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2ljr Meralii. VOL. 29 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1910 Number 37 v __________ $ 100 per Year Education Good Roads Good Health Progress 5 cents pgr Copy DEMOCRACY WINS IN JOHNSTON democrats gain sweeping vic tory. Republicans Defeated by Twice as Large Majority as Two Years Ago. Fifteenth Senatorial District Also Redeemed. Republicanism in John ston Doomed. The election held Tuesday has passed into history as one of the most overwhelming defeats ever ad ministered the Republican party in Johnston County. The Democratic victory was even better than even the most sanguine supporters of Dem ocracy had hoped for. All the con- ] iervative Democrats thought that the election would be close but In this tbty were mistaken as the majorities this year were over twice as large at two years ago. The Republicans have put forth their greatest efforts and the result Tuesday shows that the old county is ready and willing to remain Democratic for many years to come, the reaction from the slump ' two years ago clearly indicates what to expect in the future. The vote for the various county officers is 83 follows: Clerk of Court. W. S. Stevens 2917, (D) J. D. Parker (R) 2336. Ste vents majority 561. Register of Deeds. S. T. Honey rutt 2813, (D) R. L. Fitzgerald (R) 2434. Honeycutt's majority 379. Treasureer. W. L. Stancil 3021, (D) Allen Barefoot 2328, (R) Stan fll's m?i1ori!v 693. Sheriff. R. M. Nowell 2902, (D) John T. Cole 2399, (R) Nowell's ma jority 503. Coroner. Dr. Thel H^oks 3024, (D) Dr. George Parker 2329, (Rl HoOk s majority 695. Surveyor. T. R. Fulghum (D) 2W9, J, V. Penny 2325, (R > Fulghums majority 674. County Commissioners: D. B. i Oliver 3035, E. S. Coats 3021, I John W. Wood 3032, John j C. Keen 3025, W. T. Parker (D) 3000. H. C. Williams 2311. Gray T. Boy. ett 2340, Everett Raper 2327, W. J. ; Morgan 2332, W. C. Lassiter (R) 2351. Congress Fourth District. Edward W. Pou 2958, (D) R. A. P. Cooley, (Jnd.) 2249. Pou's majority 709. Senators Fifteenth Senatorial Dis trict. O. A. Barbour 3032 (D) J. R. Baggett 3021 (D) J. O. Matthews 2318, (R) W. P. Byrd 2308. (R) Members of the House of Rep resentatives, L. H. Allred 2997, (D) Ashley Home 3011, (D) Thomas j Sceed 2312, (R) Nathan L. Snipes **21. (R) - fV > -? - Called Higher. V|- I On Friday morning, November 4,! the death angel entered the home of Mr. Jacob Langdon, of the Spilona j section, and claimed for its victim , his dearly beloved companion. God called her and she readily and sweet ly obeyed. All was over, she slept as a tired child, that calm, sweet, nftt-r long suffering. She had been a great sufferer for a number of years, but was confined to her bed only About five weeks. She bore it all fo sweetly and patiently, never mur- | inuring. We can pay her memory no high er tribute than the testimony that ^ie was a Christian woman. By , her loving and gentle disposition she bad endeared herself to all who knew her. A true, faithful and lov- . Ing wife, a tender and affectionate mother ,a good neighbor and a kind friend. Why should one so neces sary to the happiness of others be taken away? God alone can answer. We can only look through a veil of tears and say "Thy will be done." She had been a loyal and devoted member of the Primitive Baptist church for many years. Mrs. Lang- I don was sixty-three years of age and 1 leaves a husband, one son, one daugh ter, one brother and one sister. Her body was laid away in the family bu rying ground at their home, Saturday afternoon In the presence of a num ber of relatives and friends. We re gret to chronicle the death of such It good woman. A FRIEND. Nearly all the telephone companies ' Of this country lost money at the ftart. I OR. NOBLE ON THE ELECTION. Feels Good Over the Result. Says His Medicine Was Sugar-Coated And the After Effects so Nice. Last Week's Smithfield Journal said: "Dr. Noble has come across and Is taking his medicine." Yes. he took it and it was not bad one bit. It was sugar-coated, and then the after effects are so nice. Ev ery one who followed his advice is row feeling good because they help ed to pour "Tas toll" and "Spits tur pentine," as children call the dose, down scratchers and Republicans. They hated to take it but they had to, and down it went and now they feel bad, awful bad, and the after' effects make them feel worse. My, but don't they look bad? Several years ago when Ex-Senator Butler was elected Senator a Popu list father