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THE WI LSON A Z r P , . Ut . D V A N GE jTTteas, cash ih advance. "LET ALL THE' ENDS THOU AIM' AT BE THY COUHTRY'S, THY GOD'S AND TRUTHS." BEST ADVERTISING MED1UK. VOLUME XXVI. WILSOX. N. C, AUGUST 27, 180(3. NUMBER 35 A w atch ace this So i for - El : iSomthing 1 Interesting to You, ext Week .......HijH. ...... THE Gash Racket Stores. Al & nnT 1 DMA T 11 Tie Candidate's Speech as Viewed a Gold. Democrat. and private obligations. - It is n question as to whether the powers of this govern ment shall be used to protect honest in dustry or to tempt the citizen to dishon esty -On this question honest : men canr not differ. It is one of morals and of jus- It involves the ensceure ui .Mv. the contest ior .civilization m- "A JUMBLE 0? EMPTY FSOMISES." The av York -Congressman Addresses 'a 3Ionste? Audience .at Madison Square 'V.artleii, and Denounces e Nebraslcan' - "Populistic Utterances." - New York, Aug.; 10. The second nota ble demonstration of the political ca-m-paiirn in New York city was held last niiiKt under the auspices of the Demo cratic Honest Money League of America, in" Madison Square Garden, where Hon. liourke Cockran addressed an immense 'audience with a speech entitled "In Oppo- tice. order self. A It is Democratic ; convention may ; re ts the De nounce U1U lJ-n'....v --- , mocracv remans faithful to Democratic Sin-' pies. Democratic leaders may he Say a' convention to the Populists but they cannot seduce the footsteps of Demo cratic -voters from the pathway, of. honor and of justice. - A candidate bearing the 1 jemocrati c-couu'uu j leveled airauist -Irion to Repudiation. , n;L r.i:;PH of the small platform from which Mr. Bryan had spoken was erected ' a big stage, whereon were seated many or the vice presidents of the meeting, whose names made a list 300 strong, auu -ranks were included many of the - most prominent business men, financiers, bank ers and railroad presidents of ew Yoik and other cities. . . Eighteen thousand seats had been placed in the garden,: and all of them were filled when Mr. Cockran advanced to the front of the platform and was greeted by a tre mendous chee'r, men climbing upon their chairs and waving little American flags which had been strewn through thehaii. Three heartv cheers were given for Me Kinley, and there were hisses whenal "What's the matter witn iCIJ gUU CllClj ' leas. f,M aT .. -r-ivr resident of the igue, called the meeting v-- dressing his hearers as VAJe" " p ' love their country above party, f ana e honing them to save that party m. .,.i:-xr -ni com .ilism. and then presented Hon. Perry Belmont, who made There was a second outburst of cheering -i a t M .P,nr.kran was mtro- Jiiu oi nags wucu . . .i , . . , i .i-j rnarni . in mutes, anu uuceu, wmcn uisieu ----- . .u roo Trosress sixty singers. r,cr the citv's banks, sang r,,, . . Tianner." the vast ine otar pp;mgio . . fhfl chorus with tre mendons effort. Frequent outbreaks of :Miriwo,t Mr. Cockran' s perious,. crwVt-a i cnbstance as ioiiows . Tr- r:" iHie3 and een..emen f.r-n o n With the inspiring strains of that national song still ringing in our ears, who can doubt tne this campaign? , Stripped of al 1 verbal hs cmico -1t 1e on- icssiie OI COUlluuu the honest honesty, discharge issue ucijncc" . . . tha dishonest reDudiation of public mandate oi a i -t-u; v.n nr,pn 'a canvas the foundations of social order and hehe hoHls the Democratic masses coniruntxng him organized for the defense. y. ' '"Yellow Democrats, let us uou .viilfs from burselves the fact, that we bear m h this 'contest a seriou, r - em n "burden of duty. wemuMi h'-nds iainst the nominee of our party, and we must do it to preserve the future of the party itself. We, must oppose the nominee of the Chicago convention and we know full well that the success of our opposition will mean our own exclusion bora public life, but we will be consoled and gratified by .the reflection that it will prove that the American people -cannot be divided into parties on a question of sim ple morals or of common honesty. . "We would look in vain through the Tech delivered here one week ago to find rX.c-oo,PTit.of the issue involved in this canvass, lndeea, i oeii -uUU ful if the candidate himself quite under- .i..,,! nature OI lilt? iitiLii fn,Mt: T. sav this noHuamwatu.ui JlUlto.ii-iJ. - .. . i i ' i; i his abilitv, but in justice to ma moii T K,iiorthat if he himself understood -the inevitable consequences or the doctrines Via nwafihes tnat DMUii uauuo would be the very first to tear down the which he stands. . 