Established 1899 GOVERNOR KITCHIN - SPEAKS IN NEWTON - • IN INTEREST OF HIS CANDIDACY FOR SENATE. Pitilessly exposing Sin rrons as a presto-change ar tist, fighting to the last ditch with a persistent admirer of Sim mons in his audience, and proph ecving his own suecsss w--h ov erwening confidence, Gov. W. \V. Kitchin strode to and fr > wirhtn the railing of the co tre house at Newton Saturday nu'ic, entertaining the audience of men an d women which filled the building full, at least enraptur ing his friends, if not persuad ing his political enemies. The Governor is a heaven torn orator. He arrayed his facts in Macedonian phalanxes, anil hurled them, spectacular in bunished armor, to rip great boles in the record of Senator Simmons. For every reactionary vote of Simmons, he produced a pi (gressive paragraph from some campaign speech, until he made the Senator's record look -as zig-zog as an ancient rail fence arnnnd an old-fashioned farm. The Governor turned on the eloquence, and the Senator's rec ord winked like a vari-eolored elc-ctric sign on Broadway at n '- ht * , * T "I have moved from where I was to where I am. where I will be found when lan not else where," quoted the Governor, and the crowd laughed over the merciless aptness of the quota tion. Senator Simmons is very strong at Newton and the Governor not unnaturally found quite a sprinkl ing of Simmons men in his au dience. There was an intermit tent Simmons volcano some where, which kept erupting for Simmons and every time the Governor climbed to the crater and poured the vitriol ot sarcasm into the boiling cava or liquor, or whatever it was in there, which don't have a very cooling effect on the same. Following up some ruthless expsse of the se:.ior Senator's vote. Gov. Kitchin would say; "Now you Simmons men cheer that " He dared them to cheer a picture of the Senator on the cover-page of the American Lum berman, which contained Mr. Simmons speech in favor of pro tecting lumber with editorial ap proval of the speech and the vote. The Simmons fo ks took the dark: A whole mountain range of volcanoes broke loose —there must have been 30 or 35 of them—and when the explosion subsided , the Governor remarked, "I have always said that Sen ator Simmon's record was doing much to Republicanize t>«tlie thought in North Carolina." Mr. A. T. Bariwck introduced Gov. Kitcnin in a very neat speech, saying he had been one or North Carolina's most valu able men. The Governor taking as a text the word, "the truth shall make you free" appealed to his hearers to put aside prejudice and listen to him with open mind. Contrast ing the false Republicanidea that the government has the right to tax the many to enrich the few— their prosperity in some way trie', ling down so bless everybody v.ith the true Democratic idea that no government has any right to levy taxes except to run the government economically administered, thus guaranteeing equal rights to all and special priveleges to none, the speaker led up to the country's result against the tariff in Cleveland's day. The betrayed of the Wilson b U by Gorman, Brice and Smith of New Jersey, lost the confi dence of the people in Democr atic leadership, especially sena torial leadership. The country is again about to turn to the Democratic party to rescue it Simmon's not Satisfactory to Many j Democratic Leaders. Catawba County News Simmons democr cy is not satisfactory t > Gov. Thomas J. » the 4 v>anl Oid Man" of the Democratic p irty. It is j-ot satisfactory to Ex-Governor R. B. Glenn, a war house of demo cracy, It is not satisfactory to Hon. Ashley .-turn, Confederate soldier and candidate for govern or of North Carolina four years «go. . It is not satisfactory to Genera! tulian S. Carr, t e idol of the Q.u Uonlederate soldiers in North ' | from the snme evils as Cleveland fought, only intensified after 20 years multiplication of multi millionaires. "But the Democratic party narty cannot elect Woodrow Wilson on the the record of Bailey and Simmons," declared Governor Kitchin. "If the Democratic party had made the record of Simmons, Woodrow Wilson's chances would be worthless. No man can defend the record of Simmons without repudiating the record of Senator Simmons. Aycock and Clark would not have entered this race if they had not thought Simmons should be defeated." A voice: "Hurrah for Sim mons!" "I'll give you enough 'to hur rah for before I get through," said the Senator. "Every Democrat