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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-07-19

From tie very first intimstion that
a constitutional amendment would be
submitted to the people for the purify
ing OF the ballet in North Carolina,
THE COMMONWEALTH said let US have
it. There is every reasonable argu-
ment for it and no reasonable argu-
ment against it.
The matter is Of supreme Importance
considered from a racial standpoint
alone. With the mixing OF the white
and colored races in the scramble for
office, as has been the case in North
Carolina for a t:,ird of a cen tury, no
country Or people on the face Of the
earth could thoroughly prosper.
The superiority OF the white race is
a stamp Of nature imprinted by the
finger of Gcd in the creation OF the
races, manifested all through the his
tory Of the ages by the achievements
of the white race. And the white race
will meyer be satisfied to continue in
the relation which it now holds with
the Ignorant coiored race.
The passing OF the amendment will
eliminate such a proportion of the
negro vote as to make 1t altogether
impossible for that race to play any
part in the political affairs OF North
Carolina.
Then The stimulus which the
amendment will give to education will
more than compensate the State and
Its citizenship for all the labor expend-
ed for its adoption. Both the white
and coiored races Will see tie import
ance CT general education and SO
the cause CT education will be helped
more than the most sanguine can i'm
agine.
And apart from all these consldera-
tions, it is a question that presents
itself TO the seli-respect OF every white
man. Ever since the war the white
people OF North Carolina have done
much for the education of the colored
people, aud yet they have every time
persisted in voting against their own
interests and ours, simply to satisfy a
prejudice they never would allow cor
rected.
And now the white people have it
before them to eliminate the ignorant
contingent from the right of suffrage,
and they must do it.
With the ignorant colored vote elm
mated from our ballot boxes, we NAV
expect reign OF peace and good gov
eminent in North Carolina which our
great State and its boundless resources
promise and youchsafe to us.
Do your dutys white men, on Aug
ust End, and you will be WORTHY a
place with your race; otherwise you
will not.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-07-19
LETTER TO Mr.. r. E. HANCOCK
SCOTLAND NECK, N. c.


Dear Sir The last meeting between
L. & M. Paint and White Lead, was
on the occasion of a certain test with a
very large order for the winner.
The l.. 4 M. Paint won-had to win
people must believe what they see with
their own eyes. We explain how
much oil is added to each gallon of the
palnt-fgure cost of material for your
own house then point out that lead
always chalks, while our paint never
does and back of our statements, place
our insurance Guarantee and our An.
nual Sales of Four Million Pounds.
Kindly favor IT. Whitehead d Co.
with call. Yours sincerely,
LONGMAN 4 MARTINEZ
New York.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-07-19
CATARRH CANNOT BE CUREr

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with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cun-
not reach the seat OF the disease. Ca
tarrh is blood or constltu tiOnal disease
and in order to cure 1t you must take
internal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally and acts directly on
the blood and mocous surfaces. Halls
Catarrh Cure is not quack medicine.
1t was prescribed by one OF the best
physicians in this country for years,
and is regular prescription. It is
composed of the best tonics known,
combined With the best blood purifiers,
acting directly en- the mocous surfaces.
The perfect combination OF the two
ingredients is what produces such won
derful results in curing Catarrh. Send
for testimonials, free.
F.J.CHENEY eco, Props, Toledo,
0. Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
OAsT oRIA.
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-07-19
TEN TSIN TAKEN.

On July 13th the Chinese forces at
Ten Tin slaughtered heavily the
forces Of the allied powers, but on 18th
the allied forces succeeded in making
a breach in the walls with artillery and
rushed in, captured the city and forts
with great slaughter OF the Chinese
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-07-19
THE FAMINE SUFFERERS.

The COMMONWEALTH recently sent
check to the Christian Herald for the
amounts contributed through these col.
umns to the relief of the famine sui
ferers in India. The check was &C
knowledged and we received q most
encouraging letter about the work
Among other things the letter said:
Terrible though the conditions are
| in the famine districts, by strong uni
ted effort we will be able to do much
for these starving people, and make
such a showing for the generosity OIL
our country rs will be noted every.
where in the civilized world.
81 appreciate most highly your val
liable aid in this matter, and ! believe
that we win be surprised when our
work is finished to find that it availed
So much, and your paper (THE CON-
MoNwEALTH) has been instrumental IN
saving SO mauy lives. / have put
The COMMONWEALTH on the roll of
honor and the Chr:stian Herald will
publicly express It's appreciation OF
your Efforts"
To be ST re, we fell: grstified to receive
such letter, and we print it because
we believe those who haye contributed
through these columns will also feel
gratifed.
Read the story of the famine on our
first page.
There are still other contributions to
be acknowledged in these columns
next week. Send in yours at once.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-07-19

Harmless, efficient, reliable and
pleasant to take is Roberts TasteIees
Chill Tonic for chills, fevers, malaria,
night sweats and Ia grippe. Csc. No
cure, no pay. Tho best ever saw,
is what they ali say.-For sale by E. T.
Whitehead & Co., Druggists.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12
Roosevelt Insults the Volunteers.

