Established 1899
UICM PROPER lAS
4237 INHABITANTS
Principal C. M. Staley's Count
in School Census.
1450 CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE
This is a Gain ol 49 Over the Pre
ceding Census—City Divided for
the Purpose Into Four Parts
b y Southern Tracks
and 13ih Street
The school census of Hickorv,
which has recently heen taken,
shows that there are 1450 chtiu
ren of sencol age within the ciiy
limits. This is a gain of 49 ovti
tne preceding census whica gave
a school population of 14U1. Inete
are at present 1060 white school
subjects in Hickory, ai.d 390
colored.
Along with the school census
an accurate record was maae of
the totai population of Hickory.
A systematic record was made ol
every house with the totai num
bt r of people living in that house.
Tne total population ot Hickory
is 4237. Ot this number 3145
are white people, and 1092 art
colored. This record is m the
hands of Mr. C. M. Staiey, and
can be venfied at any time.'.
Taking the Southern R. R.
tracks as an east and west divid
ing line and Thirteenth street as
a north and south line, the city
was divided into four parts, or
wards. In the south-east ward
there are 345 white school sub
jects, and a total white popula
tion of 1032. In the south-west
ward there are 220 school sub
jects, and a total population of
(399. In the north-west ward
tnere are 300 school subjects, and
a total population of 897. In the
north easp ward there are 192
school subjects, and a total popu
lation of 516. The census of the
colored population has not been
oivided Dy wards.
The total number of white
families in the south-east ward
is 200; in the south-west ward,
155; in the north-west ward, 187;
and in the north-east ward, 106,
making a total ol 648 white fami
lies in Hickory. The average
size of a family in North Caro
lina as a whol is a fraction more
than five persons to each family,
but in Hickory it is a little less
than five persons. The population
of Hickory has not increased over j
200 persons in the last two years.;
Farmers Getting. Better Prices.
Washington Dispatch, 11U1.
The farmers of the country
were paid more by 17.5 per cent
for their products on July 1 this
year than they received last year
at that time, Victor H. Olmsted,
chief of the bureau of statistics,
Department of Agriculture, an
noanced today.
This increase in prices was the
average on crops which repre
sent about three-fourths of the
value of all crops of the nation.
The increase in prices in cents
being paid the farmers July 1
this year included.
Corn 11, wheat and oats 15,
barley 12, rye 6 1-2, buckwheat 6,
potatoes 7, hay $1.56.
There was an increase of 7 per
cent in the price of flax seed and
3 cents in cotton.
Increase in the prices of other
products included:
Hogs 99 cents; beef cattle 80;
veal calves 61; eggs 2 12, butter
3; sheep 28; lambs 51; milch
cows $1 98; milk 2 1-2; beans 43;
sweet potatoes 16; onions 21;
clover seed $2 89; timothy seed
$144; wool, unwashed, 3; cab
bage 21; broom corn $lO [ton];
bran $3.48.
Prices paid for cotton seed de
creased $4.14 a and for
apples 27 cents.
C. & N. W. Train Catches Two on
Trestle.
(iatonia Special to Observer, 11th.
Lewis Perkey, 18 years old, an
employee of the Loray Mill was
instantly killed by a Carolina and
North-Western train this after
noon and Miss A.da Gibbie about
17 years of age suffered a brok
en leg.
Perkey and Miss Gibbie had
teen to the country on a black
berry hunt and were returning
to the city and were walking the
i ail way trestle across the Antho
ny branch, when they were run
down by the northbound mixed
train which is due to arriye here
about 5:30.
Perkey was knocked off the
trestle and killed instantly, his
head being crushed, and his bodv
Ladly torn and mutilated. Miss
Gibbie jumped from the trestle
with the result that a leg was
broken.
Miss Eva Smith, of Conover,
visited Miss Alda . Killian last
week.
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
How Ryan Became a Delegate.
Thomas Fortune Ryan, the
man named in Mr- Bryan's reso
lution, was a delegate in the
Baltimore convention from the
Tenth district of Virginia. How
he became a delegate is told in
Washington correspondence to
the New York World.
The representative in congress
from the district is Representa
tive Fiood, Doss of the district
macnine forces. Senator Martin
is the state- boss. The machine
was jor Ciark. The foices under
Tucker (anti-machine * leader)
wc-rj fighting to elect progres
sive s who would vote
for Woodrow Wilson. The ma
chine won. The Flood forces in
the district convention claimed a
majority of sixteen. The Tucker
»n 11 aumnt 0 tuat toe conven
tion was againtt ihtm by a
majority of at least six.
