North Carolina Newspapers

Established 1899 TAFT NOMINATED ROOSEVELT BOLTS Rough Rider Named in Second Convention and Accepts. THE PARTY SPLIT WIDE OPEN Steam Roller Did The Work at The Republican Convention in Chica go—Roosevelt Delegates Refuse to Vote -Sher man Named as Vice President. After the nomination of Presi dent Taft on the first b*.l>t Saturday night by the Chicago convention, the Rooseveit do gates withdrew) met in Orcnest \t hall and nominated Tne >i ne Roosevelt for president, iioose velt accepted the nomination, saying that one of the cardinal tenets of his new party would be, "Thou shalt not steal." The chief reason for his nomination was alleged to be the illegality of the other convention, which had unseated all the Rooseveit contesting delegates. The Roose veit crowd did not bolt until the Tart convention had adjourned. The informal nomination of Roosevelt is preliminary to a convention which will be held in August, and at which time Col. Roosevelt said in his acceptance speech, he will step aside if the new party, when organized, de sires another standard bearer. Representatives of 22 states composed the notification com mittee which led him to the stage, Richmond Pear, on being the Noith Carolina member. TAFT GOT 561. Taft was nominated after the now famous "steam roller." started when the National com mittee seated nearly evei y Tait delegate, had continued its work in the big convention in the Coliseum. It was at 9:25 p. m. He got 561 votes, 21 more than enough to nominate, The Roose velt delegates who sat silent numbered 344. Vice President Sherman was renominated as his running mate. The detailed vote was: Taft 561; Roosevelt 170; LaLolleite 41; Cummins 17; Hughes 2; not voting 344, absent 6. Most of the Illinois, Missouri ana Idaho delegates of Col. Roosevelt refused to sit silent, as he instructed, and voted for him on the roll call. But he held his magnetic sway over Califor nia, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Penn sylvania South Dakota and West Virginia. STEAM ROLLER RAN. All of Friday, and Saturday up | to nightfall, the steam roller; had the right of way, shoving in j the Tail delegates already seated j by the National committee. Tern-' porary Chairman Elihu Root's rulings were always in favor of the steam roller. At first there were roll calls and the issues were fiercely fought out. But aj* it was seen that Taft was going to win on all points, the demands for roll calls finally ceased. The nearest the Roosevelt people ever came to winning was when the California Roosevelt delegates, who had been elected overwhelm ing'y in a presidential primary by the people of the *state, were unseated by the political organi zation of tne party. The popular primary votes were usually ignored, The delegates and galleries had much fun over the steam rolier. When it began to shove ths Taft delegates in by wholesale Satur day afternoon, the gallery shouted down that "it was ex ceeding the speed limit." At one time thousands joined in a chorus of "Choo, choo, choos," imitating the noise of tne engine. There was tremendous . con fusion tnroughout. At one time there were half a dozen fist fights in progress at the same time. President Taft issued a state ment saying that the convention had maintained the principles of the Bill ol R'ghts, which guaran teed liber y to the people; and, no matter what happened in the November election, had saved the Republican party from de struction. P.r contra, Col, Roosevelt charges that the people have' been spurned and that the wick ed money kings have triumphed by thieving. THE PLATFORM. The platform in part reffirms the belief of the party in t'.e protective tariff and declares that the present high cost of living is "not due to the pro tective tariff system, as evi denced by the existence of sim ilar conditions in countries which THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT have a tariff policy different from our own." It declares the party's un changing faith in government of the people,for the people and by the people," expressing its ven erations for the nama of Lin coln. The authority and integrity of the courts, both state and fed eral, must be upheld, the plat form adds; but it decla es in fa vor of "legislation to prevent long delays and the tedious and costly appeals which have so of ten amounted to a denial of jus tice in civil cases and to a fail ure to protect the public at large in criminal cases." It declares the recall of judges "Unnecessary and unwise," yet favors, "such action as may be necessary to simplify the pro cess by which any judge who is found to be derelict in his duty may be removed from office," Tne Republican tariff policy, de clares the platform, "nas been one of the greatest