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A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPER FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY PEOPLE.
VOL. 5. NO. 47.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1910.
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OUR RALEIGH LETTER.
Raleigh, N. C, May 14th
The Democratic party in Wake
County, the metropolitan county
of the state, has split; and not
only have two factions begun a
war of extermination, but they
are charging and countercharg
ing every manner of infamy.
The Josephus Daniels J. Wm.
Bailey faction today held a mass
meeting in Raleigh and nominat
ed a ticket from top to bottom
against the present county offi
cers. This ticket is to contest
with the "Ins" in the Democrat
ic Primary June 25th. Now
some of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee are claiming that
perhaps these mass meeting
democrats, who have defied the
county committee, have ruled
themselves out of the party and
may not be allowed to take part
in the primaries.
The speech of J. Wm. Bailey,
before the mass meeting today,
breathed defiance and denuncia
tion against the present party
management. He declared that
the democratic party in Wake
county wras now run for selfish
pmds and denounced in severest
language, The State Democrat,
without naming it, a weekly pa
per here edited by J. C. Craddell,
who was stigmatized by Bailey
in the severest terms. He as
serted that this paper was sub
sidized and could not exist when
cut off from the county treasury.
He also asserted that a county
commissioner now carried elec
tions at Wake Forest precinct
with whiskey.
The platform adopted by the
Daniels-Bailey crowd reiterated
their previous denunciation of
the present democratic county
machine, calls for representation
at the polls in the coming demc
cratic primary and demands that
the county officers be put on a
salary basis.
The ticket nominated by the
Daniels-Bailey faction was E. W.
Sykes, a professor in Wake For
est College and formerly of Union
county, for senator; and Rich
ard H. Battle, lawyer, Ed. R.
Pace, a mechanic, and John Judd,
a farmer, for the house. The
county officers are to be Millard
Mial for clerk of the court, C. H.
Anderson, for register of deeds,
H. D. Rand for sheriff, and Geo.
T. Norwood for treasurer.
Opposed to this ticket, the
Armstead Jones faction stands
for W. M. Riss for clerk of the
court, J. J. Bernard for register
of deeds. Brown Pegram for
Treasurer and J. N. Sears for
Sheriff. Wm. E. Jones and Jno.
W. Kinsdale, Jr. will again run
for the senate and houss respect-
tively.
Many people of this county
are disgusted wuh the row be
tween the prohibition democrats,
headed by Daniels and Bailey,
and the supposed "wet demo
crats, headed by Solicitor Arm
stead Jones. It is a war o the
wwnnd many predict the
disruption of the democratic
party. v ... :.:
At a recent meeting of the
Board of Aldermen of the city
of Raleigh, the drug stores in
Cecity stated, that they could
not pay $500.00 license to sell
THE POWER OF HONESTY
Orsion Sweet Harden.
No man can be really strong
when in the wrong. Everything
within rebukes him; everthing
tells him of his cowardice. Truth
is man's normal state, deception
is a cultivated, abnormal thing.
There is no substitute for the
right. Cunning cannot take its
place, nor can education. A per
son may have great ability and a
college education, but if he does
not ring: true, if there is. any
evidence of counterfeit about him
he never gets our confidence,
our order, our business or our
patronage.
There is always a question
mark in our minds when we have
dealings with a man who is not
perfectly honest. We are not
sure of him. On the other hand,
a man may lack education, cul
ture, even refinement, but if he
has an honest heart, if he rings
true every time, we believe in
him, we trust him.
No man can look honest and
long give an impression of hones
ty when he is an habtiual
scoundrel. It is only a question
of time when something will hap
pen to tear off his mask and re
veal the real man.
Just look at the man who has
practiced deceit and lying all
his life. There is not a line of
truth in his face. He radiates
dishonesty from every pore. He
may attempt to deceive with his
smooth, honeyed diplomacy, but
we instinctively feel that he is a
liar in every part of his being.
It does not matter how he
tries to cover up his rottenness
by appearances of respectability,
his clothes, his money; lie can
not long continue to cheat the
heart. What he says about him
self contradicts what we feel.
