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WEEKLY CITIZEN. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE RANDOLPH-KERR PRINTING COMPANY. TERNtt One Tear, lz Months, i.oo 50 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1890. The Lesson ot Tuesday. It was a great victorv ! And it was a righteous one, too. But it was not alto gether and wholly a democratic victory. It will be well not to forget that fact. A great many republicans voted against Quay's candidates in Pennsylvania who probably never will be democrats. . The same thing is true also in Illinois where Cannon, whose filthy remark in the house of representatives, forced the ladies to re treat from the galleries, was defeated either by republican votes or by republi can inaction. Local issucslargely brought about the results in Wisconsin and Min nesota, so favorable to the democrats ; and in Kansas and Nebraska, prohibi tion and the alliance were powerful fac tors in demoralizing the republicans. It is well to consider these things now so that future political action shall not be based on false premises and the democrat partv lulled to a security that would be fatal to it in certain quarters in 1892. Rut thi's evt-eittions aside there re- mains the transfer to the democratic side ! I of an immense number of voters. What influenced them ? Certainly the belief, perhaps newly and slowly forced in upon them, that the democratic partv is nearer right on the great questions of the dav than is the republican. The republi- cans dcliberatelv, and with eyes wide I open, made an issue of Ouay and other like candidates, and therefore of dishon esty as against honesty ; of Reed, enthu siastically re-elected a few weeks ago, and therefore of arrogant and arbitrary legislation as against careful, conserva tive legislation bv a deliberative body : of McKinlev, and therefore 01 a high tariff an1 higher taxes; of millions for pensions, j and therefore of, virtually, the disponing of the treasury; of the force btll, and therefore of sectional legislation to pro- voKe teuerai ituerierence at me pons ana probably bloodshed. I What are the republicans going to do about it? Weconlcss we do not care. They are probably wedded to their hide-1 ous idols. hat the democrats will do ' with their newly acquired power is the important question for the country. If rightly led by leaders who deserve the name Tuesday's victory is but a step to coming into the full control ol the na tional government. If the best forces of the party continue, as now, the ruling ones, a democratic president will be elected in 1892 ami democratic senators will successively depose the republican incumbents as their terms expire. But none of these things will happen as a matter of course. It must now be re cognized as never before that there is a large body of voters in this country who are sensitive to misgoven: ment by party and who cannot lie certainly counted on except to follow where extravagance, lawlessness and dishonest methods to se- cure temporary partisan advantage have not gone before. It the demo cratic majority elects a speaker of the house to imitate Reed by way of retalia tion in kind, however much deserved, it will simply invite defeat at the next elec-1 tion. The people nave cnosen me ouier thing, the better part. A Southern Republican's View. The November number of the North American Review is before us. A number ot the articles are political in character, though the issue is interspersed with con tributions of high character, varied and instructive in subject and treatment. True to its asserted temper of impar tiality, the Review publishes in one com prehensive tabulation six stotements un der the head, "What Congress Has Done," from six prominent members of the present House of Representatives, three Republican and three democratic, among whom are McKinlev and Lodge. The value of their opinions may be esti mated by the results of the election of Tuesday, which prove that the Demo cratic contingent was more sagacious in its conclusions as to the damaging influ ence of Republican measures, and better judges of the temper of the American people. One articie, from its title and the local ity of itf author, merits some notice. It is that by Mr. A. W. Shaffer, of North Carolina, "a Southern Republican on the Lodge Bill." Prima facie, this article is expected and calculated to carry great weight with it. A Southern Republican, expressing hostility to a