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,7 , CIRCULATION 1,000. . 1 JOHNSTON, SAMPSON Large circulation 0- -0 Ph'.v your "ad" with u and see the results. in each county. 'Proye all things; hold fast that which is good." Vol. 9. OUIMIV, IM.. C- UrME 14, 1899. No.,27. )) H WILL lite It is the strangest .thing' we ever saw that some people will come, to town, do their trading, g'; home and never see our goods. or get our prices. are like the man pocket' book with on the first day of April and wouldn't pick it up but waited to see his neighbor find it. You are out of Jt unless you see us before you buy. Let us give a few reasons why you should trade with us. n MUuii Nt We sell cheaper than anybody else. COME AND li:t i s proyk it. '2nd We are no false pretenders. "We advertise nothing wr'vo Dot got, LIKK SOME. :jrd Because we buy and sell for cash. lth Because we keep the largest, cheapest and best select ed stuck in tli o county. fth Because we make good anything that is not as repre sented and' WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT. We aiiticipatc4Jie largest trade this fall we '.have ever had, hav ing bought the largest, cheapest and best stock of goods that will be in town this season. We feel sure we are going to mmm m In order torrtiakc room for this immense stock we are now CLOSING OUT all our Spring and Summer goods, in both houses, at (RFATLf I1EDKED KATFS ,WR HIE CASH, mo at once and be convinced that what we say is true from now until 1U0O'. Dniiii,. lassie JJ1T I WO B i!EVBR Brother, you who' found a 810,000 in it Si LIU I - Yours for business, u HNT..C- IT! i$ , Stores GeiWraf CcivleS for the Amendment. Good For Both Races. Gen. Andrew D. Cowles, of States ville, one of the "fire tried" Republicans of this State has written a verv frank and very brave letter in advocacy of the proposed suffrage Amend ment to our constition and gives the reasons whv he favors it and will support it, and uhy every Republican., who desires harmony between the races, and the good of the State, should do likewise. The letter is written to Dr. Solomon Angle, of the Iredell county Republican com mittee, apparently in reply to questions aspect as to tne posi tion of the writer on the Amendment question, and is written with 'the fulness and frankness of one friend writing to another. While a private letter, the probabilities are that it was intended for publication, and has therefore been pub lished. We find it in the Char lotte Observer, and quote from it those portions bearing di rectly upon,ithe amendment, with the simlple remark that as coming from a Republican of standing' and of recognized leadership, the letter is one of the best arguments that have been advanced in advocacy of it. Beginning, he says: "I have given ' the proposed amendment to the constitution consideration, and have dis cussed the question fully with ex-Senator A. C. Sharpe, who, you know, is a good Republi can and a sensible man. We shall not oppose the measure at the polls, believing that its ratification will lead to a solu tion of the race trouble and ul timately prove a blessing to the State of North Carolina. The educated colored man is not af fected, and the deprivation of the right to vote by the illiter ate will stimulate the ignorant negro to qualify himself by go ihg to school or getting to teach him to read and others write at home. He then pays his respects to the Fifteenth Amendment, which he tfius characterizes as the "worst blunder of the nine teenth century." The fifteenth amendment to the Federal constitution was therworst blunder of the nine teenth century, and had Presi dent Lincoln lived it would not have ibeen ndopted. His wis dom and love of the chivalrous South would have , dictated an educational qualification or lim itation ot age, treating the new ly emancipated freeman as a minor in law and providing t enty-one years or more be fore exercising his right to vote. The dark and bloody days of reconstruction would have been turned into an era of congratulation that the incubus of slavery had passed awaj leaving the South better off than if wediad been conquerors. There would have been no feel ing , entertained of attempted humiliation on the part of the North by making late slaves the equals of their late" masters, and the negroes without the iridescent dream of office ever before them, and ever eluding, would have concentrated their talents wholly in the direction of improving their condition. Education received, property amassed and happiness secured would have been their portion, and in every progressive step of their existence they would have had only to reach out to fi n d a white man's hand ready to lead them, protect