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VOL. XXXI.
ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1906.
No 4
SPOKE AT FARMER
Mr. Chas. Ross Delivered A Strong
Plea For Democracy.
REPUBLICAN SPELL BINDERS
CONFUSE THE PEOPLE.
Doubt In the Minds of Voters In Concord
Township Removed Work of Repub
Ucan livll Doers Exposed and Mis.
leading Statements Corrected. -
Mr. Chas. Rosa discussed the is'
sues of the campaign at Farmer last
Saturday night. It was a strong
argument for a solid southern Dem
ocracy, and the protection oi th
State and County against the evil of
Kepubhcan rule.
Mr. Ross said in part:
For years, in eveiy campaign Re
publican spellbinders have attempt
ed to contuse the public mind l
cries of "panic and '"prosperity.
it is a false issue. Uiielly review in
the history of our country's periods
of financial depression and times it
iiDu.-uiii prosperity, Mr. Ross sliowe
the farlacv ut the attempt to attr
bute to any party absolute control
of industrial conditions. Jo th
man who insults your intelligence
w:th this filse issue, a clear Miowl
edge of the facts will make you
have always on your lips the answer.
"Thou art a liar.
Answering the claim that South
em people shou Id now bicome Re
publicans on national issues, wuat
is mere, wituin uepuoiicuu msiory
or Republican policies, that merits
the support of a Southern man?
This party was born iu a spirit of
jealousy and hatred to the bouth
land. Hardly a convention assem
bles, but it gives some new evidence
of its slumbering hatred for us and
our institutions. Once we capitu
late to that party and we aie again
under that black cloud of horror,
with its unnamable conditions. What
industrial policy of that pal ty ap
peals to ntt Its cadinal doctrine
f ;l aA tr,y f.t
Tears its national laws have levied
tribute upon us for the enrichment
of other sections. Now as we are
forcing to the front as a manufac
turing Btate, we are handicapped on
every hand by their iniquitous laws,
We want to buy machinery, but
must pav tribute to their tariff tat
tened barons before we get it. Our
labcrers must pay a mnch higher
price for all the necessities of life
than our foreign competitors. Our
ships must be paid double freight.
because our tariff walls will not per
mit a return cargo. 1 he great com
bines that have been built up under
this system fatten and thrive, mak
ing their millions, and President
in?
Roooevelt like the pharisees of old
'for a pretense" fines one of them
occasionally a lew thousand uonars,
and turns him loose ti mase mil
lions more. Why should a Southern
man to forget the pastor ignore the
present, or disregard the tuture, as
to be a Kepuhiican.
But all that I have said about the
reasons for a North Carolinian's
being a National Democrat can be
multiplied a hundiedfold in urging
you to stand by the old faith in our
own State affairs.
If tbe platforms of the two parties
were identical, if their candidates
were equally woithy, 1 would still
insist that it is your patriotic uiuy
to be a Democrat.
First, what a difference in the
memories', the i ecords of these two
parties present; On the one hand
you see a bruised Hnd bleeding and
helpless people, needing a friend
But instead of a friend there comes
this Republican party, and with vul
tuie-like greed it pouuees upon the
vitals of the Sttte. Corruption,
thieviuff. tvranv, triplets of hell
filled the State with a stench that
that cried to heaven for vengeance.
Aroused bv love of home and wom
anhood and Christian civilization,
n.oved bv necessity, the tattered
remnent of tbe four years deluge of
"blood, arose in the night of Jus
tice and redeemed' the State. The
followed the years of restoration,
and we are proui of twenty years of
the clearest, most honest, ana most
Progressive rale any party ever gave.
For the memories that this contrast
present, you should show your love
of State by voting the Democratic
ticket.
In an evil hour many of tne be3t
people of the state listened to the
eong of a false and enchanted siren.
Behold their dismay when they
found they had turned ll.eu" Stale
over to thu 8me hull burn triplets,
corruption, ihuvciy, .nd jty;any.
