fOL. Xi-0. 2709
k iit Discussion.
UTVTZ MAKES AN EXCEP
)NALU STRONG SPEECH
T FILLED WITH ABUSE.
D.d sot Even Sloop to Belittle or
rade'Ui" OpponVial-CnUIwell II a
pfMb JmK: Full of Tannlall-
g' Kemnrltsi-Ttie '"Longr-Promled
jnifntl-ry Keport Jiyen Tle
a:i(Ird.
Che discaesion in 'Concord oil
arsday, the 20;b, was decidedly
restin?. -
I a. Theo. Kitittz opened the di3
sioa in iiis usually graceful style.
i splendid bearig,-his pleasing,
sly voice, his clever logic and
t eneat z;u! thas emanates from
'conviction of an honest, patriotic
izn muka a hero in the de
Li a. cause that commends itself
b:m . After peasant references
hia can caas. with "hid competitor
dived into th is'ae.-t now before
J He said tbas o yeara ago we
re caarendic for more currency
t '72-hoped would coiiie'thrbngh
6 tol" free coinage. The Re
iblican admUiisiraoa'bad encoar
sd'socxe Hopj for ji-uieJctlifiin but
H
e teas
in chaining lov? pacea to
ae administration bin 'hdt political
jipit'l h?d been mad out of It.
The iov? prices were charged up
b LI r . Cleveland p.nd mpny goad
ieu had left the Democratic party
a' account of it. They should come
Ick now, as groing to the. other par
j had not mide it any better, rather
"eras .
I He criticiced the present adminis
ation for iacuiDg bonds too freely
id piling up more money in the
?asury than the exigencies demand
f and thereby withdrawing large
ma of money frcca circulation .
p thi3 he attrib:; much of the
presaion of prices.
He reminded the f unionists that
efore they got into power the
jlamor was for a reduction of taxes
pd Balariea of officers. He wished
any one in the audience would tell
nim whose salary had been reduced.
He would like to know whose burs
.dens of taxation had been lightened.
Pne of the first things that the fu-
ion legislature tried to do was to
sise taxes to 46 cents on the ?100
Fhen Democrats had never made it
hore than 41 1-3. In this the .fn-
?onista failed from through ignor-
nce or oyerlocking the fact that the
oil was lost.
Democrats thought a man's return
pf his property on oath'cs to value
hould be sacredly regarded, -but the
nion legislature had created an
qaallzition board, that added to the
dlnation of live stock, etc., in Row
P county $43,000: This was . a
rden on a great many men who
op tn hA taron I n
31 Ayer's language it was getting
rter the "one gallus,, man .
Democrats had run the governs
petit without laying hands on the
ead, but under fusion laws the tax
Elector takes his part of the dead
pan's estate before the widow or the
rphan is provided for.
Lawyercratic was the approbrious
?ame by which the Democratic party
T nrtn rnrn fin
ule if a man wanted a deed made
and his friend, the Esq., or
ay one else made it for him for 25
ents or any; other little sum it was
obody'a business, but this party that
CONCOUD. C.
cried lawyercratic does not allow a'
friend to make out a deed and accept
some little fee unless he pays the
$0 tax me same as a lawyer. Under
Democratic law no man was forbid-
den a decent burial but now bodies
unclnmed and unprovided for at
1 C . 1 i I
nuuKtis ui puuuu caaiuy are to oe
turned over to the me.iorl iratitu
tions on pain of penalty for refaeal.
The charge had been freely made
that D;meera8 had squandered
money on j)bg for public printing
but instead of any improvement
too
was made worse and $13,300 walrus with the prestige she had not
fra
udulently gotten on the publio
printing, lieasum worth is not
sueing for it.
Much ins hk.l U n nde j bou; j
the Anson penitentiary farm's rents I
al at too hig
fa a price but the c-
T - V
tea
by the 8p!end'J j
Smith w3 chara
tits,
with
Jno.
crime by his own party d owjht o
ba wearing stripes if aa bau as Gov.
Rascell aaid, yet he put in
charge of the institu:ion eape-jially j
dcined f Dr the former.
Ha Suid a report was due from tho
penitentiary, in Decemb?r, 1897.
Nine iii0ath3 Go. iiAt.fcii de
mended a report end said it must
come. This wr.3 August 2nd. Mr.
Cttldfftll u C2ir - '-r i r-.ri)d type:
written repo.t, r.j he cJcms it to
but he could t ar ct i:o one eke
who ever saw a eopy of it. This re
port tliat Mr. Ciildrvtll ane seecig
to have bears the date of July 25 .h,
while the Governor demanded it
August 2nd .
He showed how the Populist party
with its 30,000 votes made a propos
sition to fuse with the Demoorats
with 145,000 votes and divide offices
as the division was with the Repubs
iicans two yeara before. The rejec
tion troubled Mr. Caldwell greatly,
he said. Populists claimed that they
must fuse with somebody to pres
erve their integrity. It did not
seem to the speaker like much in
tegrity to go right over from the ef-
forts to fuse with Democrats and
fuse with the very opposite of Dem
ocracy. As to Mr. Jones' letter and
Mr. Bryan's advice to fuse he said
that North Carolina Democrats are
a sovereign people and brook no dic
tation in their local matters to Mr.
Bryan, Mr. Jones nor anybody else
save when the people decree it in
convention.
As regards the two election laws,
said the speaker, the Populists polled
47,000 votes under the Democratic
law and 31,000 under their own law.
