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VOL IV.
UNCOLNTON. N. C, FRIDAY, AUG 8, 1890.
NO. 14
If II
Ml l li . HI Mi Eli Ml if i y
Lightning' At lul Work,
"While wheat threshiDg was in
progress on the farm of Mr. James
Hewitt, in Catawba county, about
lour rniles up the river from Oataw
ba Station, near the Island ford,
last Friday afternoon, lightuing
tstruck a persimmon tree near a
straw stack and instantly killed
Root. Deal and Henry Bolick, two
young men who were under the
tree, and kuocked down elevenother
persons who were standing near by.
Cf those huocked down Alonzo
Holler and a colored, boy named
Roseinan were so badly iDjured that
It is thought impossible for thetn to
recover, though they were living,
but unconscious, at last report. Ge
rard Bolick, father of Henry, was
on the straw stack at the time and
was knocked to the ground aud the
clothiog nearly nil torn from the
body. Robt. Deal, one of the jonug
men killed, was a son of Capt. AU
oozo Deal, a well known and popu-
lar citizen. Stattsvule Landmark.
"He who by the plow would
thrive mast either" sell or manu
facture the implement until this
abominable robber tariff tax is done
away with. It is only the manu
facturers aud unscrupulous specu
lators who are "protected in their
unholy schemes of robbery, that
grow rich in this county. It is not
the farmers certainly. Henderson
Cold Leaf.
E. M- ANDREWS,
FURNITURE, PIANO AND ORGAN DEALER.
PIANOS Chickering, Mathusbek and Sterling Pianos are too well
kuowu to the people to require any introduction froin m8. Every
one ot theni are guaranteed, if they do not please you, you need not keep
them. There are no lower prices, nor easier terms offered by any one
tbau those offeied by me.
ORGANS What are you going to do about that Organ you promised
our wife and daughter ? Buy nothing but tbe Celebrated Mason
and Hamlin or Sterling Organ, and you are not always having them re
paired. Sterling Organs for only $50.00 aud Mason & Hamlin's for only
$93-00. Write me for descriptive price list.
FURNITURE Never before siuce I have beeu iu business was my
Stock of Furniture so large and complete in every line as it is to
day, and prices were never lower. I keep right up with styles, and rep
resent everything just as it is. M you buy anything from me and it is
not as represented return it and 1 will pay your money back. Who could
do more r Who could ask more? Write for my prices.
UF"I sell yo-inch reversible frame MOSQUITO ANOPlES with all
the fixtures for hanging for only 13.00.
E. M. ANDREWS, Charlotte, N. CM 16 and 18 West Trade St.
Finley & Wetmore, J
ATTYS. AT LAW,
LIN COLSTON, Ji. C.
Will practice in Lincoln and
surrounding counties.
All business put into our
hands will be promptly atten
ded to.
April IS, 190. ly.
)Xdkks exist m tbou-
JJlli VjL "HEd.-! of fo:
foruis, but are sur
passed by tbe marvels of invention. Tbose
who are iu need of profitable work that
can be done while living at home should
at once send their address to llallet fe Co.,
Portland, ilaioe and receive Irae full in
formation how either sex, of all ages, cnn
earn irom 15 to $25 per diy aud upwards
wherever they Htr. You are started free.
Capital not required. Some- have made
creT $30 in a single day at this work. AU
ucceed.
AITTO.lSATIt) si:vig IT1ACIIINE!
Prices reduced. Every family now cau
have the fa-st Automatic Sewing Ma
chine in the maiket at reduced price.
For particulars send for our new Illus
trated Circular with samples ot stitch
ing. iir Illustrated Circular hows
every part oi the Machine perfectly, and
is worth sun. ling l'r even if you lave a
Machine. Kvuse iV. Murphy Mfg. Co.,
4.") and 4)7 West iitUU M., NT, Y. City.
HACINE.WIS.
Log,LumberYard 6c GityTrucRs-
SPRING.
Wise Word.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
All powerful souls have kindred
with each other.
The more honesty a man has, the
less he affects the air of a saint.
No man but a blind man ever
passes a mirror without looking in
it.
A model wife is one who thinks
her husband knows more than her
kin.
Tbe birthdays of his children are
a man's landmarks on the road to
old age.
A woman can be paid no higher
compliment than to have her bus.
band spend all his time with her.
