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Page 2 The Democratic Platform As Adopted By the Convention At Charlotte Recently. Following is the platform which | the Democratic State Convention, I in session at Charlotte, adopted | reoently : The Democracy of North Car olina in convention assembled re affirms its allegiance to the car dinal principles of true Democrat-! ic government and congratulates the people upon the wise, the progressive and the economical conduct of public affairs since its . restoration to power in this State, i 1 In the inaugural address of Gov- 1 ernor Aycock January, 1901. is 1 this sentence : "This year we 1 meet under extraordinary circum- ' stances —one party goes out and ' another goes in, one policy ends 1 and a new one begins." Tbe Democratic party again en- 1 tered into power: Democratic 1 policy became the controlling pol- * icy of our State. The achieve ments of those yeare are unmis- 1 takably great. To the trust itn- I posed, the Democratic party has v been wholly faithful. The ad- ' ministrations of Governor Charles * B. Aycock and Governor Robert | * B.Glenn have added prestige to " our history, and given prosperity j c to onr people. State affairs have j * been conducted with clean effi- ' ciency, and to the people has come j peace. ' 1 ( A SPLENDID RECORD. 11 Out of the very shadows of dis- j 1 order the records begin. There is now no more disorder, and no more doubt. The people have 1 come into their own. Responsible government is made sure. Con ditions encourage the full and free development of our industries. To the child is given greater and greater opportunity for knowledge and North Carolina is become a national leader in popular oduca tion. A stable goveeninent has inspired confidence. Local im provements are pushed with vigor. Good schools aud good roads are' no longer a dream, but are grow-! ing in reality. State institutions have been managed with credit and without scandal. The record is unmarred by official misconduct. Appropriations have increased as our needs demand while taxes are reduced. Kven the convict is now able to add his part to the support of the government. The Confederate soldier has been remembered with gratitude! and increased provision made against want in the days of his old age. The needs of the unfortu nate are many, and the call of the j afflicted is answered. To the; blind and to the deaf the State j now holds open the door of refuge and comfort. That the Legisla- - ture could dedicate one-half mil lion dollars for the adequate care of all our unfortunates shows the growth of our ability, and the cer-! ] tainty of our cause. And the Democratic party pled- j 1 ges itself to maintain these pol icies which make for the develop-, ment of every section of our State, and for the security of our people, i and the stability of our institu- I tions. 1 GLENN ADMINISTRATION ENDORSED, j We endorse the able and pro- | gressive administration of Gov. R. B. Glenn and the State officers, t and we approve and commend to the people of North Carolina the i record of our Senators and Rep resentatives in tbe Congress of the United States. ] We regard with approval the ] increased interest in permanent j road building, and recognizing i that the advantages in the way of j greatly increased land values, in j the quick and easy transportation ] over good roads and the conse- quent saving of wear and tear on I stock and vehicles is no longer an i experiment, but a plain, practical fact, as seen in those sections of j North Carolina and other States ] where such roads are in use; and I believing with a constantly im- ] proving school system, a system of i good roads, linking th« east with : the Piedmont section, »nd the i i 1 Piedmont seotion with the moun , | tain section, will be of great good jto North Carolina, therefore, we 1 recommend this spirit of internal improvement to the people of our State for their investigation, and suggest that the next general as ' sembly take such action on this matter as may seem best. i EDUCATION FUNDAMENTAL. We believe that education is | one of the fundamental needs of all government. We believe that every prospective citizen has the right to receive and, it is the duty of the State to furnish, ad equate preparations for such citi zenship. We congratulate the people that a four months' school in every district is no longer merely a promise but a realiza tion. The Democratic party has kept its promise and materially reduced passenger and freight rates in the State, and given to the people lower rates, while the reports of the railroad companies show that | this reduction of rates has been accompanied by increased revenue |on that class of business affected ;by the laws of the State reducing j the rates. We desire that the best interest of the State demands that all of our people shall unite in earnest endeavors to secure employment at fair wages for all of onr fellow j citizens who are now idle or who are working on short time, by no j i fault of theirs, but by reason of the panic caused by the Repub lican policies. CAPITAL WELCOMED. 