MARNM BLAB
i AMERiCANS ARE
I AfREEPEOPLE
Speech to Indiana Deiegation
Repubiican Nominee Decia^s
for Security at Home.
EUROPE HAS EVEN NOW
QU!T WILSON'S LEAGUE
Vet Democratic Party Leaders Would
Have Us Bound by Originai Pact
. With No American Safeguards.
"STEADY AhtERiCA!*
"Mindfu! of our splendid ex
ampte and renewing every obii
gation of association in war, i
want America to be the fock of
security at home, resoiute in
righteousness and tmatterabie in
security and supremacy of the
!aw.
"Let us be done with wiggting
and wobbiing.
"Steady America! Let us as
sure good fortune to at!."
—Senator Warren G. Harding in
address before the Indiana
deiegation at Marion.
Marion, O. (Speciai.)—Senator War- i
Ten G. Harding, Republican nominee
tor President, in a speech deiivered to
n delegation from Indiana which cailed
on him here to pledge the support of
Indiana Republicans, declared that
twice President Wilson had an oppor
tunity to obtain ratification of the
League of Nations covenant and that
-&e put ratification aside because he
xvouid not accept reservations designed
=so)eiy to safeguard American rights.
Senator Harding said:
"I greet you in a spirit of rejoicing; j
not a rejoicing in the narrow persona!
w partisan sense, not in the gratifying j
prospects of party triumph; not in the
vontempiation of abundance in the
harvest Reids ^nd ripening corn Reids
=and maturing orchards; not in the re
assuring approach of stability after a
period of wiggiing and wobbiing which
tnagniRed our uncertainty—though ai)
*of these are "mpie for our wide re
joicing—but I rejoice that America is
igtiii free and independent and in a po
sition of seif-reiiance and hoids to the
Tight of seif-determination, which are
priceless' possessions in the present
Turbulence of the worid.
"Let us suppose the senate had rat
iCed the peace treaty.containing the*
league covenant as submitted to it by
The president in Juiy of iast year,
\vhat would be the situation confront
ing our common country today? To
Sny mind there is but one answer. Be
!ore this day we wouid have been
Tailed* upon to fuiRi the obiigations
Which we bad assumed under Article
K) of the league covenant, to preserve
the territorial integrity of Poland 'as
Against external aggression/
i Sympathy for Poiand.
' "I shall not low attempt to meas
ure the boundless sympathy for the
just aspirations and restored independ
ence of Poiand. Our present concern
Is the international situation which
Poland has brought to our attention,
t "The council of the League of Na
tions would have reasoned, and rea
soned correctly, that the United States
could furnish the munitions and, if
necessary, the men to withstand the
hordes advancing from Russia far
tnore easily than could the exhausted
nations of Europe. Moreover, inas
much as this would be the Rrst test
of the scheme of world government
Which was formulated and demanded
by the President, speaking for the
United States, the fact of a speciai
responsibility, resting upon our shouid
ers. manifestly wouid have been un
deniable. Undoubtedly the- league
council, in 'advising upon the means'
by which the obligations to Poland
should be fulfilled, as provided in the
covenant, would have so held, and
probably the conscience of America,
certainty the opinion of the world,
Would have sustained that judgment.
"The conclusion that our country
might now be confronted by such a
situation, if the senate had ratfBed
the lecgue covenant, requires no
stretch of the Imagination. None can
deny that !t Is possible. To many
candid minds, as to tpy own, such a
distressing situation wili seem high
ly probable. Let ns assume that the
ratiRcation had taken place. Let us
assume, further, that the performance
iof the alloted task required the wag
ing of war upon the Russian people,
^ as of course, it would, what would
result * whaf would of necessity have
to result' Nothing necessarily, we
are glibly informed since only the
Congress npp declare war. and the
Congre*"- might **o1ef the appeaJ of
. the executive But would the Congress
do that? Could +he Congress do that
'wlihout staining^ indelibly the honor
of the nation?
Answer is "No."
"I answer 'No,' and I say it not on
my own authority alone. Back of my
judgment stands the President of the
United States. Upon that point there
is Rrst-hand information. In the course
of the discussion which took piace at
the meeting of the President and the
Senate Committee on Foreign Re!a
tions I raised the question by stating
a hypotheticai case preciseiy analogous
to that *:.hich I have depicted, and then
inquired whether we might not right
tctiy be regard**! as a perRdious pe*
pie if we should fad to contribute an
armed force, if eaiied upon to do so.
