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w. F. MAISBAU, Mltw u< Pr»»rif r. DEVOTED TO THE Pit VOL. XXV. GASTONIA, N. C., TUESDAY, _ WATTEBSON TO THE EDITORS, i ! ! MrrluAMrui by tba Brbltaat Kaatacky MKar—Raaaavelt a '! Sa(f-WIMc4 Political A4vaatar«r—Latt.r frraiJaaaah rcMtur i AaM Qrcat Applawaa. « i abaaaaMaaaiiMnaaHHbBHMaBBaflaflbiMaHbaaaaHM^HaaMMMc^MHM l CHAMU48TOK KftWft A!VO COtJRIR* ntt»tww«»m»nMiiMttwmniiimmww! ’ New York, September 7.— Nearly 500 Democratic editors from all parts of the United States met at a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria to-nigbt, the occasion being a national con ference of Democratic editors, which was called at the instance of the Democratic nationul com mittee. The toast line included several of the best known Democratic editors in the country, and all 6f them responded to toasta on political aobjecU. Sylvanus E. Johnson. Wash ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and a for mer president of the Gridiron Club, waa the toast master. A large orchestra furnished music for the dinner. When "Dixie” was played the diners, many of whom were from the Sonth. jumped to their feet and the rebel yell was given several times. Enthusiasm was at the highest pitch when the selec tion was encored. Col. Johnson, in a brief speech introduced Col. Henry Watter son, who responded to the toast, "The Issue and the Outlook.” WATTnSOK'S Anuxxss. Mr. Watteraoo ssid: In order to allay curiosity and tothateftect —let me say in the beginning, that I believe wr can win tbia Presidential battle. 1 will go even further, and say that, with anything like an even allow dowu of powder and ball, it will be our own fault if we lose it. The two parties will go to the finish fairly united. Bach will poll very nearly, if not quite, its normal strength. The independent vote, therefore, will decioe the result. In the five debatable States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in the Bast. Indi ana and Wisconsin in the West, there are on a rough estimate, a million of those independent voters. Hslf a million of them are Germans. The other half mugwumps and Boaters. For the life of me I cannot see how any self-respecting mugwump can vote for Roosevelt, the rec reant civil service reformer, nor how any intelligent German, much at the President resembles the Kaiser, can be willing to take even a lottery chance to a war with the mother country, precipitated upon the drop of a nat, to glorify the Administra tion. • PAJRJCRR, THB JURIST, means peace with all nations, entangling alliance with none. _«_1 a iL._1_J _. __ complications abroad and cor ruptions at home designed to prolong a single party dynasty, and to perpetuate its favorites and agents in power. Every economic question must pause before an issue so trsnscendant. In venturing to discuss it to night, though surrounded by members of my own party and profession, may I not take a suppositious standpoint, and declare that, if I were a Repub lican—and. over about the head waters of Bitter Creek, there are Democrats who insist that bum not much better—I would vote for Parker and Davis and against Roosevelt and Fair banks. Being only a plain American, who loves his coun try aud clings to its institutions, I mean to do this anyhow. I shall do it because it seems to me the upright thing to do, the enlightened thing to do, the prudent sad honest thing to do. In spite of some excesses of feeling and mistakes of judg meat, toe DEMOCRATIC HR AIT BEATS TRCE to tbe essential principles of tbe Republic as it «u created by tbe anblime Declaration and or* dmioed by our incomparable Con stitution. la gp{te <>f tbeir In tylHmce ami energy, the Re pafaUean leader, an Toeing night of their fidelity to both. Bren tbe errors of the Democrats lean to virtue’• side, whilst the very virtues of the Republicans are beginning to be sicklied o'er with tbe pale cast of corruption and absolutism. Tbit la not because the Democrats are Democrats, or the Republicans are Republicans. The label baa little to do with It. It la because tbs nature of long dominant tends first to corruption, and then, threeteoed with exposure, to tyraany. The old Democratic party came into being, like tbe Re publican party, aa tbe friend of man; it grew 10 strong, by pro longed domination, that it was able to make its exit from power, tbe signal for a long, bloody and senseless war. I would take no chance of a repetition of thia evil history. I would have a change of parties, though only for the sake of the change. Lit tie as the two administrations of Grover Cleveland effected, eith cr in the statutory laws or in the general policy, they were bene ncient interludes to the unbri dled ambition and the grasping inclinations of the Republicans. They did bring the Republican leaders to * realizing sense of tbrir pnblic obligations. They did serve notice even upon tbe saints tbst they do not possess tbe earth. Such will be tbe ef fect, if none other, of the elec tion of Parker sod Davis and the defeat of Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Tire ISSUH BF.I'OKU