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PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1914
DEMOCRATS JNJONYhiu
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is ADOPTED.
VOL. 93—NO. 46
the monopoly of credit and j fairs directly in the hands of the
'en,!?,nk'nB "y8,<? W"iC" Wi" ! PeOP'e and »* P^Per etoettan ma-equal
banking facilities for chinery enabling the masses to di-idance
upon the State
convention In Raleigh
not large, owing to
of any spirited contest,
w ere present from
. of the slate and the
ere nol «ithout Inter-vention
adopted a plat-line
with the sentiment of
ol this Btate, renom-
Statee Senator Over-rporation
Com mission IT
: : rmed the nomina-rior
court judges.
ntion was called to or-
,i- D. Warren, Of New-named
N. J. Rouse, of
temporary chairman.
am, of Winston-Sa-
1 permanent chair-
L. Peterson, of
retary.
Overman was
ition to succeed
o« townsman,
..--.:. of Salisbury.
in
all .he people without regard to
section or class.
"We especially commend the just
and patriotic foreign policy of the
president of the United States in
dealing with other nations. Our
country, under the guidance of Pres-ident
Wilson's great intelligence and
sincere love of justice, has acknowl-edged
no standard of conduct be-neath
that demanded by Christian
nations.
"We heartily indorse the record
of achivement and leadership in the
national Congress of our United
States senators and representatives, j be possible,
and take pride in the opportunity J "We therefore offer
that came to our state to furnish
their wise and seasoned leadership
In the successful working out of the
great problems of a nation's Demo-cratic
administration.
"We indorse the administration
of Governor Locke (rain and the
I other state officials, and especially
commend the successful efforts
the general assembly, the governor
and the corporation commission for
rectly express their preferences in
the selection of those officers who
are to administer the affairs of their
government.
"We believe the Democratic par-ty
should either go back to the del-egate
system of selecting candi-dates
or give to the peole an hon-est,
bona file prmary election law
for all officers of all parties to be
held throughout the state on the
same day. the expennses of same
to be borne by the Btate, so safe-guarded
by a corrupt practices act
that dishonesty in elections will not
LOCAL NEWS_IN_BRIEF FORM
MATTERS OK INTEREST TO THE
READERS OF THE PATRIOT
EAR AXD XEAR.
LARGE CROWD ATTENDED
OAK RIIK;E BARBECUE.
the readjustment of Intrastate
freight rates anil express the Confi-
In Congress dence th;,t .,ielr z„a| ,n ,h]> cauM
' will be productive of further fruit-ful
results until discriminations will
be entirely removed, and we pledge
a continuation of our efforts to re-move
all such discriminations.
"We rejoice in the progress our
state is making in the cause of edu-cation
ol all the children under
Democratic rule, and we pledge to
the people of the state the continued
support of the party until a six-months'
school in every district
throughout North Carolina shall be
realized and that the resources of
the stale will be used under Demo-unted
by Clyde
assistant United
ir the western dis-rolina.
Edward L.
fax county, chairman
ition commission, was
-HI ceed himself by
el, of Weldon. anil
a was seconded by S.
Hillsboro. Both nomi-lade
by acclamation.
Craig responded to
• ■ delegates and made a
The go ,fi nor rie-e
believed in primaries
the convention would
ink in the platform indors-e-
gali/.ed state-wide primary.
not a reactionary and never
en," said he, "but i am on-to
the initiative and referen-applausi
followed this
i- being noticeable that
joined in it. "1 do
ire is n led
li gislatures have
responsive to the peo-
B it some say that
lid nol give us
■'• ell, they should have
rimarj act that was be-
■ e last session." He
a |ii,ink favoring a re-no
cnild under the
1 >! to work in the
toman to work in
t.
Redfield, secre-
States depart-
. who had deliv-
•in. in address at
North Carolina the
as introduced to ttie
a speech in
nted the splendid
itti nded the Dem-tral
Ion. the address
• well received. He
>ur.
