CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President:
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
Os Indiaua.
For Vice-President:
LEVI P. MORTON,
Os New York.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
• FOR GOVERNOR t •
OLIVER 11. DOCKERY,
of Richmond county.
FOR I.IEUTENANT—GOVERNOR
JETER C. PRITCHARD,
of Madison county.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE t
GEORGE W. STANTON,
of Wilson county.
FOR AUDITOR OF STATE t
CHARLES F. McKESSON,
of Burke county.
FOR STATE TREASURER :
GEORGE A. BINGHAM,
of Bowan county.
FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION :
JAMES B. MASON,
of Orange county.
FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL :
THOMAS. I>. DEVKREUX,
of Wake county.
For Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court—to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Thomas S.
Ashe :
DANIEL L. RUSSELL,
of New Hanover county.
For Associate Justices of the Su
premo Court under amendment to the
Constitution :
DAVID M. FURCHES,
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of Iredell county.
RALPH P. BUXTON,
of Cumberland county.
For Presidential Electors for the
Statc-at-Large:
JAMES E. BOYD,
of Guilford county.
AUGUSTUS M. MOORE,
of Pitt county.
FOR THE 51ST CONGRESS —8d DISTRICT :
W. S. O’B. ROBINSON,
of Wayne county.
tor the 51st congress— stii district:
JOHN M. BROWER,
of Surry county.
Afok the 51st congress—'2d district.
I HENRY P. CHEATHAM,
of Vance county.
FOR ELECTOR—2d DISTRICT :
JOSEPH J. MARTIN,
of Edgecombe county.
FOR ELECTOR —4111 DISTRICT :
WILLIAM A. ALBRIGHT,
of Durham county.
SIXTH DISTRICT :
RICHARD M. NORMENT,
of Robeson county.
THIRD DISTRICT :
OSCAR J. SPEARS,
of Harnett county.
EIGHTH DISTRICT :
JULIUS B. FORTUNE,
of Cleveland county.
TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE NEWS.
Judge Russell will not run and
Gen. Barringer will vote for Cleve
land. The Democrats are sending
the news over the State and country
with marked delight that one of the
Republican candidates declines to run
on the State ticket. It was common
ly talked even in this city a week
after the State convention that Judge
Russell would not run. As the execu
tive committee meets next week, the
Democrat* have just learned of his
declination. There is no political
significance in it.
As to Gen. Barringer, he will sup
port the Republican State ticket..
Why don’t some Democratic paper in
form us that President Cleveland’s
uncle, Lewis F. Allen, is president of
a Harrison club in Buffalo, N. Y.?
That John Slinghuff, president of the
Montgomery (Pa.) National bank, cx
congrcssman Tbos. M. Marshal, of
Pennsylvania, P. D. Layton, cx-
Grand Secretary Knights of Labor,
and other prominent Democrats of
Pennsylvania, have recently declared
for Harrison and Morton and Protec
tion ?
A Good Fanner.
Our candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor is a good farmer, and the Dur
ham Recorder sustains us in this
opinion by giving some figures. Ac
cording to that paper Col. Holt has
rocently harvested 4,000 bushels of
wheat and has the finest corn seen
this year. Last year he sold over
400 bushels of clover seed and sold
in Kalcigh alone 22 car loads of hay.
All this is from only one of his farms.
Who can beat it? We challenge any
Republican paper to beat it.— Daily
Chronicle.
As to the proportions of the farm
we would not try to find its equal.
It is the kid-gloved aristocracy the
democrats glory in. Republicans
generally are of the class of men who
labor with their hands and sweat
from physical exertion and the heat of
the sun. The democratic candidate
for Lieutenant Governor is a rich
monopolistic manufacturer. Os course
he owns thousands of acres of land
and the poor tenants thereon have to
turn in to him their hard earnings.
What does he know about toiling or
the heat of the sun ? All he knows
/
of farming is theoretical. Think of a
man claiming (for a purpose) to be
one of the people, gathering from one
farm 4,000 bushels of wheat, 400
bushels of clover seed .and 22 car
loads of hay in one season! He is
truly a “horny-handed son of toil.”
Oh for something good for the
democrats to say for their candidates.
They have a foul man at the head of
their ticket and on the 7th of Novem
ber they’ll think the whole gang
struck out on foul.
Sunday School Convention.
