VOL. 76 NO. 88.
DURHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1896.
ESTABLISHED 1820
WHtiflK CUCKOOS PA Mi DO WN.
The following misplaced and
untimely article appeared in the
Savannah .-Morning News re
cently: ' ' ' ''
Candidate Bryan went out
of his way to make a fling at
President Cleveland when, as
his first utteranca after receiv
ing the nomination, he said that
if elected he would under no cir
cumstances become a candidate
for smother term. There was no j
for any such declara
tion. Nobody asked for such aa
expression, and nobody was ex
pecting one. lie took occasion
also to refer ; to Mr, Cleveland
by name in connection with the
matter. Mr Bryan should re
member that the nomination has
placed him above umg person
alities, or at least it should have
don so He will not make votes
for bis ticket by attempting to
bring the Pre ident into disre
pute." To this untimely chirp the
Washington Post, one of the
most fair and impartial papers,
of national . reputation pub
lished, replies as follows:
"Now, how in the name of
common tense can Mr. Bryan
be accused of making a fling at
M'. Cleveland when be declares
that, if elected, he will not
again be a candidate for the
Presidency f Does he not, on
the contrary, pay Mr. Cleveland
the compliment of exact and
faithful imitation ? Everyone,
always excepting our dear little
feathered friends, remembers
that Mr. Cleveland, Immediately
after his election in 1884, be
wailed th tendency of men
once chosen by the people to
employ the power aud inflence
thus conferred to continue them
selves in office. Is it not true
that he spoke of this tendency
us one of the most fruitful .fac
tors of demoralization in our
politics ? Mr. Bryan has simply
repeated Mr. Cleveland. vhy
should Mr. Bryan, then, be de
nounced for saying that wflich,
said twelve years ago by Mr.
Cleveland, was leceived with
such applause and admiration t
We are rapidly reaching the
conviction that in the campaign
about to open the Cuckoos and
Mugwumps will cut a very in-
significant figure. " No doubt
they have done much to raise
the issue now pending and to
bring about the uligments uponn
which the batt e will be fought
so bitterly. Like all mischief
makers, however, they are ol
little avail in rectifying troubles
they have helped to create.
Thy. may have provoked the
c fiict, but real men will have
do the fighting.
PHUTICAL rillI.AXTHItolV.
The axioii that "charity W
gins at hoie" is as old as the
printers art, hut it is not more
latent than the fact, that with
many of those who are able to
dispense it, it stAys there. Setting
Lack in luxury, or ease at lent,
knowing no want a strang r to
the hunger atid sufferiug within
ouud of their voice, and tn the
a!i low of church edifices, many
wl pose before the public u
tilanlbropist would be put to
iame by their conscience and
4M resiKH-t were they to descend
from their higher social position
long enough to examine the ex
tremity of somo of their neigh
Iwrs. Were they to do this, their
hearts and purses would ojcn, not
in wholesale and ttromiscous do
nation, hut in small assistance to
thoso deserving workers whose
utmost effect does not avail to
keep them projHrly fed or decent
lv clothed.
Recently a Durliaiaitc of mod
erate men in who docs not Jtoxe as
philanthropist said he would
give 't-i toward giving a gooil
dinner spread to all the jHwr
factory boys and girls around
1 hi r ham -to tho youngsters who
had rare opportunity to get
really good tiical. lhiS is prac-
tiaal charity tho kind that
con 11 U, and iC is ol the soit which
lu ll the stntgling oor and the
name or Christianity.
fhalrma Junm Talk.
Wahiiixctox, July 16. Sen
ator Jones, or Arkansas. Chair
man of the Democratic Nattona
Committee, reiterated today
that the financial issue will be
forced to the front. Thero wil
be little or no tariff talk. The
reason for selecting New York
for the notification is to show
the country that the movement
is not sectional and that we are
not a lot of long whiskered, long
haired lunatics and fanatics, as
, THK PUNCIIj PUdUKIM.
