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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1896-05-07
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1896-05-07

certainty Of what action the
Senate would take upon such
abill and the presence Of the
Democratic President. The
real reason is that therepub-
licans do not care t. define
the exact party policy on
this subject as II bill woul !
have to do, believing that
It will make more votes by
leaving the question OPEN SO
that any sort OF promise that
may be demanded may be
made.
There was a time when q
Senator who was accused of
having lied by another Sena-
tor, as Gear, of Iowa, was by
Allen of Nebraska, would not
have stood up and quietly
said that he took no except
ION to the language, as Mr..
TEAR did, but it seems to
have gone by. Still there are
Senators who believe that
calling a man a liar is equiv
alent to striking him and who
are prepared to live up to
that belief at all times. The
occasion, OF the Allan-Gear
episode was the Pacific Rail-
roads Bill, which Mr.. Gear.
as Chairman Of the Commit
tee reported to the Senate,
aud it was directly caused by
Mr.. Gear having stated that
Weaver, the populist candi-
date for President in 1892,
stood for the confiscatiOn of
railroad property, the tele-
graph and the telephone, and
the issuance OF paper to pay
for them. This railroad bill
may be tho cause of a very
bitter fight in the Senate
Car Reed can putt through
the House without any trou.
ble-because Of the belief Of
Senator's that it is entirely
too favorable to Hunting
don.
The Dupont case is still
nominally before the Senate,
bnt nobody will. be greatly
surprised il it is never voted
upon. The republicans are
now certain that. they can't
seat him unless some Senat-
ora who have announced
their determination to vote
against him can pc changed
by pressure, circumstances
or time, and for that reason
it is being allowed to drag a.
long. .g.,,
Great pressure is being
brought to bear upon Sena-
tor German to get him to
change his mind about not
going to the Chicago conven-
ton, but so far he sticks to
what he first said tha t he will
not go.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1896-05-07
WASHINGTON LETTER

Il WASHINGTON LETTER
.sfs,tsea .------4.
!. from l M our Regular corrsspondsnt.
~
Speaker Reed is getting
anspicious Of some Of those
who have undertaken the
task gfmaking him the re-
$pdbIican candidate rPrfsi
flent. One OF the men under
euspicion is Quay. Reed is
Blid to believe that in addit-
ionto dickerirg with other
lcandidates for the nomlna-
fion, Quay has goj the idea
\ ID his head that if Mckinley
and Reed can both be thrown
Down he can himself get the
Nomination. Others have
Known that Quay's head had
beconle swelled with the Pres
idential idea sometime, and
have believed that If he co lid
Rt any time during the st.
louis convention get the
nomination for himself he
's5tnld have no hesitation in
Eobbllng it up regardless of
HE obligation toMr. Reed or
n any one else. And there
Int the slightest donbt that
The practical politicians Of
Ethe Platt, Clarkson stripe
J. WOULD 500 ner see Quay nom
hated than anyone yet ma
med. He bel'm9s to their
bsssand they would know
(st how to deal with him.
g|Alely. no man has a better
tt,t to besuspicious of these
men than Mr.. Reed, whom
tliey are pretending to be
& ,ISIipporting in his fight for
HAT nomination. They may
vote for Mr.. Reen and they
NAV get him nominated but
ifthry do, it will be because
they tinn that they cannot
no betterf.,r themselves by
ll|npportlng somebody else.
rhe democratic ''stpering"
s10oa1nittee has served notice.
Su}}lin republican Senator's
th,;f whiln not desiring to
|srlljse any obstacles to early
djOurnment. II the rppub-
licN4s are willing TO return
to the people with a record
] 0f hvaing done nothing ex-
I cept TO pass the Appropria-
ton bills, they insist upon.
being consulted upon all the
lneaBurers to be taken up
during the remainder of the
ceesifn and will not grant u
o1isnous consent to take up
4 Ming that has not been
pfeviously agreed upon
he movement started by
s enafpT Hawley. OF Conn, to
the printing of the post
age stamps away from the
Bpfeau of Printing and En-
aving at Washington, and
I 6ipei ITO the lowest private
I; Sr, lie making rapid prog
6llnd il the frienIs of real
&aolny in public expendit-
I do not watch their P's
Q's, the schemers will
u through. ItisdiMcult
to unierstapd how any man
I! 81 have the cheek to stand
u6 Ind advocate this step
/ M - Eard in the face of the
|Eh h3ntages the government
has lined by taking charge
81 3bie work. The stamps
6Fe Ter ptinted, there are
tnor9 safeguards around
4xX 4. ~. I'm h:t.or naJ oon
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PROFESSIONAL.
DR.. j. NJ. HOGSHEAD,
Cancer Specialist,
BANNERS ELK. N. {.

