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r& MOKMOxisii today: '''", i J.v iramj'tiiisii wuiun new ivrt nv- ua NWI Publishl. CO. men belonging to th Interdenomina- , al and Patriotic Service are planning ! to induce federal action against Mor- monura direct renewed attention to what has been described as a great national menace. The public gener- S.00 ally regards with ' skepticism, and quite correctly, - Mormon assertions that polygamy is no longer practiced In the church of Latter Day Saints, CBSCRIPTION RATES: ,. AshevUle and BUonore. Week ..... Thee Mouths . ............ 4it Months Twehre Months . . . . BY MAITj, Df ADVANCE: Three Months Mx Months ... 1 waive Months i . 10c 1.95 $1.00 1.00 , 4 00 ! hut 4Yii irm.n with wttlnh th nmn. Aay sflatter, offsred tar ubUcatlon I nation has fastened upon a fertile and that' tat not classified as news, grrtng increasingly large portion of the west avttea or appealing for support of any ' " not Bener"y appreciated. The . . . . . 'statement of Hans P. Freece, who as satartalnjnant or project where an ad- . , , , 'agent for the New York society, In mtttance or other fee is charged Is veatigate(1 jjormon proselyting in Eu- aJrertlslng an will bo accepted at regular :-ates only. The mum applies to cards. Of thanks, obituary notices, political announcements and the like. H Tba Gnsette-Howo to n i It ber of The Its Megrapb. news to M tor eosnptou and reliable. It It It titttmtitiititititKs)ititit rope, that the membership of the Mormon thurch in America has risen from one in 125,000 of population to one In about 224 during the 80 years of its existence will come as a shock to most. Mr. Freece's observations of Mor al , mon activities in Europe also are in- Bntared at the Posto trice in Ashsville as second-class matter. Thursday, December 28, 1911. THE PROGRESSIVES' FIGHT FOR FilEFERENTIAIi PRIMARY. The most immediately Important plank. In the platform of the progres sive Republican organizations all over the country, it is announced, is that which demands a presidential prefer- nee primary. The progressive Republi cans say they are certain that the States whl-h elect their delegates to the national Repubftcan convention directly Instructed to vote as their electors have requested them will be able to express themselves In favor of a progressive candidate. The ac tion of the executive committee in re jecting Senator Borah's motion endors ing uch a primary was a bitter dls ; ppoin'mi-nt to the progressives anl the tisrhl f"r t')e presidential primary is thtT. firc nuw being wate'l slngle nnnuY'd ! the progressives, without assistance from the stand-pat element of the party. In this connection, the headquarters of the progressive Republican cam paign committee call the attention of teresting. He finds that in 1909 there were 3000 converts baptized across the water, a majority being women', and that most of them emigrated. These women are assured, he says, that polygamous marriage no longer exists; their fares are paid to Utah by the church and when they arrive they are usually by necessity com pelled to make the best of conditions there as they find them. Regarding the status of women under present Mormon practice, he says: "The present conditions of polyg amous marriage in Utah are shame ful. In order to nvold any conflict with the law no marriage licenses are taken out; there are no witnesses of the marriage; no record Is put on the books. The man and woman and priest simply go Into a room and the priest marries them according to the rites of the church. The woman doe not change her name and the children born of this union take the mother's name. The pity of it is that the young Mormon girls are taught that if they submit to such Injustice God will reward them for it in the next world. It is an admitted fact that Joseph Smith, the head of the church, is living with five wives, and the man next in succession is also a polyg amist." So closely are the religious, social and material phases of Mormon life interwoven that a powerful induce' ment is offered for proselyting; and so vast has the political and financial power of the church become that the probability is nothing short of a na tional upheavel Is likely seriously to affect it. In Its remote fastness, one of the world's garden spots, this or ganization, utterly foreign to Amerl- man who has. a cause to serve or an (.bject to attain through