THE TTOMmGTON MESSENGER, FRIDA1T, SEPTEMBER 9,. liilM
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.A TWO-EDGED SWORD.
A wo-edged sword has this Watts
Decome and it behooves the cort
servative, patriotic people of the state
to see to It that its slaughter of the
hopes of continuance of Rood govern
ment and democratic rule in our dear
old state shall cease. A two-edged
sword it Is, and both edges are being
-o uismemoer tne democratic
party. Between th advocates and the'
opponents of this measure there Is
crimination and recrimination. Neith
er side can lay the blame on the
other, for both seem to be determined
on the wreck and ruin of the only
party which can save the state from
return to ihe extravagance, debauch
ry and disgrace of the days of fusion-
ism and carpetbagism. Each side to
"what is called this great moral issue,
which, while it is called a moral issue,
Js brought directly Into politics, seems
to be. trying to secure the political ad
vantage of the other.
In the fight between the two. what
Is foing to become of the democratic
party, on which depends so much of
the prosperity and advancement of
our people in wealth, education and
moral improvement? Both sides seem
to have lo3t sight of everything but
whether there shall be liquor sold in
certain localities at all or not,
or whether from private or munici
pal saloons.
In some counties, because the
men nominated by the democratic
convention are ndi' prohibition
ists, the ticket Is considered no
good by a minority element, and it
meets and launches into the already
disturbed ranks of that party a full
county ticket composed of men of its
own views on the liquor question. Cau
anything be more absurd? Can men
.who do this call themselves demo
crats? In other counties men who
opposed the Watts law declare they
.will not vote the county ticket because
some of the party's nominees favor
that law. Do you call such men dem
ocrats? A democrat is a man who
stands by his ' party platform and
.votes for the candidates his party men
in convention nominate by a majority
vote.
There Is plenty of time after the
political issues have been settled and
the party candidates have been elected
to settle the question as to local option
'dispensary or open' saloons. Keep
these out of the political contest. No
thing can be gained by bringing them
into it and a great' deal can be lost.
Let's all unite as we have done here
tofore in electing the democratic can
didates and save the state from return
to republican rule, then take up this
moral question'. For heaven's sake do
noc bring it into politics. You men
who stood by the democratic party in
those days when It was in a life and
death struggle and who have stood by
it from the day it hurled the republi
can party from power, with its fraud,
corruption and rascality, pause and
consider before you now bring upon it
defeat and submission to the dark
forces which once humiliated you and
ground you in the dust. Pause before
you take the fatal step, and consider
whither you are drifting. Don't let
your opinions on a mere moral ques
tion, which, if you must taint with
politics, can be settled within the par.
ty, lead you to desert that party which
has made our glorious old state what
ehe is.
In this flght over the liquor ques
tion, if brought into politics at the ap
proaching election, the democrats have
everything to lose and nothing to gain
the republicans everything to gain
and nothing to lose. The republicans
know that in a fair light on the politi
cal issues they have no chance of win
ning, and therefore it Is to their inter
est to stir up strife In the democratic
ranks. They wish to divide the party
against itself, and every move toward
of opinion on this loquor question is
fostered and encouraged by them.
Every move of this sort plays Into their
hands. If we are to be -defeated in
this election, let it be by the enemy
and not bv men within our own ranks,
.Stand by your party until after the
election; then, if you must, divide on
the questions of the Watts lav.
'.Maine, Vermont and Arkansas vote
for state officers today. Of course
everybody knows how they will result.
still there is some interest in the vote
in the two New England states, be
cause the democrats are trying to re
duce the usual republican majorities
in these vro.
A FACT
ABOUT THE "BLUES"
What is knows as the "Blues"
is seldom occasioned by actual exist
in? external conditions, but in the
great majority of cases by a dis
ordered LIVER -
THIS IS A FACT
which may be demonstra
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They control and regulate the LIVER.
They bring hope and bouyancy to the
mind. They bring health and elastic
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. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE.
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jm. BECKwmrs statement.
We take the statement of Mr. B, C.
Beckwith, given below, from the Morn
ing Post of Sunday. Now that th;
question of lease of the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad has been set
tled and the contract made, we think
it is time to stop discusain the merits
of th question. Two members of the
board of internal improvements, nine
out of ten of the directors, and a large
majority of the private stockholders
favored acceptance of Mr. Holland's
proposition, and they have theWpro
vai in their action of "a large major
ity of the people of the state Ths
matter Is settled and let it drop. We
think, though, we should In Justice to
The Messenger, publish Mr. Beckwith's
statement and make rePlr to one or
two of the assertions contained there
in. The Post savs:
Mr. B. C. Beckwlth of the state board
of internal improvments, who return
ed yesterday morning from Morehead
City was asked by The Morning Post
if he had anything to say about the
lease of the Atlantic and North Car
olina railroad. He sat down and
wrote:
"No, not now; but I must congratu
late The Post. You and the Charlotte
Observer and the Wilmington Messen
ger have accomplished that which you
undertook. You've forced a lease of
the road. You are IT no doubt of
that. Your guns have silenced the
others or captured them, and knocked
me out.
