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I OP -THE; FABMER AND MECHANIC TAFT AND HIS TWO VISITS. 1407.94. A few 'days like that In North "Carolina would be- th -way to CHAIRMAN MACK THE FARMER AIID MECHANIC i WKEKLt RON-PABTOUl fXTtM fOBAB NOUS ABM. BCHOOU rAOIOBT KELLOGG BETS A SOLAR PLEXUS Another Republican Leader Tarred With Trust Stick PLAIN FACTS GIVEN Taft In 1006. In 1906 Mr.

Taft. then not the Ro-pubican PresldejitLvcandTdate, North Carolina and spoke at Greensboro. Then he denounced the Republican part- of North Carolina in these words: "In my judgment the Republican party of North Carolina wonld be wtronjcer as a. voting party if all the Federal offices were tilled by Democrats. Of course, I cannot deny that a wish to fill public office is an honorable, aspiration, but wlien all liope of choice by the people is abandoned, and everything Is given over to influencing a distant appointing power to choose particular men to perrorm official function in a community politically hostile to those men, the result I not good for the men or the community.

As long, however, as the Republican party in the Southern States shall represent little save a factional chase for Federal offices in which business men and men of sub-stance in the community have no desire to enter, and in the result of wlilch they lave no interest, ve may expect present political conditions of the South to continue." Wllili HE STAND PAT OR STRADDLE? ASS.UXT SOITIL rrox the The evident heaviness of the mind of Mr. Taft is clearly evinced by the pertinacity with which he clings to one idea when It gets Into his brain; and having set for himself the task of rainbow chasing in the South, is coming this way with the single idea that he must enlighten us that we are a part of the Union. Taft has variations 'of the way that he puts the purpose "of his visit South, and if anything the oftener he varies this the more insulting does it become to this section. Ills first state ment that he was coming South to Show us that we are a part of the Union, and that to have influence in the nation we must vote the Repub lican ticket and forsake our. principles for pie was bad enough but he has gone a bow shot further in his latest announcement.

This latest remark of his 'made in Kentucky where he chased the rain bow, for Kentucky is going Democrat icr is that "the prejudice and the traditions which affect States further South have 'but little weight" in Ken tucky. That remark was an insult to Kentucky on the one hand and an insult to "SUites further South" on the other, for he assumes that this fair section is guided only by "preju dice and traditions." That one remark shows that Mr. Taft knOws little. very little, of the South, and thiit coming into it he begins his visit with remarks which must be resented by the people. The South is not affected by "prejudice and traditions" except as these are based on real facts, and its great his tory of the past.

It is of course "pre judiced" against the Carpet-baggers and the Scalawags who made It a football in the days of Reconstrue tion, and of course it reveres those traditions which tell of its great men and their noble deeds. It thanks God that it is a land that lias traditions but not such as to cause it to feel ashamed. It is the traditions of a land of men of honor of courage, fidelity and truth, traditions which have fruited in a present In which the men of the South are show ing to the world that they are leading in the progress of the, twentieth century. The "prejudice" of the South is that kind of prejudice which every decent man has in him against indecen cy, which every honest man has in him against dishonesty. It is prejudice, aginst the rascality and seoun- drelism of tho Republican party, which in the days of the travail of the Southassaulted and trampled upon it, humiliated and disgraced it.

and made as. bitter as galMhe cup which it drank. But these are. prejudices and tradi tions of which we are proud, and they are not the narrow and sectional "pre judices and traditions" of which Mr. Taft prates to- the South with a hectoring and lecturing air which 'is not welcomed by the people to wnom he will address himself if they are true representatives of this Southern land.

Here is truth upon which Mr. Taft may-well ponder: It is that Southern Democracy is not a whim or a -caprice not product of prejudice or of tradition, but it is a principle ot good 'government which ii has round inl only to. tie secured by placing in power men vho give' adherence to it. ftv'a wOrd" the South finds in the Democratic party the- rule-of the peopife. and "is; this spirit which animates not any unworthy "prejudice" nor atiy ixaditions" of which it-would be ashamed.

