Zlbe Xextngton (5a3ette VOL. NO. 27 108, LEXINGTON. VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3. 1912 $100 PER YEAR DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TO GATHER BY THE SEASHORE TOWN PLANNING IN CONVENTIONS OF PAST DEMOCRATS AMERICA CONVENTION BOLTERS Rural Carriers to Meet in Norfolk DENOUNCE MORAL INELUENCE IS This Week The Model Town Must Be Planned IN BOTH BIG PARTIES Baltimore Has Been Place On a Business Meeting Great preparation is made PREDATORY WEALTH Basis Times being HER GREATEST ASSET Historic Many for tbe entertainment of the dele- If for no other reason, therefore, Incidents Gathered from The Democratic National Conven¬ Kates to tbe of tbe Resolution ls the model town must be considered, Past Experiences tion meeting Virgin Adopted Rebuking Educational Power ofWashington which mat io Baltimore last ia Kural Letter Carriers' Associa¬ Wall Street and Lee organized and developed on a busi¬ In pointing out what Colonel weak, was the twenty-first national tion to be held in Norfolk this week. ness basis; and tbe value of the ex¬ Roosevelt's bolting party shojld ol the assemblage Democratic party. Officers of the organization are W. perience acquired or any success expect in the light of history, the Born io the back GREAT DISORDER FOLLOWED achieved will controversy of Ls. Hamersley. Randolph, Va, pres¬ EVER TRUE TO TRADITIONS depend first and last Phildelphia Public Ledger calls at¬ 178-1, chi isteoed by Jefferson, its ident, and C. B. Conner, Lexington, on obtaining results in the face of con¬ tention to thes« historic facts ditions no founder, in 1792. and strengthen¬ secretary-treasurer. The secretary W. J. Bryan and H. D. Flood Have Fundamentalism and Thoroughness more favorable than "The Republican party had ita. ed in the division the met with in other bimble in among people has prepared the following .n forma Passage-at-Arms Are Characteristic [ordinarily land de- origin the conventions of with the neutrality ol Washington's tion for tbe I velopments, and by the useof means the Liberty party in 183!'and 1840. benefit of those caring William Jennings Bryan wrote BY ll. WATHON JAMIES, M.. D. proclamation at the beginning of tbe to attend the convention: the most ordinarily available in other in- in the latter year the sensational and dramatic It is a very broad assertion Liberty party Anglo-French war io 1793, the Dem¬ The ninth annual convention of chapter of the Democratic National that stances. In fact the future of town nominated James a. Hirney for ocratic its Washington and I.ee in America and party passed centennial the Virginia Letters Carriers' As¬ Convention when he rose the University planning depends on President, in 1844 put forward upon stands to day as one of tbe corner¬ mark more than a decade ago. sociation will be held in floor of that whether it can be shown to pay. the same candidate. Hirney, in But the of the Norfolk, body Thursday night stones if not the corner-stone of the Tbe so-called model history party's July 4, 5 and 6, 1912. The meeting and. after declaring that tbe Demo¬ town must 1840, got exactly 7,05;' votes, as conventions dates back to American Republic. Yet the thesis succeed on a commercial compared with only 1832, will be called to order tbe evening cratic party was about to be sold basis. It Harrison's 1.276,017. in which tbe national is absolutely, argumentatively and must even do better in this and in 1844 be year delegate of tbe 4th at8:30. Among the prom¬ into bondage to the predatory inter¬ respect got iio.tJOS to Pile's convention method of historically defensible. On the than the ordinary commercial or 1,387,343, and nominating inent speakers are Hon. P. V. ests, demanded tbat Thomas F. ruins of Clay's 1,299.068. candidates for President and vice- and Liberty Hall Academy is speculativedevelopment. Itu educa¬ Their successors, the Fret* OeGraw, Fourth Assistant Post¬ Ryan August Belmont be cast builded an President was adopted. The first institution with nearly tional, architectural, and ers. got but master General; Hon. W. D. Brown, out of the convention. a sociologic¬ 291,863 votes in lMv Democratic National million of dollars of endowement, al possibilities, in which dwindled to Convention, Editor R. F. D, News; Hon. Edgar Stunned for a minute by the sud¬ therefore, the 156.149 in ItibS, held on Carrying on a work of modern educa¬ last deuced on out in May 12. 