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VOL. XXXI.
ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1906.
No 41.
CONVINCING ARGUMENT TO
NORTH CAROLINA VOTERS.
Government Unsafe and Peoples Interests
In DangerrWhen In the Hands of Re
publican Looters.
State Chairman F. M. Simmons
Deals Deadening Blows to the
Greedy and Impetuous Tricksters
in State Government Exposes
Republican Imposition on North
Carolina Holds Up Progress of
the State and Prosperity of the
People Under Democratic Admin
istration With Pride Address in
Asheboro September 27th.
1 am glad of this opportunity to
visit the County where I spent
neaily three years of my young life
with great pleasure and benefit to
myself.
1 am glad to meet your people
and speak to them upon matters of
great importance to us all.
I appreciate the cordial manner
in which 1 have been received by
you, both upon my appearance here
to-night and during my Btay here
today. You have indeed beerl"
kind 10 me.
I thank my good friend, Colonel
Wood for the very complimentary
terms in which he has presented me
to you. I only wish I were worthy
of the tribute he has paid to me.
I do not know how I can show
my appreciation of all these things
better thuu to begin at once to
preach as best I can in my plain
blunt way the gospel of Democracy.
A man asked me the other clay
why I was a Democrat? I told him
I was a Democrat because I believ
ed in the rule of the people, and
because I did not believe in govern
ment by the classes. j
I told him I was a, Democrat be-!
cause I believed every man was en
titled to an equal opportunity in the
race of life, and because I did not
believe the Government had the
right to take a part of one man's
earnings by law and give them to
another to make him more pros
perous in his business. Lastly I
told him I was a Democrat because
I believed in standing by my friends
and the Democratic party had al
ways beeu the fnend of the South,
while the Republican party had
never beiu the friend of the South
or ot the Southern people.
llcuithllcnn Wrongs.
' I do not want to appeal to your
sectional feelings, but ldo want the
Southern people, when they are
kicked and culled to show a manly
resentment
The Republican party had its
birth in hatred of the South and
its institutions. It has never lost
an opportunity to humiliate and de
grade Southern people, and even to
this hour it does not treat us with
common fairness or justice.
No party ever treated a people
with a greater wrong than the lie
publican party treated the South
in the dtys of reconstruction. No
party ever inllicted upon a people a
greater outrage than the Republi
can party iullicted upon the South
when just after the war it enfranchis
ed the negro' and disfranchised the
Confederate Soldiers. No party ever
heaped upon people a greater indigni
ty than the Republican party heap
ed upon the South when a few years
ago it attempted through force bill
legislation to take our elections out
of the hands of our people and
put them in the hands of officials
appointed from Washington. No
party ever did a people a greater
injustice than the Republican party
is today doing to the people of the
South in denying it practically all
representation in the Government
both at home ahd abroad.
Reoaevrlt Iualncere.
Notwithstanding the President's
Srofession of friendship to the
outh. Notwithstanding his
boasts that one half the blood that
ruus through his veins is Southern
blood, he has selected no member
of his Cabinet from the South. He
has during his administration ap
pointed no man to the Supreme
Court from the South, nor has he
uppointed a single Southern man to
a position of first class dignity and
importance in the public servije
either at home or abroad.
The South furnishes today nearly
one third of all our foreign export
trade and is therefore as much in
terested in that part of our common
commerce as any other single sec
tion of the country, yet Mr. Roose
velt has given it almost no repre
sentation either in the Diplomatic
or Consular service of the Govern
ment. Out of 294 Consular Agents
appointed t.o look after our trade
with other nation.", only 29 are from
the South, while the Distil t of
Columbia which is only ten ra les
squaie, which furnishes no pait of
this trade, and whose people are no'
allowed to vote, has eighteen. Out.
of the 90 great Ministers aud Am
bassadors who represent our gov
ernment in the Diplomatic Service,
eleven of these Southei u States
have only three, seven of them have
none at all, while the single Srate
of New York has nearly twice us
many as all the Southern States
put together.
Iu view of all these things the
Southern people could not be ex
pected to be in love with the Heputi
lican party. As if to add iusult to
injury one of the Republican lumi
naries who has recently visited this
HON. F. M.
State upoua missionary tonr, gra
ciously suggested by . intimat;on and
inference if not iu expressed terms,
that we could have our share of
patronage aud participation in the
Government if the South would vote
the Republican ticket and give its
electoral vote to that party.
