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fTHBSUN lias -More Than Double The Circulation of Any Weekly Paper iu The Tenth Congres sional District, . .Comprising Thirteen Large Counties. Has More Than Double The Circulation of Any Weekly Papei in The Tenth Congres sional District, Comprising Thirteen Large Counties. - VOL. tU NO. 40. RUTHERFORDTON, N. si C, THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 24. J 90S. I $1.00 A YEAR. THE SUN HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT . I i OUR GOVERNMENT NOT OF THE PEOPLE The Forsyth Democracy Opens Its Campaign. SENATOR OVERMAN HEARD. He Delivers A Powerful Address To An Audience That Overflows The Court House The Senator Reviews His tory Of The Country And Shows That It Has Drifted From Its Moorings. (Special to News and Observer.) "WIN STON- S ALE M , Sept. 15. Amid cheers from an audience that overflowed the court house, and the music of bands, the Forsyth Democ racy opened its campaign to-night with unbounded enthusiasm. At 7:30 o'clock the Winston Cornet Band opened the " exercises by a serenade of the speaker, United States Senator Lee S. Over- man, at the Zinzendorf, and at 8 -. o'clock the march was made to the Z spacious court-room. Chairman G. H. Hastings called the assembly to or der by announcing that on next Friday night a Democratic club would be formed. He then presented Mr. Wm. T. Wilson, an able and promising young attorney, who in introducing the speaker, reviewed- the great achievements of the Democracy of the State and nation, spoke of the great men it had given our Country and wound up with a magnificent tribute to the public services of our distinguish ed Senator. As Senator Overman arose he was " greeted by a storm of applause. After -speaking of his F" natural - attachment for W inston-Salem, it being the place where he began his life's work as a teacher, the Senator opened his speech by a brief review of the history of our country, leading up to the formation of the two political parties. "Alexan der Hamilton formed a party," said he, "that believes that tLe people are unable to govern themselves. I trem ble when I see the tendency to a strong centralized government Mr. Taft him self said, 'I believe in the teachings of Alexander Hamilton. ' I call to mind the assertions of Senator Beveridge that 'I am a nationalist:' I call to . mind the warning of that grand old man, Senator Tiller, who left the Re publican party, who in the closing days of Congress warned us that the encroachments upon the rights of the States would ultimately destroy this republic." ''- The speaker reviewed the efforts of the Republican party to tear down the rights of the States. "They attempt," - said he, "to make a law that on every bale of cotton goods shall be a stamp saying that no child under fourteen years of age worked inthe factory that - manufactured it. If they can do that, why can't they require the stamp to -' also say that no child under fourteen picked the cotton. There is no end to this. " "Where did the government get any r such police power V" The government of this country is no government of the people, by the people or for - the peo ple, but a government of the office holders, by the office-holders and for the office-holders Mr. Roosevelt is trying to name his heir to the Presi- dency. He forced his subordinate office-holders to name Taft. You Re publicans wanted Cannon or Fair banks, but his office-holders forced Taft upon you. Now suppose Taft is elected and he names his successor, are Ve not on dangerous ground?' ' i DESCRIPTION OF THE PANIC. The most effective part of the great speech was the. Senator's description . of the panic ; "The country was pros- "perous, crops were bountiful, corn was bursting from the swollen cribs aid suddenly a panic came. Hundreds of thousands out of employment, children - in the Northern cities crying for bread, five hundred thousand idle men going back to the old country 7 taking .with them over five hundred million doll ars." Here he paid a great tribute to Mr. Cleveland, recalling how he had been so badly abused by the Republi can papers on account id the , panic that occurred during ' his administra tion, and how when he was dead,' these same Republican papers vied with each other in praise of him, : "Fellow titi zens,flid you know that two banks In New York control the money of the country and control the government I quote from Senator LaFollette to tl e effect that the Standard Oil bank and Morgan's bank control the great rail roads