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I THE FRANKLIN TIMES J. A , THOMAS, Editor and Proprietor. TWO DEMOCRATIC LEADERS. Washington Post. , Perhaps it would be better to . de- I scribe them as one leader and one i back-number we refer to William J. Friday, Februaby 24, i ONE TEAS, SIX MONTHS,. THREE MONTHS. - - 1899 HEW ELECTION LAW. Provides for a State Board of Election of Five. The basis of the new election law is contained in Chapter 16 of the Code, of 1885 and UNTIL ANOTHER CAMPAIGN. The most looked after person dur ing a political year, is the newspaper Editor. His office ;is a resort lor the politi cian and for those who want the latest ADDITION. Tlic Best is TIig 'Cheapest fl.OO 65 35 T?r9n and Ornver Cleveland for the as amended bv the Acts of 188? and political news. lUriXJCI 19 l Willi lilt c&uu I JUUU. - I .. t . . , 1 . ' ... ... .. . . speakings he is anxiously wanted, and vigor, strenuous, enthusiastic, vime, ine power 10 noia an elections a q aite oflen at political dinners be is and the other reeks with the dullness vested m a State Board of Elections, asked to attend, not so much as a and the gangrene of Mogwumpery. to be composed of five persons to be matter of friendship and courtesy as HWolanri left his nartir weaker, more elected bv this General Assembly and lhe ke of keeping on the good Z- t. us-. ,u r.- Tkia iA tm . We of the editor, and for fear he may ulsto,uam ",au "c ,UU,1U iu.juureuu..j continne his rratnitious nolitical n nnTnr . imTDU - ;..--' I. . . i . . i r -. . 1 .L: S.l. L.: I TtiJfi iiJiiuioiiAJLunjc. - iook up tne aymg emoers oms ,piru 1 organize mis year mutiai uucui iucu i and might intimate that a dol- ! It now looks like the Legislature Und fanned them into raging flame, number chairman and another secre- nar or two for acolumn of political will not eet through its business be- He eave his Dartv inspiration, fervor, tar v. This board will appoint a county I puff would be necessary. far nm- time in March. . I hnno TT animated and revivified if. I board of elections ' comDosed of three But how different after the campaign i An Act bias passed the Legislature Despitelhe desertions and the t reach-1 persons. Is an old saying and one that holds good in nearly every case especially is it true in the purchase of Drugs. Damaged Drugs are unfit for use, and are not cheap at any price. is over and the candidates cured their offices! have se- relieving B. F. Wilder, ex-Treasurer eries wrought by vanity and avarice in The county board of elections ap- xLet the newspaper editor, however We call voor attention t some new lines we have added to our l stock of Hardware. 'Black wrought Pipe, I to 2 iocbes. Galvanized Pine ? to li inches. Pipe Fittings all kinds from I to 2 inches. Check Valves, $ to 2Jnches, Globe Valves $ to 2$ inches.- . IF YOU NEED MEDICINE V of Franklin County, of the responsi- U 896, he developed some 700,000 moie points the registrars and pollholders I modestly he may ask for a iy favor, bilitv for the money deposited in the -Xtes than had ever been cast for anv for their respective counties. ' see with what astonishment his request lUnt of Lomsbnrc TWrwrti rnAAt tvr.-.re. inrlnri. The count canvassing boards are wil1 received, and by the very men . , . .... . I. . .. , ... . j mm ' . . . whom he has assisted into office... , ...6w i".""- tr,,wWr-u, auu UC Tt: V : . 6 Perfect bewilderment will be de- We are Apents for Pomona Terra Colt a Sewer Pipe 4, 6, 12 and passed during the past week. ; 1 country the spectacle of an ardent, board is composed of the State election pictcd in the office holder's face, and iR Inches and Fittlnes. Terra Cotta Chimney Pipe, istraieht Joint. A bill to form a new county out of united, and homogeneous party organ- board and the Governor and Secretary Usually he will ask "upon what grounds short Bottoms. Bonnets and Thimbles for brick walla, all the aboTe we I I J . K . . .nMi? I ... J ... . - - 1 regaixl- a portion of Richmond county, to called "Scotland." has passed. -. be ization-While Mr. Cleveland, thrice of State. the nominee of a Democratic National ; The provisic ns of this act regulating Convention and indebted to the Dartv registration are framed with the view . . t -. . -.1 - for all his eminence .and prosperity - of keeping out the repeaters at Raleigh, the state loses one oi us best and most venerable citizens. ; iMthe death of.' Rev, Bennett bmedes, resident oi at. iviary s ocnooi i while Mr Cieveland SaKapart, a sullen conspirator against bis quendam ben efactors, encouraging infidelity and lending party wickedness, Bryan flam ed n the forefront of the battle, a striking and invigorating figure, the incarnation of youth, and strength, and ardor. He relit the fires of Demo cratic zeal. He, gave the party life, put blood