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i: 0V - r .-A 0 mE!Ih1xi JeJ3 J .4 SbiliL JJLxl VOL 26 NO. 19. ! LRURINBURG, N. C, URY 9, 1908. ONE DOLLAR PER YEHR. CULL FOB JOHNSON Logical Standard Eearer of the Democracy. APPEALS TO THE VOTERS. His Name and With . the Great Cause Victory Is Assured to the Party of the People Why Court Defeat? Friends of Oovcrnor .Totm A. John son of Minn.JS. and a pamphlet that togetberstfs; tute an audross to the Democrats of THE POOR MAN AND PROHIBITION. ! land- The highest place in our j isn dishonorable poverty. It SENATOR SIMMONS' TIMELY WARNING. ! on election day. 1 the country. Koth make a strong ap peal to Democrats everywhere to ex- j tn,lC ever passed what ert themselves to see that the Denver convention shall be a deliberate body that will look the field over and choose a candidate who, while representing modern Democracy, can win at the po'Is. The letter, which la signed by Fred erick C Lynch, treasurer of the Min nesota Democratic state central com mittee, who has opened offices In the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, Is as fol lows: Dear Sir You are a Democrat, and it Is because you are a Democrat that this Is addressed to you, with the feel ing that you will exert yourself to give the party one of the greatest essentials to victory a strong and acceptable can didate for the presidency. The Democracy of the nation have for twelve years beva losing ground, and the belief is general that under the old conditions defeat is certain. For months the party has been drift ing toward an autocratic convention, where popular choice is to be subor dinate to personal will. Minnesota Democrats, feeling that party duty transcends individual inter est, have hid the courage to break away from the drift and offer the par ty a candidate who if nominated can ; land is open to the poorest boy, The saloon men are making a j and it has been filled by those frantic effort to get the plain I who bewail at the bottom I myself have known two excellent preachers who began who began life as mill boys. One- of the most successful railroad me,! began life as a doffer boy. The leading business man of one of our larg. est cities and one of the wisest and be3t of our rich men, began at the bottom in a country cotton mill. And all over the land ure th men. now rich aiid honored in every place of power and usefulness who bigau as poor boys between the plow han- people of the State to think that the Prohibition bill is a rich man's law. Of course this is ut terly false, but as in the hands of a shrewd talker there is a pos xibility that it may be nadu j plausible, let us examine the bill with reference to the poor man. Xo man claims that the rich man will not be able to do under iwv tuhfif. tha nnnr tnAti will "i, - V II . . v vv h-1 " ---- ..... not be able to do. The rich man is able to do under every law : cr i?'-: .jV '". 1A-H 2- "'t GOVEKKOB JOnH A. JOHNSON. carry more states tlmi any other liv ing Democrat and who would be prac- t'cully certain of election. Iteijoiliug lt wjje It for granted that there Is no necessity for the ravens of defeat to perch on the banners of Democracy in 190S sim ply because they did in 1SC3, 1D0O and J004. Conditions Industrially, financially the poor can not do. Wealth is power, and aa long as money can buy the best brains in the Taw, and as long as men are open to the influence of money, the rich have the advantage of the poor under any law. Shall we then abolish laws ? Surely not. Laws are th only defence that the poor have in their strug trie. Remove the restraints of law, an 1 the rich will have the poor at their mercy. It is noth ing against the law that the rich will be able to evade it and to break it Tafa&gShhe poor. It is far harder to catcu a rich thief thnn a poor one, but who wants to abolish the law against theft for this reason. It k eas ier for a rich man to kill and ppcnpe than for a poor man to do 80 ; but shall we therefore re peal all law against murder? So in the Prohibition law, the ques tion is not "Will the rich be more able to evade it than the poor man ?" but, "Is it a good law?" The law -was not drawn by rich men or poor men. There were both kinds- who favored it. It w;is drawn for rich men or for poor men, Jt will lea bless ing to both kinds. But if it h t ivorable to either more than to the other, it is to the poor man. 1 1 is THE I'OOUMAN'S PKIENP. Ti f nir;u who makes $5,000 a vo;ii i'.smt spend his $"00 for his .ui:es euid hia old whiskeys, and 1h! .