- POU-COOLEY JOINT DEBATE. (Contributed) Congressman Pou and Candidate Cooley have met at several points In this district In Joint debate. Ac cording to reports. Mr. Pou has made his opponent appear In a ridi culous light. It will be remembered that Mr. "Cooley was a Democratic delegate to the Convention which met In Ral eigh on the 6th day of July. At that time, he was such a strong Demo crat and such a strong supporter of Mr. Pou that he trade a motion to nominate Mr. Pou by acclamation, and by a rising vote. The motion prevailed without a dissenting voice. Now Mr. Cooley Is attacking Mr. Pou's record because the Congress man, together with five other Dem ocrats from this State, refused to , vote to place unfinished lumber on the free list. Mr. Pou and these I five Democratic members, together; with both Democratic Senators from ! this State, voted to reduce the du ty on lumber from two dollars per thousand to one dollar per thousand, hut they did not believe It was fair to discriminate against this Impor tant Southern product by voting 1o put lumber on the free list. The ; strangest feature nbout this charge ! of Mr. Cooley Is this: Mr. Pou made him admit that he himself would have voted Just as Mr. Pou voted! During the first two debates, Mr. Cooley would not say whether he would vote the Democratic or Re publican ticket In this campaign. At ' Henderson, the home of Mr. T. T I lllcks, Republican nominee for Judge. Mr. Pou insisted that Cooley tell how ! ho Intends to vote. Finally the In | dependent Candidate brought down j a frost on his Republican friends by , declaring that he would not vote for j Mr. Hicks, or .Tudge Timberlake, or Judge Coble, all Republican nomi nees. How on earth does he expect ' any Republican to vote for him when i tie publicly announces that he will ; not support the nominees of th>' party whi?h endorsed him? Certainly. I no Democrat will support him for ills j treachery to the Democratic party | Ik without parallel In this Stale. The | position of Mr. Cooley Is positively I pitiful. He tried to get the Demo cratic nomination for Solicitor nnd failed to carry his own County. No man in the State has been more abusive of the Republican party than Mr. Cooley. Now because he failed to get the nomination for So licitor, ' he is going around abusing the Democratic party. A candidate pursuing such a course Is not en titled to the support of self-respect ing men in either party. He says Mr. Pou has done nothing and yet he can not mention a single ' thing Mr. Pou has failed to accom plish which he himself could have accomplished If he had been in Mr. Pou's place. Of course, he knows that Mr. Pou has done every thing any man could do for his people. When he was elected, there were just three R. F. D. routes estab lished in this district. Now there are more than 120. In addition, Mr. Pou secured $140,000 for the erection of public buildings in Rocky Mount and Henderson, and aided Senator Overman in securing $200,000 for the enlargement of the federal building in Raleigh. Every town In the Fourth District which has free mail delivery will soon have a public buil ding. Mr. Cooley also says he will not vote for the Republican Caucus nom inee for Speaker of the House if Mr. Cannon shall be nominated. He says he will not enter the caucus of ?either party. How on earth he ex pects to accomplish any thing by pursuing such a course he does not explain. He was a member of the State Senate in 1899. He missed 291 roll calls out of 499 during a sixty day session, that is to say he answer- ' ?d 208 times and failed to answer 291 times. He is hardly the man to ?barge anybody with neglecting du ly. But his candidacy Is a joke. We do not believe he will receive anywhere near the vote Mr. Briggs received two years ago. The people ( respect a candidate who takes a manly stand, even though they may not agree with him. but a man who has attended all Conventions of all political parties and now says he will not vote for the candidates of either party will hardly appeal to self-respecting men In either party. Mr. Pou charges every day that Cooley left the Democratic party to get a federal office. If the Repub ! llcans fail to give him an office, they need not expect to hold him very long. With respect to his charge thai Mr. Pon has neglected his duties. | we reprint part of a letter written two years ago by Hon. John Sharp WiHiams, at that time leader of the J Minority in the House, to our towns- ( man, Col. E. J. Holt. The letter speaks for Itself. Mr. Williams ?ays: "The charge Is absolutely uncall ed for. Mr. Pou has done everything that a Democrat Minority member could do, he has been at his post of duty far beyond the measure that I most representative* consider ne cessary. He li, In fact, one of the men who hardly ever misses roll call, I* always present when his committees meet, and it 1s in these Committees that most legislation is perfected?and always works in har ness on the floor in accord with Dem ocratic