I do not know how you feel about
this matter, but the suggestion
Btirred mv blood to the boiling point
and I felt like saying to the whole
Republican party that Southern
people are not curs to lick the hand
that smites them, nor slaves to black
the boot, that kicks them. I felt
like saying to them, we are a con
quered people and a comparatively
poor people, but our nyanhood and
our suffrage cannot be purchased
with office or for gold.
Democracy Scents SnccenH.
In forty-seven years the Demo
cratic 'party has elected but
two Presidents. For forty,
seven years it has been
in power only eight years. Duriug
all these long years the people of
the South have remained loyal to
the Democratic party. In victory
and in defeat they have stood by
Democratic principles.
Today the prospect for Demo-,
cratic success in the nation is bet-,
ter than it has beeu at at.y time
since the war this far in Advance of i
a national election. Eveiy where
Democrats are Luovai-t !" I "Jfful i
The Republicans are in a panic.
Its leaders see the handwriting on
the wall.
Notwithstanding the fact that
President Roosevelt was elected by
an overwhelming majority, it ii now
admitted that there is but one man
in their party whom the Republican
leaders and newspapers feel certain
they can elect president two years
hence.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
preseut House is Republican by over
a hundred majority, it is now freely
admitted by those leaders and news
papers thai the next House is in
doubt.
In the recent election in Maine,
a rockribbed Republican state in
the very heart of the enemy's coun
try that their majority was reduced
from more than 30,000 to 8,000. In
rne of the 6tronge?t Congressional
Districts in that State, their candi
date, a big gun in that party and
who was elected two years ago by
a majority of about 5,000, a leader
in the preoeut House of Representa
iives narrowly escaped defeat.
The leaders of the Republican
party recognize the fact that they
are going to sustain heavy losses in
the East, in the North and in the
West, and they are this year for the
first time, coming South and mak
ing a fight in our close Congression
al Distiicts, hoping to make up in
the South for their losses in other
parts of the country.
Is it wise for Democrats who have
stoud by the Democratic arty
during the long years of adversity
SIMMONS.
and defeat to desert the party and
join the Republican party just
at the time when H is being deserted
by Repubiicaus in other sections of
the country?
Is it wise for Democrats who have
abided in the Demoeatic ship all
these years to desert it just as full
sailed it is about to enter the harbor
with safety aud success and to board
the Republican ship just as it is
about to sink?
Democracy Popular With the People.
Democratic principles and Demo
cratic policies were never more pop
ular with the people than they are
today, and Republican policies and
principles were never more unpopu
lar with the people than they are
today.
TruiU anil Monopolies C.lory In the
Evil ol Kepulillcun Principle.
I grant you that Republican prin
ciples have grown more popular with
the trusts and monopolies aud that
Democratic principles have giown
less popular with them but not bo
with the people.
Roosevelt is the most popu'ar man
in the Republican party today. They
are trying to force him to run again
because of this popularity and be
cause they think he is the only man
in their party who can check 'the
growing popularity of Democratic
doctrineSy Yet they are trying t
force upon him what was denied
Continued On Next Fage)
GREAT TIME IS EXPECTED.
Thursday, October 25th, Six Thousand
People Will (iathcr In Asheboro
to Attend the llai-beruc The
Largest Social and Polit
ical (intherliig I'.ver
Held In the State.
As the time approaches for the
Big Barbecue and Picnic to be held
in Asheboro. October 25th, the as
sertion that Raudolph will witness
on that day the largest social and
political gathering ever assembled
in the State, seems confirmed. The
managers are sparing no effort or
expense in preparing entertainment
for the immense crowds that will
attend. Encouraging reports are
being received from every section of
the county, and they are making
preparation for the entertainment of
six thousand people.
The Central Barbecue Committee,
composed of Messrs. R. R. Ross,
Chairman, W. J. Miller, J. T. Mof
fitt, W. J. Armfield, Jr., and Wm.
C. Hammer, has secured reduced
rates on both railroads entering
Asheboro.
They have secured the most dis
tinguished orators in the State as
speakers. Among them are Hon.
Lee S. Overman, Hon. Jas. II. Pou,
and Hon. Robt. N. Page.
Three brass bands will furnish the
music. '
Arrangements will be made for a
table a half mile long from which
the dinner will be bountifully sup
plied. Committers will be appointed from
"ach township to look after this
feature, and see that everybody is
served. Two hundred young ladies
and two hundred young men will
act as waitresses and waiters at the
tables.
Those who fail to come will re
gret their abseuce.
Besides the thousands from all
over Randolph, hundreds will at
tend from adjoining counties.
ODD FELLOWS ANNIVERSITY.
Special Services Held at the M. P
Church Last Sunday.
