North Carolina Newspapers

SAMPSON'S DEFICIT LARGEST® STATE Wilt Ten rears' Radical Krit Brwjhl H Canity ML i IL UCH FIGURES . Hantsnw Oosstf Pays IMo Mate Treasury #10,114.24 and the flute Par* Oatfor HampMMi Cmsty flfi,- ouit.na—Radical Role Makes De ficit Greater Than Any Oossty in North Carolina—A Warning to t Other Counties. ** ? ' To The Editor: ft Is not pleasant to advertise one's own county as a bankrupt, but the fi nancial condition of Sampfcn county after ten years of Fusion and Repub lican mismanagement should be made known. In ortler that the good citlsens of other countle*, may take warning tiVfrernom • ■ \ The tffbdlca) county candidate# are stptlng all over Sampson county, as they did In the campaign Immediate ly'prwrradtng ~the —exposure ef the "nasty mess" of stealing, forgeries and fake settlements, that Hampson coun ty owes nothing, and has a surplus of eight to ten thousand dollar* In her treasury. 0 ,| have secured from Hbn. B. R. Lscy, .Treasurer of North Carollnar the following facts and figures which speak for themselves, and show the truth which he run* may read. • • T Tours truly, A. F JOHNSON. Clinton, N. C., Oct. 22, 1910. State of North Carolina. B. R. Lacy, State Treasurer, ">ea*ifry Department, Raleigh, Oct. 7, IMO. ,• Mr. A. F. Johnson, Clinton, N*"C. Dear Sir:—Replying to your In quiry as to what Hampson county re ceives from the State of North Caro lina, I will nay that my book* show as follows: For the Institution for the deaf,, dumb and blind at .. .. ..I 1.708.43 For the Dear and Dumb at MorgantorKx,. 800.00 For the Foldtrrs' Home at Raleigh .. .A\. 112.78 For the State -Hospital at Ooldsboro .. ~. .. t 403.08 For the Riate Hospital at Morgan ton .. .. 1,022.00 For the State Hospital it Raleigh z.cw.-.'o For the Pension* to Samp son county 7,058.00 For-, appropriation to public schools .. ..." 4,894.93 Total cost to the State i5..118.MT1.42 Amount received by State from , Sampson county 10.414.24 Deficit .. v .. „ t 8,271.18 This shows that In the year 1908. Sarnpwon county received from the Sfate of North Carolina for the above purpose* 15.271.18 more than *he paid Into the Treasury. The cost of sumpson county to the State Is de termined as follows: Sampson county ha* nine Inmates In the Deaf. Dumb and Blind Institu tion at |tale|gh. which cost* the State 1t.74ta.48/ or $187.00 apiece. Ift the. school tor the Dear ond Dumb at Morganton, Sampson county has fiiur»'inmates which costs the State fjoo.ooo apiece amounting to 1800-00. Kamp*on county I* weak on soldier* at the home. There Is only one from ftotapson coUnty In tjfte Soldiers' Hofne, „ anl- he «*sts "fhe lute {112.78. The fttotf Hospital at Qold*boro has four negroes from Sampson county which the sta(4iijMolt{l,>.oi about a hundred fiollara apiece. The State Hoapital at Morganton haw eight Inmates from Sampson county, which costs the State $1,022,- 00. or Sbout $117.00 apiece. In the Statu* Hospital at Raleigh It Has setssnVvap Jmpates, which costs the State $2,894.20. or about $158.00 apiece. The Appropriation for pensions Is 17.0W00. The appropriation for public *chools 1* $4,894.93. These make a total that th4> tSate pays out for Sampaon county of $lB,- 6JJ5.45, and as the county only pays In 11^.41.4.24'. I have to go Into the pocket of other counties to make up the de ficit of $8,871.18. To make it clearer, If all counties In the State were like Sampson county we should be hope lessly bankrupt, as ahe does not fur nl*h one cent toward* the support of her Legislature, her Judges, or her State officers. In fact, Bampson coun ty has a larger deficit than any other county In the State. 1 , Tours truly, B.R.L. B. R. LACY. , State Treasurer. tThe above flgures are from the bl- k ehnlal report for 1907 and 1908. Re ports for 1900 and 1910 will not be mil uhtll December, but there is little Pliability that the figures will be maicHully changed.—Editor.) «*, ' •>, ■ '■ Governor Aycock Tells Why » Youag Man Should Enter Actively Into -i the Democratic Party. Young men are always generous. Selfishness has not been developed In thetp. , They realise that lite is a struggle, but they also know that the ultimate results are in favor ot. those who are right. The democrattc\party stands fpr right principles. ItT be ilsvejk that the power to tax Is the poWat to destroy. Oovernmennt can not >un without taxation.