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the commonwealth, j THE TWO DEMOCRATIC TICKETS
Published Every Thursday
BY
J. C. Hardy. Editor
Enteral t the postoffice at Scotland
Teek, N. 0., a? ecoT!l-ClA?? flatter.
Thursday, August;! 8, 1010.
Both the ring organization and
the anti-ring candidates all agree to
abide by the result of the primary
tomorrow (Friday).
Every man that votes in the pri
mary to-morrow is supposed by that
act to pledge his full support to the
nominpps rvf the nrimarv at the No-
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vember election. There will be no
scratching at the general election on
the 8th of November.
Mayor Gaynor, of New York City,
was assasinated on Tuesday of last
week just as he was in the act of
nilino- for Eurone. The mayor is
still living and it is thought by his
physicians that he will recover. The
assassin claims as his reason for the
dead was that the mayor discharged
him as employee of the city and
therefore cut off his means of get
ting bread and butter.
REGULAR DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
The following is a list of the can
didates of the regular Democratic
party for Halifax county, to be voted
on in, the primary Friday, August
19, 1910.
For the Senate:
A. PAUL KITCHIN.
Scotland Neck Township.
For House of Representatives:
W. T. CLEMENT,
Enfield Township.
P. N. STAINBACK,
Weldon Township.
For Sheriff:
JOSEPH A. HOUSE,
Littleton Township.
For Treasurer:
J. E. BOWERS,
Scotland Neck Township.
For Register of Deeds:
J. HUNTER NORMAN,
Brinkley ville Township.
For Clerk of the Court:
S. M. GARY,
Halifax Township.
For County Commissioners:
H. A. EDWARDS,
Roanoke Rapids Township.
SAM. T. THORNE, Jr.,
Butterwood Township.
W. R. HARVEY,
Littleton Township.
SAM. G. WHITFIELD,
Enfield Township.
S. P. JOHNSTON,
Faucetts Township.
At the meeting of the State Re
publican Convention in Greensboro
last week Congressman Jas. M.
Morehead, from the fifth district,
won a complete victory over Nation
al Commiteeman E. C. Duncan and
was elected state chairman by accli
mation. Marion Butler made the
fight for Morehead and it is gener
ally conceded that Butler is virtually
at the head of the Republican party
in this State. What a shame upon
any people that will allow suh a
man to lead them. His leadership,
in fact the man himself, is repulsive
to the best element of any people.
The Republicans of the State can
never make their party respectable
with Butler as their leader. Away
with Butlerism.
We desire to urge upon every
Democratic voter in Halifax County
the importance of attending the pri
mary to-morrow (Friday). Go and
fight it out for your choice and be
dose with it. The two tickets that
will be presented to the primary are
printed in another column. We do
not feel it our duty to tell the vo
ters just how they should vote. Both
sides are democrats the anti-ring
Rgainst the organization, or to nar
row it down a little finer, it is the
"outs" against the "ins." The
tickets are before you, do your duty
every voter in the county by go
ing to the polls and voting for your
choice and then abide by the result
as to what ever that may be. This
is what we expect to do. Let peace
and harmony prevail all during the
day and do not utter a word that
you will be ashamed of afterwards.
For Coroner:
H. G. ROWE,
Weldon Township.
ANTI-RING DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
At the mass-meeting held at Hali
fax August 5th, the following ticket
was nominated:
For rhe Senate:
W. F. BUTTERWORTH,
Scotland Neck Township.
For House of Representatives:
W. W. ROSSER,
Brinkleyville Township.
L. W. LEGGETT,
Palmyra Township.
For Clerk of the Court:
C. SPEED,
Scotland Neck Township.
For Sheriff:
N. W. WARREN,
Butterwood Township.
For Treasurer:
T. F. WHITLEY,
Scotland Neck Township.
For Register of Deeds:
J. WALDO WHITAKER,
Enfield Township.
! For County Commissioners:
J. E. COX,
Roanoke Rapids Township.
M. V. BARNHILL,
Enfield Township.
W. T. EURE,
Halifax Township.
T. LAWRENCE HOUSE,
Palmyra Township.
For Coroner.
W. E. WHITMORE,
Scotland Neck Township.
A. CARD.
Mr. Editor: In order to set my
self straight before the public I de
sire to make the following statement
concerning reports about Mr. Travis'
and Dr. Green's taxes being unpaid.
I have never made any charges that
they have not paid taxes but that
records at Halifax on August 8th.
did not show them listed for the
years mentioned below. I was re
quested to look this matter up as it
had been looked up before or I should
not have known anything about it.
After looking it up on account of the
illness of Mr. Travis I did not intend
tn nnhlish or make it tmblicand only
mentioned it to a few friends but it I
leaked out and wa3 so bitterly de
nied that it become necessary for me
to make the following statement to
vindicate myself:
On Monday August 8th 1910, Mr.
L. W. Leggett and myself went to
Halifax and searched records care
fully in Register of deeds office at
tax list for the years of 1907, 1908
and 1909, and that Dr. I. E. Green
did not appear on either list for the
year of 1909, but did appear on list
before Register of deeds for 1907
and 1908.