benefit to the country, developing our re sources, diversifying our indus tries and protecting our work men against competition with cheaper labor abroad. "Some of the existing import duties," in continues, "are too high and should be reduced. To accomplish ihis correct infor mation is indispensible. This in formation can best be obtained by an expert commission, as the large volume of useful facts con tained in the recent report of the tariff board have demonstrated." As to the high cost of living the platform declared that the party will support a "prompt scientific inquiry into the cause which are operative, both in the United States and elsewhere, to increase the cost of living," and then when these facts are known the necessary steps will be taken to reduce high prices. Prof. Moser to Return. Connelly Springs is soon to have an acquisition in Prof. G. M. Moser, who returns there after a long period of teaching work in the North at such places as Colburn and Mulberry, Ind., and Linstrom, Minn. The paper of the latter town says: "We regret to learn that Prof. G. M. Moser has tendered his resignation to the school board of this village. During the two years that Mr. Moser has been among us we have learned to re spect him as a gentleman and a scholar of fine attainments. Of southern birth, he possesses those fi ie traits that are truly rare in cne average gentleman and as a teacher and superintendent of our schools, he has earned and merittd the respect and esteem of all who have come to know him a little closer. What has made us further respect Mr. Moser is, that he has firm con victions of his own, has never made any bid for popularity, but has attended to his school work in a professional manner and has allowed "actions to speak loader than words." It is therefore with singular regret that we see him sever his connections here, but he does so of his own accord, for the school board recently saw fit to re-elect him for another yea'' and we surmise too, with the intention that he rhould remain h:re in definitely. To secure a man to fill the bill as has Mr. Moser will be difficult indeed. Drexel Building Rapidly. During the last year many buildings have been erected in tha progressive town of Drexel, ten miles west in Burke county The Drexel Furniture Company have made large additions to their furniture factory and have added a spacious office building near the plant. Huffman & Mull, the pioneer lumber and flour manufacturers, while having not made any addition to their buildings, are doing a flourishing business. The Drexel Knitting Mi Is, also owned by Huffman & Mull, are working to the full capacity to fill orders. J. H. Powell & Son, the new store, have a full line of general merchandise and are beginning with a good business. Baker & Stamey, the new firm to succeed Mr. Stamey, who was associated with his father, are erecting a new store building near the depot and will soon open up a fresh stock of goods. Holv Trinity Lutheran Church Rev. J. H. Wanneinacher Pastor, Sunpay School - - 9:45 a. ra Chief Service - - ll a. ra. I Junior League - - 2:30 p.m. Evening Service * 8:00 D. RA. | Morning Theme - - Our Debt ' Evening Theme, The Trading Servants The Sunday School of Holy Trinity observed its annual outing and picnic, Thursday, on Baker's Mountain. We hope that all have had a very enjoyable time. HICKORY, N.G., THURSDAY. JUNE 27, 1912 ROOSEVELT HOLTS PARTY OFFERS TO LEAD NEW ONE Col, Roosevelt last Thursday night issued a statement of his willingness to lead a new party. He said in part: "I went into this fight for cer tain great principles. At the moment 1 can only serve these principles by continuing to bear the personal responsibility which their advocacy has brought to me. | "On behalf of these principles I made my appeal straight to the people themselves. I went be fore them, I made my argument in full, and every move I made was in the opsn, without con cealment of any kind. The op position to me was extraordi narily bitter for I was opposed oy the practically solid phalanx of the big, conscienceless politi cal bosses, with back of them the practically solid phalanx of the big, conscienceless beneficiaries of special privilege in every form and of course, the many big newit»aper which are controlled by or in the interest of the bosses and special privilege. Nevertheless, in the appeal to the people, I won In many of the Republican States, and of the Democratic States where there is a large and real Republi can party, primaries of different kinds were held, and a substan tial expression of the will of the people was obtained. In these primary States some three mill ion voters, the rank and file of the Republican party, cast their votes; I beat Mr. Taft consider ably over 