VOLUME XXII.
TO-DAY I
Y. to-dai THE NEW YORK
RACKET stands fighting, u the
has always done, the Old Botten
Credit System, for the Almighty
Dollar, for repudiation and for the
people Not by faTor, but by
merit alone will tne
NEW YORK BACKET
Maintain and Increase its
UNRIVALED REPUTATION.
Big Prices
Will not do in these times when
even the rich cannot afford to waste
their money and the poor require
Doable daty or. every Dollar and
every Penny Therefore the mer
chants who expect to make a suc
cess have got to do away with the
Old Aristocratic way of conducting
a business, and not buy goods on
Long Time and pay Long Time
Prices, mark them from 50 to 100
per cent., set back on their dignity
and expect the people to' come in
and bey their goods at each so
called "LIVE and LET LIVE
PRICES."
THOUSANDS
i
Of Broad minded men and
women will testify that Lenoir
was one of the many towns that
was Cursed and crushed down
with just such merchants, who
would not stop with selling
their goods at such
Outrageous
Prices,
But would combine against
others who would come and
sell goods right.
THE OLD tmW YORK
Has pullei through all their
Combinations,
Tc re Down all their
Breast Works,
And to-day stands Gigantic,
ready for anything that can
come against her.
R
We do not claim to have done all
this alcne. We have had help.
We have been BACKED UP by
the people of onr country who are
Uvel. headed, Honest, Upright,
and who do not want to
Throw away
what they have worked for by pay
ing Two prices
For what they are compelled to buy,
We don't hear any more such re
ports as :
"They won't be here
long." "They just run In
and get what they can
and they go to some oth
er place."
No, as ws bare always said,
r
We are here to
stay with you,
And all we ask is
You stick to us.
Your Friend,
THE NEW YORK .
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Kill
THE CAMPAIGNS OF PRESIDENTS
. Eriu's th Cist IiDukabii t!M.
Phlladalphla Time
r -William J. Bryan has made the
most remarkable campaign ever
Irnnm iw 41. t. a . ...
" uw History ei pontics in
this or any other country of" the
world. He was nominated at Chi
cago on tne 10th of July: and
since that time he has traveled 18,
wi miles, delivered 502 speeches
in 447 towns and cities covering 27
otateB. it is estimated also that
his audiences aggregated over 2,-
000,000 of people,
Until I860 no presidential candi
date had ever taken the stump, but
otcphan A. Douglas, wLo was a
law onto himself and was one of the
ablest disputants this nation ever
produced, took to the hustings
when a candidate against Lincoln,
Breckinridge and Bell, and traversed
the country from New Orleans to
New England, traveling 3,000
miles and delivering 65 speeches.
Lincoln, who was then regarded as
the only man able te cope with
Douglas on the stump, made no
speech and wrote no letters, except
those of mere courtesy, from the
time of his nomination until his
election. In 1864, Lincoln and
McClellan were the candidates and
Lincoln delivered 8 speeches and
traveled 450 miles. McClellan made
2 brief speeches in the campaign,
but did not travel at all.
In 1868 Grant made 3 spseche3,
notable chiely for their brevity,
and traveled over 3.0C0 miles. Sey
mour, his competitor, traveled over
1,000 miles and delivered 8 speeches.
In 1872 Grant did not travel at all
made no speeches, while Greeley
traveled over 2,000 miles and deliv
ered 79 spsecb.es.
In 1876 Tilden made 2 very brief
speeches and did not leave New
York, while Hayes delivered 6
speeches and traveled about 1,500
miles, In 1880 Garfield traveled
2,300 miles during the campaign
and delivered 97 speeches; while
Hancock did not leave his head
quarters and delivered only two
very brief spseches.
In 1884 Blaine traveled nearly
5,000 miles and delivered 195
speeches, while Cleveland delivered
3 brief speeches and traveled but
300 miles. In 1888 Cleveland de
livered 1 speech and did not travel
at aU, while Harrison delivered 56
speeches and did not travel over
200 miles. In 1892 neither Harri
son nor Cleveland went about in the
campaign and Harrison delivered
but 2 speeches and Cleveland 4.
