" THE fDCKORY DEMOCRAT.
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FFB. 27, 1908.
> So far as concerns any benefit
derived by the candidates pres
ent at Wadesboro, Uncle Ashley
showed his sense in ' 'Standing
from under."
WHAT REPUBLICANS SAY
ABOUT ASHLEY HORNE
So according to - Republican
sources Ashley Home "stands
no chance because he is a farmer
and an ex-confederate soldier.
In the words of the fellow on
the, "now wouldn't that jar
you?" In the first place the
trouble is with some of the sup
posed facts in that statement,
just a few of them. It reminds
us of the ambitious scholar who
once formed a definition of a
crab and sent it to the Academy
of France and requested from
those learned men an opinion as
to its accuracy. His definition
undertook to describe a crab and
was as follows:
''A crab is a red fish that
walks backwards."
Indue time he received this
reply from the secretary of the
Academy: "We have received
your definition of a crab and
find the same to be correct with
the exceptions stated t&elow:(l)
A crab is not a fish; (2) A crab
is not red: (3) A crab does not
walk backward. Ashley Home
is a banker, a- merchant and a
manufacturer. We do not say
this to his discredit. In spite of
such heavy handicaps, Mr. Home
may in a measure enjoy the re
spect of the community, view
without fear the quarterly as
sembling of the grand iury in
his county and go to heaven
when he dies. We say that this
is true in spite of the fact that
uncle Ashley has made a success
in-all three callings, though as a
general proposition there is no
thing that the public enjoys bet
ter than throwing rocks at the
man who for any reason towers
above his fellows. If he has
made money he didn't make it
honestly; he robbed the widow
and orphan. If heaven has en
dowed him with unusual mental
gifts, his habits are deplorable;
he is being hurried into an earl.v
grave by his excess as. If the
party is a pretty woman with
charming way3, so that every
worthy man who meets her re
joices inwardly and goes about
his business; why then, you
know, "she isn't any better
than she ought be. She will
bear watching." In spit* •
this gentle trait in human natim
it hardlv ever proves fatal.
So uncle Ashley may after a.
be forgiven for having become a
merchant a banker and a manu
facturer and having made monej
at all three.
They say furthermore that
when uncle Ashley and fellow
rebels of that particular regi
ment "Shucked" their coats, or
what passed for coats in the
line of battle, pointed their
shooting irons business* end
foremost and with blood-curdling
yells started for the breast works
travelling at a trot—Well, they
say the Yankees tooK to tall
timber. Uncle Ashley don't yell
any more, unless maybe along
about five o'clock of an after
noon when the average of ten
persons to be found at any time
on the streets of Clapton is re
duced to thre6 and everybody
but the "old man has gone home
from the bank, " uncle Ashley
•teals into the back room, looks
around him to make sure nobody
lis listening, and just to find
out how the the thing sounds,
emits a kind of smothered whoop:
"Hurrah! for Home." And
then maybe uncle Ashley slaps
his knee and says: "By, by,
ahem! I musn't forget I'm a
deaon in the Baptist church,
but say old boy, that don't sound
so bad does it?"
But if uncle Ashley gets off
something like that occasionally
the chances are that it isn't any
more than Kitchin and Craig do,
only they have more trouble to
smother the tone. Then too,
uncle Ashley probably thinks
that he hasn't so many folks to
"holler for him." His hair is
getting* pretty white and many
of the men who would have
shouted: "Hurrah! for Home,
have dropped by the wa> side in
the long march from 61 to the
8 mile-stone beyond the boundry
line of a new century. Uncle
Ashley is excusable if he wishes
that in this last fight to plant his
flag on the breast works he had
those gray clad friends of his, so
brave and so gay, who followed
the drum and fife and to un
known graves. If they could
come back to help him; if they
could come not as their living
comrades, bowed and broken
with the crushing burden of
years, but as he and they were
when he knew them, in the
strength of young manhood
with hearts that laughed at the
battle's frowning front, -be
wouldn't have any doubt about
who would be the next Governor
of North Carolina. Too bad;
thev are sleeping on the heights
of Gettysburg and under the
wheat fields of Virginia. The
remnants and survivors of the
finest infantry that ever trod a
battle field don't count for
much. The politicians are
shrewd enough to know that the
old Confederate vote is small and
growing smaller every day.
