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RALEIGH LITTER,
Judge Parker the I deal I he Duly o
County Conventions Mr. Gor
man Becomes Associate
Lditor o( The Times.
c'nrrif (.imU-iirv in "I hi- I'-mi-lt-i-.
KnU'tli, N. t.. .Inly lstli, l!io.
Some ti mi' a no these letters slaled
that, while his iiomi nation appeared
to lie inevitable on t lit? score of
"avuilubiliiy," there was no enthus
iasm for J nilfie l'arker among (J
democrats.
That statement was literally true
and held good up to ten days ago.
Ilfcuiisc we tlid not know the man.
Kill it can not lie truthfully as
serted today. The manly and cour
ageous telegram of Judge J'arker to
the nut Hiiiul convention, imnieilintely
succeeding his iioniiiiation ias re
produced in this cor. lust week) liai
stirred the hearts and aroused the ad
mi cut i in of true democrats here, ami
we are tirouJ of our standard hearer
lie umiifhtiouably has the grit, the
Sell-commence unit me iiiuiviiiuuiiiy
(as well as the intellectual ability,
uhich we all knew beforehand that
he possessed i to make not only a
good" president but u great presi
dent.
(Ireat must have been the surprise
of those w ho had characterized Judge
l'aiker as the automaton of David
II Hill, who had been given the cred
it of "discovering" Judge l'arker.
Voi David K not only was not aware
tliat such a message was to be sent
to the convention, but did not act
ually receive it himself, the telegram
having been addressed to Ml Shee
lian. Theie seems to be no doubt that
Judgo l'arker was not "leased with
the record of ii "iiit U-i " which .Mr
Hill made in his tight with Mr
Kryan over the gold plunk In-fore
the platform and it-solutions enin-
mittee. Sj lie steppeil personally
into the ring and delivered the solar
plexus blow which Mr Hill failed to
liit ml Mr ISryan.
'in k M-'.xr oi:ni.I!.m. as.-i.mih .
The county convention.- all over
the State will be held soon. hie of
the most important duties which
they and the senatorial district con
ventions will be called upon to per
form is the nomination of candidates
for the legislature,
from inanv counties comes the
pleasing information that a great
improvement is to be made in the
personnel and character of tluw
nominees, and that intellectual, ca
llable, discreet and patriotic men will
lie selected.
This is cheering news, and it is to:
be hoped that it will i.pply to t-u-iy
rountv in the stale. Some of the
legislatures of this state Hind demo
cratic ones at t hut i have not been
what they should have luvii. Too
many vvcak-tnino-il, shallow men.
utterly untitled lor tin- place, have
been sent to lialeig!: .if Lite veai.
Of course theie vv.-ie able and highly i
qualified representatives and sena
tors in all of them. Hut they have
Wn "few and far between" and
gradually grow'ng alarmingly scar
cer. Scoies of alleged "legislators"
have done act mil ly nothing except
to warm their seats and sign the
auditor's vouchers for their per diem
and mileage. And some f'-w have
tlisgiaccd, by their personal conduct,
thocouiiticK which 6"iit them here.
hut the indications point to a
strong legislature next winter, and
the counties that this year nominate
fourth-rate men for this position
will live to regret it. Some exceed
ingly impoi taut mutters will claim
thu attention of our next General
Assembly problems with which (it
is to be hoped) there w ill be an am
ple force of good and honorable and
intellectual legislators to deal
"men," tall and sun-crowned with
ability and the desire and determina
tion to do what they believe to be
light.
A KALKIOH KKWSl'AI'Klt's E.NTKlt-
Your correspondent having betu
tendered the position of Associate
Kditor of the Kaleigh Times, I have
accepted the otter and last Thursday
took general charge of the lecal and
telegraphic news columns of that
paper.
Mr John C Drewrv, one of the
most successful business men in
North Carolina (and who can wie'd
wheu he chooses an editorial pen us
rrurefiillv and strongly as though
he had been in the business all his
life) and who owns the paper, is just
rmiiinl.ttlllfT L lit' w brick building
erected especially for the Times
iilant. in the heart of the business
iliatrict nf thnnitv. ill which there
will be installed in a few days a new
$7,000 perfecting press, Merganthol
er typesetting machines and other of
the latest iuiprovei't mechanical equip
ment. The size of the paper is to
be enlarged to six pages and later on
to eight pages ami eventually made
thu peer of any evening daily in the
Knnth.
The Evening Times already has a
local circulation much larger man
Hip other nauers published in
Kaleieh combined A tine telegraph
' nervine is to be provided and it iu
tended to largely iucreuse iU general
circulation outside ol lluieign.
