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Trade AT HOME Always BY AL, FAIRBROTHER SAB, SINGLE COPT 8 CENTS SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1916 ON SALE AT TI1R NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS ESTABLISHED MAY; 1903 POLITICS IS TAMEYr TOfto MEET LET WALTER WIN IT v NO MUD IN CAMPAIGN MEXICO MUDDLE .'V v A u V) - i Both Sides Claim They ti mi nr. r-. ? . vv.ui win right HE politicians are talk ing. They arc insisting that they are winners. We have talked with some of the most prom inent democrats and they tell us, in enthusiastic numbers, that Wilson is bound to be elected. Then we go out and talk with the republicans and they tell us tfiat Hughes is just as good as elected right now. And that is the political situation in this bright month of June. There doesn't seem to be any reason for the claims of either side except: The democrats say Wilson has made good ; that his stand on all questions has pleased the American people and surely the American people, ever discriminating, will vote to return him. The republicans insist that Wilson has been vacillating;, that his previous stand on the Mexican situation has been weak and childish, and then they come along and insist with earn estness that the Tariff is still paramount, and that the farmers, the business men and the wage workers will not vote to continue jree trade.- - v " : . -. W But this is only the commencement. As the campaign progresses the issues will be more clearly defined. The newspapers and the speakers and the headquarters of the two par ties will commence to let loose the lurid things in literature and within six weeks there will be a chance for a calm philosopher to sit tack, take his bearings and predict with some sort of certainty what will happen. But the man who is. a politician nd-.whoii never predict accurately. : O- -K Wouldn't Touch Hughes. The Kinston Free Press sess it this way : ton-iiifo nf fho hio-li tiMml'inl nf thn Slnnrme Court. The"! resolution of Senator Thomas of Colorado, already intro duced to debar members of. the Supreme Court from run ning for public office is worthy of some (consideration. But no law would reach a case like that pre sented by Hughes. He wasn't running for of fice. He was sawing-wood in the court room. He was writing opinions and paying strict at tention to his knitting. He refused to talk, just as any good judge should refuse. He couldn't help it. Might as well talk about pass ing a law prohibiting a man from allowing himself to be struck by lightning. There could be no law passed that would put a man on the bench for life. He has a right to resign when he feels like it. And if it happens in the course of human events that a great party feels called upon to ask an associate justice to-run for the presidency hands it to him, no law introduced by Thomas or any other man would cause him to remain on the bench if he wanted to get off. That is carrying the thing tod far. . The idea is to make some people think Hughes had no right to accept the nomination. But he had a right. There was nothing.to hold him. Hughes simply loomed big and -the politicians didn't want him but they saw they had to take him. And they have taken him and he will make a good run. The Wet June. All this talk about June doesn't refer to this year. The poet wanted to know what is so rare as a day in June because he had never or dered a beefsteak on a Pullman. Then they talk about June brides and their finery, and old Jim Riley told us about them when he sat un der the trellis and drank in the June. If it was a June like this it was pretty well diluted with water. This has been more like October. To day and it is cold, damp and altogether dis agreeable. Men talking politics would fight in a minute and nobody said anything about; buying a Palm Beach suit or going to the sea shore. This weather factory is all out of order.: :. ; O r ' The New Law. When Brother Davis gets his new bill pass ed this winter there will be no more cider sold in this great commonwealth. The farmer who has heretofore brought in his gallon and his five gallon jugs and sold cider to thirsty hu manity will find another . source of revenue gone. But what boots it? When it happens you will not walk through weed grown cem eteries and read, on weather stained slabs in scriptions like this: Beneath this stone there lies a man Ills name was William Rider He hit the earth before his time " l!y drinking too much cider. J. W. Osborne's Case. . Mr. J. W. Osborne, formerly of North Caro lina, but now big in the profession of law in New York is having some 'fun proving he was not the man who married another woman. The case has been rather interesting and it. appears conclusively that J. W. is the. victim of a dou ble. v ',, : ., ,-. Inmde Durham Early ln July For Annual Session PROGRAMME has been arrang ed for the State Press Association which meets at Durham in July that will please all the pencil pushers. It used to be pencil pushers, but in these days of type writing machines and Mergen thalers, there arc no longer the pushers or the typos. But Durham will give the boys a rousing welcome. Year ago, so many that we cannot count the Press Associa tion met in Durham. In those days sturdy Buck Backwell was there ; the Tobacco Plant, red-headed was in action. It was before theJ days of the Daily Globe. Caleb Green was do ing editorial work then ; Jim Robinson had just started his Daily Sun and Joe King of the Herald was setting type in Kinston. : Durham was a little city then a hamlet but the Bull tobacco was there and the Dukes were just commencing to lay the foundation to their magnificent fortune. There will be a few of the old boys to go back to Durham but very few. And those who do go ba"ck will see a flourishing and progressive city a city alive and up to the minute in all respects. Where Buck Blackwell had his race track Trinity College, a great institution of learning now stands and where on the main street were vacant lots now marble fronts appear. 