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FARMERS' UNION ? ?' |k Reccat lectiag ia CtaioMe Was Big Sacccw All Rout FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT l^o* F?rmera, Am Kducation Along All Linen In Making Wonderful Frogrem, and the Union Gather# strength,, Wi#dom and Experience A# It Grow# CMik'r. PrfltiMflnt Harnett, of the National Farmers' Union, says the meeting Just concluded at Charlotte was the inost successful In the history of the order. Among other things he said: "Largest In point of attendance, most representative from geographical standpoint and most significant tor the serious and determihed air of business methods under which it was conducted, the national convention of the Farmers' union just closed 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 watched the organisation develop into greater proportions as reflected in these national conventions. It has remained for tho one Just held \ to record new progress in those directions meaning most of permanent good both to the actual membership 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 trouble makers in previous conventions. There were few or none in the convention that has'Just reached its conclusion. A spirit of brotherhood and of unity which prophesies splendid things for the future governed the deliberations of the organized farmers of America. "One of the most significant features of thb convention was the ab?nnw of "fool" resolutions that used to cau6e mo misgivings in previous conventions. Sometimes members, with the best of intentions but wrongheadedly, would introduce resolutions looking to extravagant expenditures, or chimerical scheme or altruistic and impossible ventures. The fact that these phases were conspicuously missing from the recent convention, is conclusive evidence that the membership is purging itself or of unprofitable dreaming and directing Its driving force instead at practical endq of practical means. "The legislative program framed 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 locater. I 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 government shall take more actual cognizance of the needs and tlie rights of the American farmers and it is fighting the dovil with fire. Only to the -extent we make politicians appreciate the power of our ballots, irrespective of partisan alignment, will we succeed in securing legislative repress along the lines most helpful to <our cause. "A notable feature of the convention la the fact that your ofUciul family there selected comes from " every part of the country. He did not ?et out by design to have geographical representation as to a basis for the national oflicialfc, but it happened that the choice of the convention fell on men drawn from every portion of the country, bordering on the two oflftflnH and- from the great inland. I It would have been impossible for the convention to choose a finer 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 historry of the order tiae the representation of the delegates also been more of a national character. ; "Throughout the deliberations, the fflpirit of mutual understanding and of mutual tolerance was strong and dominating. The farmers of this 1 oountry are learning each other bet- i ter, learning better how to truHt each other, how to waive small personal < rights and pool them for the general 1 good. That to an Important lesson of the oonvontlon. "Business methods and sentiment < - * -A ?^ nrtu 11 4 4 i ? m ma HiroiiKi). mere wa? unit? shouting:, little purposeless enthus- i Ism, but calm, logical discusion of business plans, and of approved and 1 tried means to forward the welfare < of the organization. ''In this connection, It will be of 1 Interest to the membership to learn < that we took a thorough censes at the convention of congressional candidates defeated by the efforts of i the Farmer's Union?I refer to the COTTON BOOL WEEVIL WHICH HAS CAUSED SO MUCH WORRY AND ANXIETY. Ih Now Claimed to Be Under Control by the National Agrtrtilt*r?l ; Department. ? TQe Augusxa unronicip hk/b ucwa that should gladden the hearts of Southern farmers comes out of Washington to the effect that the boll weevil Is on the road to the past. This pernicious insect, small, mysterious and insidious, has threatened the cotton growing industry of the South for a decade. During a short period of time, when it was new and unknown, ,it caused a fear that spread and had its effect in the marts of cotton trade far from the glistening fields of white. It bid fair at one time to levy tribute upon whole sections, and none knew but what it would some day change the destines of an agricultural 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 hare, so far as the production of cotton was concerned, recovered quickly from Its effects, when heroic steps were tak*?u to obliterate it. Kstimates based on the rule of progression by which the weevil has seemingly been governed have Indldicated that It might bo expected in CJoorgin about the year 1914. However now that means of complete control and even obliteration have been discovered?and are being scientifically applied?the farmers of that state may feel secure, so far, at least, as any general or material danger is concerned. Credit is due to the agricultural department of the federal government for the greater part of the beneficial wortup^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 these 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 gather from the ground the cotton bolls which have been attacked and have withered and fallen to the ground. These are burn ed. Added to this deep plowing and other precautions In cultivation are urged, and have been applied, with the result that the agricultural department announces that the pest Is now under control. The federal agricultural department has received material aid from state entomological departments and the farmers' schools and colleges of the South. * KXTIRKLY TOO SENSITIVE. Killed Himself Heraiise lie Was Short Small Sum. At Flora, Indiana, when Mrs. J no. E. Lodd, 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 tin* State U/vA..d ~ o, .. 