Vake county is. going to roll up a big majority despite the desperate fight of the Republicans to gain a foothold. The people have long memories and they have not forgotten how many Republican sheriffs threw down the finances of the county. Judge. "Alton B.

Parker says hot things about tho coruption fund the Republleans, but this time Roosevelt is silent. Four 'years ago he was violent in his language towards Judge Parker, who unfortunately the did not have the but he's got it now. and Roosevelt has had to shut up. The Republican party with all its other sins now applauds attacks on the gallant then of the South who preservi-d its civilization, by the Ku Klux Klan, and endorses the Black Age of Reconstruction. It is a party that is shameless and rotten throughout.

The white men of North Carolina will show in November that 'they will have, none of Republican candidate J. Elwood Cox. did net mean it when he said he would make no speeches, but would, stick to letter vilting. and he- keeps saying his little typewritten speech. lie said he would not accept the nomination if an assault" was to be made on the public schooi system of North Carolina, but he backed down on this.

He. must do what Boss spencer Adams says. The New York Hem VI in its latest election summary cle-clarc-s' the battle is yet to be lost and won. It gives is reasonably sure for the Republicans 188 electoral votes, with 150 for the Democrats, leaving as doubtful 129. AVith this estimate the Rtpublicans must fight for fifty-four votes and the Democrats for sevinty-six.

The fact that thr- large tofal of 129 votes j- classed by the Herald as doubtful shOws that the battle is a real one. It must be remembered that this is a Democratic year. This paper has not referred, to the rivate lives of the Radical spell-binders. Reason: as to some of them, their record could not be printed in a family journal. ANOTHER feend a soldier to the front to fight for Bryan.

Chilrman Mack has. Issued an appeal to the people for .1100,000 to be raised at once: It Is needed to send out literature, speakers and per feet and keep perfected an organlza can register the victory that is already won. In 18S6 Brydn was elected, but he did not get the otfieo. because the Democrats could, not keep Its splendid organization in fighting trim In the big cities on election day. North Carolina's proportion of the ad ditional $100,030 now needed will be about 12,500.

If every Democratic paper and worker will be alert from this day. North Carolina will pay its proportionate part in, ten days. The way to raise It is for every man to contribute as he Is able from one dollar up. Will-YOU not send in YOUR contribution today? CONTRAST THE RECORDS, 31 R. VOTER.

There is no high-minded man In North Carolina who will be found to justify tho disgraces, the rascalities, the thefts of the Republican party in North Carolina, and the Republican spellbinders who try to talk to the people either evade the known rottenness of Radicalism in power, or in their attempt at justification falsifv the record before the people. The Voter who will in November cast his ballot either for W. W. Kitch-in or J. Elwood Cox js asked to consider the past record of Republicanism, in thisState, and then to compare it with the record made by the Democracy in each year in which it has been in power.

If after such a comparison he can vote for Mr. Cox then it is because he prefers the company of those who. havernadea black record in North Carolina to that of the company of men Who made proud history for this State, men whose control of affairs has caused North, Carolina to go forward and to take a hi-rh-er and higher place in the honor roll of the States, The Republican party of today is not one whit better than the Republican party of the past, for while has named as a few of its candidates men who are without political records, those who have a political, past are to be numbered with the scurvy crowd who made North Carolina to be ashamed, and hurt it in the eyes of the world. No-better proof of this need be given than that the head of the party is that same Fusion cx-judge Spencer Adams, whose "rape-extenuating" charge to a Columbus county grand jury: makes a page of the blackest history of the judiciary In North Carolina, ancl added to is tiie, fact that the nominees of Republican party for the -highest offices in this State Applauded another- Fusion Montgomery, who denounced the white manhood of State that, controlled and drove frbrit power Reconstruction gang, that an Inferno following the That, is the case and the decent voter is asked if he can: afford to lv caught in such 'the Democratic party will ind hon a decrhcy.and A'voto for.W. Kite bin will put him as one in a company if th.r of North Carolih I who stand 'ion- all, that is good un i noble.

as to straw Too much dependence should ndt be put upon straw votes. Much depends upon who takes the vote ahi whether he his men. Republican papers are making much of a straw vote taken in the Astor Theatre which gave Taft a big lead. It is a high-priced theatre and not representative. Referring to that vote fl.