I again searched same records
fully Tuesday Adjust 10th and asked
Mr. Percy Norman clerk of the Reg
ister of deeds. Mr. J. 11. Norman,
Register of deeds being out ot town,
to go over these lists with me and
Mr. E. L. Travis does not appeal
on either 1907 or 1908 as listed any
here. He does
A. CARD.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR THE SENATE.
I respectfully announce myself a
candidate for State Senator from
Halifax county, the Fourth Senato
rial District, subject to the Demo
cratic primaries to be held on the
19th of August, 1910. I earnestly
asx tne support ui vw.o
ifax county. Respectfully,
W. F. BUTTERWORTH.
FOR THE SENATE.
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for State Senator from Hali
fax county, subject to the action of
the Democratic primaries to be hem
on the 19th. of August, 1910.
A. Paul Kitchin,
FOR SHERIFF.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the office of Sheriff of Hali
fax county, subject to the action of
the Democratic primaries to be held
on August 19th.
J. A. House.
FOR COMMISSIONER.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the olhce ot Commis
sioner of Halifax county, subject to
the action of the Democratic pri
maries to be held August 19th.
S. T. Thorne, Jr.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS.
To the Eemocratic voters of Hali
fax county: I desire to announce
that 1 will be a candidate for the
office of Register of Deeds for Hali
fax county, subject to the action of
the Democratic primaries to be held
on the 19th day of August, 1910.
Any support given me will be grate
fully received. Respectfully,
J. Waldo Whitaker.
FOR COMMISSIONER.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office of Commis
sioner of Halifax county, subject to
the action of the Democratic pn-
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Republican Hopes.
The letter printed below was writ
ten by Mr. Geo. W. Shearin, a well
known Republican of the county,
and mailed to Mr. J. E. Bowers,
Brinkleyville, N. C. It was for
warded by the postmaster to Mr. J
E. Bowers, Scotland Neck, and re
ceived by him. We presume it was
intended for Mr. W. E. Bowers, an
other Republican, but Mr. Shearin
made a mistake and addressed it to
our popular Treasurer, who is also a
candidate for this office again in the
Democratic primary to be held the
19th inst. Here follows the letter:
"Halifax, N. C, July 21, '10.
Mr. J. E. Bowers,
Brinkleyville, N. C.
My Dear Sir: I have been in com
munication with Mr. Butler, of
Washington, D. C, and he seems
to think that if we try and send
good men to the State convention
that we will be able to elect Hon. J.
M. Morehead as State chairman of
the Republican party. And by do
ing this we will bring many good
recruits to the party that will help
to reduce the high and unjust taxes
that we are now burdened with by
the control of the old Democratic
ringsters. I guess you have seen or
will see a circular letter gotten out
by the Anti-Democratic party which
-explains the situation very clearly
and you can see very clearly from
that letter the object in view.
Very truly your friend,
Geo. W. Shearin."
We understand that Mr. Shearin
with other good republicans partici
pated in the mass meeting which has
placed in the field subject to the re
sults of the Democratic primary,
what is known as the Anti-Ring
Domocratic Ticket. If it were pos
sible, we would like to know how
miy others participating in the
alleged mass meeting were animated
by the same spirit and "object in
view," that is, to bring "many good
recruits to the party." Our advice
to the Democrats of Halifax county
is to vote only for those who have
been faithful. Roanoke News, 11th.
inst.
appear now on
1909 lists also Dr. I. E. Green ap
pears on 1909 list but were not on
there on Mo.iday Aug.8th. Dr. I. E.
Green appears on bottom line and
ink shows it has recently been put
on, Mr. Travis appears near the top.
I here is no amount of taxes exten
ded for I. E. Green but pencil mark
says given to tax collector. The fol
lowing statement was made to me
Aug. loth by Mr. I. G. Shaw at Hal
fax. That on request of several
people at State Farm.
I looked up records of tax lists in
Register of Deeds office Friday
August 12th 1910, that 1 carefully
searched the records, regular list,
deliuquent lists and list of those
listed before the Register of Deeds,
and Mr. E. L. Travis did not appear
on either list for the years 1907 and
1908, he was on list before Register
of Deeds for the year of 1909.
Dr. I. E. Green appeared on list
before Register of Deeds for the
years of 1907 and 1908, but did not
appear on any list for 1909. I had
Mr. J.H.Norman, Register of Deeds
to go over lists with me and he could
not find him listed at all for 1909 and
he thought he must have listed un
der some other name.
Mr. Shaw also made statement as
follows: Several months ago I heard
Mr. R. H. Daniel tax lister and col
lecter for Halifax township since
1905, or 1906 say that Mr. E. L.
Travis had not paid him any tax
since he had been tax collector, he
said this in pr esence of myself and
several others.
Mr. L. H. Hall made statement as
follows: About July 1st 1910, 1 heard
Mr. R. H. Daniel tax collector and
lister for Halifax Township say E. L.
