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NORTH CA«0? DEMOCRATS
' IOKMALI-V L.-* THE
1916 CAMPA.
The Democratic state convention
. Kaleigh Thursday was attended
a large and enthusiastic outpour-
■je of party men from all sections of
Xorth Carolina. Because of the ab-le,„-,.
of the excitement that has
usually attended the nomination of
andidates for state offices, the
irowd was not so large or tumultuous
a* on some former occasions, but it
*-as H splendid convention in every
respett. Beyond the adoption of a
platform, the election of electors-at-larif
and delegates-at-large to the
national convention and the ratifica-tion
of the election of district elec-tors
and delegates, there was little
business before the convention.
State Chairman Warren called the
convention to order shortly before
noon and presented Senator F. M.
Simmons as the temporary presiding
officer. The senator later was made
permanent chairman. In assuming
the cliair Senator Simmons made a
speech that thrilled the convention
and will be read with pleasure and
profit by Democrats all over the
state. It «as the keynote speech of
the 1916 campaign in North Caro-lina
and is pronounced one of the
lines! deliverances ever made to the
Democracy of North Carolina. An
abbreviated report of the speech will
be found in this issue of The Pa-triot.
i Other speakers before the conven-tion
included Governor Craig, Secre-tary
ol the Navy Daniels, Cameron
Morrison and 0. Max Gardner, the
latter being the only candidate for
the Democratic nomination for lieu-tenant
governor. Governor Craig
devoted himself largely to affairs of
the state: Secretary Diniels spoke
of the achievements of the Wilson
administration, and Messrs. Morrison
::nd Gardner lambasted rhe Republi-cans,
not forgetting to pay their re-spects
to Marion Butler, the new boss
ei ihe Republican party in North
Carolina. Mr. Gardner caught the
convention when he termed Butler
the "Villa ol North Carolina poli-tics."
The platform adopted by the con-vention,
which appears elsewhere in
.iiis issue, is a strong endorsement
of President Wilson and the legisla-tive
program of the administration.
For the state the platform pledges
Ih" Democratic party to the further
development ol public elucation, .he
construction and maintenance of im-proved
highways, the development
01 the rural communities, a ware-house
system for farm products and
tte lost-ring Cf all legitimate enter-prises.
Senator Simmons, Senator Over-nan,
Governor Craig and Gen. Julian
■ iarr were elected by Reclamation
;'•"•gates to the national convention.
1, ''fcnwtes are: Wade H. Har-
-oici l0Up. j. c.ra,vfordB
o Raleigh; j. D Murn:Uy of^
"'•andT. D. Warren, of Newbern.
wZ I "'° '0n congrcssional dis-r.
cts elected two delegates and two
S;™8^ to the national conven-are-'
r fn"'°° tllc fl"« «>{»trict
W T >■" kor' of 3'aham. and
•"■«>■ at , °adhurit- of Greens-
GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY, MAY 1, 1016. VOL. 95-NO. 3*
aMTo0" M°'riSOn' °f Char,°"e- _ J- O- tarr. of Wiimin„*„„
"amed as eie
T'ionias J.
°f Wilmington, were
<tors-at-large.
Gold, of High Point,
K ",e fift'' district.
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n• °f L»n">erton. was
-n^tteeT °' ** nati°naI
the Posii"io"n d,d not desire to retain
b°W-»a secretary of the navy.
A new
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TO PROVIDE MORE ROOM
AT THE MASONIC HOME.
The movement luaagnrated some
time ago looking to the erection of
additional buildings at the Masonic
and Eastern Star home, a short dis-tance
beyond Pomona, Is progress-ing
very satisfactorily. It is the
purpose of the Masonic fraternity to
raise $25,000 for this object, and
white no vigorous campaign has been
prosecuted, about one-fifth of the
amount has been subscribed. The
recent meeting of Scott'sh Rite Ma-sons
in Charlotte pledged $1,600 and
Mr. Ceasar Cone has subscribed
*./v0. A number of other smaller
suu^criptions have been made by
Masons in different sections of the
state.
The Masons have made the follow-ing
statement in regard to the enter-prise:
"ine new buildings necessary to
care for the many applications for
admission to the Masonic and East-ern
Star home are now fully assured
by the action of Carolina Consistory
Scottish Rite Masons, at their spring
reunion, held in Charlotte, -.pril 18
to 20. This great Masonic body,
which of late years has shown such
a marvelous growth in membership,
la taking an active part in support-ing
all Masonic charities. At this
last reunion they appropriated the
handsome sum of »*,•«£ to start a
fund for the erection ot a building
at the Masonic and Eastern Star
home for old Masons. This building
is to be known as Carolina Consis-tory
building and will contain 15
rooms.
