¥. f. MA1SHALL, Miter u4 Proprietor.
VOL. XXV. GASTONIA, N»
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There are qncstious of great
import to be passed upon by the
people in November, questions
that it will be your duty, and
therefore, I am sure, your pleas
ure, as well, to preseat hoaestly
and so clearly that tbe people
will understand them.
I shall not take up your time,
however, with any reference to
the great issues upon which our
party, through its platform and
candidates, confidently appeal
to the people for indorsement,
but crave your indulgence while
1 briefly refer to a single feature
of the platform of the Republi
can party.
That platform opens with a
declaration of that party's many
years of control of government
coupled with the assertion that
it has displayed a high capacity
for rule sod government, which
has been made even more con
spicuous by the iucapscity and
infirmity of purpose shown by
its opponents.
WELCOMES A COMPARISON.
This challenge to a compari
son of Democratic aud Republi
can administrations since the 1
Republican party came into ex
istence should be welcomed.
Fortunately we have eight re
cent years of Democratic ad
ministration of the executive
department of the government
which we will gladly compare
with any similar period since
1880.
The comparison will show
that under Democratic control
the administrative purity of the
fathers was observed in the con
duct of the government: that no
one of its departments was per
meated, as of late, with corrup
tion rivaling the days of the star
route frauds; that s successful
effort was made to check the
growth of expenditures; that it
resulted in each instance in cut
■ ting down the expenses within
tbe control of the executive de
Jiartment of the government be
pw that of the preceding ad
ministration. The comparison
will ahbw. also, that each suc
ceeding Republican admioistra
tion alter lSSS^ncreased expen
ses, and in some instances so
greatly as to indicate reckless
extravagance and waste of the
people's money.
During Mr. Cleveland's first
term the average annual expendi
ture was about two hundred and
sixty-nine millions. For the
past three years it has been
about five hundred and uiueteen
millions. Tbe governmental ex
penditure last year mounted up
to five hundred and eighty-two
millions, which is not equaled
by any year since tbe
civil war with tbe exception of
the year of tbe Spanish war.
Tnere is an inevitable resnlt
of sneb extravagance. Instead
of a surplus in tbe annual re
ceipts of abont 980,000,000,
which the present Executive
found on assuming control,
there is now a deficit to be
touna mere oi ysc.uuu.uuu.
The limits of tins address will
not admit a further reference to
the cost of administration, but
it should receive careful exam
ination at your hands. And
you will be convinced that re
form is necessary, avet far more
necessary then in 1876 in the
scale of public expense, and
when convinced yon will do leu
than yonr duty if you fail to
make the people understand it.
The challenge of the Republi
can platform permits you to
compare the details, the every
day life, so to speak, of the
Democratic administration with
both the prcdecessive and suc
cessive abminist rations, and you
will not shrink from it.
CMVKLAWB’s CAlIXBt*.
The sturdy honesty, marked
ability, and thorough devotion
to principle of all those in high
places during those Democratic
administrations may without
hesitation be placed alongside
of tbs <^na«ifi cat ions of similar
officials in any and all other ad
ministrations. Who, I pray you,
would hesitate to compare the
Cabinet of those years with the
present one, or with any one?
Is the fame of Bayard, Manning,
Fairchild, Endicott, Whitney,
Vilas, Dickinson, Garland,
members of tbo 1884* Cabinet,
and Oloey, Carlisle, Lamont.
Smith, Francis, Herbert. Bis
sell, Wilson, sad Hannon, oi
that of 18W, dwarfed when con
trasted with tbo Cabinet ofliceri
of o-day 7 When the comperi
•on if onoe completed, yon will
be eager then to ask the people
which U the better. They will
declare the victor in the contest
between administrations to be
the one which, in addition to
other excellences, saved many
millions a year to the nation.
