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VOL. XXI. PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1911 NO. 43.
GARTER APPOINTED
GOV. W. W. KITCHEN NAMES
ASHEVILLE CITIZEN JUDGE
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.
FIRST COURT AT HERTFORD
Succeeds Late Judge J. S. Adams
New Appointee Is Forty-Eight Years
Old Distinguished Member of
Asheville Bar Contest Was Warm.
Raleigh. Governor Kltchin has an
nounced the appointment of Frank A.
Carter, a superior court judge to sue
ceed the late Judge J. 8. Adams of
the fifteenth district. His commis
sion has been issued, and his first
court will be at Hertford, April 24.
Judge Carter is a prominent lawyer
of Asheville, where he has been for
some weeks In a hot municipal cam
paign as a "law and order" candidate
for police justice. He is 48 years old.
His active competitors for the appoint
ment were J. Sneed Adams, son of the
y deceased Judge Adams and ex-Judge
Thomas J. Jones, the friend of each
of whom put up a strenuous fight for
the coveted commission of their re
spective candidates.
Ignorance In Regard to Militia.
Adjutant General R. L. Leinster, of
the North Carolina national guard is
making the unique recommendation
to Governor Kitchin and the state
authorities that there be adopted in
connection with the general adoption
of text books for the public schools
to be made this year, a suitable text
book for the organization, aims and
purposes of the military establish
ments of this state and the United
States to be taught in the schools. He
urged that there is a great lack of in
formation on military matters by the
general public and believes that such
an innovation would accomplish much
pood. General ir.st'r'cl roort
the last fiscal year shoys the total
forces of the militia in this state were
previous year. The report shows that
for 1911 the North Carolina guard
will receive from the national govern
ment a total of $77,10S of which up
wards of $35,000 will be for arms and
other equipment for camp purposes.
The state appropriation is $3S,000.
Officers for Rifle Shoot Contest.
The rifle range officers for the. com
petitive meets to be held at Goldsboro
April 25 to 27 for the second regi
ment and Gastonia May 3 to 5 for
first regiment have been announced
by Adjutant General R. L. Leinster.
Officers for the Goldsboro meet are:
Maj. T. S. Pace, Wilson, commander;
Lieut. Col. J! B. Bizzell Goldsboro;
chief range officer; Capt. H. H. Mur
ray post adjutant. For the Gas
tonia meet the officers are: Maj. R.
L. Flannigan, Statesville, commander;
Maj. L. W. Long, Asheville, executive
officer; Maj. L. B. Bristol, chief range
officer, and Capt. W. R. Robertson,
Charlotte, post adjutant.
pm2!jd for North Carolina Land.
Alexander H. Smith, recently lo
cated for trucking and fruit growing
near Hendersonville, writes the state
department of agriculture that, after
a residence there of sufficient time
to test conditions and compare with
his former New Jersey home, he is
convinced that the undoutable ad
vantages of North Carolina are very
inadequately set forth in the litera
ture being circulated as to Old North
State advantages. The same mail
brought from Carl H. Nagel, former
ly of Germany, but now of Newark,
N. J., appealing to be put in touch
with available farm land properties
as he desired to purchase and locate
in North Carolina.
Soli Maps of all the Counties.
It Is learned that within the next
two months the soil map of Richmond
county will be completed, making 20
counties of the stave to have these
valuable exhibits through the joint
efforts of the state department of
agriculture and the United States de
partment under the direction of State
Chemist B. W. Kilgcra. When Rich
mond 13 completed, Randolph and
Johnston will be taken up. The com
pletion of a soil map for the entire
etato is needed.
State Loses a Good Man.
J. A. Connover, for several years
Bt the head of dairying division of
tho state and United States co-opera-tlvo
work in this state, has been ap
pointed to the management of the
dairy of the Naval aendemy at An
napolis, and the stats department of
agriculture must seek out a succes
sor for him hero. He has two as
sistants, W. H. Eston and L. S.
Higgins, both A. & M. college grad
uates in r.nimal industry and dairy
ing, and they will carry cn tho work,
of the division.
CASE UP TO SUPREME COURT
Attorney General Blckett Filed Hla
Case on Appeal Regarding the
Validity of 1911 Tax Act.
