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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-11

denied by the members who voted Tor
them by MIR. Blaine, the Speaker of
the House, at the time; by MIR. Conk-
lin. Mr.. Logan. Mr. Voorhees,, Mr..
Bogg. of Missouri; Mr.. Howe. Mr.. Nor
ton. of Indiana; Mr.. Thurman. Ii any
Senator knew the nature of the bill,
when he voted for it, except its au
thor. of course, he was ashamed to
own it.
The members of the Housewife
the exception of Mr.. Hooper, of Mas
sachusetts, and Mr.. Kelly, of Pennsyl
vania-knew nothing of the nature of
the bill when voting for it. Mr.. Hoar,
then of the House, was ignorant of
what he was doing. Mr.. Logan, in the
Senate, asked Mr.. Sherman how the de-
monetizing clause got into the Revised
Statutes? Mr.. Sherman said he did
not know But in the same debate,
which took place in 1876, Mr.. Sherman
explained his reasons for dropping
the silver dollar from the coinage.
He said: 1.-THE answer is chat in 1873,
when these statutes were % carefully
revised, the silver dollar as provided in
the then existing law, as worth
more than dollar in gold There was
no use then in issuing tie dollar be-
cause III Wouid go fIlCo Ulle I4eIGlhS poC,
being worth more than the gold dollar.
That was the reason whr the silver
dollar was not provided for"
But there was another 7 ason back
of this, since nobody would wish to
have his silver bullion coined, when
the bullion was worth more than the
coin. Mr. Sherman had visited Europe,
and ascertained what was demanded
| by the bankers and American bond
! holders, and the charmed circle into
which he was admitted, converted him
from a spread-eagle Greenbaclzer, who
wished to pay the national debt in that
currency, into gold monometallist.
DANIEL r. GOODLOE.
Raleigh, n c., Sept. 30, 1896
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UTTERANCEs OF MIR. BRYAN.

The gold standard means half time
in the factories and double time on the
farms.
A financial system that commends
itself to the wealthy only is a curse
to the land.
If presidents of railroads will ma
nipulate votes before election they will
manipulate men after election.
What is the use of opening the mills
unless you first make the people able
to buy what the mills produce?
If you ask me what the campaign
song ought to be this year L will tell
you there is no better than Home,
Sweet Home"
We find against us those who viii
contribute literally to the corruption
fund; we find those with us who have
no money to corrupt voters with.
Show me a man who makes money
out of legislation and l will show you
man who abuses the people when
they want legislation for themselves.
We have opposed to us every man
who has attempted to destroy labor
organizations; we have with us those
who have aided labor to better its con-
dition.
Who is an anarchist, according to the
Morgan syndicate idea? The man who
believes in the declaration of indie
pendence that all men are created
equal before the law. Who is the
patriot and statesman, according to j.
Pierpont Morgan? He who believes
the masses were made with backs to
bear the burdens and the few were
made to ride upon the backs of those
who toll
If some petty individual who did not
have high financial standing We're to
try to beat the government out of 800
they would put him in the penitentiary
and make an example of him. But
if man tries to beat the government
out of $5,000,00 he becomes patriot,
and deserves to Zoe the chief guest
where treasury officials are banqueted.
| do not believe the man who manages
the financiering should be THE bosom
friend of the conspirators who never
lose an opportunity to bleed the PEG
pie.
/ will venture the assertion that
there is not half of the men who are
in favor of gold standard who cantell
not understand even the terms W8ich
are used in the discussions of the
money question. I would be willing to
place the average farmer against the
average Banker and turn them loose
to discuss the monetary science and
financial history and the banker could
not hold his own with the farmer.
Why? Because the financier thinks
he knows so much that it is not neces-
sary for him to study, while the farm
er realizes that he has got to study in
order to know anything about the
question The fnancier has been get
ting along so well that he thinks it is
not necessary for him to worry, but
the farmer has been suffering so much
that he is trying to find what is the
matter with the farmer. The farmer
knows that by making money scarce
he makes money dear and property
cheap.
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THE DEMON OF THE PRESS.