into its veins, and set its pulse8 throbbing. He held thousands in the grasp of his imperious eloquence, and sent them from him tuned to ' loyality and heroism. He took the , dead car cass of the Democracy from the ground con- " A "Union Printer" wrote a very sensible and timely article for the Ral eigh Post on the subject of the State Printings For '.some years this editor has observed that the "lowejst biddei' business has proved disastrious in many ways. . and ne groes who come in from Tennessee' and South Carolina. S. ' The election law of the Code is one of the best drawn chapters in that book. r Its provisions are clear. The additions made to the law ar$ such as do you base your request? Along this line the Charlotte,rJews very pertinently says: ; In the last campaign the newspa pers did more than any other ,'fgenrf to redeem , North Carolina They fought long and hard, worked early have a big- slock on hand. You want it pure and fresh, less of cost. Your patronage is solic ited simply on the grounds of Pure i Black Smith's Drills, Anvils, Chisels, Hammers, Blowers, Coal.JLc ll Bo??? Bteos. Wrenches and Btb Wheels. Barzr Wheels, Aili Arms, Rims, Spokes atidsfipHog. Tubular. "Bow Sockets. Carriage and late and gave everything fn . ttf ir rKoobs, Carriage Leather aud Black lJiICIotb. power ior tne success or tne ucxet. fhey do this willingly as a matter ol principle ana without the -hope ot .-rei ward. They are thanked profusely by Drugs, prices. properly handled, at fair On thislpasis we have grown; on this basis we will continue to grow. W. G. THOMASr-Prescription Druggist. f Speaking of the public schools Rev, J. D. Hufham says: . . " "I think that the , hope of public schools rests with the churches. Her bert Spencer says truly that the Sunday upon which his piedecessor. had School is the parent of the public femotuously flung it, and filled it with scnooi. we musimuiupiy our ounuay thg fire and the joy of yputh 'Scnoois ana mane mciu uiuic (tm cient.' Say what one may as to the sound- are required by conditions which have j the candidates during the campaign, grown up since 1883. when the Code but wheo " ?" thcr are so? or- was adopted. , cveral of abiHty wcre candidatw) has The State and National elections appointed to a responsible : BO8' are divorced and -the. former will be tion by the Legislature?" , held on the first Thursday in Angus'. And it is not too much to assert. that - - ' I .... . . m a newspaper man who did faithful work, juring the campaign, would find if the hardest kind of effjrt to get a position at the bands of the Legislature, in act his task would be harder than Tor ' the average outsider with a little political "Dull." v. - But wait until next year, ' an'diVe Machine-Square Head Bolts. For Hardware of all Kinds-, FRIEND OR tfOE WHICH. Newbern? Journal. ' Preaching morality to a dying sin ner, snowing tne Ganger ot. tooling with edged tools after a person has been severely cut, or , pointing out the good effects of economy to those who For "Bag gT and Wagon materials of all kind. The following which we take from the Statesville Landmark, is very sound talk: - ' . ' v It is a very difficult thing for a po litical party to " maintain power and popularity together. From our stand point the nresent General Assemblv has made very few mistakes;; in the and inspired force, into the red vortex main it has legislated in wisdom; and of the fight. The one was an oracle, yet the Democratic party of the State hid away in caves, veiled in "mystery. is much weaker by reason of this legis lative session than it was at the last election. And this is not by reason, either, of its dealings with big ques tions but with small and local ones, nor yet its fault because of its action on even these, for upon many "of them it has not acted. But dispensary agita tors, stock law agitators, proposed new counties, proposed amendment of town and city charters, and a. whole tram of llation of the Mugwump fetich measures HKetnese nave rippea up any the Democracy on the - fighting uuuiucr ui cuiuiuuuuics tuu uubcu much strife and party divisi6n."sIf is hoped that nothing serious will : come of it all, but it is a safe general propo sition that it is as difficult for a victo rious party to stay in as to get in. Prom S tft!2 Inches bv . from 2 to 12 inches by I. from 1 J to 6 inches fev 4. Carriage Bolts. H to 12 inches by I, H to 8 loches by I. l to 7 iuches by 5 16, 1 to ft inches by J. We also bave Lsff, Stovs, Plow. Tire. Culti? ator and T Bolts. Kipansioa Anger Bits to If inches. Antomatic Screw Drivers. " Virater Razor Hones and Barber newsnaner man will a emi favnr5 ClinDftra. Smokeless Loaded bnells. iron tsDooiaai wun mree teei ness of the doctrine Mr. Bryan preached have wasted their money and the rainy agin d his company will be in,, re- 25 cts per eett, Shoe NailB, Tacks, Leather, Usmoers, Awls, Bristle, there can be no two opinions as to his dav finds them with out ordioarv qst by the very persons who today Ink, Thread, Rasps, Knives and Leather Cement. 