North Carolina Newspapers

r OCOURIE T5he COURIER ." Advertising Columns ? I E6e COURIER Leads in Beth News and Bring Results. Circulation. HE ASHEBOR Issued Weekly. VOL XXIX. THERE IS REST. "In the CliiMluu's luimi-1" ulory Thcro rvumln-s n lnr.il f rest. Tliere my HaviimrV limn- '"'lore ' T filUitl my w,,tl rt-ii M. ,.-There lr. till till' . .til. RALIiltiH LETTER. The Effort of Republicans lo Reduc: I Southern Representation-State Coil- vcnlion of Farmer The Cnl I ton Crop V. C. Pearson I to be Named by the Republicans in the Fourth. ltaleigh, N. (!., Aug. 1, l'.ui-l. I km informed, thi'mi'-h :i cotivorsa tion with several prominent public men WUO nave jusr. reiumi-u mini f Washington, mat u iresiueiii. noose r trolfo ill.... is niirrii.il nut t.lin l!l'lllll lican campaigners in the doubtful northern suites win make tn prop- naif inn tsi rpilnnp tlic rem esell tilt ion 1 of the southern states in Congress a leading issue. The State of Illinois (which Mr. Cleveland carried the second time lit was elected) is one of the slates in which the campaign is to lie con .'' ducted 011 that line. Senator Hop kins, of Illinois, after a long con ference with Mr. Hooi-evelt on Satur day, gave out u radical interview to that effect. J The Republican spellbinders ex pect to work on the feelings of 1 1 1 masses by telling them that in North Carolina and the other Southern Slates that have adopted suffrage laws which largely disfranchise the negroes, the white man of the South Jl given a double importance ami authority in public affairs over the while man in the North and West. Jtut the argument may no- work as well as the Republican nmnugi is hope it will. A business man of im portance and large interests in Chi cago, who is in li.ileigh today, made this statement to me: have always been a Republican, but 1 will not endorse an attack on the new suffrage laws of the South. -H e are better accpiainted with the conditions which obtain in the South tfc ti w i were a few years ago, and I ' aj'.r.riatc ti.i "ri'iitVof the negro dii.-Miou dov u h iv :iii'l .tie linpor- liy .: pi Ming a iu'io iii tli? mat in v .V.-th-i 1 ! a! of iv,,,:-! . atale of l.ii-; ti-ni and nort hern Vtates '..f late vi.u -. 'i hi .- h.ii, ftV'ii iuini.-roiiscas.-s in h w ! 1 1 liV-tnn in our stair bate f. il, u tiniB Ot tie- l-aMK- iiii-i brutal i.-l- thus ol tl 31 4i of pnlrio-i. I heli.-vi , Wii Male 0iihl have ' doit.' i'i ; m p,-,pl-. t;i' done umlir M, li: inns. jf "i o has., bail a i .1.1.. u:in in eio, in' o whni ou form 'jurilla ii.-g '.' .,' Mid the per, I !' u li;. h y-m h:ni ,ii;ihlllli-d ii 1.1 are ir-.'ing to guav,1 . ,u i -t f.r -ii 1..!..' : I'i" '- Id our very '!'!. I" M a- I -! .k 4heae words h Til..- .if ii.-gn Being imported into ("hicag.i , o.f Mu-ker- to i ik.- tli p ..- liite woi kin: nun who an- tiike. There is a growing pi against the ni -rois in tin- i. ' Wild western stat. s, and, in n, bv ih-- . T' le I I I"'' t mil the lel.llblii-iill Mirtv will : ipake unv votes tliis year by !'; .i . u.. ;-,,"iuf' t.j tli- trout, t-iti. r' 1 . .Is or i.ny other .'mil-'i 1 State. STATE altMIHN o" lAUMM; . During the present week a oiu convention of farmers will be held iu Raleigh out at the A. & M. Col lege. It will be in session three davs. i One of the most important pies tions which will be considered is the adoption of a concerted plan of ac tion in reference to the sale of this year's cotton crop. A large acreage liaa been plautcd in cotton this year, and it is very important to cotton growers that they shall unit- upon tome svstematic "plan of marketing She crop, iu order to realize a fair ticeforit. Of course it is hardly ftpected that the high prices ob tined daring the Jlust few months t-f last season will Be realized on this year's crop, but it is hoped to keep the price up around the ten cents utch.ttlthough September and Oct. "futures" are toilay quoted at a fiac tion less thuu ten cents. By the way: Coin'r of Agricult ure Patterson says that farmers who ijny oaU should "be careful; that if ie oaU come from Texas there is 'anger of the boll wevil being tought here in them. The Corporation Commission au Ounccs that the new assessment of r41road and other corporation prop- erty in this state shows a total in crease of $502,830 over the assess ment of last year. The railroad .....pltr nlnnA la iuyapjiii.fl &t $itiil.41l3 h73 uiul the total mileaire is 3.803 i:les(exclusive of sidings). The itrect railways are assessed at , SH4.1U0. Telegraph companies, 9 47,124. Telephone companies, $6i3 7055. The