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THE MONROE JOCRXAL, TUESDAY. MAY 30, U21
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PAGE SEYFTV
PROHIBITION COMMITTEE
INTERROGATE CANDIDATES
Under Direction of Slate Anti-Saloon
League Candidates for all State
Offices Are Interrogated
ALL ANSWER YES TO FIRST
QUESTION SLOW OX SECOND
Believe Creation of More Offices at
Expense of Taxpayers Not Advis
able at This Time.
IT'S A MISTAKE
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care of one's future. Many people have money left to them but lack the spe
cial training needed to properly care for it it gets away. IF YOU expect to
have money left to you later on in life you will need training in order to be
able to give your interests the vigilant care they will demand if you are to hold
your own or build for a larger success. This training is only acquired by
actual practice. No other method for gaining it is so good, so business-like,
os safe as the Bank Account method. Start Your training NOW by coming in
and opening an account with us one dollar will get you started add to it as
you can.
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK,
The Bank that Backs the Farmer.
M. K. LEE, President; C. B. ADAMS, Vice-President; W. B. LOVE, VSce
President; R. A. MORROW, JR., Cashier. Directors, R. A. Morrow, Sr., F. G.
Henderson, L. N Presson, W. B. Love, G. S. Lee, M. K. Lee, T. C. Lee, W. M.
Gordon, W. A. Redfern, Thos. E. Williams, A. M. Secrest
The county committee on prohibi
tion enforcement. Mesrs. R. J. Mc
llwaine. T. L. (Well. F .B. Ash-
craft, and L. M. Presson, appointed by
the state anti-saloon league, are mud
dying the waters for the candidates
for the senate and house. The candi
dates are Messrs. W, ('. Heath and
W. P. Kendall for senate, and Messrs.
J. F. Millikcn. C. J. Braswell and C.
ance McNeely for the hous?, and
they have received the following ques
tionnaire which is given together with
their answers:
The Questionnaire:
The people of this county, who fa
vor the strict enforce: nt of vhe
eighteenth amendment are co-operating
with the anti-saloon league to se
cure at the next general assembly
legislation that will bring this about,
desire to know how you stand on this
question. If nominated and elected
to represent this county:
1. Will you support legislation
that will harmonize the state laws,
with the Volstead Act?
2. Will you support legislation
that will give power, authority and
funds to the attorney-general to en
force the prohibition laws?
The second section of the eighteenth
amendment reads: "TJhe Congress
and the several states shall have con
current power to enforce this article
by appropriate legislation." It is this
appropriate legislation that the
friends of enforcement are asking for.
It is the purpose of this commit
tee to give to the county newspapers
for publication the latter and the an
swers of all the candidates. With
this information the people may vote
intelligently in the primary June 3rd.
R. J. Mcllwain, chm., T. L. Crowell,
F. B. Ashcraft, L. M. Presson, county
committee.
Mr. Heath's Answer
I beg to acknowledge the recent
receipt of your questionnaire. In re
ply to same, I take pleasure in an
swering your first question Yes.
With reference to the second ques
tion, asking if I will advocate legis
lation granting power, authority and
funds to the attorney-general of our
state, to enforce the prohibition laws,
I beg to suggest that this power, as
it occurs to me, is hardly wise under
existing conditions, because it will re
sult in the appointment of a great
number of agents in the one hundred
counties of the state, at an enormous
cost, which would result in an addi
tional tax upon the people, already
too heavily burdened with taxation.
Conservatively speaking, I daresay
that this cost would average at least
$5,000 for each of the one hundred
counties, or a grand total of $500,000
for the entire state, and as is usually
the custom, this cost would gradually
increase from year to year to the
extent of reaching a more stupendous
sum. The great machinery of our
government and state is already too
heavily loaded with intricate and com
plex parts to risk adding additional
gears, cams and friction bearings
which will tend to make matters more
unbearable and confusing.
When the legislation proposed in
your tirst question, which I agree to
support, shall have been enacted, our
local courts and local officials, al
ready established, could and should
enforce the law without additional
cost, and its enactment would auto
matically be the result.
Pardon me for the suggestion that,
in this unprecedented period of great
depression, confusion and deflation, I
am of the opinion that, in all mat
ters economic, religious, industrial,
agricultural and political, there should
be exercised care, caution, and con
servatism. Without this, we can nev
er begin to lay the mudsills of a de
sired rehabilitation.
