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' -J ? 1 ":-' .!'.;.;!? , i. i . ' ii'.S- mU-?-' 4 Civ 1 ,.; '-1' . .. 4 j w r. - ..rtx- . . ft It I. ft. - '.W-rive s' f :.. mm- ma ! 1 mm i .. WIHIAM H. BEBSAED, Editor and Proprietor. : WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, - - -. October 21. 1892. iWpa to be sent hereafter. Unieu yoa do both chanxes can be made. - T Notices of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Re sect. Revolutions of Thanks, &c, are charged for as Sdtaarvertisementa, bSly half rate. whenpa.4 S in advance. At th rate 60 cent. w,U pay for a simple annonncement of Marriage or Aeau. Remittances most be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters will register letters when desired. far Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. , . - " Spedmea copies forwarded when desired. - National Democratic Ticket. "j' For President: GROVER CLEVELAND, " Of New York. For Vice-President: , ADLAI E. STEVENSON. Or Illinois. For Presidential Electors at Large: C B. AYCOCK, of Wavnb. R. B. GLENN, of Forsyth. " For Congressman Sixth District: B. ALEXANDER. Mecklenburg. District Electors. ' v First District: L. L. SMITH, of Gates. Second District: N. T ROUSE, of Lenoir. Third District: jNO. G. SHAW, of Cumberland. Fourth District: E. S. ABELL, of Johnston. Filth District: J. A. BARRINGER, of Guilford. Sixth District: "" SOL, C WEILL, of New Hanover. Seventh District: AUGUSTUS LEAZAR. of Iredell ( Eighth District: J, R. LE WELLYN, - OF SURRY. ; , Ninth District: LOCKE CRAIG, of Buncombe. State Democratic Ticket For Governor: ELIAS CARR, of Edgecombe. SLl-i For Lieutenant-Governor , A. Doughton, of Alleghany. For Secretary of. State: OCTAVIUS COKE, of Wake. For State Treasurer DONALD W. BAIN, of Wake. For State Auditor R. M. FURMAN, of Buncombe. For ' Attorney-General: FRANK I. OSBORNE.Mecklxnburg. ..... -u. . ! For Sup't of Public Instruction: J. C. SCARBOROUGH, of Johnston. For Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, JAMES C MacRAE, of Cumberland. For Judge Twelfth Judicial District: GEO, A. SHUFORD. of Buncombe. County Democratic Ticket. For House of Representatives: EDGAR G. PARMELE. G. W. WESTBROOK. For Sheriff: FRANK H. STEDMAN. ; For Register ot Deeds: JOHN HAAR, Jr. For County Treasurer: JAMES A. MONTGOMERY: For Coroner: J. C WALTON. For Constable, Wilmington Township: j J. W.MILLIS. , For the State Senate, Twelfth District New Hanover and Brunswick. GEO. L. MORTON, of New Hanover. OOYESKUZITT OWNERSHIP. The Third party stumpers in the South (and this is the only section in which the Third party stumper seems to be doing an active business) do not lavish much eloquence upon the Government ownership of railroads and telegraphs scheme, because .it doesn't take as well in the South as it does in the far West, in the great grain growing section, where a good many gullible people have been per suaded that if the Government owned and 'operated the railroads they could have their farm produce, beet, pork, &c, shipped to the central or seaboard markets at a cost approxi mating nothing. But we never could understand why they did not include in this scheme the .ownership of river boats and lake vessels which carry pro duce down the rivers and over the lakes 10 the sea, and . ocean vessels which carry it across the seas to for eign markets. By including these they would cheapen freight on the inland waters and also over , the salted deep. This finish to the cheapened railroad service would be a ten-strike.. Perhaps the ' vision of the architects who - planned this . grand scheme was so filled with the' great "home markets" f which the protective tariff has built up for the American farmer that they ; couldn't see such little things, so far off, as ; the foreign markets,! although . the foreign markets bought, last year $327,000,C00 worth of American farm products, . :':V; 1,. i-:7-:: -c. I . If the Third party stumper in the - South isn't spreading himself enthu siastically on this scheme, it gets an occasional boost from organs on the other side of the . line,' one of :, which is the National Watchman, published in Washington, which,' as its name implies, stays awake of nights . to 6ee that nobody gets away, with the farmer, except the ? Watchman and the other self-constituted guardians who claim a monopoly of the right to do all the getting away with that , is done.-. . ' The Watchman takes a whack at the railroad and ; telegraph business - in last weekV jssne, attribute - the great depression in the agricultural fndustrytothe cost of getting pro- duce to the market, "distribution,", as it calls it,' and undertakes to show .i.. KartmArchin of the railroads rA i.oTflnhs bv the Government wouldn't be such a big. investment s r . after all. . -.w;. .'':-:V : It says that there are over 170,000 mlles of railroad in this country cap italtzed and bonded for $63,000 per mile on the- average, amounting m the ', aggregate .to $10,710,000,000, which could be duplicated for ; less than $18,000 per mile,-making in the aggregate $3,060,000,000. We don't suppose, nowever, tnai it miuuca in this the equipment, which for 170,000 miles of road is a pretty big thing, especially when we . consider the immense traffic over some of the main-trunk lines. 