and a Good Democratic mother asked a doctor to name their baby boy; he, to please the father, suggested that he be named Butler. | But that good Democratic mother said, "no, there ain't goin. to be any Butler in it.' ' Now this grand old i State, North Carolina, says, "No, there ain't going to be any Butler in it." The morning after the prohibition 1 election a prominent Republican an ti-prohibitionist came to Selma to take an early train, and meeting a citizen, who was a strong prohibition ist, asked, how did the election go? The citizen replied. "I have Just seen Joe Freeland. a railroad con-' ductor, who told me that he saw Joe Daniels in Raleigh at 2 o'clock this morning who told him that the in dications were that the State had gone "wet" about sixteen thousand. Our anti-prohibition friend smiled all over his face and rubbing his hands together said, "Well, Mr when ' these things are left to the people, they are always sealed right." So, to our way of thinking they are set tled right this year, and we have won a glorious victory. So let us all work together for the good of our county and State; and let all hard things that have been said be forgiv en aid forgotten. Let us be friends. The Democrats are in too good hu mor to harbor malice and the Repub licans too badly whipped to be) ugly. . What say you? R. J. NOBLE. Selma. Nov. 9, 1910. Democratic Gains in State. | The Democratic victory in this! state is sweeping and all embracing. 1 The Democrats will have 45 state | senators and 102 members of the | House; and the Republicans have 5 senators and 18 members of the House. ? ' The Democrats gained four state 1 senators and fourteen members of! the House of Representatives in the ' recent election. ? j The following counties are those in which the Democrats gained mem-1 bers of the House of Representatives:, Alamance, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Cataw ba, Cherokee, Davidson, Forsyth, (one) Jackson, Macon, Orange, Person, l Stanly, and Washington. The Democrats gained a state sen ator from Rockingham and .Bun-J combe counties. Johnston, Harnett, and Sampson elected two state senators. Sampson gave a majority of 1,150 for the Re publicans; Harnett gave from 500 to 600 Democratic majority; John ston gave a majority of 600 to 700 Democratic. Pou's majority in Nash County ov er Cooley for Congress Is fully one thousand. Cleveland County gave a majority of 1,500, an increase of 650 over two years ago. Surry made big Democratic gains, electing a Democratic sheriff and treasurer. The Reepublicans car ried rest of county ticket by less than 50 majority. For the first time in six years. Caldwell County went Democratic In the recent election. The eleventh Judicial District el ected a Democratic solicitor for the first time since the creation of the district. Wake County Is Democratic b7 a majority of 1,964 votes, this c*l culation being ba?ed on the state ticket. The majorities range from 840 to 2,154. The Democratic vote Is round numbers was about 4.000, and the -Republican about 2,000. TEN DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN VICTORY SMILES IN EVERY CON GRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Four New Men Will Represent North Carolina In the Next Con gress?Dr. Faison, Maj. Stedman, R. L. Dough'.on and J. M. Gudger. In the present Congress North Carolina is represented by three Republicans?Morehead in the Fifth district; Cowles in the Eighth, and Grunt In the Tenth. In the Sixty Secono Congress the State will have a solid delegation of ten Democratic Congressmen, as a result of Tues day's election. in the First district Hon. John H. Small will succeed himself, having been elected by a majority of about 7,000. In the Second Hon. Claude Kitchin is re-elected without opposition, by a vote of over 8,000. In the third there has been n warm fight between Dr. John M. Faison, Democrat, and Maj. George E. But ler, Republican. Dr. Faison is the winner by a good majority. This dis trict has been represented for the past ten years by Hon. Charles R. Thomas, of New Berne. In the Fourth district Hon. Ed ward W. Pou has been re-elected to succeed himself by a majority rC about 6,000 over his opponent R. A. P. Cooley, Independent. Maj. Charles M. Stedman has re deemed in Fifth district, naving been elected by a majority of about 3,000 over D. H. Blair, Republican. This is the district now represented by John Motley Morehead, the He publican State Chairman. Hon. Hannibal L. Godwin has been