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I 15 THE IBSEKVER. FAYETTCVILLE, N. C. . THTJRSDAT. OCT 2, 1908. f. J. HALE, Editor and Proprietor. f. J. Halo, Jr, Buoinoto Managor. L. B. Halo, City Editor. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKiET. for President of the United States: WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, ". of Nebraska. for Vice-President: ,i.'--. n'. JOHN W.KERN. DEMOCRATIC TATE TICKET. for Governor W, W. Etchta. -For Iiest-Governor W. C New- For Secretary of Btate J. Bryan f) rimes. Fort State Treasurer B. H Lacy. For State Auditor B. F. Dixon. For Attorney-General T. W. Blek ett For Commissioner of Agricnltara W. A. Graham. For Corporation Commissioner B. F. Aycock. For Superintendent of Education J. T. Joyner. For Insurance Commissioner J. S. Tonng. Fo Labor Commissioner X. TL Shlpman. SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. For Dunn. Congress H. L. Godwin, of COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For the Senate Q, K. Nlmocka. For the House J. H. Curris, Jean Jnderwood. - For Sheriff N. A. Watson. . Register of Deeds W. at- Walker. Treasnrer David Gaster. Surreror W. W. Baker. Coroner J. V. HcGongan. Board of County Commfesiensre H. Lutterloh. J. J. Ballard. W. J. Olive. J. A. Keith. B, R. Bell REPUBLICAN CONCEALMENT OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TELLING AGAINST THAT PRTY. Congressman R. L. Henry, of Texas, says that the publication of campaign contributions by the Democratic Na tional Committee, and the refusal cf the Republicans to show their hands, ' has made a tremendous impression on the public. "Wherever I have been In this cam palgn." saya Mr. Henry. "It Is mani fest that Mr. Bryan's position- in re tard to publishing the list of campaign contributions has made a profound im pression. It. has inspired confidence la him. not only with men in bis own party, bnt those la the opposition ranks. On the other hand, the reason given by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft for not making public the contrfbu- tions to the Republican campaign fund, and the refusal of their national convention to favor the plan, are r - carded as puerile and rtdicnlousvs discussing their position wli 'Cepub- - .Ucaa voters, I.iLTfoond that they are Shamed of the contention of th' '''President and his presidential appoin tee. In my mind, this 'attitude of the high officials in the Republican party -will make thonaanda of votes tor If.: Bryan In the close states.". " , . , -.; , . ; :( ; ; ' - -YOU CANT MAKE A SILKEN PURSE OUT OF A 80WS EAR." The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot quotes the following from Candidate Taft's speech at Bristol, Tennessee: "When yon are carried in the pocket of man, and make an uncomtortaDie disturbance in that pocket, you are . not going to exercise much Influence with the gentleman owning tne pocs ev r - And, under the appropriate- head- ins "Course and Clumsy." comments as follows: follows: ' . ; v "Here is subtle flattery, and pleas- ina insinuation, and inspiring sug gestion of the functions of - govern ment, all la one compact sentence. " "Analyse It The Union is the pock et, the Republican party ts the gen tleman who owns and carries lt and the South 'Is the package which had better lie still and behave. Was ever more Insolent assumption packed into so few words? . . ' - "But we suppose the unssvory il lustration occurred to the speaker by reason of the fact that K fairly de scribes his own unfortunate relation to President Roosevelt Having been ' carried so long in the breeches pock . et of thst imperious gentleman, he has discovered the policy ;: of snugging quietly there In conformity with ev ery movement of his proprietor's ma jestic limbs. Perhaps at nrst he grew restive sometimes and was hid away in some dark closet for a time, until be learned that docile submission, though irksome, would pay best: Cer tainly in the end he seems to have gained enough 'influence with the gentleman owning the pocket' to reap an exceeding great reward. ,., "But was ever a solicitor for popo- lar favor so maladroit? What do Vir ginians think of this view of their de pendence on an insolent faction? And of the scarcely veiled implication that the United Slates government 1s chattel possession of the Republican parly? " - v ... " Tis a bad break! Almost as bad no that made by Son-in-law Longworth the othor day. We begin to suspect that Mr. Roosevelt was wise In trying to take the leadership from his poli te i ward. "ti n South In the pocket of the r uliH 'tn vurtvl Not yet, thank l ..'ii' And we wlnh the whilom 1 , imci'ius in the South who are tag- y .f en,r x.r. Lift s capacious trous cii urn. h i.iv In tlieir new leader. So .:.! s- h oviiilnit aenstbilHy. m. What a . O. R has a ii and carries if silk purse : 1 t-jr puckct book the simile would have been fault les. What la the proverb about lb.it klnd'of a purse anyhow?" : The trouble with the Republican candidate ia that he Is not well bred though some of our Southern contem poraries have been foolish enough to say such things as this, placatory f our recent guest: "Whatever may be said of Mr. Taft's politics, ha Is cer tainly a fine gentleman." That ,de penda oa what a gentleman Is. ' Col onel Edward Jones, an Irishman of One lineage. North Carolina's Brat Solid tor (Attorney) General, resented be ing alluded to, once, as "the gentle man from Ireland." "Anybody," said Colonel Jones, "might be the gentle man from Ireland