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MOID ESTABLISHED 187. Published la Two Sections, Tueedajr and Friday at .No. 45 Mock Street " V-; : - BUSINESS ' OFFICE " THONS v. .'I NO. : MECHANICAL "' DEPARTMENT PHONXNaS. E. J. LAND PUNTING COMPANY, frtiZl PUBLISHERS. H. K. LAN I Mager H. L Cram pier B. S. BLEDSOE- Edit. Reporte SUBSCRIPTION Three Month Sis Months. RATES I .35 .60 1.00 Twelve Month... 9 fef Only In Advance. Advertising rates furnished npoa application at the office, or upon In quiry by malL Entered at the Postoffice, New Bern, N. C, as second-class matter. Unless Hon. George fc. Hood was nominated at the ballot box, by the voters of the district he is not the nomi nee. Hon. George E. Hood may possibly be the nominee, but no one knows it un til the vote of the district has been can vassed according to the rules. A canvass of the votes of the district may yet show that Hon. Chas. R. Thom as is the nominee for Congress. If Hon. Chas. R. Thomas was nomi nated by the votes at the polls in the preferential primary he is the nominee, regardless of any kind of action to the contrary. If a canvass of the Congressional Pri mary vote is made according to the rules until only two candidates are left un eliminated, and Hon. C. R. Thomas has a majority over that vote uneliminated candidate, then he will be the no inee. If Hon. Chas. R. Thomas was nomi nated in the primary, according to its rules he should be up-held as the nomi nee. ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE A VA CATION. Vacation is the talk of the season. Every nine out of ten people are plan ing to take a vacation trip, sometime, somewhere during the summer. Where to go is the question. Be this under stood: The most pictureque and other wise attractive resorts are not always the safest. Your first consideration should 'be: Where can I find rest -and recreation without jeopardizing my health? On making your choice look well to these facts: 1st, That the sup ply of drinking water comes not from shallow wells or from other sources like ly to be polluted. 2nd, That flies and mosquitoes are well screened against. 3rd, That there are sanitary arrange ments for the disposal of sewage. Know these things and your chances for hav ing typhoid, malaria and many other diseases will be greatly diminished. The vacationist by all means should be vaccinated against typhoid. This preventive measure is so simple and yet so effective that no man or woman should consider himself ready till he has taken this treatment. You can get the typhoid vaccine either by writing to the State Laboratory of Hygiene, Raleigh, N. C, or by applying to your own phy sician. In either case allow yourself plenty of time. Four weeks at least are necessary in which to get the vaccine and take the treatment. If further ia- for mation regarding this treatment is desired, write the State Board of Health, Raleigh, N.C The eyes of the newspaper editors of the majority of the Democratic papers of the State are this week turned on the meeting of the executive com mittee which is to be held at Raleigh -' on June 26. The cihef event to come before the committee will be the con tention of Hon. Charles Rv Thomas ' that he was unfairly dealt with at the to called convention held at Goldsboro. "'The tru Democrats of the State well " Vnnw that K imwHl a raw ileal at -J Via , ,1jm4wo ,iul If ttiA'; l?f.ttfcr Committee fail to take some favorable tilVH gveaig w rv svih . auvi v ' tttitin timet than have occurred in i.al. , a? J t -,, Dicycl !e Rider to RAY HILL THROWN FROM HIS ; MACHINE ON JOHNSON t; . .'.-. : STREET. '- y V "-'-'',' . ,r.j. j -. . Dw Hill na tJ th amnlnvaa rl ih painfully, injured yesterday afternoon when ha was thrown. Irom a bh-vcto on lohneoa street . r . - . i Mr.. Hill and hit brother, the latter on a -motorcycle, were coming down into the business section of the city after having been to lunch and the In jured young man was being towed by the motorcycle. Near the corner of Hancock and Johnson stress, the front wheel of tha bkycle became "locked" and this threw the r! ' r over tha handlebars, . la striking the pavement 1 r.