Established 1899
HE DEMOCRAT C i
PIMM IS com
Stands for Progressive Policies j
for the Farmer.
COUNTY~CANDIDATES
c tar t Off Auspiciously at Dr.
Foard s and Pleasant Grove—
Councill Gaither, W. J.
Shuford, A. C. Shuford
Make Telling
Speeches.
"Mr. Jonas, of Lincoln, made,
a speech in Highland or East!
Hickory, the other night, and I,
am told he sent a man tosee me i
to invite me to divide time with j
him and that I would not come, j
That messenger must have missed
the trail. I guess he is still hunt
ing for me, but I am not expect
ing him to find me. I would like
to have the chance to hit him
between the eyes with
facts, and to find out whether
he is a Republican or a Progres
sive or a Buli Mooser, or what.
Nobody knows."
This was one utterance of
Judge Councill who made a spir
ited and brilliant speech when
the county candidates spoke at
Foard & Whisnant's Store in
Bandy's township last Saturday
afternoon. There were 37 audi
tors present in the prove in
front of Dr. Foards home but
this was twice as good as
as the Republican audience the
previous Saturday, according to!
a man present on both occasions, j
who said the Republicans had;
16. But the farmers are very •
busy at this harvest time. There
was a better audience of 100 or
more at the Pleasant Grove
school house at night.
Messrs. R. Lee Hewitt, candi
date for Sheriff; E. D. Gamble
for Register; W. S. Sherrill for
Treasurer; F. A. Yoder for coun
ty commissioner briefly declared
themselves and bespoke the sup
port of the voters as men who
had made good, while Mr. W. B.
Gaitner, tor tne House, and
Judge VV. B. Councill, f->r the
Senate, made the principle
speeches.
County Chairman J. D Elliott
, iuiouuetu the speakers in a neat
;• but brief address.
Mr. Elliott Introduces
Brief and to the point were
Chairman Elliott's introductions,
often interspersed with a joke.
Our hope is in the national ticket
this year to relieve the people of
their burdens, he said. He want
ed to show the people the kind
■ of candidates the Democracy is
offering them. We owe Roose
velt a vote of thanks for "bust
ing" the Republican party wide
open in the middle, and the New
York Herald predicts Wilson's
election by one of the biggest
votes ever given a candidate.
Brief Declarations
Mr. Hewitt for sheriff said that
his nomination two years ago
was taken as a joke and the Re
publicans gave him the horse
laugh. He was elected, however,
and had come before the people
with clean hands. He had offer
ed his opponent to meet him on
; the stump but he refused.
; Messrs Gamble, Sherrill and F.
A. Yoder declared themselves
for register, treasurer and
county commissioner.
Mr. A. C. Shuford For Wilson.
At Pleasant Grove school
bouse where the candidates spoke
■' at night to over 100 men, Ex-
Corigressman A. C. Shuford was
in the audience. He seemed to
a little surprised when Mr.
J. D. Elliott called upon him at
the conclusion of the candidates
speeches. Ic was then 10 o'clock.
It i; late,'' said Mr. Shuford,
as he rose, "and I hope for
s me other occasion to speak, as
an exolanation should precede
what I may have to say. I have
been one of these independents
to whom Judge Councill referred.
1 am somewhat of a free lance in
Politics. Bm I consider myself
. yemoeratic to the core if we
Judge Democracy by principles.
I am for Woodrow Wilson
jpd the national Democratic
ticket. Before he was nominat
ed I was for him. Frankly, if
Clark or Underwood had
wen nominated, I would not
nave supported them.
