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VOLUME 30.
HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1898.
KDHBE3
Flriod'in the Hill Country.
yADKIN AND CATAWBA BOOniNO.
A Ooudburat In Caldwell Th Narrow Osage
T rack Under Water Ona of the Severest
riountaln Prsht Within the Recol
lection of tha Oldf.t Inhabitants.
I.KNOiu, Sept. 2:5 The heaviest
rainfall recorded here for years fell in
the 21 hours ending at 10 o'clock last
niht. most of which fell yesterday
jittvriioon the ; total measuring six
iifhefc, Great damage was done to
M reets and roads and many bridges
were washed away. There was also a
ureat los of farm products along 'the
Miuill streams. The train due here at
. p. m. came no iuriner man iiicKpry
Iat night and there' have been no
trims between these two points to
day. The water is report el within 8
f. K t of'the Moors of the Catawba river
rui! road bridge, which means about 25
levt of water at that .'.place. The C. &
N. W. tracks between the river bridge
'nd Cliffs, two miles, were reported
about 4 feet under water this morn
ing, t The storm disappeared almost
ks rapidly.as it came. To-day is per-fnt.
hill near by. This morning; after the
water had gone down, Mr. Weaver
went to his house and found that the
water had been all over the floor, and
the hearth under his store was washed
away, causing the stove to fall through
under the house.-
Tom's creek, after being in its bed
many years, is out, doing heavy dam
age to bottom land.
(JEN. COX QIVES IT AWAY
DENIES IT.
KEV A. W. SFTZEK.
THIS IIEllUtUATli; rULitUl. ""cuon among otuer qualifications, finally, after about v ven months had
and the decision opens the way to an passed 'hi decidl to make an inve-
Improved condition in the local gov- tig&tiou nd it i found that the e-
ernment of many Southern commuul- Suerintendent owed the school fund
ties, for it will not only bring about 41. The money was then "turned
relief from a peculiar and unjust sys- over."
tern of franchise, but ' will prove an The rear immediately preceding
educational stimulant. thu, Democratic Clerk of the
At every election held la the South I 8uperior Court went out of office,
since the war it has been the regular 1 Incomnetencv. mbmanairetnerit nr
intelligent vote to be I something ele can sed him totnna.
AND THEN
the
Another. Prcachir Oom Wrong;.
From the Union Populist.
An article signed by the above
named Reverend gentleman addressed
to Mr. Cbas.- M. Burris, Newton, N.
C., Sept. C, 1803, and taken .from the
Newton Enterprise has been going
the round3 of the Democratic press of
the State. If that gentleman wrote
that article as published he has mis
represented the facts and the people
among whom he came to preach the
gospel of truth aud salvation. Mr.
Setzer nearly every night goes to the
poat office for his mail, and ought to
kuow and does know the truth or
falsity of the following quotation
taken from his said letter.
'. "Ladies cannot go to the post office
Prominent Democrats i the State "Say
Same Thing:.
The Washington Post of September
2nd contained an interview with Gen,
Cox declaring it to be the policy of the
Democratic party in 2orth Carolina
to adopt methods similar to the South
Carolina, Louisiana, and. Mississippi
election laws. This ..went unchal-
order for the
kilied by the vicious vote. The man
of property influence who ha a
standing In his community, and who
has an interest In good local govern-
lenged until the llthf September aadwhodilntoebaljot.ofa ajloit him.
i r- 00,0 wusenauve cuiira nas ai- I lueu uxaue
wucu (jcu. vUa uuurr.; mwauio ui I . , . .
' - I WftVS I Inn A With o swirutnrtrio.
ble to make a tinancial settlement with
his successor, and after three years of
kind indulgence with him It was de
cided that suit should be entered
The "settlement" wae
the Democratic State lZx6eutive Com
mittee published the following denial:
'My attention has been called to
the following card wqich I am in
formed is being circulated by the Re
publican Sta te Committee." i
"Read and Take Warning! .Gen.
Wm. R. Cox Secretary of the United
States Seriate in an interview pub
lished in the Washington Post, Sept.
2nd, 1808, giving away the secrets of
the Democratic policy in Jforth Caro
lina in the following words: "With a
return of the Democrat to power j in
North Carolina, I think it is safe to
AN IKON BRIDGE GONE,
for mail because a negro is: in charge predict that measures will be adopted, ZL t
of that position.- as they have been in South Carolina. K6? l
, i- .r . - . . . . . Indicated'
The Corn Crop In the Yadkin Valley Ruined
Th Klver Higher Than Anybody; Eyer
Remembers Seeing It.
