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VOLUME 26.
HICKORY TO DENVER
i Very Interesting Letter From
Our Well Known and Popu
lar Hickory Druggist.
A. PHARMACEUTICAL ASSN.j
Mr. Roter and His Wife Will Take It Leis
urely Coming Home To Stop Over at
Several Places.
Pknvkr, Col., Aug. 14, 1895.
Deak Colonel: As requested I
ill try and write a few lines, to give
vou a hurried description of our trip
West.
From Hickory to Knoiville, it was
a very fatiguing, 'hot ride. At Knox
ville we took a sleeper to Nashville,
via Chattanooga. There we met the
". C. delegation and several other A.
Ph. A. from the South. From Nash
ville to St. Louis we passed through
some of the finest country I - ever saw,
almost one continuous corn field.
Large, prosperous towns at nearly ev
ery station. At St. Louis we were
ushered into the largest and handsom
est depot in the United States, costing
several millions. The run from St.
Louislo Kansas City was at night, so
we could see nothing of the country.
At Kansas City we were met by a
delegation of Kansas City druggists
who took charge of the A. Ph. A. and
gave us a ride over the city. There
we were given a special vestibule train
to Denver, our party numbering now
nearly two hundred. The refreshment
ear was well supplied with good ice
cold beer and other things. At Law
rence, the historic city of the State,
we were welcomed by the prominent
citizens of the city, and the students
from the Haskell school for Indians,
numbering about five hundred. An
Indian graduate of the school made a
very good address, giving a description
of the school. Our next stop was To
eka, the capital. Here we were wel
comed by the mayor and Topeka drug
gists, mil our refreshment car was re
plenished with inelousand fruit. The
next stop was Emporia. Here we were
nu t with carriages and driven over the
city. v -
Night overtakes us and when we
awake we find ourselves in Colorado.
Th re we see nothing but prairies for
miles, the country being very thinly
settled. At Colorado Springs our
train was sidetracked for tenor twelve
hours, giving us time for seeing Colo
rati . Springs, Colorado City, Manitou
Springs,' and trip up Pike's Peak on a
C"g railway. The altitude is about
IVhh, uvt, most of the party were af
fected by the rarilied air. It was
very cold on the Peak, snow in many
pla t N and extremely hot below. At
liight . we took our sleepers for Denver,
;uu!. remained on them until about
stu a oVloek when we found ourselves
at our destination.
The Brown Palace Hotel is the head-piaru-rs
for the A. Ph. A's and is one
-'' tlu handsomest in the United
Mat, . The local druggists here have
a very pleasant programme mapped
out f..r our entertainment. The Gov
ernor of the State and mayor of the
' ity made addresses of welcome at our
opening meeting. We will probably
leave hero in three or four days, in the
hrt -tion of home, stopping en'route
several places of interest. With
kindest regards to yourself and all in
Hu-u, ry, 1 remain, vours truly. ,
O. if. R.
That Knitting Mill.
a i Ktiui, X. C, August 1G.--The
luting min at Valdese, the Walden-
Si;tii : svt t lein inf in WnrL-rt rrn ntv lms
1 1,.,-. I ,
purchased And will be removed
t.N.utin, where the plant .will be
iar-ed."
Did Vou Ever Think
1 hat you cannot be well unless you
' uv pure, rich blood? If vou are
:"tK' tired, languid and all run down,
because vnnr 1-1vrw1 is itnr-u-T-ai-
plied and lacks vitality. These trou
may be overcome bv Hood's Sar-
l anlla because HoodTs Sarsaparilla
Jues pure rich blood. It is, in truth
great blood purifier.
Hood's Pills cure liver ills, constipa
on biliousness, jaundice, sick head
ue, indigestion.
HICKORY, NORTH
the qolo output.
Here Is the Way the Newspapers Hump Then
Up ia Colorado on the Gold Idea.
