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Democrat VOL. XX III liOOXK, WATAUGA COUNTY, TIIUIISDAY. JULY 11 11)12. NO. 4S. Watauga Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR! A Furniture Haying puichased all I be stock in the business of the Iloone Fur. riicnre Co., I am prepared to Bell tou anything in my line at a very reasonable figure. Drtsrers, bureaus, Chairs, Hed Steads, R-d Springs, Mattrensvs, ftc. Give him a rail when in need of an.v thing in 1 he line of furniture. 3TStore in Watauga County Bank Ruildine. Resi-ectfuPy, JESSE F. ROBBINS. PROFESSIONAL VETERINARY SURGERY. I have been putting much utiidy on this subject; have received my diploma, and am now well equipped for the practice of Veterirary Sur gery iu all Hi branched, and am the only one in the county, all on or address me at Vila.-, N. . R. F. D. 1. G. H. HAYES, Veterinary Surgeon. 5-17-11. It. E M. MAR ON - DENTIST. Sugar Grove, North Carolina, All work done under guar antee, and best material used. 4-13-'U. E, S. COFFEY, T10llfEl Al LAW- BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to ill matters of a legal nature. .7 Abstracting titles and .miction ot claims a special l-l-'ll. Dr. Nat. T. Dulane. SPECIALIST KYE, KARJNOSK. THROAT AJfD CHKST KIKS KXAMINKD FOR GLA.FSK9 FOURTH STREET Bristol, Tenn.-Va- SDMUND JONES LAW YEIt -LENOIU. N. 0,- 'ill Practice Regularly in ; he Courts of Watauga, vl Ml. I, I). LOWE, ATTORNEY -AT LAW, BANNER ELK, N. C. iiTWi!i practice in the courts Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining tat ties. , 7.6.'n. F. A. L1NNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, BOONE, N. C. Will practice in the courts of cho 13th Judicial District in al matters of a civil nature. 3-11-1911. J. C. FLETCHER" Attorney At Law, BOONE, N.C. '.v. -eful attention given to !r?tion8. ; E. F. Lovill. W. R. Loyill. Lovill & Lovill Attorneys At Law -BOONE, N. Special attention given to all business entrusted to their care. .. .. .. .'. ,7-9-'10. WNm the Mat Faced the Xachine. Monroe Journal. Better a ceutury of Europe than a cycle of Cathay." It was 'forth a thousand spee. chea of ordinary men even in t hir best efforts to have seen and heard V. J. Brian in his titanic fight in Baltimore This writer was there and never has he wit. nessed a more uplifting event or lelt prouder of American putriot sm and elemental manhood aud character than when the stal wart champion of human rights stood single handed and alor-e in his inaguificent fight against that sinister influence o! low browed iwlitics, represented by Tummuny allied with the inter ests, which went there to murder the hope) of democracy. That murder was ns deliberately plan ned as wa any political crime in the annul of histot.v, and but for the figure ol the uncrowned American king thrown likea boul der across their path, the plot ters would have accomplished their purpose. It was the fightoflight against darkness; the rising tide of pop ular wrath hurled itself against the ancient system of wrong and oppression sponsored by . t h e twin eyils of corrupt politics and corrupt business. Behind the last were all the evil forces that have dominated our politics since the great war, the same lorce that unhorsed the Rough Rider at Chicago and had come here to put its slimypaw upon the deliberations of the Demo cratic party, content, having played its old game of capturing both parties, to let the people fight a bootless battle . betwep n the two. Money aud brains i r lausb proportions were at t h e service of the plotters, the influ ences of those who cry for peace when there is no peace helped the smoothe lai I S'-hemes of the political brigands The ambition nfawpnkman, right at heart, but blinded by the bait held out by the combination. likewise con tributed its part. The. si'ciet methods of politics thut play double behiud doors, professing fair in public, but stabbing in the dark, were all theirs. Oppos ed to these, alone stood Bryan, the civic righteousness. Falsely accused by his enemies, bated by the oppressors of the people, his judgment mistrusted by many of his best friends, without a man to share his burden, not know ing what treachery might stab him, this man was the embodi ment of all the best and noblest in American cirizf nship, and out side the fields of blood there is no figure in our history that de serves eo well to be carved in granite for the benefit of luture generations. Not once did h fal ter or tlinch. The epithets of the small men buzzed around him like so many insects as he brush ed them aside. The shafts of ven om hurled ut him fell hannles.