Autobiography of C.L. Shuping

Chapter02 Autobiography of C. L. Shuping, Greensboro, N.C., Part 1

I was born on a farm in Rowan County February 1, 1886, a son of Adam Josephus and Julia Maria Honeycutt Shuping.
My ancestors on the side of my father were among the earliest settlers in Rowan County, having settled in that county about 1750. C. Rusuples history of Rowan County, page 466, now more than two centuries ago.
On the side of both my father and my mother they served their country in both the revolutionary war and in its confederate army in the civil war between the northern and southern states.
About the year 1890 our family moved to Salisbury, the county seat of Rowan County and for some years occupied a big white frame house located on North Ellis Street within sight of the Salisbury Public School.
I well remember singing a little song in 1892: Cleveland was settled first so I expected climbing up the golden stairs when Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States for a second term, at which time we were living at this above address.
In 1898 we moved to an antebellum residence on South Ellis Street located one city block from the residence of Lee S. Overman who was elected as a democrat to the United States Senate in 1903. This was a large three story building, the front yard being terraced to a point about one foot below the top of the windows of the first story. Adjoining the house was a large boxwood garden containing fifty or so large boxwoods. To the rear there were several small buildings beyond which were a big barn and a large barnyard. Our father owned a large number of horses and mules. It was the duty of my two older brothers and I to get up about four o’clock in the morning and carry feed and water this stock and to have them harnessed and hitched to wagons to proceed to farm operations carried on by our father. In very cold weather our hands would get so cold we would have to thaw them out from time to time under the flank of the horse or mules we were working on. All of the stock was not needed on the farm at all times and efforts were made to keep it otherwise employed. I remember that on one occasion we boys were assigned to the job of hauling brick to Spencer, N.C. for use in the construction of a church which to this day is one of the attending churches in that community.
Our father passed away in March 1899 while we were living in this antebellum home. Soon thereafter our mother purchased a small home located diagonally across the street from the antebellum home where she and other members of this family lived until 1908.


Education

I attended this Salisbury Public School from 1892 (age 6) to 1897 (age 13). This was an eight grade school, the standard in North Carolina at that time. I was a hard working student and made good grades and was promoted over one grade, which enabled me to finish at the end of my Seventh year, one year in advance of the customary time.
From early boyhood throughout my lifetime to this day I have been eager in the pursuit of knowledge and by private study I have acquired an outstanding general education and also in my learning of the laws. Since leaving school, I have bought and read thousands of books.
Based upon the opinion of knowledgeable friends and law book salesmen, who canvassed the state every year, I possessed one of the most extensive and best-selected private and legal libraries in the state, which consists of many thousands of volumes involving an overall investment of about $50,000.00.
My law library has been available to other members of the bar and over the years both old and young members have made substantial use of it.


Charles Lee Coon was Supt during my last year. He inaugurated the vertical system of handwriting. I had always written the Spencerian system in a splendid way. Students were required to stay after the regular hour every afternoon to practice the vertical system. I refused to do this and went home after our grade was dismissed. After I had missed three days Mr. Conn appeared in our classroom on the morning of the fourth day. Two other boys did just as I had done. Mr. Coon called upon us for an accounting. The other boys told a fib by telling him that their mother or some member of their home was sick and they had to go by the drugstore and get some medicine to take to them. I stood my ground. He said he would teach me to what he wanted me to do and sent one or two boys out to get some sandwiches. They returned with sandwiches about twice the size of an ordinary switch. I was told to come to the front of the room in the presence of all other members of the grade. I refused whereupon Coon and two men teachers, after a struggle drug me to the front. I told him he was not going to hit me with the sticks he had. He grabbed my left arm and every time he tried to strike me I grabbed the switch with my right hand and broke every one of them before he could strike me a single lick. He got as mad as the devil and became greatly excited and frustrated and seemed not to know what to say or do. I was also so violent and mad. I ragged him and dared him to go out in the yard with me where I could find some weapon to defend myself and I would beat the devil out of him. He himhawed and stuttered and became so dumbfounded and stood there completely frustrated and finally turned and walked out of the room without saying anything. I never heard anything more about the matter. I went my way and Coon went his way.
Coon had a very bad reputation at this school for mercilessly beating students. The fathers of several students he had injured threatened to kill him if they could even get close enough to him. He had evidently heard about these reports.
I will have more to say on the subject of my education when I take up the question of my study of law.

My Career

I commenced my life in 1899 at the age of 13 as a messenger boy for the Western Union Telegraph Company, at a salary of $5.00 per month.
Sometime later I became a Telegraph Operator and was promoted to the position of an Assistant Manager of the office at a salary of $20.00 per month.
Thereafter I accepted the position of messenger boy in the office of the General Superintendent of the Eastern District of the Southern Railway Company at a salary of $20.00 per month.
I was always trying to learn everything I could and I set about to learn how the filing system was operated. Later I was appointed assistant file clerk at a salary of $35.00 per month.
All of this foregoing took place prior to 1902 and before I was 16 years old.
I always gave all of my salary to my mother.
In 1902 the office of the General Superintendent of the Southern Railway Company was moved from Salisbury to Greensboro. Thereafter for a period of time my salary remained at $35.00. Out of this I sent my mother $15.00 and applied the balance of $20.00 to payment of my living expenses.

Eventually I was appointed chief file clerk with a salary of $65.00 per month, which was divided equally with my mother.
In 1907 I was appointed Chief Clerk to Mr. Thos. Bernard, Engineer Maintenance right of way of the Eastern District of the Southern Railway Company at a salary of $90.00 per month which was divided equally with my mother. Mr. Bernard was the father in law of Mr. Devin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and grandfather of Mr. Maynard Knight of Greensboro.
In June 1906 the offices of the General Superintendent and Engineer Maintenance were moved from Greensboro to Danville, VA, and in January 1908 they were returned to Greensboro. At this time I prevailed upon my mother and two sisters who were living with her to move from Salisbury to Greensboro. We reside at 123 Tate Street. At a later date my salary was increased to $100.00 per month. Afterward I devoted my income primarily to the support of my mother and sisters.
I had my youngest sister (Ester) enrolled as a student at Greensboro Female College, now Greensboro College which she attended for some time but she was prevented from graduation on account of sickness and subsequent death.
My mother died January 6, 1910.
My sister Ester died February 25, 1912. I moved from the Tate Street residence to 1034 West Market St., the former home of T. Gilbert Pearson, head of the State Audubon Society, located about 100 feet east of the Tate Street intersection and directly across the street from the Harrison mansion which the do-gooders expect to tear down to make room for a modern YMCA
To revert to the Southern Railway.
At the time of my connection with the company its operation mileage was over 7700 miles. The system was about equally divided between two designated districts, to wit: Eastern and Western. Each district was divided into divisions with a Superintendent at its head of each. The General Superintendent and Engineers Maintenance of Right of Way has jurisdiction over about 4000 miles of territory.
To revert also to the $65.00 for clerk salary.
When this position became vacant the job was offered to me at a salary of $50.00 per month. I declined the offer stating that if I got the job I expected to get the $65.00 salary and if I didn’t I would walk out. I was then told that if the company paid me the full salary I would on the basis of my age (18) be the richest paid employee in the service of the entire railway system and I would create a catastrophic wage situation throughout the system. I insisted that in the handling of the thousands of existing files and in the proper recording and setting up daily the many additional files on new subjects, I had demonstrated my efficiency to the complete satisfaction to the officials of the company. All others who had any dealing with my office, and taking into consideration the further fact that my duties constituted a heavy duty job which required unlimited overtime, that to refuse to pay me the full salary would be a great injustice. I was urged to hold on until the matter could be submitted to the General Manager of the company in Washington, D.C. This was done. My demand met with his approval. I received the full salary and everybody was happy thereafter.
The General Superintendent had a private car and a private secretary and spent most of his time on the road. About one year after my salary problem settlement the then General Superintendent came to my office one morning about six o’clock and asked for the carbon copy of a letter he had written the day before. I told him that I had not seen it and did not have it. He insisted that I must have it and I continuously urged that it had not been delivered to my office and knew nothing about it. He became very angry. Several days later the Chief Clerk told me he had received a letter directing that I be dismissed. I related to him everything that took our place and told him that I was fired and I would sue both the U.S. and the R.R.