cherished meas ure of his party, mav be presumed to take a high ground, one superior to the purposes of party and expres sive of the sentiment of a sec tion always jealous of its liberties and assertive of its rights. This was the attitude of Mr. Ewart, , congressman from the ninth North Carolina district. He uttered the sentiments of Democratic and Republican native Southerners, with like reference to their repugnance to the offensive measure. It might be observed, in ' comparing the objections urged against the Lodge bill by" Mr. Shaffer and Mr. Ewart, what a fundamental ait ference there is between an adopted and a native Southerner, With the latter there is the instinctive rebellion against wrong and injustice, protest against .in fringement upon 1 guaranteed, constit tional rights, against restraint on per sonal liberty, against the intrusion of il legal authority. With the former, a man accustomed to the idea of arbitrary power, familiar with thesubject of strong and and consolidated form of govern ment, indifferent to, or impatient of, con stitutional forms and limitations, no sug gestion of the wrong and injustice to flow from the operation pf the bill pre sents itself. Mr. Shaffer's chief objection is that the bill defeats itself by its weak inefficiency, so weak that it invites con tempt ; so inefficient, as to fall unheeded upon indifferent Sourthern ears. Such is not the view of the Southern people, who regard the bill as something real, practical and outrageous, and as such to be denounced, and also resisted by all lawful and peaceful obstructions. Mr. Shaffer is a northern man, of long residence among us, a gentleman of cul ture, and a useful and active citizen. As such he is esteemed and respected. But Mr. Shaffer has not been in position since his residence in North Carolina to earn a claim to influence as a representative of southern opinion, even that of his own party. His relations have always been to a partisan government, rather than to the people. He dropped here after the war, in which he had a regimental com mand, and lecame almost at once an of ficeholder, and has scarcely ever ceased to be one, as V. S. commissioner, as chiel supervisor of elections, as postmaster. His position forbids impartial judgment. If the Force bill wtre strong enough, Mr. Shaffer would approve it. We might smile at one ot the objec tions urged by Mr. Shaffer to the bill. He complains of the gross inequality pro vided for services performed by the va rious officials. There is a savorof north- em thrift in this, and a broad intima tion that even in the name of justice and the cause of patriotism, nothing can be done except "tor a consideration." We quote one paragraph from the arti cle; for in it must be recognizer! the folly and weakness of t lie position taken bv the nbrthern republicans in relation to the negroes of the south. He says, in in- viting a view of the relative position ol the races in this section," he must see a race possessing all the pride and reso-1 lution ol twentv centuries ol tlomiun tion, monopolizing the wealth, the in telligence and the respectability of the people ; a minority controlling their State; and half despising the general government ; united by the strongest tics that ever bound mankind in any unholy I comn;;ct ; orn to riue ai evcr naaiu. ' Thcse he must see arrayed in deadly con- tlict : icainst a partv composed largely 1 " perliap: ferior. two thirds ofn cimlessctllv in- , . despised anil contemned race,; barely quarter ol a century out 01 bar-; barism," j Correcting one expression and sulisti- J tuting "more than half despising a par-; tisan administration" for "general gov- eminent," there is little or. nothing in ; the quotation we do not accept. Com-1 mon sense and common interest tell us we are right. Mr. Shaffer tells us that I the power we seek to control is coin posed to the extent of two thirds of uj people a quarter 01 a century ago 111 a 1 state of barbarism. Is it an "unholy j compact" to stand together to preserve ;ind uphold what Mr. Shaffer admits was the hard achievement of twenty cen turies, laws, civilization, order, religion, morality, government, arts, science. or0perty, wealth, and preserve nil those substantial evidences of the progress of humanity in the upward scale and resist their sun-ender to a race whose only advance has been forced upon them by the very people to be dis placed at the demands of spurious phi lanthropy or exacting