The Greensboro patriot [July 6, 1914]

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Fourth Fittingly Observed
at Battle Ground.
THOUSANDS PRESENT.
principal Iddress Made by Congress-man
Murray, of Oklahoma, on
Theories <>f <««vernment.
~T,> Fourth of July celebration at
Guilford Battle Ground Saturday
»-as one "f lite best and most success-fi.
,i the many notable celebrations
l,e;: on that historic field. The crowd
„,,. OHO oi the largest that ever as-seraaloil
there and the formal .exer-
(..>•- were of a high order. Despite
threatening weather, the people be-gaa
gathering early in the day. and
by Hi o'oioi'k. when the program
was formali> opened, there were sev-ere:
thousand visitors on the
grounds.
The • sercises were opened with a
selection of music, the band playing
»}I; Country. Tis of Thee," and a
prayer »;>- offered by ftev. C. E.
Hclein. The speaker of the day.
Hoc. ft'. H. Murray, of Oklahoma,
»a< presented by Congressman Sted-mar..
who spoke briefly of the his-tory
of the Guilford Battle Ground
Company ..nil its work of reclaimingJ
the battle field of Guilford Court
House. Among other things, Maj.
Stedman said:
I congratulate you upon this re-curring
celebration of an event which
should over he canoniaed in the his-to.-
i* ralendar of our country and
alii-i: lii- made the name of Guil-ford
Court.House famous throughout
the world. This celebrity has been
due not to dramatic incidents which
u>uo!l> attend all battlefields, but to
tl> mighty consequences arising
frcm the conflict known as the Bat-t!-
of C ui I ford Court House, the re-sits
„, «iiicii made the surrender
>■■ "ornuaiiis at Yorkto.vn inevitable
I affected not alone one colony.
American colonies alike, as
%>} *h P°"IUon he *"»'<»» ««nongst
* /countrymen; he has -punched'
tttle; chopped cordwood. worked in
Jric.ky.rds. toiled on a farm at the
hl*'« wage of $7.50 per month, has
oeen a newspaper reporter and edl-practiced
law. and la now a pianter
onna extenaive acale. being consid-ered
the moat aucceasful and scien-tific
farmer in Oklahoma. He won
the sohriquent of "Alfalfa Bill' and
Cocklebur Bill' on account of his
great interest in agricultural pur-suits.
He was president of the Ok-lahoma
constitutional convention
and author of many of Its provis-ions,
was speaker of the house of
representatives of the first Oklahoma
legislature, and is now congressman
at large from the state of Oklahoma,
honored and respected by all his as-sociates.
He has climbed the hill
and has never looked backward. I
commend him to you as a gentle-man,
without reproach, as a friend
to humanity wherever found in
distress, a profound stulent of his-tory,
as a public servant guided in
all his acts by a supreme sense of
duty, as an American citizen with all
that word implies in
GREENSBORO, N. C
who was guilty of sedition and mur-oer.
"Here," said Congressman
Murray -is a concrete example of
tv of ,ualctal decisions."
The speaker asserted that there is
nothing new in goTernment; that
many things were abandoned thou-sands
of years ago as miserable fail-ures.
The forefathers discovered
that pure democracy had failed be-cause
It lacked nationality or self-preservation,
power both to suppress
insurrection from within and Inva-sion
from without. They discovered
that monarchy had failed because it
did not rely on virtue, or on interest-ed
and helpful regard so necessary In
wise and good
adopted
*HD THURSDAY
V, JULY «, 1014
MS HI BRIEF FORM
M*™* OF INTEREST TO THE
MaVBKRs Of THE PATRIOT
PAR AND BBAK.
J2L? MrS- £ A- M*th««on are
^Ti"0"" **"• mt Montreal.
Mi* E. c. Watftagton is in Kin-ston
flh a visit to her daughter, Mrs.
S. H. Isler. •
County Auditor Davidson, who
has been spending a few weeks at
Connelly 8prings recuperating his
•trength from a recent illness, went
to Montreal Saturday and hopes to
be able to return home in a week or
two.-
The:
lit: ail
«-.l a- the sovereign states which
i< iov..r| them and which, after the
lapse of more than a century, abide
*-:h their descendants.
I 'oneratulate North Carolinians
that the chief honor of giving to the
■ rid •• truth and unveiling false-hood
..- to ,,i! which transpired upon
(Ms battlefield on the 15th of March.
1 ■'!■ belongs to one of the most
Si'-ttd ol all the sons of our state,
' S.-henck, whose patriot-ism
prompted and whose wonderful
"■'Hty directed the intense labor
Kd un.selii, research finally crown-
« witli *„, !, ,isnal success
''••• marble and granite
around us and about us
perished with decay and
11 dust, his memory will
arts of a grateful peo-n.