Seaboard Air Line is the onlv company that has filed except ion with the commission. ; A big Parker and (ilenn club was Vgaiiized here recently and the .mpaign was opened Friday night, hen elector Spruill and Congress u&n Pon spoke to the club, over 500 pjople being present. The Republicans of this Congress ional district will meet here Wednes day and formally put np one W. C. nf Chatham eountv aruiust ngre88uia l Pou. Of course it -s m Vj, mi.n matter of "form", as 9 will have no chance in the world being elected. Llewxam. I MISS OSBORNE'S LETTER. She Visits Many Former Randolph Peo pie who Live In the Great State of Indiana. Trip to Niagara Falls. East Greenwitch, R. I. My Dear liovs and Girls: It has teen some time since I was with you In? t . To ine the time seems short for every minute is filled np ami every day something new to see. Well, I went down to Indiana as I had planned, and was well paid for my trip. J hero I saw real running country and farm life. Marshall is a small town of about live hundred inhabitants. It was settled mostly by North Carolinians and u great number of them from Randolph county. 1 went down expecting to visit about two families there, but when I arrived I found myself among a host of kinsfolk, friends am. rela tives of people in Randolph county, It was not my pleasure this time to ask ipicstions, but to answer, judging Irani the ipiestions that some of them asked, 1 must have nppearcd to them as a maul of thirty summers or more, or else they had forgotten how fast lime pisses. However, 1 tolu tliem about the children ur the grand children of the friends they inquired after, as much as I knew. And now to von and other readers who have friends ai.d relatives in Parke county, Indiana, I will say, that all of them "live at nonio ami board at the same place." 1 did not see any poor folks among them, nor are tin y extremely wealthy, but just what I call Un happy medium. One thing I noticed particularly, was that women folks kept house and the men did t!i milking, feeding the pigs, tending the garden and farm, home of the older people asked me if the wonien.of liandolpli, worked like they used to, I told them that I did know of any that plowed nowadays and left them to guess at the rest as I thought (hey could very easily do so. The people drive nice horses, horses that have got "get up"' in them not the poky kind. I visited one of my father's cousins that had two as pretty carriage horses as 1 ever saw. They were "high steppers" and a pieUv smalt team for a good driver. Now, you who know how 1 like horse llesh, can imagine me in my glory when behind these horses. hvery place I went 1 saw pretty horses, tows, hogs and sheep, every lay 1 took a long drive through the country, ion would be astonished to see such cornfields as 1 saw in In diana. It is planted about a foot a part, maybe further apart, I am not sure, as 1 did not i'et out of the 1 nggy to measure it. The stalk and I 1 iles are very large and of the nch is1 color of green. It was a great , i; !osily to me, and just as wondcr fi l is some of the things I saw iu i la-vest. One of the curiosities 1 - i,i among the farming implements, . il.e tomato planter. There they rai.- -t Mialoes by the acres for cau uti: lt purposes. 1 saw a hay lifter in i p, ration too, which was new to in.-. I i.-'ted one cousin that has a finit fan. i. It was in thciiiids! of ; v, v t'li:,-. .mil the day I was there, tin-, ship'. ! eighty-six gallons of j iiei ! ii - at forty-three cents per -ai!.,n. I tli k blackberries sell for twti.tv-l'u- ir: U per gallon. Yoll woi. id' not uii'iii picking for that p, a-,-would .-u.' I don't imagine iiu-v a'v t. di.'n- t J iek, as the vines ai- ,n row - at d .- !! rui ners kept cut ! ai k. 1 'u,- ti.-r. v pick.-r told me he en-. I 1 pick a- i.i'-v as twenty-live gallons a nay. My stay in t idi -in i ' Muled and begins i lie journey to Isiuiuia Falls. From Chicago en route to Niagiara Falls, I dossed only one of the United States, which was Michigan at Detroit. 