of the country, fourteen direc tors of one of these banks controlled 38 per cent of all the industries of the country. My friends, they i control about everything and if they could they would control the sunshine . and sell it to us at so much per quart. And these men have the Republican party by the throat." Here the speaker con trasted the two parties in the present battle. He paid a great tribute to Bryan, saying that he did not favor him when he started to the convention, but when he got beyond the Mississ ippi, he saw that the whole country was clamoring for him " and he was proud when he got there to vote for him. lie predicted his election while the crowd went wild. For several min utes cheer after cheer went lip. The Senator scored the Republicans J for the rottenness of the financial system. The Aldrich bill was passed as Mor gan sat in the gallery, rotten to.- the core, and put the finances of this coun try in the hands of the Wall Street bankers for at least six years. The two greatest Republican papers in this country denounced it. THE TARIFF. The Senator plunged into the tariff, assailing the hypocrisy and deception of the Republican position like a rap id fire gun, arousing the audience to intense interest. He showed how the goods of American steel industries were being sold abroad for less than at home, how great fortunes were be ing built up by taking the money from the consumer and putting it In the pocket of the manufacturer. "These millions are not made hon estly, they are made by the help of the government. It is impossible in this day and time to build up fortunes of such size by honest toil. Do you know what a million dollars is? Had Judas Iscariot saved $150 every year since the. time of Chiist and put it out to compound interestjyfce would .not how have been as rich LaRockefeller. Sad Adam done similarly with $50 he would not now have had enough to pay the dividends of the steel trust. . "This knife is an English knife and when it comes into this country the fellow with blue clothes and brass but tons on the wharves at New York tells the importer he cannot have it unless he pays 50 cents duty. The importer pays it and he charges it to the jobber, and he in turn charges it to the whole saler and the wholesaler includes it in his price to the retailer and the con sumer pays it to the retailer. Now who is the consumer going to get it out of? . He gets it out of nobody. He is simply paying it out to give to the American manufacturer increased pro fits on his knives he sells in America, or it is tax that is going into the treas ury at Washington." THE TRUSTS. The trusts, fostered by the tariff, came in $or a good roast at the hands of the eloquent Senator. He described the trust methods and showed how they controlled the Republican party-by their contributions to campaign funds. Judge Parker had accused President Rqosevelt of having put Cortelyou at the head of the Department of Com merce and Labor in order to fry the fat out of the corporations and Presi dent Roosevelt denounced it as a false hood, but time had shown the accusa tion to be true. The New York insur ance companies developed in the inves tigation by the present Governor Hughes had contributed large amounts of surplus that belonged to the widows and orphans of the country. STATE ISSUES. ' - The Senator then came down to State issues. He regretted that he had to recount the history of the past, but, said he: "The only way to judge the future is by the past." In beautiful and touching sentences he depicted the poverty and gloom and suffering of the people of the South during Recon struction, recalled how the great Dem ocratic party had stretched forth t its hand and under the leadership of ; the immortal Vance had snatched this great State from its awful bondage to carpet-baggers' reviewed j the second advent of the Republican party under Russell and the negro rule and the reign of crime and disorder .- he gave us. Then he magnificently presented the history, of the upbuilding of ,, the State by the great: Democratic party and plead with his audience to sustain it in power. "I used to want to see a battlefield," he said, "and one day, I went out to Gettysburg with ; a Union General." He took me up Culp's Hill. There stood the same cannon that had belched forth in that great fight. There was the same rock wall.,- the same chestnut nails, "There" are the great J0O0O-0-l'O-3-0'f,O-.Oi-0i-O0-iO a . . . ... ... ... . o o c -r o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 4- o o o -r o fr o o fr. o o o o o o fr o fr o fr o fr o fr o fr o fr o fr c HON. W. W. Hon. W. W. Kitchin, The o ernor, accompanied by Hons. B. F1. Aycock, candidate for Cor- o 4 , ' - ' Q poration Commissioner, and M. L,. Shipnian, candidate for Cora- 4. . missioner of Labor and Printing, will address the people of J o Rutherford county here on Saturday next . greatest event pfthe campaigtiand all should come out and hear- 4. 