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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29
She KneM EN-.

"You are policeman"
Eyes, ma'am."
81 thought so from the habit you have
of a-resting yourself SO much"
Officer gets off the coal box immedi-
ately-Philadelphia Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29

Trials of Young Professional Man.
He feeling his way)-An honorable
man should marry only for love.
She-Certainly. oh. certainly-if he
can afford it.-Life.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29

FAST MAIL TRAIN with Electric lighted end
Steam heated Vestibuled trains between Chi
cago, Mi lwaukee st. Pauland Minneapolis.
TRAN-CONTINBNTAL ROUTE with Electric
lighted nd Steam heated Vestibuled trains be-
tween Chicago and Council Bluns, omaha or
st. Paul and the Pacific Coast.
GREAT NATIONAL ROUTE between Chicago
Kansas City and st. Joseph, Mo.
57O0 MILE OF ROAD reaching all principal
points II Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa.
Missouri South Dvkota and North Dakota
For maps. time tables. rates OF passage and
freight, ETC., apply to the nearest station agent
of the Chicago. Milwaukee d ST. Paul Railway, or
to any abroad agent any where in the world.
ROSWELL MILLER, A. v. H. CARPENTER,
Gener Al Manager Gen'l Pass. q I. Agt.
~For Information in reference to Lands and
Towns ned by by the Chicago. milwaukee, q
st. Paul Il ailway Company, write to II. q. Hsu-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29

A Sure Sign.-"Thst must be Boston
girl" why do you .hink sof" ''She
is all freckled." How does that make
her Boston girl7' "Well, you see, she
has her specks on"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29
You Take no RISK

A poem called The Scythe Song" is
out. But we want no mower like it.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29

Some people have faces as long as
Jacobs ladder, and the angels are mis-
sing.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29

Honesty never has to crowd anybody
in order to get room to make living.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29

DOCK ISLAND & PEORIA RAILwAY-DE-
III pot First avenue and Twentieth atreet. f.
Fl Rockwell, Agent.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29

CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAIL
~ way Racine Il Southwestern Division-De
pot Twentieth street between First and Second
avenue E. d. W. Holmes, agent.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29
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TRAINS

ROUTE c., B. & Q. RAIL
~ wsy-Depot First avenue and Sixteenth ST.,
NJ j. Young, agent,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
WHICH SHALL IT BE:

Again the free voters of North
Carolina are called upon to decide
a very grave question. The white
mtn Of tins grand old state are call
ed upon to decide who shall control
their destiny and that of their chill
dren. And this decision IS to be
made by the black man as we'll as
the white man.
More than a hundred years of pro.
pcrity and development make up our
record AZ great free people. This
prosperity has been interrupted by g
great and destructive war, whose
ashes Of destruction have all been
famed away by the zephYrs OF a new
peace. The direful calamities thai
followed in The wake Of the grinding
reconstruction have become a thing
Of history to the men Of the South
and the sunshine of democracy has
blessed North Carolina for many
years.
Shall it continue to shine over GU
lovely homeland or shall the darE
clouds Of rcpublicanism settle upor
US? This is the question that con
fronts the good people Of North Car
DINA. This is the question tina
must be settled at the polls on tht
4th Of November. Let every white
man and every black man that favor.
q fair and honest government vote
the democratic ticket, and let thu
"O!d North North State roll in
tremendous majority.
It is not Q question Of men or (
choice Of men now. but it is Ques
ton Of what shall be our govern.
mcnt. If the next Legislature shoulC
be republican, it is beyond the ker
of the wiscst among US what Will b.
the results two years hence. No tru,
man can stand idle, tut every on,
must be at the polls and exercise h..
power as q ruler. lie MUST VOTE
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
WE Do NOT BELIEVE

