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TTTTT I M Fi LEADER “AND RIGHT THE DAY TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE SIN.” Vol 3 MEBABnB, N.Cm THURSDAY, JUNE 27 1912 NO 22 personal and local briefs i>eople who come and go Items of interest Gathered by Our Reportpr Mr J. S. Cheek is on the sick list. Warren was in town % Mebane Mr. Allan Tuofday. Hess Thompson was vii?itor Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Warren went to litileigii Monday. Pa I key town will be out Friday night H. e them at the graded school. Mr. Charlie Pickard came in Sanday ev-'iiingr from Greensboro. Mr. Murry Ferguson came in Sun- ,1 iv evening from Danville. Mr. L. G. Brooks went down to lluxltoro Tuesday on business. Mr:J Walter Malone spent several ila-. y with her parents last week. Baptising is announced for the Baptist liuiich here on the first Sunday in Jiilv. Mis.s HelerJ Warren has returned heme after spending some time in the (.ountvy. Mrs. Alf Mebane has been spending a few days in Burlington as the guest . f Mrs. J. H Mebane. Mr .T. S. Cook of Graham was united in marriage to Miss Mai^ret l>lai)d of Pittsboro last week. Mrs. Annie Ward returned to Meb- ano last week after spending some time in Durham with her son. Mr. Paul Jobe, who got hurt a short while past, was taken to the St Leo'a hospital Monday for an operation. Painters started to paint the tobacco warehouses of Mebane Tuesday. It will add much to their attractiness. Mr B. F. Warren has been appointed Chief Marshal of the fair to be held in Mebane the 4th he will appoint his assistants. It is announced that Mr. Fred Ter rell will marry Miss Essie Dodson Wednesday night June 26. See change of W. T. Bobbitt’s ad- vertisment in this weeks Leader, clothing, baseball shoes and hats he would more especially direct your at tention to. Talk Mebane, stand by her institu tions, and her people. This is the on ly logical way in which you can build a town of any iirportance. The Leader Office has just printed nice silk badges for the Confederate Veterans for the fourth, also the Marshals badges. Mike Mile. will deliver an address on the fourth as how to properly raise a Billy Goat. It will be highly inter- persed with rich humor. Reports from Mrs. Sam Morgan indicate a gradual improvement. It is hoped she will soon be able to return to her home and friends. Miss Mai^ie Scott visited Mrs. H. W. Bason at Thomasville Tuesday. Mrs. A. W. Warren and daughter of Caswell county is visiting Mrs. Crocket Bitch. Remember the minstrel, by our home boys Friday night. Coon songs, jokes, stump speaches, negro sermons. Fun for everyone. Help pay for the new Piano. Tickets on sale at Mebane Drug Co. Capt. James M. Terrentine commar- der of the Veterans of Alamance, has written Mr. W. W. Corbett a letter indicating his purpose to be here on the fourth and advising the old vet erans to meet him here. See Dr. Rapport at the Mebane House Thursday July 4th Dr. Rapport is an expert in fitting glasses and his work is of the best. He makes no charge for examination and his charges for glasses are moderate indeed. Col. Jim Shaw, brother of the Mayor has an inordinate dislike of cats, and occa88i(Mialy throws something at the cat that snaps out all of its nine lives. The Colonel is otherwise an amiable man, and a number of lidies are of the impression he would make an agreable husband. Next Thusday will be the 4th of July,and Mebane will wear her Sunday clothes on that day, and will be ready to give you the glad hand. Some of the town boys are expecting a great time at Mr. Warrens ball at the ware house. It is a free for all affair, and will be much enjoyed by those partice- pating. If you accept of a statement on the square as an authorized source from an authorized source and then betray it with the hope of currying favor, you have done a shabby trick, obligation I will always be respected by a man worthy of the name. The Chicago Convention has served to demonstrate at least one thing conclusi vely; It is necessary to invent some crimes. The course of the majority was “robbeiry,” “theft, ” “brigandage, “porch-climbing” and, according to Mr. Heney-^ of California, “high treason. It only remains to denounce it as “matricide,*’ “sabotage,” “indus trial injustice” or something like that. Oirls Tomato Club. 1 Mebane to Have Big Cele- Passes His Examination ^ Successfully. Mr. Charlie Pickard who has been studying pharmacy at Greensboro for the last several months, stood his examination at Waynsville a few days past before a board of examiners. It was gratifying to him and a number of his friends to leam Wednesday that he had passed' his examination successful, and would be issued license, a competent pharmacist, Mr. Pickard is a clever young man and has a host of friends who wish him much success. Mi a Leonie Hinton of cf.rno down Saturday and Negro Minstrel Friday June 28, J8:30 P. M. at graded school auditorium. Home Talent. Proceedings go to the new