party interests? It is a compact that real humanity will everywhere approve and applaud; for humanity nowhere has purpose of retrac- . . . .e. .ril ing its steps, or 10 enter upon mc siny and disastrous experiment of testing the capacity of recent barbarians, after a quarter of a century of nominal experi ence, to carry on successfully those mo mentous affairs for the construction ot which it taxed all the energies of a con fessedly superior race twenty centuries painfully and laboriously to construct. Mr. CleveVund's Right to Rejoice. What right has Mr. Grover Cleveland to a part in the general rejoicings? What has he contributed to the achievement of a victorv that has been won by the un selfish and unsparing efforts of genuine democrats ? New York Sun. The right that comes frpm having done more, and been more, to inspire thecoun try as a whole with faith in the demo cratic party than any man since Tilden. Four years of Grover Cleveland gave the democrats a modern record to point to as an evidence of ability to administer the affairs of the United States with jus tice to all, economically, without seri ous scandal or abuse of any kind, with out disturbing the business interests, with' no interruption to our material progress, and with a distinct gain to na tional morality by raising the standards of public service and by denying the doc trine, first promulgated bv Randolph B. Marcy, that "to the victors belong the spoils." - ' Mr. Cleveland is fat; mugwumps vote for him ; be has at times a most solemn way of saying an undisputed thing j ' he does not possess the highest order of men tal equipment j he is for tariff reform. Por these things, as nearly as we can niake out the nature and extent of his of fending the Sun, he is abused and .de nounced by that paper lira, way and to an extent that form a dmgraiv, tc :our- nalism and an impeachment of the possi bility of considering that the Son is con ducted by gentlemen. ' It is impossible from any view of Cleve land to sympathize with the Sun's at tacks on him. They are so worded as to betray, not that a charge of any kind will hold against Mr. Cleveland, bat an irritation that the great majority of the people refuse to believe the Sun and dis believe in him. The Sun can hardly pick up a democratic newspaper that does not commend Mr. Cleveland frequently and heartily ; and just now it must observe an almost feverish eagerness on the part of journals of large circulation and influ ence among democrats that David B. Hill should succeed Mr. Evans, thus leaving the presidential field clear lorMr. Cleveland and entirely simplifying the democratic situation. We do not hold that it is a test of de mocracy that a man should declare for Cleveland ; there may yet be several can didates; but we do maintain that the newspaper or individual that abuses any democratic candidate without reason, in season and out. resorting to epithets in stead of argument to express its dislike, is an enemy to the democratic party of to-day and should le regarded and named as such. A National Ratification Meeting;. We have no desire to jump upon the prostrate body of the republican party or so much ol one of its fragments as ex ists in this part of North Carolina bv the grace and votes of the enfranchised colored brother. We do not wish to add unduly to the radical agony easily ob- j ne precinct, two years ago gave servable on the elongated countenance of an tiitcen votes. On Tuesday it gave the federal officeholder as he wanders to I Mr. Davis seventy votes. And Mr. and fro in the midst of us and communes j Moody claimed that Mr. Davis was very with the returns from, say, Pennsylvania, unpopular in Haywood. Will our es But we find it not altogether possible to tinned contemporatv the Hendersonville restrain such expressions of joy, even of I Times please cony these futures? I hilarity, as have crept, and may tor a , week or two to come creep, into these columns as we contemplate the height, and breadth, and length, and area, and cuhical contents ot the democratic vie- torv of Tuesday. Men and brethren, it I was immense! For an "off-year" it probably leads all victories of eitlier an cient or modern times in politics; and for years to come it will be referred to as a I cheerintr instance of the crownim virtue - . ol a republic 111 that it breeds the kind of intelligence and independence that sees clearly the right and votes for it regard less uf party and possibly part izan ad vantage. '!''