1 desire to add, ami it is a pleas
lire tn m to do so. that I will con
tinue mv relations with the weekly
press of the State those papers
which 1 hare served for the last- five
years with Raleigh Letters. M v con
nection with ttie Times will not in
terfere with this work. On the con
trary, it will be a distinct advantage
nd aid, which wilt be of beuelii to
I tin- Statu papers tluit take the cor
' rcspumleiicu service of the Gorman
News Uureaii, and telegraphic re-1
ports of unusual importance can be
wned to those ordering it up to the
hour they go to press,
ST ATI-) CO.NV KNTION OK KA KM Kits.
Secretary (J W Kurkett, who
also professor of agriculture at the
ge. and .Mechanical College, ex
presses the hope that thu farmers of
N C will attend in large numbers
the second annual convention of
farmers to be held in Huleigh Au
gust 1, 2 and o. They will have a
profitable and pleasant time and can
secure the low summer school rail
road rates. Tickets can be bought
ut railroad stations for half the reg
ular fare, good to return until and
including August ti. Come on Tues
day and return on or before Satur
day. A line program has been pre
pared. While here all farmers at
tending this meeting can secure both
board and lodging at the A & M
College at the low rate of only 50
cents a day. Write to l'rof Kurkett
for any additional particulars desir
ed, to this address: l'rof W C Kur
kett, West Kaleigh, NO.
Kreemus.'.is t iiroughout the State
will be glad io ieain that the plans
for the building of the beautiful
Masonic Temple in this city are pro
gressing splendidly, (irand Sucre-1
lary Jolin C Drewrv, who is also
secretary of the Temple Building
(Jomiiiittiv, is in line spirits over the
ut look and savs the work of con
struction can begin before very long.
J.I.KWX A VI.
Profit in Poultry
As pointers of possibilities of pro
fits in the poultry business, tin-
Florida Times-l'iiion says that in
Volusia county, Florida, theie were
ist year 4 l.Stiy chickens. !N! tur
keys. . ii ducks and :!.")! geese, and
the Ii 11 111 )- of clo'S ploduced was
!S!,1'.I!1 dozen, valued at ijWUil I.
One nint h of 1 01 10 hens produced
Io.dOO dozen egiis, all of which were
sold under contract at ISO cents a do.-
t lit year round. One man in
llillsboro county shipped during
cbruary -loo dozen eggs, which
netted him stiST.oo. Still, the
inics-l'iiion points out thousands
f dozens of eggs uru shipped into
Florida cveiv month. There are
many States in the county not pro-
lueing cjfgs etiial to the deina.nl or
iiial to their pofsiblitics in the hen
hue. Southern Farm Magazine of
laltiinore for April.
MnoVrate nriiikinf
Someone has said that the man
ho drinks ami staggers is less dan
'roiis as an example than the man
ho drinks and stands. "The C'cr.-
tutv Magazine ' '"is an original bit
f dialogue; as follows:
1 positively decline to have that
young Clipperciit in my house again.
I in influence on my sou ismostdan-
rous."
"Why, my friend, lie is far from
nig a' bad' fellow. He has his fol
s, 1 a mil, but how unlike such
illy vicious men as ( i rogsler, C'ai'ii-
i, ami I onyoaek.
Sir, t lie only danirer of a sunken
rock is that it is not sunk deep
HUH" Ii."
It is not the slum or the sot that
t ices voiiug men into the drink
habit.
"Hit Him Again!"
small church was sadly in need
f general repair, and a meeting was
held in it with a view of raising
funds for that purpose. The min
ister having said JjfaOll would be re-
iined. a very weallhy(and etiially
tingv) member ot the curcli rose
ind said he would give one dollar.
Just us he sat down, however, a lump
of plaster fell from the ceiling and
hit mm on the head, whereupon lie
rose up hastily and called out that
had made a mistake he voulil
give $50. I lua wus too niiici. for
in entlnHia-tfif memiier present, who
foigettul ot everything, called out
fervently, "Oh, Lord, hit him again!"
Davidson County News.
Frtmi TIk- Iiialrli.
Mrs I'ttie N'elstin died at her
home ut Proximity, near (ireensboro
on Wednesday of last week. De
ceased was a daughter of the late
II II Caudle and a sister of Mrs J A
Wright, of Lexington. Mrs Nelson
is survived by a hn-hahil and six
children.
The date of the annual meeting
of the Confederate veterans of David
son county has been changed from
August to on 'if i: nit the IOth day
of September. The reasons for the
change arc given in the notice to the
veterans by Commandant Thompson
and Adjutant Itobbins.
The Hunt. Medicine Co., of lx
liigton. was recently incorporated
with a capita! stock of $20,000.
This is a company formed to manu
facture and sell the well-known con
sumption cure discovered by lev.
Geo K Hunt. Mr Chus M Cutting
has been employed to manage the
business ut the home office.
All dogs at large in the town of
Thomusvi lie on the 1st of August
are subject to au annual tax. Tays
will be given the owuen by paying
the annual tax. Thomusvi lie cor.
