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VOL XXXIII.
ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY October 1, 1908.
No 44
POLITICAL POINTERS
The Situation as Viewed from
Raleigh.
MR. COX'S LETTER OF ACCEPT.
ANCE DISCUSSED.
Progress of the Campaign Presages Vict
ory for State and NationRepublican
Effort Itent ( Scaring the People
Guarantee of Bank Deposit! Aasuret
viiuuueuce.
Special Correspondence.
Raleigh, N. 0., Sept. 29th. The
progress of the campaign for the
past week in State and Nation has
not been merely satisfactory from
the stand point of the Democrats,
but the tide has set in so irresistibly
with the party that Democrats every
where are jubilant. It is an open
secret that the prospects of a large
majority in this State h.ivj been
very much enhanced by the enthus
iasm that has gotten into the Nation
al campaign, and the practical cer
tainty of Bryan's election if the elec
tion should take place at this time,
as nine out of ten well informed
Democrat! view the situation. The
only fear of the result now heard
expressed, is the old trick of the
Republicans of pouring out a large
corruption fund at the last, and of
trying to "scare" the country away
from Bryan. But money cannot
sweep back a tide, and the only
scare anywhere in evidence up to the
preseut iime is -in the camp of the
entu.y. Mr. Tuft understood to 8,-t
up a sc.u'-crow Inst week by remind
ing t e country of Mr. Bryan's
speech in wbich be'referred to the
government ownership of railroads.
But Mr. Bryan cut tbe ground from
under him by quoting both Mr.
Taft and Mr. Roosevelt as having
gone just as far in that direction as
he had, all three of them having
said at different times that govern
ment ownership would ultimately
result if government regulation
should fail. Instead of the Repub
licans being able to "scare" the busi
ness men of the country away from
Mr. Bryan this time, it is the opin
ion of this correspondent that busi
ness generally is going to regard Mr.
Bryan's simple plan of guaranteed
secujity of bank deposits as being
decidedly the most valuable offering
by either or till of the parties to
stability of business. It has gradu
ally soaked into the imnd ot the
business world that this is alsi a
guaiantee against panic, and the on
ly one that is offered.
The d vtlopmeuts of the past
week in New Yoi k, where a'l fac
tions tf the party united in nomi
nating a ticket which the entire
press of the State concedes to be
strong, lnadei by the present Demo
cratic Lieutenant Governor, Chand
ler,, has unproved the already bright
prospects of cairying that State;
while the ouly term that can des
cribe the situation in Mr. Taft's
own State, Ohio, is the word which
the Republicans have heurd so of
ten this year, "PANIC". The
situation in that State from the
standpoint of the Rt-publicut.s was
very troublesome to them, and their
situation can easily be imagined
since the . reconciliation between
Messrs. Taft and Foraker were close
ly followed by the nauseating dis
closures of Senator Foraker's inti
mate relutions with the Standard
Oil Co., and tbe payment of large
Bums of money to bim bv the Vice
President of that company since he
has been representing Ohio in tbe
Senate. A few more disclosures of
this character will make a certificate
of election to the Senate "prima
facia evidence".
Kitchin'. Campaign.
Mr. Eitchin last week completed
his conquest of the West. He has
had the most enthusiastic receptions
at every point, and has. found but
faction. This week he will take the
Bouthern border Counties, aud then
throughout the East.
Nr. Cox's Letter of Acceptance.
Mr. Cox has accepted. He says
as much in a carefully prepared lel
. ter and discussion of tbe situation,
which he published a few days ago.
There is one peculiar feature of the
Republican State Platform which is
accentuated by this letter: The
Democrats have had the manage
ment of i.fLtirs in this State for a
deca le, and the only thing in the en
tire record of ten years ith which
their platform fir da fault is with
the passenger rate legislation, which
has already saved the people of the
State $1,400,000, while Mr. Cox, in
his letter of acceptance, practically
abandons this quarrel with the
Democrats and goes back upon his
own sworn tectimony in Washington
City and Bays now that he is in
favor of "strict regulation" of the
railroads.
But the most serious joke cf this
letter is the statement by Mr. Cox
that he wants to be elected Govern
or so that he can give the State a
"business administration". M r.
