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fi J. :.rrrv.:. vK ,-v rpS - I nr - f A established 1882. LEXINGTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1. ', 1002. VOL. XXT -NO 21 THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS. Both County and Senatorial Held Saturday-Names of the - Nominees. k The Republicans of Davidson held their county convention here last Saturday. ; The Faith Cornet Band, of Rowan, furnished music for, the occasion .and, the conven,- : tion. was largely attended. . v , ' Speeches were made by Hons. P." C." Thomas, J R. McCrary, Zeb V. ;Walser, Ed. IL Green and others. " - The convention proper assembled , 2 o'clock, p.' m., Chairman -Walser presiding. R, H. j Biesecker and; P.' E. Whicker t were elected? secre taries t After a brief address by the chairman, nominations were declared in order, and 1 the ioi lowing ticket named : 'rZ . For the House of .'. Represents- . tives Ed. L. Green,.; tobacco manufacturer, of Yadkin College. -For "sheriff H. I Clayf Grubb, distiller and -liquor deaterj-tf .For CfterkR. S? Green, Jr., former superindent '.of schools under Fusion rule; i For Register of ;,Deeds Jnd. H. Motsinger, internal revenue storekeeper and 'ganger, of Ab hot.t'k Creek. ; , ' For Treasurer R. Lee Mc Crary,' merchant of ; Lexington, - For County Surveyor J. S link, of Lexington. - For Coroner Dr. E. J. Buchanan, of Lexingtona ? , t t ' Fof County Commissioners Cvrns Burton,' of Thomasville; H. C. Fritts, of Tyro,, and p. U Garner, oi Emmons, v SENATORIAL. ' Immediately after the id joorn- mentof the county? convention, the -Senatorial convention " was called to order by chairman C, M: Hoover. . For state ",v sen ator, Hon. P. Ct Thomas, - of Thomasville, was the unanimous choice of the convention, y This district is entitled to two repre sentative in the". State Senate, but th,e convention nominated on ly one candidate, leaving a vacan cy to be filled by the executive committee. Joint Discussion. Hon. W. C. HammeV and J. R. McCrary, Esq., nominees of the Democratic and Republican par ties, have arranged for a joint dis cussion of the political issues in the counties of Davie, Iredell and Stanly. Following are the dates of their appointments; ' Cooleemee, Tuesday night, Oc tober 7th. at 7:30 o'clock- 1 New London, TFriday Oct. 10th at 1 o'clock. . Albemarle Friday night, Oct. loth.; at 730 o'clock, s pmtm Big Lick, Saturday, Oct. 11th. at 11 o'clock. Palmerville, Saturday Oct. 11th. at 7:30 o'clock. , . Statesville, Monday, Oct, at 1 o'clock. - night . 13tht Mooresville, Tuesday, Oct 14th at 1 o clock.- . . The public , generally is cordi ally invited to come out and hear . the gentlemen at time and place named above, utner appoint : ments maybe made later; if so, they will be published in this pa per. . , . :. Rally Day Sunday. , ' The teachers and scholars of . the Reformed Sunday school will meet next Sunday at half past ' ten o'clock, and it is expected . that every member of the school will be present. This is the school's Rally Day. The Rally exercises will consist of songs, : recitations and an address, tak ing the place of the regular morning service. A cordial in vitation is extended to everybody ; to attend. A Free Lecture. ' Mrs. ' Louisa Painter-Round will deliver a free lecture in the court house here on Monday night, Oct. 6th. Some twenty vearsacro Mrs. 'Painter -Round visited Lexington and held a very successful revival meeting. She is pleasantly ' remembered by many of our people, and these will be dad to have the pleasure of renewing their acquaintance with her. I GRAND BARBECUE AT ASHEB0R0. Randolph Democrats Will Have a Great Time Thursday, October '. . !. 9th.; ' ; -There will be a grand Demo cratic barbecue and basket pic nic at Asheboro on Thursday, October 9th. Enough beef, pork and mutton will be barbecued to feed five thousand.people; a table one thousand feet long is being prepared.for the occasion, , Mr. H. M. Worth is chief mar shal and will be assisted by three hundred ' assistant marshals Two hundred young ladies and two hundred voung-men will wait on the table. -, ".;.. V " The railroads will give special rates and some of , the State's most distinguished speakers will be present and address the peo ple. ' , , . :;., TO MANUFACTURE TABLES. A Company for the Purpose is Being Organized Here. The latest new enterprise an nounced for Lexington is a plant for the manufacture of tables The capital stock to begin work will be 510,000 with privilege to increase, and the amount has about all been subscribed. The movement is backed by several of the leading business men of the town. An organiza tion will be effected in the course of a few days and The Dispatch will then be in a position to give full particulars. ' North Carolina Day. By virtue of Chap. 164, Acts of 1901. page 316, October ,12th is made , "North Carolina Day' in public schools oi tne btate when the same shall be appro priately observed, etc This year, however, October 12th falls on Sunday, being the second Sunday in October. . The law above cited empowers