POLL TAX WORKS AUTOMATIC
Poll Must be Three Times Property
Tax Judge Daniels' Ruling.
Raleigh. In the supreme court At
torney General T. W. Blckett filed, his
case on appeal in the litigation of
Governor Kittfhin vs. State Auditor
Wood In which Superior Court Judge
Daniels, ruled in the hearing below
that the 1911 revenue act as to state
property and poll tax is void because
of failure to observe the constitutional
equaslon between the two and that,
therefore, the levies of the 1909 act
must apply.
The attorney general is insisting
that the action of the legislature in
raising the school tax from 18 to 20
cents, and making the property tax,
thereby $1.45, had the automatic ef
fect under the constitution of ad
vancing the poll tax to the proper
parity, which in this case would Ije
$1.35 instead of $1.29, at which it
was inadvertedly left out. B. F. Dox
on, as counsel for the state auditor,
representing the other side of the
issue, will file his statement of the
case at once, setting out the contrary
contentions that Judge Daniels h.as
sustained under guidance of the
1897 precedent of the supreme court,
in which Chief Justice Clark, in a
dissenting opinion, held that the act
was valid and the defect automatical
ly remedied through the fixing of the
property tax.
The constitution requires that the
poll must be three times the proper
ty tax, rather than that the property
must be one-third of the poll.
Blockadors Baffle Revenue Men.
Raleigh is headquarters for the In
ternal revenue district embaced in
eastern and central . Carolina and offi
cers say they realize that blockad
ing whiskey is going on in very many
sections and probaly decidedely cn
the increase, but that the blockaders
seem to have worked out a system
of mutual protection that the officers
are at least for the present unable
to outwit. One officer expressed the
view that the blockaders have work
ed out a co-operation with the use of
telephones and allied watchers as to
the movements of officers, so that
they always get out still3 before raid
ers arrive. Time and 'again recently
stills have been reported and. officers
gone for them only to find that equip
ment is gone, leaving only the evi
dences of recent service. The stills
are now installed, they say, in a port
able manner, the stills having handles
and being merely set on an impro
vised flue so that at a minute's notice
they can be lifted and hurried into
the bushes.
Statistics of Baptist Denomination.
Some notable figures as to the stat
us of the Baptist denomination in the
state have been worked out by Sec
retary E. L. Middleton of the state
convention. He finds that there were
569 churches with 45,292 members
that had no baptisms during 1910
and that 1,304 churches with 167,
OGO members had an average of
one baptism for every 14 members.
Furthermore, the denomination in this
state showed an increase of 21 per
cent in contributions for all purposes
and that there was a loss of 7 per cent
in the acquisition of new members
through baptism.
Where Will General Conference Go?
Mr. Joseph G. Brown has returned
from Nashville, Tenn., where he at
tended a meeting of the committee
appointed by the general conference
of the M. E. Church, South, at its last
session in Asheville, to fix the place
for holding , the next session of the
general conference May. 1914. Asked
about the action of the committee and
the Invitations, Mr. Brown said:
"The final decision of the commit
tee will probably be reached within
the next two or three months."
Legislators Resign for New Offices.
J. B. Livingston, of Polk county and
H. T. Norman, of Mitchell county,
have sent their resignations 33 mem
bers of the general assembly to Gov
ernor Kltchin on account of new of
fices they have accepted, Norman be
coming treasurer of the new county
of Avery, organized April 1, and Liv
ingston becoming treasurer of Folk
county.
Dairy Industry is Growing.
Commissioner of Agriculture Gra
ham says there is a steady quicken
ing of interest in improved dairying
in all parts of the state, the most
marked advances, especially in the
volume of the industry, being in
Catawba, Lincoln and other coun
ties of that western section of the
state. It is the advancement of
these dairy enterprises that the dairy
ing division is especially designed to
advance through giving c::pfrt rrd
vicp . ,lft-w ljp of Cl,aie
CONGRESS IS FACING
A STORMY SESSION
FACT THAT BOTH POLITICAL PAR
TIES ARE DIVIDED IS NO
LONGER DENIED.
VIRTUALLY FOUR PARTIES
William Jennings Bryan Has Caused
a Division of the
Democrats.
