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FUSIOV WAS DEFEATED.
firs a source of comfort. They
i.ic a faouroe or care, also.
If j-cu , care "for your child's
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nop t c-i'li; disorders to which
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Watches, Ciocks, Eye-Glasses, Spec
tacles and Jewelry of all kinds re
paired ou short notice.
. Inspected Watcnea for S. A.LB.
H. four years.
? Fourteen years experience,.- Can
be found iu Caraway's store on JVade
street. - - -
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HAIR BALSAM
!CIemiue and bcutlfle th halt;
i Promote a laxuriaat ffrovth.
Wm Tail to Beatora Gray,
xxmxr o jva vow.
Th C'onreutiou Adopted the
Plairorui Committee's Report
with Tremendous Enthnsiasin
A Straight Fight to Redeem
the Stat e-ltnck Kllehin and
Other Wanderers Return to
the Fold.
Cddensed from Wilmington Star Report.
Convention was an enthusiastic and
representative one. About 600 delegates
were present. . . 3 . ' : . "; "
After the convention was called to or
der by Chairman Manly, Dr. Eugene Dan
iel offered prayer. Col. Julian S. Carr,
temporary chairman, made a neat speech'
oj acceptance. v " ' " ""
The various districtsmade repoits of
commitieemen chosen. The committee
on resolutions is as follows: - T.J. Jarvis,
Claude Kitchin.R Duffy, JosephUs Dan
iels,W. W. Kitchhi, J. &J Lockhart,
Lee S. Overman R. A. Danghton," J. C.
Morton.;:' 'f; ;r" ;"
-The Sixth district elected Cameron
Morrison, of Richmond, committeeman
on credentials; J. D. McCall, of Meck
lenbnrg, committeeman on permanent
organization, and John D. Shaw, Jr.,vice
president. -
' Chairman Manly' announced the prop
osition from the Populists. The an
nouncement was greeted with j'ells and
signs ol disapproval. The Populist let;
ter and the Ayer resolutions ; "were read
to the convention, and on motion of J.
D. Kerr referred to the Committee on
Resolutions. The nominations of the six
Superior Court Judges were ratified.,
". Major B, F. Dixon was given a great
ovation as he appeared in the convention
in military uniform. He said that a re
port had spread that the convention was
run hy gold-bugs and that only gold-bugs
opposed fusiou. He said he did not; be
lieve it, and the convention yelled, You're
right."
An invitation trom Greensboro, signed
by the mayor and others, to hold the next
State convention in Greensboro, was pre
sented. A resolution providing that the
convention be held in Greensboro the next
time was introduced.
The discussion was brought to a close
on a motion to adjourn till 8 o'clock; pend
ing the report of the Committee on Reso
lutions, The motion prevailed.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS BEPORT.
The convention did not take action in
the matter of fixing a place for the next j
State Convention. It was left open for the
State Committee. ' '
The Committee on Resolutions report
ed at 9 o'clock, and the platform was
adopted by a rising vote. Here is the
platform:
The Democratic party of North Caroli
na in convention assembled in Raleigh,
N- C, on this day, May 26th, 1898, do
hereby approve, indorse and ratify the
last Democratic National and State plat
forms, and pledge our earnest support to
the principles therein expressed. .
"We denounce the Republican party
for the passage of the Dingley tarifF bill,
which has increased the burdens of tax
ation upon our consumers .and given the
trusts and monopolists greater power to
rob the people,
, Believing that under our present meth
ods of Federal taxation that more than
three quarters of our national revenues
are paid by people owning less than one
quarter of the property of the" country,
we protest against . such inequality and
injustice, and in order to remedy, to some
extent, this great wrong, we favor an in
come tax, and favor all constiutional
methods to sustain it.
