The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-05-16
BAILEY GAINS
EVERY WHERE
While The Boys In The Glass
Houses Continue 10 Stone
Him
The independents Bureau.
1n1 L,MNrr, Iluillins.
by X. T.. POWELL.

RALEIGH. May lo.-Thrrc has
been II healthy incrrnS" In The
length 0f school days In North Caro- ,
linu since 1910 and the official III
depreciation Of the Supreme Court
Is that the building of school houses
may come within the constitution
which limits bonds without vote
Of the people tO necessities. The
Anti-Saloon League Is busy warn'
ing the folks 10 vote for men VINO
stand for law enforcement. The
Child Labor amendment is coming
down for Il fight between the hnrons
aud the social folks, and an unprc-
Cc,lcntcd number Of cyclones In the
State have wrought little damagc.
These things. coming to attention
in the past week. nrc important hut
they do not compare with one
other question which Is agitniing
the public mind. The escape of
otto Wood. notorious one arm m'lr-
drrcr. from the States prison,
brought II curious sort "f reaction.
otto has been caught hut the prob
lem is:
where did Or. Peacock get the
sheets"
Sounds like rather simple sort
of question und IL really ought not
io be- brought up since they have
rupturrd otto hy offering 500. re-
ward. which the state also pays.
Iut n l. on hundreds. perhaps thou
sands. Of tongues and wherever j.
W. Bailey leaves IN audience they
keep inuuiring:
Where did Dr. Peacock get the
shccts:"
Everybody knows who killed
Cock Robin hut nobody knows wh'rr
nr. Pcncock got th" sheets; 1--WE "t
them, three more than any SlnS"
bedroom ever has In II. FIV". J'isi
enough Ia make u rope from the
Peacock cell down Ia the prison
ground where mn automobile was
waiting. And Dr. Peacock, :" Inc
reports. Sny Is In Florida prnctic7
Ing medicine. ....,-. 49, 4
or coiIrS" this escape "f Dr. P"h-
cock gets n new plhr" III inc po''-
teal spotlight hccau" Of, first, tn"
thrilling escape of Wood. last Sat
ur,Inv and. second. because Super
intrn,rnt George Ross Pou. "f the
prison. has been rather active In
opInSing III" guhcrnntorinl randl'
dncy Of Mr.. Bailey, his first cousin
hy-marringc. ... - .
/ 'If the prison Officials wonld
, sprnd more time trying to keep the
| Wmds in the pen AMI less In trying
+, l,cu mo ont ur the governors
,nirc" Mr.. BAILEY declared In his
ru,,,nv uirht spcrrh M Sanford,
",hcrc w,uld bc n little more reason
why they mi.ht hid" behind the
Drunrru,ir cloak and talk about
mo .o,tuckiur'" the party.
/ eff that's nttnrking the party
ne spid. "Gnd hrlp us. prnpos"
4, c,ntiuur 10 criticiSc incificicncy
and rorruutinn In the party where
over il EXISTS"
Folks I'm Raleigh who have fol
lowed Mr.. Bailey for the past few
weeks declare that he IL speaking
,ric, d,iIv to ovcrrIowing audiences
and thor, IL un mistnkiug the onset
of u rroun,lswrll which Manager
Stunning believes will give him n
mn iority as crrat as the Mclean
fnIks have been expecting. And
tbnt would bc some majority.
rnct Is. every thing that happens,
II seems. Is breaking fnvorahly for
Mr.. Bailey. Some fool friend of
"Fnrmrr Bob" DOuGhton recently
inspired one of the Washington cor
RESPONDENTS. whose paper has u err
rulntion larger than the town III
which II Is printcd. tn boom Dough
ton for governor. This Is nm old
Irirk for s.nvin. of opposition IN
thc district. However. the cor
RESPONDENT fell for IL AMI II set thC
firr on Max Gnrlncr's friends.
The Gardner folks learned the
Washington propaganda system IN
1910. They remembered that Gard
nor. pcrhnps the most popular man