I'latl'orm tdopterf.
platform com-tted
by t 'ameron
the chair-ntal
Ive ■ of the
enibled in con-ndltions
of Dem-ibility
in state and
in th large masure
Democratic
'iiacted into
which Democratic
• en applied in re-
• pportunities to all
I all c las-.
mr a:;eg:ance to
ipleS of Demo-am!
again pre-
■ lie people in con-ntinuation
of Dem-
* ill result In a com-
0 fthe high ideals
government as es-
- tat hers of the re-
;> reted to meet the
;ress of times.
the administration of
n and the broad
igh Ideals, earnest-ition
with which he
Ing his high office. The
under brave and
lip has merited the con-wpport
of the American
as a substi-tute
for the committee's report on
the primary question the following:
"We demand the enactment of a
legalized state-wide primary election
law by ballot for all parties and for
all elective offices, to he held on the
same day throughout the state, at
the expense of the .state, and we
of j urge the general assembly to pro-vide
such an act as will clearly anil
distinctly effectuate rhis purpose
and properly safeguarded by a dras-tic
corrupt practices act."
Mr. Brooks spoke for the minor-ity
report, saying he did not attend
the recent progressive Democratic
meeting in Raleigh, for if there
was anything wrong with the party,
he wanted to come to a Democratic
convention to fight It out. If it is
a good thing to have primaries for
United States senators, why is it
not a good thing to have them for
legislative officers? He believed
such action would build up the
Democratic party and help to de-stroy
the Republican party, if we
have a primary, let US have it in
truth and in fact.
L.
has
to
the
cratic rule to promote this end just
as rapidly as economic conditions
will permit, and to this end we urge
co-operation of state and count, tor
I • establishment of 8ix-monti.V
school terms.
"We indorse the legalized state-wide
primaries for national, state
and judicial offices and pledge the
party to the indorsement of such a
law as will make this principle ap-ply
to all political parties.
"We recommend that our penal
system be revised in the light of the
most modern methods. We congrat-ulate
all concerned upon the ad-j The vote of the other counties"
upon
I
i • -tored the govern-
■ people and wrested the
Horn the hands of the
- under which the Re-
I Placed it. The tariff
»ed downward and the
*° Ux "»e people wrested
favored few. It has de-
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vances made by our governor and
the general assembly, and especial-ly
upon the epoch-maxing victory
recently won before the interstate
commerce commission in the mat-ter
of relieving North Carolina
points of the discrimination in
freight tariffs In favor of other
points In other states, and we urge
that the struggle so well begun
shall be pressed until there shall
not remain a shadow of suspicion
that Hie people of this state labor
under any disadvantage so far as
the common carriers are concerned,
both interstate and intrastate.
"We likewise ask that tin- pres-ent
investigation of Insurance rates
h.- pressed to a culmination that
will remove all questions as to dis-crimination
adverse to our people.
"We bring before our party the
special demand ami th.- needs of the
farmers of North Carolina, in the
conviction that all that serves them
"lies ail the people. We recom-mend
that the state follow up its
Increasingly useful work of inspec-tion,
education am: instructions
with aid to a system of rural cred-its
designed to enable the producers
of the wealth from which the state
draws iis life to manage their en-terprises
at the lowest possible rate
of interest and to market their pro-iiin
ts to the best advantage. We
urge our representatives in Congress
to uphold the president in his plans
to aid our farmers in the matter of
rural credits. We recommend the
encouragement of studies in practi-cal
agriculture in our free schools."
Minority Re|Mirl Filed.
A. J. McKinnon, of Maxton. for
himself and A. L. Ilrooks. of Greens-boro,
members: of tne platform com-mittee,
presented the following mi-nority
report:
"We regret to dissent from the re-port
of the majority of your com-mittee
on resolutions and platform
with relation to any matter coming
before this convention, but there is
one plank of the platform which we
feel sure should not be adopted as
reported by the committee, and that
is the one relating to legalized pri-maries
for the state.
"We believe that the Democratic
party can only hope to succeed in
the state and nation by placing the
management of governmental af-
< ameron Morrison spoke in oppo-sition,
insisting that the western
counties that do not want county
primaries believe they will hurl
llieir Democratic chances should not
have such primaries forced
them.
The convention voted ^6S for and
572 against the minority report,
thereafter adopting the platform as
reported bj the majority of the
committee.
The L'I: votes of Gullford county,
whirl, has the legalized primary.
w.re cast for the minority report.
in
the district was as follows: Ala-mance,
4 for and 10 against; Cas-well.
6 against; Forsyth. 21 against;
Granville. 11 for: Orange. 7 for;
Durham. 7 l-L' for and 5 1-2 against;
Surry. 14 against. Person and
Stokes did not vote. Randolph.
Mr. T. w. Miller, of Liberty, |s
in the city today.
Mr. G. M. Ruinley. of Gibsonville,
gave The Patriot the pleasure of a
call this morning.
