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CHAIRMAN SIMMONS
RINGS CLEARLY ON POLITICAL ISSUES
IN
STATE AND NATION.
Mis Able and Eloquent Address at the
Opening of the Democratic State
Convention-Democratic Adminis.
tratlon as Compared With Fusion
Rule in North Carolina Attitude of
the Party With Regard to the Fran
chise Question and Public Education
Kollowino- i.s the address of Hon.
F. M. Simmons, chairniKii of tlie State
Djtiiocratic Kxecutivo Committee, at
the convention in Greensboro:
When the Democratic State Con
vention met in 1833 the oeoole were
confronted bv two records, one the
record of the Democratic party dur
ing its tu-eniy-three vears of ascen
dency prior to 1894, and the other t lie
record of the l usionits during the
four Micccuding years. In that cam
paign we had only to point to thoe
two record $ as an object lesson and
inriie the people to compare and
consider them. The confidence which
we had from the bejfinnintj of the
campaign m the result of the elec
tion of that vear was predicated
1
upon the conviction that the people
of North Carolina possessed sufficient
intelligence to distinguuh between
rood irovernment and bail trovern-
tneiit, and suflicient virtue to nrefer
ood governnieiit to bad government.
U hen the Deiujeraltc State Con
tention met in 190 J the dark cloud
which for four years had hovered
over the State had passed away.
White supremacy had been tempora
rily at least restored and negro ollice
holdiiig had been temporarily at least
abolished. Uut ihe situation had
evtdved another duty, a naramount
1
and overshadowing duty, the duty to
State, society and civilization, to
permanently provide against the pos
sible recurrence of the awful and al
most engulfing conditions which had
followed tho elevation of an inferior
race to power in the State. Before
this (iiiestion every other question
sunk into littleness. Patriotically
we addressed ourselves to the duty
of the hour. We appealed to the
people to ratify the action of the
Legislature in placing suffrage upon
the broad basis of intelligent under
standing of the ballot and the duties
of citizenship. Their response was
emphatic
liv a majority of hfty
thousand they said, what all history
and experience proves, that the white
man, whether lettered or unlettered,
was inherently qualitied for self gov
ernment and that the black man was
inherently disqualified for self-gov
ernment and could only become qualf-
lied, if at all, by education and tiain-
Thc justice and wisdom of the
Amendment is no longer a question
for debate. That has been settled, as
I said before, by a majority of fifty
thousand, and "white supremacy has
been written in the organic law of
the State. The question which now
confronts us is shall this decree of
the white people remain written in
the Constitution or shall it be ex
punged from the Constitution, and if
expungeu, oy wnom ana uowr e
don't want another so-called negro
campaign in North Carolina. If our
adversaries will accept the Amend
ment in good faith we will not have
another. I hope this convention will
invite and challenge our political op
ponents to declare, ollicialhr and une
quivoeally, in their platform when
they meet in this city next nionm,
whether thev accent the Amenument
. .... , .
as a final settlement of the vexed aud
dangerous question of negro suffrage.
We are told that the negro is out 01
politics. We are told that the Demo
crats have promised freedom of
thought and action. If the nerro is
out of politics he is out through the
Amendment. Whatever we nave
promised as to independence was
medicated noon the assumption of
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the permanency of that measure, and
we cannot anil we win not permit me
Republican partv to appeal to and use
the Amendment to divide the white
people so long as that party refuses to
five the people a positive and
straightforward assurance of its bona-
lide acceptance of that measure, for
1 bv them under the cir-
. - -
piimstances to irive such assurance
discloses a sinister purpose with ref
erence to that measure which, for se
..rot raons. thev are unwillinr to
admit.
, have the risrht. and it is our
duty, in my judgment, in these cir
cu instances, to say to the Hepubli
can party, you are demanding :
chano-c of policies and political con
ditions in North Carolina on account
nf the Amendment. We demand that
vou define
rir;:::'
lidity.now,
define vour attitude towards
sure. If you accept it, say
propose to attack its va
or hereafter, say so, and
in lornK that niean ves or no.
aaj .
An answer which means eitheryer or
no. or neither, as future expediency
mav suggest, will not be accepted.
