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Be sure to write your name, Experss Office and Post Office plainly, and then there will not be any mistaken Any Whiskey you may order can be returned if not satisfac tory and we will return your money. SEND ALL ORDERS TO The Clarksville Whiskey Hoise, Clarksville, Virginia. IWHISKEYW VW Whiskeys Promptly Filled 4.00 2.75 5.00 3.00 4.0 ) J 9 O 21)) Henderson 'u a . yynk PLEDGE LOST OF R. W. Jones Corn Whiskies, E 0. B. Clarksville, Virginia. and Make Our TAFT AND THE The following unique poem waa written by Urn. Liett Clayton Hood, (formerly Miss Liaette Bernbeim. well and favorably known in connection with her magazine and newspaper work on the State press some years ago) on the occasion of tbs celebration of May 20th. 1909. Its historic a well as its present day allusions, together with its rhythmic merit will make a good scrap book preservation to the lovers of poesy. Mrs. Hood is now associated with the Mill News of Charlotte, as editor of the Home Department of that Knblication. a position in which she is performing most commendabl- and elpfnl service even if it does not call forthl iterary effort of as high order as she is capable of. , A Welcome to the President The loyal folks of Mecklenburg ' Extend the glad right hand; Sweet smiles from Charlotte's daughters, The fairest in the land. Our gates are spread wide open, The keys are thrown away. The better pleased we all will be The longer you may stay. In Eastern florid verbiage The town is wholly yours, And all that is therein contained In its historic doors. We give true Southern welcome To our illustrious Guest Who rules and treats us squarely, For he deserves our best. He freed my native City From years of deepest shame, Placed white man over white men; All honor to his name ! This act alone has won him The Southron's deepest love, He knows the race Caucasian Was meant to keep above. Observe our seventy columns, Our noble arches three. Our granite shaft inscribing Those names which History Has writ and proved illustrious Despite the sneerers' claim, And tells the world the reason For Charlotte's deathless fame. Those brave old Mecklenburgers, In far Colonial days, First broke the chains of bondage And e'arntd the nation's praise. Old England sent her ninions To break our spirits free; "A nest of stinging hornets" They found our town to be. Our men are patriots ever, Our spirits just as high, Our valor still unquestioned, As in the days gone by. Our Southern hearts are loyal, All struggles past forgot, And Gray and Blue are blended On this historic spot. "Old Glory" here is waving So free on every side; A type of hopes united In one grand, common pride. Observe the gallant escort Furnished our President; The Blue and Gray uniting Old soldiers worn and bent. We've slain the "Billy Possum," And "killed the fatted calf," And give our heartiest welcome To William Howard Taft. LISETTE CLAYTON HOOD. According to an exchange Prof. Lovenhart of the University of Wis consin, has discovered what medical men believe is a cure for lockjaw. Tf bis discovery proves a success he will be indeed a benefactor, for this dread disease has been hitherto deemed in curable. NOTICE To Justices of the Peace of Vance County. AS PROVIDED BY SECTIONS 707 AND 716 of the Code of North J'arolina. which Sections were re-enacted by ct of the General Assembly of North Carolina at its Reunion in 1899 ("see Chapter 28 Public Laws 1899) the Justices of the Peace of Vance county are hereby called to meet with the Board of County Commissioners, in joint session, on the First Monday In June, 1909, for the purpose of levying the taxes for the year 1909, and the transaction of Buch other business as may lawfully come before :he joint meeting. This, the 2nd day of Mav, 1909. JAMES AMOS, Chairman Board of Commissioners. K. W. Edwards. Clerk to the Board. Own Whiskies. 100 proof. 1 gallon of Whiskey and jug, $2.15 2 gallons of Whiskey and jug, 4.30 3 gallons of Whiskey and jug, 6.50 4 gallons of Whiskey and jug, 8.60 1 gallon 4 years old Whiskey, 2.50 1 gallon 8 years old Whiskey, 3.00 4 qts of 1 0 years old Whiskey, 4.00 1 -2 gallon of Whiskey and jug, 1.25 TWENTIETH. I MECKLENBURG DECLARATION MAY 20th. 19097CREATEST DAY IN HISTORY OF CHARLOTTE. President Taft Makes Notable Speech Partisan Politics Not a Factor in the Disposi tion of High Judicial Offices His Course in Seemingly Ignoring the Republican Par ty in the Appointment of Judge Connor to the Federal Bench Discusses Mecklen burg Declaration of Inde pendence and Has Words of Commendation for the Prac tical Measures Provided by That Document Nation's Chief Magistrate Given Hearty Welcome Intro duced by Gov. Kitchin. Charlotte Observer. Welcomed royally as the hen,d of a united nation with all the honors-! which a patriotic and public-spirited people could bestow, and r epondinr in a kindred spirit whicL inspired him to pledge his power to the ob literation of all sectional differences, the Hon. William Howard Taft . Pre41 ident of the United States of Amer ica, was for twelve hours Yeateriny the welcome gruest of Charlotte end of North Carolina. Culminated then the celebration in honor of the Meck lenburg Declaration of Independence with which all the drenching power of a Gulf coast rain-storm could Hit partially interfere. Never in the his tory of the City of Charlotte has there