the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in such case to de signate another day, which he will probably do in a few days, He will not necessarily designate October 13th, Monday, however. as the act empowers him toname any school day within thirty days of October 12th. . Skull Broken by a Crock. A young man named Gobble was seriously and perhaps fatal ly lnmred by an unknown party onJast Saturday evening., Voung Gobble, was walking along the railway track near Lin wood when the excursion frani. returning from Greensboro passed hint, While one of the cars was about opposite him some; one threw crock from the train and the vessel struck Mr. Gobble on the head, breaking his skull. His condition is critical. Our Lin wood correspondence , contains the story in substance as told above. " , Concert Friday Night Mme. Vesta Dodge Hartzell, dramatic saphrano, will give concert in Smith &' Hankins opera house Thursday night, Oct. 2nd. " A delightful program is being arranged and lovers music will miss a great treat failing to be present. The concertos given under the auspices oi tne Daughters ol tne Confederacy and the proceeds are to be applied to the . Davidson county monument fund. !, It hoped that the entertainment will . be largely, patronized. '. Always Fresh and Interesting. A lady, the wife of a prominent minister,, who formerly lived in this county, but who now resides in South Carolina, encloses us a dollar for a year's subscription and says: "The Dispatch is al ways a welcome visitor in our home. It seems to be steadily growing, in popularity, and that growth is well - deserved. : It's pages are always fresh and In teresting." The good lady has our thanks for ; both the remit tance and her kind words. : The ' registration books will be opened tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.. ARE NOT FORCIBLY DETAINED. Davidson Miners Can Come Home When They Desire The Gov- crnor Investigates and So . .'. Finds. . . " Some few weeks ago a couple agents of a West. Virginia mining company came to this county in quest of miners to take the place r strikers ' iff the coal - fields, he agents secured some forty or fifty men from Davidson coun ty. After their departure word was sent back here that the men were very much dissatisfied and wanted to come back home but thalkthe company would not pay them ' ana that armea guaras would not let them leave the works.. Relatives of the men be came anxious about them, and in response to various requests the editor of this paper wrote the governor of West Virginia- ask ing him to investigate the facts. The governor did so, and receiev ed the following letter from the Brown Coal Co., who are the chief employers of the Davidson county men : Hon. A. B. White, Governor of W.Va., Charleston, W. Va. .Dear bir: Kepiymg to yours of the 94th. inst. I will say that the young men in whose behalf you wrote are in no manner re strained from returning to their homes at any time they desire to do so. As for their being dissatisfied they do not in the least show such disposition but on the con' trary seem to be well satisfied and going along nicely. As to their being under guard to keep them from leaving it is on ly a false rumor and only . strike talk." -The young . men, are- per fectly at liberty to go when, and where they desire: Our guards are only to protect our.property, We are willing to pay our em ployees at any time they have balance to their credit on our books, but our regular pay day Is ' the, last Satur day of each month for the work done the previous month. Now s I beg to say that those rumors are. unfounded and those young men came out here to. gether with about forty others all ol- which came of : their own free will and who all say that nothing was in any manner misrepresented to them and fur ther the young, men say ; them selves that they do not wish to return to their homes : at this time and said recently upon re ceiving a telegram to come ' home that they would not return now unless they were ferced to do so by law. " It is true that they expressed a desire to return the following day after they arrived but that was ..before they had gone to work or settled down and their being dissatisfied then, was caused by the wives of two of the men who remained , at their homes to settle up their affairs before, coming. We Bent those women back to their husbands at our expense and since then the men and , one . of the women have come back here to work. Now I will say in conclusion that those young men . are at liberty to return to their homes at any time they wish to do so or any time their parents wish to take them' but we are under no obligation to pay expense on their return trip. . v Hoping the above is fully satis factory, I am. . r;...