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WEDNESDAY, March 4, 1908. H, A. LONDON, Editor. There is a very general errone ous idea to the time when a voter cannot take advantage of the "Grandfather" clause of our suffrage amendment. Nearly ev erybody thinks that a white youth who wishes to register and vote at the next election, must be able "to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language," and that the "grand father" clause will not enable him to register, aa heretofore. This is a mistake. The suffrage amend ment provides that auybody can vote, although he may not bo able to read or write, if he registers under the "grandfather" clause prior to December 1st, 1908. So that any body who heretofore could register under the "Grand father" clause can still do so until the 1st day of next December, which of course is after the Nov ember election. The common idea is that the provision as to the "grandfather" clause expires in 1908, and so it does, but not until December 1st. Therefore everybody can regis ter for the elections this year, be fore next December, just exactly as could be done ever since the adoption of our suffrage amend ment. And nobody can register for the elections this year who could not heretofore register. It is well enough for our people to understand this and act accord ingly. And by the way, although the suffrage amendment was adopted nearly eight years ago, yet no body in this state has ever at tempted to attack its constitu tionality. And yet all our readers will remember the frequent asser tions by Republican speakers and papers, in the campaign of 1900, that the amendment was clearly unconstitutional and that it would soon be so declared by the su preme court. Every Republican stump speaker was a profound constitutional expounder and con fidently pronounced the amend ment unconstitutional, and really made some timid persons believe them! The Democratic State Execu tive Committee is called to meet at Raleigh on next Wednesday night, for the purpose of select ing the time and place for holding the next state convention. As that convention will select delegates to the national convention, which meets at Denver on the 7th of July, the date of the meeting must be in time to appoint those dele gates. Our state convention in 1904 was hftl-.l on the 23rd of Jui and we suppose the nest conven tion will be held about the same date, say on Thursday, the 25 th of Juue. That date will give time for the delegates to m-ake arrange ments to go to Denver. Our next state convention will also nominate the candidates for Governor and other state officers, and these nominations will arouse much more interest than the elec tion of delegates. There is not likely to be much of a contest over the election of delegates, as it will be quite an expensive trip to Den ver, and the action of the Denver convention is discounted by the generally conceded nomination of Mr. Bryan. The discussion between the gub ernatorial candidates at Wades boro seems to have resulted mo .e to the benefit of the candidate (Mr. Home) who was not present but wrote a very sensible letter than of the two (Craig and Kitch in) who were present. It has cer tainly created a more unpleasant feeling between some of the friends of those two candidates, which would have been intensified if Mr. Craig had accepted Mr. Kitchin's challenge for a general joint de bate. The four so-called Democrats, whose votes elected a Republican (Bradley) to the United States Senate from Kentucky, deserve he censure of all good Democrats. .While they may be excusable for not voting for the Democratic nominee(Beckham), yet there was no excuse for Iheir electing a Re publican, especially after the Beckham Democrats offered to vote for some other Democrat if these four anti-Beokham Demo crat would vote alio for him. The Congressional Record of last Saturday contains a full re port of the able speech made by our distinguished Representative, Hon. E. W. Pou, iu the House of Representatives on the 25th of February. We wish that every one of our readers could have a copy of this speech (which is too long to be published in The Rec ord) and see how forcibly Mr. Pou exposes the insincerity and shortcomings of the Republican party. As a sample of the many good points made by him we copy the following extract from his speech: "But I come now to a matter of supreme importance