Established 1899
if DEMOCRAT'S GRAND BABY CONTEST GOES MERRILY ON
Only This Week and Next
in Which to Get Votes
For Your Darling
VOlll NEED EVERY MOMENT
01- YOUR TIME UNTIL JUNE 15
JJ You Are Ahead You Will Have to
Work to Stay There—lf You are
Behind You Will Have to Work to
Catch Up - AH Coupons Must Be In
By Saturday Night—Do Not Give
Up Now— Work Right on to the
End and You May be Surprised at
the Result of Your Efforts- The
Tide of Battle Has Not Turned
Against You- No One Has a Safe
Lead.
\oir is the time for all good men to
co me to the aid of the Dimpled Darlings
am! lu lp them to win their shar. of the
jjohi Mid glory.
Well, here we go on the last
lap of the great race. Next week
will be the last of the contest, as
it conies to a close June 15th.
The interest is at white heat and
this interest is going to increase
with each succeeding day. Same
of the favorites may be tumbled
from their lofty positions before
the close— in fact it is so much
anybody's race that is impossible
to venture a prediction as to
which direction the winner will
spring from.
Every baby now remaining in
the race has an excellent chance
to win. but the parents and
friends of each must reach a
speedy conviction that they can
not spare or lose a single mo
ment. Just at this time we wish
to state for the benefit of our
many candidates who are in this
great race, that all sorts of fool
ish stories are apt to be circula
ted as to the activity of some
candidate. You are going to hear
that Baby So-and-So has an or
ganization behind him that is
bound to make him a winner ol
the first grand prize. If by cir
culation such a report or causing
it to be circulated, they succeed
in scaring out other contestants
in their district competion is re
duced just FO much. It might be
stated that it is not a race for the
faint hearted. The management
cannot stop the circulation ol
these stories, but the better
judgement of the candidates
themselves should tell them thai
no one is able to secure more
votes in a given time than them
selves. Your own experifence in
in securing votes is the best ba
rometer of conditions. Just l*e
member that the same conditions
that you are meeting with must
be met by every contestant, that
the field is clear and clean, and
no one possesses an advantage
that you may not make your
own.
Get all the coupons together!
that you can as they will not ap
pear in the paper after today, and
all of these must be in by Satur
day, June 6th. We want to Ret
them out of the way before the
last week.
Saturday, June 12, will see the
curtain rung down on the baby
contest, which has been in pro
gress for the past few weeks,
leaving a short time in which to
work for votes for the final grand
prizes. Lo net be dismayed be
cause you think someone has a
few more votes than you This
should only urge you .on to great
er efforts as there is no. one cer- ,
tain of victory vet* nor will any
one be until the last word has
been said, the contest officially
at an end.
Waste no time now about what
you did not do cai lier in the con
test. The tide of battle has not
turned against you by any means.
One could easily stait right now.
and work steadily and faithfully
these last few days and win the
tist grand prize. There is no one
who has a big lead over any of
the others. The babies are right
in a hunch and it would be hard
to te 1 which one is ahead. The
special prizes have been so even
!v divided that no one has really
gotten far ahead to feel that they
are safe to quit now. Anyone
with a little extra energy and
ambition could enter their baby
now and come out first. It is not
certain 1 y any means that the
prize winners may sp ing from
V ';v bottom of the list, so uncer
;_din is this race at this writing.
f'»me exceedingly active work is
: • ) ig done for some of the babies
are away down the line and
it is evident that there will be
*ome surplices in tne when
the contest closes. v
•ir. J"yce'has one request to
*n ike of you, and that if not to
■ t until the last moment before
turning in your subscriptions. It
only adds to the confusiDn and
makes it harder for all concerned,
in your subscriptions soon
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
as you g v t thera, and if you want
to work up to the last minute dp
so, bnt do not wait until the last
hour to turn in all you have.
Arrangements are already be
ing made for the close of the con
test, such as the selection of the
judges, etc. The judges will be
in number and will be men
of the - -very highest standing,
men who are above reproach, and
whose decision in this race will
be aecep ed without question.
The coupon which has appeared
in these colums from week to
week h-4«; made its-last -appear
ance. YY'frr want a'l cou
pons in by Saturday night:.
Certainly this is no time to ease
up on your efforts to win for
your dear Jtttle one. It* they
were ever m need of your best
work it is right now.
Married.
Married in Icard township,
Burke county on last Wednes
day evening at the home of H.
A, Adam?, Miss Eva Padgett to
Mr. Harvey Young. Both of
Burke county. H. A. Adams of
ficating magistrate.
Sig. S. D'Anna, the gifted musi
cal genius, in Hickory for the
summer. He has been in charge
of the music department of the
college at Jackson, Tenn., for
the past year, and tells the
Democrat that he has had a very
pleasant and successful year.
Prof. D'Anna was for years in
charge of the music at Claremont
and really belongs to Hickory,
and our people will be jealous of
any other place until we can
bring him back home. Mrs.
D'Anna is at present visiting in
Kentucky.