in North Carolina of State-wide influence and not in the Simmon - organi zation is against him," he con tinued, mentioning Crawford, A. C. Avery. Theo. F. Davidson, Cy Watson, R. B. Glenn, T. J Jarvis, Tom Mason, Judge Battie, Mai. Hale and others. "L make 13 charges against Mr. Simmons,'' continued the Governor, "wherein-he violated his own speeches. In sustain ing these I show that he is no more the Democrat that Vance and Ransom were, or that he himself was four years ago. Here the Goyernor allowed the thunder-storm clouds of the at tack on Simmons to lift high for a little parenthesis and the sun shine of his own achievement to lighten the landscape. While in Congress, he said, he got more rural deliveries and public build ings than any other North Caro lina man. • He fought the ar mer plate hold up, worked for the Sherman anti-trust law, making an enemy of the Amer ican tobacco trust, and, by his fight of the railway mail subsidy to a finish alienating the South ern Railway. Since he had been Governor 800,000 acres of swamp land had been reclaimed, bank deposits had increased $30,000,- 000, four times as ' much was spent on public health, and there were 150 more prisoners in the pen than ever before—he never had yet reached the high water marir of either Aycock or Glenn in pardoning convicts. Addressing himself to Mr. Simmon's Lorimer record, the Governor said he made a speech for Lorimer against the over whelming testimony in the case. Simmons had Lorimer to visit him in his North Carolina home. He interested Lorimer in a tim ber deal which fell through. He couid not therefore justify claim that he was a "juryman'' in the Lorimer case, for a jury man could not have such inti macy with the accused. - "And who is Lorimer? The Republican boss of Chicago. A man who helped turn out four Democrats from the House, who voted with Crumpacker to re duce Southern rep r esentation in Congress. Roosevelt refused to sit with this same Lorimer but he didn't refuse to eat with Booker Washington!" [Great laughter.] Cam Morrison had fixed up-a fine defence of Lorimer to jus tify Simmons, when suddenly at a second trial he put all his N. i C. friends in a hole by voting to I turn his peer out. He said he had found some new evidence about a jackpot. Yet ever> Senator who spoke during the first trial was talking about that jackpot." / \ Vance and Ransom always voted against sub sidies but Simmons voted for Carolina. It is *bt satisfactory Hon. W D.Turner, former L e:i tenai t Governor of North Car olina. It is not satisfactory to Hon. Cyrus B. Watson, a man loved by all Democrats of the State. It is not satisfaetoi y to Ex-Judge Biggs of Raleigh. P is not satisfact' ry|toCongressman Steadiiian. It is not satisfactory JO thousands of Democrats who w-H go on record against it so strong on election day as to give North Carolina a senator that will be in harmony with Wood row Wilson and progressive democracy. HICKORY, N.C.,THURSDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1912 one on March 13, 1908. Capt. Ashe's defence of this is that Simmons didn't recognize it as a subsidy! Looks like a full-grown Senator ought to know a steam ship subsidy when he meets it in the road! Simmons had con demned subsidies in one of his On July 5. 1911 he argued that a protective tariff benefitted the farmer. This contradicted his campaign speeches. On April 28, 1909, he violated a speech he made at Snow Hill, and the platform which he helped to write (which said: "We demand that lumber be put on the free list") by voting for a duty on lumber. He says he did it for revenue and then straightway contradicts himself by saying he did it to recoup the saw mill men for what they had spent for machinery. That vote made friends of lumber men and lumber journals. The Southern Lumber Journal had a long eulogy of Simmons and urged its friends to shuck their coats for Simmons. Simmons voted to protect cement and other things, again tobacco, again iron ore. (CONCLUDED ON PAGE THREE.) The Risk in Simmons. Colliers. An event which happened ex actly eighteen years ago is de scribed by the historian of * Twenty Years of the Republic" in his chapter on the passage of the Wilson Tariff Bill: "The Republicans fell upon it tooth and nail, but acting in entire harmony with them were certain Democratic Senators Fore most among these were the blandly inscrutaple Senator Gor man of Maryland and Sena tor Brice of Ohio. These two