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SENATOR LA FOLLETTE in 1909 as reported in the census of THE "DOUBTFUL" STATES HITS THE OLD GUARD : 1910. WORRY THE REPUBLICANS Declares Republican Platform Reg istered Party's Surrender To Privilege. EVERY STATE'S RAILROAD COMMISSION ENDANGERED i envelope of Reactionaries Did The Work Their Masters. Says the People Will Resent. "It is not a pleasant task to criticise the political action of the party to which one belongs," wrote Senator R. M. LaFoIlette in LaFollette's Mag azine. But Mr. LaFoIlette did crit icise his party's action. He wrote frankly his opinion of the platform adopted at Chicago. He said he was compelled to do so by his convictions. "The platform adopted by the Re publican Convention at Chicago," said the Senator, "cannot fail to be a dis appointment to the great majority of the party." He continued "The reactionary program todaw which speaks in stronger and more convincing terms of the prosperity which the American people now enjoy under "the New Freedqm" of Democracy, than the pay the average workman. J The $100,000,000 increase in the pay For j envelope which American labor real izes in 1916 as compared with 1901, moreover, is the mightiest lever for the uplift of American civilization, that is listed in our statistical inventory. Interesting Estimates Made By Careful Experts Show Drift to Wilson. v.I:err riany Progressives abiilo, 'u very strong in its resentment against the r.;'pcrer.t bargain and sale cf tiie Progressives at the Chiccgo Cs.'.vc-.-tion. Mary of thoee rr.cn sirce-ely be lieve that the Progressive Party ";.3 c"csiinod to be an instrument to cor -pel both of the other parties to j .t MICHIGAN A BATTLE-GROUND FOR DEMOCRACY THIS YEAR I forward their best idcr.liq.v.s r.r.c. a-- Campaigners in Maine Say Demo-j r nations. Many of those me 1 be' .ev ents Will Get More Than Half ed in Theodore Roosevelt as their Progressive Vote. EX-GOVERNOR OF KANSAS. Though Not a Democrat, Declares Wilson Will Sweep Country. Mr ses to lead them out cf the wilder ne. Their disappointment is keen. Some Figures from Maine. An anouncement made by William 9 I Get a Square Meal: sat Paflace affet From the Olathe (Kans.) Register (Democrat.) "I never was a Democrat, but I think Woodrow Wilson will sweeo the country for re-election this fall," said ex-Governor St. John to a re- element of the porter for the Register the other day. "I am basing the assertion on the attitude of the people in Western Kansas," continued Mt. St. John. "While I was in that part of the Stats during my recent ninety days' tour, I took occasion to sound out my dif ferent audiences on the candidate then looming most largely in the pub lic eye. Successive references to Hughes, Roosevelt, and Wilson al ways brought the most applause for Wilson. Wilson's Mexican policy, for which he has been so bitterly attack ed, is, in my opinion, an element of strength. I am not capable of crit- Third Partv. thev constitute an over-1 icising the government's policy. The whelming majority of the total mem- old plan of tying two fighting toni Dersnip 01 ine KepuDiican party, ine great mass of these voters are men of deep convictions. They are Repub licans. They are for public interest party were in control of the conven tion. Supplied with unlimited funds, the National Committee can perpet uate its control when it represents but a small minority of the voters. "More than four million progres sive Republican voters left the party in 1912. They were earnest, patriotic men who had faith in Roosevelt as a leader. Hundreds of thousands of progressive Republicans who had no confidence in the political integrity of Roosevelt refused to abandon the party and follow him at that time. Together with those who joined the 1 Michigan this year gives every promise of being a genuine fighting ground for Democracy. Reports from 1 R. Pattangall, Democratic campaign the different dties are fast accumu- j manager in Maine, respecting the pro latir.g to prove this. : bable division of the Progressive voie The presence of Woodrow Wilso.i in that State during the coming elec at Detroit, the insurrection of the tion, abounds in sound reasoning Progressives against the Perkins-1 which will carry satistaction 10 an Roosevelt delivery, and the great Democrats. nrosDeritv everywhere throughout It is the first responsible declara- Michigan are leaning strongly in fa- tion by an active political leader 111 - f nrv ! the hot campaign which has been Mechanics who were getting two started in that hitherto pivotal State, and three dollars three years ago are Mr. Pattangall's statement will car now receiving from four to six dol- j ry little comfort to the Republicans lars, and they are content with pres-i at home or abroad. They had fondly ent conditions. , The