« We con cede to government, therefore, the right Old power to tax us for ita own pnrpo&es, but we deny jthe right of governmentn to tax us for the pur pose of enriching any part of our peo ple, * • • • - A young n« should be a democrat because, (pr the present, |t requires of him some sacrifice. The republi cans have so run this government as to tuake sections out of the different part* of the United Attei. A south erner is dented 'participation In the national government unless he tarns ! renegade to hl's section. But our I want of participation in the affairs of the nation It a discipline to us. if we remain faithful, to principle, as our fathers before us did, bur day will come as certainly as the sun rises. The people who sacrificed their lives and gave their Wood in be half of independence, although It seemed that they were losing every thing, really established everything, and rendered possible the hope of the I present generation. - We are faithful,! we may not reap the rewards our- j selves, but our children shall gatuer t the fruits of our labors. "He also' serves who merely stand* and waits." j We need only to wait. • The world is 1 coming to our way of thinking. I«et no man forget himself. But let us do the right thing in the hope and confidence of righteousness. C. B. AYCOCK, j •, •' ■ i GOVERNOR JAKVIH' GREAT LET- , TER OK DEMOCRACY AKD . YOI'TH. I. have associated much wlffc the! young people, and to this fact I at- 1 tribute much of the continued active. ( hopeful, happy life I lead. Because of these things, I do not j feel that 1 am violating the rules or j propriety In these words of advice j and encouragement to the young men of my state. 1 'cannot and do not advise you to ■ become politicians and seekers afterl office; but 1 do Insist that you owe a'j duty to your stste and to society that i you can only discharge by an active, ; participation in public attaint. But how shall you discharge these public duties? In the first place, you should set a high standard of pubic morality and public service and Insist that those who seek the favors of the public shall measure up to them. Set high Idfeals and strive to live up to them yourselves and teach your fellows by precept and example to do likewise. In public matters seek only the pub- j lie good and use only methods that | are honest and Just. Avoid the man ! who would prostitute the public ser-l vice to his private gain. But ours Is a government by party. Whether we would have It so or not, the fact Is that party policies largely determine the policy and party prac tice of the government. So, you purpose to take an active part In pub. lie affairs In our state. It Is necessary for you to ally yourself With one or the other of the two political parties whicfc seek control of the slate gov ment. Which shall It be? The principles of the republican party as a national party art funda mentally wrong. It teaches that the power to levy taxes and colect reve nues for the support of the govern ment carries with It the power to distribute the burdens of supporting the, government equally. Under the lulse of protecting certain Industries the government may make laws to enrich one class of men, at the ex pense of anotheV class. Democracy says that the burdens and blessings of government should be distributed, on all alike. Republicanism say* not so. but that these burdens and bless ings should be distributed to the sweet will of the few who dictate the ranking of the laws. It is the privilege and the duty of the young men to stand with the par ly which stands for equality of oppor tunity in the rsce of life, I warn you against the seductive appeal that Is sometimes adressed to you to Join this or that party on the plea that it may offer personal advantage. Pub lic service and human welfare are the considerations that ought to weigh with a high-minded manhood. When the young men come to form their psrty affiliations in this state, •oi one should have the slightest dif ficulty in making his selection be§ tween the democratic and republican parties. The democratic party has ever stood for high Meals and has wrought magnlflcentn results. The republican party has stood for low ideals and when It was given power has brought wreck and ruin In Its wake and shsme and disgrace upon the state. I became a worker in the demo cratic party In the days Just preced ing the war, itnd I saw its victories and achievements then. I assisted in its reorganisation after the war, and I have worked with It and for it ever since. 