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THE YELLOW-JACKHT.
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B. DON LAWS,
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Thursday, June V 8, 1 9
GIT A HUMP ON!
Look Here, Brother : If yoi
;i are
not already a subscriber to
Yellow Jacket, consider this
an invitation to become
Read this paper over and if
the
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one.
yon
like it, send tis 50 cents fc r a
years subscription. You Will find
the Y. J. a warm article.! Its bus
iness end registers 200 degrees in
the shade. This paper each veek
will contain something good and
each succeeding issue will get bet
ter if it can be made so. Being a
firm believer in the principles of
the great party of Lincoln , Grant,
Garfield and McKinley,f we
always be found contending
fair play, and for the rights
liberties of the people, and
will
j for
and
ing an unrelenting battle against
the devil and the so-called Demo
cratic party. We don't only want
you to become a subscriber, but
we also should pe'pleasea to pave
you do a little missionary work a
mong your Republican friends.
You can reach those whorr . we
cannot. Take a Y. J. when I you
go out from homeland tackle ev
ery Republican you meet and get
him to subscrile. In this . wav you
will not only be doing -us a ijreat
favor, but you will also be a ding
us in reaching the people, and
helping to present the facts of Re
publicanism, which only ; nee I to
be understood in order (to : nake
the Republican party so nu rieri
cally strong, so: harmonious ! and
invulnerable that the . I tribe s of
Bryan, the world, the flesh an I the
devil can't overthrow it at ' the
polls next';;NovemHer.'-; -;
See all your neighbors and naka
up a club of 5 or 10, If you can't
get the club now, send along' your
own sub. and try the club lat r. . t
The Yellow Jacket' is not peal,
out circulates valli oyer, Am erica
and goes to foreign lands, arid all
the time preaches nothing but Re
publican gospel .and jv common
sense. Before sending; iabney9
read instructions at lop of this col-
umn. Now, brother, take thejease;
You send alone the subs.' and; ihelp
do the circulating and we will do
the preachingSLeVthQ Sand wplay
EDITORIAL REMARKS!
For President-pWilliam Mc
Kinley. . :. ' '
For Vice-Presidem
Theo-
dore Roosevelt
Our national ticket and plat
form are the best we ever had.
Necessity is also the mother
of expansion ; and h-tx&feve ex
panded. R :
Many democrats rail at the
McKinley Administration purely
from force of habit.'
Oh, Billy, Boy, Say quick.
How much1 tariff did the Ding,
ley bill impose on ice? .
Eli's, letter tp Col. Bryan is so
long that we Jiad to continue
tlie remainder in next week's
issue.
The democratic party
is a
aver and a
kicker That's
why the emblem of the party is
jackass.
We give the substance of; the
Republican platform elsewhere.
The full text is too long for our
space this week.
We are expecting every day
to hear it asserted by some Free
Trade democrat that ,the drouth
in India is the result of the
Dingley Tariff.
Germany has a sugar trust.
Now why don't some smart
democrat show, that McKinley,
Mark Hanna and Co. are re
sponsible, fpr that. "
; , The Yellow Jacket has buck
led on a new hame string and
bellyband and proposes to be in
the thickest of the fight helping
to wallop William Jennings.
The only piece of national
legislation the democrats as a
party have given us since the e
lection of Abe Lincoln was the
Wilson Gorman Tariff bill , and
that ought to satisfy the people
for 40. years to come.
Out in Kansas there is said
to be but one single ; pauper on
thfi state noor farm. Isn t ; it a
shame that I this j republican
prosperity has Invaded the; poor
house,7 give ii paupers employ
ment and fobbed this poor dev
il of his dear companions?
Wouldn't it be singular ' if
a
state like Missouri,' acquired by
expansion, arid which has just
received a gift of , $5,000,000
from Congress to celebrate the
fact, should remain democratic
anrl onnosedito exbansion this
. , srxr z - - - x
The Stl iiois strike contin-
ues with its daily quota qi out
ragev aol destructioti
democf atic governor sits silbht ,
nfvnid to act for fear that he
mav lose; a few; votes ! this fall.
Votes be d d,. as Peter : Stir
ling once said, under
No use speculating oh what
Bryan would do, if elected; He
will never be president .
The Ark, State Republican
says "the only remedy for labor
strikes is another dose of Cleve
land times." Ye gods, then
give us the strikes.'