No woman was ever so homely
that a man dots not defeud her
looks after he has heard that she
admires him.
Wheu a man gets famous it would
seem that every man in the country
used to play marbles with him at
school.
lie who gives pleasure meets
with It j kindness is the bond of
friendship, and the hook of love j
he who sows not, reaps not.
The trouble with the men is that
it is easier for them to die for a girl
before they are married than it is
to get up aud light the fire for their
wives alter thev are married.
This is campaign year ! Subscribe
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W AGO NSffd.1. STYLES.
Ladies' Chaise,.
RACINE,WIS
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COL,. COWLES' LETTER
To the Farmers' Alliance ot
the Sth Congressional llicst-
rlct of Xoi-th Carolina :
Swanq'S; N. C, July 26, 1&90.
I was designated by our State
Secretary, Mr. E. C. Beddingfield
of Raleigh, N. C, to serve a copy of
the demands of the National Far
mers' Alliance aud Industrial Union,
as ratified by a majority of the Sub
Alliances in North Carolina, on
each of tbe candidates for Congress
in our district. I have done so by
mail as directed.
Maj. Qrabam and Mr. Bower have
not replied; Col. Cowles has, and I
herewith present his letter to tbe
public, that all may see it. Read
it; it is the words of a brave, true
man a faithful representative and
incorruptible Democrat.
Fraternally, B. F. Logan.
Col. B. F. Logan, Sec'y Cleveland
County Fakiieks Alliance.
My Dear Friend :--Your kind leN
ter received containing card of
pledges to be signed by me and
witnessed, I suppose, by some one
else as the place for signature and
place for witness are plainly ont
lined in the piiuted form enclosed
in your letter. There are s;x t.f
these pledges and to each there
mast be signature and witness.
They are, from the heading, the
demands of the ''National Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union, as
ratified by a majority of the Sob
Alliances of North Carolina.57
Yon ask for an early reply and al
thoogh the communication reached
me some time ago, it found me in
the midst of the contest over the
passage of the Federal Election BilJ,
the provisions of which are of suph
vast importance to our people, who
so justly appreciate the value of tbe
right of Local Self-Oovernment and
Individual Liberty. Siuce which
time, I have not been at all well.
With the spirit aud purpose of
your order, I am iu full accord j I
have always urged our people, the
farmers and laboring classes espei
cially, to a closer study ot existiug
evils iu our national legislation and
to a more determined and united
effort to put down the mischievous
combinations against them and
their interests and in favor of mon
opolies which grind their profits out
of the necessities of the people. I
am in favor of auy legislation that
will give substantial relief to the
farming people ot the country and
to those who labor in the shops and
mills, for a3 our laboring classes
prosper, so is our couutry prospers
ous and unless a proper degree of
success crowns their labors there
can be no substantial prosperity to
any business interest of the country.
Most of the provisions named I have
supported here since the beginning
of my service and if I have ever
failed to urge aud support any measi
are looking to the lessening of the
burdens of the peoplo and especially
the farming class and the better
ment of their condition, I do not
know it. As to what measures this
Radical Congress will permit to
come before us, no one fan tell, but
one thing is demonstrated and that
beyond any reasonable doubt aud
that is, that this Congress, as well
as this administration, is complete
ly under the control of the Republic
can party, and farther, that every
committee in the House of Repre
sentatives has a Republicau majois
ity and a Republican chairman and
no bill can come upon tbe calendar
without their consent and no bill
can be taken from the calendar and
put upon its passage but by the
consent of the Speaker as manifest
ed by the exercise of his own will
or through the Committed on Rules,
of which he is ex-officio chairman.
The Speaker of tbe House of Rep
resentatives has for several years
past, in my opinion, had too much
power under the rules for the exer-.
else of individual preference and
self-will in the control of legislation,
but under tbe new rales, established
at this session, he is clothed with
powers unheard of heretofore in the
annals of our legislation and his au
thority in tho shaping of its coarse
is made as absolute, with a subser
vient party to back him, as that of
any mouarch on the face of the
earth. It requires considerable exi
perience to understand the working
of these rules and the better they
are understood tbe more abhorrent
they become, in many of their feat a
ures, to every free and independent
mtud. Rules urn necessary to every
legislative body, but in justice to
all, they should be such as would
allow more freedom to thought and
action, such as would allow every
representative of the people to, at
some time during his term at least,
have op for consideration and dis
cussion the subject-matter of any
and every proposition of a public
nature, which hia people may be in
terested in and have a record vote
on the same and let every man be
held responsible for the position he
takes and the vote casts.