A perfectly truthful man re
gards his honor first; his inter
est comes later. Truth is every
thing to him. Justice may be
done, no matter if it goes against
his interest.
Man is constructed along the
lines of truth and he cannot vio
late his nature without showing
it by the loss of the best thing in
him. The liar's deception de
stroys his selfrespect, and with
it goes his confidence; and what
can a man accomplish who can
not respect himself or believe in
himself?
When a man feels that he is
buttressed bythe right, entrench
ed in truth, he does not feel weak,
although the whole world may be
against him. He feels the ever
lasting arm about him, becauee
he knows that nothing can stand
against principle; nothing can be
so mighty as the right.
BLASTED HOPES.
Democratic Gun Snaps But Fails to
gFire-A Game of Hide and Seek
Democratic Corrections that
Fail to Correct. -
Ion its docket; that he was satis
fied and that he believed the
people now knew a few things.
; thf license to
favored reuuwe - .
the original $125:00, saying that
he haf only asked to have the
iiLnse increased in order to see
he drug stores or the near beer
tne arut stores re-
f n d S the increLed license
fusedpay tw whiskey. that
.00 no drunks
In the appointment of Henry
Clay BroWn as Corporation Com
missioner to succeed B. F. Ay-
ccck, deceased, Gov. Kitchen!
probably made the best selection
he could from his party but pol
iticians admit that he made a
Dolitical blunder. Kitchen got
Lthe nomination on the strength
of his anti-trust, anti-railroad
platform. Yet, when elected , he
framed the Legislature's trust
bill, which Josephus Daniels
says is without teeth, appointed
Manning to the bench and showed
his friendship for corporations.
Now, when it come to naming a
corporation commissioner he had
a chance to gratify the element
of his party which gave him the
nomination but instead he has
seen fit to delight the railroads.
The Governor dropped his last
trump.
By A. Newman.
Once more'we take up our pen
to correct the falsehoods and
low slung vulgarity that is heap
ed upon us because of our stand
for better County conditions than
that which the people are now
forced to accept from the pres
ent administration. We have
tried to show conclusively that
the democratic party is a party
of unfilled promises, that they
have mismanaged the county,
that they have foolishly spent
the peoples money, and last but
not least by any means, that
they have raised the tax by rais
ing the valuation of property,
and here is where we raised a
yell from the democrats from
all over the County for that is
one thing that they did not wish
to be generally known, and they
have tried every conceivable way
to get around same crying
"false" and trying to prove that
we made a false statement and
here is where they fell down for
while they have figured it out
nicely to their mind the voters
may think differently, especially
wVipn wfi e-et throuerh with the
statements of Mr. "tax lister"
whose article appeared in the
last issue of the Courier. Mr.
"tax lister" says that he wants
to point out "one" of our "ma
misstatements which we made
in the desperate hope of keeping
life in the dead and decaying
Republican party in the county.
Why not point them all out
Merely from the simple fact
that he does not wish the facts
to be generally known, thinking
that perhaps the people will for
get the little matters that we
have called their attention to
and which stand unchallenged,
undeniable! And Mr. 'tax
lister" sounds the strength of the
Republican party by stating that
it is dead and decaying.
If the Republican party in
Randolph county is dead, we bet
our last summer's suit that
the democrats think it is
about the livest corpse they ever
tackled! If there is nothing to
fear from them in the coming
election why was the sheriff's
office closed Monday May 2d the
last day to pay poll tax to entitle
one to vote? Mr. "tax lister"
gives some figures from the
tax book in the vain hope of
proving our statement untrue,
but according to his own . state
ment and figures the increase
for the past three years is very
near two thousand dollars. How
does that strike you, Mr. voter
when such statements come from
a democrat and no danger
exageration?
Does that not prove the truth-1
fulness of our statement that
the tax has been raised? Does
not that brand the statement
made by the democrats during
the last campaign that they
would not raise the tax to pay
for "our" court house false?
Let us go a little farther into the
statements of Mr. "tax lister"
and see what we can do. He
takes us to task for stating that
W. C. Craven's tax was $4.39 for
1906 and $5.81 for 1909. and
states that W. C. Craven listed
in Coleridge township in 1906
and shows the amount of tax
collected to be $5.63 while in
1909 it was onlv twenty five
cents higher.