Rockfoud, Sept. 2ft Heavy rains
yesterday and last night caused ; the
Yadkin river to rise rapidly until at
noon to-day it was said by the oldest
inhabitants to be the highest they
fver saw it. Corn in the river bottoms
is totally submerged and the whole
rrop is practically ruined. Every par
ticle of hay and all kinds of feed are
washed away. There were no trains
or mail of any kind from Winston to
day. The Southern Railway track in
many places is covered with water
fveral feet deep. A house occupied
bv H. Hutchins, ncHr the.: river, was
washed away, aud que of his children
dro-wnrd, the rest of the family barely
-hcaptug ''with their lives. A Mr.
Moser, near Donnaha,- wax drowned
tli in afternoon. His body has just
been recovered. The large iron bridge
over .Fish river between Dobson and
Mt. Airy, is washed- away . Wires are
down between here .'.and Wilkesboio,
but more casualties will doubtless be
nporttd tomorrow. The river is
falling but in stiUinany fet high.
A WASHOUT NEAR UNION MILLS: '
Piow Mr. tr. B. King is postmaster
at Green yille, is a white man, a Dem
ocrat and a Cleveland appointee, and
his assistant is Mr. Jar vis Harding, a
young white man, and they are in
charge of that position. But for an
other quotation.
"White lady school teachers must
go to negro school committeeman to
have their vouchers signed.'
Notice the language employed, ladies I quoted extract
Louisiana and Mississippi, looking to
the elimination of a large per cent of
the ignorant and purchasable vote."
Gen. Cox is the author of the cele
brated telegram. "Hold Robeson and
saye the State."
"The language employed and the
idea conveyed is that of the inter
viewer, and not ray ownV 1 made no
such statement as contained in the
done so with
that right along behind him may come
worthless loafers, a trifling illiterate
character, who cannot read the ballot
in his hand who Is perhaps just out of
the Penitentiary or off the chain
ffang yet whose vote annuls the one
that went before.
The South lias endured this condi
tion of affairs so long that it has
ceased to be a matter of comment, and
has been accepted as a matter of fact.
Protest ceased years ago because it
was found that protest were in vain,
but this decision of the Supreme Court
buuwb mai mere is reuei aneaa it our
secure it in the way
Indicated,'
The menoi property and Inlluence,
according to this editorial, should
alone have the right of uffrage, yet
the Charlotte Observer In it issue of
Sept. 15th, 1803, undertake to sustain
Gen. Cox in his denial.
Chairman Simmons in his speech at
Wilkesboro, on the 15th of August
lu a settlement with a Democratic
Sheriff in this county he waa credited
with an item of f 1,025.70 for two dif
ferent years, when It ought not to
have been for but one. Attention
was called to this matter and an ex
planation demanded, plausible ex
planation could " not be given. The
money wa then turned over to the
Treasurer.
After taking this alight glimpse at
the record, in which only two year
are involved, and taking a conserva
tive view of the whole affair what do
you think of the "good government',
party, and what do you think of re
turning" to "good government?1 But
It will be an injustice to our readers if
we do not call attention to the Republican-Populist
management of
Chatham county affair also:
To begin with, no officer ha been
Indicted for crime, mismanagement or
incompetency. But on the other
handthe people generally of Chatham
county claim, we get from good au
la t, lining the Democratic policy, thority, that they have a good coun
Mrams High in Rutherford and Polk Coun
'''. tie.
UrTHKitKouimN, tfept; 2. Yes
t ehiay was a wet day here. It rained
harder than it has for matiy.a year,
and an a consequence the streams all
over this section are very high. Re-1
ports from every part of this and Polk
jrounties indicate that the streams are
higher than they have been for many
years, aud that a very large amount of
damage to the crops has resulted. A
washout on the South Carolina &
tieorgia Railroad, near Union Mills, a
Matiou about uiue miles north of this
town, prevented the train from goiug
to Marion last night. The damage is
.Wing repaired and t is thought that
trains will pass on regular schedule
to-night.
Preparation are being made for the
must go and etc. k Now why, must
white teachers go to negro cbmmitteer
man to sign their vouchers, unless
they want to. There in sufficient
white committeeman in every district
to sign vouchers and we have yet to
hear of a single white ladv teacher
going to a negro. But let us quote
still further from this' wonderful
preacher letter.
"I have never gone into the Court
House in Greenvillethat I did iiot ee
a Jury half, or moW than half, of
whoin were negroes." ,
What shall we say; about this letter.
The records of the Court and jury list
of this county will show that there is
not now, uor has been for the past
two. years under Populist aud Repub
lican management any more negroes
on the jury than under Democratic
management, and never uuder either.
more tnan nail tne. jury negroes as
seen by Mr. Setzer.
These are but sample.' of the mis
representations, made to outsiders
about our town and county, but this
last, and that from a preacher of
Christ's gospel a teacher and exaruplar
of truth, love and charity, of salvation
and righteousness to come, this apos
tle sent from Catawba to Pitt to teach
and preach religion not .politics, is
stranger than fiction. n Mr. Setzer
wears glasses they must magnify ob
jects greatlyJor he -m-ist see through
his glasses darkly. A BAPTIST.