and defend them, in stead of to smite. In God's own good time the negro, after years of preparation, may have been called to a participation in the government of the coun try. You only have to recur to the forcible suppression of the negro vote in some of the Southern States as proof of premature enfranchisement. "It, is seldom that a measure j cursos every one andbenefits no i one, but such is the history of the fifteenth amendment. The North, flush with victory, re solved to perpetuate the power of the Republican party with this service vote. The South ern State were re-districted and on the increase citizenship about 40 new districts were added, securing an equal num ber of Congressmen and electo ral votes. Up to 1879 this plan worked. Since then it has been a boomerang. A lonely Congressman here and there and not a single electoral vote is the result of the fifteenth amendment on the fortune? of the Republican partv. Had there been no fifteenth amend ment there would have been no massacre at Hamburg no mur der at Copiah ; no slaughter at Maridian : Postmaster Baker would not lrnve bepn a victim of the assassin ; John W. Ste phens would not have fuiliished a theme for "A Fool's Errand" and the Ku Klux Klan would have never existed. Had this veritable box of pandora re mained unopened, injustice to the negro would have met swift punishment by our courts, prejudice would have hung its head in shame in our temples of justice,, and, backed by pub lic sentiment, the colored man's rights would jiave-been protect ed. So I say, the North suffer ed, the trouth suffered and the greatest sufferer of all was he whom it was expected to bene fit. j This is pretty straight talk 0n the Fifteenth fAmendment, which he might with even more propriety have characterized as the greatest political crime of the nineteenth or of any other century, instead of "the greatest blun der." It was both, a blunder in conception, ana a Crimean execution. The general believes in white supremacy ana very iraiiKiy goes on record in the following unequivocal language : "The white man's boast of superiority is not idle or imagi- narv. Centuries of unfettered opportunity have endowed him with the divine richt to rule. He" has given the world its lit erature and . invented the tele graph and girdled the world almost annihilating invented the steam time : he engine and almost 'annihilated distance ; the printing press to accom plish universal education and preserve in enduring form the treasures' of the mind. The loom, the sewing machine, the reaper, the electric light, trans forming night to day, are the products of his brain. Up to this time God has never chosen the negro to lead any great movement, make a discovery, invent anything, contribute to literature, perpetuate himself in song Or story, and if he were blotted out of existence the world would scarcely miss him in its onward march of achieve" ment, nor. long remember that he once lived. It ..would not remember, except the civil war was waged over him and the country deluged in blood,; nor care, except. the South admires his devoti6n during the period of 1SG1 and 18G5." After sharply criticising the appointment of negroes to of fice in the South, he thus gives the reason for it : "By eliminating the ignorant negro vote the race question will be no longer paramount. When this is relegated the peo ple will divide on the great eco nomic questions of the day. Stump speakers will then dis cuss protection, money, expan sion. I believe the State will give its electoral vote to the Republican candidate in 1908 if this amendment is adopted. Manufacturers, bankers, rail road operatives, laboreis, far mers and professional men be lieve in the party of protection and sound money, and when the negro no longer constitutes three-fourths of the Republican partv white men will then vote 1 upon conviction and not upon prejudice. I he Republican party in North Carolina to-day j holds 011 ! white rec t no inducements for ecruits, nor does it com- mand the steadfast allegiance of the white men in its. ranks. Thousands voted the Demo cratic ticket in 1898, and these and other thousands will do so in 1900. With the negro fc T . 