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Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
LOUISBURG, N C., JULY Sj 1892
NO.
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The original and only gennirie Compound
fwy-en Treatment, that oi Dra. Starker A
STATE DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
- - FOR PRESIDENT: v
GROVE R CLEVELAND
Oi New York.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT: -A.
E. STEVENSON.
Of Illinois. - ,
in contempt of that verdict the ing a custom house barrier of pro-1 threaten Indlv idual liberty and I operation of all the power of the
, Adopted May 18, 1892.
Resolved IT That the Democracy
rata a pnt!flc artjUBent oi tiw eie- Qf North Carolina reaffirm the nrin-
auJ the eorapounn is so ronaensea ana
mails portable that it is sent all over the
world. . .
It has been in use for over twenty years;
thousands of patients have been treated,
auJ over one thousand physicians have
used it and recommended it a very signifi-
ta--rom pound Oxygen Its Mode o! Action
and Results." is the title of a book of 200
puses, published by Drs Starkey 4 Palen,
L wii irives to all inquirers full information
TS&A to the formation ot trust, com.
ran"-e of chronic cases many of them after
being abandoned to die by other physi
cians. Will be mailed free to any address
on application.
v Dew. STARKEY PALEN,
1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
120 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.
Please mention this paper.
ciples of the Democratic party, both
State and National, and particular
ly favor the free coinage of silver
and an increase of the currency, and
the repeal ot the internal revenue
systems And we denounce the Mc
Kinley tariff bill as unjust to the
consumers of the country, and lead-
. For Governor Ellas Carr, of
Edgecombe.-:
For Lieutenant Governor Ru
I us A.. lougnton. oi Aiio-hanv.
V? For Seviowary
us Coke, of Wake. - '
; ,Foe Auditor Robert M. Fur-
man, ox JJuncombe.
For Treasurer Donald W. Bain,
of Wake.
For Superintendent . of Public
Coffins and Caskets.
We have added largely to our
stock, and now carry a full line
of these goods from the plainest
wood coffin to the finest plush or
velvet covered casket. Also a
full line of coffin hardware, lin
ings, trimmings, &c. " All of
which wi l be sold at reasonable
Respectfully,
R. R. Harris & Co.
Louisburg, N. C'
bines and monopolies which have
oppressed the people; and especially
do we denounce the unnecessary and
i l
Duraensome increase in tne tax on
cotton ties and on tin, so lareelv
used by the pporer portion of the
people. We likewise denounce the
iniquitous Forcebill, which is not
yet abandoned by the Republican
party, but is being urged as a meas
ure to be adopted as soon as they
regain control of the House of Rep
resentatives, the purpose - and effect
of which measure will be to establish
a second period of reconstruction
in the Southern States, to subvert
the liberties 'Of our people, and in
name a new race antagonism and
sectional animosities.
2. That we demand financial re
form, and the enactment of laws
DAVIS'
LataSaving
Guano Book,
Instruction John C. Scarborough,
of Johnston.
For Attorney-General Frank I.
Osborne, of Mecklenburg. -
Republican party has defiantly I hibitiro tariff taxes against the
declared in its latest authoritative rich and the countries of the world
utterance that its success in the I that stand ready to take onr en.
coming elections will.mean the en-1 tire surplus of products and to
actmeni of the force bill, and the I exchange therefor commodities
usurpation of despotic control over J which' are necessaries and com-
electionii in a!1 triA RfittPft -. I fort of Ilf imnTft in I J
w wM.w. - - w w VUA V H U UCIT I 11 . . . .
, w - i compelling reepect abroad and in
spiring confidence at home
Tacrrs- While avoiding entangling alH-
cure more than iU just shar bf the 1 neighbors on the American conti
loint nrodnri of Mntttl mrA lKn
ite integrity, with the laws pursn- Ln.tnnt 'n ,m ftf ...
ant lc haT6 lJen oar hibitire Uxes, which prerent the
country a hundred years of unex- Yree competltlon whieb u tha Ufe
ampled prosperity, and.we pledge 0oneat trade; but we belleTe
tha IIAtnfUiMll' naiV it it Va . - ... -
wuwiUvri,M " their worst av!1 un K .K.t K.
local self-goT.ernment. I world, and appreciating the ac
roasios roucr: cetUnc by many inch powers of
.Section 10. The Democratic U IntiUUon extended and th
party is the only party that has broadest liberal effort being made
erer riven the countrr a for! at br them to contributa to tbegran.