mobilization of the troops to wards the Mexican border has sent a message home that no other single j hoped to fairly snatch Maine from th5 Democrats while they were not look ing and run away with it. Mr. Pattangall's statement is that act could so impress the people of one half of the men wno voiea 10. ; Michigan with the full benefit to the Gardner two years ago, and there f THE BEST EAThfG PLACE IN TOWN I NOW OPEN t New fixtures, best cooks, everything sanitary, inspection invited, satisfac- tion guaranteed. Tables for Ladies. X t Regular Dinner from 12 to 2 p. m. daily. $ PALACE CAFE I JAMES PAPPAS, Prop. Next Door to City Barber Shop. X Albemarle, N. C. $ Nation of the Woodrow Wilson peace policy. It looks very clearly from all of these reasons as if Michigan with its former 75,000 Republican plural ity would be converted into a good were 18,000 of them, will align them-1 selves with the Democratic party this j ... . Ai. -1 year, it will not Denecessary ior m Democrats to share equally with the Republicans in a division of the Pro gressive vote to carry the State this working plurality for Democracy and year. Woodrow Wilson. Figuring on the basis of the 1911 A close observer of the conditions ! campaign, considerably less than on and against privilege and monopoly control of government. "It would have been the part of wisdom for those in control of the Chicago convention to have remem bered this recent history. The Senator said that it was upon the subject of railroad regulation that the framers of the platform gave th country its greatest surprise. "Like a bolt out of a blue sky come the platform declaration for ch? abolition of every State railroad com mission in the country," declared Mr. LaFoIlette. "The people of Wiscon sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Ne braska, Oregon, California, and every other State, are to have the regula tion of the rates and services of the railroads within each State taken out of the hands of their own Commis sion, subject to their own control, and turned over to the Federal Govern ment. They are to have their State governments taken away from them to this extent. We believe the peo ple of every State will fight this prop osition to the last ditch." WONDERFUL WAGE INCREASE When Samuel Gompers recently said that there never was a time when more laborers in this country were being rewarded with increased pay he had all the figures behind him necessary to prove his case. The Secretary of Labor has been making an interesting study of the labor conditions of today with special reference to the increase of pay. In nearly every case where more pay lias been asked it has been granted. In many cases where it was not ask ed it has been graciously awarded by the employers who feel the benefits of a nation-wide prosperity. Plenty of cases there are in which the work inkman has been taken in as a profit sharer of the increased net earnings. It was ascertained by the Secre tary of Labor that in 493 cases out of 1,486 of wage increase between July 1, 1915, and May 15, 1916, there was a total raising of pay of 1,901,322 laborers. The total of 1,486 settle ments in which wages were increas ed, on a similar basis, would indicate criticises the Rural Credits Act, but that more than 5,000,000 men were cats' tails together, throwing them over a clothes line and letting them fight it out, seems to apply forcibly to the situation in Mexico. But Mex ico is no scrub as it was in 1847. It has fourteen millions of people and an advanced civilization in many re spects. To whip Mexico into line, as some demand, would be a job, necej- in Ohio is even more emphatic in tin declaration that Ohio will be a posi tive asset to the Woodrow Wilson election this year. Some of the most conservative business men of Cleve land, Toledo, and other important cities are making the open declaration that Ohio will be Democratic this half of the Progressive vote will be sufficient to carry Governor Curtis through, and this being a national campaign year, it is fair to assume that the vote will be heavier than in 1914. That the Republicans saw the handwriting on the wall when the Progressives failed to put out a State year. The appointment of the Secretary ! ticket in Maine is clearly manifest by sitating at least two years' time, the, of War and the recent appointment of ! their sending a small army of oratois expenditure of billions of dollars and j the Supreme Court Justice, both of, from Congress to stir the waters In probably the lives of 200,000 men. In whom are held in high esteem by tho that State. people of Ohio, will give an added: incentive for the Ohioans to ioin Lhe! IS INCOME TAX A "FAILURE?" ranks of the new Democracy of Wood row Wilson. Ohio Democrats Active. addition, as an item of expense, would be the