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V--':-VV 4."".' "' -' THB8UN Has More Than Double The Circulation of Any Weekly Paper in The Tenth Congres sional District, . Comprising Thirteen Large Counties. THE SUN Has More Than Double The Circulation of Any Weekly Paper in The Tenth Congres sional District, Comprising Thirteen Large Counties. $J.OO A YEAR. VOL. 15. NO. At. RUTHERFORDTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19J2. THE SUN HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. WILL RESIGN IF NOT MADE THE LEADER DECLARATION OF SENATOR SIM MONS IN CHARLOTTE SPEECH. Proposition About Finance Committee Chairmanship His Answer To Adver saries Crowd Overtaxes Academy Of Music To Hear Opening Address. . (Special to News and Observer.) CHARLOTTE. Sept. 12. "If the next United States Senate is Democrat ic, and I am re-elected and I am not made chairman of the finance commit tee and thereby ex-offico leader of the Senate, by virture of that fact, in ac cordance with a time immemorial pre cedent, I here arid uow aerree to resign my position within twentv-four hours after that indignity is heaped upon me." Thus dramatically declared Senator F. M. Simmons in the climax of the opening speech of the campaign for re-election to the United States Senate here tonight before an audience thai overtaxed the capacity of the academy of music. The Senator spoke for two hours and forty minutes and his ad dress was considered one of the most able and exhaustive efforts ever heard in a Democratic campaign in - North Carolina. DEFENDS RECORD IN SENATE. He devoted himself in the main to a defense of his own record in Con gress, upon which ha proclaimed his readiness to stand and fall, and in con clusion appealed feelingly to the Dem ocracy of North Carolina to be allow ed to remain in the Senate, now that the door of ooportunity was opening to him after twelve years of hard ser vice, whereby he will be able to do more and greater things for the -Democratic party, his State, the people of his State and for hisjcountry, and add to the good name which he hoped to leave behind him. The proposition in regard to the chairmanship of the finance committee was made in reply to claims of his adversaries that, despite his being the ranking Democrat on the committee, he might not be made chairman in the event on Democratic success at the polls in November. Mr. Simmons said that he felt so ab solutely confident and supremely cer tain of his elevation tohe chairman ship of the finance committee in case of a Democratic majority in the Sen ate and his re-election that he would make his pro position as hereinbefore stated and that he would stand by it. "I do not claim that I have not made mistakes in my twelve years in the United Statet Senate," the senior Sen ator began, after acknowledging the tribute paid him in the introduction by Cameron Morrison, "but on my record as a whole I stand and I ap peal to the Democracy of Nortn Caro lina on that record. I am not run ning from that record. SAYS HE'S RUNNING ON RECORD. "I am running on that record. I shall not defend it tonight. No epol ory is needed for it." I shall discuss that record so that it shall be under stood and in order to protect it from misrepresentations. ' ' Mr. Simmons then declared: "For once and for all, I will not en ter into a joint debate with any Demo crat." The Senator said that there was on ly one discordant note in the cam paign of 1908 and that was the attact on and arraign ment of the Democracy of Hon. Locke Craig. "The same cry raised against Craig is being raised against me, both as to my Democracy and my loyalty to North Carolina, and the Democrats of North Carolina have just unamimous ly nominated Locke Craig for Gover nor of the State. "Pardon me, my friends," the speak er cried in a loud voice, "but I will not defend my Democracy before a North Carolina audience. " "After these attacks upon me have been answered by ballots the origina tors of these cruel slanders will be ashamed of them. " "But even when you have tempora rily lost vour character and for tran sient purposes . you feel glad to get it back aeain, and I am going to feel mighty good in November. "I am charged in this campaign ffith being a tool of the railroads, trusts and special interests. I have not ought tbese interests all day and then slept with them at night." PROUD OF HIS WORK. Mr. Simmons went into an exhaus lye review of his work as conferee on the Panama canal bill and declar ed he had never done a better piece of work than when he reached an agree ment with Senator Bristow, whereby the provision regulating railroad-own ed ships was re-written so that rail roads should not be permitted after 1914 to own vessels on any waterway where there is the slightest competition with its rail lines. STANDS ON BALTIMORE PLAT FORM. The speaker referred to the Balti more platform as the ablest speech