-Iy away, wholly unable to find lodg merit in the character of a man upou whom the .white light of publicity had beaten for sixteen years and showed no Jlaw. Men who measure character by small and selfish rules will not understand the actions of this man; they will say that he wish ed to be dictatorial, that he had ulterior.motives, that he wislnd the nomination himself. But how much more ieasonable, how much more inspiring to accept the simple explanation given in his own words: 'Six million trne Democrat- have thrice hon ored mi with their votes; honor carries obligation, and 1 am will ing to suffer humilation and de feat in their behalf," were the words he usediu explanation ol why he would stand for tempo i ary chairman when all pf the Presidential EWtioneertnr. Maxton Scottish Chief. The old order ehaneth. Tim , was when jt was considered lie neat h the dignity of the presiden tinl office for candidates to make a personal canvas for that high office. That does not mean they did not take u controlling inter-, dsl in their campaigns, but they ( did not go about the country ma kins; speeches, and they did not (le'atneother meu in an endeavor to exalt themselves. It is not necessary in order for a man's views ou public cyirstiou to In come known that h make aspea hing tour of the country. The press is a better menus of secur ing the same end, and his cham pions can voice his view g. It is true the peoile like to see the men who run for the presidency- j It is something to say of a presi dent. "I Lave heard him speak," and there is a certain convincing element in his speech especially when backed by strong personal ity, that must be a powerful fac tor iu political campaigning. But where will it end? We have long been accustomed to regard the ofhee of president with the t'reotest respect. It is a position of the highest responsibility, and hence one of thegreatestdignity. And for this reason, if no other, the methods ol the ward politi cians have had no place in con nection with it. The presentcampaign presents a spectacle new to American pol itics, which no thoughtful man can tail to regret. There is noth ing fine in the speaking cam paigu of two politicians vilifying each other in the manner of the low est of their kind, the one the Presi dent of the United States and the otli'-r an ex-president, Both men are rapidly convincing the peo ple that neither should Reelected to the high office to which thy aspire. After the national conventions have settle 1 th" question of can didates, sbali we have a similir campaign between the parties? For years candidates fornomina tion have mode sjpakirg tours before the conventions took place, but within memory there has been no. such campaign or re crimination was witnessed in Ohio between Taft and Roose velt. Bryan was the first nomi nee for the presidency who made acanvu8lor thecountry whilehis action was regretted by conser vative people of both parties, his speeches were digniSe I discus sions of issues, ami personality had no part in them. other progressives had refused, and when he himself evpected to ho snjwed under by twice the vote that really did defeat him. It was his personal comfort and advantage to have lain down, to have made no fight, to have ac quiesced in the general demand for that harmony which he knew to be a surrender of the people's cause For himself, by such a coure he would have saved all, and it U u proof of the essentiully heroic mould of the man that he would not buy a peace that he knew to be false at the price of his own conscience and the hope of the plain people who had trus ted him. In the unspotted splen dor of hisowncharacterand man hood, inspired only by the secret prayers of those back home, he outgeneraled, fought, and over whelmed t he enemies that had set the snare for him and the people whom he stands for, and whatev er be the results of that famous convention, the inspiration of that fight, the undaunted and unsel'ish struggle of this man must be a heritage of American citizenship and a comfort to those, who, like him, have en listed for the war in the eternal 1 fight of right aaainst wrong. The Aradrnle fflltoa The New and Oberver. The objection to Dr. Wilson, that he m lived in an ncademic atmosphere, isn't a serious one. Sometime ago a powerful paper of the Middle West reprinted an ditorinl attack upon Governor Wilson, calling upon bis nuppor tern to point out what be had done. There were years of Con gressional serrice to the credit of his several able competitors. These were equipments that could notbe denied. Who is Woodrow llson? the editorial asked. And as if he were tota'ly un known, it pointed out that he had been Princeton's president aud that nobody, unless a sort of men tal Ireak, could name his succes sor. True to the spirit of the anti-Wilson iudtpendt ntiam iu the p:n tv, it nt tacked him on the ground that college presidents generally are small men. It thai