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Suit's GMeaAairo News earaiied
11i« foUowinC i»t«t««tinc( pplitieal
soaeip -sent out from Washington by
Pteker Andenon
There have been many candidates
iMationed for ^ varioiu State po-
sitb>D3-‘uiwb will be filled at the 1916
•iectaoat Iw* peAaps the one that will
the greater suipriM vill be
ot Jo3lab WU^m 3ailey, of Bal-
for attorney general rf the State
^ 8iscee»i T. W. Bickett, who
nake the race for governor unless all
iigns £ul.
llMt Baltey viH be • caiMiidate for
ktfcumey general has be^n whUpercd
«nMnd Washington for the last dzty
4aj(. Gonfincation of his kteations
rontained in . a ataUDwnt made
« leading Noi^ CwUna Demo-
Mt ^0 visited the nation'# wpital
a f«w days ago when he declar^ t&at
he Icii^w jpositively ttat Mr. Baiky
wonid mat^ the race to succe^ Mr.
Bickett.
Mr. Bailey js a laivyer of ability,
and according to his friends, he does
not want to come to Congress; cer.
:3inly not in the 1915 i^tection. He
vould be better satisfied, it is said,
f he were given the nomination and
lection as head of vhe staie dQ>ort-
icnt of justice. In this capacity Mr
ley W0U14 be kept in close touch
ith the State's political affairs and
it Mime time he ivoulir ^ P®‘-
lonuing B dutf to his liking.
When Mr. Bailny makes a formal
nnoancement of his candidacy, he will
ioubtless resign as collftctor of in-
emal revenue for the eastern di?-
rict, a position he now haj(?g; fl^
:ouid not make satisfactory progress
a candidate for one job while hold-
ng another, it is contended, and fur-
hermors, he would be charged with
00 mu^ “political activity" shoald
i« remain on thft federal pay roll dur-
'hSg eiiHpaign for eIeetidA>
A pdtikt titight be 6tfaiftei, however
^hter Utai Mif. Bailey might try
s hndd toT the nomination beforo
es)|piiag his good place for an unce’.'-
«intf.
Should Mr. Bailey rislirn to niake
!>« race for attorney general there
w^d be m»njf eaodidates In the
^ succeed him,- even though th
tnS TWlOtA-WiraE MSPATOi; BI/SUKCTON,
eandidatea in the gubernatorial r&c«.
Bobert N. Page is gTowiiig rapidly,
aseoidiiig to well iBformed business
men who have been here during (he
past two weeks. Page has made no
effort so far as is known, to get ii'
the race for ^ job iu>w held by Gov-
eraor Craig, but nany of hts friends
are going to the front for him with
out first ascertaining whe^er he wiil
be a candidate. . The same is true of
CtW. Julian S. Ciair, of Dttt^iani; Co!.
W. H. OdMrm, of Gr««h^ro, iutd
A. W. Mclean, of Lumberton. The
one ery seems to be ‘Ve need a bust-
neu man to run th^ State’s affairs."
Any of the three above mentioned ge>t-
tlmen would ftll the bQl, it is be
lieved. ,
It is apparent tiiat £. G. Sherril!,
of Creen^ro, who now holds a job
in the Hpus’i! of Representatives, will
oppose liauor Comasissir.cr "M. L.
Shipman for re-election,
Mr. Shecriil has . had considerable
experience ift North Carolina poli-
reiuler service to the state; if you are
willing to depend upon no one bat.
yoursc^es, and wili give up, each of
yon, hoping that , he Mn retnain idle
while his neighbor does everything
for him, then, I say, you will come to
your own; if God wiil, yoii can recover
once again the position which your
past indolence has throwa away,”
This simple counsel of Demosthenes
though given twenty-three hundred
years ago, cannot be iliyiroved on to
day, It applies to the American of
totiay no les$ than to the. Athenians
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of the day it was Spoken. Get rid; gust and gave him a. piece of her
mind. She s^d, ‘NTow look herel; this
war must stop before the fferst of Se{v
tembetr, because ilary Ann has sim
ply g^)t to go to school.'