The President 6rst repiied, as I
thought somewhat evasively, that we
'wouid he our own judges as to wheth
er we were ohiiged in those circum
stances to act in that way or not
Pressed further, however, in response
to a query incorporating the assump
tion that 'the case provided fqy and j
prescribed had arisen' and that the ]
extraneous attack did exist precisely !
as it does exist today in Poiand,' the
President admitted specficaily that 'we j
wouid be untrue if we did not keep our ;
word.'
"Replying further to a question
which perhaps 1 ought not to have
considered necessary, the President
pronounced a morai obiigation 'of
course, superior to a lega! obiigation'
and of 'a greater binding force.'
"What, then, becomes of the argu
ment that Congress, not the President,
in this instance at any rate, might
keep us out of war?' Technicaiiy, of
course, it couid do so. Moraily. with
equai certainty, it coutd not do so nor
would It ever do so. The American
peopte would never permit a repudia
tion of a debt of honor.
"Am I not right, my countrymen,
in saying that we needed only the
outbreak of war between Potand and
Russia to make us readze at ieast
one of the things which in the words
of Secretary !<ans*ug we would have
been 'let in for. but for the restrain
ing hand of the senate, an 1 to fetch
home to us the da tiger of commit
ting our country in advauce to causes
that we kttow not of?
Net Cur Purpose.
"<^ne can have no qua:re: with those
who have convinced ttmniseives that
our underiying purpose in cmering the
great conflict was to cento a tongue
of nations. The f:ut rom.i.ns. how
ever that no such intent w- odioiady
icoiaimed. no aiiusi.m s
Test on to that oiler!
joint restitution ot (jo,.- < uo
etared the exist'-n -o of a sj.ae of wat
between this country and (lermuny
For myself 1 ieft no roym for doubt
of the motives which ted me to cast
my vote in favor of that resolution
It tso happened that 1 made the con
ctuding speech upon the war resotu
tion, from my piace in the senate, on
the night of Aprii 4. 1917. These were
my own words at that time:
"*1 want it known to the peopte ot
my state and to the nation that 1 am
voting for war tonight for the main
tenance of just American rights, which
is the first essentia! to the preserva
tion of the soui of th:s repubiic.
"'I vote for tins joint resotution to
make war, not a war thrust upon us.
if ! couid choose the language of the
resotution. but a war declared in re
sponse to affronts; a war that wil)
at ieast put a soul into our American
iife; a 'war not for the causg of the
aiiies of Europe; a war not for France,
beautiful as the sentiment may be in
reviving at least our gratitude to the
French people: not precisely a war to:
civilization, worthy and inspiring as
that would be; but a war that speaks
for the majesty of a people properly
governed, who finally are brought to
the crucial test where they are re
solved to get together and wage a con
flict for the maintenance of their
rights and the preservation of the
covenant inherited from their fathers.
"We have given to the worid the
spectacle of a great nation that could
make war without selfish intent. We
unsheathed the sword some eighteen
years ago for the first time fn the his
tory of the worid, in the name of hu
manity, and we gave proof to the
world at that time of an unselfish na*
tion. Now, whether it is the fate, or
fortune, or travail of destiny, it has
come to us to unsheathe the sword
again, not alone for humanity's sake—
through that splendid inspiration will
be involved—but to unsheathe the
sword against a great power in the
maintenance of the rights of the re
public, in the maintenance which will
give to us a new guaranty of nation
ality. That's the great thing, and I
want it known, Mr. President and sen
ators. that this is the impelling thought
with me for one, wkeu I cast my vote.'
For Same Guaranty Today.
"It is for that same 'guaranty of na
tionality' that I stand today, and shall
continue to stand inflexibly, so long
as I shall be permitted to live. The
Independence of our great republic is
to me a pricetess and sacred inheri
tance. Time was when an American
did not hesitate to proclaim himself a
patriot. To do so now, I am well
aware, Is sometimes to Invite the
sneers of cynicism. But why should
} any true American not be free to say:
i 'I am a patriot, wholly evoted to my
! country, which I hold ' ' be Cod's best
j inspiration to nmu for higher attain
nod :i.<'ptmi.,<iton of toe Worid :
tostcivitixntion*?'
"!tut ! tiave a specia! reason for
making this reference today. I cha!
enge tiie statement that the patriot
ism winch hoids America tirst com
uoitends either :;!t**rowncs or seiftsh
ness, or as impiyinc tacit suspicion and
,ea!ottsv of other p'opies.
