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HICKORY. N. C. OCT. 17, 1932
Democratic Ticket.
Governor—Locke Craig.
Lieutenant Governor—E. L.
Daughtridge.
Secretary of State-J. Bryan
Grimes.
Treasurer-B. R. Lacy.
Auditor —W. P. Wood.
Attorney General—T. W.
Bicket.
Superintendent of Public In
struction— J. Y, Joyner.
Commissioner of Labor and
Printing—M. L. Shipman.
Commissioner of Agricult
ure—W, A. Graham.
Long Term Corporation Com
missioner—Geo. P. Pell.
Short Term Corporation Com
missioner—E, L. Travis.
Supreme Court Judges—W, A.
Hoke and Geo. H. Brown.
State Senate—W. B. Councill,
of Hickory.
House of Representatives—
W. B, Gaither, of Newton.
CLAY GAVE THE MEANING
The spider story in the Side
Table department of the Char
lotte Observer is the neatest
piece of work which has appear
ed during this presidential cam
paign. It is reprinted in this
issue of the Democrat. We take
the liberty of saying that it is
from the pen of our friend, Mr,
John Wesley Clay, head of the
Clay Printing Co. It ought to
get Clay an offer of a position in
the editorial rooms or the mule
pen of the Observer, for he has
the journalistic instincts strong
ly developed. Joseph or Daniel
could not have interpreted the
hidden mystery of this difficult
omen moie plainly than John
Wesley, and his Christian name
itself is vindication for the verac
ity of the story, while his pa
tronymic floods with light the
phenomena of both the states
manship and the eloquence that
the story carries. The incident
is crowded with significant sym
olism, and Clay pans it out like
a miner in a new Klondyke find.
It is brilliant work, Weslty.
OPPRESSION THAT BREEDS
REVOLUTION
The brutal story of how the
White Star line robbed the
mother of Robt. L. Barker, an
English youth who had been four
- years in its employ and who
went down on the Titanic, is told
in the last Colliers.
• "Barker's widowed mother
applied to his employers for her
compensation, 250 lbs ($1,500),
under the British Workmen's
Compensation Act. vThe em
ployers replied that she was not
entitled to any compensation be
cause her son had been receiving
over 250 lbs ($1,250) a year. (The
British law doesn't give compen
sation to the family of an em
pleyee who earns over $1,250 a
year—presumably on the theory
that out of such a salary the de
ceased ought to have saved up an
independent estate, But let's
not sneer at the British law, we
shall see soon that it is better
than our own law by exactly as
much as something is better than
nothing.)
Barker's mother wrote back in
some indignation. Her son had
not got $1,250 a year; hispay was
$75 a month while on sea and
half pay while in port, amount
ing to between SBOO and SBSO a
year. f 'But," said the company
—however, let us not paraphrase
or condense their letter. We
might do them injustice. Let
uscjuote their exact words:
"The purser is privileged to
take his meals in the first-class
saloon, a fair cost for which we
have estimated at 5 shillings
($1.25) a day
And by this adroit calculation
the company figured that
Barker's pay was just above the
legal limit.
Further correspondence fol
lows and Ismay, Imrie & Co.
wrote this pararagraph to the
bereaved mother:
If Mrs. Barker's case is in any
sense a necessitous one, we feel
sure it would receive sympathetic
consideration on the part of any
one of the- committees which
have been organized for the" dis
tribution of the very large relief
funds that have been raised
throughout the country."
In other words, "Go and beg."
(Ismay, by the way, is the man
who saved himself, while others
srent down to watery graves),
His company went further I
lengths of infamy, however.
They wrote that Barker ''had at
the time of death 500 lbs ($2,500)
on loan from the company.' The
company took unctuous credit to
itself for having "no intention
to claim for this on his estate."
But yet, of course, if the widow
continued to be obstreperous, they
might This 500 lbs was merely
a fund intrusted to each purser
for the convenience of changing
money on board, and, of course,
with its custodian, went down
with the ship.
