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-;T')X LETTER.
!;::? .;,.: B . tv C v: ssponden
' n' !'t')i,o rat
ii.'t' i'!ti- umgnnmity
i 01,0 y ( outraged with
: ;.iubiican e!hshness when
Southern Senators voted
villi the northwestern Sena
tors to p! x-e binding twine
on thr-frert list. The great
grain producing states are
1 he large, users of binding
twine, hit when the South
ern Senators asked for an
amendment, to the tariff bill
pliM-ing cotton bagging,
which is used by the cotton
producing states, on the free
list, the republican Senators
voted solidly against it.
That is just the sort of sec
tional legislation that lias
t reated a "solid South" and
as long as t he one continues
the other is likely to remain.
It is a bad rule that doesnot
work both ways.
The anti-Reed republicans,
nid there are lota of 'em, are
"kicking" vigorously, be
en use they say that the Re
publican Congressional Cam
paign committee is being
used to boom the . Speaker
for- the Presidency. There
i t o hmger any doubt of
I f i s having shied his cas
M .r ;ito the Presidential ring
,!;" the weaker candidates,
i .s v. "g Mr. Harrison, are
4-!g panic-stricken at
tin prospect. They fear the
p n- cr of the big man from
Maine whose sh 'dow is be
ginning to obscure all of
them. The democrats would
ask nothing better than
Heed's nomination; they be
lieve that an overwhelming
ii.njority of the peopleof this
country are oppos d to the
un-American methods by
which he has tyrannized over
the House of Representa
tives. This week will see the out
rgeous tariff bill passed by
the Senate. A number of
the republican Senators
have shown a temporary
spirit of independence in vot
ing against sections of the bill
which discriminated against
their constituents; but theie
courage ended there, and
through fear of the party
lash they will stultify them
selves by voting for it as a
whole. The reciprocity a
mendment is a delusion and
a snare, and it is only recip
rocity in name, as exferienee
will demonstrate; or else the
high protectionists in the
House would not (as they
have done) have promised
that the House would accept
it. The bill is nothing more
nor less than an official re
payment by the consumers
of the United States of the
money contributed by pro
tected manufacturers during
the last Presidential cam
paign to the republican cor
ruption fund. Fortunately
the voters of the country
will have an opportunity in
Novemler of expressing t heir
opinion of such methods.
Representative Brecken
ridge, of Arkansas, has been
illegally and unjustly depriv
ed of his seat in th House,
but ns he expressed it in the
closing words of his speech
"I take an appeal to the peo
pie, regardless of party, in
the district 1 have the hon
or to represent, on the broad1
ground of common honesty
and in November they will
reverse your conclusion and
rebate the methods by which
you reached thatconclusion.'
The scandal piles upon
Commissioner of Pensions
Raum, but he does not re
sign, nor do his superiors in
office give any signs of ask
ing for his resignation, al
though common decency
should have caused them to
do so ns soon as he unblush
ingly acknowledged having
borrowed $12,000 on notes
endorsed by pension attor
ney Lemon. Rut there is
wo', oe to come. He has been
engaged in some business
transactions worse than the
refrigerator company, of
which one of his would-be
judges Representative Siry
ser of Ohio is a iarge stock
holder and Representative
Cooper, who first formulat
ed the cha rges, is in poses
sion of the facts, and he in
tends to see to it that the
public has them, even if the
republicans on the white
washing committee shall
refuse to investigate them.
The speech of Representa
tive Keunedy, an Ohio re
publican, charging Senator
Quay with being a felon and
a modern Judas Iscariot,
may have been strictly true
many people believe that
it was but the floor of the
House was no place for it to
be made, and it would have
lH.ru well had the House a
dopted the resolution ex-
lulling Kennedy which -Rep
resentative Roatner of Louis
iana prepn red, but wns dis
suaded by his democratic
colleagues from introducing.
The speech will, it is said, he
"revised" before it is printed
in the Congressional Record,
but that is no palliation of
t he offense a gai nst g od ma n-nei-8
committed by Kennedy.
An expulsion or two would
have a wonderful effect upon
the manners of the House.