Until this answer is forthcoming,
until the Amendment is accepted
as u linalitv by all parties, or until
it is judicially established, if it is to
be attacked, it win oe me umj ui
white people to continue to stand
together for its protection and their
nrntoptinn.
In 1898 we regained control of the
legislative department of the gorern
nient. In 1900 we regained control
of the executive department of the
trovernment. And while the work of
Redemption will not be complete
until the nominees of this convention
have been elected and the prestige of
the judiciary, lost under fusioa re
crime, restored, for all practical pur
poses, with slight exception, the
Democratic party for the three years
last passed has been in control of the
affairs of the State and responsible
for their administration. The Demo
cratic party and the State are to be
congratulated upon the material
0 . . l. - Mn.fa t ririnrr
progress wnicn we unc n" r
1. 0 nnnAritll
these three years 01 icmuvi..
ministration. Never in all our his-
ory have so many industrial enter-
tprises been organized and established
in the State in the same length of !
time as daring these three years !
under Democratic control. Never in j
all our history have so many corpo-
been formed and chartered in the
same length of time as during the
last year under Democratic control.
This record is a very gratifying ex
pression and illustrative of the con
fidence of capital and capitalists',
both inside and outside of the State,
! not only in the future of- North Caro
I lina, but in the party now iu power
i in the State, and I know I voice the
sentiment of this convention and of
, the Democratic people of North Caro
; lina when I say that as long as we
j remain in power in the State we will
iuuuuci us auairs so as to merit anu
receive a continuation of this confi
dence, not only from our own people,
but from those outside of the State,
who have capital to invest or who
are seeking homes. As long as the
Democratic party remains in power,
it will treat every legitimate interest
in the State with absolute fairness
and justice, and it will protect in all
of their just rights all the agencies
and instrumentalities of progress and
development by the enactment of
wise, equal and just laws, adminis
tered without discrimination and in
terpreted without fear, favor, bias or
reiudice.- hqualitv in benefits and
equality in burdens is fundamental
11 the Democratic creed. This much
every legitimate interest in the State
as a right to expect and demand of
the party iu power, and this much
every such interest will receive as
long as the Democratic party remains
iu power iu the State. Uut no leeriti-
male interest iu the State has a right
te expect or demand of the party in
power any special privileges or spe
cial exemptions, either in duties or
burdens, and none will bt given while
the Democratic party remains in
power in the State.
In addition to the duty of enacting
wise and equal laws for the protec
tion of life, liberty and property, the
State owes to society and civilization
three paramount duties which the
Democratic party is pledged to dis
charge to the fullest extent of the
ability of a generous, humane and
patriotic people. e owe to the
children of the State the duty of giv
ing them an opportunity to acquire
an education. This the Constitution
requires and the Democratic party
has promised. Ihis year, for the
first time in the history of the State,
we have reached the constitutional
requirement and have given to every
district in the Stale a four months
school term. There must be no falling:
or turning- back in this matter.
The State owes a high duty to
God's unfortunates those upon
whom the hand of affliction has been
heavily laid; the insane, the deaf,
the dumb, the blind and the helpless
poor. No people need expect the
blessings of Providence
who neglect
to minister to the needs of
these un
happy ones. It is a reproach to the
State, and it will continue to be a re
proach to the State as long as one of
these has to be housed or confined in
a place set apart for criminals.
Last, but not least, we owe a duty,
a sweet and loving duty to the broken
remnant of that immortal band who,
at their country's call riskeil their
livc3 in defense of a cause and a
principle which they believed and
which we believed to be right. 'Great
er love bath no man than this, that
he give his life for his friend.' He
who goee to war for his country risks
his life for his fellow man. As long
as one of the old heroes lives, it will
be the duty of tho State to see that
he suffers no want he ciuiuot himself
ieasonably supply.
These are the duties imposed upon
us by civilization, by Christian iiy
and by patriotism.
The Democratic Legislature of 1899
and 1901 appropriated for these
three great objects: education, chari
ty, and pensions to Confederate sol
diers something over a million dol
lars more than the two Fusion Legis
latures appropriated for those pur
poses, and at the end of the present
fiscal year the Democratic party will
have spent for these three great ob
jects something over a million dot
jars more than the fusiomsts spent
for these purposes during the tour
years they were in power.