1 y - mm m oNorth Oarohna will never cast her vote, for the Republican can didate. The - whittling down process is going on from year to 3Tear. Mckinley and other shrewd Republicans North feel confident of success without a single Southern State, and as long as they can get along with out them they prefer to do so. They use the South for another purpose. They appoint ne groes to influence the colored vote of Indiana and New York and to secure delegates to the next national convention. Thev do not offend the whites of the North by appointing colored men there. As they do not expect to carry a single South ern State they appoint negroes here regardless of effect and the colored men of New York and Indiana are rewarded by the recognition of their Southern brethren. Is there in the whole of New England, the home of the abolitionists, a single negro holding an - elective ofiice? Is there a lone "appointee of the President there? Is .there a negro collector of customs in New York or anywhere else, including Cuba, except in North Carolina, Lousiana or some other Southern State? Is there one in Ohioj the home of the President? Notice if you please no negroes appointed in States where the Republicans expect electoral votes. They are ap pointed in Democratic States and the District of Columbia to secure delegates to the national convention. New York Jias 25,000 negro votes. As goes this vote so goes the State. Cleveland wanted it and ap pointed Trotter, a colored man, as marshal of the District of Columbia, and McKinley will get it with Cheatham, of this State The accuracy with which he states the case in this extract shows that he has made a care ful diagnosis and knows what he is talking about, and he also shows a pretty level head in his plan for protecting the white man and also the negro, in the following : "Certain counties in North Carolina are controlled;,, by ne- groes, wnne tne intelligence and property belong to the whites, m Bad feeling will al ways exist and the colored man will be the sufferer. I am not willing for him to control. ' It is a bad advertisement for a countv or State offering homes to intelligent and thrifty set tlers, humiliating to the whites and unfortunate for all. The white man's pride and passions are constantly appealed to, and deadly feeling long pent up at last finds escape in bloody con flict. Who gets hurt? Not a white Republican but the negro. The Federal Government right ly proposes that we shall sett'e the race question as a State question, and if 10,000 colored men or all of-them are killed in riots that is simply the negro's misfortune. No Federal ques tion being involved, the United States takes no cognizance. I 0 would protect him by taking him out of politics, and every friend he has in the State should vote for the amendment." He thus answers the rot about depriving negroes of their right to vote. Contending that the deserving, reputable colored man will not be deprived of his I ! vote he says : "The class that the amend ment reaches contains the crim inals the ignorant and the vicious. The class not affected contains the educated, the preachers, teachers, the thrifty property holders, really valua ble citizens, like Rev. S. F. Wentz, Fred Chambers, of this city men who enjoy the friend ship and respect of the best white people here. It is noto rious thatthe class that the amendment reaches does not appreciate the privilege they have in voting. 1 have seen them bought almost in open market in this citv. The edu cated -ot my acquaintance are self-respecting and place a high value on the boon of voting. Some of them are . Democrats. Our administration will never turn over the destinies of the educated property-holding classes to the illiterate, non-property-holding classes in the Phillippines, Porto Rico and Cuba. Yet this was what was done by the victorious North with the conquered South. The whites wero disfranchised in the Southern States practi cally, and the negroes enfran chised. President McKinley indicates right here that lie would have opposed the fif teenth amendment had he been then where 'he is now. But the Anglo-Saxon has yet to meet a problem too hard for him to solve. We know the course politics has run since emancipation." There are other interesting points in this interesting letter, but as they do not bear directly upon the amendment we omit them, but give the conclusion, which is as follows : "There is no permanent dis franchisement contemplated. The horde of ignorant negro voters is simply suspended. If they care for the privilege of voting, it will act as an incen tive to learn to read and write. If good can come to the whole people of the State by the tem porary suspension of this class, it is not the part of patriotism to oppose the amendment? The measure will operate as a com pulsory education law, and a more general diffusion of knowledge will follow." "The -Republican party has all to gain and nothing to lose. From 1876 to 1894 in every election year it hurled its ser ried ranks against the invinci ble phalanx of the Democratic party. Its struggles were he roic, but useless. By combin ing with the Populists in 1894 the Democrats were overthrown, but now the last condition of the Republican