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''■'an. Hon. Joseph M.
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friend and companion,
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both had consecrated
'•ris and highest aspira-l:">
rest together in
•r and in glory.
''Ximemorative occasions
pleasure and profit—
• ause congenial spirits
"nmune in friendly inter-
''1 because the surround-
'■ 'bought. We travel
" ""I|S followed by our fath-
•• -rs ago. We linger with
''Kbt over the fields of
*n and glory. In spirit
■J»r vows of fealty to our
"vary.
" |'ad with us at different
In of 'l,stingu,8hed men. Ora-
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«*ries «>, i, eclat t0 our annirer-
"oi one '',■ !:aZard lhe assertion that
•hterent " has c°mbined more
«U*c, ,.' , aractenstics calculated to
fcan »i,.. .'..'?Struct tnan the gentle-
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•IfW*'" address >'ou today.
Vrani.*"?' '° give y°u » truthful
*««M il' Sketch of hl» ««• «t
Nprletv ';'t you- but a sense of
"Winy' '"' R00d taste would pre-
<Uy. [t ','!,'.i"lnK in hi8 Presence to-
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Its true and
broadest sense. I have the pleasure
and honor to present to you Hon.
William H. Murray, of Oklahoma."
Mr. Murray's Address.
Mr. Murray, who is an interesting
and effective speaker, said he would
not presume to rehearse history as to
the battle, but would explain the
purpose of the revolution. The patri-ots
were not fighting for the love of
fighting, but to establish a govern-ment
that would combine the essen-tial
elements of all good government
and eliminate the evils that destroy-ed
the republics of the past, having
a constitution, a nationality and an
Intellectual awakening, and in point
of time this has outlived all of those
except the Roman government.
Pure democracy in Athens had
these essentials with the exception
of nationality. That government
failed, not for lack of Intelligence or
civilization. It had reached such a
degree of intelligence that the peo-ple
had ceased -to quarrel,' .among
themselves and had concluded that
universal peace was possible. They
recognized the theory that all capa-ble
self-government, while true in
theory, is untrue in practice. The
result was that they overlooked the
necessity for nationality, or power
for self-defense against invasion.
The Roman government by the side
of it, he continued, went to the other
extreme—became all nationality and
became a centralized despotism, and
hence transformed the republic into
an empire, a danger that now is con-fronting
our government.
He pointed out that, while nation-ality
is necessary, it should be con-fined
to those things which relate- to
international affairs, and should not
make the mistake of applying na-tional
laws to all affairs. The men
of the revolution fully comprehend-ed
the philosophy of the German re-public
and its failure, and the fail-ures
of the Greek and Roman repub-lics,
and so they created a national-ity.
At the same time they reserved
to the state the power of local self-government.
The two, in a measure,
were in conflict. They provided for a
mental awakening by establishing
universities, colleges and common
schools and by putting in the con-stitution
a clause giving a monopoly
to the inventor and the book writer
as a reward for their work.
The history of liberty is the his-tory
of the limitation of power, and
the constitution Itself limited and
defined the powers, so that a man
could not be tried until indicted by
the grand jury and then by con-fronting
the witnesses against him
and having the right to be heard by
himself or attorney or both. So
jealous were the people of limiting
the power of the constitution and of
the people that tbey limited their
own power by the creation of the
court.
The books of the Scripture, Mat-thew,
Mark, Luke and John, read
with Josephus and the Roman law,
conclusively prore that they had the
recall of judicial decisions, and on
certain occasions, which were noth-ing
more than days of celebration,
the people had the right to liberate,
one of the prisoners and to fix pun-ishment
on the remaining ones. Pon-tius
Pilate had two prisoners, Jesus
and Barabbas, and he tried to per-suade
the people to liberate Jesus of
Nazareth, saying, "I find no fault
with this-man," but they crucified
him—they tried him and fixed his
punishment by a sentence the most
degrading known to the law and de-manded
the release of B■»■»—,
government and
republican government
which alone is but a skeleton form.
They applied the principle of the
monarchy to the police and health
forces. They applied the principle
of pure democracy with some social-istic
tendencies.
Other Features.
Shortly after 1 o'clock Aviator
Terrell made a beautiful flight in
his airship. He ascended a consid-erable
distance, and after making a
flight over the grounds, took a circle
toward Greensboro. The flight was
entirely successful and was enjoyed
with thrilling Interest by the thou-J
sands of people who witnessed It.