The conference report on
the River and Harbor bill
has been adopted by the
House, but it is hardly prob
able that the Senate will act
upon it before next week.
Secretaries Windom and
Tracy "do not speak as they
pass by," because of the as
signment of a naval officer
by the latter against the
wishes of the former, to cer
tain duties in connection
with the Light House ser
vice. Senator Edmunds has "ot
up to date called up his recess
resolution. There will be a
lively time when he does.
Vance's Joke.
The following characteris
tic incident is taken from the
Senate proceedings of last
Saturday, the pending ques
tion being to increase the
tariff on raw wool:
"Mr. Vance admitted his
inability to understand Mr.
Allison, when he insisted on
increasing the duty on raw
wool for the benefit of the
wool-grower while alleging
all the time that it was not
going to make any difference,
but that if it did make any
it would be rather to make
wool cheaper.
The bill would either, said
Mr. Vance, "raise the price
of wood or it would not. If
it would not, those who vot
ed for the bill were only hum
bugging the farmer. It would
either raise the price of wool
en goods or it would not.
If it would not, then it would
be of no use to the manufac
turer. If it did raise the
price to the consumer, then
Mr. Aldrich's theory was all
Wrong, and he could take
whatever horn of the dilem
ma he pleased. It reminded
linn of the verse written by
the local poet of a newspaper
upon the old darkey fisher
man who one day hooked a
big catfish that was to quick
for him, and pulled him off
the rock into the river, where
he was drowned
"The neighbors never could
moke out
By the aid of all their figur
ing" Whether the old nigger went
catfishing
Or the catfiish went a nigger
ing." (Laughter on both sides.)
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ANOTHER PROMINENT
RU'llllLWAN D1S
(U'STElh Mr. William A. (Jutherie, a
prominent Republican and a
fine lawyer of Durham, last
week published a card forev
er renounce! ng his nllegience
to the Republican party. Mr.
(Jutherie has lecn a life-long
Republican from principle
and has been twice nomina
ted for Supreme Court Judge
by his party and each time
polled more votes than the
rest of the ticket. Mr. (Juth
erie gives his reason for leav
ing the Republican party.
The main reason is its posi
tion with reference to the
force bill as declared in their
platform the ot her week. An
other reason is that he has
recently discovered that the
Republican party in this
State is ruled by a ring of fed
era! office holders and reve
nueseis, who are furnished
with funds to bribe Democrat
ie voters. Mr. (Jutherie being
an honorable man and a Re
publican from principle has
renounced his party w hich is
now a party without, princi
ples. Mr. (Jutherie recogni
zes the fact that the exist
ance of the Republican party
in North Carolina is only for
the purpose of obtaining the
federal patronage, and he al
so recognizes the fact that
the negroes claim that they
constitute thegreat majority
of the party and that the
spoils belong to them. The
negroes have drawn the col
or line within the Republican
party, and Mr. Gutherie right
ly thinks that it is time for
white men to withdraw from
its ranks. We welcome Mr.
(Jutlurie into the Democrat
ic fold. When we heard Mr.
Gutherie deliver a speech at
the banquet to the Press As
sociation in Durham, in which
he said that, if the Repubi
can party attempted to pass
the federal election bill, he
was a white man, we then
thought, "old fellow, you
wont be a Republican long,"
and we are glad that it turn
ed out to be so. Mr. Guther
ie is an accession to our ranks
of which we should feel proud.
We hope to see numerous de
cent white Republicans fol
low his example. It is high
time for Republicans from
principle to awake to their
surroundings and companv.
-Dallas Eagle.
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in that city have been troub
led very much of late by the
circulation of counterfeit
money. The denominations
are $10 and $3 in paper and
$1 silver. The paper curren
cy is a good counterfeit, and
likely to deceive, but the sil
ver coin is a poor imitation,
and may be easily detected
by an experienced person. It
is not at all unlikely that
some of these counterfeits
may find their way to Char
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Old Part;.
Wntliln : ton Gl(r.
Permit me to announce
i through the colums of your
paper that I have after ma
ture deliberation severed my
connection with the Republi
can party, and henceforth in
tend to give my support to,
and act wih the Democratic
party.
