THE milDl RD.
FIDAY, StPXEMBER 21, 1888.
katiosaj- tiket.
Fob Fbesidevt
Grover Cleveland,
Fob Vice-Fbesipest
Allen G. Thurman.
1HTATE DEMOfHATIOTHKKT,
For Govehnoii:
J)AXIELG.FOWLE.
. For Ljeutexaxt.-Govebxob:
THOMASJM. HOLT.
For Secretary of State:
WILLIAM L. SAUNDERS,
of Orange County.
For State Treasurer:
PWALM W. BAIN,
pf Wake County.
Jjor Stpte Auditor:
OFQRGE W, SANPEBLIN,
Of Wayne County.
For gupt.. of Public Instruction:
gJDNEY M. FINGER,
pf Catawba County,
For Attorney-General;
TIIEODOKE F. DAVIDSON,
of Buncombe County.
Associate Justices Supreme Court:
JOSEPH J. DAVIS,
of Franklin County,
JAMES E, SHEPHERD,
of Washington Couuty.
ALPHOXSO C. AVEHV,
pf Burke Cgunty,
For Presidential Electors at Large
ALFRED M. WADDELL,
of New Hanover CouDty.
FREDERICK N. STRUDWICK,
of Orange County,
KOIKE.
Hereafter all payments to. The
Standard for subscription or ad
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Cross, managing editor. If paid
otherwise no account will be taken
of the payment unless aoknolledged
by him.
EDITORIAL BBIKXft.
"Unnecessary taxation is unjust
taxation."- rover CWpUnd.
liurkhead's new Third Party sheet
appeared last week The poor fel
low writes like he was "hacked."
Unflinching labor conqxiGrs every
AL! 1 n i- m i
imug: aim unnincums iaots are
killing the efforts of reckless Radi
cal politicians, and the hand full of
Third Partyites.
Morton, Levi P., the candidate
for Vice-President, is making suit
against North Carolina. The hon
est tax-payers of the State have a
suit in store for him that will suit
him most suitably-a glorious de
feat
After the election, Dookery will
feel as did Logan after his defeat,
as he expressed himself ! "I'm like
the man that stumped his toe, it
hurts too bad to laugh and I'm too
big to cry."
But Walker! He'll draw on. Mor
ton for a year's allowance.
V hy is it, that the strongest
friends of the 3rd party were the
bitterest opponents of the Local
Option elections throughout the
-firntp?. How, inponsisteutj Tht
the Republican campaign fund is
being used for tho support of Wal
ker & Co.
Lot tliein howl ; let them repf at
their predictions, but remember
that tho South has I.uilt within
i ihe last eight years 18,000 miles of
railroad track, at a cost of 75,000,
000. The increase in other branches
of humiui activity h is leon in pro
portion. Besides the great work,
the great Republican leaders say we
are dovoling most of our time in
"shooting negroes and stuffing bal
lot taxes."
Dockery and Walker makes a fine
learn going tor in over the State'
preaching a d olrit!e that the white
people the tax-payers understand,
well a cinjj th.; wasting echo of a
corrupt, filthy governuwiit just after
the war. Poor Dockery, you arc
a "dead failure. ' j'oor AValk
sir,
smarter and better
have been hired to
ineu than yon
do devilment.
How do you feel, riding over the
State with a violated nvnistera, com.
mission in one pocket and one Levi
P. Morloa'fl $1000 dollars rattling
in the otherl Your cause ia "worse
than a bar room."
.It. BOBET'S LETTEB,
Just now the Third Party move
ment the chief of the Republicans
and Levi P. Morton's money seems
rather below par. Their text for
several weeks .was that Dr. W.
M. Robey, one of the leading
lights of the Methodist church in
North Carolina, had delivered a
Third Party speech in Durham, and
they (Walker, Bul khead and others)
having had it printed iu pamphlet
form, were sending it throughout
the State. Some one ''let the cat
out of the bag," and now the fact is,
that the speech and h?9 been incorrect
ly reported and printed, has given the
leader a black eye. Truth, we would
suggest to these great reformers, is
as necessary and important as hush-
ng up the bar room.
