Watauga
mocrat
VOLG
liOOXK, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C.
riLUHSDAY AUGUST. J), l8tH,
SO. 43.
Don't
Kschange good thing for umelhiag
of 1cm value.
Don't
Give op one insurance policy and
taVe another. Always remember that
an old policy iaof far greater intrinsic
aluc than a new one.
Don't
Let the premium oil jrour policy
lapse even for d.iy. You can't
foresee the event of to-morrow. It
may not be possible fur you to get
another policy if the present one is
dropped.
Don't
Consider any other form of insurance
until you have thoroughly investi
gated the JiI.t.'.j mid policies c f the
EQUITABLE LIFE. You i:i per
ceive their advantages nt once.
W. J. RODDEY, Manager,
FarthtCaroliaas. Kock Hill, 5. C.
MOVESSIO.XAL.
W. B.C0UNC1LL, Jit.
Attou.':y at La a.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M
I).
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
J. V H08PIISW,
AU011SEYA1 LA W,
MARION, N.U
-(o)-
Will practice in fie courts ol
Watauga., Ashe, Mitchell, McDow
ell and all ther counties in the
western district BaTSitei ial atten
Mon iriven to the collection ot
lainiK."
W. B. Conncill X. P. T. C. Blackburn.
Boetfr, N. C. Zlonrillo, X. C.
Councill & Blackburn,
Physicians & Surgeons.
tSCa lis attended at all
hours.
June 1, '93.
E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER
LOVILL & FLETCHER
ATlORNliYSATLAW,
BOONE, N.C.
8.S')ecw hit ten turn g i ven
to the colletion ocii;J6."8
U, K L. GREENE, & CO.,
REAL ESTATE AG'TS.
HOOSE, N. C.
Will civs special attention
to ybstracts of title, the sale
of Real Estate in W. N. C.
Those he vine; farms, timber
and mineral lands for sale,
will do well to cull on o id Co.
at Boone.
L. L. GREES & CO.
March 16, 1803.
NOTICE.
Hotel Property for Saie.
On account of failing health
of myself and wife, I orFer for sale
my hotel property in the town ot
Boone, North Carolina, and will
Jiell low for cash and make terms
to suit the buyer, and will take
reiil or personal property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. PltVAN.
NO 1 ICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
pleise advance the tees with
the papers and they will re
cei ve prom pt a t ten tioti , other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
tees. D. F. Baird Shff.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our JUgnlir Correipondent.
President Cleveland ha not
i changed his mind about the
i desirability of admitting free
of duty such raw materials
as coal and iron ore; nor
have the Democratic major
ity of the House which voted
to tit them on the free list
in the original Wilsou bill;
nor have the Democratic vo
ters of the country who ere
under th impression when
they a Democratic Congress
and administration in power
that free raw materials were
assured. Notwithstanding
i h i s overwhelming Demo
cratie sentiment in favor of
reeraw materials, coal and
iron are not to go on the tree
list. It is both unnecessary
and unprofitable to enter in
to any explanation at this
time as to the why and
wherefores of this. P. is suf
fieient to say that the fact
has been made plain that no
bill putting iron and oal on
the free list can pass the Sen
ate.
Therefore the Democrats of
the House are orought face
to face with the choice of
leaving the Mckinley law
stand or. of allowing the Sen
ate to have its way about
coal and iron, and getting a
new tariff law on the Senate
books, which contains many
most excellent features and
which is, even in the iron and
cool schedules, a big reduc
tion from the duties imposed
by the McKinley law.
This is the situation that
emhonted the Democratic
House conferees when they
met the Senate conferees to
day for their first foiinal
meeting in their second effort
to reach an agreement on the
tariff bill. In addition they
were met with the tie vote of
the Senate refusing to iu
stiuctits conferees to reced
from the differential duty of
one-eighth of a cent, a pound
on refined sugar, thus indi
cating, one might say official
ly, that any change in th
sugar schedule would not be
accepted by the Senate.
Notwithstanding all this
chairman Wilson and the
House conftiees are not dis
posed to give up the fight;
therefore a call ia being cir
dilated for a caucus of the
Democrats of the House, to
be held it no agreement is
reached on the bill by Tues
day. It is believed that the
conferees will endeoyor to
reach nn agreement upon
everything except the iron,
sugar, and coal schedules of
the bin betore the caucus is
held, and that chairman Wil
son will therask the caucus
what shall be done abont
those schedules. It is, of
course, impossible to say
ivhat actiou the caucus will
take, but in view of the fact
that the Democrats of the
House arb practically unani
mous in the opinion that a
tariff bill must be passed at
this session of Congress, and
that a bill cannot, be passed
unless those schedules are ac
cepted in accordance with
the demands of the Senate, it
is believed that the caucus
will instruct the conferees to
agree, knowing that the re-
hftonsihility has been placed,
by President Cleveland's let
ter, where it belongs.