U.s, therefore, is whether the people will allow tbe Republican party to grow so potent, so to interench itself in power, as that nothing short of some dire convulsion shall be able to uproot it. or whether they shall, before it be too late, take Roosevelt and Fairbanks by the hand, sud bid them stand aside, whilst in the persons of Parker and Davis they recover into their own hands the lost balance of power; of •» uivm to iiu nr luuj^cu in the executive mansion at Wash ington, flanked on one aide by the Speaker of the House and his committee un rules, sap ported on the other side by a group of Senators who seek ouly to know the President’s will io order to obey it. INKV1TABLY TOE PERSONALITY. the character and performances of Theodore Roosevelt, occupy the foremost place in the public ■uiud. They will constitute the chief horu of tne people’s dilem ma in the coming campaign. They are, as it were, the begin ning and the end of the chapter. Yet, because we propose to dis cuss the President, and to hold him to a just measure of ac countability, we are accused of abusing him. 1 would not, for my part, otter an nnkind or din courteous word. I admit that lie is as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat. Indeed very much that kind of a gentleman; for, hoist ing the black flag over the South, baa he not scuttled the ship of civil service reform and ent the throat of reciprocity ? Has be ever obeyed the law in case it stood in the way of his humor, from the time when, over the ac quitting report of bia own com mission, he removed a State’s attorney from the office to which the people had elected him, here m the city and county of New York, to the time, when, by a aratch of his pen, he usurped the power of Congress and added many milliona of outlay to the nenxinn mil } It lit nni - sible for tbe fly-by-night thea trical combination miscalled tbe Republic of Panama ? Was bis treatment of Miles and Schley the act of a wise or considerate President ? Wee his promotion of Wood fast either to the army or the people? Was his pro ceeding in tbe postal scandals not a shuffle designed to, sup press whilst seeming to expose ? Were his operations against tbe Northern Securities not the merest play to the galleries, achieving, thus far. nothing be yond the throwing of a little dost mto the eyes of anthinklng people? Dees not bis whole career, illustrated by bis writ >ogs, bis sayings and his doings —his heedless criticisms, bis spectacular exploitations, bis broken Dromli^*—reveal to 01 a self-willed adventurer upon tbe high Mas of pablic life, having no redder or compass except his OWn ambition, nn .w rule of conduct save that of decking the machine with the flouocei and furbelows of civic righteousness, whilst violating the spirit and sacrificing the actualities of the civil service by a line of partisan appointment* to office never surpassed during the worst times of the spoil* ayrietn be has so stigmatised and exemplified ? Waa Jackson, w“°** ^ ignorance he rebuke*, more peraoual and autocratic b€, to Wmaejf ? Was Grant, •tou, In life, be persistently antagonised more Indifferent to the admonitions of public aenti. •e«t? And if we have seen aich things in the gaeea leaf. wb*t may we not expect to aee in the brown ? If elected Presi dent in 1904, why not again in 19087 Tbe tradition broken, wbat may not be the possibilities in 1912 ? As a Republican, I WOULD TAKR NO SCCH RISKS; as an American, 1 shall not, I dread the one-man Dower. 8tUI more 1 dread tbe one party pow er; absolutism at length barri cading itself against the reach of tbe people; tbe opposition thor oughly debauched, and, becauoc of ita demoralization and impo tency, only a degree leas corrupt than tbe autocracy; tbe govern ment a close corporation of or ganized interests, slowly but surely breediogcaste distinction; our public men s race of Mede cian princes, without the learn ing or tbe aits of Florence; tbe old, free system of Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, a very syndicate of wealth and official ism: a Republic only in name; a world Power io fact, more im perial in its aggressions and re splendency than Rome itself. iy WJC WANT KELL, ELECT TEDDY If we want these things, let us by all means elect Theodore Roosevelt. Lot nc deatrnv all healthful and responsible oppo sition. Ixt us construct an ir resistible power at Washington. Let os re It* pate cooler vat itm to the rear. Let ns bring to the front only socialism to fight with absolutism, a battle which, no matter how it ends, is booed to be dangerous to the liberties of the people and the peace of the country. Already the Republi can press is making a hero of Tom Watson, the coming Robes pierre ; harrangtiiag tbe sections and preparing the way fur an other Reigu of Terror, by and with the advice, consent aud sustenance of the Republican national committee. RKU1ND THEODORE ROOSEVELT stands a group of radical Repub lican leaders ready to do his bid ding. If the predecessors of these radical leaders had been giveu their way after the war of sections, we should, at this mo meat, have in the