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MADISON COUNTY RECORD.
CIRCULATION
CIRCULATION
OB1 THIS ISSUE
1,080.
OF THIS ISSUE:
1,080.
ij'Vv" J ; , POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. .1. '-'.
- 'VOIj.II. . . ' MARSHALL. N. C. FRIDAY. MAY 30. 1902. NO. 22. '
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FURNITPBE SOLD OK MSTAUMENT , EAST ,, jVlJZAT WEIiS S &(1 V"4f FURM I TIIRE
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Light Calicoes 3c to 5c
Dark Calicoes .34to 5c
Fine Shirts, 17, 33, 38, 50 & 75
-each worth 35c to $1.00) .
Zhoc&l Shoes.
1 ' I have always carried the largest and best stock in the town.
5 v THEY MUST GO TOO: Infant's Shoes, 17c to 55c. Children's,
S ,t 8c to 7 W. Boys' and Misses' shoes, 70c to 95c per pair.
T aiw Stiiw tar tn ti 00. Men's Shoes. 8;c to 52. 40.
-Nice Glass Fitch ers, iBcs Each.
Ctitixtis and. Crocrlts, "7;5 Gallon.
; RorHhir Chairs 6cc and I.oo.
. Heavy woven wire springs, 2.00.
REMEMBER
I
I AM GOING OUT OF THE
THESE
LOW PRICES
J
R. Swann
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TUr PFT)PI
Quanta, JnoxilUo $Iortnerf(
Railway
" Low Round Trip Rates' ou Winter.
Tourist tickets from all points to
retorts in Georgia, Florida, South
America - and ; Cuba. Scenery
through the mountains nd Hia-
- wasse River Gorge unsurpassed
for beauty and grandeur. The
- only Railroad crossing the moun
tains by a loop line east of the
:! Rocky Mountains. . . v
All copper slag nd Marble Bal-
last and steel bridges. -
-; For safety and 'comfort be , sure
to ask for your tickets to the
SOUTH to read via, the A. Kl A N
Ry, All ticket ageuti have them.
Fnt full information write to
. J. H. Mc WILLIAMS, G. P.A.
" J Knoxvillej Tenu.i
JlXHOlA AND .INDIAN TEIfcoj
' ArebtMfeachybyWCo 'on 3eH, which ttnc ; ;' jjT I
1. run wo twinXd?tf!2.nM mphUio Texas. , . JL. L HI r
- vitholu change. NHcVjWjj t eifbef reaebj V"" V s III
diwor make close connec)Wiirj' n II I .
- foraif parts of Texas, Oklahoma j4gVHSL 1 ; .;. U r
Id Tax as. wbrbi('onc are -.. JwaMi , : n-" . 0 I
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1 T. S. Morrison,
. ASIIEVILLK N. C.
TTTOTT OT?AT)"F! .
OPEN AND TOP LUclGlES. SUKUEYS AND SPRING
WAGONS. ANCHOR EUGG1ES AND SURREYS,
BUNCOMBE P.EAUTY EUGGIE.S, -
WAYNE SPUING SVAGOXS. -
v ; rrn ron CUT3 and
THEM OUT
Work Shirts --17 to 38c
$1.50 hats, $1.00
Good Jeans Pants 50c
1.00 Hat, 75c; .30c Hat,, 38c
ShoesI
Folding Bed Springs, 1.75.
GOODS BUSINESS HENCE
F'fi FRIFNH
po foiTiotto mnvthmq
DO 00 II Dt to SBll w P
VAN SMITH
(NEAR THE DEPOT)
Buys all kinds of prodnee at high
est market price, aud sells all
kinds of
FAMILY & FANCY
:" - at Lowest PoesihU Figures.
FRESH MEATS
of all kindf.constantly on hands
HOME MADE SAUSAGE a
specialty.
Goods Deilwrefl tree Injiliere in toin
nircsiTcnr. v
piuct - s.
