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( V c t; ' TOTAL WEALTH is $82,575,749. Kukl 7tk In the state. A treat county for fanner and investor. zj-i EASTo:ir. lag aa increase of 31.3 per cent, a gaia unequalled by any ether county la State. r.- MEMBEK OF THET ASSOCIATED PRESS V.;- f ' GASTONIA, N. C SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 21, 1920 f '"VOL. XU. NO. 201. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTO ESSEE SOfflS LEAVE NASHVILLE TO PREVENT QUORUM IE is fijLY Gazette (TlASTONIA HH COX CHARGES DOMINEERING, ARROGANT OLIGARCHIC GROUP SENATORS CONTROLS SENATE In answer to Senator Harding's Commendation of Senate as a Forum of Popular Government, Democratic Candidate Declares That a Minor ity of Senate Has Formed an Oligarchy to Dis tinct Injury and Disadvantage of People. OKRVILLE, O., Aug. 21 Another opirited attack on the "senate oli garchy" was made here today by Gov ernor Cox in an address replying to that delivered recently by Senator Harding, his republican opponent, in which Mr. Harding commended the senate as a for Aim of popular government. 'The republican candidate," aaid . Governor Cox, ' ' has devoted a front )xreh session to the defense of the United States senate, with characteristic reactionary isolation from the current of public thought, he fails to distinguish be tween the United States senate as an in stitution, and the list of United States senators who have taken charge of an important part of the government i "It is our contention that a group of men have formed a domineering, arro jrant, oligarchy in the senate and that they have deliberately interferred with the welfare of the world, delayed read justment in this country, all to the dis tinct injury and disadvantage of the j people . " ; That the republican senate group was j trying to ' ' annex the presidency ' ' also i was asserted by Governor Cox, who stop ped here today enroute to Canton, O. where he was to speak again tonight at a "Cox day" celebration. "The feeling against the senate," Governor Cox declared, "grows specifieal ly out of the abuses by the oligarchy. Prompted by its success in obstructive tactics, it has moved into an entirely new undertaking and it seeks now to an nex the presidency." j Continuing his attack upon republican I campaign contributions, Governor Cox also charged that "the greedy interests which are making the contributions have been in notorious consort with the sen atorial oligarchy. " In hia attacking the senate leaders, Governor Cox also again stressed the necessity for the league of nations, re iterating and expanding former argu ments in its support. Senator Harding in his address de fending the senate, Governor Cox declar ed -"stripped his defense of the person al equation and elaborated on the wis dom of the fathers iu creating two parts -of the legislative branch of government the senate and the house. " The people. Governor Cox predicted "would 4 ' resent the attempt now being made to turn the senate and the presi dency into a single unit," " "If presidential resiwnsibility is t be shared, it will be with the councillors J of 'the leaders," said Governor Cox. ! "He owes his nomination to them. His ! gratitude is naturally to them. Then is scarcely a day that some members of the group is not in conference with 1 Jum. The public prints announced not forty-eight hours ago that a part of the oligarchy had visited Marion, and had 'discussed with the presidential candi date the subject matters which would be treated in front porch speeches of the next two or three weeks. "The relation, between the president and congress should be cordial and co operative, but independence should be ouipreme. The many in the street looks with .great misgivings on how the chain of circumstances has developed since the .arty hours of the morning when the choice of the republican ' leader was made in the hotel and not in the conven tion hall at Chicago. Not the least dis quieting phase of the situation is the un blushing continuance of the gathering together ef Millions of dollars for cam paign purposes. This is not only of fensive to public sensibilities, but the , .people know perfectly well that the greedy interests which are making the ' -contributions have been in notorious eon--aort with the senatorial oligarchy which is now attempting to' gather unto itself the power of that law making branch aad ithe presidency' as well. " Governor Cox emphasised that fact that he was not criticising the constitution . but the group of men attempting to