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1300NE; WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THUHSDAY MAY, 16 1895,
NO. 28.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From oar fiegnlar Correspondent
, vll President Cleveland ond
Sijrreta vy Greshn in nepcJcd
:'. vindication for the position
they took in the dispute be
tween Gtent, Britain and Ni
cnruujfua, the 'outcome of
that affair would furninli a
full supply, showing hh it
does that theadminiHtiution
wan thoroughly alive to Amer
ican iutereHtH. Tsay that
the Monroe doetrin wan at
any time involved in the af
fair is Mim ply to displny iriic
ranee of the Monroedocti ine.
Hut the treaty between 1 1) e
United States and Gre.itltrit
niu knowntisthellayton-Bul
wer treaty, was the founda
tion upon which thendminis
t ration' Htood.wlnMi it conpn
ted to. the tempoinry occu
pation of Corintoby.tlie Brit
iish. The treaty nays: ?,Nei
ther the U. S. nor Great Brit
ain vvill ever accept or main
tain any fortification corn
mo ndinjr the ship cm rial, or in
the vicinity thereof, or occu
py or fortiiy or colonize or
assume or exercine any dom
inion over Nirarungua, Coa
ta;ico, thOoP10 .wwnt
or.uny part, of Antral Amer
ica.'' In the face of th.it ex
Illicit laiiffimjfe how silly ap
peals all the wild talk nbotit
the intention of (Jreat Br'it
n in to gobble up as much of
Nicaraugua as would give
her control of the canal. It
just shows, however, how .-la-r.ientably
ignorant many o'
, those who write about ''pub-
lie affairs are. But vicious
ness has been responsible for
..more of the misrepresenta
tions in this case thaa ignor
ant had.
Civil Service Commissioner
Lyman, whose rumored fenc
ed resign ition has been a
"sort of Id monthly or hi qu:u-
terl.v publicati.on, appearing
wilh sufficient regularity to
entitle it to second class pos
tal rates, ever siucethutCon-
gressional comuntteeinvesti
gated the charges . made a-
gainst hitn, several years a
go. by the Washington Post,
of favoritism toward a rela
tive in office, is really going
this time. His resignation,
whTclfit is needlVss to Kay
was not voluntarily tendered
is now in the hands of the
Piesident, and it is expected
that his successor will be ap
pointed at the same time
that the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Theodore
Roosevelt is filled. Both Ly
man and Roosevelt are Re
publicans, but it is the Presi
dent's intention to appoint
a Democrat in place of one of
them, whHi will make the
commission consist of two
' Democrats and one Republi
can, instead of two Republi
cans and one Democrat, as it
has been during this entire
administration.
Senator 3orman doesn't
often allow his opinion to be
quoted in-a newspaper, but
he has this to say of the per
sonal attack lately made up
on him by tbe Hon. Isadora
Rayner, an aspirant for the
Maryland Democratic guber
natorial nomination: ,,?I re
ftiet to be compelled to say
that I , regard Mr. Rayner s
Speech m that ofan oveifani
ious candidate who has for
gotten (lis protestations of
friendship and what he has
always claimed to be his un
dying gratitndt-: for my friend
ship for hitn during the past-
twenty years.. Why he has
made the personal, aseault
upon me, lam ac a loss to'
comprehend, unless it be that
hisearuesj pleading with me
to support him f jr. the nomi
nation tailed to receive a fa
vorable response. He ought
however, to have been satis
fiel with my assurance to
Mm, that I believed the best
interest of the pjrty required
that the nomination should
seek the man, and not the
man the nomination."
Secret a r Givsham is not
sick enough to justify thesen
sationa! reports sent " out
from Washington, although
he is confined to his room
and is likelv to be tliere or
four days in ore. It is the
sat'.ie old troublestomach
and liver that laid him up
a few weeks ago, and t h e
cause is also the same over
work and failure 10 take pro
per eaf of himself. He is in
no danger tind only requires
rest to bring him around a
gain'.' Attorney General Olney has
decided that the construe-
tion put upon the law gover
ning the purchase of seejs
by the Agricultural depart
ment by Secretary Morton
wuecoi rect; consequently, in
stead of spending the $100 ,
000 appropriated, Secretary
Morton will only buy such
seeds as are "rare and un
common", unless Congress
makes a new law compelling
the expenditure of all the
money.
