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MAX O'RELL ON I'M It IS AMI
CO(Jl!ITKS.
New York Journal.
"The coquette is generally a cold
nearted, coiii-nioouea woman, as per
fectly sure of themselves as those fa
mous Mexican horsemen who can ride
at full speed toward a precipice and stop
suddenly dead on the edge of it.
There U a great difference between
the flirt and the coquette. The flirt ac
cepts, even invites, your attentions
without expecting iutentions. The co
quette is a woman who gives you
promissory note with a hrm mtentiou
of dishonoring her signature. Just as
the prude woman often says "No" when
she means "Yes," the coquette whispers
"Yes all the time meaning "No,
The flirt promises nothing. She has
nothing to refuse because she does not
allow you to ask for anything. She
does not compromise herself in anv
way. She says neither Yes nor No. She
encourages you to go on. You say to
yourself. "Will it be Yes or No ? Who
knows? Perhaps Yes, perhaps No."
The coquette is generally a cold-hearted,
cold-blooded woman, as perfectly
sure of herself as those famous Mexi
can horsemen who can ride at full speed
toward a precipice and stop suddenly
dead on the edge of it. The coquette
has no capacity for love. She does not
seek love, but admiration and homage
only. Unlike the flirt, she lacks cheer
fulness and humor. To obtain admira
tion and boast of a new conquest she
will risk even her reputation, com pro
mise herself, yet her virtue is in safe
keeping, for she has neither heart nor
passion. In the comedy of love the
coquette is the vilJian of the play.
The coquette uses man as she does
her dresses, she liKes to be seen with
new on every day. She kill for the
sake of killing. She hunts, but does
not eat the game she brings down. She
plays a man s yanity to satisfy hers
The moment she has received a man's
homage Bhe will leave him to occupy
herself with one who has refused it to
her. She is dull and dreary. She may
be as beautiful as you like, she is never
lovable. She should be shunned like
the card sharper, whom she resembles
all the more that against your good
money she has nothing but counterfeit
coin.
The flirt, on the contrary, is cheerful
jollv, often full ot fun, and it you can
make up your mind to accept he for
what she is worth she may help you
pass a very pleasant time. She is not
Berious and does not want you to take
her seriously; she is honest. She wants
fun, innocent fun. The coquette tries
to lead you as far as she wisnes you to
go;, the flirt does not lead yon any
further than you wish to go. Aud it
may be added that while flirts have of
ten been known to make very good
wives, coquettes have invariably proved
detestable ones.
Winthrop was helplessly wrong when
he said : "A woman without coquetry
is fs insipid as a rose without scent
champagne witnout sparkle, or corned
beef without mustard, 'unless he mean
(which he aid not) that a coquette is a
woman, who, by the care she bestows
on her dress and general appearance
aud many other ways, knows how to
make herself attractive and show her
self in the most advantageous light.
The French language expresses the
difference to a nicety. "Elle est co
quette" means "she dresses very ele
gantly and has very winning manners:
whereas "C'efit une coquette" meaus
"she is a coquette," that is to say "she
tries to fascinate for the mere sake of
fascinating."
The coquette plays on man's vanity
and makes a fool of him. The flirt dis
plays her accomplishments and per
sonal charms either to make you have
a pleasaut time with her, or, when
more serious, to lead you on to an or
fer of marriage, which she will honest
ly accept, often with the best results for
yourself.
It is only when you see a woman that
is a "desperate flirt that you may
come to the conclusion that she is aco
quette. Of course, when the rlirt is a
married woman she is a coquette; but
when she is a young girl I would call
her a very harmless person. On the
other , hand, the opposition to that
epithet of harmless, the adjective that
is most commonly coupled with the
word ''coquette" is not "harmless," but
"heartless."
The word "flirt comes from the
French "lleureter," which means to go
from flower to flower, to touch lightly;
but although the word is of French
origin, the thing, itself is not trench
Flirtation is a pastime which is most
essentially English. We do not flirt in
France; we are more serious than that
in love affairs. Afier all, flirtation is
trifling with love, and that game would
be a dangerous one to piy with a
Frenchman. A woman who flirted
would pass in France for giddy, if not
worse. She knows her countryman well
and is aware what Bhe would expose her
self toif she flirted with him.