The Sunday School Convention of
the Charlotte District (A. M. E. Zion
Church) will assemble at Davidson
College, N. C., Wednesday, July 25,
1888, 10 o’clock, a. m.
PROGRAM.
Address of welcome—Rev. J. W.
Stitt.
Response to address of welcome—
Rev. J. S. Caldwell.
What are the teacher’s Pastoral du
ties ?—Miss M. R. Sumner.
The Negro of IC2O and of 1888—Rev.
J. E. McNeill.
How can the home help the Sunday
School?—M iss Lydia Roberson.
Temperance—Rev. A. A. Williams.
Moral Philosophy—Mrs. A. S. Mc-
Knight.
Ts the expectation of reward or the
fear of punishment the greatest
incentive to exertion '!—Miss Annie
Connor.
Public recreation—Mr. R. A. Sim
mons.
Dr. J. C. Price—Miss S. E. Foster.
Do facts or fiction contribute most to
mental enjoyment? Miss N. J.
Tyley.
The Literary character of the Holy
Scriptures—Rev. J. W. Thomas.
What can a Teacher do to bring about
the Conversion of his Class ? Miss
Henderson.
Livingstone College—Rev. J. S.
Caldwell.
Crispuß Attueks—J W. Gordon.
How can we win attention?—Rev. P.
J. Holmes.
Novels—Miss Emma Crowell.
Annual Sermon.
Annual Addresses.
R. 8. Rives,
M. Slade,
B. F. Martin,
Committee.
The pastor and one delegate will
he expected from each charge and all
superintendents and members by vir
tue of their office.
It is hoped that each Sunday school
will not forget to send one cent per
scholar to meet expenses. We expect
to secure reduced rates over rail
roads whore over ten delegates wMI
pass.
OUR CANDIDATES.
BOTH STAND FOR EVERYTHING
THAT IS DISTINCTLY AMERICAN.
What Loading: Papers In Their Own States
Have to Say of Them—Gen. Harrison ns
Good u Man us Hither of fils Grand
fathers—Morton u Self Made Man.
Qcn. Harrison has been a Republican
all his adult life, having cast his first
vote for John C. Fremont in 1850. In a
speech delivered at Chicago last spring,
ho said: “My lirst presidential voto was
given for tho first presidential candidate
of tho Republican party, and I liavo sup
ported with enthusiasm every successor
to Fremont, including that matchless
statesman who claimed our suffrage in
1884." Gen. Harrison began his political
life by being a Republican from convic
tion, and ho has been that kind of a Re
publican over sinec. Tho earnestness and
sincerity of his nature would prevent him
from espousing or advocating a political
causo which his conscience did not fully
approve. In a speech delivered last year,
during a time of political cxcitemcut, ho
Baid.
“lam one of those who believe that to
fight without a causo is not a noblo thing;
that fighting and conquest become noblo
as they are done in behalf of a causo that
kindles the high impulses of tho human
heart and demands tho ollegianco of tho
enlightened conscience. I believe tho
Republican party in Indiana and in tho
nation stand today for such issues. No
man was tho architect of tho Republican
party You may call tho roll of those
who sat in tho first convention and de
fined its principles, but 1 beg you to re
member that every one of them was a
delegate, and I bog you further to remem
ber that those principles of liberty which
were announced in our first platform were
written in tho hearts of tho pcoplo before
thov were written in tho platform.”
'fliese expressions aro characteristic of
tho man. Ho is as conscientious in his
political convictions as he is in his religi
ous convictions. Being that kind of a
man he has never faltered in his devotion
to tlio principles of the party, nor failed
to give his best efforts for its success.
Being a Republican from principle ho
could not do otherwise without doing vio
lenco to his nature. lie has never tried
to push himself to tho front, but has often
been brought there by tho call of tho
party or the necessities of tho situation.
110 has never been an office seeker.
Offices and honors liavo sought him
rather. His present position i 3 not of his
seeking. Although frequently mentioned
during tho last few years as a presidential
possibility ho has never had the beo in his
bonnet enough to disturb in .tho slightest
degreo tho oven tenor of his way. His
present candidacy is tho result of tho
effort 3 of his friends and tho spontaneous
movement of tho Republican party.
Having always been a Republican and
always in close accord with the principles
of the party, thero is nothing in Gen.
