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: t. !- ST, This man is a charter member of :a E. CI. IJie Republican party, and -was at t'ittshurg when that organization was . christened, more than fifty years ago, an J doubtless heard the opening rrayef offered by Lovejoy, of Illinois, petitioning: Almighty GoJ either to open the eye of Franklin Pierce, then President,' or take him Sience. Born , . , for Journalism, y Chandler rot Into V party politics, and pretty ' particular, jf praeltcal party politics -at that, He la a wiry little man. restless as a ' coon, quick as a cat, vigilant as a , weasel, patient as a spider, persis tent as an ant, busy as a bee, and as full of mischief as the devil himself - that Is the Democratic estimate of Bill Chandler as he .was when Sena . tor. In Congress. . . . ' . -. - Many years ago I tried to describe 'hlm-to the readers of a newspaper of which ; I was then ' correspondent, ' In this fashion: ".';; y'j- v ; He can talk with more men in a Slven time- than any other' Senator. ;Nw e is In his seat,; writing a let . ter: now he is on a sofa, talking with Cabot Lodge: ,how he is on his - legs, making. speech that, will throw somebody into confusion; now he ig whispering to Ben Tillman, putting 'an extra wrinkle of devilment In that 'Bevil'shead; now he is grappling with Lindsay, or 'Hoar, or .Turple, or some ' other great lawyer in;a legal largu jnent, and holding his own, too; now he Is in the chair; presiding -with great ability,' much partiality and lit tle dignity; - now he la talking , Cuba with Morgan: now he is badgering Allen," and Allen is oblivious of the amusement he; is getting out of "AI ,, len; now he is congratulating Bacon on nig conversion to technical v pro teoture . principles, and you , could 7 light a candle by . the bluish' that comes over Bacon's face; new he is ' giving the Senate some ' downright - common ense touching the navy and naval expenditures, for Chandler was ' Xoo perverse, and too ' honest, ' to be run by, rings while he was Secretary f the Navy, now, he is conferring with Cockrell about ; something' he wantis the appropriations committee to do. And so he pushes and shoul ders himself day by day. . He has as. i, much vitality as a cat; the iron-gray of his hair and beard evidence labor, not 'age; his step is as quick as Joe ' Wheeler's, and he uses the elevator less frequently than any other Sen--ator. He enjoys a mug of milk and a-plate of crackers .more than one of Hale's elaborate dinners or one of Gibson's bird suppers, . He prefers water to wine, and he never had the tun of a night of it, nor the misery of the following morning of- It He is the man who got the. presidency for Hayes. : .., " Born in New Hampshire ia 18SS, .William E. Chandler began to ac quire information of a political com plexion before he left his nurse's arms. Aie got a tolerable education . in the' schools and studied ', law . at garvard. Of course, he practiced w In the State of Jeremiah Maeon and .Daniel Webster, but he soon abandoned the ,har for. journalism, though he was reporter of the decis ions of the Supreme bench of the State. Later, he was in the Legisla ; lure,, of which "he got to be Speaker dne term, land chairman of the Re- II- mm h n represent the largest merchants in the State, therefore carry an assortment and quality of goods only to be found in Charlotte the Mecca of the two Carolinas In orderto give those living at a distance an opportunity of taking advantage of such complete lines, members of. the association offer flii A ? r " - DAY IM THE YE M A purchase of $40.00 or more pays round trip for a distanced fifty milCS. A pays one way fare for same distance. You can'divide purchases among different AUTOMOBILES , Osmond L. Barringcr." 