Sunday night we received the Den
ver, Col,, Republican of the 15th from
Mr. O. M. Roystef. The paper is
Democratic and is very enthusiastic
for tho free coinage of silver. Here is
one of its editorials:
It is a common estimate that Colora
do's gold output this year will amount
to about $15,000,000. It might have
been made $20,000,000, and even yet it
would not be diffcult to lift it close to
the latter figure. If California's out
put should be no greater than it was
last year, $15,000,000 would place Col
orado in the lead of the gold produc
ing States. It is probable, though
that the output of California will be
increased over what it was in 1894, and
so it is doubtful if this State will take
the first place.
It would be a great feather in Colo
rado's cap if it should outstrip Califor
nia as a gold State. It would set peo
ple all over the world to talking about
it, more especially because California
has been looked upon as the queen of
gold producers. Nothing would go
farther to convince the world that
Colorado has great wealth in gold, and
nothing would have a more powerful
effect upon investments of Eastern
and European capital.
This prize was within the reach of
the people of Colorado on the first of
last January and even yet it may be
secured, but it must be admitted that
the chances are not as good as they
might be. Cripple Creek will make a
fine showing, but even it will not be
what it should be considering Colora
do's desire to outstrip California. The
Independence mine alone, if worked,
to its full capacity during the remain
der of the year, could add very not
ably to the product of that camp. At
present it is not being worked very
vigorously. The owners of such mines
as the Little Johnny and the Indepen
dence could help the State very mater
ially by putting on large forces of men
and enlarging the output. There are
four and a half months of this year
left, and during that time an enormous
amount of ore could be produced from
the two mines named. The advantage
of outstripping California is a prize of
such great value and so much to be
desired for the general benefit of the
State, that it is" hoped the owners of
valuable properties will work them
vigorously and thus swell the total
output.
HERE IS A STARTLER.
Appointment of Ransom, Minister to Hexico
illegal.
Washington, August 16 Acting
Attorney General Conrad decided to
day that the appointment of Hon.
Matt W.-Ransom as minister to Mexico
was illegal on the ground that the
salary of the office had been increased
by congress, 5,000, while Mr. Ransom
was a Senator from North Carolina.
The decision was based on a ques
tion raised by Auditor Holcomb, in
declining to pass favorably on Mr.
Ransom's vouchers for salary, and ex
penses. He has been paid up to the
1st of June, the salary being $17,500.
per annum.
Sent it to His Mother in Germany.
Mr. Jacob Esbensen, who is in the
employ of the Chicago Lumber Co.,
at Des Moines, Iowa, says: "I have
just sent some medicine back to my
old country, that I know from jer
sonal use to be the best medicine in
the world for rheumatism, having
used it in my family for several years.
It is called Chamberlain's Pain Jtalm.
It alwavs does the work." 50 cent
bottles "for sale by O. M. Royster,
Druggist:
Emanuel Fisher's Arm Broken.
Monday morning Mr. and Mrs.
Emanuel Fisher came in from the
Catawba River Lumber Compauy
mill, to get supplies for the week.
They were through trading and were
getting in the wagon to start home.
John Sigmou, Abernethy and Whiten
ess driver. started the horse. Mr. Fill
er became overbalanced and fell back
out of the wagon to the ground break
ing his arm. He was carried into Ab
ernethy and Whitener's store and Drs.
Abernethy and Whitesides splintered
his arm. Mr. Fisher is night watch
man at the Catawba River Lumber
Co's., mill and is a good steady hand.
He was taken home in the afternoon.
CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1895.
ADDRERS TO THE PEOPLE!
FREE SILVER DEMOCRATS
THEIR WORK.
COnPLETE
The
Document Waa Issued to the
Ceun-
. try to Wake Up the Forces
of Sliver.
The great silver, bi-metallic conven
tion which met at Washington last
week adopted the following Address
to the people of the United States.
Speeches were also made by Senator
Call, A. A. Lipscomb, of Washington;
J. M. . Hill of Missouri, Representa
tives Jones of Virginia and Lockhart
of North Carolina and Mr. Bodine of
Missouri.
