THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT.
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 24. 1908.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
NATIONAL
For President:
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
For Vice-President:
JOHN WORTH KERN
STATE
For bovemor:
W. W. KITCHIN
For Lieutenant Governor
W. C. NEWLAND
For Secretary of State:
J. BRYAN GRIMES
| For State Treasurer:
R. B. LACY
For State Auditor:
B. F. DIXON
For Attorny General:
T. W. BICKETT
For Commissioner of Agriculture:
W. A. GRAHAM
For Corporation Commissioner:
B. F. AYCOCK
Eor Superintendent of Education:
J. Y. JOYNER
For Insurance Commissioner:
- JAS. R. YOUNG
For Labor Commissioner:
M. L. SHIPMAN
State Senate:
J. D. ELLIOTT
Legislature:
M. H. YOUNT
Sheriff:
D. M. BOYD
Register of Deeds:
JACOB E. SETZER
Treasurer:
J. U. LONG .
Coroner:
J. A. RICE „
Surveyor:
ENLOE YODER
County Commissioner}-:
J. M. Shuford, J. L. Rhyne, R. E.
Gabriel, H. H. Caldwell and W.
F. Gilbert.
Republicans seeking for power
in North Carolina means that
the party that disgraced and hu
miliated the State is trying to
gei it by the throat again.
In Roosevelt's lettei* endors
ing Taft's mote he discusses al
most every other question except
the tariff. Why? Evidently th
"practical men" are going U
"frv the fat" out of the tariff.
Roosevelt's mantle will fall  n
Taft, says an enthusiastic Re
publican contemporary. Wei),
from a physical standpoint, at
least, we fear it will not bemuc!
of a fit!
Think of a respectable Repub
lican party in North Carolina
with Spencer B. Adams the rape
extenuating judge at its head.
Even Marion Butler stops to de
nounce thi3 Republican State
chairman.
A vote fo * Cox n eans a vote to
turn the election machinery ove.
t>the Republicans. The Gov
e nor appoints the State electior.
board and they appoint Cotlnt:
Jioards and the County board,
appoint the registrars.
There ; is no in the labor
organizations. They sre almost
solidly lined up behind Gompers.
the lattest ifc the national conven
tion of United Garment Workers
which unanimously decided "to
by President Gompers in his fight
against the injunction plank in
the Republican platform, ani re
solutions were adopted to give
him all the aid necessary to bring
about the success of the Demo
cratic ticket." They have 40,000
members.
Do you take the Democrat?
Whitener and Aycock.
Mr. B. F. Aycock brother of
Gov. Aycock and now candidate
)n the Democratic ticket for
Corporation Commissioner, is
canvassing the State.
At Hendersonviile he jumped
)n our Mike and called him a
vulgarian. This is the easiest
jvay he can deal with a brick
wall of facts. Now let's see
aOout them:
Our Mike was educated at Le
loir College, a mixed school
ivhere young men are taught how
0 treat ladies, themselves and
;heir church and friends. For
several years he has been speak
ing and only Mr. Aycock says he
is not a gentleman and decent.-
vVhitener is always sober and
thus honors his friends.
Aycock can't say this. Four
years ago, he came to Hickory to
3peak. He was to speak from
the banksteps. lie was so drunk
iiisfriends had to take him down,
dow does that staike you, Mr.
Aycock? A drunk man is liable
co say anything. Then we would
like to ask Mr. Aycock if he now
i-ides on a railroad pass.—Mer
cury.
The above editorial appeared
in this week's edition of the
Mercury. We did not hear the
speech at King's Mountain and
therefore cannot express any in
telligent opinion about its char
acter. In justice to Mr. White
ner we will say that he informs
:he Democrat that the charge
nade against him is not true
and that he used no language
that was vulgar or indecent.
Now as to the charge made by
che Mercury that Mr. Aycock
was drunk in Hickory and had to
be taken down from the bank
steps, we wish to say that the
statement is absolutely false and
the Mercury owes the public a
duty to produce the evidence up
on which its charge was made,
if there is such evidence.