100 ipair Traces .7 nii;t;.c f io,t,i m, n ' . ' give him the cold shoulder. leet long cheaper tnan ever oaiore, 1 ag, ireasi, aw, eu-uu qesof leadership. Mr. Cleve- means of sustenance, practically The esteemed Charlotte New, oU Brass Chains. Irou PoU from 2 to 25 gallon, each. Smith's Well Pit land hid himself in the temple of his worthless endeavor, so far as benefit to know that it is all the world of a tares, Dise Harrows, Barbed Wire, Poultry Wire, Octagon Steel, Steel party, solemn, owlish, heavy as a pagan may be to the sufferers. difference between before and after Tires, 8qaare and Round Iroo, Band Iron. idol, but MrBryan took the vanguard , But the present severe wintry the election, for the newspaper mas' of his army and led it, a . palpitating weather ooints a moral, which" while m NorP Carolina, especially. New- W,U6 juuiu-i. Come to see ns when you want anytbinc. we nanaie toe louowing' Yes, and some of the members of by the car load and are able to givp yoa cloee prices oa Meal, Meat, the present Legislature, do not even Floor, Bait, Corn, Seed Oats, Winter, Spring and rnst proof. Bran and favor giving the editor the same rights before the law that other people have. r. ... Alter au tne laDors 01 the newspaper men for their election and for, ? fcioJ government there are some of the mem bers who slap the editors in the face by refusing to pass a just libel law, which they were requested to pass by the Press Association of the State. - And we learn that just one man in the pres- . T .:i..t I I -. a cuiKKHMiuic wno oa ixxn criucisen o r c,.., 1. .v. f .It .v,66.u& r u da. Mink hkins.i For Paints of allkindr. For Oils of all kinds. For Bailding Materials of all kinds. For the best Heating aod Cookiog Stoves oo earth. For the cheapest Crockery on earth. For Woodware, Tinware, Chares and Brooms. manifesting himself in rumblings - and strange noises." The other, an impetu ous apostle, with bright sword - and flashing armor, cleft the way for those that followed him. No doubt ; there are doting . and infatuated idolaters who still await another advent of the Mugwump dispensation, another reve- But line have -done with ecstary and gnpwtj. tion. He who leads them , next year it may be wasted in the telling, yet should be told. ! . It was only a few months ago that the colored people of eastern North Car olina were in open array against the white people. Not a colored man, but acknowl edged that the white people provided for his race, in giving him a - means of livelihood, , in schooling his children and in giving him full protection as a citizen. But the secret acknowledgement of all thwhenfitln Mmolf anH rarJ Farmers Supplies, Dunn's Plows, Genuine Dixie Plows, IJjuk Bands, Lines, Shovels, Manure Forks. Traces. Harness and Mattocks. Ship Staff, Shingles, Laths, Lime, Cotton Seed Meal, Hay, Nails and Sewer Pipe, Coal and Coke. Jast received Urge stock Claass Raxors and Selfiors. Table Knives and Forks, clb rated Yours truly, The Genuine Short Broad Blade, Heavy pole Axe. HICKS & ALLEN. rooltry and Barbed Wire and Staples. Come to the Loolthorg Hardware and Sopply Company for Rock Bottom Prices onbese Goods. All others too nameroos to rxtotlon. Retpeclfolly, must be a thing of flesh and blood a warrior himself. " ' '; " DOH'T BE SO HARD ON THEM. Warrenton Record. - The young lawyers did not find it bo easy; as heretofore to obtain licenses to practice law. Last I ed race fell helpless before it. week the supreme Court gave a jack-legged lawyers in the country. v TELL IT." ' The Raleigh Post lays justice down in heavy chunks in the fol lowing: "We cannot refrain from men tioning some incidents of the pres- written examination to fifty-five ent cold snap. ; applicants and only twenty out of When the whole community was the fifty-five stood a successful ex. stirred on Monday to provide ways aminatiou. It ia a ity Ui what pf this cityr one of the first acts thi8 method had been adopted was to appoint committee to ask long years ago, for then, perhaps the aid of the .railroads; and when I we would not now have' so many inus approacnea, Dotn me soutn ern and Seaboard quickly respond ed' by offering to haul free ot charge, fuel to the city. ; "When it was reported to". Col. - Andrews Monday evening that the insane asylum was out of coal he immediately ordered a car-load belonging to the Southern to be delivered to the asyldm author ities,' which was done, three en gines and forty . men being re quired to Carry over and unload ft. "And yet these are the great and necessary agencies of