II is printed in the papers til It
circulars have been set out by Col
J. i. Polk and DR.. Macune, for the
purpose Of organizing a boycott
against all newspapers that are not
in complete accord with the princi-
pies supposed to be held by the
Alliance, or that have criticised
Polk or Nacune.
In the first place, we cannot be-
lieye that circulars have been sent
out asking for such an unreasonable
thing on the part of the members of
the Alliance; and in the second
place. we do not believe that the
Alliance as a body would allow
themselves to be WhipIashed in
any such way, and in the third
place, TIE DEMOCRAT has nothing
TO fear, for it has been in sympathy
with the farmers from the first day
of is present management down to
the present, and has labored for
what it thought the greatest good
10 the greatest cumberland the
farmers Of this country are largely
III the majority.
1t has been charged by some
members Of the A lliance that the
entire press Of the country is wofully
subsidized; but we have not been
able TO see it.
The Alliance has been CncOura ged
at the hands of every editor in
North Carolina. Criticisms against
Senator Vance have been met by
the press generally. The cOmprO.
mise measure in Halifax county
politics was opposed by this paper;
but this had nothing to do with the
principles Of the Alliance. 1t was
only a difference Of opinion as to
the best method OF how to work
out the greatest good for all.
And if there had been reasons IOr
the Alliance to think that the
newspapers were opposing them, 1t
would have been an msnIt to the
intelligence of the Alliancemen OF
the land to have it dictated to them
what papers they should read OF
should not read. To be sure, every
man who has Intelligence enough
to read newspaper knows what
paper he prefers to read. He knows
whether OF not there is anything III
it offensive to him; and if there is,
he can abandon it at his own pleas
ure and by his own judgement
without being dictated to about 1t.
1t is perfectly right for every
Alliance man TO read the organ OF
his order if he wants to, and as
many other harmless papers as he
sees tit to pay for,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
SOUND ADVICE TO YOUNG
MEN,

Our young men can not only
achieve for themselves a grand
destiny by arraying themselves
against the sins and vices of the
age but they can redeem the country
from bankruptcy and political cor
ruptiOn.
Our young men who are unmar-
ried and free from the responsible
tiles Of families can during the few
years which yet remain Of single
life prepare themselves for the
wants and contingencies Of the fu-
ture. BY avoiding a reckless eX-
t1ayagance and the foolish dissipa-
tiOns of the present age consider
able amount of money can be saved
which will come in just at the nick
of time later on in life. 1t is a great
mistake for young men to postpone
the matter of saving dimes until
later on in life. Now is the time to
commence this business and the
young man who begins it today
will surely not repent Oft tomorrow
-MulJoun Times.
The above is worth place in any
young mans scrap book. Young
men have great and grand oppor-
tunities. AS the age progresses
and greater facilities for acquiring
knowledge crowd upon the young
men of the land, they are put under
greater responsibilities tOrlse to the
height of their true manhood and
stand for the truth in all things.
And how many are the needs fol-
yong men! The church needs
&C, e young men. The State and
national politics needs active young
men. The temperance cause needs
active young men. Every depart.
ment of lndustry-ag agriculture, man
ufacture, mining, mechanic arts
needs active young men. And the
great educational interests of the
land need active young men.
And the young man of unsteady
and immoral habits is nowhere
wanted. 1t is the young man that
is well poised in his habits and his
character that is trusted in all the
departments of industry we have
mentioned.
Drunkenness, profanity, or any
other shameless wee, units youne
man for the high honor and conf
dence to which be might otherwise
aspire and claim at the hands O
all classes.
Then truly "a grand destiny
awaits every young man in THU
country who is willing to pay th,
price of success intellectually ant
financially, and who is willing t,
stand on the side of strict morality
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30

The psrty origin ally called Repub.
llcan, cow Democratic, still holds,
allowance being made for change of
times and conditions, TO the general
view Of government tina. it accepted
before Jefferson became President.
The party successfully known IS
/ Federalist, Wing and now Republic
an, has from the beginning believed
and acted upon different theory Of
/ the powers and limitations OF govern
ment.
While these views are shown to
day in tendencies rather than in
deeds the two principles are still OPP
posed, Each new voter IS still called
upon to say which principle shall
be his, or, if his conscience cOmpels
hiD. TO cast in his fortunes with one
Of the less conspicuous parties.
On the other hand many persons
think at issue the points 80 unimpor-
tant that it is only necessary to choose
the wIsest and most honest men for
public office.
If the development of our plan of
government had not made part e.
a necessity, ard if officials could now
wholly associate themselves from
fellows in protested political belief,
there might be little or no difficulty
Of choice betH cen candidates. Even
IS it is, the fact that there a.e vari-
Gus grades Of election, national, State
and local, gives the voter a varied
opportunity OF choosing between
principles AID men.
General principles, of course, enter
strongly into national concerns.
Questions of finance or foreign policy
are necessarily beyond State rule,
and the result of any State election,
except as in the present view in
dicating the inhabitants at
titude toward the FEEDER
al partles,-can have only an indirect
influence upon national measures.
The preference of men to principles
may therefore be nationally followed
in State tar more than in federal
elections.
And with regard to local affairs,
sensible people are coming more and
more to realize that city or town GOV.
ernments should be administered
solely upon business principles, quite
removed from politics.
1t is clear that here the question
Of the candidates. personal fitness
shonld he given paramount weight
Partisanship without sufficient
motive Is an evil that cannot be toe
deeply deplored, vet sides must bt
taken. and all partisanship may easily
have ample reason for being. Lei
the new voters arrive at theirs, We
advise, by some study Of the history
Of American government and pOliti>
subjects on which information i:
easily acquired and understood
Let them read good newspapers on
both sides; they are surely plentiful
and cheap enough. Let them dis
, Criminate between the nature of cleo
tions, and, having reached intelligen
choice of candidates, let them yot'
accordingly.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
FOR THE ROANOKE LANDS.