More than a thousand offices were
filled with creatures that only a few
generations before had besn leaping
from bough to bough in thi jungles
of Africa. They reached forth
their leacherous bands and attempt
ed to prostitute to their base pur
poses even the charitable institutions
of the State. The chief-priests, be
fore they laid aside their robes of
office, were conspiring against their
own State to rob her for the enrich
ment of themselves and others.
The honest men who had been
duped into this movement, again
turned to the Democratic party, and
the State was restored to the hands
of its friends. There have followed
six years of peace, educational and
industrial development unequalled,
and the same honest expenditure of
public money that ha always mark
ed Democntic rule in N". C. Surely
these things are fresh enough in
your memories to make your duty
plain in tins election.
But the contrast in men presented
the btate by th so two parties sag
gest equally good leasons for being
a Democrat, think of it! Contrast
a Holden ant1 a Vance; a Littletield
aud a Worth; a Russell and an
Aycock! Or bring it closer home,
Contrast a Page and a Reynolds; a
Hammer and a baunders. Closer
yet, an English and a Burrows,
cnangeaoie as the weather vane on
your barn, on the one side, and a
Wood and a tousbee, men whose
political lives are open books ap
proved of their fellows, on the other
But Republican methods are
wroug. Their cardinal doctrine is
"specid privilege", and that is the
mother ot corruption in onice. Hav
ing nothing to recommend them
they have always stood as a stone
wall against progressive movements
in the State. They opposed the
amendment, and are controlled to
day by the same crowd that fought
us then. I hey opposed temperance
legislation, and still declare against
our temperance laws in their plat
form. But worse than all else,' they
are today absolutely in the hands of
the most dangerous and deceptive
man this State has ever producd
arch traitor and public enemy, who
even now is among ns for no other
purpose than to attempt to saddle
us, our children and our children s
childien, with fraudulent Londs
that the Stat doesn't owe. A vote
for the Republican party in North
Carolina todav is a vote for Marion
Butler.
MORRIS-SPEIGHT.
Pretty Church Wedding at Tarboro
Groom Son of P. K. Morris of
Aslieburo.
At Taboro Tuesday of last week
Mr. Claudus Stedman Mortis was
married to Miss Emma Lewis
Speight. The young people took
their vows in Calvary church which
was beautifully decorated in pro
fusion of greens, cut flowers and
candles. After tbe ceremony Mr
and Mrs. W. A. Hart gave a most
elegant and sumptuous supper to
the bridal party.
Mr. Morris is a son of r. 11. Mor
ris, of Asheboro, and is one of Sal
isbury s most esteemed y.. ung men
tie is superintendent ot the balls
bury Cotton Mills. The bride is
the attractive and cultured daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Seth E. Speight,
of Tabor. Mr. and Mrs. Morris
have gone North on their bridal
tour, and on their return will make
Salisbury their home.
r. 11. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. tu
II. Mori is and Mr. and Mrs. J.
D. Ross, of Asheboro, attended
the marriage, returning home Tues
day.
CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW.
Weather Conditions Force Cancellation
of Fall Rveut.
The Chrysanthemum Show, which
was to have been given at Asheboro
this fall, has been called off. A
committee from the School Im
provement Association 'made a can
vas last week and found that the
weather conditions had so affected
the plants that few exhibits could
be made to the credit of those inter
ested. In only a few instances have
they learned of creditable flowers
in the County. The continued wet
season forced the plants ahead, and
interfered with the m -aunty ot tne
blossoms, and those that could have
been placed on exhibit were badly
njured by the early troats.
In justice to those who onered
he premiums, the ' Committee de-
dtl that it would oe oesr. 10
lecl ire the evant off, and prepare 1 1
for a Mammoth Show next ar.
HISTORICAL REVIEW IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Col. W. P. Wood Defines, in Detail, the Work of the Two Political Par
ties In Departments of County and State Government.
