THE PUBLIC LEDGER.
By JOHN T. BRITT,
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
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pondents unless so stated editorially.
OXFORD, N. C,
MAY 19, 1893.
TUIRDITE-IIEI' (JBLICAKS.
Tommy Settle, whom the Third
ites are trying so hard help out in
his contest, is said to be the young
est mouther in Congress. From the
present outlook it will not take but
a short time to Settle his career in
Congress as Baldy Williams is weav
ing a close web around "Windy
Tommy," and indication are he will
have to step down and out if Ex
Governor Holt and Ex-Attorney
General Davidson along with the
negro Senator from Warren, who
was unseated, did vote to seat Settle
in the face of as strong affidavits as
we ever heard read from a majority
of the returning board of the county
of Stokes.
The vote of these men were set
down on by the Legislature as it re
fused to count Stokes in a contest
before that body on account of the
many frauds along with the intimi
dation of the returning board by
Settle and his armed lieutenants.
Talk about the Thirdites and the
Republicans not being one and the
same is just as thin as the "great
chermanV political conscience as
Settle's witnesses are nearly all ca
lamity howlers. In fact one of the
howlers in Granville makes himself
very officious in the interest of Settle.
The Democrats in North Caroli
na and Granville just as well make
up their minds to fight with all
their might the Third-Republicans
in the next election for they are or
ganizing to-day and pooling issues.
Yet some "snollygoster" will rave
and claw the air because we say the
Alliance is nothing more now than
a straight out political machine run
in the interest of those who are try
ing to feather their nest with silver
wheels rolled into their pockets by
means of prejudice and barefaced
falsehoods. "My own Maryannv
Butler, the chief political traitor,
is to be elected to the United States
Senate in place of the noble Ran
som, or some Democrat, by a com
bination formed between the calam
ity howlers and Republicans is case
they succeed in carrvinsr the nex
Legislature.
We ask every true friend of the
people in Granville to get to work
and assist us in our effort to redeerr
the county from Third-Republican
rule, unless they wish higher taxes
and such officers as Milton Haw
kins to execute law.
IIOX. A. II. A. WILLIAM.S.
The Charlotte Observer says.
We could not altogether approvt
the policy of Hon. A. H. A. Wil
liams, of the fifth district, pending
the meeting of the conventions lasi
year, nor did we think he met tin
issues of the campaign with quit
the directness and resolution thai
the requirements of the case seemed
to demand, but we have had recent
03casion to warm immensely toward
him. The State canvassing board
awarded the certificate of election tc
his competitor and the name of
Thomas Settle will appear on the
roll of the next House, as made up
by the clerk, as the Representative
of the fifth district, but notwith
standing this, Capt. Williams has
been in Washington, at his own ex
pense, much of the time since the
inauguration, visiting the White
House frequently and the depart
ments daily, working for places for
Democrats' This is certainly very
much to his credit, and when, in
connection with the knowledge of
this fact, we recall the statement
published and never denied that
members of the cigarette trust put
a large amount of money for Set
tle's campaign and contributed other
meney to the Republican campaign
fund last fall under the condition
that a certain part of the contribu
tion should be used for the election
of Settle we have all the reasons
needed for sympathizing with Capt.
Williams in the contest he is mak
ing for the seat. The Observer
presents its compliments to him and
hopes that he will win.
STAND 15Y ITS PRINCIPLES.
The Third Party advocates in
Granville have boycotted the Oxford
Ledger because that paper has dar
ed to maintain what it conceived to
be right. We admire the unshaken
spunk and courage of the Ledger.
The action of the Third Party in
(iranville will have no effect upon
it. A few subscribers may drop off
and become sneaking borrowers and
readers of the paper instead of pay
ing for it; and in this way some
men treat those who have credited
them.
The boycott is not a very handy
weapon to us. It is -much like a
boomeraere. It will soon or later
rebound and the projectors will get
the worst of it in the end Durham
Sun.
necessary to success in any of those
States would make the North Caro
lina farmer comfortable or rich, in
less time than he, with the same
means, could become so out there.