1 have seen it go down in de feat twice during these long years from 1869 to IJUQ, and oh! what dark and damnable pages were writ ten In my state's history during these j two republican administrations! There,cannot be one'Mmong you wboj would not wipe out these blots upon the fair name of our dear old state If you could. That cannot be done, but I will tell you what you can do. To ucan unite wfth the party that has .twice eedremed the state from unworthy rule. I- have seen the democratic party thke change -of the governmentn of the state when she lay prostrate un der republican oppression, when herj people were poor and almost hope sras, when the schoolhouses were ciocied and the teacher was silent, 'itWiTi - wailffiii motley* rvfc , 0T h aoeaoone I i thou OUT' L_ Wff ' J"™" Htcur \ COR I S L SOME ICE. I Mo\ ' • TIED TO ME. HtWASbIM* . JmW W VlPpSk V• HE *Aip Hjk TOSvnMN&THS /ftp ' > m CaR*MBTHE -COTTON mil ' W\U, -> v ) f ARjV\ERb vM FOLK INLINE.-- IN HIS POCKET. WITH THE MILLS ' FW >Pw ' PSA^! HE. HAS SHUT DOW* NO INFLUENCE 'ANDOTH€«S M(T 'il'i V' W ' \amth A *r CLASS vn5N SHORT #; 1 U , ( A \ SINCE THE TOM TIME HIS 4!ri- $' ■> -C- 'PV mow how he .TALKDONn . ft?;'/> i: J? "Nil BETRAVEDTHE FOOL- ANY jljjf! ' iJ : - ' 1 •\' l | STATS IN THE '' ! "(.' ! ' ! M\!i PONP CASE f ; 11 WHILE HE WAS v t I UNITED STATt? X |pi ' ||u SEN i ' • ' ~ , .--—g~. v • ' THTK SI.tMKSK TWIXS. when ruin and despair seemed to brood over the land. And under dem ocratic rule I h»ve seen the dark clouds pass away and hope retire. I have seen the schoolhousea opened an dthe teacher abroad In the land. I have seen good government take the place of bad governmentn and law and order hold sway everywhere. I haye seen poverty give way to pros perity and the mourning of the peo ple turned Into Joy. I have seen the slate rise from the wreck and ruin wrought by republican misrule and take her place tinder democratic rule among the foremost states in this great union of states. It Is into the ranks of thia great and glorious party whose records are so full of magnificent achievements that I Invite my dear young friendß to come and share with us in labors and triumphs In upbuilding In the state. THOS. J. JARVIS. CANDIDATE DENOUCES THE AMENDMENT The Reldsville Review xay« thai Mr. Dunn, Republican candidate for" the Hou*e. the constitutional amendment in sever? language . and said that It should be repealed. KxacMv« Every other Republican candidate in the.State holds the same view to which the Rockingham can didate gives utterance. The difference Is that the Rockingham candidate hasn't been Intimated in the policy of pretending, to believe what he does not believe. The Butler* and More head*, the Holtons and the CowlesseS, the Grants and- the Meekinse*' go about the State declaring that silice the negro haw be«n disfranchised theM are now 1 two white parties in North Carolina j»nd the negro lias been for ever removed In politic*. Buf-ohly one has been found to sity he voted for the amendment. All the rest of them voted ugaiwet 4t. Tl>»y are op posed to it now, and If the Repub licans should carry the Legislature they would open the 1 ballot box to negroes so as 16 virtually appeal the suffrage amendment. The Rockingham man in frank and does not dissemble. The rest of them are trying to fool the« people. In no platform have *they approved the amendment or even said they acquiesced in It. They dare not do so. The Northerp Republicans could not carry Indiana, Ohio, New York. New Jersey, De LB ware or Connecticut without the negfo vote, and they will not permit Southern Republicans to say they favor the suffrage amend ment. As a matter oK fact most Southern Republican politicians wish to have the negroes all back as voters. They know that their only hope to get office In Tennessee. Virginia and Nbrtty Carolina Is through a big negro vote, and If the.v had >the power they would restore negro suffrage as It was In 18M when,, every negro boy over eighteen years old' was allowed to vote and live negroes were