piano- Come. Admission 15, 25, and 35. THE GLORIOUS 4TH. • «i — Come to Mebane Next Week and Enjoy it With Us. The tournament, the caronation ball, the speaking by General Julian S. Carr, and an address by Dr- J. T. Burrus to ths J.O.U.A.M. and dinner are a few of the features for the fourth of July next Thursday at Mebane. From present indications an enor mous crowd will be here, at least it is quite certain that Mebanes people stand ready to welcome you with open arms, and do what they can to see that you enjoy your self on that day. You can take a day off, besure you come to Mebane, ard bring your wife and or friend, if it is not convenient to bring any of them then bring your own good self. Call at the Leader office and let us know you are here. Mebane will be the original fourth of July town this year, this is giving it to you straight. The first fifty people calling at the ^^ Mecca Drug Co., for a bottle sweetheart, Bromalgine on Saturday June the 29 will be giyen a bottle absolutely free. Bromalgine is said to be a wonderful remedy for headache, neuralgia,grippe- aches etc. Don’t forget it. A number of Mebanes good citizens met on the square Monday evening and did a good deal of work toward clean ing it up. This work was the more commendable because the men en gaged in the work had already done a good days work at their several vo cations. In another column appears the an nual announcement of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. This College is doing a splendid woric for the in dustries of the State. Its graduates are in demand at good salaries and are fouod in all walks of industrial life. Young men who desire to fit them selves for useful and remunerative service cannot do better than to in form themselves about this College. Burlington spent the evening and Sunday with the family of Mr. J. P. I^ng, retnming to her home Monday. The Auction Sale at the Mebane Store Companys Store will cmtinue rifrht on each day during the week. If yju want to get some bargains don’t fail to call. Mr. Joe D&riels it is said sliped and ft-11 in a bath tub in Baltimore a tew days past and hurt himself. Joe ought to be a little more careful when he is around a bath tub. A tool is alright, if it is constructed to serve some good mechanical pur- (>o.=!e, but the utility of a human tool will always be of questionable value arnung a class who are honest. It does not hurt an individual, man, woman or child to be courteous, even if they never had any social advantages It is ihe one way of distinguishing the the ill bred, from the well bred. The Mecca Drug Company is offering a handsome prize absolutely free on the fourth of July. All you need to do to K-^‘t che benefit of a chance is to fall at the drucr store on that day and Rct a card numbered. The Commercial and Farmers Bank has a creditable report in to days Leader. Captain Shakespear Harris has been c >unting the bills in Mr.Sam Morgans absenc3 who has been away with bis • ifo who has been ill. Mr. Will Moore spent Saturday and Sunday in Durham the guest of Mr. Krastus Smith. Mr. Moore is in the employ of the British-American To bacco Co., and has spent the last three years in China in the service. Huster says there is no need of wasting jOur money on fireworks the fourth, ^hey do rot last long, but go to Holmes and Warren and put it in some garments that will stay with you. No doubt ^ihout that being the right place to get what you wish to wear or to eat, TheW. C. Bankers Asso ciation The North Carolina Bankers Asso ciation meets at the Atlantic Hotel Morehead City on June 27 to 28. A great time is expected. , Will Be Here Thursday Dr. S. Rapport of Durham will be at Mebane at the Mebane House, Thurs day July 4th, for the purpose of ex amining eyes and fitting glasses. Con sultation Free. The disgraceful orgy of corruption in Chicago is the bursting of the sore that has long festered. Roosevelt may be the immediate victim and nis outcries deserve the sympathy that they excite, but he writhes in the grip of a machine that he has helped to build and sustain. Etland Items. Miss Lilly Bivins of Hillsboro spent Sunday at home with her mother. Mrs. J. J, Brown visited Mrs. John Baity Monday. ilr. Edgar Mayes ot the Norfolk and Western Railway is at home for a few days. Mr. Floyd Ellis of Durham came up to the lawn party Saturdav night. Mr. Clifford Tamer of Carey is the new Telegraph operator at Efland now. Miss Bessie Baity and Mr. Eklgar Mayes attended services at the presby terian cburch Sunday night. Mr. Fred Brown of Burlington visited his cousin Mr. Charlie Brown Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. C. L. Boggs of Limerock is spending some time at home with his mother Mrs. Talith Bogg^s. Mr. Harry Fitzpatrick left here last week for Oak Hill, V., to accept a position as Telegraph operator, we wish him success. The Lawn party and Ladies Bazaar at Efland Saturday night was largely attended and the amount netted was S54LOO. Completed list