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I CAUCASIA XT 2L VOL. XXVI. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. JULY 9, 1908. No. 26 EDITORIAL BRIEFS. Simmons' whip has lost Its sting. The News and Observer says that Dill will be a winner this fall. You mean Hill Taft. of course. From present indications the Den ver Convention will fight shy of the proposed prohibition plank. An exchange says it will be Vaft and Bryan. Yes, until November; and then it will be Taft and Sher man. We wonder If Governor Glenn car ried that "Free Silver Letter" of Cleveland's with him to the Nation al Convention. Mr. Home says he is satisfied with his notion in withdrawing from the i art- at Charlotte; we .guess Mr. Kiu hin Is also. The Democratic leaders do not pay any attention to the Confederate soldier now, as they think his vote does not amount to much. An exchange says the price of whiskey prescriptions in Charlotte during the Convention was only fifty cents, or half price. Mr. Bryan criticised Mr. Roosevelt for drafting the Republican plat form, yet Bryan .wanted the whole say-so about the Denver platform. The Republican State Convention will also meet in Charlotte but the drug-stores were not the attraction, as they will not be doing business then. A dispatch says that Denver is a mile up in the air. After all, it ap pears that the Democrats chose a suitable place to hold their conven tion. Judge Alton B. Parker has been placed on the platform committee at Denver. Wonder .what Wall Street and the Ryan-Belmont combination are after now. John Sharp Williams has resigned as leader of the minority in the Low er House of Congress. You can't blame him for not wanting a job that carries no honors, but a great deal of "cussing." Before the Democratic Convention was held Mr. Kitchin told the people to vote as they pleased. If they fol low that advice this fall, Mr. Kitchin will not be the next Governor of North Carolina. While the Democratic Convention at Charlotte was turning down old soldiers who asked for recognition, President Roosevelt was preparing to put one in his Cabinet as Secre tary of War. The Raleigh Evening Times says there are just thirty-nine men men tioned for second place at Denver. Democrats seem to be anxious to run for office even when there is no chance of being elected. A dispatch from Denver states that Mr. Bryan and his friends are afraid of a stampede in the Conven tion for Johnson or Gray. It will take a lot of shrewd work to beat Bryan for the nomination, by stam pede or otherwise. Before the Charlotte Convention was held the Winston Daily Journal said the Kitchin was the most dan gerous man in the State. Now, the Journal will either have to eat "crow" or vote for the Republican nominee this fall. The architects of the Democratic platform, adopted at Charlotte, have not yet explained how they could give Governor Glenn's administra tion praise for prosperous times and at the same time denounce the Na tional administration for a panic. It is impossible to have a panic and prosperous times at one and the same time. The News and Observer in com paring the Democratic Convention to some other similar occasions, says that the Charlotte affair was like a Sunday-school picnic. Then the most of us will have to be excused from attending picnics, for we really think it Is dangerous to be around where they carry guns and use their fists for amusement. SECRETARY TAFT AT STAUNTON Make IIli Firt Speech of the Cam 11 gn. Clifton Forge, Va.. July 3. The first Bpeech of the campaign was made at Staunton, Va., to-night by Judge W. If. Taft who was met there on his way to Hot Springs by about 1,000 people. Mr. Taft was in the dining car when the train reached Staunton, but in response to continued cheer ing outside he appeared on the rear platform. As he made his appear ance S. Brown Allen, United States marshal, and a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Conven tion, introduced the Republican can didate, saying the people of Staunton wanted him to say something to them. "I didn't expect to make a speech," said Mr. Taft. "I only de sire to express my sense of apprecia tion of Virginia hospitality. I am going up into your mountains to spend two months, but I am not sure I can do it without a horse. This gathering Is an evidence to me that my coming is not unwelcome. Judge Taft was interrupted by a series of hurrahs and when he could be heard continued. "I