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No soothing strains of Maia's son, . Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep' ' VGLu XVI. GOIiDSBORO, K- C, THUKSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1900. NO 17 This Aegtjs o'er the people's rights, Doth an eternal vigil keep CARD FROM MR. G. H. VANCE. SENATOR VANCE AND MR. SIMMONS. V Dr. I. W. Faison Makes Public a Letter Written to Him by Senator Vance's Son. Charlotte Observer. To the Editor of the Observer; I have raceived the following letter, which explains itself: "Washington, Oct. 22, 1900. Dr. I. W. Faison, Caailotte, N. C.:, . My Dear Doctor: I have re ceived your letter of the 20th inst., in which you ask meto state what were the objections of my.father to the confirmation of F. M. Simmons as collector. , Under crdiniiry circumstances would not be inclined to revive recollections of political contro versies with which my father was concerned, but when impress ions, as I understand, are being .maJe in the State that at the time cf his death he and Mr. Simmons were on friendly terms, I desire to state that this is not the fact, but on the contrary a shcrt time before my father's death ho stated to me that in his opinion Mr. Simmons was not fit for this office, or worthy of theconridance of the people of North Carolina. I know the fact that my father regarded Mr.Sim mons as an unscrupulous poli ticiau, and for that and other reasons he opposed his confirm ation for collector. Bat for his death Mr. Simmons would never have been collector. 4 I know of my personal knowl edge there were enough Senators at that time with Senator Vance to have defeated Simmons' cons firmation. My father stated to me that if Simmons obtained control of the politics of North Carolina it would ,ba conducted as a ma chine, regardless of the rights, privileges or opinions of the peo ple, and if there was anything that my father abhorred in poli tics, it was a machine or boss- " ism. 77haievr honors be got came from the people, and . he trusted them implicitly. As expressed in a card, which he wrote to the Asheville Citi- i2Ds in Februarys 1894, he op Mr. nosed the cocfirrnaticn of XT Simmocs 'upon personal, as well as public grounds connect ed with his unfitness to hold the position for which he naa oeen appointed," : . - Mr. Simmons stated in a re cent card that Senator Vance did not oppose him on account of any cnarges a&aiuo) u:a va. character. There were some charges of this kind, and some serious objections to him, which roorei filfid at the time with the J finance committee of the Senate I have made diligent sea-ch for th?se papers, but"failed to find them in the records. They have been abtracted by some one, I do not know by whom, or when. Another reason for Senator Vance's opposition to Mr. Sim ,c That centleman came to Jii VMM ' " - C3 Washington early in 1894, Hand, s anar.itv as chairman of . m r the Democratic Executive Com ' vnittAPi of North Carolina, told Mr. Cleveland, in an interview uith him, that Senator . Vance, who was then fightingthe nom ination of a certain party as col lector of the westerns-district, did not represent the Democratic party of North Carolina, or the sentiment of the people in that State at that time. MrvSimmons denied making this statement, and, of course, will deny it again, but my father "told me he knew he made it, and I believe him in preference to Mr. Sim mons. Of course, Mr,. Simmons will deny this; he denies every thing: he can give St. Peter "cards and spades" and beat him denying every day in the week. Although Mr. Simmons is now posing as having been all along the friend and champion of sil very he joined in 1893-94 with the enemies of Senator Vance, who were trying, to encompass hisdownfalKSimmons was at that time holding up the hands of Mr. Cleveland, who lost no opporr tunity to injure Senator Vance, politically, because the Senator refused to support the uncondi tional repeal of the Sherman act, but stood up squarely for silver then, as he did until-his dying day. . In my opinion Mr. Simmons did not become a friend of silver until he found that the sentiment ef the people of North Carolina was overwhelmingly in that di rection. When Senator Vance was fighting this battle for sil ver Mr. Simmons was doing all he could in his power to uphold the hands of the administration, whicb,as is wellknown,by every ona, was in favor of the single gold standard, and was using its patronage in North Carolina to that end. y I regret that Senator Vance's name has been brought into this matter, but inasmuch as it has, in justice to his memory, and in fidelity to his friends, and as an affectionate son, I deny any and all statements made, and by whomsoever, that b.9 ever relent ed in his opposition to Mr. Sim mons' appointment pr confirma tion as collector, or that he ever entertained for a moment any other than the opinion thatf rem any standpoint Mr. Simmons was wholly uLfit for an office of trust. 