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FARMERS' UNION The Recent Meetiag ia Charlotte Wat a Bif Saccett All Kaond. FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT *o? Farntm, As Education Along All Line* Is Making Wonderful .Progress, and the L'nion Gathers strength,, Wisdom and Experience As It Grows Older. President Barrett, of the National yarnwrs' Union, says the meeting just concluded at Charlotte was the most successful in the history of the order. Among other .things he said: "largest in point of attendance, most representative from geographi cal standpoint and most significant ^ "for the serious and determined air of business methods under which it was conducted, the national convention of the Farmers' union just clos-ed in Charlotte, N. C., is unquestionably the most successful of the national gatherings in the history of our order. "From year to year I have wafeh ed the organization develop into greater proportions a? reflected in these national conventions. It has remained for the one just held to record new progress in those directions meaning most of permanent good both to the actual membership f ? and to the farmers generally of America. "All organized state were represented and the personal of the representation was of the highest possible order. We have had sore heads and a trouble makers in previous conven1 rtlons. There were few or none in the A convention that has just reached its nel 11 clnn A onirit of Krnth ^ and of unity which prophesies splen?&. did things for the future governed the deliberations of the organized far.mere of America. "One of the most significant fea;; tures of the convention was the absence of "foot" resolutions that used jgg? to cause me misgivings in previous conventions. Sometimes members, with the best of intentions but wrongheadedly, would introduce rea?'nt^onB looking to extravagant expendttures, or chimerical scheme or -altruistic and impossible ventures. The fact that thjese phases were con||$B epiciously missing from the recent convention, is conclusive evidence that the membership is purgiug itself or of unprofitable dreaming und directing its driving force instead at practical endq of practical means. WM "The legislative program framed W by the convention largely parallels the issues and measures heretofore advanced by myself and by your board of directors and legislative committees, though amendments and additions will cause a slight revision of policies. It is our Intention to prosecute this winter at Washington the most aggressive fight in our history for legislative measures and reforms of interest to the membership and of the American farmer without regard to locator. Q promise you that my utmost influence and energies will be employed in giving execution to the mandate handed down by the convention, to the end that the national govern ment shall take more aclual cognizance of the needs and the rights ol the American farmers and it is fighting the devil with fire. Only to the -extent we make politicians appreciate the power of our ballots, irrespective of partisan alignment, will we succeed In securing iegislatlve redress along the lines most helpful to our cause. "A notable feature of tho convention Is the fact that your official family there selected comes from overy part of the country. He did noi set out by design to have geographical representation as to a basis for the national officials, but it happened that the choice of the convention fell on men drawn from every portion ol the country, bordering on the twc oceans and from the great inland. It would have been impossible for the convention to choose a liner body of officials and the particular personnel this year indicate the organization has become national in fact as In name. This departure was given special emphasis by the fact that never in the history of the order has the representation of the delegates also been more of a national character. "Throughout the deliberations, the spirit of mutual understanding and of mutual tolerance was strong and dominating. The farmers of thin country are learning each other better, learning hotter how to trust each other, how to waive small personal rights and pool them for the general good. That Is an important lessor of th ?% prtnvnntlAn "Business methods and sentiment ruled strongly. There was little shouting. little purposeless euthusIsm, but calm, logical dtseusion ol business plans, and of approved and tried means to forward the welfare Of the orgnniratlon. "In this connection. It will he ol Interest to the membership to learr that we took a thorough census ai the convention of congressional can 41datee defeated by the elTorts ol AGAIN IN GOOD SHAPE I'RE8II>KNT FINIiTY OF SOUTH ERN RAILWAY TALKS. About the Condition of the South* eastern States, Which He Finds In Fine Condition. W. W. Flnley, president of the Southern Railway company, who haa been looking into business conditions in the Southern State, the other day said: "On the whole, the conditions are encouraging. in agriculture the present outlook is particularly good. The cotton crop is later than usual, and is. therefore, more subject to future weather conditions than is usual at this time of the year. However, the condition rt$>ort of the United States agricultural department, issued on the 2nd instant, showed a better average condition of the growing cotton crop