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Forget Ail the Past- And Then the Republican Party Gives No Reason Why You Should Vote the Repub lican Ticket, or Why You should Not Vote the Democratic Ticket. If the Republican party had no record of Infamy behind it in North Carolina—if it could blot out all of its past—its placing of a thousand insolent negroes in office in the State, -its scandals in. the management of State institutions—its squandering of public money, its paral yzing of the school system, tlie betrayal of the interests of the State by the traitors whom it placed in high offl- e—if these and all the long list of abases which aroused the honest man-' hood of the State to revolution to drive them from power, cotuu t>e forgotten and t»hl aside, even then it would not deserve the support of any falr*minded man in the State. Forget, if you that it stands today under the leadership and domination -of a man who as a Judge under the Fusion regime befouled the ermine .with a charge to a grand jury so foul and inde cent and partisan iie wa9 lashed from the bench by the almost universal scorn of the press and people of the State, and then it neither'points out any reason why the Democrats should not t' ' ontlnued in coiit ol of the State government, Or why they should be entrusted '-"b It Hie Democrats have had charge of the legislative machinery of the State for a de«.,...,«nd its enactments hav • been 60 clearly and so universally in the Interests of the people and for the -rood of the State that the Republicans in their State platform could not point ont bat one thin.!? to eondemn, and upon this one question the Democratic position is so clearly right and proper that every fair-minded man will be compelled, in the light of subsequent development?, to agree that its position is right. The one thins: that the Republicans condemn is the reduc tion of passenger fores. It is sufficient answer on this question to say that the railroads them selves agreed to tli » rate now in force. It is a complete knok-out to tbeir criticism to show, as the sworn repor:s of railroad officers do show, that under the reduced rates the earnings of the railroads from passenger fares have been largely increased, while the people of the State are being saved a hundred thousand dollars a month hi passenger fares. The Republicans in their State platform say that onr people had a much more substantial grievance about freight rates than passenger rates, and twit the Democrats for neglecting these. The Democrats did not neglect freight rates —about which they say there was a substantial grievance. They pissed a law giving as much relief on intra-State freight rates as was deem**d just, and they put the power and the money of the State behind the Governor and Corporation Commission to light the inequalities of Inter-State freight rates before the inter-State Commerce Commission, which they are now doing. After acknowledging this grievance on freight rates the Republicans nominated for Governor "the handy man of the Southern Railway," Mr. J. El wood Cox, who rides on a pass and has a fine hotel located on the right-of-way of the Southern, and who went to Washington and testified before the Senate committee under oath that he did not believe In government regulation of railroad rates, that there was "very little'" complaint of rates being too High in North Carolina, and that he favored leaving these matters to adjust ment between the private citizen and the railroad officials. So on this issue the Republican candidate clearly does not deserve the vote of aiiy man who believes in government regulation of railroad rates—or of any Republican who balleVes in the declaration of his platform that the Inequalities of freight rates constitute a grievance of the people which thtf- State should have regulated in preference to passenger rates. Their platform favors a further extension and improvement of the public School system, and on tills question they do not deserve support, even forgetting the record of their disastrous management of the sc hools when they were in power, for the public schools are being Im proved and extended now by the Democrats as rapidly as the wealth of the State and the abil ity of the people 10 he taxed will justify. £ They favor doubling pensions to Confederate soldiers. Forgetting that our system of pen sions to Confederate soldiers was begun by the Democrats in thf face of unanimous opposition of Republican members of the Legislature, and that after it wa9 established . and when the Republicans came into power they did not increase It one penny, they do not deserve support on this issue, even if we admit that their hyporrig) on it is pure gold,. for the Democrats have substantially increased the pension fund at each ses sion of the Legislature, as substantially as the ability of the State permits, and until the fund has now reached 5400.000 annually, or one-sixth of the total taxes collected by the State, being a larger proportion of our State taxes for Confederate pensioners than the National Government gives of its revenues to Federal pensioners.