The Southern Railway will begin
double tracking its road out from
Charlotte about September 1st, when
it is expected that an - eighty mile
stretch between Orange and Alexun
dria, Ya., will have been completed
1 wo largo forces of men will be put
to work at Charlotte and they will
build in both directions from
city. Thomasville cor.
that
SAM JONES' LETTER.
At
I'tMtii .'atirniil.
Hreston. Iowa. June 20, 1904
I quit, the quiet retreat and heal
ing waters ot Catoosa ftprings me
2i:th, ami find myself in the state of
corn ami cows and chautatiqiias. l
believe Iowa has more of these three
commodities than any state of the
I'liion. It's cool and cloudy up
here, and corn seems more backward
than 1 have seen in any former year.
Too cool or too much moisture, I am
told. Kut the farmers tell me that
with seasons they will make the
bumper crops of corn, hay and oats.
The chautauqua here is in its first
year, and it's a large, healthy kid.
As 1 said above, the woods are full
of chautauqua in Iowa. Shake a
bush almost anywhere and you scare
up a chautauqua, ami they all nour
ish like the green bay tree.
As I travel across this country
from chuiitatiqua to cliuutuuquu,
there is one I miss anil mourn from
the platforms of our summer work,
(ictieral John K Cordon. He was a
favoiite in all the assembly. They
ml mil fit him for hi splendid oratory
and loved him for his noble spirit.
tieneral Gordon was the peerless
orator of the south, and was loved
and mourned by all sections ot this
l iiion more than any hero of the
tills.
At the late reunion of lite I'nited
( t.ofetlerate Veterans, at Nashville,
the nblc old lierof laid their hearts
in tl. grave of Gordon ami mourned
their i ' as invnaialile. lie was
great u lived, ami dead he still
si'i-ukclli. HcHaiii brave general,
a peel l st t "itor, a pure man alula
noble Chris, "i. And when General
liluck, the eo -minder of the G A U,
w is i Allan!;, t few days ago. be
drove out to tin rave of (ioiilon and
laid on Ins grave sweetest flowers
that bloomed in oi . southland, as a
tribute to one who oii"e a foe;
but General ltlack s..f. in Gordon's
life and death all that which .nukes
up the true and brave :i; .1.
The Ctiiteilerate ; a .ions tan
never bu again w hat tie have been,
for the matchless ma -..etisin. the
commanding presence, the battle
scared face, the resistless power of
General Gordon can no more be with
them, only as a memory to inspire,
mil as a recollection that sanctities.
General Stephen D Lee will .vorth-
ilv wear the honor of commander in
chief and his unsullied character and
splendid manhood will lend honor to
those who honor him. He will teach
and practice the truth that the south
ern soldier only lost his cause, but
preserved everything else that makes
men gleat and life worth living.
Let every Confederate veteran follow
the footsteps of Gordon and I.ee ami
they will laud iu heaven.
I was no prophet last week when
wrote it would be Teddy and Fair
banks, for so it is, and so it was, be
fore it was. '1 hey say it s the unex
pected that stirs ami enthuses men:
hence theie was but little stir and
nthiisiasni. Kut what they lack h:
iiUmsia-mi they will make up at the
ue counter, anil w hat they lack in
poise, lliey will iiiaKC up in party
loyalty. So the thing seems to set
Teddvwurds.
1 have a sixty davs' tour of the
chautanqiias ahead of me, covering'
mole than twenty states. At some
of the chatauquas 1 speak three
times, at some twice, and many of
them I only lecture one time. 1
start into mv summer work with less
physical strength than ever before,
but with prudence and care of my
self I think 1 can make all engage
ments in good shape.
I never coveted strength ami Dealt li
is I do today.
To be willing to work ami to have
more work offered than a strong man
could do and not to have the strength
to tin it, is nearly as bad as owing
more than you can pay at the bank
ami the grocers', etc.
lint 1 contend that a man is im
mortal until his work is done. I
iust love to work and 1 dislike so
much to be ill.
Chicago, III.. July T, l'.MU.
1 wrote you last from Ciestmi, la.
1 have swung around the circle, tak
ing in chiiutuuqtius in lowu, Missouri
and Illinois tor the past week
spent one day in St Louis, and part
of the hourtli ot July there, tin
city wus full and it seemed to me
that most of the people were full
too. 1 met the Georgia delegation
at the Southern hotel on the night
of the Fourth. They were full of
enthusiasm, whether anything else
entered into that fullness the depon
ent saith not. A gentleman who
was present at the Republican na
tional convention in Chicago said to
me as we stood iu the lobby of til
Southern hotel: "There is more nn-
thusiasni here now than 1 saw
Chicago during the whole period of
the Republican convention
I dare say if the Democrats had
as much unity as they have enthus
iasm they would give Teddy a close
race, if they did not beat him under
the pole. .No human prophet can
now foretell how the election will go
in November.