even a member of Congress. I am an Irish gentleman." -De gnstibus." etc ... . , ROOSEVELT, HYPOCRITE. Congressman Robert L. Henry, of Texas, answered in One vein Cam paign Manager RooseveU'a latest Ir ruption, at the great ' Democratic meeting in Baltimore oa Thursday night Taking np Mr. Roosevelt's tot ter on the Pearre an tl-Injunction bill. he said: I have respect for the great office and proper regard for the official in It." proper regard for' the official in it" ia suggestively discriminative Obs. "but when he perverts the Dem ocratic platform 1 claim the right to pay my respects to him oa this as well ss on any other occasion. If we had him in Texaa we would hit him even harder. As I am on the Judiciary Commit tee of the House. I know a little of the question which he discussed in his letter published this morning. Let me say no word which would arouse cuss prejudice, for that is not needed to advocate the Democratic platform. A few months ago. in a message to Congress, the President assailed cor porate wealth. He advocated m area advocated by Gompers, Derated the rich and abased, of his owa party Senator because they had not pass ed a measure tor the legislation of the anti-Injunction bilL He made the White House rafters shake. Now he assails Democracy end Bryan because he advocates certain bills of the same character in Congress the Peaare MIL Because Pearre did it the Speaker took him c-ff the commitee and reduc ed him to ranks, because the bill would -have helped the labor party. The Republican members had intro duced still more radical measures be fore. Yet Mr. Roosevelt berates Mr. Bryan. "We do not advocate legislation tn behalf of labor that is not for all voters. People opposed to the injunc tion have asked Congress for nothing radical. But the Republican party re fused what waa asked, and, like the Cxar, the Speaker declined to grant it The President asked Congress for that legislation and it was refused him. The Speaker of the House said to the chairman: Tea shall sot re port any bills oa Injunction questions In this House.' The chairman obeyed. and the result is that he waa defeated ixnominiously when he stood for re-election, snowing that he had gone against the wish of the people. "What is more, the judiciary com mittee was asked to pass the law riv- his the right of trial by jury on all Federal questions to lanor men. it passed the Senate and would have passed the house, but the Speaker stood in the way. The Federal courts are the crea: tares of the Government but vUt the creation oversteps the creator then think it is time for Unpeople to in terfere. We woniTet the President state -our posltjfln on this matter. This statement ioum. "WhWTthe President says the Judi ciary is being assailed by the Demo- rL2fatic party, he is mistaken. The peo ioT pie are able to take the courts under their control when they go astray. Upon this subject of Injunctions, Mr. Rayner, the brilliant senator from Maryland, said, at the same meeting: "Governor Hughes tn all of his speeches, J take the liberty of saying. has made a mistake in reference to the practice that exists in this matter. He says that we are striking down the arm of the judiciary by permitting jury to pass on the question of con tempt after the court . has rendered ita final decree. I say there is hardly such a ease as that I have not been able to find one that has ever occur red In sny of the Federal circuits of the United State. "These contempt cases, and there are very few of them, occur not after the decision, bat before the decision and between the time that the injunc tion Is Issued wthout a hearing and the time that the hearing takes place. Our platform simply says that if in ease of this sort the party elects to be tried by a jury he shall have the right to do so. The same judge that Issued the Injunction would, in all probability, preside over the trial and It only gives the right of a jury trial where there ia danger of imprison ment and gives a man the right to establish his innocence before a Jury of his countrymen. - " ' "There-was an idea prevalent that we were taking away -the rlrht-of court of equity to issue an injunction in cases ot threatened danger to prop erty rights. I am upon a committee in the Senate that has charge of this bill, and I teTt yoa that there is no such thing la the Democratic platform and it is not our purpose or intention in the slightest degree to change the orderly proceedings of the Federal Ju diciary. -, v- v- - "A committee consisting of such men as Hoar, Thurston, Vilas, Pngh. Hill, of New York, and George ot Mis sissippi, the ablest constitutional law yers in the land, : passed upon this Identical question and made a favor able report to the Senate and the bill passed the Senate. I think., with the vote of every Democrat upon the floor." . . r . ' TAFT, HYPOCRITE Under the heading, . . ? 