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WEEK IY EDITION.
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MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 17, J900
NO: 7
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Indiana democrats refuse
to let Bryan V tag' them.
It, looks as if Aguirialdo
will be given a broader plank
jin the Kansas City platform
than free silver.
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Stamps
Silver preferred' to Posta
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on suoscripuons.
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may be made with comparative safety in
ordinary letters, using good envelopes.
Amounts above fifty cents it would be
well to send by Registered Letter.
P. O. Money Orders are better still.
rut tney must be drawn on Wilkesboro,
.N. C. as Moravian Falls is uot
Order office.
ITT . a
wnen warning to nave your paper
changed you must give your former as well
as your "new address.
Always write your own name
dress plainly, and direct all your
The blackest: clouds that
hang over the Southland to
day are those hejl-born par
tizan election laws.
Cleveland says the, best
thing the democratic party
can do is to retire Bryan.
Just wait till 'Nov. and the
republican party will do the
job so effectively that Billy
can't be found with a politi
cal telescope.'
As a humorist Congressman
Sulzer is a button-buster. He
has been promising Mr. Bryan
the electoral vote of New YorK.
The New York Herald the
great independent democrat
ic paper, has come out flat
footed for McKinley.
a Money
The Ykixow-Jacket,
Moravian FajJ
ISSUED EVERY THUR
Thursday, May 17, 1900.
The man who desires to
jswap McKinley prosperity
for Bryan anti-imperialism
is evidently very crosseyed.
and ad-
letters to
I.S, N. C.
SDAY.
Acting upon the principle
of "giving thedevil hisdues'"
the people will this year give
the democratic party anoth
er good licking.
It is said that there are
not enough anti-expansion
democrats in Alabama to jus
tify counting. From a hot
bed of democracy such con
ditions as this must send
great streaks of cramp colic
through the abdominal re
gions of William Jawbone
Bryan.
The Kentucky democrats
seem to be afraid to play their
game on Gov. Taylor, although
they know the cards are "stack
ed".. ;
If Admiral Dewey had ever
had an 3 chance for the Demo
cratic nomination, his friendly
talk toward England would
have destroyed it.
Democrats kick because
government has acquired 1
ests in foreign territory
then do some more kieki
cause th is. govern men t dc w
get itself involved in the 8
African war. That's derm
ic consistency.
going
' Mr. Br van savs he is
to rake a two month's rest on
his farm. He can make the
rest longer without arousing
ariv nrotest on the Dart of the
The republican party is people.
the party that fills the treas
ury and reducesiebt. The It doesn't seem quite the
democratic party empties J riht tllin for Messrs. Hep-
Someone has proposed C
land as Democratic 'nomine
this fall. But he took
to do so-anony mously , ail d
imagination fails to picture
fate of the nifin who , shall
tempt to put Mr. Cleveland
nomination.
lit. vou
HELLO THERE!
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are not already a subscriber to
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scription. The Y. J. each week
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and each succeeding issue will
tret better if it can be made so.
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Being a firm- bel
principles of Lincol
A political party that de
pends upon unrest and dis
contentment for its success
should be snatched bald-head-
ed in every fight it makes.
QZZJX
Does not spell any
thing, but what we
started out to say was this: 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 pot a M. O. office.
o come to
T24.u 4 I blows over the oueMion wheth-
LllCtC Udl LIES 1 J
er tne canai snouia oe lorunea
debt.
will present a 4'Bill" to the
people this year. For the
man who argues with his
shirt on and thinks with
his head there is but one
choice.
It is noticeable that althbjh
nine- Democratic convent!
have endorsed Bryaii for
nomination, less than; hah
that number have affirmed $
Chicago platform: in , "ringir
out of that issue by means
some evasion or other.
or not.
eliever in the
incoln, Grant, wi'
(Tatrieid and McKinJev, Ihe Y.Lin,r WPu-limnnfl u,-Wp
The editor filled the hooks
th copv and left Wednes-
he
J. will ever be found contending , c
1 1 l?t ' . J.Will LUI lJCl.rt tl OUULTI T J M.
ior ine rignis ana n.oerues r "
of the people. We won d not paper tor tne X elJowuacKet.
onlv like to have you become a
suoscrioer, dud we woum uso oe The fusion poos met' at
glad to have you do a litt e mis- G. Vn .
sionarv work for us amoi vour ,WUA A LI1C
Republican friends and neigh- nominated 5ryan lor l-Tes-
)ors. You can reach thobe that ident, got hot, pulled off
we can't. Take this copy when 4-1,:00 noo i;
you go out from home and tack
Je every Republican you
and don't let up on him t
have secured his subscription.
their coats, passed the lie;
nrin n rl
11 you jdurned sine die.
Bv so doing you will not
be doing us a great favo
you will also be aiding
reaching the people, and
ns
only
but
The first act of the fusion
Pops this year was to riomi-
help- tiate Bryan for President
in
i ng to present the facts oJf Be- The next step .will be to
publicanisin, which only
crawl into the democratic
need
r -Mr
ua i?onw?non nnUr c. band wao;on and go to yell-
ljr l-mf . . . -
harmonious and invulnerable mg tor the democrats.
1 liat the trihes of Bryan
world, the flesh arid the
can't overthrow it at the
next November.
