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Take Your Choice.

David B. Hill. the sponsor of the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency,
said at st. Louis that he did not know
now Parker stood on TIE money ques.
ton" For thirty years Hill and Park.
Ell have been Intimately associated, so.
cially and politically. If the statement
made by Hill is to be believed, then
Parker is too sccretive a man to elect
to the Presidency; if false, Their it was
evidently made for the purpose OF mis-.
leading the people; and if the people are
to be deceived in one thing. why not iii
all the acts of the Democratic leaders?
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"TAR WATER,
Will 1t Prove an Acceptable Beverage
to Respectable Democrat?

ah <ASSS ptublC beverage
to Respectable Democratic?
Judge Parker's %'admonition," adj
dressed to his waning supporters, in his
speech to the visiting editors, has in it..
for ali its rhodomontade. a shadow Of
the pathetic.
1t is little wonder that there are dis
sensions in the Democratic camp, as
staid gentlemen from the South, East
and West, men who have certain tradi-
tons of responsibility to reckon with,
find that their candidate is and always
has been cheek by jowl with David
Bennett Hill and hand in glove with
Tammany.
Judge Parker, recognizing the dangers
of his position, but unable to shake off
the political associates and methods by
which he has risen, pleads %fervently for
the elimination of personal, fractional
and unimportant differences involving no
surrender of principle" Such elimina-
ton. he declares, sis essential to sue
| cess"
But will the Democrats drink the
Tammany tar water!"
There is something to be said-or
there WAS-in favor, even. of tar
water" Bishop Berkeley in his famous
eulogy upon that old-fashioncd but un-
pleasant mixture declared: "IT is OF
A NATURE so MILD AND BENIGN
AND PROPORTIONED TO THE
HUMAN CONSTITUTION AS TO
WARM WITHOUT HEATING. TO
CHEER BUT NOT 1NEBRIATE."
Still, tar water went out of fashion.
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Republican W.. Democratic Policy.

Organization does much to maintain
the wages of labor, but organization of
wage-earners does not provide consum-
ers. Consumption of coal is always
greatest when mills and factories are run
ming full time. 1t is the policy of the
Republican party to protect all indus
tries by wise and beneficent laws, while
it has been the policy of the Democratic
party, as evidenced by the last Cleveland
administration to provide as much work
as possible for the artisans of other coun-
tries by removing the protection the tar
if affords American workingmen.
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Tom Watson acknowledges that I

Tom Watson acknowledges that the
condition of American workingmen is
now vastly improved. and that in their
homes they enjoy conveniences of life
which n king could not command some
hundred years ago. If the Democracy
had its way WI would reverse the wheels
OF progress so that the workingmen
might enjoy the privations of life that
We're the common lot in the grand old
days of Jetfersonian scarcity of bath
tuhS
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PENSION ORDER, NO. Is.
President R%oosevelt's Action Is Ii.
Line with La and Precedent.