1 came mighty near losing my re
spct for the Prohibition party as
sembled iu 'niliunuHilis because of
then 1 1 ex i re to nominate General
Miles as their candidate for presi
dent, aud to nominate him against
bis wishes in spite of his wishes to
the contrary. And if they had nom
inated him I should have lost all
respect for them; not because Gen
eral Miles is not a gentleman and a
: c'f tt Prohibitiolli,t thaa i am
Uemocrut r a iepul)lican. They
..ui .(. ,;i Ji.
siltlier, but I believe he is not an;
scorned to want to nominate him be-
cidse he was a big man, but I'll rote
I for no mau on the Prohibition ticket
PRINCIPLES, NOT MEJ.
ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY JULY 21st, 1904.
who has not a better record" on that
subject thuii I have seen of General
Miles to date. I'm going to keep on
being a Prohibitionist, no matter
whom they nominate, but I'm not
going to vote for any candidate on
the Prohibition ticket who is not a
true blue, stand-up-to-be-knocked-dowi,
Prohibitionist three hundred
ami sixty-live days in the year and
and sixty-live days in the year and
twenty-four hours a day. When the
Prohibitionists shall push their light
to the point where they poll a mil-
lion votes then we 11 be considered in
tuo national races in huh tuuuu;
because we ninv hold the balance of
power.
I find in my travels that wheat
has been much damaged in Missouri
and Kansas by the constant rains.
In some places corn is foul with
weeds and grass. It is backward
everywhere 1 have been, but the
farmers seem hopeful of a good corn
?rop.
The chautaiuiuas start out this
year with fuller attendance and more
enthusiastic crowds than ever before.
I liud much pleasure in meeting with
the platform talent at these chau-
tauquus-Col Cain, of Kentucky; Dr
Willets, Dr McAlister, and many
others. They are genial, splendid
men iintl roval company. Wore aud
more I miss General Gordon in my
rounds. Though I did not meet him
often, 1 found his tracks everywhere
and words of praise for him. I havi
lectured on the platform with lal-
mutlge, Reedier, and followed along
in the wake of (tough and Wendell,
Phillips, hut no man hud a lirmerl
grip upon the commence anil guou1
will of the people of this great cou n-
try than General Gordon. I
The Care That Prevented A Horror.
A train wus running away dowa
a steep grade on Saluda Mountain in
North Carolina. J he speed increased
Ii everv fool traveled. 1 lie uir-
liiakes would not work. Trainmen
e helpless, passeiigors iu a state
of hopeless fear.
Just at tlie inn ut when the
worst was .ixpected the train ran up
short incline and stopped.
Yesterday morning in the New ork
papers, in place ot tlie lisis oi ueati
mil in mi red that might nave neen,
there was the story ot how a safety-
switch had worked and had saved
iny lives.
This was asloiv of preparation.
I'he railroad company in North Cut-
olinu knew of certain dread possi
bilities on Us route- It provided
igainst them and has reaped in the
happy conclusion of a terribly threat-
enii.g itieidtmt tlw I'ttwiird for i'JS
forethought. Win n the Sloeum took
fire in the Fast River thu first fact
revealed about the boat was liiL'k of
preparation against the honor then
impending. Vet the possibility of
vv hat was happening hail been dem
ons! rated many times with what
liould have been everlasting force
iu the case of the Seuvvauhaku.
What is the difference in the
'ducatiun of passenger-carrying cor
porations which brings it about that
in North Carolina they take care
nle in New ) ork t hey take chances.'
New York Woild, July 0, 1 004.
HIGH POINT NEWS.
mm Klilt-l--l-.
David II. Klair. who has been in
Kuoiopc for several weeks has re
turned homo looking well and hap-
Work on the brick building for lom
linsou Chair Mfg. Co., is progressing
rapidly. This will be a model struct
ure for factory purposes.
Mr.J.W. Harris will have one of the
handsomest residences in the county
when completed. It is a spacious
wooden structure of modern design,
with granite trimmings.
The Southern Yaudville Co., undei
waterproof canvas will show here ull
this week. Change of programe night
ly. Good singing and dancing, mov
ing pictures and illustrated songs.
Admission In cents, Reserved seats
l.'i cents.
Vaccinate Your Farm Lands.
Science is doing some wonderful
things these days, but it is doubtful
if it has done anything more won
derful than making worn out farms
fertle by inoculating them with the
germs of iertility." We vaccinate
ai'aiii"t disease, so" why not vaccinate
our farms against the" disease of bar
reiiness? The idea is very simple
when vou grasp it.
The agiicultural Department at
Washington has discovered how it
may be done. The Department culti
vates the right kind ot germs, aim
Own eoniim'sses them into cukes
somethiff like veast cakes. A small
cake is shipped to the farmer, who
throws it into a barrel of water and
l,.iu it dissolve. Then he soaks his
teed I'litin in this water and plants,
Tin. seed has taken UP the levived
germs and the germs set to work to
enrich thu soil. And the best part of
this seeming fairv tale is that it is
true. Bryan's Commoner.