'Z, these aistingwisnea speaKeis. o CT . J Tl 3 T 1-:, 4- 9 to furnish music for the occasion a o'clock and will give an open air o -- - 4 when the speaking will begin. 4 o 4- - Arrangements will be made 4- porch of the graded school building and ample seats will be pro- y vided for the large crowd on the lawn in front of the building. 4 o Undoubtedly Mr Kitchin will draw a great crowd, as all are 4 anxious to hear him. The reports brought from the Charlotte . convention of his great ability as an orator has aroused the in- o ' 1 fr terest of all who did not attend, and they will take advantage of this occasion to hear North Carolina's next Governor. o Ever' citizen of Rutherford should come out and hear Mr. o Kitchin as he will only make two speeches in our county this 4- 4- - . o , year one here and the other at Henrietta Saturday night, the o ' ,,. 4- 4. 26th. - o o 4-0-.o4-o4-o4-o4o4-o4o4-04-04-04-04'04,Q4o4o4o4-o4'04-o4o4'04-o4-o4-o4-o and beautiful monuments marking the Union lines. The Union general -exclaimed, 'Right here I saw the grand est sight of my life; here's where Hoke's North Carolina brigade and the Louis iana Tigers charged us on that fatal day. Ours was a Michigan brigade. As they charged up that slope we made great gaps in their front, color-bearer after color-bearer was shot down, yet they closed up on dress parade, and came never to falter, till in the smoke the long thin gray line was forced back, by the determination of overpowering numbers. ' "Senator Daniel, told me that dur ing that day he carried a message from General Early to General Hoke, ordering the charge. He was told by a mere bov in the saddle that General Hoke was wounded, and he was in com ir and, so he handed the message to the boy and he went away. The charge came, this young boy leading, and midst the dim he went down to death. There was found on his person a slip of paper with the following ; written thereon:" "Tell father I died with my face to the enemy, doing my duty to my country.' "Old men, young men, that's the kind of stuff your ancestors were made of, be up and doing, see that the great party which has been the great friend of the South wins a great victory this year. Elect your: county ticket ? and elect your gall ant standard bearer, W. W. KitehhW I knew him m Congress; I never knew one more Competent or worthy Xo carry your, standard to vic tory.", : fe : V V . The Senator - received a, great , de monstration on his honor at the close. His speech thrilled the large audience. It was perfectly magnificent and did jUrS" cause of Democracy great good. OOO'l-OO-I'O-l'O-tOO'O-OOO' O ' - : I o SK' ' - ' t . c f. '- ; - - ", V x fr ' , -" " " - o f - V x I , " 9 X; i$tea' - - - If ( "r ' ' ill ! o s - o fr o 4 O 4 o 4- K. : M. ..... .. J -4- KITCHIN Democratic candidate for Gov- This will be the o 4 o ; , .....a 6 .1 ii.1T - X. iI . . The baud will arrive at 10 4. o concert until the - hour of 11, 4 " to have the speaking on the 0 LOOKS BAD FOR FORAKER. The Ohio Senator Before The Public In A Most Unfavorable Light. (Charlorte Observer, the 20th.) In his speeches at Columbus, O., and St. Louis, Mo., Thursday and Friday nights. Wm. R. Hearst exhibited Sena tor Foraker, of Ohio, before the public in a most .unfavorable light. If his statements rested upon his unsupported testimony they would go for little, but lie offers in proof copies of letters by John D. Archbold, vice president of the Standard Oil Company, showing Sena tor Foraker's relations to this corpora tion not only as attorney but in connec tion" with political matters in Ohio and at Washington. The authenticity of these letters Mr. Foraker does not deny but practically admits. Two of the let ters cover remittances to him, one for $50,000, the other for $15,000. He ex plains that these certificates relate to an unsuccessful effort to purchase a Colum bus paper and tiiat he returned and for got them. They were not in considera tion, he says, of anything he might do as a public man, yet they undoubtedly show a business association . with the vice president of the Standard Oil Com pany. It is perhaps only