The English girl, in flirting, does not
play with fire. Englishmen are re
served, cold. The customs of the coun
try grant liberty to the women, aud
they accept flirtation f-jr what it is
worth. They worst they might say of
a girl who flirted with them would be :
"She is an awful flirt," with a mixed
expression of pity and contempt. An
JEuglish girl, who has had a good - timn
at a party, a picnic, a ball, chu say: "I
have had such flirtation !" Why, si e ;
could say that to her own mother, and
if that mother was still fairly young and
good looking, she might answer : "And
so have I."
I take the American woman to be in
telligent, I had almost said too intellec
tual, to enjoy that childish pastime.
I hate the coquette and somewhat
pity, if not despise the flirt. I love
straight-forwardness. 1 admire that
woman who blooms in the shade, who
is earnest in her affections, and who
waits until ehe is in love to allow the
curtain to rise. Then who honestly,
devotedly, straightforwardly goes on
through the whole comedy.
In tyerythi.ig I hate imitations. If
I cannot get the real article, I do with
out it.
Maud by Your Home Merchant.
Wins on Journal.
Ttiere are a number of people who
live in ihese cities who are in the habit
of ordering what dry goods and clothing
they may need from New York or Balti
more, laboring under the delusion that
they can buy cheaper and better goods
than they can purchase through home
merchants.
The experience of experienced buyers
is that goods are higher, sold from the
rttail stores of big Northern cities or
purchased through agencies in these
cities, than they are at our home stores.
It may be a balm to conscious pride to
say "I bought this or that from Siegel,
Cooper & Company. Macy, Ehrieh, or
Crawford, of New York," but it does
not add one item to the value of the
good 8. If you will stop to think for
one moment you must realize the fact
that your small purchases will never
enable you to acquire the experience in
regard to the value of goods that a mer
chant has, and a gratified vanity is all
you will get for your trouble, and you
may, and often do, find you have paid
entirely too much for your purchase.
Now, we take this view of the matter
eyery dollar Boent with home merchants
tends to strengthen their bands and
tends to build up your city. Ihe home
merchauts rents your store, pays his
tax, helps to support your municipal
government, gives to charitv, and last,
but by no means least, does more to
advertise your city than any other class
of men. Now, remember, when we
speak of the merchant we speak of the
merchaut we Bpeak of the class who do
advertise in their home papers telling
to the worHI who they are and what
are. attracting the attention of buyers
a d others to the city.
A live, progressive merchant is one
of the most valuable citizens a city can
have, and it is the duty of the people to
support them, and usually the masses
do. but the wealthier classes often do
not. We urge all of our people to stand
by the home merchant, the home man
ufacturer, and in fact, all home people
KaiiNH (irl.
Kansas City Journal.
Joseph Lambert, a Chanute boy ser
vintr in the rbiliimines. writes to one
of his Kansas girl cousins as follows
I wish I could see some of the beautiful
ladies of Kaneas. I have not seen
white lady for so long that I have nearly
forgotten how one looks. Kansas girls
are the best looking ladies in the world
I know, for I have seen ladies from
all nations. If I ever get back to old
sunny Kansas some beautiful lady will
havetoaav "Yes" or "No" without
any delay, for I will be fixed out right
I will have two blankets, a shelter
tent "pup" tent, the boys call them
and a set of dishes, tin cup, knife, fork
and suoon to start up with. I know if
h fellow has a start like that most any
lady would say "Yes."
To Curtail Yarn Output.
CiuiiLOTTE, N. C, Sept. 3. At
called meeting of the board of governors
of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Asso
ciation to-nigbt a report was received
from the special committee which visited
Philadelphia last week to confer with
the yarn commission men. The re
port, which was adopted, recommended
a curtailment in the present production
of yarn for a period of GO days.
The report is in the form of a joint
letter from the representatives of the
Southern cotton spinners and the yarn
commission men and has been approved
by both organizations.
A report was also received from the
special committee which has visited the
various Southern mills to secure tbeir
co-operation in a direct selling move
ment. This report recommends the
concentration of the business in not
more than 10 different houses. This
report also was adopted.
The Svnatorolilp In lluuan.
Salisbury Correspondence Morning Post.
Since the various aspirants for the
United States Senate have announced
thernselyts, their friends hve com
menced active work in their behalf in
this section. Mr. Carr will undoubtedly
carry Kowan county, witn ixnonei
Waddell second. Governor Jarvis and
Mr. Simmons both have supporters,
while there are many who will vote for
the venerable and distinguished Ran
som, l he senatorial primary wm ie
the cause of the Democratic party poll
ing its full 8 rength in the presidential
election, as the friends and supporters
i each senatorial candidate will see to
t that everybody is out and votes.