$1,500 left to support his v it ami chiiris ei;. But the poor luasi u'ii ninkes n bare support .mist rot) his wife and children every Time he indulges in diink. Fho wife of the poor ae well as of the rich drunkard will suffer heart-ache; but it ie only t In? wifrt and children of the p or who suffer also hunger and Senator Simmons points out I what a serious menace to the will bless the rich, but it wvl d;-: t c i.t rii- uarlotte News. far more for theooor. Liie PO-: . man who votes aamso it is u I ' nat Senator Simmons has j cause a small majority would be. traitor to himself, a, traitor t- a strong aavocate oi pro- i. : i. 'a.' Ilia nr'ifn nnrl A ,s 1 1 U I rr o T.oifriV toiinUIClOIl HIS UUIiUiii. N. H D. W. THE REAL FARMER. r r has been known all ytiong, duc tne cause nas been reatly strengthened by a letter ich he sent out to leading s of temperance throncrh- State. The lwtter is da- Jig. United States Sen- to-t.nn, Annl 9J. n.nrl I" DOINGS OF LAST WEEK'S COURT. "My Dear Sir : I am profound ly interested in the prohibition now in progress in I think it is dies. Are the children f the cotton mill villages less smart, than other children? Have the children of the laboring men less brains? The school teachers say that the children of the la boring class aie often amonx the brainiest of the schools. Some of them, in spite of every obstacle, reach high places. Why do not more of them do so? The saloon is the thing which keeps mor of them back than any thing else. First, the fathers of these bright children spend for drink tha money which ought to go to giving them a fair chance in the world. Oftentimes they do not have the food necessartJjolows that velop brain and muscle. OW Union Farmpiv Southern f.irmj some important thev oupjit to bare", afg?. ,, Thej Are . lean r,hf Smir.h .-nn novni. hioli flfto-rwi nf Mo-rinnit.nr.il n7M;Un Paif?n neritv with itUur "nrnrltiPro I North Carolina. ,.,,,, r , . the most important election raisetl m the Y7P8t, and that theJ , , , . A, . ,i 4.1, i J that has taken place in the State real farmer is the man vh- ';-v , , . , . . , , , ... . . , tr That involving the amend- umkes a Uvmg at horn an h;xve no doubt prohi- his farming operations I T , , , 1) , , n , carrv, but 1 am thor- cash system. The man wh J . ' . , .... , , V iy conviuced that unless us ii vi jt. ne stijips Wfa. Tcue cottou money, even at cas times tbey are taken from sehoo before they have had their op portunity in order to help sup port the family because the fath er is wasting for drink or throuh drink his wages, and cannot keep the children in school. Many of them are t.tkeu out because through drink the father has met a violent death or has so weak ened his body that he is wept off by disease. Second, these very-bright-boys are the ones which drink at i jj f ronh P.vncnnoTUtfl ivi 1 1 till t . w out- one that the two classes who fall victims to iho temptationo drink are first the. weakest through tlie'r weakness. This is terrible, iud society ought to pricss, has never succeeded in ac? cumulating a creditable surplus by his own labor. And no man ever will do it, matters not what the price of cotton may be. With our favorable climate and suitable soil for diversification, it is idle for any man to contend that he can buy hij food pro ducts with "cotton" money cheaper than he can raise them at hme. And as lonjr as lie suicidal c.;fton eeu f?artny tnree times ;i Jay for his folly. And then whe!: his bojTs go off and cast th'-ii lo-:.- in tae dissipating atmosphere of city.life as a relief from tie A ve ry of a ruinous system, ns ought to pray for. forgiveness. majority is a decisive one, the result will be the reopening of the whole liquor question in the State; that agitation will begin in the counties; and that the question will ultimately be drawn into politics, with the possible loss of much we have gained for temperance during the last four or five years. "I think it will be a great mis take for the friends of temper ance anywhere in the State to underestimate the importance of this election, and the possible result of a small vote, whieh would probably mean a small majority. Everywhere through out rhe State the friends of tem perance ought to organize and bestir themselves to the end of bringing out the full temperance strength. 'I know it is said that the only CHAT. protect the weak. But the soc- want. Again, the rich man's salary and politically are such that we have j wji, ,.,, i,,-h!v run h Ion? timo he- this year the opportunity of a genera- ' . . . . . . tlon to win the presidency. i h 1 s ins ?,000 lot) : but If you and the other Democratic lead- j the minute th& poor man begins era of the country will but respond to hi s spree his meagre wages are the Invitation and the opportunity ex- fc ff (, ifc b tended to you by the Democrats of ' , Minnesota we can escape from the ' comes more sure that he Will lose blighting tradition of defeat and reha- j his job altogether. bllltate the party and the nation by a 1 Cereal political victory next November. i X Again, with his rich friends the There 13 still ample time to see that rich man will be held up for years enough delegates are elected to. the before h-. w 11 come down to the Denver convention to make that a de- , i . ... . lucrative Democrntic body that will do-s b,lt thu,e 1? bUt U SteP lve the pa.ty new hope and new In- i bctv en tile pour man whose plratlon and a wlnnin- candidate. To n'.iK.til (ivcrwiries him and nnv- i .it ; - - and will heartily welcome Ikl. n-.i n .a 1 1 ,1V ........ AnKH4.tAM. I any sucgesttons you may otfer. Kkn reatment for him ; no i hospital whre "nervous' p; ..v tiuni'Dil no. rinh kin rf- his wife and little his health.'' No, Let Us Try to Win. Is It not the duty of every loyal ' Democrat desiring his party's suc cess. If it can be had without, th sacrifice of principle, to take Ju- cf lfi situation and exert himself I none i.I these only Majors to see that the delegates to tha na-!fins iiw-ii thclock-uo. then per -' ' " I ' s u'!ij vova:v for r tlonal convention at Denver July 7 ! shall go there unfettered by the dead band of the past nud prepared to con sider calmly the political outlook and the chances of Democrntic success and then with cool and careful judgment select a nominee who can win? Thlir' is a Democratic, year If the mocrats of the ration will but make St so. Why postpone all hope of success and the beginning of the restoration of Democratic control for another four years? Ibaus the loads. A law win 2b will id him to keep from drink 7 Did Away With Passes. In one of his messages Governor Johnson said: "If the public officers sre not adequately compensated now for their services, fix the compensation to such an extent as to make it reason able compensation and do away with the poHsilnillty of any ot3eer becoming S beneficiary of the favor of corpora tions and by reason of gratuities being placed under pome obligation to the corporation which extends the courtesy. And ure most earnestly the early enact ment of a law which will forever sboliah the system in Minnesota." And tt was done. ' v.ill be the best friend to him and to his helolef-s wife and little one. Moreover, THE SALOOX MAKE3 MEN TOOB, Ami the saloon. keeps men poor A' r u.iia1. the s-iloon is the -hi. i L-itife which prevents the ichihiien of the poor from getting rich. Now. it is useless to prove ! that the ealoon makes men poor and keens them poor. Alu.bst .... r , ery case of abject poverty 1 .-v r kn-v? was the result of drink. Of cmne there will al ways be many self-respecting families vho will tint be rich, but th"y ' ill never sink to abject pover ty witho it whiskey, except ui i lu r are case wicie si.rkness is ond is even worse. It is the brightest, those who have the making of the gre This very elemen them is their destruction. T have an inner craving for sdafev" thiug better than the humdru.n of the little world whieh they live in, and in their youthful foliv strive to satisfy this craving with the drink which does satis fy it for a moment only to make it impossible to ever give it the full and enduring satisfaction which they might win in a larger life. Keep whiskey from thjm understand. Keep them sober and give them a chauce until they see that the world has for them and for their nobler cra vings a true and abiding satisfaction. ''But you are taking from the I map oi Scoth:':fJ 1 kll i This will not onlv be the locatiou u:d of su county map snowing diffurenfc oil.s, but will also be complete, in that it will give all the roads, residences, scores, etc., in the ccunty. It is ex- , pec ted that the work will be be- . i i. I . . J ! . I of powrr inL-iis completed in Robeson purity. Th6 Laurinburg Exchange tells of its printers, while cleaning up and re-arranging thiols around that office the other day, came across a jar that, was filled full of alcohol in which w,ns a pig. That -is a strange tale to come from a printing office, in a pro hibition town. The Exchange says the jar- must have been there four or five years. The idea of a printer leaving ajar of alcohol five years is absurd, even if it did have a pig in in it. A V. glo-Saxon poor man his little joy, his one ! charlotte observer. means of indulging himself !' If j Laurinburg, May 2. Thecoun- there lain all our land one who try home of Mrs. Effie MeLauch- is shut up to this means of bar-j nn yyas the scene of a pretty tag a Rooii tune, ir, is becaas be ; inat i igy Wedne- day afternoon or his forefathers have so dei when her daughter bauched their bodes through i-le,am' rln h.rid if drink that he who wamade a j.p. Boudelat, of Bonui chilci or tioa nas bicoaioa chad it1. Theceremouy 01 the Devil, auu it is high time that the State cease being a par ty to the bringing of sach into this world. Whiskey gives no abiding sat isfaction. It makes a man feel rich, but he poorer. II is soon