Charlotte iitcsscngcr. * r ■ . Published every Saturday at CHARLOTTE, N. 0. -BY- W. C. SMITH. Subscription Bates. (Always in Advance.) 1 year, - ... $l5O r> months. - ... LOO *'• 75 4 “ 00 " 40 Single copy, .... 5 Notify us at once of all failures of this l appr to reach you on time. All money must be sent by Register, Money «rcler or Postal note to W. . SMITH, bhort correspondence on subjects of inter «-st to the public is solicited; but persona joust not be disappointed if they fail to me t iieir articles in our columns. We are not responsible for the views of correspondents. Anonymous communications go to waste bosket. Republican Ticket. Chief Justice: ‘Ralph P. Buxton. For Associate Justices: John W. Albertson, Virgil S. Luske. For Superior Court Judges: Third District:—W. F. Bullock. Fourth 11 T. P. Devereux. Eighth “ W. S. O’B. RobinsoD, Hi*th “ D. M. Furches. Ninth •< A. E. Holton. Tenth “ J. W. Bowman. Twelfth “ Perry A. Cumming. Senate: E. C. Hinson. For Sheriff: T. K. Samond. For Constables Charlotte Township: C. T. Thomas. COUNTY GOVERNMENT. The question of county govern ment has been a main issue in all the campaigns for the last several years, iind now the Independents, so-called, ore crying aloud on that subject. I-ate in life finding it out, but can you place any reliance in what they say, when it is patent to all that the very man who is now managing the campaign in their interest and at tending all the speakings ; nd hoop ing up the strikers, holds his office as Justice of the Peace or Magistrate, under this odious county govern ment system which lie is trying so hard to have abolished ? The strong est argument in lavor of the charge of the system is to give the people the right to elect their magistrates and give the colored man a chance to relegate to the shades of private life, Justice McNinch, who has fer many years fattened upon the mis fortunes of the colored race. There is no reliance to be put in their preten tions. I hey want our votes on elec tion day; that is all. We can expect nothing from them. When a colored man raises his voice and. protests against their methods to deceive our race, they cry out: He is bought. It will be a cold day when the Messenger sells out the colored race. Mr. T. K. Salmond is the only Republican can didate before the j eiple now, lor the office of sheriff, ar.d lie ought to re ceive the votes of all true Republi cans on the 2d of November. Mr. Cooper is the ring candidate that the strikers are trying to force upon the colored people for their suffrage— they get the money. The only act of his that looks like being in affiliation with the Republi can party, is the fact that he has had his shaving done in a barbershop patronized exclusively by colored people. Mr. Cooper must give bet ter evidence of change of heart than this before he can expect the colored vote. I rue Republicans must vote for Republicans whenever they are in the field. I his is the true test of party loyalty and true party princi ples. Mr. Cooper is now supported by the discordant element of the Democratic party who have always been the chief challengers at the bal lot box, and the regular bull-dozers 'of colored people during elections. • Colored voters behold them! Juror, look upon the prisoner. Prisoner,’ look upon the juror. Do you like him? No. Let that be your verdict on the day of election. If we be- j lieve in a free ballot and a fair count, let us forever silence all bull-dozer* challengers and bribers at election t j \ W. E. MAYO, ESS. The gentleman whose name heads 1 this article has been presented to the voters of this, the 6th Congressional District, as the labor candidate to represent them in the 50th Congress. He does not only accept and fully endorse the platform and principles of the Knigms of Labor, but he is himself a laboring man and a Knight in good standing—all false reports to the contrary notwithstanding. If the time has come for a break m the old party lines, why not let all good people join in with the Knights of Labor and vote for Mayo, who is neither a Democratic nominee nor a ! demagogue. Many of us do not j want to vote for a Democratic law- 1 yer, yet we cannot consistently vote! for a man with the record Col. Jones has, while he so persistently declares ! that lie has nothing to regret or! apology to make for his past record. Thinking colored men who have read the Observer the last two or three I years, cannot and will not vote for [ones. j The common argument is “any -1 thing to beat the nominee.” Are we I to continue to throw off our own best j men and every good chance to elect decent men of our own party ? Are