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State Ubrsry VOLUME 29. WASHINGTON LETTER. 1 1 roni our Krftular Correspondent.. WamuiTOX, Oct. 4th. President McKiuley hasn't pot ' to obtain the ( onfidenee of the conservative people -an overwhelming majority of this country; he ha. had it for years earned it by his record in Congress and as Governor of Ohio. No man Knows better than he that his enemies and the eu-mie of the Republican party have Uen i.'oing ever since the day he was i :anu 1 ; uted that he would commit this country to some radical policy, either domestic or foreign, that would result in checking the piosper iry now so generally spread over the country, by creating a scare. But from the day h was nominated Maj. McKiuley ha.- i'.rmly believed that his jidministruti ' was destiued to start the people ol 1 iif e untry upon an era of great pros; iry, and Iwi been fully determined 1h.1t it was his duty, a duty in harm )uy with his inclinations to help along prosperity in every pos ,ible way, instead of doing auythiug that would be likely to retard it. ilis enemies thought he had fallen into their trap when it was cabled from Kurope that an ultimatum had been submitted to Spain, but they were badly mistaken. The proposition .submitted to Spain was a peaceable one. intended ta help along prosperity in the United States, by bringing about peace in Cuba and a restoration of the commerce of $100,000,000 a year we had with the island before the present revolution began, as will be seen when the instructions to Minister Woodford are made public. Major McKiuley luus no ambition to odd any new laurels to his military record, but he aspires to have his administration linked in the minds of the peopla with good times for everybody, believing with most sensible persons that the triumphs of commerce and industry are much better and greater than the triumphs of war. A vigorous protest agaiust the action of the Board of Naval officers which recommend the establishment of ten new dry docks at various places with out mentioning League Island was made to Secretary Long by Senator Penrose, and Representative Bingham. The Pennsylvanians insisted that League Island had always been con sidered one of the best places in the country for a dry dock, as it is situa ated beyond the reach of hostile guns, in fresh water, and close to the largest supply of labor iu the United States. Secretary Long did not indicate his intentions, but he called attention to the Naval Board being only advisory, and said he was not bound to accept their recommendations as his own. Secretary Wilson's p Tan of having all the seeds distributed y the Depart ment of Agriculture sent in bulk to Washington and tested before being sent out cannot be carried out owing to the construction of the act appro priating the money to purchase the seeds. A decision of Comptroller Tracewell, of the Treasury rendered at the request of Secretary Wilson, eays the seeds can only be purchased already put up iu peckagee and la belled for distribution. In his annual report Secretary Wilson will probably recommend a change in the wording of the seed clause of the next appro priation bill. Ex Congressman Niedringhaus, of St. Louis, who is visting Washington, said: 'l think we have entered on a career of prosperity that bids fair to be permanent. I am out of politic now, but I believe everything is favor able to the continuance of the Repub lican party iu power. The adminis tration is proceeding in a cautious and conservative way on all the great questions of the day and is deservedly Dooular." Senator Foraker, who passed through Washington on his way from New York, where he was called on impor tant busiuess, to resume his work in the Ohio campaign, aid the statement hat he had left Ohio because of a row with Major Dick was- a Democratic misstatement, wilfully made. He gave his impression of the situation in Ohio thuslv: "It is a foregone conclusion that the Republicans will gain a sweeping victory. I w ::i.,d- v i.a speeeho in the Mf . a:n! !io::. u I have seen and i:e:nd, i do not mink the Democrats have cen a chance to win. Th- return of pro-perity ba effectively killed tho Democratic issue No argument can be made against PK0TECT1O.S" HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. dollar wheat and higher price for all farm products. The ammunition of the calamity howler in gone and he has nothing left .n which he can be kept going. Senator Ilanna will ! turned and Governor Bushnell wili be reelected by a large majority." Sena tor Foraker will resume the ttump in Ohio this week, but of ourse that i about his having quarrelled with Chairman Dick and Senator Iin:ii will continue to occupy a prominent position in the columns of Democratic newspapers of a certain class. NGBRASKA'S QHEAT PROSPLKI I V. Figures rrom the Clearing Moum for SeP lumber Till u Plettsir tor . Omaha. Neb., Oct. 2 Th etm ordinary business activity in Nebraska is indicated by the Clearing House r port lor September. The report shows Omaha tigures: For September, '1-V (C;0.0,O; for September 15510, Ki, 000 000; for September, 107 M.W;C,0wo. This shows an increase for the month