The new contracts for carrying mails
on the star routes will contain a pro
vision to oblige contractors to live on or
contiguous to the routes.
HILL ARP'S LETTER.
We thought that maybe the late
New York and Akron riots would even
up things, and the south haters up in
God's country would call off the dogs,
but they are still blowing the same
old horn. They are hard up, how
ever. Some of t he hounds have lost
the trail, and all are scattered and
there is no keynote to rally them
the buglers don't harmonize. Some
said that the riot in New York was
owing to a corrupt Democratic ad
ministration in that city. The Akron
horror called for another solution,
and now they boast that they saved
the nigger, but if it had been down
south he would have been lynched
with Sam Hose tortures. A late
paper sent me as a marked copy says
that Southern monocracy has crossed
the line and is affecting the lower
classes up north, just as a contagion
spreads in unhealthy regions. It all
comes from the south, and there is no
quarantine to arrest its progress
That s bad and sad. Let s buna a
wall.
But seriously we must warn our
good negroes not to cross the line. It
is dangerous. Keep away from Pana
and New York. Stay at home and
cultivate our cotton and corn and let
politics alone and you are in no
danger. Idleness is your curse. If I
had mv way I would re-establish the
old patrol system and make every
tramp negro carry a pass or take a
whipping. I would empower the
town marshals and the country
constables to arrest every vagabond
on the highwav and if he couldent
give a good account of. himself he
should be tied up and dressed down
We old men know that one good
whipping has more effect on a bad
negro than five years in the chain
gang. Even a hanging is glory, for
they are going straight to heaven
Last Saturday night a tramp negro
cut the slat from the blind of Mr.
Gary's house and opened it and
crawled in and stole his paternal
gold watch, and his pocket book
within three feet of his head, while
he was sleeping. No doubt he was
armed, and would have shot Mr. Gary
had he waked upland resisted. The
negro took a night freight and was
arrested at Kingston, and the watch
was recovered, but he got away. We
have got to do something with these
tramps. Our chain gangs are full
enough. I repeat it, that no good,
industrious negro is in any danger in
the south, and they know it. Jim
Smith is the biggest farmer in the
state, and he savs there is no labor
in the world equal to that of well
regulated negroes, and he knows.
But the spirit of mobocracy is not
confined to the race problem up north.
The lynching last Saturday at Gill
man, in Illinois, was against an old
defenseless white woman a doctress
who was suspected of causing a young
girl's death by malpractice, but who
had not had a trial, nor had any in
tention to harm the erring girl. A
mob of 250 men attacked her house
in the night, and she defended her
self and her home and killed and
wounded as many as she could.
They mortally Wounded her and
burned her house. What kind of
civilization is that? Why dident they
hunt up the man who ruined the girl?
Our civilization down south has al
ways protected women, no matter
what they did. We will not hang
them for murder, for even old Mrs.
Nobles was sent to the chaingang.
Our women must have protection
from white brutes and black fiends,
and we would have rejoiced if some
body had have given that scoundrel,
Dr. Wilkerson, who ran away with
his wife's sister, a hundred lashes
before he was turned loose in Atlanta.
That was a good case for a little mob
law. If the law could not reach him
the lash would. Poor, helpless, piti
ful woman! How you have to suffer
m silence ana live ana aie with your
wrongs unavenged. How many
hearts are breaking now because of a
husband's tyranny or his faithfulness
to his marriage vows. For her chil
dren's sake she keeps silent and
buries her secret in her bosom. I
know of men who made fame while
living, and on whose monuments
fulsome epitaphs are chiseled who
disgraced and dishonored the name
of husband. I know some who are
not dead who are doing the same
thing now. A woman chained to an
unprincipaled man is the most help
less creature upon earth. Prome
thius, bound to the rock and the
eagles eating his heart, was not worse
ott'. Blackstone says there is no
wrong but has a remedy. He was
mistaken. Women have a thousand
wrongs that are remediless. What
kind of remedy is divorce or separa
tion or alimony? It is the heart that
is broken. It is love and honor that
woman wants, and that was promised
her at the altar. If, as a last resort.
she leaves him, he struts around and
laims the children. "The Children
are mine, he says. Ihe man who
ays that is a conceited fool. In the
lirst place he does not know for cer
tain that he is their father, and if he
he made no sacrifice to be so. All
the pain of motherhood is hers. All
the tender care and nursing and night
watching and generally all the pray
ers for their safety and good conduct
are hers, while he is at his bank or
store or office or shop or maybe at his
club, or billiard table. There was a
time when the wife was the husband's
slave, according to the law, and the
children were his property, and it is
hard to eradicate that idea from some
men's minds in our day. t Woman
has been called the weaker vessel, and
men the lords of creation so long that
it Avon't obliterate. Girls, be careful
to whom you chain yourself for life.
