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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
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HICKORY, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOV. 19 1908.
Killing of Senator Carmack.
Monday afternoon, November
9, Col. Cooper and his son attack
ed on the streets of Nashville
former Senator Carmack and
killed him instantly.
Mr. Carmack, since his defeat
in his canvass for the Governor
ship of Tennessee, has been edi
tor of the 'Tennessean. In that
newspaper he has attacked the
saloon, denounced the Democra
tic Machine and demanded State
Prohibition. . •
This course had arrayed
against him innumerable and
powerful political enemies,
among the Col. Duncan Copper.
Cooper demanded that Car
mack keep his name--of,u f , of the
Tennessean, but Carmack de
clined to permit Cooper to de
termine for him what he should
write. .
For several days Cooper had
de2lared he intended to kill Car
mack. ,
Cooper and his son, armed,
walked the streets of 'Nashville.
Seeing Carmack, they crossed
the street toward him and fireo
three shots into his body, kiiline
hing instantly, Cooper's son
wr.s wounded in the arm.
No man in the South was more
nonored than Senator Carmack.
He! was fighting the saloon -in
oolitics. He was trying to- free
Tennessee from the grip of the
Ylacliine. The Maehine_and the
Siloon beat Carmack forSenatbr
with Taylor; beat Carmack foi
jQjjernor with Patterson, but
:hey ware not able to silence
lim or drive him from the field.
His death has stirred the whole
State, and Carmack's friends are
declaring they Will drive every
;aloon from Tennessee. , :
Two Murderers Sentenced/
Newton, N. C., Nov; 14. —
lenry Yamaguchi the Japanese,
who while here with a show in
October killed Kirkuchi a fellow
countryman, because of his cruel
ty to two little Japanese chil
iren, was today convicted of
nurder in the second degree and
-.entenced to thirty years at hard
abor in the penitentiary.
The State prosecuted on a first
legree charge but the jury con
sidered the circumstances as
mitigating the offense. oy\ p
There was much sympathy
Here for the prisoner.
Lon Rader who stabbed to
leathMiss Willie Bollinger in
the Baptist church at Startown
ast summer was today pronoun
ed by a jury to be insane and in
tapable of conducting his de
"ense. He will be sent to th
lospital for the criminal insane,
;here to be kept until his mentai
condition will permit of his trial
:or murder.—News & Observer,
Obituary.
Sarah Euy Whisnant was born
fan. the 7th 1833, died Nov. 9tl
1908, aged 75 years ten months
ind two days. She was baptized
in infancy and joined the Evan
helical Lutheran church in earl}
life and remained a faithfu
member of same until death
Siewus married to Daniel M
Xoder July 1853. She leaves t(
mourn their loss six sons and twe
r laughters 36 grand children anc
' ive great "grand children, on*
t child and 2 great grant
children have preceeded her t
the mansions above.
She was a kind and goo
mother and neighbor and wai
, loved by all.
The family, returns thanks t
the friends and neighbors fo
f their kindness during her illnes
Our loss is her eternal gain.
N. A. Whithener.
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Annual Thaok&ghring Pro
clamatioit.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 21.
The President today issued the
annual Thanksgining proclama
tion in which he pointed out the
steady growth of the nation ir
strength, worldly power, wealth
and population, and that our
average of individual comfort
any other country in the world.
For this, he declares, Americans
owe it to the Almighty*£o show
equal progress in moral and
spiritual things.
The proclamation follows:
"By the President of the United
States of America, Proclamation
"Once again the season is at
hand when, according to the
indent custom M. our people, it
becomes the duty of the Presi
ient to appoint a day of prayer
and of thanksgiving to God.
