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let ns
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anarchy, unfair election laws Bryanism,
GoebeJism, and all the rest of the yisnis
and unfair policies that the democrats
glory in endorsing. The Yellow Jacket
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cy, and now. if you will listen, it desires
to talk to you with the wisdom of years
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ing you to your neighbor who does. If
you are a republican of the true faith we
know you can't object to doing this
much for a paper that has been t attling
for your rights from the 1 time it was
founded in those dark days -of Free-Trade
and free soup in i8g5-'Q7. I
We insist on every republican sucking
to his party papers. It sometimes hap
pens that you find, men professing to be
republicans who take nothing butdemo
cratic papers. Such men are on the broad
highway to political ruin. t Don't let
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see things as they are: You kt ow the
average democrat would see us at .the
devil almost before hewould su bscribe
for a republican paper to the exclusion
of democratic sheets - It is alwfys the
truth" that stings and the Yellow Jacket
lets its chips fall where they wl 1 it is
no respector of persons. If you are such
a republican 'as we want you to be, you
can't keep the paper to yourself when it
falls into your hands. You'll rant to
go straightway and tell the goc d news
to others. - I -
We want to make the Yellow Jacket
the "warmest baby" that ever happened,
and we desireto begin nowi Tx e Y. J.
is one of our most cherished drea n chil
dren and'we couldnt discard her if we
would. We nursed her when for weeks
the only signs of life about her w ere the
few whisperings that came to us (That
paper will soon peter,' and many other
like words of encouragement from out
loving neighbors. But now, a fewj things
have changed. We number our subscri
bers by the thousands to-day. . Tpe Yel
low Jacket leads all papers m North Car
olina in circulation and all republican
papers in the entire South. In Lhe be
ginning we carried every blessed copy
we printed to the postoffice in our coat
pockets. Once .we kept soul and body
together on the strength of our piisfor
tunes. Now we trot our new. baby . on
our knee with no thought of the duEs
that may come pouring into ' us tomor
row.. When one of our subscribers pro
nounces us too tough and sends our lit
tle sheet back ornamented with 'refus
ed" marked on the outside cover, we
simply say "you go to" and the tlibught
of his going doesn't disturb us for weeks
as it used to did. ' - I ,
Now in conclusion of this chat let us
urge all our friends to help us gst this
thing in the handsof all the republicans
that we can. Let all who have' feasted
with the republicans and starved with
the democrats get a regular oct
on and let's push this taperi: -
nump 1
We propose to olf er the Yellow
'Jacket
at 25cts-ayear in club! of lour. ;
as many of your neighbors to go
So get I
n with
you as possible atid pet the paper at
25cts. We make this offer ; indefinitely;
It is our desire to place the price Jof the
paper so low that all may be 'enabled to
take it, but we must have as -miich x as
?5cts out of each t 2-month' subrdription
in order to get a living out of thtf paper.
Remember the" Yello w Jacket is pot a
local paper nor the organ of-any klistrict
or section but circulates in every country
wuere tne
always re
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stars and stripes, float ana is , w l' , t-i li was passed around uncermonious-1 w w MVS v j f s s -1
puDiicaxi ana always American. r-C' -r n r-: A- - tr :r:;r..--: vvr:., .;- .-r.'.' " -
EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
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The democrjits continue to put in a
good deal of their time "viewing with
alarm." .-
. Bryan ha9 been up in ihe
"enemy's
country." making republican
Go it,. Billy. ; ;
votes.
Cleveland and Bryan I are both
wreckers. Cleveland wrecked his jpar
ty and Bryan wrecked ihe wreck;
Another "paramount issue for de
mocracyWhiskey has advanced . one
cent on the gallon. Arise,Pemocrats.
To arms. To arms.
Some of the dems are
xne surplus, out iney never gave
body a chance to do anything
that when they were in power.
any
like
The worst trust tbat ever existed
was the trust that the people put in
the democratic party, but thanks be to
Grover, he busted that.
If Bryan is a populist as the Hill-
lies ciaim anu 111 and Cleveland are
republicans as the Bryanites assert,
then yhere in the deuce, does the dein
ocratic party come in?
Five years of Dingley Tariff and the
earth continues to revolve on its axle
tree; business booms; and the free
soup wagon remains quietly housed
in the democratic lumber house. May
she stay there. - ;
The democratic party made William
J. Bryan and now Mr. Bryan contin
ues to un-make the democratic "party.
His influence in the ranks of the party
is recognized by the . more sagacious
leaders as a certain cause of defeat. -
' Republicanism haa punched so many
holes in the Kansas City and Chi
cago platforms that the dems don't
want to claim them. Their course in
many of their, state "platforms indicate
a desire no uooge or straddle.