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Some of the democrats v claim
that there wasn't much enthu
siasm in the Philadelphia, con
vention, but there was enough
to give the Bry anites the back
ache. U. S.' Senator Morgan says
the Chicago platform "has a few
marginal notes that ate rather.
too socialistic . " . That's just
what the voters thought in '96,
and thev'll show in Novr that
they haven't changed their
minds.
Mr. Bryan, you can't run
your, "imperialism" rabbit's
foot over the people this year.
You once helped work the. Free
Traderacket, then you tried the
free silver racket and now you
would love to scare somebody
with your "imperialism" buga
boo. You can't do it, Billy.
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No wonder the democrats
dread Roosevelt. Listen to him
score the New York ice trust
democrats :
They (the democrats) have
raved , they have foamed at the
mouth in denunciation of trusts,
and now in my own State their
foremost party leaders, includ
ing the man before whom the
others bow with bared head and
trembling knee, have been dis
covered in a trust which really
is of infamous and perhaps of
criminal character a trust in
which these apostles of democ
racy, these prophets of the new
dispensation, have sought to
wring fortuues from the dire
needs of their poorer brethren .
It gives us pleasure to inform
our many readers that we are
now issuing the Yellow Jacket
from a new Campbell cylinder
press with the latest improve
ments. It is one of the finest
machines in this part of the
state and, will print both sides
of fifteen thousand Yellow Jack
ets a day. We run it by water
power same as we did our old
press. This power consists of
an over-shot wheel We-half mile
from our office with a belt' a
mile long which runs on a drum
at the water wheel and leads o
ver hills and hollows to over
head works in our print , shop.
The belt is supported on 'pulleys
put on high posts every 40 rods.
A wire . leading to the water
wheel enables the printer to
stand by the press and start or
stop the water wheel at will.
We designed I audi . ; constructed
thispower-nearly a year ago; It
is cheap, sioiple and safe and is
one of the advantages of living
in the country. We ; .expect to
give to bur readers cuts before
long of this water ' wheel -'and
belt leading away from it thro'
the woods to the printing office
J ftlstf a cut of vOnr. a$li;.VfhM&,
Didii't They Hit Them?
Didn't the i democrats hit the
trusts hard when they were in
power? Didn't they hit the
whiskey trust when they extend
ed the time for paying the ninety
million .dollars taxes due the
govern ment? Didn'tk tliey lam
it to thd; sugar trust when they
dallied with the tariff bill until
the trust had, scraped the earth
for -raw sugar and brought it in
free of duty and then passed a
bill putting a cjuty on raw sugar
that was free under the McKin
ley bill ? Didn't they sock it to
the trusts again when - they re
pealed the anti-trust provision
of the McKinley bill which im
posed a fine riot exceeding
$5,000, on persons convicted of
entering into atrust, and then
enacted an anti-trust law that
prescribed no penalty against
trusts, except among importers
who are not organized and nev
er have been? Don't they make
the trusts tremble when they as
sert that only the Protective,
Tariff fosters them while it' is
known that trusts are organized
and flourish in Free Trade Eng
land? Don't they land another
staggering blow to the trust oc
topus when they threaten to
bust it, when it is known that
their national chairman Jas. K.
Jones belongs to one of the big
gest trusts in America? Didn't
they hit the Ohio trusts hard
fwhen they denounced them in
their platform in 1899 and then
went to Washington D. C. and
picked out the rankest monopo
list and trust stock owner ; to
rim for governor? Don't the
New York democracy present
a finespectacle as a trust fighter
with a ringleader of the whole
pack criminally connected with
the American Ice Trust ? Didn't
Chairman Jones land another
broadside into the octopus When
he offered an amendment to the
Porto Bican Tariff bill to return
the duties on sugar imported
from that island to the person
from , whom they were collected
which would have put over
$600 ,000. back into the hands of
the sugar trust? P
Then and Now.
Five years ago this week we
issued the first No. of the Yel
low Jacket., It was a 3 col. 4
page affair and we carried it to
the post office in our pockets.
