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IIAUDING'S ELUSIVE SPEECH f;
PANDERS TO REACTIONARIES
SLASHES WILSON'S POLICY AND
LEAGUE, BUT DECLARES NEW
ORDER MUST BE INSTITUTED,
"SINCERE DESIRE' FOR SUF.
. FRAGE. "
Marion, July 22. The Repub
1 licn campaign attained' full ,
spaed ahead today with the for
mat notification to Senator Hard
ing.
" i- fhe ceremonies, which brought
to Marion moat of the big lea
' dera of the party and thouaanda
af Harding enthuiaata, includ
ed' the acceptance speech , by '
Harding, interpretating the Chi.
cago platform and declaring the
.principles on which he expects .
i. the campaign to be fought out.
Tha acceptance speech came
at the end of long program ,
in - which enthusiasm ruled"" as
'.'' the visiting delegation marched
' by the Harding residence in un
broken succession.
Marion, Ohio, July 22. A pledge
of constitutional government, admin
istered by party and not by individual
and' based on national, rather than
world ideals, was given by Warren
" G. Hardmg today in accepting form
ally the Republication nomination for
the presidency.
He welcomed a popular referen
dum on the league of nations, advo
cated increased production to cut the
high cost of living, pleaded f or, ob
literation -of sectional and class 'con
flict, and declared tor industrial peace
"not forced but inspired by the com
V mon weal."
' 'Prohibition he gave only a passing
notice, saying that despite divided
opinion regarding the 18th amend,
jnent and the statutes enacted to
make it operative, there must be no
evasion in their enforcement. ' - He
' declared it his "sincere desire" that
ratification of the suffrage Amend,
ment be completed to permit women
Reviewing and commending briefly
many other planks of the party plat
form, the candidate declared for col
lective bargaining for. farmers, rep.
jression of disloyal, "generous fed
eral cooperation" in rehabilitating
.the railroads, intelligent deflation of
.the currency, enlargement of gov.
eminent aid in reclamation, a genu,
ane expression of gratitude to veter
ans of the world war and mainten
ance of a rtamplenavy and "a small
army, but the best in the world."
In his promise of "a party gov
ernment," Senator Harding reiterat
ed his belief that the. vice president
should have a part in the' affairs of
the chief executive's official family
and declared there -also should be "a
cordial understanding and coordinat
ed activities" between the executive
and Congress.
"No man," he said, "is big enough
to run this great republic. "Our first
commital is the restoration of repre.
sentative popular government, under
the constitution, through the agency
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of the Republican party."
Promising restoration of peace as
soon' as a Republican Congress should
send a peace declaration to a Re.
publican President for 'bis signature,
the candidate assailed the league co
venant as brought home by Presi
dent Wilson, but declared the war's
sacrifices would be ''in vain if we
cannot acclaim a new order, with an
added security to civilization and
peace maintained."
"YiTa Republicans of the Senate,"
he continued, "when we saw the
structure of a world supergovernment
taking visionary form, joined in a
becoming warning of our devotion to
dis ' republic. The Republicans of
the Senate halted the barter of inde
pendent American eminence and in
fluence. "V
"We do not mean t- uold aloof. We
do not mean to shun a single respon
sibility of this republic We were
resolved then, even as we are today,
and will be tomorrow, to preserve
this free and independent republic.
Let those "now responsible, or seek,
ing . responsibility, propose the sur
render, whether with interpretations,
apologies, or reluctant reservations
from which our rights are to be omit,
ted. We welcome the referendum
to the American people on the pre
servation of America.
"With a Senate advising. as the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAKES TO THE SER
Detroit, Mich., July 22. Charles
KrAnderson, of Chicago, vic presi
dent of the American Manufacturers
Export Association, urged develop.
CONGRESS
OPENED
ment 'of a waterway from the GreaTUation is tense and military are pa-
Lakes, to the Atlantic to relieve con
gestion in New York harbor, in speak,
ing today before the Great Lakes-St
Lawrence Tidewater Congress. y
', In answering opponents of the pro.
ject to develop the St. Lawrence,
who, Mr. Anderson said, had asserted
the plan was" not feasible because the
St. Lawrence was frozen over during
a part of each year, the speaker said
that "So far as shipments are con
cerned the New York harbor has been
frozen up during two-thirds of the
last year." v
Calling" attention to the congestion
of freight in New York, Mr. Ander
son declared the" expense of making
the St, Lawrence a pathway to the
sea would, be trifling when compared
with the results.
