JIacomatt
PROGRESSIVE LIBEBAL IMDEPEMDEMT
U, NO. 45
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 5, 1936
$1.50 PER YEAR
lEMOCRATS WIN LANDSLIDE
bryewire
OWYTlCra
Official Accused of
reventing CCC Boys
From Voting
.on county went Democratic
1n Tuesday’s election, giving
majorities to Democratic
dates on county, state and
iro« 120 for
Patton, running for r«pre-
’ii,e to 1,013 for Sheriff A.
lagle, sceki.ng reelection.
ident Roosevelt carried the
tv with a majority of 75/, re-
ig 3,311 votes to 2,554 fo
f;,ote was the heaviest ever
.(led in Macon county 5,761
ts being cast in the presidential
ion Absentee votes numbered
Disorder at Cowee
Jloting was orderly m all
iships 'except Cowee, where, it
reported, a fight was nearly
ipitated when the Republican
•e Perry Bradley, prevented^ a
Ip of CCC boys who had regis-
d in that precinct from voting,
dky was reported to have sat
ti the box and refused to allow
;tickets cast.
iacon county’s vote for govMnor
[; Hoey 3,128, Grissom 2,490. it
e Zeb Weaver, seeking reelec-
1 to congress, 3,223 votes to
il for Jarrett. Senator Bailey re
ed 3,251 votes to 2,512 for his
ublican opponent, Frank Pat-
of Morganton.
le county approved all five of
proposed amendments to the
e constitution, giving the larg-
majority to No. 2 which aiithor-
s the legislature to enact tax
mptions up to $1,000 on the value
homes occupied by the owners.
Evote on the amendments follows ;
So, 1—for 1,264, against 948. No.
lor lj549, against 595. No. 3—for
f7, against 631. No. 4—for 1,310,
fiiist 861. No. 5—for 1,328, against
h
Returns from all of the 12 pre-
;ts in the county were canvassed
ay by the county board of
•tions.
Vote on County Ticket
'ote totals on the county ticket
ife as follows;
[For state senator, 33rd district—
fl'y E. Bennet (D), of Bryson
ly, 3,135; McKinley Edwards (R),
jp of Bryson City, 2,530.
for representative—R. A. Patton
2 2,923, John E. Rickman (R)
|3.
■or sheriff—A. B. Slagle (D)
R. F. Henry (R) 2,374.
|or register of deeds—C. T. Bry-
1 (D) 3,375, T. G. Dean (R)
/4,
?or surveyor—J. H. Daltan (D)
unopposed.
'or coroner-C. M. Moore- (D)
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Voters Approve
5 Amendment Proposals
Returns were far from complete
today o.n the five proposed amend
ments to the state constitution
which were submitted to the voters
Tuesday, but such as had been re
ported indicated that all of the
am'Cndments had been approved.
The voting was nearly two to one
in favor of the changes.
Macon county gave substantial
majorities for adoption of the
amendments. The vote on them fol
lows :
No. 1—For amendment to the
judicial section of the constitution to
permit the appointment of 'two ad
ditional members to the supreme
court and to allow the court to sit
in sections—For 1,264; against 948.
No. 2—For exemption from taxa
tion of homes to the value of $1,-
000—For 1,649, against 595.
No. 3—For classification of prop
erty—For 1,427, against 631.
No. 4—For increasing from 6%
to 10% the limitation on income
tax—For 1,310, against 661.
No. 5—For limitations .upon the
increas'c of public debt—For 1,328,
against 693.
All but the last proposal need
legislative action to make them ef
fective, as they are permissive and
not mandatory.
Gets Record-Breaking Vote
Franklin
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HOEY PROVES
EASLVICrOR
Senator J. W. Bailey and
Democratic Congress
men Reelected
Clyde R. Hoey, Democratic nomi
nee for governor of North Carolina,
was leading his Republican oppon
ent, Gilliam Grissom, former col
lector of internal revenue for North
Carolina, by better than two to
one on the face of returns tabulat
ed today. The vote from 1,082 pre
cincts out of 1,855 in the state gave
the Shelby orator 332,235 votes to
141,878 for Grissom.
Bailey, Weaver Reelected
Returns from 749 Precincts gave
Senator Josiah W. Bailey 250,203
votes to 71,212 for Frank Patton,
of Morganton, the Republican nomi
nee. In this county 3,251 votes were
cast for Bailey and 2,512 for Pat-
^^All Democratic congressmen ^ere
reelected. In the 11th district, which
includes Macon, Congressman Zeb-
ulon Weaver was leading
opponent, Clyde H. Xarrett ^
Andrews, by 53,711 votes to 287^
in returns from 16^ ‘^‘^‘"fweave
a total of 251. Macon gave Weaver
3,223 votes to 2,551 for Jarret .
Defeated
R B. Jack Morphew, of Robbms-
ville. Democratic :andidate for^ep
resentative in the general assembly
and widely spoken of as ^ P °
tive speaker of the house, lost to
the Republican candidate ■
T»nkins by 101 votes. The ieP“°
Ucan candidate for sheriff aM
in Graham Clay county aUo elec
ed a Republican, Dr. J.
for representative. A . gpgth
however, It was
in the western c
thought likely they would have
instead rf 16 « „„ern
Sep
Mitchell and Watauga,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Annual Red Cross Roll Call
To be Launched Wednesday
p Sisk is in Biltmore
A t, "Up for
hospital, Asheville, for trc*
Supper for Workers To Be
Held at Legion Hall
Tuesday
Macon county’s annual Red
Cross roll call will be launched
Tuesday night of next week at a
supper in the American Legion hall,
it was announced Tuesday by the
Rev. Frank Bloxham, roll call chair-
man.