previously occurred such a day marked bv such a contest between the powers of men and those of nature, a contest which had a drawn battle as its final issue, with the hon ors, all thing's considered, trell earned by the plucky celebrants. beginning hours before dawn, the rain, which was predicted set in with uurelenting violence, continued until a few minutes before the arrival of the President's train at 10 o'clock, ceaseil for more than two entire hours, only to descend again a veri table clouil-buret just as the rear of the mammoth parade had reached Independence Square, two blocks from the stand where stood Ameri ca's Chief Executive in review. Its interference with the occasion on which it had in such unwelcome fash ion intruded, forced the change of the place for the Presidential address from the open air reviewing stand to the Auditorium and the calling off of the military drills and the baseball game in the afternoon. Unquestionably it deterred untold thousands from leaving their homes in other towns and yet special after special rolled in in early morning crowded from front to rear with vis itors who knew that whatever hap pened Charlotte would make good. And she did, so far as lay in human power, in the fa of a twelve hours' rainfall three times the amount of that for the month's preceding 19 days. GOVERNOR KITCHIN INTRO- DUCES THE PRESIDENT. The President was introduced to the vast crowa assembled at the Auditorium by Gov. Kitchin. "It is unfortunate," said Governor Kitchin, "that these exercises must be held indoors, instead of outside, wher prerybody could see and hear. Today h the Twentieth of May, and iy countrymen, if the flood' that Ufv descended todav could not Ju.ui?n the ardor of the Twentieth of May spirit, you may know that that spirit is warmKl bv the eternal truth. "Mr. President, I understand that when you were inaugurated in Wash ington a happy event, at which I could not te pres?ntr-the storms there rayd, but I will guarantee that we have convinced the President tlmt we could have surpassed anv inauguration time, if it had just been winter time. "The Chief Magistrate of this nation has often faced vaster crowds than this, in the greater cities of the country; in immense auditoriums often have 12,000 and 15,000 people heard him, but never did a truer people; a nobler people, or a more patriotic people hear him than will hear him todays a people who seek for the truth, and worship at the 6hrine of justice, whose loyalty to home and country and God is un stinted; a people whose patriotism is as boundless as the influence of the American Republic. "Ladies and Gentlemen: The vast crowds that have gathered in this beautiful city in this May-time this year, are not merely paying tribute to history and heroism and patroit ism, but they come, Mr. Presideut, to pay tribute to the eminent charac ter, the spleudid fame, the worthy services and the exalted position of the President of our common coun try. Fellow countrymen of the Caro linas, this sea of intelligent faces, this happy audience demonstrates a welcome to him far beyond the power of man to express in words. "And yet it has been fitting that your honorable servant not merely in his own behalf, and voicing his own sentiments of joy, but in behalf of the great Commonwealth of Caro lina, should participate in the exer cises as an official evidence of the sin cere pleasure of the genuine welcome, which North Carolina tenders today to one whose strength was great enough to make him the leader of a great politicial party; whose man hood and magnetism and patriotism and greatness were sufficient to make him the highest official of the great est people in the universe. "Carolinians, I present to you His Excellency.the President of the United States. Honorable William Howard Taft, who will speak to you." PRESIDENT OUT LINES APPOINT MENT POLICY. Declaring it the fixed purpose of his administration to do everything which circumstancesempower him to do to remove the last vestige of sec tional feeling remaining as an after effect of the war between the States and, as a means to that end, an nouncing it to be his policy in select ing men for important positions to make his decisions largely on the basis of the respect and honor in which they are held by their home people with whom they are to serve, President Taft won the enthusiastic cheers of 5,000 people who filled the Auditorium, at the intersection of College and Fifth streets, in the after noon. Interesting reference was made to the appointment of Judge Connor to the Federal bench. "The Federal judiciary to my mind," said the President, "is the strongest bulwark we have in a,U this country to protect our institutions of civil liberty. And there is no greater duty resting upon the Chief Executive of this" nation than that of the ap pointment of a man to that position who will strengthen it to all the peo ple at large. The Federal judiciary should be as much appreciated in the South as in the North and if I have an opportunity to make any further appointments in theSouthit will con tinue to be my duty to make such ap pointments as will appeal to all the people, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, and 1 ask all citizens, whether they be Republicans or Dem ocrats, to accept the appointments made as men, if they are men, who will carry on their high duties with an eye to the .administration of jus tice, to accept them and congratulate the people on ihe appointment and not make use of them for any politi cal or partisan argument or partisan appeal." these were perhaps the most sig nificant utterances of his speech of more than an hour, so far as the South and the country at large is in terested. Entirely satisfactory to the most exacting defenders of the validity of the Declaration were Mr.Taft's refer ences to that famous document. "There is a controversy," he said, "as to what were the exact words used in that Declaration." Not a word was uttered expressive of doubt as to the fact that Mecklenburg did declare her independence, though he did not attach nearly so much im portance to the mere fact of the dec larations made as to the provisions made for a new government. "My friends." said he, "these gen eral declarations, unaccompanied by some general sense of the responsi bility of self-government, are woth little or nothing. It is the men .who go forward, knowing what they are doing, when they are cutting off their relations to one government and un derstand that the only justification for so doing is the practical prepara tion of a new government. That is what makes Anglo-Saxon liberty. That is what has distinguished our race for a thousand years the fact that we dealt with what was practi cal and not with what was poetical, and oratorical and rhetorical." FULL TEXT OF PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Following is the President's ad dress in full. Itowing his acknowl edgements of the warm reception given him as evidenced by tumultuous applause and cheers from thousands of throats as he looked out upon the sea of smiling and UDliftfd faces be fore him with responsive good nature and the characteristic Taft emile the President said: "Governor Kitchin and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Carol inas: "One of th-j embarrassments that attends the intense pleasure I have in coming into the Southland is the con sciousness that I will have to do some speaking, and that you are so used to eloquence of the highest order that I have to submit myself to a com parison that is always invidious. I am here this afternoon merely to talk to you. What I have to say will not rise to the dignity of a speech "In the first place. I should like to express my sincere gratitude to the Governor of your State, to the Sen ators of your State, who have done me the honor to be present on this t siiouia like to include, too, those members of the Confederate Veterans, those members of theGrand Army of the Republic, those members of "the Daughters f the Revolution, that ditinguished lady, the widow of Stonewall Jackson, and all the other charming and delightful people who exposed themselves to the elements this morning to celebrate this day. and in part, I hope, to give me wel come. "I wish to express also to the com mittee of arrangements mv deep re gret that Mrs. Taft was not able to be present tp share the welcome which your committee was good enough to tender her. I assure you 1 don't make near so good a show when the better half of my firm is not with me." "We are here to celebrate a decla ration of independence. There are some unregenerate persons (laughter) who live in South Carolina (laughter) aud elsewhere that for various mo tives have cast a doubt upon the claim. Now anybody that comes to Charlotte who is not willing to admit in the full the Declaration of Inde pendence made in Mecklenburg, is in the position of a man of whom a lord justice of the Court of Appeals of Ire land told me. 1 met him in Canada. He had a good deal of experience in courts, and he was redolent with Irish stories. He said that he was holding court in t he County of Tipperary, and that a man came before him and a jury charged in the indictment with manslaughter, and that the evidence showed that the deceased had come to his death by a blow from u black thorn stick in the hands of the de fendant; but theevidencealso showed that the man who died had a pajer skull,' as it is cjilled in medical par lanceunduly thin. The verdict brought in was that of 'guilty of manslaughter,' and his lordship called the man before him, and asked him whether he had anything to say why the sentence of the court should not be pronounced upon him. The defendant, turning to his lordship said, 'No, your lordship, I have noth iug to say, but I would like to ask one question.' 'What, my man, is that?' said he. I would like to ask 'What the divil a man with a head like that was doing in Tipperary?' (Laughter) I would like to add in ex planation of my position, what the divil a man who does not believe in the Declaration of Mecklenburg is doing in this presence? (Laughter and applause.) "The claim is that more. than 12 months before the members of the Continental Congress declared that it was necessary to hav a separate and independent government in this country, free from British control, that Declaration was made in the court house in thiTown of Char lotte by a committee of the county, of whom there are decendants living among you entitled to your respect and to your congratulation on such ancestry. There is a controversy as to what the exact words were that were used in that Declaration. I am not going to enter upon any such discussion, but I am going to point out what seems to me to be, whether you take one