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HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1S94. "
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The Republican Convention of the Seventh
District Names A. C. Shuford for Congress
Col. Walser Makes a Speech Prophecy
of a T.IJority of 4.000 for H enderson
Stat j;s villi:, Sept. 0. The Repub
lican congressional convention was
held at Statesville to-day and A. C.
Shuford, of Catawba county, was
nominated for.Congres. Zeb V. "Walser,
af Davidson, was permanent chairman
and made a speech, paying his respects
td the Charlotte Observer and the
Ralegh Fews and Observer. He said
'before the Republican convention in
"Italeigh Brother Caldwell was writing
i great deal about the nigger; now
Brother Caldwell calls them the broth
er colored man. In writing of the
Republicans the Observer berates
them because they forsake their prin
ciples, while the cry has always been
heretofore that they had no principles.
Mr. Wals-jr, in alluding to the? confus
ion, that lie evidently knew was about
to take place, said the Reps, have
their' platform and their principles; the
Pops, have their platform and their
principle.--, but in this light let us go to
them and them come to us, laying
aside both idat forms and principles in
the common determination to beat the
Democratic lion.
)lr. Walser spoke for nearly one
, hour, after which he requested Mr.
T Ja:nes MeGuire to act as secretary.
Mr. MeGuire could not. be found.
Your correspondent remembered the
last time he heard from Mr. MeGuire
was a telegram sent to Dr. D. Kim
brough at Mocksville stating that the
said MeGuire had been shot. The doc
tor hurriedly wired back to know
where he was shot and the answer,
equal 1;.' as quick, replied he had been
shot in two miles of Jones' distillery.
This was about two years ago. How
ever, he did not turn up today, and
Mr. J. E. Colvert acted as secretary.
Mr. Z. T. Rutledge, of Yadkin, off
ered a resolution which read about as
follows:
"Resolved, that, in order to secure a
free ballot and a fair count, we do now
unanimously nominate A. C. Shu ford,
of Catawba, for Congress."
The ayes and noes seemed to be
equally divided not more than four
votes on each side. The chair declared
v the resolution adopted without objec
tion. W. F. Henderson, of Davidson,
moved that the present congressional
committee be re elected, which was
done by two votes.
Mr. Sigmon was in attendance. He
was asked what he thought of the
News and Observer's article on his un
fortunate name, and he replied "that
Mr. Link, at Hickory, was to blame for
the w hole matter." He was asked if
he cared to offer anything for publica
tion in regard to his name and said he
did not, as they were all vastly ignor
ant as to the matter and he would not
enlighten them. The newspapers
were helping him in his canvass
against Wilfong, he said. He had met
Wilfong once and just devoured him,
so much so that the Democrats of
Catawba wanted him to consent for
Wilfong to withdraw and substitute
M. O. Sherrill in his place.
Mr. Walser was seen after the con
vention and asked what he thought of
Shuford's chances. He replied that in
his county the Rads. would vote for
Shu ford if the Pops, voted for the Re
publican county ticket. The Pops,
would be watched, and if they did not
so vote the Rads. wquUI not vote for
Shu foul. 1 1 e said he would beat Raper
for solicitor COO votes in Davidson. He
also claimed amongst quite a crowd
-that had gathered round, that the
turn-coat editor of the Davidson Dis
patch, Frank Robbins. and Raper had
changed Davidson county sentiment
to John Henderson, through the
finesse of Hen Long, who visited Lex
ington several weeks before Long came
out for judge. 'It "any body was to
say that he saw the telegrams to and
from Washington in regard to the
matter, he would say. they lied. He
said he sat quietly in his office, right
near, and saw the whole thing hatched
while he waited for clients that never
came. A by-stander intimated to him
that he was falling on some one
present. He replied he did not know
the gentleman around him and would
be afraid to make the above statement
from the stump in,Iredell.
