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' . . A DEMOCRATIC JOURNALrTHE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. :"i '
Vol XIX . No. 48. - MAXTON, N. 0., THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1898. $1.00 a Year.
BILL AUrt LBTTM.
They say that Joe Wheeler forgot
himself at Santiago when the Spaniards
fired their deadly volley from the brush;,
and he sparred hit steed forward and
shouted, "Charge 'em, boys! Charge
the damn yankees; run 'em out of the
brush! the damn Spaniards, I mean I"
And now they tell it on General Lee
that when his handsome bine uniform
came and bii wife took it out. of the
case, he looked at it with solemn coun
tenance and said: "Put it back, wife;
: let it stay there a while till I van get
reconciled. I'm afraid I might ahoot at
it all of a sudden." . v
. The boys in camp get up many a joke,
and they go on the grand rounds, and
that reminds me of Pat Doolan, a fresh
Irishman, who was put on picket and
ordered to let no man pass without the
password. . When the officer came
round to change the guard Pat chal
lenged him with, "Halt, be Jasus, and
give the password." "Officer on the
grand rounds," said the lieutenant.
"Grand rounds and be damned to ye,"
said Pat, "an' if ye don't come forward
and say Bull Run' I'll be after shootin'
into ye, Mr. Grand Rounds."
The boys say that down at Camp
Griffin, when a new recruit comes in, the
devilish fellows take him off to drill
him. : "Young man, you must remem
ber Ihe Maine, and also remember that
you are a fan vale, when you meet an
officer you must salute him and say, 'I
am your dog, sirr' and the officer will
wave his hand and smile and say, 'I
know it,' and pass oh. They hase the
green ones as bad as college boys hase a
verdant freshman. There is many a
wag around the camp fires and they
spice me weary nours wiin w:t ana wis-1
oom. ine average somier oears no
malice, not even toward the foe he has
been sent to fight. Oerveraand Hobson
are the best of friends and if it is possi
ble for us to like Cervera, it is possible
that the people who placed him in high
command have some redeeming virtues.
In our civil war the . privates of both
armies exchanged civilities on the picket
lines. Stonewall Jackson rebuked them
and once when a picket .brought him a
New York paper be refused it and said:
"Take nothing fromthem, sir, and give
them nothing but lead. They, are our
enemies." But the common soldier
has not considered the casus belli, the
aggravation' from a national standpoint,
nor can he, like Cromwell or Stonewall
Jackson, worship God, by killing his
country's foes.
A soldier's life is a good training
school, and he soon loses some of his
conceit and selfishness. when 'a boy
who baa been humored and petted at
home becomes a schoolboy and has to
rob against other toys, he soon lea tot
"forgive andTakriM'T6fe"IBir wRhTils
schoolmates. Just so these young
soldier boys, when far away from father
and mother. Soon find themselves endur
ing a common hardship and in peril a
common danger, and it softens their
nature and takes away their vanity.
They learn from one another, and, like
these commercial travelers, absorb
knowledge by contact The best in
formed people I meet with are the vet
erans of the civil war. However dull
and uneducated were the boys when
they entered service in 1861, they were
bright and genial when they came out.
I'll venture that there was. more good
sense and more forbearance, more real
reflective patriotism and less selfishness
in the recent grand gathering of vet
erans in Atlanta than in any body of
men ever assembled in the United
Bute. These veterans all look alike to
me. Hard service have hammered them
down like steel used to be hammered
outlof iron. Their faces, their hearts,
their walk, their solidity, their consid
erate conservatism, all mark them ai
men who have been tried and refined
in the crucible of war-the dross ex
ml tad and the Dure cold left. - -
But war is a bad thing the worst
thing in the world. A pbilosopbio
, friend of mine says no and he argues
that periodically nations must nave war,
Destitenoa or famine to purify them, to
purge then and kill off the unproductive
surplus ana give quiet to we govern
" meot Won't believe that, but lam
going to argue about it John Temple
Graves and Simon Peter Kicbardson
and Joe Orr have written strong letters
about war and bow it ennobles a nation.