The North Carolina press as
sociationlimited number of
thorn met, in Wilmingthis week
in annul session, v
The hot weather, chanaw in
financial, and other conditions,
militated against a larger at
tendance. ' , "
While the people of Wilming.
ton are among tbe most courte
ouh, hospitable and generous to
be found anywhere, their fail
ure to come up to tho standard
which has obtained on like oc
casions the past ten years, has
mado quite a number of the
press indiferent about attend
ing at a place where so little
disposition has been manifested
to have them. -
Winston, Greensboro, More
head, Durham.' Hendersonviile.
Charlotte, and other places
where the association has mot,
have been profuse in thnir cour-
tesy-ExcurHions, banquets, balls
c, nave been given them, not
that the press expected or de
sired this trouble or expendi
ture on their account because
the reciprocation of these kind
nesses cost 'them much more
than their hotel fare would
have been, but because ; they
feared they might not be wel
come sruest that they were
possibly going on a forced in
vitation. I!I.AM Poll COM'ItKHti.
Hon. Riehard P. Bland, the
grout silver patriot, will again
nut fr congws from his district.
large number of his Iriend
wihhed to run him for governor
of Missouri hut a card. iub-
Mied in a St. Louis paper, says
that that lie does not want to be
governor tut wanls to go back to
congreps where he lias fought lor
In-o saver for twenty years.
I lie carl is us follows: "In
order to put a stop to any further
nii'htiou of my name for Uover
nor, I have reasons, personal to
inv-t lf, for saying that under 110
conceivable circumstances wilt I
oi.'ike the Gubernatorial race. If
cannot go to congress and con
tinue the fight of twenty years
ust, I will remain in private
ife."
It is safe to say that he will be
ei;t back when, nc can continue
the fight that is now nearing a
grand and glorious vietoiY. ' '
THK PKOPI.KH OI'INMlTt NITV.
The people of these United
St ites have the best, and almost
the only opportunity that 'has
pr8nieo iwen me pasi iweniy
years, or once more asserting
their freedom and obtaining
that justice which is their inhe
rent right, vouchsafed by God.
Nature, and our national con
volution of standing disen
titled, and freed from the
shackles of degrading serfdom
and vasalage to inhuman gold
iarons.
The silver piutform of the
Chicago convention is essen-
tially wbat tbe Populist de
mand, and leaving aside the
fact that the discourtesy of the
Democrats in having taken
snap Judgment and appropeat-
ir g it as their own, there is out
one assigned reason 'why the
P..pulist should not endorse
lirvan and Bewail.
That reason is, and tbe facts
- , -a ..a W
give it rorce, tnat tne demo
cratic party has so often proven
recreant to its most solemn
promises the country cannot be
expected to longer place any
confidence in tncir aacrea
nledzes.
But tt should oe , rcmemwrea
that the Chicago convention
was controlled by a reform set
who dominated and ousted the
Jndas Iscariotsof the perjured
old Machine junta, who nave
since joined tho enemy and
openly pay their devotion to tbe
(Jo den Idols or human onpres
sion: That the nominees. Bran
and Bewail, have (riven such
Croof of their sincerity and
onestv on this question as
blacc their future action be
vond doubt.
1 lie next wetK is pcrienvous.
Upon tho action of the populist
and free sibcr conventions at
St. Louis ban the weal or woe
of this country. The democratic
narty was purged of its betrsy
ers at Chicago. Let tbe populist
whose obicct it Is to help our
sufTerins twotdc keen watch
that the golden eagles do not
place a number of Benedict
Arnold's in their camp.
Tub rdte war bet ween tho
Southern and Seaboard Air Line
roads is bringing down freight
as well as Dttssensret transpor
tation. The latter havemade a
cut ot 33 J per cent.
THK TRUTH OP IT.
, In discussing the money ques
tion, it appears to the Recorder, it
should be. eternally kept before
the people that gold was not "de
nominated" iu the bonds issued
prior to 1873, at which time the
unit I value -. was surreptitously
changed from silver to gold. That
by a systeai of Leugermain known
as "refunding", the old bonds
were taken up and , new ones i
sued m their stead, and made
"payable iu the coin of the coun
try.