to make in this campaign and challenged any one to point out one progressive measure that it declared for, and for which he had not already voted, and, in many cases, accomplished "When I was put in charge of the tariff bills there was consternation in certain ranks in North Carolina. Af ter weeks of as incessant work as ever mortal man has done I accomplished an alliance with the insurgent Republi cans whereby every bill except one went throug, and this was one of the less important measures." The nineteen otes for which Sena tor Simmons is being criticised by his competitors for the nomination were next gone into. He was assailed for his votes for the income tax on cor porations, he said, for no other rea son than Aldrich voted for for the same measure. "If you wane a man in the Senate who will vote against a measure sim ply because Aldrich or a dozen Re publicans vote for it, then I ask you to send some other man up there. I vote for or asrainst proposed laws because I either think they will be in the inter est or against my constituents." The other "wrong" votes were on the reciprocity bill, all of which the Senator declared to be in favor of a- mendments designed to benefit the farmer, and on which the great major ity of the Democratic senators voted as he did. "THESE HANDS ARE CLEAN." The story that the lumber trust is financing his campaign was denounced as the "Biggest Lie of the Campaign." The Senator declared that he and he alone was financing his campaign and that he had to borrow some money to aid in doing it. "My friends, these hands are clean," he cried as he held his arms above his head. He dwelt at some length upon his work for the inland waterway and vigorously denied having dickered with Republicans to get any appro priations. Mr. Simmons answered the attack's on him for his lumber vote with the explanation that he voted for the sev en per cent duty on lumber for the rea son that he would not permit the South's raw material to ero on the free list while New England's manufactur ed products were protected by the high duties of the Payne-Aldrich law. NO LUMBER PLANK THERE. "If this 7 per cent duay was protec tion," said the senior Senator, "what was the 22 per per cent on iron and steel, that the Democratic House and Democrats in the Senate voted for?" He further justified his position on lumber by declaring that in the plat form adopted by the recent Democrat ic convention there is not a dot as big as a scientific bacilli about lumber. The Simmons strength in Mecklen burg was well attested by the large crowd and his cordial reception. He was applauded frequently and en thusiastically and although he spoke for nearly three hours in a hot sultry house there were few vacant seats and when he had concluded. He failed to mention the name of either Governor Kitchin or Judge Clark. Henrietta School Opens. (Special to The Sun.) HENIETTA. Sept. The school at this place opened today. The attend ance was the' largest in the history of the school. There is an able corns of teachers. Prof. J. W McCall, of Old Fort, is superintendent and has charge of the high school work; -Miss Anna Morris, of Union Mills, the primary department; 'Miss Willia Mae Hamp ton, 01 Union Mills, the intermediate department and Miss Cecelia Kirksey, of Thermal City, the music department. The teachers all come well recommend ed and we feel that this is to be a year which will go down on the pages of this school's history as the best year. Mr; Walter Fanning spent sunday here. Mr. Roy Lovelace visited homefoiks Sunday. Miss Jennie Baber, after an extend ed visit near Bostic, returned Satur day. - ?. THE DESPERADOES: RUNDOWN IN IOWA GIRL UNWITTINGLY LED DETEC TIVES TO THEiR QUARY. Sidney Allen And Wesley Edwards. Leaders Of The Carroll County Gang Which Shot Up Court, Captured In Des Moines, Iowa, Last Saturday. (By the Associated Press.) DES MOINES, IOWA, Sept. 14. With Sidna Allen, leader pf the Vir ginia Allen clan lodged in the city jail, and with Wesley Edwards, another member of the clan, captured alter a lone ' chase, the last chapter in the great Hills vilie tragedy was today written in Des Moines. The arrests were made by Dectectives Baldwin, Lucas and Muncey, of Roa noke, Va. Sidna Allen will not only go back to Virginia to face the charges against him there without extradition papers but he feels that he will be set free if he can get a trail before a fair jury. ALLEN'S STORY. Locked in a cell in the city jail, Sid na Allen told the story of everything that has transpired in the tragedy in which he was a central figure. He tola how he had once been within fifteen feet of the posses that were searching for him. He denied that he had ever sent threats against the officers. He told how he decided to run away rath er tban face a trail which he though' would be unfair. He also made public the method in which his hiding place and the hiding place