Senator Foraker said recently that
the spirit of "true Americanism"
which Theodore Roosevelt "breathed
in with the air of the western prairies"
doubtless accounted for ) his wide
spread popularity with the American
people. - : '.
The Rolla, Mo. Sharpshooter de
clares that "A Cleveland democrat is
a very good Roosevelt republican. "
These wild-eyed, free-silver-or-bust
Bryanites have repeated this sort of a
lie so long and so .often that we verily
believe that they - think it is the truth.
Under the provisions of the McKin
ley bill and of the Dingley bill the
industries of the United States have
reached a point where, instead of com
paring them with those of some other
nation, we , naturally s compare them
with those of all the rest of the world.
The ' Yellow Jacket would rather
trust a man who wears pants witn
patches on the knees as big as " your
hand than a dude who shines out in
line clothes, parts his hair in the mid
dle and wears a collar so high that he
has to gefon a stump to spit.
Except in those places iwhere more or
less fighting-, is going on t daily, the
Philippine islands are said to be corn-
pletely pacified. Milwaukee News,
Yes, and except in those places - where
the democratic party is too dead to
raise a racket, it is helping - the "Fills
to carry on this Philippine ." warfare. ' ?
In instituting acomparison between
itself and the Hon. William Jennings
Bryan, .formerly, a recognized demo
cratic leader, the Indianapolis ' Senti
nel says:: "The ; Sentinel has always
beenv a bimetallist, but never a r
fool." This is probably what Senator
Bailey, of Texas would consider an
insult. : ' ,u - -
The ''Memphis, Term:,. News says it
is anxtoua to Know wno is to oe tne
TntnrA keener of " the'elephaht. .He'll
future Keeper . or,. u yeyuauu. aemoniuux rwguo , .r -1, j.fi,i . " I
bl e yourself . about that, Mr. News ,
and the' chances- are that when.he gets
done slamming, you around next No
vember you won't know the difference
between the keeper and a box of axle
grease. . , ' v
ClubxRates.
The regular'price of the Yellow Jacket
is -uj cents- a year. - But in clubs of 4. or
more we will send the paper at 2- cents-
a year. - - -
. Now we earnestly ask every one of bur
subscribers to do the Yellow Jacket a
favor by getting up a club of four or
more at this special offer. . It wont take
you but a few hours to get up such a
club. -Can't you afford to devote a few
hours to the cause we all love and for
which the Yellow Jacket has been bat-
denouncinsrlT . nn iv.0.. c
" TlVfc UWUA V VAiV-A VJCIJ y W W
are going to iook for a ciud from you.
. Senator J. C.- Blackburn of Ken
tucky is out in a statement in 4 which
he declares thathejiopes "to livelong
enough to ee United ,States Senators
elected by direct vote of the people."
As an experimental step in this di
rection, Senator Blackburn might in
duce himself and iis associates in
Kentucky democratic leadership to
permit the election of governors in his
state by the same mpthod.
The Salisbury S.un says Senator
Simmons' speech atthe democratic
state convention wiU;. make a capital
campaign document, as it "bristles
with facts and figures, that laro bound
to interest voters." Well, we should
snigger. The admission that the state
democratic administration has bor
rowed $200,000 to replenish a depleted
treasury is one "fact ' that will "in
terest voters. Mr. Voter, how does
such "facts" set on'y our stomach?
The thinnest argument that the dem
ocrats put up is that.their party-is the
only party that "proposes to curb t le
trusts. Every man who knows any
thing about matters knows that all
the efforts that have been put forth in
a practical way to curb the oppressive
combination of capital have been the
result of republican legislation. The
democratic party never was known to
sit down hard enoucrh on a trust to
have smashed it had it tbeen a soft
boiled egg.
Ah, dear oldfriehd; here again on
your annual visit: "The horrible news
comes from Kansas that a boy climbed
a cornstalk to see how the corn was
getting along, and now the stalk is
growing up faster than the boy can
climb down. The boy is plum out of
sight. Three men have undertaken to
cut down. the stalk with axes and save
the boy fromTstarvation, but it grows
so fast that they can't hack twice at
the same place. The boy is living on
nothing but raw corn and has, already
thrown down over four bushels of
cobs."
