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A'o.'iwn 7ii Morning a
Brilliant Feature of the
Day's Events Commit
tee Greets President,
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ton v;:
lvmif'st his
s lowered. Thio
'ortunlty i see
c Arose in Carriage as
He Was Driven Past
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Mrs. Jackson's Resid
ence Dlstingu i shec
Party of Statesmen,
Tlinudi it was raining cats anc
i i: ;;"!::;' at day light this niorninj;
: i.iuthv.u- i o to do until ten o'clock 1
wi.. j, r.- si U'iit Wiliiam Howard
;.;:! ' (! at the depot from his
c, i . i. :: hi throw his broad beam
in: - :..i!ints over the Nation upon
;t,- i j i :i City of Carolina and the
(,,!,;!,- i :' .v.nei ican Liberty, the cloud.-.
!i:.l. ,m 1 i'.iv sullen, sobbinj?', petit
:r..i 'eiit ccasst storm, which do
io.ly an o
ui. en let ex, Wive. J
Ak r .-p. c f die p-oH :r.t waa ?Ir.
;I i 1';'. cP.r.'! n 'M' oep.t? l-1 V'-P- '
mii tee of the et !cbr;uion; Mr. ('. .
AVini;;:;:., e-i tl;o er.iiiiiuitc-. ai'd Mr
Butt. Cariiae Xo. 2 v.as occupied
entirely by secret pervicc men. fn
Xo. : were Mr. J. P. Caldwell, Mr
Hemphill, of Charleston. S. C. and
Mr. D. A. Tompkins. Messrs. Stuart
Continued on p.ae two.
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iEIIM'S GREAT
EST HISTOHIG
EQKTROVERST
Among the dist.incruisIu.Hi isitors
1'reident T;ii't. and Mrs.
iaii, who r.rt! present to; av are mt.o
besides
f the country's greatest statesmen
and political leaders and it is wonliv
of note that many of thaso tlistinaruisli-
i 1 is !
I".- i
w into the face of the sreat
:iiHi of the twentieth, CiUit
--! ityelf.
i had attacked the ccdebra
i.d the affront ery and ex-lu-rve
of the historical cne-'i'.um-
jealous foes of the Dec
'' lndepetulence declared in
a the twentieth of May.
ti.an u whole year before
.t-uVr.-or. had the nerve tc
N.i1 !';:;d declaration,
i'liii b'ev.- away and at a
leader;; h
til Carolina
ins.
; : i : .!' . p o'clock the glorious
I out. President Tail
."::!. I'-'i e ard joy and calm, al
(: ;i"t--viatic of l'.'ii'.self alonu
r'i from the Capital City of Uk
f 1- i ,
i' ; ! too quick.
Vynrit; Throrg the City.
W!'. : l'!'. si.;e;it aiihted fre.iii
V. iri'. t from the Sehvyr
I - d-"oi wa-; lined with an
' ' i'..: -; i f liumiWii'v. At th.
"im t - ;; il-o was s;- trreat
i ' i' - ;.!r:vt inipossih!" to set r
' :l . I';. -!.!-nl. lie had bet n
: i ("ii !i'!.)tte bv the s.-ocia
i .:' . l:,o;v.e.
: -. '. -Mayt.r Fra.nklin, .!
M. !. A. T ir.pki'if-. Senr.to!
blood in their
One of the distinguished cuests
here today ' is Senator Joenh F.
Johnston, of Alabama. Senator John
ston was born in Lincoln count.- in
1843. and U the sen of Dr. V.'illiain
md Mrs. Nancy Johnston. He served
in the Confederate array throughout
the Civil V.:ir : nd v:a- vounded
four times. He was noted for his
bravery and. Through merit, wen Ills
way up from the rank of private to
that of Captain. He moved to Ala
bama in 18('i'" and entered the practice
of the law. He became interested in
polities and succeeded Senator Mor-.
in in the United States Senate. j
Senator Johnston is a man who j
It rained I represents the Pest traditions ot tne.
South ana is a man ot spienaia;
abilitv. lis has two brothers who
formerly lived in Charlotte. One is
Hon. p. Johnston, of Birmingham,
AS 3 E M B LY
Crotvd of 40,000 Runs
inr Sholtor ftnln
Pours Drjzvn in Tor
rents If pan President
end Reviewing Stand.
James F
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. "Li I -r. -Cl ' r. . -'
Ma., and the other is Capt
lehr.sion. of .V.-hcvill.
