in !-W ; it VOL VI. Professional Cards. J PHYSICIAN AN1J SURGEON, Offers his professional serviceto '.bo citizens of Lincolntou and aurroun diog councry. Olilco at. his resi deuce adjoining Linrolnton Hotel. All calls promptly attended to. Aug. 7. 1891 ly J. W.SAIN.M.D., II a:; located at Lincolntou and of fers Lis services as physician to the citizens ot Lincolutou and surtouud iug country. Will he found at night at the less idence of li. C. Wood . , March 27, 1891 ly rmmr urn i rma im iwirniwiin niinri ncnr- Bartlett Shipp, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jan, 9, 1S91. Finley & Wetmore, ATTYS. AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C- -Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. ' All business put into our hands will be promptly atten "ded to. April 18, 1890. ly. Dr. W. A. PRESSLEY, SURGEON DENTIST. KOCK 1IILL, S. C. Will spend the WEEK BEGINNING WITU THE 1ST MONDAY Ot EACH iiONTil at office in Lincoluton. Those needing Dental services are requested to make arrangement by correspondence. Sctisfaction guar anteed. Terms CASH. Jnly 11, 1890, ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. With thirty years experience. Satisfaction jven in all operations Terms tsh and moderate. Jan 23 '91 lv GO Td BARBER SHOP. Newly fitted u p. Work aways neatly done, waited upon. 'Customers "politely Everything pertain- trig ;to the tonsorial art is done axxordiiig to latest styles. " Henry Tatlob, Barber. J. 1). Moore, President. L. L. Jenkins, Cashier. No. 4377. F1EST NATIONAL BANK OF GASTONIA, N. C. Capital 150,000 Surplus 2,750 Average Deposits 40,000 COMMENCED BUSINESS AVGUSTU 1890. Solicits Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Guarantees to Patrons Every Accommodation Consistent with Conservative Banking. BANKING ROURS. 9 a, m. to 3 p. m. Dec 11 '91 l,.,.. ... ., i , - for Infante 'C Mtoria to to unll Ufd to chadrea that t reoomnaend It u ru peri or to xnj prescription knotrn to me." H. A1. Asceks, M. D., Ut So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. "The us of 'CaatorU'te 90 tiniTerAl and 4 merits so well known that it eam ft work f upererofrtlon to endorse it. Few re the InteUigent f&milie who do not keep CartonA within easy reach." Carlo Mism.D. D., Kew York City. Late Pastor Blooming dale Bef orxued Church. Th Cdttacb ( . A. Thompson, Seymour, Ind , writes : "My Mater Jenny, when the was a young girl,-siitfer4 fporu whitw swelling; which gn atlj impaired hr general health and made, hef blond very impure. In the Hpring b!i was not able to do anything and could bcarcdy et about. More than a year ago she Uok thr e bottles ot Botanic Blood Balm, and novfh4 is perfectly cured." M. D. Lane, Devereaux, Ga., writes: 'Une Kiiiuiner, .several years ago, while railroading in Mississippi, 1 brvome baly dieted with malarial blood poison that im paired my health for more than two years. Several cffcnsivu ulcurtt appeared on my ls, and nothing seemed to i ye permanen t relief until 1 took six bottles of li. B li., which cured me entirely." O, W, chandler, Tied Fork, Ark., writes; "I was bo weak that it was only with great effort that 1 could do anything. 1 used several bottles of Botanic Blood Balm, and can now d' a good day's work-" Waiter Bridges, Athens, Term., writes : "For ix years 1 bad been afflicted with running sores and an enlargement ot the U.ne in my le. I tnd ever thing I heard i t without any permanent benefit until Botonic Bloed Balm was recommended to me. Alter using hix bottles the sores healed j and lam now in testimonial unso licited,, because 1 want others to be bene fited. " Two JIIeii-i-Two States. Two men happened to be in the perculiar position of coutroliug their respective States in the prps eut national contest. They are Sen ator Hill, ot New York, and Judge Gteshaui, of Indiaua. These men have each a political following that takes its inspiration directly from its leader, and the fol lowing of oach is quite ample to hold the tialance. of power between the two great parties. Had Senator Hill decided to re fuse the laboring oar tor the Clever laud ticket in New York, Harrison's