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formerly McDotvtlt Democrat
VOL XIV.
MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1910.
NO. SL
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PROFESSIONAL
DR. E. J. EVANS,
DENTSIT
MARION, - . - ;- " n. c.
Rooms 1, 2 and 3, Poteet Building
At Old Fort second and fourth
, Monday's " -
t."a. morphew
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW"
Office over Merchant's & Farmers'
Bank.' x -
MARION -
N. C.
DR. J. GILLESPIE ; RE1D,
Dentist
Will scnswer calls at any
hour of the night. -Rooms
3, 4 and 5
First National Bank Building,
Marion, N. C.
McBRAYER 8 ROSS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Prompt Attention Given All
Business Intrusted to Their
Care. N :-: :-: :-:
Up Stairs, Streetman Building
DR. WM. FLEMING
DENTIST
OFFICE IN' STREETMAN
BUILDING.
C. E. HOUSE
Surveyor and Draughtsman
Make or Copt Maps -Blueprints
and Abstracts a
.... . Specialty. . .
Office in Streetman Bide. Main St
L. C. GOMEp, H. D.
Physician S Surgeon
OFMCKS IN f
FIRST NATIONAL BANK "
ON FIRST FLOOR
Special Attention given to office
practice in the treatment of
chronic diseases.
P. J. Sinclair D. L. Carlton
SINCLAIR 8 CARLTON
LAWYERS '
Practice in State and Federal
Courts. , - .
rtffirft nvp.p Gaston & Tate's Store.
- MARION, N. Or
ft. . McCALL
C. ft. McCALL
McCa.ll Bros.
UNDERTAKERS
Coffins and Burfal iSupplics
Any business intrusted .
to our care will receive
prompt and careful at
tention. V .'. ' .'.
Over McCall & Conley's Furniture
Store. - -
Farm for Sale.
125 acres on Muddy Creek in Dysarts
viUe township, only imUes from C.' C.
& O. BaUroad. Apply to this office.
; . Notice. -Notice
is hereby given: that the Gov;
ernor of North Carolina has called a
Special Term of the Superior Court, for
tha trial of civil causes, for the county
of M cDowell. to begin on Monday,-, the
a of Mav. A. D. 191Q. tocontmue
foronewe3K
This 5th day of April, A. D. 1910. -H.
A. Tate, Chairman .
' -; Board of Commissioners of v
2t 4-21 ' " . McDowell county, N. C.
t)ld: Newspapers for sale
OLD NORTH . I
I NSTATE NEWS.
nte resting Items of Newsldeniconunuidcaao
Briefly Set Forth For
BusyReaders. '
It is estimated that Moore coun
ty will ship 300 cases of dewberries
this year, bringing into the county
the sum of $105,000. - !
Col. Paul B. Means, of Concord,
died Wednesday evening in the
Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte.
from an attack of grip and paraly-
sis. .
E..H, Miller, an old Confederate
soldier and a member of the First
North Carolina Cavalry, died at
his home in Lenoir last week,' age
79.
That Senators Simmons . and
Overman are always alive to the
interests of their people is evidenc-
ed by the fact that "they have in-
troduced measures to stopdiscrim-
mating freight rates.
.
The Supreme "Court has decided
against Thomas, the druggist whose
license was rescinded by the. State
Board of Pharmacy because he
sold cocaine in violation of the law.
Thomas sought to compel the board
to renew his license. I
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Judsre Owen H. Guion. of the
third district, has sent in his resig-1
nation to Governor Kitchin to take
effect April 30th. ; CcJ. D. L.
Ward of New Bern was appointed
Saturday by Governor Kitchin to
fill the vacancy. J
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There has just been equipped at
the State's Drison a library of 447
volumes for the use of prisoners.' money and sells his yote. . -. - -It
is conveniently located and has Some will say. "I don't believe.
writing and reading room ad jacent.
The convicts are allowed certain
hours for the library conditioned
on ' gooa : oenavior. ine central i
Drison now has eighty prisoners in I
the regular convict department and
fifty-four in the criminal insane
department, There are abeHatOOisnai o any community thai Un
convicts out on contract work and
at work on the farm..
