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V v w A 3Ute Library 'V iK5 A r . PROTECTION I INDUSTRY I ENTERPRISE PROSPERITY I VOLUME 30. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST li, 1898. 1IDIIBEH ll)H rfrrf K i l l: . III li-rniliri1 ht a a mi i ' i III THE PADDED REPORTS. Ounce Scrtarv Ciout'i Reply to tt MaSbyJ.W. Ball?. ; Under date of August 2d, Mr.i JJL. Ramsey, secretary of the State Board BUT WERE REPU LSED. A FURIOUS BATTLE AT MA- LATE, NEAR MANILA. of his effasions, I will take the f teu he mentions aod compare them with the financial records of this Depart ment in 1800, under Democratic man agement. He picks out three appro priations for six months, I. c, "gas. paper appro In your issue of this date youl pub- pnauons, iu.vuu. 1 win compare lish what seems to be an afterthought 4 -fi"4" "4t" "kJ"w't from the pen of Mr. J. W. Bailey, in tion made th 1481 rer of Democratic which he savs that he -is informed- .control of thif Department-lSOC In that an understanding exists! that Jane, 189C the Democratic board ap Capt.JohnR. Smith, Commissioner r5Priat,f!r ater ?J Xf e' of Agriculture, is to get $2,500 salary 'M ; ' , -7 ' instead of S1.800 He then savs! that WASHINGTON' LETTER srxts aivEM a umitxd time. of Agriculture, writes to The Raleigh ter an d telephony $200; " New. and Observer, a follows: aD? PrmtlP a Eleven Americans Killed Thirty-Seven Wounded The Spanish Loss Upward of ' 1 200 Killed and 300 v Wounded.. &A2cFraxcisc6, Aug. 9. A to the Call' from Cavite August 6, via I-roads Hong Kong, bays: The American forces engaged the enemy before Ma late on last Sunday, night and com pelled them to retreat with heavy losses. Our troops lost thirteen killed nnd fortv-seven wounded. It has been impossible to ascertain the exact losses of the Spanish. The lighting lasted four hours. , The American troops engaged were part of the 10th Pennsylvania, 1st California and 3rd regular artillery. The Spanish, led the attack, at- special I keeping up an incessant fire on the leading to Manila, over which they apparently expected the Aiueri- can troops to advance. Some estimates place the Spanish losses at over 500 men killed and wounded. "the padding of some items in the budget at the June meeting of the board may throw some light on the matter." lie says: "Gas. water a!nd ell! G telephones cost $00 for the past six months; for the next six months, ?2Uy are appropriated. Printing (and) pa per cost 3,617; $5,000 js appropriated. There is a special appropriation of $10,000; of this amount $5,000 is for the experiment station work and $300 for the museum, the balance of the 4:7000 is for labor, t-fuel. repairs and . W T , such special appropriations as may be ordered." j. . . . ' . " ;' As to theso intimations that the "budget" was padded for the purpose of paying Ir. Smith additional salary, or for any other purpose whatever, or that the "budget" was "padded", at all, I denounce as absolutely false. I will proceed to explain why 1 have certain knowledge of the falsity cf the intimations. mg. f, jOO; "special appropriations. $8,000. In December, 1S0C, the same board appropriated for 'gas, water and telephones," $250 ($50 more than was appropriated by ' the present Uoard in Jane last for the same pur pose): $4,000 for "paper and printing." and $11,500 for "special appropria tions," or $1,500 in excefes ; of the amount provided by the present board during any meeting since it has Nw rrwm Orm. MUt Vtln Om4- UUy T.rifl Law rki lr I ulf A DUnw of Ik M4lcl Cfp I thm Amy. (Regular Correspondent.) Washington, Aug. 8th. President. McKinley is so confident from the as surances he has. received that the Spanish government will, as soon as it can with" safety to itself, formally accept our terras of p-ac that he in devoting considerable time to deciding upon just the right men to represent the U. S. upen the commission that will be charged with the important and delicate duty of negotiating the treaty of pVace between the IT. S. and Spain. Notwithstanding his confi dence, there is a limit to the time he is willing to give the Spanish govern- had control. Now what is Mr. Bailey nient lo iuare itself with the people and his associate campaign thunder manufacturers going to do about the above facts and figures? : The only item apparently favorable to the former administration is in the matter of paper and printing." In one instance the amount was $1,500 less and In the other $1,000 less. But that is easily explained. In 181X3 the circulation of The Bulletin, one of the largest items in "paper and printing," I was less than 20,000. It is now con siderablv over 30.000. reoulrincr more a. ..w iUk -Rrtftwi nf trri. i Mian to per cent, increase in cosii ox culture I receive an() account for every paper and typesetting. i cent of money coming into the De- In making the above.' comparison I partmnt. All cash is turned over to disclaim any intention of reflecting the Stkte Treasurer. I also write the upon the former board or officials. So Washington, D. C. August 8.