" TO" 1 ... ...
policy consistent and Tiirorons. ucur CI vo" overusing, we n
w W w
Beliering that the preservation ot J pie
republican government in the Uni
ted States depended upon the ' de-
trusts and combinations which are friendly relations with other na-
i
support of all eitzans wha desire to
see the' constitution maintained In
of the opinion that ' Coagrcae
should make soch reqabiU finio.
cial proTUion as shall be neceaaa
ry to the maintenance of the na
tional public faith.
EDUCATION.
trusted -with power, not only with
the defeat of the force bill; ' but
also to relentless opposition to the
For Judge of the Twelfth Dis- r-r m-
combe.
For Electors atLarge Charles
B. Aycock, of- Wayne, Robert B.
Glenn, of Forsythe.
Section 17. PopnUr edocatlon
nent whose destiny is cloeely I bnR tbe only safe baala f nor-
llnked with our own, and we alar suffrage, we recommend to
tiew with alarm the tendency "to lo ieral States most liberal ap-
a policy of irritation and blaster propriatlons for tbe public school,
which Is. liable at any time to Free common schools are tbe bar-
confront ns with the alternative Mr7 6d government, and
ry
THE PLATFORM.
an enormous surplus," emptied an perierjCe may show u neceMA.
overuowing ireasary, alter , puing
new burdens of taxation upon the;
already overtaxed labor of the
country. '
TARIFF REFORM.
PUBLIC LAKDS.
8ection 6. The Republican par-
Section 3. We. denounce the
WHERE the democracy stands. Republican protection as a fraud
The labor of the great majority of
Reforms the American neonla" ia.for the
benefit of the few. We de-
The following is the platform as clare it to be a fundamental prin-
submitted by the committee on c'mle of the Democratic nartv that
resolutions and adopted by the the Federal coyernmsnt has i:o
Tariff. Financial and Other
Demanded.
law, and we demand the rigid en- of humiliation or war. We favor 'hey have always received the
forcement of the laws made to pre- the maintenance of a navy strong fostering care of the Democratic
vent and control them, together enough for all purposes of nation- P! bieh favors every means
with such further legislation in al defence and to pronerlv main- of increasing intelliiretice. Pre.
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restraint of their -abuses as ex- tain the honor and dicnltv of the doas of education binc an eaaen-
country abroad. tlal of civil and religious liberty,
wuioRATioa.' as well as a necessity for the di
Section 11. This country has lopnieut of Intelligence, most
always been the refuge of the op- not Interfered with under any
ty, while professing a policy of re- pressed from every land exiles pretext whatever. We axe op
serving the public land' for small t conscience sake and in the P06 10 8ux interference with
holdings by actual settlers, has PM f ft founders of our gov. Parental rights of conscience In
given away the people's heritage ernment we condemn the oppres- the ncatlon of children, as an
till now a few railroads and non- on practiced by the Russian Infringement of the fundamental
resident aliens, individual and government upon Its Lutheran Democratic doctrine tbat the lar
corporate, possess a larger area od Jew Uh subjects, and we call t individual liberty consistent
than that of all our farms between upon our national government in lth the right of others insures
the two seas. The last Democrat- the Interest of justice and human- lhe highest type of American elt-
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ie adminUtiation rrAd thm Im. ity. by all just and proper means, gove-
National Democratic convention : constitutional power to impose and provident and unwise policy of the to use its prompt and best eTort
Section 1. The representatives collect tariff duties except for the Repnbllcan party touching the to ring about a cessation of the
cruel persecutions in the domiu
of the Democratic party of the ! numoses of revenue onlv. and
- i
United States, in national couven- I we demand that the collection of
tion assembled, do re-affirm their such taxes shall be limited to the
that wilr remove the burdens of the allegiance to the principles of the necessities of the government when
people relative to the existing agru party as formulated by Jefferson j honestly and economically admin
cultural depression, and do full and and exemplified by the long and istered.
illustrious line of his successors in
Democratic leadership from Madi
son to Cleveland. We believe the
public welfare demands that these
principles be applied to the con
the best
ment.
ADMiiiios or raaarroair.
Section 18. We ar-rrove
the
ample justice to the farmers and la
borers of our country.
3. That we demand the abolition
of national banks, and the substitu
tion of legal tender Treasury notes
THK M KIXLEY BILL.