to every man, woman, and child iu America. You Republicans are fond of boast ing of what you have done to bring relief to the people from the domination and oppression of mo nopoly. Well, what have you done? I make this statement and challenge any one of you to rise now in my time aud dispute it, if you can. There is not a human oeiug in all this broad laud who has been enabled to purchase auy one of the necessaries of life any cheaper by reason of anything your party has done up to the present time. Let anyone stop and think. If you can recall any instance where any man, woman, or child in ail this nation has been enabled to buy any necessary of liv ing any cheaper by reason of any thing you or your party has done, l will stop here now and give jTou the chance to inform the country when and where the trausiiction took place. Applause on the Democratic side." Ths National Convention. These nominating conventions of the great political parties are institutions peculiar to our Amer ican Republic, gradually evolved to meet the exigencies of the unique method provided by our Constitution for choosing a new President and a new Vice-President every four years. Our first Presidents were not formally uomiuated at all, but received tiu votes of the Presidential electors of their respective parties by ai sort cf spontaneous common con sent. Later the nominating ma chinery consisted of resolutions of indorsement of a "favorite sou" by the Legislature of his State, or its delegation in Congress, em phasized by repetition in othei legislatures or mass meetings; and still later it consisted of a caucus to which all the member- of Con gress of the sama political affilia tion were invited. The Congres sional caucus could at best poorly represent the rank and file of thi party, because it included only members from those States and districts which were represented iu Congress by members of that poiticai faith, and left entirely un represented those States and dis tricts whose Congressional dele gation were made up of member of other political parties. That these crude methods of choosing a party standard-bearer should prove unsatisfactory and eventu ally break down was inevitable. The genesis of our national noui inaiing convention, modeled alter M:nilar conventions in the States, dates from 1832, when the first' DoinoiU-atic National C-'onventim was held, in which each State v.;s given representation and was al lowed the same number of votes as was accorded to it in the Elec toral College. The first Republi can convention was held in 1850, without any uniformity of repre sentation or manner of choosing delegates iu reality a mass con vention with few of the Southern States participating. Not until the convention of 38GO did the Republicans give a voice to the Territories and to the District of Columbia, which werestill exclud ed from the Democratic organiza tion. Today both the great poli tical parties are truly national or ganizations to the extent of par ticipation by all who profess allegiance to their principles with out regard to residence in the States of the Union, which alone have votes in the. Electoral Col lege. From "Nominating a Pres ident," by Victor Rosewater, in the American Review of Reviews for March. Dangerous Lunatica Escape. Morganton. N. C. March 2. Four male patients, confined in the ward for the violently insane at the Western State Hosnirnl here, made their escane between and 9 o'clock tonight. The escape was effected bv breaking the iron guards off one of the windows in the ward, uiesumablv bv main strength, as the patients had no access to implements of any kind. A posse of ten men was imme diately organized by the superin- lenaent, Dr. Jiicuampbell, and sent out in search of the men, but thus far has not succeeded in ao- prehending them. The men are regarded as danc- erouslv insane and conseauentlv desperate, and for that reason warnings have been sent out by Dr.,McCampbell through the sur rounding country . Bishop W. W. Duncan, of the Methodist church, died at Soart-' anburg, S. C, on last Monday, aged 69 years. Wtsbiegtoo Letltf. ! rromOarKguiarOo iMponaeoi. Washington, D. C. Feb. 27. Rarely has the supreme power of the Speaker of the House, un der the Reed rules, been more clearly demonstrated than it prom ises to be when the Aldrich finan cial bill goes over to the House. There seems to be little doubt that