"The life , and happiness of the
Great Lakes district are at stake to
a greater extent than is realized by
the citizens of the territory," the
speaker said.. n "The last census has
shown a remarkable growth of citjes
in the lakes, region. An outlet" to
the sea-will insure a similar develop,
ment in years to come."
M.r Anderson declared the saving
in time and money in unloading and
reloading ships would pay for the
proposed waterway many times.
' The speaker asked the congress to
poll manufacturer! and business men
of New York and Pennsylvania and
learn their views, declaring his opin
ion . that the census would show a
large percentage favorable to such
developments - ."
NOTIFY GOV. COX
QN AUGUST 7TH
Columbus, July 22. While the
Republicans at the presidential noti
f ication held the political spotlight
today Governor Cox and his advisers
continued their work toward, complet
ing their organization, and hoped to
announce soon the special campaign
committee of fifteen "i'f 'V--'
It was announced today, that jtur
day, August seventh, had been chosen
for the notification ceremonies, and
that Roosevelt should be notified on
August ninth. ' ' ' '
NEW ICE HOUSE
' BACK DR. STATON'S
The new ice house, established by
Mr. H. H. Hardy, to take care of the
three carloads ol ice that will come
each week from Kinston, is located
at the old Bourne Warehouse, back
of Dr-Staton's house. ;
Constitution contemplates, I would
hopefully approach the nations of
Europe and of the earth, proposing
that understanding which makes us
a willing participant in the consecra
tion of nations to a new leadership,
to commit the moral forces of the
world, America included, to peace
and international justice, still leav
ing America free, independent and
self-reliant, but offering friendship
to'all the world." " ' ,
"The government might well stamp
railway employment with the sanc
tity ef public service and guarantee
to the railway employes that justice
which voices the American concep
tion of righteousness on the one hand
ffnd assures continuity of service on
the other."
In his reference to prohibition and
law enforcement, he- said:
"People ever will differ about the
wisdom of the enactment of a law
there is divided opinion regarding
the 18th amendment and the- laws
enacted!, to make it operative but
there can be no difference of opinion
about honest law enforcement; Mod
ification or repeal is the right' of a
free people, whenever the deliberate
and intelligent public sentiment com
mands, but perversion and evasion
mark the paths to the failure of gov.
eminent itself." '
IRISH FACTIONS
FIGHT AT BELFAST
Mobs of Sinn Fein and Union-
- ists
Fight All
Night.
3 KILLED; 20 WOUNDED
Belfast, July 22. The city was
quiet this morning after a night of
sanguinary fighting between Sinn
Fein and unionist mobs, but the sit
trolling the affected areas.
' ' The casualties recorded thus far
are two men and one woman killed,
with twenty persons so seriously in
jured that they were removed to the
hospital for treatment, and numer.
ous others slightly Kurt.
Belfast, July ii- footing was re
newed during the noon hour in
west Belfast mill district...
The postoffice was wrecked , and
the police fired on the rioters,
' Several persons were wounded ,
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NO LIKELY FLOOD
FROM RECENT RAINS
'The notice carried in Tuesday's
issue that the Weather Bureau anti
cipated a rise in the Tar river brought
to Mr. E.V. Zoeller numerous anx
ious inquiries. . ' '
Replying to pur query, Mr. Zoejler
stated thpre was no reason for gif.
Uety the river had risen but four
feet and though a greater rise might
be expected, even to the extent of
fourteen feet in the next few days,
this was not at all dangerous, as the
flood of last year registered thirty
seven feet.'
T
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Washington, July 22 Amendment
of the new waterpower act so as to
exclude he national parks from its
provision!! will be demanded of Con
gress at its next session, it is an
nounced by Robert Sterling Yard., ex,
ecutive secretary of the National
i
Parks Association. Mr. Yard also
says that a fight will be made to have
Congress reject pending legislation,
which he asserts opens the way for
irrigation projects to draw on the
parks for water.
Without amendment, Mr. Yard de
clares the waterpower act Is "the
death warrant of our national parks
System," i because nil government-
owned land and reservations are em
braced within its terms, making it
possible for private interests to erect
dams, powerhouses, transmission lines
and other; structures by obtaining
leases from the federal waterpower
commission. . ; ,
. It was not until the waterpower
bill reached President Wilson for ap
proval that discovery was made by
conservationists that national parks
would jbeaffected, and now the fight,
Mr. Yard says, will be made for its
amendment.