1' L . J!j,ni,nir'iQ cwpTit. into "He is a canuHiaw iivj ".-r-- the nomination by a wave ot popular en .u,,,!., awjikened by appeals to preju L11U?"' . - j;i4. V, o-nrl trwed. lie IS a uauuiuauc yyw, il.irr that, tUlS Was a revuiuuuuoi; V mt, no sooner found himself face tn f ace with the A.mencau iecuu6 vxx 0 ."L.h that, this soil is not propitious to revolution ; that the people of this country " . nnr, the institutions which Will I1UU V""S5- - . jotostsfmd experiences of nave swuu - for- institutions based upon . L .nms of Populist agitators S tfhe r American nation will neveAon- i?!Ste for the republic of Ash- fnton of Jefferson and of Jackson the ins LOU, Ui " , TlllWian rkT a republic of an itgex D,f.v.hJmffe may have come over , , L aaa candidate, however much S of hi, eloquence mayhave I r two tnings ior wuii;u I stands, renoa."- form he defended the most revolutionary plank of the Chicago convention in speeches vehement but not less earnest than that in which he supported their adoption. On this platform he defended the Populistic program of overthrowing the integrity of the supreme court If th,ere be any fruit which has grown for the benefit of all mankind out of the estab lishment of our republic, it has been the demonstration that it is possible by the organization of an independent tribunal to safeguard the rights of every citizen and protect those natural privileges against anv invasion from whatever, source or however powerful might be the antagoniz ing elements. "The very existence of that power pre supposes the existence of an independent tribunal, yet we have this Populist con vention, because a Populist measure was condemned as unconstitutional, propos ing, not to amend the constitution in the ordinary way prescribed by that instru ment itself, but proposing to pack the court so that it will pronounce those laws to be constitutional which the constitu tion itself condemns, a propositi to make the courts of law instruments of lawless ness ; to violate that sacred compact be tween the states on which the security of . this nation rests;' to profane the temple erected for its protection by the hands of fciise priests who, though sworn to defend, it -will be appointed to destroy it. - VI am a little puzzled to decide just what Mr. Bryan himr jlf imagines will be the fruit of a change in the standard of value throughout this country. If Mr. Bryan could show me that by any means wages will be increased I will be ready to support him, because I know of no test of prosperity absolutely infallible except the rate of wages paid to laborers. ' "Mr. Bryan tells us that he wants' to cheapen the dollar; that he wants to in crease the volume of money. I do not be lieve that any man who ever lived could quite understand a Populist's notion of what , money is, further than that he be lieves it is a. desirable thing to get, and that he is not very particular about the means by - which he can get his hands on. it. 4 'Nothing is more common than the mistake that money and property are identical. They are not. There may be a very large volume of circulating medium and very great poverty. The issue of paper monev simply is no more an increti.se of wealth than the issue by an individual of his promissory note would show an in crease in property, but may be a strong proof of a decrease in .wealth. It is not the volume of mo ey, but the activity of money that counts. V . . "The basis of sound tra-cta I? pound momy, money which is intrinsically -valuable. Money like the.gold coinage of this conn- j ''try, the government cannbt affect if it tried to. I can take a ten dollar gold piece and I can def v all the power of all the gov ernments of this earth to take five cents of value from it. , "It is perfectly clear that the purpose ot the Populist is to put up the prices of cer tain commodities.