a very considerable majority of the House earnestly and con scientiously opposes the bill. It is probably true, too, that a con siderable majority favors the Fowler measure, which in theory and principle, is the antithesis of the Aldrich measure. Despite this situation, however, Mr. Can non comes over to the Senate at frequent intervals and assures the author of the Senate measure that he need have no anxiety' as he, Cannon, will "whip the insur gents into line and make them vote for the Aldrich bill." The Democrat in the Senate are not presenting as forceful an opposition to the Aldrich bill as they might if they would only get together. As matters now stand, Senators Bailey and Owen, of Oklahoma, stand for a bond se cured currency, while a majority of the Democratic Senators are opposed to this form of circula tion. Of course were the Demo crats to present a united front their opposition would be more effective, especially as the Repub licans are not a unit in its sup port. Another radical difference uetween Democrats is that regard ing bank reserves. Senator John ston has introduced an amend ment which will have considerable Democratic support and will doubtless be adopted, providing that national banks must retain two-thirds of their reserves in their own vaults but one half ol this fraction may be in the securi ties enumerated in the Aldrich bill. On the other hand, Senator Taliaferro, of Florida, is violently opposed to this measure. Numer ous Democrats are iu favor of the Xeison amendment guaranteeing all depositors in national banks against loss which is t policy ad vocated by Mr. Bryan, but on the other hand, Senator Paynter, of Kentucky, is earnestly opposed to this provision and will make a speech against it. Were the Dem ocrats solidly for it they could probably attach it to the bill, as they would receive considerable uelp from the Republicans. The outcome oi the Brownsville investigation demonstrates to a striking degree the evil resulting irom the enfranchisement of the negroes. It is probably a sate as sertion that no Senator who heard the evidence against the negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry doubts the guilt of some members of that regiment in connection -ith the "shooting up" Browns ville. Only two members of the uiilitary affairs committee, For ikeraud Bulkeley, were willing to vote for the Foraker resolution leclaring that the evidence show ed that the negroes did not do the shooting. Nevertheless, when it mine to saying that the negroes lid do it, five Senators, all Re publicans, were found who weie afraid to express their convictions. They were Foraker, Bnlke!e , Scott, Hemenway and duPout In the case of dn Pont, he said l e was convinced that the shots wer. lired from rifles which had Ik en i-sue.d to the 25th Infantry nnd which were in the Lands of i e i: roes,' Lnt whs Lot willing to sy it was the negro troopers who diu the shooting. But although a large majority of the commit te voted for a resolution sayiuir tin u-?gro soldiers did do the shoot ing, Mr. Foraker has introduces a bill providing that the dis charged soldiers shall all be re stored to the army and to tbeir respective rank and shall receive all back pay. Of c urse the Ohio Senator does not expect such a bill to pass, but he hopes to make political capital with the negroes and incidentally to injure Secre tary Taft. The only man who has in any way profited by tlie Browns ville investigation, which has cost thousands of dollars, - is Senator Foraker who has charged the government with a hotel bill of $6 a day for the three months of the investigation, despite the fact that all that time he was living at his own handsome residence in Washington. Another evidence of the demorl iziiig effect of negro suffrage on the Republican party is the vio lent'effort. which is being made by Mr. Foraker and others to se cure contesting' delegations from the Southern states. It is well known that it only takes a box of cigars and a few new one dollar bills to get up a contesting Re publican delegation in any South ern slate, and yet there is a possi bility that the decision of the next Republican national convention may be dictated by these contest ing delegations. Such a situation is deplorable from any standpoint, although there is satisfaction of knowing that such a.cjurse by the Republicans would unquestion ably insure the election of Mr. Bryan. James Oliver, the millionaire plow manufacturer, died at South Bend, Indiana, on last Monday. Judge Jeter C. Pritchard wdl make a prohibition speech at Wil mington oa the 14th of this month. Burrlars at University Station. I Durham, March 2.