of. his nephew, Wesley Edwards, "had become 'public. In telling his story he used the best of English. "There never was a feud. I do not know what that is. I have never been in one," he said. T ROUBLE UNEXPECTED. ''The trouble in the court house came as unexpectedly as anything in my life. Floyd Allen was charged witb releasing prisoners from the sheriff The evidence was overwhelmingly in his favor, yet they convicted him. "We were standing there when they, people near and around the officials, began to shoot. The sheriff, I have heard, not long before that had secur ed loaded cartridges and said that he would show the Aliens when they were In court. They tried to get the judge to carry a gun before he went upon the bench. POSSES WITHIN FIFTEEN FEET. "I started away irom there the night of the trouble. The posses were once within fifteen feet of me but they did not know it. I neyer sent word back that I would shoot any of the officials. I thought for a while of going back I did not think that I could get a fair trial. When I heard that there were orders to shoot me on sight I changed my mind about going back. I had gone to Alaska about 12 or 13 years ago. I thought that if we stopped here they would search for me in Alaska. "Here I have been doing some car penter work. I had not been working and was doing some writing yesterday morning when they came in. I had heard that Wesley and this girl, Maude Iroler, were to be married and that she was coming here. EDWARDS WAS IN MT AIRY. "Wesley went back to Mount Airy, N. C, her home, about four or live weeks ago and remained there foi some timet He dropped a letter showing his connection . with the girl while there and the detectives watched her. 1 do not know the girl, but her mother, Mrs. Frank Iroler, was once my sweet heart. "I am 46 years old and have a wife and two of the finest girls you ever saw. I have been a merchant and far mer and am worth from $40,000 to $50. 000. I have a home worth about $20, 000 or $25,000." DETECTIVES FOLLOWED MISS IROLER. The Des Moines police bad no in formation from the Roanoke officials they were coming here or that the ar rests were likely to be made. The ar rests were made about 11 o'clock at the Cameron home when Miss Iroler, whom the detectives had followed, walked into the house. Miss Iroler had asKed for Wesley Edwards, who had been going under the name of Jackson and when told that he was not there, she asked if he had a compan ion. When told that he had she ask ed for Allen. She was standing at the bottom of the stairs when Detective Lucas ran up the stairs into the room occupied, by Sidna Allen and, drawing a revolver, , placed him under arrest. At first -Allen denied his identity but later admitted it It was 6 o'clock be fore Edwards was taken into custody MISS IROLER'S STATEMENT. Miss Iroler, who . was the innocent cause of the arrest of her lover and his uncle, took the matter calmly and declared her belief that her finance would get a short sentence at the worst. "I live in Mount Airy, N. C, she said. "I have known Wesley Ed wards a long time. He came home some time ago and gave me the mon ey to come here where we were to be married. I had no idea that any one was following me here or when I came to this house. Wesley Edwards was really not in the trouble." - Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards came to the Cameron home about the first of May. GIRL TO GET REWARD. Des Moines, Iowa, Sept 14. A sen sational turn in the arrest of Sidna Allen and "Wesley Edwards, Virginia outlaws, came just before the party boarded a 7 o'clock Burlingtin train for the east when Miss Maude Iroler, sweetheart of Edwards, who was to have married him tonight, said that she had been promised the reward off ered by the governor of the state lor the arrest of Allen and Edwards The confession was made to Chief of Police Jeney. It had been supposed that she inno cently had led the officers to the place where her sweetheart and Allen were staying. "I have been promised the rewards for the arrest of these two men," she told Chief Jeney just before leaving for the train. I am going back to nigt to claim my share of it." FACTS ABOUT TRAGEDY. On March 14 last the Allen clan of Hillsville, Va., in trying to free Floyd Allen, on trial for assault, opened fire on the court room and killed Judge Thornton L. Massie, Commonwealty Attorney William M. Foster, Sheriff Lee F. Webb. Jurior Fowler and Miss Elizabeth Ayers. The Aliens, seven or eight m num ber, shot their way out of the court room, mounted their horses and fled to the mountains on the border be tween Virginia and North Carolina. Posse?, heavily armed and accom panied by bloodhounds, started in pursuit. Time after time it was said the outlaws were surrounded and cap ture was near, but each time they escaped. At last after weeks of hunt ing, one by one they were caught or surrounded, until only