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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-23
DEWEY's LIFE.
Career of the Great Commander
Briefly Told.

1838-Born at Montpelier, VT.
1850 Rebellious pupil in Major
Pangborn's school, at Mont
pelier.
1853-Student in the Norwich Univer-
sity, at Mortified, Vt.
1954-Cadet at United States naval
academy, Annapolis.
1858 Graduated from naval academy
with honors.
commissioned as lieutenant,
and getting his first taste of
sea life on the frigate Wabash
in the Mediterranean service.
1861-Called home eight days after
Fort Sumter was fired on and
assigned to the west gulf squa-
dron on the Mississippi.
1862-Went on the Mississippi to as
sist Farragut's fleet in the cap
ture of New Orleans.
1863 Mississippi destroyed and Dew
ey ordered up the James river
under Commander McComb.
1864-Attached to the North Atlantic
D1OChduluS SQuduIOu.
Commissioned lieutenant-com-
mander for meritorious conduct
in the attacks on Fort Fisher.
Assigned to steamer Kearsage,
European squadron.
1867-Transferred to Colorado, flag
ship of European squadron.
1868 69-Instructor at naval academy,
Annapolis.
1S7O-71-Assigned to the steamer
Narragansett and sent to the
Pacific coast survey, where he
remained nearly four years.
1876-77-Made light house Inspector,
and subsequently secretary of
the light house board
1882-Assigned to command the
Juanita in the Asiatic squadron.
1884-Promoted to captain and as
signed to command the Dolphin
one of the four vessels that
formed the original white squa-
dron.
1885-In command of the flagship
Pensacola, of the European
squadron, for three years.
1889-Chief of the bureau of equip
ment and recruiting, with COM
mand of commodore.
1893-Made member of the light
house board
1896-Comissioned commodore, and
made president of the board of
inspection and survey.
1897-Sent to China in comamnd of
the Asiatic squadron.
1898-Defeated the Spanish fleet at
Manila, Philippine islands, in
one of the greatest battles in
naval history.
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present trouble. 1t has hardly affect
ed us at all. On learning the intense
commotion abroad, however, the
stride of every patriotic American
should be at least cheerful. Let the
Yankee breast then heave with the
swell of true patriotic emotion, be-
cause it seems this country at this mo-
ment is actually discharging functions
towards the state of Europe analo-
gous to that Of the sun. which besides
being the source of light and life and
heat acts as the great ring master of
the universe by keeping the planets
and the whole solar system in their
regular order That is the mission of
America while it is the destiny OF
European thrones to be paralyzed with
the fear Of coming disaster at least
every century or so.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-23
SAILING UNDER SEALED ORDERS

The custom of having warships sail
under sealed orders has arisen from
the desire of maritime powers to pre-
vent their plans from becoming
known to the enemy. In the Ameri-
can Navy such orders come from the
President, and are delivered to a COM
mander of ship or squadron by a
confidential messenger who knows
nothing of their contents. Sometimes
they are in cipher, but they are al
ways sealed with the official seal Of
the Navy Department, and the pack
age cannot be opened until the time
marked on it, which is usually several
hours after the hour of leaving port.
By this precaution the newspapers are
prevented from disclosing premature
ly movements which may be of the
greatest Importance, and the spies Of
the enemy are rendered useless so far
as their ability to discover the secret
of such movements is concerned. Sail
ing under sealed orders is now the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-23