I1DIS01 COUKTY RECORD
FubliBhea Every Friday, by
THE RECORD PRINTING CO
J. R. Swann, Business Manager.
at tJn affUinl ornnn nf the Court-
$ House Ring and the claim ipecu-
latort of the county, to, point out
m a single instance- in which toe
have made a mis-statement of
J facts, or have mis-quoted the
m records of the county.
t
That Question Again
This is the third time the follow
ing question has appear ed in this
paper and no answer yet. If that
crowd wants to be honest with the
people why do they object to an
swering the question ? The people
have a rigbt to know-how they
stand on as important a question
as is contained therein before they
support them for anything :
We would like to ask the Enterprise'
the mouth piece of Senator Pritnbard, vnd
iturditor-iu-chief, Little Windy Tommy,
if the j are in favor of that pan of the
high taxes of Mailiaon county which was
levied in the interest of the claim nnecula-
tora, being repealed by the next legislature?
It the abuve question is not
answered this time it will come
back again. Like- Buuquo's ghost
"It will not down ." ,
Proceedings oT ae "Koitus".
The Enterprise crew prats
great deal over an imaginary
breach among the democrats of the
county and qflers a lot of advice to
the democratic party but a few
leading members of the ring could
meet iu ths clerks office 011 last
Monday and issue orders who
should be committeemen, what
candidate should have the right of
way for the various othces and
even so so far as to lay down the
law to that motly crew as to which
one of them will he allowed to do
the writing and which one is to
keep silent and that paper does
not dare mention it. Why i&itT
It is because that paper is fed from
the pie counter and it must do the
bidding of tba ring or its rations
will be cut off and it knows it So
it puts in its time in advising the
democrats.
Ths Beaton They fie It -
The Asheville Gazette and a lot
of other republican papers in the
Stato are perfectly justifiable in
havings great .deal of advise to
give to the democrats in reference
to party policy, for they don't dare
say a word lut the policy of the
party to which they belong, ai the
absolute c-ntiol of that party is iu
the hands of Prit chard and a few
other party bosses, and they most
have something to fcilk about
Two years ago. ten days before the
election this crowd knew nothing
about whom they ould be caljed
ou to vote for on the State ticket
and 'if the republican bosses had
seen fit to have put Judge Clark
on their ticket for them to have
voted, for' thry would have been
pioui of the opportunity. Thty
are a pretty kettle of. fish to' be
floundering about who ths demo
crats should nominate and giving
advise to the democratic party on
questions of party policy. . , .
Another Talstktta Comets. .. "
' "The open disavowal of furtbr eon
section with the democratic party aaade
by Mr. J. & CraUmilea of ilanhalt is a
significant evidence of the trend of politi.
eal seotinent in Widison county. Mr.
Cnifrimle was formerly editor of the
democratic paper ia Marshall aad has h.d
saiple opportunities throngs, many years
of close acquaintance with eeoiocralic pol
itics to know the truth of what ke speak.
Their betrarsl of every interest that f-u.it
itclf in their I inds is no mors apparent
anrwhere in liiis brosd land than IB this
old North fetal. Astieviile Gaanle.
Tie above, eJi'.oria! appeared in
the Asheville Gazette, of May 8th,
ou the 10th re wrote the Gazette
correcting same and also a second
request on the 15th, but up to date
the Gazette has not shown us the
courttsy due to print -our correc
tion, and now on the 22nd of May
the Enterprise copies this same
item and Mr. Craigmflea is now
employed in the Enterprise office.
Both of these subsidised organs are
certainly entitled to all the glory
that they may find in Mr. Craig
miles letter and the only point we
object to is this, "Mr. Craigmiles
was formerly editor xof the demo
cratic paper at Marshall." As we
are the first and only democratic
paper here we emphatically deny
tnis charge and no one knows the
falsity of this statement better than
Mr. Craigmiles himself and the
nngsters of the Enterprise.
The only connection of Mr.
