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It may be called a protectivj; tariff, subsidies for special purposes!. bounties,' or something else, but every dollar which comes to the beneficiaries in that way comes out of scjme, one else, and while it contributes to that extent to enrich them, it to the same extent tends to the impoverishment of those who have to pay it. The man who iscom-j p.elled to pay one man iwo dollars for ari art'rcle which he could buy from some other man for one dollar, isl robbed of one dollar to benefit', the man to whom he is forced tc pay it. Yt-is not the less robbery! because it is done in accordance; with legislative enactment. ! No legislative body on earth has the right to take one man's money for the benefit of another man, and when J that thing is done it is" done not by right but by usurpation. Nor has any government on the face of the earth the right to tax one in dustry for the benefit of another, to crush one that another may survive and prosper. It might with equal justice claim the right to levy tribute uponone religious denomination to support another, as is done in some of the tnonarchical governments on the other side of the ocean. Thee is not an American, whatever his religious or political affiliations may be' who wliuUl not pronounce this th sheerj . est despotism. The principle under lying one is the same as the princi-j pie underlying the other, that is talk ing from from one man something which he has earned and which be- longs to him to give to another mari who has not earned it, and to whom; , it does not belong, .giving him some thing for nothing,' and taking from the other and giving him nothing in return. This is precisely what the" so-called protective tariff does, what subsidies and bounties do. '. -. Such a policy does not . enrich the country,-although it may stimulate industries, for it simply takes the money from one man's pocket and puts it into the pocket of another. We talk about the increased wealthy of our country and point to the great fortunes of some very rich -men, the, increased production of our manu facturing industries, and of our farms as an evidence of this increased wealth, but much of this is an increase on paper merely, estimated valua tions, and has no real existence in fact. .: ' j f The invention, of machinery has wonderfully increased the capacity for production in factory, shop and on the farm, but neither is this an eviderice of wealth for "the greater :he production, unless where cdmbines or trusts are ,2 rmed to keep prices up, the lower the prices. The farmer who raises 1,000 bushels of wheat and who can market fpr noj more than fifty cents a bushel, is no better off than the f armei who raised , 500 bushels and sold i : for $1 a bushel, nor so well off. So with; the factory and the shop. Increased production is . not necessarily an evidence of in-. Creased wealth. So we hear of the increased value of pur farming lands, when as a qatter of fact, many of them have not really increased in value at ill. A piece of property which is n'ot held for speculative pur poses, is worthy just what it produces or yields in the way of wheat, no more. Values are largely fictitious, and many a farm is valued and. assessed at" $100 an acre which wouldn't produce crops enoughj ac cording t the . average of prices for some yea s past, to pay the interest . on that amount of money, a fact which is )roven by the millions -of dollars pi mortgages upon American -farms which never can be paid but of the products of these farms. J A very corjsiderable part of the $60, 000,000,000 - of wealth with which the American people are credited is veaftn on paper, which has an ex istence iri facj. The farming lands rtf t,iC v ,nf, - 1- . ' i. : r xi aaa 1 ciauicpurtion otnese yuu, auuprci inousanas oi iarms are not worth as -much to-aay as they were ten or twenty years ago, and those who own these are poorer than they wed ten or twenty years ago. many of these, under, the policy VOL. XXI. which concentrates wealth into the hands of the few, and passing out of the hands of the owners into the hands of the favored ones, and where they were owners become simply tenants. This is one of the results of this; baneful policy, mis called a "protective tariff." PACKING THE SENATE. ; Everyone who has any knowledge of the history of the Republican party knows that tt never scrupled at doing anything to accomplish its purposes or to perpetuate its sway however questionable or however I lawless that thing might be. In the early days of its existence when it was waging war on the extension of slav ery into the Territories, it pleaded a "higher law" than the constitution in justification of its course and dur ing the war it claimed! the. right to set the constitution aside and make such laws as it saw fit life of the nation." to "save the ! After the war was over and Feder ral numbers and resources triumphed over Southern valor, and the South ern States were about to go back in to the Union, from which, according to tle Republican contention, they had hever been put, an(Ht was feared that the Democratic party, with the assistance of Southern votes, might regain possession of t the Govern ment, they hit upon the idea of neu tralizing the white Democratic vote of the South by enfranchising the recently emancipated slaves, and re constructing the. States that had se ceded on a Republican basis.