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VOL. IX..
BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 14,1897
NO. 43.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
"Cuba; it ouizht to be and
it shall be free!" . That is the
motto on the flag which the
friends of Cuba, many and in
flut-ntialin Washington, have
nailed to the mast. The new
campaign for free Cuba was
opened with a big; mass meet
ing, under the ouspices of the
Woman's National Cuban
League, participated in by
miny prominent men, includ
inga number of Washing
ton's Joremost ministers of
the gospel. Other meeting
are to bV held, not only in
Washington, but in all see
tions of the i;.untry', to giye
that hearty sympathy for
C'iba known to exist a cha nee
to express itself in such an
emphatic way that the leis
urely an.l uncertain steps of
the administration will have
to be quickened, whether it
be agreeable to the govern
luent of Spain or not. At
this meeting a picked choir
of sixty voices sang for the
first time in public Joseph
Adams' "Ode t o. Cuba,"
which tie dedicated t' the
League There was great
enthusiasm, and those who
in charge hay that it is going
to continue to irrow until it
becomes irresistible. These
people believe with the Cu
bans that nothing short of
freedom for Cuba will beae-
cepted, and that the adminis
t ration scheme of pacifica
tion for Cuba under a contin
uanci of Spanish rule is
bound to be a failure.
Ex-Goyernor II o a d I e y ,
Chief Counsel for the intend
lug purchasers i f the Union
Pacific Hailioad, has been in
Washington for the purpose
of securing the official con
sent of the administration to
tin; deal made by his clients
with the Cleveland adminis
tration. He secured it, of
course, and the road will be
sold next month, notwith
standing the protests of the
Senate Committee on Pacific:
Railroads and the charge by
reputable citizens that the
sale is a job to do the gov
ernment and the private cred
itors of the road out off mil
lions of dollars.
It pnys to be the Presi
dent's doctor. Dr. Newton
L. Hates, a medical director
in the Navy, who was the
private physician of Mr. Mc
Kinley when he was in Con
gress, and who has occupied
the same position since he
became President, has been
nppointel Chief of the Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery in
the Navy Department, a l
though he was not next in
line tor promotion. .
An Ohio republican who
would not allow his name to
be used because it figures on
an oftHal pny roll and he
wishes it to sla, there, has
' been telling the inside facts
about the highhanded way
in which Doss Ilnnna's man
Dick has been walking rough
shod over the Foraker repub
lieansinthe state. He has
been in the state recently and
knows. He said: "There has
never been anything like
it befor in Ohio politics. The
supporters of Senator Fora -
ker supposed that when the
desl was patented up, largely
through Mr. McKinley, by
which Mr. Hanna was to be
supported for the Senateand
Gov. Dushnell renominated,
that factional differences wei e
to be shelved forthetir.ieand
the campaign made harmon
iously. They noon discover
ed that the harmony was to
consist of constant humilia
tions pur upon the Foraker
men by Hanna, his man
Dick, and their henchmen. It
has been steadily getting
worse ever since the cam
paign opened and the end is
not vet. although Senator
Foraker became ho disgust
ed that ho left, the state with
the intention of remaining
away until the election. Mr.
Mckinley has persuaded Sen
ator Foraker to return to
Ohio, and promised him that
if he would go ahead and
make speeches he would sec
that Hanna and Dick gave
him and his friends better
treatment. Foraker accept
ed Mi. McKinley'e promise
and left Washington today
for Ohio, hut he knows that
Hanna considers himself Mc-
Kinley's master, a n d he
hasn't much confidence in
that promise. Foraker will
have a personal day of reck
oning with Hanna, as sure
as you live, whether it be on
the floor bf the United States
Senate or in the State of
Ohio."
There is an unusual lot of
growling among the office
seekers in Washington be
cause of the little time that
Mr. McKinley devotes t o
them. They go to the Wlvte
House every day but few of
them get an opportunity to
see Mr. McKinley, and those
who do see him do not get
much satisfaction. He mak
es some appointments neat
ly every day, but lots of them
ire men whom he knows p"r
sonally or wishes to reward
tor ptfrs-jtial work done for
him. As a result there is
some plain talk in the hotel
corridors from those who be
lieye themselves entitled to
official recognition and who
have been led to suppose
they would get it. Slowly,
but surely, an ant i McKinley
sontiment is growing amoni;
republicans.