"This action on the part of the
Scottisa Rite body is ample evidence
that the membership believe in prac-tical
charity. The Masonic home
was opened in 1912 and at this date
has 33 guests. The present build-ing
is fully occupied, and in Decem-ber,
1915, a movement was started
by Oasis temple A. A. N. M. Shrine
to build an addition -to the present
building. ^-For this, purpose Oasis
temple appropriated $1,500 and this
builaing will be known as Oasis tem-ple
building. This building will also
contain 15 rooms. By the gift of the
Scottish Rite Consistory both build-ings
will be started at the same time,
and when completed will be monu-ments
to their interest in the old
and indigent Masons of North Caro-lina.
"Another large gift to these new
buildings was made by Ceasar Cone,
of Greensboro, a prominent Mason
and generous benefactor to this
home since its organization. Mr.
Cones donation was $500 in cash.
In addition to these donations, vari-ous
pledges have been made by Ma-sonic
bodies throughout the state
and also individuals which brings
the total to $5,000. The total cost
of these buildings will approximate
$25,000 and operations will not be-gin
until the full amount is in sight."
SAYS IT IS A GERMAN PLOT
IRISH UPRISING IS DENOUNCED
BY JOHN REDMOND .iH BLOW
AT HOME RULE.
John Redmond, leader of the Irish
Nationalist party in the British
house of commons, has made the fol-lowing
statement concerning the up-rising
in Ireland, which has resulted
in the declaration of martial law
throughcut the island:
"My first feeling, of course, on
hearing of this insane movement,
was one of horror, discouragement
and almost despair. I asked myself
whether Ireland, as so often before
in her tragic history, was to dash
the cup of liberty from her lips—
was the insanity of a small section of.
her people once again to turn all
Pleasant Garden Commencement.
Commencement at the Pleasant
Garden high school was ushered in
Thursday night with a recital by pu-pils
of the music department, a very
enjoyable program being rendered
Declamation and recitation contest*
.were held Saturday, and yesterday
afternoon the commencement ser-mon
was preached by Rev. Dr. Gil-bert
T. Rowe, of High Point. To-night
a program will be rendered by
pupils of the primary and grammar
grade departments.
Tomorrow will be commencement
day proper. Dr. H. Q. „,exander,
president of the North Carolina
Farmers' Union, will deliver the ad-dress
at 10.30 o'clock in the morn-ing.
The graduating exercises will
be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
There are ten members of the grad-uating
class this year. The com-mencement
will come to a close to-morrow
night with the presentation
of a play, "What Happened to
Jones."
*'!!!L£T~** Crimlna» term
Judge i- ,' •.' 9 0c'ock. wife1
Salicltor"j c I"6 °" tlle oench and
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District Conference.—The Greens-boro
district conference of the M. E.
Church, South, which met in High
Point Thursday, adjourned Saturday,
after a very successful eession. The
conference accepted an invitation to
meet next year at Holts chapel, on
the East Greensboro circuit. The
following were elected delegates to
the next meeting of the Western
North Carolina Conference: J. W
Chaarti,.,.^ High Point; C. H Ire-
RR«^d;o„h«>KhO, W.*e»n8b0rO: T- J" Finc". of P. H. Wiulain80I1 of
ReidwUle. Tfce alternates are John
2?W* *?d Sam Browne, of ( i rAAKaarWtT-t\
few years into irreparable defeat and
to send her back on the very eve
of her final recognition as a free
nation into another long night of
slavery, incalculable suffering and
weary- and uncertain struggling.
"For look at the Irish position to-day.
In the short space of 40 years
Ireland has by a constitutional move-ment
made an almost unbrokenly
triumphant march from pauperism
and slavery to prosperity and free-dom.
She has won back the posses-sion
of Irish land; she has stayed
emigration; she has at last begun
an era yf national prosperity. Final-ly,
she has succeeded in placing on
the statute books the greatest char-ter
of freedom ever offered her since
the days of Gratten. Is all this to
be lost?
"When war. came she made a
choice which was inevitable if she
was to be true to all the principles
which she had held through all her
history and which she had Just so
completely vindicated on her own
soil, namely, the rights of small na-tions,
sacred principles of national-ity,
liberty and democracy.
"Moreover, the nations for whlc
through all her history she had felt
the sympathy that came from com-mon
principles and common aspira-tions
were trampled, as she In ,ier
time had been trampled, under the
iron heel of arrogant force.