'To assert, as some ha\e asserted
aeediessty, titat thoso of us who hotiost
!y be!ie\e that Atnerica can hes'
serve ait mankind as America, fr^
and utttrtntnteied, rati:er than as on<
in r pitiahietttinorify among **oam
states in merged worid g^vertttnett!
ia<-k oonsoousness c^ the rtgitrfu) do
uutnds of "*unianity, is to utter a gros>
atidunpaniottahieiiitei. Toattrihutf
meanness to titose of us wim. in rh<
performance of out ptthiic duty, re
fused to imrticipateittwita: we sits
cereiy reganied as a hetrayai of out
own country in tite interest of others
is to discredit t!:e inteiiigeace :.tni
discrimination of the great massot
American peepie who directly, h\
their votes, put us m our positions ot
trust ^ornyseif.iyieid tone man
in wii.ingttes.t. aye. in cagerttcss. tt
render the greatest conceivabte assist
:nce to the stricket, pet p es (tt ;1
rope. ! inciutie ah of tnom mu
streak with a genuioeiv s mt -tttci:'
hettrt, whetiterit sietixotionco
vastatedFrance, oi $orei\-tr'oot.n!\
<r ttohiy-strttggiing i'oiand or <ps
{ractedart^tnisguniodRussm. orga'
'atttiirtieBetgium. orpitta!)tyde<v!vod
Attstria. or tite rtttitiess invader. Cor
ntany, whicit came to the supreme
tragedy through a teadersidp whici
brought disaster tc her ntisgtiuied peo
pie.
"It was with that feeiing ef svtn
pathy and destre to serve, titat tttost
retuetantiy and with grave Uiisgivings.
as ! annonneed at tite titttc, ! with
reservations desigtied to preserve out
essetttiaiiihertyot action. l*!te ret
ard is made, and ur:det the satite con
dititms.ctmfronted by ti.es ticnifo!
native, ! sitcuid voie now as i voice
iiten.
Conditions Have Changed.
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i-lxpprtotxp ttas ttrott^iit +*ni!.^!!<-:i
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'oo-toosnprpvpntivpotwors i't
s<- "ininnsivt^pnieniUtainiiastm'
-ventn'en tried
itistitk'aiy ((tncpixo-o and unrp'stsn
<)*!\ itts.sted npot. has n'i!!<nt!')<!ii.\
* -<!!tey<!tdtiie!'<<ss:t:[ifT, at res
I'itf nurt.ret Jtt'intopn' ot
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;;ssi<n t!iener\si):.p!ett.ts<."')ia!
<utir:trytont)oftnptpt)d^n<ipstip\pi
'!n-(ihyt)ief iv))ix:n^ processes of tite
'<n*i<t it rested npot. the power of
ot^itt. notofripht.
lite assertion is tnttde fregtionfiy
it:)' thrott^!) ;!<p sttrretnier of out an
'!t-;iti)ywen);nh!t)nxestivodttte]ifp
i t)e.-,<\onatt!-t!);;t)s!* say. that,
.'''.otaii twetny-ein,;! rtnttons rtmin
p"tnai\0!tfti!tof!onot!oa'!<io<itothe
"otttyoi^it! wou!d i.ate aeiitovod a
x)nwi!tnstt<<'pss. ftio\:t!p<t. uiways. ttta'
the otto wt-rtfAn'ot o:).
"T)!is)taystoA;;er:(-a!hetriht:te
ot pxeeptiotta) infita-ttre. hot ) sourest
t)!ntiftftewor)dis<'opp!oiPtTcp'<oom
action to-brinn about the sttptettte tea!
ixation, thenweouphtroha.eritesay
ai'Ottt our own freedom tt' o^rtt^inat
confinued on last page
E. C Duncan Well
Known Banker Dead
Beaufort, N. C., Aug. 29.—Ed
ward Carlton Duncan, former
Republican national committee
man from North Carolina, Bank
er and former member of the
North Carolina Legislature, died
at 1 o'clock after an illness of
some months from cancer of the
stomach. Funeral services will
be held Monday afternoon in
this city where he was born 5S
years ago.
Mr. Duncan is survived by a
widow and three children.
A Complete Piantation For
Sa!e
150 acres sandy loam, clay sub
soil all under wire fence, nearly
one million feet of pine and oak
timber, four horse f^rm under
cultivation and especially adapt
for tobacco, cotton and corn, one
eightr oom dwelling, two temant
houses, good barn, good new to
bacco bam, telephone, daily mail
and on a gravel road.
