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VOL XXXlll.
ASHEBQRO, N. C, THURSDAY August 20, 1908.
No J5
RAILROADS FOR TAFT
Manifest Hostility Toward Demo
cratic Party.
PETTY METHODS OF REPRISAL
Peoplo Should Know Whether or Not
Railways Are a Rcpubliccn Party
Adjunct The Coercion of Voters
Middle West States Thct Laok Good
Fcr Eryin The Outlook In Illinois.
By WILUS J. AailDT.
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t'l'shij' by : (ii-i'.f.ii-.'jKlun of corpora
tions 1 s I : i '.Imy corporations lias
become a line nit.
So far as the I temoeratie liatlonal
coinuiiitce is concerned. Us v.urk bej;an
early in Auuiist. So far art the Iicpuh
Hcan (1111111111100 is involved at the 1110
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Railroads and Politics.
Tertians it Is nut extraordinary thnt
the railroad nianiiK'crs of the United
States should manifest In every petty
and picayune way their hostility to the
Democratic party. That party stands
pledged to such methods of railroad
regulation lis will protect the shipper
and the traveler against the extortions
of overcapitalized corporations. And
yet, after all, It does sit-in strange that
the railroads should adopt so trivial a
method of reprisal as denying to the
people who wished to attend the notifi
cation day ceremonies at IJneolu,
Neb., the benefits of reduced rates.
Chairman Norman K. Mack kept in
constant communication with Mr. K.
E. McLeod. who Is chairman of the
Western russeiiRer association, and as
a final result Mr. MeLeod announced
that "since local passenger fares la the
state of Nebraska have been reduced
from 3 to 2 cents a in lie no reduction
therefrom bus been made for any gath
ering in that state." This would have
been a statement more Important had
It been true. Mr. Mack promptly re
sponded by sending a clipping from a
Kansas City newspaper that this same
association was making a rate of lVa
cents a mile to a Grand Army encamp
ment. And Mr. Mack further went ou
to point out that the reduced rates for
the Republican notification meeting,
while not tnttde by that association,
still was enforced in nearly If not all
of the territory covered by the West
ern rntse ic:' association.
This was a matter uot of fluauclal
Importance to many except a compara
tively few citizens who desired to at
tend the notification ceremonies at Lin
coln, but it Is of vital Importance to
the American citizen and to the Amer
ican voter to know whether It is or is
Dot a fact that the railroads of the
United States through such a central
organization as the Western Iassenger
association are systematically and de
liberately discriminating in favor of
one political party as against the other.
It is quite time that the voters of this
land should know whether the rail
roads are an adjunct to the ltepublle
an party or not. I recall very well
that In the 190 campaign, which was
before the days when by Democratic
votes in congress the lnw against the
Issuance of railroad passes was enact
ed, practically every man on the Dem
ocratic national committee who went
from Chicago to attend the Kansas
City convention paid his fare, while
practically every Itepubll'ini delegate
to the Philadelphia convention found
the railroads most courteous in meet
ing his needs without money and with
out price. Now thnt the anti-pus law
has been enacted and Is Itoing enforced
are the railroads going to evade the
real purpose of Its enactment by re
fusing to tl'.e Democratic party the
same concessions for reduced rates
that they readily are making for the
Republican party?
Coercion Again.
It hardly seemed credible that in this
campaign the coercive methods em
ployed by pmployers to their employees
In the campaign of 181)! would be re
peated. Personally I don't believe they
will be. at least not effectively. Rut
already a rather small and olncure
firm In New York has scut out through
its Chicago ollhe a notice to Its em
ployees that
"Relieving that the . oetlnn of Taft
and Sherman means n'pafo and pro
jrresslve bi'slness ndriiiVjetratliin, the
day following we shall start this plant
on full time and keep going."
Prolably for the purpose of advertis
ing Itself this firm has lieen offer
ing printed posters carrying the above
announcement to all factories in the
United States. With a meni!er of the
Democratic national committee I called
at Its Chicago place, which occupies
a small portion of the second floor of
a small building. The placard was on
the wall, but I discovered that it em
ployed there but eight peoplo, includ
ing a girl stenographer and a girl book
keeper. I found that while It ha 1
sent out several hundred letters offer
ing the placard. It had received only
thirty replies, most of which wcro un
friendly, some of which were satirical.