Mow Mr.' tax. lister' , sit up
and take notice: the W C.
Craven that you have in mind, j
and whose receipt you are trying
to palm off and prove our state
ment false with, is not the W. C.
Craven whose receipt we now
hold and who does not list in
the township named.
We repeat our statement: the
tax receipt (we have the original)
shows the amount of tax collect
ed for 1906 to be' $4.39, for 1909,
$6.81, and during the meantime
there has been over two hun
dred dollars' worth of timber
sold, there has not been a, cent
spent for improvements, and
the place is not worth much now
as four years ago. Take it for
granted that the money was give
in as "money on hand," which
we doubt, why the increase
from $4.39 to $6.81 if the asses
sors did not juggle the valuation?
And the writer said that the
figures quoted brands our whole
statement false. We have prov
en that our statement was ab
solutely correct, that our figures
were taken from the original
receipt, which can be seen in
the register of deeds office by
anyone that will look in Frank-
linville township, (not Coleridge)
so go and look it up for yourself.
But what about Mr. 4 'tax lister" ?
He has juggled figures thereby
trying to mislead the voter and
brand our statement false but
figures . speak for themselves.
Who has falsified, misrepresent
ed, and abused the facts?
That is a question that will be
answered by the voter and we
have no doubt but what it will
be answered correctly. As for
wanting the name of the writer
of that article it does not matter
to us for we know that it is some
disgrunted democrat "pie"hunter
and his name is (politically) mud"
He may get the coveted nomina
tion but the office, never. While
you are about it Mr. "tax lister"
go back and give Ihe amount of
tax collected lor 1906 and then
see how much it has increased
for the past four years and we J
think that you will tell a differ
ent tale from that you did tell,
will you do it?
To the list takers who are
raising such a yell about the land
being raised in valuation will say
that we have in mind a twenty
are plot of land that cost twenty
five dollars, and which was as
sessed at twenty dollars till the
last assessment when it was
raised to the neat little sum of
eighty dollars. Was that treb
ling the valuation? We do not
claim that the e lormous increase
was general, that every town
ship was raised accordingly for
such is not the case but fear not, j
your time is coming, and when
it comes you will feel the lash of
the tyranir cat whip. Now is the
time for house cleaning, clean
out the old regime and start in
right by electing entire Republi
can ticket in the coming election
and you will have a county
government that -is equaled by
few and surpassed by none.
An Old Newspaper.
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TO MEET IN NEW YORK JUNE 28.
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The following from the . Rock
ingham Post, relative to a news
paper published" in Asheboro 69
years ago may be of interest to
our readers. Say s the Post:
Mr. A. W. Porter has placed on
our desk a copy of the Southern
Citizen nublished at Asheboro
and dated Friday, April 16th, ,
1841. Benjamin Swain was edi
tor. It is quite an interesting
old paper. It has William Henry
Harrison's inaugural address
and also an announcement of his
death on the 14th of April. It
will be remembered that he. was
president but one month. John
Tyler was vice president and
then became president. Mr.
Harrison's address takes up
eleven columns of the twenty
column paper. Mr. Harrison
comes out plainly against long
service of office holders. He
says they frequently become cor
rupt, He says that the terms of
all officers including the army and
navy should be so short as to pre
vent his forgetting that he is the
accountable aerent and not the
principal the servent, not the
master and he says under no cir
cumstances will he consent to1
serve a second time. He says
further: "Never, with my con
sent,, shall an officer of the people
compensate for his services out
of their pockets, become the
pliant instrument of Executive
will," Mr. Harrison dwells up
on the different branches of the
government and that one should
not interfere with the other, that
the Excutive has a right to recom
mend legislation, but he has no
right to influence or interfere
with Congress. Of course we
knov tiat Mr. Harrisson's mes
sage is history and accessible to
our readers, but the above was
suggested by this quaint old pa
per over sixty-nine years old.
The price of this . weekly was
$2 per year if paid in advance or
$3 per year if not paid within
three months from the date of
! the first issue received.
