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THE DEMOCRAT. W. W. KITCHIN, Editor. Thursday. JfT. B, "Oivir Service Reform. X9We prefer a Democrat to a Repub lican of equal character. 3No honest and true Republican asks to beretained, and none other should be retained. In the South a sweep with a clean broom is demanded by all Demo crats "Turn the rascals out." THE CJVIL SERVICE AND THE OHIO ELECTION. Candid and thinking Democrats are not, and should not be, disposed to ignore the prime cause of the de feat of their State ticket in Ohio. They will also charge up to the real debtor the loss of the Legislature by a small majority. The avoid ance of the main faet only involves sophistry and deception. The election of the Republican candidates for State officers, not withstanding ,the unprecedented vote of 28,000 for the Prohibition nominee, has led many to the thoughtless conclusion that the Prohibition strength came mainly from the Democratic party, and that the Republicans were right, after all, in advocating a liquor tax system which had been pronounced unconstitutional in two Supreme; Court decisions, and which had been voted down by a mountain majority when presented directly to the people in the form of a con stitutional amendment. j That there was a considerable Democratic vote for the Prohibition ticket can not be denied; but it was not large enough to defeat the Democratic ticket, and what there was of it was mainly owing to a de sire for refuge from Democratic ills. Governor Hoadly and his associate candidates retire to pri vate life on account of apathy and dissatisfaction within their party. The Democrats had the best of the argumentat all points in the campaign. Governor Hoadly. easily overthrew Judge Foraker in joint debate, and Senator Sher man's sectional position was coun ter to the sentiment in the Repub. lican as well as in the Democratic party. The Civil Service Reform fraud has been the main cause of Demo cratic defeat. The falling off in the Hoadly vote in strong Demo cratic counties tells the story. The Democrat of Ohio are sick of hy pocrisy and buncombe. The plain est people are well enough acquaint ed with the cardinal principles of our Government to see that the Civil Service r system which was thrown upon the new Administra tion is undemocratic, unrepublican, and aristocratic and exclusive, and they are not at all delighted with the zeal of the Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Civil Service act. The offices of right belong to the party placed in power by the people, and the true theory of the Government can not be carried ut through any other system. Even viewing the question from a mere spoils stand-point, it is invita ble that the Democratic party can not cope with its adversary unless it pursues the same tactics as to the public places which kept the Republican party in power for fif teen or twenty years. No Democrat enjoyed place under Republican National Administra tion when it was possible to appoint a Republican. No Democrat will hold place un der the coming Republican State Administration when, by either fair means or distortion, a Republi can can be preferred. The Republican State Executive Committee, during the campaign just closed, levied large contribu tions on officeholders under a Demo cratic Administration. Let us not mince words about the Civil Service fraud. It was born in aristocratic notions and cultured in buncombe. The Repub licans have been reaping all the benefits. They have been preach ing Civil Service reform to the Democrats, and practicing office holding just as they did under Re publican Administrations. The Democrats ha ve been handi capped in the moment of the first National Democratio victory in the present generation, and they have Hot been inclined to go to the polls and ratify the instrument which kas humiliated them. Cincinnati Enquirer. " Ferdinand Ward was last Satur day sentenced to ten years in the New York penitentiary. He was connected with Grant in banking business, . His crime was grand lar ceny. ' Banking men, such as those Norfolk fellows, should learn a les- TARIFF. Congress soon meets. It is a Democratic Congress as to the House, the Senate is Republican. For years every Democratic platform has had as a special feature a plank of tariff reform. The Administration this year is the first Democratic one that has been since the war. Demo crats in their platforms and especial ly in the platform upon which the present Administration was elected have pledged the party to give the people a revision of the tariff. The people expect a complete reform of the present tariff system. No doubt an effort, and a successful one too, will be made by the Democrats of the House tq revise the tariff. And no doubt radical changes will be made in it, but to do this the tariff reformers should have the hear ty co-op-eration of the Administra tion. Cleveland will soon send his Message to Congress and fte sup pose, he will id that message ruiiy