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VOL. m. NO. 157
HALE WARNS THE
NATION AGAINST
BIG ARMY PLAN
Maine Senator Tells of Dangers
01
)i Increased Expenditures In
This Direction.
SPEECH PREDICATED ON
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Story Purporting to Givs Views of Sec
retary Taft and Saying That He Fa-
y rVori Reorcaniration and Enlargement
fjHQ Army Occasion for Oratory.
Washington, April 7. A warning
against Increasing expenditures for the
military establishment of the United
States wk sounded in the Senate today
by Senator Kale, chairman of the com
mittee on naval affairs, and his alarm
was taken up and Tepeated by other sen
ators. The discussion was based on a signed
article printed in the Washington Post
today saying, in effect, that Secretary
Taft favored a reorganization and an
enlargement of the army that would
bring it up to 125,000. The immediate
occasion , for Senator Hale's speech was
the passage yesterday of the army ap
propriation bill, carrying nearly $100,
000,000, and he used it as showing the
tendency of the times.
Moving to reconsider ; the vote by
which the army bill was passed, Mr.
Hale said senators did not realize that
70 per cent, of the revenues of the gov
ernment were today expended for what
has been termed the needs of past,
present and future wars.
"What is going on," continued Mr.
Halo, "without senators or the country
being aware of it are the enormous in-
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TWIH-GITY OPPOSES
ilillNG THE
. H. & WJATE SUITS
Committee Will Appear Before
the Interstate Commerce
Commission Today.
ACTION BOARD OF TRADE
Winston-Salem, N. C, April 7. The
Winston-Salem board of trade commends
the action of tho committee and coun
sel in the prosecution of the suit against
the Norfolk and Western railway for
alleged exorbitant freight rates on coal
to this city and authorizes them to push
the case to a final hearing. The inter
state commerce commission is petitioned
ti keep the case separate from the one
instituted by tho North Carolina cor
poration commission against the rail
roads for a readjustment of freight
rates generally, in order that there may
be no discrimination against North Caro
lina. : '
As a result of the action taken by the
board of trade, at its regular monthly
meeting last night, Clement Manly,
counsel for the City of Winston and the
board of trade; Hugh G. Chatham, of
El kin; Mayor O. B. Eaton and 3. L.
Graham, traffic manager for the R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company, left this
morning for Washington, where tomor
tow they will appear before the inter
state commerce commission in the case
of the City of Winston and board of
trade against the Norfolk and Western
railway, for alleged discriminations in
coal rates from' the mines of Virginia.
The board of trade last night unan
' imously , adopted the following resolu
tions: f' ' ;
Whereas, It appears to the Winston-
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HEFLIN'S WHITE VICTIM
TO BE
HEW YORK HORSEMAN WILL NOT
' '. r RECOVER FROM WOUNDS,
'-. ' - it is said.
Washington, D. C, April 7r-Thojnas
MoCreary, - the New ' York horseman,
who wm accidentally shot by1 Repre
sentative Heflin, of Alabama,' In a' Street
oar ' altercation -nearly v. two ' weeks
go between Mr. Heflin and a negro, is
liieiy to die, aocording to a statement
.wto todjr.-.:i-v,'A :, .'':.';-.''..''
, Mccreary's physician admitted that
the horseman was in a very serious con
dition. t Mr. Heflin' called at the bosprtal today
to e the man who he had wounded,
fait tho officials refuted to permit the
-'patient 'to b seen. -IfSt f.1- fl-X'"lJ-
LAST EDITION
T
'S
"SECRET" DATA
He So Testifies In Hearing of
LIHey Charges, and Stirs Up
the Committee.
DOESN'T KNOW FROM
WHOM FACTS CAME
Were Sent to Him While Abroad in
Plain Envelopes He Had Asked His
Friends in the Department to Help
Him All .They Could. ; ; : "
Washington, April 7. -The navy de
partment, and not the Electric Boat
Company, was virtually under investi
gation today by the special House com
mittee inquiring into charges preferred
against that company by Representative
Lilley.
The question as to whether the com
pany had used illegitimate means to
promote legislation in' its favor was for
gotten in the admissions made by the
witness to the ettect that lie 'had se
cured extracts of reports made to the
navy department supposed to be confi
dential. The witness was Robert G. Skerrctt,
tof New York, formerly employed in the
navy department and at one time the
buropean representative ot the Lake
Torpedo Boat Company. He stated
frankly that while in the employ of the
Lake company he received anonymous
extracts from reports made to the navy
department, and that tie used these ex
tracts in technical articles prepared for
publication in magazines. Questioned
as to the source, he replied that he did
not know from whom they came, and
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HOLT WAGES FIGHT
Gubernatorial Question An Inter
esting One Among the Demo-.
crats of Durham.