'Twill be an eye opener to those who haven't recently visited the Bull City renowned the world around. , Just A Little Too Flowery. Speaker Glynn. used a few fire works in his keynote speech that might have been better used 'at the county fair this fall. But he was addressing the country and naturally, being an eloquent man, he painted pictures with words. President Wilson has made a good president. Of course he hasn't extracted any teeth as Glynn imagined ; he hasn't added anything to the bravery of America as the record at Vera Cruz will always show but all in all he has made a record of which no one need be asham ed. And Perhaps the fire works were not in as bad taste as they might have been had they been addressed to some other presidential aspirants whose names have been on the slate. -o- Do It Now. The story is in circulation that James J. Hill, the great empire builder, had intended to write a strong story endorsing National prohibition. But he delayed doing it and death took him. Every day we read of lost opportunity of pro crastination. The man who intends doing something worth while; of saying something that may benefit his brothers of speaking kindly about a fellow being should do it now. True it is that tomorrow never comes and often the strong are overtaken. Delays are not only dangerous but they often rob the world of much that it needs. Had James J. Hill written and endorsed national prohibition it would have been a wonderful help to the cause. The Children's Home Society. We are all busy and we haven't time to stop and figure out our duty. There are so many things needing our time and our money. We must be excused if we fail to hear all appeals or if we find it impossible to respond to all de mands. But we should carefully consider what is most needed when we give to charity. There is no doubt in our mind but what the North Carolina Children's Home Society is one of the most deserving institutions in the State. Hon. A. M. Scales has interested him self in the work, and as President of the So ciety an appeal is now being: made for help. The Society works for the love of the labor involved. Its mission is to .secure a home for the orphan tot to find it a home with Chris tian people. Human souls are what the So ciety saves. Saves them from want and tor ture. Restores them to Society and to God. If you haven't five dollars get busy to find one dollar. Every penny helps. The time is now and we would like to see- all people who can possibly afford it give something. . : O North Carolina Ready. ' The Washington news is that Senator Sim 11 be forced to so into Mex- ico, while Senator Overman is of opinion that there is nothing to the little flurry. However, all of the members of Congress from this state will stand bv the President, and if he con cludes to ask Congress to declare war he will Kp harlffH hv a preat maioritv of that bodv. Thp rJianecs are that this first bluff will not materialize, but the fact stands out in bold relief that it is only a matter of time until we must go into Mexico. And why not now: . o- - At Any Price. Peace at any pricer provided it doesn't cost over, 98 cents is our motto. L M ANY of Ins tnends are urging Mr. Walter Murpfty, member from Rowan, to be Speaker of the House, This, of course, provided "Pete" -as his friends call him, is elected. But .when Walter Murphy heads a ticket in Rowan county it is a sure thing that he will be successful. Mr. Murphy is a staunch democrat Progressive enough to be safe and sane, and while there are other good men seeking the Speakership, the party will make no mistake in calling Mr. Murphy to the chair.- In fact the party owes him something. One of these days it is going to insist that he run for Congress. -o- -John Henderson. John Henderson who has been for eleven years running the Yancey ville News was a visitor in this print shop yesterday. For eleven years Henderson has. been -running his paper and attempting to show the voters of his coun ty that there, exi&tedjtijfht there, in plain,-full view, a Ring. A Court House ring a crowd of men who farmed out politics; who set the pins; who baited the hooks; who looked after the rabbit gums and who ate the pie. Week in and week out month after month and year after year Henderson lias told the voters about the existing conditions and pointed out the black-winged birds of evil omen soaring around the court house :and he called on the "pee-pul" to pick up their ballots and follow him. But they didn't do it. They heard not the voice of this modern John the Baptist who pro claimed great truths in the wilderness of Cas well they not only refused to listen but they saw to it that the locust and wild honey sup ply was cut short so this week he locked the doors of his print shop threw up the sponge. and was journeying to Lexington where he ex pects to assist in producing the Lexington rlerald. Lleven years hghtmg. Jueven years of toil and drudgery on half rations part of the time-only to at last surrender, acknowl edging there was 110 room for