"In..our international relations With
peoples as great as ouirseWes, who
“ALL FOf{ MARV AN.\.“
The Wall Street Journal, with the j It sems that they think they tave
sound sense and good jodgmeiit which!found a way to beat r.atling for the
are aU'ays to be found in its edhorial Raleigh postoffice,
caiumns, under the heading of “Ali
for Mary Ann,” says:
“A professor oif political economy,
a valued and constant reader of this
newspaper, in a communication not
for publication ,tells. an illustrative
anwdbte which is hei^y comittah-
deered, in the public interest:
“An American lady caMed upon Ani-
ba|sador Herrick in last Au-
AX LNTEBESTING PROBLEM.
“The folks at our hotel are ,?reat!y
interested in a problem.”
“What is it?”
■- “An irresistible blonde has just mot
an irnmovable bachelor.—Judge.
of the spirit of evasion in. public du
ties. Don’t wait for .titg other feIIo»»
to go fomard and take the steps
.necessary for the welfare of the com
munity. Insist yourself that hoBe^
and efficiency and decency are as im
portant in public as in private life.
If we would go forward-^inteliectuai-
iy-, morally, materially-^we must get
rid of the spirit of evasion. Waiting
for the other fellow to do it never
tics. He was a staunch Kitchin mati j built a city or corrected an abuse,
but made a fair fight. So far as is
known he did not olfend Senator Sim-
moiis in any way. Besides this tho
Greensboro man is popular with the
labor people of the State. For a num
ber of years he served as an employe
Of the Southern Railway first a tele
grapher, then as station agent and
alter as train dispat;b ait Greensboro.
He has a Wide acquaintance and will
make things ihteresting.
It has just been revealed that Medill
McCormick has resigned from the Pro
gressive National Committee two
months ago. There was really no oc
casion for secrecy about it. Coming
back *^to the house of his fathers”
was so sensible and honorable that
there was no reason why all, the world
! should not be told about it promptly.
O—^
Ptles Cored In « to 14 Days
drauut will ii FAZO'
tST fails tci Ftira ■« cue of Iteliiac,
.. —TJlifliietoMdiiyi.
UKi
_,Bl«^ns9r
ftnt applie&tioa gi\
DUTtES OP citizenship.
The size and rapid growth of the
United States has added immeasur
ably to the complications that the
government has faced and must face.
Mone of the advocates of democracy
from the tirts of Pluto to the
of the Americiiri tPpUblic conleraplal-
ed that the principles of democracy
should be applied to a nation of nine
ty millions of people, (wBMeccd aver
I half a continent and grotttMKl in cit
ies containing up to four or ftvs fttiU
lion inha^UtntSi
tn Uit past—Is, piievious to the
hlueteenth century—it waS Held tfcai
w»n wo4id net »> judeiQOcraticform^^’i'^Tnmsntco^li
Irtt, '4 isftoift tiiftis 5h oSBc?, Slhould the
t^blieand (h« presidency in
I'f, there $.1 Wrdly any doubt but
it Aey wwild pursue thfe same tac-
was by the Delttflr-
and remove all federal eliice-
loUlers without regard to t^ie time
their term would explt*. District
.^r^y Holtoa, MM'.'thaU Dockery
Attorney ^Wfell v>rere removei
‘■?a«R befSi'a tiwir fommls-Moos
ixpiswi. MWftan nature being about
jw same ‘&rcughout the world, it is
* thSught that the Republicans
(Kririd make an exception to their
.ocraic brethren in Noi’th Caro-
to such an extent as to allow
to remain on the p&y roll any
OBger than they could agree upon a
naid to iiil the job.