2to 1. In these States I obtained about six delegates to Mr. Taft's one. Nearly three fourths of my delegates came from these primary States where the people had a chance to ex press themselves. Mr. Taft's strength as indicated by the two roll calls already taken, consisted chiefly (aside from his ninety stolen delegates) of the nearly solid delegations from the terri tories and from the Southern States in which there is no real Republican party —South Caro lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and of Northern States like Nev* York where the people had no chance to express themselves at primaries and where the dele gates were picked by the bosses." After reviewing bitterly and at length the ''stealing" of 90 seats by the National committee, he goes on: "I do not regard successful fraud, and deliberate political theft, as constituting a title to party regularity, or a claim to the support of any honest man of any party. It the honestly elected majority of the conven tion choose to proceed with business and to nominate me as the candidate of the real Republi can party, I shall accept. If some among them fear to take such a stand, and the remainder choose to naugurate a movement to nominate me for the presi dency as a progressive on a pro gressive platform and if in such event the general feeling among progressives favors my being nominated, I shall accept. In either case, I shall make my appeal to every honest citizen in the nation; and I shall fight the campaign through, win or lose, even if I do not get a single electoral vote." Connelly Springs Receiving Much Attention. At the present outlook the Connelly Mineral Springs , hotel will be well filled with rest-seek ing patrons this summer. This result is being brought about by superiority of the drinking water and the splendid mountain breeze —which makes it an un equalled health resort —together with Mr. Henry Vanstory's abi - ity to advertise these facts and entertain the guests after they arrive. Outside the hotel is the J. M. Sides boarding house, is prepared to take care of a num ber of guests. In this thrifty little health re sort the mercantile establish ments that are doing a flourish - ing business are Alexander & Son and D. P. Hudson. Mr, J. E. Coulter is also doing a big business with his stock farm. Oxford Ford. The stork has recently made repeated visits to our little burg. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Isenhour rejoice at the arrival of a son; Rev. and Mrs. P. C. Hemy, a daughter; and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hefner, a son. The First Baptist, Sunday school held its annual picnic at Baker's mountain last Thursday. There were about 150 in atten dance. » It was pronoun ed by all e beat picnic they ever at tended. I MRS. CILLEY'S FUNERAL. Dr. Murphy's Comforting Message at Reformed Church. | The Corinth Reformed church was filled last Friday morning when"the funeral of Mrs Maua Ciiley, wife of Mr. Gordon H, Cilley, of Philadelphia, was held. Tne sad service was conducted by Dr. Murphy, pastor of the de ceased through her {girlhood and young womanhood days. Alter the congregation had sung "There is no night in heav j en" and the cuoir, "'»some day Ae'll understand, " Dr. Murp.iy took as his text: "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shall know hereafter," anG gave one of those comforting messages characteristic of him. God is love, he said, tnough it is hard lor us to reconcile our af flictions with His love. To the grief-stricken present at this time another sonow had come; afflictions seemed to join tnem selves together, so that they were like grapes in a cluster. It was an instance where "deep cal.sth unto deep;" and "all Thy oillows have gone over me." But behind the clouds is the sun, Men may measure a mountain by passing around the base but only till the neight is scaled is tne al titude fully realized. So with Goo's love. Earth's mysteries will melt away when Heavefi be comes a reality. While there are some myster ies in our religion, there are grand certaintes, too. Among them, these: Blessed are tne dead, which die in the Lord;" "There is a rest that remaineth to the people of Ged;" there is no night in His presence. Dr. Murphy paid a lovely trib ute to the life that nad gone. He loved hei as a little girl. On his first pastoral visit to tne members of this congregation, she had driven him in her pony phaeton, and he recaf e 1 even now the great interest r sne took in that introductory visit. He had catechised her; he had seen ner grow up from sweet girlhood to the place of devoted wife and mother, until now she had been borne on angel's wing beyond t:»e skies to rest with her latnar. "We sorrow not," he said, in c'osing, "as those who