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THE TABLES TURNED
THE FINAL LINE UP
Governor W. W. Kitchin Versus
Democratic State Convention,
Democratic National Convention,
Woodrow Wilson, Zebulon B.
Vance, Charles B. Aycock, F. M.
Simmons, A Square Deal For The
State, Square Deal For Farmer.
(By Samuel I. Rogers.)
"lie digged a pit, he digged it deep,
he digged it for his brother;
But he fell in the pit he digged for
t'other."
(Mr. McNirch. an authority on
Shakespeare, will kindly correct any
inaccuracies in the foregoing quota
tion.) The sentiment accurately ex
presses the situation with reference to
the campaign of Governor Kitchin for
the Senate.
This is not an "indictment." It is
a plain statement of pertinent facts.
In the opening speech of his campaign,
in the Academy of Music in Raleigh,
Governor Kitchin followed the lead
of Marion Butler and "hired a hall to
4tes-w Onator Simmons. " In the
"wJatofo Ve recognized the force of
the argument that seniority of service
in the Senate was of great value, and
he based his candidacy upon the con
tention that Senator Simmons should
not be re-elected because he was "out
and was "an
party,'
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of line with his
ally of Aldrich
Senator Simmons and his friends
were unmoved by his onslaught. They
had heard the like before. Less. than
two years before, Marion Butler had
"hired the same hall" and spent wo
hours in very much the. same kind of
denunciation of Senator. Simmons.
With that confidence that is built on
sure foundations, they awaited devel
opments of the contest. And at this
date, two weeks before thft primary, a
calm resume of the situation shows how
completely the tables have turned, and
justifies absolutely the heading of this
article; leaves the Governor bearing
the heavy load of sixteen " years of
empty public sp.rvice, himself helpless
ly and hopelessly waging a fight a
gainst all the constituted authority of
the party, and againsi the record of all
the faithful leaders of the party in the
past who have been the political idols
of the State. Taking events in their
order:
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CON
VENTION. When that great Democratic State
Convention that filled Raleigh's new
Auditorium adjourned, wfib was it
found himself "out of line with the
party," and went away crying "pack
ed"? Not F. M. Simmons, for its de
liberations were as sweet strains of
mnsic to him. It is true that he had
been too much engaged, fisrhting a
magnificent battle for the people in
the Senate, to give his attention to his
interests at home, He was organizing
the lines for the passage through the
Senate of those tariff reform bills that
The Commoner said would have
"saved hundreds of millions of dol
lars annually to the people, but for
the vetoes of Mr. Taft," while his
opDonent had been for months going
about the State and arraigning him be
fore the people. But when these Dem
ocratic hosts assembled in State Con
vention they refused to be content with
any deliverance from the party that
did not assure Senator Simmons of
their confidence in him and their ap
proval of his course. And they a
dopted a platform with which his tariff
record squares exactly.
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
CONVENTION.
Who was it came away from Balti
more dismayed when Woodrow Wil
son was nominated? Who was parti
cipating in the caucuses of the Clark
forces when the nomination of Wilson
hung in the balance? Not any of the
friends of Senator Simmons. The
Senator had carefully refrained from
any participation whatever in the con
test, but a large majority of the dele
gates from North Carolina who were
"first, last, and all the time" for
Woodrow Wilson were also "first, 4
last, and all the time" for P. M. Sim
mons; and inasmuch as the bulk of
the attack on the Senator by Governor
Kitchin was on account of his record
in antagonizing the Reciprocity bill,
the Senator must have found some
satisfaction in the nomination of the
pne candidate whose friends bad pres- the party
sed his nomination on the ground that
he did not favor reciprocity.
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM.
Who was it that felt the burden of
defeat press heavier on him when he
read the platform adopted at Balti
more? Not F. M. Simmons, because
he was so delighted with it that when
he saw the original draft of it, before
it was reported to and adopted by the
Convention, he published an interview
commending it without reservation and
in the highest terms. Every indict
ment which Governor Kitchin had
brought against his record fell down
completely when measured by this pro
gressive declaration of a progressive
party. Not a line in it that was an
tagonistic to any position taken by
Senator Simmons. Reciprocity found
no mention in it. Free trade was not
even hinted at. Federal aid to good
roads, which Senator Simmons had
made a live issue, was endorsed.
