Watauga
aocrat
VOLG
HOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C rilURSDA Y, JANUAHY 18. 1801,
SO. 14.
Facts
and
Figures
The following letter from the
happy holder of a Tontine
Pohcjr, gives a few facts and
figures, in which there is profit
able food for thongbt :
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Mr. W. J. Rowif, Minvf. kork Hill. 11 C.
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Tear wry In!, W.Rrora.
Life insurance under the
Tontine Plan of the EQUITABLE
LIFE is an investment, not an
expense. The returns mature
during life, as well as after
death. If you are a single man
you owe it to yourself. If you
are are a married man you owe
it to your family. The time to
act is now. Interesting par
ticulars can be had by addressing
W. J. RODDEY, Manager.
Department of the Carolina,
ROCK HILL, S. C
PRUFESSIOXAl.
W. B. C0UNC1LL, Jr.
Attorney at Lay.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M. D.
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. ' Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
J. P IUHIPIIEW,
A1WRXEYA1 LAW,
MARION. N.C
-(o)-
Will practice in the courts o
Watauga, Ashe, Mitchell, McDow
ll and nil other counties in the
.vestern listrict 3rSrecial ntten
lion givMi to the collection ol
claims."1
r. J. ( Bntler. Dr. T. C. Blackburn.
Trade, Tetn. ZIobtUIp, N. C.
Butler & Blackburn,
Physicians & Surgeons.
tig-Calls attended at all
June 193.
E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER.
L0V1LL & FLETCHER,
ATlORShYS AT LAW,
BOONE, N. C.
&2Specia 1 at ten tion g i yen
to the eolletion ofclaims.'sA
L.L, UUKENE, fc CO.,
REAL ESTATE ACTS.
HUONh,N.L.
Will givs special attention
to abstracts of title, the sale
of Real Estate in W. N. C.
Those he vine: farms," timber
and mineral lands for mile,
will do well to call on said Co.
at Boone.
L. L. GREES & CO.
March 16, 1893.
NOTICE. '
Hotel Property for &ue.
On account of failing health
of myself and wife, I oner for sale
my hotel property in the town of
Boone, North Carolina, and will
sell low for cash and make terms
o suit the buyer, and will take
real oi- personal property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. HltYAN.
AVI ICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
please admnce the tees with
the papers and they will re
ceive prompt attention, other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
tees. D. F. Baird Sbff.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Froia tar ftegular CorreipondenL
St. Andrew Jnckon' Day
friends many Democrats of
the House in a predicament
where they mr.y well ask
"where am I nt?" The first
four days of Congress con
tained n succession cf sur
lrief for the average Dem
ocrat, in the rontinuel fail-
jnre o get a quorum of LVrn
jocratsinthe House to vote
for the resolution reported
from the rommithe on Rules
making the Wilson tariff bill
a special continuing order
unt'l January 25. when a fi
nal vote is to be taken there
on. That some Democrats
were opposed to certain
schedules in the bill was, of
course, known, but that any
c nM lerable number of them
would enrrv thnr opposition
to the extent -of declining to
attend the session of the
House in order to make up
a voting quorum of Dem
ocrats, in order to prevent
the bill being taken up, was
certainly not believed until
he fact was made so plain
that it could no longer be
doubted.
The names of 57 Democrat
ic members of the House
have been published gs op
posing the personal income
tax and as none of them
have entered u denial it is
fair.to assume that the list
published was correct. This
may account for the seeming
sudden increase of the Demo
era tic opposition to the tar
iff bill, but thfe fncome tax is
not yet a part of the tariff
bill and indeed may never be,
as there is a probability,
amounting almost to a cer
tainty, that the Ways and
Mear.s committee will report
it to the House as a separ
ate and distinct bill to stand
or fall on its own merits, in
stead of offering it as an
amendment 1o the tariff bilJ.
The Democratic caucus
while it did not specifically
endorse the tariff bill did so
indirectly without a division
when it adopted Speaker
Crisp's resolution, that it
was the duty of every Demo
cratic member of the House
to yote for the resolution
from the committee on Rules
providing for t! e considera
tion of tha tariff bill; also ro
attend the daily session in
order that pressing public
business iiiight be attended
to; but the trouble, or at
least a portion of it, arises
from the fact that only u few
more than two-thuds of the
Democratic members of-llje
Rous'! attended the caucus
and that those who did not
attend do not regard the
tesolution as binding on
them. If t any 13emocratfl
were bentflted by this cross
pulling it would be more ex
cusable, but they are only
playing into the hands of the
republicans who are opnly
exulting over the present de
plorable condition of affairs.