-r rives' numero'!) cuts and brui I ut f jf' t- 'to bones were Li- ' C3L HL FA133H3THEB - SEEKS NllGHILiEOT Editor of Greensboro "Everything" Asks Vital Questions About Recent Democratic Conven- . ; tion At Goldsboro. The Light Tnrned . : On 5 Editor Journal: - nave oever beea ctaaaedj with th Buttiasky group o th anxious la qUSrere of the world nor have I ever beea accused of having a sleeping cur iosity that every cackling hen or mid night rooster could arxiae. But now, in the troubled and un settled'' times these times when we do not know whether Huerta, Villa or Carraaza is the Man of the Hour; these days when we do not know whether Poe, Brooks or Morrison is the man to follow concerning th atate 1 platform; these days when we hear men loudly demanding state-wide pri maries I seek through your paper some information. I have said that the Congressional convention recently held at Goldsboo was a disgrace to civilization, if the newspaper accounts are true but hear ing other reports I am anxious to have them confirmed or denied. I am told that the preferential pri mary in the nine counties comprising the Third District was regularly held and that the votes to this day have not been countd according to the rules that they are now lying in a vault in a Goldsboro bank, and that the conven tion that handed the nomination to Mr. Hood did so regardless of the pri mary vote and practically regardless of all the rules and usages of civilized politics. Am I right? I have been told that Mr. Thomas refused to allow his name to go before the convention until the primary votes were counted, and that an agreement between representatives of Thomas and Hood was signed before Hood was nomi nated which pledged all parties to awai the counting of the primary vote. I am informed that those who put Mr. Hood in nomination were men who were opposed to him and not his poli tical friends. I am further told that in many of the towns of the district friends are writing Mr. Thomas and insisting that he go before the people and seek vindication, they alleging tht he received more votes in the primary than Hood received. And 1 ask fo information, if there is any probability of Mr. Thomas allowing his name to be used before the people in November. I have attended two or three times a Donnybrook fair, and I have been in Rome when a holiday was on, but I do not recall ever seeing anything equaling the convention at Goldsboro, if the printed stories are true. I wrote something about it, and illustrated my article with a picture of a Third dis trict delegate. I am seeking this information be cause I am rather afraid of the proposed prirrtary law which is being suggested at this time, and I want to get the facts of how it works. I want to know what a good primary law would be if men are going to absolutely disregard it. What kind of election laws there are that will allow a convention to be held such as I infer the election was by the Congres sional convention at Goldsboro. I note that the executive committee will be called upon to decide the ques tion but that does not necessarily straighten things out, no matter how it is decided. If the executive commit tee should order another primary, it would mean a great deal of expense, and if it shoutd order the vote coun-j ted it still might leave a bad taste sonewhere so you see that justice is not absolutely assured. What was the real reason for not counting the votes? Why did the con vention proceed to name a man, and why did Mr. Hood stand for this, if it be true that there was not only a verbal, but a written agreement sign ed before the convention met that nothing would be done before the votes were counted? Was it pretty generally understood that Thomas had whipped them all in the primary, or was this action taken to repudiate the primary idea? If Mr. Thomas uields to the friends who are importuning him to run, what is your opinion of the feeling down that way, concerning such course? And if you find time, I would like for you to give us your opinion of the primary plan the plan that casts the votes puts them in large packages; seals them securely and then puts them in a steel vault with a tint lock on it and the voters, those who expressed themselves, art denied the right of representation according to their choice; and a crowd of men proceed to assemble, put up a man and nominate him for a high office and send some of the deleg stes to a hospital for resisting officers and leave the man who feels that he is the choice of the' people helpless to assert hie rights? : It it happens that my information la not correct. I will be glad to know It, and if it ia correct I also want to know it, as I think it a theme worth considerable epaxe la several papers. ; I am. preparing now aa article on the wonderful self control of the Tenth district mountaineers compared with that happened . at Goldsboro; ; but waiving the hostilities the juice in this bartkular lemon is concerning the primary and - the uncounted . ballots. If this la popular representative govern ment we want to get next to the latest ciirvea, - , ," - :. : I take it that the executive commit tee will be supplied with all the infor mation, but those matters in detail ate not on' public concern and there fore we get but little from the