It was almost twelve o'clock when
the committee on resolutions filed into
the conference room and Senator Dan
iel was recognized to make the report
of the committee's proceedings. This
was divided into two sections, one
consisting of an address to the Demo
crats and the other of a plan of organ
ization. He said the address in most
respects was the same as that adopted
by the Democrats of Texas, Missouri
and Mississippi. The address was
read by Gov. Stone of Missouri.
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.
The address in full is as follows:
At a conference between a number
of Democrats from different States
who attended the non-partisan con
vention recently assembled at Mem
phis, Tenn., for the purpose of pro
moting the cause of free silver coinage,
which conference was held after the
adjournment of the convention, a
committee consisting of Senators
Jones, of Arkansas; Turpie, of Indi
ana, and Harris, of Tennessee, was ap
pointed and authorized to invite re
presentative Democrats from, the sev
eral States to meet them at Washing
ton for consultation with the view of
securing co-operation and concert of
action among those Democrats
throughout the union who believe in
adhering to the cardinal Democratic
policy of actual bi-metallism, and who
are opposed to committing the party
to the plutocratic doctrine of gold
monometallism. The present confer
ence is the result of action then taken.
This is purely a voluntary assemblage
and therefore ' does not assume to
speak with party authority.
Disclaiming all right to bind any
person by our utterances, but pro
foundly conscious that the Democratic
party today confronts a crisis the most
momentous in its history and fraught
with far reaching perils to the people
and the country, we are assembled as
individual Democrats to take council
together and for the undisguised pur
pose of inaugurating and promoting a
thorough and systematic organization
of the Democratic masses, so that
they may go forward as one man with
a resolute purpose to rescue the old
party founded by Thomas Jefferson
from plutocratic domination. There
fore with this oject in view, this
convention of American Democrats
composed of representatives of twenty-four
of the leading States of the
union make the following declaration
which has been forced into the leading
place among the issues of today. The
Federal constitution names silver and
gold together as the monetary metal
of the L'nited States. The first coin
age law passed by Congress under the
constitution made the silver dollar the
unit of value and admitted gold to
free coinage at a ratio measured by
the silver dollar unit.
From the beginning of the govern
ment following a policy formulated by
Thomas Jefferson and finally estab
lished by Jackson, the Democratic
party has been the party ot bimetall
ism, "favoring the free coinage of both
silver and gold at the national mints
and opiosing the farming out to
banking corporations of the govern
ments sovereign power of issuing and
controlling the money of the people.
The act of demonetizing silver
was surreptitiously passed without
the approval or knowledge of the
American people from the time when
the effect of this act in fastening upon
this country the idngle gold standard
was understood, the Democratic party
has consistently and ' persistly urged
that the grievous wrong be righted.
Failure to accomplish this object has
resulted in the steady apjireciation of
gold and a corresponding fall in the
price of commodities produced by the
people. A heavy increase in the" bur
den of all debts," public and private:
the enrichment ot the money lending
class; tiralis of industry and ttie
improvement of the jeop!e and unex
ampled distress in all gold standard
countries. , Experience has shown. that
while under the single gold standard
there may be an occasional revival of
business activity accompanied by en
hanced prices ot a limited number of
commodities.. such revival is due toar
titicial and temporary causes and can
not -permanently alleviate the suffer
ings due to the falling of prices
brought about by t lie appreciation of
gold ami the inadequate supply of
primary or redemption money.
The rights of the American people,
the mterets of American labor and
tlie projerity ol American industry a
higher claim to the consideration of
the ieople" law makers than the
greed of foreign creditors or the avari
cious demands by idle holders of idle
capital. The right to regulate its own
people is a right which no free gov
ernment can barter, sell or surrender.
This reserved right is a part of every
bond, of every contract and of every
obligation. No creditor or claimant
can set up a right that can take pre
cedence over a nation's obligation to
promote the welfare of the masses of
its own people. This is a debt higher
and more binding than all other debts
and one that is not only dishonest but
treasonable to ignore. .
The land and its products are the
basis of all development and prosper
ity. The productive capacity of a
country must be the basis of its credit.
In opposing the policy of contraction
which must inevitably further depre
ciate the value of land and its pro
ducts we are the supporters of proper
ty rights and sound credit and stand
between the homes and estates of the
people and the red flag of auctioners.
