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VOL. IX.
MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY. 28, 1903.
NO. 11.
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EDITORIAL NOTbJ.
Democracy pays to let it everlasting
- i
ly alone.
Political machines must be watched as
well as greased.
Why am I a democrat, is a question
that is making many a man sweat
One can't tell by the smell whether
free silver is dead or not, for, it a
smelt fishy. I "
ways
This democratic cry of "imperia
ism
is merely the shadow that
expansion
casts across the mind of cowards.
A free silver democrat ' might
de-
scribed as a man. who doesn't know a,
corpse when he sees it.
"There's plenty of room at the
and always will be while so many
pie want to be where the crowd is.
top"
'peo-
The history of the democratic
party
might be summed up in three
organize, reorganize, disorganize.
words :
If the democrats would make a
effort they might agree on a plank
little
con-
sisting of one word: "object.
1 1
Just keep on reminding the people
that the democratic party redeemed its
promises with soup.
Did you hear anybody say "let
well
i
enough alone" during the days
of
Cleveland rule, Coxey armies and
soup? Heh! j
free
With Bryan pulling one way, Wi tter-'
son another and Hill another it's hot
surprising that lots of democrats aon't
know where they are "at."
The democrats have several presiden
tial booms on the market but not
one
of them would sell for enough dishw
ater
to float it. I
Free-Trade will never be a winning
gun in the battle of political ecomomy
!
so long as it is a muzzle loader, chfi
rged
with free soup.
Next time you hear a democrat
say
that the tariff is the mother of the
trusts
just ask the young rooster who was
the
mammy of Coxey's army and free
soup
houses.
"There is no gold-bugism in
our
make-up," rather boastingly remarks
the Versailles, Mo., Leader. 1 In other
words, the Leader rejoices in number
ing itself with the dead.
Some men are so imbued with demo
cratic ideas that they would believe that
Julius Caesar was born of. the Virgirl; Ma
ry if they were to read it in a democratic
newspaper. j
A great many men's idea of democra
cy is just to be "agin" anything
and
everything done by republicans'
with-
out giving any consideration to
the
grounds of the opposition.
i
The republican party is jstill young,
oniy aDout 4 years old, but I she's
grandest thinsr on earth and is ah
jerk the lint out of anything that blimps
up against her.
See, here, brother, the Yellow jlcket
is just fairly itching to get acquain ted
witn an your neighbors. Can't j you
stir us up a club to the tune of abdut a
rlWA0 T1.r - I It
uis is no joje. i
The democrats are as mad as a
wet
hen because they can't find an issue big
enough to cover up the bond issue
saddled on the country a few
ago. j
they
Vears
Old man Grover is not
- . .
troubling
mucn over the names Brvan i is ca
lling
him. He evidently thinks it is
better
to be a "has been" than a "never
nor a "never will be."
rwas
Bryan says the water cure shou
d be
applied to wall street. Yes, it wotildn
be a bad thinsr to a-DTlv it to the democ
ratic party, with a good supply of
car-
Tell your neighbor to subscribe for
the Yellow Jacket because it don't crawl
behind a tree to talk, nor bust its crup
per holding back to first see what some
body else is going to say.
A western man who arrived recently.
in Boston inquired of a hackman what
would be "a good place to stop at" and
the erudite caddy replied, "Just before
the 'at.'" ! M
v There is nothing like republican pros
perity unless it is more of it. Tie way
to have more of it is to subscribe for
the Yellow Jacket and keep on voting
the republican ticket. '
It has been a lone: time since the de
mocratic party had full control of na
tional affairs, but it makes the cold chills
run all over a person to think about it
even at this remote date.
The democratic ring, which has con
trolled Missouri for the past thirty years,
is on its last legs and they are wobbling
like a black snake trying to climb a
lightning rod.
ine ieuow wno piacea tne wagon
rf i
before the horse was a Solomon com
pared with the calf-headed chump who
sees a remedy for trusts by knocking the
tariff in the head.
The Cincinnati Kaquirer says there is
no Free-Trade party in the United States.
That may be so, but there is a party that
acts and smells so nluch like a free-trade
party that it answers all its purposes.