4 : ; ' The difference between the actual and fictitious value it puts at $5, 040,000,000,which would make the actual value, according to this figur ing, $5,670,000,000. .V; - ': The telegraphs are capitalized at $120,000,000, one-half of which it calls fictitious, leaving the real valu ation $60,000,000. This would make, then, for the railroads and telegraphs, if Ihe Gov ernment could acquire the ownership by purchase at thesefigures, $5,730, 000,000, a pretty big sum even after the 50 per cent, cut down. It is not suggested in the scheme proposed how the money is to be provided, but the presumption is that the Government is to issue notes and pay for the purchased" roads with these, if the owners be willing to sell and take Chat kind of money. This, with the currency already in circula tion, would make about $7,000000,- l 000, or about $116 per capita, nearly two and a quarter times as much as Gen. Weaver and his supporters de mand. With so much paper money of course gold and silver would , be practically retired from circulation and would at once be at a premium. Then, to be consistent, if General Weaver were in the Presidential chair he would have to recommend to Con gress to pay the people from whom these railroads and telegraphs were bought the difference between the value of the paper in which they were paid and gold. That is what he contended should be done With the Federal soldiers who served in the late war, for which he three times introduced his bill in Congress, and he should act as honestly with the railroad men as with the soldiers. Even at this 50 per cent, reduction in valuation, if the promoters of this scheme were permitted to put their own figures on the roads, we see what a stupendous and impracticable undertaking it would be, to anyone except a crank of the first order or an unscrupulous demagogue. -' PL0TTDIG EH SECRET. We publish this morning startling proof of the existence in" this State of the secret political organization known as the) Gideonites, something which had been long suspected, but of which there was no satisfactory proof until the appearance of these letters from Messrs. Reed and Bell, both of whom are well known and reliable gentlemen the former of Whom is a member of the House from Buncombe county,' and the latter a member of the Senate from Clay, and last year State Lecturer ot the Alliance. ' The existence in Georgia of this oath-bound organization was proven sometime ago by men who were initiated into in, and gave the names, dates,places and objects for which the organization was established. Now we have the proof that it was intro duced into this State, and propagated by no less a personage than S. Otho Wilson, at present Chairman of the State Committee of the so-called People's party, the man who has the practical direction of the - operations of that party. - He is one of the most bitter, ma licious and unscrupulous leaders in the Third party, and in temperament and methods shows more of the An archistic spirit than any of his asso ciates. He is bolder, whether the boldness arises from lack of sense or from reckless desperation, and would make a good working mate with J. B. Eaves, Chairman of the Re publican committee, who is ' cast in pretty much the same kind of a mould. '.. When S. Otho Wilson undertook the Organization of this secret, oath bound society he knew . he was vio lating a State statute which prohibits under pains and penalties the organ ization of secret political societies, and he is to-day amenable to the' law for it. The man who did that would do worse if he had it in his, power to do worse, fpr one who would thus manacle the free action of his fellow citiiens over whom he had influence would go to any extreme that oppor tunity offered to accomplish the pur pose he had in view in swearing his dupes to do what he bade them do. 1 We had fearful experience of the dangers arising' from secret oath bound societies in 1868, an expe rience which has burned itself into the memory , of our 'people, when violence and the midnight torch did their ghasly work and made portions of the State a hell for a time. The men who were active in instigating the midnight incendiaries of those days and the . lawlessness to retain the political, power they - had ac quired, became infamous, and their memory is a stench in the nostrils of the people to-day, and so will It be with the. SrOtho 'Wilsons who are following in their footsteps and try- ing the same dangerous ana aesper- ate experiment. They are publib enemies and should, be so regarded by every .citizen who puts law and oraer apove amreuaus" ..m.n,n'li.TTTi vtrrs - aujujusu iuxo. L; - Under Republican administrations J postmasters are expected, if not re- quired, to render partisan service in political campaigns and most pi them comply from a sense of fear of losing caste, with thfe bosses if not from a sense of party obliga tion. There may oe exceptions 10 this rule but they are few .and far between. r It not unfrequently happens that during political campaigns the post offices, especially in small towns," are the headquarters where ' the local leaders meet to discuss the situation, to consult, and to plan operations and at such times they are put in a position to become pretty well posted on what is going on behind the boxes, the quantity of matter that goes and comes through the mails, and sometimes, by the accidental breaking open of packages, on the quality of the matter,' too," and thus become acquainted with the work of their opponents in the distribution of political documents and sometimes with official aad even private corres pondence. The presumption is that the mails are sacred; in the hands of honest men they are, and ordinarily speaking they are, but in political emergencies the presumed sacred ness is sometimes ignored, and liber ties are taken with matter of a polit ical character in transit which at other times would pass thtough un molested and untampered with, j But the postal thief seems to be doing duty in this campaign in North Carolina. For some time Chairman Simmons of the Democratic Com mittee has been aware of the annoy ing fact that official matter sent out from Democratic headquarters in Raleigh never reached its destina