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J3he COURIER Leads in Both News and Circulation. RIER S6e COURIER Advertising Column Bring Results. h EECd Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NQT MEN &J..U0 Per "x ear VOL. XXXV ASHEBORO. .NS C, THURSDAY, NOVBER J, i910. No. 44 xTHE (HOI i ENDORSES SOLICITOR HAMMER Go. B. Nicho'son, of Statesville, Says the Old Democratic War Horse is the Man. , To the people of the 10th Judicial District: There i8 perhaps no office more important and more closely connect, ed with the vital interests of the peo ple than that of Solicitor. It is in this office that crime, m a largo majority of cuse?, meets its first ac cuser; it is iu this office that indict ments are initiated and started through the process of our criminal tribunal?; and all manner of-v. crimes and misdemeanors against society, against person and property, and which seek to destroy the peace and prosperity, safety and protection of our people, are prosecutea ana pun ished. The Solicitor is the acces sory of the Grand Jury, that creates bulwark of the safety and protection of lif", liberty and property. This office, then.at all times should he ex ercised by a man of legal ability and adroitness as an advocate of the bar; and a man of large experience in the detection and prosecution of crime. He should be aggressive, not oppres sive; be . should te tenacious, not prosecutive, and perhaps above all, he should be a man of moral cour age, having always an eye single to the protection and preservation of sooiety ana the runts ot tue people, the just and adequate enforcement of the law, ana tne upnoiaing ana maintaining of the dignity of the courts, the constitution and tne gov ernmeut. Such a man is the Hon. W. G. Hammer, the present Solicitor of Wis uiscricc, wnose re-eieouuu oj a large majority in November is well nigh assured. At the death of the late Wiley Kuen, wbom tne JJemo crats had elected to this office, Gov. Avcock appointed Mr. Hammer foe the unexpired term. When Mr. Hammer was tne , nominee of the Democratic party for election, having been nominated without off position, and was elected, he carried more votes in Iredell county that year than Any candidate on the ticket, except the candidate for the State Senate. In 1906 Mr. Hammer was unanimously re-nominated, and elect ed, carrying more votes that year in T J 1 I l .....I nn TUln iruen cutiuiv caucuh uue. iuu vear he is the unanimous nominee ot the Democrats of the District for re-election, and in Iredell there is not the slightest whisper of dissent of his re-tleotion. , During his term of service he hits made a bold and fearless officer, prosecuting criminals with relent less courage, superior ability and astuteness, and has done much iu our county to I rcuk up the" strong holds of wickedness and crime, aud has encouraged and . sircugtheued tha citiziuship of the county in maintaining tb laws forth" govern ment of (society and t.ie protection of the people's lights.- He Lad friend for he shows himself friend ly, and he has a great big warm heart, throbbing with love for hu manity aud its cause; but so fixtd and immovable is be in bis convic tions and eo loyal iu the discharge of his public duty, that friendship and faroritUin know no immunity with him, aud if necessary in the dis charge of official duty, he will prose cute his best friend with all the un tiring energy and zeal that be wonld the vilest criminal. Mr. Hammer is a true man, a gentleman, a learned lawyer, an able and fearless advo cate aud prosecutor; a terror to the criminal, and a loyal guardian of the peace, safety atd liberty of the peo ple. It is the nnanimons testimony of the Iredell county bar, and every Democrat in the great rank and file of our every dominant . party, that Mr! Hammer will have his usual majority in the county. His op ponent is not known here, and will not be after the election. Let every county in the District join bands with Iredell and .give Mr. Hammer a good majority, and it will do much to discourage crime and to intimidate its sympathizers. , Geo. B. Nicholson, Statesville, N. C, October 5, 1910. Efforts are being made by the Republicans to scatter bogus tickets in every pre cinct. Let Democrats see to it that every Democrat has a straight ticket, properly print ed. ' Democrats read your tickets carefully before voting. Let all Democrats on election day be careful from jj whom they get their tickets. Some good Democrat in each township will be ap pointed to distribute tickets to Democrats. An effort will be