Steps have been takenor
ders issued for the arrest of
absentees which it is believ
ed will result in bringing to
Washington this week every
Democratic member of the
House who is well enough to
come, and the party leaders
are confident that they can
get and keep n qiortim of
Democrats until the tariff
bill is passed. We shall se-
All the old Hawaiian straw
has been rethreshed since the
news nrrived via Auckland
that the ex-qijeen of Hawaii
had agreed to the conditions
first submitted to her a n d
that Minister Willis had in
accordance with his original
instructions requested the
provincial government tore
tire in her favor, and that
the provincial goverment had
declined so to do. President
Cleveland has later dispatch
es which came from Hawaii
by the steamer Corwin, but
neither he nor Sec. Gresham
has made their nature pub
lic. Whether they confirm
the Ankland dispatch is not
positively known, but from
remarks of democratic Con
gressmen who have seen the
President since he received
them it is inferred that thej
do. Either way it would not
change the situation at qll,
as Minister Willis has posi
tive instructions not to use
force to bring about change,
a factof which Minister Thurs
ton, who is now in Hawaii,
was well aware before he left
Washington and which of it
self made it almost certain
that there would be no
t-nange, unless ine provincial
government voluntarily re
tires.
Attorney Generul Olne had
a little fun the other day
with a delegation of republi
cans from Kansas, headed by
representative Curtis, which
called on him in the interest
of Colonel . I ones who wants
to be U.S. Marshall. While
he did not say so in so many
words the Atty. Gen. left the
impression upon his cullers
minds that republican influ
ence is not calculated to im
prove any democrats chan"e
forgetting an appointment
under the Department of Jus
tice. The Kansans left i n
doubt as to whether they
had not improved them.
Representative Pendleton,
of Texas, has introduced a
fiee coinage bill, making the
average price of gold and sil
ver for sixty days from No
vember 4, 1894, the legal
ratio between the two met
als on and after Jan. 1,1895.
The bill for the repeal of the
federal election laws will be
taken up in the Senate to
morrow, and it is expected
that it will be passed within
the next three weeks, the un
derstanding being that the
republicans are notto filibus
ter against it.
Our friend W. H. Church,
of Millers Creek, was in to see
us Monday to tell us that his
old cat, Tom Church by name,
is still living and doing well.
The old cat is thirty-seven
ywarsold, and belonged to
Mr. Church's father at one
time. This is no fiction as
the records show his age. For
some time, he has been per
fectly blind and deaf, not be
incr able to hear it thunder.
if it were in a few feet of him.
Mr. Church tells us that the
old cat isnow unableto chew
his food, and Mrs. Church
does this much tor him. It
is a great family pet as it has
beeu in the family so long.
WHkesboro Chronicle.
1 BID IEAR FOR BOSSES.
Wilmington Mwengr.
We endeavored Saturday
to point out the distinction
between party organization
and what, in the language of
the day, is called the "ma
chine." It is u distinction
with the greatest possible dif
Terences, party organization
being intended to serve the
many, this machine to serve
the few a t t he ex ene of the
many. Unless the machine is
crushed and party organiza
tion restored to its throne,
the end of our republic woul J
soon be reached.
Machine politics is the out
growth of niuniepal politics.
Nathaniel Macon, one of the
greatest of America us and a
democrat of democrats, said
that "cities were sores on the
body politic." Before thel.ite
war, the rural and agricultu
ral South supplied an anti
dote to the fetid politics of
the cougested popul ations of
the North, and thus a bal
ance wheel of conservatism
to the nation. For a long pe
riod af'er the close of the
war the South was too busy
with the problem of filling
the hungry belly, which the
loss of that great strife had
forced it to, ro give atten
tion to politics. Concurrently
the rings of the greatcitiesof
the North, vastly strengthen
ed by the blunted moral sense
of the public during the four
years in which the 'lnvvs were
were silent," grew apace,
sti etched out their tentacles
beyond the municipalities,
and invaded the domain of
Federal politics. After the
release of the South from mil
itary domination consequent
upon the seating of Hayes in
1877, the statesmen ol the
South began to make their
influence felt again. They
were the same men who had
brought the United States to
such a wonderful degree of
general prosperity under
their control of the policy of
the Union before 1861. Or, if
they were not always precise
ly the same men, they were
the younger brothers of the
antebellum statesmen; they
were the distinguished or the
good fig'itiug.inen of the Con
federate armies; at the least
they were men whohadreach
ed man's estate under thoold
regime. They were . invaria
bly men with rural constitu
enciesfor we hud no cities
to speak of in the South; the
were largely men of rural
rearing, and they wre deep
ly imbued with the conserva
tism that marks thelund-lov
ng Anglo-Saxon. Under this
influence, it is hardly exag
geration to say, all the reac
tionary movements against
the corrupt policy and prac
tices oflhe republican party
whi-jh have characterized the
march of democracy back to
power, were promoted and
canied to a successful devel
opment. But the men of the genera
tion referred tocould not last
alway. As they began to
pass away the balance of pow
er in the South also began to
change, to shift away from
the rural constituencies and
to pass over to the munici
pal constituencies, which,
therefore, in this section of
the Union, hud contributed
to the body Mliti- but uj
drop ir. tli? bucket of iiiRti-j
ence. Tii rci-n'l .. t :
r'stati"n .f i !f i !j !; i ,. -
whit-h had sei in. it .1 v'.-i -l,;
had begun to pro. d no ;
smoothly under the intluenu
of the balance wheel which
the Old South was again con
t ibuting to Federal politics.
