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Q The Randolph Bulletin. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. PRICE ONE DOLLAR A YEAR U. S. HAYES, Editor, U. A. WOODDELL, Publisher. Entered as second-class matter June 2nd. 1905, at the post office at Ashe boro, N. C, under the act of Congress of March 3rd 1879. The registration books are opened today (Thursday) at 9 o'clock and will remain open till sundown Sept. 26th. Every voter who is registered in a precinct where he does not reside now should have his name cancelled from the books in the former precinct and registered where he how resides. Every one regis tered in two places will be dis franchised. Read the sections of the election law in this issue of the Bulletin. The democrats of Randolph may not be scared, but they are doing a good deal of whistling to keep up their courage. Master mechanic Simmons, chief engineer of the democratic political machine of North Caro lina, was hero last week repair ing the machine of Randolph county and put it in running order for the present campaign. When a man is elevated to the exalted position of United States Senator he should be big enough, deep enough and broad enough not to appeal to sectional hatred and race prejudices every time he makes a political speech. Senator Simmons does not meas ure up to this high standard, but when occasion presents itself, sinks to the low level of a ward politician. That was a pathetic appeal Simmons made to the democrats of this county last Wednesday night. With tearful eyes "and trembling voice he begged the faithful to bury all local differ ences and just stick together this one time more and save the coun ty from falling into the hands of the republicans as it had done heretofore but to keep it solid for the democrats, like the east ern counties. Such an appeal! would have melted the heart of j a polar bear. No, no! Mr. Simmons, the re publican party was not born in DnmihT rv l"e RnntVl. was ""- born out of rfeeessity to jJrWerve the union which was threatened with annihilation from an inter nal foe. After preserving the union inviolate the party has gone on blessing mankind, both at home and abroad, and is today the great bulwark between the common people and those who would destroy the business of the country. The republican party is too great, generous and magnanimous to recognize sec tions, but looks upon the union as one country and one people. As a sample of Simmon's tariff argument at the court house Wednesday niorht he said that under the Dingley tariff the farmers were so systematically robbed that it was impossible for them to prosper, but when he took up state issues, he said the State is so prosperous under dem ocratic management that peace and plenty abounds everywhere. Any school boy could inform the senator that the democratic state government has nothing to do with the general business and financial condition existing in the State, but that the great prosperity seen in every nook and corner of the state is the re sult of the sound currency and confidence the country has in the economic policies of the gen eral government administered by the republican party at Washing ton. Candidates' Speaking. The republican candidates for the General Assembly and Coun ty offices will address the people on the political issues at the fol lowing times and places: Gray's Cross Roads, Monday night Oct. 15th. Hoover's Grove Wed. 17. Mt. Pleasant school house 18. Why Not Academy at night 22 Center school house " 23. Manley Hammers store 25. Middleton Ridge 26. Gray's Chapel 30. White place 31. Bethany School house Nov. 2. Everybody is invited to come out and hear the issues ably dis cussed. G. G. Hendricks, Chm. Rep. Co. Ex. Com This Oct. 2, 1906. 4343. VOTER MAY DEPOSIT HIS OWN BALLOT. The ballot may be deposited for the voter by the registrar, or one of the judges of election, or the voter may deposit it if he chooses. It is an ciffyn asli 6r. nert thief to veil thiel" at un i " suspecting honest people in order to cover up their own thievery. Such seems to be the case with the leaders of the democrats in this county. They are exploding gas bags and talking through their hats in an attempt to make it appear that the republicans have been buying votes in former elections and that the chairman of the executive committee and the solicitor sent out such severe threats against such practices "that but little money was used on election day in the last elec tion." The circular letter threat ening republican corruptionists comes with very poor grace from a man and a party who are known to have used money to corrupt voters on election day. In keep ing with the known methods of the party sending them, these circular letters were sent out for no other purpose than to intimi date voters. It was not enough that many republicans were rob bed of their votes by rubber con scienced registrars, but to make assurance doubly sure, democrats high up in the councils of the party, purchased votes, and those not purchasable were intimidated by challenging and having dem ocratic magistrates at the polling places armed with blank war rants and instructions to arrest