The one which entertained me mot
cnnie from a house In Michigan and,
abbreviated, ran this way: "TUsi It--
(Continued on cig'ith pigo.)
DEATH OF JUDGE MOORE.
A l.cailiiii; North Carolina Jurist Sue
cum In to an Attack ut I'ocr.
Judge Fiedeiick Moore, for six
yaws a judgj on t lie Superior Court
bench, iliid at his home tit Asheville
last Friday tiiylit. at 8 o'clock.
Judge Moore had suffered tor week a
with typhoid fever. The attack
was first noticed ut Bakersville,
where lie wa holding court, an. I iie
refused to adjourn until its work
was completed. Judge Moore was
one of the best known judges on tin
hench and a lending Democrat of
Western North Carolina.
The I. ate .lude .Moore's Successor.
Last week Gov. R. B. (Jlenu
tenderid to lion. Locke Craig, of
Asheville, the unexpired term of the
late Judge Moore of the lOih Judi
cial District. Ou account of pie-is
of business Air. Craig declined. Ou
Tuesday Mr. Gleun appointed Mr.
J. D. Murphy, of Asheville, to lit I
the unexpired term. The appoint
ment is effective at ouce.
eminent Physician Dead.
Dr. Piter K. llines,tone of North
Carolina's best surgeons end fore
most nWical men, diel at his hon e
at Kaleigh. He was 80 years old,
During the civil War Dr. times was
medical director of Coafederate
hospitals and has attended the
inmates of the Soldiers Home at
Kaleigh free of charge.
Comedians named.
The Rabbit's Foot Comedy Co.,
a negro minstrel troupe, showed at
Sh Iby Thursday night and th it
uigbt after all hud been packed in
tbeir cars, a horse kicked over a
barrel of gasoline. It rau into the
cooking apartment and an explosion
followed. The cook and six others
were hoiribly burned, three probab
ly fatally burned.
Nought Relief In Death.
' J. L Culoreath, a young married
man of High Point committed sui
cide at his home last week. Mr.
Culbreath was a son of a minister
of the M. P. Church who moved to
Kansas, where he died several years
ago. Ilia mother now lives at
Thomasville. He is survived by a
wife and two children. Remorse of
conscience in not being able to
furnish the necessities of life to his
family is responsible for the deed.
Murder at Colored Religious Gathering.
At a Baptist associational meet
in gof negroes at Riley Hill Church
IS miles from Raleigh Dave Smith
shot and killed Lum Williams a
bystander, while engaged in a quarrel
with another unknown negro. Tlia
shooting occurred at a tiuer wagon
200 yards from the church, aud put
the attendants at the meeting to
tlight.
farmers Conveutlou.
The Sixth Annual Convention of
North Carolina Farmers will be held
at the A. & M. College at Raleigh,
August 25th to 27th inclusive, it
will be a splendid three days' meet
ing for the study of agriculture aud
the discussion of all questions of
direct interest to farmers.
Stock breeders' aud dairy men'b
meetings will be held August 28th.
Had Affair in Cabarrus.
That was a bad affair in Cabarrus
county recently when Cicero Flow,
while intoxicated, attempted to kill
his wife and left home and attempt
ed to commit suicide by takiug mor
phine. If Mr?. Flow had not been a
large woman and strong physicnllv,
no diu .it her husband would have
kill td her.
To Collect I'll lids In N. C.
T. 11. Vunderford, of Salisbury
has l eeil appointed special tiuuilciai
agent to collect funds for the Na
tnnal Democratic Cam) aign Fund.
He is to receive contributions from
ail ever North Carolina.
MR. MEBANE DOES NOT REPRESENT
THE BEST SOUTHERN OPINION
If Republicans Again Control the South Mr, Me
bane's Cotton Mills Would Not Be Worth the
Mortar Between the Bricks in the Wall.
Charleston News and Courier
A Mr. Mebane, described as "con
trolling; a string ot cotton mills in
the Carolinas," has been interview
ed in the New York Times and
the purport of his conversation vith
the reoorter is thai the buciness
men of the South are favorable to
the election of laft ever Bryan.