"Year by year this nation
if rows in strength and worldly
jower. During the century and
i quarter that has elapsed since
>ur entry into the cicle of inde
pendent peoples, we have grown
md prospered in material things
0 a degree hever known before,
tnd not now known in any other
joantry, sThe thirteen colonies
which straggled along the sea
joast of the Atlantic an* wer«
lemined in hut a few rhiles west
>f. tide water by the Jndian
launted wilderness, have been
transformed ifeto the mightest
•epublic which the : world has
sver seen. ItsS domains stretch
icross the continent from one to
ttie other of the greatest oceans,
ind it exercises dominion alike
n the Artie and topic realm, the
growth in wealth and population
ias surpassed even the growth
a territory. Nowhere else in
ie world is the average of in
livtdual cotnfort, and material
jvell being as high as in our for
tunate land. V
For the very reason that in
naterial well heing we have
thus abounded, we owe it to the
Almighty to show equal progress
n moral spiritual things. With
1 nation, as with the individuals,
who make up a nation, meterial
veil being is an indispensable
foundation. But the foundation
ivails nothing by itself. That
life is wasted and worse than
wasted, which is ■spent'* in piling,
heap upon heap, those things
which minister merely to plea
sure of body and to the power
that rests only on wealth. Upon
naterial well-being as a founda
.ion must be raised the structure
>f ths lofty life of the spirit, if
.his ration is properly to fulfill
ts great mission and to accom
plish all that we so ardently hope
ind desire. The things of the
oody are good; the things of the
intellect better, but best of all
ire the things of the soul; for,
in the nation as in the individ
lal, in the long run it is charac
ter that counts. Let us there
fore as a people set our faces re*
iolutely against evil and with
)road charity, with kindness and
?ood will toward all men, but
With unflinching determination
o smite down wrong, strive
with all the strength that is
*iven us for righteousness in
public and in private life,
Now, therefore, I, Theodore
Roosdvelt, President of the Uni
ted States, ao set apart, Thurs
day, November 26, next, as a
lay of general thanksgiving and
osayer, and on that day I recom
nend that the people shall cease
;rom their daily work, and, in
n their homes or in their church
's, meet devoutly to thank the
\lmighty for the many and
*reat blessings they have re
ceived in the past and to pray
that they may be given strength
,o to order their lives as to de
erue a continuation of these
)lessings in the future.
Witness whereof, I have here
mto set my hand and caused the
eal of the United States to be
axed.
Done at the City of Washing
ton, this the thirty-first day of
October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine and eight,
and of independent of the United
States, the one hundred and
thirty-third."
~ Theodore Roosevelt.
"BLIND TIGERS"
Mr. Editor:
We don't know who invented
the name for this class of liquor
dealers, but we do know that the
method follows in tho wake of
ill efforts to suppress or regu
late the greatest evil of this age.
Drunkeness and debouchery
La§t May our State voted on the
evil, the returns . show a large
majority In favor of Prohibition.
SVe understand prohibition to
nean a kind of pledge given by
ivery healthy citizen that voted
prohibition that he cut out all
Irinking of liqnor as a beverage,
lever asking for it except as
nedicine. Quite a number of
>ur best men acknowledging
;hat they enjoyed dram drink
ng, but were making the sacri
ice for the good of their weaker
>rothers and the boys who would
ret drunk. Now it looks like if
ve as a majority of the voters
ire men of the old school whose
vord was as good as their bond
f 'we hayeany regard tor our
raracity or integrity, we ask why
s the blind tiger still allowed to
oam at will, within and without
he church corporations under
he very nose of our civil officers
Ve read of their operations in
ome of our big town 3 in Police
leadquarters. The church world
eems untiring in its effort. Thay
lave Dr. Davis out already and
n3ybe others hurling the scrip
ural anathemas from the pulpits
it the Blind Tigers. So as to
itrengthen the hands of repre
lentative men when they meet
it Raleigh, that they hold fasc
vhat we have gained against
my set of lobyist that might be
here to legislate us backward on
he liquor. Now we think this
novement on the part of the
>reachers is a little privious a
rindof ago back on the voters
>f the State, that they lacked
confidence in us. We would
suggest that we all let the 'ques-
Aon severely alone for two years
>ecause we are all committed to
;he ruling of the majority. This
3 the basis on which all our
governmental Institutions are
Duilt, anything else would be
jlass legislation, and after the
nethods that provailed in the
sixties when we differed with
>ur national brother on the ques
tion of slavery and we submited
)ur differences to the abitrement
>f arms when the opposing lines
irew near and before the firing
began the most of the good
chaplains would remark that it
was time for non combatants to
go to the rear and they went,
supposedly to pray and, left we
old Boys to watch and fight.
