. j i - - A a - - ICV WAV WEEKLY ED ITION. VOL. VI. MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, OCT. 4, 3900. . . ; . . . ' . ' ' ' . NO;26.vn - ? . . . : . ' . " i ; i . . THE YELLOW-JACKET WEEKLY & MONTHLY. B. DON LAWS, - EDITOR. WEEKLY, ONE YEAR,.... 50 SIX MONTHS, MONTHLY, ONE YEAR,. . . CASH ALWAYS IN ADVANC Entered at Moravian Falls, N. CJ as second class matter. INSTRUCTIONS. Silver preferred to Postage Stajnps on subscriptions. - Remittances of silver of small slims ,.r v,( rrmrlf with comoarative safet iorv letters, usiner erood envelopes! Amounts above fifty cents it would; be well to send by egisterea ierter. P. O. Money Orders are better still, must be drawn on Wilkesbbro, N. C. as Moravian Falls is not a Mdney Order office. whptr writinc to have our pape changed you must give your former as jvell as your new aaaress. AU.avs write vour own name and dress plainly, and direct all your letters to Tim Yellow-Jacket, Moravian Falls, 1ST. C. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. Thursday, Oct. 4, 1900. GIT A HUMP ON! Look Here, Brother : If you not already a subscriber to the Yellow Jacket, consider tnis copy an invitation to become ojne. Read this paper over and if you like it, send us 50 cents for - a years subscription. You will f nd the Y. J. a warm article. Its bus iness end registers 200 degrees in the shade. This paper each wek 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 the great party of Lincoln, Gra 6f at,. Garfield and McKinle j, we will Via fnnnrJ contending cfor fair play, and for the rights ,nd liberties of the people, and wag ing an unrelenting battle agaiast the devil and the so-called Demo cratic garty. We don't only w int you tobecome a subscriber, but we also should be pleased to h ive you do a little missionary work a -mong your Republican friends. You can reach those whom we cannot. Take a Y. 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Let the band may Republicanism. " OTJR TICKET. I HHMM-NOM- I By the way, what is Adlai doing for Bryanism? Is he only to play a thinking part? The Bryanite yowling shows that Senator Hanna has been landing his blows on sore spots. V anted : Another paramount issue. In haste. Apply to . . f J. Bryan, Lincoln, Nebraska If Lieutenant Hobson has a true friend he-should send him a two word telegram Don't talk. By the way, where did Croker get the $20,000 he bet on Bryan? Was it from the ice trust? ' Well, anyhow, one knows al ways where Mr. Bryan is to be found on every question. He i always opposed to "things." Aguinaldo has been sufficient ly bamboozled by Mr. Bryan's promises to come out of hiding and again personally direct the insurgents. It . seems that Col. Bryan didn't make more money from his oat crop than he paid for the land. He only made half as much. Democratic oratory at present zigzags amongst the issues to such an extent that it can only be described as rag-time elo quence. Senator Wellington says that he is a Bryan republican. We have heard of Popocrats and other parlous beasts but Bryan republicans are new ones to us. Practical prosperity is shown by the fact that all the colleg es, universities, and technical schools of the country haye the largest attendance in their history. Of course the Philippines are remote, but they are not more so than was San Francisco or even St. Louis, fifty years ago. Steam has annihilated distance. Probably, as Mr. Bryan only wants one term as President, he believes that he can wipe out the octopuses and the gold standard together in four short years. The Kansas bank which went out of business because there were not enough bor- rowers, to make it profitable furnished ; an extraordinary object lesson on prosperity. Congressman Fowler, of N. J. says MfcKinley and Roosevelt will caiiry the State by from 40,000 to 50,000 majori ty. "Yet ' that is one of the States the Bryanites are claim ing. If the claim of the democratic National Committee, that it has no money, is true, it is buncoeing a lot of men into furnishing it large quantities of campaign literature for noth ing, r Gongressman Hitt, of 111., Chairman of the House Com mittee on Foreign Affairs, made a bull's eye when he said : "The flag of the U. S. fertilizes every foot of land over which it waves. The fact that there are plenty of men willing to run for Gover nor of Kentucky shows that the bravery of that common wealth has not declined, what ever may have happened to its civilization. Colonel Bryan says that he will not ask for a second term in the white House. If the voters of the country do their duty, he will never be in a po sition to ask for a second one. Mr. O. F. Williams, , who was U.S. Consul-General at Manila when the Philippines belonged to Spain, is doing effective stumping for McK-inley and oosevelt. He calls Mr. Bryan pessimism. Instead of putting forth a lot of epigrams and glittering gen eralities in order to bewilder the reader, the President, in his letter of acceptance, states all the facts at issue clearly and distinctly. It is a case of solid sense against sound and fury, signifying nothing. The democrats are now re joicing over their recent victory in Luzon. Oom Paul probably feels hurt because he got too much sympathy from the United States to permit time for advice when to drop out of the game. There is little doubt that Croker has been promised control of New York federal patronage if Bryan shall