We denounce the Republican party for
its defeat of the Teller resolutions declar
ing our national bonds payable in silver
as well as gold7and denounce it lor its
determined purpose of more thoroughly
fastening the single gold standard upon
our people, and lor its avowed hostility
to the free and unlimited coinage ol silver,
as well as gold, at the ratio of 16 to 1 into
full legal tender money. . '? " '
'We denounce the Republican party
for its deter i.ination to issue bonds at
this time, and we denounce the Republi
can war tax bill which lately passed the
House of Representatives as unjust, un
equal in its burdens, unnecessary and
vexatious, and we - demand" that the
silver seigniorage be coined; that an in;
come tax be levied, and that the Secreta
ry of the Treasury be authorized to issue
the necessary amount of lull legal tender
greenbacks, or United States Treasury
notes, in order to meet the expenses of
the war with Spain and to supply the
revenue deficit - under the Dingley
bill. '
While we deplore the war with Spain
we pledge our earnest support to the
Government in all honorable ways to
effect a speedy and successful conclusion
of hostilities. -" V - ; -
We favor a' union of the silver forces
of the country in the Congressional elec
tions, and cordially invite all voters, with
out regard to past political affiliations
to unite with us in supporting our candi
dates for" Congress who favor . the free
eoinage of silver thus' giving practical
force and effect to the recommendation
of oar Democratic National chairman
Hon. James K. Jones, and to the Con
gressional committee. ; '- ' '
That we admire and commend with
out stint the great and gallant fight made
by Hon. William J. Bryan iu the last Na
tional Campaign for the success of our
pahy and the principles or our plat
form. - -
We denounce the scandal, extrava
gance, incompetency and corruption of
the present Republican State administra
tion. y
We denounce all enactments of the
last two Legislatures by which cities and
towns in the State have been turned over
to negro domination, and we pledge
ouFselves to enact such laws as will .give
security and protection to the property
and people of every town and coaimunity
in the State.
We denounce the placing of negroes
on committees to supervise white schools
and we pledge ourselves, if restored to
power, to enact such legislation as will
make this impossible.
We denounce the placing of ignorant,
irresponsible and corrupt men in office.
We oppose the removal by co-oporations
of suits or cases from our state to the fed
eral courts, and favor legislation to pre
vent it- .
We favor fair and just election laws.
We favor a government of the people,
by the people and for the peopleecono
my in expenditure, the abolition of an
necessary offices, decency in administra
tion, constant improvement of our edu
cational system, charity to the unfortu
nate, and rule by the white men of the
state. '
We favor the extension of the powers
of the railroad commission, and close
scrutiny into their affairs in order to as
certain; establish and maintain such rates
as shall be fair and just to the people and
to the transportation and transmission
corporations.
We condemn free passes.
We favor the electicn of United States
senators and railroad commissioners by
the people.
We favor the enactment of such legis
lation as will encourage capital to make
investmerits within oar state, and guar-
tee that the same shall be justly pro
U xl.
- V call attention to the wise, economi
cal,!, 'est and honorable administration
of the . Mrs of our state for 20 years pri
or to the -esent republican administra
tion, and i- mise the people a return of
wise, hones economical and honorable
administration jder democratic success.
We call upon every believer in honor.hon
esty and economy, upon every advocate
of white supremacy, upon every advo
cate of equal and just taxation, upon
every advocate of the income tax and op
ponent of plundering tariff taxtion, upon
every advocate of the restoration of silver,
and opponent of the single gold standard
and the present issue of bonds, as threat
ened by the republican party, upon every
opponent of government by injunction,
and advocate of the jurisdiction of state
courts over bases arising in the State
against corporations doing business there
in; upon every lover of decency and good
government and opponents of the present
prevailing conditions, to unite with us in
our contest with the republican party
the great enemy of our principles, to aid
us in redeeming the nation from the
clutches of greed and injustice, and the
state from the scandal, and incompetence
which now afflict it.
The inatetrs before us were of such
grave importance, we felt that the action
of the Committee would perhaps guide
the action of this con ventio l and that on
the action of this convention depend
ed largely the future welfare of North
Carolina.
As to some matters that came before
that committee the committea was di
vided, three members of that committee
desired that in' reply to a certain pro
position sent to th3 committee from this
convention, we should make a counter
proposition. These men were as good
Democrats as we are and had at heart the
welfare of the party as much and as an
evidence of their loyalty to the party.their
unalterable allegiance to its interests, they
have consented to present no minonty re
port to this convention. The platform
was adopted by rising vote unanimous-
ly.' -
Governor Jarvis then presented the re
port of the committee on the proposition
of ' the Populist committee, which was
read and is as follows: ,
The Committee on Platform and Reso-
utions, by direction of the convention.
having had under consideration the prop
osition for fusion made by a committee
of the Populist party, recommend that
this convention adopt the following res
olutions in respect thereto:
Resolved. 1. That the nroDOsition for
fusion submitted by the Fopulist com
mittee, be. and tho same is hereby, re-
spectufully declined
Resolved, 2. That the Democratic Slate
Executive Committee be, and the same is
hereby, instructed to entertain no futher
proposition tor, fusion.
