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NEWS OE THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
BIRMINGHAM.—CentraI of Geor
jgia railroad is spending $8,000,000 on
.line between Birmingham and Co
lumbus, Ga. According to experts
this will be made best railroad line
in United States.
TUSCALOOSA. —Unidentified ne
gro purchases 10 cents worth of
candy in store of Abernathy and
Tune and escapes with sack contain
ing $193, entire day’s sales.
FLORENCE. —Florence, Sheffield
and Tuscumbia join in biggest Labor
day celebration ever witnessed here.
ANNISTON—Eight boys are given
degre of eagle scout, highest rank
that can be won by Boy Scout, at
scout court of honor of Ghocolocco
district, held here. Boys are Clyde
Buchanan, Fred Howell, Welborn
Martin, W. D. Johnston and Horace
Gehee, all of Anniston, and Fain
Webb, Hugh Roberts and John W.
McAuley, of Piedmont.
REFORM.—SmaII child of Mr. and
Mrs. Welch is severely burned on
face, arms and legs when home is
destroyed by fire.
MONTGOMERY.—According to I.
T. Quinn, state game and fish com
missioner, 47,584 annual hunters’
licenses were issued this year, an
increase of 12,857 over 1923.
MONTGOMERY.—MiIton L. Coop
er, of Selma, is named auditor of
Alabama Public Service commission
and reports for duty.
MOBILE. —Plans for building sea
wall along bay shore are being dis
cussed.
DOTHAN. —Fred E. Waldrop, of
Prattville, and J. D. Foy, of, Do
than, establish cigar factory here,
with output of 80,000 weekly.
SELMA.—Dallas county branch of
State Poultry association sigps up
more, than 3,000 hens for co-opera
tive egg marketing.
ENTERPRISE. —Dora Fleming,
young daughter of Lamar Fleming,
suffers 1 loss of two fingers when
she places hand on suction fan at
moving picture theater here.
COLUMBIANA. Judge Will
Longshore, former judge of this cir
cuit, and Mrs. Jatie Middleton are
married at home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Wallace.
TUSCALOOSA—Congregation of
First Baptist church gives house
and lot to Rev. d\ L. O. Dawson,
retired pastor.
MONTGOMERY. —Plans are com
pleted for holding Alabama State
Fair here, November 3-11. Two new
buildings will be erected.
STERRETT.—Mrs. R. M. Harless
narrowly escapes when home is de
stroyed by fire. Se is rescued from
sick bed as roof falls.
BIRMINGHAM —Col. J. Camp
bell Maben, gr., former president of
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron com
pany, of Birmingham, dies at At
lantic City, at age of 87.
BESSEMER. —Miss Bernice Sto
vall, 17, leaps from rapidly mov
ing auto and fractures skull.
FORT PAYNip.—Citizens Bank
md Security company closes on in
structions from A. E. Jackson, state
bank examiner. '
SELMA. —J. Fullerton Hooper, Jr.,
of Selma, dies at El Paso, Tex.,
where he was in search of health.
BESSEMER. Bessemer’s new
$300,000 high school building will be
dedicated September 2, with appro
priate exercises. •
BESSEMER.—Mrs? Schuyler Har
ris, 44, dies after three years’ ill
ness.
BIRMINGHAM^—Mrs. Mary Cal
let Munger, wife of late Robert S.
Munger, well known millionaire cot
ton gin manufacturer, dies at home
here.
DOTHAN. —Two persons are kill
ed in this vicinity in automobile ac
cidents. They are: S. H. Willford,
whose automobile is struck by At
lantic Coast Line passenger train,
and Frank Brookins, whose auto
mobile turns over. 4
HEFLIN.—C~F7ISodson, editor of
Cleburne News, i. 4 called to Bremen,
Ga., by serious illness of his broth
er, A. R. Dodson, who recently un
derwent operation at Rome, Ga.
MONROE VlLLE?—Steve Parker,
101, negro, Confederate veteran, dies
at home near here.
AUBURN.—In final effort to ob
tain assistance for many girls who
desire to attend college here, Miss
Agnes Allen Harris, dean of women
at Auburn college, is conferring
with those interested at different
points in state.
DECATUR. —John Hutton, one of
four men who escaped from county
|ail here, is captured ten miles"west
an Tennessee river.
FLORENCE. Substructure of
Wilson dam is completed. jVfaiiy
nonths of strenuous labor will be re
lulred, however, before dam will
produce power. Power house is rap
idly being completed and electrical
Bngineers are, here to install machin
ery. It will take months to install
trches for roadway over dam.