dis tort "the senate's functions." The term "plural government," Governor Cox said, has become a reaction by slo gan. . . " It was never the intention of the -men who wrote the constitution that a domi .nating group in the senate should ob struct the treaty making agencies of government ou conscientious pretext, while moved by the hdden purpose of promoting party advantage," he contin ued. '"It was never intended that the senate should have any control over the president except to shart with him by its power of confirmation, responsibility for efficient public service. This, of course, is in addition to its authority in the ratification of treaties. "The three branches of government were intended to be separate and distinct certainly nothing could be more clear ly subvervive of that arrangement than the carefully thought out plan of having the leaders of the senate dominate a po litical convention and. make the choice of the party for. the' presidency. The very argument which Senator Harding presents in support of every individual ity, certainly holds with equal logic to the preservation of executive individual ity. Not only will the people at all times regard any departure from this principle as dangerous, but they resent the attempt now being made to turn the senate and presidency into a single unit of government." BELMONT DEFEATED BY ERLANGER TEAM special to The Daily Gazette. BELMONT, Aug. 21. Friday was not Belmont 's lucky day, as evidenced by the chain of unfortunate circumstances which resulted in the score of 3 to 4 in favor of Krlauger :it the close of yesterday's game here. If Manager Lourcy had put .lone in the box to start the game, Bel mont might nave won. Then the Bel mont team was badly crippled otherwise. Two of their pitchers were in the outfield ami a catcher on first base. Kelly, the former Vale pitcher, proved as wild as the famous man from Borneo. Following is the box score: KRLANUER. AB. R. H. PO. A. K. Loniaii. f 4 2 2 Ciilliam. ss ." 1 0 Bowden, 21) 2 2 0 Honeycutt, c -i 1 2 Calvert. II. 4 0 0 Morros, rf 4 1 .' Smith. :tl. 4 1 1 Phaar. If 4 0 0 Vena hie, p 4 0 0 Totals 34 .'7 14 1 BELMONT. AB. R. H. I'O. A. F.. Murjiy. f 4 Jones', lf.p 5 Williams, 2b 4 Murray, rf.-lf 5 Lourcey, lb 4 Johnson, 3b 4 Tome, ss 3 Kuvrk, 4 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 10 1 1 2 2 Kelly, p. . . Hudson, rf. 0 0 0 0 : 4 I 2 0 0 Totals 37 4 10 20 Score by innings : R. Erlanger 411 000 0028 Belmont ...000 013 000 Summary: Two-base ,hits, Hudson, Lourcey, Morris, Smith. Three-base hit, Hudson. Sacrifice hit, Honeycutt Base on balls, off Kelly, 1; off Venable, 4. Wild pitches, Kelly. Hit by pitched ball, Bowden, Tome. Stolen bases, Pulliam, Murphy, Tome. Double plays, Williams to Lourcey; Pharr to Bowden. Left on bases. Erlanger, 4; Belmont. 6. Hits off Kelly 4 in 4 innings. Time, 1:55. Um pires, Smith and Bolt. 29 LIVES LOST WHEN LAKE STEAMERS COLLIDE By The Associated Press.) SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Aug. 21. The lives of twenty -nine persons, one of them a woman, are believed to have been lost shortly after 9 o'clock last night when the steamer Superior City, a freighter, sank four and one-half miles northeast of White Fish Points in Lake Superior after colliding with the steamer Willis L. King. Four members of the crew, including Captain Edward Sawyers, of Albion, Mich, were saved. Names of the missing could not be learned today, as all records of the Superior City are, lout. The miss ing woman is known- to have been the wife cf tiie se?ond engineer.'" POSTMASTER MAY BE APPOINTED S00!) nCUIEKUWU'V w- Department and CiyiI Ser vice Commission Investigate Qualifications of Applicants. , Mr. George E. Brill, representing the Postoffice Department, and Mr. Crumler, representing the Civil Service Commis sion, spent yesterday in Gastonia collect ing data with reference to the qualifica tions of the three applicants for appoint ment to the position of postmaster of Gastonia. They interviewed the appli cants and also a large number of repre sentative busmen men and citizens. The applicants for this appointment are Mr. John O. Rankin, Jr., maiiugcr of the Piedmont Oil Company; Mr. George R. Rawlings, of the clerical force at the postoffice, and Mr. Forest P. Rockett, assistant postmaster. A civil service examination was taken by these applicants last March. Just when the appointment will be made is not known but the fact that the representatives of the two departments having charge of the appointment have been here is taken to indicate that