Vic Largest Circulation Or ANY Wrfjtnt County Newspaper. The Largest Circulation OF ANY Halifax County Newspaper. 1 A H)Y. siflifor Proprietor. Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. r h s m u yi ii i! n a iuf ik m S 6i-l Mil II II v X.V 4 l It I II I Vf 19 11 f I X.XJ l l II K 3 1 At JvS. II II 4BV XI. 1 IS" I 1 II VI . I A 1 T II . ft . 1 - " ' ... i. . , 1 . . .... , XXVHF. :nt Get Up a Lame Back? ;y.-'ic Mates You Miserable. v . rvone know:-, of Dr. Kilmer's '.. the great kidney, liver and , . Madder r.-medv, bo ,? -y je cause oi it.; reeiurk ,r j j nbio ho::!:!', restoring ; ; properties. Swamp- . Rool )':! alls almost t,'-: everj- wUh in over j ', eo;; ;nr riieu"inti-T:i, ;. '' j in t i" kck, kH- T - I ij.; neyr. i;v;-r, Madder . f -"f ".;' every pert of the -rui.iry r;;.;sae. It ccrreetr. i-.ie.biiity to '.id orol fire, jip.iu in possingit, 1'. ' ! . ". 'i:r ':-:c lienor, wii'-ii . overr--?:es i!u't tripletis'ini b.iivr ronpeiloi . go often ; dev. ;ud to eel no manr recvmrr.cr.dc.l for ! :vo kii'.tiev, iiecr I o; He. liee- vt i fourid iu:-t I ::ec u : ' :ur- .:; -rtvte r'.v.etieo. r.-id hc 1 tb-it v.c- t.1 I S'-vn made by v.-kieh all. I nlly upon necessities of life. Also 1 favors Srlual reduction not to in- v.-.?Al; el-o a l;ook tclhn-; j tor fere with or delay legitimate in-.v..r:---R;c.t. and r.ow to ; d; ;st r'os. nMe" ltv- I I-! ounces Pre-ident Taft for ve n .-ation pLis?i i t"ir.jr taritf bills of last Congress. ?fS.'?;?:F:'i-ri ! Condemns the Republican adminis-o.-'. to'7y'!V j Nation "for failure to redeem its v C ., ii",r7T:;;,-;:!.ri;t j promises of 1S0S for downward re- ri -e b -,t:le.- nre so'ld bvl'"011- iKeS 1SSU6 With the Re- Por.'t jauko any mistake publican platform as to the high cost n.-.me, tw.ii'ip-Koot, .:Ot, OKI tl'C f!'! :i: every bottle, i r ) (', ' i fri A. rj ! vjces aro i ; it. L?.v7cr ! j i j ; ! i i j ; : : n c. K: :'.:.!. x. c. k . v. '-' Jk ..- l s a. . vr-.--or?M-v.j r L av-.' . Aortr. Carolina. i .vT--:;or in all matters -r..'r:'i-s to rai-osd j i .:-:jti:sc!or a Law ; on i i " - r;;3 t:0; e are ;'Oixd. : n'"nroved : :: . ). K 1, l,-;i, 7.1, D. . -- i .v i j. j ii.i : . ;',-;ff.i,i-; " - : ' 7; '."!: Fto! '. A. 1L uX. t) ' I i :;ecv, ;. c. . ! "'ir::. Broken ar.d. -fr.'iines repaired. ... . i-J D.-jn: on':? Str.bler. , m I I j j tr.Y ?.TOUN'T, n. r. ie.n.l Nock, N. C., on ' 'o; dav of ( aeh men h trout tho diseases of r, i'i'):-;-, Throat, and fit W'iiiREKLEY, r'TAN AcTl SUROFON, ind XecTr. l. C. :. i on pot Street. l i ! i : . smith I'.ant.'T.s & Commercial i-..,iit Ritiid'ing .. i i'A-k. N. C je:ttist. A (y.Y.r tip stairs in AVhitc-h'-ad Unildin!?. ' . from 0 to 1 o'clock .) '2 to :, o'c'oek. j ' i l -r- l'--- 'i-J A 5;t:?ii l..Z.h"?, 1 i. . K ..... rtnrM I .-f. I 5: :ivJiuii: ..; e.i? PEtf PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM ADOPTED BY DEMOCRATS. A S!:gs3 Oscssisr,?, IVMch tfas The Result of Lean ana Ccrciul Bslil). crcn on Te Frt c! 13 uGsointlons CcmiKiUse. Following is a summary of the planks of the Democratic platform a- adoptcil at Kaitiinore: r.eatnrms party's devotion to the principles of Democratic g-overn-ment as formulated by Jefferson. Declares for a tariff for revenue oniv ar:d denounces "the high Re- pt: :iic an uia prjneiple cause unequal distribution of veaitn !'!i a ;-; immediate downward re- ! jircr-cni nui!es ana especi- iiving, contending it is largely to high tat laws. Favors vigorous enforcement of f'i'bninal feature of anti-trust laws. Demands such additional leg illation as may be necessary to crush private monopoly. Favors prohibi- tion of holding companies interlock- ir.g directors?, stock watering, etc. ! ('.'iidemr.s Republican administra j tion for compromising with the j Standard Oil Company and tobacco Denounces as "usurpation" the efforts of Republicans to deprive States of their rights and to enlarge powers of the Federal government. "There is," says the platform, "no light zone between the Nation and the State in which the exploiting in- terests ean take refuge from both." constitutional amendments pending i" various State legislatures provid- ;ng lor cn income tax anci election ; of United States Senators by direct j vote ox the people. As justification ' i ' aemanas of tne party for; y of campa'gn expenditures, ' 'attention is directed 'Mo the enor-j rnous CKpc-nditureti of money in be l h'-.U of the President and his prede , e s.