passes, but bis poverty re mains to curs-? him and his. - ft. makes a man fso! like Solomon, but it at the same thns makes him look like a fool, and all who look know that he h- nearer what he looks like than whtlt ne feels like. ' ; State prohibition will make no man poorer except -those who are gi owing' ! by Rev. Mr. Brown, of tne'Pres byterian jhurch, in an impress-! ive manner. The -bride was at tended by her. sister, Miss Annie McLauchlin, as maid of honor, and the following voung ladies is thereby made jus hiMesmaids: Misses Lillian feeling of riches ; ,ti!tj Margaret -Alderman. Beseie ( -arter, EffrV Cooley, Bennie Mcr 1 , ; i u c 1 ; 1 ; n a a d A n n a. N e w t o n . Mr, Robert i-eo'ey acted as best man. : . ' The bride , belongs to one of the-oldest and best families of this- section, and is a charming young lady. The groom h a ytmng- man of sterling worth and is try-file manager of the BeanetCsviJle & Cheraw railroad. The young couple viltr re-slde-in rich on ' tfae weak- and lusts of the pori It" wis! give the children of the poor est a fairer chance to become rich, anl will assure that a large number will become well-to-do BonneLtsville. Nice stvles of commercial iob is i he caue. numner win uecomeweu-tu-uu - ; We have no fixed classes ia our f who are-4aow poor. It will ban- j wui k uoue d,u j.xouaku omue. - iA I mnS iavclved in this contest is - ithe abolition of liquor ia the omyaratively few places where T" that were t o the contest would not be so vi tally important, because these places might hereafter be voted dry uuder the local option pro visions of our present law, but as sure, in my judgment, as fate, unless wTe win a signal victory in the May election, there will, at once begin a contest to modify, if not to repeal, the Watts and Ward acts ia the interest of the liquor traliic, and the whole bat tie may have to be fought over again. There is no doubt that an immense majority of the whole people in the Stare are in favor of effectual temperance then why not end the fight and fettle this troublesome question once for all. "I am assured that you are a fiiend of temperance, and I am writing you . to urge upon you notjOnly in the interest, of tem perance, but of our party and the State, that you do every- r wjussioia 10 impress unon fiends the necessitv of Zftnd energetic rneas- g to the organization ofWwbrces and the polling of the full temperance vote, i "Very truly yours, j "F. ML. Simmons." The" people of the statu will . bo do'dtless aroused as never be- "SHfiiag of Senator small majority robable reopen -j;ntirq liquor question Je the' beginning of an t pon to modify if not to re pea Mia Watts and the Ward laws I Therefore the fiiends of prohibition, acting upon the sen ators suggestions should not only decide to go to the polls and cst their votes but they should doff their coats, roll up their sleeves end go to work to win votes. There is a tremen dous .sentiment in favor of pro hibition today. The tide has turned temperance-ward so that it is today what it has not been for long years, if -ever b&fore, the popular side of the question. The difficulties to be overcome are nothing to be compared with what they were in the state fight ia TS81. For this very reason there . is danger of apathy, and apathy tends to make a small majority Eourdelat - McLaicklia. V The April term of criminal court was early to end. The docket was cleared more rapidly thau had been hoped for. On Thursday night only two cases remained to be tried, so Judge Webb contiued those rather than call the jury back for an other day. The following cases were disposed of : State vs. Hayes Gay, C. C. W. Defendant pleads guilty. Judg ment $20 One and costs. State vs. John R. Russell, U. C. W. Defendant pleads guilty. Judgment $10, fine and costs. State vs. Will Mclver., A. W D. W. Defendant pleads guilty. Judgment $15, fine and costs. State vs. Henry Johnson, C. C. W. Defendant pleads guilty. Judgment, $5, fine and costs State vs. Will McNair Dis turbing divine worship. Defend ant pleads guilty. Judgment, $10, fine and costs. State vs. Angus McEachin Retailing. Judgment suspended upon .payment of one-half of costs. State vs. Zac Washington. L. & R. Defendant pleads guilty. Judgment, 12 months on the roads of Anson county. State vs. Andrew . Bostick. L. & R. Defendant pleads guilty. Judgment, 12 months on the roads of Richmond county. State vs. Andrew Bostick House-breaking. Defendant pleads guilty. Judgment sus pended. State vs. Ralph Gillis. L. & R. Judgment, 8 months in jail, with leave of commissioners to hire out. State vs. Walter Gibson. L. & R. Defendant pleads guilty. Judgment, four months on the roads of Richmond county. State vs. WTalter Gibson. C. C. W. Defendant pleads guilty. Judgment suspended. State vs. Sarah