Thereafter the document was found by the General Superintendent and due apologies made to me. Subsequently the General Superintendent transferred to the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad at Little Rock Arkansas and after he had been there a short while he sent me a long telegram urging me to come to Little Rock at a salary of $90.00 per month which I declined. I was then 19 years old.
During the time I served as Chief Clerk to the Engineer Maintenance Right of Way I had annual passes on a number of railroads: The Southern Railway, The Pennsylvania, The Baltimore and Ohio, The Chesapeake and Ohio, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Aire Line and others including the Pullman Company.
I learned a great deal about railroading and engineering.
I knew about every body officially connected with the company in any way: track and building and bridge supervisors, roadmasters, and superintendents and up the line to president. To mention a few: E.E. Norris who was superintendent of the Norfolk division became president; George Loyall who was superintendent of the Asheville division was appointed Director of Railroads of the United States by President Woodrow Wilson; R. E. Simpson, a track supervisor became General Superintendent. Simpson had a whale of a signature. In signing vouchers he would write his name over the entire space provided for the names of four or five other names, including that of the General Superintendent. At lunch with him in his private car one day, he told me that he had been instructed to modify his signature. He told his Superintendent to advise the General Superintendent that he would follow his instruction, but that some day he would be occupying his position and as you see, here I am. And then there was Col. A.B. Andrews 1st Vice President with his private car and secretary through whom the Southern Railway dominated the politics of North Carolina. In those days, the Southern Railway was controlled by J. Pierpont Morgan and New York Bankers, and the railroad controlled the state legislature.


Population of Greensboro

The population of Greensboro was less than 11,000 when I came here in 1902. It is now reported to be 135,000.

Streets:
North Elm was open to its present width for about four city blocks to the Catholic Church located at the intersection of Elm and Smith Streets.
South Elm was extended to Lee Street.
West Market was open to its present width for a short distance beyond West Market Street Methodist Church and from there it had the appearance of an ordinary country road to its end where it intersected the Salem Road, now Lakes Drive.
East Market constituted the main artery to the eastern part of the State.
Spring Garden was the main artery to Winston-Salem.
Asheboro was extended to the then corporate limits of the city.
Buildings at the intersection of Elm and Market Streets:
The County Court House was located at the northwest corner where the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company building now stands.
A small two story brick building was located on the Northeast corner. This building was replaced in 1910 by a large two story brick building known as the Fisher Building which some years later was replaced by the present Southeast Building.
The U.S. Post Office was located on the southeast corner where the Belks store now stands.
A three-story brick building occupied the southwest corner where plans are underway to construct a multiple story bank building by the First Citizens bank and Trust Company.
Buildings at the intersection of Elm and Gaston Streets (now called Friendly Avenue).
The City Hall and Opera House was located on the northwest corner where the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company building now stands.
A small four or five room frame cottage was located on the northeast corner where the Montaldo stone stands.
The four story brick building known, as the Bevill Building was located on the southeast corner. This building during recent years has been occupied by the Mayfair Cafeteria operated by Boyd Morris. The First Union National Bank of North Carolina is now in course of constucting a multiple story bank building on this site.
On the southwest corner there was a three-story brick building which joined the old Mendenhall two story office building where the Banner Building now stands. This building has been reduced to one story.
Elm Street in the downtown section was paved with cobblestones.


Banks
Greensboro National Bank, City National Bank, Greensboro Loan and Trust Company, and the Southern Loan and Trust Company. All of these banks and their successors for many years were owned and operated by citizens of Greensboro. In recent years all banks located in Greensboro have been owned and controlled by nonresidents.

Hotels
There were five first class hotels:
The Guilford on he northwest corner of South Elm and Sycamore Streets
The Benbow on the southwest corner of South Elm and Sycamore Streets
The McAdoo on the southeast corner of South Elm and East Washington Streets
The Elegg on the northwest corner of South Elm and Buchanan Streets opposite he then Southern Railway passenger station.
All of these hotels were owned and operated by citizens of Greensboro including the Ohenry and King Cotton constructed some years ago.
Presently all hotels and motels are owned and controlled by nonresidents.

Churches
Presbyterian on Church Street at the intersection of Davis and Summet Avenue
Westminister Presbyterian – Asheboro Street
West Market ME South – W. Market St
Centenary ME Church South – Arlington St
Spring Garden ME Church South – Spring Garden
First Baptist – Northwest corner of Green and Washington
St. Barnabas Episcopal – corner Price and N. Elm Streets
St. Andrews Episcopal – corner Arlington Lee Streets
Grace UP – East Lee, near Arlington
St Benedict Catholic – corner N. Elm and Schunck now Smith Streets
Friends – East Lee near S. Elm
Christian – corner of Walker Avenue and Eugene Street
First Reformed – corner N. Lee and Spring Garden
St. Mary’s Chapel – Walker Avenue near N.C. State Normal and Industrial College now University of N.C. at Greensboro.

Episcopalian built by Judge W. Byrum who then lived in Charlotte but later moved to Greensboro.

Negro Churches
St. Matthews ME
St. Joseph’s AME
Trinity AME Zion
St James Presbyterian
Congressional
Providence Baptist
Shiloh Baptist
Mount Sinai Baptist
Some of the buildings being handsome structures

Schools and Colleges
Graded Schools:
Lindsay Street, formerly St Agnes Catholic Church
Asheboro Street for white children
Dudley for Negroes
Colleges:
Greensboro Female – W. Market Street now Greensboro College
N.C. State Normal and Industrial now University of N.C. at Greensboro
Oak Ridge Institute for white standards
A&M College for the colored race now A & E
Bennet College for Negroes

Hospitals
Greensboro Hospital on S. Green St. built by six of the leading physicians of the city: J. J. Battle, E.R. Michaux, Chas. Robeson, W.J. Meadows, A.T. fortune and J.T. Turner in 1902
The Keeley Institute - an institution for treatment of alcoholics
Re: St. Leos - The cornerstone for this was not built until June 15, 1904.


Livery Stables
C.P. Vanstory stable – Davis Street between Sycamore and East Market Street
Taylor and Tatum’s stable on Depot Street between South Elm and Davis Streets
There was a third stable which was located on Davis between Depot and E. Washington Streets.

Saloons
There were a number of saloons in Greensboro at the time. I distinctly remember one located on the north side of Elm Street about half way between Market and Sycamore Streets and another at the southeast corner of S. Elm and E. Sycamore streets where the Wrights’ clothing store is located.

Railway Transportation
There were more than forty passenger trains every day and an untold number of freight trains.




Street Car Service
Street cars were in operation from Jefferson Square (then Guilford County Court House Square) by way of S. Elm and Asheboro streets (a cross over bring effected immediately after passing over the railroad tracks at the passenger station) to the city corporate limits; by way of W. Market, Tate and Spring Garden Streets to Lindsey Park a short distance from Pomona, and by way of N. Elm, Church and Summit Ave, through Proximity and Revolution to White Oak Mills.

Doctors and Dentist
In 1902 Greensboro had 27 doctors, most of them were outstanding and also seven dentists, all of whom were good. In those days the doctor visited their patients in the home of the patient. In this day and time, they tell their patients to go to the hospital.

Lawyers
There were 37 lawyers in Greensboro in 1902. Most of them had their offices in buildings surrounding the courthouse, a section of which was called Lawyers’ Row. We now have about 300.

Downtown Business District
This section of the city extended from the city hall on Elm Street to the Southern Railroad and then from the South side of the railroad through a section of South Greensboro to Lee Street. Retail stores which handled all kinds of merchandise, banks and hotels occupied both sides of the street throughout the territory. The stores opened at 7 AM and closed at 9 or 10 PM.

