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CAMPAIGN FOND
PUBLICITY ILLUSTRATED
Prior to election day in 1904
Democrats charged that repre
sentatives of the special inter
ests were providing the Republi
can party with campaign funds.
Mr. Roosevelt hotly denied the
accusation, denouncing the Dem
ocrat who made it as a liar.
Later it developed that E. H,
Harriman had collected $260,000
for use and benefit of the
Republican party in that cam
paign. This money came from
Standard Oil officials and others,
the detailed contributions being
as follows.
E Iward H. Harriman $50,000
H. McK. Twomblv (repre
senting the Vanderbilt
interests) 25,000
Chauncey M. Depew (per
sonal) 25,000
J '.mes Hazen HyJe 25,000
The Equitable Life As ur
anee Society 10,000
J. Pierpont Morgan 10,000
Geo. W. Perkins (New
York Life Ins. Co. 10,000
H. H. Rogers John D. Arch
. bol3, William Rockefel
ler (Standard Oil Co.) 30,000
Cornelius N. Bliss (person
al) . 10,000
James Speyer and Banking
Interests 10,000
"Seven Friends" of Sena
tor Depew, $5,000 each
35,000
Sent to Mr. Hafriman in
smaller donations 20,000
Total $260,000
Does any one believe that Mr.
Roosevelt would have dared tell
the people, Prior To Election
Day, that these men had con
tributed $260,000 to his campaign
fund ?.
Will any one contend that the
people were not entitled to know
these facts Prior To Electicn
Day?
Now in 1908 publicity concern
ing campaign funds is demanded
Prior To Election Day.
But Mr. Roosevelt insists that
the people must trust the Re
publican managers and that the
source of the Republican party's
campaign fund will not be re
vealed until after the election!
And Mr. Taft—Mr. Roosevelt's
candidate for the presidency
echoes this Roosevelt sentiment.
The people must wait until they
have cast their votes for the Re
publican ticket before they are
to be told by -the Republican
managers of the interests by
which the Republican campaign
is being financed?
Do you think they can fool the
people again?
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natural digestive luices and it digests
juicea and it digeots all classes of food
and every kind of food so you see it
will do the work that the stomach itself
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ord.
Glenn Predicts 40,000 Majority.
Governor Glenn, just back from
a trip across thf State as escort
for Hon. John W. Kern, Demo
cratic nominee for Vice President,
on his campaign trip, declares
that conditions in North Carolina
are ripe for a Democratic majori
ty well up to the standard.
He does not expect less than
40,000 majority for the State
and fjols confident that the
national ticket will be close a
round that figure.
SAVED HIS BOY'S LIFE.
"My three year old boy was badly
constipated, had a high fever and was
in awful condition. I gave him two
dozes of Foley's Orino Laxative and
the next morning the fever was gone
and he was entirely well. Foley s
Orino Laxative saved his life." •A.
Wolkush, Casimer, Wis. W. S. Martin
& Co.
Hon. W. W. Kitchin on Tern
Mr. Kitchm, when he deliver
ed his great speech at Apex on
October 9, 1908, was requested
to state his views on the temper
ance question, which he did, as
follows: ' " ,
"The Legislatures of 1903 and
1905, in obedience to what they
thought were the wishes of a
majority, gave the State tem
perance legislation, without sub
mitting it to a vote of the peo
ple. Many citizens criticized
this failure to let the people vote
on it. The temperance senti
ment increased in volume and in
intensity throughout the State
until when the special session of
the Legislature met in January
last, the demand of leading pro
hibitionists that the Legislature
directly give the State prohibi
tion had support in the highest
official circles of both parties.