Craigmiles with this paper was in
the capacity of a printer and that
onlv for a short time last fall.
Mr. Craigmiles now holds a position
as printer 011 the Enterprise bence
the hencefbrthiiess of things.
Talk About Borne Matters.
The Enterprise last week stated
that the editor and business mana
ger of this paper were putting in
some underhand licks - against So
licitor Gudger's canidacy for con
gress.
We want to state that the Enter
prise as usual was stating some
thing that it knew nothing about.
This paper has taken no part in
the contest for congress in the 10th
district and does not expect to aa
we are not in that dist., and we have
always found thai we have enough
to do to attend to our own busmtes,
Why does the Enterprise want to
get so far away from the things
that iuteteet the tax-payers of the
county and go into another con
gressional district where they have
no interest whatever and try to got
up a controversy with this paper?
Why not talk about the reason
the sheriff refuses to make his
reports as to the amount of money I
on hands as required by law fo the
tax payer of the county can tell
how their finances stand ? Why
not answer the question as to
whether the ring is in favor of re-
pealing that part ot the high taxes
of the county that was levied pure
ly in the interest of tbe claim
speculators of the county ? Why
no let the people know whether or
not it Is in favor of claim specula
tors buying up claims from twenty
five to fifty ceuts ou the dollar,
then get a special act of the legisla
ture to have the county pay them
interest on. the claims at six per
.eut aud then in the end collect
the whole amount T There are a
great many things in the county to
talk about of interest o the people
of this county. But no tbe Enter
prise had much rather talk all the
ime about some imaginary breach
in the democratic party that never
existed or some personal matters
between individuals in order to try
to divert the minds of the people
from the' rascality of the Court
House Ring of the county for the
purpose of enabling : that ring to
continue getting rich off of the
claim speculating business.
From the anxiety exhibited 6y
the Enterprise, the month piece of
Senator Pritchard, and its editor
in ehief, his law partner, ovei his
attempt to succeed himself in the
Unked State Senate, one would
think that they wore afraid that
the senator would lose some of his
practice in the Federal Courts.
Senator Pritchard, Dr. Frank
Roberts. Sherifl C. W. Tweed, J.
H. White, V. B. Davis, ft. 8.
Ramsey and porhaps others, seem
ed to be very busily engaged can
casing her on last Monday. The
object of tbe caucus not known,
but it is generally believed that
tiers will be new developments ia
the contest for sheriff, as a result.
Sabscrlbc for tba Record and get all
the facts in reference to the 9th
Congressional district and at the
same time get a chance at the
$100 PRIZE.
The sooner you guess the better
your chancer are to get a prize.
Turn to our prize offer on another
page and read it carefully.
A Win Provision.
One of the1 wisest and most
beneficial provisions of tbe new
school law is that no district has to
take all of its money at any time
to build a school house and there
by deprive the little children of the
district of the privilege of going to
school for one or snore years in
order that a school hoose can be
built,
When the State of North Carolina
adapted the new constitution which
will require every young man who
becomes twonty one years old alter
the year 1908, to be able to read
and write before he can vote, she
determined that every child of
school ego in the state should have
the right and opportunity to attend
a free school for at least four
months in every year and that no
child in the state should be de
prived of this privilege a single
year. And every voter in the
state who is liable to poll tax being
required to pay his tax before he is
allowed to vote enabled the itate
to adopt such a policy.
Htttice the state has provided
that the public school houses for
districts that have none are to be
built out of the general echool
fund for tbe county under tbe
supervision of the board of educa
tion aud after such amount is taken
from the general fund if the county
has not enough funds left to run a
free school in every district for a
four months term the necessary
amount is made up nut of the State
funds as appropriated in the second
hundred thousand dollars.