,:--
Representatives of 75 cotton mills
in north Uarolma met in Greens-
boro Tuesday' and, after several
hours of f ull and ' free discussion,
unanimously adopted resolutions
declaring for one-third curtailment
of the normal output of yarns and
cloths of each mill between May 1
and September 1 of this year. The
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resolution calls upon all the mills
in the South to co-operate by the
adoption of a similar rate of cur-
. . . . . .
tailment. Night work is also de-
precated and it is not to be engag-
ea m auring xnis penoa.
xwueigu, -txpni. iai yvy?
logist Joseph Hyde Pratt expects
that the plans of the state geologist
and' economist survey will be so
materialized within 1 the" next few
weeks so that the survey and lo
cation of the t Charlotte Asheville
highway through Rutherford .and
Henderson counties can be gotten
under way. UjAlso". the survey for
the Blue Ridge , higBwaylhrough
Buncombe, Yancey, Mitchell and
McDowell counties and the Ashe-
ville-Knoxville road across - Madi
son county.
- - Dr, Weaver's New Work. .
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It will be of interesto his many
friends to learn, that Dr. C. U,
Weaver, who recently resigned the
presidency of Davenport College.
has accented an offer made him by
Dr. Crook, of Centinary College,
Tenn Dr. Weaver will have
rharirft of the collet as resident
Drincipal, all expenses being paid
and a handsome salary given; while
l)r: Crook will manage the finan
nffairs of the institution. This
will relieve Dr. Weaver of much
of .the heavy burden he has borne
.....
during the past ten years.-rtiicK
oi y Mercury.- v
Every McDowell county Demo
crat should see that his poll tax is
nai.l before May 1st. Saturday is
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Don't disfranchise
J yourself. -
inn msh ua.v.
PEOPLE'S FORUM.
? Tliis department Is referred for kttm from
the people on rarioai topic. THE Pbookkm
be witbeld in publication. ;
THE BUYING
OF VOTES
And "Corruption Funds11 in
Elections1 in McDowell V
County. -
We read .with great interest and
become indignant on account of
political doings in &ew York in
Pittsburg,; in San Francisco and
elsewhere away from home. Let's
now give a few sober thoughts to
what's at home in McDoweU
county. .-.
Do we not claim for ourselves
that this isa law-abidingand Chris-
tian community 1 : Do, or do not,
many men high np in boih politi-
cal parties "and church members,
too and some of the very church
officials in all of the churches
join inr with, or take the lead of,
a large number of the most orom-
inent citizens and business men of
the community in contributing
money to swell a "corruption
fund" with which to buy the votes
of tQeir weaker, brothers and fel-
ow ciuzens, ana men nanaie ana
place thtf "filthy stuff" the price
of the poor man's "birth-right"
in the hands Vf hini whose very
soul they would see go hellward
for a dishonest votel Is not the
"prominent man" whocontributes
to this corrupUon fandr or who
deals it lout to his weaker brother,
less excusable and more deserving
of contempt than" the poor man
(often in sore need) accepts the
myself, it is right to buy and sell
Vnt Of rnrcA no mn can ba
found, or who has ever been heard
f wonin h to th "ininiw. tn
he believes any such business
;be right. Every man knows
wen jt js no less than a public
.ti : Rnt -tKnv- WpII.
th othr ssida docs it and we must
too, or our party will be beaten."
What! thisshocking' custom so
L,Mf,n, irtir- -alriu1v th.i
must engage in it, or those who
mou& cry out against it are so out
of date as to - modern methods in
DOKtics and in such hopeless mi-
nority that it is useless for them to
MV .nvthin against it.- Surelv
I ""-rf r b t-r )
tu:s cannot be sol The masses of
tbe oeoDle of this county cannotbe
Lq corruntso debased, so rotten in
-
sentiment and so shameless that
U wa, a M nnrwuvl tvotAhn v
ing are in the minority. " They are
in the msioritv. and a most tre
mendousvmaiorilv.. They simply
have f ai ed heretofore to wake on
anj to stjr themselves up and come
out with the nerve to stand up on
their convictions and say: "This
business sbair stop; no man shall
have my vote for any office. until
he washes his hands of the vote
buying business both clirectly and
indirectly (if iie has- ever engaged
it)" Xet candidates for office
and -managers of elections under
stand that they can no longer serve
as officials for nor occupy high po-1
sition with an . honest people until
they set themselves, with all their
might, against this infamous busi
ness, and it is then at aaend. T
How few men in this county
who would not themselves for any
price buy . nor sell a vote have come
out and boldly: and - publicly said,
no man shall .have iny vote who
has not' clean hands 1" The . man
who has not done this has passively
assented to this shameless practice
and is partly responsible for 'its
continuance. -. - . "
Why, we have a law forbidding,
under penalty of .heavy, punish
ment, the buying of votes, and we
are told that the reason thi stat
ute cannot be enforced is that so
many prominent men" in both
parties would be caughtl Think
of itl So many "prominent men
and officials have violated the law
that it must be ignored for their
-.! t .