4 4 i. C J- : - uuiiiii 01 luuuuuih iiiai \ nt* i uuuts in his onro had been discovered to be short $20., he made no comment, hut Friday she found liis dead bo !> in 1iIs bedroom and a bottle that had contained carbolic acid in his hand. The schools and most of the business houses were Closed out of respect of him during the funeral. * congressmen who were indifferent to our request for aid until they came up for re-election and who then went down pn their knees to us. We have observed the policy of helping those who help us and I assure you the list of aspiring politicians whom we were instrumental in defeating lor their Indifference or treachery was truly formidable. Our work along this line has, moreover merely be- ' gun. I have always and will always decry and denounce partisan politics within the order. Hut this is not ' partisan polities: it is self preaorva- . tion of the highest order. Reports brought in by delegates the tuition over, .indicates that the past year has been phenomenal from a standpoint of educational progress. The membership is learning the real rims of the organization .with a splendid unanimity and thev are following * roil* n O rlr?ll 11 11 l*f? 1 ni^niiniwln no u-.ill n.. ^ ?. . ?.n. .X ??? |>1 tin *?CII an our fraternal principles. '' "Co-operation also is beginning to * have a n??w significance and is bo- ' joming trnnsruted from a mere meaningless word to intensive, persistent < application. "As indicating the hirh wafer mark 1 of achievement in the history of the i organized farmer and as holding definite promise of more progress in i the future, the convention just clos- t ed is a magniflcant earnest of ad- t vancement of our people, of that uni- j versa 1 betterment in behalf of our- \ selves and the nation's prosperity and | welfare to come." \ HOLD THE CROP This b the Ufice of Seoator South to the Soothero Farner. COTTON CROP IS SHORT South Carolina Senator Says Re ports Indicate IVewnt Crop Will not Greatly Kxceed that of Last Year and That Staple 1m Worth Twenty Cents the Pound. Senator K. D. Smith, in an interview, Saturday gave out the following statement, with reference to the South'H cotton crop, as compared with a like period a year ago: "Reports from every cotton Slate 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 upon the farmers, have the situation fully in hand. Everything depends upon whether they will market the crop judiciously. The South is not a section in which the doctrine of protection finds many honest i adherents. We do not ask laws enacted to protect us from competition; we simply ask an open field and a free fight?that there shall not be* national legislation which will discriminate againstus. We are content to let the law of supply and demand?honestly enforced?determine the price of our commodity. "I wish the cotton growers of the South to remember that last year tt... i>,....... ( i.iti ....... i u I (i i ii i M; II Ld i 111 imii ? d.1) enacted to give a profit to the man- | ufacturer. This year, during the latter halt 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: The whole machinery of the Government was set in motion to pass such law as would guarantee the manufacturer a profit, and then 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 de mand?entitled him to. "The so-called bull clique were to be haled into Court to answer to the charge of an illegal combination in the restraint of trade, while the same body that passed the Sherman Act wore busy passing the Pay lie-A1drich bill to legalize an artificial profit t t \ V\ t\ to 'i mi i'n/.f m eni<L< # % t* \ I iii i \/ mi; iiHiiiuiniivii 11 o wi . A ; 11 n n . i, "1 asknd the (|ti est ion of a leading Republican Protectionist if ho would not vote to exempt labor and industrial organizations from the operations of the Sherman Act. His reply was that, ho believed that all should stand on the same, footing before the law. Ho knew then that the discrimination, under the law. was oppressing those who labor for wages, and who produce the raw material, in favor of those who clip coupons and own the manufacturing interests of America. I shall not attempt to dictate to the farmers of the South what they shall do. Hut under the circumstances. I would be delighted to see them combine and hold their cotton from I 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 the ta riff. "My honest conviction is that 20 cents a pound for the present crop is none too high, in view of the supply, the cost of production, the comparative value of cotton with other textiles and the artificial price that now obtains on manufactured goods. "Last year, when the Attorney- , General of the United States was setting the machinery of the law in 1 motion to investigate the hulls, 1 introduced a resolution in the Sen- 1 ite, which was unanimously passed, ; that he should, in common decency, ] investigate the bears also. , "1 shall do all in my power, whilst . i member of the United States Sen- j ite. to see to it that those who pio-|( luce the raw material shall get. a ; a I an re deal. ! j "It seems that the tide is turning h iur way; and if the people will only j >e faithful to their own interests ihd demand what is legitimately i