1 crossed the river on a steamer, then continued my journey through Canada to Niagiara Falls, Canada, there crossed the river and enteied Niagiara Falls, N. Y. Right here was my lirst experience in hay ing my baggage examined. As 1 did not have anything very valuable, I did not have to pay any duty. The Niagiara Falls is another wonder which 1 am not capable of desciib ing. It is a beautiful jight, entirely different from all other things, that are wonderful and grand, iu the United States I don't think I would ever tire of looking at the falls. Once I saw a beautiful rainbow across the water below the falls, the effect of sunshine ihrotigh the mist. I drove over to Victoria Park, '''he drive way was some distance from the Falls, and the mist was so hea;v that the carriage and horses were drenched with wet as tho' they had been in a heavy ruin, and the drive way next to the tails was very muu dy. The parks here me very pretty. Along the water's uLc is posted, everv few feet a board with the word danger on it. in large letters. To fall in these waters is certain death. It is not known who first dis covered this natural curiosity, or w hat yes lirst gazeu upon mo uiujcoij m its nower. 1 lie caiaraci is grauuaii y wearing away, ami ii is luougiu un tune is coming when there will be no falls betweei. the two great lakes. l ut a miuktv river insteau. Ac the present site" of the falls the edge of the cataract is or nara, uinesiouB rock, by the action of the spray and back current, the soft strata has' been hollowed out, forming what is called tFie cave of the winds. Many people gn in to these caves, but I did not care to run that risk. After spending a pleasant day here I htfcp thfiniffht train for Providence. If 1. Tho rami.nr about the Cats - kill Mountains aud along the Hudson river is very pretty indeed. My route took me across the southwest corner of tho State of Vermont and through the northern and central part of Massachusetts. The niotin - tain scenery through this section, carried me back to "those Carolina Hills." Yes, those hills are dearer to ine then ever now, and 1 preter North Cnroliuu, to any other, for my home. You have heard mo talk a great deal about Rhode Island. I hope to tell you more by and by. 1 am now visiting Mr and M.s Cungdon; we are not going any where til I 1 um well rested. This "finishes my letter for this time. Yours Devotedly, Daisy Osnoiixi- The New National Chairman. "The country will learn to place a high estimate upon Mr luggart as an astute politician and leader. His career has been one that is full of in spiration to ambitious American youths. He was bom in Ireland and came to this country a barefooted boy, without money or prestige of any sort. He began his life work selling newspapers and sandwiches at a rail road eating house. Later he kept a small hotel in an Indiana town, ami later still ran the big lunch counter iu Indianapolis. It was while doing til's that be omit- in contact with nearly all the i-eople of Indiana polis and I he traveling public of the Slate. They have astiirv that, w hen he was a young chap running his lui'i'h counter iu Indiana he would gi, our n handshake and a smile witli everv sandwich, ami lie became one oi tin- must popular men in the Slate ol Indiana. hen he was still a voting in nts popunii iiv wassiicn that, the i e imcrats of .Marion county iiouiinnted . "d clci ted him County Auditor, a p . "ion which paid him tweiit-tlioiisa I dollais a vear. I d bis iiiniie,. e invested it we he grew in pupil I. Hv, and at the el of his term ol olli,' mis three times kcted Mayor of 1- :i:inaiioli,i. In V.W1 he was Cluiirini of the Demo cratic Committee of Indiana, and londucted the campaig': that result d in a great Democratic victory, lie irganized that State as it b. s never been organised before, exe,-;,- during the Tilden campaign, and -'.owed that he has organizing abi..: of the highest order, lie has been on the National Committee for eight years, mil while he has not had a leading part in the management of any campaign, his judgment was ex cellent, and his associates on the com mittee had and have great fr.ith iu his ability to organize for victory. Mr Taggart knows folks, and he knows how to reach all classes and ill grades." Josephus Daniels in News and Observer. Davidson County's Old Men. The North State gives the names of the following old men in David sou eountv: Mr Joseph Guyer is the oldest living citizen in the county. We at tach a list of the names and town- hips in which I hey live: Alfred Picketl, S." years old, Wiley C rouse, 87, John T Harris, 85, of Ix'xiiigtoii township; .Martin law, 80, of Yadkin College: Joseph Guyer, 114, of Midivav; Levi Tesh, 8o, Abbott's Creek: John M Smith, 88, Silver Hill; W U lludgitt,87, Jackson Hill; John (iallimoie, 88, Conrad Hill; Thus Cole, '.10, Jesse Lane, 811, Heal- ; Springs. l'here are in the county only 33 men who are over 81 years of age, and -178 men who are over 70 years old. We can frankly say that there is not a better class of citizens to be found any where iu tho State, and every one of tliem live in the county and the most ot them are our best farmers. Progress. 