in the States south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi than on the corresponding date laBt year, and the area planted was reported in June as 140,000 acres greater than last year. "With ordinary favorable weather conditions until the crop Is harvested. the Southeastern States will have the largest corn crop on record for that section. The area planted is more than a million and a half acres greater than last year, and the condition report on September 8 showed a better condition in Mississippi than in any other State in the United StateB. with Alabama a close second and with enrvd condition ro ported from each of the other Southeastern States. The increased coi n crop of the South will have an important bearing on general trade coiditions. for localities which have formerly bought considerable corn from other parts of the country are growing in some cases all, and in other cases the greater part of what they will require this year, and will be in a position to buy other commodities on a larger scale. "Coal is moving in larger volume than I. t year, and lumber is in more active demand. "The cotton mill industry of the world has been passing through a prolonged period of depression due to the inability of manufacturers to market tbeir products at prices 'commensurate w ith the price of their raw material. This has resulted in a material curtailment of production in the South as well as in other cotton mill centres. In the meantime, the consumption of cotton goods throughout the world is continuing. Stocks in the hands of merchants are being reduced, and there is every reason to believe that, as soon as the size of this year's crop can be more accurately estimated, there will he an active demand for cotton goods of all kinds at prices hearing I such a relation to the price of the raw material as to stimulate the mill industry. "Taking all factors of the situation into consideration. 1 am eni couraged to believe that, with average weather conditions and in the alienee of an unusually early killing frost, we may look forward to an active fall aiul winter hnniiieue iii the Southeastern States." * Schooner* Wrecked. Rigolets, La., on the gulf of Mexico, reports that the tramp schooners Farewell and Henry M. were wreck! tn a severe storm of about an hour's > duration there Friday afternoon. The crews were rescued by a fishing ' vessel. 1 Charleston gave Hlease 2,7ir? majority and Columbia gave him 1,027. These two counties gave him about I two-thirds of his majority. i the Farmer's Union-?I refer to the congressmen who were indifferent to " our request for aid until they came I up for re-election and who then went I down on their knees to us. We have observed the policy of helping those 1 who help us and I assure jou the list of aspiring politicians whom we were instrumental in defeating tor their indifference or treachery was truly formidable. Our work along this line has. moreover merely bei gun I have always and will always decry and denounce partisan politics within the order. Hut this Is not partis >n politics: it is sell preservation of the highest order. Reports brought in bv delegates the nation over, .indicates thai the past yenr has been phenomenal from I a standpoint of educational progress. The :ncinl?ershlp Is learning the real i alms of the organisation with a splen did unanimity and they are following our agricultural propanda as well as 1 our fraternal principles. I "Co-operation also is beginning to i have a new significance and is becoming transriited from a mere meaningless word to Intensive, persiste.it > application. "As indicating the hich water mark T of achievement in the history of the I organized farmer and as holding d-?s finite promise of more progress in the future, the convention Just rlosf ed Is a mngnifleant earnest of adi vaneement of our people, of that unlt verssl betterment in behalf of our selves and the nation's prosperity and f welfare to come." A* HOLD THE CROP This is the Advice ef Seaater Smith ! the Southern Farmer. COTTON CROP IS SHORT South Carolina Senator Says Keport* Indicate I*reacnt Crop Will not <in'a(ly *C\cecd that of Last Year and That Staple In Worth Twenty Cents the Pound. Senator E. D. Smith, iu an interview, Saturday gave out the following statement, with reference to the South's cotton crop, as compared with a like period a year ago: "Reports from every cottou State of importance indicate that the present crop will not very greatly exceed last year's crop. "In view of the fact that last year was an unprecedented short crop, the demand for the staple increases year by year, -the outlook for an adequate supply to meet the demands of the world is poor, indeed. "The farmers of the South and the business men whose property depends upou the farmors. have the situation fully in hand. Everything depends u|>on whether they will market the crop judiciously. The South is not a section in which the doctrine of protection tlnds many honest adherents. Wo do not ask laws enacted to protect ns from competition; we simply ask an open field and a free fight?that there shall not be national legislation which will discriminate against us. Wo are content to let the law of supply and demand?honestly enforced?determine the price of our commodity. "1 wish the cotton growers of the South to remember that last year the I'ayne-Aldrich tariff bill was enacted to