The Asheboro Courier
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Thursday, Oct. 39, 1908.
For Praildent:
WM. I. BRYAN.
Fer Vie-Presildent:
JOHN W. KERN.
THE
DUTY OF
CITIZENS.
GOOD
Our government is by political
parties, jet many Democrats do not
seem to realize the aecessity of turn
ing out ou election day because they
tbiuk the Democratic party
and good government are safe
A lack of interest on the part of
Democrats might materially change
the electioa.
There were only three or four Re
publican member" of the last general
assembly in counties est of balls
bury. When we study the history
of the two political parties in the
government of the State and of the
different counties, there cm be no
hes.tation as to which party deserves
the best at the hands of the people.
Take our owi coanty for instance,
and everyone who has taken the
trouble to investigate knows that
the Republicans have never pioperly
managed our connty affairs, and un
der Democratic rale there has been
an honest and economical adminis
tiation and every dollar of the peo
ple's money has been accounted for.
There is no county in the State
which can show a better and bright
er record as to the managment of the
finances than can be shown by t-e
Democratic party in Randolph coun-
No county in this State has a bet
ter board of commissioners; and there
is no coanty in the State that has a
better ticket than was nominate1 by
the Democrats at their last conven
tion. In fact, our party has never
nominated a better ticket from the
first to the last than is presented to
the people in this campaign.
Take Steve Hayworth, who left
bis farm and who has served only
one term as sheriff and has made one
of the best sheriffs in the State
Conld the peopla afford to turn him
down to elect a man whose principal
accomplishment is that he has a
vast amount of money to spend for
campaign purposes, and who would
not and could not make anything
like as good a sheriff as has Mr,
Hayworth? And another, Frank
Newby, has served oly one term
and has made an obliging, faithful
nd accommodating, as well as an
honest and careful public official
Everybody knows that George
Murdock is not only one of the best
men in the county, but is a man
who is capable and competent to fill
any public office within the gift of
the people . He will make a good
successor of that fine Register of
Deeds which we now have.
No better men can be found any
where than our legislative ticket.
The biggest effort is being made to
defeat them, and the county commis
sioners as well as the sheriff. There
is nothing more important than the
election of a Democratio board of
commissioners and members of the
general assembly.
The good people of Randolph
county, regardless of party, could
Hot afford to lend to the legislature
" the Republican nominees. They
kJLJ
would not represent the interests of
the peoplo of this county. They
would vote for measures which
would be against the interests of the
people, and would help to turn back
the tide of good will and good feel
ing which exists in the State, and
would endeavor to destroy the good
effects of our eoustitutional amend
meut by placing the election laws in
the hands of Republicans who
would register at least seventy thous
and negroes in North Carolina.
Everybody knows what a good
record the county commissioners
have made. Two of them have beeu
re-noniinated, aud ;a new man, Mr
W. J. Armfield, who is one of the
best business men in the State.
There is Mr. Albright for survey
or aud Dr! Dennis Fox for coroner
good and true men.
There is hardly a possibility of it,
but should the Republicans ucei
dentally be elected, by the indiffer
euce of Democrats in lemaiuing at
home, we woulu all wake np the
morning after the election aud kick
ourselves out of bed aud wonder how
we could have been so foolish as not
to have exerted ourselves iu an ef
fort to defeat a partv which has
never given us good government
wnen it has had the reins of power.
As a business investment the best
thing to do is to continue the Demo
cratic party in power iu this county
as well as in the State,
In a large county like this there is
always danger in reducing the ma
jority, or of possibly defeatiug the
ticket, if any considerable number
of Democrats remain at home thro'
indifference, or for any cause fail to
to go to the election.
It would be a great mistake to
turn over the county to a board of
commissioners of a partv which.
when in power last in the county.
never settled witn the sheriff or
treasurer for three years, and not
theu until forced to do so by the
overpowering pressure of public sen
timent which demanded it.
Let every Democrat not only go
to the election, but speak to his
neighbor about going, and see to it
that every Democrat who has here
tofore remained away from the polls
goes this year and does his full
duty. The best way to do this is to
prepare a list of all Democrats and
keep check on them as they Tote.
Do not let raia or bad weather pre
vent a full vote early in the day.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS BY
DEMOCRATS IN RANDOLPH
COUNTY.
