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The True Citizen.
W AYKESRORO, OA., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1882
• The Survival of the Fittest.'
THE FA IR ASSOCIA TION.
wlio have been favored with high and
lucrative offices till a certain age.—
Justice equality and charity weald cry
out against this.
STEPHENS FT SPEER.
All good citizens should rejoice at
•he organization of a Coun'y Fair. It
is (-.alculated to do much good. It will
de-teminate new ideas in agriculture ;
modern machinery and improved imple
ments will be introduced : idi-as will be
• £ changed, and each man will learn
Moroething. It will unite the planting
interests in closer bonds of sympathy ;
it will br>ng about uniform system and
action. Nevr and improved seeds will
be t^e result; larger and better cu ps
will be made on smaller quantities of
mod. It will advertise to the world
he great, resources of a large coun y,
nod the wonderful productiveness of our
metis. It will be a great benefit to our
town. It will bring in a good crowd
ior three and four days iu the year.—
Hoarding houses and hotels will b« pat
romzed. trade will be increased, and
employment will be given to every
branch of labor.
We live in a world of progress—in
an age of advancement. “Onward! —
onward !’’ is the cry, and the man or the
community that does not move will be
left behind in the grand inarch of civili
zation and improvement. Unless we
adopt new methods and new plans, we
cannot contend with the balance of the
world. Old fogyism must be shaken
off. We have a fine county ; the lands
are wonderfuly productive, and are sus-
ceptable of illimitable improvement.—
Our climate cannot be surpassed; our
crops are varied, aud highly remuner
ative. Independence and wealth is in
oar grasp if we will only work, and
work in the right way. Then, lei us
ail take an interest in the n^w move.—
Let. every man put his shoulder to the
wheel, and give a good strong push—
and push all together.
On next Tuesday, at 10 o’clock, we
learn that the society will meet for per
manent organization. That will be an
imoc.rtant meeting—there is nothing
;ike commencing right. True, it can
not succeed unless tho people take an
interest in it. Much loss can it succeed
cnic-ss proper officers are selected.—
Much, in a measure all will depend
upon them. A great deal is to be done
—i‘ is no sun.ll enterprise. To carry
it through will require considerable
money, a great deal of management and
touch work. The results will remuner-
a e. Let no one be disheartened. Se
lect good officers, all will depend upon
them. Let there be a good attendance
next luesday, and let every man look
to the success of the enterprise.
Representative Speer, of Georgia fur
nishes for publication the following
statement with regard to the alleged
issue between himself and Hon. Alex
ander LI. Stephens:
“There is no issue between Mr.
Stephens and me with regard to my
telegram to Di. Felton, which I also
gave to the Associated Press I called
j on Mr. Stephens at his room, on Sun
day morning the 14th 7 nst. I had
learned that morning that a committee
of Independent Democrats was to meet
in Atlanta next day. I at once told
Mr. Stephens that 1 would telegraph
them to recommend him as the people’s
candidate for governor. His secretary
furnished mo some telegraph blanks
and I wrote the telegram in his room,
read it to him, and at his suggestion
altered it in two particulars. I h ve
the riginal draft. The telegram re
cited : ‘I know positively lie will not
reject such recommendation, and that
if elected he will be the governor of
all the people, without regvd to party.’
The telegram was true—every word of
it. Mr. Stephens’ denial does no*, ap
ply to this telegram, but to a telegram
sent from Atlanta to a Western paper,
s ating that he had telegraphed to the
convention of Independents that he
would accept their nomination fbr gov
ernor. lie sent no such telegram. 1
sent no such telegram, and the tele
gram I did send to Dr. Felton speaks
for itself. Mr. Stephens expressed
himself annoyed at the attempt lo make
an issue between him and me when
none exists. “Emory Speer.”
Mr. Stephens appends to the forego.-
ing the following statement over his
signature : “The above is substantially
true. What Mr. Speer telegraphed
Dr. Felton was strictly true, though
not by authority from me. There is
uo issue between me and Mr. Speer.
“Alexander H. Stephens.”
Reports come to us that Gen. Rob
ert Toombs is confined to his home in
Washington, Ga., by rcas n of his own
A Washington special to the Balti
more Sun savs : Of the predilections
of the gentlemen who have been
agreed upon as members of the tariff
commission it may be said that ex-
Vice-President Wheeler is a protec
tionist of moderate stripe. John A.
Ambler, of Ohio, is an ex-member of
Congress, whose bias is in favor of
protection because bis people have a
l«>cal interest on account of tho pro
duction of hem p in lower Ohio and
northern Kentucky. He will fight
jute to the death. John L. Have-,
of Boston, is the mouthpiece of the
Wool Manufacturers’ Association of
the United State;-, which occasionally
lias a tilt with the Wool Growers’
Association, represented on this com
mission by A. M. Garland, of Illinois.