We denounce the McKinley tar
iff law enacted by the Fifty-first
Congress as tho culminating atroc-
m iieuol nationalbank notes, is- , f . vernment ltv of class legislation; we indorse
suea m sufiicient volume to do the . . . - thft ftfforta rna.de bv the Dmoerat
I tlipnitirh t AA a nooaai nrt tn nnwpr nt I
business of theo.untry on .a cash
through the accession to power of
svBtem r PesSs the T amount the party that advocates them, and oi me presenongress ,o moa uy Section 7. We denounce the
StotLbTS we solemnly declare that the need itf -est oppressive features in the RepubllcAU legieUtion known as
business interests of the country ex- of a return to these fundamental direction of freeaw materials and the Sherman act of 1890 as a cow-
; . ... i. cheaper manufactured goods that ,v.vtr r.-v
of the present Congress to modify
public domain, and reclaimed
from corporations and syndicates, lon 01 ne ww, and to secure to action of the present Home of
alien and domestic, and restored the oppressed equal rights. I Representatives in passing bills
to the people nearly one hundred We tender our profound sym- for the adulssion into the Union
million acres of valuable land to Ptby to those .lovers of freedom as States of the Territories of New
be sacredly held as homesteads for wbo re struggling for home rule Mexico and Arizona, and we fa
onr citizensrand we pledge our- nd the cause of local self-govern- vor the early admission of all the
selves to continue this policy nn- ment in Ireland. Territories having the necessary
til every acre of land so unlawful. Section 12. We heartily ap- population toadmlt them to State
ly held shall be reclaimed and re- prove all legitimate efforts to pre- hood, and while they remain Ter-
stored to the people.
SILVER AND GOLD.
For Keeping the Different
urands, amount of the same,
price per ton, in money or cotton.
MtttsM far all Fertilizer Sellers.
FOR SALE BY
s. a-. ZDAJVIS,
FRA5KLIXT0N, N. C.
Price $2.25 per book. Express
prepaid if you .state where you
saw this advertisement'.
OUT FLOWERS,
BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, ETC.
Fine Cut Flowers in Great Vari
ety. Bouquets, Baskets and Designs
tastefully arranged.
Parupas Plumes, Magnolias and
other choice evergreens.
Sugar and Silver Maple, Horse
Chestnut and other shade trees.
Early cabbage and tomato plants
at the right season.
Orders promptlv filled and sat
isfaction guaranteed.
H. STEINMITZ, Florist,
Raleigh, N. C.
pand, and that all money issued by principles of a free popular gov-
the government shall be legal tender ernment, based on home rule and
in payment of all debts, both public individual liberty, was never more
ardly make-shift fraught with
intn cnnerfi.1 eonsnmntion. I ..ia. . t- - I BI,rmku 1 wr
o r ' i DossiDiiiiira oi aanger in ub iu- i ? .1
, 1 1 1 - 1 1 urci u u wvruiu uuuci
nnn wr nrnmiMi iu rnneai us uhb 1 a x ? v l 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 -
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and private.
4. Thatwe demand thattIonrress
shall pass such laws as shall effectu
ally prevent the, dealings in futures
of all agricultural and mechanical
productions; providing such strin
gent system of procedure in trials
as shall secure prompt conviction
and imposing sucn penalties as
shall seenre the most perfect compli
ance with the law.
5. That we demand the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
b. mat we demand tne passage
of laws prohibiting the alien owner
ship of land, and that Congress
take eaYly steps to devise some plan
to obtain all lands now owned by
alien and foreign syndicates; and
that all lands now held by railroads
NOTICE.
TV t V-
W. bay, dee'd., all persons indebted to-
ttat win come forward and pay the
-une at once, and all persons holding
agaiuHi sam estate win present them
ur payment 011 or before June 10, 1.893, or
lni8 notice will be plead in bar of their re-
cry. mis JunelO, 18a. -
Eitnicy Gat, Admx.
Sclentiflo American
- Agency for
urgent than now, when the ten
dency to ceutralize all power at the
Federal capital has. become a me
nace to the reserved rights of the
States that striaes at the very roots
of our government under the con
stitution as framed by the fatheis
of the republic.
FORCE BlfL.
Section 2. We warn the people
of our common country, jealous for
the preservation of their free insti
tutions, that the policy of Federal
control of elections to which the
Republican party- has committed
itself is fraught with the gravest
danger, scarcely less momentous
than would resulf from a revolu-
cheaper manufactured goods
enter
as one
of the beneficent results that will
follow the action of the people in
entrusting power to the Democrat
ic party. Since the McKinley
tariff went into operation there
have been ten reductions of the
wages of laboring men to one in
crease. We deny that there has
been any increase of prosperity to
the country since that tariff went
into operation, and we point to
the dullness and distress, the wsge
reductions and strikes in the iron
trade as the best possible evidence
that no such prosperity has result
ed from the McKinley act.
for the known criminals and pro
fessional paupers of Europe, and
we demand the rigid enforcement
of the laws against Chinese im
migration or the importation of
men under contract
ture, which should make all of its degrmJo American labor and
su porters, ss well as its author, to lessen IU wages ; but we con-
aix ou. for its speedy repeal. demn and denounce any and all
TXT I .11 A- 11 . . r .11 u
"e cwtt w.iuo use lu attempts to restrict the immlgra-
ana suver as we sianaara money Uon of the indu8trioaj, aml wor
of the country and to the coinage tb of 'forei.nUnds.