we to forsake all principle and go blindly to the support of any poor j fellow thrown aside by his own party? No. It is true we are poor, but there are a few of us yet who are not for sale and intend to vote blank tickets or stay at home rather than sell ourselves for a few dollars or be led by a few hired’men calling them selves Independents. We have had told us the amount paid or promised nearly every col ored man canvassing for the Inde pendents in this county. Some of them have received only two dollars, some four dollars and others have offered to sell their influence to the Democratic party. A few cheap leaders are responsible for- this low condition of affairs. What right has any man to sell you or deliver your vote to an unfit man without consult ing you? We appeal to the sober, calm judgment of thinking colored men. What is best for you to do? Listen not to hirelings, but think the matter over to yourself, with God as your judge, make up your mind and vote once in your life for men upon merit; for all are Democrats on the liberal ticket except Hinson, says the Observer. DR MOTT AND THE TICKET. Dr. J. J. Mott, ex-chairman of the Republican State Committee is out again in a long letter advising against the support of the Republican State ticket. There are only two tickets in the field: Democratic and Repub lican. If we don’t vote the Repub lican ticket we must either vote the regular Democratic ticket or not at all. What can- Dr. Mott mean ! He must have lost his mind. Col. Tom. Cooper ex-collector is fighting Mott and favoring the State ticket. Dr. York whose county would not send delegates to Raleigh is supporting the ticket. All the Republicans in the State except Dr. Mott are sup porting it because the men on it are of the ablest and purest in the State. We have contended all the while that Dr. Mott was not the proper person to lead. His actions in mat ters certainly ought to satisfy any thinking man that he has not the in terests of the party at heart, but only acts from malice to spite those who try to keep up the organization of the party. Every prominent Republi can in Western North Carolina is supporting this State ticket except Mott. All factions have united, and now Dr. Mott throws in his spleen by advising us to vote the regular ticket nominated by the Democrats or not at all, when we have a regular Republican ticket made up of the best men in the party, headed by Judge R. P. Buxton. What does Mott mean ? We expect him to be squarely in the Democratic party next, where he prpperly belongs, or in the insane asylum. A PERSONAL CARD. Seeing that much of the Indepen dent of last Wednesday is devoted to personal matters relative to my self, I beg my patrons to allow me to pay some attention to it through these colums. I admit the article in my piper was personal, but it was entirely truthful and not at all ablusive. Brown does not deny any part of it. I admit that Brown and twere for years close 1 personal friends, and naturally I con-1 sided in him. I at times borrowed | money from him and loaned him money whenever he asked for it if 11 had it for we were friends. He had , twt> revolvers and I borrowed one. Some way or other each of us man-1 aged to. pay back all we borrowed, except his revolver. His lover and . mine were also close friends and one ’ may easily understand that part. I I never was in the habit of visiting | bars, but joined Brown on corner of 9th and F streets one night in com-I pany with others, and later entered j a saloon over a bar, the whole party | j being Brown’s guests. That was my j first and last. Brown may tell who I | his company was if he chooses, and j how he attempts to keep in mind ! that name. Now how can a sane man face de cent people after betraying the con fidence placed in him by a friend. 1 did secure the place for Brown from Col. Canady without the knowledge or aid of his brother-in-law. I also gave my second place to my step father by the kindness of Col. Can ady, for which I shall ever feel grate ful to Mr. Canady. The statement that I, in any wav tried to get the place back from Brown is false and as black as the hinges of midnight. Col. Canady repeatedly asked me to take it, and I told him I would return home before I would take it back. Col. Canady's address is “U. S. t Senate Chamber, Washington, D. ; C.,” let any one ask him about it. All this stuff about my loafing around Washington, taking my fathers money, leaving his bills unpaid, &c., is lalse and unworthy of notice. I have been better bred than to try to expose a friend and show myself unworthy the confidence of any per son in the future. The ladies ©t this city know me, but none of the courts of this or any other State known me I owe the Observer and have been asked repeatedly by CoL Jones to take my work there now and pay as I please. But that b personal bust ness and shows an emptiness in the upper story of the man who offers it for argument. The facts published against Brown last week by “A Wit nesss,” are true and undeniable, and they cause the young man to smart awfully. For the sake of Mr. Brown’s family, &c., and for many other reasons I will not pursue the course he has, for I have and hope to retain the confidence of my friends. W. C. Smith CHAS. R. JONES. This is the gentleman, who is ex ceedingly anxious to go to Congress on the Independent Democratic ticket. Hb sole opposition to the regular Democracy b the fact that they did not nominate Chas. R. for Congress. That he b a Democrat, b well known, and he glories in the fact, his paper, the Charlotte Obser ver, b devoted to Jones and the Democratic party. J ust now hb pa per is in disfavor with the Democracy, but Jones claims he b a Democrat just the same. Listen at him on Oct. 27. In speaking of the countv ticket he says: ‘‘With the exception of Mr. Hinson (who b a Republican, on the Independent ticket), all the men on both tickets are good Demo crats.” Honest Republicans of Mecklenburg county, Jones says all the men on both tickets are good Democrats. .Mr. Jones has never said a good word tor the Republicans in his life, and men, now he is engag ed in abusing Blaine, he says Blaine is bellowing around the country. Then he publishes a piece of poetry on Blaine in order to ridicule him. yes he (Jones) expects to have Re publicans vote for him. It woutdi be a sight to make the angles weep, to hear Chas. R. in the marble halls of Congress,singing Goodbye Alf,Raw- Land G-00-de bye.” If thb would not make Logan, Sherman, Ed monds and the other big Republicans take to the woods, then set me down for a singed tailed Independent. Rooster. > NOTICE. Wilmington, N. C. Oct. 25th, rSS6. Sanctuary, Local Assem bly, No. 6827. To all whom it may concern ; We the undersigned officers and : members of the various Assemblies of Knights of Labor of the city of j Wilmington having heard with regret - that brother William E. Mayo is re ported in Charlotte as an expelled Knight and for drunkenness, we do hereby declare such report to be j false and without foundation. Broth- 1 er Mayo, now being a member and I in good standing, there having never ! been any charge against him for any ; offence. Nor has he ever been under j the influence of intoxicants in assem- j bly to our knowledge, and we further i state that he b not an habitual 1 drinker. Respectfully, W. E. King, 6527, M. W. Coleman Yuming, V. S-,6S;S. Valentine Howe,M.W., 6366 L- G. Russ. A. M., 6828. C.J. Hopkins,DelegatetoG. A. C. H. Capps, F. S., 6827. Geo. C. Walsh, R. S., 6825. ' A Malicious Lie. “Some malicious person, or per sons, have seen proper to set afloat and circulate a report in Charlotte to the effect that Mr. W. E. Mayo, the Workingman’s candidate for Con gress from the Sixth District, b “an expelled member cf the Knights ot Labor—expelled tor. drunkenness. This is the furthest from truth of any lie that could have been circulated against Mr. Mayo, who, be it said, is not only a member in good stand ing, but an officer of Southside As sembly No. 6827, and does not rir dulge in the intoxicating cap . It is plain to us where thb rumor found 1 birth and for what purpose it was cir culated, and if Mr. Mayo doesn’t make some one smoke ’ere the mat ter is ended then we are somewhat mistaken, that’s all. Such lies as the above are not wor thy of a chronic politician, and that is saying considerable, according to our way of thinking. ’" The above is from the Wilmington Daily Index ot last Tuesday. The Index is the Knights of Labor organ, ; adopted at the State Assembly, Au gust nth, 1886, as the official organ. It has at the head of its column W. E. Mayo for Congress, for the 6*h ; Congressional Dbtrict. Let true Knights read and reflect over their 1 obligation. That Ticket. This b what last Wesnesday’s Ob- j server says about the Independent ticket: “With the exception of Mr. Hin-j| son, (who b a Republican, on the Independent ticket), all the men on both tickets are good Democrats.” j Republicans, does CoL Jones 1 known ? Do you like the ticket ? j Capt. Rosscler b one of the bit terest negro haters in the county and since fee has been named as a candi date. told a friend of ours that he didn't want to be seen on the streets MtHnM. to Republicans- Can think ing colored men stomach such things ? If so, we are deceived. A •enuice C-ycsapeakn Bay Spanish mackerel wa- ae.