Sonth another Ireland, a second Poland. Wherever they have bad their ways, from old Ben Wade to Henry Cabot Lodge and Theo dore Roosevelt, we have seen higher taxes, renewed sectional disturbances, total disregard of the written law. and the con stant menace of force. After forty-three years of but twice broken dominion this party oli garebism is proceeding with ax high a hand under Theodore Roosevelt as, after bnt a tittle longer dominion, the Democrat ic party proceeded nnder Pierce and Bnchannan, and from the same cause; the belief that it u» w wuiiu in a mag ana may do a» it pleases. Public opinion needs to rise upon its hind leg* and kick the stuffing out of it; at least to kick it into a realising sense that there is something yet great ter than money and party-ism and patronage;. that the machine is not invincible: tbat there are yet a people; that there la still a God. TIME TO CHAN-OB PARTIES. Nor never conld a change of parties be effected with as little danger to printing conditions.1 What risk* do even honest Re publicans take in setting Roose velt and Fairbanks aside, and in preferring Parker and Davis? The money of the country is safe beyond human agency to disturb it. Tha revenue laws are not likely to be adjusted to suit me, and men like me. aatil the manufacturers come to sec, as they surely will, that the pro tective tariff is a hindrance and not a help to American industry. Where, then, is the danger? My able, learned and ingenious friend, the recent Secretary of War. finds it in the age of oar nominee for Vice-President. If Mr. Parker la elected President, •aya Mr. Root, be may make Mr. Hill Secretary of State. Then Mr. Davis, the Vice-Presi dent, might die. Then some Guiteau or Cxolgosz might re move President Parker— and then—and then—why, then Mr. Hill will be President. That recalls the familiar story of the good wile who was found by her loving hnaband in the throes of a great sorrow. "Suppose," she said between her sobs, "suppose onr Mary June should grow up aud marry a man by the name of Jooes, and suppose they should have a little baby named SaIHe Ann: and suppose the ba by should fall into a well and be drown—n—dl" Bnt even this luxury of grief is denied Mr. Root, for Mr. Hill says he won’t be Secretary of Slate. I always knew Mr. Bill bated the Repub licans, bet 1 never before con ceived the intensity of his ha tred. "It is because I so strongly desire Judge Parker's election that I speak so plainly on this subject. I admire bis judidkl temperament. I appreciate the great personal sacrifices he baa made in accepting the Domina tion. But having accepted it. I earnestly beg of you when yon see him to-morrow at Usopus. to urge that be accept also the full rpinAnuhilitiM nf hi* rvKtrinn * that Ite will not permit the cam paign in New York—tbe pivotal State, to be mismanaged by the small politicians who beset him; that be will in tbe n«nt sixty days be even more than hereto fore tbe people's leader and teacher, their tribune and advo cate. THR. «iOOD OLO VAITH. For one, I believe in the Dem ocracy of the Declaration of In dependence and the Constitu tion of the United States. 1 be lieve in expansion, but in that expansion which carries with it the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the princi ples of the Constitntiou of the United States. I believe in tbe flag, but beneath it only, and al ways, uniformity of laws; I be lieve in the tariff, but in a tariff levied solely for the support of the Government economically administered. I believe in the public credit, supported by a sound, stable circulating medi um expressed in gold and silver and paper, convertible into coin on demand, the single standard of measurement permanent and absolute. I believe in tbe pub lic order; til parties, the labor nniont aud the labor employers to be made to obey tbe law, tbe Government the master of both. Through my life 1 have fought to attain these ends. Some of a L _ t_ a . - „ • a suv 111 wvvu «u«mcu. Bence is it that I still believe in the people, and, believing in the people, I am confident that they will take no chance, either in the would-be-man on horse back, or in a new lease of power to a party already foo finuly set iu the saddle, but WILL COM* TO TOT KXSCl'E , of their threatened institutions whilst they may. They did this in 1876 and though cheated out of the immediate fruit of their victory, they yet scotched cor ruption and pnt a check upon arbitrary power. Another Tilden baa arrived open the scene, and, fittingly, here in the'Empire State of New York; a very tribune of the people, calm, resolute, and qualified; in ail things the exact antithesis of Theodore Room • velt; and, iu my belief, aa sure ly as Tilden was elected, he will be elected. And, when elected, he will be inaugurated, and all will be well. . OTHER 8PKAXRSS. Herman Ridder followed with an address giving reasons why iadependents should support Par ker, saying the country needed a safe man in the Presidential chair. VXaatONT DOM MOT COTJMT. A letteT from Joseph Palitser. written from Bsr Harbor, Me., to Chairman Daniels, in