not turn cut to theiancer aormal conditions the market
e'ection as formerly, this with the | would liave responded with a vigorous
l;xrgc number of voters who failed to: upturn of prices.
pay thoir poll tax on or before the; O
fi>-:t day of May is partly responsible | ‘ And Boise Penroso will get his in
for the result. But the people ar? | the neck,” sang- the PJuiadelphia North
awakening to the presMsnt critical con- j American, that morning. We incline
ditioa of the county finances ar.d iriil | to retfrot novr that we did not do >i
br, b«tter prepurea in 1916, lot of gloatsajf Tuesday aiorninK.
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KK.Tl K\.S •Tin: (;iKl. in thk
Islu.strnting the fncl thai then.* is
not only hi)no»- in a thief. I'Ut :\l;>o
>yr.ipnthy for the despairing suitv^r,
:l>e “woman in the case" ha.> T.nu'
it wa:-. tiicp lioiograph of Aim I.ie-
borToan, of Njw Yoi’k^ girlish svveet-
hea.i of S. S. Hahn, of Los Angeles,
ill the back of the goKl watch stolen
fror.'. him.
livin:?.'-Tro\- Tin'.t'.s.
I ■
i SI LZKR t'KKl-S
.\’:w YorK, Nov. r>.—W::liani Sul-
••:oi has issued the followin,? sUite-
nUMit:
“Without n\oi;ej, withont r.ewspa-
por support, without organizatioti. i;
was impos.>ihU‘ for n'»e to win, but I
c.'!'..no1j' myself with the lvn>'>wledy:o
:h;ii I have electcd Whitman, beaten
Ciypn, mnde Roosevelt ridiculous ajvl
itln-, eti from public life the corisp'ir«-
itahn advertised ihut if the thi^-f
i-tumed the picture he could keep!
iho :jovernorship,
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the wat^ih. Four hours later, accord'
in^ to the postmark on the letter, the
mailed the picture with the clip*
i/Hig lo Hahn.
“1 nm saisfied,'’ asserted Hahn.
‘The thief can keep the watch. I’vc>
got the picture back. U wa.^ the only
one i posses^ed, ai^d I wouldn’t lose
it for more than the value of tho
\\;;ii’h. We’re going to be married in
January.^'—Chicago Examiner.
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Some Alcck has invented a device
that enables you to see what is go
ing on at the other and of the wira.
Better sJough this fellow quick. If
h^> device ever gets to working we
wiUhave to have a police station and
a morgus! at everj’ stroet corner.
Repi ’.jan gains were made in ev-.
ery - ,jn of the South, and headers
of t party usserted that the tariff
bad been instramental in bring
ing alvout that result. Some of the
n'.ore opiimistic of the leaders assert
ed! early tbilny that there was a chance
Lhiit the t^emociaiic majority in the
Hoiisf of Representatives would l»e
nverturned. • •
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Most self-made men are :.atisfied
with the job but a self made womarj
iiever gets through putting on the
finishing touches.
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it is highly probable, however, that
Germany has arranged not to suffer
j for beer.