THE STAIIDARD.
Friday, July 13, 1888.
NATIONAL TICKET.
Fob President
Grover Cleveland,
For Vice-President
Allen 6. Thurman.
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor:
DANIEL G. FOWLE.
For Lieutenant-Governor:
THOMAS M. HOLT.
For Secretary of State:
WILLIAM L. SAUNDERS,
of Orange County.
For State Treasurer:
DONALD W. BAIN,
of Wake County.
For State Auditor:
GEORGE W. SANDERLIN,
of Wayne County.
For Supt. of Public Instruction:
. SIDNEY M. FINGER,
of Catawba County.
For Attorney-General:
THEODORE F. DAVIDSON, .
of Buncombe County.
Associate Justices Supreme Court
JOSEPH J. DAVIS,
of Franklin County.
JAMES E. SHEPHERD,
of Washington County.
LPHONSO C. AVERY,
of Burke County.
For Presidential Electors at Large
ALFRED M. WADDELL,
of New Hanover County.
h REDERICK N. STRUDWICK,
of Orange County.
'EJiSEBfTlAtS" ' CJRATI9."
Wa are in receipt of a poster from
Mr. W, F. Steele, of Greensboro,
which has for its caption "Prohibi
tion Party," announcing that "Wil
liam T, Walker, Prohibition Guber
natorial candidate will address the
citizens in the Court House, Con
cord, July 16, at 1 p. m." Accom
panying said poster is a note and 54
cents worth of stamps, requesting
that we"insert as much of the essen
tials of said poster as the stamps
will pay for in a business way."
Mr. S. is especially specific in saying
that "all the blowing up we get in
Editorial columns we consider
gratis." We have embodied the "es
sentials" of the poster above, and
give it "gratis," having placed it in
the Editorial column.
Now, with all due deference to the
cause of local option, let us say to
the people of the grand old county
of Cabarrus, wh are democrats out
and out, that to them this third
party may seem to be a huge joke
when applied to State offices, but
nevertheless it is a fact, dear friends,
that they have in the field a Nation
al aud State ticket.
The Raleigh Chronicle when it
asserted that "Third Party Prohi
bitiouists will be responsible for the
degradation of the State if so great
a calamity as Dockeiy's election
should come about through their
third party ticket,' spoke "the truth
the whole truth' and nothing but the
truth." We venture to say that
not one third party enthusiast
from W. T. Walker and W. F. Steele
down to the most youthful badge
wearer in a local option campaign,
has the least idea that there is any
earthly hope of their success in the
coming election. The Republicans
know this, and know more than this,
they are aware that aoy aid to this
third party must come from Demo
cratic ranks. The whole thing is
merely a side show, -and when exam
ined in its true light, will be set
down on, fairly and squarely, bythe
people. Looking at it from a Dem
ocrauc stauapoini u appears to us
simply a decoy thrown out to entrap
Democratic voters, as an "essential'
to Republican success. We have
never been able to get the third
party . organ On our exchange list,
i i i i . .
uui we nave perusea several copies
and the editorial pages teem with
cuarges against .democracy, and
hardly ever a word against Reoub
licau policies. To the thinking peo
ple of our State and county the cer
tain fact stands boldly out, that our
next State officials will be Republi
can or Democrat. No ore presumes
that the "Prohibition Gubernatorial
Candidate" will be our next chief
magistrate, aud these third party
leaders are doiiig more harm to
local option in this campaign than
all the Sam Jones' and Sam Smalls'
oan remedy in a decade; for, we have
heard men, leading, influential men,
who have stood by local option
through thick and thin at every elec
tion, emphatically say that when
prohibition makes even probable,
the success of that party whose high
handed extravagance and misrule
well nigh ruined our State, then
prohibition must go.
Friends, fellow citizens, there is
no prohibition governor in the case
Which shall ite, Radical rule as in
days just after the war, or Democra
cy as it is? As Carolinians let us give
our whole support to the present
economic administration and defeat
Republicanism and its hangers on.
