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VOLUME 39 SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1920. Number 34 MR. MORRISON HEARD BY LARGE CROWD HERE He Made a Good Speech and Made A Fine Impression on the Voters Who Heard Him When He Spoke Here Last Saturday to a Packed House. Speech One to Appeal to Democrats To Wake Up and Fight the Party’s Battles in the Old Way. The Johnston county court house was filled to its capacity last Satur day afternoon to hear the Hon. Cam Morrison, of Charlotte, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Gov ernor, deliver a masterly address. He was introduced by Mr. S. S. Holt, So licitor of the Recorder’s Court, who in a short address told his auditors a little of the platforms of Mr. Morri son’s opponents in the race, greatly to the delight of the Morrison sup porters. He presented Mr. Morrison as the man who has been fighting his party’s battles for 25 years, and has never had any office or asked for one until now. Mr. Morrison began his address by going back more than twenty years and reviewing the history of the North Carolina democracy and com pared it with the Republican party under the domination of Russelism, Butlerism and their negro cohorts. It pictured how North Carolina had grown along educational and material lines under Governors Aycock, Glenn, Kitchin, Craig and Bickett. He spoke of the great work of Aycock, Aider man and Mclver in the great educa tional awakening and how that part of this time a school house was built every day in this State. He compar ed these achievements with the four years prior to 1900 when the match less Aycock swept the State and be came the great educational Governor. He spoke for good roads, and bet ter health conditions and was cheered heartily all along the way. When he spoke of the necessity of paying the teachers in our schools a living salary all with one accord gave him splendid applause. He spoke of the record of the Democratic party in national af fairs under the matchless leadership of our President, Woodrow Wilson. He showed how the Republicans had always stood for the special interest, but since Mr. Wilson was inaugurat ed seven years ago, these special in terests no longer dominated and the country had made a most wonderful record. It is needless to try to attempt to give a synopsis of this great Demo cratic speech. It thrilled those who heard whether they were his support ers or supporters of his opponents. He had spoken more than an hour be fore he ever mentioned his own can didacy and then he told of his ambi tion to be Governor in order that he might be of greater service to the people than he could be as a pi-ivate in the ranks. He paid his respects to his opponents in his own way. He never spoke disparagingly of either Mr. Page or Mr. Gardner. Mr. Morrison’s friends and sup porters were very much pleased with the speech and the impression it made on the people generally, and claim that he is gaining ground in this county. The Ivanhoe Brass Band was on hand and fnade music for the oc casion. Mr. Morrison went to Dunn Saturday evening where he made an address that night in that city. He was accompanied to Dunn by Mr. George Ross Pou and Mr. W. L. Ellis. MEXICO CITY AND VERA CRUZ REPORTED TAKEN Carranza Himself Reported In Hiding’ In Vera Cruz and Arrest Imminent —To Take Tampico Today. Washington, May 9.—An official tel egram from Vera Cruz received at the state department today says a wire less message from Mexico City an nounces President Carranza has left Mexico City and that General Obregoa has taken the Mexican capital. Advices to headquarters here of the Sonora revolutionists say Nuevo La redo surrendered this morning after a fight in which there were three cas ualties and the commander of the Carranza forces was Wounded. Piedras Negras, opposite Eagle Pass, Texas, and Matamoras, oppo site Brownsville, Texas, the dispatch added, were expected to surreader to day and Tampico would fall today or tomorrow. EXECUTIONS IN MEXICO FEATURE LAST REVOLUTION Change in Government Made With Remarkable Absence of Fighting— Various Reports About President Carranza—Communication Between United States and Mexico City Cut Off. Washington, May 10.