the medium of the newspaper but Is, at the same time, unwilling to send his views to the newspaper In a letter to the editor with his name signed to it," says the State. "This astute gentleman writes out his opinions, beginning, 'Col. Rich ard Roe, when called upon yesterday by a reporter of the Clarion and asked about the recent discovery of snow on the planet Mars, consented to give out the following.' Thus Col., Roe suc ceeds In advertising -himself as an authority whose opinions are eagerly totight or, more likely appears as a person who speaks with extreme re luctance, subjecting his modesty to painful wrenchings for the public good. Self-inflicted' describes him with mathematical accuracy and the phrase will be fqund a handy labor caving device wherever newspapers are made." Col. Richard Roe Is, however, a much more estimable man than the Hon. John Doe, who writes a com munication beginning with the form ula "my attention has been called to an article In your paper of the steenth instant," whereas as a matter pf fact he was hanging on his gate post wait ing for the arrival of the Issue of the paper on the steenth. WE TRCST ALL THE TEOPLE OF . ASUEVIIJUE I1' - Spent a Tery Happy Christmas. Now get down to business and have your tired, strained eyes examined and glasses properly fitted. ; "; CHAS. Hi H0NESS - Optometrist and Optician 51 Patton Avenue, opposite Postoffice OUR CE-RITE TONIC LENSES ' , ARE THE BEST. "Honest Englishwoman," In New York World: "Indeed, I have found that Americans are only too pleased to pick up from me English phrases and the English accent, which proves that they are not antagonistic to Eng lish people." One does find Ameri cans of that sort, here and there. There are 87,000 more registered women voters than men voters In Cal ifornia. The fact that they are reg istered seems to Indicate they mean business. Somebody may have to arbitrate between those arbitration treaties, on the one hand, and the Germans, the Irish and Col. Roosevelt, on the other. In 1911 the South has built 1815 miles of railroad, and 3500 miles are planned for 1912 including, we trust, the Transcontinental. the public to the Wisconsin laws relat ing to the direct election of delegates can Instiutions, has attained propor laws which were written on the stat- llonB not commonly suspected, despite ute books as a result of the efforts of the progressives of the Badger SUue under the lea lershlp of Mr. LaFol lette. ! "There shall be chosen at an elec-1 tlon held In each precinct of the state on the first Tuesday of April In each year In which electors for president and vice president of the United States , are to be elected delegates to the na- j tional convention of each party to nominate candidates for president and vice president "The names of the candidates for president and vice president shall be placed first, in each party column un derneath the party designation, and Immediately above the names of said candidates, respectively shall appear the words, 'for president,' 'for vice president.' "Arrangement of party tickets. Said official ballot shall be made up of rweral party tickets, arranged al- phabetlcally according to party name, ' all of which shall be securely fastened i together at the top and folded, pro-j vlded that there shall be many separ-' ate tickets as there are parties enti tled to participate in said election. "Names, rotated. The names of all candidates shall be arranged accord ing to surname under the appropriate title and under the proper party desig nation upon the party ticket, and ro tated In accordance with the provis ions of section 33 of the statutes as mended by this act "Not voted: separate ballot box. After preparing his ballot the elec tor shall detach the same from the remaining tickets and fold It so that Its face will be concealed and the printed endorsements and signatures or Initials thereon seen. The remain ing tickets attached together shall be folded in like manner by the elector who shall thereupon, with out leaving the polling place, vote the marked bal lot forthwith and deposit the remain ing tickets In a separate ballot box to bs marked and designated as the blank ballot box. "Tickets, destroyed. Immediately after the canvass the Inspectors shall, without examination, destroy the tick ets deposited in the blank ballot box. "Defective votes. Whenever any lector shall vote for more than four