In this issue of The Courier is
published pictures of many of the
bridges erected by the Democrats of
this county. The list we publish
does not include all of the brides
for the reason that up to the hoar of
going to press we have not received
the cuts of the bridges from the en
gravers. There are many other
bridges in the county not shown in
the pictures published in this issue
of The Courier, among which are
the iron bridge at Buffalo Ford,
and the large covered bridges at
Island Ford, Central Falls, and at
Worthville, all aciosa Deep River
and all built within the last few
years under JJemocratic rule and
two bridges in Providence township,
r bridge across Hack Creek at
Henley's Mill, the bridge near Trin
ity and the bridge across Sandy
Creek below Franklinville and the
bridge a mile west of Ramseur, all
lecently built, ST: not included in
the cuts given. There are also a
number of smaller bridges and some
uncovered bridges not given.
lhebndgei at Murney s Mills,
Cedar I'alls, Randlemah, Franklin
ville and Caraway, on the Salis
bury road are older covered bridgt t,
all of which except one has been re-
paned in recent years, are not in
cluded in this list. The names of
the bridges will be found under the
pictures.
The two postmasters at Randle
man and at Asheboro, Tige and
Milt, both spoke in Tabernacle.
Tige wrote up the report for the
Central North Carolinian in glow
ing terms, in which he aid that
Hughes, Burrow and Holton made
the speeches of their lives. Milt
wrote up the report for the Bulle
tin, in which he told of the great
speech made by Mendenhall, but
his modesty forbade his saying
anything about the wonderful
speech which he delivered.
Winslow says he is rich and h is I
plenty of money and that he can
fight the editor of this paper, lie ,
needs racney. ile does not up-;
ptar to have any brains, or
he would not permit himself to
be attacked in the manuer he was
without res-.-nting it. For two yc;r
he bus remained under a -. itrti
which no decent nun iu this imim'
ever lived under without nseuti nj
it, and he is living under it today
aud the only effort, he has made to :
escape the consequences of the fear
ful predicament into which he has
fallen is to turn round and make
faces at those who have fastened the
charges against him aud fixed h in
witn an offence which he can plead
the statute of limitations on, vet
one which absolutely destroys his
i'!iru.t..r if ir im ti'ii. U'iii-n ln I
is asked a question relating to his
official life he does not answer it,
but asks another questioi. which is
foreign to the subject and which has
no earthly relation or connection
with it.
Mr. Winslow, since he came back
front the Indiau Territory is a woise
citizen than he was befoie he left.
Before he left he was a mere de
baucher of the electorate. After
goiug down in defeat he left the
county, sore aud out of humor with
his Republican associates, aud con
demned some of them as se verily as
he now condemns Democrats, but
since le came eatk from Indian
Territory he hat advanced ia the
downward conrie- and has signed a
certificate to an absolute falsehood
about au alleged record in his office
-a record which never existed,
which never was made, never wat
filed and lever was recorded. He
declared and certified that it was.
Two years ago he attempted to
bribe one or two registrars aud prob
ably more in the county. Iu other
words, tried to buy them to do
wrong. He was exposed in this and
held up to the scorn of all honest
men. since then there has been ne
improvement in his condition. The
charges contained in the false certi
ficate were reiterated in the organ of
the party which he and others domi
nate and control, only' a few weeks
ago.
Mr. A. E. Idol ton is not perform
ing the duties of the district attor
ney now, so far as the public can
ascertain, but is leaving that matter
to others while he is cavorting
around appealing to prejudice rather
than to reason. Mr. Ho! ton follow
ing the example of his nephew in
this county, charges the Democratic
party with being the negro party, or
words to that amount. Those who
hear Mr. A. E. Holton speak this
fall express grave fears that he is
losing his mind, and it is said that
his nephew in this county, who neVer
was credited with having original
ideas, has taken his cue from his
uncle who seems to have lost his
discretion as well as 'lis former good
seuse and judgment.
Mr. Holton made a speech at Ram
seur in this county some two weeks
ago in which he made a Tain effort
to array labor against capital, the
result of which was that Democrats
were stirred in Columbia township
as never before. Mr. lioltou has
made similar speeches at Statesville
and elsewhere, and in every instance
his speeches have the same result
because of their manifest unfair
ness.
Mr. Winslow says that Hayes got
him into all this trouble; that he
gave Hayes certain facts and that
Hayes published a certificate of his,
signed. Why did not Winslow have
Hayes to stop publishing it and cir
dilating it if it Vas a falsehood?
Why did he not stop Burrows and
English from using it on the stump
two years ago if it was false? There
is only one answer.
Bad as Mr. Hayes is he is not as
bad as Winslow, bjcanse Hayes dare
not do a thing that Winslow and
the other bosses do not agree to, be
cause he belongs to them. They
own him; they control him; they
dominate him. When they take
snuff he sneezes; when they com
mand he obeys; when they curse he
prays; when they say go he goeth. ',
An unsigned circular it the latest
Method of attack.
i t urn-
f W
J. KO.M SMITH,
One ot the Kcniiinntlo Xniiiitu'ps l"i
The House of Heiresehtallin
JOIN 1' DERATE.