TUSCALOOSA.—Train of 18 cars
»f cast iron soil pipe, produced at
Holt plant of Central Foundry com
pany. is shipped to Porto Rico via
Jacksonville, Fla. *
TUSCALOOSA. Plant of Tusca
loosa Lumber Company, recently de-
Jtroyed by fire at loss of SIOO,OOO,
w’ll be rebuilt, according to G. W.
Phalin, president.
GADSDEN.—Gadsden Clay Pred
icts company is destroyed by fire at
oss of $15,000, with SIO,OOO insur
ince. Plant will be rebuilt at once.
MONTEVALLO. There are 603 1
itudents at Alabama college, capac
ty number.
MONTGOMERY. Safe blowers
teeure SI,OOO in office of Standard
Jil company here and make escape.
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MONTGOMERY. Dr. Debernier
Waddell, father of Mrs. Bob T. Rob
erts, of Montgomery, is killed in auto
accident at Meridian, Miss.
Parrish. Citizens of Parrish vote
$13,500 school bonds, by majority of
98 to 9.
BIRMINGHAM. Patrick Harry
Burke, 23, falls dead on street in
downtown section from heart trou
ble.
BIRMINGHAM. Major A. G.
Forbes, vice president of Star Piano
company in Birmingham, dies at hos
pital in Columbia, S. C., where he
underwent operation.
GADSDEN. Fred Johnson, of
Florence, commander of Alabama di
vision of American Legion, will be
orator.of day at Defense day cele
bration in Gadsden.
HUNTSVILLE. Congressman
Ed B. Almon, who has been spend
ing summer at Elkmont Springs,
Tenn., for his health, is greatly im- '
proved.
BIRMINGHAM. —Mrs. Ruby Sloan
Keeler, sister of Wallace M. Sloan, of
Birmingham, is killed in auro acci
dent near Cleveland. Tenn.
COLLINSVILLE. New fixtures
are installed in postoffice here by
Postmaster B. W. Crow. Office was
burned September,'3 922, and tempo
rary fixtures have been used.
BIRMINGHAM. Heirs to Ed
wards millions in New York city,
will meet in Birmingham September
8. Court proceedings will soon be
instituted to recover this wealth,
it is announced.
JASPER. According to informa
tion here, Bankhead highway be
tween Memphis and Birmingham,
which passes through Jasper, may
be open to traffic before end of year.
FOLEY. Committee of Alabama
Press association to select perma
nent site for recreation camp, spend
week in Baldwin county inspecting
several locations.
NORTH CAROLINA* •
BEAUFORT. —Isaac M. Meekins,
of Elizabeth City, Republican nomi
nee for governor, challenges A. W.
McLean, of Lumberton, Democratic
nominee, to take stump with him
in state campaign for joint debates
in “important national issues.”
RALEIGH—A. W. McLean, Dem
ocratic nominee for governor, ac
cepts invitation of Isaac M. Meek
ins, Republican nominee, for joint
debates, and says he is read£ to
meet him in indefinite number of
discussions.
KlNSTON.—Reduced sales but bet
ter average of prices are reported at
opening of markets in bright leaf
tobacco belt of state. Markets are
in operation here, at Greenville,
Wilson, Rocky Mount, Goldsboro
and Washington. Forecasts indi
cate 25 per cent to 35 per cent re
duction in year’s sales compared
With 1923 total.
FAYETTEVILLE. Brotherhood
of Railway Conductors, in annual
state convention, formally indorses
independent candidacy of Robert M.
La Follette for presidency.
FAYETTE Duffey,
twenty, sustains fractured skull as
result of wheel falling off car, which
crashes into tree. Physicians say.
he may recover. Two others in car
escape unhurt.
MURPHY.—Without reference to
political campaign, A. W. McLean,
Democratic nominee for governor,
In address declares belief that state’s
present “era of prosperity” will con
tinue several years and that capital
and labor will work together “har
moniously.”
RALfelGH.—John G. Dawson, of
Kinston, chairman of state Demo
cratic executive committee, at of
fices here, is directing state cam
paign in behalf of A. W. McLean,
of Lumberton, for governor.
ELIZABETH CITY.—Gid Rob
erts, 38, city employe, disappears,
and Pasquotank river is dragged
for body after reports indicate he
may have walked off dock while
asleep.
ROSEMARY?— s7~J. Evans, 54,
who left here on horseback August
15, is reported missing by family
after -waiting three weeks for his
return. Last report of him, family
says, was that he sold horse for
SIOO at Broadnax, Va„ and left for
Lawrenceville. Hundred men fruit
lessly search for him between N6r
lina, N. C. and Lawrenceville.