- While they enfranchised the negroes they disfranchised thousands of white men, and ostracised - the best and truest men in the South. " ! When some one questioned the constitutionality of he proposed legislation bluff Thad Stevens, in a tone of disgust exclaimed: "No one is d: d fool enough to pretend that it is constitutional." It is extra con stitutional." And so on extra consti tutional grounds the reconstruction laws were passed, not to "save the life of the Nation," which was the justification for unconstitutional en actments during the war, but to save the Republican partv, which was a matter of quite as much or even more importance to them than "sav ing the life of the Nation," with a big N. We all have a viyid recollection of what these years of reconstruction were, with their standing armies, military edicts, military courts, bayonets at the polls, soldiers in the State; houses, and thieving State Legislatures. When- the reconstruction policy had ; failed, and the Soalh had se cured possession of ,her State Gov ernments and was sending solid del egations of Democrats instead of Republicans to Congress, we remem ber how they endeavored to run their J torce Din tnrougn me congress-01 1 ,'74-'75, and were only prevented by the stubborn opposition of the Dem ocratic minority under the leader ship of the iron-nerved Samuel J. Randall, of honored memory, aided by James G. Blaine. j Its next two atrocious . schemes to perpetuate the sway of the party which they saw was on the wane, the House being Republican by only 8 out of 330 and the Senate be ing Republican by. only two out; of 76, were the Force bill which passed the House but' which for prudential reasons was hung up in the Senate, and the scheme to make States out of a half a dozen sparsely settled Territories to thus ensure a Repub lican maiority in the Senate. These 1 11 two schemes, both infamous and in utter contempt of the spirit i riot of the letter of the constitution, both essentially revolutionary, were in- spired by the same j motive, the one to ensure a Republican majority in the House and the election of Re publican Presidents, the other to en sure a Republican Senate, thus at tempting to hold by, lawless trickery possession of the legislative and ex ecutive departments of the govern ment, which is practically t ie gov ernment. The former failed, thelat- ter succeeded,. and thus by s ome of the most outrageous proceedings ever attempted the Republics ns have to-day a majority of fourteen in the Senate. Had it not been For this shameless trickery the Senate of the United States after the 4th o ', March next would be Democratic ,They knew what they were doing jwhen they went out hunting for new Re publican States, and packed the Sen ate before the political revolution qame. Unfortunately for Mr. Reed he cannot make rules for the next Con gress. It will be hard on him, if the the Democrats should take his own rules, ready made as they are, and apply them to Mr. Reed arid other members of the minority. Phel Ledger, Ind,' . The perpendicular tariff ' of McKinley has pVoved ajtogethertoo steep for the masses of thfij Amen, can oeooie. 01. wuiiam js, .mom I oUii a hkjl ta.i miiu was a .wuo- sure much more in harmony with their present sentiments . as well as with their interests. Phil. Record, Dem. Let friendship creep gently to the height; if it rush to it, it may soon run itselt out of breath. puller. . ; - MINOR MENTION. J The Philadelphia North 'American, Republican, after remarking that the result of last Tuesday's election was "not unexpected,'! characterizes it as "criminal folly" which turned over the popular branch of Congress jto a party "which has only succeeded in proving its incapacity to conduct the affairs of a great people." ! This be- nusierea i organ is clear on its oase and. handles its lansruasre 'with a reckless lack of propriety when it characterizes as "criminal" the action v--' Americans who said they had enough j of. the Republican party and its extravagant and lawless legislation, and . wheni it talks of the inca- t - r t pacity of the Democratic party to conduct the affairs of a great people, it shows itself as recklessly oblivious of facts as it is in the selection of its language. The greatest glory ofj this government was achieved under Democratic administrations.: Under Democratic administrations were the eras of the country's greatest pros perity, and every foot of territory, Florida and all that vast domain be tween the Mississippi Rjver and the Pacific Ocean, with the exception pf Alaska, was acquired under Demo cratic administrations, j And lii all this time it never stole anything, nor oppressed one class of citizens to en rich another. According to the figures of the New York World, the Democrats would have a maiority in the next House without the vote of the South. It places the Democratic majority at 141. Total numher oi Democrats, 23G, Republicans,95. Of these 51 Democrats and 43 Republicans are from the East, C7 Democrats and 49 Republicans from the West 118 Democrats and 3 Republicans! from the South. This would give the Democrats from the East an W est a majority of 23 over the! Republicans without counting the South. A re markable coincidence lis found be- tween the Democratic Representa tion of the East and West, the num ber lrom the East and West being 118, precisely the same! as from the South. It is likely that -these figures will vary somewhat when the com plete returns are in. It cannot be told yet what the precise Democratic majority will be in the next House ot Representatives. Estimates made by the leading New York papers vary widely. The Times