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All others, when bill is presented, except legal notices and transient advertisements, which must be accompanied by the cash in every in- 0 1 ftTl CO CORRESPONDENTS. We want a good, live, reliable correspondent in every section of the county. To all who will send us the news, we will send the paper free. Correspondent? must get their letters in at least oV Tuesday night, else they may miss publica tion. We reserve all right to condense or reject communications. We are not responsible lor views of correspondents. JOB WORK. We have a well-equipped Job Office, and can do nice stationery work, hand-bill work in fact, all kinds of work at prices that will be reasona ble. We guarantee our stationery, and can please you. We do no credit business in this department, as only the cash can buy from sta tionery merchants at reasonable figures. OXFORD, N. C. AUG 3, 1894. FOR REPRESENTATIVE FIFTH DISTRICT, AUCUSTUS W. GRAHAM, OF GRANVILLE. No republic is better than its voters. The country will be prosperous again. Let no one despair. So come off Thirdites. The party whose eagle defeated may earn more than the party whose goose is elected. Jerry Simpson has been renomi nated for Congress by the Third party in Kansas. How stuck up Boston will be when she becomes headquarters of the glue combina. Let the power behind the throne demand good moral character in our representatives. Peel the bark off some of the men in office today and you will find them full of worm holes. As a future Presidential dark horse it looks as if Gorman would hardly rise beyond the horrors of a night-mare. The trusts are harder to down than Debs. They are worse than Debs, though, and Olney ought to tackle them. Politics becomes a drunkard's club when sober men are so greedy for the dollar that they let social order break its neck. The leading Republican journal of Kansas calls Mrs. Diggs n "little female liar," which would seem to show that Kansas is still bleeding. With Whiskey and Sugar furnish ing 80 per cent, of the dealings in stock exchanges, it would seem to be time to call for a change of drinks. Knights of Labor are going to try and beat Tom Reed. But as he has the regular running delegates, the walking variety probably doesn't bother him. Debs says he's going to organize a big strike for next year. But by that time he may be taking a square look at things through a cell win dow or door. There is plenty of reciprocity in the Senate, but it is not so much between Uncle Sam and foreign countries as it is between the Sen ators and the trusts. The Coxeyites are in straits, hav ing been deserted by their leaders and being in the illgrace of every body else. The tramp craze in or ganized armies seems to have had its day and those who have engaged in it will probably be content to tramp singly or in pairs the rest of their lives. 13 ms.jl mo .2 wkslw . :) 00 15 0010 00 1 50 18 00 9 00 11 00; 5 50 7 50, 4 00 I 4 00j 2 0U' In case the Senate and House and the President finally agree on the Tariff Bill, what about the ultima tum of Havemeyer, President of the Sugar Trust. Sit on a snow bank and figure out how long, with the American Tobacco Co. bossing the Tobacco Markets, how long it took the far mers to cease making money on raising tobacco. "Where are we at?" Is now the overshadowing Democratic conun drum. Ex In the clutches of the Sugar trust, and whiskey trust, and the farmers in these parts along with many of the leaders of the party, are also in the. clutches of the American Tcbacco Co. The figure 9 is with us and has come to stay. Few men or women now living will ever date a docu ment without using a 9. It now stands third 1894 where it will then move to second place 1900 and there rest for one hundred years. Since so many threats and pro phecies of rebellion and disunion have been indulged in by Anarchists, why should not the government take the initiative and deport these gentlemen? It is foolish to wait for the enemies of government to strike the first blow. They do some things on a pretty large scale down in Central America for instance, the ex-President of San Salvandor has just been charg ed with misappropriating no less than $10,000,000. If he has gotten away with that sum he will rank very high among embezzlers. Big, bluff, brainy Tom Reed has just been again unanimously nomi nated for Congress by the Republi cans of his district, and he will doubtless be elected in September by one of the largest majorities ever given to him. He commands the unbounded pride of the people he represents, and, although lacking in the marvelous personal magnetism of Blaine, he is probably as strong in his State as a candidate for Pre sident as ever the Plumed Knight was in the zenith of his power. The Wisconsin Republicans are to be commended for a platform declaration on the financial question that means something. "The Re publican party is in favor of honest money. We are opposed to any scheme that will give the country a depreciated