. 1 .11 ti i tl . 111 a! o
01 Dom goia ana surer wiinom
discriminating against either met
al or charge for mintage, but the
dollar unit of coinage of both met
als must be of equal intrinsic and
exchangeable value or be adjusted
through international agreement
or by such safeguards or legisla
tion as shall insure the 'mainte
nance of the parity of the two
metals, and the equal power of
vent tbe united bUtes from be- ritories we hold that the official
ing used as the dumping ground appointed to administer the gov-
We call the attention of thought- every dollar at all 'times in the
f ul Americans to the fact that after navment of debts.' and we demand
thirty years of restrictive taxes that all paper currency shall be
and other corporations, in excess bf tion practically establishing mon- againgt thw importaf10n 0f foreign Kept at par with and redeemable
surf, as is actuallv lined and needed archv on the ruins' of a republic. . t . ,4- I . r . r. . . .
such as is actually used and needed
by them, be reclaimed by the gov
ernment and held for actual settlers
only.
7. Believing in the '. doctrine of
Vqual rights .to . all and special
privileges to none,' we demand that
taxation, National or State, shall
hot be used to build up one interest
archy on the rums" of a republ
It strikes at the .North as well as
the South, and ipjures the colored
citizens even more than the white;
it means a horde of deputy mar
shals at every polling place armed
with Federal power, returning
boards anDoiuted and controlled
wealth, in exchange for agncultur- in such coin. We insist upon this
al surplusr the. homes and farms policy as especially necessary for
of the country have become bur- the protection of the farmers and
dened with a real estate mortgage laboring classes, the first and most
debt of over two thousand five
hundred million dollars, exclusive
of all other forms of indebtedness;
that in one of the chief agricnlural
or class at the expense of another, by Federal authority , the outrage gtates bf the West there - appears
forhtf,
' CAVtATS,
nESION PATENTS
COPYKlOHTSr etc
We . believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as
possible in the hands of the people,
and hence we demand that all ; reve
nue, National, State or county,
shall be limited to the nefesaary ex
penses of the government economi
cally and honestly administered.
8. That congress issue a sufficient
amount of fractional paper curren
cy to facilitate the exchange through
the medium of the United States
mail. . '
9. - That the "General Assembly
pass such laws as will make the pub
lic school system more effective that
the blessings of education may be
extended -to all- the people of the
State alike. - --; -; '
I Resolved, That we favor a gradu
ated tax On incomes.
vS?!tkm and fiwa ManAhook witt to
Eenr .'or eoorlng ptent la AmeriM,
the Zfui?1 out by m la brought befor
public bj notice glreo Xree o chixe in the
&rientiftc wcWtSu
wfi4 '?i"on of any olentlfle paper in Out
i S S?Jiedlt5y ttatnt4. Nolntclliirent
IS- witboufe it. Weeklr, 3.00
- We have a speedy and positive care
for catarrh, dmtheria. canker month
and headache in Shiioh's Catarrh Rem
edy. A nasal injector free with each
battle. Use it if von desire health and
bw t breath. - gold by Thomas & Ay-
coo ie. uomftbnrg,' ana X. J oyner,
Franklin ton. -
of the electoral rights or the peo
ple in the several States, the sub-
in cation of the colored people to
a.
the control-of the party in . power
and th3 reviving of race antago
nism now hannilv abated, of the
A m - '
utmost peril to the safety and hap
piness of all, a measure deliber
ately and justly described by a
leading ' Republican : Senator sis
the most infamous bill that ever.
crossed the threshold of the Sen-
a real estate mortgage debt aver
aging $165 per capita of the total
population, and that similar con
ditions and tendencies are shown
ta exist in the other agricultural
exporting States. ' We denounce
a policy ; 6hich fosters no in
dustry so much as it does of the
sheriff. : ' ; 1
BECIPBOCTTT.
Section 4. Trade
defenseless victims of unstable
money and fluctuating currency.
V ' ' STATS BASK TAX..4
' Section 8. We recommend that
the prohibitory ten per cent, tax
on-State bank issues be repealed.
C1VIX. EXBVICB.
. Section 9. Public office is a
public trust. We reaffirm the de
claration of the Democratic nation
al convention of 1870 for the re
form, of the civil service, and we
call for the honest enforcement of
all laws regulating the same. The
interchange I nomination of a President, as in
rxssio.xs.
