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"ruiiannmtnnimrsnainnicnCT cs-f ICAS Y0P READ? a 83 3o a So al 3 30 si ii ru mi i n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 mnTm n u j 1 1 1 i i n i itm i 40O I There are ohly 400 of the 5 1 If you can't, of course you I GIFT BOOKS left. 2 uonr ndui uu I 600 GONE ALREADY. Don't wait until it is too S 1 late. r See inside pages. 1 j ' 2 See Inside Pages. VOL. X. NO. 8. MORGANTON. N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 3. 1894. PRICE THREE CENTS. s Si ZA ...... n W n GI FT BOOKS. y IM M 4t t IS t 7 U 40 140 SOT CO 11 u U UU I TO 115 OLD T1EJREACHERS. Eeiout, Earnest Men Who Ministered to toe People of Burke. EARLY TEMPERANCE ORATORS. How Kllsha Coxo was "Keely Cured" lavr Crockett's Appearance In Morgan ton Jhn Hays Damfoondi a Temper ance Lectarert-Some Incidents In the Life of the Blaff and Rough Old Pioneer. Written for The Morganton Herald BY COL. T. G. WALTON. $ Chapter 13.1 . ' Methodist preachers whom I knew in my youth.and early man hood, and whose ministrations were local, being almost exclusive ly confined to Burke county, covering the original boundary of 1777, viz : Reverend William Full wood, distinguished as f"Father Fullwood," born 1763, joined, the Conference in 1792, professed sanctification sixteen years before his death. Richard Bird joined the conference at the same time as Father Fullwood. . Following them were Jeremiah Stacy. James Stacy, and later Thomas and John Dorsey, and others. These were all devout men of the Methodist ministry, of. unblemished charac ter, very zealous and largely in strumental and successful in spreading the Gospel according to the doctrines of their cele brated founder, the Rev. John Wesly. The buildings in which these good men preached andheld . their religious services were called meeting houses, and were almost invariably called after the sacred places of the Old Testament, such as Bethel, Nebo, Sardis, Gilboa, Salem, etc. The buildings were of plain architecture and material. No ornamentation, no music ex-, cept congregational singing, and the sermons and prayers, were extemporaneous. There was but one place for public worship in Morganton until the Episcopal church was erected in 1845, and the Methodist in 1846, and now its membership is by' far ' the largest in the prosperous town of Morganton. The old annual camp meeting's in the county where im Tmense crowds attended and great religious excitement prevailed. The surrounding woods resound ed with the shouts of the .con verted and the time honored hymn of redemption, hundreds of voices-joining in the refrain : " "The year of jubilee is come ;" "The year of jubilee is come ;" "Return, ye ransomed sinners home." The old time camp meetings that caused so much religious fervor, have become almost obso lete. S.me of these old preach ers were very severe on - the "pomps and vanities of this wicked . world ;" the wearing of gaudy ap parel, jewels' the braiding of the hair, etc. I was present many years since at the Salem meeting house where alarge congregation had gathered. The preacher was distinguished somewhat, for being personal when he thought it nec esssary for the spiriturri-welfare of h's "audience. He prefaced his sermon (after looking over the congregation) as follows : "It is a very foolish and remark able fact, that some people are not satisfied with the way that God Almighty has made them: here are white people who have natural ly straight hair, that they are try ing to make curl, while on the contrary, the negroes who have naturally curly hair are trying by twisting, pulling and binding it with strings to make it straight.'" Whether this home thrust had the desired effect, I , know not ; but certainly some faces were lighted up with broad smiles, while others of the fair sex, amen able to the rebuke, blushed with confusion, i ? . Temperance societies before 1840, were not organized in this county, .although 'drunkenness and excessive use of ardent spirits were denounced by the preachers as a great sin, quoting St. Paul as saying that "No drunkard should inherit the Kingdom of Heaven." They did not, however, object to drinking wine in moderation, per haps remembering the same apostle's injunction to Timothy : "Drink no longer water but use a little wine for 1 thy -stomach's sake." Until, the celebrated tem perance lecturer, Phillip S. White came to the county and lectured in the Court House in 1849, tne good people of Burke did not have much faith in the efficacy of Hemperance societies Tor the cure of habitual drunkards, . and time has proven that other remedies beside moral suasion in most cases had to be resorted to. As far back as 1830, I remember an in stance of a man who was perma nently cured by a remedy given him by my father. His name was EJisha Coxe, a well-to-do farmer living near the base of the Blue Ridge in what' is now McDowell county, a very .respectable, .good citizen, a