Now let history repeat itself.
To quote the bible, we are
commanded t© watch as well as
pray. Now fellow citizens let
each man constitute himself an
officer of the law watching for
the critter night and day and we
can run it clear away. It has
been said that sentiment is nol
keeping up with the prohibitior
law well that will be proven bj
time alone. Now allow us to gc
back to the war parallel. Quite
a number of our good voters
have made sacrifice for. the gooc
of his brother. Our Yankee
brothers were in the majority a!
we are in the majority over this
Blind Tiger crowd. The Yankee
brother said we would all be bet
ter .off without the negro slave
and he can prove it by those oj
us who still survive. Our saintec
ministers to the contrary no
withstanding The Lord was 01
the the Yankees side in the figh
and we think he ought to help ui
run out the blind tiger but w
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
No matter which Party is in power you want
your money in a Bank that can uffer you ab
solute Safety as well as liberality. '•
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money with ihis Bank and it will be sul ject to
your order in times of financial depression or
prosperity.
We pay 4 per cent interest, commanded quarterly, in
Savings Department. Certificates of Deposit
bear-4 per cent interest from date
if left fo#r months.
Hickory Banking & Trust Go.
J. F. ABERNETHY, Pres. W. X. REID. Cashier
will have to wait and see. We
are going to say that the minis
ters and the church have finish
ed their work, and a little more.
Lets go back to Abrahams age
and raise up a crop good citizens
If the rum suckers and toughs
head not the appeals of their
mothers, wives and sisters,
neither will they listen at the
preacher.
Why does the facker and the
fraud
Run round without restraint
The liar claims that he knows
God
And sits among the saints.
The gutter snipe and soiled dove
Sit in tjie forward pew
Claiming that all in life is love
And we're as good as you.
The rampant preacher - cries
aloud v
Come unto me and live
The sneeking filthy unclean
crowd
If they wiil only give.
That preacher loves a liberal soul
It makes his purse grow fat
The loaves and fishes are his goal*
He passes round the hat.
Such methods surely are a wrong
The church can ill afford
To Satans work they all belong
Detested by the Lord.
—W. L. Wolfe.
Tommy (aged six who has
just been punished by his moth
er) —Dad I don't believe I can
stand your wife much longer.
Jim—When the meeting open
ed, who look the chair?
Jack —The Constable; he had
orders—the Campaign Commit
tee'hadn't paid the hall rent.
The only baking powder made from
Royal Grape Cream of Tartar, the 1
officially approved ingredient for
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t There Is greater deception in the sole of taking powders than ever before. H
At Ciaremont College
The second Monday evening
entertainments wa3 given Nov..
9th, A large and highly ap
preciate audience was present,
Miss Estha Shuford opened
the program with a beautiful
song, "Spring TJde."
Rev. J. G, Garth gave a lec
ture, "Pike's Peak or Bust,"
the most interesting that Hick
ory has heard for a long time.
The graphic description that pre
sented every object clearly to
the mind's eye, the through
sympathy with his audience
whether in sense or humorous
nonsense was Rev. Garth's from
beginning to end. The start on
foot from Manitow was at ?p.
m. and the top of Pike's Peak ..
was reached at 4a, m., getting
there just in time to see the sun'
rise, but too wearied to appreci
ate fully the. grandeur of the-**
view.
Miss Grace Abernethy's ex-~ ;
ecution in a Piano selection of „
Goddard's was worthy of hearty
praise. . .
The recitations of Misses Boat
wright and Stroup showed ap
preciation of the humorous, and
did credit to their training.
Mrs. Murphy's two songs,
"Creole Love-Song" and "Sing
On" Were a real pleasure to the
audience. In the last selection
her voice was especially sweet,
both were rendered artistically.
A duet by Miss Estha Shuford
and Signor D'Anha, sung with
true artistic feeling, brought to
a close. this very pleasant and
entertaining evening. The great
improvement noted in Signor
D'Anna's pupils must be a source
of great gratification to him.
The next in these series of en
tertainments is Dec. 7th. These
are fine opportunities for pleas
ant and profitable evenings
which are very popular.