DAILY ,it$'i - ;,-vy"v1 ft""'1 s '-' '. , K .'' The Home Paper J TheWcalhe ii II 7 . . . JHlvJ I " VOL xVlit.-No: 67 FliiST EDITION KINSTQN, N. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1916 SIX 1'AtlES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS MM EXPRESSED OVER THE KEPflllTED YOU TO AGAIN IEAD HOSTS PEACE AND OF TOBACCO AIBIONJIKING PROSPERITY, JAMES TELLS THE MOT T IN THE HALF WEEK ALLIED ARMY MAY BE I 4 11' PTTH TT1 v ".v:--v V' - PUREST DEMOCRACY IN WOULD SUMMONED TIlTEEN HUNDRED : i : ". LATEST PHOTOGRAPH - OF PRESIDENT WILSON I0LDING ATHENS Never Before In Arrteriein Ilistofy Was a Man Nomiti ated With Such Enthusiasm, Unanimity and Earnest ness. Eloouent Jventuckian Declares to Wilson - and r - .!..-, . , ... ,..... v Throng at Shadow Lawn Cloudy Weather Docs No Detract From, Gaiety, at New Jersey Mansion Pres? - dent Delivering Acceptance Address rllosts of Demo .; crats Make Pilgrimage to :,iSeat to Hear Schoolmaster paign for Re-election - ; ! , . (By the . Loner Branch. N. J.. SeDt: 2. America's record of peace, prosperity and happiness," while the Old World statreers beneath a load of sorrow insures the Presi dent's election in 'November, according; to Senator Ollie . James of Kentucky. . In formally notifying Mr. Wilson o his homiiiation by the Democratic 'Convention, Sena tor James stated that the choice was made ith enthu siasm, unanimity and earnestness never surpassed in th political life of America. ; Democracy In the world summoned you to again lead the hosts of peace, prosperity , and American righteousness." The acceptance speech of the President is being delivered. having been started shortly after the luncheon hour. Gav Scenes at Shadow Lawn. " . Shadow Latwh, Long Branch, N. J. Sept. 2.Over- 1 .1 1 J 1 Li. J? nangmg ciouus anu an occasional pawer in, ram greeteu President Wilson when he arose today prepared to take ; tip the party cudgel and begirt his fight for; re-election . A land breeze from the south wests indicated that the day would be warni. A low mist hung over the ocean. The forecast was , possible that shovvrs might not mar the gala notification ceremony, scheduled for 4 o'clock. ' Despite the cloudy weather, however, the President v and Mrs. Wilson emerged from the mansion early for a stroll around the grounds. The place is in a beautiful state and, ablaze with -color. Gay bunting , and streaming ban ners are oyer every window. " About the lawn hundreds of American flags are streaming from long poles. Secret feervice men and special deputies are scattered aoout the grounds. ; More than two hundred are guarding the Pres ident 1 ' " Automobiles of all descriptions began to arrive early, filled with joyful Democrats , amid the increasing din of horns, cw bells and other devices which contributed their rauctiS' chorus to a general v Long Branch, N. 3 Sept S.PresJ dent WUson received, tbijaj nt Shadow lAwn, Qie Bummer White Hotise; the fornml notification of liltj renomlnutlon by the Democratic party rom the noti fication committee heuded by Senutor Ollle Jameg. , In rmnnnRn Mf . WllgOh " iboXb t(r part as follows: Senator, Jame Gentlerifcrt of tne Notlflcatlon Committee, Fellow Cltl een: I cannot accept the leadership and responsibility wfiiii theailoual Democratic convenfloij has' ftK"f" M ' .'Such generous fafihfoh; ' asfeeil trie to accept without Btraf eipVeMi my profound gratltu'de to the pSirty' for ithe trust It reposes In me after four years of flery trW ttr tile nftcWt of f ' italrs of unprecedented .difficulty, and ;the keen sense of added 'reimriBlblllty - ;wlth which this A6nori Wis jd.had aJ imost said burden me ,as t JbWk of 'the great Issues of national 41 fe and 'policy Involved in fbe present and im 'medlate future conffoct of our govern ment I shall sef; as I have always .sought to Justify' tfie ' exbaoHlinary confidence thus rfosed In rtie' by'Btrtv- litit to purge my 4teart add parpoe of every personal and of very: mtBlead Ing party motive and devoting every energy 1 have to the service of the na tfon as a whole, praying that I may continue to have ttte'ctrafisel pmf sup port f all forward-looking men at ev ery turn of the ilflfcalt bsfneSit A .For I do not doubt "that the. people of the United Stated wflf -wtsh the Democratic party to continue In con trol of the government They are not In thn haMt nf rplM-tlncr those. lio ; have actually served them for t&ose ho are making doubtful and conjec tural promises of 'tn1cV, Ijeast of . all are Oiey Hker16 Substrfute thole who promised tojendet tenj pattjcii lar services and proved-false to that premise for those who hate actually rendered those very services.. ' . (Continued onPage,Five) . , Baadsmen DischaVjfirf. - - -. Isaac Brown of Kfrisloti arid Lea lie Benton of La(J range are men dis charged from the Second Infantry band at Camp Glenn this week. Ben ton is a musician of the first class. Both have dependents, and twpe dis charged on that ground. ,.i : : wanted 200 Steady work, Colored. Iibbrers good wages. -Apply w person to Bethlehem Steel Co., Employment Dept. Sparrow's Point : 8-2S; 2Uwk for 4 wks.