Csibora '^oalfitrner ■p-p a POWELL. EAltos. Published Every Thursday . Su oaoription Bates $1.00 per year B i -*red ai Post.ofUee a« »e<*on«l clasi- mattft ~~ Thursday, August 13, 1908. According to the Republican press, a laboring man is a deluded or designing rascal, unless he sup ports tho Republican ticket. \fter all the primary talk, not a man said that he preferred to risk his candidacy before it to a convention. There were seven names pre sented for county commissioners. The county would have been the gainer if all seven could have been choseD. You may be sure the Indepena ent party is not expecting to cut much ice, or Mr. Hearst would have had himself nominated for President. This is a dull year in business, and 300,000 freight cars are still idle in consequence of the republi can panic, and as a result the politicians find it difficultto-create enthusiasm. Col. John L. Bridgers was a foeman worthy of Mr. Basset’s skill. V\ ith either Edgecombe would be ably represented. Geog raphy was a greater factor in the selection than popularity. Even “the unspeakable Turk'' has determined at last^on a consti tutional government, j The world certainly does move ^toward. De mocracy. The town is putting in so many improvements to its light plant, that he to whomever sold will have to pay for an up to date plant. As soon as the worst of the dog days are over, the formation of a Bryan-Kitchin Club may be ex 'pected. The Republicans are hoping to be benefited by the anti-prohibi tion vote. Anti-Prohibitionists will never be helped by Republi can votes. Hughes announces that he will run for Governor of New Y5*k again, and the Republican party leaders say he wilt be' defeated, although the President is for him. The headquarters of the republi can committee in New York has a “high ball alley” which connects it with the republican club grill room and bar. Thus the thirsty republican patriots get their | drinks at cost price. Vice President Fairbanks has evidently not full confidence in Mr. Roosevelt, or perhaps it is Mr. Taft, for he says: “There are too many who profess decency in poli tics, but who do not carry their propositions into effect.” Empty dinner pails and half full ones is the best the republi cans can boast of in this cam paign. Republican boasts of being prosperity producers will hardly satisfy labor under these circum stances. The Charlotte Observer, and a mighty good authority it is too, says that the cotton mill men are talking of a complete shut down. Yet every Republican politician is declaring that prosperity has re * turned. That same gentry will say the same thing in the coming Fall, when cotton sells around 8 cents. American Industries, a semi monthly magazine, published by the protected industries to bolster up legally protected graft, boldly states that the reversal of the lower court which fined the Stan dard Oil, 829,000,000, has lmd a bracing effect on general trade. Slipping a card to a gambler would have a general bracing effect on that sleek rascal also. Sam Gompers, as head of the American Fedeiation of Labor, asked the Republicans to adopt a plank favorable to labor. The Re publican convention refused aod now because he opposes Taft and advises his brethren to vote for Bryan, who stands on a platform containing such a plank, he is de clared to be a designing knave by the Wall Street Journal and nearly every other Republican publica tion in the country. Either the Corporatnn Commis sion were corrupt in permitting the long distance telephone com panies to make their night rates the same as their day rates, or the News & Observer didn’t know what it was saying, when it criti cised it. We opine that the Com mission ascertained first that the companies were doing an unprofit able business under the former night ra'e. The members of the Commission desire to be popular, and at the same time just and fair. We hope the time will come when Surveyor. *he same of our con Box No, REPbotraui PROSPERITY. There is work for the Sunshine Clubs in New York, for the Woman’s League which looks after the interests of working women reports that 70,000 women are unable to find work. The Woman’s League appears to have a more practical view of business than the Bepublican Sunshine Clubs and evidently does not believe that mere faith in prosperity will pro duce it. Therefore, the League has named August 15th as ‘‘Pros perity Day,” and to make sure that it will bring relief to some women workers, the League is urging influential employers ih that State