There has been much talk
here nbout the probability
t.f President Cleveland veto
ing the bill u the House
agrees to the Senate iron,
coal and sugar schedules,
but I do not think it at nil
probable that he will. In
fact, 1 have excellent reasons
for the belief that he has ad
vised chairman Wilson and
other prominent Democrats
of the House to get nil the
reduct:on possible in theScn
ate bill and then to accept it
as the best that can be had.
.Mind, 1 do not state it for a
fact that President Cleveland
has given such advice, but
that I have excellent reasons,
which cannot be told with
out violating confidence, for
believinu that he has. It is
also known that prominent
Democrats, outside of Con
gress, have given Mr. Wilson
and the other Democratic
conferees similar advice.
The commission appointed
b President Cleveland to in
vestigate the causes-of the
recent railroad strike met for
the first time, today, in the
office of Hon. Cnrr.dl D.
Wright, U. S. Commissioner
of Labor, who is ex-officio
chairman of theCornmifSion.
No time is to be lost in mak
ing the investigation.
The House committee on
Labor after -in extended ex
amination of the various
bills on the subject decided
by an unanimous vote in fa
vor of Representative Spring
er's bill for the creation of a
nation.il board of arbitra
tion, which he has been favor
ably reported to the House
and will, if the committee
can succeed in securing a day
for its consideration, almost
certainly be passed at the
present session. The bill is
drawn in accordance with
the recommendation contain
ed in President Cleveland's
1887 message to Congress.
The Senate Investigating
committee is having consid
erable trouble in locating a
wit ness Mr. Ba ttershall ,
who is alleged to be a walk
ing encyclopedia on just the
things the committee wishes
to fin J out abouc the alleged
dealing of Senators in stock
of the sugar trust.
There is little disposition
ill either House or Senate to
taks up any other general
legislation of importance, as
the belief is general that tin
buisness of the session will be
rushed to a close as soon as
the tariff bill is finally djspos
ed of.
Landmark: An editor works
365 days per year to get out
52 issues of a papei; that's
labor. Once and a while some
body p.iys a year's subscrip
tion; th!Jt'scapital. And once
in a while Rome sun of a gun
of a dead beat takes the pa
per for years and vanishes
without paying for it; that's
anarchy. But later on jus
tice will overtake the last
named creature, tor there is
a place where he will get his
deserts: that's hell.
npmmrut nnfi vnr
FroM Hnr Ilk, X. C.
Editor Ih-i norr.it:
There are a number of peo
ple in this country to whom
Mr. Cleveland is nn idol. To
them if is blasphemy to ques
tior the infallibility of dro
ver, or of the Grovtrian scrip
tnre- It is never worth while
to waste argument on a man
who has got thetJrovers. My
own opinion is tlu't. (Jrover
is a morMl man with many
robust, virtues, but nt the
sametiine overburdened with
human trailty. I even think
that Mr. Cleveland betrays
at times a singulai facility
for blundering.
But ( i rover is .1 cool man!
Blundering; yes, to use no
harsher term, that's the
word. He blundered when
he failed to call an extra ses
sion of Congress when lie was
inaugurated; be blundered
when he assumed that the re
peal of the purchasing clause
of the Sherman act would re
lievf. the finances of thecoun-
ry; he blundered when he
did not outline a policy to be
pursued, in line with the Chi
cago platlorm, in his mes
sage to the regular session
of Congress, when Congress
and the people expec ted that
he would: he blundered in
making some of his appoint
ments of ministers to foreign
lands; he blundered in his
hostly silence during the
past weary moiithsof debate
on the tariff, when he should
have used his influent and
patronage to have a proper
tariff bill become a law; he
blundered when he appointed
a negro t o the office of Regis
ter of Deeds for the district
of Columbia; he blunderer
when he vetoed the only
silver measure that could
have given the country any
financial relief.
But Grover is a very cool
man I After all these blun
ders, and as if to place a
glitering tip to the icy .peak
of hia towering exhibition of
frozen impudence, he writes
his letter to Mr. Wilson,
Chairman of the House fi
nance committee. In that
he proved that, he was on
record both for and ngainst
tee income tax. But Grover
is a very cool man. He did
not hesitate to insult the
Senate in That letter, and I he
Senators did not fail to to re
sent. it. The political muddle
is without precedence, and all
on the account, of drover's
own action. As a specimen
of what the Senators think
and sav, here is one little
paragraph from Mr. Gor
man's speech. "Never be
fore since the declaration ot
independence, has a Presi
dent of the United States
been guilty of such a viola
tion of the spirit of the con
stitution, as has Mr. Cleve
land in writing his letter to
Chairman Wilson." Ittakes
these Democratic Senators
to bhow up to us Grover's
"ways that ore dark and
tricks that are vein." The
whola true inward iess of the
business is, that Grover is
trying to auger his way into
a third term as president
and he very reasonably ex
ists that the money power
mere, in me mean nine
what are the feople going to
do about if? Ale the Gro-
verian idoliti.rs going to
block the wheels to Demo
cratic success in the Intnre,
or are they going to stand
squarely upon the Chicago
platform? As to a third
term for Grover, the idea is
preposterous, and unless the
.ost unlooked-for changes
take place, he stands no
more chance for a third term
as president thanSatau does
for a second term in the ha
py land.