heirs, there Is no power under heav- |( mi to keep us from getting it. j "1 shall from now on, as occasion 1 lemands, and the press will permit, ?ive such advice and such information as seem to me the circumstances Ionia ml. "The decline in price at present, n my opinion, is but an attempt to uke advantage of the necessity of IJ he case and get as much cotton as < >ossiblo during the time, when the 1 unfortunate ones have got to meet i heir guano bills, supply bills and < notes in the bank. < SHOWS OP TEDDY v ' ;fT' - r HIS HYPROCRICY EXPOSED BY NEW YORK WORLD. % Wants Campaign Funds Made Pub* lie But Hides His Own.?On Most Friendly Terms With Hearst. Under the caption of "Still a Practical Man," the Augusta Chronicle says Col. Theodore Roosevelt pleads In the West for political honesty and threatens all public evil doers; yet he declines to publish the details of his 1904 campaign fund. He nailed the accusations of Judge Parker with the "short and ugly word" only to be nailed himself later by the stolen Harriman letters. When in need of funds, he dealt with Harriman as a "practical man,' and some $200,000 vested interest money was contributed to the cotters 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 stremg language: From Mr. Roosevelt's ftrst message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1901: "This criminal (President McRinlev's murderer) was a professed Anarchist, inflamed by the teachings of professed anarchists, and probably also by the reckless utterances of those 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. Thin 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 < xcites aimless discontent." From KSllhu Root's speech at Uti ( a, November. 1, 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 ho thinks of Mr. Hearst now." From Washington dispatches of November 1 6, 1908: "\V. it. 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 earliest opportunity upon his arrival here to pay his respects to the President." From an appeal to Mr. Itoosevelt issued by Mr. Hearst, Sept. 7, 1910: "Come home to New York, Mr. Roosevelt, and honesty take the warpath against the bosses. We independants are whetting our tomaliaws for the fray. There is no jealousy in our ranks. We do not care who leads if he only leads aright. "We do not care who gains the glory as long as the people gain the victory. "Drive the Republican bosses out of the Republican party, Mr. Roosevelt, and if one of them deserts to the Democratic party 50,000 Independents will take his nlare " From Mr. Roosevelt's reply to Mr. Hearst, Sept. X, 1910: "I am going back to New York state, as mentioned by Mr. Ilearst, to light the bosses. I will welcome the support of any man who wishes to aid in that fight." Quite aptly, The World uses the above q totatlons under the head line "The History of a Great Moral Alliance." * CI ST URN .MlltDKK MYSTKHY. Two liodirs Wore Found Heneath a ^ Rooming House. Acting on a new clew Riven by an anonymous letter to Mayor Crowder, , a cistern beneath a rooming house at Jackson, Miss., has been drained and t two human bodies found. One of ( the bodies is that of a child, only a , few days old, and the other that of f \ man. The rooming house, it is al- 1 logod, has been frequented by wo- 1 men, mostly strangers in Jackson, 1 ind the police believe they will, upon * Investigation, reveai a series of H rimes in connection with the place. So arrests have as yet been made, Hit several are expected later in the tveek. 4 c ? i Augusta Chinaman Murdered. 1 Sam Kee. a Chinaman,, who con- ' 1 acted a small grocery store on the ^ trincipal business street in Augusta, 11 ? ..a mmuloKn.l On t, ?wl .. *f ????.? ? 1 ?? tr 1 Vft.v "(in iimhu\:ii;\i Uflttli 11(1^ iiiv/i 11 i 11 ibout 0 o'clock in his store while ^ uniting on a nem'o customer. The tegro, whom the police believe did he killing, escaped. * p "I plead with every Southerner, re- ti sard less of his profession, vocation 1 >r avocation to stand by and lend all 1 l)ossil>le aid to that long-suffering, ^ much abused, but glorious produc- i em* of all tho South s currency?the i cotton farmer! c WHY THEY VON CoifresMua Webb Civet Hts Views Deaecratic Victories. BELIEVES THE REVOLT Against Republican Party Result of "IJroken Tariff Promises, HoMiiam, CannonisiH and Stamlpatisra" and Predicts Democratic Victory In November and Two Years Hence. The Wellington 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 rei'erence to revising the tariff, bossism, Cannonism and staiidpatism 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 fas* leading to a Democratic 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 184 7, Just six'y three years ago. He was James W Bradbury. Maine has not elected a Democratic Representative since 18f*5 more that half a century ago. She hasn't elected a Democratic Governor in thirty years, but now she is to have a Democratic Governor, a Democratic United States Senator and two of her Representatives will be Dem ori ai if. Maine has 16 counties and the Democrats carried thirteen of 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 towards Democracy are at work in North Carolina. The State Democracy is in tine 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 apolo gising 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 better anywhere from which to fix the political level, the G. O. J', is rotten to the core, as Mr. Webb says. The sacred a.Vv,4- ...L :..K iw... k ^.1 * t' 11 ) 111 il II I ? llliril HUM lliaiCIH'U LI 1 VI 111** phantly to the White House for many years is grievously sick and even Dr. Roosevelt and other well-known pa**ty specialists are unable to effect a cure. None of them