Ettmi this early in the game some
bavo been mentioned by Dem-
lenMs as a possible successor to
3w3ey. Joe F. Taylor, now clsrk to
finaiice committee of the Srat&te,
J&ii named as Hie possible suc-
to Mr. Bailey. Taylor was
for eitlier the collectorship or
Ibe marslialstup for easUsVii North
SUrolina soon after President Wilson
elected. Conditions oyer which
had o control made it impossible
Ear Taylor to land eidier place, there-
fdi« he was given a good berth at
Wsshington. It may so happen that
lie may yet sgn his name on govern-
paper as: collector of internal
remsnue.
Of course there is going to be uiany
S'jeeesd only in a smalt community.
Montquie«t, a noted philosopher, writ
ing abortt the year 1715, said: “ft is
(Atural for a republic to have only a
Email territory, otherwise it cannot
long exist. In an extensive republic
there are men of large fortunes, and
consequently, of less moderation. Th^
public good is sacrificed to a thotts-
ftnd pnVAlC VNtwa; iv is '»'U»>0rdl«Mv3'
to exception, and depends on acci
dents." "niis could not have been bet
ter written if it had (seen done la&t
week instead of two hundred years
ago.
In large democracies the individuiU
be^mes lost in the mass. Peeling
that his duties are of no consequence,
he rdinquiahes them altogether. Gmv-i
emment, except in ai restricted sense, | That is the way it happened, son,
IT CAN’T BK DO.S’E.
St, Louii Po8^t-i>jspaich.,
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ffow did the world get started, son.’
Why, :iOme one mid, “It eaa’c be
done!"
That settled it. The troglodyte
CnilkG out of darkrSsss ■."to light.
‘‘It can’t be done!'' somebody said
And lo! the green fields gave as bi-Sail.
With that taunt ringing in hU >iaV-s
Has Man gone upward thwtight years.
Vbii should h&vS seen the mill wheels
hirt
When seBwone said, "It can’t be dotiei"
“It can’t be done!" they said h*#6re
A sail put out to ®ea from shore.
Since world’s reiAOte and dia2»a)
Tlose magic woi'ds have sparred us
on.
It drove Columbus where &ie sun
Wont rediy down, “It can’t be done;”
' ! Wris^4f ^lew overhead.
“It can’t be done!” was what they
cried
When Fulton oiTered tJiem a ride.
are spending their last dollar' and their
last life in a caiise they believe vital,
are we not constituting ourselves the
champions of Mary Ann? No nation
in the world is more intetestad than
Ourselves in the inviolabiUty c.c treat
ies. Yet, in the indefen^ble outrage
Upon Belgium we had nothing to sayT
We preserved that kind of neatraUty
shown by the citizen who decUnps
to give even hii moral support to the
police in a manifest breach of the
peace. But the delaying, of cai'goec,
under the rijrht of searcn,. a'pparent-.
ly touches us more neany.
. “Surely, we ave.not properly repre
sented before the nations When we
are made to appear to caiTy our soul
in our breches pockets? Nothing:
would suit the Geimans better than
to make bad blood between this coun
try and Great Britain. But Great
Britain in exercising the rifrht of
jiearchf )S acting not for herself alone,
but for Rqssiaj Belgium and
Japan. Ske can afford to take no
chances on the transfer of the Dacia,
i Our Ktate Department admitted
PAIUHilCjlUFnilU EXP8»-
TIM
San Oieg^ Cal
mm tKm unHiM
. San Franeiseu, Cal.
; VARIABLE ROUTE TOlTItS
^ —aad—
REDUCED ROUND-TRIP FARES
it is ail right for the-State 10.regu
late the bigger railroads,, but it is a
fact that some of the smaller ones
are not in position to impose upon
anybody.
Professional Cirdi
Dr/ L H. Allen
EYE SPECIALIST
Office over C. F. NEESE'S Store,
BuriiDgton, N. 0.
mFOLK
They said it, and Manoni sent
His message through the finnameat.
If it be-
less, he
passes out of bis hands,
com^s a failure, more or
blames others for it.