, These men are thinkers, make the best
of a bad thine, but still we can fall back
and entrench upon the teachings of the
Bon of Man, who said: "My kingdom
is peace." "Peace on earth and good
will among men." Only few months
- htve passed, but there is many a heart
broken mother now weeping for her
, soldier son whose shallow grave is in a
foreign kind..' These mothers are worth
- a thousand victories. " But these
preachers perplex me f Most of them
are for the war to go on until we have
taken all. the islands of the sea and
j planted missionaries there. , One of
them said, "Mv friend, the kingdom of
heavenofferetbvklenoe and the violent
take it by force," but I never heard be
- fore that it meant guns and cannon and
" .dynamite. I fear the seal of most of these
Dreacbett is inspired by their hatred of
the Roman Catholic religion, v I wed to
have a horror of that religion myself,
' for I had read Fox's Book of Martyrs
and imagined the Spanish inquisition
was i bout to be revived, but time and
. education have removed my prejudices
and made me tolerant of all the
churches. Observation and experience
have t-!""M me that there are good peo
ple in all t'..a cliurohca. both Jew and
'-. Qentite,and LI was faraway from home
and in entrees a I '?r of Charity would
perhaps be my C. .t vLilor. ; They found
niy mother when bor parents diod of
the f vrc in Cha.',lon and they took
the f "-"S orphan to t' ' !r r-.ea.ts and
- caix I f r Lor: and I have no patience
with t' a i -ichors, so called,, whl
i!. n ' t t -. t t'seir church.
r : 1 f Unde:.non
r .
l.a!
i ; i t if not o;
j wy r I r
1 1 1 love liii i f
ji
his honest sincerity. He preached here
seyeral years and is a man of convic
tions. Ue is rightly named and would
have cut off the other ear of Malchus if
he had been there, i He belongs to the
church militant and I Would be willing
to take his chances for the church tri
umphant. He was telling me once
about a great revival he attended over
on the Peedee river and when I asked
him how many converts they took in he
said: "Nary one, nary one, my friend;
but we turned seventeen out and purged
the church. The revival was altogether
sanitary." . ' -y : v
We had a great treat at our town this
morning. - Colonel William J. Bryan
with his Nebraska regiment stopped here
for an hour and they electrified every
body with their presence. It is by far
the best regiment we have seen. The
beet looking, the best behaved and the
beet equipped and they love and idolise
their colonel. They feel elevated and
refined by his commanding presence
and wouldn't do anything that would
mortify his pride or wound his feelings.
What a grand and noble man he is.
How majestic in person; how gentle in
manners; how inspiring in languagrand
con venation. How our hearts did burn
within as as ho spoke. I tell you, my
countrymen, I would trust him with all
my interest in national affairs. He is
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay com
bined. May the good Lord keep him
and preserve him and return him safe
to his family and to the nation. The
silver question may pass away and be
forgotten. The tariff may settle down,
but other and greater issues will grow
out of the war and the nation will need
Bryan at the helm of government.
This is the way!
feel
about it and
cannot help it
Biix Abp.
' Wanton HypocrUy.
UalelghPoat
If an honest Populist can read the
Caucasian without becoming disgusted
with the open-faced and wanton hypoc
risy of Senator Butler he is beyond the
reach of saving grace. Butler's whole
song is denunciation of the Democratic
party as a party of "lawyers."
The Fittsboro Record well says:
"No one but a contemptible dem
agogue ever attempts to arouse the
prejudices of the people against the
lawyers, who as a class have always
proved themselves to be ss patriotic and
true as any other citizens. And it is
untrue to say that the lawyers control
the Democratic party.
But even if it was true, the Populist
party cannot consistently criticise or
complain, because that parly has taken
to its warmest embraces or has given
an office to every lawyer who has joined
HI '
Had you thought of thisT
Searcp:-througUout Hie Stater-and
where will you hnda Fopulwt lawyer
who has not either been given an office
or does not occupy a high place in his
party?"
That this hypocrisy may be made
plain we note:
Benator Butler, Lawyer.
Congressman Skinner, Lawyer.
Congressman Fowler, Lawyer.
Loge Harris, Big Heap Lawyer.
Gov. Russell, "Something of a con
stitutional Lawyer" himself.
Rev. Cade, Lawyer.
M. H. H. Caldwell, Fop-nominee for
Congress, Lawyer.
Solicitor Sewell, Fop-nominee for
Judge, Lawyer.;
J. B. Shulken, beaten for nomination
for Congress in a Pop. convention by a
McKintey-Fritohara itepubiicao, law
yer. " V
Auditor Ayer studied law, but his
engagements proving that the Demo
crats stand on the Populist platform and
then using his influence toward electing
gold-bug Republicans and fastening the
present disgraceful system of negro
county government on the eastern
counties have prevented him practicing
that learned profession.
