VOLUME 20.
JUL ARP'S LETTER
cit:.u: ExrosiTiox or
iiu: ronci: hill.
The Allianrfi Will Sot Save the
Coan'rij. iui on win vary
)l ill I Aiu a mm J e
Hands of
I .aul that Richard Henry
Lee delivered the eulogy on
Wash: ntTtoii, and used the fam
ous expression, "First in war,
jjt in peace, and first in the
art v -t ms countrymen."
Tint was a mistake, and I rise
t0 aj-oloiTize for it. I trusted
too much to memory. Richard
Henri', the statesman, uiea De-
. 1-4. 3! X .
fore Washington. It was the
wldier, "Light Horse Harry
bo delivered the eulogy
J ffi.-h that I lived uext door
Mjuotre liicuara n. jiarK. so
that when I got tangled up in
tiftory, I could hail him and
v, "Jude, how is this, and
wio is who, and what is what."
It would save ne the trouble
of'Lunting over the books. In
feet, he is more reliable than
s'.iut? oi the docks, lie never
us fees a in intake. He is the
best Li.-toriau in the south, and
yet i:e is not au old inau. He
i; I. ot decayed or fossillserous,
m; septus to arow brighter
with advancing years. I would
liie to live by him, and day by
di.v listen to his lucid remiuis
eeuces of notable wen and n t
ib!" events, ana I would take
lUes it '.;d be his Boswell, and
Wether we would write a book
that would be a treisure to the
s.uthtrn people. I would be
u authority aud would revive
mi oerpetuate much of history
and biography that will soon
pass away forever. In a few
jeirs there will not be a man
left t rt call and relatb the
unrecorded history of our uoblt
men. l he Lrawiorus, ana ror
tyche, and Dawson, and Troup,
and Clark the Branhams. and
Walter Colquitt, and Cooper,
and McDonald, and Dooly, and
Underwood the L-uuats aud
Cuht-, and Stephen--, ana
Lump!-, in.--, and Doughertys,
&nd (t ii '-t of others . uiHiiy of
wbom ini-Tiated to the west aud
tliere il o-trated their Georgia
hi .(id a:. I breeding upou the
v:r.iii of Alabama aud
li.-iippi and Texas.
Just s-ee how tenderly sarcas
tic is the jude in the note that
U Whites in- :
ily Pear Friend I hasten to
ttaiik you for correcting my
impre-siou that it wa9 "Light
Hur-e Harry'- who delivered the
euoUy cn Washington. I real
ly supposed that Richard Henry
Lee died before Wash
ington. I have so Ion? re
arded you as authority on
each matters that I must sur
render my own convictions. A
man can believe an error so
lor that li 13 belief is almost
n fa-,-1 as the truth. I learn
from another writer in
today's Constitution that Mrs.
or. Felton was before marriage
&;Uiss .wiit. l or manv vears
I have
maiden
Latimer
supposed that her
name was Rebecca
I stand corrected.
Your friend,
11. II. CLA.KK.
Hut I'll trump him yet. I'll
pay him off. I'll try hira on
the authorship of Junius, and
vlio wrote the book of Job, and
William Tell a fact or
1 fictiou, and who was the
lather of Zebedee's children. I
that he would write a
took so that I could get at
litn. I'd cure- him of his sweet
ai3 tender sarcasm.
A habit of study and a good
jJieinory to preserve what is
'earned is a combination that
kea the most interesting
ca?a of men. V e were talking
BiJout (ieneral Lee's memory,
& oh(j of his pupils absi;;ed
that. i n LrtTf aTTQiTT rn r F
students in his college
. ' siKut and by name and where
Je lived and what was his
standiurf iu hi3 class. A gradu
Jte of Princeton remarked
lljat Lr. McCosh had a similar
'ft and be never knew him
i forgt anything but once.
forgot to give notice before
6 het-an the chapel prayers
tJat he desired the senior class
fcitet liiIU ja the class room
JJV m,,r -'dug. He never thought
l U!'iii he was actually en.