The resolutions were adopted.
Capt W. W. Kitchin spoke next. He
was satisfied that there was no room in
North Carolina for but two political par
ties. "The committee in their wisdom, per
haps, c include i that it would be doing
not only the Democratic but the Republi
can party an inj jstice by recognizing
what is known as the Populist party as
having any organic existence in North
Carolina.
You have decided to plaut your stand
ard high upon the m mntain of honor,
and go forth to victory or fall by the way
side honorable defender of the right
We must convince the. Populists that
there is no pissibility oftheir ever doing
anything by scrambling around in the
middle of the road, drinking swill from
whichever trough they get their bills in.
It is befer that those of them, who are
bound for the Republican camp go there,
march under the goldbug Republican
Btandard than to wallow around in the
middle of the road disturbing the two
old parties. Here they are, the Democra
tic party with 150,000 votes, and the so
called Populist party with 30,000 votes,
both claiming to be in favor of silver,
both in favor of an income . tax, both
against government by injunction. Then
here is the Republican ptrty in favor of
the single gold standard, against an in
come tax, in favor of government by in
junction and here we see them going fus
ing with the Populfst party.
Without the Populist party in North
Carolina the Republican party could not
live an hour, and without the Republican
party the Populists party would not have
a corporal guard iu Nonh Carolina for six
months, and without the negro in North
Carolina neither could live a single day in
this State.
There are men in the Populist party
who are honest; it is our duty to convince
them that they are being misled. I left the
party because I saw that if it-followed
Grover Clevland it was going into the
Republican party, but I made a mistake
and got with a crowd worse than Cleve
land and his crowd.
THE RIGHT RING.
Richmond County White
. Men Aroused.
A GREAT BATTLE AGAIXST
- NEGRO DOMINATION.
THE ALLIANCE FORMING.
A Statement From the American
Correspondent of a Reliable
London Paper That Negotia
tions ior a Compact Between
the United States and Great
Britain Are fending;.
London, May 30. The Washington
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,
telepraphing Sunday, says:
"I have just learned from high author
ity in the State Department that impor
tant preliminary steps towards an Anglo
American alliance have already been
taken. JHow far these negotiations, if
they can yet be called that, have pro
ceeded, it is not easy to ascertain, for nat
urally, strict secrecy is maintained, but
my information is that the preliminary
suggestions have been made and that
the subject of such an alliance is practi
cally before the two governments in some
shape.
"According to my authority the fea
tures of the proposed alliance now being
considered are .these: Great Britian is to
recognize the Monroe doctrine, to attempt
no increase of her territorial possessions
in the Western Hemisphere, and to en
dose the American construction of that
doctrine. The United States is to build
the Nicarauga Canal and Great Britian is
have the use of it in time of war. The
United States is to have all the territory
from Spain in the present war, and Great
Britian is to protect the United States ia
posseessin, if this should be threatened.
The United States is to stand by Eng
land in her po licy in China and the East,
and all the British ports in the Ea t are
to be opened to the United States under
the most favored nation clause. ..
"The main features of an arbitration
treaty are to be incorporated. It has been
provided that all matters n dispute not
involving the Monroe doctrine or the
Nicarauga canal are to be submitted to a
non-partis n commission. The existing
understanding bearing upon the relations
between the two govcrnmeuts on th$
Col. II. C. Wall Calls ou the Re.
snectable White Voters of
Richmond Connty 10 Assert
Themselves Desperate Fight
' to be Made to Rescue the Coun
ty From the Disgraceful Rule
or the Loug-Doekerjr Rius: Ne
gro Sclioll Committeemen and
Negro Deputies Must Go.
The following speech was deliv
ered by Col. H. C. Wall, of Rock
ingham, before the recent Demo
cratic convention of Richmond coun
ty. Mr. Wall said:
Gentlemen of the Convention:
The Democratic Party of Richm nd
county, as representative of a large ma
jority of the most enlighted people of the
countv. is still confronted in the field of
polticsby an organization, the living prin
ciple of which was born and is nurtured
in an opposition to good government and
a wise condact of public affairs. This is
a strong statement; and how do I pro
pose to defend i ? By pointing to the re
sults of Republican rule in this county.