"In the hotel Corridor, the inter
viewer was stating to me the contents
of an article in the Atlanta Constitu
tion, in regard to tne depioraoie po
litical condition in North Carolina.
"In preparing the iriterjiw, After
leaving me, from which "the above
purports to be an extract, together
with other interviews for the Post,
the reporter evidently fell into the
error of confounding what was passing
in his mind, with what was said by
me I was not familiar with the elec
tion laws of the State referred to, but
did know the Constitution of North
Carolina expressly forbids the Legis
lature from passing any law disf ran-
chising any individual or class of per-
in full accord with Gen. Cox's inter
view as also did Heriot CIarkon, the
Democratic candidate for the House
of Representatives in Meeklenbnrt?.
recently declared the same things In
Charlotte publicly. Hon. C. B. Wat
ton, Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor In 1896, made substantially the
same statement to a prominent Popu
list in the Supreme Court Library last
March.
Beyond controversy the Democratic
policy will be, if they get control of
the Legislature to return to the 'bull
pens and other fraudulent methods to
impose by constitutional amendment
an educational with other qualifica
tions, upon the right of suffrage and
restore their ring-rule in t ids State.
Eternal vigilance is the price of
son.. And even should thj Legisla- liberty! Let no n.an:. be deceived by
ture be disused to do so, it would be
prevented by our Constitution.
(Signedj n "Wm; R. Cox."
His ignorance of 'the' Mississipoi
election law is sublime. Whenthis
denial appeared it was called to ths
attentiou of Mr. E. B. Smith, a .Dem
ocrat, and reporter for the Washing
ton Post who wrote the interview,
and he gave the following letter,
which is now at Republican Head
quarters;
The Washington Post
Washington. D. C, Sept. 13, 'OS.
their hypocrasy and crocodile tear
they are profusely sheding. The mau
of property and inlluence can always
take care of himself, but the laboring
masses should hold to the ballot lor
self protection. The iolicy of the
Democratic party strikes down the
poor and illiterate white and colored
votes alike. Union Republican.
Wilful NeCWct of OmclalOuty.
In 116, North Carolina reports, page
1,003 we find the following: "Indict-
ty officer a are to be found In the
State.- . - ;
The first year they took charge of
the county finance they spnt fl,927.-'
00 less on general county xpene
alone .than their Democratic prede
cessor the last year - they were fn
office. '
In addition to the fact that there .
were sixty-eight public k hoots added
when the present ofllda's came Into
power, tlie jer oiplta wa rai&I to
$1.20 the greatest apportionment ever,
made in Chatham county; ami the ex
pense of the Supervisor for the year
ending July 1, lb'Ji, is upon an aver
age $75.00 less than those of the Su
perintendent under Democratic rule.
We cannot follow further the" record
of the county but the above i a sub
stantial showing. The pre Kent ofllce
encombents of Chatham county have
a clean record from the atart go and
the records bear them out In tho fart
that they have saved more than a
thousand dollars in cash to the tax
payers oi tne county and at tne same
time spending a good deal of money
for public Improvements, and In the"
way of road tc, and Increasing the
Ier capita of public reboot children.
These are atnbboni fact in the face
of the Democratic calamity howler.
Wherever we have had occasion to
"Dear Sir: In an interview pub-1 ment a"111 w u Hatch and others, look into the record of any county we
Lag
The Catawba Break the Record A
Boon Broken.
MomtAyTOK, Sept. 23. The Ca-
tawba! river, at Morganton, broke all
previous flood records today. The
rise at the iron bridge on the Quaker
Meadow road was 23 feet, and the
Rutherford County Fair, which is to bridge was submerged to a depth of
tie held on October JHth. 27th and I ftwt One nf the steel smn vnw
2th. The officer will try to make
this fair Uirger and better than ever
In-fore. ' . ' -'
Captain Bell and quite a number of
Company B, Second North Carolina
Reghnent are home on a furlough.
The boy are all looking well and talk
as though they enjoyed their service.
r.LEp TO THE MILLS.
Mr Reaver's Pi.il, Lft Thalr Home t
. . Eacapa DrtAaC. . ; . ' .
M Aliiox, Sept. la r-The heaviest
rain that we have had in ' years fell
here yesterday. The .CatJtwhsV river
has been on a Ikkilu and her water
1 j. ive carried many takk.'o( fodder,
and hay. Som farmers kiv their
crops are waheit away. Iu Kme
i!acvf the corn crops are covere! up
iu mud.