—Mexico’s latest revolution after getting under way with a remarkable absence of fighting, apparently has not been without the usual tropical season of blood-letting. From behind the veil which ob scures the events of the last few days are beginning to trickle the stories of wholesale political executions, counter-executions, and other accom paniments which have so frequently marked struggles for supremacy in the Latin-American countries. Carranza is variously reported cap tured, in flight, or in hiding; Candido Aguilar, his son-in-law and minister of foreign affairs, executed with Gen eral Francisco Murguia, commander of the garrison in Mexico City, after a wholesale slaughter of political prisoners, including fifteen generals; forces of the revolution in control of the Capital and most of the metropoli tan cities of the country while Ameri can warships and marines continued to move into strategic positions were the foremost features of today’s news. Communication between the United States and the Mexican capital con tinued intermittently and uncertainly. Reports received here of the cutting of the telegraph lines which carry cable dispatches overland from Vera Cruz to Mexico City are supported by border reports that the line of Car ranza’s escape is held by the Revolu tionists. The teiegraph lines which stretch down over the Texas border and reaching across the Northern des ert, ordinarily connect Washington with Mexico City, flicked off their last dots and dashes yesterday after noon and were occupied for a few minutes with a stack of dispatches which had been accumulating for days. What happened in Mexico City or somewhere along the line to inter rupt them is one of the .mysteries of a revolution. From all reports, Tam pico, Vera Cruz, Monterey, and Pueb la, as well as Mexico City, now are in the hands of the rebels. Search of eVra Cruz has failed to find Carranza. One report had him under arrest at EsperanZii.—Associated Press. Mme. Deschanel Not to Accept Hat. President Deschanel, of France, has refused to permit Mme. Deschanel to accept the $5,000 hat offered her by American milliners for her endorse ment of the Four Seasons of Milli nery. The American creation was made from material supplied by each of the 47 states and decorated with nine paradise plumes costing $500 each. The society for the Improve ment of Millinery Art in France also disapproved of the acceptance. Whiskey Still Captured. Officers Claude Dixon, A. W. Perry, and R. C. Hockaday went down near Holly Grove school house early Friday morning and got a 350 gallon copper still complete with cap and worm. They also destroyed 360 gallons of beer which was made of ship stuff and sugar. They say that a great part of blockade liquor around here is now made of ship stuff, this stuff making a very low, mean grade of liquor.— Benson Review. Raleigh Teachers Receive Increase. A salary scale with a SI,200 maxi mum for white teachers based on the State’s classification, was adopted by the Raleigh Township School Board yesterday afternoon and will be effec tive for the new school year. The new scale, it is understood, is acceptable to proponents of the $1,400 maximum scale who based their arguments up on a misapprehension of the scale now in vogue in the Durham schools. —News and Observer, May. 8. Edwards' Hat in Ring. Governor Edwards, of New Jersey, has become an avowed candidate for the Democratic nomination for presi dent of the United States. Governor Edwards says he is running on his record as Governor of New' Jersey, as its former comptroller and as a man of affairs in the business world of this country for the past 25 years. SENATOR OVERNAN SPOKE HERE MONDAY Memorial Day Was Fittingly Observed Here With Appropriate Exercises —Senator Overman Orator of the Occasion- Soldiers’ Graves Decorat ed and Splendid Dinner Given the 01^ Soldiers and their Wives. Memorial Day was fittingly observ ed here yesterday with appropriate exercises, given under the auspices of the Holt-Sanders Chapter Daughters of the United Confederacy, Mrs. W. Sanders, President. The day was ideal and quite a crowd of people as sembled in the court house to do hon or to the occasion. There were about thirty Confederate veterans on hand. Their ranks are growing thinner and thinner each year and it isn’t going to be many years until there will be none left to celebrate Memorial Day. The exercises began at eleven o’ clock, when Capt. John H. Parker, of Selma, arose and sounded “Taps”. Following this Rev. S. A. Cotton, pas tor of the Smithfield Methodist church offered prayer. One stanza of “Dixie” was sung and Miss Sarah Sanders of Raleigh read a short article showing the significance of Memorial Day. Then Mr. W. M. Sanders who has al ways been a great friend of the old soldiers introduced Senator Overman as the orator on this occasion. Mr. Sanders spoke of the glorious deeds of valor and heroism of the Confede rate soldier and turning to the few who were present told them that we loved them and the community would forever keep alive and sacred the memory of those heroes who passed through so much for the love of home and country. In preseating Senator Overman he said that for only this sacred cause would the Senator have left Washington to come to North Carolina at this time. In beginning his address Senator Overman said