allowed to personate dead negroes and vote. Hot ton and Butler were the chairmen under whose rule we got negro govern ment in 1895-Mi They are In con trol of the Republican party now. If they win what repentance have they made to warrant the belief that they made to warrant tbe belief that they would do better? Referring to the report that the Rockingham candidate for the Legis lature denounced (he suffrage amend ment In severe terms. Webster's Week ly tar*: - rT^ "This is astounding. If Mr. Dunn Is guilty of such language, he has not only put his foot ahead his party, but has forfeited the right to the re spect for the white people of Rocking ham county and North tttrollna." I. Rockingham voters will repudiate the man who openly declares his po sition as opposed to the measure pass ed to secure white supremacy. Other counties will defeat Republican can didate who add duplicity to their op position to whits supremacy. KMOWS Where to Go. Every man who desires special legislation for his special Interest knows that his place Is In the repah j lican party. He will jotot the party . that has made a success of robbing all the people for the benefit of the few. —Claude KHchln. V i M.JN.I.MUESTIUS ' -2 .%*ks WIIHI Part of Their the Republicans I'ronilw to lte|M»Ht — Thejr Agnlrf A|>polnt :tOO Magistrate* or Mm a LLRARLI-LFKXIHL N>(KII l>oorkeep«»r of the House of Hepresentative*? Wilson. Oct. 2«—Through The Nfw« and Observer the ROIHI "Old North State" has been apprised of the fact that Mr. John D. Meares, "the plow hoy orator*Vof Wilson county, haw rut loose from the Republican party and cost his lot with the Democrat*—the party which Mr. Meares nays In the only one fit for while men to belong to. Undoubtedly Mr, Meares wan thp brainiest inan In the Republican ranks In Wllfcon county, and knowing this It WP* he could throw some hot-shot Into the ranks-of the' enemy and couse Other* to Join the Demo •Tatlc ranks. So this correspondent interviewed the newly-con vertAd and asked him if he would mind ing for publication In The News and >bsorver. He replied: "tf I have any Influ ence. In the future It will he to In duce others ta adopt the course I have taken—and my pen and voice are at command of the Democratic parly for all time to come, and noth ing would' please me better , than to dlylde time wtth any Republican In Wilton county for the' discussion of State and National politics. The fol lowing are suggestion -he would like to have answpr^d: Nuts N>r Republicans to Crock. "It has been several ,da(ys now since my letter." saying I am no longer a Republican and offering to divide time in Joint debate with any Wllsoa county Republican. As yet none of Ujem has accepted the challenge. Wonder if they are afraid? "I want to. ask some. Republican what part of his past record In North Carolina would they repeat If th-ey were again returned to power In this Stale? They have had cotatrol Of the State Government twice albte the war.. "Can they name a simple a;t of their past record, that they wonld repeat if again returned to power? "Would they again waste the State's money and repeat this rewfrd of '6B and '«#. "What part of their record made by the Russell administration will they promise the people to repeat? "Would they again appoint three hundred negro magistrates to to ad minister Justice In North Carolina? "Would they again elect Abe Mld dleton, the bench-legged negro as sistant doorkeeper of the House of Representatives? "I think they might pick out some act of theirs they could point with pride and promise to repeat: but I am at a loss to know what It is. I am asking for information. "Wonder if Mr. John Stanton, should he be elected to the Legislature, would Introduce Dr. Parson's old police com mission bill making himself and L«evl Peacock, a negro, patronage dispen saries for the town of Wilson? "When you ask a Republican these questions he grows Indignant and says you have .no character and are not decent, yet he can not deny that this a part of their damable record. "J. D. MEARES." TV Unheeded Call Come From the People. (Senator F. M. Sijpmons ) Mr. President, the bill which we are about to pass Is not a bill In the interest of those In response to wnose demand revision was promised by i both political parties. At wnose de-. maud, I atk, was