and debased currency. We favor the use of silver as a cur rency to the extent only that it can be circulated on a parity with gold." is the language of the plank of the State platform devoted to the cur rency question, and there is no mis taking its meaning. Carroll D. Wright, John D. Kernan and Nicholas E. Worthing ton constitute the Commission ap pointed by the President to investi gate the Pullman strike. Wright is Commissioner of Labor, Kernan is a New York lawyer of good practice and anti-Snapper proclivities and a former Railroad Commissioner, and Worthington is an Illinois Circuit Judge and ex-Congressman. All are men of rugged honesty, with a good knowledge of the transportation problem in the United States, and none of them has a record inimical to the just claims of the laboring class. The blowing up of a locomotive with a dynamite bomb in one of the Chicago railroad yards indicates that the Chicago Anarchists were not all hanged with Spies. The action of Governor Altgeld in pardoning those still remaining in prison had doubt less encouraged the disciples of dy namite to believe that they can pur sue their hellish work in safety, and if Chicago does not experience a series of dynamite outrages as a direct result of this ill-advised clem ency all signs fail. The apostles of dynamite are the enemies of humanity and the only safe place for them is in a world where dy namite and explosions are unknown. The next best retreat for these fiends is in a prison the walls of which they can neither dig through nor scale. SENATOR JARVIS. Boheiman attacked Senator Jarvis in the Charlotte Observer because of his vote against the fast mail ser vice and his identification with the Wilmington and Weldon railroad as attorney. He replies in more than a column letter in the Observer of Sunday. He says he voted in the interest of public economy. He says he is not attorney for the road, and was never so but in one instance He says that the "dockets in Pitt Superior court will show that I am and have been since 1889, the attor ney for the plaintiffs in a large number of suits against the com pany." He explains also his con nection with the Legislative Com mittee, for which he has been sharply criticised several times. Senator Jarvis is the true man of the people, and can be depended on everytime. He comes as near as any man in the State in filling the place of the lamented Vance, and hence should remain in the Senate in which body he has already taken a very high stand and ranks among the ablest men in that body. Seuator Jarvis in concluding his letter says: I am under no obligation to the company and tne company is under none to me. Had the proposition been to pay what I considered a use less subsidy to that road I would just as soon have voted against it. I believe in treating the railroads fairly and in giving to their property the same protection that is given to other property and in paying them fair compensation for services ren dered, but I do not believe in giv ing them any extraordinary privi leges. In conclusion, I beg to say that while I shall not feel called upon to pay attention to nameless corres pondent, I shall always cheerfully reply to any respectful inquiry, no matter from whom it may come. In the case of this correspondent I understand he is a Mr. Watt, of your city. If I ever did the man any harm I do not know it. If, however, he has any grieyance against me it would have been much more manly to have made it known to me under his own name. I be lieve it was this same correspondent who assailed Senator Vance so severely for his course in the Senate. I, therefore, need not expect to es cape, but he may find out, when it is too late, that he can better serve his special friend by writing about his virtues than by assailing the motives of those who dare to differ with him. THE RIGHT COURSE. A few Democratic politicians of the hare brain order are preparing to involve the State convention in turmoil by insisting upon the adop tion of a thick and thin endorse ment of the Cleveland administra tion. The elections this year call for nothing of the kind. The Pre sident and the Democratic party in North Carolina disagree in regard to several matters of more or less im portance, and nobody knows it bet ter than the aforesaid politicians. It is easy enough to understand that it is impractical to conduct the can vass altogether on state issues, how ever desirable it might be to do so, because the opposition will have a hand in submitting the issues to the people; but there is no sense in demanding that the party shall en dorse what it does not approve. The plain duty of the convention is to reaffirm its devotion to the princi ples of the party as set forth in the Chicago platform; but it is not its business to endorse the construction that any man puts upon it. If the President is to be specifically en dorsed, the late Senator Vance and nine Democratic members of the house from North Carolina must be reputiated. The President's views of public