1 ... Every enterprise looking to the , investment of capital and employ- L ment of skilled labor should be fostered and encouraged by tl o j State. All foreign corporations doing . business in this State should be i' required to obtain license to do so, . and the license of such corpora i tions should be revoked if watered : stocks or bonds be issued by it in 1 j violation of State statutes, or with . out the approval of properly con i stituted legal authorities. ! Foreign corporations doing bus i ine9B in this State should be re ! quired to submit to the juris-. diction of the courts of the State i under penalty of having their • i license to du business in the State .! revoked. All contributions to political parties or for political purposes should be made public at once, . and the charter of any domestic j corporation doing business in this State, and the license of any for eign corporation should be re voked, if any such corporation ' contributes to any political cam ' paign fund, or to any fnnd for tbe ! purpose of aiding or procuring , the nomination of any candidate | for public office. | PI'BLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS. j All pnblic service corporations and natural monopolies should be brought under Btrict control of the United States as to inter-state business, and of the State as to intra-State business, but a fair re turn on a fair valuation of prop erty owned or operated by them should be allowed, after paying operating expenses, including just and pair wages to employes. Private monopolies should be destroyed. Conspiracies by pros pective purchasers to put down or keep down the price of articles produced by the labor of others should be made criminal, and all persons or corporations entering into such conspiracies should be punished; and we condemn in every form, subsidies, gratuities, bonuses, trusts and monopolies and they should not be tolerated. Congress should so amend tbe inter-State commerce law as to prevent discrimination and re bates in inter-State traffic, and provide for the punishment by imprisonment of officers of rail roads and other common curriers and public service corporations, THE DANBUBY REPORTER. violating such laws; and partic ularly to make unlawful such dis criminations as are now or may in the future be practiced by rail road companies and other common carriers and publio service cor i porations against all North Car olina points in favor of points out of the State having no greater natural advantage. The party in power in the na tion that has so long failed to cor rect such inequalities is equally | guilty with the public service cor porations for the disadvantages under which this State has labor ed. No railroad company, telegraph company, telephone company, ex press company or other public service corporation should be per mitted to issue or grant to any person, except officers and ein i ployes, any free pass, franks or I other free service, privilege, bene- J fit or favor, should be made j equally guilty with the corpora | tion issuing or granting the same. EqUAL PROTECTION TO ALL. We pledge not only to citizens of this State but to citizens of other States that all capital in vested in legitimate enterprises in North Carolina, whether foreign or domestic, corporate or private, shall have the equal protection of the laws and the equal friendly consideration of those who ad minister the laws; and we further pledge that all such persons or corporations violating the law ■hall be made to feel and Buffer the full penalties for such viola tions. We condemn the practice of professional lobbying. We denounce the vacillating and ;do nothing policy of the last ses sion of the Republican Congress. We declare that most of the legis lation enacted by that body i 6 cheap, tawdry, hypocritical make- I shift. CURRENCY HILL DENOUNCED. We denounce the Cannon- Vreeland-Aldrich currency bill [ passed by the la6t session !of Congress in the interest ana at ;the dictation of a handful of great j banks and speculators who occupy offices on Wall Street. This ini- Iquitous measure, which further j centralizes in the hands of a few j the issue of American money of 1 the American people was sliame j lessly rushed through both houses of Congress, in its dying hours, i under the lash of the Czar like | methods of the speaker and through the trickery of the Re publican dictator of the Senate. No more shameless spectacle has lever been presented to the Ameri can people than the method by which this hybrid and iniquiti ous measure was railroaded through Congress. This bil turns over the Treasurer of the of the United States to the gamb lers of the New York stock ex change for a period of six years, i It means a gift to the enemies of the Republic of the power to issue j or retire one-half billion dollars, j exciting speculatoin or compelling | disaster, according to which ever! best suits their betting book. We condemn the Republican party whose policies and conduct produced in 1907 the moat acute and disastrous panic in the history of the United States. The effect' of its policy has precipitated panio, blighted industry and trade with prolonged depression, closed { factories, reduced work and wages, | halted enterprises, and crippled i American prodnotion. Under! this Repablioan panio suffering has been universal ; soap houses have been established and atrikes have been of almost daily occur rence. The Republican party has , been in control of the national ' government in all of its branches ' for the past 11 years, and now in the midst of abundant crops and boundless national resources it has oocurred since the formation of the panic in our history. The point of the fact that every panic which has occurred since the formation of the Republican party was precipitated while