appeared upon the Democratic side of the senate as the una vowed yet most efficient agents of the protected interests, and their object was plainly to modify and mutilate the Wilson Bill..Coal iron ore. lumber, and sugar were removed from the free list—" (Note "coal, iron ore, lumber." During the passage of the Payne- Aldrich tariff, Senator Simmons uf North Carolnia, a Democrat now seeking reelection, voted ex actly as Brice and Gorman voted, in favour of a protective duty on coal, iron ore, and lumber.) These acts of Gorman and Brice were described by President Cleveland, in his famous letters t.) Wilson of West Virginia and Catchings of Mississippi, in these phrases: " The deadly blight of treason has blasted the councils of the brave in their hour of might The livery of Democratic tariff reform has been stolen and worn in the ser vice of Republican protection party perfidy and delusion." Once more, after the long eighteen years of exile which was the punishment for this very treason, the Democratic party is approaching another "hour of might. n Within a few months at most the Democratic party, •>nce more possessing the con fidence of the people and the nation's mandate to revise the tariff downward, will again take up the work of reducing the tariff. Again in its hour of triumph the party is going to be threatened by the blight of r reason. Again it is going to find its Gorman and its Brice. The Gorman of the coming year will be Simmons of North Caro lina—unless the people of "North Carolina vote to keep him at nome. No Democratic com mnunity would knowingly send Brice or the Senate; in returing Simmons, North Carolina will be doing exactly the same thing, and after ample varning. Morgan is for Roesevilt The Commoner. The Chicago Tribune. Mr. Roose velt's leading organ, says that J. Pier pont Morgan lias anuonnced his in tention of voting for Theodore Roose ivelt. The Tribune says that the j reason assigned by Mr. Morgan was, "Roosevelt is always doing something interesting and I like to watch him." Has Mr. Morgan, like his pastner, Georgt W. Perkint, turned idemlitt. COMMENT ' f ' JUDGE COUNCILL. Judge W. B. Council!, of this city, was nominated by the Democrats of Catawba and Lin coln counties for the State senate. It was a happy selection. The nominee will make an ideal iegis -1 itor. A native of Watauga, there is in his bone and fibre something of the rock-ribbed strength of the mountains under whose blue shadows he was reared. His ripe as a practitioner and as a judge on our Superior court bench will be of great value to him in 'this position. Judge Councill is a Progressive, but not an extrem ist. His keen analytical mind— j and in this respect we would rank him with the brainiest liwyers in North Carolina —en- able him to view a problem from every angle, and consequently to act with all the lights before him. He will be useful in stopping up leaks. He will be a great ad juster. He will be a happy com promiser. As a splendid neighbor and a true friend aAd adviser, the editor of the Democrat has had the privilege of knowing Judge Councill intimately, and it is with peculiar personal pride that we ee him consenting to serve the state as a legislator. With Council! in the Senate and Gaither in the House, no county in North Carolina will have an abler team of legislators. VANCE OPPOSED SIMMONS. Senator Vance never liked Senator Simmons, and in a card in the Asheville Citizen in February, 1894, opposed his nomination as collector of in ternal revenue, "on personal as well as public grounds." His son, Mr. Chas. N. Vance' in* a letter to Dr. I. W, Faison in 1900, made the following statement: "I know the fact that my father regarded Mr. Simmons as an unscrupulous politician and for that and other reasons, he opposed his confirmation for collector," He also said: "A short time before my father's death he stated that in his opinion Mr Simmons was not fit for this office or worthy of the confidence of the people of North Carolina." We do not know whether Senator Vance would have changed his mind about Senator Simmons or not had he lived to this day, but we doubt it. As great a commoner as Br>an was Vance, and Bryan distrusts Sim mons and is opposing him in this campaign. Vance seemed to be a true prophet when we see how men like Bryan, La follette, Mark Sullivan, "Savoyard," and other tribunes of the people esti mate our senior Senator today. At any rate what Vance said about Simmons