. ®J5travi**,*ce it running wild
in Federal, State, and munici
pal governments, in spite of the
well directed effort of some ex
cellent officials. The indebt d
ness of the municipal govern
ments are steadily piling up,
bond issues are increasingly fre
quent. and the people have not
the satisfaction, in many in
stances. of a full equivalent in
improvements for the money ex
pended. And the Federal gov
ernment is leading in the race
of great expenditures. Ere long
the people will demand a reform
in administration expenses. And
they will do it now if they are
made to appreciate the whole
troth.
UK1TKD AS TO VITAL FAITH.
The Democratic party i* not a
machine: it i* a body of cilinen*
who believe that on the whole
its fundamental principles are
beat adapted to tbe couduct of
the government. Among so
many patriotic and intelligent
men it is inevitable that diver
gcnce of opinion as to minor
questions and differences of
view as to tbe correctness and
to the disposition of dead issues
should be found. The party is
couceqentiy united to-dsy as to
every vital article of faith which
can reasonably enter into the
peuding canvass.
Onr adversaries are in
trenched, in full possession of
every department of the govern
ment, and it is a mistaken pol
icy to drive away voters who
would'help to oust them. The
cause cannot be advanced by at
tacks on others within the party
with whom we have had disa
greements, but who are now j
working with us for a common
result.
All men who have attained
any degree of prominence have
their friends, and the exercise
of ordinary prudence forbids tbe
alienation of allies who are wil
ling and anxious to assist. Tbe
coming election is not to be de
termined by tbe September vote
in hopelessly Republican States,
where local issues and candi
dates even are grievously handi
capped, but the reanlt in Ver
mont on Tuesday admonishes
us—and there can be no barm
in giving voice to tbe admoni
tion—that a harmonious ci-op
eration of all and the elimina
tion of personal, factional, and
unimportant differences involv
ing no surrender of principle,
are essential to success.
OPENING OP LENOIK COLLEGE.
Tha Neat la Ua Blatery—Hick*,
vy a Preaperaea. Progressiva
Taira.
Tu tlM Editor at tkt Oonttai
Hickory, Sept. 12th.—Hicko
ry i» making much material
progress ia the way of street im
provement*, building, etc. Wa
ter works are being installed
and asphalt aide-walks are being
laid in the business pvt of town.
Tyro or three store buildings are
also in the process of erection.
The twentieth annual opening
of Lenoir College took place the
5tb ioat. The enrollment of
students np to the present is
vary encouraging. The dormi
tories arc inadequate to accomo
date the new students arriving
daily. We are free to say with
the greatest degree of confi
dence that, so fir, tba indica
tions are tor the most prosper
ous year in the history of the
college.
Some changes have bean
made in the faculty since last
session. The chair of BngHsb.
which was formerly occupied by
Prof. A. L. Moser, is now filled
by Prof. L. K. Rndisill of the
State University. Miss Koenig,
who conies from Charleston,
with high recommendation, bat
been elected teacher of iaatru
mental music to succeed Mist
Mabel Little. While we regrei
much to lone our former inetruc
choice of their anecaaaora, anc
moat cordially welcome them u
their respective departments.
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BECUNE OTPOPDLISM.
NidtlMMIn-rMlin no Usgor
Afclt to Command oPollowiafi.
lndlmsapolla Xi*:.
The middle-of-the-road Popu
lists, fifty-six in number, met in
this city and nominated a com
plete State ticket. They di
vided honors with their brctbeo
of tbe fusion variety, who are,
by the way, to bold their con
vention September 15. The
convention of yesterday showed
very clearly that as far aa Indi
an# ia concerned, tbe Populist
movement, as an independent
political force, has worn itself
out. No well-in formed man be
lieves that tbe ticket nominated
yesterday—if it ever gets on the
official ballot—will poll an ap
preciable vote. Tbe ticket it
self may be torn to pieces by
tbe refusal of the fusionist candi
dates to allow tbe uaa of their
names.
I'oopulism has in truth seen
its best days. It is tbe legiti
mate successor of the Grange,
the Greenback party, tbe Farm
ers' Alliance, and it has followed
them into oblivion. Of course,
the Ponulist nartv will have
successors, and it may even be
that it will take on new life
when times get bard again, for
it aeems to be necessary lo the
happiness of certain peopl^that
there shall be a calamity party.