- 1 , 4 . , YoUrs very respectfully. J- A. Boone, Mg'r. Registration Begins 1 his Week. ; Registration for the coming general election begins on Thurs day, October 2d, and closes on Saturday, October S5th. This gives the twenty days required by the election law for the regis tration of voters in North Caro lina, and will be the first 'regis tration held since the enactment of the constitutional amendment. The ' above construction of the law ' has been acquiesced in by Chairmen Simmons and Pritch ard, of the Democratic and Re publican State Executive Com mittees, respectively.' JOINT CANVASS DISCONTINUED. The Chairmen of the Executive Com mittees Make This Agreement It is hereby agreed to dis continue the joint canvass here tofore engaged in by the Demo cratic and Republican candidates for the Legislature and county offices. This agreement is con ceded in by both the Democratic and Republican Executive Com mittees and all the candidates. This action is taken mainly be cause of the inconvenience and expense of following the sheriff to the several voting places in the county. v This Sept. 30, 1902. .H B. Vahner, Ch'm'ruDem. Co. Ex. Com " Zeb V. .Wals, Ch'm'n. Rep. Co., Ex. Com SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS. The Dispatch desires to return thanks to the following parties who have favored us with remit tances during the past week: J. J. Mock, F. T. Baldwin, M. J. Potts, Sam Nelson, rRev. Sam May, Franklin Shoaf, W. L Black, P. H. Johnson, W. C. Har ris, T. C. Lanier, Jno. I. Lane, J. F. Beck, J, W. Hines, D. L Walser, J. D. Freedle, Lee Mc- Carn, T. E. Berrier, Jesse Kind ley, W. T. Yokely, T. J. Ellis, R, L Whitaker, J. W. Davis, G. O. Walser, Mrs. Jno. A. Wright, R. B. Myers, J. C. Plummer, Clar ence Varner, J. W. Harris, An drew L Leonard. J. W. Clodfel ter, E. L. Briggs, Joe Ball, A. L. Swing, Phillip Clinard, J. H. Mc- Carn, C. M. Hammer, Rev. J. C. Leonard, Mrs. C. F. Fritts, C. M Yokely, ID. L. Koonts, Jno. B, Shaw, J. R. Morris! W. T. Davis, H. D. B3nklerJ. Ar Gamble: Mrs; LCarritf ,Beck,' J. XA Per ryman Charles Burgess. . ; J. M. MORRIS, Esq., of Thomasville. Nominee of the Democratic Party for County Com-,' missioner. Public Speaking-County Candidates Hon. E. C. Beddingfield, Demo cratic candidate for State Corpo ration Commissioner, ' and the Democratic candidates for the Legislature and county offices will speak at Arcadia on Satur day morning, Oct'. 11th, at 10 o'clock at : Raper & Ripple's store. The Union Cornet Band will furnish, music for the oc casion. . - ..' :.- Everybody utvited to come out on, this occasion and t hear the issues discussed in an impartial manner. 1 The ladies have a spec ial i invitation to! attendA The speaking and' music. will, ? be of the best order and if 'you fail to attend you miss a grand treat. f . H. B. VARNER, f Ch'm'n. Dem. Co. Ex. Com. ... f;:,. . u-- Attend the Concert v ?1 , . . ... .' V ' ':z::. C.'i; The proceeds derived from the concert to be 'given in the opera house Thursday night are to be . applied to the Davidson county monument fund; the entertainment is under the aus pices of the Daughters " of the Confederacy; Mme. Vesta Dodge Hartzell, the dramatic sophrano, is a celebrated singer, possessed of a voice of unusual power and sweetness. . All of which are ex cellent reasons why the - enter tainment should be largely pat ronized. , The admission . lg only 2J cents, -'..t.. ...... m m- I hi i'' .7 B ' .' ' ' ! I " ASMALL PART OF THE RECORD. The Fusionists came in power first in the Legislature of 1895. From first to last it was a grab game to see who could get the most. The sessions were mark ed by anything except delibera tion or regard for rights of the people. Inasmuch as Democratic testimony might be regarded as lacking in fairness we give below the testimony only of Populist leaders: ' - - First, let us see what Progres sive Farmer said about tne Leg islature it helped to elect and the one it has been defending since its editor was made secretary of the Board of Agriculture. There can be no suspicion that the Far mer was printing Democratic lies" On the 26th of January it makes this indictment: "Swepson is not the only boss our JNortn uaroiina legislature ever had. To a man up a tree it appear that the pops nominated some extremely sorry timber for the Legislature last year." On the 23rd of February the Prcgressive Farmer thus told of corruption and predicted a Dem ocratic victory this year: lhus the people s money is being divided out to pay political rewara. There is no help lor it now, but the tax-payers of North Car olina will speak in thunder tones at the polls when there is another election. No party, no man, has ever been able to run rough-shod over the people of the State but a short time.' That was not the worst. A few days before the adjournment of the Legislature the Progres s'ive Farmer said: "The Legislature only has about ten days now, to complete the work and it hasn't begun the work yet. Let the miserable pie-hunters go to work or go home. The Caucasian, edited then as now by Senator Butler, spoke out quite as plainly about the diseracef ul Legislature. On the 23rd of February it said: ( "About ten days remains of the legislative session. Unless there shall be, within this time, an almost miraculous change, the record of the Legislature will be nothing, absolutely nothing. All it will have done when