ought to estop the latter from conjuring with Vance's name, as we understand he has done during this cam paign. A DELPHIC UTTERANCE. The Democrat has criticized Mr. M. M. Smyre, the Republi can candidate for sheriff in this county, for not having voted for 16 years. Wishing to be just to every man, we republish the heart of his card in the Catawba News though we have not been asked to do so. He says sub stantially he didn't want this nomination but it was forced on him, and he is going to fight it out. Then he adds: "In 1898, I was among the hundreds of Alliance men who were read out of the Democratic party, and with them I went in to the people's party, and voted for, and advocated its principles so long as it existed. "After careful consideration for some time, and with the ex perience and expense I have had, I found that one-party-rule was dangerous. -And when the Re publicans Jed| in the great pro gressive policies of government, those in common with my own, I willingly and heartily cast my lot with them.'* Mr, Smyre doesn't say whether | he ass failed to exercise t he right i )f franchise or not, as is charg ! ed. His statement above reads as indefinite!./ as a Delphic oracle. \ i The Democrat has never sym ; pathized with abuse of the Popu- I n'sts. In many cases, perhaps, I the old court house rings were too severe on the Populists, but we did not know that Alliance men were "read out of the Demo cratic party." We thought it was a voluntary-exodus. Neither do we understand what Mr. Smyre means when he says his experience and his expense have proved to him that one party-rule is dangerous. How can there be two-party-rule any other;; way than as heretofore, one party acting as a check on the other? Neither can we im agine how Mr. Srpyre ever found Republican principles con genial to his Populist principles. The Progressives protest against Republican misrule might attract Mr. Smyre but the Republican Progressives have been fighting s ibstantially for Democratic prin ciples. THE EASY WAY AROUND The Newton correspondent of tie Charlotte Observer says in Monday's issue: Governor W. W. Kitchin after speaking here last night, spent the day in town, attended church this morning and ieft for Raleigh this evening. The tension here between the adherents of the Governor and Senator Simmons has been so taut that the chief topic today has been whether the Governor strengthened r weak\ ened himself by coming to New ton and making his speech, and there is no answer to the specu lation, for opinion varied accord Lng to the complexion of the knot of citizens foregathered here and i there during the Sunday loafing hours- The Governor's friends think he made a capital address and won votes. The. Senator's back ers are of the opinion, that he not only did not gain any but lost those who were on the fence. There is not a little bitterness among the partisans of each in this countv. What effect it will have on the common cause on election day is problematical, but conservative Democrats who are committed to no candidate, among them be ing a number of men who would have stood for Aycock, deplore the situation, not only in this county but throughout the State. There is a way around this de plorable situation, and that is to vote for Judge Clark. Ha is the man to compromise on for the good of the Democratic party, and the state and the country at large will not be at any loss what ever by the change. Wilson Hitting Hard. The Commoner. Governor Wilson delivered a telling blow to Roosevelt's pre posterous claim to leadership of the real progressive thought of the country when, at Sio-ix City, he showed that the Roosevelt plan for "regulating" trusts, instead of preventing them, orig inated with Gray and Perkins. These gentlemen are not inter ested in the people and they are not planning for the peopie. The interests of Gray and Perkins are wrapped up in trusts and Mr. Roosevelt is their agent to carry out their plan. Governor Wilson is also right in opposing the tariff board as "a motion for a continuance." The existing board has already been used by the president as ail excuse for delay and this excuse has eost the country several hundred millions. The tariff board, honest!y intended by some, is a farce and a fraud After postponing action until the board reported the Republicans would not accept any findings that justified existing rates. Congress, and -congress alone can settle the tariff