ORGANIZING HORNE CLUBS
' Durham, N. C, April 7. While the
congressional fight in this district has
been the all-absorbing political gossip
in this city and county for some time,
the-gubernatorial question is now an
interesting one in Durham. The friends
of the various candidates are bard at
work, and big claims are being made
on all sides. As the primary is not so
far off this will be on May 2 the fight
from this time to that day will be in
teresting to look upon.
The friends of Mr., Home, under the
leadership of Gen. Julian S. Carr, in this
county, are not leaving any stones un
turned. Some days ago a "Horne Club"
was organized in this city. There is
now being organized in Edgemont, in
the lower edge of the city, another
"Horne Club." General Carr was en
thusiastic this morning. He was all
smiles and felt good over the outlook
for his man. v
While there are no "Kltchin clubs"
or "Craig clubs" as yet, still those who
are looking after their interests in this
county are hard ' at work. The ap
proaching primary, . when the strength
of each candidate will be poUed and
delegates elected to the county conven
tion, when state, congressional and ju
dicial delegates will be elected, promises
to be of as much interest as the usual
election fight, and of more interest than
the ordinary primary.
But, while the gubernatorial fight is
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SUBMARINE BOA
MAN
GOT NAVY
ABRUZZI ENGAGEMENT
REPORTED CONFIRMED
Duke Shortly Will Return to the United States Vatican Has
Been Told of Standing of Elkins Family.
Rome,' April 7.-The Duke of Aosta
arrived here today and had breakfast
with King Victor Emmanuel, the Duke
of, the 'Abruui and the Count, of Turin,
after which a. family conference was
held relative to arranging a marriage
engagement between the Duke of the
Abruzal ; and Miss Katherine Elkins,
daughter of Senator ; Elkins, of West
Virginia. -i-vy
Although nothing official, U known,
it it reported that the engagement lias
been confirmed, end that it la the in
tention of the Duke of Abntzii to' re
turn, to the United States, shortly. V
The duke leit tonight for Speszl to
resume command of the battleship
Jlgln4 E)ena,: y-'rA'-l,
. , At th ooBolusioa o Um conferenot,
GHEENSBORO,
STATE SUNDAY
UIIUULIIUIIIIUIIV v
AT BURLRdil
Opening Sessio the Annual
Conver-' s Held Last
ilight.
ATTENDANCE ALREADY
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
Five Hundred People Assigned to Homes
and More Coming Crowd Necessitated
Two Meetings Last Night Prominent
Visitors Present Address of Welcome.
Burlington, N. C, April 7. North
Carolina's greatest Sunday-school con
vention was opened tonight in two places
at once because the cnurch in which it
was intended to be held could not ac
commodate the crowd.
The attendance already has broken
every record for a Sunday-school con
vention. Over 500 people were assigned
to homes this afternoon, and a flood of
delegates poured in tonight.
At 7.30 o'clock this evening the Chris
tian church was packed to the limit, and
hundreds of people were standing on
the sidewalks. It was then decided to
hold an overflow meeting in the Presby
terian church, where the exercises were
duplicated.
Among the prominent visitors present
ere W. C, Pearee, of Chicago, and Mrs. J.
W.' Barnes, of New Jersey.
Tonight Mr. Pcarce spoke on "Amer
ica in Sunday-School Work." He will
be heard several times during the con
vention. Mrs. Barnes is the leading
specialist on elementary work. She will
conduct a conference, and will address
the convention. G. C. Tullar and I. H.
Meredith, of New York, are conducting
the singing.
Tonight Mayor W. H. Carroll delivered
an address of welcome, to which an ap
propriate response wan made.
; The convention will rontainue through
Wednesday and Thursday, with sessions
morning and afternoon and evening; it
is "planned to hold sessions after this
evening in a tobacco warehouse. : ..
DELEGATES FROM GUILFORD
AT SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION
The : North Carolina Sunday-school
convention met in annual session in
Burlington yesterday. Among the at
tending delegates from Guilford county
are J. G. Frazier, Mrs. Margaret L.