RALEIGH. Legislative com
mission, Senator W. C. Heath, qhair
man, to conduct inquiry into state
prisons, at organization meeting,
decides against hearing prisoners
and prison officials who might
deny any charges prisoners might
make. Commiss.cn decides to spend
month in preliminary visits to pris
ons and camps. Results of visits
will determine future policy of in ,
quiry.
SALISBURY.—Two boys, Gordon
Sigmon and Tom Wyatt, each aged
16, disappear from Nazareth Or
phans’ home, near here. Superin
tendent McNary leads search for
them.
ROCKY MOUNT.—Police officers
throughout state are requested by
family of D. J. Vick, prominent
merchant of this city, to assist in
search for him. He disappeared sev
eral days previously after leaving
hastily scribbled note to wife in her
room, saying he would be gone
“couple of days,” to which was at
tached $55 in currency.
RALElGH.—Governor and Mrs
Morrison leave for Medina, N. Y.
on receipt of telegram announcing
death of Mrs. Morrison’s sisteU
Mrs. M illiam Derione. ,
RALEIGH.—Of 323 applicants
standing examinations before su
preme court for licenses to practice
law. only 68 are successful. Six are
admitted under comity act.
SALIfeBT I\\ . Two passen§(?i
trains on Yadkin road are removed
under corporation commission au
thority granted after railroad de
clared competition of bus lines made
operation unprofitable. Each train
operated between Salisbury and
and Norwood.
RALElGH.—Swimming pool, me
morial to his late wife. Addie McKin
ne Hart, is presented to Methodist
orphanage here by Captain Edgar
1 Lee Hart, of Wilmington, at impres
sive ceremony.
CHARLOTTE. .Less smallpox
I prevails in this state this year than
I last, according to Dr. George Col-
I lins, of state health department, Ral
' eigh.
GASTONIA. —O. E. Carothers. 33.
native of Matthews, N. C.. mar ?r
of Southern Power company's sub
station here, is instantly killed when
he comes in < ntact with high volt
age wire while making repairs at
cotton mill.
RALEIGH.—D. P. Phillips, former
convict, whose published charges of
cruelty to state prison inmate pre
cipitated investigation into prison
conditions by commission created by
) extra session of legislature, is arres*-
ed on charge of forging name of Sam
J Busbee. prison warden, to four
checks for small amounts. *
SATTCRVPJV . l’n-r -3 Stof-ne -S.
ator Lee A. Overman is on program
for principal address at annual re
union September 4, of Morgan fam
ilies. John F. Morgan is president
of families’ association.
ELIZABETH CITY. Marian
Whitehurst, 4, daughter of Mr. and
Mrh. Claude Whitehurst, of Camden,
is instantly killed when pile of lum
ber on which she is playing topples
over. She was staying with grand
parents while parents were on visit
to Ocean City, N. J. _
DURHAM.—-Claiborne Holmes, 17,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Oren Holmes,,
of Durham, is drowned in Tar river,
near Louisburg. Companion narrow
ly escaped drowning when attempt
ing to rescue Holmes.
PINEVILLE.—W. 1.. Fisher, 86,
Confederate veteran, well-known
business man, dies after long period
of declining health.
Sheriff J.
1 W. Grogan, of Draper, is severely
cut about neck by Herbert Williams,
young white man, whom Grogan at
tempted to arrest on charge of dis
orderly conduct.
RALEIGH. —In response to proc
lamation by Governor Morrison and
appeals of war department, all im
portant population centers of state
make comprehensive preparations
for observance of National Defense
day, September 3.2.
ASHEVILLE. —Foster Rogers, 18,
dies at local hospital of knife wounds
and Ed Smythe, 16, is held in jail
at Canton, N. C. He said he at
tacked Smythe in defense of bis
mother, Mrs. Rogers.
SHELBY.- —Emery Brandlett, ten- |
ant farmer, living near Lattimore, I
is instantly killed by lightning while I
en route from field to home. Wife
later found body.
RALEIGH.—Raymond Byrum, of
Rocky Mount, is arrested here on
charges growing out of automobile
accident at Nashville, N. C., in
young woman was injured.
RALEIGH.—Bus line war appar
ently is settled at conference with
Attorney General Manning, when
attorneys for bus lines operating be
tween High Point and Greensboro
agree to unifefrm fare of 50 cents
for 3 8-mile trip. Manning suggested
three cents per mile basi sas regu
lar lines reasonable profit.
HIGH POlNT.—Beamer Boden
heimer, aged white man, is taken to
hospital where he dies as result of
being run down by motor car driven
by Milford Feree, who is held legally
blameless.
GREENSBORO.—City government
decided to treble capacity of pump
ing stations, bringing capacity to
8,000,000 gallons daily, at cost of
SBO,OOO.