make to get Democrats to vote i bogus tickets, printed incorrectly. Thousands of Republican stickers are being distributed- The plan is to have these Republican stickers put on Demp- cratic tickets, the purpose vote the bogus tickets without their knowledge. . A GROSS INJUSTICE. Mr. Cox Treated Unfairly at the Hands of the Columns of the Bulletin. Asbeboro, N. 0., Oct. 31, 1910. Mr. U. S. Hayes, Editor of the Buhtpn, Asbeboro, N. C. : Dear Sir : Referring to Mr. Charles H. Reading's failure to properly list his taxes for 1910, in an editorial in your last issue, you call upon me to print "an apology in the same paper which is responsible for first circu lating the falsehood against Mr. Redding." My attention having been called to the fact that Mr. Redding bad reached his majority in May of this year, aud that he had applied for and had been registered as a voter in Randleman township on or about the 15th day of October, I made per sonal search of the records to ascer tain certain facts in legard to the gentleman, and it was disclosed to me that Mr. Redding had failed to lawfully list his poll, or any prop erty for taxation, as is required of all citizens by law. During the campaign I called the attention of the people to the fact of this neglect, as I had a perfect right te do, every word and infer, ence made being wholly true. Mr. Redding is represented as be ing a lawyer, and is tnerefore doubly culpable for the violation of the law in which he has indulged, and with which he has been charged. If he pleads ignorance of the requirements, he confesses thereby that he is yroogf ully utylecj a lawyer, and his only other recourse is to admit that be is a law breaker, in fact, no mat ter from what cause, us my further search today leveals the faci that Mri bedding has even yet neglected to properly, legally correct the wrong he has done. Under the circumstances, there fore, your advices to "an hotus1", just and uorignt man" in respect to the incident referred to ar wholly gratuitous, irapp leable and tincall. ed for. As a t ft, however, of '-0ur sincerity in-giving good advice, and vonr pra3:i e in a?tit!J rip to it, I as!; that you pubHih this letter i i the next issue of jour Uu.'etiij, I ask this iu view gf -the fact that you have dune me a gro&ti injustice iu the editorial of latt week, s is revealed above. Yours respectfully, v O. R. Cox. P. S. It is, perhaps, proper for me to say that I am mailing a copy of this letter to The Conner with request to publish same. Read your ticket carefully before voting.. PUBLIC SPEAKINGS The Democratic nominees for the general assembly and for . the coun ty offices will speak at, the follow ing times and places: . , - Central Falls Friday night .No vember 4th, at 7:30 o'clock.. Hon. Walter Murphy will speak at the following times and places; Liberty November 4th at 1 o'clock. Ramseur, November 4th at night 7:30 o'clock. " Asbeboro, November 5 th nt 1 o'clock. Randleman November 5th at night 7:30 o'clock. j W. J. Miller, Chairman, Dem. County Ex. Oommmittee. 7 , y . Be sure you get your ticket on election day irom tue Democrat who hands out the Democratic tickets .in your I precinct and : vote no other supposed regular ticket. m m m tr-7 i m m m Ki m being to get Democrats to NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Live Happenings . That Have Oc curred Within Our State Dur- ing the Week Early Monday morning New Horn suffered a costly fire aggregating a loss of $20,000. A charter has been issued from Raieigh -for a Spencer Social Club, at Spencer, for the purpose of advanc ing the social interest and pleasures of its members. Miss Mariah Vogler, oue of the best known and most active. Chi is. tain workers of Wins oa-Saletn, died suddenly last Monday morning. Sue was 75 years of age. Solomon Morgan, aged 79 years, a prosperous farmer of Rowan county, dropped dead Monday at his home ne.r Salisbury. He was in apparent good health until the summons came. A news item from Winston-Salem the other day said that Mr. Carl W. Harris, of that city, while eating oysters in a local cafe, found a pe.rl in one of the oysters which a jeweler valued at $25. During the month of October the Winston-Salem tobacco market ship ped 2,848,036 pounds of tobacco. Stamp sales aggregated $227,482 93. Leaf tobacco sales on that matket amounted to 4,627,573 pounds, ttiis being an increase of 1,917,452 over the same month last year. .News comes from Mt. Gilead to the effect that Jesse Dennis, a son of Call -D.