Cot ten, Miss Christine Frazier, Jesse
Smidley, Howard Cotten, Alpheus White
and W. S. Nicholson, of the New Gar
den Sunday-school; Miss Miendenhall,
Alva Lindley and George Bradshaw, of
Guilford College, and Lee Smith, of
Muir's Chapel.
T
KILLED BY CURRENT
ONE ELECTROCUTED, THE OTHER
HURLED TO DEATH BY SHOCK.
CROWD SEES ACCIDENT.
Pittsburg, April 7. Two linemen em
ployed by the Pittsburg and Allegheny
Telephone Company were killed at Mc
Kees Rocks, a suburb, today, one being
electrocuted and the other sustaining
a fracture of the skull, when he was
knocked from the top of a pole.
A crowd of excited people stood help
less in the street around the bottom
of the pole, while Nevin's body, clinging
to the heavily charged wire, smoked ana
burned for fifteen minutes before it
could be lowered with ropes. Lehan
was torn from his foothold at the top
of tho pole by the first shock and fell
to the ground, sustaining a fractured
skull. He was taken to a hospital,
where; he eyed three hours later.
The current was turned on the wire
for a dally test, according to custom,
but the linemen were not aware of this
custom. : ; ; ' '
the Duke of Aosta, the Count of Turin
and.' the Duke of the Abruzzi had
luncheon . with King Victor Emmanuel
and Queen Helena. ' ;
The prevailing opinion aa expressed
by (he newspapers is that, notwith
standing some opposition and diverg
ence of opinion at the council, the duke
insisted upon his wish to marry Miss
Elkins, and that he already has ob
taihed, or is in a fair way to obtain,
the. consent of the King. ' V
Tho Vatican hut received a long re
port from the United States concerning
the Elkins family, and, it is understood,
the procedure to be followed if a mar
Vlage; between" the duke arid Miss El
kins occurs, has been given considera-
s n h nm mme
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N. C, WEDNESDAY,
Old andNew British Premier and
HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH.
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LOGIL OPTION PEOPLE T""
MAKE GAINS IN THE f J
ELECTIONS IN ILLINOIS fWM
Twenty Counties Become Abso
lutely "Dry" Big Towns
Vote "Wet"
LIQUOR GAINS ELSEWHERE
Chicago, April 7. In the local option
elections held by 1,200 townships in
eighty-four counties of Illinois outsiiie
of the City of Chicago today, twenty
counties became absolutely -anti -saloon
territories, and approximately 1,50(1,,. or
abori one-balf Of th tubs s'ujnhpr rf
saloons in that territory, were voted out
of business. - Most of the larger cities
in the state, however, voted in favor
of licensing saloons.
The larger cities voting in favor of
the saloons are: Springfield, Freeport,
Aurora, Elgin, Sterling, Kankakee, Lin
coln, Monmouth, Bloomington, Danville,
Joliet, Murphysboro and Rock Island.
Those voting to abolish the saloons,
were: Eockford, Decatur, Dixon,
Hoopestown, Georgetown, Pontiac, Shel
byville, Carbondale, and Champagne.
The following counties are now abso
lutely anti-saloon territory, so created
by the voters today, and are in addi
tion to the six which voted last Novem
ber to abolish the dramshops: Boone,
Moultrie, Fayette, Hamilton, Edgar,
Clark, Brown, Saline, Gallatin, Douglas,
Macon, Cumberland, Piatt, Shelby, Coles,
White, Wayne and Richland.
The Independence League made a
strong fight in several of the wards and
polled a vote of good proportions for
some of its nominees, but the total vote
of the party was less than that of the
Socialists.
The Prohibitionists devoted most . of
their energy to the election in the
Twenty-seventh ward. The result gave
them mOre than twice the Democratic
vote, but less than half that of the Re
publicans. The Socialist vote was also
strongest in t'liat ward, exceeding the
Democratic vote by more than 600.
Liquor Wins in Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo., April 7. The entire
Democratic ticket, headed by Thomas T.
Crittenden, Jr., for mayor, waa success
ful in today's election by a majority of
probably 500 over the Republican ticket,
headed by Mayor Henry M. Beardslcy.
This is a clianpe of 2.100 votes since the
election of l!)0fl. The Democrats will
control both houses of tho new council.
Mayor-Elect Crittenden in pledged to
enforce the saloon laws, but durnig the
campaign he had tho support of the
liquor interest, and Mayor Beardsley was
indorsed by the ministerial alliance. .
Milwaukee Votes for "Personal Liberty.
Milwaukee. Wis., April 7. David S.
