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I i THE BEST ADVERTIS ING MEDIUM IN ELIZA BETH CITY. A NEW PAPER WITH AN INCREASING CIR CULATION cat: 1VOL II ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA; FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1912 NO. 31, Tali IMI 8URN T POWDER MAKE VERY Saunders calls Hac Sawyer UD Claims Attack Upon Him Unfair. Tries to Come Back at Editor Paper being eontrollediby the brought against Him and makes ajpoor out at that Pselejlhits backhard in Reply thatjought toijgive Saunders'l Candi dacy knock out blow. To the Democratic Voters of Pas quotank County. Iu this week's issue of the In dependent. W.-O. Saunders, edi tor and politician, makes an 'at- tempt to reply to my letter of last week to the voters of this county. He takes about five columns of his paper to make this reply, thoueh he intimates that my at tack upon him is rather beneath his notice. It strikes me in the first place that this is a great deal of space to devote to a mat ter beneath his notice. ; The article is too long for me to attempt to reply to it in de tail at this one writing. I shall devote my time and space for the present. tothe political sig nificance of what he says. I am frank to admit that I have made my attack upon him maini io de feat his nomination, and I ask all thoughtful men not to lose sight of this issue. The. question is not as to whether I am con ducting my business according to the standards that W. 6. Saun ders would set up for me. hut as to whether he is a fit represen tative for Pasquotank County.- Iu my previous -letter. - I set forth that it is always Saunders's ;istom to answer all charges Vflrought against him by over whelming his opponent with a buse and counter charges. He has not departed from his custom this week. I. insist, and I feel that I can not do so too strong ly, that all this is aside from the .issue an issue which he is wan tonly, trying to obscure. The leople are not interested ia the fact, if true,' that I am a shriv elled mite of humanity, nor is that of any concern to them. But i hey are concerned as to whether ihey shall permit Saunders to go to the Legislature or not. It is he that is running for the office; not I. Now as to answering the charg es which I have brought against him there is only one that Saun ders makes any pretense of an swering. This one is in the mat ter of the Norfolk Southern rail road affair. There he declares' that he uses two or three mileage Vioks. worth twenty dollars each at liest. n year; hut con tends in addition to this amount of transportation he frequently trefs "trip tickets". .which -would bring Ihe loss to him somewhere near or oven over one hundred dollars. T char; him in this statement" Villi: w;; nior.ly dodging the isue .Mid r;arlilH:T '1'" truth. T hnve.it. 'ro't; nn 1es authority than an 'fic-ftr-M-be '"fvi.TTTiriproxiaiate-' : U- the mili'iiTf H-ied- Sainidor ih;vp.'r ...ltd oh.illie him to produce his contract.; Indeed, I Mould not be at all surprised to "earn that the fact that he was getting less transportation than that to which he thoncht himself entitled lies at the bottom of his vile attack. T seem to remew lfr that though the condition v which he refers had been exitin" PEANUTS POOR AMMUNITION Advance Organ and Ike LoHn o Peele Withjthe old gag about? thi ring Answers onlyjone charge for some time, his silence in re- gard to the matter has been mark ed. And, if I were to look through his files, I think I might 'find something about the Nor folk Southern's "'accustomed en terprise,'' or about the wisdom that might he expected from its officials in regard to the choos ing of a site for a new depot Saunders intimates that the Advance has feared to criticise the Norfolk Southern lest its edi tor should also incur the displeas ure of the road. In this he is stating simply his own alleged judgement, and my paper's rec ord is sufficient answer. The Advance has never truckled to the Norfolk Southern nor to any body else. Saunders also makes much of the fact that it was not the loss of transportation for the balance of this vear that was to be con sidered so much as . getting no business from the frailroad in the future. I maintain that a man who, six months before the pri mary, would give a garbled his tory of religion, making the Christian Church of to-day a wan ing superstition and who could still boast that he would be a hi to hand. Church members some dofe that would persuade them to vote for him such a man I sav would hardly believe that