Bryan hops up in the Commoner and
contends that one of the ways to con
quor the trusts is to cut off the tariff.
Yes, Col., and one of the ways to cure
the headache is to cut off the man's
head.
One way the democrats have of get-
ing "consent of the governed," is by
twisting the Congressional districts in
to all kinds of conceivable shapes in
order to obtain majorities for democrat
ic congressmen;
They may not like to hear it, but it is
a fact that many moss backed democrats
who were loudest in their denunciation
of what they termed the ( "Force bill"
are ready to declare that the Nesbit and
Goebel election laws are good.
Bryanite exchanges say that the dem
ocratic party is opposed to the whole
'colonial business." Nothing remark
able about that. The democratic party
is opposed to everything including a-
bout half of itself.
Miss Marion Talbot of Chicago Univer
sity has devised, by the aid of science,
a sceme of living on io cents j per day.
We would like to see, weigh, and x-ray
Miss Talbot before we attempt to put her
scheme in practice.
Since it has been learned that the
Commoner has a considerable circula
tion among the natives in the Philip
pines it is no wonder that these mis
guided people keep on sowing wild oats
and raising the devil.
The democrats laugh at republicans for
saying "let well enough alone," but it
makes them laugh at the j other side of
their mouth when asked to name a time
under democratic rule when they had
well enough" to "let alone."
One difference between republicans
and democrats is that republicans be-
ieve in surmounting dimculties wnen
they meet them 1 and democrats favor
taking to the woods. Another
difference is they are not alike at all.
Why shouldn't those hilly-billies who
have been fairly busting their bladders
bawling for Bryan face about and sing
Grover's praises if they feel like it? The
time "used to was" when they were all
Cleveland democrats. Don't yer know?
"This republic can do more good by
setting a wise example than by trying
to revolutionize the world by force,"
remarks the Yukon, O. T., Sun. Revo
lutionized nothing. We are not. trying
revolutionize the world just "sali
vating" the revolutionists. :
Some one has remarked that civilizing
the Philippines will prove to "be a hun
dred year job." Perhaps it will but
that is all the more reason why we
should be at it early and late. Whoso
tmtteth his hand to the plow and look-
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6Iub Rates.
We will send the Yellow Jacket in
clubs of four or more at a time at 25
cents a year. We can't give free copies
? Ci?bf at rate' Wish we cotild.
We kindly ask every reader of this
wpy 10 uuce a spin out among
friends and talk and work th vO
Jacket up a little. Read our pert
chat on second page and let us 1
from you with) a club a dozen strong.
Now while the band plays "Republi
canism" let every mother's son of you
get a hump on that would make a
camel look like a clothes line.
We don't claim that the republican
party is responsible for the abundant
crops that have prevailed pretty gener
ally for the past four or five years, but
it is responsible for the 1 co-cent dollars
that pay for said crops. "You can't rub
that out, Buddy.
The Sycamore, 111., Broadside says
you can't down the trusts by voting as
the "Captains cf industry" do. We
don't know so wall about that but we're
blamed certain that you can't keep down
Coxey armies and soup houses if you
all vote as the democrats do.
Altho the Yellow Jacket is not
stock journal, it must deal with such
questions. A farmer asks us;
hogs pay?" Our suggestion is they
not. JLney usually Dorrow tne
4
from their neighbors or beat the
lisher out of it in some way.
Look here, good brother, if you are
struck on the kind of a "racket" that
the Yellow Jacket is making, then send
us a batch of subscriptions. We can't
make the paper hum right without help.
You help scare up the "chinks" and we
will furnish the "chat."
A democratic exchange says that the
silver plank was not put in the Kansas
City platform on account if its bright
ness. You are everlastingly right about
that mister. It was put there to catch
suckers, just like the income tax was left
out to catch plutocrats.
An Iowa cogressman says it is ridicu
lous to talk of the Iowa idea or any
other political question in his state.
The people are so busy making hay
while the sun of prosperity shines that
all they ask is that the Government
shall do nothing to interfere with the
good times.
The Buffalo, Mo., Record says slav
ery in the Philippines ought to be abol
ished; that it 1 is certainly inconsistent
with christian civilization. You are
everlasting right about that, Mr. Asbury,
but what a pity all you democratic edi
tors and politicians didn't talk like that
in i860.