reelected in the Sixth district, de feating Iredell Meares, Kepublican, by more than 3,000 majority. In the Seventh Hon. Robert N. Page, the present Incumbent, has de feated his Republican opponent by about 3,000. For the past two years the Eighth has been represented by Hon. Charles Cowles, Republican, who tried to be elected again, but his Democratic op ponent, Hon. R. L. Doughton, known as "Farmer Bob'' Doughton, won by a good majority. In the'Ninth Hon. E. Yates Webb was re-elected by a majority of more than 5.000 over S. S. McNinch. In the Tenth the present Repub lican Congressman, J. O. Grant, was defeated by Hon. J. M. Gudger, Dem ocrat, by a small majority. T. W. DEWEY 18 PARDONED. ' , -JJTJ Will Go at Once to the Bedside of His Aged Mother, Who Was Stricken With Paralysis. Mr. Thomas W. Dewey, was par doned yesterday by Governor Kitch in. His aged mother, one of the best 'women in the world, whose health has been very poor for months, suf fered a stroke of paralysis yester day morning, and her condition Is alarming. The son will go to his mother's bedside this morning. The following statement is fur nished by Col. A. J. Field, private secretary to the governor: "Thomas W. Dewey, Craven county, convicted July, 1905. Crjrae, embezzlement; sentence six years State's prison. "November 7, 1910, sentence com muted to a term expiring November 7, 1910. "The term of the prisoner would oxplre within 30 days from this date. There is a strong petition for clem ency In which the trial judge, the solicitor and many other citizens Join. He has made a good prison er, and it Is believed that this clem ency may be bestowed and" still justice be satisfied."?News and Ob >erver, 8th. > Woodrow Wilton for Pretident. The victory of Woodrow Wilson In New Jersey makes him a conspicu ous figure In the calculations for 1912. His campaign was conducted with remarkable ability. He takes his place in the first rank of eli gible* for the Democratic nomiu&cion for the Presidency, and from present Indications tt< struggle will be be tween 51 in and Taft two years hence. ?Washington Post. FEDERAL EDUCATION URGED. President James, of University of Illinois, Would Have New Cabi net Post. No Other Nation, He Tells Minnesota Teachers, So Neg | ligent of Care of Its Children. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 3.?"The con dition of American education to-day is, in many respects, a national re ! proach," Bald President E. J. James, of the University of Illinois, iu an address to the Minnesota Teachers' j Association here to-day. "In no oth er nation claiming to be civilized is there at the present time so large a population in bucIi educational de ; gradation as the American negro. No j other population, equally numerous, [ is to be found within the limits of I any civilized nation so deprived of j educational facilities and opportuni j ties. "Further, in no other great civi lized nation are there so many wor thy members of a community in such a state of ignorance and provided "with such meager educational advan of the mountainous districts of the 1 South, and the inhabitants of other similar regions In which they may ! be found in the North, as well as in the South. "In no other civilized country arc the teachers in the rural districts , of the nation as a whole, and, for that matter, in many villages and j towns, so untrained and so unskill ed. "In no other civilized country does the nation, as a unit, concern Itself so little about the vital educational ! interests of the people as a whole. 'vAnd yet of all modern nations , the United States is more depend ent for its prosperity ir. the long 1 run upon universal education than any other. "When the Constitution was adop ted the nation handed over to the Federa' government some of the | most fruitful sources* of revenue. It i left with the States some of the heaviest burdens of expenditure. The j time has come when a readjustment phould be brought about. Education should be made in form, what it is in j realty, a national function. It should be placed by the side of the army and the navy, and internal improve ments and Federal Justice as one of the great and fundamental functions of the American people. "Such a policy means Federal ap propriations on a large scale for the development of national education. , It would naturally end in a secreta ry of education, who, as a member of the cabinet, should represent In a concrete form the beginning of a new and larger policy calculated to