To The Voters of Randolph Coi.nty:
I shall not attempt to tell you how much
I regret not being able to take a full part in
this campaign. I was more than anxious to
meet as many of you as possible and talk to
you on the many important subjects in which
we should all be interested. I feel that every
true North Carolinian wishes to lie faithful
to his state, and I take it that the masses of
the people are honest when properly informed,
aud it should be our aim in life to do what j from her depredation and illiteracy and take
is best for our County and State am our fel-1 her stand along side Massachusetts and eis-low-man.
ter States. Duly a stipeificial glance about
Tim only way that I know to regard poli- j you is enough to convince that we have build
tics is from a business stand point. If one e, and builded well. All over North Caro
had a farm to rent he would not like to let j lii;a are monuments to the everlasttiig credit
it to a man whom he knew t be an iucompe- ! of Democratic effort, and which every son of
tout farmer; but he would wish to secure the
best farmer that could possibly bo found.
One whose experience and faithfulness in the
past had demonstrated that he could get the
U'st results, and leave the farm in better
condition than when he took cnarge. The
same would be true, if one wished to build a
fine house, no would want tho services of the
l est carpenters to lie obtained, It is so in
all brunches of business, and not lest so in
politic. You should wish to support tin
party that, in the past, and will in the futme.
give the best government; and we can only
judge the future by tbe past.
Now, will you allow mo to give you a Bhort
revjew of the past? There have been two
political parties in power iu North Carolina
for the past forty years, the Republican aud
the Democratic. They have both made rec
ords and must be judged by their records,
and we are the jury to render the verdict.
The Republican party was in full power in
North Carolina from 1867 to 1870, and we
wish to notice a few things which they did.
They ruined the credit of the Btate. Our
Btate bonds were hardly worth the paper
upon which they were printed. The school
fund, amounting to several hundred thous
and of dollars, which above all should have
been held sacred, belonging to the children
of the state, was squandered; and during
this time not a free school-house door wa
opened, front tiie mountains to the sea, to tlie
little bright eyed lwys sud girls of our state.
They issued twenty-live millions of dollars
worth of bonds under the pretense of build
ing rail-roads, and did not build a single
mile of road They sold the bonds for what
ever they could get, aud squandered the
money. During all this time, did they spend
anything for the development of the state or
the lietterment of our people? Not one cent.
They cannot point to one ant of theirs iu this
connection.
Somcof you know how it was in Randolph.
When they came in power the county did
not owe a dollar; when they went out it was
iu debt fifteen thousand dollars. County
orders were worth less than fifty cents in the
dollar. You could not get them cashed at
any price, the fact is tliere never lias been
a time in Randolph country, when the Repul
lican party was in power, that county orders
were worth their face value. Was anything
done during all this time for the building up
of the county? It can be truthfully said iu
answer that not a thing was done. N
school houses or bridges were built, and not
so much even as a foot log was placed across
a stream in the county.
The Republican party came into power
again in North Carolina in 189.", and re
muined in power through 11)00. In view of
the former degredation and ruin which they
brought to the state, and their many fair
promises, might we not have expected some
act this timefor the betterment of our peo
ple and the development of tho state? Did
we not have a right to expect that our public
school facilities would have been increased?
Ought we not to have expected that Stale
Institutions would have been built and en
larged? Might we not have expected that
rail-roads would lie built, and with Republi
can advent to power, a new impetus to busi
ness would follow? None of these improve
ments were accomplished; and on the other
hand they put iu olSce in North Carolina
more than one thousand negroes, and crime
and lawlesness, stagnation and unrest pre
vailed in the State.
Now, fellow voters of Randolph, what do
you think of their record? Is there K man
in the county that will stand up and defend
it? Knowing the record of the Republican
party in North Carolina as you do, what it
has done iu the past; knowing that its leaders
are weaker and less patriotic today than a!
any time in the past, in the whole history of
the party, give me one valid reason why you
think it should be put in power again in
North Carolina
Let us now examine tho records of the
Doniocratic party and see what it has done
for the State; see whether or not it is worthy j
of your support aud confidence. When it :
took charge of the affairs of the Slate there i
was not only no money in the treasury but a
debt of forty millions of dollars h.i ging over
ler, an I the credit of the State almost goi o ;
ihort while the State debt was enmpro
I, showing to die world iha" wo werei
honest and houorable and wanted to do what
was right. Confidence was regained at home
and abroad, and the world saw that North
Carolina had restored to hergovernmerit hon
orable and capable leadership men who had
the best interest of the State aud people at
heurt. Thus tossed on the waves of a rough
sra, we soon took our bearings and went to
work, determined that tho grand old State
should bo redeemer, that she should arise
t!n- Old North Mate is justly proud
book at the Morganton Hospital, where we
are now earing for eleven hundred insane
people, forty of whom are from Jtandulph.