There was still one dwelling house on the street, but at the time was occupied by lawyers for their offices. It was located on the East Side of the street between West market and Gaston streets opposite the Courthouse and anywhere the Piedmont building now stands.
Business in the retail stores was never at a standstill. I was always brisk.
In course of time and following the advent of good roads and the automobile Greensboro was recognized as the shopping center by many people in other towns and cities within a radius of 50 and 60 miles of Greensboro. With stores of all description they could usually find what they were looking for.

Fires in 1904
On January 13th 1904 the first floor of the Banner Building located at the corner of N. Elm and Gaston streets was destroyed. The commanding of the flames of fire and smoke with a heavy snowfall created one of the most fantastic pictures I ever saw. Hundreds of people gathered to look at it.
On January 25th, 1904, the dormitory of the N.C. Normal and Industrial College, now the University of N.C. at Greensboro was destroyed. The girl students swarmed out of the building in their nightgowns and robes like honeybees. Fortunately no one was injured.

On February 18th, 1904, the Greensboro Female College on W. Market was destroyed and fortunately none of the students were injured.
In later years the Dixie Building and the McAdoo Hotel on South Elm Street were destroyed by fire.
Two other outstanding events happened in 1904:
On June 15th, 1904, the corner stone was laid for St. Leo’s Hospital on Summit Ave.

On June 23rd, 1904, the State Democratic Convention met in the old Banner Warehouse located on the North Side of W. Market Street at or near the corner of W. Market and Greene where R.B. Glenn of Winston Salem, NC was nominated for Governor of North Carolina. Glenn was duly elected and served as Governor from January 11th, 1905 until January 12th, 1909.

Newspapers
Greensboro then had only two daily newspapers: The Greensboro Record and the Greensboro Telegram, and a weekly, the Patriot, which was owned and operated by local people.
Our principal present day papers are he Greensboro Daily News, a morning paper, and the Greensboro Record, an afternoon paper. Both papers are owned and controlled by Norfolk, Va. People.
Incidentally the Greensboro Daily News was started in Greensboro by W.A. Hildebrand in 1908 as the Greensboro Industrial News with its place of business on the east side of South Elm Street about half way between Sycamore and Washington Streets and as a Republican publication. Some years later, Hildebrand sold the paper to E.B. Jeffers Et.al. The names was changed to its present name and the place of business moved to the northeast corner of East Market and Davis Streets, and later to N.E. corner of Davis and Gaston.
In 1936, I tried to buy this paper for some friends. I first made an offer of $1,000,000, which was declined. Negotiation proceeded to the point that I increased the offer to $1,500,000. I was then advised that the stockowners had decided not to sell.
If the purchase had materialized, Greensboro would have had a much better newspaper.

Industrial Enterprises
Within and adjacent to the city the area was literally honeycombed with industrial enterprises and businesses, establishments, both large and small.

Other Facilities
The city was equipped with a very fine Public Library, Fair Grounds and Water, Gas, and Electric Light Systems.

Ownership of Property and Business
Citizens of Greensboro then owned all business property and all places of business. Now outsiders own and control about everything.
Now most of the retail stores are chain stores.
Now most of the stores are in the hands of Jews.
Now the character of merchandise had deteriorated.
Beginning in 1957 a number of shopping centers have been established in outlying areas.
All of which has had a disastrous effect on downtown business.
As compared with the period from 1902 to 1950 or thereabout when downtown Greensboro was thriving with beehive activity and when business appeared always at a peak. The business section now has the appearance of rapidly approaching that of a ghost town.
It is no longer a shopping center for out of town customers.



Social Life
In 1904, a group of young men organized a dance club and a social club. The dance club was given the name ‘North State German Club’ and dances were held in the Ball Room of the Benbow Hotel, the main portion of which was five stories high with a frontage on South Elm Street of about 66 feet and a depth along Sycamore Street of 150 feet, plus a three story, annex fronting, South Elm Street 203 feet. The ballroom was very large, large enough to accommodate several hundred people and was located in the annex. The ground floor of the annex was equipped for and occupied by mercantile establishments. All dances were adequately chaperoned. The attendance was always overflowing. As a rule we had guests from other points in the state as well as from without the state. Dance engagement booklets were embossed. Souvenirs were given to the ladies present. On one occasion we gave them a silver hatpin used by women in those days to pin their hats to their heads.

Punch served was always made free of all intoxicating beverages. No intoxicated person was allowed on the ball room. Members were subject to dismissal if they appeared on the floor showing signs of having been drinking. Music was always excellent; it was so soft and appealing, dignified and free of any signs of ragtime.
The Social Club was maintained in the Benbow Arcade, a five-story building located directly opposite the Benbow Hotel annex on S. Elm Street. The membership was substantial. The doors of the club were open every day from 7 Am to 12 Midnight. Attendance was always good. The decorum of the membership met al requirements of polite society and the club proved to be of great value to the community.

New York shows performed in Greensboro
During winter seasons opera would come from New York to Greensboro and perform in out Opera House. We had many good shows with a full house attending. One of which was the Merry Widows Musical Comedy. We still hear from time to time the Merry Widow Waltz.
All of our dances and shows demanded full dress attire. Transportation was provided by horse drawn Landaus. The Landaus used were closed carriages with a door on each side and two seats each of which was made to accommodate two persons, each two to face each other when seated. The driver occupied a high seat at the front of the vehicle.
In 1904, Arthur G. Coffin, better known as Pat Coffin, a devoted friend of mine had two sets of iron dumbells made at Sergeants Foundry here in Greensboro. Each set weighed twelve (12) pounds. He gave one set to me and kept the other set for himself. I still have my set and have always kept them in my bedroom closet for convenient use every morning as soon as I get out of bed. I have used them almost continuously since the day I received them. They no doubt have made a substantial contribution to the maintenance of my good health throughout the years.
Pat was a son of W.E. Coffin who for many years was freight agent for the Southern Railway Co. He was six feet and two inches tall. He attended State College, Raleigh, NC and was a member of the college football team. Two sisters live in Greensboro. He moved to Atlanta, Ga. About 1912 and lived there until his death in 1962.
In 1905 Howard Salzman (O.H. Salzman) gave me a pair of gold cuff links which I am still wearing. We were very close friends and remained such throughout his lifetime. He died several years ago. He came to Greensboro from Danville, Va. where his people were prominent, and was employed in the office of the General Superintendent of the Southern Railway Company. He moved in later years to Washington, D.C. where he continued his services with the Southern Railway. He was a grand fellow. I always called him Salz and he always called me Shup. I don’t think he knew a single musical note but he could play a piano ‘to beat the band’
Death of Charles Duncan McIver, September 17, 1906
Doctor McIver was born on September 27, 1860 in Moore County, N.C. He was also reared on a farm. In his seventeenth year (1877) he entered the University of NC from which he graduated in 1881 with an outstanding record. His life work as an educator began in the school systems of Durham and Winston and Pease Institution, Raleigh, NC. He was also a strong advocate of public schools and in particular the education of women. He played an important role in prevailing upon the legislature of North Carolina to make provision of both. His first vote was cast in May 1882, for a local tax to secure the establishment of the Durham public school system. Dr. McIver was president of the State Normal and Industrial college (for women) at Greensboro established by the legislature of NC in 1891. Upon completion of the construction of buildings, Dr. McIver was elected president and the institution opened for the admission of students in 1892. This college is now the University of NC at Greensboro. At the time of his death, Dr. McIver was a guest passenger on the special train of William Jennings Bryan who was making a political tour of NC. It will be recalled that Mr. Bryan was the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1896 and again in 1900. Also that he was a democratic candidate for a third time in 1908. Dr. McIver joined the Bryan special train at Durham and occupied a seat with State Treasurer Lacy. As the train left Durham, Dr. McIver had a stroke of apoplexy and died almost instantly. Dr. Jones of Hillsboro was on the train. He was summoned but Dr. McIver was dead when he got to him.