Question. A Log on the Track of the fast express means serious trouble aheid if not removed, so loss of appetite. It means lack of vitality, loss of strength and nerve weakness. If appetite fail', tike Electric Bitters quickly to overcome the cause by toning -ip the stomach and curing the indgestion. Michael Hessheimer of Lincoln, Neb., had been sick over three years, but sisc bottles of Electric Bitters put him right on his feet again. They have helped thousands. Th?y give pure blood, strong nerves, good digestion. Only 50 cents at C. M. i Shufo'd, Moser & Lutz and Grimes. Democrat and Press, Consolidated i 905 l Un Social Circles j> The first party given to the UfiUc-cicc., iVli.sS iidZti j Elliot*" on Fri.iay aPternof«D with Mrs. E. B. Jones as hostess. ■ae nutsts wern met uy i\i» f. fones and Miss Eiliott who was iressed in yellow. Euchre was played; Mrs. T. M. Matt won first prize, Mrs vV. X. tteid consolation, Mrs. R. Q. Grimes body, and Miss Elliot prize, a piece o. cat glass. A salad course was served, after which guests departed showering good wishes on th* honor lady and good cheer on the •hostess. The Thursday Study Club was entertained by Mrs. Henderson September 26th, - Quotations on matrimony were given at roll call, Mrs. Worth Elliott gave tht ladies Woman Before the Chris tian Era and Woman in Invention and Science. Mrs. Grimes gave an interesting sketch of the em press Alexandra and Miss Mamie Sue Johnson read a chapter from tie Women of Rome. _ After current news the club adjourned to meet Oct. lUih with Mrs. Geo. Bisaner. A delicious supper was served in the dining room by Miss Mary Knox Henderson and Mrs. Ernest Herman. Happy Marriages Are the lesult of knowing the laws of health and nature. All the knowledge a young man or woman, wife or daughter should have, is contained in the People's Medical Adviser, by R. V. Pierce. M. D. This big Home Book con taining 1()08 pages with engrav ings and colored plates, and bound m cloth, (nearly 700,000 copies formerly sold for $1.50 each), is sent free to any one sending 31 one-cent stamps to prepay cost of wrapping and pos tage. Thsre are no conditions to this offer and the reader must not associate this book with the advertising pamphlets prepared by quacks throughout the coun try. Address. 662 Washington St., Buffalo., N. Y. LITTLE WHITE COFFINS Mothers Cry Over 15,000,000 of Them Every Year. Health and Hygiene. Poor Billy Rand, the Doy accident ally killed by hazing at the State Univer sity, certainly died a most unnecessary death, but we are going to learn a lesson from it. Already there is lots of strong agitation for stringent legis lation alonp this line, and it is an ex cellent movement. But the question that naturally arises in the minds of irany serious minded people is why we do not direct legislation toward sources that would save more lives than the comparative few that might be saved by preventing hazing. Take for ex a nple, the prevenfable deaths of in fants. Did it ever occur to you that Herod's slaughter of the innocents was bit a mere incident compared to the destruction of babies today? In the ' entire world 15,000,000 helpless bab ies die every year. During the twen ty-four hours not fewer than. 40,000 have died, and the same thing to occur tomorrow. In the United Sates alone approximately 1,000 ba bies die everv day. In our own state we lost between 8,000 and 9,000 ba bies. Were any of them near or dear to you? Next year that needless slaughter will probably be repeated. Will any of them be little ones near and dear to you? Dr Phelps, at the International Con gress of Hygiene and Demography at Washington last week, is quoted as a ithority for tha statement that there is the best reason for believing that at least fifty per cent of our present in fjnt mortality is readily preventable. The main things needed to accomplish this result are more means educating the public,particularly the mothers and fathers, as well as those that will later ba parents; some common sense laws or rules and regulations regarding milk and food, as well as flies and water; and some means of Keeping a careful record of the State, in order that we may be better able to tell where these preventable deaths of children occur, and what causes them. The Thirty-first Senatorial convention, composed of Lincoln 4nd Catawba counties, was held in Newton Saturday and ratified the nomination by Catawba Democrats of Judge W, B. Council of Hickory. A. L, Quickel of Lincointon presided. J udge Councile made a happy speech of acceptance, and both counties stated that the district would without doubt put the Judge in the Senate. Mr. Quickel and W. A. Self of Hickory were re-elected as the executiye com mittee. Wi son tf^acklrl , " , by New Ycrk Glub Ttie Commoner. Gov rnor Woodrow Wilson is not a member of the more cr less famous Mrhi -n -'.