-the I warrants for tde expenditure of every I far as X know, the expenditures were i. Washixgto Aug. 0. Gen. Mer ritt has cabled the war department a dispatch! confirmatory of the press re ports of the battle at Manila. following is General Shafter's sanitary ' i & I IV n A o v w 9J - tempting to dislodge our troops by a report for August 7th: llankinir movement from the strong position they have been holding near the enemy's lines. The position is still held by our troops; Total isick, 3,445; total number of fever cases, 2?408; total number of new cases, 412; total number Of fever cases returned to duty', 400: deaths August Loxbox, Aug. 0. Hong Kong gays: A dispatch from; The German Steamer Petrarch left Manila August C, andjlias arrived here. She reports that the Spanisli soldiers at Manila attacked the American eomp on the night of July 31. The 'Spanish'- force were over 3,000 strong. They charged the American lines several times. - The American lire broke thft Spanish cen ter and they ret reated. Later they, made a second" diarge;, but shortly re treated to the bushes keeping up an. ihepsant fire. Kleven Americans were kilYd and thirty-seven wounded. Spanish losses reported great. During the fighting the rebels remained neu tral. . . rth. n Surgeon-G eueral Sternberg has writ ten a general defense of the medical corps ofj the army and himself from at- J tion to make a better estimute of what cent, they being drawn upon the State Treasurer. The appropriations are made by tb6 board semi-annually, in J une and D'efcember. I make u p the budget iusl before these semi an nual meetings, string the amouftt ap. propriated for the previous - year . and the . amount expended under j each head. Having charge of the books all the time, and therefore in p. posi- all legitimate and judiciously made, and as I receive every dollar and pay out every dollar expended, " 1 stand ready to'assert and prove that the same is true under the present board. . '. '. - Respectfully. J. L. RAMSFA', Secretary. SAxFnANCisro, Aug. 0. A special to the' Examiner from Manila dated July 31, via Hong Kong, Aug. 3,'saye: A heavy engagement took plac be tween! the American aud '-Spanish forces' at Malate. The Spanish made an attack, attempting to turn our right. 1 After an hour's hunting they were" repulsed. The troops engaged were: 1st battalion California volun teers,tl0th Pennsylvania, 1st battalion 3rd artillery regular and battery A, Utah. Our loss was nine killed and forty-four woiinded. The Sanich loss . was -'upward bf 200 , killed : and three hundred wounded. Our volun teers uirde a glorious defense against upwards of 3,000 of an attacking force. The battle raged for three hours. tacks made upon them, many of which he Ktys :were instigated by those who became 'offended at his opposition to sending; female nurses to camps of in struction or with the army in the field ! lie says the ouly trouble with the medical corps is that there are not enOuirhisurireons in the army, even in neace: that it is probable that iu tak ing on abo it 3(K) contract surgeons, some;; incompetence may have slipped in, owing to hurried examinations. Of the shortage of medical supplies at Santiago, he says: The principal rea son was that the supplies were left be hind when the army left Tampa, ow the expenses are likely to be for the next six months, the work is naturally left to me. The members of the They Should Have Two Ior. In Chairman Simmons new White Man's clubs that he is organizing, which everybody knows is a trap to try to fool some Popnht into accord ing to the conditions . that .Bob Peo- board have in every instance adopted pieg antj i3uc Kitchen made for Pop my recommendations without change. I will state that this method was pur sued under the old board, which was Democratic, and that I have in most instances adopted the plan of Mr. T. K. Bruner, the former secretary, who. as is well known, was a very capable populists to enter. Now, the Demo- man. Mr, Bruner. assisted me In mak ing the appropriations in June, 1807. They were fully as large as they were in June, 1803. The appropriations