'Legitimate' Bribery," the Richmond Times-Dis patch says: " Mr. Taft says that- the employer's threat to discbarge his employes or cut their wagea if Mr. Bryan Is elected Is "a legitimate argument la the cam paign." No doubt the candidate views ss to what (s -legitimate are somewhat different "In ,the campaign from wnat they are on the bench. powerful Democratic employers, -con trolling the pay envelopes of hundreds of thousands of voters, were financial ly "influencing" them to-vote against Mr. Taft, probably the Republican candidate could perceive that what Is improper and discreditable at any or dinary time Is also Improper and dis creditable "in the campaign." ' If It la legitimate for an -employer to say to an employe: ''I will give yon (100 ia additional. wages if Mr. .Ta is elected,", it is equally legitimate for him to make a similar offor to one who is not an einploye. The "Justlfl- cation" argument of enhanced pros perity, prompting .. greater liberality, pplles In one cam aa in the other. Nor is the legitimate" privilege eon-! fined to employers only. ' Let sny good Republican, equipped with his own funds or those of others, walk abroad in the land, find Impoverished and needy citizens, and address them as follows: "My friends, I have large In vestments la various properties, la railroad nocks, in factories, in farms. If Mr. I tr an is elected, everybody knows that the railroads will go Into receivers' hands, the factories will shut down, the crops will tail under a blight from heaven, the cows will cease to give milk. It Mr. Taft Is elected, on the other hand, it Is equal- plain that the roads and the fac tories will pay double dividends, the crops will oatbumper all the bumpers of history, and the cows will make two quarts grow where only one grew, be fore. It Mr. Talt Is elected, in snort. I should find myself so wealthy that should Insist on my friends sharing my weaJta. Please nnaerstana me distinctly aa an honest man. doing only 'legitimate' things. I had rather be shot than offer anybody a bribe. Great prosperity, however, begets gen erosity: and. should Mr. Taft be elect ed. I claim the privilege ot bestowing upon all who contribute to that re sult small token of my happiness. Shall we say $.7.50 each, gentlemen?" It fat very cheap Indeed tor Mr. Tan to stand on a stump and thunder: "The laboring men are not to be bribed." It he means that the aver age laboring man will not stand In the market-place and sell off his vote to the highest bidder, he is stating worn truism not worth an Intelligent man's time to repeat or to listen to. If he means thst a laboring man. tin any other man, cannot be influenced very directly by a threat at MS aatiy bread, he la talking nonsense, and he knows it . f ELECTION FORECASTS. Begging the pardon of some of our contemporaries, who seem to attach importance to the "forecasts" ot those worn-out election frauds, the New York newspapers,' we wish to remind them and aU others concerned that it ia but tour months (to be exact three months and twenty days) since these iSentical "forecasters" namely. the New -York Herald. New York World, and New York Times declar ed positively that Bryan could not by any conceivable combination muster enough votes at the Denver eonven- ion to secure the nomination.- These forecasts, they declared,-were not pre dictions oh, no they were accurate forecasts based on the information d rived from their completely . trustwot hy correspondents and agents locate in every one of. the fifty thousand irecincts In the United States. Tnw jars afterwards, Bryan got nine tenths of the total vote of the co rentlon which was made unanimous before the roll call ended., It seems to us that one's memory must be very short who. in the face if this notable occurrence of yester day, can" view with a straight face he present repetition - ef . the comic ierionsness of the New York newspa per progm There are no Democratic newspa pers in brew Tort,. The papers cf that modern Sjmare all la the pay 3f theJSepubllcans, in one way or an 7tf.Gr; and it la their time-worn habit to appear to take sides In the earlier part of the campaign; and then, in the homestretch, to be overwhelmed (in unison) with the. unmistakable evi dence that the election is already de cided, in advance, against the Demo ta. . . i. ... . ,'- Old campaigners 'know that this is mere "stage thunder." ' .'."J In passing, it may be remarked Oat he Herald gives Its case away com iletely when it says that a fr weeks go the election ' was in doubt, but hat, since, "there have .been appar ently steady and rapid gains by the Republican candidates"!! .. aad the chances now seem to favor the elec tion of Taft and . Sherman." Every careful reader knows that precisely the reverse is true. Of course it is possible That these "forecasters" - may bit the truth nothing (depeBdnt on human will) s certain which has not happened. But It would be very amaxing. according to our view. If Bryan were not elect ed this day week. In 189. when he was, relatively speaking, almost un known, and with the Democratic par ty spilt hi twain over the sliver ssue, and every State, north of Mason and Dixon's line swept by the Republicans in 18S4 in 18M, this same Mr. Bryan w tar overcame these apparently in superable obstacles that a shift of 27,000 votes In. the returns from the Middle West would have elected him. Now he has a united and enthusiastic party at his back; and the prevailing sentiment In the colleges, in . the churches, and in the ranks el labor, Is all oa his side. Instead of being bit terly hostile to him. ss before. " , As suggested, it would be next to a miracle if he should not win now, with this change la his . favor representing ever a. millkm votes at the least It ia true that Democracy's misuse of Its opportunity In 1893 has resulted in : the ten ' fold concentration of wealth, but this la offset by the moral awakening that has occurred since, anj by the sharply defined issue ot publicity' of ; campaign contributions which divides the parties now. In deed, the bntea declaration of Roos- vefcv aad Tail, ; to their desperation that 'concealment of the sources .it campaign' contributions was necessary io ttepablican success, nothing less than a proclamation that they intend to steal the election it money, can buy the election 'rtte'i'.J'..'