s'1 in tiie prayer aud he
Jj ' that he could not give
k'.j at its close for the whok
ft ' loo always bounced out
racket before the
cl'i' ' wa,f' 8ai 80 ntJ cou"
olt lus Praver with "Aud
Z 'jt(l ,(-t thy daily blessing
uPon all who are
here
"blert and
:C" division
incline the
of the senior
to
meet me in the class
fur . uculieiy aiier prayers
old fake- Amen. These
"Otcljinea have wonderful
no T' aud whefe there is
one pen lhey chP (ut
of ia r Preaer was telling
Scot,:-raudfather--a stern old
Chilian, who had ways aud
eccentricities peculiar. His
trrace a, the table was a more
important affair than the meal
In fact the best dinner was not
a fit thing to eat until it had
been blessed in John Knox
fashion. One day the old
gentleman was late in coming
to dinner, and did not respond
to the call, lom was awfu
hungry and had to go back to
his work, and said he couldent
wait any longer, and so he
pitched in and was in good way
when the old gentleman came
forward, and, after the family
were all seated, and Tom had
pausea, ne raised iiis pious
hands and said :
Oh, Lord, wilt Thou let Thy
blessintr rest upon us all, and
upon the food that we are
about to parUke of, and espoci
ally upon thatportion of wrtich
Thomas has already partaken
in an ungodly manner, fo
Christ's sake. Amen.
iiui, it looks now like history
will soon be all that is left us
to boast of. We thought that
the reform of the tariff was a
big thing, but that is now a
dead i?sue. That pension bill
and that force bill has killed
ail prospects of tariff reform.
Mr. OlevHland's surplus has
gone glimmeriug, never to re
turn. We thought that maybe
the alliance might do some big
tiling in the way of purifying
politics, but the alliance seems
to be concentrated on bi ware
houses and a subtreasury full
of money, although here will
be uone to lend. If the senate
passes that force bill that has
just pasM'd the hone, then we
may bid farewell to states'
rights aud southern rights. It
will make no difference
whether we elect a new set or
re -eh'oL the old, thei south will
be as helpless as a painted
ship upon a tainted ocean.
This republican congress under
the cast iron rules of Tom Reed
begau early to unseat demo
cratic member so as to have a
food working majority. Judge
Jackson, of WYst Virginia, was
the first to f til. Next I'endle-
ion had it) retire and then in
swift succfP-iou thev turned
out Cate of Arkansas, Wise of
Virginia, Turpen of Alabama
and Venabie of Virginia
Turpen had thirteen thousand
majority but they said that
fourteen thousand negroes were
intimidated and didn't go to
the polls. In this way they
have increased their workiug
majority from eight to twenty
and now seem satisfied for
awhile.
Then they passed a bill re
quiring the president to aps
point seventeen new circuit
judges, who of course, are to
be all partisan republicans and
will hold their offices for life.
And next came the crowning in
famythe force bill that
clinches all the nails and mases
fast and permanent our humh
liation. These circuit judges
are to be election supervisors,
who will hold their offices for
life. The chief supervisors are
to appoint three subalterns for
every election precinct and two
of them are required to be
republicans. The other may be
anything or nothing or a men
of straw. They will hold the
elections and count the votes
aud make returns to the chief
in that district. Tho chief
selects one of the circuit
judges to appoint a returning
board for each state in his
circuit. This board holds office
for life. The chiefs appoint
all the marshals and deputy
marshals aud the subalterns
who hold the elections are also
made marshals with power to
arrest and summon the citizens
to assist them. Federal bayo
nets are to be on hand when
wauted. This is the substance
of tho Lodge bill. The force
bill, as it is called, is intended
solely for tho south and is to
be enforced on the petition of
a hundred men in any con
gressional district. This bill
means republican power with
out end, and southern degrada
tion to the extreme. Under
this law the most corrupt men
can hold the house of repre
sentatives without limit,
though the people were against
them, for they can conspire
with the supervisors and be
always returned, aud of course
their own body would not im
peach them. This bill of
iniquity that was conceived in
sin. and hate was passed hi the
darkness of an awful night dur
ing a terrific storm, while the
thunder was pealing aud the
lightning was llashiug. It was
passed .mid the exulting shouts
of the republicans aud loud
cheers of the negroes who
crowded the galleries. This
bill will cost the country
millions and millions of dollars
to enforce it, even if it is en
forced peaceably and without
disturbance. If it becomes a
law, as it will probably do,
then Judge Stewart and Colonel
Livingston can shake hands
WILSON, WILSON COUNTY,
across tho bloody chasm and
retire to the peaceful bosoms
of their families, for the motto
of the returniqg board will be,
"No democrat need apply."