Our county and State con
ventions will soon be called
upon to place candidates in
the field for the different of
fices.' I-t us see that no u.an
gets on the Democratic ticket
who is not known to stnmt
wholly upon i lie Chicago
platform, as the people un
derstand it. Let u s profit
by the mistakes of oui erring
brethren, and try to secure
the support of every true
American for our ticket. Put
the right men out, and let
favoriteism go to the winds.
Phantom.
WOMAN'S TUl'E Kl DLIXESS.
It Is More Natural with Her Than
with jiua. ..
Among all nations, women
are ever inclined to be cheer
ful and modest." They
(,w i
not hesitate, like man, to
perform a hospitable or gen
erous action; not haughty,
nor arrogant, nor supercil
ious, but full of courtesy and
affection', industrious, econ
omical, ingenious; more vir
tuous, and performing more
good actions than aian. I
never addressed myse'f in the
language o f decency and
friendship to a woman,
whether civilized or savage,
without receiving a decent
and friendly nnswer.
In wandering over the bar
ren plains of inhospitable
Denmark, through honest
Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude
and churlish Finland, un-
irincipled Russia and th
widespread regions of the
wandering Tartar, if hungry.
dry, cold, wet, or sick, wo
man has ever boen fiiendly
tome, and uniformly so! and,
t-j add to this virtue, so wor
thy the appellation of benev
olenee. these actions have
been performed in so free and
kind a manner that, if I wa.-
dry, I drank the sweet
draught, and if hungry, ate
the coarse morsel with a dou
le relish. Ex.
Morgaiiton Herald: Every
body experts the Republicans
co change the name under
which they attack theDemoc
racy of North Carolina at
least once in two years, la
fact, so heartily ashamed do
they seem of the namerepub
can, that they are constant
ly conjuring up some new ti
tle for their badly disorgan
ized for?es. They have failed
to get in under the name of
'Independents and Liberals.'
This year they started out
as 'Coalitionists,7 but they
have already gotten tired of
that and they are now call
ing themselves 'Co operation
ists.' What it will be next
nobody can tell, and it don't
make any difference. No ar
my that was ashamed of its
flag and uniform ever y e
won a ba I tie either milTirnrv
or political.
THE DEMOCr AT1C PAITT RKiHT
blDElP.
SfntcM'ille Laiiilini ik.
The Democratic State con
vention nvetsnext wek,and
in preparation for it the
uostof the county con ven
tions have already Ixen held.
Such as have not been will
ih this week. 1 he reports
trom all that have leen held
aie of lite H-itnt chaincter.
'the bovs" are all on hand
as usual; their spirits are
fine and their faith in the
party of the people is undim
inished. The dissatisfaction
which was apparent through
out almost all of the first
year of the Cleveland admin
istration is subsiding, b A,
whether men are satisfied
with national affairs or not,
they ha ve come to a realiz
ing sense of the fact that the
welfare of North Carolina is
at stake and that it is no
time to be squabbling over
free silver-and such things
when home government is in
any sort of peril. Pretty
much all of our Supreme
Court is to be elected this
year our court of last re
sort; the one which passes,
finally, upon the lives and
property of people. So,
also, tlo ju lg;es who travel
from ccunt to ccuntv and
tulniiDisfcr iuftice. Likewise
me men wno inane ana un
make our laws; and last, but
by no means least, the men
who attend to the business of
the people at the various
court houses.
Those enumerated t e
judges, legislators and coun
ty officers are the public ser
vants with whom the people
are most conc3rned after all,
and when they come to look
u round for the right men for
these places they see that the
Democratic party is the only
one which can furnish them.
The people want the State
governed properly and the
county business done right.
and they are going to give
the job to the Democratic
party again this year, as u-
sual. lf President. Cleveland
should turn Republican to
morrow and Congress ad
journ without passing any
tariff bill at all, North Caro
lina would still go Democrat
ic this year, upon the record
of the party in the State and
upon the character and ca
pacity of the men whom it of
fers the people as Congress
men, judges solicitors, mem
bers of the Legislature and
co u my officers.
A Warning.
"Have you been reading
the serial, 'The Scort of the
Sierras,' that is running in
my paper?"
"Yes. lam very much in
terested in it. Wl o is the
author?"
"I am the author."
"You are, eh? Well, I
want to tell you right now
that unless the hard heated
adventuress comes to grief
and the brave scout rescues
and marries the captive maid
en pretty soon I'll stop my
paper. -Texas Sittings.
ANXOrSCEMEN'T.
I hereby announce myself an
Independent Anti administration
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tor in tic
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J. F. iM'Ai-)Kci;.
Ill