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IJOOXE. WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C. TIIUHSDAY JUNE, 7, ISO J,
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You
Don't
Have
To Die
To get your insurance under the
Tontine Han of the EQUTTAKLE LIFE.
It it tiixiple msi shaolatcly cafe
meant of in vesting your earning f r
future emergencies and acquiring
the benefit of Life insurance at the
same time. It insures yon a means
of support in after years and insures
your family against want iii case of
your death. The name of the .
Equitable Life
alone is aa ironclad agreement of
safety. Its security; its contracts;
Us surplus and resources are not
excelled in the world. Wc will
make all this as plain as day to you
if you will scud your address to
W. J. RODDEY, Manager,
Department of the Carolina,
ROCK HILL, S. C
I'ROFESSIOXAL.
W. B. COUNCILLOR.
Attorney at Lay.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M. I).
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on king Street north of Post
Office.
J. P flOBPIIBW,
AH0RSEYA1 LAW,
MARION,
X. C
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Will practice in s courts ol
Wutati '!!, Ashe, Mitchell, McDow
ell ami all it her counties in the
western district s3f Special attcn
tion given to the collection ol
chuiinr.-toB
W. B. L'oiinclll 31. D. T. C. Blackburn.
11 oo lie, S. C. Zionville, X. C.
Councill & Blackburn,
Physicians & Surgeons,
Calls attended at all
June 1, '03.
E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER.
LOViLL & FLETCHER,
ATWRNLYSATLAW,
BOONE, N. C.
$$pecial attention given
to the v.olletion ofclain&.'M
L. L. GREENE, & CO.,
REAL ESTATEAG'TS.
HOOXE,N.C.
Will give special attention
to abstracts of title, the sale
of Heal Estate in Y N. C.
Those hi? ving farms, timber
and mineral lands for sale,
will do well to call on said Co.
at Boone.
L. L. GREEK & CO.
March 16, 1803.
NOTICE.
Hotel Property for Sale.
On account of failing health
of myself and wife, I otfer for sale
my hotel property in the town of
Boone, North Carolina, and will
ell low for cash and make terms
to suit the buyer, and will take
real or personal property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. Bryan.
KOIKE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
please a d vance the fees with
the papers arid they will re
ceive prom pt attention , other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
iees. 1). F. Baird Siiff.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
; Fiom our Regular Correspondent.
! Signs are plenty that the
j Republican Senators are
;r'i!d,v to give up their useless
fight against the tariff bill,
and intimations have bvn
given to Senator Harris by
their leader that it he would
not carry out his announced
intention of compelling- long
night sessions this week an
agreement might be reached
upon a date for thetaking of
a final vote upon the bill. Asj
the easiest wav is always the
best way Senator Harris ull
defer for a few days the hold
ing of night sessions, in or
der to see whether an amica
ble arrangement can lie reach
ed with the Republicans. If
so, all rightand good ; if not,
the Democrats are all pre
pared to endure any amount
of ersoual hardship that
may be necessary to fi rce a
vote. It is the expectation
of the Democratic Senators
that the bill will be passed in
time for the conference com
mittee to act and get then
work endorsed by both House
and Senate and the bill sign
ed by President Ueveland be
fore the first of July. Only
one Democratic vote is in
doubt that or Senator Hill,
and after he fails to get the
income tax struck out of the
bill it is believed he will fall
into line and vote for the
bill.
The Senate investigation
committee found Buttz guil
ty of having attempted to
bribe Senators H union and
Kyle, but no steps have been
taken towards criminally
prosecuting him. The com
mittee is now engaged in in
vestigating the charges of
crookedness on the part of
the sugar trust and Senators
in connection with the pre
paration of the sugar sched
ule of the tariff bill, and,
judging from the evidence al
ready taken, those charges
are likely to be shown up us
outright fakes. For instance,
t he sug
ar schedule was prepared in
the handwriting of Secretary
Carlisle, who carried it to a
meeting of the Finance com
mittee, and demanded that
it be adopted because of ob
ligations the party owed to
the sugar trust, and the
man who made the charge
de-jl i ned t o gi ye h is a u t hori ty .
Thestvry was lead to Sena
tor Jones, of Arkansas, w ho
was chairman of the sub-corn
mittee that arranged the
amendments to the tariff
bill, which included the sugar
schedule, and he was asked
by Senator Gray, chairman
of the investigation commit
tee, what truth there was in
it. "None, whatever." he re
plied emphatically , "I think
I have attended every meet
iug of the tariff sub-committee
this session, but no such
scene was ever enacted, nor
a demand made by Mr. (Jar
lisle for the protection of sug
ar. With reference 'to he
charge that Secretary Car
lisle prepared the sugarsched
ule, 1 would say that my re
collection is that J prepared
the sugar schedule in the bill
as first reported ; the seheil
u'ein the last bill reported
was put up in shape at the
Treasury department at my
request, in order that thead
minUtrative features of the
schedule should be in correct
form. The suggestion of the
rate and all of the essential
detail of the svhe.Iule were
from me." There is about
the amount of truth in the
charges mentioned as in all
the rest. The schedule was
prepared at Treasury de
partment at Senator .Jones's
request, and some Repubh-
'prk employed therein
probably told it outside; the
rest was imagined. Thecom
mittee may ask the Senate
to order the arrest of the
correspondents who refused
to give their authority for
th? charges, but that will ac
complish nothing, as they
would be certain to continue
to refuse. The Senate has
several times tried, but never
successfully, to compel cor
respondents to tell where
they got information firm.