of $ 10,000 000. The local bankers at tribute the great improvement to the great quantity of money haudled as a result of the movemejit of crops and the revival in stock trade and other commercial business. The payment of an enormous amount of mortgages was noticed dur ing tne month. A great deal of money was also loaned on real estate in the interior of the State with which to open up new farms. This great im petus ;dven the money market is not contined to the local banks, the bank ers of the city declare, but to the en tire State and to the States of Kansas, South Dakota and Iowa. It is th best showingever made in the history of the local Clearing House. The bankers declare that even a more pronounced improvement may be expected next month. Much more money is being borrowed throughout the State than was the case three montus ago. The complaint then was that the farmers had all the cash they wanted and the banks could not lend their capital. Now the larmers are beginning to invest heavily in ad ditional lands and stocks. The money is being loaned 2 per cent, eheaper than ever in the St- te's histo y and securities are not being examined as carefully as previously. ITEMS OF ALL SORTS. Tammany Democrats have nomi nated Judge R. A. Van Wyck for may or of Greater New York. Mrs. Jennie CoCfey (formerly Miss Jennie Council, of Salisbury) died at her home at Boone, Watauga county. a few da s ago, aged about 24 years. She has been married a year. Mr. Settle Dockery has retired from the Rockingham Index und the paper will be edited in the future by Mr. W. H. Covington. Mr. Dockery, who is a bright young man, wiil devote him self to the practice of law. Geo. and William Cody, brothers, convicted of burglary at Marshall about a year ago and sentenced to be hanged, but who escaped from jail whi'e an appeal of their case was pending, have been arrested at Red Lodge, Mout. Shelby Aurora: We learn that fifty white caps were in King's Mountain a few nights ago. They asked for two persons bat were told that they were out of town. They traveled in baggies and on horseback and were all disguised. ' C. B. Leon ird, who iuterested him self in securing signers to accommo dation notes for the wrecked First National Bank of Asheville, has skip ped. He was under bond for bis ap pearance at court to answer the charge of obtaining signatures under false pretence. The outfit on which the Moores ville Record ha beeu printed, h been sold to Mr. T. L. Moore, who an nouuees that he will begin the publi cation of a paper a: Mo.-r.-v Star ret tco, the edit. - announces that the ?;.. i ;., Record will be continued t h.n; The llai.-igl: ' a.rrvj. mv .bun un der "in c ! t ; ; il Ih'i" !i te !ieeU c-i;u i t . c! e-c at I', p. :u.. have g;cn pern-ait io run .. :-n-ght during the week of the State Ur I he Kaleigh aldermen are verv considerate. They I do ft want visitors to the la r to .-uflcr from thirst. INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE ! MINISTER WOODFORD'S LETTER. it justifies the United States for Coi. cerniug itself About Cuba. WASH TON, Oct. 2. From what en be 1 arn-d here the Woadford let ter may be best descrilK-d as one w her in the President has taken the Sp.mi-h I'owmui'-nt into his confi dence. unl frankly mat! known all 5 he element of the situation in the mn.-T courteous diplomatic language !t ! a peaceful ! -.;m-n, because it piainl) shows that no disturbance of our friendly relation with Spain is de-ired ur expected, provided the sit nation can be s ameliorated us to u ;d t at calamity. The Mi-f iITcat ion of the L'uited State.- for Cfiu-eroing ifs-ell about Cil b.t i- li.iin.l in a clear preentation of the gieat h.sses sustained by Amari can interest.- on the island, und by the d-tructi (id ,r.r trade tor several year.', lit- ,.: roilie L nited States of o.:r vi-oua.s and long-continued ef forts to suppress filibustering has been enormous. Our io wmmeut has not only acted in go d tuTAr in attempt m. t co::: ; 1 ;iv::tr.t!ii 1 .-. . an observance of our but it lias acted with .eal. As to the sentiment of our citizens, the in,. -riuation g;ve:i Spain is very drhnite anil emphatic, and this branch of the siuject i:ic!ud-.-a reference to the unmi.stitkable attitude of Con gress. The President does not expect to be able to be able to iprevent decid iprevent d !. If thin ed action bv that lodf. If things fn Cuba shall not have changed for the better when Congress meets, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to prevent hostile legislation which would bind the Incentive, It is probable that that portion of ien. Woodford's letter which discuss es these fvatuies is the p.: t which has been characterized iu the Spanish press as an ultimatum. It certainly carries the idea th.a it would be well if, through diplomatic ch.mnel, the ba sis for a cessation of hostilities could be reached before our O.iv-os meets. This is not fixing a time uhtnn wh ch a reply from Spain is expected, but explaining, iu the full confidences which the President is sharing with Spain, that theperiod intervening I e tween the present and the assembling of Congress will afford a quiet and un interrupted season lor