bringr' about new and larger results In the educational field." I ???? j SKIPS BY AIR OVER BIG CITY. '***.1 I! Does Pew Special Stunts Where Ross Winani, Invalid, Could Witness New y/onder. Baltimore, Nov. 7.?Coupling with the brilliancy and daring of the achievement the incentive of a $5000 newspaper prize and the well-reward ed opportunity of giving a bedfast millionaire a sight of a flying aero ; pianist, Hubert Latham, the French aviator, to-day performed the remark able feat of flying a prescribed course over this city, a feat in many re spects as perilous as that which cost the life of Chavez, when he crossed the Alps by sky lanes. Latham used his 50-horsepower An i toinette and consumed 42 minutes 10 j seconds in making the round trip from Halethorpe aviation field, cov ering an approlmate distance of 22 miles and sailing over a route chosen to afford the best possible view of the flight to the inhabitants of Bal timore. In addition to winning the $5000 , Sun prize, Latham receives $500 | from Ross Winans, who is confined ! to his home in St. Paul street by ill ness. The original course was chang ed to give Winans an opportunity to ' view the flight. Latham maneuvered several minutes over the million aire's house, performing some dar ing evolutions. Lynched in Two Hours. Macon, Ga., Nov. 7.?The negro Walker, who killed Marshal Charles Bush, of Montezuma. Ga., two weeks ago .was taken from the Macon coun ty Jail by a inob and lynched 'o night. Walker had only been cay tured about two hours. DEMOCRATIC VICTORY j IN MANY STATES GIANT TIDAL WAVE OF DEMOC RACY IN NATION. Many Republican States Go Demo cratic. Next Congress Democratic By 29 Majority. Gains in Many States. New York State Democrats acbiev i eel tho greatest victory In genera Jlon when John A. Dix was elected governor Tuesday with from 60,000 to 65,000 plurality, carrying his en tire state ticket with him. Of the seventeen congressmen in Greater New York only one is a I Republican. The Democrats will ha\4> a plural ity of seven votes in the next New York state Senate and twenty-two in tiie Assembly. This will mean the {lection of a Democrat to succeed Chauncey M. Depew In the United States Senate. Ohio has re-elected Governor Jud i son Harmon, Democrat, by a major , i? y ranging from 50,000 to 60,000. I Ohio will have a majority in the I next state legislautre which means 'he selection of a democratic United States Senator. Connectlcutt elected a Democratic governor, Judge Simeon E. Daldwin, by a plurality of 2,500. Connectlcutt has elected a Demo cratic congressman for the first time since 1894. Oregon elected the Democratic candidate for governor, Oswald West, K ir n RinlnJlo ?# O " "11 "j t* incijui i?j ui U|uvv, Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton, was elected Democrat ic governor of New Jersey, Tuesday with a majority of perhaps 44,000 votes. New Jersey elected a Democratic majority in the assembly, six Demo crats out of the seven candidates for the state senate and seven out of ten Democratic congressmen. New Jersey will elect a Demo crat to succeed John Kean in the United States Senate. Massachusetts elected Eugene N. Foss, Democrat, for governor by 33, 779 votes. The Democrats also gain ed two congressional seats, Albert J. Beveridgr, of Indiana, will be succeeded in the United States Senate by a Democrat, John W. Kern. The outcome of the United States Senate is now definitely settled. The Republicans are assured of 16 new senators, which with 34 hold over senators, gives them a total of 50. The Democrats are assured of 15 new senators, which with 25 hold-overs gives them a total of 40. In the Ohio election, the Demo crats elected 15 out of 21 congress men. Oklahoma elected a Democratic governor with a majority of 25,000. * '"V How It Happened. ? How did it happen? The chief cause of the overthrow of the Re publican party was Roosevelt. Except In the Western States, wherever ho spoke he killed his party. The fight ' in New York was against Roosevelt, ' and Roos.;vi it. was burled under an avalanche of more than fifty thous and plurality, as far as the count had gone up to the hour of going to press. Roosevelt spoke in Massa chusetts, and Massachusetts went Democratic, Roosevelt spoke In Oh io, and Ohio went Democratic. Roos evelt slandered the Democratic can didate for Governor in Connecticut, and the people elected him. Roose velt supported Lewis, in New Jer sey, and Wilson was elected. Roose velt shattered the heavens with hia appeals