:?'ni'.trr J; hiisiou has taken a orj
"tive pa'l in (he fight on the tariff
bill which is at present consuming
I the attention ot congress, and re-
.1 ii.. ..i. n. ,., I.,.; l i-
COnsiSllU" (.'I I ' HI I.V JUUtU? imu lilt- iiii. Liiuuiin,
speerhrs ever heard in tne tenaie
i gainst, the Ahiricli Pill, it wa tilled
with trcmhant wit and brilliant sat-
i re.
Senator Cummins.
Sonr.lor A. ii. Cummins, of Iowa,
is anoiiier noted ptli1ical loi'der wl o
is honoring 'lie Que n City v.ilh 'its
(Continued on page 1, 2nd aeclioii.)
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PRESIDENT TAFT.
Savannah, Ga., May 20. The annual
session of the general assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian Church con
vened in this city today. The retir
ing moderator, the Rev. V. V. Moore,
D. D., of Richmond, Va., preached the
nnual sermon.
There are a number of important
matters to be brought u; at this ses
sion and reports of the committees o'clock. Fortunately the parade had
are expeced to be ot particular In- just about passed the srand stand.
Mr. loft Gracious in His
Expression of Admira
tion of Pretty Features
in Parade He Laughed
at Possums,
A terrific cloud bur.st broke tho
review of grand parade today at 1:30
terest. There is before the general
arasembly a proposition to make a
change in certain paragraphs in the
Confession of Faith, which is the stan
dard book of worship of the church,
and there are a numoer of changes
suggested in the constitution.
The states of Texas. Tennessee, Vir
ginia. South Carolina, North Carolina,
Mississippi, Missouri, Lousana. Ken
tucky. Georga, Arkansas, Alabama
and Florida are embraced in the gener
al assembly, and delegates are present
from all.
an. Majo I it-ur nil', of
. Mr. Stuart Y. Crans'T
iae Mimressrve t
lay, is ti
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2 aiter
saic
nglo Saxons to rule.
I M-. Taft to-
The rain came down in be?ts. It
had been drizzling pretty much
throughout, the entire review but when
the tcrrent came, the President and
Governor Kitchin were hustled into a
landau, and tal en to the hotel.
The gigantic crowd in the grand
stand and all about it in the street,
melted !ii:e metal in a white heat.
Those en the grand stand fled precip
itately up the amphitheatre-like ter
races cf the court .house in the rear.
Many huddled into the speaker's
stand, which. covered with thick
cloths fairly well protected the oc
cunants. Vr. Taft Sorrv.
The president took the situation phi
losophically and expressed his kindly
regret that Charlotte's splendid prep
arations had been vo sadly interfered
with.
No untoward incident marked the
grand review, save for a moment when
during the passing of the industrial
part of the parade, a tall design hroktt
loose a wire running past the review
ing stand. There was a telephone on
the stand, and the JC's in response
to a warning, turned off the currenL
A Myriad of Floating Flags.
As th' head of the parade reach-
jed the grand stand, tie- enormous
lie
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:;.T rere; I V
l t::i v,-'M oar-
If
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en
th:- ;. an's r.-rth cf
ViisMo l.J' w th'
w a" fired bv thf
At thr- fir::t f.lnt
i t v.-eip. wj from th
!. This was follower
1 iri:;;;' iip.ti) th" r e:-i-
' i i'. f ,i i.uv. i'.l: L-i'-Tnt t;n
"Viin to s'lent as snor
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picture of tho
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cf re
pros:
white
t
i i .!' heiMllight. of the en-
'. ! or li side:; of the
' "'")!- any of stave
!y dryens of extra
'I ;::,f.j; j train and the
rivitte cm- "Olynipla" r.tov-
'"s";: th" cliannel rf :-.olid
opi'fd under (he shed
track5--. There was
; ;r.r.;es in order that
. ii . i if M,-' j;!f ;-. nii :ht koer
'- S'ir'ir.g ri-.;v,'i1.
' -rv'.ff nan on the grourie
'r;'1 to !,M)h( r on the rr-w
' a )lvni:i:t." that tbr
'' tit: ! the president s
" '';'; o'.cned the door
i i , , ;, .,, thr-a-h. As thr
: If. V vent up. The
"'l br: hefeve dor.cend-
! '" s' .n s eyes over tne !
: 'I 1.,; h;,t.
