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REFUND
We will not only
refund 5 per cent in
cash or merchandise
on all purchases to
out-of-town and in
town customers, but
will place on sale
many seasonable
goods at 20 to 25°| 0 off
I
Lawns, Flaxons, etc.
All 10 and 12 l-2c Lawns at -8c
All 15c Cotton Foulards at IJJc
All 15c Linaires at |J C
All 25c white Flaxons at 19c
All 20c white Flaxons at Jsc
All 18c colored Flaxons at Ijjc
All 25c Suesine'Silks at 19c
THOMPSON-WEST COMPANY
"The Ladies' Store"
Embroideries and Laces
1 lot 50c 27-inch Flouncing at 39c
1 lot 85c 42-inch Flouncing at 60c
1 lot $1 27-inch Baby Irish Flouncing at 75c
1 lot $1.25 45-inch Baby Irish Flouncing at 90c
1 lot $2 45-inch Baby Irish Flouncing at $1.50
1 lot 25c Insertion and Gallons at 19c
1 lot 35c Insertion and Gallons at 25c
THOMPSON-WEST COMPANY
"The Ladies' Store"
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Muslin Underwear
1 lot 50 and 75c Pants at l__3sc
1 lot $1 Pants at £9c
1 lot 50 and 75c Corset Covers at 35c
1 lot 75c Gowns at 50c
1 lot $1 Gowns at 75c
ljot $1.50 Gowns at -$1
llot 50c Knit Combination Suits at 39c
1 Jot 25c Knit Combination Suits at 19c
THOMPSON-WEST COMPANY
~ "The Ladies' Store"
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
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power in its control of the federal go\*.
eminent, iB rent into factions, it is
opportune to point to the record of
accomplishment of the Democratic
house of representatives In the Sixty
second congress. We indorse its ac
tion, and we challenge comparison of
its record with that of any congress
which has been controlled by our op
ponents. We call the attention of the
patriotic citizens of our country to. its
record of efficiency, economy aad con
structive legislation.
It has among other achievements re
vised the rules of the house of repre*
fcentatives so as to. give to the repre
sentatives of the American people
freedom of speech and of action in ad
vocating, proposing and perfecting
remedial legislation.
It has passed bills for the relief of
the people ami the development of our
country. It has endeavored to revise
the tariff taxes downward in the in
terest of the consuming masses and
thus to reduce the high cost of living.
It has proposed an amendment to
the federal constitution* providing for
the election of United States senators
by the direct vote of the people.
It has secured the admission of Ari
zona and New Mexico as two sover
eign states.
It has required the publicity of cam
paign expenses both before and after
election and fixed a limit upon the
election expenses of United States sen
ators and representatives.
It has passed a bill to prevent tb»
a'iuse of the writ of injunction. It has
p.iSoed a law establishing an ei&ht hour
d, y for workmen on all national pab
lic work.
It has passed a resolution *which
forced the president to takQ immediate
■tcps to abrogate the Russian treaty.
And it has passed the great supply
b!tls which lessen waste and extrava
gance and which reduce the annual ex
penses of the government by many mil,
lions of dollars.
We approve the measure reported by
the Democratic leaders in 'the house of
representatives for the creation of a
cunncil of uational defense which will
determine a definite naval program
[With a view to increased efficiency and.
economy. The party that proclaimed
and has always enforced the Monroe
doctrine P-J was sponsor .for the new
navy will continue faithfully to ob
serve the constitutional requirements
to provide and maintain an adequate
and well proportioned navy sufficient
to defend American policies, prota?U
our citizens and uphold the honaujffl
dignity of the nation.
Merchants' Trade Week
August 10th to August 17th (Saturday to Saturday)
THOMPSON-WEST COMPANY
Offer Many Special Bargains for This Week ,
Railroads, Express Companies, Tele
graph and Telephone Lines.
We favor the efficient supervision
and rate regulation of railroads, ex
press companies, telegraph, and tele
phone lines engaged In interstate com
merce. To this end we recommetid the
valuation of railroads, express compa
nies, telegraph and telephone lines by
the interstate commerce commission,
such valuation to take into considera
tion the physical value of the property,
the original cost, the cost of the pro
duction and any element of value that
will render the valuation fair and just.
We favor such legislation as will ef
fectually prohibit the railroads, ex
press, j:'id telephone compa
nies from engaging in business which
brings tfeem into competition with
shippers or patrons; also legislation
preventing overissue of stocks and
bonds by interstate railroads, express
companies, telegraph and teflephone
lines and legislation which will assure
such reduction in transportation rates
.is conditions will permit, care being
taken to a*void reductions that would
compel a Deduction of wages, prevent
adequate service or do injustice to
legitimate investments.
Banking Legislation.
