North Carolina Newspapers

t . Gbe trtckors democrat Published Every Thursday by W. E. HOLBROOK, EDITOR AND PRor. Entered at the Post Office at Hickoiv as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year Cash In Advance $ i.o Six Months, " " 5> Three Months " " 2 > Special rates given to long term ad vertising. THURSDAY. SEPT. 13. 1906. Democrat County Ticket. For Congress: E. Y. WEBB. For Senate: J. F. REINHARDT. For Legislature: M. H. YOUNT. For Clerk Superior Court: C. M. McCORKLE. For Sheriff: D.. M. BOYD. For Register of Deeds: . JACOB SETZER. For County Treasurer: W. A. DAY. For County Surveyor: ENLOE YODER. For Coroner: J. A. RICE. For County Commissioners: JOHN SHUFORD, SAMUEL TURNER Q. M. SMITH, SUMMEY WILFONG L ALEX YOUNT. • • IT might as well be under stood riOw as at any other time that the Democrat is not being run for the benefit, or according to the ideas, of Republican offic holders or office seekers. So fai as the masses of the Republican party in Catawba county are con cerned, the Democrat has ni quarrel with them. Neither have we any ill will toward their part} nominees. On the other hand we have the greatest confidence in, and the highest respect for, the private character of some cf them whom we have the pleas ure of knowing well. And even if our acquaintance had led us to a different conclusion, the Democrat is no scavenger or gut ter snipe on the scent for the putrid carcass of calumny and slander. But in all matters which are legitimate subjects of criticism, which pertain to of ficial obligations or fitness, the Democrat will express its opinion without fear or favor. The an tagonism which it has aroused is the highest possible tribute to its service done for the Democratic Party. POSSIBLY Bryan is being sent into North Carolina to offset the defection of Mr. Toms. THE Maine trouble with the Republican Party seems to have been a scarcity of votes. THE chairman of the Republi can Executive Committee in Maine will have to get Mr. H\ Adams to teach "'im 'ow to be 'ilarious." IF the papers don't let Mr. Roosevelt alone about his f at tempted reform of the English language he will soon be spelling dam in the old fashioned way. UNDER Democratic rule jNorth Carolina has one of the best gov ernments in the Union, a condi tion which the voters will en dorse by fifty thousand majority. A weekly exchange informs us that Crawford and Britt are members of the Baptist church. We hadn't heard of that but we knew that both were immersed in politics. AN exchange states that Ma rion Butler is "known to dislike Spencer Blackburn." However all. other signs indicate that Blackburn's popularity is wan vwHomira ai - J £ - _ m §4: . WE have yet to hear any note' 1 of approval from ' Marion Butler regarding Bryan's position or government ownership of rail roads. Can it be possible that the apostle of the masses has back-slided? SPENCER Blackburn announces that there is "Victory in thf air." But it is safe to predict that if the other Spencer B. car rig up a scare crow to his notion, she won't light in the Drummei Boy's District. WHO but a person affiicte with mental strabismus woul ever have thought that a cand - late was discredited because h draws a pension on account ot disease contracted while serving his country in arms against a foreign foe? HAVE you heard the news from Maine? It is a remindei of the campaign of 1840 when according to the whig song, "Maine went hell bent From Wayne to Trent, For Tippecanoe And Tyler too." BLACKBURN introduced Secre tary Shaw at Salisbury in a speech of fifty words. The words with which he introduced Judge Adams in the county con vention at Greensboro, though fewer, were decidedly more ex pressive and perhaps sincerer. WHAT'S in a name any way? We once knew a man who weigh ed three hundred pounds and his name was Little Bo s. Nev ertheless, in view of the recent returns from his district, it , might be well to change that \ word by reversing its parts. » r The Republican Position On Temperance. : The Republican position on temperance is the essence of con tradiction. We note many of their writers and speakers criti cizing the Ward Bill • and the I Watts Bill and, with pretended zeal for the prohibition cause, gravely announcing: that those measures were not passed in the interests of temperance. Now if the opposition had come out in the open and an nounced itself favorable to rum selling, however much the friends of temperance might have disagreed with that posi tion, they would have been forc ed to respect