During the three and a half years
of our tenure of office we have appro
priated, and at the end of the present
hscal vear we will have spent six
hundred thousand dollars; (mark the
figures antT register them in your
minds) six hundred thousand dollars
more for the common schools than
the Fusionists appropriated and spent
for that purpose during the four
veari of their tenure of office. If
anybody wants to attack us for this
we sav to them: "Attack to your
heart's content. ' We have no apolo
gies to make for it. We glory in it.
We sav to them the Constitution re
quired" it, we were able to do it, it
was our dutv to do it, we did it, and
we
thank God we did it with the
unanimous consent of the people of
North Carolina, for lam glad to say
the Populists and Republicans as
well as Democrats in the Legislature
of 1S99 and 1901 voted for the bills
making these appropriations for the
common schools.
W hen the Jrusionists turned over
the legislative branch of the govern
ment to us, there was something like
four hundred insane, many of them
confined in the common jails with
criminals, appealing for admission to
the hospitals for the insane, out wno
could not be received there because
of the lack of room. During the four
years of their tenure, although there
. . " -
bad oeen a great increase iu me uutu
ber of insane in the State, the Fn
sionists did nothing to enlarge these
institutions and to relieve this con
cestion. During our tenure we have
appropriated, and at the end of the
. 1 Ml 1 .
present nscai year win nave spent,
between one hundred and twenty-five
and one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars more than the Fusionists ap
propriated and spent daring their
i i
tenure of office to provide room and
shelter for these unfortunates, who
had either to lie in the common jails
or rely upon the charity and gener
osity of friends. I am here to say
that in doing this we performed a
simple duty to humanity. We are
proud of it, and a God-fearing and
a God-loving people will applaud and
sustain us in doing it.
During our tenure we have appropri
ated and at the end of the present fiscal
hscal vear will nave spent over nun- 1
dred thousand dollars more than the
usionists appropriated and spent
during the four years of their tenure
of office for pensions to disabled Con;
ederate soldiers. W ho will complain
of that? Who will begrudge this
pittance to these old heroes?
The Republican party has voted
through Congress this year a bill ap
propriating one hundred and forty
million dollars for pensions tt
Union soldiers. The Republican
party has voted through Congress
this year, another bill, pensioning
certain persons who left the Confed
erate army and joined the Union
army, and it is said there will be
paid out under this bill aboat live
hundred thousand dollars annually
in North Carolina. The amount
North Carolina will have to
contrib
of these
ute towards the payment
pensions to Union soldiers during
the present year will reach between
wenty and thirty thousand dollars
We do not criticize or complain
of just pensions to Union sol
diers, but it would be ungracious in
deed in that party which has voted
these liberal pensions, and to the
payment of which we will so largely
contribute, to the brave men who
ollowed Grant and Sheridan, to be
grudge the little mite which we have
felt able to contribute to relieve in
part at least the pressing needs of
the brave men who followed Lee and
Jackson.
For these three great objects edu
cation, charity and patriotism we
have made these extra appropria
tions, and for these three great ob
jects this additional money has been
spent.
Does the Republican party propose
to go before the people and say:
The Democratic party has don too
much for education, it has done too
much for the afflicted, it has done teo
much for the old Confederate soldiers,
kick them out and put us in power
again, rut us in power who, when
we were in power during the gloomy
days of reconstruction, turned a
stony heart to the appeals of the af
flicted and built no hospitals. Put
us in power who, during those dark
days, closed the doors of the Univer
sity of the State and, while levying
enormous taxes for education, built
no" school houses and spent no money
for schools. Put us is power who,
when we came back into power near
the dawn of the twentieth century,
failed to catch the spirit of the times
and not only did nothing to advance
the cause, either of education or
charitv, and when we retired from
powerleft both of these great inter
ests of the State in a condition of de
moralization and paralysis."