am greatly indebted to you for this radiance of hospitality, but I am responsible now to my party for what I say. I am responsible to a great party. "What is the matter with the Re publican party called out one man. "The Republican party is all right," declared Mr. Taft, "I hope Virginia will give the party its elec toral vote this time." "You don't need Virginia," some one in the crowd called. "But I want it," retorted Mr. Taft. "I want the vote of this State. If we can break up the solid South we shall be doing great good for this country. I have nothing in the way of politics to talk about to you, al though you have dragged a little way nto political lines, but I wish to show my great pleasure in having this cordial reception. I am coming here to enjoy the good Virginia air." There was a general demand for a handshake. "I want to shake hands with the man who was a pall-bearer for Fitz L.ee, exclaimed a grizzled veteran, and Mr. Taft responded with a hear ty hand-clasp. Before the hand-shaking had pro ceeded very far, the train moved off amid cheering. . . . Naval Malit ia of State to Cruise on Chesapeake Bay. Washington, D. C, July 3. Or ders have been issued at the Navy Department for the cruiser Prairie to proceed to Morehead City, N. C, and take on board there the naval militia of that State for a cruise in the Chesapeake Bay from July 16th to 2Sth. The cruiser will then proceed to New York City for a similar duty, taking aboard the naval militia of that State for a cruise in Gardners Bay from August 7th to 18th. MR. HOLBROOK AND SENATOR BUTLER. Make Patriotic Addresses to An Au dience of Several Thousand People at Bessemer City July Fourth A Big Barbecue. Special to Charlotte Observer. Bessemer City, July 4. From three to four thousand people turn ed out to hear the public speaking at the Fourth of July celebration here to-day. The first speaker was the orator from the free State of Wilkes, Mr. Holbrook, of Wilkes boro, who spoke about one hour and twenty minutes and held the vast as sembly spell-bound. His deliverances were patriotic, chaste and with a lit tle tinge of politics, just enough to make it spicy. It was talked on all sides by the vast multitudes that it was one of the finest addresses ever delivered in Gaston County. Mr. Holbrook was a guest in Mr. J. A. Smith's house while in Bessemer City. Mr. Holbrook began speaking at 11 o'clock and spoke until 12:20, when Senator Marion Butler arrived from Washington on the vestibule train No. 37 and began speaking about 12:30. He spoke thirty min utes and then suspended one hour for the fine barbecue that was spread, when he resumed his dis course and spoke for forty minutes more. His address was entirely pa triotic and he did not allude to po litical matters except as patriotism led up to politics in one or two phases of his discourse. His remarks were based on Washington's last message, with a, quotation from the 16th chapter of Revelations, where John speaks of three foul streams issuing out of the mouth of the dragon. The first of these streams corrupting our body politic and men acing our civil and religious liberty is foreign immigration pouring onto our shores from the slums and scum of the Old World; the second foul stream as quoted by the Senator is the greed for money; the third is the false prophet. The Senator also not only held his audience spell bound, but positively charmed, al though it was raining most of the time. The audience stood under urn brellas and trees and listened with bated breath. The Caucasian in clubs of four from now until November 15th for NATIONAL CAM PAIGN MANAGER Selected by Secretary Taft and Congressman Sherman. HOW TO WIN IN NORTH CAROLINA The Reproach at the National Con vention to the Southern Patronage 3Lachine Adams Arraigned Be fore the Federal CourtH -What the Oklahoma Papers Are Saying A taut the Charges of Bribery and About 3IoU'h Denunciation of dam A Man Fit to be (Jovernor Would Not Select Adams for Cam paign Manager. Special to the Caucasian: Washington, D. C, July 7, 1908. -During the past week this writer has made it a point to discuss the Presidential situation with every man of any prominence whom he has met from any part of the country, and it is remarkable that not a man yet has said he will vote for Bryan. A number of the men inter viewed have been Democrats, but they have all said that they thought it best for the country to elect Taft and make sure