The policy of gold monometallism has
been characterized by repeated and
disastrous financial panics. The farm
ers have found their prosperity and
independence constantly waning un-
der its blighting influence. Manu
facturers are interested to oppose it
for they find the prices of sale falling
below the production. Merchants
should oppose it for with falling prices
they are often compelled to sell for
less than they paid for manufactured
goods. Neither manufacturer nor
merchant can prosper unless the mass
of consumers realize such prices for
their product and labor as to supply
themselves liberally with the necessi
ties and luxuries of life, nor can the
wage earner prosper, for under de
pressed conditions there is less compe
tition for his labor.
The Democratic party is the tradi
tional friend and champion of bi-metallism.
Its strength and power and
popularity has been largely built
upon its steadfast opposition to the
demonetization of silver and its record
of unwearied effect to restoreit to its
historic place as a full money' equal
with gold. The effort at this late day
to make it par excellence the cham
pion of gold monometallism, the en
emy of the policy it has npheld and
the defender of the crime it has de
nounced, is an effort to dishonor its
record, its promises and its principles.
The moment the Democratic party
is forced into this position it heaps
obloquy on its own part and crowns its
great adversary with glory and honor.
Duty to the people requires that
the party of the people continue the
battle for bimetallism until its efforts
are crowned with success, therefore,
be it. . .
Resolved, That the Democratic par
ty in national convention assembled
should demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold into primary
or redemption money at the ratio of 10
to 1, without waiting for the action or
approval of any other nation.
Resolved, second, That it should de
clare its irrevocable opposition to the
substitution for a metallic money of a
panic breeding, corporation credit cur
rency, based on a single metal the sup
ply of which is so limited that it can
be" cornered at any time by a few
banking institutions in Europe and
America.
Resolved, Third. That it should de
clare its opposition to the policy and
practice of surrendering to the holders
of the obligations of the United States,
the option reserved by the lot of the
government redeeming such obliga
tions in either silver coin or gold coin.
Resolved, further, That it should
declare its opposition to the issuing of
interest bearing bonds of the United
States in timcof peace and especially
to placing the treasury of the govern
ment under the control of any sjndi
cate of bankers and the issuance of
bonds to be sold by them at an enor
mous profit for the purpose of supply
ing the Federal treasury with gold to
maintain the policj of gold monomet
allism. With a view to securing the adher
ence to and re-adoption of the Demo
cratic financial jKliey above set forth
by the Democratic national conveti
tion to be assembled in lsIi and of the
nomination of a candidate for the
presidency well known to be-in hearty
sympathy therewith we hereby pledge
our mutual co operation and urgently
recommend to our Democratic breth
ren in all the States to at ..cc b"jiii
and vigorously and syT-:.,jti,'ally
prosecute the work of a 1 1 1 -irli or
ganization and to t hi end the adop
tion of the plan or org-inii'- heie
with submitted is recommended.
The part of the report dealing with
the plan of organization ulove re
ferred to was read ex-Senator Jarvis
of North Carolina, and is as follows:
Believing that a large majority of
the Democratic voters of the United
States in harmony with the senti
ments expressed in the foregoing ad
dress ami knowing that a full and free
expression of their views can only be
ascertained and made effective
through properly organized effort,
we recommend the following plan for
such organization:
First, There shall be a national com
mittee of Democrats who are in favor
of both silver and gold as the money
of the constitution which shall be
composed of one Democrat from each
State and Territory and the District
of Columbia and the executive com
mittee of Democrats who are in favor
of both silver and gold as the money
of the constitution which shall be
eomiosed of one Democrat from each
State and Territory and the District
of Columbia and the executive com
mittee hereinafter provided for.
Second, That until otherwise order
ed by the national committee. Sena
tors "I tham ft. Harris, of Tennessee
James It. Jones, of Arkansas,
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and
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David Turpie, of Indiana, and Hon.