Mr. Kendall's Answer
Yours of the 20th received, and in
reply to your inquiry as to how 1
stand on certain questions, will say:
First I favor law and order and
desire our laws enforced.
Second I favor sufficient number
of officers to enforce our laws.
Third I favor economy in admin
istration and do not believe in ap
pointing a multiplicity of office-hold
ers.
Mr. Milliken's Answer
I am in rceeipt of circular letter
from your committee asking me as a
candidate for the legislature to an
swer two questions: 1) Support of
legislation harmonizing state laws
with Volstead Act; (2) Support legis
lation giving power, authority and
funds to the attorney-general to en
force prohibition laws.
In reply to the hrst question I will
state that I favor the enactment of
legislation harmonizing state laws
with the Volstead Act. and had con
templated drafting and introducing
such a bill if I should be elected as
representative from this county.
As to the second question, in the
absence of any information as to
what sort of legislation is proposed
and what sort of "funds" are to be
appropriated for the enforcement of
the law, 1 answer No.
In my judgment and opinion there
is no more necessity for the creation
of a special department in the attorney-general's
office for the en
forcement of the prohibition law than
there is for the enforcement of any
other criminal law, for while it is pos
sible that in some localities the pro
hibition law is not enforced with that
degree of diligence that the other
criminal laws are enforced, in most
localities in this state and certainly
in this county, the officers and courts
are doing their full duty in this re
spect, and are enforcing the prohibi
tion laws to the best of their ability.
The creation of this department would
mean the creation of rome ten or
a dozen fat jobs for somebody and I
believe that we have enough officers
now charged with enforcement of
'aws. In this county we have a very
vigilant sheriff and a recorder who
convicts and punishes upon proper ev
idence. In addition to this we have
three grand juries a year composed
of law-abiding citizens from all parts
.f the county who are sworn to make
presentment of all violations of the
law which may come to their knowl
edge, and it ig my observation that
the state solicitor and the judges of
the superior court are doing their full
duty in respect to the enforcement of
th's law. I"ub!ic funds can be raised
only by taxation, and when once rais
ed they are rapidly spent, and as
stated above, in my opinion, the cre
at.on of this department in the at-toniey-general's
office would have no
other effect than to increase taxes bc-
ii.jse of the creation of new jobs, a
situation which would be detrimental
to the general welfare in this time
of depression when the necessity for
economy in public affairs is para
mount. ,
Mr. Brasw ell's Answer
Replying to your circular letter of
recmt date you ate advised that i
am in favor of harmonizing the
state and federal, prohibition laws.
In regard to your proposition you
are advised that I am in favor of
enforcing the prohibition laws of the
state, but I do not dim it wise to
give to any one man or set of men
the right to create a lot of new offices
and spend an unlimited amount of
money without submitting the mat
ter to a vote of the people.
Mr. McNeely's Answer
Yours received and contents care
fully noted. As to your first ques
tion I answer Yes. I see no reason
why the state law should not har
monize with the national law.
As to your second question I an
swer No. I am an advocate of pro
hibition and a believer in law en
forcement, but it would be with great
reluctance that I would agree to turn
the attorney-general loose upon the
people's money, certainly not without
the unqualified approbation of the
qualified voters.
To the Democratic Voters of
the 13th Judicial District
Keys Taken from Jailer's Wife
Henderson, May 26. Two men, ap
parently negroes, walked into the
home of the Vance county jailer late
this afternoon, took the keys to the
bastile from the jailer's wife, went
to the jail and unlocked the doors.
and told the prisoners they were at
liberty.
tiuy Barnes, a white man, charged
with storebreaking at Kittrell, and
five negroes accepted the invitation
to walk out, but the other prisoners
decided to remain. Two of the
negroes were captured soon after
wards by the officers, but nothing
had been reported from Barnes and
the three negroes.
The local officers believe that the
two men were in reality white men,
who had disguised themselves as
negroes. They had a theory that
it was a plot to liberate Barnes, who
was recently arrested in Florida and
brought to Durham to be tried on a
forgery charge. After he had settled
the case in Durham, Barnes was ar
rested on a charge of breaking into a
store at Kittrell. He is scheduled to
be tried at the June term of court
here.