At this stage of the proceed
i ings it was possible lor theJFlood
1 men to nominate and elect two
CUrk delegates.' Instead of
doing this, they proposed, to the
amazement of the progressives,
that all fighting in the convention
should cease. A conference of
the leaders on both sides was
held and the Flood men proposed
to Tucker and his followers that
they should name a delegate and
that the Flood men should name
a delegate, and that the two
. elected in this manner should
be elected unanimously by the
entire convention. In this con
ference the Flood men were
careful to refrain from mention
ing who their man would be.
The proposition was accepted
by the progressives. The Tuck
er progressives named one of
their own number, who has
voted througnout the Baltimore
convention for every progressive'
proposition and is expecting to;
vote for Wilson. Tne leaders on
the otner side, the machine men,
announced their selection as "Mr.
Ryan."
The convention was not even
informed as to the "Mr. Ryan"
meant. The delegates suspected
that they wtre voting for Thom
as S. Ryan, son of the Wail street
manipulator. Tnis younger Ryan
was neither in the convention
nor in the minds of the delegates.
Not until after the convention
had adjourned and Thomas For
tune Ryan had been in this man
ner unanimously chosen a dele
gate was his identity disclosed.
Bryan Would Not Hurt Mrs. Taft's
Feelings.
Lincoln, Neb., Journal. -
That the presence of Mrs, Taft,
wife of the president of the
United States, in the Baltimore
convention deterred Mr. Bryan
from including a criticism of the
President and of the methods
employed to secure his nomina
tion was one of the interesting
statements made in Mr. Bryan's
speech to the enormous crowd
which welcomed him when he
returned home from Baltimore.
In preparing his famous . reso
lution declaring that no man
should be nominated who had
the support of Wali street in
terests Mr. Bryan included a few
woras suggesting that the in
terests had controlled the Chi
cago convention that nominated
Mr. Taft, and also a criticism as
to how the presidents nomination
had been brought about. At
this time Mr. Bryan was taken
over to the box occupied by the
president's wife and introduced
to her. After his conversation
with Mrs, Taft. Mr. Bryan de
cided to expunge the criticism
from his resolution. In speak
ing of the incident, Mr. B r yan
said: "After meeting Mrs. Taft
I withheld that portion of the
resolution, and in the resolution
and in my speech no reference
to the Chicago convention or to
Mr. Taft was made, and I am
not sorry that I spared the
feelings of the president's wife."
This statement was greeted with
applause and cheering.
Bryan's Comment on His Baltimore
Work.
The Commoner.
Mr. Bryan does hot deserve
(however pleasant the compli
ments may be) the credit he is
receiving for what was done at
Baltimore. His part was really
a modest one; he pimply turned
the faucet and allowed a great
moral force to flow in upon the
convention. He did not CREATE
the force, but he knew where
the faucet was and estimated
more accurately than some others
did the height of the stand-pipe
from which the force came. If
he had had the foresight to hang
over the platform the motto:
"Remember the Folks at Home,"
illumined by electricity, he need
not have spoken at all. He
could, by turning on the light,
have made really half the dele
gates hide under the chairs. -
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 18, 1912
WILSON AT DAVIDSON.
-ir
Democratic Nominee Spent One
Year at Presbyterian Institution.
Charlotte Observer.
Davidson, July 27 Woodrow Wit-,
son, better known in his college days
at Davidson as "Tom" Wilson, en
tered Davidson as a freshman in the
fall of 1873, his father at that time
residing in Columbia. He remained
at Davidson, only one year, entering
Princeton in 1875.
In the class of' 77 of which Wilson
was a member was Victor Caldwell of
Cabarrus county; Charles M. Glenn of
Greensboro; Dr. William Battle Phil
ips and Rev. Dr. Thornton Whal ng of
Columbia, none of whom, like Wilson,
remained to graduate. Others who
did continue and take their degrees
were Rev. R. S. Arrowood of Fay
ettville presbytery; Rev. Dr. F. J.
Brooke, a member of the Synod of
Virginia; Thomas W. Dixon of Char
lotte and Rev.'Dr. R. A. Lapsley, of
Rhhmon*.
The college records show that while
Wilson, then a youth of 17 years, had
not developed into the hard student
that he subsequently became his
grades averaged 90, his deportment
standing at 100 and his work in E
gTish and composition being 95 and
more.