On account of the insufficiency of
the revenue to carry out the will of
the people with respect to these
three great objects, the present ad
ministration has been compelled to
borrow two hundred thousand dol-
ars. While the necessity for this
oan is to be regretted, this money
was borrowed to carry out the em
phatic mandate of the people with
reference to the schools and the asy-
ums, and every dollar of it has been
spent for the schools and the asy
lums. 1 his is not the hrst time there
has been a deficit of revenues to meet
sppropriations in North Carolina.
The Fusionists, when in power, al
though they made no extra arpropri
ations for common schools and the
asylums, had also to deal with the
deficit. Not a deficit of two hundred
thousand dollars, but of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. To meet
this deficit they sold one hundred
and forty thousand dollars of North
Carolina bonds, which the economy
of Democratic administrations had
accumulated in the treasury as a
siuking fund so pay the public debt,
and used the proceeds from the sale
of these bonds to pay current ex
penses.
'V hen they turned the legislative
department of the goverment over to
us, we had to sell one hundred and
ten thousand dollars more bonds to
pay the debts of the penitentiary
contracted under Russell.
Nothing could better illustrate the
confidence of capital in the Democrat
ic party in this State than the fact
that our present excellent Treasurer
was able to borrow money to meet
this deficit for the common schools
and asylums in New York upon his
simple assurance that the State
would repay it.
I have not said these things in de
fense of the present State adminis
tration. It needs no defense. Its
record defends it. It is only neces
sarv that there shall be no mis-state
ment of that record. It is an admin
istration of which the people of North
Carolina can be and are justly proud
It has been prudent, conservative
and progressive. It has been eco
nomical in the expenditure of the
people s money, it has not misap
propriated one cent of the people's
funds. It has kept every promise
which the party has made, and this
convention will but voice the wishes
of those it represents and it will do
itself honor in giving to it a hearty
and cordial endorsement.
And how a few words about Na
tional politics. The Demacratic party
was born when the Nation was born
It has lived through all the annals of
our history as a Nation, and will con
tinue to live as long as the Republic
endures, because it is the party o
the people and the Constitution. It
had its birth in opposition to the
"Lei tZo COLD BUST twiss doyeur tysrfr' jj
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movement which sprung up during i products to our own people in the
the first days of the Republic to turn ; home markets for from twenty-five
the Government into channels of to forty per cent, more than in
oligarchy, of class subserviency and ! foreign markets, thus proving
domination. Through all of its his- j not only that they do not need the
tory it has stood for equality in priv- high tariff protection they now have
ileges, equality of burdens, equality j under Republican laws and that these
of opportunity. It has stood against laws serve no purpose except to ena
bounties, against largesses, against ble them to levy unjust tribute upon
special privileges and discriminating j the people, but that these combina
favors. In more than one crisis in our tions are charging our own people
history it has rallied the people to j from twenty-five to forty per cent,
come together and, forgetting all more than a reasonable profit,
other differences, to stani together ! To all of our appeals for action
in defeat of the machinations of those j upon these bills, the Republican
who would employ the functions of 1 leaders in Congress have turned a
Govrfnnent for their own benefit aud 1 deaf ear, and the Republican steering
for the enslavement of the people, j committee has refused to permit them
But never before, during all the long
years of its existence, has the Demo
cratic party performed a greater ser
vice than it is performing today in
rallying the people to make a stand,
before it is too late, to prevent the
tppropriation by the predatory
classes for their own enrichment of
the powers of government.
Springing out of Republican poli
cies, fostered and protected by Re
publican legislation, there has sprung
into existence in tbis country during
the past six years nearly two hun
dred great tariff-protected combina
tions. They have monopolized for
their private benefit nearly all of the
necessaries of life. They control
competition, they regulate produc
tion, thev fix prices. By controlling
the legislation of the country they
control the markets of the people.
They absolutely dominate and con
trol the Republican party. Ihat
party dares do nothing which they
oppose, and it stands ever ready to
do their bidding.
The dominion of these tariff pro- ,
tected monopolies over the Republi
can party has never been so plainly
shown as duringthe present Congress
by the course of that party in the
matter of Cuban reciprocity; in the
matter of its failure and refusal to
enforce the Federal anti-trust laws:
and in the matter of its refusal to
permit the consideration or enact
ment of any legislation looking to the
removal of duties on trust made
goods, or the reduction of duties on
goods sold cheaper abroad than at
home.
