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I SDBSCR1PTI0I 51.50 Cub VOL. XIX. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1900. NO. 19. 44 OnoLiKry, Carolusta , Heavek 's Blessings -A-Ttehstd Her. t'icmselvcs ir- -. make t.it :r it most cm riirttiti-. Ir. hid-- itt If l.ronrin.ii :i tit V.i" Inn:-.. i:;..ri'i'-r consumption I:-i:t-- ff a tiiront or i : i i k : 1 1 vr its way filia l v liic iiiv.Uious KiTin ;tuav t ii l.j. in litti itim -- life. A sttltilxim couk'.i, ii l o!h'-r thro.it trouble arc I. it stt-i. tjwail thi l'-.iii y mriUitly. llt. i s ijoldiii Mt-rf:i:;l Iiscvei y v. ;il r.t conMi:u;,tiiii, curing every cn ,i c;,u.-. Time and time a train, it :n i nli.tl ln.il physician have ro- i w-ii l-vflK-l onsiiiiij.tioii. It til-- -i..i.i.icii healthy, the liver tli. i'.M,.I healthy. It is a rcju !::i,r :iiie v.!. nil make the wi-ak am'i: i-n into tirt-l people. s'.! ,1::-. :! -'.! ":i l.iin l.odies. ami vigor into '.:r.'.". -H It i- a jxrculiar medicine in tn.ii i". - ;-ri-iti-s arc preserved in any iil::iv- '.vit'i'.u! -vrtii Miar nr alcohol t :i .:;; i:,t.. It does not tr:-- at ' r. tf.- !.i in; .: i'.u-- -timulauls. Itist'r.' n : Ur. K V. I'ieK -. of ! .. . ..' Y . ..(- widespread ex;.-.- li : ! : iiv. u- at the service of tile pi.'..: . ..'i: ' " t Anybody, anywhere , . . .:...'. ! : in ' ) 1 1 !iy mail .-:' .!: v.;i vvh.'.t 1 ir Pierce's OoMen T. t! i .1 r . t . h;.. .I--lr me." says (ieorj?c il I. - "I ifc.iton, l'ike Co., Ky. , . t-' Ti v:ii :'j I w.is wiin!ed ty a ltall .. - . lUi-.iih lr.v laii-. I have had a had , '. .1 - wr -;ti.-- it'i slnirt ncss of'hrenth, : -.x.i-. vm v .t-v ! lake cold: the slightest . ; .- ..f w:tttl:T w.aihl anise the eolith to he ; 1 I w.-.ti'l h:iv 1. 1 sit up in ht-.l all nilit. ' Ti- t c;.t -a cpat iim-s: wasall run-down, . u r w.:V. :il ull. A fi'w ni'tntlis ao Urt'tjan i ! r'-u- i.ohh-ii Mlical Iiscovtrv. !t r-.t n.-'i iii-.K- than two hotllrs anl now i'i jl -!'!. ari.i work aii.l I (eel like a new (;i t-t 1 a-in t tt ii-1 ttupN lo suffn i ntly reeoni in i.l lr I n -n -s ( .ulili ii Moliral Discovt-rv. or i .. it lias l.iie nu:." Tii' ii'-K'ie remedy for costiveiiess is 1 l'l. lie's rkasant Pellets. rmCITinM's Guaranteed Under Rea I'yJOl I IWlJ sonable Conditions. tar facilities for Kccnriii pofcltioua and tho j.r.ili. i. iicv of or.r pr.uluatcs are ten times more : . .in'! . caloi': od ly hankers and merchants i'i. hi thoseof other colleges. Send for catalogue. DRAUGHO; IRACTICAL BUSINESS .!(.' Rutk, Pthian Bid jr. 5th & Main in rs-rt, (J Ft, Worth, Tex. fSh-x-vt i i.rt, 1 bt. i.f.-.tis, Mo., iaIvcston, Teii. fuidivilic, Tent., Savannah, tia. 1 ! im; '...icuil. Car fare paid. Jo vacation 51' u-r priy time. JJcst patron lied in the Sout;:. l'..n:!-.epliiir,5!iorthEnd, Etc.tauirhthy mad. V. f,r jiric i--t In:,ic Study. 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T'lc . ,( o; : I'-ion i. rhvwii it, t.: - , Asa :-ni"n :il the . i ti'.n. W il. ! I- Love lA I 5 u . an hi eta Pyny feotoral 1 THE BOER RIFLEMAN'S SONG. (An unknown poet, or, at least, one who is known only by the initials "L. J. O. B." has written what may be called Justly the best poem that the war in South Afiica has inspired yet, feays the New York Prett. It is remarkable that this really excellent piece of work has not been circulated widely before tlii?, especially since the Biilish nation is hungry for good war poetrv. This poem was printed in The Telepfione, a weekly paper published in Cap - Town, on September 25th. The word? "rooi baatjp," used by the poet, refer to the red-coated British soldiers.) I-ay my title here beside me, set tny Bible on my b east. For a moment let the wailing bugles cease; As the century is closing I am going to my rest Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant go in peace ; But loud through all the bugles ling a cadence in mine ear. And on tho winds my hopes of peace are stowed The windsthat waft the voices that already 1 can hear Of the rooi b,iatjt singing on the road. Yes, the red coats are returning, I can hear the steady tramp, After twenty years of waiting, lulled to sleep. Since the rank and file at Potcierstroom we hemmed them in their camp Ami cut them up at Bronkerspruit like sheep. They shelled us at Ingog.i, but we galloped into rane, And we shot the Biitish giuin -rs whete they showed. 