Ex Senator Blair, of New
Hampshire, evidently isn't a
Reed man.. He says: "New
England is apparently for
Reed, but the "feeling is HJt
of the kind hat would make
men die in the last ditch fight
ing for Reed. Some of h i h
brethren may be tor hiir
thinking that a New England
man, not Reed, however,
might get second place on
the ticket. And yet it might
happen that Reed himself
would finally be satisfied with
second honors. Then it must
be remembered that in his
own State llab and Frje
and the other old-time Blaine
men ure not biimming over
with joy at Tom Reed's pres-
ent politicnl prominence.
Thi'y are for him, but largely
because they have to be, ami
the draught U just about as
pleasant as a dose of medi
cine is to a small boy."
'The arguments before the
Supreme Court for a rehear
ing in the income tax cases
were ojn-nen today.
It Did the Uusluoss.
Rev. J. H. C3br, publisher
of th 'Mirror, at Brocton,
N. y.,says: "For nearly two
yeaiRthe 'Mirror has been
publishing the advertise
ments of Chamberlain's Rem
edies. A few days ago the
writer was Buffering from a
bowel trouble and resorted
to an old remedy which did
not .prove efficacious: finally
he tried Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy and two doses did the
business, checking it com
Dletely For bale by, W.- L.
Brvan.
Senator Prltcluro atd Ela Boston
Bpaecb. .
Ptntesville Landmark.
t One of t he chif obstacles
in the way of 11 self-respecting i
Southern white man w h o
might become converted to
the. principles of the Republi
can party and want to join
it, would be found in the fact
that he 'must listen in silence,
ami seem to give his assent,
to endless abuse of Southern
people and Southern institu
tions. Not only so. but if he
looks a little beyod he will see
himself so metamorphosed
that he. will find himself a
mong the traducers of his
own people. We have in mind
the speech delivered by Sena
tor Pritchard, of North Car
olina, before the Middlesex
Club, of Boston, a week ago
last Sa tut day night. A Sou
thern man. theouly one there
perhaps, he stood up in the
presence of a company nf Bos
ton Republicans and instead.
of telling it of the honor, pa
triotism, courage, nnd. other
hiah qualifications of his peo
ple.'did what? y he de
nounced them as election
thievfs, ballot-box robbers.
perverteis of the will of the
people. The report of his.
speech which we have seen
and it appears to be its text-
makes a bar allusion to the
currency question, discusses
the. tariff from a protection
stand point, to the extent of
a quarter of a column, nrH
all the remainder is given to
theft induction of his fellow
citizens.
There is a. Hass of South
ern 'people who are not to be
criticised because they are Re
publicans, and these are the
men whose fathrrs have been
Republicans before them. It
is an axium t ha ta boy should
take his politics from his fa
ther and a girl her religion
from her mother. No man is
Nameworthy, therefore, for
the politics which he inherit
ed. We respect Sen. Pritch
ard no less because he is Re
publican than we would if he
were a Deinociat. His father
was a Uuion man, and the
present Sena toi, as n child,
saw that father driven off by
a file of Confederate soldiers,
his feet tied together under a
mule, and soon thereafter
heard of his dsath. The theo
ry is that the Democratic
party wasvesponsible forthe
war, with all its attendant
consequences, and y o u n g
Prit-'hard grew up with this
idea firmly rooted in his
mind. His Republranism is,
therefore, as natural with
him as the air he breathes,
but it is submitted that he. a
Senator of the United States,
presents a pitiM figure where
he allows it to so, dominate
him that he can find it in his
conscience to go before an un
friendly audience in a far Nor
them city and feed it on old
women's tales which put his
own people in the worst pos
sible light the peopleamong
whom he was born and rear
ed and who, he well knows,
constitute the better element
of the Southern population.