When Congress met last December
everybody' admitted our obligation to
Cuba, our duty to see that this new
Republic, which we had brought into
existence, which had been devastated
and bankrupted by war, which by the
latt amendment had lost its free
dom of treaty and foreign inter
course, should be well and safely
aunched. Her only hope of recuper
ation lay in her sugar crop. She had
no market except ours for this crop,
and the duty upon sugar imposed by
our tariff laws was so high it could
not be sold here except at a loss upon
the cost of production. In these con
ditions the President, .voicing the
sentiments of the people, declared
that a reduction of these tariff rates
was a duty and a National obliga
tion. Both Democrats and Republic
cans in the House of Representatives
oined in passing a relief measure;
but they added to the bill an amend
ment reducing the duty on refined
sugar, a trust product, just as the
bill reduced the duty on raw sugar, a
farm product. This was fair mani
festly and eminently just, but it did
not suit the sugar trust. It was wil
ing, indeed anxious, to have the
duty on raw sugar reduced, so it
might get it cheaper, but it would
neither consent nor permit any re
duction of the duty on its own pro
duct. There was not a day during
the past session of Congress when
this bill, with this anti-trust amend
ment, could not have passed the Sen
ate, but, rather than offend the sugar
trust, the administration forces in
the Senate abandoned the whole
scheme of Cuban reciprocity and
would not permit the bill to come to
a vote. And so it happens that Cuba
must suffer injustice because the
sugar trust will not permit the Re
publican party to discharge our Na
tional obligation to it.
There is a law upon the Federal
books declaring illegal all combina
tions in restraint of trade or for the
suppression of competition. It pro
vides that the Attorney General of
the United States, through the
United States District Attorneys,
shall bring civil actions against these
combinations and shall institute
criminal indictments against their
managers. During the past Con
gress we have demanded the enforce-
ment of theae laws, and we have of
fered, if they were not strong enough.
to help to make them strong enough.
Although something like two hundred
of these illegal combinations have
been organized in the United States
during the past few years, and have
monopolized nearly all the necessa
ries of life and advanced prices, so
that a dollar will not buy today much
more than fifty cents would buy a
few years ago, in disregard of the
plain injunction of these anti-trust
laws, there is not today, so far as I
know, a single criminal indictment
pending in the Federal courts against
the managers of these tariff-protected
combinations, and only one civil suit,
and that was not instituted until the
fury of the people bad grown almost
into riot, and it is being prosecuted
so mildly that the beef trust, against
which it is brought, ha3 not even so
much as halted in its career of lute
and plunder.
Not only Democrats, but Republi
cans, among them the present chair
man of the National Republican Con
gressional Executive Committee, in
response te the demands of the people
have introduced bills in the present
Congress to take the duty off of trust
goods. In the discussion of these
bills in the House of Representatives,
we have pointed out the fact, now
generally admitted, that these com
binations, secured by the tariff from
foreign competition, are selling their
! to come to a vote
In the fact of this record, can there
be any doubt that the Republican
parly is actively protecting these
combinations? Protecting them, both
against the enforcement of the anti
trust laws and against the enactment
of legislation which might give the
people relief and interfere with their
illegal monopoly.
In the campaign of this year the
tariff and the trusts are inseparably
connected. The action of the trusts
in selling their goods abroad in
Europe, in Asia and in Africa for
one-third less than they are selling
them at home, is an object lesson in
tariff of great practical value, and is
at once an answer and a refutation of
the basic arguments upon which the
doctrine of protection rests. For
long years we have been told that the
foreigner paid the tariff taxes and
not the home consumer. This object
lesson has exploded that old Republi
can war crv. For years we have been
told that tariff protection had noth
ing to do with trusts, was in no way
responsible for trusts, and in proof
of this we have been pointed to the
alleged fact that there are as many
trusts in free trade England as in pro
tection America. This object lesson
has shown that if there are trusts in
free trade England, on account of the
absence of a protective tariff there
the-Engli8hman gets his trust goods
at world-competitive prices. Yea,
gets the trust-made goods of our tariff
protected trusts for one-third less
than we get them. ,
I will not detain you to discuss the
foreign policy of the government fur
ther than to say I cannot believe it
wise for an agricultural country like
the South to encourage the develop
ment of tropical countries. The lands
of the tropics are so very fertile and
their labor so cheap, if they are de
veloped and brought under cultiva
tion that as their products enter the
markets of the world ours will neces
sarily be driven out. I think it is
far better, from every standpoint,
for us to deal with the Philippines as
wc have dealt with Cuba.