version or the other, the very important part of that Dec laration, viewed from the standpoint of practical patriotism and practical statesmanship. THE IMPORTANT PROVISIONS. "The general declaration as to the rights of man 1 do not count nearly so important, looked at from the standpoint of t lie responsibility of the people who made it, as the prac tical provision contained iti that Declaration for a government which was to succeed the British govern ment, and to ac-Hpt all th respon sibilities, to maintain a government of law and order, an-l a government which should have a military force to defend itself, mv iridium, tnese general declarations unaccompanied bv some sense of the responsibility of self-government, are worth little or nothing. It is the men who go for ward knowing what they are doing when they are cutting off their rela tions to the government, and under stand that the only jurisdiction. for o doing is the preparation and the practical preparation of a new gov ernment. That is w'nat makes Anglo Saxon liberty; that is what has dis tinguished our race for a thousand years, that we ueaiL wnn whul whs practical and "hot with what was poetical and oratorical and rhetori cal. "I want to call your attention in enforcing what I am talking about to the guaranties of life the guaran ties as we knowthem in theConstitu tion, of life, liberty and property. They consist in general resolutions. that we believe in liberty, and we ie lieve every man ought to be free, and we believe that he ought to le treated justly, and we believe he ought not to be imprisoned except lawiuiiy. is that all? No. That is not all we have in our Constitution. If tht were all we had. it would not le worth the paper it is written on; it would not be worth more than the hundred constitutions that have been made in various countries, it would be invidious to mention which constitutions have gone down and haven't made a ripple on the ocean ok civilization. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. "What is it in the Constitution of the United States inherited from our British ancestry that makes that in strument and all the instruments of the State constitutions so valuable.' It is that each guaranty b a practi cal method of procedure by which the liberty and the rights of the indi vidual rfre secured. What are they? The writ of habeas corpus. What is that? That is a method of procedure. It is a method bv which a man when be is imprisoned" has the right to go to any judge and say to that judge, I wish you to call my. captors here and have them teJl you wnetneri am lawfully imprisoned or not. the judge does not do it, he nVht of action against him and II iim a which usuallv involves imprisonment "That is a practical method. It in a procedure. It is not a general dec laration. It is something that every- hnHv ran tell about. I am a little more emohatic about this becau have come up against the other kind of declarations in some of my experi ences in the Philippines. A gentle man came to see me one morning, the toAdintr ronnsel in Manilla, who had drafted the Constitution of the Phil- inninp. and at the same time an old man came in with a petition to me I was then chairman of the Philip pine commission, and the petition showed that thw old ruan's son had been six vears in Bilibid, imprisoned without a trial, and without knowing what he was there for. "I said to the lawyer, 'Why don't occasion, and to give me welcome. I He said, 'What is that writ?' I said, It is a petition inquiring into the lawfulness of his imprisonment, and General Otis has issued the order granting that writ or the allowance of that writ, and you can have it here. "He i-kl me to draw up a peti tion, which 1 did, and he took it into one of the local courts, which hap pened to be presided over by an Amer ican. lb went out to Bilibid prison and lefor he got through that day he had tiled ninety petitions for the writ of halteas corpus to release peo ple at Bilibid prison who had been there from four to ten years. W hen they heard how he had gotten them out, they wanted to attend inn mass and come and thank me at m v house. 1 exprwsed my appreciation of their T.lt it ii(?e hut. n I wiw tint. nmt ants but that half of them ought to have been where they were anyhow, I ex cused them from comingand received an acknowledgement in the form of a table ornament such as they give in the Philippines, whic'i consists of a bundle of toothpick. (laughter.) OTHER LEGAL PROCEDURE. "To go on. the writ I hatiea cor pus is one thing; an indictment by a grand jury is another. That is mere procedure. That is not a general right. It is a mere form of protvdure. The right of trial by jury is another form of procedure. Then there is the fourteenth amendment and the other, the fifteenth amendment to the Con stitution, which accords to every one the right not to le deprived of his property without due process of law. That does not say that you are not to be deprived of your prop erty unjustly. You may le. All that it says is that you shall have a hearing lefore a tribunal, and that if a man is going to rob 3'ou, he has got to rob you in a regular way. (Laughter.) "Now, that is prtvctical. The Anglo Saxon ancestor knew that if he could once get it before court he would have a show for his white alley, that he would have a day in that court. and that was the true basis of civil