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p®t the Roxboro Coir 12, published a lone article, ntitM, "When tlx Fanners • Friend." TMa article por ta show up the public reoord of Ban. A. W. McLean, now far goTernor. while be m of the War Finance Corporation. This • fotrr eehnnn article with an edi torial inset called the attention of de mocrat* to the relation of the action en the part of Mr. McLean to the far mer'. trochlea. which it allowed to bars ariaen from the action of the wc rnuw i orpormtion. The race for (oreraor ki rowed dawn ta two m: J. W. _ rfUWlN/A. f.llllMrfl WrtM, Mtrwii county. A* Mr. McLean reside* in the heart of the Rection any attack to the potto : to show that be in Me ty as a member of War Finance Car poratiau had MM to da rrery thine te his power to protect their I quite natarally be a to his political , m brief, was the purport of the article. Such an article would natur ally <*n far a reply on the part of Mr. McLean'■ friends. Thie rvpty was forthwith Bads in srrerml in the nature of the record of McLean whila a m—b«r of the War Finance Cor poration and denying his responsibil ity hi the matter. Opponents of Mr. Bailey say that ha is erratic and unreliable and that it would be perilous for the poo pis to Intrant the state's bnalneea to hta. The New* holds no brief for Mr. Bail ay, bat we hope we shall nevsr see the day when we will fail to d*Tend the character of a gaad nan when he ti attacked. Whether Mr. Bailey is erratic or not we do not know, bat here are some things we do know •boot hint. About 60 years aim, Joeiak William Or if any < to the aaat of hon or in tha state capital, let him ihy hi* hat into the ring. Oar wiah ia to aaaiat our reader* to form an intoRi irant opinion of the earioim candidate*. WHO IS MCAOOO? William Gibba McAdoo ni born near Marietta, Ga.y in IMS, saya The Pathflafcr. Ha la daacandod from a diititiiaiiM Southern family. His father, William Gibba MtAdeo, who fought in tha Mexican war and waa a captain in tha Confederate army during the Chril war, waa a noted Jar i*t and Mwai aa attorney-geweral ad University Teoaeeee* at KaoarHOa but dropped out at the end of hia Ja» ior year and hnrair a (Ink hi tha U. 8. cimrit ceort at Chattanooga. Meanwhile he ilall«< law aad In IM waa admitted ta the har, being only SI married ta Miaa Sarah Hem lag, of Chattanooga. For awaial yam h4 practiced law at Chattaaaaga bat/la imc he awnd to New Terk City and in IMS ha formed a law yarfar •hip with William McAdao a aatHa af Ireland and not a relative af hia. While practicing law in New Yeah McAdoo became iatereetad ia paaaen ger transportation. Aa early aa ltT4 a tunnel under the Hodaan il»e« from Hoboken. N. J„ to Now York had been started bat waa abandoned be cause of diftlraltiee af cunatruction. Without any anginoerlng training Mc Adoo renewed this project nd hi IMS formed a company which took aver tha abandoned tunnel aad oomploted It la 1904. Later other important tonMa were added to. the syotean. In 1»1S Mc Adoo waa rice-ehairman of tha Dem ocratic national ooaMsittae aad dar ing moat of the campaign directed af fairs for Chairman McOombe who waa sick. He waa appointed aecretaiy at treasury in IMS ia tha Wilaon cabinet and eoatrikotad mack hi working eat the oatbteak 'Jf'tha war hewmTeaBad money aad Ma raoaaMfal fleeting af the fear Liberty ieaaa is cowaiderod one af tha raaiarirahli feata af pob lic finance. When tha nUhtoada in 1017 ha waa oppolatrf'Tbatta^ general He nainil from the aaki net in IMS aad in mil hia law prac tice hi New York. Mrs. McAdea died la IMS Wring thraa tmm and three daagtrtan. b 1M4 McAdao waa w McAdao eappoeted the leagwe of na il** IHaa' ta'taa*Aagalaa At 1 ! OMfeNMvMMiWMMN hi thtato-flea adtm on a daw km M teln whan the |f—4 nmh| ■ an *h»rt f wrt ftJiiiiw. S?«SiSfSl5r *L25U"TS tujrtay IraS-awtibJffl on—tag of the fine M* eM the winter hvofee to »lT ite _ friday Jaaoary 4th, J. D. abtth'e mm Mia opena.An the men hi] win he given this h written miry clerk carving down tha articles of men*» Irr without Vn« |/w*lr hiri **WW | It^Vn I^Ww ara if any of away from Mr. Smith'a ^aaJptofaic far a freejrift of clothing, 1 day. January 7th. ttta ItwaNa Cloth in* company atarta a Mg elothin* «al<>. Gua aaya that aha la going to bo a humdinger and that price* ant going to ha pared dowa to Oa aunwr-oam. Hie ion Carl on at i for m thaw la do ,*sa cB II clotting of thfe ■aid to kn» Mad* a large haul. They took mm eases of firecrackers be •idea lam quantities of Raman can dles and skyrockets. Hicks racceedsd in locator not only the cache of stolen crackers but aba the ealprits. Under pr»sssn it is said the fathers of the offending lads paid for what firs works the lads had either shot off or sold. Mrs. Hwffman lUtams 1> Turn* To Claim Victrola jonn vniorrx inrn too* uw nana and told that he nn Sam authority to do what he had don* while their wa«oni were "Handing in the crook" on one area* ion. After (Marine »iai lar textimony the judge. ahho mm what doubtful of the validity of Ban's authority, still frit that ho was actlBff in rood faith. Saai was aiqaittod. Thqa endsd thr biggost (Mrt bottte t he colored people for • leag Other cases wort iM«pm»d of a* ■PM: ' Airy, wore fined a dollar tack and tka coat for shooting firecrackers on the public streets. Nsal McCraw. charted with oporat ini an auto on the public highway while under tka influence of liquor and which resulted hi break m* the ana of Robert Smith, a colored pas s^ns triad guilty. R \ \k CM OL\T rllRY Business Fr Sale At A Sacrfice I mm coin* to close <Mt my ete stock of Unm Good* Milliacry, Watte— end fixture* eooa a* pomUU. M>n for mObi am geiac to leatowa. Splendid opf» tunity for fnkk bay. EeUMfad trade. *•) MRS. A. M.1ARVEY MAIN SYftBKT. tOUNT AMY. N. C.« ML Aky'.faniy H.
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