" A. tree is known by its. fruits,' says Holy
Writ, and I simply point you to the fruiti
of that tree ever since the hrst seed wa s
planted until now.
Whatever achievements in matters of
national government the blasted Repub
lican party may be credited with we know
that in Richmond county that party
stands for principles and practices which
are at variance with good morals; at va
riance with high-toned manhood and with
the good order and well-being of society
We know that it stands for corruption
and venality in politics; its cohesive pow
er is found in its opportunities fir public
plunder; it chuckles and gloats in its con
tinued triumphs over respectability and
decency in the body politic.it controls the
offices and and tax-laying power of the
county, and, doubtless, rejoices in the
questionable methods by which it gets
and keeps such control; it sets at defi
ance any and all sentiment that would
enthrone virtue, intelligence, and capa
bility in the seats where, now ignorance
and immorality," prejudice and incompe-I
tency hold universal sway; it would and
does degrade the white man in his pur
suit after the negro vote and influence; it
has converted our court house and offi
cial apartments into a common stamping
ground for negro loafers and loungers
until, from public necessity, decent white
people prefer not to enter them; its con
trol of the worst elements that curse our
society lies in its ring power to "kill and
make alive," in a political sense, accord
ing to the whims and ambitions of that
same ring power; its test ot loyalty to
the public good is loyalty to the Republi
can party, especially that part of it repre
sented by the ring; it plays with juries
negro juries at that and, through its ma
nipulation of the machinery of our courts,
a court-session iu our county i3 mire like
a farce than it is like ajudically grave and
dignified occasion.
Yes; that party has subj acted the white
race of our county to the domination and
rule of the negro race by placing the lit
ter in positi-ns of trust and resp msibility
so that, for instance, an unfortunate white
man, cast in jail from whatever
cause, must of necessity be under
the authority of a negro jailer. Bat is
the negro, Bill Hoffman, jailer of our
county, or has he been? Since thinking
of the matter, recall distinctly that Bill
Hoffman, in the effort to lift a white Re
publican friend out of a very dark hole,
did actually make affidavit to the fact aud
and signed himself to the affidavit as the
Did yon ever hear what was said by an
old citizen, formerly a Republican, but
now a strong democrat, when he was
told about Hamp Townsend, the depu
tized negro serving papers on white folks?
'Well, well, well," said the old gentl-
man, "ain't this putting the bottom rail
I cat and refined white lady, wishing to
apply for a situation as public school
teacher, may under possible and proba
ble circumstances be obliged to come
face to lace with a negro school official
of some sort, who, with all the aping
airs of bis white superior, will be ready
Rayal mIm th m4 par.
oh top"? When I heard it I thought of to sit in judgment on the merits and qual-
great lakes are to be abrogated and the Jailer of Richmond county. As another
umtea otates are to be given tne use
of the Wella .d Canal in case of war.
"The alliance is to be offensive and de-
ensive. It proceeds on lines such as
the foregoing. As a matter of course, all
that has been done 'so far is purely tenta
tive, but my information gives the
above as the general outline suggested."
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lOMF nprsnns sav
it is natural for
them to lose flesh
during summer.
: But losing flesh is losing
ground. "Can you afford
to approach another win
ter in this weakened con
dition? ' . --
Coughs and colds.weak
throats and lungs, come
quickest to those who arev
thin in flesh, to those eas
ily chilled, to those who
have poor circulation and
feeble digestion.' .
of cod lever oil tutth hypo
phosphites does just as
much good in summer as
in winter. It makes flesh
in August as well as April.
You certainly need as
strong nerves in July as in
January. And your weak
throat and lungs should
be healed and strength-
mi Clicu wiuiuui uciay.
4 AU Druggist. EOc and SI.
SCOTT BOWSE, Cbeultta, fcew York
The Worried Brother. '
I des can't sleep fer thinkin'
De time is gwine by,
En whar is Mister Sampson,
En whar is Mister Schley?
I knows de ways er weather
Kin tell de wet from dry:
But I mixed on Mister Sampson,
En i all upsot on Schley!
I knows de time fer melons
Is .nostly in July,
Bui I los' de time on Sampson,
En de clock run down on Sch!ey!
En I des can't sleep fer thinkiu.
