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MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 3 90p.
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TO OUR READERS
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lm-
provement on the Yellow Jacket
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soon after. Each issue will then
contain about twice the reading
matter that it now contains and
everything will be either the prod
uct of our own pen or of "Eli
Pucker's," with occasionally
letter from "Old Nick" jusje to
show how he stands. We
hope
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skirmish 'round and get us up
one or more subsjby that time. It
don't make any difference what
your i)olitics is, you will enjoy the
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Y. J. buzz.
Remember the Yellow Jac: set is
not a local paper nor the organ of
any district or section , but Circu
lates over all the states and advo
cates only Republican doctr
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EDITORIAL SQUIBS.
Do Pettigrew and Welling
ton know where they are at?
Possi bly. Mr. Atkinson will
now cease to see things.
Great is democracy but
Bryan and Croker are its hoo-
doos .
Bryan still insists that a
majority of the, voters were
deceived about the issues.
Batavia, 111., is entitled to a
medal. The town did not give
the democratic ticket a single
vote.
What about your becoming
an Agent for the Yellow Jack
et? Read further particulars
elsewhere.
Jerry Simpson says "4ie's
disgusted with the populists,
but didn't they get disgusted
with Jerry first?
Those who were sure that the
people would never reelect
another President are keeping
very quiet just now.
That traitorous utterances are
punished by the public was
shown by the defeat of Senator
Pettigrew and Representative
Lentz.
There is no probability that
Mr. Bryan will have to break
his promise not to go to Senate
from Nebraska. The State will
have two republican Senators.
Makincr paramount issues to
order is one thing ; getting the
voters to accept these issues is
quite another. If you don't
elieve it ask Bryan.
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Cheer up, brother democrats.
By failure you may succeed. It
really wasn't you but Bryan
that the voters wanted to
hammer on the 6th.
Mr. Bryan has not quite
made up his mind whether he
wants a third battle or not, but
the chances are that he does.
Whether the democrats will be
so besotted as to give it to him
is another thing.
In calling attention to the
fact that he is still a young
man did Mr. Bryan mean t o
serve notice on other would-be
candidates ot his party that he
would still be in the ring in
1904?
South Carolina has 100,000
registered white voters, but the
total vote of the State in the
Presidential election was not
half that many, which indi
cates that Mr. Bryan's isms
are not popular . in that State.
The democratic donkey seems
to be trying to get his nose out
side of the free silver nosebag,
but it is doubtful whether he
will succeed. "The ox knoweth
his master's stall and the ass
his crib."
PERSONAL.
as previously seated, we in
tend, within the siext month,
to effect a complete change in
the schedule of . the Yellow
Jacket, whereby we will give
our readers a paper, each issue
of which will be much better
than anything we have ever
given before, besides the print
will be improved and each
copy will contain more than
A. 90
twice the reading matter we
now give,- the most part of
which will be original write-up
by the editor himself. In
view oi tms improvement, we
desire to also double the present
circulation of the Yellow Jack
et as soon as possible, and in
order to do this, speedily, we
want at least five thousand
local agents to take subscriptions
for us. We will allow a com
mission that will" pay you hand
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mean business, ;give us. your
address, enclosing a two cent
stamp to pay postage, and we
will mail you an agent's outfit
at once. This agency need
not interfere with your r egular
business, but will enable you to
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Commission Card, sample
coDies. etc. Write at once if
A. '
you are interested. There's
money in it for you. Do you
want it ?
The Commercial - Appeal,
since the defeat of Bryanism,
has flopped, coming out square
ly on the side of sound money
and expansion. This is a
move in which we are sure the
C-A. has the approval of its
conscience.
Of course, we are not in the
democratic councils but we are
willing to bet that the next
platform of that disorganization
will "recognize the fact that,
etc," instead of "hereby re
affirming, etc."
Senator Wellington will not
find the remainder of his term
a pleasant experience, but it
will doubtless be his last appear
ance in public life as Maryland
is pretty securely anchored in
republican waters and republi
cans never forget renegades.
Here's Gen. Joe Wheeler's
explanation of the McKinley,
landslide : "There are two
things the American people
reverence first, their God, and
second, their flag. A word a-
gainst either will bring down
their condemnation. There
never was a President defeated
for election who had conducted
a successful war."
The reason for the confidence
of Chairman Stone in the
election of Bryan has leaked
out. Governor Stone kept red
liquor on tap at his rooms in
New York, and the boys found
out that they could always get
a drink by reporting that
Bryan was to have a landslide.