Atlanta Constitution.
1t was during the heat of the war between
the United States and Spain that former Secre-
tary of War Alger performed one service to his
country for which he should be. remembered
The occasion was the receipt of this epistle:
Santiago, July 23, 1898.
'Dear Mr.. Secretary: l am writing with the
knowledge and approval OF General Wheeler
We earnestly hope that you will send us some
more regulars-and at any rate, the cavalry
division, including the Rough Riders, who are
as good as any regulars, and three times as
good as any state troops-to Porto Rico. There
are 1900 effective men in this division IF
those who were left behind were joined to them,
we could land at Porto Rico in this cavalry di-
vision close to 1900 men who would be worth,
easily, any 10000 National Guards, armed with
black powder, Springfield or any other archaic
weapons.
every respectfully,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
To this insolent insult to the brave young
men in the field Secretary Alger sent the follow
ing reply:
..'Your letter of the 23d received. The reg1-
lar army, the volunteer army and Rough Rid
ers have done we'll, but suggest that unless
you want to spoil the effect and glory of your
victory, you make no invidious comparisons.
The Rough Riders are no better than any other
volunteers. They had an advantage in their
arms, for which they ought to be grateful.
"R. A. ALGER, Secretary of War"
This correspondence shows up Col. Roosevelt
in the light of an arrant swaggerer, devoid of
all soldierly instincts, and carried away with
his own conceit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12

wealth of those islands. The,e will be ten
milionaires, and ten million human beings so
wretchedly poor that dog would scorn to lick
their sores. There is story in the Bible of a
man who had devil The devil was cast out,
and without the devil, the man was lonesome,
and his lonesomeness grew until he took new
and assorted lot. AS might have been expect
ed, and as the Bible states, the latter end of
that man was ten times worse than his former
end Porto Rico and the Philippines had bet
ter held onto Spain.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12
NO. 81.

lnented old woman to be half stripped and elec-
trocuted, the first woman to have been put to
death in that indecent manner.
Reader, if you think such man would be
an honor to the United States as vice president,
you should, by all means, vote for Mckinley
and Roosevelt If you do not think so, then
&c to the polls on election day determined to
vote for those two typical Americans Bryan
and Stevenson.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12
Roosevelt VS.. Farmers.
Dickinson County News.

Dickinson County News.
Every old resident of Abilene and Dickinson
county knows something of the character of
the average cowboy, having had personal expe-
rience with them in the early days when Abb
lene was the center of the great cattle market.
These old settlers will no doubt take issue with
the bg-tootbed candidate for vice president on
the Republican ticket that cowboys are superior
to farmers and mechanics. In the Century
Magazine for February, 1898, there appeared
an article entitled, "Rough Life in the Far
West" by Theodore Roosevelt, the following
appeared on page 5o2 as part Of thai article:
"Peril and hardship and years of long toll,
broken by weeks of dissipation, draw haggard
lines across their (the cowboys and rough rid
ers) eager faces, but never dim their reckless
eyes nor break the bearing of self.confdence.
'When drunk on the vilanous whisky of
the frontier town, they cut mad antics, riding
their horses into the saloons, firing their pistols
right and left, from bois:erous light-heartedness
rather than from any viciousness, and indulg-
ing too often in deadly shooting ARRAYS, brought
on either by the accidental contact of the mo-
ment or on account of some long. standing
grudge, or perhaps because of bad blood be-
tween the ranches or localities
"But they are much better fellows and
pleasanter companions than the small farmers
or agricultural labOrers; nor are the mechan.
les CT great city to be mentioned in the same
breath!'
When the braggart Colonel penned the above
lines, we rather think he did not anticipate so
soon becoming candidate for the exalted office
of vice-president.
We also rather think the honest, sober, hard
working farmers and mechanics of this country
will deeply resent being placed on lower
moral and intellectual scale than the COWBOYS.
Mr.. Roosevelt may like to make companions of
the drunken rowdies of the .big cattle ranches
in preference to the God-fearing farmers and
mechanics, but other self-respecting men would
not. However, nothing better could be ex-
pected from man who, in his book on "valor-
ious" deeds in Cuba, openly boasts of shooting
an unarmed Spaniard in the back while the
latter was running away; who said in speech
in Chicago during the great railroad strike of
1894, that "all strikers should be shot', and
who, as governor of New York, caused de-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12
Bets Bryan Will Carry Ohio.