of the girls tomoto clubs in Alamance County. Club No. 1. Hawfiels High School Viola Covington PresisJent, Julia Turner Secretary, Mona Coyington, Esther Covington, Margaret Covington Ina Evans, Pauline Freshwater, Della Gibson, Bessie Jones, Bettie Minor, Annie Minor, -Narvie O'Daniel, Mattie O’Daniel, Julia Turner, Mary White. Club No. 2. Friendship High School Sarah Moser President, Lorena Garrett Secretary, Viva Euliss, Elma Garrett Lillian Graves, Eunice Homewood, Litsy Isley, Verona Isley, Novella Isley, Elia Isley, Georgia Isley, Myrtle Moser, Swanna Moser, Felcia Fern Patterson. Club No. 3. Bethany, Mary Harden President, Annie Coopet Secretary, Gertrude Boone. Evei Cheek, Etta Cheek, Emma Harden, Eula Neese, Sallie Jones, LesieSMartim Advice to the Governor. ‘‘While we are glad to have the Governor with us next week, he had better be putting in'his speeches where they are needed.”—Durham Herald. He should be making speeches for the Democratic ticket nominated in Raleigh two weeks ago and for the ticket which will be nominated in Baltimore next week, instead of speaking againt a fellow Democrat who is leading his party in the United States Senate and whose record was endorsed by the State Democratic convention. Governor Kitchin’a speeches in advocacy of an intraparty war were scarcely tolerated before the meeting of the State convention" They are still more out of place now.— Newton Enterprise, Brilliant Ball at the Panacea* Near Littleton, N. C. June 18, 1912. The most brilliant social affair of the season was the opening ball given on the evening of the 15th at the New Panacea Hotel, the famous health and pleasure resort of North Carolina. The New Ball Room, which is one of the best in the State, the floor being hardwood and highly polished, was beautifully decorated and was the scene of mirth and gaiety indeed, for there was gathered the beauty and chivalry of the South, and until the Mrs. M. J. Jackson, one of the best-known women in Kinston, has donated to the North Carolina Methodist Orphanage at Raleigh, a farm in Greene county, containing 278 acres, and said to be worth $10,000. The details of the transfer have already been made^ _ Convention a Funeral. When asked what he thought about the presidential nomination, ex-Senator Chauncey M. Depew said: “It is a question of which corpse will get the most flowers. This is the first repub lican national convention for fifty years the nominee of which hasn’t a ghost of a show of being elected.'' Governor Kitchin is one of the most gifted men in the country. He is a past master in the art of substituting sarcasm for facts and irony for argu ment. He doesn’t laugh loud, but he smiles to himself about how he fooled the people four years ago. and pate himself on the back with confidence in his ability to do it again. He is truly a wonderfully smart man.-Greensboro News. We are sorry to note the illness of little Lucile, baby of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Bivins. Mrs. Low Thompson still continues in bad health we are sorry to leam. Childrens day at the M. P. church in Efland next Simday night June 30th every body cordially invited to attend. c 4. We regret very much to learn of the death of Mrs. Ira Lewis which oc- cured June 18th. She had been con fined to her bed for thirteen weeks, and suffered much. Her mother, Mrs. Thomas Tapp was at her bed side dur ing her sickne&s. She leaves a young husband, father, mother, five sistert and four brothers to mourn their loss. Mrs. was nineteen years of age and been married only six months. Mrs. Robert Sharp is on the sick list this week we are sorry to note. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Thompson and little girl Leone of Alamace spent Sun day with Mrs. Thompson’s father, Mr. W. P. Riley. Mr. Frank Carden of Mebane came down last Sunday week ago and took one of our girls (Miss Katie Scott) to Mebane to live. We wish them much success and happiness through their married life. Where are all of our old correspond ents? “Jay Bird” I suspect you are fixing to change your name am I right? Guess 1 must ring off lest I tire some one out. ‘ ‘Paw-Paw-Queese. wee small hours care '«?as forgotten and jo; was unconfined. The music was furnished by the refined and talented Mrs. Tennie C. Luck, and her two attractive daughters, Mrs. McCarver and Miss Luck. These have been engaged for the season and are musicians of a high order, having played at the leading resorts in the South. The Hotel is under the management of Mr. T. Alec Baxter, a man of lavge experience in the management of hotels, having bee.i manager of Green Brier White Sulpher Springs of West Virginia, the Chamberlin of Old Point, Va., and others of importance*. A most excellent gentleman and one who is untirir g in his efforts to please his guests. The table is furnished with the best the market affords, the waiters polite and attentive,-in fact, Panacea Springs is all that one can wish for and one feels a welcome