such preach ments as his. Henderson thinks he was right. Perhaps he was but should a man a' low him self to do what Henderson has done. Should a man proclaim himself the friend of a people and try to lead them out of the wilderness when they refuse to be led.'' We should say not. : o - Mr. Bryan There. The news from St. Louis is to the effect that Mr. Bryan states that he has no plank for the democratic platform that he is for Wil- son and will Efo hel ore the people lor mm. This suggests that Mr. Bryan will again pour coals of fire on the heads of his traducers. J he record of Bryan is singularly free of errors. He may not like what is going on but he has never betrayed his party. Mr. Wilson want ed to chloroform Bryan but Mr. Bryan wants to boost Wilson. And as we journey down the pike and mentally take measurements of men we must put that fact in our pipe and smoke it. O Floundering. It is said that the New York Tribune was so completely knocked off its pins in the defeat of Teddy that it hasn t been rational since the convention. It has pulled itself together and is now trying to support Hughes. Politically the New York Tribune cuts little ice. Uncc: there was a time in the days of Old Horace Greely, when the Tribune was the greatest paper in the country. But it is now a reminus- iance. It has neither ability nor stability. What it says for or against will cut but little ice.. They Are Coming. The snake stories are drifting in. We see several worth while, perhaps, in little towns but nothing Greensboro's size as yet. In fact we have issued orders to reporters to take no notice of snake stories unless the principal Snake in the story is over Seventeen Feet Lone-.- We haven't time to monkey with ten and twelve feet snakes. Get to it with length if you bring a Snake Story to our Snake editor who is very busy. . Clean Candidates and But One Issue Before Country T WILL BE. interesting to know what the mud slingers will do in this campaign. Hughes is a clean man has been through the fire and came . out. not wanting. Wilson is clean. He has been before the public and no shame attaches to him. Two big men strong men, running for the highest office in the land and "each one standing for about the same thing save the tariff. Peace and Preparedness have been juggled. The country is in favor of lace, but not at any price, and it will feel as secure with Wil son as with Hughes, therefore there is but one issue. And another tiling now conies home to all of us. We have had democrats and republicans run this country. We have passed along and the average man wouldn't know whether his president was a republican or a democrat if he didn't read. The democrats have imposed a war tax and explain it because of conditions abroad. The man in Big Business hasn't made as much money as he would otherwise have made, but the average man has lived ; his prop erty and his person have been protected therefore he doesn't know and doesn't care who is president so far as his real interest is concerned. The fight will be purely one of personality. Democrats who want pic will whoop it up for Wilson and republicans who want pie will whoop it up for Hughes. Those in business who want protection will vote for Hughes and try to show the farmer and laboring man that it is to their interest to vote for. him. That is all the campaign can be. There will be no mud to throw, and let us all be thankful to God for that. -0- Something Doing. We had concluded that the davs of the fight for county printing had passed. We had con cluded that in this day of fierce commercial ism the patriots who administer to county af fairs simply handed out what notices must be printed, and never once thought of reward ing the editor who had come to stay and who filled the long felt want with neatness and dis patch. We knew there was a time when to get the county printing, the delinquent tax list and a few other sustaining columns of solid nonpareil, meant a great deal to the pale and emaciated patriot who each week whooped it tip for the ' party and who lived on cord wood and watermelons. But we sus pected that in the days of the Mergenthaler, the days when a man no longer could take, as Sam Jones put it, a shirt tail full of 'type and; a cider press and print the Clarion of Truth, that the business office was part of the news paper and the business office sawed wood ac cording to the modern rules. But not so. List en to this from the Hillsboro Enterprise: It spems to puzxlc Pro. Thompson why the County Fath ers -oull lot the County printing to the Knlerprise :it $l.rt0.nfl ier yenr instead of giving it to the two other County papers at s:titMN er year wny save me oumy iiu.w per year? I'.ro. Thompson cannot see how a paper erni le Independent. We fear Hro. Thompson lias kept i-c.inpriiiy with "The White Sti-kers" and the Iog I-iw .Makers"' until his vision is not elear. Whv have the farmers not rei-eived a square deal at Chapel Hill? Why have the farmers . no telephone connection with the KxHiange at Chapel Hill? Orange Countv farmers have leen led around alout as long as thev care to be by their office seekers who claim to be their friends every two years. I-rom now on van-n eui think and vote for Their Kights. Now then, nlarrue take 'em what has the esteemed Chapel Hill News to say to this What can it say when it is an apparent fact that in their wisdom the County Fathers had saved to the horny hstea sons 01 ton at least two hundred cold and clusmy plunks. And the square deal and the other things mentioned, nnlv inridontallv of course. Hark back, fond memory go back to those other and sweeter ; days the days recorded by Artemus wara when he wrote in his Bungtown Bugle: "We have added to our office a new wash trough through which the water flows in an entirely new hole below. What has the hell hound of the Clarion to say to this? o To Be Sure. Vn;hinrrton news with a bier head says the Hpmnrrnts r.lan an aETETessivc campaign to elect Wilson. To be sure. And the repub- licans plan an aggressive campaign to elect Hughes. And by September there will be the warmest campaign witnessed in this country for many a year. The democrats claim Wilson can win and the republicans, always audaci- w -w 1 1 . 