The %groundlesS character of the charge
that President Roosevelt has exceeded
his constitutional powers is shown clear
ly by examination of the facts and the
laws concerned in the executive action
known as the age pension order" issued
last March by direction of the President.
Anyone who will take the trouble TO.
read the act of June ~, 1890, as amend
ed May -. 1900. will find a clear basis
To begin with. 1t directs who shall have
pensions. and how the amount of the.
pension. in each case. snail be determine
ed, as follows:
All persons who served 80 days or NOR,
in the military or naval service Of the
United states during the late war of the
rebellion and who have been honorabiy dis
who may hereafter be suffering from %
mental or physical disability OF a perma-
nent character, not the result of their own
vicious habits, which inrapacitatcs them
from the performance of manual labor in
such Il degree as to render them unable to
earn a support. shall, upon making due
proof of the fact according to such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of the
Interior may provide, be placed unan the
list of invalid pensioners Of the United
States and be entitled to receive Il pen
sion not exceeding SD per month, aud not
less than ST per month. proportional To the
degree Of inability to earn Il support, and
In determining such Inability each aud eN-
cry disability shall be duly considered. and
the aggregate of the disabilities shown shall
be rated.
Thus. as plain as words can make it,
is authority given to the Secretary of tho
Interior to determine what pension shall
be paid to any applicant for pension who
served ninety days in the War of Re-
bellion, was honorably discharged, and
,lo ,, ..,lJ. - Al. a
manual labor by any cause other than
the results of his own vicious habits.
The Supreme Court has decided that
upon the point of establishing the rate OF
pension to be paid, within the limits pre-
scribed by the law the Secretary of the
Interior has entire control. The only
check or supervision upon him is from
the President of the United States, whom
the general laws specifically direct shall.
have control of the Commissioner of Pen
lions and the administration of the PEN
sion system.
Therefore, it was directly in line with
the duties imposed upon him according
to section All, U. S. Revised Statutes,
that President Roosevelt gave the cele-
brated order which has been called an
evidence of ~"usurpation," ''imperialism."
IL ueSiIc 10 ONeFFl!e lue cDlSLllutlOH,
a "~looting of the treasury" and other.
hard names. by excitable Democrats. The
section of the Revised Statutes referred
to reads as follows:
THE Commissioner of Pensions shall
perform, under the direction of the Sec
rotary of the Interior. such duties in the
execution of the various pension and
bounty-land laws as may be prescribed
by the President"
President Roosevelt, in his pension or
der, did no more thar his plain duty. act
ing strictly within the powers conferred
upon him by the Congress of the United
States.
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Would 1t BE wi.e?

1t is conceded that the Democrats are
not on record on the tariff question. This
being the case, would it not be unwise
To TRUST tariff revision to the party op-
posed to the principle of protection, the
result being practically free trade. bring
ing industrial depression. hard times and
the inevitable lowering Of prices on farm
products?
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The ~helpfulness of the Germany to-
ward each other has been one of the
splendid Lessons they have Taught,
Fidelity is always nm a admirable trait.
The fidelity of Germans toward each
other has been to me nlwnys one of
their striking and admirable charge
teristics. -Senator Fairbanks at Indianapolis,
Seutcmher3 3. 1899.
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Now we know that David B. Hill in
tends to quit politics next January, for
he has disclaimed calling President
Roosevelt "a fraud" That a little in
nocuous fling like that when he has ex-
hausted the vocabulary Of vituperation
upon the Republican half Of the .Ameri-
can people for nigh on 40 years is
surely a sign that David is setting his
house in order and wants to depart Pc
utical life at peace with all men -
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Prosperity at Home, Prestige Abroad.

prosperity at Home and Prestige
Abroad'-was a campaign phrase that
appealed with great force to the Amer
lean people in 1900. 1t should appeal
10 them with still greater force in 1904,
for during the last four years Of fur
ther Republican rule there have been
still further great gains in the prosper
ity of the United States, and still fur
ther great increase in the respect enter
tanned for the United States by all the
nations of the world.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-30

The story of the struggle on the edge
Of the arid belts is a record of heart
breaking disappointments and of failure
for causes utterly beyond individual con-
troll. Under national irrigation these
will occur happily, no more.
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A man who 10 weak enough to mt hi.
candidacy In their (Hilps and Bel
mont'sl hands before the convention
would not be strong enough to resist
their influence after election, If he
were by any possibility succe.sful.-
William j. BRYAN.
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Forty years of practical control Of the
government by the Republican party
covers the whole period of modern prog
ress. The only intervals of reac-
ton or failure to progress were when
the Democratic party was in power.
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History shows that a Democratic
tariff has always been followed by bust
ness adversely and a Republican tariff
by business prosperity. Why not ac-
cept the verdict of history?
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The Democratic party is like the man
who was in favor of prohibition but
"agin" the enforcement. 1t fayors a
Panama Canal, but opposes the measures
necessary to obtain it,
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Under the Republican policy of pro-
lection our home market affords our
manufacturers and producers the best
market in the world, even if we did not
sell any of our products abroad. But
protection has also made us the greatest
exporting nation in the world.
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The Democratic party has been fatally
wrong on every phase of the money ques-
ton from the resumption of specie pay
ment after the war to the establish
ment of the gold standard, both of which
it opposed. 1t is constitutionally unfit
to deal with financial questions.
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China and India are cheap" countries.
Human labor is held very low in these
lands and the result is that the masses
are constantly stepped in poverty and
menaced by starvation. In spite of the
so-called cheapness the people do not get
things.
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pemocratic Party Dix,d.a-