formation of a great pension roll. "What would we gain by such a war? We don't want that territory. The whole proposition is absurd. Tak ing it as a whole, we never have had a president more level-headed than Woodrow Wilson." WILSON'S GREAT RECORD. Domestic Policies Alone Furnish Ba sis for Re-Election. L. Ames Brown, in the Review of Re views. What would be Mr. Wilson's status as a candidate did not this vital mat ter of international relations over shadow all else?. How- would Jie stand and what would be his prospects were it possible for him to be judged solely in the light of his record as ad ministrator of the domestic affairs of the Government? Could he win if he had no claim to the suffrage of the nation other than that based on the extent to which his administration has promoted the hapipness and wel fare of the people? Consider this: The chief legislative measures for which the President stands personally responsible are the Underwood Tariff Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Trade Commission Act, the Rural Credits Act, and the Tariff Commission Act. There is an imposing number of business, labor, and public welfare enactments be sides, which I have no space to dis cuss here. It is the greatest legisla tive achievement of any American President of modern times. All of the measures named, with the excep tion of the tariff act, have received or are certain to receive the support'of substantial bodies of Republicans in Congress. The Republican platform affected. If the average individual income were $600 and the rate of increase were only ten per cent., the total vol ume of wage increases represented by thess newspaper reports would be $300,000,000. Large as this seems, it represents only a return Mm a mi nor part of the entire army of Amer ican labor. In manufactures alone, the preliminary estimate for the 1915 census indicates approximately 7,900,- 000 wage earners last year whose .wages aggregated $4,400,000,000. We know that 1916 will show a marked increase both in number of wage earners and in rate of wages over 1915. If the number employed has increased for 1916 only ten per ' cent and the rate of pay increased only 10 per cent., we get a wage vol ume of 21 per cent larger for 1915 than for 1915. This produces a wage total of $5,824,000,000, which is $900, 000,000 larger than the 1915 wage tj tal, and $1300,000,000 greater than the total volume of wages paid under Republican laws and administration a majority of Republican members of Congress voted for the measure. The Republican platform declared for a Tariff Commission, and its authors re fused to consider any declaration in criticism of the Currency Act, know ing too well the heartiness of the country's appreciation of that meas ure, The activities of the Democracy in Ohio are very manifest at the pres ent time. Perhaps one of the most unique inscriptions that has been putj forth in the present campaign is that emanating from Ohio. The cartoon represents a cake of ice, and above it is "Just Ice Hughes" with a splendid assembleism about it. There is an interest and enthusiasm that Democracy has rarely seen. While there may be some question about Ohio electing its Democrat's senator this year, the personality of the President and the prosperity of Ohio, all point very strongly towards Woodrow Wilson's success in Ohio. The Golden State, too, has all the ear marks of being added to the Dem ocratic ranks. On account of the great disaffection caused by the Pro gressive Convention, California is sorely nettled to a degree that it has never been in recent years. Most of the leading Progressives, including ex-Governor Hiram Johnson, and a great number of other big guns have started booming for Wilson and any one acquainted with them can readily understand that their boom, when once started, will not be hushed under any condition. Joe Scott, of Los An geles, is jubilant over the outlook for Wilson. Through northern Califor nia, in Keene and Kern counties and into Frisco itself there is a pervad ing spirit that Wilson will win in Cal ifornia. Massachusetts, the old Bay State, the home of Cabot Lodge and former Senator Murray Crane, is also teeri ing over with dissatisfaction towards the standpatters. Matthew Hale, one of the most conspicuous of the Progressives, has openly come forth against any Progressive-Hughes combination. The feeling there in Boston, Lowell, Lynn, Fall River, Springfield, and Holyoke, From Boston Post (Ind. Dem.) Mr. Hughes has stated that he ac cepts and approves the Republican platform in its entirety. He will doubtless elaborate on that statement in his formal speech accepting the nomination. But the Republican platform de nounces the Underwood tariff act, a3 "a complete failure in every respect." The income tax legislation is a part of that act