In each and every town we expect
this Third Party to have a few fol
lowers whose zeal in endeavoring to
moralize the world in a few years
far outweigh their jndgment, and
who would dare risk a return to the
evils of 1868 in their attempt to so
ber up a whole universe. Of these
we would ask Do they suppose
Prohibition Governor could do more
for the cause than our present offi
cials nave doner Would ne usurp
authority, and, taking the reins of
government in his own hand make
way with local option by putting in
its stead State Prohibition? Would
not such a change need the sanction
of a popular . vote? And then again
Prohibition would be overwhelming
ly defeated and the downfall of, lo
cal option would follow. .
Concord is out-spoken in her
preference for local option, and in
no other town in North Carolina has
the decision of the ballot box on
this question been so gracefully sub
mitted to by the defeated. Our bar
men with all the "essentials" of good
citizenship in their composition
"stepped down and out. Jbor so
berness, honesty, and fealty to good
government Cabarrus is a mode
county, and we do not belioe that
Mr. Steele will find a half dozen
confirmed drunkards iu her borders.
As for the Prohibition Gubernato
rial candidate and his aspiring com
rades on the ticket we kuow not
what faction, party or clique they
held allegiance to before the organi
zation of their party, which has no
state or national policy marked ou
save the supression of the liquor
traffic, but we ask every one to en
quire into tneir iormer creeds and
see if the majority do not lean away
back to Repnblican misrule of years
Through our Greeusboro corres
pondent we give this notice gratis
to the Third party and in the mean
time express to our readers our be
lief that the "essentials to good
government in Carolina is Pemo
cratic supremacy, and we expect to
"fight it out on this line if it takes
all summer."
"ORGANIZED PROHIBITION."
A numoer or our citir.ens met on
the evening of the 6th of July for
the" purpose of organizing a Prohibi
tion Club. J. M. Buraze was call
ed to the chair and W. L. Grissom
elected secretary. The meeting was
opened with prayer by the Rev. R.
F. Bumpass. The platform of the
Prohibition party, State and Nation
al was endorsed, and it was resolved
to work, pray and vote for Prohibi
tion until it becomes an accomplish
ed fact, A permanent organization
was effected to be known as the Na
tional Prohibition Club. Fifty-five
persons, all voters, gave in their
names as members of the club, and
a number of others have since hand
ed in their names.
The following were elected per
manent officers of the club: Presi
dent, J. M. Burage; Vice President,
T. T. Robbinson; Secretary, Rev. W.
L Grissom; Assistant. Secretary, C.
T. Troy; Treasurer, J. W. Moose;
Executive committee, W.'P. Shealey,
Jos. Mabrey, M. L. Black welder,
Chas. Stratford, J. M. Alexander,
C. T. Troy, and F. P. Smitn.
Through courtesy, we publish the
above report of "Organized Prohibi
tion," as it is given us.
We regret this step by those of
our citizens who have espoused the
cause of this newly fledged
State ticket. We hope that
a second thought will convince them
of the impossibility of their effort,
and that on the day of election they
will be heart and soul with us - in
swelling the majority for Democra
cy. The Standard a3 a papei for
tne Home circle, and the fire sidefc
will be far from, in any way injur
ing local option, temperance or pro
hibition, but when, as the upholder
of true Democratic principles8 it
sees the zeal of its advocates carrying
us back, step by step, to the never to
be forgotten misrule and domination
of Republicanism we can but speak
out. North Carolina a few years
past voted down State prohibition
by a majority exceeding one hundred
thousand, and this new party move
we can but believe merely jeopar
dizes the present economic State ad
ministration by the possibility of a
return to that which every true
Carolinian will endeavor to escape.
Mr. Ptitchard, Republican can
didate for Lieutenant Governor,
rather slipped up when he said to
the people of Durham last Saturday
that protective tariff built up the
town. Our wide awake exchange,
The Plant, very courteously reminds
this would be State official that the
highest protected enterprise ever
started in Durham, the Wooden and
Woolen Mills, protected by a tariff
tax of 70 or 80 cts., has "busted"
and will be sold at auction to-mor
row. Does protection protect?