just to wait for further developments in the matter but at present Senator Foraker is under a very dark cloud and there is confusion in the Republican camp. Judge Taft replies to questions that he has nothing to say and a Cincinnati dispatch of Fri day to The Baltimore News said that "as the Taft men view it the thing is an enormity ;" and further; "Threats are heard on every hand. There is the threat that although the engagement has been made Foraker shall not, be allowed to speak from the platform Vith Taft at the big meeting of the Se publican League O 4- MISREPRESENTATIONS.; Strange Repetition Of Statements That Are Known To Be False. (Charlotte Observer, the 20! h) 1 Great and honorable J men are some times found with words on their lips which it is very discreditable of them to utter. Thus Mr. Taft has said that Mr. Bryan has no right to appeal for support to workingmen because, he supported the Wilson-Gorman tariff act which brought on the panic of 1893. It is a matter of common knowledge that this act was not passed until August.. 1894, and -it is now generally conceded that the '93 pauic was the result of the oper ation of the Sherman silver purchase act which was passed by the Republi can party. Certainly tlie tariff act of the year following could have had no relation to it. Strangely. Secretary Root in hi3 speech as permanent chairman of the New York State Republican conven tion last week committed the same inac curacy, and with him The New York Journal of Commerce, a non-political paper, deals with some impatience. "It is one of the strange effects of the pro tection obsession," it says, "that men of unquestioned ability and generally high character will demean themselves by a persistent repetition of statements which must be known to them to be false in substance and deceptive iu intent. In his speech as - presiding officer of the convention at Saratoga, Secretary-Root made but scanty reference to the tariff issue of the national campaign, but in that he stooped to one of the stock mis representations of protectionists." His argument, because ignoring the real cause of the panic of fifteen years ago t:ie silver question and referring it to the Wilson-Gorman act, is characteriz ea by Tne journal 01 commerce as a "hoary and threadbare misrepresenta tion." "This disconnection," it contin ues, "of the crisis of 1893 from its real cause and its connection with a tariff act passed, not in 1S93, but it . 1894, a year after the panic, has been a trick of protection platform-makers and orators through, two campaigns and is being overworked in 9 fhrrdi ": It is, unworthy pXjaeu of tujMjy and is landing and; it would be imposCTbiiBvfb high-minded nien who really gave attention "and thought to the matter instead ot repeating the shibboleths of the party without consid eration of their meaning or the truth or falsity of their implications." We prefer to believe with our New York contemporary that eentlemen like Judge Taft and Secretary Root in re peating "arguments sncn as tins are merely taking the words of others, with out thought or investigation. It is im p ssible to think that they are pervert ing the facts consciously; yet they ought not make statements about serious mat ters without information as to their truth, and as to the truth concerning this matter of such recent history they needed only to have requisitioned their own memories. Iu discussion the -Wilson-Gorman act they were talking like s ell-binders; not like statesmen. DEATH OF MR STQWECYFHER. The Remains Taken lo His Old Home In Toccoa, Ga. (Charlotte Nsws, the 19th.) Mr. John Stonecypher died yesterday afternoon at 4 : 30 o'clock at hi'Thome on East Third street. Mr. Stonecypher had been ill for about four weeks with ner vous prostration, u, Mr. Stonecypher was about f0 years of age, and is survived by his wife and several brothers and sisters, who live at Toccoa, Ga., from which place Mr. Stonecypher came to Charlotte about J 5 years ago with his wife, who was a Mif s Lucy Looney. Mr. Stonecypher for a time after coming to this city, was en gaged in farming, but for $ie past few years he has lived in retirement, having accumulated considerable property. He was for a long time superintendent of streets, and made a good official. The funeral services were held this morning at the home by Revs. W. J. and J. A. Smith, and the remains were taken to Toccoa, Ga., where the inter ment will take place. At Three Points In This State Mr. John W. Kern, Democratic nom inee for Vice President, will make three