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COM OOBD, DEO. 2, 1896.
POPULISTS MISTAKEN.
We heard it ciargd durini? the
last several CHUpaigR. that the
Democrats bad counted themselves
into office "and we htSrd harping
about honest elections and fair
counts. We felt lik hanging oar
head in shame when it was. whis
pered in our e&rvthat we had not
been electing our governors. We
thought is it possible that oar own
party, that has given ua all the
good State government that we have
had since the war, did resort to sin
ister means? We, never saw any
eetof jadgea though at an election
box that we' thought tried to be
falsf to their Oitbs, nor do we be
lie ve there was any special, room for
toe campa ga cry of "honest eleo
tions and fair counts except; in a
few instances some were unscrupu
lous enough and did purchase the
votes of such distorted moral
wretches as could bs bought,' and
cone young negroes, whose ages
were not so well known and with
7hom an oath is nothing, did cast
fraudulent votes. In view of such
things probably ttfere are no honest
elections.
Bat the Democratic party had
enough to commend herself to the
voters of the State and Ve believed
and do yet believe a majority of the
voters of the State preferred Demo
cratic policies until that mania for
office betrayed men into an agitation
of the public mind and an aliena
tion from their former political
brotherhood. The Populist party
of course was largely drawn from
the Democratic ranks.
In the late election it seems that
North Carolina polled 331,000 votes.
Subtracting Russell's vote of 154,
052 votes we have 176,948, which,
bat for the unfortunate notion that
the Democratic party was bad aboye
ail things, would have been about
Watson's strength and would have
made him governor by about the
usual majority. This too with an
eleotion law of f usionmaking called
fair and honest. - v
It does seem clear that if: we had
been tha united Democracy of ten
years ago we would have elected
Watson with any election law that
could be called fair. X
Now that the vote . shows that
7ith the element that left ua we
could have elected our State officers
where is the room to cry fraudulent
Democratio victories. 1 h pbw
clear, too, that the PopuUst -party iz
only about one-fourth or one-fifth cs
(jreat'numeriQally as cither of the
pther two par ties; with -little chance
tr increase utuch. Why, O, why,
no choose between the only i-Jtwo
well denned policies of government
and place themselves in --one or the
other party instead of the unenvia
ble attitude of hostility toward both
old parties and yet ready jo fuse with
either. We do not blame the Popu
lists for leaving us if they thought
we were so bad, and. that tUey,cculd
8 weep the country with Ja fetter
party, but the late election vindi'
cates the Democratic election law as
not unfair and showV, ' too that the
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Populists cannot hope, for sapremai
cy They now have time, too, to see
that there in no real cause for their
leaving us, and that it requires a
great deaj of agnation ana unrea
sonable faultfinding with us to
keep then) together. It is a forlorn
hope attended with a studied effort
to make out the Democrats worse
than they are and themselves
stronger than the? are,; to keep from
re-uniting to the rata u of the best
State governmeot we can possibly
have ; jv
GOSSIP ox i;CflA.
Gossip says that the President
has a surprise in Btore for Congress
in reference, to C aba. The plan as
surmised is to give Cuba her inde
pendence in the following .way :
Three men to eay how much Cuba
shall pay Spain for her independ
ence, England W her - the
money and the United States se
cure 4he claim. Tiio arbitration
is to be made up as follows :
England to choose one representing
Spain,zthe United ' States to choose
one looking to Cuba's interests and
these two to select a third.
It looks nice euoughand proba
ble enough but who could get bold
of it if it were so?
a. a. o noT's TRuioi.E enisiE.
Charles Faushee was born in
Chatham county but left an orphan
it seems. Having strayed into
paths of evil he soon: found himself
in the Richmond, Va., reformatory.
He is only about 14 J- years old but
has a morose vindictive disposi
tien. Under the charge of his
keeper, Mr. Tineley, he wai work
ing with an axe, and at an oppor
tune moment struck Tinsley a
blow cutting him fearfully in the
back of the Bkull from which the
victim "died in a few hours. Tins
ley left a wife and other relatives.
The boy told his associates he would
like to kill another one of the keep
ers. '
The air ship is the sensation now,
and if gossip does not overdo the
matter we'll soon be flying round
here the-; same as buzzards. It
would be bad on the" bicycle indus
try, and not very favorable to the
boot black or the rubber shoe mer
chant. But what a convenience to
rise over the house tops in defiance
of muddy sidewalks and flop down
in your home yfud or your neigh
bor's alter the fashion of the pigeon.
And wouldn't it be royal for th e
gallant to take bis best, girl for a
pleasant little fly instead of a bug
gy ride or a cyc'e spin ? It, seems
the in venter has in view to make
several of these things and go to
the seat of the Cuban war and learn
the secrets of the grand victories
gained by both sides inevery . bat
tle; He is not altogether in'jjgocd
humor with Gen. Weyler, we learn,
and is not too good to take a few
bombs along with a view to drop
ping them into the Spanish ranks.
That T7onld be likely to help to
terminate the war after which he
would bo ready to go and see' what's
xuo luvcuuuu nu
eionary work' ttmorig n?8 "
the thing can ha "mrfejjo.-WS on
the wlni' it 'wouldi'bei aiUtplendid:
pulpiij4n;,;if it kad to4)eept
going it coulc tnrcle; aroand. f? The
miesionaryl cbulo?drop a ;Chnnk of
m u ttdh ' occsisjonaily '" to" test their
carni verfifus i prociivities before, set
tling.
you understood sarsaparilla as
well as' y ou do' tea and flour it ,
would be .easy' to ; determine.
But youdoiiV How should -
. you ? When you are going to
uuT a tommoQuy waose vaiue
yoV Idonjt know,, you . pick out
an old estaihe house to
trade with, i and : trust their ex-'"
perience and reputation. 00 so -when
buying sarsaparilla. f
, Ayer's Sarsaparilla has been
on Warlcet 5Q years. Your
grandfather, ,d Ayer'aV. ltj&.
a reputabfe inedicine; ' There
or many S&6a$arUlaB
bat oxiJjree " Ayer'a. ' It
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locust Notice To Wnf 1 Taxes.
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lamberquins, pillows or screens.
215 yard's remnants" of Prmted :Silkoline,. including the
very stylish Persian effects worth 10 to 15 cents ard, going
at 7 cents yard. ' , tV .
67 yards remnants of printed Denims worth 25 cents yard
at 15 cents yard. ,
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Cotton Skirting worth 15c at
tra heavy ana will make an excellent skirt .
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