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A VOICE FOR MCKINLEY.
AN ADMIRER OF THE OHIO STATESMAN EULoGIZEs
HIS SERVICES TO THE REPUBLICAN Party.

AN ADMIRER OF THE OHIO STATESMAN EULoG1zEs
HIS SERVICES TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
To the Editor of the San Francisco CdtL-SIR
A good deal is being said against sending a
pledged delegation TO the st. Louis Convention
in favor OF the eminent Ohio statesman, Will
liam Mckinley. Why is it thus? When Gen
eral ]. S. Clarkson ana Senator Andrews of
Pennsylvania were on the coast ostensibly in
the interest of Allison and Quay, but evidently
more to prevent the nomination of Major
Mckinley, they found to their surprise an
overwhelming sentiment in favor of the
Ohioan In preference to their favorites and
therefore modified their schemes somewhat
and urged an unpledged delegation by the
State convention. They were also very lavish
and magnanimous. in their promises what
their fayorite candidates, if nominated and
elected, would do for the great West and for
the Pacific Coast particularly. Now J. as an
Ohio man, undertake to say that neither Alli-
son. quay or any other man outdo Major
Mckinley in magnanimity. Mckinley is at
once the grandest man of the present day, the
peer OF any man, pre-eminent In statesman
ship and forensic abilities, the prince of
honor, su blime in thought. true TO every inter-
est OF all classes and all sections and the con-
slderate friend of the working classes.
When some years since the Mckinley law
became unpopular, even before it had fair
trial, made so by pessimistie Democratic ora
tors throughout the entire country, Major Nc
kinley, like true patriot, stood up and boldly
defended his measure with great ability, but
all the same went down in defeat and lost his
seat in the National Congress because of the
splendid energy he made in the countries be.
half. 1t was Mckinley that had to bear the
brunt and blame for all the dire calamity to
the Republican party. But since the country
has gone to ruin under Democratic rule, and
the Mckinley protective system proven to be
the greatest measure ever enacted, and that
the country would have prospered beyond
measure under its operation, and beneficial in
the highest degree to the now distressed people,
those other gentlemen now come forward and
claim great credit for the passage of the Nc
Kinley tariff law, and their friends, like Clark
son. do their level best to undermine the great
Ohio candidate. Let me again say that in the
event of McKiney's nomination and election
to the Presidency he will fully recognize our
wants and he will not snub the Pacific States,
but will appoint one of our best men as a mem
Der of his Cabinet. The right of the Presidency
belongs to Mckinley, and let the delegation
be pledged for him. J. B. POWELL.
San Francisco April II, 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15

feet high and at least thirty feet long. AT high
tide it has about foot of water in it, and
were ii not for the rocks close TO the entrances
could be entered with boat.
When the tide is out the tunnel can be
traversed from end TO end on foot, and a most
curious experience it is. The rocks in the pas
sage way are alive with crabs, and it is almost
impossible to avoid stepping on them. As the
center OF the tunnei is little higher than
the ends it drains perfectly, SO that 1t is dry
except for a few puddles.
The interior walls of the tunnel present
curious appearance. They are of volcanic rock
and look as if they were thrown into their
present shape when mixed with some softer
substance. This has since washed away, leay-
ing the hole through the cliff. The rock
formation is exceedingly hard and in many
places has a spOngy appearance. 1t is almost
black in color and very rough and jagged.
For its full length the tunnel is about the
same size, and is straight it is hard to be-
lfeVe that it is not the work of human hands.
In stormy weather the waves wash in ana out of
the tunnel with great force, and wnen the
tide is high will entirely fill it, forcing the air
out with loud, Kissing noise
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15
THE LOTTERY EVIL.