lenged someone to uame thepres ident of ale, ol Harvard and Pennsylvania. But it must le remembered that Dr. Wilson's claims upon the presidency are not based up ou his siz-) in the public's eye so much ns upon his work for demo cratic regeneration. The reason he is known so much better than most colUge men is because he has done so much more, lie is forgetting more public service out of college men. He does not feel that contemporary college processes make the men who re ceive their benefit, serviceable to the country us a whole. He has been al8( lutely truetohiscollege ideal. His objection to the rich ly maintained colleges is that drawing their breath of life from the wealthy, they fall to serve the public. Ilia objection to receiv. ing Ryan's money or anybody else's can be predicated upon the name basis. These defects of the colleges, es pecially the great eastern univer si ties, have been so often pointed out by bim that he called upon Princeton men to dedicate their powers, as he did, to a democra tic regeneration, He prophesied at college the disintegration of political parties unless they had a moral regeneration. Such lea ders he has provided and calls upon the colleges to provide ev erywhere. And the way to promote that regeneration is manifest. Those who want it much preach it. Dr Wilson believes this uplift in pol ities must come from colleges, it should do so anyway. True, he di 1 not always find sympathy at PrincPton. They talked athletics and the prospect of skinning Yale or beating Harvard. They quo ted Wellington that the battle of Waterloo was w onou the play grounds of Eton. But there is another side. The big Western Universities haveun derstood. Rhey have set a fast pace and competition w ill yet do the work. And competition is democratic doctrine. Subtract from the Western insurgency a mong the Republicans, the last twenty years of influence coming from the Western colleges, and there is little left. Governor Wilson wasn't the first to point these things out, but he was one of I he first to give them eraph'isis. The man who would set him down simply as a college president who has acquir ed a certain amount of school tea chei s lore, and therefore unfitted rather than unfit for public life, can object il that is all that he sees in the innn. But he hasdone much to make the rolhges of his section of the country see that their standard of serviceab'eness mut be raited and that they must have men ever ready to fill the niches in the pnbliclife. They LION HEART. J Taft' trfei I Inctittble. r.. ,. , . , ,,. , , . i Hit-lmiotitl Thai' nixiuttch. The lion heart"d Richard in ,. , ,. , , , ..... Ki.ii.i ii !i tin whtH-1 or one man happy days of yoro. was wont toja,,,,,,,,,, ,lu. i.,.,.,,,,., ,wrty hlltchcr pfople and Wilde iucritll- to tin- r. antry with th weaken- rac son got e; he looked around for J ,l ' ever offered eo tl.e Victims, his hand on l.atll..fiv ' " and when ho ran across him he calmly broke their liacks. He's been the gaudy hero of t-chormof rattling books; old men have toht about bim in winter ingle nooks; and even yet the mins trel nbiut bis glory sings but no one e'er accused him of doing useful things. Had Richard 6tay ed iu England aud buckled dow n to tacks; had he worn off on bloodshed and pawned his but tle ax, and tried to give his peo ple n half way dwent reign, he would not lie the hero of bug bouse poet's strain;' his bones would lie acrumbling among for gotten kings our heroes are not people who do the useful things. Today we make an idol of bim who wields his jaws: the men of twinkling cymbals is given the applause; if he goes forth und bellows for this or that reform, we call him lion hearted, an oak tree in the storm, a bulwark of the nation, a David with his sling we never want a heso who does the useful things. The men who built the citiesnnd make the deserts bloom; the men whose busy fingers attend the mill and loom; who send the ships of com merce across the vasty deep; who toil to further science when oth ers are asleep; who rob the hills of riches, the quarries of their stone; these go their way obscure ly, their nameB to hi me unknown while we applaud the fakir for whom the welkin rings our he roes are not people who do the useful things. Walt Mason. When Buying, Buy Only the Best. Costs no More but gives Mie best results. H. L. Blomquist, Esdaile, Wis., says his wife considers Foley Honey and Tar Compound the best cough cure on the market. "She has tried various kinds but Foley's gives the best result of all," For sale by all dealers. Times of general calamity and confusion ever been productive of the greatest minds. The pur est ore is produced from the hot test furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Lacon. Move On Now ! says a policeman to a street crowd, and whacks heads if it don't. ''Move on now," says the big, harsh miner al pills to bowel congestion and suf feaing follows. Dr. Kings New Life Pills don't bulldoze the bow els. They gently persuade them to right actton, and hea'.th follows. 