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Gunnison news-champion., 1912-10-04
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The Msmeus cisb held their Ss.s
necssas n sle hsase IT she psuss-
aeat eu TUESDAY These sss .
large and very epthss.ast.e ssssa-
dance.
.oll call ws@ answered By asis-
maj hmerseks. aud the clever ksa~
upon the individual membsss &C.
eas.oaed much msrsh. hrs. O'I~.sy
Is president of the Edsess,oasl end
Aavisory board Of the Gsnnisup
Normal. and sPoa hes sssssssiea
that the eiub eoatrsbsse tesssd sAs
students scholarship and lssa fssl.
the club voted 10 give . schalssuAip
10 be known ~ the ''Gsnnssol
Women club scholarship" end
deemlng thai no time is 20 good n
the present, a free will Offering wse
made.
An informal reeept,oa was then
held at which a buffet lsncheon wss
served by the social committee. The
next meeting will be held st the
home OF Mrs Cara Parsons on Dc
tober l3
Gunnison news-champion., 1912-10-04

To the voters and taxpayers of Gunni-
son County:
hereby announce myself as candi-
date for County Commissioner of the
Second District. subject to the will of
the people on November 5th. If elected
l will be the peoples commissioner as
l am not pledged to any one and am
not making promises that | will not full
fill. ! stand for honesty in politics and
if elected | am your servant, working
for your intersection the interest of
the county and will discharge my ex-
ecutive duties to the best of my ability.
T.. III. Mcdowell.
Gunnison news-champion., 1912-10-04
BALDWIN
News-Champion Correspondence

SoROuuCuNS-
Wednesday, October ?.
James Shackleford has taken two
weeks vacation and gone to lack .
Cabin for big hunt.
Dave LaPlant, wife and son re-
turned from Denver SATURDAY in
their auto.
Rocco Santereli. wife and family
are here from Sapinero. Rocco is
working al the store at present.
The auditor of the Rocky Mountain
Store Co. is here during James
Shackleford's absence.
The dance here Saturday last was
well attended. All had a good time
The Misses Mary and Nora Reilly
were here saturday :and took in the
dance. They returned To Gunpisop
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. : Peel were in Gup-
nison Monday returning home the
same day
Gunnison news-champion., 1912-10-04
Csunci nssoinG


Tuesdays regular monthly meet
ing Of the town trustees effected the
transaction Of considerable business.
Among other things the regular tax
levy was made Ii amounts to the
usual twenty mills and is divided as
follows: Light and water, 10; road,
3; bitches 3, interest and sinking
fund, A.
Following an ineipient blaze in
the roof Of the light plant Saturday
night, something that has happened
frequently Of late because Of the bad
condition Of the roof, the trustees in
structed the light and water com.
mittee to do what was necessary TO
give proper protection, even to the
extent Of placing q new FIRE proof
roof upon the building.
Mayor Nourse appointed Henry y.
Lake, John Gordon and f. Guy
Palmer frewardens TO act under the
ordinance which authorizes inspec-
tion OF fues and chimneys These
appointed officials will proceed to
make complete inspection of every
flue and chimney to ascertain if it is
properly constructed TO prevent fires.
As a further precaution against
the spread of fire, the trustees
ordered the town marshal to equip
the bell tower with new rope so
that the bell may be restablished in
use for sounding alarms of fire. In
the years of disuse, the tower equip
ment gradually disappeared, and
the rope went alongwith the rest.
Tower has been repaired and the
West Town hose cart installed there.
In case Of FIRE this equipment is
easily accessible to the public
Some controversy developed
months ago as to who owned the lot
on which the bell tower is situated.
Investigation showed that the town
owns 25 square feet on the east end
of lot facing the Boulevard, and
that the tower is built on this piece
of ground. The ground was decided
to the town in 1882 by Louden
Mullen.
1t was reported to the trustees
that three new freplugs had arrived
and would be attached to the new
mains in the northern portion of the
town. These main extentions cover
seven blocks of territory.
In this connection it is mete to
say to the credit Of Sup't. Frank
keenan,, Of the light and water plant,
that suggestion of his, which was
Put iHeo cilttt, odNtu the LDWn CON
siderable money, and will doubtless
be effective.
In the purchase of the old gas
plant years ago the town became
possessed Of a quantity Of gas mains.
These were dug up, at Mr. Keenan's
suggestion, heated to high intensity
80 as to burn out every trace Of gas
tainr, painted ON the outside with
coal tar, and laid again as water
mains. Those who should know "a Y
these pipes are now as good as new
Sup't Keenan, advised the trustee.
that the work Of changing light poles
from the streets to the alleys was
practically completed This work
rs pleasing to everyone who has any
concern for civic beauty. A much
Gunnison news-champion., 1912-10-04