While Dr. Robey is a strong ad-
v.ip.itfi of temneranee. he has too
x '
much sense and too much feeling
for the people and the interests of
the State, to lend hi influence by
word of mouth or pen to a scheme
gotten up bv the Republicans. Dr,
Robey is not a Third Partyite, but a
Democrat, and writes the Spirit of
the Age as follows :
"Mr. Editor: I have just been
handed a copy of the Spirit of the
Age (Sept 5th), containing what
you have been pleased to say about
a speech made by myself some time
since in Durham in favor of Nation
al Constitutional Prohibition.
It is because you have been mis
led, a I am willing to suppose, in
several particulars that I think it
worth while to address you this short
communication.
I am only concerned to be fairly
represented, when represented at all,
and after that the world can think
as they please. Not that I mean
to intimate at all that anybody has
intentionally misrepresented me,
and yet misrepresentation has come
to pass in several respects.
In the first place, you have found
ed your phillipic on a very imper
feet report of my speech with w.hich
I had nothing to do whatever, and
which I would much rather never
should have appeared in print.
Still you tell your readers that it
was by my authority. No doubt
you thought it was, but in this, as
in many other instances, vou were
mistaken.
Then you tell your readers that I
readonly a part of the document
adopted by the North Caroliua Con
fere nee on the subject of Temper
ance, add I think you more than in
timate that this omission was iu
tended to deceive and misle'ad. Now
here, again, you have been misled
I read the whole document to the
end. If I was not so reported it
ihowshow imperfectly I was rep
restnteu in that report, it l was
so reported it shows how careless
ly you read, and how recklessly you
assail the leputation of an "erring
brother."
Again, you represent that I read
this document to show that the
iNorin Carolina uonterence was
committed to th Third party, or in
other words to that effect. I can
very easily see how yon might get
that impression, though certainly
notmng was farther irom my pur
pose. I do not claim to be by auy
meas profound, but certainly I am
not so shallow as such a dodge as
that would amount to.
I read this document, not to show
that the Conference and church
were committed to the Third party,
but that the Conference represent
ing the Church in the State is com
mitted to Constitutional prohibition,
and to show the fact the question is
a political as well as a moral one,
and that I as a minister of the Gos
pel was authorized, therefsre, to
discuss it in the political arena
where it belongs. I advocate the
absolute prohibtiion of the traffic
in iutoxicoting liquors, as a bever-
JiyAtuLwjial.enactment iu
the action of my Conference to show
that my church was with me there.
Further, I advocate this method of
dealing with the monster in opposi
tion to your miserable make-shift
which you call "local option," which
make-shift I will use when I can
get nothing better, just as I would
an Indians club to fight with in
stead of a gun, if I could not get a
gun ; and 1 quoted this document
to show that my Conference did the
same thing, and that I was conse
quently not out of order.
So much then for the Conference
document concerning whioh you
have bean, by what moans I know
not, so gravely misled-
Now a few words as to my position
in relation to the parties which I
nevor dreamed till very lately to bo a
matter of any consequence.
You lire right in your statement
that I lielieve that prohibition can
only be established by a party which
shall insist npon it as a chief object.
Everyother theory is logically absurd.
Yet the condition of our State and,
indeed, of the entire South, is such,
politically, that I cannot vote the
Third party ticket Nor have I ever
advisd any one else to do so. I sym
pathize profoundly with the object
which the Third party people have
in yiew and I wish that I conld help
them, but I can not without possibly
helping another result which would
be a greater calamity than the bar
room. like many an other true pro
hibitionists I have tried, over and
over, to find a way around the impas
sable barrier that hinders the South
ern people from rising in their might
and sweeping the rum curse from
their fair land, but I cannot find it
yet. I can only wait and do my an ty
as best I may along with the great
mass of Southern prohibitionists, till
the time comes, as I pray it may.
when, with safety to the best inter
ests of our sunny land, wc-may throw
ourselves into the thickest of the
fight and march to victory, with those
who now constitute the advance
guard of the column.
