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BY AL FAIRBROTHER HOLTON HAS SAY Says We Saw Cross Eyed In Places. O THE Editor of "Ev erything"," Greensboro, "N; C. Dear Sir : In your issue of last Satur day you throw 40 fits a minute because you saw or heard of a r letter I had written to the edi tor of the Winston-Salem Journal, under date of March 3rd, in which I called him to account for charging Mr. Morehead with betraying Mr. Duncan. In your frenzied condition, re ferring to Mr. Morehead, you state that "he never betrayed Duncan in the manner sug gested by Holton. Never ! Because John Motley Morehead isn't built that way." You were certainly cross-eyed when you wrote this. You were looking at Mr. Mar tin's editorial in which he . had called Mr. Morehead "a "Brutus" and a 'traitor to Dun can ; or you must have had too much of the :stuph." y ;;v: ..v.h;h not nublish mv'letter. but used more space to criticise and falsely represent , x il :t- ,1rl Vnir -rfnnire1 tr mv siaiemenLb man n w wmvx "i publish the letter. Read my letter and look straight at it, and you will find the following: "In your editorial of today you attempt to malign the character of Mr. Morehead by call ing him a Brutus, while you extoll the virtues of a man you have in the past, before he was the Vice-President of this Railroad, abused and denounced in equal if not stronger terms than you are now denouncing Mr. Morehead. Mr. Morehead's action an" this matter is in- no way. subject' to criticism, for he positively refused to allow his name to go before the convention -until the demands of the convention forced it upon him." How does this look? Did I charge Mr. Morehead with betraying Duncan, as you StcltC ? Another statement in your editorial I must call, to your attention. You say: "Eugene Holton and Santford Martin of little fun. Col. Martin in his Journal, in talking seriously with Mr. Holton, explains some things. Col. Holton intimated the Journal was corrupt because a Railroad president, doubtless Mr. Fries, a pro gressive and enterprising citizen of Winston, owned some stock in the paper-and Col. Martin, in his rejoinder, reminds Mr. Holton that he himself has a thousand dollars stock in the same wicked paper. This is humor Pure simple humor. Possibly Mr Holton had forgotten he owned a thousand dollars stock in the paper that had been perverted and de based because a very progressive citizen who happened to be a railroad president, acting upon Mr. Holton's judgment, had also taken a block." Mr Martin, in one of his fits, inadvertantly made the charge that I owned a thousand dol lars stock in his paper. He so published in : his issue of the 7th, and in his issue of the 8th he retracted. I denied it in a signed state ment, published in three papers, including the Journal, 3 days before your publication. You certainly knew when you published the above that it was false, or else you did not read. (We read; but our article was printed be fore Mr. Holton's explanation appeared. .We print first side Wednesday, second Thursday, in order to reach subscribers over the state by Sunday.) v ctstP that I charsred Mr. Fries with being corrupt, because he was the pres- ident of a railroad. This is anotner cruss-ccu K. - . . .1 - A Vlance I made no such charge, as a reaaing of my 'letter will show. ' It is passing strange that the newspapers A L milm.H nresulents and controlled by big corporations are so sorely grieved over i;t5ra1 demise of Mr. Duncan, who for 20 vears has been at the head of what you - 1 : . called the "pie-counter brigade." In your ar ticle you state: s "Mr. " Holton may explain, he may argue, he may talk but the fact remains that the Republican party in N. C. has never cared for the people; it has been always a party of pie and plunder, and for Holton to unblushingly stand up and say anything about the 'pee-pul' is to laugh-to laugh long and loud, and won der why such a shrewd lawyer as 'Gene Hol ton would have the nerve to write such a let ter as he has written, because he knows that the ordinary voter has ordinary intelligence." When you make this charge you condemn the man the Republican State Convention displaced, for Mr. Duncan has been the dis penser of Federal - patronage all these years. He has also been the bosom friend of railroad presidents, the founders of the American To bacco Co., and other big corporations work ing in harmony with your paper. So long as this condition existed the Republican party was doomed to remain a' "pie-counter brig ade." v I am not at all surprised that. you fly - r SUBSCRIPTION. $1.09 A TEAR, SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS are many factions Democrats Outnumber The G. O. P. People. T TIMES we are called on some of our propositions, and last week because we talked about factions in the republican party a good republican who observes things as we go along, writes us ! to tell us that he doesn't often get mad but .when he read what we said he took a slip of paper, and set down the names of the different factions in the democratic party and found that that party had fifty to one as compared with republicans. v He said that all over the state each district was filled with factions men who went out and fought. "Here in Greensboro alone," he says, "if you will look over the field you will find as many factions as there are fleas on a yellow dog." Then he cites the .Osborn fac tion ; the Brooks faction; the prohibition fac tionwell, he says there is no use to enumer ate because space is believed to be valuable. And we