"John Sherman lays his defeat at
Chicago to Alger of Michigan. He
says Alger purchased fifty Southern
delegates who were pledged to him,
and that the loss of these fifty dele
gates causM his defeat. Yet this is
the ffansr that Sherman nas Deen
trying for years to put in control at
the South. JNews and ooeerver.
Yes and this is the party Oliver
Dockery represents in the State cam
paign. see to it jjemocrats tnac
every township is fully organized.
r i 1 T 1 ll A.
Let every Democrat stick to his
colors. Remember 1868 and see for
your8elvss if Radicalism has not the
same old leaders in 1888.
The Tariff aad the Poor Han.
It is said the tariff is very little
understood by the masses. This is
very true. Indirect taxation like
this does not affect the populace like
direct taxation. It is not seen or felt
on account of the mode of its col
lection. No tariff tax collector comes
to the poor wage earner with a bill
to be paid. The wage earner is nev
er disturbed by the call of such an
omciai. mere is notmng to indi
cate that the carpenter, lhe sawye
the rock mason, the plowman, the
wagoner, the . factory operator, the
gardener, the milkmaid pay any
tariff tax to the support of the gov
ernment or the enrichment of the
manufacturer. They, nevertheless,
pay the tax. They do so when they
buy the food they eat and the clothes
they wear ind the furniture they
enjoy in their humble, hired houses.
Look at the amount they pay and
its destination: For every dollar that
goes to the suppcrt of the govern
ment, five dollars passes into the
hands of the rich manufacturer. To
use the figures made by the Balti
more Sun:
On one man's working suit of
clothes costinsr 7 00 the bounty to
the manufacturer was 2 27; the good
suit 2 00, bounty 6 48; overcoat
costing 15 00, bounty 4 85; two flan
nel shirts, 1 50, bouuty 64 cents; six
wool sacks, 2 00, bounty 86 cents;
one wool hat. 3 00. bounty 1 29; one
wool cap, 1 00, bounty 15 cents; one
pair suspenders, 50 cents, bounty 14
cents; one pair shoes 3 50, bounty
70 cents; one pair wool sloes, 50
cents, bounty 21 cents; rubber coat
3 50, bounty 81 cents; umbrella 1 00
bounty 34 cents; three linen hand
kerchiefs, 1 00, bounty 26 cents; one
silk tie, 50 cents, bounty 17 cents;
one pocket knife, 1 25, bounty 42
cents; razor, 1 25, bounty 42 cents;
shaving brush, 35 cents, bounty
cents; four cotton shirts, 3 00, boun
ty 75 cents; two pair cotton drawers,
1 00, bounty 31 cents; one wool
scarf, 50 cents, bounty 21 cents.
Any laboring man or other person
having a small income is able to
judge whether he is in a position to
make a present to anybody of the
bounty he pays on each of the arti
cies nere mentioned, it ne is a sin
gle man perhaps he can spare the
sums named fftid is willing to do so.
But if he has use of the money,
amounting on these articles alone to
22 29 a year, he has a right to vote
at the polls to keep it in his pocket,
put in life insurance, or in the sav
ing bank, 22 29 cents a year may
provide very nicely for a rainy day.