Tige Mendenhall. with his usual
utter el isiegard for ti uth, says that
he has invited the Denmerit's to en
gage iu joint debate with him. The
editor of this paper will give twenty
live plu48 of tob.tcco lor pi oof that
Tige has ever done anything but run
from Democrats.
It is well underslood and has
been published tune and again that
Republican speakers are iuvitd to
divide time with any and every
Democratic speaker in Randolph
County. There are a number of
appointments this week iu various
parts of the county, and if Mr. Men
denhall is so anxious to meet his
oppoueu's let him select any one
whose appointments will be found
iu this paper, and try his hand ou
them and he will not want to meet
one again earn iu this county.
MR. MURPHY MAKING GOOD.
No better political speech has
been made in this county than that
by Hon. Waller Murphy at Raudle.
man. He is one of the State's ablest
campaigneis and we regret exceed
ingly that we did not get a report of
this excellent speech.
The mission of a newspaper is to
publish the news, but The Courier
in the past has avoided publishing
many unpleasant things. Were we
to publish all the truth which wr
know about many people there would
be a great stir in this laud and
country, but tne time bas some
when there mutt be a check to eer.
tain things. When public officiate
like Tom Winslow, certify to a false.
hood and scatter the statements
broadcast and never make any at
tempt to correct them, it is time
that honest men should be warned
as to the character of such men so
they could be shunned as they were
poison. A man who will certify t
a falsehood of this kind knowingl
would cheat you in a trade. A man
ho will lie about politics and certi
fy to false records, will lie and certi
fy to false laid matters in business.
The little stamp lickers who are
ruining around should be attending
to their official duties. We take the
position that no public official should
neglect his.duty for no matter which
can be avoided. Reasoning on these
lin, there is any excuse for the post
master of Asheboro and the post
master of Randleman leaving their
duties to incompetent employees.
While the stamp lickers are off
attending to ether business than the
public duties which they have sworn
they would peiform, patrons of the
oftice are suffering from nou delivery
of the mails. The Federal office
holders are more active than ever,
the only difference now being the
activity of former revenue officers
has b?en transferred to postraasters
aud the district attorney's office.
It is given out by Republicans
here that the Asheboro postmaster
has a furlough for what? While
he was cavorting for Radicalism last
week tht patrons of Asheboro office
were cooling their heels on the side
walks and awaiting the slow process
of distribution of the mails.
When The Courier tells of tbe
bad record of Kepublicans in the
State and County the email fry cry
and howl about abuse.
( lib i.u.MiuiiriiUiN uibLi. ine Kepublicans told nsin Iqqq
-years and vears Republican tbat the illiterate white men would
sp in ihSta;e have said that i vote again if the ameudrnent
ought t.i i u ,i -m i-.tl und im-j ws adopted. They have been tell
mi . uiits fr.itn n i deuf the St'e. : ing eer since that afterjl908 n0 il
ir. Cox a'nl o'-i.-r M!iolic:in cam- , Iterate white man would be permit
; i- t . v.-ur ur suvini: . ,w ot'' Toi8 la6t statement ),
i K ,. i, us b ive lu.t ii.vit...i J,,st M fa,s M the statement made
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Ills UIM I VrM
I el wo iv
u'lnili-ll. Htrllllti
its are trying t
irt'sent it it Act i
ire. tii pnrpos"
ii- r iiioiii y. Yet i
ne Iiepublici n
l i kers und p'dU-
tM-rvert and tnie
f im' 1 1 st. li-gisla-of
wii ich was to
;tf mii tl and ta better class t
Min-rs from the North and West
lomehi ie. For years the colored
id ban s arid many of the youutr-in-
n have moved to towns, and
iior and farm help has been scarce.
In obedience to thousands of let
ters from farmers and business men
i questing the last legislature to e n-
e-ouiage immigration of peoples eif
Gefiuan, English, Scutch and Irish
and Anglo-Saxon origin, the liettt r
c'ass of p-ople in the North and
West, to come to Notth Carolina, an
Act was p-ij-ed permitting the use
of CiTtan funds in securing these
immigrants, leaving the matter iu
the discretion of the administration
o.f the Stale government, as we un
derstand the law; although nothing
has beeu done under this Act and
probably never ill be, yet an effort
has been made to misrepresent the
statute, to leave the impression that
it is in violation ot the principles of
the Junior Order. This is absolute
ly uutiue as will be observed by any
thinking man who carefully reads
the Act. The purpose of the Act
is to secure a high class of farmers
aud farm laborers and others to
come here aud make their homes
itb us and cast their fortunes in
this great State where peace and
plenty have reigned since the Demo
crats have been iestored to power.