friend and customer of my father. When attending the courts at Morganton he would in variably get very-drunk and' in ;,volve himself in trouble. My father being in Charleston, South my father replied, "I am in earn est. ' I thought of you while in Charleston, and some others of my friends, and bought it for the express purpose of giving you a drink. A glass and the mixture was placed upon the counter. There were directions that it was to be given in small doses three times. Walton was in a dilemma. If he poured out the small dose, he thought Coxe would take it as an insult and refuse to drink, re sulting, of course, in Coxe's pour ing out a big draught and swallow ing it. Smacking his lips, with thanks he said .it was first rate. As all is not gold that glitters, so all v may not , be. unadulterated whiskey that smells and tastes like it. This fact Coxe soon realized. He became deathly pale and sick, and reeled so that he could scarce keep his feet. My father, alarmed, had ' him taken into the adjoining counting' room and put to bed. After much groaning, retching and profuse vomiting, he was in some measure relieved. Finally he arose, and, speaking to no one, mounted his horse and went home. About 12 months after he walked into the store. My father expecting that he had" come to abuse, him for having tricked him, called out, "Hello, Coxe, is that you?" "Yes sir, and I have come to return you my thanks for the greatest kind ness one man ever did for another. By that drink you gave me I have become a sober man. I detest liquor. If I merely smell it my stomach revolts." I was during the session of the Legislature of 1850-51 that Philip S. White, the grea; temperance orator, was advertised to deliver a lecture on temperance in the Presbyterian church of Raleigh. The members of the Legislature were invited to attend, the large audience filled the church, com posed in part of the elite of -the city. Dr. Lacy, the pastor, was seated by the lecturer. Mr. White prefaced his lecture by saying Dr. Lacy had kindly permitted him to deliver his lecture in the church, and "he desired and hoped that mere wouia De no laughing, ap: plause or unseemly conduct in this sacred place," well knowing at the time that his eloquence and anec dotes would render his request nugatory. At intervals, in the course of his long lecture, ap plause and laughter was loud and long prolonged. After a subsi dence of the din, the speaker's manner and voice changed. In a deep toned, organ-like voice, he said: "Fellow mortals, I would be willing to risk my reputation and all my worldly goods of the truth, that every tenth man in this large assemblage will fill a drunkard's grave." John Hays, a member of .the Legislature, frorrr Caldwell county, facetious and witty, six feet in statue, thin and boney in structure, with face and hard features like "Old Hickory's," wrapped in an old fashioned cam let cloak that reached to his ankles, and looking as solemn as a judge when in the act of pro nouncing a death sentence on a criminal, rose and said in a clear and shrill voice: "Mr. White, I will bet you a quart of bald face that you have told a lie."- Hays took his seat amid roars of applause and "laughter. - White : seemed dumbfounded, and the facetious' Hays was the lion of the evening. COLl DAVID CROCKETT. I do not suppose there is a man living in Burke county (unless he learned the fact from me) that ever knew that David , Crockett (who was not surpassed in his day as a mighty hunter) was ever in the town of Morganton. It was after he had been elected from one of the backwoods districts of Tennessee a member of Congress in 1828 or '29. , Riding up in front of the old Tate Hotel, he dis mounted and hitched his horse to a rack that stood on Union street about 30 feet from, " the hotel. Hearing that this famous man was in town, a crowd of young men soon gathered atound him. : While regaling them with hunting tales, side-splitting jokes and anecdotes of perilous encounters, with pan thers, bears, etc., his horse became restive and was trying to rid him self of the bridle by rubbing against a post of the rack. In an gry tones he cursed the horse, swearing he would kill him if -he didn't stop, and picking up a stone, with the unerring skill of an expert, he threw it, striking the animal on the head. It fell as though it had been shot, when Crockett said : "There, d n you; I told yoirl would kill you, and sure enough I have done it." Af ter this characteristic incident the horse?, after a slight struggle, got up, and Crockett bade farewell to the young men who had been so highly entertained by him. J have a small book published .1 1 C - t . to rest. She is a mighty rough old piece, but I love her, ,fqr she and I have seen hard times. She mighty seldom tells a lie. If I hold her right she always sends i the ball where I, tell her. After we were all fixed! told 'em hunt ing stories till bed time. Next morning was clear and cold, arid by ti.ne, I sounded my horn, and my dogs came howling 'bout me, ready for a chase. Old Rattler wasjkjittle lame a bear bit him in"rhe shoulder; but Soundweli, Tiger and the rest of 'em were all mighty anxious. .We got a bite and saddled our' horses. 