25 c at all druggists. The Republican platform stands pat on the protective tariff and that is one ot the reasons it going to get it iu the neck. Mrs. Lela Loye, wife of Wiley Love a farmer living near Covcna, Ga., says; ,lI haye taken Foley Kidney Pills and find them to be all you claim for them.' They gave me almost instant relief when my j kidneys were sluggish and inactiye. I can cheerfully recommend them to . all suffv.rers from kidney troubles. For sale by all dealers. A world without a sabbath would be like a man wirhout a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It Is the joy ous day ol the whole week. Beecher, must keep the goods that the people waut. It was athletics most displayed half a dozen years auo 011 the college counter j It is now well, it isn't athletics altogether. It will he service. mti.-:hi l-Tl l-r tl.e :re-iu-i.r Willi the whins fin if of ."ft flyh,- i iit l.i.lf n.-.vf II. o i..rtv w-l.i.h 41.. !tfr,.at war ,ttlt, jnto a!lI,.(lt ,m,f '', m tnry o'nniiiterru."teli ntrol fcti- down, wrecked ou the Mi'uil of iu tprnnl diM4iiktix and w ith iln tti wt rent by oir lendendiip and ui popular olices. The regular Repi.b licuin determined to die by ihe'r Knit; they would not desert the or piuiration, nor would they in the faoe of a rapidly widening widening cIihsiii iu the party desert their titular heiul. They reiili.d that they nool at Waterloo and not at Anuagi'ddon Hoping for rttoirreetiou upon hoiiih hrijf liter dny.t lit y nevertheless nailed for their standard hearer iu the coui iiiff cniiipaiKn one wIhmo record whose ptTMiiiality, whose policial) and whoso platform attart defeat to him ax the mapiiet draws the ne.idle. He caunot eoiuuiaud the waves or proyressive imu to recede, and they who culiuly choKo hi in know that he cannot. The old Republican party wa the creature of the interkta. It decayed liecause of the corruption of decner aey which always accompany la Icaxcs of position and power. It be trayed the people;it exalted privilege. It imperial disregard of the prinei plen of democracy wrote its own death wairant. It lies prostrate and broken and its backbone is shattered. If the Democratic party chr.ose well it man with the linc, It cannot fail t-? lei! to earth what it left of tbo Repub lican party. The monthly report for May of the Internal revenue offlce at Asheville has been completed and show the largest number of Heizures of illicit distilleries ever made inlthis division. This number is 82, and the largest previous record was 74, made last March. This would seem to Indicate that the blockading business hi thriving of late instead of bein;rblot ted out. It also shown thattheactivity of the revenue men Is increasing along' with the activity o f the uioonshinerc In this month's record Virginia far outstrips North Carolina in the total number, 58 of the 82 ha ving beet, seized in that State, while only ?3 were taken in this State. The resoji.r. ing two were seized in Tennessee There were few arrwts resulting from these seizures, although 24 proeecut ions were recommended. Union Re publican. CURED A BAD SPAVIN, fg K3t Mr. B. H. Ivejr, Marion, N.C.. vrrittu i jj& "My horse had a very bud cast- of spavin $ and nothing: did any good until Itrkd a r ' Mustang Liniment. 1 ruuix-a tne spuvin : freauentTv with the liniment nnd soon svr nit improvement. I did this thm: cr tfnur I times a day and my horse vrn enmpicttly piirnd It ic nt-n trt rww if nrmwlv ur.ed. 1 v.. r-r'- v FOR HORNET STINGS. Mr. S. J. Hudjon, Nowbern, N.C. ritet : "I have ward Mexican Mustang Lini mentfnr ditTorcut ailment anil have four.d it an excellent liniment. At one time my mnrewHi h;illjr xtung bv hornets but your liniment otui My curcu ner. i nnve recom mended it to oilier hundreds of tiuiei. ' 25c.50c.Jlbottlat Drug &Cn'lStori CURES SWINNEY. Mr. R. S. Shelton, Hill, N.C., writMt "I nscd Mexican Mustana Liniment on a very valuable home for swinney and it cured it. 1 always keep it in my stable and think Itthe best liniment forrubsandKall?" It contains do alcohoi and so cannot sting in cases of open wounds or buna. Soothes and cools at once. Justtrjit. For BURNS and BRUISES. Mr. W. V. Clifton, Raleigh. N. C writaai "I keep a bottle of Mexican Mnstan jr j.Mitmcnt in mv noiiseconunHiiy lor jrci, eral use. It is the linest thing in the worlu for Cuts, llurns and Bruises." 2 5c, SOc. $ 1 a bottle at Druf 4k CsnV Stone
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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