on almost any pretext that might be trumped up. Conscience stricken, the late democratic con vention passed a resolution to do the fair thing, and when the re publican convention met them on the issue, the bosses saw they were caught in their own trap and are now trying to intimidate by making high sounding threats and insinuating corruption. Will the same power that proposes to nnhold Chairman Scarboro in " I stamping out vote buying ear nestly prosecute democrats who commit the same crime? Or to be more explicit, will Solicitor Hammer make the same effort to prosecute democrats who buy votes as he does to prosecute re publicans who are accused of the same crime? This is a live ques tion and altogether proper, and should be answered without equivocation. SIMMON'S SPEECH. Senator Simmons, chairman of democratic State executive com' mittee, appeared at the court house last Wednesday night and made a speech on the political :-, it,-.-ifcW -""ins: tne tact that it was heralded abroad for a week that the distinguished senator was to be on hand Wed nesday night and that a thorough canvass was made of the town Wednesday afternoon to drum up an audience, and a brass band was engaged, the court house was only fairly well filled and of the number present a large part were women, little girls and boys and young men under 21 years old. The speaker was introduc ed by Col. W. P. Wood who told in a few words what bright pros pects were before the democrats of this cownty and what a great victory awaited them when the votes were counted in November. Without any preliminaries and without even flattering the ladies present, as is customary, for gracing the hall with their en chanting presence, the speaker dived into his subject and for two hours and thirty minutes the audience was treated to as dry, illogieal and uninteresting a speech as has ever been delivered in Asheboro. About the first thing the speaker did was to fortify himself by making a strong appeal to sectional feel ing and prejudices. He said the republican party was born in enmity to the South and had been working against the south ever since. He referred to re construction days, carpet bag gers etc. Referring to red shirts and the registrars indicted in the federal courts, he defended both. He discussed the tariff question, and showed himself to be unfa miliar with . his subject. The leaders of the republican party of the State came in for their share of abuse. The nigger question was taken up and dis cussed with the usual familiarity with which all tiemocratic spell binders seem to handle that un canny subject. Marion Butler came in for a large share of personal attention, and fusion days were threshed over again. It was plain to see that the democrats present were sadly disappointed and that Sim mons' speech never made a sin gle vote for the party. A great many left the room before the speech was half over, and of those who remained, many nod ded or were sound asleep when the speech closed. Throughout the address, applause was con spicuous for its absence. So ended in gloom the sound of the first democratic gun of the pres ent campaign. It is an gayHcCEt L6r, should sto y and be guided ment. Who would join the dem ocratic party after reading what the democratic Charlotte Observ er says of the leadership of that party. Here is what the Ob server says editorially: The situation of the national Democratic party to-day would have been unimaginable a year ago. It is not alone that Mr. Bryan, its head, has made de claration of his belief in the government ownership of rail roads, than which no doctrine could be more un-Democratic, and stands by it, but that Mr. R. Hearst has received the Demo cratic nomination for Governor of New York, and if elected will be a formidable rival of Mr. Bryan for the presidential nom ination, the two filling the held. In addition to lacking all in a personal way that Mr. Bryan represents and being the rep resentative of all the political methods which the Nebraskan abhors, he holds to everything that is vile in politics and all that is false and dangerous. He is the idol of all the classes of vice and crime and his leader ship is pernicious to the last degree. It is not of a type that tends in the least to elevation to the criminal but drags him to lower depths. His nomination at Albany Wednesday was pro cured by undisguised and un denied bribery. He was already the candidate of an independent organization and was an indepen dent candidate for mayor of New York last year. And this is the dish that is set before the Democracy of that State. Dis trict Attorney Jerome, who was a candidate for this Albany nomi nation, has of course already bolted it and announced that he will support the Republican nominee. This is not only proper but natural, he being an office holder now himself by virture of an independent candidacy. Mr. Bryan is not in position to appeal to his friends in New York for their support against his competitor on the gound of his irregularity, for he is a bolter himself, having advised the de feat of Rolla Welles, the Demo cratic candidate for mayor of St. Louis, in 1896, and having advised the defeat