The military exhibition was not
the least Interesting feature of the
days celebration. Two companies
of Coast Artillery, from Fort Cas-well,
and the Guilford Grays, the lo-cal
military company, gave exhibi-tions
of drilling and firing, the visit-ing
companies, engaging in a sham
battle. The companies from Port
Caswell were under the command of
Capt. E. L. Oliver, a native of
Greensboro, and a son of the late
Judge John A. Gilmer.
NEGRO SHOOTS HIS WIFE
IN QUARREL OVER MONEY.
In a domestic quarrel at their
home in Warnersville Saturday af-ternoon,
James Falson, colored, shot
and killed his wife. He fired two
bullets at the woman, only oae of
which' was effective, and she died in
about 30 minutes. It Is understood
that the quarrel concerned money
matters.
Immediately after shooting his
wife, Palson started up town, car-rying
the revolver in his hand, and
at the corner of South Elm and
Washington streets he met Police-men
O'Briant and Rawlins, who
took him into custody. The officers
had started to Warnersville In re-sponse
to a telephone message an-nouncing
the shooting.
Paison was locked up and will be
given a preliminary hearing in Mu-nicipal
court today. He appears to
be about 30 years old. Apparently
Palson was sober when he commit-ted
the murder.
county commissioners met
this morning at 10 o'clock for their
regular July meeting.
• *M™* Mrs- W. P. Clegg and lit-tle
daughter are spending some time
at WWghtsville Beach.
Mr.'John T. Hunt and family have
gone to their summer home at
Black Hountain, near Asherille.
C°V*nd Mrs. John A. Barrlnger
and daughter, Miss Fannie, have re-baraa*
from a visit to Piedmont
Mil J. A. Hoskins. of Summer-field,
whose health has not been
good *or some time, is reported to
be quite ill.
Mr.-and Mrs. R. K. Davenport
have returned from a visit to Black
Mountain. They made the trip in
their 'automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ballance,
Mrs. M. H. Alford and Miss Char-lotte
Gorrell have gone to Piedmont
Springs to spend a week or two.
Miss Ethel Cobb, of eastern Guil-ford,
left today at noon on a visit
to friends in Concord. She will spend
a few^weeks in Tennessee before re-turning.
Mr*.'and Mrs. J. S. McKnight. of
Denver; Lincoln county, are visiting
at the home of Mr. McKnight's fath-er.
Squire John E. McKnight, north
of the city.
The monthly meeting of the Guil-ford
County Medical Society was
held at the Carnegie library Thurs-day
afternoon. Only routine busi-ness
4|as transacted.
Mint Edna Potter, of Jamestown,
has gone on an extended visit to
Oklahoma City, Cnlcago and bther
Rev. Or. G. H. Detwiler I>ead.
Rev. Dr. G. H. Detwiler. who is
remembered in Greensboro as a for-mer
pastor of West Market Street
Methodist church, died last night in
a sanitarium in Asheville, where he
had been receiving treatment for tu-berculosis
for some time. He was 62
years old and is survived by his wid-ow
and two married daughters. Dr.
Detwiler was one of the ablest min-isters
of the Southern Methodist
church and had held some of the best
appointments in the connection. He
was pastor of West Market Street
church for four years, going from
here to Charlotte at the close of
1908. He was serving his fourth
year as pastor of the leading Meth-odist
church in Nashville, Tenn.,
when failing health forced him to re-tire
several months ago.
Want Congestion Relieved.
In order to relieve the congested
condition of South Elm street, the
directors of the Greensboro Retail
Merchants' Association have adopt-ed
a resolution requesting the city
commissioners to pass an ordinance
forbidding automobiles or other ye-hlcles
from standing on Elm street
between Market street and the rail-road
for a longer period of time
than 30 minutes between the hours
of 7 In the morning and 7 In the ev-ening.
Bryan Leases Home in Asheville.
Secretary of State William-J. Bry-an
has leaked a rammer home In
Asheville. where he and his family
expect to spend the greater part of
that heated term. Mr. Bryan spent
yesterday in Asheville, and after fill-ing
several lecture dates and attend-ing
to some official duties In Wash-ington,
expects to join his family
la abas* two weeks.
Prof. W. C. Smith, dean of the _
ulty of the State Normal and Indus-trial
College, is spending his vaca-tion
pursuing advanced studies at
the University of Wisconsin.
Fire Thursday afternoon destroy-ed
two small store buildings and a
cottage on East Market street, near
Emanuel Lutheran College, result-ing
in a loss of about $1,500.