There will be a hundred ne
groes sent to congress from the
south, or a hundred white men
who will be more odious and
revengeful.
liishop Potter said in his
great speech at Harvard : "The
resemblances between ancient
Rome and America are traeric
and significant. It was a huge
military organization that put
Home up at auction and knock
ed her down to the highest
bidder, aud today the party
that bids the nighost for votes
is rewarded with all the power.
It has come to pass that not
alone the scarred veteran and
maimed soldier draws a pen
sion, but every skulking camp
follower and deserter, every
fraudulent and tainted ciiamant
who demand a bribe, can get
it for bis vote."
A friend told me that he was
domiciled for a month in a
little village up north, a'jd the
town talk was about a trifling
fellow who had just dra-vn
1,600 of back pay, and was
put ou the pension rolls for a
sore toe, wnicn he swore be
came so durimr the war. The
village gossip declared that he
was never in the war : and if
le did, he had no sore toe : and
if he did, it didn't disable him
from work, nohow, toe or no
toe; and it was nothing but a
swindle, from beginning to
nd, and a lawyer was at tlift
bottom of it.
tJut that don't matter, for
ngalls says he will introduce
, bill to pension all the well
ones as well as the sick, and a
member from Colorado bas
filed a bill to pension all the
negroes who were in slavery at
the beginning of the war. TaEe
it all in all the outlook for
peace and justice and states'!
rights and the constitution oi
our latliers is nad, very diq.
But maj'be the alliance can;
help us and save the country.
hope b:). Bill Aup.
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of Atlauta and Georgia."
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Dis-
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killed-
HON. W. H. KITCHIN
TO
THE PEOPLE OF THE
2ND COXGRFSS IO SA L
DISTRICT.
He ,vdys He Will tint for any lit
ward be a Hinrdance to l)tmo
crafic Harmony in the District
. Words of Warning ina Ad
vice.
There are few readers of the
Advance who do not personal
ly know Hon. W." H. Kitchin,
of Scotland Neck. Those who
are not so fortunate have cer
tainly heard of him. From
Murphy to Manteo his voice
has been heard in advocacy of
Democratic principles and he
has ever been in the forefront
of those who have battled for
Democratic success. The
Halifax County Convention
held ou Monday of last week
passed the following resolu
tion :
"The Democratic party of
Halifax county in convention
assembled recognizing and aps
predating the services render
ed by the Hon. W. H. Kitchin
to the party and State, and
knowing that we need an able,
strong an 3 couiageous Repre
resentative in Congress at this
time, where the peace and
happiness of th9 South is im
perilled, aud knowing that he
has fought trusts, combines
and mouey kmgs, and knowing
that ho will be true to the in
terests of the agriculturul
classes of our people, do
cheerfully endorse him and
recommend him to be a true
Democrat aud worthy of the
support of the convention."
The following letter, which
appears In last waek's Demo
crat, explains Mr. Kitchiu's
position. Incidentally it also
shows us the position of num
erous people, and we think it
such good reading that we
copy it entire. He says :
Unlike most of agpirants for
office, I was not urged by "my
many friends" to become a can
didate for Congress in this dis
trict. Not one man in all the
State asked iae to allow my
name to go before the people,
but all my personal friends
urged into to the coutrary. So I
have no friends to dlsappo'ut
and to mourn because I will not
allow them to use my name in
the coming contest. 1 was so
wrought upon and stirred by
the action of the present Con
gress that I allowed my oppo
sitions and lepugnance to get
the batter of my judgment and
lost my counterpoise and
declared myself a candidate for
the nomination tefore the
democratic convention.
