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carr;. nd with brcud 01 5 tobace-', s rtai7':e nd is one ! fair las il Marga met iot: ?r friend: state. W : the boy; hem. re of Ex i Sunday ave then ■un to the leef, the hrs )rn grues; e. exciting [ populs' lay it wa; (d frienc 7 he was >out som« t it was is house ne ino to to 3. \A. VOL. III. A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES. BURLINGTON, N. C., NOVEMBER 2,1910. NO. 25 CONTEST m HOW THE VOTE STANDS Biirliagtoa. orkman. Lois A. W Swannie Patterson, Myrtle Isley, ).lvrrle Tate, ijsiian Turner, 14,000 14.625 3,350 1,000 925 urlington R. F. D’s. n.itsell, R. Aiinie R. R. -i. 1. 9 O^-erman Matlock Cctor. Route 2, Cro^.isie, Rouie 4 Snow Camp. ;5S ]Jai‘V Stout. -rinvr Graded School '^'an Gi'tsdoc: School. Mebane. act Amick, F2o A MILD SAMPLE OF DEM OCRATIC IMPARTIALITY ^,bl:o 4U0 200 200 Itj, ."Jt 500 200 VIJ River, No. 1. I regret that facts such as fol lows regarding the registmtion of votei's in Boon Station town ship during the regristration period just closed, were so unfair unjust and showed so much par tiality, that my conscience promts me to place apart of such wrong doings before the good element of citizenship of Alainance County with an appeal that they weigh with scales that gives justice to ''and special privileges to none’^ such acts, and declare by their ballots on the 8th day of Nov. next, either their approval or dis approval of same. The writer approached the Registrar a few days after the I book was opened and asked to I look over it, — permission was :)(>01 granted, as I turned through the " I pages I noticed the names of one I young man whose name had just been placed npon the book, that to my knowledge could neither write an elgible hand nor read with any discinctiveness and had told me, when there was I no cause for misrepresentation ~A i that he was twenty-three years ' old and had never given in nor I paid any tax, I said to the ^ regis- j trar, this fellow is not entitled to j vote, he (the regristrar) said he j thought there was a question about it himself but he had in- ; struetions from an attorney (but I did not tell the attoi*neys name) j regarding same and that he just \ put him on the book, and that the judges of the election could decide his elgebility. Right then I smelt a rotten I'at in Denmark and from that moment I sat up and took notice ‘’the best 1 was aiiowed too’^ Here I want to add apart of See. 4323 of the election ^law of North Carolina which , I reads thus, '‘every registrar, be- 2r>d. e t)eiieve ourpeopie are | enterh 'i upon the discharge entitled 10 an economic admmis-■ of his office, shall Alamance County Indebtedness. Borrowed money. $21,000 Outstanding county vouchers. 5.000 Outstanding bonds issued to pay Democraitic debts. 50.000 FORTiiEIRiNFORMAT(ON Total debtedness Carrie Albright, Elon College, N. t. „uv >liie Baldwi n. 15,700 7,200 Union Ridge, No. 1. .oitio Terrell, Parii/ Platform. he lollowin^ i.'-.iroQucea Keiiubiican was the resolution adopted at (,'ounty Convention Graham Saturday Sept. 17th, '.'■10. Read it, it means sorne- liiing to the people of Alamance ■ Vtoniy: Th.e Republican party of Ala- :rc;nce coinnty in convention assembled do hereby resolve. j:^t. We are in thorough ac- rord with the National and State platforms of our party and we r.ereby proclaim, our unfaltering allegiance thereto. outstanding in- not counting the good road bonds. $76,000 How does this strike you, Mr. Tax Payer. Don’tyou think itis about time you were waking up. Don’t be asleep upon November the eighth. Protect your interest. the registrar, you are familiar! with the time I have been here | and i only swear under those j circumstances. The kind regis-1 trar told him that was alright, that some of the other boys had registered and he would register him also, I am 'also reliably in formed when a certain young Republican who is a school boy too, applied for registration, the efficient registrar went to the President of the College and got his permission before he miLIAM SWrU PITS DEUTIt PARTY 1910 Graham, N, C., Nov. 1st, Mr,, Editor: Ever since I attained my ma jority I have been a consistent Democrat, believing implicitly in the traditions handed down to , me by my forefathers and neigh- would fbors, that no white man could be Being a cotton register him and this was not i ^ Republician, the iirst school boy that had ap- j operative, and uneducated, plied for registration. W hat part j have not been able to study the que&tion for myself, and all along iiave been fightingRepublicanism from blind prejudice, although it has ckften seemed to me that this The Democrats was wrong. * ration of the government in ail ::s grades and its every depart- :.;ent, and taking the county as a . ■'it, we demand that our county rieers be placed upon a salary take an oath before a justice of peace or some other person au th- orized to administer oaths, that he will support the constitttion the XJ. Slid uhe c0ii3t.i'i,ut»0n ol i 'rtsis and that all fees and emolu-j^f j^ot inconsistent there- j^ients novv pertaining to said ot- ^nd that h? will “honestlj cesbe turned mto and made a and impartially” discharge the part of the school funds of the county. 