of a continuation of Roosevelt's policies. Among this number were several from North Carolina. They were not only against Bryan and for Taft, but will also be against Kitchin and for the Republi can nominee for Governor, if he measures up in the State as Taft does in the nation. The Manager of the National Cam paign. There is much interest here in the conference that will be held at Hot Springs, Va., on to-morrow, when the National Committee will meet Taft and Sherman to learn their se- ection for National Chairman. No one can forecast who will be select ed There have been many men mentioned for the position who have the ability to organize and conduct a successful campaign, but it is of such vital importance that the chair man should be a man in whom the candidates have confidence and with whom they can work in harmony, that the selection will be left en tirely to Taft and Sherman. iright for Republican Success in Old North State. The general opinion here Is that f the Republicans of North Carolina will nominate for Governor a man who will appeal to the people of the State as against Kitchin, as Taft ap peals to the nation as against Bryan, and the candidate for Governor and other candidates are allowed to se lect their campaign manager in the State, that Republican success is al most certain. A Reproach to Southern Repub licans. A few days ago a Southern dele gate to the Chicago Convention was here, and he said that when the resolution to reduce Southern repre sentation was under discussion, that he felt keenly the force of the argu ments advanced. He said that when Congressman Burke charged that it was not right for edelgates from Southern States that did not try to carry their States at the election, and who did not even try to build up the party, but who made their party grow smaller, to have as much strength in the convention as if their States were Republican, that every Southern Republican felt keenly the reproach and that there was no an swer to the charge. He said that he felt that the next National Conven tion would surely adopt the resolu tion and that he was going, home and do all he could to make his State Republican. Adams Charged Before the Federal Courts. A lawyer from Oklahoma says that a suit was recently started in the Federal Court in his State on behalf of the Indians, who were de prived of their property by the de cision of Judge Adams' Indian Court, to try to recover their vested rights. He says that the bill in equity filed charges of fraud and corruption, and calls Adams by name and charges that he was bribed. He says that the paper out there have freely com mented on these allegations, and In connection therewith have again called attention to the denunciation of Adams by Marshall Mott, the national attorney of the Creek In dians, in the halls of the United States Senate, when Mott told Ad-f ams to his face that he was "a d n rascal and that he knew that any body could buy him," and that Adams did not resent. A prominent Republican from the State here to day discussing this matter says that no man fit to be Governor of North Carolina would select Adams for his campaign manager, not only on ac count of these charges, hut also be cause he was not competent to lead a successful fight. No one really knows the richness of Christ's love who has not tried to love and serve men as He did. J A Claperton. AS OTHERS SAW IT. Home Hide-Light on th Recent Dem ocratic State Contention. If all reports are correct. Mr. Moore, the candidate from Mecklen burg. wi treated dirty by socieixxly. Durham Herald. It Is current rumor that it took two car-load of beer and kindred refreshments to pull off the conven tion in Charlotte. And the platform made no reference to prohibition. Industrial News. Senator Simmons was forced to swallow a bitter pill by the Charlotte convention while Kitchla held his nose. Medicine la mighty rood for the constitution, sometimes. Win ston Dally Journal. One of the funniest things gotten off on the convention and Charlotte came from the bright mind of Sen ator (or Representative) Reuben Reid, the murderous assailant of the American Tobacco Company with the unconcealed weapon, "sub-section A of the Reid bill." He came to the convention a wet man, as he voted in the recent election. "I am to-day a prohibitionist," said Mr. Reid. "I was wet in the election but dry now. And I'm dry now because under pro hibition here you can get all the lick er