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ilL- THE GASTONIA • MIMT ALWAYS _ TBK 8AST0W1A OAZETTE Published Twice a Week—Tuesday W. r. MAgSHAU. Editor utd Fw> VOI* XX11I. GA8TQNIA, N.jC., TUESDAY, JUNE IQ. 1903. JULY FOURTH . ■ ' -- ■■ —■ ■ will soon be here; prepare to attend and also to enter the contest for the prizes we offer. For the best stalk of field grown Cotton, from Gaston,Cleve land, Mecklenburg, Lincoln, or York Counties, we will give a suit of clothes, value, $7.50. For the best stalk of field grown Corn from above mentioned counties we will give one suit of clothes worth $7.50. All you have to do is to bring in your stalk of either Cotton or Corn to our store before noon on July 4th and prizes will be awarded by competent Judges at 3 o'clock. Costs nothing to try. A GROUP OF STIRRING OFFER INGS FOR THIS WEEK AT KINDLEY-BELK BROTHERS CO. CHEAPEST STORE ON EARTH. TWO DIPLOMATIC CHANSES. New British Ambassador sad Now Spanish Mialatar in Washington. Cbtrltatan New* *u<5 Courttr. Washington, June 4. — Two important changes in the diplo matic representation in Wash ington were announced to-day. The Hon. Micbeal Herbert succeeds the late Lord Pauncc fote as British ambassador, and Senor de Ojeda succeeds the Oukc de Arcos as Spanish minister. Notice of Mr. Herbert’s ap pointment came to the State department to-day through the British embassy here. It simply confirmed the judgment of the officials as to the succession and ia welcomed by them. The change in the Spanish legation here came as a distinct surprise to all except the inti mate frienda of the Duke de Arcos. It ia understood that the change is attributable entirely to the retiring minister’s desire to secure the best possible treat ment for his impaired vision, which has caused him much and growing concern. There fore he hat secured a transfer to the Spanish legation at Brussels. Senor de Ojeda, who succeeds the Duke de Arcos, was sec retary of the Spanish peace commission at Paris, and is at present minister to Tangier. nil Wedding Present. Cltj- (Ma.> Joana). Here is s letter sent by • To pekn nun with s present to a bride in Chicago: " My Dear Girl: You will find in the box a thingatnaiig which has something to ao with eating grab off a table. I don’t know what it is. It looks Hke s cross between a harp and a hayfork. It may be for spearing pickles, •or it may be for auckuig chop ped cabbage. 1 am to old fash ioned that I don’t know; yon win be ao happy yon won’t care. A bill to extend free delivery system to citim of 5,000 In habitants or $B,000 gross in come, instead 10,000 inhabitante as at present has been passed by the Sen etc._ Prof. J. A. Bivins, of Char lotte, baa been elected Superin tendent of Concord’s graded schools. THE EXAMPLE OP A PATKIOT. Eloqasnt Address sf a Southern Soldier at the Tenth el Geo. Great. Itluu Camtlmiai The memorial address uiade on Decoration day at the tomb of Gen. Grant by Judge Thomas G. Jones, of Alabama, and ex-Con federate, was one of the signifi cant utterance* of the day. Sing ular, too, was the fact that while the former foe was standing be fore the remains of the great captain to whom he bad yielded and was eulogising the magna nimity and generosity of the con queror, the President of the na tion, at another national Macpe lah, was raking over the asbesof the dead era of internecine strife and renewing the animosities of that day by untimely contrasts. Passing by the latter we re joice in the exceeding good taste and loyal temper of the address made by the eminent Southerner who is now a high official of the Federal judiciary. With the spirit of a true knight and the words of a sincere patriot be paid tender and grateful tribute to the soldier, statesman, and reconciliator whose ashes and memory are revered by honor able men of the South and' the North alike. rne Confederate pilgrim to the tomb of Grant did well. What he said van neither forced nor fulsome. He voiced the regard of the honestly loyal peo ple of the South for one who | refused Ignoble revenges in the midst of nis victory and their i humiliation. For the people of the South harbor no bitterness against, any honorable foeuien whose valor contributed to vanquish thier hopes, and ■ like Judge Jones they gratefully gather with garlands and praise nt the tombs of such patriots as Lincoln and such heroes as Grant. __ A Wellington Story. G*Mo pt b»t The Duke of Wellington once met by accident an oncer in a state of inebriety. "Look here, sir,” said the Iron Duke, "what would you do if yon met one of your men in the condition in which I find yon?" The officer draw himself np. gave the mili tary aalute, and replied