..L C. Caldwell was asked what he
thought of the convention. He re
plied: It means 4.000 majoritv for
Henderson.
Geo. 11. Brown, Republican, in an
swer to the same question stated that
it reminded him of a bar that fero
ciously invaded the quiet home of a
mountaineer in the county of Wilkes.
The husband quickly ran up the lad
der to the loft, but Sally stood her
ground and killed the bar. The hus
band finding the bar dead, ;ame down
and said, "Sally, ain't we braved He
thought his crowd would follow the
example of the husband. Charlotte
Observer 7th.
The Gold Bus's Friend.
Communicated
As all three parties in this State are
now committed to the free coinage of
silver, or an increase of the currency,
I ask them to "look on this picture
and then on that.'
BlMETALLI.-.T.
From the News cc
Observer of Sep.
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Ransom.
New York, feels
kindly toward
our Senator and
wants hun reelected.
Special Cor. News
ami Observer.
New York, Aug. CI
There are a few
Southern Senato
rial contests in
which the New
York Democracy
is particularly in
terested; chief of
these is Senator
Ransom's fight
for re-election.
New York feels
very -kindly to
wards Senator
Ransom because
of his manly light
in the early ses
sion of the Con
gress just expired
for the repeal of
the purchase
clause of the Sher
man law.
r From Letter of Z.
' B. VANCKinthe
j Charlotte Ob-
server," July
j 2i), ibu-;.
j "In opposing tiie
repeal oi the Sher
j man law without
some substitute
preserving the use
j and coinage cfsil
I ver, 1 am square-
ly with the party,
j and those who fa
; vor unconditional
repeal are not
j with it. but are vi-
olating its solemn
j pledges.
"The professed
friend ot silver
who will favor the
unconditional re
peal of the Sher
man law t ru s i ng
to the justice of
capital or the
chapter of acci
dents to get favor
able legislation
thereafter, is ei
ther a traitor or a
fool.t"
Z. B.Vaxck.
The Rise in ihe Pries of Wool.
We are already beginning to see that
free wool is going to do for woolen
manufactures in this country - what
free raw silk has done for the silk
manufacture and free hides for the
boot and shoe industry. The woolen
manufacturers aro preparing for a bet
ter business than they have known in
years, and are already setting up ma
chinery for weaving grades of cloth
which never before could be made in
this country on account of the pro-
hibitory duties on the wool necessarj'
to make them. At the same time, the
price of American wool is advancing
it has gone up something like 50 per
cent, within the last sixty days. This
is the simple business fact which is too
much for the arithmetic of those who
dwell in the shadow of McKinley and
Tom Reed. New York Evening Post.
Nothing to Fight For.
For the alleged purpose of illustrat
ing how "the women of the South
helped along the war," an officer de
scribes in the Grand Rapids Eagle, a
scene of which he was an amused eye
witness. A gang of "Sherman's bum
mers, "he said, had captured a planta
tion on which were many hens and
chickens.
They wrung the necks of the chick
ens and then proceeded to gather the
eggs, all the while laughing at the
angry lady of the house. Just then
some Confederate cavalrymen came
down on a charge. The Union boys
retreated a short di&tanc?, and made
hurried preparations for a fight.
The woman rode up to the Confeder
ate officer in command, and declared
that she wished to help whip the
yankees.
"Very good," said he. Get up on
the fence and holler at them."
The woman, dead in tamest mount
ed the fence, shook her list, and
shouted: "Oh, you miserable yan
kees! You have taken every 'chicken
on the placeT ' '
"What's that i" demanded the officer.
"Taken all the chickens? Then there
is nothing left worth fighting for."
With that he rode away, leaving the
woman oii the top of the fence, shak
ing her fist at the yankees and calling
them names.
The student-roll , at Chapel Hill
numbers 44$, as follows: New students
ICO, old students 207, summer law
students 40, summer school of Geology,
Biology and Pedagogy C2. Total 448.
Hickory's Political Doings.