You will experience no
oulty in finding several of
neighbors who will take tl
per, so try to make us up j
of 5 or 10. If 3tou can't g
a club, then send along
own subscription and -try:
dub later. The Y. J. is nbt lo-
, but circulates over al
the
deviJ A democratic subscriber
1 - out in Virgipia says ; times
diffi- are not as good as the demo-
l . r j 1
yourjerats promisea. may oeiney
are not, but our friend knows
that they are a blamed sight
better than the democrats
e pa
l club
1
t up
your
the
ever cave us.
the
states and preaches the lfepub- Secretary Axage inrorms
ican gospel in the interest of the House that there is a
.common sense and as seen from hoiirnliic. in thp ' ' rrpnsiir.v of
the laboringiian's; stanbo.ihtv .i7nAA.Wnh :
Now this is about all. You send 4 -
along the subscriptions and j help some democrat please state
do the circulatm' andj we 1 will the eract condition of :' the
do the preach in Read iri4truc-
The friends of the citi
zens' ticket are petitioning
that they be allowed a fair
election in Bristol, Va. Ev
idently there is somebody on
that side of the question
who is slightly acquainted
with the manner in which
majorities are inflated in
that goodly city. But then
it must be remembered that
the Virginia Honest Elec
tion law was the model for
the Goebel law, Under which
Watterson said all "chance"
is eliminated. It is not
worth while to kick, if you
have to go up against a sure
thing, Mary Ann. Bristol
(Tenn.) Daily Courier.
Abdul Hamid is certainly un
speakably slow paying.
Eugene Debs says the trusts
will bring the conditions desired
by him and his fellow-socialists.
Then, why doesn't 'Gene quit
talking and. wait for those conditions?
Since Webster Davis has I
making Boer speeches, reper.;
attempts have been made to
him to abuse President ;McK
ley. To the last one of thl
attem pts , Mr. Davis replil
4iMcKinlev's all right. He i
patriot, one of . the comnj
people," like Lincoln." '-'-A
Judge Lochren, of Minn;, i
democrat, and it is not surp?
,. - .. j
ing that he should have tak
the democratic view of v Po
England has made regulations
refusing admission to all foreign
dogs. Billv Mason should at
Arinn i 1 1 f n ta o l-ncnlnf inn rf
11111 uuuvu t i ucuiuiiuij j I t- 1 .1- - j j i ' -r
... , 1 rwico ana tne VvonsLicution, l
sym path v with the down-trod- . , , . . . , J
-71 thnt r ftfisn ; mn.kft flip -
den canine race. . , L TX. - ' ,
rignc. xiiscory readies f r
democratic views of the Cons
The Jsow ov papara assert . have usuanv bee ' o,'
1 . t- . . 1 . : t -. . -i I . . . ,
tnsL ttepresentative lentz ana
ex-Kepresentative Jbevvis " were
nrevailed uoon" to make
sneeches at some western meet- ."."..FM"ua
. , -r , . declare the minutest details
in(r nr ru. iRV. Krfivai fin nnnn ! , i
w u x their policy towards . the iv
possessions. It would be just
sensible to ask a man to drav.
F.mnprnrft William and Fran-1 ? ' , .: - -
- ciiart 01 ms inrenaea mo
cis josepn, 01 ijermany ana
A u s tro-H n n gary , . h a ve c h an ged
clothes in order to do honor to
The democrats continue
ments in getting through a1 In
yrinth which he had never see
each other. . There's no telling
what these crowned heads wont
do. '
The rapidly increasing im
ports from Porto Rico do not
look as though that island were
oppressed.
The middle-of-the-road pops
have made it plain that. they do
not consider themselves chained
to the Bryan chariot.
Pettigrew is in South Dakota,
but if any bon-fires are being
lighted in his.hondr the news
papers haven't found it out.
ing acts that ought to be yetoe
If Boss Croker isn't careful
he'll be read put of the Demo-
cratic party tor being too
friendly to the E ngbsh.-
For onlv the third time
three vears, President Mclviii
has vetoed an act of Congre?
(Jontrast this with the1- onei
L,ieut. rlobson is on ins way tions of Cleveland's diurnal
home from the Philippines. Is to mill. , But then McKinley
t Qihlff tliiih hft intends to not given to mult nnaiuff, n
accent that nomination for the ri"s congress given to pa
. .
Presidency awarded him a year
or so ago by some enthusiastic
Ponn lists? - it tne democrats naa-any
aea tnat lvicivinjey - wouia n .tii
an v action to help . th e Boe
Humph ! it is sign meant they would be urging him
that the populists should pub- keep his hands oh In oth
licl y announce the necessity for words, there is no sincerity, i
holding a club over the demo-Lt J v ,
crats to maKc sure mac tne h;fii0
Kansas Jity convention will re- thunder.
adopt the Chicago Platform.
Congressman Landis, of In
diana, says the Porto Rican ag
itation will not lose the repub
lican party a single vote in his
Even Democrats learn som
- I . . . . ...."..- rr -
In seeKing a man who can thing occasionally. inose 1
- - -Ixi. l n " 1. -...Mt:uAJ."'ii
beat Gov. Roosevelt the New tiie oeuaviutv Pi "". "
orK democrats have taKen - a 1 , - - only- nerfunctor
tasK that is as hard as prevent- objection, and now our .' coa:
ing the re-election of President will be decently defended, ai
McKinley. With rare excep- the costly artillery along "the
tions the people know a good w,.u 01 oe pewa to go
. , , , , . ruin for want of men to care 1
official when the v have- him.
treasury during Cleveland's
second reign, . : t, ;
lore
remitting.
I. r ,
, : . ..ft .
lions at; too 01 tins coiumni ut-
district, and he knows:
them..