The cry cf Democratic disfran
chisement, he said, was proven vain
by 20 yeara of trial, when nobody
was disfranchised. It take3 a bill
passing with three-fourths of the
vote from both houses of the legisla
ture and ratified by the vote of the
people before the constitution could
be so amended as to disfranchise any
one while the United States consti
tution stands in the way of race dis
franchisement. -Hs read and rehearsed testimony
that the condition in the east is not
orerdone by the newapHpers and that
fusion trading with the negro is re
sponsible for it.
He ridiculed the charge in the
Populist hand book that Democratic
county . commissioners, bound out
white children to negroes. It was
needless to answer it more than to
call attention to the fact that the
county commissioners can't bind out
children. x
He read and commented on the S
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J Hartsell letter and closed with a
strong beautiful peroration .
Mr. Caldwell came on the stage
savine he needed no introduction
He showed eagerness fnr th IVav
and had blood in his eye for the edi
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tors of the Times and The Stand
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Cabarrus, he said, had not had a
man in congress since Hon. D M
Barringer about 40 years ago. Row
an has had her Craige, her Shober
her Henderson. He had a laudable
mbition, he said, to honor Cabar
enjoyed sinoa Hon, D M B
Barringer's
day.
He was in his home county where
he had a right to espect courtesy
but he had not bean treated so un
kind iv hv
theOoncord papers. The Standard,
he said, had clipped the uncompli-
mentary things said about him and
pablich?d them and sent the paper
to his wife to wound her feelings.
It had jiot published tha . campii-
mentary things said about him.
He approached the editor of The
Standard and handed him a brand
new typewritten penitentiary report
which had been applied for and
jp omiged but was not produced till
then 'and that too with a look and
tone of lost temper impeaching the
editor's religious sincerity. Ee said
that Mr. Kluttz's brothesin- law'e pa
per, the Charlotte Observer, had
called him an ignoramus. He then
rehearsed bis legal course and his
high standing with his ins motors
but had not sat at the feet of his
competative Gamaliel. Hs give the
Salisbury Sun a.tbrust or two, "By
way of apology for corrections like
that of Shiras and the Supreme
court he ridiculed Mr. Kluttz and
said that he was mistaken about the
bankruptcy law. He said he had
had Mr. Kluttz under his training
now for five weeks and that he had
become one of the best Democratic
speasera. He looked toward the
newspaper men and said in tones of
exquisite irony and ridicule that
Democratic ctnlidates were a
heavenly celestial set of beings.
He said that instead of money
withdrawn from circulation s Mr.
Kluttz said there is in use $127,
000,000 more money than a year
ago (we think was the time). He
said low prices were due to the re
peal of the Sherman silver purchase
law. He scolded the Democrats
roundly for not fusing with the
Populists. They made propositions1
and the Democrats neither accepted
nor made others. He scored the
Democrats for endorsing the Jones
letter, and yet refusing to fuse. He
quoted Mr. J F Newell in the Evens
ing Journal and the seignior Newell
with his silver resolution in conyens
tion . -He
referred to all the instances
he could bring up to show that
Democrats had appointed and elected
negroes to office. 8ome of these
seemed quite ..new ... and Mr. Kluttz
passed: over them. ; Mr. Caldwell,
however, did not note that' no eyil
effects, had- grown out of what he
charged, and he; did not. have quite
the , courage .to . deny t hat r eyil had
grown ou$ of the; fusion trading, as
Mr; Kluttzvcharged;;, Hes did not
abuse Rey Page ,nor .Key.- Setter,
but did speakjn a belittling way of
both Herea4 ft ffqw letters vfrom
menwho went-fromvthe Democratic
party to he i llistsv - l'r rr
Concluded on 4th Page.
Clothes
Don't Make a
Man Exactly
BUT A SEW SUIT OF STY
LISH CLOTHES HELPS
MIGHTILY TO MAKE
A MAN GOOD
LOOKING.
Throw off yotir old shabby
summer suit. Step into our
clothing department and let
us fit you up in a handsome,
stylish winter suit. Won't
cost you much, and you'll
feel better, and think more of
yonrgelf, and if you're mar
ried your wife will be proud
of your good looks. If you're
not married the young ladies
will admire you mors. In
either, case it will pay you.
Step in and see us. You'll
be surprised to find at what a
small cost you can improve
your appearance, and at the
same time add to your com
fort. Our prices are bound to be
th lowest, because we refund
money if price and goods are
not right.
Cannon & Fetzer
Company.
COTTON GUIS NO ICE WITH US f
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Give us your ear and we will tell yon the reason why
FURNITURE is the burden of our song. We study it by
day, we dream of lit by night- Our highest imbition in
a business way is to give the good people of Concord and
country for miles around the advantage of a FURNI
TURF STORE EXCELLED B Y NONE and EQ UA LL
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in the United States gives us a long lead in the direction
that interests buyers. Wehave the BEST 1 STOCK, the,
best prices that has ever been our pleaeure to offer our
customers- -
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We lhanTc our friends for the splendid trade given uc
in the past We hop?-, bylclose lattentiou to your interest
to merit it in the future :
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I - t
and see us, we will do you Good-
Bell, Harris & Company.
Whole No 11799
Millinery.
Our hats have a dainty'
touch here and there that 'dis
tinguish them from ordinary
millinery, a touch that stamps
them "Pretty." Everything
in Ladies' Sailors from the 25
cent ones to the very best. All
kinds of Tarns, little fr.cy
caps and hats for little chil
dren and misses. 'A l:ne of
velvets at matchless prk-ei
might interest you. Kiblrons
for every ribbon want. Plain
ribbons, fancy ribbons, dev
pendable ribbons. Cur rib
bon stock is replete with every
wantable ribbon style. The
silk worm would be justly
jealous if he even learned of
such prices for his product.
Here you will find a fancy
little line of (baby hoods just
to please the mother We can
interest you if your wants ar&
not filled for all time to come.
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