'll.llt 1 v l.llil.l Klirofl fn.l VV hiv Iwi'iT iv- quirk!" These lilies came back to me, and ;ept whispering it: my ears, as I urned the pages of one of the lead ng magazines some time ago, look ing at some of the noted female presidents of northern colleges. I expect it was the masculine at tire iu which they were clothed that brought Tennyson's poem to my mind on such short notice, (for 1 never was much at remembering poetry) but when I looked at those noble specimens or woniaiinoou wuu their gowns and cups, collars and four iu hands, sucn a sensioie wav of blending the two costumes, so as not to give oftense to either sex, an other fragment of the poem came slowly back to me like this: IfouroM hall could change tlielr anil Willi pni.lcs for prueUim flown An.l MW'l Kirl s, minute!. In Ih,. 1 think they hlimild mil w s for ilma ,,l,li-n hair r our niht As I looked at those female presi dents arrayed in a half and half cos tume, 1 wondered why they Should care to wear anything that smacked of man's attire. It seems to nic that when a wo man can look the whole world in the face in the capacity 'of presiding genius of some great institution of learning; ami w nose ueau jb ei.uit.-u with ail the learning of both ancient and modern limes; and whose brain has developed until by actual weight it excells her brother president. Why! Oh why! will 'she adopt the cip and detestjiblc gown, turn down collar and so on? Why not stand forth arraved in a pretty and becom 1 ing dress, large sleeves and all, (1830 ! stvle if preferred) probably a white ! apron with a ruffle on it, and a tuck I comb? i It le ins that these erudite woman I presidents who no doubt can quote . wbole pages of Greek poetry and 1 UUVe m i forgotten still to weep over PRINCIPLES, ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY AUGUST 4th, 1904. (he fate of Helen; and possibly im agine themselves finally carried by stratagem from behind the walls of their college vastucss, and dropped at the feet of some noble Trojan. Tennyson I think only deviates in his forciful poem in one particular, the main part of thu poem is quite natural or according to the manner of things mundane. Ho makes his president of the great woman's uni versity quite young; and I think from the jingle of the verse, rather pretty, at least she is "much sought after," Now I believe ull the great female presidents whose pictures I have seen are rather passed the heyday of youth. They have a tired look in their deep set orbs us if they had been worsted in the battle of life, and woru out almost in the battle of books, they have a far away look as if the goal were not even in sight. I have never seen a diploma signed by a female president, but I should think it would be a wonderful sight to contemplate, imagine some name great in tho educational world an nexed to the well known vellum, confirming all enquiring minds that so and so is a prolicieut in Latin, Greek and Hebrew; is fully compe tent to converse with the Bhades of Pythagoras und Newton on all mathematical problems, and soar aloft into the etherial regions with the old astronomers. How fortunate that woman has at last taken her proper place iu the world; the equal if not surperior of man, in all re spects save two, she will never be able to throw at any thing and hit it, or sharpen a pencil; but this does not differ, for she can argue down a dozen men any time, and walk off fully satisfied having offered during the hour's combat ouly one argument "that it was so because it was so. She is satislied with so little, all her life this little "clincher" fully satis fies her, and when this little bomb is thrown she quietly leaves the field fur some other green pasture of argiieliientative power. truly, "A TNT AX N I K. MONTGOMERY NEWS. The Kxiinilner. A welcome visitor in the foim of a 91 pound girl arrived at the home of our town marshal, Mr U 1? Jordan last Monday. We regret to announce the death of Mis Olindo Cox which occurred at Star last Saturday night. She had been in poor health for some time. Mrs Cox was a highly esteem- d lady and only about twenty-two or three years old at the tune of her ath. Mrs John C Currie died at Candor on the 21st inst. Mrs Currie has been iu bad health some time past. Mrs Currie was a Miss McKmnon before she married Mr Currie in 1883. She was born December 27th 18(il, which made her a little more than forty-two and one half years old at the time of her death. She