its frankness and honesty. But when the Republican par ty undertakes to win votes by. telling the whiskey men that those bills are strict temperance measures and by arguing to the prohibitionists that the Ward, and the Watts bills are not fav orable to temperance. No sin t cere and intelligent voter can ! place any confidence in what they say. Are the Watts law and the Ward law temperance [ measures? It is an old and a re ' liable saying that a "man is known by the company he keeps." { Let us see who stands by those bills and who tried to destroy 5 them. Well, the Anti-saloon League is the chief organization in North Carolina that fights the liquor traffic. It is entirely non . partisan Its prefldent, Mr. J. L W. Bailey is an independent in' . politics. It is made up of Demo crats, Republicans, Prohibition ists and Independents. Among i its members are the men who in season and out of season have . stood and fought for temperance. A majority of the Christian min isters in the State are active sympathizers with the league, i It embraces the most earnest and consecrated Christian work ers of the State in its member i ship. Every sensible voter then knows that a measure bearing on the liquor question must be a temperance measure if it receives the endorsement of the Anti-sa- loon League. On the other hand, the Retail Liquor Dealer's Association is the official .organ ization of the whiskey traffic i North Carolina. Nearly every saloon keeper of any prominence in the State is a member of it. Its object is to keep the liquor traffic from being driven out of places where it does, now exist, and to have it re-introduced into those places from which it has been driven away. It strives to foster and extend the liquor traffic in the State.. Any intelligent citizen knows that to receive the endorsement of the Retail Liquor Dealers As sociation, any measure bearing on the liquor traffic must be fav orable to the liquor traffic. The Liquor Dealers Association would no more favor a law hurt ful to the whiskey business than the Anti-saloon League would favor a law helpful to the liquor business. Now how did these organizations stand? The Anti- Saloon League supported the ward, and the Watts, Bill with all their might and the Liquor Dealers' Association opposed those bills with all their might. Yet some Republican papers and speakers will tell you that there was no temperance in the ward, and the Watts, laws." If that be true what a set of fools must compose both che Anti-saloon League and the Li quor Dealers' Association. The Democratic Party, so the Repub licans say, brought forward bills favoring the whiskey traffic. Yet the Anti-saloon League had little enough sense to sup port those measures, while the Liquor Dealers Association, in stead of accepting gratefully the egislation favorable to their business, like a set of idiots fought it tooth and toenail. The Anti-Saloon league sup ported laws favorable to the whiskey traffic while the Liquor Dealers Association opposed laws favorable to the whiskey traffic. Gentlemen it _ won't do. The proposition is so absurd that to State it is to answer it. Then if the Democratic Party and the Anti-saloon League favored tem perance laws and the Liquor Dealers Association and the Re publican Party opposed tem*-er anca Jaws, which is the friend of temperance, the Democratic Party or the Republican Party? The Republicans have a per fect right to champion the whis key cause. But sensible people will know just where to place the man" who lives up with the Liquor Dealers A ssociation. The hand may be the hand of Esau but the voice is the voice of Jacob. Candidates' Speaking. The County Candidates will meet and discuss the issues at the following times and places in the county some changes be made in date: Shuford's Oct. 9 Brittain " 10 Hickory "11 Oxford "12 Conover " 13 Claremont " 15 Catawba • "16 Shawnee # "17 Sherrills Ford "18 Oliver "19 Maiden, day " 20 Newton, at night " 20 Graded School Opens. The Graded School opened Tuesday with 362 pupils enrolled. This number will be more than doubled within a short time. The school is under the management of Prof. D. K. Mcßae, principal. The corps of teachers consists of Misses Ada Schenk, first grade; Roche Michaux, second grade; Josie Doub, third grade- Bessie Leonard, fourth grade; Mamie Dixon, fifth grade; Maud Schaeffer, sixth grade; Estelle Davis, seventh grade; Kate Fin ley, eighth and ninth grades. The United Helpers The United Helpers of the Presbyterian church will sell cakes and pies at Messrs. Mc- Comb Bros, store Saturday, the 15th, from 10 a. m. to 7 p. m. House keepers will please "take notice/' Faculty Recital at Lenoif Col lege. i There will be a faculty recital at Lenoir College, Monday even ing, Sept 24,-at 8:30. Piaiioist, Artss Lillie Belle Hallman. Read- i er, Miss Bessie Danforth Bailey. Violinists, Messrs. K. B. Patter son and K. G. Bush. Public cor- 1 dially invited. , • i Court at Lenoir next week. ( Claremont College opens the 18th. Mr. R. J. Mouser is in the city for a few days. Note cartoon of old freight de pot in this issue. Send us your job work, we make lowest prices. The editor will leave to-night for New York on business. 