7 - QJ course, if-the majority of the people of North Carolina de sire to send Mr. Simmons to the Senate, I can but acquiesce, but I am determined he snail never get to the Senate upon the false, pretense of being the friend of Senator Vance, and I wish to say to those in North Carolina who loved him in lite, and who, still love and revere his memory, and I believe there are many that Mr. Simmons was his enemy to his dying day personally and politically, and was one of the chief of those who tried to humi liate ancLbound him to his death. I have written more at length than I had intended, but I wish the people of North to under stand that if my father were liv ing he would not for a moment favor or ceveu countenance the pretensions' of Mr. Simmons to senatorial honors, for 1 know the fact that if ha did not regard him fit to be a revenue collector, he could not have thought him fit to represent a great State in the highest legislative chamber on earth. Yours ysry truly. . Chas H Vance. In 1894.at the Central Hotel in Charlotte, Senator Vance stated substantially the above facts to me. He alluded to the great hum- illation Mr Simmons had assist ed in bringing upon him. stata ing: "My hands are so complete ly tied that xc&JEaos appoint even a postmaster ia taa western part of my State" - T W. Faison. "TTft AS TO C. N. VANCE'S CARD. Daily Argus, Thursday last. " In the Charlotte Observer of yesterday,and published else where in this issue, appeared an open let ter to Dr. L W. Faison, of that I city, from Ches. N. Vance, of Washington, D, O . , and whose father was the late Sanator Z. B. Vance, of North Carolina. The letter purports to be in an swer to one written lo bim by Dr. Faison aeking the objections of Senator Vance to the confirmation of Hon. F. M. Simmons as col lector -a matter.J;bat is familiar to Argus readers . The committee to which the controversy was. referred, and of which Senator Vance was a mem ber, indulging the Senator in his contention for awhile, he died be fore the reasonable limit of "sen atorial courtesy" expired and in due course the appointment of Mr. Simmons was endorsed by the committee and confirmed by the benate, and at a time when all the facts were fresh before the committee. This proves conclu sively that the charges against Mr. Simmons did not affect his character, end, that the commit tee of Senators, who loved Vance, treated the opposition as purely a personal objection which passed away with that great man; and we know of our own knowledge, from a talk we had with Senator Vance in the "Marble Boom," just before he left Washington for the last time alive to seek, res toration to health in Florida, that he was ready to relent, and we be? lieve it was his purpose to do so on his anticipated next sitting with his committee, - tha statement of Chas. N. Vance to the contrary notwithstanding. A letter which we wrote to Senator Vance durir g his last illness in Florida, based on the conversation with him in th9 Capitol referred to above, will sustain this statement iO tbaflet i ter is still extant among his pa pers. But why should -this "dead past" be brjught op at this day and time atsd at this particular juncture? And who is Charley Vance, other than the son of his father, that the people of North Carolina should be asked to be lieve the villainous and vicious interpretation he seeks to place upon his late lamented father's opposition to Mr. Simmons ? Not content with literally digging up. his""fathers dead body, where it had been reverently interred by his devoted and cultured widow, and persisting in his ghoulish purpose" until the dear good, wo man had to appeal to the strong arm of the law to protect ber sa cred right to her dead, he now essays to dig up this revered man's character and hold him up as go ing to his "long home" with hate in his heart against a fellow man and to make the people- believe that if living he would still op pose the peerless Simmons, whom the Democracy of North Carolina have honored again and again, and whose hosts under his leadership have never known defeat. Nay, not so: let . us, rather, thick of the dead Senator as ore who "fell on sleep" at peace with all man&ina tnat wnen ms eye looked inward for a final review of his long and distinguished ca A OMPft rear it found the record reyised and thQ heart purged of all resent ments, ready for the searching eye of the Great Judge t Eternal, ready for the crown of righteous ness which an appreciative and loving people fondly cherish the nope has been his reward n the eternities of God. Charles Vance says he has "made diligent search" for pa pers filed with the Finance com mittee of the Senate against the personal character of Mr. Sim mons, but "failed to find them in the records;" and then intimates that they have been purloined: thus hoping to give some sem blance of truth to his viciously