The Supreme Court was undoubtedly
compelled to declare invalid the Los Anee-
les ordinance making the possession of a
lottery ticket a misdemeanor, but that
offers no consolation for the evil which
has suddenly sprung up as the result of
that decision. The fatal defect of the ordi-
nance was this qualifying clause: "Unless
said possession shall be shown to be 1nno-
cent or for lawful purpose" Clearly
this throws the burden of proof upon the
defendant, and that is a fatal defect. As
the San Francisco ordinance contains the
same clause the prosecution of persons
found with lottery tickets in their posses
sion has come to an end and peGdlers
selling them are plying their trade from
one end OF the City to the other.
Other lotteries besides Chinese are, of
course, affected, and they will probably
benefit more than the Chinese, for the
simple reason that most of the leading
daily newspapers of San Francisco are ad-
vertising the outside lotteries every month
in flaming advertisements that excite the
cupidity of the poor and make them easy
prey. Our contemporaries would doubt
less advertise the Chinese lotteries also
were it not for the happy circumstance
that the Chinese are prohibited from con-
Quoting lotteries and dare not make their
operations public.
The ability OF the newspapers to adver-
tise lotteries and of peddlers to sell tickets
has come in both instances from inexcusa-
BILE careiessness or ignorance in framing
the laws. The laws were honestly intend
ed to prohibit both evils, but the looseness
with which they were drawn could not
Withstand the scrutiny of the Supreme
Court. Experience has shown that in the
absence of proper moral sense laws pro-
hibiting such evils should receive the
most painstaking care.
One remedy remains, as far as the ped
dlers are concerned, That is for all high
minded citizens to assist the police in dis
covering Chinese lotteries. The ingenuity
of the race in concealing its lawlessness is
familiar fact. However Jealous the po-
lice may be, outside assistance is always
helpful. Nothing further can be done un-
til the Legislature meets and passes laws
to cover the whole ground. Meanwhile
the poorer people of the City will con-
tinue to be robbed and the press will
doubtless continue to lend its assistance.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15
A SONG OF THE CYCLE.

This is the toy, beyond Aladdtns dreaming,
The magic wheel upon whose hub is wound
Al roads, although they reach the world around,
Der Western plains or Orient deserts cleaning.
This is the sken from which each day unraveI
Such new delights such witching flights, such
Joys
OF bounding blood, of glad escape from noise
Such ventures, beggaring old Crusoes travel.
1t is as if some mighty necrom ancer,
AT kings command, to please his lady'S whim,
Instilled such virtue in rubber rim,
And brought it forth his triumphant answer
For wheresoeer its shining spokes feeting,
Fair benefits spring upward from Its tread,
And eyes grow bright, and cheeks all rosy red,
Responsive 10 the hearts ecstatic beating.
Thus youth and age, alike in healthfu feeling,
And man and maid who find their paths are one,
Crown this rare product of our centuTy's rum"
nd sing the health the Joy, the grace of wheeling
Youths Companion.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15
A REMARKABLE LAW.