that he was not old enough to participate in the struggle for “The Lost Cause” but that he might be called “comrade” for he bore on his head the scar inflicted by a Yankee soldier. The address was a most fitting one calling to the memory of his hearers some of the heroic deeds of the Confederate soldiers and their wives who stayed at home and kept the fires of patriotism burning on the altars of the homes of the South. He spoke of the greatness of North Carolinians and their deeds of valor on the battlefields, not only in *the Civil War, but in the war with Spain and the Great World War. He spoke of the first soldier to give his life in the Spanish-American war—he was a North Carolinian and the son of the widow of a Confederate soldier. He told of how we all love the Stars and Stripes, but said there was no reason why the people of the Southland' should not love the Stars and Bars. It is the flag of no country but is the emblem of “The Lost Cause,” and should be loved as a parent loves the little shoes of a departed child. The Senator, after telling pf many glorious deeds and incidents of inter est, turned his attention for a few moments to the League of Nations and said that it was a great pity that politics was brought in to defeat the great plan for ending wars. The address was a good one and the people enjoyed his story of the days that are now no more, of the suffer ing and sacrifice of the men and wo men who lived in the days of the great Civil War and the few years that fol lowed, when a fallen nation of warri ors with all lost, save honor, returned to their desolated homes to begin the work of building the State. And how well they have succeeded all the world now knows. Following the address the crowd re paired to the cemetery where flowers were tenderly laid on the graves of the Confederate soldiers who lie buri ed there. Then the old soldiers and their wives and friends west to the lot just to the west of the Methodist church where a bountiful dinner was served to them. New Bern Votes School Bonds. New Bern, May 8.—By a' vote of 549 to 24 New Bern voters today car ried a bond election of $150,000 for additional schools in this city. A maintenance fund for the schools was carried by a vote of 653 to 29. Two additional school buildings are to be erected from this fund. JUDGE BIGGS DENIES THE M’MAHON CLAIMS Says Gardner Stronger Than Ever by Reason of Refusal to Answer Ques tionnaire. Mr. Gardner Says If He Is Elected Governor He Will Exert Himself to the End That Every Cit izen in North Carolina Has a Fair Chance and an Equal Opportunity. (Sunday’s News and Observer.) Declaring that Lieutenant Governor 0. Max Gardner is stronger than ever by reason of his refusal to answer the labor-farmer questionnaire, Judge J. Crawford Biggs, in a statement is sued yesterday afternoon replied to the claim of Mr. J. F. McMahon, chair man of the State Federation of La bor’s Executive Board, that labor has asked no pledge of a candidate. “The people of North Carolina no doubt read with great astonishment the statement given to the press by Mr. J. F. McMahon, Chairman of the Committee that framed the Labor Questionnaire, in which he stated that in submitting the Questionnaire they did not ask any candidate to pledge himself upon any of the questions ask ed, and that Labor asks no pledge. “A brief recital of the facts in con nection with the Questionnaire will satisfy every person that the position which Mr. McMahon now takes is di rectly contradictory to the position he and his committee took in framing and sending out the Questionnaire. Let us examine the facts. The Ques tionnaire is addressed “To candidates for State officers and the Legislature” and begins with these words: ‘Would you support the adoption of the fol* lowing laws?’ Then follows the fif teen proposed laws or questions. Is it not too plain for controversy that if a member of the Legislature should answer any one of these questions in the affirmative, he thereby would give his promise and solemn pledge that he would, 1 jo quote the language of the Questionnaire, ‘Support the adoption’ of that law? which can only mean that if a member of the legislature, he 'would vote for such a measure. “While the Governor would have no vote, yet if he had promised to sup port the adoption of such a measure, he would in good faith be expected to recommend to the Legislature the adoption of the proposed law which he had promised to support. If the plan pursued by the labor committee could not have the effect of pledging a candidate to the measure named in the event he agreed to support them, it would be interesting to know by what method a candidate could be “The people of North Carolina can not be misled by such specious reason ing as contained in the statement of Mr. McMahon. He realizes now that the people approve the position which Mr. Gardner took when he said in his answer: ‘It would be unjust to the general public to enter into pledges nearly a year ahead, which might in the event of my election, fetter my judgment when the time to act shopld come, and I think except where the line of policy is marked out by the platform of my party, I should feel free to advise with the General As sembly from time to time as prescrib ed by our Constitution, in the light of the knowledge I then shall have and as shall appear to me to be for the public welfare.’ “Again in his Kinston speech: “ ‘My conception of the high office of Governor of North Carolina is the open way to untrammeled service to the whole people of the State. I like the thought of freedom of action in office. I covet the opportunity of ap proaching the performance of all pub lic services absolutely unfettered by pledges and unhampered by promises. “ ‘I boldly declare to you today that I shall be elected Governor absolutely unfettered by public pledges and pri vate promises to any class or group or I will not be elected at all. “ ‘Class distinction, class conscious ness and class appeal should have no place in democracy. My conception j of social, industrial and political jus tice is embodied in these words, ‘Equality of Opportunity.’ I propose, if elected Governor, to exert myself to the end, that every citizen in North Carolina has a fair chance and an equal opportunity. “ ‘My platform is the platform of the Democratic party.’ “The Democratic party in its plat form adopted in Raleigh in April rings clear on this question. It says: The Democratic party can never be a class party. Its obligations must ev STATE’S WINTER WHEAT CROP. The Condition on May 1 Shows 88 Per Cent On An Acreage of 12 Per Cent Less Than Last Year. (By Frank Parker.) Raleigh, N. C., May 10.—“Our pri mary bread crop is threatened with the tremendous reduction of thirty four per cent from last year” an nounces the North Carolina Coopera tive Crop Reporting Service. “The winter wheat acreage to be harvested in the United States is more than thirty per cent less than last year. The May 1st forecasts are for only 484,647,000 bushels on 34,165,000 acres compared with a final estimate of 731,635,000 bushels produced last year at an average yield of 14.7 bush els per acre. The abandonment to May 1st of the acreage sown is prac tically twelve per cent, with a condi tion of but 79 per cent of a full crop. “The North Carolina crop shows about two per cent abandonment with a condition of 88 per cent, on an acre age of 12 per cent less than last year and 90 per cent of the usual. “As with wheat, the acreage of the United States is greatly reduced, but the 85 per cent condition shows a fair outlook. The North Carolina acreage is eleven per cent lesss than last year and has a condition of 91 per cent of normal, for the rye crop. “The United States present acreage of hay crops estimated to be the same as last year, with a good condition, and reports show 10.5 per cent of last year’s crop now remaining on farms. The North Carolina estimates indi cate a six per cent reduction in the acreage of hay, with a 90 per cent condition of the present growing crops. Sixteen per cent of our last year’s hay was reported on May 1st as remaining on farms.” PRINCETON SCHOOL TO CLOSE. - * To Begin With Friday Night Exer cises* by the Primary and Grammar Grades. The school close at Princeton will begin Friday night of this week with exercises by the primary and gram mar grades. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered Sunday night, May 16, by Rev. J. J. Murray, of Smithfield. Reciter’s and declaimer’s contest Monday night, 17. Music recital Tuesday night, 18. A play will be given by the school Wednesday night, 19. GENERAL NEWS Senator Hiram Johnson, Republi can candidate for the nomination for President, is planning to make four speeches in North Carolina, within the next few weeks, probably at Wil mington, Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte. He will probably be in the State next week. Senators Kenyon, of Iowa, and Borah, of Idaho, are going to make speeches in North Carolina, in the in terest of Senator Johnson for the nomination for the Presidency. The Farmers Bank and Trust Com pany is soon to open a new bank in Mount Airy with a capital of fifty thousand dollars. Senator Hiram Johnson, of Califor nia, has declined to consider second place on the Republican national tick et. Cortland Smith, president of the American Press Association, was be fore the senate investigating commit tee making inquiry into the news print shortage in Washington Friday, charged that the news print interests had “cornered” the market and con spired