.,-,.,'',;;, J .. ' We- do not believe that Republican success upon tnose conditions la pos sible In the present 'temper of the American people. , - , . Instead of, trembling" t the" "fore casts" oi tne Kepuoiican newspapers we prefer to rely upon careful .'Demo cratic Chairman Mack's "forecast" which, though given , out Saturday night. Is worth reproducing in full ss follows, Bryan Will Have Not Less Than M . I Electoral Votes , Mors, Than , . . - Necessary. . New YorjC6cLT!4.VNatlont'c"ha(ri man' Mack said today that lie under- stood that the Republican organiza- Inn had accumulated $3,000,000 which U to be used In several ot the debata ble States. "Hut" said he, "they can not defeat u with t50.000.000." ' Mr. Mark had a midnight conference with Mr. Brr-n oa the candidate's private car in jersey City, and said that while Mr. Bryan understood that the Re publican National Committee had vast sums of money he ei pressed confl- denee of his election. Mr. Mack said: "The action ot President Roosevelt In sending out his entire cabinet on the stump shows that the President is frightened to death. If they don't put ropes on the President or nail htm down he will be out on the stump, too. It Roosevelt goes on the stump the people will know that Bryan will be elected. - I notice that the Republican Na tional Committee ia still sending out the l-rudiated Cleveland letter which waa dlrtrtbuted at a political meeting In Patterson 'mt Wednesday. This Is an outrage, tor the letter has been shown to be a gross take." Mr. Mack said that Mr. Bryan would speak In Patterson Monday morning, after which he would return to keep his six engagements in this city. The Democratic candidate will aneak In Ohio next Friday and in Indiana Sat urday, closing the week with a speech tn Chicago Saturday night - Mr. Mack said that inasmuch as Mr. Gompers would mske a reply to the recent letter of President Roose velt to Senator Knox, Mr. Bryan might not do more than refer to It In his Madison Square Garden speech Monday night A Bryan Landslide. ' Mr. Mack authorised a statement to-day in which he claimed the elec tion of William J. Bryan by a land glide. Mr. Mack announced that bis reports showed that Mr. Bryan would receive at least SOL electoral votes, or 69 more than ' la necessary for a choice. Mr. Mack's forecast ot the election follows: "The rumblings and thunder of the Bryan landslide In the West are al ready heard in the Eastern States, and to-day I can confidently predict the election ot Mr. Bryan. That land slide in the Weat will extend to the shores of the Atlantic. It means the Democratic national ticket will carry every doubtful State, in this section. and in rock-ribbed Republican dis tricts the majorities ot that party In recent rears will be reduced to mlnimnm Basing my forecast on the most conservative lines, in view of the optimistic reports I have received from all sections of the country, figure that Mr. Bryan will have et least 301 electoral votes, or 59 more than Is necessary for A choice. -This comfortable majority will be Increas ed rather than decreased when the vote is counted. "In .addition to the 166 votes of the olid South and in this I Include Maryland I am confident that Mr. Bryan will carry New York. New Jer ev, Connecticut Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, Indiana, Ohio, Delaware, Kansas and South Dakota a total of 301 votes. All over the country there is a change ot from 25 to 50 per cent from the Roosevelt vote of 1904 to Mr. Bryan." New York Is Sure. "The result Is no longer in doubt ir New York. The thirty-nine votes of the State are assured for Mr. Bryan. He will win by a substantial plurality. "Tie Empire State can no lorr53 in eluded in that territor mailed the ene my's country "J speak from Informs- Usu gained from a thorough canvas? and reports from every county in the state. "From Connecticut I have received very encouraging reports. Jndge Rob ertson, the Democratic candidate for Governor, will carry the State by about 20.000 plurality, and the Nation al ticket, backed by a united party, has the best chance in years for win ning the seven electoral votes. Tho mas Waller, the last Democratic Gov ernor of the State, a Cleveland and a gold Democrat of the most pronoun ced type, is. not only actively cam paigning for Mr, Bryan, but predicts that he will carry the State. "New Jersey sounds an optimistic note and there is' every reason to be lieve that that State win be la the Democratic column. This Is not an extravagant statement when yon take into consideration the fact that the tremendous Republican majorities of 80.000 in 1904 and 60.000 In 1900 were reduced to 7,000 in the Gubernatorial contest In 1907. Few if any States in the union have a better or more ef fective organization, than New Jersey. Mr. Brian's tour of the State on Fri day last and the ovation he received spelled, victory to my mind. , The In ternational dissension In the Republi can party is West Virgins and the throwing of the laboring vote la that State to Mr. Bryan are, powerful fac tors for his success. , . Ohio and Indiana. "Delaware we expect to win. ' The people are hot - with resentment against a party branded with Dupont Ism. - Thousands of Republicans there will either vote for Bryan or not vote at alt -;' "In Ohio and Indiana- every element is working for our success and despite the great Republican majorities cf previous years I am confident that both 8tates will be In the Democratic column. They are for Bryan to-day and there ia no reason for believing that the next week win wltaess change of sentiment Eighty per cent. of the labor vote in both States and fully .as large a percentage of the German population are for. Mr. Bry- Tllkohi doubtful with the chan ces Is favor of Mr. Taft bnt if he wins St wtUbe by a greatly reduced plurality..