The veterans' remaining days
will be few and evil; and it is all
in vain that voices from the
grave call out and intercede in
uncle Ashley's behalf. But a
farmer—well, uncle Ashley does
own a farm —two or three of
them in fact. He got his start
on rented land when he came
back from the army ragged,
barefoot and "busted in pocket."
We guess he farms bv proxy
now. If he smites the earth at
! all, it's in the cool of the even
ing when the payroll has been
made up, and the money in the
bank all counted cash
receipts made out at tTie store.
Then possibly mother Home
persuades him to take a hoe and
io our into the garden 3rd
the cabbage plant* jast lo
aiong lib digestion a;;d *
soldier of course &e • -
the co«nm -nding office*-. -J
Ashley don't plow n.»w. ?. i j
somehow we never eouM oanev :•>
(■hoi ?u, ;x,}y ever dj r-w i -t
' v i
s getting a little too 0..i —not tot
old to be governor you under
but too oH to d!ow
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good things tnat be;»»r 1> i n
since they su
never has forgotten that lie u
to be poor and is always ready c
help along a poor fellow. Whre
all this is true don't get it into
your head that the Republicans
care anything about him even
though he is an old soldier and
a farmer who owns a number of
plants. - x ,
Shakespeare's fellow said he
knew "A bank where the wild
thyme grew." Uncle Ashley
knows a bank where the green
becks grow. There's time there
two sixty and ninty days; and it
grows mighty fast. Fortunate
ly uncle Ashley is always sitting
behind the screen to look up
over his glassessand say: "Well
well, let him renew. Let him
renew."
i The Republican politicians
think so much of the farmers
and the old soldiers. How many
of them did they provide for,
when they were in power. Why,
yes, there was Gov. Russell,
Senator Butler, Congressmen
Skinner, white (who by the way
was black.) Fowler, Settle,
Linney and Pearson, to say no
thing about Senator Pritchard,
Hal Ayer, Zeb Vance Walser
and rest. One confederate sold
ier in that list.
It is touching to see the Re
publicans just so interested in
him, all because he is a farmer
and an old confederate—all be
cause they think he is not going
to be nominated and they hope to
pick up a few votes by their mis
erable 'appeal to predjudices
that the people are too intelligent
to misunderstand.
If he should be nominated, my
masters, why tnen he would be
a plutocrat, a bloated bond hold
er, an appressor of the poor,
don't you know?
Say, wouldn't it be funny to
see them squirm if he really
should win?
And stranger things have hap
pened. He stood on the firing
line —he won his battle against
poverty and want. As the pugi
lists say, there is "more than one
good fight in him yet."
Uncle Ashley hasn't "taken
the count" yet. Just bear that
mind.
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Monday Night
The Marie La Tour Stock Co.
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and a matinee on Wednesday.
Miss La Tour is one of the most
accomplished young actresses on
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Monday. •
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Banner shot and killed Robert
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yesterday. This is the resuit of
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about fifty, and prominent in
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Carolina & North-Western Ry. Co
Schedule effective Feb. 2nd. 1908.
North Passenger Mixed Mixed
No. 10 No. 60 No 62
Chester Lv 805 am 100 pra
Yorkville " 853 am 225 ptn
Gastonia " 944 am 415 pm 600 am
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Lincoln. 1048 am 905 am
Newton " 1128 am 10 00 am
Hickory " 1205 pm 1225 pm
Lenoir " 122 pm 255 pm
South Passenger Mixed Mixed
No. 9 No. 61 No. 63
Lenoir Lv 150 pm 905 am
Hickory " 243 pm 1115 am
Newton " 310 pm 120 pm
Lincoln. " 346 pm 225 pm
Gastonia " *4° pm 7 am s so p m
Yorkville " 552 pm 915 am
Chester " 640 pm 10 35 am
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Having qualified as administrator of
H. D. Abernethy, deceased, late of
Catawba county, N. C., this is to noti
fy all persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased to exhibit tliem
to the undersigned on or before the
21st day of January, 1909. or this no
tice will be pleaded in bar 01 their re
covery. All persons indebted to said
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This January 21st, 1908.
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Mrs. H. D. ABERNETHY,
M. H. YOUNT, Attorney
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A. N. Aberholt hereby enters the
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lina, Hickory townsip, adjoining the
lands of Evans, Wisnant and Aderholt
j Beginning at a stone in Aderholt and
Wisnant's line; runs N. 87£ 270 poles
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thence E. 260 poles to the begms:r.g»
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Thos. M. Hufham, Att'y,