S. Wells, writing in the" New York World, says: "I know of one hundred straw, ballots having been taken oh the passenger trains of the Pennsylvania; Railroad recently between Nfcw.York City and Chicago, and the result stood 80 per cent for Bryan and 20 per cent for Taft." Up to date, almost without exception, wherever a straw Voto has been taken where men. earn their bread In the sweat, of face, iBryari leads: where vote is taktn. in. a -'place where men 'ply or are engaged in "high finance, Taft leads.

Men who think rn--'! r.isn who work' are Cor nONT-NOTICE RENE3 ADES. Democrats are wasting time replying to the lies circulated by renegade Democrats who are trying to get Federal jobs if Taft wins. They generally howl against this paper and abuse its editor the first thing they do. Tho best' thing to do with this new-issue Scalawag is to pay no attention to. hi ravings." but to go ahead fighting Democracy's on-y loo, General Apathy.

Knock him out and the renegades will trouble nobody. The Republican party is findin? i Taft. with his trust allies.and support, his labor record, his "me too" pqlicy. his opposition to guarantee of bank deposits a Joad that is -too heavy to carry- On Wednesday the railroads balked at the ponderosity, of the train carrying the ponderous Taft. and at Cadiz Junction the engine moved back and forth, wheels were broken, cross-ties were torn up, and there was a general, tram mix-up.

In November there will be another wreck of- the Taft train. Dear Mr. Taft: Ws- know you told the truth about us when you snoke in Greensboro two years ago. It made mad. But.

inasmuch as we prefer to be inultvd and retain Fedsral r-k than respected without pie. we swallowevl the insult. -You can kick and cuff us i.gain if you think necessary in Greensboro. Do anything ycu please to as long as you -privately promis to friv-u-s olilie. We prefer office.

to v.ny day in North Carolina. Taft in 1008. Mr. Taft will be in Greensboro in a few days. Now he is the Republican Presidential candidate and he in3ults the intelligence and patriotism of the South by announcing as the purpose of his "I am going 'South to.

make a few speechesone In Kentucky, one In lonnesfjee, one in North Carolina, one in Virginia, end one in Maryland not so much with a view to earn ing those States as to show the people down tliere that, -no matter what they think THEY ARE A PART OF TJIE UNION, and, being a part of the Union, tiiey ought to vote for Uk Republican party, VOTING FOR WHICH Wllili -MAKE THEM A PART OF THE NATION; and give to them that influence which people of their intelligence and energy ami progress and enterprise ought to enjoy." When Taft is in Greensboro on this second vis-it will he in the borders of this Southern State stand pat and insult its patriotic citizens by repeating his remarks that we do not know that we are a part of the Union, and that to become a part of this nation that we must sell our birthright of liberty of thought and independence of views that we may secure a mess oS'pottage by means of subserviency to the lie-publican party, whose leaders have been bitter, in words and deeds to this section ant National Questions. Dr. Lyman the Outlook of December 23,1903, says of the Reconstruction period, 'then came what must be regarded in the light of today as one of the worst periods of misgovern-ment and maladministration in the of- any civilized community, a period of appalling misgovernment, a period which General Armstrong called a 'bridge oj wood over a river of Carl Schurz says in Mc-Clure's Magazine, for January. 1904, 'It is dilficult to exaggerate the extravagance, corrupt practices and downright robberies perpetrated under thee (Reconstruction) governments. That the Southern people should be unwilling to tolerate suh shameful and ruinous misrule is not surprising.