-nnis, about 20 years old, shot and killed Jack Jarrell, about 2 years olJ, at Mmgum, on bit Sunday evening. Tne report says that the boys were well loaded up with corn liq-ior aud that a dispute arose, which resulted in the killing of Jarrell with a pistol. The State Primal y Teachers' Association will nn-et in Raleigh November 17,18 and 19, 1910. At a meeting lust year it was agreed upon that thu teachers expecting to attend these meetings must no'ify the local secretary, M:ss Koyster, nf Raleigh, at least two weeks in ud vance of the meeting, so as tj pio. vide for their entertainment wnile in attendacca upon the meeting. Much interest is in 'evidence in various parts of the State over the Aviation Meet, with Glenn Curtis aeroplanes exhibiting their wonder ful powers at the State Fairgrounds, in Raleigh, on the dates of Wednes day and Thursday, November 16th and 17th. Sunday's News and Ob server, under a caption, "Many persons have got the flying .fever," estimates the crowd that will be in attendance at. the Aviation Meet between 30,000 and 50,000. Two very peculiar accidents occur ed in Forsyth county in one day last week causing the death of two little children. Jl little daughter of J. H. Everhart had her skull crushed by getting her head caught between a wagon hub and her father's barn, resulting in almost instant diath. J. W. Bennett, a farmer, while gath ering his crop of Irish potatoes, threw one about twenty steps, hit ting his son over the heart, which killed him almost instantly. On last Saturday there occurred in the Harris Chapel neighborhood of Rowan county, just five miles south of Salisbury, a horrible and heart rend'iig scene, when Mr. Henry Herri a was summonej from his work in the field to his home to find his wife dying from burns and his child dead. If- is supposed tOat the aio:btr, while standing near the fire place with her child iu ber trm, whs attacked by a fainting sih.iI, which Hpetlasht i f im sut-j ct. to. nml en into the nie with the auove nor nt.,e mul.s. . , TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. Metin Session in Ashebjro Saturday Prf . Matheson, of Greensboro, . Delivers Grand Address. The Riudolph Teachers' Associa tion was in session in the graded school aiditoriuui on last Saturday, with about sixty of the county's in structors in attendance thereupon The purposes of the meeting were many una varying, but all of its aims wera tending toward ihe bi t- terineit or the county schools. The first thing on the program was the demonstration work ns uu- plied to the practical test of tie Prst aud second grades of the graded schoolhere. This feature of the exercises were doubtless bentficial, us it was more of a practical appli cation of teaching than any advanced theory.' At 11:30 o'clock. Prof. J. A. Matheson, of - the department of peaagogy of the State .Normal, de livered an instructive address to the body of educational workers. The main theme of his address and the principal thouj bt that he attempt ed to drive home to t le minds of the teachers' was the importance of baud ling each individual pupil in such a way as to reap he very best results. Uis speech in its entirety was of a high order and instructive,to say the least. The afternoon session of the meeting, which was short, was de voted to the perfecting of the organ ization of, a Teachers Reading Course. A Word of Timely Advice. Editor Courier: Please allow me space in your val uable paper to say a few words in behalf . of the Legislative ticket. While no word of mine will change the situation, yet 1 feel it my duty to say a few words. The Republi cans claim that Messrs. Ccx and Carter are too old and too closely connected with the manufacturing interests of the county to fill seats in the legislative hall 3 of North Caro lina . They are both over twenty-ote years of age; nave paid taxes in Ran dolph county for some years; have help build up the county to the high standard it has attained, and have built for themselves records that no man need be ashamed of. But they say they are wealtny uud will ouly work fur the wealthy class aud will not work for the poor. jutu of these men started out in the world as poor men. They have tasced wf tne cup of poverty aud have uot for gotten its bitterness. Aud tuy are always u-iidy to help those who have not bteii so fortuiiuie us they have been in climbing fortune's ladJtr. They trs both men of experience, energy uud iunliyeuce, aud ur;u w ho have iiiM.uo tf tiKir own. Thiy will use their lullueuce for the bet terment of Randolph county and the siate at large una uot be merely mouthpieces for