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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY.
fy 1821.
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organization, and asked its mem-
7 to convey to the state body his
S^ -Q regards aho, sympathy."
PRESIDENT ba. *
HOME FROM Fh*- - .^^.^ Ph,-*^. ru.
• "" n-MTinx1 President Wilson was accompan-
,v v TBKMK>'D0C8 y*™^ jied in the parade and later to Me-
,v;KIS ABIUVAL AT BOS- chanics' hall, where he spoke be-
TOV JKW*1"' fore 8,000 persons, by Mrs. Wilson.
IH« appeared physically fit for what
„ ..„ Feb. -4. -President WH-l4w describes as the approaching
,:».'flslii at home as 1,as "strenuous attempt to transact bus-
' abroad for a league of na- ineS6 for a uule wnlle jn America „
Returning from France, he The sea voyage 6eemed t0 nave
'Tbecn on American soil not more ,giren Um a reet He appeared ^
ts ,hree hour* to-day before he enjoy the d|ay .y^ ln takinlg farewell
Z* down the sanntlet t0 tnoseiot Mayor Andrew J. Peters, the of-
GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919. VOL. 98. NO. 17
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distrust the proposed concert
, JeVnmcnts based, he said, on
tie ustice and humanity.
A6 *ar for juo
AB American, confining to .-..■!•
ficial host, said that lfe had im-mensely
enjoyed the brief stay here.
So occupied was. Mr. Wilson with
the program prepared for htm, that
all official business brought to his
i. territories. her conception and I attention was deferred until he was
, nse to make men free, he said, ^aboard the special train which drew
Id hate to keep her honor "for ;0ut of the South station at 4.30 this
To narrow." se'.fish. provincial afternoon for Washington. The $6,-
rwses which seem so dear to j 000,000,0^0 revenue bill was among
ids that have no sweep he- the documents which he
;0sc m:na
mi their nearest horizon
received
from Secretary Tumulty, and upon
lie tor
a re.-por.sive audience that -which he had not acted when he left
j the bi;?c>t auditorium in the
"'.,- the President pictured the old
vor'ld fighting with stubborn despcr-vors
and expecting in the end noth-
"-'. better for the peoples than they
had known tor centuries. He pic-tured
the American nation entering
Ihc lira with a new purpose—the
freedom of mankind. The old world
had cau;h: the vision, and any
treaty of peace drawn otherwise
than in the new spirit would be
nothing more, he asserted, than a
"modern scrap of paper," and the
present peace, unless guaranteed by
the united forces of the civilized
world, could not stand a generation.
Challenge to Opposition.
[lending over the speaker"* table,
his face set in tense lines and his
r;;ht hand c'.enched. the President
t-xcla:med "any man who thinks that
America will take part in giving the
wor'.d any such rebuff and disap-pointment
as that does not know
America. I invite him to test the
sentiment of the nation."
Interrupted by applause, the
President halted and then evoked
the greatest demonstration of the
afternoon when he added that he
would leapt no sweeter challenge
tins the issue of the American pur-pose
!n the war.
"I have fighting blood, in me," he
*a:d with apparent feeling, "and it
is sometimes a delight to let it have
scope, tut if it is a challenge on
this occasion, it will be an indul-gence."
At another point in his address.
' ■'• President -aid if the great hope
: : ' world for a league of nations
»* disappointed he would wish
™r «y pan never to have had
J™*-'03 !>'■"? any part whatever in
attempt to emancipate the
the ' ,.' hav° no more douibt ot
verdict of America in this mat-
' '-baa I have doubt of the blood
"« is in me"
the city.
IRISH DELEGATE SHOWS
UP AT CONFERENCE.
Paris, Feb. 24.—Sean O'Ceallight
presented himself to the peace con-ference
to-day as the "accredited en-voy
of the provisional government
of the Irish republic."