I he interview is wrong and one
would inter that the "Solid South"
I was upon the brink of dissolution,
j Mr. Mebane argues vigorously that
I ths election of Taft is detircd by
jthe manufacturers, thit it is to
i their interest that Republicans hold
the reins ot government in Amer
ica and that the election oi Mr.
Bryan wou'd not be a wholesome
event for the textile trade.
Mr. Mebane does not represent
the best opinion in the South, and
wc doubt that he has the sympathy
in what he says of his associat.s in
the cotton spinning industry. The
impression has been spread abroad
and cultivated for a number of
years that Southern manufacturers
are at heart Republicans, and while
it may be true in exceptional cases,
it is not true of the majorit of th
successful manufacturers. These
gentlemen are too well acquainted
with conditions to trust republi
cans to deal with them. What if
a Republican administration would
be more kind to the cotton mills in
the arrangement of tariff schedules
than a Democratic ad.n.nLtiauou
would be, which we by no means
grant, would any sane man care to
hold mill securities with tb. Re
publicans in charge of political af
fairs in the South? Looking back
ward to the days of carpet bag
rule, it would be trivial to contend
that a dollar would be subscribed
for mill construction under such
conditions. Has the Republican
party given any token that it
would not uphold similar Stae
governments in the South now?
What cotton mill officer will dare
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On another page we present an
Hour," writteu by Mrs. Ida Ingold
above. Mrs. Masteu formerly lived
At noon Saturday the big cotton
mill at Concord, which is one ot the
large string of Udell Cottjn Mills,
was destroyed by fire. The fiie or
ignated from a hot-box in a shaft
which iguited liut. Sparks were
taken up by the large belts and car
ried ovtr the factory, and in a f. w
minutes the entire building wn
aflame. Several thousand employes
are out of work.
The Odil Mills were recently plac
ed in the hands of a receiver. $210,
000 insurance was carried 011 thic
building.
j WalUci'-IInnes.
I M. A. Walker, formerly of Win.
' stou Salem, now vice president of
t'.ie Porto liicaii Tobacco Co., was
'married Thursday to Mrs. Ma:
Fistelle llanos, widow of the lute IS.
F. llanes. prominent tohaeco inaiitu
f.icturer of Winston. They left in:-
mediutelv tor Porto Kiuo.
assert lift if c f cVerf f Federal
offices under Mr. Roosevelt repre
sent the character and intelligence
of the South, and what cotton mill
officer will deny that, judging from
the persons composing the Republt-
j can party machines in the Carolinas
j Tennessee and Georgia, they would
i elect, if they could, governors, State
treasurers and legislators of trie
: same stripe, that robbed and plun-
dered in the seventies. No sign
.appears that the Republican party
j has substantially impioved in mo
j tives and aspirations, so for as the
South is concerned, and the signs
are abundant that no sort of pro
. perty would be safefrom spoliation.
, Who wculd buy botton mill sh'-re"
were .a "ring streaked-anc-striped"
I legislature about to assemble in
Columbia, and who witnessed the
1 the last Republican convention in
Columbia, which elected Taft dele
i gates, a convention representative
. of the Republicans of the State,
' without being convinced that the
Republican conventions of 1908 are
reproductions in color and habit of
the conventions of J870.
Avowedly, unblushingK, the
Taft party of the North is working
to reinstate the Republicans in pow
er in these Southern States, and if
they should succeed. Mr. Mebane's
cotton mills would not be worth
the monar between the bricks in
their walh. Southern business
men Republicans? Business would
; be impissible under Republican
governments m the Southern states
and Judge Tatt, good man that he
is personally, belongs to and is the
servant of tbe party that would
wipe Southern business men from
the face af the earth.
The Southern business man. who
is a Republican, has no more busi
ness sagacity than is required to
swing a pick in the bottom of a
ditch, and if the national Republi
can party is not at work to deliver
the Southern States into the hands
of ignorance and venality, then all
its pretensions are lies.
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interesting article "The Man of the
Ma ten, whose photo is reproduced
in Randolph.