Mr. Aycock has for years
borne the reputation of being ar.
j upright, christian gentleman.
He is a brother of Gov. Chas. B.
Aycock and has himself frequent
ly represented the people in posi
tions of trust We are informed
that he has for a long time been
1 deacon in the Baptist church,
che same church to which Mr.
Dlick belongs and which Mr.
Click-is also a deacon.
"It is a foul bird that fouls its
>wn nest,"
Mr. Aycock not only made a
speech, but a remarkably fine
>ne from the banksteps; and
chat he was entirely sober during
lis stay in Hickory can be
Droved by dozens of citizens! as
.?ood as this town affords.
Do business men in Nofth
Carolina want constitutional
intendment nullified? Do they
vant a return to old condition?,
vhen ninety thousand negroes
voted every election? If so, vote
tor cox, who will turn the entire
election machinery of the State
over to Republicans.
Cox didn't agree to take the
ladical nominated for Governor
intil he went to see Taft. What
lid they talk about? Republican?
seem to like Roose
velt nominated for Governor of
Morth Carolina. And yet in sorr e
counties Republicans have the ef
frontery to say favor Home Rule.
Cox said he would not accept
the nomination for Governor
inless the Republicans would
agree to nominate no candidate
or Superintendent of Schools
mi keep schools out of politics.
When Spencer Adams and Geo."
Butler took trie opposite view.
Cox backed.down. He is as
putty in their hands.
Dangerous as it is to vote for
Cox, it is alike dangerous to vote
for a Republican candidate for
the legislature. Why ? Because
the legislature has power to re
peal this or any other law, and
the people of North Carolina
have yet forgotten what it
means to let a Republican Legis
lature administer upon the State
and its institutions.
Democratic Club With 250
Members Enrolled.
The speech of Hon. J. W.
Bailey, Democratic Candidate
for Presidential Elector at large,
was well received here by a large
and appreciative audience in the
opera house. This is conceived
to be the strongest speech de
livered here so far during this
campaign. After the speaking,
a Democratic Club was formed
with an enrollment of about 250
members. The following officers
were elected:
President, A. C. Link, Vice-
President, D. H. Russell, J. W.
Blackwelder, W. J, Shuford, W
F. Bruns, R. M. Pitts.
Secretary and Treasurer, W.
P. Huffman.
Ex. Committee, D. E. White
ner, S. E. Killian, .J. H. P. Cil
ley, G. M. Barger, E. B. Cline.
Yours truly,
E. L. Shuford, Chm.
Said Cox Lied.
"Cox told me he was not ask
ing any favors of the Republican
party but he lied about that * * *
Cox got this appointment through
false pretenses * * * whether or
not he has in the past asked fav
ors of the party he is hot after
some favors right now, and I
propose to make it my chief end
in life to see that he does not
get them." Ido not mind put
ting it in black and white that if
Elwood Cox should be nominated
for Governor I would vote for
Kitchin. I have always found
him to be a gentleman."—Hilde
brand, Editor News.
Boone Items.
Correspondence to The Democrat.
Frost this morning Sept., 19th.
Judge Murphy is holding
first court here. No cases of
special interest.
It is thought that the Stata
Lime Co., of Pennsylvania
which has been boring for oil at
most have - abandoned their
works. They had considerable
trouble and only got 700 feet.
Nearly every public school in
Watauga is in session.
L. B. McNeal has sold his
house to the Appalachian Train
in? school and is building a smal
ler house on land bought of
James Winkler.
The Methodist parsonage is
being remodled.
A. M.
A Brother in the Dumps.
The following announcement
appeared in the last issue of our
Henderson contemporary, The
Gold Leaf:
"We offered this paper, outfit
and good will —everything and
appurtenances thereto belonging
—for sale. Reasons therefore
abundant and satisfactory—to
ourself.
"We have enough—not of this
world's goods, but of experience
- after twenty-one years of con
tinuous service. We are simply
tired of the ceaseless grind and
work and worry—that- distracts
if it does not kill. Life is too
short ard the game in not worth
the candle—to us. .