3rdl Believing that the safety of our government and our pros- peiity as a nation depend upon duties of registrar, and honestly and fairly conduct such elections. Now he is supposed to have taken an oath to discharge his duties honestly and impai tially, and I the education of the masses, we question his taking same, emphasize our loyalty to that por tion of our state platform declar ing for the furnishing, free of charge and under proper regula tions, all necessary text books for every child in the public schools of the State. 4th. In the event of the fail ure, by the legislature, to pass a state-wide law, providing for the purchase of text books for the pablic schools, we demand the enactment of a law, applying to Alamance county, that will per mit and require the saving ac cruing toUthe county by reason of the payment of salaries to our of- but follow me and less see if he lived up to the obligations. So take the items as they come, I next noticed him on the streets of Elon, together with two young of this election law was lacking? It has been customary in this township for the registrar regard less of party to make a trip to Ossipee Cotton Mills some time between the opening and closing dates of the books, and register the elgible voters of the mill which saved them a great of trouble. I asked this registrar on the afternoon of j seve^ral voung white men i*efused Oct. 28th about 1 p. m. if he had; the right to register and there- been to Ossipee witn ms book, . cannot vote in the coming he said no, and that if he v/ent|e|t3(^tion, for the reason that, like he would have4o gc.this evemng ■ .^^li.'they had beeji.unfortu- as he would have to stay at Elon j j^ate, and had failed to get an at thepolling place the next day, | eduL^tior.. Having some little and that his expenses for horse ’ooyjs of ray own, whom I hope to have always said that no white 3Tian should or would be disfran- , chised. but this has turned out to deal! })£ untrue. In this county, and good ) j I) this very town, I have seen .nd buggy would have to be paid by the parties requesting him to make the trip, here I told him I was going to Ossipee and if I saw anybody who wanted to register, and if they will pay your expens es I will phone you to come. This struck him, he rubbed his h^^ad jto protest edu'[iate, but may not be able to do £10, I shall take the place of one of these disfranchised neigh bors of mine, and vote^ with the Republican party in this election, as I believe it to be a duty every poor man owes to his little boys ^gainst of the the sons disfran- of the chisement poor. Laboring men, cotton mill operatives of Alamance County, a while and decided it would be impossible for him to make the trip and if there were any who fellows begging and pleading i wanted to register, would have with a school boy to register and', to come to Elon, but listen, the I^ave been~as~gwd a Democrat vote in the coming election and j next morning was the morning - - - at the same time the boy was pro- j of October the 29th the morning testing, declaring that he "was I our first real big frost appeared, twenty-three years old and had' - ■ never paid any tax. The regis- as any man could be. I am thirty-nine years old, and have , , never voted anything but a and it was cold weather too, but | straight democratic ticket, but I this generous, impartial by oath) appeal to vou to join with me in trar was approached a moment registrar, together with a sly later and told that this school Democrat made the trip to boy was not entitled to vote, and j Ossipee and registered a young he replied ‘ T have instructions | nian that had refused to come ... to look ail these loose fellows up I to Elon, but he is believed ficials to be applied to the pur- and put them on the book’’ he | to be a Democrat, here he was almost daily seen on the j asked to wait and register anoth street pleading with school boys} er young man who had to come who had expressed the^elves! only a hundred yards, but they favorabletotheDemocraticparty I had to leave immediately, this trying to induce them to register i young fellow was a Republican, but v^ith out one exception to , Sir: Did he tell the truth when this writers knowledge, did he j he said it was impossible for him even mention registration to a j to go to Ossipee v«th the books, school boy favorable to the Rep- j Impartiality, explain its mean- ublican party. What has he done ing, honesty they know it not, with his oath to be impartial? but he was back to the polling And I want to say the Boon Stat- ■ place at 9 a. m. and during the ion Township registration books day, be laid in the cold .two nice show the greatest number of intelligent looking white men school boys registered now that whom had just become of age. they have ever showen since the Yes he disfranchised them, and college has been established and they were both Republicans too. itis because the registrar solicit- ;Now this writer has never to his ed them personally to a greater knowledge been accused of lie- degree than any other resistrar ing and he will make oath to the in the past history of this town-, fact that either of them could ship. Now what I saw while he read or write superior to was registering one of these boys gome others tjiat laad registered (the only eve I had the pleasure , under the same smiling registrar, of witnessing) he did not qualify Along by the side of these two the boy as to his education at all young white men so far as the only ask if he was twenty-one right of sulferage is concerned years