you want for nothing. Durham Herald. At the Democratic Convention re cently held in Charlotte, it seems the doctors could not write prescriptions fast enough, and the drug-stores were thrown wide open, and the de mand for corn licker became so great that one firm in Salisbury shipped three barrels of liquor there one on Wednesday and two on Thursday. It is not known what the other firms did. And all this was for the Demo cratic party in its highest delegated capacity. How is that for a prohibi tion party in a prohiblton State? Hickory Mercury. One feature of the entertainment accorded the convention was a sur prise to many. Charlotte , has been pointed out as a place in which blind tigers could not thrive, but if there was a delegate in the city bibulously inclined who could not have this in clination satisfied on short notice, we have not heard of him. As a matter of act, blind tigers promenaded the streets, lurked in the drug-stores and hotels and made no bones of solicit ing business from all who had a han kering after their wares. Wades boro Messenger and Intelligencer. No newspaper man has gotten this perhaps they didn't want it, but it's worth the room when the plat form committee was being chosen the name of E. J. Justice, of Greens boro, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, was presented as a member from the Fifth Right there and then, Thomas Bell, a young law yer of Greensboro, arose and said that Claude Kitchin had told him that Justice would not be accepetable to Brother Will as a platform archi tect. And Mr. Justice was shelved for General Beverly S. Royf.ter, of Oxford. What do you think of that? How the mighty are fallen! Ex change. The old soldiers have had their last chance to elect a veteran from their ranks to the Governorship. As they have fought their last battle against an armed foe, so have they fought their last battle against the politician their last battle against him for a Governor. The old soldier may be depended upon to be heard from when the material interests of the State demand his attention, but as to making another plea to the politician to give them a Governor, they will not do it. They have been given a good, big, rough pile of stones, and they have more stones on their farms now than they want. They have had enough, of ingrati tude. Carr, Stedman, Home. Taps! Charlotte Chronicle. Another said, one could get all the beer and such-like to drink he want ed, if he only had a ticket to admit him to the high chamber pleasure re sort. Another said that a good many cf the delegates or looters were drunk. A prohibition editor got drunk the first evening he was there and was not out the next day. They tell it here that when the Craig spe cial passed here they saw one negro with the other boys honoring Craig by wearing a badge. They should have given him a parasol to keep from getting sun-burnt. Mr. Frank Allen, a Craig delegate there, came home Thursday night. He said it was awful. He said you could go to the Morganton Asylum, take all them crazy people, give them liquor enough to get them excited, turn them loose in a big hall, and what they would do would be a credit to the convention In Charlotte. Hick ory Times-Mercury. Booze, But No Ice Water, at Char lotte Convention. That's a queer report coming from Charlotte that plenty of cold drinks, including beer and whiskey punch es, could be had, but that Ice water was not to be had for love or money. Must have been a joke, still an old rounder who sobered up and quit months ago said he had to leave and come home to keep from getting drunk. Greensboro Record. MURDER WILL OUT Henry Wat (moo Says Trusts Financed Judge Parker's Campaign. THE CLEVELAND RESOLUTION An Act of Shatnelc HncritH Mr. Watteoou l'aya Hi IlceprcUi to the Hyan-Belmoni combination -He Saja They Hate Tried to Buy Up the Democratic Delegate Will be a Hoi Fight at Denver T!d Week. Louisville, Ky., July 2. Com menting to-day upon the report from New York last night that Judge Al ton B. Parker had been selected to present resolution at the Denver Convention upon former President Cleveland's death. Col. Henry Wat- terson said: "The atempt to drag the dead body of Grover Cleveland from Its new made grave ito the tumult of a National Convention will deceive no one. An invasion of the grief of the noble lady who weeps amid the silence and the solitude of the granite hills, a blow at party con cord, it is an act af shameless