We oppose the so called Aldrich
bill or the establishment of a central
bank, and we belierve our country will
be largely freed from panics and con
sequent irnemployment and business
depression, by such a systematic revi
sion of our banking laws as will render
temporary relief in localities in which
such relief is needed, with protection
from control or dominion by -what is
known as the money trust
Banks exist for the accommoiatlon
of the public and not for the control of
business. All legislation on the sub
ject of banking and currency should
have for its purpose the securing of
these accommodations oa terms of ab
solute security to the pablic and of
complete protection from the misuse
of the power that wealth gSres to those
who possess it.
We condemn the (present methods oi
'lepositing government funds la a few
favored banks, largely situate*! in or
controlled by Wall street, in jeturn
if or political favors, pledge our
party to provide by law for their' de
posit by competitive bidding in ttit
banking institutions of the country,
national and state, without discrimina
tion as to locality, upon approved se
curities and subject to call by the gov
eminent.
Rural Credits.
Of -ekjual importance with the ques-
currency reform is the question
agricultural finance.
that an in
Itural credit so
'tries be
lined whether
=* be de
'ons in the
favor legis
banks
of
'onal
r'n-
THEIHICKORY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912
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| SH O E WEEK
We are going to make this a special shoe week.
We must make room for Fall stocks and it is not
our policy to carry shoes over. Our present
stock is new, clean and stylish. Big reductions
on every pair. -They must go. It vyili pay you
to see what we can give you for so little money.
FOR MEN »|-5# L ° w s, :. oes ' $ J jj
$4.50 Low Shoes, $3.50 jj
350 " " les FOR CHILDREN
300 " " 2.35 $2.50 Low Shoes, $1.85
150 " - 1-85 2.00 « « 1.60
FOR WOMEN | j;i " - 1 .To
$4.00 Low Shoes, $3.00 1.00 " " .75
3.50 " " 2.65 .75 " " .50
3.00 " " 2.35 .50 " " .40
We will give 50c per pair off of all ladies' and
men's high shoes this week.
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS for "Red Cross", "Utz & Dunn", bherwood", "Meade's" and
"Monogram" Shoes; "Buster Brown" hosiery, "Royal Worcester" and "Bon Ton" corsets;
"Warner's Brassieres", "Centimei" gloves, "Empress" and "Styleright" suits, cloaks, ect.
Waterways
We renew the declaration in our last
platform relating to the conservation
of our natural resources and the de
velopment of our waterways. The
present devastation of the lower Mis
sissippi valley accentuates the move
ment for the regulation of river flow
ly addition®! bank and levee protec
tion below and the diversion, storage
and control of the flood waters above
and their utilization for beneficial pur
poses in the reclamation of arid and
6wamp lands and the development of
water power instead of permitting the
floods to continue, as heretofore,
agents of destruction.
We hold that the control of the
Mississippi river is a national prob
lem. The preservation of the depth of
its water for the purpose of navigation,
the building of levees to maintain the
integrity of its cbr.nnel and the pre
vention of the overflow of the land
and its consequent devastation, result
ing in the interruption of interstate
commerce, tbe disorganization of the
mail service and the enormous loss of
life and property, Impose au obligation
which alone can be discharged by the
general government.
To maintain an adequate depth of
water the entire year and thereby en
courage water transportation is a con
summation worthy of legislative atten
tion and presents an issue national in
its character. It calls for prompt ac
tion on the part of congress, and the
Democratic party pledges itself to the
euactment of legislation leading to that
end.
We favor the co-operation of the
United States and the respective states
in plans for the comprehensive treat
ment of all waterways, with a view of
co-ordinating plans for channel im
provement, with plans for drainage of
swamp and overflowed lands, and to
this end we favor the appropriation by
the federal government of sufficient
funds to make surveys of such lands,
to develop plans for draining the same
and to supervise the work of con
struction.
We favor the adoption of a liberal
and comprehensive plan for the devel
opment and improvement of our Inland
waterways with economy and efficien
cy so as to permit their navigation by
vessels of stffidard draft.
Post Roads.
We favor national aid to state and
local authorities in the construction
and maintenance of post roads.
Rights of Labor.
We repeat our declarations of the
platform of 1008 as follows:
The courts of justice are the bulwark of
our liberties, and we yield to none in our
purpose to maintain their dignity. Our
party has given to the bench a long line
of distinguished justices, who have added
to the respect and confidence in which this
department must be jealously maintained
We resent the attempt of the Republican
party to raise a false issue respecting the
judiciary, an unjust reflection upon a
great body of our citizens to assume that
they lack respect for the courts.
It is the function of the courts to inter
pret the laws which the people enact, and
If the laws appear to work economic, so
cial or political injustice it is our duty to
change them. The only basis upon W |J' C
the Integrity of our courts can stand is
that of unswerving justice and protection
of life, personal liberty «nd property- AS
tudicial processes may be abused we
hmUd aruard thtm P*a.innt »bu«k
Experience has proved the necessity ot
a modification of the present law relating
to Injunction, and we reiterate the pledge?
of our platform of IS9o and 19UI in favor of
a measure which passed the United State?
senate in 1596 relating to contempt in fed
eral courts and providing for trial by jury
in cases of indirect contempt.