The Nashville; Tenn. News says on
ly one republican was converted m
the debate on the Philippine bill. Small
wonder at that. How in the name of
common sense do you expect republi
cans to be converted by democratic de
bating when it was conducted on' such
a low down plain of abuse that demo
crats-themselves wouldn't sit and lis
ten to it as was the case when Ben
Tillman spoke on the Philippine ques
tion? Republicans may ;De converted
to nobler things than they now repre
sent, but they are not tne son 01 lei-
lows to become, converts to- backslid
ing and skeed addling. . Put that in
your pipe and smoke it. ' y . -
Edward
Atkinson, addressing
an
s1.11riip.nra on anti-imperiaiism, con
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cluded from the vociferous applause
with which he was received' that there
was no expansionists among his hear
ers.' So he said boasting!y:f :
"If there isan expansionist here,
should like to asK , him his name,
where he lives, and how he feels now! "
Thereupon one man arose and ans
wered: "I am an expansionist. - my
nanifiia Robert Field. I liver' in ' Ha
verhill; and I feeLlike a thoroughbred
horse among a lot of jacKasses
Walter J Ballard. , r
J The funniest thing about the North
Carolina democratic state -convention
is that the Bryanite editors speak of it
as a harmonious and orderly affair,
fiwht- in the face ol the fact that - when
Cleveland was denounced as an. arch
raitnr that hell brokef loose and pan-
flrned and that the "dam
ly . The only way we can interpret the
meaning" of , these Bryanites is -that
they, don't consider a thing harmoni
ous' ' arid orderly 'f and "democratic"
unless it is- embellished wifhTprofanity
and dominated by rowdyism.
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The latest mare's nest discovered by
the wiggle-tails is a scheme, they, say,
th at Mark Hanna has inaugurated to
establish weekly republican newspa
pers thruout tile South' in the interest
of his candidacy fOr the .presidency.
The idea of Mark Hanna having nq
more sense than to try to .v capture the
South with a few local" papers. 1 The
democrat who -l. 'discovered" j that
scheme hasn't got sense enough to
pound sand in a rat hole. -It will
soon be so, however, that a republi
can can't come out in a" new.' pair of
pants but that some smart .'alec of a
democrat will be ready to swear that
Mark has been scattering' campaign
boodle.
Wire nails; axle grease and alarm
clocks are three things , which the d em
ocrats say they have discovered that
are sold m European markets w by
American . manuiacturers at prices
lower than the manufacturers will sell
them in this country. Here, then; are
three reasons that democrats, have; put
up why their party should be restored
to power, that they may repeal the
tariff. But then, let's see. Here are
three reasons why we. don't want the
dems to try it. 'They are the Goxey
army, the idle factories, and the free
soup houses. Mi Democrat, you may
preier to live on cneap . axle grease
and free soup, but we donH need the
combination in -our business.
. It would make one dizzy to contem
plate the possibilities "of the Yellow
Jacket if all our subscribers were to
get a.mpve on like Dr.-Jas. Faith of
Palmyra, Illinois .. l?oc got vOut ; a--
mong the boys the other day and hus
tled up a club of fifty six' subs in a-
bout five hours. He was working, he
says, for the benefit of the "Good bid
Republican Party. " Speaking of how
long he has been " laboring in' the
cause, he Says, "I voted for Abe Lin
coln in 1860 and right down the line
ever since. " A good record.. By the
way, if a few hundred of. Our J-"Abe
Lincoln'' republicans will get such a
hump on as this-we will soon- see our
way clear-to enlarge and improve the
Yellow Jacket. . x .
Bryan has been riding around up
north making, speeches with 1 Senator
Carmack of Tennessee, the' old snide
whose , slanderous attack upon , our
soldier boys brought down such a
storm of hisses from the
galleries of
the U. S. Senate that
he had to sit
down and. quit his speech. "Every one
to his own notion," but for our part
we shouli prefer to . campaign with a
billy go at rather than' with i a man
whose hatred for our army is so. strong
that decent folks won't sit still and
listen to the explosions of his. gall
bag. We don't blame the Cleyeland-
ites forv wanting to reorganize, the
party. It needs to be deodorized and
fumigated with tar and brimstone to
make it palatable. - .;
"Tlie democrats are" so 7 afraid that
Mark Hanna will be the candidate m
1904 that they cant keep from lettijag
their fears creep put ever, and aripn.
Never IIlindi,, boys, there are other men
than Mark Hanna in the 'republican
party whd are able "to "make mince
meat out of the democratic qonKey.
And, againi if you fellows dot! want
to see Mark llannamade president,
you'd better quit traipsing' about tell-
12- lies on vhim. - x ou aoused . and
slandered McKinley for his. thrill bill
until ypu ran mm into, Liie -; wiiite
House, and if .ybu don't be careful
you'll land Hanna in the riresident'X
chair by the same -method.v "rhe peo
ple love to honor the man you choose
to slander,- and they'll do it if it rips
open the democratic party from snout
to tail. --1 - 1.-
We have lower interest and 1 higher
wages; morejnoney anu lewer mort
gages, than whenr d9m0cracy . w4s iri
thb"saddlelV9'yOU'arit to eethis
state of affairs .reversed.- Then getx)ut
Two True and Accurate Pictures.
