davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
TO FIGHT AT RALEIGH.
North Carolina Democrats Believe
Their Law Good.

RALEIGH, N. c., June 27.-Democratic
leaders at the State capital In advance
OF the text OF Chief Justice Whites
opinion In the Oklahoma and Maryland
cases, which destroyed the suffrage de-
vice known a. the grandfather clause,
declare complete willingness TO defend
North Cardinals amendment before the
Federal Supreme Court. Assuming that
the court upset this clause because
the amendments perpetuate discrimina-
lions against the negro, Democrats who
are to undertake the defence OF tho
clause maintain the substantially OF diff
ference between the destroyed amend
ments and North Cardinals.
North Carolina set her deadline
against the colored people January l.
1867. The North Carolina amendment.
passed August 2. 1900, provides as a
requisite for suffrage tina the elector
must be able to read and write any sec
ton of the Constitution of the State in
the English language. But II such cleo
tor could vote anywhere In the United
States prior TO January !. 1857. or If he
be the lineal descendant OF any elector
who could vote prior TO that date he may
register and vote without meeting the
l~iteracy test until December l. 1908.
Under that provision more than so, 600
blacks laid down their right 10 vote
and It Is asserted that they gave up their
rights so readily and INCREASINGLY that
there ,s no public record OF a dis
franchised negro offering TO register
after the North Carolina amendment
with It's grandfather clause went into
effect.
It Is admitted here that II North Caro-
lina's amendment Is destroyed n the
negro again votes the State will &c
overwhelmingly Republican IN 1915.
The Republicans in 1905 strongly
urged an extension OF the grandfather
cha as a further protection to the
whites. Attorney-General Beckett led
the fght against longer immunity fo'
the whites Z. l.. Travis. chairman OF
me state Tax Commission. Ia persuaded
that the act can be triumphantly de-
Tended. He opposed the extension OF
the grandfather clause. Because OF the
states refusal 10 perpetuate a dist'nc-
ton between the two voting elements he
believes the North Carolina amendmen,
Is safe.
Republicans assert that they will seek
no reopening of the polls 10 the mass OF
blacks. From a white party OF 10000
and $4,000 blacks in 1900 the Republi.
cans rave grown 20 IFS, 900 whites and
now have one Representative in Con.
gress. The constitutional amendmen,
ave the new Republican party It's life.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28

Republican leaders in the State en-
tered suit In the United States District
Court against the registrars. The late
Judge Morris decided the act to be in
violation OF the Fifteenth Amendment
and held the registrars liable. An APP
peal was taken to the Supreme Court.
Pending this appeal no further at
tempt was made to d~isfranchise the
negroes. and the law has since been a
dead letter. Al the same time II has
had the effect in Frederick and some
other cities of frightening a number
OF the blacks. who were afraid to
register.
Other were employed TO
keep the negroes from the polls in GER
tain counties. An act known ~ the
Wilson ballot law. and which contains
u literacy test. applies to Ave counties
In the State.
still another law. the naturalization
act as 1t Is called. which requires
every voter leaving the state for a
period to make oath that he intends TO
return in n certain time. ~disfranchises
many negroes who go outside the State
TO work. The white man whose work is
at home Is moi often enmeshed In the
law.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
WEST VA. NOT AFFECTED.
Republican, Have Prevented
Gr%andfath~r Clause Passage.

WHEELING, w Va. June 27.-Ths
United States Supreme Courts recent
decision on the so-called grandfather
clause will have no political effect In
West Virginia. generally regarded as "a
Southern State, While there always has
been more or less of a sentiment towa I'd
the enactment OF n similar law in the
State. yet ever since the separation
from the Old Dominion the Republicans
either have been in power OF have been
strong enough IN the State Legislature
to prevent the passage OF such a
measure. .
In 1912. when II appeared that tho
Democrats had bright prospects for
carrying the State. an almost successful
attempt was made at having the clause
written into the platform. At the sub
sequent legislative session an attemp.
was made TO have a Jim Crow car
Law enacted, but this too failed by a
small majority.
Only about half a dozen counties In
the entire State rave what are constd-
cred large colored votes. Strangely
enough. these are among the larges.
counties as well. Their strength In the
Legislature has been sufficient TO pre-
vent the passage OF the laws mentioned.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
SOUTH DISCOUNTS RULING|
ON GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
State Leaders Say u. S. Supreme Courts Action Viii
Have Small Influence on Political Situation
North Carolina to Fight for It's Law.