"We want to quite l —to save
| ourself from being driven to
drink and desperation or forced
into an untimely grave or the
lunatic asylum—either of which
would be preferable to contend
ingwith unreliable and icnom
petent help and perverse d—n
fools.
"A bargain may be had by
somebody who wants to engage
in the newspaper business in a
good town." i ~{
Senator Daniel of Virginia is
quoted in the Philadelphia Pres3
as saying that he is "one of those
men who believe that no maltter
which candidate is elected. 1 the
Unitfed States will continue in its
growth and influence among all
-nations." That is no doubt tru*
says the Roanoke News, but
there are certain "giowths" un
der a protective tariff that like
weeds are overrunning the gar
den.
% . i
A Good Crowd of People
Hears Speech of Hon. J.
W. Bailey, Elec
toral Large.
The speech delivered in Huff
man Academy of Music Monday
night by Hon. J. W. Bailey, elec
tor at Large, was heard with
great interest by a good audience,
among whom were many ladies.
The speaker of the evening was
introduced by Hon. M. H. Yount.
In beginning his speech he re
called his last visit to Hickory,
some ten years ago, and express
ed his gratification at seeing the
large progress made here, and
the signs of business acitivity,
"notwithstanding the Roosevelt
panic" He said he would deal
principal with national issues,
as we could hear those of state
and local politics discussed by
other speakers. He felt himself
obliged however, to allude to Mr.
Elwood Cox's request to the
young men of the State to put
aside the opinions and prejudices
of the fathers and judge for
themselves between the twe
parties in North Carolina. As a
general thing, it is a terrible un
safe thing to bid the young man
forget the civic righteousness for
which his sires stood, and in this
case, the Republican party and
its record in North Carolina can
be expressed in two words-Hol
den—Russell. They stand for
Republicanism with the people
of the" Good old North State."
"Against them and their record
let us place the names and deeds
of Vance, Fowel, Jarvis, Scales,
Aycock, Glenn. Which will you
choose, young man? Turning to
national issues, Mr Bailey called
attention to the great change in
public outlook since Mr. Taft was
nominated. Then he was the
biggest figure on the public
• horizen, bets were 7 to 2 in his
favor. But he has spent his time
, since in an undignified scramble
to keep on the Republican plat
form, such as it is, and at the
same, to keep his seat in papa
Roosevelt's lap. The man who
votes for him can never tell
whether he is voting for the Taft
who goes up and down.proclaim
ing that he is the one only and
true friend of the laboring man,
or the Taft who swears to J.
Pierpont Morgan that he is the
vtry map to carry through the
measures dearest to the hearts
of the trusts, or the Taft who
trots dutifully out to Sagamore
Hill to receive the commands of
the Chieftain of the Big Stick.
He has as many changes as the
sea of a summer's day. Is he
' Jeykll or is he Hyde? The most
acute lawyer in the United States
Olney, says that never yet has
he been able to learn what Taft
really does think about injunc
tions, such a mist has he thrown
around the'subject. The fact is
that Mr. Taft is suffering hor
rible from an attact of openmind
edness. As Chamberlain once
said to Balfour, his mind- is so
open that it runs out at each
end.
With regard to the Republican
party as a whole, Mr. Bailey says
it is doomed. It chose the negro
as a fetich, and he has destroyed
it. For not from the North,
from Chicago from Abraham
Lincoln's own home county of
Sangamen, comes the cry "The
negro must go. We will not
have them amongst us." And
one man tried but the jury that
sat on the riot ca3es was named
Abraham Lincoln Jones. If the
Republican party keeps the negro
in its councils, it loses the vote
of its white members; it cannot
carry the election without the
negro vote. So with the Trusts.
If the Republicans pander to the
moneyed interests, a great body
of its most honest voters will de
sert them; if they do not give the
lords of wall Street their price,
they cannot raise the money to
carry the election. Either way,
the moving finger has writen
their doom.