Questons of judicial practice have aris
en, especially in connection with industrial
disputes. We believe that th? parties to
all judicial proceedings should be treated
with rigid impartiality and that injunc
tions should not be issued in any case in
which an injunction would not issue if no
industrial dispute were involved.
The expanding organization of industry
makes it essential that there should be no
abridgment of the right of wage earners
and producers to organize for the protec
tion of wages and the improvement of la
bor conditions to the end that such labor
organizations and their members should
not be regarded as illegal combinations in
restraint of trade.
We pledge the Democratic party to the
enactment of a law creating a department
of labor represented separately in the
president's cabinet, in which department
shall be Included the subject of mines and
mining.
We pledge the Democratic party, so
far as the federal jurisdiction exteuds,
to an employees' compensation law
providing adequate indemnity for in
Jury to body or loss of life.
Conservation.
We believe in the conservation and
the development for the use of all the
people of the natural resources of the
country. Our forests, our sources of
water supply, out- arable and out
mineral lands, oair navigable streams
and all the other material resources
with which our country has been so
lavishly endowed constitute the fouu
dation of our national wealth. Such
additional legislation as may be nec
essary to prevent their being wasted
or absorbed by special or privileged
interests should be enacted, and the
policy of their conservation should be
rigidly adhered to.
The public domain should be admin
istered and disposed of with due re
gard to the -general welfare. Reserva
tions should be limited to the purposes
which they purport to serve and not
extended to include land wholly un
suited therefor. The unnecessary
withdrawal from sale and settlement
of enormous tracts of public land upon
which tree growth never existed and
cannot be promoted tends only to re
tard development, create discontent
and bring reproach upon thj policy of
conservation.
The public land laws should be ad
ministered in a spirit of the broadest
liberality toward the settler exhibiting
a bona fide purpose to comply there
with to the end that the invitation of
this government to the landless should
be as attractive as possible, and the
plain provisions of the forest reserve
act permitting homestead entries to
be made within the national forests
should not be nullified by administra
tive regulations, which amouut to a
withdrawal of great areas of the game
from settlement.
Immediate action should be taken by
congress to make available the vast
and valuable coal deposits of Alaskc
Avder conditions that will be a perfect
guaranty against their falling into tne
bands of monopolizing corporations, as
sociations or interests
We rejoice in the inheritance of min
**ra) resources nnooimlpd in extent, va
(Continued on page twelve.)
I Diamonds,
Mlglfr . Watches
aicnes,
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mmm = Jewelry
' The Store where you always
get unquestionable quality and style, and know
that the price is the lowest. New goods received
every few days, which are products of the best
factories in the country.
WATCHES Cut Glass and Silverware
This is headquarters for watches. Cut Glass of the richest cutting and
You have one of the largest stocks quality, sold at nearly one-half the
in the State t6 select from, and know ugual ke Don , { m to see the
that they are reliable. Every watch
is sold under a positive guarantee, new pieces and designs.
Eye Glasses and Spectacles
Take advantage of the opportunity to have your eyes examined by one
who is registered and licensed under the State laws and* graduate Optom
etrist. I have one of the best equipped and most modern optical rooms.
Also repair and duplicate broken lenses of alt kinds.
The place where -you are always welcome
whether you buy or not. x
The reputation of the Bisanar Line and
the reliable methods of doing business iQ;
are well known. i4-> jij
Geo. E. Bisanar
Jeweler and Optometrist I 7I "]
Watch Inspector for Southern &C. & N.-W. Rys. ' -
A 15c Table j
We will place a large variety of odd!
lots in all kinds of useful merchandise!
on one table which sold at 25c and 35 c l
and let you take your choice at
15 Cents I
THOMPSON-WEST COMPANY |
"The Ladies' Store"
Special Values I
In Shirt Waists, Middy Blouses, Ladies' Neck-1
wear, Lace and Muslin Curtains, Stamped Em
broidery Goods, Silks, Velvets, Ribbons, Curtain
Goods, Piques, Corduroys, and many other
things too numerous to mention.
THOMPSON-WEST COMPANY
"The Ladies' Store"
At Cost
All Summer Parasols
All Ladies' Handbags
All Children's Dresses
All Ladies' Dresses
All Embroidered Robes
All Long Silk Gloves
All Men's Shirts
All Wool Dress Skiits
THOMPSON-WEST COMPANY
"The Ladies' Store"
To the LadiA
We have a lad J
parlor and toij
room up stairs a J|
• a rest room do 3
stairs for your Co M
venience. AlsoplJ
ty of fans and i]
water. Make OUM
store YOUR S t ore l