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FTm AYIE ECORD. MOCKSVILLE, fr. c. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1899. 1. 21. f Juire & Kimbrough, YSICIAXS AND SURGEONS'. f n1 South of Hot el Davie MOCKSVII-E, & C. 7. G- CHEEK YE SPPXlALIbT. over Jacobs' Clothing- Store, wiysTox, x. 0, R, B. Anderson, DENTIST. ce: First Door South of U. McGuire & Kimbroug-h. MOCKSVILLE, N. C. Asheville Gazette, DAILY EDITION: y One Year, S For president lt)OG. H WILLIAM McKlNLKY, gj 4 Ohio. For Governor. JAMES li BOYl, Guilford. For Congress. WILLIAM A. 15 VILLA , Iavie. V .XT AV i The Davio Record, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. K. II. MOU1US, Editor. 4. i. 00 00 40 1.00 1.00 50 ..eeks, mth, Gazette. One year, V Gazette, six niontbS, r-ss: The Gazette, j Asheville, X. C. iu.i uni ni i'n in i1 w mmn ihii m lEKEST TO INVENTORS. Snow & Co., one of the ml most successful firms of ttoruevs, whose offices are the United States Patent i "Washington, D. C, and ve procured patents TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : One cop3T, One Year. - - -One coin. Six Months, - . - One copy, Three Months - $1.00 50 Mocksville, N. C September 13. W. R. Ellis, Clerk of Court, Dead. In the sudden and unexpected death of W. R. Ellis, clerk of the Superior Court of Davie county, the county has lost a good man, a good citizen and a faithful officer. Mr. Ellis has been in poor health for a imbiber of years, and for the r last four weeks had been confined io the improved conditions, ! L 1T. ... . S. Patent Office, patents WUUU1WU in the opposite direction to attain it. Differ if we must, but. let us use common sense, justice and reason in our arguments. Let's base our arguments upon reasonable grounds and if we use rather harsh terms, let it be borne out by the reason of the thing and not by narrowniind ed littleness. Can't we see any good in others I Are all the Christ ians in one church! If so,v the Devil has got a bill of sale for a large majority. Are there not good men in all parties ? Will they not .114V .....j , . . (nut! un most suojects ? it so, don't measure them by our own standard, unless we know our stand ard is right. Remember the golden rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Democratic weeklies will please copy this rule. BILLON M LTJTHEB, President of the Zeb. Vance Demo cratic Club, of Asheville, N. C., Against the Amendment. pi 17.000 inventors, say that j to ,v be more promptly procnr it any previous time in theb ve of tweutv-five years 17 YOU GO TO Winston, N. C. CALL OX vN, The Jeweler. a Nice Line of Watches, and Silver Ware, Specia . Eye Glasses, etc. Fine if done while you wait and hired for one year. Prices lie times. rs for business, BROWN. The Jeweler. rtv Street. Next door to jbberl's the gun man. and his death Monday at 1 o'clock p. m., was quite a shock. Mr. Ellis has been in public life for j quite & number of years. He was a justice of the peace for a long while, and he ably represented Da vie county in the general assembly for two terms, '93 and '95. In November, 1898 he was '-elected clerk of the superior court for the i term ol four years. The Editor of The Recok-d de plores his untimely death, and ex tends t ? the bereaved family his heartfelt sympathy. Dane Record I l Publish Notices At the following ptrator s notice - - $2.00wf - 2.00$ Sale, er execution e Sale - - - 2.00 ices where fees $5 ; , 3 and 4 respec tively will be charg ed. hires represent an actual Jig of 331 per cent and k r,as now allowed by f law p us before vou make a i.t fO.UPETITIO 2f . K TON RAILWAY. pDARD RAILWAY JHE SOUT1L Feet Line to all Points. IS. rnia, I and Fiist I'olitical Xarrowness. "i" A great deal is being said by the little and narrow-minded fellows in the Democratic patty about resfeect able and self-respecting Republi cans voting for the amendment. To be respectable a Republican must vote with the Democrats, ac cording to their ideas. Peoplefof such small views and ideas who try to ostiacise and boycott all who do not see and vote as they do, are too contemptible to receive much notice, and were it not one of the machine's favorite methods of at tempting to drive people into vo ting for their pet schemes, would not be noticed by us. Men are measuied often by the amount of cash they have, instead; of their nobility ot character, up rightness of conduct and gentle manly bearing. When a cause is so weak that its promoters have to lay aside dignity, honesty and truthfulness, and resort to abuse, vile insinuations an "misrepresen: tations, the stirring up of strife, passion and prejudice, the vindica tion of all who do not see