At the hospital ul Raleigh are about six hun
dred, and about six hundred colored inmates
at ihfi hospi al at GoUsboro. The deaf and
dumb n-liool at Morganton, where are edu
cated about llireehundied unfortunate chil
dren, and the schools of the same kind at
f"'g'i, accommodating more than throe
handled, eloquently attest the fact that we
ha vi- not been unmindful of the responsibil
ity which God has placed upon us in the
rare of the unfortunate of our race. The
Demoeraoic party can poii.t to no grander or
more patriotic act than the erection of the
old soldiers' home, where we now have, liv
ing comfortably, one hundred aud twenty-five
unfortunate, decrepit, but no leeB honorable
and brave, followers of Lee and Jackson
Our State University, the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, the State Normal College,
the High Schools and Normal Colleges
throughout the State have sprung up, and
are the handiwork of the Democratic party.
These nre active, living monuments that will
stand for time to come. And all this has
been done on about as low, if not the lowest
rate rf taxation, of any State in the Union.
, Has the Democratic party ever been ac
cused of misappropriating or squandering
any of the peoples money? Not one penny,
and the credit of the State is as good as the
Bank of England. Peace, prosperity and
development along all lines is m -re conspic
uous in North Carolina today than in any
other State iu this Union
The Democratic party iu the campaign of
1900 made the people many promises if they
would restore thorn to power again. Lets
see if they have made good. They promised
to do more for the unfortunate insane. We
have in the hospitals now six hundred more
than in 1900. They promised to do more
for the old soldiers and their widows. There
is now on the pension roll eight thousand
more than in 1900. They promised to do
more for the deaf, dumb and blind. We
are now educating two hundred more at these
Institutions than in 1900. They promised to
do more for education. There has lieen
free school house built in Noith Carolina
every day since Aycock was made Governor,
aud the length of the school term has been
increased seventeen days. Thre have been
one hundred and three thousand more cbil
dren attending free ard high schools than
diil in 1900. We have six hundred more
teachers employed than in 1900.
I wish now to submit tho following ligur
taken from the State Auditors Books
Raleigh which are open for the inspection
of every citizen of the State, This record
will show how much more the Democratic
party has spent for the State Institutions in
the past six years than the Republican party
spent in the six years they were in power:
Public Schools, S959.028.O0
Normal Schools, 3.1,1'Cl.OO
t. & M. College at Raleigh, 143,785.00
" " at Greensboro, 28,523 00
Deaf, Dumb a-d Blind at Ral
eigh, 00,112.00
University at Ohapel Hill, 90.250 00
Old Soldiers Home, 29,-100.00
State Hospital Goldsboro col. 103,007 . 00
at Morganton, 218,733.00
State Hospital at Raleigh, 110,033.00
Normal at Greensboro, l!)!),li43.00
Pensions to Old Soldiers, 405,083.00
Making a grand total of Two Millions Four
Hundred and Fifty Four Thousands Nine
Hundred and Four Dollars. It seems almost
increditable to assert that the Democratic
part has paid out this enormous sum to the
State Institutions more in the six years of
their rule than did the Republicans in the
last six years of theirs, and yet it is absolute
ly true; and what is more astonishing, it has
l)een done without increasing or raising the
the tax one penny. You are not paying one
eent more tax than you did when the Re-
publican party was in power, unless you
are worth more money now than you were
then. Then if tins is true, you ask where
tho m moy came from to pay this enormous
increase in appropriations. Tho following
table will alhiw where a great deal of it
o.nne from. ;
Collected from Railroads in-
excess of t'jo Republicans, ."li.',."i;0.0i)
Collected from Insurance
Co,s. of he Republicans, 530,500.00
Collected from Banks of the
Republicans, 10,785.00
Collected from Express Co.s.