The decision OF the United States
Supreme Court holding unconstitu-
tional the grandfather clause in the
constitution Of Oklahoma may give the
voting power to thousands Of negroes
formerly disfranchissd in a number Of
it's correspondents. has obtained TIE
views of those best qualified to speak
regarding what the result will be and
what, II my, efforts will be made to
meet the new situation created.
Here are the opinions from various
States affected by the law:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
LESS WAR DISTRESS,
COMMISSION FINDS
Rockefeller Foundation Gets
Report Of Better COndi-
lions in Europe.
GERMAN AID FOR POLAND

The war relief commission. sent by
the Rockefeller Foundation to stricken
Europe last November TO make a first
hand study of conditions as to the time,
place and means OF rendering aid most
effectively. has completed Its survey OF
conditions as they affect non-combatants
in all the countries at war except italy
and Turkey. which are TO be visited AT
an early date.
The foundation issued yesterday a
statement as to It's great relief work.
accomplished through tho commission.
in which 1t said that the outstanding
feature of the situation among the non
combatants in Europe o-day IS that
THE more highly organized communities
arc finding 1t possible to alleviate acu'e
distress among their peoples.
"A the outset of the wal and due 10
its sudden development" the statement
goes OH, there was u severe dlslocation
of economic life throughout the world
not alone in tho belligerent countries.
A reimbursement has now been effected
and the populations have become meas
urab.y adapted TO wal conditions. Thus.
even countries like Belgium are now
able TO help themselves to a degree I'M
possible six months ago. though Bei-
GUM Is still wholly dependent on the
Commission for Relief IN Belgium ior
the importation OF food supplies and
would again be confronted by famine II
Importation were stopped.
suffering and want are stu acute
In Serbia, Russian Poland and In parts
OF Gaiicia. Serbia and Montenegro are
still in the throes of typhus and sub
| stantial economic or social recupcration
Is Impossible at present
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
Influence

Women have more influ.
ence on purchases by men
than vice versa. Perhaps one
reason is that most of a mans
time is taken up earning
money.
Consider how much influ-
ence your wife has in the
matter of your wearing ap-
parel and how little you have
as to hers.
Mr.W. Hooper of Rogers,
PeetC Company recentlysaid:
Nowadays it is recognized
that women do more buy
ing than men. Even in a
mans store women do much
of the buying. They buy
almost all the underwear for
the men and a good many
of his neckties. They do not
buy a mans suits, but they
are very apt to be with him
when he buys a suit. When
a man has a woman with
him, the clerk should sell to
the woman"
Increasingly, manufacture
ers are profiting by the in:
fluence of women, obtained
through Butterick publica-
tons.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
PASTORS TO DISCUSS LAW.
Tax on Church Property Among
Questions Proposed.

FIVE questions OF legislative policy will
be discu' sed this morning at n meeting
IN tn" assembly hall Of the Metropolitan
I.ife Building, which 1000 ministers
nav" been invited to attend,
They are proposals 20 TAX church prop
erly, to abolish State aId to denomina
conal schools. to abolish moving pictures
censorship, to restrict suff.!ge to those
able 10 read and write and to repeal
n u-gamb!ing legislation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
Butcher Hangs Himself,

Adolph Sommers. ~. a butcher. .iet
n clothes line to tho knob OF hts bed
room door a: 30o Convent avenue, YES
terdav afternoon. threw the other en-,
or no rope through the transom ant
stepped into the hall, placed his hea,
N "A moose which he had formed. II
was dead WREN his wife, Mrs. Li'llni
Sommers. and his daughter. Miss lean
cite. returned after n short walk. Som
ners had been discouraged by continue,
N health.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
Personnel Of Commission.