- : , 'I' The Pacific Coast States all show Bryan trend and a disgust of the ex travagant, destructive policies of Mr. Roosevelt In each, particularly Ore gon, these issue are aa Important factor, - - ,- - .-' . "The Mountain States, from infor mation J have received within fortr- eight hours win, I am confident, be counted in the Democratic column. in One, I figure at the present time Mr. Bryan -will hare at least hree hundred electoral votes. I in clude la my, estimate the following States: . : ,-. -. v "Solid South; 1M;' Idaho, J; Mon tana, 2; Colorado. 6; Nebraska, 8; Nevada, I; Indiana, 16; Ohio, 23; Del aware, ; Kansas, 10; Mew, York. 29 New Jersey, 12; Connecticut, 7; South uaaota, 4-., Total, JOL" BRIGHT COMMENTS ON CURRENT POLITICS BY THE GREENS , . BORO TELEGRAM. ' ' Mr. Taft and all his suDDoners warn the country against business depres sion In the event of Mr. Bryan's elec tion. But Just listen how the Ne braskan flattens out- this argument H Mr. Taft I so solicitous about your future, why has he not been as concerned in tne past 7 if be is so anxious to protect you from depres sion In the future, then why did he not protect son from the business depression that came ppon you last tall like a thief ia the night? , Answering the claim of the Republi cans tnat they gave the country an lis prosperity Mr. Iiryau says thai he csn prove that the Republican party has nothing to do with fertility of soil or sunshine or rain for if It did there would be a trust on sunshine and a meter oa the rain. For coin ing happy, cogent and telling senten ces Mr. Bryan has no equal Mr. Roosevelt prides himself on his abil ity to trams bright sentences, but he Is not In the same class with Mr. Bryan. Broughton Brandenburg, the man who sold the alleged Grover Cleveland letter to the New York Times, has been arrested oa the charge ot for gery and grand larceny. He asks It anybody supposes that a sane man would falsity the utterances of an ex President of the united States for the sum of $110. This inquiry suggests several replies. Brandenburg may not be remarkable for the high qual ity ot his sanity. . He may be an ar dent prejudiced, . unscrupulous sup porter of Taft for the Presidency. The, 120 that he saya the New York Times paid him may be only a very small part of what he received tor getting the supposed Cleveland letter published. WASHINGTON LETTER. (From Our Regular Correspondent) Washington, D. C, Oct. 24. One Ot the most Interesting ot the many in- e res ting persons who make Washing ton their temporary home is the .Chi nese Minister Wa Ting Fang. Dr. Wn as he is generally called m a frauds te nf an American University and speaks English with precision and without a very marked accent , He has always worn the Mandarian costume and the silks ot his gowns and flappy trousers are the admiration and envy of wo men wherever he goes. He Is In much demand in society where few chinamen have been received owing to their peculiar table manners,, but Dr. Wu is a cultivated gentleman and a true cosmopolitan. One of his. en saging eccentricities la his open and unabashed admiration of American somen and through the average Chi nese gentleman has the world, even Ireland, outdone in the variety and sublety ot his flattery, it Is believed that Dr. Wa is sincere in the respect he navs the American society woman at a time when that more or less an omalous creature Is coming In tor such a large share of the blame for all un- hannv social condition. He aeciares that It was owing to the influence oi an American society ' woman that he renounced all meat foods and wines snd that as a result' ot his changed diet his life was not only saved but that he has developed the expectation ot living to be one hundred years young. It Is believed that this soci ety woman is Mrs. Henderson, wne of ex-Senator Henderson, of Missouri, who as one of the .wealthiest women at the capital has converted many per sons of prominence to a meatless diet through her delightful luncheons and dinners. Invitations for which are eagerlr sought though neither meat or wine la ever served at her table. Dr. Wu, like Mrs. Henderson, was res cued from semi-invalidlsm on account of Indigestion by a reformed diet and he goes abroad In the land preaching the zosnel ot vegentananism to au like sufferers. - In sneaking at a vegetarian sanita rium here a tew nights ago, he de clared that er""hiints with which he had Jilered tor twenty years had ,f ueen completely cured oy tne aosu- nence from meat and champagne, both of which he had greatly enjoyed pre viously. He said that the three essen tials to a successful life were pure non flesh food and no intoxicating drinks, pure air and pure thoughts Certainly our missionaries who go to China every year in such numbers can tot preach a better doctrine and It is interesting to have a Chinamen In our midst who is doing such line mis sionary work. ' Orville Wright the aviator whose aeroplane fell during a practice flight