Owner leaving on account of
age. A wonderful opportunity
and a close price if sold soon. If
interested wire, phone, or write
immediately.
J. L. Knight,
Carthage, N Car.
EvMwic That Panic j
Has Fixed Tax Rates !
Breaks Ont On Mow
_
Raleigh, Aug. 22—Cameron
Morrison's willingness to accept
leminine votes, bis bid them yes
terday in Graham where he op
ened his campaign for the gov
ernorship, rested light as ocean
foam, to plagiarize that glorious
hymnodist of Aunt Dinah's Quil ;
ting Party, on the suffragist who
recall that Mr. Morrison was here
a few days ago and fotgot to re
member to invite them when
they are knocking at the Demo
cratic door.
Mr. Morrison's party trick isn't
pretty to them. John Parker
came here and did his best to
hold every Republican in line.
It is undoubtedly true that Mr.!
Parker was up to alittie political
devilment on the side; b u t he
came through on suffrage. The
Republicans needed little evan j
gelism. But Mr. Morrison would
n't say a word for the women.
To have so wduld have been tan
tamount to placing himself o n
social and political level with
John Parker and this in the pip
ing days of aristocracy would!
nave oeen too much.
The women are not crazy about
voting for Mr. Morrison. They
know as much about the burdens
that he speaks about as they did
before Tennesee ratified and
North Carolina doublecrossed
them. Tennesee was under no
party obligation at heme, it had
not resolved in state convention
to ratify in special assembly.
North Carolina had. it thought
it had sense and sensed the suf
frage issue. Itdidn t. it learned
too late to act seemly about it
that back home where politicians
had persistently turned up their
noses at suffrage, there was much
sentiment against it. But they
learned it soon enough to craw
fish and that serves all practical
purposes.
But for all that Mr. Morrison
has done for the women, his atti
tude toward t em in the commit
tee hearings of 1918, his condnct
which was an affront to them
and to the men, according to
both; it is undoubted now that
he needs the women's votes and
all others that he can get, both
the quick and dead. There are
places in North Carolina where j
Mr. Morrison will hardly speak,
this year and he must and doubt- i
less does feel it rtsky to pass by
any people without rivinvihem
a chance to hear red smrtism
glorified one more time. H he
goes to Rockingnum couniy P.
W. Glide wed will'walk out on a
stump and denounce hunt, it he ^
runs down to Beaufort and gets:
away without Lindsey 'ATnen'S;
sticking something m him, he
will be lucky. They will hardly
welcome him in a dozen places
where he applied Cole B easeism
good and proper.
Sources Of Weakness
And worse still; Mr. Morrison
{not only made a specialty of ab
I using certain Gardner supporters
and Page backers in various
places in tne state; be loves to
talk about it still. He has given
a good deal more thought to re
membering what he said about
Crawford Briggs, Dan Allen and
Buck Jones in Wake, to Warren
m Beaufort, to Glidcweil in Roc
kingham and to Holderness in
Edgecombe, thnn he has given
I to the possible pacification of the j
men who opposed him. If Mor i
rison sits down by a former Gnrd
nerite to fraternize with him, the
Democratic candidate forgoven
or will hardly suggest that Gard
ner was a bearcat and gave him
an awful race; the conversation
wiH, inevitably tiend toward the
dirty dogs who fonght Morrison.
There is much of this sort of
complaint lodged against the De
mocratic candidate by members
of the legislature.
Mr. Morrison appearing on the
same platform which Parker a
few mights ago was made to
show to peculiar disadvantage
bt' the Republican speech, show
ed tar greater resource, as can
didate on a wide open s ate ann
national platfoam made such a
progressive address that the De
mocratic candidate on both state
and national platforms of con
structiveness, kicked pu the Par
eer utterance as a Republican
speech. 11 was a pretty good
party appeal without any label,
but it flabbergasted Morrison and
made every Democrat i n the
general assembly hope that Mr.
Morrison will not be rash enough
to inuite the Monroe Republican
into a joint issue.
These and sundry other evi
dences that Mr. Morrison is not
going to be a strong candidate;
his great array of women voters
who never will be tor him, his
quarrel with one half of the party
his unwillingness tp torget what
others said about him, Ms great
love for saying what he said
about others, Ins resentment ci
a progressive speech by a Rep
ublican, a 11 show weaknesses
which will tell in a joint or sin
gle canvass- Republican mem
bers of the legislature, who seem
to very fond of Collector J. W .