The wets opposed this and gen
erally asked its submission to
the people instead, and many
prohibitionists, among them my
self, thought submission far pre
ferable. The members of the
Legislature wisely decided to
let the people themselves pass on
the subject. On the one hand,
it was contended that State pro
hibition was impracticable and
that personal liberty and local
self-government required its de
feat. Nowhere was there any
effort made to place a higher
value on whiskey than religion,
or to elevate the bottle above the
schoMhouse or to substitute vice
for virture. The wets had no such
purpose and made no such con
tention. On the other hand, the
betterment of social conditions
and the good of the whole peo
ple were urged in favor of it.
There was no purpose to crush
individual liberty, to destroy
local self-government, or to sub
stitute oppression for freedom.
The question was, should the
sale of whiskey be continued in
the State. Able and honest men
without regard to political parties
ranged themselves on either
side. The contest was waged
with great energy and spirit It
was not a party question. Re
publicans and Democrats favor
ed and Republicans and Demc
crats opposed it. Governor
Glenn and Judge Pritchard favor
ed. Hon. C. B. Watson and Hon.
Thomas Settle opposed it. Pro
hibition earried and is entitled to
a fair trial. What more should
a citizen of a free State ask than
that the clearly ascertained will
of the majority preyail? When
I am Governor I shall insist that
every law which the people., or
their Legislature has placed on
our statute books shall be
thoroughly enforced. Let a law
be honestly enforced and it will
be known whether it is a suc
cess or a failure, whether it is
wise or unwise. No Democrat
should abondon the party of his
political principles. He should
follow the example of the loyal
Democrats who led him in the
recent contest—for where will
you find Democrats more loyal
than Watson, Boyden, Stubbs,
Morton and other leaders of the
minority in the prohibition elec
tion? Shall a man who believes
in a just and economical govern
ment. in our public school system
in our charitable institutions, in
providing for our veterans, in
constitutional amendment eli
minating from evezy county the
fear of political control by the
negro, in demanding just and
equitable rates for our towns
and cities, for our merchants
and manufacturers, who favors
the publicity of campaign contri
butions and the election of Sena
tors by the people, and who is
against the oppressions of mono
polies and trusts, against the
discriminatory rates charged by
railroads against our people as
compared with rates charged
cities of other States, against
the extortions of the Dingley
tar ff law, and against the domi
nating power of predatory ty
rants in our politics—shall such
a man turn against his party
merely because a majority of
Republicans and Democrats
voted to no longer license the
sale of whiskey in North Caro
lina? Shall he vote against the
interests of his family and his
country because some zealous
prohibitionist incorrectly stated
his position? Shall his resent
ment against some individual
cause him to violate his duty to
his State? The wettest man in!
the State may be as good or even
a better Democrat than the
driest, and the wet Democrat
should not permit a dry Demo
crat to drive or a dry Republican
to induce him to supportlhe Re
publican party, whose most dis
tinguished representative and
most iufluential factor, Judge
Pritchard, is as dry as the Presi
dent of the Prohibition League.
I have learned with great regret
that prohibitionists have been
urged to vote for onlp prohibi
tionists for the Legislature. This
advice has not been given in the
interest of Democracy, and it is
an attempt to make prohibition
a partisan political question,
which is exactly what the Demo
cratic Legislature tried to avoid,
exactly what the Anti-Saloon
League declared it was not, and
exactly what prohibition speak
ers, Republican and Democrat,
declared it was not In our con
test with the Republicans our
best and strongest men should
be named, whether they are pro
hibitionists or not, No man
should be opposed because he
favored or fought prohibition.
The Republican party evidently
approves what the Democratic
Legislature did in submitting
the question to the people, as
the Republican Convention did
not in its platform disapprove it,
though our record was carefully
searched for, things to condemn.
And then to show that the Re
publicans do not desire to make
an issue over the mattei, but do
desire that prohibition shall not
be an issue they nominated for
Governor, Mr. J. Elwood Cox,
who is and has been for twenty
years an ardent and pronounced
prohibitionist."
BOONE ITEMS.
Hay Crops Fine. Cabbage
Poor. The City of Boone
Growing.