WILMINGTON.—First state prize
in national saefty essay contest is
won by Fred Smith, of Wilmington;
second prize is won by Zaidee L.’
Smith, of Greensboro. Nine third
prizes were offered.
FAYETTEVILLE.— Mrs. A. L.
, Thompson is declared, winner of first
state prize in teachers’ national safe
ty essay contest. Award is SSOO or
two options.
RALElGH.—Approximately 7,500
domestic and 500 foreign corpora
tions are doing business in state, ac
cording to list compiled by Secretary
State Everett, which shows 189 do
mestic corporations of capitalization
of $1,000,000 or more each, five of
which are capitalized at more than
$10,000,000.
DURHAM.—Republicans of state
will wage more vigorous campaign
this fajl than in many years, says
William M. Bramham, of Durham,
chairman of state Republican execu
tive committee. La Follette-Wheeler
ticket, he says, is causing his party
no concern.
SALISBURY~a7b. Coltrane, fed
eral prohibtion director for state, in
report -for fiscal year, says 1,409
stills were destroyed; 13,788 gallons
of whisky, 1,190,498 gallons of beer
were poured out; 133 seized automo
biles were sold for $19,699; 2,000 war
rants issued; fines totaled $107,990'
sentences totaled 231 years in prison.
CIIAPEL HILL. “Co-operative
movement,” which he says is stead
ily gaining favor, will enable far
mers to work out “economic eman
cipation,” says Dr. J. Y. Joyner, of
Raleigh, former state superintend
ent of public instruction and director
of tobacco growers’ co-operative as
sociation, in address. “Jt is one of
the great movements for the uplift
of civilization,” he adds.
HIGH POINT.— Dennis McDaniel,
44, dies after long" illness.
ELIZABETH CITY. Twenty
counties and 100 camps, represented
oy 000 delegates, participate in dis
trict meeting of Woodmen of the
Uorld A. O. Kiss, of Ohoskie, as
distuct manager, directs conference.
DURHAM.—Congregation of St.
laul s Lutheran church decide to
elect $15,000 church building.
GOLDSBORO. Construction of
about -6 miles of hard-surfaced roads
ln J Vay " e county will be started
within short time.
A INS TON-SALE W—North Caro
hna Beekeepers’ association holds
annual convention here September
SOUTH CAROLINA
CHESTER. John H. Pittman,
one of most prominent citizens of
Lando section of Chester county,
dies after lingering illness.
CHESTER.—Robt. A. Stevenson
si, prominent planter of Rossville,
this county, dies at hospital here.
GREENWOOD. Contract for
new Associate Reformed Presby
terian church is let to Blain &
Reagor, Columbia, for $25,000.
COLUMBIA. State prepares for
second Democratic primary, Sep
tember 9. and many absentee vot
ers prepare to vote by mail. For
mer Governor Cole L. Please and
Congressman Byrnes runover for
i United States senate.
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COLUMBIA. Cars driven b.v
Wyatt Aiken, of Greenville, and
Mrs. W. J. Mitchell, of Columbia,
collide on prominent street, and
five-weeks-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. T. Lindley is thrown to pave
ment. At first thought dead, doc
tors find injuries only slight.
G EEN WOOD. —Mrs. Emma
Cork, elderly woman, hurt in auto
smash near Hodges, dies without
regaining consciousness. Three oth-
Davis Promises Farm Aid
Instead ot G. O. P. Probes
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its early days by a great citizen of
Nebraska —J. Sterling Morton —has
done much for the welfare of the
American farmer. Unquestionably
can and it should do more. It has
devoted the larger share of its ac
tivity in the past to problems of
protection; it should be stimulated
now to think in terms of marketing
and distributing. The farmer should
be aid^'- 1 in the study of his costs
and assisted in building up nation
wide systems of co-operative market
ing. The department should be rid
of political influence, and presided
over by a secretary, eomp-.ent,
courageous and loyal to the be;.'; in
terests of agriculture, and care
should be taken to see that its en
tire personnel is of the same char
acter.
Would Purge Boards
“The interstate commerce com
mission, with its control over rail- 1
road rates; the farm loan board and
the federal reserve board, with their
control over credits; and the federal
tariff commission, with its present
powers of investigation and review,
all deal with interests vital to ag
riculture. No person biased or
prejudiced for or against any par
ticular class or interest should be
permitted to sit on any of these
bodies. Personal honesty alone is
not a sufficient qualification. Intelli
gence and impartiality and courage
are equally demanded.
“Equally important to the farm
er are the department of justice
and the federal trade commission.
It is to an able and aggressive at
torney general and an active and
alert federal trade commission that
the public must look for protection
and defense.