A great change has come over
the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt.
Since before the Convention, no
body has heard him so much as
cheep the word "Trust." He has
held his tongue, when men
listened for an explosion that
would shake the earth; he has
swallowed such a doke of corpor
ation medicine that it has quiet
ed even him. 'Without Wall Street
gold, he is helpless and he knows
it.
The speaker denenciptions of
the tariff "not a tariff for revenue
or for protection, but a tarriff
for robbery, pure and simple
were withering. The taxing
power in the United States lies
in the hands of a few men who
throttle the common people by
robbing them in the sale of the
commonest necessaries of life.
Billions of dollars in unjust tariff
restrictions are yearly wrung
from tae wage earners of the
country.
Bailey closed with a most bril
liant and glowing tribute to Wil
liam Jennings Bryan.
Claremont College Notes.
Correspondent to The Democrat.
Signor D'Anna spent last Sun
day in Salem visiting old friends.
He was once instructor in the
Salem Acadmedy. .
The primary department is in
creasing in number and efficiency]
Miss Chad wick has an interest
ing school.
Miss Sourbeer will organize
a class for the study of the Bible
on Sunday mornings.
Miss Ballew has been assist
ing Prof. Aull in teaching for a
few days.
Dr. Murphy will organize his
Bible class within the next few
weeks.
Mrs. E. B. Menzies has taken
charge of the department of
Elocution and it is expected that
under tier tuition this department
will become most interesting.
Several new students have en
tered thid week.
The management of Claremont
College has been remarkably suc
cessful in selecting a faculty of
the very best talent. Tha latest
addition is Miss Nantalie Ballou
of Richmond. Miss Ballou is a
native of Virginia and is a full
graduate of Roanoke Female
College of Danville, Va.
Since her graduation she has
studied French at Berlitz School
of Languages, Baltimore, and
also at Pensional Saint Maurice
Monthey, switzer; Uniueristede-
Genoble, Genoble France/ she
has also had a rich experienced
in teaching, For two years she
was the Principal of the Public
school of Byrdaville, Va; she
taught French and Mathematics
at Hampton Female College, Va;
French, Mathematics and Latin
at Warsaw Female College, Va.,
French and atßockville Institute
Maryland, and French, Latin
and Mathematics at West mini
ster School, Richmon Richmond.
She will fill the chair of Mathe
matics and Latin at Claremont.
Hebrew New Year.
Messrs. L. E. Zerden and Har
ris Sachs & Sons will close their
business houses Saturday on ac
count of it being Hebrew New
Year, The stores will be open
Mondav.
Consumers should be on their
guard against food articles thk'
are made by ignorant persons
in a haphazard manner, as thev
are likely to prove deleterious
to health.
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Stationery Movement
Doubtless you've heard that old quiz, "If
an irresistible force should strike an immov
able object, what would be the result?" Well
there's going to be a Stationery Movement at,
The Van
This is what we mean:
Ist. The Eaton, Crane & Pike Co. have
shipped us one hundred pounds of their fa
mous Kara Linen, with envelopes to match.
2nd. Stone & Barringer, Charlotte, N. C
have sold two carloads of Kara Linen at 35c
the pound.
3rd. We shall sell this first One Hundred
Pounds at 25c THE POUND.
We want the
IRRESISTIBLE FORCE
1 of this price on Kara .Linen to strike YOU,
i and strike you hard—whether you've been
, immovable to our previous appeals, or wheth
er you
Move Our Way
every time you need correspondence paper.
Very urgently,
THe Van Dyke shop.
Dining Room Furniture
■ Is pride of" every house- jjj|
keeper, and she can just revel
in # the beauty of new designs in
rich and handsome sideboards,
H buffets, china closets, dining
I I side tables and chairs, as well
a.s all kinds of household furni- fp
ture at Hatcher's. Our furni
ture is ol the best manufactur
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I patterns, Quality away up
and prices away down at &
| fie' Hatcher Furniture Go. 1
H Hickory, N. C.