was ,i kind hearted good Christian woman and a loving mother. She had been a member of the Presby terian church for a long while. The stockholders ot' the Hank of Mt (iilead met on the evening of July the 25th and elected the follow- board of directors, L P Hyrd, J A McAulav, C A Armstrong, U 1 McAulav, A J Little, W II Parker and J P Redding. Immediately afterwards the directors met and elected the officers of the bank and transacted such other business as was necessary. J A McAulay one of the foremost business men of the county was elected president. Mr L P iivrd also who is known as an unusually good business man was made vice- president. Mr A II liagan, ot llign Point, a young man of line character s made cashier. The capital stuck of the new bank is $10,ti('ii all paid in. This bank which will be open for business in a few days is situated in the best section of the "county and we feel sure that with proper management it will do m excellent business. The Neat Little Darn. I love to see a neat little darn in household napery or garments of any kind," said an observant old nd v. " 1 1 al wavs suggests to me care and neatness and good management. Slovens never darn tidily, or take the proverbial stitch in time that saves some ust fill posession. When I was a little girl nurse used to tell us a story about a beautiful and rich and altogether delightful young man, who liked two sisters. One was much prettier and livelier than the other. and naturally he rather preferred her to the quieter sister, but on one unlucky day for her he took a walk with her. Her slipper stuck in the road and came off, aud he was hor ribly shocked to see a great hole in the "heel of her stocking. Of course, he did not like her after that. And the next day, by a strange coincidence while walking with the plainer sister, she, too, in some way or another, lost her slipper, and this tune he noticed the neatest, nicest little darn im aginable on the toe of her stocking, and loved her at once and always. Perhaps our nurse s tale has had something to do with my liking for people who darn their things neatly, but I tmnk il snows a uesiraoie characteristic, concluded the oltl lady. Notice F'xanfinations for entrance to the Pcabodv College for Teachers at Nashville, Tennessee, will be held for this Congressional district at Greensboro, N. C, on Aug. 4-tf, 1904 They will be conducted by .& D Kirykindall in the office of the couuty supt, A. C. Rey soi.p, Pres. Alumni Association. NOT MEN. SAM JONES WRITES FROM THE STRIKE REFT STATE OF COLORADO. This is an ideal spot, thirty miles north of Denver, rustling in the foot hills of the Rockies. No poet ever saw more beauty and no lover's dream was ever more enchanting than this place where I now sit, us I write of 'its glories. The growing, charming city of iioulder, with its ten thou sand people, its beautiful homes and splendid business houses, lies in the valley a mile in the distance, and four hundred feet below us. The fertile valley ten miles wide and 30 miles long with its verdant growth, presents a picture on which we gaze and admire for hours, the fertile lands under the magic influence of the irrigating prairies make this val ley of the Nile, in its luxurious growth of alfalfa, wheat, com, outs and all manner of fruits anil veg etables. Here the eyes of man can look on the prettiest spot on earth, as well as the most healthful and pleasant in climate. What a tiansi tion as one conies out of the swelter ing cities of St. Louis. Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City, into this high altitude of five thousand feet above the sea level, its bracing breezes, pleasant days and cool nights. It has been Hve years since 1 was here and the population of Iioulder has doubled and the Chautauqua grounds beautified and improved until I hardly realize 1 am at the same place. I found people herefrom more than a dozen cities. I spent two hours in Denver yesterday morning and 1 found that city throbbing with a new life and takiug her place indeed as the metropolis of the great west. The growth of that city in all astonished me in the live years since I spent any time there. The labor troubles iu the state have been the only drawback and while the fight was an awful one, the end seems to be in sight. Labor and capi tal will some day find out that each have a dead line which the other cannot cross. Labor has some rights that must be considered and respect ed. Capital has some rights that must be considered and respected. Public sentiment has more in it to regulate