guess, after looking it over that he is. rijrht The democratic party in North Carolina today is filled with dissatisfied peo- yle. Take the Raleigh situation and see what the machine or the gang or the leaders, so called, are doing for J. Bryan Grimes. They are simply wrapping around him the winding sheet. Mr. Als Watts, the smooth politician from' Iredell has gone to Raleigh and read the riot act and says Mr. Hartness must be Secre tary of State and behold, before the corpse is prepared they are now burying it. Of course Mr. Grimes, presumably secure in the confidence of the machine never suspected that he would be thus, ruthlessly dealt . with thus witness his erstwhile friends dissemble their love and kick him down stairs simultan eously but ' such a picture appears upon the film. And wherever you go, as our corre spondent, angered, points out, Faction stacks up like the lone sky scraper in Columbia, South Carolina. We are glad our attention was called to this. into fits when this condition is being changed ; no one who reads jour paper doubts the pur poses of its creation and existence, but the people will not be longer deceived nor led by presidents of railroads and big corporations, and in your dreams and solicitude for these big corporations the history of the state should be presented to the younger genera tion you are now seeking to mislead. When the railroads were being built in N. C, millions of dollars were subscribed to aid in their construction by cities, towns and counties, for which the people gave their obligation tcf pay with the assurance that they would receive stock which would ultimately be worth par, but by process of receiverships these stocks were rendered worthless, with the obligations of the people to pay these bonds still resting upon the tax-payers. Take for illustration the counties along the railroad from Greensboro to Wilkesboro; the counties, of Forsyth and Wilkes each contributed $100, 000.00; the townships in Surry burdened themselves with taxation which they are now annually paying. Scarcely had the whistle sounded at North Wilkesboro before the road went into the hands of a receiver and was sold at auction at the depot in Winston and bid in by the railroads for Two Thousand Five Hundred ($2,500.00) Dollars per mile, arid within 30 days thereafter this same road was mortgaged by its new purchasers for Y$o,ooo.oo) Dollars per mile, and watered stock for Thirty-five Thousand ($35,000.00) Dollars per mile was issued, and the people expected to pay in the way of passenger and I , 1 1 L. 1 xUa - 4-U n m rr-4- - -- ireigni uurgcb mc ihlcicl un n.v. debt witn dividends upon xne waiereu muck. This is only one instance of the treatment the people have received throughout the state, arid you shedding crocodile tears over the op- pressed and down-trodden railroads. Why not manifest a little interest in the people of Wilkes who still owe their Hundred Thou sand ($100,000.00) Dollars, and have nothing in return therefor. Did you ever hear a Democratic newspaper or speaker criticise the Republican party for keeping at the head of the party a big railroad official, while this process was going on? I am not surprised that you should fly into fits when the Republican party in the state is be- ing placed in a position to go before the peo- pie liberated from conditions that have so long estopped the party from exposing the at- titude of their oppenents towards the tax- payers of the state. Respectfully, A. E. Holton. P. S. I notice in the same issue of your paper and on the same page on which you refer to me, an editorial on the fitness of Mr. Brandeis for the position of Supreme Court Justice, you say : - "Brandeis is all right so far as moral char acter is concerned. Guess there is no doubt about that but he sees things. Might as well try to make it appear that a btuT-dog wouldn't SATURDAY, MARCH 18,1916. a dignified leader N OTHING but pleasantness marked the proceedings of the different factions in contending for their favorite routes of the new High Point road. The Guilford College forces were led by Dr. L .L. Hobbs, who presented that side of the case in a forceful manner. He had a carefully prepared paper wrich he read, and when it came to being the floor manager for his people he was dignified, patient and made no enemies. It was evident he was in earnest, and we congratulate the Guilford College folk on hav ing such a leader. j Watts Biggest Tax Payer. The Raleigh News and Observer carries this interesting news item from its Durham correspondent : "Who is the largest individual taxpayer in North Carolina? Durham has a claimant for the distinction. George W. Watts, multi-millionaire, pays yearly in actual taxes to State, county and city the sum of $27,790.95. His bulk of bank stock alone ac cumulates a tax of $972:24 to State and county funds. To the city of Durham his tax appor tionment is, $l6aatj4.v5tate and county funds 'are enhanced by a' yearly revenue of $11,428.95. The Liggett-Myers Tobacco Com pany tax assessment outstrips all other cor porations in taxes contributed to the county coffers. The actual taxes paid, received yes terday from St. Louis, were $99,813.26. State, county and city figure in the? distribution." And it should also be remembered that Mr. Watts has not been actively engaged in busi ness for several years but each year is giv ing away to deserving charities large sums of money. . . o The High Point Road. The crowd was so big it was sent to the opera house and each American citzen told the Commissioners what