papers unless we ask (or It. If the Committee orders the ballots counted and 'I hardly see that it caa get arouad making such aa order tnat would at once dear, the atmosphere, and instead of making a party scandal. of the dis graceful convention, it would be simp ly a local stunt. Yours for information. AL- FAIRBROTHER. ANSWER TO AL FAIRBROTHER'S QUESTIONS . . . . v . I n.r mam a nilMnh3l luimirv uiucicu uy int caccumvc commmcr of the Third Congressional District of North Carolina, and the rules were clearly set forth. The primay was regularily held on May 16th, and every voter turned out and cast his vote in the manner which he deemed right and just. Under the rules the original ballots were carried to Goldsboro to be counted by the e ecutive committee. The rules plainly said that the candidates receiving the lowest number of first choice votes were to be eliminated, an when said candidates and their ballots were so eliminated, and that the second choice etc., expressed on said ballots were to be transferred nd added to the other candidates entitled thereto until, finally, only two candidates' were left, when the one receiving the majori ty of the votes on the last count was to be declared the nominee. Regardless of the primary votei and the rules, no candidate was eliminated and the committee com pletely ignored the rule of elimina tion, lumped together all choices, declared that no candidate had received a majority and referred the matter to a convntion called only to ratify the primary. Delegates vention had been elected on May 2.!rl and had already been selected, so that no candidate had the opportunity to select any delegates, after the refusal of the committee to count tohe votes. The minutes of the congressional committee copied in the New Bern Sun of April 11th show as follows: "Before adjourning the executive com mittee voted to hold the congressional convention June 3rd in Goldsboro. The purpose of this convention Is to ratify the nomination made in the preferential primary." Mr. A. C. Davis, who was Mr. Hood's lawyer, stated in his convention speech that the convention had not power ex cept to count the ballots cast in th primary, and "that the convention had no more power to nominate a Congressman than it had to nomi nate the Czar of Russia." When the convention met, a motion to count the ballots by eliminating the lowest candidates, bringing down the vote between Mr. Hood and Mr. Thorn as, was carried by a fraction of a vote, Mrl. Hood s and Mr. Thomas' friends voting for the resulotion and the friends of the other candidates voting against it. Now, when this resolution was car ried, and the political machine was beaten, the political steam roller was started rolling. The friends of the minority candidates, Mressrs. White, Guion, Wallace and Faison, over the protest and appeal of Mr. Thomas and his friends all voted for Mr. Thomas in the convention being with drawn or cast without his concent, and he insisted upon bidlna bv the primary, proceeded to placd in nomination Mr. Hood and attempt ee to nominate him in a stampede of the convention by acclamation. From the action of the convention an appeal was taken by Mrl Thomas to the State Committee. The appeal from the action of the district com mittee in refusing to count the votes according to the elimination process under the primary rulee was a joint appeal and protest signed by both Mr. Hlood and Mr Thomas. The resolution introduc ed in the convention by Mr. D. E, Henderson for a count of the votes under primary rulee bad been agreed to by Mr. Hood and Mr. Thomas, and by their lawyers and friends in caucus. The ballots remain still uncounted according to the rules which were cast in a primary entered into in goo faith by the candidates, If the votes are counted by the elimination prodess the nomination will go either to Mr. Hood or Mr. Thomas, but no such count has been made.' It should be made, if possible, or, if not, a second primary ordered between the two highest cand dates, not so much ia the interest of Mr. Hood or Mr. Thomas as in the in terest of justice, fair play, and the Dem ocratic party." There is great dicon- tent and dissatisfaction in the district, and this is not confined entirely to the friends of Mr. Thomas. ".It is conreaded: . . '..'';:-'.' 