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PUBLIC LEDGER-OXFORD BANNER PUBLIC LED GE R -AND OXFORDPBANNER PUBLICATION OFFICE : BRTTT PR INTER Y. MITCHELL BUILDING. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffiee at Oxford. N. C. Published Semi-Weekly bv BRITT & O 0 13 Li E. Jno.T. Britt, Dan A.. Coble, EDITORS AND OWNERS. PRICE OF SUftSCRirnoN : One Yer $1 00 Six Months 60 Three Months 40 No attention will be paid to anonymous corres pondents, and no communications to the editor wiit be printed unless the name of the writer ac rmnpany the article. To Adyeriisers: No advertisement will be changed on day of publication. Advertising Pates Furnished on Application. ADVERTISING RATES. One year contract 10c per inch, net, each inser tion, run of paper. Six months 12 l-2c per inch. net. each insertion, run of paper. Three months 15c per inch, net. run of paper for each insertion. PREFERRED POSITIONS. On one year contract 12 l-2c per inch, net, each insertion. Six months 15c per inch, net, each insertion. Three months IScts per inch, net, each insertion. One or two months 23c per inch, net. each inser tiod. Reading notices fc per type line each insertion. DID YOU KNOW that the Public Ledger with its 2. SIM) subscribers offers the best advertising medium between the seller and the buyer in this territory. OXFORD. N. C. SATURDAY. JULY 20th. 1912. OUR STATE TICKET. For Governor: LOCKE CRAIG, of Buncombe. For Lieutenant-Governor: E. L. DAUGIITRIDGE, of Edgecombe. For Secretary of State: J. BRYAN GRIMES, of Pitt. For Treasurer: B. R. LACY, of Wake. For Auditor: V. P. WOOD, of Randolph. For Attorney-General: T. W. BICKETT. of Franklin. For Superintendent of Public Instruction: JAMES Y. JOYNER. of Guilford. For Insurance Commissioner: JAMES R. YOUNG, of Vance. For Commissioner of Agriculture: WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, of Lincoln. For Commissioner of Labor and Printing: M. L. SIIIPMAN of Henderson, For Corporation Commissioners: E. L. TRAVIS, of Halifax. GEO. P. PELL, of Forsyth. For Justices Supreme Court: WILLIAM A. HOKE, of Lincoln. GEORGE H. BROWN, of Beaufort. Forjudge of the Fifth Judical District: HOWARD A, FOUSHEE. The Lorimer Disgrace. The unseating of Senator Lorimer by the United States Senate will have to be accepted as the verdict of the most grave and reverend jury of the Nation. The majority against the Illi nois Senator was so large as to leave no doubt that he is guilty of the charge of corrupt practice in securing his elec tion to a seat in the Senate, says the Star. He is disgraced in the eyes of the Nation and Illinois is humiliated before all the world. Whatever may be further contended concerning the affair, the Senate's ver dict is in behalf of civic yirtue and sus tains the honor of the Senate. Doubt less it will have a wholesome effect in this age when we have almost lost faith in the honor and uprightness of the politicians of the country. Injustice to Gov. Kitchin. North Carolina's Traveling Governor is a clean, honorable, christian gentle man, even if he does charge that the newspapers that are against him are bought, we endorse the following from the Concord Times in defense of the eloquent Gov, Kitchin: "The Jefferson Recorder, in an arti cle in regard to Gov. Kitchin's speech in that town, refers to him as the 'Cole Blease of North Carolina." There is no stronger Simmons supporter in the State than this paper and its editor, but we respectfully protest against such a comparison as this. No doubt it was caused by the fact that both Gov. Kitchin and Gov. Blease are in their speeches attacking the newspa pers of their respective States, but this is no warrant for comparing the two men in a general way. Gov. Kitchin is an honest man and a gentleman, and his name should not be mentioned in the same breath with that of Cole Blease." Butler Promises Roosevelt. The Charlotte Observer says, while Marion Butler was promising things to Col. Roosevelt, he should not have bolted half way. Instead of assuring the Colonel that the Moose family in North Carolina will stamp the life out of each Land Crab at least five or six times, he should have made it sixteen times. And he ought to have arranged that fusion of Democratic and Repub lican electors with a little more partic ularity. He might have named the Hares who are to run with the Moose, and he might further have told Colonel Roosevelt the exact majority he is go ing to get in North Carolina. A day or two after the election we shall expect to see Marion Butler promoted to head chief of the Ananias Club to the ac companiment of some more or less lurid talk from Eyester Bay. The Old Time Way. One of our exchanges says that when pa was voung, people soaked their feet in hot water and took a few drops of catnip and got well. Now they have a grippe, take quinine and feel sick all summer. Then thev had sore throat, wrapped a piece of bacon in an old wool stocking, tied it around their neck at night and went to work next day. Now they have tonsilitis. a surgical operation, and two weeks in a hospital. Then they had stomach trouble and took castor oil and recovered. Now they have appendicitis, a week in the hospital and six feet due east and west and six feet perpindicular. In those days they wore underclothes. Now they wear lingerie. Then they went to a restaurant ; now they go to a cafe. Then they broke a leg ; now they frac ture a limb. Then people went crazy; now they have brain storms or are born crazy, we don't know which. Pol iticians then paid good hard cash for support ; now they send government garden seed