it from their standpoint, it seerins that it would not take the lovfers of the right, the supporters of liiw, order and justice, long to see their transparent schemes brand them as un worth w of the support of all honorable men. The talk of the amendment only being opposed by Ihe office holders "pie-counter brigade," is all stuff, and shows the littleness of those who have no argument to bring rward to uphold a measure thair axiiis and intends to take away the rights of a large number of the citizens of the State. And the principle object of the schemers is to put a few Democrats in to feast at the "piecounter." It makes a great big difference whose ox is gored, And when these little fel lows who like to abuse Republicans so much are on the outside, with That Democratic Banner. At the Labor Day celebration in Xew York, Chairman Brown used this language: "We meet,here to uphold the banner of Democracy. Democracy means more than to gain office by. It means the rights of the masses, everything our fa thers thought worth fighting for." How strange and out-of-date does the above sound here in North Car olina, when the leaders of Democ racy aie waging a relentless politi c.il battle against the rights of the masses, against the rights for which our forefathers fought ? Would not the old Revolutionary fathers turn over in their graves could they but through and know the efforts being made by modern Democracy to entrench itself in power at the sacrifice of the rights of a portion of the mass es ! When the tocsin of war sound ed in the days of '76, the horny handed frontiersman with his mus ket, was not asked whether he could read or write before he was welcomed in the iauks to fight the battles for freedom. Again, when the brave Southrons shouldered arms and marched to the front to repel the armies of the North, no educational test was required. Good enough to fight freedom's battles; good enough to endure hardships and privations; -good enough to leave an humble cottage with devoted wife and children; good enough to die or. the battle field for one's country; good enough to leave a widow and orphan chil dren to the tender mercies of a wicked, cruel world, to suffer hard ships, to grow up in ignorance and their descendants be disfranchised because of poverty and misfortune, in order to make North Carolina everlastingly Democratic. Honest yeomanry, poor but honest toilers, true to your country in times of I peril, do you like the picture? Can you vote away your own rights and liberties Villi these facts star ing you in the face ? Class Equip- all Through and Lo ins. Sleeping Cars on all Night j their mouths wide open, watering last and Safe Schedules. ana hankering after pie, poss vel by the Southern and are assured a Sale. Coin- table and an Expeditious rney. Ticket. Agents for Time Ta f ates and General Inf or nation, or address jtNON, F. R. DARBY, A. (J. Jr & T. A. when one considers the weakness and frailties of the human race the mantle of charity should be thrown over them, in order to hide their littleness and weaknesees. It strikes us there is a right and For and A&aiust. We call the attention of oar read-, ers to the open letter of Mr. Dillon M. Luther, of Asheville, who comes out squarely against the Constitu tional Amendment. Whatevar you see in the Democratic papers about this letter oi lit. Luther's will be; abuse, and " an attempt to malje light of him. Mr. Luther is a man be proven by Democratic authority. Below we give the News and Ob server opinion of him prior to the publication of his letter. The Recqhd is of the opinion that for every Republican vote for the amendment there will be hundreds ;f not thousands of Democratic votes against it. It wiU never be adopted with a free ballot and fair count . Au unfair election law and a manipulation of the ballot boxes is its only hope. "Mr. Luther has probably been the most active man in the Demo cratic darty in the county. He was nominated" for the legislature in 1806. a fusionist year, and for mayor of Asheville in 189S. lie was city attorney from June, 189S to .Tune. 1899. lie was the prime mover and organizer of the Vance ciub, and ran its - membership up to 1,500.. The club was the first to originate the idea of white su- nremacv in JNortn Juaroiiua, ana In ooedience to the dictates of an nonest conscience, I shall oppose the d-uoption of the proposed amendment to our State Constitution, restricting suftrage. In taking this course I know I invite the caustic censure of a majority of my party associates, but .when consid eration is taken of the action of oar last legislature in its disregard of cer tain campaign pledges upon