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CHARLOTTE NEWS, JULY 14, 1903.
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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1903.
AYCOCK FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
In recent Presidential campaigns it
has been the Vice-Presidential candi
date who has been expected to do most
of the talking. The exceptions, in
which Mr. Bryan made a personal can
vass, were followed by defeat. The
people have an idea as to the dignity
of the office that is entirely correct.
But every one recalls the work done
for the Cleveland ticket by Stevenson
and for the McKinley tickets byHobart
and Roosevelt. If we are not mistaken,
Roosevelt did the McKinley ticket
more good by his canvass than he has
done himself good by his recent swing
around the circle.
As a canvasser in a political cam
paign we doubt that Mr. Aycock has
an equal in public life today. He has
a natural eloquence that thrill3 while
it charms the people. His sincericy and
manliness appeal to his auditors and
he is most effective as an advocate cf
justice.
Our timid Southern editors who
think the time has not come yet fcr
putting a Southern man on. the nation
al ticket, even in the second place,
have not accurately guaged the change
in Northern sentiment towards South
ern problems. There have always been
intelligent and sincere Northerners
who were willing to listen to the voice
of reason and truth, witness the wel
come that Henry Grady made Tor him
self. And just now the North is in a
most receptive mood for information
on the greatest Southern problem, the
negro question.
For instance: The Indianapolis
Sentinel speaking of the fact that
twelve are dead and twenty-four seri
ously injured in the Evansville riots
says:
"Behind all these manifestations of
lawlessness are conditions which may
well give pause to thoughtful men.
The fact is that the community has
been debauched and corrupted by poli
ticians who have imported hordes of
the most ignorant, most worthless and
vilest negroes, causing an enormous
increase in pauperism, vice and crime,
and reducing materially the average
intelligence and virtue of the people."
While the Evansville Courier bears
the same testimony:
"The cause of the present reign of
terror in this city can be directly
traced to the vitiation of the negro for
political purposes. Before election
time the advertisements are sent up
and down the river among the shift
less negroes, stating that they can get
money for their votes at Evansville.
The idle, ignorant and vicious negroes
flock here; they are colonized in
saloons; they are gathered in herds
the night before election, even in the
custom house and the temple of jus
tice, debauched with free beer and cor
rupted with free dollars, when they
are properly ready to he used on elec
tion day."
And here are some striking expres
sions from Northern Republican
papers that have just got their eyes
open.
St. Paul Pioneer-Press (Rep.):
"We are tired of negroes and the
negro problem, and we are outraged
with negro preachers denouncing
lynchingswithouta word of condemna
tion for the negro brutes that cause
them."
Kansas .City Journal (Rep.) :
"The negro race is hut one genera
tion out of slavery, and but a few
generations out of barbarism. When
he reverts to barbarism and commits a
crime against womankind the punish
ment will be fully as swift and horrible
in the north as in the south."
Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.):
"The wave of black horror that is
creeping over the country will soon or
late be met and topped and over
whelmed by a wave of horror that will
leave the superior race rid of every
thing of the inferior but the brutal
barbarous passions and habit the con
flict has bred. The dark horror that
hangs over the south is creeping across
the Potomac, the Ohio, the Mississippi
and menacing the north as well."
And here is Harper's Weekly after
speaking of the fact that there was not
a recorded example of a white woman
having been assaulted by a negro man,
North or South, before the Civil War,
and that it is a new crime, answering
its question as to the cause by saying:
"We, ourselves, are inclined to think
it directly traceable to the notions of
equality implanted in ignorant and
brutal negroes by the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments of the federal
constitution, and by the practical ap
plications thereof In the carpet-bag
governments of the reconstruction
period, and in the deference paid in
many northern states to the negro
yote. A telling piece of evidence in
favor of this theory is the fact, if it be
one it is reported on good authonty-
that in Mississippi, since the blacks
were practically disfranchised in that
state, there has not been a single in
stance of the crime against white
women."
NOte also that the challenge against
all this sentiment at the North has
been directly made by the next Re
publican candidate in his social equal
ity dinners to negroes and by the Ohio
Convention and Crumpacker resolu
tions which aim at punishing the
South for disfranchising the negroes
by cutting down its representation.
Let Aycock take up that challenge and
make his manly appeal to the Anglo-
Saxons of the North. Blood is thicker
than water. And the white men who
believe in a white man's government
would outnumber the negro vote to
which "deference has been paid in
many Northern States."