policy and his construction of party platforms may be correct, but the Democratic party in North Carolina does not believe it, and it would be folly to attempt to make it stultify itself by saying that it does Davidson Dispatch. Politics is the axle on which "the government turns; it is the child of civilization, but oftentimes one would think it had no mother at all, so dirty gets its face. Itch on human, mange on horses, dogs and all stock, cured In 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by J. G. Hall, druggist, Ox ford, N. C. In case you wish to pass away an hour or so in a Dleasant wav. vnn run an at. R. Broughton's Pool Room. 31j27-tf. VILAS DEFENDS THE PRESIDENT. Senator Vilas was Postmaster General during the first administra tion of President Cleveland, and be come Secretary of the Interior after Judge Lamar had been appointed and confirmed to a position upon the Supreme bench. He has al ways been regarded as one of the warmest friends and admirers of President Cleveland. He has a great reputation as a orator throughout the entire Northwest. He attained notional celebrity as a speaker at the Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1884, when Cleveland was first nominated, and was made presiding officer of that convention. His address to the Senate in de fense of the Presieent of the United States was worthy of his reputation and was in every was a great foren sic effort, He expressed his regret that Senator Gorman, who had led the assault upon the President and upon his character, was not present and hoped that he would soon re turn to the chamber. He announced that he spoke upon this occasion as a personal as well as political friend of the President, and expressed his regret that the Senator from Mary land had not yet permitted his re marks to appear in the official re cord, so that they could be officialv answered. He expressed gratification at the splendid defense of the President made by Senator Hill, and said that the distinguished senior Senator from the Empire State had never appear ed to better advantage than upon the occasion when he stood in his place upon the flooi of the Senate and defended a distinguished citizen of his own State the President of the United States. With this interesting introduc tion to his remarks, Senator Vilas stepped forth into the aisle as a lawyer appearing before a jury and analyzed in a critical manner the accusations which had been made against the President. He said that the President was first charged with duplicity, second, with an encroach ment upon the prerogative of the Congress, and third with having traduced the Senate of the United States. In reply to the charge of duplicity Senator Vilas showed by the numerous public utterances of the President that the charge was impossible, because upon every oc casion, in season and out of season, he had given voice to his belief in free raw material and that there could be no excuse for any public man misunderstanding his position upon that subject, certainly not to the extent of accusing him of dupli city. Senator Vilas then analyzed the statements of Senators Vest and Jones, to show that even upon their own showing the charge of dupli city against the President could not be sustained. Then, taking up the charge that President Cleveland had endeavored to unduly influence the Congress, he quoted liberally from the famous letter to show its spirit of lofty patriotism and its desire for the welfare of our common country. The eloquent Wisconsin Senator vividly pictured the coming of George Washington to the Congress, accompanied by his Secretary, to personally urge the ratification of an important treaty. lie claimed that Andrew Jackson was a patriot and a Democrat, who had aggressively extended his views to the Congress and almost demanded acquiescence in them. Both Washington and Jackson were laboring for the general welfare and no man living dare charge them with exceeding their authority or their prerogatives. Concerning the third charge that President Cleveland had traduced the Senate the Senator read liberal extracts from the now celebrated letter to show that the idea of the President was an earnest, patriotic desire for revenue reform, according to party pledges, and not in any sense a desire or a disposition to mis represent the Senate. Certainly there was nothing in the letter, not a line, which could be pointed out as having definite, direct or remote personal reference to the Senators from Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee. Wliat a Word will Do. Hyron reminds us that a word Is enough to rouse mankind to mutual slaughter. Yes. there is power in a word Marathon, for instance, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Appo matox. Great battles these, but what a great Dattle is going on in many a sick and suffering body. ' In yours, perhaps. Take courage. You can win. Call to your aid Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 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