O'Ceallight has sent to Premier
Clemenceau. to Paul Dutasta, nec-retary
general of the peace confer-ence,
and to each delegates a letter
in which he brings to their notice
the claim of his. government, in the
name of the Irisij nation for inter-national
recognition of the inde-pendence
of Ireland and for the ad-mission
of Ireland as a constituent
member of the league of nations.
This communication was accom-panied
in each case by copies of the
Irish declaration of Independence of
January 21, and of the message
greetings from the nation of Ire-land
to the rest of the world.
In his letter O'Ceallight .states
that Professor de Valera, Arthur
Griffith and Count Plunkett have
been delegated by the national as-sembly
to present a statement to
the peace conference and to the
league of nations ln the name of the
Irish people. He asks a date be
fixed for the reception of these men.
Ever since it was declared the
Irish would send delegates to the
pea'ce conference it has been gener-ally
understood here that their cre-dentials
would come before the com-mittee
on credentials in the same
manner as those of any other per-sons
applying for recognition.
ALLEGATION OF PLOT TO
ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT
FOURTEEN' MEMBERS OF THE
SPANISH I. W. W. ARRESTED
IN' NEW YORK.
New York, Feg. 24.—Fourteen
A FEW HOT AIR ARTISTS
KILLING YALOABLE TIME
BUT FOUR DAYS LEFT OF THE
SESSION' AND MUCH IMPOR-TANT
WORK UNDONE.
SUSPICIOUS OF REPUBIilCAX
PI/AN TO CAPTURE SOUTH.
Washington. Feb. 25.^President
members of the Spanish branch of Wilson will not call an extra session
the I. W. W. were arrested by secret | of Congress until after his return
service men and members of the po- from Europe.
lice bomb squad in two raids here S/nator Martin, of Virginia, Dem-late
to-day. While they are charged j ocratic leader in the senate made
formally with having seditious liter--this announcement tonight after a
ature in their possession, govern- conference with the President at the
ment agents claimed to have evi-. White House. While the President
dence they were hatching a terrorist did not state when he expected to
plot. I reach home after his second trip
The grave nature of the alleged-oversea. Senator Martin gave it as
plot and the imminence ot the at-!his personal opinion that it would
tempt to carry it into execution, it'not likely be earlier than June 1.
was declared, made is essential the | President Wilson was said to feel
men be imprisoned at once. [it his duty to remain in Europe un-
After being questioned at police til the treaty of peace was conclud-headquarters,
where their finger ed.
prints were taken, the prisoners
were locked up without bail pend-ing
arraignment before a United
States comimissioncr tomorrow.
Meanwhile mechanical experts
have been assigned to assemble a
complicated machine found disman-tled
in one of the rooms raided. The j
secret service agents said they were
at a loss to explain its purpose.
Translators were put to work on a
mass of papers and pamphlets seiz-ed.
One of the houses had been under
police surveillance for several days
as a result of meetings held there,
it was said.
•Eleven prisoners, when booked at
the police station, gave New York
addresses, two said they lived in
Philadelphia, and a third said his
home was in Elizabeth, N. J. All
the men. it was said, are Spanish
aliens who have come tx> the United
Returns to Paris Next Week. '
-The President said he would re-turn
to Paris immediately after
March 4, and was positive that he
j would not call an extraordinary ses-sion
of Congress until he returns,"
: Senator Martin said. "He did not
i state the date of hi6 return, nor did
Washington, Feb. 24.—Some
prominent Republicans here are sus-picious
of Will H. Hays' plan to
"capture the South." They believe
that he may .be,, setting traps for
Southern delegates to the next re-publican
national convention. Frank
H. Hitchcock rounded up many
Southern delegates for Mr. Taft in
the contest against Col Roosevelt.
As to who Mr. Hays will deliver his
delegate* to is a mystery. It is sus-pected
ijy some that he is planning
to nominate Mr. Taft.