to increase the number of their w omen workers on or be fore that date. If there are 70,000 women out of work in New York, what is the number of un employed men that are suffering in consequence of mistaken Repub lican policies that produce panics i and prolonged business depression? THE STANDARD OIL CASE. The whole question decided by the U. 8. Circuit Court in the Standard Oil case was not tbe amount of the fine as President Boosevelt jumped to tbe conclu sion it was, but whether the Trust “had knowledge of the tariff sheet from which it is said to have accepted a concession.” Judge Landis lefused to admit evidence on that point and the Circuit Court overruled him and threw |he case out of court. SPECTACULAR POLITICS. It’s pretty tough on the Bepub lican managers to have their pow der wet by the United States Court sprinkling the Standard Oil fine so that the anti trust issue will not even fizz. No wonder, Presi dent Boosevelt denounced the court, looking at the matter from his partisan stand point. There is no doubt the Standard Oil is guilty oi accepting reoaies,uui iue Republican attorneys and Judge Landis wereeo eager fora spectac ular line that they overplayed their hands and did not allow the jury to know the whole irnth. A SOFT SNAP. * T he Aldrich Monetary Com mission consis ing of nine Senators and nine Representatives in Con gress has been having a good time at N irragausett Pier and have how arranged to visit Europe, all at government expense. No lim it is set to the amount they can expend, neither can any Auditor of the Government dispute the bilis they send in. If that is not a cinch which could be turned into a tine field for grafting, what is it! WELL DONE. The nominations made by the Democracy of Edgecombe for county and legislative candidates are excellent. Many of them are reuominaticns which attests theap proval of the public so,no more be said, especially when they v*ere made unanimously. Of the new men on ths ticket 'there should be but one opiuiou as to their litness and capability. L. V. Bhssett for the Senate ana Hugh B. Bryan for the House, mean that ?’ Edgecofnbe will be again strongly and ably represent ed. Of these more anon. The party and the county are to be felicitated on the- personnel of the board of county commissioners. In many respects it will be one of the strongest and most efficient boards that the county has ever had. We predict that the more it is examined the greater will the ex cellence of the selections appear. “MY DEAR HARRIMAN.” Whether the exigencies of the Presidential campaign will require President Koosevelt or Mr. Taft to crll on Mr. Harriman for financial aid is not yet known. It is certain however, that “My dear Hani man” was never more able to fur uish the boodle than he is now. He is the indisputed Railroad Kin* . He controls 45,151 miles- of the railroads of the country and is just about to gobble the Eastern Gould roads which will give the railroads he controls another entry to Pitts burg and Baltimore, aud has his hands on others. The capital stocks of the railroads he now di urinates amount to the enormous sum of $1,627,550,900,00 with an hsue of 81,985,910,694.00 imbonds. It follows that all competit on Iretween these Harriman railroads i> obliterated and the people who reside on them and the merchants who do business over them will hue to pay “all the traffic will bear.” Is it good policy to allow this railroad magnate to combine com peting railroads at his pleasure! President Roosevelt has been hand anji glove with Mr. Harri man, wh’o is an ardent Republican, and the evidence of the ardor ol Mr. Harriman f r Republican sueefes has been d:sclosed by letters that have been published and the fact that at the request ol President Roorevelt, Mr Hani man raised 8260,000 in “the last days of the campaign of 1904. That money Mr. Harriman do dared was used to buy the voters of the State of Xew York, and did have, he said, the effect of indue ing 50,000 of them to vote the Re publican ticket and save the G. O. P. from defeat. mat transaction was a great blot on the reputation of Presidei t Roosevelt, almost as much as the collection for Republican cam ppign purposes of the trust funds of the Life Insurance companies was, that should have been sacred to the widows and orphans, for Mr. Roosevelt was the direct bene ficiary of the use of this political corruption. If President Roosevelt was really intent that such “malefac tors of great wealth” as Mr. Har vimao should be controlled or lim ited in