u garg of political uo8tsed aud Federal otlice hunters. Messrs. Rnddiog and York are per haps fine boys, but they have never built a record for themselves, and Tige's, liol ton's and Butler's records are mighty rotten at the foundation for young unexperienced boys to build npon. It is certain to tumble with them,for the thinking voters of Randolph county are surely not will ing to trust the affairs of county and state in their hands again after the records they have made. And if they should be elected they would only be the mouthpieces of Carpet bagger bosses. North Carolina is making rapid progress in agiicultu ra!,educational and all other pursuits for the betterment of the state, and Randolph is one among the foremost counties in the state at present and we can ill afford to take the long step backwards and turn this good old co intyof oars over to the Repub licans. Let every good Democrat go to the polls on the 8th of Novem ber and take his neighbor with him and cast a solid vote for Cox and Carter and the f nil Democratic tick-1 et, and Randolph will keep pace with the leading counties of the State. Voter. Look out for boirur'tickets. lie certain to read your tickel carefully and see that tbe name of no R pub lican is printed or pasted on iU Take your tickets ouly from tome: good Democrat wh has the tickets j f jt jour precinct. : i KEEPS TAB ON "TIGE." With Thing-i Put Down in Black j and White, Tige Finds it Impos- s:b e For Him to Crawfish. i October, 28, 1910. lo the Editor of lhe tounei: i Some time ago I read in The i Courier a statement from one of ( your com s pond mts that Mr. L. J ; Mendeuball, postmaster at Handle. 1 man, bad stated in one nf his cam . paigu speeches, that he had run, u.e t it the stump two vears ago, and all the way to South Carolina. Uudtr date of October l.th, I wrote Mr Mendeuball us followE: "Mr. L, D. Mendenhall, Postmaster, Randleman, N. C. My dear Sir: I understand that you, in your campaign speeches, have made the statement' that you nn me tff tbe stump and out of tbe State two years ago by propounding questions to me that I could not answer. You now have tbe oppor tunity to make the statement to me personally, and to say whether vou really ran me eft' tbe stump and out of the State, and also to state what Under date of October 17th, Mr Mendenhall answi red as follow?: "James M. vVay, Spartanburg, S. C Dtar Sir: Your favor of the 14th received I beg to assure you that I did not make any such statement as you quote, l suia tnat since you aud 1 made a canvefs together ou had removed to South Cmoliua. 1 meant no nfketiorr, arid would be glad to join you in a canvass again The question referred to wts that at the time.in October 1906, you state d that tbereiwss in the treasury $11,000, I am sorry The Conner sees fit to misquote me. I have the highest personal regard for yon and wish you an abundant success in your chosen work. , . , , Respectfully, L. D. Mendenhall." It would be best for Mr. Menden ball not to get the matters be dis cusses in bis campaign speeches tangled, a- d it would be far better for him to quote all I said when he refers to me. Iu that campaign caniid a large Look with me and every statement referring to official records was either read or quoted from copv. It is true that I made a reference to an "eleven thousand dollars," but it waa a reference to the miserable support tbe Republi can administration gave to the pub lic schools. 1 said, "In 1897 they sped for actual ruuning expenses of the rural schools $11,711.44, and in 1899 this amount had dwindled down to the pitiable sum of $10, G98.94." I think what it was that made such a lasting impression on the Ilur.dleman postmaster's mind was thu f.ct thiit his paity for 1897 to 1899 k- Vore;ised the expendi ture for rural schools $1,012. SO. This is ti e 'e!tveu thousand dol lars'' that Mr. Metidenlmll has got ten mixed up in his mind, and 1 have r.o doubt it made a great im pression, for the figures were taken from records made by the Republi cans themselves. From the daily papers I get the information that Mr. Holton is ad vocating free public school books. He had first better give a justified bend that if his party is elected the county will have public schools, and then he can talk about free books. If his party goes backward at .the rate of $500.00 a year in its expendi tures for the public schools, as it did in the years mentioned, there will bono public schools in a few years, provided the Republican party is elected, 'ihey had better advocate public schools first, and show that the party would provide them, if elected, and then they might, with some propriety, discuss free text books. I do not consider Mr. Mendenhall's statement, that he ran me off the stump worth taking space for, but if you care to use it that way, you may publish what I have to say. Jbirst, let me dispose of his charge. I began to canvass with Union township, and if I was not present every day till the end of the cam. paign my memory terves me very badly. Suffice it to sav that the Democratic candidates thanVed me for "knocking 'Tigt' out of tbe box" in his home town on the last day of tbe campaigu. 