. "One reason lam for Wilson
's because of the record he has
ftade. He is Democratic to the
He is for measures that I
; Jave been for. He worked tc
"lake Princeton University Dem
ocratic when he was its presi-
Qe nt, He never would have ac
cepted the presidential nomina
Jon if he had had to obligato
Pioiself to any man. 1 don't be
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
lieve there has been in North
| Carolina a more conscientious
man on the bench than Judge
Councill but he would not sit on
a case in which he had a person
al interest. A public official can
not judge impartially the busi
ness interests of men who con
tributed to their election, not be
cause they are not honest, but
because a sense of gratitude
marks their judgment. No, these
evils proceed not from direct
bribery but from failure to prop
erly weigh evidence, and men,
throw themselves yjnder the in
fluent* of the Big Interests in
. order to satisfy their ambitions
j I cannot help supposing a man
j who keeps his judgement free.
; "I wish we would ail look at
: government as a business matter.
Let us throw away party feelings
and elect fit men."
County Platform for Progress
Mr. W. J. Shuford made a
highly practical and effective
speech. He said that the farmer
was interested in rural credits,
which many European govern-]
ments have long had. The U. S.
can borrow money at 2 per cent,
the big corporations at from 3 to
4pe cent, our large cities at 5,
commercial interests at 6„ but the
average farmer had to pay from
Bto 10 per cent. In Germany
rurai co-operative societies lend
money to farmers at 44 5 per
cent. The speaker believed that
under Wocdrow Wilson we will
see such rural credit socities
springing up ali over the land.
In all its history the Republican
party has never so much as con
sidered this vitally important
subject.
Mr. Shuford read a number of
[ questions asked in the last num
ber of the Progressive Farmer.
Has your county 6 months school,
was one. The speaker showed
that the county Democratic con
vention had declared for increas
ing the school from three and
four to six months
Does your county get all the
time of your county superinten
den of education? After Nov.
Ist., Catawba county will enjoy
this advantage.
Has your county issued bonds
for roads, Newton and Hickory
townships have voted $50,000
each, have started to building
sand clay roads, and have creat
ed non-partisan boards for ex
pending the road funds.
We have county institutes,
well attended.
We have corn and tomato clubs
for the boys and girls of the
county. The Democratic board
of county commissioners gave
$75, the State Department of
Agriculture $75, making $150,'
which made possible the organi
zation of the girls tomato clubs,
under a highly efficient leader,
and they have canned altogether
8000 cans, worth SBOO. Our pre
sent commissioners have spent
$250 for the hookworm campaign
and SSOO toward securing the
county commissioner of agri
culture.
Our county Democratic plat
form declares for fair salaries to
county officers and the abolition
of the old fee system. The Re
publican county platform says
! nothing ot this.
The county platform declares
for simplifying land titlesrwhich
is about equivalent to the Torrens
system. These are the things
which the Catawba Democrats
stand for, and which ought to
give the ticket 500 majority:
Mr. Gailher's Speech
Woodrow Wilson is a great mat. io 1
limericks, and Mr. Gaither quoted one
of them at the beginning of his speech.
Mr. Elliott had bragged on the good
I looks of his bunch," but Mr. Gaither
I quoted as applicable to himself Mr.
Wilson's tribute to bis own pulchritude:
For beauty I am not a slar,
There are ot hers more handsome
by far,
My face I don't mind it,
For I am behind it.
It's those out in front that I jar.
Mr. Gaither said his opponent, he
understood, had said that if Gaither
went around making a canvas, he
(Mr.JKillian) expected to be there.
Mr. Gaither said he had treated this
with silence, until he found Mr. Kii
lian was leaving the impression that he
was afraid to meet him, whereupon he
promptly issued a challeage for a
joint debate, which his apponent
through the papers declined. Mr.
Killian reminded him of I key, who put
up his old blind scrub of a cow for
sale. The auctioneer cried:
"This is one of the finest Jersey
cows ever offered for sale" —
When Ikey jumped up and said:
"Vait, vait, I didn't know she vas
so goot. I vill not sell her. I haf
changed my mind."
His opponent had boasted of the
way he had plowed and planted until
he had bought a big farm, made a
great success anl owned bank stock.