Perhaps the election of Mr.
Harrison and the Reed and
MeKin'ey Congiets in 18S8
was the way the jtoople took
to manifest their conscious
ness that a halt in he move,
meat referred to had taken
place.
The real South, however,
does not die ensily. Tiie
real South is largely the ru
ral South the old South are
older States of the South
which supplied the indom
itable legions of Lee's army.
This rural South had lost
somewhat by its contribu
tions immigration to the
cities, resulting fruai the
breaking up causnd by the
war, and it has lost very de
cidedly in the lack of higher
education which the fatlieis
of the new generation it was
putting into the field, had
enjoyed. But while this new
generation thus lacked the
training in the fundamental,
whteh would have retained
them from yielding to the
vagaries of the Populist lead
ers, they had preserved the
sturdy independence of the
fathers and the sound com
mon sense of the fathers,
which taught them to know
when they were hit, if not
precisely Aov. And being
hit, they kicked bncic so lusti
ly, through the Farmers' Al
liance, that they forced upon
the Democracy at Chicago
the well nigh perfect plat
form there adopted the
platform that guided the pur
poses and strengthened the
arms of thtrtrue representa
tives of the South in the re
cent silver struggle in the
Senate.
Those who care ro do so
as we do not nt prenf, tna.v
pursue this subject a : '
lurcher, and possibly with
the result, us they get into
details, of uncovering to
view the same factional clea v
age in the votes of their pub
lic servants as was witnessed
in the home affiliations of
those who take this view of
the sacred ness of party trusts
or that. And, looking be
neath surface in the munici
palities, they will find, we
are quite surd, that it is a
very insignificant percentage
of our urbane population
which has no offender our
rural neighbors. We have
no towns or cities large
enough to have developed in
terests thut are at bottom
hostile to the country peo
ple's interests. The inter
ests of the two are practical
ly the same. It will be found
that nine-tenths of our ur
ban population is at once in
real sentiment with the rural,
only they have allowed tl?ir
control of municipal politics
to slip from their grasp.
We may find food forieflec
tion in" these things, and, if
we take their lessons to
heart, a path by which, as we
said Saturday, we may pluck
safety out of danger.
For it h-js been a bad yea.
lor ":e
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t '.?.; '.j; in : e a ;t, l, ;!;!? i,
the position of collector m in
ternal revenue for the western
district of North Carolina,
Kojhj Elian wrote that ho
was unwilling that this ap
pointment should be the
means of stirring up discord
in the Democratic ptrty in
North Carolina. He regr?t
ted that his nomination had
been such a out as to fa use
trouble, ahd was unwilling
that his appointment should
delay or embarrass in any
way the confirmation of Mr.
Simmons, nominated to be
collector of the eastern dis
triet, for whom he had thy
highest regard.
It had been, Mr. Eliassaid.
his rule through lifo to sub
ordinate Iiisowu ambitions
and Interests to those :f the
Democratic party, and lie
has always. obeyed that prin
ciple. He w .uld not, ho fur
ther said. permit hisappoint
ment to in rny way disturb
or embarrass theadiuniint ra
tion of Mr. Cleveland n the
State ol North Carolina.
In conclusion, Mr. Elms
said that he felt great grati
fu Je for the honor the Presi
dent had conferred upon him.
and for his continued confi
dence , and for the prompt
manner in which he had re
nominated him after the ad
journment of the Senate.
Mr. Carter, who had been
recommended by Senator
Ransom, and who, it is said
would be appointed within
a day or two, was a captain
in the Confederate army and
is a member of one of the
leading families in his State.
He has served as a member
of both branches of the State
Legislature and was ?hair
man of the judiciary commit
tee. He was chairman of the
local Democratic comui'ttee
liari..' 1 : -m. .:, thai: v- -,
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tinguished tor his cimnty,
and friend of both Senator
Ransom and Senator Vance.
Secretary Carlisle has been
before the Senate Finance
committee in the interest of
the depleted Treasury. lie
is startled to find that the
government is falling behind
in its income at the rate of
ten millions a month. He is
justly alarmed. The rom
mittee tried to draw from
him his ideas as to th- best
remedy, but he would not ex
press himself, proposing to
submit the matter to their
better judgment. The silver
men now argue thai all of
the fine promises made in
case the Sherui..n act was re
pealed have clime to nought"
Business is till fcrfrcm be
ing on a good basis,, while
the Tieasury has gona from
bad so worse.
Indeed to any candid ob
server it was the clearest non
sequitur that the repeal of
the Sherman act could bene
fit bnsinefss.-.V.-O.-' hi oniric.
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