“According to my view, the re
sponsibility for providing such an
administration rests upon the shoul
ders of him who is chosen to be
president of the United States. He
may share with others the burdens
of the task; his responsibility he
cannot divide. It is his business
to select fit men for office, and
when mistakes in selection are made
to be prompt in their correction.
He need not wait for congressional
committees or grand juries to point
them* out; nor can he* or the party
that he leads escape responsibility
on the plea of general good char
acter or fair intent. .It is his busi
ness to give the people a govern
ment honest all the way through.
It such is the wish of the Ameri
can people I shall not seek to es
cape the duty nor avoid the re
sponsibility for its performance.”
Reviewing the plight of the farm
er and the contributing causes Mr.
Davis said the chief complaint of
agriculture today is that it no long
er enjoys economic equality with in
dustry and commerce. Placing the
blame for this condition on the Re
publican party, the Democratic nom
inee declared it was “ignorant or in
sincere” to cry out against the farm
bloc in congress as if it were a new
thing.
G. 0. P. Political Fiction
"Each succeeding Republican ad
ministration has been a government
by an industrial bloc,” he asserted,
adding that the attempt of agricul
ture to get a fair bearing in congress
explained the insurgent movement
in the Republican party in 1920 and
1912 and also “the wide breach in
that party today.”
Launching into a denunciatiqn of
“the oppressive” Fordney-McCum
ber tariff law. Mr. Davis charged the
Republicans with having sought to
delude the farmer with a false pre
tense of benfits to flow from tariffs
on his products. When the price of
wheat and corn fell after the enact
ment of that law, the speaker contin
ued. the promised relief was seen to
be “pure political fiction.”
The action of President Coolidge in
approving an increase in the tariff
?. n wheat was characterized as an
additional sop” to the farmer.
Pointing out that the price of
wheat had fallen after this tariff in
crease, Mr. Davis said that surely
‘the day when the farmer can be
lulled to rest by a nominal tariff on
the commodities of which he has sur
plus to sell abroad, is passed for
ever.”
' The same economic blindness has
affected the foreign policies of the
Republican party,” the speaker went
on.
“When the war was over it should
rave been clear to everyone that the
first duty which the government of
the United States was called upon
to perform, was to assist in the
prompt and permanent restoration
of those nations who were our chief
customers. Instead of that we chose,
under Republican guidance, to shut
our eyes to the needs of Europe and
our own best interests, to declare
for a policy of isolation and leave the
nations exhausted by the war to
make their own way out of their dif
ficulties.
Capitalizing Dawes Plan Hit
‘‘;V th ,? bottom the European
problem lies and has lain ever since
the armistice, the question of rep
a^.V? ns ' 1919 Presi *3ent Wilson
asked permission of congress to ap
point an American representative
n the reparation commission. In
a spirit of partisan jealousy it was
denied. And for five long years, so
far as we were concerned, we left
iclL qU V^° n t 0 bedevil the econom
whlr. z? Eu rope and delay the hour
ed ermany and the othe r defeat
might be restored to
tribute a tn d rh e &ble ° nCe mOre t 0 Con ’
the world. economic Prosperty of
We bear f rom those most
for this state of affaS
over Self con sratulation
Pared in Uia that Americans partici- I
ference th4 r * cent reparations con-,
called n? forth the so
-alled Dawes report. That
torylor C ? im : d 3S a di
and Hme p adm:n; . s tration that time i
a!ld
-.the 5 preparation
Port tO d -y thTre-i
may prove a st ® V ry W ’ ;sh that jt
S4°w£o e talk aTi?? 0
belated attemm ? Jt - 1 ,f esen t the
PCS
Americans hnva < \
their na • ,n fact - hr
er women and small girl, hurt in
same accident, improve.
FLORENCE.—CharIes Myers, ne
gro confesses to murder of Jim "Pur
vis, also colored, whose body was
found in street, in early morning.
Myers claims self-defense.
ROCK. HILL. —Twenty changes
are announced in faculty of Win
throp college, as 1924-25 session
opens.
CHARLESTON—W. H. Mixson,
ed or aided in this result, it lays a
crushing burden of blame and respon
sibility on the shoulders of those who
for five long years prevented any
form of American participation.”
Hits Republican Program
Turning to Mr. Dawes’ recent dec
laration at Lincoln that the question
of the farmers’ welfare is “a non-par
tisan and economic question,” Mr.
Davis said, “the same thing might
be said in the same bland terms of
the tariff, of taxation, of railroads,
of foreign policy and practically ev
ery other problem that affects ihe
welfare of -the American people.”
