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r 1 a- i VOL 3 liOOXK, WATAl'dA rol'NTY. X. C. TIU'IISPA Y, OCTOHKI. Ul 1S!M). NO. 14. LIXYILUL A place planned and developing AS A GREAT RESORT Situated in tlm Mountains ol WESTERN NORTH CARO LINA, ivy-ion NOTED for health Iw'iiuy of Scenery. i ETATIOS OF 8,800 FEET nh Tool, Invigorating -- lunate. t .- i i i : ! laid ut with taste ,t a I .-kill, with wHl gra c'f d reiuds and EXTENSIVE 1 OltEST PAHKS. dcsiruble place for fine resielen 0(h an d -I1EA1A11FUL 'lIOMES- AOood opportunity forprof itnblo investments. P3"For illustrated pamphlet add i e8 Linville Improvement Co., Linville, Mitchell, Co. N.C. ."200 mo. WASHINGTON LETTER. Ftom our Regular Correspondent. For the Democrat Representative Wheeler, of Alabama', says the result of the Force billwill be the elec tion of a solid democratic delegation to the next House from the Southern States. The second military socie ty to be composed of vete rans of both armies of the 1 u t e w a r w a s o rga n i zed here last week. It is called "The Military order of America" niiel according to its consti tution "the purposes of the order are to cherish the mem ories of camp, field and biv ouacof heroic deeds and strengthen the 'bonds of re union, sympathy, valor, ami patriotism between those who wei-e enemies in war and nre friends in peace and their desceudeuts."' Raum still holds the fort, but it is believed that Mr. Harrison will force hi in to re sign as noon as the election mnvr, If he does not he I if will assume a heavy re sponsibility. " i ';ipt. ,1. E. White, superin tendent ef the sixth division, Rail way mail service, has Ihm-11 appointed. Superinten dent to suee-eed J Lowrie ,'.:!. who -succeeded Mr. t.'l.u'kscm as Second Assistant M .naster Oi-neral. A :irculiir of instructions ;is h ing as'your arm regard ing the new lottery, law has been sent to Postmasters by Mr. Wanamaker. Senator Carlisle who has remained In-resiace the nd-! journment to assist his son, who compiled tin 'I)m-1 cratiet nmpnig't te.t book,"! inputting the list touches! to that valuable baok. the! issuing of which w as delayed sons to include the conclu sion of the long tariff fight, will go to Kentuekj this week and it is probable that he tun j" make some sjievches in other states during the cam paign. The Text book is now out, mid the Democrat ic Congressional committee is prepared to fill orders for them. I have been makinga quiet investigation to learn what the Congressional committee is doing toward' capturing the next House, and I find that Mr. Flower, the chair man, is in New York looking after his own nffairs, politi cal and otherwise, (mostly the latter) and that the com mittee is making no pretense of doing anything, except to furnish all of the domments asked for. It furnishes r.cith er speakers, nor money to pay the thousand and one little incidentals of an native campaign in those districts where it is impossible to raise it locally. If this poli cy is to be kept up nothing short of a miraculous popu lar tidal wave can give the democrats control of the next House. Documents are all very good in their place, but with the election not a month off it is good talkers that nre needed to meet the arguments of the men sent in swarms by the republican committee into every doubt ful Congressional district to blind the voters to the injury inflicted upon them through republican legislation. The democratic party was never so well equipped with good texts to preach from as at the present time, and the op portunity should not be lost through lack of preachers. If the National committee will not furnish them let the local committees see to it that the fight it not lost by not having the issues prop erly talked up to the voters. Of course, in criticising the Congressional committee, it should be remembered that they have no protected man ufacturers to draw upon for unlimited cash as the repub lican committee has, and no sensible person for a moment expects that the democrats could spend as much money as the republicans, and it would not bedesirableif they could it is against the prin ciples of the democratic par ty to carry elections bv brib ery. The legalized robbery of the people known as the new tariff law goes into effect to day, and history will put it among the gloomy days of the nation. Mr. Harrison places great reliance upon his soldier sup porters, and upon them he is trustfully leaning for J92. He left this morning for (Jalesburgh, . Illinois, wheie his old brigade will hold a reunion Wednesday. Thurs day and Friday he goes to Ottumwa, Iowa. and Topeka,! I.. Kansas, icsp -H-tively to tm- t ' more old ndeiieis. II" will' return here next week, i The nev battle- ships an It cost 20,000 each. One of them is to be built at San Fran-iseo and the other two at Philadelphia. The ide-i of cnllingan extra session of Congress to pass the Force bill hasupp.wvntly been abandoned, though of course there is stiila possi bility that it may be done. NORTH CAROLINA. While North Carolina has not made much noise, and there has not been anywhere in her borders, a great boom in the sense in whhh that term is usually employed, there has nevertheless teen very great progress through out the length and breadth of the State. This business revival and industrial prog ress has taken place within two or three years, and is in creasing with a rapidity, and assuming proportions which would astonish