Gentlemen of the convention, when
I look upon this great gathering of
representative Democrats from every
section of the State, my heart swells
with pride. Youre are, every one of
you, free men. Not one of you wears
the collar of any man. Not one of
you represents a boss. Many of you
haTe instructions, but they are the
imtructions ot the sovereign people
you represent, and you honor your
selves in representing them aud in
obeying their will.
There will assemble here in this
hall in a few weeks another conven
tion. It will be a convention of Fed
eral office holders, postmasters, reve
nue collectors, deputy marshals, etc.
They will carry out to the last letter
the pre-arranged program of the
bosses, and they will close the farce
by declaring the Democratic party a
boss-controlled and machine-ridden
organization. They would not think
their role of hypocrisy complete with
out some such climax.
As your chairman, I have led the
Democratic party in four hot cam
paigns. In these campaigns I have
fought the battles of Democracy with
all my might. I have won the repu
tation of being a partisan. I do not
deny the imputation; if imputation it
be. I am a partisan, but I am a par
tisan because I have believed and
still believe, the welfare of North
Carolina depends upon Democratic
ascendency; and because I have be
lieved, anil still believe, that I can
best serve my State and country by
serving best my party.
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy has a world wide reputation
for its cures. It never fails and is pleas-nut
and safe to t;ilce. For sale bv M. Dursey,
druggist.
A friend who attended the recent
Greensboro convention said to us
yesterday he had but one regret in
connection with the convention, and
that was that our old and lamented
friend Col. Iiuck Kitchin was not
present to witness the triumph of his
two sons, W. W. and Claude. With
this all who knew the old jrentleman
will fully sympathize, for no man
ever was prouder of his sons or more
anxious for their success, and both
are vindicating his hopes and
proving worthy of his prayers in
their liehalf. Italeigh Post .
YOUNG LADY'S LIFE SAVED
At Panama, Columbia, by Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy.
Dr. Charles H. Utter, a prominent phy-
. n 1 I " f a
sician, ot I'anania, txiiumoia, in a recem
letter states: Laut March 1 had as a pa
tient a young lady sixteen yearn of age,
who had a very bad attack of dysentery.
Everything I prescribed for her proved in
effectual and she was growing worse every
hour. Her parent were sure she would
die. She hid become to weak that he
could not turn over in bed. What to do at
this critical moment was a study for me,
but I thoucht of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhrea Remedy and as a
last resort prescribed it. The most won
derfnl result was effected. Within eijch
hours she was feeling much better; inside
of three days she was upon her feet and at
the end of one week was entirely
For sale by M.Doraey, drnegist.
well.'
The National convention of coal
miners to vote on the question of a
general strike met at Indianapolis
and decided against such action.
thns sustaining President Mitchell.
THE CONVENTION'S WORK.
Raleigh Post.
After getting down to real busi
ness the convention concluded its
nominating work most satisfactorily.
The nominations of ex-Judge Hen
ry G. Connor and Hon. Piatt D.
Walker for Associate Justices, Prof.
J, Y. Joyner far State Superintendent
of Public Instruction and E. C. Bed
dingtield, Esq., for Corporation Com
missioner will meet with the univer
sal endorsement of the party and no
doubt be ratified at the election.
There was no contest for State Su
perintendent, and of all who were
presented for tho other positions for
which contests were made, it mat
ters not who might have been chosen,
the party and the State would have
been assured of officers fitted in every
sense for the position they were
chosen to fill and worthy the confi
dence of all the people.