•"What has Ireland suffered in the
past which Poland. Alsace, Belg'ium
and Serbia have not suSered j,t the
hands of Germany? And I may
add also that portion of the soil of
France, her oil friend and ally,
which is in the hands of Germany?
"What has been the record ot Ger-many
but the suppression of na-tionality,
of freedom and of lan-guage—
in short, the suppression of
all things for which for centuries
Ireland has struggled, the victory
of which Ireland has achieved. Take
the case of Belgium. Has there not
been the same ruthless shedding of
blood of the priests and the people
that is part of Ireland's own history?
Leave the question of principle out
and consider the question only of the
mere interests of Ireland herself.
What did the situation demand?
"Neutrality? That was Impossible.
Hostility to the just cause of the
allies? Is there a sane man in Ire-land
who does not see that this
meant the drowning of Ireland's
newly-born liberties in Irish blood?
Be this view right or wrong, this
was the opinion of an overwhelming
majority of the Irish people. It was
the opinion which thousands of Irish
soldiers have sealed with their blood
by dying in the cause of the liberty
of Ireland of the world. » • » *"
"Millions of our people in the
United States and elsewhere, whose
generous devotion helped us so large-ly
to win our virtories for the moth-erland
of our race, have always ac-cepted
it. However bounteous their
help, never have they denied Ire-land's
right to choose her policy for
herself. That doctrine has been con-tested
only by the very same men
who today have tried to make Ire-land
a cat's paw of Germany.
"In all our long and successful-struggle
to obtain home rule we have
been thwarted and opposed by that
same section. We have won home
rule, not through them, but in spite
of them. This wicked move of theirs
was their last blow at .home rule. It
was not half as much treason to the"
cause of the allies as treason to the
cause of home rule.
"This attempted deadly blow at
home rule carried on through this
section Is made more wicked; more
insolent, by this fact—that Germany
plotted it. Germany organized, Ger-many
paid for it. So far as Ger-many's
share in it is concerned, It
TO CONFER WITH THE KAISER
AMBASSADOR GERARD GOBS TO
MEET GERMAN RULER AT
ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
James W. Gerard, the United
States ambassador at Berlin, has
gone to the German army headquar-ters
for a conference with Emperor
William, presumably on the subma-rine
issue. The following dispatch
bearing on the situation has been
sent out from Washington:
Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, in
advising the state department that
he had been invited to confer with
Emperor William at army headquar
tars, said he had not been informed
of the purpose of the conference. ii>.
fact Secretary Lansing said, when
announcing the receipt of Mr. Ger-
J1IROR8 FOR JUNE TERM
UNITED STATES COURT.
her marvelous victories of the last- ard's dispatch, no explanation of any
kind had accompanied the invitation:
' The belief prevails here, however,
t^at the emperor desires to discuss
the general submarine situation wit:i
Ambassador Gerard and possibly ex-plain
in detail his views for the bene
fit it President Wilson. Diplomats,
especially those attached to Teutonic
embassies, seemed to regard the cin-
W*«nce between the emperor and
ambassador as holding a certain de-
S*M of hopefulness.
|M view of the apparent intention
of German officials to reach a decis-ion
as quickly as possible, the presi-dent
is disposed not to instruct Am-basaador
Gerard to press for a repK
to the American demand at once,
tjlj*. question will not be allowed to
draf along many more days, hov-
♦rer. .
iflM nttack by a submarine on t'-e
merchantman Industry, re •
Friday, and the placing of the
Pi 4>pen boats 20 miles from
created an unfavorable lm-on
officials, although there
in© Americans on board and
re the United States !a not dl-icerned.
Germany has ad-it
is only proper to place
TS and crews of attacked
vessels in open boats when they are
near shore, and the weather is good.
Optimism regarding the ulti-nate
outcome of the situation was appar-ent
in German circles following the
receipt by the Germany embassy of
dispatches from Berlin described
indicating that Germany would
tempt to meet the American
niands.
Because of the visit of Mr. Gerard
to the emperor, officials seemed in-clined
to believe that it would oe
impossible for Germany to mnke re-ply
to the American note before enrly
this week.
as
at-de-
The following have been drawn
for Jury duty at the June term of
United States District court in —3
city:
W. C. Hurley, Troy; J. H. Lam-beth,
Brown Summit; Man ley Bak-er,
Burlington; Roocrt L. M. Blair,
Progress; Robah V. Haizlin, Salem
Chapel; J. Wesley Williard, Wins-ton-
Salem; Julian J. Brown, Eftand;
J. Clifford Ray, Hillsboro; Charles
G. Huff, Walnut Cove; L. F. Troxler,
Mtamahaw; John W. Brown, Kemps
Mills; T. S. Bouldin, Archdale;
James W. Jones. Pinnacle; John W.