-N I■* York City, and if we are to believe some of the New !oa,x r -. iac sovcruor iS likely ) become a m mberofthe exclusive rganization. But ex-Senator James 'raith. i r ., of New Jersey is a member of the Manhattan club; so is Henry Vatterson, Thomas Foturne Ryan, Vugust Belmont and other gentlemen 'nore or less famous in America pol itics. These New York papers tell us that Governor Wilson's name was pro posed for membersifip in the Man hattan but that it was withdrawn when it was made piain that friends of ex- Jenator Smith and other leaders named blackballed the New Jersey governor. It is not at all likely that Governor Wil ton will lose any sleep over * his in cident. To forego the privilege of issociating with James Smith,jr., rlenry Watterson and others of the elect is, to be sure, a mighty sacrifice, out the certificate of disfavor issued by hese geutlemen, is, after all, a badge of honor. Mooresville Colt Show. The Democrat has received notice of the Western Carolina Colt Show at Mooresville, Oct. 24. Cash prizes of slo, and $5 are guaranteed lo winners of first three places in each class of colts. Classification of breeds to consist of: Ist, mules; 2nd, light harness or saddle, •»id, heavy harness. Classification as to ,ige to consist of: Ist, Under one year; 'nd, over one year and under two years. Ages to be reckoned from January Ist. No entry or admission fee will be charged, therefore this association will assume no responsibility for colts shown, so they must be halter-wise and under the care of the owner or an attendant furnished by him. The Democrat hopes Catawba county farmers will go into this. Catawba College Notes Newton. Oct. 2—The Blue and White staff for the present year has been organized as follows; H. k. Fesperman, editor-in-chief, J. F. Carpenter, G. A. Ingle, S. J. McNairy, Gracella Shank, Ethel Peeler, and Martha Throne tew, associate G. C. Peeler, business manager; and A. R. Toash, assistant manager. For the present, subscriptions may be sent to either of the man agers, the price being seventy five cents. The first number will appear in October. Sunday afternoon Mr. J. K. McConnell addressed the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A., making a re port on the Asheville convention. Contributions for foreign mis sions will probably be several hundred dollars. Saturday night was the occa sion of an informal social gather ing in the library for the stu dents; the conversation and the music were free, but there was a charge made by the Idahians for the ice-cream, the result being that they had about ten dollars to hand to the manager of the Blue and White. Mr. L. G. JLimroth, college stenographer, is giving free of charge for those students desir ing, a course in shorthand and typewriting. » Another excellent course is being given, free of charge for the first and second year prepar atory students, a course in free hand drawing under Miss Ballard. Judge Clark Also Makes a Pledge. Judge Walter Clark spoke in Salis bury Friday night in advocacy of his candidacy for the United States Sen ate. He told the audience that Mr. Simmons in his Charlotte speech had made a pledge based upon three "ifs'': That if he were elected to the Senate, and Judge Clark said this was im probable, and if the majority of the Senate is Democratic and if he is not given a higher place in it, he will re sign. Judge Clark said that he would make a pledge upon one if: That if elected to the Senate he would not re quire three hours \o explain to the people why he did not keep platform pledges or why he voted with Aldrich and against the majority of the Demo cratic Senators. Saved by His Wife She's a wise woman who knows just what-to do when her husband's life is in danger, but Mrs. R. J. Flint, Brain tree, Vt., is of that kind. "She insisted on my using Dr. King's New Dis covery, " writes Mr. F. 4 'for a dread ful cough, when I was 'so weak my friends all thought I had only a short time to live, and it completely cured me." 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