River and harbor improvement, for
which the Senator had conspicuously
labored, was approved. The cotton,
woolen, metals, and chemical sched
ules, and the farmers' free list bill, in
all of which Senator Simmons led the
fight through the Senate, were specifi
cally endorsed as "designed to give
immediate relief to the masses from
the exactions of the trusts. ' ' Who has
been out of line with that platform, as
he has continued his fight on Senator
Simmons for his opposition to reci
procity, and for his opposition to free
trade in this, and free trade in that?
Not Senator Simmons.
WOODROW WILSON.
As Woodrow Wilson has progres
sed with his campaign and developed
his interpretations of the Baltimore
platform, who has he left out of line?
Not Senator Simmonsf As he has gone
about the country assuring the people
every where that "the Democratic Par
ty does not propose free trade, or any
thing approaching free trade," with
which candidate for the Senate does
that strike in discord? Not Senator
Simmons. That is the way the Sena
tor has been interpreting Democracy
all the time. He believes in and has
consistently fought for reduction of
the present protective duties to the
level of reasonable revenue duties,
but at the same time he has fought a
gainst taking away the revenue alto
gether putting the products of our peo
ple on the free list.
ZEBULON B. VANCE.
Finding themselves "out of line"
and out harmony with our State Con
vention, and our National Conven
tion, and our nominee for President,
they hark back to the past, and quote
from our best loved North Carolinian,
Senator Vance: "I say, sir, that the
Senator cannot find one single, soli
tary word in my record sounding to
the folly of protection." But an in
vestigation discloses that this declara
tion from Vance came in answer to a
false accusation that he was advocat
ing protection (just as Senator Sim
mons has been falsely accused of ad
vocating protection) because he was
demanding in 1883 (just as Simmons
has been demanding) that North Car
olina products be given a square deal;
and then Senator Vance sent this vital
shot into the hypocrisy of those who
falsely charged him with advocating
protection: "It borders on dishonesty
to expect me to give him the products
of my State free, while he charges me
a high duty for his," That hit like a
pile-driver. Whose record strikes in
harmony with that manly declaration
from old Zeb. Vance? Not Governor
Kitchin's, fr nearly every indictment
he has brought against Senator Sim
mons is based on the refusal of Sim
mons to consent that North Carolina
products be placed on the free list,
while the Payne-Aldrich rates obtain
on the products of other sections.
CHARLES B. AYCOCK.
Finally, they say that Governor Ay
cock condemned the record of Senator
Simmons, or he would not have come
out as a candidate. But they have
stood dumb before the incontrovertible
evidence that upon practically every
indictment which Kitchin has brought
against Simmons, Avcock approved
the Simmons record; and that in the
carefully constructed tariff platform,
prepared by Governor AycocK on
which to announce his candidacy for
the Senate, it is so clearly in line with
the Simmons record that Senator Sim
mons wrote letters to his friends in the
State suggesting that the Avcock plat
form on the tariff be adopted by the
State Convention as the platform of
Be favored a tariff "to
bear equally upon all productive ener
gy agriculture, mining, and manu
facturing," and "equally upon every
section of the country. " Further, "I
do not believe in proteciion for New
England and free trade for North Car
olina." Whose record strikes in har
mony with that declaration? Not Gov
ernor Kitchin's, for he has denounced
Simmons on every stump for opposing
free trade in the products ot North
Carolina, and the products of the farm,
saying in all his speeches that the
"pretense" that any tariff duty can be
of any benefit to the farmer is "a sham
and a fraud."
So that we are coming to the close
of the campaign with the position of
the candidates for the Senate shown
forth clearlv and accurately.
Senator Simmons, with a record of
achievement and of service to his State
that will appeal to the gratitudj of the
people for years to come; occupying
in the Senate the position of greatest
opportunity for service, and of great
est honor, that has come to any North
Carolinian, certainly since the Civil
War; to be the leader of a united Dem
ocracy, progressive and aggressive in
working out upon lines of Democratic
justice the great National problems of
reform, and in perfect harmony with
the Democracy of his State and of the
Nation as declared in its platform and
interpreted by its nominee for Presi
dent. Governor Kitchin, with sixteen years
of emptv public service behind him,
bringing to a close and to a certain
and decisive defeat, a campaign of in
surrection, himself out of harmony
with the Democracy of his State, with
the platform of his party, with the
Presidential nominee of his party, and
antagonistic to the interests of the peo
ple of his State, and to those leaders
of the party in the past in whom our
people have most confidence.
CLIFFSIDE ITEMS.
Mr. Camp Ruppe Badly Cut By Mr.
Burweli Bland A Death.
(Special to The Sun.)
CLIFFSIDE, Oct. 29. The farmers
are busy trying to get their crops
gathered, shucking corn and sowing
wheat.