he thought about the different routes. The Commissioners will decide in a few days maybe before this is printed. But no matter how they decide the old highway was the one to select. Because in the proposition was the moral obligation. Destroy regard for moral obligations and fin ally even written instruments would be worthless. '' ' i a . The Thing To Do. ' Hendersonville has prepared an advertise ment which she proposes to place in many leading publications in the country telling people that she will give free factory sites to all who want to come to that mountain town to engage in business. This is the way to in duce factories. North Carolina needs them but she must offer something worth while to secure them. They Say. All who go to New York come back and tell us that that old town is drunk with money. That hotels are filled; that theatres A- that the all niht olaces are runninff over and everybody has money to hurn and seem to. be burniner it. Doubtless some of that money will one day come South to spend the -winter. :. -o - At Large. Mr. Bryan goes as a delegate at large from Nebraska. Before this he has appeared at St. Louis in the same role and hitherto some thing was doing. And by the concrete-asphalt road to High Point, there will be something doing this time. You Bet It Will. Washington is just waking up to the fact that it may. take years to catch Villa. You bet it willand it may take a million dollars, Wonder if it is worth the price, calmly re viewed? want to get in a scrap if it were in motion, as to say that Brandeis could give the corpora tions justice in a decision. He wouldn't be dis honest but his temperament is such he can see only one side. It is our hope that the Senate will turn him down." Why not make this same reasoning appli cable to Mr. Duncan as a railroad president in dealing for the railroads against or with the W;i'J':"R; ' 1 X r I ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS is talk for graves But Major Stedman Will Be Nominated. T IS said that Porter Graves, the solicitor from Mount Airy, is being urged by his many friends to run for Congress from the Fifth district. Up to this time Mr. Graves has not publicly announced his candi dacy, and the hope among many of his friends in this immediate vicinity is that he will not. Mr. Graves has made good as a solicitor but he never could be nominat ed. He could make expense for Major Sted man could spend a lot of his own good money and accomplish nothing. For the rea son, now well defined, the democrats of the Fifth have agreed among themselves, the ma jority has, that Major Stedman has fully measured up to all requirements and should be rewarded with another term. Just now when the presidential campaign is on it is un derstood that the less fighting the democrats do among themselves the better for the party and Major Stedman has too many friends to let any one undertake this year to defeat him without a big fight. In each county in the district, democrats and republicans are determined to again send the Major to Wash ington. They know that in the natural course of things the Major will not ask for the place manv more times. They know him to be cap able. They know him to be deserving. They- know him to be one of the very tew ot tne Old Guard the Confederate soldier and they do not propose to see him turned down. Mr. Graves would make a terrible mistake ta-run now. He would be defeated we feel there is no doubt in the world of this and he would gain nothing. The younger men can afford to wait. The few remaining soldiers who are eligible to office in this state can be counted on the fingers of one hand and the younger voters are enthusiastic over the pro position of retaining in office the few left. General Carr could have been nominated for Governor this year had he said the word and -because he is a Confederate soldier was one of the main reasons. Major Stedman will be nominated, and we hope, to save expense and a campaign which is useless, on the first bal lot. That is the way it should be the way manv want it to be. Mr. Graves will be wise in his dav and veneration if he refuses to be rviwlrl !f he will stand ud and say: "Not this time, gentlemen. There is in the field and in the office a competent and deserving gray haired man a man who followed the desper ate fortunes of Lee I will not disturb him.' To say that and mean it would make Porter Graves stronger than anything else he could do. For this time the nomination is not his. Butler Wasn't There. The Salisbury Post remarks anent the re cent convention and the outcome this fall: Pemoorats insist that Marion Butler controlled the re rent Republican convention at Kaleijrh ami the Republi cans themselves deny this very strenuously. It may be that Itutler did not control the convention, but every slcn rather pointed that way. and It will be hard to make folks believe that he did not. Now Butler says he will carry a musket, meaning by that, we presume, that he will follow, not lead, but it will likely prove impossible for Butler to calmly follow another leader. Kather than a jnusket Butler will tote the big sword. We do not think Butler controlled the con vention. There was no evidence of this. But ler was eliminated. He didn't secure any of fice and he didn't seem to want any. All that Butler wanted was the effacement of Carl Duncan. It was an old political feud. Butler went to Raleigh to get Duncan's scalp, and he got it. John Motley Morehead was the leading man of the convention. And Morehead did not desert Duncan until the