it resigns will be the spending of $60,000 of public funds for which nothing will be returned. It also made a plea to have the sheep seperated from the goats in the following article in its is sue of February 27th. Of course there are some crood men here, who cannot, in justice, be held responsible for the record, but we are speaking of the record of the Legislature as a whole, and unless that rec ord, shall , bs - phenomenally changed within a week, it will be the imperative duty, and we think it will be the pleasure of the people to see that such a crowd is never sent up to make laws again. Up to this date the Legislature is a damnable disgrace to the State." About the same time the Cau casian said: "As to the Legislature of 1897, the one now in session, we have to say as a- fact that it has won the contempt of the people gen erally of all parties, and we have to say as an opinion that we do not believe that it can overcome that contempt in two years time and hence cannot get the approv al of the people. : , , It spoke with equal truth when In its issue of Februray 27th, it said: ' '.,, ' ' "The various, committees ; to whom bills are referred seem to be composed of men who , are either generally indifferent or fitiably ignorant. It is almost mpossible to get their attention to any bill that does not carry Borne job with ik ' ; When the Legislature had fin ished its labors, and the Progres sive Farmer had gone over its work, its opinion of the body was that it was even worse than It had declared when it was still in session, for here is its deliberate. estimate of the body and its la- bors: 'xhe good done by the Legis lature could be printed in a small pamphlet. The bad done and the good omitted would fill sev eral large volumes." So outraged was the Progres sive Farmer with the suggestion in the papers of an extra session that on March 2d it thus deliver ed itself:1 - "There is some talk of an ex tra session of the Legislature. Please don't, Governor RusselL We can endure famine, pestilence drought, war, but don t inflict any prolonged agony 'on the State, such as an extra session." And the Caucasian, looking up- . on the sixty days of broken t promises, bribery, corruption and domination by political cor porations, cried out in its disap pointment: "So, then, for all practical pur pose and in all essentials, the co operation of the Populists and Republicans in this State has been a dismal and disastrous failure. Only the contemptible pie-hunters see any good in it.'' Fake Colored Doctor Stole a Horse. MockSYille Times. A negro claiming to be from England and to having stood his btate examination, located at Farmingtoh about six weeks ago and hung out his shingle as a practicing physician. The sher iff haying gotten after him for his license tax he borrowed a horse' from T. C. Williams, col ored, to come here to see about it. From here he wrote Williams that he could not be back for several days . but would take good care of the horse. From here, he went to Salisbury, where he sold the horse to Lud, wick & Black. Frpm there he went to China Grove and from there, in company with a woman, he left claiming that he was go ing to New York. Neccessitythe Mother of Invention The Washington City authori ties have solved the problem as to the high price of anthracite coal by the discovery that a mix ture of soft coal and coke will burn very well in furnaces made to consume hard coal. They find it burn well and very little smoke is given out. AtRaleiglv N. C, Dr., Bellinger, by experiment finds that gas can be made from wood, and it is stated that 3 cents worth of wood will produce gas in quantity equivalent to 90 cents worth of coal gas. If this can be maintained it will prove a formidable rival to coal. A Communication. To the Editor of The Dispatch. : I have in the past few days heard many exaggerated reports about the conditions met with by the people who came with me from my native State (North Carolina) to West Virginia to work. , I am glad to say that all the men who came with me are work ing steady, at much better wages than is possible for them to get in the State from which they ; came, and that there is still a better chance for their ; wages being much increased, as . they become more skillful in the work which they are doing. - I wish to say further that none of the boys, who came with me, have been arrested or . in any way molested, as has been re ported, but all are enjoying in fullness the freedom and liberty which our little mountain State r -P-v3 cm all 1 0 TTT1-VT71 7fl A . W.E. Cody. :. Nuttallburg, W. Va. Reidsville, N. C, September 29. Sam Lindsey, a well respec ted young man, 24 years of age, son of Robt. G. Lindsey, com mitted suicide at the home of his brother, Jack Lindsey, on Irvin street, at 6 o'clock this afternoon. He shot himself twice with a pistol, in the side and head, and rlnnt.h vaa instantaneous. The rash act was probably due to despdndency caused by ill health, as he had been sick for several weeks. v ... . .. ) 4
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