The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-04-14
ESTABLISHED 1881.

BY the way, how many lawyers
have you heard criticizing Governor
Kitchin for his action in the Shem-
we'll matter?
THERE is lots of political talk these
days that is not getting into the pa
pers.-Durham Herald.
And a lot of political talk gets into
the papers that is not worth the
space it occupies.
THE North Carolina boys have
been victorious in the debating con-
tests even if the University did lose
to Virginia in the ball games last
week-and there is more glory in a
conquest Of brains than there is in
one OF muscle and legs.
THE Wilmington Star refers to the
Durham Sun as the "sWeet-toned
choir singer" whereat Jim Robinson
comes back and says it is pleasing to
acquire such a kindly expression
after thirty-seven years of constant
labor in the editorial harness.
How many hOmicides occur in
North Carolina in q week? II an ac-
curate list could be made the weekly
average would startle thinking peo-
rly
And such crimes will continue to
increase until there is changein the
laws of North Carolina that permit
murderers to escape punishment so
easily.
IT is not often that negroes resort
to lynching, but the white man is
initiated even in this sometimes. A
mob composed Of negroes overpower-
ed constable near KeO, Ark, on the
4th, and seized his two prisoners, n
man and woman, both negroes, and
strung them up and shot their bodies
full OF bullets. The victims were
charged with killing the husband OF
the woman and the wife of the man,
the object being that they would be
free to "have one'anOther
GOVERNOR Kitchin does not seem
tOhave drawn the fire of unfavOrable
criticism for pardoning A. W. Aman,
former Republican sheriff of Samp-
son county, serving t years in the
State penitentiary for embezzlement
OF $4,000 county funds while sheriff,
as he did in the Shemwell case. Rea-
son for pardon is that Aman has a
diseased leg which necessitates am
putatiOn and he could not receive
proper treatment i'll the State prison.
Aman was sentenced at the October,
1908, term of Sampson court
The Raleigh State Democrat pro-
pounds this pertinent question which
some folks may regard as personal if
not impertinent:
What has become ofthose staunch.
sturdy old temperance men who at
the close OF conferences and associa-
tons and conventions asserted their
allegiance to temperance, counseling
the younger men to live upright,
temperate lives and to bring I'D their
boys to do likewise? These land
marks have been displaced by force
which has new command, namely,
watch politics; see to it the right
men are sent to the Legislature; see
to it that officers obey the law and
that it's violaters are punished"
The law OF selecting jurors in MUIR
der trials in North Carolina needs to
be changed. The defense has an I'M
lair advantage of the State in the
matter OF challenges and the average
man who is competent for iurv SER
vice is ineligible under the very ma,
ture OF things. If a man has brains
enough to form an opinion and sense
enough to express an opinion after
ne has formed it, he may be excused
no matter how honest and fair mind
ed he may be, although he has heard
but one side of the question. If,
however, he never reads a newspaper,
never discussed the subject with his
neighbors, knows nothing about the
case at issue, or little of ANYTHING
else for that matter, and has not
formed or expressed an opinion as to
ones guilt or innocence, such a man
Is competent to sit in the jury box,
"hear the evidence and render a YER
dict accordingly" And it not in
frequently occurs that what the law
yers say has more influence upon
some such jurors than the sworn tes-
timony of witnesses in the ease.
Census Enumerators for Vance
County.
Following are the census ennmar-