1 ous, insist that Hughes is aireaciy eiecieu. The Pity Of It. It is understood that Sherman's Army is marching this way to join the county newspa per onslaught on the democratic party. If this happens we fear the worst will have come to worst. All sorts of preparatory measures are being taken, but it is the opinion of Chairman Hines that if this news is confirmed all will be lost. fw5 Uncle Sam Getting In Readiness Now MIX-UP IS ON over in Mexico and - there is something doing, As we go to press the army is beiug mobilized ; the. Na- into different camps ; at different places and each soldier is expecting to be called to the front to go to Mexico. Cncle Sam has been guilty of watchful waiting already too long. Car ranza is about ready to see that he made a mistake in allowing Pershing to go in. there. The United States has sent him a note ".refus ing to grant his request which was that Uncle Sam pull out. It may be that right now there will be noth- " ing doing. But so sure as a gun is iron there will be something doing before much- time passes. If this little misunderstanding-is fixed it will only be a day or a week or a mbnth until other bandits cross the border and fill with terror the settler. The interests of-the Americans not only in Mexico but along the border from Texas to California are in jeop ardy, and these border bandits arc a part and parcel of the citizenry of Mexico. For all the years since Mexico has been on the map she has given us trouble in one-way or another, and in all the years to come it wity continue. Uncle Sam doesn't want ta fight. Peace is always preferable, but. our duty 1$ clear and. has been clear. It is up to us to take Mexico and control her. Better .do it oeacefullv if wp ran- hiit if wi pan't ".force of armsr vThere are timeRin'thhisory of Nations, that force is- the only thing-that can be used to promote civilization and lasting peace. This is one of the times. Painting A Church. In Durham they have found a way to paint a church that is rather novel. Some time ago in uii oiiuh. i" iiif t.-i xiuiiaiii uapLisL church Mr. W. A. Erwin handed the congre gation this: ; . . -. "Save all of the money for two weeks that yon; have been In the habit cf spending- for tobacco, moving pictures and soft drinks," .Mr. Krwin told the congregation, "and place It iu the paint fund. Hltould there be any deficit, I will make up the total jiuiouut needed. They all got busy and the plan .worked. The church will be painted immediately. This was a ratner interesting proposition, ine way is here opened for many improvements in schools and churches. Self denial for a short time soft drinks, tobacco and chewing gum and presto a church is painted. That is all right. , o " Unless the democrats get away from3-this Hundred Million Dollar so-called war tax- and put some tariff on the free goods. they will have a hard time to hold lots of good' business men in line. Tariff will be paramount no matter what some may think just now. And They Will Be Milsedj And now each town and city Will. commence to pack up soldier boys and send them:. to the front. Some will come home and .tell about iV while others will perhaps bite the dust. . The spirit of adventure; the energy and vim of Youth cause them to rush forward.. The old gray beard sits back and thinks that maybe, after all, Father Time did him a kindly chore when he painted his whiskers white. You can hardly pick up a paper these days without reading about the capture of a big still in some county. It is seldom-the men operating the stills arc taken, but the-still is alw-nru fniind. T ust where these mnorrshiners . j dispose of their . likker is a question. Colonel John Staple characterizes the Greer law as a "Statutory Exasperation" but - if so many stills operate, and apparently successfully,, it need not be as bad as that. . o ' Something, Doing. This news from Mexico isn't anything com pared to what will happen .when Major: Gen eral Earl Godbey, Brigadier General; Joe Raw ley and Colonel Al Fairbrother; align their guns and ambush Colonel Coble, this- Fall -in;t n fpw davs before election. In. that.iian- guinary conflict which has been predicted, in the democratic meeting; when brother ithus mnptc KrtVier nn tVif filH nf battle and thft red blood flows and. the candidates are "skulp ed;" when Major General. Godbey orders his Mergenthaler men to cast bullets instead of lines 'o type then, my dissatisfied; fellow countrymen we will all know what gore means. They are now calling Hughes and Fair banks the Cold Storage Twins inasmuch as how both gentlemen are supposed. to be able to congeal hot air. If this be true some of the J opposition, spell-binders will find themselves :n an ice floe and Doc Cook will be called in to I 1 1 a. 1 " . ; ncip lllCUl UUl. . ..
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