give a prollt to the manufacturer. This year, during the latter half of the session. the Attorney General of the United State.] through information given him by certain parties who seem to have been short on cotton, indicated certain ones who were attempting to get an approximately legitimate price for cotton. "Now to state the case clearly: I The whole machinery of the Government was set in motion to pass sucn law as would guarantee the manufacturer a profit, and theu to invoke the law to prohibit the producer of the raw material from getting | the price that the simple law of nature?the law of supply and demand?entitled him to. "The so-ealled bull eiiciue were to l?e haled into Court to answer to the charge of an illegal combination in the restraint of trade, while the saute body that passed the Sherman Act were busy passing the Payne-Aldrich bill to legalize an artificial profit to the manufacturers of America. "I asked the question of a leading Republican Protectionist if he would not vote to exempt labor and industrial organizations from the operations of the Sherman Act. Ills reply was that he believed that all should stand on the same footing before Unlaw. He knew then that the dis- | crimination, under the law, was op-1 pressing those who labor for wages, and who produce the raw material, in favor of those who r-iin and own the manufacturing interests of America. i shall not attempt to dictate to the fanners of the South what they shall do. Hut under the circumstances. I would be delighted to see them combine and hold their cotton from the market, wherever it is possible for them to do so, until it shall bring such price as shall measure the artificial price placed upon manufactured articles by virtue of th* tariff. "Mv honest conviction is that i!0 cents a pound for the present crop ts none too high, in view of the supply, | the cost of production, the comp.tr alive value of cotton with other texI tiles and the artificial price that now obtains on manufactured goods. "Last year, when the AttorneyGcmer.il of the United States was setting the machinery of the law m motion to investigate the bulls. 1 introduced a resolution in the Senate. which was unanimously pa-sed, that he should. In common decency. I Investigate the hears also. "I shall do all in my power, whilst a member of the United States Senate. to see to it that those who produce the raw material shall get a square deal. "It sconiB that the tide is turning our way; and if the people will only he faithful to their own interests and demand what is .legitimately theirs, there is no power under heaven to keep us from getting it. "I shall from now on. as occasion demands, and the press will permit, give such advice and such information as seem to nte the circumstances demand. "The decline in price at present, in my opinion, is but an attempt to take advantage of the necessity of the case and get i.s much cotton as possible during the time, when the unfortunate ones have got to meet j their guano bills, supply bills and notes in the bank. % COTTON BOOL WEEVIL WHICH HAS CAU8KD SO MUCH WORRY AND AXXIKTY. Ls Now Claimed to Be Under Control by the National Agricultural Department, ? The Augusta Chronicle says news that should gladden the hearts of Southern farmers comes out of Washington to the efTect that the boll weevil is on the road to the past. This pernicious Insect, small, mysterious and insidious, has threatened the cotton growing ludustry of the South for a decade. During a short period of time, when It was new and unknown, ,lt caused a fear that spread and had its effect in the marts of cotton trade far from the glistening tields of white. It bid fair at one time to levy tribute upon whole sections, aud none knew but what it would some day change the destines of an agricultqral empire. It has been quite evident for many years that many, if not most, of the fears with reference to the invasion of the weevil were groundless. Communities in Texas and Louisiana, which, were laid bare, so far as the production of cotton was concerned, recovered quickly from its effects, w hen heroic steps were taken to obliterate It. Estimates based on the rule of progression by which the weevil has seemingly been governed have indidicated that it might be expected in Ceorgia about the year 1914. However now that means of complete control and even obliteration have been discovered?and are being scientifically applied?the farmers oi mm state may feel secure, so far, at least, as any general or material dun^er is concerned. Credit is due to the agricultural department of the federal government for the greater part of the beneficial work done in removing the greatest apparent enemy King Cotton has ever faced. Kxperts have been given almost unlimited means to make experiments and apply curatives. All the producers have been asked to do was to follow the instructions of the*-e agents. Demonstrations have taught the farmers in threatened areas to take advantake of the discoveries and apply them without expert aid. The method pursued is in the main, a simple one. Farmers are taught to gnther from the ground the cotton bolls which have been attacked and have withered and fallen to .he ground. These are burned. Added to this deep plowing and other precautions in cultivation nre urged, and have been applied, with the result that the agricultural de; partment announces that the pest is j now tinder control. . The federal agricultural department has received material aid from state entomological departments and the farmers' schools and colleges of the South. .M GGLIN'b Til K CKNSl'S. For the Dniictit of the Republicans ill DUDir MUIH'*. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says few people around Washington who know Director of the Census Durand and are acquainted with his high official position and record, helleve the stories that have been current there tor some time to the effect that census figures in some instances are being jucgled and will be held back for political reasons. It has been hinted here fore some time that in those sections where the Democrats are likely to make gains in ihe next House, figures may not be given until after the next legislature in those States have been elected. so that wherever possible .the Republicans may have a better opp rt unity of getting men in the Legislatures. hence restricting the redistricting measures which will come before them. It is almost certain that in Texas there will be eight new metnl?erB of Congress when the redisricting is completed; in Oklahoma there will be more members, and elsewhere throughout the country the Democrats are expected to add materially to their present numbers in Congress. It is to itnn tliiu it l? ?1-? '?- - . ....?. ?. III lllill census figures are to l>e "fixed" in such a way that the Legislatures are 10 be controlled, in some cases, by the Republicans. Of coure. no one in Washington believes this nor that Mr. Duranri would be a party to such a scheme, but it is nevertheless true that in some cases complete figures couid ave been mane public sometime back but foe some mysterious reason have not. Whatever may be in the matter there is much undisguised dissatisfaction with the way the present statistics are being handled. * "1 plead with every Southerner, regardless of his profession, vocation rfr avocation to stand by and lend all I possible aid to that long-suffering, much abused, but glorious producer of all the South's currency?the l cotton farmer! * WHY THEY WON Congressmai Webb Girts His Views Democratic Victories. BELIEVES THE REVOLT Against Republican Tarty Itcmilt of "Urok.cn Tariff Promlm**, IJotuiLsni, CaunonKm and Standpattam" and Predict* llcmocratic Victory in .iviriiiinT UJIU A WO 1 OATS llenCO. The Wsahington correspondent of The News and Courier says when Congressman Edward Y. Webb, of the 9th North Carolina district, was In Washington a day or two ago. he said: "Broken promises with reference to revising the tariff, bossisiu. Canuonism and standputism are the chief causes of the nation-wide revolt against the Republican party at the present time. Champ Clark will be the next Speaker." Analyzed closely the statement of Mr. Webb will be found to be the keynote of the causes that are fast leading to a IXuuocratlc victory ?n the next Congress and to a national victory in 1912. Continuing, Mr. Webb said: "Think of it, the last Democratic Senator in Maine was elected in 1847, just slx'vthree years ago. He was James W. Bradbury. Maine has not elected a Democratic Representative since 1 8?? I more that half a century ago. She hasn't elected a Democratic Governor in thirty years, but now she is to have a I>emocratic Governor, a Democratic I'nited States Senator and two of her Representatives will be Democratic. Maine has 16 counties and the Democrats carried thirteen ot these erstwhile Republican stronghold and won a Democratic Legislature by a big majority. This news pressages a tremendous Democratic victorry in the next House and the election of a Democratic President in 1912. The Republican party in the nation is worn out. scattered, routed and beaten. The bottom has dropped out. "The same influences that are causing voters in other States to turn to wards Democracy are at work in North Carolina. The State Democracy is in fine shape and we will poll a much bigger vote in November than we did two years ago. The Republicans are on the defensive and are spending most of their time apologising for having made boodle, booze and bonds the party enemies. We will redeem the three districts that went Republican three years ago and North Carolina again will have a solid Democratic delegation in Congress." Viewed from a Washington standpoint. and there is none hotter anywhere from which to fix the political level, the G. O. P. is rotten to the core, as Mr. Webb says. The sacred elephant which has marched triumphantly to the White House for many years is grievously sick and even Dr. Roosevelt and other well-known party specialists are unable to effect a cure. None of them are willing to diagnose the case, though most strenl uous efforts are being made to remedy the situation. The truth of the matter is the Republican party, with a record of years of greed and selfishness is choking itself to death. It has become so fat with the etlect of spoils gotten at the peoples' expense that it is about to pay the penalty and forfeit hs life. The result of such a condition is that everywhere throughout the country the Democrats are preparing for a triumphant entry into the 6'Jd '"'ongress with the possibility also of eantiirln* ihn Houtic two years later. * HXTIRKIiY TOO SKNNITIVK. I Killed Himself Iterative He Was Short Small Sum. At Flora, Indiana, when Mrs. Jno. K. Ixidd, wife of the