But, that statesmen of good character and high position in. the National Government should have been willing to sustain such misrule the historian will find it difficult to xpecting: to keep the control and. thus to fortify the Republican rriajoriiy in Congress and-in the Electoral-1 College the party leaders insisted supporting 'the governments to an extent how hard I credible' The' celebrated English historian, Lecky, in his 'Democracy and gets the still clearer' perspective' of a foreigner on this period, which he characterizes as "a grotesque parody, of a hideous orgy of violence, 'unrestrained corruption undisguised; ostentatious, insulting such as the? world had scarcely ever seerir We Who; lhed -through it know that it- was a period of fearful compression, repres-slony suppression, depreslon and OPPRESSION, when, for the first time since time began." a white raco undertook to put the feet Of a- colored race on the necks of men -and women ai their own blood arid bred." The people of North Carolina at the polls on 'November 3rd ought in tlieir majesty and. thunder their jr-buk(to the that would mlt a man to the brave men who' protected the State during of "Reconstruction, and we, have doubtjthey "will- doo. Let the words of General Carr nd Major Binghatn andv thoughtful Northern students stand against the slander and viciou3 partisan rant of the ex-judge and unpatriotic rabble of tamp-lickers or stamp liquors if you spell it to accord with the breath of those who imbibed too freely who applauded the" utterances which vilified patriots and gave the highest praise to'th- despoilers of theirs State and home.

Men who applaud such remarks are the very sprjt of traitors depicted in the, -play that the Radicals, denounce. THEY WILL NOT DO IT. The Charlotte Chronicle says the Prohibition party, which received 36 votes in North Carolina four years ago, expects to greatly increase it i vote in' this State this year to 5,000. The Wilmington speaking of th: matter, says: "We feel confident that those who expect any such vote are-going to ha givatly disappointed. Tho prohibit tion" votes last spring came from til? two dominant parties, were cast -by men who wera then 'and still are true to- their respective parties and will, on a political issue, stand to their-colors.

If the Charm men base their expectations on the vote of last, springth' are. 'doomed to disappointment." The Star is right. The vote for prohibition, in Nort'i rarolina came from ro" ho refused to i'niiti political question, and they will not throw away their votes when mighty questions are pending in which they are vitally interested. LET US DO AS WICLL. South' Carolina, through; that great newspaper, the Columbia State, has sent'to'the National "Democratic Committee $5,524 for the campaign fund.

That shows the generous spirit of'th people of the Palmetto State. North Carolina there is a strong Republican party that puts up a haf.l fight. and Worth Carolina Democrats have to raise considerable money to carry on local and State campaigns. In South Carolina Democracy has ho opposition thatmakes a fight. There the question is.

settled when the primaries are-held. -But there are more-Democrats in North Carolina thai-South. Carolina, and the Democrats in each Stato ought to have generous rivalry to see which will raise the most North Carolina has raised somethiiij like "The exact sum is not known 'as' it has gone to Chicago iro'm sources, and the fund grews daily, but grows very slow. In one day the Columbia State received AFTER CflEBGERS Warning to Corporations and Eminent Business Men GIVEN TO Files Workiiigiiicn AdxlMd i Atit-ntloii io U) lice I Mr ion Yici.iii 18C HeiNated I.Ui (r'hcli. fn, Hy TIIOM .1 irl.

17, Norman K. moeratle Commit i statement in h. ir.cn of the country ercloti. lie deelnfiH fif factories, m.i. -industries cannot the fals stories i scrupulous nu n.

Sinul shutting down the faet.u ing the wne.s Jroin to if Hryan is ln, throuKhout the country being repated in the r. pnign. Hut tle coerced or bouuht v. as their consciences diet at. the unfair methods used i-v ran employers.

Chairman M. tabulated a list of many i has sent a personal I. -t i- rious Htatc clinirmeri. reu. i -names of every employ.

-i- ntion resorting to unfair m. getting the vote of th lat.ei Mr. Mack's letter follows Chicago Octoh 1 My Dear Sir: The HepubllcnnM in tlven ation have turned to tin ble methods lsfif. in i i to save the ticket. I t1.

Itepubliean Cnninut'. (Tilled upon its Nteadfast i will always be found in l.u-in. cles 'who will lend tin in-- most Vicious methods in frigliten the public into i of their candidate. 1 do not i i that they realize that their i' are as reprehensible as common-cry. I notice in the papers ot i.

