VOL. XXIII.
WELDON, N. C, TIIUHSDAY, JUNE 2, 1892.
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THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.
TUK ORGANIZATION COMl'l.KTKD
EMATKS TO OMAHA.
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Tho Ptiijcrmsirn Fui nu'r contains t lie
following: Last Wednesday at - o'clock
chairman W. II. LimUiy, of Hocking
bam county, culled a mooting iu tho con
ference bail in this city for the purpose
of taking preliminary steps for the organ
ization of the people's party in this State.
About seventy-Grit counties were repre
sented. C. N. Jervis, of Marshall, Mad
ison county, was elected secretary. No
action was taken in regard to State mat
ters, as the conference could not foretell
the result of the Democratic State con
vention, then in session. Tlio chairman
of the executive committee was author
ized to take immediate steps to have each
congressional district represented at Oma
ba, July 4th. A resolution was uiiani-
mously passed endorsing L. L. Polk as
I the third party's candidate for presidoit.
1 The following order of organizition for
the people's party is announced by W.
R. Lindsay, chairman of the State execu
tive committee, in an address1 There
shall be an executive committee of three
or more members in each county in the
State, known as the executive committee
of the people's party. This committee
shall have power to appoint a sub-committee
of five or more in each township.
The chairmea of the county committees
shall constitute the executive committee
of the Congressional district. The com
mittees thus appointed in townships,
counties aud districts are provisional and
at the first authorized conventions held
the people may elect new committees,
which shall constitute a permanent organ
ization of the people's party. The chair
man of each congressional district com
mittee shall call a convention of his dis
trict on or before Thursday, Juno 1G, for
the purpose of clcctiug four delegates
and alternates to represent the people's
party in the Omaha convention to meet
Saturday, July 2, and to nominate a can
didate for Congress where desirable. The
chairman of each county committee shall
call a mas meeting of his county to be
held Saturday, June 1 1, to elect delegates
to the congressional convention. In
case there is no committee appointed for
any county, the friends of reform may
call said mass meeting. Each county
mass meeting is expected to determine
for itself whether it will put a county
ticket in the field. The congressional
district conventions for the several dis
tricts shall be held at the following
places:
1st district, at Elizabeth City; 2d Rocky
Mount; 3rd, at Fayetteville; 4th at Ral
eigh; 5th at Durham; Gth at Rocking
ham; 7th at Salisbury; 8ih at Lenoir; 9th
at Ashcville.
The following are appointed as chair
men of the several congressional district
committees- 1st District, M. Q Grego
rj; 2d A. B. Noble; 3rd, Rev. E. J.
Edwards; 4th, S. 0. Wilson; 5th, J. B,
Smith, 6th, M. K. McKinnon; 8th, P
II. Rich; 9th, J. C. Brown.
The following were elected delegates
ani alternates for the State at large:
Delegates, Harry Skinner, A. C. Shuford
T. B. Long, D. II. Gill, S. 0. Wikm
A. J. Dalby, George E. Hunt. V. N
Seawcll. Alternates, P. II. Maswy. J
M. Bateman, II. Soars, C. N. Jarvin
Daniel Worth, H. 11. Nichols, J. E
i trsuD, A. L. Swinson.
DeLeon, Texas, July 23, '91.
Messrs. Lipptnan Bros, Savannah, Ga :
Gents I've used nearly four hotilos
of P. P. P. I was afflicted from the
crown of my head to the soles of my feet.
I Your P. P. P. has cured difficulty of
j breathing cml smothering, palpitation of
I the heart, and relieved me of all pain; one
nostril was closed for ten years, now I
j can breathe through it readily.
J I have not slept on either side fir two
? years, in fact, dreaded to see night come
: now I sleep soundly in any position all
1 night.
I am 59 years old, but expect soon to
f be able to take hold of the plow handles; I
foel proud I was lucl y cnoujjh to get P.
P. P , I hmirtily recommend it to
my friend.-, a A tin. public i-enerally.
Your respect I u'ly,
-k . A. M, Ramsey.
THE M'KINLEY TARIFF.