with great gravity: "J would not con descend to speak to the brute." His wit aaved him his commis sion. PACE WANTS CLARK’S BOYS. WILL PUT THEM TO RAILIOAD nw. The Aaseciato Jnlka'a Letter to the Greensboro Ooalleauaa Shews That tho Former Wan Down oa All Coraeratloas Un til Ho Became lateroated in Cottoa Manalactarlag Through Hie Sea—What Slaunoao Said About Clark Be lag la tho Eaeaty'a Canto. Charlotte Obotrrrr. Jnw fldi. Judge Clark Menu uot to have requested the destruction of the letter he wrote a few days ago, to the unknown gentleman at Greensboro, "who u largely in terested in msnufactnnng en terprises." ft is an interesting letter, worthy of the closest study, but I am not entirely satisfied that it is a real Clark letter, aincc it lacks this evi dence of genuineness. The Greensboro correspon dent, who sent out this uews, says: "A gentleman here, largely interested in mannfact uriug enterprises, wrote to Judge Clark some time ago as to why he was so opposed to cor porations, as was charged against him by certain intereats, or certain men in the com munity, and in some of the newspapers. Yesterday be re ceived a personal letter from Jndge Clark, and it so pleased him the following portions of it have been furnished The Even ing Record for publication." this gentleman did a very funny thing. To ask Judge Clark why he was opposed to corporations is like asking Mark Hanna why he buys votes. It is on a par with the question the rabbit asked the dog: "My dear sir, why is your upper lip so short, and where did you get yonr overpowering fondness Tor rabbit?" Note you, good gentleman, the answer pleased liim. Mark replies: "I do not buy votes,” and the dog said that a good providence had shortened his lip in order that he might the more easily display liis white teeth as an advertisement of Soiodont. The guilelessness of that Greensboro gentleman is something wonderful. The an swer pleased him. Judge Clark begins that letter I with this sentence: "Not a! word that I have spoken nor a line that I have ever written justifies the charge that I am opposed to corporatloni.” In the spring of ‘1895 the first fusion Legislature held sway in North Carolina. Judge Clark had been elected the fall before, along with the balance of the fusionists, by the very same voters. It has been charged and not denied that he was in close and con fidents! relations with them from this time on until a short while before the election of 1896. It is said that Senator (then Chair man) Simmons stepped out of Democratic headquarters one day iu October, 1898, and said to some friends, "Boys, we have them whipped. Clark has not had his foot in Democratic head quarters in nearly four years, until this morning. He has been in the councils of the enemy, and he knows what they know. The weather vane has turned, he spent the morn ing with us, they are whipped.” We have cause to remember that Legislature of 1895. The incompetents and croakers came out on top for the first time, and honesty and decency took a tumble in the old North State. It fastened negro rule upon North Carolina, enterprise and thrift were at discount, and the flannel-mouth demagogue held full sway. But for the wisdom aud patriotism and watchfulness of Adams, of Moore, and Dowd, of Mecklenburg, leaders of the five immortal Democrats in the Senate of that year, the fusiou istt would have succeeded in perpetuating incompetent gov ernment in this State. as « *u, tnry raked the State over, aa with a fine tooth comb, for object* of oppreuive taxation. It ia charged that Judge Clark waa contorting with these men, st one time seeking to undermine Rntlei, again praising him, as beat suited his purpose of the hour. It is cer tain that he went out of his way to point ont to them methods by which money could be raised, to be nsed, among other purposes, to pay white teachers, employed by negro committeemen. Ia the lflth North Carolina Reports, rpring term, 1806, page 446, 1 find the following inia opinion written by Jndge Walter Clark. "Aa to corporal ion *, by all the authorities, it I* In the power of Uic Legislature to lay the following taxes, two or more of them, in its discretion, at the same time: First, to tax the franchise (including in this the power to tax also the corporate dividends): second, the capital stock; third, the real and per sonal property of the cor poration, (this tax is imperative, and not discretionary, under the ad valorem feature of the con stitution) ; fourth, the shares of stock in the hands of the share holders. This is also imperative and not discretionary." This language was not used in a railroad case, it was Commis sioners vs. Tobacco