of all the Democratic candidates for office " '..mcago this year who are in symp'ttcny with" Roger Sullivan. It is a queer and lamentable condition that Democratic politics have fallen into. The party is running candidates who are not Democrats at all, who do not stand for Democratic beliefs and who do not profess to be party men. By the nomination of persons with such party records and beliefs it has absolved all members from the duty of sup port of them on the ground of party obligation and from an organization has become a mob. It is a most deplorable situation for a once proud and dominant party a situation not so de plorable for its hopelessness as on account of its disgrace. As for defeat under the circum stances that would be better than success. A Woman's Invention. "A woman," said the paper maker "invented blue paper. It was by accident that she did it, though. Before her time all paper was white. She was the wife of William Eastes, one of the leading paper makers of England in the eigh teenth century. In passing through the paper plant one day she dropped a big blue bag into a vat of pulp. Eastes was a stern chap, and so , since no one had seen the accident, Mrs. Eastes decided to say nothing about it. The paper in the vat which should have been white came out blue. The workmen were mystified, Eastes raged while Mrs. Eastes kept quiet. The upshot was that the paper was sent to London marked "damag ed" to be sold for whatever it would bring. The-selling agent in London was shrewd. He saw that this blue tinted paper was attractive. He declared it to be a wonderful new invention, and he sold it off like hot cakes at double the white paper's price. Eastes soon received an order for more of the blue paper an order that he and his men wast ed several days in trying to fill. Then Mrs. Eastes came for ward and told the story of the blue cloth bag. There was no difficulty after that in making the blue paper. This paper's Erice remained very high, Eastes aving a monopoly in making it." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Geo. D. B. Reynolds who was unanimously nominated by the Republcans of the 7th Congressional District in Convention as sembled at Asheboro on July the 11th, 1906, is a man of the people in all the term implies. More than six straight as an Indian, with piercing brown eyes, and a wealth of jet black hair and mustache, accounted very handsome, but therein does not lie his chief ele ment of strenth and attractiveness as a candidate for a seat in the Sixtieth Congress. He is intelligent broad minded, genial and personally popular with the people especially with those who know him best; and though a Republican from childhood of the straightest type, he is singularly popular with a large circle of democratic acquaintances in the vicinity of his present home as well as in other sections where he has lived, labored and taught school. He is In every essential a self-made man, having forged his way against obstacles which would stalwart mould and inflexible purpose, as evidence of which the following brief summary will show: About thirty-two years ago, at the home of his father, on a small farm about five miles North East of Troy, in Montgomery County, the future farm laborer, turpentine worker, school teacher, lawyer and prospective Cong ressman, first looked out upon nature and her inviting prospects from an abode not of abject poverity nor yet of indolent affluence, but one in which the father and mother following the example of their ancestors before them had by diligent labor on a small farm with the aid of most rigid economy managed to keep the wolf at bay and defy the world to assail their integrity and good standing in the communty. When "George" the eldest was five years of age his father moved to Moore County where he became prominent in the councils of the Republican party and was once a candidate for Representative in the State Legislature. The son attended public schools for a few weeks in each year till nine years of age when, in order to assist in the support of the family, he was placed between the plow handles where he served till he reached the age of thirteen, when the stalwart youth with his father in vaded the turpentine woods of Moore County, where his labor was faithfully exerted in the humble but laudable pursuit of earning a support for the mother and younger children, till he reached his majority. Except during the small portion of his time spent in the county public schools as pupil and teacher, his life had been one of drudgery and privation, but the thirst for knowledge had not been quenched, the innate energy and ambition for higher achievements had not been subdued and he undertook the task of educating- himself for Iawyw IK attended ochool at Oak Grove and Ellerbe Springs Academies, working and teaching during vacations. He saved his earnings and frugally applied his money in payment of board and tuition. He took a course at Chapel Hill and was for a time Principal of Mt. Olivet Academy. He studied law with the well known firm of Seawell & Burns at Carthage, and took the Summer Law Course at Wake Forest College. He was licensed to practice