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MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, DUG. 13 ; 3900.
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TO OUR READERS.
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republican
If
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It sometimes happens that you will
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let them
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You know
the average democrat wouldi
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would
almost at the devil before he
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ocratic sheets. .
The fact that the election is over
and
that the republican party has
won a
is no
signal victory over democracy
reason why you should not want to help
encourage the circulation of th; Yellow
Jacket. We will want to win again;
and the best time to prepare fo r war is
in time of peace. Of course the .demo
crats are about dead for the present but
they havn't found it out "yet, so they
will continue to kick up a great deal of
sand during the next four years.
Especially will the mud guns of the
democratic press be very 1 aggressive in
their efforts to malign the policies of
our President. Already they are at
work. The Y. J. will pay its respect to
these and all other fa kes, frauds and
humbugs in its own peculiar 'style.
We have adopted this bi-weekly form
of the Y. J. in order to give up time in
which to thoroughly prepare each article
for print and with a view of making
this bi-weekly the ideal; of republican
papers in the South 'landi
We hope that every readeif of this
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cause of republicanism to com Ay with
the above suggestion, by devot ng a few
spare moments in introducing the Y. J.
to your republican friends wno never
saw the paper. Letvus not neglect our
party papers now that a great victory
has been won. Truly and indeed all
seems well to-day-, . "but 1 remember we
must keep our signal lights 4-burning,
and look ahead for the political dangers
that lurk in forgetf ulness' and j careless
ness. Let lis not turn "back foi ran in
stant. It is not enough to be awake; we
must keep awake. It is not' enougn to
look ahead; we must gp aneaa
ahead. ' '. .-. ..
and keep
Remember the Yellow Tacke
t is not a
local paper, nor the organ of any district
or section, DUt circulates iq - nv
try where the stars and stripes)! float and
is alwavs republican and always Araeri-
uan.
Kentucky Version of
Xittle Boy Blue.
(Parody.)
The republican ballots are covered in
dust
As uncounted in boxes they s ay;
The Goeblers are counting out Yerkes
and Moss,
And counting- in Beckham and R-hea.
Though this Goebellawis not very new,
There were times when elections were
fair,
But this was tef ore our little Boy Blue
Ever tho't of the Governor's Chair.
"Now count me in quick, to his ma-
cmne men ne said,
.''And be careful don't make too much
noise."
And he toddled off to his trundle bed
To dream of his stolen joys.
And while he is dreaming, the National
Song j
Awakens our Little Boy Blue;
But what does he care for the Nation,
so long -
As his friends at the counting prove
true?
Aye, faithful to Little. Boy Blue they
stand,
Each in the same old place ;
And they oil the wheels of this per
jured band
While a demon smile lights each face
And they chuckle while counting the
long, hours through
Not caring to work very fast,
For well they know that Little Boy Blue
Doesn't.want the votes counted as
cast.
But the words of bold Teddy yet thrill
us with hope, .
For his deeds and his words must a
gree, And Beckham will reach the end of
his rope
Ere much more corruption we see.
Little Boy Blue lacks courage and dash,
Though he has quite a cute baby fade,
But the voters refuse to let trundle bed
v. trash
Fill Hon. John Yerke's high place.
Now kind Jody Blackburn of oration
fame,
Go encourage your Little Boy Blue,
Take nurse Jen McCrary,.the precious ,
old dame,
Take South Trimble and Jack Chinn
along too.
And, Jody, pray keep your orations on
tap,
For your crowd may have trouble,
you bet!
The Eleventh District is yet on the map
In spite of your dynamite threat.
C. F. S.
THE DEVIIS LETTER.
Hades, Dec 1, 1900.
To the various wire workers and
schemers of the democratic party in the
United States, Dear Boys: I want to
know if you can inform me as to wnat
it was that struck us on the 6th ' of last
month." It just beats anything that's
happened since I've been in the brim
stone business. I havn't a single
enterprise, foreign or domestic, that
didn't receive more or less damage by
the landslide. Itf fact I will tell you,
confidentially, boys, hell's just about
busted at this writing. Ever since last
July I've been working day and night
building new furnaces and getting
ready for the big rush of victims that I
expected would set in the very day
that the announcement of Bryan's
election was flashed over the wires in
the U. S'., and now here I have half a
million new furnaces .which are as
worthless to me as a commentary on
political honesty would be to a Goebel
democrat. You see I know what
policies would be carried out if Bryan
had won, and had anticipated their
results about as follows: From 'the re
sult of the panic that would have
followed Bryan's election I figured on
getting one hundred thousand recruits,
because you kohw patriotism and
religion stand mighty little show dur
ing ;he prevalence of a national panic.