Eaales ~ Fes.zsaGe y ezSaH ths -ss~s1s
elsa the siG -si.c.sssd po.as re-
a.ased
The salaoa le.aess as IAyets
hoaai caaspaHs and O II AsEEsy
sere renewed. and the seesiar hsl.4
xese aii1~ed
Gunnison news-champion., 1912-10-04

John Smith WAS severely injured
in q runaway at 5 C. Fishers ranch
Sunday afternoon He was turning
a team of horses. hitched to hay
rack, out Of the corral when they be
came frightened and ran. Mr..
Smith attempted to stop them and
was knocked down. Both wheels
passed over his body. He sustained
internal injuries, one ear was torn
and he was severely bruised about
the body
For SALE-Good heating stove.
Inquire of
40 NJ kelleher
For RENr-t'irst class rooms for
light housekeeping Inquire
40tf Mrs II C. HERRICK
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
A PRACTICAL DEMOCRAT

ST. Louis honors Oscar w. Under
wood for his character, for his achieve
ments and for his Democracy.
The Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee is a practical Democrat. His
leadership in the House of Representa-
tives shows that. He possesses the
ability to enlist men of varying ideas
plans and moods in support of desirable
and feasible objects. Men who agree
on basic principles may be involved in
bitter hostility by antagonisms which in
their essence amount to little.
Mr.. Underwoods example as leader
of Democrats in Congress is worthy OF
emulation elsewhere. 1t makes for toll
erance Tolerance makes for unity
Unity makes for progress. There is no
other way to render Democracy eff
fective.
The young Democrats of St. Louis
who persuaded Mr.. Underwood to be-
come their guest will find in his policy
as we'll as his principles the best hope
of party achievement and party life
The ST. Louis Republic, October IL
1911
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP

The most salient fact connected with
the story of the bill in the present Con-
gress is the remarkable strength of the
Democratic tactics, and the high quail
ity shown by Mr. Underwood, the leader
of the party on the floor. The farmers
free list" bill was master stroke, and
Mr.. Underwood utilized it in the debate
with an effectiveness that left nothing to
be desired. What gives real strength to
the Democratic position is that the party
is graphing with big and difficult
question in spirit that is at once
courageous and practical. If there is to
be an era of such leadership as that rep
resented by Mr.. Underwood, the term
practical politics" may be rescued from
the ignon1iny into which it has fallen
and recover the meaning to which it is
legitimately entit1ed-Ne7v York E1'e-
ming Post, reproduced in The Ell Dorado
Sun (Weekly), FL Dorado Springs, Mo.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
UNDERWOOD
AND THE PAPERS

The careful reader of the newspapers
is surprised at one notable feature of
the papers from practically every sec
ton of the country This feature is the
general notice and attention paid to Con-
gresham Oscar Underwood as candi-
date for the Democratic presidential
nomination, and the uniform praise
which invariably accompanies the men
ton of him and his candidacy. This is
all the more surprising because Mr.. I'm
derwood maintains no press bureau. On
the other hand, prominent candidates
for the Democratic nomination like Gov
ernor Harmon of Ohio, Governor Will
son of New Jersey and Speaker Clark
of Missouri, maintain large and active
bureaus, which are continually sending
out campaign literature to the papers
of the country.
Notwithstanding this, at the present
time Mr. Underwood is receiving more
attention than any other, we might say
any other two, presidential candidates
combined The attitude of the voters
towards Mr. Underwood may be doubted
until that attitude is made clear in an
election, but it cannot be doubted that
his record and his strong personality
are admired by the newspapers of the
country. For now he is receiving more
free and favorable advertising than any
other public man of the country
Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser,
January S, 1912.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
This New Loader
From A1ab0~0