...-,.. 1 t.i i.A ..I it lr, mi,-tmir ,it rl',io,'r:i t to titlv run I MlcniO- ? . - 1 ! Tile lulled Mlaten Senate. ! , The exact figures are not obtainable, 1 but it is evident mat l lie liuUil states senate is to have an infusion of demo- cratic blood to the extent of making it among the bare possibilities that within three years the .McKinlev tariff bill may be succccilcTl by one based on the revenue actually needed tor an economical ad ministration of public affairs and not on protection for monopolies and trusts only. This is not as impossible as may appear at first lzlance. The senators of tne norinwesieru sittics now nine me approval of the great majority of their constituencies for the revolt against a hich tariff which they started, but had not the courage to continue. It is rea-, sonahje to hope for additions to their numbers from senators from some of the farther western states, as Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas. Co Slow. The press of the south never performed a betcer service than lies at its hand now in telling the over-joyful democrats that their latest great victory is not so fa mous as the one they must achieve by wise self-restraint and conservative ac tion in congress. There is some talk of retaliation on Speaker Reed and some of giving the republicans a dose "of their own medicine." But we hope nothing will come of it. If the people approved of thnt sort of thing they Jorgot to say so last Tuesday. The democratic oppor tunity is very favorable. It is not neces sary to be very wise or great or brilliant in 52d congress legislation. Just ordi nary honesty and decency and economy will be highly appreciated after the country's session with Quay, McKinlcy & Co., and will k ep the democratic party in power indefinitely. 'The Citizen" Part. We suppose it will be generally con ceded that The Citizen was a feature ol the campaign just closed. No other pa per in Western North Carolina was able to give the democratic party of Bun combe county and the Ninth district the assistance that The Citizen did. The republicans were badly handicapped for lack of a daily paper, or, in fact, of a first class weekly one. Our leports of the canvass Mr. Crawford made gave him a daily audience larger than any he personally addressed. We made known the manner of man he was and discon certed Mr. Ewart and hit friends by ; a rattling fire of argument and by expos ure of their hollow pretensions to ha ving served the people as none other could. To do this and much more was a pleas ure as well as a duty, and that it was ef fective is reward in full measure. . V A Fault In Our jslena. The Richmond State mys: ': 'W must recollect fhnt the baffled ton snirutors will continue to control both branches Ot congress annng inc next, ses sion, ami that the force bill, which has already been passed by the house of rcp- rcselitfltives, could ensil lie .pnssed by 'IIKIIIII iV.U inr---vv . ,. the senate if the republican senators should desire to see it become a law. We must not forget that the men who cheated Mr. Tilden out of the presidency still con trol the republican party." This points out a serious fault in our present political system. The newly elected representatives should at once take the seats of," the men whose policy the country has declared against. What an ajiamoly, that the legislators who have been repudiated by popular verdict, emphatically pronounced, should go on governing the country for an instant even ! They have, been shown the door, and ought to go. Xlie New Democrats. The lite of the republican party in North Carolina since that time 1876 has been as the lite of a snake with a bruised head but a spasmodic wriggle in its tail. It has been a black body with a white tip to its tail. Its black body has been peaceable, quiescent and kind, but credu lous, and influenced by the venom and greed of the white, brigand and selfish tuil. That white tail is this year show ing more venom than usual. Elizabeth City Economist. On, no, it didn't. A goodly piece of it came to a realizing sense of the bad com pany it was keeping and came over to the democratic party. A Pointer. Two years ago Iron Duff, in Haywood, the home precinct of Jos. S. Duvis, demo cratic candidate for the senate troni Hay wood, Transylvania and Henderson, gave E wart about 35 votes. On Tues day it gave J. M. Moody, Mr. Davis' op ponent for the senate, only 8 votes. Jona than's creek in Haywood, Mr. Moodv's I r IN Michigan, generally good for 20.0110 republican majority, the demo crats nave pionnolv elected their candi date for governor. The republican en li ! dicl.itc, Turner, was a man alter Duav's I ow n Heart. lie bad been accused ol 'Stealing public money, and the present cpuniican governor, i,uee, an honest hltcan uovernor. Luce, an honest man, declined to say a word for him. At the Chicago convention when llarficld w.