En de time des gallop by!
Oh, whar is Mister Sampson,
En whar's de road ter Schley? ,
Mr. P. Ketcham of Pike City. CaL.
says: "During my brother's late sickness
from sciatic rheumatism, Chamberlain's
Pain Balm was the onlv remedy that crave
fhimany relief." Many others have testi
fied to the prompt relief from pain which
this liniment affords. For sale by Jas. A.
Hardisdn.
I:
"My wife," said Tangle, "is a
mind reader." "Pity my lot," said
Jitugle; "My wife ia a mind speaker.
Tit-Bits.
Mr. iobn Bevins, editor of the Press,
Anthon, Iowa, says: "I have nstxl Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy in my family for fifteen years,
have recomended it to hundreds of others ,
and have never known it to fail in a sin
gle instance. For sale by Jas. A. Hardl
instance, tne law-Dreamg wite man, in
whatever particular he may hav e offend
ed, is liable to have a subpoena or other
oaperseived on Dim, it not actually ar
rested, by a negro deputizid by the high
sheriff of the county. Whether Hamp
Townsend holds or did hold Sheriff
Smith's commission as deputy, he mast
have acted as such when he went to a
poor white man's house and, finding -he
was absent, left with the gentleman's
wife a notice of tax levy on his hogs. It
does not set well on a white man's stom
ach. and never can. to have a notice of
levy, subpoena, arrest or what not,
served on hiji by a negro. True,
Sheriff Smith denied, indignantly, when
the Wadesboro Messenger-Intklli-
gekceb lately accused him of having a
uegro deputy; but you remember that in
his letter of denial of the charge he ad
mitted that when necessary, or if opp r
t mity offered, he would not hesitate to
have uesrro deputies or words- to that
effect. '
By-the-way fellow-citizen, it is the class
commonly spoken of aa poor white peo
ple that is most apt to suffer without re
dress at the hands of negro officials. I
do'not profess to be a very rich man, nor
do I admit beine a very poor man in the
common acceptation of the term; at any
rate the negro deputy would not likely
hava come to my h mse to serve his legal
process on me or, in my absence, thrown
that paper into my wife's lap or upon her
sewing table. Nor would he have gone
thus to the house of Mr. John D. Shaw,
or Mr. Hector McLean, or Mr. Tom
Leak. Why do I say so? In the first
place, the high sheriff is not likely to
have thought there was the least show of
propriety, not to say necessity, " for it,
while the negro himself would expect
that, in snch cae, either one of we four
gentlemen would have "sho' gone arter
him" about it. I don't say what I might
have done but I should have "sho gone
arter Lira."
Locke Craig's Buncombe county neigh
bor who made a visit to an Irishman
friend of his in Baltimore. When Sun
day came the Irshman took his mountain
eer friend to church, which, of course,
was a Roman Catholic Cathedral. When
the deep-toned organ pealed lorth, re
verberating from pit to to dome, as pre
liminary to the higher ritunalistic ser
vice, and especially when the the priest
fired the aromatic incense that rose in
clouds to the roof, the mountaineer turn
ed to his friend, and said: "Pat, don't
this beat the devil?" "Yes, be jabers,"
replie 1 Pat, "that's the intention of it."
So, in answer to the old man's intterrog
atory about the top rail, I say, JYes,
be jabers, that's the intention of it."
But I'm sorry for Sheriff Smith; he is
an amiable man, and I know this from
my acquaintance with him. He has been
in Jtrouble about this negro deputy busi
ness, verily believe, and the worst of it
is the negroes themselves are hard on
him because he denies and would repudi
ate the charge of having a negro deputy.
So you see his position is that of being
placed betwixt the upper and nether
millstone. The fact seem? to be that
Sheriff Smith, Henry Dockery, Claude
Dockery and Z ich Long indeed the en
tire shootin' match of leaders are, more
or less, bossed by their negro co-partners
in politicts.