for Beveridge, and Reverldge is defeated. All that Roosevelt has left of the magnificent army with which he went forth to battle al I Osawatomie against the Constitutor and the Supremo Court and the cow ' boy contingent of the West. Thf people have rejected him and hit policies and methods?rejected hin so thoroughly that even so wayfarlnj a man as he cannot mistake wha i the elections yesterday meant foi ; him and for all who like him woul< i rip up the foundations to establish i - dynasty. It is almost too good to believe - but It is truo. thank God!?Rlchmoni Times-Dlspatcl . DIRECTOR DURAND'S TROUBLES. Rivers and Harbors Congress to Meet in December. Many Candi dates for New Commerce Court. Justice White Celebrates 61tt Birthday. Washington, November 7.?Census Director Durand has been having more trouble of late than any offi cer of the government. Census di rectors always have trouble, and al ways expect it. Aspiring communi ties of the urban sort are seldom satisfied with the result of the feder al enumeration of population. Local enumerations are rartly as nearly accurate as those performed by the now well-disciplined forces of the ! Census Uureau. They are usually over-counted, and the denizens of am bitious localities get themselves so used to the exaggerated estimates of ttrt'lr populations that they get to believe in them, and consequently are greatly disappointed when the federal census people come along and make an approximately true re turn. Nevertheless, Director Du rand is giving attentive heed to com plaints, and has been showing a rare j degree of patience in investigating the justice of all grievances. Any town or city, which goes about It in the proper way, and shows sensible cause for the belief that there has been serious error In the enumera tion, can secure a recount. The Washington Chamber of Com merce which has begun a systematic campaign to secure Conventions for I the Nation's Capital was successful In landing what gives promise of being the biggest Convention of the j >tar, the National Rivers and Har bors Congress, which will meet in ; this city December 7. 8 and 9 next. Invitations for the coming convention are now being seut out by Capt. J. IF. Ellison of Cincinnati, Ohio, ac I companied by an Interesting book j let prepared by the Washington i Chamber of Commerce showing pub lic places, hotels and the rates ?viiich delegates may obtain., As f.onerous railroad rates have been granted for the convention it is be lieved the city will be crowded with strangers at that time. President Taft stated to a dele gation of Virginians this week who called to recommend a favorite law yer for appointment as one of the five Judges of the new Commerce Court, tbat he would not take ac tion until after Congress met and that hs already knew of about 150 candidates, among them being scores of men already on the bench in dif ferent stales. Associate Justice Edward D. Whlter of the United States Supreme Court, celebrated his sixty-first birthday vember 3. Justice White has been a member of the court sixteen j years, and since the death of the late Chief Justice Fuller Is next to i the oldest member in length of ser .vice. Justice John M. Harlan will I have been a member of the court I thirty-three years. * * *? 4 "" In the Senate of the sixty-second Congress there will be fourteen mem bers who have served together in the House of Representatives. They are: Bailey, Bankhead, Brandegeee, Burton, Dixon, Jones of Washington, I-orlmer, Newlands, Paynter, Poin dexter, Smith of Michigan, Swanson and Williams of Misisssippi. lue uuiiiiiih:uu iv^yuunu, as u. o. Consul Holland, at Puerto Rico, re* j ports, has no public banking insti tutions of any kind and but one bank of any ?ort, that being a private bank, to which the buying and sell ing of drafts is an important source of revenue. Mrs. Darius Duncan Dead. i Many friends mourn the death of 1 Mrs. Lizzie Mabel Duncan, wife of Mr. Darius Duncan, which occurred i ^ at the home of her mother, Mrs. Sa i rah Ann Hood, 310 South Person . street yesterday morning at three s o'clock, after a lfngering illness. She i was twenty-seven years old. and, be i sides her mother and husband, she 5 is survived by a five-year-old son, t Master Norman Duncan. r Mrs. Duncan was a devoted mem 1 ber of the Tabernacle Baptist church, i of this city, and was a young wo man of noble Christian character, ; love* by all who knew her, on ?c 1 count of her amiable disposition.? News and Observer. Wh.