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THE' CAIJCASIANV
VOL. XXX.
, INI. C.t THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1912.
No. 40
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EDITORIAL BRIEFS
And after all, Mr. Woodrow Wilson
may get a pension from the Carnegie
fund.
Democratic office-seekers marching
on Washington reminds one of Cox
ev's army.
The Democrats have already brok
en the record In their race for tha
pie counter.
Don't you know that a lot of the
Democrats will have indigestion af
ter March 4?
The Democrats spent over a million
dollars in the last campaign, and still
they lost votes.
Should the office now attempt to
seek the man, there would be a fear
ful head-on collision.
It appears that the silent vote, of
which the papers talked so much be
fore the election, remained silent.
A good many suffragettes want to
abolish the old-time cradle, as they
prefer to rock the cradle of Liberty.
It appears that those who are cut
ting the political pie crust have for
gotten to save a slice for ex-Governor
Glenn.
Charlotte has lost its mint and 13
grieving considerably over its loss,
considering that it is a prohibition
town.
If President Wilson and his Dem
ocratic Congress do not create about
three million new jobs, there will be
some disappointed Democrats.
The Democrats spent over a mil
lion dollars to elect Wilson, and his
election will cost the country as a
whole a great deal larger sum. . v
If Governor Blease is a true repre
sentative of South Carolina, then the
other States should club in and send
missionaries to South Carolina.
It is safe to say that the author
ities in Washington kept the Con
stitution behind closed doors while
Governor Blease was in that city last
Saturday.
The Democrats claim they want to
limit the President's tenure of office
to six years. But, what they really
want to do, is to extend Wilson's
term two years longer.
Governor Cole Blease declares he
will later be elected to the United
States Senate from South Carolina.
Just think of having Blease and Till
man in the Senate at the same time!
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The Columbia State, speakinfe for
Democracy, thinks that corn-bread is
a favorite diet with Democrats. But
the State will soon find out the Dem
ocrats are anxious to discard corn
bread for pie.
The Governor of South Carolina
says, "To hell with the Constitution,"
and doubtless there are countless
thousands who would not mourn if
Governor Blease should follow the
Constitution.
A Boston man has brought suit for
$5,000 because some one else got his
seat at a series of baseball games. If
some one had gotten his seat in.
church he probably wouldn't have
said a word.
Governor-elect Craig is reported to
have said that he does not believe the
abolition of the tariff would destroy
the trusts. Wouldn't you think the
News and Observer would read Craig
out of the party?
Some papers have predicted that
Bryan will dictate to Wilson, but
Wilson says he will have no single
adviser. However, he will probably
find that the more advisers he has,
the more trouble they will make for
him. ' t
Up to last week one hundred thou
sand Democrats had filed their appli
cations in Washington for jobs under
the incoming administration. The
dispatches also state that there are
just a few million more to be heard
from. y
NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION.
To lie Held in Atlanta the letter
Part of January Southern Rail
way's Attractive Booklet.
Columbia, S. C Dec. 9. "An In
vitation to American Farmers" is the
title of a handsomely illustrated fol
der just issued y the Southern Rail
way, calling attention to the Fifth
National Corn Exposition to be held
at Columbia, January 27-February g,
1913. A large number of these fol
ders will be circulated among North
ern and Western farmers, and they
will also be placed in the hands of
farmers throughout the South.
The folder not only sets out the at
tractions the National Corn Ex
position, but gives interesting facts
concerning the agricultural possibil
ities of the South which should ap
peal especially to farmers In other
sections of the United States.
In getting out this folder the South
ern Railway is aiming to co-operate
for the success of the National Corn
Exposition at Columbia, and at tho
same time to call attention to the
South as a corn country in the hope
of attracting desirable farm settlers
to this section.
Double Decker Mental Anguish Suit.
Statesville Landmark.
If Solomon had lived in North
Carolina in this good day he would
have found something new under the
sun in damage suits. The latest is
a double-barrel mental anguish suit
at Winston and the story runneth
thus, according to the Sentinel:
A telegram addressed to N. W.
Chappell was sent to the home of J.
M. Chappell in Winston. The latter,
according to the complaint, went to
the telegraph office and told the op
erators his name was J. M. Chappell
but he lived at the address to which
the telegram was sent. The tele
graph people thought there was sim
ply an error of initials and gave the
telegram to J. M. The telegram an
nounced the death of Mr. Chappell's
mother, whereupon he and his wife
boarded the train for Elkin and from
there drove ten miles into the coun
try and found Mr, Chappell's mother
alive and well. For this error Mr.
and Mrs. Chappell v are asking the
telegjaphjpompor $ 2 , 0 00 each.