Winners of Special Prizes in Hickory Democrat Contest
Mary Helen Flowers
Hp WU&
James Stanley Crouch
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Alice Summerow
Will One of These or Will Your Baby Win One of the Big Prizes on June 15th?
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE,6 T9i2
coram LICENSES
TO SELL LIQUOR HERE
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Mr. Davis of the Anti-Saloon
League, Calls out the
Names
TWO HAVE QUIT FOR GOOD
A Splendid Address on Prohibition
and Temperance at a Union Meet
ing in the Methodist Church.
-The Man Who Will Not Tell
on a Blind Tiger is a Traitor
—A Good Collection in
Hickory, Brookford
and West Hickory.
A large audience gathered at
the union service at the Method
ist church last Sunday night to
hear the Superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of North
Carolina, Mr. R. L. Davis, speak
on the subject, VJugs must go."
Mr. Davis is a Methodist minister
and took a text. Psalm 94:16,1
' Who will rise up for rne against |
the evildoers?" Who will stand |
up for me against the workers of
iniquity?
Mr. Davis begun his address
by declaring the church was the
only hope in the fight against the
liquor traffic. Politics and com
merce are too selfish to depend
upon. He bewailed the fact that
until now few have responded to
God's call in this fight, though
many volunteers for our country's
wars. Nevertheless he was
willing to prophesy an early
victory for Temperance and Pro
hibition, even a National con
quest as well as state victories.
The liquor traffic never sleeps,
while temperance people often
are lulled into a false security.
This traffic is essentially law
less. A man who will sell alcoho
lic liquor will break any and all
laws to do it, if necessary.
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seven persons in and around
Hickory who have government
tax-receipts to. sell liquor an i one
of these is a woman. M E.
Cline,l24o 9t I Ave.; Pink Echard
R, F. D. No. 3; Wesley Keller;
Mrs. L. C. Lowder; A. H. Park
er, 9th Ave.; M, f. Sharp, R. F
D. No. 1; Claude L. Whitener,
R. F, D. No. 5.
No person will pay $25 co the
government who doesn't intend
tp sell liquor.
All good citizens want the pro
hibition law inforced. but they
want the other fellow to do the
enforcing and he won't yeveal
what he knows unless he ts to be
protected.
Mr. Davis charged these men
as traitors to their country as
truly as Benedict Arnold. They
are no better than Judus Iscariot.
It is honorable tD protect his
country. It is dishonorable to
protect a blind tiger. These
weakkneed citizens are liars.
They have sworn to uphold the
constitution, and every time they
protect a blind tiger, they lie to
their conscience and to their
country.
If the citizens of a town do
not enforce law, the blind tigers
will dictate who your officers are
to be. They always fight the
good officers and secure their
defeat if possible. We must
stand behind good officers and
select them. A town can get rid
of biind tigers if they wish to.
Mr. Davis then declared the
necessity of national legislation
on the prohibition of the jug
trade. It is truly unjust that a
man who is not legally allowed
to sell liquor in your town, can
go to Richmond and flood this
town with jugs of whiskey.
Progress for the congressional
bill against the jug-trade is very
encouraging. Mr. Davis predicts
passage of the bill.
Margaret Campbell
Robert Lee Harris
Jessie May Herman
The speaker then spoke of
what he regards as the most en
couraging feature of the tem
porance agitation. This is the
Lincolnton-Lee. Total abati
nence league for boys and girls.
This originated in an incident of
President Lincoln, who once ad
dressed a school on temperance,
and closed his speech for signing
the pledge which met with a
hearty response among the boys
and girls and this league con
sists of signers of that same
pledge among boys and girls of
our own today. The way to kill
the blind tiger is to cut off its
supply of material, its stream of
customers.
Mr. Davis said that there are
four department, of effort in
which the Anti-Saloon league is
concerned. They are, National
Legislative, Law Enforcement,
Total Abstinance, and Tempor
ance Instruction. The leagues
need manhood and money to car
ry out these measures. An ap
peal was made for subscriptions
to the work, which resulted in a
substitutional subcription of $93.-
80. In addition Biookford $21.-
00 and West Hickory $24.40.
Mr. Davis spoke at both places.
Mr. Davis said the league was
being supported better than ever
before.
Mr. Davis said before leaving
the city that he had been reli
ably informed that Messrs. Par
ker and Cline had discontinued
their business though their li
cense do not expire till June 30
Rev. J. G. Garth preached an
exceptionally beautiful sermon
Sunday morning on the Anoint
ing of the Lord by Mary of
Bethany with the alabaster box
of spikenard. Adjectives failed,
he said, to describe the love of
Mary for her Master, just as
birds that tried to fly to the sun
but fluttered back exhausted.
Ruth Griffin
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Democrat and Press,Consc lidated )905
The Result in New Jeney.
Raleigh News and Observer.