programs. He has been Just the contrary of neglectful. "In a certain sense It might be said of him, as it might be said of me, or of any other Democratic member, that he had accomplished very little, to wit: In the sense of defeating Republican partisan legisla tion, and in the sense of enacting Democratic partisan legislation. Evi dently, from the manner in which you write, however, you are u man of too much Intelligence to expect that either he or I or anybody else, or all the Democrats in Congress to gether, could do that. But Mr. Fou has borne his full share of the bur den and accomplished his full share of possible results. "I um, with every expression of regard, "Very truly yours. "JOHN SHAKP WILLIAMS." The System is Doomed. Not only In Virginia, but In other States Is the agitation against the foe system Increasing In volume. Throughout the South the system Is being shown up In Its true light, and it is believed that within a few years, Virginia, as well as all the other Southern States, will have substitut ed the salary Bystem instead of the present outrageous honeycomb of Iniquity and inequity. It was but a few days ago that we called attention to the fact that In North Carolina, the system is being gradually broken down. It Is only a question of a year or two until the salary system will prevail throughout North Carolina. In Alnbama the people are dissatis fied with the system. They are de determinod to get rid of It. The leading newspapers In the State are now attacking the system with all their might. A delegate to the re lent prison congress In Washington from Alabamu delivered a compre hensive and scathing philippic against the fee system, showing the evil that It works upon the people. On Monday of this week the grand jury of Ilurke County. Georgia, "passed a resolution urging that all county officers hereafter receive i salaries and that the fee system be , entirely abolished as applied to those | officers. The representatives from j Burke county in the State Legisla ! ture were urged to introduce a bill j providing for the salary system throughout the State." This is one of dozens of Instances wherein the people of Georgia have expressed their dislike for the fee system and their determination to be rid of it. The system is doomed. Influential officers in Virginia may fight for It, as they do. with all their might and main, but the system is going. The principles of government economical ly administered demand the aboli tion of the system. It is doomed.? Richmond Times-Dispatch. A Message From the Nation. Chairman Eller has received a let ter from Mr. James T. Loyd, chair man of the Democratic National Con gressional Committee, which says that all that is needed to assure a great victory Is united effort and aim by Democrats from now on. "Re member the election in Maine." Your cough annoys you. Keep on hacking and tearing the delicate mem branes of your throat if you want to be annoyed. But If you want re lief. want to be cured, take Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. Sold by Hood Bros. A Florida Farm. In Marion County a farm of about two thousand acres produced last season nine car loads of cattle and hogs, twent.v-flve car loads of cab bages, nine car loads of green peas, sixty car loads of watermelons, for ty car loads of cantaloupes, three thousand bushels of corn, two thous and bales of hay, and a thousand dol lars worth of velvet bean seed, the gross receipts for said products be ing $43,000, a large portion of which was profit. This farm also maintains forty head of horses, three hundred head of cattle, three hundred hogs and four hundred sheep, and has something for sale every working day In the year. ?C.arnault Agassiz, in the National Magazine for November. The Court's Little Jest. "What's the charge against^ these two men?" inquired the police Jus tice. "They were havin' a quarrel over a busted auto tire, your honor," an swered the officer. Wei), we'll let them patch it up tln;mstl.es,'' said his honor, with a slight closing of his left eyelid. "Call the next case."?Chicago Tribune. Negroei in Federal Employ. A wonderful array of fact* con cerning the employment of negroes In the government service 1b pre sented in the republican campaign text-book, which has Just been made public and distributed throughout :he country. j On August 1, 11> 10. there were more Afro-Americans in the service of the United States government than ever before in the history of the country. Among those named In the list as holding high federal positions are William T. Vernon of Kansas, regittoi of the treasury; H. L. John son register of deeds for the district of Columbia; Ralph Tyler of Ohio, auditor for the navy department; lleiuy A. Rucker, collector of Inter nal revenue, Atlanta, Ga.; Whitfield McKiniey, collector, Washington, I). C.; Joseph E. Leef collector Jack sonville, Fla., and others scattered , throughout the south. ! In tin' diplomatic and consular ser vice there are 11 negroes