Rose, Democrat, was elected mayor of
Milwaukee today by a plurality of about
3,000 votes over Eniil Siedel, Social
Democrat. Thomas tT. Pringle, the Re
publican candidate, ran over 1,000 behind
Siedel. Koses election makes mm
mayor of Milwaukee for tho fifth time.
He was defeated two years ago by Mayor
Becker, after being victorious four times
in succession.
Rose's slogan was "personal liberty."
Vincelz Schoencekcr, for treasurer, and
August M. Gawin, for comptroller, are
elected on the Rose ticket. .
License Wins in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Wis., April 7.-Returns
received tonight show .that license won
over no license in a majority ol towns;
in Wisconsin in the election today,!
where the issues were put to a vote
of the people. .
At Madison, Mayor J. C.., Schubert,
Democratic -candidate, won out over
W. J. McKay, who favored Sunday clos
ing. Schubert's majority was 1,205
votes."
x Prohibition Gains In Nebraska.
Omaha, Neb., April 7. Meager returns
indicate that the prohibition element has
made decided gains in Nebraska. .Only
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APRIL 8, 1908
p;, w$0j$ 1 I
V ' WINSTON L. S. CHURCHILL,
Who Will Probably Be Given a Place in the New British Cabinet
MORE TO SCORE HURT
WHEN CHICAGO ELEVATED
Eight of the Victims Are Seriously
Hurt and One May
'Wy- Die.-' ';:v.;.;
MANY ARE INJURED IN PANIC
Chicago, April 7. Eight persons were
seriously injured, one probably fatally,
and nearly a score of others were hurt
today when the motor car of a south
bound train on the South Side Elevated
railroad jumped the track a few hundred
feet north of the Indiana avenue sta
tion and crashed to the ground. The
front of the car fell into the rear yard
of a residence at 4235 Prairie avenue,
but the rear end remained propped
against the structure.' The car was used
as a smoker. . ,
The motorman of the car, George
Stang, was cut and bruised about the
head and body and his skull was frac
tured. Ho was also internally injured.
Stang was taken to the Wesley hospital,
where it was said he might die.
About fifty persons were in the front
car when- tho accident happened, and
many, of t!hem were more or less in
jured' The train was moving rapidly
when the front trucks of the motor
car jumped the track. The car bumped
along the rails for a short distance and
then plunged off the elevated structure,
landing in the rear yard of Mrs. A. T.
Hayen, at 4235 Prairie avenue. The
second car crashed into the rear of tho
motor car and carried it along the tracks
for several feet. The trucks of the sec
ond car also left the track. The pas
sengers of the front car were thrown
in a heap to. the floor, and some of
them were dashed against the windows,
cutting themselves badly. A panic fol
lowed in the four rear cars and a num
ber of men raised window and leaped out
upon the elevated structure, where they
were in imminent danger from the third
rail. The attendants of the rear cars,
however, managed to get them back into
tho train befove anybody was injured. .
Ambulances and patrol wagons were
hurried to the scene from nearly all the
police stations on the south side of
the city. The police found the passen
gers of the motor car penned in and
struggling to make, their escape. When
additional help arrived , the imprisoned
passengers were dragged through the
shattered window to safety. I
LAST EDITION
Rising Politician
SIR HENRY C AMPB ELL-BANNERMAN.
FORTIFICATION BILL AS
PASSED BY THE SENATE
CARRiES12,116,1B7
Upper House Adds $3,905,576 to
the Figures Adopted by the
House ot Representatives
TELLER OPPOSES INCREASES
Washington, April 7. The fortifica
tions appropriation bill was passed by
the Senate with appropriations of $12,
116,187. As pased by the House, the
bill carried an aggregate of $3,210,611,
the Senate adding $3,905,576.
Amendments to the bill were made
in the Senate appropriating $500,000,
on motion of Senator Flint, of Cali
fornia, for land and fortifications at
Point Firmen, Los Angeles, Cal., and
$100,000 additional, on motion of Sen
ator Simmons, of North Carolina, for
the repair of fortifications at Fort Ma
con, of his state.
During the progress of the bill, com-
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Y OF A STORE
thief got all the cash left in
drawer and also some
' -goods.: .;':.;
Durham, N. 0, April 7. News has
reached here from Lyons, Granville
county, on the Oxford and Clarksville
road, of the robbery of the store of H.
G. Coleman, also ud as an office for
the railroad and express companies. This
was on Saturday night, but little was
said of it with the hope that the robber
or robbers could be captured.