“If we eliminate from political de
bate,” Mr. Davis added, “every ques
tion that is either national in its
scope or economic in its character'
and especially every question that
in embarrassing to the party in
power, we will reach that millennium
when government through political
parties will cease to exist. The very
purpose of political parties is to
frame policies and to propose and
execute them on all great questions
that are national in their scope. Po
litical parties that have ceased to
have opinions or the courage to
avow them have lost all reason for
existence.
“What, then, is the program which
the Republican party puts forward
by its accredited spokesman? It
seems to have two propositions only
to submit: One, the regulation—
which, in this case, means the cur
tailment—of production, in which
connection, the statement js made
that ‘every reclamation project,
whether by irrigation or drainage,
furnishes added competition for ex
isting cultivated farms, orchards
and vineyards at a time when we
are already seriously embarrassed by
overproduction in many lines.
Reclamation by irrigation, therefore,
must be forthwith abandoned apd
multitudes of other farmers must
make up their minds to quit farm
ing or let their fields lie fallow.
‘LYnd the second proposal, in its
prospect of immediate relief, is like
unto the first. It has not even the
merit of novelty, for it consists in
remitting the consideration of the
entire problem to an ‘impartial,
nonpartisan, competent commission
under' economic guidance.’
“This commission is to suggest
means of protecting agriculture
from inequality with other indus
tries and until a specific plan has
emanated from such-a tribunal the
question cannot be properly consid
ered or discussed.
Has Familiar Ring
“I seem to have heard something
of this sort before. In 3921 congress
itself set up a joint commission of
agricultural inquiry, which deliberat
ed for six months concerning the ag
ricultural crisis and its causes, and
submitted to a Republican house and
senate —over the latter, of which
bodies President Coolidge then pre
sided —a most exhaustive report. In
1922, President Harding convened
an agricultural conference, which
again deliberated concerning the sub
ject. In the spring of 1922, the de
partment of agriculture instituted an
investigation on its own account
concerning the disparity between ag
ricultural and other prices. A-jid
congress i mJ 923 debated the entire
subject at length.
“No action has thus far result
ed. We are now told that none can
result until the process of investiga
tion is begun again. If such a com
mission is needed now, why was it
not needed a year ago, and why was
the suggestion of its appointment
delayed until the eve of election
day? The patient seems in a fair
way to die before the doctors have
finished their diagnosis.
’ “I believe that it is duty of men
in office and the business of politi
cal parties to face responsibility
and not shirk it. Enough evidence
has been already gathered to fur
nish a basis for congressional ac
tion. If it has not, there is some
thing lacking in the administration
of the department of agriculture,
which exists for that purpose. What
the Republican administration : s
seeking to evade, is a decision on
matters of principle, and from this
no commission can furnish an es
cape.”
Praises Governor Bryan
At the outset of his address, Mr.
Davis said he had two personal rea
sons for having Nebraska selected
as the spot for his first utterance
west of the Mississippi river. The
first was that he wished to testify
to his “genuine satisfaction” at. the
action which the New York conven
tion took in associating him on the
ticket with Governor Bryan, and,
second, that he wished to take coun
sel with the people of the western
states to study with them their prob
lems and to fit himself to deal with
them in “an intelligent and sym
pathetic manner,” if the responsibil
ity of the presidency should come to
rest upon him.
Praising his running mate, who
had previously welcomed him to Ne
braska, Mr. Davis said there was not
a Democrat in the United States to
whom he had not been known for
more than twenty years.
“During the whole of that time.”
Mr. Davis said, “he has been a fear
less and active champion of Demo
cratic ideals and principles. When
you called him to your service here
in Nebraska he was quick to show
how these principles can be exempli
fied in action.
“That he should have been elected
governor of Nebraska by the largest
majority ever given any candidate
for that office and should have re
ceived a renomination before thq ex
piration of his term, are things of
which not only himself, but his party
in the s*ate and nation may be justly
proud. What you in Nebraska lose
by the draft we have made up#n
him, his party and the nation gain
“I welcome him as my running
mate and I count with confidence on
his aid and counsel.”
Auditorium Filled Early
The address by Mr. Davis tonight,
the fourth fixed one of his cam
paign, was the first to be delivered
indoors, his Clarksburg, Seagirt and
Wheeling speeches having been open
air events. To this same building
had come Roosevelt. Taft, Harding
and Cox to present their ’causes to
the west and here, too, Woodrow
Wilson came curing his last appeal
to the nation, an appeal for ratifi
cation of the treaty of Versailles,
with the League of Nations cove
nant.
The auditorium, with its capacity
for seating and standing six thou-
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER I), 1924.
chairman, announces plans for 1924
agricultural and industrial fair, to
be held November 3-8.
CONWAY.—D. A. Spivey, banker,
defeats W. A. Prince for state sen
ate, and succeeds Senator “Uncle
Jeremiah” Smith, who did not of
fer for re-election.