Every Senator whose name
has been connected with
these charges has expressed
a willingness to appear be
fore the investigating com
mittee without the formality
of a summons.
It seems hardly necessary
to say that the stories pi int-
ed in .Republican papers a-
bout the great cost to the
government of the little va
cation tiip of President Cleve
land and Secretaries Car
lisle ad (jreaham, on the
light h'use tender Violet,
were entirely false The pies
ence of those gentlemen on
the little boat did not cost
the government one rnt.
The Violet made her regular
trip, supplying the light
houses with oil, etc., and the
passengers table was sup
plied at President Clevelan's
personal expense. The Violet
was not even delayed, Mr.
Cleveland insisting before the
start that the fishing and
hunting should only be done
while the boat was trunfer
ring supplies to the light
houses, and that rule was
adhered lo during the trip.
Representative Bryan, of
Nebraska is just as enthusi
astic, in his advocacy of the
building of the Nicaragua
canal, as Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, but he proposes in
a bill . now before the Com
merce c o m m i 1 1 e e of the
House, to do it in a different
way. His bills calls for an is
sue of $70,000,000 in green
backs, to beused to purchase
a controlling interest in the
stock of the company and
for the building of the canal
under the control of a board
of eleven directors, eight of
them to represent the United
States.
The House has 'aid aside
the regular appropriation
bills temporarily and will
this week try to decide wheth
er the tax on state bank
notes shall be repealed or
not. Both sides claim a ma
jority. Wilmington Star: Non
answer thisCapt. Buck Kitch
in: If you had received a five
thousand dollar appoint
ment from Cleveland, instsad
of one you did not think e
qual to your merits, would
you now be found with the
enemies of the Democratic
party?
The lVaptc'i Ktn.Ute ddruel to
fcoth I'artir.
UaMiiciure Sun.
Senator 'Idler said the
right thing when, in the
course ? last weeks discus
sion in the Senate, he said
that th" eople of the United
Stares who had voted for
tariff n vision in 1892, had a
right to obtain the legisla
tion which they desired from
the United States Senate. It
is not the first oi-casion on
which Senator Teller has
shown 'lis capacity to rise
above the position and the
view of the partisan and
grasp that of the patriot and
the statesman. Senator
Chandler, of New Hampshire,
who is neither a patriot nor
a statesman, and hasneither
the ambition nor the capaci
ly to become one. was shock
ed at this declaration of his
republican colleague, and
Hastened to enter ins pro
test against such yjrepubli
can doctrine. Only the day
before, Senator Dubois, of
Idaho, had given a like
shock to the New England
contingent of republican pro
tectionists, by decluiing his
belief that either the speedy
passage of defeat of the tar
iff bill would be a relief to t he
country, and be followed by
a revival of business to
greater or less degree. If the
question weie settled now, he
said, and Congress were to
adjourn, some relief would
come, for employment could
be given to thousands, and
he would rather have the bill
passed now than have no
action on it at all.
The broad, healthy patri
otism of these two Western
Republicans found no echo
in the breasts of the cold
blooded and narrow-minded
champions and defenders of
New England protected man
ufacturers, monopolists and
trusts. Senator Frye, of
Maine, declared that he was
opposed on principle, to any
reduction of the duties im
posed by the McKinley act,
and should feel justified in
preventing by any legitimate
means in his power, the pas
sage of air bill for that pur
pose. Senator Aldrich and all the
New England Senators ap
parently entertained thesame
view. Notwithstanding that
t he people in 1890 and again
in 1892, unequivocally de
clared in favor of tariff re
form, this little knot of Rep
resentatives of favored and
protected interests, conceiveJ
that they were perfectly just
ified in conspiring to thwart
aud defeat the popular will.
