?Ijr i*irral& Published Every Friday Morning. BEATY & LASSITER, Editors and Proprietors. Entered at the Postofflce at Smith Held, Johnston County, N. C., as ??cond-class Matter. Rates of Subscription: One Year, Cash in Advance.. $1.00 Six Months .50 LOW SALARIES OR HIGH SALARIES? The people of Johnston coun ty are in favor of putting the officers on salaries. Do they fa vor low salaries or high salaries? "We assume that all right thinking people waut its to pay our offi cers libreal salaries, not too low nor too high. AVo oannot expect our officers to work for their "victuals and clothes." as was the case with certain orphan chil dren in the old times. There are certain necessary expenses con nected with holding office, such as paving the charges for making bonds which are required for the safetv of the public, and so forth. A man should not be ex pected to auit what he is doing and hold office until his succes sor is named on too small a sal arv. "We should be willing to pay our officers enough so that by economv thev could save some ? lii n rr W?u*. On the other hand we all shoul want the salaries too within the bounds of reason and not so much above what is paid other folks for work. How shall the salaries of the county officers be fixed7 It would hardlv be right. for any on man to make out a schedule for them. While we want to be fair to ourselves as a people, we must be fair to our officers also The best plan we have heard sugiresteel is for our county con vention to name a committee ol fifteen to twenty men who woulc be asked to inquire carefully in to this matter and prepare a bill for the Legislature to make the necessary charges. These should be men of business experience whom the people know and would be willing to trust. Under this arrangement neither the people nor the officers would have any thing to fear. Both sides woulc be treateil with fairness. If we do what is right in going to the salary basis we are sure it will work satisfactorily. TWO FINE PLANKS. The Democracy of "VYakt County in its convention last Sat' urday adopted a fine platform one that stands for the people am one that will be a vote winner. Ie county matters, the following planks taken from the platform ring true with the spirit of Dem ocracy: "First, we pledge our candi dates, if elected, to effect a sys tem wherebv our county officials that is. the clerk of the court treasurer, register of deeds and sheriff, shall be paid salaries commensurate with their duties Jh? fees pf said officers shall be turned into the treasury of the county. "Second, we hold that the prin ciple of rotation in office es poused by Jefferson, is a sound one, good for the party, the nublic service, the officer and the people; and we pledge the candidates named by this conven tion not to seek re-election to the respective offices for which they are named after they have been once re-elected." When the principle of rota tion in office is relegated to the back ground the spirit of monar chical government marehse to the front. Hon. John W. Atwater, who represented this District in Con gress one term and who was suc ceeded by Mr. Pon, died sudden ly Mondav while in his field plow icg. He was a srood man and was about 68 vears of age. The Government report show the condition of cotton on Jun 25 was 80.7 per cent. " MEN AND EVENTS. I Sen;, tor Culberson, of Texas, It.'* lw?rij re-nominated to sue ceed himbe'f in the United States Senate, and more, he will be el ected. Nothing .strange about this. lie is a (rood man and lias made a Rood Senator. He has been in the Senate for eleven .years, and so well has he served his i>eople, that there was no scramble for his place. He has made his power as a servant of the people felt. Just think! His campaign expenses for the re nomination footed up, all told, if27. IIow different it is in some other places. I'd in Pennsylva nia, Joseph C. Sibley wanted the i Republican nomination for Con-' tfiv-s. He sccurcd it. Bat his campaign expenses amounted t<> a little more than $4.,000. And li" may fail of election next No-! '.ember. AVo long for the days when a man shall hold offi ? ? i ? cause the people want him, and not because he has to buy it. . * . One of the South's greatest I sons passed awav when Senator John W. Daniel answered the last summons. In every walk of| life he was a man, one true and | firm in his convictions, one thatj not retaining fee could swerve in' the discharge of his public duty.] 1 He bolonped to the same school as Senators Morgan and Pcttus, of Alabama, who passed away three years ago. These were men : who put Right above all else, and never let the populace sway : them from their eatise. They studied to serve the people and ? not to train their favor. No trust ; eould buy them, no public ery or clamor could swerve them froic , what they believed to be the ? right, and uprightness in pub , lie life characterized them and . when they died a nation mourn ed. Oh, bow the nation needs [ such men to-dav to fill the Halls . of Congress. ? ? ? I If the Democratic partv keeps up the record it has started out I with in nominating members of , the Legislature, our next General Assembly will be composed of ' as fine a bodv of men as ever ga I thered together to make laws for , any State. See Durham. She ? ' lias nominated one of the State's known and honored eiti I zens?General Julian S. Carr? , to a seat in the House. And , Wake has named Hon. Richard H Battle, one of the State's finest citizens. Such men give char acter and strength to any body, j Many of the counties have nam ' ed their best citizens?Dowd and , l'harr, of Mecklenburg, Turling ton and Long, of Iredell; Dr. Sikes, of Wake, and many others 1 who will take a high stand in i the next General Assembly. What r will Johnston do? * * * I Who will the Democrats 1101111 nate for the Legislature this year J in Johnston T It is important that . a strong tieket composed of good . men be nominated. Let the Dem ? ' ocracy pick out the very best ' men in the county and theni I call on them to serve. Let no 'man be put up just to give himj a little honor, but let us remem ber that if Johnston county is to take the place she ought to^ occupy in the Legislature, the very best men must be nominated. I Democrats, think on these things. 