superintendent and treasurer of the schools of the city, read to her husband from a news-paper Thursday night the report of the examiners of the State hoard of accounts that the funds in his care had been discovered to be short $20., he made no comment, j but Friday she found his dead body i in hJs bedroom and a bottle that had | contained carbolic acid in his hand j The schools and moat of the business i houses were closed out of respect >f him during the funeral. ( foiKiu Mayor killed. The Georgia and Florida pnasen- j gor from Valdosta collided with the automobile of T. S. Price, in Itoug-' lass., (Ja... Friday, killing Mayor F. L. Sweat, of Douglass, wounding Mr. Price and completely demolishing the automobile. The machine i was caught on the cowcatcher and carried 1<>0 yards. Will Stretch Hemp. For the murder of Officer Waldrop at Piedmont about two months ago, Hunk Sherard, a young negro. ?m Friday sentenced at Greenville by Judge Gary to hang ou tho first Friday In October. ; SHOWSUP TEDDY HIS HYPROCRICY EXPOSED B* NEW YORK WORLD. Wants Campaign Fuod? Made Public But Hide* His Own,?On Most x - . % FVleoillf Terms With Hearst. Under the caption of "Still a Practical Man." the Augusta Chronicle says Col. Theodore Uoosevelt pleads in the West for political honesty and threatenB aJl public evil doers; yet he declinee to publiBh the details of his 1P04 campaign fund. He nailed the accusations of Judge Parker with the "short and uiriv wirit" be nailed himself later by the stolen Harrimun letters. When in need of funds, he dealt with llarriman as a "practical man,' and some $200,000 vested interest money was contributed to the coffer* of his party managers. Now the colonel is treating with William Randolph Hearst, whom he held up to the public gaze on several occasions as the chief Instigator of McKinley's murder. We are indebted to the New York World for the following specimens of strong language: From Mr. Roosevelt's first message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1901: "This criminal (President McKinley's murderer) was a professed Anarchist, inflamed hy the teachings of professed anarchists, and probably also by the reckless utterances of thoj^e who. on the stump, and In the public press, appeal to the dark and evil spirits of justice and greed, envy and hatred. The wind is sowed by the men who preach such doctrines, and they cannot escape their share of responsibility for the whirlwind that is reaped. This applies alike to deliberate demagogue, to the exploitel of sensationalism and to the crude and foolish visionary who, for whatever reason, apologizes for crime or excites aimless discontent." From Kllhu Root's speech at Utlca, November. I, 1906: "I say by the President's authority. that in penning these words, with the horror of President McKinley's murder fresh before him. he had Mr. Hearst specifically in his mind. 'And I say, by his authority, that what he thought of '.Mr. Hearst then he thinks of Mr. Hearst now." From Washington dispatches of November 16. 1908: "W. R. Hearst, of New York, made a call of courtesy at the White House this evening. "He said that no significance was to be attached to his visit; that he merely took the earlie?t opportunity upon his arrival here to pay his respects to the President." From an appeal to Mr. Roosevelt issued by Mr. Hearst, Sept. 7. 1910: "Come home to New York, Mr. Roosevelt ?iwl hnmvtfv ?K.. ....... ?.. x. . i? ?\ buc ?Ul* path against the bosses. "We in dependants are whetting our tomahaws for the fray. There la no jealousy in our ranks. We do not rare who leads If he only leads aright. "We do not rare who gains the glory as long as the people gain the victory. "Drive the HepuT>1 loan bosses out of the Republican party, Mr. Roosevelt. and if one of them deserts to the Democratic party f>0.000 Independents will take hiH place." From Mr. Roosevelt's reply to Mr. Hearst. Sept. 8, 1810: "I am going hack to New York state, as mentioned by Mr. Hearst, to fight the bosses. I will welcome the support of any man who wishes to aid in that tight." Quite aptly, The World uses the alK>ve quotations under the head line "The History of a Great Moral Alliance." STKADY I.VCHKASN IN OHOIJCRA. Many New Caws and Deaths Reported Ln IIuhkIu. The cholera epidemic, which originating ln southern Russia has claimed upwards of 100,000 victims, >*? stretching its way across Asiatic R ?s mil n 11 u r riuay was omcially declared to ho in tho province of Amur in Southeast Siberia and separated hv tho Amur rivor from Manchuria. Thoreports now in tho posossion of the sanitary bureau show a total for tho season of 182.1127 oasoa with K.l.tl.li deaths. These include the early returns lor the week ending September 10 and the revised figures for the preceding week. The statistics show a steady decrease In the number of cases and fatalities. * WILI HKKIHT IHSKAKK. I'rof. !>el/Ottch, of <<eorgiu, Finds New Odtoii Siwl. Prof. I>el/Oach. along with the other members of the staff of the (?eorI'lO V of whom have been working to develop a cotton need that can resist the fata! nnthraenose. ha* practically I succeeded in securing the desired ! tpve of seed. It is calculated that ithis discovery will save the Houth ruJ.'.jons of dollars annually, providI lug the seed can be placed in jtrscri al use. Experiments have been con | ducted for some time by many exi pert.-. along this line * t