12th that the following person- i loaned themselves and their standing the I'epublii-an John V. Farwell. of V. it fhicngo. i Finns M.

Hurton. president i Western Klectrle Co. James 1). Forgan, president i National bank. Oeorge M.

Reynolds, nt tinental hank. Ccorge K. Roberts, president mereial bank. Clydo M. Carr, vice-president Rycrsem.

Rons. P. M. Sharpb'HS. president lesrf Heparator ot West- ter.

Pa. Chas. A. -Stevens, president C)i t- Stevens Hro. J.

Ogden Armour, president ot mour Co. All these men give the old j-t i depression in case of Mr. lh van's i. tion. I5y reason of their nun- place in business, the Republican mittee thinks that the peopl.

oi i-couhtrj' will be stampeded tie stories. Rut the peopl. of tii sj. -try cannot be frinhtMie.d as tlx i in 189G; the laborers cannot ere'ed or bouabt; nor can tie sin business men be used in the election of Mr. Talt, It "is surprising that tfe se should (ifsiimc thin Dttltude of i'n ets of Prosperity" at a time win nation is still suffering from the ic which was brought about undW t-Republican rule I have set forth the nanTes ul parties, nnd will continue to other names from time to tun Cause I want the people of the try to Fee the kind of mm that 1 are dealing with.

want the I. ers, merchants and laborer stand that the nieh to whom tie their money in every are small 'enough the prominence which ha r. ferrrd upon them by lie to attempt to bulldoze an I them into submitting to their i this election. I hope you uiii -duo publicity to these in. their method.

The know the men who re that they will set forth the cannot help hut disturb bnsi t. tlian the election of anv could. i It Is these tactics that nr. Ing -business, not tho poi-t i. campaign.

I have been informed th.ct i' localities the fa.mers and I men are organizing and rtd most radical resolutions emid. i. these methods and in Hum" have gone to far as to ph n. selves not to patronize tie s. the business they represent.

I not go so far but I can un i the indignation which ku. naturally arouse. Please send in the nam's person or corporation these methods. They publicity and we ought to h- to get before their frh-nds. men as Rockefeller, Ron.

rs ler. of Standard Oil fam "Other which Mr. represents in Minnesota ar. vi-ster Trust, the Diamond Mat. nation, the Reef Trust.

tn- Company Trust and nuni.r.. combinations which seek to law ar.d cpnr--ps the p. o(, peat. Mr. llo-tr.

a ti would make an ideal attorn-in Mr. Teft's' cabinet." "In cuncluyion. I imr! say that Mr. -Kellogg is h- Hfivs that he delegate to the Chicago r-ojr opposition to me. rv candidate for oinmitteeinan.

My r-x-Oovernnr erly nationa' commute rn Succeeded by Mr. Ke'lo ifpiiv to tiiA honor." Would the 1 A f.trnvr on I'ural ri-e. W. A. Kloyd l.v tl "Rucl len's Arnica worst sores I ever my hand and nn- on n-.

worth more than its v.eivl,' would not be without it i Hlfj iso rnuosnm -T BAlrEIQH. K. O. Agrteoltvnl fnptcV 4 fmttkma BcUtiaC to Labor a4 rite iSdnm aomanmlcfttioM torn rABMKS AND HXCBAJTO lAidck a ALL FOR $1 .70 There lias never been offered In North Carolina so much good reading for so little money as we are offering under the following proposition: For $1.70 we will send the following for one year: The North Carolinian, an eight-page Democratic weekly newspaper. The Commoner, an able weekly journal, published by 'William Jennings Bryan.

The Farmer and Mcclumie, eight-pago North Carolina homo and farm weekly journal. Thus for pno Dollar and Seventy Cets you can get all these papers one year. JOSEPHUS Raleigh, X. C. TUESDAY Oct.

20, 1908. THE ONLY CUT. The Republicans got in 1891, power in North Carolina by 'fooling enough voters in their cry that the Democratic party was -extravagant. They rarrie into power with -professions of reform and some of the Populists, ed-tieated in the Democratic school, sought to carry out the promise. In his speeches, Major W.