--A told rot -bery was enacted-last night at University Station, twelve, miles west of Durham, on the Southern Railway, when robbers breke open the station and cut the mail pouches open, went through their contents and took such mail as they thought contained valuables and scattered the remainder on the floor. The entrance to the station was effected by breaking a window, and the robbery was not discover ed until the station agent opened ' the depot this morning at seven o'clock. He immediately notified the authorities of the b mthern Railway and several railroad de tectives were sent to the scene. j The station agent also discover- j ed that the robbers had taken an abundant supply of railroad tick- j ets and other things. The store of Mr. Craig, near the station, was also entered by the robbers and various articles were stolen. There is no clue to the guilty parties; Two New Features. In the March number Uncle Re mus'a Magazine, announce two in teresting features for the year. One is the seual publication of a new noyel by Will N. Harben, whose "Mam' Linda" and "Ann Boyd" are regarded as distinct ad ditions to American literature. The new story will be called "Gil bert Neal" and the first instal ment will appear iu the May num ber of the Magazine. The other is 'a new department, "Uncle Renins Wd the Children," to be conducted by Joel Chaudler Harris. The fact that Mr. Harris will have personal charge ot the department insures something un ique and wholly delightful. Where a Multitude of Sins are Covered. The L. & M. Paint covers de fects in previous paintings, aud wears for 10 to 15 years, because the L. & M. is pure linseed oil binder pure oxide of z.nc pure white lead, and you help to make the paint by mixing three quarts of linseed oil with each gallon of paint. It's done in 2 minutes. Makes cost only $1.20 per gallon. W. L. Loudon & Son, Pittsboro. The Lambeth-Crutchfield Co., Moncure, L. & M. Paint Agents. mu Officer Kills Anarchist. Chicago, March 2. Chief of Police George M. . Shippv, his son, Harry, and his driver, Janies Fole, were wounded by an anar chist who attempted to assassi nate the police otticial in the hall of the latter's residence, 31 Liu oln Court, shortly after 9 o'clock this morning. ' The desperab struggle, iu which Mrs. Shippy and her daughter, Geovgiotta, joined, was terminated when the chief drew his own revolver acd killed his assailant. Attempts "to identify the dead rain have thus far resulted iu failure. The Virginia. Legislature hat out all the rural districts and ev ery town with a population of rot over 500 under absolute prohi bition. FOR TORPID LIVER. A torpid liver deranges the whot system, and produces SICK HEADACHE, Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rheu fnatism,'Sallow Skin and Piles. There Is no better remedy for these common diseases than DR. TUTT'S LIVER PI LLS, as a trial will prove. Take No Substitute. V DMIN'LSTRATOLl'S NOTICE: V IT ivnur 'lM'-iIi.ied ;;s atfmi ..i tratnr f Stmcey Cleg.-, deceased. It e of Cha ham c utvy, State of North Car olina, this is to notify all penso is hav--ng claims against tlia etaie of sain deceased to exhibit them to lie undo; signed 0:1 or before the 22nd day " Kebnnry, l'JJO, or-this notice wiil h plead in bar oi their recovery. Ai persons i- debted to said estate vi! please make immediate payment. This February 22nd, 1908. ' RICHARD IIA MSEY, . . Administrator. Long &. Loo g., ' '- v ... Attorneys. ! ; . 1 - ' ' - iC ' ' ' ' : Commissioner's Sale. By virtue of authority vested by ai order of th-v Superior Court c Chatham County, made in a Specie j V mrf ar ir vr tViAAi'n Y-tanrlinnr irlmvn; ? John S. Brown is plaintiff and Earl; B. Brown and William II. Brown ar defendants, I will sell by puhh. auction at the Court House i Chatham County, on Monday tlu 16th day of March 1903, at 12 o'clocl M, two tracts of land locate! ii Chatham County, North Carolim adjoining the lands of Isham Rosscr one tract containing "0 acres and th other tract 22 acreswhich two trac! cons: itute the portion of the lamls o Neill McArthur, deceased, whi.