this promise made? At the demand of the protected man. n Wetter? No. At the demand of the trusts? No. They were both satisfied vith the Dinglev rates. s Un der those rates they had made great fortunes and established monopolies which enabled them to fix 'prices. They wanted no change. Thase op ponents of revision constituted the backbone of that "stand-pat" ele ment of the republican party which fought the demand for. revision tp the last ditch. The of revis ion was put In both fatforms over their protest. From whom, then, did the demand proceed? I answer. From the great consuming masses of the •country—from the laborer and the farmer, the doctor, the lawyer, the profeslonal man, and the clerk behind the desk and the counter, and his em ployer. It did not cot*e from the thriftless. It caine from the well-to do, who, though they were making good money, wages, and salaries, found themselves, on account of the high cost of living, barely able, while seemingly prosperous, to make both ends meet. What was thp nature of their complaint and against whom and what was it leveled % Again 1 answer, it was against the high prices of protection and protection-bred and fostered monopoly: against extortion due to overprotection and resultant monopoly. Tliey Can't Do It!' lfix-Governor Glenn was naked, "How can our young men join the republican party of North Carolina?'* Answer:. They cannot; and what is more, they will not! THE NATURALFIELD OF THE YOUNG MAN The fathers of this country poured out their blood and treasure to free the new land from the tyranny of monarchy and aristocracy. They suc ceeded: but today a new and dead lier form of tyranny is fastening its | fangs upon our country, and threat ens to turn a government!! dedicated to liberty and human rights Into a land of oppression, with all power concentrated into the hands of a few men. faking their cue from Alexan der Hamilton ,who believed that the people were not fit to rule them selves, republican leaders are today virtually denying the fundamental truths of eauallty upon whicii thin govern meiyn was founded. Under their rule a few men are acquiring all power and the masses are being re duced to a condition 1 that abolishes the equality of opportunity. Unless the present movement Ib checked, | the upward road that has always been open to your young men will be blocked, both in business and poli tics. The natural place for young men is in the democratic party, whose pur pose is to keep the road to opportun ity open. The republican party, stand ing for trusts, monopolies, and nar rowing opportunity, is not the na tural home of the vigorous manly young men who ask only a free hand and a fair chance. Turn the country over to the unchecked wislies of the republicau party and the average young man can only hope to be a clerk iu the ranks of monopolies, and if he be an exceptionally able man, he may nope to rise to be head clerk. Corporate organization and wealth are clutching into their deadly grip the opportunities of a once free land. If tlie men of today would bequeath a heritage of freedom and of oppor tunity to their sons, they must fight NOW. The democratic party stands for the open road. It believes that the people can and should govern themselves. It believes that America needs only a fair field and An even and for that It will die in the last ditch. It is the standard for the young men to enlist under, and it depends upon them to take their places and do their duty. The Truni|»rt-'all to Dnty. The great State of North Carolina iis throbbing with possibilities. We must keep them open for our young men. We are setting about the task of building a great modern state. Old things are passing away, and the illustrious heroes of thf past have bequeathed us a marvelous heritage. The democratic party has accepted the responsibility. It honors the past. It acts in the present, and it safeguards the (nture. It makes equal laws and It guarantees an equal chance. It builds schoolhouses where jails were once needed; It has giv«n a marvelous impetus to agriculture and enlirged commerce, its hand maid. It has given good government and not bad. It has made a common wealth where peace and Justice reign, ... n. • .. * ■ ■ I where men prefer light to darkness, where every man, woman and child ! has the