-Mr. Bryan's language is that he is going to improve the conditions of the people of " this ; country. I do not suppose he claims he can multiply un. number of chairs upon this platform or upon this floor, although he has shown his capacity to empty them. If he is going to work any change in the conditions of men he must increase the material posses sion of some part of the community. -Now if he got possession of the government to morrow he would not create one single thing of value .by any exercise of govern mental power in the world. No power tional monarch can cause' a barren to become fruitful. i-i, thit the farmer Oi. braka is suffering under the mortgage contracted under a metal which has steadily increased in value is but a Popu listic metaphor. T wo-thirds of the farmer?, have no mortgage debts whatever. I do not believe there is 5 percent, or tneni ihi owe a mortgage over .three years old, during which tmie there nas oceii Ax change in the value of the metal. 1 his proposal of the Populists is an intent w enlist the farmer in a conspiracy to reduce the wages paid this laborer tnat ne m. have a larger proportion oi nis ovs n piu- ducts, and they are willing to c u ,uu .. the wastes of every man who works in the ritv evcrv man who toils at the bench, who manages tne train, m "" th P.an ride into power on a wave oi minVlitv and creed awakened in tne uikkist rf tlio voter. tir fon.-ls. there has been a change in the Democratic organization oi .. tuy-r, etntfts. A new sei. iut ihRiddlev a set of-leaders of which iuiw-i. ' . , . t, Tillman is the exponent, who ooiuiy un fo -the sectional flag at Chicago, and declared that this Populist movemeui; iS a inrpm(nt asrainst! the prosperity of IU1CL11 uiu.v ' " , ;1 . f the east. Men ot -New xor, , Amorina. euardians oi homes, win juu ofoc nf wasres to be atiecteu Dy anjr man who never has paid wages at all H he could get out of it? This is a conspiracy between professional iarmers ; w uu tonav low wages and the unreconciled slaveholder wno wouia w. mo rroc Jit. fill. "Wo helieve tnat tne very esseiiwu mutual interest, mutual ior- hAfimnoe. mutual co-operation. ue is v.Q wnrld has cot past the tmie when men's hands are at each others throats. We believe today that men stand shoulder to shoulder, working together; for a common purpose beneficial to all. and we believe that this attempt, to assail waes which means an attempt to attack prosperity of all, will be resisted, not bv a class, but by the whole nation. What labor has gained, Jhat shall it keep. The rate of wages that is paid to it today if the lowest rate we will ever willingly, ac cept. We look forward to a farther .and e-ihay increase in the prosperity of work- inemen, not merely by an increase in the T rtailv waee. but by a further increasing in the purcnasing power or wages. "While we have m existence a system oi; mutual co-operation which is but another name for civilized society, all men are ad-1 mitted to a share in every bounty which providence showers upon the earth, he dweller in the tenement house stooping over his bench who never sees a field of waving corn, who has never inhaled the perfume of grasses and of flowers, is yet made the .participator on all the bounties of providence in-, the purifying influences of the atmosphere, the ripening rays of the sun. when the product of the soil is made cheaper to him e very day by the abundance of the harvest. It is from his share in this bounty .that the Populist wants to exclude the American workingman. lo him we say, in the name of humanity, in the name progress, you should neither press a crown nf thorns nnon the brow of labor, nor press a scourge .upon his back. "I do not regret this campaign. The time has come when the people of this country will show their capacity for self Thev will prove that the men who have left the world in the path- way oi proisress win us juaiuu ians of liberty and order. They arc not tpbe seduce A by appeals to their cupidity ot moved bv thresits of injury. They will ever relentlessly press and crush under :he:r heels the flaming torch of Populist discontent, Populist .agitation and 1 Pop4 nlist destruction. Drowned at Atlantic. Atlantic CiTf, Aua. 21. Herbert B. Cook, aged 25 years, only son of George Harvey Cook, president of the Brigantine Railroad and Transit company,; was drowne l in front of the Holland Hpuse.at Rri"-itntihe B iach. yesterday.. Coo 6; w bathing with Joseph E. Snyderi of Phila- deinhia. and Miss Elnm StaehleTof Pitts- bur Thev were caught in the heavy un derfow and were unable to reach shore an til three rescuers arrived, who, with the .4,1 n w ioden settee, managed to saye 'ivdor and Miss Staehle, after consider a'ole l.ibor. They could not reach Cook rime to save him. His body was found a half hour afterwards Cook was a gradu i:e of '.Stephens' institute, class