Cox is tremendously mistaken about
that. He just wants the job. And
wauts it bad enough to drag in with
him in order to get it, the entire
Spencer Adams brigade into every
department of the State government,
even including the public school
system, which has been so thorough
ly well managed that, personally,
Mr. Cox wanted to see the present
management continued, and in
which he was so easily beaten and
overwhelmed by a Sampson county
Butler, while his houors were fnsii
upon his brow. There is no doubt
that Mr. Cox is a good business
man. In fact, he has succeeded so
well in business, that h is said he
has a world-wide monopoly af the
8 little block Kusincs. But if he
should undertake to apply the Bame
kind of business principles to his
shuttle trust that he proposes to ap
ply io tbe Stat government, lie
would find his business destroyed us
quickly as his ideas of a non-partisuii
school system were shattered iii the
Republican Convention. Suppose,
for instance, that his shuttle factor)
h.s for tLe last ten years oeen undei
management so thoroughly faithful,
eilicient aud successful that iu ail
that period he could not find auv
thing to criticise, aud that he should
call up his general manager aud aii
his subordinates any say to theni,
"I have no complaint agaiust you,
but you are discharged, aud I am
going to reinstate the crowd I had
here teu years ago, who brought,
disaster and een dishonor upon my
business". The application is auto
matic. The State penitentiary, for
instance, under fonr years of man
agement by Mr. Cox a party asso
ciates Jao. R. Smith, to be specific,
and his Parson Babb, to whom he
sent the classic message that he
would have to "hold up on preach
ing for a while", spent $227,616 60
out, of the Stale treasury in addition
to its earnings. In stven years of
Democratic management it lias earn
ed for the State a net. profit of $449,
293. GO nearly a half million. Now
Mr. Cox wants . to put ''business"
into this by turning down' this soit
of management and pulling ia such
as 'Judge" Adams aui Butler wuuhi
force into it.
Let's annhze this "business" idea
a little further, for, as that term is
generally ufed by a man who wants
to get a job by it, it is the most gen
uine kind of demagoguery. We
have already admitted Mr. Cox's
business qualifications. His success
in piling up a private fortune attests
'hat. Suppose he wanted a man to
run one of the machines in his shut
tle trust factory; he'd get a man
who had had experience in that
kind of work. If prosecuted under
the anti-trust law he'd get a lawyer
to defend it, and ifahe would apply
his business acumen to tbe selection
of a governor for the State (and
didn't want the job himself), be
would select a man who had give i
his life to a study of public ques
tions, like W.-W. Kitchin, inseead
of to a man who had given his life
to private fortune buslding. Mr.
Cox is doubtless s man ot food char
acter, the Industrial News to the
nontrray notwithstanding. But he
has less of control of his party than
a one per cent, stockholder would
have in his shuttle block trust. If
he should get his fingers schorched
in a vain effort to scratch a few
chesnutB out of the coals he will find
that he has exactly met the expecta
tions of bis spoucers.
Normal Overflowing.
There are 530 students at the
State Normal at Greensboro. Every
room in the dormitory is occupied.
Many students are boarding in th
ncghborhood of the college. A
large number were forced to return
home for lack-of accomodation.
Iteglstratlon llooks.
A construction of the eleotion law
.oi North Caroliua made by Assist
ant Attorney General Hayden Clem
ent if to tbe effect that the registra
tion books must be opened Thurs
day October 1st and close Saturday
October 24th.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Negrc Pleads Guilty to Murder In
Second Degree
TOM BALDWIN TRIED AT TROY
Judge Webb Commended Course of No-
llcltor and Counsel Only Clrcumstaa
tlal Evidence Against Tom Baldwin.
At Troy last week Tom Baldwin,
a young negro, vtas tried and sen
tenced to 25 years at hard labor in
the penitentiary for murder in the
second degree.
The story of his crime, which ap
peared in these columns nearly a
year ago, is as fallows:
Mary Ann Harper, a half-sister of
Capt. John L. Stuart, of Star, liv
eng near Pekin, was outraged and
brutally murdered on the night of
Oct. 20th of last year. Indications
pointed to Tom Baldwin, but proof
was eutirely circumstantiil, hardly
sufficient to justify hanging tbe de
fendant. The jurv was selected Tuesday
and on Wednesday morning on com
ing into rourt the defendant, thro
his counsel, pleaded guilty of mur
der in t he second degree, which was
accepted by the court.
Jiuig Web!) commended the
solicitor and counsel for having a'1
tided this wise course.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FUND
A Liberal Contribution liaised In Aslie
biiio l''or National Cuuipaigu.