Every June since has found-the
Y. J. expanding and this week's
issue will be read by over fitty
thousand people scattered all o
ver the United States. From
the very outset we laid down
the rule that to secure the Y. J.
you had to plank down the cash
in advance whether you were'; a
millionaire or a pauper, and we
have lived lip to that rule. : If
you don't like the YY J. you can
have your money back. :
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 whei you send Money Orders
have thejn'drawn 'on WUkesboro. N. C
OZZJX
THE DEVIL'S LETTER .
' Hades, June 22, 1900.
To the various tribes of democrats that
inhabit the eartri, My Dear Boys: -It
does my soul good to get time to sit down
and write lyou all again. I'm feeling
pretty well for one of my age and hard- ,
ships. My tjail has at last quit paining me
and I think is as serviceable as ever.
'I have just received a cablegram from
democratic beadquarters that the repub licans
have renominated McKinley for
President of the XJ. S. and named Teddy .
Roosevelt for Vice. Boys, this makes - it f
look like the case with us was about up.
I' ll be datswattled if I know what to -ed-
vise you to do. Put Bryan on the head,
end of the ticket of course, but the tail
is where the rub comes. . It is giving ine
more concern than my tail did after the
Goeblers pulled it so near off last winter.
I don't think I ever saw the time when
genuine democratic campaign thunder
was so scarce as it is today. You just
can't interest the people with our old lies
any longer, unless it be the nigger domi
nation lies. They seem to bear working -over
more times ; than anything I ever
rnoticed. But we can't work this racket
generally. If , we just could find a nig-.
ger road overseer or a negro J. P. in each
state we'd be in the swim. Imperialism
and trusts might take'a back seat, but we
can't work the nigger racket in but a few
states. I see in North Carolina that-, my
friend Simmons is making things, warm
with 'white supremacy" .argument.
Occasionally a Pop" fires into our . lines
with a few bombs of argument that
threaten to do damage to our works but
we soon get even by hiring a few ' irres
ponsible democrats" to throw a volley of
stale eggs on him. This never fails to
silence a fellow and m ake Jiim seek shel- -ter,
"and in some cases seek it in the dem
ocratic party. It has brought Marion
Butler and Jim Weaver almost into our
camps; at least they have both become
rank fusionists, and the only difference in
a fusionist and a democrat is on the out
side. Boys, I know the prospects for
democatic success this year look rather
gloomy, but whistle anil keep -up your
courage the best you can, and maybe
something will "turn up" in time to save
us. It won't do to surrender. Ypu know
that the democratic rout to hell is the,
shortest by . ten thousand miles and that
there is a saloon at every mile post. I
love you fellows' and I don't want you to
laugh at me for saying so
Boys, I will write you again after the 4
of July Convention : at . Kansas City.' I.
would like to attend the convention per
sonally and have a talk with Gussie Van
Wy ck about the troubles he met with as
stbek holder in the ice trust for I am ex
periencing some ice troubles myself.
A serious state of affairs is taking place
down here in hell that I never anticipa
ted. You remember I once promised all ,.
the democrats that would tell the most
and biggest lies above a certain limit-
I think the minimum was 20,000 that I
would provide a tub of ice water for their
tails to hang in wlien they came down"
here. I didn't think I'd get more than
ten democrats under this offer, but there
is no devil (that's me) if -I havent got
over seven hundred here now demanding
that I carry out my promise, and of
course I'll do it, for I always redeem my
pledges .which has caused several fellows
to throw it up to me that I'm not a dem
ocrat. But here is where the trouble
comes in; you see this tail cooling arrange- :
ment is causing the accumulation of so
much ice that its making me sweat . like
blazes to keep the furnaces hot enough
to do justice to-my cage of Goeblers.
The fight is now on and we must make "
the best of it we can. Gird up your loins
and go for the trusts and imperialism like
a mad -bull after a' red headed book agent.
Try to make the people believe that the
trusts are going tq swallow, the country
hide head and tail. . Tell them that the
tariff breeds trusts and that your, party
will destroy these trusts; :. I'll . give any
democrat in the world a certificate of ex- .
emption from the fires of hell for a hun
dred years if he can think up any bigger
lie than that to tell the people.4 ;
Spread yourselves, boys, ' Make all the
fuss you can, and if. we have to be beat letsj
go down making the most devil of a rack
et that has ever been heard since the world -
began. r. ; .:V.;-.; . : r .
I will write you all a long letter as soon
as I hear from the convention, r
Yours Sincerely'
r-i SATAN DVIU
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