estimates it at 131, the Herald at 121, the World at 141, the Sun at 154, while the Tribune, Rep, puts it at CO. The Tribune cut its figures down, intentionally, for the returns at the time it made its estimate showed more than that. It will be several days before the exact figures will De known irom some roi tne remote or closely contested districts but there will be only a few! The maiority will reach 120 if it does not go over that. Some of the Republican prgans have crawled out from the wrpek of last Tuesday, gathered themselves together, and try to assure their dumbfounded followers . that they. will be all" right again in 1892, and wilfelect a Republican Congress in that year. They don t inform their readers why this will be, and it is well that they don't attempt it, for they might find some difficulty in finding reasons for the prediction. The same organs only a dar before the election confidently predicted a general Republican triumph through out the whole country.. Erom the way their predictions have panned out we shouldn't think theic readers would take much stock in tneir two- year off prognostics. STATE TOPICS. The Land and Improvement Com panies" which have been organized in this State are doing much fto build up and beautify the respective towns in which they have been organized. -- 1 We, see by the Salem Press that one of the companies organized iii Winston Salem is .laying off a tract of C00 acres in the suburbs p,f tiie latter town, dividing it into ;blocl!s, laying out streets, and otherwise improving it. The result will be te rapid growth of Salem, one of the most desirable points in North Carolina for a residence on account of the educational facilities and other com mendable things for which! that sturdy noted. community has longf Jeen I know no blessing so small which can be reasonably expected with out prayer, nor any so great but may be obtained by ..ioutn. ; I do not call one greater and I one smaller; that which fills "'its period and place is equal to any. watt, wnit- a ' L a t h J3 peof seventy ; together In his soul, Philip jsroois. : i . ., . n . There is no house so small that it has not room for love; there is no castle so large that it cannot be filled ! - -i with it. . r'- ' A; - They who apply themselves to Jesus Christ shall be dealt with accord ing to their faith; not according to their proiessions, uuc according xq ineir iaitn. Henry. WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER U, CONGRATULATIONS - Chairman Smith to Mr. W. P. lOldhain 'God Bless You and New Hanover." Mr. W. P. Oldham, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of New Hapover county, received yester day the following letter from! Mr. Ed. Chambers Smith, Chainoan of the State Executive Committee: Rooms State Democratic - Executive Committee, Raleigh. N.: d Nov. ,7th, 1890.' ' IV. P. Oldham. Wiknimrton. N: C. My Dear Oldham: The 'election is now over and the. result shows a Demo cratic majority ol about 50,000 for the ttate ticket and at least ninety majority in the Legislature. 1 his is 1 extremely gratifying to fne, and I desire to express my thanks to you lor the intelligent work you performed. v.Your: "earnest efforts greatly aided in securing the splendid victory which we have gained, and it is with feelings of real pleasure that 1 return my sincere hanks to you tor your untiring energy. Our relations have been pieasant, and now, when they are about to be severed, I feel that I must express my gVatitude for. your con tinuous courtesy to me. . Lrod bless j'and New Hanover. , Very truly yours, j r. Ed. Chambers Smith, j Chairman. The Cape Fear & Cincinnati Railr-ovd. It is announced that the Massa chusetts and Southern Construction Company, which has the contract for the construction of the first 156 miles of this railroad, has sublet it to Keating & Co. of Ohio. This road is jto run to Wilmington, to $outhport, N. C, and thence to Conway, S. C. It will then branch off in three directions, one line to Charleston, S. C, one going, to Salisbury, N. CJ, and the other to Greenville, S. C, j ) A Bice Trust. ! r I ! ' A telegram from New Orleans, La., says that an attempt is being made there by Chicago and St. Paul capitalists to form a rice trust, td -control all the. mills .in Louisiana. It is stated that the chief operators have about S3.000.000 capital behind them. i South port Coaling' Station. The South port Leader is jubilant over the opening up of business at the Cape Fear Coaling & Contracting Company's new coal docks at that place. It says: 'The steamer;0.ft?i Bay, loaded with G.500 bales;o( cotton, from Wil mington for Bremen, stopped here on her way out and took a small load of coal. The importance of this coal dock here to the trade will be appreciated when it is better known. Steamers' can load with a full icargo at ;! Wilmington, only taking coal enough to bring them down here, and -then coal up at this point, sailing without further stops to their destinations. During her short stav the Boskenna Bay jwas crowded with visitors, who were! cordially, re ceived by Capt. Legg and his officers, and shown over the steamer. Capt. and Mrs. Legg were: on shore for a short time, and en joyed the hospitalities ex tended them by !a number of our citi zens. Capt. Wnj. St. George took the steamer out." Ht. Rev. Bishop Watson A gentleman who had iust received a I private letter from Bishop Watson dated October 26th, informs the Star that he expected to sail from Glasgow for New York per steamship "Circas sian on lhursday next, November 