false statement that any such pa pers were ever on file with trie finance committee or any other committee. The personal charac ter and private life of Mr. Sim mons are without reproaca; and his political career and public ser vice are distinguished for daunt less heroism in the face of im pending periland absolute integ rity in the discharge of official trusts. It is useless to discuss fur ther this vicious attack upon one of the State's most deserv ing son; a man . who has served his party promptly, cheer r. fully, willingly, fearlessly, with peerless ability and always with an avalanche of victory such as has never so signally marked the bervice of any other chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee. . We have written what we have written here as a simple act of political and personal justice to Mr. Simmons, because we are pt culiarly acquainted more soTper haps, than any other man in the Slate, with possibly the single ex ception of Hon. B. H. Bunn, of Nash, with the true inwardness and all the facts of the Vance-Sfm- mons variance, tbat has so loner been ra closed incident "in the pub- ; lie 1 fa of our Sta'e; and for the degenerate eon tQ thus, again in vade the sanctity of the grave and the sanctuary of truth, and seek to rehabilitate his dead father and put words into his mouth that he never uttered against Mr. Sim mons and attribute purposes to his heart that he never cherished is reprehensible in the extreme; is od'ous beyond expression, and will, we feel sure, find no tolera? tion with the decency-loving peo ple of North Carolina, There is more Catarrh In. this sec tion of the country than all other dis eases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years" doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and pre scribed local remedies, and by con stantly failing1 to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrn to be a constitu tional disease, and, therefore requires constitutional : treatment. Hall's Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney fe Co , Toledo, Ohio, is the onlv constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally; in doses irom iu droos to a teaspoomul. It acts airectly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. .'.' P." J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. E5Sold by Druggists; 75v ; - A full house beats a full dinner pail as a drawing attraction. Do not get soared if your heart trou bles you. Most likely you suner irom inaierestion Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and gives the worn out stomach perfect rest It is the onlv tr6Daration known that com tilatelv dieests all classes of foods: that is why it cares the werst-cases of in digestion and stomach trouble after everything else has failed it may be taken in all conditions and cannot help but do you good. ,4. M,Jiin & eon. TThlTft TTTK TIP MR. SIMMONS' CHARACTER ATTACKED. Editor Argus: The most unseem ly and the most vicious attack that has appeared in the Senatorial con -test was published in the Charlotte Observer of yesterday in a letter from Charles N. Vance. It is unseemly because he seeks to renew some of the animosities which touch all political lives, and which had entered into the life of his fa ther, and to drag before the public his father's name to injure Mr. Sim mons. ' Is it true that Senator Vance did not like Mr. Simmons? If so, was Vance small enough to carry this dislike to his grave, and did he leave behind him a -son, who would open the grave that dislike and hate might come forth? We do not believe this of Vance, but prefer to believe that the writer of the. article is the "de generate son of a worthy sire." If we remember aright this same son upon the death of his father had a bitter contest with -his father's wife as to who was" entitled to the pos session of the body and where it should rest. He says -Mr. Simmons is not wor thy of the confidence of the people of the State, that he Is unscrupu lous, j After making a charge he says, "Of course"Mr. Simmons will deny this, he denies everything, he can give St. Peter cards and spades and beat him denying every day in the week." The inference is that St. Peter is a liar and that Mr. Simmons can beat him, and that the writer cannot express his idea except by reference to the card table. St. Peter a liar! St. Peter with cards and spades! Nothing can show -more plainly' the difference between Charles N. Vance and his father than the sacriligious way the son deals in holy things. The people of North Carolina love Zebulon B. Vance, but they do not know his son. He lias done nothing worthy of his name, and with the great name of his &b.er behind him, has been brought prom inently before the people twice, once when he was disturbing, his father's widow by contesting "her right to lay his body to rest, and now, when, he attempts to shield himself "behind his father's name to slander and villify