Railroad v Commissioner : Caldwell,
Iwyer.---,,f .';' v";
Otho Wilson, studied Law, but dis
gust with its "non-partisan" opera
tions causes him to eschew- it with
bitterness..:;? ..;!.,.y:.;"; -
We ask any candid man if the above
do not control, with an iron hand, the
Populist macbiue, called a party, in
this State. -' ,
And while they may not be "lawyers
to hurt" in other - words briefless
barristers." . they have succeeded in
extracting comfortable fees out of the
public by legal tricks tnat are best
known to this Populist branch of the
profession. -
And yet Butler talks about the Demo
cratio party being bossed by lawyers!
Incapable of Heli-U-re-nmect, .
Londow, July 21- A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Manila, under date of
July 18th, says:. ,
"The more l see or we natives me
more I am convinced that it would be
impossible for them -to govern them
selves. They are without the rudiments
of civilisation, and , are incapable of
keeping order and discipline, They
have already begun to quarrel among
themselves. ' . 1 Each local . headman,
equally with Agulnaldo, is aiming to
become supreme ruler. It is pitiful to
think that an European nation has been
beaten by such miserable specimens of
humanity, .The Inactivity of the
Americans is telling upon the natives.
Food is plentiful among the natives,
but bey have no money and there is
nomens ox sending money to them
It is rumored that Admiral Dewey in
tends to search all warships in the bay.
exoept British vessels, ss it is suspected
that they are smuggling provisions into
Manila' - .
Admiral Dewey Friday cabled to
Ws ' . u tbnt the second military
erv!.:iou, '.Iv.hl( ?tan Francisco for
Manila on June 15, had arrived last
wock. There me. s 3 f! J troops io com
mand Of tisg.-Uen. if. V. trene, mar
1 -? a total cf more than O.CJO Amori-
- soKliors now eo-opetatinz wl'.h
AS TO LTX0H1HO.
The Wilmington fN. C ) Messenger
in an article on lynching, says: "The
Messenger year by year has sincerely
deplored the great prevalence of crime
in the south, ana particularly among
the negroes. It has deeply regretted
the many lynching that have occurred
and it has sorrowed over the causes of
the lynching. The insuffioency of the
courts, the desperation and savagery of
the brutes who assault white women
and little girls, the steady growth of
the most infernal crime were all con
demed, and it was felt that lyncbings
would never cease until the black devils
s all hanged or their brutalities
ended. Every week almost some white
woman of character is most cruelly, in
humanly assaulted by some roaming
beast, and frequently an incensed peo
ple become a law unto themselves and
stamp out the villain and marauder as
they would stamp out pestilence and
hre. Last week in Virginia, a negro
was lynched for a most infernal crime.
The white men avenged the deed. The
religious papers, the pulpit the press
generally may denounce lynch law and
call it mob law, and the reign of vio
lence and what not; they may call for
more stringent legislation to suppress
hangings by mobs, and brand alias
half-civilised who do not cry out
against lyncbings for rapes, but until
the villains cease their damning and
cruel and awful work the life of the
rascals will not be safe if they are
caught."
The Norfolk Virginian-Filot discusses
the subject of lynching as follows:
Should a rattlesnake or a mad dog
be tried before killing? Should a mur
derer, incendiary, or highwayman,
caught in the act, be allowed to com
plete it and to appeal to all the delays
and chances of law? If you, or your
people, or your property, be feloniously
attacked, will you await the laws, or
will you act at once in self-defense? If
madman be on the streets, maraud
ing and slaying all he meets, must we
take out a warrant for him, arrest and
try him before we disable him and
stop his wild career?
The negro who was lynched at
Charlottesville was far worse than any
rattlesnake or mad dog, far worse than
any madman or criminal, and by his
nature and course had outlawed him
self utterly. To recognize in him any
right to the protections and processes
of law would be to mitigate his offense,
aggravate the outrage and to add to the
shame and horror already inflicted up
on the woman.
No decent white man, endowed
with reason and the proper respect of
manhood, should or could restrain
himself in the presence of so foul a
orima. It would diegmoo jutioo nd
dehle the courts to treat him as an in
nocent man."
The Baee Qaeetlou To U the lseae At the
flext KiMtlau.