- Wilson's Borrowed Country - Executive Begin His Cam a, - United Press) , , . , Representatives of the purest pandemonium. CAMPAffiN, OPFWi IN BIG STYLE MOSELEY BAIL fRlDAV NlGHT Democratic Candidates Ad dress Big Aiidlence In LaGrange r' MANY lEAbERS dN BILL 'if National Elector; Senatori al Nominee and County Officeholder's and Aspir ants Speakers Cowper , and Pollock Feature , . Tho Democratic , campaign in the county was started off in fancy fash ion at LaGrange Friday night There were" between 200 and 300 persons besides taTfda tea present at 1m old- fashioned rally; there were "a few Republicans scittered" afolrnd ' id the bunchy" tecordinp to a man who clafana to have spotted several. Mr. Kirby Sutton, Mosehiy Hall township chairman, presided over the trfeetinr. He eitplahied t3m oecamon to the audience in a lew very perti efcrft arid rikie remarks. Then the au dience calkd- for: speeches., from Chairman of Commissioners R. F. ewrrdriii; Mr." A. "T. - t)awsdn; Mr. D.-W. Wood, Sheriff Tayior, Treas urer. John Dawson, Register of Deeds Pridgen, and Mr. Henry Brothers. All rhide rnifty little talks. They gloried Democracy protested Ke rmblican" scandal charges, urged digger majority this all and scoffed it Republican hopes. Register Prid ?en delighted the audience by stat ing that Sheriff Taylo. had been President T. II. Martin of the To bacoo Board of Trade today estimat ed that 1,300,000 pounds of tobacco was cold here in th last half of the week. Friday's ails on tho Contra) Warehouse floor was not concluded until today. - ' - This amount of tobacco,' averaging1 20 cents a pound in value, was wotth more than quarter of a million dol lars. ' - CANT GET FREIGHT OUT OF KINSTON AT ALL THIS AFTERNOON The freight embargoes on the At lantic Coast Line and Norfolk South ern railroads iwere stricter today, de spite the fact that the House had passed the Adamson bill and the Sen ate was expected to. No freight was being taken by the Norfolk Southern except to Goldsboro and points be tween Kinston and Goldsboro. None of any kind was being taken over the Atlantic Coast Line. At 3 o'clock all freight business on the Norfolk Southern was due' to foe suspended. "traveling all around" to prepare him self on national issues. Treasurer Dawson stated that he was a little under the weather and thanked the party for past and future courtesies. The big speeches of the evening were made fey County Chairman and National Elector G. V, Cowper and Col. W.. D. Pollock. Mr. -Cowper spoke for forty minutes on "What the Republicans will mot make the 1s- sues, prosperity, domestic policies, or the administration and other things. Hef declared that the Q. O.- P is afraid to treat the domestic policies of the Wilson administration as is sues. Touching on ono "'bone of con. tention, our international , relations,'' Mr. Cowper said: "Mr. Hughes asks: 'What does it avail to use some of the strongest words known to diplomacy, if ambas sadors can receive the Impression that words are not to be taken seri ously?' I answer by another ques tion Did the mailed knight of war, the Iron Kaiser, who represents the supreme imbodimenf of force in. this century, take the words of Wilson and Lansing- seriously? All the combined forces of the Allies have been impo tent to cause this prince of . war to Irasitate for , one rtoment in his comae, and yet, when Woodrow Wil- wn said. "Thus, far and no farther,' this man who has amazed the world with hi warlike power humbly yield ed and bowed to the schoolmaster ov America." Col. W. D. Pollock, who will go to the State Senate next year from all indications, was last on the program. He gathered up the loose threads jof Republican misgovcrnment in ' North Carolina where they were broken off when the Democrats wrested power from the G.