enter prise and development, and this is the man whom a certain class of were forgotten, and the colored race as a whole, were out in open -manner, threatening not so much its own priv ileges, but seeking to destroy the sup remacy of the race which gave the col ored race its every benefit and privilege. The winter came with its unusual terrors of snow and ice, and the color- the legislation asked for by the News papers of the State. The Press of the State while modest in its demands, will be heard from again, and it may not be pleasing to those members of! the present Legislature who refuse to act fair with the editors of the State. ,tLc. i LOUISBURC HARDWARE & SUPPLY CO. 2 0 0 day had been and but poor LAST REMNANT OF DISQUALIFI 5 CATION. REMOVED, ' By unanimous Vote, the judici ary committee of the 'National House on the 7th inst., decided to recommend the repeal ' of what is said. to be the last remnant of dis qualification against those serving in the Confederacy. The proposed amcniment isas follows: "That the sections of the Re vised Statutes which disqualify persons otherwise qualified from politicians who have yet to render ?er"Dg as and'and petit jurors live, the State 'some service' some of , I ' , uo Uiteu owwb, whom have been large benefici- b. bave t.a.ken P ar.m! .?r 301ned au iiiuuii vvmuu lcuoillUU UpUU or against the United States be repealed, and that hereafter no per son shall be disqualified for any service or in any branch or de partment of the government of the United States on account of par ticipation in the civil war of 1861 No preparation for a made. No food, no fuel shelter at the best. . , Where were the bold colored leaders who gave advice during last Fall to their people to assert themselves? . Why did they not tell their people what to do to help themselves in their extremity, or at least provide their im provident brethren with food, clothing and fuel? " To whom did the helpless and suf fering colored people turn, but to that race which they had declared was their enemy, and how graciously and liber ally has that race, the Anglo Saxon, responded! ' ' In this city, the colored people im provident as usual, found themselves without food or fuel or the money which could have given them what the cold weather made' so imperatively necessary for them that they might ELEC-I aries of the State's patronage, as well as patience -seek to oppress and plunder, and prefer to contin uously slander and reduce. ''No tale of disaster can be told to any manager, of a railroad in North ' Carolina without meeting ill. J 151 1 witu prump auu uoerai response; aD(j J865 " no opportunity can d& presented by wbieh they"" can contribute to WE DOS'T NEED PRIMARY .T10SS. Newton Enterprise. We notice that several exchanges are still pressing the Legislature to incor porate in the new election law a re quirement tor primary elections 'to nominate all party candidates from Governor and United States Senator down to township officers. They do things this way in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and perhaps other Southern States. From the published accounts of these elections, wervhtve never seen anything to recommend them to North Carolina. Two or more sets of candidates take the stump and conduct a campaign on personal or tactionat lines, ana sucn campaigns from their very nature always become more bitter and disreputable than party campaigns. Instead of discus sing questions of government, the can didates attack each other's character 1 On every side, societies sent out to P"" eacn oin uemoency. these perishing colored people the When lhc ntesm over, those belong, necessaries for their sustenance, and inS 10 lhe losin2 side re left to make the taxpayers through their Citv Trus- choice of voting for men -whom they LOOK! BARRELS FLOUR LISTEN H JUST IN. PATENT FLOUR At what oho of our patrons say. $3.50. the development of the State or any section "within the spherr of influence" which fails of prompt action. Yet these are special ob jects of the personal and par tisan malice of the few dema gogues whom the last election left on the surface, all things." There is much truth in what the Post says, and the people REVENUE RULINGS. tees offered to assist every person need ing the necessaries which the weather demanded :' ""' ' -The moral of all : this ought not to fail to impress the colored people. 1 It ought to make them relire that the race which they fought against was not an enemy, but was the friend of the colored race, and today as on all occasions it is the benefactor which has stood before the colored people and death, and offers' the means to preserve their lives.' - V Will the colored people, when fair weather comes,: remember these cold lays and the white people's noble gen- have proclaimed as unfit and 4?nwprtfrXj or leave the party. The effect of this Pertaining to the Business of the Leaf Tobaceo Dealers. Addressing Mr. E. C. Duncan, col lector for the Fourth North Carolina Time vindicates district. Acting Internal Revenue Com. missioner Wilson, says: . 