THE busy demons of the press" is
what the committee ON Publication of
the Southern Presbyterian General AS
sembly call the newspaper reporters
Richmond Dispatch.
Century Dictionary)
Demon.-A supernatural agent or in
telligence, lower in rank than god;
a spirit holding a middle place be-
tween the gods and men; one of a
class of ministering spirits, sometimes
regarded as including the souls of de
ceased persons, a genius, as the demon
or good genius of Socrates. Sometimes
written damon.
"Soon was a world of holy demons
Aerial spirits by great Jove designed
TO be on earth the guardians of man
kind"
New York Sun. II. COOKE.
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ATTEMPT AT BRIBERY.

There are some Republicans in this
county who claim to be respectable,
who are going to good honest Demo
Gratis and Populists and telling them,
with an intention of deceiving them,
shat if they will vote for Mckinley
they will guarantee to such Democrats
and Populists position in the Rev
enue service. Lincoln Courier.
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MR.. sHERMAN's "BTMETALLIsM.'

Senator Sherman says he is a BIZ
metallist. He is in love with bimetal-
lism. He wants the bimetallism that
is gold recommendation. He would
train his pigeons to fly with one wing,
$50 as to maintain the parity" between
the wings Its wonder he doesn't
hop on one leg so as to keep it from
going to a premium. Why doesn't he
glue up one ear so as to Keep the other
in circulation? Why not break two legs
off each of his chairs to keep the chairs
from tumbling over? Or pull out his
upper teeth to keep the lower ones
from running away to Europe ?-Hel-
ena Independent.
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THE FRAUD EXPLAINED

Daniel r Goodloe Tells the
Story of Sherman's Crime.
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BRYAN A TEMPERANCE LESSON.

Bryan is about the best object lesson
in temperance this country has ever
known. He would have broken down
long ago if he had been a dissipated
man, but because he has always led a
clean, upright, sober life, he is as fresh
as a daisy after three months of I'M
precedented campaigning, and his last
month will be his best.-From the
Denver Republican.
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ding parties have done all
they could to keep t h e IN
from making friends. We
want the two money metals
to restore amicabla relations
again, and both 40 full duty
as money in paying oil our
liabilities every where and to
buy equally. The old demo
cratic idea was to usp both
metals on d parity at the ra-
ito oi 16 to l. Let us all re-.
turn to this safe ana sound
idea. Democrats are deter
mined to go back to the dol
lar of our daddies. The gold
democra ts will all fall in, we
will be successful and silver
will be restored and millions
OF dollars will be dug from
the mines and again do full
duty aS redemption money.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1896-07-09

Last summer Que of oar
grand children was sick with
a severe bowe. trouble. Our
doctors remedies had failed,
then we tried Chamberlain $
Collie, Cholera and DiarrEoea
remedy, which gave very spec
dy relief. We regard it as
the best medicine ever put on
the market for bowel COIN
plaints.-Mrs. E. G Gregory,
Frederickstown, Mo. T h i s
certainly is the best medicine
ever put on the market for
dysentery, su IN m er com
plaint, collie and cholera in
fantum in children. 1t never
fails to give prompt relief
when used il reasonable time
and the plain printed direc-
tions are followed. Many
mothers have expressed their
sincere gre titude for the cures
it has effected. For sale by
dI uggists.
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The Country Editor.

Verify the life of a country
editor is a path OF thorns.
HIS bread is PROMISES and
his meat is disappointment.
His creditors chase him by
day and the devil grinneth
at hinl in his dreams by
night.
He sendeth the paper to a
subscriber on a credit and
the subscriber payeth him
not.
Then ne stoppeth the d elm
quent = paper, and the delin.
quent singeth tra-la! and Dor
roweth from his neighbor.
One subscriber payeth his
subscription in wood and BE-
hold it is rotten and soggy
and OF short measure.
He whoopeth up the town
ship politician and the poll
titan get elected and remeln
bereth him no more.
He puffeth the church fair
gratis and then payeth his
quarter and receiveth t W q
oysters.
He boometh his town and
all things therein, and yetrc.
ceiveth no support and is a
man without honor in h is
own country.
Two young people marry
and, he giveth them d great
puff, and they go to house
Keeping and taketb not his
paper.
Yea, he is bound down with
woe and his days are full of
gllef and trouble and yexa-
tlon OF spirit.
But sorrow endureth only
for a night and Joy cometh
in the morning.
He ploddeth along and en-
dureth in patience, and it is
written that heHill receive his
reward at thej ju'lgmert.- .-Ex.
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Ca mpaignins Against guss.