some early action in this line is probable. Messrs. Brill and Crumler will make their reports to their respective depart ments, grading tle several candidates. From this report .President Wilsoa will make an appointment. This is, a quasi civil service appointment and has to be confirmed by the Senate. Postmaster John R. Rankin resigned in February, since which time the position has been filled first by J. W. Atkins as acting jHJstmaster during March and April and since that time by Stephen B Dolley as acting postmaster . POLISH REPUBLIC WANTS COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE LONDON', Au. 21. At the second sitting of the Russo -Polish peace confer ence Thursday at Minsk the head of the Polish delegation announced Poland's peace conditions to lie the complete and inviolable independence of the Polish republic with no interference in it s inter nal affairs, according to a wireless dis patch ' received here from Moscow today. The Polish delegate said Poland ilirl not declare war. He asserted the Polish troops hail occupied territory once be longing to Poland merely to attain the free decision of the peoples themselves regarding their fnte, and declared Russia was trying by force to establish a soviet regime in Poland. M. Danishevsky, chairman of the Rus sian soviet delegation, made a statement asserting the Ukraine was an independent republic allied to Russia. He therefore proposed that the Polish delegates obtain a supplementary mandate from the Polish government authorizing the delegation to conduct, peace negotiations with the I'kraiue. Then M. Danishevsky read the terms proposed by soviet Russia. At the end of the session M. Danishev sky protested against what he termed the Polish policy of dragging out the pro ceedings and asserted that alj responsi- ility for the bloody consequences of,such a policy would remain on the Polish dele gates. RUSSIA EAGER FOR PEACE. MINSK. Russia, Aug. 17. Soviet Russia is eager for the establishment of peace with Poland and does not desire to interfere with the integrity of that coun try, said a bolshevik representative in addressing Polish delegates to the peace conference here today. The conference began yesterday, the first session lasting several hours. After an exchange of views, an adjournment was taken so that the delegates might confer regarding developments. SIX BOLSHEVIKI DIVISIONS SURROUNDED BV POLES PARIS, Aug. 21. Six bolshevik divis ions, consisting of from 30,000 to 40,000 men, are surrounded by Polish forces be tween Stedlce and Brest-Litovsk, accord ing to press dispatches received here to day. WEEKLY STOCK REVIEW NEW YORK, Aug. 21. Stocks contin ued to lose much ground in the first half of this week's dull sessions, but made up much, if not all, their loss in, the more active trading of the later period. Technical conditions as again expressed by further foreign and domestic compli cations, apparently favored a very confi dent short interest, but there was little actual liquidation, most of the selling emanating from professional so-ces. The Bnsso-Polish situation weighed upon the market for foreign remittances, the British rate showing especial heavi ness. Quotably the money, market was unchanged, but call loans were relatively easy and banks bought of merchants pa per in moderate amounts!, .j -., , ; , C FIRST BRITISH CIVIL GOV ERNOR OF HOLY LAND IV ft The right Honorable 8ir Herbert Sam- uel, British high commissioner and first civil governor of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. WACO, TEXAS, DELEGATION TO VISIT GASTONIA FRIDAY Party of 23 Business Men From Texas City to Visit Gaston County Friday, August 27th to Learn Something About Cotton Mill Business Will Be Entertained by Loca' Chamber of Commerce. Cnstonin will be visited next Friday August 27. by a party of :M business mn, bankers and in reliant.-, from W.t-o Texas, who U spctul the day here look ing over (iastouin's and Castoii omity 's textile development with :i view to learn ing all they can ubout it in that time. The trip lias been arranged by the Waco Chamber of Commerce. Traveling iu a special Pullman, the party will reach tiastonia Thursday night on No. 3(5, ac cording to word received this morning by Secretary Allen, of the Chnmlter of Com merce. They will spend the entire day Friday visiting as many of the cotton mills of the county as can be seen md conferring with textile oflieials. I: understood that Waco is planning tc launch a campaign of textile iu,i!ii;f:ic turing. They wanted to cune to hv.