Instead of making a political speech in Greensboro, as was originally planned, Mr. Bryant delivered a beautiful eulogy on the life of Dr. McIver. He spoke in the Opera House located in the city hall. The theater was packed with men and women to its capacity. The streets located in the front and along the side of the building were also packed with hundreds of people. People came from all points of the state. There was one special ten-coach train and other trains, which carried extra coaches. Many men of distinction were present: Governor R.B. Glenn of North Carolina, U.S. Senator Lee S. Overman, U.S. Senator F.M. Simmons, Josephus Daniels, owner and editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and many others. I as a youngster joined the crowd in the street. Mayor Charles M. Stedman presided at the meeting. Mayor Stedman served under General Robert E. Lee throughout the Civil War. He was Lt. Gov. of North Carolina from 1884 to 1888, Candidate or Governor in 1904 and the last soldier of the confederate army to serve as a member of the House of Representatives on the United States Congress. He died in Washington, D.C. September 23, 1930. At the conclusion of Mr. Bryan’s speech Mrs. Lavine Forbes (now Mrs. Coble) of Greensboro presented Mr. Bryan with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.


Theodore Roosevelt
In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States visited Greensboro. He was a republican and a native of New York. In 1900 he was elected Vice President on the Republican ticket headed by William McKinney. Upon the death of McKinley on September 14, 1902, who was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolqosz.
While attending the Pam American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. he became President. Thereafter in 1904, he was elected President and served until March 3, 1909.
In 1912 Roosevelt returned to Greensboro in the interest of his election as President on the Republican Progressive “Bull Moose” ticket.
William Howard Taft was a candidate for reelection. The Republican Party division resulted in the election of the democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson.


(Teddy) Roosevelt was the youngest man who ever attained the office of President of the United States. He died January 5, 1919.
In 1907, my oldest sister was anxious to attend the Jamestown Va. Exposition near Norfolk, Virginia. I obtained Southern Railway and Pullman car passes for her to Norfolk and return. Upon her return she brought me a very attractive glass paperweight on the bottom of which is a beautiful picture of some of the exposition buildings and of the approach and entrance to the exposition grounds. The picture is labeled “view from pier Jamestown Exposition 1907”. It reflects or mirrors through the top of the paperweight. I have valued it so highly that I have always kept it on my desk. My sister died in 1918.


1917 – 1918
Appointment to the following positions:
Executive Secretary, U.S. Fuel Administration for NC from 10-10-1917 to 03-31-1919
Director of Enforcement of the U.S. Fuel Administration for the state of NC
Soon after the declaration of war by the United States against Germany on April 6, 1917, the government established the United States Fuel Administration. Mr. H.A. Garfield was appointed US Administrator. Mr. A.W. McAlister, President of the Pilot Life Insurance Company in Greensboro, NC was appointed Administrator of the State of NC. On October 10, 1917, I was appointed Executive Secretary for the State of NC.
On July 1, 1918 Mr. McAlister resigned and was succeeded by Mr. R.C. Norfleet of Winston Salem, NC. Mr. Norfleet transferred the headquarters of the administration to Winston-Salem and insisted that I continue to serve as Executive Secretary and move to Winston-Salem. This I agreed to do. Mr. Norfleet and S. Clay Williams elsewhere referred to fortunately secured living quarters for Mrs. Shuping and me in the name of Mrs. Charles Shelton (widow) 639 West Fifth Street, located directly across the street from the home of Mr. & Mrs. W.N. Reynolds. Mrs. Shelton and Mrs. Reynolds were sisters.

Director of enforcement
On the 1st day of October 1918 I was appointed Director of Enforcement of the U.S. Fuel Administration for the State of NC, as evidenced by the attached documents executed by Mr. Norfleet bearing the above mentioned date. The services of this position were to be performed in addition to my duties as Executive Secretary.

1918
Classified in armed forces as Lieutenant
The subject of my classification in the armed forces of the United States arose in October 1918. This matter was handled by Mr. R.C. Norfleet; US fuel Administrator for the State of NC, as set forth in the two documents hereto attached, to wit. Affidavit executed by Mr. Norfleet, dated October 17, 1928 and letter written by Mr. Norfleet to W.B. Symmes, Jr. Solicitor, Administrative Division, Washington, DC bearing date of November 6, 1918. Subsequently i was classified as a Lieutenant.








1912
Democratic Political Activities
My first adventure into the field of active politics was in 1912 when US Senator F.M. Simmons was a candidate for election to a third term. He was first elected to the US Senate in 1900 and was reelected in 1906. He was opposed in the 1912 primary by former Governors Chas. B. Aycock and W.W. Kitchen and by Walter Clark, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NC.
I supported Simmons as a volunteer and did considerable convassing of voters in his behalf. The record of my activities, which I still have in my files, show that 100 voters committed themselves to Simmons, of course all voters at that time were men, women could not vote.
Simmons won the nomination in the primary and was duly elected over his republican opponent in the general election of that year.
Following this campaign I urged the chairman of the Guilford County Democratic Executive Committee to organize the young voters into a young Democratic club but he never took any action in the matter.

1920
Political activities continued, Page for Governor Campaign
In 1920 I managed the Guilford County Campaign of Robert N. Page, candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of NC.
Mr. Page had served as a member of the General Assembly of NC and as a member of the Congress of the U.S. having been elected to serve successive terms and served four term years and voluntarily retired in 1916. He and his brothers contributed their full share in laying the foundation for and establishing many business enterprises in their section of the state including a railroad system traversing from counties. Upon his retirement from Congress he returned to his home and entered the banking business as president of the Page Trust Co. He based his candidacy on - NC needs a businessman for Governor.
He was opposed in the campaign by Cameron Morrison a Charlotte Attorney who had been active in state politics for a number of years and by O. Max Gardner a former Lieutenant Governor who also had been active in state politics and practiced law in Shelby, NC
When I first entered upon my duties, I was told by local party leaders that Morrison and Gardner had already obtained the support of the bosses in their cotton mill villages. White oak, Proximity and Revolutions, and that Mr. Page could have very little hope, if any in getting any votes in those precincts. I soon found out that this was true. I broke the ice and I secured from the local election board a list of the voters in each precinct and then wrote a letter to one hundred voters asking them if they would meet me at a specified time and place – I received only ten replies. With this small beginning I succeeded in thoroughly organizing all three precincts.
I was successful also in thoroughly organizing the entire county.
Mr. Page carried the county by receiving more votes than the combined vote received by Morrison and Gardner as I publicly predicted.


The campaign required many weeks of my time and much hard work.
I financed the campaign out of my own pocket and without any expense whatever to Mr. Page.




This was a statewide primary and Mr. Page was defeated.
In the second campaign between Morrison and Gardner, Morrison won and in the general election in November, by defeating his republican opponents. Morrison was duly elected Governor.
In 1928 Gardner was again a candidate for governor and in that campaign he was duly elected.
Mr. Page died on October 3rd, 1933.


Comment
Several days before the date fixed for voting in this primary, I met Morrison’s and Gardner’s manager and trustee D. Watts’s political field agent for US Senator F.M. Simmons who dominated politics in NC. Morrison was Simmons candidate. Watts first asked about Morrison’s prospect of winning. He was told that there was no doubt that he would win. He asked the same question about Gardner and got the same answer as to Gardner. He then asked me in a sneering sort of way as to Mr. Page. I told him that I should tell him though I did not think he would believe a word I said, to wit: that I was certain that Page would get more votes than the combined votes received by Morrison and Gardner. I told him the first time I saw him after the primary. I would only say to him: I told you so. This I did in the Yarborough Hotel in Raleigh where he was having his lunch. He became so angry he mimicked us and turned over his table.


1922 – Church Activities
In 1922 the men of West market Street Methodist Church organized a Mens’ Club. To perfect the organization, Dr. John H. Wheeler, a prominent dentist and churchman was selected as President. The men of the church were divided into teams of ten, one of which was to be leader of the team. I served a member of Dr. Wheeler’s team. Meetings were held each week to receive reports on the number of members enrolled. Upon completion of the canvasses and the tabulation of the membership it was reported that I had enrolled more members than all of the other canvasses combined.
The enthusiasm of the club members was encouraging for a number of years but finally began to lag and the club ceased to exist.
As a rule we had good out-of-town speakers.