3 ART STORE AND PHOTO SUPPLIES VI. 1 Vap Kcsa ft Co. i BOOKS,' STATIONERY AND OF FICE SUPPLIES. ' Stone Darrtnger Oo. Jj-W - " " c. II. Robinson A Co. "' CANDIES AND CONFECTIONERIES ' J. II. Hahn. ' CLOTHING AND MITNVS FURNISH ; ' INGS. . Miller Clothing Co. ' LonR-Tate Clothing Co. s Ed Mellon Co. , , Yorke Bros. Rogers,', Shelor Co. AT 1 'Ask first merchant purchases present rebate book You Live ! OW fi Ey SAVOYARD. publican State commfttee. (At thirty years of age he first became a na tional figure, and was an assistant secretary of one of the Departments at the national capital. Then he was promoted to a similar place In a De partment more Important He at tained his tenlth as on executive as Secretary of , the Navy In Arthur's Cabinet Later, he was elected to the- United States Senate, serving in that "body twelve years 1888-1900. He haa been missed since he left it. That ia the sort of man he is., Mr. Chandler was the last of the 16 to lers. McKlnley was as much of a silver man as Teller' when ? he was nominated for President In statecraft he was the disciple of "Pig Iron". Kelley, who was as rank a greenbacker as James B. : Weaver. But political exigency made ihe grim demand 'of McKiniey, in 'October, 1896, to be a gold bug. Yet, when he got to be President he was com mitted to the policy of sending a high commission to, Europe to. - expound finance to the bankers v over there and persuade them into an interna tlopal. agreement to revise the arith metic until it could be demonstrated by mathematics that 47 is equal to too. tf;? r & The proposal .went tprough the Senate after Chandler had made an exhaustive speech on it. I had the fortune, 'and I will call it good for tune, to. hear it, and J tried to de scribe it to my "paper as follows: ;N : Mr. Chandler" resents the business revival because it is on the gold ba sis. He calls v himself a blmetalllst and when Congress Is in session he takes his opinions in the Senate, end when. Congress " is In vacation : ha writes hl views in the newspapers. Not a great while ago he made a most ' exhaustive speech in the Senate,,- Old Father., Morrill sat beside htm, -his face Ilk a a thundercloud, land old Father Stewart sat In front of him, hte face like a rainbow, - it was a sliver speech from beginning 10 enainn. ; n wouia nave aeiigntea young Mr- Bryan and did delight young Mr. Bailey, He",; quoted all those absurd figures of Wharton Bar ker, the only publicist In the world who knows less about the silver ques tion than 'Coin", Harvey and. "Coin" knows i leas than nothing about , it. The Senate would have, been -astonished if Chandler could astonish the Senate. He is the magpta of Ameri can politics, and nobody knows what he will do next, though, whatever. It is. it is certain to be some mischief. The thing passed and Wolcott, Ad lai Stevenson and a Mr, Payne were sent abroad, to hersuade, or convince, Europe that 16 to 1 wa the only wear. Europe tried to be polite, and listened with seem lag attention. The Hon. Cabot Lodge proposed to stop all trade with Great Britain until Parliament enacted 16 to 1. Chandler said the proper ratio was 15 : 1-2 to 1. ' By and by our fellows got back with bugs in their ears. Then Con gress enacted our present Imperfect golr standard. It was in 1876 that Chandler per formed his greatest labor reversing the verdict of more than . 8.000,000 freemen, who rendered 4t at the polls that year. Before midnight that day every intelligent m- within hall of a telegraph office knew, that Samuel J. Til den had been elected President wi'u.'V '' mi&&itm ens m o TP I COAL. Standard Ice ft Fuel Co. Yarbrough ft Bellinger Co. , DEPARTMENT STORES ' ' Bclk Bros. ' Little-Long Co; .- DRY GOODS AND, SHOES Miller Dry Goods Co. ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Sinitii Elctcrtc ft Mfg. Co. t . ICE AND FUEIj. -Standard Ice ft Fuel Co. HARDWARE. Charlotte Hardware Co. Southern Hard were Co. Weddlngton Hardware Co, of the United States an! Thomas A. Hendricks Vice -President - Mr. Hayes, the Republican candidate for President admitted It and declared in a public speech txvat it was no personal grievance to him, but that he was "sorry for the poor negro." " And so it would have gone, un challenged, but for a bit of super fluous curiosity on the part of Wil liam H. Barnum,, chairman of the Democratic national committee, who wired The New York Times to know if that paper had any . news ; from Louisiana, South Carolina and Flor ida. An attache of The Times, a news editor of the name of John C. Reld, argued from that, inquiry that the . Democrats were . not certain, or