It should bo also remembered
mat inese original bonus, were
bought at an average of 60 ceuts
in the dollai -not in cold, but' a
depreciated currency; -That the
owners of these bonds have for
over. thirty vears received their
interest iu gold: and that by the
demonetization of silver, and the
retirement of greenbacks, the
bond holders have increased the
purchasing power of their securi
ties .something like 200 per cent,
while their 200 cent dollar cost
them originally about CO cenls
making the purchasing power ol
tbe present dollar ? 1.40 to fl.50
iroht on an investment of 60
cents.
The people should not forget
either, that this bonded debt in
897 amounted to about $3,000,-
000,000, while wheat was worth
$1.50 per bushel. Then, 1,500,
000,000 bus. would have paid the
eutire debt:Then the price of labor
and all other commodities brought
correspondingly good prices.
Now, while the debt has appar
ently been reduced to about $1,
000,000,000, with wheat at 50
cents a bushels, it will take 500,
000,000 bushels more to wy the
debt than it would iu 1867.
verything else has declined in
ike proportion as wheat, except
this debt, which is practically
larger than it was twenty-nine
years ago, if discharged iu labor
or labors product the only pos
sible way by which it can be dis
charged. This being so, who has been
robbed? Whoso dollar is the
honest dollar? Is it (he dollar
denominated in the bond the
money that was current at the:
time the bonds were issued and
paid for in, or is it the enhanced
ollar of the gold conspirators?
Who will answer?
Profound and sweet winged
peace has reigned supreme in this
nature bles!cd but party cursed
country for thirty years, while
the world never looked upon such
a itcriod of industrial and Agri
cultural activity, of development
iid scientific discovery, of im
proved mechanism, etc.
Population has doubled com-
mrree has grown 10 enormous
roiKirtions, and the necessities of
civilization and trade imperitave-
y demands an abundant medium
of exchange. . Yet, the gold con
tractionist would iiersuade the
k-oi-Io that cold alone shall be
the measure of all values and the
final money of redemption. The
nation or teople who adopt such
advice is lt: Industrial and
commercial blight inevitably fob
ows and gradually but surely
industrial slavery jind serfdom
will spread its appalling wings
over a once brave people, anu
proud civilization.
It. II. War.
Raltimobr. Md.. July 15.
The war between the Baltimore
Steam Packet Company and the
Seaboard Air Line on the one
side, and tne Baltimore. Chesa
peake & Richmond Steamboat
Company and the Southern
Railway ompany on me ovuer,
is becoming hot. The latter
mm nun T recently puton a line
of steamers between Baltimore
and Norfolk, invadinz tne
rHcam Packet Company's (Uid
in Line! exclusive territory,
Some light cuts in rates are also
alleged to have been maae.
TiMi.iy the steam racxei vom-
nan retaliated. In connection
with its ally, the Seaboard Air
Line, it announced a sweeping
reduction in all rates, and ex-
..iin tn an the tirmciDie
Southern cities. In addition to
1 ha cut in rates, the steam
Packet Company will, begin
ning next Friday, run steamers
hriween Baltimore and Rich
mond. Va.. by way of theChes
apcako Bay ad James river,
thereby invading the territory
heretofore exclusively control!
ed by the Southern Railway
Company,
. PltKHIDIJNT OP V. N. C.
Prof. Chas. D. Mclver, presi
dent of the Normal School, hav
ing recognized, as we thought he
would, that it was a higher duty
to prepare the young " women of
the state for the practical pur
poses of life, than to be president
of the State University, has writ
ten a card declining to allow his
name to appear as an aspirant for
the latter position. (
Professor Alderman and other
prominent educators have been
mentioned as suitable! successor.-'
to Dr. Geo. T. Winston as the
head of North Carolina's great
and historic seat of learning; but
in the entire list mentioned, we
take it, that there is no man bet
ter qualified both in his literary
attainments and executive abili
ty than Col. W. H. S. Burgwyt
in whose make up these quali
ties are happily combined. It
may also be added to Col. Burg
wyn's credit, that while not a
martinet in any sense, he would
set a pace in method and dis
cipline sadly lacking in our high
er institutions. He is a graduate
of that institution, and lias farth
er perfected himself ia the lan
guages, Belle setters, and the
practical philosophy of this age.