Special Dispatch to Baltimore Son,
miaou, N. C, July 25. It is now
clear what the two lines of argument in
the campaign, which begins August 8,
will be. The Republicans will tell the
negroes the Democrats intended to
disfranchise them. The Democrats will
make the issue the supremacy of the
white race. .
Years ago the Legislature could have
put before the people the question of an
educational qualification for voters. In
fact, it lacked only three Democratic
votes of being put before the people for
ratification or rejection.
Some negroes say they are willing to
vote for Democrats provided the latter
will assure them that negroes shall con
trol, that is, be the officers of, the in
sane asylum and institution tor the
negro blind. The question arises, how
ever, what is the percentage of the negro
vote which takes this moderate view.
All white Republicans declare that they
have complete control of the negroes.
It is plain that the color line is to be
strictly drawn certainly as strictly as
in 1876. Feeling against the negroes,
from political standpoint has deep
ened during the twenty-two years which
have passed since then. The relations
between the younger negroes and white
voters are. to tell the truth, strained.
Year by year the feeling deepens, and
the race question is, after all, the su
preme issue in North Carolina politics.
, B Stir to the Cuban.
Nows and Observer. : .
The above is the title to a very senBi
ble editorial copied from the New York
Journal, that appears elsewhere in to
day's paper.
Many of the dispatches from Cuba,
from the very first ban seemed to us
to be inspired by lack of appreciation,
if not positive hostility to the Cubans.
In this we may be mistaken, but that is
the impression we know that' has been
also made upon others. 5 '
It la too soon for us 10 juage 01 me
Cubans. They have fought a great
fight for liberty against overwhelming
odds. ' TheSpanlards could not conquer
them. Their self-sacrifice and courage
In all these months and years is not to
be discounted. It is to be doubted if
our military leaders have recognised
them as was proper. Indeed in some
quarters it is even believed that there
has been a studiea intention to siigni
them, to give them no opportunity to
fight where they are efficient and then,
by branding thent as cowards add In
capable, to Justify taking the , island
and ultimately annexing it '
It may or may not be true that syndi
cates with a political pull are working
Ibis scheme for personal aggrandise
ment. It may or may not be true that
the Cubans are shuUess, cowardly and
no good. It will be wise for all of
to reserve an opinion until all the evi
dence is in. , 'i.,
' He lives long ttiat lives well, and
time .misspent is not lired but
lost. Fuller.
l-CSIOX I kOBTB OAROLUTA.
Wilmington Star.
Some interest is now being shown in
the question whether were will be fu
sion between the republicans and pop
ulists in this State this year. If this
means will the- leaders fuse then it
might be answered "Yes." but if it
means will there' be a fusion which will
command the votes of the populists of
rank and file, No." The leaders will
fuse because they will be for a dicker
that they think may give them the of
fices they hanker for, but while the re
publican leaders may control the votes
of the rank and 'file of their party for
such a dicker the populist leaders can't
do that - The action of the late repub
lican conventional Raleigh clearly in
dicates that the intention, as far as the
republican convention goes, was to go
into the dickering business. They
didn't nominate candidates for judges
or solicitors, but by resolution turned
that matter over to the State committee,
with plenary power to act If they in
tended to run the business independ
ent of the populists they would have
nominated for these offices then and
there, unless perhaps, they might have
feared that the colored contingent might
have demanded something, which
would have been embarrassing.
A short while ago a negro convention
assembled in Goldsboro,' and declared
for co-operation, or fusion, with the
populists on "honorable terms." They
appointed a committee of twelve to ar
range the "honorable terms" and make
the dicker with the populists, which
committee-, was composed of eleven
colored statesmen and one white
brother, the town federal stamp-licker.
When the State committee which was
delegated at Raleigh to do up the nom
inating business, gets down to the trad
ing point they will probably follow the
example of the colored statesman at
Goldsboro, and say something about
honorable terms," that is, a divide of
the offices which will give the republi
cans the pick of the plums in view of
the fact that they will furnish most of
the votes.