set fourth the views of the Demo arats of the ceuntry. The protec tive tariff men, since they sce the invitable tariff reform and succumb ing to it, or at least a large part of them have recently come to the con clusion that a deep revision of the tariff is necessary. So, doubtless this winter high tariff will.be blotted out and thus one of the highest aims of the Democratic party will be ac complished. Remember however that a Republican Senate stands in the way of all this. EXTRACT FROM OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. The Cabinet officers are also se cluding themselves as much as pos sible for the purpose of preparing their annual reports. It is certain that the administration will take very positive grounds on financial questions. Mr. Manning, and the new U. S. Treasurer, Mr. Jordan, will recomend in their reports the suspension of silver coinage. Mr. Jordan expects to show in his re port that 845,000,000 have already been lost in the attempt to force silver into circulation. . It is held that it is not good financiering to reduce the National debt which bears interest of only three percent, when the current rate is six per cent. Treasurer Jordan is a man of very pronounced views, and has a very plain way of stating them. He says if Thrman had stuck to the greenback, he would now be President of the UnitedStates Senator Sherman, Mr. Jor dan declares, would not dare to make such a statement on the floor of the Senate as he made in his Petersburg speech. If he were to advise such a thing in the Senate as the application of silver curren cy to the liquidation of the puDlie debt, It would kill him forever, po litically, and send him back to pri vate life like Thnrman was sent back when he changed his base on finance. Sherman, he says, blames the administration for not doing a thing which he himself would not dare to advocate. At the exhibition this year there was one exhibit which attracted much attention and proved more in teresting than any. other, it being the first' time that another State had a display at our Fair. This was the exhibit of the state of Nort h Cap olina in charge of the Comraissiwner of Immigration. This display, sit uated in the main building near the south-western entrance, showed tue various products of the State, the ex hibit comprising 118 varieties of wood, 164 of minerals, 56 of crystals and . precious stones' 18 of corn, 9 of wheat, also the rice in the sheaf 12 of oak acorns, .18 of wild fruits, 30 of building stone, 18 of peas and beans, 18 of grass seed, 64 medical herbs and plants, and exhibits of silk, cotton, wool, Golden Leaf North Carolina tobacco, and a series of in teresting views of the Ashing indua try of the State. Mr. Patrick took great pleasure in explaining to every one the climate, soil and products of the State, and everything ,ia connec tion with . the exhibit. Burlington (N. J.) Reporter. , .. . The above is clipped from the Reporter of Oct. 19. Since Mr.. Pat rick has gone to so much trouble, we hope he will succeed in getting lots of New Jersey people to come here to live and then., be able to send in a good report for the immigration bureau. Senator Vance, we believe, more thoroughly understands our people and their opinions than any other man in the state, and he says that our people are not satisfied with the civil service humbug. They are not. Some of the farmers in the west ern part of our state hip cattle in large numbers to the northern mar kets. Cattle raising, where land is plentiful and cheap, is profitable. . Gen. Beauregard is going to write a series of articles on the war for the North American Review, begin ning with the January number. - mCLELLAN DEAD. George B, Mc Clellan passed across the river of death last Wednes day, and in his death the country lost the grandest union soldier produced during the late war on ' the Federal side. His genius and skill as a sol dier and as an organizer had no equal in the North and but few superiors if any, in the South. His campaign around Richmond, while he failed to capture the confederate citadel did more to conquer and subdue theSouth than any. other campaign during the war.His route was the key to the heart of the confederacy and the identical line on which Grant at last broke through the shell of the South and gained the crown . of glory which he so unworthily wore. Tb South lost in the seven days fight around Rich niond the flower and backbone of her army. At that time the southern Army had in its ranks 80,000 thou sand men from the best blood of the South, and each man was a hero fighting from a stern sense of duty." Eighty thousand such men never be fore nor since stood in battle anay nor did any general on the Federal side ever meet in battle, such patri otism, enthusiasm, chivalry, and des perate fighters as'Mc Clellpn met in his struggle around Richmond. We dont believe any other general on this continent could have extricated the Northern Army from its position. Nothing but