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9 Library ... 4 i t , Ik rf if - PROTECTION ! INDUSTRY I ENTERPRISE 1 PROSPERITY ! mm 30." rilCKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27,1898. HDHBER WASHINGTON LETTER. THE PRESIDENT'S WESTERN TKIP. The Republicans Will Control the "Next Senate. , (Regular Correspondent.) , Washington, Oct. 24, 1898. Presi dent McKinley talks with the greatest enthusiasm bi his experience on his Western trip. Although it was a period of hard work for him, as in ad dition to the speeches he made and the receptions he held, he transacted a . great deal of -important public busi ness, having been accompanied by two Secretaries and in constant telegraphic communication with Washington, he says he would not have missed the object lesson in the patriotism of the people, which he saw everywhere, for anything. He will, this week attend the peace jubilee at Philadelphia and possibly vi.ake a short trip further east. President McKinley will not talk politics for publication, but his personal menus Know mat ne is pleased with the political information 1. i. : 1 . t. : i 1. . jie uuuuiicu uu uio iiijj uuu iimi lit; is perfectly confident that the country will emphasize its indorsement of his administration anu its great aceoiu-, plishmentsby electing a Republican majority of the House, to assist the Republican Senate, which will exist next March, in carrying out his policy and in maintaining and adding to the. prosperity which the country is now enjoying as a direct result of Republi can legislation and administration; His confidence in the success o the Republicans in the Congressional elections is shared by all the party leaders who are in Washington, In a letter received in Washington, Miss Lillian M. Kratz, who has been a nurse in the military hospital at San- tiago bineo July, says: "Now, about! our work hero among the poor soldier . boys. Well, everything is being done for them within. reason in spite of the 'many reports to the contrary, as we see in the daily papers, and 1 am sure there is no room for complaints at chis end. They have tggs, at the rate of ten omits per egg; soup, fresh meat; in fact, they have everything tjie. island affords for their benefit and comfort; and they have comfortable cots and pleiity of clean linen kc, and I really think, taking the circumstances into consideration that they are treated as well as they possibly could be treated:',' Miss Kratz is not an amateur, but a regular graduate of St. Luke's hos pitalat St. Louis, and ! is therefore competent to judge of what she writes. Mr. Charles Counselman, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, who is . now in Washington, gives the follow ing as a business man's view of the political outlook: "Just as soon asT this election is over and the country feels once more safe, by reason of the succeny'of the Republicans, there is going to ensue an era of the most wonderful prosperity in our history. The success of the Republicans this year, 1 deem vital, for it will mean the permanent elimination of the free sil ver issue. If the Democrats should happen to carry the House they will feel encouraged to once more try to A ? TRIP TO THR hdpa r TDANK.nic. SISS1PPI INTERNATIONAL EXPOSI TION AT OMAHA. Leaving Hickory Monday night. Oct, 10th, in company with Mr. M. W. Lincke and sister, of Nashville, N. C., we made the trip to Omaha by the Southern, Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific Railways. When - passing through Alabama our train broke down causiner us to miss eonneefciori with thft regular train for St. Louis. Next the quarantine officers met us about ten miles on this side of Mem phis and after having us transferred to a small car and after being securely locked in, we were carried through Memphis at break-neck speed. Our destination was Bald Knob. Ark i . - -v . Here we had a lay over of four hours. After getting breakfast and taking a much needed rest we again started on our Journey. We made close connec tion at St. Louis for Omaha arriving there at 12:55 p. m., Thursday. The different parts of the country through which we passed are SEX. PRITCHARD'S REPLY TO CHAD BOURN'S LETTER. MR. No Events Hare Taken Place la Niw Hanever Slace Hla Last Letter. Marshall. K. C.; ;. - r " : Oct. 19, 1803. Hon. W. H. Chadbourn, Wilmington, N. C. SiR:-I have read your letter of the 18th instant, which is addressed to me and published in The .Raleigh Post, a tne whiW in power are not Demo crats. We have a white Mayor. Chief of Police and Captain of Police. Three white Sergeants out of four, twenty-two white Policemen out of thirty two. A white Superintendent of Streets and one half 'the street U- THE TWO CANT STAND, control, but what hurts tlimti K that I cram find their record in the StaU ftd Nation canuct ho defer ded. Your two letters cannot stand to gather. The flrt was wiitten vkta there were no hot part Una waves dis turbing the calm and philosophic de position of our people or yourJI. The facts then stated and. well knon, Democratic du.il v newsnaner in this State, in which you attempt to modify Board of five members, four are