It is true that the populists in their
State convention at Raleigh on the 17th
of May adopted a long string of declar
ations as the baaia on what they would
ruse with "any. party or faction of a
party," which would subscribe to them,
and afterward, when the democratic
convention met at Raleigh on the 26th
or May, through a committee appoint
ed, made a proposition for fusion on
these terms, which was declined. It is
argued, in view of those declarations,
that the populists cannot listen to fusion
with the republicans, because the re
publicans cannot accept these declara
tions. - 'Jl3i-
It the men who are running the pop
ulist party and the men who are run
ning the republican party were actuated
as much by devotion to principle as
they are to the desire for spoils this
might be so, but as they are not it is
not so, and no declaration previously
made will prevent them from dickering
if they conclude there is anything to he
made by it
But when it comes to commanding
the votes of the rank and hie of their
party, the honest populists who vote
for principle and not for spoils, that is
another matter and they will not find
it so easy to put them up on the block
and knock them down to the republi
cans.' These honest populists have
been noting the drift of events and will
not be so easily bartered and delivered
as they have been heretofore. A great
many of them have hod their eyes
opened, have cut their wisdom teeth
and are not now for sale.
TheWlwrof tlx Two.
Mary," said Mr. Thomas, when s
silence fraught with unpleasant mean
ing had followed his first altercation
with his young wife. "'
"Yes?" said Mary, Interrogatively.
"When a man and his wife have had
a a difference," said Mr. Thomas,
with a judicial air." and each considers
the other at fault which of the two do
you think should make the first advance
toward reconciliation ?"
'The wiser of the two," said Mrs.
Thomas, promptly, "and so, my dear,
I'll say at once that i n very sorry."
It occurred to Mr. Thomas that it
might have been as well for him to
make the first advance, after all; but he
thoughtfully refrained from saying so,
: . A Potnt Well Taken.
Charlotte Observer.',
The Christian Jfiducator, a paper
published monthly by Trinity uoiiege,
W. L. Cranford and fiobt L. Flowers,
editors, prints in its issue for July the
entire correspondence in the dark
Kilgo case, with some comments on
the controversy, saying, among other
things:
.One thing is certain, the Judge tried
to force President Julgo Into his politt
oal opinions, or else drive him out of
the presidency of the college; ' . -
It is a piece of political intolerance
perpetrated by a Supreme Court Judge,
who lust a little while ago was pro
fessing an outraged sense at the same
intolerance In trying to displace Or,
Andrews from Brown university,"
The point is well taken.' The An
drews-Kilgo eases are on all fours.
The women of Brooklyn, New York,
have organised a Health Protective As
sociation, and sy reporter of the New
York Tribune sees reason to believe
that their work is not in vain. ' '
I was coining down to the bridge yes
terday in a Fulton Street car which was
nrettrwell tilled, and noticed a tall.
lanky individual, with solemn features
a Buffalo Hill hat who shot up from
his seat at the far end of the car and
bepnn making his way to the platform.
" "Where you goin .?"- called out his
companion, In evident alarm.-
; : 'Uoiiv to srtit," was the laconic re
sponse, and when he returned, every
woman in tne ear neamea approval.
TXBJUBUC MODERN 8HKLL8.
Frejectltee Tnat Work an Immense Amount
of Deetrnotlon.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Now that the thunder of the big guns
on the American battleships has awak
ened the echoes of the Cuban hills, it is
interesting to know something of their
destructive power. A number of the
ships now in Cuban waters have been
equipped at League Island, and Phila
delphia firmi have assisted in the equip
ment , - ; '
A firm in this city has supplied the
Brooklyn add the Minneapolis with
shells. The Brooklyn has been taking
part in the bombardment of the fortifi
cations, and was equipped to her full
capacity with explosive shells.
The Brooklyn carries eight 8-inch
breech-loading rifles, twelve 6-inch
rapid fire guns, twelve 6-pounders and
four l-pounders.
The projectiles used in the six and
eight inch guns are all explosive shells
carrying dynamite.
Each 6-inch shell tames twenty
pounds of dynamite, while 8-inch shell
carries nearly fifty pounds.
The Brooklyn was equipped with 824
8-inch shells and 688 5-inch shells.
The amount of explosive in these shells
therefore is the enormous quantity of
over 25,000 pounds of dynamite.
Notwithstanding the great destructive
force as represented by these shells, it is
entirely overshadowed by the shells of
the 13-inch guns of the Iowa and the
18-inch guns of the Indiana.
Each shell of the 13-incb guns on the
Indiana weighs 1,850 pounds unloaded
and can carry 175 pounds of dynamite.
When it is considered that the mine
which so completely wrecked the Maine
is believed to have contained not over
400 pounds of dynamite, and probably
not nearly so much, it can be readily
comprehended what destruction is
wrought by a shell from a thirteen-inch
gun which the American gunners can
so accurately place just where it will do
the most good.