"I see that my colleague, Mr. B. W.
Ballard, has received the formal thanks
of the Charlotte Observer for standing
with Governor Aycock, without which
the lease could not have been affected
It took his vote and the governor's to
authorize the state's proxy to vote for
a lease. Without his vote It could not
have been done I opposing. Well, 1
am glad to see The Observer has sq
completely changed Its opinion of wy
friend Ballard, and now, thinks so
highly of him. for It held him and the
board of internal improvements in
mighty low contempt In April last, dur
ing the Investigation of the affairs of
the road and so did the Messenger.
You knew better, or at least your man
ners Tvere finer.
"Well, you've been ipersistent. Insis
tent and consistent in your efforts to
force a lease, and you've won. I like
a fighter. I despise a quitter."
This paper has not taken part with
any other in attempting to fore a
lease of the road. It has thought all
along that it would be better for the
road and also for" the state that it
should be leased, and we have per
sistently urged that the state authori
ties should take this course. We have
not attempted to force any one to this
course, because, in the first place, we
knew that should we desire to "force"
any line of action on the men whs
had this matter in hand we would ut
terly fall, for they are not the kind cf
men to fbe forced by newspapers; In
the second place, there vras no occa
sion to attempt to force. What -we un
dertook to do and we are glad to see
that Mr. Beckwlth gives us credit for
having succeeded in our endeavor, was
to convince those in control of thi3
matter, and the peoiple of the state,
that the property should be leased.
We acted for what we thought th
best interests of the state and the
railroad. If our efforts have been ef
fective, as Mr. Beckwith says they
have, we rejoice in the knowledge "that
we have been of some benefit to the
state.
In reference to Mr. Beckwith's state
ment that The Messenger "held tha
board of internal Improvements in
mighty low contempt in April last,
during the investigation of the affairs
of the road," we make positive denial
and assert that not a line can be found
in the columns of this paper during
the month of April last, or at any oth
er time in which The Messenger used
any language contemptuous of the
board of internal improvements, or of
any. member thereof.
During the whole time of ' conten
tion over this road. The Messenger has
done what it conceived to be its duty
to the people of North Carolina, and
it has no apologies to make for tho
course pursued. If our efforts have
been in the least degree instrumental
in convincing those whose duty it wa9
to pass upon the question of lease of
this property, that such course should
be taken then, we feel repaid for our
labor and cheerfully submit to ad
verse criticism from those who refus?
to yield to the verdict in this matter
of the overwhelming majority against
them.
If the Messenger has been Partly in
strumental in bringing about this
lease, as Mr. Beckwith says it has, we
feel well repaid for our labors Jn
knowing that wre have brought about
a condition which will bring into 'th?
state treasury thousands of dollars
yearly, where heretofore there was
an annual drain to keep this property
afloat to say nothing of the dividends
which will for the first time in the his
tory of the road annually drop into
the pockets of the private stockhold
ers. Twenty-five years or more ago
the state had an opportunity to lease
this road to entirely responsible par
ties at a rental which would have
placed in its treasury about ninety
thousand dollars a year, but refused.
Had this lease been made the private
stockholders since then would have re
ceived in dividends more than the face
value of their stock and still own
the stock, which would today be worth
far above its present value, but the
road was a good political lever, and
that it might be kept In politics thers
was opposition, and still is from some
quarters to its lease on terms advan
tageous to all concerned except those
politicians who object to its going out
of their hands.
It was to put an end to such contli
tions that The Messenger advocated
the lease of the road. The lease has
been made. Now why not let the-mat-ter
drop. Nothing can be gained by
further discussion. We would not
have again alluded to the subject ex
cept for" Mr. ' Beckwith's statement. -
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THE CliARKTOX TRAGEDY.
Up to this writing the two men who
are accused of the horrible crime at
Clarkton last Saturday are safe in the
county jail in Elizabethtown. There
was a crowd of fearfully wrought-up
men at the scene of the tragedy Satur
day night and Sunday, and as the evi
dence against the men is so conclusive
it is remarkable that the county officers
were able to prevent a lynching and to
get their prisoners away. That they
did so shows great coolness and deter
mination on their part and they deserve
all praise for theTr conduct. "When we
consider the nature of the crime and
all the surrounding circumstances, had
the friends of the dead and the living
-who have so suffered at the hands of
these brutes visited summary furnished
on them, who is there who would have
the heart to say that they should be
punished? Lynching, we 'mow, Is a
criminal offence. It is technical mur
der. Mob law is a dangerous thing be
cause of the precedent it sets for vio
lence and defiance of law and order,
but then ,we are all human, with a large
mixture of brute nature in us and when
such crimes as this arc brought home
to us are committed against friends
or perhaps relatives we have little
thought of any but the one law of quick
and Just punishment. Had the friends
and relatives of the poor dead mutilat
ed woman taken these fiends from the
hands of the officers and riddled, their
bodies with bullets or hanged them to
the nearest tree their conduct could not
have received severe condemnation
from public opinion. It is true that if
these men are guilty they will suffer
death by the judgment of law. Noth
ing can save them. This Is the .right
and proper course for the case to take,
but what we want to say Is that under
the cricumstances no one could severe
ly censure the people of (Bladen county
if they took the law into their own
hands and executed the guilty parties.
