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ESTABLISHED ,> GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1916. VOL. 95-NO. 93
|f00DROW WILSON WINS IN FIERCE
BATTLE OF BALLOTS AND THE PLAIN
PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY REJOICE
llHERICAHS STAND
FIRM m IDEALS
|.irronv is GRKATEST IN HIS-TOIIV
OK THK (X»UXTRV
?§ MASTER STATESMAN
LKDATOKV WEALTH. KOREIGX
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WAR RKBl KKI) IS THE MOST
sTl|'KMH>l^ CONTEST THAT
sjS MARKED STRUGGLE OK
..KOPI.K AGAIXST SPECIAL
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fM „hkrd »r«- overthrown.
,.d .r, not: but the hon»e of
n, riKBteoii:* »■»•» »t»nd.—
prov. !-■ »• i
Xl,e reelection of President Wil-
■soa became a certainty about 11
lo'clock Thursday night, when it was
denounced definitely that California j
I had ?one for tlie Democratic candi-j
Itoe. The victory in California gave
|\Yil.-or. 269 votes in the electoral col- ,
.. or three more than necessary |
■loreiection. The three votes of New |
iMexitu. which seem certain to be,
[counted for the president, and the j
lion: votes of New Hampshire,, thej
I Sates: doubtful state to drop Into the ]
Inemocratc columns, will increase his '
|total to ^76.
T>.t victory undoubtedly is the
litreate?'. ever won by any man or
irty in the history of the country.
[Four years ago Wilson's popular
liote over Roosevelt, his leading op-
Ipoaent. was 2.173,512, but the popu-lar
vote of all other candidates over
[Wilson was 2.450,504.
Tie returns so far compiled give
I Wilson a popular plurality of 403,-
l"12 and show that he has received
(approximately 2,266.614 more votes
Ithas »hen he was first elected in
11912. His vote Tuesday was 2,060,-
70S more than ever previously re-larted
for a Democratic candidate
lud is tiie largest vote ever received
W a candidate for president, being
line cast for Tatt and
|»1J,
Roosevelt in
Wilson's Lead in California.
San Francisco, Nov. 10.—Califor-nia
politicians settled dowp tonight
■ prepare for a vigilant surveillance
"' the semi-official count of the state
*l county clerks and the final count
bf the secretary of state. All future
Koteedings, leaders of both parties
Weed, will hings upon what devel-
"W in these counts. At 6 oVslock to-
** Wilson led in the state by
5.288 votes. With 18 precincts miss-is
the count stood: Hughes. 462.-
S1J: Wilson. 466.099.
tester H. Rowell. chairman of
m Republican state central com-
*««. and O. K. Cashing, chairman
tie Democratic state central com-
■«f.ee. were in accord in that both
l*«d that tbe outlaying precincts
to be heard from would not
TEACHERS JI GOOD MEETING
ENDORSE PROPOSED LAW FOR
UNIFORM CERTIFICATION
—OKK1CER8 ELECTED.
difference of opinion over the num-ber
of votes cast under the absent
voters law.
Latest returns give Wilson 177,669
to Hughes' 178,212, a Hughes plural-ity
of 543. in 3,010 precincts. Of the
missing 36, there are 10 in Kooohich-ing
county and 12 id Baltrami. Both
counties were strongly Wilson but
the missing precincts are not consid-erable
in population.
Intake ■ouch difference one way or the
P« in the
fitered m
unofficial returns. They
as to the official count, Mr.
■">B claiming the state and Mr.
■W expressing doubts and dalm-ra
»Plit delegation in the electoral
'659 The California delegation
*Pnt 11 to 2 in 1912 and was dl-
1 " **»ral times previously.. To-:
-" «« Republicans expected to get
1 "*of the U electors and "perhaps
I j.1* Vote May Decide Minnesota.
L'' ,ul- Minn.. Nov. 10.—Thlrty-
L,}Tma ••hose records show they Kta ib0Ut 40° yote8-tn« 2100
[T„V
c*8t b>" the 8t»te soldiers In
l^eli!1"1 the votes of railroad and
ku S men under the absent vot-
Kneaot WM the b»lanc® 1n
|W * b«t»-een Wilson and
\SL ' Therefore the state was atlll
.a*Joubttul- with predictions
'SuirT1*17 "B *° tne •>«*«»■»• Of
"•men, balloting and a wide
Wilson Ahead In New Mexico.
Sante Fe, N. M., Nor. 10.—Returns
from 691 out of 638 precincts In New
Mexico give Hughes 28,880; Wilson
31,161.
For senator: 564 precincts give
Hubbel. Republican. 28,232; Jones,
Democrat, 31,874.
For Congress: 300 precincts give
Hernandez. Republican, 15.720; Wal-ton,
Democrat, 17,313. These figures
include corrections made by county
clerks upon unofficial returns.