-.d quraters to learn how . WOULD ABOLISH MARATHON FROM FUTURE OLYMPIADS ANTWERP, Aug. 21. A determined movement has been begun among various national Olympic committees to abolish the marathon race as the feature of fur ther Olympiads. It is claimed this race is not humane, and a petition to this effect will be presented to the interna tional committee tonight. Sponsors for the movement would substitute a 25,000 metre (about 15 miles), race. Arrangements have been completed for the marathon classie which will be run off tomorrow. Members of the Belgian Olympic committee sought to seeure a change in the rules so as to permit run ners to seeure refreshment, such as light soup, during the great ordeal, but the committee has ruled that the mea will be permitted to receive only water. The route will be guarded by 500 Belgian soldiers and will be closed to all but of ficial motor ears during the race. The seventh Olympiad has entered its last stages. The American team has al ready amassed a great lead in points scored and seems certain to maintain its advantage to the end. The American fencing team today beat England eight victories to seven in the dueling sword contest, but was beaten by France 12 to 2. POlES HAVE CAPTURED 15.000 SOVIET PRISONERS WARSAW, Aug. 21.The Poles have captured 15,000 soviet prisoners up to Thursday! it was announced here today. SOI 25 OR 30 LEGISLATORS SLIP ACROSS THE- STATE LINE INTO TOWN OF DECATUR, ALA. Suffragists 'Had Planned to Call up Motion to Reconsider Last Wednesday's Action and Kill it But Legislation is Prevented by Absence of Quorum. BOLSHEVIK ARMY IS BEING DRIVEN BACK PARIS, Aug. 21. Liberation of Po land is assured by the great victory won during the last week over the Russian forces, according to the opinion generally entertained in French military circles. but there Is doubt that it will yield I more important results. The bolehevik army probably will escape total destruc tion, although its retreat is entailing very heavy losses. t In following up this success, it will be logical for the Poles, after crossing the Bug river, to march northward toward Bialystok and (Jrodno, thus making the retreat of the soviet army impossible. Such ap operation, to succeed, would have to be executed with great rapidity and with clocklike regularity, it is declared, and the Polish organization after its long retreat and the hard fighting of the past weekean hardly be in a position to make such an effort In addition the counter offensive north of Warsaw seems to be going slowly, as the bolsheviki are still reported to be at Wlocawek, 90 miles west of Warsaw. This situation must be cleared up, and it seems probable, it will absorb a certain jrt of the Polish forces. ELGIN NATIONAL ROAD RACE IS POSTPONED KLtilN, III.. Aug. 21. The Klgin road race, scheduled to start at noon today, was postponed this morning for one week on ac limit of rain. Otlicials announced that the rain of last night and this morn ing had so flooded the course that a start would be impossible. The ame starting hour will be iu effect next Saturday, Angus'. 2 as has been scheduled for to day. NINE DRIVERS ENTER. KL(iIN', III., Aug. 21. Nine drivers were readb for the starting signal iu the Klgin national road race today which this year decides the American automobile racing championship. A final inspection before the race com menced at noon, central standard time, showed the course considerably improved after last night 's rain. Victory for either "Tom my Milton, Jim my Murphy, or (raston Chevrolet, would carry the title with it. for today's race was the final event of the year which counted points iu the system used to de leruiiue the championship. ( hevrolet, who won the Indianapolis speedway race, hail l.nl") points previous ni t iday 's contest, but Milton with 670, or Murphy with ).", could pass him by crossing the line firt this afternoon, thereby scoring 500. De Palma, who was allotted first posi tion in yesterday's drawings, was sched ules! to get. away at noon with Jimmy Murphy, Kddie 41earne, Cliff Durant, Tommy Milton, Eddie O'Donnell, Gaston Chevrolet, Percy Ford and Ralph Mul ford following in the order named at ;;0 second intervals. The course record of 77.25 miles an hour was made by Gil Anderson in 1915, while Tommy Milton won last year's race with an average of 73.9 miles. Belting Repair Shop Opens. A new belt shop for repairing leather belting has been opened and is now in operation, under the management of Mr. James A. Walker. This shop is located to the rear of the Johnson Belting Com pany's office upstairs opposite the Page Glass Company. Gastonia has not had a belt repair shop for some time and this new one will satisfy the demand of the mills of the city. With competent belt makers in charge the new company is ready to do any emergency work the mills may require. 