But. this, as was said at
the outset, is the inevitable
result of a. Southern white
mnnV connection with the
Republfeon party. : He must
hear his party associates in
the North decry his pe'ople
until he becomes accustomed
to it, and next hejoins in the
cry him8el. . The irrisistible
conclusion is that no loyul
Southern man has any busi
ness in the Republican party.
He may think it right in ma
ny of its ideas of government
but until it abandons its sec
tional hatred, takes its hand
from the throats of those of
his .own flesh and blood, he
should have no part or lot
with it. He wnsn patriot who
exciaimed: 'My county! Right
or wrong, my country!".
ThaUreatest Good.
Charlotte News.
Patriotism should be a
stionger sentiment thnnpnr
tisanshp. It should be t h e
mainspring of action and in
individuals as well as parties.
The common good should be
placed above party success.
The welfare of the masses
should be the aim of politi
cal parties, and that party
which has the interests of the
people most at heart should
receive popular support, whe
ther it beseem ocra tic, Popu
list or Republican.
If the Republican party was
the friend of the masses it
ought to commend their sup
port." If the interests of the
country would be advanced
by the suecesss of the 'Popu
list, party patriotism would
demand that we support that
party. If greatest go 3d to
the greatest number can b
secured through the Demo
rrntic party then. we ought
all to be Democrats.
Wedo'not believein nnrea
soning, blind;! partisanship
Everv man ought: to vote
and affiliate with a party be
cause he.believts in its prin
ciples and endorses Its pro
fessions, ile ought to study
the situation and be ablr to
act intelligently in these mat
ters. Nor ought we to allovv
ourselves to be guided in our
action upon public questions
by selfish motives. S;lf inter
est is veiyhard to keep out,
but a broad, philanthropic
and patviotic consideration
of a public policy will help to
overcome this selfish action.
Unfortunately this broadei
view is not taken. For in
stanc?, th protected manu
facturer is nearly always in
favor of protection regard
less of the hardships it may
entail upon multitudes of his
felllow-cjtiznis. The man wh
hus large accumulations of
wealth agree with Mr. Cleve
land in views on the fiaan
einl question bf cause it is, he
believes, to his interest to do
so.
It is the financial question
upon which we desire to biy
special stress, as it is fore
most in the public mind. Its
solution iiHhe pr oblem of the
hour. It gold inonomettal
lism would be best for the
gieat masses we ought to
take that stand regard less of
personal interest. If bimet
allism, the free, coinage of sil
verand gold, would bring
prosperity we ought to lay
asido personal preferences
and work for that. The pub
lie iiood should be our aim
and our effort 8 should be di-
The War Dance Beynn, .
' News from Washington is
to the effect that the admin
istration tom-toms are alrea
dy sounding and big chiefs
Carlish and Hoke Smith are
the braves sent out fb begin
the work of disintegration.
Carlisle Is to perform the war
dancein'Old Kaintuck,' while
the great Hoke will sing the
song of death in Georgia.
Smith is already at it. The
Raleigh News and Observer
is partial to Hoke.nnd names
him as1) the best Southern
man for the Presidency and
'the brainiest" living man,
perhaps, in all Southland.
We have lor some time sus
pected that' Degeneracy! had
sit in eren in the South, arid
it is violent if the Observer is
correct. There are 50,000 re
al Democrats in North Caro
lina to-day, we must believe,
who wtuld not vote for Hoke
if he were nominated. They
would vote for no man who
was not soundly Democratic
and for the money of the con
stitution and the Democratic
law of 1892. Major Bacon,
ex-Senator Norwood, ex-Spea
kei Crisp, ex Senator Walsh,
and other able Georgia Dem
ocrats will be able to attend
to Hon. Hoke when he be
gins the war .dance of gold
buggery on the stump. Mes
senger. BIG BID hO It SO Alb OF
YOUR CASH.
We have a full line of Gen
eral Merchandise,, and are re
ceiving new goods every few
days, which we pro pose to
sell at prices never before
heard of, for ensh. We
invite your attention to a
few of our prices named be
'ov;: All wool cassimer t30
inches wide at locts., French
cassimers 80c, cottonades
l()c. and ap, heavy domestic
5 by the bolt, plaids 5c.
standard prints at Gc. and
up, cassimers and hen ret t as
in all the latest styles, cheap.