friendly uegoti ations after that the deluge. This latter expression will not, of course, be found iu Gen. Woodford' ietter, but it will be the natural and logical de duction from its statement of the gen eral sentiment of the country in and out of Congrss. Gen. Wood lord bears a meseage of peace, in that he is instructed to ten der the go d offices of the United Stattls to bring hostilities to an end. It will also (e made clear by him that the Administration is strongly desir ous of maintaining friendly relations with Spain, and that it has no des re to interfere further in the affairs of Cuba than to assist in re establishing peace there, and that it has no design upon the islaud. The letter is described as being couched throughout in as calm diplo matic language as the atrocities of the situation will admit. In other words' there are some emphatic passages in it, and some which will probably re awaken the echoes over Secretary ' Sherman's employment of plain Eog llsh in discussing the seal question. The President himself is represented by friends as feeling confident that when his policy becomes known through the publication of the Wood ford letter, it will satisfy the country. This is equivalent to saying that it is very far from leiug a paper of words without solid nieauing. The question of the subsidy which the Uuited Stat contributes to the Canadian Pacific w:ii launched in the Senate at an enr.y .u v of the ses sion. The bill to re;el lhisnib?idy w.Ml be written iu language which will require uo expert interpreter. Thoe Senators who have th matter in hand intend that the tig it this time shall be tu ;laL- . M-n.itor Clkiu is the le.i !tr. tie has it in m:ud to frame a meH-ure that will luean only one thine, and o- readih understood bv ordinarv iuteliect- Tu- rec-?u oiiuioo on the subject from ihtf lejKrttueut : Justice is now rgard-d ts O ie ui-tinly dtigued to hoM the matter for the full discuss lou in '.oHgre which is vnow assured. The argument that the question had not bru thrown open lt debate, and PROSPERITY ! OCTOBER 7, 1897. that few knew such a clause was in the bill, made it seem best that Con gress should have the opportunity of acting with full knowledge.' The con sideration of the subject will call to gether oue of the most powerful lobb bies ever asembled here. Aside from the lobby for revenue, there will be the regularly employed atterueys of the Canadian Pacific, the New Kng land delegation Inith in the House ami StiHte. and strong repre-enat ive men from the neHr Xorhwet. Our tru continental line will Im well repre sented. The CanadiMti Pacific hn long maintained an agent here, and the boast ah ut niiu in the in etlug of the directors of tint K-iglidi uiitita ry line, up to the addition of -c.loii 22 of the Dingley lull, ha been thst he never faded to obtain advance information of any move in Consrews or the departments, or at the White House, which could directly or remote ly a fleet thrf ii(eret o1. the ral How he came t o fail iu the List ac he has not yet been able to determ'ne Heretofore these ageuts have play ed ujHin the prevailiujr prejudices agaiust railroads and corporal i u, and have had considerable success in frightening Congressmen with the idea that if they acted for corpora tious they would be marked men with a large class of voters. But now it has become so clear that this Cana li an road is really a line hostile iu all its interests to those of the ITufted States that hs between this line and our own Americans will stand in a body for the latter. This belief con cerniug the foreign road is growing so rapidly and becoming so strong as to be a new element, and a powerful one, and one that will not fail to make it self felt in the coming open dUcuss ioriH, The seal conference is to be held, whether England and Canada appear or not. The intimations from Lon don that they may not be present is accepted here as a confession under the Sherman arraignment. But Rus sia and Japan are coming, and the de visions reached by them in conjunc tion with the United States will be en forced, whether Great Britain is satis fied or displeased. H. V. Boyxtox. BKYAN DIMTLNOUL5HE5 MIM5ELF. Los Angeles Times, There are some narrow minded per sons who profess to believe that W. J. Bryan is a Jonah. As is qult gener ally known, a Jonah is a erson who carries about him an atmorphere of ill luck ami disaster, which affects every body with whom he comes iu contact. As going to prove that Mr. Bryan is a Jonah, the uncharitable and supersti tious persons above alluded to cite the fact that during the late campaign a large proportion of the platforms from which Mr. Bryan spoke collapsed. with results more or less serious to those iu the near vicinity; alo that at one of the southern towns where he spoke, after the ieloM of the campaign. the hotel bsdeoor from which he ad dresed the crowd suddenly gave way, iujuriug many persons, including Mr. Bryan himself. It is also noted that the political platform which b ooeu pied during the campaign ool Lapsed j early iu November, with serious re ftulU to Bryan and hi party follow J ers. I Now come a great railroad collision on the Santa Fe. ner