have no nop* but we look forward to the coming of our Lord and Savior, when we, too, shall be carried above to be forever with Him." The choir sang "The Home land," and the casket was taken to Oakwood and laid away with its precious clay to await the res uriection. Tne same colored men who so recently helped to lay the father to rest, gladly per formed the same sad office for the daughter. The grave wa? covered with the great p • iusion of beautiful flowers which had brought from the church when they had been placed about the chancel. Two of tne loveliest offerings came from Wanamaker's (a wreath of orchids) and from the~~News Room of the Pniladeiphia Rec ord (a beautiful design of pink carnations.) The pall-bearers were? Messrs. Bagby, Mott, Sigmon, Rob. Martin, Fred Abernethy, Dasher, Hoy Abernethy and Koscoe Mous er. Sigmon—Barger. At Bethlehem Ev. Lutheran church, Thursday, June 20, Mr. Dollar L. Sigmon, of Ensley, Ala., and Miss Laura M. Barger were married. Rev. F. K. Roof, pastor of the bride officiated. There were about 50 present to witness the ceremony. Miss Elizabeth Holbrook, of Brookford, played the wedding march. Waiters were Misses Edna Deitz add Lottie Barger; Messrs. H. A. Whitener and Carl Murphy. The bride and groom left the same day on No. 21 for Ensley, Ala., where they will make their home. It is a suburb of Bjrtning harxi. A most excellent and inviting weddin » dinner was prepared at Mr. John Murphy's. Beautiful Wedding in Highland. A beautiful wedding took place in Highland Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Annie Huffstickler, when Miss Stella Huffscickler and Mr. W. A. ; Starr were united in marriage. 'Squire W. H. Moser officiated. ' The wedding was attended by about forty friends and relatives of the bethrothed. Soon after the ceremony was performed the couple went to the home of Mrs. Starr's mother, where they will reside tempor arily. Miss Myrtle Settlemyre has returned frcm a weeks visit to 1 her grandparents at Conoyer. r ■ • •. * - i ■■ Home Course Road Making V. — Basic Principles of Road Administration* By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. Copyright by American Press Asso tv - ciatlOß, 1912. , THE roads of the United States are worse than the roads of any other civilized country on •the face of the globe, and our systems of road administration are for the most part extravagantly wasteful and totally inefficient and inadequate. Until within the past few years the policy of extreme localization prevail -3 >• • v >•' . V : " ■ f: | • •>. H.'••• & * •r> • * - .• • *7 * ••• ass mM ■ ' ••• V& - . % /••-••v.. • .. " •' : $ y " ' v v \ *C* *' '** . y . ? **• . . '•"* Urn; THIS ROAD WAS LOCATED AND OONBTBUOT KD BY ▲ COMPETENT HIGHWAY BNOI -- NEBU. Ed in all the states in the administra tion of the public roads, and today this policy prevails in a great majority of the states. It places upon the county and in most cases upon the road dis tricts or townships the entire burden of constructing and maintaining roads-- and leaves to it the initiative as well as the-final determination as to the pol icy which shall be pursued in carrying on the work. Our road laws for the most part do not contemplate the necessity for skill ed supervision in road work; hence most of the work is done under the direction of men who have no knowl edge of road building and who have only a passing Interest in it. This is a situation which is truly amazing, for skilled supervision is demanded in practically every line of work. To the trained road builder it is evident that no morQ prolific source of waste can be found than in unskilled supervision There are, including county and township officials, at least a hundred thousand road officials in the United States, each exercising a practically independent authority. Can we ex pect efficiency in an army in which all are officers and none is the rank and flle?^-- In nearly every public or private en terprise some measure of Bklll Is re quired of the men who are expected to carry on the work. When a building is to be erected a number of men, each skilled In his own craft, are employ ed. One does not find that this man is employed because he needs the mon ey aud thnt one because he Is a good fellow and the other because he has political Influence, but because he Is a skilled carpenter, competent bricklay er, a trained and capable painter, etc.. throughout the entire transaction. The civil service of the United States is made up of people selected after ex amination. Our public schools are In oharge of teachers who have been awarded certificates after proper pre liminary training and examination. Is it not surprising, therefore, that we are willing to intrust the expendi ture of $140.C00,000 annually In the