instead. Yes, times have changed ami we all change with the times. That's progress. LORIMER FIGHT ENDED. Senator Simmons Votes to Un seat the Illinois Senator. Washington, July 13. The vote in the Senate was on the resolution in troduced by Senator Lea, of Tennessee, to declare that Lorimer had been elect ed by "corrupt methods" and that the election was therfore null and void. On that resolution the Senators voted as follows: Against Lorimer, Democrats As hurst, Arizona; Bacon, Georgia; Bryan, Florida; Clark, Arkansas; Gardner. Main, Chamberlain, Oregon; Gore, Ok lahoma; Hitchcock, Nebraska; Johnson, Maine; Kern. Indiana; Lea, Tennessee; Martin, Virginia; Martine. New Jersey; Myers, Montana; Newlands, Nevada; O'Gorman, New York; Overman, North Carolina; Pomerene. Ohio; Rayner, Maryland. Reed, Missouri; Shively. In diana; Simmons, North Carolina; Smith, South Carolina; Stone. Missouri; Swan son, Virginia; Watson, West Virginia; Williams, Mississippi Total, 29. Against Lorimer, Republicans. Twenty-six voted with the Democrats for expulsion. For Lorimer, Democrats Bailey, Texas; Fletcher, Florida; Foster, Louis iana; Johnson, Alabama; Painter, Ken tucky; Smith, Maryland; Thornton, Louisiana; Tillman, South Carolina. Total, 8 For Lorimer, Republicans Twenty Republicans voted with the Democrats to sustain Lorimer. Against Lorimer 55 For Lorimer 28 Total vote 83 Memory of Mrs. W. E. Morgan, On May 8th, 1912, Mrs. W. E. Mor gan left us to go to Richmond to St. Luke's Hospital for an operation.which was done very successful and she was apparently recovering very fast, but on Saturday June 1st at 7:30 after the best davs rest she had since the opera tion, she passed to the great beyond where there will be no more pain or suffering, but only joy and happiness. Her remains was brought to Oxford and then carried to the home of her childhood days, where she was gentlv laid to rest in the family burying ground by the side of her loved ones who had gone before her. Her burial service was conducted by her brother Rev. R. A. McFarland. amid a throng of sor rowing friends and relatives. The floral offerings were beautiful. She was thirty-four years old, and professed religion when a girl and united with the Baptist church near her home, where she remained a mem ber until she came into our midst about three and a half years ago. Then with her husband she united with Concord Baptist church of which she was a use ful member until her death. She was always ready and willing to do what she could for her Master. She was a teacher in our Sunday School and was eager to teach her class more about Jesus. We miss her; her seat is va cant, but we sorrow not as those who have no hope for we rest assured that she will welcome us on the other shore. As a neighbor she was good and kind always ready and willing to lend a helping hand to any one. We miss her. She leaves a devoted husband, a dear mother and six loving brothers, Rev. R. A. McFarland, of Suffolk, Va.; W. A. McFarland, of Oxford; C. D. Mc Farland, of Meredith, Fla.; H. G. Mc Farland, Luther and Luster McFar land, of Berea, besides a host of rela tives and friends to mourn her death. May the bereaved ones be comforted: You have a friend who sleeps beneath The cold and silent sod; Mourn not for her, for she has gone To heaven and to God; But rather let thy soul rejoice That she is free from sin; That God, who gave her unto thee, Has called her home to Him Mrs. Mollie Lyon. Senator Simmons who voted for Lorimer in 1910 voted against him to day. In explaining his vote Mr Sim mons said: "Upon the evidence taken in the first Lorimer investigation, act ing as a juror, I voted for Lorimer be cause the evidence was. as I thought, insufficient to show that his election was vitiated by the current use of money The first investigation was not a thorough-going one. In explanation of this the committee explained : First that the prosecuting attorney admitted of record that he did not have evi dence to show that Senator Lorimer used any money improperly or had any knowledge of the corrupt use of money to secure his election. Second, that they did not investigate the so called 'jack pot' found because they held that if any money was paid from that fund by Lee O'Neill Brown, or his agent, Wilson, it had no relevancy to the matter which the committee was appointed to investigate, and the com mittee taking this view of the disburse ment from the 'jack pot' fund, con eluded that it was no part of the duty of the committee to inquire into either the origin of the fund, or the purpose for which it was used, declaring that the matter was, and is, one for the proper officials of the State of Illinois to take cognizance of and one with which the Senate of the United States has no concern. ' For these reasons the scope of the first investigation was limited and the evidence covered only about seven hundred pages. Later, when it was claimed that new evidence of impor tance had been discovered, and the Legislature of Illinois, basing his re quest upon the findings of the Helms committee, asked that the case be re opened and other investigation should be had. "In as much as the first investiga tion was incomplete, the Senate de cided to reopen the case and a resolu tion was passed raising a special com mittee for that purpose. The resolu tion ordering this investigation was prepared by Senator Martin, of Vir ginia, the Democratic leader in the Senate, and submitted by him to the Democratic caucus, which approved it, and requested him to press its pass age, and it was under this resolution drafted by Senator Martin