I may add in closing this letter, al
ready to long, that the leaders of the
Third party in this State know pre
cisely where I stand, and why; and
yet I have received nothing but kind
ness at their hands. If my good
standing among the leaders of the
other parties is conditioned upon ray
abusing these men because they rote
and mantain their honeakconvietions
then I must staml at a discount, til
those leaders recover from their parti
san bliudnesa to discover their folly
and reform theii manners.
W. M. Robey.
Goldsboro, IT. C, Sept 5, 1888
JIY RO!M "DEAD rAILUKE."
Poor old Oliver Dockery is having
a hard time. He's shot from all
sides with so many nncomplimentaiy
and injurious facts, until the poor
wasting Kadical is crushed beneath
increasing burdens.
He voted for an ignorant ne
for office instead of a one-legged
confederate soldier and farmer ; he's
H standing candidate at the hands of
the Republican party; he's advo
eating the return of the old county
government system, which wil
bankrupt 27 eastern counties; he's
accusing Mrs. Cleveland as having
kissed a negro wench, which has
been authoratively denied; he's ac
cusing the chief magistrate of this
country as having dined with col
ored men, &c, which also has been
shown to be false ; he's telling the
people of the State, that the com
missiouers of Montgomery county
hired a poor white womau to a negro,
this too the commissioners of
Montgomery have denied in a most
emphatic manner, and to his great
sorrow proved to be basely false
he's posing himself as a laboring
man, a farmer, a friend of the la
boring man, at the same time cuss
ing lawyers, Judge Fowle included
He's trying to win the affections of
a high-tone people by misrepresent
tious, slander and filth-throwing.
That Dockery is a down right
"Dead Failure" as a farmer "no
more of a farmer than a mule" his
neighbors, men of character and
ability as farmers, if success means
ability, attest in the following for
cibleaud pointed letter:
Laubinbubo, N. C, Sept 13
"I see that in the joint discussion at
Hillsboro, O. H. Dockery in his re
joinder asserted "that the Demo
crats of Richmond county had nom
inated a negro for the legislature
he declined to run, they then nomi
nated another negro, and he was
beaten by a Republican."
rtiV 1
mis was -news to every man
woman and child iu Richmond
county, and there is uot another man
in the county who has such habitual
disregard of the truth as to join "my
son Oliver" in the charge, nor will
he, with all his cheek, go before any
country squire and make affidavit
that it is true.
116 poses us a farmer and im-poses
also iu that, as the following letter
to Emery E. Raper, chairman
Cleveland and FoWle club, of Lex
ington, Davidson county, who wrote
to this county to know what kind of
a farmer he was, will show. It was
neighbors who were' attending 6dr
county Democratic convention, vi:.:
RocKiNGHAJf, N. C, September
12. Emery E. Raper:
Dear Sir: We, the undersigned,
who live in the same township with
Oliver H. Dockery, and some of
whose farms adjoin his, have known
him intimately, the most of us, all of
our lives, and we hereby certify, that
as a farmer, it is well known, not only
in his own neighborhood, but in the
whole country, he is a dead failure,
and that he has never been, and is
not now, anything but a professional
politician ;
W F BlOOKSIIIHE?
H 11 Little,
T F Staxbaos,
N G Nicholson,
J P Little, Jr.,
Alfrep Baldwin,
C C Capel,
D C Stanback,
These men are among the best of
our citizens aud the best farmers of
our Pee Dee country. Others of this
neighbors Say that his crop this year
will not compare with that of the
average "negro crupper" of this
neighborhood.
It is true he was born and raised,
amd has always lived upon a farm,
but he has never been, suspected of
being a farmer no more than a mule.
He resembles a farmer only "as a.
W si resembles a rain." Pardon the
paraphrase" Yonrs,&c,
W. II. MoLavbin,
President Lavrinburg Club,
Cleveland,-Fowle Democrats,
GIVE ITS A BEST.
"What fools these mortals be."
And they hate more brass than his
Satanic Majesty. At the Encamp
ment of the"G. A. R. at Columbus,
Ohio, recommendations to Congress
were made that a law be enacted to
give to every soldier an4 sailor who
6erved in the Union army for sixty
days between lbbl and ibo a pen
sion of $S.0O per month. Those
sorving over 800 days shonld receive
an eitra cent per day for all the
time iu excess.