A. Graham. Democratic candidate for Commissioner, of Agriculture, tells the people that when the Fusionists started in to retrench the only appropriation they reduced was the "'appropriation to the Soldiers' Home. They cut down the sum given to support the old Confederate soldier two thousand dollars a year. And yet that gang dares to prate about being the friend of the Confederate soldier! More than that: When the.

Fusion gang was in power -(the same gang, by the way, that elected Montgomery a judge) they, voted down a bill making' an appropriation to erect a monument to the Confederate soldiers. Their action aroused indignation. 'Major Wm. A. Guthrie, once a republican, but now' a patriot, came to Raleigh, read the riot att to the gang and compelled them to reverse themselves -vote the appropriation.

Major Graham, himself a gallant- Coh- federate captain, does well bring inese luces xo ine unenwoji 1 ui young voters. Some' of, them do not know the record and others may have forgotten. Taft's Special was delayed twice in succession in Ohio this week. It will be side-tracked permanently on the third of November. There is but one foe that North CarolinaDemocrats need to fear this year.

That foe is General 'Apathy. Let him he vanquished and a full Vote polled. Every man 'n Nprth Carolinawho is ready to sell his birthright for a mesa of pottage, will applaud Taft's declaration that the way for the South to become "a part of the nation" is to "jine the Radicals." "Come and see the Taft balloon go up," cried a man at the Fair grounds yesterday. The crowd watched and the, Taft balloon busted. It was another case of coming, events casting their shadows Mr.

Taft told the Kentucky folks that they were not controlled "by the prejudices which afect the States further The insult to those "further Scuth" will not be forgetten for the injury of one is the concern of all." Ohio is as to go for Biyan art. i.s North Carolina. One manufacturer in Ohio who employs 1,300 voters took noil. Only 200 of the 1.300 will vote for Taft. Normally 800 of the men pre Republicans.

This is one of many straws that show how the wind is blowing. If a man gets so vile or so sorry the Democrats will not tolerate him, here 5n North Carolina, he becomes a noted lender when he "jines the Radicals." "Beginning at Jerusalem." Every pood citizen who opposes another Reconstruction and Fusion Reign of Terror in North Carolina should go to work to prevent any decrease In the Democratic majority. Let us work as hard for a big majority as if the State's electoral vote was in doubt. The report that the Radicals had offered Judge Montgomery $5,000 not to speak again in the campaign has not been officially confirmed. It is believed they" prefer to pay the money- to hire gum-shoers and "liars to go the sountry.

Besides they dan iarrange- that Judge Montgomery will get no more invitations. Rhamkatte IT.oaster. The cry of the Republican National Committee that it is short of money for campaign purposes will deceive no one. Backed" by the trusts, and with -Roosevelt using his Big Stick as a campaign fund producer, money is coming in plentifully. The Republican party depends on less than fifty men with immense fortunes bred by the trusts-.

The Democracy depends on, the people who should rule their The "Uan Selected by RKMeIt to lposecute Standard Oil Trust i Real Trust Man, and Will Never a Thing to Hurt the Trusts. Ry THOMAS .1. I'KXl'R Chicago, 111., (Oct. 14. Every day a new nail is nHner driven into the lid of the Republican coffin.

Tho Demo cratic Publicity Department has not only shown that the trust are all sup porting Taft (and the oxknoweth his masters crib) but nearly all the managers of the campaign are cither themselves trust magnates or so related to trusts as- to prove th'it the election of Taft will be a trust victory A few days ago the relations of Mr. Keller, National Committeeman from Minnesota, to host of trusts was ex posed. Mr. Kellogg got gay and denied such affiliations. Now a prominent ana Influential citizen makes complete nn swer to Kellogg.

In answering the charge of being a trust attorney, which George S. Loftus, of St. Paul, Commissioner ot the Minnesota Shippers' anil Receiv ers' Association, recently made Prank It. Kellogg. Republican Na- tl.m:il C'ommillferriari from Minnesota and candidate for Attorney-General in case lr.

Taft is elected. Mr. Kellogg asserted that Mr. had not included all of the corporations which he represented. Mr.