confident, and , he hunted uh. Bill handler, : and they - concocted the famous dispatch claiming that Hayes had 185 votes in the college and was elected. But for Barnum's fatal query . to The Times,- there would have been no more contest of Tllden'e election than there had been of. Grant's,, four years . earlier, ot Garfield's, four years later. Then the stealing, lying and buy ing began. The . Democrats ... kept their . business men away from New Orleans and left the conduct of th case to their statesmen; the Republi cans supplemented . their statesmen with business men of the "addition, division and alienee" school, who re enforced Mistress Eliza Pinkaton, and they ransomed the highest office In the world from the banditti, who had offered to sell it to its real owner,- the .Democratic-party, v,.::;vWf' The first act of Mr. Hayes was to recognize the Democratic Governors of all three States, which history ac cepts as m, plea or guilty to the charge of stealing the presidency. " In the Senate Chandler was a pub lic benefactor, and' killed as many Jobs as Sam Randall in the House. His is a keen, acute, incisive mind. He cannot see very far, but he sees all within his mental horizon, sees , It sooner than any one else, perhaps; clearer than any One else. Aggres sive and provocative, he was admir ed as well at hated. Daniel O'Con nell's fellow-i-4you persistent, : irre pressible, contentious, splenetic, fiery ram cat" was the Bill Chandler of the Irish bar. The be bate in the Senate of the Wilson tariff discovered the G. O. P. in its great dramatic creation , of Pecksniff on the political stage. Chandler had the centre of the boards, though eome of his fellows could beat him playing the leading role of pocksniff. For some forty years the Democratic party has rare ly neglected the opportunity to play the ass, and on this occasion it not only accepted it, but embraced it. The Republican party Is in power to-day, and has .been for ten years, not for Its own merit, but for the fat uous folly of the Democratic party in rejecting the counsels of Grover Cleveland and refusing to follow his banner. But it was Chandler, even more than Aldrich, who put the cot ton schedule In the Wilson bill, and he, more than Quay, made the metal schedule of that measure, both of which Mr. Dingley, with little Change, put in the present law. These compose three-fourths of the tariff, and yet the knaves tell us tje Wll- Ml mm m GROCERIES. 3. t BlakeJy. E. W. BorryhlU. W, M. CrowclL , J. H. Emery. . 3 F. Jamison ft Co, w. A. Jamison ft Co, W. D. Knowles. .; fi. B. Int. W.J. Walone. Miller-Van Nens Co. , E, A. MofflU. L. L. Barratt . ' -s UMier Bros. ' M. M. Wallace. LAUNDERIES. " . Charlotte Steam Laundry, Model Steam Laundry. you ' vsif for rebate took and haveaU amounts recorded. When through with to J. T. Pfflter, 24-26 t Trade Street and fare will be refunded according'to aboye plan. ' ffies You Only Pay the Additional Milage to Your Hczie i t: it. Chan''.. r was n-t a credt Senator, but he was a valuable Senator. Yet his proper place wns the unrestrict ed editorial head of a great Inde pendent political newspaper. He would keep the pot boiling, and It was a man like Bill Chandler whom Balzac had in view when he writ this: ' Whoso has been a newspaper man will ever be one: that horoscope is as sure and certain as that of drunk ards. Whoever has, tasted that fever ishly busy and relatively lasy and In dependent life;', whoever everclses that sovereignty which criticises in tellect, art, talent fame, virtue, ab surdity and even trutn; whoever has occupied that tribune, erected by his own hands, fulfilled the' functions of that magistracy to which he is self appointed in short, whoever has been, for however brief a space that proxy of public opinion, looks npon himself... when remanded to private life, as an exile, ana the moment a chance, is offered to him puts out an eager hand to snatch back his crown. ; Charles II declared that the1 priests gave to his brotner, ; afterwards James II, Catherine Sedley for a mis tress by way of penance, she was so homely of feature, so lean of person, and so old of years; but she was as sprightly of wit as she