ditch was reach- ed and then, not for his own glory, but to save the party, he accepted the nomination and election of National ummuteeman. Morehead saw that the convention was ready to give Butler recognition. He knew that in a show down between Butler and Duncan Butler had the cards stacked. So in order to save the party to the Old Guard in order to nnt let the Bull Moose people take it and have it as their very own Morehead said he would accept and he was elected. Butler did not control the convention but had the fight gone to the house as between runcan and Butler Butler forces had the ad vantage. They were in the majority. More head saved the day and uuncan ana iviorc head should rieht now be the best of friends. Tn other words Morehead saved Duncan the humiliation of being defeated by Butler. That is the story and there is no other way to twist it and make it look natural. : o Wants Page. Charlotte is in dead earnest about wanting Page to run for Governor, but many who wmild like to see him run are afraid it is too late. Certainly, the politicians have it all fix ed, and it makes us sad to see Mr. Daught- ridge spending his good money. r v ESTABLISHED MAY, 1902. IS A LONG TRAIL Will Be Hard To Border Bandits. Get NE OF the funny things that have - happened this week is the sending into Mexico of five or six thou sand soldiers for what? To get Villa, the Mexican bandit, dead or alive. And for why? Because a great crowd of bandits had come across the border, entered the United States and shot up a New Mexico town kill ing some sixteen American citizens. There was and has been no positive evidence adduc ed to show that Villa was really with this crowd of marauders ; there is hardly a hope that Villa will be fopl enough to expose him self. He will doubtless seek seclusion---and the army will spend a million dollars for ser vice and nothing doing. We are always against war. But it looks indeed as though it will eventually be up to Uncle Sam to intervene to go into Mexico and straighten things out. Carranza is hon est in his efforts but he is one revolutionist in the saddle recognized, and the other rev olutionists who feel as important as he are not recognized and they are liable to head an up rising at any time. J We have recognized Carranza but if he fails to make good if he is unable to subdue rebellion and while we call Villa a bandit he is no more so than Carranza is or Huerta was it looks like we should ask him to side step and let Uncle Sam go in there and set things" ' right. Of course it might happen, in the provid ence of God, that Villa will be handed over the first few days. But those Mexican bandits are wise. They are apprised of all that is happening and it doesn't look reasonable that Villa would undertake to walk through an open slaughter house into the grave as Watterson has used a figure of speech on an other occasion. Uncle Sam ultimately, if not now, must go into Mexico and put the house in order. Why not now? . o So Fickle. Monday and Tuesday and of course Sun day we were bragging on this glorious cli mate. Even went so far as to sharpen the hooks and bait the minnow hole-was going fishing all right Wednesday. And then when Wednesday came the clouds, were heavy it rained and turned cold just to remind us that March is March no matter where you find it. 0 ' Out Of The Race. The editor of the Laurinburg Exchange thus ruthlessly blots himself out of the race for Governor: If we were the Governor of North Carolina, we would commute to life Imprisonment the sentence of death passed upon Ida Belle Warren and that miserable fellow, Christy, but we would feel that we had Just been human and that we had spared two guilty wretches. We could not say no to one begging for life, but we would believe right on as we do now, that they both deserve the full measure of punishment. It may disqualify us from ever leing (ioveriior, which is baa lndeea. but the electric chair would have to go out of business during our administra tion if we were the chief executive. It is all right to be opposed to capital pun ishment we are with you brother along that line. But if the law says a murderess must hang or be electrocuted it is the highly proper thing to see that the law is enforced if there is no real reason offered why sentence should be rnmmuted. The Warren-Christy combina- tion forfeited its collective life Both the mur- dercr and murderess should be electrocuted. In that way the majesty of the law is upheld. If sentiment is to set aside the law a bad pre cedent is established. It gives woman the license to do things she has no right to do. . Was Funny Business. It is said that the different sections into which the American Tobacco Co. was cut by the Supreme court are all making big money. The R. J. Reynolds Co., once a branch, is do ing a most wonderful business. The Liggett & Meyers Co. are having unprecedented sales as is also the American. And so they tell us the many sections of the Standard Oil Co. dis solved by the courts are all making more money than the parent company ever made so what did the American people gain by dis solving them? Simply took a little fire works from the politician. The goods are no .cheap er cost of overhead expense is -increased, and yet the stock in these companies goes higher and higher and dividends - become greater. The secret is that each company is striving to beat the other and "millions are spent in advertising and a demand for the products is created. Advertising pays.
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