Company, and applies to every private corporation in North Carolina, cotton mills, fnrnitnre factories, trading companies, etc. There docs not seem to be snvthing in tne case to call lor such language and it can only be considered a gratuitous sugges tion to that before mentioned aggregation of fnaionists, who needed suggestions as to ways and means of raising revenue to pay Jim Young his per diem, and other equally as meritorious expenditures, I lay tliis extract alongside of the Judge’s asser tion thst no line he has ever written jnstified the charge that he was opposed to corporations. Again, near the close of this letter to the Greensboro gentle man, Judge Clark says: "I have never claimed, thought or as serted at any time, that onr in dustrial corporations were uot paying their full share of taxes, in fact it seems to me they may have ground for complaint in some respects." In 1895 He says, and it would seem un necessarily calls the hungry fusionists’ attention to the tact that these very same industrial corporations may be taxed four times, and must be taxed twice. But this was when be had no cotton mill stock, and before his tons were grown, or in terested in cotton mills. Now, writing to his Greensboro friend, he says they may have cause for complaint. Cotton mill taxes to-day are heavy enough, but they in no wav approach the glittering possibilities Judge Clone pointed out to hi* asso ciate fusionists in 1895, nor do they even approach what he then considered mandatory, nnder the ad valorem feature of the constitution. Why should Judge Clark’s opinions and views so ensnger us see. Now his son David is manager of the Ada Mills, Charlotte, and another son is manager of the Kugenia Mills, Jonesboro, the two owning half the stock of this latter mill, and the judge himself a shareholder also. It is about the clearest pair of "before taking" and "after tak ing" pictures I have ever seen. With this personal and family interest in mills, he now writes to another mill man, and says, the more tax the railroads pay the less the mills will have to pay. To be sure. Certainly. Evidently. Of coarse. He says his third son is now at the Agricultural and Mechan ical College, preparing for cot ton mill work, the fourth will take up the same coarse next session, and the fifth as soon as be la old enough. If something is not done to divert this flood of Clarks from the cotton mills, instead of taxes in any shape from them, we will have a cotton mill subsidy bill in our next Legislature. I am going to see Mr. Petty and Mr. Bine, the owners of the other two private Moore county railroads, and lay some plana to get' possession of those young sters. There is jnst one apiece, and I believe we could reconcile them to railroading, if we catch them young enough. Then when Urey go home Christmas and Saater rimes they might take along a few shares of stock to their pa. We would have three to two on the cotton mills, and after a while we'd get out of the woods. That is a pretty good scheme. According to the judge himself, they will not nave to Know nracn to come up to our standard*, and we can except them from our niggardly pay-roll, in consideration of the great issue at stake. Theta is but one drawback: I am afraid the judge mar think our roads too small, and refuse to let us have the boys. Mr. J. M. Tur ner tells a story of • drummer who was gtumbllng one day be cause he had bought a first-class ticket on Mr. Petty’s road. He said there was only oae car with a partition, both ends just alike, no difference whatever except the signs, "First” and "Second" over the doors. He was loudly lamenting the loss of the extra dime, when a fellowtraveter who had been then before, told him his ticket was all right, as he would find before ne reached Canliagv. The train pulled out, and ran away on the down grades, and almost stopped <m np grades, until finally it did come to a dead atop, balked. Alter a while the conductor pot his bead iu at the door and bawled, "First-cl ass passengers, get oat and walk. Second-class passengers get out end push," He says, too, that he over heard a conversation between en old gray-headed passenger and my conductor up towards Ashe boro one day about as follows; Conductor: '"What in the world are you doing with a half fare ticket? Yon know you are more than twelve years old?" Graybeard: "Yea, 1 am now, but 1 wasn't when we left Aberdeen." K u i fact that 'Clif. Blue arranged a schedule between Aberdeen and Raefonl, for one train a day from Aberdeen to Raeford, and two trains a day from Raeford to Aberdeen. As he had only three locomotives and two can, this schedule lasted jnst 38 bo tin, and when it