success in that privotal State would have been assured beyond doubt. With his cordial support ot Cleve land, the democratic canidate can't be defeat-d iu the empire Coxnmou wealth. Had Jude Gresham given a cor dial support to Harrison this year as he did in 1888, it would have been possible for Harrison to win its electorial vote, but with Gresham openly against Harrison aud for Cleveland, only a political earth quake can give Harrison the victory in his own State. Philadelphia Times. Itch on human and norses and all ani mals cured in 30 minutes by Woolfords Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sole by J M LwinS Druggist Lincoln ton. N C Subscribe for the LINCOLN C0U Bier, $1.25 a year. and Children. CMtorl cares Cone, Oonstrpation, Rour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kill Worm, sires sleep, and -promote dt- reatioo, ithoutini W injurious noedication. " For several years I have recommended your ' Cartoria, ' and shall always continue to do so as It bag Invariably produced beneficial results." Edwin F. Taxdxm, M. D., The Wlnthrop," 125th Street and 7th Ave,, New York City. Cwaxt, 77 MtnaRAT Stbxtt, Nsw Youm. McVEAGH'S LETTER. The Keuhliuii x-Aliot-iiej (General of Hie United Stater Hayw He 'Will Vote ior Vlvv laiul and divo His Reason at length The Kcpuhlicau i'oliey Keck left and Revol utionary Tho MeKluley TftrlfTaiMl the Force Hill Iloth IJnWise Measures Hon. Wayue, McVe igh, of Phil adelphia, a lifoloug Republican and Attorney General in Garfield's cabinet, has, as mentioned in The Landmark last week, announcing las purpose to vote tor Mr. Cleveland at the coming election, and in a letter to the secretary of the Mass, ackusefts Reform Club 'ves his reasons for his change of faith as follow-: Ent rtainiug the'eonvictions I do no other course is open to me, aud I cheerfully accord to the supporters of President Harrison the same sense ot public Jduty by which 1 claim to be actuated. As both par. ties Lave presented unexceptional candidates, there is no reason why the differences which exist upon questions ot public policy should be discussed otherwise than in a good humor ami with entire respect for each other's opinions. In the present campaign what may fairly be called the false alarms of the canvass will prove of little vale because of the general confi dedce iu the safe aud conservative character of both candidates. The average voter knows that tree trade is impossible in this country, for the conclusive reason that the vast rev enues required to meet Ihe expen ses of the government will necessa rdy afford a higher degree of pre lection to our established and pros perous manufactures than eithor Alexander Hamilton or Henry Clay thought desirable in infancy of our work and struggling industries. The average voter also knows that the irredeemable paper currency in use before the war can never re-appear. On the other band, he knows as well that no system of duties on imports, however inequitable, can prevent our continued growth in wealth, iu manufacture and in pop ulatiou a growth due to the incorn parable gifts of Providence, the in telligeuce and energy of the people and tne blessius of tree institu tions. While I am more than ever re solved to hold duty to country fat above any ties of party, I find my self at piesentiu general accord with the Democratic party aud will, lng to trust its course in the future. The insight, the courage aud the patriotism the masses of the party exhibited iu compelling the nomi nation ot Mr. Cleveland wheu he was without a single office-holder to support his candidacy seem to me to demaud that I should meet them in the same spirit and act with them as loug as they maintain that high standard of policy and of ad ministration. It is the more easy to do so because the Republican party, sacuring its return to power four years ago bv promising to preseive matters as they were, at once em barked upon what I regard as a reckless aud t evolutionary policy, even overturning all the safeguards of legislation in the House of KepT resentatives in their baste to pass the force bill aud the McKinley