BOM
a-.ToTiintrriityv's Deplorable,
Plight."
Under the above hejading
the Charlotte Observer pays
the following" beautiful
tribute over the remains of
the late defunct democratic
party. It is well worth the
reading of it:
The pitiful plight to
which the once prouc. and
victorious democratic party
has been reduced, could not
be better illustrated than by
the statement that the whole
of its strength in the elector
al college derived from last
week's election, is found in
eleven Southern States and
four Western -otten
boroughs: Colorado, Idaho,
Montana and Nevada. It
has not even held the solid
South in which were former
ly included Maryland and
West Virginia, now as in
1896 gone for McKinley.
New Jersey, so staunchly
democratic that evn in
1864, when the passidns of
war were highest, it gave
its electoral vote to Mc
Cellan, democrat, in prefer
ence to Lincoln, Republican,
has slipped away. Kansas,
Nebraska, South J)z kota,
Utah, Washington and
Wyoming, which '3ryan
.carried in 1896, have gone
for McKinley, and in return
for them the democrats
have only Kentucky, which
McKinley lost four years ago
and which the republicans
claim he carried this year
on an honest ballot but
which will be counted a
gainst them under the Goe-
bel election law. Outside of
the South the dem
will have only 13 vo
the electoral college when it
next meets, We have
slap
ped the old-time conbina
tion New York; New
Jersey, Connecticut and
Indianain the face and
have swapped their 67
electoral votes for the 13
from Colorado, Idaho;
Montana and Nevada, in
addition to losing the
Maryland and West
ginia, and the 3 of
ware, heretofore a
cratic State and pr
14 of
Idemo-
perly
accounted a Southern State.
since it is on this side of
Mason and Dixon's
The South is now
line,
com.
pletely at the mercy of Con-
.!
gress, wnicn nas not since
1868 been so heavily republi
can. In the worst days that
this section has seen since
the civil war .there has
always been some Northern
benator some Kiernah, Mc
Pherson, Thurman, Pfendle-
ton or Vorhees to
a word in its defence.
the 4th of next March
will not be one.
speak
After
there
. And this is the condition
to which the national demo-
- 4-2 i i I
o. uariv nas ten r.
dn -x A - ' . a I
uuv-cu consider the facts
and answer the question if
is not time for the Jdemo-
cratic masses to' take
it
bcrats
ies- in
matters in their? own hands t
hurl their j hair-brained
"leaders" from authority,
again officer the party with
men of approved capacity
and go to battle the next
time with a democratic can
didate on a democratic
platform.
This, of course, is, an ex
pression from one of demo
cracy's own congregation,
and we suppose as mild
terms as possible are used
in thus funeralizing over the
late departed, but an "out
sider," as we, "might think
of a lot of other things which
might be added with great
aptitude as bearing on this
particular subject. There
cannot be too much pains
taken in the selection of
"other leaders" not only
as to their "capacity" but
also as to their integrity.
The party has narrowed
down to al most the ' point
where they have to go in
with uprolled sleeves and
take by force what they get.
It is very much as Mr.
Aycock put it, "we have
ruled bv force we can rule by
fraud," and the time has
about arrived when, if they
are to get any control at all
they must get it either by
force or by fraud. These
methods might work in
some distant island beyond
the pale of civilization, but
m this enlightened country
it will not go. And the
longer democracy depend s
upon such methods for its
success, let -its leaders be
who they may, the worse it
will be for the democratic
party. We will not say
more here lest we detract
from what the Observer has
already said. Union Republican.
Election Note .
It's amusing to read the
democratic papers now and
hear them tell how it was
the land slid the other way.
Some of them take up four
columns to tell how it
happened. It's dead easy.
About 10 years ago thous
ands of democrats in
different parts of the Union
became tired of bossing and
ring rule and walked out of
the party and set up shop of
their own. The old party
floundered round and com
menced to trim and steal the
platform of the bolters and
traitors, as they called them
They nominated Bryan to
kill the Populist party, and
killed their own party.