The Democrats of Hickory town
ship organized a Democratic club
Monday night officered as follows: J.
D. Elliott, President; L. C. Huffman,
J. W. Mowser, J. G. Hall, Reuben
Propst, E. L. Shuford, L. C. Turner,
Vice-Presidents; A. C. Link, Secretary.
Canvassing committee: David With
erspoon, C. II. Cline, A. H. Crowell,
Thos. Gibson, Frank Loughran, J. A.
Whitener, Joel Miller, A. PSigmon,
David W. Huffman, Julius'P. Huff
man, D. E. Hawn and Sidney White
ner
The club is composed largely of the
best citizens of the vicinage, and, when
the organization was completed, Mr.
WT. A. Self was introduced by the
president to the audience that had
assembled in the Opera House to hear
a speech from Senator Ransom, and
did superbly in an impromptu effort
to entertain the people until the ar
rival of the distinguished orator of the
evening. He closed his address but a
few moments before the arrival of
Senator Ransom, who entered the
Opera House under the escort of a
committee of prominent citizens.
As soon as the Senator's pre'sence
was discovered, a genuine rebel yell
greeted him and was continued until
Col. J. G. Hall, who had been selected
to introduce the visitor, motioned for
silence. Instantly the tumultuous,
"rip roaring' assemblage became silent,
and Col. Hall in an impassioned, elo
quent speech, said by himself to bo
the greatest effort of his life, occupy
ing only about two minutes time, in
troduced General Ransom to the
Democrats of Catawba county.
The aged Democratic gladiator most
skillfully ingratiated himself into
favor with his auditors by substantial
compliments, applied with the grace
of a Chesterfield, and then took up
the discussion of the political prob
lems now attract public attention,
vindicating the fidelity of the Demo
cratic party from the noisy aspersions
of thoughtless men. He estimated
the yearly savings to the people un
der the new tariff bill at not less than
$730,000,000; stated that the Cleveland
administration has in the matter of
retrenchment alone effected a saving
of 41,000,000 the-past year, restored
peace and contentment to the South,
shattered the protected trusts and
syndicates of McKinley ism; placed the
burdens of taxation on the capitalist
?s well as the poor man; restored free
dom of eletions; placed tho transac
tions of the government upon a busi
ness basis, and as Moses led the Israel
ites triumphantly from Egyptian
bondage into a land of plenty, he
affirmed Democracy, if patriotically
sustained, as he knew it would be
would shortly lift from the business of
the country the financial paralysis
brought upon it by Republican legis
lation. The Western North Carolina Division.
The Railroad Commissioners have
abrogated the special tariff rate for
freight allowed from Salisbury to
Paint Rock. Argument against it
was to have been heard by the Rail
road Commission at Raleigh yesterday.
Also against the discontinuance of
Sandy Bottom as a station. If not
identified with the sinnamon seed in
dustry in some way the little town
will have to haul in their poles and
stop the growth.
In this connection it may also be
stated the Southern Railway people
think as much of the Western North
Carolina Division of the system as of
any part of the entire road. That it
is one of the best paying parts of the
road in the whole business; and that
it is 'or will be a trunk line for freight
and pasuger trafic Still, in order
to make it sj t tit rsjuiheru Railway
will Ua v. to act tt little arbitrary and
selfish and probably have to iay a
differential for the long haul. So the
W. N. C. mad would not be inheren
tly the intrinsic earning capacity as
the :rrf.:- thu arbitrarily taken
w.iili i;.Ii"ate. Besides, the Southern
Railway :u Steamship Association
may ruive so.?tiiirig to say as to ,the
differential ?n this account and thus
make the nt earnings different from
wha they appear to be
Senators Jarvls an J Ransom have en
tered upon their contest foche United
States Senate. It will be a gladitoiial
contest that will attract attention from
every section of the Union.
About the Record Breaker.