Mr. Coleman says that the robber,
who entered through a window by re
moving two panes of glass, gjot ail the
cash left in the drawer, and in addition,
carried away some of the goods,' but he
does not. know how much of hi wares
.were taken. ,. No arrest haa been made,
The Ners A paper for
all the people and for the
people all the time. Read
it and keep posted.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CAMPAIGN GIFTS
STIRS MINORITY
Following Failure to Force Action
on Measure. Meeting Breaks
Up In a Scrap.
ACCUSE REPUBLICAN
MEMBERS OF COWARDICE
Declare That They Have Systematically,
and Persistently Refused to Go oq
Record as Either Favoring or Oppos
ing Campaign Publicity Bill,
Washington, April 7. Following the
failure today of the Democratic mem
bers of the House committee on election
of the President, Vice-President and
representatives in Congress, to force ac
tion by that committee on the bill in
troduced by Mr. McCall, of Massachu
setts (Republican), to compel the pub
lication of campaign 'contributions, high
words were passed, the committee meet
ing broke up and an organized movement
is now on foot on the Democratic side)
of the House to openly charge the Re
publicans with "cowardice in systemat
ically and persistently failing and re
fusing to go on record as either favor
ing or opposing the campaign- pubUcity
bill."
The five Democratic members of the
committee, Messrs. Rucker, of Missouri;
(Jillespie, of Texas; Lassiter, of Vir
ginia; Hardwick, of Georgia, and
Hackett, of North Carolina, after the
meeting made public a signed statement
with the approval of the minority lead
er, Mr. Williams, in substance as fol
lows: That the meeting of the committee
was convened at the call of tho chair
man, Mr. Gaines, of West Virginia ; that
there were present also Mr. Burke, of
Pennsylvania, and Mr. Diekema, of
Michigan (Republicans,,, j-vd , tho five
Demorratfo m emboss, , these eight con
stitnfi i iv Juo.nin; the minority
members insisted upon taking up the
McCall bill and acting upon it j that
Chairman Gaines thereupon whiJpeoi
to Mr. Burke and Mr. Diekema, his Be
publican colleagues, and they at once
ieft the room; that the chairman then
declared no quorum and adjourned the
meeting. '
One of the Democratic members pro
tested against this action as "indecent."
The Democratic members at once got
togetner, dratted a statement of the
meeting, submitted it to Mr Williams,
and, with his approval, made it public.
Chairman Gaines, of the majority, is
sued the following statement in reply :
"The truth.- is that substantially the
McCall bill was before the committee
during the last Congress,, and was the
subject of a great number of hearings
and of thorough consideration. Messrs.
Rucker, Hardwick and Gillespie were
members of the committee at that time.
The defects of the present McCall bill
were sufficient at that time to induce
them to condemn a similar bill.
"The McOall bill is in reality the Per
ry Belmont bill. This bill undertake to
compel publicity of campaign contribu
tions made to a political committee
'which shall in two or more states influ
ence the result or attempt to influence
the result of an election at which repre
sentatives in Congress are to be
elected.' The slightest possible consid
eration will show that the result of
this will be not to prevent and not to'
make public any campaign contribu
tions, but simply to divert such contri
butions from national committees to
smaller committees from thoso having
the greatest publicity to those having
the least publicity. It would make no
contributions except as some rich man
might contribute to one party or the
other for the purpose of giving himself
standing in the party. :
"There ara several members of Con
gress who wish to be heard on the sub
ject of publicity in election expenses,
and I have endeavored to secure for
them t'hat courtesy. There is to bo a
meeting of and a hearing before tho
committee the day after tomorrow."
SEGHETIBT STBUIS GUEST
AT HIS FORMER HOME
COLUMBUS, GA, HONORS HEAD OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF COM
MERCE AND LABOR.
Columbus, Ga., April 7. Oscar 8.
Straus, secretary of ; commerce and
labor, spent another busy day in Col
umbus, his old home, visiting numerous
manufacturing industries, the publlo
schools and the largest : Young Men's
Christian Association building for
negroes in the world. He was the guest
of honor at the secondary industrial
school, a novel institution, where boys '
and girls are taught tho actual voca
tions of life. -,
Several addresses were made on this -occasion,
the most notable being that
by-Secretary Straus on "Industrial Ed-Hcatioa.-v
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, An elaborate dinner was served, pro
pared by the pupils of the school.
PUBLICITY BILL ON
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