speeches in North Carolina next month. He will speak at Asheville October 6th, at Greensboro on the 6th and at Win ston on the 7th. , of CI nbs on September 2 2d. There is the threat that all-alliances with Fo aker shall be openly and brutally, repu diated. The Taft men are in an ugly mood, and they make no attempt to dis guise it." Senator Foraker relieved this situation last evening, as will be seen by this morning's dispatches, by a letter to Judge Taft, withdrawing his acceptance of an iuvitation to appear with him, on the occasion above referred to, and thero the matter rests for the present. But it looks bad for Foraker. " " MR. J.ELWOOD COX GIVES HiS VIEWS The Republican Nominee issues Formal Statement STATE AFFAIRS DISCUSSED. His Position On Labor And Capita! Out lined Is Opposed To Rebates And Has Never Received Ona From A Railroad Education The Most Im portant Question Now Confronting Us To the People of North Carolina: It will be recalled that when I ac cepted the nomination for Governor at the recent . Republican State con vention in Charlotte I stated that la ter I should, in a more formal way, make known my views upon the issues between the two great political parties of North Carolina. I now make the attempt and hope every man who roads this will do so as if it were a personal communication to him. My life's work has been outside . of politics. I have never for a moment entertained any political ambitions. It was with great reluctance I yielded to the earnest entreaties of friends, who persuaded me that I owed a duty to the State, and many of these friends are Democrats who feel as I feel that business men of North Carolina are entitled to more voice in the busi ness affairs of the State., and in tlie legislation affecting the business in terests of the State. .Deing a business man and not a politician I take it that it Js not ex pected I should enter into any elabo rate discussion of the political issues of the day. . . . ' NATIONAL AFFAIRS! As to national- affairs, I desire, first to sai' that I am in ; thorough accord with the principles and policies of the party as enunciated in tLe Republican national platform adopted at Chicago,, and firmly believe if North Carolina would break away from tlio solid South and cast her electoral vote for that great statesman, William H. iaft, it would bring millions of dollars here to aid iu developing our untold re sources. Business? men know that dollars, like pe:ple, need encourage ment; they will go where there is an inducement, but they are not likely to stay where there is indifference; they will live where they see light ahead for profit. But if the sentiment of a community, or State, is hostile to to them, such community, or State, is not likely to grow rich. In view of the untold resources of this Commonwealth, about which we hear and read so much, I may say there never was a more propitious op portunity for the adoption of a policy which will induce, attract and encour age the investment of outside capital in our State. There are certain matters to which I desire to refer: firtt, that of labor. LABOR. . I trust I may be pardoned for stat ing that what ever I have accumulated of this world's goods has been the fruit of my own effort. The work of my life and the environments of the field of activity in which I have wrought, with some measure of success have been such as to make it impossi ble for me to be in any way unfriendly to labor. The most loyal friends and supporters I have are men who have been in my employ for ten or twenty years and I am willing that the testi mony of these men, irrespective of pol itical of other affiliations, shall be ac cepted as to my attitude on this ques tion. I may state further that I have never discriminated against any la boring man on account of his connec tion with any organization, and in the course of my business life of more than twenty-five years, devoted to the upbuilding of the industrial and man ufacturing interests of the community in which I live, and while employing a great many men, never have I had any trouble of any kind, at any time, with my employes. CAPITAL. I must be equally frank and empha tic in. stating that my attitude to wards capital is that : of , justice and fairness......'-, . I am in favor of dealing wisely and justly with all classes of our. citizens in the enactment and enforcement of laws affecting their interests. , I believe also in the proper and - (Continued on Secon page ) - J -I X J-
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