hy pocrites. Nor was ever a profes sional ghoul inspired by a more mercenary spirit, because the sole aim and end of the Murphy-Conners crowd, aided by Judge Parker, is the perpetuation of the ascendency of the Belmont-Ryan combination, to which Democracy owes its last Igno minious and well deserved defeat. It was Belmont-Ryan money that financed Judge Parker's campaign for the nomination in 1904. It was Belmont-Ryan money that nomi nated him; and it was the Belmont Ryan tag that made an anti-trust government under such a brand ab surd and impossible. "It seemed fitting that, having made sacrifices for predatory wealth. Judge Parker should have his rec ompense in a rich law practice in the city of New York. He has had it, and with It and Its enrichment, he should rest well content. That he should emerge from this highly paid obscurity to make trouble through sheer malevolence were pitiable indeed; but that he should appear, backed by money of the trust magnates and traction thieves, ap pealing to Jefferson and Tilden, the dead body of Cleveland Istretched upon the dissecting table, is dis graceful. "It is not only disgraceful, but ts motive is grotesquely and trans parently obvious. The wing of the Democratic party in the State of New York to which Judge Parker and the group with which he Is now acting was the David Bennett Hill wing. They were the inveterate, the implacable enemies of Grover Cleveland. They hated him, and he hated them. Although amid the gloom of defeat, a kind oft rucee was reached, there was never a real am nesty or oblivion on either side, so that the statement to recall the shade of Cleveland and to set up this as a death's-head in the comedy of a mock funeral would be too das tardly and too ghastly for belief if it were not the last desperate play of a clique of discredited politicians, seeking to rule or ruin at any cost. "Standing about the open grave of Mr. Cleveland those of us who knew him but did not alwoys ap prove him, or agree with him, were not only willing that by-gones should be by-gones, but that the good alone should live after him. He is dead. He sleeps with those that went before from Jefferson to Tilden, and history can be trusted to do him no injustice. Resurrected at Princeton and proclaimed at Den ver, his name spells firebrand and only firebrand, and firebrand is the sole initiative and purpose of the body snatchers who propose to use it to conjure dissension, whilst they try to corrupt delegats. "In Mr. Bryan and a reunited par ty, Democrats saw hope of victory. On none other was there the smallest hope of union. That they reason truly has been shown by the fact that with the Ryan-Belmont 'barrel' on tap and its agents flying about In every direction, State after State, refusing to be tampered with, or tainted, has declared for the Nebras kan. Seeing this, Judge Parker is put forward to deliver the final stroke of the bravo, and, under the pretense of honoring the memory of Cleveland, to plunge a blade, reek ing with poison artfully prepred, into the heart of Democracy. That he should lend himself to such a villainy, will engulf him in the scorn of honorable men and he de testation of the thoughtful Demo crats. "There Is no more reason why a Democratic National Convention should go out of its way to signalize one former Democratic President than another, nor why it should rush upon Cleveland, and with a frenzy of words, than with a hysterical shriek it should rush upon Buchan an, each Buchanan and Cleveland having had the misfortune to divide the party. The spectacle in the case of Mr. Buchanan would lack com mon sense. In the case of Cleveland it lacks both, common sense and com mon decency. As well dig np the will of Mr. Tilden, which Judge Par ker decided against the instructions sad wia-h of tk Mr of Orj-i tt.4 e&ak it Ik object I eVflr, for tb take of colroTff. Aa wU Invoke lb ;lrtta of th warrsat Ikeoocrata cf 1SC0 &4 u force tfce DosgUs tfcea tt jr tribal to the Itreckecrldte Ks. Uadr any condition &4 from aay Qairtr tfe prurl o revjtallr o54 jerrt by preamble as 4 r44utk oa tb threshold of a tUool saovetae&l wotiid Ire thrown out a Com ing from Connor and Murphy, fron Belmont and Ryan, from Parker a&4 SChefbaa. tt wtl b thrown oat j In famous. They may defeat tut thej cannot d?baoch at' UKCKIYKllS TOLK NAMED nm t somiKitx. XI ili Petitioner Claim Tttat lVijny l Unable to Meet Interest lfe-bt A Iieorgaiitkn Committee . a rued. On petition of the Trust Company of America, joined In by the railroad, the Norfolk and Southern Railway was placed In the hand of reeeiem July 1st by order of Judge Kdmund W&ddell In the Federal Court at Norfolk. Mr. Thomas Fltijterald was designated aa general manager for the receivers. A re-organlxalion committer has alo bee a formed. members consisting mostly of North ern capitalists. In the petition for receivers th petitioners ?t forth that the road recently bought In the Suffolk and Carolina Railroad, the Pamlico, Ori ental and Western Railroad, the Ra leigh and Pamlico Sound Railroad, and the Atlantic and North Carolina, for which a debt of 115,000,000 was incurred and floated by the Trust Company of America, of New York City, taking first mortgage and re funding bonds. Extensive improve ments werealso Inaugurated. It is stated that the company officials ad mit their Inability to meet Interest, debts, etc. It Is further shown thai many of the larger stock and bondholders have contributed heavily during the past eight months In the hope of tid ing over the situation and keeping the property out of the hands of receivers, but, as the situation did not improve, these larger bondhold ers and stockholders Joined In ask ing the Trust Company of America to make application for appointment of receivers, believing It the only way to protect all interests and pre serve the integrity of the property. There is expressed every confidence that the road can be redeemd and made paying property. The receiv ers were present and qualified, each giving 1100,000 bonds. The Norfolk and Southern Rail way owns and operates six hundred miles of trackage, with principal points at Beaufort, N. C, Edenton, N. C, and Norfolk, Va. They also own the electric line double route of about twenty miles each, from Norfolk to Cape Henry and Virginia Beach. The officials, receivers, and bond holders declare the company's em barrassment temporary and predict solid reorganization. JUDGE TAFT AT IIOT SPRINGS. Party Left Wasliington Friday After noonWill Remain at tlie Springs for Two Months Many Promi nent Republicans to Visit Ulm Judge William Howard Taft. the Republican candidate for the Presi dency, accompanied by Mrs. Taft and their young son, Charlie, left Wash ington City last Friday afternoon for Hot Springs, Va., where they will spend two months. In the party were Frank B. Kel logg, of St. Paul, Republican Na tional Committeeman for Minnesota, who was requested by Judge Taft to accompany him to Hot Springs; W. W. MIschler, confidential clerk, and William Pannell, his personal messenger. Accompanying the par ty were several representatives of the press. Several prominent politicians have been Invited to Hot Springs to con fer with Judge Taft. Among those Invited to visit him this week are Senators Crane, of Massachusetts, and Hemmenway, of Indiana, who had charge of the Fairbanks candi dacy; Representative Watson, candi date for the Governorship of Indiana, and Representative McKInley, of Il linois, who had charge of Speaker Cannon's campaign for the nomina tion, will come next week. Their counsel will be welcomed in the framing of the speech of acceptance. THE REPUBLICAN STATE CON VENTION. Will Meet in Charlotte August 26th to Name a State Ticket and Adopt a Platform. At a meeting of the Republican State Executive Committee held in Greensboro last Friday, the commit tee selected Charlotte as the place and August 26th as the time for holding the next Convention which will name a State ticket and pass upon such other matters as may come up for consideration. A reso lution inviting Secretary Taft to be present and address the Convention was unanimously adopted; also a resolution of regret at the death of ex-Judge D. M. Furches. Subscribe to The Caucasian. um m iium ntuu. Tb t;ret lm He4lUf- rlKU r4 I j 4ic rr Um mw3 CK&- re I 4 WUt CU. JUfeJf Hot W tM t . OwwinkS ttax a4 Tter Hm tmAm ft4 lYtaw tavl Hmh lim fwums. lisuu..r.:. N. C. Jsly . it tVrrv;t!etr TT CAttrttUft-Ealrr Well, a&irtfccf it rtlW4 erttfe4 a' hit it hm ia Jyl? r (10 tb create ov t bAliofctl boUrda -tb day ov tk fetria o Iftdj-ciideoc. Thv Ulll boy a& tt tic U aJr awl J 3 s&ia' r round an' tola tcr abaw lblr ! 