which can only be expressed in the language of the poet “Come in the livening or come in the morning. Come when you are looked for or come without warning Welcome in plenty you’ll find here before you. And the oftener you come, the more we”ll adore you” After the dance delightful refresh- mente were served in the main dining room by “mine host, Mr. Baxter” and beautiful favors distributed. About fifty couples participated in the dance. (This was not received in time for last weeks paper.) brat ion July 4. W. W. Corbett, a well known n'anu- facturei of Mebane, wasir. Greeasboro yesterday and to a representative of the Daily Ne"vs he talked interestingly and with great enthusiasn? of the g^eat celebration which Mebane is arranging for July 4. The celebration is to be in the nature of a Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ fair, with all the merchants and manufacturers of that thriving town co-operating in an effort ta make the event worthy of Mebane. Another distinctive feature ''f the day will be the presence of a large number of Confederate veterans and an address by Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Durham. The program includes also a tourna ment in the afternoon, a barbecue and brunswick stew to all, baseball, band concerts and a dance in the evening. Mr. Corbett is secretary of the com mittee on arrangements and J. S. White, John A. Holmes, L. Puryear, W. Y. Malone and other prominent men of Mebane are giving liberally both time and money toward the success of the celebration.—Greensboro News. Picks Up Titantic Victims The captain of the steamer Illford, just in from Galveston, reports having found the bodies of three Titantic vic tims 370 miles from the spot where the liner sank. Papers found on the bodies showed that they were three stewards, living in the Isle of Wight. The bodies were buried at sea. Disregard Warnmgs. The American people want a new deal and they are going to have it. Only herculean efforts prevented the Republicans from accepting Roosevelt as a last desperate remedy, and Roo&eveltism is not dead. If politicians of the Crane-Penrose-Barnes type undertake to control the Republican party according to their own reactionary notions; if politicians of the Murphy- Smith-Taggart type succeed in con trolling the Democratic party according to their own reactionary notions, there will be a revival of Rooseveltism- -and worse than Rooseveltism. The American people are no longer in a mood to be trifled with. If the Baltimore Convention is wise it will go before the country with a ticket like Wilson and Underwood that can respond to the conscience and conviction of an honest Democracy. Whether Roosevelt bolts or whether Roosevelt sulks is a matter of minor importance. Th3 great fact is that the American people are thoroughly aroused to the need of a political house- cleaning that will sweep privilege and plutocracy from places of power. The party that disregards these plain warnings of popular discontent is headed straight for disaster. No political manipulation can shield it from the wrath to come.—Va. Pilot. the Fifth in which the na- convention is to BIGGEST HALL FOR DEMOCRATS Fiith Regiment Armory in Baltimore Holds Fifteen Thousand. (Baltimore Dispatch to New York Evening Post.) Baltimore is proud of Regiment Armoiy, tional Democratic meet next Tuesday. It is one of the largest armories in the country, and when prepared for the convention will have a seating capacity of about fif teen thousand. It is a handsome stone building, fronting on Hoffman street, and has a free floor space of 300 feet long by 200 feet wide. Workmen are at work arranging the hall for the coming convention and installing a special lighting system. It is expected that the crowds at the convention will be greater than ever before attended a national gathering of the Democratic perty. and the hall is said to be larger than any in which a Democratic convention has ever met. Telegraph companies have made elaborate arrangements to provide for service to the press. In the basement of the building will be table for more than four hundred telegraphers and correspondence, in addition to the space provided in the body of the hall. Fifty telephones with long-distance connections will be installed. Jerusalem is Waking Up. (From the Exporters li^view.) Jerusalem will soi>n have its own tramway service, a co.icession having been granted to a French firm, which will begin laying ths lines during the conrirr summer. An English firm has been asked to submit tenders for light ing the city with electric light and a German syndicate is to improve the water supply by the erection of large resefvo’rs at springs about twelve and eighteen miles north of the city. The pavements and sewerage system have received attention from the gov- enment. A few months ajo a water cartjwas brought from England , to su persede the men who sprinkled the streets with water from skins. The municipality has also provided itself