superior military gen ius, management and the most des perate fighting could have saved his army from complete " annihilation. The south must have lost in killed and wounded not less than 35 or 40 thousand men. She never recovered from the fatal blows given her by George Mc Clel lan. He killed and wounded more men in seven days than Grant killed and wounded in twelve months to rea'jh the identical spot Mc Clellan reached without the loss of one thousand men ; and if the south had had the army that opposed . McClellan, Grant would have been driven to Yorktown or Fortress Monroe with in three days from the time he struck the chicko hominy. Unfortunately for his reputation he was a Democrat and never surreiv edor subordinated his principles like Grant and others, to suit the times and the men .in power there fore he remained under a cloud of suspicion during the war and ever since. We mean of course by the Re publican party, the controlling power in this country for the, last twentj'- five years. .. McClellan combined the qualities of a wise statesman with those of a great general. He possessed this advantage over most military chieftains and had he sur rendered his honor and Ms manhood together with the . principles of the democracy of the ' coun try, he would have- ranked first in war and first in peace. But like an honorable man, true patriot, great soldier, and great statesman, he preferred to be right in the minor ity than wrong with the majority. He fought for the salvation of the Union and not for the subjugation of the South. " . A great manhas fallen asleep.. May his mortal remains rest in piece and flowers bloom over his grave, and his soul rest in eternal glory. " Mr. Cleveland appointed Henry Ward Beecher's son to a collector ship ; he appointed Carl Schurz's brother-in-law to a consulgeneral ship ; and at the suggestion of Mr. Curtis he removed a good officer to appoint Mr. Burt. And in the,,' face of this, he declares men must not.be rewarded .for party, service. Good ness, gracious, how .' Henry, Ward Beecher, Carl Schurz. .and Curtis worked to elect Cleveland I But Cleveland did not appoint these fellows, because these men worked for him. "6h no, certainly not. They were appointed from the highest motives of disinterested .pa triotism. If these three lords of mugwumpism had worked and voted for Jim Blainej they would have been appointed all the same. ' But who believes it? May be some edi tor believes it but not this one. .One morning twenty-nine .years ago the body of Mr. John . Sad her, a celebrated Irish financier and specula torvwas found lying stark and cold near Jackstraw'a Castle, on Hamsteatl Heath, and near it the little vial con taining prussic acid, with which, in the depths of his despair, he had rid himself of .life. An inquest was held and the medical witness on the occasion was Dr.: Edward Staunton. About tendays ago ; another, body was found, stark and cold, on nearly the same spot, and the fingers still gripped a small bottle which had contained prussic acid. It was tak ed up and recognized as that of -the same Dr. Ed ward Staunton, whom the weary . passage of twentycine years had brought to the same end. Ex. Louis Pasteur, a Freeh scientist has discovered a cure for hydrophobia. It consists in inocalation . ONLY THIS. ' 'Ex-Congressman Kitchin, of Scotland Neck, does everything, if we judge by his advertisement in the Des6ckat, of , which he is editor." -Chronicle, Does that mean "everything of which he is editor Cr "Democrat of which he is editor?'' If it means the latter then we wonder whether it was written through mistake, through meanness" Or perhaps through care lessness. If through mistake then we have nothing to say. If through carelessness and ignoranee, they 'are inexcusable. Our. name is plain on this sheet. The Chronicle judges from the advertisemerit, whiolf is also in this issue; you read it-' and -you will see that it also tell3 who is the editor. Now how could our contem porary have made its mistake? Such carelessness, if it is that, should not be expected from a journalist who has been recentlyso 'much praised, for the journalistic qualities which he truly posesses. "But say our name was not- on the Democrat at all now, could our friend even then be isrnorant? ' No. for in Our issue of Sept. 3, we made a correction especial ly for the edification of the Wilson Advance the editor of which at that time was the present editor of the Chronicle, Mr. JoSephus Daniels, the Advance having made a somewhat similar remark to the above taken from the Chronicle: ' " , We are no Ex-Congressman." " We have never seen the pencil driver of the Chronicle, but because we 'are oersonallv unknown to him', - and be- Cause he does know a W. II. Kifcchin, from this place, still, when our name is plain on every paper, when even the advertisement referred to con tains the necessary information and when we have before directly cor rected such a mistake for him,'6hould he make such a remark and