An article in the Davidson College
Magazine for November, 1911, by W,
S. Golden of the class of 'l3 reviews
at length his record in the Eumenean
Societv, of which he was early a mem
and closes with this summary: j
"Whether or not a receut writer (in |
Worlds Work) was correct ip saying'
that Wilson received no intelectual
impulse at Davidson, we have do
cumentary evidence that he was a
faithful and orderly attendant upon the
exercises of the literary society, and he
was praised for the acceptable per
formance of tasks assigned him and
that reforms which he strove for at
Princeton were based on principles in
active operation at Davidson, when he
was a student here in the most plastic
period of his life."
The reference to re for ma-at Prince
ton had been touched on by Mr.
Golden in this jparagraph. "The so
ciety as well as the faculty in those j
days enforced a system of strict dis- j
cipline. Members are tried for pro- j
fanity and drinking and the society |
exercised a strong moral control over j
its members. Wilson was receiving
in those days his first impressions of
the world. He was then in the for-'
mative period.
"In later life as president of Prince- i
ton he began to declare his conviction
that the excess of freedom in our •
modern universities is harmful, and to \
labor for more direct control over the j
daily life of students. It seems worthy
of note that the principle of close an 1 j
constant supeivision of students |
which was applied at Davidson when (
Wison was here is essentially the same
principle as that of which the presi- |
dent of Princeton has taken his stand."
It is stated on go.id authority that
Wilson left his monument at David
son in one of the fine, stately elms
that grace the campus in front of the
main building, its planting being his
handiwork.
Refrence was made at the recent
seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in
the presence of the presiding officer,
ex-Governor Glenn, that Glenn then
in college here with Wilson, but a
higher classman and famous foi his
strong baseball arm in the pitchers
box made this laundatory comment:
' Tom you would be a fine baseball
player if yov were not so darned lazy.''
That "Tom"' could, however,
qncken his pace on occasion and
accomplish the utmost in a small com
pass of time is vouched for by others
who say that his most distinguishing
and outstanding quality in those days
was his ability to sleep till the bell
caling to compulsory piayers and
which rang five minutes, was nearly at
a finish, and then bouncing out of
bed, snatching up all necessary ap
parel, dress along the wayside and up
the stairway leading to the prayer hall
and be in place before the bell had
ceased to tap He thus early evinced
the power that today has marked
his race for the nomination, staying
qualities, and ability to "get there "
Others in college with Wilson were
R. M. Miller, Charlotte, class of '76,
Rev. Dr. A. Sprunt and Jerome Ho
mer, '75; the late Dr. P. R. Law, '74,
and F. H. Fries, Winston-Salem, '74.
Marion Butler Calls on T. R.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Dispatch, I2tli.
Ex-Senator Marion Butler of
North Carolina called on Colonel
Roosevelt. "He came here to
announce," said the Colonel,
"that they would hold Republi
can primaries for presidential
electors in North Carolina and
that he believed they were going'
to carry them for me six to one. |
He said they were going to put
the Rooseveit name on the Re-1
publican ticket for electors andj
that there might be Democrats
also who would run for election
as Roosevelt electors. That
would be all the better. In other
words, there will be a sort of
union of the Republican and Dem
ocratic forces it some cases,"
LCOMMeNT I
T. R. COULD HAVE PUT HAD
LEY THROUGH.
In La Follette's Weekly Sena
tor La Follette draws a striking
contrast between Roosevelt and
Bryan as dominating spirits at
the respective national conven
tions of their paiUes. He says;
"Bryan at Baltimore, fore
going a I chance of his own
joominatiwn, marshalling jail his
forces, braving Ttmmany ana
the trusts, to rescue his party
from their dcrnination, carrying
tne convention for the adoption
of the most progressive Demo
cratic platform yet offered, and
the nomination of the most pro
gressive Democratic candidate
available, was, a towering figure
of moral pover and patriotic
devotion to civic righteousness.
"Roosevelt at Chicago, backed
by money derived from the
stock-watering operations of the
steel trust and the harvester
trust, organizing what are now
confessed to have been fake
contests as to nearly two hundred
delegates in order to control the
Republican convention and secure
his own nomination, refusing to
aid in making a progressive
platform, bound to have the
nomination or destroy the Re
publican party, was a most strik
ing example of misdirected
power and unworthy ambition."
Senator La Follette believes
that Ruosevelt could have nomi
nated Gov. Hadley, of Missouri,
if.he had possessed the self-sacri
ficing spirit. It is true that
there was a time when the Chic
ago convention was at the point
of being stampeded for Hadley.