These are rockbottom truths.
Wilmington Star.
MARY AND MARY ANN,
Carolinian.
There is a striking similarity be
tween the abusive utterances of
Mrs. Lease in an article in Frank
Leslie's under the headline "My
Recent Trip through the South" and
an editorial in a recent issue of
Butler's Caucasian. Both call into
requisition the entire resources of
the English language in abusing the
South. It is another illustration of
the great minds which proverbially
run in the same channel. Sister
Lease carries the tune while Bro.
Butler joins in the chorus.
Here is a parallel containing some
of the finest aphorisms and bon mots
of these two on that subject. Let
these two haters of the South and
it people speak for themselves:
A PATROTIC EXPRESSION.
The reinterment of Jefferson
Davis' remains at Richmond, and
the popular demonstration occasion
ed thereby in the South, will afford
Radical politicians of the Chandler
and Tanner type one of their few
remaining chances for loading up
their old cracked sectional gun and
It" I 1 f i 1
oiaziner away witn it, witn more
risk to themselves than to anybody
dlse.
There is nothing to be gained by
the Republicans by misunderstand
ing or misrepresenting the South.
The Southerners would be less than
human if they did not cherish an
affectionate remembrance of the
"lost cause," for which they risked
and endured so much. That is
merely a natural sentiment, and in
point of fact they are no longer
inimical to the Union. They ac
cept the result, and most of them
are satisfied with it.
Shoulder, to shoulder, the veter
ans of both armies now march out
to the historic fields, view the scenes
of their former deadly strife, erect
memorials, and fight their battles
over in friendly reminiscence. Poli
ticians may scheme, and cranks may
rave, but the people of the two sec
tions are now truly patriotic and
united. Washington News.
A GOOD STATE.
Many of the farmers in North
Carolina labor under the impression
that they have a pretty rough time,
and that North Carolina is a good
State to emigrate from. A good
many have accordingly emigrated
and there are very few State West
or Southwest where North Caro
linians and their descendants are not
Pound, while in some they form a
very considerable portion of the
population. In some respects North
Carolina mav not be the equal of
some, of these Western any South
western States, but take it all in all
she in the equal of any of them and
the superior of many. They may
have larger cities, numerous rail
ways, fertile and cheap lands, and
wide ranges for pasturage of cattle
and sheep, but they have blizzards,
cyclones, floods, droughts and vari
ous other , visitations that we know
little of in North Carolina, where if
they come at all it is only at rare
intervals and in mild form compar
ed with the Western and south
western article. On the average our
lands may not be as rich but the
same industry and push that is
"The condition of
the South is the same
as that of 30 years
ago. It is the deter
mination of an idle,
arrogant few to con
trol the thoughts and
actions of the many
for their own gain.
"The spirit
prompted the
that
war,
that drenched the
land with the hlood
of brothers slain, was
not exercised when
Lee surrendered, sul
len and vindictive,
subjugated but not
conquered; it retired
to its last entrench
ment, the Bourbon
Democracy of the
South, and there,
brooding in South
ern homes and hearts
it has lifted continu
ously the red hand
of murder, reveled
in high-handed law
lessness, and, with
a barbarism worse
than the Pagan Atr
tilla ever used, swept
the South with a
bosom of hate, and
proscribed and per
secuted those who
dared to differ from
it politically."
Mary Lease.
"The- South is
dominated by politi
cal bosses who care
nothing for the peo
ple. "
"If any should be
fooled into coming
(as immigrants) they
would go away in a
little time. Until
there is a material
change in the South
ern method of intol
erant and high-handed
fraud, it canndl
be expected that
those used to free
dom will submit
themselves to auto
cratic authority."
Marion Butler.
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dec3
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In anticipation of an enlarged
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embracing- everything" necessary
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We absolutely guarantee prices,
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3G inch Cheviot in all the new
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32 inch Beige in tans and grays
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38 inch Whip Cords in all the
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22 inch Faille silk at 75 cents.
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20 inch Armure silk at $1.00.
21 inch Poie de Soie silk at
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button
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