Collier's also tells this story:
About two years ago, after
many years of opposition from
corporation influences in the
Legistature, there-was passed a
law giving to a carefully restrict
ed class of workers on railroads
and other dangerous occupations
compensation for re
ceived in their work. A few
weeks later the first case came
up: A railroad switchman in
Buffalo, Ear* Ives, signaled the
engineer (we quote the official
documents) "to take up the
slack in the train, and upon the
engineer doing so the jar caused
Ivea to fall to the ground and he
was bruised and injured." and
was out of work for five weeks.
The railroad "admitted each and
every allegation,"
Under the new law Ives sued
for SSO. In the Supreme Court
(the cours of first resort in New
York State) he won. Then the
railroad appealed one step high
er, to the- Appellate Division;
again Ives won. Then the rail
road appealed to the court of
last resort, the New York Court
of Appeals. This court admitted
that but for the act this work
man would have no redress; they
admitted that every European
country except one has such an
act; they admited that humanity
demanded it —but they found the
act unconstitutional.
This pitiless selfishness, the
result of concentrating enormous
wealth in the hands ot a few
men, is all too generally preva
lent. It is the thing that hatched
the French revolution. It fath
ered the guillotine. It begot
Nihilism in Russia. It is breed
ing socialism like fish spawn in
our own country today. The on
ly way to stave it off is to "de
stroy the trusts," not legitimate
corporations, but these money
combinations which have put
nine-tenths of the wealth of the
United States into the hands of
ten men.
A man whose heart beats in
sympathy with the oppressed is
Judge Clark. His record in this
matter is written in his Supreme
Court opinions. He is the man
to send to the Senate to join
with John Sharp Williams, La-
Follette and others of this stripe
to help Wilson reduce the tariff,
the mother of trusts, and put
these robber-combinations out of
existence.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY REPORT
The Southern Railway is the goose
that lays the golden egg. Sometimes
;ve think she skimps the North Car
olina part of the egg in favor of
Virginia, when we consider our high
freights, but anyhow we get some of
the egg. The Southern is the South's
magic seven league boots. They pinch
the Tar Heel instep a bit in discrim
inatory freights, but still we have worn
the boots into splendid prosperity.
For the year ending June 30, the
gross operating expenses were $63,-
590,328.90, the total operating ex
penses $43,696,236.39, the net oper
ating revenue $19,894,092.51, net
revenue $19,958,847,18, total gross
income $21,086,593.76, total avail
able income interest
$11,143,703.84, balance of income
over charges $6,763,117.06, total
dividends $2,700,000, balance over
dividends on prefered stock $4,063,-
117.06. additions and betterments'
$44,989,42, balance carried to credit
of profit and loss $4,018,127.64.
President Finley in the official re
port speaks of some of the finest fea
tures of the roads work as follows:
The Cotton Culture Department,
having demonstrated its efficiency no l
only against the boll weevil but also in
securing increased yields per acre, has
been merged inUra larger Department
of Farm Improvement Work, created
for the purpose of extending the same
system of cooperative farm demonstra
tion work over all of the territory
traversed by the lines of Southern Rail
way Company and the railway com
panies associated with it. Its object
is to demonstrate to farmers methods
by which the average yields of the
staple crops of each locality may be
increased, not on experimental or
demonstration farms under special con
ditions and with exceptional resources,
but on their own farms and with their
own resources. The Department will
work in harmony and cooperation with
the State Commissions of Agriculture,
State Agricultural Colleges and Experi
ment Stations, and ihe United States
Department of AgricultSr?.
During the year special attention has
been given to the upbuilding of the
dairy industry along the Company's
lines. In January, 1912, a dairy in
struction car, especially arranged and
fully equipped for lecture and demon
stration work, was placed in operation
under the direction of the Company's
Dairy Agent. Ninety-nine points-were
visited and 12,906 people attended
the lectures and demonstrations. The
operation of this car has resulted in in
creasing dairy farm herds, and in the
general improvement of conditions
surrounding the dairy industry. As a
means of encouraging all branches of
the live stock industry, a Live Stock
"Agent is employed to give information
and advice as to the feeding
and marketing of live stock.
During the year the Company operat
ed agricultural trains in cooperation
with various State Boards of Agriculture.
Stops were made and meetings held at
one hundred and eleven cities and
towns, the total attendance being
estimated at approximately 60,850.