even our own people, if they could fully grasp the situation and un derstand the facts. Not only is this progress in the min ing and manufacturing in dustries, but, which is of really more importance, in the agriculture of the State. Independent of the fact, tha t the present year lias been one of extraordinary good crops, there is marked im provement all along the line. Better methods are being adopted, a greater variety of crops are being cultivated, more attention is being giv en to food supplies and the expense of farming is being reduced. There is no State in the union in which the far mer is in a better condition or has a brighteroutlook be fore him, than in the good old State of North Carolina. Every day, new enterprise's are starting up, increased capital being invested and new fields for enterprise be ing disclosed. Railroads are being projected and built in all parts of the State and new towns springing up on every hand. Our people are too conservative to rush headlong into speculation. All investments have been made on a solid basis and with an assurance of success. Rut notwithstanding the very satisfactory progress of the past, few years, we have only started upon the rAce. With resources of the climate soil and minerals, superior to all others, there is before; the State a future of mineral growth and industrial pros perity, grand in its dimen sions and dazzling in its splendor. Nowhere in the union are there better opportunities for the investments of capi tal with the certainty of sat isfactory returns, than are to be found in North Caroli na. With iron, coal, copper, gold and other valuable min erals in almost m-ery part of the state; with magnificent forests of the finest timber, with the finest fish and oys ter resources in the world; with a soil capable of pro ducing the most valuable crops and a climate unsur passed, it is simply lmpossi ble that the results we have indi-.5ted shouM not follow. j U !! not sh ;iU mextiav- aganl terms, but hi trul'i Mild S'llu-nie.-H. Lef ll Jm'O ple of olicr jess favored et tious cimii" and tee for them si Ives. We earnestly co:if an invest itvit ion of our vast rind vaiitd resumes, and the multiplied opportunities we oner lor t he prolil aide in ..t i ciiih-iiu oi raniim. if,'- n:Ut. i j kh-.i..:ii l.v n.--i.l..iitHf mi-hi-in 1 1-1 l;(in Hiol l which cans." burns. cists' HpraiiiM and M ins.-. tor nsriii an cases. Dr. i. ii. Meijwm'c Vole.-Miif Oil Liniment lias for many years Ikm-m tlie constant favorite fami ly reined v. Cndne cxiesure to cold w inds, i ain. iii iiit !i;lit or malaia. may 1'i-iiiLTou iiifl.unmntioii nnd sore lies i if t lie eve !r .1. II. Mi- Lean's Slr.MitliiMiing Lye Salve will su! liie (lie intlammalio!!, cool and Kintlietlie nerves, and st '-en Lit lira weak nnd tailing cy sij;lit. 2t cents a box. Sugar drove, N. C, Oct. i:j.,l00. Ei lit or Democrat: Th-M'e are two problems in our history and politics for t.h people of our United Sta tes to settle at the ballot-boy. They are questions of such vast importance, and fra light with such vital results, that our wisest statesmen have not. yet found a just and sat isfactory solution of them. Those two questions ore as old as the constitution of our government., and were the "hones of contention in the a doption and ratitlcatian of the constitution oftheRepub lie !of the United States of America.. Thequin t-escenee o f these t.Ao great evils are tax ation and the negro. Where, when and how did they orig inate? It is well to starf. at the beginningand trace these twin evils, with their varied historic results through the period of our national exist ence, il hy is I lie negro here and who kidnapped him and brought him here as a slave? History tells us that it was the cupidity of our Yankee neighbor!? who went to Africa , stole the negro; shipped him North and finding him worth less property sold him South. AVliat was the cause of the revolotion of the colonies in 177G? taxation. England attempted to lay an excise tax on our fore-fathers by w h a t wa s k n o w n a s t h e s t a m p act, but our patriotic ances tors, whose hearts burned with the love of liberty, re fused to be taxed without their consent; or in other words, without representa tion. Therefore they declar ed the thirteen colonies free and independent States, and involved themselves in a fear ful and bloody war of eight years duration. Rut'the war worn and battle-scarred vet erans w ere victorious, and in dependence, freedom and lib erty were the fruits of their victory. In the convention to adopt and ratify the con stitution we find the vexed question of slavery and taxa tioii the bones of contention. 2 he North contended for a protective system of taxa tion and the abolition of sla very, while the South conten- de 1 for free-trade and the in- stmuion oi slavery. x ms contention wascompromised by giving the North a prof e.r; five tariff and the South th institution (f slavei v. While these constitutional i-igbtsj wreh''ld .sided, pea'-c, hip-pines.-iaitd proqw-rity H.ne.ir lii'i it :". I'eit soon, ah too S'o:i. our lea thi-in philan tliioj i-ts hv i a pa thy fur the poor liei( (who their pti'dc- .