and settle these vexed prob lems than all the courts and armed soldiers. Which ever way public sentiment goes so goes the fight. Capital must learn that labor asks reasonable returns for service render ed. Labor must leain that capital must have reasonable returns from investments made or capital will go out of business. Capital proposes to run the business and proposes to shut up shop before it will turn the busi ness over to labor unions. I do not recall a single battle royal between labor and capital where the one in the right did not whip the fight and where both are in the w rong.then it's a dog fall, aud both get hurt bad in the deal. I've been a laboring man. 1 ve never been a capitalist, but 1 ve watched the procession more until I am for the fellow who is in the right whoever he may be. Here in Col orado the women vote in all elections just as men do, but 1 find the politics of Colorado is not an improvement over the other state where only male men vote. 1 propose vet awhile to do my wife's voting, anil here and now promise her to vote in the interest of her and the children every pop. The peace of my home, the happiness of my wife and the sobriety of my boys outweigh all political issues and all candidates, and if this makes me a traitor, then 1 am con tent to be one. I find in my travels that the Democrats are enthusiastic and hopeful. They believe they have the best possible candidates, and they are standing by thcniiu loyalty. Lhc events ol the coming months before November will have much to do with the victory of the one side and the defeat of the other. Hut as I said last week, the battleground of the two parties will be Indiana and New York states. The candidate which carries both of these states has the plum. The Republican patters are doing all they can to make of Parker's telegram only a trick of a sharp politician, lixed up and turn ed out by David 15 Hill. Rut 1 am of the opinion that Judge Parker did his own thinking and was brave enough to do his own telegraphing with no reference to the tricks of politicians. I um so far away from home I can't hear a faint sound from Georgia. I wonder what the legisla ture did with the franchise bill and the anti-jug bill. 1 suppose the first went through o. k., and the second lodged on a snag, but we will confidently expect the next legisla ture to give it to us. As I have said before, we will have it or know the reason why. If we have the Australian ballot then we can get some other things we have longed for. The gang that has kept us waiting will be out of a job on the davs of the primary. 1 am in for tho war, been in for 3o" years ami too old now to change progiams. 1 go from here back into Iowa, kansas, Indiana, Ohio. Illinois, etc. I will write next week from Ohio. I lind that wheat and corn are both iu bad shape in most of the sections I have passed through. Yours, still on the wing. Sam T. Jones. Mother's Ear mourn that com maromm that SCOTT' a EMULSION uHun rum inM t u$o mo mmcmmmmmr f MOTH UOTi Send for ffrM lampls. STfYTT it RIlVNL 4041! IWI St, N" Vort IMHIIiMiWMIM WASHINGTON LETTER. Bryan a Great Man The Ffghl in New York and Loyalty of Mr. Hearst Democratic Success Assured. Henry S- Baker Accentuates Negro Question by Charac teristlc Letter In Wash ington Post White and Colored Girls on Platform at Chicago. SK''liil CorresuoinU-inv uf tin: t'ourk-r. It is the consensus of opinion in the national capital that in the line up for battle between the two parties, the Democracy has the best of the situation. It is believed here bv the leuders of the party who have visit ed Washington since the convention in St. Louis that theouteuine ot the convention has practically soljdilied the Democratic party in this country It looked for a tim'e In St. Louis that no power on earth could ever bring the two warring factions to gether. Hut conciliation and com promise onboth sides and the splendid attitude of Mr Hryaii and his leaders have performed a political miracle, and the old Democratic party is once more a solid phalanx ami will move in serried ranks on the cohorts of corruption and extravagance in the j Itepublican party. There are diver-! gent opinions lure concerning the telegram sent by Judge Park, r t i the convention, lint tin- majority of Democratic leaders believe that it has had more of a beneficial effect than otherwise. While, of course, Judge Parker did not mean literally that the gold standard was "irrevoca bly established," yet it practicaly is so' mi til gold becomes so cheap that men who are now