-or in the recent Presidential ! contest." Favors efficient supervision and ' rate regulation of railroads, express companies, telegraph and telephone ! line?, and a valuation of these com- ! i t j r-. es. :;y mter-states commerce C.'irmi.-r-ion, and also legislation against over-issuance of stocks of these corporations. In connection v.v..h a demsr.d for such a revision (if the banking laws rs will give teir'oorarv relief hi case of financial , -.--.,.-- ;! , , 2;:e is a denunciation of A kirkr, ''ii; -;'opar."d by trie notary cc:r.ra:?.ion. The present ;!,-;! of eerosifiag government p funds dernned and the party pledged to th ; enactment of a law for toe deposit of such funds by competitive bidding in State and Na tional barks without discrimination as to locality. - . 1 ' j " L ., 0 i iu'ccmmenus investigaLiun 01 k i ricultural credit societies in Europe to ascertain whether a system of rural credits may be devised suita ble to conditions in the United States. Pledges ;arty of enactment of iesrislation to irevent devastation of lower Mississippi Valley by floods and the control of the Mississippi, declared to be a National rather than a State problem. The maintenance of a navigable channel is also recom mended. Declared for Presidential prefer once primar ies. Directs the Nation al committee to provide for selec tion at primaries of members of National committee. Pledges party to enactment of law prohibiting campaign contribu tions by corporations and unreason able campaign contribution by indi viduals. Favors single Presidential term and making President ineligible to a re-election. a part of the regular diet is Scott's Emulsion Its highly concentrated nutritive N qualities repair waste and create physical resistance taster tnan disease can destroy." All Druggists. Scott & Howne IsloomlHM. N 12-11 an rencitates democratic congress on its record, enumerating impor tant'achievementsand pledges an ad equate navy. Denounces Republican adminis tration on charge of extravagance, and demands return to simplicity and economy befitting to Democratic government. Favors national aid regarding post roads. Repeats party's declaration of the platform of 1908 as to rights of labcr and pledges the party to an employe's compensation law. Declares the unnecessary with drawal of public land tends to re tard develpment and bring reproach upon policy of conservation; that reservations should be limited to purposes which they purport to serve; favors broadest liberality in administering land laws and says forest reserve act permitting home stead entries within the national forest should not be nullified by ad ministrative regulations; declares for immediate action to make avail able Alaskan coal lar.ds and safe guarding of lives of miners. Favors encouragement of agricul ture and legisltion to oppress gam bling in agricultural products. Believes in fostering growth of a merchant marine and urges speedy enactment of laws for greater se curity of life and property at sea. Reaffirms previous declarations regarding pure food and public health. Favors re-organization of the civil service and says law should be hon estly and rigidly enforced. Becommends law reform legisla tion. Reaffirms position against "policy of imperialism and colonial exploita tion" in Philippines. Welcomes Arizona and New Mex ico to sisterhood of States. Demands for Alaska full enjoy ment of rights and privileges of ter ritorial form of government. Refers to Russian treaty of 1832 and renews pledge to preserve "sa ." v-.!..v?gh'jif.A p'ori"?1! cit.iznphir at home and abroad." Favors parcels post and extension of rural delivery. Favors encouragement as can be properly given Panama Canal expo sition. Commends to the States adoption of law making it offense to discrim inate against the uniform of the United States. Renews declaration of last plat form regarding generous pension policy. Refers to the rule of the people and says, "The Democratic party offers itself to the country as an agency through which the complete overthrow and extirpation of cor ruption, fraud and machine rule in American politics can be effected." The conclusion of the platform says, "Our platform is one of prin ciples which we believe to be essen tial to cur National welfare,'' and invites cc-operation of ail citizens who believe in maintaining unim- lred