The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-04-23
Excerpts From the Durham Herald.

our candidate so bad if the other Eel
low did not get it.
knowing what the prince is after,
ii they want to break it up they might
offer him the price.
IfyOu cannot be right, be with the
majority. 1t is generally just as good
and sometimes better.
If women are privileged to work
and use their influence in prohibi-
tion election why should they not be
privileged to vote?
We are willing to admit that there
are not as many teetOtalers on the
wet side as there are drinking men
on the other side.
4 carnival is booked for this town
in week or so and it is time you
people who do not want us to visit it
were up and doing.
The News and Observer can have no
kick coming when the Southern will
stop a train over in Raleigh two
hours for its special benefit.
1t begins to look as if somebody
will have to make sacrifice and ac-
cept the lieutenant gOvernOrship for
the good of the party
The gentleman who thinks that the
real prohibition party is making pro-
gress in the south had better be care
full about putting it to the test.
You need not be worrying about
what may happen to the politician.
The man who has been long at it
knows how to look out for himself
There is no reason for getting tenn
perance and prohibition confused so
long as they are saying SO much
about one and so little about the
other.
If you insist i'll sending politicians
to the legislature or men who want
to be politicians you must expect the
thing to continue as it has been 60
ing.
You fellows who have been holler-
ing for Mr.. Horne 10 the belief that it
would help your candidate may find
that it did not work Just as you ex-
pectsd.
Times may be a little harder than
they once were, but when something
comes along that the people want to
enjoy YOU will find that they have the
money.
While it may be impossible for the
Democrats to win at any time, they
have the pleasure of believing during
one year of every four that they are
going to win.
If the party wants Mr.. Bryan it
will have to take him as it finds him.
1t can never hope to change his views
or make him keep his mouth shut
about them.
Before committing yourself you
should ask yourself how you would
like to have government ownership
OF the railroads with the Republican
party in power.
Ii voting for Mckinley in preference
to MIR. Bryan is the worst thing that
Mr.. Craig has ever done we are will
ing to take back all that we may have
said about him.
Senator Elkins processes to be tired
Oft, but what does he want to buy
n title for if he does not want the
notoriety that naturally attends
such n transaction?
To hear some of the newspapers
talk one would think that starvation
was staring them in the face, but we
are free to confess that we have felt
nothing of the kind.
The prohibition party is thinking
OF putting up a southern man fol
president in the hope of carrying
some of the southern states. And
this is the thanks you get for it.
Certain gentlemen perhaps have MOI
figured on what they would do if pro
hibition We're defeated, as they wer,
pretty certain that such q thing wa.
impossible before going into it.
When one begins to talk of what h,
has done for the party right then h,
begins to make us tired. With mos
OF them the work was done when they
had something or were not after some
thing.
Prohibition and temperance hav
been preached and advocated in thi
State for years, and yet some peopl
never thought to Join the movement
until it was pretty certain that til,
thing was going to win out.
The Greensboro Record is afrait
that the efforts of some to force me-
to vote for prohibition may resul
disastrously for the cause, but to u
it appears that this manner of cam
paigning is in keeping with the Who'll
idea. Leave out the idea of forcin;
men to do and there would be n
prohibition.