TIE DEMOCRAT has labored earn.
estly to get the question Of reclaim
ing the Roanoke lands fairly before
the public. Committees have been
appointed by the Board Of Commits
sioners Of four counties to confer
concerning the matter.
There has been some misunder-
standing SIS to the time these COM
uittces shall meet. Some thought
18Th Of October the proper time while
others thought the pad OF October
the proper time.
DR.. Hassell of GAINESVILLE came to
Scotland Neck on pad of October,
thinking that the day generally
agreed upon. It turUed out that no
one else came on that day.
We have consulted number OF
the committee in this county and we
now announce that
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25th
is the day appointed for the meeting,
and Scotland Neck the place.
The election will have passed and
1t will have been settled as to who
will represent these four counties in
the Legislature. 1t will be q con.
venleGL season and we call upon all
who are interested to turn out and
give the matter good start.
We have given considerable time
to studying the question, have given
column after column of space to it.
have written letters upon letters tC
private individuals about the matter
and we do hope to see lively inter
est taken in it.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
THE LAW INVALID,

The Mckinley tariff law has been
looked into carefully and declared
by high authority to be invalid.
The invalidity Of the law came
about this way:
The bill, after. being passed Upon
was changed by the Conference
Committee before it was signed by
the President. In certain section
there was an omission and elsewhere
some restoration of matter that had
been stricken out.
Senator Mcpherson has brought
the matter before the country and
declares that the bill as passed by
Con grcss was not signed by the
President. In other words, a certain
section was in the bill passed by
Congress and is not in the bill
signed by the President. 1t is
claimed that the President has no
more right to change bill after it
has left Congress than Congress mas
to enact legislation without the
Presidents signature. And it Is
further claimed that the fact that
the President signed the bill differ
ent from what was passed upon by
Congress renders it invalid.
Strong and able men make such
declaration; Senator Carlisle being
among the number, and also Mr..
+, b. Smith of New York, who is a
republican lawyer of acknowledged
ability.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30

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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
THE MONUMENT.

THE DEMOCRAT tries to tell the
truth, however humiliating it may
be; and now we are forced to say
that not one dollar has besn subscrib-
ed by the people of Halifax county,
through this paper, for the Mecklen~
burg monument to the signers Of the
Declaration Of Indepence, SubscriF-
tons will be taken during this
month, and we do hope some of our
patriotic citizens will make subscrip-
tiols. We hope and walt for them
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30

Mr.. r Hyman Of Gteenville,
spent Gay or two in town last week.
He is = clever photographer and we
are sorry he did not pitch his tent
here.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
MEN OF THE EAST"
{ VII. MeSSengeT.)

(WIl. MessengeT)
The more than twenty counties
that can be injured by the repeal of
the county government system must
work ami keep on working if they
would not be seriously injured and
wronged. 1t will not do to be heed
less of consequences and politically
bed-ridden. Our people all through
the East must get together and work
day and night until the election is
oyer and the State is safe. Nandals
and vampires must not be allowed
to suck the life blood of the East
and bring it to desolation and beg
gary. 1t will be indeed a great,
burning, blistering shame if the
crimes and outrages of 18GG76 are
repeated IN North Carolina BY reason
Of Democratic folly and apathy and
iuertness. 1t will be a crime to suf-
fer because Of our own sins of omis-
sion. See to it men of the East
that no ruin oveTtakes you and no
detrlment befalls the State through
your lukcwarmness and want Of fidel-
ltY at q time Of peril.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30

PERSONALS.