The following contributions to
the National Democratic Campaign
Fund have beeu maue uy citizens of
Asheboro, and the same has been
forwarded to headquarters at Chica
go, by J. A.'Speuce, local epreseu-
tative-
J. T. Penn $1.00
W. C, Hammond 1.00
II. M. Robins 1 0u
J. A. Spence 1.00
Dr. W. J. Moore 1.00
W. A. Underwood 1.00
W. D. S ted man 50
Solon Stedrnau 1.00
Robeson Moliitt 1.00
U. It. Ross 1.00
L.utriu Cranford 1.00
Krnest. An in an 1.00
Dr. I). K. Lockh.irt 1.00
J. I). Ross 1.00
.1. A. 0'riielis.in 1.00
i:. Wh-nley 1.00
.J.A.York 1.00
W. C. Ai intiU'oiig 1.00
T. .1. Hoover 25
'-'nil 1.00
J im -8 T. Woo-.i 1.00
W. P. Wood 1.00
Cash 1.00
Cash l.no
T. II. Redding " T.00
W.J.Miller..'. 1.00
A. C. Mc .Mister 1.00
H. E. Moffitt 1.00
Cash 1.00
O. M. Vox. .J.. ... 1 00
O. R. Fox 1,00
Oscar Redding 1.00
Cash 1.00
C V. MuAlister.'.'.""... 1.00
0. 0. Cranford 1.00
$33.75
Parmer Kobbcd of SKHMHK
Frank Holton, a farmer of near
Kiuston, was held up by a negro
highwayman while enroute home
from town last Friday. The robber
held his victim at the point of a pis
t ol while he took from his' pockets
$100 and made off through the
oods. Bloodhounds followed the
trail of the negro without result.
Change In Date.
The speaking at Brower's Chapel
School House, Asheboro township,
on Friday night of this week is
called in owing to the fact that Hon.
Claude Kitchin is billed to speak at
Asheboro on tnat night. The citi
zens of the Brower community, as
well us elsewhere are cordially in
vited to come aud hear Mr. Kitchir.
Death ofMrn. Illnshaw
Mrs. Dermida Hinshaw, of near
Routh's Mill, died last Saturday af
ter an illness of several months.
Mrs. Hinshaw was 94 years and was
a inenilter of one of Randolph's old
est families. The remains were in
terred at Mt. Lebanon church, Ran
dleman, Sunday.
Ringling Brothers Circus will
show at Winstoa-Salem October
14th.
FOR A NEW DEPOT.
Officials of the Southern and A. &
A. Visit Asheboro.
PROSPECT IS ENCOURAGING
Superintendent Walton, of the Southern
and Messrs. H. A. and J. K. Page
of the Asheboro 4c Aberdeen Hallways,
.Guests of the Industrial Association.
The Asheboro Industrial Associa
tion had as its guests on Tuesday,
isrew
frsP, G.Walton, of Greensboro,
llfOTinXelldfii '.id this th Danville
divigjoiPof. Southern Railway,
Henry A." Igl. president of tbe
Asheboro & Aberdeen Railway aud
J.. R. Page, vice-president aud gen
eral manager of the same load.
These geutlemen came to Ashe
boro up(n the invitation of the
Association for the purpose of con
sideling the necessity of a new
pappeiigti station and certain chang
es in the freight station at this
point. Mr. Walton aud Messif. Page
npreed that; better facilities are
ne essary and the pro.-p-ct for a
new union station at Asheboro is
encounging. Mr. Page stated t bar,
he stood ready to join in with the
Southern to thisviid.
Mr. Walton, within whose power
it is to reeornmer d the erection of u
new station, has asked the commit
tee tn secure an option on some ad
joining propei ty which might be
uteded, and if the same can be hud
at a leasonable liguie, it is possib.e
t nut in ltct uiinentiaiioii that a new
building be erected at Asheboro will
be consideied by tbe Southern.
The committee to entertain the
guests, composed of Messrs. I). B.
MtCrarv, J. O. Ridding, W. P.
Wood, R. R. Roee, W. J. Annfield,
Jr., P. U. Morris, II. M. Robins
and C. T. Ln-ll n, wna appointed at
a ni'eiing ot me luuusuial Associa
tion held Monday night.
Head Courier Advi rtUements.
The merchants of Ashehero now
have their shelves filled with fall
and winter goods. It will pay you
to rend their advertisements in The
Courier and see what they have to
offer you. The merchants of Ashe
boro carry us nice line of goods as
can be lound anywhere and they
sell (hem at leasonable prices. If
you are not already patrouizing
theni, when you get ready to buy
jour tiiess gocde, clothing, shoes",
etc., come and give them a tr al.
'Ihey will treat you right and uialie
it to your advantage to continue
to ir.'.de with them.
Taft Courting Xegro Voters.
Inaspetrhat Cincinnati, Ohio,
latt week, Wui. II. Taft made a
otiorg bid for the negro vote when
be declined "When I get into the
While House no plea in favor of a
negro will have any less consider
ation than a white man."