IT DIHCKtMINVm 11V I'l.ACINd THE
HEAVIEST IH'TY ON 0001)8 ISfil) BY
TFIE POOR.
A remarnaoie icaiurc iu au me. nc-1
i iii.. ii . i ii- l
publican tariffs, but especially in the tat-
est edition, the McKinloy gouge, is the
discrimination against t lie poor, me neavi-
cr duty always being impost oti such Rufus A, l)ought0n, the nominee for
articles as are consumed by the poor, and lieutenant-governor, was born in A lie
the lighter on such as an purchased by ghany county January 10, 1850. He
people in better circumstances, the very
lightest duty of all being upon those arti-
cles consum id by the rich only,
which only the rich can aHord to buy.
lho rniladelphia ltecord presents this
strikingly in the following list from the
woolen schedule of the McKinley tariff:
WOOLEN AND WORSTED OOODS.
Per Cent,
of Duty.
Valued not over 30 cents a
pound, 175.80
More than 30 and under 40
cents, 143 34
Above 40 cts a pound, 92 06
Not exceeding 70c. a pound 87.74
Above 80c. a pound, 09 27
FLANNEL UNDERWEAR.
Valued not over 30 cts. a
pound, 85.12
Another frade, same value, 92.94
More than 30 and up to 40c. GO G7
Another grade, same value, 92 83
More than 40 and up to 50c. 09 02
More than 50 and up to UOc. 105 90
More than GO and up to 80o 07. 79
Above 80c. a pound, C9 09
Weighing over 4 ounces per
square yard, 92.02
BLANKETS.
Valued at 30 cts a pound, 71. 21
Another grade, same value, 91.90
More than 30 and up to 40
cents, 08.50
Another grade, same value, 91.21
More than 40 and up to 60c. 106.12
More than GO and up to 80c. GG.86
Valued above 80c. a pound, 63.50
Ooe tirade, valued over 50c. 83.24
ItCKDEMSTO REAR.
Back in Illinois when we were re-
pairing a rail fence we would sometimes
find a corner down pretty low in the
ground, and not wanting to tear down the
fence we would devise a wav of raisins
that fence corner to put under it a new
ground chunk. How did we do it? We led or urged to victory. When the la
took a rail, put one end of it under a mented Saunders passed away, it was em
fence corner, then laid down a ground
ohunk for a fulcrum. Then we would go
off to the end of the rail and bear it down;
up would go the fence corner but does
anybody suppose there was no pressure
on that fulcrum ?
That, my friends, illustrates just the
operation, as I conceive it, of a protective
tariff. You want to raise an infant
industry, for instance; what do you do?
You take a protective tariff for a lever
and put one end of it under the infant
industry that is to be raised. ou look
around for some good, fat, hearty con-
sumer and lay him down for a ground
chunk; you bear down on the rail and up
goes the infant iodutry; but down goes
the ground cliuuk iuto the ground.
The reason our friends lustily the
principle is that they see the infant indus-
try rise, but they fnrget the man upon
whom th.y are placing the burden. And
the !r'.-v)'l wi'h inUiHiunirv ix ilmt nil nvi r
the land ure the homes of forgotten men,
men whoso r.ghts have be disregarded in
order that somebody else may be enriched.
W. J. Bryan, ot Nehrak.
SiiiLon's Catarrh Remedy. A
marvelous cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria,
Canker mouth, and Headache. V Hn
each buttle there is an ingenious nasal.
Injector for the more successful treatment
ot these complaints withoutextra charge
Price 50c. Sold by W. M. Cohen.
When BahT was tick, w t her CaatorU.
When aha wu a Child, aha cried tor CaatorU.
When aha bacmow Xte, ih clunc to Cutoria.
When h had fMdrao, aha ea Uiem Cartoria.
THE NOMINEES.
SKETCHES OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
TICKET.