""Me1anUme thelreaT WTTfhappell
in Winston, who didn't get the tele
gram, did not hear o fhis mother's
death until after she was buried-and
he, too, is asking the telegraph com
pany for $2,000.
Can Lie in Bed and Feed His Mules
Union Man's Invention.
Monroe Journal.
Mr. W. H. Sell, a thrifty firmer
of Goose Creek Township, has in
vented a contrivance by which he can
remain in bed on a cold morning and
feed his mules at the barn if he wish
es. And this is not a lazy man's in
vention, either, for-'Mr. Sell is an en
ergetic citizen. He lately built a
large new barn. Then he got to fig
uring on a feed arrangement. The
result is that he has a contrivance in
the barn from which a wire runs to
his house. This he can yank hold of
when he jumps out of bed, turn the
feed in to the mules, and have them
ready to hitch up by the time he has
turned around a few times. The ar
rangement is something on the prin
ciple of a rabbit box that the boys
make in winter. A trough holds the
morning's feed and the same trap
that throws the corn in drops the
fodder down. Mr. Sell ought to work
out his idea well enough to have a
patent on it.
Former Slave Leaves an Estate of
$10,000.
When the will of Caleb Nelson, a
former slave was admitted to probate
at Allentown, Pa., a few days ago, It
was discovered he had an estate of
more than $10,000. Born in the
South, Nelson was a valet of an of
ficer In Pemberton's army and was
captured at Vlcksburg. During the
rest of the war he was a valet on
General Grant's staff. For many
years he was head waiter at an Allen-
town Hotel. He died last week at
the age of eighty years. Nobody
knew until to-day that he had a com
petence through Investing his savings
in real estate. Union Republican.
To Build Locks on the Cape Fear.
(Wilmington Star.)
Maj. H. W. SUckle, United States
engineer in charge of this district,
yesterday received from Gen. W. H.
Bixby, Chief of Engineers, plans for
the coffer-dam to be built at King's
Bluff, which Is the point where the
first lock is to be built in the project
for providing locks and dams on the
upper Cape Fear s River In order to
deepen the channel between Fayette
vllle and Wilmington. The plans
were recently sent to General Bixby
for his approval. They were approved
and Major Stickle will now advertise
for. bids to be opened about January
15. -The coffer-dam will, cost about
$37,000.
PROGRESSIVE LEADERS
Meeting ia Chicago Tceby and
Yesterday to Discuss the
Sitaatioa
COLONEL ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
Will Wage an Active Fight for Pro
gressive Principles -Progressive
in Both the Old Parties Are In
vited to Join the Forces and Help
in the CauseThere Will Be No
Compromise With Any Other Par
tyA Number of Prominent Lead-
era in Attendance.
New York, Dec. 8. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt and 150 other Progressive
party leaders and members left for
Chicago to-day an a special train of
ten cars, from the rear of which in
electric letters was emblazoned "Bull
Moose Special." The occasion of this
mid-winter political activity is the
proposed solidification of the new
party and the making of plans for fu
ture campaigns. Members from oth
er States are on the way to join in
the Chicago conference.
Colonel Roosevelt and his party
were cheered by a small crowd as
they left at 1 o'clock. Although the
Colonel had no comment to make
upon the situation, several members
of his party, particularly Oscar
Straus and Frank A. Munsey declared
that if the Republican party hoped to
rejuvenate itself it would have to be
by turning Progressive.
These sentiments were In refer
ence to the decision of the Republi
can Governor's Conference in Wash
ington to await another year before
taking steps to re-organize the party
with the hope expressed that Pro
gressives would be brought back Into
the fold.
Mr. Munsey said that those at
tempting this task "had a big job on
their hands." He added that the
only way to achieve the union was
for Republicans to accept the Pro
gressive platform and policies and
come into the party as formed. If
they did thia, he. sidyth& two-parties
could be united.
Similar sentiments were expressed
by several others of the party.
More than a score of women were
in the party which took the train
here.
Colonel Roosevelt Addresses Hlinois
Legislature.
Chicago, 111., Dec. 9. "Without
trafficking or dickering with the old
parties, fight to have our platform
principles embodied in the laws' of
Illinois," was the appeal Colonel
Roosevelt to-day made to the newly
elected Progressive members of the
Illinois Legislature, to whom he de
livered his first speech at the Pro
gressive conference which opened in
formally to-day and will continue
over Wednesday. Besides pleading
with the Progressives to stand alone
In their fight, the former President
criticised the Republican organiza
tion and said it was such a character
that "no honest man can be In it."