But if he is a married man, with a
family, he will find the following
tariff taxes are taking the followin g
sums also out of pocket to swell the
surplus at Washington, or to add to
the profits of the manufacturer:
Three calico dresses for wife, cost
2 26, bounty 50 cents; three aprons,
50 cents, bounty 10 cents; two wool
en dresses, 16 00, bounty 6 60; two
balmoral skirts, 3 00, bounty 1 10;
two cotton skirts, 1 50, bounty 25
cents; two suits flannels, 3 90, boun
ty 1 29; two suits cotton underwear,
2 00, bounty 58 cents; three pair
cotton hose, 1 00, bounty 29 cents;
woolen cloak, 12 00, bounty 2 89;
shawl 6 00, bounty 2 79; hood, 1 25,
bounty 54 cents; two pair shoes,
4 00, bounty 80 cents; rubbers, 50
cents, bounty 10 cents; parasol, 2 00
bounty 40 cents; veil, 70 cents, boun
ty 24 cents; five yards ribbons, 50
cents, bounty 17 cents; three linen
collars, 50 cents, bounty 12 cents;
three pairs linen cuffs, 60 cents,
bounty 14 cents; three handerker
chiefs, 75 cents, bounty 20 cents;
tuck comb, 20 cents, bounty 7 cent3;
tooth brush, 35 cents, bounty 21
cents; pair gloves, 1 25, bounty 47
cents. On an expenditure 'of 61 90
in settlement of the wife's store bill,
the struggling citizen has thus paid
21 76 in tariff taxes, about one fifth
of which went into the government
treasury and the other four fifths
to some far off manufacturing capi
talists. Of course the Mills bill does not
contemplate taking off this entire
amount which goes to enrich still
further the already rich manufac
turer. It proposes to take off only
about 7 per cent, of it. This may
appear a small amount, but it is a
clear saving.
Let us keep in mind some facts
while the Republican party is op
posing the Mills bill and advocating
the continuance of the present high
war tax 47 10 that the Mills bill on
ly provides for reducing it to 40 per
cent. The rate in the days of Wash
ington was only 8 per cent and in
the most prosperous days of the Re
public it was only 20 per cent-
Charlotte unronicie.
No Sneer la Intended.
New York Herald.
One of our Republican contempo
raries in a leading editorial referred
to the great democratic party in the
following way yesterday: .
"The worst elements in cms cuuu
trv hoDe to elect President Oleve
land for another term by the aid of
an plement which thinks itself the
best. No sneer is intended." -
The Demooratic party, as is well
known, represents very largely the
men who get their living by the
sweat of their brows. They are all
dumped together, however, in one
pile as worthless rubbish, and, with
1 Oil 1 1
a supercilious shrug oi tne snoui
ders, siigmaiizea as "tne worsv vw
ments in this country." A fair par
aphrase of the above statement,
therefore, would read something
like this: We the Republicans, are
the firentlmen of this country and
the government should be run in
our favor and for our protection; you
Democrats are the fellows in shirt
sleeves the greasy mechanics with
your petty labor organizations and
your pestering demand for higher
i "it i "i
wages and your nornoie stnKes; you
are the grumblers of the sou mere
ploughshare patriots who have got
to be put down and kept down.
Well, it is very handsome in the
Republican organs to come out in
this candid way and say just what
they think. If they have really
reached the conclusion that the com
mon people are no good, that the
time has arrived in the history of
this country when the fundamental
belief that "all men are born free
and equal" may be successfully de
nied is an iusult to the cultured
and wealthy class why that is an
extremely interesting tact, and we
shall retard the reception of the
new doctrine with considerable curl
osity, but we confess without a par
ticle of fear as to the result.
The Republican platform illus
trates this novel phase of politics.
It announces a determination to lift
the tariff still higher rather than to
lower it. That of course, would
make the cost of living more expen
sive. You must pay more for the
necessaries of life and manage to get
along without any of its comforts.
The large dealers are to be protected.
The business of the country is to be
placed in the hands of the few, while
small dealers who have made a fair
profit, scraped together a few thou
sands, moved into a better house,
bought a piano for their daughters,
sent their boys to college, must give
way, get out, go into bankrupsy or
back into the ranks of the day labor
er where they belong. Still, when
they sell their furniture and remove
to the tenement, they are to under
stand distinctly that "no sneer is
intended." This is to be a monop
olists' government, and as they are
not monopolists but only poor folk,
they must accept their fate with the
same cheerful faith in Providence
with which the trusts look over their
cosey bank accounts, and th ank the
Lord and the Republican party that
they are not as other men are.