Washington. It is daily becoming
manifest that congress is facing a
stcrmy session, and that there can
be made no forecast of the probable
legislative results. The fact that
both of the great political parties are
badly divided is no longer denied, and
the leaders appear to have little hope
of restoring anything more than sur
face harmony..
There are virtually four parties,
each with a large representation,
working at odds in the present ses
sion. The Republican minority in the
house is . divided between Regulars
and Insurgents, as was evidenced by
the vote in the speakership contest.
The breach between these two fac
tions is even wider in the Republican
majority of the senate.
A sharp line has been drawn be
tween the Conservative Democrats of
the senate, who are opposed -to any
attempt at dictation on the part of
William Jennings Bryan, and the Pro
gressive Democrats, including practi
cally all of the new members and
senatorial veterans like Senator Stone
of Missouri, who are Bryan adherents.
The house Democratic majority
seems thus far to have escaped, a
break, but the leaders fear that the
party contest in the senate may, at
any time, spread to the other branch.
The real cause of the anxiety, how
ever, is believed to be due to the prox
imity of the party conventions which
will select the standard bearers for
1912 and the knowledge that a slip
by either during the extraordinary
session or the regular session to fol
low may very easily determine the re
sult of the next national campaign.
BUILDING UP THE SOUTH.
Deserved Tribute to the Southern
Railway 'and President Finley.
Philadelphia, Pa. The Railway
World, in commenting editorially on
the work done by the railways of the
United States to aid in the develop
ment of the territory traversed by
their lines, in referring to this work
In the South, says:
"In no section of the coutnry, more
than in the South, have these efforts
to awaken the people to a realization
of the great wealth which lies dor
mant through a lack of proper devel
opment, been more persistently car
ried on. The prime mover in that
section of the country has been the
Southern Railway, and, . perhaps, no
single man in the history of railway
development has performed so effect
ive work along these lines as has the
president of that great system. For
years - Mr. Finleys' faith and enthusi
asm in the ability of the South to
take advantage of its vast resources,
has never wavered. Through his un
tiring efforts he has been responsible
for no small part of that enthusiasm
and condflence which is now prevail
ing in that section of the country and
which means so much for future de
velopment and prosperity.
"The enthusiasm with which nine
thousand delegates to the Southern
Commercial Congress held recently
In Atlanta and who represented ev
ery important trade organization in
tho Southern states, greeted every ex
pression of confidence in the South's
future was a revelation to the big
men of business and state who, from
all sections of the country, went to
Atlanta to participate In the activities
of tho congress. While not- presum
ing to trace the 'influence of this
movement unduly to. the railroads of
the South, well-informed men in that
section M'ill not. deny that the effect
Ive educational work of .the railroads
has proved no small factor in bring
ing about the present highly encour
aging conditions. If the value of such
work was more fully recognized and
appreciated by the public much of the
ucreascning antagonism of the pres
ent day would be replaced by a feel
ing of gratitude."
$250,000 Fire in Daltort, Ga.
Datlon, Ga. Nearly two blocks of
the finest business buildings in this
city lie a smouldering mass of ruins
as a result of a $250,000 fire. The
Hotel Dalton, in which the fire origi
nated, is a total loss, as well as tho
opera house and the mammoth plant
of the Showalter Printing company
and a half dozen large business hous
es. A detachment from Chattanooga's
fire department came to Daltcn-cii a
special train, but the names had done
their worst work when the help ar
rived. '
HATCHED
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PROTEST OF TEXAS HEEDED
NO NEGRO TROOPS WILL BE
SENT TO PATROL THE MEX
ICAN BORDER.
The President Did Not .Care to
Chance Another Brownsville
Washington. ike order transfer
ring the Ninth cavalry, the negro reg
iment of the maneuver division, from
San Antonio, Texas, to the Mexican
border for patrol duty, wa3 rescinded
by the war department.
This action followed a conference
at the white house, in which Presi
dent Taft, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood,
chief of staff of the army, and Repre
sentative Garner of Texas partici
pated. Officials here, it Is generally assum
ed, were unwilling to un the risk of
a repetition of the Brownsville inci
dent of nearly five years ago, when
that town was "shot up" by some of
the men of tho Twenty-seventh, negro
regiment. But the assignment of the
Ninth regiment to the frontier met
with disfavor from other towns, and
it is said that, the Eleventh cavalry
at San Antonio will probably be sent
to the border later to relieve the
Third.
