Xow-The Jb, N. C,
21, 1900.
Ex-Govern Der Sur:
Texas, prafig the
"everythiupon the
this ward tell of.
dadgum-
Nob yOU
-r T4.-
Politics
He saszm hot and heatitihot
merevery minute. Every
Emily in the neighborhood,
including the women folks
has lined up on one
side
or
the other of the political- is
sues, except Ike Hornpipe's
family, and it has split on
the question and s:ands on
both sides. Ike is
crat and believes in
ver, and free trc
a demo
free sli
de , and
howls about ''niggexdoniina
tion," imperialism and trusts
while Hannah, his wife,. is a
republican and stands up for
sound money and Protection
and favors McKinleys admin
istration and bitterly de
nounces the aniendr ient. Ike
and Hanner talk
poll t i
cs
nearly every night. The
neighbors often gather in to
hear Ike and Hanner discuss
tne issues. Manner as a close
observer of things. She
reads both sides of the ques
tion, and can talk on politi
cal matters very intelligent
ly and never seems to get
mad. But Ike is just the re
verse. He never read any
thing but a democratic pa
per, and flies all to pieces
every time he hears Protec
tion, sound money, or any
other republican pol
icy men-
tioned. He delights
in boast
ted any-
ing that he never vd
thing but a straigh
demo-
1 !
cratic ticket in all
Ike savs he has goo
is lire,
reasons
for being a
democrat. He
says his .father was
start with and that
his boys' days dad
one to
during
always
iles to a
.
made him go three
democrat 's mill and
ix mnes
to a democrat s store when
there was a republican own
ed a mill and a store just a
mile from home. This early
training put the fixiiis on Ike
and they have staid
for to-day he would
on him,
coon a
rotten rail across hades to
get to buy a. pound cf coffee
of a democrat hof rvrp Iip'H
buy of a radical thc.t lived
at his door.
I went over to Ike's the
other night and Had the
good luck to hear him and
Hanner yoke in a political
discussion. ,Pete Moonyand
Bill Strong had come to Ikes
to give some music on their
banjos and quite a crowd of
the neighbor boys we e there.
After the music was over
Ike got to spouting eff about
imperialism and trusts and
shooting into the rep xblicans
in general. I think everyone
in the house were democrats
but Hanner Hornpipe and
myself. Ike had juk read
.Bryan s big speece at Raleigh
last week and was
reeling
good all over. He dumped
out a cood of tobacco as big
as a hen egg, lent back and
let volley after volley of
democratic 4 'argument'1 roll
forth. He started in by de-
i i.JL-i-vi jliiv; y add lui ir
! coat, a sell-out and a cats
'
paw tor Mark Hanna. He
poured a slop tub of ridicule
on the war in the Philippines
and praised Aguinaldo. Then
he compared Billy Bryan to
Jesus Christ and McKinley
to Judas Iscariot.- Next he
come to home matters and
took up the "nigger ques
tion" and said the democrats
of North Carolina had re
solved to. rid the state of the
nigger issue and give the
people a white man's govern
ment. He said democracy
; U.J , rr
, , , ; !
the democrats had alwars
, ... r'
in office and always will. All
m tJtn FT'jnrmr t hnrh in
the corner knitting, but from
the sparkle of her eye one
could tell tliat tnere was
something coming. At last j L1JC ... .
er-;rrUA;x.cat before I d ever join it in
"Well, BH, as they are all
democrats but us, I reacon
vve will have to defend repub
licanism as best we can,"
and saj'ing this she got up
and went to the bureau and
took out a roll of newspapers
and came and sit gown in
the corner. "This paper,"
she began, "is a 16 to 1 dem
ocratic sheet and is nearly
worn threadbear. It was
printed in Aug. '96 and Ike
toated it around and read it
to all the boys that? year till
the day of the election. I
don't recon any of you would
1 . A 1 . 1
ooject to nearmg it reaa a
gain tonight. Here is the
piece that. Ike had marked
and which I expect he had
read over to the bovs a thous-
and times. A look of agree
able surprise ran over the en
tire crowd, as if to say, Can
it be possible that Hanner
has come over to Bryan and
free silver? "Now listen,"
and she read as follows:
44A vote for McKinley
means more tramps.
McKinley 's election means:
Ten-cent corn. '
Twenty-five cent wheat.
Eight-cent oats.
One dollar per ton for hay.
Five-cents per pound for
butter.
Three cents a dozen for
eggs.
Two-cent hogs.
One and one-half cents for
fat cattle.
No money at all to carry
on business.
Everybody sold out for
debt and taxes."
"Now what do we find to
day," she said laying down
the paper and casting a defi
ant looking glance at Ike,
whose jaw had dropped
dovyn as limber as a dead
blacksnake hanging across
she
continued:
44The tramps are at work
at good wages.
Corn is worth fifty cents.
Wheat is worth eigtv cents.
Oats go like hot cakes at
35 cts.
Butter brings 20 cents.
Eggs fifteen cents.
Hogs A cents.
Cattle 6 r4 -cents,
Wool 28 cents.
Eight dollars per ton for
hay. .
Mills are running over time.
Wages advanced.
Plenty of money good in
any part of the world.
And McKinley president
of the United States., a Pro
tective tariff in force and the
o-old standard the basis of
our finance.
Ike, it's no wonder you have
llaid aside this old paper and
i gone to talking trusts, and
f . . - , .
imperialism and 'niggerdom-
If I was a man and
' mY Partv
had ever made
such a flash in prophes3'ing
as your party has done, I'd
desert it and crawl under
fighting new issues as you
are doing in fighting expan
sion. Your 'Imperialism'
scarecrow is just like your
3-cent cotton if McKinleyism
prevaled.' Cotton, you. know
is now sell in of for over 8 cts.