i was ugly of presence, and the ' lady, discussing the violence of the passion of her roy al lover, eald she could not under stand It; that his Majesty could not love her for her beauty, "for I have none, and U cannot be for my wit for he has not enough to discover I have any,' v,-,- ". .;y; " And a like wonder .must come to him who contemplates the close and intimate personal friends of that ex ists between BUI Chandler and Ben Tillman. When the latter first fetch ed his " pitchfork into the Senate, Chandler was the only member of that august body that appreciated the audacity of it and enjoyed the mat ter of it. Therefore, Chandler and Lodge had been Damon and Pythias; now Chandler and . Tillman- were Castor and Polluxi - The Boston and Maine Railroad put (Chandler out of the Senate, and he got to be chairman of the Spanish claims commission, an office ho was made for. When the great octopus chase was put on foot Chandler be come the intermediary between Chief Huntsman Roosevelt and Chief Bea gle Tillman. Later he was made a royal arch member of the chapter of the Knights of Ananias. One night while the rate bill was pending Chandler and Tillman had a conference, and after a thorough discussion of the woods Jhat were to be drawn and the course the chase was to cover the next day, a general conversation sprang up among the half-dozen gentlemen present. Till man was leader of It, and at a loss to establish a date. Turning to Chan dler, he appealed: "Chandler, It was Just forty years ago, when you were down ITT Florida stealing the elec tion." To hvhlch Chandler retorted: "Forty years! That's the way you fellows count down there." And that suggests. One night In this town Ben Butler and John S. Wise were in consultation as to a lawsuit they were to argue In the Supreme Court the following day. After settling all the points, long af ter midnight, Butler remarked: 'Wlse, I have at home a valuable vase, remarkable work of art, that some society or other presented to your father when he was Governor HIDES AND JUNK. Yarbrough, ft Bellinger. MILLING AND FEED, W. U CrowclL'- JEWELERS. , B. A. Sontherland. FUNERAL DIRECTORS. J. M. Harry . ft i Co. FURNITURE. . Herring a Den ion. Latvlng-tlobMiu Furniture Co. LuMn Furniture Co. Parker-Gardner Co. -W. T. McCoy LADIES OUTFTTTER. Frank ForccU. cf ; ' : i. !:.)' it c i - :-y l -.. ion in a prrat r j. ..ry." "No mystery at all." r: ;: '; . J V,;.e. "My fither's mansion vas in Acco mac county, near Fortress Monroe. You stole it while you were In com mand' there." Old Ben laid back and lautjhed heartily, and answered: "Perhaps you are right but I shall make res titution," which "he promptly did. (Copyright, 1907, by E. W. Newman.) Washington, Nov., 5, 1907. COMJUXDMENTS IX NATURE. Moral S-nse of Animals Discussed by Ernest Thompson-Setou. Milwaukee Sentinel. ," From the prolific pen of Ernest Thompson-Seton comes an original and informing theory of the natural history of the ten commandments, lucidly expounded in the November Century. He asserts that he believes that the ten commandments are not arbitrary laws given to man, but are fundamental laws of all - creation. "We can learn," he says, "an un written law only by breaking it and suffering the penalty. ; Myr task, therefore, was to discover among the animals disaster following breach of' the ten great principles on which human society Is founded." He be gins with the fifth commandment to illustrate his theory, the law of obedience, and traces its development through the animal kingdom as he has observed its workings. It is a law that enables the young to reap the benefit of the experience of those above them. The mother bear knows that her cubs must obey her Implicitly or else death will follow; hence ' she enforces the law of obedience with a severity equal to the requirements of the case. 1 The action on the part of the young Is purely instinctive,: but instinct is the result of long habit and observation. HU-exposition of the sixth com mandment is no less Illuminative. Among animals Mr. Seton finds a severe code against taktng the life of one of their own species. Wild animals often fight for mastery, usually over a question of