The method by which these shells are
exploded differs very materially from
that employed several years ago.
The old form of shell exploded by a
fulminating cap on the extreme point of
the shell. If a shell of this description
struck a glancing blow it would not ex
plode. But the shells no in use are
exploded by retardation. By simply
passing through some light obstruction,
like' the body of a man, the shell will be
exploded. This effect is produced by
an inner mechanism which, when the
outer part of the shell is retarded by any
means plunges forward and explodes the
dynamite.
There is no dancer of an explosion in
the gun at the moment or discharge be
cause of the inner plunger being forced
backward instead of forward. The outer
surface of the shell is as finely turned
aud polished as that of an armor-piercing
solid shot By having no percus
sion cap sn the point it allows it to be
made nearly as One as the point or a
needle.
This perfect symmetry of the outer
surface means more than would appear
at first sight. The course of the pro
jectile through the air is more rapid
and accurate than that of the older
form. Its power of penetration is great-
and therefore more destruction is
wrought. A twelve or thirteen inch
shell exploding against the side of .even
the heavy armored battleships, as shown
by tests made at the proving grounds,
will crack and twist the plates and tear
them loose from their fastenings.
For armor-piercing purposes, how
ever, it has been found that solid shot
of small diameter as the most effective.
A ball from a six-pounder has pierced
thirteen inches of solid steel at a range
of a mile. The projectile was apparent
ly uninjured, its points being as sharp
as before the test
Clfnrette Money.
Greensboro Telegram.
The great hue and cry raisod in some
Quarters about Trinity College and uncle
Wash Duke's cigarette money .is getting
tiresome. It is not all strictly honest
and sincere, anyhow? Is not Trinity
College and not the cigarette money the
thing attacked, if not, why is not tne
gift of the Dukes to the orphan asylum
condemned in like manner? Why is
all the abuse and criticism heaped on
the gifts of Trinity? If it is not wrong
to raise orphans on cigarette money,
why is it wrong to educate young men
on it?
If it is wrong to educate young men
on cigarette money why is it not wrong
to educate the boys and girls in our
graded schools on liquor license money,
and why is there not a great wail of dis
tress raised about it? If Uncle Wash's
cigarette money is not fit to pay the
bills for the education of young men.
why should a liquor dealer's son be sd
mitted to a college and pay his bills out
of the drawer behind the barr ' u it
"blood money" and dangerous to the
institution, why is. it not dangerous
everywhere else and why is it not so
ocmdemnedf ::;y fS
There is a good deal of rot in all this
tirade of abuse and criticism. ; . Why
not, to say the least of it take the view
ones taken and expressed by itev, John
Tillett that consecrated man of God,
who felt it his duty to denounce the
liquor traffic, whioh he did in strong
and vigorous terms, it is related of bim
that in one town, where he was particu.
larly severe on the liquor tralBo a bar
keeper approached him on the street
one day and handing him a five-dollar
note, said: "Mr. Tillett, 'allow tne to
mke you a present of this.. five-dollar
bill; and, I want you to know that
rna ls it by selling liquor. "
lis evidently thought he had a good
joke on the preacher, but Uncle Tillett
was equal to tne emergency. As he
fo"od np tlvt bill he quietly" remarked
"All right t 'II lake it and pnt It to
good use; the devil has had ft long
enough."
THEODOBK V. KLCTTK.
Sketch of the Democratic Nominee for Con-1
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Correspoadence of the Charlotte Observer. I
Theodore Franklin Kluttz was born
in Salisbury, October 4th, 1848, His
father, Caleb Klutts, was of good Ger-
man extraction and was tor many years
snenn 01 -wwan county, cy me ueam
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resources, and developed then the sturdy
anif-raiianm which ia nne of his distin-
guishing characteristics. Entering the I
drug business of Henderson & Enmss
as a clerk in 1865, he bought out the
interest of Mr. Enniss in the business
At ia 1 J J a! J , l
inree yean later ana wunuea me urug
n I'm nw l no-f- mm- m inin Jtr m uimrva ad
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Having found the leisure and the means
.ur r. v-i..,.. . i.an -i 1
i inti hi. i;fi7n. -n-
the legal profession, and accordingly
began the study of law under the late
Hon. James M. McCorkle, with whom,
upon bis licensure by the Supreme I
3ourt he formed a partnership which I
ended only with the death of Mr. Mc
Corkle. Since that time Mr. Kluttx has
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icyuwuvu on hu (sai v vvcsjiu auu wuud.iui
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He enjoys a large and remunerative
practice at the bar at which he prao-
ticesandof his Drofessional brethren,
Mr.KlutU was in 1880 the Democratic
elector for the seventh district on the
Hancock ticket, and in his capacity of
elector made a thorough canvass of the
district. In 1882 he was the choice of
Rowan county for Congress in the Dem
ocratic congressional convention, but
withdrew his name in favor of Hon.