Emporia, Kan. ' Mr. Bryan wm ou oimv of the colliding trains. It canuot be positively assert ed, of course. ttit Mr. Bryau's per enoe on the Uaio was the prime cans of the disaster; nor doea the fact of its occurrence prove conclusively, that be is a Jonah. But Usese small ill-natur ed person, before referred to, will no doubt claim tbir contention has been fully proved, and that no one bere- will have the hardihood to deny, s riously. that W. J. Bryan is a Jonah, with all that the term implies. Hoever. the present -article is not written for the purpose of entering up o i an exhaustive discussion of the pie(D a to whether Mr. Bryant or Is not m jotiah Its chief aim and purpose i to rail attention to the ad mirable manner in which he made himself useful at the scene of the dis aster near Emporia, iu ministering to the needs of the injured Mr. Bryan. fortunately, was uninjured, and the dispatches have painted tu glowing colors the deeds of heroism and mercy which he performed on that occasion. , "Mr. Bryan," says one dispaich, Mwas NUHBEB 40 one of the noblest in the crowd of helpers. H helped to remove the dead and woo oded. (Actually help ed to do these thing with his own hands') It is further recorded that he "went into the fast-mail car, one eol of which was burning." and brought therefrom a drink of water for a wounded mssengrr; also that he "brought out cushions for others ol the injured, ami wes everywhere p res cue to minister to the wants of the Milleririff " All thi wn indeed noble, leyond the (tower to portray. If anybody has hartiored the supposition hat Mr. Bryan, iu an emergency of this kind, would take advantage of the occasion to loot the wounded am! the dead. hre is proot irrefragable that he was mistaken in his estimate of the man. Even those who have supposed that Mr. Bryan would ioke the wounded lawH-iifm in the rib with hit cane. ami make th jocoe remarks about the weather nuit other things, were clearly off their reckoning. It d'e not appear from the preer. diatchea that the other eenger who ecaed injury did anything for the dead and wounded. Mr. Bryan seems to hve done all that was done. But perhaps this may tie accounted, for on the theory that all the others were so lot in admiration of Bryan that they were unable to do anything for themselves. At all eveuts, such services a the other survivor may have rendered seems not to have been worth recording iu the same dispatch which detailed the grand and super human achievements of W. J. Bryan There is one remarkab'e thing in conecction with the affair which seems to have escaped the attention of the lynx eyed reporter. This is the more remarkable, inasmuch as it re lates directly to Mr. Bryan. It is this: Mr. Bryan did not take advantage of the occasion to deliver a fre silver sfaech. At 'least the supposition is (hat he did not, for no report of such a speech is made in th dispatches; and if he made a speech on the occasion, it would surely have been included in the account of the disaster. It may therefore he assumed with a tolerable degree of safety that he did not make a speech on this one occasion. This. fact is. ierhp, the most notable phae of the whole affair. It show remarkable and unsuspected powers of self control on the part of Mr. Bry an, and furnishes Indubitable proof that he can practice great sslf abnega- tiou upon occasion. The circumstances were peculiarly auspicious in one respect; if he had seen fit to make a speech his bearers would have been unable to get away and must perforce have listened. That Mr. Bryan had the self -control to refrain from delivering a free silver speech under these drcumstancea. must be accepted as proof conclusive that he is poesd of lofty moral courage, which does not hesitate at self Immolation under exceptional and extreme conditions. LATER: The following dispatch, received by the editor of THE TlMXS yesterday from a well-known railroad ia.ui, a resident of Los Angeles, throws additional light upon this matter: ALBUQUERQUE (N. M. ISepC 1S 18V?. I M-e by presa dispatches In. Denver papers an effort to make polit ical capital for W. J. Bryan, who was paid I-V0Q for a half -hoar's harangs to some Populist at Burllngame on tbs day of the wreck, and afterward en route to Emporia to earn another dol lar In the same way. when the acci dent occurred. A kind hearted lad J in her stocking feet, was attending poor aneonseious fireman, who never s poke after the wreck, and she asked Bryan. Ignorant of his ideality, ta bring her a cup of water, which he did, He was at the scene of the wreck only a few moment, when he left La a hack for Emporia, and I hope he has man enough In him to say so. The passengers on the train who worked all those awful hour, are justly indig nant at such an outrageous statement, A. P. M. The dispensary at Ixruitburg made a net profit of the first quarter. The proJt is divided letween the tiwn. th general county fund .-v;;.!t!;e school fund. In Asheville i"r.I i nt.'i iufie Davis shot and k ; : U d Jim Huore. Both eoWre!. J -i"i -- . r Ti e af fections of a Vgi;:.'.i v. .i. :Lc tlW wf the trouble. The murderer escaped.
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