1 guessed they would return to us; I knew the chance must change llaik, the rooi baatjp singing on the load! But now from snow-swept Canada, from ludia s torrid plains, From lone Australitn outpost, hither led. Ohejing their commando as they heard me ougie s strains. The men in brown have Joined the men I tt ted; 1'hoy come to Hud the c loisat Majuba that they lost, They come to pay ui back th-debtihey owed. And 1 hear now voices llft-d and I see stiange colors tossed 'Mid the rooi baatjp singing on the road. I he old, old faiths must faltet;the old, old creetls must tall; 1 hear it in the distant murmur low he old, old order changes and 'tis vain for us to i all ; The gteat world does not want us, we must go. And veldt and spruit and kopje to the stranger in u-t oeiong; No moie to trek before him we shall load: Too well, too well, I know it, for 1 hear it in ine song Of the rooi b.tatje sinking o;i the n ad II tiouiiied with I liouiiiii tisni. irive t'liiMiilM-rliiin's Pain Ihilin a trial. It will nut cost you a cent if it doon no iol. One application will relieve the pain. It aiso cures si prams and tinnses in one- third the time retjuii-ed by any other treatment. ( titn. burns, irost bites, titiin sey. pains in the side and chest, glandular ami other swellnifj.s an1 quickly cured by applying it. Kvery bottle warranted. I rice, 2.i anil ,)() ci'iits. For sale bv l)or- sey Driifi Co. TWO OCEAN-QQINQ SHIPS BUILT AT SPARROWS POINT. The launehino; at Sparrows Point, on Wednesday, of the 5,000-ton steel collier Ilvades aud the trail trip of her sister ship the Pleiades, having the same carryino- capacity, was dual event which attracted attention to the fact th-it the Maryland Steel Company is turning out not only steel rails but steel ships, and that with much frequency. Both the ves sels are built for the Boston Towboat Company, and each will carry 5,000 tons ol coal. The Pleiades, on her trial run, caught her propeller blades into log, which, unknowingly, had been dragged from the ways when the ship was launched. Though her propeller was injured, she continued her trial, covering the distance on the out trip at an average of 11 knots, and on the return making an average of 11 J knots. Tho frank announcement recently niade by Senator Frve, of Maine, that mercantile ships cannot be construct ed in the Lnited States as cheaply as they are built in European yards makes it the more worthy of note that the Sparrows Point works have turned out a number of steel ocean going ships at prices which, it is to be supposed, met the vew's of those ordering them. lialtiruore Herald. True Heroism. (Baltimore Sun.) The Charleston Xews and Courier tells a pathetic story of Stephen Moore, a blind Confederate private who died in that city last week, and whose obsequies cotijd scarcely have been more impressive bad he horne a commission and rendered some ser vice of conapiouou gallantry. He was one of three brothers, two of whom fell in battle for the South, and the third, himself, came out with his eyes forever darkened to the light of the world. But Stephen Moore was of heroic build, and since the war he has cheerfulh' accepted pain and phy sical privation, and with unwearying energy and industry labored for his own support. "Althouo-h his com rades," says the Aev's nnd Courier, "were ready always to oare for him, he would not accept their willing aid but as it supplemented his own effort Working with his own hands at a toil for which the thoughtfulness of his Confederate friends had equipped him. he was led by the hand through the streets to attend himself to the dis posal of the fruits of his labor, bear ing everywhere a smiling face and honored everywhere as an upright man and consistent, conscientious Christian." FREE OF CHARGE. Any adult suffering from a cold settled , , 1. 1. t.A.t. llfl f Vt -; ! ? lliniT Oil iiie urra&b, uiuuonnf. miu v. . 1.1 t ,,n n.;il oall at Tho uuuum ui niiy uaiiuc, " ...... Dorsey Drug Go's will be presented with a sample oouie oi chkh:uvv o ucimu jiuj-, free of charge. Only one bottle given to one person; and none to children without order from parents. . 1. .. a Inn. unmoff Mir ll.d CI5fll i o iiiioai ui 'i 6 itunuj - a sale as Boschee's German Syrup in all parts of the civilized world. Twenty years ago millions of bottles were given away, and si trill toll Vfllt 1 tS SlinMKjl WftS JUU1 CllUJjgkOW W J " - maryelous. It is really the only Throat and Lung Remedy generally endorsed by physicians. One 75 cent bottle will cure or prove its value. Sold by dealers in an civilized countries. Following is the speech of Hon. Charles Brantley Aycock, of Wayne, before the Democratic Convention in Raleigh last Wednesday accepting the nomination for Governor. After the wild applause which greeted his nom- nation by acclimation in response to calls Mr. Aycock appeared before the convention and spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: The language of gratitute ought to be brief, for inadequacy of speech is never so apparent as when it seeks to convey a sense of obligation. I am grateful to you and to the people whom you represent. I cannot tell yon how deeply so. My past life and service to the State have so little jus- tined the great conhdence which you show in me today that I am made humbly anxious for all the rest of mv life to approve to your judgment the action of your affections. This nomi nation has not come to me unsought, but I can say with truth that I have sought it in honorable fashion and it has come to me free from taint of contrivance and combination. tor the office of governor itself, dignified and honorable as it is, made glorious by the records of a long line of the