liberty. So it is with the declara t ions that were mad? at Mecklenburg. Yon go over them and sie that they create selectment, they create mili tary guards, thej' create courts with jurisdiction, they create courts to make collection of debts, and they make every provision which a single community like a county could make, together with commitments for fel ony, to await the decision of courts to be created by thehighestauthority under the authority of the General Congress. Now there are things in that Declaration that make me thrill with pride, that there was a com munity in this country, and I ven ture to say this was not the only community, but it seems to have been the one most charged with its sense of responsibility which knew that self-government was not a mere gift, but it was something when it is to be enjoyed must be enjoyed with a full sense of its responsibility, and with the idea that there is a duty im posed on everyone who enjoys it of seeing to it that it is carried on for the benefit of all. THE DECLARATION A FACT. "The Soctch-lrishmen who lived in this community were hard-headed. They were willing to takeupon them selves the risk of being strung up as traitors to Great Britain. They were willing to fight it out, as they did so often thereafter in the Hor nets' Nest; (cheers) but they recog nized their reiponsibility as citizens and as individuals, that if they went into the business of self-government, they must make that government worthy of the name. Now, it is a fact that by reason of the lax gov ernment which Great Britain was able to give our colonies I say 'lax' it was lax, but it was unjust by fits and starts, we were our ancestors were the In-st prepared eople for self-government that ever assumed an indejendent government. They had had 200 years of independence in the sense of distance from the home government. When brought to mind they were attacked oc casionally by such tyranny as Gov ernor Try on manifested in North Carolina and as was manifested by other Governors at different times throughout the other colonies, but all that time we were gathering ex perience, we were gathering a sense of responsibility as to our own com munities so that when in '7i j ou cle ared your indejiendence here, and in we all declared our independ ence at I hiladelphia, we were in a condition with men as great, nsable, as full of the knowledge of statecraft as any nation in Europe or anv nation that ever lived, to step into the ranks of nations and carry on a government worthy the considera- t ion of t he entire world. THE WAR IS OVER. "Now, we have had a great deal of ex jienence since t hat time. e have leeii through a immlier of war. We watched the institution of ulavery grow by uulortuuate circumstaua? until it seemed to lie an issue thf.t tad to le fought out, und that wo couid not cure me ro;y pontic ex cept by an excision that threatened the whole nlivHical structure of the nation. But we have lived that through. You in the Southland had the troubls, the suffering, the sad Ions burned into your hearts with much more emphasis than we in the Northland, because here was the centre of the war, and it is entire!- natural that in the forty years which have uceeeded the war, with the coutinuance here of the race whose face was thevause of the war, that their condition, even after the magnanimous spirit howti on loth ides at Appomattox wa blazoned to the world there tthould continue a bittenie. of feeling that time and long time could only efface; but when we look back I think we inut con gratulate ourselves that even in that time the feeling hi no largely disap peared, and that we are now a tnon united country than ever since I should ay e7en a decade liefore tlie war. (Applaune). "One con Id not stand, hh I did, on tb platform yesterday, and see 1, 200 Union veteran from Pennsyl vania, who had taken part in the battles alout Petersburg, meet and fraternize with ."00 veteran of the Confederacy in their gray, and bear the expressions of mutual esteem and mutual appreciation of the brery on lioth sides and the deuire to further unite without beiugcon vinced 4hat there is a sincere Wid a dep rooted feeling on -both side. It is true that political divisions have continued in such a way as at some times to seem to perjetuate the Tines which were made at the time of the war, but even those lines are rapidly disappearing; and it is the duty of all of us with respect to political partisanship to wipe out those lines as far as we can, and to see, so far as we may, that in each State the tolerance of opinion shall continue until there shall lie respectable par ties on both sides of the line, became it is essential tm have a good oppwi tion to have a good government. PROMISES TO HELP. "Now, if there is anything that I can do in my administration to make that feeling of union, more close, I shall do It. When 1 was running for the presidency, I prided myself on having been the first Republican can didate that ever came into North Carolina seekingsuffrages for the Re publican party. I did not carry the State, but I had a mighty good time, (laughter and cheers.) 