John S. Henderson, who was nominat
ed and elected.
It has been said of Mr. Kluttz that
no man in North Carolina mode more to be watched, for it matters not
reputation in tho campaign of 1896. what position he occupies, ho is not
He has always been an ardent advocate tho man to bo trustee!. It is sad,
of the free coinage of silver, and he but it is true, that the man who will
threw himself into that campaign with ,, , ' , . ,
great seal aud earnestness. In 1896 he soil himse f who values his man
was temporary chairman of the Demo- 8llttlc wllj lnJur?; m an nn-
cratic State convention at Raleigh and derhand way, and will be a party
as chairman made a speech which at- to the injury of an innocent man
traded wide-spread attention and much in order that he may gain tho posi-
favorable comment He was chosen a tion or popularity for which he
delegate to the Chicago convention, and
was elected chairman of the delegation.
At Chicago Mr. Kluttx probably did
more than any other man in the con
vention to secure Mr. Bryan's nomina
tion. As chairman of the North Caro
lina delegation, he seconded the nom
ination of Mr. Bryan in a brief speech,
which caught the ear of tho great con
vention and brought it, cheering, to its
feet. Upon his return to North Caro
linaj Mr. Kluttz was nominated for and
elected a Bryan elector. As elector, he
tU4MUg-.lj, aannu-J hie riiatrtC-w A t
the meeting of the electoral college
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..vnivj.gU) ill ifuuuai j , iu.i t iro bowiiuou I
the nomination of Bryan in a speech
which wm characterized aa 'brilliant.
eloquent and magnetic." In this
peech Mr. Kluttz was greatly applaud-1
ed when he said "1 would rather be
Bryan defeated than McKinley elected."
Although a very busy man, Mr.
Kluttz has found time to identify his
name with many enterprises for the de
velopment of the material resources of
bis section.
Pitiable People
Church and State.
Wo mean, of course, tho war be
tween tho North and tho South.
Lee surrendered to Grant more than
thirty-throe years ago, but not un
til this good month of June, 1898,
could it be truly said "the war is
over," because it was only the other
day that President McHinley signed
the bill which wiped out every residue
of disfranchisement on account of
tho war of secession. Were Jeffer
son Davis alive now he would be a
full fledged American citizen in
every sense. He eould vote and ex-
ercise evorv other privilege of snch
a citizen if we undorstand the late
enactment aright.
We have at last a re-united coun
try. A son of General Grant the
first, was made a general the other
day at Chickamauga and "sworn
in" by an ex-Confederate Georgian.
Ho again it is "Liee and Grant
in name as of old, hut "Lee and
Grant in the same grand Ameri
can army for the liberation of down
trodden Cuba. And more than
that, a grandson of General Grant
is now on General Lee a staff, and
rumor has it that General Grant's
widowed daughter is to wed an ex
Confederate soldier the last of the
staff of the immortal and invincible
Stonewall Jackson. So mote it be.
f'Genoral Grant," the son of his
father, and "General Lee"Fita-
hugh Lee the nephew of his uncle,
in the same great army to battle
for human freedom. Surely-and
God be praised we have a united
North and South.
Soaaay Battles.
Baltimore Ban.
Sunday as a day of fighting Is won -
uenuuy popwar. .not omy u past us -
JI .!- I kT A I a I
wry iuu m instances o. names rougnt
upon mat aayc. rest, out tne united
States and Bpain are making history
now, in which the; two most important out by k black man. In this connec
engogemento have taken place on Bnn- tion, The Wilmington Star declares that
nay. i -
It seems strange indeed, that the very
day mode sacred to the Prince or Peace
should so often be that on which war in
aiinsawiui power awaxe, and amid
tne tnunaer oi cannon, nurrys tnous-
ands or human beings to destruction.
Montijo was defeated in Manila bay on
on Hunday, and two months Inter Cer-
vera's ueet was blown to pieces
aanuago on tne same aay oi tne week.
