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THE Danbury Reporter. N. E. & E. P. PBPPER, Publishers. TERMS TO ANY ADDRESS : One year, sl, 6 uio. 50c., 3 aio. 25 jtJNE H 1900 ANNOUNCEMENT TO CANDI DATES AND THE FRIENDS OF CANDIDATES. As the political campaign is now opening up, the publishers of the Reporter deeire to make the following announcement: All notices of conventions, party meetings, etc., and all announce ments of candidates for office, and of the friends of candidates for office, all partisan communica tions, will be charged for at our regular rates, which are 5 cents per line, counting seven words to the line. The Reporter hopes that its frieuds, both Democrats and Republicans, will send their announcements in, as everybody roads the Reporter, and your wants and wishes will be known everywhere when published in these columns. This is some what out of the usual order of things, but this policy is being adopted by up-io-date papers all over the country. When a person wishes to run for office, it is en tirely a business proposition, and he will be willing to pay for all expense incident thereto. Our columns are our stock in trade, and when used for benefit of private individuals, we shall ex pect compensation. The Repor ter is not the organ of any party, but is an independent, business concern. We will print any un objectionable matter in the shape of communications inculcating political principles of any party, same being run as advertising, and paid for as such. Nothing in this has reference to our editorial columns, which are not for sale. EXIT JUDGE SHAW. Enough counties have been heard from to indicate to a cer tainty that Judge Shaw will be defeated for the nomination. Judge Shaw has been admired as the most conscientious and fearless jurist on the bench in i North Carolina. And indeed he probably is. Aftd yet this es timate of him has generally been | furnished by those who have had no cases in court. The lawyers j say His Honor takes a great de- j light in turning to the Code to j search for the maximum punish-1 ment. We have heard one law yer say that Judge Shaw is a s >rt of stranger to equity, and that his forte is the unbending rules of the common law. But no one ever accused the Guilford man of unfairness in trial. He is famed for courtesy and honesty, j' but you generally get what is coming to you. Judge Shaw is loved and honored, but feared by the lawyers. They can never! turn hi§ convictions, once reached. Criminals ttemble in his pres- j ence. He has done great good in North Carolina in making respect for the law, and enforcing its principles. Judge defeat will mean a distinct loss to justice, both di rectly and indirectly, for when his compeers reflect how he lost posi tion by strictly to his duty, unawed by fear, unbribedby gain,-above the temptation of pat ronage and unswerved by any threats of influence, —when the other judges think of "these things, is there not grave danger that there Will be still more laxity on the bench than has hitherto been? Judge Shaw's successor will in all probability be J. Crawford Biggs, of Dufham. "Monumental duplicity, serpen- 1 tine tergiversation and shameless mendacity. essay on Roosevel^ 1 * 1 Hurrah for Francisco. MOB LAW. At Wadesboro, Anson county, a few days ago a man named John son was taken from jail and hang ed by a band of 75 men. Johnson had been triod once for murder, a mistrial resulted, and he WHS await ing a second trial. Immediately after the lynching Gov. Glenn sent Judge Walter Neal —who, by the way, is known in Stokes as the "new court house Judge"—to the scene, aftd His Honor in less than no time had about fifteen of the alleged lynch ers in jail. Among the number were many who were considered of the best people in Anson coun ty. The prisouers instantly ap plied for bail, which the judge fixed at $5,000 each for the lynch ers. Thereupon substantial, prop erty-owning citizens came forward and furnished the bail to the amount of SBO,OOO, thereby ex pressing sympathy for the lynch ers and lynching and their deter mination that the violation of the law shall uot be punished even by jail confinement while awaiting trial, if they can prevent. The accused men go free, with the stamp of the approval of the bet ter people of the community on j them and their act. Commenting on this situation, the Charlotte Observer says: "It is the rule in nearly every instance of mob violence that the people of the community in which the lynchers reside consider it their duty to keep them out of jail. Somehow or other, aside from whatever feeling there may be as the result of the original crime—the crime for which the prisoner is lynched—the citizens of the immediate