New York has passed through its second
Sunday under the Raines liquor law and
the odd working of the statute is now un-
derstood. The law prohibIts the Sunday
traffic in all kinds of liquors in barrooms,
restaurants, drugstores and the like, but
says nothing about hotels. AS a conse-
quence hotels have sprung up at pro-
dlgious rate. Every saloon that can find
as many as ten rooms above it has secured
them, thrown furniture into them and
transformed them into "hotel." Even in
such cases, however. it is required that the
thirsty shall drink only in the course of a
meal. A sandwich which the customer
need not eat solves the difficulty. Under
the operation of that ordinarily useful
trait which makes the overcoming of OBJ
stacles pleasant pastime, New York CITY
has gone mad with desire to "beat the
law" and the result is to reduce the Raines
bill to an absurdity. The question of
evasion seems not yet to have been raised.
1t appears ridiculous that a restaurant may
not sell liquors on Sunday while hotel
cafe suffers under no such restriction.
A remarka BILE feature of the law is that
it represents the rural idea of conduct as
opposed to that of the urban. New York
States large rural population has made it
possible for the man in the country to
bring down his heel upon the neck of his
arrogant city cousin. Such an event is
not uncommon in this country, but
hitherto country domination over city
pride has been confined to measures affect
ing taxation and public improvements.
The New York statute is quite different
matter. 1t is the united voice OF the sturdy
and earnest workers of the fields and ham,
lets saying to the proud residents of the
greatest city in America: "You have de-
parted from the honored ways of the
fathers. That Old World levity and dissi-
patton which have struck rottenness to
the heart of European civilization have
sown tie seeds of decadence in you. While
this will react injuriously upon US, your
superciliousness and your contempt for
the bone and sinew of the State are griev-
ously offensive. The yeoman calls upon
the aristocrat to halt"
Viewed in this light, which is largely
correct, even making allowance for the
city sentiment which supported the coun-
tryman, the great city of New York now
occupies the most ridiculous attitude ever
held by an American metropolis. Even
its cherished free lunch on weekdays.
that most eloquent proof OF the mad rush
with which city people are wearing out their
lives In the pursuit OF money, is sternly
withheld by the righteous farmer, and the
Ralnes law informs the madmen of New
ork City that they must go quietly and
III peace to restaurant or stay hungry.
What will be the outcome of the laws
enforcement it is difficult to say, except
TO remark in general way that laws
winch operate uDequally and produce abb
surd results are never permanent. That
the people are taking the matter seriously
may be inferred from recent decision of
the New York Court of Appeals. which
has gravely announced that the law does
not prohibit Sunday drinking in clubs.
The ground for the decision is that as each
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15
PERSONAL.

DR.. r. E. Seixon of Hanford is in the City.
Robert Jameson OF Nanaimo. B. c., is here.
City Attorney Mason OF Nevada City is at the
Russ.
w. D. Langhorne of Chehalis, Wash, is at the
Grand.
F. B. Cluf, editor of the Esparto Press, is in
the City.
G. V. Holt, mining man of Nelson, B. c.,
is in town.
]. II. Jordan of Hanchow, China, is at the
Occidental
F. Martin and wife of Antioch are at the
Cosmopolitan.
w. L. Robertson of Stockton is staying at the
Cosmo politan.
District Attorney C. Lindsey of Santa Cruz is
on visit here.
L. T. Kinsay, an attorney of Eureka, arrived
here yesterday.
DR.. R. S. Markle of Cloverdale is among re-
cent arrivals here,
John Burns a business man OF Toronto, is q
recent arrival here
j. w. McClanahan of St. Joseph, No., is stay
ing at the Cosmopolitan.
K. E. Jack, wealthy resident of San Luis
Oblspo, has arrived here
A. IL. Ashley, vice-president OF the Stockton
High School, is in the City.
John Hilton, business man of Portland,
Or, is at the Cosmopolitan.
George w. Roop, the owner of the Gilroy Hot
Springs and Hotel, is at the Baldwin.
The Rev. Father V. Aguilera, PIP, of San
LUIS Oblspo, is guest OF the Cosmopolitan.
W. D. Toby OF Carson arrived here yesterday
He is accompanied by his daughter and Miss
Bliss.
W. H, Flagg, business man of Walla Walla
accompanied by his wife and children, is at
the Grand.
G. r. and F. W. Gorgeson, agents of steam
snip lines at Eureka, and also of Wells, Fargo
d Co., are in town.
Elijah Smith of Empire City, Or, president
OF the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany, is in the City.
James A. Hardin, the rich cattle-owner of
Nevada, California and Idaho whose home is
at Santa Rosa, arrived here yesterday and is at
the Russ
W. A. George, Mrs. George and A. George OF
Colorado City, Colo, the old capital of that
State, ana for many years a dead place, but
during the last year or two made active by
reason OF the boom in nearby Cripple Creek.
arrived here yesterday. They at the Russ.
NJ. H. Walker, the millionaire mine-owner
and extensive real estate holder of Salt Lake,
is in the City. He is accompanied by John II.
Walker, j, NJ. Barratt and NJ. J. Cneesman.
Mr.. Walker is one of the firm of Walker
Brothers, who were among the earliest resi-.
dents of Salt Lake. They own the Walker
House there. They were builders of portion
OF the Union Pacific system. The Walker
Brothers are interested i n mines in California
as " ell as in Utah.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15
OFFICIAL NEGLECT.