The success of good government in
every community, large or small, in
its last analysis depends upon indi
vidual effort- If public duties are neg
lected by large numbers^ or passed
svcr to the state or the com
munity is likely to suffer. Wherever
this indivicSaal neglect has crept in
the result.*! have been the same. Lis
ten to Demosthenes. Speaking to the
Athenians of their duties as citiiens
he said:
“If you get rid, all you, of the
spirit of evasion; if each man will
show himself ready to act whenever
cuty calls him and he can possibly
Praise Gov for this, "It can’t be done!”
0
There may be lots of fun in be
ing president of Mexico but it does
not last long.
0
The crowd that gets licked wi!!
finally have to assume cedit for bring-
ing on the war.
0-
it vrtil be noticed form the proceed
ing of the legislature that some of the
counties seems to be a little short on
justices of the peace.
O—
If the authorities will be on the alert
the owners of those horses confiscated
by ths rever.uers may r«ot be abie t^
steal them out of the stabies.
hiUCit by tl^llniiig to insure that ve.-
seh
"Just another story, to make the
pettiness of our grievance quite clsar.
Lincoln was pestered with deputations
demanding the righting of trivial per
sonal damages, at any public sacri-
ffces, whan every effcrt of his mind and
body was directed lo preserving the
Union. told these deputations he
story ot the pilot steering his vejntl
desperaely through the rapids ai>d
the snags, who was imperatively re
quested by a little boy 10 stop tstie
ship because he had dropped his ap-
pleoverboard.
“When the meat packers protest
delay of cargoes, it should be remem-
able advance in railroad rates in the
same spirit. The ludatory critic who
said they utilized everything in the
hog cxcept the sque^ did them iess
than jasticc.”
O
Three employes to every five law- i
makfi's makes it look like the i«)lons
have to have considerable waiting on
The roan who will invtnt an air
tight stopper for family jars is sore
of a monument.
bered that they have taken a reaso;.- j
0- I
W%i»BWr Vmk Neei a OMitral Toaic;
Take Orara’s i
Tis Old Slatidaid Gi«ve’s Taslekss !
Ibnic i* eqoally vaJiiablt as a I
tilTiit Toofe kecause it contains the [
VcSliaowBia^picpertiuofQTRMIHB
csanON. Itaet««atbel4wr, Diivtt !
m* Malaria. Ssiidica the Blood aad;
the l»k(ite System. 90 cult. |
WEsm liiUL-
m
March 1 to November 30, 1915.
VERY' LIBERAL STOP-OVER PRIV
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The .^Bt Route to thie
WEST —,and —— NORTHWEST.
First Class and Mixed Car Tickets
Homeseekers Pares to Many Points,
PULLMAN SLEEPERS—T-—-
— -DINING CARS.
All Information upon Application to
W. C. SAUNTERS,
General Passenger Agent,
M. P. BRAGG,
TraveliiSg Passengoj- Agent.
ROANOKE, VA.
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BURIINGTON, N. C.
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Office Phone, 337-J.
Reriest Pkss?, 337-L.
in
moM with
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TIM*
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C.
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Phones: Hours:
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Better light and More of It
J^EROSENE light is, best f»r young
n LAMPS
at its best—a
The leaders in the Legislature evi
««/»h other even j
if trader have not been made. '
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If tht Legislature is in doubt there .
is one way to find out what tlie people
think of the proposed primary. |
0 I
Take the newspapers away from.
him and the average man would not j
know that there is a war in Europe.'
and oltl eyes alike.
give you kerosene li^t
stead}^ generous glow that readies every
corner of the room.
The RJYO docs not smoke or smell. It i‘; made of
tnliii brass, nickel-plated- It is easy t> Ii;;' ca.^y to
clean, easy to rcivick. At dealers rverj'" litre.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(SEW JERSEY) CWrtte.W-C.
V** D At *T*T%A/\OC‘ Cbar)**to*i, W. Vfc
THE PIEDMONT TRUST CO.
Has Increased Its Capital Stock To
: - : $100,000 : - :
Increased Capital gives Increased Business Facilities.
Us When You Hare Money. XX We Remember Yon When You Need Money,
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