State's greatest and best men, I have not wished, but I have earnestly de sired that manifestation of affection on the part of the people of North Carolina which finds its expression in election to the governorship. This unanimous nomination is a joy to me, because the good-will of mv fellow citizens has ever been a thing of de light to me. When I consider the character, the ability, the service, the litness of the trentlemen whom were named in connection with this lomination, any one of whom would have done honor to the State, I am oppressed with consciousness of my obligation to you, and with fear of my inability to meet the demands which your kindness makes upon me. But the light is not mine, nor shall 1 claim the victory when it is won. The con test this vear is to be made by the people of North Carolina and the per sonality of men will count for little. 1 he question for settlement is of the utmost importance. It touches the vce question and deals with condi tions, tor thirty years our political battles have been fought from time to lime along: race lines, while we have sought in vain to make the theory of universal suffrage to work out good government and private virtue. We have found bv actual trial that it can not be done. Senator Cullom tells us in his report of the Hawaiian commis sion that "the American idea of uni versal suffrage presupposes that the body of citlaens who are to exercise it in a free and Independent manner have by Inheritance or education such knowledge and appreciation of the responsibilities of free suffrage and of a full participation in the sovereignty of the country as to be able to maintain a republican form of government." Our experience has taught us that the negro has not such knowledge either by inheritance or education. The whole people of North Carolina have undoubtedly come to this con clusion. All parties have in different ways and to different extents recog nized the incapacity of the negro for government. In 1875 the people changed the Constitution at the in stance of the Democratic party, and authorized the legislature to provide for the government of the counties. Under that Constitution the legisla ture provided a system of county gov eminent by which the justice of the peace in the various counties were appointed by the legislature and not elected by the people. These justices in turn chose the county commission ers who appointed the various school committees and passed upon the bonds of the county officers chosen by the people. The counties of West ern North Carolina gave up their much loved right of local government in order to relieve their brethren, of the East from the intolerable burden of negro government. For twenty years the Republican party waged unceas ing warfare upon us against the form of county government adopted by the Democratic party. They appealed to that desire which has always charac terized our people to participate in the selection of the officers closest to them. When the Populist party came into existence it joined with the It publicans upon this Issue and together they won a victory over the Democra cy. They came into power with the distinct pledge to restore to the peo ple local self government ami indeed the act changing the old system is entitled, "An act to restore to the people of North Carolina local self gox-cannie," and yet coming into power as they did upon this distinct pledge they were afraid to trust the negro with the government and put in the statute a provision for the ap pointment by a judge of the Superior Court of two additional county com missioners, and clothed these with more power than the other three chosen by the people possessed. Fear of the negro rule compelled the Republicans and Populists ;o intro duce for the first time in North Caro lina since the Democratic party abol ished it under the leadership of that true hearted and great North Caroli- wiser than the average of the wrtue : better than "savages. it then it be nian. Governor David S, Reid, a gov- and intelligence of the party that i true that unlettered white men have eminent by free-holders, for this act I governs. The Republicans " insist ' a knowledge of government superior distinctly provides that the two addi- ' that we have never had negro rule in to that possessed by unlettered ne tional commissioners shall only be ap-1 North Carolina; that the Republican groes I want to know if Senators But pointed upon the application of 200 party elects white men to office and j ler and Pritchard and Governor Rus citizens, 100 of whom shall be free- this "fact gives us a government by i sell want the Supreme Court to hold holders. The Republicans and Popu- white men. Governor Russell in his that the XV amendment demands a lists themselves thereby to some ex-1 message to the last legislature vindi- lie? The Democratic party knows the tent restricted suffrage to those who ' cates himself against the charge of j truth. It is certain that the unlet owned land in order to escape from S appointing