1832. at Balti¬ Allen, Postmaster at Hicbmond; denness of the blow dealt the analysis, its economic 1856 the total allied forces of two by tion in classics, science, law, but success. The the more, adopted rules which Hon. Stetb Bolling, Postmaster at Commoner, the convention appeared equation is funda Republicans, with whom the have the actions of illustrating tradition, holding fast mentally an economic Free Soilers had guided all sub¬ Petersburg; Hon. P. St. J. it first not to know what to do or one, however now coalesced, Wilson, to tbat which was good and it were sequent conventions. One of these State wbicb to pres¬ aesthetically may be put upon the able to get 1,341.265 votes as Highway Commissioner, and way turn. Recovering a sing forward to tbe mark provided that tbe delegates, when several Norfolk speakers. uoiuont later, however, the high of slate, and its solution must he against 1,838,168 votes for Buchanan body forming characier. Ti ere is hard¬ found in >n so instructed, should cast the votes broke into a terms of dollars and cents. the Democratic ticket. Even Every Carrier is urged to attend storm of protest and a prominent by of their States as u and the ly incident in the con¬ .From "Model I860, 20 years after the unit, this meeting. This is tbe first time lalf a hundred jelegates leaped to struction Towns.in America," convention other tbat no candidate should be period of the rep.iblic in by Grosvenor in the A the we have been able to get Mr. DeG raw iheir feet crying for recognition. which the Atterbury, Liberty party, which is syn¬ a progenative of Scribner. with nominated without two-thirds ma¬ to meet with us and be would like to Against this wave of furious Washing¬ July onymous the birth of the Re¬ Andrew pro¬ ton and Lee does not figure. She is publican jority. Jackson was nomi¬ meet every Carrier in the State. test rose another wave of Find party, the vot« for Lin¬ approba¬ impressed on the baptismal sacred- Bones of Three-Toed Horse coln on nated for President, and Martin Mr. DtUraw bas been to tion from the the Republican ticket tvaa quite a Bryan men throughout ioss of the nation. that is Marvlous discoveries of Vao Buren for Vice President. number of conventions and he hall. Anything pre¬ nearly a million less than the con¬ says written about her must historic mammals in thc shale fields fined The second Deni'jcratic National that be finds that tho Carriers that Members of the Virginia and New necessarily *-ote tor the other candidates. ae reminiscent. on the desert 28 miles east of Mina, Lincoln received in Convention met on May 25,1830, also are interested in tbe Association are fork delegations, the this election resenting In Convention that carried Vir Nev., are announced as the result at Baltimore, and nominated Martin the oaes tbat are the most in nove of Colonel turned I.S66.352 votes, while Don, doing Bryan, ,tinia into tbe Union men who were of the explorations of Prof. Law¬ Van Buren for Presidentand Rich¬ upbuilding the service. There are iercely upon him with a refusal to Democrat) got 1.375,157: John C. irustees of Liberity Hall Academy- rence Baker, of the department of ard If. Johnson for Vice President. many interesting places in Norfolk ueet such a challenge. They de- held the Jreckenridge (Independent Demo- balance of power, and vot- geological research of University of ¦rat) got 847,514 votes, and The third convention, held on May and vicinity: Virginia Beach. lured that Mr. Bryan had no i John Cape right :d against the instructions of their California. Professor Baker is as¬ 3ell 5, 1840, at Baltimore, renominated Ocean o dictate to their Staten (Constitutional Union) recei veal Henry, View, Hampton Roads who should constituents. Otherwise the in- sisted in his researches bv Profes Van Buren, but named no and Yards. r should not sit a 87,830. candidate Navy in Democratic luence of Patrick Henry and Dr. sor Buwaldo, also of the "When for Vice President, leaving tbat to :onventiou as their representatives university Grant, 1-72. got 3,597,070 Value of [New York, the secea. rvs history, this convention sends i-solution of the board in honor of about the size of a lamb, have been timore. Van Kuren a graph, lt is one of the ag Democratic candidate, got just had majority things reeling to the people of the Unite** I ^Vashington and in unearthed. The teeth, well of the instructed wno commissioners recognition of preserv¬ 9,406 votos. To take a more re- delegates for his ty ought to paste tates, and assures them that the I is donation to the institution cf ed, and the entire n their stock remains of a pre ent example, still fresh in nomination. James K. Polk was a bats. It is reprinted here¬ of Jefferson n the arty and Jackson is I the old James Ri ver historic dog have been to nods of candidate for Vice Presideut. After with: till the Company, brought the electorate, in lSiHi the champion of popular gov 1'here is, however, a curious mis- light. It is believed tbat this )emocrats who a three days' struggle the nomina¬ Roads are to a city or village what rnment sud abandoned tbe free equality before tbe conception of the motive thatactuat- animal lived at least 5,000,000 or ilver tion was given to Polk. he arteries are to tbe human aw. j 6,- heresy, chose as their stand- body. As proof of our fidelity to the ed Washington in tbe gift. He has 000,000 years ago. The scientists rd In the convention of rVithout them, no can bearers John M. Palmer of 111- l«4.s, also at community eople we hereby declare ourselves n ever been credited with the states- say that the fields about Baltimore, took the ixist, and it follows that Mina are :ois, and Simon B. Buckner of place first of naturally pposed to the nomination of any Qlansbip that was behind it. So tbe most marvelous in tbe world. the great "walkouts" in Democratic .he better the roads the greater the *ndidate for kentucky. Palmer got 133.542 to President who is tbe fiir as bis religious views were con- national the prosperity of the Thunder and IcKicley's 7,107,304. and Bryan's assemblages, others be¬ community. Many apreseotative of. or under any c erned Washington had a to Lightning ing in 1800 and 18u6. Lewis >eople will go miles outof their leaning Cass way bligation to, J. Pierpont Morgan, tlie Episcopal Church. But at the The season for thunder and light ,287.352."