the enmity of a corporation would live longer than six months. That is as far as Saunders's an swer to my charges goes. The main mass of his five column ed itorial as 1 have a'tcidv intimat ed, is cn'i'!"",! with counter barges against me. In the first place, he says that T deliberately seized upon an op portunity when he was out of town to attack him. I brand that statement as an unequivocal falsehood. Working hard in my office and at Hertford that week, I had not even discovered that he was out of town. T had de Mrinined to attack Saunders in that issue of the Advance, and should have written my open let ter had he chosen to occupy a seat on the water hydrant in front. ,of my office. "A letter which T bad written to my fath er a short time before will bear out this statement. Tint even if in this statement he had told the truth for once in his life I do not consider that it would have l'poii a crime to take this advan tage of smc1! an opponent as he. T was only doing what he bad averred in hi own parer that T i'M not have the coura-'p to do. m! T not'' that tho he was n town on Saturday Afternoon. he made no open reply to pi' r-!npsr until Wednesday, the verv day liefore the - primaries. when as be doubtless hoped I would not be able to-reach t' mass of the. voters lefore- they had cast their ballots. T might vpn contend that he held back hit ine until T v ns out of town, for I had gone to Hall's Cr"' to make a picnic speli when his paper appeared. More cowardly still, says Saun ders, than my attack in his ab sence was the fact that the arti cle which appeared against him was unsigned. For this much. I wish to apologise. I meant the letter to appear over my name, and it did not only because of an oversight. The name was on the line, in type; but this line was lost when the paper was mai!( up. and the paper being a little late and everybody in a hurry Friday morning, the omission was overlooked. I have the .ori ginal proof and the original co?r of the article, and my name ap pears in both. T make this apol ogy to my readers not to Saun ders. Saunders insinuates, also, that I am mt Ihe author of the open letter i;i which I attacked him last week I brand that as 'an other malicious falsemoi. ; thonga as it "appeared in my editorial column and as I am responsible for it, I do not see what differ ence that makes. But for the in formation of those who might be influenced by a doubt as to the author's identity. I beg to set forth the following facts: I can prove that the article was writ ten by myself in my office, .with out collaboration with any one. I divulged my intention to attack Saunders to nobody but my fath er; and he is absolutely the only one from whom I received any suggestion as to the method of this attack. Anv one reading my open letter closely w'll detect phrases that I have used in prev ious editorials. Saunders 'him self." I think, knows that I wrote that open letter; and his. "Old Citizen" insinuations are made solely for effect. Saunders avers that I have at tacked him to please "Mac Saw yer. Tally Wilson, and Ike Lof- tin"; in other words, that I have attacked him because they want ed me' to. That staement Is a ie "t of whole cloth. Tnlly Wilson. Mac Sawyer, and Loftin are paid up subscrib er to the Advance and sn is T. M. Meekins. Not one of these men ever made any suggestion. even, to me as to what position ought to take in regard to Saun ders's candidacy. And T would no sooner take a position t- please one than another of them. I Whatever faults Ihere may be in mv editorials, and whatever mis- akes T may make. I express in them the honest opinion of an onpst man. So strongly has this mpressed the men who read the paper, that the Advance lias re- eived kind words from men of 11 parties and factions in Eliza- eth City, torn as the town is In dissension and strifp. Rev. E. W. Stone, whom surely Satin ets -wilt not "accuse of being lin er the domination off Tnllv Wil son. .Map harypr and. Ike l.omn expressed hi eonfidonce in mr nlPTitv and gave ample evidence f this ponfidenpp while he v n Elizabeth Citv. T knew, that- Saunders would appuse me of casting a slur upon p eitivenshin of T'asmiotank- countv. because T said that lie ould command the votes of the "tie-rant and the riff-raff. These olen enf a"p found in ev tv Bocfion -ind I am w?llin,r f' "1" "-'ws if, have fhpir suppo. The Iffter are of his own 1-It1, lit hr "iirifnti)'' T j!a not TiP''n i iinoiliicotpd. T r"p Tnoni n-rio no pet tniv iiv betfev "" fo think TV. O '.ontiTirs i'-,,i(1 ltn f. n-ny--t i-pr-i i -innf "l p'- r-u'l"''" T '1 not mpn P 1 l,r- riff riff mop ii ' Oil'- cr'iii'trel i'-"l i-eA frn Itpi . Jiiof fo flin j"t- nf ihr c?for'--T l,m- fi-ivof Tmth iii ra'ee fnr v-nohff fleclari-t r fnn --jt-c "w '-'TP T 1.