13th. i The Bishop hopes to be in Wilming ton before the end of the month, and will enter immediately upon a visitation in the diocese, particulars of which will be duly made known. j The prayers of the Churches in the diocese of East Carolina are requested for the preservation of the Bishop and Mrs. Watson frpm the dangers of the sea and for theirl safe arrival at home. Didn't Like His Party's Questionable Practices. j Speaking ol ;the recent election m Brunswick county, the South port Leader says "the greatest sensation was the ab solute withdrawal of Mr. R. M. Wescott from the- ranks of the Republicans. As Mr. Wescott has been an active worker in the Republican party for nineteen years, his desertion irom tne ranks naturally caused a stir and considerable talk. Mr. Westcott claimed as the reason for his, withdrawal, the queslion able practices of his late party, which he did not believe Were right." Cumberland County Fair. The annual Fair of the Cumberland County Agricultural Society will be held this week a Fayette ville. The outlook is excellent for a large attendance and a splendid exhibit of the various agricul tural and mechanical industries of Cum berland and;thei adjoining section. The Cape Fear region, we hear, will most magnificently sustain the reputation of the past in every particular. The racing will be very good, while the fine crops will make the! agricultural exhibit ex traordinarily fine. The annual meeting of stock holders of the t Wilmington "& Weldon R. R, will be held in this city ort Wed nesday, the 19th inst., and on the same dav the stockholders of the W, C. & A R. R., the M.L& A. A R. R., and the Florence R. R.l will all meet at the gen eral office of the Atlantic Coast Line here. V " ' Senator Vance, Gov. Fowle and Col. L. L. Polk are announced to speak at the Sampson County Fair, to be held at Clinton, Noy, 20, 27. p arid 89, - One of our business firms re ceived a letter from a correspondent in New York yesterday, which wound up as follows :-: "We bad an election in this section yesterday, and! even in Massa chusetts and New Hampshire." i The ever, adorable, marvel of Providence is that in the spiritual crea- ' tion God does: not accomplish his will by power, but through; the wills of his children. Thorn. , : . .. .. . ' . ' PERSONAL. f: The j Yan PhouV divorce case containing a Chinese Yale graduate, a wealthy-New Haven girl and a mother-in-law In perfect working order, ts now on the boards jn that city. -' Dr. Talmage will preach in New York every Sunday night during the winter . .,. Lord Randolph Churchill is re ported to have won $75,000 on the turf this season. . . ' Herr Friedrich, husband of the great singer Materna, is dying in Vienna 01 tsnght s disease. Mrs. Frank Leslie will deliver two lectures ! ip Chicago next week on irte Koyal Leaders of bociety. -J-- Mme. Albani is now a guest at Baliaord, and the Queen is said to be a warm admirer of her musical gifts. - Private Dalzell estimates that the soldiers annually and unnecessarily waste $25,000,000 in fees to pension .agents, the preparation of ; vouchers. postage,-etc Bishop Keane, president of the Catholic University in Washington, who delivered a divinity lecture at Harvard the first of the sect to ap pear under suchi auspices. William 3L Scott, of Erie, who has been seripnsly ill, is better, and his daughter and Other relatives think that he will soon be: entirely well. He has concluded to sell all his race horses. Miss A. B. Cleghorn, a Hawaiian in the line of succession "to princess, and the throne ofli Honoluhu, arrived in New York frpm Europe on Sunday. She is shortly I to w edl a well-known EngHsh- man. j Senor Julio, a New York tobac- wnai, u picpucu iuuui uuwu uiowugs on the new tariff bill. Within the last : a il a . month Senof lulio has imported 200,- L 000,000 cigars, and the advance in. price will make him a millionaire. R. P. Flower complains that 1 1 every morning he nnds on his table a pile ot political mail two leet high. George i M. Pullman, of Pull man palace car fame, will build a $1,000,- 000 hotel inf Chicago and have it com pleted in time for the World's Fair. Baron de Lutz, formerly prime minister to Louis rhinipe, whose death is recorded I from Paris this week, was the hero of j many an amusing anecdote. -Mr. Gladstone, although a very rich man, 13 ncrt. fond of extravagant ex penditure. I Both he and Mrs. "Glad stone are economical almost to penuri ousness in personal matters. Mrs. I Birch all abandoned her proposed journey back to England and is still in Canada doing all she can to secure signatures to a petition for the commutatibn of her husband's sentence. Nayemura Sakusaboro, a Japan ese druggist, has got ahead of the Mc- Kinley by the discovery of a process by which he can convert wild hemp into a fabric which ; cannot be distinguished from silk. Prince Frederick Ferdinand von Levetzon of Lubec'Germany, who"holds a high military .commission in the Royal ouara ana is ne;r to a vast estate, nas been a dry goods clerk at Syracuse for some time past. . Dr. Francis Quinlan, of New a participant in the stormy York, was scenes enActed on the frontier during the Sitting Bull crusade against the whites.Tarid was the first physician to amputateithe leg of an Indian. The latest "boy orator" to come forward is Irving Jay Steeninger, the child phenomenon of Jlocheslter, Ind. He is not! quite b years old, but he can deliver a fifty-minutes' "'address with astonishing eloquence and self-posses- sion. I i-'Fred Elder, of Detroit, the brightest! newspaper man in Michigan, was ruined by chess and is now a vagrant. 