__ of was named o trade in some to which Michigan, for Presi¬ place they homas F, Ryan, August Belmont, ti me be came into possession of the ning has come again, which brings Sold Crops for Benefit of Schools dent and William nay travel over hard r O. Butler of good roads, any other member of the privi siLock a great wave of French in- anxiety to many who flinch at the more md so Needing money for their Kentucky, for Vice President. in doing will avoid tbe town u flashes and are ige-huntngand favor-seek class." delity.free thought .was - appal led by the claps ;hoois tban was Since 1848 the national lear at hand to which is sweep being raised by conventions approach The part withdrawn and not icigover Virginiaand bad infected tha An authority on the subject, D. C. lxation, the inhabitants of and nominees of the lifticult because of bad roads. Yet Med Wake Democratic upon was as follows: >' outh of the land. Washington Shafer, states tbat lightning is not County, North Carolina, party have been as follows: here are so many places so des- half as adopted "Be it further resolved, Tbat we cNew Hampshire for Presi¬ mterprise that they never schools, improve invention of auy delegate or dele- vf Bryan, his argument for Liberty Hall Academy. year by fall- were operated last year, anan of Pennsylvania for President, hard times. The people of Wood io ence ing resolution, said in part: | the donation. building materials, more die I"bey were worked by 1,200 persons. and John C. Breckenridge of Ken¬ minty began to realize this some from than are "This is.an extraordinary resolu- Tbe direct question is asked, fright killed by light irlen, women and children, who con- tucky for Vice-Prt sident. ears ago, and this bas been w The subject on, but extraordinary conditions hat are the educational influence ning. United States Census ti.ibuted their labor free. The net 186V, at Charleston, S. ippermost in their minds, until Bureau C.. party jed extraordinary remedies. We I this section of the South? The shows only 1M people kill- lgain from tbe enterprise was and named two iow nearly all the in the sd nearly split tickets. Stev¬ townships e now engaged in ¦ ainewer of Washington and Lee is in by lightning in the entire country t 1.200. en A. of Illinios ounty are excellent roads conducting Douglas for Presi¬ building invention that will place before °]ae wo.-d: "Education." luring oue year, and only thirty of This new movement to raise dent and Herschel V. nd tbe work should continue until Thorough- addi- Johnson of e country the Democratic nomi n'Ma is her power. Of a student ibese people were killed in the tional funds for the schools is loor roads are a of the [ county Georgia for Vice President; John thing past. *e, and I assume that each dele- ady of over six hundred you hard Mties. Heat and the sun killed 763 described by A. C. C. of j Monahan, ussist- Breckenridge Kentucky for Peculiar Accident Near Riverside tte is here because he wants that J see a dozen on tbe campus. Why? luring the same year; 308 died from at in rural education in the I'uited President, and Lane of Ore¬ ft .old and Joseph An unusual iminee elected, and it is in order hey are working. Moral in- freezing, and 4,3i»5 were tates Bureau of in a gon for vice-President. accident occured on Education, be Norfolk and Western railway at we may advance the interests uence of Washington and Lee is Irowned..Alexandria Gazette. lonograph just issued for free dis- 1864, at Chicago, Gen. George B. 'sr ear Riverside a few nights ago, our candidate that I introduce strongest asset. Tbat is never ti.ibution by the bureau. Mr. .Mon¬ McClellan of New Jersey for Presi¬ is j st of. Soiled Money Will Be Laundered algan nd while the damage was slight, resolution. sight writes: dent, and George H. Pendleton of "Tbere are Laundered paper he naturo of the trouble was such questions upon which man in this convention who wants money, clean "The plan has been called tbe Ohio for vice-President. b assume md crisp as new, will soon be in 's s to delay the night train from Roa- may the American pen tx> destroy Democratic success. chool-farni movement,' and com- 1868, at New York, Horatio e are tirculation the Sey¬ oke north exactly five hours. are informed, and tbere is "Virginia asks of Mr.' thorougbout United p rehends the establishment of small mour of New York for President, it a nothing it at es. This train was on time when it delegate in this convention Bryan. We do not feel Secretary MacVeagh has fa rms of from two to ten