Southerni Lemocrats are not ex-cited
about the reported announce-ment
that Mr. Hays considers North
Carolina and Tennessee debatable
ground. They have heard that every
four years for decades. They be-lieve
that Mr. Hays is planning to
pocket delegates for the next na-tional
convention, or he is in dan-ger
of losing a large campaign fund
to North Carolina Republicans who
can use if without much trouble.
The report that Mr. Hays is laying
plans to get together enough dele-gates
to control the 1920 Republi-can
convention has Republican as-pirants
for the presidential nomina-tion
guessing. The influence of
Southern Republicans has been so
SUMMARY OF WORK OF
THE STATE LEGISLATURE
N'O STATE-WIDE BILLS YET
PASSED—TIME GROWING
SHORT FOR ACTION'.
he authorize me to quote him in re-spect
to that point, but my per-i6tr0nS and powerful in recent years
sonal opinion and judgment is that
there is no reasonable expectation
of his being back prior to June 1."
Conference With Simmons and Mar.
tin.
Senator Martin was accompanied
to the White House by Senator Sim-mons,
of North Carolina, chairman
of the finance committee. They con-ferred
for nearly an hour with the
executive, discussing in detail the
congestion of legislation in Con-gress.
States during the past three yearn, j Further than the formal state-
According to the secret service jmen' •' *'ie Democratic leader, botli
men, a youth of .25 who gave the }•?«**©« declined to comment on
name of Jose Grau. is the chief or-ganizer
of the Spanish I. W. W.
here, and is the editor of a radical
Spanish newspaper published in
New York. In the I. W. W. organi-their
discussions wit* the President,
but It was understood the executive
would vigorously insist all pending
appropriation bills and other urgent
legislation be enacted before Cop-
G«M Welcome Home.
; ** England gave the President
oi^ng WftIcome home_ Thjs
...... ■ llrr "as seen a greater
o'f vaV':an MlherCd at ««»» P°int
tC0o»mw™ionwea•l'ltlh0n' lhe rou^ from
cav:|! euttcr
BILLY SUNDAY AND
HIS GUILFORD "GAME."
Danville. Va., Feb. 24.—Rev.
Billy Sunday has had a "brush with
the police" as a result of his recent
visit to Greensboro. Certain ami-ably
disposed newspaper men, who
harped on the evangelist's prowess
'* with the shotgun, reported his arri-val
in Richmond with some of the
fruits of the chase on a Guilford
plantation. Representatives of the
department of game and inland fish-eries,
reading the account, at once
I decided to call on "Billy." for the
i Virginia laws are outspoken on the
! question of importing- game from
I one state to another. The inquiry
| involved the head chef of the Rich-
■ mond hotel and a few others, for it
j was said that the evangelist had
turned over ftis quail and pheasant'
, for special preparation for the Sun-day
family. The evangelist had lit-parade,
except in one tle lroubie, however, in proving
-v ™1n5-ton and Trc-!that he nad not violated any of the
ni*°* *w'. T' beCaU6e °f the ,;tate eam* »»«• *"■ spectators nra .>~* o-route
from
Pier, to which the
°«ipee brought his
I::-- from the
hashing; .-
astriev '
,,. . - ■ around two sides
of
b0;eiT ™fmon t° the Copley Plaza
•..,'.' ' " ■' s:op was made for
"-' ■■' 0:;.
A: ,,, ,
fleered.
Sef^0r '"'-,r ,hrouS»out the two
•« or the
biC* between
Sea-.
steamer George
through the down town
turn the President was
"at in hand, he stood iu
zation, it was 6ald, he Is known as sress adjourns Tuesday, to provide
*■«« to eo
spectators were not al-
TV
^r-% re-gate.
««• gnatdTfT*' tbe navy' the
^eV\*nd ae clty P°»ce 'a 3 c.'hrr sid* of
Prohibition in Panama.
Washington, Fetb. 25'—Permanent
' prohibition in the Panama Canal
. »m» U1 the route zone is prorMed in a" Mil pa«*ed to-tir
« <•'<-,. d of honor tor the en- day by the senate and sent to the
Armoldo Sapatena.