1 Mr. Geo. W. Hall's handsome residence is nearing completion. ( A good crowd from Hickory will go down to hear William 1 , 1 Jennings Bryan. Mrs. JackSwann, from Mar shall, N. C., is visiting Mrs. Dr. Whiteside this week. McCoy Moretz and family are spending a week in the moun tains on a vacation. Miss Hendley left Monday for Greensboro, where she entered the Greensboro Female College. Now is the time to begin ad vertising your business for the. fall trade. If you have bargains tell the people about them. Now don't get mad when we send you a statement of the amount you are due us on sub scription. If you did not owe it we would not ask you for it. Keep paid up and we will not ask you to pay. • A number of good names were added to our subscription list while in Maiden a few hours on Wednesday evening. We talked to several Republicans while there, and every one to a roan will support Boyd for sheriff. To use their own words they say he must be elected. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, at Hickory, in tlie State of North Caro lina at the close of business September 4tli, 1906. RESOURCES. ' Loans and Discounts f 314,648.55 Overdrafts, secured and un secured. 3,602.63 U. S. Bonds to secure circu lation. 30,000.00 Banking house, furniture, and fixtures 7,500.00 Due from National Banks (not reserve agents.) 35,747-74 Due from State Banks and Bankers , 1,850.59 Due from approved reserve agents. 15,228.53 Checks and other cash items 1.067.74 Fractional paper currency, nickles, and cents. 627.59 Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz: Specie 7,640.00 Legal-tender notes 10,451.00 18,091.00 Redemption fund with U. 8. Treasurer (5 per cent of circulation.) 1,500.00 % Total $ 429,864.37 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 75,000.00 Surplus fund 25,000.00 Undivided profits, less ex pense? and taxes pnid 13,466.65 National Bank notes out standing 30,000.00 Due lo other National Banks 11,602.71 Due to State Banks and Bankers 11,166.54 Dividends unpaid 65.00 Individual deposits subject to check 123,888^50 Demand certificates of deposit 100,363.46 1 Cashier's checks outstanding 311.51 Notes and bills rediscounted 39,000.00 Total f 429.864 37 , State of North Carolina, County of Catawha, ss: 1 I, K. C. Menzics, Cashier of the above- ' named bank, do solemnly swear that the 1 above statement is tme to the best of my knowledge and belief. K. C. MENZIES, Cashier. - Subscribed and sworn to before me this , 6th day of September, 1906. E. B. CLINE, Notary Public. , Correct—Attest: } A. A. SHUFORD, 1 J. D. ELLIOTT. j - W. B. MENZIES, J Directors. 1 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF fbe Hickory Banking & Trust Go. it Hickory, in the State of North Caro lina, at the close of business Sept. 4,1906. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ' $ 104,590.75 Overdrafts, secured $ 294.16 unsecured 170.96 465*12 Banking Houses, $ 6000.00 Furniture and fixtures 1992. 11 7,992.11 Demand loans 2,000.00 Due from Banks and Bankers 27,043. 16 Cusli items 1,201.20 Gold coin 1,220.00 Silver cofn, including all minor coin currency 2,349.46 National bank notes and other U. S. notes 3,161.00 Total $ 150,022.80 LIABILITIES. Capital stock 35,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 2,604.48 Bills payable 5,000.00 Deposits subject to check 65,416.23 Demand Certificates of Deposit 41,502.82 Cashier's Checks outstanding 499.27 To'al $150,022.80 State of North Carolina, County of J Catawba, ss: I, J. W. Blackwelder, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear ' that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. W. BLACKWELDER, Cashier. j Subscribed and sworn to before me, f this 12th day of Sept., 1906. M. H. YOUNT, Notary Pnblic. $ Correct—Attest: j J. F. ABERNETH V, H. E. McCOMBS, J. A. MARTIN. I Directors. $250—5125. Think