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MMMjgT Official Organ Ordinary. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER. PUBLISHED K.VKIIY EVENING JF.FFEKSON OFFICE: With the Ordinary in the Coart House P. W. Quattlebaum will represent the paper aud take subscriptions. —-.0,1™. Subscription Plates. One Yeas, ~ A. G. LAMAR, Editor and Publisher. THURSDA/. AUGUST 8. 1899. Wants to Read Reform Papers. We reoeived a letter this week from a very intelligent la.ly of Oconee county requesting us to send her a copy of this week’s paper, saying she had not seen a reform paper this year and wanted to subscribe for The Economist. She al go asked us to send a sample copy to her brother in Green county who wants to read a reform paper. We mail sample copies to both this week aud hope they will both send us some subscribers. The person who fails to read a reform paper is ignorant of what is really going on in the political world, as the old party press keep back the things the people ought to know. The inau who is really opposed to bettering the condition of humauity ought to take a reform paper for his own enlightenment and to keep posted as to what is going on. And the reformer who doos net taka a reform paper can never liepe to see reform suc ceed beoaus3 ha is helping to keep it b .ok by not supporting reform papers the greatest agencies we have to accom plish its suooess. It is a good sigu, how ever, to see people becoming aroused on this line and wanting to read rforin papers. If you roally believe your principles are right aud jast it is your duty to get every mau aud wouitn you oan to take a reform paper. New think about this a few minutes aud see if you can’t do something on this line. Wo do not make this assertion from any selfish motive. It benefits you aud the cause you espouse more thau it it does us. Christianity has suffered more from unjust legislation—legislation benefit ting the c'asses and impoverishing the masses, than frcm all other agencies. It is an uphill busiuess preaching sal vation to a mail when the laws are al lowing him to be robbed of his labor and ho sees poverty aud slavery staring him iu the facs. This is a serious ques tion for the religion world to consid er, but one that demauds considera tion. If there is any thing iu this world outside of the religiou of Jesus Christ that we want to see succeed, it is the principles advocated by the Populist party. We as firmly believe as we do there is a God, that if these principles could be euaoted into law there would be millions of people iu this oouutry made happy and prosperous who now see very little in the future to brighten their pathway. No one but an ignor amus or natural born fool would make the charge, from the above assertion, that we expect or advocate 40 aores and a mule being given every man woman and child by the government. Politi cians in the old parties have fouud men who were wedded to party and who were simpletons enough to swallow such rot preached to them. We believe that if our principles were enacted into law there would be a chance for individual effort and that opportunities would then be offered to every man who wanted to de something in the world. Under the present laws, enacted by the two old parties, there are no opportunities offer ed for individual effort and the man without money or moneyed influences is powerless to ocoomplish much, and at is a scuthi with th) large majority to half live. “NO COMPROMISE WITH BRYANISM.” “No compromise with Bryanism, which stands for political vagabondage and Ishmaelitism.” This is the pronuciamento of the Cleveland wing of the Democratic par ty according to the statement made by James H. Eckels, who was Comptroller of the Currency during Cleveland’s sec ond term. Mr. Eckels, who is at the Holland House, said to a World reporter last night: “The condition of the Democratic party is such that every one who has ever had any interest in its well being must wish for a complete change in its leadership and policy. Ido not believe any considerable number of Democrats who left the party in 1896 will accept a Democracy n n w that they repudiated then. “The difficulty then was in both men and principles. That difficulty still ex ists, only made more pronounced by the tilings which have been said aud done by Mr. Bryan and his followers. THE CHICAGO MEETING. “The entire lack of unity upon even the issues the Bryauized Democracy stands for was never better illustrated than at the rocent gathering at Chicago. That meeting developed no purpose or plau save the purpose aud plan to still more and more eliminate character and business ability from Democracy. “Nothing is to be gained by Demo crats who remained with the party, de spite their disbelief in its leaders and platform, keeping quiet. They were regular, and as such are legitimate coun sellors for party action, aud have a right to be heard. “I no'ice frequent suggestions of con ferences being held by