1929
Member of the Board of Stewards of west market Street Methodist Church, Greensboro, NC
According to the attached letter received from Loy D. Thompson, Pastor of West Market Street Church, dated September 04, 1929, I was unanimously elected a member of the Board of Stewards on the 23rd day of September 1929.
It was a great deal of pleasure to me to serve on this board, plus the honor bestowed upon me.








1923 – Near East Relief
In January 1923 I was appointed Guilford County Chairman of the Near East Relief Campaign to raise finds and clothing.
Our quota for Guilford County was $15,000.00. We raised $28,070.09, and oversubscription of 86 percent.
The attached letter, dated August 20, 1923, addressed to me by E.L. Brooks, State Clothing Chairman comments on out clothing campaign success in collecting 5078 pounds and expresses his appreciation.
In his report for the year ending June 30, 1923, State Chairman Bellamy commented “Greensboro stood first among the first-class cities of North Carolina in point of over-subscriptions. Mr. Shuping also put on the best clothing campaign in the State with the exception of Raleigh, where Colonel Olds had the benefit of the facilities of the State Office.



Activities in the field of Education, Guilford College – UNC Law School, 1923-1928
In the spring of 1923 I participated as a leader in a fund raising campaign for Guilford College for the purpose or erecting additional campus building for which there was great need.
Fortunately the campaign was a great success even though my contribution might have been limited since I was a Methodist supporting a Quaker Institution.
As evidence of appreciation I attach a letter from Mr. Raymond Binford, President of Guilford College to me dated April 21, 1923.
In addition David White and Walter Blair two of the most outstanding Quakers in Greensboro came to my office and stated that they came to give me $300.00 as a token of their appreciation for what I had done in this fund raising campaign for Guilford College.
I told them that my services were as a contribution to a worthy public cause; that I was glad to have the privilege and the honor to have been of service and I could not and would not accept any compensation for what I had done.

1928
Financed Installation of Complete Trial Court Room, University of NC Law School, Chapel Hill, NC

Comment
Little, if anything of special interest can be added to the statements contained in the following documents which should be read.
Pamphlet entitled: Law School Association containing statement by Albert Coates, Director, Carolina Inn, May 26, 1928, pp. 3, 7, 9, 18.
Pamphlet No.261, dated May 1929, entitled “University of NC Record – The law School 1929-1930, p.13”
Articles published in the Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, May 27, 1928, relating to presentation of the law office and courtroom to the University of NC and the Law School.
Letter addressed to me from Henry Brandis Jr., Dean of the Law School, dated Nov. 1, 1951.







1924
State manager, J.W. Bailey, Campaign for Governor
My appointment was announced on April 18, 1924. The primary was held on June 7, 1924. Therefore I had only 7 weeks to organize 100 counties, consisting of 1960 precincts. To do so was impossible. All I could do was to do the best that I could do. I succeeding in naming County managers in all Counties, but time would not permit the complete organization of precincts.
Bailey was opposed by A.W. McLean, a Simmons candidate, who had been campaigning for many months.
In the primary on June 7, 234,770 votes were polled for governor of which McLean received 151,197 and Bailey 83,573. The Bailey vote may seem unimpressive; nevertheless he polled a bigger support than any successful candidate has yet received in a contested primary. He received more than 10,000 votes ahead of Gov. Morrison four years ago and nearly 20,000 above Gardner.


1926
New United States Code Annotated First Subscriber
The attached letter received by me from Edward Thompson Company, Northport, Long Island, new York, publisher of this set of books, dated November 4, 1926, sets forth that I was the first subscriber for the books and that they would see to it that I receive the first installment ready for delivery.

1927-1928
Chairman democratic Executive Committee Guilford County
On September 17, 1927 I was elected unanimously to succeed Andrew Joyner Jr. as Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Guilford County.
Mr. Joyner had resigned to become Attorney for the City of Greensboro.
On June 9, 1928 I was unanimously reelected.
Thereafter, on February 15, 1930, I resigned and was succeeded by Bryee R. Holt, local attorney.

1928
Founder and Organizer of the Young Democratic Club, August 29, 1928
My first thought about organizing the young democratic voters entered in my mind in 1912 when I urged the Chairman of the Guilford County Democratic Executive Committee to organize the young voters into a Young Democratic Club, as set out in previous statement under the heading: “Democratic Political Activities”. Nothing became of my suggestion.
I had never heard of the idea before, nor did I hear of the idea again until I became Chairman of the Guilford Democratic Executive Committee. About August 1, 1928, the idea popped up in my mind again. After discussion of the matter with local leaders it was decided that a committee of twenty-five be appointed to canvass the voters and ascertain whether they approved of such a club and whether they would become members.
The committee appointees, all of whom agreed to serve, consisted of the following:
Robert Moseley Henry V. Koonts
Bernard Wright Newton D. Farnell
Wm. Grant Chas. Gold Jr
Herman C, Wilson Bryee R. Holt
Chas. E. Stroud George Hampton Jr
C.S. Lambeth George Brandt
Herbert Falk Council Tucker
Shelly Cariness Ralph Price
Eugene Shaw J.G. Benjamin
Wm Harder Richard Henderson
Ben G. Ward Henry Maclin
Andrew Joyner Jr Miss Louise Alexander
W. H. Andrews Jr

The committee submitted a report of the name, residence address and telephone number of four hundred voters who favored the organization.
Records of the foregoing are on file in my office.
The organization of the club was perfected at a meeting held in the Guilford County Court House at 8 o’clock PM on Wednesday, August 29, 1928 – See notice of meeting hereto attached, published in Greensboro Daily News, Wednesday, August 29, 1928.
Reports on meeting, published by the Greensboro Daily News on August 30, 1928, hereto attached.
Subsequent newspaper stories relating to the organization of our club appeared as follows:
Greensboro Record, September 16, 1948
Greensboro Daily News, August 31, 1952
Greensboro Record, September 25, 1958
All of which are hereto attached. All three set forth facts showing how Tyre Taylor got into the picture.
As of now this club has been active for more than forth years. The outstanding feature at every annual convention is that of the nomination and election of a President.
The “Young Democratic Clubs of America” movement received special attention at the Democratic national Convention in 1936. It’s recorded in the proceedings of that convention that: “It was not until 1932 that a nation-wide effort was launched” to promote the organization of such clubs.



1928
Alfred E. Smith, Candidate of Democratic Party for the President of the United States comes to Greensboro, 10/11/28
At the Democratic National Convention, Houston, Texas, June 26 to 29, 1928, Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York was nominated as the parties’ candidate for President of the United States. Herbert Hoover was nominated by the Republican Party as its candidate at the national convention.
Under the law, November 6, 1928 was fixed as the date for holding the National election.
In Guilford County candidates were seeking election to twenty-three offices from President to constable – National, State, and County.
As Chairman of the Guilford County Democratic Executive Committee it was my responsibility to organize the democrats to the end that every democratic candidate would be elected, in so far as such was possible. By persistent action I soon had the precinct organizations in operation. Local leaders visited precinct leaders regularly to assist them in building up their voting strength.