Mr. Everett J_. Lamar, of James-town,
was a caller at The Patriot of-fice
Saturday afternoon.
Mr. J. W. Hedgecock. of High
Point Route 2. was a welcome call-er
at The Patriot office this morn-ing.
The engagement of Mr. W.
Cranford and Mrs. Eva Tyson
been announced, the wedding
take place in this.city during
present month.
Burlington News: Mrs. W. O.
Doggett. of Brown Summit, and Mrs.
J. 1.. Hawkins, of Greensboro, Bpent
the week end here visiting their sis-ter.
-Mrs. G. W. Anthony.
Prof. J. A. Williams, who has
been principal of the Greensboro
high school for the past two years,
lias been elected superintendent of
the graded schools at Clinton and
will leave soon for his new work.
Mr. C. A. Hall, who recently re-tired
from his law practice here on
account of failing health and return-ed
to his old home in Person coun-ty,
is a patient at St. Leo's hospital.
and will undergo an operation today.
Charles Curtis Simmons, the 13-
months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
S. Simmons, died Thursday after-noon
at the home of his parents near
White Oak. The funeral was con-ducted
from the home Friday af-ternoon
by Rev. w. II. Eller.
Mr. and Mrs. I. F. West have is-sued
invitations to the marriage of
their daughter. Miss Dallie Rons
West, and Mr. Frnest L. Deal, of
Augusta, Ga., the ceremony to take
place in the First Baptist church in
this city Tuesday evening, June .::.
at 6.::0 o'clock.
Prof. T. E. Whitaker. of Oak
Ridge, is anxious to locate a young
mare that strayed away from Sum-merfield
last night. The animal
was hitched to a top buggy and had
been driven to Summerfleld by Prof.
Whitaker's sons. She was last seen
coming in the direction of Green.--
boro.
Mr. George Puller suffered seri-ous
injuries Friday afternoon, when
an automobile in which he was trav-eling
overturned at a point near
Liberty. He was brought to Greens-boro
Saturday morning and placed
in St. Leo's hospital, the physicians
A large crowd of former students
and other friends of the institution
attended a barbecue at Oak Ridge
Institute Saturday and participated
in the exercises in connection with
laying the corner-stone of the new-building
to be erected on the site of
the structure destroyed by fire last
January.
Prof. T. B. Whitaker acted as
master of ceremonies and introduc-ed
a number of gentlemen who
made brief addresses. Among the
speakers were A. B. Kimball. E. D.
Broadhurst, Dr. J. L. Mann. A.
Way land Cooke and Peter Cooper,
of Greensboro: S. I.. Davis and Rev.
A. G. Dixon, of High Point; W. E.
Benbow and S. G. Case, of Oak
Ridge. Prof. Whitaker. who has
long been identified with the school,
also spoke briefly, reviewing the
work of the past and outlining some
Of the plans for the future.
Following the laying of the
ner-stone, a meeting of the stock
holders of the new corporation was
held. Mr. John L. King, of this
city, acted as chairman and Prof. T.
E. Whitaker, of Oak Ridge, as sec-retary,
it was stated that about
$23,000 of the required capital of
$36,000 desired for rebuilding has
been secured, and it is expected
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
CONVENTION HELD HERE.
N ere made
to various
The state convention of the Chris-tian
Endeavor Society, which con-vened
in Asheboro Street Friends
church Friday night, adjourned last
night, following a pleasant and
profitable meeting. Over 60 dele-gates
were present from different
sections of the state and a number
of Interesting addresses
on subjects relating
phases of tiie work.
Officers for the ensuing year
were sleeted as follows: George L.
Mitchell, of Wilmington, president;
Rev. J. D. Andrew, of New to:
first vhe president and superintend-ent
of the Asheville district: Eli
Barker, of Greensboro, second vi, 8
president and superintendent of the
northwestern district: K. I'.. Cr»V,
of Raleigh, third vice president a
superintendent of the Raleigh di.--
trtct: Miss Isabel McDougal, of Wil-mington
secretary: Newton Fisher.
COr-i"f Wilmington, treasurer; Mi-,
Florence Ledbetter, of Greensboro,
press superintendent: Rev. R. M.
Andrew-. of Greensboro, prison su-perintendent:
Mrs. Lewis Mi-Far-land,
of High Point, superintendent
of junior-intermediate work; Rev.
Shuford Peeler, of Greensboro, mis-sion
superintendent; Thomas c.