The Democratic platform is in
strong contrast with all this. It is
the platform of the common people,
who arj rated by our contemporary
as "the worst elements in this coun
try," though "no sneer is intended."
It demands an immediate reduction
of the taxes, because the government
is already rich enough, aud, for that
matter, the poorer you keep it the
better. It proposes a large market
for American products, because that
will give a new impulse to business
and steady employment to the work
ing classes. It beleives in money
and wants every mau to have some.
It does not believe in a poor multi
tude and a rich few, but in a fair
distribution of chances, so that every
body who has the ability may get
his share.
The people will make their choice
between these two platforms in No
vember. "No sneer is intended."
Col, Dockery R treat.
Col. Dockery yesterday, in reply
to Chairman Whitaker's invitation
to have a joint can vats, wrote a let
ter to Judge Fowle, stating that he
was satisfied that neither Mr. Whit
aker nor Judge Fowle desired a
joint canvass, and that he took the
occasion .o say to Judge Fowle that
he proposed to assail Judge Fowle's
connection with the special tax
bonds. Ho further stated that he
was going out of town, and would
be absent from Raleigh for several
day 8. As Judge Fowle himself was
about to leave the city to go to Wil
mington, where he spoke last night,
he turned the letter over to Chair
man Whitaker, who had the matter
of a joint canvass in charge.
With" these facts before it we
think the public will be satisfied that
Col, Dockery is not spoiling for a
joint debate. First, Mr. WTiitaker
being thereto authorized, invited
the Republican chairman to make a
list of joint appointments. That is
the usual method of proceeding, for
as the chairmen act officially, they
are not affected by any personal an
tagonism that may arise between
the opposing candidates. The chair
men can always meet "officially"
and arrange these details; but often
times the relations between the can
didates become such as not to per
mtt of their arranging their appoint
ments personally. .
Col. Dockery Knows tnai wen
enoughand so bis first move- is to
say "Mr. Eaves shall not act ir me.
I propoese to arras ere the appoint
meLts myself." "Very wen, re.
plied Chairman Whitaker, L invite
you to a meeting for the purpose.
This invitation Col. uocKery m
m m 11 i.
substance declines, declaring na
he is satisfied that neither Judge
Fowle nor Mr. Whitaker desires a
joint canvass; and then, as if to make
it impossible for Judge Jtowle to
have anv interview with him, he
aAAa fViftt. ha notifies the Judge of
his purpose to assail the latter's con
nection with the special tax bonds,
well knowing that Judge Fowle had
already denounced any suggestion
that he was guilty of anv impropn-
etvinthat matter as a falsehood.
and that Judge Fowle would de
n mi n ft a him "in usual terms" if he
shnnld rpoaat that falsehood.
When, therefore, Col, Dockery in
formed Judge Fowle that he was
going to assail him about a matter
that Judge Fowle had denounced as
a falsehood, he apparently was only
seeking to make it impossible for
Judcre Fowle to arrange with him
personally the details in this posi
tionj he declines to let Chairman
Eaves make the joint appointments
for him; he does not accept Mr.
Whitaker's invitation for himself to
make the appointments with Mr.
Whitaker: and he seeks to render it
impossible for Judge Fowle to have
a personal interview with him on
that or any other matter.
"We have no idea that Col. Dockery
has ever had the purpose of having
a joint canvass. His whole course
in the matter forbids us to entertain
that idea. But he need not think
that because he will not let his Chair
man make joint appointments, and
will not himself make them, he will
escape Judge Fowle.. He cannot
now elude Judge Folwe, He may
flee, but Judge Fowle will pursue
He may rest assured that Judge
Fowle. will have the joint debate,
no matter how Col. Dockerv may
propose to avoid it. News and
Observer.
NTATE NEWS.
In response to numerous solicita
tions from many directions, Gov.
Scales desires to say that he cannot
under any circumstances allow his
name to de used as a candidate for
Congressman on the Democrtic
ticket in the fifth district.