Tue "ralmetto State."
The Charleston News and
Courier thus explains the
origin of South Carolina's
sobrique-, "t h e Palmetto
State:" "On June 28, 1770,
a force of less than 100 Caro
linians, under commend of
Moultrie, protected bj the
rude fortification on Sulli
van's Island, in Charleston
harber, made of the. trunks
of the palmetto, repulsed 'he
attacks of a Dritish fleet un
der command of Sir Peter
Parker, and when the State
of.South Carolina Wis organ
ized, tUe State seal, which
was first used in May, 1777,
was made. to commemorate
this victory. A palm tree,
growing erect on tne sea
shore, represents the strengt h
of th fort, tvhilent its Hhsb
an oak tree, torn from thecable? lt cannot ,e
ground and deprived of its
branches, recalls the British
fleet, built of oak timber, ov-
iercome by the palmetto."
The Stgr6 m an Obstacle.
IWiUcal Recorder.
The colored man will be
with us of the South always.
His tribe now numbers 7.000
000; his increase is about
200,000 annually. To send
him back to Africa is impos
sible, it would be utterly Im
practicable. To colonize him
in this country is also both
impossible and impractiea
ble. Amalgamation is los
ing ground instead of gain
ing, which is vastly to the
credit of our country. So
the colored man is here to
stay. We must take account
of him, we must reckon on
him.
Since the gates of Eden
closed of Adam and Eve no
greater calamity hasbefallen
a people than that which we
thrust upon the stricken
South by the act giving 1,
000,000 slaves, sons of gen
erations of slaves, the right
of franchise. From thatday
until now the course of the
Southern people has been a
desperate struggle uo grade
against odds that would
ha ye daunted a less valliant
race. Politically we a r e
where we were three decades
ago. No reforms could be
initiated, no advanced posi
tions be taken, beouse ev
err year and hour the slight
est disaffection would Uirow
100,000 colored voters into
ascendancy. Take Hitnplein
stance: The editor of the
Uiblical Recorder, now gath
ered to his fathers, was de
nounced and abused through
out North Carolina because
he wouH not advocate a pro
hibition party. Those who
knew him knew why he was
silent. He knew that to ad
vocate the Prohibition party
would divide the white peo
ple, an.l the colored voters
would rise t j power. He
preferred liquor-selling; with
honorable white men in office
to liquor-selling with incom
petent colored men and rep
rescn tati yes of them in pow
er. His position was sound.
This is only one instance.
Hundreds mbht be named.
For every reform creates di
vision, every new idea crea
tes disaffe-tion. And in con
sequence the larger element
of the white people in the
South are politically t h e
slowest in the world to move.
And it will be so so long as
there is the almost inevitable
consequence that to initiate
a change will turn the conn
try over to an incompetent
and uvworthy regime.
Without, another word it
is clear that the negro is an
obstacle; clear chut inevita
bly the Southern country
must be retarded in her po
litical progress so long as he
is an obstacle. It is clear
that he is here to stay. What
then? Disfranchisement. It
is the only hope.. There is
but one ground that will
reach this mark, and that is
Illiteracy, lt is a good one;
it will stand the test of com
mon sense and plain reason
and right. Is it impossible?
It cannot be. Is it impracti
One
year or two years may not
achieve the end but it is
worth a decade of struggle.
Other issu s pale into insig
nificance beside this; they
should not be suffered to in
terfere. If the unintelligent
vote of North Carolina could
be eliannatet the State could
then address herself with a
single eye to the needs of the
people.
A GOOD ENOlMill PLATFORM.
Burlington News.
The newspapers and poli
ticians an beginning! o think
of and talk about the next
campaign, and the proper
course to be pursued to get
rid of the present official set,
so far as the election next
year will do it. More than
twenty years ago, when the
administration of our public
affairs was very bad, but no
worse than now, if indeed so
bad the democrats of Wat
augH county, in convention
assembled, passed short res
olutions, only two ot them,
whrh were , copied with ap
pi ohm ion by the democratic
papers of the State, and re
ferred to during the memor
able campaign of 187G. We
have thought of them often
in the condition lhatvveliaye
been placed in by the d?feat
of the Democratic party. If
there js one thing in the fu
ture that is certain, and that
all reasonable, well-informed
and candid men are bound
to admit, it is that the Dem
cratic party is the only par
ty to which the people of this
State can look for giod gov
ernment There are good
men in other parties, but
good men, capable men, do
not control other parties,
and the fusion of other par
ties ha ve gi '-en us more in
competent men i n public
place and office than the
State and its counties ever
had before. Hut to the Wat
auga resolutions. They were
in substance, if not in exact
language, as follows:
"Resolved, 1, That ve are
opposed to the set now in.