the institutions ot our coun- try. The Keenest Struggle Years. in Forty-lour Not since 1S68 has another demo cratic national convention required more than five ballots to nominate a candidate for president. In 1908 Bryan was nominated on the first ballot. In 1904 Parker was nominated on the first ballot. In 1900 Bryan was nominated on the first ballot. In 189G Bryan was nominated on the fifth ballot in the most turbulent convention the dem ocratic party had held since 1860. In 1892 Cleveland was nominated on the first ballot, and he was named on the first ballot in 1888. In 1884, when he was first a candidate for president, the second ballot deter mined the nomination In 1880 Hancock was named by the changes that took place after the second bal lot had been taken and before the result was announced. In 1876 Til den was named on the second ballot, and in 1872 Greeley, who had been nominated by the liberal republi cans, was indorsed on the first bal lot. In 18GS there were twenty-two ballots taken before a nomination was reached. On that ballot Ohio gave twenty-one votes to Horatio Seymour. Those were all the votes cast for him, but before the result could be announced the convention had stampeded to Seymour and he was nominated. It is an interesting fact that the Baltimore convention has furnished the most protracted contest for a presidential nomination that the democratic party has had in forty four years. New York World. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY II, 1912. COV. W00R0W WILSON ; SKETCH OF HIS CAREER. Tbe Democratic Presidential Nominee, a Son of an Eminent Presbyterian Minister, and Was Born in the State of Virginia In 1856. Trenton, N. J July 3. Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic party's nom inee for President of the United States, was born in 1856 in Virginia, where he was baptized by Thomas Woodrow Wilson. He dropped the Thomas about the time that he com pleted his first book. Mr. Wilson cannot, like many an omce-seeker, appeal to the senti mentality of the public by an ac count of a self-made man's rise from poverty. His father and grand father were educated men, promi nent in their communities, and, while not rich, were able to give the aspiring young scholar a liberal ed ucation. It was not toward scholarship, however, that his earliest ambitions led him. While in college he re solved to become a public man. To that end he studied law and hung out his shingle. But his legal prac tice was not lucrative, and after eighteen months of it he gave it up, and with it, for years to come, his desire for office. BROUGHT TO GEORGIA A BABY. His father. Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, moved to Georgia when Woodrow was two years old, and later preached in various churches in North and South Carolina. Young Wilson entered Davidson College at the af,e of seventeen. After two years he entered Prince ton, from which he was graduated in 1879. He then studied law at the University of Virginia, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 18S2. He received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1886; that of Doctor of Laws from Wake Forest Uriv?reity, North Carolina, in 1887, land that of Doctor of Literature from Yale University at its bi-cen- tVlllllUl e.lV KJi. C4p Professor Wilson occupied the po sition of adjunct professor of history in Bryn Mawr College, and was af terwards professor of history and political economy in Wesley an University. In 1890 he became pro fessor of jurisprudence and political economy at Princeton. In 1895 t?e title of his chair was changed to that of professor of jurisprudence, and upon its endowment he became Mc Cormick professor of jurisprudence and politics. Professor Wilson also for several years gave a course of lectures in Johns Hopkins University. He gained fame also as a lecturer and writer. His work entitled "The State," and his "Life of George Washington" are among his best known writings. PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON. Professor Wilson became the thir teenth of the roll of presidents at Princeton in 1902 and the first lay man to hold this office, all his prede cessors having been Presbyterian clergymen. He is, however, a rul ing elder in the Second Presbyterian church of Princeton. As a profss sor he was very popular and his elective classes were always among