The adage of history repeating It
self is likely to be verified by the pres
ent war with Spain. The lesson of
universal history 10 that the end OF
each century has seen some phenome-
nal civil disturbance either in the
shape of a great war between existing
nations or the struggle of people
against domestic tyranny. Without
going further back it may be noted
that it was toward the end of the
seventh century that the SaTacens in
vaded Armenia and Asia Minor, and
at the close of the eighth CharIemagne
began his wars against the Huns and
defeated the Lombards, thus establish
ing the temporal power of the popes.
The close Of the tenth century saw the
conquest of King Alfred Of England
by the Danes; that of the eleventh
the defeat of the Moors by Spain and
of the Greeks by Ohio III. at Bareatello.
Towards the end of the same. century
the Anglo Saxons were the slaves of
the Normans in their own land after
Hastings, and later there were the
ITlSuIluI WAITS VI lu0 CIuSdu00 pIO-
mo ed by the church for the mainte-
nance of the power conferred upon it
by Charlemagne. The end of the
thirteenth century saw the gallant
Scots defeated at Dunbar and at Fail
kirk under Wallace. While the final
years of the fourteenth century are
lighted up by the story of William
Tell and the defeat of the Austrians by
the Swiss and of the Spaniards by the
Portuguese. The evening of the fif
teenth was remarkable for the battles
of Bosworth in 1885, and of Bannock-
burn. while the closing decade Of the
sixteenth century saw the wreck of
the Spanish armada and the Eliza
bethan wars Of the English in ire
land under Bagnal and Mountjoy:
while those of the succeeding century,
1890, had those at the Boyne AMI
Glencoe, between William III. and
James II. for the British. Even an
cient battles like those at Maratho
and Troy selected similar epochs.
But all these wars which appear to
be controlled by law based on the prin-
ciple that every century dies in some
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THE GOLDFISH CAME BACK.

A veteran Portland fisherman says
that when he was a boy his mother
sent him to get his fathers glasses
mended. The boy INDUCED in lit
tie fishing on the way, and lost the
glasses overheard while landing a
sculpin. He went home, got immedi--
ately acquainted with his mothers
slipper and went hungry to bed. Six
chilly months passed before he dared
to go fishing again, but when at
last he threw his line a big Goldfish
rose to the surface near by, and
there on the f1sh's nose rested the
gold bows that had cost the spank
ing. The cod was safely landed and
the glasses ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Republican.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-23

Charles Coghlan closed his season
May IA. He will spend the summer
in Prince Edwards island, where he
will put the finishing touches on a
new play, which he proposes produc-
ing next season
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-23

common naval practice in time of war.
These instructions are found in the
packet of sealed ORDERS which In
opened when well out to sea.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29
WHITE SUPREMACY IS LIVE ISSUE IN
NORTH CAR0hIpA'S STATE CAMPAIGN
Honest Government and Protection of the Family Is the Bat
tie Cry in the Fierce Strugg Debauched by
Fusion u|e--Democracy Only Hope.
By FRANK WELDON