He doubted if Gaither ever plowed a
lurrow. Mr, Gaither bad plowed and
ditched and cradled wheat, etc., but
be did not believ« Catawba county
HICKORY, THURSDAY.OCTOBER 17, I9l£
- (Fayetteville Daily Observer)
I DON'T LET THEM DECEIVE YOU. The
I farmers do not talk much but they cast 80 percent
!. of the votes.
They remember their friends and they know that
Walter Clark hßs been their Consistent friend for
1 many years, arid THEY ARE GOING TO
I STAND BY HIM NOW. And remember that from
| -the battle of Sharpsburg in 1861 to this day, Walter
| Clark has faced all kinds of enemies and opposition
| and fought in many battles, and he has never sur
rendered and HE HAS NEVER BEEN DEFEATED.
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| Catawba County Fair jj
§ OCT. 30-31 AND NOV. 1, 1912. §
K $2000.00 in purses and premiums. Three dazzling and thrilling Aeroplane X
Q flights by noted aviators, also other interesting features: Demorest Drama- Q
Q tists, Ferris Wheel, Merry-Go-Round, Athletic contest, Live Stock and Q
(*) School Parades. The worlds best pror uc "on in motion pictures. Addresses Q
8 will be made by noted speakers alox g agricultural and educational lines. Q
States Dept's. Agricultural car. • Q
0 Better displays than ever before nfi Id and garden crops, horses, cattle, ry
sheep and swine, dairy products, I ort culture, pantry supplies, children's Q
Q department, education, judging, manufacturers' displays, poultry and spe- Q
0 cail premiums. O
A It will be well worth your while to attend every day. Q
Q For full information write, Q
E. L. FLOWERS, Secretary, Hickory, N. C. G
1 oooooc cooeoo;
rzs going to sand him to Raleigh to
plow furrows.
The speaker riddled the big Re
publican rumpus in the nation and ex
posed the big corruption funds which
hive in the past been buying the pre
sidency for candidates belonging to
the big interests.
A Word for the School Children
The speaker pledged his support to
ii creasing the common school terms.
The great state colleges, while deserv
ii.g, had received more consideration
tl.an the public schools, and so long
as he could do so without imposing
farther burdens of taxation upon the
people, he would work to better our
common school system.
He favored a pension for every old
soldier, regardless of his financial
s'atus. Not a dollar that went to the
o'i soldiers but had been appropriated
by the Democratic party. In 1887
tie Republicans had a chance to show
tl.Bir loyalty to the Confederate soldier
b:t they did not give him a dollar.
The Democrats had gradually increased
the State pension roll to half a million.
Mr. Gaither closed with handsome
tributes to both Wilson and Craig.
(continued onJ;hird page)
Mr. Ivey Sells His Copyright.
Mr. David (Mark in his South
ern Textile Bulletin announce
that he has been able to purchase
the copyright and owners
ship of "Ivey's Carding and
Spinning." The book was writ
ten, he adds, several years ago
\ y Geo. F. Ivey, manager of the
1> ey Mills, Hickory, N. C., and
Ms been the most popular book
of its kind ever distributed a
niong the Southern cotton mills.
Mr. Ivey, being a practical and
well educated cotton manufac
turer, has had experience as in
s ructorina textile school and
v, as able to arrange practical in
f.>rjjiation on carding and spining
in such form as to be of instruc
tive value to those who were
s udying those subjects.
The first edition has been en
tirely exhausted but we will
p; int a secend edition as early as
possible.
Saved by His Wife
She's a wise woman who knows just
w'.at 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. for a dread
ful tough, when I was so weak ms
friends all thought I had only a short
time to live, and it completely cured
me." A quick cure for coughs and
colds, it's the most safe and reliable
medicine for many throat and lung
troubles —grip, bronchits, croup,
whooping cough, auinsy, tonsilits
hemorrhages. A trial will convince
you. 50 cts. and SI.OO. Guaranteec
by C. M. Shuford, Moser & Lutz an:
Grimes. j*
f In $
♦ >
The Thursday Study Club held
an enjoyable meeting Oct. 10th,
with Mrs. Geo. Bisaner. After
quotations on Life Mrs. Harte
gave a sketch of the Empress
Frederick; Mrs. Bost gave the
topics woman in the Antede-
Ibvian World and Woman in the
Professions; and Mrs. L. R.
