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MR. KURFEES WRITES ON POLITICAL SITUATION "Corpse Of the Progressive Party Has Arisen and Is Now Disturbing the Peace of Every Stand * patter From Mr. Taft Down"—Candidates Nar row Down To Roosevelt and Hughes. Editor Reporter: The 1916 Presidential cam paign is destined to be a warm one. In fact from present indi cations the one in 1912 was mild by comparison. Some fun is in store for the on-looker. It has been amusing for some time to read of the maneuvers of our Rapublican friends; how they have thrown sop after sop to the Progressives to get them back into their fold, on the one hand; and how they have boasted that they were al ready back, on the other. In one paper you will read that "about all the Progressives have return ed," and in another you will read where a move is on foot to "get together." The average reader, of course, wonders why the latter is necessary if the form er is true. In one breath all manner of fun is made of the Progressives and progressive principles, and in the next the very same fellow is trying to convince the people how progressive he is. In fact to be plain about the matter there is not a politican between Maine and Texas who would dare claim to be anything but a CALOMEL IS MERCURY! IT SICKENS! ACTS ON LIVER LIKE DYNAMITE "Dodson's Liver Tone" Starts Your Liver Better Thin Calomel and Doesn't Salivate or Make You Sick. Listen to me! Take no more sick ening, salivating calomel when bilious or constipated. Don't lose a day's work! Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, it comes into contact ■with sour bile crashes into it. breaking it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea nnd cramping. 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If he is a Democrat he is a Progressive Democrat; . if he is a Republican, he is a i Progressive Republican; and if he is a Progressive of course he is a Progressive. Some six months ago we heard the Pro gressive party was dead, and in ! estimation of quite a few the I funeral and burial was held at the last November election. But behold the corpse has arisen and is now stalking about in the land, ! disturbing the so-called peaceful slumbers of every standpatter from Mr. Taft down. Oh, yes, we heard that the G. 0. P. had a host of formidable candidates from which to select the champ ion who would lead the mighty re-united party to victory on a platform of "high tariff" in 1916, in total disregard, it seems, of many other vital questions direct ly affecting the people of this country. It was to be a verita ble walk-over. But lo—when the elimination process began it hardly stopped till the last man was wiped from the slate,—what, did I say the last man? Beg par don—all but Mr. Hughes. Lest some one should think I am ex aggerating I'll quote what the Here's my guarantee—Go to any drug store ami get a 50 cent bottle of I)od son's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful to night anil if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel lino and vigorous by morning "l want you to go Imck to tho store anil get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of ealomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dod son's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipate! waato which is clogging your system and mak ing you feel miserable, f guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling line for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't gripe and tlicy like its pleasant taste. brainiest Republican in North Carolina said to me sitting in the Yarboro Hotel at Raleigh one evening this week. (And he doesn't live in Raleigh either). I asked him what he thought of the situation? He replied by saying—"lt seems that the Re publican nomination has about narrowed down tD Roosevelt or or Hughes." There you have it —just as I said—all their candi dates eliminated but Hughes, and he has eliminated himself. Why, the above facts have become so patent that Mr. Taft has boiled over and recently delivered him self of a tirade against Progres | sives and progressive principles in a Cincinnatti paper. If I had trodden under foot the will of the people as he and his henchmen did in 1912 to get a nomination, and afterwards received the re buke they did at the polls, I would certainly keep hands off in 1916 and allow the people to do their own choosing. But he is on record as being opDOsed to a majority rule. He knows, of course, that there is no chance for him, and now that he sees a veritable landside coming both from Republicans, as well as Progressives, to nominate Col. Roosevelt, he makes bold to say that neither he nor Roosevelt must be nominated. He no doubt is reflect'ng the sentiment of the average stand-patter, but he is by no means reflecting the sentiment of the rank and file of his party. The stand-pat ele ment boasts that the Progres sives have come back. Suppose, for arguments sake, that every one of them have gone back. (There are four million of them and they are just as progressive as ever). Who should be entitled to control a convention—four million who voted for Roosevelt or two million who voted for Taft? Of course according to Mr. Taft, the two million should control, or worse still a little hand full of that two million, and the four million must eat of their hand, But not so, Mr. Taft. You had as well take your medicine like men. If there is any getting together done, the dictating of terms will be by a majority of the whole, which is nothing but right under a true democratic form of gov ernment. We Progressives here in North Carolina, a 9 well as elsewhere, appreciate to the full the nice invitations we have had to return to the "fold." as it is termed: but it must be remembered we are in the great majority in this matter, not especially in name, but in principle. All of the Pro gressives, and at least two-thirds of all the Republicans in the United States, still believe in the righteous and humanitarian prin ciples set forth by the Progres sive party in 1912. Does any one think for a moment that these principles have been for saken by either our great leaders or the rank and file? If they do they have another think coming. I care nothing for the name, pro vided the name implies what it should. The name Republican sounds all-right to me so long as it is backed by the right kind of men who stand for the right kind of principles. Yea, and even the name Democrat sounds as good to me as any if the true meaning of that word is implied, Calling a tool a spade does not make it a spade, but if it is a spade, calling it a pitch fork a THE DANBURY REPORTER thousand times w'll not change it When I left the Republican party in 1912, it was not the name I was leaving, but the principles practiced by that party at Chicago, and for the'past four years prior to that time. I am never going to return to these principles, and I speak the senti ments of at least four million other former Republicans. No men who adhere to such a pio- STf e a . ll j INSURANCE --and buy, rent and sell all kinds of 'l Estfltc—; Agents wanted to sell Life Insurance in Stokes and Surry Counties Vaughn & Wright, O'Hanlon Building:, - - Winston-Salem, N. C. 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I am with vou on thalt, and so are all my Progressive brethren, but please remember it is no farther from you tfo us than it is from us to you, anj not as far by some two million votes, so if it is real ly anti-Democracy you are after, come right in—the water is fine —we have the principles and the candidate, on which if you will I join us we will sweep Democracy and plant in its stead an adminis tration, really and truly, of and for the people. JNO. W. KURFEES. Germanton, Jan. 10. 1916.
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