Mr. Henry Dockery, our United States
Marshall, appointed this same Hamp
Townsend to take charge of a capture of
whiskey at Hamlet, either as watchman,
guard or something, and there was good
pay in it for Hamp; but having forcible
reason to apprehend that it was not
healthy there f r Hamp (you know that
low country, south of Hamlet, is subject
to malaria) be didn't know how soon
something might "drap off," so Marshal
Dockery removed him for Hamp's and his
country's good. Mr. Dockery said that
is to his friends that he sent Hamp to
Hslmlet because of his being "an old fam
ily servant." Now "don't you know he
was "talkhi2 throneh his hat" when he
said to Democratic friends it wa3 because
Hamp was "an old family servant" and
therefore, could be truste'd by him that
he appointed hiui to that position at Ham
let? Do vou suDDOse he eave that as a
reason to Hamp for hi3 appointment or
told his party friends that Hamp's pecu
liar fitness for the place consisted in the
fact that he was a "faithful old family
servant?" Not a bit of it. Fact is, the
neeroes are aemanaiug recognition 01
their party friends, and as equals with
them, and their party friends are doing
for them the best that they dare to do as
yet; later on, doubtless they are told, the
full fruition of their hope3 will be real
ized in legislative and congressional seats
and other high offices. And who blames
the negroes for making their demands?
Not the Democrats. We say the white
Republicans have nursed you and cradled
you and fawned upon you for the pake of
your votes. They hive puffed you up
with an exaggerated idea of your own
importance as citizens. Instead or leav
ing you in a contented sphere as peacea
ble, industrious people, satisSea that
your superiors and the irue owners of this
whole country shall make and execute its
laws for the g'Kid of all humanity, they
have pursued too far the policy of putting
the "bottom rail on top."
We call you negroes, your true name,
as honorable to you as a race as the name
Caucasian is to us. We like the old
name neero not colored people or
niggers." A candidate got up at Wades
boro to declare himself for representative
of the 26th Senatorial "Deestrict." Judge
Bennett, interrupting him, arose and gave
him a hearty shake of the hand, at the
same time saying with heartiness", "God
bless you.frieud.Iloveyoufor pronouncing
that word "Deestrict. bo I say, give me
the old word 'negro, as applied to that
race to which I yield every right on earth
except the right of social equality with
and the right of ruling over the white
race.
Another proposition in the way of an
instance. The existins conditions in
Richmond county are such that a deli
ifications lof the applicant. By-the way,
who is your School Board of Education
in this county? Composed of Daniel
Jackson, a negro; "Bub" Yates, a chin-
quepin Populist, and a Democrat (God
save the mark), who "knows just how
much "inflooence" will go out from this
Board of Education (?) to elect Z. F- Long
to office again?
But why continue further to justly por
tray the political condition under which
our poor Jold county Las writhed in its
impotency and helplessness until "for
bearance ceases to be a virtue?" It is
high time to declare that we recognize in
all its enormity the perilous situation in
which the moral, social and political in
terests of the white people of Richmond
county are placed by the condition re
ferred to, said condition being the direct,
p re-deter mined and logical result of Re
publican rule as established, fostered and
maintained by whit is popularly known
as the Long and Dockery influence,
whose own purely selfish and unholy
purposes are promoted by it, while the
interests of the unselfish, non-ofhee-seek-
ing public aud society at large is being ir
retrievably injured by it.
Therefore, in c mclasion, we appeal es
pecially to our own race to forget former
differences a nd unite with the Democrat
ic party in the effort to lift poor old Rich
mond county out of the pit of present
degradation and restore moral, social and
political fortunes to the hands of her
white citizens alone, whose rule and gov
ernment, as in the past, will again bring
peace, contentment and happiness to the
whole people without regard to "race.
color, or previous condition of servi-
tuee."
To accomplish this work we Call for
men
'God eive us menl A time like this de
mands
Strone minds, great
and ready hands.
Men whom the lust of office does not
kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can not
buy:
Men who who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor and who will not
lie:
Men who can stand before a demagoge
And scorn his treacherous flatteries with
out winking;
Tall men, suu-crowned, who live above
the fog
In public duty and in private think
ing."
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hearts, true faith
"HE KOWETII BEST."
was sitting in my rocker, swaying slow
ly to and fro "
And I drifted back, in fancy, to those years
of long ago;
To those happy days of childhood, when I
knew 110 pain nor care;
When the Jworld seemed kind and loving;
when the world seemed, oh so fair!
Ah, that first, sweet, spotless chapter!
Oil, that canto, all to brief !
While I slept one night an angel came and
tnrned another leaf.
Turned a leaf and left upon it while I
slept and knew it not
On that paae before unsullied, left a dark
and cruel blot.