Bryan took sids with Goe
bel and would not condemn
redshirtism in North Caro
lina. He lobbied the
United States Senate 5nce
too often. He left the finan
cial question to catch the
gold element and caught the
devil. In a nutshell the
Populists to a man Refused
to vote for Bryan on the 6th.
The democrats are not all
fools and pie hunters. The
great mass of that element
who carry the brains " and
cash of the old democratic
party walked in at the front
door and voted for McKinley.
When the smoke cleared
away the democratic party
and Bryan .were found to be
too' dead to skin. That's
all that's in it People's
Paper,
Older Tliau The World.
Everybody has been sup
posed to know that the
world was created 4. 004
years before the Christian
era, hence that it is now
just 5, 904 years old. There
can be no doubt about it, for
chronological annals, tables,
and charts have been pub
lished in all sorts of forms
and sizes in which ''Creation
of the world 4, 004 B. C."
heads the long list of events,
including the Deluge and the
Destruction of the Temple,
down to the election of the
last President of the United
States previous to the date
of publication. There are
chroniclers who gave the
hour of the day on whic h
the work of creation was
finished and the history of
the world began, but this
was carrying the thing a
little too far. Unquestiona
ble authority res ted with
the year of the creation be
ing 4, 004 B. C.
Now comes a Pennsylvania
archaeologist with the asser
tion tat some thousands of
years before that time there
was a flourishing civili na
tion; that at Nippur, seventy
miles south of Bagdad,
there was a mighty city,
with an immense temple to
the god Bel, and a vast
library, two or three thou
sand years before Adam and
Eve made their appearance
in the Garden of Eden. What
is more, he says he has the
books to prove it. The
books themselves, volumes,
or rather -tablets, of baked
clay, were thumbed by the
Nippur students many hun
dreds, some of them thou
sands, of years before Cain
and Abel were of kindergar
ten age. Evidently the
accepted chronology which
places the. origin of the hu
man race less than 6,000
years ago is wholly at fault,
or Prof. Herman V. Hil
precht, of the University of
Pennsylvania, has misread
the clay records he dug up
at Nippur.
The professor has just
returned to Philadelphia
from another year's work of
excavating the enormour
mound at which he has been
for several years digging at
the instance of the Universi
ty of Pennsylvania and sub
scribers to the exploration
fund. This year has given
the most astounding results
of all in the discovery of the
great temple library. The
work of previous years
showed that a high state of
civilization existed there
3,000 years B. C, and there
were indications of still
higher antiquity. This year
he went still deeper, and
among other discoveries
found an immense building,
over 600 feet long on the
front and buried beneath
ninety feet of rubbish,
There were at least two
stories , with little windows
for air, but not for light.
The" houses, he concluded,
were used. tor sleeping
purposes, and business was
transacted in the open air.
dr'
From the indications and
the objects found, playthings
for children, &c, he believed
the building could not be
later than 4 00 years B.C.
that is to say, when by
accepted chronology the
world was only four years
old.
jrurtner exploration re-
vealed part of the great
temple library, an immense
A.
collection of clay volumes , ' '
the most recent of which
was not later than 2,200
B. C, and the more ancient
date back far beyond any
knowledge, actual or tradi
tional, previously possessed
of the world's history. The
tablets found in the royal
library of Nineveh, which
date about 600 B. C,
but modern editions of
were
the
ancient temple library at
Nippur, the volumes of
which were thousands of
years older.
Prof. Hilprecht says the
tablets contained gram
matical sentences, written
half a dozen times, as by a
pupil practicing upon them.
Then there were lists of
words for chairs, stools, and
other articles; lists of words
of animals, birds, or plants.
There were the grammatic
al and arithmetical and as
tronomical literature of the
Babylonians. In addition to
these were lists of the kings
of dynasties following each
other and the years of their
reign and what the king did
each year. There were
large numbers of astronomi
cal, astrological, and my
thological tablets and
beautifut hymns, as well as
a large number of historical
tablets. There was prac
tically every branch of
literature known to the
Babylonians represented in
that library. Cleveland
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