The price of advertising was $1
per squai e of J 6 lines. Court or
ders and judical advertisement
25 per cent higher " (we some
times have to wait so long for the
pay)." .
The market reports are also in
teresting: "Brandy (peach) 45 to
50 cents per gallon; Brandy (ap
ple) 40 to 45 cents; whiskey 30 to
35 cents; bacon 7 to 8 cents; cotton
8 cants: cotton yarn 20 to 26 cents;
cotton bagging 20 to 25 cents ; corn
50. cents per bushel."
The editor announces that the
paper will discontinue as it has
over 3,000 due it and must stop
and collect, but asks its exchang
es to please continue till first
Monday in August and if they
have made good collestions they
will continue the paper. So con
ditions have not changed much
on this line. It seems peeple in
all ages are slow to pay for their
papers. '
TFrom the above it will be
seen that the price of a weekly
newspaper in Asheboro is now
one third what it was 69 years
ago while corn and other pro
ducts from the farm are worth
double what they were thenj
Washington, D. C May 17
The biennial convention of the
National,, Republican League,
scheduled to be held in New York
beginning June 28th, promises
to be the banner meeting of the
League held since its organiza
tion. Secretary protem. D. B.
Afhm'tnn rnorts that all the
States where Republican , clubs
are organized, have called. State
conventions for the purpose ot
filppt.inff delegates and that ar
rangements are being made with
railroads for special trains to
bring the delegates to the con
vention. Reports from Illinois,
Oklahoma. Nebraska, Georgia,
Virginia, South Carolina, Mary
land, Michigan, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and New YorK
show unusual activity and inter-
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est. States where nere to iore
no. clubs have existed are coming
in line and organization work is
being carried on preparatory to
being represented at the Nation
al Convention.
Mr. John Hays Hammond,
President of the National League
is on a business trip to Mexico.
He is expected to return the lat
ter part of this month, when ac
tive preparations for the meeting
will begin. Already committees
have been appointed to arrange
for the dinner to be given at the
Hotel Astoron the evening of the
first day of the convention.
Twenty five hundred invitations
will be sent to prominent Repub
lican in all parts of the country,
and men of national reputation
will speak. No effort will be
rpd to make this meeting the
I most enthusiastic ever held by
i fVo TJotmnni TiMjrne and from it
' will go out a message to all young 5
Republicans and first voters that
will arouse Republican sentiment
throughout the nation and insure
party success in the fall cam
paign. The two millions or more
members of the League will be
called to arms, creating an irre
sistable force that will surely car
ry the Republican party on to
victory.
In Washington local clubs are
being organized and meetings
are being held at national head
quarters, almost nightly. Massa
chusetts and New Jersey are the
latest States to organize. The
former club in two weeks enroll
ed one hundred ancT- seventyfive
members and New Jersey is a
close second. It is predicted that
more voters residing in the Dis
trict of Columbia will go home to
vote this year than ever before.
Especially in doubtful districts
will an extra effort be put forth
by the local clubs to prevail qpon
voters to exercise their rights of
franchise. The local organiza
tions represent twenty thousan i
voters residing in the District.
The National League will be a
patent factor in the coming Con
gressional campaign, and it is be
ing looked to by the leaders ot
the party to render valiant ser
vice to the Administration by aid
ing in' returnirfg to Congress a
splendid working Republican
majority.
Wouldn't Have Time For Religion
A Regular Tom Boy
was Susie climbing trees and
fences, jumping ditches, whitling
always getting scratches, . cuts,
sprains, bruises, bumps, burns
and scalds. But laws! Her moth
er just applied Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and cured her quick. Heals,
everything healable-Boils, Ulcers'
Eczema, Old Sores, Corns, or
Piles. "Try it. 25c at J, T. Under
wood's. ;
Since Glenn announced that he
shall renew his work for ,the
party the Charlotte Observer
takes it for granted that he will
not renew his, present lecturing
contract, as he could not well be
a missionary and a political stum
per at the -same time. Judging
from recent campaigns in this
State the Ex-Governor would
probably be top busy .slinking
mud to think of religiQqg.mattera
at all. Caucasian '
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