.,k .u.uiiurrTrr. I
onourcnaiDgangs x or less enraw
man vne wiwiui, premeaiuiea ar.a
most deliberate corruption of a
whole community by the buying
of the votes of a large number of
iU ciUzens-and white men, too.
Think it over and answer the ques-
tion for yoursel f.' .
Do we want officials intheCourt
House (or elsewhere) who corrupt
themselves and violate the law by
buying votes, or who contnbute to
a corruption fund! Rather let the
I
Houses were never builtOhat rag
tags should be -punished, while
officials and men in high places go
free and defy the law. Do we
want officials in the churches wuo
buy votes, or help (secretly-and
no wonder they are ashamed to do
it ooenly-) to sweU "corrupUon
funds! Rather let the churches
be torn down. For surelv a church
cannot be useful in an effort to lift
mankind Heavenward when iuoffi-
cials contribute their money to cor-
rupt and debase their neighbors
and the brothers by buying their
votes and their consciences,
lias it not verily bappened, and
in McDowell county, that a man
can go out and boldly declare that
he will spend all he is worth or be
elected gets into office ! Indeed,
has it not come to pass that vote
buyers and boosters of corruption
unds have stood in the very
shadow of the County's Temple of
Justice, on the streets of the coun-
ty seat, and counted on the fingers
of their hands the number of men
wno in weir opinion, as wry
clared, could not be boughtl
By whose fault does this busi-1
ness go on, and get worse ana
worse, as it is doing! By the fault
of the honest masses of voters, and
of the church members of the va-
nous churches, who bate it in their I lr understood that this article re
nower easily by simply making fers to vote buyers, willful rote
their sentiments and determina-
tions known, to force both politi-1
cal parties to nominate no man
who continues to buy votes, "or
who contributes to a fund for this
purpose, or who allows his friends
to do so for him. Notice closely
what the office seeker has to say
about this vote buying business in
the papers. ' Hear what he has to
say about if on the stump. Of
course he will say he does not be -
lieve In the vote buying business,
But notice whether he says he has
not, and will not, again so long aslof the commeoU herein ma le I
hA Iivm. mntrihntA ona cent to i
campaign fund with which to buy
rotes, either directly or indirectly,
and will not allow his friends todo
so (their friends are not going to
work for them in violation of their
wishes, and throw in their money,
too). Make them tell how much
money their party has raised Mfor
WUimatis exrjeriaesw thev know.
every man of them who is running
for an office knows how muchllentionally, and, against his will,
monev has been made uo-and then
apply some common sense to the
question of the necessity for such
a fund for "legitimate expenses.n
And most of all watch every one
of them and see wbetner they lire
np to the line in secret, and expC3e
them for every hook and 'crook,
Then the business is put to an end;
and not till ihen. A majority 'can
rule, and a majority can bring this
about. More than 9-10 of our sod usually just before th noroi
citizens, yes 99 out of erery 100 1 nations are made, that a few men
men iQ this county are opposed to
f .
vote buying. All are opposed to
it, except a few corrupt politicians,
Hi mm
and their . nenenmen" in eacn tnis is so ana how ruucn more
community, who would debase tliere is to it tint can't well be
their, neighbors "and send their written.
souls to bell in order to get to . And io conclusion a won! to the
handle a purse of . "Campaign rotn whose vote the Mbig man"
Boodle," a large part of which, in proposes to buy. A Urre pro
many cases, never gets out of their portion of them are not really bad
own pockets. Tbe time has come meo, though the very mrn who
for honest people to frown down buytheir votes harn tim- after
such business. time been heard to speak of them
Many good men hare - been " "contemptible scoundrvlO.who
thoughtlessly, in the beat of bat- they. say Mwe liare to make up
tie, caught in this business, with- money to buy tb.'u., Tlw tr-MiMe
out thinklog, seriously, about it.