Finley. superintendent of floating
that the remainder will be raised in i "ork: '"apt. J- P. Russell, of Lutn-a
short time. j berton. extension secretary; Rev. B.
Work on the new building will ■ J- Harold, of Greensboro, dniratlon-be
pushed as rapidly as possible, and
it is expected to have it in use soon
after the opening of the fall term
of school.
ai secretary.
PORTRAITS OF EMINENT
< ITIZKNS PRESENTED.
which is in the seventh district, cast holding out slight hope for
19 votes for the minority report.
The following members of the
Dmocratlc executive committee were
chded from the firth district: A.
M. Scales, of Gullford; Charles O.
Mi-Michael, of Rockingham: S. C.
Draw ley. of Durham; S. M. Gattis.
of Orange; I). G. Brummitt, of
Granville, and A. II. Eller. of For-syth.
There are 60 members of the
state committee, six from each of
the ton congressional districts.
his
Till PRICE DEMANDED
liV GEN. HtKI'.TV TO VI l.
According to advices received
from Mexico City, the price de-manded
by (i.-n. Iluerta for his re-tirement
is the legalization of his
official acts since he assumed the
provisional presidency of Mexico.
This is said to have been the pro-posal
Iluerta authorized his dele-gates
to offer at the mediation con-ference
at Niagara Falls.
Gen. iluerta said to realize that
he has only a slim chance of win-ning
out, but he is understood to
be determined not to abandon pow-er
without adequate provision be-ing
made for the protection of his
own future and for that of the men
with whom he has surrounded him-self.
The constitutionalists, it is said,
have insisted that no act of Gen.
Huerta's administration shall ever
be regarded as legal, and in this
case Gen. Iluerta foresees enormous
financial losses for those who join-ed
in the flotation of his loans as
well as personal risk for the mem-bers
of his cabinet, Tor the new con-gressmen
installed in place of those
whom he imprisoned and for thou-sands
of minor officials and even
private citizens who, willingly or un-willingly,
aided his government.
The Confederate monument in Ar-lington
cemetery, Washington, was
unveiled Thursday with an address
by President Wilson.
oovery.
The June term of Gullford Su-perior
court for the trial of civil
cases convened this morning at 10
O'clock, with Judge Henry IV Lane.
of Rockingham county, on ti„.
bench. The term is for two weeks
and will doubtless continue for that
length of time if an attempt is made
to try all the cases on the calendar.
Mr. Lonnie Poo: died Friday
night at his home in this city, fol-lowing
a brief illness. He was 28
years old and is survived bj .
widow and two young children.
The funeral was conducted from
the late residence yesterday after-noon
and interment made in Greene
Hill cemetery, the services being
conducted by Rev. Mr. Strickland.
Mr. Pool was a member of the Jr.
O. U. A. M. and the Red Men ami
was buried with the honors of these
orders.
Mr. Harry Cunningham and Miss
Elisabeth Adams were married Sat-urday
at noon at the home of the
bride's mother, .Mrs. C. c. Ferrell.
on North Elm street. The cere-mony
was performed by Rev. Dr.
Melton Clark, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, in the presence
of relatives and a .few intimate
friends of the young couple. After
a bridal trip to Washington. New-
York and other places. Mr. and Mrs.
Cunningham will be at home on
West Washington street.
Mr. Claude Barker, who is con-nected
with the mercantile firm of
Thacker &. Brockmann, ana Miss
Elsie Pugh, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. T. K. Pugh, were married yes-terday
afternoon at the home of the
bride's parents near Climax. Rev.
W. M. Pike, of Liberty, performed
the ceremony in the presence of a
number of relatives and friends of
the young couple. Mr. Barker is
a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Barker,
of southern Guilford, and is a
young man of promise. His bride
la an atractive and popular young
-woman and has many friends.
Interesting exercises were held at
the Carnegie library in tnis city Sat-urday
night in connection with the
unveiling of portraits of four dis-tinguished
men of Guilford county
—the late Julius A. Gray. Governor
John M. Morehead. Governor Jona-than
Worth and Governor Alfred M.
Scales. The portraits were painted
by Miss Kmma Morehead Whitfield.
of Richmond. Va.. and were pre-sented
to the city by descendants of
the distinguished men.
The portrait of Julius A. Gray
was formally presented by Mr. A.
M. Scales on behalf of members of
the Gray family and was unveiled
by Miss Eugenia Gray Heck. Col.