Bryan's campaign covered tne
whole country from Bath, Me , in
the far East, to Charlotte and
Memphis in the South, and West
to Grand Island in the interior of
Nebraska, going North as lar as
Fargo in Dakota, Duluth in Min
nesota, Marquette in Wisconsin and
Mackinaw City in Michigan, while
the whole central belt of the coun
try between Maine and Nebraska
would require hundreds of dots on
the map to locate the places where
he delivered addresses. Whether
he helped or hindered nis cause
may never be settled beyond dispute
but he has certainly given to the
-a -w . it
country and the world tne moat
marvelous exhibition ol energetic
endurance and fluency of speech
that has ever been exhibited in the
political history of any country.
THE CAIIPUGH IS OPENED.
Suitor Pettigriw Cnitir a Senulion
U I SBII6B II BIS BBEJS.
Sirmx Falls. S. D., Nov. 10.
Senator Pettigrew opened the cam
paign of 1900 last ;. night, and
-A-,am,eA ona'of the largest audi-
w
ences ever gathered in this city..
It
was announced as tne oagiumug
the bi-matallic fight of four years
.of
hence.
Tn,RTator-said that he would
render MoKinley every aid possible
bim to demonstrate mat tne ,
tariff was rwhat ailed the country,
wanted to put him sell on reo
by saying that he would resist
averf tection of a tariff bill mat
movided for.a taritt on any a
controlled by a trust. This created
a demonstration,- and " the demon
stration that followed was tretnend-
ous-
The
Senator received a, great
on at the close of his speech.
reoep-
Cbister aUBQiBiilriid-
TorkvOle Enquirer.
Eeceiver G. W. F. Harper and
Superintendent Nichols, of the
Chester aud Lenoir railroad, were
in Torkville last Wednesday on bus
iness connected with the road.
That the railroad company will
be re-organized as soon as possible,
is now a settled fact; bnt as to the
exact details no information can
yet be given trot The details have
not been definitely arranged. It
has not been decided even as to
whether it will be better to reor-
ganiza nnder the present charter of
the road, or nnder the charter cf
the Carolina and Northwestern.
which was originally intended as an
extension of the Narrow Gauge.
The intention of the bondholders
to giye the stockholders new cer
tificates in the amount of one-half
of the amount originally held, has
not been deviated from. This ap
portionment will be made, and Mr.
W. A. Clark, of the bondholders'
committee, has expressed it as his
opinion that this stock will very
likely draw dividends. As to
whether the amount of stock is to
remain the same as before, and that
the bondholders will retain the oth
er half, has not yet been made
known.
The schemes for the improve
ment of the railroad, under what
ever name, include a proposition to
immediately construct a separate
line between Hickory and Newton,
instod of continuing the use of
the third rail on the Western North
Carolina road- Receiver Harper
and Superintendent Nichols both
seem to he quite enthusiastic over
tha outlook.
The Halt United States Saaiti.
Charlotte News.
According to the returns received
up to date the United States Sen
ate will stand :
Gold Republicans . 45
Gold Democrats 8
Total
45
26
10
9
Silver Democrats
Silver Republicans
Populists
Total 45
Should Carter, of Montana, and
Shoup, of Idaho, who supported
McKinley in the campaign, ally
themselves with the dominant fac
tion of the party, the gold vote in
the Senate after March 4th next
would be 47 aud the silver vote 43
The composition of tha House of
Representatives ia the Fifty fifth
Congress remains substantially the
same aa at first stated, the political
division, according to the latter
returns, as follows :
Republicans 212
Bolting Democrats 2
Democrats 120
Silver Republicans, Populists
and Fusionists 23
Total 357
Unless the two silver Republicans
desert theh principals and prove
falsa to their declarations Vice Pres
ident Hobart will have to cast the
deciding vote in all questions where
the issue between silver and gold
is equarely brought,
Those Republicans who are wait
ing for high tariff legislation will
do well to look carefully at the
complexion of the next Sanate and
then go on back home and make
preparations to worry along by
themselves a while longer.