I was very much concerned about our National Ticket.
Al Smith was a Catholic and opposed to National Prohibition. He was viciously opposed by U.S. Senator F.M. Simmons, leader of the Democratic Party for 30 years and by Methodist Bishop Cannon resulting in the diversion of a very substantial part of the Protestant vote.
I decided that the best thing to do to meet the situation was to get Smith to visit North Carolina and in particular to come to Greensboro, the most centrally located and logical point in the state.
In mid July I started my campaign and pursued the matter until the first part of October. It developed into a tremendous task.
At the outset I realized that it would be necessary to acquaint myself with leaders in Democratic Headquarters in New York. To this end I immediately communicated with: John J. Raskog, Chairman of the Democratic national Committee. Members of the Executive Committee, Members of the Advisory Committee and Members of the Speakers Bureau; and on this connection I secured the help of John W. Davis, candidate for President on the Democratic ticket in 1924 and George Gordon Battle of North Carolina, and one of the most outstanding lawyers in New York City, both of whom were well acquainted with Governor Smith and closely identified with no National Campaign. I maintained close contact with all of these gentlemen throughout my campaign.
Senator Lee S. Overman of NC was Vice Chairman of the Speaking Bureau and of great help to me.
I also received the cooperation of:
Members of Congress from NC
Members of Congressional Committees
Heads of Departments of State Governments
Members of the State Democratic Executive Committee
Members of County Executive Committee
Members of the State Legislature
Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee
Thousands of local political leaders and leading citizens
All of whom were requested to get their friends to invite Democratic Headquarters in New York urging that Governor Smith be sent to NC.
I was advised by headquarters in New York that more than 5000 letters urging that governor Smith be sent to North Carolina had been received,
Governor Smith came to the state on Thursday, October 11th. The New York headquarters advised me that his schedule limited him to a twenty-minute visit to Greensboro, which confined out entertainment activities to a parade. Our committee appointed George L. Stansbury Chief Marshall and Andrew Joyner Jr, Bernard Wright, W.H. Crawford and Henry V. Koontz as assistant parade chairmen. Miss Louise Alexander was placed in charge of the Woman’s division.
J.M. Mull, Chairman of the NC State Democratic Executive Committee requested me to board the Smith train at Raleigh and accompany the party to Greensboro.
On my way to board the train a man introduced himself and said he was in charge of the movement of the train and that the train had been unnecessarily held up and delayed forty five minutes in getting out of Raleigh. This interfered with the set schedule of the train to such extent that he was canceling the stop at Greensboro. I was unable to prevail upon him to change his mind. I was so shocked and disappointed at the turn of events I was disturbed about what to do. I first decided that in as much as I was primarily responsible for Smith’s visit to NC that by the grace of God he was going to stop at Greensboro; that I was not going to be embarrassed or disgraced and the people disappointed by his failure to stop. The 12 car
Pullman train was loaded with prominent State and national Democratic leaders, including the General Superintendent of the Southern Railway so with whom I was well acquainted. I first talked with him about getting the train to Greensboro on original schedule time thereby making up the 45 minutes lost in Raleigh. He said this could be done by eliminating stops at all stations between Raleigh and Greensboro. I asked him if, under the circumstances, he would be willing to do this. He said he would and so he did and the train made up the lost 45 minutes and reached Greensboro at the time originally scheduled.
The next move was to get everybody on the train possible to “talk to the man in charge of the train” with the hope of prevailing upon him to change his mind. This plan did not produce any favorable results.
Gov. A.W. McLean came be to see how I was getting along. While we were talking “the man in charge of the train” came by. McLean stopped him and asked him if he had changed his mind about stopping the train in Greensboro. He said he has not. Whereupon they got into a hot argument and McLean demanded that he stop the train immediately, regardless of its location, so that he and I could leave the train. The fellows walked away without saying anything. The Governor then asked me this question: What are you going to do now? My answer was - See to it that this train stops in Greensboro as scheduled by National Headquarters in New York. I hope that the next time I see you we will be riding up Elm Street in Greensboro with Governor Smith in our custody. Governor McLean then said to me “Mr. Shuping you are the most courageous and determined man I have ever seen”. I thanked him and we parted.

My final decision was to go to see Governor Smith and talk with him in person. I knew that he was in the observation car at the rear end of the train. So I gritted my teeth and proceeded. When I opened the door to the observation car and looked in the first person I recognized was U.S. Senator Lee S. Overman who lived in Salisbury, NC. He had known me for many years. When I was a child my family lived one city block from his home. He was seated near the front end of the car. Smith was standing near the rear end of the car talking to a group of newspaper reporters. After a few words of greeting Senator Overman asked if I had met Governor Smith. I told him that I had not; that the object of my visit was to get acquainted with him. He immediately arose from his cushioned chair and introduced me to Smith (Senator Overman held my hand until he introduced me to Smith). When Senator Overman introduced me he told Governor Smith that I was the man who was responsible for his trip to NC; that he could depend absolutely upon everything. I said and hoped he would give me any assistance within his power to give me. I told Governor Smith that I had arranged through the General Superintendent of the Southern Railway Co. to get his train to Greensboro on the original scheduled time, thereby making up for the time lost at Raleigh; that he would be returned to his train within the time period fixed; by New York Headquarters; that we were reasonably sure that at least 50,000 people would greet him in Greensboro and that it would be politically disastrous to all concerned for him to pass over Greensboro and it was absolutely necessary for him to carry out the schedule fixed by headquarters. He looked at me very seriously and asked me if I would guarantee to get him back on his train on time. I told him that I positively would. He said: well that settles it.
The special train of 12 cars arrived in Greensboro on Schedule.
The parade Committee under the leadership of Andrew Joyner Jr planned well, exceedingly so, for the entertainment of Governor Smith. Among other things, They fixed the route of the parade to begin at the old passenger station of the Southern Railway on South Elm St.; thence on Elm Street to the O’Henry Hotel; thence on Bellemeade St. to North Green St.; thence on Green to West market; thence on market to Forbis and thence on Forbis to the New Southern Railway passenger station on Washington Street.

They arranged with the City authority to keep the route free of all traffic.
Arranged with the Railway Company to stop the train so that the rear of the observation car would be placed at Elm St. for the convenience of Governor Smith and others in transferring from the train to automobiles.

And also for the observation car to be placed on the east side of the passenger station at the head of the steps leading up from the parking space below to the railroad tracks above for the convenience of Governor Smith and others in boarding the train when they left the city.
Governor A.W. McLean, O. Max Gardner of Shelby, Democratic nominee for Governor and I accompanied Governor Smith in the first car seen in the parade. We were joined by two secret service men one of whom stood on the running board on each side of the car.
The crowd of people was terrific. The newspaper estimated the number at 25,000. Other estimated the number as high as 60,000. The two secret police said they had accompanied Smith all over the country and in their opinion the number was not less than 50,000. High State officials in the party declared the ovation given Governor Smith was the greatest demonstration they had ever witnessed. The streets and sidewalks were jammed with citizens of Greensboro, and many other communities. Governor Smith said “he had never received a bigger reception anywhere, and that he was tickled to death to be here”.
After we returned to his train and I had put him on board of his observation car Smith looked at his watch and said to me “that we were two minutes ahead of schedule”. I reminded him that both Senator Overman and I had told him we would do so. He then remarked that I was the only man in the United States that had told him the truth. I thanked him for coming to NC and in particular to Greensboro; that his secret service men told me they estimated the crowd at not less than 50,000; that I was sure that everybody was delighted to see him and we sincerely hoped he would come to see us again. He was undoubtedly highly pleased.


1928
A brief Biography of Furnifold McLendil Simmons
Mr. Simmons was born on his father’s plantation near Biloksville, Jones County,
SC, January 20, 1854; attended a private school and Wake Forest College; graduated in 1873; studied law and was admitted to the bar January 3, 1875; moved to New Bern, NC in 1876 and commenced the practice of law. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress March 4, 1887; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 and resumed the practice of his profession in New Bern. In the campaigns of 1892, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1904, and 1906 he was Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee of NC. He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as collector of internal revenue for the fourth district of NC in 1893 and served until 1897. He was a member of the Democratic National Committee 1924 to 1928; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1900, 1906, 1912, 1928, and again in 1924 and served from March 4, 1901 to march 3, 1931. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930 and retired from public life to his home in New Bern where he resided until his death on April 30, 1940.