these regular anti-silver Democrats to try to find some way of compromising existing differ ences in the party. My judgment is that they could accomplish more by steady and systematic work within the party, apart from any compromise, with the purpose of getting the rank and file properly informed as to the weakness of those who now lead them. “The excuse the Southern leaders have given for their course is that it was necessary in order to keep their States from the Populists. They have suc ceeded in doing so by making the whole party Populists. SAYS NEW MANAGEMENT IS NEEDED. "The trust issue cannot be substituted for the silver with any effect under the same party management, for no one be lieves iu the management or is willing to trust it with power. It can gain nothing from anti-expansion talk be cause, for the'sake of preventing unde sirable foreign territory and peoples being attached to this country, the voters will not to run the risk of turn ing over the care of important domestic affairs to the party. "It is possible that after Mr. Bryan’s utter defeat aud rout ;iu l&OO, protests from the rank and file, which cannot now find voice, will be heeded. "With a united party, unr'er a strong, honest, conservative leadership, advo cating true Democratic principles, the Democratic ’party should win iu the coming election. As it now stands, with its avowed purpose of contesting for the things advocated in 1890 and the same Presidential candidate, it is al ready beaten.” The above from the New York world is interesting reading and clearly shows the condition of the Democratic party and that there is no ohance of recousilia tiou unless Southern aud Western de mocracy unqualifiedly yield aud sub mit to the diotates of the East. Pop ulists have olaimed all along that there was no hope for the people through the democratic party as it wonld always be dominated by the East. It is a mystery, hard to unravel, why men of intelligence and men who are opposed to class legislation and to being rnied by Wall street, will oontinne to follow such a party. If such men would only think a little for themselves and act with some indepen ieuoe, they would soon see that their own personal interest and that of the masses demanded a change and they would forsake party aud ding to their principles. There is no hope for better times through the Democratic party. The people are begining to think again and when a man thinks intelli gently he is forced to be a populist. He just can’t help it —it comes as a natur al oonsequence, Watson on Populism. In one of his recent speeches Hon. Thomas E. Watson paid the following eloquent tribute to the old Greenbackers and their populist successors: “At last some of the people realize what was going ou. The Greenbacker arose and appealed to the nation. His voice arrested attention. His challenge to debate could not be met. His was the triple armor of the champion whose quarrel is just. Therefore he was de nied a hearing, Politicians reviled him, slandered him, lied about him in the canvass, cheated him at the polls. The paid newspapers covered him with abuse and ridicule. The very people he was fightidg for were made to hate him. “Yet truth being mighty, he continu ued to wax 3trong. Force could not crush him, aud they resorted to fraud and deceit. The two great political par ties whose class legislation had cursed the land, pretended to be sorry, promis in the platforms to be better Greenback ers than the Greenbackers themselves, and some of the Greenback leaders were taken up to the top of a small potato hill aud shown a mangy little office aud the contemptible was greatly tempt ed. “Purer motives, nobler aims, never thrilled a people than those which moved the men aud woman who organ ized the Poople’s Party. Ridiculed, abused, slandered, yet they fought on, and we was growing as the storm grows. We could not be met in debate. Our case was too plain, our roots too positive. Newspapers had to close their columns to us. The editor gave his readers slan ders— not arguments. The politicians gave the people falshoods—not reason. They could howl us down, they could count us out, but they could not meet us in fair debate, and they had sense enough to know it. “We found the tree of human liberty planted here when we came iuto the world; let us see to it that we leave it standing. We found the sacred torch of freedom burning; let us keep it lit and pass ou. Let the sower die it must be so; but let him scatter good then leave the harvest te time and to God. “As firmly as if my feet were ou the rocks I believe in the final triumph of right—believe that justice will yet rule the world, believe that the white banner of universal peace shall supplant the blood red flags of war. Parties may ocme and go, force and fraud may yet rule the day, but yet aud ever yet. I believe that right shall yet sit ou the throne of the world, and rule the hearts of all men. “The clouds gather, I know, and the storm and darkness come upon the laud. The weaklings perish; the birds of the day may fall and flutter and die. But the eagle, he of the ages, strong of wing and dauntless of heart, rises against the storm, and bears his way through aud beyond it, aud gives fierce cry of joy as he baths his wings in the sunlight above the cloud. ■ * “ O spirit of populism, be though the eagle— to rise against the darkness and 3torm,and live in the sunlight beyond where the tempest is past aud gone.