Shamel, Old Richmond: John F.
Nance, Dobson; E. O. York, Randle-man;
M. L. Armtield, Greensboro;
J. P. Ad kins, Stoneville; J. M. Crat-er.
Cycle; Chester Morris, Kerners-ville;
Homer P. Moffitt. Ramseur;
James Jones, Winston-Salem; R. L.
Lovelace, Jonesvtlle; James H. Nel-son,
Danbury; William R. Petree,
Germanton; J. Robert Chrismon,
Greensboro; J. W. Tate, Burlington;
R. M. Hill.-Hillsboro; N. A. Martin,
Danbury; P. M. Combs. Mclver;
George A. Garrett, Julian; E. J. Gro-gan,
Ayersvllle; W. C. Kearns, Mar-tins
Mills; C. A. Reynolds, Winston-
Salem: William J. Clarke. Reids-ville;
W. M. Brim, Brim; Oscar L.
Thomas, Hillsboro; Addi'son Tucker,
Friendship; James B. Fagge, Leaks-ville;
U. W. Wright, Dobson; D. W.
Bulls. Sophia; T. D. Golding. Round
Peak; R. T. Kernodle, Burlington;
J. H. Langley. Greensboro; J. T. Pe-gram,
Colfax; Pres B. Wright. Mad-ison;
J. F. Russell, Blalne; Steve
H. Ware, Reldsvllle; W. L. Thomas.
Milton; Grant Vuncannon.Asheboro;
W. R. Hurdle, Hurdle Mills; Guy
Smitherman, Troy.
A THREE-FOLD M0B1LIZATI0I
INDUSTRY AND/X)MMERCEMV»
BE READY IP WAR SHOULD
COMB TO US.
L. A. Southern ]>ead.—Mr. L. A.
Southern, of Stokesdale, died Friday
in the state hospital at Morganton,
where he was carried recently for
treatment. The funeral and inter-ment
took place at Stokesdale Sat-urday
afternoon. Mr. Southern was
a good citizen and was esteemed by
all who knew him. He is survived by
his widow, three children and an
adopted son.
is a German invasion of Ireland as
brutal, as selfish, as cynical as Ger-many's
invasion of Belgium. Blood
has been shed and If Ireland has not
been reduced to the same horrors of
Belgium, with her starving people,
her massacred priests and her violat-ed
convents, it is not the fault of
Germany.
"And the final aggregate of this
movement is this: The misguided,
insane men who have taken part in
this movement in Ireland have risk-ed,
and some of them lost, their
lives. But what am I to say to those
men who have sent them into this
insane and anti-patriotic movement
while they have remained in the safe
remoteness of American cities?
"I might add that this movement
has been set in motion by the same
class of men at me very moment
when America is demanding repara-tion
for blood of innocent American
men, women and children shed by
Germany, and thus they are guilty
of double treason—treason to the
generous land that received them,
as well as to the land which, gave
them birth.
"As to the final result: I do not
believe this wicked and nsane move-ment
will achieve its ends. The
German plct has failed. A majority
of the people of Ireland will retain
their calmness, fortitud-j and unity.
They abhor this attack on their in-terests,
their rights and their prin-ciples.
Home rule has not been de-stroyed.
It remains Indestructible."
BRITISH SURRENDER TO
TURKS IN MESOPOTAMIA.
Another phase of the ill-fated Brit-ish
campaign in Mesopotamia has
closed with the surrender of General
Towintrend- and ,the garrison at Kut-el-
Amara, on the Tigris river, about
uo miles below Bagdad. Some 10,-
000 men in all laid down their arms
to the Turks, alter having destroyed
all their guns and munitions.
The British Mesopotamian cam-paign,
waged along the Tigris from
the Persian gulf northward, almost
to the gates oi Bagdad, had as Its
chief object the capture of that an-cient
city. To divert the Turkish
forces from Gallipoli was another
object. When almost at the point of
achieving its main object late last
year, the effort broke down at Ctesi-phon,
xi miles from Bagdad, when
the Turks, alarmed for the safety
of the town of fabled memory, rush-ed
up reinforcements, Inflicted a de-feat
upon the British and compelled
their retreat 110 miles down "the Ti-gris
to Kut-el-Amara, where the
Turks had them securely bottled up.
General Townshend held out for
143 days, his supplies steadily grow-ing
lower as he awaited the relief of
the army which, nrst under General
Aylmer, and then under General Gor-ringe,
battled its way up the Tigris
toward him. This army encountered
strong positions of the Turks below
Kut on both sides of the river and,
although several of these were car-ried,
it has not been able to work
much closer to the beleaguered gar-rison
than a score of miles because
of the stubborn Turkish resistance
and flood conditions on the Tigris.
