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f yyr xi.77" : Hli p mm 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 lor your county paper. PIEDMONT SEMINARY, MALE AND FEMALE. LINCOLNTON, N. C. An English, Classical, Mathematical and Commercial School. It is thoiough and practical in its work aud methods. It does not assume to itself the claims of a Col lege, but is thoroughly Academic Location healthy, aud ot easy access by railroad. Fall term of 1890 be gins Wednesday, August, 27. tJF For Circulars, iic, send to D. MATT. THOMPSON, Principal, Lincohiton, iT. C: July 4, 1SU0. W AGO NSffd.1. STYLES. Ladies' Chaise,. RACINE,WIS fc52L 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 Continued to Fourth Page