The operation of these train*" aroused
interest in better agricultural methods,
and it is believed that the results will
be beneficial to the farmers and to the
Company.
The Land and Industrial Depart
ment of the Company, while separate
from the Department of Farm Im
provement Work,_ v operates in close
cooperation with it, each supplement
ing the other. In addition to secur
ing the location of industries along the
Company's lines, the Land and In
dustrial Department is actively engag
ed in the solicitation of farm immi
grants from other parts of the United
States and from Europe. One of its
duties is to advise the Department of
Farm Improvement Work as to
location of farm settlers in territory
traversed by the Company's lines, in
order that they may have the benefit
of expert advice as to the £est methods
to be pursued in their new locations.
The development of manufacturing
is proceeding more rapidly in the
Southern States traversed by the Com
pany's lines than in the United States
as a whole. The latest report of the
United States Census Bureau on Manu
lactures in the United States shows
that the total value of the products of
manufacturing in the Southeastern
States traversed by the Company's
in 1909, .was $1,455,927,000,
an increase over 1899 of $754,871,000,
or 107.68 per cent., as compared with
an increase of 79.49 per cent for all
the other States.
The service on the Southern is being
improved all the time, the double,
tracking of the main line at great cost
vastly increasing facilities. Hickory
has a splendid passenger service with
six trains a day. The Democrat is
glad to see the Southern making such
a good reports. Of course if there is any
thing coming to us in the way of re
duced freights rates we would accept
of it, but we do not begrudge it the
tiny stream of revenue we help to
en.pty in the great river of its income
for we feel that the South is debtor to
this, one of the greatejt trunk and
traffic lines in the world.
J. W. Copeland, of Dayton, Ohio,
purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for his boy who had a
cold, and before the bottle was all used
the boy's cold was gone. Is that not
better than to pay a five dollar doctor's
bill? For sale by all dealers.
The Logic of The Explanation.
New York WoVld.
Carefully anlyzing all of Mr.
Roosevelt's various statements in
regard to tße Standard Oil con
tribution, we find the facts to be
essentially as follows:
1. The Standard Oil Company
never contributed to his cam
paign fund,
2. Ifithe Standard Oil Company
did contribute 000 to his
campaign fund he never knew
about it.
3. As soon as he heard of the
Standard Oil Company's con
tribution, he ordered the SIOO,OOO
returned.
4. The money was not re
turned, but if it had been re
turned Frick of the Steel Trust
wouldhave made good the deficit.
5. Everybody is a liar.
Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Bitter taste? Complexion sallow?
Liver perhaps needs waking up.
Doan's Regulets for bilious attacks.
25c at all stores.
KILLTHE COUGH
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ANDAUTHIIOW AND lUWCTBOUMfS
iUAOANTE£D SATISFACTORY
Do You Get Up
. With a Lame Bach?
Kidney -Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everyone knows of Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney,- liver and
r bladder remedy, be
ll i cause of its remark-
I able health restoring
F - L properties. Swamp
-? SfhHcM Root fulfills almost
every wish in over-
VTjl fjjlß coming rheumatism,
\ L pain in the back, kid
' F '"IM nevs. liver, bladder
u far f -£viy\g and every part of the
T ' Ji-Tj urinary passage. It
-• corrects inability to
hold water and scalding pain in passing it,
or bad effects following use of liquor, wine
or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and to get up many
times during the night.
Swamp-Root is not recommended for
everything'but if you have kidney, liver
or bladder trouble, it will be found just
the remedy yon need. It has been thor
oughly tested in private practice, and has
proved so successful that a special ar
rangement has been made by which all
readers of this paper, who have not al
ready tried it, may have a sample bottle
sent free by mail, also- a book telling
more about Swamp-Root, and how to
ney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention
reading this generous jj
offer in this paper and
send your address to
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Hon» ois>w»mp-&eot.
Binghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles are sold by
all druggists. Don't make any mistake
bnt remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle.
Woodrow Wilson's Great Victory.
The Coinmone r.