then at tribute it to ignorance, to a mistake, and to pure carelessness, or should it be attributed to a reckless hand ling of non-existing things and to meanness. We ' must say that it seems strange to' us, and ' what mo tive prompted it we can not guess, We are patient, and we do not think Capt. Kitchin desires to become an editor and surely no circumstance whaterer could have caused the Chronicle to believe that he is one. Our patience with such remarks as the above is well nigh exhausted since the remarks come from so nears ly the same source every time. An apology is due our readers for noticing this. We do not care s cent about it as far as concerns' Capt Kit chin or the Democrat or our self. Of course it matters -not as to us but the past corrections, and the preseat circumstances and simi lar remarks' previous to this one surely are enough to arouse suspi cions in our mind as to the'sincerity, the prompting motive, an-.l ' the in tent of the remark. Our readers to fullv understand this should have rod closely the Democrat; and the Advance and "Chronicle (during Mr Daniels' connection with these two) for the past few nio'nths. ' ' lr we nave misinterpreted our contemporary, and" it the remark has any excuse whatever,'' eithe'r ' igno rance or carelessness, then we are ready to beg pardon.' :-The. brother-in-law -of the New york Herald who , bent , all his energies to defeat . Hill and one of the editors of the New York Times who Is denouncing Hill and .praising Davenport are both filling fureig.n; missions under Cleveland and this is called civil servicereform- and Jeffer sonian democracy in the superlative degree have mercy on .us! -.. . ... , - One Republican Deaver brother in-law to R. B. Yance--a- cierk in the Treasury department was dismissed: by Secretary : manning ...and at once General R. B. Vance, mustered his forces ' and marshalled ' his influence from i democratic source and had Rep ublican -Deaver ire- instated "and- a democrat kicked out and this is called Jeffersonian democracy. Shades" of the depart- edr . '- A Republican ia -appointed Post Master in the city of-Ne w. York who has under ' him .seventeen: hundred Republican appointees instead of so many Democrats,-.-, aad hi is.calhjd civil service reform, pure and simple Deliver us! " Seven eighths of. all the, Republican appointees' under Arthur's adminis tration are still in office Under Cleve land, instead of so many Democrats and this is called democracy. Swallow this wfeo may and give three cheers for Cleveland, but please excuse us. The New Orleans exposition opens this month. iThe stock-holders have done all they could to make it a grand success and perhaps it will be. European statesmen are generally old men. Virginia 20,000 Democatic m a jority Mahone defeated. Three cheers for Virginia! New York elects Hill by more than ten thousand majority. Hur rah for Hill arid Democracy! ' We have gladly placed the Greene county Enterprise or our exchange list. Mr.' J. R. Whichard, who had much- experience as one of the editors of the Reflector, is the editor and theEnterprise is a clean sheet. ; The Herald warns the people of Smithfield to look' out for burglars. They have; visited many towns late- y. Watch out. Does. Ever) thing Except Preach. Ex-Congressman Kitchin, of Scot-, and Neck, does everyting, if we judge bv his advertisement in the . Demo crat, of which he is editor. He tells the people to carry their corn and wheat to his mill to be ground, bring cotton to be ginned or sold to his gin buy or have lumber Tbngued or groov ved at his lumber; mill; , buy harness and trunks at his store, purchase carts and wagons made at his shops, rent or buy a storeor house at his real es tate agency, subscribe for the Dem-, ocRAT.and give him their law practice. Now if brother Kitchin would turn preacher (we once, heard him deliver a Sunday School lecture next thing to it) he would make a whole commu nity in himself. Chronicle. : , . Some men have declined positions on the Civil Service commission. Krupp's most improved gun will kill at a distance of nine miles, - : , , "J. L. M. Curry, minister to Spain, will soon sail. Cleveland is troubled about his coming Civil Service Commission Virginia and New York elections on Tuesday the third. Thomas R. Jernigan, of this state, is a newly appointed consul to Ja pan. W. J. Best, of railroad fame in this state is in jail in Boston on a charge of embezzlement". . i It is gratifying to note that Dem ocratio newspapers are awakening to the stupendous idiocy of the Civ il Service law. Cincinnati Enquir er, Dem. Four White Republican postal clerks and three, colored are still on the route from Richmond toWilming ton instead of so many Democrats and this is called Jeffersonian democ racy. ' ' . J. R. TILLERY, . TILLER Y, N. C. MERCHANT, . : ' ' FARMER. . - LUMBERMAN, PUBLIC MILLER and G INNER, and dealer in gen eral 'supplies of all ' kinds for farm purposes. 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