party is worse than the first. This is the be ginning of an honest effort to solve by legal and peaceful methods the most momentous question now before the people of the State, and under the guidance of a kind Province that has so singularly pre served the South through all its vicissitudes in the, past I hope every endeavor ii this di: rection may have the- blessing of God and lead to a solution of this perplexing problem. The success of the amendment will be a harbinger of good-will be tween the races and usher in a better day for all of our peo ple." Tliese are the views of a rec ognized Republican leader, frankly expressed. They need no comment for they are self- explanatory and carry their own argument with them. Wilmington Star. Walter W. Pool is a one ero-ed bov who recently rode a bicycle from Winston to Greens boro in four hours and fifteen minutes. He lives in Salisbury and made the trip on his wheel from his home to Winston in six hours and twenty minutes. The report is out that in El kin, a town of 1,100 inhabi tants, the mayor imposed no fine from May 1st, 1898, to May 1, 1899. A very Iawabid ing citizenship, or a very leni ent mayor. Mr. George Thompson met with a serious 'accident at ,Bis coe on Thursday of last week. He was getting on his engine while it was in motion with an oil can in his hand and lost his footing and one of his feet got caught under the wheels mash inglt badly and shattering the bone of his leg just above the ankle so seriously that his leg had to be amputated between the anklo and knee. We are glad to learn that he is doing as well as could be expected and hope he will soon be alright again -Aberdeen Telegram. Subscribe for this paper. STATE NEWS. Items of news gathered from all r arts" of the State. A little boy, 18 months old, of Mrs, W. D. Smith, of East Durham, got hold of a bottle of furniture mixturo andj drank a portion of the contents and died in an hour. Mr. Washington Duke, of Durham, will have an audito rium built at the Lpuisburg Female College to cost from six to ten thousand dollars. Mr. B. N. Duke last week gave 50,000 unconditionally to Trinity College. This makes $183,000 which Trinity has re ceived from the Duke family in the past year. Lightning struck the barn of Mr. W. G. Sears near Morris ville, Wake county, Friday night. The barn .took fire and was burned. This is the third barn that Mr. Sears has lost by lightning on the same spot in 10 years. A very-destructive wind and hail storm visited Davidson county Thursday evening doing great damage to growing crops. At Thomasville the crops of tho Baptist Orphanage were totally deslroyed. The depot at Rural Hall was struck by lightning Saturday afternoon. Lee F. Bernard was badly shocked. An um brella in another man's hand was torn to pieces but the own er was not hurt, says a dis patch , from Winston, to the News & Observer. A terrific- wind storm visited Statesvillo Saturday morning. Houses wero unroofed and blown down. Hail accompa nied the wind and did mnch damage to crops in the vicinity. Tlte damage in the town is es timated at $10,000. On Thursday of last week John Pressly, colored, was struck by lightning and instant ly killed. He was going homo' to dinner, and was at a point in rear of Pounds' shop where he was killed. His hat and ono of his shoes was torn in pieces, but there was no mark on his body. The affair created great excitement among the colored people, and the funeral services Friday over the remains was attended by hundreds. Con cord Times. TO1 (M 1 C 1 Did you ever try to dodge the rain-drops? Did not succeed very well, did you? It's Just as useless to try to escape from the germs of consumption. You can't do it. ,They are about us on every hand and we are con stantly taking them Into our lungs. Then why don't we all have this disease? Simply because these germs cannot gain a foot hold in a strong throat and lungs. It's when these are weak that the germs master. The body must be well supplied with fat. The danger comes when the blood Is poor and the body is thin. If your cough does not yield, and your throat and lungs feel raw and sore, you should not delay another day. Take EMUnlsflomi of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypophos phites at once. It will heal the inflamed membranes and greatly strengthen them as well. The digestion becomes stronger, the appetite better and the weight increases. The whole body be comes, well fortified and the germs of consumption cannot gain a foothold. . It's this nourishing, sustain ing and strengthening power of SCOTTS EMULSION that has-made it of such value in all wasting and exhausting diseases 50c" and fiooi H druggist. SCOTT A POWKE, Qtmim, Nw Yoriu mm A