Sidna Allen leader of the clan, and his nephew, Wesley Edwards, were at large. Of those caught, Floyed Allen and Claud Allen were sentenced to death, Friel Allen and Sidna Edward to long terms in prison, and Victor Allen was acquitted last Friday. The capture of Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, through the unwit ing instrumentality of the latter's sweetheart, Maude Iroler, completes the roll of those who took part in the shooting. Wake Forest's Opening Record. . (SDeclal to The Bun.) WAKF FOREST, Sept. 14. Wake Forest college opened witn about 400 students, perhaps its best record. The trustees have ordered the immediate erection of an un-to-date dormitory, which will accommodate 150 boys. The football prospects for the college are very promising. Rutherford county is represented in the college by Messrs. R. B. Green, Bobo Scruggs, W. W. Walker, R. C. Campbell and A. C. Lovelace, Hazing has been almost eliminated here and we hope the time mav soon come when it shall be stopped altogeth er for we certainly do not want such a tradegy hanging over this college as is oyer the University. Death Of A Fosest City Citizen. (Special to The Sun.) FOREST CITY, Sept. 17. Mr. Jess Hardin, an aged and respected citizen, died suddenly at his home here Mon day morning at 1 o'clock. His wife hearing him struggling for .breath made a light to investigate, but he was dead before she could render any as sistance. He was nearing 80 years of age and had lived in this county most all his life. He leaves a wife and eight children. One chila, Mrs. Tillie Mor row, preceded him to the grave two weeks ago. He was buried Tuesday at Mount Vernon. Rev. H. H. Jordan, of Morgan ton, is assisting Rev, J. F. Miser in a series of meetings at the M. E. church this week. REPUBLICANS FOR W00DR0W WILSON THOUSANDS OF PROGRESSIVES WILL SUPPORT HIM. Further Evidence Of How The ftlti' Millionaire Woolen Trust Magnates "Protect" Their Employees Other Political Gossip From Washington. BY CLYDE H. TAYENNER. WASHINGTOM, Sept. 16 Further evidence of how the multi-millionaire woolen trust magnates "protect" their employees in return for sufficient pro tection to allow them to overcharge 90,000,000 American consumers on every article of clothing they buy, is revealed in the arrest at Lawrence, Mass., of Wilson M. Wood, head of the wooled trust. Mr. Wood is charged with placing dynamite in the home of his $5. $6, and $7 a week foreign mill workers in an attempt to discredit their cause while they were on a strike last winter as a protest against a re duction pf wages. Mr. Wood's arrest is worthy of the attention of every man, and child in the country who wears woolens. Be cause of the fact that Mr. Wood and his fellow woolen trust magnates cor tribute heavily to Republican cam paign funds. Congress has been in the habit of placing the tariff on wool ens high enough to keep out- all com petition, so that the wooien trust could be free to charge any price desired, up to the limit of the " ability of the people to pay. The result is that Am ericans are paying from thirty to one hundred per cent more for woolen clothing and blankets than the resi dent of Great Brittain pays. The story of the career of Mr. Wood provides a curious paradox. He is oppressor of 150,000 miserable New England textile workers; a few years ago he was one of them. In his youth be felt the sting of hunger himself, but now he is pitiless, in his thought of his employees. He has grown onor mously rich, but declares that from $4 to $9 a week is enough for these who labor in his mills. . It is said of many captains of indus try that are ignorant of the conditions of the workmen who earn their fortun es for them; that if they knew the dis tress of their employees they would seek to remedy it. Hot so with Wood. Their distress he sees. Their cries he hears. Wood's father was a Portugese-Jew emigrant. He labored in a cotton mill and died of tuberculosis, a di sease common to cotton and wool spin ners. The father's name is believed to have been Alphonse LeHjir, or Le Vair. When the woolen mill employees, which are composed of 42 different nationalities, most of whom cannot speak in English, went on a strike the fathers and mothers decided to send their babes and littiechildren away to friends in otner cities in order that they might not suffer from hunger during the strike. Mr. Wood's agents beat the women, and tore the little ones from their mothers' arms when the children were about to be placed on trains. Thus did Mr. Wood "pro tect" his employees. Are the American people willing to continue to contribute to Mr. Wood by paying more for shoddy than srood woolen clothing sells for in England? Or do they want the tariff on woolens reduced? There is only one day every two years when the consumers have an opportunity to express themselves on this subject. That day comes on November 5th. REPUBLICANS FOR