1928
Senator Simmons bolts Democratic Party and joins Republican Party
Following the nomination of Governor Smith for President by the Democratic National Committee at Houston, Texas in June 1928 Senator Simmons made the following announcement in the newspapers of North Carolina: “I am not going to vote for Smith. I have offered my support to the anti-Smith movement and will assist them to the extent of my powers”. Henceforth Senator Simmons gave himself without stint and without limit to the support of the Republican candidate for President – Herbert Hoover and the accomplishment of his one purpose to carry this State for the National Republican Party.
He made more speeches, wrote more letters, issued more statements, did more work and took a more active interest for Hoover than he did in any simple campaign for any Democratic candidate for President; for Bryan in 1900 and 1908, for Parker in 1904, for Wilson in 1912 and 1916, for Cox in 1920 or Davis in 1924.
He denounced O.W. Mull, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee.
He derided O. Max Gardner, candidate for Governor.
He made sport of Governor A.W. McLean
He cast reflections on others and denounced all of the candidates of the Democratic Party in the State.


Candidates on the Democratic tickets were men, hundreds of them, who had spent their lives fighting his battles. On these tickets were men who helped win for him his campaign for U.S. Senator in 1900. There were men who in that bitter campaign of 1912 (when he was opposed on reelection to the U.S. Senate by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Walter Clark; by former Governor Wm. W. Kitchen and by former Governor Charles B. Aycock) saved his political life. There were men and women on those tickets fighting to preserve Democratic Government, good government, in this state and their counties.
Simmons attacked, denounced and abused the Democratic leadership and the State, district and local Democratic candidates in every conceivable way. In New Bern, his home town, he had five Democratic election officials including the Chairman of the Board of Elections arrested by Federal Officers, all of whom were charged with conspiracy to defraud and violate the Federal election laws. Upon a hearing before two US Republican Commissioners they were discharged for lack of probable causes.
On October 25th he spoke in Raleigh over radio so that the whole state might hear him. He spoke for more than three hours and lambasted the Democratic leadership and candidates of the party from head to toe.
Simmons was a Democratic office holder while fighting the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party kept him in the US Senate for twenty-eight years, the best office within its gift.
Throughout the years, beginning in 1900, he was recognized as leader of the Democratic Party.
In the present campaign he is guilty of canning North Carolina for Hoover the Republican candidate for president; the defeat of two Democratic Congressmen and the election of hundreds of Republicans to Legislative, county, and local officers.
Attached is a statement of the Official Election Returns for the State of NC and Guilford County.



1928
Official Election Returns, State of NC
For President:
Hoover Republican 348,923 Hoover carried 63 counties
Smith Democrat 286,227 Smith carried 27 counties
Hoover Majority 62,696

Guilford County
Hoover 16,544 Hoover carried county by 6,669
Smith 9,872

For Governor:
Omax Gardner Democrat 362,009 Gardner carried state by 72,594
H.F.Seawell Republican 289,415

Guilford County
Gardner 13,523 Gardner carried county by 67
Gardner carried 68 counties
Seawell 13,456 Seawell carried 32 counties

1928
On October 29, 1928 US Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, delivered a political speech in Greensboro in behalf of Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York, and candidate of the Democratic Party for President.
Before entering the Senate Mr. Glass served as Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson. He was a great scholar and a great speaker. He was well known and popular in North Carolina. He made a good speech to the overflow crowd and received considerable enthusiastic applause (Later he declined an appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinet of President Franklin Roosevelt).
Before leaving Lynchburg, Va. to come to Greensboro, Senator Glass called me on the telephone and asked me to tell the party who was to introduce him at Greensboro that he was coming here to make a speech and not to listen to a speech my someone else and that he would appreciate it if his introducer would not consume more then two minutes in presenting him. I had arranged with the A.L. Brooks to introduce Senator Glass and the above message was delivered to him. I had a committee to join me to go to the railway station to meet the Senator and accompany him to the O’Henry Hotel where I had engaged a suite of rooms, one of which was a large reception room. Mr. Brooks did not accompany me to the R.R. Station. He stayed at the hotel.
Within a short time after we reached out quarters Senator Glass set about to change his clothes. When he reached the point where he had on nothing but his BVD’s and was leaning over lacing his shoes, Brooks said: “Senator I have been asked to introduce you tonight and I would like to know if there is anything in particular you would have me to say and about how long should I speak”. Glass arose quickly to an upright sitting and slapped his hands hard on his knees which were necked causing a loud swatting sound, and looked Brooks straight in his eyes and said: “Sir, I came down here to make a speech and not to listen to a speech made by someone else and will appreciate it if you will limit your remarks to two minutes”. Brooks face turned very red.
At my request the Southern Railway Superintendent agrees to stop all Pullman trains to 28 miles out of Lynchburg to let Glass off near his home. I then phoned his family to meet him. He was most grateful. I had known Senator Glass for some time.


Professional and Political positions tendered to me which I declined to accept :

1919
Attorney for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
In January 1919 I declined an appointment to the legal department of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston Salem, NC offered to me by Mr. W.N. Reynolds, President of the Company.
Subsequently over a long period of years I represented the company in a number of important matters. In one matter I received a fee of $10,000.00.

1930
United States Senator to succeed Senator Lee S. Overman
Saturday evening, December 13, 1930, Gov. O. Max Gardner called me at my home on the telephone from Salisbury, NC and said he was there to attend the funeral of Senator Overman and that he wanted to appoint a successor to Overman before he left Salisbury.
He then said he would like to appoint me and wanted to know if I would accept. I told him that I would not because I did not think I was entitled to it. He replied by saying that he did not know of another man in the state that was so much entitled to the appointment as I was and referred to the election of Senator Simmons to the Senate in 1900 because of his political activities. After some further talk about me we talked for some time about other parties. He then asked me whom I would appoint. I told him that in my opinion Cameron Morrison (Former
Governor of NC) should be appointed and why: That Morrison had been a war horse of the Democratic Party for many years; that he was a man of character, vision, learning, dignity, and poise; a lawyer and a good speaker and would serve with credit to the state, as he well knew, and among other things I would keep him in his own relationship with Morrison. He then said, “Well then, if you will not change your mind, I will talk to Morrison”. I asked him to let me know what Morrison had to say. Later he called me and told me that Morrison accepted the appointment and seemed to be very happy. Some time thereafter I called Morrison at his home in Charlotte and congratulated him. He seemed to be very proud and highly elated. He told me that I was the first person to call him.
See memo Overman file.


1929
In October 1929 appointed by Woodrow Wilson Foundation as Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Committee in Greensboro. Newton A, Baker was President and Carter Glass and others were members of the Board of Trustees of the foundation.








1930
Judge of the Superior Court
This position was offered to me by Governor Gardner on January 8, 1930. I advised him that I was not interested whereupon he authorized me to tender the appointment to Mr. A. Wayland Cooke an outstanding Greensboro lawyer. For the reasons set forth in the attached memorandum Mr. Cooke declined the appointment. I was then authorized to tender the appointment to H. Hoyle Sink of Lexington, NC. The facts bearing on the appointment of Sink are set forth in the memorandum above mentioned. Sink accepted and was duly appointed.
I told Mr. Cooke and others how Sink got the appointment.
Some years later Sink denies that Shad had anything to do with his appointment. This naturally offended me and I set about to defeat him in he next election and drive him off the bench, and I succeeded in doing so.

1932
Superior court Solicitor
This position was offered to me by Governor Gardner on February 6, 1932. The facts relating thereto are set forth in the attached memorandum and make interesting reading. Koontz served for eleven years.