bill, both, to my mind, unnecessary and uonise measures. The opposition to the force bill, as n t oui sure to erer.ta far greater e'l.t ili;n :t could cure, tut as also bU vei's:ve ot ihe rights ot I he States, has become no earnest aud widen spiead that it is sid to have been abandoned, hut it rnntt ut be for goiten th it only two jeai a ago such a measure was wniudy advocated by President Harrison, earnestly -i.pported by the republican party and very naimwly escaped become ing a law. There is no pretense, however, that the McKiuley bill is abandoned. Ou the contrary, oar express ap proval of it is demanded. No doubt that hill, which I cannot but think wass an uncalled-for disturbance of the tbeu existing tarilf, greatly benn efited a few Interests, bat certainly it greatly oppressed many others. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, 01 the protected industries them selves many were then, as now, in far more urgent need of free raw material than higher protection, but with raw materials on the free list the bill could not have passed, for those having such materials lor sale controlled enonglt votes to defeat it, and they were very likely to do so if their bounties were d:contui md.' The manufacturers needing treu raw mater ia!s wen-, tfieivforci obiiged to join in the objectionable process ot increasing p rices by re btrictiug production, thus adding to the uumber of tnnts, by which the price of Ihe necessaeies of life is placed at the meicy of unlawful combinations ot capital. It is not suiprisiug that labor, believing it self to be oppressed, soon rose in revolt, and civil war has actually raged this summer in four different sections of tho country. And, of course, the farmers, paying more tor what they huy and getting less for what they sell, grow poorer day by day, and excellent farms iu some of the most fertile sections of this most highly protected State will hsrdly brlug the cost of the build ings upon them. lint the economical evils, however great, of the McKinley bill aud the unreasonable system of protection it represents are of far less impor tance to my mind than the moral evils which follow in their wake. In deciding for what purposes the masses of the people may pioperly be taxed it may not be forgotten ihat taxes have a wonderful capaci ty for filtering through all interven ing cdstacie till they reach the bowed back of toil and resting there, and therefore the giving cf bouns ties, under any form of taxation, is mainlv the giving away of the wages of labor. The sad tr uth that the curse of the poor is their poverty is illnstiated in nothing more clearly than iu the undue share they suffer of Ihe burdens of taxation. But apart from this consideration, ought not taxes only to be imposed as requiied for public purposes, or may they also b imposed for the pecuniary advantage of such per sons or classes as are able to con trol congressional action in their favor? It, seems to me like a travs esty on taxation to require, as the McKinley bill does, the farmer who grows corn in Indiana to pay a bounty to the farmer who produces cane sugar iu Louisiana, or to re quire the farmer who grows wheat in Pennsylvania to payT a bounty to the farmer who produces maple sugar in Vermont, but it is nearer tragedy than travesty to tax the masses of the people to increase the wealth of the very wealthy owners of most ot our protected industries. Hut even such inequality and in justice are the least of its evils, for while such a system endures politic calconu-tiou is absolutely sure to increase, as such a system not only invites, but it requires the corrupt use of money, ooth at the polls and iu Congress. It is of its very os seuce that "fat" shall be 'frieil" out ot beneficiar ies. Who shall happeu to do the "frying" or who shall hap penpen to distribute the "fat" upon any par rieul.tr occasion is mere mat ter of detail, but while that system lasts both will continue to be done by somebody. Aud the evils ot a system of legis lative bounties, so far troiu stop ping only begiug with those boun lies secured to the industries pro tected by tariff. The