Named Fur the Senate.
It is learned that the friends of
S. Bryant of Randleman, are urging
him to t e?otne a candidate for the
nomination of State Senator frim
Randolph 011 the Democratic ticket,
tins fall. Mr. Bryant is a promi
nent cotton mill man, public spirit
ed and an iiillueiili it citizen. It is
not known whether or not Mr. brv
ant would accept the nomination.
Cii'lel Caused Suicide.
Ernest Howe, a white boy living
two miles from Saluda, S. C, (acci
dentally killed his roiKsi;., a pretty
'ir! of 18 years, while playing with a
gnu at he." home last Friday. His
i: lift' made him a suicide half an
ileur Inter.
Two kill.d. Two Injurvd.
On Monday morning the boiler at
.in. hero a saw null at Draco, in
Caldwell eomitv, 1G miles from
T.ivlotsviile, exploded, killing two
employes instantly.
TRAIN DASHES INTO WAGON.
Anderson Lamb and Daughter Victims
ut Had Accident at Liberty.
On Thursday morning, August
13tb, in the town of Liberty, a most
horrifying accident occurred. A
work train ran into the one-horse
wagon occupyed by Mr. Anderson
Lamb, and his daughter Miss Addie,
demolishing the vehicle and throw
ing the occupants far out 111 the
field alongside the railroad. The
horse was instantly killed, its head
being severed from its body. The
train was immediately stopped after
the accident. Miss Lamb was hur'
ed more than tiO feet by the force of
the collision, lauding her in a fresh
ly plowed Held. Her life will proba
bly be saved. Her collar bone was
broken and she suffered several con
tusions of tile soalp, together with
some iriiiry ou her l.'ngli. Mt.
L-iu:'.), u ho is ijt years uid, was
knocked ."0 feet and was unconsci
ous when lat heard from. Both
persons were taken to one uf the t o-
tels at Liberty soon after the acci
dent.
Miss Lamb says that fiey were
diiving along the railroad" here
there was 11 large enib inkinent, and
while she saw some colored men 011
a c.ir Blie thought the car was stain!-
; still, and that the car was not
seen to move until her father had
actually started across the track.
1 hen it was she attempted to pull
the horse back, but it was tuo late.
The negroes on the train yelled but
the yelling wns done after the horse
was on the track. The railroad
employes give the following account
of the accident:
The accident occurred about a
mile and a h -If from the station.
Mr. aud Miss Lamb were coming to
town and were driving along the
side of the railroad track. The
rk tnin was coming along behind
iheiii, rear rud foremost. Th road
forked right at the crossing at-d the
tn"nion ou the rear of the train
"aid they thought they were going
1 1 take the othvr fork. Wbeu they
turned across the track the train 11. en
sfard tlMt Ihey SlinuN'd nt theill,
but could not make themselves j
heard. The train was not inoiintr;
at a very rapil rate when the wagon
was struck. Mr. and Miss Lamb
were looking in the opposite direc
tion for the local freight, which
was about due.
Mr. Swalm's Son Injured.
A Berious accident happened ir
Liberty township on Thursday of
last week at the home of Roddy
Swaim near Melancthon church,
when the seven -year-eld son of Mr.
Mr. Swaim picked up a coca-cola
bottle and filling it with powdei
was playing with it and let it get too
near the fire. The explosion that
followed blew his hand literally to
pieces. Several pieces of glass were
blown deep in the flesh and the lad
is in a serious condition. Pieces of
the glass were also blown into h
face, chin and throat. At first it
was thought th.it his hand would
have to be amputated, but later it
was not considered necessary.
niow i'is.
The first of this mouth Ulysses
Shaw, a colored man living in Grant
township, was killed by the explos
ion of a boiler at the saw mill of
Sherman Strickland. It is uot
known what caused the explos
ion whether it wm because the boil
er was drr or what.
Al out the same time at the Hale
Gold Mine in Lancaster county, S
('., EriKSt Thies was killed bv the
explosion of a boiler.
Cireat I'.vangellst Dead.