GONtlNUE
I Thoa who are iralnlriR flash
and strnnuth by regular traat
I merit with
; Scott's Emulsion
, should continue the treatment
i In hot weather i amaller dose
) and a little cool milk with It will
1 do away with any objection
l which Is attached to fatty pro
ducts during the heated
season.
Send rnr fnm maple.
roTT A HOW MB. Cbmlsti.
4041 Pearl Street, Nw Vers.
OC. UGoxi uiantfpra.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Greit St. Louis Convention. Cora
meat on the Republican Plat-fo-m
Gov. Exhibit of Forretry
at St. Louis.
Sivi-lulCttrrpsiHintit'lief tit tin- Ctiurior.
Wellington, July 18. The Na-,
ti(mJ jg tUwi dull. j.;
hoil, who,in go has either go
i . Ife.ml.in, to to the St. 1
r.very-i
gone or I
i AIIIIS
tiol, perhaps the con veil
tjm imv ,)e 0Vpr by thc tilm, tllis t!i
rail, but it is a fact that the differ-
eice between the Chicago Hejuibli-1 platftuni of the Republican party well understood. L'nder intensive
cm Convention and the Democratic i that deals with the negro suH'iage methods of fanning, and with the
Convention which met in St Umis is problem, Mr Williams clearly tie- enlargement of the cultivable area
W striking as to be leinurkuble in nionstrutes thut whether or not the ! made possible by irrigation, this de
political history. Kefure thc Chicago suffrage has been unconstitutionally , pentl uee will become increasingly
Convention met, the papers told us limited is a matter for the courts to j dose. .Mining ami grazing, too,
nothing about when this Stale dele- determine and that a report of a Re-: mat riailv depend on forestry, for
gation or that State delegation would
J leave for Chicago, for the people
i:ared nothing about ;t. It was nut
new and newspapers do not print
t!:ings that aie not news. It is far
lilferent with the St Louis Demo-
I.. K H..., fr ,'Vel-V tblV til
' twm wlt, ittuis tlmt c;rlllill
dc.u.yatilJlls wiu leave for St
Louis with special trains and lar
followitigs, aside from the delegate.
It is easv to conceive the difference
m interest in these two great political
gatherings. The Republican Con
vention in Chicago was a "canned"
affair. K very body knew- what would
happen and what everybody expected
would happen did happen. For
once iu the great Hood of years, the
French philosopher was mistaken,
because the unexpected did not hap
pen. At St Louis it is different. The
unexpected may happen and will
haimcn. The clement of chance in
the Sr Louis Convention takes thou
sand of men there who otherwise j
...... ,1.1 i In mi. heeause. il l-
n...v , . ,
tortunate as it may seem, me ji
lin5' instinct in the average Ameri
can is one or uie ruling ;i.uiuno.
Aside from this fact, the Democratic
Convention will be made up ot men
who possess not only brains, but in
dividuality. F.vcry man does his
own thinking and no boss' whip can
crack over his. back without having
him spit in some b iss eye. I he
Democracy is not a uoss-initn.ii r... .... .
T he men of this nation w no ucueve
iu a government of, by. and for the
people, who believe ni equa lights
to all and special privileges to none,
UO HOI UlltMV HltV IlltUl t." i.'v."."
them what they believe to be lor the
best interests of the great common
neenle of this nation. They will go
to St Louis and they will fuss and
fret unit fume and sweat and ham
mer desks and become excited anil
all one another names, nut they wil.
linally get together and noiniate
iome good, square, lioliest, iniciiv-
loving, honesty-loving, ami patrol ic
American, anil thev will go home
mil go to woik and they will elect
him. That is thu feeling thai per
meates the breast ot every leaning
Democrat who has talked to me in
the last ten davs. It is futile to
speak of candidates or men, because
perhaps some man whose mime nas
not vet been mentioned may be the
nominee of thut Convention. They
are determined to put out a platform
which will be honest, progressive,
mil aggressive. It will give out no
rtuin sound. Thev can point
to it and their candidate and they
mi swear that he will stand on that
hit form, and keep every promise it
makes to the people.
I'he licpiihlican national platform
has attracted much attention I'll
over the country, it nas caiieu
forth much comment from the lead-
Democrats of the nation. Chief
iiiiong them is the ciuuineiii or me
Hon John Sharp Williams, of Mis-
issippi, the greatest leader the
Democracy has hud in many years,
lie analyzes the platform of the
irtv of trusts and combines
thoroughly and effectually. One of
his comments is as lollows:
The Democratic party believes
that this ought to be, as nearly as
possible, a white man's country u
homogeneous people, maintaining
the white man's civilization, founded
on his peculiar industrial and home
life out of which has grown his
peculiar code of ethics. It conshiiit
Iv voted therefore to exclude Hie
Chinese. The Republicans profess
to believe that there is no difference
between races and that all ought to
have equal privileges. If so, then
thu Chinaman ought not to be for
bidden to earn a living, which is a
much higher privilege than voting
in America. The inconsistency is
palpable. The Republicans cast u
right vote upon tlie imncse exclu
sion question, but it wus an un-Republican
vote."