| NNtJ Wv iS'CtI I'tIOli INJURY.
Campaigning Against guss.
| Among themost contumacious
ana annoying of spring Visitors
that confront the housekeepers
are the reaches, or water bugs,
which appear without soIicita.
tion and pitch their tents where
ever water is constantly kept.
They breed with prodigious ra-
pidity, and, unless exterminated
or driven off, will soon take pos
session of the whole house. Pre-
vention in this case is infinitel v
better than cure. Powdered DO.
rax or Persian powder should be
sprinkled around the spots that
they would like to call their own.
and at least twice a week boiling
water should be poured down
sinks, closets aud drains. Helle-
bore rubbed over with molasses
and put around their haunts is
also considered a specific.
Still more persistent regarding
entrance, and still harder to put
to flight once in, are those evilly
disposed creatures whose very
name sends chills up and down
the housekeeper's spinal column
tile bedbugs.
They are exceedingly partial
to some kinds of wood. and are
not infrequently built into the
very house itself. If not already
in, there are hundreds ofways by
which they smuggle themselves
in-in boxes and baskets, in the
hem of a garment from the tail
or's. or the clean clothes from
The laundress. So prolific are
they that two or three stock a
house in one summer If undis.
turbed. Scrupulous cleanliness
and eternal vigilance are the on
ly safeguards.
All beds and bedding should be
examined at least once q week in
summer and if any trace ofinter-
lopers are seen the bed must be
taken apart and thoroughly
scrubbed with cold water and
soap. This is the only way to
destroy the eggs which are de-
posted in every crack and crew
Ice, and unless this is done the
bugs will continue to increase.
After the scrubbing the different
parts of the bedstead should be
washed with spirits of turpentine
or an ounce of corrosive subli-
mate mixed with halt-pint of al
chohol. a feathex is the best |
medium for applying this to the
cracks. The Persian insect pow
der applied with a blower is very |
efIicacious when it can be found
un9dulterated. 1t should be
showered in every crack and
creviue OF the bed. behind the
pictures or mantle pieces, along
dashboard and under any loose
place III the wall paper. Plaster
is "a favorite try sting place of
these barbarians, but unless
there is a crack they cannot bore
through it. The formula for a
poison that can be applied with
u syringe or sponge fastened on
the end of a stick is as follows:
One-half pint spirits of wine,
one hall pint spirits ofturpentine
one ounce of crude sal ammoni-
nc, one ounce of corrosive subli-
mate and one ounce OF camphor.
: Kansas City Star. !
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IMPORTANT.

Don't delay having courthouse
painted while the season is here.
Don't have your paint wasted
and your work hall done by an
Inexperienced palnter, as paints
cost money. l will beglad to do
your painting andpaperhanging
ing this season. Ten years expert
ence Best OF reference given.
J. p. ABSHER, Boone \. {.
6,23-3 IN.
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they do, bue I'd rather 8 9 e
them do right"

they do, bue I'd rather . . e
thelp do right"
Col. isaac Hill, better known
to everybody around t b &
House end Of the Capitol,
where he has been the demo
cratic whipper in for many
years, 'as 'lkehIll";; has just
returned from his Ohio home.
He Says that Mckinley can
not possibly carry that sta re.
The people won't stand it,"
he continued; "they have got
their hearts set Cn All Ameri-
can system of finance, a n d
nothing short Of free silver
at the old ratio suit them.
Why, | drove IS miles thro'
the country in a buggy and
met hundreds Of my republi,
can personal friends W h o
said: "Ike, We are with you
against the gold bugs; Wall
street has run this country,
and has about run it in the
ground. We want d change,
and are going to votefor the
Chicago nominee and free sill
yer. rhe tariff is a back mum
Der; give us the money OF the
constitution and the dollar
of our daddles. That's t b Q
way they talk and as ior the
democrats, why, there is no
holding them down. Your un
Gle Isaac is not employing
inetaphorirnl language nor
yet trying to jolly you along
when he says that the demo-
Gratis nre going to win in o,
bio this year.i' M
Mr.. Walter Fl. Hammond,
whose home IL at the lndi-
ana town named for his ia
ther who was a member of
the fifty-third Congress says
OF democratic prospects in In
diana: "A majority OF t h E
democratic voters OF t he
state are ardent believers in
free coinage as was shown at
the late state convention and
n great many republicans can
also be counted on the silver
side. Another thing that will
help the democrats is t h e
stl feeling that has devel.
oped against the Nicholson
law regulating the sale of in
toxicating liquors. The re-
spOnsibility for tha.lnw rests
on the republicans, and it is
so obnoxious to a large class
that they will vote against
the party that enacted it.
Taken all together, I think
the democrats will carry the
state"
lion. G.. A. Hardin. Of KY, |
says that state can bc coun-
ted upon with absolute cer-
-ainty to roll up a big ma.
olity for the ticket named !
at Chicago, and he is equally /
positive that West Virginia,
where he has just been on bus
ness, will do the same.
Last summer Que of oar
grand children was sick with
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G OLD.