The original members OF the founda-
tons war relief commission were Wick
life Rose, director-general OF the Inter-
national Health Commission. chairman {,
Ernest \. Bicknell. secretary OF the
American Red Cross Society. and Henry
James, Jr. manager OF the Rockefeller
Institute. Eliot Wadsworth of Boston
became a member OF the commission In
March and jeremiah Smith. Jr.. IN June.
The foundation co~operated with the
Belgian Relief Committee OF New YORK
before waiting for It's own committee TO
report and spent a little more than N,-
900. 900 in providing the greater part or
Ave full cargoes of supplies for Belgian
relief. Its commission opened an office
In Rotterdam. Holland. for receiving.
sorting and shipping clothing sent to the
Belgian Relief Committee, and later the
foundation organized several thousand
Belgian women into sewint camps In
Holland. where they were refugees. In
which undertaking $50, 900 was expended.
The foundation also appropriated
10000 Il year for the payment Of
stlpends to scientific professors Of Bel
gian universities for whom laboratory
facilities a ~ been provided in England.
Messrs. Rose. Bicknell n James
made a o u OF inspection through north
ern France etween the firing line and
the Belgian border. which resulted IN
immediate relief for the communities OF
Fumay and Givet, where extreme suffer
ing was found.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
WAITER CALLED SO, 900 THIEF.
Arrested mt Pennsylvania station
ns Berkeley RObber.

Ellison Jones. a colored waiter in the
restaurant al the Pennsylvania Rail-
road station, was arrested yesterday
morning by Detectives Burgess and
o'"onnoll Of the Second branch, charged
with having stolen iewclry worth more
tnan $4,000 from occupants OF the Ber-
kelley, 90 Fifth avenue.
The chief loser was Mrs. W. \. Emery,
fr"n whom a diamond brooch and pin,
valued at sl,l00, was stolen on May
Is Jones was working as doorman
OF the apartments.
The following day James Coles, a
negro, was arrested after he had tried
|" rawn the stolen articles, lie Is now
aWditing trial. Jones was caught in
tho same way.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
Elevator Operator Hurt.

CASTOR Citizens. 4l9 West Fifty-third
street, who Is employed as an elevator
operator in the Wilbraham apartments
AT Thirtieth street and Fifth avenue,
WAS severely injured yesterday after
noon when he was caught between the
door OF the car and the floor He was
taken to Bellevue Hospital. where il
was said h" probably will die.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28

"L." Tie wrecks Dinner Table.
A railroad y dislodged by a train
on the Broadly elevated in Williams
burg. where the road Is being third
tracked. fell shirty-nve feet To- the side
walk In fro OF 7si Broadway yester-
day afterrNn and then bounced through
the plate eass window OF a restaurant.
shDwerirf four diners with glass. The
Tie narrowly missed a man and hts wife
and tlee children on the sidewalk.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-08
zIRcoNIA SETTINGS

Masters Fred, Denver and Chester
Foster and Bryan Ledbetter spent the
weekend with their aunt, Mrs. G. H.
Osteen.
Cross Roads school opens Monday
morning with Miss Bertha Ledbetter
as teacher. This will make Miss Let
better's fourth year here. She has the
best wishes of her many friends and
we are sure she will make good.
Mrs. Ed. Hunnycut is very i'll with
pneumonia.
S. E. Sentelle and David Osteen made
a business trip to Hendersonville Sat
urday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. S, A sentelle,
a son, Roy Singleton.
The farmers of this section are bad
ly behind with their crops on account
of rain.
Quite a number of our folks spent
the fourth at Sa1uda.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-08
THE OLD, oLD STORY.
(Morganton ~News-Herald.l

For years and years newspapers
everywhere have insisted that they
must know who writes an article be
fore it is published and yet all of them
still seem to receive communications
without names. Hardly a week that
we do not e a notice in some one OF
of our exchanges insisting that the ed
1tor must know who writes any article
he publishes. Every once in awhile an
unsigned communication comes to The
.News-Herald.
The following from the Monroe En-
qu1rer is to the point:
Before us is a notice OF a marriage.
1t is well written and it would be a
good piece Of news, but there ia no
more name to it to indicate who wrote
1t than there is to the Book OF He
brews. The Book of Hebrews was
published and they have been guessing
ever since who wrote it. The public
would have been left to guess who sent
In the notice of the marriage, but the
publisher must know who SEM IL in.s
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-08
MORTGAGE SALE NOTICE.