3iend-ore. Hat bit tt o&li tV amall toy who kin Ur a ay cUlm lr beta Udrpesdrct. After a &JI grows up an gits a fw )r $14 up behind him on th pathway ov Uf he generally turns a foot aa Jlna utu perlitlcal party -or, ratter, jlns uiu perlUJrai party aa tar a fixjl ih odds air th di5r&c an" thru hit 1 rubles bc1a- W make a grate racket erboul our !a depeoce In this country. But thar U very little Independence. Preju dice hex erbout taken th place of Independence, an' fon!U&ca bet supplanted ene. t know kill ov peeple who won't hardly tpeak tec me in broad daylite becaua 1 doo't hap;en ter belong tr th aam per J it leal party they belong to. An' 1 um glad of hit. Air It party cheap, but, cheap ax hit it, I am too atiogy ter breath the extra ermount ov air Into my lunga that hit would tak ter enable me ter apeak an paaa lb time ov day with them peeple. You hev hearn ov peeple ed ter hev gout smaller than a mustard aced? Well, them fellera that lug erround a lot ov pollytlcka an' partylxum la their uystetua an' can't ae any gud In a feller that belong ter lum other party, must hev aouU amaller than a bit ov duat. They air awlao ralty weak In the upper story, an th low er story Ix plum empty, I wouldn't te a partizan. a fool partixan, fee a whole lot ov money. They air ao miserable that they ditagre with everythin they eat or drink, an when they lie down at nit tcr Lake a utile real tney hardly ever enjoy bit because they know that some na bor, who belongs ter the other party. is probably enjoying the cool breexe that air blowin' gently over the land. I am makln' theae few gentle re marks brauB thla It campane year an' the partizana air warmln' up an' tryln' ter inflate their lungs with btttern an' other filthy atuff. Don't do hit. Be a partizan, but do not be a tool. lilt don t pay. Jilt does sot reduce your taxes nor Improve your business. You may think that your favorite candidates, the standard bearers ov your party, air a whole lot better than the other fellera. Perhaps they air; perhaps they air not. At any rate, I wouldn't give 60 cents fer the difference, generally speak! n. Ov course hit would not be wise ter put weak men In high offises nor low offlses either. But none or ns need conclude that the earth revolves erround the particular party that we happen ter belong ter nor that the welfare ov the nation binges on any one man. why, they air in North Carolina five hundred men. perhaps many more, who would make splen did Governors. In the United States there air several thousand or men who would make splendid Presi dents. Az fer sheriffs, clerk or the court, register or deds an' treasurers. there iz a thousan' or so in every county who would do just a well ax our favorite, or better. I wouldn't turn erround fer the difference. They ain't more than half az much differ ence in men az sum seem ter think. Sum air better than others; sum air smarter than others; but take them az they cum, an' they do not more than reach a common average. Mules an' hogs air jist erbout the .same. rium gude, sum bad awl bad at times. I awlways did her a lot or respeck fer the man that don't know any better than ter be a fool, an' a lot ov disrespect fer the man that ort ter know better, but does not do better. Women air erbout the only critters that air awl sensible. an' sum or them air xsity foolish at times, especially when they try Ur break Into polyticks. Well. I see that the pollytlshuns traded erround an' beat my ole frend Ashley Home fer the nomination fer Guvernor. I hoped that he would be nominated. But he had ter go up erginst a combination or pollytlsh uns an' that wuz more than any man could overcome. He didn't be long ter the ringsters. an' that did the work fer him. They will still expeck that he will put up dough an other things, an I reckon he will do hit, an 'they will awl be happy so far az we common peeple will know. We will do the sboutln' an' the votln. an' the combination will get the of fices an' the cash. I see that the crowned heads, as they call the kings an sich orer in sum or the foreign countries, air still stlrrin' up things a little bit. Sum or them air dealln in scandals an sich; in fact, that iz a part or their duties. Betsy hez often told me that she'd be glad ter see me np a bit in the wurld, wearin or offisial robes an' sich, if hit wuz not fer spilln' a gude man. An I reckon she is er bout rite. If I wuz King or Ireland or Germany I guess I'd be one or the warmest properslshuns that ever wuz made. Hit would be a perpetual pic ( Continued on Page 2.) I i 2 f i I I t ft i II: i f. - . ? n if jt I. i 1 f i 6 25 cents each.
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