OF Blowing Rock, teIls us in
our issue OF the End that
great calamities would befalI
our country ifthe wild scheme
OF free coinage OF silver was
ADOPTED. Saws he: 1T will
contract the currency and
drive gold out of The coun-
try, etc.
He, like all other gold ad-
vocates, tries to frighten the
people ny saying hat the
gold will all he driven out of
the country. We have recov-
ercd from this alarm, for we
know that all the gold t h Q
government can buy or Dor.
row is being driven out of
the country IN fast as it can
be obtained, and yet we are
under the gold standard. and
here lies the trouble with the
country. Gold has gone to
Il premium and silver is de-
based by legislation dictated
by Honest John" Sherman,
who is more responsible for
the present financial condi-
tion than any other man.
'Civis' would have us stand
firm for this goIu standard
idea, and at the same tire
our people are growing hard
er pressed every year. What
encouragement can ''Civls"
give us to stop the silver
craze? Why should we SUI.
fer on under.the present con-
ditions? When a gold man
asserts, without proof, that
u great paric will come upon
lis by the free coinage of sill
YER, We are not obliged to be
lleve it, and why should we,
although President Cleveland
Secretary Carlisle, John Sher
man and the would-bc P1psi-
ident, Mckinley, say SO. But
do they know?
Why do 50 many of t h e
most able men of our alton
say that the free coinage of
silver will relieve the people
from the distressed financial
Are they fools?
Are such true and tried men
as Senators Morgan, Harris,
Daniels, Blackburn, and Il
host OF Others in the South, |
and in the West we have the
ablest men of both old par
ties are with US. Are such
men as Vice President Steven
son, Senators Vorhees, Vest,
Teller and thousands OF 9th
.rs in the West, who advo-
cate free silver at 16 to i.
are these great men W h 0
nave been honored and trust
I'd by their fellow-citizens to
1e ignored BY US small men?
IAN VT not risk our interests
With such men as leaders? Is
t not-important to make a
'hange, or shall we vot', for
nen againfor Office who want
% KEEP us chained to the pres
mt ruinous policy?
Let us awake and throw off
;he letters that bind us. -Four
years more of the presentcon
litions, with Mckinley Pres
dent and another republican
congress, will about do the
work for us all, of the small
+ tribe. The big fish will get i
Is. Why not restore silver I
oinage as it was before John I
sherman had 1T debased?
Who would this hurt? Why
rJuld our gold leave MS?
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WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent.

