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HELIX) THERE!
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the laboring man's stand po nt.
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STINGS.
Bryan is still stumping
the country in favor of Mc-
Kinley.
We rise to ask, what has
the skeedaddlers done with
Dewey?
Governor Roosevelt insists
that he shall be notified be
fore being nominated to office.
We have it straight f rom
the cook, that Mr. Bryan is
now taking a grilled octopus
everr morning for his break
fast at trust prices.
Mr. Gorman has not been
converted to Bryanisin. He
has merely decided to take
his medicine without making
a face over it.
An exchanefe wants to
know wrhat Jesus would do
if he were in Kentuckv. It's
only a guess, but we think
he would get out.
An Illinois court has de
cided that a baby cannot sue
for damage before he was
born. Can the Popocrats
now sue for damage for the
crime of '73?
We wonder if Mr. Br van,
in his talks on free silver,
will enlighten his audiences
with the fact that the Das-
c UA tuc umu' oiaauim
bill removes all danger of 16
to 1.
, , r.
xne protocol sienea in
Kentucky will cause a peac-
able solution of the present
flnitiV fhro Rnf hnw
- 0
annut the (-rnehel law
Is it
to remain on the books
to
aid the democrats
to steal
another election?
The money per capita in
circulation under the admin-
istration of your Uncle Wil-
ham McHinley is 546.l0.
.
great man Grover. Mr. Dem-
ocrat
.
ll.yon want 10 we a nry
anite's jaw fall just ask hio
A A t
m
if he knows that the money
in circulation in the U. S.
has increased from one and
a half billion dollars in '96
to over two billion dollars
in 1900.
We believe that the white
man should and will rule this
country. The hydrophobic
yell of "negro supremacy "
creates no alarm with people
who take a common sense
view of the situation. The;50ete. Subscribe to-day.
things that should alarm our
people to a sense of duty are
those various brands of Goe
bel election laws that are de
signed for the express pur
pose of entrenching a certain
political party in power re-
gardless of the wishes of the
majority.
John R. McLean, of
Washington City, and late
democratic candidate for
governor of Ohio, is being
! mentioned as a tail to the
Bryan ticket. Why not?
Johhy has had some experi
ence in 44running behind."
The British now hold more
prisoners than the Boers, and
might exchange them man to
man. But is this basis fair?
It evidently requires about
ten Britishers to whip one
Boer and the latter should
in fairness exchange at the
rate.
In his speeches about over
the country to-day Billy
Bryan has nothing to say a-
bout fifty-cent wheat, and
the connection between the
price of wheat and the price
of silver. Prosperity has
knocked up that part of his
old argument.
The evidences of prosper
ity and honest industry that
Col. Bryan sees on every side
as he goes tearing over the
country today ought to make
him ashamed of his calamity
ranting and cause him to
want to shuck off his coat
and go to work himself.
Bryan says this country
is at the parting of the ways.
That was true in '97. In
November of that year the
nation chose its road and is
not in the least disposed to
regret the decision. It will
not choose the Bryan road
this year if the court knows
herself and we think she
do."
Did you ever stop to think
of the difference between
McKinley and Bryan? The
one is dignified, quiet, at
tends strictly to business.
and seldom speaks, but when
he does talk he says some
thing worth listening to
The other chases himself
continually all over the con
tinent, pours out a torrent
of words wherever he goes,
does nothing for a living, and
is becoming a demagogue,
even in the eyes of his fol
lowers. Think' of it.
The Yellow Jacket every
week for 12 -months only
!
ZTV Does not sPellanT-
J .V thing, but what we
started out to sav was tins- nn nn
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Do not send
postage stamps on subscriptions to the
Y.J.; and when you send Money Orders,
have them drawn on Wilkesboro, N. C.
Moravian Falls is not a M. O. office:
A number of democratic
i exchanges come to our table
and on the editorial pages in
most of them we run across
the same argument. They
take the Hanner form: Down
with Hanna! Trusts!
Trusts!! Hanna and McKin
ley!! Trusts! Trusts! And
that is about all they say.
Zounds! These democratic
editors are powerful on . ar-
gument.
The Cleveland, Ohio, Lead
er, commenting on Bryan's
speaking tour through the
south says: We never im
agined that it . was necessary
to preach democracy in that.
section of the country." The
Leader is sadly mistaken if
it thinks that the entire south
is dead set on Bryanistic
principles. Take Georgia
for instance, although demo-
cratic in name, it has but
recently been demanding of
Congress Protection for its
industries, and has also put
the stamp of condemnation
on a wholesale disfranchis
ing law intended for that
state. A people who take
such steps as these may call
themselves Bryan democrats
but such deeds seem more
like the work of republicans.
Here are two democrats,
Rev. Sam P. Jones, and Col.
William J. Bryan, the former
a preacher of the gospel and
laboring to save men's souls
the latter a preacher of ca
lamity, and wanting to get
an office. Sam has just made
a tour through the South
west and here are his words:
I have not heard a howl or
a wail since I left home, not
a word about the 'crime of
73," or "the rich a getting
richer and the poor a getting I
poorer." -Business was
never better with the mer
chants and times never bet
ter with the farmers." How
does this match with the
words of Col. Bryan who
goes around preaching about
the abuses and wrongs that
are being heaped on the peo
ple, yelling calamity and
talking about trusts?
Henri Watterson, it seems,
has played twistifi
cation in politics until he
has about lost the power to
help his so-called friends or
hurt his enemies. "Henri is
like ,an old toothless dbg
now, he can't bite, duly slob-
ber,
i5 iuc way oam Jones
it.
puts
02
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monster "Imperialism so
they could get a glimpse at
the color of his hair.
Tom "Edison has given the
world inventions that work
wonders, but none of them
show a trick with some of
the election machines invent
ed by the southern demo
crats. If fate, providence and the
republican party do not soon
let up, the democratic party
of the country will not have
an issue left with which to
go before the people in the
next camoaiorn. Recent
Washington dispatches say
that it has been discovered
that some of the Philippine
islands which it was thought
had reverted to this country
by the treaty of peace with
Spain really still belong to
the Dons. Upon represen
tations made by the Spanish
government the authorities
of the state department
made examination of the
charts and concluded to di
rect withdrawal of our clamis
to the islands of Caygayeni
Sulu and Cibutii, all , of
which lie without the boun
dry lines laid down by the trea
ty of peace. As this remove
s x
the famous polygamous sul
tan and his harem from the
jurisdiction of this nation,
the democrats are. deprived
of what they had hoped and
believed would be one of the
strongest arguments they
would have in their opposi-
tlon to. a continuance of the
republican party at the head .
of the nation's affairs for
the next four years. A va
cancy promises now to exists
in the democratic platform
where it was thought the
plank in reference to the
sultan would fill up a gap
exactly according to the ideas
of the democratic platform
carpenters. They can no
longer Recuse McKinley of
encouraging slavery and po
lygamy in one of the posses
sions of the country. The
stage effect of the American
flag floating over a harem
will not be one of the tricks
of the next campaign. How
ever this unexpected remov
al of one rof democracy's
issues will cause no particu
lar inconvenience to the plat--form
mja.kers, as they can -
fill up this vacancy by widen- g
ing the plank in regard to
those "infernal, damnable v ;
readey ed , bam headed, brim-4 ' '
stone-eating "trusts" that "
thev are talking: so much .
about.