Section 13. This section here
by renews the expression of ap
preciation of the patriotism of
the soldiers and sailors of the Un
ion in the war for its preservation,
and we favor just and liberal pen
eions for all disabled Union sol
dlers, their widvws and depend
ents. but we demand that the
work of the Pension Office shall
be done industriously,-impartially
and honestly. We denounce
the present administration of that
office as incompetent, corrupt, dis
graceful and dishonest.
txrxasAL iMraovcMxxTa.
Section 14. The Federal gov. I years of age.
ernment should care for and im
prove the Mississippi river and
other great water ways of the Re
public, so as to eecufe for the In-
land 8tates easy and" cheap trans
portatlon to the tide water.
When any waterway ox tne re
public is of sufiicient Importance
to demand the aid of the govern
ment that such aid should be
extendedon a definite plan of
continuous work until permanent
improvement Is secured.
mCAKAOCA CAJ AL.
ernment of any Territory, togeth
er with the District of Columbia
and Alaska, should be no a nox
residents of the Territory or dis
trict in which their duties are
performed. The Democratic par
ty believes in home rule and the
control of their own affairs by the
p?ople of the vicinage.
I5DCSTXJAL XXAACnC.
Section 19. We favor legula
tlon by Congress and State Leg
islatures to protect the lives and
limbs of railway employes and
those of other hazardous trantpor
tat ion companies, and denounce
the inactivity of the Republican
party and particularly the Re
publican Senate for causing the
defeat of measures beneficial and
protective to this cU&s of wage-
vrorkers.
Section 20. We are In favorof
the enactment by the StaUs of
laws for abolishing the notorious
sweating system, for abolishing
contract convict tabor, and for
prohibiting the employment in
factories of children under 13
Section 15. For purposes of
national defence and the promo-
ate.'' Such a policy, if sanction-1 on the basis of lciprocal adranU-1 the recent RepnbUcan convention- tjon of commerce between the
ed by law, would mean the domif
nance bf a self-perpetuating oli
garchy of officeholders, and the
party first: entrusted with its ma
chinery could, be dislodged; from
ribwer onlv by an - appeal to . the!
reserved right of the people to re
sist oppression, which is inherent
in all self-governing commnnities.
Two years ago. this revolutionary
nolicv was emDhatiealta condemn-
r
ed bv the people at the polls, out .
ges to the countries participating by delegations compoeed largely states, we recognlxe the early
is a time-honored doctrine of the of his appointees, holding oace at construction of the Nicaragua ca-
Democratic faith, but we denounce 1 his pleasure, is a scandalous satire
the sham reciprocity which jug
gles with the people's desire . for
.enlarged foreign markets and
freer exchanges by pretending to
establish closer trade relations for
upon free popular institutions and
the startling illustration of the
methods by . which a President
may gratify his ambition. " We
denounce a policy under which
nal and its protection against for
sign control of great importance
to the United Bute. '
WORLD a 7AJJU
Section 18. Recognizing the
STXrTCAXT LAWS.
Section 21. Ws are opposed U
all sumptuary laws as an Interfer
ence with the Individual rights
of the citizen.
Section Upon this state
ment of principles and policies
the Democratic party asks the In
telligent judgment of the Ameri
can people. It asks a chsnge of
administration and a change ef
party In order that there nay be
a change of systsxa and a .change
of methods, thns aasoriug the
maintenance unimpaired of insti
tutions under which lb republic
has grown great and powerful.
t . i , ,
Oh. trhas a Coan
Will yaa htvd UvarahMr. Tba-
aal prrhapa of lh nn approach c
that aaort terribW Cbaotaptk.
Ak vorwle If yee caa aiTord for tW
Mkt of nl&tO -cwnla -to tun the rik
ad do aotltlpf for It. "w" aaw trom
iprrkoc that Ship's Cart will er
LOU VIVOV4 MIaW VlMDtVkit, m v mvmwmm w m - v W I m M f
... . . a , , -X .i w..,i.. v:. v u Jyoreooia. It aw fJk. TbU n.
a country wnose articles oi cipor reuenu viuuuiub uoiuu wuvruti i ..v.-- t ....- . p,,, Biillloa bcttV
are almost exclusively agricultural in the States, and we pledge the a national dndertaklng of - vast! wrw oU tb pt rw. It rVwim
products with other countries that 1 Democratic party to the reform of I importance, in wblch tbe general rroap aad hooping toh at oaea.
Jarealso agricultural while erect-1 these and all other abases wnicn i.gorerxuntn uaa auTiicu uo w-j .
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