-O. P. and twisted them Into an iniquitous knot. .He built up a card house of Republican merit for his auditors and blew it to pieces in few short breaths. He waxed elo quent, seized the prey in his jaws and would not turn loose, until he . had kicked and cuffed Republicanism all over the rostrum and ground it into a puTp. He dragged fact and figures into the inquest and proved a justifi able homicide. Col. Pollock reviewed the progress of the State in the' past sixteen years, called up every good thing that has been Introduced : Hn that time improved health, increas ed wealth', Vemartcabfe advancement in education and the like and com pared these blessings with what had been before.' He declared tnat' With such a Democratic administration the Cmiwnonwealth is bound to be come in time the greatest Btate t5 the Union i .. ..VJTO.. The , spWchmaking lasted nearly, 3 hours.' Many ladies were In the audi ence. Care was had that no word was uttered condemning a certain innova tion that has become an issue in some parts of the country. . , V V;v i s's . J , r 1 PASSAGE OF ADAMSON EXPECTED BY NIGHT; ALMOST CERTAIN TO Brotherhoods Prepared to Every Center Special Messenger Waiting to" TaTce Bill to Shadow Lawn for President's Signature Ssoiilherri, Reassured, Modifies Embargo Debating in Senate But No Great Opposition Measure Already Through the House No Amendment iookecf Ftfr Railroad "Presi dents Leave the Capital, Expecting -Men tor Win 'Might as Well Abolish the I.C C.,' Declares Sherman . - ; ; . - (By. the United 'Preis) Washington. Sent. 2. The " United States Senate spent todav'in debate preparatory to: Voting on the eight-! hour day bill passed by the believed cetf am. Six o clock is set for the Waiting to 'rush with the bill President's signature today. The Senate was in session till 11 last night, adjourning without a vote. t Southern Lifts Embargo. . 1 Washington; Sept. 2. The Southern Railway has lift ed its embargo on live stock and perishable freight, if destined to points on the Southern railroad, to take ef fect immediately. Advance arrangements nave: been made necessary for shipment to necessary, points on con necting lines.T Other freight will be -accepted .without - re ftriction. ' . I; ' " .' Iabor Men Still Determined. w( .Washington, Sept. 2. That the Adamson' eight-hour bill will be passed by the Senate is a certainty from; all indications. Little opposition in the Senate has develop e'd. It is not believed the bill will be amerided. . : 'The 'brotherhoods haye madeall arrangements for flashing word to their leaders the country over, calling off the strike, in the event of the .passage of the eight-hour bilL Otherwise the strike will proceed. ., Instead a mes sage will gd forth putting the tie-up in effect. No lead ers today believed, however,-that this will be necessary: Few railroad presidents are now left in town, but those still here had no doubt of the passage of the bill As for a fight on its constitutionally, that will be decided !ater..; J';,"'.'... i'i''--'rr::y i : Senator Sherman attacked' the bill -vif h' great bitter ne.s, declaring that "if we legislate an eight-hour day for railroad employes, we will have it to'do for every other labor organization. It will never end.. , We might as well abolish the Interstate Commerce .Commission. -We are doing this under threat Washineton. "Sent. 1. Prevention throup'ran act of Congress seemed of the threatened railroad strike Si " i of BILL BY SENATE STRIKE ORDER IS BE A DEAD LETTER Flash . News to Leaders In House yesterday. , Passage is v. - i ; vote. A special messenger, is to Shadow Lawn for thf Murt-J tor. after the House bj British and French Said to Have Landed at Greek Port Short Miirch From Capital Thought to Be Clarrlsoning City GcVmany Sends Troops Into Transylvania-rH Roumanians Drive Austrians Out of Principal Towns Hermaiinstadt, Important Place and Former Capital, Evacuated in Face of Fast-Marching ' Invaders Ger mans Retake Trenches in West, But Weaken Offensive at Verduk .Withdrawing Forces for Aid to Tfar'd Pressed Austrians. , (By the United Tress) , ' London, Sept. 2. The revolution in Greece is ' -spreading rapidly in Thessaly an.d Epirus.'says a ; : Rohic wireless dispatch; Martial law is in effect at Athens. King Constantine is ill. His condi tion is reported serious. t -Iibndon, Sept. 2. The Anglo-French believed to have landed at Pireus after marchincr five miles to Athens. are thought to be garrisoning the capital Confirmation of Cdnstantine's abdicatioa is still lacking, and doubt is expressed. An Italian offensive launched in Southern Al-: bania will connect with the Allies on other.fronts. . Berlin, Sept. 2. 