section consider it their duty to furnish bail. This seems to be the- case even with those who do not countenance lynching in general or the case in particular. It is a weakness that is almost universal." Here the Observer quotes from 'the Richmond News-Leader: "It is safe to predict that when the lynchers come to trial the (grand jury will dodge or the petty . ! jury will acquit. Consequently, no I man suspected of serious crime in j ' that community or under the ban j of popular dislike will have any 1 assurance that he will live to go on trial." The Observer continues: "In this our contemporary is too pessimistic. It isnt likely that after theii experience, even should all be acquitted, auy of these same | mep will ever engage in another I lynching. They are to be placed on trial in another county from that in which they .reside and the jury will in all probability be j composed of intelligent men, and it seems unlikely that the mem ! bers of the mob can "escape con viction. The men are undoubted ly guilty of murder from a legal standpoint, as the law recognizes no right of a mob to take life under any circumstances, but there is no such charge against the men under indictment. On the con trary, they are to be tried under the anti-lynching .law of 1893, a statute which deals only with a conspiracy to lynch or an attempt to break into a jail for the purpose of killing or injuring a prisoner. Such charge is of course bailable, while that of murder is not. Should the men be acquitted, it will appear that it was not a good plan to proceed under the statute of 1#93 instead of charging mur der, but if convicted the course of the officials wHI be vindicate!. There would b& little likelihood of convicting the men of murder, but if so charged they could have been locked up without bail until tried, justice getting mnch out of it. The future will show whether or not a mistake has been made; we hope there has been nom, and rather incline to the opinion that such is the case." The lynching at Wadesboro is to be deplored, as all acts of law lessness should be deplored, and j Gov. (ilenn's prompt measures in arresting the lynchers, going on the Bcene in person to see that it was well done, will meet with every good citizen's approval. And yet it is a fact that lynohing, which is an act of bringing the law into contempt, is only an off spring of that contempt into which the law has already been dragged, by turning loose every day all over the country, scoundrels who should dangle at the end of the rope. It appears that the average murder trial -is only a sensational formality where 6tar witnesses talk for the edifica tion of gaping spectators and the newspaper reporters. In Chicago last year there were upwards of 200 homicides and not a single hanging. How many cold-bloodod murderers have been tried in | Stokes county during the past 30 years, and not one executed. Mob law is a terrible thing, but it is the natural effect of a cause —a noxious poison-weed that springs up from the soil of baffled justice. , "ROCKY-BYE, BABY."* W Mr. R. J. Reynolds, of Winston, who buys practically all of the Stokes county crop of tobacco yearly—not at the price fixed by the farmers, but at the price fixed at Duke's central office in New York —says this, so it is reported: "I would gladly pay the farmers more for their tobacco, but if I did they would go wild and raise too much, and the overproduction would ruin them." Mr. Reynolds may be thus kind and considerate for our farmers' interests, but he will have a haitl time making them believe it. Most of us prefer the idea that he is paying the farmers 7 cents be cause having driven all substantial competition from the markets, he doesn't have to pay more, and I that he would take the crop at a still less figure but that the Truttj knows it has reached the danger j line and to cut the price further! would mean that there would be S t none raised. No, the Trust is not going to [ kill the goose that lays the golden egg. It will continue to pay you about 7 cents, and you who be lieve that 7 cents is .enough and that the Trust is the "farmer's best friend," may go to sleep and dream "happy" dreams. BRIDGE SNOW CREEK. We doubt if there is a single citizen of Stokes county who has ever crossed Snow Creek at either the Davis mill place or at the mouth, who would oppose the levying of a tax to bridge this dan gerous stream. These fords are not only a disgrace to the oounty, but are a menace to human life I and to stock. Our county commissioners should take up this matter at once. We are in favor of building bridges at every ford needed in the county, but a bridge aprosri Snow Creek is imperative. Let the matter not be delayed. Hon. W. J. Bryan is believed by many well posted people to be the strongest candidate for Demo cratic president. Henry Watter son, editor of the Louisville Oou rier-Journal, thinks so aod comes out for the Nebraskan flat footed. Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi, says that Mr. Bryan will be nomi nated. Indiana and other States are coming out for him. Indeed the signs look like Bryau. ji , =r Agents for Winston-Salem's ! But i^c p a a r ns n[p-MRoß|p Bi a*r 20c. BEST STORE. Here are some Crackerjack Bargains from our Great Remodeling Hale I If it is inconvenient for yon to come to (he store, or. goods by mail—'yolir money's worth or your money back : FLOWERS, 10c. *1 PETTICOATS, 75c. 12* and 15c COLLARS, sc. ' 1 Artificial Flowers for Trim- Ladies' fine whito mnslin Ladies' embroidered 6tock ining hats, a miscelloueous Pettieoats, full length, deep collars in a pleasing variety of selection, worth up to 25c, hemstitched ruffle and tucks, patterns, the regular 12£ c and for 10c regular dollar value 75c 15c ones for 5c 20c RIBBONS, 50. *1.50 WRAPPERS, SI.OO. $1 LACE CURTAINS, 750. Piquot edge ribbon, 1J Ladies' Percale Wrappers, Nottingham Lace Curtains in inches wide, pure silk, all cut .very full and well made, several pretty patterns, three shade, worth 2Hc for the wide rutfled skirt, the $l5O yards long, the regular dollar yard 5c outs for $1 ones for.. 75c MEY ER S = WESTBROOK COM P ANY, " " || A FRIEND l/N NEED. || When the tide of hard luck, misfortune and adversity broaks over your head no comfort will be so sweet as the thought that you have at your back a friond able to pull you through. The Bank of Stokes County controls au al- seSi most unlimited amount of money, and may yet have the opportunity to save your business. It will stand by those who have stood by it. We want to bo wXU vGw; your friend and want you to be ours. j|p BANK OF STOKES COUNTY. ||| (Grove*sTasteless Chill Tonic 1 has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales over One and o Half M3fion I bottles. Does this record of merit appeal to yon? No Cure, No Pay, 50c. I Enclosed with every bottle b a Tea Pot* package Oov's Mock Root. Liver Pills. J A census of Winston-Salem ar.d suburbs, just completed, shows n population of 22,8>2, which is an increase of 8,000 since the census of 1900 was taken. It would be interesting to know just how many of this b,OOO are Stokes peo ple, and what per cent, of them were forced to quit farming be cause they couldn't feed and clothe and educate their children on 7-oent tobacco. The President got after some of the big paoking houses in Chicago the other day fiir their tilthy op erations in canning meats for peo ple to eat, and bnder the scotch of investigation the sanitary condi tion of the meat-houses is said to have improyed 50 per cent, in one day. It must have been terriblo. We have heard of persons finding all sorts of uncouth-looking things iu canned beef and potted ham. No wonder. FOLLOWING TOE FLAG When our soldiers went to Cu ba and the Phillipiues, health was the most important consideration. Willis T. Morgan, retired COll4- missary Sergeant IT. rt. A., of Rural Rfoute 1, Couc.*id, N. H„ nays: "I was two yeax Cuba and two years in the Phillipiues, and l)eiug subject to colds. I took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, which kept me in perfect health. And now, iu New Bamshire, we find it the bent medicine in the world for coughs, colds, bronchial troubles and all lung diseases. Guaranteed at all] druggists. Prioe SO® and $1 00 1 Trial bottle free. "PILS E N E R Export" i j V "IS A PURE BEER" ?l| \ 3 AND PURE BEER HELPS YOUI* * i DIGESTION. IF YOU DIGEST WELL f j YOl! WILL ENJOY HEALTH. ■ Best. "Absolutely iim 3j Pure.'' "Pilsener Export Beer," Mail Orders Solicited. -V* rite for Prices. THE VIRGINIA BREWING'COMPANY, ROANOKE, VA. THE SANITARIUM CURES RHEUMATISM There In no lietter time to treat your KlieuniatiMni tlinn now. • ' j*~ There IH no lietter place than the ItlcrMou-Copple Sanitarium. Our iwrxentatre of Cure* fur the paat two yearn ha* equallrinf not excelled the celebrated Hot Spring*. Ark., and at a eoxt not greater than your rcllrond fare alone, there an«l return. A few treatment* now will rlil the Hynteni of any ItuplivtleM, and would |N>rhti|M lie the meaiiH of preventing aerioua nick new. If you miffer with any form of xkin trouble, old Korea, Catarrh, Kidney dlHeaae. Indigestion, nny other chronic d|HeawC W.i offy a treatment that Gu rew. DRS. RIERSON AND COPPLE, Physicians and gorgcofo, 127 8. MAIN STREET, WINSTON-SALEM. N. C. •i '• t , .-/ _ \ Mend your orders for job work to the Reporter ofHee.
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