which the writer stated that physical infirmities prevented his being present, was read. The letter in part was as follows: "The result in Vermont re ported to-day should be accepted as a warning, not as a discour agement. Kematnber, that the largest Vote ever cast in Ver mont ia only fifty-six thousand. It is absurd to supposa that the result of the Presidential elec tion is derided, or even fore shadowed in the fastnesses and farms of the little Green Moun tain Bute. The contest is to b« fought out in Mew York, ths Empire State, whose habit H ia to vote independently: in th< rich and populous industrial cities of Connecticut and Men Jersey; on the wide plains and in tha busy marts of Indiana -J-- - ——■ Wisconsin raid Illinois, and ia the doubtful States of the fath er Weal. There are signs of re action against protection, privi lege and plutocracy; against personal government, militarism, extravagance and the political power of the trust. Mr. Roose yelt’s weakness as a candidate in bis own State baa been dem onstrated at every election. Should he carry the country in November, as tt Is possible that he may, the adverse vote of New York wonld serve as a salutary check oil bis usurpation of pow er, and no efort should be spared to secure this result. The lesson of the Vermont elec tion la that the independents and the Democrats moat work with increased vigor and under a more thorough system. Truth may be self-evident, but it ia not aelf-enforchif. Truth is mighty but it will not prevail without all the aids of publicity. Truth moat be proclaimed, illus trated, established, enforccdl Most important of all truth must have a leader. /The result of the Vermont e action makes it in my judg ment all the more imperative that Judge Parker shall realise and perform his duty to the mil lioua of honest voters who seek no office, look for no personal gain in this election, but who see in bits an ideal and a hope, and aspire to preserve through him the institutions they love. The people need a judicial Chief Magistrate but not too indicia! a candidate. The Judge is trained to look at both aides of the case; the candidate should have 'bis hands full in looking after bis own. From a Judge ts expected cautious deliberation; from the candidate inspiration, energy promptness and aggressive im pulse. It is the part of a leader to lead in the combat of ideas, in the conflict of principles, in the denunciation of pahtic wrongs, iu the presentation and enforcement of truth. Kdn't Belle* is Basks. Sutaavtlte Laudas ark. The burglars made a big haul at Yadkinvillc. For a num ber of years burglars, evidently professionals, have operated al most coutioously in North Caro lina and adjoining States. They conbne their operations to small towns, where there is little or no police protection, and their chief object seems to be to rob post offices, incidentally taking in anything else tbst may come handy. At Yadinvillethey found the county treasurer’s safe in addition to the post office and were richly rewarded. Their us ual haul from small postofficca varies from $150 to $500. Rare ly do they get as much as $1,000. Bnt Yidkin's county treasurer evidently didn't beleivc in banks. With banks at Elkin, Winston, Statesville—all around him—be kept $8,000 or $10,000 in a safe in a small town in a rural com munity. Dollars to donghnnta that be never gets a cent of it back. The Chronicle says that the buildings is course of construc tion la Charlotte represent an expenditure of more than $250, 000 aod that plans ate under consideration for the erection of uuuamif* 10 COW over >1U0,000 WHAT IS CATAB1H 7 H|«ml Only OairntMl Car*far TW» CmmmmS Dlaagr*aakl* Mawa«, Hyomei corea catarrh by the ** triple method of breaihint it into the tit M»Mgti and loan. U kills the rnm of catarth al poison, heals and aootheii the nutated m cona membrane and cfactually drives this disease from the system. II yon haw any of the follow in* symptoms, catarrhal terms sre at work somewhere hi the urocons membrane of the throat bronchial tabes or tissues of the iunts. 3Ss t«*i *rtk* Egrav/sK n*vttes«a stearin* weal aatateinssM a rasa* •UMitesM* losta* at Bs»h gfegrttu ^ „ r nWn<(trotir■*■ *** ‘Sam* »•*- '"Bt'ESBjp* tetewn. tweasai warrtua aST3 dn*«iSPn Hyomai will •teattvy activity of all catanfca) jwn» in ike rvnrtretory , i Oar new milliner. WM HUKt. baa Just arrived from tarn, Baltimore. rkOadelpkia. aad Slaw York, aaij millinery department. LAPlEyFURNWHI FINE FOOT?,, „„„ We have scanned fashions’ horizon for the «*r rect thing* in LADIES’ PINE FOOTWEAR, aad are proud to state that we have been aacocaaful. Wc pride OBtsdrea on baaing the aaapplaat lasts and patterns and baala which gives as added daah this fall are far superior to aaytbiag la fine foot* wear ever broaghl to this city. Do aot taka our statement but be your own judge. ROBINSON BROTHERS. j SOUTH FORK?WSTnrUT^} f maiden, CATAWBA COUNTY. N. C. J {w«2rs^s^2?-„&*!* «* —- J j ! f no«»tJ will run frtrtti five to acve» dollar* permoatk | J *s^,s5saK J t ^ ^ J. J. PAY8EUR. J I
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