We can get' a. very clear idea to
what the Dingley Tariff law has be
stowed upon the masses by giving two
true and actual pictures. In tho
spring of 1836 James Russell found he
could no longer get employment any
where. For a long while he had been
working only a part of the time at -reduced
wages and now bis shop had
closed for an indefinite period. He
was already behind in his rent and
there were bills at the butcher a and
grocer's. :Jimmie and Willie had
both been taken out of school and
earned a little now and then, but botlr
together could gather but a dollar a
week. Lizzie, too, ' had to stay at
home to help about the housework,
for Mrs. JRussell worked night and,
day at sewing to get the three or "four
dollars that, must be had as long as
such work was obtainable. The life
insurance had already lapsed, and
any day the landlord might dispossess
them. 'Finally the little sum in the
savings bank was withdrawn, but that,
too, soon melted away and there was
nothing left to do but visit the pawn
broker. The summer came and - the
children went without shoes and al
most without clothes. There was lit
tle to eat, only the cheapest of- meat
and bread. No sugar, no cream, no
milk, no eggs, no vegetables, no fruit.
Oh, the weary days and sleepless
nights of those fond parents, who,
willing to make any sacrifice them
selves, could not bear to see their
children deprived of the very neces
saries of life. Little Lizzie fell ill
and the doctor said she must have
rest and nourishment. And so there "
came the first taste- of charity - and
parting. The church people found her
a temporary home in the country, and
so her life was saved. .Hut . matters
got worse and worse at home. -The
long indulgent landlord finally insist
ed, and James Russell and his wife
and boys wenLlo two small rooms.
Day after day the father, weary of
limb and sore of heart, looked for;
work, eagerly taking any -job that"
might offer. Sometimes they all earn
ed as much as five dollars a week,
sometimes only one or two. So the
summer dragged along and fall came, .
but there could be no thought of school
nor of church and Sunday school.
Lizzie was better and came "hpme,'
but the homejof James IRussell was a
sad one indeed and yet there were :
hundreds and "thousands of others
even worse off in those Free-Trad
times of 1895 and 1896. But November
came and the vote of James Russell
counted for as much as the vote: of
the President of the United States. '
1 Early in December his old employer-
sent word that they would start up for
three days in the week. Oh what joy
ful news! Despair gave pi ace to hope.
They got through the winter fairly
well, and in the spring it was known
that a new Tariff law would early be
enacted, and the cheap foreign made
goods would be kept out, and James
Russell would have steady work.
Now let us look into his home five
years later. . r -
It is a pretty little house ' of seven
rooms, and there is no-' rent to pay,;
for James Russell is his own landlord. -He
has for three years becngettiDg $20
per week, and has been enabled to pay
$200 down on his home and is reduc
ing his mortgage every, quarter. The
rooms are prettily furnished and there .
is always a plenty of good'substantial
food on the table. The life insurance
policy is now in force again, and the
children all go to school., No need for
Mrs. Russell to care for anything ex
cept her household duties and her
children. She is a prudent housewife,'
and so there is always a surplus:
Lizzie is going to have a piano and
take music lessons, and Jimmie is going-
to college in a couple of years.
Perhaps Willie, too, will go, though
he wants to learn a trade. There are-
little outings now and the boys have
plenty of books and balls and bats.
Saturdays the father comes home with
some luxury, a pound of candy, or
some dainty for Mamma and Lizzie.
The boys each have 50 cents a week
for spending money, and, oh! it is
sUch a happy group. '
That is what the Dingley law did for
James Russell and his dear ones. That ;
is" what the Dingley law did for a mil
lion of James Russells, and that is the
greatest and grandest blessing Protec
tion can bestow. The pictures are not
overdrawn, they-are not extreme in
stances. Many were worse off than
James Russell in 1896; many are even
better off than James Russell in 1902.
The average of human happiness, in
the United States has gone irom a low
point in i5Wio tne nignest muex ng
ure ever known. The most sanguine
optimist would not have dared to pre
dict such a result five years ago to
day. . " .
And vet there are those wno would
reverse conditions and plunge us a
gain into Free-Trade and misery. It
will be decided at the polls this fall
and in 1904. But we do not believe the .
American workingman, the American
farmer or the American citizen in gent
eral will vote against prosperity. :A
meriean Economist. - . s '
The only difference between a horse .
tn
ief and a ballot thief is. that the f or-y
mer is. a; high , toned gentleman com- -pared
with the latter. . .
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