basted, bi» cauipmdnt was lost. Now if this kind of railroading comes up to Judge Clark’s ambition for his boys, we are in for a deal. This Greensboro letter, Hit* everything else Judge Clark baa said in this controversy, bears on its face overwhelming evi dence of his inability to keen bis personal interests ana prejudices, bis likes and dislikes from in fluencing his judicial decisions. Yoon, etc. Hitxmv A. Paoe. Aberdeen. N, C„ June 3, 1902, York Csoaty Item*. YurkviUc iMtilnr. The York Colton mills am patting up pneumatic conveyors from their warehouse to the picker room, thns saving some expensive handling. In view of the considerable wheat crop on the county home farm, and the cost of harvesting the same by hand, or with a rented maehine, the supervisor was instructed to purchase a binder. Sandy Watson, a Negro who lives on Mr. D. C. Stanton’s place, in Bethel township, bod a rat killing one rainy day recently sod destroyed 227 of the rodents, most of them grown. In San dy’s neighborhood this is con sidered a record-breaker. Ur. Isaac T. Paris, of Bethel township, paid The Enquirer a highly appreciated visit on Wednesday. Although more than 80 years of age, Mr. Paris enjoys (rood health and the fall possession of all his faculties. This was his first trip to York ville during the past two years, He has been a regular reader of The Enquirer since its establish ment and of tbe Miscellany previous to that, as far back as 1847. With the exception of the name of Mr. J. Leander Parish, his name has probably been on tlie hooka of The Enquirer and its predecessors longer than that of any other subscriber now living. _ Richmond, Va., June 6.—The new constitution was finally adopted at 11 o'clock today by a vote of 90 to 10. The negative vote was cast by Republicans. Two Republicans voted with the Democrats. The announce ment was received withnpplanae. A resolution was adopted, re potted from the committee on enrollment, providing for a re cess from Saturday Jane 7, to Jane 25th, in order to have the constitution engrossed. The question of clerks of courts was taken up, and the terms of all clerks in counties of leas than 15,000 population was extended to January 1906. r—cm la Saalb Alrica. mukhkitlnn. The war to done; ft had to teat, Jaat wipe it o« the slate. The cable haes so more will hnai With • I regret to state." ——ananssr*anna RoYal Baking Powder S'‘M Safeguards die food against The Very Thing Far Children in oar "Ideal” waist. If yon haven’t done so already be sure to call and aoe then. Still Going. Prt“ " C*’“' Onr Millinery. Dress Trimmings, and Embroideries arc still making satisfied—yea, drAghtsd cinfnnn u. nnd we have a good atock from which you can make n selection to delight yourself. Cone to see ns. We are always glad to tee those who are food of "benati fnl things to wear," for wc always hare something to picaee then with. J. F. YEAGER, LADIES' FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. McCormick Harvesters. TVPrapenimRfflagaiwratata ■ ftagirr BuafT-itAND 1 ■ .wRSJStv Pot the Mason of 1902 the McCORMICK HARVESTING MACHINE COMPANY offers to the world’, agriculturist* a aaw up-to-date binder far harvesting their grain crops. This new binder possesses many novel and distinct features. It represents all that fa newest and bast in binder maanfnctnte, while oer celebrated right hand open elevator binder has been die Burst suc cessfnl machine that has ever entered the harvest and we con tend that it will give any fanner perfect Yours for business, Craig and Wilson. Cheap Roof. * V . ■ v'.‘ * Two-ply Tarred Roofing, including caps and nails, $1.00 per square. • • • * V-crlmped Steel Roofing, Includ ing strips $3.00 per square. • • Also Valley Tin, and Tin . Shingles, as cheap as anybody. Long Brothers, GASTONIA, N. C. We Sell the Hammock, Jfou Do the Rest. DBAS Howumt: T>it hammock—yoa want it, yoa it. It will help yoa rest at the close of the day the hammock, yea do the resting. When tow fall of warn weather vexation and yoor body b stretch oat at year esse la ooe of oar learn what Mtfbt it is to fesl "that from yoa. It ooces oat of yonr tired body, yoor mated nervn, is boras ekar away an and leaves you vested aad refreshed. It's a hammock you need and we wish yoa hod owe. VLSstfstfSrjffc economy price - end get the best hammock vales to be had lor year money. And did yoa ever think of It > If yoa bay now yoa get the use of the hammock the summer through, if yea writ until fe*U of the summer's gone—but you set the point. Yea, come to sss as right sway. We can please yoa. Hammocks from Me tip to $5. MARSHALL’S BOOK STORE.
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