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. - .

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