the largest. During his administration at Princeton Dr. Wilson made two at tempts to change materially the character of American education. In one project he not only failed but alienated the support of a large body of alumni, of many of the trustees, and some of his co-workers on the teaching staff. That project, which did not succeed, was to es tablish the "quad" system for un dergraduates. It was resented by the alumni as an attack on the stu dent clubs and the opposition be came so strong that the president was asked by the board of trustees to withdraw his proposal. The successful innovation was the preceptorial system. That called for the appointment of fifty teach ers, or preceptors, to be added to the faculty at an increased cost to the University of $100,000 a year. But the alumni so thoroughly ap proved the plan that they told the president to go ahead and assured him that the money for the salaries would be forthcoming. The plan succeeded. This precep torial system, by which each stu dent gets the benefit of personal contact with a teacher, is referred to by the president's admirers as the best thing he has done in the field of education. SCHOOLMASTER IN POLITICS. When Mr. Wilson, after twenty- five years of service as an educator, resigned the presidency of Prince ton in 1910 to accept the nomination for Governor of New Jersey, there was a general tendency to look ask ance at the "schoolmaster in poli tics." However, he was carried into office on the radical anti-Republican wave that swept so many States. Wilson was elected by a majority of 49,000 votes. He was the first Democratic Governor in New Jersey for sixteen years. This brought the former college president prominent ly into national politics. His plat form pledges his party to the enact ment of a workmen's compensation act, a reform of the election law-n of the State which would make direct nominations possible, a corrupt practices act and a public uti'itio,-, commission bill. All these meas ures were written into the statate books of New Jersey during the first year of Governor Wilson's term in spite of the fact that the lower house of the State legislature wa.-. Republican. "PEOPLE THE ONLY HOSS." While his success in obtaining the passage of these measures served to bring him more prominently before the nation it was his fight to obtain the election of James E. Martin to I the United States senate to succeed ; Senator John Kean, which caused j the most widespread attention upon the New Jersey governor. In his pre- j election speeches Governor Wilson ! had given the pledge: "The people of the slate will be the boss, the only boss." When James Smith, Jr., leader of the state "machine" which nominated Cove-! nor Wilson, let it be known after the election that he expected the sena torial toga, the govenor espoused the cause of Mr. Martine, the candi date chosen in the popular primary. Governor Wilson wen his fight. Of the twenty-eight delegates to Haiti- j more twenty-four were pledged to ! Wilson. Woodrow Wilson married Helen Louise Avson, of Savannah. Ga.. on June 24, 1885. danghters. They have three A Striking Series of Dates. Anybody who is inclined to be po litically superstitions is invited to consider this curious chain of events in the history of the Republican party and its ancestors: Twenty years ago. ISO:', was tho year of the great Populist bolt which defeated Harrison ande'ected Cleve land. Twenty years before that, 1H2, was the year of the Liberal Republi can bolt which failed to defeat Grant but which cost the Republi cans the House of Representatives in 1874 and led to the Tilden campaign of 1S76. Twenty j-ears before that, IS.v.k was the year the Whig party wont down to its death. It was (he de struction of the Whig parly that brought about th? organization of the Republican party. Twenty years before that, 1.12, the National Republican party col lapsed, and the Whig pariy was built upon its ruins. Twenty years before thp.t, 1812, the Federalist party made its last fomidable appearance in a national campaign. It is a striking series of dates: LSI 2 18.12 1852 1872- 1892 1912. - New York World. The Old ScSiod. The old "fore de wah" darkey had asked a young attorney to write him a letter on his typewriter. "And is that all you want to say, Rastus?" querried the man of law. 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