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"HERE SHAT I Tur t. . "jrrr - ' -L MAINTAIN; UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." VOLUMN MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1912. NUMBER 14 rt"3i int. fUPLE'S RIGHTS v . A1V. Settle to Craig. Hon. Thomas Settle of Aaheville Kepublieau nominee for Governor, sent The Observer the follow ing letter: Hon. Locke Craig, , Asheville, N. C. : -: Iy dear Sir: Your letter in wiiich you state, "my personal views upon the subject (a joint de ba e between us) are expressed in ao interview that appeared in this moruiug?s Citizen; and that party usage required you to refer the cutter to the Democratic executive committee, which you had done, and that L would hear from the committee,'7 was recdved yester day. I received this morning from Hon. Charles A. Webb the follow ing letter: "I have the honor to acknowl edge receipt of your letter of the 16th, enclosing ?opy of yours of the same date to Hon. Locke Craig requesting a joint canvass. I also have a telegram from Mr. Craig referring this matter to the State Democratic executive committee and I beg to advise you that at the meeting of the same, held in the city of Eileigh last night, your re quest for a joint canvass was re spectfully declined. "I herewith enclose you copy: of the resolution nnanimously adopt ed by the committee. "Yours very truly, ' Chas. A. Webb, Chairman." The resolution enclosed is .as follows: 'Resolved. That in view of the fact, that the Republican party haviDg suffered division, there are three national and State tickets , in the field in the present campaign. Chairman Webb be directed to de cline the request of th Republi can candidate for Governor for a joint can rass with the Democratic candidate." - Sow, come. Mr. Craig, let us reason together for a moment. The law in Korth Carolina; defines a political party in the following statute: V; "The words 'political party,' as used in this chapter, shall be con strned to mean every such politic cal party or organization whose condidate for Governor received as many as fifty thousand votes in the election held August second, one thousand nine hundred." Under this law a law framed and passed by the Democratic pari ty, let nii remind you there are oaly two political parties in "this State, the Democratic and the Ee Publicau, by name. You are the unanimous aominee by the conven ; tionof the fo-mer, I arc the unani mous nominee by the convention i f the latter for Governor, the high f3t Political office in our State with in the gift of the people of the State your party, and the execu tive committee of your party are your own acts and utterai c s bound by this law;' yon are in law, n equity, and in good conscience stopped from contending anything to the contrary of this law, "your wn begotten child. " Your zeal and that pf your coni2 fcittee leads yon to cross bridges before you come to them. Has Mr. Heares asked you to arrange a list of joint appointments ithhim If he has dote so, it appears to be a secret well kept be tween ana ad you two gentlemen. Mr. Ciaig, yoar friends mirers, among whom I sin' cerely enlist myself, say that the Mantle of Vance has hefalJenr on shoulders; many of ydur sup Prtersaffectionately call you'T thr Gnt. of Democracy; rom e West." ' What do you suppose auce W0'Jld say to thi refusal of Jra and of your committee's to your opponeutin j.oint debae of ?ht0 Upbold tne ti and policies h the Democratic party! Would j,e fleea joint discussion, and shield lluself behind his executive com - mittet? Yru.are doing these things, my .friend,' not because you are unable to meet me on the hustings in joint debate. I know, and the people know better than that. You have what you and your committee consider grave, cogent and weighty reasons for not meet iug your opponent in jrt debate; for turning your backs ou an hon ored political custom in this state. No subterfuge or evasion can save you, or obscure or becloud the facts Those reasons are told in a few words. They are that you and your committee are unanimously of the opinion that the record of your party cannot stand the seaich iag light of a critical joint debate. Alone, you may indulge in high sounding phrases and glittering generalities; alone, you may talk about everything but the record f t your party, you may not even men tion the things it has done and the t'lings it has left undone, and you doubtless would fail to call atten tion to the fact that there is no health in it. This comfortable, easy, and to the people deadly pace, you could not keep up in a joint debate. Your party cuts, slashes and hea ves the body politic, while you lea ders partition among yourselves the offices and emoluments, after the manner of the two physicians in MoJierc making a treaty: "Allow me the emetic, and I resign to you the lancet." The resolution passed by youi committee is humorous in the ex treme,, assuming that the Republi can party is the only cne having any trouble. This same committee had been in session all night trying vainly to define the meaning of two simple little words, "Democratic ticket;'' failing in full sesoiom to do this, they appointed a "select" commi tee to try their hand on it. This "select" committee final'y report ed that they were hopelessly disa greed, but dared not disclose eveu to the full committee, to say noth ing of the people of thvT;tate, what the points of difference weie What sort of a dark lantern is this you fellows are traveling with, anyhow? Why don't you turn on the . light? The people want to know and to see. Kitchen says Simmos s is not a Democrat, while Simr."as returns the compliment, saying, 'no more are you-sir': "Judge Clark mean while chautiDg rhat he is the only ve tal virgin who has kept the true fire of the Democratic temple burn ing. . Tell me, my friend, where do you stand in this coiest? What is thy c;eed, "io U a; faith, or only a need!" 1 If the test of a polite 1 creed were applied neither would perin.t the other to vote iu the Democrat ic