Harrison’s record that requires explain
ing, defending or patching up. On all
tho issues which havo formed tho divid
ing lines between political parties for tho
last thirty years ho has been an out
spoken advocate of advanced Republican
ism. Ho represents tho military as well
as tho civil side of tho Republican record.
His military record is of tho best, as
those who served with or under him
can testify. Fighting Joe Hooker, in
recommending him for promotion to
the rank of brigadier general for gal
lantry on the field and for distinguished
- services in the campaign before Atlanta,
said: “Col. Harrison i 3 an officer of superi
or abilities and of great professional and
personal worth.” Ilis whole military
record sustains this estimate. In all tho
great issues of tho reconstruction period
Gen. Harrison occupied bold and advanced
ground in favor of tho supremacy of tho
Constitution and in advocacy of the policy
of securing tho results of tho war by ap
propriate legislation. Although not in
public life at this time, his eloquent voice
was frequently heard on the stump in sup
port of Republican measures ami policy,
and he contributed his full sharo toward
creating and molding tho active Republi
can sentiment of that period.
Gen. Harrison i 3 unequivocally in favor
of protection to American industry. Tho
Hon James G. Blaine, in his dispatch to
Gen. Harrison congratulating him on his
nomination, said: “Your election will seal
our industrial independence, as the declar
ation of *76, whicli bears tho honored name
of your giandfather, sealed our political
independence." Mr. Blaine is not mis
taken in regarding Gen. Harrison as pre
eminently sound on the tariff question.
On this paramount issue of tho hour ho is
in full accord with tho overwhelming sen
timent of tho Republican party, and with
tho ringing declaration of tho Chicago
platform. Ho is on record ns saying that
“tho Republican party is pledged, and
ought to be pledged, to the doctrine of
tho protection of American industries and
American labor.” Again, ho has declared
that "in so far ns our nativo inven
tive genius and our productivo forces
can supply tho American market wo
ought to keep it for ourselves." Again,
ho says "I believe tho principle of
the protection of American industry is
well established and well defended
by the principles of political economy
and by the duties of patriotism.”
And again “Our workingmen will wake
up to tho fact that reduction in their
wages, which every candid odvocato
of free trade admits must como with tho
adopt ion of his theories—a reduction vari
ously estimated at from 10 to 25 per cent.
—is poorly compensated by tho cheaper
coat he is promised." These expressions
are taken at random from speeches by
Gen. Harrison, and might bo indefinitely
multiplied They show that his position
on tho vital question of tho day, and
whicli will exercise a great and perhaps
controlling influence in tho con:. ;f cam
paign and election, is pre-eminently sound.
Tho declaration of the Chicago platform
that “Wo aro uncompromisingly in favor
of tho American system of protection,” is
a complete cpitomo of Gen. Harrison's
record on tho tariff question.
A Comparison for Veterans.
It lit the American system of protection
against Mr. Cleveland’s British free trade.
It is a Union soldier against tho man of
whom Gen. Sherman says:
“Cleveland is seventeen years younger
than J 110 should havo shouldered a
musket and gono to tho front. Every
body capablo of carrying a gun should
havo offered his services. Then tho war
would not havo lasted as long as it did.
At Vicksburg and Gettysburg wo were
short handed, and if tboso men who hung
in tho rear had gone to tho front the war
would have been over a year sooner than
it was."
•With Harrison as tho leader tho Repub
lican party can and will win.—Philadel
phia Press.
"SWEATING AND SWARMERV.”
What Free Trade Hat Brought tho Poor
of London To.
If any evidence could bring a thorough
freo trader in America to his senses surely
that presented by the report of a recent
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BRUSH DRAWING.
parliamentary committee on tho so called
“sweating system” would doit. If free
traders did not too often belong to that
incorrigible class—men who adopt a phras
ingly plausiblo theory and adhere to in
spito of overwhelving evidence of its folly
—tho evidence now offered from every
part of England would shako oven their
Anglomaniac convictions. A London work
ingman, asked by the parliamentary com
mittee whpt ho considered ll greatest
evils now threatening him. promptly
replied, “sweating and swannery,” by
which he meant that workmen driven
out of their own trades by German, Bel
gian and other competition hadj“swarmcd”
into tho cities and were employed on tho
“sweating” system.
And what is tho “sweating” system?