gold men will seek to demonetize it. So long as present conditions obtain, the gold standard will remain fixed and nothing can disturb it. When, however, the per capita of real or basic currency be comes less than it is now, there will be more clamor for the double stand art! and the money question will be come once more a paramount issue in our politics. There are some people who criticize Mr Rryan for his action iu criticizing Judge Paiker and por tions of the platform since the con vention adjourned. Hut the truth of the matter is that Mr Rrvau has done more to help the ticket and hold his forces together for it than any j one man in the country. If he bad I I.O.I .1 to,.,,.., ul.. v lifter 1 1, convention and acceptJd fully BllJ entirely everything that was done, ! hundreds of thousands of his fol- lowers in the past t campaigns ; would have become angered at him, j would have declared him insincere ,,.,1 ,i;l,.,ii.if. mid would have bolt- ' et! the ticket. When he was honest I enough, however, to criticize the ' things in Judge Parker that he did j not like and things distasteful to him in the platform, while at the same 1 tiim- b.. i.toclaimeil that there was ! enough Democracy in the platform Illinois. 1' dianii, Ohio, West ir to warrant his entire support, his j gima, Virginia, Maryland, IViiu friends knew him to be honest and j sylvania. New Jersey, and possibly u"i-ccd that if their old leader could I Connect nut and Rhode Island. In thus support the ticket, they, too, I could make the same criticisms and ! give it their undivided support. The trieuds or j tinge rarKer wno know him best say that he will ap preciate this fact as thoroughly us any man, and that it is his intention anil the intention of the lenders to give to Mr Bryan sonic of the heav iest tasks of the campaign. One of those tasks will be to carry the State of Nebraska, and, if he succeeds in doing this, in which they will render him valuable assistance, he in not only go to the Senate of the CniUd States, but will be one of the ! biggest men in the Parker ad- I ministration. It argues well fm our ticket that instead of all the enthusiasm for it being exhausted at the time of iu naming, it has grown day by day since the adjournment of the convention. It is progressive in public favor instead of retrogressive. The only possible discord iu sight at this time w ithin the Democratic ranks is the light in New York City between McCarren and Tammany Hall, lt is believed, however, that Judge Parker is a good enough pol itician to send for Mr Murphey and placate him by giving him all he asks, thus guaranteeing the biggest Dem ocratic majority ever cast for any Presidential candidate in (i renter New York. With that tight off our hands, it gives us every chance of carrying the State of New lork and with it will go Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware. The nomina tion of Davis gives us West Virginia, beyond all doubt. The negro ques tion assures us Maryland, and with either Illinois, Wisconsin, or Indiana, we will win the light. It looks as though Wisconsin were absolutely j assured to us on account uf the ; factional tight iu that State between the Republicans, and with Tom; Taggart of Indiana for National Clo.iiiMiii we are assured of that, State I Theie are many words of praise j her -from leaders f the party for I , ,, :i, if i.,i.!i, u, ' till- mill. I, union u,,m, .......... o.. His action in wiring theconvention ! , i i ... ,1.,. (;i ,.i .,.,,! i.: . Httulati ms to Judge Parker have caused many men wno nunerto . ...... were his b'tb-rest enemies to "peak rords of praise in his behalf. Then' is no doubt that his eight great newspapers will do great and effective work in this campaign. 1 lie ikni ocratic paity needs Mr Hearst more than he needs it, and he has grown much in political stature by proving that he does not have to lie brilied with the nomination, in order to re main a Democrat The leaders of the Democratic party are tuonug 'ui wmu, uuv im apprehension, but with pleasurable anticipation, to dililge rarKer a teiier of ncceiitiinee. A ringing letter of acceptance, able and conservative, would strike a popular chord and give his campaign a further impetus. More may hinge on what that let ter says and how it is said than on any amount of the thousands of documents that may appear iu the campaign. That letter will decide many men now wavering between the two candidates and the chances are that it will bring tliem to the sup port of Judge Parker, and tlie De mocracy. The South is