disastrous course of the Republican party on the silver question is an apt illustra. tion of this tiutb. It ouijht to be au honest money (party, and it would be if it could, but whild it demanded increased bounties for its favorite manufacturers, it couid no' refuse inert ajed bounties to the ver producers, as the voles they coutrol weie probably necessary .to the passage of the Mcjxiuley biil So situated the fillepubhcan party had no alternative but to pass the silver lavv ol 1890, doubliug the purchases of silver and requiring the building of more warehouses iu which to store ihe useless metal The total purchases made by the government amount to nunureds of millions of dollars, and would not realize, if resold, ooehalf their cost, OCT. 21. 1892. whih the poison of a debased cur- rency, whoso work, however slow, is making irpelf daily more and more felt in every channel of busi ness and finance, and is inevitably uuvu.K yum out or me country aud leading us to all the evils of a tluc tuatinS and therefore dishonest cur rency based upon silver alone. The Republican party cannot take any effective steps toward repealing ihe bill, ior tho silver men are likely, if their bounly is stopped, to so voie that the bounties, of the McKinley bill will stop also. The abuses of the pension system furnish another apt illustration of the evil euro to follow su::h a sys tem ol legislation. If uougress was to levy taxes upon the people to cooler bounties upon t-.eitaiu classes of manufactures, it was very natural that the pension agents should also join hands to increase their fees by an indiscrimiu ite granting of pentious. The result is that nearly a generation after the close of the war there is a stead increase of the vast suras passing thiongh the pensiou agents' hands until now the total amount staggers belief, and has hecomo of itself a sc. nous burden upon the treaury From the day ot Lee's surrender un til now no single voice lias ever raised against tho most generous provision for every person uuo had any just claim upon the gratitude or rue country ; nut surely mere is neither teason nor justice in legisla tion which destroys ail distinction between the discharge of duty and the shirking of it, between loyal service and desertion of colors, b.i tweeu wounds received in battb aud diseases conti acted in pursuit of peace. There is still another great anil increasing evil chiefly traceable, in my opinion, to the maintenance of an excessive tariff siuce the war and the constant meddling with it to make higher, and that is the bii.'ig ing to onr shores ol those vast swarms of desirable immigrants who degrade American labor by these competition and threaten the stability of institutions based upon an intelligent love of country. Ju.-t as the duties upon imported mer chandise, have been increased so has Ihe grade id imported labor been lowered, until now, un der the McKinley lull, there are coming hero everyr month many thousands of more ignorant and therefore less desirable immigrants than ever before. It is not easy to exaggerate the moral evils they are likely to inflict upon our social or der and our national life. As the Republican patty i now definitely commtted to the policy of taxing the people for the pur poe ot giving bountios to such per sous or interests as can secure the necessary votes in Corgrss, so the Demociatis party is now as definite ly committed to the policy of res tricting taxttiou to r lie need of the government tor public purposes alone. Tne jjii't fixtd between thesH two policies of tax iti m is as wide and deep as cm wed exist be tween political parties, and I am also convinced that the other causes iu which I am engaged cannot hope for success until the avowed policy of the Republican party on this subject ii overthrown, Until then the right of each State to coutrol elections within its bor dets will not b seCure; until then there la no prospect otour enjoying the single and statde standard of value fchicb. other civilized and commercial nations possess; until then there is no hope of placing either our peus'.ou sy.d-ni or the regulation of Immigration