'l Congressman Page was nomina 1 ted bv acclamation at Rockinghai 1 Wednesdav to succeed himself in t Congress. Congressman Small met a similar fate at the hands of the Democratic convention of the First district at Edenton the same dav. President Taft has signed an order withdrawing 8.495,731 acres of power site, phosphate and pe troleum lands for conservation purposes. This is the first step in the President's conservation policy. The President also nam ed the five engineer officers wtio are to constitute a board to pass on reclamation projects to be com pleted under the recent appropria tions of $20,000,000. The Board is headed by Lieut. Col. John Biddle. SEPARATED ON HONEYMOON I I young Husband is Left Behind at Selma While Bride Comes On To Raleigh. 1 A sad affair happened a few days ago, a young bride and groom were separated while re turning from their ? honeymoon and while the separation only', lasted a few hours yet it bad all the aspects of a real tragedy? at least 1o those most intimately concerned. I The weeping bride came on to Raleigh while the groom was left counting the erossties to Selma. Unwilling to continue on to Durham without her rightful pro tector the unhappy bride stopped in Raleigh and began at once to tret the wires hot from here, to1 Selma to discover if possible what had happened to her husband of a few weeks. The cause of all the trouble was a freight wreck near Selma The voung man. as men have a habit of doing left the train and his bride, and incidentally hi* coat and ticket, pocket, etc. on the train and went out to inves- ( tigate the wreck. While engaged in viewing tl:e scene of the disaster the pas- ? senger train began to move off. j The young man made a dash to j swing on but stumped his toe, and fell beside the road while the J train rolled swiftly away taking) with it his bride, his coat and | his money. And the poor little bride was naturally frantic until the news, came that her husband was safe and sound and was industriously counting the erossties to Selma,' none the worse for the accident, onlv a little wilted and disheveled perhaps. | And then there was a joyful and happy meeting when the' night train brought the lost one hack again and the reunited cou ple continued on their way to Durham?it is hoped without any more separations.?Raleigh Times > July 5. i GENERAL NEWS NOTES. j There were 2 9ti business fail ures in the United States during the week ending June 30, against 167 the previous week and 213 in the like week of 1909. j Former Congressman Frank C, , Wachter, of Baltimore, died las j , week, aged 49 years. Mr. Waeh j . ler served four successive tern a in Congress, lie was a Ilepubli 1 can. ) New Work City post-office re ceipts for the year ended June ! 30 show an increase of $2,413,204 over the preceding year, or 12.11 per cent. The year's total rc 'ceipts are $22,339,500. Many of the cotton mills if the United States were shut dow l Friday until July 11, for the purpose of curtailing produc I jtion. The corporations which' jelosed employ ubout 100,000 ope I ratives. | An estimate that the tota .number of immigrant aliens ad ! luitted at t)ie ports of the United States during the past fiscal| year reached 1,035,545 was made by Commissioner General Keefa i last week. This is an increase of ,283,759 over the number of im j migrant aliens admitted las i year. m % *? TT 1 (N t /? < , i lie JM'w lorK senate aeieaua the Cobb direct nominations bil | by a vote of 25 to 19. Both i houses of the General Assembly adjourned early Friday after- J | noon. The result of the fight in I the Senate was a more positiva i refusal to accept Col. Roosevelt' | I leadership on the bill than that of I the Assembly the day previous. I Former United States Senates l Thomas Battle Turley died in' Memphis Friday afternoon afttx 'an illness of several weeks, aged! 165 years. Senator Turley vm l appointed to fill the vacancy iaj :the senate, caused by the death' of Senator lsham G. Harris, and at a special session of the leg* islature was elected to serTe the remainder of the term, which' expired in 1903. At the expira tion of this term he declined to stand for re-election and was suc ceeded by the late senator E W. Carmack. Senator Turley died in the same residence in which he was born. A woman and two men were killed in an ameteur bull fight in the San Antonio Hacienda in Mexico, Sunday. Fred R. Young, aged 23 years, was killed,, and R. ?). (J'Malley was seriously injured in a runa way on the "Western boulevard, in Louisville Sunday afternoon. Young's iugular vein was sever ed by glass from a lamp which was broken in a collision with a buggy in which the two men were | riding. _ . 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