Governor Woodrow Wilson
won a sweeping victory in the
New Jersey primaries in "his fight
against the proposed nomination
as United State Senator of
James Smith, Jr. An Associated
Press dispatch says that Repre
sentative Hughes, the Wilson
candidate for senator, recieved a
plurality of 20,000. All honor
to Governor Wilson for his splen
did campaign against the sys
tem and its bosses.
TESTED AND PROVEN
There is a Heap of Solace in
Being Able to Depend Up
on a Well-Earaed Re
putation
For months the Democrats readers
have seen *he constant expression of
praise for Doan's Kidney Pills, and
read about the good work they have
done in this locality. What other
remedy ever produced such convinc
ing proof of merit?
Mrs. Elizabeth Dozier, 801 12 St.,
Hickory, N. C., says: "I found that
Doan's Kidney Pills are fine for the
purposes for which they are intended.
I was nervous and dizzy and my back
pained me.- I did not well at
night and the kidney action was ir
regular. Doan's Kidney Pills were
finally recommended to me and pro
curing a supply at Moser & Lutz's
Drug Store, I used them. They re
gulated my kidneys and stopped the
pahs.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Bufflo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name—Doan's —
and take no other.
Simmons Replies To Claude Kitchin
Rockingham Dispatch, stli.
Senator Simmons declared that
several nights ago a distinguished
congressman from North Caro
lina made a speech in Greens
boro in which he gave as a rea
son for his opposition to the re
election of the senior senator,
that he was not in hearty touch
with Woodrow Wilson, when as a
matter of fact at the Baltimore
convention, while Wilson's nomi
nation was in doubt and hung in
the balance this same congress
man was to be found in \ the
Champ Clark caucus. In the
same speech the aforesaid con
greesman announced that Sim
mons was no national leader;
that if the senator had a
of being made chairman of the
senate finance committee he
would withdraw his brother from
the race, but that there was no
possibility of this for Simmons'
Democratic colleagues in the
senate would not trust his tariff
record. And now Senator Sim
mons said the official organ of
the opposition to his re-election,
Collier's Weekly, published in
New York, states in this week's
issue as a reason why he should
be retired that he is sure to head
this great finance committee of
the senate, and if the congress
man meant what hesaid.he should
act at once and call off the op
position.
Farmers, mechanics, railroaders,
laborers, rely on Dr. Thomas' Electic
Oil. Fine for cuts, burns, bruises.
Should be kept in every home, 25c
and 50c.
Diarrhoea
When yon want a quick cure without
any loss of time, and one that is follows*
by no bad results, use
Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy
It never fails and is pleasant to take
It Is equally valuable toe' children. It it
famous for its eurep ore* a large Dart d
Newton on a Boom
Newton Correspondence Charlotte
Observer
Newton is enjoying great prosperity,
making mere progress and doi lg a
greater volume of business than in years.
The evil effects of the panic of 1907 have
disappeared. Hundreds of people who
left the town during the Jean years, when
the mills were idle aud business slack,
have returned with new citiz ns, and
while six months ago empty houses were
thick as hops, today there isn't an empty
dwelling in town. The cotton milis are
humming, the merchants are'transacting
much business, $50,000 is being expend
ed for better roads, and the whole com
munity is throbbing with
easy to predict that the town wilt make
greater progress during the next 12
months than in any like period of the
past. 
PHONE
City- Bakery
235, For Your
Bread, Cakes and Pies.
Nutlet Peanut Butter for the
school lunch, 10 and 25
cent sizes.
U/UA wants a Fouri-
TT 11VJ tain Pen that
won't write? The woods
are full of pens called
best b y their makers.
Where you find a man
j with a WATERMAN
J IDEAL in his pocket you
will find a man that is
particular.
I The Van Dyke Shop,
| Hickory, N. C.
WE OFFER,
at a reduced price, two
number five, one number
ten and one number twelve
De Laval Separators. These
have been slightly used but
are practically as goodjfas
new. If interested, call
and see us. : : s — :
We buy all kinds of
country produce and pay
the highest market prices.
Hickory Seed Co.
HICKORY, H. C.
Building
Materials.
Sash,
Glass,
Doors,
Bliods,
Sidings, „
Ceiling,
Frames,
Mantels,
Framing,.