Robert J., the little knocked-knecd,
unganily gelding that upset all har
ness records in his race with Joe
Patchen at Indianapolis was bred at
WJlliarnsport, Pa,, sired by Hartford,
a son of Harold (sire of Maud S.), out
of Geraldine, by Jay Gould. nis
blood line3 entitle him to -all thes peed
and endurance he carries. There is a
story connected with him that illus
trates the shrewd horse sense of his
driver, Ed Geers, as well as Hamlin's
confidence in Geers' judgment. At
the New York spring meeting in 1802
Glendennis was the Village Farm en
try in a pacing race. He had won a
heat, but was terribly distressed, hav
ing been given a red-hot race by Rob
ert J., then an unknown quanity.
Mr. Hamlin told Geers to win the ra?e
if he had to kill Glendennis to do it,
whereupon the "silent man" from
Tennessee quickly replied: -"While I
am killing him you go and buy Rob
ert J." In less time than it takes to
tell it the future record-breaker be
longed to C. J. Hamlin. It is Robert
J.'s wonderful edurance that has en
abled him to accomplish the great
tasks that have been set for him. Ho
has done his part toward making the
season of '94 eclipse all others, and if
little Alix will just clip one second
from her present record of 2:01 'J-4-and
she will probably do it there will be
few of the old marks left at new vear.
William K. Polk says, in his life of
Bishop Polk, that when Lafayette, in
1824. made , his memorable tour
through the United States, many
amusing incidents accompanied his
passage through North Carolina. At
the reception near the North Carolina
line there was a great company and
much confusion as well as noise.
Recognizing an' old acquaintance,
Lafayette greeted him with effusion.
"Ah, my dear friend, so glad to see
you once more! Hope you have pros
pered and had good fortune these
years."
"Yes, general, yes; but I have had
the great misfortune to lose' my wife
since 1 saw you."
Catching the word 44 vife" Lafayette
guessed at the idea of a recent mar
riage, and, patting his old friend affec
tionately on the shoulder, he- ex
claimed: "Happy man! happy man!"
A railroad man was heard to say last
night that it was only a matter of a
week or so when trains would ruoi
through from Asheville to Knoxville
instead of stopping and transferring at
Paint Rock. The joint agency and ex
tra change point at that place has been
abolished to save expenses. The rail
road man said the little station of
Paint Rock, which was sustained by
these two roads meeting there, would
now sink out of sight and be only a
flag station, and not even that for
through trains like the big vestibules
the road proposes to put on.
ville Tribune.
-Knor-
The politics and policy of the Demo
crats" of. this 'neck of the v.ooa? will
not be manipulated and dictated no:n
Washington. They propose to dj ho me
of the dictating to YtTashiugton. The
election in this State will meet with
surer success by the Drmoemlic party
by being canvassed on the State
Democratic platform and being strict
ly adhered to by all 'parties.
A Boy of tha Legion.
AsoMierofth Legion lay dying of his iHwrs.
Tcere was lack of woman' watcljn. them wjls
lack of wo xaa tears; i
Dat a sorarade knelt Ufttdefclin. la a bored
and weary way.
And akd that be would ham himself with
what he had to say.
"When you see my darling ulster." call tt
oldir faint and low.
"Give my poker chips onto hr. he'a right
In it now. you know;
GiTa her also lay stirr collar, and my latest
four-ln-hand.
Yon can bet your bottom dollar that h
marches with the band.
To another girl, far dearer, mak this plt-
ons appeal, -
That she will discard her bloomers when she
goes oat on her wheel;
Take my .Sunday breeches to her, !et her wear
thera, for I tow.
Had we lived but to be n.arriol she'd have
worn them anyhow."
Then th solditr of the Ivgrion pasel away
. from earthly woea.
And the angel. When .they saw hl:a, crleJ.
"Great Seot! where are your cloth?."
Louisville Tln.-s.
UNCLG SAM IN A DOUBLE ROLE.- .
