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' ; roatmtan At' - . wt L M INGTON, II. C WILMINGTON, ;N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2; 18961 NO. ,49 v .: -;JL:-JbLLf V V id. Lib I b EAR jil 88888888888888888 .! aSse88g885gggg 888l888888888883 . 8888S88888siiIIii -i 88888888888888888 ,,,ooW8 S2aS8SS55SSS8ES 82888888282888883 qioowl S22S2ggJ88&8gS3 w-f88888SS828888888 . ' 8288S882288888883 -S88S888888888833 T7l -, . - ' u w 1 .. ' v ' k j. CU . "5 - . W3 : ,s t.; 3 3 i : : : j j .. i; : , -. iTiimdat the Poat Office at Jmtgtoo, N. C, aa , IKotn0" Second Claaa 'Ma ier.1 : SUBSCRIPTION P ICE. r Jl The subscription price of the We-.ly Bta la as (ollo Coat 1 Tear, postage paid.. ...;.;.S1 00 Sing " 6 montha . ... .. ... i 60 We are. again sending bills to oar subscribers. In the aggregate they JUIUM"'- " " r, 7 of bur' subscribers are respon . 3g promptly. Others pay no atteuti n to the bills. These latter do not ; under any-legal or mqral obligation to pay for a newspaper. - " GOLD IN NORTH CAROLINA. There is plenty of gold 14 North Carolina, but most of it Is in ' the rocks under ground. There Is very ; little of it scattered around loose in the shape of coio . and very little in our batiks. Our State law- requires all the' banks, in' the State, whether National. State or private banks, to make annual reports under oath to the State Treasury Department. A statemejit compiled by the Treasary Pepartnicit rom these sworn re ports' shows that there were in the State -on the, 14th of last July twenty eight National banks, forty one State banks, seventeen Savings banks an&six private banks, making ninety-two in all. These ninety-two showed total assets $19,497,273.77. The total amount of gold coin held . by all was $906. Nearly $19,500,000 in assets and only $900 in gold. . No wonder jit i hard to get a little old oat of a 'North Carolina bank. ' Eat there is nothing peculiar in this as far as our North Carolina banks ire concerned, nor does it imply any reflection upon them, for we dare say WUUIU UC IUUUU 1U UJdUJT Ut. LUC fSouthern and Western States. The Vict .is fhat the big banks of the East and their agents have for some time Jeen, cornering oar gold to hoard it,' and about all the gold that was within their reach " has drifted to their vaults and gone into dark ness'. , " ,v .-l; '" '' Ontof hei$19;497,273 assets held by 'these 92 North Carolina banks, , there is only $900 of standard money of final redemption to redeem . these . $199773 and to pay individual or corporate indebtedness which may be stipulated to be paid in gold, a condition which the banks npw re quire before fending money. Under the law silver; is a legal tender unless the contracjLcalls for gold, and now. the banks of the country taking ad vantage of this law incorporate gold payments into their contracts. When the times comes to redeem the obli gations contracted with banks in North Carolina and other States sim ilarly situated as to the supply of old coined, won't there ,be a hust ling to getgold to pay with? And : won't the hustlers pay a pretty big premium on it if they succeed In Setting it at all ? Greenbacks will not do, Rational bank notes will not' 00, silver will not do, for all of these are knocked out under that special contract and the yellow coin must be torthcoming. This is a pretty rough showing for North Carolina whose 1,700,000 peo ple have to content themselves, at 'east until the grabbing, hoarding and absorbing process ceases, with 900 of sure-enougb, standard money tnat will be respectable enough to Pass across a bank counter if the pre senref owes the bank anything and wantsjto cancel the debt. Bug take the country at large and it isn t in'much better shape In this re- . pect than North Carolina is. Out of V about $1,800,000,000 of all kinds of money in the country there is less than $000,000,000 in gold to redeem an the rest, for according to the rul ,nss of the Treasury Department ana the opinions of Secretary Car ; "sle every dollar of any and all kinds of money. In the country, whether paper or coin, Is redeemable " gold. The irreenbacks are. rfd so are y?e Sherman notes fin practice.) The Government is responsible for the National bank notes, and Secre tary Carlisle has- recently declared '"at u it became 'necessary to main tain the parity between silver coin and gold it would be the duty of the . Treasury to redeem silver withhold, all of which summed up means that we only standard monev we have in this