So the convention waa not im
portant, though it was interest
ing. Populists always are and
always have been interesting,
and often amusing. Had it not
been for them many a gifted
cartoonist would have had to go
out of business. When we re
call the solemn Peflcr, the
sprightly Simpson, of Medicine
Lodge and others equally re
markable though lews famous,
we realise bow ranch joy faded
from life with tbeir disappear
| ance. And the things these
men were going to do l We
were to have billions of irredeem
able currency, loans to the
farmers on their crops, govern
ment store-houses, government
ownership of railroads and
telegraphs, the free and un
limited coinage of silver, etc.
The programme was ambitious,
and the men advocating it were
earnest and cnthosiaatic — bnt
they atteraoted the impossible.
And uow we have reached the
end oi the movement. It was
killed by prosperity. There are
of coarse individual Populists
still surviving. But at an or
ganised political force the Popu
h la parly will henceforth exert
small Influence. It is well that
it sbonld be so. Por we be
lieve that by their extravagance
and radicalism the Populists
have actually impeded the cause
vi pumicaj rciurm in iac uzmca
States. Most of our people
realised that the measures they
advocated never conld and
never ought to be adopted, al
though the evils to which they
called attention were, many of
them, real. In the hard times
of a dozen years ago the farmers
of the far West did suffer from
railroad extortion and discrimi
nation and from a scarcity of
money. They were burdened
with debt, and their distress was
keen. But the remedies were
not government control of mil
roads, nor loans to the fanners,
nor a flood of worthless money.
Now the farmers have worked
their way out of their troubles,
and consequently Populism has
lout its bold on them. Wbat
we need now is a proper regula
tion of the railroads, lower taxes,
economical government, abetter
distribution of currency, and
credit t hrough an extension of
banking facilities—all exceed
ingly modest, but veiy practical
reforms. Populism has failed,
failed even as a protest.
Th# Barlow Vocal Quintette
with the qremt Barlow Minstrels
this yaarla one of the strongest
feature, of a moat clever and
enjoyable entertainment. The
Cincinnati Bnqnirer states of
them, "The harmony, volume
and blending of tbt Quintette of
vocalists with tha great Barlow
Minstrel. Co. is by far the beat
heard In tbia city for years.”
Sentimental, comedy, ragtime
tad imitations of chnrcb organ,
bell, banjo and other effects
making np a specialty of great
enjoymaat, and one thoroughly
enjoyed by every person with a
love of vocal harmony. An na
usually strong programme with
entire change of songs, special
ties and costumes, together with
the new military opening spec
i tacle presents an attraction hard
to equal and impossible to snr
pasa in this line of theatrical en
tertainment. At the opera house
Wednesday night, Bept. 12.
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REVAMPS HOT MTD. r«<—
Storm Ctnler if thn Silva*
Turned to a OnM
Cttjr Imnul.
Marvell never cease lo appear
in the United States. The
productivity aud unlimited re
sources of the country are facta
which arc continually gaining
new proofs. Agriculture, min
ing, almost every Industry and
calling adds each year some
startling sensation in the way of
development, improvement, dis
covery, or invention.
The report of a big find of rich
gold ore m Nevada ia now in
teresting the Western papers,
fbc truth of the report seems to
be beyond question. The ore ia
yielding more than <8,000 to the
ton, and the vein shows au in
definite length with a proba
bility of holding out for a very
long time. The cud ia of es
pecial interest to Nevada for it
shows that her mineral resources,
which were supposed to be
working to an end, still famish
onoortunitie.s for the nrmnert/w
Activity in prospecting and
mining for precious metals wilt
■gain be resumed, and tbia
means an increased population
for this State.
Nevada bas been the least
fortunate of the old mining
States and Territories. Every
where else when the mines
played out the workers remained.