upon a just and proper basis; until then the purification of our politics wdl coutiuue "iridescent dream' which high K'piihliciii authority has de cl a reel it must, always remain; until then any pretended reform of civi service must prove, as it has prov ed these last lour years, a delusion and a euare. Aud until thn eved ballot ic form, the best help yet discoverd to honest elections, and alieady threat ened with over Throw by the Re publican managers in Maiue, Ver mont and Indiana, must 6bare the same fate of defrayal iu the house j of its pretended friends. All these! j good causes are in ihe very nature j ot things vs relentless ftm of : j system rf government by bounties to favored interests, und such a system is their relentless foe. As 1 believe, tor the reasons I have given, that ihe true welfare of the COillilrV Wiml.l ! ninmnii'il t.v j Mr. Cleveland's election, it is my j it is my duty to vote lor him ; and 1 j recall the capacity, tiu fidelity ami the courage with which he has heretofore discharged every public trust committed to him, the duty becomes a pleasure. Sincerely yours, Wayne McVbaoh. The Caoveruuu'iit Acar AVatll Street. While the opponents of Mi. Cleveland are busy in their ctToits to connect him with Wall sheet in tluences, ihey appear to forget the inmate relationship existing be tween the leadors of the repuulican party and that money center. The near kinship ot Mr. Harrison i as ceased to bi the subject o re mark, as no one doubts now his blood lelationship, an it wore, to the goldbugs of the north, but it may not be so well known that Mi. Cliaum-ey Depew, the gentleman who nominated Mr. Harrison a Minneapolis, and who is now can- vasainL' for him. is tho hired attor ney ot the Vanderbills, at a salary of 100,000 a year, and that the. in tluence of t he Y.tnderhil'K in Wub street is potential. And theieis Mr Motion, vieesPiesident of tin United States, and head of the firm of Morton, Bliss & Co., Wall street brokers, thus presenting the spec table that every hill passed by the Congress ot the United States must oe signed by this Wall street brok. er. It is the republican party that has brought tho government undei the, influence, of Wad street by el ecting ii Us cheil offices men who are dependent upon the wealth of Northern capitalists for political support, as well as the leading brokers and mouy chaugeia ol the country. Mr. Cleveland has been ,wd is now the consistent and persist uui opponent of all such men and then (titluouces. Ho one should eleny this who knows auything ol politi cd history. State Chronich. A Lady I'rophe-sicfS IXer Oun 14 iltll. Mrs. Elizabeth Talor died at. he r home in Dilworth, yesterday mom ing at ( o'clock, of heait disease. (ft'Cea-ed told her i elation. laM .Sat. ill day that she would die ii'ay morning at G o'clock. They iaugtied at her and tried to reason awa such an idea as sh" seemed hrnily convinced, of, but uothini con d shake her beleif that she would de part this life at that time Fridaj ;-he made all her arrangements, and tirerlly put her house iu order Fri day night she went to bed, telling them all that she would be a crpM before another day. Du'ing the iiiht and towards day she waked several times and asked what time it ap, saying that it seemed a fjiig tune until C o'clock. When the -;!ock struck G, true to her pro phecy, she. expired. Charlotte Ob. wcer A LITTLE GIRL'S KXPElitENCE IN A UGHTHUlj.SE. .Mr. and Mr?. Loren Tr"-ott are keepers o. tlie Guv. LigfUli'-iise it Saud B-iitch. Midi., and are M-ss.fi w it h a daughter fnar years old. La-t Apnl .- was taken down with merles, flUw.;-J unh a dread t it couh and tumuitr into a f.-v-i, Doc tirs at hume und at Deir. it treated her. but in vain, thu grew w-jr; raj iJiy, until .Ha im: a niPrA ' ha n ftfil I (if -. ;' 'Chen I she tried Dr. Kintr's Nc Discovery and r after the use cf two and a half lott-e was completely cured. Iney s iy lr. Kui r ' H New Discovery is worth Jt e'i:ht in ir lj j " " " yet you may geta trial h.-!iiefi;.; at .1 ,.', ELECIMC L'tTii j.S. Lawin'a drutore. Tbi3 rernedv Is t to .i,.in," we, fcr-uwa "77T """"" j :i:.d so popular as t. need i. s; eeul rnei, ihe W dm -ugtoii .V,'- qie haj.s lil!u AU who h.v; u-.