Formal opening of the conference
is not scheduled to take place until
to-morrow, but many Progressives,
both men and women, already are
here. The largest single delegation
to arrive to-day came from New York
on a special train with Colonel Roose
velt. The Colonel was greeted at the
railroad station with cheers and
shouts of, "He can come back."
"I am very glad to have the chance
to come out here and say again that
we are In the fight to the end and
that it is folly for the Republicans
to waste time in thinking of any at
tempt to lure us back into the organi
zation that they have made of such
character that "no honest man can
be in it," Colonel Roosevelt said in
his talk to the Illinois legislators.
Progressive members of the Legis
latures and of Congress have & task
of peculiar importance. They should!
make good, as far as possible, our
platform pledges. Progressive mem
bers should introduce all measures
we promised in the campaign and
try as hard as they know to have
them adopted.
"Our. opponents now are making
loud professions of the Hp-loyalty to
progressives principles, so make them
show up or back up.' They say
most of our measures ,are unconsti
tutional. We are the heirs the
Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln
and the Republicans who fought In
the Civil War. Lincoln's opponents
also said he was trying to pull down
the Constitution."
He then discussed at length the
workmen's compensation and the
eight-hour law. "Our hope," he said,
"that you will put into the laws of
Illinois a provision that if the people
want certain laws, no official, no
Governor, Legislature or court shall
have the power to prevent them from
obtaining those laws."
Seven of the nine members of the
(Continued on page 5.)
3fr. Morrison's Ksperienee With the
! Long Staple Cotton.
Statesville Landmark.)
Mr. E. A. Morrison, of Shiloh
Township, planted two and one-half
acres of Lewis Long Staple cotton
this year. He made two bales which
he sold for 18 cents per pound, which
amounted to $175. He has already
engaged the greater part of the seed
at $1.50 per bushel, and expects to
sell all of the seed at that price,
which will amount to $75 for the
seed, making $359 from two and one
half acres of ordinary land. The land
was sowed in peas after wheat, the
pas were left on the land and two
hundred pounds of 16 per cent acid
and one hundred pounds of cotton
seed meal per acre was the fertilizer
used In addition. "
Mr. Morrlaon is satisfied that Long
Staple cotton will grow well in Ire
dell with seasons like the last two
ytars.--
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Aged Man Whipped By nis Son and
Grandson.
4 The Reidsvllle Review tells a story
of a horrible Incident reported from
Caswell County. W. C. Crumpton
and W. E. Crumpton, father and son,
were arraigned for beating Robert
Crumpton, the aged father of W. C.
and grandfather of W. E. Crumpton.
The Review says:
"The evidence was that the elder
Crumpton was seventy-five years eld.
He was whipped by his grandson with
a buggy whip; several scars were on
his back, but it Is not known how
they came there; at another time,
while half-naked, the old man was
whipped by his son; the old man died
a short time after receiving this
treatment, but no one would say that
it caused his death. Statesville
Landmark.
Build Exposition by Electricity.
(From the Wall Street Journal.)
The Panama-California Exposition
to be held at San Diego, California,
will be the first exposlton to be built
entirely by the use of electric power.
The San Diego Consolidated Gas and
Electric Company has contracted with
the directors of the exposition for
the Installation of 142 horse-power
motors to be used, durlngthe. con
struction of the hulldlngs.
These motors will operate concrete
mixers, hoists, wood-working ma
chinery and other appliances. Con
struction of the buildings will extend
over three years and additional mo
tors will be added from time to time.
All the mechanical power used in
construction will be electrical, steam
being supplanted.
Guilford County Has Heavy Court
Docket.
(High Point Enterprise.)
There are nine hundred cases on
the civil docket of Guilford and at
each court usually about one hundred
criminal cases. Thus it may be said
there are at all times not far from
1,000 cases on Guilford's Superior
Court docket. There are more than
one hundred cases , on the docket
more than three years old, while
some have been on as long as fifteen
years. Instead of Improving, condi
tions grow worse.
Would Throw Out Supreme Court if
it Interfered.
New York dispatch, December 6:
"We must make a law fixing an out
side limit of ten hours a day for
working-men, and If the Supreme
Court of the United States throws
out the law, we must throw the court
out."
, This was the statement with which
Timothy Healy, president of the sta
tionary engineers and firemen's union
startled the session of the State Fac
tory Investigating Commission here
to-day.
Salisbury's Whiskey Special.
Salisbury Post.