Holy is the man who can- steadfastly
fix his eyes on heavenly things and
march serenely on while, on every
side, he sees all the; cherished institu
tion of the land sustaining more or less
damage through the influence of a
panic. Not only holy are such men,
but they are mighty scarce. As a
result of the repeal of the Dingley
Tariff nearly half the mills and facto-
lies in your country, would have shut
down, throwing a half million hands
out of employment, and forcing them
to become tramps, vagrants and beggars.
Here I expected a good scoop. The
most Jravorable condition to catch Deo
in order to get them to sell their
s to me is to strike them when they
are hungry. The hungrier' the better.
That's why I had-such a thriving,' busi
ness wnen tne democratic party was
running the U. S. from 1893 to 1897.
That period will go down in history as
one in which the deficit in the stom
achs of the people and - that in the
national Treasury exceeded those of
any other time since governments have
been established amoner men. And I
again want to thank '3 vou for those
deficits. . '
Boys, when I contrast those bodming
times I had under Cleveland with the
dismal little squad - of recruits I'm
getting under McKinley it almost
tempts me to blow out and quit. There
is the Philippines, which, under Bryan's
election, would have been one of the
juiciest plums on the whole tree. Bryan
would have turned over the entire
Philippine shebang to Aguinaldo and
Aggie is just the kind - of a fellow that
would have sent the whole archipelago
to perdition. Being a traitor himself he
would have always kept his people as
ignorant as possible to prevent their
throwing him overboard, and this
would have meant superstition, idolatry
d devilment in general the very
things I desire. But instead of this, Mc
Kinley favors catching Aguinaldo and
spanking him till he respects the U. S.
flag and then giving tnose Fills to under
stand that they've got to use soap on
their dirty hides, learn their A. B. C s
in English, wear some calico instead of
wearing nothing but a tooth brush and
a grin , and you all know these things
will work to my disadvantage among
those heathen. There's Japan as an ex
ample. Before she admitted electricity,
railroads and other great factories of
civilization, I did a thriving business
with her. Now it is so seldom that I
get a Jap that I've forgot how one looks.
There are two classes of people that I
can always depend upon with a certain
ty they are the idle class of a civilized
country and everybody in a heathen
land. That's why Flooked-upon Bryants
election with so much concern. His
policies would have favored both these
conditions with respect to the U. S. and
the Philippines.
But, boys, we must learn to adapt
ourselves to circumstances. While we
can't expect much to come our way
from the national government, let us
keep our hooks on the destinies of the
people in the Southern States. There's
the niggers, who will make up for our
loss of the Fills. By disfranchising the
niggers like the democrats have done in
North Carolina and elsewhere, they
soon will lose both interest and respect
for the government and this will natu
rally cause them to drift off into dissi
pation and crime and then they come to
me. " Can't you see how it works?
Just happened to think about it I
received an invitation the other day
from Bull Pen Simmons of North "Caro
lina to come up there and head a Red
Shirt parade at the inauguration of
Governor Aycock, but my. sense of mor
al dignity and usual inclination for ap
pearing only in respectable society com
pels me to decline the invitation to lead
a parade of North Carolina Red Shirts.
I shall go fishing on that day.
But I am getting lengthy, so I shall
have to bring my letter to a close.
There are several things I wanted to
mention but space, forbids this time.
When I recover a little more from the
effects of that McKinley landslide I'll
tell you what I think caused it. You
see we can write most any old time as
there isn't going to be hardly anything
else to do, except lay a few local plans
and ridicule the administration. How
ever let us profit by our defeat by
searching out our weak places and get
ting ready to make a sweep the next
opportunity that offers.
Hoping that Bryanism, Tillmamsm,
Altgeldism, Goebelism and Cleveland-
ism will all get together and bury all
differences and join hands and hearts
for 1904, I remain, "A little disfigured,
But still ;n the ring," " .
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TJ T-iro n is coirl -- Vf tnaVinor tnnnpv rnt
of his defeat by explaining it at 1 space
rates.
Republicanism has come to stay. It
is endorsed to-day by more people than
ever before.
Those republican polici es continue to
pile the revenues up high and let the
democratic editors down hard.
Not being able to detect any" serious
flaw in the President's message the crit
ics are harping because of" its length.
Senator Pettigrew is not altogether
satisfied with the obvious determination
of both parties to let him flock by 'him
self.
Here is the history of Jthe democratic
party in six words: "Founded by Jeffer
son, foundered by Bryan."
Some men are still such rabid Bryan-
ites that they wouldn't accept prosperity
if you were to dump a car load at their
door free gratis ,
Connecticut was too haughty to ac
cept one of the powerful new coast de
fense, monitors as a namesake, but Ne
vada took it thankfully. It is just a
bout Nevada's size, you know.
You are missing a regular political
campmeeting every issue if you are not
a reader of the Yellow Jacket. It makes
the fur fly in every direction 26 times in
a year for 50 cents.
If it should, happen that there was to
be too many democratic babies to name
them all Bryan their daddies might
supply .the deficiency bynaming a few
Aguinaldo.