1 went by to git a neighber to drive for us, and off we started for the Harricane. My dogs looked mighty woolfish. They kept jumping on one another and growling. I knew they were run mad for a fight, for they hadn't one in two or three days. We were in fine spirits and going long through very open woods, when one of the strangers said I would give my horse now to see a bear. Said I, 'Well give me your horse,' and I pointed to one about three or four hundred yards ahead of us, feeding on acorns I had been looking at him for some time, but he was so far off I wasn't certain what it was. How ever, I hardly spoke before we all strained off, and the woods fairly echoed as we harked the dogs on the old Dear didn t want to run. and he never broke till we got most upon him ; but then he buckled for it, I tell you. When they overhauled him, he just rared upon his hind legs and he boxed the dogs about at a mighty rate. He hugged old Tiger and another rill he dropped 'em nearly lifeless; but the others worried him, and after a while they all come to and give him trouble. They are mighty apt, I tell you,' to give a bear trouble before they leave him.' Twas a mighty pretty fight; 'twould have done one's soul good to see it just to see how they all rolled about. It was as much as I could do to keep the strangers from shooting him, but I wouldn't let them, for fear they f would kill my dogs. After we got tired seeing 'em fight, I went in among 'em and ' the first lime they got him down, I socked my knife into the old bear:' -We then hung him up, and went on to take our with Fanning and his men at the fall of the Alamo, in Mexico, when they were all massacred by the brutal Mexicans. . Crockett was found dead with 'a number of dead Mexicans whom he had slain lying at his feet. Did he think at 1 this time of horror, of his own well remembered maxim left to his friends :.-." " "This maxim I leave to mv friend when I am dead : TO BB COKTMCBD. ; SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. - elk hunt. You never seed fellows so . delighted as them strangers 'was. Blow me if they didn't cut more capers jumping about than the old bears. 'Twas a mighty pretty fight, but I b'lieve I seed more fun looking- at them than at the bear. . "By the time we got to the Har ricane, we were all. rested and ready for a drive. My dogs were in a better humor for the fight had just taken off the wiry edge. So I placed the strangers at the stands through which, I thought the7 elk would pass, sent the driver way up aheads, and I went below. Everything was quiet, and I leaned old Betsy gin a tree, and laid down I s'pose I had been lying there about an hour when I heard old Tiger open. He opened once or twice, and old Ratler give a long howl. The bal ance joined in, and I knew the elk Harvard, Tale, Princeton These are Some of the Schools Which Have Hade America's Advancement the Wonder of the Age. - . Written for The Herald. CHAPTER I.J T When one considers there are nearly four hundred colleges irt the United States, iu addition to -s great universities, it can be reafli ly seen that within the limits of this paper it would be impossible to give more than a passing glimpse of the most noted of these. Niuetcen colleges were fouuded before the beginning of the pres ent century, and since that time the number has steadily increased nutil now they are stituated in almost every State and Territory. Nine of these were heguu before the Revolution, and Massachusetts, which still expends more money ou its schools in proportion to its population than any other State, HARVARD COLLEGE. founded the first. Harvard College, at Cambridge, Mass., three miles from Boston, 111 1G3G, only six years after the settlement of the colony 800 having been appro priated iu three stuns for the sup port of it. In 1039 it was named iu honor of lie v. John Harvard, who gave it 700. At its first es tablishment, this now flourishiug college, was little more than an Indiau school. Iu 1848 a scien tific department was geuerously endowed by Abbott Lawrence. Its astronomical department is each year becoming more impor taut, as branches are being es tablished throughout ' the west, and, for some time past, there-has been oue at Aieqnipa, Peru, S. A merica, which has become almost invaaable in its astronomical re searches," established here on ac count of its nusu passed climate for such work. -Amoug its uumerous buildings, a Harvard Annex for womeu has recently been es tnlished, hereafter to be known as Badcliffe college, by which name it has been officially recognized by Harvard's overseers it is to oe a part of the University, and thw Harvard seal will be attached to the diplomas it gives. The