It is questionable whether he
would give up the lucrative posi
tion on which he now has a life
tenure to accept, but he is in
tensely North Carolinian, and his
great love lor the University
might induce him to make some
sacrifice to serve it
Bljf Plre In Cbleago.-
CirtCAGO, July iS. The car
barns of the Chicago City Rail
way Company on Cottage Grove
avenue, between 1 hirty-eigiun
and Thirty-ninth streets, were
completely destroyed by fire to
night One hundred open cars, 180
closed cars, and about 50 grip cars
were burned, besides 50 horsas, a
arge amount of feed and other
upplies. It 1$ estimated tliat the
loss will reach nearly $350,000.
The insurance is about $310,000.
The hre broke out at 7:30
j'clock in the hay of the bams,
and but for the prompt work of
the firemen many adjacent build
ings would have been burned. A
fire engine was demolished by a
falling wall and Engineer Sulli
van badly hurt Transportation
on the Cottage Grovr iveuue line
was blocked for several hours.
Hand on.
Major J. V. Wilson, chairman
of the North Carolina 'Railroad
Commission last night contra
dicted the statement which has
appeared in the press to the effect
that the Commission would in
terfere with the issuance of rates
roposed bv the Seaboard Air
Line. He also emphatically de
nied that any letter had been
written bv the Commission to
President R. C. Hoffman or any
other official of the Seaboard by
the Commission or that any
order had been issued about it
He said the Commission would
not interfere with the Seaboard's
rates so long as the long and
short haul clause was complied
with and no discrimination was
made in favor of other states.
v Alabama Crank.
Montgomery. Ala., July 18.
In answer to a call for Demo
crats who disapproved of the plat
form adopted at the recent con
vention at Chicago, there was a
large and representative meeting
at the Opera House tonight
After organization rules were
adopted indorsing the Demo
cratic State ticket and disanurov
ing the Chicago platform for the
following reasons :
Because it docs not enunciate
the true principles of Democracy,
f.ivors the free coinage of silver
at 16 to 1, and Issue ot . fiat
money; declares an, intention to
pack the Supreme Court of the
United States to overturn decis
ions; exhibits a disposition to up
hold lawlessness by prohibiting
the Presidents from protecting
United States mails and inter
state commerce; interferes with
the right of private contracts;
looks toward the pupal is tic doc
trine of govcrntnet control of
railroads; and abandons tariif re
form. '
Impoverished blood causes that
tired feeling. Hood's Sarsaparilht
purifies, enriches and vitalizes the
blood and gives vigor and vitality
(ly' for AugiiHt.
Godey's Magazine for August
contains lots of entertaining read
ing for the summer time. Half a
dozen pieces of fiction iu as many
keys give a very readable variety
in that line, and something
stranger than fiction is told 111
Albert L. Parkes' anecdotes of
Anna Bishop, in the series of
'Great Singers oj this Country."
It seems that prima donna was
under the control of ,M. Bochsa,
the harpist and musical director,
in much the same way that Tril
by, the tone-deaf, was dominated
by , Svengali in the story, and
there 15 certainly reason to sup
pose that career suggested this
part of Du Maurier's novel. An
especially timely article is "Some
Armenian Notables," which gives
many unfamiliar and interesting
facts in regard to the ill-treated
nation of Asia Minor and its
greatest men and women. "Light
and Sound on tbe Stage" tells
many of the secrets of mechanical
effects in use the theatre, and the
illustrations help to make them
clear. For sale by T. J. Gattis
&S011.
FKCUMAKIV SAIL
It is with much sorrow that
their friends and acquaintances
liere have learned that siuce the
commencement at the University
of North Carolina in June, two of
its most popular graduates have
been cut off from lives of great
promise, and gone before the
faculty of Heaven for examina
tion, where it is hoped they will
pass with like honors as was ac
corded them at Chapel Hill.
J. W. Alsbrook, the winner cf j
the Wiley Grey Medal for Orator-,
and J. C. Eller, the "First
lonor" man, have both died
since they left their Alma Mater
in the full flush of vounjr man
hoods hope, and with the best
wishes of all who knew them.