Tumulty Wires Wilson of Result.
Washington. Nov. 10.—Secretary
Tumulty tonight sent hte following
message to President Wilson at Wil-liamstown,
Mass.:
"Election returns conclusively
demonstrate that your victory at the
polls Is clear and decisive. You have
carried two-thirds of the states of
the union. The four years of your
administration have brought you ap-proximately
2,266,614 more votes
than when you were first elected in
1912. This Is the greatest increase
given to. an American president for
a second term, since the Civil war.
Tour vote last Tuesday was 2,066,-
708 more than ever previously re-corded
for a Democratic candidate,
and, despite character of opposition.
is the largest vote ever received by
a president/ from the people of this
country—952,355 more than the to-tal
Taft-RoosereU vote of It 18. Ton
have a popular plurality of 468,312;
according to bulletin received from
the Associated Press." .»
Hashes Dies Hard.
New Tork, Not. 10.—Worn oat by
■the .tension of waiting for Che returns
from doubtful states which would
determine whether he had been elect-ed
' to the presidency, Charles E.
Hughes retired at 9 o'clock tonight.
He spent the day at his hotel except
for a two hours automobile ride with
his wife this afternoon. Mr. Hughes
has not yet conceded the election of
President Wilson and probably will
not do so until the vote of close
states has been officially ■counted.
. George W. Perkins conferred this
afternoon with the Republican can-didate.
He stated that no definite
decision had been reached by party
managers in regard to demanding a
recount in California, New Mexico
and North Dakota. He intimated ac-tion
probably would be deferred un-til
the official count in those states
was completed, in the hope .that there
might be an overturn of the compar-atively
slender Wilson pluralities.
Republican national headquarters
here were deserted early tonight.
Chairman Wilcox announced that he
would not be on hand again except
for conferences.
, The Democratic national commit-tee
apparently regards the campaign
as closed, for the work of dismant-ling
headquarters is well under way.
Chairman McCormick spent the night
at a hotel in this city and probably
will go to his home at Harrlsburg
tomorrow.
S. A.Howard Paralyzed.
, Mr- 8. A. Howard, an. aged and
vwejl.' known oltlsen of Greensboro,
.suffered a stroke df paralysis Friday
.morning at Ms ihome .on Church
street. The stroke affected Us right
side and rendered him speechless*
His condition is .a matter of concern
to hte friends. Mrs. Howard, who
has Just returned from a Stay of sev-eral
weeks' in St. Leo's hospital, is
almost prostrated as a result of her
husbands aflltctnon. For 30 years or
more Mr. Howard was manager of
the Western Union Telegaaph Com-
.pamy's office in this city, havlac been
retired by the company on a pension
16* or IS years ago.
The Guilford County Teachers' As-sociation
held its first regular meet-ing
tor the year at the court house
Saturday at lb.30. Dr. Byrd, of West
Market Street; Methodist church, con-ducted
the devotional exercises and
made a good talk to the teachers,
telling them iot to neglect the small
things of school life, Christian life
and every-da? life.
A represenrtaAive of the Guilford
creamery brought dairying to the at-tention
of the teachers and asked for
their co-opera*ion in getting the
farmers and school ohildren interest-ed
in dairying, and asked their aid in
helping distribute material seat out
by the Southern Railway and the
Guilford creshnery.
County Superintendent Foust told
the teachers (hat the board of educa-tion
will give two holidays Thanks-giving
week'to the teachers attend-ing
the Teacters' Assembly, which is
to be held uilUleIgn this year. Of
course, if the teachers are not going
to attend the assembly, there is no
reason why there should not be
school on Friday after Thanksgiving.
The work fef the teachers' reading
circle was discussed. The State Nor-mal
and Industrial College will fur-nish
rompetspt workers from its edu-cational
dejierrmenit to help the
teachers do this work this year. If
the differenKdepartments of the as-sociation
waft a strong teacher to
meet with Stem, there will be no
trouble in getting one. Guilford coun-ty
is fortunate in having at hand a
corps of wellvtrained teachers to help
the local teachers in preparing them-selves
tor ths work.
The toUo%fiq; resolution was adopt-ed
by the ftaiwlatlon:' "We, the Gull-ford
county, teachers, in meeting as-sembled,
endorse the proposed bill
tor thranlrW*certlnoation of teach-ers
which is to be presented to oux
state legislature the coming session."
Superintendent Foust explained that
if the great body of teachers in. North
Carolina were In favor of this bill it
will help to get it through the legis-lature
this term, a bill on the same
order having failed last session; but
if the teachers are againat it and try
to prevent its passage it will be a
very potent influence in that capacity.
All the teachers of every country in
the state are being requested to take
action.