negroes to office and ; tered white man is more capable of the unbearable burden of negro rule 1 proudly boasts that out of 818 an- ! government than the negro. It is so in the Eastern counties, is there any Republican, is there any Populit who will deny that this provision was put in the statute as a safeguard against the evil of negro suffrage, will any of them pretend that any such provision would ever have been made if only white men could vote? They thereby confess, and they have put this con - fession in the form of a statute and, written it in the law hooks, of North AYCOCK'S GREAT SPEECH BEFORE THE DEflOCRATIC CONVENTION CEPTINQ NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR. The Dauntless Young Leader Upon Whose Shoulders the Mantle of Vance Has Fallen He Electrifies the Vast Audience by His Matchless Eloquence 2,000 People "Hang Upon His Words" and Applaud Him to the Echo His Speech a Whole Campaign Document in Itself, Un answerable and 'Overwhelming in Argument. Carolina forever, that the negro where he predominates in numbers cannot be trusted to govern. They them selves declared his unfitness and pub lished his incapacity. Again in 1897 there came into the Executive chair in North Carolina a man, who in a public speech had de clared that he was not a friend of the white man nor a friend of the negro, but a friend of MAN. With his advent to power the negro naturally forgot the days when he was regarded as a savage and with expectant joy listened to the inaugural address which was to usher in that new and glorious day of political equality, but before that address closed we hear this friend of MAN warning the legislature not to turn the cities of the State over to the "ignorant and propertyless ele ments," and thereby this friend of MAN declared that fond as he was of universal mankind he realized that the negro is incapable of governing the cities in which he predominates, for surely it will cot be contended by anybody that Governor Russell had other reference than to the negroes when he spoke of the "ignorant and propertyless elements." And the legislature of 1897, violent as it was, determined as it showed itself to be to break all ties with the past and to repeal all Democratic legislation fol lowed the advice of the Governor to the extent of providing for the ap pointment b' the Governor in the cities of New Bern and Wilmington additional aldermen to those selected by the people. This act of the legis lature and this idea of Governor Rus sell came before the Supreme Court of North Carolina in the case of Harriss vs. Wright from Wilmington, and that body sustained the legislation and recognized alike the unfitness of the negro to rule a.nd the right of the State to protect itself against his in competency. Every judge on that bench knew that as a matter of fact that legislation was passed to discrim inate against the incapacity of the negro and yet the opinion of the court does not mention the 15th amend ment nor declare the act unconstitu tional. So I may be permitted to ob serve in passing that the court knows manv things as facts which it can never know judicially. Further con firmation of the unfitness of the negro to govern may be found in the open letter which Senator Butler addressed to the people of North Carolina just before the election in 1898, in which he pledged the Populist candidates for the legislature to introduce bills providing a special form of county government for certain Eastern counties where necessary. In what Eastern counties did Sena tor Butler suppose a special form of county government was necessary and why was it necessary? Plainly he meant in those Eastern counties where the negro predominated and because of the unfitness of the negro to rule. A, more recent and convinc ing evidence can be offered. Senator Pritchard in his speech delivered in the United States Senate on January 22, 1900, uses this language: "In the very nature of things it (negro domi nation) cannot be. From the earliest dawn of civilizaton to this good hour the great white race has given to the world its history, its philosophy, Us lavs, its gqvernmeut, and its Cliristi ;anltv, and it will continue to do so.11 In a recent speech delivered in Golds boro by Major II. L. Grant before the Republican convention of Wayne county he declared "that the negro could not longer hold office and that for twenty years he had fought to put down the idea of negro supremacy; that while the negro under the oon stitution has a right to hold ollice public sentiment was stronger than law, and public sentiment was op posed to the negro holding office." Indeed it has become the fashisn among Republicans and Populists to asssert the unfitness of the negro to rule, but when they use the word rule, thev confine it to holding ollice; when we say that the negro is unfit to rule we carry it one step further and con vey the correct idea w hen we declare that he is unfit to vote. The causes which haye brought about this consen&u.s of opinion have in large measure forced themselves on public attention within the last few years. e have had but two periods of Republican rule in North Carolina, from 1868 to 170. and from! less the white man is superior? Will 1896 to 1898. That party contains Senator Butler deny it? Ask the CaM a large number of respectable white ' casian, evidently named in honor of men, but the negro constitutes over ; that great race. Will Governor Rus-two-thirds of its voting strength. 