The whiskey shipments into this
territory have reached such enormous
proportions that a special express car
now comes into Salisbury from Rich
mond and Danville," Va., on No. 43
at night, having been attached to
this train at Danville, Va. These
shipments are for points south of
Salisbury as far as Charlotte or Gas-
tonla, down the Yadkin and along
the Western Railroad.
Disappointed in Love, She Attempts
Suicide.
Kinston, N. C, Dec. 6. Jilted by
her lover, Miss Glennle West, twenty-one
years of, age, arpretty girl of
the Buck Swamp section of Wayne
County, attempted to commit suicide.
The girl was found by her mother
after having drank a bottle of laud
anum. Life was almost extinct in
the prostrate form, but heroic treat
ment by a physician, summoned from
Pikevllle, brought her around. She
had several letters in her hand, writ
ten by Norman Howell, a youth of
the neighborhood, . who Miss West
claims betrayed her.
GOVERNORS' MEETING
r J D L.: c : tt:
form Divorce Laws and Rcftl
Credits
MEETING WAS IN RICHMOND
Cote Rles Creates Some Excitement
When He Hurts Defiance st the
Constitution Is Rebuked by Oth
er Governors for His Exhibition of
the Mob Spirit Calls on the Pre
dent and Confers With Him as to
progress that has been made on the
a Rami Credit System.
The Annual Conference of the Gov
ernors of the various States of the
Union was held In Richmond, Va.,
last week.
They discussed general legislation
that should be enacted Into law by
the States. The more Important sub
jects discussed were: Uniform di
vorce laws and a rural credits sys
tem. Governor Cole Blease of South
Carolina created something of a sen-!
sation when he said if the Constitu
tion came between him and his work
he would consign the Constitution to
the lower regions. When the session
ended in Richmond the Governors
went to Washington to confer with
President Taft on a system'of rural
credits.
Cole Blease Hurls Defiance at the
Constitution.
Richmond, Va., Dec. 5. Half of
the fifty women in attendance at the
Governors' Conference here hurriedly
left the hall to-day when Governor
Cole L. Blease, of South Carolina,
for the second time defending his
doctrine of lynching negroes guilty
of criminal assault, without a trial,
shouted his platform "Tohell with
the Constitution."
This sentiment was in response to
a question hurled at him by Governor
Joseph N. Carey, of Wyoming, who
desired to know if Governor -Blease
had not taken an oath to uphold the
Constitution and laws of his State,
and if these laws did not protect col
ored men as well as white men.
"I will answer that question," re
plied the South Carolinian. "And
hope the newspaper men will get It
right, for In my campaign In South
Carolina they found that I am a fight
er," he added, grinding the words be
tween his teeth. "When the Const!
tution steps between me and the de
fense of the virtue of the white wo
men of my State, I will resign my
commission and tear it up and throw
It to the breezes. I have heretofore
said: 'To hell with the Constltu
tlon.' "
At this point fully twenty-five wo
men, some of them wives and daugh
ters of Governors, left the hall. See
ing this, Governor Blease subsided.
Governor Albert W. Gilchrist, of
Florida, instantly uttered a stinging
rebuke. "The first thing," he said.
"that indicates a manly man or a wo
manly woman, is thoughtful consld
eration for other people." He was
cheered. The greatest applause of
the session had previously greeted
Governor Carey's question.
Uniform Divorce Laws.
Papers read by Governor Tasker L.
Oddie, of Nevada, and James H.
Hawley, of Idaho, on uniformity in
laws governing divorce were under
consideration when Governor Blease
spoke. He defended the position of
South Carolina, where no divorce is
permitted in any cause. He proceed
ed to discuss the race problem, and
said that when an inferior race gets
n the way of a superior race, the
former is swept from the face of the
earth. He reverted again to his par
don record, boasting that he had
pardoned and paroled more negroes
than all other Governors of his State
combined since 1876.
Improve Rural Life,
Movements for the improvement
of rural life and the upbuilding of ag
riculture were addressed by Gover
nors Adolph O. Eberhat, of Minneso
ta; Herbert S. Hadley, of Missouri;
W. H. Mann, of Virginia; George W.
Donaghey. of Arkansas; and Joseph
M. Brown, of Georgia. Divorce law
problems were also spoken of by Gov
ernors Joseph M. Carey, of Wyom
ing, and Simeon E. Baldwin, of Con
necticut. MlssMary Johnston, the novelist,
discussed the conference on equal
suffrage. ,
Governors Favor a Rural Credit Sys
tem. Richmond, Va., Dec. 6. The fifth
annual Governors' Conference ad
journed this afternoon to meet in
formally to-morrow with President
Taft at Washington and discuss rural
credits, and to meet formally next
year at Colorado Springs at a date
as yet undetermined. In its dying
n (Continued on page 4.)
em:i.L dexucxci:? jvrxit:.