BY virtue of the power Of gale con-
tanned in a certain mortgage executed
to me ON the 18th day of December,
1914 which is of record in Book No,
40 at page No. 225 of the Records OF
Mortgages and Deeds in Trust for
Henderson county, default having been
made in the payment of the indebted
ness thereby secured I will offer for
sale and sellt othe highest bidder for
cash on,Monday, the 18th day of July,
1915 at IL o'clock noon at the court
house door in the city of Henderson
vile, County of Henderson and state
OF North Carolina, all the following
described tract of land, to-Wit:
Situate, lying and being in Hender-
sonville township, Henderson county
and state of North Carolina, known
and designated as follows: Beginning
on the east margin of the Flat Rock
road at the intersection of a cross
street opposite Mrs. Ann TONERS
and runs with the S. margin of said
street N. So degrees East 20 poles to
a stake and spanish oak pointers;
thence South 33 degrees East 10 poles
to a stake: thence South So degrees
West 20 poles to a stake on the eass
margin O fthe Flat Rock road; thence
along the east margin of said road
North 20 degrees West 10 poles to
the beginning one acre, more or less.
This being the home place of Misses
Catherine R. and Matilda Carson.
This the 18th day of June, 1915.
w. F. CASE, Mortgage.
BY J.. F. Justice, Atty. 6-17-4tc
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-08
JOHN i. STATION DEAD.

Aged and Highly Respected Citizen oil
the County Died Tuesday.
John w. Station, aged 81 years, died
at his home Sal East Hendersonville
early Tuesday morning, dune 90, after
a long period of falling health.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday at Refuge church by Rev
r. N. Pratt and ReVsA I. Jutisce. In
terment was made in the adjoining
cemetery.
The death of Mr.. Station was not al
together unexpected and the news OF
his end was received with sorrow by
a large number of relatives and
friends.
Born in Polk county, Mr.. Station
moved with his people to Henderson
county when a boy. He lived on his
Blue Ridge township farm TO "a long
number of years during which time
he reared a family. He later moved
to his late home near Hendersonville.
The deceased was a man of admir-
able qualities. and was held in high
esteem by a large circle of friends.
Surviving are Mrs. Station who is.
80 years old, and four sons,R. Il. Sta
ton, S. ID. Station, w. w. Station and
B. r. Station.
Mrs. &c Justus of.Henderson
county and Mrs. N. H. Wagner of Bir-
mfngham, Ala.a are surviving daugh-
ters.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-08
COL. COHEN TO MANAGE
MOUNT MITCHELL RAILROAD.
ATLANTA Georgian.l

Colonel Sanford H. Cohen, for
years managing editor of The Augusta
Chronicle. and one of the best known
nen in the South, is in Atlanta on his
way to Asheville to take charge OF the
Mount Michel railroad as general pas
senger agent.
Until recently Colonel Cohen was
manager of the Greater Western Car
DINA association, and during that time
it was largely through his efforts that
Asheville was made so popular as q
resort.
The Mount Mitchell railroad runs
from Black Mountain, neal Asheville.
to within a short distance Of the sum-
NIT of Mount Mitchell, and Is the
second highest railroad in the United
States. "a i@h7~us4s4@
Mount Mitchell is 6,707 feet high.
It is the highest peak east Of the
Rockies and one of the wonders OF the
Western Carolina country. Thousands
OF visitors to Asheville have wanted
to go to the summit, but heretofore
it has taken three days with mules to
make the trip. Now that the railroad
has been completed the trip may be
made in one day.
In the middle of summer, it is nee
essary to wear an o~vercoat, and fire.
quently there Is snow on the summit.
There is an average grade at the rate
of s 1-2 per cent, and geared locomo-
times are used to pull the passenger
coaches.
Colonel, Cohen leaves Atlanta to-
night and will Immediately begin
work in the interest of the railroad.
and there is every indication that this
will prove OF the greatest features
to visit in that interesting section OF
the country.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-08
TOM SETTLE NOT RUNNING.
(Greensboro Everything,

LE
1t having been "norated' that the
Honorable Thomas Settle might be
nominated for governor, we inquired
of Tom what he thought about it, some
weeks ago and he said there was moth
ing doing.
u Mr.. Settle has been a Congressman
from North Carolina; he has always
been a republican, not because his
father was, but because he believes in
the eternal principle of protection.
Tom says he is ready to go out and
stump the state for his party-and if
he does that he will interest the null
.titudes. No better campaigner ever
lived in North Carolina. With a frow-
ing law practice in Asheville, Mr.. Set.
tie says he is through with politics So
far as he is personally concerned-but
he is ready any time to help the party.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-08
MISS GENEv1EvE CLARK WEEDS.