Baily, declare that Mr. Ba.ly who
is much the smartest mdn in the
whole Morrison party, does not
think Morrison has a chance to
win. Of course Baily thinks re
valuation will be the *first un
doing and woman suffrage the
other. These Republicans de
clare that Mr. Baily does not
think Mr. Morrison ciever en
ough to harmonize his. ideas on
tax and his attacts on ideas. In
other wrrds the womee will scr
atch Mr Morrison and revalu
ation will kill him very dead.
All of which is respectfully
submitted.
Seven Year Old Soy
Kills His Playmate
A very sad death cccured just
above Bconville Tuesday of last,
w eek when the two year old of
Eire Whitaker was shot and nil
led by a young boy named Dez
ern, seven years old.
The two children were alone
at the time and it is not known
just how the shooting occured
but it was done with a rille, the
hall entering the childs face just
right ot its nose and going thro
ugh its head. The boy who did
the killing was an orphan, a son,
of Mr. Dezern who died recently.
Mr, Whitaker took the child to
keep but some time ago turned
it ovet to John Alexander. Tues
Mrs, Whitaker's went over to
Mr. Alexander's house and later
sent the young Dezern boy and
her two year old boy back to her
home to teed the hogs. When
they did not return she went
and after a search found the chi
Ids body in a nearby field where
it had been dragged after being
shot. The Dazern boy had gone
away and that afternoon visited
several houses in the neighbor
hood without telling what had
happened, but later admitted kil
ling the young child.
Dezern has been placed in the
county home here for keeping.
Rev. Miles H. Long Lies
While Hunting
As we go to press we learn of
the sudden death of Rev. Miles
H. Long a highly esteemed neigh
bor and minister who lived on
Route one, 1 be death occurred
Tuesday before noon.
Our information is that Mr.
Long went out hunting squirrels
Tuesday morning and when he
did not return for dinner a search
was begun for him. His b'ody
was found by one of the search
ers hah a mile from home where
he had appearantly fallen from
hearthaiiure, there being no stgn
ot violence or struggle.
Mr. Long is survived by a wid
ow and several children. He was
buried atCenter yesterday, Mr.
Long was a bt loved minuter and
his friends throughout Yadkin
aud adjoining counties will be
pained to learn of his death.
Democrats co Hold a
Lonvention Monday
A call has been tssued by the
Chairman J.T. Reece lor a mass
meeting ot Democrats in the
court house next Monday, for
t h e purpose ot nominaiing a
couuty ticket, etc. it ts under
stood that their intention is to
put out a full ticket, including a
lady for one of the main county
offices.
Local observers are some \hm
puzzled as te) now the democrats
are to get a democrat neket :n
thetieid in YaUkt!, since they
failed to tile a single name ur.aer
the primary rule. According to
tile primary law the name:* et
caudtuates together with their
fee must be iited i)y a certain a. \*
tt they expect to get on Hie t-c; -
et 1 u c h e primary or eiectn a.
However theie ts one substitt. e
way for this rule acu this rs . y
petition. Procedure lor tins n.e
thod is, first seiect the candid^ tes
circulate a petition until a certain
number of names is secured awn
ing that a ticket he made up of
this list, ibis ncket'is camd a
citizen ticket and muat be stnctly
nou-partism each niat*certn^.ng
th at ne does not belong to any
political party.
1 his must be accompanied by
a petition signed by ten p< r cent
of the qualiiied voters of the cou
nty, and the election board can
not order ballots printed for
such a ticket unttl each require
ment is tultilied. Arm these
names must be hied Swore the
result ot :he primary ei^etion <s
declared.
Some amendmem cv the re
cent extra session nmy have
changed tile above b. unless
it has tuere ts no wa^ underdo
law anotlwr bckeic. ; be placetf
in the iieid mums county.
Found Dead in Bed
Mr. Jesse Mathews an aged
citizen oi near Union Cross was
found dead in Us bed Friday
morning by hns nephew Isaac
Mathews. The deceased was
nearly 67 years < ,d.
He had hved none for some
time and was UM seen Thursday
evening ahos t night. Next
morning he f.Ted to.appear at
the tobacco ba.n where he had
been at work, f id invts igntion
revealed his d ^.th. He was ty
ing in bed. .ipparendy asteep.
when found, md ttnr * bs nig n-^
suspicion c toid pi.r . the coro
ner deem^.i ao ...qu -T urpnces
sary.
Mr mabews wm hnti-d -at
Union Cp^s ^.torda. Mu-.! i. g
-at 10 o'cl. . i i g
conducted L ^