-IM-A t-, fln-l '-i CJoi-n. oi-c O- lir.T. -frt--T. T iT-ri?f-l ctitl vote for him." Tt i the 'k thi T in tiling to pops'gn to W. O. Saunders. He'll ge' 'em,', too. '. S,4Jinderis makes much of the facijthat being a comparative sti-lfnger in Elizabeth City, I know -'precious little" about the K?'rinie of tills section. I admit that " I am not thoroughly in tOiich Svith conditions here yet. Thit is why I have little to say onBtne questions that are be i ore thepeople. But I have not been in'KUzatipth City a year and more nyioat coming to believe that Saunders, according to mv con ception of the words, is a con s'uiate bluffer and an incorigi bWliar. Having this opinion of hlnI had no right to keep si leu ;he,u he was openly ''defying the arxfitfs of the living God'', and boasting that the people would serif him to the legislature, 'liunders says that, accusing Ing him of- irreverence, I have been; guilty of gross irreverence in havng- given hm a platform that Is a parody ou the ten com mandmcnts. He is trying to 'whistle that platform down the win" by pretending, obtusely, to miss: the point. That platform is at- straight-froia-the-80ulder bo dy blow at the irreverence of Saijittders "himself , who makes hJrgelf" equal to God sets up his Awn standard, and asks every botUelse to bow down and wor ship).- it. I "may lie irreverent, sometimes, unthoughtedly ; but. wai' never, more reverent than when I wrote that "platform." Even if, however, iti s true that 1 also am lacking in the manly qual ity; of reverence which question I leave to my friends it is tsaun dets that is running for the leir islalurt! not I. Saunders gets most indignant when I accuse him of not know ing, how to tell the truth. 1 decbore it without fear of his be ing able to contradict it substan tialty that he is continually giv ing garbled accounts of every thing that happens and that h paper is full of falsehoods that be would be compelled to retract if anybody tnongnt it worm whjljp to deny, a charge made by WyO. Saunders. I happen to rp irttAaber two iti his paper this week They are not in any way connect ed with his candidacy, but when a man "will lie about one thing he will lie about another." He says that I am an ordaned minis ter. That statement is without foundation in fact. He speaks as usual, upon hearsay, without tak ing the trouble to inform him self. He says again, "Peele did not get an offer from the Vinol people.'' I am prepared to show anv three men who will walk into my office with W. O. Saun ders that I have a signed con tract from these people for twro hundred inches of space to be used within the current year. I also expectod Saunders to attack me for carrying patent medicine i.dvc l isoments. Some time I shii'.: tell my readers why do it. Th matter of my ear ning patent medicine advertise ments, however, is none of Saun ders's business; he being the can didate for the Jegisla'fnre-riiot The strongest Substantiation of the charges which T have made against W. O. Saunders, I-find in the factjhat. though his paper is always inveighing against somebody.- nobody of any onsid- erable intelligence pays any at tention to it. except .from idle cu riosity. He has screamed wolf when there was no wolf until his shrieking and ravings are with out e.Tect. He is the victim of )l. own folly. There, a re many to jyo him. a few t tolerate him. 1 h' id to fnTT''"y hi mi. But these last either don't know any bet t"r or else tliev are of his own kin.t, . ' HERBERT PEELE. Free tr'al package of Conker's Lice Powder and Big 80-page Poultry Rook for oti wk only at TV. R. WTitte and Co. July 19 St. EDITOR PEELE'S OPEN LETTER AROUSES Worst Blow Saunders and His Sat ellities Ever Received He Demands Retraction and Apology! Thrown into 'Confusion by Bold and Unexpected attack Support ers of the Politician Editor Buzz out on the Streets Like An gry Bees-Try to Work Sandersesque Bluff by Demanding Re traction Hoping to Offset the Effect of the Attack Politically and Possibly Faintly Hoping that Peele can be Scared into an Apology. ' CAMDEN DEMOCRATS NOMINATE OFFICERS. The Camden County Democra tic Primary was held last Satur day for the purpose of nominat ing candidates for the county of- Tjhe following were nominat ed: John Mitchell for Sheriff, J. R. Sawyer, for treasurer, D. D