* They favor election of county school boards and superintendents by pop ular vote in each county. They do not deserve the support of any man on this proposition, for It would p'nee the s hools ba k into politics airaln as It was when they were last in power in the State, when the average attendance of the schools actually decreased in the State. One of the most glorious achievement* of this decade of Democracy is the trcynendous Improvement which has been made in the public chools—in improved equipment, new buildings, and largely increased attendance and efficiency. The Democratic nolicv and management of the schools is so clearly entitled to be continued that iheir Republican nominee for Governor. Mr. Cox. opposed in their convention awy being proposed in it, but was overwhelmed by the Adantsea and Butlers, They favor increasing the personal property exemption from twenty-Ave to two hundred dollars, which wonld relieve nearly all of the negroes of the State from property taxation. They surely do not deserve support on this proposition. Thev pretend to favor restriction of immigration, bnt their party in nower'ln the Nation, ever subservient to the employing c lasses of the coun try. keeps upon the statute books the laws which admitted the millions of foreign immigrants until the Roosevelt panic made labor conditions in this country so hard that within the last year, for the first time in American his tory more people left the United States for foreign countries than came to it from foreign countries. As Governor Aycock put it in one of his speech es we had the spec tac le in this last year of the subjects of the Czar, fleeing to our shores from the terrors of the Russian bear, upon landing upon our shores, finding the Teddy bear yet more terrible, and returning to his native land. i So forgetting all the things that are passed, yet the Republicans of North Carolina ®lve no Intelligent reason why any man in the State should vote the Republican ticket or why he should not vote the Democratic ticket. BUT THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE WILL NOT FORGET! As lon«» as Spencer Adams' ro'n control of the party, unchallenged except by Marion Butler, they SHOULD not forget. As long as the Montgomerys and the Suttons retain their venom they WILL not LET them forget. The Dower they wonld have if in power to practically' annul the amend ment hT appointing Rephblican registrars make it important that they DO not forget. . As long as Republican National platforms threaten us with Crumpacker reduction of Southern representation in Congress, and Republican candi dates for President maintain a position of hostility to our Southern insti tutional amendments and i'm crow car laws to placate the negro at the North it would be FOOLISH to forget. As long' as there are sponsors for Reconstruction and Fusion government left to remember they CANNOT fo get. ' ■: '-/' + 1 , : *.. *•' ' ■'■■■• **—■ ; . ■fife' c^la ■ .'4%. }.: i *£. '&£, 7/4?' /?? roifftl HON. W. W. HITCHIN. Democratic Nominee For Governor. o, V 1 rr DEMOCRAT In recalling the familiar features of the Illustrious Vance, the idol of the people, it J- 1 ** Ijj* 1 jj* entire history Of government of the State of North Caroilni, the DeMiMi party has °i| guard in hlkh official station who fail.d to measure honorably and faithfully to the i can "point with pride" to every administration for which It stood sponsor, and challenge its enemies to tind v« |D £»bte spo Vance „ ho to an end th e high carnival of corruption and shame of recomrtWhm (» wielding Into a solid army of • soldiers of the common good" the CTeat ™Hel«tbe Sjufndard of the State, and succeeding a regime in which stealth and corruption in office was thes rue, ? J™ to the for succeeding Democratic administrations at the close of his term as Governor bi his lamous declaration multitude on Capitol Square "Not one dollar fr dishonest money ever stainedl ffieSry— no not theory, but Such an unbroken record of honorable service can only be accounted foron l Ui ie n^£ y of state-—three fact—upon the fact that the party lias within it at least three-fourths of all the be»' of th te—tnr fourths at least of all the best rar.iutfs, the best laborers, the best J»wra«gand and mauura turers. bankers, etc., and upon this foundation of patriotic tobuJW honorable and faitliful service. Governments wills maintain the level of tlie power behind