are willing to diagnose the case, though most strenuous efforts are being uade 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 eflect of spoils gotten at the peoples' expense that it is about to pay the penalty and forfeit its life. The result of such a condition is that everywhere throughout the country the Democrats are preparing for a triumphant entry into the 62d Congress with the possibility also of capturing the White House two years later. ? ? HOY GKOCNI) TO rri.IV Ratal Accident on G. F. ami A. Road in Georgia. . . The two young sons of Taifayette Varborouglt, of Kdlson, near Albany, , la. were tossed from a high trestle Saturday by a passenger train of the loorgia, Florida and Alabama Uaiiond. One of the boys was ground I ilniost to a pulp before his body was I iiirlod from the trestle, and his bro- I her, though still alive, is so fright- ( ully injured that his recovery is ' jopeless. A third boy leaped to 1 nfety. ? Died of Pellagra. Sricken two weeks ago with a.mre 1 use of pellagra, John M. Julian, vi- I Inr nl' I lin Sinliuluirv V C .tin I "' %,,v %T , ^ .? "'"h >ost for the past six years, and a . eader in Stale politics, 'lied at his t lonie in that city Friday, lie was a aemher of the North Carolina I egixat lire, llo was representative of ? he Associated Press. , i (Jeorgia Mayor Killed. . The Oeorgia and Florida passen- ! :er from Valdosta collided with the automobile of T. S. Price, in I>ougass,, Qa.? Friday, killing Mayor F. I i. Sweat, of Douglass, wounding i dr. Price and completely demolish- I ng the automobile. The machine i vas canght on the cowcatcher and carried 100 yards. AGAIN Ul GOOD SHAPE PIiRSn>KXT KINLTY OF SOUTHKHN HAILWAV TALKS. i' *V ^ J T; / i > ^ > ft\ / About the Condition of the South* eastern States, Which He Flmle i? Fine Condition. W. W. Finley, president Of the Southern Railway company, who ha* been looking Into business conditions in the Southern State, the other day said: "On the whole, the conditions are encouraging. Jn agriculture the present outlook in particularly good. The cotton crop is later than usual, and is. therefore, more subject to future weather conditions than in usual at this time of the year. However. the condition report of the United State* Agricultural department, Issued on the 2nd instant, showed a better average condition of tho growing cotton crop in the States south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi than on the corresponding date last 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 com crop on record for that section. Tho 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 States, with Alabama a close second and with good condition reported from each of the other Southeastern States. The increased corn crop of the South will have an Important bearing on general trade conditions, for localities which have formerly bought considerable corn from other parts of tho country are growing in some cases all, and In other cases the greater part of what they will require this year, and will he in ft position to buy other commodities on a larger scale. ' 1 lc n.n..(n? 1 ~ t ? VIHII ir> LiKff ||(^ III Id I ^151 VUlllIIIH than last year, and lumber is in more active demand. "Tho cotton mill Industry of the world has been passing through a prolonged period of depression due to the Inability of manufacturers to market their products at prices commensurate with the price of their raw material. This has resulted In a material curtailment ot production in the South as well as in other cotton mill centres. In the meantime, tho consumption; 'of' cotton goods throughout the world Is continuing. Stocks in the bauds 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 be an active demand for cotton goods of all kinds at prices bearing such a relation to the price of thfc raw material as to stimulate the mill lnd ustry. "Taking all factors of the situation into consideration, I am encouraged to believe that, with average weather conditions and in the absence of an unusually early killing frost, we may look forward to an active fall and winter business in the Southeastern States." ? ? 4 STEADY INtTRKAKK tN CHOLERA. / .Many New Oa?*cs and 1 Vat lis Report* cd in Russia. *3| The cholera epidemic, which originating In southern Russia has claimed upwards of 100,000 victims, stretching its way across Asiatic R issia and Friday was oflicially declared to be in the province of Amur In Southeast Siberia and separated by the Amur river from Manchuria. Th* reports now in the posession of tho sanitary bureftu^show a total for the season o* 182,327 cases with 83,631 deaths. These Include the early returns for the week ending September 10 and the revised figures for th? preceding week. The statistics show a steady decrease in the number of pases and fatalities. Schooners Wrecked. Rigolets, La., on the gulf of Mexico, reports that the tramp schooners Farewell and Henry M. were wreckin a severe storm .>f about an hour's. Juration there Friday afternoon. Vhe crews were rescued by a tishlug vessel. Will Stretch Hemp. For the murder of Officer W aid nop it Piedmont about two months ago* Hunk Shernrd, a young negro, was Friday sentenced at Greenville by fudge Onry to hang on the tlrst Frtiay in October. Four Men Drown in Wreck. Four men were drowned and two others barely escaped death when he power lK>at Comfort was disabled uid foundered off Pfnm Island, near S'ewburyport, Mass.. Saturday. * As ft scape tfoat Nacle Joe Cannon has not proven a success. After the safe man took him to tho wilderness he refused fo stay put. The old mau says he is still a candidate for speaker. After all it looks like Ualling^r will be the only victim.