Flooring,
Mouldings,
Pine Shingles,
Sash Weights,
Plastering Laths,
Finished Lumber,
Cypress Shingles.
Estimates made from
plans. Good supply of
Manufacturing Material in
Stock.
#
Hickory Mfg. Co.
HICKORY, N. C.
Too Much for 50 Cents
King's Improved Chill and Fever
Tonic is the finest' I ever saw. I sold
one bottle which cured some in three
families. The only objection 1 have
tp it is that it cures too manv people,
S. H. MATHJSJ.
" Conrad's, N. 0,
Taste not bad. Large bottle. AJ,
ways cures and chills don't return-1
aid bj all medicine dealers.
Nature's "Way Is The ISest.
Buried deep in our American forest we find bloodroct, queen's root, men
drake and stone root, golden seal, Oregon grape root and cherrybark. Of these Dr.
R. V. Pierce made a pure glyceric extract which has been favorably known for
over forty years. He called it " Golden Medical Discovery.',' •
This " Discovery ** purifies the blood and tones up the stomach and the entire
system in Nature' own way. It's just the tissue builder and tonic you require
when recovering from a hard cold, grip, or pneumonia. No matter how strong the
constitution the stomach is apt to be "out of kilter" at times; in consequent!;
the blood is disordered, for the stomach is the laboratory for the constant manu
facture of blood. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery strengthens the
puts ft in shape to make pure, rich blood—helps the liver a;.J
kidneys to expel the poisons from the body. The weak, netv
oue, run-down, debilitated condition which so many peop!»
experience at this time of the year is usually the effect* of
5 poisons in the blood; it is often indioated by pimples or boils
ft  appearing on the skin, the face becomes thin—you feel " blue."
k ¥ "TtTore than a week ago I was suffering with an awful
J ,[. cold IK mv head, throat, breast, and body," writes
JAMES G. KENT, of 710 L. Street, S. E., Washington, D c
"Some cal'ed it La Grippe, some pneumonia. I was
by a friend to try a bottle of your 'Golden Medical Discov*
erv.' I tried a bottle and It did me so much good that I M
Jm/' safe in saying it is the greatest and best medicine that I
5/ ever took. My health is much better than it was bef,m
"V using your medicine. It does all you claim for it ana »
j. G. KSNT, Esj. satisfactory," •
Goes Further—Costs Less
The best that can be made. Retails for less than other
so-called "best" Baking Powders—hence ECONOMY,
if nothing* more, should induce you to use it. A little
goes a long ways and every bit counts.
Sold by all good Grocers. Insist on having it.
OAK LUMBER
WANTED.
The Hickory Chair Manufactur
ing Co. are now ready to buy
I your Oak Lumber. Call or write
] and get prices.
I Hickory Chair Manufacturing Co.
HICKORY, N. G.
Did You Get Your Part?
$16,266.75
Has been paid to our stockholders this year as PROFITS on
their matured stock
Our October Series 1912 "D" is now open and you are
invited to take out stock in this series, either as an invest
ment or to borrow money to BUILD, BUY or IMPROVE a
HOME.
It Is No Experiment To Take
Stock With Us
as we have passed the experimental stage, and are proud of
our record of over 22 years in business without the loss of a
single penny, and today we have
1000 Satisfied Stockho!d? r s
Our outstanding Loans nearly Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
The larger we grow the cheaper we can handle the-business end the j
more useful we can be to the whole community
—DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT.'-
Call at our office and let us explain the Building and Loan way of
taking your small savings and making large ones of them in a regular
systematic way.
—First Building & Loan Association
-r* Of Hickory, N. C.
G. H. Geitner, Pres. J. D. Elliott, Vice-Pres. G. R. Wootten, Sec.-Treas.
If you hive funds that are not netting you absolutely 5 peF cent it would be wise for
you to investigate our OIVIDEND BEARING ADVANCE PAYMENT STOCK.
pip^n
i 1 Goes a Lons Way if I
Ijg invested inour store $
I M carry a full line of Dry jj|
Goods, Notions, Hats, Shoes
Ip . and everything handy in the
; m Buy your groceries from us. |j
I Housekeepers brag on our |g
Flour.
Setzer & Russell. |