Wo present to-day sketches of 11. A.
r i t i i
uougmon, ami uutavius wjkb, cauuiuaiun
respectively for Lieutenant-Governor and
Secretary of State.
uukus a. DOUUHTON
w&3 nised 0Q tl)u fanl)) Hg fathur M
g 6UCCe8sful aD(i influential farmer. In
M,S80 he took an optional course at the
g,atc University, and the same year ob-
,ained iicense t0 tk.e ,aw T1)e fuH()W.
ing year ho was elected superintendent of
the public schools of Alleghany county
and later became chairman of the county
board ot education. In lhsb ho was
elected to the lower house of the legisla
ture and became a popular and useful
member. He held positions on the judi
ciary committee and on other committees.
house, serving during the session of 1889
as chairman ot tbo committee on
education and on other important
committees. In 1890 ho was again
sent to the house and again was
the honor paid him of a rcnomination by
acclamation and an election without oppo
sition. He was elected speaker at the
session of 1891 and made an admirable
presiding officer, patient, attentive, pains
taking, and always the courteous and
kindly gentleman. He is one of the
youugest men ever elected speaker in
orth Carolina, lie is conservative yet
progressive and his interest in the great
cause of public education, and that at
the I'niversity aud the Agricultural
and Mechanical ollcge as well
as in the common schools, is deep and
abiding.
OCTAVIUS COKE
Received the distinguished honor of
being nominated to the office of Secretary
of State by acclamation. The couven
tion entertained no other thought or
purpose, it came as the spontaneeus ex
pression of every man in the convention,
It could not have been otherwise, for his
trumpet voice has so oiteo sounded 10 the
cause of his party and his country, that
its reverberations ring unweakened in
potency in the ears of those he has Ion
inently proper that the distinguished
gentleman who then occupied the execu
tivc chair should call to fill the vacancy
one he had known long and well, the
wisdom of whose counsel he had profited
by, the value ot whose services he h
recognized, the fullness of whose acquire-
nicnts he had learned to value. As sc-
cretary ot Mate tapt. Luke as lie is
best aud most widely known through his
military career in the late war proved
t once his ability to ably fill the office
made so distinguished by-his predecessor.
There could have been no question as to
the propriety of his retention in the office
ho so briefly filled. To his honor, and
to the honor of those entrusted with the
pnwirand duty of nomination, not a voice
ru;sp. : .u. convention or out of it
. rf rf (hc
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j and I lid people with like unanimity, will
ratify the choice.
Shlloli's Consumption Cur
This is beyond question, the most
iucccsslul Uougli Mcuieme we nave ever
sold, a few dosc3 invariably cure the wor-t
cases of Cough, Croup and Bronchitis,
while its wonderful success in the cure ot
Consumption is without a parallel iu the
history of medicine. Ismoe its nrst dis
I covery it has been sold on a poritive
guarantee, a test which no other medi
cine can stand. If you have a cough we
earnestly a.-k you to try it. Price 10c,
50c. and $1. If your lungs are sore,
chest, or back lame, use Shiloh's Porous
Planter. Sold by W. M. Cohen.
Many rcrfn to h-nVca
down from overwork or Iu an. bold caroa.
UrOMM'S iron r.:H-vs l!ehulln the
trncra, aida digestion, .i.-ivrs cxreM ol luo,
aud euro malaria, ou the gecuu:.
THE STATE TICKET.
RESIDENT Ul'TLER THROl'dll THE
CLINTON CAUCASIAN ENDORSES IT.
The State Convention about which
there has been so much discussion and
peculation has como and gone. The
much prophesied wrangle and split which
robnbly a few desired did not occur, but
to the contrary everything passed off
armoniously and possibly as satisfactorily
to all elements concerned as possible. The
extremists both ways would have prefer
red a different ticket and platform, but
the medial line between the contending
factions was very nearly struck. This would
not have been possible had uot the Al-
iance conference taken just the course it
did. If the conference had presented
the St. Louis demands as an ultimatum,
then if the demands had not been adopt
ed there would surely have been a split,
and if they had been there might have
been a split. So the members of the
conference held the key to the situation.
They were cool and deliberate. They
acted as if they had never seen any of
the uncalled for and harsh criticisms and
the wholesale misrepresentations by cer
tain persons and papers. I hey were
almost unanimously in favor of the St.