in which public affairs here have been
administered, and how the better class or
people have been disguised and outraged
by the republican and populist regime
Things have been 80 unbearahe that even
republicans have resigned positions of
honor and trust with the public state
ment that they could not hold office ard
maintain their self-respect.
Think of a white bind asylum being In
charge of a negro managing director! Jim
Young, a notorious negro politician, was
appointed a director of the white blind
asylum by Governor Dan J.. Russell and
he was chairman Of the committee on edu-
ca ton for that institution. Whatever Jim
said law and of the republican
directors resigned because the manage
ment was so tlisgraccful. Russell has been
forced by public Indignation to remove
Young from the board of directors, but
the administration IL trying to keep the
negroes down in the eastern part of the
state from finding it out. In the middle
ana western part of the state, whore there
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fathers, and were not only not BLACK
and hurley but were sufficiently at
tractive for white girls of culture and
refinement to fall in love with them,
as is very well known to ALL"
The People Are Mad.
or course. this has set the state on fire.
The daily and weekly papers have publish
ell 1t as a warning to the white people, put
ting them on notice of what they may ev-
pect so long as negro domination continues.
This page OF The Constitution would not
contain what the papers say about this
sensation in one day. Here is Just one eX-
tract taken = sample from The Raleigh
Post:
Have white men in North Carolina lost
their manhood? Is the character Of the good
women of our state not as dear to us to-
day as to our fathers? and do not know
that our fathers trampled under their feet
the party that could bring into being such
monstrous Offenders as the above? Read
the above white men. THEN ACT"
Marion Buffers Policy.
"A revolt is brewing. Everybody knows
1t. Marion Butler. United States senator.
chairman of the national popullst executive
committee. and Hon. Tom Watson's arch
enemy, foresees what is coming. Speaking
of Butler and Watson In the same breath,
reminds me Of conference which they
held at the Kimball house when Tom was
running for vice president IN 1896. When
the newspaper men called. the Georgian
and the North Carolnian exhibited about
the same warmth and geniality toward
each other that we would find existing be-
tween an icicle and a crOWbar.
As Is well known, Butler was the original
high priest OF fusion among southern pop
ulists. In 1894 he worked up the coalition
between his own party and the republicans
state mentioned
Ihat was the year of the republican land
slide.
The democrats lost everywhere that No
veml'er. ClevelandiSm had poisoned the
party wells from the Atlantic to the Pa
cif1c and the revolt was sweeping Butler.
the young lawyer, was on the crest Of the
wave and the North Carolina democrats
We're with McCiinty. The legislature had
two senator's to elect and the popuists
took one and the republicans the other
Thus 1t was that Butler and Jeter Pritch-
ard broke into the United States senate.
In 1896 Butler was at the popuiSt con-
vention in St Louis and he championed
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are not many blacks the fuslon's's arc
denying that Young IS on 'he poal W. ~
~ 1no'1pSo"' popu1IsI 81 %I,nI
+nr that IT,, Tn,,n,r ie nat oven = director
of +l,a .,s,y1,,,n rhe,, ara ta,Iine, the whites
tbot yo,,,o ts mot a diroctor and thev are
lao,iing tho blacks Ia bnliava that he, is
yo,rg &c y FnrtiIi1ar ,nspnrtor colonel of
a negro roei,nent and one Of Governor
12,seslI,s not. ca no :, NOT l,tclsinp about
his removal as q director Of the ASYLUM.
ubiob ,,robabl,, bas % etrinc tied to it,
Tho Governor, viii NOT cav mat he haas
removed yo,,r,, nv t3,at he is et,u on the
hoard hut Tin, has nrohol,l,, baon LET ont
tenporariIv
~
In the eastern couhues Ihe negroes give
TWO or three OF the best olhc"S 10 "hl'e
republicans ana p0puilSts ana take every
thing else for themselves. III one county
there are forty negro magistrates Ihe
deputy SherltfS, deputy clerks, magistrates
policemen, constable5 and aldermen are
mostly black. The extent to which this
trading and negro domNAAtion nave Eetn
carried has not been fully realized outside
the black belt. but 1t IS forcing itself on
the popular mind now under the present
agitation. Up IN the middle ana western
parts of the state the popuIists have been
told that there was no Ianl,cr of negro
1o,niro+lor paod what -, C.,,-o,r,r T. r,is
,,li r,,.taf, .e,l. - =. I,. .I,tl,
an" va Tam i'''o 10y ~ 10y - '"'"'
Arresting White Women.
.cr+ ie rcaIeea "a toll rho nao,Io az Nav,
bern and the people of Craven county that
there Is no danger of negro rule, when
they have seen negro magistrate is! ue
his warrant for the arrest of a white wo-
man put 1t in the hands Of a negro con-
stable. have her arrested and brought be-
fore him. and then when her ATTORNEYS
asked to have her ease set for trial he
fore some other Justice of the peace. sent
it before another negro MAGISTRATE. with
a negro lawyer there to prosecute her All
this thew have seen and NAV SEQ acain
any dav
Tho above ie an ov+roc+ From, tho "1,ar,,
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as much as prophecy. these politicians are
done for either way. AS the democrats Iro
clined to be worked by the politicians: sun .h
Of them are going to cooperate WIN IN
republicans They make secret or IT,
The only principle with these ofhceholalns
popuists is to help the republicans peat
the democrats. -,
n the masses of the populIst party conla
be thrown as a body to the repuDllcalS we
combination would win again. But the
goods cannot be delivered
One-Third Negroes.
North Carolina has 10000 white voters
and 10000 negro voters. That would MAKE
$50 600 If all could be brought out. SO
there are 10000 negro voters, 10000 white
republicans mostly in the west; 3O.VOo
straightout populists and 100000 democrats
In 1892 the populists polled 4o.Ooo votes TOT
Weaver for president and $1,000 votes Tor
Exum for governor. In 1896 they poneu
$1,000 votes for Guthrie for governor ana
they apparently gave 3OUOO votes 10 brSail
and Sewall.
Secretary John w. Thompson. OF the
state democratic executive committee. ana
other authorities, estimate the popullst
strength now at about 10000 votes.
In the last two elections for statehouse
officers, the terms being four years. the
vote for governor. in round numbers. was
follows: -
1892. 1896;
Democrats. go. .... 80. $4,000 M?' 0o
RepubllCdnS.. 5o,Opo ~, oCn
Popuiists 800 ...... $4,000 3l.O0o
ooo 900 ooo
TOtalS.... Z'o,VVV '"o.ooV
In the last presidential election Bryan
and Sewan received 174.Oo0 votes: Mckin-
ley. $4,000
While there was an increase in the total
vote In 1896 over 1892 of 5000 or nearly
10 per cent, the vote for the populist ticket
fell off 1900 or So per cent. THESE lhOoo
populist votes went to the repuDllGano eau
dldate Russell. Unless he polled ~ per
cent of his full party vote, which is M
probable, there was rank fraud, Wh!ch ~
generally charged.
There is no other state which offers such
brilliant possibilities for fraudulent voting
as are found in North Carolina. IN the
first place either the registration or the
election law might just as well be entitled
IAN act to make fraudulent voting easy
and simple"
Incompetent Legislatures.
The whole country remembers that tho
first fusion legislature. the one elected IN
1894 adjourned as IL mark of respect to
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Great DrOD in Dru0S.