The Democratic campaign managers
are trying to hoodwink the mass of the
party by saying all Democrats are work
ing earnestly for the election OF Parker.
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AS THE FARMER SEES
REASONS Why HE BELIEVES IN.
AND TRUSTS REPUBLICANS.
They Have Never Deceived Nor Re-
trayed His Interests and Have A9-
aressively Favored LeEislation for
His BENEFIT.

Each national campaign emphasizes
che fact chat the farmer vote must be
reckoned with and catered to, and all
parties put forth their best arguments
when addressing the farmer. Away from
the madding crowd, u~ntrammeled by the
prejudices and false cries OF the politi-
clan, the farmer calmly reads and thinks,
and thinks and reads. and decides the
question with a discerning judgment that
leads to a decision which is honest and
right.
In 1896 it was generally feared that
the farmer would be deceived by the
great promises made of the benefcent re-
suits to be attained by voting for free
silver, but this was not SO; the farmer
might be deceived when away from home.
but at his own ireside, with plenty of
time to weigh the question, he decided
for the gold standard, AND THE DEM-
OCRATIC PARTY AND IT'S CANDI-
DATES ON THE NATIONAL TICK
EFT NOW SAY THAT THE FARMER
DECIDED RIGHT. In 1900 the cry
was Imperialism, and with his love of
freedom it was said that the farmer
might be s%tampeded, but again he allow
ed common sense and calm consideration
TO decide the question, and, seeing no
danger of militarism or overthrow of the
established government by the new order
of things. forced upon us by the war
with Spain, the farmer again cast his
ballot for the Republican ticket, and
time has proved that his judgment was
good and his decision right.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-08-18
Goinq to the Exposition ?

Regarding the matter of the special
coach party to the st. Louis Worlds
Fair August both, via Southern Rail
way, quite a number OF persons have
signified their intention of going.
The rate will be only $500 for the
round trip, ticket limited to 10 days,
and if sufficient number goes a spe-
cial coach will be provided to run di-
rect through without change. Leave
Henderson 9:15 a. m, August Both,
arrive st. Louis about Il. m, Sept.
LIST. The same rate will apply, but
as many as 30 must constitute the
party to procure the use of a private
coach. Persons who wish to take
advantage of this trip should notify
W. W. Morris, Henderson agent Of
the Southern Railway, at once.
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Miss Averett's School of Music.

AS announced 10y card published
elsewhere, the fall term of Miss Emma
". Averett's School of Music will
open Monday, Aug. 29th. She will
teach at the same place-Mrs. Cora
GregOry's residence, and the same
terms will apply as heretofore OF
Miss Averett specifications and sue
cess as q teacher of music it is not
necessary for us to speak. She is too
we'll and favorably known to our
people as a skilled and accomplished
musician and experienced and sue
cessful teacher, for that. Piano, voice,
organ and guitar, theory, harmony
and writing, elocution and physical
culture INSTRUMENTATION call
on or address Miss Averett.
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GROVER CLEVELAND.
Gan AcrOstic. J