whose sal ?iincs run all the way up to $10,000 ' a year each. The army shows elev | en < olored ofifcers. while the govern- ( ! mtr.t printing office, the patent of j fico. and the postoffice department show large numbers of colored men. Out of a total of 14.3&7 negroes in the government service, drawing an 'iiggregate of $8,255,761, many of 'them are located In Washington, di luted f?s follows: State department ' 26, treasury 703, war 76, postoffice 182, 'n'erlor 421, Justice 34, agricul ture 129, commerce and labor 217, Government Printing Office 571, In terior Commerce Commission 37, Uni ted States capitol 187, Washington ci'y postoffice 201, District of Col- , ur.ih'a. Including unskilled labor, 2, 824. In the campaign book it is stat < d that there are 21 negroes employ- , ed In the Houston, Tex., postoffice. j draw ing salaries amounting to $14.-{ 000 annually; 43 at Jacksonville, Fla.,] drawing $35,000; 30 at Montgomery, j I Ala., drawing $27,000; 15 In the in- ; Jternal revenue service at Louisville, i Ky., Mobile, Ala., post office drawing j $42 ,000. More negroes are probably j in the Chicago postoffice than any J where else, 512 now having their names on the rolls there drawing nn nually $400,000.?Charlotte Observer. It's the World's Best. No one has ever made a salve, oint ment or balm to compare with Buck len's Arnica Salve. It's the one per-, feet healer of Cuts. Corns. Burns, Bruises, Sores, Scalds. Boils, Ulcers. Eczema, Salt Rheum. For Sore Eyes, Cold Sores, Chapped Hands, or Sprains, It's supreme. Infallible for Piles. Only 25c at Hood Bros. Democrats Wrote Bright Pages. The truth is well put In the fol lowing: "Every chapter of North Carolina history, written with a pen dipped iu darkness, shame and dishonor, was written by Republican hands. Turn the bright pages of your his tory and find there the names of Vance, Jarvis, Fowle, Aycock, Glenn and Kitchin. Turn the dark pages and find there the names of Holden . and Russell and Butler. What Demo crat is ashamed to promise you an administration like that of Vance, Jarvis, Fowle, Glenn, Aycock or Kitchin? What Republican will dare to promise you an administration like 1 that of Holden and Russell?" |l It is from the speech of White- 1 head Kluttz at Durham, and Is an ' argument that the radicals can't I face.?Raleigh Times. j I ( Dockery on Butler. At a Republican convention in < Richmond County, on June 24. 1906,'] Henry C. Dockery, one of the best 1 know n Republicans in the State, ' < said of Butler: "Can we trust a man | who while Senator hatches up old j bonds against his State and by col- ' i lusion with other unscrupulous par-! ties and in collusion with another State sues his native mother State?" < |GOWANS| I King of Externals Ij, Accepted by the Mothers of America as the one and only external preparation , that positively and quicklv CURES all forms of In- i flammation or Congestion such as Pneumonia,("roup. Coughs, Colds, Pleurisy. Since Rowans f'rei>.ir.lt inn h.is ,1 been intro>luce Braifiit Risk Too Graet. Wben a n.an goes wrong?badly wrong?people view him with sus picion. If It Is his first offense and he shows contrition, he Is sometimes forgiven, but after being forgiven. I should he repeat his offense, it is ; time to watch him ever afterwards, Our Republican friends in this State object to having he record of the party back in 1H68 pointed to, 1 when their legislature stole every- j thing in sight and some things not j in sight It is natural they should object. As a matter of fact the people did forget and forgave and in 1*94 they again came Into con trol of the State government. What did they do ? Practically repeated their former record; their actton was so disgusting than in IV.<8 they were again driven from power in disgrace. Now they are bobbing up with more promises if only the people will ' trust them once more. "School's out." and It Is time to bar the door. The party is like the old Dutchman's wife who ran away with another man; he got her back and was pro ceeding to whip her when neighbors begged for him to let her go this time. "No," said Hans; "she flew once, she fly again; I crap her wings," and he did. The Republican party in this State lias forfeited every right to be trust :Q, and the people will "crap" its wings this fall, as should be done.? Greensboro Record. i One of the Greatest Orators. Oratory is a local Issue, and while in Iowa it would be safe to say that Polliver w as the greatest orator ' in Congress, in Texas there would be a sentiment for Bailey; in Kentucky, for Ilradley; in New York for De pew. But anywhere in the United States Dolllver could, without mur mur, be ranked as one of the great est orators in public life, and those who in Washington have heard him make many speeches, placed him very, close Indeed to the top. Dolllver was a reticent man. He | did not like to take the floor at any j time, and to break forth, as it were, ( into language. 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