mates, but the vanquished can always save himself by submission or by fight. The preservation of the race is a strong motive In all species, and the laws control their actions as regu larly and as absolutely as do the more clearly recognised statutes of men. The commandment against stealing as observed in the animal work is a revelation. - He says: "The whole property ' question is in this, and the high development of the property idea among, animals must be a surprise to all who have not studied It The animal law Is: The producer owns the product; unpro duced property belongs to him who discovers and possesses It. I once threw peanuts for an hour to the fox squirrels In City Hall Park, Madison, Wis. In each case, the peanut when thrown, was no one's property. Alt the near squirrels rushed for it; the first one to get it .securely in his mouth was ad mittedly the owner; his claim was never questioned after a few seconds' actual possession. If hungry, he ate It at once; otherwise his first act was to turn it round in his mouth three or four times, as he licked It, mark ing It with his own smell, before burying it for future UHe." 'On through the list Mr. Seton goes' and brings many Interesting Incidents to bear upon his theory. It Is not an illogical one. Law is for the preser vation of the race, that the work of the world may be done according to Its creator's plan. It Is plausible to find the ten commandments ap- milts' teuciaiii DC LIME, BRICK B. F. LIVERY, t CARRIAGES, WAGONS AND HARNESS. J. W. Wadtmorxh's Sons' Co. . i. MANTELS. TILES AND CRATES Carolina Mfg. Co. J. N. McCaaslaud ft Co. 4 . J. 1L AVrern ft Co. PIANOS AND-ORGANS. Farker-Gardncr Co. Clia. M. Stlcff. W. C. Coleman Piano Co. PLUMBERS AND GAS FITTERS J. J. Breen. nackoey Broa. . . 1 irentiy or-erative f s t- ; t Hials. Feif-pn-TV-r.i i tsr;,t I i a larger Stnso the t'.-vel-'pnieiH cf !;. race la one of the ruiin? ini-Unrt.-? and foremost intuitions o life, and when thethoughtful have their at tention called to it, It is not so strange to find that what they supposed were the codes of the Jewiah law given mankind from divine source, only a higher Interpretation of the great fundamental precepts of the world ruled over by the inexorable, immutable laws ot nature. HUGHES VERSUS TAFT. Opponents of Latter Unltng On The - - Former For President. Washington Dispatch to New York Times. . ;. :-: v It is said here in Taf t circles that the opposition to the nomination of the Secretary of War to succeed President Roosevelt has now centred upon Governor Hughes. New York's Governor is thus made to appear as the last resort of that element of the Republican party which is opposed to Roosevelt ana my policies;" Although they recognise in Hughes & man who will not lend himself to any ; scheme by which - "predatory wealth"- could with his knowledge continue its depredations, there Is a feeling, the Taft men say, that it is now anything to beat Taft or to put up a respectable opposition to - him. Having .boomed v Knox. -c- Fairbanks. Cortelyou and a few others and found them all impossible because the people suspect them of being too closely aligned with a very frightful if some what vague enemy known as "preda tory wealth." , the opposition - to the President are said now to be pretty much in a pickle, and willing to centre upon Hughes. uVv: They do not want Hughes, the Taft men say, but it Is now Hughes or a : complete surrender. It has been no ted that .the continued growth In pub lic favor of Hughes has the greatest menace to the Taft boom. There Is no doubt that those who are uncom promisingly oppomsd o Roosevelt's continued domination are desperate tor a- candidate. . Governor Hughes has been until re cently looked upon as of the same par ty . and principles as Roosevelt, and hence has been numbered as a friend of the Administration. But recent ut terances qf the Governor have been construed as direct flings at the pres ident. When he remarked a few days ago that reforms should' be instituted, but they should be accomplished "without tumult or disorder," he made a reflection upon the present Admin istration, whether consciously or un consciously, and the political spon