The old Major Erwin houe, where
Mr, Alf. Weaver now lives, was sur
rouuded by water and the wave
(itus'e-l. him to take hi family to the
spans
lightly damaged by the drift, The
steel bridge on the Lenoir road over
the Ca taw oa and jonn rivers were
not Injured, though at both bridges
the earthwork approaches were broken
through by the flood, dreat damage
has been done to crops in the valley,
and the river this morning was full of
fodder and tops;n The boom bf the
Pitts iumber Cpmpany, at Glen Al
pine, was broken and a big lot of logs
released The county bridge over
Silver, Creek on the As heville road,
was washed away. Colonel T. (.
Walton sa" the only fiood approach-
lished with Gen. Wm. R. Cox, appear
ing in the Washington Post of Sept.
2nd, written by me, be is quoted as
saying that if the Democrat return
to power in North Carolina It is safe
to predict that measures will be
adopted as they have been In other
States looking to a restriction of the
franchise by eliminating a large per
cent, of the ignorant and purchasable
vote. I will say about this that -while
1 do not declare that they were the
exact word bf Gen. Cox. yet I am
absolutely sure that in sentiment
County Commissioners,' for wilful neg
lect of official duty.M It appears from
the report that a verdict of "guilty
was rendered In the Superior Court
and on appeal the decision was af
firmed in the Supreme Court, Judge
Clark rendering the decision.
This occurred in Chatham county
in 1S03 and the board of county com
missioners against whom the charge
was made .and confirmed In both
courts were Democrat.
The Republican preM generally has
not been in the habit of calling the
attention bf the public to crimes of
Vior- vn r tl v rrirMUnt hia .ennver
sation with me, and I wa greatly thU nature committed by Democratic
surprised at his denial of their anthem
ing
tb
is was In 1S24.
Ma4 TTrhoU ltr.
"My system was very much run down
by typhoid fever. 1 be-gan taking
Hoodls Sarsajwirilla anvl the effect wa
mcvt invLrorating. It cave me a new
t f .it rA i tiira nrtvi mwi voters and tne smnrema uoarx
.ik ciriM Virkr i mr 1 that &m it aDDlIe to white a
tidty. ery truly,
(Signedh ."E. B. SmitiC
What says Gen. Cox to this!
Abundant proof can be' furnished
that Gen. Cox voiced the policy of the
Democratic party in this State. We
copy from the Charlotte Observer of
July 24th. vm the following edito-
....,... i ..
rial :
'THK iIX6IMXPri LAW viun.
"It I worthy of not that tee tou-
preme Court of the United State has
rendered a decision siiainlng the
validity of the Mts&iMippi election
law, wnich wa designed to protect
the State from a vicious and illiterate
element. The law debar iiliWra.te
holds
ell as
been able to follow my ;-usual business."
J. Ai' Conner, Jr., Rockbridge Bath,
Virginia,
to blacks It is Constitutional.
'Thlixaeans; that a Stat ba
right to impose an educational
the
officials but since it has become the
policy of the . Democratic party to
make gros insinuations against the
Republican and Populist officials gen
e rally all over the State (no proof of
7 . m . ' a
any iecuic case given,) and men noui
themselves up before the people as
'spotless and in&iat on a return" to
"good government, it becomes our
dntv to ,oien" a few of the "book
- 40 - - m
tind let the people see. tome facts.
While we are on Chatham county
affairs It might be wel to turn to the
record and inspect some other little
matters. In . this same year, ItV
when the Democratic Superintendent
of Public instruction went out of
oSce in June. beeali-d hi board of
education together and made a -final
ettkment and turned over bis books
to the Treai urer. The jeople rathir
thought that some money ought to
tlud that in the matter of coiujetency
and strict ierformance of duty the
Republican-Populit ofilcials show a
high average abovj Democratic ofll
cials, and the amouuts of hard earned
money which have been sareil to the
tax payers are In many Instances enor- j
moas. The books" must tbe opened
and the people mutt know the facta.
Union Republican.
Tha Qfaaiaat BiaatSy.
Mr. K. B. G reeve, inercba&t, of Chil
howie, Va.,' cert I flea that he had con
sumption, was given up to die, all tntU
leal treatment that money could pro
cure, tried all cough remedies he could
bear of, but got no relief; spent many
nights fitting up in a chair; was Induc
ed to try Dr. King's New Discovery,
ami was cured by use of two bottles.
For past three years lias been attend
ing to boiLie. and says Dr. King's
New DUcov-ry Is the grandeat retuedy
ever made, a it ha dune so much for
him and also for others in Lis com
munity. Dr. King's New Dicovery
i guaranteed for Cough. Colds ard
Consumption. It don't faiL Trial
bottles free at-Sbuford Dru Co. Drug.
Store.
Fnator Kyle, of South Dakota,
ws atrickrn with iamlytit cu Wel-
nday. the 1 Ith inL, at CleveUnJ.
Ohio.
re-ihaveben tumed over" alo.
T Cera CitlpaUa rrre.
and J U CCC i Ail u cirt. Crttuu rtriii