Plot to Assassinate Wilson?
Frank Francisco and Edward J.
Dowd, of the secret service, as well
as New York detectives who assist-ed
them in the raids, declared they
had obtained evidence which would
be used in an attempt to prove tbe
prisone"rs had planned to assassinate
President Wilson in Boston to-day,
but this assertion was discredited by
Captain Peter Rubin, of the secret
service, who directed the raids.
According to police, the two Phil-adelphia
men, who frankly admitted
they were anarchists, stopped here
on their way to Boston and intended
to go on to that city tonight.
Watched For Months.
It was explained that the Spanish
branch of the I. W. W. in this coun-try
had been watched closely for
months by- the secret service, as
most of the members are avowed
anarchists.- So far as could be
learned, however, there was no gen-eral
round-up of the members to-!
day. It was intimated the raids"'
here were the result of information
indicating a carefully framed terror-ist
plot was about to be carried into
effect.
The prisoners were questioned for
several hours at police headquarters,
but for the most part maintained a
sullen silence. The police declined
to divulge what information, if any,
had been obtained from them. .While
they have not definitely determined
the purpose of the machine seized
in the raid, the members of the
bomb squad believe it was to be
used in the manufacture of bombs
for operation of the government in
the event his work at Paris should
hold him after July 1, when the new
appropriations would be needed.
Repnbllcan Responsibility.
It was reported that failure of
any of the mass of urgent legisla-tion
would be charged by the Pres-ident
and administration leaders to
the Republicans. Mr. Wilson was
said to have been advised that ex-cept
for Republican opposition the
present situation was such that «11
appropriation and other bills could
be passed. The President was re-ported
ready to advise the country
of the situation and insist upon en-actment
of all urgent measures.
Uncertainty of Congress.
The President's decision added to-night
to the uncertainty of events
during the closing days of Congress.
Republican leaders were said, fd be
ready to disclaim responsibility for
in Republican national conventions
that there has been much talk of
greatly curtailing the Southern rep-resentation
in such conventions.
Senator James E. Watson, of In-diana,
who is said to be ambitious
to be President, is very intimate
with Mr. Hays. The two of them
are close to Senator Penrose. It
was suggested to-day that Mr. Hays
may be working for Mr. Watson. It
is pointed out that if a good batch
of delegates could be corralled long
before the convention meet6, Messrs.
Hays, Watson and Penrose could
prevent the nomination of any ob-jectionable
man.
Mr, Hays has angered many Re-publicans
by his interest in the con-test
over the speakership in the
house. Representative " James" R:
Mann and his friends are very an-gry
at Mr. Hays. They will build
backfires under him wherever they
can do so conveniently.
CLEMENCEAU IS NOW
OUT 0*' DANGER.
Paris, Feb. 26.—Premier Clemen-ceau's
condition continues to be sat-isfactory.
The premier spent a good
night, it was said to-day.
His physicians expressed them-selves
as satisfied that Mr. Clemen-ceau
was out of danger and that his
complete recovery was only a matter
of a few days' absolute rest. Asked
concerning the date on which -it was
probable the premier would be al-lowed
to leave his home, one of the
doctors said:
"Probably Thursday, if the pre-mier
follows implicity the instruc-tions
regarding the necessity of ab-solute
rest."
The bulletin issued tonight bj"
failure of legislation on the ground ithe ""ending physicians reported
(that enactment of all the mass oflPremier' Oemenceau's condition "as
T* **.;•»i*k* of t"h—e d-r■*iv"e5.* °S°o eefnfeecc-- nhoouussee.. It forbids importations of
i: unpift ' P arr*nsenwmt that not Intoxicants or narcotics. The zone
Oppc'-'4SiDw ,ncIaent occurred. ! already to "dry" by Presidential or-
' --.e state house, ln front der.