Protecting Chinese Subjects In Japan and
Japanese in Chins.
The acquiescence of the United
States in the request of both combat
ants in the Eastern struggle to stand
by as mutual friend to each, whicll
was mentioned in dispatches at , the
outbreak of hostilities, has now assum
ed delin ite official shape. The State
Department has directed all diplomatic
and consular officers in those countries
to use their friendly offices in the pro
tection of Chinese subjects in Japan
and Japanese subjects in China, In
struction giving the scope of the pro
tection to be afforded have been sent
to these officers.
Consul Jernigan (of N. C.) has al
ready been called upon in a case in
China and caused a big diplomatic
flurry.
Simple ricthodsof Cheeking Asthma.
Not very long, ago a foreign physi
cian recommended a very ,pleasant
and effective means of curing fchort
colds in the head and chest. His rem
edy was simply cologne waterf fifty
drops of which are inhaled four or five
times a day by the inoqth and nose.
The Herald's European edition now
publishes a very simple method of
checking asthma, by the use of a pow
der, which acts in the same way as col
ogne water. The formula is:
Powdered Btiaff - - - - 5 grammes.
Camphor - ... - 5 jrammee.
Menthol - - - - - 0. 15 eentigT.
Another method of checking asthma
noticed favorably by our foreign med
ical correspondent, is by rythmical
tractions of the tongue made by the
patients themselves when they feel
that vn attack is coming on. He says:
The tractions of tbe tongoe madf with tha
hand covered with a handkerchief eighteen to
twenty tim a minute. Imitating the respira
tory riiy thm by an in and oat movement, res
tores breathing, and may; check the attack.
The traction made by an aistant may alo
befo'jnd eScacioas daring the utrangnlatory
period of the at ta:k Xew York Herald.
In McClure'sfor October Dr. d
ward S. HoUlen, director of the Lkk
Observatory, will considerthe Reecnt
Advances in Our Knowledge of the
Moon's Surface," and nccompanyix.-g
the article will be reproductions of the
latest photographs of different parts
of the moon. m l
Oh, you can just bet she's coming
The first result of the flapping together
of the two wings of Colorado Dem
ocracy was the placing of two women
on the State .ticket. -.Diked out in
bloomers and mounted on bikes, it is
gold dollars to nickle cents that she gets
therein the finish with both feet!
Big Revenue lSeceipU.
a
The returns from internal revenue
since the new tiriff law took effect,
August 28, have aggregated $1,870,000,
indicating pito(X),Q00 for the month of
September. Internal revenue receipts
are keeping up higher than was an
ticipated. Receipts from custom dues
since the new tariff bill went into ef
fect, August 28, have averaged, so far,
nearly l,rjO,jO a day. ?
The Southern Magazine forSeptembr
publhht d at Louisville, KyM contain
a number of excellent articles. This
publication Is increasing its popularity
evry month. It should reach evry
Southern home.
When a man begins to feel better
than his party he at the fame time be
gins to feel like holding office for life.
This may not be intendeJ reference
to anybody hereabouts, but it fits
someeody might close, jui .the taiue.
Wahsiugton Post.
Wliat lias got into the Willies The
three great leaders of ihe scandal pro
cession are Willie Breackinridge, Willie
A'anderbilt and Willie Stewart.
The Southern- developmentmore--ment
should not be ollowded to pause
at the oratorical stage.
The least 31 r. Vanderbilt can do U to
make a few speeches in Mr. Broekin
ridge's district.
The Vermont bheep and the Ver
mont maple sugar makers sem to
have turned out at the polls.
The average polit ieian will do a great
many queer things when he U engaged
in courting the labor vote. '
Hickory Male Academy.
The present term of this Academy
opens lionday Sept. Srd, lL- A first
class Primary and Classical eour
will be taught. Terms of tuition rea
sonable. Patronage solicited.
J. W. GOODMAS.
Principal.