mem. mey j>etnerocratlc gubernatorial leaders since Reconstruction comprise an honor roll of the State's """" VAKCF;«"d SCALES HOLT, WATSON, GLENN, TARVIS FOWLE CARR, AYCOCK, HITCHIN. h£t ldd»S beqiiVst" of, power to be nsed In farthering-the Interests of the people. L_ "Woodman spare that .. , youth It sheltered me, Touch not a single bough, - And I'll protect it now." Mr. Taft did not flatter the intelligence of the people of North Carolina by Inviting them into tho Ra* publican party in order to gain influence in the affairs of 'the National Government. He evidently forgot, Qr slopped over what he knew when he was in Greensboro two years ago, and what everybody In North Carolina knows every day in the year, that-the party he invites us into in order to enlarge our influence la dominated completely by its Federal otflce-holders, that these are dominated by Spencer Adams, and that Spencer Adams takes orders as they are issued at Washington. As for gaining influence in national affairs by joining the re publican party in North Carolina we had as well send our proxy to the man in the ihoon. The party which Mr. /taft invites us to join is the same party of which Mr. Taft said, just two years a Sty addressing them in State Convention at Greensboro, as reported sten.ographically i«i the official organ of the party; "In my judgment the Republican party in North Carolina would be iiiuc h stronger as a voting party II I" the Federal* offices were filled "by Democrats. As long, however, as the Republican party in the Southern State# shall represent little save a factional chase for Federal offices in which business men and men "JL community hpve no desire to enter, and in the result of which thev have no Interest, WE SLAY Eirttl 1 PRESENT POLITICAL CONDITIONS OF THE SOUTH TO CONTINUE." The Republican party showed that it deserved the severity of Judge Taft's denunciation by swallowing It m * sweet morsel and by supporting the Judge for the Presidential nomination. Judge Taft, on hirf recent trip, was offensive to the whole South in an appeal wbieh could about as appro priately have been made to the Philippine Islands, and which by Implication amounted to a charge against the South of disloyalty to the Union, as follows!- . "J.am going South to make a few speeches, ndt so much with a of carrying those States Mto show the people down there that, no matter what they THINK* TTfFY AWE A FAIT OF THE UNION, and, being a part of the Union,, the*'ought to for the RepubHcsn party, VOTINt* FOR WHTCH WILL MAKE THEM A PARI OF THE NATION, and give to them that influence which people of their intelligence, and energy and progrese and nntnrnriu rmffht to MitaT.'' SUPPLEMENT TO HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908. ZEBULON B VANCE, Governor, Senator—The Leader of a People. Democracy Will Win Ringing Statement From Chairman EHer of the Re .sons Which Inspire €onfidenc , in a Great Triumph on November 3rd. Our public speakers and the Democratic Press have given sufficient reasons the Demo cracy SHOULD win In 1008. Below are some of the reasons why the Democracy WILL wtl this campaign: / Our older men have memories, and our younger men have hearts to feel and mlwl» | understands Recon>>irucUoii and Fusion, Iloldeii-Russell-Butler-Adams-Montgomer4r--Couu»»e>il is wasted. The Republicans have not dared to raise any vital"issue. Beaten in 'OB on White Supfl maty, in 1000 on the Sutliage Amendment in 1002 on the Large or extravagance, and with 1 record on u>iii|M'i'iiiie legislation that but COWARDICK. they now make ONI promise and prefer ONE charge. A promise to increase Confederate pensions and exempt 820 from taxation: a «'barge against Democracy for railroad favoritism, and for war on CuUroaA They condemn pans -ngfer rate redut tion without offering to Ini reuse the present rate: the favor freight mil regulation and name Cox, its inveterate enemy, to work this reform, ■> There are not enough competent, houest and decent white men'in the Republican party fl North Carolina to give to lier people good government; and it ha* Ixeir settled that HOW ha white men can govern them. The Anglo-Saxon spirit is asserting itself against the yelloij per|l of the Pacific Coast and the negroes' demands in the North: and Mr. Tal't's straddle uptfl the OhiQ and National platforms, for Crumpacker's bill and against Southern suffrage iawi is a bid for negro votes at a ruinous prft-e, not only «n the South, but evcrywlicre. Without a foemun in Nortl* Carolina worthy of our steel, overeonfidence is the weakea point in our armor. But-very love of our party and its print iples and the determination t maintain the prestige, power, influence and voting,strength or eath county in our own couven tions appeal powerfully to every Democrat