If Roosevelt had thrown his
strength that way it would
doubtless have been augmented
by the Cummins, La Follette,
and other progressive strength,
and a compromise reached which
would have kept the party
welded and perhaps have again
carried the country.
It is significant that Hadley
lost his Roosevelt enthusiasm
after the convention and swung
around to Taft, and that La
Follette is throwing bouquets at
Wilson, while some of his fol
lowers are traveling to Sea Girt
to see him. Taft and Roosevelt
had too near even strength.
They should have retired for
new blood. But Destiny is not
riding tne elephant this year.
McCOMBS HAS HICKORY KIN.
Gov. Wilson wished Wm. F.
McCombs, who managed his pre
convention campaign, to be chair
man of the National Committee,
and he was selected for it.
McCombs came from Arkansas,
but his family emigrated from
Mecklenbjrg county, and he is a
kinsman of Messrs. H.' E. and
D. M. McComb of this city.
(They have never allowed a final
sto be added to the name.)
McCombs was a young Prince
ton man who sat under Wilson's
teaching at Princton and gauged
the quality of his mind. Mark
Sullivan in Collier's says of him:
Without funds or influential
associations, he began the Wil
son- movement by having his
stenographer utilize her spare
time in sending copies of the
Governor's speeches to the news
papers; and until it gathered
headway from its own momen
tum, that's all the Wilson boom
there was."
T. R.'s FOOL FRIENDS.
Roosevelt is winning some fool
friends who are apt to do him
more harm than good. He has
already had to repudiate Gen.
Sickel's fling at Woodrow Wilson
on the ground that he "was born
amid rebel surroundings." Wilf
his new adherent, the Lee-hat
ing, South-slandering Pettigrew
endorse Roosevelt's tribute to
the valor of Southern soldiers?
IT WILL ELECT HIM, TOO.
Samuel Untermeyer, of New
York, declares that Wilson was
nominated by "sheer force of
commanding fitness." It is rare
that this quality prizes a man in
to a presidential nomination. v lt
did this year, and the same thing
is going to elect him.
MORE RECRUITS.
» Lewis D. Brandeis, the g? eat
expert on economy in business
management, the cost of living,
etc.. and one or the foremost
Republican Progressives, is out
for Wilson, saying his nomina
tion is one of the most encoura
ging events in American history.
Charles~R. Crane, a wealthy
Chicago man, who ~ contributed
to LaFollette's pre-convention
campaign fund, and Dr. Charles
van Hise, president of the tfni
versity of Wisconsin, an ardent
LaFollette man, dined with Gov.
Woodrow Wilson at Sea Girt last
Saturday. This is believed to in
dicate that LaFollette Progressi
ves will go over to Wilson.
William - Cramp, one of the
great Philadelphia ship-builders,
called on Gov. Wilson during his
trip to Atlantic City to speak,
and assured the nominee that
after having voted the Republi
can ticket for 40 years, he will
this year vote for Wilson and
Marshall,
TA TA, AND JOY GO WlfH THEE.
Old Ex-Sanator Pettigrew, of
South Dakota, the political
Buzzard of the Bad Lands, and
who figured as one of Champ
Clark's campaign managers, has
come out for Roosevelt. Petti
grew is the man who calls Robt.
E. Lee a traitor, and who hates
the South with a devilish spirit,
Senator Williams, of Mississippi,
left the senate floor once while
Pettigrew was speaking to show
his contempt of his slanderous
slurs of the South. We presume
that the leal reason Pettigrew
bolts Wilson is because the latter
is Southern born and raised,
though Roosevelt gives the fol
lowing reasons, in referring to a
visit from Pettigrew.
"Mr. Pettigrew said he pro
foundly disapproved of Woodrow
Wilson's nomination," said Col.
Roosevelt, "and that he believed
half the Democrats of South
Dakota would vote for me. He
said he regarded Governor Wil
son as a reactionary, and that
the Democratic platform meant
nothing.
Which shows that the old
spitfire is eye-ther a fool or a
fakir. We are glad he has
kicked out of Democratic traces.
He is a good riddance.
THEFT: OF ISTHMUSES AND DEL
EGATES. .
In a communication to the
Baltimore Sun, Mr. W. S. Bos
well, of Brevard, has this to say:
I notice that in the proposed
piatt'orm of the new party which
is in process of organization for
Mr. Roosevelt's benefit the first
plank is to be "No thieves ad
mitted." I suggest that for the
sake of consistency and a fair
start, it will be advisable to per
suade Mr. Roosevelt to tell the
truth about how he accomplished
the theft of the Republic of Pan
ama.