Again in commenting upon me
platform he said:
"In tlie platform it is sum -e
pledge ourselves to insist on the just
ami equal treatment of all .'itizens
abroad.' American citizens of Rus
sian birth and Jewish race will find
it haul to reconcile this profession
with the fact thut the Sccretaiy of
State will not issue a passport to one
of them to 'visit and sojourn' in
Russia without warning him that he
will not be protected there. It is
late, right now. on the eve of a cum
nuitrii. to insist thut that will he done
which has not been done, namely,
'to secure to all American citizens
rights to travel und sojourn in foreign
countries."
On the "trust-bursting" proposi
tion mentioned the Republican plat
form, Mr Williams had this to say:
I'he boast that the administra
tion has executed the anti-trust laws
is, of oiuse, ridiculous. I be Attorney-General,
iu response to a resolu
tion of mv own. frankly onfessed
thut nothing had been done, anil left
thejinference tbt nothing would be
Uou", toward tnecnnunai prosecu -
tiou of men found guilty by I he
Supreme Court of the United States
in the .Northern Securities case,
which was initated by Coy Van
Sunt, of having violated thu pro
visions of niiti-triHt legiolatit n. The
dire Republican party at the la-t
session of the House of Representa
tives, with three exceptions, voted
against a proviso instructing the
Secretary of the Navy not to enter
into Government contracts with
trusts and unlawful cninbinaliiui.-i
convicted by law of being such."
i sneaking of the plank in the
I publican Committee on Mectious m
the last Congress so confesses it.
M0 jo points out that the it;:!
object of the Republican party, iu mi
f.. js this plank is concerned, how-
: cv,.,. specious " the phraseology in
which it is clothed, is to reduce f these relationships are strikingly dis
Soulhern representation without re- j plated iu the forestry exhibit at St
ducing that of Massachusetts, Con
necticut, ut.il othci States, win-lever
in the Sou ih negroes are disfranchis
ed, not as such, but because of
an educational qiialilicatioii, or be
cause of any other rights and reasons
in liny other eon-titulional way. Iu
concluding this pirt of his coninieii:
on the plaif Mr Williams said:
"Disfranchisement of a negro for
ignorance iu Mississippi is a horrible
thing: disfranchisement of a white
man for ignorance in .Mas-a'-liuselt-i
is a part of -higher civilization.'
"Let not the business interest of
the country deceive itself: let those
' "'"f unres;:'' li:
t .. .-
ness distiirli.inee and race war ill
In
Southern Slates, instead of that
peace and prosperity which both
ra-es now enjoy and which lias l"-ei
rendered possible only by home rule
ami In vi lute supremacy. Let the
South' imt deceive itself t-ilher. If
the Republican parly were sincere in
its proposition to reduce Soul hern
lepreseiilatiou on thc ground ff li:--disfranchisement
of the negro race
. s h t J , -, I , x- comlohin
. ,. -, ,,:,,:..
' , ,;,'',. itSl.if. it woiilil aeco,,,
proposition w ii b another
pany that pro
to w it the pi
-. . ,:,:.,.. . .,1 tK.
Filie'iith Anii-ii linent. Th
du-
plicily is shown in tins; tln-y wish to
111111111:011 tlie amendment whiclrpri
veiits the negro for racial reasons
from being disfranchised, ami yet o:i
the pl-eten.-e that In- is for racial
reasons tli-l'i-aiicbis-il thev would
have the iiegio not counted as a lui.-i.-of
representation in the Soulliciu
Slates, when- iie chielly resides. It
is not the while man as a white inai:
who is in jured by a recurrence to the
tendencies of Force bill tlavs -lie can
and always will maintain hinisell
it is business, commerce, manufac
turing, agriculture ami the negro
himself.
"Coinmcrci.illy and industrially,
the whit" men of the Souih will noi
be so much i'ljiiried by tins soil ol
agitation as Northern people will be.
because the average Southerner is
not rich anyhow, gets his wood and
clothes on I "of tlie worlil. and these Iu
would get aiivhow. The lnei'canli!.
class would h'f the first to suffer, but
as thev owe tlebts to the North anil
us nearly everything they sell is
manufactured in the North tin;,
would not be alone in their sult'cr-
lllg.