of . '(J3, and was eiiipioyea civ me x c-m-ujvx uuu ui Philadelphia. . ; field "Vrv- 3;iri5ster to Turkey Not to Return. Fo.T Wo 1TH, Tex., Aug. 24. The in formation -taat Minister. Terrell will not return to Turkey is correct. . He wrote letters to friends here which were pub lished and caused him to be summoned to Washington. Minister Terrell made the visit, and-explained that, the letters com r.lained cf were written to members of his familv, and he did not -expect' they w'mU And their way into print.' This resulted in his determination to tender his resigna tion. : '." . : '; ' Thomas C. Piatt for Governor of 'ew York Saratoga. Aug; 24. Thomas C. Piatt will probably be the nominee of -the Re publican state convention for governor of Xew 'York. Unless he can successfully combat a sreat and steadily growing sen- isnnt: Ant. t mTressin2 all dav. has &1- UlllUlilt vtw, - CD ' ' ' most ceased to- be a matter that Mr. Piatt can control his name will be presented to the convention, every other candidate will withdraw, and he will be nominated without debate. j; ' : , I Tillman Says lie "Moved the- Dutch." HakkisbukG, Aug. 24. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, called at the executive department to pay his respects to Gov ernor Hastings. The governor was . not here, and Executive Clerk Davies did the honors, introducing the' senator to such state oilieials as were at their .posts. ' Sen ator Tillman, referring to his speeca at Mt. Gretna," said that "These Pennsyl vania Dutch are very phlegmatic, but moved them." ;v Holse Smith Steps Out.- W a?titxgton, Aug. 24. It is announced j that the resignation of Secretary .Hoke Smith has been accepted, and that he will retire from the cabinet aoout -cepu; i. Smith's resignation was accepted by Presi dent Cleveland ten days ago. Aitnougn the correspondence on the subject win not be given out, it-is known that Mr. Cleve land's letter. to the secretary was couched in the kindest language, and expressed ex treme regret that the" secretary felt com pelled to leave the cabinet. rx-irovernor Francis of Missouri, ex-Congressman By num. of Indiana, and ex-Congressman Ben Cable of Illinois are named as successors. GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS Memphis, Aug. 24. The anchor line- steamer City of Hickman struck a snagjin the Mississippi river yesterday and had to be beached to keep her from sinking, aii her! passengers 'were:.-taken off by the UhicKasaw anu orousni to imsui). -,'-"- is valued at ?5),tXX). Insurance ?20,000. Mo ?.tle, Ala. , Aug. 22. W. H. M. G ra- ham, alias Gray, a negro, was hanged m-. the yard of the county jail at 6 :30 o'clock in the morning. The execution was wit nessed by 3,000 people, and one man broke his leg bv falling from a wall. Graham's crime was the brutal killing of an old man on Mardi-Gras dayv " Lebanon, Ky., Aug. 24. At a negro - dance about four miles from here Charles Warner accidentally stepped on the dress -of George Mays' partner, . Warner apolo gized, but Mays became, enraged ana : opened fire, killing Warner and Charley Pipes instantly and fatally wounding Bud. Hardin. Mays escaped, and is still a , large. Louisville, Aug, 19. Henry Will, a peddler, shot- and killed. his wife at No. 326 Brook street, where she conducted a vegetable stand, yesterday,' and then blew" out his own brains. He also made a des perate attempt to take the life of his son Willie, but the bullet i went wide of the mark The woman was pleading with her half drunken husband to go home and try to do better. ' St. Lucie, Fla., Aug. 18. The largest tarpon ever caught at St. Lucie was landed last evening by Senator Quay. of Penn sylvania. It weighed 203 pounds.. After an exciting struggle, in which the craft was nearly swamped, the senator landed. his fish safely in the boat. While strug gling with t he fish Senator Quay was struck on the leg below the knee, but was not seriously hurt. The boatman also had a narrow escape. . Thompson-, Ga., Aug. 18. B. R. Till man, of South Carolina, arrived here Sun day noon and was met at the depot by Hon. Thomas F. arson, the Populist ; vice presidential nominee. The senator' -went immediately to'., the Watson home, dined with the candidate, and remained as .his guest until midnight, when he left on the Georgia. express for Atlanta. During the afternoon Tillman and -Watson were privately closeted in Watson's study. Laredo, Tex., Aug. 