win. This, of itself, is enough to damn the Colonel. No can didate heretofpre has ever gone so far as tomakesueh a bargain with such a man. The President has practically given a specific ple'dge that the stamp taxes shall be' reduced at the next session of Congress. Heretofore, it .would have been "if decidedly risky to cut these down, for , no one could tell what might happen in the dis turbed state , of - affairs abroad. Talk ' about Imperialism ! What is Croker's control of Tammany from - his country seat in Great Britain except Im perialism? No absentee em peror could have exercised a more despotic sway than did the great boss during his two and a half years of . absence from the United States. f Judge Powers, of Utah, is to be congratulated if t be true that he has refused to accept the tricky appointment of the acting governor to the Senate. In any event, his credentials will stand on the same basis as those of Mr. Quay, whose claim was rejected in accordance with a long line of precedents. The feelings of the democrats towards Grover Cleveland are mixed, nowadays. They- don't like him a little bit, but then if he is coming back to Bryan, why, things will be different. Meanwhile, the average demo crat is waiting to make up his mind whether to whoop for or at Mr.' Cleveland. Now Webster Davis is cir cumstantially charged with having received fees from the Transvaal government not on ly since but before he left the government service and even before he went to South Africa. In fact, the latest revelations put Mr. Davis in a rather ugly light, and explanations from lim are certainly in order. . : VWhy didn't the administra tion put its corp of hypnotists to work during the past summer to make people think that they were cool? The democrats say that these have made the coun try think itself prosperous when it is not, and surely it would be a little thing to alter a mere detail of thermometer by the same means. It is a curous incident of the two or three most important flops to the democrats that all of the flopfcers feel called upon to apologize for their flopping. They do not triumph in their act ; in fact, they are evidently distinctly ashamed of it. On the other hand; the democrats who have flopped to republican ism are all happy in their acts This fairly represents the difference between the two parties. The democrats charge that the report of the Taft Com mission is a republican cam paign document. It is the mis fortune of the democrats that all news of prosperity, of Ameri can triumphs at home and abroad, and of the return of peace and the growth of com merce, are republican campaign documents. It is most singular that the Bryanites will not only admit this; b&it attempt to base a charge against the r epiib- licans on it. 4 WHO IS MARK HANNA? Who is this Marcus Hanna, pa - - That people call him great? . -. r : ; Is he the man who holds the helm Which guides the ship of state? Is he like old Goliath tall Like some steeple in the sky, " : Or, is he that awful wicked man Who winks the other eye? Tut, tut, my son, he's just a man Like good old Ruben Blue, Who has his way of doing things, And "knows a thing or two!" But why does Br-an hate him so, - And Popocrats berate? v Is it because he's old and slow, .- And isn't up to date? Oh, no, 3T son, you bet your life He's not so very slow, For when his shoulder's to the wheel The cart is bound to go. x The reason why the Popocrats Now tremble at his name, Is 'cause h'e did it to 'em onCe An's goin' to do the same Again this fall, and bury deep Bill Brvan and his host In some dark place where T agal clan- Forever more will roast, ' Where boiling oil, bolos and spears And Aguinaldos dwell - A place, my son, so hot and bad, . Its name I must not tell. S. L. G Col. Bryan has had the nerve to state that there- would have been no rebellion if the Bacon resolution promising the same terms to the Filipinos that the United 'States had promised to the Cubans, had been adopted. Surely Mr. Bryan knows that the rebellion began' before the treaty -was ratified and before the Bacon resolution was even voted on. Men whose earning- capacity . has been largely increased are 4 not likely to kick because their needs cost more ; they know that the price of labor cannot . be increased without a corres ponding increase in the pro ducts of labor. Many things were cheap four years ago, but labor was the cheapest of all, and even at the low prices paid work was hard to find. Now. work is hunting for labor everywhere. To prove that a: portion of the democratic party is retro- . grading into a gang of buzzards, polecats and serpents one only has to read the report of the manner, in which a herd of .'. rowdy scoundrels treated Gover nor Roosevelt at Victor, Col., last Wednesday. The Gover nor attempted to make a speech there on the great issue of the day, but was forced to leave the platform by a shower of rotten eggs stones andj sticks from those cussed wretches who were yelling Bryan, Bryan like some escaped fiends from hades. It seems that there is no rank of , republicans that is exempt from . these dirty damnable assaults. We hope to see the time when sucli 4 rowdyism will get just what it deserves. We have al ways contended for the prin ciple of fair play. Give every man and all parties a fair hear ing. Men who don't favor i air play, dob't ''deserve to live a mong j ackals , much less r civi lized men.