Cnmllorr of tacrl Itrvesisst
Taar a Jibe at J&t Ikyd
Tremble Over CHcsta W ill Urn
WhUkey.
Another chapter ass fcti writ tn
the row famous N. GUaa WtllUas
liquor case. The Commissioner of In
terna! Revenue at Washington doe
sot like the status of tbs case, and
has blessed out Williams sad hit at
torneys, has made some remarks
about Judce Prllrbard. and now
takes a shot st Judge Boyd.
It will b remembered that Wil
liams has several thousand gallons
of whiskey In a warehouse at Wil
liams, Yadkin County. The Coxa
misiicuer finally ordered It sent to
Kentucky. Williams wanted to re
move it to Virginia. The Commis
sioner objected. Thtn Williams
wanted to pax the tax on it so be
could remove It where he pleased
but there was objection oa the &art
of the Commissioner. However. Wll-
Uams' attorneys still have the Com
missioner's order heldT Special Mas
ter Price, of Salisbury, Is taktag evi
dence In the esse. The Commissioner
said they could get evidence by go
ing to Washington. The court told
Mr, Cabell if he hsd any triform Ilea
he could come to North Carolina and
testify. This the Commissioner re
fused to do.
CotnmUftiofifr In Wrathy.
The following is a special dispatch
from Washington to Sundsy's Greens
boro News:
. "Internal Revenue Commifiioner
Royal E Cabell declared to-night In
an Interview with the Daily News cor
respondent that he would. not appear
in Greensboro before Judge Boyd In
connection with the N. Glenn Wil
liams liquor case. He denounced the
Federal jurist In no uncertain terms
and declared that no matter what or
der Judge Boyd may Issue, the status
of the case, so far as his Department
is concerned, would remain un
changed. "Mr. Cabell said if Judge Boyd
could get any satisfaction out of is
suing an order which had already
been reversed by the Court of Ap
peals, he was welcome to do It. 'But,
exclaimed the Commissioner, 'the
onjy,, outcome wlllbe to favor some
of the most notorious crooks this
Government ever had to contend
with.'
"Mr.Xabell's language was of sixth
a nature In his reference to the Fed
eral judge and others connected with
the case that he was asked if he real
ly intended to be quoted as making
such grave charges against a Federal
jurist. Mr. Cabell replied that he
certainly wanted to be quoted on ev
ery word he had said, and It would
be printed.
"Commissioner Cabell said the only
way his testimony could be had in
Greensboro would be by sending a
special Commissioner to Washington
who could Interrogate him to his
heart's content."
Judge Bynum Comments.
Referring to the foregoing Inter
view w;ith Commissioner Cabell, ex
Judge W. P. Bynum. of counsel for
Williams and Foster, stated that the
remarks of the United States Com
missioner justified everything that
had been said about Cabell In the
complaints made. Judge Bynum said
it all went to confirm the charges that
Cabell is "mad, angry, full of 111 will
and malice, not only toward Judge
Pritchard and Judge Boyd, but our
client."
Surveying New Road Between Dunn
and Mount Olive.
A special from Mount Olive to Bun
day's Greensboro News says:
"For the past two weeks a party
of surveyors have been surveying
back and forth between here and
Dunn, for the purpose of selecting a
suitable route for a railroad that
shall run from Dunn through Mount
Olive and on to some point on the
seacoast, presumably Swansboro,
Diligent inquiry has failed so far to
reveal the real promoters of the pro
posed railroad. One report is that It
is the Atlantic and Western, a rail
road that now extends from Sanford
to Lilllngton. while others say it is
the Atlantic Coast Line. It Is to be
hoped that the parties hacking the
movement will soon be able to select
a satisfactory route, and then hastily
push forward to completion the con
struction of such a road, for It would
furnish badly needed transportation
fac III ties to a section of exceedingly
fine farming country."
Greene County Girl Sleets Horrible
Death.
Kinston, N. C, Dec. 9- A tele
phone message received here yester
day from Snow Hill told of the awful
death of a daughter of WalterTaylor,
a farmer who lives about two miles
from that town. The young woman
was caught in the shaft of a cotton
gin on her father's place, and before
the engine could be stopped the .was
literally torn to pieces, the body be
ing pulled in two. .