In explaining the bill Mr. Foust
said: "There are one hundred coun-ties
in North Carolina and as each
superintendent passes upon the qual-ifications
of teachers In that county,
that means that there are one hun-dred
standards in North Carolina.
I try not to have too high a stand-ard;
I really believe that I do not
have it high enough. I do not know
whether my standard is the same as
Randolph or Alamance or Rocking-ham.
Of course we aH have the
same questions, but when It comes
to the grading of papers is where the
standard is not the same. It is im-possible
to'get a uniform standard
for North Carolina. We have no pro-fessional
standard because of this.
Our teachers haven't the standard
that the people in other lines have,
lawyers, doctors, etc. We have had
the idea that anybody can teach
school, whereas we have very strin-gent
laws to keep Just anybody from
practicing medicine, and we are
never going to have a standard until
we have some central authority to!
pass upon the qualifications of teach-ers.
That has been the history of
every state In the union. The states
that have established any standard
for teachers have a state board to
certify to their qualifications. That,
in short, is what this bill proposes."
Ths high school teachers elected
W. G. Sneed, of the Pomona school,
president; E. J. Coltran e, of ths
Jamestown school, vice president;
Miss Berta Mstoin, of the Bessemer
scttoo*. secreCa|y tnd treasurer. This
"department will meet, on the second
Saturday Jn. December, pr. Less,
of the Normal College, will be on the
program and they will discuss uni-form
work in the high schools of ths
coonty.
The grammar grade teachers elect-ed
Mrs. Gypsle B. Hyatt, of the Deep
Rtver school, (president, and Miss
Liucy Henley, of the Jamestown
school, secretary and treasurer. They
win meet oa aha second Saturday in
DuusaahST. A program committee
was appointed to arrange a U'us,**—
fords*
WAS A GREAT CELEBRATION
MILITANT DEMOCRACY MADE
MORE XOISE THAN WAS EVER
HEARD HERE BEFORE.
GERMAN DRIVE EAST FRONT
GAIX8 POSSESSION OK KISSI \\
v UXES OK TWO AND A HALF
MILE FRONT.
The militant Democracy of Greens-boro
and Guilford county went the
limit Friday night in celebrating the
election of President Wilson. There
have been many celebrations in
Greensboro in the past, but never
anythiDg,that approached this one in -
the size of the crowd or the unre-strained
enthusiasm of the thousands
who shouted the song of victory.
There is no way of telling how many
people participated in the celebration,
but everybody is agreed that it was
the biggest crowd ever seen togeth-er
in Greensboro. The nearest ap-proach
to It in size was the multitude
that turned out to hear Bryan when
he spoke here during his first cam-paign
for the presidency in 1896.
•In view of the fact that there was
no building or vacant lot in the city
that would accommodate the crowd,
the-celebration was staged on West
Market terrace, just beyond the city
limits on West Market street. To
this place the jubilant Democrats
made their way by the thousands, the
line of march forming on North Elm
street. A good portion of the crowd
marched on foot, while several hun-dred
automobiles brought up the
rear. There were two brass bands in
the procession, but their sound was
drowned by the noise of innumerable
cow bells, tin pans, empty cans and
other noise-making instruments drag-ged
on the ground behind the auto-mobiles
and in the hands of men, wo-men
and boys.
The procession literally choked
West Market street, and the line of
march broke and a part of it moved
to the scene of the celebration by
way of Spring street. Walker avenue.
Mendenhajl, Spring Garden, Llthia
and Tate streets. . «.-..
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Mark** terrace and-ati'rg* W>trre- ^^^.sassss^ NffMinfter 4
surrounding acres a tihgehonaiwaas
lighted on the brow o? the hill. The
flames could be seen for miles and
told the people of the surrounding
country who. had not come to Greens-boro
to join in the celebration that
it was a night of joy and revelry to
the superlative degree.
A coffin bearing the figurative re-mains
of the late Republican candi-date
for president was borne around,
the bonfire by GuiMord College stu-dents
and then placed on the funeral
pyre. Dr. George A. Mehane, who
claims to be the .happiest Democrat
in the country, with the possible ex-ception
of Judge Strudwick. deliver-ed
the "funeral oration" and the
"solemn" ceremony was over—hut
not the celebration. The crowd,
which was just getting warmed up
properly, spread over the town and
continued the glad noise for several
hours.
Driving against the center of the
.Russian line on the eastern front.
German troops have gained posses-sion
of Russian positions on a front
of about two and a half miles. The
attack, which resulted also in the
capture of more toan s.000 prison-ers,
took place in the district of
Skrobowa, 12 miles northeast of
Baranovichi, north of the Pinsk
gMarshes. and where only isolated
fighting has occurred lately. The
Russians, Berlin also says, lost 27
.machine guns and iz mine throwers.