to add his vote to the swelling tide of victory. Bossism has run its course, Cannonlsm has become an offence and the big stick has heal splintered against the armor of William «J. Bryan. The people have formed and sxpressod i purpose to rule, and despite the protests of the false and the favored few, they know tlMt they can rule by the ascendency of llie Democratic party and by that party alone. The majority of our fellow men are Democrats at heart; they are now united; the Re publicans ire divided. Behold them shouting oue thing to the public, whispering to "My dot llarriman" another! "There is retribution in liistory"; "Corruption wins not more than boa eaty." With a panic-smitten treasury Republicans are forced to enter the market for negro vot« which the empty dinner pail has forced up to the level of'the Dingiey tariff—a condition whlo alls for a corruption fund from contributors who know that the c||f of reckoning Is at haajH the dawn of publicity and purity which Bryan's election ushers hi. The slumbering conscience of a nation lias awaked to the rail of mocracy and its leader. It is known that Ills defeat in '9Q was i nmpnamn by a corruption fund lliat staggers self-government. $111,500,1*00 again# $675,000. proclaims iliai the real issue then on trial wiyt not 16 to l t bat $16.50 to 67 1-2 cents. Apart from the purchase of tliis election, the Republicans have siaij and can make but one appeal, and that appeal is to seiUsh interests.— prlyt lege against prlnciplt, money against manhood, the stomach tbi heart. It comes from the privileged interests, from Roosevelt and Taft, i subsidised press, and from tiiose who lliink that prosperity leaks through UIJ coffers of the over-rich. And h takes vok e add volume f£om the putri lips of a political that sliouts "Cleveland Panic" at its opponents an denies its own oiYspring. On su li an appeal they are lost. Tlie wufii has outgrown the creed of selfishness and greed, the life of plunder MM oppression, and, man's inhumanity to uian. The labor vote is in itself decisive of this election. Who doubts the d£ cislou of lite man Mho saw his right- spumed Chicago tnu rtiupitar at Denver? Who doubts Ids choice of a trial by Ids peers inslrtul of . Federal, Cbauceildr? Who doubts tlie estimate lie puts on himself, wbetbe to be dealt viilh in lite Federal ourts as a battel or us u man? The business world has decided that the nisht-mare of "bank panics : must "O. that uionCy «iust come out of its hiding, that giNiii bunks unit be protected against runs and the humiliation of sfript, and that drpositoi jj 1 must be guaranteed a return of the l r deposits. First cUsuiissCd Jffjj Tall, next appioxcu by N liiin to win Kansas, auu now opposed by him Ui pin [> eate Wall Street —the people understad. There Is a ground swell for Bryan and Democracy like thai of H first felt iu the Central West; this is the heart beat of tlie country and is uti fl tuislakabte evident e of the party's v ... . ~n« vulory. _ V 1 | The people have made up their minds that Coiigress must again bt j come a deliberative body; tliut the tyranny of a Republican speaker mm end; that Cannon uiust »e deicatctl »u tlie polls or In the House; till f Bryan must Itave a Congress in sympathy with the people; and to this en ' Xnrtli Carolina e\|»e«ts every man to do his duty in ll|e election of TBI- Democrats to Cpngress. And finally, we are going to xvin because of the contrast between tl* standard bearers of the two parties. Bryan, standing upon tlie wisest at* truest platform ever adopted by a political party, bound by what it say* a well as what is left unsaid, and with a conception of,the Presidency a* loft as that of Washington, as Peine* rude as that of Jefferson. —Taft, staudln upon a platform too faulty to hold up his weight, and clinging to nolhin j but "my policies." Kite hiu. true to the people unci experienced in I lie put lie service, untrammelled by tlie c laims of spec ial interests,—Cox fresh froi the'pursuit of monopolistie gain. fre»li from his fitfbt on freight rogulaUot and Ills long and inglorious service of the Southern Railway of which he 1 a most complacent adjunct! WHO D *1 I"'* '"K HI SI'LT? A. H. ELLER. Chairman, State Democratic Executive Com mine®. , - i v'■ , ■ * '" s M ' .Jm mi Bk HON, V*. c- tiCrWLAND* Democratic Nominee for Lieutenant-Governor. $■ » '->\ «.x The nomination of Mr. Netvland (or this high office when he had nc sought h before the Convention met, was a high compliment, and U efchlb Hon of the disposition and the,abfHty of the Democratic people* to setc> capable and worthy men to serve the people, and to distribute Us hone with geographical fairness, ijfeii -.-ji v....-: ifmT atff - v^WMeatif t i'rwi"ri
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