Now, if our efficient board of
education and county superinten
dent will adopt a wise policy,
which we are sure they will do,
aud set apart a sufficient amount
out of the general county funds ou
the first of each year to supply
such districts as need school houses
the worst and then let the citizens
of the districts put in as much
money in the school bouse as tbe
board of education does and let
the bouse bo built under the
supervision of the board and it
will uot be a great many years till
there will be a first class school
house in every district in the
county. But let them first cut the
districts into such sizes as will
justify them in "building a good
school house and when such is
done thero will bo no more dis
turbances "over moving school
houses and dividing school dis
tricts which has been such a fruit
ful source oi discord in the public
schools of the county. The people
of the county already owe the board
of education and Prof. James a
lasting xlebt of gratitude for the
perseverance- they bave used in
getting the extra 11508.00 from
the state and we have reasons to
believe that they will continue
their good work till the public
schools of the" county will be the
county's greatest pride. 1
To use a private citizen's name
and his financial misfortunes as a
sling to throw "spleen" at this
paper is one of. the low snd con
temptible methods of the Enter
prise, bat if there is anything too
dirty and contemptible for that
Court House Ring mounthpiee to
do we have not jet discovered it
High taxes and getting higher
each year and nothing to show for
it except a Court House Ring an
empty treasury and an increased
county debt,lhree very anneceesary
things for pubbc good.
Sheriff Sing Settles for 1901 Tax.
Brevard News
The scltltment between Connty Com
misuionera and Sheriff J U King for 1901
tax, was made last week. The total tax
on real estate and pcraonul property of the
county is about $19000. Of this amount
only 168.28 was uncollected at the time of
settlement. There are yet a good many
imolvent (tolls, bat not so large a per cent
heretofore. Transylvania connty can
well congratnlata herself on the record its
tax collector has made this' year. Verv
few, if any counties, in the state can show
a record equal to ours this year iu their
tax collections.
This is a record breaker-a full settle
raent by the tax collector on the regular
appointed date and not only the county
but Sheriff King, is to be congratulated
for his excellent work. Brevard News.
The above is a very satisfactory
record indeed, and we often won
der why it is that Madison can'
do likewise.
Thero is no doubt but that our
taxes Could be 08 closely collected
as Transylvania or any other
county, but we can not expect
thege good results until the people
elect men to office that will do
their whole duty.
the Register has it from are-
liable source that a certain demo
cratic tax collector in Buncombe
count v. mior to the first of Ma v.
issued poll tax receipts to demo
crats who bud no moner witb
which to pav, accepting a due bill
instead, and tho due bill had not
be-n liftod on the second day of
May. It is possible that this is
not the only instance of the kind.
If anv republican has been able to
settle his poll tax with a due-bill
we would like to hear from him.
Asheville Register,
Just step down into Madison,
neighbor, and you can find them,
and they did not always give the
due bill either.
Mr. L. L. Withersucon has decided to
enter the field as an independent candi
date for solicitor. In politics, he holds to
the same views he has held for tht last few
j ears Newton Enteruriro.
If we. remember this "withered-
spoon' he has been on all aides of
every question in the last few years
and it appears to us atthis distance
that those "same views in politics"
are "Pie ! Pie 1 1 Pie 111" with-'er.
spoon of course.
Hurrah lor Sam Jones! He
says that it looks as if the devil
and the demociats were against
God. iinterprise.
Bam also said, "dont you moss-
back republicans laugh, I have
never got low enough down to join
tbe radicals."
After attending the "korkus"
Monday afternoon. Chapel left
early Tuesday morning lor Laurel
to let Mr. King down easy.
It is easy to tell who the ring
fears tbe most in the county by
tbe ones that it fights the hardest
The Enterprise is boosting Solic
itor Gudger's candidacy m the 10th
And they didu't even invite Tad
to the "korkus" Monday.
" Bsciisr Iftszes. v
Wheat is a complete failure iu
this part of the county. Oats are
very good.
The farmer are all done plant
ing corn, but there la very , bttle
hoing done yet on account , of the
wet weather In this section.