tion, and was so effectually lost that he could get no trace of it. The last instance of this kind was when on the 23d of Sept ember he sent an official sealed circular to the chair man of each county Democratic committee, calling attention to the letter of Attorney j General David son in regard to the duties of the registrars in registering voters.; He sent one, and only one, to the chairman ot each county Democratic committee. Fifteen of these never reached their destination but found lodgement somewhere else. By a re markable coincidence, about the time these documents went astray J. B. Eaves, chairman of the Repub lican State Committee, unaccount ably came into possession of : about the same number, 1 and as they were not mailed to him the question arises, how did he get them? " When that question was put to him he replied that "some of the Democrats to whom they were sent were traitors, and had sent them to him." V ; ; ; :-j ' ... ULr. Simmons pronounces this a silly and ridiculous answer, for ail the men to whom these circulars were sent were known to be trusty and stalwart Democrats, who have no more use for J. B. Eaves and the Republican party than the ' farmer has for a sheep-killing, mutton-stealing dog. Eaves g?t the documents. How, he knows, but will not and dare not tell. He either bought them from the pffice where they were printed, whic 1 is very unlikely, or they were purloined from the mails in transit and sent to him. When ; he got the m he knew that they were either corruptly purchased or stolen from the- mails, and as the corrupt bargainer . in the first in stance, or the receiver of stolen papers, whether he was directly privy to the theft or not, ! he was morally as bad as the thief or thieves who did the stealing. j j Eaves is sly, tricky and unscrupu lous. He is not above any crooked ness or deviltry wtich would help to carry his point and secure J. B. Eaves a paying position under the next administration if it should be a Republican one. - ! -:; J In an affidavit published in ; the News and Observer of Tuesday he de clares that be did not receive those circulars or anything else 'signed by Mr. Simmons, directly or, indirectly from any mail agent, postmaster," postal clerk or other postoffice official or employe, which may all be, but he is very careful not to say j anything about how these stolen ' documents got into his possession,' for they were stolen from the mails. . . '.. -- Postmaster General Wanamaker's attention has been called to this flagrant theft from the mails, but the probabilities are that he will be so busy manipulating things, for his chief, and raising campaign boodle that he will not have much I time to give; to . the investigation . of such trifling matters as lobbing the mails, especially when it was the correspon dence of a chairma i of a Democratic committee : which -was rifled and a chairman of a Republican' committee who was the beneficiary of the theft. ; The Philadellphia publishes a list of the iron and steel firms, the metal brokers and i glass manufac turers of Pittsburg ."contributing to the Republican campaign fund. The sums range from $50 to $10,000, the two highest being by the Carnegie Company and by Jones & Laughlin, They are not making; these contribur tions to keep ap ; the high tariff to benefit themselves, of course, but be cause it enables, them to make their workmen - rich. fstt-t-?'l HE BTSUCE; U. ' There is one man. hT Virginia who trained for a while with .the-Third party-who has discovdred its true in wardness and pome out of it. Some one asked him why: he left it when, according to the . Brunswick News, he gave the following pertinent, good and satisfactory reasons: ' . 1. " Because U is run by lawyers with out clients; , - - - 2. By doctors without patients; ; 8. By preachers without pulpits; 4. By women without husbands; 8. By farmers without farms: 6. By financiers without finance;, 7. By educators without educatfonnd 8. By statesmen out ol a job. , ' He might have added one more: -- By editors without subscribers." 7 " ' This comes pretty near covering the personnel of the leadership - of the Third party, which, as tar as the leadership is concerned, is a howling 18 carat fraud. As far as we know, there is not in North Carolina, con nected - with ' its leadership, a single representative farmer.- The Raleigh Chronicle got ; out a capital eight page illustrated "cen tennial" edition last Tuesday. The Chronicle, by ; the way,; is a capital paper every way. - i ; POLITICS IN BLADEN. Speaking t Cypress Creek An Inoreascd Demoontio Majority Aaaored. . . 1 - Cypress Creek. : ) Bladen Co.. N. C Oct 7th. j Editor Wilmington Star : , ":r - Dear Sir: The Democratic7 candi dates for county officers spoke here yes terday to a good crowd. ; There was considerable enthusiasm displayed. Cy press Creek is all solid; there being only one Thirdite in the township.