Whitener gave a continuation of
the Women of Homer.
Following the meeting a de
licious luncheon was served in
courses. The rooms were beauti
fully decorated with cosmos and
dahlias, and a large vase of mag
nificent pink roses adorned the
centre of the dining table. - Mrs.
Ferrell of Missouri and Miss
Phillips of Ohio shared with the
club members the hospitality of
the hostess.
The next meeting will be with
Mrs. Whitener.
A Log on the Track
of the fast express means serious
trouble ahead if not removed, so loss
of appetite. It means lack of vitality,
loss of strength and nerve weakness.
If appetite fails, take Electric Bitters
quickly to oyercome ihe cause by
toning np the stomach and curing the
irdgestion. Michael Hessheimer of
Lincoln, Neb., had been sick over
three years, but six bottles of Electric
Bitters put him right on his feet again.
They have helped thousands. They
give pure blood, strong nerves, good
digestion. Only 50 cents at C. M.
Moser & Lutz and Grimes.
The name—Doan's inspires confi
dence—Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney
ills. Doan's Ointment for skin itch
ing. Doan's Regulets for a mild laxa
ti/e. Sold at all drug stores.
Catawba Springs Notes.
The Democrat is pleased to
learn that Mrs. Elliott at Cat
awba Springs is much better and
able to be up, after having been
ill all summer.
Mrs. Maxwell, the last of the
guests at the Springs, has return
ed to her home in Savannah.
Her mother before her was a
freuqent visitor to the Springs,
and the family has long been in
timate friends of the Elliotts.
Mr. Fred Anderson, originally
of Statesville, who has in recent
years been out West, is visiting
his aunt, Mrs. Elliott at Catawba
Springs.
For any itchiness of the skin, fo
skin rashes, chap, pimples, elc., tr
Doan's Ointment. 50c. at all dru
•tore*.
The Duia Orchard
Leii;>ir News. v
We had the pleasure recently
of visiting the famous Dula or
chards a mile north of town. The
work .of gathering, packing and
marketing the fine crop of apples
in now going on. The Messrs.
Dula have a number of varieties
of apples, but the celebrated
"Duia Beauty" is their specialty.
The trees of this famous variety
are simDly loaded down, there
being hundreds of bushels of the
finest kind of perfect apples
hanging on them, Mr. S. E. Dula
t Id us he was now selling these
fine apples in the orchard at SI.OO
pi-r bushel and of course getting
a better price for ail he ships,
while ordinary apples can be
b -light on the market here for
40 to 50 cents per bushel. Mr.
Dula is having a fine sale on his
apples the demand for them in
creasing as become known.
Ha is attending the Western
North Carolina Fair at Asheville
this week wher t e he has an ex
hibit and he also has one at the
Central Carolina Fair at Greens
boro and we expect him to take
premiums at both. In addition
to the growing and selling the
famous apples he is also propa
gating the trees and has sold
hundreds of them for delivery
this fall or as soon as he can get
t! em ready.
Out in the Foard-Whisnant store
neighborhood, Dr. Foard was" shewing
Judge Council over his splendid farm.
On the big road up above the store,
they met Mr, Rudisill, and he aud the
judge got into a little political dispute,
"if Wilson is elected", said Mr. Rud
isiir, "a working man and a farmer
can't make 40 cents a day", "Do
ycu honestly believe that", asked the
judge. "I certainly do", said Mr.
Rudisill, "Well", conlinued the judge,
"Wilson is going to be elected,
ar.d in order to calm your fears I want
to say I will give you 75 cents a dav
if you will work for me, and I will sign
a contract with you for five years."
Mr. Rudisill was a little quieter in his
argument but he would'nt sign up.