-d Id t i j Uiitt-rs pily remaiks that G o. li uringet, !'-,f o s r: ' "r pini.-c. a j urti , T . y, , . n, .l,.- n ; does n..t :i-t and it is ijaarar. Col. Johuaon, Col. l'.Mx.n, t has j .,ej u (J aM lLiU j, cnlllJ,j Electric McKesson, Oo1. Gu'i.iie, Col. Aigo, j D'ticrs will cure alt -lipase nr tc Liv-vr T , ... . and Kidneys, will reni..ve 1'iinpl.s, f.il. Judge Alberto:., ria..k . inbion, Ualt Kh,ui arill util.r ate. ,,.lI,;,aU.,lJ b; Col. Mooie, Leieto Republicans, linj'iirw bio 'd VVjl.Jrif Ma':iriM ti om tlei jo...i the iocmticj:' ":.::"r,u:z part in this State, are noc a b id O i ipatiofr-oid inii.-c v-j-. n Electric exchange for Marioa Butler and Lr i''tt-rs-E..iira:iVucii... tu;i.unte.ed,or fc Ui"iey ietundl. I rice jijc rit-) ati l Jl.tlu Fxum, wlio are now placing the NO. 25. .of cu. ., : ; : . I The mighty are falling, the centum I ry hasten to its close and those who ! av thought the deepest, sung the ! sweetest and labored the hardest and made their names . conspicuous ? Ml itH annals, uiu pasting ttway wtta its last year; Septi'raber called away our Quaker Poet, Whittier. October has taken Tennysou, Eng-" land s Laureate, R nan, the distiu- miished French Vrlrcr; Dn Ken- dtdl, the griat chairman of Hi" Homo Mission wotk of the Pi ( b lei i.m chinch in this country-, -and Dr. Allen, the Missionary hcnctactoi.ot the colored people. Dr. - Allen is pleasantly remembered here as the guest of some otour people-a few years agit and his i : st i u;t i ve ser , toons iu tne pi' b it-ii.iii church and his wise aud lulp'ul advice to out colored pcoj.le The wise ot the piesu'eut Is icpt.l ti d i.S passing away, and, the op ning testivit:es ot fie Wot Id's Columbian l'Vir may bo b'tadowed by the mantle of grief over the Picsident's Mansion. Slow often the lesson is repeated "Ofatiuth God is no respetor of pei sons". The goldeu text for next Sunday. 11. Z. J. JiMlgo Cr3r4liaia( ioilloii. CmcAoo, (Vt. 7 Fi an Klin Mac Veagh of this city, a brut In r of Wayne MacVeagh, says it is mi. d.iubtedly true that Jude (Jresharu h is definitely decided to vote for .Mr Cleveland. "Judge (liesham' said Mr. Mac Veagli "has made no seeiet or his position among his friends I have known for some time that he intend to vote for Mr, Cleveland. Others have known ir. Mr. Cleveland himself hits know ir. 1 am no- au t homed to make any statement lor .Indue Crecham, hnl I know hi position so well that i c:in ea-i'y state it 4I cannct take any public p.! it. iu this campaign,' he would B i . '1 cannot on I he st ump ; J cando; write a public letter: I cannot cam not express m self in an interview. It is not because I desiie to conceal my position, for I -do n:.t. Ir. is not that I do not desire to see the tar-iffref-n ined, for I do. it is not that 1 am not going to vote for Mr. Cleveland, for I am. Rut the trad itions of the position v. liif.li I hold a United State circuit judge are opposed to my taking any part in the political campaign, i iel these traditions 1 mean to respect and protect. Tills is Jud (tie-ham's po-l tion. I think it ought to be under stood." 'I he .4IIi;iiiT Defined. IvJin. rial extract from Pr"sre5.si vl l ii. iur lncr, Sept. 8, 1887. President MrOune, of the Natlen il Alliance, says: "It is ttrictly white, man's non-political secret business association- It does not seek to force any iasues on any peo p!e, but as;-s them to Co-operate ad cotton-raisers and go into it them selves and meet audi issues as they may have in any ay they choose. It is held that m order to secure a a bu.-iinesi association a secret or- ! g tiiizatiou is absolutely neccessaiy. Rut the very fact that it is stctet must of neee.-ity absolutely preculu any tendency towards partisan pol itical action. Nothing can be truer th i u to say that heuev er you iu. I reduce any secret1oture into a polition pat ty ii will destroy tlm party and, vice vera, uheuev.r you introduce pa.fizau politics int: a secret societv the society wi:l die, aoi bould tie av 'Ujed a utr.ii i. h.er at ir, J. JI. l.aAin-'-- Dru,