B0UTELL GOES TO LISBON.
Former Illinois Congressman Now
Minister .to Portugal.
Washington. Henry. H. Boutell of
Chicago, former representative in con
gress 'of the Ninth Illinois district,
and recently appointed -United States
minister to Portugal, called upon Sec-
NEW MINISTER TO PORTUGAL.
HENRY 3. BOUTELL.
retary of State Knox to receive his
credentials and instructions in con
nection with his diplomatic post.
Mr. Boutell has been instructed to
conduct business with the officials of
the new republic as representing the
de facto government of the country.
His appointment does not mean the
recognition of the republic. Thi3 ac
tion will be deferred until there has
been some expression of the popular
will.
Sixty Men Die In Mine Horror.
Scranton, Pa. One of the most se
rious mine disasters cf this section
of mining country occurred at the
little village of Throop, a short dis
tance from this city, when tho lives
of sixty men and boys were snuffed
out. The fire started In an engine
house at the opening of a slope of
730 feet from the surface. There were
400 men in the mine when the firs
started, about sixty of them in the
workings into which the sloe led.
Those sixty wereat work in 'the end
of the slope and were killed.
MARTIN LEADS DEMOCRATS
Virginia Senator Chosen to Lead the
Minority in the
Senate.
Washington. The election of Sena
tor Thomas S. Martin of Virginia, as
chairman of the . Democratic caucus,
carrying with it the senate Democrat
ic leadership, was a victory for the
conservative wing in the senate and
for Senator Bailey as opposed to the
progressive wing and William Jen
nings Bryan.
Martin secured 21 votes to 16 for
Senator Benjamin F. Shlveley of In
diana. The latter was later made vice
chairman and Sen-tor William E.
Chilton of West Virginia made secre
tary. The peerless leader has been in
Washington almost continuously for
the past week and is understood to
have strongly exerted himself to pre
vent Martin being elected.
Southern ' Democrats, with the ex
ception of Mr. Smith of South Caro
lina, voted for Martin. Senator Cul
berson of Texas, who was leader two
year3 ago and was also mentioned In
this connection, also voted for Mar
tin. The general impression that Culber
son and Bailey are not the best of
friends made this something cf a sur
prise. Another was the vote of Sena
tor James O'Gorman of New York for
Shiveley, the progressive candidate.
The new senator leaders will ap
point a patronage committee cf nine
members. Senator Bav,on, after twelve
years cf service on this committee, de
clined to serve longer. The latter in
making this announcement uttered a
plea for harmony that had good ef
fect. He said the committee should
take care of all sections and all mem
bers so far as could possibly be done,
while maintaining the custom In re
gard to seniority of service. The state
ment of this veteran had good effect
and the caucus broke up. in the best
of good humor and amicable feeling
was manifest all around.
The first formal conference of Re
publican house leaders, including rep
resentatives of the Insurgent portion
of the party, was hela.
DATES FOR SOUTHERN FAIRS
Directors of State Fairs Held Import
ant Meeting in Nashville.
Nashville, Tenn. At the annual
meeting of the members of the South
ern fair circuit, under whose auspices
state fairs are given throughout the
South, held here officers were elected
for the coming year, the dates for
the fair arranged, and many other
ruatters of importance taken up.
J. H. Holcombe of Birmingham was
elected president of the association.
The other officers elected were: Fred
D. Fuller, Memphis, first vice presi
dent; A. J. 'Forbes, Montgomery, sec
ond vice president; John E. Cooke,
Nashville, secretary.
The following are the dates for fairs
as arranged :
Nashville, September IS to 23.
Memphis, September 26 to Octo
ber 4.
Birmingham October 5 to 14.
Montgomery, October 1G to 24.
Mobile, October 26 to November 4.
Preachers Urged to Advertise.
Cambridge, Mass. "Keep in touch
with the newspaper men" is the ad
vice of the Rev. C. F. Reisner, a New
York pastor, who is the chief speaker
at the New England conterence of
Methodist ehurchas in session here.