- The candidates of the Third party were hereon the 7th. Among the number was the last vestige of carpet-bagism. in the shape qf a King. Their efforts were very poor as speakers. The crowd con sisted of eight Republicans and one Thirdite. , The Democrats are aroused in this section as they never were before. Cypress Creek will give an increased Democratic majority on the 8th of next November. P. Cheeper El eo trio UghUng. . A new discovery in electric lighting is announced, and it is expected to have the effect of greatly lessening the cost of incandescent lamps. The discovery was made by one of the experts of the West inghouse Electric Company, who found that to place of the costly platinum wire, which gives off the light in the Edison lamp, a common iron wire could be used A scientific explanation of the new lamp has been, of course, withheld. That is a trade secret, and one which the owners may be expected to guard, jealously. But they assert that the iron-wire lamp will burn longer and brighter and, retain its candle power a greater length of time than the platinum wire lamp. And. as platinum is more costly than gold, the difference in price will be very great.. "Tariff in Pictures" ' ' : - A well known ; Democrat writes the Star from Wadesboro, N. C., October wth: ; . . A leading citizen of Anson county in formed me this morning that he made a convert to Democracy yesterday, by the use of the Star with its "Tariff in Pic tures," and the article is everywhere spoken of as the best campaign docu ment yet published. Can't you re-pub- lish the article, and have the State Com mittee order 10,000 copies for distribu tion to the different counties? The situation, is improving every day, but we must not .relax our efforts from now until election day. . , Masonic Funeral. i ' The remains ot the late Jas. I. McCal lum arrived here Sunday morning from Laurinburg and were taken from the Carolina Central R. R. depot directly to the lodge at Oakdale Cemetery, where the funeral services were held. These were according to the Masonic ritual, as was also the service at the grave. - The pall-bearers were Messrs. T. P. Sykes, John L. CantweU, George Honnet and A. Sbrier. Carr and Jervia. :' Hon. Elias Carr, the Democratic can didate for Governor, and ex-Governor Jarvis are doing splendid campaign work in the eastern portion of the State. At Bayboro, in Pamlico county, .Tuesday, they addressed a gathering of about fit teen hundred people. The Newbern fournal says they were met two miles from town by two hundred ladies ' and gentlemen on horseback, and escorted into town. The barbecue was good, and the speaking was excellent, and much good will result. They will speak at Trenton today, at Richland's to-morrow, and at Hallsville Saturday. Cotton Benton Bulletin. ; . Good rainfall was reported yesterday in the Galveston and ' Little Rock dis tricts of the 1 cotton belt, and light showers in the Savannah and Memphis districts. All other districts reported clear dry weather. The temperature was about' the same as the day before, the average maximum ranging from 74 to 84 degrees and the average minimum from 51 to 62 degrees. The lowest tem perature recorded in the Wilmington district was 44 degrees at Cheraw and Lumberton. " " THE CAMPAIGN. Speaking at Tarboro by State Elector Glenn. Special Star Correspondence. . . 4 Tarboro. Oct. 18. State Elector R. B. Glenn, addressed quite a large crowd in the Court House to-day, during the recess of court. : ' Every man who heard him - must - have been convinced and agreed with him on the explanations of the various issues, tits speech was niiea with convincing argument, especially on the tariff tax and force bills. Any simple-minded man could understand his forcible reasoning. He made a favorable impression on - all ; who heard , him. Some few Third party men beard him, but not many. "They are not open" to conviction, and won t, as a general leaders - mislead them, and don t want them to bear - our side,', knowing there will be many made to return to the old landmarks.;'-'?-::-;-T- :. --... '. Glenn goes from hereto Roseneath, Halifax county. : r - : - .. i.v -i Mr. Aycock and Butler spoke at Wil- liamston last Saturday, and the report has gone out that Mr. Aycock keens no the same scathing and flaying argument tnai vrienn gave. Those who have heard Mr. Aycock saVheis a rattler.' and has not his superior, and is one of if ' not the finest campaigner j in the THE STATE FAIR. Seven ta Sight Thousand People in At- 1 ' tend.noe The Haoes. ? " - f Special. Star Tefegram.1 - ' Raleigh. N. C., Oct. 18. The thirty- second annual State Fair of the North Carolina' Agricultural Society opened to day and was attended by seven or eight people, and the centennial anniversary of the city of Raleigh also took place. The City is decorated with flags and buntings, and a grand trades -display, marched .through the city and to the Fair grounds this morning, and the Fair is probably the most successful ever held. - The large exhibit halt is crowded with fine displays, and throngs ot people passed through it to-day. - 1- - A special feature is the Wild West museum and Indian encampment of Pawnee Bill, which gave a performance to-day, showing scenes and incidents as they transpire on the plains of the West. It was a thrilling exhibition of real life and filled the audience with enthusiasm. : .Tbe following is the result of the races: First race, three-fourths of a mile dash,' running, a -'dead-beat between "Lilly" and "Prince Charles.", Time,: 1.25J. "Accidental" was withdrawn and "Lilly" and "!Prince Charles" divided the purse; Second race, free for all, two-mile dash, trotting; -Charlie" : won, "Charlie G." second, "Robert D." third. Time, S.25& Third race, two-year-olds, mile, heats, trotting; "Japan" won, ''Maggie Camp bell" second, "Starbelle" third. Time, 2.57 H. The improved sulky was used on this track to-day for the first time. THE ROAD QUESTION. Cheap Boada Built by Conrlot LaborWhy not Try the Experiment in Hew Ean- overf r 1 Mr. C A. Still well, one of the County Commissioners of Floyd county, Ga.. furnishes the Rome Tribune an interest ing statement of tb.e successful - efforts jnade in the construction of good public roads in Floyd. Ten , years ago . th County Commissioners of Floyd decided to improve the county roads by the use of convict labor, making Rome the cen tre of operations and having all roads to radiate -tcom this point in all direc tions. A competent superintendent was secured and he still has charge of the work. In that time he has built nine roads amounting to 60 miles of excellent grad ed macadam, at