Besides the effort to change ' the
waterpower act, Mr. Yard says an
effort will be made to prevent favor
able action on- pending legislation,
granting permission to private inter,
ests to build an irrigation reservoir,
in an obscure swamp in the south
western corner of the Yellowstone
National Park, miles from any road.
This measure, he asserts, would be
the opening wedge for a number of
irrigation plans for other national
parks. v.;
ANTI SALOON LEAGUE .
IN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Washington, July 22. The part
the anti-saloon league is to play in
the political campaign is under con
sideration at the meeting now being
held here today of the executive com
mittee. -
The members said the question as
to whether the league will support
Harding, Cox, or neither will be, de
cided definately.
GERMAN AIRSHIP L-64
IS SURRENDERED
Mexico City, July 22 -The Ger
man, airship L-64 was surrendered un
der the peace treaty terms.
YARD WILL FIGH
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RPOWER AG
TARBORO, N. C, THURSDAY JULY
ALLIES TO ASSIST
POLAND ill
Soviet Reply to the Armistice
Is"FulI of Imperti.
nence."
AMERICA IS OPTIMISTIC
Paris, July 22. The Allies have
decided to take measures prepara
tory to giving military aid to Po
land, if necessary, it was learned to
day.
Paris, July 22. "I have just learn.
ed from London that the reply of the
Soviet government to the proposal of
an armistice with Poland is full of
"impertinence," said Premier Miller
and, in addressing the Frpnch Cham
ber of Deputies.
Washington, July 22. The renew
ed threat of England "and France to
help-Poland if Russia does npfc be
come tractable doe not mean any
thing to military authorities here.
It is seen that what Poland needs
is not moral support, or even flnan.
claj support, but manpower. And no
one here reads the threat of Eng.
land and France to mean that they
will send armies to the assistance of
Poland.
The campaign in any event be
tween Poland and Russia seems near
its 'end.
RESOLUTE WINS
FIRST OF THREE
Sandy Hook, July 22. Shamrock
is in dry dck today getting her hull
cleaned while the Resolute at her
moorings having her rlggtog Inspect
ed. .
The race tomorrow will be over "a
triangular course, ten miles to each
leg. . '' :
Sandy Hook, July 22. Shimrock
IV finished the race yesterday half
a boat length ahead of the defender
or nineteen seconds, but ,: with the
time allowance, ; due tQ greater anil
area, Resolute won by the amount of
the handicap seven minutes and
one second.
DR. MITCHENER
ON QUARANTINE
T 1 . 1
Dr. J. S. Mitchener, State Epidem
iologist, is in town today consulting
Dr. C. L. Outland regarding the quar
antine work in the Cpunty, "She
Departments are taking steps to get
the public Interested in prevention
of Diptheria. It urges parents to
call physicians early when their child
ren have sore throat and croup. The
Physicians will be able to administer
Diptheria antitoxin early for, the
least indication to prevent further
sickness and death. -
The State Board of Health to make
thigponsible is distributing at a min
imum cost Diptheria Antitqxin at
twenty five cents a dofe. This can
be secured from the County Health
Department. In most towns, the
Drug Stores are willingto cooperate
and carry the Antitoxin r the con
venience of their patrons.
Let Edgecombe, not lost a child
from Diptheria In the future.
SOUTH SEA ISLES
JAPS POSSESSIONS
Tokio, July 22. Mr. Tezuka, the
of the civil administration office in
the South Sea Islands acquired from
Germany, has arrived from the Sou
th Seas to confer with the govern
ment for the transfer of the admin
istration of the islands from naval
to civil control.
He said that the Japanese "resi
dents number about 3,000. He said
that he thought that about 20,000
more Japanese settlers might be al
so" sent..
Japan obtained from Germany as
a result of the war the Marshall, Car
oline1 and Marianne Inlands in the
Southern Pacific.
GERMAN HOUSE
, ' TO MEET MONDAY
London, iJuJy 22; The German
Reichstag has been summoned to meet
on Monday. "
-The business will include a dis
cussion of the date for holding the
presidential election.
In proportion to iU size a bee is
thirty times as strong as a horse.
22, 1920.
RAN
NOMINATED
OVER
PROTEST
Now Await His Reply to the
Notification of Selection
By Prohibitionists. -
WILL ADOPT PLATFORM
' Lincoln, July 22. With the nomi
nation of a presidential candidate
completed the Prohibition National
Convention today turped toward the
selection of a vice-presidential can
didate, the adoption of a platform
and the election of a national com
mittee.
William Jennings Bryan was nom
inated presidential candidate, over
the protest by Charles Bryan; his
brother. '
- No word had been received this
morning from Bryan coneernlng his
attitude toward his nomination.