Iluilding Bridges.
The commissioners of Moore coun
ty have ordered new bridges buiit at
(I I tn clou at a cost of $5,400 and at
Noise at a cott of $2,300. R. W.
Cunis will build the former and D.
H. Horner the latter.
(Quarrelled Over a Cow.
Condary Godwin, of Johnson
county, was killed by his son one
day last week during a family quar
rel over a cow. Henry Gouwin, his
son, struck him over the head crush
ing his skull, and then left for parts
unknown.
Cholera in Husslan Palace.
The rapid spread of Asiatic Chol
era at di. retersourg, ttussia, is
causing alarm. Cases have been
discovered in the royal palace and
palaces of the Dukes. The suffer
ers are among the servants.
The Littles Acquitted.
In Guilford Superiof Court last
week Arthur Little and wife were
acquitted of the charge of having
stolen $2,177 irom jui.en Uardner
near Jamestown last January.
Don't I J lie Their Looks.
The Colored National Baptist As
sociation at Lexington, Ky., has de.
rided to start a negro doll factory.
They say the uncomely and deform
ed features of negro dolls now ao'd
compels the negio to buy whiti dUe
for Christmas.
KILLED ON RAILROAD
Drunken Negro Slept on Rallrad Track
and Met Death
John Johnson, a negro, was ron
over and killed Sundav nicht bv a
train on the Asheboro branch of the
Southern at Fairview.
The body was found by the sec
tion hands about 6 o'clock Mondav
morning. Thp body had been run
over Dy a rreight train which passed
Fairview about midnight, and was
severed at the waist liue. The lower
extremities, which had been dragged
some diBtar.ce from the remainder of
the body was badly mangled.
Johnson waj 22 years old and was
employed at Fairview PaiK. He
was seen about nine o'clock by Cor
nelia Gray, who says Johnson was
drinking. His father says he left
his home auout nine o'clock and
that he hid been drinking. The
supposition is that he sat down on
the track and, overcome by the in
toxicant, weut to sleep.
Coroner D. L. Fox was called to
the sceue ot the accident amk after
an investigation turned the body
ovr to t.'ie futher for burial. No
ii'-quest was held.
GREENSBORO'S CENTENNIAL.
tVillbe Held During Week of Oct 1 1th
17th .Many Attractions A Hearty
Welcome to All Visitors.
GreensOoro. N. C. SeDtember 29.
The week of Oct. 11th- 7th ill be
observed heie as "centennial and
houie-comini; week." in commemor
ation of the one hundredth anni
versary of the founding of the vil
lage that has grown mto tbe pros
perous aud Drosressive citv of
Greensboro. Committees of leading
citizens have re-.n at work for
months planning to make the event
the greatest affair of the kind ever
witness-d in anv Smt ieru Stt.
Nothing has been left undone to
add lo the comfort, pleasure, in
s'ruetiou aud editicatiou of the
many thousands of visitors expected
in the city during the week.
Theanr ual fair of the Central
Carolina Fair Assocint'on will be
held during centennial week, ami iu
view of the laige influx of visitors
expected, the management has plan
ned to make it the greatest fair and
the most creditable exhibition the
fitute has ever witnessed along its
lines.
A 1 the railioads will give special
rutts, aud every visitor to Greens
boro during tbe week will be criven
a genuine Tar Heel welcome.
Adams W ants $100,000.
Attorneys for ex-Judge Spencer
B. Adams have filed in theollics of
the clerk of Uuilfoid Superior Couit
the complaints in his suit against
Hanon Butler aud his brother, Les
ter F. Butler aud the Caucasian
Publishing Co., at Raleigh. The
plaintiff asks $50,000 from ex-Senator
Marion Butler and his brother
and a like amount from the Cauca
siau for alleged libellous articles
about Judge Adams in connection
with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Citizenship court of Indian Terri
tory, of which Judge Adams was a
chief justice.
13,000 to be Divided.
On Monday the annual apportion
ment to the rural high schools was
made by the State board of educa
tion. The schools received from
$250 to $500 each and $45,000 was
divider among them. There are
applications for far more than this
sum. Professor Waler, who looks
particularly after the high schools,
says that as a matter of fart $100,
000 is needed for these schools, but
in view of the hard times the Legis
lature will nut be asked for more at
its coming session and the State
board will wait two years before it
asks for more money.
Hani and Stock Burned.
The barn of S. W. Bowden, of
Advance, together with three mules,
a number of sheep, all his tools,
threshing machine and other imple
ments were burned one evening last
week. Mr. Bowden believes incen
diaries applied a torch, he had no
insurance. Ilia loss is $2,500.