an outlay of $50,000, or only $1,000 a mile. It is the purpose of the commissioners to extend each one of the nine roads as fast, as possible, so it is confidently expected that in a few years every citizen of the county will have the benefit ot graded macadam roads without any turnpike charges. These roads are brought to an easy grade and properly drained by culverts where needed, and the stone is put on one foot thick in the centre, sixteen feet wide and nine inches at outer edges, and each one is graded twenty-four feet wide, slope one foot in twelve the six teen feet of macadam, of course, in the centre. - . - ; Under existing laws in North Caroli na, an county, instead of sending its convicts to the. penitentiary, may em ploy them in working on the public roads. In Mecklenburg county this has been done with wonderful results, and it might be tried by New Hanover county. Possibly, there may be objections to it that have not occurred to the Star, but it would seem that the question Is worthy of careful consideration.- COTTON FACTS AND FIGURES. ' Net receipts at all U. S. ports, 85,490 bales; stock, 859,990 bales, f Receipts of cotton here yesterday 1,856 bales; same day last year, 1,293. ! Spot cotton steady in New York at 6c for middling; firm in Wilmington at 7&c New York futures closed steady with sales of 200,500 bales, and at an advance of 9 to 11 points on closing prices " Tuesday. October opened and closed at 79; November opened at 7.83, and closed . 7.92; December 7.98, and closed 8.06; January 8.09, and closed 8.19; February 8.22, and closed 8.81; March 8.85, and closed 8.41; April 8.47, and closed 8JJ2; May 8.56, ' and closed 8.62; June 8.66, and closed 8.71. ; New York, Oct.,17. There has of late been a feeling at Southern cotton centres that the form of contracts for fu tures in operation in the New York Ex change is detrimental to the interests of planters. The New Orleans, St, Louis. Charleston add jGalveston exchanges urge New York to make the change. Henry Hentz. of . New York, has pre pared a statement, as follows : ' "New York will not make any change in the present form of contract, which provides that nothing below good ordi nary shall be good delivery prior to Sep tember 1. 1891; strict ordinary could be delivered. The contract was made to enable all useful grades to be delivered, and good ordinary cotton, tree from sand and dust, is as useful to many spinners as middling cotton. "It would be a great hardship to the planting interest to deprive them of the privilege of selling such, cotton through our Exchange, Take, for instance, a farmer who makes 50 bales of cotton, of which only 10 bales prove to be average middling, nothing below low middling. It would certainly be a great hardship to him. and would prevent him from de livering the remaining 40 bales if they were good ordinary and strict good or dinary . - . : :, . . . "Notwithstanding that the Liverpool contract is better than New York's, the price for October delivery there to-day is 10-64d below the spot quotation, or in our currency 5-1 6c per pound lower, and for some time past future delivery prices in New ..York have been much, higher than in Liverpool, as sales have been made here for Liverpool account against purchases there." This, clearly shows that bur contract' does not work to the detriment of the planting interest. ' , , 4 "I call1 particular attention - to this fact. Some of the Southern Exchanges that object to our form off contract rather intimate that they will urge the Anti-Option bill if we do not change our form. Why not select a much higher grade,' say -average good middling, sb that it will be almost impossible to make delivery at all ? This would accomplish what they seem to be " aiming at, H.-:StrenBtIi. and Health. : ' ;;'. If . you are not feeling . strong - and healthy, try Electric Bitters. If "La Grippe", has left you weak and weary. use h-iectnc ciuers. l his remedy acts directly, on ' Liver, -Stomach and Kid neys, gently aiding those organs to per form their functions. If you are afflict ed . with Sick Headache, you will find speedy and permanent' relief by taking Electric Bitters, !. One trial will convince you that this is the remedy you need Large bottles only 50c, at R. H. Bel lamy's Drug -Store. '.i -; t... THE GIDEONITES. "THE SECRET OATH-BOUND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION EXPOSED- - -n '::r.:i -,; , . . - r" 8. 0ho TTllaen ? Chairman ot r the ' People's Party, Ciller Thlrtf Bella bles lnvEacla County Tb.reeNHnn dred la Eaea Conjcreaalonal Dtstrlcc Twenty-flTe Hnndred In the State. Dear Sir. 'I have your.; recent favor enquiring, about . my connec-; tion with the order known as Qideon's Band, and' in " answer would say: S. Otho Wilson initiated me in the or der, of Gideonites . at : Goldsboro, in August, 1891, on my return from the State; Alliance, which -met at More-;' head.- He keptthe obligation I took and I do not know its exact terms, but will assure you it was a regular "raw head and bloody bones" affair. I was ashamed . of; it as soon as I found out what it was, and have had nothing to'do with it since.- ? If I had known before hand what it was I would not have ijoined it, But Wil son told me it was a good thing and would aid the . Alliance cause, and being .: an earnest , Allianceman -" I joined. - ' r - As soon as I thought about itafter having learned what it was, -I saw it was a dangerous . thing, i and . no honest man could have anything to do with it." ' - Tom Long told me the other day I .was the cause of the Third party be ing a failure up here. I reckon he had reference to my failure to : work and fight in Gideon's army, a ' ". ;The plan of the Gideon's Band, as I remember it, is about this.