white. certain statements made over vonr aDa inree OI xne Iour democrats, tnak borers are white. -A white City Clerk justify the conclntion reached by yon. and Treasurer, and a white Deputy It startles the inquiring mind to kntfw Clerk and Treasurer. We have ten that any influence could have forced Aldermen, of which seven are white, you to reverse" your first 'statement Wilmington has also a Board or Audit just now on the eve of an election, and Finance appointed by the Gov- In conclusion I desire to say to yoa- ernor, to have absolute charge of all and all other Republicans' that .there city, and of this I is nothing to excite fear, and no ineth- the finances of the the farmers all seem to beenjoying McKinley prosperity. Omaha is a fine town with a population of 150,000. It was founded in 1854. It is today one of the most important commercial dis tributing centers in the Central West. Within the limits of Omaha there are 24 square miles. There are 07 miles of well lighted, well paved streets; 600 miles of graded streets; 120 miles of sewers. Original cost of public im provements $10,020,435; expenditures for 1897, over $400,000. Omaha has 200 miles of water mains; pumping capacity 23,000,000 gallons daily. Omaha's public buildings represent an investment of over $2,500,000. Omaha is the third largest live stock market in America. Receipts for the year 1897 own signature in a letter addressed to me on the 2Gth day of last September, which letter, I am informed,, was written by you of your own volition and without the procurement, directly or indirectly, of ".ny one. Among other things, you say : in your letter, "SLice writing you on interesting and September 20th, certain events have taken place in this community which ing it in reality a Democratic Board. This Board has a clerk, and be is a white Democrat. The city is in a bet ter financial condition than for twenty years, paying all its bills twice a month and putting by a sinking fnnd of, nearly ten thousand dollars an nually to pay its bonded indebtedness. It has borrowed, less money this year for its current expenses than any year ods or even thretts of "an angry foe now desperate in iU mad rash for po litical domination of the State should be allowed to shake the patriotic re solves oany good citizen of North Carolina in this struggle to perpetrate the blessings of good government. Yours truly. J. C. PRITCIIARD. necessitates some further explanation for tne Pst twenty years. , There has I t flat . ueeu more ouuaing oi nouses ana on my part in order to put myself right before the community .here.- I am not aware of any -"events" that have transpired in ' your midst since the date of your former letter. You certainly have not held an election in New Hanover since that date. No colored man has been appointed to a Federal or county office since then. At this time you stated plainly and unequivically that there was no nigger domination in New Hanover county. You said : "From the above state ment you will see that the 1 whole thing is a lie, and got up to deceive you people of the west. It isn't nig ger domination or wnice supremacy, A copy of the above letter was tie livered to The News and Observer, Charlotte Observer and Raleigh Post and each paper declined to publith it. were: Cattle, 825,G9; hogs, 1,594,038; it is Democratic office .holding." ; In sheep, G12,803; horses and mules, 6,032; total number cars, 60,0S3. Value of annual' products of South Omaha packing houses, $75,000,000. The smelting and refining works are the largest in thQ United States; annual view pf this particular statement your conduct is somewhat mysterious, - to say the least of it. You also say in yvur recent letter that you apprehend that 4riot, arson And bloodshed" will prevail in New Hanover county unless greater evidences of prosperity here than any time since the war, which will continue, unless the false state ments that go out from here about negro domination and misrule .drive people and business away from us. The receipts at the post-office are in creasing more than ten per cent, ah nually, which is the most correct i guage of business. in tne post-omee tnere is only one more colored man than under the last Democratic administration, and he is night watchman. Every clerk in the post office that comes in contact with the public is white. As for the county, the Sheriff 1 is white, his Deputy is white, the Jailer Dr. Klns'aNcw bUcovery lor CoanapUoi This is the best medicine in the world for all forms of Coughs and Colds and for Consumption. Every bottle is guaranteed. It will cure and not die- appoint. It has no equal for Whoop ing Cough, Asthma, Hay Fever, Pnea monla. Bronchitis, La Grippe, Cold in the Head and for Consumption. It is safe for all ages, pheasant to take, and,, above all, a euro cure. It is always well to take Dr. King's New Life Pills in connectionwith . Dr. King's New Discovery, as the regulate and tone .the stomach and bowels. We guara tea perfect satisfaction or -return- money. Free trial bottles at Shuford is white, the SherjfTs clerks ere white, I Drug Co.VDrug Store. the Criminal Court Clerk is white, the output, from $12,000,000 to $20,000,000. the Republican party withdraws from Annual product of Omaha manufacto ries exceed $80,000,000 in value. There are 120. wholesale houses; aggregate capital $10,000,000- total annual sales $40,000,000. Total clearings for 1897, as reported by the Clearing House, $243,152,000, Fourteen railways con verge at Omaha; 80 passenger trains arrive and depart daily; five railways the contest in that county and permits Ihe minority to rule the majority. Circuit Court Clerk is white, his Dep uty is white, the County Physician is vvhlte, the Board controlling the City and County Hospital is entirely white, the Deputy U. S. Marshal Is white. the Deputy Internal There can be but one construction placed on the foregoing statement, and that is that unless the Democratic part5 in'New Hanover county is per mitted to control all the offices of that ' I !. t ' i. 41 1. . I II.. TT CI S i thereby South Caroliuaizing a portion s W"I"V ,erK ol lIltJ u- - u of the Old North State. ' is wniie, tne jnry commissioner is white. v ' You may well ask, as the .negro has beencontinually doing : for the last five years, wherethe negro comes in? And with all this they parade us up maintain headquarters at Omaha; the J county that it will resort to bloodshed, Burlington Union depot now under construction will cost $400,000. There are 215 miles of telegraph wire; 1,000 of single telephone wire; 20,000 feet of cables and 93 miles of pole lines; un derground system of 48,000 feet of cables, 33,313 of trench, equal to 1, 724 miles of single wire. There are .95 miles of electric car lines, reaching all points of interest Elmwood, River view, Hauscom Parks and the ' city of Council Bluffs. Omaha's public parks; embrace 5G0 acres. Total U. S. reve nue collections for' tne six months! ending Dec. 31, 1897,' $1, 310,739. Gl. Tax on distilled spirits in bond, $622,440.50. ! Estimated custom duties collected at the port of Omaha during the last fis cal, year $730,117.15. Eighty -sir; rail way postal clerks report to the Omaha office. Omaha is military headquar ters.of the Missouri; Ft. Crook, recent ly completed at a cost of $800,000. is garrisoned by eight companies; a large; army supply depot is maintained in Omaha. Omana has titty public and rouse the people with the financial' J parochial schools, and eleven colleges; fallacies that they failed with in 1890. That would mean a check on return ing prosperity, for tne mere supposi tion of danger of a degraded currency makes busiuess men timid."" . The Board of A rm y officers ap Iointed to examine the Spanish small arms captured at Santiago, has made a report that seven thousand of the Mausvr rilles could bo easily put in condition to bo used. The Board did not re;nrt on the question of using the.ve ri;! in the army, but unless there hnitd come a time when more rifles. v:otill bo heeded in a hurry thau we could get, there is no probability that wo will ever use them. The Mauser riile requires Ammunition that is not interchangeably with any riile used in our armv. Tht enough to prevent our making uw thee feveri t.huusUnd ritUvi v.-hi eh can Adjutant tieneral CowIes, of N. C., fays .t.. ifito viH: go UcpuijlifAti ;Jty ths public buildings cost $1,500,000. There are 120 church edifices and mis sion houses; aggregate Sanday attend ance 30,000. "The public library con tains 52,304 volumes. The art and curio collection, bequeathed by the late Bvron Reed, Is valued at $1,000,-. 000. Liuinger Art Gallery is one of the inoFt noted in the West. The Coliseum has a seating capacity of 12,000 It is one of the largest conven tion halU in the United States.; : f . alone is of i-i rr.-ituly-'.: hold' t own Wht TlIK EXPOblTlOX. We will not attempt to say much about th exposition as it would not be an eaVy matter to estimate the value "of such ao exposition., The exhibit are very good and taken iu all, the vner.il impression of the ex position .must be decidedly satisfac tory. In' a deeper ene, it would eew to be an expositioa of much tig- uiacuue. i r.u.t rating, as u cio? , i ne c-jmmercUi. ice luanufacruriag. he agricf.Hural and the -tala ing p.rogress' 'of d - section of the couu-try- a. .'-vast 're.ourtiil emoire iu irself. j AYhHe in Omaha v. V rtceH" n tt. i sirs from l iw prvha- j hp! reciatcJ. lls?curi Pacific Rail--:M?rV5, mid parties' tlo irrtfll to tak4' tikis arson and riot . I am well acquainted with a number of Democrats" living in your city, and 1 cannot tor one mo ment entertain the opinion that the members of the Democratic party ; in New Hanover county are ready to commit the crimes referred to in order to regain control of your county and municipal affairs. . I .am therefora forced to conclude that you have been unnecessarily frightened by some of the' hot headed Democratic ward heelers who do not represent the true spirit and purpose of the party. Th day of bull-dozing and intimidation in North Carolina has departed, and it had as well be understood here and now that the majority of the people of this State are determined to control its affairs by peaceable and legal methods. ' ; You also say that no National prin ciples are" involved