Pictures, articles & newspapers within autobiography, 1st section

Pictures within the autobiography:
Picture of Salisbury City Schools where he went to school

Memos within the autobiography:
19181001 Appointment to Director of enforcement of the US Fuel Administration
19181017 Affadavit by R.C. Norfleet that Shuping is employed by him as the Executive
Secretary in the office of the State Fuel Administration for NC and a claim for
deferred classification has been made,
19181106 W.B. Symmes, Jr. wrote of necessity of having Shuping placed in
deferred classification on the ground of dependents
19201006 Robert Page thanking him for his support for the campaign
19200617 Memo from Thad S. Page to C.L. Shuping thanking him for his letter to his
father and his effort during the campaign.
19200615 Memo from Robert Newton Page to C.L. Shuping thanking him for his
letter recognising him for the statesman he is.
19290924 Memo from Loy D. Thompson, Pastor of the West Market Street M.E.
Church South to C.L. Shuping placing his name for nomination on the Board of
Stewards and he was unanimously elected to serve for the ensuing year.
19230820 Memo from Geo. H. Bellemy, State Chairman of the Near East Relief, NC
division to C.L. Shuping of how much funds he helped to raise
19230825 Memo from E.C. Brooks, state clothing chairman of the Near East Relief,
NC decision to C.L. Shuping about the splendid work he did in Guilford County.
19230421 Letter from Raymond Binford, President of Guilford College for C.L.
Shuping’s efforts to raise money for the college
19511101 Letter from Henry Brandis Jr., Dean of the Law School, at UNC Chapel
Hill, dated Nov. 1, 1951 inviting C.L. Shuping to be present for the dedication of a
new wing of the Manning Hall. Noted (Mr. Coates and I have not forgotten your
interest and help in securing a courtroom in years past.)
Memos within the autobiography:
19240616 Letter from J. W. Bailey, Attorney at law to C.L. Shuping. Letter of
appreciation for C.L. Shuping’s efforts as campaign manager, 2 pages
19261104 Memo from Edward Thompson Company Law Publishers to C.L. Shuping
acknowledging receipt of a contract for the first Installment of the new US Code
Annotated set of books
19300215 Memo from John T. Burrus, Chairman of Resolutions Committee in appreciation
of service to C.L. Shuping, retiring chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee
19281103 Memo from Pat Harrison, advisory committee of Democratic National Committee showing their support of C.L. Shuping’s efforts of what he has done in this campaign
19281208 Letter from Lee S. Overman thanking C.L. Shuping for his speech in Greensboro and efforts getting Governor Smith to visit Greensboro
19281213 Letter from Lee S. Overman, U.S. Senate congratulating C.L. Shuping’s upon his excellent work in the campaign
19301222 Letter from C.L. Shuping about conversation with Governor O. Max Gardner’s request that he accept the appointment to Judge of Twelfth Judicial District to succeed J.D. Humphreys of Spokes County, Declining the offer and who he recommended for the job
19320209 Letter from C.L. Shuping about meeting Governor Max Gardner in Raleigh and being asked to be appointed to replace George Younce as Solicitor, advised the Governor to replace him with H.L. Koontz as Solicitor of the Twelfth Judicial District




Newspapers within the autobiography:
19280527 Greensboro Daily News, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 131
Complete Law Office is given to University.
C.L. Shuping prominent Greensboro lawyer, has underwritten the cost of
equiping the trial courtroom and several other lawyers of the state.
19240418 Greensboro Daily News
C.L. Shuping chosen as Bailey’s manager,
References from the NC Historical Review XLI, April 1964
Greensboro lawyer’s record makes him an ideal man, says Mr. Bailey
19270919 Greensboro Patriot
C.L. Shuping is elected Guilford County Leader for Democratic Party, prominent
Greensboro Attorney who succeeds Andrew Joyner Jr. predicts that party will poll
close to 15,000 votes at next election committee meeting
19280910 Greensboro Daily News
Shuping is again to head Democrats here, unanimously re-elected Chairman of
the Guilford County Democratic Executive Committee
19280829 Greensboro Daily News
Young Democrats to form club tonight, Shuping organized the meeting
19300215 Memo from John T. Burrus, Chairman of Resolutions Committee in appreciation
of service to C.L. Shuping, retiring chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee


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19280830 Greensboro Daily News
Mrs. James L. Scott (Lula Martin McIver Scott), daughter of Dr. Charles Duncan
McIver, is elected President of the Democrat Club. She heads the organization known as Guilford County Democratic Young Men’s and Young Women’s Club, G.C. Hampton Jr. elected secretary. (Daughter of late Dr. Charles Duncan McIver)
C.L. Shuping mentioned as the father of the idea of the club
19480916 Greensboro N.C. Record
Young Democratic Club idea born in Greensboro just 20
years ago, 2 pages, C. Leroy Shuping Jr. mentioned as in charge of convention
arrangements
19520831 Greensboro Daily News
C. Leroy Shuping’s idea took form in Greensboro Law
Office in 1928 (Nations First Young Democrat’s Club),
*includes a posed picture of C.L. Shuping
19580925 Greensboro Record
Malcolm Seawell, Attorney General for NC is top speaker at
State YDC Convention, paragraph on how idea started with C.L. Shuping, Sr.
19780903 Greensboro Daily News
Civic leader Crawford dies
Formed the nations first Young democrats club here
19780205 Greensboro Daily News
Crawford’s dream comes true for a recovering alcoholic treatment center
19760227 Greensboro Record, long page, Section B, Page 1
YDC got start right here, started with efforts of C.L. Shuping, George Hampton,
Jr., & William N. Crawford
19281012 Greensboro Daily News, Front page
More than 25,000 on hand to greet noted leader, Al Smith of New York
Shuping mentioned accompanying Smith with A.W. McLean & O. Max Gardner
C.L. Shuping pictured standing beside Al Smith
P. 2 – Picture of C.L. Shuping standing beside Al Smith on the train
19281011 File charges against Dr. Albert Anderson
19301214 Greensboro Daily News, 2 pages
Naming of Morrison to Senatorial Berth expected in Capital to replace Overman, C.L. Shuping & A.L. Brooks strongly urged for Senatorship.
19301213 The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC
Editorial on Lee Slater Overman’s life
19301213 The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, Page 1
Will Appoint Successor after Overman Funeral, C.L. Shuping among others
considered for appointment.
C.L. Shuping mentioned as being considered by Governor Gardner as a
successor to Overman
19811115 Greensboro Daily News, people & places section.
50 years ago. C.L. Shuping was named chairman of the Democratic Party’s Victory Fund to help finance the coming election
19820110 Greensboro Record
Remember When? 50 years ago, C.L. Shuping, Chairman of the State
Democratic Victory Fund Campaign noted a new unity in the Democratic Party


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19820214 Greensboro Daily News & Record
Remember When? 50 years ago (1932)
C.L. Shuping, State manager for the Democratic Victory Campaign reported
$2,752 raised in the first week of the drive.
19820411 Greensboro Daily News & Record
Remember When? 50 years ago, people and places section, page 8.
C.L. Shuping, Chairman of the Democratic Victory Fund drive announced total of
collections.
19820711 Greensboro Daily News & Record
Fifty years ago, C.L. Shuping’s getting considerable support to succeed Odus
Mull as chairman opf the state democratic executive committee
19820905 Greensboro Daily News and Record
Remember when? Fifty years ago, C.L. Shuping, Greensboro attorney and
political leader was named director of NC drive for finances for the Democratic
Party
19830113 Greensboro News & Record, people & places section
Remember When?
C.L. Shuping was mentioned for National Democratic Committee membership to
succeed Clyde R. Hoey
19830327 Greensboro News & Record, people & places section
Remember When? Fifty years ago, in three campaigns conducted under the
leadership of C.L. Shuping of Greensboro, state director of finances for the
National Democratic Committee, $10,891 NC citizens contributed $31,368.
19831016 Greensboro News & Record
Remember When? Fifty years ago, C.L. Shuping was recommended by
Democratic leaders to succeed O. Max Gardner as the Democratic National
Committeeman for NC.
19831130 Greensboro News & Record
Remember When? Fifty years ago, C.L. Shuping of Greensboro agreed to act as head of a force soliciting $15,000 in NC to make up a deficit in Democratic Party Financing.
19840304 Greensboro News & Record
Remember When? Fifty years ago, C. Leroy Shuping was unanimously elected
Democratic National Committeeman to succeed O. Max Gardner of Shelby.
19840909 Greensboro News & Record
Remember When? Fifty years ago, C.L. Shuping, chairman of the State NRA
advisory board tended his resignation without giving any reason for his action.