The .fight promises to be as se
vere in the Senate as it was. over
the repeal of tha Shermai Ac .
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LENOIR, N. C. TUESDJLT, NOVEMBER 84 1896.
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The Supreme court yesterday,
decided that the 8tate, in the ex
ercise of the police power to pro
vide for maintaining domestic or
der and protecting the morals and
security of the people, has a right
to prohibit the running of freight
trains on Sunday.
The case came np on appeal from
Guilford county, the Southern
Railway being the defendant. The
statute which was the basis of the
action is section 1973 of The Code,
which declares the rnnning of a
freight train after 9 o'clock en Sun
day morning to be a misdemeanor.
The opinion was written by Judge
Avery, and is, in part, as follows:
1973), under which the indictment
is drawn, is unconstitutional. Al
though it effects inter-State com
merce to some extent, there is
nothing in its provisions which
suggests a purpose on the 1 part of
the legislature to interfere with
traffic or indicative of any other
intent than to prescribe, in the
honest exercise of the police pow-
ers, a rule ox civil conduct lor
persons within her territorial juris
diction. Such a law is valid and
must be obeyed unless and until
Congress shall have passed some
statute which supercedes that act
by prescibicg regulations for the
running of trains on the Sabbath
on all railway lines engaged in
in ter-State commerce. Huntington
vs. Georgia, 163, U. B. 299.
"While the State may not inter
fere with transportation into or
through its territory 'beyond what
is absolutely necessary for its self
protection,' it is authorized in tht
exeroise of the police power to pro-
vide for maintaining domestic order,
and for protecting the health, mor
als and security of tho people.
Railway vs. Van Huson, 95 U. S.
470, 473.
"Congress is unquestionably em
powered, whenever it may see fit
to do so, to supercede by express
enactment, on this subject, all
conflicting State legislation. But
until its powers are arrested, and
exercised, the statue nnder which
the indictment is drawn may be
enforced and will constitute one
of the many illustrations of the
principle that the States have the
power, .at least in the absence of
any action by Congress, to pass
laws necessary to preserve the
health and morals of their people,
though their enactment may in
volve slight delay or disturbance
of the transportation of goods or
persons through their borders.
Morgan vs. L., 118 U. S. 455, 463;
Huntington vs. Georgia, supra at
p. 314; Smith vs. Ala., It4 U. S.
465, 474. 479, 483; Bagg vs. Rail
road, 109 N. C. 281, 2S8, 289.
"The statute (Code section 1973),
declares the running of any such
train, as that in question is admit
ted to have been, after nine o'clock
on Sunday morning, to be a mis
demeanor. It is not denied that
the train arrived at Greensboro at
10; 25 a. m . on Sunday. The State,
therefore, established prima facie
the guilt of the defendant. If the
defence relied upon was that it
was necessary to run after the hour
fixed as the limit by statuta,in order
to preserve the health or save the
livea of the crew employed on the
train, or relieve them from severe
suffering, it was incumbent on the
defendant to show to the satisfac
tionof the jury thst the act was
done nnder the stress of such ne
cessity, in order to excuse it as not
in violation of the spirit, though
in conflict with the letter of the
law. State vs. Brown, 109 N. C.
809; State vs. IfcBrayer 98 N0.
619.
"The evidence is not sufficient
in any aspect of it to excuse the
running oi ine tram alter nine
o'clock The , proof offered , falls
very far. short of , excusing the act,
denounced as a violation of law. by
showing that it could; not have
been obeyed by the exercise of due
precaution, without imminent risk
of endangering the lives or. health
of the crew on board tho : train.
For the reasons given the judgment
of the court below is affirmed."
COTTIIS CFF
Deverai neads nave been cut off
in the departments at Washington
since tne election. A special to the
Baltimore Snn says:
"The first to get the yeUpw enve-
lope was Mr. Thomas F. Brantley,
oi soutn Uarolma, auditor for the
Interior Department and chief cf
the army and navy division pension
office. The cause of his dismissal
was the fact that he made speeches'
in West Virginia, although it is
claimed Mr. Brantley did not re
flect on the administration in any
way, The next man to go was W.