Bishop. A. W. D. W. Jedgment, six months in county jail, with leave of com missioners to hire out. State vs. H. S. Wilson Retail ing. Judgment suspended upoa payment of casts. State vs. Luther Hamer A. W. D. W. Not guilty. State vs. Will Evans -Disturb ing religious worship. Judgment $10, fiue and costs. State vs. Yvm. McQueen A. W. D. W. Judgment, 12 months on the roads of Anson county. State vs. Alonza Ritch, Sam Fair-ley, Jim McNeill disturb ing school entertainment. Not guilty. State vs. Steve Knott Retail ing. Capias to issue in ten days. State vs. Harriet Ford Retail ing. Not guilty. State vs. T. Buchanan A. W. D. W. Judgment $25, fine and costs. State vs. Paul Leak Assault. Judgment, eight months on the roads of Richmond county. State vs. Jim Martin L. & R. Not guilty. State vs. Wm. Quick Murder. Not guilty. State vs. Wm. Quick C. C; W. Defendant pleads guilty. Judg. rnent $25, fine and costs. - State vs. Rufus Nicholson "Absconding board bill. Judg ment, four months in county jail, with leave of commissioners to hire out. State vs. Gas Washington Assault. Judgment, four months on the roads of Richmond coun ty. : State vs. John McLean L. & R. Judgment, two years on the roads of Anson county. State vs. Wade Robinson, Gus Leach, lalse arrest. Defend ants pleaded guilty. Judgment suspended upon payments of costs. State vs. Charley McDonald. Nol pros, with leave. State vs. Henry Rogers W. D. W, Notgmlty. "Yes, I had a nice trip," said Mr. McLauchlin Friday after his return from Philadelphia. Peo ple talk about expenses being high down here," he aid, "bat they don't know what expeaisi are. Why as we Wire leariig Philadelphia Wednesday, I call ed to the keeper of the hotel to prepare me a lunch, two or three eggs,-- sand witches, etc.,1 and asked him what the lunch would cost and he said four dol lars and fifty cents. I told him to go to thunder, that I'd get behind a lo and eat terrapins before I'd pay it." , "Did you observe what . per centage of the cases tried thii . week were cases in which neK groes were defendants?" asked a gentleman from Gibson Thurs day, Why, if it wasn't for the negroes and whiskey, we would not need more than one criminal court in three years. Xes, it is sad commentory on the race, but the negroes ruin the crimi nal courts. I hope they will some day do better, but I fear they will not." o o o "The John McLean cat e furn ishes a good illustration of ne gro character," said Mr. . "Do you know many of the ne groes herein town are powtrful- y down on Will Harris became ne testmea against McLan. Yes, it is an unpardonable Eln or one town negro to testify against anather. Why tkey till me that Chief Hubbard has to keep the names of hia witnesses a secret in order to keep them from being tampered with and intimidated by a certain class of negrots. - - Circu tnstaees444s-& these call for herote measures; both negroes anal white folks should have a fair trial, and someone should be severely pun ished for attempting to obstruct Justice. "You ought to have een with us yesterday," said Mr. Mc Lauchlin to an Exchange m&n. The Republican convention was in session wnen we readied Greensboro, and our friend J. P. McLean introduced me to seve ral of the clan, and in doing so said I was a regular old moss back Democrat. One of the men remarked that he had always been a Democrat and voted the Democratic ticket, but that now he was going to vote the Repub lican ticket. I told him I didn't believe anything of the kind, and that while I was not a doctor I was going torrescribc for him, for of all the sick people I ever saw, a sore-back Democrat was the sickest, and that my remedy for him was two plasters a Craig and a Bryan plaster one for the small of the back and the other between the shoulders." "Speaking of automobilesT-I have been waiting to ef. one come by my place for some time," said Mr. David Iforton, Saturday. "You see I went up into the very upper edjrt of Marl boro county and got me an old pegro, and he is a regular 'wild man from Borneo.' I have an old plug of a mule that is too old to do much damage, but scared to death of automobiles The other day I put this old ne gro to ploughing this old .pluij mule, and when I did I told him to look out and not be too close to the road if an automo bile came by. He said. 'sure. boss, I won't ; for I am scared of dem things myself.' Ever. since then I have been wanting a machine to pass, so that I could see both of them run-away.' n Lanrinburg to Have s Gala Wesl, For one week, May 11th to 17th, this town will be given to pleasure. On this occasion a street caruiyal will bejiere and the proceeds will go to the fire companies. It is hoped that our people will turn ou in num bers and give this show a it. patronage. ....iilWMflllw a.
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