plundering the people through excessive railroad rates and manipulation of the enormous surplus funds of the corporations he controls, would he have been in political partnership with Mr. Harriman? If Mr. Roosevelt was really sincere in eradicating the influence of such malefactors of great wealth as Mr. Harriman in the Republican party, would he uot be urging the proper Federal officials to prevent the further combination of railroads under the domination of one man! Whrn Mr. Harriman was a del egate to the Republican National Convention in 1904, he was no better than he Js today, but the ! Republican parly | has allowed him to become much more powerful. Those voters who believe that corporations should be controlled can hardly expect reasonable reg ulation as long as the chief rnanip ulator is all powerful in Republi can councils. —There are 77,000,000 bricks in the famous Severn Tunnel. BRYAN CLEAVES VAN CLEAVE. Declares Labor and Injunction Planks are Not Contrary to the Interests of the Business Men of the Country. \ Lincoln, Neb., August 6.—W. J. Bryan issued a statenu ut re plying to cirular issued some weeks ago by the ‘National At-so ciation of Manufactures and signed by James W. Van .Cleave. Mr. Bryai declared that the pamphlet of Mr. Van Cleave raises two questions: First, is there anything in the labor plank of the Democratic platform to which business men can justly tak-e exception; and, second, is the question so im portaut to business meu as to justify them in iguoiing all other issues! * Mr. isrjan aeciareu tnat me proyisiou in tin* Democratic plat form for the ei cation of a Labor , Department with a Cabiuit officer at its head cauuot possibly offend business men. He then says: The platform draws a distinction between associations of wage - earners organized lor the ptotec tion of-wages and the improvement of labor conditions and industrial corporations w his in miud. This is the plank that decclares that parties to all judicial proceeding sh-uld be treated with rigid impartiality. ( and that an injunction should not : issue in any case in which an injunction won d not lie if no; industrial dispute were iuvolved.! Do the business men insist upon partiality in judicial proceeding?; Do they insist that the mere f ct i that there is an industrial dis pute should justify an injunction? That plank does not attempt to interfere with the issue/of an in junction where other Conditions justify it, but it does oppose the issue of an injunction merely foi the purpAse of bringing the court into the discussion of an industrial dispute. “Mr. Van Cleave -.iss; i ts that this plank rouses ‘a class spirit,’ and constitute s a demand for ‘class favor&J But this is not true. It is a declaration that the writ of injunction should not be issued for the purpose of creating j a class or favoring a class. The laboring men resent au attempt to discriminate against them in favor of any other class. ” Mr. Bryan in conclusion de dares that Mr. Van Cleave does the busimss man an injustice iu assumming that his waking hours are tiled with fears of the wage earner, and that his night’s rest is bioken by iruainary deputes with tho^e who toil. Probably the greatest compli ment paid in the convention'was to John F. Shackeiford. Though differing with the delegates ou national politics there were not a few who, because of his excellent business qualities and their deep personal like for the man, wanted him for chaiiman of the board of county commissioners. TOO MUCH PATERNALISM* While amity and fraternity mark the celebration at Quebec and all p<»&t racial ai d religious animosities seem to be forgotten, t must that the more thoughtful spectator and participants find time for reflection on the outcome of the rivalry betweeu Englaud and France. And where there is the spirit of meditation on „ the philosophy of the turn which des tiny took, it is well to bear in mind that Parkman, the historian, explained France’s defeat by the fact that the Face colonist was pursued across the Atlantic by “a paternal despotism better in in tention and more withering in effect than that which she had left behind,” whereas, ‘“English colonization obeyed a natural law and sailed with wind and tide.” It is a lesson that subsequent founders of coldhies have neither taken to heart or missed, with favorable dr unfavorable results. —Boston Herald. CAUGHT IN VIRGINIA. William KnigTit, colored, who escaped from the Edgecomibe coun ty road force on 8unday> August 2nd, has been lodged in jail at