1st. That the primary was called by authority of the party law, and that the nominee of the primary is the nominee of the Democratic party. ' 2nd. - That the convention has no power to make a nomination, but the sole power of the convention was -to ratify the choice of the people as ex pressed in the primary. , The delegates were not selected with a view to co tituting a nominating convention. - When Simmons was elected senator, suppose the Legislature had set aside the will of the people at the polls, or suppose the State Convention would refuse to ratify the nimlnation of the Judges made in district conventions? It would be a case of parallel to ten Third Diu g Cuaveatioa. The mea who pm ended The men who pretended to nominate Mr. Hood were his politi cal enemies and they nominated hi not because they loved Hood, but because they hated Thomas OMxead these men wQl be ready to use Mr. Hood a conduct against ham ia th future and to defeat hisa, aeiag his failure to keep his agreement as aa argument against htm. . v It is true that Ex-Cugrtssmaa Thomas has received letters and messages from many friends ia the Third District 1 listing that he go before the people and seek vindication. They believe, that if the votes are counted ander the pro cess of eliminating the low eaadidatee that Mr. Thomas is the nominee of the Democratic party; and they also be lieve that In any contest before the peo ple, the majority of the Democrats of the District are for Mr. Thomas and that he ia the strongest candidate aad best maa for the Democratic party to nominate. Many friends are urging him to run as aa independent Demo cratic candidate, but up to this date Mr. Thmaa has not listened to such a suggestion, It remains to be seen whether the State Committee will give him justice or not; whether the State Committee wul act for the best in terest of the Democratic party, and also for the best interest of Mr. Hood. If the matter is slurred over and un less this constrov ersy is settled fairly there is danger of serious trouble in the district ia the fall election. The position of Mr. Thomas is that regardless of who is nominated, the welfare of the Democratic party de mands that the votes be counted as or iginally . intended. His position is that, whatever the result may be, in all fairness, the vote should be counted, regardless of who is nominated, whether it be Mrs Hood or himself. You are right, Mr. Fairbrother, in regard to your suggestion that it was pretty generally understood that Thom as had whipped them all in the con vention the whole machine crowd, Guion, Wallace, White and Faison and it was believed by them that it was dangerous to continue the count of the votes as Thomas would probably be nominated in the prima y. When they saw they were whipped they de cided to make a pretense of nominating Mr. Hood. ; His conduct in accepting such a nomination is hard to explain. He had, time and time again, agreed with Mr. Thomas that he would abide by the count of the votes. We leave the matter to him for explanation. The whole matter will be placed be fore the State Committee, and it should be settled right, in our opinion, the feeling here and tn the district is such against the methods employed by the machine politicians that it will resul in serious trouble, if not in the elec tion of a Republican. From what we can learn and hea r, , the sentiment of the State and of the people is with Mr. Thomas in this mat ter, and it would be the part of wisdom for the State (Committee to order the votes cast in the primary counted, or a second primary between Thomas and Hood, for which there is a good pre cedent in the Sixth District where a second primary was ordered in the con test between Godwin and Clark. Edgar Weaver Spends Day Dere PROMINENT PAMLICO COUNTY BUSINESS MAN SEES MUCH PROGRESS IN NEW BERN. Edgar S. Weaver one of Arapahoe's prominent citizens and merchants was a business visitor in the city yesterday. When interviewed by a Journal repre sentative, Mr. Weaver said that if New Bern continued, making improvements as rapidly as she has during his two years' visits, it will soon be one of the leading cities in Eastern North Caro lina. Mr. Weaver was formerly from the North where is he pretty widely known. ' "How are the crops in Arapahoe and surrounding section getting along," Mr. Weaver, was asked. In reply he said the potato crop was not large, but it ie hoped that the corn and cotton crop will be ample. We were experiencing very dry weather for several weeks past, but have for the past few days have been getting an occasional shower, which was greatly needed. , :"" ' ; ' Mr. Weaver returned home last even ing.-' ,--': ..