name is in honor of Ann Kadclffa, of England, afteiward LadySlonl tou, who, in 1043, gaveto Har vard 100, the first pecuniary gift that any woman bad eer made to YALE COLLEGE it. Yale College was begun at Saybrook late 111 the year 1701. and was removed to New Haven in 1717. Its name was giveu in honor of Elihu Yale, of Loudon, a native of New Uaveu, who, after amassing a fortune in India, gave it goods valued at 200 pounds. money by pnblic lottiery for the encouragement of learning and towards the founding ot a college in the city of New York, and thus Columbia College received its first charter in 1754 aa King's College, and iu 17C0 the new building was erected and occupied, its situation beiug near the lower end of the island. In 1776 the college was suspended, owing to its "Tory" proclivities, but in 1781 it was re incorporated under its present title. In 18G7 the college was re moved to its present site, where several spacious buildings have beeu. erected. The college includes the six departments of Arts, Law, Political Science, Philosophy, Mines and Medicine, the .first five of which have their rooms at the college buildings in Madison avenue. The medical school, thanks to the endowment by the Vanderbilts ot 1,000,000, is one of the best equipped schools of the kind in the world. Columbia College library contains upward ot 100,000 volames. The School of Mines, which is open to the public, contains a well arranged geological museum. The Barnard College for women is also in con nection with Columbia College. The University of Pennsylvania was incorporated as a college in 1755, though it had been fouuded as an academy in 1740, aud still earlier in 1745 had beeu a charity school. It now occupies a group of spacious buildings, atleuded by about 1800 students, and has ac quired a special reputation for the excellence of its, schools of medi cine, biology and political econ omy, ihe new library, containing about 90,000 volumes, and numer ous interesting relics, is open to the public Edmonia. to bb COHTIXVBD. THE COXEY ARMIES. were up. I jumped up and seized .The title Yale College was formally sometime before the war with Mexico which gives a graphic des cription of the life and exploits of Col. Crockett, entitled, "Sketches and Eccentricities of Co!. Crock ett," by an unknown author. From many of its unparallelled hunting exploits I have selected one which may amuse and. per- my old nne. 1 could near noth ing but one continued roar of all my does, coming right towards me. Though I was an old hunter, the music made my hair stand on end. oon after they first started, I heard one gun go off, and 'my dogs stopped, but not long, for they took a little back towards where I - had placed the strangers. , One of them fired, and they dashed back, and circled round way to my left. I ran down about a quarter mile and I heard my dogs make a bend like they were coming to me. While I was listenjng I heard the bushes break ing still lower down and started to run there. As I was going 'lone. I seed two elk burst out of Harricane, 'bout one hundred and thirty yards from me. There was an old buck and doe. I stopped, waited until they got into a clear place, and as the old fellow made a leap, I raised old Bet, pulled trigger and she spoke out. The smoke blinded me and I couldn't see what I did ; but as it cleared away, I caught a gmlipse of only one eroine away, so I thought I had the other. I went up and there lay the buck a-kicking. I cut his throat, and by that time Tiger and two of my dogs came up. I thought it singular that all my dogs was not there, and began to think they had killed another. After the dogs had bit him and found out he was dead,, old Tiger began to growl and curled himself up between his legs. Everything had to stand off then, for he wouldn't let the devil himself touch him. I started off to look for the strangers, my two dogs following. Alter getting away Carolina, purchasing goods, heard haps, interest some of those who that a sure remedy lor the cure ot drunkenness had been discovered and was for sale at a drugstore. It was called "Chambers' Mix ture," and he purchased a quart bottle of it. Shortly .afterwards, coming to court, Coxe walked into the store, and after shaking hands, my father said : ."Coxe, I have some good whiskey, won't you have a drink ?" Oh, you are joking, Squire,", said Coxe. "You are the last man that would ask me to drink liquor." "No Coxe," take an interest in reading these sketches of the olden time : " "Sitting by a good fire in my little cabin on a cool November evening, roasting potatoes and playing with my children, when somebody holloed at the fence. I went out and there were three strangers, who said they came to take an elk hunt. I was glad to see them and invited 'em in, and after supper we cleaned our guns. I took down old Betsy, rubbed her up, greased her and laid her away apiece, l looicea back, and once in a while, I could see old