Death of Mrs. Albert PeeJe.
Mrs. Albert Peele, who had been
in feeble health for quite a while,
died Friday night at her home at
Ouilford College. She was one of
the best known women of the Guil-ford
College community and her
death brings sorrow to many hearts.
Mrs. Peele was 76 years old and a
native of Damascus, Ohio. She was
married to Rev. Albert Peele in 1881
and soon thereafter became a rec-ognized
minister of the Society of
Friends. She was closely identified
with many activities of the church
and for years had been a member of
the central board of foreign mis-sions.
The funeral was held at the
Friends meeting house at Guilford
College yesterday morning at 11
o'clock, the services being conduct-ed
by Rev. Dr. Thomas Newlin and
Mrs. Mary Woody.
Goes to New York.—Mr. T. N.
Winslow. of this city, who holds a
government position as income tax
inspector and has been stationed in
Baltimore for some time, has been
transferred to New York.
Mobilization of American Indus-tries
and commerce as a prime fac-tor
of preparedness for national de-fense
was urged by Secretary ot War
Baker, in an address before the an-nual
banquet of the American News-paper
Publishers' Association in
New York Thursday night. He de-clared
that the necessity of such a
mobilization was one of the great
lessons learned from the European
war.
"At first this question, prepared-ness,
revolved around mere military
preparation in the narrowest sense,"
said Secretary Baker, "but, as the
war developed in Europe, we learn-ed
that these things are but a part
of preparation, and a relatively use-less
part, unless they are based up-on
other things very much more dif-ficult
to secure—things which must
be secured long in advance of a cris-is,
or else be then obtainable only
with peril and fearful unnecessary
loss.
"We have witnessed the nations of
Europe preparing as they fought and
have come to realise that, perhaps,
the most important kind of prepared-ness
is a kind wnlch is equally avail-able
and useful in times of peace,
and which, if secured, will not only
render our military preparation more
effective, but will steady and
strengthen and inspire the nation
when engaged in peaceful pursuits.
"Three-fold mobilization is neces-sary
in any country for war, and, of
these three elements, two are as val-uable
and as vital in times of peace
as in times of conflict. In the first
place, there must be, of course, arms
and soldiers, ships and sailors, and
these must be modern and adequate.
No nation can with justice summon
embattled farmers' with ' the rude
firearms which were adequate a tew
decades ago. ••..*. - - i_
"The second mobilization neces-sary
is that of our industries and
commerce. The war in Europe had
been under way more than a year be-fore
some of the countries were able
to equip the men who volunteered
for their armies. With all the zeal
which their governments could dis-play,
the mobilization of their indus-tries
yet lagged, not from unwill-ingness,
but from lack of fore-thought.
Perhaps no other lesson
of the war in Europe is so impressive
as Its universaltiinty. i*-
"It is of the utmost importance
that we should know what our reli-ance
is, that careful, continuous,
scientific studies should be made of
our industrial and commercial capac-ity
and adaptation, that we should
card-index our industrial strength,
so that we can know it and summon
it into instant co-operation when
needed. And, very much more than
that, we must gain this knowledge
and arrange for this co-operation in
such a fashion as to take away from
it all profit in war. • • •
"The third mobilization that Is
necessary is spiritual. In order to
make sacrifices for America, we must
be sure that our stake In the coun-try
justifies it. Our institutions
must be so just, our arrangements
so fair that every man in this nation
will realize how completely his op-portunity
and that of those who come
after him rests upon the continuing
prosperity of the nation as a whole.
"That when the honr of trial real-ly
comes, the banker who has gold
to protect, the captain of industry,
who has great mills In danger, wlU
be joined by the workman from the
factory and the farmer from the
field, with all lesser Interests abated
and all minor conflicts forgotten,
with one sentiment animating them
all, that the civilization, the liberty
and the hope of America must be
preserved, and that the sacrifice of
each in his order, in his place ard
according to his strength is Justified
by his stake in the country, wherever
it may be."
• Thomas Jessnp Dead.—Mr. Thom-as
Jessup, an aged and well Known
citizen of the Hamburg mill section,
died at his home Saturday night,
following an illness of about two
weeks. He was 80 years old and Is
survived by his aged widow, two
daughters and four sons. He also
leaves two sisters and fcur brothers.
The funeral was held from the home
yesterday afternoon and interment
made at Hopewell church, the ser-vices
being conducted by Rev. T. B.
Johnson, of Summerfleld.
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