1 H- While the Rev. Dr, George F. Pentecost is engaged io evangelizing India, his family will live in Florence, Italy. . ;) 4- Stepniak will give three differ- cm eciures m whs country wucu uc arryes in,DePr1,T.olstoi, Siberian r . 1 . i u T 1 nomas v inans, ine munuiiciirc, itr ti ;it; ' - whe had lived luxuriously, said on his J . 1 - 1 1 1 , 1J Al A AAA 1 death-bed he would give $1,000,000 to be able to eat a piece of bread and butter. Hale Tenkins 'of North Wales. Pa. j has in his possession a deed signed by William Pfenn, conveying 480 acres of lanq in Montgomery township to lhos. af irman. -- Gov. Hill, of New York, is one of the1 poorest platform speakers.' He lacks the quality of sympathy, and his utterances are all studied with a view to producing an immediate effect. There is nothing spontaneous or graceful in his piattorm oratory. One of the principal leaders of the temperance movement in Great Britain is Mr. Wyndham Portal, the proprietor of the Laverstoke paper mills, where the paper that the Bank of England notes and the postal orders are made of is manufactured..; Krupp has just given to the German Emperor and the Crown Prince a cannon each. The Emperor's present is elaborately decorated with military desijgrjs, and Is considered by Krupp to be the finest; bit of workmanship ever turned out from his foundry. ,The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and. we see nothipg but sand; the" angels come to visit us. and we only know them when they are gone, George Eliot. 4-jFree -will is not the liberty' to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done; even im the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. 1 here lies Iree- dom indeed. George Macdonald. -j- Do not trust to your industry for success, but lean wholly on God's help; rest m Him, believe that He will do whatever is best for you so long as you on your part are quietly in earnest andj gently diligent: I say this because impetuous activity hurts both our busi nes and lour sohls, apd is really a hin drance, - If all affectation should be ban ished from the world, or even from the Church there would be much less "grum blirig" in. a variety of directions. Plain dealing is a great preserver of the peace A jjood sister said to her pastor; .vYou went right-bv'mv house1 the other day, and didn't ston in," "My sister," aid Mv sister, said thef pla n-spoken preacher, "how would l ever get anywnere h i never went uy anywhere?" There was no answering thij. ' Never give way to melancholy. Nothing encroaches more. I fight against it vigorously. One great reme dy is tc take short views of life. Are yoii happy? j Are you likely to remain so till this evening, or next month, or next -year?. - Then why destroy present happiness by distant misery, which may never pome at all, or you may nevef lrye to see jt? For ' every substantial grief has twrtntv shadows, and most of them shadows of our own- making. Sydney Smith. 1890. CURRENT COMMENT 'if : : Two months ago, the Census Bureau gave an estimate; of jthe pop ulation of the I country, from the re turns received, indicating a total of 64,211,264. -The official figures how put forth reduce this neatly 2,000, 000. As a depopulator Porter beats war and' pestilence. A. F. World, ! The census should be in no sense partisan. :It ris a question into which party politics should inever en-. ter, and the President' " mistake was n choosing so narrow and, bitter a partisan as Porter for the position of Superintendent. Porter brought; par tisanship into the office and assured failure by doing so. JV. p. Times- Democrat. Dent. -About 63,000,000; all the population which the country s to be credited with this year This is probably nearly, if not quite 2,000,- 000 short of the actual! number. However, the increase which will be revealed in 1900 will -be especially great because of this oniiss ion, l or it is scarcely likely that the next cen sus will be as inadequate as thi has been, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Rep. An old Scotch bal ad makes a hshermau say ot herHng that '-'wives and mothers oft despairing call them lives of men. j The dan- gerous cnaracter ot the pshing in dustry everywhere ! is shown by the fact that during I the I last twelve months eighteen vessels engaged in ithave been lost fromi trie PQrt of pi.,,..t.r ir... i it I Gloucester, Mass., alone, bntai nga ,oss ot eighty-six ; Hves.-f-Piit. Ke- ord, Dem. As soon as Porter's total was given out it was seen to be obyious- ly erroneous. This view was con- firmed by our vital statistics, try lists, directory names, figures and building reports. regis- school It was proved oeyona an cavil oy am actu- al count, which showed the federal enumeration to Ibe twp hundred thousand below the actiaal popula tion. N. Y. Herald, Ind It'gets worse and worse for the Tories. At the municipal elec tions in England and Wales the Lib erals gained a considerable number of successes. As they have done far the best in the bye elections to Par liament, the Gladstohian ; plume waves aloft. The day for a phange of government or administration, as Americans would sayj .is evidently near at hand. Wash. Star. Ind. '- One would hardly suppose that a locomotive cab h'ad; to be in vented, it is so obviously useful, but tne death ot John bcptti, an old Baltimore and Ohio engineer, who first devised a cab for the protection of the engineer and jfireman from the weather, is a reminder that the earlier locomotives had no cabs and that English locomotives are still built without them. Piil. Ledger, Ind. THE GREAT SWEEP, . . li . ' 1 '! What the Press Think of the Great Dem ocratic Victory. - x N. Y. Worid. ' li lt is an on year for Democrats on top. It is an off year for Republicans, because the people want; thewar taxes on and hands that hold bayonets kept off the elections. I Norfolk Landmark. In 1892 the country will elect a Demo cratic President, and within six years the Senate will, we; doubt not, have a 'Democratic majority. There must be a new directory in the management of the I . , . ., y. 1 great puginess ox tne uoyernmenu Philadelphia Record. 