Tiger git up and shake the elk, to see if he was dead, and then curl up be tween his legs again. I found the strangers round a doe the driver had killed ; and one of them said he was sure he . had killed one lower down. I asked him if it had horns. He said he didn't see any. I put the dogs where he said he had shot, and they- didn't go far before they halted. I went up, and there lay a fine buck elk ; and though his horns were four or five feet long, the fellow who shot him was so scared that he never saw them. We had three elk and a bear ; so we managed to get it I home; then butchered our game, talked over our hunt, and had a glorious frolic." . Alas! poor Crockett had .a heroic but sad ending. He was adopted in the charter of 1745. In this the provision was retained that the ten ministers who founded the institution and their successors, perpetually, should be the trustees of the college. Among the earlier donors besides Gov. Yale, were Bishop Berkley and James Filch. The law school became a department of the col lege in 1822, aud its law library, now one of the niostr complete in the country, was established by ex-Govenor James English in 1873. The school of tine arts oc cupies one of its- finest buildings. Instruction is given in drawing. painting, sculpture aud architect ure. Woman are admitted to this course. Besides the law, medical and various departments, Yale also furnishes many post graduate studies in various directions. Iu 1806 George Pea body, of London, gave to a board of trustees the sum of $150,000 to found a museum of natural history in con nection with Yale College, i the collections of which ft re open to the public. The college of New 1 PRINCETON COLLEGE. i Jersey, founded under the auspices of the Presbyterian synod of New York (which then included New Jersey), was chartered in 1746, aud opened in 1847, at Elizabeth town. It was removed -to Prince ton in 1757, where a large edifice was erected, and named Nassau Hall, in honor of William III of the house of Nassau. This build' ing was u&ed as a barrack aud hospital by both American and British soldiers during a part "of the Revolqtiouary war. At the battle of Princeton, -the British troops made a stand within its walls, aud were driven out by Washington's advance. The Con tinental congress met in. it iu 1783, and attended the commence ment of that year in company with Washington, who presented 50 guineas to the trustees to aid in repairing the damages occasioned by the battle. The money was Is There to It a Repetition of the French UelKn of Terror? During the last ten years of the eighteenth century the demou of nnrest was abroad in Europe, and particularly-uneasy was he iu the fair laud of Frauce. .From the four quarters of the kingdom, moved by a comiuou iui pulse, the idle, the vicious, the tramp, the peunilcss, the "miser ables, in couples, in companies, in regimeuts, inarched on Paris. They passed the gates mingled and disappeared in the depths of the slums f the city. They came with no well devised plans, either for their own betterment or the overturn of social order. They were reinforced bv a vast addition, the multitude of the reck less, lawless aud hnjteless mass already theie, and quickly became a tneuace and a danger to all con stituted authority, t They degenerated and soon lost all semblance of respect for either king, noble or the assembly of France. They became each day more reckless, brutal, bloodthirsty aud criminal. They invaded the steps, the balls, the galleries, the very chamber where the national legislature was in session. They interrupted debates, they kissed, denounced or cheered the mem bers as their utterances suited or displeased them. They at length shaied laws and dictated decrees. Drunk with fury and with blood they inaugurated the reign of terror. If men were rich they robbed and murdered them. If nobles, they paraded the streets with -their gory heads on pikes. They overturned all social order. They established an anarchistic saturnalia in France that required all the colossal genius ot Napoleon to control and at length to de stroy. A century has passed away since this artnv of "sans culottes" . SENATOR JARVIS AGAIN. A Frank Statement of His Position and Purpose. WANTS RANSOM'S PLACE, Bat Says Deaaeeratle Ttctorr Is of Tlrst Importance Willing; to Snbmlt His Claims to the Coveatloa-Oeveror Carr . Owed Him No Debt aad the Appoint meat Was Not to biscaanre a Personal Obligation. Greexville, April 24. Capt. S. A. Aht, Editor Xetc$ Observer-Chronicle : Sib: 1 beg, before leaving the Stale to enter upon my duties in Washington, to agaiu trespass upon the courtesy of the press. It is my habit when I have anytbiog to say to the people of North Car olina to say It to them direct. In my letter declaring it to he my purpose npt to be a candidate before the Legislature for the place made vacant by the death of Senator Vance, I simply said that if the peoplo desired to keep np the