Mill Thejr Come.
Washington, July 18. In
response to a call issued, a con
dition of the sil verities of Vir
ginia was held vtsL-rJayatHcrn-dou,
Va., tu aLct delegates to
the American Silver conventiion
to meet at St Louis on Tuesday.
Forty delegates were elected, and
resolutions were adopted instruct
ing them to do all in their power
to secure the endorsement of the
Chicago ticket and platform.
What Mart!
The Star says a colored woman
in ilniington, 25 years old,
and weighing 113 pounds, gave
birth a few days ago, to four chil
dren, three boys and a girl. The
four weighed 16 pounds. The
girl child only lived a short
time.
llelmrmt iH-nlen.
New York, July 18. Mr.
erry Belmont denies the pun
ished statement that he has been
urged to run for congress in the
irst district He says: 'I have
not promised to do so. I have
not had any conversation with
any one upon the subject"
llairalu Ultra Men Hart.
TnLfctMi, O., July 16. Buffalo
Bill's baud wagon was driven
under the Fort Wavne rai'roud
bridge at Massillon at 11 o'clock
aud all the occupants scraped off.
I-our musicians were frtghtfullv
injured and two will probablv
dic. The wagon was drawn bv
eight horses which got bcyniu
control of the driver. Mr. lodv
is doing all possible for his men
THK Wllou; HTOUY.
The Charlotte Observer says
Thecandi.istM are Bryan, free
silver; McK n cj, gold standard;
and the election of one or the
other of these is inevitable. Will
yu vote for Bryan and help
elect Lint or will you. vote for
some one else on I thus help
elect McKinlcy f All the talking
and writing that can be done
between now and November
cannot shift tbe argument from
this point.
JUST A SAMlUiK.
We are not uble to give a bet
ter refutation of the gold standard
men that there it a plenty of
.money in the country to do its
business than (o copy the follow
ing from the Norfolk ( a.) Ledger
which tells its owu ttilo.
"Mr. Joe Bourne, a trucker of
the county; has received returns
from fifty-seven barrels of prime
potatoes shipped to Philadelphia,
and at tho bottom of the account
ot-sales was a reuuest that he
send the commission merchant
$1.29, the potatoes not having
sold for enough to pay freight and
commissions. Mr. George Shea
shipped thirteen barrels of squash,
and received 31 cents as the net
returns."
Do the farmers, farm laborers,
or any one else who have goods
or labor to sell, want a continu
ance of such prices. If so, it is
your constitutional privilege.
1 nere is 110 law to prevent yonr
voting lor a gold bug and com
mitting suicide iu this slow way.
Prank I.ea le'a fur Aukuhu
"Cuba's Struggle for Liberty"
is the subject of a fully illustrated
article iu Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly for August. It is writ
ten by Fidel G. Pierra, one of the
leading spirits of the Cuban dele
gation in New York, and contains
portraits of Generals Gomez,
.Maceo, Marti, Carillo, Sanchez,
Garcia, Rodriguez and Paluia.and
some interesting views. Another
feature of this number is nn ar
ticle on Christian Endeavor So
ciety, by Rev. Francis K. Clark,
its president aud founder, with
m my attractive illustrations. The
great Lee Series is continued with
tin? first of two papers on General
Lee s part m the battle ot Gettys
burg, by Colonel John J. Gar
ni tt, Confederate Artillery. "The
Making of a President," by Ru
fus R. Wilson, tells about nomi
ui.ting conventions, cost of elect
ing a president, etc., aud gives
portraits of William McKinly,
President Cleveland, T. B. Reed,
W. CAVhitney, W. E. Russell
and W. L. Allison. There are
wpers on Anarchism," Montene-
gr, Salisbury and Wells Cathed
ra Is, and a particularly well illus-
tr. tnl article on Nashville aud
tho Tennessee Ceutenial by Charl
es Thomas Logan. For sale by
1. J. Gattis & 8011.
Nut Hf Funny.
Ft Scott. Kansas. July 1G.
Hie Saw under which divorces
lave been granted twenty five
years, affecting twenty-five
thousand divorces, and many
subsequent marriages and is
sues therefrom, and the prop-
rty n-'hts bt the latter, has
been declared illegal by the
court of appeals, all the judges
concurring.