They turned into ranchmen,
farmers, shopkeepers, business
and professional men, and by
their new occnpationa added a
more stable prosperity to the
country. The Dakotas and
Montana have become great
fanning and grazing States;
Utah and Colorado also devel
oped importantlu in that direc
tion, while California and all
the Pacific Staten have formed
an empire of industry capable of
producing anything which can
grow or be manufactured in
their dime.
Hilt a mkota fko Mtnn
fever subsided, lost its popula
liou and energy. Other fields
offered fairer altractions sod the
people left. Thia new find,
however, if it " pans out” accord
ing to expectations and present
appearances, will bring fn im
migration at a very advantageous
lime for the State. Nevada has
many valleys. There is do
question about their productivity
if water can be procured. The
Kederal irrigation scheme
promises to supply this need. So
tbe people who go to Nevada
now will go to stay.
Marriage AH act ad Bar Appetite.
VuMaxtoa PosL
"There la something about
getting married that works oo a
(roman's sentiments no matter
bow often she's been through
H«e ceremony,” says a lawyer
whose home is in Tidewater Vir
ginia.
"There ia an elderly woman
down our way who is near
enough kin to me to come to my
house whenever she drives in
from her farm. She has bees a
widow three titpes, and about a
month ago she decided to have
a justice ol the peace perform
tbe ceremony, and my wife in
sisted on giving tbe newly wed*
ded couple a breakfast in honor
of the occasion. The bride
seemed to me to be doing justice
to the meal, but after a second
helping of chichea she pushed
her plate away.
gfl ain't hungry,' said she
plaintively. "There's some
thing about getting married
that just naturally takes my ap
petite array. I can’t aat no
more than if I’d never been mar
ried before."
A cyclone struck Durham
Wednesday morning, uprooting
trees, nnroofing nooses, and
can ding other damage. It lasted
only two minutes and was very
severs while it lasted.
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.,Th« British reviews have beet
illcd foe months with descrip
tions of economic condition*
*» arguments for and against
Mr. Chamberlain's proposal
These masses of details doubt
lets interest Koglishwcn, foi
they bear directly on ttM
2u action in band. Having me
intilsr political controversy,
most Americans find them
wearisome.
Once in s while one of these
British writers generalizes bis
details in a way interesting to
American readers. Such s
geoerslizatioo has been achieved,
with American assistance, by
f'ru.WnlllMM In iK.
Nineteenth Century and After.
He quotes as an indictment,
terrible bat near the mark, an
American writer’s assertion that
"the people of Baglaad have
come to look on chronic starva
tion as part of the social order—
as a matter of coarse.” He
confesses that many Englishmen
"have come to look on pinching
poverty a* an arrangement of
Providence, to be readjusted la
the next world rather than in
this—as a cariosity rather than
as a trouble”
The attention of tboae Ameri
cans who argue that national
institutions make no particular
difference, and that those of owe
civilised nation are practically
as good as tboee of another, is
invited to the British mental at
titude thus disclosed by a trained
British observer.
Whatever the faults and fail
ings, governmental and social,
of the Americas people, regard
ing chronic starvation as neces
sary and inevitable—looking at
it as a cariosity for wonder rath
er than as s trouble to be helped
even common among them.
Regarding any men as doomed
by the natural order of the so
cial universe to live and die in
pinching poverty—so inevitably
doomed that bis fate becomes
the subject merely of curious ob
servation—is certainty not an
American habit of mind.
For tbe opposite habit of mind
—for the habit of regarding pov
erty as a trouble to be helped by j
opening to it the ^OOT.of econo
mic opportunity—the American
people have to (bank those
founders of their republic who
by asserting sad establishing
political equality as the founda
tion of their liberty, created the
institutions whose logic prevents
their sneceseors from accepting
economic inequality as natural
and inevitable.
The fundamental difference
between tbe British and Ameri
can national character seems to
be that the American regards
poverty as a trouble to be helped
while the British regard it as a
sorrowful or unpleasant curiosi
ty
The special grand jury inves
tigating the lynching at Hunt*
vjlle, Ala., of Horace Maples,
tbe negro who killed John Wal
drop, baa reported ten indict
ments against alleged members
of tbe mob. _ '
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