These interests represent every phase
connected with the wool, worsted
and wolens cared for by dealers in
these articles iu the United States.—
Henry W. Oliver, Jr., of Pennsyl
vania, is a. very energetic man, very
much liked by everybody, and one
of the most rabid protectionists in
America. His teachings and ideas
all run that way, but he will particu
larly attend to iron and steel, from
the ore to the needle. Perhaps he
has as good an understanding about
•hose products as any man in Ameri
ca. Robert P. Porter, of Washing
ton, is a learned and experienced
statistician. He will be the school
master of tin 1 commission, represent
ing no special industry, hut bringing
a broad, comprehensive and unbiased
mind to bear upon the investigation.
Alex. Mitchell is considered the
mo t nr minent man of Wisconsin,
He is a strong-minded Sc dchman,
who has come up from a poor boy
to be president of the largest bank in
Milwaukee, president of Milwaukee
Board of Trade, and is worth at
least six millions. He is a Demo
crat, and the tendency of his mind is
rather towards low duties. John S.
Phelps, of Missouri, was many years
ago the chairman of the ways and
means committee for several years,
and was one of the strongest chair
men that committee ever had. ITe
was afterwards governor of Mi.-souri,
and his daughter married a man wfio
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, , built a large part of the iMorthern
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„ , Y .. Pacific railway, James P. Mont
gomery. Phelps is advanced in
RETIRING ON SALARIES.
Judge Hunt has been retired on a
P’-.Ery of ten thousayl dollars a year
for the balance of his life. He has a
good chance to live twenty years. yet,
which will give him two hundred thous
and dollars for doing nothing in retire
ment. Q aite comfortable for a rich old
man. Judge Hunt came og the bench
of the Supreme Court in the latter part
of 1872, performed the duties of his
office for about six years, and ior the
last three years he has been wholly dis-
abled from paralysis. By the action of
Congress he has been retired on his
salary in order to have the duties of his
office pertormed by another appointee.
This is the natural and inevitable
sequence of the tenure of office. Is
here vigor and integrity enough among
he people to correct it by an amend
ment of the Constitution ? We fear
^t. But let tho question be made at
uce and brought directly before the
people next fall. A specified term of
ffice, against a life tenure with anend-
ss list of retired pensioners on the na-
'uial Treasury, that is the question.—
ha‘ say the people in their majesty ?
worthy old gentlemen are to be sup-
at the public expense ifter a
age, let it be ascertained on
les of justice who shall constitute
vorod claBS. It certainly will
Mrs. Toombs. For some time the eye
sight of Gen. Toombs has been suffering
and taking on a state of semi-blind
ness. We learn that this trouble has
.so far increased, as to require him to
keep closely at homo.
In addition, it is said, that the menial
powers of Mrs. Toombs are greatly im
paired, and that her condition requires
the most careful attention. The strong-
devotion of the General keeps him at
her side. The affection existing between
them is of that abiding and golden kind
that has made them models of mutual
devotion throughout their married life.
We hope heartily, as will all the peo
ple who know them, that their ills may
speedily be mended, and their lives
spared for many years to come.—Even
ing Herald.
ted
those gentlemen o; irtunes He is hopeless of }*rmanent recovc
Savannah Times: Col. Durbcc’s
agricultural specimens referred to in
the Times yesterday as a “What is
it?” is still hanging in the Times
counting room. The portion of the
em- of corn, at first supposed to be
wheat, is now blossoming into hun
dreds of little maroon colorod flow
ers, and following the ft^vers arc
apparent promises of something like
corn kernels, very round in shape,
and yet they are not kernels of corn.
A circular from the National Repub
lican Congressional campaign commit
tee was received by tho employes at tho
eapitol to-day, in which every employe
is informed that he will bo expected to
contribute 2 per cont. of his annual sal
ary towards the campaign fund, which
is to be used during next fall. Those
circulars impose an assessment of $24
on each doorkeeper, and about $10 on
tho page boys.
Mr. Hill is still at Eureka springs!
years, and it is difficult to say just
what Ins opinions are as regard the
tariff, except that he is in the fine of
revenue reform. Taken altogether,
the tendency of the commission is to
wards protection. No man’s status,
however, is indefinite, as is shown
above, because three or four are put
on with full knowledge of their vio
lent opinions, and the remainder are
placed as informants, and a balance-
wheel upon the men who hold wen-
defined views,
SULLIVAN BROTHERS
Independent in All Things,
Neutral In
Augusta News: In the House
Wednesday a vote was taken and
Mackey was given Dibble’s seat from
South Carolina. There never was a
grosser outrage committed in poli
tics. The Republicans deliberately
repudiated the rule which was drawn
up by the late lamented Garfield for
the protection of minorities. That
rule was drawn, however, when the
Republicans were iu a minority. In
this case there never was a fairer
proposition made by the Democrats
to the Republicans. They allege
that Mackey fraudulently altered the
record in his case, and they simply
asked to be givou a fair chance to
prove the alleged fraud. This tho
Republicans were afraid to do, »md
so refused to grant the request. This
is the whole secret of the Dibble-
Mackey deadlock in a nutshell. No
fair minded man in the country will
say tho Democrats were not right.—
The next time the Democrats get in
to power, which will probably be
when the next Congress, assembles,
they should inflexibly determine to
show their political opponents no
quarter. Magnanimity ie simply
thrown away on such a party. ]£ is
like casting pearls before swine, and
it does seem that the Democrats
have had ample opportunity to find
out this thing.
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