I hops I did not commit an
unpardonable sin. if not, I
beg pardon, repent, and now
withdraw from the contest.
I will not under any circum
stances, nor for any reward be
a hindrance in the way of har
mouy among the whit ? people
of this district, mr will I allow
for one moment my candidacy
to complicate matters or to
place the delegates to the con
vention inside or outside of the
Alliance in an unpleasant or
awkward position.
It thre was ever a critical
period in the history of the
Democratic party aud the
Federal Union, and a time that
absolutely demanded the
highest order of prudence,
wk'doin and statesmanship,
that time is now upon us. If
concert of action and harmony
in thought was ever iudispen
sable to the success of any
cause, it is now absolutely so,
in the rank and fll3 of the
Democratic party in this State.
For more than twenty years
wo hav been engaged in
fighting a desperate enmy;
and united as we have been,
we have been uuable to drive
him from the field aud possess
his strongholds. We have
captured his out-post, some
times his right flank, and upon
one occasion we routed his
right flank and penetrated his
center and captured his strongs
est fertification; but our leaders
had neither the wisdom nor
courage to hold it.
This same enemy holds his
lines intact. He is more wick
ed and desperate than ever.
From him we have nothing to
exDect. all to fear. There is
nothing he would not gladly do
to degrade and humiliate.
There is nothing that would
oppress and destroy us that he
would not quickly accomplish.
Can any Democrat iu this
State hesitate or falter one
moment in the face of such a
too ? Caja any tie of blood,
section, personal interest, or
ganization or anything else
visible or invisible, cause the
true Democracy of this State
and all the states to fall short
of its duty iu this trying emer
gency ? There is a most wick
ed aud damnable effort now
being made aud has been for
months, under the leadership
NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 24, 1890.
of the most villainous wretch
and tyrant in all the land, by
the Republican party, to hu
miliate and Afiicanize the
South; and unless a goodly
number of Republican Senators
should rise above party and
join hands with the Democratic
Senators to crush this rascal,
and defeat its object, it will
succeed.
The plan is to take charge of
the elections in the South,
with Republican poll-holders,
supervisors, returning boards,
juror commissioners, jurors,
witne-.'rfvS, judges, prosecutors,
and marshals. This is the lie
publican plan to control,puni3h,
oppress, degrade and Africanize
North Carolina aud the South ;
and it is near unto consul uiraa.
tion. With these dangers
staring us in the face, threat
ening not only our property,
our liberties and our honor, but
the lives of us all, can any
man South be other than a
soldier in a common cause,
sinking self, and all else out of
sight until Tom Reed cud his
vandals are driven to ambush.
The days of reconstruction
were pleasant, happy pic-nic
days in comparison to what we
shall hive under this new plan
of reconstruction.
The Bill Holdeu and Kirk
war, the suspension of the
great writ of right, the
"Haoeus Corpus" by Chief
Justice Pearson, aud the incar
ceration of more than two
hundred of your fellow-citizens
to be tried by drum head court
martial, with your courts "ex
hauster" and the law dead, all
dwindle into insignificance iu
comparison to what your eyes
will behDld, your ears hear, and
your sensitive natures teei, n
the now pending reconstruc
tion bill shall become a law.
Iu the face of these daubers,
with this storm fiend before
your eyea charged with em
bittered wrath, ready to be
poured out upon you and yours,
can their be but one opinion,
and but one united action,
among the white people in the
grand old commonwealth of
North Carolina ? Oaitht we
not, will we not, lie has two
hundred thousand menwith one
mind, can you afford, to dam
age or destroy one stone in tho
Democratic superstructure ?
Can you afford to pull down
or undermine one pillar of the
Democratic Temple ? Will
you, Samson like, tear dwn
the grand Democratic Temple
which our fathers were more
thau oue hundred years in
building and crush u.s all be
neath its fall ? Remember, in
tho Democracy is fastened the
sheet anchor of all our liope-,
and if the cable parts the old
ship will drift upon th rocks
aud go to pieces.
We should all remember that
there is a great Usk set before
the democracy of this country.