senatorial divisions, so to speak, I would not be in their way; that I did not intend to be a candidate for the short term. -I did not intend to declaie war upon any one or to throw down the gage of battle to any one, aud I humblv submit there is uothing in the letter to justify such a construction. ' It is true I have for months en tertained the pnrpose to become a candidate before the Legislature to succeed Senator Hansom, and I have not concealed this purpose. I felt that I had a right to do this, and I still think so. It must be re membered that Senator liaosom is now ucaring the end of his fourth term. He has beeu coutinuonsly in this 'high office more than twenty-two years. I did not feel and I do not now feel that I am infringing upon any one's right in becoming a candidate for this with whom I was to speak till I saw the appointment published. I-rom the first day of Angust till the day of election 1 wis mbject to the control of onr chairman, and he could have sent me, ai be in fact did do, where he pleased. I now recall the fact that be re quired me to make sixteen speeches in one congressional dis trict. 1 did it without a murmur. In fact I am sure Mr. Simmons will Kay I was workiug under bis Jffifclrfef orders all the time. If these facts be trne, then I was in the service of the Democratic party, working for its success, and the candidate of the party was the recipient of my labors if they were worth any thing to anyoue. It therefore follows that 1 was not working for Mr. Carr, but for the Democratic candidate for Governor. Then bow absurb and unjust it is to bim to say that in selecting me -to fill a temporary vacancy in a high office he is paying off a personal obligation with a public trust. As soon as Congress adjourns I expect to retnrn to the State and commence a canvass to secure a Democratic victory. Let those who are now disposed to criticise wait until the canvass opens, and then if I am faithless to the peo ple in word or deed let me be cast aside. If success comes to us, as I pray it may, it will be after a bard fought battle, in which the good of the people must be kept high above the interest of any in dividual. In addition to a Legis lature, we have many judges and nine membets of the lover boose of Congress to elect. There is great discontent and division among onr eople. Our great leader bas fallen at a critical period iu our.history. lie was x -. r u 1 1 la lz m. a Pure A cream of tartar baking pow der. Highest of all in leavening strength Latest United States Gov ermment Feed JZefarf. Koxal Baking rowdcr Co., 104 Wall t v. T. For Spring Weddings. W. H.&R. S. TUCKER & CO., RALEIGH, M. C. arc desirous of particularly directing your attention to their excellent assortments of Silks, Dress Goods, Laces, Linens, Underwear, Corsets, Shoes, Parasols and other outhtttngs mat are by cus tom necessary for bridal out They send samples, offer surrrrestions. send articles on alwajs trne tolhe people, and the I approval, and make up your dresses in the most stylish manner equal to Paris made gowns and at moderate prices. y peoplo were always ttue to bim His name and opinion may still serve ns as magic words to unite and entbnse those who have fol lowed bis lead in many a bard fongbt battle. We must in the Legislature, or another party will settle the senatorial question. We must elect oar candidates for tors, or else the Slate will be the approved Styles. sufferer. In this crisis let those be chosen as leaders whom the people-prefer to follow. In fact, is it no; better to let the people choose their own leaders this year! Tnos. J. Jabvis. Ready-made Tailor-finished Suits are also offered in most Correspondence by mail or a personal call is solicited. Estimates furnished. TAKirr ELruRM. SENATOR JARVIS. . position, and I have no idei that marched 011 Paris. In that hun dred years a new-born nation this side the sea, has grown to great ness unparalleled. It has achieved freedom ( hitherto unknown. 70, 000,000 of people uuder its flag enjoy its protection free citizens of a free republic Ami yet-in 'this last decade of the 19th cen tury, from the east, the south, the center, the north and the west, we see squads, companies, regiments, armies of men, marching on Washington. They come as came the rabble that marched on Paris one hundred years ago. Who are they that come in mot Ivy array T V bat is the reasou of their coming 1 Will they pervade the capital city of the nation T Will they crowd the steps of the capitolt Will they throng its halls' and galleries t What itlu- euce will they have on the coward ly, the crauky, and the dema gogues who make np in some part that august body known as the congres of the TJuited Stitest Is Coxe v 'a army a peril to the re public? I end this article as I begnu it Is history repeating itself tC. J. Miller ' Admin (Mich. J Time. Two Uvea Saved, Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, I1L, was told by her doctors