M h lam 1 n Or nF Kantnnb nlilnl
the law and records division, super
vising architect's office. Mr. Flem
ing is understood to have placed
L! 11 .1 iL . i .
uiwseix at tne disposal oi tne con
gressional campaign committee,
and made speeches in Virginia.
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ma
ryland and several other States.
Mr. Burton L. Hoyle, a clerk of
the Treasury, has slao been asked
to resign, because, it is believed, of
the part he took in the campaign.
Mr. Hoyle is from Tennessee."
Among other dismissals was J.
Madison Leach, of North Carolina,
who held a small position in the
Internal Revenue bureau, and Misa
oiiunie mcuiuac, oi Jentucsy, u
clerk in the office of the supervising
architect. Leach had made no
speeches but he had written much
for the newspapers in favor of Bry
an, and Miss McMillan was a de
voted friend and admirer of Sena
tor Blackburn. It is said that a
part of these dismissals is due to
the bad feeling between Blackburn
and Carlisle, some of the dismissed
being Blackburn's friends.
Seven then in all were removed
and it is said there are more to
follow, among them Deputy Pen
sions, Commissioner Bell and Mr.
Baldwin, auditor of the Treasury
Department.
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TIE lDEHlJTBiTIfll
CALLS CARLISLE A TYRANT.
JUDGE FLE1IIIS EESEITS ElS CISSZUSE
11 ALETTES.
la ii 0?u uttir tt ttiSisrstxrj Et
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Qfflet.
Judge W. R. Fleming, who was
removed from the position aa Chief
of the Law and -Record Division of
the Supervising Architect's Office,
Treasury Department, on Wednes
day last, yesterday sent the follow
ing letter to Secretary Carlisle:
Sir: Our government guarantees
to all its citizens the privilege of
free speech so that every American
has the natural right to express in
a proper manner his political opin
ions. In accepting the office, the
citizen forfeits neither his civil nor
his religious liberty.
The civil service law was intended
not to destroy these rights, but to
protect them, so that the minor of
ficial should at least be as secure in
defeading the creed and nominees
of his party as would be a Cabinet
officer in exercising the same inalie
nable right 8. t
No objection on your part to my
activity in the campaign, which has
just closed was ever made known to
me pending the campaign. On the
contrary, I was informed that you
held to the view that you could not
consistently remove any man from
effice for exercising the same rights
which you yourself were exercising.
My removal from office, the first
intimation of which was obtained
from the newspapers while on the
train on my return to Washington
from my ho axe, was, therefore,
complete surprise to me. . No oae
knows better than yourself the long
friendship I had manifested for you.
the interest I had taken and the
sacriucea of time and money made
by me ia promoting your ambitions.
In vie cf all tha facts it seems
to me that 1 was at least entitled to
eomo earning and notice before be-
ing Kicsea out oi omce wiincut
t t a rtt
even the opportunity of declining to
resign.
Had I known or suspected that
I could not hold office under this
administration and at the same
time exercise the rights of an Amer
ican freeman, I would have prompt
ly tendered you my resignation at
the opening cf the campaign.
Inasmuch a3 other appointees of
the present administration, includ
ing many in your own department,
have been permitted to take an ac
tive part against Mr- Bryan in the
campaign, not only on the stump,
but in the woik of organization,
without rebuke or removal, it is
evident that the cause of my of
fending lies not in my actions, but
in my convictions.
It follows therefore that you have
used your great office to suppress
freedom of thought and action, and
to punish these who dare to differ
from vou a thing insupportable
in free government by terrorizing
over tne wcax ana nam Die.
For such abuse of public , office,
which is a public trust, you cannot
but be held accountable at the bar
of public oninion as well as by the
verdict of history.
In conclusion I can only say that
humble as I am, I would rather be
a discharged employee of the Treas
ury Department, discharged for do
iDg my duty as I see it for my
people, than to be Secretary of the
Treasury with a record of self stul
tification, eucb as you have made
for yourself, staring me in the face.
This much of a protest I deem
it proper 'to sake sgainst your
treacherous and tyranous action.
Very truly yours,
W. B. Flimiko.
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