But this new leader from Alabama.
with nothing meteoric or iridescene
about him; who has forged steadily
ahead during sixteen years of consres-
sional service, and who has proved him
self equal to every emergency in the acid
test of debate on the floor of the Hoase;
cool, imperturbable, resourceful, sure Of
himself at all times; profoundly learned
on the great tariff issue he stands for !:
whose impressive personality is reveal
ing itself in stronger lines every day
as the searchlight of the press plays
upon it-he is the Man of Destiny for
the Democratic party in this year 1912
And as the campaign for the nomination
progresses, Mr.. Underwood's superior
availability will come out with increas-
ing clearness, and the Democratic masses
of the South will catch the inspiration
of the great fact that Southern man
from the heart Of Dixie is at last in line
for the presidency after all these weary
years of waiting When that psyche
logical moment arrives-in the national
convention or before ia very nearly
solid South, fused to white heat under
the enthusiasm of genuine Southern
presidential candidacy, will take Oscar
Underwood on its shoulders, sweep away
all the we'll laid plans of machine politics
and rush him right to the goal, winner
by sheer force of an overwhelming sense
of simple justice to the South. At
least, that's the way we want it.-Tks
Sn10auee (Fla.) Democrat, Dece1ber.
1911.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
a Voice
From Virginia

cali of the avowed aspirants are
men of distinction and merit, but my
individual opinion is that the party has
an opportunity to make a magnificent
selection by choosing for its standard
bearer in 1912 the wise, well-balanced
and thoroughly equipped Alabam1an'
Hon. Oscar Underwood.
"Mr. Underwood's record in states
manship is a good enough guarantee
of his fitness for the White House.
He measures up to all the requirements
of the exalted position He is fearless
and broad-minded, and there is nothing
of the demagogue in his composition.
Some will cavil at his Southern origin
and raise the oft-repeated cry that no
Soltherner can be elected to the presl-
dencv. This bugaboo is raised IN spite
of the fact that all the leading papers
of the North and South and all writers
of any note have declared time and
again that sectional feeling and pre]u-
dice. based on the war of '61-65, have
died out completely.
"If that be true is there any longer
any valid reason against going to the
South for candidate? If Mr.. Under
woods personality and public service
render him peculiarly available should
the matter of location bar him from the
nomination? The idea is absurd. l.
Hon. A. C. Broxton, of Richmond, va''
in The Baltimore Sun, January, 1912.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
Underwood
q Real Mon

The Democrats of the House have
reason to be proud of their floor lead
er, Chairman Underwood, Of the Ways
and Means Committee. Mr.. Underwood
has given ample evidence of the Sos
session of the qualities of mind essen
tial to the position. He has also dem
onstrated most conclusively that he 10
a man who cannot be cajoled or bull
lied from the course he considers right.
In the debate over the Canadian rec
iprocity bill former Speaker Cannon
made the bluff that the steel trust IA.
vors the enactment of the measure.
Mr.. Underwood called the bluff very
effectively by producing a telegram
from his home district saying that the
United States Steel Corporation has
stopped work on important mills there,
giving as their reason that Underwood
stood in Congress advocating the tariff
reductions on steel included in this bill.
Mr.. Underwood added that two years
ago the steel trust opposed his election
because of the tariff views and threat
ened to turn him out of Congress If
he voted for reductions on steel duties.
Il voted for them just the same" he
stated, land they failed in their efforts
to turn me out of Congress-"
Underwood is every inch a man, and
the people have more respect for one
such as he than for a whole battalion
of corporations standpatterA-
The Oedla Daily Banner. Florida, April
%, 1911.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
Southern Leaders
and the Tariff

No sensible man, certainly no one
friendly to the South, wishes to see the
tariff made sectional question. The
course of Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Under
wood tends to prevent this. They stand
not only with their own party through
out the country, but with the strong
public sentiment in support of tariff re-
duction that has divided the Republican
party, and thrown the House into the
hands of the Democrats. When we say
that in this they are serving their own
section, we have in mind the important
fact that they are bringing to bear on
national affairs the intelligence and
strength of their section, and giving it
the opportunity to take leading part
ill the affairs of the Nation. They are
undermining the unfortunate section
alism that has, perhaps unavoidably,
pervaded Southern politics for a long
time. They are ranging the South on
the side of progress and in the line
of the most significant movement OF
national opinion that has manifested it.
self in years. Nothing is more certain
than that Our vast and intricate and
oppressive tariff system is to be
reformed, and its reform is bound to
be the one task of craftsmanship in the
next few years. 1t can be determined
and under certain conditions it can be
led by the men of the South.-Nezs
York Times, January 81, 1911.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
UNDERWOODS INTEGRITY, PURITY
CIVIC COURAGE AND ABILITY