It appears to us that the selec
tion of proticr presidential electors
the men who elect the president,
is a mutter of much more impor
tance, this year particularly, than
the nomination of any man for
prcsideut. This is a matter the
eople themselves had beet look
after somewhat themselves, and
not leave it all in the hands of
party machinery.
It appears that the court has
put all the women and children
in Kansas in somewhat of a pre
dicament.none of tbe marriages
or divo.ces had there in the last
twenty years being legal a-j
cording to a recent decision.
Sincr the Chicago Conven
tion an effort has been made to
induce "bilver Pick ' Bland to
run for Governor of Missouri
This he positively declined to
do, but be a candidate for Con
rress again.
Wiiil.K the i'res Aici.ition
was in csion at Wilmington the
Messenger came out in mourning
rules. We have been unable to
learn for whom this as a tribute
for the Press or the city. !Wi-
bly Brother Kingsbury can ex
plain.
To make your business pay,
eooa neaitn is a crime factor
To secure good health, the blood
should be kept pure and vitror
ous by tbe two of Aver'a Sarsa
parilla. When the vital fluid is
impure and sluezish. there can
be neither health, strength, nor
aniDiuon.
Thr edict has gone forth that
the Southern will meet the cut
rates published by the Seaboard
Air Line. It is one of those
cases which benefits the people to
such extent no one feels it his
business to volunteer as pacifi
cator.
Therk are some municipal
corporations who follow Cleve
land's lead, and borrow money to
be spent on the few, while the tax
paying masses are utterly ignored.
A day of reckoning is near by,
and when it comes, those who
now hold batons will be absent
from official duties "for ever
more."
Therk is something strange
and unaccountable in the fact that
in a thickly settled community
ike this, Dock rarrington, an
employee of the county home, who
eft town V eduesday evening
well and hearty should have
been found dead in tho wool's
near the home only on Friday so
lecomposed as to be past recogni
tion. A full account of the horri-
de affair appears in our local
oluinns.
If THE populist "endorse
Iryan as the democratic nominee,
their party is cone: If thev
'nominate" him without refer
ence to what others have done,
they yield no party prestige.
While this is seemingly a dis
tinction without a difference, it is
not The difference is very
great, but either horn of the
dilema will elect Bryan if com
mon sense is a factor in the se
tion of presidential electors.
There are some newspaper
yet left in the country unpurchas
ed by- the gold of human op
pression. The editors of a few
of these have scented the possi
bility of some pie from the St
vouis convention, and have gone
as democrats to St Louis, osten
sibly to "report the proceedings."
These fellows are pretty good
weather cocks, and if you will
watch which way they jump, you
may rest assured the hare is
ahead.
Ik the difference in the ova
tions given McKinley and Bryan
since their respective nomina
tions be a critcrian to public sen
timent, McKinley won't be in it
The announcement that while
:e might speak "but not with
kyan" is taken by many as an
acknowledgement that he is
afraid either of the facts or the
oratory which his opponent pos
sesses a clear back down in one
who has the consciousness of the
other's superiority.
On the 2SU1 of this month the
commissioned officers of the
Third Regiment North Carolina
State Guard will meet here to
elect a successor to to Lieutenant
Colonel Howlctt, of Rcidsville,
deceased. It is hoped tltat at
this meeting, apart from the elec
tion of officers, something will lie
done to put a little more enthu
siasm in the regiment Just now,
particularly in the home com
pany, there appear to be a kind
of indifcretice aud absetise of in
terest in the individual members
which may prove fatal to the or
ganization. The Dock Fearrington murder,
for murder it evidently was, still
hangs like a pall over the fair
name of Durham county, and will
until the pvrK.'lrator ate brought
to justice. It is uiwortunate for
the county that 110 one has k-en
hung in it since it formation,
else much murder might have
been prevented. If somclxxtv is
not sentenced to hang at the next
term of court, the best opjxir
Utility the county has ever had to
execute law and justice will lie
lost, and such tradgedies will
multiply like the locust of Egypt.
pictured.