which the Democratic majority was secured, I know the integrity and honor of my tellow citizens will be generous in their criticism of mv course. rora the date of Chairman Simmons' letter to the voters of the State as suring the public that, in the event of Democratic success, no effort would be -made to abridge in any way the suffrage rights of any voter, ' either white or colored, we had the best ar gument of our opponents against our right to control the State completely answered. With this menace to the rights of our unfortunate illiterate voters re moved, the duty of a majority of the voters of the State was made clear. The object of our contest in that campaign was to rescue the State and countjr governments from the incom petent hands into which they had fallen. To do this with an avowed puri3o.se of restricting suffrage to a class, was at that time considered by every Democrat having an interest in the campaign an insurmountable barrier in the way of our success. And so far as my knowledge extends, there was not a candidate for any po sition, or a newspaper within the State, that did not most earnestly and emphaticallv disavow auv such purpose on the part of the Democrat ic port', and pledged its legislature, if successf ul, against such a policy. How well those ante-election pledges were kept by the legislature is a mat ter of history, and i3 now before us for ratification. As one believing in political honesty, as well as personal honesty, I do not believe the common people of the great Democratic party should be committed or forced to the ratifica tion of this monstrous measure. The Democracy of Jeffex-son, Jack son, Bryan and Vance stands upon the housetops and the battlements of lib erty, proclaiming to the world, the universal political freedom of all man kind, with "equal rights to all and special privileges to none,"' while the Democracy of Tiliman and others hides itself behind the unjust laws, and restricts the privileges of citizen ship to the classified few, who believe as it does, and will follow at the bid ding of its acknowledged masters. The type of North Carolina's Democ racy has always been the former ard I refuse to believe that the latter can now be substituted at the bidding of those who seek through such measures as this proposed suffrage amendment, to foi3t it upon our party and State even at the dictation of party leaders. Space in your valuable paper for bids that I at this time, attempt to.' give all my reasons for parting wa3Ts with my party on this question. The manifest unconstitutionality, which section five of the proposed amend ment makes with the constitution of the United States, and the great dan ger which lies in an unfavorable opin ion by our national supreme court upon this section, and the strong probability that lies in the mainte -uance of the remainder of the amend ment, whereby illiterate white and colored voters are left alike without the privilege of the ballot, should be sufficient cause in the minds of all patriots for the damning of the entire measure. I have carefully read every article yet offered by the friends of the amendment, and to my mind I have got to see the first expression from an3 of them that would convince the most credulous layman that there i:-; even a remnant of hope that sectioc five, can stand the test of an honest judicial opinion. In tact, not one o amendment have vital point in the case, and to my mind, it seems clear from all the works that I have been able to find upon the subject, that when this mat ter in brought before the courts of the country, its legality will not stand. There are many other points of ob jection to this proposed iniquity that I hope to be heard upon, as the con test for its adoption or rejection pro gresses. In conclusion, I wish to say. that in faithful .adherence to the doc--trine and discipline, when not in op position to the patriotism of the Dem ocratic party, aud m lov for time honored principles and in faith m their final triumph, I yield to none in my most sacred devotion ...But when I see its cause sd maliciously deflect ed f rok' its time honored land-marks. as is proposed by this uu-ieuTcfcfaTTfj' proposition, l reel it my patriotic uu ty to concentrate the best efforts of my life to prevent the perfection of a scheme so f uli of danger to our peo ple and State as the adoption of this oroposed amendment Respectfully, DIL.LC5N M. Luther. Aasheville, N. C, August 11, 1899. tte, N. C. Asheville N.C, j wrong way to do almost everything, j Mr. Luther was the" first man to to answer GANNON, ten Man. 7 UUJfiSHOMa. i ilif is too snort, ami u our M. CULP. principal object should be directed Traf Man. ' toward gaining a better estate in TTIKX G. P. A. the sweet by and by, then there ; are thousands of us reaching out advocate it. He is a Mason, a Iv. of P. and an Odd Fellow,- He is an attorney of line abifity and lends weight and influence to every movement with which hs becomes . connected." -C i- !