of the Republicans, 8,1 19.00
Collected from Telegraph Co's.
of the Republicans, 21,044.00
Collected from Corporations
of the Republicans, ' $ 233, 11 4. 00
Making One Million Three Hundred Forty
Six Thousands One Hundred and Twenty
Two Dollars. Not only have we collected
this enormous sum more than the Repub
lican party did, but we have found thousands
of people throughout the State who had not
heretofore been paying their proportional
part of the taxes, and we have forced them
to do like others; to meet this honest obligi
tiou to the State government.
The Republican party says in its plat
form that the Republicans are in favor of
paying the Old Soldiers twice the amount
they are now receiving; that they will take
latter care of tho Insane, the Deaf and
Dumb and the filind. But let us ask the
Republican party, if they are sincere iu this
proniic, why they did not do soino of these
things when they were in power; and further
why it is, if they would be consistent,
thai Republican speakers throughout the
Slate are criticising the Democrats for ex
travigance, and are making their fight on
tho Democratic parly for the very thing
which they promise to de more of.
The Republican party has never so much
as added a room to an Insane Assylum, the
Old Soldiers Homo, Deaf, an-1 Dumb or Blind
Schools, or any other State Institution at
any time: It died without leaving a single
monument in the State to its memory, and I
have not heard of any one getting up
subscription to erect one. It will be p.
long time before the Republican record in
North Carolina shall have been forgotten.
Now just a word more about Randolph
county, right here at home, where we have
all known, seen and felt conditipes accord
ing to statements made by the Republican
cauoidates on the stump during this cam
paign, when the Democratic party went into
power in December 1900, the County was
in debt Six Thousand dollars, and that
during the time they were in power the Re
publicans paid on the County debt about
this amount.
Now, whnt have the Democrats done
since they came into power in December
hl)00? They have paid off this debt; and
they have paid for bridges Ten Thousand
dollars more than the Republicans did
during the same length of time. Can any
one point to a single iron or covered bridge
built in the Ceunty by the Rt publican party?
Was any money turned over to W. J. Mil
ler our present .Treasurer when he took
charge of the office? Not a dollar. Has
he any money on hand now, and how much?
On the first day of the present month, he
had ou hand Ten Thousand Four Hundred
Seventy Two Dollars and Twenty Eight
Cedts ($10,482.28). And the County does
not owe a single debt, and an order on the
County is as same as the cash. All you
have to do is to take it to Will Miller and
receive the amount it calls for.
Now, this is but a brief history of the
two parties in the State and County.
submit it to you for your consideration. As
I stated in the outset, you are the jury, and
on next Tuesday night when the sun shall
have sunk behind the Western hills, you
will have rendered your verdict. It is well
that the evidence lie weighed fully and
carefully. Let every man be honest, lay
aside all preduilico, and render his verdict
in the interest of his County, State and him
self, and his fellow-man; this, and only thii
and all will be well.
Before closing I wish to say for the en
courageinent of all that the County was
nevei more safely Democratic than it is today
but we are not going to be satisfied with a
majority of six or seven hundred. When
the count is made, we want it said aihat Old
Randolph has jrono Democratic by one
thousand majoiity, and if every Democrat
will but do his duty from now until the
polls are closed, our most sanguine hope
will lie realized. We will then feel that
the voters have rendered an intelligent and
righteous venlict.
I am, sincerely,
W,P. Woon.
October 30th 190C.
Mrs. Curtis Will Visit Asheboro.
Mrs. Nannie Curtis, of Sherman,
Texas, who has won a state wida
reputation during the past few
months as a temperance lecturer,
will appear at the Presbyterian
Church Friday night, November
9th, Ht 7:30 o'clock. She has ap
peared in many of the larger cities
and towns in this and adjoining
states and euerywhere has delighted
her audiences with her brilliant
oratory, wit, pathos and logic.