II Tillit for Representative Miles W. Ferebee for, register of spaap Messrs. Pat Stevens, William Forbes and Tim Abbott were nominated for county, commis sioners. For Constable in SoutH Mills township. John Taylor, in Court House township, B. IT. Cart wright, were nominated. There is a contest in Shiloh Township over the nomination of a Constable arisig from the fact that the one receiving the highest number of votes did not decide to make the race until the day before the primary and the ruling of the Executive was that to be eligible to run the can didate, had to pay his entrance fee into the hands of the Countw Chairman ai least ten days prior thereto. The Exeeuhv? Comnilr- tee met July. 20th and ordered a new primary for August. 3rd. There seems to be the very best of feeling among the friends of all of the defeated candidates and the impression is that the Repub licans will not make anv nomina- tio for tho various ponty offi ces. NOTICE T hereby announce myself a andidate for the office of Regis ter of Deeds in Currituck Coun- v. subject to the action of the Democratic Executive Commit- tee. DR. F. W. BITTER. FOR STATE LEGISLATURE T 'hereby announce myself a andidate for the State Legisla- ure subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. The support of the voters of 'erquimans county is solicited nd snail be highly appreciated. Respectfully, TAMES S. McNIDER. Exhibits for Ohio Slate Pair )US (. fe'-'ClP.l Ii V A representative will be sent to Colnmbu.i (o look after the ex hi , it from Pasquotank County. The entire District is urged to send in articles fur exhibition, consist ing of agricultural and manufac tured 'products, timber wood works, etc.. fruits of all kinds, will be packed in spirit soon as received at this office. Send them in and help advertise our section. All inquiries will ,be i-ronerly answered from this of fice. . " handier f GVninii rce, K. I LAMB. Sec'v. Elialieth City. N. C. July .list. Tf12. PASQUOTANK COUNTY The political sensation of the campaign was sprung last week when the Advance of July 26th appeared on the streets. Editor Peele's ''Platform of W. O. Saunders" and his open letter to the Democratic voters of Pas quotank County swept first the town and then the country like wildfire. . I Tt was the general verdict, It seems, that for the first Jfine the plain and unadulterated truth) had been told about Saunders in public print without any trim mings of vituperation and abuse. "That's the first time I have seen expressed exactly what I think about the fellow," said one young man after. readiaMr. Peele's open letter. Bob Peele. who has been fol lowing Saunders through his pa per, wrote the editoi. "You mada it pretty hot for Saunders, but you did not give fii.u half vbaf he deserved. I do not see how anybody . an vote for sirh a slob'- berer." Editor Peele's atta'ck. was a' surprise to everybody except him self. The linotype operator was tjie first man to realize that something was up. and that .was not until early Thursday morn ing. when be found the first copy of the attack before him. The entire force then fipt hold of the idea that there was something doing, but even they did not know just what until Thursday night. The paper began to come off the press at eleven o'clock Friday morning, but none were put in the city office until after twelve. Nevertheless one or two subscri bers who called at the Advance office to get the paper saw what had happened, and the news flew fast. Demands for the paper began to come in. and they kit coming until the edition was complete until the edition was nomplete ly exhausted; and yet at seven o' clock Saturday morning the press was running again. Soon after the Advance got thoroughly on its way somebody informed Judge Sawyer that Saunders was looking for him. Later Friday afternoon the following pajicr was served on ed itor Teele. NOIJTH CAROLINA. PA-Qr CTANIv COUNTY. To Herbert Peele, Editor and .Manager of the WEEKLY AD VANCE, a newspaper published at Eli.abelh Citv. Pasquotank 'u-mtv. North Carolina. GREET J VC : Your ;nv hereby notified that ihi-'article on page four, columns t v.fi. three and fmr- of the WEEK LY ADYANCE of .late Friday, Inly L't;, 1012. entitled "AN OPEN LETTER'' U false and de f.unaton Mid was published cf and concerning W. O. SATIN- PLUS f.ilsely an! in i.t'aiiiafion ef him. That, the entire article afore said is not only false arid defam atory, of and concerning the said Cont'nue.d on PaSe Five V Mi? M . -.
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