The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-03-11
THURSDAY, MARCH 1897

attention will be paid to anonymous let
tiers.
THURSDAY MARCH II, 1897,
TIE President has called an extra
session OF Congress to provide revenue
by. increasing the tariff.
As REGARDS things in general Pres
ident Mckinley has plenty Of oPpor-
,unty. The question is will he i'm
prove it?
pEOrLE in this neck Of the woods
are looking for that wave Of prosper
ity which was promised with the cleo
ton of Mckinley.
COMPETITION Is the very thing the
trusts are organizd to prevent, but
they don't hesitate to use IT as tool
whercwllh to crush out small Compel
itOrs.
As the Peoria /0WnaI says: Civil
service reform only reduces tie num-
Der Of places for hungry spoIIsInen
not the number Of hungry spollS-
men.
AHp now Mr.. Cleveland is 4 states
man without a job. But he'll manage
To- while away the time as long as duck
shooting IS good and the fish continue
TO bite.
The best thing the Legislature has
done since 1t convened IN session was
to adjourn and It's members go home.
May the good old State never be
afflicted with It's like again.
II TIE state of the weather on the
day President Mckinley WAS inaug-
urated is indicative Of the character OF
his administration, all will lie well.
Certainly more suspicious opening
could not have been desired.
The Peoria /0WnaI says the people
of the United States learned all ahp",
a.. rol.;,,o, -. ..,,,,, nc lid ,bn ,.v
President. 1t WAS not matter Of
Withholding news, the /OMnaI thinks,
hut one of not knowing himself
DR.. MONROE, of Davidson, has hcrr
rendered the SUPPLEMENTARY # the
State Hospital at Morgan,on. The
removal of DR.. Murphy Will be posi-
tive loss 10 that institution and 70 the
State but nothing else could be expect
ell under the new order of things.
MARX HANNA IN the Senate will be
a bigger man, 50 far as subscribing hi:
own personal ends IS concerned, thar
Mark Hanna IN either the Cabine
or foreign post. Your uncle Mar
Gus has an eye 10 The main chance
and he usual y makes the most of It.
PRESIDENT Mckinley's Cabinet l.
made up as follows:
Secretary of State, John Sherman
of Ohio.
Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman J.
Gage, of Illinois.
Secretary of War, General Russell
\. Alger, of Michigan.
Secretary of the Navy, John d
Long, of Massachusetts,.
Secretary of the Interior, JOSEPH
MCkenna, of California.
Postmaster General, James y. Gary
of Maryland.
Attorney General, Cornelius Bliss, o
New York.
Secretary of Agriculture, James vii
son, of Iowa.
DESPITE their protested love for tht
negro the average Northern Republ
can has less consideration for him thar
have the Democrats of the South. Th
IS demonstrated when occasion pre-
sents itself Here Is a case IN point
\ dispatch from Washington says the
Cook County Republican Club die
not march in the parade, the reason
being that in the assignment of place:
they were put we'll 70 the rear next tC
a delegation OF negroes. This arrange
ment the ChICagoans were not satisfied
with and 50 they remained out of ,ht
parade. But the Colored con,ingen
got there all the same
HE new Senators are: \. :. CLAW
Georgia; !. II. Earle, South Carolina
G. w. Fairbanks, Indiana; J. b. For
aker, Ono; Henry Heltteld, Idaho;
W. +. Mason. Illinois; S. d. McEnery
Louisiana; Boies Penrose, Pennsyl
vania; f. w. Pettus, Alabama: T. c
Platt, New York; ]. l.. Rawlns, Utah
J. {. Spooner, Wisconsin; George Tur
ner, Washington; George l.. yelling
ton, Maryland; Mark Hanna, Ohio
There ale three yaCancies-i1. Elnrih ,