1 stuck to the cam., paign every day; he did not. I also met him at his own appointment at Central Falls on Monday night be. fore the election, and while it may seem immodes iu me to say it, yet what I did for Mr. Mendenball that (Continued on 4th page.) HIGHLY ENDORSED. Mr. C. M. Thompson, of Lrxington, Passes Worthy Encomiums Upn Solicitor Hammer. . To the people of the 10th Judicial District: Lexington, N. C, Oct: 5, 1910. The office of Solicitor is one of importance to the people of the Dis trict. Upo" the Solicitor depends the proper enforcement of the crimi nal law in tbe Distric t. The man wbo rilis that place should be an experienced practition er, an able lawyer, a wise, just and humane mau. He has to meet and measure arms with the ablest lawyers of the State," who are frequently employed to de fend men charged with violation of the criminal law, and the Solicitor should be able in all cases to take care of the interest of tbe State. While the Solicitor should be both able and courageous, he should also be just and humaoe, and see that the powerful shdl not evade nor escape the penalties of the law, and like, wise see that tbe enforcement of the law shall not be oppressive and se vere upon the poor, ignorant, and friend less, who are tried in the courts. The past record of W. C. Ham mer as Solicitor has shoffii that he possesses in large measure, all the qnaI;fications TequireU for the office. He is active in the discharge of his dutief; his abilities are such that he can take care of the State in all bases; at the same time he is just, humane, big hearted enough never to permit his rffice to be used to op. pres the humble and helpless. The public welfare requires that the present able, f xperiencet1, safe Solicitor be kept at his post of duty. - - fctfully CM. Thompson. .Interesting Statistics The Tar Heel, one of the publications of the University of North Carolina, in a recent issue contained tbe following interesting statistics concerning tbe students of tbe University. Their various re ligious denominations are cla3sified, to-wit: Methodist, 246; Baptist, 185;, Pie byteriau, 154; Episcopalian, 105; Lutheran, 19; Christian, 17; Roman Catholic, 13; Hebrew, 4; German Itef oi med. 112; Moravian, 9; Friends, 1; Adventists, 1; Disciples, 2 Univer salis!, 1. As to the occupations in which tile parents ere engaged, tbe, follow ing in') n"ted: Farming, 243; . merchandising, 138; dentistry, i;j;law, 04; medicine; 57; manufacturing, 4-!; backing, 11 tobscco, 4; salesmen, book keepers, 15 insurance, C; government service, 9; teaching, 22; drugs, 9; publishing, 6"; fishing, 5; nuchanics. 40; teleg raphy, 1; tailoring, 1; livery. 1; architecture, 11; chemistry, 1; police, 1; lumber, 16; brokers, 5; railroad ing, 23; ministry, 30; mining, 4: stock raising, 6; real estate, 15; dairy, 1; hotel, 4; promoting, 1. Sixteen States of tbe Union out side of North Carolina send a total of 55 students to the University this year. Cuba Bends 4 and Japan 1. Card. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that 1 have ex- amined the records of my office with reference to the sci fa cases referred to in the Randolph Bulletin of last week and all other sci fa cases and do hereby certify that Wm. O. Ham mer has received no fees as solicitor in Randolph county except legal fees pursuant to judgements of the court duly rendered. W. C. HAMMNOMD Clerk Superior Court of Randolph. County. Nov. 3, 1910. A Card. This to certify that I have exam ined the records of the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Montgomery county and that Solic itor Wm. U. Hammer has collected no fees except legal fees during his term of office No illegal fees have been collected or paid to him or to any otrTer -officer for him. Illegal fees are not collected or paid out in this otiioe. (Signed) Chas. A. Armstrong, Clerk Superior Court Montgomery Uouuty.
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