sors of the Administration have plac ed him in the column with their ene mies. Likewise the so-called "reac tionaries" have taken hope from this utterance of Mr. Huges. It ia no violation of confidence to assert that Preldent and Hughes are neither personal nor political friends. The President has made several ef forts to bring Hut-es under his pro tecting arms, notably In the Wads worth case, when the President an nounced thrt ho was fighting Wads worth In order to strengthen Hughes In that part of New York, and the Governor let It be known that he was not In need of the assistance of the White House. The President, It Is thought, resents this refusal of Hughes to "l)e patronized, and looks upon him as a man who might have some poli ces of his own should' he go higher in authority and influence. When a girl Is afraid to be In a dark room with a man she relies on him to bring It about. AND RETURN purchase of $20.00 lo $35.00 merchants of the association. AND CEIENT. Withtvs. PAINTS, Oil jR AND GliASS Km.tll-Myer Co. . PAINTS AND WAIL PAPER Torrence Paint Co. PRINTTNG AND BIANK ROOIS MANUFACTURERS Queen City Printing Co, llay PrinUng Co. "-r-r SHOES Foreman ft Miller, SASH, POORS AND BLINDS 'Carolina Mfg. Co. J. W. Ixwta A Co. J. II. Wearn ft Co. . TINNERS AND STOVE DEALERS J. N, McCausland ft Co. : i , : t : , : to l,v;.. . ,1 Coin; any In Debt t ) t New York Sun. Captain Watt, of the recorj l i Ing Lusitania, was talking about in.t chinery. "Machinery la delicate stuff," 1; i said, "and the amateur la wise to let It alone. You know about the men who blew down the gas meter?" "No." "Well, at the club one night a cer tain man complained bitterly about his sas bills. " 'Hang It all." he said, 'my bills are something enormous. .I'm sure I don't burn all the gas. The company, con earn it Is cheating me. " ' "'A friend spoke up and said: ; "'Look here, do you want to know .' how to get the better of the gas com pany?' . . " 'Gee,: I Just do!' exclaimed the man.- . " Then,' said the friend, "blow -down the meter. Every night before you turn in, blow down the meter. The meter, you see.' is full of little wheels, all turning, piling tip big bills against you every time you light the gas. But Just blow down the pipe, and i "The friend gave a. loud laugh at the delightful thought - " 'Just blow down the pipe, an i ha, ha, ha all the Utile wheels will .' turn the other way,' "The man thanked his friend for -this good and valuable advice, went 1 straight home, atd blew a iong' and powerful blast down the pipe t-r.th gas meter before letlrlng. He Jid this ; every nlht. Not once did he for- . get. the last thing before oihg to bed, to blow down the meter with, terrific force. "Well, in due course, at the month's end, the inspector came. f "The man welcomed the Inspector a- trifle nervously, and hung about the cellar ' door.to hear what the UUcv I would hat to say after his inac tion. . - "The Inspector imergol from the cellar studying a column of figures , with a puzzled frown. He looke. up, at the master of the house and said In a strange voice: -1 " " 'Well, Mr. Smith, I don't know what the dickens has-been happening to your meter, but' the company owes you thirty-four dollars and seventeen cents.' " ; K " Cop Fired For Kissing. Sharon. Pa., Dispatch to Philadelphia North American.. . . . Chief of Police Charles Scharff, ."of Wheatland, will be arraigned before Justice, Cook, of South Sharon, to an swer the charge preferred by pretty Katherlno Mori. Scharff Is alleged to have pursued the young woman up a flight of stairs, and, throwing his arms around her, pressed his lips to hers. The young woman was indignant, and Immediately swore out a warrant for his arrest. He waived a hearing, and demanded a Jury trial.. The Wheatland Council was shocked over his action, and at a meeting, on Sat- ' urday nitfht dismissed him from the force. ' Justice Peter Cook stated that he could find no law albout a young, man ' kissing a girl against her will, but he says that It Is certainly an at tack. The best way to safeguard whit you own Is not to have It worth anything. '' ----- 7d : '-- " -. 9
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