- There is a State Chief, who ; was. at that time, as I understood, S. Otho Wil son; there is also a Chief in each Congressional district; and; a sub Chief in each county, whose duty is to obey and have executed the orders of their, immediate Chiefs they get ting their orders from the State Chief. A failure to, obey is made in the obligation a 'very serious; offence There are three hundred members of the band in each Congressional dis trict the number -in each county I have forgotten. i . I am thoroughly" impressed with the idea that this is a dangerous or der if it is. being worked in North Carolina. About thls'I don't know, because, as I. said, I concluded to have nothing to do with it as soon as I learned what it meant, and as I came out strong for the. Democrats soon after I was initiated by Mr. S Otho Wilson I suppose they became afraid of me. : At least Wilson did not send the papers he said he would send to me. Yours truly, (Signed) M: L. Rjeed. Hon. F. M. Simmons, Raleigh, N. C. Bell Cross, Camden, Co., N. C, . - October 12th, 1892. Hon. F. M. Simmons, Chairman, Ral eigh, NC: i ' -. My Dear Sir Answering rour fa vor of recent date, in which you . ask me to give you for publicatfon what I know about an order ih North jCarolina, known as the 'Gideon Band," I would say, at Gatekville, in Gates couuty, in December 1891,-Mr. S. Otho Wilson in the ! presence of Mr. Jas. B. Brinson, j of Pamlico county (District Lecturer for the First District), I bemgr then State Lecturer, proposed to me that I should become a member of the said order. I replied to Mr. Wilson that I could not consent to connect my self with the Band unless he woukl first reveal to me the - character and purpose of the order. This he con sented to do upon my promise to se crecy. Mr. Wilson then read to me the obligations he wished me to take, and outlined the general objects and purposes of the order. ; ? , The obligation was a very rigid one, and according to my best recol lection the penalty of a disclosure of the secrets of the organization was death. ; r . The plan of organization was as follows: A National Chief, a State Chief, a District Chief and a County Chief. The State Chief received his orders from the National Chief ; the District Chief from the State Chief, and the County Chief from the Dis trict Chief. The membership in each Congressional district was 300, and in each county, I think, no more than 30. This thirty were to be es pecially selected for their efficiency and influence, true and tried men who could be relied upon under all circumstances, in all meetings, etc. It was he duty of these chiefs and members to obey and execute all or ders emanating from their superiors. Mr. Wilson stated that.the object of the organization was to aid and pro mote the Reform movement. The initiation fee was $2.00. This con versation took place; after Mr. Wil son's" return from the Indianapolis Alliance Council. - : After Mr. Wilson had revealed the whole thing to me, I told him I re garded the movement, as outlined by him, as being a very dangerous one, and that I thought it would result in the destruction of the Alliance and the defeat of the Reform movement then proposed, and I positively re fused to have anything to do with it Mr. Wilson then- burned in my pres ence - the obligation which: he had read to me, and pretended: he was merely considering ,the advisability of organizing the order, although have since learned ' he had initiated Mr. M. L. Reed,- of -Buncombe, du ring the previous' August, and ap pointed him chief, in the Minth Con gressional district. -!.;.; .-: During this conference Mr. Wilson stated to Mr." Brinson that he r had Selected him to be chief in the First Congressional district. ; ' .- , ; .Yours respectfully , Signe'dJ i h S. Bell. Mr.' Editor : Through' the' me dium of the press I desire to lay be fore the people of North Carolina two letters recentlv addressed to mft - 1 bv Mr. M. t.'- Reed, a member of the present House of Represfenta tives and a prominent member of the Alliance, and Mr. J. S. Bell, a mem ber of the present State Senate, and recently State Alliance Lecturer, dis closing the existence in ; his State of an unlawful and dangerous secret political : society, whose chief - is S. Otho. Wilson, the official head of the People s party in North Carolina.:; The letters show conclusively that this society, ' did exist in this State but recently, and if rit has ceased to exist,.lhe duty of showing this fact rests upoa the men who it is shown introduced it.:,. '.;;:t:;l,' .,.:.;;;. .; ; In exposing this dangerous scheme to the liberties of the people and the peace ana good will of society, these gentlemen but discharge a plain duty Of good citizenship. The facts which they have disclosed clear: the mists from the present anomalous political situation in North Carolina, and ex plain many: things connected there with, otherwise -unaccountaDie- De-, cause soradically at variance with, all the known characteristics of our peo-i pie. vlt accounts for :the refusal on the part of many: of those supposed to be under the influence of this society to hear . discussion upon im portant questions affecting ,-i vitally their ; hiffhest interests:- it 'accounts for : their refusal - to" reacK literature hot having .; the : stamp and sanction of the leaders in- this movement; .it accounts! for their bad temper and the absence - in their political con duct of that independence' and con servatism r which v has - ever; peen-a distinguished ' characteristic of the North; . Carolina "breed . wherever found : it accounts for the au tomatic and subservient manner in which in their, political -; evolutidns the move and act it accounts fdr the remark we,( frequently hear coming from the simpler but more honest ' of