For more than twenty years
the people have been systematic
caliy robbed of more than one
third of their earnings under
the false notion of protection.
very article of consumption
on the farm, in the shop and
in the family has been en -hanced
in price more than oue
third by reason of the Tariff
while more than nine hundred
millions of this increase goes
into the pockets of the manu
facturer of these article. Every
man is driven by the Republi
cau party to buy his supplies
iu the markets of this country,
the highest is the shut world,
because competition is shut out
by the taxation imposed at
the same time he is driven to
sell his surplus in the lowest
markets of the world because
the surplus fixes prices of the
whole product, and that sur
plus Is sold in foreign markHs
in competition with the cheap
labor of all the world.
From thes9 intolerable bur
dens the American people must
have relief. If it can not be
had in a constitutional, legal
and quiet way, it must and will
come in its own way. If tho
people tamely submit much
longer they will deserve to be
slaves and will be fit subjects
for that state.
The National hanks are an
other source ot oppression.
These institutions constitute
the backbone and spinal coK
umu of the Republican party.
They are the pets of tho Fed
eral government and the means
in the hands of the mouey com
bines by which the peopld are
cheated and defrauded. They
furnish the money for the
combines and trusts to loim
corners on the necessaries of
life. Thsy, by the use of
money, presrf the prices of all
commodities up or' down as
they may desiro, always buy
ing when prices are lowest and
selling when prices are highest.
These National bauks contract
or expaud the currency at will
thereby causing prices to tall
or advance. Thy do this by
retiring their circulation. The
almost doubles
;i'd lends them
lOl) inillirma rvf
dollars yearly of tho nfinnlA
money without interest; and
when they desire to go out of
business tho government buys
their immatured bonds at a
premium ot from eight to
twenty-eight per cent.
From these oppressions and
wrongs the people must and
will have relief.
Only the government of the
United States can coin gold
j aud silver uudsr
tho constitu
tion and fix their value.
Therefore it is the duty of
the govemmet to coin enough
of these metals, or put in
circulation letral teudor notes
enough to transact the busi
ness of tho couutry. It has
failed to discharge this duty.
Thsre is not more than half
money enough in circulation
to cischarge the money func
tions of the country.
The result cf this want of
money is, money is high and
the product of the farm and
shop is low.
From . these outrageous
wrongs the people must and
will Jiave relief. And neither
the Federal Congress nor the
Federal army will be able to
stand much longer between
them and their rights. They
are not allowed to issue money
themselves. They are not al
lowed to coin their own gold
and silver and fix their value.
The day of their submission
is about over and the day of
resistance is breaking.
The repeal of the ten e. cent,
tax on the circulation of banks,
other than National bauks, and a
vell ordered state system of bank
ing with good leal estate, not to
exceed U:
security !
uc t a i" I
would bri
its taxable, value
, do
the
tec ur
irn.T
icderunt.on ot
t- -depositois
relief to
oar out bui'd ' . o ;u,i down
tioddcj feII'j-cv-c:.sacGs.
Money would become pleutiiul
Vi'. cheap and the products of
r '.'.rm would idvaiice in price
ot pruduc'ioa to ft.o increased
volume ol money. An:' j would
borrow money ai, low rates of
infreL.
Now " l;o .' si io;ml b. inks are no
allowed 'o loan money on real
estate. This was done to compel
the p-.-ojdi to place a half dozeu
mi iui' m:n b-twi-eu them and the
m ;; ::: 'irn;io:is of the crutitry.
I'i other wo d-, t':e Xit'V-nal bauks
were established to rob the people,
ius'cvt of ro !i---:p thft poopb:.
Tm !(';;:- ;tie" now paving
Sll.'J OOUCOO yearly to p -rHion
sil'.tiers,sevc:i-eigh!hs of whom are
bet-cr vil in l iV tin:, iiioeventus
cf tha Soirhei'i people. And iv
less Than three y.-ars tho ho!
North v, il! bt on tit? lu-t it a halt i
not, called.