If the Bryanites don't quit trying to
twist and distort the sayings of Abra
ham Lincoln to sustain their anti-imperialism
nonsense, they may except noth
ing, better when they die than to be
transformed into a gang of howling hy
enas, compelled to go groping about in
despair thru all succeeding ages.
Here's a good plank for the dem
ocratic "Dlattorm: Resolved mat our
. . m . m
belly bands have got so slack that we
can't keep things from going to smash,
therefore we want some pie. ' ' Resolved,
second, that any democrat who objects
to this should be took out and shot
with a basket of lather.
In a recent marine disaster a passen
ger was picked up as he floated feet up
permost with a life preserver carefu lly
straoned around his knees, wnen re-
vived and asked why he had not put it
JL A.
on around his chest he explained that
he wanted to keep a new suit ' of
clothes dry.
Kvery time Congress starts to enquire
into methods of elections in those South
ern States where ballot-box stuffing and
disfranchisement have been resorted to
so much by the democratic party right
then the democratic press rises upon it
hind legs and begins to have spasms a-
bout "force bills."
Say, brother, if you love the Yellow
Jacket we want you to get us a club of
four for one dollar. Now, we want
every mother's son of you to do this
much for us. Won't take you but a
few minutes to get the subs and you
will be doinsr us a favor. While the
band plays ' Republicanism ' let us hear
If those farmers who advocate democ
racy had to sell their products at dem
ocratic prices wheat, 58 cents; pota
toes, no price; corn, 19 cents; and every
thing else in proportion it might put a
very different phase on their political
in
you
should get your neighbors to reading the
Yellow Jacket. The voice of the poli
tician is soon to be heard in the land
and you want to jolt or jolly him as
the case may be, with republican gospel.
To be plain about it we would like to
have you send us a great big club.
The tariff tinker would have Uncle
Samuel halt the train of progress while
he takes out a felly and a couple of
spokes to see if the car won't run
smoother. Verily, the tariff doctor is a
wonderful fellow in his own conceit,
but business men dread him worse than
the devil does holy water.
A democratic exchange remarks that
the elephant is being wiped out in Asia,
and goes on to say that if the American
voter does his dutv it will be wined nut
in the United States. Well, hardlv!
precious
T ilgtifa
I
M krW
rare.
t IS
largely rubbish. We do not as
the
consent of paupers, criminals and im
beciles but that is beside the question,
How about the democrats who have
disfranchised the negroes in some
southern states without the consent of
the governed?
"A gold democrat, " says the Sidney,
Iowa,Democrat,"isa democrat with the
democracy left out." That being the
case. Mr. Democrat, there are no such
things as any true democrats extant, be
cause an anti-gold democrat is a Bryan-
ite with the democracy left out. Next
time you want to say someinmg, just
! 1 I
sing "the old cow, she crossed the road."
Yes, there are lots of good men who
would be willing to co-opperate with the
democratic party as it formerly existed.
But right there lays the straw that broke
the elephant's back. The old bow-leg
ged, wind-broken, democratic mule has
degenerated into such an indifinable
mixture of political inconsistencies that
the majority of good men would blush
to be found a-straddle of the beast.
The Record, of Covington, Tenn., says
those men who voted for Palmer and
Buckner should wait awhile before ask
ing democrats to nominate them. Yes,
just wait a few years and combined in
fluences of Bryanism, Tillmanism and
Pop-windism will have all true demo
crats disgusted and driven into the Pal
mer democratic party .Then nominations
T
The Greencastle, Ind., Star-Press : zette is perceptible weaken
makes a clear bust in trying to tell what ing all along the lines of republican
a democrat is. A democrat, brother;
is simnlv a negative quantity, a neces-
- -
sary evil, like the racket that a wagon
makes in going down a rocky hill
He is a man who kicks at every step in
the march of process and howls at
r . 1 a 4.
every Sign OI national auvaa.ciucuu
In short, a democrat is a man who has
got the pupils of his political eyeballs
turned toward the back of his head.