The elevation of Messrs. Connor
and Walker to the Supreme bench of
the State will restore very much to
that highest tribunal that which per
nicious activity and offensive parti
zanship has caused it to lose. They
will be under- no man's thumb, nor
will there be a string attached by
which they will be made to dance to
the bidding of any man or any inter
est. They will construe and deter
mine THE LAWS not try to make
or to execute them as honest con
science, an intelligent judgment, a
LrQid-rearing regard for their
tions, shall dictate.
obliga-
Mr. Beddingficld has served with
ability in the position for which he
is now nominated and his experience
therein will guarantee from him the
just treatment of the great interests
which are specially committed to
that department. He was fair to all
interests before, no less to the people
than the corporations, and he will be
hereafter.
Mr. Joyner has proven, in the few
months he has filled the very import
ant position made vacant by the un
timely death of the lamented Toon
that he is eminently the man for
the place, and will p'rove the excel
lent judgment of the Governor in
appointing him and the convention
in ratifying the appointment.
The people will never mourn when
such men rule.
THE GATES OF GOLD.
Men of Tomorrow.
If you are tempted to reveal
A tale some one to you has told
About another, make it pass.
Before you speak, three gates of Gold.
These narrow gates first. "Is it true?"
Then, "Is It needful?" in your mind
Give thankful answer, and the next
Is last and narrowest, "Is it kind?"
And if to reach your lips at last
It passes through these gateways throe,
men you may tell tne-tale, nor fear
What the result of speech may be.
Keep Right On.
Western Publisher.
inenrst lew advertisements may
not bring many inquiries; but, like
the foundations of a building, they
don't make much of a showing. Keep
right on building. Keep right on ad
vertising. Don't be discouraged
cause the foundation doesn't show
up very much compared with what
you expect the ultimate result to lie.
If the advertising is well done and in
the right medium, you are just as
sure of having a we'll built business
as the builder is sure of having his
house completed when the necessary
expense and work are put into it.
His Sight Threatened.
'"While picnicing last month my 11 year
old loy was jioinoned by some weed or
plant," says W. H. Dibble, of Sioux City,
I "lie rubbed the poison on his hands
into his eyes and fur awhile we were afraid
lit would loe his night. Finally a neighbor
recommended DcV ill a W itch Hazel Salve.
1 tie lirst application helped him and in a
few day he was aa well as ever." For kin
diseases, cut, burns, tcalda, woundu, insect
bitoH, DeWilt a W itch Hazel Salve is a sure
cure. Ilelieves Pile at once. IJ-ware of
counterfeit. W. W. Parker.
SO IT SHOULD.
Raleigh Post.
Among the recommendations of
the State Bar Association at its re-
;ent session, the I'ittsboro Rtfortl
quotes:
"-I. It was recommended that no
nauiKT suit lie allowed without a
the plaintiffs evidence. The bring
ing of pauper suits has lcome too
common and indiscriminate, and
should 1h restricted to eases of real
1 1 mil 11 win , JI,-,f-,T' Lt t 1 v tiwaaiM
merit. '"
And with this hIiouM le re-uaeted
the old statute prohibiting, or at
least regulating, the "contingent
fees"' of attorneys who bring such
suits.
CURES ECZEMA AND ITCH
ING HUMORS THROUGH
THE BLOOD-COSTS NOTH
ING TO TRY IT.
B. V.. H. (Detanic Blood Iialni) in noi
recognized as a certain and sure cure for
Eczema, Itching Skin, Humors, Scabs,
Scales, Watery Blisters, Pimples, Aching
Hone or Joints, Boil, (arwincles, Puck
ling Pain in the Skin, Old Hating Sores,
Ulcers, etc, Ixrfanic r.lood isaini taken
internally, cured the worst and nuwt deep-
seated cases by enriching, panfying and
vitalizing the blood, therehv giving a
healthy blood supply to the skin. Iiolaoic
F,Io-xl iiaim u the only cure, to stay cared,
for these awful, annoying skin troubles.
Other remedies mar relieve, but 11. li. o
actual It cures, heals every sore, and gives
the rich low of health to the skin, li- li.
B. builds up the brokeo-down body and
makes the blood red and nourishing. Over
3.000 voluntary testimonials of cores by
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B ). Drug
guts, $1. Trial treatment free and prepaid
bv writing I ood Balm Co., Allan?. Oa.
Describe trouble, and free medical advice
given until cured.