these people to the effect that they cannot do what they know and ad' mit to be their political duty because they have sworn , to do otherwise; and it accounts for the humiliating fact that a people hitherto brave and free' have surrendered their indepen-. dence and ceased to act as free men should. ' :.:-;.; . - I need not go into an explanation of how these results- might logically flow from the-means employed, for every intelligent man will readily un derstand how easily a few men acting together in secret under common or ders and to - a common end may shape and direct the action of a mul titude, each individual acting for himself. """ . As the existence of this secret so ciety, acting upon and directing the; political convictions of these people accounts for the . eccentricities which have marked their recent conduct, so that conduct corroborates and sup ports the evidence I ; now lay before the people of its active existence in our midst. - . , - l The presence here of the Band of Gideon recalls all too vividly, the "Union League, or Heroes of Amer ica," that night-mare of 1868, which in the name of charity and in the form of benevolence became the se cret auxiliary of a corrupt political party, and brought every home and fireside in the land under the shadow of a hand which neither the laws of God or man could stay , against the inexorable command "Of ; the invisible chief. It will be recalled how under the fostering care of that party this terrible organization gained such ac- cendency here that it required a counter secret society and . all but revolution to break its hold upon the. iberties of our people. It was thought both of these Societies and all similar organiza tions admittedly dangerous in a free country like ours, had been crushed out in North Carolina never to return again; ' The rigorous laws against secret political associations " now upon our statute books were placed there with the experience of those. days fresh in the minds ot our peo ple, and express their determination never again to tolerate in our midst such a menace to liberty. Both of these societies, the one against which this legislation was aimed, and the one which now denes it are of foreign inception, and were born of disorders and agitations from which we are happily exempt. The "Union League was of Northern birth, begotten ; of the troublous times which immediately preceded its introduction here, and the "Gideon's Band" is the offspring of that wild recklessness which char- acterizes'th'e incongruous nationali ties which constitute the lower strata of western metropolitan life, and which now and then breaks forth in Haymarket riots and Mafia butche ries. A man better acquainted than Mr. Wilson with the sentiments ot our people would not have artempted to transplant and introduce here an in stitution so obnoxious to our most cherished conceptions and ideas of free, open and honorable political action. If he was himself imbued with the wild vagaries and methods of the "Orders" and "Unions" with which he was thrown in contact -on his visit to the West immediately preceding his overtures to Mr. Bell, his better judgment should ' have taught him they were out of joint with the pre-conceiyed notions of our people, ano couio oniy result in miury to the cause he wished to ad vance. . ". There have been many rumors and whisperings of the existence here of this dangerous "Band," but until the letters of Messrs. Bell and Reed there was no tangible evidence; and I now submit these these proofs with full confidence that the conservatism of our people will not be slow to repu diate it, and fittingly rebuke the des perate agitators and demagogues who dared introduce it. -F..M. Simmons, " Chairman Dem. State Ex. Com. Mrs. Nancy Wirts, 1201 Caroline St. Baltimore. 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Be sure and ask for : "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup', .:..:....;-,..-.":; -.'.-, SPIRITS TURPENTINE. I Winston Sentinel: The r; ; dence of William M. Miller, 229 Cherry street, was robbed of over two hundred dollars either Friday or Saturday. - Lumberton Robesonian- at:;1 Isabella Graham died at the hnm. M her brother m Lumber Bridge townshin on the 27th of September, in the 68th year of her age. ? Lexington Dispatch : From the amount of guano being sold here doesn't seem that the farmers ihaup ' u. up. much in using the stuff. As much ' ' or more has been sold this season than last. ',,r''- '- Charlotte News: Some of th charitable ladies of Charlotte have in. augurated a movement for the establish ment nere oi a home lor aeed womon ; and a refnge for homeless women. They are succeeding encouragingly, and the indications are tnat this much needed institution will soon be founded in Char lotte. " ' .- .- V- Burlington News : Saturdav night for some cause, Mr. A. Rosenthall placed a couple of watchmen in th company's store, they had not long been secreted oeipre a man entered, one of the watchmen fired on him with a shot gun, severely wounding the robber. He is a white man and is now resting in Graham jail. Kinston Free Press- The Orion Knitting Mills received, among others an orderl several days ago from one house in ; Chicago for 8,160 dozen hose, amounting to near $4,000. The machines for making misses hose, eight in number, have orders now on band that will tax their utmost capacity until the middle of February. Mr. J. E. Booker of Raleigh, an expert machinist, was here Monday inspecting the oil mills for a syndicate that thinks of purchasing and operating it after making suitable addi tions to the machinery. We , hope that these -mills will be started up again with sufficient capital to put them on a pay ing basis. 