"It is a great mistake for some cler
gymen to keep alocf from newspaper
men and refuse to be interviewed,"
said Doctor Reisner. "Everybody
reads the newspapers, and if you
want to get yocx interests before th
public, you must advertise in this im
portant agency."
TAFT MAKES PLEA FOR V
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY
THS PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS OUTLINING .5
HIS WISHES,
EARLY ACTION IS WANTED
President Taft Says Country Want
Reciprocity and. Urges Early
Action.
Washington. President Taft transV
mitted to congress a message urging. ';
early action on the reciprocity agree-'
ment with Canada. He stated'- that;. '
he based this message upon delejejice;; -i?
to popular sentiment and duty tothey -'
great masses of the American , people.J
The message was heard without, ap
plause in both house and senate, and
referred to the appropriate commit -j
tees. The message follows: - ' " j
"To the Senate and House of Rep'
resentatives: I transmitted to the!
Sixty-first congress on January 26.
last, the text of the reciprocity tradai
agreement which had been negotiated!
under my direction by the secretary,
of state with the representatives f
the Dominion of Canada. " ' , j
"This agreement wa3 tha consum
mation of earnest effort, ..extending"
over a period of nearly a year, on
the part of both governments to ef
fect a trade arrangement which, sup
plementing as it did the amicable et
tlement of various questions of a dip
lomatic and political character that
had been reached, would mutually
promote commerce and would also
strengthen the friendly relations now
existing. I
' "The agreement in Its intent and ia
its terms was purely economic and
purely commercial. While the gen
eral subject was under discussion by,
the commissioners, I felt assured the
sentiment of the people of the United
States was such that they would wel
come a measure which would result in.
the increase of trade on both sides of
the boundary line, would open up the
reserve productive resources of Can
ada to the great mass of our consum
ers on advantageous conditions and at
the same time offer a broader outlet
for tl-e excess products of our farms
and Luany of our industries.
"Details regarding a negotiation of
this kind necessarily could not be
made public while the conferences t .
were pending. When, however r the
full text of the agreement, accompa-
nying correspondence and. data . ex-,
plaining both its purpose and its
scope became known to the people
through the message transmitted to
congress, it wa3 immediately apparent
that the ripened fruit3 of the careful ,
labors of the commissioners met with
widespread approval. This approval
ha3 been strengthened by further con
sideration of the terms of the agree
ment in all their particulars. The
volume of support which has devel
oped shows that its broadly national
sccpe is fully appreciated, and is re
sponsive to the popular will.
. "In my transmitted message of the
26th of January, I fully set forth tho
character of the agreement, and em
phasized its appropriateness and ne
cessity as a response to the mutual
reeds of the people of the two coun
tries, as well as its common advan
tages. I now lay that message and
the reciprocity trade agreement, as
part of the present message, before
the Sixty-seccnd congress and again
invite earnest attention to the con
siderations therein expressed. ;
"I am constrained, in deference to
popular sentiment and with a realiz
ing sense of my duty to the great
mass of our people, whose welfare ia
involved, to urge upon your consider
ation early action on this agreement;
In concluding the negotiations, the
representatives of the two countries
bound themselves to use their utmost
efforts to bring about the, tariff chang
es provided for in the agreement by
concurrent legislation at Washington
and Ottawa. I have felt it my duty,
therefore, net to acquiesce in relega
tion of action until the opening ot
congress in December, but to use my
constitutional prerogative and con
voke the Sixty-second congress In ex
tra session in order that there sha'l
be no break of continuity in consid
ering and acting upon this most in
portant subject. .
"WILLIAM H. TAFT." ' '
4$,000,OCO to Stop Revolution.
Mexico City, Mexico. While still in
dulging in the hope that other meth
ods may yet prevail, Mexico prepared
for a vigorous prosecution of the cam
paign against the rebels. The cham
ber of deputies; acting upon the ini
tiative of Minister of Finance Liman
tour, voted $4,000,000 gold for th
'pacification of the country." Specifi
cally the bill recites that this fund
Is to be ufod for the purchase of sup
plies, the -transportation of troops aud
such other purpose as the war depart;
ment may direct,
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