W. J. Stone, of Missouri, W. H. Uein
richsen, of Illinois, and Casey Young,
of Tennessee, be and they are hereby
constituted the executive committee
and shall have fall power and author
ity and it shall be their duty at as
early a day as possible to appoint the
members of the national committee
herein provided for and to fill vacan
cies In the same.
Third, That said national committee
shall have full control and direction of
the patriotic effort of the bimetallic
democracy of the nation to secure. In
the next national Democratic conven
tion the maintenance of these time
honored principles and policies of the
Democratic party and with the na
tional committee herein provided for
is not in session, the executive com
mittee shall have all the authority and
discharge of all the duties conferred
upon the national committee.
Fourth, It shall be the duty of the
members of the national committee
from each State, immediately, after
his appointment, to take such steps as
he may deem best to organize the bi
metallic forces of his State in each
county and election precinct of each
State bimetallic clubs be organized,
and for this purpose he may appoint
such committees and sub-committees
and canvassers as he may deem best.
5. That fully realizing the fact that
this nor any other plan of organiza
tion can be successful without the
hearty co-operation of the voters
themselves, we urge upon every voter
in every State in the Union who Is In
sympathy with their movement and
who wishes to restore permanent
fro8perity to his home and country to
end his aid and influence to perfect
ing this organization and that each of
them shall enroll himself in some club.
The report of the committee was
adopted without opposition, and after
listening to a few brief speeches, the
conrerence aajournea sine aie. senator
Daniel made the last speech of the
meeting.
He said: "I will only say that I am
a Democrat, I could not help being
for the solid, honest and ancient sil
ver and gold money of the Democra
tic party. The party of the people
must stand for the money of the peo
ple, and whom God hath joined to
gether plutocracy shall not put asun
der." Brave Soldiers.
Last week Col. Osborne aad Major.
Weston, formerly brave Confedarate
officers who were 'shot all to pieces'
in battle, but who are now peaceful
Episcopal parsons, were in attendance
upon tho Episcopal Convocation In
Lenoir. Colonel Osborne is the be
loved Superintendent of the Orphan
Asylum in Charlotte. Major Weston
is the author of the very successful and
interesting book, 'Historical Doubts
of the Execution of Marshal New."
and was the recipient of many con
gratulations upon the favorable re
ception of his book. Lenoir Topic.
First Solid Train to Boston.
The members of Coeurde Lion Com
mandry. Knights Templar, No. 0, of
Knoxville. Tenn., ha veV secured a spe
cial train from Knoxville to Boston
without change. This will be the
first train ever run from Knoxville to
Iioston through New York without
change of cars. It will leave Knoxville
at 10:;r a. m., August 23rdj and will
run over the Southern Railway via
Asheville and the "Land of the Sky,"
stopping at the Hickory Inn for sup
per; thence to Wxishington, then via
the Pennsylvania railroad and the
New York and Hudson River railroad.
The (iumry Hotel, at Denver, Col.,
was blown up by the bursting of a
battery of boilers ufter midnight Sun
day night. About .V) jeople were
Killed and burned, and by walls falling
on them. The details are horrible.
Many jeople in Hickory inquired af
ter Mr. and Mrs. Royster, for fear they
were at that hotel. Rut they hail
been at the IJrown Palace. The Gum-.
ry was built by 'Mrs. 1'. 1. lianiura,"
was a lodin house, not a first-clasj
hoteL
Associate Justice Wm. Strong (re
tired) of theU. S. Supreme Court died
on the Hth last Monday at Lake Min
nie waska, N. Y., of paralysis. He
was b7 years of age May C, 1?0 .
Since l57t there hare been nine
epidemics of dysentery in different
rarts of the country in which Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy was used with perfect success.
Dysentery, when epidemic, U almost
as severe and dangerous as A elastic
cholera. Heretofore the best efforts
of the most skilled physicians" have
failiwl f Vi j r if Vat'tina t Vila
edy, however, has cured the most ma
lignant caes, both of children and
adult, and under the mot trying
conditions, which proves It to be the
best medicine in the world for bowel
complaints. For sale by O. M. Rovs-
a ter, Druggist.