As a running mate, Miss Marie
Brehm, of Los Angeles, California,
stood out in the discussion among the
delegates,
JACK JOHNSON
TAKEN TO CHICAGO
Los Angeles, July 22. Jack John
son is bcund for Chicago today in
company with federal authorities af
ter years of self-enforced exile from
the country.
Following his disappearance while
out on bail, after conviction for vio
lation of the Mann act.
On acocunt of Johnson's express
ed dismay nt the prospect of travel!
ing though T-xas and Louisiana the
authorities snid the original plans,
calling for transportation over the
Southern route were altered-.
AGE ISN'T AFFAIR
OF
New York, July 22. Woman's age
is her own afTnir and is not necessar
ily open to discussion even with Uncla
Sam. '
.This is the opinion pxpressed here
of various members uf the National
American Women's SuflYatfe Associa
tion, following the declaration cf
Mrs. Ilejen II ill MeCrt:-r,. of Kan
fa? City, that not only would she re
fuse to state her exact age at the
PoIIk, but that she also would fijrh!
t'j make it ponxiMe for women votcr.i
to give their hgcjt as "over 21,"
Mrs. McCai'tev, who is a political
leader in the middle west, was a del
cfiiite from Kansas to the Chicago
convention. Likewise luTa was the
honor of being thp first woman ever
to address a Republican National
Convention,
CLERICAL UNION
TO SAVE PARSONS
London, July 22. At least 25 pro
testunt ministers are imported to have
died of starvation in England last
year, and the parsons have now form
ed the National Clerical Union for
"establishment of a minimum living
wage for the clergy." While it is
announced the union wil follow the
trend of trade unionism the clergy
men have declared they have no in
tention to strike to enforce their de
mands.
They will seek not oniy to estab
lish a. minimum wage but also deal
with provisions for adequate retir
ing pensions, and pensions for wi
dows and orphans of clergymen.
Rev. C. IlT Lloyd Evans, acting
secretary of the new movement said
few of the "inferior clergymen" ear
ned more than 300 pounds a year
and a great many earned less. The
union will seek to enlist the sympa
thy of the public.
The most widely known paper cur
rency in the world is the Bank of
England note.
Among the Hindus enormous sums
are spent on cremition of the rich
er classes in sandal wood. .
One-third of the twenty-seven
Presidents of the United States, in
eluding nearly all those who achieved,
wide lame ana popuiaruy, were m
augurated on Mondays.
OLE
SAN
"ALL THE LOCAL NEWS,7r
SENATOR SIMMONS' RETIREMENT
CONJECTURE IN RALEIGH
LEAGOE PRESIDENT
We were taken greatly to task for
questioning the legality of the elec
tion of Mr. Con Lanier as president
of the Eastern Carolina Baseball As
sociation and, in compliance with his
request, We published his version of
the matter, noting at the time that we
did not want any discussion on a sub
ject that had been settled.
Yesterday however, at the game in
Greenville, Mr. Con Lanier, still pres
ident of the league, arose in the
grrndstand and called upon the um
pire to announce a protest for the
Greenville team because Mark Webb
was sent in as a pinch hitter for Tar
boro. Neither the manager nor the
president of the Greenville Baseball
Club had made any movement to pre
vent Webb from playing, but the
President of the League, who at least
should be impartial, took it upon him
self to protest the game.
We want to know how any pres
ident who assumes the function of
president or manager of a local club
could sit impartially dn 9 protest
that he instigated.
At the meeting of the btfard of
directors which met about ten days
ago in Greenville it was expressly
stated that those playing in the
first series should be permitted to
play the second series "without stip
ulation" as tp. being a home man or
not.
Tarboro has not protested any
players, but it is well known that o.
ther clubs are playing higher class
men. and in one instance the league
has given permission for a player,
ho had been tried out in higher com
i "i'.y, to play In this league. How,
then can anyone protest against Mr.
Murl: Webb who has played through
ut tlie season with Pinetops, with
out protest? '
Looks kind of strange, doesn't it,
thr.t the president of the league' of
nil pcoplo should ulm assume the fun
cliun of manager, or president of
one of the clubs, on a matter of pro
test. E
F
Tarin, July 22. -John de LyBle, a
"promoter," whom Scotland Yard and
t'.w Parl3 p l.'rp describe as "history's
liist aoi'inl fug. liv crook," arrived in
Paris six hours before the police here
hid been notified of his sensational
escape from London in on airplane.