building and care of our public roads, so essential to our welfare and even our happiness to 100,000 men, most of whom are selected without any regard whatever for their technical and prac tical experience? In order to have skilled supervision the technical training and experience of the highway engineer are necessary. There Is a popular idea prevailing in some sections that engineers are not essential to road improvement. This, however, is a very erroneous idea. An engineer, by reason of his technical knowledge, can secure the easiest grade for a roadway consistent with the traffic for which it is designed. By determining the drainage areas he Is able to compute the proper size for culverts, he is able to design the bridges to suit the needs of traffic, to estimate the quantities and cost of ma terials, select proper road building ma terials and prepare plans and esti mates. Furthermore, he stands be tween the community and the con tractor and is able to give impartial Justice to both. Ther? 1a one element IB American Democrat and Press,Consolif a ted i 905 I road administration v hlch Is universe I ly conceded to bo the very acme of in i efßelency—nacTely, statute labor ant the working ?ut of property taxes Men who work out their tax do grudgingly because they think the: are being Imposed upon. They do i poorly beeause it is a work which the; know but little about. They render thi least possible amount of service be cause it seems -to be the general un derstanding that the object of tb> statute laborer should be to shirk worl rather than to perform It. There i scarcely any attempt at discipline, an it is obvious that discipline with such •in assemblage of workmen would be impossible. Many of the states provide for work ing out the property road tsx, and thir of weaitffH* flian statute "labor, tor in 1904 about $20,500,000 of the property tax was i»aid in labor, or, in other words, was practically wasted. Opposition on the part of ultra con servatives to the general Improvement of the public roads is frequently based on the belief that the advocates of road improvement contemplate sur facing with hard material the entire 2,000,000 miles of earth road in the United States. They point to the fact that to macadamize 2.000,000 miles at $5,000 per mile would cost $10,000,000,- 000. That this is a mistaken view of the subject can be easily demonstrat ed. When all the roads of the country are classified according to traffic re quirements it will result in the elimi nation of many thousands of miles of totally unnecessary road and of many more thousands of miles by relocation, straightening of curves and various other expedients. Careful investigations have been car ried on in various parts of the country which prove that about 20 per cent of the roads accommodate about 90 per cent of the traffic, so that if the roads are to be Improved in such a way as to do the greatest good to the great est number it will be necessary to im prove only about one-fifth of the total mileage with stone and other hard ma terials, leaving the rest to be taken care of as earth roads. The whole subject of road improve ment in the United States is now pass ing through a transitory stage. We are striving not only to meet the new conditions of traffic with new forms of construction, but our various state legislatures are actively engaged in endeavoring to meet the demand for road improvement by the enactment of suitable legislation and by the appro priation of. the necessary funds. We have tried many expedients in the administration of our public roads, among them the toll road system, which Involves private control over a public utility. This is manifestly unsouud in a public enterprise, and it is a source of gratification that the tollYoad sys tem Las been largely abandoned. Even in the states which have fol lowed a progressive policy during the last few years most of the roads are still under local control. Year by year we have been frittering away our mil lions maintaining the roads in their primitive condition until t.he yearly tribute of road taxes in the United States now amount! to over $140,000,- 000 and our petty road officials have grown to an army more than 100,000 strong. The incompetence of a large number of officials is more diffioult to remedy than the- incompetence of a sin gle official. It is manifestly impossible for a district or township with limited revenues to secure the assistance, ad vice and supervision of a high grade engineer, whereas in a centralized sys tem the cost is so widely distributed ns to impose but a slight burden on * » THIS BOAD WAS REPAIRED UNDER THE STATUTE LABOR SYSTEM. each of the smaller units. In the pur chase of supplies and equipment a large saving can be effected by