Miss Carrie Hall went to Edenton
Monday to attend the fair at that
place.
Miss Lucy Manning of Henderson
Is visiting her sister, Mrs. G. w.
Damn.
Mr.. D. \. Madry and his sister
Miss Annie, returned from Goldsboro
fair Saturday,
Mrs. j. B. Neal returned Monday
from a trip to Norfolk and a visit to
her mother in Murfreesboro,
Miss LEILA Holiday FROM near
Whitahcr's Chapel, left Monday for
visit to friends In Marion, S. c.
Mr.. w. A. Dunn attended the
meeting of the Congressional Execu-
tive committee at Wilson Mondsy.
Misses Agnes Andrews and Mamie
Coke, Of Roxobel, are spending some
time here on visit TO Mrs. S. D.
Hancock.
Rev. Mr.. Harrison preached in
the Methodist church here Sunday
morning and in the Baptist church
Sunday night.
Mr.. Thos. White of Clinton who
has been visiting his sister, Mrs. b.
g. Dunn, near Crowells, spent q few
days in town last week.
Miss Bette B. Lacy, who has been
visiting her sister Mrs. W. E. Bark,
ley near Crowells has returned to
her home in South Boston, Va.
Mr.. r Hyman Of GIeenville,
spent a day or two in town last week
He is . clever photographer and we
are sorry he did not pitch his tent
here.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
INTELLIGENT VOTING.

youths Companion.)
The duty that rests upon every
person who has right to vote must
be freshly and strongly urged when>
ever The opportunity to vote occurs.
The duty is twofolG: in the first place
to vote, in the second place
to have q good reason for voting as
he does. To q young man about to
cast his first vote the matter IS es>
pecially serious. Every year many
thousands of young men in our coun-
try become Of age,and ,trite as it may
sound TO say that the future Of the
country is in their hands, the abiding
truth of the saying must not be for
gotten.
Tue duty to vote seems SO plain
thst none should need to consider it.:
yet there are young men who say
lightly that there IS no difference be
tween the parties; that between them
"All has been lost except office or the
hope of it," and justify thereby the
neglect of the ballot, Does not the ab-
sencc of a possibly intelligent vote
from the ballOt-boX increase the pow
er OF ignorance? And Is it not in
ignorant voting that the menace to
al popular government lies? The
difference totween parties may be
slghter than at times when great
national issues are at stake, but the
smallest question has two sides, one
of which is right and the other
wrong,
On what principle, then, shall new
voters exercise their duty? In the
first place it may be said that if there
ever was time when yolng man
should vote with one party or the
other merely because his father aud
his family have been Republican
or pemocratlr, that time is past.
The expression of honest individual
opinion is supremely needed to keep
the nation strong.
TLcre are, in general, two grounds
for decision regarding party counec>
tions-principles and men. Which
shall it be?
AS for principles, let none forget
that in the history of opposed parties,
slightly as present circumstances
may call for difference of action, one
may find an expression of the ops
posito tendencies constantly and
still represented.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
WRITE LEGIBLY,
Richmond Dispatch.l

Richmond Dispatch.)
Those who submit MSS. to editors
need not proceed upon the idea that
illegible writing is sure to be regard
ed as an evidence of genius. AS a
general thing editors are able to dc
all the ilIegibIe writing that is
required for their journals, and are
very hostile to other like produc
tiCns.
If you would see your articles
accepted have them copied in d
PLAN, round hand, or on a good
typewriter.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
MEWBORNE NOMINATED.

The Executive committee for the
Second Congressional district met
in Wilson last Monday and nomina-
ted Mr.. j, NJ. Mewborne, of Leroir,
as Capt. Rogers successor, Mr..
Mewborne had already announced
himself an independent candidate.
He is an alliance man and will stand
a good chance for election if every
one will do his duty, not" Outstanding
the short tune he has for Canvassing,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30

There IS more Catarrh in this section
Of the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disease and prescibed local remedies, and
by constantly falling to cure with lceaI
treatment, pronounced it iDcurable. Sci.
ence has proven catarrh to be consutu>
tional disease, and therefore requires con-
stitutional treatment. Hall'sCatarrhCure,
manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market. 1t is taken inter
nalIy IN doses from 10 drops to q tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address.
81. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
R8rS0l1 by Druggists, zoe.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
THE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
TICKET.

Scnatc-W. E, Bowers.%
Uouse-A.B b. Hill and ". ". Hail
SheriT--B. /. Allsbaook.
Register of Deeds-T. l., Whitaker
Trcasurer-W. f. Parker,
Coroner-B. F, Gary.
Surveyors. G. Nevill..
These are all true and tried demo
Gratis, and it goes without saying
that every democrat in the county
will vote for them. White men are
under great obligations to their in
tcrcsts this year to see to it that TIE
republican and negro rule is sup
pressed and white supremacy main
tanned.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-30
Lie l. lNEisPrT

To thousands of people who have the
faint Of scrofula in their blood. The
agonies caused by the dreadful running
sores and other manifestations of this
disease are beyond description. There i
no other remedy equal to Hoods Sarsa
parllla for scrofula, salt rheum and every
form OF blood disease. 1t is reasonably
sure to benefit all who give 1t fair trial
BE sure to get Hoods.