senatorial primary; Thus you ido away with principle and substi tute personality. Here is the cate chism Q. What is a Democrat? A. one who votes the, ticket with out scratching. Q. What ia an ization Demociat? A. One "B- ? T :. -. - . - who continues to vote the ticket fi r twenty years alter he is" dead, ,, Is the "little giant", afraid, to meet me, when according to him, here I stand without a plea save one? Is be afraid when I am arm ed only with my little sling? '", There is a boastful neps about your interview, to which you refer 'me, that calls to m i od Betihadab and Ahab: "And Benhadad sent unto him and said, 'The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.' '. " "And Ahab,' answered and said, Tell him, let not him that girdeth on his harness boast him self as he that putteth it off." ' , Trusting that you will reconsider and join me in a list of joint ap pointments,; I am, Sincerely, THOMAS SETTLE. Asheville, Sept. 21. -r ... "THE SCUM OF THE EARTH." THE PRESIDENT SIGNED MOST WILLINGLY. YOU CAN GET What Yon Want When Y. II 1 on want AT tit MOCKSVILLE DRUG CO. GEORGE F. TYSON, Manager. -1 Mi -iff r .71 . .. i w . The Industrious circulation of the falsehood that President Taft threatened a veto of the Sulloway bill was one of the chief plays of his opponents and worked some Injury to his popularity, as his adversaries had planned. That there was no truth in this every senator, representative and other public man could have known If he cared to inquire. "Yet It was a good enough Morgan till after the nomination." Now these same men are with equal Industry and untruth circulating the report that President Taft signed the act of May 11 most unwillingly and was only coerced into it at the last moment Nothing could be more untrue. There had been an overwhelming popular demand for additional pension legislation. The people were most earnest in their wish that the veterans who had saved the nation should be properly cared for during the years that re mained to them. The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Re public had asked for such legislation. The remarkable fact of the indorsement of the Sulloway bill by the legislatures, of twenty-seven great states was an astonishing development of depthand wide extended feeling oh th subject Could any president be expected to disregard such a manifestation? Cer tainly not William H. Taft whose great heart has always appreciated the service of the veterans and who has ever been quickly responsive to the popu lar will. No one doubted at the beginning of congress that he Intended to approve a pension bill. This knowledge had to be used with the utmost discretion, how ever. The presidential campaign was opening. There was a general expecta tion that the Democrats would make a strong effort to "put the president and the senate In a hole" on the pension question. That fear was not allayed until within a few days of the passage of the act of May 1L This required the greatest circumspection on the part of the president and his friends. But as soon as the act of May 11 began to take shape in the senate and months before It actually passed there was no real doubt that the president would sign the bill which would be finally formulated. At the invitation of senators I was a constant vlsYtor at the capltol while the bill was going through its various stages. I wasi also made a means of communication with the members of the invalid pensions committee of the house. With me went most frequently Past Commander In Chief John P King, less frequently Past Commander Slaybaugh f Potomac, Commander E. S. Godfrey Arizona; Commander Granville C. Fisfce, Massachusetts; Com mander N. H. Kingman, South Dakota; Commander N. P. Kingsley, Pennsyl vania, and other prominent comrades who happened to be in the city and whom the senators wanted to see and counsel with. We met Senators Crane, McCumber, Curtis, Smoot, Burnham and others of the president's closest friends and advisers. They wue confident in their as surances that the president would sign the bill. The domrades named felt no doubt of the result at least two months before the bill -was signed. As we all know, President Taft put himself to great personal inconvenience in order to sicrn the bill and let it begin at once its beneficence to the veterans. The bill was not ready for his signature when he left far Princeton, N. J. He made the Journey back to Washington expressly to sign the bill. He reached thp White House a. little after 11 p. m., Saturday, May lli. aflBxed his signature seven minutes before midnight and had to leave Washitagton again the next day. Of these facts I was personally cognizant as I was present when the bill was signed. uuj ijij""-i f Editor National Tribune. I fullv concur In the foregoing. There is absolutely no truth In the statement that the president was op nosd to anv pension bill. On the contrary, we were assured, as stated above, that, he would give his approval to the bill when finally pasfeed, which was evidenced by his hasty return to Washington for the purpose. - , JOHN B. KINO. From the National Tribune. T7- i 'mum mil v. a ft-sresj wi 1 -It thirst, and burns for distinction; and. if possible, It will Jay II. Is It . - u., enm man. Dossessed of the loftiest aenius. pi to be united with eacn otner, inacn.j generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his design. . 8 "Distinction will be his paramount object, and a though he would will Ingly acquir. it by doing good as harm, yet nothing left in the way of building ud he would Sit down boldly to the task of pulling down. Here, then, is a probable cas, highly dangerous." - From Mr. Lincoln's Speech Before th. Young Men's Lyceum, Springfield, III. From The Omaha Dally Dee, March 19, 1812. 'HONESTLY, WHAT ARE YOU RUNNING FOR, THE PRESI- j DENCY OR FOR RcVENutr , - K From the New York Herald. A Log on the Track . J of the fast express means serious trouble ahead if not removed, so does loss oi ap- petite. 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