From the day that Woodrow
Wilson refused to sanction tne
election of Ex-Senator Jim
Smith, of New Jersey, to Senate,
after Senator Smith had told
Governor Wilson during the
campaign that he would not be a
candidate, and Senator Martine
had gotten a majority of the
Democratic votes in the primary,
Senator Smith has waged an un
relenting warfare upon Govern
or Wilson. A few weeks ago
his nephew went to Baltimore
and engaged headquarters for
the New Jersey delegation and
announced that it woiild be there
against Woodrow Wilson. Sen
ator Smith, it will be remem
bered, was the man who held up
the tariff toll when Mr. Cleve
land was President, and, with
two or three other Senators,
compelled the*incorporation of
protection to certain big interests;
which made the law so far from
what it ought to have been that
Mr. Cleveland refused to sign it,
and stated that the men respon
sible for its being doctored were
guilty of "party perfidy and
and party dishonor," For years
he had run the Democratic ma
chine and been in such close
touch with the railroads and the
trusts that the Democratic party,
which had once been powerful in
New_ Jersey, was steadily re
duced until 1910 when Woodrow
Wilson was nominated for Gov
ernor. He overturned a Repub
lican majority of 80,000 and was
elected by a majority of 40,000,
which was the most wonderful
race that had been made in all
the East since Mr. Cleveland was
elected Governor of New York
in 1882 by a majority of 190,000.
Governor Wilson made a bigger
change in New Jersey, counting
population, than even Grover
Cleveland made in New York,
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and, after he became Governor
secured more reform legislation
at one session of the Democratic
Legislature than had been en
acted in New Jersey in a centu
ry . Of course he incurred the
enmity of ex-Governor Jim Smith
and other bosses of his type, who
have since left no stone unturned
to injure Governor Wilson, and
have, all over America, sought
to convey the impression that
when the primary was held in
New Jersey Governor Wilson
would be snowed under and all
twenty-eight delegates would be
against him. With all the mon
ey that they wanted, these op
ponents of Governor Wilson, who
despised him because of his re
form measures, confidently ex
pected to carry at least half of
New Jersey against him.
DAVIDSON IS 75 YEARS OLD.
College Celebrates Its Birthday With
a Notable Celebration.
Editorial Corresponcence.
Davidson College celebrated
her 75th birthday last week in a
most auspicious way, greetings
being brought to her by such
educators as President Alder
man, of the University of Virgin
ia, President Venable, of the
State University; Dr. W. S. Cur
rell, of the English chair at
Washington & Lee; Rev. Dr. W.
W. Moore, president of Union
Theological Seminary; Rev. Dr.
Thornton C. Whaling, president
of Columbia Theological Semin
ary; Rev. Dr. E. M. Poteat, of
Furman University; Rev. Dr.
Fraser, of Stanton, Va., and
others.
Gov. Glenn, himself an alum
nus, presided with grace, over
these birthday exercises.
Davidson has graduated over
800 men. Her total matneulates
reach about 2,000. Of her
graduates about 35 per cent have
entered the University. The
preponderates, however, when
the census of professions is taken
from the standpoint of men
entered.
Dr. Neal L. Anderson, of
Winston-Salem, made a very
fine addiess on Dadidson men in
i the world's work. His perora-
Ition wasWoodrow Wilson, whose
! name was vastily applauded, as
indeed it was every time it was
mentioned.
Dr. Wm. J. Martin was elected
president of the college to suc
ceed Dr. Henry Louis Smith,
who goes to Washington and
Lee. I)r. Martin holds the chair
of chemistry, and was reared on
the campus, where his honored
father, the late Col. Wm, J.
Martin, was professor of chemis
try for many years. Dr. Mar
tin's selection was pleasing to
none more than to his classmates
of 1888, who held a reunion at
his home at teatime on Wednes
day eyening, Six members of
the class were able to attend this
commencement, they being Dr.
Vardell, president of Red Springs
College for Women; Dr. S. R.
MoKee, of the Bingham School
faculty, Asheville; Dr. H, M.
Stucky, of Sumpter, S. C.; Rev.
D. M. Mclver, of Florida; the
editor of the Hickory Democrat,
and Mr. Martin.
i Dr, Martin is a man of great
will power and is a fine execu
tive. He has an attractive
presence and makes an eloquent
speech. He has come to the
front as one of the ablest laymen
n the Southern Presbyterian
church by his efficient and un
tiring work in the lamen's mis
sionary movement. He put the
finish on* his education at the
University of Virginia and
John's Hopkins.
Dr. Smith made an eloquent
farewell address. For 25 years
he has served Davidson as pro
fessor and president, and has
brought her from 150 students a
year to 350 this year. His in
cumbency has seen many new
dormitories built, an electric
light plant installed, and the old
college thoroughly modernized,
lie is a member of the brilliant
Smith family of Greensboro, and
while he will push Washington,,,
and Lee to the forefront of
Southern schools, he will never
do a greater service to his
generation than he has perform
ed at Davidson.
Mr. Elon A. Abernethy, son
of Dr. H. L. Abernethy, who
recently stood the physical and
mental examinations for en
trance to the United States
Military Academy at West Point,
was notified Monday that he had
passed- and will report at West
Point June 14. It takes a man,
in body and brain, to get in West
Point.
Miss Gertrude Jones, head
milliner for W. T. Sledge, left
yesterday for her home in
Baltimore.
L Mr. J. B. Thomasson returned
I home from a visit to Gaatonia.