Lord what doings and statesmen
these men are. Where is the patriot
ism of the Union soldiers ? Would I
it not be in order for the G. A. R.
to write' an order on the Treasurer of
the U. S for several hundred dol
lars to'pay that poor devil that fram
ed the "recomendations ? It's not
right to make him exert his brain to
such au extent for nothing.
The Republicans know how to
solve such problem as the simple
question. Were these recommen
dations acted upon favorably, the
war trail would have fo continue till
the last veteran had passed into
heaven or, w hererer hes enti
tled to go
WAN AX.
True, she can not sharpen a peu-
cil and, outside of commercial cir
cles she can't tie a package to make
it look like anything save a crooked
cross section of chaos; but, land of
miracles! see what she can do with
a pin! She can not walk so many
miles around a billiard table nothing
to eat, and nothing (to speak of) to
drink, but she can walk the. floor
all night with a fretful baby. She
can ride five hundred miles without
going into the sxoking car to rest
(and get away from the children.)
She can enjoy an erening visit w ith
out emokiug half a dozen cigars.
She can endure the distraction of a
house full of children all i"ay, w hile
her husband sends them all to bed
before he has been home an hour. A
boy with a sister U fortunate, a fel
low with a cousin is to be envied, a
young man with a sweetheart is
happy, and a man with a good wife
is thrice blessed more than thev all.
How much is the surplus, do you
ask? It is a sum that would pay
the interest, at 5 per cent, on two
thousand million dollars. If in sil
ver dollars, it is 6j250,000 pounds,
dr 3,472 two-horse loads.
Mr. Cleveland and the Democ
racy want their money to remain
in the haudj of the people. Mr.
Harrison, Levi P Morton, Docket y
& Co., want it issued to union sol
diers, for services rendered to date.
COTTOX BAG&IXfe
A New York special of the 7th
says: The board of managers of
tne Cotton Exchange today received
a communication from the national
board of marine underwriters. New
York, stating that in new of the
present agitation of the bagging
question throughout the South the
cottou underwriters of the board at
their meeting today passed the fol
lowiLg resolution: Whereas, it hav
ing become known to the cotton un
derwriters of the national board of
marian underwi iters tuat for a por
tion of this season's crop certaiu
can ?08 in the style of covering for
the bales might be adapted, and
that the expression of their inten
tions in view of the possible change
was desired:
"Resolved, That the cotton under
writer of this board will make t o
discrimination aftainst cottou "over
ed with any light-weight, close-w o
ven material of reasonable strength,
the material used and good quality
of baggiug be compensated by txtra
band, say 8 or tf to the bale instead
of 5 or 6, and that the sample holes
be effectually covered."
The underwriters in their letter
say: "As our previous commuuica
tion to you indicates it is the belief
of the committee investigating this
subject that to a large extent tie
appalling losses by fire during the
past season have been due to the
and thit tire flirasyrioi-aVell
cloth, with tho fibre standing out
from the surface, U as inflammable
as the cotton itself, A chauge,
therefore, to any woven material
cannot, in their opinion, involved
additional risk. Jt is also apparent
that changes iu the style of coveriug
and binding could be intioduced at
very slight additional cost that
would render fires in American cot
ton as rare as with Indian and Eg p
tian.
"The committee believe that the
ase of a cose-wpven burlap, fi
ounces or 1 pound to the yard, or
wuat is styled Hop sacking, 21 ounces
pouuua io me yaw, or tnoir
J . i. A 1 1 .
equivalent, with two or three ajdi.
tional bands aud witb care used
to thoroughly cover the bale, would
bring immunity from portion of
the loss by fire and relieve the in
dustry from the very serious tax
which is involved in the fire and
marine insurance raes as now charg.
ed. This subject would seem of
sufficient importance to recaive the
attention of any convention that
might be held of those interested in
the cotton industry.
"If a change and inipra-eraent in
the method of covering and press
ing ie not made, it is quite possible
that underwriters will, by combined
action, withdraw from 4 the biisi
ness,"
A Vinton Years.