A.tthe Pleasant Grove school house
Saturday night just before the Demo
cratic county candidates spoke, Mr.
Francis Yoder called the citizens of
Jacob Fork township together and the
following township ticket was nominat
ed by acclamation: For magistrates,
Colin Yoder, Max Cline, and James
Clampitt, and for constable John Sher
rill. /
Mr. H. Olin Aberneihy who hap
been"travelling in Ohio and West Vir
ginia, has returned home and is attend-
Rutherford College this winter. He
took in Pittsburg, Niagara, Buffalo, New
York city, Philadelphia, Washington,
Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Char*
lotte before returning.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated i 905
Wilson, Says The Spider.
J3y J. W. C.
Something happened in Cataw
ba County, near Hickory, v ester
lay that has struck terror in the
hearts of the Republicans, creat
ed a panicin the camp of the
"Bull and caused gen
eral jubilation in the ranks of
the Democrats, for the incident
: s looked upon here as being a
most wonderful prophecy that
Wil«on will be our next president.
The thing that happened is
this: Yesterday evening several
little tots, children of Mr. J. W.
"Starnes, went for a stroll in a
corn field in the creek bottom
close by the house. They
were chasing butterflies and
having a good time in general
when Wesley, a bright boy of
six summers, noticed a beauti
ful spider web hanging grace
fully bei ween two stalks of corn.
So unusually beautiful was the
web. and of such splendid design
that it at tracted the attention of
this son of the soil, and he sat
4own to watch the spider finish
his work, as it seemed to be busy
putting the finishing touches in
jthe center of the web. After
watching for a few moments ha
saw the spider was taking the
Fuzz from off the backs of two
moths that had become entan
gled in the web, and was weav
ing it into letters. And so plain
and distinct were the letters
that this little boy, who is in the
first grade at school, could read
them without the least effort.
The spider began with a beauti
ful capital "W", and followed it
! with the letters "ilson" in a
! smaller design. And so surprised
and astonished was Wesley at the
action of the spider that he call
ed his brothers and sisters to
come and witness the wonder.
And so surprised were they all
that they decided to take the
web and all to the house and
show them to their parentr. And
so surprised wert the parents
that they called in passers-by
to witness the work.
The spider that did the work
was a large spotted • variety
known to naturalists as the
Harlequin, and the writing was
as plain and perfect as writing
could be made. The word was
in the center of the" large web,
and was made of different mate
rial from the web, so that the
word "Wilson" stood out very
prominent.
A significant thing about it all
is the fact that the web was
found in the corn field which
only last year brought fame and
glory to Earnest, an older broth
er of Wesley's, who tended the
field, by producing a record
breaking prize-winning crop of
146 1-2 bushels to the acre. This
fact is thought to be an omen
that tells of a period of great
prosperity when Wilson shall be
elected president,
The two moths (one was lar
ger than the other) are supposed
to represent Taft and Roosevelt,
ma the spider writing the name
vith the fuzz from off their
>acks is supposed to be Wilson
'vriting his name in the annuals
of history by getting the votes
from Taft and Teddy.
This story is vouched for by
Mr J. W. Starnes, a life-long
Republican, on whose farm the
spider did its wonderful work,
oy his family, and by an enthus
ia tic '"Bull Mooser'% as well as
>y a loyal Democrat, and the
question is being raised that if
a common every-day spider
could tell Robert, the Bruce of
victory years ago, and could
shield David from harm when
Saul was after his head, why
couldn't this ordinary Harlequin
pider proclaim victory for
Woodrow Wilson in this modern
day?
| What is the Size of Your Hat
When you've been with ihe boy
all night and have a dark brown taste
and your head feels too big for your
hac, call at any medicine Dealer and
get a 10c. package Captura, It will
make your hat fit better. 'Convenient
to carry in the pocket. The genuine
has name Burwell & Dunn Co. -
Columbia Corn Exposition.
Columbia, S. 0., Oct, 12.—The
Filth National Corn Exposition
meets here next January and
February. Exceptionally low
round trip rates to Columbia
haye been announced. Write for
literature and art posters.