delegates-at-larg hi vote shall not be counted for any of such delegates. Whenever any elector shall vote for more than two district delegates his vote shall not be counted, for any of such delegates. "Name of candidates for president nd vie president may be placed on ballot For the purpose of enabling very voter to express his choice for the nomination of candidates for president and vie president of the United States, whenever there shall be filed with the secretary of stat a petition a provided by section 10 of the statutes, the names 6f such candi date shall be certified to the county j clerks, and shall be printed upon thu official party ticket used at said elec- i tlon. No signature, statement, or eon- sent shall be required to be filed by , any suoh candidate, "Delegates, how nominated. Nomi nations for candidates for delegates hall be made by nomination papers. In the manner provided ly law for nomination of candidates to be voted for at a reneral election. , "Official ballot: form. Art official ballot ruall.ee printed snd provided for use at each voting precinct In the form provided herein and annexed hereto. The names of all candidates fur dr!,'ient fur whom nomination Jin I ft pr'( rlliFil Mnll have been duly I,,. I. shall l'e ! ''' I thereun." I sporadic denunciation, but which make it a force to be dreaded and respected by the national government. A NEW AND USEFUL PHRASE. The Columbia State acknowledges obligation to the Indianapolis News for phrase that is needed around ev ery newspaper office when it speaks of something that an Indiana politi cian said In a "self-inflicted inter view." "Among a number of sorts of people found In more or less disarrangement in a none too orderly world Is the it is the irony of fate that such a large man was picked to be ground between the upper and nether mill ttunes. HOT WATCH BOTTLES We are gents for the Kant leek Water Bottles and Foun tain Byrlnjrea. They are mad of Para, rubber- and guaranteed for two years. GRANT'S PHARMACY, Agency for Wood's Seeds, -r- The Russian bear seems to be on a general rampage, to the great mor tification of his friend and ally, J. Bull. It is an excellent thing for some very excellent persons that Mr. Bryan never has patented his Ideas. The LaFollette wing of the Repub lican party seems to be In first rate ilopplng order.' It la against that condition that Mr. Knox is crying out The way to cure it. and the only and nolo way to cure It Is to reverse the tariff laws, which. In effect denounce trade with foreign ers as criminal. ' - Knox la talking about German pot ash. Well, the President had oppor tunity to put the Knox plan In execu tion a long time ago. The adminis tration threatened to do It. Germany never turned a hair, and the situation was a reminder o what the poet Pope said about the poet Addison: . "Willing to wound, but afraid to strike the blow." - It waa given out that we , would strike; but we struck like the suckling dove, not as the roaring lion. What is the Knox proposal ? It Is that if nations do not buy of us when we refuse to buy of them, we will get revenge by augmenting the taxation of our own people. To punish Ger many for not allowing us free trade In her markets we deny to American cit izens the right to buy German prod ucts unless they pay double price for them. Is not that a hardship on American farm lands hungry and thirsty for German ' potash T "Ger many must be punished," say the secretary of state. ' How? By denying the American farmer the privilege of buying potash from Germany. Do that and there wllbe no more com print about our overproduction of cotton. . I do not apprehend that Chairman Underwood and hi . committee will give much heed to the arrant nonsense from the office of,th- secretary of state. Why. did ha, not suggest it to Uncle Cannon and,S. reno E. Payne last congress? They, believe in It Washington, D. C, Dee. 21. They have Col. Roosevelt's name on the primary ticket in Nebraska, anyway. Couldn't See It Mrs. Housekeeper (to tramp) Why don't you iuok around for work? Tramp I'm troubled wld a stiff neck, mum. Boston Transcript. Dr. Samuel Johnson, who feared death as much as any man of whom there is any record, when told that his end was near, refused the opiates to which he had ben accustomed. A Chairmanship and Secretary Knox BY SAVOYARD. Many prominent leaders of the democratic party in congress are In favor of