The Democrats of. this com, In
may as well give up trying to stoi
the' Republican lie that the WiUm '
Gorman tariff bill of 1MM was re i
sponsible for the panic of Iv.i.S. We
mav deny and vociferate tun tl -uia: j
until we are black in the face, that I
tariff bill can be retroactive anil can j
not go back one year ami bring on a
panic that . larted a year before i' '
was in t xisteiice, because every lim j
we tin. I he Republicans will add a1
few more billion dollars loss which
oc cured in thai panic. There no t-r i
anything so nliotlcaliv sillv :-:
the statement made by Republicans'
that every tariff bill passed by Demo- j
crats brought commercial di--:istei .
The Republicans were responsible
for the tariff billif a tariff bill t an
produce anything iu the way of com- j
inercial ilepression--whicli occasion- ,
ed the dread depression in the pa:iit i
of ls'.C and for the panic of lM'.l. '
because the McKillley Kill was then
ill active operation and hud absolute
ly gutted the Treasury. The tariff
vva'll had been placed so high that it
absolutely paralyzed barter and ex-
change ami trade ami commerce.
Nothing could come in ami there-1
fore very lilllf went oiil. for wbif
people can not. w il, thev will not
buy. Any man who s iv s l hat tie.
Deinocialic parly was rcsji-tiisitile '
through the Wilsiin-Goriir.in tariii
bill for the hard times in this coun
try thai began ill lS!i:l is :m idiotic
a- ami writes himself down urn- in
the c lunation of every sensible man
iu ihi. I lllit.;,. NeVerllieles-! Repub
licans go on making the assirivn
stronger ami hroudci each day.
When you hcai a Republican -ay it,
call bun a liar und prove il!
I had a talk with an ollieial in tlie
Depul luieiit of A;."l it-n 1 1 lire :i few
days ago und he gave tpe some f-iels
concerning the (ioveriiiiicn; exhibit
of forestry at the St Loins i'air,
which will be interesting to the
farmers of this country, lie said:
"The Bureau of Forestry of the I
S Department of Agiictiltuiv lu.s
Srepured for the Louisiana l'uri-liaie-xposition
the most extensive dis
play it has ever madu. The purpose
is both to illistrate the work which
the Bureau is doing aud to show
actual forest conditions in all parts
ioi wraimj. ,ia,ti win
1 there the most impressive evidence
of what nracticul lurestry is, and
al.-o its "real present and future im
portance as a means of promoting
I lie national vv eliare. Lumbering
ranks fourth among the industries
of the country, ami H is a matter of
hopeful promise for the permanence
of the industry and lor the cause ot
ft rest i v that Iiiinbe'.-meii are adopt
ing cnn.iorva'iive forest management
in their lumber operations. That
agrie ullurc. incomparably the most
iii'u irtiiut of our nationtl sources ot
liili. also tlt-iieiiils, in no small de
gn-c on forestry, is not, however, so
mines demand cheap ami abundant
1 timber, and the forage which feeds
m,,-; of ilie western stock is one ot
i i he important indirect products
1 .A hich under proper restrictions, the
forest inav be iiiatle to yield. All of
- Loin, I n -. A. r.uwAims.
GUI-EOltD C0LNTV NEWS.
Mrs T J Shaw, who has been quite
,-ieh for s.-veral weeks, is reported
iiitiuh belter and her recovery seems
assured.
King Kellv. who figured so promi
nently in tin" North Carolina league
a few vears ago. has given up the
iiinnageimnt of the Jacksonville,
1- la., team and is succeeded by catch
er .lack Pinson.
Tl:e Liquor Problem
: here's the liquor problem.
iii.uiiO.iiOO we spend for th ink
in- would go a long way to-
And
Tie
,i,!s pi
atclnng up the frazzletl
f a financial system thut
S'-iids us sprawling in the dust about
once in thirty years. If the money
veil-.- lo mil our government and
municipalities were taken out of the
bountiful store of a prosperous whole
people, instead of from the earnings
of the laborer and rightful support
sn uggling women and helpless child
ren, t ben justice ami mercy might
ipe awav their tears ami aMice on
us again." It.s all for money, of
emir,-.-, hut the devil's own way of
rui-ing inonvv it i--.
There are six fine sugar-trees in my
vai.i. Suppose 1 should go out
some dry spring day and tap those
tree in orikr to get" water to nourish
the roots. I would expect the half
wit 'e, fellow up the street to come
bv ami cull me a fool. He'd say:
' I'hal sap is ail right where it is;
let ii slav here. ant. get water some
plat v cl.-e for the root."
And he would be right, but when
we get revenue from the saloon,
which get it from the people who
.ire least nblc to spare it ami which
k., us on percent, of all it collects-,
we 'have tappet! the trees .to water
tin .Mots. I'm! irs no use to go on
at that rate. Here's the problem,
and ifs a sticker.
For nivselt. 1 shall treat it like
I lie .-;
,- root off three, just iiuli-
It. nev. r there is a lull in
mversation, 1 shall stutld up
cuise the saloon. Whelievel
lilt!
lection tiay tomes. I shall get up
arly in 'he morning to boldly murk
i ballot ami thrust it into the face
-I' tb
Don't
do ii:
I'll n
saloon ami all it represents,
expect me to rant; I shall not
,ut if 1 can't work the problem
o- k il. so i hose who come next
that 1 knew what ought to
Sdlinr Sunshine and Water.