It is a fearful thing to trifle with
luocrs cause.
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TUB war IS OVXB.
I Church and State.
We have a supremo pity for the
man who can wilfully get tho con-
sent of his mind to do an injury to
an innocent man, but oar jity is
increased when this man influences
another, one perhaps who ia weaker
thm himBeif 7to act as his tool iff
order that his object may bacccm-
pushed. At the final judgment the
sentence will be severe upon him
who has committed an unprovoked
Mniury against an innocent man,
but it will be more severe when he
has been the means of leading an-
- 0
otnor Mtray M an in hi work
M wrong-doing. And lor the man
1. i, j i v
1 who can be used as a tool we have
a ...
pity also, pity for his lack of mteg-
rity, and pity for his intellectual
weakness, for it is hard for ns to
imagine that a man of really strong
intellect could bo used in this
manner.
Another man whom we pity is
tho man wh0 .. tho
man who will sacrifice principle,
i i a 1 1 . m . .
mntinnnri vs.- t-hn an 1ta at ttAairiAn
f"1 "u D.""-D w p ,;
or popularity, inis man, too, tno
one wno will aciiDoraieiy son nim-
self, also evidences a weakness of
moral and intellectual power. Sure-
lv. no man of reallv well develoned
and weii cultured mind, and a heart
in which dwells the religion of
Jesus Christ could stoop so low as
to sell himself, bo literally bought
for tho sake of popularity or prefer
ment of any kind whatever. The
man who can be bought is the man
seeks.
All of these arc pitiable men, and
when we are forced to recognize
their presence it brings sadnc3s, but
such men are only to bo expected as
long as sin and unrighteousness
roign in the world. In Uod s word
arc to be found direct commands
against all forms of sin, and these
characters as well as many others
come under the direful command
and prediction in one, "Bo
suro
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lOUK ttB lUl.lBtrUC, WU1-I11BJ.UI-YU1,
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""'PT'.; J . "OTy
SUCh men and Will mctO It out in
tho time appointed. Tho just Judgo
of all the earth will do nght.
The Price of a Spring Hat
"Papa, will you please give me
fifty cents for my spring hat?"
said a sixteen-year-old girl when
preparing for school. "Most all
the academy girls have theirs."
JNo, May; I can t sparo tho
money, said tho latner in an in
different tono.
Tho disappointed girl wont to
school. The father started for his
place of business. On his way
thither ho mot a friond, and being
hail fellow well met, he invited
him into Mae's for a drink. As
usual, there wore others, and tho
man who could not spare his daugh
ter fifty cents for a hat, treated tho
crowd. When about to leave, ho
laid a half-dollar on the counter,
which just paid for tho drinks.
Just the saloon keeper's daughter
enterod and going the bar,
..m. . . .
"Papa, I want fifty cents for my
new spring hat."
"All right," said the doaler, and
taking up the half-dollar from the
counter handed it over to the girl,
who departed smiling. May's fath
er seemed daied, walked out alone,
and said to himself. :
J'l had to bring my fifty cents
hero for the rumsellor's daughter to
buy a hat with, after refusing it to
my own. I ll never drink another
drop.": And he kept his plodgo.
Philadelphia Methodist. , -
Kefrroea Im OSSeo. . -
Charlotte.Ubserver.
White, the negro Congressman from
the first district, in his speech at the
Republican convention, in Baleigh, said ,
among other things: -
"I am not the only negro who holds
offloe, ;Then , others. There are
plenty more being made to order to hold
offices. We are the most modest peo
ple in the world and don't hold as many ,
offices' as we will. I invite the issue'
' Ttia whit flMftl Al ftkjb flfftlM MM InlA
Ibv this neero office-holder that then
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1 will be more oi mom in omos and in
yites the issue.. We have fallen upon
evil days sure enough, when it comes
I to swallowing banters like this thrown
1 there are now more negroes In ol..oe in
North, Carolina than in any State in the
1 Union, and ur' -" Democracy triumphs
I in the next t n there will be. as
I White defiar ; lared i tut e. ,-h,
more of th' j, i la good many i
They bavto.'t .t made a LJr savt. It
remains for tuewhilo men of Kor'.h.
Carolina to S"y whether t'. a n- o's
oil imrident audacious threat is to le
I v&..ied.
Wo don't 1 o h'.no'f'w.l,
to do good. "-
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