Sunday's dispatches brought no news
of consequence from the seat of war
in Manchuria. The first Russian
corps which was in danger of capture ;
has succeeded in joining the-maivi
body of troops. The authorities at St.v '
Petersburg seem to be in the dark as
to General Kuropatkin's movements. '
There is great disappointment that af
ter making the stand that he did at
Liao Yang he should have been com
pelled to retreat before the Japanesa
forces, after destroying and abandon
ing his immense army stores at that
point.
The Charlotte Chronicle does not
seem to have been much impressed
with Hon. F. D. "Winston's speech at
Concord last Friday.
Judge Brown will secure a well de
served rest from October 7th, to the
first of next year, -when he wil take
his seat on the Supreme Court bench. .
He will go to this court with a reputa
tion earned upon the Superior Court
bench, which any member of the court
of last resort might envy.
The officials or the agricultural de
partment dismiss in a very cayaller
manner th charge that there was in
formation secretly given out before th
official report was made public. They
seem to think that all that is neces
sary Is for them to deny the positive
statement that the figures were In the
hands of certain persona in.-tSavannah
before th department report was pub
lished. This may satisfy the depat
ment men. but hardly. those1 who have
mad tlw charge. .
The "gathering and marketing of
crops seem to be more Important to
the North Caolina farmers than poli
tics these days. Our people should not
lo&e sight entirely ot the great stake
issue in the November fictions; ,
Did rou have a good, time yesterday
and Vnjoy the Labor Day exercises, or
are you glad that the next celebration
is twelve months off?' - -
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GEORGIANS TOZYISTT ST. IUIS.
Governor Terrell and Staff - and the
.- legislature IVfll be Present on
Georgia Day.
1
'Atlanta, Ga., September 5. Extensive
preparations are being made amonsr the
Georgia state officials to represent the
state at the SU Louis World's fair on
IGeorgia day, which is set for September
2Sth. .
Oovernor Terrell and his staff, and
the Georgia legislature in a body, will
leave Atlanta on a special train over
the Southern Railway at 4:20 p. m.
Monday, September 2Sth and will arrive
in St. Louis at 2 p. m. the follow ing day
The train will go via Rome, Dalton and
over the Queen and Crescent to Lexing
ton, thence to Louisville and St. Louis.
This train will carry a large number
of prominent 'Georgians, and will ensure
the success of the day; chosen in Geor
gia's honor. Special trains will also
te run from Brunswick and Macon to
Atlanta, bringing prominent citizens
from the southern part of the state
who will be with the party to visit
St. Louis on Georgia day.
A Labor Saving Idea.
(Eva "Ryland-5aillard in National
Magazine.)
Realizing- the fact that the cutting
out" of round cookies -was the main
part of the work' because it necessi
tated handling and rolling part of the
dough over again, as well as making
hundreds of other useless motions.
I decided that an easier way was good
enough for me ' and abandoned th
"cookie cutter" at once, and forever.
Nowadays I roll the dough into a thin
sheet and with a thin knife cut it into
bars or squares. - The cookies are cer
tainly as pleasing to the eye; as ea&y
to bite or break and in every way as
desirable as the round ones, while they
have the- advantage of requiring less
space when put away. The change
from round to square cookies proved
the biggest "little help" toward saving
time, strength and patience that 1
have found in a long time.
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In the Iowa town where he was pas
tor there lived.according to the Youth's
Companion, a physician who was a
pantheist, and took pains to let every
one know it. He had made frequent
boasts that he could easily conquer
Dr. Emmons. He and the doctor met
at the house of a sick man.
"How old are you, sir?" asked the
physician, brusquely.
"Sixty-two," replied Dr. Emmons,
quietly, although his eyes showed his
surprise, '"May I ask your age in turn?
"I've been alive since the creation
in one form or another, said the phys
ician. curtly.
"Ah. then. I suppose you were with
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inquired the doctor.
"Certainly." came the reply.
m," said Dr. Emmons, placidly,
meditating on the other's face. "I al
ways thought there .was a third person
there, but some have differed from me.
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