-is miniiti.'iti'il Oinklinir s.iiil witlitlmr . j sneering sarcasm ot which he was a mas- , tcr. oin can carry .wicii.gan. (irst time in thirtv-four years. Gebtha Conkhnir was wrong and it is a pity he u.rritory into the union right away. did not live to see it. - -- . . 1 p,,m.-E hill Henrv Cabot Lodge's ma- Tin-: democratic successors to Major!. . . ,. , ., , , . . Mi Kinlev mid I Mr. Cannon anil lift v more, republican congressmen will lake their seats knowing that those seats hne 1 1 1 r 1 1... i: 1.1 "ecu omiu.tscu ii mi- 11 in i-.iigiisii gum. land they will reck with corruption . ,() ,-, imperial 1 md policy all through their c mgressiomil terms. New York Mail and I-'xpress. This is written by the man whom W. K. Ynmlcrbilt said was "more kinds of a fool" than .my other man on earth. And it is precisely the kind of drivel that nas helped to lodge several thousand re- publican votes with the democratic party. Ti,.. .,,i..,..,..m, ,,;,, ,.,,i,i I,.,,.- 1 vented Senator tjuay Iroin nominating ! Mr. Delamater fin governor ot Pcnnsvl- j vania-a man publicly charged with be- ing a thief and they did not do it Mail and hxprtss. I Hello! How did you 6nd that out? . ..!,:., e tu',B 1.;., .,.kf tf r... .Alllllll IIIIO B1IIU hlVf, nuis llV .- publican press lie lore election, and it must be the information came from dem ocratic sources. But, seeing that Harri son is Quay's little errand boy, how could he prevent Quay doing whatever he wanted to do ? Your spasm of virtue, esteemed Wail and Distress, is belated. SoVth Carolina, it will beremembered by those who read republican papers, was to run red with blood on Tuesday and exemplify the.dirt necessity of num berless force bills. But the election passed off with hardly a local quarrel, a small vote was polled and all went mer ry (for Tillman) as a marriage Ivcll . Till man, by the way, made some large promises to pay for turning his state wrong side out. Let us hope they were, not promises only. The Hendersonville Times says Cleve land 'has not written a letter for several weeks. The Times trains with H. G. Evart and is therefore away behind the procession. The last letter Mr. Cleve land wrote was dated Nov. 2 and con tained this prediction : "Triumphant de mocracy is on the way and the Massa chusetts contingent must be prepared to join the march with flying banners of victory." The Massachusetts contingent elected a democratic governor. I have come here not with the purpose of eulogizing the administration, but to bear my testimony that as Pennsylva nia votes, on -next Tuesday the nation may vote two years hence.--James G. Blaine, last Saturday night. Thtt"k"' Mr Blaine. ; s A subscriber of The Citizen at Wea- verville writes; "The brave contest for denmrratlc truth that you have just con eluded is worthy of a place in history. Long; may The Citizen wave I" The all but universal testimony re garding the new ballot boi laws in the various states is that they worked to the advantage of honesty and indepen dence at the polls Tuesday. Anyway the democrats cannot complain. "Will the party at large continue to follow his bidding, or will they cast him out a an unclean thing r i, HE Springfield (Mass.) Republican asks this of.Qimyj The republican party ... . , will not cast him out. 10 uo so woum be confession and confession would im ply repentance, and the republican partv has not advanced that far yet. And it probably never will. A change of 60,000 votes in Pennsyl vania means that there are a great many voters in that state who were bet ter than their partv. Delamater was Quay's man and Delamater is beaten. The rest of the state ticket was not Quay's and it is elected. Was there ever before so loud a voice calling a man a thief? We mav be suggesting an invidious comparison, but it will be many a long day before the people of Buncombe, at lenst, will forget how Capt. Thomas Johnston pulled off his coat and went in for Crawford. The New York Tribune declares that the force bill will be passed. As a dem ocrat we hope