- -Pi-i rirl a r-f fha ever touched tin Cotton Sales in Manila. A special to the Chicago Times Herald from Washington says: Senator Morgan, of Alabama, prophesies that expansion will be the salvation of cotton, and is about to start a crusade in the South to spread the new gospel. In his prophetic vision he says Ma nila will be the great cotton market of the world, instead of Liverpool. Instead of paying toll to British brokers, spinners and bhip-owners, he predicts the time is coming when Americans, in an American city in the Pacific, will handle two-thirds of the cotton of the world and save billions to the CDtton-growers of America. "Liverpool has been built upon American cotton, at the expense of American growers, while Manches ter has thrived at the expense of American spinners," said Senator Morgan. "Why should the United States continue to enrich those Brit ish citie3 ? Why should the price of the cotton grown in Alabama and Texas be fixed by men in Liverpool?" "Manila offers the key for escape from this commercial thralldom There at the very door of Asia., is an American city with a splendid harbor, and the day is coming when it will rob Liverpool of much of its cotton trade Cotton and cotton goods will be shipped West to the Pacific, carried to Manila and dis tributed from that port up and down the Asiatic coast without paying toll to Liverpool aud Manchester-. There is not only the sa ving in transportation- to be con sidered, for the rehaudling in effect entails a number of extra charges, but remember that Asia has two thirds of the consuming power of the world, and you see the impor tance of this trade arid tin? promise held out to Manila." The Shame of It. The shame of it is what strikes intelligent people in both the con stitutional amendment and the cha racter of the campaign planned to put it through. We have just read an interview with Chairman Sim mons that had been first published in Atlanta and then syndicated Xorth, to still further scatter its misrepresentations, to theJTew York Herald, Chairman Simnions begins with a statement that the amend ment, if passed, would disfranchise "fully one hundred thousand col ored persons. ' ' This is val liable as showing intention, however little it may fit statistics. Then Chairman Simmons quotes the fifth section of the proposed 'slaughter pen law that he claims will protect every white man from the humiliation inflicted upon the negro. On top of this, with sublime consistency. he gives forth the following: "A ' Col. John S. Cunningham, of Person county, has the largest to bacco crop ia the Sovith grown by ore nlauter. He has 3.000,000 hills and estimates one-third of a pound to the hill, which would make a total yield of 1,000,000 pounds. A Columbia, S. C. dispatch of the 9th inst. says, a train loaded with granite went through the bridge over Broad River oii the Columbia, dewberry and Laurens raiiroad this afternoon. Four men were killed, and it is believed that there are several others under the wreck. careful study of the amendment will disclose the fact that it does not in any legal sense contravene the fif teenth amendment to the United States constitution or abridge the rights of the black man to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude, but that it simply establishes a qualification of s n ff rage . " A caref u 1 stu d y of t h i s proposed amendment, combined with the effort to see it as Mr. Sim mons sees it, would drive a man to strong drink or a lunatic asylum if he kept at it till he got results. Senators MeEimery and Caffery, of Louisiana, were waited on by a commit tee from Mr. Simmons' con ference at Raleigh when the scheme of the amendment was being con cocted, and they were asked if the fifth section of it was constitutional. These senators said it was not, but that it violated the fifteenth amend ment of the federal constitution. And everybody, including Mr. Sim mons, knows it dors. - Xo amount of interviews or misrepresentation can fool the people on this score. Thp TKirfizan election law is a pair spectacles thrf. an illiterate can read tne lact that the constitutional amendment, is not a measure for whose success at the polls it is safe to trust th honest vote of the State. --Asheville Daily Gazette. COMING TO MOCKSVILLE, " W THREfc GEh&RAftons. ' Thursday, September 