A woman will yank up the guy ropes
of her corset until she almost squeezes
her immortal soul out of place, put
a dead bird on her hat and go strutting
around over town selling tickets for an
entertainment to raise money, to neip
sena missionaries to some foreign clime
for the purpose of teaching civilization
to the poor heathens who have never
known what it is to wear a corset and
have been struggling on in the ignorant
belief that birds were created to sing
instead of being worn on the hat.
The Commoner suggests this; "Resolve
to support the papers that protect your
rights and defend your interest." It
was the democratic papers that told
you it was to your interest to elect a
democratic administration once upon a
time. If you think that your rights
nraro ffnHed And vftTir intprocfo
w iwir,- t, ? I
oWf&r SZTiTL-
VUMU6 r .- " w" Waste
any more time oeiore subscribing for I
papers uat 101a you to "vote y-r 1
5S2rfit, -vote ex 1
Prosperity has struck the South and
the price of cotton has soared until
there is danger that American women
will all have to wear silk.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie calls attention
to a point in connection with the re
election of Mr. Charles Schwab to the
presidency of the American Steel Com
pany which is worthy of note. Mr.
Carnegie says Mr. Schwab's election was
due to the fact that he had thorough
ly familiarized himself with every pro
cess of steel manufacture from the
mining of the ore to the sale of the fin
ished product.
We are glad to see so many demo
crats subscribing for the Yellow Jacket.
It will do you good, boys. Get your
minds out of that old democratic groove
every two weeks and you will feel bet
ter,, look better and actually be better.
The Yellow Jacket is neither a dictator
nor an underling. It is ashamed of
nothing it does, and does not owe its
existence to, or care a continental for
the criticism of trese growlers and
snarlers who imagine they possess about
nine-tenths of the refinement and in-
telligence of the country, and yet do
nouung out strut arouna ana cuss men
who say what they think without bust
ing their cruppers holding back to see
what somebody else will say first.
!. Z 1 a a a "1
HELP WANTED.
In order that we may be the better
enabled to reach all those republicans
j who are not yet subscribers to the Yellow
Jacket we want to kindly ask each and
every present subscribers to write the
names "bf 6 or more of their republicans
neighbors on a postal card and mail it
to us. When all our subscribers shall
have done this much we will have a list
of nearly all the republicans in the
United States, and then we will be ready
to make a proposition to the republicans
of this nation, which if carried out, will
mean one Gf me longest and most im-
Tortant stens ever taken by any political
Ujartv. Now, what are you 2.oin; to do
aT,Qut it? We believe von will send the
names.
The Daphire, Ala., Standard takes the
responsibility upon itself to declare to
the public that the "Filipinos are capa
ble of self government." Wonder who
told the Standard that? It is a deuce
of a strange thing to us how it is that a
man can find out so much about things
on the other side of the earth and be in
total ignorance about matters at his own
door. If the Standard is so much inter
ested in seeing folks given the right to
enjoy political freedom why don't it
look at things in its own state where a
large element of the people have no
more chance in tne exercise of their
political rights than a one-legged man
at a foot race? Now listen at the Stand
ard squall "nigger."
I The Dunshore, Pennsylvania, Ga-
opinion touching on high tariff. Trot
out your men, Mr. Gazette. We would
like to see the color of their hair. We
know you can name a few republicans
who' are for tariff reduction, but for ev-
Prominent re?ttblican yu M11
who favors cuttinsr down tariff raf-ea.
there are two democrats who have come
to their senses and advocate letting the
tariff alone. We know lots of free trade
aemocraxs xry to twist mcfcLinley's Buffa
lo speech into a free trade channel, but
his words and their meaning
when they do so. President McKinley
died as unshaken in the doctrines of
protection as he did tti TvliW f
christian religion.
The f ollowing conversation is said to
have between democratS)
and is typical of the feeling of the best
element in that party: "Well," said
Mr. A., "we don't want any more trai
tors like Cleveland. That's one thing
certain." "Cleveland," retorted Mr.
B., "was the best president since Jeffer
son, and is the brainiest man in the
party today." One word led to anoth
er and things got pretty warm, when
the first gentlemen, Mr. A., said: "I
have about come to the conclusion that
the democratic party is not capable of
runninsr this government anyway."
Mr. B. eot anery, then, indeed; and up-
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