-ent.ly raagbtthst meas ucd two and a half feet in length, was > vea indvw browl. sad weighed eleven .raasds. Bat#rw«rf never saw its like H »*. There are sci!l esrough Indians left i« the West ta he when * decided nuisance A Barge fiwk ®f sheep which were being drivea flora Meats** into Canada were ssHraouEded fey a hand ©f Indians on the Belly river, and urged over its precipi to«» tasks until they piled up. one on another, twenty-five feit deep. In this way IX2 sheep were killed,and afterward skinned, eat up and camel away by the redskins. A Minnesota man who knows the In dians of the Northwest well advances the theory that they are increasing instead ol diminishing in numbers. He says that -hey have bee® steadily following the bwfirato westward, gradually moving from the Atlantic feast to the Far West, and multiplying ns they moved. Thf firs* goTetaaaeat report mentions 60,C0C Indians: the last total number reporter was 2 ,a,WX Cn theauthwityof the American Cran berry Growers' Association, the 1886 ersp is estimated at 600,00 b bushels ogainst X3tt,W*» bushels estimated last year. These figures m»y be esceeded,as the actual crop last ytar was about 900,- 30® bushels. In order to secure a market, new channels ©I trade must be opened. Last year no less than 150,009 bushels failed to find an outlet, the enormous jaantity of X5*MM® bushels being mar keted only by great exertions and at low ockes. They even eateh fish by machinery out West. A late traveler on the Pacific coast writes: “On the Columbia Rivet I found a very discouraging state of af fairs. The fishermen had lost confidence somewhat, though they had had two or three gacd days. Even in fishing. I saw where machinery was supjvantlug the labor of men. One machine I saw canrht eighteen tons, or 3.50:: barrels ol fish in twelve bants, and the only labot needed was not in catching the fish, bui in carting them away.’’ An Indian, while in St. Paul lately a: a witness, got roaring drunk, was ar rested, and the maoicjpal judge sen tencedham to five days in the work house He wore his hair long, and, o: remise. it was twt off while in the work house. He felt this as a disgrace, whilt the eoafinemen: had no edect cn hin whatever. When te returned home h« was so ashamed of himself that for 1 week he did ax leave his topee. Afte; that the Indians, fora longtime, woilt net tome to fit. Paul for fear their ha) would he cat ofi. Mr. Beaulieu, a Cus tarn House oSeial, had to do consider , tide premisiag that their hair w.uldb. safe, and firnlly got them started again But afew months agoanotl.er long-haije. Indian was arrested and sent to the word how e. He was wanted as a witnc s. am cn this plea the judge remitted the sen trace, the Indian meantime having gom to tfco work house. The United fitate osiers hunied after him, and arrivec ,lnst as his hair was being unbraid < ready to be cut off. He was saved by : scratch, and it wu to important to th. Indian as if he had nearly lost his scalp lock and just squeezed out with it on. Oct near the Nevada line some twenty five years ago. so the story runs, a won Aerially rich mine was discovered. It! finders died, and only the news of theii rich luck came to the ears of the outside world. Time and again other adventure ers tried to find the long-lost spot 01 treasure. Several weeks ago a fresl pasty of wealth seekers left Los Angela to hunt for the go den glory of the Pa cifie slope. Through the Cajon pass, over the Mo'are desert, around the foot of the Amatgsasa Mountains they jour neyed through Heath Valley. The Am gust sun was at its hottest, and the for. tune seekers experienced every tormea' conceivable. On every side they saw th« sknl’s and t>« >of those who had gone before them on similar errands. East ol the Amargosi Mountains they lost theii tanrings. Their water barrels shrank and fell apart, and their thirst was un quenched day after day. They dug sot water, but I* was salt and made both horses and men sick. At last they reached the mountains and wearily be ran prospecting. No success came until. * five many days, they shoveled out somt gravel that a : unty N. C nr *4 50 Fine lino of Yarns from ame mills. Gnrpet Mats in wh.te and colors. jeans, Cassimers, Ac., Be sure and try a pair of Evitt-s* Shoes ■„ every pair guaranteed. lev.; Will be glad to show you our goods, and hoping to sell yon more than ever We arc truly yours, Harrara & Altate, SMITH BUILDING Samples' sept at request. Dr. J- T- Williams Offer* his professional services to the general public. 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