The first anniversary of the local
lodge of Odd Fellows was celebrat
ed Sunday night with special ser
vices in the M. P. Church.
The church was packed, thirty-
four members of the Order occupy
ing reserved seats iu the centre.
The Church had prepared special
music for the service which was
higly enjoyable and appropriate.
Rev. W. E. Swain preached the
anniversary sermon, ana nis dis
course was masterful, presenting
the parable of the Good Samaritan,
so applicable to the principles of
the order.
The meeting not only strengthen
ed the members of the order, but
impressed a . deep moral on the
minds of all.
II r. Norman M. Pleasants Dead.
Mr. Norman N. Pleasants, who
was yard master for the Seaboard
Air line railway company at Aber
deen, was killed by a sand train in
Aberde-u last Friday afternoon.
Mr. Pleasants was taking the num
bers of the cars of the A & A train
as it pulled into Aberdeen on the
track which runs parallel witn .sea
board track, and the sand train on
the Seaboard track backed, ran over
him aud mangled him to death.
hour cars aud the engine ran over
him. The sand train had just come
in and it is reported that Mr. Pleas
ants gave them orders to stand still.
This is hearsay. Mr. Pleasants at
one time had a position with the
A . & A . road and was on the Ashe
boro run. He was a brother of
Capt. Cyrus Pleasants aud Mrs.
Ualph Leach.
Pear Tree Hear Thrice.
Capt. W. S. Lineberry is display
ing on his farm in Providence town
ship, a pear tree which is preparing
to bear its third crop of fruit this
year. Early in the season it bore a
full crop of delicious fiuit, and as
soon as gathered it blossomed again,
and today has on one side a second
crop a cluster of seven pears, three
inches long and six inches around
while on the other side is a large
cluster of blossoms. Capt. Lineberry
will protect them and thiuks he will
gather the third crop from the tree.
Will Mclver, the negro who
"recked the Ashebwo train at High
Point a few days ago, formerly
worked with the Southern Express
Co at Greensboro. He served a
year on Guilford roads for shooting
another negro.
Laws as to Registration.
"The Attorney General of Nor:!i
Carolina has decided that registra
tion books for the election to be
held on Tuesday, November ii,
1900, shall be opened on Thursday,
the 4th day of October, 1906, at
nine o'clock a m. This opininiun
of the attorney general is concurr-d
iu by the chairmen of the Demo
cratic state executive committ.-e
and the Republican state exeeutive
committee.
"The law requires the registrars
to attend the polling place in their
several precincts on each Saturday
after the books are opened until
and including Saturday, the 27th
day of October from nine o'clock
in the morning to sunset for the
purpose of permitting vote s to
iegister. On other days than the
Saturdays mentioned, the voters
desiring to register must seek the
registra. On Saturday the 3rd
day of November, the registrar is
required to attend with his regis
tration bjpk at the polling place in
his precinct from nine o'clock in
the morning until three o'clock in
the afternoon for the purpose of
permitting any person registered at
his precinct to be cnalleugeu. It
any person shall be challenged, the
law requires the registrar to write
the word "challenged on his reg
istration book opposite the name of
the person so challenged and fix a
time and place before the day of
election for the hearing of such
challeuge. The voter so challenged
8ha.ll be notified of the time and
place of the hearing and the poll
bidders together with the registrar
bh.ill attend the polling place at
the time fixed for the hearing of
the challenge. The law futher
provides that any voter may be
challenged on the day of election.
"The following persons are per
mitted to register on the day of
election. Those persons who have
become qualified to register and
'Die after the time for registration
has expired. This permits youn.:
men who become of age after Octo
ber 27th to register on election
dav.
"No person shall be entitled to
vote unless he shall have paid his
poll tax for the year 1905 on or be
i'oro May 1, 1900, aud every person
liable for for such poll tax, before
being allowed to vote, shall exhibit
to the registrar his poll tax receipt
for 1905. If persons have lost
their poll tax receipt, they can se
cure duplicates irom tne sneriu.
If for any reason an elector should
leaw such receipts at home, it
would be competent for the regis
trar and judges to allow such per
son to vote upon his taking and
subscribing an oath tlmt he paid
his poll tix as above set out. To
save confusion aud error, it is desir
able that all persons carry their
poll tax receipts with them when
they go to the polls on election day.
Persons entitled to register under
the grandfather clause can do so as
in the last two elections.
'Immediately after the election
the registrars and judges will de
posit the registration boons with
the register of deeds.