The Houston-Fibe Company, of Kansas
City, received over their private from New
York, on the 5th, the following message:
"The Evening World says that James Kill
duff, Pittsburgh steel man, has put up a
500, 900 wager that Bryan will carry Ohio.''
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12
Election Proclamation.

l. d. M. Moore sheriff of Anderson county, in the state
of Kansas, hereby proclaim to the legal of said
Anderson county, Kansas that general election will be
held in each of the voting precincts in said county and
state
Tuesday, November 6, 1900,
for the purpose of eecting the following national state
county and township officers:
Ten presidential electors.
One governor.
One lieutenant-govcrnor.
One secretary of state.
One auditor of state.
One treasurer of state.
One attorney general
One state SUPERINTENDENT of public instruction.
One associate justice of the supreme court.
One commissioner of insurance
One ongressman-atlarge.
One congressman Second congressional district.
One state senator, Seventh senatorial district.
One Judge, Fourth judicial district.
One clerk of the district
One probate judge
One county attorney.
One superintendent of public instruction.
One representative Nineteenth representative district
One county commissioner Second district
One township trustee in each township.
One township treasurer in each township.
One township clerk in each township.
Two justices of the peace in each township ~,
Two constables in each township. a5. YN
One road overseer in each road district s.aa,e III
There will also be submitted proposed amendment to
the constitution of the state of Kansas.
1900. d M. MOORE, Sheriff
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12

The Outlook Through Leather "Specs."


am about the only man know of who
doesn't know who will be the next president.
The Democrats claim all the states except Ver-
mont and Maine. The Republicans claim all
the states except North and South Carolina.
According to the United States constitution,
two states cannot elect presdent-not even
Hanna.
This is the situation so far as the poll has
been taken.
Sc: some things favorable to the Demo-
cratic party, and some to the Republican.
supposed all the trusts had been formed
that could be, but there was new one last
week, and it joined the Republican party the
same day it was formed. That is favorable to
the Republican party. The old crowd who
surrounded Cleveland are renewing their aliegi-
ance to the Democratic party. This is favor.
able to Democratic success. Wherever the
carcass Is; there the buzzards are gathered to-
gether. The old crowd who fought Bryan tour
years ago think they smell carrion, and the
new trust is getting ready to dig its talons into
the quivering flesh OF labor, under the convic-
ton that Mckinley will be elected.
Flops still continue, and they come so fast
that experts have given up the job of keeping
tally. There's a lot of people on the fence,
waiting to see where the most money will drop.
From this time on, money will change more
votes than logic. There is no doubt that Hanna
has the most money. Bryan has the most
patriotism. 1t is money against patriotism,
with lot of sclf-seeking thrown in for season.
ing.
Some one estimates that one hundred
million dollars will be expended in the cam
paign now on. Cut the sum in two, and it is
apparent that votes will be bought in any num-
ber that are offered for sale. Vote-buying is
one of tho worst features in the outlook for the
perpetuity Of free institutions. Cutting men
off from the ballot-box for lack of wealth or for
ignorance is no cure for corruption, and corrup-
tion is infinitely more dangerous than ignorance
or poverty. Men may be tempted through
poverty or misled through ignorance, but dc.
lbrate buying and selling of votes is form of
treason that finds no mitigating circumstances
in any campaign that has been or ever will be
fought in The United States. To the man who
can reason, all the doubt, perpexity and appre-
hension arises from this one source. Just to
what extent the ballot has been corrupted is in
the field Of uncertainty. Give me the number
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12

of votes for sale, and can tell who will be the
next president. Politicians may count the
Aops and carefully take the poll, Tut this other
factor, which lies hidden, like a serpent, and
that springs from its covert, striking in vital
and unexpected parts, renders any prediction at
most mere guess.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12
Whose OK ?