choosing Ben Johnson of Kentucky for chairman of the con gressional campaign committee. They build wisely. Johnson is a man of ability, a man of character, a man of affairs. He is man of action and born administrator. He can see the main objection and he will never lose sight of the minutest detail. He Is always vigilant and he Is an awful hard man to foot In 1107 the democrats of Kentucky were overwhelmingly defeated. The republican state ticket had maporlty of 11,000 and upwards. Boasts were made that old Kentucky had joined the party of Lincoln. My friend John Langley made a terrific speech about it that sounded plausible John Is nothing If not specious and there were folks who feared that old Ken tucky waa lost to the democracy, In 1908 the democrat selected Ben Johnson to run the campaign. The party had no money. Indeed the na tional headquarter were hard pressed for postage stamps. A beggarly f 5000 was raised for the Kentucky cam paign. Ben Johnson supplemented It with a liberal sum from hi own purse. He set about the reorganisa tion of the party In the old common wealth such a . was never before known. He turned the trick. His management reinforced the demo cratic vote of 1907 with (0.000 votes and he carried the state. Bine then Kentucky has been d em oc ratio to the marrow. Oo back to 1908 if you would find ths real cause of the tre mendous victory of 1911. Now, Johnson 1 not candidate for chairman of the campaign com mittee. If It comes to him without friction he will .take It and devote to It all the energies of a nature about as Intense as congress can show; but he will not scramble for it or accept It If It I the least tinged with fac tion. On my own motion I can ay that Ben Johnson la not only capable ot CHENEY'S EXPECTORANT eve COUC ND cotes serving as chairman of the congres sional committee, but he would make an admirable and a successful chair man of the national committee It self. It Is somewhere narrated thai In the Italian theaters the actor who was smignea me part Othello blacked himself from head to foot. Secretary of State Knox must be of that school. At least, his letter to Chairman Un derwood of the ways and means com mittee would so argue. He Is for thorough" and propose that we shall close our port to all merchan dise from abroad if ths foniin.r. a not accord us free trade In their ports. ins proposition is this that we shall stll abroad and buy nothing abroad. I suppose his theme was reciproc ity. I tried to express it this way long time ago: "Reciprocity la word the late James O. Blaine gave to the republi cs party for campaign cry. W hear of It In state papers. In congres sional debates, in the nubile nrxu nn the stump, at the cross-road, and at the kneading trough: but nobobdy has seen tne reciprocity Mr. Blaine so bril liantly and so pertinaciously contend ed for enacted Into the law of the land. It I thing to talk about not to Dractlc to nrnmls imt tn v- form. Economically, reciprocity Is an anuioae tor protective tariff; politi cally. It Is an apology for a protective tariff. . It is a concession that protec tion Is false In theory and failure in practice. It Is an admission that if a people would sell, thev must alan hnv wherea protection teaches that It Is ss wicsea to puy as It is excellent to sell. Sell everything and buy nothing Is the exhortation of the nrotartinn. tsts, for In their lexicon a market Is a place wner you may sell and shall not buy. They teach that when you ell It hi Impossible for you to lose, and If yon buy It I Impossible for you to gain. They believe that x port make wealth and ImDorta make poverty." We fug to ourselves the fetich or protection, which Is declaration of commercial war against - all alien tongues and peoples, and It Is a stub born eoonom!" fart that no alien nn- ple on the globe will buy of lis If they an d s wsi Served by anybody elss. 'EVENING. SLIPPERS The social season of the New Year bids fair to be a gay and lively one. Evening slippers will be in demands We have a beautiful showing of un usually handsome evening slippers in white, pink, blue and black satin, priced at $4.00. , BrowiiMiller . Shoe Co. Wachovia Bank & Trust - Compaoy i capitaiija stuiJiuirrr ... -... '-'.'11,610,000.00 Resources.. . .. ... wojw.uuw.wu Trait Asset! ... ... ...... :.. $1,400,000.00 WORTH CAROLI1WS OIJJE8T TRUST -TRONGEST BASTt T. S. MOBJUBON, V. Pre. W. B. vVIIjUAMSOW, CmUm. - . M. BAINXS, Asji. OMbJer. ;,,'V ntiiiii i ' 1 I BATTE.R.Y PARK BANK atSHXTCUUn. ST. d , ' '' J. P. SAWYEB, Preside, r E. SLUDEB, V-Pret. ! 