of it! The Chase and i .Baker, the finest automatic play- j er in rhe world for $125 for just one week. Costs at factory jj $250. Call at S, E. Killian's $ store and see it. j These prices hold good till Sat j urday next W. M. BAGWELL, Mgr. \ The World's Famous Palmists j Here. Located in the parlor over | W. S. Martin's Drug Store j are the Winterrothers,the famous j palmists and clairvoyants who J have astounded the whole coun- 1 try by their wonderful powers and are already doing 1 the sam° s h .re. They are thronged with the best people of our city and ! nothing but the very highest j commendations are heard. * j The palmistry readings are | along scientific lines and are so accurate as to astonish the most , skeptical. Their cla ; rvoyast rev elations are so wonderful that people visiting them find them s Ives astonished and amazed. Indeed, their one condition is that if you are not convinced and satisfied it costs you nothing and we have yet to hear of one who has not been fully satisfied. Last night they were unable to handle the crowd and the ex pressions of satisfaction from every one, as they would come cut of this reading roohi, caused the crowd to incrtare continu ously until 11 o'clock, when a goed n anj wiio had waited for hours had to go away without having been waited upon. They may be consulted on y matters of business, courtship, marriage, threatened danger or f contemplated of any { kind and the greatest benefits j received. « The Winterroths are spoken of y in the highest terms by both c press and people all over the t countrv and must not be con- c founded with faicers and impos- . tors who are continually infest- . ing the country. Hours 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. They will be here for a few days r only. J s Ask any "Jap" that you may see, "why the Czar, with bear behind,"had S to climb a tree. S The Yanks, God bess the Yanks, says he, they give us Rocky Mountain Tea \ E. B. Menzies. |q HELP IS OFFERED * TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE 5 W« wwtly wgiwil all rruing pwni. ■omattar ft how limited their meana or education, who «Ui to 4 obtain a thorough hralnaaati lining and joadpaat. K ton, towrite by first mail for oar great hatf-rate 1 •Oar. ° m tnrtiiiumlw iimilm fnln A ini—hil Daa'tMrr. Writatadar. i . r . 1^ • • . - - t . .' 4 ' Stetson is supreme. It seems actually to dot the landscape. When men wish to be assured of a perfect combi nation of style and beauty, they demand the Stetson. We have the Stettin Soft and Derby HaU ' 1 in all the latest styles. j From $3 to $5. Mortz-Whitenor Clothing Coip'y iT DID YOU KNOW ' ' | a The Morrison Brothers' Co. 1 jjf Have one of the best equipped Watch Jg P Repair Departments in North Caro- M lina, with three expert Watch Makers ffl @ in charge of it. If you want your P watch repairing done right and at |f H right prices. Bring them to us. OUR MOTTO: Honest work at 3J honest prices. Ig | The Morrison Bros. Co. § jjj| Official Watch Inspector for C. & N-W. Railway. 1 Our Fall f i Announcement! 1 © » 1 It's Short and to the Point. $ vD What is it thrt you need in our line? @ We are prepared to serve you and g can give you a dollars worth of goods & 5 for one-hundred cents and a chance W at a $75 Diamond Ring to be given W m away. ' • ' W ® Our stock is complete and we phall be pleased to show you anything in our line. Are you in need i|C of a watch, fob, chain, ring, stick pin, cuff buttons, bracelet, silverware, cut glass, etc —anything in the jewelry line? If so, we are prepared to take care VS) of your wants and solicit your patronage. • © VP \A e are going to give away a $75 DIAMOND RING on Jan. Ist, 1907. With every SI.OO pur- w ciiase you are entitled to a ticket wnich gives you a ® chance at the DIAMOND RING. Call for. your Q ticket when you purchase. flh i MUSIC! MUSIC!! MUSIC!!! $ rj§ Our line of musical instruments will prove to you that we carry the best, and those that will Q!- 6 give satisfaction. How about getting a STARR or to ® RICHMOND PIANO or a FARRAND or PUTNAM & w ORGAN for your home? We you a liber- W ® al discount for c*.sh or sell on the instalment plan jP § OUR POLICY is not to see how cheap a piano or or organ we can sell you. OUR POLICY is to see how good a piano or organ we can sell you to & have Si fine appearance and last a life time. Our © ® instruments are high grade, both in workmanship @ g and quality of material, etc. I The Morrison Brothers' Co 1 Jewelers and Opticians - Pianos and Organs. I HICKORY, N. C. &