Travis had not listed or paid any tax
in several years and that he was go
ing to list for him this year and pay
it himself. Also three others made
same statement to me as Mr. Hall
who heard him at the same time.
1 understand they have an affidavit
made by Mr. R. H. Daniel, tax col
lector for Halifax township, which
they claim states Mr. Travis has
paid his taxes for last several years.
I have not seen it and do not know
its contents.
Mr. Daniel told me Tuesday, Aug.
16th. at 3:30 p. m. that the only
affidavit he had made was that Mr.
Travis was listed for 1909 and giving
amount of taxes and says he did not
state it was paid for it had not been
paid yet. Do they let you read this
affidavit or do they read it to you
themselves. Very truly,
T. F. Whitley.
T. F. Whitley, who is a
for the office of Treasurer on
Anti-Ring Democratic ticket, and N.
W. Warren, candidate for Sheriff on
the same ticket, have been circula
ting about the county that the under
sighed has neither listed or paid
paid any taxes for several years.
This statement is absolutely false,
and if the authors had taken
the trouble to make the proper
investigation they would not have
been in the position of circula
ting such a slanderous report, and
by proper investigation it could easi
ly have been shown to have been un
true. For the years of 1904 and 1905
the undersigned paid his taxes to A.
H. Green, Tax Collector for Weldon
township; for the years of 1906,
1907, 1908 and 1909 he paid his taxes
to J. L. Harris, Tax Collector for
Weldon township; and the affidavits
of A. H. Green and J. L. Harris are
made a part of this card.
A. H. Green, being duly sworn,
says: That he was tax collector for
Weldon township for the years 1904
and 1905, and that as such tax col
lector he collected from Dr. I. E.
Green his taxes for said years.
A. H. Grken.
Sworn to and subscribed before
iMot, maries to be held August 19th.
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Justice of the Peace.
J. L. Harris, being duly sworn
savs: That he was tax collector for
Weldon township for the years 1906,
1907, 1908 and 1909, and that as such
collector he collected from Dr. I. E
Green his taxes for said years.
J. L. Harris.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this the 15th day of August.
1910. J. W. Pierce,
Justice of the Peace.
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ine undersigned iurnisnes copies
of the affidavits of the tax collectors
for Weldon township for the past six
years. The tax collector who held
the office prior to A. H. Green J.
B. Brickell is dead. The under
signed has never failed while he has
been a citizen of Halifax county, nor
since he was liable for taxes, to pay
all taxes which have been assessed
against him, whether municipal
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graueu scnooi, county and btate or
special.
If the authors of said slanderous
circulation do not make an effort to
correct the report which they have
circulated, it will show that their ac
tion is wilful and malicious ad the
undersigned is satisfied to leave the
matter to the sense of fairness and
justice of the people of Halifax
county.
This the 15th day of August, 1910
I. E. Green
W. R. Harvey.
FOR COMMISSIONER.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office of Commis
sioner of Halifax county, subject to
the action of the Democratic pri
maries to be held August 19th.
S. P. Johnston.
FOR COMMISSIONER.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office of Commis
sioner of Halifax county, subject to
the action of the Democratic pri
maries to be held August 19th.
Sam. G. Whitfield.
FOR COMMISSIONER.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office of Commis
sioner of Halifax county, subject to
the action of the Democratic pri
maries to be held August 19th.
H. A. Edwards.
FOR SHERIFF.
Having been endorsed by the mass-
neeting of August 5th, I hereby an-
.a 1
nounce myseli as a candidate ior
Sheriff oi Halifax county, subject to
he action of the Democratic prima-
ies. Any support given me will be
lighly appreciated.
This August 8th, 1910.
Nick W. Warren.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS.
To the Democratic voters of Hali
fax county, N. C. I announce my-
elf a candidate for the office of
Register of Deeds, subject to the
Democratic primaries to be held
August 19th, 1910, in the several
precincts. And refer to all the peo
ple who have had business in the
office as to the promptness of regis
tration and return of all instruments
entrusted to me, and promise if
elected the same promptness as in
the past.
J. HUNTER NORMAN.
FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
To Democratic Voters of Halifax
County: I hereby announce myself
candidate for a seat in the lower
branch of the next General Assem
bly from Halifax County, subject to
the action of Democratic Primaries
to be held August 19th.
W. T. CLEMENT.
COUNTY TREASURER.
I hereby announce myslf as a can
lidate for Treasurer of Halifax
County, subject to the action of the
Democratic Primaries. Any support
given me will be greatly appreciated,
This August, 2, 1910.
J. E. Bowers.
CLERK OF COURT.
To the Democratic Voters of Hali
fax County: I desire to announce
that I will be a candidate for the
office of Clerk of the Superior Court
of Halifax County for the coming
term, subject to the action of the
Democratic Primaries, to be held
August 19, 1910. I desire to thank
the Democrats of the county for
their Dast favors, and assure them
that if I am chosen by them for this
offies. I will crive them the most el
ficient service of which I an capable
Respectfully,
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