1 am anx ious, of course, speaking from a par tisan standpoint and leaving my offi cial position for a moment, that the Republican party of North Carolina should lie strengthened merely to have a good fight every election, and of course in so far nI may legiti mately I hould lie glad to build Up the Republican part v. Now, 1 under stand that some of my Republican friends think that I have lost sight of the Republican party (cheers and laughter) in putting into otflce in North Carolina a gentleman now upon the Supreme bench, of the State, but a lawyer of the highest eminence and learning and integrity, and a lemocrat. (Cheer.) "I promised, after I was President elect, not Iwfore the election, to th South that I would do the liest I could to wipe out the feeling that the central government at Washington was a government alien to the South land, and I pointed out that the only way by which the Executive could cure that feeling wan, in o far ns in him lay, to put into office men in whom the community at large, with out regard to party would have the highest confidence. Now, I nm try ing to do that, and lam going to ap point Republicans and I am going to appoint Democrats, striving in each case to get a man who will commend himself to the community in which he lives. (Cheers). "It is suggested that it is an insult to the Republicans of a district to appoint a l)emocrat a judge lMvauwe from that is to le inferred that there is no Republican worthy of the ap pointment, and 1 understand that there are some gentlemen in the Democratic party who are willing to make that inference as strong a pos sible. (Laughter) But I venture to say that when the whole uccount is added up, that spirit will have dis appeared and the Democrats whoseck to utter it will find that it i iot such a popular method of attacking the Republican administration after all. SHOULD COMMAND RESPEJT AT. HOME. "I pleaded to my Republican friends ns a vindication and justifi cation of my course, the course of as orthodox a Republican as ever filled the Executive chair, and a man than whom there never wns a President who did so much to maintain the standard of the Federal judiciary, as Benjamin Harrison, for he deemed it his duty to put one Democrat on the Supreme liench and two on Circuit Courts of Appeal. The Federal judi ciary, my dear friends, to my mind is the strongest bulwark that we have in all this country to protect ulti mately our institutions of civil liberty There are the thing in the Federal constitution that we must love aud must hug to our bosom if we con tinue this civilization, and therefore there is no more sacred duty that tliu Executive ha than in the selec tion of men whose appointment and service cm the bench will htrengthen it with all the people at large; and therefore, ordinary considerations of political partisanship have much 1cm application to the appointment of judges than they do to other and temporary office. The Federal judi ciary should be as much appreciated in the South a it is in the North, and if I havean opportunity to make any appointment in the South, it will continue to le the chief duty I have to make such appointment a shall appeal to all the jople whether they Isj Republican or Democrat, (chec?rs) and I urge 'all citizen' whether they Ihj Republican or Dem ocrats, to accept the appointment made as men, if they are men, who will carry on their high dutie with a ingle eve to the administration of justice, aud not to make ue of them for any partisan argument or parti san appeal. THE PRESIDENT CLOSES. "And now, my dear friend. I have got to the end of my tech, I lieve. I think not that we are at a point where there i to ! a political revolution in s,,iith. I never had such a dream it I believe we are on the eve u uc!i n condition in the South that there hall lie com plete tolerance of opinion and that then? hall grow into rej-tabU power an opposition party in each State which hall tend to the better ment of the government a it exints in the State and which hall give us occasionally, a you have already given u iu North Carolina, u Uepul lican in a crowd of Democrat, in order that we may have repreentd in the Congress at Washington your view without regard to otne pat itie, without regard to the ghot of an iue that really ought not to in fluence you in enforcing thoe par ticular economic view which you really entertain. I-t me again ay to you, how mv heart has ln aroued by tb cordi ality of your reception, by th non partisan welcome of your ditin guthed Governor and your tngre men and your Senator, w lather Re publican or IeiiioTiit, and to ay to you that I haven't stiken here consciously a word to influence you in a parti mi u way, but it i imponi ble to discuss the condition without mentioning the partie. I hope you will toereiore lorgive me lor an ap parent reference to t;iitica! condi tion wlien 1 am really only extend ing to you tit right-hand of fellow ship a American, explaining poi bly by inferetice some of the ditficul tie of conducting this Government a it Chief Executive. It hank you." Caller (on cruU-hen and with a bandage over oneeyej I have come, sir, to make application for the amount due my accident insurance policy. I fell down u long flight of fetairstheotherevenirigaud ustaind damages that will disable me for a month to come. Manager of company Young man, I have taken the trouble to investi gate your case, and I find yoo are not entiltd to anything. It could not 15 called an accident. You cer tiaoly knew the yonug lady'e father was at home. Stra r Storim. (
Henderson Gold Leaf (Henderson, N.C.)
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