law in the Fall of 1902, and located at Troy for the practice of his profession, since which time he has practiced in Montgomery and surrounding Counties with marked success and ever increasing ability. Predictions of a great future for the sturdy young scion of the woodlands have been rife among observant people. It has in fact been observed that in many respects he bears a striking resemblance to the young rail splitter, afterward President Lincoln, the martyr, not only in stature but in the environment and habits of his unswerving devotion to principle. While a resident of Moore County, young Reynolds was made Chairman of the County Republican Excutive Committee and by his unceasing vigilance and tireless efforts this County was held in the Republican column even in the memorable campaign of L1898, when the party leaders in in despair. He is half Scotch, his mother being a daughter of the late Capt. A. McMillan, a native of Robeson County, and is thereby related" to the army of Macs in Robeson, Scotland, Moore, Rich mond and Montgomery Counties. He is a forceful speaker and at home in forensic disputation. In fact he may be relied upon to give a good account of himself in whatever situation placed. He values truth and honor more than temporary advantage, however, and may be also relied upon for absolute fairness and decorum. He is a member of several fraternal orders, being at presant past Counsellor of the Trojan Council American Mechanics, and Worshipful Master of Randolph Masonic Tjrrn If elected to Congress .he will uents as he does of his clients, and the 7th district will have a representative who has ascended the ladder by dint of his own efforts and because of his merits-a man from among and of the people not of snobs and aristocrats but of the golden mediocrity the irrepressible sons of toil. election law. 4319. qualifications as to res idence for voters; oath to be taken. In all cases the applicant for registration shall be sworn be fore being registered, and shall state as accurately as possible his name, age, place of birth, place of residence, stating ward if he resides in an incorporated town or city, and any other question which may be material upon the question of identity and qualification of the said applicant to be admitted to registration. The registrar, if in doubt as to the right of the applicant to register, may require other evi dence satisfactory to him as to the qualification of the applicant. And thereupon if the applicant shall be found to be duly quali fied and entitled to be registered as an elector, the registrar shall register the applicant, giving his race opposite his name, and shall record his name, age, resi dence, place of birth and the township, county or state from B. REYNOLDS feet in height, a Grecian nose he is by many have discouraged one of less adjoining counties had given up of the Junior Order of United guard the interests of his constit- whence he has removed, in the event of a removal, in the appro priate column of the registration books containing the said record shall be evidence against the applicant in any court of law in a proceeding for false or fraudu lent registration. 4320. POLL tax must bf paid before person can vote; receipt exhibited. No person shall be entitled to vote unless he shall have paid his poll tax for the previous year, on or before the first day of May of the year in which he offers to vote, as prescribed under article five, section one, of the consti tution. Every person liable for such poll tax shall, before being allowed to vote, exhibit to the registrar his poll tax receipt for the previous year, issued under the hand of the sheriff or tax collector of the county or town ship where he then resided; and unless such poll tax receipt shall bear date on or before the first day of May of the year in which he offers to vote,isuch person shall not be allowed to vote: Provied, that in lieu of such p -11 tax receipt it shall be competent for the registrar and judges oi election to allow such person to vote upon his taking and sub scribing the following oath: 4321. WHO MAY VOTE WITHOUT PAYING POLL TAX. No person who has become of age since the first day of J une of the previous year, or who was fifty years of age or over on the first riav of June of the previous year, shall be required to produce j any poll tax receipt, or taKe uic oath as to payment of poll tax hereinbefore nrovided. in order to vote. No person who has been exempted by the commis-; sioners of the county wherein he ; resides on account of poverty or i infirmity shall be required to produce any poll tax receipt or to take said oath as to payment of poll tax in order to vote. No person shall be allowed to vote on any exemption granted by the board of commissioners un less the same shall have been granted on or before the first day of May of the year in which he offers to vote and bears date on or before said date. 4322. WHEN PERSON CAN REGIS TER ON ELECTION DAY. No registration shall be allow ed on the day of election, but if any person shall give satisfactory evidence to the registrar and judges of election that he has become bualified to register and