she had Consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles Dr. KJdk . New Discovery completely cured her and she sat it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers, 139 Florida St. Ban Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, approaching Consumption, tried witnout result everyming else men the Senator, after bis long term of service, will, for a moment, under take to question the right of any gentleman to succeed him. There certainly is no occasion for any supposition that we are to have any nndue excitement or asperity over the matter. I bave never been a disturbing element in the Democratic party and I will uot be now. I will say iu advance that I am willing to leave it to the Democratic voters at a ballot to be taken in the primaries, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State commit tee, to say whether I shall be a candidate ac all or not, and I will abide the result. Or, I am quite as willing for the State convention of our party to determine that question. This is the jeo pie's business and I am willing for them to settle it, and in their own way. Jr will go still further, aud say that if at any time it shall aptear that my candidacy will lose to the party a single county I will be ready to retire. I say this because in my bumble judgment it is of the first import ance to the people that the State government shall remain in the hands of the Democratic party. Under the administration of this party the people have bad tran quility, peace and all the pros perity that a good State govern ment could give. It is far better, in my opinion, that both Senator Uansom ana myveir should pass out of public life than that the State government should pass from under the control of the Democratic party. I know it is better- that I should never be heard of again than that the Leg islature should cease to be in the hands of the Democrats. I notice with regret that it is insinuated that the Governor bas paid off a private obligation with a pnblic trust. This charge was made, I am sure, in ignorance of the facts iu the case. 1 beg to state the facts, and then I beliexe the nnjust insinuation will be with drawn. The facts are these: Just as soon as the executive commit tee was organized I wrote to its chairman, the lion. F. M. Sim mons, teudering my services to the party and agreeing to be subject to bis orders till the election was over. About the 181 b or ZOttr or July I received a telegram from Mr. Simmons asking me to come to Baleigh. I obeyed his sum- rraaldmt ClevelasMl l'nr miflllsa Psavtintle Ifce'cwe. WASIII5GTOX, Af-ril 27. Pies:, dent Cleveland bas forwarded the follow i 1. g letter to Hon. Cbauncey F. Black, president of the Nation al Association of Democratic Club's: Executive Mansion Waigto, April 18, 1804. Hon. Cbauncey F. Black, President, &e. My Dear Sir: I have carefully read tbe communication you lately placed in my bands setting forth tbe fature purposes and present needs of tbe National Association of Democratic Clubs. Tbe achieve ments of Ibis organization should be familiar to all who are inter ested in tbe continuation of demo cratic supremacy and should enlist the tfneouragemeut of those who appreciate tbe importance of an effective dipsimiuation of demo cratic doctrine. . Your association bas done much by way of educating our people touching tbe particular subjects which are recognized as belonging to the democratic faith; but it seems to me that its best service bas been an enforcement and demonstration of tie truth that our party is best organized and most powerful when it strives for principles instead of spoils,- and that it quickly responds to the stimulous supplied by an enlist ment in tbe eopIe's cause. This acknowledgment of the im portant services rendered to tbe advancement of true democracy suggests that the National Asso ciation of Democratic Clubs and every other democratic agency should labor unceasingly and earnestly to save our party, in this time of its power and responsibili ty, from tbe degradation and dis grace of a failure to" redeem tbe pledges upou which our fellow- coantrytnen eutruted ns with tbe control of tbeir government. All who are charged on behalf of tbe democratic party with tbe redemption of these pledges should now be Impressively- reminded that, as we won our way to victory under tbe banner of tariff reform, so our insistence upon that princi ple is the condition of our reten tion of tbe people's trust, and that fealty to party organization tie mauds the subordination of indi vidual advantages and wishes and tbe putting aside of petty and ignoble jealousies and bickerings, when party principles and party integrity and party exigence are at stake. 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The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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May 3, 1894, edition 1
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