Koobed me of my happy childhood; of
those days so free from care.
Led me to a dreary wasteland where was
darkness everywhere.
Took away my sainted mother in the si
lence of the night
Left roe in my awful anguish, groping
blindly for the light.
Then my heart grew cold within me; frozen
with the awful blight
And I would not list to reason, crying ever
" 'Tis not right!"
Trouble followed fast on trouble, as my
path through life I trod,
While I hushed the voice that warned me.
" 'Tis the hand of God."
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In my sorrow even during to pronounce
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Whether the newspapers of Spain are
really as ignorant as they pretend to be
concerning events and conditions in thts
country, or are lying deliberately in or
der to deceive the masses of the Spanish
people is a question. Certain it is, how
ever, that even the leading journals in
Spain publifh the wildest and most ab
surd fabrications in almost every article
about the war that appears la their col
umns. Some specimens of their work in
this line may amuse ourreaders:
El Imparcial of Madrid, in a recent
issue says editorially:
"Ii is a fact well known to all Euro
pean statesman that only by manas of
armed forces stationed in the late Confed
ate States has the Washington govern
ment been able to preserve the semblance
of peace. Even now the new generation
of the Confederacy ia but waiting forthe
word to revolt. Wnsa war is declared
General Lee, who has been consul gener
al general at Havana, and who was kick
ed out of Cuba by Governor General
Blanco, will raise the standard of revolt
of the old Southern Confederacy. This
Lee is the same Lee who was the gener-al-in-chief
of the civil war in 1850 to 1855,
and whose surrender to General Lincoln
in the last named year broke the revolu
tion. His acts at Havana were for the
purpose of plunging the government into
war with the kingdom ot Spaia, at which
time he and his followers would ris
against Senor Mckindley."
Nit to be outdme by its c.impetitor. El
Heraldo, another prominent newspaper in
Spain, c meS forward with the following
no less startling editorial:
"All the troops" of the Yankees are in
the far western part of the country, many
thousands of miles from the Atlantic coat.
There are only a few thousand men. all
told, and they are ill paid and ill fed, and
not willing to fight. To utilize
this force it will be necessary to
to bring it to the eastern seaboard.
There is but one railway by which it can
be transported, and that is an old and
poorly constructed affair. At one place
the road passes over Niagra Falls, a cat
aract 1,000 feet high, near Labrador,. At
last accounts the bridge at this place was
in a very dangerous condition. It need
not surprise one to hear that some agency
had made it still m ire so.,
Neither of the papers quoted is ahead
of El Tempo, which asserts its capacity
in the following able "special" from Havana:
"Word has just been received here that
the Indians are rising against th Yan
kees in Illinois, Ohio and other places.
The farmers are petitioning the govern- .
ment to protect them from the blood
thirsty savages, who are burning houses
and killing on every side. Troops are
asked for at Colorado, in the State of Den
ver, and at St. Louis (San Luis), in Mis
sipa. News is brought to us that Buff.-ilo
Bill, a notorious outlaw and leader of a
band of half-breeds, has risen against the
American government and is burning
towns near his birthplace in New York."
Probably the riches contribution of the
lot is the following from Ei Diario:
"It will no doubt surprise our lexdera
to learn that the Yankee presilent, Mig-
ginley, is a naturalized Chinaman, hav
ing been born in Cantoc."
El Pais describes our country in the fol
lowing graphic style:
"The country is not fit to live in. The
climate is execrable. When it is not sleet
ing or snowing the heat is almost unbear
able. Avalanches are frequent at all
times, and threaten the principle cities.
As for the people, besides the few whites
engaged in business along the eastern
shore, the remainder of the country is one.
vast plain, covered with Indians, called
cowboys, and great herds of roaming
cattle." -
Incredible as it may seem, these are
literal extracts from newspapersf?) to
which a large part of the people of Spain
look tor information as to the progress of
the war and the resourci of this
country. .
The wonder that leading Spanish news
papers print such stuff is lessened when
we learn how the popular leaders in
Spain talk.
General Correa, the minister of war,
said a few days ago.
"The war wid not be confined to Cuba.
What is to hinder us from taking our ar
my to the United States some night and
invest the cap tal at Washington next
day?"
In a recent interview General Weyler
is reported as saying that "with 50,000
soldiers landed on American shores he
could in one week's time march from Bos
ton to San Francisco."
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