Sunshine, walei and a little pleas
ioi flavoring in thc shape of fruits
ell rapidly everywhere every kind
u fruit from berries ami grapes to
iil'ple-, peachts, peais ami plums, is
i-ompusrd of mme than '.m per cent
watei. Some of lluse fruits will grow
on fauns and on most farms sev
eral "f them will grow to perfection
He.-iil, s the water in them, most
i'i-ii : - contain mineral salts. These
are supplied in profusily by the land
in man v place?, and where thev arc
not '! takes a very .mull quantity to
-ii:en ail that 's needed for u bush
el of fruit. Fruits make a very small
tit in. -ml up'Ui the fertility of tjesuil
ami may be grown year after year on
thu same land with very little ferti
liziug.
A New work berry grower produc
e I s.ooii quarts of sirawberries on I
.-ingle acre, selling these for 10 cents
a ,u :. A lu rry grower in the Mich
igan fruit hell who could not get as
tnie ii as he thought he should for
bis berries in Chicago Sent them to
Buffalo and averaged H cents a quart
for them. A New Jersey farmer, who
tines not pretend to be a fruit grower,
old in one year $M worth of berries
froi. i a few "trees. Lust year an Illi
nois man: a poultry breeder, sold
mi r s:'on worth of cherries from the
lives be plant.'d iu his poultry yard
t.i I'urnUi shade for the fowls.
The farmer who does not grow
fruit loses :m opportunity to put
put of bis farm to very profitable
ii e. An ori-liurtl oueeestablisned pro
1 1 ti t crop after crop at very small
crop tost and without materially re
tliicitlg the fertility of the soil.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
OF MEDICINE, "iWJTJja
MEOICmE-OCrmSTBT-PIMriMACT
r Modern Laboratory in charge el
i (Jtiii SyUem. Superior Clinics.
I Beiluik teaching ta our own Hospital.
$1.00 Per Tear'
No. 29.
S. Bryant, President J. I. Cole, Cashier
T5he
Baciik of rLandlema. n,
Randleman, N. C.
Capital $12,000. Profits, $25,00.
The Bank of Randleman offer!
security to tegular or special time
Deoositors. And resonable accom
modation to all customers of the
Bank. If you have not opened an
acbount call and see us obout doing:
so.
UNIVERSITY
NORTH CAROLINrA!
Academic Department,
Laul, Medicine,
Pharrriacyl
l-'ree tuition to teachers and to
ministers' sons. Scholarships and
loans for the needy.
620 Students. 67 Instructors.
New Dormitories, Gymnasium,
Water Works, Central Heating Sys
tem. The tall term begins Sept. 0,
l'.tO-l. Address
Francis P. Ventaiile, Pkesiuekt,
niAPEi. mix, x. c
Pianos and Organs
Wholesale and Retail,
A. D. Jones & Co.
Southern Factory Distributors
I for tho World F&mou
KIMBALL
WE loan you the money to
buy them.
WE give free trials.
WE pay the freight.
WE save you 25 per cent.
WE add nothing to the prin
cipal when sold on
EASY PAYMENTS.
Write for our lates Piano and
Organ catalogue and for full par
ticulars.
A. D. Jones & Co.,
208 South Elm St.,
Greensboro, N. C.
Gents'
And Little Gents'
Clothing & Furnishings.
Our Spring lines of Cloth
ing for both men and boys
are now ready for your in
spection. Before buying
your next suit call and see
the latest and get our prices
They Will Fit Your Pocket!
Our Shirts, Underwear and
Hats ure the very best for
the money. Our buyer's
experience of more than 20
years with manufacturers
Is a guarantee of the best
values.
THE MERRITT JOHNSON CO
Clothiers and Gents' Furn
ishers, 308 S. Elm St.
Sidesmen T A Walker, C C Tuck
er, K K Cartland, C C Johnson,
J W Merritt.
L. M. FOX, M. D.
ASHEBORO, N. C.
i IVni lilit pmKvaloual Bervli to tho
citizens ol AMii'lum and uimunrilnjr
romtmiiilty. ofllft: Crntral Bute).
FARMERS,
YOUR ATTENTION
PLEASE!
Heavy and Fancy Groceries,
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Drugs, Glassware, Crockery
Tinware, Trunks, and Gen
eral Merchandise at our store
Our prices are right. Come
to see us.
Bring your produce, eggi
chickens, etc., to exchange
them for goods. We iell
ytm good goods at reason
able prices and pay you
pood prices for your pro
duce. "
E. O. YORK STORE CC:
CENTRAL FALLS, N. C.
TJi-tTr tawing naehiiie (iota gsMe?,
J Morri(-britiro ktaod .