— Ex. A Strong Bill of Indict ment. Moruiug Post. Things certainly must be in a mess over in Kentucky as the outcome of the recent Democratic convention of that State, if the following from a "regular parly paper” is at all indicative. The Mercury, published atCarlise, that State says: "The Mercury, as has been its custom for thirty odd years, places the Demo cratic tioket at the head of its columns and shall give it the best support it can under the circumstauoes. Iu urging the Democrats of Nioholas to ‘rally round the flag, boys,’ we know we are oommiting a sin against all decency aud honor, yet our loyalty to the De mocratic party impels ns to submit to the edicts of the convention * even when we know that fraud, lying aud treach ery were used lavishly to accomplish the end reached at Louisville last week. "Faithfnl Democrats cannot stop to question that methods of managers is not reserved to the common folks. It is enough for the ordinary plug of the country to know that the thing has been done, and it is his duty to submit, and join with our new State Organ—the Courier Journal-in shouting ‘Hail to the King!’ "Let every Democrat who belives in fraud and every other form of vice in politics join with ns in giving the ticket a hearty support.” Could a stronger bill of indiotment be drawn against a party? A Faltering But Fatal “First Step.” Mr. McKinley announces officially through Secretary Hay that he has in structed the Americau Minister at Peking— “To use his good offices in all proper ways in behalf of the American-China Development company and to prevent spoliation or injury to its interests ” That is to say, Mr. McKinley informs the American people that, a syndicate of his compaign contributors and sup porters having got from corrupt Chinese officials an as yet undeveloped conces siou transferring soveieignty over part of the Chinese Empire from China to these monopolistic syndicators, he as President of the United States purposes to interfere and to prevent China from refusing to carry out the unjust aud immoral contract. The qualifying phrase ‘in all proper ways” is not of the slightest value. There can be no “proper ways” in which the United States may interfere to prevent a foreign state from exercis ing a fundamental right of sovereignty. And what could be a more fundamental right of sovereignty than the right of a state to prevent the extinction of its sov ereignty over a part of its own territory and people? Mr. McKinley is hesitatingly but none the less certainly taking the fatal “first step.’’ He is preparing to hand over a part of the Chinese Empire not to American control bat the control of a monopoly. He is clearing the way for the use of American soldiers and American revenues, the blood and money of the plain American people, in enforcing monopolistic oppressions. He has started upon a course that must in the end force the United States into a war not for American trade in China but for the maintenance of the tolls and exactions of a monopoly. The World has thus far been the only organ of public opinion to call attention to the inevitable, the unescapable con sequences of Mr. McKiuley’s faltering but fatal “first step.” Is this precedent to be established without general protest? Since its foundation this Government of, for and by the Amerioan people has steadfastly refused to recognize or in any way whatsoever to promote or pro tect foreigu "concessions.” The rea sons are obvious. A democratic republic cauuot admiuister the internal affairs of a foreigu nation and cannot set up protectorates over subject peoples with out undermining and corrupting its own foundations. Mr. McKiuley is reversing this sound policy. He is usurping imperial func tions. Aud that too in behalf of mono poly and in defense of a corrupt con tract.