1 - Mt. Airy News: "About half past nine o'clock on last Sunday morning Mr. Kobert Harris, one of our liverymen, was just starting out to Oak Grove Church in a double teamed vehicle, ac companied by two of his daughters i and his sister Mary, lust as they were leav ing the house the horses took fright and ran away." They turned the vehicle over and tbrew them all Out, Miss Mary falling on her - head and fracturing . the base of ber skull. Physicians were sent for immediately and all possible surgical skill was brought to bear (to save her life, but she died at seven o'clock that even ing. The Mount Airy Granite Com pany has been asked by the Pennsylva nia railroad authorities whether or not they can furnish the heavy pillars for the railroad company s new union depot at Philadelphia. Morganton Herald: Jas. Col- lett, a little negro boy, son of Tom Collect, was "playing horse" last Friday with another little negro boy, and had ropes tied to his arms for lines. They "drove" down to Mr. Thomas Garrison's planing mill, on Sterling street, and James commenced to whip his. ropes against a moving overhead wheel to hear the cracks which followed. While amusing himself in this way . the rope caught on the . shafting, and winding around it, carried James up and began to spin nim'arounc like lightning. The shafting was f making 800 revolutions a minute. The engineer s attention was attracted Dy the noise caused by the boy's heels and bead hitting the timbers which support the shafting; and he stopped the ma- chinery as quick as possible. When taken down the boy was supposed to be dead, but in a short while he recovered consciousness and began to talk. How ever he was found to be severely bruised about the head . and Jegs. , He--as-Car-'-' Tied home at last accounts was improv ing iasu Charlotte News: The 'News last Monday contained a notice of the death at his home in Quincy, Fla., of Dr. J. E. A. Davison, who was married to a sister of Mrs. P. P. Zimmerman, of This morning Mrs. Zimmerman received a telegram stating that her sister had - followed Dr. Davidson to the grave, brie died at 12 o'clock last night in Quincy, and her body was buried by the side -of her husband, so recently gone betore. - Col. I.'Y. Bryce, of Charlotte, has sold his marl beds, covering 3,000 acres in Ci a ven county, to Mr James Gray, of Boston, for $15,000. Mr. A. Dufore h-.i'l s bait interest in the marl lands.,' - Ertriy this morning two Catholic j j?r,iesis trom .tne monastery at oeimonc appeared at the office of Uapt. Morrow, clerk of the Superior Court for Meck lenburg county, and toolc out naturaliza tion papers. They were Father Lewis and Father Henry. When they entered , the court house they were the subjects of King William. When they came out they were loyal American citizens. Both are young men, but have been in this country for some time past. 1 he mon astery is strictly Democratic. There are twenty-five voters there and alitor Mr. Cleveland. Winston Sentinel : A plaint nl accident, and one which came very near proving fatal, befell Lannes Foy, son of T.tO. Foy, late editor of the sentinel, be tween four and five o'clock last evening He was on his bicycle coming down the hill on the South Side, and was running at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour when he became Irightened over me speed he was going a. He was endeav oring to keep up with a street car, and when he applied the brakes to his wneei the result was that the rubber band flew off, thereby throwing young Foy at least ten, feet on the ground. Ihe street car men saw the accident and went to his assistance.' They found him unconscious and, in fact, for some time it ws believed that be was dead. - The wounded young man was not brought to his senses until an hour or more after the accident, l nis morning he was resting quietly. The most pain ful injury now appears to oe a Daaiy bruised arm. - A postal card received here this morning from Gold Hill; Row an county, says that Rev. Samuel Roth rock, L. D., an aged Lutheran minister, met with a painful accident yesterday. by getting three fingers on his right hand cut off. No particulars were given as to how the accident occurred. 4 Charlotte -Observer: News was received in this city last evening of, the death of Thomas N. Cooper, Esq., of Transylvania county. , He died Thurs day night at his home, of apoplexy. Mr.' Cooper was a distiller and the manufac turer of a whiskey which had a wide reputation.-: He was a native of Iredell, or, ..Wilkes and had spent the greater part of his life in north Iredell, where he made a fortune distilling and acquired large property. . About 1880 he was ap pointed collector oi internal revenue ior this district, and . held the position until Cleveland was inaugurated. During the ( same period he was chairman of the Re publican State Executive Committee. After his retirement as collector he pur chased a beautiful farm in Transylva nia and lived, quietly on it until his death." 'He was about 55 years f age. j-- Mr. E. J. Irving.' formerly superin tendent of the Charlotte Cotton Mills, was found dead in bed yesterday morn ing at Wilson's cotton factory, near Crowder's Mountain, in Gaston county. The telegram, which brought the news to the city gave.no particulars, but from all that could be learned it is supposed Mr. Irving committed: suicide. He had . been out of employment for some weeks and h:)d.. been dissipating.;; A ter rible accident occurred at the brick yard of the Charlotte Brick and Tile Com pany yesterday afternoon at 4.80 o'clock. The boiler of the engine exploded. kil1" insr Wm. Hunsucker. a voung white man.; aped 24 vm: and iniurincf I. B. Clanton. white, and a colored man.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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