The success of the Germans is ad-mitted
by Petrograd war office, which
announces that the Russians,' after
.stubborn resistance against seven on-slaughts
were finally compelled to
fall back to their • second line of
trenches.. Elsewhere on the eastern
.front to the Carpathians, there lias
-been little fighting; according to the
official communications.
In Dobrudja Che advance of the
Russo-Rumanian forces southward
.continues and Petrograd records a
battle with Field Marshal Von Mack-
.ensen's troops in the region of Toher-naroda,
recently abandoned by the
.Rumanians. At Tohernavoda is the
bridge of the Buoharest. and it is for
this bridge the Russians and Ruman-ians
aTe fighting. Petrograd also an-nounces
the occupation of several
.towns between Hirsova and Tcher-
.navoda. Berlin says there have been
no important ohanges in Dobrudjo.
On the Transylvamia-Rumania
front Archduke Charles has assumed
the offensive and pushed back the
Rumanians. In the Predeal sector
stubborn fighting continues, with
both the Austro-Germams and the
.Rumanians claiming progress. The
,Austrians have almost completely re-covered
the ground lost m the Geor-
Seve'ral trench elements north of
.the Somme'near'LeVr&oeufs and Sall-
.lisei have been captured by the
French. Berlin states Franco-Brit-ish
attacks between Gueudecourt and
.Sailly were repulsed.
There has, been much aerial fight-ing
on the Western front. Berlin re-cords
the destruction of seventeen
.entente airplanes and Paris asserts
( jciuait ten German machines were
brought down. London admits that
seven British aircraft failed to re-turn
to their base after fights in the
air. In one of the fights a squadron
,of thirty British airplanes and a
.German squadron of between thirty
and forty were engaged.
Inclement weather continues to
hamper operations on a larger scale
on the Macedonia and Austro-Italian
fronts.
THE DEVTSCHLAXD
PREPARING TO SAIL.
New London, Nov. 10.—Within the
next 48 hours the Deutschland will
probably creep along within the
American three mile limit watting
for a chance to dash to sea.
The green submarine is loaded. M
is claimed it is waiting certain addi-tions
to the cargo which have not yet
arrived, but the feverish activity
which marked *he past week around
the berth of the little blockade run-ner
seems to have died away.
Before it leaves the Deutschlatid
must apply for clearance papers. The
deputy.collector of customs stated
over the telephone at 8 o'clock to-night
that he has received no request
tor clearance from the submarine.
For the first time since he arrived
In New London Captain Koenig was
not in evidence about the streets to-day.
The Doataohkud will surely not
sail tomorrow morning whatever It
may do m the afternoon and ft is not
likely to leave except by daylight.
Provisions have bsan ordered from
local dealers and will be loaded
aboard the boat in the morning.
The primary teachers sleeted Miss
Bottle Aiken Land, of the Pomona
school, as president; Miss Laoflla
Hardln, of the Pleasant Garden
school, vice president; Mtos BtheJ
Long, of the Bessemer school, secre-tary
and treasurer. Program com-mittee:
Miss Katls Khne, of the
Pomona school; Mrs. B. C. Ruffln, of
the Pomona Mill school; M4ns Ora
Scot*, at ths iooth Buffalo school.
AGED MINISTER PASSES
TO HIS FINAL REWARD.
Eton College, Nov. 10.—The body
of Rev. Charles Atlas Boone was laid
to rest In the cemetery here this af-ternoon
at 4 o'clock by the side of
his late wife whose remains were in-terred
here July 5, 1913. For 22
years Mr. and Mrs. Boone made Elon
College their home. Since tbe death
of his wife three years ago Mr. Boon*
has made his hams with his daugh-ter,
Mrs. J. W. Saunder, of Durham,
where he died Thursday.
Rev. C. A. Boone was born May 21,
1839, and-was in his 78th year. For
more than 50 years he had been a
minister In the Western North Caro-lina
Christian Conference and in his
early ministry filled many Important
pulpits da Vh« Christian church In
this state.
- Mr. Boons was a'Confederate sol-dier
and captain of company B of the
Slat North Carolina rsginient. The
beloved flag of the Confederacy along
wrm the lamb-akin apron of ths Ma-sonic
fraternity were on his funeral
bier.
All »»aT of Mr. Booas's children
survive him and oil of them are res-idents
of Durham. They are: Mrs.
J. P. Arrant. Dr. W. H. Boons. D. L.
Boone and Mrs. J. M. Saunder*.
Ponce Officer Happended.
Ponce Officer Floyd Brown has
been suspended from the force for
30 day* for his indiscretion In'taking
a midnight automobile rids with a
,party that had a little liquor along
for the sake of sociability. The offl-osr
wan not on duty at the time.
wWck tact probably saved him from
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