-ssoi-.s iinl ill boudaeel be-1 ' j gan to howl abolition! nboli-j tioii!, and divlured theem-in- j -M ' uf "bivcry 'i" ''- pressible conflict, nnd our onee glorious constitution a Ie.,gue .vith hel. These revolutionary ideasso inllam ed and possessed the northern mind that they trampled the constitution under their feet; disregarded const itu t i o n a 1 rights; harbored fugitive' slaves, and denied the Smith the right to carry sla ves into the territories. These uggra valed digressions on consti tutional, state and perso.ial rights were persisted in, and carried to tint de'greeof u.sur pat ion and tyranical epppres si on that forbe-arane-e ceased te be a virtue, and our noble, our grand, our wise and pa triot icst at e'liien. after ewha us ting every honorable means and using every methoel to maintain our rights, were forceel to the alternative of submitting to wroi.gsard op pressions, beneath the digni ty of freemen, or withdraw from the federal compact w hich was so shamefully vio lated. Oar people believing the' constitution guaranteed the right to secede, they pre pareel to withdraw from the Federal Union and te form a Southern Confederacy. But the noi the't n fieoplesaiel ne, and Abe. Lincoln calleel out 2."), 000 treiops which inaugu rate'd the greatest war of the age's. So we fine! that taxa tiem caused the first and the negro thelate fratricidal civil war. Never in the history of the nations, did men battle more heroically for t heir con .ititutiemal rights than did th bra ve boys of Dixie. Yet after four long years of war, the South was overpowered, (not conquered) by overwhel ming numbers. Then came the se called reconstruction, and now, after 2o years of so called peace, we find these twin evils, taxatiein ami the negrei the vexed and disturb ing eleme-nts in our politics. The people of the North wag ed a dreaelful war oil the peo ple of the South; freed the ne gro and mn.de him a citizen, and still ke'eps their protec tive tariff, and to crown all these wrongs and oppressions on the South they propose to pass a law that will be a death blow to State's rights anil personal liberties. This Lodge election bill is an in sult to fmunen, and its ob ject is to degraele and elis "graee the manhenfd e the South by putting the negro te) rule the Seuith, and keep them (theRaelicals) in power. In conclusion 1 appeal to the mar.hood. the honor, the intelligence, the dignity, the patriotism of the free white ui en of 1 1 1 e Sou t h , i ires pex;t i v e of party, to rise up in the might of their power aud dev cioe wueiner this is a, w une j man's go vera men t and shall be ruled and governed by white nin upon the princi ples of equal jnsticeto nllour Mople; or shall it be' n luon gii'l government. I jipjwal t tin Republicans of the' Si nth, and esw iay those f Watauga County, as good, cousciciie-ions men, ifyoii can endorse the present adminis tration with all itn failure's, false promise's, its wastful use of the publie- money; its refu sal te pass the Rlair educa tiemul bill; tei repeal the lu tenia I ii venue law ami to tiiiiieidify nnd equalize the t i riff tea revenue base only, iinel equally bear on the rich and peior; to re-fuse to pass the bill te) allow the free ami unlimited eiinge of silver and make it. a legal tender for publie and private usa ge's; and last, and worst of all you are degraded, elisgnievil by the proposed election bill. I repeat, and osk you again if you can endorse this ad ministration, and support a party any longer that has elone, and is doing so much to de'grade and oppivss the white men of the South, for know ye rot that you must bear and share all these evils equally with the democrats who are battling so manfully and faithfully for our consti tutional rights? Is it not time for us all as a common brotherhood to lay aside par ty prejudice, that pervert our judgment, nnel calmly ami fairly consider which par ty with their policy and prin ciples promotes and bt'st serves our interests. Then go te the polls and vote for their en we believe will de tenel our rights. All alliance men know, and must admit, that the democrats in ami enit ef Congress, confenel for all the alliance demands at the hands of legislation. I leave it to all fair mineled men to iay if oil my state ments are not true according to history anel public records. Yours in the ootids of peace anel friendship. M. C. Hakmax. NOTICE. We the undersigned peti tioners do humbly pray that you the honorable County Commissioners grant us a township by the name of North Fork, and the voting precinct to be i.t Thomas's school house at or near the center of said township. Those of us who live in this part ejf Cove CVeek anel Bald Mountain townships have to travel eight miles to eg8t eur votes, which is very fa tigueingto those who have mi horsev tei riele. We hope that you will grant our re quest. The township we de sire is bounded as follows: Reginning at the Ashe Coun ty line on top of Raid Moun tain running a westdireetiem to the top of the Elk Konb. From thence in the same di rection to t he t op of t he peak at the State line?; thei.ee with the state line to Ashe line at John Wilson's. The-ne-e with saiel line te the beginning. Cove Creek Townsiiu. Roby A. Thomas, William The) mas, Enoch South. Rald mountain Township. Stepheu South. L. A. M'ilson, James South. Tracy, Sep., 15,1890. Far letter than the harsh treatiii,iiit of medicines which horrihly gripe-) the patient and elcsl roy the:oatin- of the stom ach. Dr. il McLean's (hills and Fever CUT? by mild ye t eft""c 1ive action will cure. Sold nt i) cents a hot tie HM
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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