for aiaries can be made to the dollar, but ulists to enter the Democratic party. They will by all means be required to have two doors, a front door and a back door, the front door for the se lect, or rather elect to enter through. and the back door for the returning crats, have tried the nigger racket on the people, and that does not scare folks worth a cent, as they have seen for themselves and find when the Democrats were in power, they , ap ing to lacK Of transportation facilities, there are mAny things that cannot be pointed and aided about as man, ne- and one of the niiuor reasons was the delay in landing supplies of all kinds at Siboney. A Judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina rebukes a college of which he is a trustee for consenting to take a gift of $100,000 from a pluto- foreseen in making, appropriations for f uture expenditure in a department like this, where the expenses run up into the thousands in a year. Mr. Bailey was a member of the Board of Agriculture! for more than a year, and should have posted himself well enough not to .make serious charges without a shadow of foundation. All cratie maker of cigarettes. The Judge sees in the gift an effort of plutocracy I these matters have been explained to to smuggle the gold standard into the 1 him, and be knew better, but the gen. curriculum.:.' A. silver university ougnt I era! public has not na the same op to be founded, and plutocrats be fined for their insidious ment.-4-New York Sun. should endow- Hoxo Ko'tt, Aug. 0. The Steamer Petrarch which left Manila on August t arrived here today aud brought the first rtews of a severe engagement be tween the Spaniards and 'Americans near , Manila. The Americans were victorious and only lost eleveu men killed! and had thirty-seven men wounded. The Spaniih losses are not knowp but they are rt orted io have leeu heavy. The iusurgent forces remained iieu- ' tr!-' V. The attack was made on the Ameri can camp between Cavite and Mauila during the night of July 31. The Spaniard who numbered' over three thousand men. made several desperate charges iiihu th American tint bet vach time the t:ro ot ttiu' Ar.ieritMH troops drove the Spaniards - bck aud finllv broke the Spanish center and the enemy Retreated. Iter; however, the Spanlardmade n fcond attack but vere ugum re- Old Pvopl. Old people who. require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find thci true remedy in Eleclric BSt ters f This medicine does not stimu- lortunities, and I will make it under stood. In appropriating a certain amount for expenses which can only be roughly estimated, a board( does not intend that every dollar shall be expended. We will suppose that $5,000 was appropriated. If it turns j out that only $4,000 are needed, then the $1,000 is left to the credit of the groes in office as Populists and Repub licans have at present. They have made all kinds of fale charges against the State officer, and the people have investigated the de partments for themselves and fiud them to be honestly and economically oondncted. In fact in many instance thousands of dollars have been savel to the people, and the State and now something must be done, or we fellows III be kept from the pie counter an othtr term, and as a last reoit. we will try the White, llaiu clnb and run It for all it is worth, and th ida i to tole a poor Pop into one of the clubs, muflle him, put a trnik'bt jacket on him aud admlniTer a sorter of a Ku klox oath to him, swearing him to profound ecrecy. and then late and contains uo whiskey nor oth- j Department in the State Treasury. er intoxicant, but acts as a tonic ; and alterative. It acU mildly on the sto mach" and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, therely aidiuc Nature in the performance of the fiinctioos. Klectric Bitters is an excellent p pettier and aidj digest ion. Old People find it just exactly what they nNNl. Price fifty cent and $t 00 lr. Ibitie-- at Shuford Drug Co Drug Store. i 1 u'se! and retrea ut.. vere i tiU into ; he bush. Cou:Ms of strong men and heilthy thfiKl B ptm ptiiv, rich blooi which h iiivetity HotVi's SaTAap nli A uai--tlon jwhlch'tftke talllion oi tjottlen cf ing the iomidatian far itc&Ub, the wls dutu t vhith will surely how itself Even Mr. JJailey ought to be able i to grasp a little thing like that. In De cetuber lat $200 were appropriated for cns, j wafer and telephone." Only wero expended In the six 'month. leaving $101 in the; fcjate Treasury to the credit of the Depart ment. Anything criminal about tht? 4 hanlly jhink $200 will be sjient in thi way in the next ix month, but th!bil!s will b to my, and electric .. J - .... : ' . lights wilt liae to ne i:a lar. repair maile. probxbly nw leghts put in. ; II 'th buJffet lor June waj "psi- ded,n Mr. l!aiWy h-l ph! to t!fit. for J he vo?et! for it adoption. At " uny rate.