10 convention, nave all Deef
chosen, and even Presiden,
Cleveland now recognizes
that silver has won, AMI that
a free coinage plank in t h g
platform is AS near a certain
ty as anything not yet actu.
ally accomplished can be-
There isn't half the kicking
from the nn'ti-siIyer demo.
Gratis that might have beer
naturally expected. There il
a general disposition to sub.
luit az gracefully as possible
to- the old democratic idea
that n majority rules. But
the contest for the head oi
the ticket is not over, as it
seems that the silver demo.
Gratis will be a few votes short
OF the two-thirds necessary
to- nominate. Ii that should
turn out to be the case there
may be quite q number Of bal
lots before the nomination is
made. Shonld thu silver men
Ehcve two thirds 1t is the opin
ion Of some well-inforned
democrats than Gov. Boies.
OF Iowa, if his friends can con
yince the convention that he
can carry his own,state, will
stand an excellent chance to
get the nomination. III
The work of ftheconvention
will practically hesin Gh; is
week when leading representa-
tives OF both silver and anti
silver democrats will meet at
Chicago for the purpose of
comforting with their repre-
sentative associates and a.
ening AS far as may be pos
sible upon a program for the
convention. While it is, of
course, possible that these
gentlemen might reach some
sort OF an agreement t. h a t
would prevent a fight in the
convention, it is not consid-
cred probable that they will.
1t seems impossible to avoid
that fight.
"Whatever the Chicago con
vention does," said an old
time democrat, 81 hope it
will not repeat the Greely
iool-husiness by going out
side of the party for a Presi-
Dental candidate. The very.
same talk about the great
number OF republican votes
that might be captures by
nominating some republican
like Senator Teller, of Colo,
or. Senator Cameron, of Pa,
was heard IN Greeley's behalf
just before the meeting of the
democratic National Conven
ton of 1872, and just look
at the result. The Greeley
ticket received only &c elerto
raj votes out of 352, or IA
less than was cast for Spy-
rDour and BLAIR, in 1868
when Va, Tex. and Miss. had
no votes owing TO their not
ha wing been reconstructed at
the time. The experience of
1872 VIII be repeated t this
year, If the Chicago Conven-
tion goes outside the party |
for u candidate, | am quite
sure that all the old she'll
back democrats like myself, |
who will work and vote for
the tirket anyway just be- /
cause it is demOcl attic, would
prefer defeat under a candi-
date of our own to victory
under a adisgruntled republi-
can. This is just the way II
fool a hnur it aud i,,ct h n
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The
Oldest
And the Best

an the Fall Of '93, inv son,
R. b. ROUME, had a huge cArDuii-
Gle OH his neck. The doctor
lanced it, but gave him no per-
manent benefit,
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Law rs She is laid Down In Polk,

VIZ are told that Il white
man and a negro had a row
in the yard of the former, o.
YER in Polk county the other
day, and the white man
struck the negro twice on the
head with Il rock.
The negro threatened to pros
ecute and the white man Of
fered to pay him IS to COM
promise, but the negro want
ed $50, which was refused.
and he then swore Out t a war;
rant and hailed the white man
up before a magistrate. After
hearing the idence the mag
lstrate fined the negro $5 and
costs, upon the ground that
a mans house and yard were
his castles. The white man
then went the negroes secu-
rity to keep him out of Jail.
Great is law nS she is infer
preted in these amazing days!
utherfOrdtOn Democrat.
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Mrs. Rhode Noah, of this
pluce, was taken in the night
with cramping pains and the
next day di;lrrhoea set in.
She took hall a bottle ofbIack
berry cordial but got no re-
lief. She then seut to me to
see if | had anything that
would help her. | sent her IL
bottle Chamberlain's Coiic.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy and che first dose relieved
her. Another of our neigh
bors had been sick for about
Il week and had tried different
remedies for diarrhOpa but
kept getting worse. | sent
him this same remedy. Only
four doses of it were required
to cure him. Hesays he owes
his recovery to this wonder
full remedy.-Mrs. Mary Sib-
ley, Sidney, Mich. For sale
by druggists.
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AVER S
y SarsapariIIa

was then resOrted to, and the re-
suit was all we could have wished
for. The carbuncle healed quick.
ly, and his health is now perfect"
III. S. ROUZIE, Champlain, Va
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
TWINKLES.

What was wrong? asked myself What
had missed The pose, the expression
the throb of notIon9 Weeks passed then
| worked again. made new study ana
consulted my cousin Laura. She knew
something of dancing and was at that time
practising ballet steps, a necessary a'-
commitment so she had been told"
her debut in comic opera.
Tine face is perfection, - She said. " The
little droop in the left eye-shc must have
been born winking and the upward curve
at the corner of the lip, they couldn t be
improved.
Perhaps if could get more action
more of the warmth which goes with
action
1t would affect the flesh tint. certainly.
You should see me pirouettlng at puprcs
peony isn't i'll it.
81 should like to see you, said, Jump
ing at probable solution of my diihcul-
ties, particularly i'll daylight. Take ne
To your class.