' ' service men on
' I ' h" ",V ;S)(, ,3 (u, j J-,,,.
'V' -.vn and went swiftly
' " ! v. faens .ilT.
' i . , wiien tii( presi-
1 ' is eamagf. w urn
lour l.iMiil i Till ll:if!r
,l'" ""Irs in the hands of
e it one of thf! Wl iris worth
'"'i trusted drivers and either1
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O TAFT STANDS
O- FOR MECKLENBURG O
DECLARATION O
O
Mr. Taft is speaking this af
& terr.ocn in the auditorium at
& 4 o'clock. Chairman E. B. O
Moore, of the Central Commit-
tee, made this change in the
hour and place thii afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
Interest in the president's visit
to Charlotte has centetred in .
attitude he would take toward
tlA TJl prllfnKnrn riial a ra t inn nf
independence. I1"""1 1,1 '"' hi ;" '""," "
Mr. Taft takes the position .jand cheered and cheered again, and
that regardless of the exact
O language of the declarations
O made in May, 1775, a full year
before the signing of the Decla-
ration at Philadelphia, July 4,
1776, the fact remains that there !
was a declaration of independ
fr ence on the part of the citi-
f- zens ot i c rx n Carolina.
"It is not so material as to O j
the exact language used," said
O the president tcday.
"The measure of declaration .
for the principles of civil liber- ;
ty and self-gcvernment is not .
sc much the abuse or denun-
ciation of former contrcllinig &
power, as previsions made fsr
future form of eovernmer.t. The
impressive thing about the
North Carolina proposition z
4y the sensible way the people cf
the state after deciding to sever
relations with Great Britain
went about the matter of setting
4 up a government of their own.
The president in his speech
O late this afternoon dees not j
undertake to reconcile long ex-
O istina diifferences. The im-
Vf . r"
portant thing, after all, he ccint-
ed out, is the ability of Anglo-
Saxons to rule and the im-
pressive way they always have
gone about the setting up of
SENATOR JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON,
Of Alabama.
waved a Myriad flags, and li.? rieht
jwas inrxp:e:-.s!b!y b'v.uJif.il. Tho
, president slid a.id faced t'e Khrmt
Jing mu'titule It . f.w rain at es wbllo
simDle and iust forms of nov- i tiie crowd pa :-.; !.
ernment and the means of O The Pre .id ;.i war. trd in tho
O maintaining civil liberty. 'centre t.f the strand stand. His niili-
Itr.ry a:de - . i:-;tt s.t iK-xt to Lira.
Continue! n j age two.
America s Greatest
Historic Controversy
The seeming utter disappearance J aulhor of ::p.ec'!ot-s e;f t'..e Am'Mican
from the face of the earth of the Cape lievoi iticn !:5d a eery.
Fear Mercury is responsible fer tho' It is known thit a .-'.py was Rent
greatest historical controversy of (by the loyal govern'- of Nor'h ('aro
modern times in America. The dis-j Una. Martin, to the Harl f I)art
cussion involves the question whether i mouth, in Knglctid. and that it was
GRAND STAND BUILT SPECIALLY FOR REViEW OF PARADE AND SPEAKING BY PRESIDENT.
(Shows Decorations of Court House, Lawyer's Euildinig and Monument to Siginers.)
taken oet of the liritih I'e PajKr
Office ciieir the cor.trevcrsy aroso
and n fiver returned.
Th?se ihroo c'j-,if.-.i tre gne. They
question
or not a Declaration of Independence
was adopted in Charlotte on May 20,
1775. antedating the national Declara
tion by a year and more.
The circulation of the Cape car i arc cnlv three of the em ire . l ine, 1773.
Mercury was of coarse small, for the (issue of the Mercury, tr, wfci-vh clue.3
country was sparsely settled in those j have ever b'en obtained,
pioneer days but surely there must i Stimulated Patriotism,
have been at least a hundred or two J The controversy rs to Mtcklecburg's
hundred readers. Yet not a single and North Carolina's micriiy in de-
copy has ever been found, since tho
great controversy of 1S19.
The Three Copies Used.
It is known that Judge Francois
Xavier Martin, author of the history of
North Carolina, had a copy.
daring independence' has had" a power
ful effect in iriimuliting patriotism
and the love of freedom in the hearts
cf Southerners. Grant and other pres
idents have continuously refused to at
tend the anniversary celebrations here.
It is believed that Alexander Garden, (Continued on page I, 2nd section.)
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