1 sell deny it? Surely he will not as- ! Government can never be better nor s pointments made by him not more ! than eight were negroes. He misses j the point which we made and make against him and his party; it is not . alone that Governor Russell put the eight negroes in office and his party a : thousand more, but that the 125,000 i negroes put him in office over the ' votes of white men it is the party behind the office-holder himself, lhere is no man in the State today more AC- certainly conscious than Gjveroor Russell that he has failed of his pur pose because he had behind him the negroes of the State and not the white men. We had a white man for Gover nor in 1870 when counties were de clared in a State of insurrection; when innocent men were arrested without warrant by military cut throats; when the writ of habeas corpus was suspended and the judiciary was exhausted. We had a white man for Governor in 1898 when negroes became insoleut; when ladies were insulted on public streets; when burglary in our chief city became an every night occurrence; when "sleep lay down armed and the villianous centre-bits ground on the wakeful ear in the hush of the moonless nights;" when more guns and pistols were sold in the State than had been in the twenty preceding years; when law lessness walked the State like a pesti lence and the Governor and our two Senators were afraid to speak in a city of 25.000 inhabitants. It is the negro behind the officer and not the officer only that constitutes negro government. Major Grant now re pudiates Cougresman White and draws the color line against negro ollice-holding, but it has not been two years since a Republican convention composed in part of white men ap plauded to the echo the declaration of White that the industry of negro of fice holding ' had but fairly begun. We have taught them much in the past two years in the university of white supremacy; we will gradute them in August next with, a diploma that will entitle them to form a gen- nine white man's party. Then we shall have no more revolutions in Wil mington; we shall have no more dead and wounded negroes on the streets because we shall have good govern ment in tho State and peace every where. The Governor of the State and the Senators will not be afraid to speak anywhere, for freedom of speech will become the common possession of the humblest of us. Life and property j and liberty from the mountains to the sea shall rest secure in the guard ianship of the law. But to do this we must disfranchise the negro. This movement comes from the people. Politicians have been afraid of it and have hesitated, but the great mass of white men in the State are now de manding and have demanded that that matter be settled once and for all. To do so is both desirable anil neces sary desirable because it sets the white man free to move along faster than he can go when retarded by the slower movement of the negro neces sary because we must have good order and peace while we work out the industrial, commercial, intellect ual and moral development of the State. The amendment to the Con stitution is presented in solution of the problem. It is plain and simple. It is carefully and thoughtfully drawn. It stays inside of the XV amendment, and, nevertheless, accomplishes its purpose. It adopts the suggestion of Senator Cullom and demands the "ex istence of sufficient intelligence either by inheritance or education" as a necessary qualification for voting it requires of the negro qualification by education because he has it. not by inheritance, and demands of the white man only that he possess it by inheri tance it does not sweep the field of expedients to disfranchise the negro, which is held Constitutional by the Mississippi case, but seizes upon his educational unfitness and save3 the whites from participation therein by boldly recognizing the claims of their h&reditary litness. The amendment makes a distinc tion between a white man and a ne gro, but it does so on the ground that the white man has a knowledge of inheritance that the negro has not. Has the white man such superior knowledge? Will anv man deny it? Will Senator Pritchard deny it? Hear what he said in his recent speech in the Senate: "It is absurd to contend that there is anv danger of negro domination in North Carolina. In the very nature of things it cannot be. From the earliest dawn of civil ization to this good hour the great white race has .given to the world its hislorv, its philosophy, its laws, its overnment, and its Christianity, and it will continue