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WEEKLY EDITION.
M0RAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22.1900.
VOL. V.
NO. 47
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STINGS.
It's a good1 while between
shoth in Kentucky.
Mr. Bryan has gone South
to thaw out the icicles he
brought away from New
Jersey and New York.
All the anti-Bryan Demo
cratic booms show a marked
lassitude in their progress
departments.
The democrats stand in
need of a lot of things, but
the thing they need most is
something upon which they
can all agree.
Southern cotton mills are
now working day and night.
Four years ago, under dem
ocratic rule they were sleep
ing night and day.
There are over two billions
of money now in circulation
in this country. This means
a per capita of over $28,
more than it any other count-
... i
try m me worm.
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leading democrats are a-
bout convinced that the only
way Bryan can be shelved is
to' allow him to be defeated
again by President McKin-
,ev' '
'British and Boers alike
appeal to Heaven tp help
their cause against oppres
sion and do so in the name
of 'civilization and freedom.
Are these things only names,
after all?
Kentuckians are subscrib
ing for a monument to the
sainted Goebel. To those
who like that sort of a saint,
Gpebel is just the sort of
saint triey like'," as Lincoln
would put it..
Mr. Bryan says he doesn't
like the title of "Colonel."
We should think not. It per
haps reverts his memory
to the fact that he skedad
dled from his regiment when
there was a prospect of
smelling gunpowder.
Since the democrats
such - a hearty spew
Grover Cleveland they
claim that they have
tGOk
over
now
been
born again." If this be
true, they must have been
born backwards for they
show no signs of either bod-
lly growth or intellectual
progress.
i
Why should thedemocrats
bother about any platform
this'year? No matter what
they put in their platform
the; voters will know that the
nomination of Bryan will
mean simply Bryanism,
which has already been re
pudiated by he country.
Does not spell any-
thine, but what we
started out to say was tins: Do not send'
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postage stamps on subscriptions to the
x. j.; ana wnen you sena Money Orders,
have them drawn on' Vilkesboro, N. C.
Moravian Falls is not a M. O. office.
It is said that if Mr. Bry
an will consent Johnnie Mc
Lean will. become Chairman
of the democratic national
committee, in place of Sen
ator Jones. We had suppos
ed that Johnme was out for
the second place on the Bry
an ticket. .
Mr. Andrew Carnegie is
having as much trouble vyith
his business partners as he is
with the foreign policy ;of
President AicKirle3T s ad
ministration. It s hard for
- any man to be the whole
thing, either in business or
in politics-
u
A subscriber to this paper
in Indiana desires to learn
the address of the owner of
the flexible sand-stone quarry
in this state. fj We have seen
the flexible or 44liinber" 'stones
but do not know where they
are obtained. Will someone
of our North Carolina read
ers please inform us.
Some of the Texas popu
lists have recorded their op
nosition to fusinp- with the
democrats t SUODOrt Mr.
Bryan, and elected middle-
of-the-road delegates to the
National Convention. Tex"
as populists don't count, but
their example may be follow
ed in states where they do
count.
The very things the free
silver democrats, in '96, said
would come to pass have not
come to pass, and that which
they said couldn't happen, if
free silver was defeated, has
happened, all of which goes
to show that the free silver
argument is an egg with a
very rotten shell .and filled
with populistic wind.
The Kentucky courts will
now have a pleasant time
hunting out precedents for
declaring that the ballots at
the last election were partly
legal and partly illegal leg-
al as regards the election of
the legislators who have
chosen Mr. Blackburn to the
Senate and at the-same time
illegal as regards Governor
Taylor, who was voted for
on the same identical ballot,
There was a time when it J business draging out a mis
seemed like Marion Butler jerable existence among the
had the populist party by
the tail and a down-hill pull
towards the democratic camp
but it begins to look as if
ATr Tntlr will o-n intr the
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131 van Procession tnis year
I With Only a part of the tail
hanging over his shoulder.
The Plow Boy, a middle
of the road leading Populist
paper of Georgia, says the
three members of the nation
al committee from that state
are 44mid-roaders," and that
there are 96,CC0 Populist
voters in Ga. and that none
of them will vote for W. J
Bryan for president no diff
erence what old thing nomi
nates him.
The democratic newspa
pers of the south which still
pretend to recognize a presi
dential posibility in Billy
Bryan have been publishing
in the biggest tyrpe their
shops contained that he talk
ed free silver right along in
the New England States-.
Yet the Associated Press, a
non-political organization
failed to report the speeches
that the eminent Nebraskan
is credited witlf making, and
nobody except his adherents
in the south believe that he
did anyT such thing.
Our republican Congress
concluded that Brigham H.
Roberts was too muchly
married to occupy a seat in
the House, so it sent him
back home to playr with his
babies. Now the Governor
of Utah has called a special
election forApr.2 for the pur
pose of electing a congress
man to succeed Roberts. W.
H. King a democrat and also
-i r lit i i.
a iviormon win ue eiectea,
as the 4 'Latter Day Saints,"
are bitterly opposed to the
republicans because . that
party refused. Roberts a seat.
Wm. J. Bryan at one of
his recent jawbone entertain
ments said: 44I am more
conservative than Jesus
Christ who drove the money
changers out of the temple
. 1 1 1 1 A
because tney naa maae it a
den of thieves." That com
pletely knocks the socks off
his little 4 4 Cross of gold and
crown of thorns" epithet.
Now we shouldn't be sur-
prised at anyr time to near
of Col. Bryan being caught
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up, like Elijah, by a mystic
whirlwind and transported
to the sweet subsequent, and
given a berth in the broad
bosom of Father Abraham.
A man 4 4 more conservative
than Jesus Christ" has no
rapscallions and political
blatherskites on this mun
dane sphere.
The man who can't see
how we are to be expan
sionists without being imper
ialists is too shallow to float
an idea, and too green to
burn.
One of Bryan's theories
for destroying trusts is to
break their backs with a
license tax. It would kill
the trusts just about like it
does the saloons. . A presi
dential candidate who can't
devise any better remedy for
trusts than that ought to be
bored for the simples.
The Simmonized editor of
the democratic slush-wagon
published at Wilkesboro, N.
C. raised somewhat of a howl
about what we said two
weeks ago concerning the
$10 license tax which the
present legislature imposed
on lumber dealers. He grabs
up his editorial ink paddle,
yells 4 4 negro supremacy
sheet" and then spin&arourid
like a torn cat with its tail
Gn fire trying to prove ex-
actly what a lumber dealer
is and then goes on to say
that 44 if there be any one
else indicted or honest far-
mers molested it is the work
of republican officials," etc.,
etc. He further says our
article 44is no doubt , meant
to scare costs and republican
official fees out of some poor
fellow." It was meant for
nothing of the kind, besides
it vyas from a democratic
sheet published within two
whoops of his own den that
we obtained our information
that so manyr of the boys had
been indicted. If any costs
or fees are 4 4 scared" out of
anyTbody the blame rests" on
a democrat. What we did
was to call the attention of
the boys to the fact.that this
state of affairs was some of
the fruits of democratic leg
islation. And this is what
set the Wilkesboro sheet to
having conniption fits. Such
talk hurts the dear old party.
He further says our course
is not commendable. Well,
we don't want to pursue a
course that would be con-
. it 1 11 M
strued commenaaoie oy a
man who clings to a party
that is now trying to do that
which its leaders 2 years ago
solemnly swore and affirm
ed they never would do. We
were not brought up on the
tailings of a brass foundry.