They would not, of course,
have the least chan :e of suc
cess but for the division of
counsels among democrats,
and the shameless treachery
of the so-called democratic
conservatives. Of this un
expt'ct;d advantage, they
have availed themselves,
without scruple, andstriking
hands with the democratic
traitors, seek to secure the
retention of McKinieyism, in
sp;te of the popular verdict
against that "culminating'
attrocity of class legisla
tion." The position assumed by
these New England Senators
is an utterly false and unten
able one, and it is gratifying
to note that the robust and
sturdy common sense of the
great west is lieginning to
revolt against it. It is grat
ifying also to see n growing
disposition among republi
can Senators to end the filli
bustering. The responsibil
ity of framing a proper tariff
reform bill, in accordance
with the declaration and
pledges of the Chicago plat
form, as ratified and accept
ed by the eopK at the polls
in November, 181)2, is un
doubtedly laid upon the dem
ocratic party. Republican
Senators have a perfect right
to criticise and expose the
weakness and shortcomings
of the democratic party, and
the disloyalty of ysome of its
members to the party doc
trine and pledges. They
have a right, if they choose,
to protest against the jus
tice and wisdom of the popu
lar verdict, ami if they can,
to induce the people to change
that verdict next fall, or two
years hern e.
Meantime, the popular ver
dict stands, and it is the du
t. of republicans as well as
democrats to respect, and o
bey the popular will. The
treason of a tew democrats
d es not. justify the attempt
on the part of the republi
cans, by the aid of those trai
tors, to defeat the passage of
such a tariff bill as the Amer
ican people, by their votes in
1890 and again, and more
explicitly and formally, in
1892, emphatically demand
ed. The people's mandate
was addiessed not to one
party only, but to both par
ties. It was addressed to all
t h e people's servants ; o
Congres in both houses, and
as madeup of representatives
of both parties. It is the du
ty of Congress to hear and
obey. Republicans flatter
themselves, if they imagine
that the penalty of disobed
ience to the popular will be
visited upon the democratic
party only.
The people are able to dis
criminate and will know who
to punish, whether they are
democratic traitors and rene
grades, or republican rebels
and obstructionists. The
people being of the same
mind as in 1892, and more
than ever intent upon ueing
obeyed, will no more trust
the republican party with. the
execution of their wishes in
reference to tariff reform in
1894 or in 1S9G than they
were willing to trust them in
1890 or in 1892. The peo
ple, conscious of having been
cheated and defrauded, will
seek to select servants who
can be more certainly de
pended upon to be faithful to
their trust. They will not
look for republican enemies
of tarifi reform with whom to
replace the d?mocratic be-
tiayers of that reform.
Senator Teller points out
the path of sound policy, as
well as honesty and true pa
triotism, when he tells his re
publican colleague that the
people have a right to have
the legislation which by their
votes in 1892 they have de
clared that it was their will
and wish to have. It is only
the selfish and short-sighted,
those who can move for their
own private and individual
interests orwhat theychooso
to regard as the special and
local interests of their constit
uents, that will be guilty of
the folly of continued opposi
tion to the interests of the
whole country and the ex
pressed will of the nation.
THE LOCAL PAPER'S POTTER.
Potest Reasons W It ShoU U
SasUlaH kj tn.e People.
The immense power a lonl
newspaper possesses in at
tracting trad to thetown in
which it is published or di
verting it to other channels
can hardly tit estimated. Fit
ther, it is a matter that issel
dorn considered us an impor
tant factor in a towu's pros
jerity, for the simple reason
that business mendonotgire
it thought. He who will im
partially consider the asser
tion will be convinced of it.
The local paper is very natu
rally biased in favoi of the
place of its publication, work
ing hard to build it up, and
if given a fair living patron
age by home business men
will guard well their interest.
just as the merchant guards
the iuterest of his individual
customer. But if a niggard
ly support is doled out to it,
and it is compelled to solicit
custom from neighboringcit
ies, it cannot in justice to
those patrons exert itself -.in
behalf of its town as it other
wise would. Try a sj stera of
liberality in the inatterof ad
vertising expanditur j and
mark the result.
The position of a country
editor is not held in the es
teem it should be. Because
he cannot suit some particu
lar clan or set in the conduct
of his paper they use various
and sundry means on the sly
to try to pull him down,
when at the same time he id
doing all in his power to
bdad up the town in which
said clan are vitally inter
ested. Base ingratitude.
They only think no one else
is entitled to consideration
unless they accord with their
views, and be governed by
them. How can a town pros
per when such a state of af
fairs exist? One set trying
to pull down another set,
while the quiet war is going
on the town suffers the loss
of trade and the newspaper
is retaided iu its work for the
want of patronage. Wak
up to the importance of sus
taining your local paper and
thereby build up your own
interest.
In case a frnjjy can afford
only one paper, let that be
the home paper; for it con
cerns a family more to ktow
what is being done in its own
county than it does to know
the news of distant places.
The city paper cannot give,
and does not pretend to give
the local news that the read
ers must have, but a good
country paper well sustained
does give a very fair epitomo
of the world's news.
No other publication can
supply th place of a good
local paper. If both cannot
be retained if either the city
joumal or country newspa
per must go, let it be the for
mer; for nothing can supply
the place of the local paper.
Ex.