and sub mitted by Senator Dillingham that the second investigation was had. This resolution having in mind the failure of the first committee to thor oughly investigate the 'jack pot fund introduced the special committee to inquire fully into, and report upon the sources and use of the alleged 'jack pot' fund, or any other fund in its rela tion to and effect if any upon the elec tion of William Lorimer to the Senate. "I voted for the resolution to reopen the case, both in the caucqs and in the Senate, intending when the report of the new investigation was made to vote on the second trial according to my conviction on the evidence as pre sented in that report, as I had done in the first trial. If I had not intended to vote on the new evidence without feeling estopped by my vote in the first trial of course I should have voted against reopening the case. "The second investigation was a thorough one. The evidence, I think, shows that the 'jack pot' fund which the first committee did not inquire into, because they thought it irrevelent and immaterial, is not only of great, but, as I view it, of controlling impor tance. The evidence in the second in vestigation fully justifies, I think, the conclusion that this socalled 'jack pot' fund was a large sum of money con tributed by various 'interests' interest ed in promoting or defeating legisla tion, that a large part of this fund was placed in the hands of Lee O'Neall Brown; that it was not to be distribut ed until after the Legislature had ad journed, that with this fund under his control, and as an inducement Brown gathered around him certain members of the Legislature, who for all practical purposes, put his votes at his com mand whenever he needed them, and that whenever he called upon them for their votes they responded. "This fund was not raised to elect Senator Lorimer, nor to influence the senatorial election. Indeed, Lorimer was not a candidate when it was raised, but through that fund. Brown controlled the votes of these men for Lorimer, and by the aid of those votes he was elected. "After the Legislature adjourned Brown distributed this money among these men who had been his willing tools, not only carrying out his schemes with respect to legislation, but also with respect to Lorimer. The facts and circumstances brought out in the investigation of the 'jack pot' by the special committee, as directed in the resolution re-opening the case show that while this money was not raised for use in the election of Senator Lori mer, its influences operated in secur ing his election, as well as promoting and defeating local legislation, in which the contributors were interested, and the votes so controlled, added to the votes of those who controlled and dis tributed this fund were sufficient to give Lorimer the votes necessary to secure his election. ' For these reasons and others grow ing out of the changed aspect of the case by the evidence in the second investigation, I felt impelled to vote against the validity of Senator Lori mer's election. "Neither the evidence taken in the first or second investigation connects Senator Lorimer personally with the corrupt use of money to secure or in fluence his election, unless his close personal relations with Lee O'Neal Brown, who controlled and handled a part at least, of this 'jack pot' fund and his contribution of money to meet the expenses of Brown's defense when he was indicted for bribery, shall be so construed, but the evidence taken in the last investigation, does, I think, show that he was in his election the beneficiary of the corruption fund con trolled and distributed by Brown, Lip pett and their agents and that yitiates his election." NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. This is to notify the public that the firm of Daniel & Turner is this day dissolved by mutual consent. G. C. Daniel. of the old firm, will continue to do business at the stand, and re spectfully solicits the patronage of his old lriends and the public in general. The best of fresh meats, reasonable prices and prompt service will prevail. This 11th day July, 1912. G. C. DANIEL. WARRENTON HIGH SCHOOL. Warrenton, N. C 'ourses of study required for granting of certificate given highest credit 16 units in the list of accredited schools of the University. Kxperieneed Faculty. AH hoarders under the immediate supervision of the Principal. Seperate department for girls. Total expenses for year $225. Fur 'at n iogue Address JOHN GRAHAM, Principal. FOR COUNTY TREASURER. Having procured the consent of Mr. W. T. Lyon to accept the nomination for Treasurer, if tendered to him by the Democratic party, we take this means of placing his name before the voters of the county for this office. In the performance of the duties of this office in the past Mr. Lyon has shown himself eminently fitted for the same, and we ask the voters why discharge so faithful a public servant who has given perfect satisfaction simplv for the sake of change or because some untried and inexpeiienced person de sires the office. MANY CITIZENS CHAPPELL'S Tobacco Flues will fit. Call on him at Oxford. EAST CAROLINA TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL. A State School to train teachers for the public schools of North Carolina. Kvery energy is directed to this one purpose. Tuition free to all who agree to teach. Fall term begins Septoinber 24th 1912. For Catalogue and Other Information Address ROBT. H.WRIGHT, Pres., Green ville,ISLCJ IMEREDITH :-: COLLEGE. FLUES, -We make and repair flues. Oxford Hardware Co. 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