Miss Maude Bell and brother Boyd,
of Rutherfordton, spent Saturday
night and Sunday at Mr. James Mc
Farland's. Mr. Burweli Bland, while drinking
last Saturday night, cut Mr. Camp
Ruppe very badly. Dr. Shull dressed
his wounds. They numbered 41. It
took 36 stitches to sew up the wounds.
Officers arrested Bland Sunday, but he
got away and fled into South Caro
lina. Mrs. Thomas H. Hames received the
sad news yesterday of the death of her
brother, Mr. Alonzo Wall, of Greens
boro, who has been in feeble health
for some time. He died at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
F. Wall, who live in the High Shoals
section near Henrietta. He leaves a
wife and one child, father and mother
and five brothers, Rev. Zeno Wall, of
Mississippi: Rev. Ray Wall, of Mar
shall; Goen Wail, of Greensboro; and
Roland and RaJeigh who are at home,
one sister, Mrs. T. H. Hames, of
Cliffside. He leaves a host of friends
whose sympathy goes out for the be
reaved ones. The funeral services,
will take place at High Shoals church
today.
T. R. STILL STAYS IN LIMELIGHT
Talks For Twenty Minutes At Sagamore
Hill Without Being Fatigued.
(By the Associated Press.)
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Oct. 28. "I
don't feel a bit as though I had been
shot," said Colonel Roosevelt tonight.
He was so much better that his phy
sicians gave him permission to re-establish
communication, through the
corresponddeats at Oyster Bay, with
outside world. It was the first inter
view he had given since his return to
Sagamore Hill, and he talked for 2C
minutes without a sign of fatigue.
"This seems like being alive again,"
said Roosevelt as he entered his libra
ry. "It seems good to get back into
the old channels once more."
He walked with a brisk, vigorous
step and his face had lost none of its
color. There was nothing about his
appearance to suggest that he carried
a would-be assassin's bullet in his
body.
Roosevelt said he felt well enough to
make his speech in Madison Square
Garden, New York, Wednesday night,
and that if he suffered no serious ef
fects he might make a lew other
speeches before election day.
Today's mail brought Colonel
Roosevelt more than 1,000 letters and
300 telegrams. Most of them were mes
sages of congratulations for his. birth
da, or because ol his recovery.
UNION WILLS MATTERS.
Death Of Young Alfred Condrey
Locals And Personals.
(Special to The Suij.)
UNION MILLS, Oct. 29.--Mr. Grant
Allen spent several days in Charlotte
last week, attending the Mecklenburg
county fair.
We " are sorry to note the death of
Mr. Alfred Condrey, who died at the
home of his father on Union Mills, R
2 last Friday. Mr. Condrey was in
school at this place up till sometime
over a montn ago, and had many
friends here, who regret very much to
hear of his death.
Miss Pearle FlacK spent the week-end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B.
Flack on Rutherfordton, R-3.
Miss Estelle Logan, of Westminster,
spent Thursday and Friday of last
week at this place, visiting Mr. . and
Mrs. F. B. Logan.
Mr. J. P. Guffey is building an ad
dition to his house which improves it
very much.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Dobbins, of
Rutherfordton, spent Sunday in Union
Mills with relatives.
Miss Ellis Harton, accompanied by
her cousin, Mr. Lewis McEntire, spent
Saturday and Sunday with her parents
near Rutherfordton.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Yelton, of Union
Mills, R-2, spent Sunday at this place
with the latter's sister, Mrs. G. W.
Morgan.
Messrs. Gordon Scoggin, Mills
Keeter, and G. W. Morgan went to
Rutherfordton Monday on business.
A MARRIAGE AT UREE
Old Jack Frost Puts In His Appearance
Bad Section Of Road.
(Special to The Sun.)
UREE R-2, Oct. 28. Old Jack Frost
Dut in his appearance on the morning
of the 25th instant. Farmers contem
plate seeding a larger acreage of small
grain usual. Let us prepare the seed
bed well and use a high grade fertiliz
er. Authorities tell us a fertilizer con
taining 10 per cent potash on land in
clined to sand is not too much. This
writer will use Thomas phosphate
muriate of potash and cotton seed
meal mixed at the proper ratio which
will make a high grade fertilizer.
Married at the residence of the the
officiating officer, C. C. Lovelace, Jr.,
on the 27th instant, Mr. John Radford,
of Union Mills, to Miss Bytha Blan
kenship, of Rutherfordton. Only a
few of the most intimate friends being
present.