In this mornings magazine section
of The Times our readers will find the
very interesting report of an inquiry
by a staff correspondent into the record
and repute, in his own home, of the
Hon. Oscar w. Underwood of Ala
bana, who has recently been discussed
as a possible Democratic candidate for
the presidency. 1t is needless to say
that The Times is not concerned to ad-
vance the interests of any gentleman
in this direction in preference to any
other: 1t is concerned only in laying
before its readers such information,
carefully gathered and impartially pre-
sented as will aid in the formation OF
sound public opinion and a choice that
will be to the greatest advantage of the
Nation.
We think our readers will agree that
any party may be congratulated among
whose prominent men, to whom the
eyes Of the party are directed on the
eve of a presidential campaign, there
is one with such standing among those
who know him best as Mr.. Underwood
has. Plainly he is a man to be trusted,
because he is trusted, for his integrity
purity, civic courage, and ability, by his
own people Whether, when the time
comes for a choice, he will be consld-
cred the best man is a question which
it is now too early to decide. But there
is one element that will enter into the
problem which may we'll receive atten-
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21

ucts Of the district One-third of all the
ironore holdings of the Steel Trust are
in and around Birmingham. Surely, at
first glance, bad outlook for a tariff
reformer And yet Mr.. Underwood
succeeds and re-succeeds himself with
ever climbing majorities
1t is the Underwood honesty that
does it-that, and his clean courage.
The dominant quality in Mr. Underwood
is honesty, and folk have found it out.
Honesty is among the scarcest of earth
ly commodities, and when a community
has discovered it in the possession of
an individual, it guards it and works it
like gold-mine for every final ounce
Mr.. Underwood is honest: His cleo
ton was not the work of money He
was not chosen as either the pet of the
railroads or the frst-born of the trusts.
His seat was given him by the people,
and because they believed he would fill
it to the best of public advantage.
This emanation of the popular gives
Mr.. Underwood the House high ground,
and he is SO far military in his genius
that he knows how to. fortify and hold
1t. From his place as peoples repre-
sentative, he can overstare and keep in
check the Paynes and the Dalzells and
the Crumpackers, who are present mere
ly by the grace of pirate money, and
dwell, therefore, on House levels much
lower than his own.-Alfred Henry
Lewis in the Cosmo politan, New York,
January 1912
AS the head of the Ways and Means
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
Underwood Among
1912 Possibilities

The threatened breakdown of Ma
jority Leader Underwood, as result of
long hours of hard work on the tariff
in the Ways and Means Committee, put
many Democrat in nervous state Of
mind There developed suddenly full
appreciation of the worth of the Ala
bama Congressman as leader. For
Mr. Underwood to become disabled or
to be removed from the scene of his
usefulness at this critical time would be
like pulling a corner post out from
under a platform on which was heaped
most of the political treasures of the
party, Democrats quite generally are
willing to admit.
Credit for the achievements of the
Democratic House bearing the stamp of
constructive craftsmanship is given
readily to the majority leader. Due to
his success as legislative manager-his
ability in most tests to keep the House
Democracy united-and the fact that
Civil War wounds have been allowed to
heal because of the scarcity of public
men of the type of Senator Hepburn,
of Idaho, Southerner is being Sc
riously considered North and South as
presidential material. The Underwood
for President movement has been at
tracing volunteer workers steadily
since last spring, when the newly-in-
stalled Democratic House assumed its
responsibilities. An Underwood boom
for the Democratic nomination for
President put on long trousers at the
beginning Of this, the national campaign
year-Austin Cunningham, in the San
antonio Express, January 5, 1912.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21