Olmstead Moore Dead.
Olmstead Mooie, a prominent cit
izen of Troy, died of Bright's disease
last week, aged 47 years. He was a
son-in-law of lr. T. C. Dowd, of
Brown, Randolph county.
INSPIRED NEW ZEAL
Hon. T. W. Bickett Spoke to Large)
Crowd.
POSTMASTER-GENERAL COM
PLAINS OF RATES.
A Direct Hrbuke from Postal Author!
ties to J. Ulwood Cox Parmer Plcnlo
1.1st oi Appointments.
The Democratic campaign In Ran
dolph county is waxine warmer with
each settiogsun. The people of the
county aie becoming aroused to the
iJH'ortance of re-electins the Dm.
ocia ic ticket' in couuty and State as
well as trre JMational ticket. A fea
ture of the campaign today was the
ati!rtcof Hon. T. W. Bickett, can
didate for Attorney General, at t,h
cctirtbo.ise m Asheboro. The court
room vms wei! filled. A luree num
ber f.f ladies Wen? present. Mr.
P.e,,.t.it'j fi-pcli uivs a seveie ar-ii-
v :iment uf the Repulilican party
am! its principles iu both Slatp and
i i on, and was closely followed br
ill- Urr' crowd, as w,s shown hv
the fivqu -nt and prolonged applause.
Mr. Ri"Icet-t cofnpired the plat
form nf 'be two parses. He de
clared that tbe platform as well as
the hipnr? of tbe Republican party
ha" nwpii it th" nartv ot the trimt
and clHsseH, while tbe Democratic
olattorni and history clearly show it
to bp the party of the people
the mas?ps.
He snoke of the neopasitv of tariff
rpvision for the benefit of the people.
Democracy will revise the tariff,
while the Republicans only renew
their promise of revision.
ne spoke of the attit tide of J.
El wood Cox. RonnM'can candidate
f r Onvpri'Or. aFair-afc (ho penrtlp and
i;i fivnr of tbe rail hi ids, especially
i'1 treipnt regulation s in jortn
Carolina. Mr. Bickett quoled from
a b tier of the PrsniMStev General,
v Inch Efwp notio" tnt Giecnsbnro
ould be nHpnntini1-d : a ui&trib
point for pot-il supoiie.
T!- roir) Hvi " th? letter
was that tbe t X'M bitnnI rates for
iipoWnion of postal supplies-
f.-'.i" (i e fectpry to GvpHiidinirt made
it ni',r,:sUV fo uiaiiiij'i" a distrih-
ng po'f.t there, rctisterrd jiail
( re'? tn t'ip olli -'-3 in tr,e. Mstte be
ing pr-'pnvd.
The feature today is the basket
picnic at Farmer. Elaborate ar
rangements have been made and one
of thp fTPatpRfc demon strntinnn pvpt
made in that part of the county will
taue place.
Hon. Claud Kitchin will sneak to
the npoule in an in teres tine nridrpRs
on the political issues, and he should
be heard by every one who expecta
to vote on the 3rd day of November..
The siipaker will be met at. TTnw.
ard's store and accompanied to Far
mer bv a large mounted procession..
Mr. Kitchen will be heard by a
large crowd.
The people of the cmnty should
remember the appointments of the
sneakers and attend as often as pos
sible,. County Chairm tn, W. J. Miller
announces the following appoint
ments during the remainder of this
mouth and the tiist of October. All
speeches for uight will be delivered
at 7:30 o'clock:
lion. J. It. Hlali-'s Appointments.
Hon. J. R. Blair will speak at the
fwllowiug times and places with the
county candidates and nominees for
the General Assembly:
Tiinity, Monday, Oct. 5th.
Archdale, Monday night , 5th.
New Maiket, Tuesday, 6th.
Level Cross, Tuesday night, 6th.
Widow Chamness,' Wednesday 7th
Melancthon, Wednesday night,7th
Liberty, Thursday 8th.
Stley School House Thursday
niubt, 8'h.
Ramseur, Friday 9"h.
Franklinvillr, Friday night 9th.
Cedar Falls, Satin day 10th.
Centml Falls School House, Sat
urday night, 10th.
A. S. Darker).
Randlenian, Mouuuy night, Octo
ber 12th.
S. A. Cox's, Tuesday, October
13E.it, with County candidates.
Asheboro, Tuesday night, Octo
ber 13th.
Worthvil'.e, Wednesday night,
October 14 th.
Central Falls School II on 8 6,
Thursday night, Ol'.. bu-