1 Thfl irrct thrAiirrhrtnt! tnp rnnntrtr I v.a& www.7 chows that the iniDulse wh ch carried Pennsylvania back into the Democratic 1 . J . I . .. . eolumn is not singular nor accidental She still stands side by side with Massa chusetts. The skies look very clear ahead. Indianapolis Sentinel. It is indeed a splendid victory. It places Indiana in the frbnt rank of the reform Commonwealths! of the nation. It proclaims to the world that she stands on the solid rocks of equal taxation, lo cal self-government and honest methods in politics New York Star, President Harrison had a good op portunity to find out hbw absolututely insignificant he is politically when there are no blocks of five in the. scales with him. Even his own State repudiates him. , The verdict of the country upon his Administration must make him wince. New York Herald A thousand thanks to the Republi cans of the Fifty-first Congress. They passed the McKinley bin just in time. It they had haa the reckless audacity to pass the Force bill also they would probably have been entirely wiped out in this election. In the polical history' of this country no party ever received a sterner rebuke at. the polls, Richmond Times., The result of the Tuesday elections fully confirms the confidence which the thinking portion of theApierican public leel as to tne perpetuity oi the institu tions of this country. If the success 'of the Republican party in the last Prcsi dential election,, through the employ ment ot the most improper and criminal means, somewhat shook this confidence. the doubt has now been entirely re' moved Philadelphia Times. ; i 1 There never has been i, in pur political history, a popnlar condemnation of a political party so prompt, complete and overwhelming as that which the coun-f try has iust declared against the party now in power. Every one. recalls the tidakwave of 1874. in Grant's, second term, that foreshadowed the election of Tildem but that was mild in its force compared with this ine KepuDiican organization naa maae a direct issue upon the monopoly tariff, hiimensome and : needless i "fcp'"s taxes, reckless extravagance and .the policy of force. 1 The 1 answer of the country is unmistakable and overwhelm ing. (FromNew England to the extreme West there is but . one report Dem ocratic victory. VYou j talk about eramleigh! Why, my deae, bpy he has; forgotten more than vou ever knew." i - "You don't say so!' Well, that accouts for it. f Every time I call ta him he's poring over the encyclopedia of diction ary.' He must be searching lot. more hings to forget.- Boston, iranscrffit. NO. 52 CONGRESSMAN COWLES. Cleveland Democracy Celebrating Their "-j - Victory. ' . f Special Star Telegram.) j Shelby, N.'. C, Nov. 8. The De mocracy of Cleveland. feelingassured of the election of Congressman Cowles, are celebrating the event to-night with an immense torchlight procession and addresses by R, McBryan, of Asheville, J. L. Webb. J. A. Anthony and R. H. Ryburn. ELECTION RETURNS. Reports as to Contested Votes in Various States. i . - Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star MICHIGAN, j Detroit, Nov. 8. In an extra edition just oht, the Journal (Ind.) prints the tollowiug in part: 'The alleged Democratic landslide in Michigan is likely to prove! no land slide at all. In fact it is now claimed that the ntire Republican State ticket, with the exception of Turner for Gov ernor, and Huston for Attorney General, will'probably be found to .have the most votes when the oliicial figures are footed up. This rather astonishing statement is made upon the authority of F. B. kgan, deputy Secretary of State Egan I is in the best possible position to iudge I 01 tne .result, and he makes this state- I ment with the greatest confidence. He will not at this writing give the basis for the statement, but he declares the figures will show his position to be true. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, Nov. 8.4-But few additional returns have been received to-day from the first or second Con grcb&ioiiai districts, in wnicn me results f Tuesday's elections are still in doubt gressional Districts, in which the results Returns from 33 out of 457 orecincts in precincts in the first district give Barkam. rep.. 175 plurality. b.ight counties in this aistrict. where returns are incomplete, gave De- tiaven, rep., loi majority two years ago. Keturns irom 841 out ot 488 precincts in the second district give tJlanchard, rep., 474 plurality. Two counties! in this district, from which practically no returns have been received, gave Cleve land a majority of 331 over Harrison two years ago. ' j . NEBRASKA, j j Lincoln, Nov. 8. A statement given out from the Republican headquarters. announces the election ol the entire Re publican ticket, with the exception of the Governor.by pluralities ranging from 1,500 to 6,000. Returns from all but six counties