with modern fire-fighting apliances. A telephone service has been established and the police are shortly to be sup plied with bicycles. The latest sign of this work of modernization is the arrival of a large American motor road roller. Republican Bad Party in Way. A Nut to Crack. (From The Fayetteville Index.) If a man supported Mr. Godwin because he secured an appropriation of $10,000 for the Cape Fear improvement project, how can he fail to support Senator Simmons, who added $005,000 to the Godwin appropriation? The split in the Republican party forming two irreconcilable factions, each one discrediting the other, places the Republican in a bad plight. It seems to be the beginning of the ending of Republica’i rule in the United States, for it must be admitted that a party torn with strife and turmoil cannot cope with one that is an organized, postive force. It will make little difference in the result whether Taft or Roosevelt shall be termed the champion of the regular Republican party, so long as they continue to be violently opposed to each other, for their opposition to each other means a divided and defeated party. The Boston Globe says the roller at Chicago is destroying the Republican party; that the California decision is capable of no defense in the light of morals or justice, and that a political explosion is likely to ensue. The Washington Times can see nothing but a dark future for those of the Taft machine. It says they are scuttling the ship; that they have been asked to leave it, but that they are boring holes in it, so that it, too, will sink with them. “Acting in the name of Taft,” says that paper, “and posing as his friends, they are leaving no stone unturned to encompass his defeat and add to its humiliation.”—Nashville Tennessean. COSTS FOUR UVES At Perry’s Ranch, Texas, Fight to the Death The Meaning of Tatt’s Triumph* Aside from all the objections that may be brought against Theodore Roosevelt, with his third termism, his restless nature, it is clear that his defeat and repudiation at the hands of his party indicates that the Republicans are not yet r^ady to take the initiative in progressive legislation, that stand- patism is still predominant and powerful, and that the Republican party is the reactionary parity of the nation. President Taft’s triumph, as achieved through the manipulation of an j audacious machine with the power and the purpose to do anything to win, demonstrates that his party, fostered by the privileged class, the beneficiaries of Republican misrule and pillage, is right where it belongs—in sympathy and co-partnership with the evil forces that have aroused the Ameiican people to resenment. His triumph shows that the party of patronage is not yet ready to champion the cause of the people ;that it is not yet ready to yield to the demands of the people; that it is not yet ready to divorce itself from those interests that have profited by it? laws and benefited by its rule, and that relief from long oppression must be looked foi from the Demo-'rats. They Are Easy Marks If all the money wasted on fakes was invested in home enterprises, you would see your town more flourish ing. There are men who will not put a dollar in anj thing at home, yet will tumble over themselves to get caught in afake.—Greenville Retiector. BLACK FEVER GERM Gen. Booth’s Blindness. (From The Philadelphia Bullentin.) The news that General Booth will have to spend the sunset of his life in total darkness will be received with genuine regret the world over. The grand old man of the Salvation Army is one of the world’s great man in any business he might have chosen to engage in. He has been a great man in the great work in the world; the uplifting and regenerating of human ity. It has been the fashion to sneer at the fantastic methods of the re ligious propaganda of the Salvation Army. It is crude, no doubt, lacking in learned depth and wanting in polish. But it has never been wanting in depth of charity, lacking in love of humanity. It has never preached theology to mepty stomachs, nor been phansaical enough to say to the poor and starving; “Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body.” General Booth may be trusted to take his blindness with the same fortitude that has always distinguished his conduct. The inner light that has been his daily guide will not be withdrawn, end the j)romise that “at eventide it shall be light” will not fail him in his hour of ecUpse, Like St. Paul, we doubt not that he India Scientists Trace His tory of Parasite of ureaded Malady. The way in which human beings get infected with Black Fever, the deadliest disease on earth, with a mortality of 99 in every 100 cases, has been discove red at last, according to advices received by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. These came from Surgeon-General Banner man, director of the Government Bacteriological Laboratory in the Madras presidency. The discovery was made by Capt. W. S. Patton of the Indian Medical Service. The disease is very deadly in South ern Europe, the Soudan and tropical Asia. It is called by the Arabs “Kala- azar,” and in India is known as “Dum dum” fever. It has long been con sidered as a form of chronic malaria, causing irregular fever, enlargement of the spleen, and great wasting. It is endemic i'j> India, China and the Sou dan, in some of the Greek islands and in paics of Sicily. In Assam, some years ago, it appeared as an epidemic, and spread slowly up the Brahma- Putra Valley, killing off practically the whole population in village after village. The disease is attiibuted to the bite of a mosquito. One bad example spoils a good many precepts.