acres in and F. P. Blair of Missouri for that we nstalled a rrived at Buena bo does Dot know 'hat an effort is biive to currency washing ma- ccinnection with every Vice President. Vista, but between go to him for advice or hine in the country .iat town and Ri versidf. tbe next ting made right now to sell the' cciiinsel. Treasury Department, scmool. This farm is to be cultivated 1872, at Horace ,t which ¦ Baltimore, Creely talion, the locomotive collided with *mocratic party into tbe bondage "A convention of Washington is expected to b tbe children and the parents, of New York for and B j 1.000 Virginians ..ve President, tbe . the government at least horse and the impact caused the predatory interests. as honest men as William J. 9601V orking together on certain days Gratz Brown of Missouri for Vice- "lt is most 00 annually. te rmed reaking of a pipe tbat emptied tbe brazen, impudent and B ryan ever was. and as Dem- 'school-farm working bee-..' President. solent good The machine was ngine of all its steam and it was attempt to make the nomi- oe rats as he ever can be.elected money-washing 1876. at St. Louis, Samuel J. Til¬ e of this levised after some months of Spraying Destroys Bees ecessary to delay tbe train until convention tbe bond- w ithout a dissenting voice. Thomas study den of.New York for President, and ive of tbe nd experiment the Bureau from various not her locomotive could bb run men who exploit the F. a to this by of Reports sections of Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana Ryan delegate .woven and l"e om Basic to take tbe of opie of this country." tit Engraving Printing. Millions county show that there are few- for vice-President. City place j f er Colonel in un notes, which previously would honey bees than Their ie crippled engine. The horse Bryan declared, When Mr. Bryan was allowed once formerly. 1880, at Cincinnati. Gen. Win¬ er ave been will be deistruction is as literally torn to pieces. to tbe statement that he was rixjre to defend his resolution he destroyed, wash- attributed to the field S. Hancock of Pennsylvania tc rob a d, starched and ironed and return- SPTay ing fruit trees, lt is said the ying State of tbe right to to ld the convention that no for President, and William M. 3, of Nebraska for man ed to circulation, lt is co of Eng¬ President, and me its own representatives, that coold accuse him of estimated mposition the spray is suftici- lish of Indiana for j reflecting upon t hat at en vice-President. rtbur Sewall of Maine for Vice either Virginia or New Vork tb e j ieast 60 per cent of tbe bills tly poisonous when lodged in the Democracy of He _ 1884, at Chicago, Grover Cleve¬ resident. mid a Virginia resented to the for D''.'ssouis of fruit trees to take poll of its delegation* Mid his father had been born in treasury re- kill the land of New York for President, 1900, at Kansas City, William J. d say and on jemption can be so revived. The oees tbat suck these blooms. openly the floor of th at State, and tbat four years ago and Thomas A. Hendricks of Indi¬ ryan of Nebraska for b lacbine, ii is will wash Late causes the President, convention that a majority of .th a Virginia Democrats bad in- said, 25,- spraying trouble, ana for Vice-President. dlai E. Stevenson of Illinois cb y00 notes SP after the trees for delegation stood by Ryan and stirucied every delegate from that daily. raying are in 1888, at Chicago, Grover Cleve¬ ice-President. ilmoot, he would j -bl)xiin or just as they are withdraw tbe Stiite to support him for a third Assaulted Mrs. Bertha Ferguson beginning land of New York for President, and 1904. at St. Louis, Alton B. Par¬ ter part of bis j tu bloom. If greater care is not ex¬ resolution. no mination. T hursday, given a trial Allen G. Thurman of Ohio for Vice- er of New York for President, and H. D. preliminary i er,cised by orchard ists, Congressman Flood from "And it is not necessary for me .' 'riday, indicted, tried, convicted honey bees president. enry G. Davis of West from whose w;ll soon become a rara avis. Virginia rginia, district Mr. to defend my own Democracy,"con- o:o Saturday and sentenced to elec- 1892, at Chicago, Gtover Cleve¬ r Vice-President. an was a j delegate, advanced to titmed the Nebraskan. "My De- tirocution August U is the record Rev. B. G. Pressly, who recently land ol New York for President, and 1%8. at Denver,William J. Brvan a platform and said: | mc icracy would not be worth trlade in Appomattox county before assni med the pastorate of the Tim- Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois for Nebraska for President, and John 'In the name of defend.j the sovereijjI if it were necessary to resent J udee Hundley, all in less than sixty bi r Ridge A. R. P. church, bas vice-President. '. Kern of Indiana for Vioe-Presi- tte of I alined in the Virginia accept tbe inso any charge mada against it ours after the crime. The i Qn Circuit Court of 1896, at Chicago, William J. Bry- »nt. it by aju negro rqckbridge to celebrate tbe proposition made by tba (riaod of Thomas P. « rites of only Ryan." 'as refused a new trial. ma .trimony,