'Referring to your letter of the ich instant, inclosing one from Messrs. that is, the thinking ones are get- Thorpe & Ricks, who are leaf tobacco erosities? ting tired of hearing so much "rot" dealers and who have paid special tax jt hoped thev will ' " I aa m4nnf4rlnrare r( I ' " caiTSc who he Part f advthTdVars in SbSo a behavior certain pohticians-who have made not privileged t0 purcbase tobacco that they appreciate what has been it a rule, whenever they .want to stems, refuse scraps, cuttings, clippings done for them, at this and all other rnn ior some omce or carry a cer- J or sweepings of tobacco for the purpose times lain point, to jump on railroads r reselling me same to otner dealers and " other; enternriRfl; wK-fa, in leaf tobacco. Tobacco stemsare . r , . H v wuv there is excuse for, their action largely used m the manufacture of snuff, and : are rnnsiHirrt as tnha or not. As the Post says the rail- material, and they must be properly roaas nave uone more xo nuiid up I accounted tor on the, book of. the man the various enterprises of the 1 itacturer, both when, he ; purchases People would have fewer troubles if they spent lesr time in talking about them .. " ' . stems and when thev, are sold. A dealer in leaf tobacco has the right to sell stems which are taken from the leaf It's a poor kind of repentence that doesn't insure against a repetition of the offense. - State than all other agendas com bined, and . there is no good. Tea- . .. ... ... .. . -i-v.. .ivu nuiVu m wku iiuui ine icai i nri . ii it i-.t son tn tne woria ior tnis continual by him at his stemmerv. but he has no -iTk . IZZ '7:..1. balderdash about the rsilroads right to buy and sell tobacco stems un- In hia work. Ia a large number of in- "are going to own the State." As der his license as a dealer in leaf tobac- "tances the delay would be but trifling if a prominent citizen of Louisburg J?1 in aIaStVa said one dav this week "The rail- thls case snould be adeemed as for many years been rejrsrded as the eaia one nay wis wees, i ne ran- these persoI3S have onder the ,law and farmAr.fP;nd. Ir DealiD? lnfinence roads as a rule, will, always do the regulations, incurred liabiliiy to tax oatbenVbhof domestic animals ia 1m- TThat's risht, if allowed to do go." as manufacturers of tobacco." !f F,er.mv Pric9 25 ceEta' J J kVLU & tm a fc. . w . . kid of campaign, we are sure, wwildjU cause serious umsious, . not a Ojs astrous disruption, in the Democratic party in North Carolina. Those claim that such iron-clad primary elec tions are neccessary to hold the party together, have certainly a queer way of reasoning.' ;We believe in the quiet primary elections that some of the counties in the State have for years been having, where men go to their polling places and express their pre ferences as to candidates if they fed like it, but reserve the main battle till they take the field against candidates and that "ppwmc pany.anu on pany issues. vve nope me legislature win not lis ten to the bad advice some of the pa pers are sa freely giving about requir ing party primary elections. They are not needed in North Carolina. When ever factions and proscription run ram pant in the Democratic party, we lose. Whenever these are .kept in the back ground, as in the last election, we win. As a mle the papers which are clam oring for this new scheme are the ones which went wild over fusing with But ler last year. Their present scheme is just as unwise as their .fusion scheme was. Buckle a" s Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for eats, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, ferer sores, tetter, charjped hands, chilblains, corns, andall kin eruptions, and posi tively eores Piles, or nopsy required. It is jroaranttd to g1re perfect satisfaction or money rtf unded. Price 25 cents per bcx. Tor Ella Arcocke Drcz Co. Prime Coffee There is nothing to equal the Pecrlcs3 Steam Cooker for cooking cakes. I Q o 1 f Mott's Vinegar Starch 10c $1.25 25c 6c . Mrs. Thomas: Since I sent you the first testimonial of the Cooker I nave given it a fair trial on light bread and cukes, it cooks both beautiful ly aJid especially nice Is the Iroit cake cooked in it. I would not be with out it for one hundred dollars if I could not get another. Very Respectfully, Mrs. J. S. IUrbow. - SHOE'S AND DRY GOODS ... . Any one wishing to ee one of the Cookers can do so'by callicr at my residence or at the Times oflice. LIRS. J. A. THOIIAS, AT BOTTOM PRICES. Louinburr TT c. . I
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