cen tralization, while in the reduction of personnel and in standardization of methods and equipment still greater economy results. It cannot fall to im press every thinking man that a sys tem of extreme localization will mean an entirely unnecessary multitude of officials and irregular and ill directed road improvement. It Is apparent that the smallest unit for effective control In the administra tion of road affairs is the state, al though excellent results have been ob tained under county systems where all the roads are placed under the jurisdic tion of a competent and skilled high way engineer or superintendent. Our highway departments, both coun ty and state, should be entirely free and away from political influences. All road work should be placed in the hands of trained and experienced road builders, and all road taxes should be paid in cash. Road officials and care takers should have sufficient compensa tion to justify them in devoting their entire time and attention to the work. Under such a system properly admin istered It will be to secure a dollar's worth of work for every dollar expended, which is certainly not the case at the present time, except where this plan bus "Jready been adopted. H) . SHEP. DUGGER, OF AVERY. We do not know what has become the candidac , as an Independent, if our friend Shepherd M. Dugger in e new county of Avery. But we do :now that the new county with the atoiic name, would honor itself by ending Dagger to the Legislature. Dagger has a national reputation as a poet. The New York Suit has given him a column and a half at a clip, elitorially mind you, at that. Dugger ia his appeal to the people, well says; The County should present itself to :ne State as a suppliant child, con zincing its parent that it is worthy of food pnd raiment. If we want lower .axes, a plea will be better than a sght. In all we ask for, a plea will serve us best. And who could present the plea of the suppliant with such poetic ferven cy as the Swan of Banner Elk? He points out that he has often visited the Legislature for weeks at a time, has written bills which have become acts, and knows how so well that he could write the necessary laws beforehand for Avery, submit them to the elector ate and then take them down in his westcoat pocket as soon as elected. It looks as if Dugger is the ideal man. Judge Clark's Platform. The following is the platform of Judge Waiter Clark, candidate forU. S. Senate, in the Demo cratic primary, Nov. 5: 1. Adequate and unequivocal legislation that will destroy the Trusts. 2. Tariff for Revenue only. Protection levies tribute, in favor of a class, upon all other classes. It is unjust and undemocratic. 3. El ction of U. S. Senators and U. S. Judges by tha people. 4. Election of Postmasters by the people of each locality. 5. The adoption of the Initia tive, the Refendum and the Recall—the latter for such offices State, county or town, as may be designated by law. 6. State-wide primaries for U. S. Senators and all State officers. 7. A Parcels Post for the coun try districts. 8. Public regulation af Rail roads and other common carriers, but operation of the Telegraph and Telephones by the Post-office, as in all other countries. This will Rive lower latestothe public with shorter hours and better pay to employees. 9. Extension of Public Schools and Good Roads. . 10. Enforcement of laws regulating hours of labor, pro hibiting child labor and requiring safety appliances. 11. He advocates the destruc tion of corrupt methods by strict restriction of the purposes and amounts for which candidates, or others for them, can expend money at elections and in Pri maries, and Full publicity of all such expenses, before and after each primary and election. 12. He also fav rs putting Confederate soldiers on U, S. Pension list, not only in justice to them, but to stop the financial drain from the South, which has already paid tr Federal Pensions more than the War Indemnity (1,000 million dollars) which France paid to Germany. 13. Execution in good faith after election of all pledges made before. The reorganization of China has been made possible by the complete understanding reached today by the bankers represent ing: the six great powers, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia and Ja pan, to loan China $300,000,000. The loan is is to meet the urgent needs of China such as the dis banding of the troops, the dis charge of the current obligations and the setting up of the new administration. Well-Conducted Businesses will not suffice with cheaply printed office stationery and advertising literature. The b st is none too good—in your ideals—to build up .the suc cessful business wished to be obtained. 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