j Butts, Va., charged with burglary | and sentenced to a year on the road force. HATS OFF TO WRIGHT STALLINGS. One of the most strenuous op ponents of race, suicide is our friend, Wright Stallings, Tuesday night the aceommodating sioi.c left at his home twins, himself smiling and happy and his good wife doing well. “The Piano With The Sweet Tone” SOME SPECIAL 1IANO AND organ bargains. We frequent1 y trade in Square and UpriiiUt piauos, and orgaus in part 'p*wfcipeut of Stieff or Shaw •piauos. Each of these instruments is thoroughly ovrhauled ^nd put iu goo I condition by oar factory workmen, and then put on sale at extremely low figures—-just what we allowed for then. We offer you some of these now We have a few Square Pianos that will do service a long time, priced from Ten Dollars up. A few Upright Piauos that are great bargains, from $150 up. A few O'gain- from Ten Dollars up. When we sell a second hand piano, it is always with the understanding that we will take it back at cost pi ice when you need a new Stieff or Shaw piano. Write for particulars. CHAS. M. STIEFF L. G. Steee, Mgr., 114 Granby St., Norfolk, Ya. (Mention this piper.) Official Piano, Jamestown Exposition. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AT MCREHEAD. A State meeting of the county comiui.vsinnejs of North Carolina will be he d at Morehead, August 16-20. Nearly all the commission el's in the SCate are expected to be present. Speed Items. B. C. Savage of Greenville is visiting relatives here this \v|)1y C'oinjMUiV Next to the Southerner office. c DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE HEAT -IT NEVER GETS HOT AT OUR_ • : " . ■ ■ i ' SOD'A - ©ur fee Cream Soda and J£leetrie jfans Will Make You Cool. EDGECOMBE DRUG COMPANY fiQTsNext to The Postoffice. The Store That Sells as it Ad* vertises........ THE CYCLONE DEPART. STORE The Store Where Satisfaction Al ways Rules... EXTRAORDINARY FOR - THIS - WEEK 75 Pair of Nottingham Lace Curtains for this week. Per Pair u $1.59 These curtains are worth from $2.50 to $3.50 per pair. Length 3 1-2 yards and 3 3 4 yard^.,8 different designs to select from. The Cyclone Department Store E. Miller, Proprietor. Tarboro, If. C. A Tarboro Supply Co. gil(1 JXO TIME TO MZST Come Now While The Weather is HOT and Get a Fair of OXFORDS at COST. Tarboro apply Co. (liic.) I PAINTING a roof is work. Buying the paint is ex pense. Both are needless if your roof is Amatite. When you finish laying Am atite, take away your ladder, pick up your hammer and kmie’, go away and leave the root to take care of itself. A few years later you may go back and look at it if you care to, but it won't be necessary, and there won’t be anything to do. This is . due to the fact that Amatite has a real mineral sur face—a surface that is too strong to need protection—too.durable to require painting. If you buy one of the smooth surfaced roofings you will have to paint it every two or three years to keep it from leaking. In fact, such roofs depend on the paint almost entirely for their waterproofing qualities. #Arfiatite on the other hand de pends for its waterproofing upon double layers of Coal Tar Pitch, —the greatest knojvn enemy to water. i Amatite comes in rolls of no square feet ready to lay. No special tools are required, and anyone can lay it properly. A Sample of Amatite will be forwafded free on request. Send for it and see how much better it is than the kind which requires painting to keep tight. HOWARD HA ED WAKE COMPANY The - Farmers’ w-DPortTiauv 30,000 Varcs of 8 ©unco Buck 1,000 yards of 10. ©uncc Buck Largest and Cheapest L >t ot Cotton Sheet ever Offered to this Jlr :< Merchants Will be W’ise to See Us. <0 # # ♦ 4> ❖ # 4 <> MISTER hUSBAMD Wben you bear it said by your wife or children that they need a nice PORCH CHAIR OR HAMMOCK jnst phone W; L. & J. E. Simmons. They have them. Prices right. Terms to suit your conveuiece. .... W. L. & J . £. SIMMONS # - • # The Peoples] Popular Price Purniture St)re, /S ♦ 216-217 E. Main St Phone 31. ♦ »+[g[EiiFi[Rim^iEifRirAimrd][R] si## COR/NS IThAT i WERE Fou can soon lmv<* corns in memory« n ly if you desire. (>;;»• Russian Corn Taint takes out corns < v ery time. W e guar | antee the remedy ana will refund the money if it f;:,! i. not because it is apt to fail, but because we always guarantee anytniug we recommend. As A.matter <>; fact we do not believe the remedy can fail when faith fully and properly used. P R j C £ ^ 5 C STATON 8 ZOELLER - - - 70 Corner Opposite Court House, Phone No. Four Two.