Sec. 2. Does Mr. Hughes believe that the income tax is "a complete failurs?" He once opposed this most just plar ing of the taxation burden upon idle wealth on the ground of supposed le gal defects. Would the people be pleased if he were now to demand that it be repealed? A KICKING BULL JIOOSE. From the Rochester Herald. We suspect that about the begin ning of October the Bull Moose will start kicking the daylights out of the G. O. P. elephant. Colonel in a Strange, New Role. From Detroit Free Press (Rep). It's going to be worth while, too, to see and hear T. R. talking for somebody else. Bad to Have a Cold Hang On. Don't let your cold hang on, rack your system and become chronic when Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey will help you. It heals the inflamation, soothes the cough and loosens the phlegm. You breathe easier at once. Dr. Bell's Pin-Tar-Honey is a, laxa tive Tar Syrup, the pine tar balsam heals the raw spots, loosens the mu cous and prevents irritation of the bronchial tubes. Just get a bottle of Dr. Bell's Pin-Tar-Honey to-day. its guaranteed to help you. At drug gists. ADV. NO. T. R. VOTES FOR WILSON. Young Men's Democratic League En rolls 391 Original Moose. The Bull Moose committee of the Young Men's Democratic League has enrolled in the league 391 young men, who say they cast their first vote for Roosevelt in 1912. This anouncement was made last week by Francis D. Gallatin, chairman of the committee. The League, which has received the aprpoval of President Wilson, has been organized in seventeen States, according to Frank D. Shelley, its President. Many a man's credit is limited to borrowing trouble. 8 NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF Agricultural and Mechanical Arts, g V( Young men seeking an education which will equip them for practical life in Agriculture, and all its allied branches; in Civil. Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, in Chemistry and Dyeing; in Textile or other industries, and in Agricultural teaching will find excellent provisions for It V their chosen careers at the State's creat technical College. Thin Coira, . fits men for life by giving practical instruction as well as thorough scieo- Four year courses n. Agriculture, in Chemtstry, in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, and in Teoiile industries. Four year, two year, one year, and summer Normal courses in Aeri cultur. B Numerous pia,tical short courses. Entrance examinations held at each county seat on July 13th. For catalogue, and entrance blanks, write E. B. OWEN, Registrar, West Ralegh, N. C. 6t-j29-jy 1 3 27-a 1 0-24-3 1 ft 1 tCTiaiiGairinr METAL SHINGLES m.r 'nrr aW 'r x y ineyjasT aJJTerime yen leak, ailtformprddf NEVER, I NEED REPAIRS For Sale ly Morrow Bros. & Heath Co., Albemarle, N. C The Wingate School; A well-known preparatory school, whose record and present equipment jurfify the claim for your patronage. Christian Influ ence f faculty and community. Student body consists of ambi tious boys and girls of high moral tone. Excellent courses in En glish, History, Mathematics, Latin, German, French, Science, Pub lic Speaking, Music, and Business. All teachers in High School( are graduates. Twenty in last year's graduating class. Music at $2.50 per month is a drawing card for the institution. The Bus iness Depai I ment offers the best courses in Shorthand, Typewrit ing and Bookkeeping at very little cost. Board in private homes at $10 per month. Students rent rooms and do their own cooking at very little expense. Tuition very reasonable. The institution is located in an inexpensive community. FALL TERM OPENS AUGUST 22, 1916. For special information and catalogue, address J. G. CARROLL, Wingate, N. C. B iniLL WML MEN SMITH, JONE AND BROWN- Life Income! SMITH is now 90 and has had $900 each year since he was 60 $27,000and still coming. Disability! JONES, who like Smith was covered by THE FIDELITY'S "INCOME FOR LIFE" CONTRACT, became disabled at the age of 27. His premiums stopped and a check was pent hinr each year covering the annual dividends He received for 32 years thereafter, an annual income of $900- $28,800 And, at the age of 60 he drew the face amount of the policy-$12,000-no deductions! Death! year. He left some debts, a wife and Brown got $12,000.00 T he $ 1 2, 0 0 0.0 . BROWN died in two children. Mrs, helped. Let us send you an illustration at your own age describ ing fully each of the EIGHT Options Guaranteed under this Complete Contract YouH find it intensely interesting. No obligation. B. L CULBRITH, Special Representative, Albemarle N. C. WALLACE-ELLINGTON CO. State Managers for The Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company, RALEIII, N. C- GOOD openings in GOOD territory for GOOD men.
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