make the figures on Governor as follows: Richards, rep., 67,605; Boyd, dem., 69,880; Powers, ind,, 68.417. The Independent headquarters claim the election of Powers by a plurality of 1 - .000. but concede the balanjce of the ticket to the Republicans. The remain ing counties will add to Powers relative ly, but probably hardly sufficient to over come Boyd s plurality. ILLINOIS. Chicago, Nov. 8. tW. G. Ewing, dem., in an interview, declared that he, instead of Abner Taylor, rep is elected to longress in the 1st Illinois district. He savs the vote for Abner j Taylor, in unofficial returns, was confused with those for A. H. Taylor, Republican can didate for Appellate Court! Clerk. In any event Ewing proposes to contest the election on the ground that the votes for his opponent was openly pur chased at the polls. Were Ewing suc cessful the Democrats would have all four of the Congressmen from Chicago. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Concord, November 8.1 Chairman Churchill, of the Republican State Com mittee, makes the following statement. 1 he claims of the Democrats that they have a majority of the members of the Legislature is untounded: in fact the Republicans have a good working ma jority. They- will organize the House and Senate, elect a Oovernor, and a United States Senator to succeed Henry W. Blair. j CONNECTICUT. Hartford, Nov. 8. The first set of unofficial returns from every town, thus far received at the Secretary of State's office, gives Morris, dem., a popular ma jority of 27. This is by the face of the returns, and makes no account of 126 Republican votes thrown out in Bridge port, or 36 Prohibition votes thrown out in one ward, in vv aterbury, because of the word "bor. : MONTANA. Helena, Mont,. Nov. 8.--Although the returns are not vet complete, it is settled that W. W. Dixon is elected to Congress over Thomas HJ Carter, rep. about 150. Dixon s maiority will be ; Carter now concedes his defea.t The completion of the State Senate is still irt doubt and the official count alone will determine it. j DELAWARE Wilmington, Nov., 8.-j-Official re- turns of Tuesday's vote gives Reynolds, dem., for Governor, a majority ot 54d, and Causey, dem., for Congress, 668. About 150 votes were cast in the State for the Prohibition candidate. IOWA. I Des Moines, Nov. a,- unomciai re turns from all the - counties in tne State give McFarland, rep., for Sec retary 01 State, a.eatf maiority. COTTON. The Now York Sun's Report of the Market Yesterday, j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, Nov. 8. The Sun's review of the cotton market to-day says: Futures opened at 3 to 6 points advance, and turned easier, closing steady at 2 to 4 points advance from yesterday's clos ing prices. There was a buoyant open ing on a smart advance from Liverpool, but when a certain amount of short in terest had been closed " up the demand fell off and prices gave way, the bears recovering courage on very favorable picking weather at the Souih and the promise of a further crop movement for the current week, , Port receipts are esti mated at 30,700 bales, and there is in pro gress a very large overland movement, which, wi'll be shown in the statistics for November. Spot cotton here was quiet but steady. : j BANK " I STATEMENT. Beport of the Changes During the Fast " 1 J - "Week. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York. Nov. 8. Weeklv state- - i 1 1 ' ment of associated banks shows the fol- lowing changes: Reserve decrease, $3,246,225; I 'loans decrease; $930,200, srecie decrease. $8,185,100: legal ten der decrease, $1,068,900; deposits decrease $4,031,100; circulation decrease $7,300. The'.banks now hold $2,544,430 less than the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. -The assignment of false motives to others is the mostt seductive sin of yie disputations. ,: " No reward can be greater than consciousness of performing a duty en tirely free of expectation, . v" t v $ffilTS TURPENJ1NE Clinton Caucasian: .The cotton crop of this county is the largest that has been made in many years. 1 Asheville ' Citizen : "The ' First Baptist Church of Asheville was organ ized December 0, 1829, nearly sixty-one years ago. ! Salem Press-. The oOO acres recent,v purchased by the 'Winston- oaierp jana ana improvement (compa ny, south) of Salem, is being laid off in streets, manufacturing sites, lots for residences, &c. -.- 1 1 Carthage .Blade:' Dr. Wood- bury, a northern man,: living near Jack son springs lost nis dwelling bouse, val ued at $0,000, and 23,000 feet of lumber by fire about two weeks ago.; He had $4,000 insurance. ' , - V, T - '' I Diirham Globe: Fromi a letter received to-day from Wake Forest, we learn that young Luttlc. the student who attempted suicide Friday; night by shooting himself through the head, has been taken home and is thought to be improving, I - 1 Louisburg Timee: A few days ' ago Mr.iWm. Medlin brought us a pota to weighing four pounds nine ounces. Nowhere comes. Mr. Howell Griffin with one weighing eight pounds and ten s ounces, i ne potato crop, like au other crops in this section, is very good. ! Lenoir Topic: The Linville Im-. 