old and administered the he laid each of them a bed fellow oath, this boy like all the rest of in the persons of two negroes them had not been in the pre- and today they are in the same cinct, for the last three months disfranchised arena. White su- and some of them not even in the premacy where art thou. Demo- state, since last June until school cratic oath maker that no white opened the first of September, man would ever be disfranchised, And this boy told him with his where have y9U gone? On the hand still lifted before the oath evening of October the 29th was completed that he would not just before stfnset aman appear- swear to the exact reading of the ——-h T- form of oath, but remarked to (Contmued on page eight.) chase of books for the children in our ovm public schools. The Demiocratic county candi dates say tliat the Dispatch is in error about the cost of the cross index system, that the con- ti*act price was only twelve hun dred dollars, well we have no f)ositive way of telling except by what they ;3ay. However we un derstand that even this amount has not paid which leaves the county indebtedre«s that much larger than we had figured it. No if there are_ many out standing debts of this character the total county indebtedness will run much larger than we have ever put it. Why will not some one tell the tax payors just how much the exact indebtedness is. We are sure that our figures are much 'too low. Tax payers of Alamance county are you will ing to keep men in office who will deceive you in regard to the true nnancial condition of the county V0 offer five dollar^ reward to any one who will tell us the ex- c.ci county indebtedness before the election, who will be the first to win the rev/ard. this protest against this act of Democrats in disfranchising our young men, which may conie home to us in limiting the rights of our own little boys, whom we nwiy not be able to educate to m!iet the requirements of Demo- crjitie registrars, and they will be unable to participate in the election «f those officers who ad minister our laws and collect our William Smith M„ A. Nicholson, Witness. Rev. S. L. Morgan leaves this ■veek for Cane Creek, Betheden, Antiock and Bethel to attend a i^aymens movement of the Bapt- -it (Ihureh. Some of the candidates upon the Democratic ticket are already getting alarmed about their elec tion, and are offering to trade or swap of£ some of their associates ujpon the ticket in order to win themselves. This is a bad state of affairs and should notbe coun- tiinanced by the Republicans, stand squarely by all the Repub lican candidates, if we cannot win Tvithout trading, then we de serve defeat, and lets go down in honor. The days of the trader is rtumbered, and he will not do to tie too, act upon the square and (io not give any candidate a (ihance to say that some mem- bers of his party traded him off. No honest man will do it. Republicans if you are thinking them, but if after a To those who prof ess that they do not understand the plank in the Republican platform where by we declare for salaries instead of fees for the county officers, we beg to say, there legions 'of ijeople in Alamance County ' who Relieve that the various coun ty officers receive more in pro portion to the amount work and responsibility of the office tton they are entitled too, and ke$>- ing abreast of the times like other I progressive counties, we have de- icfded to submit this plank to the duly qualified electors of the county for ratification or rejec tion, if you vote the democratic ticket especially f6r the member of the Legislature, you will vote to reject this plank, but if you vote the Republican ticket, or for the Republican candidate for the Legislature you will vote to ratify this plank, and to have en acted into law the salary system for all co .i'nty officers instead of tie obtelete fee tysterii as now in vogue. From the be t information obtain ible we have every reason to believe that the salary of the sheriff Of the coun ty is five thousand dojlars per year, and may be more certainly no less, the clerk of court eigh-r teen hundred dollars, the Trea surer eighteen hundred dollars per year, making a total for the four officers of eleven thousand and one hundred dollars per year now the best posted men in the county say that eighteen hund^ red dollars for the sheriff and al-^ low him a deputy to do the work at a salary of six hundred dollars will be a fair and reasonable sa lary for the work and responsibi-? lity connected with the office, and that twelve hundred dollars for the Register of Deeds is a fair and reasonable salary for him, and also allow him a cterk to do the work at a salary of five hundred dollars, this *is more than he pays his clei'k now, and that a salary of one thousand dollars for the clerk of the court is a fair and sufficient salary for this offim and tbat/in.as as the treasurer only has to be in his office about five or six days in a month, say each Saturday and every first Monday and wh^it few days the commissioners haye extra meetings, that a salary of six hundred d^ollars would be a fair and reasonable sakry for this position, making a total of five thousand seven hundred dollars for the four officers leav ing a saving to the tax payers of the couhty of five thou^nd fbvir hundred dollars. Now the Re publican platfomi propdses to put this amount in the school fund