Your party can howl
"white supremacy" till you
bust your gall, but the peo
ple will not forget the fact
that it was 'the democrats
who put 107 negro magis
trates on the people of N. C.
atone pop.
If I had a dog that would
howl at nothing and bark at
the moon I'd kill it and so
would any sensible person.
Yet that is just about what
the democrats are doin
They are .howling about
nothing, or the same as
notnmir. x iiev cant use
the argument they used in
'96, so they had to raise a
new yell or get out of the
field." It was trettinsf so
hot for Ike that he asked the
boys to give some more mu
sic so Hanner 's argument
was drowned out by the
boys pla'ing "There's a
hot time in the old 'town to
night." I'm going out to hear Han
ner talk again and will re
port some of her points next
week.
Yours to help skin the
dadgumed democrats till
they are all dead or get bet
ter. Eli Tucker.
Republic? ir Vitality.
The republican party has
been in power close upon 40
years. It has made mistakes.
It has had some tough lead-
ers. some saualid bosses. It
has occasionly conceeded too
the fence. 4 'Let's see,
mucn to popular errors, inow and is governed oy Lommis
and then the people have got sionerS aooointed by the
vexed and lacked the stuffing .
out of it. But the estrange
ment has only been casual
and temporary. Themajor-
ity has been with it, is with
it' still, and is likely to re-
main with it for an indefinite
time to come. The causes!
of the prodigious vitality of
the republican party are not
far to seek. It has great
respect for the constitution,
but is not afraid of it. If the
constitution stands across
the path of. the people, why
so much the worse for the
i constitution. If it wants to
abolish slavery, or make pa
per money legal tender, it
finds the way. If there are
no precedents it makes them.
It wastes no time for rever
ie. It. is strictly up to date,
and ready, for all
emergen-
cies . It cares nothing for
consistency. It is not deter-
red from taking a certain!
course today because it pur
sued another yesterday. Suf
ficient unto tomorrow is the
evil thereof .
The passage of the gold
standard currency bill by th
House was a striking exam-
pie of the habits and methods
of the republican party. It
had boxed the comoass on
A.
the money question. It cre
ated the legal tender green
back and provided for the
resumption of specie pay
ments. Eor 10 years it car
ried on a desperate flirtation
with silver, and then, at the
end, voted for the single
gold standard with enthusi
astic unanimity, re-enforced
by 11 democrats, which re
quired heroism. It may not
be so short and easy in the
Senate, where the procedure
is mediaeval, but the result
will be the same, and the
people will sa Amen. The
man who aims at nothing al
ways hits it, and this appears
to be the predicament of the
democrats. Thev have no
affirmative policy.
Whatever the republicans
are for, they are against, and
for that reason they voted in
the negative on the efold
standard without offering annlpre so after he is nominated.
amendment for free silver.
In opposing expansion, the
enlargement of pur national
boundaries either by pur
chase or conquest, they are
acting in despite of the great
est names on their illustrious
roster, and slurring the tra
ditions of the most orlorious
periods of their history.
While it is true that the ge
nius of our institutions does
not contemplate the acquisi-
tion ot territory whose in-
habitants may not become
citizens, and ultimately be
incorporated into the consti
tuency , there is no more prac
tical difficulty in dealing with
Puerto Rico than with the
District of Columbia, which
is neither state nor territory
President and confirmed by
the Senate.
The same may be said of
Hawaii and the Philippines,
Or, if this be undesirable,
both could be attached for
judicial and executive purpo-
ses to either of the Pacific
States with their consent.
Distance forms no obstacle
Electricity has annihilated
both space and time. With
telegraphic connection the
Philippines might as well be
long to California, and Ha
waii to Oregon, as the Isles
of Shoals is to New Hamp
shire, Nantucket to Massa
chusetts or Long Island to
New York. That the insur
rection of Aguinaldo will be
suppressed and some plan of
government devised by the
! Republicans in due season is
established by the summary
disposition t of Pettigrew's
resolution to lav on the table
the most insolent motion
known to parliamentary law.
It is the most formidable
wepon of a despotic and res
olute majority. rXt -cuts off
debate and is a knock-out if
it prevails. -John J. Ingalls.
What 'Will They lo?
Word comes from New
York that C 1. W. J. Bryan
will in all probability be the
democratic Presidential nom
inee. His recent visit there
seems to have : settled the
matter. Four years or so
ago,, when he visited the me
tropolis in 1896 his pres
ence sent a shiver through
the financial centers. Prices
were effected in the exchang
es as if a great disaster or a
colossal failure had taken
place. It was the only case
on record where an individ
ual visiting New York caus
ed general demoralization in
the markets. But it is diff
erent now. His visit there
a few days ago did not have
the slightest effect in the
exchanges. On the whole,
they were glad to sea him,
and will probably be much
They are, perhaps, fully a
ware of what is in store for
him after he gets on the
track and more. Thejr have
an idea that the gold demo
cratic press will desert him
as it did before, so they real
ly have nothing to fear. If
thev don!t desert him what
an awful dish of crow some
of them will have to eat.
And if he should be nomina
ted on a silver platform with
a gold basis, what an im
mense amount of crow he
will have to swallow. No
matter how it is fixed up,
crow threatens to be a fash
ionable dish in this country .
in November next. Crows
are usually in very good con
dition during that month,
and when properly cooked
they are not such infernal
bad eating. Peoria, 111 . ,
Journal. - .