at Fort Meyer near Washington a few weeks ago, resulting in the death of Lieutenant 8elfridge and serious In juries to himself, haa so far recovered as to be able to receive visitors in his room In the United States Army Hospital at the Fort and in a month or so will begin the balldlng of a new machine for making the test Owing to the accident the War Department extended the time which Mr. Wright would be allowed for making the test until next June. It Is believed that by that time Mr. Wright will have sufficiently recovered to make the of ficial flights hut if he is not able then they wilt be undertaken by his brother, Wilbur Wright whose experi ments at Le Mans, France, have been so successful. This brother is now on his way to America, having 'sold his machine for $100,000 to a French syn dicate which Is to begin manufactur ing machines for sale. As these, two brothers, not long ago obscure bicycle manufacturers with a little shop -in Dayton. Ohio, are bow international notables, every scrap of news about them Is eagerly sought and for days after the accident to Orville Wright the bulletin boards here showed fre quent announcement of his condition. The sorrow that was felt for him In his disappointment and suffering was not less than that manifested by the Germans, when Count Zeppelin's air ship was wrecked and several public subscriptions for him were started at once. It developed though that Mr. Wright had the best financial backing and the men whose ' sympathy had been touched even to the pocket nerve were not compelled to cash In. . -' , - 4T - -: . frf. .. Experiments in' the Marine Hospi tal service here- resulted in holding the bothersome house fly again res ponsible for spreading disease and It Is said that the .bacilli of leprosy msy Lbe carried and spread by flies which have feasted upon- dead leprous rats. It Is clear that the rat and the fly are doomed, for both are accused of 1 ing. the purveyors of some ot the most dreadful and loathsome diseases that are ; known to man. , Dr. William Wherry, of the Marine Hospital Ser vice has been carrying, on bis Investi gations with regard to leprosy In va rious parts of the country asserts that leprosy la frequently acquired by flies snd cites tbe best- authorities in con firmation of his theory. The Insects gather on tbe ulcers of lepers and later bite well persons, or they may gather oa rats which have died from the disease and carry away on their wings and feet tbe dreaded bacilli. After many centuries- of medical inves tigation it would appear that after all the most effective preventive of dis ease la not to be bought la tbe drag stores but at the hardware stores for perfect screening of all windows and doors is the only expedient for ridding one' self ot the menace of flies until some method is found of exterminat ing them altogether. . r , The Virginia 4 Carolina Southern. The Hope Mills Shuttle says: ' ?We have It oa authority that the V. k C. 8. management are making ar rangements to strike Hope Mills it the earliest possible moment, and we may soon look for added bustle and Improvement In our little town." ,jLrtLU!d makes reply to the letters Hearst has been reading on the stump Of tote, . .- - AMUCK. Atlanta Journal.) ' Nothing could better Illustrate the fright ot the Republican party at the prospects of Democratic victory than the latest though possibly not the last attack of the president upon Mr. Iiryau. The threatened loss of tbe la bor vote, In spite ot the recent at tempts at coercion on the part of some of the big corporations, bas driven the president to this extraordinary outburst It is unworthy ot him, un worthy ot the high office that he holds, thus to he descending Into the arena. And the argument Itself is cheap and demagogic. He takes the injunction plank ot the Democratic platform and attempts to interpret It not by Its own language, but in the light of cer tain recent and remote utterances ot Mr. Gompers. , Of course, organised labor is going to demand all that it believes to be for Its benefit At that, It does not demand all that It believes to be for Its benefit : At that, it does not demand and has never re ceived at Republican hands anything like what the favored corporations have asked and received. They have only to ask in order to obtain, wheth er it be a prohibitory tariff schedule, or tbe absorption of a rival company as was recently permitted by the pres ident himself in the case of tbe Steel Trust and the Tennessee - Iron and Coal - company. But to say that the Democratic platform, while It has acceded to the just demands ot the la boring men, has given them every thing that .they have ever demanded, and to prove this by the mere tact that Mr. Gompers and the great ma jority of the working men are sap- porting Mr. Bryan, is an expediency of political argument that would hard ly be resorted to except la a desper ate case. The president knows that power ot injunction, has been fearfully abused by the federal courts In the case ot laboring, men. Workmen on strike have been forbidden even to speak to' the workmen who . took their places, and any disobedience of this arbitrary order has-been punish ed with fine and Imprisonment as tor contempt of court And Mr. Roose velt has Invited the retort which will doubtless be swift in coming, namely, that when labor asked the Republican convention for bread. It gave them stone. The Republican platform mere ly restates the present law in other words, under which these abuses Have been