On h!3 arrival he quickly secured an
other private machine and got away
again, presumably heading for Brus
sels, -
British police are giving chase in
another airplane from London, and
other "pursuit machines" are to join
the hunt from French and Belgian
points.
The "flying crook's" eseape has
been telegraphed and cabled all over
Europe, but it is realized that there
are hundreds of possibilities that he
may land anywhere in the open
country and again get away.
As a result of this fir.it interna.
tional flight of an-alleged criminal,
the French a:id British prliee are
collaborating with a vie. v Jo estab
lishing a Channel Air Police patrol-
ing the air routes between England
and France along the lines similar
tj thcc followed by the New York
air police. Cobnel De Mott Thomp
son, who is now in Paris, has been
asked to give advice as to how best
to proceed in establishing such aerial
police service.
More than 00 per cent of the al
coholic drinks made in the Philip
pinej is derived frcm palm tree juice
The Riksdag has passed legisla
tion looking to the electrification of
the entire system of state railroads
in Sweden.
hTe United States has one tele.
phone instrument to eevry eight In
hsbttants.
PROTESTS
GAME
AIRS
OILS
PURSUERS
PRICE: 5 CENTS
I
KITCHIN, THE LOGICAL-ASPIR-ANT
TO SENATORIAL TOGA,
IS ALSO IN POOR HEALTH
BICKETT IN HOT WATER.
(By Llewxam.)
Raleigh, July 22. The three ne.
groes from Alamance county, who
have been in the state prison here
the last three days, continue to sleep
most of the time, although they are
to be factors in a searching invest!,
gation of the occasion of the killing
of one citizen and the wounding of
two or more others by the troops at
Graham, whom Gov. Bickett ordered
there in his vaulting telegram from
Asheville to "shoot Btraight." '
The men killed and wounded were
not attacking the jail and the evi
dence points to the probability that
the soldiers did not shodt straight,
or they would haev killed more citi
zens than they didV The feeling
which has been intense over the af. .
fair has not yet disappeared, though
the return of the governor and the
statements by tho adjutant general
tend to approve entirely of the con
duct of the Durham machine gun
company at Graham while on duty
there. The inquirjr- will more .fully
develop the facts, it is to be hoped,
and serve to appease the bitterness
of the Alamance county people, shar
ed by the sheriff and by the mayor
of Graham, according to statements
issued by them.
Simmons and Claude Kitchin.
It is a long shot to the next selec
tion of U. S. Senator for the "east"
in North Carolina, to succeed Sena,
tor Simmons, but some of the news-
paper writers are hooking up the fact
that Senator Simmons' physician has
prescribed a summer of rectwfiich
means that the senator will speechify
but little or not at all during the
campaign the next neveral mdnths, ;
with prospects of another at least
temporarily invalided statesman to"
possibly cucceed the senior senator
four years hence.
One view which I have just come
across would make Claude Kitchin'
speaker of the next House (provided
the Democrats regain control), and
three years later to come into pos
session of Simmons' senatorial shoes
by just what method of procedure
is left largely to the reader's imag.
ination,
, Of course, Senator Simmons might
voluntarily retire at the end of his'
present term, But it is pretty safe
to say that no man has any authority
to state that he will do so. So there
is no haste there.
Congressman Claude Kitchin may
eventually fully recover his health,
no man knoweth just how soon,' if
st all. Unless he does regain his
normal strength he would hardly be
a candidate for Simmons' seat, even
if the latter should decide to retire'
to privato life for any reason some
five years hence. And so, there is
no particular hurry there. Which
brings us all back to the first sight.
Indeed, the long distance shot" would
seem, on its'fact, to be too long a
shot for either of the statesmen con
cerned to take.' As for me and my
house, I hope for the credit and good
of our state, that both gentlemen
will remain with us and in active pol.
itical life for many years to come.
Meantime, Senator Simmons will not
be expected to make any premature
announcements on tho subject.
MR. CORNWALLIS WEST
; DIED YESTERDAY
Milford, Eng., July 22. Mrs. Corn
walliu West, formerly Lady Randolph
C'lurchill, an American, died here '
yesterday, -v
VANDERBILT JLL
WITH HEART DISEASE
Paris, July 22. William K. Van-
derbilt Sr., : is. in critical condition
i ., ' ....
here with heart disease.
Mr. A. W. McNair has returned
from Ashbury Park, New- Jersey,'
where he attended the convention of
the American Law League of Amer
ica. Mr. McNair reported a very
pleasant trip and said he met some
very charming professional men from ,
other sections of the country.