- ' - : " .i IN POLICE COURT Monday" ' Finds ' Small Docket. ' 'Blue ' The Mayor had a small docket at Police Court ysterday compared with the usual "Blue Monday" docket. Malisia Watson and Heger Bryant, both colored, were taxed with the cost for being disorderly in the city limit Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the case against William Winsor, colored, for driving a wagoa between a passenger train and the Union Passenger Station on Queen Street.' ' . - BASEBALL TODAY At ' Ghent Park Public vlted. In- The Married Men and Ghent team will cross bats In mortal conflict at Ghent Park this evening at 4:30 p. m. The last time these two teams play ed each other it 'revolted in a victory for Ghent team, so it wi'J be very in teresting. Come out an 1 and root all you "fans." AN ILLUSTRATION - S appose that whea the time for snaking t 'nomination- for Congress from this district was approaching, seven men had . announced " in good faith their Intention to seek tht aominatioa, but did far some cause or other, no matter what one of them had failed to put up his entrance fee wkhia the tune prescribed by the rules. That candidate right there- and thee would have beea eliminated from the . But for the sake of making aa illus tration ge a tittle further, aad do some possible but very improbable "sup- posiags.' ' ;'-. I i' ', ; ";. Suppose that 'that' candidate,' who had been eliminated from the contest, by aot snaking his payment in time, had ' placed tickets ' for ' himi t all the polling places in the district. aad that on account of his being an immensely popular . man and also on account of its not being understood that he had beea "eliminated from the contest, that those tickets had been voted, and voted abundantly, so that out of apparently 10,000 votes cast ia the district at large, that can didate who had been "eliminated from the contest," by his nan-paying had have received 9,000 of them, would he have been declared the nominee? Not at aU. Having been "eliminated he he was therefore "out of the contest," and the 9.000 votes cast for him were wasted. For cariosity's sake a record of the votes cast for him could have been kept out would they have entered into the calculation in : determining the results. Not a bit of it. Nor would one of the other six can didates in order to secure the nomina tion have had to have received 5,00 votes, (a majority of 10,000), he would simply have had to receive 501 votes. 'a majority of the vots cast in the d istrict at large" for the six candidates who had not been eliminated from the contest. Does not this identical principle run all tne way tnrougnr Assuredly it does. In no case are "eliminated" votes to be considered as calculating the actual result any more than if they had never been cast. Will the State Executive Committee give a canvass according to the rules, and thus give us the candidate whom the voters nominated? Our efforts to explain to Col. AI. Fairbrother the exciting times which prevailed at the Goldsboro convention, so peeved the editor of our afternoon contemporary that he inquires to know whether we are aware of the fact that the Civil War has ended. We were not there at the time the conflict came to a close and are hencenotin as excellent a position to state as he might be. . John Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta Georgian, devotes about three columns of space each day, in telling about the rotten conditions existing in political circles' down in that dry. We are glad to see the Georgian throw ing the hooks into the grafters and there is not the least doubt but that their evil deeds will soon be a thing of the past as will the grafters also. Revolver BoDetMay Cause Negro's Death ERNEST HOBBS SERIOUSLY IF NOT FATALLY INJURED v YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ' Eraest Hobbs, colored, was seriously if not fatally injured yesterday after noon when a butllet from, a revolver in the hands of Riley Gaskill, also color ed, lodged tin bis abdomen. The two men were attending a color ed baseball game at the corner -of West and Cypress streets when they became engaged ia an altercation which re sulted ia the shooting. . The injured man was carried to Fakview hospital and given medical treatment. 7 Attending physicians say that bis condition is precarious.: . The wieldef of the revolver escaped right after the affray and up until a late hour last aight had not been appre hended., ; Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S f ' OA8JORIA Free Fienie ;lGrc!r.5:, '--'. .v . . f '- r - u . eawsMssaavawea ' ' K Ken Cera. N. C. Sitq -. ''" f Jotw ; Fiirt G'ir.! St. Ry Line Offers to the White Sunday School! In this and surrounding counties Free . Use of their grounds and handsome Casino for Picnics. J Casino 9090 with diditf titles on first floor. Au tomata Clactric Orchestra fur- nished tlzo. Let us arrange year picnic for you. w. infor mation ghZly furnished. " Swings, baseball diamond, ircx.lTS rooms, shower, bath tol( i ;.! Cl3, Rrandatand all to yourur.s. AdIrr-3 " - " ' ' i . i . - i K a. f t . U .'.Jr Nv.' V v-- r - j W C0UL ' V,, . . 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