Correspondent to the Democrat,
Very little is being said politic
ally in Watauga. The old parties
have but good tickets out.
The mission school at Valle
Crucis has its new dormitory for
boys completed. This is perhaps
the best building in the country.
The excellent weather has en
abled the farmers to gather their
crops. Corn is only a fair crop,
potatoes very poor; cabbage
almost a failure, fruit about half
a crop, the excellent hay crop
will help us out.
During the last year a small
colony has left the Wertern part
of the county for Northern Ar
kansas. For several years the
population has -been about the
same, too many good people
leave.
The Appalachian Training
School is receiving new students
each week. Six registered this
week. New catalogues are being
sent out, write for one.
Bopne is growing slowly sev
eral houses are under construc
tion now. - A. M.
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JAPANESE ACROBAT SLAIN
Killed by Show Manager in
Woods Two Miles From
Newton,
F. Kikuchi a Japanese acrobat.
Was murdered in the woods two
miles from Newton Sunday by
another Japanese, Henry Yam
agata. The two belonged to a
show that was to exhibit at
Newton Monday. The scene of
the tragedy was three hundred
yards from the house of Mr.
George Sigman. Mr. Sigman
heard six shots and went into
the woods to investigate. As he
came to a deep gully, Yamagata
Wis coming up the bank. He
pointed down the gully and seem
ed to say, "A dead man down
there."
As Mr. Sigman started in the
direction indicated, the man run
off through the woods. Mr.
Sigtran found a pile of boards in
the gully and protruding through
them a man's coat, and went to
town and informed the sheriff.
A large crowd soon gathered
and when the sheriff removed
the boards a dead body was
found. The murderer hurried
to the show tent, changed clothes
and made his escape before Mr.
Sigman reached town to inform
the sheriff. He was arrested in
Hickory at 8 o'clock Sunday-night
and lodged in jail.
The man killed had a special
feature with the show in connec
tion with two little Japanese
girls and the man who killed him
was manager of thelroupe. All
were working under a Japanese
booking-agent in Buffalo, N. Y.,
the manager of which has been
telegraphed to send another
troope. The show people know
nothing as to the motive of the
murder.
There were found five bullet
holes in the man's back.—Char
lotte Observer.
Any skin itching is a temper-tester.
The more you scratch the worse it
itches. Doan's Oitment cures piles,
eczema— any skin itching. At all drug
stores.
.There is an unwonted silence
at the White House. It must be
that many are sitting on the lid.
A billy goat is reported to have
been found drunk in Wadesboro.
Evidently he found the way to
butt in at a blind tiger.
Mr. Taft abuses any who
change their minds. Has he
changed his mind about the rot
tenness of Republican office
holders in North Carolina?
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Good Cheer, But Beware.
Demccrsts, be of good cheer;
the party is in better shape this
campaign than it has been in sev
eral years past. Rejoice and be
glad in this fact, and let your
rejoicing be heard afar, but re
member this fact, that the Repub •
lican party, feeling and knowing
that their only chanch of success
lies therein, are going to do every
thing lies in their power to
break the solid phalanx of the
Democratic ranks by endeavoring
to get an element of the party dis
satisfied so that they will "bolt."
That party knows that, their on
ly chance of success lies in this
fact and the judicious distribut
ion of certain campaign funds
with which they are provided ev-,
ery campaign.
The Democratic party is better
organized this year rtian it has
been for some time "and the Re
publicans realize this; therefore
they are going to use every effort .
to defeat the Democratic ticket
and their methods will consist
of first, trying to split the party,
and failing in this the judicious
distribution of campaign funds.
So Democrats look out for the
"bolter" and be sure that he is ■
the germ of a Republican scheme,
which is intended to blossom forth
later to defeat the party and elect
their own candidates for office.
Stand by your guns and let the
enemy charge. They may spend
money to achieve their purpose,
but the citizenry, of Catawba is
in corruptable and not to be
tempted by the promise of re
ward.
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