to do so." Why, un- sert that unlettered white men are no certain of it that it has put its opinion in writing has printed it in the laws of 1899, has submitted it to the peo- , pie and it now challenges any white ' man in ortn Carolina to deny it. Republicans are professing a special love for the poor and unlettered white man, but at the same time they as sert that the law can make no dis tinction between him and the negro. The Democratic party takes the true. bold ground that the white man is superior to a negro and that the law of man will follow the law of God in recognition of it. If we were wrong about this, then God pity us for that sense of superiority which beats with our blood and boastfully exclaims with St. Paul, "I am free born." But the opponents of the amend ment attack it on another ground. They say that every child who comes of age "after 1908, white and black, must be able to read and write before he can vote. This is true. The amendment does so provide. We recognize and provide for the God- given and hereditary superiority of the white man and of all the white children now 13 years of age, but as to ' the future all under 13 years of age we call on them to assert that superiority of which we boast by learning to read and write. The schools are open and will be for four or more months every vear from now to 1908. The white child under 13 who will not learn to read and write in the next eight years will be with out excuse. But we are told that there are orphan children in the land. And there are. But the State and Masonic fraternity support the orphanage at Oxford and the' stand with arms open inviting the children to enter the doors of that noble insti tution. The Odd Fellows' orphanage at Goldsboro is open for the sons and daughters of Odd Fellows, and the township in which I have the happi ness to live in its public graded school teaches without money and without -price; but not, thank God, without a blessing, the orphans as sembled there. The Baptist orphan age at Thoma8ville, with its 170 pupils follows the Master and preaches the Gospel to the poor while it teaches to read and write. Barium Springs and the Thomson orphanage near High Point attest the interest of Pres byterians and Episcopalians and Friends in the education of poor or-, phans, while the Methodists are open ing in this beautiful city a home and school for those to whom they owe a duty. The State and charity and philanthropy and Christianity all stand ready to aid our boast of super iority. The man who seeks in the face of these provisions to encourage illiter acy is a public enemy atrd deserves the contempt of all mankind. I have heard Republican speakers grow elo quent ou the impossibility of the poor white children learning to read and write in eight vears. The man who makes such a speech has no such opinion of the incapacity of his own children as to suppose that they can not learn to read and write in eight years. I would that I could reach the heart of every illiterate poor man in North Carolina and give him assur ance that his children are as bright and capable as those of the dema gogue who seeks to encourage him not to educate his children. I would assure him that these demagogues have their own children in school while seeking to keep those of the poor and illiterate out, their purpose being to gain a start in life for their children ahead of those whom they seek to mislead. Gentlemen of the convention, this clause of our amendment does not weaken but strengthens it. In your speeches to the people, in your talks with them on the streets and farms, and by the fireside, do not hesitate to discuss this section. I tell j'ou that the prosperity and the glory of our grand old State are to be more advanced by this clause than by any other one thing. Speak the truth, "tell it in Gath, publish it in the streets of Askelon" that universal education of the white children of North Carolina will send us forward with a bound in the race with the world. Life is a mighty combat and the people who go into it best equip ped will be sure to win. Massachu setts has grown rich while we have remained poor and complained of her riches. She educated while we re mained ignorant. If she has grown rich out of us it is because she knew how to do so and we did not know how to prevent it. With the adoption of our amendment after 1908 thero will be no State in the Union with a larger percentage of boys and girls who can read and write and no State will rush forward with more celerity or certainty than conservative old North Carolina. The day of the miserable demagogue who seeks to perpetuate illiteracy in the State will then have happily passed forever. There is one other provision of the amendment to which I must advert, and that is the payment of tho poll tax by March 1st of election years as a condition to voting. The largest part of the poll tax goes to public ednoation under the Constitution. If our boys are to be educated as a con dition precedent to votiag after 