Louis demands, and did endorto them by
an overwhelming vote, yet took the poi
tion, that in a political campaign that
they should demand no more than tho
organization was practically a unit for
That this much should be demanded aud
worked for, and that the work of educa
tion should go on and the whole reform
clement of the State might by the time
of the next fight be a unit on the present
advanced principles of reform. This
safe leadciship and good politics and tho
only method by which the principles of
reform can win a permanent and progres
sive victory. The nomination of Mr.
Elias Carr for Governor is exactly in
line with this policy. He represents the
principles of reform on which the Alli
ance and other reformers are practically
a unit. Mr. Carr did not decide to allow
his name to go before the convention till
the night before. If he had not, either
Dr. Sauder in or Col, Julian S. Carr
would have been the nominee. But Mr.
Elias Carr stood as it were, between the
two, and the friends of each naturally
went to him after several ballots. And
we should state here that Hon. S. 15.
Alexander would have been the nominee
had be not positively refused to allow his
name to go before the convention. The
nomination of Mr. Carr, Ex President
of the State Alliance, is a capital selec
tion, and should receive the support of
all who favor good government. He will
lead the ticket to victory.
Mr. 11. A. Doujjhton, the nominee for
Lieutenant-Governor, is a man of excel
lent parts and in full sympathy with the
reform movement. His father is Presi
dent of the County Allianco of Allegha
ny county. Mr. Uoughton presided over
the last House of Representatives with
ability and eminent justice and impartial
ity, llis action id appointing members
ot the Joint Committee on railroad com
mission, who were heartily in favor of the
hill that is now a law, saved the measure.
If he had been opprsed to a commission
u is ery doubttul whether or not we
would to day havo a commission. If he
piesidcs over thu Semite as Lieutcnaut
Governor as he did over tb House
shall have no caUAti to complain.
The ticket as a whole is an admirab'e
one and wi lbe strongly supported.
The platform covers nearly enough
"round, but it is not specific enough.
Every party should be h .-t i no ih 'o
be ( r a piluelplu or a.iu.l it, uwl lo say
in Miiiiiiiiilii1ilt term. P.ut tilatfurins
are w rill nothing: utiles we have men to
stand on tbem who ure as largo as the
pintl'iirui. We would pr fer to have good
men with positive convictions ful candi
dates without any platform, than to ha""
the boi-t platform with U' caiuin ne n i u
it. Iu faet the ciinvieiioiH of the nomi
nees is always t he real platform. There
fure, the n uuinaii'in of Mr. Elias Cair
interprets and enlarges the platform. If
Gov. Holt had been renominated it
would have given the platform adiffereut
interpretation. The nomination of Mr.
lloughton for Li:nten-int Governor also
enlarges and interprets the platfi rm in
the iuterests uf tho people. While noth
ing is said in the plat form about the
railroad commission yet the nomination
of Mr. Poughtni adds all this, and more.
The committee he appointed on railroad
ronimi-ion in (lie last Legislature wcr
for liie bill as it passed.
A LIVE CAROLINA TOWN.
Rocky Mount, N. C, Mat 30. As
everybody now-a days is talking of Rocky
Mouut and its great industrial boom, I
thought your readers would like tc hear
something of this rapidly growing and
prosperous town, and will therefore write
giving you a short sketch of its advan
tages and prospect".
Although, as most of your readers
know, Rocky Mount is quite an old
town, the Rocky Mount of to-day is a
very new one. iwo or threo years ago
this was a Bhanty town and with about as
much life in it as can be found in a coun
try cemetery. To day it is one of the
busiest, hustling towns in the whole
South, and is only commencing its grand
upward career of prosperity.
Situated as it is in the heart of the
golden leaf tobacco belt, surrounded on
every side by the very best tobacco lands
in America; lands all around it wl ere
men can grow rich in the trucking iu
terests; with fine water power, and the
unlimited supply of the raw material to
furnish manufactories of various kin-Is,
cives it a natural location of unsurpat.-. d
value. This extremely favorable In
tion in itself would bo enough to bu d
up a large and prosperous town, and wh n
we tako into consideration the fact tl
iu a couple of years our tobacco marl t
has grown from nothing into one of ti e
great markets of the State; that our ex
ceptional facilities for railroad transpor
tation will make this a great tobacco man
ufacturing centre, as well as a great to
bacco market, it will be seen that the
tobacco interest, added to our other re
sources, would make Rocky Mount
prosperous city.