THE BOND ISSUE ELECTION.
We printed yesterday the statement
by the board of commissioners of
Mecklenburg County, as to the bond
issue of $200,000, which is to be voted
on next month. We repeat the items
that there will be no increase in taxa
tion to meet the interest on these
bonds, that the road system can be
completed in four or five years to the
county roads, adding 100 miles of new
roads, and that this extension by this
method is nescessary in order to begin
at once the work of repairing the roads
already built.
Thus the question is one that affects
every part of the county. Charlotte
should turn out en masse and vote for
the bond issue, as nothing will do more
for building up the city. The building
up of Charlotte gives a larger market
for the products of the farm, especially
those situated near to the city on the
roads already built. Of course the
parts of the county not yet having the
advantage of the road system will vote
for the bond issue.
And we wish to appeal to the sense
of justice as well as to the county
pride of those already living on the
macadam roads or in reach of those
already built. Do unto others as oth
ers have already done to you. You have
been profiting by the roads for which
the whole county has paid. Now vote
to give those beyond the present ter
minus of the roads the blessings you
have enjoyed. Let not the charge of
selfishness be brought against you,
even by your indifference on the sub
ject. The stay-at-home vote is counted
against the extension of the roads.
Mecklenburg is known all over our
land for its macadamized roads. The
extension of the road system will fur
ther advertise us, inducing the best
class of immigrants to settle here and
increasing the value of our farming
lands all over the county.
Webster's Weekly is always loaded.
The office must have a file of every pa
per published in the State. It seems
that the editor of the Reidsville Re
view, who is opposing the substitution
oi a dispensary for the Keidsville sa
loons, interviewed Editor Hale, of the
Fayetteville Observer on the subject of
the dispensary. Editor Hale gave a
very pessimistic view of the dispen
sary and declared that "almost every
store was a rendezvous for drinking
and the backs of the stores on the busi
ness blocks were headquarters for
great crowds of idle negroes who be
tween them would make up enough
money to buy a flask."
Then Colonel Webster turned to the
files of the Fayetteville Observer and
found the following, while the dispen
sary was in operation. The Fayette
ville Observer, in its issue of Dec. 22,
(Saturday before Christmas) 1900
said:
Up to 3 o'clock the police had not
made an arrest today for -disorderly
conduct, though every street is packed
with an enormous crowd. There is, of
course, some drunkenness, but none
are offensively so yet.
On Christmas Eve, 1900, the Major's
Observer saw it this way:
There has been an immense crowd of
shoppers in town today, and the mer
chants have had more customers than,
they could well handle. There have
not been half a dozen arrests for
drunkenness or disorderly conduct.
No mention of the stores being
crowded with drinkers.
December 21, 1899, the Observer
said:
Up to 12 o'clock today the streets of
this city, though crowded with shop
pers, were fairly navigable, but shortly
after that hour, at which time the va
rious cotton factories and manufactur
ing plants of all kinds paid off and
closed down, the crush 'became tre
mendous and the merchants had more
customers than they could well handle.
And who reaped the benefit? Let the
Observer of Jan. 13, 1898, answers:
The following are the sources from
which the revenue for the public
schools for the current year are de
rived. The total, it is thought by the
school authorities, will be sufficient to
run all the schools for ten months,
THIS AS THE RESULT, WE ARE IN
FORMED, OF THE NEW REVENUE
FROM THE DISPENSARY.
We simply repeat the remark that
Webster's Weekly is always loaded.
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Cbrsets,
Boys' Pants
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Wash Goods.
The few specials mentioned above
are all in great demand just now and
our prices on them are exceptionally
low.
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Shirt Waists
25 doz. Percale Waists, special..
19c.
10 doz. Madras Waists, big value
50c.
10 doz. White Lawn Waists, with
Lace and Embroidery Insert
ing 50c.
25 doz. exceptionally fine White
Waists, made in the best
styles and workmanship- 75c, $1.00,
$1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.50 and
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This is the establishment in which low prices originated. We always lead the followers.
