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OXFORD, N. C
DEC. 2, 1892
EDITORIAL 1$niKF8.
It is estimated that the Home
stead, Pa., strike, which lasted
about six mouth, and was re
ceiitlv declared oil", cost at least
to all concerned, $4,500,000, and
nobody made a cent by it.
The Democrats of Illinois not
only elected Cleveland am
Stevenson by a plurality of 20,
824 but have a majority of 1,590
over all in the race. And illinoi
is iroing to stay right I here in th
Democratic column, where she
naturally belongs and should have
been all the time.
The next House of Bepresenta
tives will consist of 354 members
instead of 330 as at present. Po
liticully it wid stand 222 Demo
crats, 125 Republicans and 7 Pop
ulists. The Democrats lost 13 and
the Republicans gained 38 mostly
in Republican States where the
representation is increased by the
late census,
Thomas Watson thinks that the
Republican party was fatally in
jured by the fall it received in the
late election, and that hereafter
the People's party will alone op
pose the Democracy. Possibly he
is right. The fall was a very
heavy one, and the suryiving
partner usually becomes the sue
cessor when one of the firm dies.
The Executive Committee of the
State Alliance held a three days
session in Raleigh last week. It
made a very searching investiga
tion into the State Business
Agency affairs, and made an
order that the books ot the agency
were to be open at any time to
any subAllianee which is a stock
holder. The State Alliance organ
pledged itself in future to deal no
more in politics.
The Charlotte Observer, speak
ing of Senator Vance's health,
says he is almost well; that "he
may never again be able to un
dergo the tremendous labor of
former years, and should not
think of undertaking it, but
lis will resume his seat in the
Senate and till it with as much
ability as he ever has, and there
is no reason to believe tl at he
will not do so for many years to
come,"
There seems to have been no
organized opposition to the re
election of Powderly for another
term. This does not mean, how
ever, that he stands as well, either
in or out of the Knights, as he
once did. His political gyrations
have been of recent years, to say
the least, remarkable. In the
order this fact is noted and freely
criticised; outside the order his
words no longer inspire the re
spect or oven attract the attention
once accorded them.
Cleveland's speech at the Vil
lard dinner was really great. It
pledges him to such use of the
patronage of his high office as
well best subserve the good of the
whole people and at the same
time inure to a better organiza
tion and strengthening of the
Democratic party. He will make
mistakes, doubtless. The most
perfect judgment would not be
able wholly tQ avoid them. But
his appointments will, in the main,
satisfy all good men, because, in
considering the applicant, he will
ask the question, "Is he a Demo
crat?" but not until he has first
asked: "Is he honest? Is he capable?"
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tiii; $oiiif:iim home.
We notice with regret the inef
ficiency of the qhl Soldiers Home
to accommodate the few remains
ing veterans of the State with
food and shelter.
There are about fifty inmates of
the home now, and eight or ten
applications on tile without tile
means of board and lodging at
command wherewith to enable
them to lay down the burden of
life as those whose work have
nobly done.
Would it not be well to comfort
the living with a few of the nec
essaries of life, and deduct the
amount from the monument fund
to their memory after death? All
over the land there are societies
and clubs raising funds to glorify
their memory, while the living
heroes leg and starve under our
eyes. If we cannot have both the
home and the monument, let the
monument wait. Patriotism and
charity demand that we should
pity the distress of these old men
whose trembling limbs have born
them to our door. They have
claims upon our generosity, yea
demands that no amount of re
spect or honor for the dead trans
cends. They are themselves liv
ing monuments of heroism and
valor the better of which the
world have never seen. Pennies
to them now are more than dol
lars after dissolution, or millions
in a cenotaph to their greatness.
One cent from every man in the
State would sinoothe the pathway
of life to the end for these brave
men so feeble and torn.
Now that the day of good cheer
is at hand, and Santa Glaus is
abroad in a land of plenty, forget
not the old soldier who erstwhile
kept step and took his stand to
live and die in "Dixy."
The Home is under the best
and most efficient management.