Crepoline, the latest fad in
dress goods, in the very la
test spring shades at 10c.
We a re j u s t recei v i n g a 1 a rge
sto-jk of Shoes nm' Hats, of
all kinds at the very lowest
prices. Also a nice line of no
tion cheap. Men's good half
hose at 5c. fast black 20c.
HARDWARE
Of all kindsFarmers, listen
to our prices on hoes: Heavy
0 inch planter's hoe for 29c.
medium cotton hoe 4 tor
boy's hoes 20 cts. each. You
can get anything in tinware
at prices that will astonish
you. 1 ry our XX tinware
GROCERIES.
Under this hpnd we are pre
pared to offer you some spe
cial inducements. Good green
coffee 5 lbs for $1, 4 lbs. Ar
buckles?!, 18 lbs. white ex
tra (.' sugar $1, G lbs soda
25;. Oysters, ce lined peaches
rolled oats, soap, etc. In
fact almost anything kept in
a country store, at prices
that dety competition.
fifty The highest market prices
paid for countiy produce.
BSTTry a glass of our great
summer drink only 5c Call
and get our prices before buy
ing elsewhere. Resp.
If. f. SHERWOOD & Co.
Amantha, May 1, '95.
Notice of Devolution,
The firm of Johnson. Ed
rnisten & "Co., of, flowing
Rock, has this day by mutu
al consent desolved, Ed in is-
ten & Co. to pay all claims
igainst the firm or Johnson,
Ed rnisten & Co. This April
W. L.Douclas
VU 0flWfaTrroft akin.
. cordovan;
HUNCH . 1NAMUXU CALF.
3.3? P0UCE,3 SOLES.
.l.BflYS'SCHMLSm
'LADIES'
WS5S8SJ80U
Ovtf On Million Popfo wur Um
W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes
All our ahoes are equally oatltfactory
Thy glv th beat valu for th bmimv.
They equal cuatom ahoaa la atyla and fit.
Thalr wearing qualities ara unaurpaaaed.
The prlcaa are uniform, etamptd on aoaa.
Prom ft to Sj aavrd over other makes.
If your dealer cannot supply you w can. Sold by .
Dealers everywhere, Wanted agent to
lake exclusive sale for this vicinity.
Write at once.
!i Docs This
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Equitable Life Assurance
4 Society in the Department of
f the Carolinas, wishes to se J
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Z for this work will find this
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S It is work, however, and those
who succeed best in it possess
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x tact, perseverance, and the
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PROFESSIONAL.
W. B. C0UNC1LL, Ju.
Attorney at La at.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M. D.
Boone. N. C.
Resident Phyt'.irinn. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office. '
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J. F MOHPIIiiW,
A170RNEYA1 LAW,
MARION, -. N.C
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Will prnetice in the courts o
Vataua, Ashe, Mitchell, McDovvl
and all lther countlw in the
western district "Spt da atten
Jon iven to the collection o
laini!:'."a
W. B. C'uimcill M. I). T. C. Blnckbonu
Boone, X. C. Zionrille, X. C.
Councill & Blackburn,
Physicians & Surgeons.
&r Calls attended at all
lune 1, ?93.
K. F. LOViLL. 3. C. FLETCHEH.
LOVILL & FLETCHER.
ATlORNhYSATLAW,
BOONE, N. 0. -
8 Special attention given
to the volletion oielaims.'aG&
Chamberlain's Eya ruid Bkin Olntaieal
la a certain core for Chronic Bore Eves,
Granulated Eye Lids. Sore Ripples, Piles,
Eraema, Tetter, Salt Rheum and Scald Head,
25 cents per box. For sale by droggisUi
TO HOBSB 0WNT5BS.
For putting a hone in s fine healthy con
dition try Dr. Cody's Condition Powder.
They tone np the eystem, aid digestion, enra
loesof appeutts, roliere constipation, correct
kidnef disorders and destroy worms, gifing
new life to an old or over worked hone. 25
cents per package. For sale by druggists.
FORDTSPCPRU, . '
Indtgmrtlon, and Rnraacb Afamnlna, take
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