When you have a bad "cold yott
want the best medicine obtainable so
as to cure it with as little delay as pos
sible. Here is a druggist's opinion:
"I have sol;i Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy for fifteen years," says Enos
Lollar of Saratoga, Ind., "and consider
it the best on the market." For sale
by all dealer?.
VIdOISVO
S.H3HOI3U UOJ
ico HOME COLONEL, *
SAYS THE JOURNAL
Atlanta Paper Gives Advice to
Mr. Roosevelt.
SOUTH REMEMBERS THINGS.
What He Has Said Against Jeffer
son Davis and R. £. Lee Not -
Forgotten—Don't Mis
• take Hospitality for
Support.
The Atlanta Journal had a re
cent editorial on Ex-President
Roosevelt's Southern trip. It
has created a sensation in Hick
ory and the Democrat havings
had requests from three differ
ent sources to republish it does
so herewith:
HERE'E your hat, Colonel.
The South isn't in your"ring."
It's high time you were hurry
ing home.
On your former visits to our
State and section, you have
found that considerate welcome
to which you were officially en*
titled. Southerners are by na
ture a mannerly folk and they
have always met you faith the
graciousness due a President, or
a former President of the United
States; but, when you twist their
hospitable greeting into an omen
of political you become
rathher presumptuous as a guest
and. certainly, very foolish as a
politician.
-You seem, indeed, to have mis
taken the South for an African
game trail, where the natives
will flock to dance for your sport
and gaze spellbound on your
strange trappings. In a guise of
sanctity, you come to convert
what you derisively call the Solid
South; but be not deceived,
doughty Colonel; for, the eyes of
the section have pierced your
missionary makeup and they see
you as the political. adventurer
you really are.
You mav shout "Armageddon"
and aing "Onward Christian Sol
diers" until __the young-eyed
cherubim yawn with disgust, but
you will never find the South a
missionary field for a man of
your doctrines and your record.
The Southern people have longer
memories than you imagine.
They have not forgotten your
scorn of their heroes and their
dead but sacred cause in the days,
when you cared nothing for
Southern votes.
They have not forgotten how
you wrote of Jefferson Davis—
whose memory is revered in this
election at least—as a traitor or a
criminal.
Who that is Southern born
forget your vicious
slander of Robert E. Lee, the
knightliest spirit of America's
epic war?
You have trampled brutally on
the annals and the ideals of the
South's Confederacy, and yet
you now come among the sons of
the men who died for that cause
and try to f fatter them into follow
ing jrour selfish adventure.
This is a new South, but it is
the child of the Old; and, while
its sympathies are today as
broad as the Union, its heart is
none the less warm or reverent
to the memory, of its sires. It
nurses no rancor of sectionalism.
Had you fought against its
fathers, Colonel Roosevelt, as
did thousands of brave men, that
?ould never have been ..'held
against you; bnt when, in the
peaceful time of returning friend
ship, you went out of your way
to slander them, you then for
ever barred yourself fiom politi
cal consideration.
Go home, Colonel! Go home
andregale yourself on those pages
in which you belittled and falsi
fied the lives of Southern leaders.
If you fancy that the Pharisaic
pose you have recenely assumed
on the negro question will win
you this section's support, you
are pitiably deceived. You have
straddled this issue in both the
North and the South, fraterniz
ing with the negro there and ex
ecrating him here.
Do you think we are so stupid
as not to see through this two
faced and impudent game? .
Did you bid might-and-man
for the support of the negro
delegates at Chicago?
Would you ever have pre
tended this sudden change of
heart, had you succeeded in
capturing the machinery of that
party as you violently strove to
do?
Why was it, Colonel, that you
never awoke to the corrupting in
fluence of the colored delegates
from the South until you saw that
they would no longed serve but
would embarrass your political
schemes?
The whole country icnows that
no Republican ever went f uther
or stooped lower than you for
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