The SubsTreasury Bill, which
you asKed me to support, if it be
not considered unconstitutional, has
never yet been reported by the corm
mittee of either the House or Sen
ate. With regard to its adaptabil
ity to carry out the spirit and purn
pose tor which it seems intended-,
there are some grave doubts. Let
us see for one moment if it is well I
calculated to afford adequate and
substantial relief to the agricultural
mterests of the couutry and espes
cially to our own section and peo-
pie. In the first place, as I am in
formed, according to the pfovisions
of the bill there cannot be a single
warehouse in our district, because
the bill requires that the average
gross amount of cotton, wheat, com,
oats and tobacco produced and sold
each year for the past' two years
next preceding the application for
its establishment in the county
where such warehouse is asked for,
shall exceed in value the sum cf
$500,000 at current prices in that
county at that time, and according
to the best information I can get,
there is not so much of these prod
ucts produced and sold in anyone
year iu any one of the counties of
the Eighth district, and I think if
the bill be intended to provide, in
accordance with the excellent rule
set forth in demand number five in
this card, "equal rights to all and
special privileges to none," it should
ba eo shaped as to give the smaller
counties aud to those who are una
ble to compete with the more weals
thy the same privileges and advan
tages which it proposes for the
wealthy in the distribution of this
Government aid.' Aud again, it is
to be noticed that the price of this
product is to be rated at the price
current of the leading markets of
the United States, thus bringing
our farmers into' competition with
and down to the price fixed by the
gram markots of the West much
lower than it ever sells with us, and
when he receives the eighty per
cent, of the value ot his crop which
he stores in these warehouses, he
must do so at this rate, or price,
and when he redeems his crop by
actual sale or otherwise, he must
pay all the charges and expenses
for insurance, weighing, classing,
warehousing and other charges such
as handling, etc., that will iuu
against thia deposit of cottou graiu
or tobacco, in accordance with the
provisions of the bill, and this too,
in addition to all the expenses
which he must go to iu order to
transport his products to the wares
house and by the time he gets
through paying all these expenses
there will be veiy little left of the
twenty per cent, of the actual valoe
of hisciops which he is compelled
to deposit with it to cover expenses
even if he does not come out in debt.
With my experience m the cost of
transporting grain, and I am some
what of a farmer myself, I am sat
isfied that the bill would afford no
relief to the grain farmer and there
would be very little if any tobacco
warehoused under it. How it
might do for cotton, I do not kDow
but this I do know that the city
cotton would have to be taken, or
most of it would, quite a distance
to ware-house and I do not believe
that ''the game would be worth the
candle" by tbe time all expenses
and inconveniences were counted
out..
In addition to Ihe expense of con
struetiug the additional number of
public buildings required by this
act, the otlicei-8 in charge of them
would have, under the constitution
to be appointed, either mediately or
immediately by the President just
a.s urn Internal Rtvevue officers now
are una no act of Congress could
make them elective aud we well
know what ort they would be from
our past and present experience if
appointed now.
These are some of the difficulties
in regard to this matter which or 4
cor to me in the limited time which
I have had to consider it owing to
the pressure of other duties and
measures of grave importance to
our people which have been up for
consideration. Its consideration by
the committee and its consideration
by the House is entirely under the
coutrol of the Republican party in
this Congress and should it be re
ported and called up for action I
promise to give it a fair and candid
consideration and in my action on
it to be governed entirely by the
desire I have to promote the best
interests of my constituents. Every
portion of these demands, six in
number, save that portion of the
sixth which refers to the Sub-Treasury
plan, are aud have been for
years past the pronounced policy of
the Democratic party and in accord
ance with the action of the Demo- j
cratic portion of our delegation in
Congress, and of a majority of Dem. j
ocratic representatives both in the
House and Senate. We have la
bored earnestly and faithfully to
bring about tbe results yon desire
by removing the causes of the efs
fects from which you suffer and
which being a disease upon the body
politic can ouly be effectively and
permanently cured by removal cf
tbu cause. The pi hue causes of
all these troubles exist upon the
statute books to-day and thnr
steady and legitimate results for
the past several years have been to
bring about the present stringent,
hard times. Their repeal and mod
ification is what, the Democratic
party has been laboring assiduously
and faithfully for all this time and
by their repeal and modification to
suit the needs and wants of the peo
ple and the necessary expenses of
their Government economically ad
ministered is the only way that ad.
equate and substantial relief can be
given.