"Resolved, 2, That we fa
vor any-body who can bent
them."
That is about our condi
tion now. We will not charge
corruption i n the adminis
tration of our punlie affairs,
both State, and of the coun
ties in the State, but it is no
torious that incompetency,
and extravagance and blun
dering carelessness are to be
found in more places than
ever before known in out
State. We do not ch irge
corruption, o u t of great
chanty, for there are certain
ly no evidences warrant the
charge. Whatever may be
determined on ;is the cam
paign policy oi the Democrat
ic party, if it h at all wisely
adopted, we have fail h in the
honesty find good sense of
the people that leads us to
believe that they will defeat
the present bungling admin
istration of our public af
fairs. H allyl'Dkind.
Chollii Djyop know, one
of thoce phrenologist fellows
told me that my head was
almost a n exact reprodnc
tior of Henry Clay's?
Maud--What a hollow
mocker yJ Cincinnati! En
quiier. .No-'lo Hat Uu tirtjr Cents.
.' GtmrbHOtf to! habit vne, mi l.c weak
Kau u-u.., l-.upu ;'uic uv, 1. Ail ULitbU
France Farort BI-Metallisnw
News and Observer.
An inteligent, American cor
respondent in Paris has made
careful examination ot the fi
nancial views of the wealthy
classes in France and declar
es that, the sentiment in fav
or of free coinage of silver is
''almost universal." Not on
ly do the'Jeading statesmen
and publicists belie vo in bi
metallism, but were assured
that "the class of men io
France who are most active
i n promoting bi-metallisia
represent interests similar ta
those of the single gold stan
dard ndiocatesjri the United
States."
This correspondent also
states that last winter the
Chamder of Deputies by a
two-thirds vote parsed a res
olution, introduced by Mr.
Meline, Prime M"niter, which
declared that "the establish
ment of international bimet
allism would be a great ben
efit to the agric-iltural.indus'
trial and commercial inter
ests, and we urue upon the
government the nrt visibility
of doing all in its power to
establish und maintain, by
international agreement, a
stable parity of exchange be
tween gold ana silver."
Commenting on the state
i m . i a
munt." ot the American cor
respondent quoted, the St
Louis Republic, which says
they are of ''a most encour
aging nature,' adds:
"With such a strong bime
tallic sentiment as this in
France, which dominates the
Latin Union, it is only aques
tion ot time when bimetal
lism is bound to be re-estab
lished. The United States
could take initiative without
the dread of having no allies
to fight thfl battle. Great
lb-it ian would soon have to
re-open the mints of India to
the white metal to preyent
upheavals in the vast com
merce of that country. Rut
to accomplish anything i n
that line we shall have to
elect a Congress and a Presi
dent in theUuited States wlr.
will deal fairly with the ques
tion and honestly with the
American people. That is a
matter which the voters can
attend to in 1000'"
Lett's Have Peace.
Whatever else may happen
in North Carolina in the next
eight or ten months let not
the white men take each oth
er by the throat. 'Ihenemy
will gain. confid?nce and in
crease their plotting for vic
tory just in proportion as
th" personal bickerings
in' , - i i i -m I antagonisms
ii'ni ail manner ol discord
aiming the ne n of the white
race. "In union there i s
strength." Relieve it. Wil
miilglon Messengei.
This is wise counsel. There
will be differences of opinion
as to the best method of res
cuing the State from thepres
ent incompetent and corrupt
gang who are at the helm.
All who sincerely desire a
change and the coming to
gether of the white men of
the State ought to give due
weight to the several opin
ions. The State convention
can be relied upon to do
right. News and Observer.
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Though about S50 oppli-.
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versify, only 267 did well
enough to matriculate4. Of
this number was Mr. Mat
thef? Harper of Gastonia.
The Alumni Princetonian
says, "Princeton never before
began a year under such ad
spicious circumstances as she
begins this one. The fresh
trran class is a fine one, both
in quantity find quality."
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Attorney at Lay
Boone, N. C.
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Boone, N. Ci
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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