The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-07-21
THE PRIMARY
FOR SENATOR
Much DISCUSSION AS TO WHETH-
Err 1T WILL NOT NJURE
PARTY
other STATE news
(W. ]. MARTIN.l

CIV. J. MARTIN)
Raleigh, N. c., July 20-Rev. George
W. Lay, rector of ST. Mary's School,
lad the misfortune to seriously sprain
lis ankle in a fall last evening on
Fayetteville street so that he will be
confined to his home for couple or
so weeks with his ankle in a plaster
cast
1t is learned that w. M. Carter,
who was one of the defendants in the
million two hundred thousand dollar
damage suit of Ware-Kramer Compa-
nv VS.. American Tobacco Company
here in which the jury gave damages
amounting to $4,000, and in which
the charges as to Carter were non
suited, has since the termination or
the trial here filed his complaint in
the suit for damages he instituted
some time ago against The Asheville
Citizen and The Raleigh News and
Observer, the amount claimed being
$4,000 against each newspaper. This
suit was instituted on the strength of
an editorial in the Asheville Citizen
and copied by the News and Observ-
er, commenting on a news story set
ting out the charges in the Ware
Kramer suit as to Carter having as
an agent of the American Tobacco
Company procured a position as sales
manager for Ware-Kramer Company
and set about to destroy the trade OF
Ware-Kramer Company. In the re-
cent trial against the trust the plain
tiffs failed to sustain their charges
against Carter and it is on the
strength of this that he now under
takes to press his suit against the
newspapers, whose editorials here
baed entirely on the question Of
whether the allegations of Ware
Kramer Company were true.
There is a considerable diversity
Of opinion here in the discussion of
the probable course of the impending
Senatorial contest and the proposed
Senatorial primary for trying out the
strength of the four candidates with
the people. The view is expressed@by
some~that there should really be a
general primary for the party called
by the State Executive Committee be-
fore the State Democratic convention
next July and that this primary
should be for all State officers as well
as for the Senator. Against this pro-
position there is the contention that
the executive committee would have
no moral right to call such a primary
for the reason that the last Legisla-
ture definitely refused after long and
spirited discussion to enact general
State primary has as decidedly detri-
mental to the interests of the Demo
cratic party, especially in the west.
The other solution of the primary
problem is that it should be a ques-
ton for the State convention in July,
the convention to adjust the details
to assure the complete settlement OF
the fight at the polls so that there
could be no development that would
ultimately precipitate this contest in
the 1912 Legislature. The advocates
Of this plan of primary would have IT
prescribed by the convention that nc
one be allowed to vote for Senator
who does not show that he has just
voted the full State Democratic ticket
before he offers to take a hand in the
primary vote for Senator The END
that all jealous Democrats, jealous fol
the welfare of the party and it's unfit
cation desire especially to see at
tanned is the keeping of the Sena
torial fight from undue influence OF
the State ticket, especially the nom1
nation for Governor, around which
the principal State ticket contest vii
center. They want to see this Sena
torial contest pulled off in such WAY
as will leave the party in STANDARD
fighting trim as against the opposing
political party, and it is generally re
garded as the weightiest problem tina
the State organization-the STATE
Chairman and the executive commit
tee-has to solve to steer the party
through this Senatorial clash and II
the end present a solid and victorious
front in the general election and TO
future conflicts
Hon. M L. Shipman, Commissione
Of Labor and Printing, finds after per
sonal inspection into the Cranberr.
mine accident some weeks ago i
which L. C. Tolly, a miner, was Kill
ed, that the explosion of blast o
powder that did the fatal WORK wa
due to the effect of the detonation
drills on blast of powder that ha'
failed to go off with a number Q
others when the fuses were igulted
He says his experience in the IL
spection of the Cranberry mines wa
one to stir the fears of the unlnltldIe
such as he. Mr.. Shipman says tn
number of visitors in the mountain
for the summer is something IN
mense, exceeding all previous re
cords and that business is good alon
al lines. Cranberry mines are ID tn
new county of Avery, just getting 1t
county government organized, an6
Mr.. Shipman says affairs are deTe
0pfng fine. There will be primar
soon in Avery on the question OF tn