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MOIIAVIAN FALLS, N. C, DECEMBER, 1S98.
NO. G
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What We Want.
Some men are so everlastingly
selfish that they want the whole
earth, with the sunshine and the
wind and th ? rnooh and tho stars
thrown in. We don't want all of
these, nor very much of 'either.
But we herewith enter a solemn
sind emphatic protest against try
ing' to live absolutely on air. .We
can use a gODddeal of air, but we
need, and m ist have, aiittlecnsh.
As a means :o obtain this cash, we
propose to increase our subscrip
tion list to tjhe Yellow-Jacket. A
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crease this list successfully and
rapidly in through the prompt and
hearty cooperation of ourRepubli
can friends--thoso who believe in
the principles of the great party of
Lincoln, Gn nt, Garfield and AJc
Kinley. Now, brother, will you
cooperate w th us? That . is wilL
you spend a little time in helping
to put the paper in the hands of all
your Republican friends? 'Take
this copy wlien you go out from
home, and don't let up n a R-e
publican -'until you have secured
his subscription. If he is too, poor
to subscribe pay it yourself. By
so doing you will not only be mak
ing that fellow happier, bilt oit
will aiso . uejaiuiiig ue m jjAcjro.ni.i
the facts ofl Republicanism, whic
onlv need to be known by the
Tponle to make the Republican
party so harmonious and invulner
able that trie tribes-of Bryan, the
world, the flesh and the devil can't
nvrt.hmw it in lvilXi.
If you haVe a Republican f riend
II vino-in a distant county or state,
subscribe for him or send us his ad
dress that vie may mail him sam-
nle conies
'The Yellbw-Jacket is
not a lo-
cai paper
nor the organpf any
district or section , but circulates
nvpr all the states and advocates
,Kr TniYwh'ean doctrines. .Now,
brother Kdpublicaiisl we want to
hear from Vou with some rqusmg
When, a fool opens his mouth'
his head is soon emptyi
It must discourage the fool
killer when lie looks around and
sees how far behind he ik with
his work.
Admiral Schley also announ
ces that he is a Republican. It
begins to look like the democrats
were not "in it."
, Dewey favors the annexation
of the Philippines, root and
branch,-and yet he has been
called a democrat.
A great many men who claim
to be self-made were evidently
nterrupted before the job was
completed. ;
Man claims to be lord of all
creation, but when a savage
bulldog chases him he fails to
act the part.
If there is ever an3rthing in a
larae it must be when it is loca
ted on the southeast corner of a
bank check.
It is necessary for a woman
to look into but one class to
paint her face, but a man has
to look into several to paint his
nose. :
It is said that Boss Croker lost
$150,000 betting on the New
York election, but as he knows
where to get plenty more it is
not worrying him very mjiich.
A subscriber writes us to pre
scribe a cure for bed bugs. That
we will do with pleasure if the
gentleman will -please tell us
what is the matter with the bugs.
It would be a great improve
ment on things if there was
more leisure for men of business,
and. more business for men of
leisure.
If we can't civilize the Philip
pine Islanders, live can kill them
offin short order. A western
firm' has just shipped six ca
loads of cigarettes to Maiiila.
- Some men can sit up all nigh t
playing poker, but ' they would
kick like a steer if they , were
asked to dandle a col icy kid ten
minutes. '
v There is "nothingin the West"
to which the democrats can point
with pride. . It hasimore grain,
more money, more enterprise
and more Republican voters
ii an'ever before. vH all these
things in its favor the people in
the West ought to be contented
and happy.
Hie republican plurality in
Ohio is 61,000 against 28,000 last
year and 47,000 in 1896. It is
scarcely worth while to talk fur
ther about free silver in that
state.
Senator Daniels, of Virginia,
says the democrats got just what
they deserved at the late election.
We congratulate the Senator.
His head is level, if he is a dem
ocrat. The democrat who accepts the
nomination for President, to run
against President. McKinlev in
1900, will stand no more chance
of successhan a hareliped boy
in a whistling sehool or a one
legged man in a foot race.
An exchange desires to know
why the office doesn't seek the
man like in old times. That's
dead easy to answer. The reas
on the office doesn't, seek the
man nowadays is because it
doesn't. have lo. Ask us some
thing hard.
Every time the Republican
party wins a big victory some
profound democrat bobs up with
a prediction that it will never
win another one. This predic
tion has been made regularly
for the past forty years, and
history has just as regularly
failed to verify it.
Col. Bryan's reasons for re
signing from the Army is be
cause he can serve his county
better out of it. He is certainly
assuming a great deal in sup
posing that his services are so
much needed by his country. A
greater part of the people are of
the opinion that the nation is
doing as well as can be expected
and a good deal -better than if
Wm. J. Bryan was at its helm.
Talk about Admiral Dewey
bein a democrat! He paid $3
a word to cable his congratula
tions to Col. Roosevelt upon his
election as governor of New York.
Democrats never do that sort of
a thing. They arn't built, that
way. When. Republicans get e
lected down here in North Caro
lina, it causes such a sudden
dropping of the jaws of demo
crats as to nearly jerk all their
upper teeth-out. Dewey is .a
warrior, a statesman and a re
publican, and democrats might
just as well let him alone. He
stands for' McKinley, the reten
tion ;6f the Philippines and the
protection , promotion and per
petuation of the American flag.
; Be sure and read our Kuock
'em off the track offer on 2 page.
We give $1.00 worth , of books
free.
Lieut. Hobson broke all pre
vious kissing records at Kansas
City by kissing 283 women.
True there is a discrepancy of
nearly one hundred women in
the different reports sent out,
but we take it for granted that
the maximum number of kisses
is a correct report, because no
gentlemau of or ..Unary .de-
cernment could help repeating
or showing partiality between a
maid of 40 and a peach - of . six
teen.
A western man announces to
the world that he thinks it should
be made. a misdemeanor punish
able by fine, for any qualified vo
ter to abstain from voting unless
sickness or absense precluded
his exercising that right. This
fellow ought to have his head
sawed open and some buckwheat
batter put in the place 'of the
stuff he calls his brains. If the
voters cannot be induced to go
to the, polls and vote through .
patriotic aud voluntary impulses
they should not be driven there
by force of law. It is as much
against. a Republican form .of ;
government to drive a man to
vote at all as it is to force him
to vote contrary to his sentiments
While certainly it was not a
Republican war, yet the war was
conducted by a Republican ad
ministration, and had the results
been otherwise than successful
does not any intelligent citizen
doubt but what the opposition
party platforms would have rung
with the cjianges and charges?
Its Tariff workings have been,
emiuentlv successful and the
many thousands of men placed';,
at work since the last President
al election was held, with the,,
unmistakable prosperity that
has visited the nation, are hav
ing their effect with the people.
They are not desirbiisjof turning
over the Government to. the fus
ion mongrels and the Populist
hydra headed aggregation the
entire aggregation of political
curiosities and freaks, with their
assorted ideas and principals,
from bewhiskered Peffer down--to
Socialist Schillings. It is
not to this assorted job lot of.,
political pot boilers who are ca- :
tering to the masses in hopes of
inducing, them to give them
power by which the nimble.
jacks may fleece them that tHe .
people' are going to give- power
and place.
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