CHESTER. —S. M. Jones receives
word of death of brother, Stephen
C. Jones, formerly of Chester,
goerd by bull at home at Davidson
ville, Md.
Mr. Davis and Governor Bryan ap
peared on the stage. While the
crowd was waiting for the main ac
tors in the political drama a band
amused it with popular airs, carried
to waiting crowds ouLside by means
of amplifiers and over much of the
country by radio.
The crowd was in a happy mood
and the local and state celebrities
each got a hand as he or she came
from behind the wings and tock a
chair behind the speakers’ row.
As Mr. Davis reached the rear
stage the band swung into “The
Star-Spangled Banner.” The Demo
cratic candidate stepped out from be
hind a wing and the crowd cheered
and applauded. When the band had
done the crowd stood cheering and
applauding.
The band whooped things up a bit
with “Dixie” and the demonstration
lasted about a minute.
Governor Bryan came in behind
Mr. Davis. Arthur F. Mullen, the
Democratic national committeeman
from Nebraska, presided and greet
ed the crowd “on behalf of the mili
tant democracy of Nebraska.”
Not a “Pictorial” Farmer
Governor Bryan was presented as
the first speaker and he got a ris
ing shout of applause. He held up
his hands for silence and launched
at once into his address, welcoming
in his capacity as the state’s chief
executive, the head of the Demo
cratic ticket.
Mr. Davis was hailed by Chairman
Mullen as the leader of the con
structive political thought of the
day.
“He is the fearless exponent of
those principles laid down in the bill
of rights, ’ Mr. Mullen said, “those
principles of equal rights, freedom of
religion, freedom of speech, free
dom of the press and the right to
assemble.”
As Mr. Davis was presented, Gov
ernor Bryan arose to lead the ap
plause. The audience was up with
him and the cheering and handclap
ping lasted nearly a minute.
Before Mr. Davis could begin to
speak he was presented with a bou
quet of carnations by the Davis
Bryan club of Siour City, lowa.
There was a laugh and applause
when Mr. Davis, departing from hi?
prepared address, announced that he
was “not a dirt farmer.”
“I'm not aven a pictorial farmer,”
he said, and the applause swelled.
Mr. Davis held the Republican
party responsible for the deflation
policy of the federal reserve board
and quoted the record to support his
contention. He attributed to this
policy much of the hardships which
the farmer has experienced since
1920.
As the Democratic nominee warm
ed up in his attack on the opposition,
he spurred his audience to frequent
applause. This was particularly true
with reference to his attacks on that
party for its tariff policy. A pro
tective tariff, he said, has been the
only panaceas the Republicans had
to offer for any and all ills within
the past fifty years.
Wilson’s Name Applauded
The real came however,
when Mr. Davis first mentioned the
name of Woodrqw Wilson. Here
the nominee declared that under
Wilson the horde ot lobbyists had
been driven from the halls of the
capitoi, while when the Republicans
were returned to power the same
horde returned and practically wrote
their own tariff rates.
Mr. Davis was frequently inter
rupted by applause when he insisted
that in the light of the stated and
published record 'denying responsi
bility for the presence of Charles D.
Dawes and his Colleagues at the
reparations conference, the adminis
tration could not claim the result as
an accomplishment of its own.
There was even more laughter and
applause when Mr. Davis began his
atack on the Republican farm re
lief program as outlined by Mr
Dawes. Referring to the proposal to
again refer the question to a com
mission, Mr. Davis said: “I can smell
the moth balls now.”
The crowd first roared with
laughter, then broke into applause
and there were cries of “Davis.
Davis, he’s all right.”
Scattering applause greeted the
presentation by Mr. Davis of each of
the seven planks of his farm relief
program but when, stamping his
foot, he declared that if elected he
proposed to put it into effect with
the aid of a • Democratic congress
there was an outburst of cheering.
When Mr. Davis came to the con
clusion and struck directly at the
responsibility of the president to give
the people a government “honest all
the way through,” he brought al
most continuous applause. When
he .concluded, after speaking for an
hour, the crowd was on its feet,
clapping and applauding.
Hits West With Rusli
Mr. Davis put under way with a
rush today his campaign in the great
agricultural section west of the
Mississippi river, delivering address
es in the morning, the afternoon
and the night, and between times
conferring with his running mate.
Governor Charles W. Brydn, and
many other leaders of his party.
His first talk was to the stock
men and others at the Omaha stock
yards, where he again laid empha
sis on the issue of honesty in gov
ernment, and his second was at a
luncheon for party leaders. In that
he urged organization and a fight
with the ranks of democracy moving ■
in solid formation.