Well, as tho regular workshops aro badly
overcrowded, and tho desperate workmen
in them combine to exclude new men, a
multitude of small employers has sprung
up; they put the needy laborers in small
rooms, thus escaping tho inspection or
dered by tho factories acts, and pay them
half or less than half the current rates,
thus underbidding tho legitimate em
ployers and pocketing tho enormous
profits. Tho evidence before tho commit
tee reads as if it were wrung out of racked
bodies and written in blood.
Ono woman, for instance, employed in
putting tho bristles into hair brushes,
earned just five farthings (about two and
a half cents) per hour, working in her
own room, and had to deliver tho brushes
every night, as tho middle man would not
trust tho poor starving wretch with moro
than ono day’s materials. In another
room a man in ado twelve pairs of shoes
for four and a half shillings (nearly $1.10),
and delivered them. 110 was a sort of
aristocrat among tho “sweated,” as ho
could be trusted with stock enough for
such a big job. Tho stories told by match
box makers, chair makers, bird cage mak
ers and hair sieve weavers were simply
heartrending. Ono man furnished his
own wood and wire, worked in his own
room and made small linnet cages for
nino penco a dozen!
And these were not the worst cases; for
it was found that scores of small, unven
tilated rooms were token by the middle
men as workshops; that in them tho vic
tims were crowded as thick as they could
work, and in moro than one instance, as
it was proved, the air was so loaded with
disease that tho clothing made there was
infected with it, and diseases ol a nature
so peculiar that physicians could not diag
nose them wero thus introduced into tho
houses of comparatively well to do people.
In other instances the trusted women who
wero allowed to take the clothing to their
own rooms wero found “in unwomanly
rags.” toiling till faintness overcame
them, barely sustaining life on the poorest
food and sighing tho v.cary refrain
O God, that bread should bo to dear
And flesh unci blood so cheap!
Perhaps the saddest feature of tho case
is that many of thoso sufferers wero from
tho country, where they had once been
rosy and stalwart farm tenants or labor
ers; but tho agricultural interest has de
clined so rapidly under free trado that tho
exiled ruralists aro now crowding tho
cities. The agricultural reports continue
tho dreary detail that from 150,000 to
200,000 more acres every year are changed
from grain to grass lands, and tho culti
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BUOLMAKINO.
vators sit adrift. In sixteen years the
area cultivat’d bo3 shrunk by 2.000,000
acres. In Wiltshire alone «>.!00 acres
havo gono out of cultivation, and (203.-
700 per year in farm v. :v < i havo
been withdrawn. Tho hop f in the
south of England are going into grass
lands also; and In all Ore: t -Britain tho
shrinkage in farm wager, is summed up
at $1*1,780,400. This gives m aomo idea
of tho moss forced Into tho cities l<> com
peto with tboso already there.
American farmers have, on the whole,
greatly prospered sinco 1800 they aro
now appealed to to vote against the manu
facturers. Do they uliniro Iho picture of
tho British farmer under free trado? f>o
they covet sharo of his • bio: ■ ingsf *
Tho Tlckot tn Win.
Harrison und Morton’—lndiana and !
Now York!—tho two very r. to carry j
tho party safely through i!:u two very j
doubtful stutes! I!m.\ on tho whole, j
could tho Chicago convention liavo named j
a better ticket? Lot miy Republican who |
hoped for u different result coolly ask I
himself this question. With New York ;
and Indiana niudo sure, what Ktato that
was not on tho wrong side In the ret I lion
can now bo considered doubtful'- ' .'Talo
Express.
RApubllran Poetry for I)«morrata.
And if aklok) what Ktato lu> iuUt» from
Tho red reply Khali Ik*
"He renounced tlioonly homo In* Lai,
Aud nary n vote luat lie.**
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MO I REE SILK, | SURAH SILK,
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BUSTLES I CORSETS
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LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDERWEAR,
CHEMISE at 25 cents anil up.
DRAWERS at 25 cents anil up.
CORSET COVERS at 25 cents and up.
SHIRTS, full long, 39 cents and up.
CORSET COVERS 25 cents and up
BRAND NEW STOCK
Gentlemen’s Clothing
has arrived. NO SIIODDY GOODS.
Ji l | AT 48 cents you buy a man’s nnlatindried
IN THE Dress Shirt, linen bosom, re-inforced back
HAPPY HIT SHIRT and front and Patent Seams.
H. BARUCH,
Regulator of Low Prices.
E. M. ANDREWS,
Has the largest and Most Complete Stor k of
FURNITURE
In North Carolina.
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