it will be. The passage of that bill would give the republican party its eternal quietus. The Winston Republican has a head line stating: "The republicans hold their own." This is a very pretty way of say ing that the republicans have mighty lit tle to hold. It is more difficult than usual to pre dict the vote this year. The thinking and independent men are not going to vote ine rtpuuncan ticket. Springfield Republican. You guessed it right, yankee. Those federal officials who, on the peo ple's time and with the people's money, have been electioneering for the last month or more will now resume work and behave themselves till 189?. The Hendersonville Times (Ewart or gan) has this profound comment on the political situation: "Mrs. K. F. Orr, of Bowman's Hlufl, has our thanksforsorne nice beets sent to us last week." Thkv must have "suppressed the ne gro vote" in Pennsylvania, Massacbu settts, New Hampshire, and in McKin lev 's district in Ohio and Cannon's in Illinois. i The Atlanta Constitution continues to misrepresent .Norm Carolina. It said Tuesday: "Kwart, republican, will probably be elected in North Carolina." 1 New Mexico democnts will have a n,ajoritv i the senate and house for the J - "'..use-e ls uisu.ci . about 1,000 in place of years ago. Fair warning :soo of two Almost the only tragedy of the elec tion was at Pine Hluff, Ark., where a re publican negro deputy sheriff shot three democrats at the polls. Missing: A license to practice-law. The finder v i 1 1 please address H. C Ewart, Hendersonville. The next speaker's eye. Here's hopeing Czar Keed will never, never catch it. Hi NCOMHE county continues in the hands ot its friends, the democrats. The next house ot representatives will be a deliberative body, Mr. Reed. The Illinois Cannon was only a small ' bore after all. And Vance ? He's all right. A Railroad Commission. Prom the Raleigh Chronicle- The legislature is democratic by a large majority, and this insures the passage of a railroad commission and the re-election of Hon. Zebulon B. Vance to the U. S. senate. A democratic solicitor is elected in most of the districts, and in most counties democratic officers will serve the people. To Republicans Everywhere. Auraoniu umvi"i . You may fool some of the people all ot the time ; you may fool all of the people some of the time ; but you can't tool all of the people all of the time. Wake la Democratic. Prom the Newt and Obierver. We have not onlv elected Bunn, but an entire legislative ticket, and the entire county ticket. Soula With But a (single Thought. Prom 1,000 Newpaper. As the smokeof Tuesday's battle clears away . .. There Must Have Been More of Him. Prom the CharUtte Chronicle. T. W. Lewis, a wealthy and influential av lien of Rutherford county, has announced hll intention to leave the republican party on account of Ua "general meanness," and vote the democratic ticket. , f And the Force Bill. , Prom the 8t Loalt Globe Democrat. ' Whf'c several agencies have been actively at work in bringing about the republican defeat, the principal Instrumentality-, and the one which alme would have been suffi dent to account for the set-back, is the Mc Kinlev tariffact. There a Lot of Them Then, From theXenoir Topic. When we say Yankees we do not mean It in an offenalTe kuk, Any man outside of North Carolina who haa money and grit and wants to come among as and make hl home with us Is In our eyes a Yankee, '',," Twonld be Worth Hearing. Prom the Winston Dally. We' would like to hear Rev. Dr. Pritchard and Rev. 8am Tones discns the Question Resolved, that It ia easier to find ' fault than be perfect. '' f-1; ji jfijsi And II Helped the Democrats. From a New York paper. : When it was (1 Over a car driver mid .' "That new ballot law ia a big thing. nnnr man caa vole bo n he flenscw with' . oat nor of the corporations msn.