There is still another interest, and a
great one, and that is tho railroad inter
est of Rocky Mount. The building of
the immense shops of the. Atlantic Coast
Line system, with the most complete
railroad yards in the world, making this
the distributing point of the entire A. C
L. system, tnd also the end of division
between Richmond and Florence which
will make it the residence of the conduc
tors, engineers and various other employ
ees of the road which will add thousands
to the population within a year, and will
add immensely to the wealth of the town
Our R. R., facilities are only equalled
by the very largest cities. The railroads
diverge from Rocky Mount East, West
North and South, giving every facility for
bringiug in raw mateiial and shipping
the manufactured product.
We are only 3 hours from Richmon
and Norfolk, 7 hours from Washington
8 hours from Baltimore and 13 hours
from New Tork, which gives our people
direct and quick communication with the
crcat centres of trade and culture in
America.
There is no town in America whio
has a brighter future than Rocky Mount
The Atlantic Coast Line management
are making it the great central point (
their system. The writer was told but
few days ago by a prominent railroad of
ficial that the Coast Lino managemen
proposed to make Rocky Mount one o!
the greatest and most important railroa
cities in the country. This muih
our railroad imtcrosts. Next comes our
great tobacco interest bth as a leaf in n
ket aud manufacturing centre Th
nith our o.iier great manufacturing in
tercls and our prainl location, backed
i( j' hv nnpiiC lb inoKt, mnfiuhli
cullural countries in the world, assure
Jiocky Mount a glorious fa aire. And
with the new "rder of affairs and the
elect rii ity of progress which now rn-rnie-utrs
tlio j.:r of the South, I feel couliJi nt
many ol uur si.-ter towns of Eastern Cur
lina will share with htr in the era of
prosperity. C.
Humbug.
It's souutl old .fasliiun, sod xj.re$si'$
j'ist wh it mii rucaut, at'ler having pur
clusid something of no account. Nw
tlu-M is no humbug about Simmons Livi r
Ki'u atcT 80111c imitation orMibiiiute
may l eoiltTca )oii liislcua, nut inu R i.l
givu the rcliefi'rom Indijicstion, liyspcp
lia and Biliousness like tliff genuine t'ini
uiuns Liver llriiiiln' r. You knt-w it I'.y
the Z 011 ever; ...n ani ihe rolkl' it
Hues.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
How's
Your Liver?
Is tho Oriental salutation,
knowing that good health
cannot exist without a
healthy Liver. "When tho
Liver is torpid the Bow
els are glujigish and con
Btipated, tho food lies
iu the stomach undi
gested, poisoning tho
blood; frequent hotiuacho
ensues; a feelinuc of lassi
tude, despondency and
nervousness indicate how
the whole system ii de
ranged. Simmons Liver
Itegnkitnr h::3 heen tho
wcani of restoring- more
people to- health and
happiness hy giving- them
a healthy Liver than any
agency known o:i earth.
It acts with extraor
dinary power and eliieae.y.
NEVED UEEN DISAPPOINTED,
A? ft pem'rai family roTneily for dy?n?ppUU
Terpid Liver, C'onliiatien, etc.. I hardly ever
iu - anything i-lse, sod liavo never been difr
rtpi.ointeil iu the ell'eet proJuced; it seema to
lie nlm.Ht a perfect cure f.n -ill diseases of llie
stumach aud lluwele.
W. J. McEu-.ot, Macon, Ua.
WHY IS THE
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE CENfPEV
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It It a BeamlMi thoe, with no tacks or wax intra
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sewed shoe cotttng from $t.X) to $.Y0O.
CR OU l.rnyluP tiand-aewrd, inennmm
P9a thoe en-r uflerai! fur $vju; equals Freuch
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flfrO AO I'nlice Nliooi Farmers. Railroad ITflB
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a ra w nap cam uo uouer suueeveroireream
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