opportunity to make the best lof himself. This work the party calls on the young men to carry on. It la A CALL TO HIGH DITTY, and it is a call to honor, fame, and usefulness. The great men of the world have been those who bestowed something on mankind. In this great, new, forma tive period the young men must take their place# and control* the forces that are shaping the future. Will they control or be Controlled,? Wtlf tfiey keep the reigns of power In their own hands or turn them over t«) cen tralization. under the plausible so phistry of a "New Nationalism," to men who believe that power and wealth and opportunity should be limited to the few? The (mnntrjr Coming to HenMKralir Principles. The country is embracing the prin ciples of democracy. Its fires have been kept burning in the south with purity and vigor, and behold a con flagration Is enwrapping the country. The vestal flame has been kindled anew in the land. The farmers of the great west are adding fuel to It, nnd even the east ahd New England are not lagging behind. The south coming into its own because it has • been true to principle and Itself. Pro- I tection has been found to mean "privi lege, and privilege has no place in » America. This great truth has been 1 held sacred by the democracy, and , the people are looking io our party to lighten the load that republicanism ! has placed upon them. The republl ; can party can be no longer held to i get'aer by the "cohesive power of ( public plunder," and It is disintegrat i ing from within. It cries in'vain to [ the young men of the south, for it * has nothing to offer them. It brings 1 to North Carolina as leaders and i apostles men discredited and defcat t ed at their homes. It belongs to re faction and Cannonlsm. It Uln North Carolina a party of negation , and, ' subterfuge. Where democracy fs gi\- ,' ing bread, it trie* to entice he people b j with stones; where the brain and ' brawn and business of the state are t- found in the democratic party, the republican party is a pl.e brigade and stamp llcker. Where democracy is a crystal stream, republicanism is a stagnant pool. „ i Young Democrats Who Have Been 11 . - Promoted. [" "Wttthrm" if. a'iyJLtt„jtlC? tife young 'est man ever nominated for president 1 'of the United States. Aycock. Ulenn, e and Kitchin were elected to their Ini f portant posts in their early forties. - and Simmons were - elated to congress at SO. Ben Lacy s ' was taken from his locomotive, wjth - out solicitation, and made Com mi s i sioner of Labor In his thirties. Joy a ner began his fumendoua work as r 1 Superintendent of Kdftcatiot) at 40; v the age lot.rid Biehett Attorney -J General of Noitli Carolina. All of e our delegation in congress were elect -1 ed as yot ng men- R. A. Dougliton y j was speaker of the house i|t r.4: ,I Locke Craig was presidentia) elector s at 82. LL U.■ Connor was superior r 'court judge at 3:i; R. W. Winston at il' 29. Twenty-seven members of the - last were under years s of age. Tom Dixon made his great s speech in the house advocating pen- I, slons for Confederate soldiers in his a 21st year. e Verily, it is the day of young men. - The democratic party calls them to | its work and lt» honors. The "Boy n S!outs of America," popularized all ..'over the country and having more .'than 100,000 members, seeks to be _ gin the training of boys at an early age to make good citizens. 'The boys .'are joining in the buoyant movement, y! and the young men are carrying the j ' banners of democracy to victory y' everywhere. e e » Broad Vision In Ixfelslation. B In the matter of legislation which j affects a whole people, I want Jo look , i beyond my district, beyond my. state. ' | I want to look at 90,000,000 Amerl h'ean people; and. sir, if the people q| my district wish their representative to vote for a measure which will take, not by labor, not for value re-, ceived, but by the dry, naked law] t millions of dollars from all the peo g pie and put It Into the pockets of a t very, fe of my south", I would say to them that they ought to send here, not me, not a democrat, a ;but a republican from my district. — ®, Claude Kltchln. Since our investigation* l>egan—and they liav«> licen pursued # without iiid from the (tension office md in the face of the commls- # "Niwr'n refusal to o|»eii the