21. A. Y, Allee, a desperado, was killed in a saloon by City Marshal Bathelow. Allee has been before the 'criminal courts1 for many years. He-, is charged with murdering three men om a crowded coach on the International rail--road, near here. Wednesday night ho be gan to show the dangerous traits ih his character, and, in attempting to ; arrest" .him the city marshal had to defend him selfj the best he could, resulting in the des perado's deiith. V: Mobile, Ala., Aug. 18. Two men, Arr thur Walker and Robert E. Lee, and two women, Viola French and Margaret Curry, were with a picnic party that went to Dog river to spend the day. WhVle.in bathing at the mouth of. the river Walker and thee two women were. swept off their feet by the tide, and. all were drowned before ther eyes of Lee, who was powerless to render assistance, Lee swam with the tide, and after a desperate struggle of thirty min utes was rescued alive. Atlanta, AugJ IS. The Republican state central committee met in the state capitol yesterday. A resolution was adopted declaring it to be the sense of the commit tee that no state ticket is to .1)6 piitout this year. This was supplemented by amfther resolution leaving it to the Ropjiiblicanat of ' the state to vote as they see lit on state is--sues, and still another providing for ;the issuing of an address to the voters, urging; them to devote their efforts towards tlie--election of McKinley. ' , Fkankfoiit, Ky1.,. - Aug. 20. Register of Land Oflici? Reynolds received a letter -from E. Lee Fiowers, of Canton, Tex; is, asking for a ceriiued cony of a patent to Thomas Lewis in 1 S20, and he evidently a the lere. thinks he has a c!ai m to tha whole of the land where Louisville now stands, Mr Stanley Brown, of the land office, invest i gating the matter, finds thai such a grant or tract was conveyed to Lewis; that-it in- -eluded the falls and ri ver thereabouts, also a part of Indiana north to Clarksville, and a portion of the section of the city along: Bear Grass creek. . Fort Worth, Tex.., Aug. 20. The fol lowing nominations, were made by the Democratic state convention: For gover- ' nor, Charle A. Culberson ; lieutenant gov ernor, G. T. Gester; attorney general, M H. Crane; ccnrptroller; E- W. Finley; treasurer, W. B. Wort-ham; landcommis--. sioner, A. J. Biker; superintendent or public instruction, J. M. Carlile. All are members of the present state administra tion, and were .renominated by acclama-: tion. The pUvtform ratifies the action of the Chicajro convention. There is no manifest disposition to share electors with the Populists. : ' " ' ' - - Bristol, Tenn., Aug. 22. A party of twenty-six revenue officers represent! ngc all sections of Virginia went to Franklin county Thursday to break up a notetL. band of outlaws and illicit distillers. By artifice they succeeded in capturing twelve of the outlaws without bloodshed and de stroyed several stills. Among the cap tured were Calvin Moore, the ..'Martin' brothers and the Atkin3 brothers, the? leading spirits of the gang. While com ing out of the mountains the officers we ro ll red on at different points and in one in stance waged a fierce fight on the would- be ambushers, driving them back. Charges Against Governor AltgeldJ Chicago, Aug. 24. Ex-Congressman W. S. Foreman has written Governor J. P.' Altgeld a sensational open letter in which he. makes various charges of reck lessness in the handling of state money, and declares that he as a Democrat cannot support the governor for re-election, j TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 21. Thomas F, Gib son is in jail here on the charge of bigamy. He married nearly twenty years ago in Macon, -Ga. Five years ago. he left I his wifft and went to Brunswick, Ga., after wards coming to Tampa, w-here he mar- ried Miss jfiorence-irarrisniasbwcuiMi.. aihsnnV.lainis that he left his Macon wife because of her bad character, and insti proceedings.. He claims he MiTAd the divorce while in BrunswicK, hut hkrina- that his wife was dead, never Qr,t n -Tnnn for the papers.XThe charge therfdaher of the JL Ui(l"J A .3 - young woman Gibson married Their Dainty Little Feet. "Are there many poor people in Chi- onorn?" wdii nil th n-irls have visible -m i TVnrn means oi i, . , - , Conslipation and sick headache pos Ix)xdon, Aug. 24. Lk Hung cnang evi- jtivejy cured by Japanese Liver Pellets, royklcoffin direct to Chim&rom here. ty doses 25 cents.at Hargrave's.