vote after the time for regis tration has expired, he shall be allowed to register on that date. 4323. REGISTRATION BOOKS KEPT OPEN, WHEN; REGISTRAR TO TAKE OATH. The registrar of each town ship, ward or precinct shall be furnished with a registration book prepared as hereinbefore provided and it shall be his duty, between tne hours ot nine o ciock a. m. and sunset, on each day (Sunday excepted) for twenty days preceding the day for clos ing the registration books, as hereinafter provided, to keep open said books for the iegis tration of any electors residing with in such township, ward or precinct and entitled to regis tration. The said books shall be closed for registration at sunset on the second Saturday before each election. On each Saturday during the period of registrar shall attend with his registration books at the polling place of his precinct or ward for the regis tration of voters. 4337.- NAMES PUBLISHED; VA CANCIES FILLED; QUALIFY BEFORE ACTING. The county board of election shall, immediately after the appointment of judges of elec tion as herein provided, publish the names of such judges so ap pointed, at the courthouse door of said county; and if any per son appointed judge of election shall decline to serve and so notify the chairman of the county board of elections, said chairman shall have the right to appoint another qualified elector of such precinct, who shall be of the same political party, if possible, to serve as judge of election in his name shall be published at the courthouse door, and notice of his appointment served upon him as above provided. If any person appointed judge of elec tion shall fail to attend at the polls at the hour of opening the same, the registrar of the town ship, ward or precinct shall ap point some suitable elector of the same political party as the judge failing to appear, if pract icable, to act in his stead, who shall be by him sworn before acting; and if the registrar shall fail to appear, then the judges of election may appoint another to act as registrar, who shall be sworn before acting. 4342. POLLS HOW OPENED AND HELD. The polls shall be open on the day of election from sunrise until sunset on the same day, and no longer, and each elector whose name shall appear registered shall be entitled to vote, unless he is successfully challenged for good cause on the day -of election. A space of not more than fifty feet in every direction from the polls or rooms in which the elec tion is held may be kept open i and clear 0 a11 persons except the judges, registoar and election KJCXlliLO HCJL Clll JL J V 1UCU 1UI , WillLU space may be roped off with a narrow passage leading to and fFom the po11?' nd e,?c1 elector S3f S 5?"e and after his ballot is deposited in the ballot box, with as little delay as possible he shall depart by the passage leading from the polls. Only one elector shall en ter the said passage at a time, and after the elector has entered, no one except the registrar or judges of election shall be per mitted to speak to him or make any sign to him, nor shall he be permitted to speak or to make any sign to any one except the registrar or judges of election, until his ballot has been depos ited in the box and he has passed out of the enclosure. The said roped space shall, at ail times durirgthe hours for balloting, be kept open and clear of all persons except officers as afore said, and it shall be the duty of the election bailiffs to keep such space so cleared and open: Pro vided, that nothing herein con tained shall make it compulsory for the judges and registrar to rope off said space: Provided futher, that when any person is challenged, one challenger for each political party shall be en titled to enter the space roped off during the hearing of such challenge, but they shall retire therefrom upon the challenge being decided. Wood & Announce their regular mid-summer clearance sale. Goods are now offered at greatly re duced prices. Wood & XKHO0K LEWIS & WINSLOW If you need A BUGGY, WAGON, PLOW, RANGE OR STOVE, BUILDERS HARDWARE, Or anything in the HARDWARE LINE, WE are the people you are looking for. We carry in stock the HIGH POINT BUGGY. The best brand of O STOVES on the market. Lewis & Winslow Hdw. 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Please come out, Lear the issues discussed, and pay your taxes. Yours very truly, T. J. FINCH, Sheriff. YES! GRAPE TOBAr.rn is just a little sweeter ttan any of the so-called sun-cured plues made to imitate GRAPE, t.nd they are all imitations- P WHY? because that rich, sweet fuVcr i; peculiar to the genuine Leaf and we have been buying and n .naf .cturing it for over fifty years. IT IS MADE BY A HRM THATKNOWS HOW R. A. Patterson Tobacco Co., Richmond, V. rite! Moring Moring HARDWARE CO. Blankets Clocks Lamps Stoves Heaters Book CasEs Glassware Shades made to order . CHAS. S. WELBORN time. Monday, Oct. 15 Tuesday, " 16 Wednesday " 17 Thursday " 18 Friday " 19 Saturday " 20 Monday " 22 Tuesday "23 Wednesday " 24 . Thursday " 25 Friday " 26 Saturday " 27 Monday " 29 Tuesday " 30 Wednesday " 31 Thursday Nov. 1 Friday, " 2 Saturday " 3
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