Let thera now think about it.
and get ashamed for it, and quil
it forever, and come out on the
side of law, decency, and' good
citizenshin. and fiht eve rr man
of anr nartv (before he b nomin
ated and afterwards if necessary)
who does not try to put it down
i .
The re it no tw-in stying. ItcaVtlto him to kaad k!a a few
help or hu U WMtiriJlf(X
It WM nol alwtJ., w fl McDoire
Manj cil;Mn, .rH
rmemVr wln thn buslo .if
Vholoale" rt, Siting brgan u,
capture elections in thUeotnty.-
U,a hr
To lhl m,n- wh ,orrt hlf
anj iu mho
WOuld rejoice to the -orind-
plee" for which he labors preraik
what u the strength of ynur Prty
in McDowell county 1 Why don't
yoa kn0Wf or hare M;no denVU
idcmf Because the conricUont of
wh'Q Ux i
wlh ooe or lh, QXhtr puicai par-
for purtr p.lriolic
are orershadawed and overpower-
bj n of , 'xrroptfoo
fund" (of from $3,000.00 to $,000..
m to be conservative which bt,
ike election. The average roan,
who has not the money to ctnrtri-
bate to a MCarapgo fund," and
kas only hit principles at tuke.
hundreds of them, hare their wills
run 0Ttr tn. Uielr looet rutr
set at naught by the mm. ..r the
ew men, wno can, atxi wiv are
corrupt enough to do it (a:d who
hare personal gains at stake, yoa
may be sure) V ci. tribute the
largest bag of Mnoudk.
in.1 to .rw r...ikr ..f ki
inf.ra0us aram is lrJin, t.
Uocm not ererr wide awik man in
thU county kn..w, as c!l as he
knows his nimo. ih.t in a m.ioritr
Lf CASe3 wbcre T.i rr bought
Im.i th knr ,,f iK . ..t- .i-
1, cruin men of hit
p.. .h4n xo1ba fo, ,rJ. -unm
the voter to support certain mo
io wie omer pany wnotu inej
quietly say here and there it is net
worth while to try to beat and so
elect tbera)! And let it be dUli aci
buyers, who prefer to keep if up.
nd that no reflection, or hurt of
I my kind, is iotnded for the man.
and men, who hare thoughtlessly
I fallen into this business. But there
I are a few corrupt men who glory
in buying an election, c a man at.d
1 his conscience, and who, it is fear.
ed, will prefer to continue this in
I famous busioeis. and for th.
only, are any of the refl-ciio.ns
1 herein made intended, rl If any
lone one of thera, whose foot the
boe fits, shall feel agrierrd at ar.r
Dim ooeai" iror.ine man wim
wants to bo it" io any suh
fashion ought to hare the ro:ce f
the pig instead of a real mtn. -tin
less indeed it would -Uj maro in
keeping with seeralioess for him U
hare to crawl oo his belly liU the
disguised and hide-jus monster thst
be is that U the willful rotten
1 hearted vote buyer, and not the
I good man wbo has somehow unln
gotteo into this business.) Let the
I people-see him. and ae who he ts.
and what justitication he can make
for this business, or whether he
can so much as dispute and coo-
vince th. people to the contrary
the assertioa hero made, thst a
great many of the rote buyer.
some of them prominent m-n on
both sides, : 'unJersUnJ each
other,? and agree before election,
I l . L.IL.
oi caca party anau oe ticcmm.
- Think this matter owr for yoar-
I selves, and decide bow much of
I a a . a
n, Uie more innuentt.il nwn ww
Ure corrupted lUm are wn lims
worse than tl? uk-u n- in.
floeoved iy them, Jur ii U'l.niural
that the plain and huni'dr ntau r.m
arnl will be influ-ied l.y l.ia x
- Priors (eren tliough.the called
"superior is worse than he U).
Instead of feeling that the piWi
cent man of Jbzsecce who
cooes
paltry
dollars to bar hit hn?r -.4 Kt.
Tote it his frieod. be oasbt to
know thai oo Ue cotitrary be b
his worst enemy, who ooU cor
rupt hli manhood aod kit rtry
tool for a duhooru vote.