All that it needs is something to
meet pressing and immediate de
mands of these decrepit sufferers
of the lost cause; but it is no fault
of theirs that the highest type and
standard ot mankind should have
been lowered to the gauge of Tim
buctoo. All th cities through
which living Homer begged his
bread, claimed the honor of Ho
mer dead, because his fame was
in the future and greater than his
surroundings. So will history
claim these lingering heroes and
record their fame, while poetry
and song ring with their praise,
for these are they who thirty years
ago went forth to battle for the
right Divine, of fairer forms and
brighter countenances than ever
fed the vestal tires of Rome; to
them far more beautiful and less
fickle than her for whom Athens
fought and Troy fell. And when
looking down the cannon's mouth
at Malvern Hill, Cold Harbor and
Gettysburg they were soothed
and sustained by the thoughts of
their Annie Laurie, from whose
brow in flowing tresses like flakes
of light from the head of Aurora,
ushering in the morn of a new
ife. It was you, Annie Laurie,
who toyed with the tassels at the
li t of their swords, pinned bou
quets in the lapells of their uni
form, buckled the knightly spur
upon their manly heels and bid
hem "go where glory waited
hem;" and at your bidding they
rode forth to war with both hands
ind feet. Many ot them now have
only one, and that shivering in
the cold or numbed with distress.
Cannot you send them a glove or
a shoe and bid them to keep in
the straight and narrow wTay, and
that you will join them in the end.
Well do you remember in those
brave old days you wove the pari
ng gift with listsome fingers, and
waved a fond adieu with kerchief
bathed in tears. You were then
on the verge of womanhood. To
day you are matronly dames with
hreads of silver among the gold,
blending a grey in conformity to
their color.
After many years these few have
come back to you as messengers
of defeat. The wooden leg and
empty sleeve tells how dear the
victory was bought. You enquire
for their comrades, and they will
point you to the scroll of fame
and the immortal page whereon
great deeds are writ, and say they
lie at Fredericksburg, at Chancel
lorsville and in the wilderness; we
are alone and helpless in the
world; we have been chief mourn
ers Jit halt our own funerals.
Will you help this living part
join that which has gone before?
The two are not far apart. The
gap will soon close, and this grand
drama of which you and I have
been chief actors will close with
the day.
A DUTY
The president of the North Car
olina Alliance was one of the
electors-at-large of the Third
party. A fundamental principle
of the Alliance is that it is non-
partizan. It was organized upon
this idea, and many good men
joined it because they believed it
to be purely and simply an agri
cultural organization. These men
can no longer afford to be silent
when a noted political intriguer
like Marion Butler is committing
the Alliance not only to politics,
but making it a part of a secret
political societv, says the State
Chronicle. It is a duty these men
owe to themselves and to the ag
ricultural interests of North Car
olina to openly declare that Ma
rion Butler has forfeited his claim
to the office he holds by his par
tizanship, and to as openly repu
diate his authority to sanction
with the names of the farmers of
the' State the action of the recent
convention at Memphis It was
the boast of that convention that
it had the sanction of the names
of many prominent Alliancemen
throughout the South for what it
did. Shall Marion Butler and S.
Otho Wilson quote the assent of
North Carolina farmers in defense
of their course? Shall they con
tinue to claim the defense of such
an honorable shield? Let the
farmers take some action and dis
own such men. It is a duty they
owe the State.
a 8 i:siiji.i: view.
The Philadelphia Ledger, re
viewing the political situation in
the light shed upon it by the re
cent tidal wave which banished
the Republican party entirely
from control in the administra
tion of the National Government,
says: "The predictions of finan5-
cial and industrial disaster, or
ruin, following Democratic vic
tory which are still being made
by bigoted, or ignorant, or reck
less partisans, have nothing to
support them; they are as untrust
worthy as were the campaign pre
dictions of Republican success
which wrere so confidently made
upon premises which have been
proved wholly and grotesquely
false. With regard to the finan
cial policy of the new administra
tion Mr. Cleveland's record is en
tirely satisfactory; and with ref
erence to its economic policy his
character and his conservative
declarations upon the subject of
tariff revision give cause for the
belief that no sudden 7 radical, or
revolutionary changes will be
made by Congress or approved
by him.
Specimen Cases.
S. II. Clifford, New Caesel, Wis., was troubled
with Neuralgia and Rheumatism, his Stomach
was disordered, his Liver was affected to an
alarming degree, appetite fell away, and he was
terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three
bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrfsburg, 111., had a run"
ning sore on his leg of eight years' standing-
Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and eeven
boxes of Bncklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound and well. John Speaker, Catawba, O.,
had five large Fever sores on his leg, doctors
said he was incurable. One bottle of Electric
Bitters and 1 box Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
him, Sold at J. G. Hall's Drug Store.
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