I am highly in favor of the free
coinage of silver and the issuance
of certificates thereon which shall
be like the gold certificates now
isued a legal tender for all dues
public aud private. Abolish the
national banks which will be doDe
anyway in the course of compara
tively a short time by paying off
the public debt and calling in the
bonds on which they are established.
Repeal the ten per cent, tax placed
on State banks in the interest of
Wall Street and the National banks
and allow them to be reestablished
udder proper safe-guards by our
State law?, of supervision aud ins
spection to iusore solvency, thus
we could have a currency and a good
currency and there would be no
danger of too much inflation with
proper inspection of banks for they
would not issue more money than
would be reasonably profitable and
the competition would keep down
interest to an easy rate.
There provisions, with a reduction
of the tariff to the revenue basis,
aud consequent opening up of the
markets of the world to consump
tion of tbe over-production of farm
products as well as the production
of our mills and factories, aud the
cheapening of the necessaries of
life woald soon bring relief and
proper reward for labor of all. Ij
would abolish tbe Internal revenue!
system root and branch and if wej
needed additional revenue for the j
payment of the enormous pension
roll foisted upon the country by
the Republican party, I would levy
it upon the income from the im
mense fortones which the necessK
ties of the war made possible.
Now a few words as to the neces
sity or propriety of signing these
pledges. To do so a candidate
would, it seems to me, be placing a
club in the bauds of his competitor
to knock him on the head with. It
would be used as an expression of
distrust and waut of confideura ou
the part of the people iu their rep
resentatives and a confession on
the part of the representative that
this teeliiiL' is well fnon.i.i i. i.i
consenting to sign these pledges in
the preseuce ot witnesses ; in effect
that he, is not fit to be trusted and
fhat he conies under that head of
politicians described on the back
of the card in the explanation given
for the necessity of these pledge.-,
in these words "Politicians have ho
orten deceived us by their verbal
promises which they break and
then deny having made, that we
have decided lor the future to take
their pledges in black and white"
Now a man who ia guilty ot this is
not fit to be the representative of
an honest people, whether he con-.
I'esse8 it or not and one who would
confess it through a cowardly fe;rr
of losing some support, wheu he
feels himself innocnt of the charge,
lo qually unfit to be trusted. I have
supported the spirit aud purpose of
all these measures so far as thev
seek to olre rehef t the neonle.
then why cannot; my constituents
trnstme? Have I ever forfeited
their confidence by promising them
in the cauvass to support, a measure
aud then not do so i I am in full
sympathy with every effort of our
people to free themselves from the
effects of the miserably had legisla
tion of the Republican party, fois
ted upon the country under the
plea of necessary war measures and
kept upon the necks of the people
now a quarter ot a century alter the
war, and which the Democratic
party has never been able to re
move because of never having, at
any time, the full control of the
Government hum n-.w just as ihe
cry comes up from their own rtnk.-',
"Down with the robber tariff and
give us fiee coinage of silvev' our
oTn party is to be driven from it
great mission of relief lor the peo
ple by a i at tie of drums outciJe fhe
camp. 1 tell you my fiiend ihere
are more politicians and demas
gogues outsidea of Conor ess than
there is in, because tlure is more
room for them and I espiilly
call your attention to that daa
who have the 4it-i.ing palm" to get
in and who go about gathering the
people together and haraugueing
them ou the evil which exist in their
own party whilst, atill desiring ami
claiming its support- We have had
a few noteworthy example of this
kind to come up heretofore in onr
Congressional Distrot. I was called
upon to settle a matter of this kind
for the party in the beginniug of
my f-econd campaign, which I did,
much to the satisfaction of all i;ou7
cerned, at the time, but such things
are soon forgotten in this fast age
we live in.