-lw.wai ', prtfe-ot and cot a vote wa recor4Hl agalnt it. ; ' ! A Mr. Bas!y jia brcnght r ithe ubji'CT, has intluixted that outhicg i wronr, or may gt wrox:g, and hs when the fellows come to vote h will not think of doing so until firet asking some Democratic ring mater to fix up his ticket. Therefore we boldly awrt if every PopulUt la the Stat and Re publican as well, are made out of the kind of stuff we think they are, they will give lnee iJemocratic cjudu a wide birtli. " We were oppod to Ku klux. U loo League and all k!nd-of secret political organizatiori. for the day has arrived when every man ran Uxve acre to jolttical literature enough to inform himelf how to'vete to hisown intret ard that of his country and cot iwear or p!?dg wjy hU olitica! freedom to any rl of men or po!itic.tI ptrty.jut vote the honrt sentiment of til own mind a(?er rua tun? deliberation, with all the tihX before hin. Home Ru!e. , of Spain. The French Ambassador,' who is representing Spain, in Washing ton, has been told that unless the terms of peace are accepted In a given time, they will be withdrawn, and that if they are withdrawn, it It in tended by this government to fc carry the war into Spain at once, and that no such magnanimous terms will be- again offered. The news from General Miles con tinues good. More than half of Porto -Rico 1s already in his possession and he is steardly extending his lines, with out fighting. Gen. Shaffer's army Is being brought away from Santiago j list as fast as the ships at hand can get them away, in order to give the men a chance to recuperate. President McKInley gave the two Cincinnati boys who started the idea of raising, by contributions from school children, the money to buy the finest battleship in the world,.1 for presenta- . tion to the U. 8 and to be named the 'American Boy, a letter endorsing their project and saying "I am sure the boys and girls will deem it a privilege to be numbered among the contribu tors to this patriotic undertaking." Master W. Rankin Good, of Cincin nati. President of the National Ameri oan Boy Fund, and a comanion, had a very pleasant interview with the Presidenttwo interviews, In fact. The Department of State has Teen officially notified that an international ' Congress, for the purpose of discuss ing tariff legislation and the regula tion of labor, will be held at Antwerp; . Belgium, from Sept. 12th to 17th in clusive. Public econornlits. f ocIallsU, . manufacturers, merchants, employers and workmen are invited to take part. The pointi from which these que- tions arc viewed by Americans and" Europeans, are so wide apart that few -Americans are likely to attend thbv Congress, except from curiosity. Americans have a tariff f yitem, now that Is bringing them great proapcrtty, and countries that arc prosperous have little difficulty in the regulation of labor. Not only is the American manufac turer holding hi own . market under the DIogley tariff lawf but he is push ing his goods into all the markets of " the world at a rat e that rani the aston ishing to tho who claim that a pro tective tariff would cause our manu facturers to Ioe all their foreign trade. It was generally known long before thf bureau of statistic could foot op the figures and announce the grand total, that our exportation of agricul tural prod acts during the bit firal year, wan largely in rxce of any sin gle year in the hutory of the country. and it U now known that our exporta tion of manufactured article daring the hut fiscal year, exrerdnl that of any other year, by nearly $!2.OX,0C0. and reach! fu rain the enormous am of $2.W71.:. and. what U ati'l more gratifying, our imports of manu factured article daring thewme prr-- lod, were nnutually Iisht. ihowicg ; that our luanufacturrfVhav rrcovtr el control of the hoiu market, which they irtially Iot undr th low tariff law. enacted by the i!eLucrrat. at fcoaht to UiIie eau;p.';;tithui.i!f ont 2C-To&e for fifty Ct. eriE.'.i t itxiOCO rr. Rt e3i tr m IncreaM-d Ihf ir firriti trad. .The are the ort f Ur! t jat -will have to be forgottoti before the lrvp!e of tni country vc:- il !rmocratic pirty back Into po-r; they ar? Jo tue ort of fid that pk for thtm elve aXkd iircd tx Ialyfr aruueit to make them unu-cr:tod,
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