Ira David Sankey, the well known
evangelist and composer of many
songs, died Thursday night at his
home at Brooklyn. Owing to blind
ness the last five years of his life
were spent quietly at his home at
Brooklvn.
suddenly on that terrible October
lay which caused the greatest
shrinkage in values ever known in
this country, causing 300,000 box
cars and 30,000 locomotives to stand
still; throwing millions of honest
laborers out of employment; causing
500,000 men to leave the countrv
and carry their earnings to foreign
lands. The people are satisfied
that there has been something wrong
with the administration of the lie.
publican party for fifteen years."
SOMETHING WRONG
WITH REPUBLICANS
Must Shoulder Responsibility For
The Panic.
SENATOR OVERMAN TALKS.
"The .Siii" f the Times Point to the
KliTtlon of ltriin" The W est Will
Not Vote lor Talt Koriner Kcpiittll
cans It ( I use to Let Koosewlt Dictate
How They Shall Vote The l puhll
cau Party is 110 Longer Trusted.
Senator Lee S. Overman in a re
cent interview said:
! have been very much encour
aged by reports and by what I heard
and saw at Denver and on my return
from Denver. I made it a point to
ask every railroad man, conductor,
engineer, brakenian, ll.igmau, super
visor of tr icks, and men ii; overalls,,
and without exception fioin Denver
j Kansas City niiu St. Louis they
said they were going to otc for
Hrvu::. Most ot them said that
they were Republicans and would
have voted for Roosevelt had h? been
nominated, but that they could s.ot
sfai.d Taft and would not let.
Roosevelt dictate as to how they
should vote. They seemed to know
all about Tuft's injunction record,
ami believed that the Democratic
candidate was the people's candidate.
They were determined that Bryan
should be elected aud the people of
the West believe that he will be the
next President of the United States.
I think the Republicans cannot buy
up the voters out there, and I am
neither a prophet nor the son of a
prophet, but the signs of the times
poiut to the election of Bryan.
"I would not be surprised to see
a stampede for Bryan as there was
when Cleveland was elected the s?c
oud tiau. The cry that the. Repub
licans bring prosperity an! the
Democrats hatd times is nut me;
the jeople have been decern d, but
now their eyes have bon openei
and they are begiuni'ig to think,
i'he record of t tie Republicans is-
that the'.- have grown up great
monopolies and trusts and our un
bound monetary system. For fifteen
years the voters of the country have
been debauched witn money shelled
out by favored corporations.
"Another significent fact is that
the Republicans have dropped their
shibboleth and wsr cry lor the past
ten years, a term borrowed from a
gambling hell, 'stand pat,' and now
say in their platform that they pro
pose to revise the tariff. Heretofore
they have said that the tanff needed,
no revision. The people are afraid;
to trust them on that score-, not
knowing whether they would revis
it upwards or downwards. They.
can't fool all the people all the
time. The people know now that
all the reforms brought about by
President Rootevi. 't's administration,
were those advocao d by Mr. Bryan,
and those reforms hich the Presi
dent tried in his special message to
get Congress to pass were also advo
cated by Mr. Bryan. The people
believe Bryan to be a Christian gen
tleman. Ilia great lecture upon the
Prince of Peace has been heard by
mauy people who never wenS ost t
hear him before. Men in the West
who were formerly Republicans are
satisfied that there is no harm. m
Bryan. Many believe that his- Bur
of the world broadened him to. that
degree ia which the business- rnAi
of the country need have no ftno
They believe him to be a patriot in
terested in the development of the
whole country, in the great uplift
of the plain people, in the destruc
tion of criminal trusts and in the
encouragement of honest money
making. He is no enemy of wealth,
honestly begotten, but he is of that
class of wealth who have used their
money for the purpose of acquiring
the great majority of commodities
of the country necessary for the
people's comfort, thereby placing
a burden upon the people that thej
feel keenly.
"The people see no reason for a
panic; the corn cribs were full to
overflowing; the bins were running
over with wheat; millions of bales of
cotton were stored aw ty; the rail
roads were operating with all their
employes; the mills were running on.
full time; more money was in ttu?
national banks than at any other
time in the history of th-j cocrJScjr,
aud more iu the State hiiiae ttmn
was $11 per ci p ta in circulation
and the people cannot understand
why a panic should have come at