- BITTER, SOITRED DANA. Another Attack on Cleveland bv a Traitor In the Camp. Prom the New York Son. So far as the Scott movement was not a Tom Piatt republican movement, it was a Grover Cleveland movement. But if Mr. Cleveland followed the inspiration of a selfish and cowardly interest in his own supposed political fortunes, he went to the polls, after skulking for a month: behind the trees that surround the bat tlefield, and voted as he had, not prayed. Who knows whether the vote that the stuffed prophet cast on Tuesday was the vote of an open enemy, or of a treacher ous and cowardly egotist. Who cm sup ply the information that will interest the whole country ? What Porter's Figures Bhow. Prom the New York Sun. The decrease discovered by Porter in the reproductive powers of the popula tion of the United States is practically confined to the democratic states. The people of the republican states have in creased and multiplied in the natural way and by accessions from abroad at a rate insignificantly different from the rate of ten years ago. The falling off in 1890 from the general percentage of 1880 is only from 30.08 per cent, to 29.48 per cent, in the states politically controlled by Porter's party. The falling off in the states controlled by the party to which Porter is inimical is from 30.08 to 19.64 per cent. This wonderful statistician and stal wart partisan has succeeded in proving the enormoesly uperior fecundity of re publicans. It is the republicans and not the democrats of the United Sfil t I'd HI'. cording to his figures, that are begetting the children who are to be our future cit izens. NOT OFF-YEAR NEGLECT, The Voter Knew What They were Doing. From the Springfield Republican. It was neither ofl-vear indifference nor carelessness that defeated tne republicans on Tuesday. There has been no indiffer ence and off-year neglect ot politics in this campaign; on the contrary, the country has been stirred to a degree ol interest hardly exceeded in a presidenti.-.l contest. The voters of the country knew what they were doing Tuesday and why they did it, and took the control of congress away from the republican partv because that partv had abused its opportunities. This is the obvious fact, so obvious that no one but the wilfully bliud can mistake it. THAKIKSUIVING DAV. The Democrats Have Kspeclal Heanon to be Thankful. The president has issued a proclama tion appointing "Thursday. 27th day of the present month ol November, to oe observed as a day of prayer and thanks giving, and 1 do invite the people upon that dav to cease from their labors, to meet in their accustomed houses of wor- lnp and tn loin in rendering uratitude and praise to our lx-nefiticiit Creator for the rich blessings he has given to us as a nation and invoking u continuance of His protection and grace lor the future." Hownrethe Mighty Fallen! From a Washington Sine al The fortunes of politics are, indeed, strange, and no man will lie made to realize this fact more than Hon. William McKinlcy. Yeslerdav he was a republi can idol. Now there are tew members of his own party who have even a kind word tor him. In uddition tt his unfor tunate tariff measure, his selfiishness in sorbing the bulk of the campaign funds in his district, in order that bis personal interest might be advanced, bus brought down on his own head the maledictions of all the defeated republican congress men and their mends. He Will Make His Mark. Prom the Asheville Democrat. Mr. Crawford not only proved himself the equal of Mr. Ewart ; he proved him self to be his superior. His fullness of in formation, tne wonderfullv ready use ot all his equipment, his factlitv in debate. readiness of reply, quickness in repartee, I C ' C . Keenness 01 sniirc, vigor 01 denunciation, boldness of aggression, all aided and sus tained by fluency and elevation of lan guage, stamped him as a man who had suddenly burst the bonds of obscuritv and ascended into the sphere into which he is destined hereafter to move in grow ing splendor. War Taxea. From the Springfield Republican. War taxes In a time of profound peace are not desirable. They mean that the people of fixed incomes cannot buy so much with their money, and under no possible circumstances will they suffice to raise the pay of the great mass of us. Certain special and favored interests have been able 10 lew these taxes, which do not go into the public treasury but into private pockets.' There is the tariff question in a nutshell. 1 WeDldl Prom the New York Bun, 4th. - Vote the democratic ticket! Guilty of Stealing- Public Monev. Prom the ICnoxville Tribune. . Quay haa dodged the courts, but he has been tried .before the great court of the pub lie and is pronounced guilty as charged in the indictment. , . . Don't Forget Thla. Prom the Springfield Republican.' But let the democrats remember that this thing hAppens about once In so often. . They must be on their good behavior. ;.i-:f,;.' I " i' I ' 1 . ''S...i' ' j!,', - Ah I f You Only Could push It I Prom the Hendersonville Times. 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