—Anonymous. In a fued battle between the Sharp and Waldrop families at S. Perry’s ranch near Sherman Texas June 20, four persons were killed and two wounded. Before she was slain. Miss Georgie Sharp killed one man and wounded another man and his wife. The battle began when the Sharp family; consisting of Miss Georgia Sharp, her father, L. W. Sharp and her brother W’alter, passed the home of the Waldrops. Apparently both side« began firing similtaneously. Henry Waldrop killed Walter Sharp and his father. As they fell Miss Georgia Sharp seized her father’s smoking magazine rifle and took up the battle. She killed Russell Waldrop then shot his parents. Prone on tha ground, Henry Waldrop returned the fire and shot Miss Sharp. She died almost instantly. The battle was the culminating cf a long standinsr dispute between the two families. In face of the fact that the people looked with fear upon Roosevelt’s re entrance into public life—m^ny doubting his sincerity and dreading his purpose— y§t, wherever the test was fairly and openly made between him and Taft before the people, Roosevelt won a de cisive victory. His victories , were will that ‘giory in his warrior, too. infirmity.” Like the General has WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES. It Was Locke Uraig Last Time; Now Itjis Sinsmons. (From The Wadesboro Ansonian.)* Four years ago Mr, Kitchin was going up and down the State declaring by the strongest insinuation that Locke Craig was not a suitable man for Governor of the State of North Carolina. He warned the people against voting for Craig. But a few weeks ago, without a dissenting voice even that of Mr. Kitchin, Mr Craig was chosen by acclamation as the candidate of the Democratic party for Governor. He is one of the few candidates to receive the nomination by acclamation and it is safe to say that no other man was ever more gladly chosen by all the people. What is the matter? Has Mr. Graig changed so much that Mr. Kitchin did not warn the people this time that they were follow Ing a dangerous man? Mr. Kitchin is apprently pleased with the action of the Democratic party in the State in nominating Mr. Craig and those who know Mr. Craig, know that fought a good fight and has kept the he is the same man that he was four faith.” He has been “a good soldier of Jesus Christ,” and the world salutes him as he passes off parade. As every fresh attempt of the Thaws before the people. Taft’s were before, i to get the esteemed Harry out of the by, and through the Taft Republican | partv machine. Roosevelt won before the masses of the Republicah party, while Taft won by virtue of a machine that dared to defy the people —Nash ville Tennessean. Wanted, All those in and around Mebane who want to buy or sell real estate to see me at once. Those who wish to sell, list your farms or town property and get the benefit of our advertising campaign. Those who wish to buy will find bargains already listed. Mebane Real Estate and Trust Co. Walter S, Crawford, Pres? asylum costs the State of New York about thirty thousand dollars, and as the three Thaw trials were among the most expensive the State ever had, it may readily be understood why up that way becanne sick of the Thaw business some time —Charlotte Observer. people whole ago. Governor Kitchin refuses to stand on the Democratid platform adopted by the State convention at Raleigh June 6. By which it is seen than he does not require consistency on his own part—he only demands it of the other fellow.—Greensboro News. years ago. Since tne senatorial campaign open*'d some months ago, Mr. Kitchin has been telling the people that Senator Simmons, who holds a seat that Mr. Kitchin wants, is a dangerous man. What the people would like to know is, whether or not Mr. Kitchin is in earnest or is he using the same tactics he used when he sought the office that Mr. Craig wanted. If Mr. Kitchin would only take us into his confidence and confide his real purpose, we would understand him so much better. His whole political course seems to indicate that the man who stands in the way of his ambition for office, looks like a mighty bad man to Mr. Kitchin. The Convention at Baltimore set square down upon Bryan presumptive protest against Judge Parker, who was made tsmporary Chairman despite Bryan S protest.