The sojrstatioo to bay
rote simply meant that the rn
who mtkes the offer Wlicrr lit
votr to b o wrk. o comi(4,
rd toUckicg la tlf mpect at lkl
he wcuU Mil ku "birth rihi" for
"a mcs of potUce, aid lh boa
tt man ou-hl to rwct it by titp
lAcg in the face, a&J by tlocspicr.
if ncofs&ary, aod tpiliit opoo, the
rtKnt promtnroi rota in tb coca,
roanity who hinU toch a thin to
l.im.
And now l?l thone ho oJ
ytt Ul're thai etrrbolr w
ms this prclK by to ib tula re.
and thl no mat) will prrs tcJKl-
menu aibU mn tutx er.jrt
a it, Uko ruic brv ud oom
that at leajl a few mta will col
uoly not tegage ia iL bol ihil a
oombcr and roort ihaa ma may
want to bcltete will prr. 4ku
mcnta aifaiwi crery mtt, kigk aJ
oi and rpcilly prtmocl
men wbo TioiaLe tbe law in iLU
rtappct, brTafLr.
Tbe irrc4t mjonj of commoo
people in thit cooaty hare locr
bo impaliccl to c thit iniquit
ous practice tapped, ad all tow
bare an opportunity to join in aoi
kelp organize, or rather crytulize,
and hare and keep in readis, a
waked op poblic r&UmecU which,
while grumbling a Utile, hu brta
generally tleping for years pwl
in McDowell county.
Marion, April 18, 1910.
A Crrat.
rieaaing gtmiy 10 rouiierr o
the Iuchmood posWfSc co tbe
night of March 7, when $.tm
wai-ukeo Midien Fay aad "Ut
ile Dick" iUrrit were ecUaord to
lOyearsio the AtlasU pe&iUatiary
and fined $4,000 each-
Headqiuiarteirs
for
FEED
Building
NEAR DEPOT.
,
JEWELRY
WATCHES and CLOCKS
Silverware
Repairing of all kinds done
durably and neatly.
J. FRED
JEWELEK
MA-RIO.
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MARK TWAIN DEAD.
KtritiU Grutf it Hs:ntt Pitt
- iAaittHStH:iU
Saaeei Lazbora Clsntct,
known to th pcUk as Mar V Twii-,
died at kit kooe b IMiirx. Coo
Dectkct, al CJ.) o'clock Uil Thurs
day t;igkt of agiia pertoris, afur
aa ill&r of tMj weeks. Mr.
Otaets kad socgkl rtatocatbo it
krahh by a trip to the Bersdia
blaJt. bet kad rtUrted aooa
wtOu ao caisaproml. The ft- -oca
ksmoriil w as bora la Htstibtl,
MtMOQri, oo Noressbe 10,
aud was lUrxton ia the TClh ytar
of U ar. H it body wiH U Uii
to real ia family f4o4 al Cni
ra, N. Y., where are kcried kls
to dt-iurs, Scsaa az.3. Jeajx,
aad hit i&facl ace, Lsrgboctit.
Tb osly dear relative aarrirlig la
oot da,skUr, Mrs. CUra GakrU
wiich, wbo was al Mr. dttzH
bediida wkta dta'ii cssa. ,
Tbe laiur half of tka dtataacl
clary krtw do more criqdt tsd
i&lrruitg liurary thxncUt la
Am oca ikaa Maik Twsia. Ettred
amc it cacocla esrirccsDCil
thai charactrixd lb frcclUr
coaclry ia wkkh kls boyhood waa
Pt.U be dertloped a tXjU wkk
ka-t made kit wntitg popcUr wilh
ail claAMna of Ataerkaa readers
tloc be rst becarae gtseraHy
kcown at a writer.
Tbe Uur years of tba greas ka
momt'a life were betel wlih traury
rrrersr at4 miifortSiea, Fisxa
cial lovMe fell kearily epea kla al
ranoas lis dsrirg a Vocg Una
of years, " kUe death robbed klaa
of two dacgklers la rsctJ&ake,
each of wboca was parUcalaxiy b-t-.
rs. - ,m
M death of kit dazxkler Jraa iut fall
was a Uow froea whkb tbe agi
mta, tor brokea by dsf octets
aad til keal'Ji, coclJ soijrey rs
corer. Il talgkt ' sJaal be sail
thai tbe greatest kciaotirl stkka
Acnca ertr peodoccd died of a
brokea heart.
STUFF
Materia
IL
PIIO.HC t37
anci Cut Glass
SPRAGUE
and OPTICIAN
SiOlint CA-XOLJfA
jit this office. - , ir