enthusii Jtic for Judge Parker and would be so if there were but one issue in the cam paign. To them, the all-absorbing and overpowering issue is the negro question and they are anxious for the defeat of Roosevelt on nccoir.it of that issue, if for no other reason. A recent communication to the Washington 1'oBt by a negro named Henry S linker serves to accentuate the negro issue more than anything that has lately appeared. In that communica tion,'' he calls attention to the dif fereiu e between the Republican and the Democratic National Conventions He says that at the Republican Convention thu colored man was treated as ;i companion, friend, and brothel-, that there he was made to ; feel as though he were Hot Hilly 'political, but social equal: tiiat ! delegates followed the advice Mid example of I'l-.-d "lit Roosevelt, w l tenches that the colored mail tit-servos to be treated as a social equal. He says that to emphasize this fact, he hiid the courage to have at his table Prof. Hooker T. Washington, and that, if Roosevelt is elected, it will so encourage the negro men that they will demand that Hooker Wash ington shrill be the Republican candidate for Vice-President in 1008. 'He calls attention to the scene in tin- Republican Convention, when a beautiful white girl was placed upon the stage and by her side a negro boy, unit Unit they led the cheering thus making an example of the equality of the races. He then points out that the Democratic Convention whs a waite man's convention, of a white man's party, anu that in it, there was not a single negro man. Talk like that will do more to make the race question one ol the leading issues ot this campaign than any thing else that could be suggest ed. There are many doubtful States in the North that "will give lo the Democrats sufficient Republican v'to uikiii the negw .,uestioii alone tu"d tneiii into the Democratic ""' i ne cuanees . e uteie ore !1,ilt the Heiiiocrats will foice this 1BS,1C whenever they cau. Of course, it goes without saving that if the Democrats win the I 'res idency, they will also win the House, because no President -was ever elected who did not carry tne House with him. Specifically, the Democrats are counting upon gains in the next House in Wisconsin, Michigan, the est, they will probably elect their Congressmen or u majoniy ol them in Colorado aiso their iie prcsciitativcs in Montana and Idaho possibly Wyoming anil possi bly make gains iu California. There is'a possibilty of the House going Democratic ' with a Republican victory for President. Hut it is noi probable, inasmuch as all precedent is against it. The Republicans admit this quietly. They also admit that the chances of Judge Parker's elec tion are grow ing greater every day. 'here is realiv no doubt ot Judge Parker's election, if the Democrat! of this country, who believe in Deiu oeratic principles instead of trust domination and the reign of an aristocracy, will stand shoulder to shoulder for the Democratic ticket. This, the leaders of the party believe- will happen and they are ar more encouraged than I have Seen them since lMi"'. Of course, every man who attend ed the gieat Democratic Convention in St. liouis took in the latest and greatest of ull the world's expositions ever held. The great. St. Louis Kxiioi-itioii in its entirety can not be described, lt has to be seen to h appreciated. It is not only larger and greater in area, but the buildings are more beautiful in design and finish, and the exhibits more coin prcheiisivo than any exposition evt-i held. The Philippine Village ii itself w ill take two davs to fully ex nlore the interesting things there to behold, mid the wonderful "Pike, ' especially at night, when it is one glittering, glaring mass of electric lights, is worth going many hundreds of miles to see. 1 he attractions there can be seen tor a lime money anu there seems lo be no attempt to gouge visitors on the part of the exhibitors, 1 talked to many people there who hau- seen all the worU's expositions since the centennial in 1STC, and they sav that nothing has ever com- pared favorably with the St. Ixmis y" " " V " iu lUelf and the oppol ttiuity of .- ,w1Jail,lv '"lul"1' " , 7 . .. ' cull spare a lew tloiiars isuouig mm- self a graye injustice not to visit and o.w.dd i ,w iTieiit fltrerroimltoil OI LUC " "" " re " , world's progress and splendor. Cham. A. Upwards. The Rank of Mt Gilcad, at Mt (iilead, in Montgomery county, lias opened for business with $10,O0 capital stock. 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