For twenty years Ihavevo
ted squarely the Republican
ticket been constant, in sea
son and out, in endeavoring
to promote its success. But
the history of this adminis
tration, in the manner it has
betrayed its trusts and viola
ted its promises to the ieo
ple, its utter disregard of the
wants and needs of the mass
of our people, in refusing to
amend the present iniqui
tous tariff for t heir re'ief, and
its wholesale slaughterof the
surplus in reckless pension
legislation, has determined
me to cast my lot hereafter
with the true polit ical friends
of my country and its toiling
poor the Democratic party.
In doing so. I feel satisfied
that I am discharging a eon
sciencious duty in sincere
faith. Verv Resp.,
Geo. W. Jackson, Jit.
Long Ridge, N. C, Aug 18.
Cold Comfort for the Negro.
IUlekmi, N. C. Sept. 10.
Special The negro State
convention held here last
month appointed a commit
tee of influential negroes to
go to Washington and lay
before the President the
grievances of the North Car
olina negroes and to state
that they were over ridden
by white republican bosses
who gave them no position.
The removal of these bosses
from oilice wa,s to bo asker
for and (he demands of the
negroes for recognition in
the distribution of patron
age were to be plainly laid
before the President. The
committee went to Washing
ton and has returned. One
of the members says the
President treated the com
mittee very kindly, but that
his manner and words show
ed that he had been informed
of a resolution which was be
fore the convention, but
which was modified before ic
was adopted. The original
resolution stated that the
President had erred in his
appointments in North Car
olina and also in ignoring
1 the negroes. 1 1 was evident
that some white republican
had sent the President a copy
of the original resolution.
The President told the com
mittee he was sorry such a
state of affairs as it reported
existed in North Carolina,
but that he did not see how
he could change if. The
committee therefore got very
cold comfort. Willniington
Messenger.
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R(bum tmi Oritorjr.
The Rockingham Rocket
thus comments:
'The Wilmington Messeih
ger classes Senator Ransom
among the orators of North
Carolina. Of course there are
differences of opinion, but it
is the first time, we believe,
that we ever heard Ransom
accused of being an orator."
We do not retnemlM'r before
to have seen it denied that
Senator Ransom is nn ora
tor. He have often seen in
some of the leading prints of
the State the opinion that
he was the foremost orator
in North Carolina. We are of
the opinion, and have for a
hmg time a decade or more
he'd that in stately, impo
sing, graceful oratory he has
not now, so far as we have
heard, a rival in the State.
His famous speech that has
been so often spoken in po
litical campaigns, requiring
threo or four hours for deliv
ery, is ierhaps the finest ora
tion heard on the hustings in
our State, in so far as style,
delivery, sonorous and rheto
rical sentences, graceful and
dignified mannerism and no
ble sentences are concerned.
It is trie that Senator Ran
som during his long term of.
office in the Senate has been
heard but once in elaborate
speech, but by common con
sent of those who read and
those who heard hiseloqueut
and graceful plea for recon
ciliation between the sections
deli rered some sixteen years
since, it wns pronounced to
be a superlative effort of the
kind, and gave him much re
nown at the time. The gift
ed and distinguished journal
ist. Donn Piatt, said that it
was one of thefewsjeeehese
had heard that he had pre
served for future reading. Its
rhetorical effects surpassed
any speech by n North Caro
linian in the Congress we re
memler to have read.
In "Southern Oratory" a
very nea t and enjoyable book
of selections made by a pro
fessor at Austin, Texas this
speech of Senator Ransom's
is largely drawn upon, and
the selections are among the
most striking in the book.
Senator Ransom is not a de
bater, but when well prepar
ed he can make a fine, ele
gant, and even eloquent
speech. Perhaps after all, the
Rocket and ourselves differ
as to what constitute ora
toiy. We did not think Ed
ward E vert t an orator, but
we have heard oratory from
(Jen Ransom. Mr. Everett
was rhetorical and cold, arti
ficial and elegant: Gen. Ran-
som is rhetorical and studied
in declamation, but he is at
times impassioned and natu
ral and he reaches the heart
and stirs the emotion. IVi
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