Rev. J. D. Hunt, of Round Hill, was
a welcome visitor at Pleasant Grove
church last Sunday.
The Hickorynut road just east of the
hollow, now Waldrop place, is not safe
for travel after "night, especially
strangers on account of large cave.
We think the county commissioners
should take some action at once to
have some remedy as the supervisors
cannot do anything of permanent ben-fit.
Ferry News Notes.
fSneclal to The Sun.l
FERRY, Oct. 28. The farmers are
gathering corn and preparing for sow
ing wheat these days.
Mrs. C. H. Kennedy spent Saturday
night at Mr. B. H. Butler's.
Misses Maud Kennedy and Elora
Alexander spent Saturday night and
Sunday at Rev. S. B. Thorn's at Bos
tic. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Kennedy spent
Sunday at Mr. Gaitner Kennedy's.
Dr. J. F. Whisnant passed through
town Sunday in his Ford roadster.
Mr. J. Padgett has a sick child at
this writing.
Sheriff C. E. Tanner visited here
last Friday.
We notice that Mr. Gudger is billed
to speak at Henrietta Thursday night,
Mr. and Mrs. A. Brandall and Mr,
and Mrs. J. L Hames visited relatives
and friends in the mountains last Sun
day. Only a few more days till election.
Bostic Briefs.
(Bpeclal to Tne Bun.)
BOSTIC, Oct. 29. We are having
some pleasant weather at the present,
and the farmers are busy gathering
corn, preparing the soil, and sowing
wheat and oats.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wells is very low at
this time. Mr. J. D. Wells is also
very ill.
Mr. G. R. Early has recently movea
from here to Forest City.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dycus, of El
lenboro, spent Sunday in this section.
Quite a large number of people of
this section enjoyed the sermon at
Wall's church Sunday, by the pastor,
Rev. Z. D. HarriU.
)VERTISING.
VAUGHN CONFESSES.
Former Ophanage Superintendent
Will Go To Electric Chair.
(By the Associated Press.)
GREENVILLE, S. C, Oct. 26.
Found guilty today of assault upon
three inmates of the South Carolina
Odd Fellows Home, of which he wasQNET
superintendent, Thurston Vaughn .will
pav the penalty of his misdeeds with
his life. j-y
The trial was brought to a sensa
tional close when Vaughn broke down
and confessed all. He named two
other victims in addition to those in
cluded in the indictment. The jury out A Dri I I K A
but four minutes, made no fecommen-rl 1 1 V L 1 1 1 fli
dation for mercy. Th's means that
Vaughn will be sentenced to the elec
tric chair.
Tears streamed down the face of
Judge Purdy, named by Governor
Blease as special judge for this trial.
Many jurors, court officials and spec
tators alike made no pretense of hid
ing their tears as Vauarhn, pale ana
broken, acknowledged his crime.
Many jurors wept aloud.
When court opened this morning
there was no intimation that the ac
cused would make a confession. His
attorneys had fought stubbornly since
the beginning of the case to break
down the strong evidence developed
by the prosecution's witnesses.
Immediately after court opened to
day, attorneys for both sides consult
ed, resulting in an agreement to let
Vaughn confess in an effort to save
his own life and that the case would
go to the jury without argument.
"I have acted devilishly; I have act
ed shamelessly," began Vaughn. "The
devil tempted me and I have fallen."
He pleaded eloquently but vainly
with the jury to save his life.
Vaughn begged the jury to spare his
lite, not so much for his sake, as for
his wife and little daughter.
Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor her dau
ghter were in court today, though
they had been with the accused since
the trial opened.
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THE PEOPLE OF
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Vlt welfare. It ought not to be
ontrol your votes.
ELLENB0R0 RURAL NEWS.
Big Crops Of Corn And Sweet Po
tatoes Personals.
(Special to The Sun.)
ELLEN BORO, R-3, Oct. 28. -Because
we have been too busy to give
the news is no reason why you should
think nothing ever happens down on
our side. We have been gathering
our bounteous crop of corn and pick
ing our magnificent crop of cotton.
The sweet potatoes well, we've never
before raised a crop like the one just
harvested at Huckleberry Hill. Al
most a two-horse load from only half
an acre.
Miss Pheba McMillon, of Tennessee,
who is spending some time with Miss
Blanche McDaniel, at Ellenboro, vis
ited in community last week.
Messrs. Vaughn, Tom and Amos
Beam and Coron McKinney, went to
the mountains Sunday to get chest
nuts. We suppose they had a good
time and found plenty of chestnuts.