No one tries to beat our prices and few succeed in matching them even in part There is
no reason why you should not save the money that you can by buying here, and it is worth
while to have the security that this mammoth establishment affords you.' Our methods
are up-to-date, our goods are the best to be had and our service is sure to please you in
everyway. Listen! the bargain bells are ringing all the time.
liLiIbIbon.s
Special at 10 Cents Yaurd
ISO pieces Ribbon, not that cheap mercerized kind that you usually buy for this money, but
the real silk, assorted shades, 3 3-4 inches wide, special, 10c; all colors in No. 2 satin Rib
bon, the very thing for trimming, the usual price is 3 and 4c yd, we offer special, 10 yards
to the piece, ... - - . - - 15c bolt
MEN'S CLOTHING
250 Men's Suits, only one or wo of a kind, worth from $8.50 to
$12.50 each; all good patterns and think of it, if you get
one you save 100 per cent. Price .$4.98
Another lot of two-piece Suits, worth $5.00, at '.. $2.98
BOYS' WASH PANTS
Some values in this line that will interest every mother. Our
line ranges in prices from . .. 10 to 50c. pair
All colors in Daisy Ribbon, 10 yds. on spool, the best way to buy
to keep from tangling b-ju ioc. spool
Baby Caps at 1-2 price.
Another lot of those beautiful baby Caps, pretty and sheer,
both in beading and curly effects, any of the lot would
be cheap at 50c. We let this lot go as before, at .. . 25c.
SUMMER DRESS GOODS
Every freight South brings us something new in Summer Dress
Goods; not regular stuff, but goods cleaned up at half
value and less. This makes it possible for us to offer you
10 and 12 l-2c. Lawns, Dimities, Batiste, etc., at 5e.
Also 5 and 6c. Lawns and Batiste at 3 --2c.
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Cheapest Store on Earth
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Corsets
25 doz. new Corsets, just he thing
for Summer.
Queen, a Batiste Deep Hip Cor
set
50c
Princess, a Batiste
set
Girdle Cor-
50c
Dandy, a Batiste Girdle Corset..
25c
A full line of better Corsets if you
want them.
Boys' Knee Pants
50c. Boys' Pants.
25c
65c. Boys' Pants.
45c
75c. Boys' Pants.
59c
Wash Goods
2,500 yds. nice figured Lawns at
5c
2,500 yds. nice figured Lawn at.,
8 l-2c
2,500 'ytts. nice figured Lawn at..
10c
We can give you thousands other
goods, things in Dry Goods and No
tions, such as White Goods, Wash
Goods, Silks, Ribbons, Embroidery,
Hats, Laces, Jewelery, Hosiery, etc.
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At the beginning of our second week we desire to thank the
people for their veary liberal patronage during the three opening
days last week. The crowds were larger and sales much more
than we had' expected in fact we are encouraged and the sue-'
cess of The Fair is assured. But why should it not be, when the
price of every article is as low as the lowest, while many
things are genuine bargains away .jlown . below the - prices
usually charged? All goods sold just as advertised and guaran
teed as represented. The Embroidery" SaleMon"day was a grand
success, notwithstanding the inclement weather and every lady
who failed to attend missed a golden opportunity.
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TUESDAY
you will find something very attractive and exceedingly low
priced in Umbrellas, from 25c. up, Combs, Brushes, Toilet Pow
ders, etc.
Only a few more rolls of the elegant Matting at 14c.
Carpet
Department
complete and we solicit a comparison of prices. v
You are cordially invited to visit our store whether you de
sire to purchase anything or not. Always glad to show goods.
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And we will continue to do so while in busi
ness. We carry nothing over, therefore must
make prices that will move all Summer
Goods. Remember we will not let anyone
sell goods for less than we do, and in the
majority of cases
Will save yoi from 15
to 55 per cervt,
One big lot Umbrellas; Gloria silk. Par
agon frame, steel rod, that sells in town
for $1.50; oir price. V-v $lQO J
One lot Mercerized,! good Fa-raori
frame, beautiful bronze handles; . .
worth $1.00; our saJes price . T 88c
Laddies' L,ace Hose .... ...v.' 7 Jc
Big cit in Para.sols . . 10c
Colored Lawns, worth lOjc, only. . . . .5c
Yard-wide PerceJes, ,10 to 12c goods,
onjy. ..." 7 l-2c
And many other things we cannot
mention, bit only ask you to call a-nd
if not cheap we don't ask you to buy.
No trouble to show.
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Or msil 25 cents to O. J. MOFFETT, M. ST. LOUIS. MO.
Cures Eruptions. Sores. Colic, Hives, Thrush. Removes and Prevents,
Worms. TEETHTJSTA COUNTERACTS AND OVERCOMES
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