It is said that Barnes had threat
ened to implicate others in some
thefts, and the officers believe that
the ju il delivery tonight was for the
purpose of getting him out of the
way. Whether that be true or not,
they know lor a certainty that he
has gotten out of the way and they
are bending every effort to find
him.
Henry Harris, a negro charged
with killing his wife, was among
those taking French leave. Frank
Jones and James Davis, negroes,
charged with storebreaking wefe the
others who got away. Among those
remaining in the jail were several
who had been tried today on boot
legging charges. They had been giv
en road sentences. They preferred
to take their chances on the roads
and did not make any attempt to es
cape though the way was clear.
LINING UP FOR PHILLIPS
Marshville Citizens Publicly An
nounce Voluntary Support of the
Soldier Candidate
(Political Advertisement)
Believing that it is the inescapable
patriotic duty of fathers, mothers,
brothers and sisters, whose sons and
brothers offered their lives as su
preme sacrifices to "make the world
safe for democracy," to avail them
selves of opportunity to show grati
tude and appreciation, acting under a
consciousness that it would brand
our declarations of patriotism during
the world war as hypocritical and
make us appear as unworthy de
scendants of patriotic ancestry to
vote against a soldier candidate,
other claims and qualifications being
equal, we take this method of pub
licly expressing our purpose to sup
port Mr. F. D. Phillips, the soldier
candidate of Richmond county, for
solicitor in the approaching Demo
crat primaries. This action is taken
without knowledge of Mr. Phillips.
J. L. Ureen
H. C. Ashcraft
T. L. McBride
V. A. Ashcraft
I. C. Bivens
J. R. Griffin
E. C. Griffin
T. D. Hamilton
J. C. Marsh
M. F. Phifer
A. L. Marsh
V. H. Bivens
C. W. Barrino
C. W. Braswell
John C. Smith
L. C. Ashcraft
F. M. Smith
J. F. Smith
O. B. Nash
C. S. Myers
F. M. Edwards
J. C. Nash
J. D. Rogers
L. E. Thomas
R. L. Nash
J. I.. Tice
T. E. Stanly
R. D. Smith
G. C. Smith
J. N. Sturdivant
R. E. Rorie
R. W. Rorie
O. P. Tice
H. L. Smith.
Every since my appointment as
Solicitor last fall, I have had three
candidates against me, who have been
busy canvassing in the district. On
account of the duties of the office
it has been impossible for me to per
sonally visit the voters. It seems
to be the custom that when a man is
in office, it is the proper thing to
slander and misrepresent him, and in
my case, the custom has been fully
carried out. In one part of the dis.
trk-t, where there is an agitation
about ta xes, they tell that when a
memlwr of the State Senate, in
that I was a high tax man. They do
not go furl her and tell that I advo
cated and helped pass the bill to take
state taxes off of the land, and that
I advocated and helped pass the bill
giving $300 personal proerty exemp
tion, to all tax payers. These did
more to reduce the taxes of the poor
er class than anything else that has
been done in any legislature in the
history of the State.
In another section I was criticized
by one of the candidates for settling
a case, which saved the county sev
eral hundred dollars, in cost. It was
stated that I had sold out in order
to get the support of some lawyers
appearing in the case on the other
side. They were not fair enough to
state that the same party making the
charges appeared with the State for
the private prosecution and that when
the matter of settlement was being
considered, this same candidate wrote
to me and recommended the settle
ment and stated that the same should
be made.
Another candidate charges that
during the entire time of the war,
that I was at home living easy and
making money, when, as a matter of
fact, for nearly two years. I closed
my office and gave my time to the
service of the government, assisting
in every way I could to carry on thu
war work. whuh. at that tune, was
considered necessary.
These are only a few of the many
charges which have been made against
me, and which, are of course, only
used for campaign purposes. They
are ail unfair and made with the in
lent to deceive the public, and to
hurt me in my campaign for re no mi
liar ion.
Since my appointment of Solicitor
I have prosecuted all clashes t tha
best of niy aMity. and with such ruc
css that my opponents do not ci. igo
that 1 am not capable of fillinj the
office as it should be. Every Iass
of cases which have come biTorv m
has been prosecuted, bat there i one
class which is taking more tit-.-, atvl
which is larger in numoer tha". nnjr
other class and that is the pru eru
tion of the violation of the lienor
laws.