That Panama affair was a
shady transaction. It may be
ti ue enough that Colombia was
acting badly at the time and try
ing to block the canal scheme;
and it may be true that her ac
quisition of Panama may not
have been clean, but Roosevelt's
annexation of the isthmus
smacked of theft. It may be,
as Mr, Boswell points out, that
here is a chicken come home to
roost.
DOWD AND THE PLATFORM.
It is always a pleasure to see the
good friend and former colleague of the
editor of the Democrat, the Hon. W. C.
Dowd, of Mecklenburg, winning new
honors. He got the biggest vote at
the state convention for delegate-at
large to Baltimore. There he was
placed on the important committee on
platform, and as we turn a page in
Collier's Magazine the good Irish face
of Mr. Speaker Dowd rises before us.
while he holds a draft of the platform in
one hand, the usual cigar in the other,
and thoughtfully listens to some fellow
making a speech. The photographers
had been shut out of the committee
room, but one enterprising man climb
ed a ladder, poked his camera through
the transom, and caught Dowd, Bryan,
Kern, and the rest of the bunch in the
act of making the best platform the
party ever gave the people. Dowd
shows up better than any man in the
picture,
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
Would be a Safe President.
New York Journal of Commerce.
There is no doubt of the pro
gressiveness of Wilson. It is of
the advanced but not the wildly
radical order. He is a man of
unquestionable ability, thorough
training, wide study and scholar
ship, and talent for administra
tion. He is an uncommonly
persuasive speaker and writer,
and comes as near being a
practical statesman as almost
any man who could be mentioned
now in public life. We have no
reason to doubt his integrity of
character and purpose, and he is
above suspicion of tolerating
anything crooked or corrupt in
politics or public life. There is a
reason to believe that, clothed
with the responsibility of high
office, he will be a safe and
prudent Chief Magistrate of the
Nation, if he should be elected.
One great advantage of his
nomination will be that it will
leave no excuse for Mr. Roose
velt's third party movement in
the cause of progressiveness, and
will probably take out of it what
life it might otherwise have.
Taft's "Record of Achievement"
Mr. Hilles, the new Republi
can chairman, is going to make
the issue of this campaign to be
"Taft's record of achievement."
The New York World thus fig
ures out that record:
The Payne-Aldrich tariff which
Mr. Taft declared was the best
tariff ever passed and for which
the Republican party suffered a
scathing rebuke at the polls in
-1910.
Mr. Taft's vetoes of the tariff
revision bills passed in 1911,
The refusal of the Republican
Senate to pass any of thft tariff
legislation sent to it from the
Democratic House.
The Payne-Aldrich tariff makes
up the Taft administration's en
tire record of achievement on
the tariff, and because of it Mr.
Taft and his party have been re
pudiated by the country at the
only national elections held since
1908.
What is Honor?
New York World. _
Noching but public opinion and
personal honor binds a Presiden
tial elector to vote for the candi
date of his party. But public
opinion and personal honor for a
hundred years have had all the
force of a constitutional mandate
in the selection of a President.
No elector ever betrayed his
trust. No elector eyer obtained
his office under pretenses.
No elector has cared to submit
such'moral treason to the judg
ment of history.,
Theodore Roosevelt is the first
man who has ever seriously pro
posed that Presidential electors
chosen as Republicans should
vote not-for the man who ob
tained the Republican nomination
but for the man who was defeat
ed for the Republican nomina
tion. But what is honor among
third-term "progressives"?
Lutheran Sunday School Institute at
Lenoir College.
North Carolina Lutheran Sun
day School workers are prepar
ing for their annual summer in
stitute. These assemblies have
been very pleasant and profitable
occasions and the one to be held
this year promises to be no ex
ception to the rule. It will be
held at Lenoir College, Hickory,
N. C., July 29 to August 2.
The list of teachers includes
Rev. E. C. Cronk, Columbia, S.
C., Rev. C. K. Bell, Kings Mt,
N. C., Kev. H. A. McCullough,
Columbia, S. C., Rev. J. H.
Wannemacher, Hickory, N. C.,
Rev. R. A. Goodman, Mt.
Pleasant, N. C., Mrs. E. C,
Cronk, Columbia. S. C., and Mrs.
T. E. Johnson, Salisbury, N. C.
Lectures will be made by Dr.