WILSON. Thousands of progressive Republi cans will vote for the Democratic nom inee for the presidency, in the opinion of Rudolph Spreckels, of San Francis co, close friend of Senator LaFollette and long prominent in the Republican party of California. "I have given many years of my time and support to the progressive Republican cause and to honet effort to eliminate political bosses and bring about the establishment of a just and truly representative government, and shall continue to make that fight with in my party; but I feel it my duty to support Gov. wilson at the coming election,'" belie zing it to be the only proper course left open for one who is sincerely interested in the establish ment of progressive legislation in our nation at the earliest moment. "Today I held a conference with Dr. Haryey W. Wiley, who stands out as the foremost figure in this nation as a protector of the lives and health of our children, and he informs me that he is opposed to the election of either Presi dent Taft or Theodore Roosevelt, be cause both failed during their admin istrations to properly support the fight against the rich manufacturers, of harmful foods and drugs." ROOSEVELT OVERLOOKS HIM SELF. Mr. Roosevelt declares that Barnes, Penrose and Guggenheim work hand in hand with the big interests. This is all true. How about Mr. Roosevelt himself? It was not at the solicitation of Barnes and Penrose and Guggen heim that Edward H. Harriman raised a political corruption fund of $260,000. It was at the solicitation of Theodore Roosevelt. It was not Barnes and Penrose and Guggenheim who, accord ing to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, bucked the pure food law. That was done by Theodore Roosevelt. . It was not Barnes and Penrose and Guggenheim who failed to bring the machinery of the law into play to send George W. Perkins to the penitentiary for violat ing the Sherman law in organizing the illegal harvester trust, and who then accepted Perkins' millions to run for a third term for President. That was Theodore Roosevelt. . SPEAKING OF REMARK. After all, the real significance of the vote in Vermont recently was not the size of the Bull Moose vote or the heavy inroads it made into the regular Republican vote, but the splendid showing made by. the Democrats, who, in round figures, increased their strength from 16.00C in 1908 to 20.350 in 1912. This means that the party not only stood solid as a rock, absolutely united, but it drew to itself a large Re publican vote. FRESHMAN KILLED. Death Puts An End To Hazing At University. CRv fh Associated Press.) RALEIGH, Sept. 13. Governor Kitchin tonight called upon President Venable of the State University to make the investigation of the four soph omores held in $5,000 bonds for the killing of Isaac William Rand this morning, complete. The coroner's inquest at Chapel Hill this afternoon, resulted in holding A. R. Styron, of Wilmington; W. C. Mer riman, Wilmington; A. C. Hatch, Mount Olive, and R. W. Oldham, of Raleigh. Evidence brought out was tnat Rand was forced by the sopho mores to sing and dance on a barrel and that while performing the ludi crous part he was either thrown by the barrel being kicked from under him or he fell. A piece of broken bottle pierc ed his neck, severing the jugular vein and carotid artery. Two freshmen fled, but others and Rand's room mate, also the victim of the prank, re mained and called for help. Rand died in ten minutes. President Venable had the four boys arrested and an inquest was held this afternoon. Gen. Julian S. Carr, mil lionaire of Durham, announces . to night he will raise the Donds and al low the boys to return to their parents. WALL S NEWS NOTES. Farmers Busy Pulling Fodder- Locals. (SDeclal to The Sun. WALL'S Sept. 16. We had some rain last week which was greatly ap preciated. Fodder pulling is the order of the day with the farmers and cotton is opening very fast. Our school committee has secured the services of Mr. Preston Stockton, of Hollis, for principal teacher, -nd Miss Lassie Byers, of Ellenboro, for assistant. Mr. Cale Bridges recently painted the school building which adds greatly to its appearance. Mr. R. J. Jones is improving his house by painting it. The Sunday school has changed song books again. We are now using "Joyful Praises." Mr. Elbert Towerey, of First Broad, will sing at Wall's next Sunday. The following young people enjoyed a singing at Mr. Smith Bridge's Sun day afternoon: Misses Fannie Tate, Edna Green, Verta Jones, Pearl, Do- cia and Lois Bridges, Ellen Tate and Etta Green, Messrs. Arthur Long, Os car Jones, Walter Bostic, Jones, Ed- ney Green, L. C. and George Bridges, W. J. Davis, Crawford Bostic, David Early and Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Wal ker. Mr. Clyde Jones left Sunday after noon for Raleigh. He was accompani ed by Mr. Sam Allen.
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