Mrs. J. W. Beam, who has been
very low for some time, is some better
at present.
Mr. Guy Walker and sister, Miss
Dova, of Lattimore, visited at Mr.
Georee Harrill's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson and
Misses Pearl and Velle Wilson visited
at Mr. Joseph Wilson's Sunday.
Mr. Crawford Harrill, who holds a
position as street car conductor at
Charlotte, is at home for a couple of
weeks.
Not much news this week as every
body is talking politics.
EXPENSE ACCOUNTS FILED
Senatorial
Candidates Comply
United States Statute.
With
(Special to Asheville Citizen.)
RALEIGH, Oct. 25. Senator F. M.
Simmons, Governor W. W. Kitchin
and Chief Justice Walter Clark, can
didates for the United States Senate in
the strenuous campaign now pending,
made public tonight their campaign
expenses to date, as required by Unit
ed States statute, and Senator Sim
mons gave out an additional state
ment showing his total expenses that
include stationery, telegrams, tele
phones, postage, letter writing, print
ing other than newspapers and person
al traveling expenses, none of which
are required to be reported under the
statute. Senator Simmons' total ex
penses required to be reported under
the statute amounted to $5,788. Gov
ernor Kltcnin's total expenses report
ed under the statute amounted to $5,
452 and Judge Clark's expenses under
the statute amounted to $1,420.
. of wealth has been nurvelous, in-
Coleman, of Rutherfordton. delivered
addresses here Tuesday night, October
22nd, after which a Democratic Club
was organized with 57 charter mem
bers. Mr. j. T. McGregor, superintendent
of the Florence Mills, was elected
president and Mr. W. vv. Hicks,
cashier of the First National Bank,
secretary.
Your correspondent having consult
ed a majority of the Democratic vot
ers in Forest City in regard to the
Senatorial primary believes he is safe
in giving Simmons 50 percent Kitchin
40 per cent and Clark 10 per cent.
This may vary some between now and
election. While Simmons is holding
his own, Kitchin is losing some to
Clark.
Rev. O. L. f Stringfield, assistant
superintendent of the North Carolina
Anti-Saloon League, delivered an ad
dress here Monday night at the Bap
tist church.
Mrs. Ollie Greene and Mr. Carl
Newton were married Saturday night
at the home of the bride in the mill
village, Rev. J. F. Moser performing
the ceremony.
Mr. J. K. Dean and family left Tues
day morning for Post, Texas, where
Mr. Dean has accepted a position as
overseer ol carding and spinning with
the Post City Manufacturing Company.
Mrs. M. J. Higgins arrived in the
city Sunday from Mills Springs to
spend some time in the city with rela
tives. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Bostic left
Monday over the Seaboard Air Line
for Tampa, Fla., on a pleasure trip.
PREDICTION FULFILLED.
Prophecy Made 20 Years Ago At
Henrietta Coming True.
(Special to Charlotte Observer.)
HENRIETTA, Oct. 14. Twenty
years ago when the Henrietta Mills
were being built, and while the finish
ing touches were being put on, one
workman stood in the doorway and
uttered a remarkabl prophecy:
"Today our work is completed and
ready, spindles and looms begin to
whirl and dash and proclaim the lift
ing higher the industrial standard
than has ever before been known in
our Southland. In 20 years from this
good day the supremacy of New Eng
land in cotton manutacturing will
cease, and the South will have come
into her own."
For the first time the cotton growing
States last year manufactured more
cotton products than all the other
States. The South usd 2,700,000 bales,
while New England and the rest of the
United States used 2,659,000 bales.
NEW MEANING OF "DEMOCRAT."
State Executive Committee Changes
Its Ruling.
(Special to Charlotte Observer.)
RALEIGH, Oct. 24. After a session
continuing until past midnight and in
which one series of proposed resolu
tions was voted down and a flood of
new ones offered, following an unsuc
cessful motion to adjourn, the State
Democratic Executive Committee to
night adopted the following resolution
by A. Wi McLean, of Robeson, as in
terpreting the meaning of "Democratic
ticket" required by the State Conven
tion rules to be voted in order to per
mit an elector to vote in the primaries
for United States Senator. "Resolved,
That in the opinion of the committee
the words 'Democratic ticket' as used
in the fourth and tenth rules govern
ing the senatorial primary adopted by
the State Convention shall be con
strued to permit any elector who shall
have voted for nominees of the Demo
cratic party only and who shall not
have voted for any candidate on any
ticket in opposition to the Democratic
ticket to vote in the senatorial pri-
nary.
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