The road bed of the western N C
Railtoad is as smooth as marble.
With steel rail the bed is in fine con
dition. It is one of the finest roads
in the country. Col A B Andrews
deserves the praise of every one.for
his! efficiency in looking after the
Richmond & DanvLle system in
North Carolina.
Greensboro has the strongest and
most enthusiasticYoungMen's Dem
ocratic Club in the State. It was or
ganized lasttweek with a membership
of 244 and its roll now is considerably
over 300. The club is preparing for
a grand demonstration, including a
torch light procession and numerous
transparencies, ect;for the ratifica
tion rally on the 20th inst.
Seventeen hundred bushels of
whortleberries passed through this
city from Sampson and Duplin
counties bound North on Wednes
day's through froight, and quite as
many, it is said, yesterday. They
sell for 10 cents per quart at the
north $3,20 per bushel. So that
the whortleberries are getting to be
an item in the market. They are
indeed. Goldsboro Argus.
At a recent meeting of the execu
tive committee of the Shot well
Monument Association Hon. Walter
Clark was elected president of the
assocication, and Dr. E .Everitt,
secretary and treasurer. The object
of the association, as our readers
know, is to raise a sufficient amount
of funds to erect a neat monumeat
to the memoryof Capt. Shotwell.
Judge Fowle felt obliged to retire
from the presidency by reason of the
demands upon his time and atten
tion made by the exigencies of the
campaign. News and Observer.
The people of North Carolina have
a special interest in the nomination
of the Republican candidate for
Vice President. He is the head of
the firm of Morton ,61iss & Co., of
New York, who bought up a large
amount of the special tax bonds of
North Carolina at about 5 cents on
the dollar and has brought suit
against the State to make poor
North Carolinians pay the face
value, on bonds that never did the
citizens of the Slate a cent's worth
of good. It would take the last
skillet, knife and fork of the poor
man, the farms of the well to do, and
beggar every man that has property
in North Carolina. The special tax
bonds were issued by a Republican
legislature elected under the Canby
constitution with the votes counted
at Charleston, S. G, and the people
of N. C. had nothing to do with the
bonds aud should not pay a cent on
them, No, Mr. Morton, we don't
want you for Vice President, and we
don't see how any Republican, own
ing any property in North Carolina
can cast his vote for Mr. Morton.
Tono.
YORKE& WADS WORTH.
Hardware Headquarters.
SEE HEUE.
EBCDlirS. -DECIllllCSw " EnSIDEEK. DUBS,
Farmers and Everybody Else
an be suited in Hardware at YORKE & WADS WORTH'S at bottom prices
nr tt.(URH. On r stork is full and oomDlete. A suleudid line of Cook
Stove and cooking utensil in stock.
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Belting, Feed Cutters, Uornehellers. 1 inware, uns, ristois, imves, .rowaer,
Shot and Lead, Doors, Sash and Blinds, Shingles, Glass, Oils, White Lead,
Paints and Putty a specialty ; Wire Screens. Oil Cloths, wroaght, cut and
Horse Shoe Nails, and in fact everything usually kept in a hardware store. We
will sell all these goods as cheap, quality considered, as any house in North
Carolina
Our warehouse is filled with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, Reapers, Mow
ers, Hay Bakes, of the best make Ou the market, which must and will be sold
at the lowest figures. Be sure to come to see us, whether you buy or not
YOKE ft WADSWORTH.
P. S. We have. always on hand Lister's and Waldo Guano and Wando Acid
at prices to suit. . Y. & W.
UNDERBUY !
tat Reduction is Prices of Hour to Reduce w
inycMiiEnsrsiE stock: i
WE
1 Car Load of Pilgrim,
1
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25 Barrels
Oar flour is all bought dhect from the
Largest and Best Mills for GASH,
And we can sell you flour for less money than you can buy elsewhere. We
have a large stock of
And you will always find our prices as low as the lowest.
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