Tti amoutit will exceed SJOO,
OoO.cOQ early. The whole North
will soon h i ali on the P-nsion lit
and wv will income ; in' of
pensioners and slaves wuh oar
motify kings as mas!H ' s aiiding
bet v.- e:i the ; wo classes. I don't
be! c-vo the poople will submit
liH'ch longer to this meat wrong.
If t:;:v do thej will I;c dy deserve
heir fa'e.
i could itfV-r to many other
wto heaped npon ns by tho iie
pu'd.cin piiiy. but if you can
:i.'.m : s referred to withoat
n- .i tn y.ut indignation to the
,m hi ( -oi... yt.-a ;i;-a not yet li'
;o bo fiei oi.-n and tho harden will
remain on your necks until you
become iilive to i:s weight. Every
evil fiioi wrong from which we
suii'-r coriif Yo:n ntijut laws put
upon ihe s:.'.!a:e b oks !y the Re
pubhean' party, iivciy oppressive
iiW is the off-spri.ig and outcome
of Republican malice, and hatted
of t he Smith and democracy. Re
peal' thes odious, and oppressive
laws, and relief will coma as natur
al as the fouutain gushes troru tha
mountain.
Drive the Republican party from
power, ami place such men as
Palmer, Voorhees and Zib Vance
in command, and the warers of the
Nile and the great Mississippi do
not. fl ;v inoro uipidly to tho seas,
than prosperity and contentment
will come to the lolling millions of
American free meu.
DrivttTooi Reed and his cohorts
into banishment. Secure to the
iuxt Congress, drive I Jen JJarriaon
to his Indian law oflice and place
Palmer or some tin Democrat who
does not belong to Wall Street, the
National oanks aud the gold ba,
whose s.vmpatl.y is in harmony
with Lh - g-eai V: ass of mankind,
and whose lifelong principles are
principles ot Democracy, in the
presidential chair, and the whol-
earth will look more beautiful and
become more productive aud all
mankind (except the money kiugs)
will more easilv, live more easily,
aud wheu death comes it will come
more gently.
F-r more than twenty-five years
the Republican party ar.il the Fed
eral government have been syno
n.wuuus terms. Uruler iti admiu
isi rations j our burdens have iu
e: eased daily. For the same
pe iod the democracy has been in
thi- miiioiity and has all the while
entered its t :oit .;t against, thee
burdens.
it is the only poli ical party
opposed to t.tesJ wrong. It is the
o?dy political party through which
relief can come.
To nope or expect relief frtm
any otlu r source, is tahope agiirst
re.tsou and common sense
government
their capital
from 40 to
loos, ior a rewef irom any
oi uer source, puity or organization,
is Hie height of folly.
To the Democracy of America
rtie world to-day is indebted for
whatever freedom aud independ
ence it enjoys.
For more thn one hundted
Tears its sentinels have Btood on
rn? walc.i towers of liberty to cry
aioua at the approach of danger,
ami to-nay tuey are standing ou
mat watch tower' with drawn
sword, crying aloud, warning
every patriot and lover of liberty
to throw eff every weight which
uucumbereth In the fight and
ipeedily run aud joio the Demo.
cralic army who will continue to
right their battles.
United we are invincible; divid
ed we must fall.
United, eleven members of Con
gress are ours, the State ticket,
aud a majority in the Legislature;
divided, all will be in doubt and
uncertainty, aud a half ioaf will
be more than we can expect.
Why leap from a ship well rig
ged, that has stood the storms for
more thau a hundred years, whose
machiuerj is io full repair, to one
that has never resisted a storm or
navigated a sea !
I appeal to every man who loves
his country, his home, the Sooth,
aud who longs o be set fiee from
the chains that now weigh as
cown, to cling to the Democratic
ship ; to adhere to Democratic
principles ; to boist the Dmo
cratic b inner, and to enlist in the
Democratic army under it ample
folds to titfiit the battles of free
dom. vV. il. KlTCIIlN.
ONLY FARAIE2S NEED APPLY
A Yankea View cf Tha Situation! .as
Unsual, Incorr ect.