3 group of Wounded sol- ■
*B1 oy *"ed ll>e President, a hand- I
'•"•- the* *Stet* claiming to repre-
!o<* their"11100*1 woman"6 Party is demanding the Immediate return
'iV.:,.'",v
M^nd for a demonstration of all the British guns captured by
%»,.'.'!' &ad announced. Before the
o: *ateh
8:"»gr
Captured Guns Demanded.
L<ondon, Feb. 266.—Great Britain
■money and other bills in the remain-five
working days was impossi-ble,
with continuous debate sched-uled
daily on the proposed consti-tution
of the league of nations.
In view of the President's deter-
Raleigh. Feb. 24.—Senator War-ren
procured the passage of his bill
for tHe popular election of county
school boards by the people, through
the senate on second reading, with
the understanding that opposition to "
the bill and to features of the meas-ure
can be fought out on the final
reading. There was no opposition
vote on the reading this afternoon,
which was fo economize time.
The senate cleared from the cal-endar
some local bills and adjourn-ed
to 10 o'clock Tuesday.
In the house Representative Jack-son,
of the minority, introduced his
Australian ballot blt». which was re-ferred
to tfi"e committee on elections.
A bill came into the hopper
through Neal, Gray and McNeill
designed to bar the Southeastern
Tariff Association from the state in
the fixing of insurance rates. The
bill is entitled "An Act to Prevent
Fire Insurance Companies or Asscv
ciations or Partnerships from Enter-ing
and Other Fire Insurance Com-pany."
The bill went to the com-mittee
on insurance.
(Building and loan associations and
their friends opened a campaign to-day
through telegrams to represen-tatives
and senators against the 10
cent per share tax that the revenue
bill would impose on associations.
Wilmington poured in telegrams in
opposition to Senator Cooper. The
revenue bill from the house was
made a special order in the senate
for Tuesday morning.
New bills were introduced as fol-lows:
Harding—Aid orphans to get the
benefit of the six months school
law.
Newton—Amend the state wide
road law. To allow bond issues on
majority ot votes cast instead of
majority of qualified voters.
Scales—Extend the corporate lim-its
of Greensboro.
Price—Provide cotton warehouse
system for the state.
iLovell—Increased , pensions for
Confederate veterans.
Stacy—Require equal pay for
equal service in the schools.
Brown—Authorize 6chool districts
to retain surplusses in their treas-ury.
Gray—Regulate Sunday 6ales in
Forsyth county by applying the
Winston-Salem law to four miles be-yond
the city limits. Regulate car-rying
deadly weapons in Forsyth.
Humphrey—Amend the law as to
counties establishing reformatories.
Gray—Require one license tag fotif
automobiles instead of two tags.
Roll call bills passed in the fol-lowing
order:
Authorize cities and counties
aid county fairs.
Authorize Alamance county-employ
purchasing agents.
The senate adjourned to
o'clock Tuesday morning.
College Decree Bill Killed.
In the last hour of the late after-noon
session the house first amend-ed
the Everett bill to regulate the
conferring of degrees by colleges
and then tabled the measure. The
to
to
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AN* AIXEGED PAUPER
HAS GOOD ROLL MONEY.
Ashevllle, Fed,. 24.—It has been
satisfactory a? possible."
Premier Clemenceau expressed
to-day a desire to go to the war of-fice
on Thursday.
Marcel Hutin, in the Echo' de Par-is,
predicts that the premier will ??•
mination to demand enactment of back at work Wednesday and will, amt*4ment was by Williams, of Oa-all
pending, important measures, the Preside at the peace conference f barrus. to c«it out the endowment
Democratic leaders tonight planned Thursday. The writer quotes the feature. Williams making the ple«
to increase demands during the re-J Premier as teaming his doctors with | that the bill would create something
malnder of the session for speedy,this remark: "I am better, but it 0f a,n aristocracy in educational de-action.