50,000 the'-Trahsvlvaniari Acityiof:Klausehbur(f lo try to heck the Rbiimanian invasion. Other troops have been withdrawn from the Verdun vania. The ;Austrians have With 25,000 inhabitants and Ilcrtnarinstadt Evacuated. Rerlin; Shot. 2.. Hermannstadt. with a boDulation of fortv thousand and a former epsi St. Gybrergy, have been evacuated before the Rou manian advance, it.is officially stated from Vienna. '"' V German Gaihs In West. , , Paris: Sebt 2The Germans Preoccupied trenches couth of 'EstretsV--lost' bn.; August 3li in :aaat4c1cof the . mom violent nature, u is sum umcimxy. . i ije amasmiia in the Champaigne region bri the western front disposed of a German reconnaissance. fighting took place last night.' Germans were repulsed at Fleury. , . ! N . Another Report of Roumanian Successes. ; . . I Bucharest, Sept. 2. The he Transvlvanian cities of sog and Mouta Pedegimva, it' ian arunery ls uominaimg uie ursuvu-icnieavai- ivanwdj, a supply-route. .Eighteen hundred prisoners and one hun dred cars of war niatejrjai nave peen taKen. , t , Russians Neal Ilalitz. . w. , ' , Berlin, Sept-2. Advancing on- an . 18-mile front :rrainst the imnortant railway at Ilalitz., the Russians have captured Hbrosahka. ten miles Northwest bf Halitz, in a resumption of the Galician offensive. ' v . in overwhelming vote had passed the Adamson eight-hour day law and the Senate had agreed to take a final vote on the measure not later, than C o'- ilock tomorrow evening. . it. Although it is possible that Sen ate amendments may make confer- nee necessary it is generally believ ed on both sides of the Capitol that when the test comes the House bill as it stands, will be accepted and ushed to Shadow Lawn, N. J., for President ' Wilson's signature; And, while no formal statements were forthcoming from the employes hro- therhood heads tonight it is authori tatively stated that this will result in immediate iispatcn oicoae mes sages calling off the general strike order for Monday morning. The Ad afmson bill as passed in te House by vote 7of 23! to CC, with minor amendments', is the same measure which the brotherhood leaders offl- ially declared yesterday would con stitute a "satisfactory settlement" wnd prevent the strike. The amend ments added to confirm a draft fram ed by the Senate Interstate Com merce Committee would fixe the ef fective date at January ; 1 instead of December 1, 1916, and exempt xail- roads less than 100 miles long and electric, street and interurban lines. , Fight Hours a Day's Work. Briefly, it provides: '. That eight hours shall be deemed day's work and the standard for reckoning compensation of railroad employes ? operating train in inter state commerce after January 1, 1917, and. . . - . ' i - That a commission of three ap pointed by President Wilson ehall in vestigate the effects of tho eight-hour standard for from aix to nine months and then report to Congress, present wages not to Le reJjci durins Hh Germans have arrived at front and sent to Transyl evatfateHfMaros Vasarhely, a railrpad town , . . capital of Transylvania, and . . , . . - In the Verdun sector heavy , Roumanians have occupied Kronstadt. Tohariul Czicze- is said officially. Rouriian- investigation -or. for thirty- days af terward, and .overtime kt. he paid tiro rata, - , -, . ' , It was af ter a day of hot debaU that the House passed th? bill under ' a special rule brought in when i- Re nublican Leader Mann objected to tts consideration. - Less than half of the Republicans followed their floor lead er in the opposition, and when the final vote came seventy of them Kned ip with the ma'jority, while only: 66 -voted against the- measure. 5 Just two Democrats, Representatives Steels of ' Pennsylvania, awl Black of -Texas, tood out against the bill, and Repre sentative London of , New York,- the . "inly Socialist, voted for it . ' ; f Brotherhood Men Pleased. . While the House was at work th three brotherhood heads at the invit ation of Democratic Lfeader titchln, occupied the Ways and Means om nittee room near the entrance to the House floor, and were in constant consultation with - the labor , spokes men in the House. They were insist ent that the eight-hour day provision go through without any of the wage fixing amendments put forward far debate. Representative Casey, of Pennsylvania was constantly on the go between them and Representativa Kitchin and ' Representative Kea'.Snj of Colorado, who conducted their f jht on the floor. When the vote was tak en they ohviouslywere pleased. SUNDAY SCHOOL PICXIC . aawk : A Sunday School picnic will l e 5 '1 at Tyndall school house on 5a' ' ." September 9. The public is i baskets are solicited. ?'r. T. Jones will speak fit 11" ) a. 1 . S. D. Turner is s.:; -n ' Sunday School.