list to inn|ie'iiua—we luvc come aero**: § ('*wes wlmic two anil men three persons have drawn jwnslens # 'for one man'* service; # Ossßi where (tension* have Iteen continued long after,the proper 0 beneficiaries were dead; # C*«m where one man has drawn several pensions; # J_ Many case* where deserter* are receiving pay equal to that of # men wffia nerved to the end; „ t( 0 Cane* where "bounty-jumpers" have been Riven double pen- # sions; 0 Oa«es where nrn absolutely without military records have t>een # given an enlistment and lK»norable discharge; i 0 Innumerable ca**w where soldiers are lieing given compensa- 0 tlon for Ills utterly unconnected with army aervice; # Cages where women never married to soldiers are pensioned # as legal widows. 0 Cases where girls born long after the war, who had married 0 veterans for the sake of tlieit pension are ItMng paid b ytlie nation. 0 —World's Work. . 9 : • MOOOOOOOOOOOOO 00 0 00000000 000 MILL OPERATIVES QUIT REPUBLICAN North Carolina >llll Operative anl Kmployees at tha Krwin o>ttoa Mill hi (Niolffini'f in Davie County Who Have Been Republicans in a fan! to Otlw o|K>i-tytivca Announce Tlwy H«v«» Left Republican Party as it Is False to Working Men ami Tlwt Tliey Have Joined the Demo. i-imtlc as the Only Means of He. curing Fairness dihl Justice. A signed card has been issued by cotton mill employees of North Caro lina who give the mnnsi why they leave the Republican and unite with Democrat,!*- party 1 . The card Is to other mill operatives anil read* as follows: "We. the undersigned citlsena of Ooleemee, Davie County, N. C., and employees of the Rrwln Manufactur ing- Company (cotton mill) at thin .dnnlrn to. any tn i he- pnlton\mm operatives ami the public In general that We have been' voting the Republi can ticket, both State ami National." — We have done this, believing that we were doing jhe'proper thing for both ourselves arid the" country's welfare. We have been repeatedly told-"In the" Republican platforms and by the rep resentatives 5 nnd speakers of our erst whHe |Mirty tiiat Republicanism meant prosperity, high wages, plenty of work, and to vote that ticket "meant good times In general; We And?,from costly and bitter since 1907. however, that sucli "Is nm^-true: That wer Itltc thousands-of otliers of our wnvn and similar professions; have been deceived, and we here by declare our affiliation "with that party at and" end, nnd will hence forth-vote the Democratic ticket, be lieving that In so doing, we, are, under existing conditions In our State and nation, taking the right, proper and only reasonbaie course. Three and ' tWtu 1 days work a week, with the cost y#- living continually rising, Is not the kind of "prosperity" the working peo ple need, and we. as a result of this,, and kindred reasons do hereby bid the Republican party a cheerful good bye. since by Its base acts and gen* »ral insincerity It has driven us from Its midst. Respect fully / J. C. LKNTZ, Night Watchman. * T. A. CLAM PIT. Cloth Room. y mitcjuyLL. -_ , rn I'ff—Hniiwir » 1 Oct. 21. 1911. ' fIOV. VANCirH POHftt ItKVIHKD Downward, I.lke the Tariff, Must Now j llead Ml I'cr Cent Instead of 'ill , I'cr Cent. t "Our Mary hud a little lamb: 1 Her heart was most intent To make its wool, beyond Its worth," ■, Bring 56 per rent. *- . I "A pauper girl across the sea Had one small latnh, also, . Whose wool for less than half that ' ■ «um She'd willingly let her go. r'' " \. ( "Another girl who had no sheep, f ' No stockings; wool nor Ha* . Rut money enough just for to buy , A j>air without the tax,. "Went to the pauper girl to get , Some wool t.o shield her feet, And make her Htodc Inge, not of flax, lint out of wool complete, v When Mary saw the girl's design She straight began to swear She'd make her Luiy both wool and tax Or let one leg go hare, "And so she cried, 'Protect! Reform! I>et pauper wool In Tree! If It will keep her legs both warm. What will encourage me?" "So it was done, and people said Where'er that poor girl weflt, One leg was warm witli wool, and one v With 66 per cent. ''Now, praise to Mary ami her lamb, Who did the soem£ invent. To clothe one-half a girl in wool, And one-half In per cent. "All honor, too, to Mary's friend, * And all protective acts, Ttfnt clothe the rich in real wool And wrap the poor in tax."