to regulate the production so as to keep prices mounting. In the natural amphitheatre on Flora MacDonald’s College campus at Red Springs, 80 students of the col lege presented Tuesday afternoon Constance Mackay’s fairy masque, “The Forest Princess,” before an au dince of 2,500. The five year old child, Austin Wil liams, of Wilmington, who mysteri ously disappeared several days ago, was found Tuesday afternoon drown ed in the Cape Fear River. er be the whole people, fostering the harmonious development of every le gitimate interest. “Hundreds of people in every walk of life, including organized labor, have given expression of their ap preciation of Mr. Gardner’s attitude in this matter and have tendered their unqualified support and today Mr. Gardner is stronger than ever.” MCADOO’S CHANCES SAID TO BE GROWING Governor Cox of Ohio Said to be Fav ored by Democrats for Vice Presi dent—No Deadlock At San Fran cisco Anticipated. Washington, D. C., May 8.—Aside from Hiram Johnson’s assault on Hoover today, Washington’s political interest at the close of another week spent itself in appraising the effect at San Francisco of the smooth but sweeping campaign being made by the Democrats for William Gibbs Mc Adoo and Governor Cox. Mr. Hoover featured in the day’s fighting with a telegram to Senator Capper about price of sugar in which he flayed the administration for some alleged omissions but Mr. Hoover’s’ telegram to the Kansas Senator wouldn’t hold a torch for the things the Johnson managers say the Hoov er “organization” did in the Califor nia primaries. The general consensus of opinion among the Democrats is that the San Francisco convention will spend a day or two eliminating favorite son can didates and get down to business. When business is reached, they ex pect to see little short of a ratifica tion meeting. Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Cox are, so far as administration Democrats are concerned, chosen for the, two big places on the ticket apd the convention will have little to do but endorse. Not that there isn’t going to be anything to make the San Francisco convention lively. * * Woman suffrage before a convention of seasoned Dem ocrats in North Carolina presented no such spectacle as everybody ex pects to see when Governor Edwards, of New Jersey, arises to step on Wil liam Jennings Bryan’s corns. And Hoke Smith, Charles F. Murphy and the Tammany organization, J. W. Bailey of Texas and the much be whiskered.J. Hamilton Lewis, of Chi cago, will be on hand to make the pro ceedings immensely lively. The fact that there is to be no great deadlock at San Francisco over the se lection of a candidate is borne out by the failure of any avowed candidate for the nomination to make a showing. Already, 642 delegates have been se lected to the convention and only 25(5 are instructed. Of those that are instructed, only 74 are pledged to any one candidate and all the dope for the last week eliminates Governor Cox, of Ohio, as a serious contender for the presiden tial nomination. His own State, how ever, and Kentucky instructed their respective delegations of forty eight and twenty six for him. The next best showing in the in structed column is for Herbert Hoover and when he allowed himself to be branded he surrendered any claim to the thirty votes of Michigan which were given him as the result of the Democratic primary early in April.— R. E. Powell, in News and Observer. The Hospital For Cripples. June 8 is the day appointed for the ceremony of laying: the cornerstone of the hospital for crippled children, near Gastonia. This is the enterprise so long the objective of the life of Mr. R. B. Bobington, and who is now in enjoyment of the happy prospect of seeing his dream accomplished. The institution is to be known as the North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital, and it is an institution dear to the hearts of the Masonic and Pythian fraternities, whose members have giv en it substantial support. It is des tined to prove one of the most useful institutions in the South, for it will make sound timber of hundreds of lit tle cripples who have been entering womanhood and manhood under dis tressing conditions of handicap. The laying of the cornerstone of this hos pital will mark a great day in the history of the State.—Charlotte Ob server. A Profitable Deficit. Kansas farmers lost 43 cents an acre on the wheat they grew last year according to the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. With the deficit many of them bought new automobiles and a great many bought oil and mining stock. In addition, many deposited their losses in the local banks, causing a material growth in Kansas bask deposits.—Nebraska State Journal.
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