Altho imperialism and 16 to
1 are so dead they smell to
high heaven, the information
comes to the people from demo
cratic headquarters that this
brace of "paramount issues
will continue to be jammed up
under their noses for the next
four years.
Four years hence, we feel free
to predict that Hon. Carl
Schurz will take the stump to
remark that the country has
escaped up to then by some
. , i i x.
miracle, but that if it does not
use his patent elixir, it cannot
long survive. He told Lincoln
that some thirtv odd vears ao.
If the national irrigation Con-
gress, which is to meet in
Chicasro this month, could onlv
convince the people of the
profitableness of spending more
money in irriga ting land and
less in the alcoholic ir rigation
of throats, it would accomplish
a great and lasting good to the
country.
It is always difficult to reor-
ganize a party. No doubt if
the democrats were to elect
delegates to a national convent-
ion now they would choose men
who would repudiate Bryanism,
but they will not have a cfiance
to do this for four years. Until
then the party must - remain
under the direction of its
present national committee and
the Kansas City platform will
stand for its declaration of
principles. It is often easier
to start a new party than to re -
model an old one.
Under its present arrange-
ment the Yellow Jacket doesn't
afford room for much of the
matter we would like to publish,
in the shape of letters from our
subscribers, but after a few
weeks we shall remedy this
drawback and then we will be
glad to have short, pointed
letters from any of our sub-
scribers, who may wish to
write us. We have now several
letters we would print but for subscription to the Yellow Jack
the fact that no name accom- et and telling us to give the
panys the article. Don't fly off democrats "hot stuff" a3 it
the handle because your letters -would tickle him, that he was a
haven't appeared. There's a
chance for your articles yet.
The democratic organ of
Russell county Virginia was
wrought up to such a pitch of
enthuiasm when it learned that
the democratic candidate for
Congress carried that county by
a small majority, that it adorn-
ed its entire front page with
rooster after the election. And
such crowing! It seems to think
that Russell county is the whole
thing and part of what s left of
the other thing. Not - " content
with an ordinary proclamation
of victory it had its "unconquer
ed" cock to ascend the peak of
a lofty mountain and pour out
the glad tidings until the sum
mits around echoed with the
happy pean, and to add defiance
to the proceedings, this ob
streperous bird then rasped one
spur across the other and split
the bark on a pine tree ten feet
from the ground. We presume
that this Virginia, sheet hasn't
vet learned that- almost .the
entire earth want Republican
on the 6th inst ? go we take tMs
method to impart the informa-
tion. Yes, Mr, Bausell, not
only the earth, but almost the
entire solar system went republi
can with the velocity of lightning
on a greased wire, the only thing
a c r a rnnrr f.Tia 1 o n rl si l rl A hAinC fl.
r . t a aww
few counties m the Red Shirt
belts of the south where the
nigger votes are all counted for
democracy, W a few western
towns sucn as tnose m uoiorauu
wThere a Bryan mob rotten-eged
Governor Roosevelt. Yes, sir,
McKinlev spurred Brvan a
a
plague of a sight deeper than
your rooster did the pine tree on
"Old Clinch Mountain."
We notice that Tom Bost,
the South River correspondent
to the Salisbury Daily Truth-
Index, in a recent issue of that
paper, pays his respects to the
xellow Jacket by classing it as
a "little boot blacking rag up
here at Moravian Falls." He
also calls attention to the fact
that we applied the words of a
dead democratic editor to Bryan,
just as tho it were a crime
before high heaven for a man
to use at random, a few scatter-
ing words form some speaker
or author without . bristling
them with quotation marks.
Not satisfied with squirting
several gobs of cheap ridicule
at the Yellow Jacket,! this
brilliant young jassack then
offers a personal insult to each
of our thirty thousand readers
by suggesting that "all idiots
should take the paper because
few sensible people do."
Acting upon his own advice
that "all idiots should take the
Y. J." this budding gosling
sat down the next day after
writing to the Truth-Index and
wrote us a letter enclosing his
Democrat but not so stingy "
that he could not enjoy a joke
at his own expense. It i3 no
uncommon thing to hear men
declare other people idiots and
fools, but this is the first case
iu which we ever knew a man
to testify that he was an idiot.
However we will not be hard
on Mr. Bost this time because
we believe that the Yellow,
Jacket taken in weekly doses
for six months will prove a
thorough cure vr the disease '
with which, he is suffering.