James T. Morehead presented the
por rait of Governor Worth and it
was unveiled by Miss Evelyn Worth
Jackson. Dr. J. V. Joyner. state
superintendent of public instruction,
made the speech presenting the por-trait
of Governor Morenead and it
was unveiled by Kugene Morehead
Wiley. The portrait of Governor
Scales was presented by Prof, \\\ C.
Smith and unveiled by Misses Kate
and Fannie Wyllie.
The speeches of acceptance were
made by Mr. K. P. Wharton, for
the board of trustees of the Car-negie
library, and Mayor Thomas J.
Murphy, for the city of Greensboro.
DISQUIETING NEWS OF
THE MEXICAN SIT! ATlOV.
Washington. June 7. Another
crisis in the Mexican situation faced
the government tonight, a situation
fraught with perils f„r mediatiou
and with possibilities that might
precipitate actual warfare between
the United States and Mexico.
General Huerta has brought
about the new crisis by ordering
his gunboats to blockade the port of
Tampico and to seize a cargo of
ammunition SB route there for the
Mexican constitutionalists. T'~
shipment is aboard the steamer \
tilla from New York, flying the Cu-ban
flag. Huerta has notified the
powers of the intent to blockade the
port and that he proposes to seize
the cargo consigned to the belliger-ents
against his sovereign!] a.- co
trahand of war.
The purpose of the United State-to
suppress the attempt to blockade
I and prevent interference with the
j Antilla »a. Indicated tonight when
i Secretary Daniels issued an official
I statement announcing that. while
I no new orders had been given Rear
. Admiral liadger. there had been no
change in the policy o» the goven
ment in reference to its desire that
the port of Tampico shall In-to
all commerce.
open
Mi.
Meld I ,, Gi d Jury on I ,,i gerj
( barge.
Mr. Wiley i'. Hawkins was given
a hearing in Municipal court Friday
in three cases charging him with
forgery and held for the action of
the grand jury at the September
term of Superior court under three
bonds aggregating $!M)u. The pros-ecuting
witness. Mr. II. H. Tate,
testified that during the past ten
months he had advanced the defen-dant
various sums of money
amounting to $2,700 to be loaned
by Hawkins, the money having been
advanced by Tale on the strength
of orders signed by the borrowers.
He testified that recently lie be-came
suspicious of tne genuineness
of some of the orders and an inves-tigation
revealed the fact that 42
of them were forgeries. The or-ders
were drawn on the paymaster
of the Southern Railway and pur-ported
to be signed by employes of
the Southern.
e Ammunition Por Mexicans.
Washington, June ;,. [n|
,; r Itlng Washl igton lal
that th- Anierica,i , ..,„,,,,.,. sut.-
shlne, from Gaiveston, had lande'
ammunition at Tampico for I
Mexican constitutionalists, uit
interference on the part <,t tl ■
United States <■-,- i! e Huerta govet
received i: official quai
iers here without comment. SI
ami navj department offli I
clined to verify the report, but
from other source.- n wu |,.,,r.
that the present • <.: | ,- s .:,
off Tampho with amis aboard I. I
been known t„ th,. was ilngton .
ernmenl for several days, in rli
of the tot that there had been I 0
Blderabie apprehension regarding
the attitude the Cnited State. r„:
take toward the landing of the am-munition
at this Mexican port, the
delivery of the munitions without
interference was regarded with sig-nificance.
Deputy Sheriff Shaw, Police Offi-cer
Bray and Bill Fisher left yester-day
for Summerville, W. va.. to ap-pear
as witnesses in the trial of
Tollie McCluag, who was arrested in
this city last September on the
charge of having been implicated
with his father in the murder of his
uncle in Nicholas county. W. Va.
Young McCluag. who was a teacher
in the Greensboro Commercial
School, was arrested soon after his
return from a vacation trip to his
home in West Virginia.
Boanl of Kiluoation Heats,
At the regular monthly meeting
of the Guilford county board of ed-ucation
Saturday Mr. J. Van Llnd
ley was elected a member of the
board to succeed Mr. John C. Ket-nett.
who resigned recently to ac-cept
an appointment as deputy
t'nited States marshal. The two
other members of the board are Dr.
W. T. Whitsett and Mr. C. H. Ire
land.
A delegation appeared before the
board and asked that a new build
ing be erected at the Monticello
school. The board tock the matter
under advisement ana decided to
erect the building as soon as the
necessary arrangements can be
made.