Grandly he stands unfalteringly just.
Recreant never to public trust;
Only his duty his beacon-light,
Varying never in doing the right
Easily statesman, the first in the land.
Reverently leading our patriot band.
Calm and serene pilot, at post,
Laboring to guide the nations great host;
Ever keen-scanning political skies;
Vigorously pointing out where danger lies:
Eagerly trailing his search-light for truth.
Lavishly lighting the pathway of youth;
Always his NAME will on history's pages
Nearest to fame be; all through the ages
Declaring this truth, he belonged to the
sages.
The above lines were written by DR.. C..
Ross, of Richmond, Va, who sent them
to his friend, Capt. W. B. Shaw, by way
OF showing his admiration for Mr.. Cleve-
land. They are so good that we asked
permission to print them.
DIR. Ross was surgeon at the Virginia
Military Institute when Capt. Shaw was
a cadet. He was assistant medical direc-
tor on Gen. A. 2. Hills staff in the Con-
federate army and bore an honorable
part in those eventful times. DR.. Ross
is now successful practitioner in Rich
mond, is one of the general medical staff
of the Southern Railway, and also one
of the professors at the Richmond Medi-
cal College. He is a man OF literary
tastes and talents and as his acrOatic on
Grover Cleveland shows he is gifted with
the divine aftiatus and not infrequently
tempts the MUSES. for his own pleasure
and that of his friends.
\ brother, Erskine Ross, was a class
mate of Capt. Shaw's. He is now
United States Circuit Judge in California,
and Mr.. Cleveland had him in mind for
appointment on the United States Su-
perior Court bench, position which his
eminent learning well qualified him for
and which he would have filed with
distinguished ability and satisfaction to
the country.
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Letter From EPSON.

EPSON, n c., August 18th. 1904
EDITOR GOLD LEAF:-It is said that
representation is the thief of time, de-
lay is dangerous" etc. Experience con-
firms this assertion, for | have delayed
sending in my weekly contribution to
your valuable paper for the past several
weeks.
Miss Lula Ayscue, of Henderson, is Wis
iting relatives of this place.
Miss Josye Edwards, Of Durham, is Wis
iting Miss Vann Duke for several days
this week.
Rev. c. f. Andrews, pastor of New
Sandy Creek Baptist church, baptized 10
converts last Sunday morning at Amos
mill pond.
Several OF our military boys are gone
to camp at Morehead City and will not
return until the latter part Of this week.
Rev. W. c. Wicker. a member of ElOn
College faculty, has been at work in this
vicinity the past week in the interest of
Elon College
Little Charlie Fulcher, who has been
seriously sick several months of cancer,
died last Saturday. He was only four
teen years of age, and had been a sufferer
all his life
Uncle George Fuller, an old time darkey
slave, died near here on Friday last. He
was said to have been over 100 years OF
age-certainly one of the Oldest of the ''old
issue" darkies in the country.
Miss Annie Belle Hoyle, of Wakefield, is
visiting in EPSON. We are always glad
to welcome Miss Hoyle to our little town,
for having been a schoOlmate and a
teacher of many of US she is loved by all.
Miss lola Duke leaves next Friday for
Concord, n. c.. on a pleasure trip. From
there she will go to Crescent, n. C., where
she will resume her former duties as bus
mess teacher in Crescent Academy and
Business College.
Mr.. S. W. Duke lost fine two-year old
mich COW this morning, the result of a
gore in her right side made by the SHARP
[ horns of another COW. Y. \. ID.
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A WONDERFUL SAVING.

The largest Methodist Church in Georgia,
calculated to use over one hundred gallons
of the usual kind of mixed paint in painting
their church.
They used only 80 gallons of the Longman
& Martinez Paint mixed with "a gallons OF
Hnseed oil. Actual cost OF paint made WAS
less than 81 20 per gallon.
Saved over eighty ($SO.0O) dollars in
paint. and got big donation besides.
EVERY CHURCH will be given a liberal
quantity whenever they paint.
Many houses are well painted with four
gallons of L. & NJ, and three gallons OF lin
seed oil mixed Herewith.
Wears and covers like gold.
These Celebrated Paints are sold by Melville
Dorsey. Druggist.
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RESOLUTIONS Of RESPECT.
Adopted by the Kings Daughters On
sthe Death of Mrs. E. G. Davis.

WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the King to
call to His court His daughter, Mrs. E. G.
Davis, leaving her sisters to mourn her
loss; and
WHEREAS, We shall deeply feel the want
of her counsel and the sweet influence OF
her lovely character; yet we know our
loss is her eternal gain. and we humbly
submit to the dispensation of our King,
knowing that He doeth all things well.
Resolved, By the Whatsoever Circle OF
the Kings Daughters and Sons, that we
tender our heartfelt sympathy to her be-
reaved husband and children: that these
resolutions be recorded in the minutes of
the Circle.
Resolved, That copy Of these resolu-
tons be sent by the secretary to the fam
lily of our deceased sister, and also to the
GOLD LEAF for publication.
Mrs. n. H. CHAyAssE.
Mrs. WM BUCHAN,
Mrs. |. c. ROWLAND.
Committee.
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An Omission.