Better sew or be a shop girl or a
typewriter or a school teacher or live
with kindred or friends and do house
work than take any risks. Marry a
young man who has good principles
and good habits, and not much
money. The love of money is still
the same old curse, and most of the
young men want to make it by short
cuts and dishonest practices. "Get
money, get it honestly, if thou canst,
but at all events, get money," is still
their motto. The eager, grasping
pursuit of money is the curse of this
age and generation. Huntington is
dead, and left his millions behind,
and his boast was that all men were
purchasable, and when it was to his
interest he bought them, whether
they were legislators or congressmen,
or judges of the courts. He spent
millions' that way.
Some of our office seekers are doing
the same thing on a small scale
buying votes yes, buying negro
votes. The white primary dident
nominate them, and they have
renigged and reniggered. A little
whisky and a few dollars will secure
the darkies, and the fear is that the
white primaries will prove a failure.
There are men running for office as
independents who rely mainly on the
negro vote, and can't be elected with
out it. Such men ought to have the
contempt of every good citizen. They
ough to have contempt for themselves,
and I reckon they do. The negro
who sells his vote is not half as de
praved as the white man who buys it.
But we will know by waiting, and if
the primary proves a failure, then let
us have the Hardwick bill or some
thing better, and may the Lord pro
tect us from unprincipled office
seekers. Bill Aur.
Fabulous Standard Oil Profits.
"Wall street is simply aghast," ac
cording to The Iron at.d Steel Trade
Bulletin, "at the fabulous profits of the
Standard Oil Company. The declara
tion of a dividend of $8 a share on the
$97,500,000 outstanding stocks of the
king of corporations, which means 3S
per cent, in dividends so for this year,
has set the financial world talking.
"Oa March 15 last the company de
clared a dividend ot M a share, or
about $20,000,000, which was probably
the largest interest disbursement ever
made by a corporation in this country
This dividend was followed on June 15
by a payment of $10 a share, and now
comes an additional $8 per share. Thus
$38,000,000, or about that amount, is
required for the payment of the three
dividends.
"In the past 18 years, exclusive of
the current year, the Standard Oil Com
puny has paid something like $222,-
2o0,000 in dividends. A comparative
table is interesting. It shows: rrom
1882 to 1891 the company paid divi
dends at 5 per cent, amounting to
$47,250,000; 1891 to 1895, dividends at
11 per cent., $48,000,000; 189G, divi
dends at 31 per cent., $31,000,000;
1897; dividends at 33 per cent., $33,-
000,000; 1S98, dividends at 30 per cent.,
$3U,000,OOU; 1899, diyideuds at 33 per
ent., $33,000,000; estimated this year,
48 per cent., or $48,000,000.
John D. Rockefeller, president of
the company, is popularly credited with
owning about one-third of the million
shares of the corporation. On that ba
sis his check for his Bhare of the presi
dent dividend would be approximately
$2,GGG,000, and should the dividend
payments continue only at this rate
Rockefeller would draw annually about
$10,006,000 from his Standard Oil
holdings alone."
AVheu Negro Sull'rage Tontiirdllonio
Atlanta Constitution.
It might be well for those in the
North who are criticising the recent act
of North Carolina to remember some
suggestive facts.
When the question of negro suf
frage after the war and before the
adop'ion of the fifteenth amendment
was a local question for the States of
the North, many of them answered the
question with a decided negative.
Connecticut, in 1865, jrave a ma
jority against it of 0,272. Kansas
voted in the same way in 18G7 by a
majority of 8,038, and Minnesota by
1,293. In October, 18G7, Ohio gave a
constitutional majority against negro
suffrage of 50,029. New York rejected
the proposal of negro suffrage for the
third time at late as 18G8 by more than
40,000 majority.
Here was the attitude of the people
of these States on thia question when
negro suffrage was an issue concerning
tbemselves aione.
(;i:m kal news.
A reduction of 11 1-9 per cent, in
wages is proposed by Fall River, Mass.,
cotton manufacturers.