The Farmers' Alliance is pro
ceeding to show that it is the
Democratic party, or that the
Democratic party is it, in other
States than iu Georgia. Not
content with nominating can
didates for Governor, it has
begun to nominate candidates
for Congress. The maiu requi
site in a Farmers' Alliance can
didate stems to be that he mubt
be a farmer in the Alliance.
His competitors may be politi
cians of long experience in pub
lic life, lawyers learned in the
law and the Constitution, and
men of high talent and charac
ter, but they must go down be
fore the Alliauce man. The
Alliance thinks about as much
of lawyers as Jack Cade
thought; but of course in these
more polished and peaceful
times the severe punishments
inflicted upon the law men by
the agrarian agitators of 500
yeara aero have been modified.
The Alliauce merely punishes
the legal profession by making
members of it iucapable of
holdiug office.
There was a Democratic Con
vention held at Greensborough
the other dey to select a can
didate for Congress from the
Fifth North Carolina district.
Two-thirds of the delegates
were AlFance men. The ablest
candidate was unfortunately a
lawyer. He was obliged to
withdraw before the Conven
tion began. He knew he had
no chance. A politician, less
wise, allowed his uame to go
before the Convention, and was
beaten two to one. Uncle
Baldy Williams, a farmer and
member of the Alliance, was
nominated amid stamping of
boots and waving of hats, and
the hayseed floated like a halo
around Uncle Baddy's head.
As the orator who made the
nominating speech said, the
Convention was not composed of
lawyers, merchants, and doc
tors. It was not composed of
Democrats, he might have
added. It was a Farmers' Al
liance Convention, and it nam
ed a Farmers' Alliance candis
date.
The North Carolina farmers
are joy fu! and are moving on
to new victories. Of course they
will continue to insist that
their candidates shall be farm
ers. Perhaps they will go
further, and insist, as some of
their brethren in Kansas do,
that nobody who has ever held
or sought to hold office shall be
an Alliance candidate. A pure
and peculiar breed of states
mea will be tho result. If the
Farmers' Alfiauce is as power
ful at the polls as it is iu con-
ventions aud on paper, the
nexs House of Representatives
will be rich in rural talent.
The Wage Workers' Associa
tion, that mysterious and, per
haps, mythical body, to which
has been given the credit of so
many crank bills during the
present session, will be sur
passed and superseded. Agri-1
cultural socialism will be the
talk of the day. Class legisla
tion will flourish.
We advise Jeremiah Rusk to
sort out his seeds carefully and
put his specialists into overalls.
The Alliance is coming. New
York Sun.
The North Carolina Haiticultur-
al Soc'.etv will hold its annual
crape show at Mt. Holly, Gaston
county, Jaly 26 to, to August 2nd.
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NEWS OF A WEEK.
wiiai s HArri.ia iv
lllE WORi'jD AIIO VS.
Contle?tt(d J; !jr,rf fifths At
Frvin our Ct-iitt mjwraries.
Iu Gailfoid county last year only
719 negroes pa d noil tax and 1,
822, voted.
The I te Dr. T. M. Joned, during
his career as an educator, had
more thau three thousaud young
ladies under his tuition, and out of
the number has graduated f;:ur
hundred and ninety-three.
Dr. B. F. Dixon Superintendent
of the Orpram Asylum for many
years past, has been elected Presi
dent of Greensboro Female College.
Ills salary is to be ?3,5PO. Wo
see it stated that Rev. d. T. Elan is
ot Durham, will probably Miccetd
Dr. Dixoa at the Asylum.
A Tyrrel county correspondent
of the Raleigh Recorde r writes as
lollows : There is no whiskey sold
in the county, and when the judge
last came here to hold court he
fonnd uo pauper in the poor house,
no prisoner m the jail, and no case
on the docket.
A cherry tree on the place of Mr.
Casper Kinder, of Turnerslmrg
township, has borne two apples
this year. The apples aie perched
op on a limb along with thu cher
ries aud looked curious enough.
Statesville Lau imart.
The Washington Corn'spondeiit
of the Wilmington ?I-.seuger
writes as follows : i am in formed
by good authority lhat : io Presi
dent will appoint Col. Y:;omas N.