Dear Editor-We are selling almost every
known drug ana remedy. every known in
sTument and appliance at lowest whole
sale prices. Some remedies others sen rs
hlgh as Sl.00 to $500 our price is % cents
Cur special Drug Catalogue will be sent
Tree, postpaid, to any of your readers
VINO Will cut this notice out and send
70 us. Very truly. Sears. Roebuck & Co.
Qnc). Chicago.
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Half of the superior court judges are
to be elected this year, The democratic
nominees are.
First DISTRIBUTION. George II. Brown, of
Beaufort.
Second DISTRIBUTION. Henry Il. Bryan,
of Craven.
Fifth Distr.ct-Hon Thomas J. shaw, Of
Guilford.
Sixth Distribution. Oliver II. Allen OF
Lenoir.
Seventh District-ITon. Thomas A. Nc
NELL. of Robson.
Eleventh Distribution. w. Alexander
Hokc, OF Lincoln.
Judge Henry r. BRYAN. of Craven. is
the father of Mr.. Sheppard Bryan, Of At
lanta. Judge Bryan's prospects of re-ciec-
tiCn are excellent and indeed, the whole
judicial ticket may be elected.
The leading democrats of the state are
hard at work. There are no better cam
paigners anywhere than JOsephus Daniels.
of the national executive committee, f.. NJ.
Simmons, Raleigh; G, h. Aycock Colds
f. Davidson, ASheVille; Frank II. St2d-
man Wilmington; j. II. Pore Raleigh,
Lee S. OVerman, Salisbury; A. j.. i5r0o<s,
Greensboro; Julian s. Carr, of Durham,
and Governor Jarvis, of Greenville.
The wrongs perpetrated upon the good
citizens OF this state in the name of gov
eminent would fill q book. | have sought
simply to picture the conditions as tGoy
exist, outlining the more conspicuous IF
the outraSeN visited upon inlell,Gent ana
refined communities. These conditions wtll
not be tolerated mach longer. The people
are impatcntly awaiting for the 0Dppr-
tunlty to correct them through the ballot
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than that which occurred between the
populists and the republicans. They had
no principles in common On the contrary
the fundamental principles OF the two par
ties were the very opposite Of each other.
AS might have been expected the UNI
natural alliance between the two parties
has been productive of much evil The
standard of political morality was lowered,
suffrage prostitutcd and free SILVER
populsts voted for goldbug republicans
Greenville Given to the Blacks.
The town of Greenvile in the eastern
portion of the state, affords a pitiable il
lustration of the prostitution of power by
the fusionists and the methods they pursue.
GreenVille has many refined and Weli-to-
do white citizens who gave it Il clean, eco
nomiCal administration. But the negroes
lusted for offices and the fusion legislature
of 1895 passed Il bill to give them control,
although the whites were in the majority
and owned nearly all the property, which
is assessed at about three-Quarters of a
million dollars.
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f,s,on .bara THAI +,r,a ba rronosaa FIN
sion with the democrats and Bryan and
Watson was the result In the fall cleo
ton the populists and the republicans
AGAIN Co-operated ana together tney hdu
Hi1Jo'tty ~ me f3e5 10
eces 70 nnnni7sts pritcbard vas ra-alactpa
70 Tho san5tn ana pl,tlnr Vas haIl,ed He
could not control his marty men when post
of1cn d ,,,o ,, ,ar da1gIed hoforo thnir
ottoo y" - pit charS Hanna ana NrKinIny
for q mus he ramernbernd that the nresi,
dent himself took a hand in Pritchard's he
her op Inc assembly
Ever since Pritchard went to the United
States senate hv the aid Of the populist
vote by taking the other side on all ma
tional fseUes however # appears that
n vvas NOT 80 much a matter of principle
wifi, RitIer nj the time 70 attempt to de-
feat so, racnb,,cor rouaorua &C II was
nersOnal and noIitical matter
r.,, CO.. - n44iA,6a
butIef ChahSe VI 11ttleu"0'
Returning to the popuiiSt party's attitude
as we find It today we see that Butler has
abandoned his old fusion ideas altogether
and now wants bIe nartv "a RIM = straight
=, rra,.oa ,r,c.o,t,' 20
Gently Gently he is reported to have declared in
favor of the middle of the road policy Yet
Just about 100 days ago the populist state
convention, assembled in this city, offered
by resolution to fuse with any party which
would help to overthrow the domination
of the gold ring and its allied trusts and
monopolies"
or course the republican party Is not go
ing to aid in oyerthrowing 1.-The domination
of the gold ring and it's allied trusts and
monopolies -" The populist convention knew
this and its invitation to fuse was ad-
dressed to the democrats. That this was
absolutely true was shown ten days later
when Il popuhSl committee Lei'i cSe.iO til7
their state cohVehtloh' Pleetl,Io l.'e - ~
sltIon 10 10se ~ VIC Nv '@'''0
Ij'bn democrats declined In polite courte-
ous language The populists had named as
n cordition chat thew should get as much
ME a. thev had procured from the repubIi-
ans ,Thev had he'd IN the republicans
ond Sorcad them to surrender a large part
nf tba snofls S+tlI I do not think if was
hecanea tha terms we're exorbitant that the
democrats declined. They felt that they
could not afford TO traffic in the offices even
FOR the sake Of winning
,rboro 10 No onestion tho+ Senator Butler
was the father of fhe proposition made to
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Whites in the Majority.