Dr. Howard M. Wilkinson and Miss
Josephine Packard, of Dover, Del., have
eloped again, this time going to Texas.
KEV. SAM JONES' LETTE1C.
I returned home yesterday morning
having finished np mv chautauqua
work for the summer, and with wife
and children I attended the annual
barbecue and picnic of the Knights of
Pythias of Cartersville, out at the Row
land Springs, seven jniles from Carters
ville.
The day was cloudy and the weather
was endurable, and a large concourse of
people gathered in the grove out at the
springs. It was a social occasion which
all enjoyed, from the oldest inhabitant
to the kids wading in the branches of
the meadow.
Barbecued pigs, barbecued sheep
barbecued goats--they had the right
aroma, the right taste. It was a feast
of fat things. The ladies had brought
full baskets of biscuit, light bread, fried
chicken, sweet pickles, jellies, pound
cakes, and all sorts of cakes and pies
I don't think 1 ever eat more or had it
hurt me leas.
After the sumptuous dinner Bill Arp
was called upon for a Bpeech, but be
must have smelt a mouse for he was
out of sight and hearing. He didn't
show up after dinner. Rev. Alex
Bealer, D. D., was the next speaker
called for, and he entertained the crowd
most pleasantly with his inimitable
fund of negro stories, jokes on doctors,
preachers, lawyers and farmers. Rev.
Mr. Bran ham of the Methodist church
of Cartersville, was called upon, and he
said that eating so much dinner his
heart was too full for utterance. Next,
Rev. Mr. Ambler, of the Episcopal
church, made a pleasant talk, then
your humble servant made a few brief
short remarks, with more pith than
pathos.
Mrs. W. A. Felton was the conclud
ing Bpeaker. Law, how smart Bhe is,
and how the people enjoyed her talk.
Mrs. Felton and Mrs. Bill Arp were the
matrons of the occasion, but Mrs. Arp
is no speaker as Mrs. lelton is. We
honor our old people in Bartow coun
ty really we have not many of them
left.
It was a day of great social enjoy
ment on the part of all attending the
barbecue. A vote of thanks was given
to the KmghtB of Pythias for the splen
did entertainment of the people. J
don't know when I have enjoyed a day
more than I have today. These picnics
and barbecues are sources of great
pleasure and enjoyment to the people
at large. The candidates attend such
occasions and slip in a few pointers.
The politicians today at our barbe
cue were neither numerous nor loud,
they seemed to be grouped together oc
casionally and were working on each
other more than they were on the voters
I did not hear a word of the Spanish
war, or the Chinese war, or the Filipi
nos, or the Boers during the whole day.
I didn't bear one word said about gold
standard, free silver, imperialism, trusts,
or greedy corporations. I didn't smell
a drop of liquor on the grounds; I don't
believe there was a person on the
grounds that had drunk a drop this day
It was a sober crowd, a decent crowd, a
pleasant crowd of people. The young
folks enjoyed the day, the miudle aged
people, the old people and the children.
Such occasions are elevatiug and ought
to be perpetuated. Iht re cannot be an
unpleasant memory connected with the
feast of good things today.
Things are getting dull again, some
what. Ihe headlines of the newspapers
are not as flashing as they were a few
weeks ago, and the pictures not so much
like Dante'B Inferno, but the eouthern
papers are having their fun out of the
northern brethren about the riots in
New York, Ohio, Illinois, and so on. It
is well enough to give them a little of
their own medicine occasionally. The
fact of the business is each community
is pretty well capacitated to take care
of itself and its own cases. Riots are
never right and mobs outlaw them
selves, but there will be riots and mobs
and lynchings until the fellows who get
them up shall turn their attention to
better things. Yankedoodle and Dixie
would both make more progress and
sectional feeling would soon die out if
each section would leave the local is
sues to be settled by the parties most
interested. We need the negro south
we want him, not at the polls specially,
not in politics, but a negro and a mule
is the best cotton combination in
America, and the negro who makes the
most cotton is doing the least voting
and meddling with politics is world
without end the best negro. A quiet
orderly negro is a good citizen. He
earns his tread by the sweat ot his brow,
and not one in a million of that class
has ever or ever will be lynched. It is
the town negro, as a rule, who is getting
up the trouble, and he is generally with
out character or caeh, and I keep on
saying it, that a man without consci
ence or character or cash has got no
more business voting than a mule, but
I came home this evening thankful for
thousand things, with nothing to
grumble about. Sam P. Jo.nes.