Cooper to bo collector a the Wess
tern ditr;ct, it the dt.slr.ot remauis
as it is, Il 'the dis- net
is
COU iO:I
d put.v
dated, Kvs ?:i.'! be
codii("tor, wit'"
de
i ; "i
s s a &
SalirlKl! . .
The State -fun
y limitation iti t
i;i t expired
u.st. The
tate which
Mnouuted to
r li-.iy i::-
!t Is
recjgn zvu iu ot oi iiu
the act provided lor i
f 12 C27,O0O Troasw
forms tn ; hat nd
b"en returned x-v-'i t -ibut $1. !)),
000, n'.VA'M are Mill in the hands t
:h JioUlers. 'lie- !mr per ceaf.
bonds issiM-d in li -!i ot the old debt
are now woith about pr.r This
speaks 11 ior the cjedifcolthe
State ami the management of the
debt,. N.'ws and () t ;ver.
A car: cut -item o? news s;is that
during the eaiiy days o! tti war,
Gen. Gat Held bough . a farm near
Preston burg, Ky., for iess than
J700. Uis widow haw ju-t tadd it
for 17.000. We do not see any
thing remarkable about thut trans
action. Compared to the transac
tions f Western North Carolina
real estate it is an insignificant
matter. A piece ot property 10
acies - in Marion, N- C, t hat wold
for $500 iu October, 188'.), was sold
last February for 57,500, aud it is
said there is plenty of such prop
erty in the vicinity of this coming
mountain town,
BATTLEBOEO ITEMS-
Notes From The Old Hons cf Tha
Alvanco-
EDITOU ADVANCE : : he most
brilliant prospect for a -.-ge crop
lhat has beeu in this community
for several years is just now giv ing
joy to the hearts of our enteral i-iug
tarmeis. Aside from their corn
and cotton crop, which surpasses
their mo.it sanguine eX'eciatiiis,
tobacco has Attained Ktowfh ia
many pi act a- indeed marvelous.
Mr. J. P. Srewait. has a ticlu near
town which will average 0 icel
high over st-Vtti.d ::ces, and this
with t.'ie tiueuess " lexture
and excellent "cure:"' p t-sagea a
i.f iiinoiii" mi tne fall. Messrs.
Mraswell. Kicks ilobgood,
Marriot
ond til hrs al:-o have a
veritable
oonai z i
m me wav i,i --uu.'"
crop.
Cnr ntoo'e have
manifested
something more than ordinary
interest m political affairs this
year, and their united genius and
intelligence seems to have happily
harmonizei aud consolidated the
sectional difference that at tones
heretofore ave been " rampant
in our county and in w-uuel proved
so detrimental to its iute.e.-t. ' uile
Nash was doubtless disappointed
in the Judicial nomination, jet
we knw from a personal accquain
fance with the talented recipient ol
the ho:.or, thai he is tull.v com pes
tent to discharge ti e doUesot hi
offl.:e with credit to ht iell and
sati-I'aetion to his constituents.
WiLsoe, the httld mi;, of A. J.
Hobguod who has been eiiously
illoNate, is, e are happy to say,
greatly imp-ov; d.
Miss M.im,e 'J;rchei., a charm
ing jotmir !a '.;, nf WlnUfcvi,
visiting Miss M itnie Johnston.
Mrs." T. W- liol oc', is viePmg
r-'ativM in Vufinia. T.
LltleUOiJ, ' C. duty Uth, 1S90.
Why continue the use of irritat.
big pOwdeiK. Siiuff'-" "l liquors.
Ely's Cieam Uaim. piea.-aur. oi ap
plication and a sine cure lor ca-
tarih aud co'u in :;t vi, can ne nau
for 50 cents. It s easily applied
iuto the nostriN, js site and p'eas
ant, and is cuiing liio most obsti
nate cases It gives ve'ief at once.
The Proprietors of Ely's Cream
Balm do not claim it ;o le a. eure
all, but ft Mire remedy for catarrh,
col'ds iu Ihe head and h iv fever.
It is not a liquid or a s: MT, but js
easily applied into the no-;ri!s. It
gives relief at once.
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