'Io register one must have re
sided iu the state two years, the
county six months, and the pre
cinct four monts, provided that
removal from oue precinct to an
other in the same county shall not
deprive any person of the right to
ote in the precinct from whicu he
has removed uutil four months
after such removal and all electors
shall register and vote in the
election precinct of their residence
except iu case of removal, as above
specified, in which case such person
shall register in the township, ward
or precinct, whence his removal
" The residence of a married man
shall be where his family resides,
and that of a single man where he
sleeps.
"No removal certificates are re
quired."
APPOINTMENTS POSTPONED.
Itiisiiicss Kugac-eiiieiits Delay Mr. Moss
Who W ill lill Appointments Later.
Our people will regret to learn
that Mr. Chas. Ross, who has ap
pointments at severai places in the
county will be unable to reach here
this week. 11:8 time is devoted to
the interests of the Southern Timber
Co.. aud Tuesday the Democratic
Headquarters received a telegram
from Lillington saving that lor uu
avoidable reasons he will be unable
to come, and requests that appoint
ments be postponed. Mr. Ross will
come later howevtr and he will be
heard gladly.
ED. POU FLAYED
MARION BUTLER
Republican Boss in North Carolina
Stripped of Cloak.
RESPONSIBLE FOR WILMING
TON RIOTS.
Democratic Congressman tells ICx-Sena-
toro: his Crimes Against the State
Influence of former Populist
Crippled in Dehate at
Smithlield.
Democratic Congressman inter
cepted the insulting canvass of Ex
Senator Marion Butler, the ex
Populist, ai.d Republican Boss in
North CuridiuaSatu:day at Smith
field iron ohud he held the tyrani
cal, Boss and h;s misiepreseutations
np in disgust to his hearers,
characterized by their noticeably
quiet aud thoughtfulness, and
weight attached to the facts pre
sented by Mr. Pou.
After his speech, which lasted an
hour, many expressed their disgust
at Butler aud his influence is badly
Crippled. Mr. Pou charged that
Butler was stopped from attacking
the Democratic State administra
tion and quoted from the Clinton
Caucasian and editorial published
in 1892 in which Hutler declared
that the Democratic State adminis
tration prior to that date was
above criticism. He also read from
The Raleigh Caucasian editorials
published in 1897 in which Butler
declared that the Legislature of
1897 was a damnable disgrace to
the State, that it was composed of
a set of miserable pie-hunters and
that no bill could be passed unless
it was in the interest of some job.
Turning to Butler, he demanded to
know when he was telling the
truth, iu 1892 and 1897, or now
after he has turned Radical. He
demanded that Butler own or repu
diate the utterances of his own pa
per aud paused to give him the op
portunity to do so but the ex-Senator
remained silent iu his seat aud
attempted no leply in his rejoinder.
The most dramatic incident iu the
debate occurred when Mr. Pou re
plied to Butler's denomination of
the Domocratic party for the riots
which 'occurred in 1898 eand
1900. Turning to him and shak
ing his finger, Mr. Pou cried," You,
Senator Butler," are responsible for
the Wilmington riot more than any
other man, living or dead. You
betrayed your own party and sold
out to the men who were leading
the negroes iu 1900. The negroes
demanded recognition in the city of
Wilmingtou aud you helped to put
forty negro magistrates iu office.
Half the police force of the city were
negroes.
You forced the people of Wil
mington to do what they did and
you are the hut man on earth to
abuse or criticize them. When you
abuse Senator Simmons you abuse a
better man thau you have ever been.
The reason you hate him is because
he drove you and yonr negro allies
from power and because the people
of North Carolina gave him your
seat in the Senate.
Neaily all the deputy sheriffs of
that city were negroes. Roberies
were committed in open day time.
Burglaries were committed time and
again within the shadow of the city
hall. bite women were knocked
from the sidewalk by drunken ne
groes. There was such a carnival
of crime as the city has never seen
before. 1 ou are a white man and
yon ought to be conscious of the
things a white man will not submit
to. I deplore mob violence, God
knows 1 do. I think I deplore it
even as much as you do, but I tell
you to your face it does not lie in
your mouth to criticize the people
of Wilmington or the people of any
otlnr town in this State for the
things they did to rid themselves of
the inf imous rule forced upon them
by you and your Republican allies.
Invitation Issued.
Invitations which read as follows
have been issued:
"Mr. and Mrs. June B. Stroud re
quest the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their sister,
Mamie, to Mr. Edgar D. Broadhurst,
on the evening of Thursday, the
eighteenth of October, at half after
eight o'clock, at five hundred and
six, West Washington street, Greens
boro, North Carolina.