Kellogg indicated Dride in the fact that he was a cor poration attorney. In commenting upon this criticism by Mr. Kellogg Mr. said today. "Mr.

Kellogg says that I did not enumerate all of his corporation con nections. He is emite right in this matter and I am prepared to say a little more concerning his appearanc in Minnesota as the representative of trusts, and combinations. 1 want to apologize to Ir. Kellogg, however, for referring to him as a 'trust I should have spoken of him as a 'trust booster' for that is what he is. As attorney general in Mr.

Taft's Cabinet Mr. Kellogg would be of invaluable service to the trusts; it woulel be' difficult for Mr. Taft to find anywhere a greater trust booster, as plainly shown by Mr. Kellogg's reeotd Minnesota. As further evidence, of the fact that In- i.s Dr.

Jekyl one day xnd Mr. Hyde th- I want to efill attention to his appearance special counsel for the Interstate Commence Commission at a. hearing in Chicago on May 2 and 3. 1S97. when the com mission was seeking to establish the effect of the Burlington, Great.

North- rn and Northern Pacific merger. "As an evidence of 'his Insincerity in this matter' it 'is only necessary a mention the- fatt that the three men whom he called to prove his case were officers of -the road interested. air. Kellogg as government prosecutor, handled these gentlemen with gloves of'thick -and soft velvet, lie brought out from these officials for. the delec tation of the country that the merger so-called' had, stimulated local com petition, had produced hotter sef- ice and lower rates.

As a matter if fact the inquiry shows that not withstanding- the 5r at Northern -Se curities and the resulting Me- struction' of the merger competition. the! roads had advanced local, rates 4nd the service had deteriorated and oecome insufficient. "On the day following Mr. Kellogg's inpearance in this matter lefore th? Interstate Commerce Commission, James J. Hill appeared before the Supreme Court of Minnesota in oppo sition to any action on the part of attorney general of the State to 'ompel Mr.

Hill to obey the Minne- jota law in one of his guileless Stock Catering schemes. Frank B. Dr. Jekyl on the day hefofe, on this lay appeared as Mr. Hvde and the nan selected by Mr.

Hill to find a of evading the. Minnesota law. He found it. 'Once, at least. Mr.

Kellogg tried ais hand at promoting. As-general ounsel for the Chicago Great We.t- rn he is step-father to that load. he facts were brought out during a senatorial investigation. In sub- itnnce its history hows that the Chi sago Great Northern conts not more than 26, 000 per mile; that the' men the gfound floor sold it to the stoek holders at S94.t:i per mile; that It. then appeared on the books of th-J road at $98,011 per mile.

There are various other interesting chapters in connection with this matter, and was figured -out by the investigating ommittee. and set forth in its report that and his associates, by skillful financiering and promotion Sad injected between $6,000,000 and water into 177 miles of the railway system, all of which In dicates that this' famous trust booster might show some Wall street pro moter a few things in frenzied finance. "Mr. Kellogg had a commission a ounsel, for the interstate commerce to expose the wickedness of the Harrlman road. It could not he intimated that his zeal in carrviiiR oiit this commission might be ti'mu-blted by the fact that Harrlman it ihe rival of Mr.

Kellogg's client, lames J. Hill. Some time sine was speaking with an important Cht-(ago traffic officer of the Harrlman road about this matter. Hia comment was: think Mr. Harrimni.

anticipates no trouble from Mr Kellogg's Development show that he had nothing to fear. "Tonnage tax upon iron ore, practically all steel trust ore. was the "'investigation in March an.l April. 189,. by a committee of the legislature of Minnesota, representing Kr.

for n' Hawkins and trank D. Ke-llogg. At this time he a special counsel for the Federal IZt? alleged tn" ousur. The- iv-ni-k vent ore. jru- Vr of tx U.non'iro,.