In making mention last week of
the floral tributes sent for Mrs. +. e.
Davis funeral, one of the most beau
tiful pieces was omitted. This was.
due to a mere inadvertence and SO
strikingly handsome, unique and APP
propriate was the Offering in ques
ton that We think it merits special
reference now. We allude to that of
Whitmel Blount Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution. This
was in the form of a pillow in colors
red. white and blue-with the let
tiers I'D. a. r." across the face, the
design and execution being one Of
the most exquisite things we have
seen wrought in flowers.
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IS CONSUMPTION DURABLE?

Yes, If RYDALE'S ELIXIR is used in time;
before too much OF the lung tissue is involved.
This modern, scientific medicine removes all
morbid irritation and Inflammation from the
lungs to the surface and expels them from the
system. 1t aids expectoration, heals the Ill
cerated surfaces. relieves the cough and makes
breathing easy. RYDALE'S ELlAlR does
not dry the mucous surface and thus stop the
cough Its action is inst the opposite-it
stimulates and soothes. 1t kills the germs
that cause chronic throat and lung disease
and thus aids nature to restore these organs
to health Trial size Csc. Large size SOC.
The large size holds 2la times the trial size.
EAGLE PHARMACY
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infant ABANDONED.

A DiaboiicaI Crime Which Demands
Prompt Investigation and the Severe
Punishment of the Guilty Persons
White Child Left at CoIored Wo-
mans House Near Town Saturday
Night.
A white female child, about three
or four weeks old, was left at the
home OF Lucinda Register, colored
woman, about one mile below Boing's
crossing Saturday night. Where it
came from Or who brought it there
is not known. 1t was found under
some bushes near the door about II
o'clock A note was left with the
child which read: "Mrs. Register,
please take care of this child and God
will bless YOU" Buggy tracks were
found near the house, but they could
not be traced farther than the road.
The person who left the child was
evidently acquainted with the local
ity and knew who lived there as note
indicated. Lucinda Register is sick
nurse and is away from home much
vi CLc IlIIc. tolIC Coulu iioO hCCp tiIC
child on this account. although her
daughters wanted to do so. Burwell
Bullock's wife, who is a niece of Lu-
cinda Register, decided to take the
child and unless there are other de-
velopments the little waif will find a
home and foster mother there.
This is a case which calls for the
prompt and vigorous action of the
officers of the law and all good citi-
zens in trying to ferret out the per-
sons guilty of this diabolical act.
Next to murder itself we can conceive
of no greater crime than the aban-
doning of a child like this to be
picked up by chance or left to die OF
hunger, or cold, or devoured by ami
mails. The guilty persons can be dis
covered if the proper effort is made,
and diligent enquiry and investiga-
ton should be made all over Vance
county and beyond if search within
our own borders proves fruitless.
The GOLD LEAF calls upon all good
people to aid in fixing the guilt where
it belongs. If child has been born
somebody in the neighhorhood is
mighty apt to know it. And this
one was kept somewhere for three or
four weeks
In the meantime there ought to be
some place where this child could be
taken and cared for by white people.
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A Perfect Painless Pill

is one that will cleanse the system, set the
liverto action, remove the bile, clear the COM
plexion cure headache and leave a good taste
in the mouth The famous little pills for do
ing such work pleasantly and effectually are
Dewitt S Little Early Risers Bob Moore. of
Lafayette. Ind, says: ''All other pills | have
used grippe and sicken, while DeWitts Little
Early Eisers are simply perfect" Sold at
Parker's Two Drug Stores
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-08-18

An advertisement OF the Washing
ton POST appears elsewhere There is
no better paper published in this
country, and during this campaign
year it will be especially valuable and
interesting. No paper is more widely
quoted ormore thoroughly independ-
ent and fair in it's news columns.
Editorially it is bright and able, has
opinions OF its own and dare express
them in candid, fearless fashion.