to be applied toward the purchase of free text books for the school children of the county^ this might not be sufficient to buy all the books needed for all the grades the first year, but it. would provide ail the books nec essary for the lower grades, and in the course of a few years it would be sufficient to furnish all the books needed, do the people who ]^ve to pay out enormous sums each and every year for school bix)ks for their children aj>prove of this plan, if not theii it is be cause you do not understa:nd it. Do the tax payers believe that the salaries mention here suffici ent to pay the various officers mentioned herein, yes we are sure they do. There is not ah officer now serving, or nominate ed to serve the county if elected who can go out into th6 world and command a salary of more than the amounts mentioned here, and a great many of them cannot possibly command as large a sa lary as some of these mentiiohed, if they can then this proposition if enacted into law will not effect these officers to be elected this election, but will only apply to Ahose who may be elect ed two year from now, and if any of them can make more, then they can refuse to he candi dates for re-election and go into other pursuits, the best men in the county can be had for the sums named for each and all pf thorough B.T.ra- NODIE’S Fosmoit Editor Dispatch: : Dear Sir:—I undei'staud that the Democratic politiciahs and some of their mouth pieces are circula ting the report that I ^ not loy al to, and am not supporting the Republican county and state tick et. Now I want to assure all my friends both personal and politi- cal, that notwithstanding that ! \yas badly treated by some of the supposed leaders of the party ie the last campaign’ yet I realize that tvi^o wrongs would hot make a 1 ight, and in as much as all th^ present nominees of the Repub^ lican party are my personal, as well as my political friends, and as I have good j^ason to believe that each and all of them sup ported me most loyally, arid knowing them to be among thjp best men in the county in any political party, and believing that the measures they advotiate and stand for, are for the best inter est of the tax payers. Therefore I urge and ask all my friends to stand by and vote for all the Re publican candidates both eounty; and state and to vote early ari^ vote it straight Respectfully, R, T. KERNODLE Revival nieeting conducted % Rev. Williams and wife, of Dui' jliam, commenced at Freedoisp ;Hill, Friday night. , Mrs. T. H. Hornaday and son, Lewis, returned Monday, after spending: a week at Pinnacle ani Walnut Cove, visiting. Mrs. Bettie E. McPhei*sori has recently returned froin a visit te her daughter, Mrs. Bei-)nett, of Durham. Mrs. D. H. Durham is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A, J. Marsh- b\,irn, of Spencer, who has bees seriously ill, but we are glad to learn she is rapidly imptroving„ MiB&es Gertrude Morriss, XJnii, Albright and Mary Stout at end ed the dr0;tts iat (irejsn^^oiu Mr. W. J. Tiiompson, of Whife. sett and Mr. D. M. Elder, otft Burlington, attended the sale at S. M. Stuarts, Saturday. Mr. Robert Culbertson made another extended visit to Snoxs Camp Saturday 'riijght and Sun day. Ask Miss Ora what thir- attraction is. Mr. Tax Payer don’t you th'iak vfe need a change, then vote the Republi^n ticket, you cannot ex pect any! better from the peopi# who have put; you where yo® are. Why take any mpire pro mises; you have beeii feed Tipo* them long enough don’t jot think. Messrls W. H. Bryant aiid A. S Thompson who have been in ¥ir- ginia for the past 8[ix moatht erecting steel bridge for Carolina EnOTneering Co. are 'M. home for a few days. of voting any part of the Demo cratic ticket, vote it all, either we are right, and they are wrong or they are right and we are „ wrong. Vote what yo»' believe | this wzfl be to be right, and let the/result be | thems^ves, they are; the Iwhatiti^ay. trial 'the people ; find that : the amourrts named are to low then it can he raised, or if found to be toohigji, they can be lowered, left to the people bosses in thi^ matter Sind can arrange it to suit themselves where is honest man that. can obiect W this plan, ho one does oljject to it but the office holders and it if their personal intei^st to ject, buit hov^ much longer will the tax payers allow themselve* to be fl^ced out of their hari ^med money, in order that tfee office holders may flourish spend exorbitant arid fabul^« s sums to get re-elected. This i* why the office holders oppose tfe is measure if for no ©ti»r reasf^ii than that it will stop the traffick ing vc^e gettin^i a»d vote bujf > ing, €!x;cept upon merit and prb- cipie. Now who is it opposes thes^ jb«t iand reasonable measK- res. leaders and office h»t ders of the Democratic pa^. The Republican party recogniSBi the jui^tness and reasonablen«i s of the I proposition, and if the y are entrusted to power willik^ii they can to bring this con£!Se« of things to pass, those nomiPA«* iSm vor of' these measajtes and w if f cheerf^jlly abide tiShem if jsiee- ted. Now v/ho w!ll?yttu vote f«r. Those who oppose yotir intere«Ut or those who favor your interefla. The time to speak is hear, will your verdict be. ■'•I'. ■■ :■ ••• 'J H'' ■ ;« '.it ■M ■■ ■' :.:ii : ■'-1 ^ •' . :'S * / ’ / r-'- ‘v ■ ■ i “'(I 1. • tw A .i ■' '^S '■■I? i
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