The s.upper is scheduled to start
at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Bloxham said
all perso.ns who took part in last
year’s Red Cross campaign and all
others who want to volunteer their
services this year are invited to at-
^^R^ports will be received on the
past year’s activities of the Macon
Lnty chapter and plans discussed
for this year’s roll call.
CanvasLg for 1937 members will
start the next day-Armistice Day.
tL Rev. J. A. Flanagan IS
chairman of the Macon county Red
Cross chapter.
Bryant Employs Seneca
Man as Embalmer
O C. Bryant, Franklin funeral
director and furniture dealer, an
nounced yesterday that he had ern-
r Prl D S Abbott, of Seneca, S.
P't Mr. Abbo.t,
„s gradnated about a »f
ftoni an embalmer’s school m Nash-
S Tenn, and is a Leased em-
'“S.s ,.*.1.1! M-f "".‘S
“Solct as” a sa'ksman the
day.
DEATH CUMS
DR.LWERT
Well Known Highlands
Man Dies After
Week’s Illness
(Special to The PreSs-Maoonian)
HIGHLANDS, Nov. 5.—Dr. El
bert Roscoe Gilbert, 57, for 11 years
a well known resident of Highlands,
died at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning
in Angel hospital, Franklin, after a
week’s illness from a kidney malady.
The funeral was set for Wednes
day afternoon in the Church of the
Incarnation, Highlands, but o.n ac
count of th« inclement weather
yesterday was postponed until this
morning. The Rev. Frank Bloxham,
rector of the church, officiated. Ac
tive pallbearers were Charles And
erson, Tom Harbison, Roy Potts,
Clarence Mitchell, JoS'e Reese, and
O. F. Summer. Honorary pallbear
ers were J. M. Bruner, Mr. Reed
er, S. T. Marett, George Marett,
W. W. Edwards and Frank Potts.
Burial was in the Highlands ceme
tery.
Dr. Gilbert was born in Burk
county, North Carolina, September
13 1879. He was married to Miss
Bessie Isobel Hall, of Salt Lake
City, Utah, in July, 1908. After
graduating from the Atlanta Dental
college he practiced dentistry in
Westminister, S, C., for 12 years
before coming to Highlands in 1925.
Besides being actively engaged in
his profession, Dr. Gilbert took a
leading part in the civic life of
' (Continued on Pago Ten)
46 STATES VOTE
FOR RTOEVELT
.andon Carries only Two
States—Maine and
Vermont
American voters put their stamp
of approval on the New Deal and
gave President Roosevelt a record-
breaking vote of confidence m
Tuesday’s general election.
Returns were still incomplete to
day, but tabulations indicated that
Roosevelt’s vote plurality over Alf
M Landon, his Republican oppo,n-
ent, would pass 10,000,000. It ap
peared certain that he had carried
all but two states—Maine and Ver
mont—and was assured of 523'elec
toral votes to 8. for the Kansas
governor.
An Historical Landslide
It was the greatest landslide since
the days when President Monroe
received all but one electoral vote.
The nearest parallel in recent times
was the election of 1912, when
“Teddy” Roosevelt’s Bull Moose
party split the Republicans and left
William Howard Taft with only 8
electoral votes. But all of the rest
of the electoral votes, however, did
not go to the Democrats. Roosevelt
got 88 and Woodrow Wilson the
remainder.
Democrats Gain in Colngress
Not only was Roosevelt s.wept
back into office, but it appeared
fairly certain tonight that the Dem
ocrats would increase considerably
their majorities in both houses of
congress. It was thought likely that
they would have 74 senators, in
stead of 70, and would increase their
house majority to 200 or more.
Total membership in the house I'S
435 and in the last co.ngress Demo
crats held 308 scats.
Today’s voting tabulations^ show
ed the standing of the presidential
candidates as follows:
Roosevelt—24,449,608.
Landon—15,041,725.
Lemke—541,368.
Thomas—13,609.
Rock-ribbed Republican Pennsyl
vania went Democratic for the first
time since the AVar Between the
States, and even Landon’s home
state of Kansas gave Roosevelt a
majority of 50,000 or more votes.
Topeka gave Roosevelt a slight
lead and Hyde Park, N. Y„ tra
ditionally Republican, stuck to the
GOP candidate, as did the county
of Dutchess.
Maine voted about as the straw
vote polls indicated it would—Re
publican; but the old saying that
“as Maine goes, so goes the na
tion” was turned into “as Maine
goes, so goes Vermont.”
Governor Landon conceded the
election to Roosevelt early, “The
nation has spoken,” he said, “Every
American will accept the verdict
and work for the common cause
of the good of our country.”
Later Mr. Landon told newspaper
men he was planning to go duck
hunting. Mr. Roosevelt was report
ed to be contemplating a fishing
trip and later, perhaps, a cruise to
South America.
The Literary Digest, whose straw
poll had predicted an overwhelm
ing victory for Landon, was report
ed today to be planning an inves-
tigatio,n to discover what was
wrong with it all.
VOTE
TABULATIONS
Will Be Found
on
Page 10