1908, then no man who will not contribute to that end ought to vote. Nearly all white persons liable to poll tax pay it now. If the negro wants to vote it is no hardship on him that he should be required to pay his tax to the sup port of those schools in which his race gets more than it pays of the public fund. The various provisions of the amendment work together '."or the good of all men. We are going to carry them through to success. The fight is on. We unfurl anew the old banner of Democracy. We inscribe thereon White Supremacy and its perpetuation. Under that banner we shall win and when we shall have won we will have peace in the land. There will be rest from political bitterness and race antagonism. Industry will have a great outburst. Freed from the necessity of voting according to our color we shall have intellectual freedom. Error will come face to face with truth and shall suffer that final crushing which the poet denies to truth. With freedom of thought! will come independence of action and J publio questions will stand or fall in j the court of reason and not of passion. ' To these great ends I beg your un- j ceasing activity during toe present campaign. Let your work be with zeal and earnestness. Remember that the peace of the State is at stake. Do not forget that the safety of cur 1 women is dependent upon it. Ladies refugeed from Wilmington in 1898 as they did before Sherman in 1865. The county in which we are assembled is named in honor of a woman, Esther vtase. ine city tn which we are is named for that gallant gentleman whose most famous act among his many great and illustrious deeds is that he spread his cloak upon the ground in order that his queen might walk dry shod. In North Carolina in every home there is a queen, wife, sister, mother or daughter, and in her name I demand your allegiance and service. It is by no accident that the first child born of English parent age in America was born on North Carolina soil and was a girl the event was both a prophecy and an in spirationa prophecy in foretelling that modesty which, characterizing North Carolinians, has found its chief pleasure in doing things rather than in proclaiming them when doue an inspiration to all North Carolina white men to forever regard the pro tection of the womanhood of the State as the first duty which God, in the birth of Virginia Dare, laid upon us for all time. In the performance of this delight ful duty, the North Carolina Democ racy claims no monopoly, but is will ing and anxious to share with our Republican and Populist friends the glory of achieving it by establishing permanently White Supremacy there is work for us all and in the language of Admiral Schley, glory enough to go all around. If the Democratic party has seen with quicker, clearer vision the necessity for this amend ment than cither of the other parties, the fact has grown out of environ ment and gives us no right to boast over those of our race belonging to mm mi . , other parties who seeing it now, shall join with us in perfecting the good work. Let the adoption of the amend ment furnish us the occasion for a better understanding one with another and while restoring to white men the rightful superiority which God gave them, let us in the assurance of bet ter government learn, not toleration only, but respect as well for the views of those opposing us. In coming to gether for the common good we shall forget the asperities of past years and shall go forward into the 20th century a united people, striving with zeal and generous rivalry for the material, intellectual and moral upbuilding of the State. May the era of good feel ing among us be the outcome of this contest. "Then we shall learn, if we do not already know, that while uni versal suffrage is a failure universal justice is the perpetual decree of Almighty God, and that we are en trusted with power not for our good alone, but for the negro as well. We hold our title to power by the tenure of service to God, and if we fail to administer equal and exact justice to the negro whom we deprive of suf frage we shall in the fullness of time lose power ourselves, for we must hnow that the God who is Love trusts no people with authority for the pur pose of enabling them to do injustice to the weak. We do well to rejoice in our strength and to take delight in our power, but we will do better still when we come full to know that our right to rule has been transmitted to us by our fathers through centuries of toil and sacrifice, suffering and death and their work through all these centuries had been a striving to execute judgment and righteousness. That must likewise be our aim; that our labor. Can you wonder, then, my friends, that I feel weighed down by the honor which you have done me? The task is great and I am weak. To be the first Governor of North Carolina under the new order in the State may bring honor, but it may bring the disgrace of failing rightly to interpret and adequately to express the high ideals and the noble purposes