There is something radically wrong in
the office or person of the supervising
architect of the United States at Wash
ington when, despite the fact that $216,-
736 is available for the work of construc-
ton On the new San Francisco Postoffice.
that enterprise is absolutely ignored. ALI
manner of petty excuses have been ad-
vanced for this neglect, among others that
the Postmaster OF this City ana the Fed.
eral Judges now located in the Appraisers
building have retarded the matter by fall
ing to promptly and properly pass on the
plans Of the proposed building submitted
to them. These gentlemen aver that they
have In fact done erything to facilitate
the beginning OF the construction of the
edifice.
1t is the opinion of some that the dila-
toriness of the department in the case is
due to lack of ready money, but this can
hardly be SO in the face OF the statement
made by the acting supervising architect
OF the treasury to the Washington corre-
spondent of THE CALL that with the
balance left after the purchase of the site
and the $4,000 additional appropriated to
commence building, the amount now on
hand and available is $2l6,736"
Not long since an appropriation was
made for new Postotfice building for
Chicago. Within three months thereafter
actual work had begun thereon. Caifor-
MAS Senators and Congressman might
take lesson from the representatives of
Illinois, by whose joint and energetic &C.
ton this remarkable result was achieved
If our nine representatives at Washington
united in demand on the supervising
architect, asking for immediate attention
to the Postoffice matter, it is not likely
that there would be any further dilly-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15
THE PRIMARIES.

! All the arrangements for the Republican
primaries to be held to-day have been
made with the one object of providing for
free, fair and full expression OF the
| wishes of the majority of the members of
! the party. There is, moreover, every pros
pect that the object desired will be at
tanned. Republican enthusiasm was never
higher at so early stage of political
campaign, ard large vote, as well as
fair one, is virtually assured.
This provision for an absolutely honest
primary election should certainly be made
use of by all loyal Republicans. 1t has
been known for a long time that most Of
the evils offending our political system
have had their origin in the debasement of
the primaries. BY obtaining control OF
these, the political bosses have been en-
abled to so direct and manage the whole
electoral mechanism of the law as to be
able to obtain almost any results they
pleased at later stages, and to practically
dictate the nominations of party conven-
tions. 1t is significant of better order of
tA434SoI bhS1c1OiS, tAIdS hSpuDllCdu
party begins this campaign by redeeming
the primaries from the control of the
bosses and placing them under the super
vision of men who will assure that strict
political honesty which is summed up in
the phrase, ga fair ballot and fair
count"
1t is not too much to expect that the
! better element of citizens who constitute
the great majority of the Republican
party will show their appreciation of the
new order of things by attending the pri-
maries to-day and casting a vote for the
men whom they wish to represent them
IN the work OF electing delegates to the
National convention that is to nominate
the next President of the United States.
| Every man of business should to-day re-
gard politics as part of his business and
attend to it. Men who in the past have
abstalned from primaries because they
have had well-grounded fears that their
votes would be thrown away or rendered
worse thar useless by the boss rule that
has too often dominated such elections
may go TO the polling places to-day with
the assurance that every vote cast will be
counted, and that none but honest votes
will be either cast or counted.
The Republican party of this City is no
longer seriously affected by bosses or by
those who would like to be bosses. The
real leaders OF the party have come to the
front. That element known in the slang
of the day as the push" and the pull"
has been thrust aside. Honest primaries
are assured. 1t is now the duty of all
loyal Republicans to respond to this call,
and by voting at the elections to-day show
themselves on the side of square dealing
and fair dealing in politics as in business.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15

dallying. But should their efforts prove
unavailing in this direction, there yet re-
mains the drastic resort suggested by Sena-
tor Perkins of introducing resolution de-
manding explicit information from the
Treasury Department why this work is
delayed, and directing the Secretary to
proceed with the construct ion imme-
dlately.
San Francisco is certainly in as great
need of her new Postoffice as is Chicago Of
hers, and is not less worthy of considera-
tion than her more populous sister city.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-15

member OF the club is part owner of the
clubs liquors, and as every man may drink
his own, clubman is at liberty to drink
the clubs liquors. and may or may not
leave property of other kind-to wit,
money-in the clubs assets in lieu of that
which he has drunk. But the thing that
has turned the laugh of the whole country
upon New York City is that the farmers
OF the State are regulating the personal
conduct OF the clty's residents. That is
surprisingly amusing.