Saturday morning another mad
dog was killed in Greensboro. The
rabid animal was put to death by
Policeman O'Briant near the corner
of Ashe and Buchanan streets.
a Mr. P. C. Penn and Miss Vallie
Smith, both of High Point, were
married at the McAdoo hotel Satur-day
night, the ceremony being per-formed
by Rev. Dr. Melton Clark.
Prof. E. W. S. Cobb, of Columbus,
a native of eastern Guilford, has
gone to New York to spend six
weeks taking special work in the Co-lumbia
University Teachers' College.
A meeting of retail monument
dealers of North Carolina was held
in Greensboro Saturday. Mr. J. C.
Knight, of this city, was elected sec-ond
vice-president of the organiza-tion.
Mrs. J. Henry Smith is quite ill at
the home of her son-in-law, Mr. R.
G. Vaughn. Her condition is such
as to occasion anxiety on the part
of members of the family and
friends.
The Camp Fire girls of the Y. W.
C. A. are enjoying an outing at Owl's
Roost, Mr. J. W. Cone's farm north
of the city. They are chaperoned
by Mrs. W. W. Smith and Mrs. G.
W. Whltsett.
The Infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Boyles, of Proxllmty, died
Thursday afternoon. The body was
carried to Danville, Va., the former
home of the parents, Friday for the
funeral and interment.
Mrs. H. B. Tatnm, who has been in
feeble health for quite a while, has
gone to Blowing Rock to spend a
week. She was accompanied by Mrs.
G. H. Dorsett and daughter, Miss
Male, and Miss Nellie Bain.
Burlington News: Mrs. T. D. Ko-gleman
returned home Monday af-ter
spending some time visiting in
Hickory. Her sister. Miss Myrtle
Stuart, of Guilford College, spent
the time here while she was away.
Mr. E. H. Coapman, rice presi-dent
and general manager of the
Southern Railway, has notified May-or
Murphy that he will spend to-morrow
in Greensboro for a confer-ence
with city officials and business
man regarding the Southern's grade
crossings and passenger station in
Mr. R. H. Brooks has purchased
the residence formerly owned by
Mr. M. s. Sherwood, on West Gas-ton
street, and has moved his family
into It from the residence he has
been occupying on North Cedar
street.
The annual meeting of the North
Carolina Rural Letter Carriers' As-sociation
was held In Burlington
Friday and Saturday. Messrs. W.
A. Robinson and J. B. Wagoner
were the delegates from Guilford
county.
Mr. G. E. Petty, who has been
manager of the electric light and
power plant at Clinton for some
time, has resigned the position and
returned to Greensboro. He is pre-paring
to engage in the electrical
business In this city.
Judge Ben B. Lindsay, of Denver,
Col., who has made a national repu-tation
as a juvenile court Judge, was
in Greensboro a short while Satur-day.
He was returning from Bur-lington,
where he had delivered a
lecture at a chautauqua.
Rev. Dr. S. B. Turrentine. presi-dent
of Greensboro College for Wo-men,
preached the sermon Sunday at
the dedication of a new Methodist
church in Enfield. This week he
will attend the Warrenton district
Methodist conference at Roanoke
Rapids.
Rev. Dr. Russell H. Con well, of
Philadelphia, who is delivering lec-tures
at several chatauquas In this
state, occupied the pulpit of the
First Baptist church yesterday morn-ing
at 11 o'clock. He is an elo-quent
and forceful speaker and
preached a very Interesting sermon.
Walter Richmond, colored, who
was serving a sentence of eight
months on the city streets tor selling
cocaine, made his escape from the
VOL. 93-NO. 64
MABTIM D0D6LAS KOMINATED
NAMED AM PROGRESSIVE CAN-PIDATE
FOR CONGRESS IN
FIFTH DISTRICT.
iae- S2SL f^JmJBU* • bucket a* water.-and ««•» getting
some distance from the guard, drop-ped
the bucket and ran.
A white boy giving his name as
Charles Williams, of Ashe county,
was discovered Saturday afternoon
in a starving condition in a thicket
near the railroad tracks in the south-western
part of the city. He said he
had been beating his way on a
freight train and became too weak
from hunger to continue the journey.
He was carried to St. Leo's hospital
and given medical attention.
The Vanstory Clothing Company
is preparing to make a number of
improvements and alterations in Its
store. A new front and a new cell-ing
will be put in and a modern
lighting, heating and ventilating sys-tem
will be installed. The store is
to be made one of the handsomest
and most complete clothing estab-lishments
in the South. The work
will begin In a few weeks and will
be completed by the opening of the
fall season.