For sale by M. Dorsey.
THE BEST medicine 70a can take
to rid yourself of humors and
clear your complexion, is Hood's Sar
Kiparilla it's also THE CHEAPEST
Hair SdI its
"I have used Avcr't Hit Wor
for thirty years. It ii clcnnt "f"cr
a hair dressing and for Lccping t lis
hair from splitti: ic ends."
J.A.GruenenfeiJtfr, C.:a-.tfjrk, 111.
Hair-splitting splits
friendships. It the hair
splitting is done on your
own head, it loses friends
for you, for every hair of
your head is a friend.
Ayer's Hair Vigor in
advance will prevent the
splitting. If the splitting
has begun, it will stop it.
$I.N bottle. Alt iij;'t-
If your drncpist omiot mvi'ly you,
end us one dollar mt w o will rxpre
you a bottle, lie nre tl e-lre the name
of your nramtrxtwMiiiflii-e. AiMrrsa,
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J. CAY)
, Lowell, Ma.
J1. K. II. TUCK Kit.
DENTIST,
HENDERSON', .... .
C&"Ofhce over Thomas' Drug More.
JOHN HILL TUCKER
Physician and Surgeon,
HENDERSON, N. V. .
Office (the late Dr. Tucker's) iu Younu;
A Tucker build inc. Main street.
ttaT'Fhone No. 92.
H. H. BASS,
Physician and Surgeon,
HENDERSON, N. C.
tlfOffiee over Dorsey's Draff Store.
8. HAItltlS.
DENTIST,
HENDERSON,
N. C.
HTOfflie
over K. U
Davis' store. Main
tan.l-a.
Street.
FRANCIS A. MACON,
Dental Surgeon,
Office, Youngrfe Tucker Building,
under Telepnone Exchange.
Office hours 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. 3 to 6 P. M.
Hosldence Phone 88; office Phone 25.
Estimates furnished when deirnd. No
charge for examination.
HENRY PERRY,
- -Insurance."---
A Strong line of both MI aud t ire Com
panies represented. Policies Issued and
risks placed to oest advantage.
Office in Court House.
G. A. Coggeshall, ML D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
HENDERSON, N. C.
Office in Cooper Opera Houne Building.
IgyPhone No. 70.
ildren
Mt bftvt ronittot attention from th
lOtbvr. Tbir want ar numrrnt, Iwt that
palatable, airaplv, able rm4
Froy's Vermifuge
maeto moil of t!im. Kep ths attma.t
Mt Ud well ar4roi; tiU wra. u
dncm nttartl lp. K AXim hf mail J
C. St. 8. FREY, Baltimore, MU.
VIRGINIA COLLEGE
for YOUNG LAD1&S, Roanoke, VIrolnia.
Opens September 1", 1502. One of tl.
leading Sctumls f-r Yt ung Idie kn t'i
South. New buildlnct, planm and equip
ment. (Jam nun ten acre rand inouii-
tatn scenery in Valley of Virginia, fincd
for health. Euiopanand A met lean t-arti-ers.
Fulleoumc. Conservatory advatdr.te
In Art, Music and Klocutleti. Student
from thirty States. For catalogue, a!dr-.
MATTIE P. HARRIS. President.
Roanoke, Va.
CMICHfSTtR'S ECL1M
KHVROVAL FILLS
ft )rJ9
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PARKER'S
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rtUMUt UlBWl 1fV!a.
Tr Tail to Hetor Or r7
Iiir la l- Youthful Cowr.
)ttM aiiVKM t:r x:Xr
S-.ul I tvk i
"DAVE'S PLACE"
(Oppomt K. A. Is. Station.)
I CUfOPean liOlCl,
Restaurant
and Lunch Counter.
Meals Served at all Hoars Day cr Nh.
Famislled Rooms. Comfortable Beds.
Everything btrletly tirst-elass. An orderly,
well kept place.
o SALOON 0
Equal to any In the State, stocked with
nothing but the very Best and Purest
goods money ean boy.
Tbis being the grip season we have all
kinds oflngredleBts for relieving same.
FINE CIGARS AND TOBACCOS.
POOL ROOMS IX CONNECTION.
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