4 T. 0. CoxvV-Pre. J- BANKLN, Cashier :: capital i.tnii'l.iUi-...-... ... $100,001 :: Surplus and Profits.,. ............... .r;;;$100,000 Z mtmArrra a OKNERAIi BAHKIHG BUUHsadS. ' 41 J Spatial attention glvm to collection. Fun percent to tares, paid t X ob Unto deposits. . . k .: 1 r H - 1 ' MIMMMIIIIIIIHIIItttttttTf ttf't """"" FOR SALE 12 seres common, 4-rdomed house, 4 miles out, $1,000. -roomed Modern Residence In City, fine location, $,S00. S. D.HALL Phone 01. 33 Patton Ave. "I had been troubled with consti pation for two years and tried all of the best physicians In Bristol, Tenn., and l y could do nothing for me," writes Thomas E. Williams, Middle boro, Ky. "Two package of Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets cured me." For sale by all dealers. Wood Weaver Heaters (tfic up. Hardware Co., tS Brown Is. Main. BEGIN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT Let us do your laun dry work Phone 70 ' A trial is all we ask. Swannanoa Laundry We Treat Tour JUtandr tVhite. HOLIDAY GOODS We have a large stock of useful find appropriate hol iday gifts at very attractive prices.' Call, and inspect our stock. Goods delivered any time to suit purchaser. DONALD & DONALD Furniture Dealers. ' 14 South Main Street.:' . : ' Phone 441. Special prices on everything for remainder, of this 'week.'" ... '- Cadillacs and the GUARANTEED fOR UfC We have also Home unex, celled bargains in second-hand cars. Western Carolina Auto. Co. Walnut and Lelrurton. Holiday Gifts Let us help you decide.. Good val ues and pleasing , assortment await your inspection. Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Gems, Jewelry Novelties, Souvenirs, Silver ware, Fountain Pens. J. E. CARPENTER, Jeweler No. 11 West Pwk Square (In Moore's Furnliare Store.) Show Folks We carry a complete line of Steins make-ups, liners, greese points, cold creams, etc. Take advantage of Seawell prices and Seawell skill when you have a prescription. Prescrip tions sent for and delivered. - Seawell's Drug Store .! ,- lfiScMainSt,, , , HAVE THE BABY rllOTOuKAPIIKD NOW The best baby picture are made here. We have special facilities for getting good photo of children. Quickest plates, lots of light and fast etc. Tou are certain of best results at RAY'S STUDIO, S N. Pack Square, Sale will last jSRHl he greatest gar- Days ' . hMmmJ enr 0ffered Pre-Jnventory Jbfe of Radios and Misses9 Ptady-toSdar Apparol Begins Joday x Real Winter is just putting in its appearance. The need of warm apparel will be felt for several months, This unusual Sale comes at an opportune time. Buy during the next three days'and save a half and more. We have enjoyed a wonderful season. By far the greatest in our history. In fact the majority of the garments we have to offer came during this month. Read below, surely there is something in this extensive line you need, and certainly there is a great saving. Jailor cd Juits priced Aess ffhan fialf This showing is not a bunch of suits picked over. On the other hand, they are suits that arrived too late to sill easily. We must force them out at less than your price would be. You'd be ashamed to offer so low a price, yet they must go. , $20 Tailored Softs, bjues, blacks and colored mixtures are priied at $3.45. $25 Tailored Kuita, regular values, all colors and size (if you come early), for $11.95. " Aong Coats Ml for iialj at this Sale This lot includes all Reversi ble Coats as well as other col ored long Coats. The sizes are somewhat broken but if you can find one to suit you, it will be a value worth seeking. You must admit that half price on coats is very reasona ble at this time of the year. $12.50 Long Coats are priced at $6.25. . $15 Low? Colored Coats are priced at $7.50. One fourth oft on all Long' I!lack liroaddoth ('oats. Half Price Sale of Winter Presses The special price concession relates to the Dancing Frocks as. well as to the Winter Wool Dresses. , There are quite a - number to make your selection from. They are gracefully trimmed not too much, but that happy , medium most people cafl good taste. , $12.50 presses are priced at $6.25. $15 Dresses are priced at $7.50. .. ; , $20 Dresses are priced at $10. $25 Dresses nro priced at $12.50. i ! :i
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