The Fifth district congressional
convention of the Progressive party
was held in the court house In this
city Saturday afternoon, delegates
being present from all the counties
In the district except Caswell and
Granville. Mr. Martin F. Douglas
of the Greensboro bar, was named
as the candidate for Congress.
The convention was called to or-der
at 2:30 o'clock by H. B. Worth
secretary of the executive commit-tee.
In the absence of the chairman
James N. Williamson. Jr.. of Bur-lington.
J. W. Kurfess. of German-ton,
was made permanent chairman
and H. B. Worth permanent secre-tary,
in taking the chair Mr. Kur-fees
made a carefully prepared
speech defining the principles of the
Progressive party and roasting the
Democratic party.
There was some discussion of the
advisability of nominating a candi-date
for Congress at this time, some
of the delegates contending that It
would be well to postpone the mat-ter
and attempt to effect a fusion
of all the forces opposed to the Dem-ocrats.
This view was advanced by
Messrs. P. N. Cox, of Spray, and T.
M. George, of Mt. Airy.
When It had been decided to pro-ceed
with the nomination of a can-dlate,
Mr. G. W. Bryant, of Durham,
placed before the convention the
name of Mr. Martin F. Douglas and
the nomination was seconded by Mr.
Samuel L. Trogdon, of this city. No
other name was suggested and the
nomination of Mr. Douglas was made
by a rising vote. Three delegates
registered their opposition to the
nomination.
Mr. Douglas accepted the nomina-tion
in a short speech In which he de-clared:
"This time we may not win,
but we will be right, and we have
come to stay." He asserted that
the Democratic administration has
failed miserably and that the hope
of the country lies in the success of
the principles of the Progressive
party.
The convention adjourned without
adopting a platform.
FLECTION IN MEXICO
WAS HELD YESTERDAY.
Deputy Sheriff Killed.
Isaac W. Skipper, a deputy sheriff
of Brunswick county, was shot and
killed Saturday night by James To-money,
a negro, whom the officer
had started to arrest for raising a
rough house at a negro lodge meet-ing.
The negro had an automatic
pistol with which he opened fire on
the entire crowd, which had gather-ed
in a store.
He shot "Cap" Robinson, another
negro, in the leg and inflicted slight
wounds upon G. W. Skipper and
Jack-Skipper, who accompanied the
officer. Some one in the crowd shot
Tomoney through the lungs and the
wound is expected to prove fatal.
- 'this city.
Death of J. Harper Ward.
Mr. J. Harper Ward died Saturday
afternoon at his home near Guilford
College, following an illness of sev-eral
weeks from a complication of
diseases. He was 45 years old and
a son of the late Solomon Ward. He
is survived by his widow and nine
children, seven daughters and two
sons. He also leaves two brothers
and two sisters. The funeral was
held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock
at Hickory Grove.
Washington. July 5—Washington
awaited anxiously tonight for details
of the election held today in Mexico
to choose a successor to General Hu-eita.
Up to a late hour little had
teen heard from the election except
that one had been held and that the
voting was light.
While an early report from Mexico
City said it was believed General
Huerta had been the favorite In vot-ing
for the presidency, the general
belief here was that Huerta had not
been a candidate, and that it was the
intention to choose Pedro Lascurain
as president. Reiterations were re-ceived
today in private dispatches
from Mexico City that Huerta, in a
final effort to restore peace, intend-ed
to turn the government over to
Lascurain, who, in turn, would name
some constitutionalist as minister
of foreign affairs. Then Lascurain,
according to these reports, would re-sign,
leaving the constitutionalists to
succeed to the presidency. Huerta
would be assigned to a foreign post
by Lascurain before the latter's res-ignation.
A dispatch from Mexico City says
the voting was very light and indif-ference
was manifested everywhere.
Despite the announcement that Hu-erta
was not a candidate, he appears
to have received a big majority of
the votes cast. The election was held
only in that part of the country
under the control of the Huerta
forces.
Maj. Watlington Dead.
Maj. W. H. Watlington. a well
known character in Guilford and
surrounding counties, died yesterday
in Durham. He was a native -of
Caswell county, about 75 years old,
and a Confederate veteran.
President Asks For Resignation.
Philadelphia, July 4.—President
Wilson has requested the resigna-tion
of George Fred Williams. Amer-ican
minister to Greece and Monte-negro,
as a result of Mr. Williams'
pubUc statements regarding the sit-uation
In Albania. This became
known after the president's arrival
here today.
Mr. Williams' own reports on his
statements were taken up at the cab-inet
meeting yesterday and after-ward
Mr. Wilson decided their ef-fect
was such that It would be im-proper
for Mr. Williams to longer
represent the United States In the
Balkans.
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