allowed. It Is not seemly for the president of the United States to be talking about the "Bryanlte" platform. Democrat will resent that just as Republicans resent his constant use of the phrase "my policies," -when It would have been better-taste to say "Republican policies.'' Tbe president will , find that when.he gets down Into the arena he trinst take as well as rive, wt- lookt for him to be rather rudely han dled In this latest contest But where, oh! where, are the "pre- fatorv Interests" now? What has b come of the "malefactors ot grea' wealth f Where has vanished tha gentleman whose face is hard white his body is soft, who has a fool for a son and a foreign princess for a daugh ter? The whole attack is now made "pon Mr. Gompers and those 'who fol low his leadership Meanwhile it Is significant that the financial stringen cy at Republican headquarters bas been rellevitd. Wall street has come across. The five hundred dollar sub scriptions mentioned by Mr Straus and denied by Treasurer Sheldon have Keen received. The same old game Is going on and the Republican party is going to try to buy what it can.no! win without money. And for the pres ident to be quoting tbe sentiment that "Special privilege Is what creates special Interests," when about all the special interests have -been created that are possible and the new tariff revision proposal of the Republican platform is a guarantee of Yeasona ble profits" to the manufacturer. Thl is almost as ridiculous as the fear the president has expressed that Mr. Brvan will pack .the snpreme court Everybody knows- that the present members of that court are afraid to die and are determined not to resign lest Mr. Roosevelt should do the pack- tng- HOW ROOSEVELT HAS OEGRAD- EO. THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE. eric Bancroft .- -'- - ai rrratMr vinlaflon nf IhA 'anlr. l of civil service reform could, there be tha for. the President who holds one of the most dignified offices on earth, and Is the nation's representa tive and as such is given special pre rogatives and res pec1, to misapply the great powers of this public trust by pressing upon his party the nomina tion of a member of his Cabinet who otherwise wonld have had no prospect of success? 'The president after tak ing dictatorial control of the Republi can national organizaton. and, by em ploying his presidential functions as a persons! asset Is trying to compel the nation to approve his usurpations and to accept his favorite. - The exe cutive branch ot the people's govern ment is given to,- and forced upon party. The White House, with rent clerk hire and . governmental resour ces, all free, has now become Re publican headquarters. .. Here the na tion's cabinet when its members are not - haranguing , from: the stump meets, not as formerly to consult sole- lw nfvtiir .. Iha rtatlrwiail r a1 Fa sut heit auvuk '. a-u v , unvivuiu wviimw. . uui chiefly to scheme 'and plot In tne In terest of a party no of a party dlo tator and of his chosen political heir. Here party managers of high and ot low degree are summoned and furtive ly slip In by night and by day to give reports to receive reproofs and to take instructions - as to - how to be more effective partisans. - Thence se cret emissaries are dispatched, pas sionate and undignified denunciations and ardent appeals are cast to -the four winds, and party bulletins are daily, often twice dally sent forth by the should be president of, the whole people. . ' Id 18S2 President 'Arthur iras sup posed to have forced the Republicans of New York to take his Secretary of tbe Treasury, Judge Folger, a man of unquestionable character and ability, as their candidate for the Governor ship. By heaping up a plurality cf nearly two hundred thousand votes In favor of Grover Cleveland, the Demo cratic candidate, the New York Re publicans of twenty-six years ago re minded the amiable Arthur, that was a serious offence for a President to Interfere with the popular selection of candidates for office. A few years sgo we saw.' Governor Odell try to combine the highest executive office in New York with the chairmanship of the Republican State - Committee. He. was soon hurled from' bis high estate and Is hardly more likely than Lucifer to rise again. Certainly Pres ident Roosevelt merits a rebuke ten fold more emphatic and far-reaching than President -Arthur or Governor Odell received. And Judge Taft, who Is voluntarily the occasion had bene ficiary of President Roosevelt's viola tions of the traditions of an almost sacred office- and of decent civil ser vice, deserves to be the object ot the rising popular Indignation. ; i . ,, . N Miss Mattla McNeill has returned from A visit to Bennettsvlle, fl. C, : ROOSEVELT RUNNING y Dr. -Fred Wh REPUDIATING INDECENCY. Florida Times-Union. v s President Roosevelt s controversy with Mr. Bryan and his . charges against Governor Haskell are getting some of the most self-respecting news papers ot the northeast Into a atrange political muddle. We know of no paper that Is now making against tbe republican ticket a stronger fight than the Springfield Republican a paper that In the beginning ot the campaign announced its support of the republi can ticket. We have not seen any an nouncement by the Republican of a change of policy, but the change Is manifest - . Scarcely less marked Is the position of the New York Evening Post It announced for Taft at the beginning of the campaign, but ita influence while' not so vigorously exerted as that ot the Springfield