that party was in power. REPUBLICAN PART* SCORED. | We condemn the Republican party for its efforts in the national Congress to revive the bitterness of the Civil War and renew again the bloody shirt issue, by tacking to the campaign publicity bill Crumbpacker's Southern repres entation reduction measure. The ! passage of this bill through the j lower House of Congress was an act of cheap, hypocritical politics, 1 designed to corral the negro vote in the doubtful states for their presidental nominee. Wa denounce the Republican party for its failure to enact dur ing the last session of Congress a campaign publicity bill : but the people of the country need not expect such a measure to come from a party that thrives on cor ruption money and which could not carry on a campaign or win a national election without cor ruption funds from favored interests. We denounce the present in famous and trust-breeding tariff imposed upon the people by the Republican party and renew our demand for its immediate revision, to the end that all unfair burdens shall be removed, and especially those upon the necessaries of life, and those that enable the trusts to extort from the people un reasonable profits and to sell their products to consumers at home at higher prices than is charged for the same goods to foreign consumers. WILD EXTRAVAGANCE. We denounce the Republican party for its wild extravagance during the last session of Cong ress. In the last five months the Republican Congress spent sl,- 200.000,000 of the people' 6 mon ey, levying a tax of sl3 per anum on every burdened tax payer. We do not wonder, therefore, at the present deficit of $(i(iO.OOO.OOO in the treasury, and the expected deficit of $180,000,000 at the end of the next fiscal year. The Re publican billion dollar Congress of 1890 produced h Democratic victory in 1882 ; the Republican billion dollar session of the pres ent Congress means the trium-, phant election of a Democratic' President in the coming election, i We condemn the Republican administration for turning over millions of dollars of its public money to its pet banks in New- York City, which thereby deplet ed the public treasury to such an extent that it became necessary for tho Republican administra-1 tion to issue bonds and borrow money to meet the daily j tioDs of the Federal government.j We condemn the Republican; party for its failure in the lest Congress to enact a law forbid ding one inferior judge to sus pend the operation of a State law without notice or bearing. We declare aur inflexible op position to the methods of ex panding Federal power at the ex pense of the just powers of the State, and we especially denounce the bold and revolutionary threat that the omission of the States to pass laws upon subjects within their constitutional powers, may be treated as a surrender of these powers into the hands of the Federal government, which may then lawfully prooeed as if suoh powers were possessed by it un der the constitution. PROMISED REFORMS MOT OIVEN. Though promising reforms de manded by the people, the Re publicans in their national con vention, at the behest of favored interests, voted down every plank looking to reforms and relief of the people, for curbing the powers i of the trusts. That convention,' controlled by Federal office hold- ■ ers. after nominating for Presi-' dent a life long office holder who was never elected by the people to any office, adopted a platform that on every important measure, stiaddles, or gives promise to the ear only to beak it to the hope and completed its work by nomi nating, to the tune of "Marchidg Through Qeorgia," a candidate j for Vic* President who has led | in throttling every reforml i measure offered in the last session 1 of Congress, including a bill to i meet the pressing need of preser i vatiou of our national resources, ; opening waterways and prevent -1 ingthe destruction of our forests. We have a faith in the patrio i tism of our people, and in the i ultimate development of the natural resources of the State, and we call upon all NorthCa rolinians t to unite in a common effort to ■ restore prosperity, to re-establish confidence, to forget factional differences and to cultivate peace and good will aminong men. t Birthday Party and Ice Cream Supper. Peter's Creek, Va., July 4. —A birthday party and an ice cream supper was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Beasley June 19th in honor of their son, Mr. John Beasley. It being his 19th birthday. The following people were present: Misses Nannie and Ida King, Lucy Dunkley, Flora and Annie Hutchens, Nellie and Mary Mays, Nellie Howell, Lottie Floyd, Mary Pace, Carrie Rhoads, Rhoda, Champ, Gracie and Jewel Williams, Marcella Barnard, and Mamie Bouldin, Messrs. Andrew and Lester Padgett, John Pace, James Williams, Henry Terry, David Dunkley, Robt. Rhoads, Rilie Martin and Walter Floyd. All report a nice time. Mr. Beas ley left this morning for Wilkes boro, where he will get ready for traveling July 10th. ONE PRESENT. SANDY RIDGE. Sandy Ridge, July »>.—Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sheppard attended the foot washing at Piny Grove Sun day. Mr. L. B. Moretield visited at Mr. C. H. Sheppara's Sunday. Mi6S Sallie and Mary Kington, , Gracie aud Maggie Wilkins visit led Misses Sibby and Nina Shep | pard Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Young vis | ited at Mr. J. D. Young's Sunday ! afternoon. We had a good rain in this sec tion the past week and it was j badly needed. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Young vis ited their son and daughter Mrs. R. W. Covington and Mr W. G. Young at Meadows. Taft Goes To Hot Springs, Va. Washington, D. C., Friday, il. — Candidate Taft, accompanied by , Mrs. Taft, left at 4 o'clock this afternoon for Hot Springs. Va., where he will spend most of the 1 campaign, though he must bo in | Cincinnati July 29th to be notifi j ed of his nomination. Report of the Condition of the Bank of Stokes County, At the Close of Business May 14, 1908. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $30689.74 Overdrafts 238.C5 Hanking houses, $1510.10: furniture and fixtures, $1796.87 3313.07 Due from l>*nk« and hankers 40790.87. Cash Items 390.45 Hold coin 694.00 Silver cola. Including all minor coin currency 2409.50 National bank notes and other U. S. notes 6862.00 Total *85388.98 LIABILITIES. Capital stock $10,000.00 Undivided profits, less cur rent expenses and taxes paid 1366.54 Deposits subject to check 33372.81 Demand certificates of de posit....! 40250.12 Cashier's checks outstand ing 409.81 Total $85388.28 State 6f North Carolina, F KH Stokes County. ( I, N. E. Pepper, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the Itest of my knowledge and l>ellef. N. E. PEPPER afad >. N. PETREE, ('ashlers. Subscribed und sworn to l>efore me, this 30th day of May, 1908. E. P. PEPPER, • Notary Public. Correct—Attest: N. E. PEPPER. O. N. PETRKE, JOHN A. BURTON. CHARLOTTE IS CHOSEN. HI • '^gj The Republicans State Conventio^H Will Meet There on August 26. 118 The Republican State oonven-B tion for the nomination of candi-H dates for Governor and othwrfl 1 State offices will be held in ' lotte August 26th. This was (HV ■ cided at a meeting *f the State K 1 excutive committee held in 1 ' Greenshoro on last Friday, the ! vote on the meeting place stand- 1 ing as follows: Charlotte, 11; 1 1 Asheville, 3, and Greensboro, 2. Charlotte's invitation was extend ed by a delegation of thirty men, representing the commercial, po litical and social life of the city. BEST THE WORLD AFFORDS 'lt gives me unbounded pleas ure to recommend Bucklen's Ar nica Salve," says J. W. Jenkins, of Chapel Hill, N. C. "I am con vinced it's the best salve the world * affords. It cured a felon on my thumb, and it never fails to heal every aore, burn or wound to which it is applied." 25c. at all druggists. Miss Lelia Flinn, of Pine Hail, ia the guest of her friend, Miss Sadie Petree. NOTICE. State of North Car.,\ln the Superior Stokes County. (Court. Before the Clerk. No ticed N on Res ident Defend ants, and Or der of Publica tion. George W. Eads, Henrietta Tllle.v and her husband Walter Tllle.v, Emmet t Eads, .Joe Malic, Walter Mabe, Sallie Hodges and her husband James Hod ges, PiffH.. Vs. Mar.v Ann Ferguson and husband John Ferguson, Hartle Agee and her hus band William Agee, John Mabe, Harr.v Mabe, Abner Mabe, Lelia Malie, John Hodges husband of Harriet Hodges deceased, Lula Jus tine nnl her husband ('has. Justine.Cornelia Mciee and her husband William Me- Gee, and Hardin Hodges, Defendants. It appearing to the Court by the I Petition filed In this cause and the ntttdnvit thereto annexed and filed herein, that a cause of action exists in favor of the petitioners herein and against the defendants herein, the same being a special proceeding to divide about 140 acres of land lying in Snow Creek Township Stokes Co., X. C., on the waters of Crooked Creek, adjoluiug the lands of Eliza Joyce, the Let tie Joyce lands, the Walter Joyce tract, Sam Martin, R. T. Martin and others, which lands formerly belonged to Winston Eads. and which is now owned by the par ties hereto as tenants in common, and this proceeding is for the pur pose of dividing the same and also for the further purpose of selling the lots which may be allotted to the children of Susan Mains deed., aud Harriet Hodges, deed., and dividing the money arising from the sale thereof instead of the laud Itself. It also nppeuring by said atlldavitthat Mary Ann Ferguson and Uer hus band John Ferguson, Hartle Agee and her husband Win. Agee, John Malm, Harry Malic, John Hodges, husband of Harriet Hodges, deed., Lula Justine and her husband Chas. Justine, Cornelia McGee and her husband Win. McGee, and Hardin Hodges are non residents of the State of North Carolina aud after due diligence cannot be found there in, and cannot be served with pro cess In the ordinary way, and are necessary parties to this proceeding. It Is therefore ordered by the Court that notice be served upon the said Non Resident Defendants by publi cation thereof for four successive weeks In the Danbury Reporter, a newspai>er published in Danbury, Stokes Co., N. C., notifying the said defendants r>f this action, und let the said defendants, Mary Ann Fer guson and l.er ohn Fergu son, Hartle Agee and her husband William Agee, John Mulie, Hany Mains John Hodges husband of Har riett Hodges, deed., Lula Justine and her husband Charles Justlne, Corne lia McGee aud her husband William McGee, and Hardin Hodges, take no tice that If they fall to answer or de mur to the ]>etltlon which is filed jji this cause, on or liefore the 20th day of Juae, 1908, that the relief will be granted as prayed for therein. Done at office in Danbury on 23rd day of May, 1998. M. T. CHILTON, Clerk SuperlorConrt. J. D. Humphreys, Atty. for Rids.
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