15-YE AS-OLD COW HOLDS WORLD'S BUTTER RECORD NEW YORK, Aug. 19. Sophie 19th, of Hood Farm, Lowell, Mass., a former champion Jersey cow, has come back at the age of 15 years and six months with a ninth official record that makes her champion Jtmtter eow of the world, the American Jersey Cattle Club announced J here today. - r .-.-jl NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 21 The lower house of the Tennessee legislature j could hold no session today for lack of quorum, only 39 members ana we ring tht roll call. Sixty six members constitute a quorum. Speaker Walker declared an hour's re cess, directing the sergeant-at-arm to round up absentees. Since 25 member of the house went to Decatur, Ala., this morning, there was little likelihood of a quorum being found GO TO DECATUR. DECATUR, Ala., Aug. 21 Twemty five members of the Tennessee honse, which was to take final action upon the federal suffrage amendment, today ar-' rived here early this morning from Nash ville. ON BOARD L. k N. TRAIN. - BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 21 Thir ty members of the Tennessee house kav (one to Decatur, Ala., according to the conductor of the Louisville k Nashville ' train which arrived here at 9:30 a. m. today. 30 MEMBERS MISSING. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 21 Mora than 30 members of the Tennessee house opposed to suffrage were missing from , their hotels early today and were report- " ed to have left shortly after midnight for Alabama iu an effort to prevent a quorum of the house and delay final no tion on the woman suffrage amendment. Leaders of the suffrage forces said it was almost certain there would be no quorum at 10 o'clock this morning when the house was to meet. At 10:1." o'clock, a quarter of an hour after house was due to meet few mem bers other than the suffragists were in their seats, and lack of a quorum appear ed certain . K" Sweeping away of the last obstacle in ; the way of certification to Washington of Tennessee's ratification of the wo-'.' man suffrage amendment was planned to- day by suffrage leaders of the lower ' house of the legislature. This was to be v accomplished by calling from the house journal a motion that the house. reeoa- ' sider its action in concurring with the senate's adoption of the ratification re-; olution and defeating it either through av vote on the motion itself or by sending it to the table. The motion was placed on the journal : by Seaker Seth Walker last WelnesdajJ w hen he changed his vote on ratification ; . from "nay" to " aye". Under the .. rules the sjeaker alone had the privilege of calling up the motion for action dur- ' ing the next two legislative days. Hia failure to do so makes it possible for the v suffragists to call it up and this was -their intention today. Some parliamen tarians held that Walker's failure to act -ended the matter but others declared tho motion, now recorded as offered but not acted upon, must be disposed of be fore the suffrage amendment would be) " ready to go to the enrolling clerk. 25,000 IMMIGRANTS WILL SOON PASS THROUGH NEW YORK, Aug. 20. At least 85, 00t immigrants a week are expected tat begin passing through Ellis Island, ac cording to Frederick A. Wallis, immigra tion commissioner, today. Steamship ' companies have reported, he said, that the incoming tide for the next tew year will be limited only by the capacity of the west bound ships. "Italian steamship lines,'.' said tho commissioner, "have reported that ther are at least 2,000,000 Italian applicant for passage to America, and the Jewish : Sheltering Society has made arrange ments to receive 1,000 Jews a week.'. There is also an unprecedented rusk of German applicants for passage." . Ia acocrdance with this resuscitation of im-' migration. Commissioner Wallis said a complete reorganisation of the island ia under way, and that hundreda of addi tional employee will be added to take care of the rush. Among other changes will be the elimination of the old system of keeping the incomers behind high iron gratings 'during the examination for ad mission and an "honor system" allow ing the immigrants the freedom of the spacious walks, will be instituted, he said. ',,.--' ,.-.
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