life and especially by the intimate, ex-
tensive, and increasing intercommuni-
cation within our borders. Our people
have for forty years literally lived to-
gether, and always more and more
closely. They have gradually ceased
to think in terms of sections, and the
South is to-day no more distinct and
apart from the East or the Middle
West or the West in the minds of those
who dwell elsewhere.
In the next place, no one under sixty
has any personal experience of the
civil conflict, and that means not mere
ly that the majority but that the great
body of voters are without this ex-
century since the Southern Ques-
ton" entered even nominally into a
National contest If it were raised
now by any party, and those who would
be influenced by it had to stand TIP
and be counted, we believe they would
be ludicrously few. On the other hand,
we are confident that, were the issue
made, a great many voters-chiefy
among those who were most earnest in
their loyalty in the civil war-would by
a common impulse of generosity and of
self-respect incline toward the Southern
candidate If forced really to think of
the matter, and to act on their conclu-
sions, it would seem too absurd to act
in the present on the issues long since
settled, settled in their favor, and set
tied forever-The NezU York Times,
November e. 1911.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21
A FIGURE OF NATIONAL SIZE

In politician this would be accounted
recklessness, because party and spoils are
translated in many minds to mean the
same thing; but it is the highest wis
dom in statesman. Even should il
have but partial success in controlling
a party following, it must be productive
OF immense good in showing that the
South has in Mr.. Underwood a man
who can be trusted by the Nation-a
man whose patriotism is not limited by
small things. nor suffering from the
burden Of any prejudice.
For our part, we believe that such
wisdom is of more practical value than
would be the keenest political schem-
ing; and that this very absence of self
seeking, this contempt for the arts of
the politician, is working for him, while
he himself has his mind conferred upon
things he regards as of more moment.
The country could do no better than
to put its entire trust in such a man
and there is good reason to think that Il
will do so. AS Mr. Lewis says, Il
should not hesitate to employ him a
night Waterman" This coming. mot
from the South, but from writer whose
attitude is critical and whose atmosphere
is of the North, is certainly a tribste
not to be despised; its significance Is
very great.-The Mobile (Alabaa.a)
Register. January Il, 1912.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21

The emphasis here is placed upon Mr..
Underwood's wisdom, but along with
this is mentioned his honesty.
These two qualities greatly impress
every one who comes into association
with Mr.. Underwood, or who closely
follows his course in Congress and in
public life. He is wise: he does not
disturb himself about little things; his
own personality is not obtruded; his
political ambitions play no part in gov
erning his words and actions. He has
an eye single to the performance of
duty and believes that duty we'll per-
formed is the most urgent considera-
ton. If doing his duty should mar his
fortunes-as he certainly believed it
would when he voted against the pen
sion bill-he will take what comes with
out complaining. Not every man can be
president, he thinks, but every man can
try to do the best that is in him for
his country and for the times he lives
in
And this is honesty. He plays no
politics; he stands out against raiding
the treasury-no matter what be the ex-
cuse offered-and he opposes his own
friends and associates quite as firmly
as he opposes his opponents when, in
his judgment, the thing proposed to be
done is not for the common good.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-21

Committee, Mr.. Underwood has shown
himself to be the right man in the right
place. What advances are made by the
party in 1912 will be due largely to him.
He knows tariff in all its schedule
wlndings, as man knows the Railways
OF his own house. He has wisdom. He
has temper and spirit, but is neither
unreasonable nor vindictive. l have
faith in the tariff thoroughness of Mr..
Underwood. If l owned the revenues
of the Government l shouldn't hesitate
to employ him as night-watchman.-
Alfred Henry Lewis, in the Cosmobol-
,ta", January, 1912.
Mr.. Underwood is faithful in his
friendships. To those whom he casually
meets, he is affable, albeit non-com-
initial, keeping his own counsel He is
never rude nor hard; never violent,
even with blood foes For the stranger
within his gates his air is gentle and
frank. He is easy to see, and, speaking
generally, has been ever careful to keep
himself within the reach of all. News
paper folk, sent to Mr. Underwood by
some stress of duty, never fail to like
him. He has his dignity, but there is
no reserve. He maintains no distances
between himself and them. He answers
question with round readiness, or
says plainly that he can't answer it and
tells why. He expedites the business in
hand, and will even anticipate the pur-
pose of ones coming, and put questions
to himself-Alfred Henry Lewis, in the
Cosmopolitan, New York, January, 1912.