Mr. S. G. Ballard and family
moved to Cadiz, Ohio recently.
Mi. M. L.. McCurry and family
have gone to Virginia.
Mr. W. H. Ballard and Wilheru
Ponder, two' of . Middle Fork's
young men, left here last Thurs
day for Ohio.'
Mm. B. C. Foster, who has been
confined to her bed for several
months, died last Sunday and was
buried Monday. Mrs. Foster
leaves husband and four children.
Tbe locusts have made their ap
pearance iu this part of the coun
ty in small numbers. Js this- to
be locust year? I thought they
only made their appearance every
seventeen years, but it has .'only
been about twelve years since there
was a full crop of them here.
But I suppose they have heard of
the Court House Ring in Madison
county and decided to come early
if they got. anything in Madiseo
county, for there certainty won't
be anything lefc in a few more
years.
On last Thursday, while Cora
Heusley, daughter of D. E. Hens
ley, was hoing corn she was struck
by lightening and knocked down.
My father, who was plowing in a
field close by, saw her lying on
the ground and ran and picked her
up. It was several minutes before
she could stand or speak.
The writer went to Yancey on
last Saturday and nearly every man
I met was a candidate for State
Senate. They say that it will
be a walkover for tbe Republican
in tnis senatorial district this
year, but I think there are some
candidates that would have a hard'
walk if they got their at all
W. L. Henslet.
May 26, 1902.
Little Oilman Writes Again.
Eoitob Recoup After partak-
ing of my noon repast, prepared by '
mother and sisters, and amply wait
ing its digestion, I again trim my
pencil and sit down for another
contribution to our leading local
paper the Madison County Rko
okd. I was contemplating writins
it this morning, butather wanted-?. -
me to go over to Mr. Wilson's and) ' )
buy bim a peck of seed corn to re
plant where the crows and. aqair
relshad made the first plantane . r - -y -
come up the second time, f-""
Uncle Frank was running the
second furrow in tbe third row irw
the field near his house when I
climbed up on the' fence, with sack
under my arm, aud saluted Jest
and Will, two foster-children cf
Mr. Wilson who were hoeing in the
row below bim. In a minute or
so Uncle Frank's mule came gayly :
walking back toward the end of
the field, where I was seated con- ,
versing with the boys, followed by
its owner.
Affer a few pleasant remarks be
tween the plowman and myself rel
ative to our health and the weather
I informed of the object of my ' "
visit.
"Well, I hain't hardly rot it to
spare, bat I cain't deny one of or
neighbors a little seed corn. You
j 1st go over to the bouse and git
sometmn' to shell u in, and !go to
the enb and pick you out a peck
of good, sound corn and shell it
yourself." ;-
While feeling in my vest pocket
for the chauge I asked the seller
the price of tbe corn, expecting .
him to charge me twenty-five cents
for the amount wanted. ; : -
"I sell it at eebin ty-five cents a
bushel. You can jist hand "the 1
money over to the o!e woman v I .
ain't af card to trust her with noth-
in I've got" - .
Well. I went to the house and
handed Mrs. Wilson fortv-flve,
cents including the Quarter I had
previously borrowed of her hus-
oand to aid aa old suffering saint, "
then picked up the halCbuahel
measure and went and shelled it -one-half
fall, as near as f. could
guess at it and poured it in mv
sack, after which I went back
around to the front porch end was
sitting there conversing with Mrs.
Wilson when it commenced rain.
ing and I was conseonentl v Stain
ed until it was nearly time for din
ner when I got home. Bat bad it
not been for my good father's re.
quest and my wish to comply there-
witn, this true story of mine rsla-
tive te the purchase of seed corn.
could not bave boen written.
Before coacluc.? I ks
ti
thank out Sandy c , ; ; ; r oa
nairof the Fine Cr, k f .'j fr t
nice and compururr,- -v :
which he presented t' ,j, is r
cent i-.ue .
LtTT: : t
Worley, N. C.
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