In the Inst session of Congrees
the Republicans voted down a bill
which would have etopped the in
flux of the low e la.il of foreign im
migrants and would have kept from
our shores the horde of low cl
foreigners. The bill referred to was
one introduced by a Democrat and
it was prepared by the assistance of
a Committee appointed by the
Junior Order for that purpsse, and
approved by that .Committee as in
troduced. Is was supported by the
Democrats in Ixmgress. That bill
required that all immigrants should
have certain educational qualifica
tions, and that they should not be
of a vicious class. If this had be
come a law it would have practical
ly removed the objections to foreign
immigrants; but it was violently op
pose! by thj Kepublicans in (Jon
greas and it was defeated by them.
All good citleens, whether mem
bers of the Junior Order or not, have
no objection to good citezens coming
to mortn uaroima but tne rea
son the Democratic party has op
posed immigration from the slums
of Europe to this country is because
01 tbe tact that tnat class ot immi
grants do not make good citiaens.
ELWOOD COX.
Five minutes after El wood Cox
was nominated for Governor he kill
ed what little chance he had. It
was creditable to Mr. Cox that he
conceived the idea to nominate no
one in opposition to Mr. J. Y. Joy
ner for State Superintendent
of Public Instruction and
therebyl lift the great edu
cational work of that fine educator
aboye the domain of partisan poli
tics. The motion which Mr. Coi
made was withdrawn by him as soon
as opposition as made by the ring
and Mr. Adams whispeied in Cox's
eirs. So, within five minutes from
the time he made the motion, this
8" me Cox who had started out so
ell, withdrew the motion at the
command of Butler, Adams and
company. He then demonstrated
that he had no backbone, but that
he yielded slavishly to his political
promoters.
Cox had the chance to show that
he had the stuff in him which Gov
ernors are made of, but he stumbled
and fell at the first command of the
bosses. He failed to measure np to
the lofty conception which a chief
executive should possess. A man
who is subservient to any ring, and
fawns and falters and surrenders at
the behest of party bosses, is unfit
for Governor.
.Und and (llivj'"auew) nit the negro and
hoc the white man. Ne white man
will be disfranchized under the
amendment at any time, but if Re.
publicans were permitted to take
charge of the election machinery
nicjr wuutu ueiiroy me benelitj of
the amendment by permitting illit
erate negroes to register.
nile there are many good Re-
publicans as honest as anybody in
the Democratic party, yet the Demo
cratio party is distinctly the white
man s party, aud it is foolish to say
mat democrats would not tn-rmir
white men to register and vote. It
is a Republican falsehood circuited
to deceive the voter.
We published' last week some
comments on what the panic had
done for the lumber men and the
relation of tariff to the lum
ber business, and showed tnat the
lumber men throughout the country
should vote for Mr. Bryan.
We publish this wpek Mr. Charles
Ross' letter again, together with
comments on lumber and its rela
tion to the tariff. Bhowim? that
umber men, mill men and people
interested in switch ties and cross
ties will vote the Democratic ticket,
because they cannot vote to continue
the power at Washington which is
responsible for the disastrous panic
which has extended throughout the
country, being wost in congested
centres of trade, and brought on as a
result of Republicaa legislation.
L. D. Mendenhall and other Re
publican speakers are telling in the
County that they want Democrats
to meet them. This is absolutely
untrue. You could not pull Mr.
Mendenhall with the biggest yoke
of oxe-n in Randolph County within
five miles of any Democratic speaker.
You could play marbles on his coat
tail were you to intimato that you
were going to discuss with him the
acta of the Republican party in this
County and State.
The Republican newspaper and
the Republican politicians are not
satisfied with asaults on the editor
of this paper through the medium
of tne press or by signed articles,
but anonymous circulars are being
distributed containing charges which
are false and scurrilous and malici
ous.
The charge that Democrats re
sorted to dishonest methods in elec
tions is simply a mere pretense un
der which those who were defeated
because of their bad records are try
ing to defeat the nominees of a party
which has brought the county out ef
debt; has a large surplus, has built
bridges, improved the roads, and is
building a modern fireproof court
house with vaults and apartmen ts
as required by law.
In the face of their bad record in
this connty, Republicans are talking
about honesty. Honest men, wheth
er Democrats or Republicans, will
regard this cry as a fake and label
it what it really and truly is. .
The Democratic candidates are
the choice of the people in their
primaries, and they should receive
the united and cordial support of
every voter who believes the people
should rule.
Roosevelt has failed to help busi
ness but has injured business, and
the public has no confidence that
the election of Lis man Taf t would
act as a business tonic.
Bear in mind that a vote for
Bpence. Redding and Smith is a vote
for Lee S. Overman for United States
Senator; whereas, a vote for Staun
ton, Hughes and Holton is a vote for
Spencer Adams or Marion Butler for
United States Senator.
A desperate effort is being made
by the Republicans to capture the
legislature, but the peoplo do not
want a Republican legislature,
enact bad laws tor the State again,
nor do they want Adams or Butler
in the Senate. . .