28. o- The Only Big Show to Exhibit Here DURING THIS YF ,R. . "AFTER ALL, OLD THINGS ARE BEST" The OLD UKLIABLI3 i fl S 1 - r Which you have known, respected -and .enjoyed for thjec generations, will visit you on Thursday, September 28th. Day will Be a Gala That One s Winston-Salem's carnival, gala week, horse show and fain to be held October 21 to 28, promises to surpass anything of the kind yet given "in the State. It will open with a narade. in winch there will be at least one The products of mica in Xorth Carolina during the year 189S re ported bv the Geological Survey was: Sheet mica, 87087 pounds, valued at 103,534. : Major General William Shatter will be sixty-four years old October 15. lit accordance with the age retirement law, he will be placed on the retired list. The village of Portsmouth, south of Hatteras, is to be abandoned and its residents will settle near Beaufort. The storm has drowned out theivillage, and the surf comes up to the very doorsteps of the ho uses i " thousand horses. The interesting weak's program will conclude with an old-time tournament. - A Santiago special says copies of ; President McKinley's proclamation ; providing for the taking of the ceu-1 sus arrived there on the 7th mst. -The papers comment favorably j thereon, saying max, . ize the situation and will do all in ; their power to aia m uij. For over three quarters of a century the people of the be'oved South have claimed tiie Old John Robinson Show as their favorite. Your grandfathers and grandmothers have sounded its praises, and many of the grown-up sons and daughters of famed Xorth Carolina early learned to lisp the name of Old John Robiusou with their baby lips, ami ever Miice have proved, like true Carolinians, their loyalty to (he show of their youth, and no other amusement organization ever has held or ever will hold the place in the hearts of the whole people like the Old Reliable John Robinson Show, and now after a long absence, during which it has assumed ten limes the proportions in merit, size and magnificence it cornea to MOCKSVILLE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1829. John Eobinson's Ten Big Skow In connection with the Grand Biblical Spectacle Solomon, his Temple and the Queen, of Sheba wit hout a parallel, acknowledged by a universal public theSSlislinHly GKEAT SHOW, the peerless ex hibition of Greater Aincrt Three Big Circuses, four Big Kings, three Big Menageries, ciie joi1rjjAffliriuin. one complete Aviary, one o-r:?nd Biblical SdcIc. ten Trnlv Gre.it rthoUA. -kWMLnintie Muscium li'or 75 ve:irsriurli thrpn fenerations, this mishtV anu power I lSS. organization has exhibited in every State of our vast Union, audthe name of JOHX ROIUXSOX is alone a guarantee that the per formances under the vast canvases far excel all others in merit, origi nality, magnificence, variety and quality; MORE FOL5 THE MONEY than any other three circuses furnish their patrons, pjarger, costlier and more distinctly original. More tableau cages ai,d dens than owned by any big show in the world. Most costly costumes, more scenery used in the one great featuieof Solomon aiid the Queen of Sheba than in the entire combined features of any other exhibition in the country. Over yl(0,(X)0 expended on this production alone. One hundred of the most beautiful dancing girls in America. TIIE CIRCUS FEATURI-S this season, obtained from Euroic and America, will amaze and startle the world. Nothing like them ever before presented in this country. The most novel bareback riding acts ever witnessed. From nine to twelve of the World's Greatest Champion Lady aud Gentlemen Equestrians riding in four rings at one time. This feature is new aud origiuul with this show. THE MENAGERIE hurpasses in magnitude and completeness any known Zwdogical Collection in the world. One of the special features of the big tripje menagerie is the Largest Snake alive-"25 feet long. THE GRAXD STREET PARADE and Robinsons Horse Fair an innovation in itself. A truly maguificeut pageant. A feature of the free street parade is the grand spectacle of forty of the smallest Ponies ever harnessed and driven at one time. Don't fail to see them Two Performances Daily. Special features just received and acquired at enormous expends v en'TnnT. nv SKA TIOVS from Alaska, the onlv ones now on exhibition in America, Also just received from Manila, Luzoil Island, a herd of PHILIPPINE WATER BUFFALOES, the only one of the kind now on exhibition. Positively the only show m America exhibiting these two costly features. JOHX LOWLOW, THE CELEBRATFD CLOWN, WILL APPEAR AT EVERY PERFORMANCE. i in
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