For the twenty-two years, which I
have been practicing law, 1 have nev
er appeared in a case for the defend
ant who was charged with the vio
lation of the liquor laws, having al
ways given my services freely to the
prosecution of such cases, but always
declining to accept a fee from a de
fendant in any such case.
j I, therefore, confidently ask tho
! voters of the district to pay no at-
! tent ion to the false, slanderous and
misleading reports which have been
circulated about me, as they are ab
solutely untrue and that by giving
j me their vote that I may be re
nominated for a full term, and assure
them that the office of solicitor will
; be conducted fairly and impartially,
and as it should be.
j M. W. NASH.
I Hamlet. X. C.
where you can walk right into us; and where
your friends and our customers come to buy;
so even if we wanted to, we could not afford
to sell you anything but honest goods. This
fact should surely be sufficient to insure us
your patronage in anything you may need
in the jewelry line.
W. J. Rudge Co.
RE-SALE OF VALUABLE PROPER
TY IN MONROE TOWNSHIP
Under and by virtue of an order of
the Superior Court of Union County,
made in the special proceedings enti
tled "Henry Curlee et als, ex parte,
heirs-in-law of C. B. Curlee and Hulda
Gullege, deceased," the same being
No. on the special proceeding dock
et of said court, the undersigned com
missioners will on
Saturday, 3rd day of June, 1922,
at twelve o'clock, M., at the court
house door in Monroe, N. C, offer for
sale to the highest bidder, for cash,
all of the following real estate, lying
and being in Monroe township, Union
county, N. C, and described and de
fined as follows:
First Tract: Being: Lot No. 8 in
the division of the cs ate lands of C.
B. Curlee, deceased, and containing
81 acres, more or less, and lies on the
waters of Stewart's Folk creek, about
two miles east of the town of Mon
roe, and reference is made to Book
20, page 338, of the office of register
of deeds of Union county for a more
particular description.
Second Tract: Beginning at J. R.
Shute's N. W. corner on McCauUv
Avenue N. 63.50 W. 81.5 ft. to H. B.
Shute's corner; thence with H. B.
Shute S. 2 1-2 E. 144 1-2 ft. to J. R.
Shute's line N. 8!) 3-4 E. 60 ft.;
thence with J. R. Shute's other line N.
3 1-2 B. 108.0 ft. to the beginning, it
being the same lot conveyed to Hulda
Gullege by Reece Winchester and
wife on April 11, 1921. See Book 58
page 2(!0.
Bidding on tract No. 1 will begin at
$2035. On tract No. 2 at $1255.
This 18th dav of Mav, 1922.
W. O. LEMMOND and
JOHN C. SIKES. Corn's.
To the Voters of Ihe Thirteenth
District:
Since I have gone to tho expense
and trouble of getting up the facts
and figures that prove to thu tax
payers of the district that the Solici
tors are getting entirely too much
fees, my opponent, Mr. M. W. Nash,
seems to be trying to ride in on my
platform by publishing and Howling;
the district with a letter stating that
"he thinks the solicitors should bo
paid a salary by the state and that
the tax-payers of the counties should
not have to pay any taxes for these
fees, and that as a member of the
last legislature he endeavored to have
this done." I hereby challenge Mr.
Nash to show me between the lids of
the Senate Journal where he said one
word or did anything towards chang
ing the present fee bill. I am in fa
vor of solicitors being paid by the
criminals that are convicted, either
out of their pockets or by the services
on the county roads, and not by the
honest tax-payers of the several coun
ties. Respectfully.
A. A. TARLTON.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having this day qualified before
R. W. Lemmond, clerk of the Superior
court of Union county, as executor
of the last will and testament of
Amanda J. Rea, this is to notify all
persons holding claims against said
estate to present same duly verified
on or before the 22nd day of May,
1923, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery.
All persons Indebted to said estate
will please make prompt payment.
This Mav 22, 1922.
JOHN V. KINDLEY, Execu
tor of the last will and testa
ment of AMANDA-J. REA.
W. B. Love, Attorney.
Dr. Kemp Funderburk
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