Geo. B. Cromer, Newberry, S. C.
and Missionary A. J. Stirewalt
of Japan.
Sunday school work is taking
on new life with the help of
teacher training movements of
the present time and the Sunday
school workers who wish to keep
abreast of the times are attend
ing the Normal Schools in large
numbers. There will be a great
gathering of Lutherans in Hick
ory for the coming session of
their Normal.
A Lurid Picture of Roosevelt.
Chairman Kearney at Wisconsin.Demo
cratic Convention
"A man of ire and fire, a
seething, stormy man who
speaks in the language of the
prize ring; a man who in seven
years as President never plucked
a feather from the uneiean bird
of privilege, but when the tariff
was suggested to him, blinked
his eyes like an owl and said 4too
wit| too wooV
SPINNING DEPARTMENT
RUNS no man.
In Order to Get Ivey Mill Start
ed on Ccars* Work.
BOYS TO CAMP AT MOREHEAD
Rev. Mr. Wanamaker Preaches Ac
ceptably at Hickory—
Mr. Barnhill sells out, to
Return to Watauga—
Personal Mention.
West Hickory, July 15,—The
spinning department at the Ivey
Mill is running day and night at
present. This is done in order
to get the entire mill started up
on coarse work as soon as possi
ble. Part of the looms are now
on coarse work, weaving three
harness drill and the weavers say
the work runs fine.
P. L. Brown who has been
running a boarding house here
for several years, moved to
Rhodhiss a few days ago. He is
going to run a boarding house at
the new mill now being built
there.
Miss Minnie Berry went to
Granite Falls one dry last week
to visit Myrtle Hayes.
The Wesleyan Methodists have
been holding a tent meeting here
the past week, preaching every
night by Rev. Messrs. Roddey
and Hill.-
Lowell Gross, who has been at
Los Angles, Cal., for several
months, returned home last
Friday.
Plato Short who has been run
ning a restaurant here for some
time sold out to C. A. Ballard a
few days ago and moved to
Cherryville. He intends to run
a restaurant there. -Mr. Ballard
seems to be getting along fine in
his new work.
Bob Barnhill sold his house
and lot in Longview last week to
A. C. Corell. Mr. Barnhill says
he is going back to Watauga
where can raise plenty of grass.
I dont suppose he has tried rais
ing cotton since he has lived in
Catawba or he would have de
cided he could raise some grass
here, especially when there is
plenty of rain.
R. H. Triplet, Garland Miller, ,
D. R. Leonard. F. S. Daves,
Stanley Abee and Henry Keever
all left- here July 15 to go to
Morehead City with the military
company to the annual encamp
ment.
Rev. Mr. Wannamacher of
Hickory preached here at the
Lutheran church Sunday even
ing. There was a large congre
gation present to hear him,
lOTA.
Overman Scouts the Idea.
Denying Marion Butler's claims
that Roosevelt will carry North
Carolina, Senator Overman says
to Mr, H. E. C. Bryant, the
Charlotte Observer correspond
ent:
"Roosevelt pretends to be the
friend of the people. Who are
his backers? Why it was de
veloped in testimony before a
Senate Committee yesterday,
that the trusts spent $1,900,000
to elect Roosevelt in 1904. Geo.
W. Perkins, the head of the
Harvester Trust, helped to finance
his recent pre-convention cam
paign. The Republican leaders
who are Roosevelt turned
to him because they see no hope
of electing Taft. Our people
will not support a man who
tongue-iashes the trusts one day
and holds out his hands for cam
paign contributions from them
the next. The North Carolina
leaders of the third party move
ment will fail to interest the
people. Wilson will carry the
State by a majority of 60,000."
Burns Accuses Blease of Grafting.
Detective Burns has startled
the South by the claimed dis
covery of evidence that Cole L.
Blease, Governor of South Caro
lina, is guilty of grafting. A
press dispatch says:
Evidence taken by a telephonic
devise and personally by a Burns
detective was submitted purport
ing to show that Governor Blease
secured $2,000 for pardoning Ru
dolph Rabon, convicted of har
boring stolen goods. Testimony
from the same source was to the
effect that Governor Blease re
ceived $5OO for blocking railroad
legislation, $2OO for thwarting
the first attempt made in the
dispensary investigation and that
the Governor gets his share of
the blind tiger "protection"
money from Charleston.
Mr. Espey, of the Hickory
Tannery, has returned from a
business trip to New York, and
says the whole city is ago£ over
Woodrow Wilson. He is the
town talk of Gotham.