P. S. Know all men by these pres
ence that a barbecue is a totally different
kind of animal from a "possum sup-
Ier. I enjoy one, the red-nosea p n
tician enjoys the latter. The devil is
in the average possum supper. That is,
if he can stand the crowd. S. P. J.
Police court statistics Bhow that Corn
wall is the best behaved county in Eng
land.
DANGEROUS LEADERS.
Mill News.
We have been taken to task by some
of pur friends who have joined the recently-formed
labor unions, because we
felt impelled to expose the duplicity of
certain men that had, unfortunately for
the cause got into the fat places and" are
making money out of those who have
blindly followed their lead.
It is frequently the case that in
movements for the uplifting and better
ment of any class of people, there is a
set of men who force themselves to the
front as would-be leaders and Bland
ready to work zealously with their
tongues bo long as they Bee a chance to
levy a tax in any way on the dear peo
ple for their own support.
We have ail known such men among
the Knights of Labor and otaer organ
izations in the past and remember how
earnestly they talked so long as they
saw a prospect Of increasing the mem
bership and adding to the fees and rev
enues of which they hoped to be the
custodians, and how soon they dropped
out on some pretext or other so soon as
the profitable places had been filled by
others.
When the organization of mill opera
tives began to be talked a few months
ago, we were of the opinion that in
some places there were evils that needed
correction, and thought possibly some
good might come of this effort to form
textile and other labor unions.
We therefore spoke freely of the
rights of labor to organize, and only
questioned the expediency of such an
attempt in places where pleasant rela
tions already existed between the em
ployer and employe and where it was
likely to produce discord without the
probability of improving the existing
conditions.
But we are sadly disappointed when
we became acquainted with some of the
leaders and organizers, and the more
we have investigated the character of
the men and their work, the more we
are convinced that no good will come
of the movement under their leadership.
We have already paid our respects to
Bell, Feaperman, Davis and others who
were proyed to have been in the employ
of a politician that was using them as
tools to effect certain purposes in the
recent campaign.
Bell professed to be a minister of the
gospel, but his sphere was small and
his influence limited, so it did not pro
duce any great sensation when it be
came known that he was a man of very
unsayory reputation who was accused
of abandoning his family on more than
one occasion and going off with other
women.
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But Davis now has a man in the field.
in the capacity of lecturer, who is even
more dangerous than either of the
others more dangerous, because he is
capable of as much meannees as any
one in the crowd and has more sense
than all the rest of them together.
Ibis is the Rev. (?) J. F. Austin, and
we happen to know personally some
thing of this man's reputation at
Weaversville, N. C, where he lived for
a number of years. At one time Aus
tin stood very well in his Conference,
and was for a while assistant editor of a
church paper but he turned out bad,
was excluded from the Conference and
left the church which he had already
injured by his unfortunate course. He
simply went to the lowest depths, and
it is reported that he abandoned his
wife, a good woman, and led an adul
terous life. He is also said to have
been connected with some shady busi
ness transactions which if true should
have landed him in the penitentiary.
In fact, the citizens of his town have
no confidence in any thing he does or
says, but on the other hand warn
strangers to beware of him.
This is the kind of man that is skulk
ing around in the sections of the State
where he is not known, and making
inflammatory speeches to quiet and hon
est mill operatives; this is the kind of
man that is claiming to be the friend
of the laboring man and asking that
they leave it to him to work out their
destiny; this is the kind of man that is
trying to turn them against their best
friends in order that he may get some
of their hard-earned money. This is
the kind of man who, claiming to be a
minister of the gospel, attemr ,sto work
himself into the conhdencu of the peo
ple that he mav make a living off their
labor and give them nothing in return.
These charges may seem a little
severe, but we do not ask you to take
our word. Write to any reputable citi
zen of Asheville or Weaverville and ask
them about him.
Meanwhile we would suggest to our
readers to study well the kind of men
who are at the bead of this movement
and have nothing to do with it until it
is purged of such would-be leaders who
care nothing for the people whose cause
they profess to champion beyond the
money they can make out of you.
It is said that the Republicans of thia
State, having come to the conclusion
that State Democratic Chairman Sim
mons will be elected to succeed Marion
Butler in the United States senate, are
collecting affidavits in an endeavor to
prove that Simmons earned the recent
tate election for the constitutional
amendment and the Democratic ticket
by fraud, hoping thereby to keep Sim
mons from taking his Beat if named by
the legislature which meets in January
next