Col. Logan .you have many brave I
and gallaut men in Cleveland coon-!
ty who were soldiers. Now let each
man take this case to himt.elf; sup
pose that during the war, after sev.
eral hard campaigns iu which they
had borne themselves well, after
Gettysburg or even later when the
days had grown darker still, during
the winter and spring of 1&i;I-0.j,
our beloved General, Robert E. Lee,
had seut to them or either of them,
whilst on picket, in front of and
guarding the camp and Ihe army.
another order worded thus "Where
as the courage and fidelity of the
army is becoming questionable and
even doubtful, so much so that
many men and even officers have
deserted, now therefore in order to
retain even a portion of my confi
dence you mut sign these addi
tional pledges in writing and to
each you must call a respectable
witness.
First. I will not desert the flag
which I have followed through so
many years of war in victory and
defeat.
Second. I will not cowardly re
fuse to charge when ordered to do
so by my commanding General or
other officer iu command.
Third- I will not go about the
camp on the eve of a great battle
land preach sedition and distrust to
the men aud strive to draw them
from their confidence in the truth
of the principles for which we have
been fighting so long and thus dis
courage the true and brave soldier
and iuconrage deheitiou uiid de
moralization at the very time when
we most need the serves and
earnest efforts of every tin- i.mu.
Hov would any true e.old, r have
felt had our great aud good Gee.al
have put mien an alternative i.. ma
as thi.-, "Sign or forfeit my ..utid-.
ence and lx retired from th- neivice
in disgrace." I think I know how
you would have responded and I
know that I know how I should. I
should have said, "Go and tell mv
beloved General that in all my de
spondency and gloom at the great
odds with which wo rtaud confront
ed, the boundless money power of
the enemy and their inexhaustible
resources of men and munitions of
war, and tho po-st-ibility of our ulti
mate defeat, that I never dreamed
that such giief as this could come
to me; that if I have followed him
through so many years of wr tho
most active, constant and p.-nious
to no better purpose thau nut ; Jtell
him fo' me to rake my sword, that
has been my companion iu more
than a hundred battles against the
enemy reduce me to the ranka and
drive me from the camp, that 1 am
no lonc't-r fit to serve mv roimtrv
than I can command the confidence
of thOfe I serve aud it courage,
honor and principle canuot biud ;
pen, itik and paper cannot though
signed in the presence of a witness.''
Only last session aud since the
teop!e have had an opportuuity ot
voting for or agaiust me, I had a
contest here which attracted the
attention of the whole couutry.
That contest was in carrying out
the express instructions of my con
stifueuts by resolution of the con
ventt.iu which called me to be tLe
candidate of the Democratic party
of t ne eighth Congressional District.
In obedience to the principles of
r he Democratic party as pronounced
in tfie platform ot the Democratic
State Convent ion of North Carolina
and ;it every Sfate Convention for
the last twenty .years ; in obedience
to thfc resolutions of instruction to
our ie recitatives in Congress
pisstd by th last Democratic Leg
islature of Norfh Carolina and by
various Legislatures which have
assembled heh.ie and in compliance
with the pledg and promises of
Democratic candidates In every
campaign since the war, myself
among the number, to use every
effort, to repeal or modify the Iuter
nal Revenue law, justly ko odious
to our people The opportunity
came at a time when the leaders
here had decided to make no farther
eflort to repeal any portion of the
Internal Revenue, even the tobacco
tax, an agricultuial product. I
thought I saw a dunce by tho.ex-
ercise of a little p.liticnl courage
and strategy to accomplish it, and
.vhen the time came 1 made the ef-
fort and succeeded iu winniug by a
larre majority, the ugh I encoonN
ered the fiercest aud most powerful
opposition, the reference of tho bill
which iti due course of tiino brought
a favorable report lor the repeal of
the Tobacco tax, and great re ief
from other provieions ot the inquis
itorial Internal Revenue tax a-d
system. This bill for the first time
iu our legislative history wasplao d
upon the calendar with the recom
mendation that it pass and had rec
ognition been granted for its con
sideration it wouhl undoubtedly
have paHsed by a big majority. i r
this I incurred reproach aud cen
sure from some who were opposed
to the repeal of the Internal Reve
nue laws, but surely the people who
went me here and iu whose service
I was fighting, and whose orders I
was carrying out, will not reproach
me or with-hold from me the en.
doisement of my action for coming
nearer to success thau any one ever
baa before iu the accomplishment
of the very thiog they told me to
do?
I wish it distinctly understood
that I am a candidate for the nom
ination this year aud I hope to meet
many of my friends at the Convene
tion at Lenoir on the 23: h pi ox, I
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