-h wa in the partition of said lands alUUe to his dauhgter, Mary Ami McMiila and known as lot No. 4 in said divi . t sum. The terms of the sale wiil be, 1. the terms of said order, one-third . the purchase money cash and to other two-thirds to be payable Noveii ber 1st, 1903, to be settled by note be?n ing interest from date at six per cen per annum until paid, title to be r: served until said note is paid in full. This 13th day of February, 1908. B. F. McLEAN, Commissioner. TutWis Setboard Air Line Railway. Winter Tourists and All Year ,Ilound Special Rates. Winter Tourist rates from Pitts boro, N. C, to -Havana, Cuba, $07.55 Jacksonville, Fia., 26.50 St. Augustine, Fla., 29.00 Tampa, Fla., 39.10 Palm Beach, Fla., 45.00 Tallahassee, Fla . , 28.70 Tickets sold daily with fifteen (15) days transit limit permitting-stop-over, and has final return limit until May 31st, 1908. j All Year "ltonud Tourist rales from Pittsboro, N. C, to Hot Springs, Ark., Salt Lake City, Utah, Mexico City, Mexico, San Francisco, Cal., 343.G0 100.60 102.95 136 80 13G80 Los Angeles, Cal., Tickets ' to Hot Springs limited to return within (90) ninety days, no stop-overs allowed, to ciher points, tickets limited to return within nine months, permit of stop-overs, and are sold via di verse routes. We operate double daily vesti bule service with through Pull man Sleeping- cars to Jackson ville, St. Anustiue, Atlanta, Bir mingham, Memphis, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Bichmoud, Wasuiugtou, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. For Time-tables, Booklets, Re servations or auy kind of informa tion call on B. M. POJfi, Agent, or address the undersigned, C. H. GATTIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 4 Tucker Building. Raleigh, N. C. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. ME. STANDARD RAILWAY OF TH . . . SOUTH. . . . TheDireci Line to Alt Points. TEX A 5, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, CUBA- AND PORTO RICO. Strictly First-CIass Equipment on allTbrough and Local Trains; Pull man Palace Sleeping Cars on al Night Trains ; Fast and Safe Sched ules, Travel bv the Southern and von are assiuct! x Safe, Comfortable and Expeditious Journey. Aply to Ticket Agents fur Tables Rates and General Information, or Address S. II. I1ARDWI0K, a. P. A., Washington, D. C. W. H. MCGLAMERY, C. T. A., Ralpigh, N. C . L. VERNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. ( F. R. DARBY, C. P. T. A., Abbeville, N. No Trouble 'to Answer Qn--st in. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE: Havin. qualified as administrator f W. l' .Io!ir,s n. I hereby notify .-'11 .vso s luil.'inijr ciaims against .aid ieeedent to exM) it the same to e on -r before the 20th of -January, 1909. Jan'y 29th, 1P0S. J. A. DAVIDSON. REGISTERED Fhis trade mark will be fisfici n every bag of genuine e?a a 9 es. kb rh &q ts e?-j j- &afeA Fa i i m m mmwmr -m m- mr m m i mm It is F. S. s mm' MILLER'S AmmoniatedDissolved Bon GUANO. If you want your cotton and Guano, it is very dry and will run well in the distributor. Put up hi the best sacks o any guano on the market. W. L. London & Son. COLUMBIA Ask any planter wh: haj used if w hat it ha3 done for him it wil do th same for you. -:- COLUMBIA -:- Never tails to produce large yields. CoSumHa Guano Co., Norfolk, Va. F oi Sale by Vfr. RALEIGH & SOUTHPORT RAILWAY CO. Southbound Northbound D.iily Exce,pt Sunday Daily 1 5 a. ra. p. m. 8.00 4.40 8 55 5.15 91G 5 30 9 40 5.51 9 55 COO 10.14 G.17 10 37 0 36 10 50 ( 48 11.02 0 58 11.55 7.45 Jon v-c i m: At it . . .Lillinjrton .....Bnnlevpsl . . Linden.. 'Ioiii-c;i w: At it il-i,'!i Air ijiqc.; tt Virin with Durham and Southern Ry.;at Fayettevil with Atlantic Coast Line R. R. JNO. A. MILLS, Pi'es. and en.Mgr. I TRADE MAFM 0 JKL our guarantee of superiority and a protection against fraud by For twenty-three years have led all others in North Royster Guano Company ; NORFOLK, VIRGINIA . - the best results for corn m? Milled L. London & Son FERTILIZERS Pittsboro, N. C. Daily Except Daily Sunday TIME TABLE No. 22. Effective Sunday, May 12th, 1907. STATIONS. Lv. . . .Raleigrh. . .Ar. McC'ullers ...Willow Springs.... Varina a. m. p. m. 10.40 COO 10.06 C.15 9.50 4.50 9.40 4 32 9.23 4.17 9.02 3.54 8.42 3.31 8.27 3.15 8.17 3.05 7.30 2.15 with Southern Hailway and Seaboart 1 1 w. Pi imitation. Royster brands Carolina. 6
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