Kverybody is invited and is assured
of a pleasant evening.
While the Republican candidates
for the Legislature are talking!
about increasing the State debt, ak I
tln-m if about 120,000 of it did not I
go to pay the indebtedness lliey 1 j t" c j
. f.iiiet tiie IV iitt.iitiarv.
REPUBLICANS PUT
IN 1000 NEGROES
In State, County and Town Offices
During 1895-1898.
HISTORY WILL REPEAT
ITSELF.
It' Kcpublicans are Kleetefl, With
Adams as Leader, the Negro Must
He Kecoguized. Running ou
Ticket wiih .Negro lle-Ke-coznized
Him Intellectu
ally an Kijiial.
The appearance of Judge Adams
in Asheboro Saturday at the Re
publican pow.wow lecalls some in
teresting records of this figurehead
in the State Republican Kxecutive
Committee aud subject of Marion
13 u tier.
Tho National Republican Com
mittee has killed a call to the negroes
of the North to come to the aid of
the party who boasts that they gave
them ollice, conferred the power of
ballot, upon them and is opposed to
the separation of the races in rail
vay cars, etc-
lint they say we are not bothered
with the negro. We are "Lilly
White." Listen! They have 5000
negroes in office to-day.
llefore the Democrats disfranchis
ed the negro in North Carolina, in
1896 and 1898 they gave the negro
1000 offices in North Carolina.
In both these years Spencer
Adams was a Republican leader, and
as judge of the Superior court, de
livering the most incendiary cnarge
ever heard from a bench in North
Carolina. As a reward for his de
votion to the negroes and his in
citing them to violence was made
the Republican nominee for govern
or in 1900 and it is known of all
men that Marion Butler, then
senator, was the co-worker with
Adams in securing the one thousand
offices for the negroes iu the State,
and that these two men and their
allies are responsible for the Wil
mington riot and all the unrest and
peril to the men, women and chil
dren of the State, that made life
hardly worth living in North Caro
lina until the Demo rats secured a
majority in the Legislature iu the
election of 1898.
Today these men are pleading for
the white votes simply "to take
place of the negroes because the
negroes were disfranchised over
their violent protest." They could
not repeal the amendment but if
they sncceeded in carrying the
Lgislature they, would "plow around
the stump," and they would ap
point tuworthy regstrars aud judges
of election who would put on the
poll books ninety nine out of every
one hundred negroes iu the State
and we would have a return to the
evil conditions that prevailed be
fore the amendment was adopted.
Judge Adams is not adverse to
the negro for by his past political
record he has acknowledged the
negro an eijual, intellect til ly, moral
ly and socially, by perni'tting him
self to be a candidate on the same
ticket with a negro.
A letter received in Asheboro
from one of the most respectable
and reliable gentlemen of Caswell
county, states that Judge- Adams'
statement at Albemarle that he did
not run on a ticket with a negro
because the negro ran as a cadidate
for the Legislature, and he for
Clerk, which required placiug their
names on seperate tickets was not
true even from an anti-juggling
standpoint. He declares that the
year Adams was elected Clerk of
the Court iu Caswell county, on the
same ticket for county officers was
the name of Albert Uigelow, a big
black negro, for Register ot Deeds.
The anomaly of this whole thing
consists in the fact that Republicans
themselves, raise the question of
"nigger," and when the Democrats
accept the gauge of battle aud show
them up in their true personal
colors, thep cry out "persecution,"
I'lutolerance , "sl tnder bulldoz
ing," etc.
Charlotte People killed at Atlantic City-
Suudav aft-rtiuon an electric
train at Atlantic Ci v left tha
tra-k and plunged imo the water
way separating the t-itv tiom the
main iuiio, owning ;.j persons.
An:on the number were Mr. and
M.s. S. J. Hill, aui Mrs. K. M.
D.uliiigton. of Churl itte. Tho
caiue of tbe wreck is a mystery.