1 provemnt Company have just finished the location of a road between Linville and blowing rock, along the face of the urandtather mountain. It is thought that this road upon completion, which -is expected by Tune, 1891. will be the finest mountain drive in the Eastern. States, the length being 16 miles through 1 most Deauiuui scenery. Mount Holly News: Several car loads of machinery' have been re ceived and placed in the Albion Cotton Mills. A determined effort is now being made, and with a very gratifying snow tor success, to build a fresbyte rian Church at Mt. Holly. - A subscrip tion list was started last Monday at noon and in a few hours about $400 had been subscribed. I Raleigh News and Observer : The reward of $200 offered by the Gov ernor for Henry Barnes has been paid over to" W..W. Smith and J. C Benton, of Johnston county, they having cap tured Barnes. r The Governor has authorized an " exchange of courts be tween Judges Merrimon and Brown, by which Judge Merrimon will hold the tall term Of Polk Court instead of Judge Brown. - ; i . ! Oxford Day: Moore, .the col ored candidate for Congress. ' got only twentjf-four votes in this county. ! i - wuiiam Chavis, a young colored man living near Berea, having declared it his purpose to vote the Democratic ticket, was threatened with lynching by the ne groes of his neighborhood. This did not deter him, and while at the polls Tues day he was told that his house was on fire. Hurrying back he found the build ing in ashes. He had locked the door when he left home, his family being ab sent. !. . ' . 'j ! Charlotte Chronicle: Capt. Jas. ! Dowd had some sweet potatoes in town ' yesterday, which were last year's growth. They had been kept ' in sand and were periectly preserved. Dr. Abernathy has succeeded in raising. $3,000 in two months tor the new college, and he in tends commencing the work as soon as he; returns home. The Doctor is very sanguine in raising the necessary sum to rebuild the college. A Presby terian Church is to be organized at Newell's station next week. Revs. R. C. Reed, J. L. " Williamsc Sugar Creek, Brice Cochrane, of M ,,.-( Creek, and Eider S. C. Durryjform ttjTe commis-; ' sion to effect the organization. Wilson Advance: Died, at her home in this place last Saturday even ing, Mrs. R. S. Kingsmore, in the 50th year of her age. Maxtoh Union: Rev. Mr. Price has severed his connection with the Alma church, and will discontinue his appointments here also, on account of his physical inability to perform the work. Raleigh Chronicle: Rev. W. M. I Clark, who has been Rector of the Church of the Goody Shephetd in this city for some time past, has resigned to accept the Rectorship of a church in - fredencksburg, Va. r Goldsboro Argus: An im mense brick warehouse 100 feet by 200 feet, is in course of construction on the square belonging to the A. & N. C. R. K., beyond the Ice b actory. 1 he build ing is being erected by Messrs. Weil and Borden, and will be used for storing cot- . ton: - Durham Sun: The friends of William Angier will be glad to learn that he is doing very well and is in a fair way to recover, if blood poison does not set in, and there is no indication 01 . that. His foot was amputated above the ankle. A portion of his hand was saved. -4-Greensboro Workman : News comes direct from Ore Hill that Miss Emma Cheek, a daughter - of Mr. C. C Cheek, died last night at 11 o'clock. aged 18, also that Terrell Brooks, second son of our friend T. T. Brooks, died yes terday morning at about 8 o'clock, aged 19. ! Rocky Mount Argonaut: Over $600 has already been collected and put in bank tor the building ot an episcopal church in Battleboro. Several substantial gentlemen with families; are anxious to come to town, but are pre vented from doing so by their inability to secure dwellings. i j Raleigh Newt and Observer.: A special communication of the Grand Lodge ot Masons has been called by b. H. Smith, Grand Master, to convene in Eurham, Tuesday, November 11, 1890, 1 lay the corner stone of - Trinity Col lege. Grand officers and representatives of Lodges are requested to be present. .-J- Winston Daily : Mr, Davis, of Middle Fork township, Forsyth county, is in luck. Besides raising one of the largest and heaviest tomatoes we ever heard of, he gets a handsome cash pre mium for it. He raised the past year a Turner Hybi id tomato that weighed five pounds and 15 ounces, for which he received a premium of $100 in cash from the firm of Wm. Henry j Mour Seedsman, Philadelphia. ,j Cherokee Scput: Men are en gaged in clearing the timber fr6m the right-of-way on the W. N. C. 'road in No 6, about a quarter of a mile from the corporate limits of Murphy. The work of grading is going on a mile and a hplf further up the valley. We learn that Ammons, the supposed, murderer ot Gibson, which occurred at . Hiwassee, Ga.I several weeks ago, was seen in Ste coah, Graham county, Sunday a week ago, where he got his -dinner. He left that afternoon and' Sunday 'night the telegraph wire on the W. N. C. road was cut. It is supposed that AmmOns cut the wire and then took the train for Madison county. Parties are after him. j-i-Rockingham Rocket :. Election day was like Sunday. There was no noise, confusion or excitement. iPeople came to the polls, voted, and went back tq their work. "The oldest Inhabitant"' says he never before saw such a quiet election. The death at Liiesville last Saturday Jof Mrs. Hattie Birming-' him was inexpressibly sad. She was the : daughter of Mrs. Alice Townsend, of this place, and a grand-daughter f Col. Walter L. Steele. A husband arid five srpall children survive her. 4-r-On Saturday last.Mr. Wm. Northam, who lives: about two miles north of town.got into an altercation with Rich Long, col- ored, and drew his pistol and shot .him. ; The ball passed through the fleshy part . of the left arm fore-arm, inflicting a pain ful but not serious wound. i. - 1 V tt h 3 ' 4 .yd V 1 ,1 r