which I am certain thrill the hearts of North Carolinians as the sun of the 20th century begins to brighten the Eastern skies. The morning of the New Century calls. There is work to be done the old. old combat between freedom and force is even now upon us and the mighty roar of traffic and industry cannot drown the tremendous din of the con flict. Our industries are to be multi plied, our commerce increased. We are to have an educational awakening that shall reach every son and daugh ter of North Carolina. We may not grow in numbers as rapidly as some other States, but we shall multiply many times the effective power of the State in the next ten years by the strength which comes from the wide diffusion of knowledge. It is my happiness to have been nominatetl by you for the Governor ship of that State in which these things are to be done. I shall come to that great office, if elected, with an honest desire to serve faithfully and well. I shall have no enemies to pun ish and no private ends to gain. I shall be the servant of the whole peo ple of the State are you rich and (Kwerful, then 1 shall meet you as your equal, for surely he who has garnered this harvest of hearts lias a goodly heritage and possesses a power which only folly can dissipate are you poor, still I am your equal, pos sessing no other riches than the love of my friends. I shall respect the rights of property and rejoice in pros perity, but I shall not forget that they who toil constitute not only the largest class of our people, but from their labors can spare little time to urge their views upon those whom thev have ehosen to serve them. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind Yea Hare Always Bcrght Bears the Signature of Agnes "Mark, will voa eTer love another as you do me?" Mark "Well, as it was such hard work for tne to love too, I don't think I will." RockaBye Baby These are sweet words, but haw much pain and suffering they used to mean. I fa different now. Since Mother's Friend has become known expectant mothers have been spared much c( the anguish of child birth. Mother's friend Is a liniment to be applied externally. It U rubbed thorough! into the muscles of the abdomen. It givea elastic ty and strength, and when the final great strain comes they reipond quickly and easily without pvn. Mother's Friend Is never taken internally. Internal remedies id this timo do more harm than good. If a woman is supplied with this splendid lini ment she need never fear rising or swelling brear.ts. mornlr.g sickness, or any cf the d.scomforts which usually accompany preg nancy. The proprietor of a large hotel in Tampa, Fla., writes: "My wife had an awful time with her first child. During her second pregnancy. Mother's Friend was used and the baby was born easily before the doctor arrived. It's certainly great." Oct Mother's Friend at the drug .tore. 91 per bottle. THE BKADFIKLD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga. Write fur our free Uliutrated book, " Ilcfor. Uabf U Horn." Henry Perry, Insurance.- A KtruiiKlIneof Itoth Life and Fire f panlea represented. Policies issued risks placed to oest advantage. and Office in Court House. D It. r. 8. llAHItIN, DENTIST, HENDERSON, N. C. tSPOffiee over U. Davis' store. Main ian. 1-a. Street. J II. HtClDGKItS, ATTORN BY AT LAW, HUNDKRHON, -Office: In Harris' law Dalldlng net ourt house. Tho Timo to every elderly woman when an im portant functional change takes place. This is called "The Change of Life.0 The entire system undergoes a change. Dreadful diseases such as cancer and consumption are often contracted at this t"Tlf VJino ofCaretui strengthens and purifies the entire system, and brings the sufferer safely over these pitfalls. Its effects have been wonderfuL It is good for all menstrual troubles, but is especially recommended at this time. Ask your druggist for the famous Wine of Uiraui. i.ooa bottle. For advice ia cases reouirlnir soeciiil directions, address the " Ladies' Ad visory Department ' Tho Chatta nooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Term. THOMAS J. COOPER. Taralo. X1m WIli-'Mr .liter suffered from irregular and painful menstruation and doctor. could fit ralisT. har. Win. of Cardui cntirelr cufd her. .ml also helrjod nr mother tbxouarh th. Chn- of Life." ..SIX REASONS Wm.. RS. JOE PERSON'S FIRST. This la a f. rm- REMEDY Should be kept in every -ljforJI BLOOD home in the country READ THEM -SECOND.. It la i.m remedy tor... over and ir you know a DYSPEPSIA. ..SUFFERER.. THIRD.- wont you do your duty by calling hit.... ..ATTEITIOI.. to this. Yon may t ia the, remedy for RHEUMATISM. -FOURTH.- It la the Wet remedy by doing this... ..SAVE A LIFE.. for. INDIGESTION FIFTH WHY NOT .00 THIS.. It U a remedy for FEMALE TROUBLES. TO-DAY, -SIXTH., It will poalUrely eve all dis order, of the... 00 IT -NOW.. AaUFACTUtEO ONLY IT MRS. JOE PERSON. KITTBEI.L, IV. C Xew Spring Good reived daily Call and nee them, nt If. THOMAHONV. PI 1 Mi I m i
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