F. M. Simmons. When did'Simraons become a liar and a scoundrel ? He is f or.ty-six years of age, and surely all this has not developed in the last year. Was he a liar and a scoundrel in 1898 when he led the Democratic hosts to victory ? Why did not Charles N. Vance warn the people then ? And again, was he a liar and a scoundrel in 1900, ' whe,n under his leadership the rule of the white man was for ever established in the State? We believe there is gratitude and manhood left in the Democrats of the State and that they will resent such methods, and let every Demo crat remember now that when he .votes against Simmons he is indors ing these slanders. ' Fair Plat. Ubldsboro, Oct. 25, 1900. Try Allen's Foot-Ease A Dowderl to be shaken into the shoes. Your feet feel swollen, nervous and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy, Cures swol len sweating feet, ingrowing nails, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort, Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25,Trial nuckafre FREE. Address Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y, Beliet!in Six Hours, "Distressing Kidney and Bladder Disease relieved in six hours by ''New ?reA.t South American Kidney Cure." t ip o (Ti-oat Rurvrifce on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in blaader, kidneys ahdback, in male or female Relieves retention of watei iMnat immndiatelvIf voi want auick relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold byM.E. $tobion ft Bro. ; Druggist. O)ldboro, JUXE CAER FOR SENATOR. Dear Argus. " " -The Senatorial race will soon be over and the friends of each candi date will then forget their differen ces and hurrah for the winner, no lens yolens. It will then be a good thing to have the happy faculty of "adapting ourselves to circumstan ces," as an old member of the State Legislature once said to his wealthy neighbor who met him on the public road barefooted, driving a steer cart. It has been said since the Senato rial battle commenced that Waddell niunorl Vi -RrUt- T vri.- wf.u.u. nuo uguu iui wjuLt) supremo cy, Simmons drove the Democratic wagon, J arvis steered it and Carr furnished the axle grease. But be fore this contest set in Charlie Aycock was the greatest champion: he .was the second Zeb Vance that " by his matchless zeal and oratory he fired the hearts of the people from Cherokee to Currituck and brought us out of the wilderness, and to him was given the praise of securing white supremacy. I do not under stand now why he should be disrob ed of the garments of praise so uni versally conceded to him, and put on another man, unless his friends think him hard up for merit to bear him out in the Senatorial race. Let the old time Confederate vet erans, who have been used to bat- ling and from experience are the best judges.place th honor to whom honor belongs in this fight. As our ranks are thinned out by the scythe of time, as the frost of years are set tling upon our heads, as our falter ing steps draw nearer the invisible and shadowy line separating time fiom eternity, we make ., this as one of our last requests to our sons: help us elect our comrade Julian S. Carr to the United States Senate, for this will be the last opportunity to be stow upon him the honor he so rich ly deserves. Sons of veterans! you who have never endured together the sufferings of the frozen camp, the hardships of the forced march, ;he dangers of the battle field, the agonies of the hospital, the untold horrors of the prison pen; cannot un derstand the bonds that unite us veterans as brothers tried and true. There are bonds of all sorts in this world, Fetters of partisanship and ties of parties, . - . And a tied Simmons knot I've seen: The politicians are bound in the Sen atorial twist, But there never was a bond so noble as this: Carr and we drank from Johnnv Eeb's canteen. It was sometimes water and some times milk, And eometimss 'frog soup" out of a ditch, .But whatever the tipple has been We shared it together in bane or bliss. And I grow warm to Jule when I think of this: Carr and we drank, from Johnny Beb's cahteea. - The politician and th& ring sit down to dine, r And they quaff to each other in per simmon wines From glasses of chrystal and green. But I guess in their golden potations they miss - . . The warmth of regard to be found in this: ' Carr and we drank from Johnny Beb's canteen. We have shared our blankets and y tents together, . y And have marched and fought in all kinds of weather, . On hard tack and poor beef, tough and green, Had days of battle itnd days of rest, But the memory I cling to and love the Jbest, Carr and we dranlc from Johnny Beb's canteen. - r: A Thus Veterah. Goldsboroy N. C. Oct. 1900. v This is the season w&efi mothers are auriucu uu .awuuut vk uruup. I b is. quickly cared by One Minute Cough Cure, which children like to take. J. H, Hill & Son. ;
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