Considerable progress was ,1s not your fault. It is my good na- grees.
made to-day with the final enact- ture which has produced it." Dr. | A b,j, t0 nitie tne pay — mm
ment of the $400,000,000 postofflce Laubry, the premier's family phys - (Daw of ti,e county boards of pen-appropriation
bill and the reporting jcian. confessed that M. Clemenceau sion6 to »4 a day was much dis-tonlght
to the senate of the $1,215.- wa6 rient-
000,000 army appropriation bill. In
the house the $7,CH)0,0O0.00O "vic-tory
loan" bill was practically com-pleted
with a final vote scheduled
for tomorrow.
Getting a Quick Move On.
Although before they conferred
Conscientious Objector* Ilrtuming
the M&ney.
Washington. Feb #«.—Nearly all
the conscientious objectors recently
cu*sed and- then amended to apply
only to Robes on.
The .bill passed to amend tbe law
as to the par value ot bans: stock.
The senate committee on Insur-ance
toted by a small majority this
released by the army at Fort Leav- afternoon to report favorably tB.
,,„„,, «"*"orth haT* r«urn«d ^e money house bill to asses, home Insurance
discovered, following an inVesttra"- with, the President, the Democratic, f»,d £■» iJ^fff'-JSH fT""'3 the "me *»»«'■ "Hef
leaders had conceded that an extra j *« ?*« *Sl« n-^ foSdTSl ? '" *" ^ Bon-~9,dMt «—
session was taerTWUe. they now are j them from fighting »"~ '»*»£JJj panie, pay. Col. Walker Taylor. H.
ed to hasten action on the l"^*""0? *"> j"^rta filter for " B~h "^ ^^ ■"■■ vere
ted calendar. The $720,000, ■»*■ whlch """ ti**^ l0Jjv ¥
BoUMe SBeakers "*** <"e *"•
**l appy ropvriation bill prob-'the front" *J? %5?*J°£l IU "»«*»»» 'eluded Charles U. that about $o.000 a.ready had been Harrtss. 8. C.
Parade \ ^""u- *><=«»re me Germans. This announcement
'•''- by <ha
Caf the™. they were was made in the house of commons
!»SiB- they' Police to move on. Re- to-day by Andrew Bonar Law. the
'3S ar.,) "i\WCTe ai-rested for loiter- government spokesman, in answer
0;f!- 'H-"n ed Up' Later- « the to a question by Col. C. R. Burn.
*» 1 ""es'dent received a com- -, "■•tee irr_ '"cj
^SuttftiL*!! Massachusetts. Wo- Mr. Edward Klrkma-n
*« Associate a militant thanks for renewal.
has
tion by the county commissioners
that a woman who made application
as- a pauper, to be supported by the
county, has $KM(> to a local bank
and holds a mortgage of $500 on a
piece of property.
This discovery caused the com-missioners
to begin a thorough in-vestigation
of all pauper claims, in
order to see whether or not other
persons are swindling the county
wb.le not unusually large, is large
our .enough to amount to a nice sum in
the course of a year.
prepared to hasten action
congest
000 naval approprlatior
ably will be reported to the senate "at about ,o.«£ a.r-u, _ _ „ar^sg g c BrwJey ^ ^
tomorrow together with the meas- j turned and remittances Still were chlefg tT<m a numt)er of ^ ^^
ure authorising $750.000.00v addi- comingjn. jCarolina towns.
tional for the railroad administra- j g2.000.000 For Poland. I Am°ng ne»- bills introduced to-tion.
Quick action also Is planned j Washington. Feb. 25—The Amer- da}" ra tne house was one by Jack-in
the senate on the "victory loan" lcan Red oo^ to-day appropriated ROn t0 Provide the Australian bal-
bill. $->O0OO0O for relief work to be 1<>1 for *W* Carolina.
done by it* commission to Poland
Mr. S. W. H. Smith has our during the sis months ending with (
thanks for renewal. JU,J"-
Handy Exonerated.
Raleigh. Fe*. 23.—The senate
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