Our good Republican friends are terribly
worked up over the constitutional provision
adopted in North Carolina that excludes litter
ate colored citizens from voting, and one of my
good neighbors wants to know why Bryan does
not rebuke the North Carolina Democrats for
adopting such constitutional provision.
None Of the good Republicans mention the
fact that New Jersey has property qualifca-
ton to voting; also, Massachusetts, and Ohio
Why doesn't President Mckinley rebuke Ohio
Republicans for DISTINGUISHING poor white men?
And what has Hanna to say to New Jersey
TRUSTEES who have all the wealth, and mean to
keep that wealth by prohibiting men from vot-
ing who might so change legislation as to en-
able poor men to acquire sufficient property to
live above the level of brutes.
Bryan has never defended Southern methods
that deprived any man, white or black, of the
right to vote and have his vote counted and,
judging from the character of the man, he will,
when in position to do so, use all his influence,
and any power he may possess, to defend the
rights of the poor, either at the ballot tbox or
in any other place where liberty and happiness
are in peril.
If president possesses any power In the
premises, why is it that President Mckinley
has been as dumb as an oyster? and why is it
worse to disfranchise a black man who cannot
read than white man who has been so unfor.
tunate as not to be the possessor of few hun
dred dollais' worth of property!
Nou, Let %1aea rooJ Doo.t1:..... 49,
like men, and proclaim to the world that they
are for one vote for all men, white or black,
rich or poor; or else, let,them have the courage
to admit that it is not the poor voter they care
for, but that their real anxiety is for their oys.
ter-dumb, snake-back president and their trust
ridden party. The question is not in issue this
campaign, but will be in some future campaign,
and I'll bet high that the party of expansion,
trusts and imperialism will be the party that
will stand for the disfranchisement of poor men,
as we'll as black men. The principle that any
man should be deprived of the right to vote is
all wrong, from A to lizard, and is menace to
free institutions; and property qualification is
tar worse than an educational, in that it is cas-.
ier to learn to read than to acquire property.
-"
One federal Judge in New York and in Chi
cago have decided that Porto Rico and the
Philippines are not under the protection of the
federal constitution. After while, case will
| 60 to the supreme court, and the decisions of
| the lower court will be confirmed. After that,
the benevolent assimilators" will swipe the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-10-12

l, D. M. Moore, sheriff of Anderson county,
of Kansas, do hereby proclaim to the legal vo
Anderson county, Kansas, that a general elec
held in each of the voting precincts in said
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-03

United States, to come 10 our shores as freely as the wind that blows. Think of 1t Ten or more million human slaves, any part of whom may, and no doubt will, come to push out and take the place of our own white labor.
 Aaska's southwest coast is destined to become the greatest quartz mining and fish packing district of the known word. This is not probIematical, it is not dream. 1t is an assured fact.
 When these two branches of commer- cial industries begin to get under way, they will require, for mills and canneries, thous- ands of common laborers. Do von want them filled with Japs, Chinese and Malavs, at the exclusion of our own white labor If so, then pray for Mckinley, Hay and expansion. For my part want none of it. want none of it. want all the land we own, but not foot that is severed from our continent.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-03

| ing for legitimate investments, which brings us back to the question of Alaska 1 Four years Is not long in the affairs of nation. Part of the last four years has been spent in getting things to running smoothly. The people have both money and confidence. They will retain both if he.present administration is malntained; and it is just as certain that the opposite will be true if Bryan with his I6 to and other bogv issues is placed at the head of the government. Ergo. Elect Mckinley and capital will seek investment, and, seeking, will come to Alaska and develop our resources, and in developing our re- sources it will make our district and peo- pie prosperous. Elect Bryan and those having money will keep it, not knowing what effect the new policies ot the ad- ministration will have on conditions, and in the meantime we can stand with our hands in our pockets on our rich lodges of ore looking at the wealth in sight but not
 in reach.
 As to the other proposition, l shall only give it word, as space will not permit of more We have made but one appeal to congress and that appeal was answered promptly, not in all matters satisfactorily freely admit, but coming as it did, when the nation had war on hand, threatened trouble with foreign nations, legisating for Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, as we'll as the great body of the nation proper, it is no wonder that Alaska did not get all that we believe we need and are entitled to at the first helping. And, again. Alaska legislation was not based upon political lines-one of the strongest opponents to any legislation for Alaska, and who was and is strong supporter of our tax law, Is Senator Bate of Tennessee, life long democrat. This is equally as true of dem ecratic senators and representatives gener- ally as republican.
 The next congress will be republican even if Bryan be elected, and We all know that when we have an executive of one political faith and congress of another with opposite policies, very little of bene- fieial legislation is effected. l firmly be- lieve Alaska can, if the administration is republican, obtain from congress one year from now territorial form of government which will not only repeal our present tax law, but will give us representation and other beneficial laws. If the administra- ii n is democratic and congress republican we cannot expect such results.