“This is your fight,” Mr. Davis
said in his luncheon speech.
“I am but your agent and your
servant. An army is of no conse
quence without a leader, I admit,
but a leader is weak and powerless
without his army, and to you, the
captains of these battalions, I call I
new to summon and array your •
troops with the confident assurance ‘
that our assault in November on !
the entrenchments of privilege and
dishonesty will lead to prompt and .
overwhelming success. 1
“I summon every man and worn- j
an, no matter what political creid
they may have heretofore professed. :
to raise again the standard, of pub-'
lie morality and public honor and ’
declare once more for a government
that knows no class or creed or sec
tion, that cares neither for rich nor |
poor, for high nor low.”
In his stockyards talk Mr. Davis !
said he had come from the east r o i
the west to familiarize himself with
the problems of the people in this .
section. He declared that the Inter ;
ests of both east and west are not |
diverse, and that each depended
upon the other for a common pros
perity.
“There Is on-- problem,” hC added i
“ouite aside from questions nt b'l-'’
ANDERSON. Despite second
race for office, Sheriff Oss Marrett
goes to Louisiana to bring back J.
H. Covington, wanted here on
charge of selling spurious oil stocks,
for whom Governor MsLeod ipsti
tuted extradition proceedings.
COLUMBIA. —State’s cotton crop
will be approximately 700,000 bales,
as compared with 800,000 bales last 1
year, according to statement issued ’
by B. Harris, of ag
riculture.
one problem which has a universality
of which there can be no question.
The one thing that all the people in
this country, no matter where they
live or in what occupation they en
gage, demand, is an honest and up
right government. And the great
issue which Governor Bryan and my
self hope to put before the American
people in campaign is honesty
in government; honesty in thought;
honesty in deed.”
Welcomed by Bryan
Mr. Davis arrived here ear*y to
day from Chicago and was escorted
immediately to a hotel where he met
a number of leaders and where a
few hours later he was formally wel
comed to Nebraska by Governor
Bryan, who came over by train from
the state capital at Lincoln. It was
the first time the presidential and
vice presidential candidates had met
since immediately after the New
York convention at which they were
nominated.
Governor Bryan was a speaker at
the stockyards, the luncheon and
the auditorium and he accompanied
Mr. Davis and members of the offi
cial party to a baseball game in the
afternoon. Mr. Bryan had the same
escort from the station and was
taken immediately to Mi\ Davis’
temporary headquarters.
“How are you, governor,” asked
Mr. Davis. “I am glad to see you.”
Governor Bryan replied as warmly
as he shook hands vigorously with
the party standard-bearer.
Soon afterwards Mr. Davis and
the governor and a large party pro
ceeded by automobile to the stock
yards where they spoke under what,
at least to Mr. Davis, was an un
usual and picturesque setting.
The rotunda and balcony of the
exchange building were crowded
with men and women. In the audi
ence was a large sprinkling of cow
boys wearing the broad-brimmed
hats of the western plains. There
was a loud cheer and waving of aats
as the two candidates made their
way to the stairway from which
they spoke.
Former United States Senator
Gilbert M. Hitchcock, of Omnha. pre
sided, and besides Mr. Davis and
Governor Bryan, the speakers were
Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada,
and Representative Corder! Hull, of
Tennessee, who have charge of ar
rangements on the western trip.
After the ceremonies, at the audi
torium tonight, Mr. Davis and Gov
ernor Bryan departed for Lincoln,
where the presidential candidate will
be the guest of the governor tomor
row before proceeding to Denver,
whers is to arrive Monday and
where on Wednesday night he will
deliver the second set address of his
western campaign.
Hunters of Squirrels
Are Warned by Warden
To Wait for the Season
Hunters who have been bringing
in squirrels will find themselves in
court on charge of violating the
-state game laws if the cases are re
ported to Dr. Frank Edmondson,
Fulton county game warden, accord'
ing to his announcement Saturday.
He indicated that it had been
brought to his attention that sev I
eral persons in the country had been
killing squirrels recently, and he
gave notice that all violations ot
the law would be punished promptly.
It is unlawful to shoot any game
except rabbits at this season of the
. year, according to Dr. Edmondson,
who has a standing offer of $lO re
, ward for evidence to convict an.v
. one in Fulton county for killing
, quail, doves, or other game bird?
until November 20, when the bird
hunting season opens. The squirrel
: season opens October 3.
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Mr. Bailey, who was 36 years of,
age, is survived by his mother and
three small children, who live at
Apex, and was one of th® most pop-1 w
ular tobacco buyers in this sec
tion.
The accident occurred at a. small
creek on the national highway' a
mile and a half south of Hahint,'
where a concrete bridge is being
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