—New York World. Was Abraham Lincoln an Enloe? We have read with much pleasure the little book of Mr. James H. Cathey, of Bryson City, N. C., upon the real pa rentage of the "wonderful man” known in American history as Abraham Lin coln, one of the most extraordinary characters in all history, a singularly great man with a most strange event ful and tragic history. Mr. Cathey es says to establish that President Lincoln was of illegitimate birth, and he proves his case. If Abraham Lincoln were living, and on trial for his life, and the evidence against him was one-fourth as cumulative, circumstantial, positive and fnll as that educed to prove that Abraham Enloe was his real father he would have to die. Mr. Cathey estab lishes that Lincoln was born in North Carolina, that he was the son of Abra ham Enloe, and that his mother was Nancy Hanks, an orphan girl living for many years in Enloe’s family. The witnesses introduced are numerous, highly reputable and well informed. If a man reads without a theory to sus tain or a purpose to reject he will be convinced that Lincoln’s name should be Enloe, and because of his actnal father. We do not go into a statement of the main evidence as that would re quire much space. We merely wish to bear witness to the uncommon interest of the book, and, as we believe the con clnsiveness of the contention as to the ‘‘genesis” of the great man who bore the name of Lincoln. He did not have a diop of blood of a Lincoln in his veins, Physically, mentally and intel lectually he was an Enloe. The real father was as superior to the fellow Thomas Lincoln, who is the supposed father up north, as a strong man is su perior to a weak one. Abraham Enloe was over six feet high, massive, intel lectual, wise, kindly, manly. He was not a native of North Carolina, but was born in South Carolina, nectedwith the influential f J"* 00 * that name in our sister g t at 51 mother, Nancy Hanks, was"r,rl‘ Hi< North Caro ioa girl, but that is itively known. She may hav k born in Kentucky and c *m a youth to North Carolina, if “ et Lincoln’s parents were not of thil by nativity, bat he was. S The North worships the g rea t and will always believe that he Wa ***’ son of a very commonplace, i nfer . 6 character by the name of Lincoln will reject all evidence aud like Em ‘ of tld will cling to its ignorance 2 idolatry. If you would learn all a > who Abraham Lincoln, bomEuloe 21 read Mr. Cathey’s most convincing conclusive book. Mr. Lincoln evid e • ly knew who his father was. 2 North spurned the strong book of p/ Dr. Weston’s on Marshal Ney lj T /' and dying in North Caroline, never answered the circumstantial aa(i positive evidence to establish it [, took it out in repudiating and scoffing That is the easiest way to avoid w swering the unanswerable. But spite of all jeers and scoffs Marshal Key died in North Carolina and Abraham Lincoln was born in North Carolina and was the son of Abraham Enloe. The reader cannot possibly imagine how satisfactorily Mr. Cathey’s argument is until he reads it with care. The book as a whole is well written. The introduction is excellent, and the chapter on Abraham Lincoln is master, ly. The portrait of that great man is drawn with a steady hand, with much vigor, and with real insight. The book has many portraits of the Enloes and two of Lincoln. The price is HO cent", Write to the author, James H. Cathe, Bryson City, for a copy.— Willmington Messenger. “Heart Trouble.” In their way of living and way of dy ing Ingersoll and Roswell P. Flora were typical of a very large class. Both led sedentary lives. Both had a great deal of superfluous flesh. Both had large appetites and apparently superb digestions. Both died of "heart troub le.” Almost invariably in mm of this sort "heart trouble” means simply stomacl trouble, the result of indifference to or unbelief in the simple laws as to eating and drinking. The fallacy that “nature knows whit she wants, and by giving a man a huge appetite signifies that he must eat huge ly,” numbers its victims by the tens of thousands. Living up to this fallacy produces what appears to be and in some cases may be heart trouble. Then the man with the big appetite attribut es all his sufferings from indulgencyin food and drink not to his "robust appe tite” but to his "weak heart.” He takes care of his heart, but continues to over load his stomache. And if anyone, even his physician, tries to warn him against indulgence of his "hearty, healthy ap petete,” he laughs or gets angry. It takes little food to provide all the nourishment the body needs. All but that little is superfluity, and man musi constantly guard against the tendency to increase this superfluity. Whenaga approaches the amount of nourishment necessary tends to decrease. Hence these untimely deaths of men in their physical and mental prime. Always leave the tabls hungry. And when you do not feel well do not eat a* all—Ex. Ten wise Maxims. 1. Never put off till tomorrow w 3il you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what y - can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money b* or ‘ you have it. . 4. Never buy what you don t because it is cheap. 5. Pride costs more than hung? thirst, or cold. 6. We seldon repent of having 100 Uttle ’ we* 1 7. Nothing is troublesome thtf * willingly. hlTe 8. How much pain the Tl cost us that have never happen . 9. Take things always by the?® handle. 10. When angry, count ten you speak, if very angry. * dred. fa *o#* A girl is alright until she ? e anish and a woman is alright nn gets girlish. One of the worst blows to ?r- G #li is inflicted by telling a friend * 3 sick all night, that he looks we