Bowling Green. Mo-, June 30.-Miss
Genevieve Clark. 20 years old, daugh-
ter of Champ Clark. was married to
day to James M. Thompson. publisher
of the New Orleans Item. The cere-
mony took place on the lawn of Honey
Shuck, the Clark homestead-so-call
ed because of the large honey locus:
trees that adorn the grounds. The
bridal party stood under a white per.
COLA, built under a honey locust tree
almost hidden in the foliage.
Promptly at 4 o'clock an orchestra
concealed in the foliage began the
Lohengrin Wedding March and Miss
Clark, on her fathers arm and pre-
coded by eight ushers, eight maids Of
honor and the brides maid. walked
from the old-fashioned house to the
pergalo. Speaker Clark gave away
his daughter and the wedding cere-
mony vas performed by Rev. Robert
s Boyd of Louisville.
Never before in the State has there
been a wedding like that of the Speak
eris daughter.
A general invitation had been is
sued to the people of Missouri and
from all parts of the State they came
by train. carriage or automobile.
Thousands of Missourians mingled on
the lawn with social and political no.
tables from all parts of the country.
This town of 1000 inhabitants cell
ebrated the event as thought were a,
royal occasion. Flags were flying, the
streets were gay with bunting and the
townspeople Wed with each other In
making the wedding guests welcome.
Wedding cakes were baked by scores
of Bowling Green housewives and hun
dreds of cakes were sent from other
towns. Tables were set on the lawn
and in the house for the wedding sup
per-.
The town presented the appearance
OF a county seat town at the height OF
a county fair. HawkeFs sold picture
postcards Of the bride. Refreshment
stands adorned the sidewalk. The To-
cal police force OF two men had been.
reinforced by a number OF special
deputies.
The wedding presents we're many
and costly. President Wilson sent
two silver compotes; members of the
House of Representatives of the Sixty
third and S~ixty-fourth Congresses
gave a necklace containing ESQ dia-
monds: Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo
sent q solid silver pitcher; Justice and
Mrs. Lamar a silver salver: Mr.. and
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst two
silver dishes; Mrs. Samuel B. Sheath
vice president Of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, a sat Of so cut
glasses: Colonel Watterson a silver
pitcher; Assistant Postmaster General
DoCkery q silver vase: former Score
tary OF State Knox and Mrs. Knox a
silver cake basket; Mayor Curley Of
Boston q set OF cut glass lemonade and
tea glasses: Mrs. Mary Lockwood of
Washington, n of the founders. Of
the Daughters of the American Re-
union, q set OF silver and pearl cake
kniveB. 80 g.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-08
FREEzE-BACON HOSIERY MILLS
TO RUN 10TH DAT AND NIGHT.
Output of Plant Increased to 5000
Pairs Of Hose Daily; VIII Run
Day and Night Hereafter.

The Freeze-Bacon Hosiery mills
have decided to build an additional
warehouse 20x40 feet and put on a
night shift so as to able to supply the
great demand for the product of one
of HendersonYilIe's comparatively new
enterprises.
The managementstates that for the
next ninety days the mills will MAJ
ufacture 5000 pairs of hose, FURNISH
! ing employment to- about SO operatives
When the European war began last
fall the operations of the mills were
reduced to the extent that the plant
ran only about half time. Later
trouble arose over the scarcity of Ger
man dyes, a problem which has been
battling various manufacturing estab-
hshments in this country. During the
past week a chemist who is recognized
,as an expert on dyestuffs. spent three
days in HendersonvilIe testing a do
nestle dye which has been prepared In
America. The result of the expert
ments proved successful and as a re-
suit it has been decided to- increase
the output of the mills of Henderson
vile in order to supply a big demand.
The night force at the mills will sbe
small but sufficiently large to take
care of the large output during each
day and thereby considerably increase
the capacity of the mills.
That a comparatively new enter
prise should meet with such remarka-
BILE success in HendersonvilIe will be-
received with keen interest.