Republican, is exerted now In behalf ot the demo cratic ticket This paper, so tar as we know, has not announced a change of front, but those who read It can see.:--' - -' -'-". Neither of these papers Is a thick and thin party paper. They are gov erned in their choice between the two parties largely by matters ot decency. Evidently they feel that they cannot remain decent it they support a can didate controlled by a president who begged money from a railway mag nate for buying votes. Inviting tha: magnate to come to see him and con fer with him before be wrote ms an nual message and now boasting that the man who had contributed the mon ey he asked under such circumstances received no favors from hjm In return. Neither can they feel decent if they endorse a president who ordered a franchise given to a subsidiary com pany of the Standard Oil. and who now clalma that the governor of Ok lahoma proved himself to be a cor rupt man because he refused to res train the comoany from e-ercislng the rights granted by that franchise, bra-, senly saying that he issued tbe fran chise from pure and patriotic mo tives, while the governor's refusal to light it p oves him to be a tool ot the Standard Oil Company. v Nor ' can -they feel clean and de cent If they support a man-who ad mits that the contributions to the re publican campaign came from such sources that the people, If they knew the names ot the contributors, would vote against the republican candidate. The republicans have been caning on the . democrats to name a para mount issue. - The plunge of Roose velt Into the campaign has made one. Tbe fight is now between decency, and Indecency and thousands ot vot ers for every" paper are abandoning the republican party, -since Roosevelt has made himself an Issue and Taft acquiesces In Bilence. - - - BRYAN A NOBLE EXAMPLE. Presbyterian Standard. The American people owe a debt of gratitude to Hon. W. J. Bryan. In a number of aspects he stands forth GUARANTEED DEPOSITS It now looks as If the Government - has aot been rone yet, THE FOURTH a- YOUR DEPOSIT IS NOW GUARANTEED BY " ; ' $100,000 Capital Paid In, and $60,000 Surplus and Profits. ' Additional Liability of Stockholders $100,000. ' . Sumlus Security to Depositors More Than One Quarter of k Million Dollars. COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS DEPARTMENTS H. W. LILLY, President JNO. 0. ELLINGTON, V. P.&Cash'r. JNO. E. HIGHT097ER. Asst Cash'r. i' : Have You An Old Friend ? " t A special friend? ' Ode who bas been tried and found as true as steel? That is what SHUR EDGE CUTLERY ' means. 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In view ot his popu larity, great Influence, and present at titude toward the masses throughout the land, what ever he does Is known ' and folt with rare effect for good or evil everywhere. When in Maryland of late he -turned aside to rest on tha Sabbath at an Inviting resort It was gratuitously circulated that he would ' make a political speech at a point near by. A crowd of over twelve bun- , dred voters assembled to hear him. He was urged to go and speak by the parties responsible for the gathering. - But he absolutely declined to convert the Sabbath Into a day of work for the advancement of hla political am- . bltlons. The late President Cleveland -was elected In 1884 by a majority of less than twelve hundred. A change of twelve hundred votes in" New York would nave lost hRn the Presidency. All honor. to this splendid cltlsen, this noble specimen of Christian man hood, who could aay: I will keep the Sabbath day as my conscience tells me to do, party or no party, election or no election. I It Is the natural outcome of lntelll- ' gent Christian patriotism to recog nize In lite that the Christian Sab bath Is one of the two pillars on which the government rests as a foua- . datlon. Surely he is unfit to be the ' chief magistrate ot the - people , who is not only lacking la revetance for the day, but also an enemy to It and , hence to the very foundation on which the government Is grounded. 7 . - This paragraph IS not written tp promote the interests of the. cam- . palgn Mr. Bryan is waging aa candi date for President And it is-not n the Interest of any principle or poli cies we write. We are writing In be half of a principle, and not Mr. Bry an, a principle that Is fundamental to , the peace, the prosperity, the perpet uity of government yea, tbe growth of the priceless boon the kingdom of righteousness for all the people which calls for the Christian Sabbath. . Yes, let all the poeple praise this celebrated American for the honor he places upon the Sabbath. .To this ev ery good man, whether he expects to vote for him or not, will with one ac cord say amen. We acknowledge our debt of grati tude io this Influential co-worker for his example as we struggle on against the appalling decadence ot Sabbath observance everywhere. American Wares In Germany. By cable to the Observer. - , . : Berlin, Oct' 27. Since the Franco German war an immense trade has been developed in Germany in Ameri can agricultural implements. Strenu-. ous efforts are now being made to, eliminate ths competition, and in do ing so the manufacturers are freely annexing American patterns of mow ers, reapers, binders, hay rakes, etc. . might guarantee bank deposits. This but if your account is with - NATIONAL BANK '7 A purity,., whota. and . ecohom-v. rnTTriw . nir . rw, nta MwOrhavs-Chicago BOOKS! ; Crayon, Tablet,
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