1t must always be remembered tnat Il
majority of the people living in the town
OF Greenville white people, and the
white population IS one of the very pest IN
the state; and under It's former white gov
eminent there never We're any scandals IN
its administration, and no race Troubles.
Everything was properly done In the town
until the populists and republicans maze
a negro there twice as good as white
man; but since that time the condition or
affairs has grown constantly worse. the
laws not being properly Administered, TN
til now dtsordCrly people being unrestralH-
ed the liquor shops sell right along on Sun
days and general lawlessness and disorder
prevail.
Indeed white men and white women, IN
a spirit of forbearance and with the reSo-
Lutte purpose of avoiding any race collision
frequently leave the sidewalks and walk III
the middle of the street to avoid the DIS
orderly negroes who carry things Wiuh d
high hand in that unfortunate town.
Such is the result of giving the negroes
in their wards the right to elect two couh-
cilmcn, while a larger number of whites
is allowed only one councilman in thelr
wards. This state of local government -
one Of the effects of fusion.
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of representatives taking from the people
CT Greenvlle the right to elect councilmen
at all. and substituting a police board of
three members, named in the bill, who
were to govern the people of the town.
OF the three persons named, one was an
aged infirm democrat; another was q Tadi-
raj named Check, who was a Darke2pec
and man of unSavOry reputation; :'ild
the third was negro who has OF en- had
long drunken spells. This bill also gave
this board power to appoint all OH '2rj
and employees for tine town, and to ill III
vacancies i'll It's own body
1t was proposed to turn over the town
to this board, giving them the right to ap-
point all officers to make all town l2wS.
to levy all taxes and to spend HEM and
to contract debts and to issue bonds This
abominable bill actually passed the house;
but Senator Moye prevented its passing the
the senate.
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Wilmington and Newbern.

No town was too impOrIa to he turned
over TO the negroes by the fusionistS. Inc
charters of Wilmington and Newbern were
amended, and the people were allowed 10
elect only one alderman from each ward
while the governor was given the power TO
appoint another alderman for each "aro'
The effect was to turn those people over 10
+bo tender mercies of Dan Russell. ANA
now when Won go to Wilmington ana New
harm Won see negro policemen ana negro
ofHcers as thick as blackbfrds
Another fusion legislature would surely
extend the negro domination over other
cities.