"Our dead are buried along the sands
of Luzon, and on its soil no foreign flag
shall evei salute the dawn.. Our way
is new, but it is not dark. We seek, only
to lift up men to better tilings: to bless
and not to destroy." v -
It's enough to induce outbursts of
laughter from a blind horse to 1 hear
such papers as the New York World
insinuating rthat the republicans are a-
bout to create : a deficit in the National
Treasury by excessive appropriations.
The governor of - West Virginia put
three verses of poetry m his. Thanks
giving proclamation and got ; them
printed in the state papers. Here is ";a
chance for poets to get their efforts
published.' Lei them just become
governors. - ' :" - '.. : .; - ? .-
There are about three kinds of repub-
lickns in the party. For instance there ,
is the republican who neither says nor
does much: the one who does but little
and says much about it and the one who
does much and says but little about it.
Reader, where do you stand?
You can't tell what a woman will dp. ,
A Wyoming candidate for Congress de
clared that the woman vote was easy . to
get, easy to keep and easy . to; manipu
late. The women turned out on elec
tion day and now the much discom fud
dled ex-candidate is wondering" 'what
struck him. -
Seven and a half million letters went
to the dead letter office last 'year, an.
increase of over ten per cent" over the
preceding year. Americans must be
getting very absent , minded in their
correspondence or else all the ' fools , in
the whole country have turned loose to
writing letters;
; The Chicago Tribune has figured; out
that Bryan ran behind the party's can
didates for governor in Illinois, Indiana,
Minnesota, Kansas, Michigan, New .
York and nearly all of the Southern
States. Perhaps this was caused by old
man Adlai's being n the ticket. He is
said to be afflicted with a chronic case of
"running behind." ': ;v .
it-
Expand and expend,". says a demd-
cratic paper, 'is the policy of ' Pur gov
ernment." We'd like to know what is
inconsistent about that. A business that
don't expand isn't worth a tinker's dam,
and one that expends without expanding
is going down hill and a thing that ex-,
pands wothout expending is nothing but
a stump-sucker. - .' :-. -.' -
The outlook is not so favorable to
man being the ascendant animal. Ac
cording to the Denver Post, a , learned
German professor claims to have made
the discovery that man existed on
earth before .the mojnkeappearedi It
may yet be discovered that the -monk
ey is the connecting link between - the
original man and the present day dude.-
If any of our , readers contemplate
buying an organ .we advise , them to
write to Cash Buyer's" Union for their
catalog. We have one of their Kenwood
Parlor Organs and pronounce it a dandy;
They sell pianos, organs, violins, banjos,
cameras, grajHiophones; etc., etc. See
their ad. elsewheref. This is no paid
puff.
"The young woman," says the New
York' Press, "who pays an election bet .
by riding a wild bull has appeared.
This is the strenuous feminine life with
a vengeance. In all the comment there
seems to be no note of pity or sympa
thy, for the unfortunate animal. In
these days of progress such inhumanity
is disheartening." " V
The assurance of a 30 million dollar
reduction iri war taxes at an early 1 date
punches another big hdle in the demo,- -cratic
schooner below the water. lineV.
During the campaign -Bran, ' Altgeld,
Tillman,K Pettigrew, Croker &..Cot,
pointed to the war tax a5 Sne of the.
twin brothers of "imperialism" that
was to remain indefinitely. ' '
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Marv "RIImt Ta.cu t-cfTO"h1owf?-'
COat txiotllist -Oolitioistti rf TTatteac Viad
carried politics so far that she has now .
applied tor a divorce from her husband,.
On the STOUnds of tinn- siinnnrt Old
man Lease,'it is said. wiU not contest. -We
dont blame him: A woman that
will forsake home and all its . pleasures
ana sweetness and go -tearing over the
.- j j- MAMAiMg rvxiuvui wcuvtj w
crowds of wild-eyed calamity howlers
than a pole cat: has with -Va bottle of
Hoyt's cologne - - , . 7
You mie-ht as well exnect to fatten a -
fan mill by running oats thru it, or 1
choke a'hurierv hound 011 fresh hntter
as to expect the .. democrats to approve .
ca.ujrujii.ug IcpUUUWUS limy.. 'MJ i ii -
ConTeS55. ; The N"w Vnrlr WnrW is -
bout to vank off its trallna hnf trn'1rirV-
ing up because it regards the proposed
reaucuon 01 taxation unjust on tne.
grounds that it will not reduce duties
on 'wdol.'"tin Tlat. iron. . Vtf
The past two. selections have demon
strated; that the people have . no more
use for the ree wool" .'doctrine than a
onereyed herring has for a 'map of the
New- - Terusal em . However -r on e -ccni
achieve as v much success in Vtryinr to
MaH'tti. ma..'!.. .t..-.i:.
uacac uuc iuuuu uy&uuuung nrecracners
at' her as in trvinc to divorre ? - frQ .
trader from his idols. '
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