in this contest. On this point I beg leave to differ with you, in view of the fact that a Legislature is to be elected this year, which, if Democratic, will enact such election laws which will preclude the possibility of ever electing a Republi can Congressman or a Republican United States Senator in the future. Inasmuch as the Democratic papers of the State have published your last letter. I call attention to your former letter, which reads as follows: Senator J. C. Phitchaiip, Marghall, N. C. Sir: As the Democrats seem to make Wilmington and New Hanover county the. principal points of attack which arguing for white supremacy and against , ntirro domination. It trtv curte- 3.u;ait.un ;itJd w.y give te't-s Wetrt -VvriH iniirht be well tor yc-u to know the facts about tLlv City and county, o that their argument taay i coutro verted. The. plain,' fact's are as ;foi io'wf, find can ba proven by r'iylif dy in thU iocaty; ami aU tS:eir talk iukI Outaha :J5tw vrltich was i palaver s.wi; use neru .uuuu f.y Th ; 'Sathe.rn,:' "Iro:i;ir thl Htri ccutj hsv.ii among your people as being negro ridden, and in the last straits of de spair and distress, but I tell you that when our city.and county bonds can not be bought at par, and our bank stock from twenty to sixty per cent, above par, that wj are not going to throw up the sponge yet. From the above statement .you will see that the whole thing is a lie, and got up to deceive you people of the west. It isn't negro domination or white supremacy. It is Democratic office holding. They haye also said much about negro school committeemen. In Wil mington we have two school districts, and there has been a negro on each of these committees for twenty years or more. These two colored committee men have always fat with the com mittee and voted on all questions, election of teachers, etc., for th hite schools, the same as for the coldred. and this under Democratic rul-. . If has not been changed under Republi can rule, neither have the committees been changed except to replace one Democrat on one cf Ihe Committees with another Democrat. I have written very fully about the situation here, as 1 learn from Mr. Walter Henry and others that the sit uation here has been grossly misrepre sented to the western part of the State, and I thought a true statement from me might help to set it straight. Respectfully, W. H. CiiADuour.y Wilmington. N. C, Sept. 20, 1W. The foregoing statement .is a correct version of tiie condition that exists iu New Hanover, .-and no amonnt of paliatiou or r-trartion can "bobtt-r up the falling fcrtiirit of the Dcnociatic party. The people of North Carolina eiprecLtto the manifold 'blessing that hare folJuw-l p. a ?f alt of the over- GeodOoods, Wtll Advtrtljed. Going the rounds of the press is an Item stating that the Royal Baking Powder Company is the largest Ad vertiser in America. Of course, the- Revenue Agent I business Itself must be an enormous one to jUEtiiy so great an exenditure In publicity. There is no fallacy more dangerous than that success can be gained by advertising an article of In different merit. But, given an article of the highest quality like Royal Bak ing Powder, which when the hoose kee per has once uted she finds if she desires the food she cannot do with out, then the greatest measure of suc cess is attained by. keeping it contin uously before the public. Great merit and good advertising are both essential to make a product a great success. The Royal Baking Powder possessing the first, its proprietors have wisely mod thesecond, and the result ; is apparent throughout the land. ; The Royal company believe that there is no medium for ad vert Je ing like the newspapers, since In these enlightened days everybody reads them. ' ' One of the Civil Seryice Commie sionere M. S. Brewer has admitted, very much to the dirgust of certain smart aleck Democrat, and some others, that the Onio Republican State Executive Committee violated no law In sending an agent to Washington with authority to invite the Ohio Re publicans holding Federal oSces to call on him at a private addrecs. er n though he solicited contributions from thoe who accepted hit Invitation. -The law rays no campaign con tribe -tionj shall be solicited or received bj a. Federal official, and that no' person oshall solicit such contributions in a public building. Yo 5etd Kiw. - - What Hood Sarsaparllla has powr to do for those who havo impure aad impoverUred blood. It makes tho blood rich and par. and cures scrofula, silt rheum, dytpepfla, catarrh, rben mtUlsu), ifrvouse. If you re troubled with any ailment ciafci or proxoted by. impure blood, take Hoods I3araniiril!a at one Hood Pill or? jrofupt and f r.MtCjt. easy to tak. ar toojK-riit. thru method. ;Dem.ocrat?c i:i'.i cud and are at t- Ik- .Itttrrd 1 V . l.-xit bigia ."chlli a- rv.- bythe aiTvrois' ,i i-grb dj:vh:.t n: iu a i It has daco ari'bV.fftr ihi l):iJ.rr.-i.i- p?.rty u tbi -,t f,-.r a ijurcr ci a ir.:o ?,'q. ;ty -t id .wLqw;. ceatury t;d i bright. n n u v vou tli-fc ins f : 1 r . i tica ?.ra!n s:ip:y V: AiitzJLCrsrz, At CI c'r.-;;-':.
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