In the human understanding
the vast stretches of time in
volved in geological history are
utterly incomprehensible. It
is not easy, indeed, to form an
idea of what a period even a
million of years is, though
Croll tells us how a striking
impression of such e lapse may
be couveyed to the mind.
Stretch a piece of paper eighty
three feet four inches long
around the walls of a room
somewhat over twenty feet
square, recall the events of life
to give some conceptions of a
hundred years, ami then eon-
sider that a mark one-tenth of
an inch broad at one entl of
paper represents the centurys
while the whole strip gives
places for only a million years!
This illustration is worth try
ing. Could we stand, contin
ues the author of "Climate and
Time," upon the edge of a
gorge, a mile and a half in
depth( that had been cut out
of the solid rock by a tiny
stream scarcely" visible at the
bottom of this fearful abyss,
and were we informed that
this little streamlet was able
to wear off annually only one
tenth of an inch from its rocky
bed, what would our concep
tion be of the prodigious leng h
of time that this stream must
have taken to excavate the
gorge i We should certainly
feel startled on finding that
this stream had performed this
enormous amount of work in
something less than a million
of years.
A Ktorjr n Keuntor Kunsoin.
Bob Lamer iu Charlesto'i New.
Senator Blackburn tells au amus
ing story on his courteous and able
associate. Senator Ransom, of North
Carolina. It appears that Senator
Hausom appealed to hn old body
servant, Lncle Frai'k, to know why
the latter persisted iu voting the
Republican ticket.
"Haven't I always treated you
well ?" inquired the Seimtor, iu nis
calm aud generous way.
"Yes, General," replied the ex
slave. "Do:i't you know that evei y time
you vote the Republican ticket u
vot" against me? said the S nal r.
"Ys, General," he again rep iei .
"Thtrii what -xcuse have you lo
offer for voting, ajjainst your od
friend for so many years ?'
"Well, its just this way. General."
replied the old negro . "I votes t e
Republican ticket to keep ou g(Ku
terms with the rest of my peoole,
and your white friend courts it fo
you nil le Hauie ; so dat evens ' p
thiniis all around, dou't yer fee : ' .
MRS, J. M. CROSS'
MILLINERY STORE
Heretofore has been voted
HEADQUARTERS
Foil THE
Latest Styles.
The Fall of 1888 finds her
with a larger stock than ever of
HATS&BOMTS,
Infant's Sacques, Hoods, Tarn
O'Shanters, Shirts, etc.
for Ladies, Misses and Chil
dren. A full line of
Tips in - all Shades
Pompons,
Mil WBl K
The most splendid line of
1 PVr
Shipped to Concord.
I "
nil
Fascinators & Toboggans
With an intent to please
the whole people, and thereby
retain the former verdict, .the
prices will -bo in accordance
with the present stringency of
the money market aud quali
ty taken into consideration,
will be equal, if not below, any
Racket Prices, In fact she
will not be undersold by any
lirm in town.
With many thanks for for
mer kindnesses, I am respect
fully, MUS. J. M, CROSS.
WS All
CONCORD, N, C,
OCTOBER 9, 10, i l and 1?, 1888.
A large and varied exhibit of Stock, Poultry, Farm and
Dairy Products, Fruits, Flowers, Ladies' Fancy Work, 31a
chinery, fcc, &c.
One or more addresses each day. . Music
by a well -trained band
A
- a a
ji -
(Bates opened eaclt day at 9
o'clock a. hb,, and closetl at
5o9cIocf p, tss. JPreininna Imt
turnishetl on application. Tite
railroads will give the usual
low rates. Come each day
and bring your families.
A genesine Arlcultaral iFair.
Single admission, 50 cents; Children under 15 years of age, 25
cents; under 8 years, free. Season tickets, till
25th of September, $ 1.00.
h. c. McAllister,
- President.
(SADAlrOTye COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL
in
well-constructed track for the trials ol
pk speed. One or more trotting matches each
aay. xvunning races oy weii-irainett Horses.
Mule races on Friday afternoon.
Iiifla KAo &mui Iff
please Everybody come.
g:ool time all around
IS may be expected.
H. T. J. LUD WIG,
Secretary.
D)
H A. BLACKWELDER,
Treasurer.