Air. K.elIocs- fmicrki for the trust with Txhres and vTr with bribes, intended to appeal to local nterests and prevent thm, i i I ProvHitUm from being Co! "iderf'd. Jaw nnspen 11 abandon vlrtimtu- 4i If the tax was not increal Vl with millions wV steel trust teieumm A if Duluih; When Mr. Taft is in Greensboro in a few days will he stand pat on his 1906 denunciation of North Carolina Radicals, tell them they are not fit for and that it is better that those should be filled by Democrats, or will he nowthat he is the Republican candidate for President, eat his own words and try to whitewash the same gang of 1906 which is now in charge of the Republican party in North Carolina? The State watches to -see if Taft is merely talking for. reform when there is no pie alluring him.

TRADUCERS SHOWN TO RE SLANDERING THEIR OWN STATE AND THEIR OWN PEOPLE. It was to have been expected that patriotic North Carolinians would resent, the assault upon the men who protected the Stae during he Carpet-Bag rule in the years of Reconstruction in North Carolina. It is to the everlasting shame of the Capital of the. State that a single degenerate eouid be found in its borders to 'applaud the. attack upon men of the calibre of L.

Saunders, Randolph A. Shotwell and Frederick M. Strudwick, made by an ex judge who got his official title by the yotes, of the party that disgraced the State in' 1895 to 1900, as the Carpet-baggers disgraced jt in '68 and '69. it' Is to the credit of. the people of the -ciy of Raleigh -that only handful of stamp-lickers and other "degenerates in Raleigh gave applause when t'lia ex-judge deified r-Jhe gnng, led by.

Tourgee-and Littlefieid, and abused the patriots led by such men as Col Saunders. The young men of the State, who, of course know of those days only i tradition, pnd' .1 rom his tory, were indignant at the reflection' upon thj men who deserved more: of gratitude mah ho "have lived in North Carolina. But the older who were participants in those trying days, naturally felt the. greatest indignation and sense-of outrage that in their old Age 'any; man bof ii on the soil -North Carolina "could io far forget "himself -as to deliver n. tirade, of abuse Of them and of praise of the scoundrels they had to light, as was heard in a Republican meeting in Raleigh last week.

Gen. 'Julian Carr. leader- in the most important era of industrial prog-r'ess in the State, when the foundations'- we're, laid for the larger 'industrial growth thai has helped the State, like all other men who were true in a day that called for courage and patriotism, expressed himself Very plainly in Raleigh this week about the declaration Of the fusion ex-judge. 'I was a Ku' he said, "and I am not ashamed of it." Of course he not ashamed of it. It is a decoration of honor to every man who belonged to that band 'when; the cut-throats and scoundrels made government menace to the lives of the women and children, In Orange county, where General Carr lived, and in and' in Caswell, and other counties where outrages were conceived and perpetrated by and their henchmen, a 'man who was not ready to protect his wife and daughter from the horde of rascally officials and their allies, white and black, was a traitor to what every true, man holds dearest.

Maj. Robert Bingham, whose name lih North Carolina is a synonym for ism, and who has never been active in politics or sought public lienors, was in Raleigh this week and expressed his great surprise and indignation at the praise by a North Carolina ex-judge of the era. of Reconstruction. No man has made a better Istudy of the Reconstruction Era than Major Bingham. He knows it.

of course, because he was an actor and lived in a territory where many -of the outrages that called" for the ivii Klux Klan were perpetrated. lie has been a careful student; of that period also, and before the Southern Society in December, 1904, responding td'the toast, "The Status of the South Before 1860; the Decadence of that Status; Its Restoration," Colonel Bingham showed; to the satisfaction of every fair-minded man that Reconstruction was so horrible that not even a man who despised the South could find any extenuation or excuse for it. The following extract is taken from Major Binghams address in New York: "Then followed the period of Reconstruction, the horrors of which 'it has taken the people of the North forty years to begin to get some true conception of. But -leading" men at the North are beginning to discuss it clearly and strongly, especially since the necessity of dealing, not only with the black men and with the remnant of the red mm in continental America, but with the black, brown and yellow men in our new island posses-J sios, some ten million, has made our race problem no longer sectional, local and more or "ess sentimental, but one of the most import- SSL." and lu board of director" own country. mortgage the farm tZc.

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