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 hi<h act in restraint
of trade. The difference between
a labor organization and a trust
is so apparent that no disinter
ested person will deny that they
should be treated separately, lo
class the |two kinds of organiza
tious together and dpal with them
under one law is b-juud to do
injustice to one or the other.
The business men h^ve no vital
concern in including the labor
organizations in tne anti trust
laws.”
Mr. Bryan then takes up the
plank providing for trial by jury
in casqs of iiiilheet contempt, He
insists that ihB cannot raise a
question of viuil concern to busi
ness men, because every man has
a right to a jury trial, lie then
says:
“An attempt has been made to
raise a false Issue in regard to the
efturts and to make it appear that
the demand for trial by jury is
an insult up »u the integrity of j
the courts Those who make this
argument might as well insist on '
the abolition of the jury in all!
eases, for the jury system itself |
is just as much a i election upon j
the bench as is this deinaed for I
trial by jury iu these particular j
cases. _ j
‘•But there is another labor,
plank that Mr. Van Cleave prob-!
ably h >s 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<ek,
from here he goes to Ya. Heauh.
Rev. A. I. Cmdie return d M-n
day, accompanied by h*s sister,
Mi-s Mary. Tliev’spent histwmk
at Portsmouth and Ya. Penh
M s. J. 1*1 Warren retained to-j
Farm ville Wednes« 1 ay.
Miss Lucy Eiwar-s ct^inedj
Sato i day to Wilao .
Miss B-wbara Edwa’ds has re
turned from a visit to Rocky
Mount.,
Miss I’r'g tsy Stwvage left vved
I uesday lo visit in Farmvilie, New
Bern and Greenville
j Misses Emlna and Fannie
Knight r turned Tu sUay from
i < astalia, a« companies! by Mis.
Matthews ^
WILL MOVE TO RICHMOND
A. D. Matthews, who has been
employed with Murphy, Jenkins &
f Co., for-live j ears, will have Sat
uiil.'V to accept a p siticn with
th.* Saunders Grocery Co, of
111. hmoud Mr. Mdtluws will
move his f*miiy to° the Virginia
capitol.
CHAMPIONSHIP CONTESTS.
Iu the second -1 the iciies of j
| contests tor pool championship
among the 1 cal firemen, E-l Mor
ris ibleak'd Jack Bradley Tuesday
eveui g by the score of 100 lo V9.
Each contestant ha-, w ou one gi me.
HO! FOR NORFOLK.
Many Tarborian* will take ad
vanti go of the special excursiou to
Norfolk Monday by the Atlantic
Coast Line. The fare from Tat boro
will be $2 the round trip, good to
return until Tbuisday, Aug. 20th.
I wiii be the liist excursion over
this bra ch this season.
ENJOYABLE MOONLIGHT PICNIC.
Seventy liv - young people -en
joyed the moonlight hnyiide and
picnic given by Misses Lizzie and
Sue Baker to their many friends.
The crowd li ft Dr. Baker's home
at 8.30 o'clock, iu seven wagons.
They drove to Beech wood farm,
where the grove was tastefully
lighted with lan»e ns. The Wil
liamson trio fnrnisheo music for
the Occasion. The party < njoyed
the old timesquaic dances. De
licious refreshments were _ served.
BIG HOTEL AT BEAUFORT.
TJhe Bear fort Hotel Company, ot
Beaufort, is ipeorpoiated to fur
nish to that flourishing town the
hotel which has been so Ioug
needed. Not only will the com
pany build and operate a hotel,
but will also furnish electric
power, ipanutactuie and sell gas
and oil machines, operate au ice
factory and own gas, steam and
sail boats. The authorized capital
stock of th^ company is $125,000,
of which $30,000 has been sub
scribed.
NO FAKE PROPOSITION
The expression in yesterday’s
Southerner that the delay about
appraising the.flight plant was
Jeadiug the citizeos to believe that
the oliVr to buy was a ‘‘lake propo
sitiou of the learned doctoi»P The
expression fake was botu inapt
and misleading.
The delay does lead citizens to
opinion that nothing will ever be
come of the offer. And this Dr.
Staton Jmay have expected when
he made it; but he made it in good
faith and we have not a shadow of
a doubt that he stands ready to
make good his offer until this day.
B Or eat Offer* __
The Southerner offers to iti paid
up in advance subscribers
The Weekly Southerner and The
Progressive Farmer, $1.55.
The Daily Southerner and The
Progressive Farmer, $4.50.
The Progressive Farmer is pub
lished yveekly, is equal to th best
agricultural journal of the country,
with its pages teeming with farm
information -for people of this
State and section.
M O N E'Y
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DEPOSIT IT
rf *
- when
you have
a surplus, with
BORROW IT
when
in need,
from
IW 111 IK OF 1801
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To Depositors: We offer the l»fsfc security with
liberal rates of interest on time deposits and
savings accounts.
To Borrowers: We furnish the “needful” at all
times on personal or real estate security at
cheapest rates and on easy terms.
OF TARBQRP
Eat What
You want of the food you need
Kodol will digest it.
You need a sufficient amount of
good wholesome food and more than
this you need to fully digest it.
Else you can’t gain strength, nor
can you strengthen your stomach if
it is weak.
You must eat in order to live and
maintain strength.
You must not diet, because the
body requires that you eat a suffic
ient amount of food regularly.
Bnt this food must be digested,
and it must be digested thoroughly.
When the stomach can’t do it,
you must take something that will
help the stomach.
The proper way to do is to eat
what you want, and let Kodol di
gest the food.
"Nothing else can do this. When
the stomach is weak it needs help;
you must help it by giving it. rest,
and Kodol will do that.
Our Guarantee
Go to your druggist today, and
purchase a dollar bottle, and if you
can honestly say, that you did not
deceive any benefits from it, after
using the entire bottle, the drug
gist will refund your money to you
without question or delay.
We will pay the druggist the price
of the bottle purchased by you.
This offer applies to the large
bottle only and to but one in a
family.
We could not afford to make such
an offer, unless we positively knew
what Kodol will do for you.
It would bankrupt us.
The foliar bottle contains 254 times
as much as the fifty cent bottle.
Kodol is made atthelaboratorief
of E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago.
For
4 otto it Sheets
lies! Cotton flock
lagging a*,d Ties
We ait Headquarters and we will make prices interesting. Send in
your ordeis...........
ter Don’t foiget to ask us about our free stallage proposition.
li. ubersou Sa g>|)1y C'oinjMUiV
Next to the Southerner office.
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DON’T WORRY
ABOUT THE HEAT
-IT NEVER GETS HOT AT OUR_
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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.)
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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.
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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. ....
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The Peoples] Popular Price Purniture St)re, /S
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Phone 31.
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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.