countrythe only genuine, debt -Paying money is gold, for that Is . the only money which the Govern ment considers eood enough to pay debts with, and thus sets the exam ple to the citizens. . ' ' . Should the gold manipulators form a combine against the ; silver dollar ana depreciate it, and; some one take silver to the Treasury or a sub Treasury, 'demand . gold for it and get it, wouldnt that be the "begin ning of amoukey and parrot time with the gentleman who happened to have charge of those institutions ? Then Instead of the greenback "end less chain", only, we : would have a silver "endless chain,' which the gold men would in a little while be clam oring to have retired with the green- DacJcs, until they got the currency down to gold, such notesas thev themselves might issue, and a little subsidiary silver by way of conven ience In making change. Then they would have the American people just where they want them, where they had them when they demouetlzed sil- verin. 73, and passed the resumption act in '76, and where they practically naa tnem until the passage of- the Bland-Allison act, under which the recoinage of silvet began. Under this new order of things the 70,000,000 of people in the United states wouldn't be much better able to pay their obligations "with the less than $600,000,000 of gold which they have than ! the 1,700,000 in. Ndrth Carolina would be able to pay theirs with the $900 hoardings in our nine ty-two banks. WHY HE DID IT, The gold standard papers are try ing to make some capital out of the fact that Mr. Bryan voted for. the Weaver, electors-in Nebraska in 1892. and are therefore trying to make it appearhat he was a Populist then. Thjfsdone, of course, to prejudice Democrats against him. At the re quest of Mr. Bryan, Mr. Hale, of the Fayetteville Observer, who accom panied Mr. Bryan on his trip through this State, makes the following state ment as to whyjiir. Bryan and other Nebraska Democrats cast their votes in 1892 for the Weaver electors : In hit State of Nebraska, as well as in the other States above referred to, the Repablicans had a plurality of the votes.' and unlets fusion were effected between the Populists and Democrats the Harrison electors were bound to be chosen. In order to prevent the suc cess of the Harrison electors and, in the event 01 a close contest, to throw the choice of the President into the Demo cratic House (which would .elect Mr. Cleveland, then the Democratic candi date). Mr. Harrity, chairman of the Na tional Democratic Committee, (with, as was of coarse understood, Mr. Cleve land's approval), instructed the Demo crats of Nebraska, aod the other States referred to, to effect fusion with the Populists and to cast all their votes for General weaver, under-tnese. instrac- tionS. and for the purpose mentioned, Mr. Bryan cast his Democratic vote-lor the Weaver electors. - ' "The revamping of the matter in the thick of the present fight so as to give it the appearance ot a bidden act just brooght to lieht would be worthy of a ward politician in the World's city of New York where ex-convicta are ap pointed to office, but we were not pre pared to believe that Mr. Cleveland and the World could descend to the use of sach a trick. In the language of the World, and applying it to Mr. Cleveland. He tried to get into the senate 1 ("resi dency! bv Pooullst voter ! In resoect to the encrge tnat Mr. Bryan was nominated at Chicago 'upon the distinct understanding that . the Populist canveotion-iwould nominate him also.' the writer probably knows as much about Mr. Bryan a nomination as any person, and he has to say that there was no sue ft utuurstanaine. 1 ne truio is, Mr. Bryan btcime the logical and inevitable candidate as soon as the plat form took the shape it did aod was adoDted. His SDeech did not nominate him." ' ; ' v '. h- The fact is that fusion was effected not only in Nebraska, but in several other Western States in 1892. as it has been effected in several Western and Southern States this year, and Mr. Cleveland got the benefit of those fusions, and nobody ever heard Elm object to it. ' ; - ,r MIB OB, MEHTIOtf. Mr. Bryan struck the root when in his speecht Springfield, Mass.,- ne said "the people have no prejudice asralnst eold. but they have preju dice against a system based on gold which does not furnish the gold when people want it.?': The gold ad- vnraiM rnntend that gold IS tne only money which should be recog nized as the standard of nations, ana the only money of final redemption . or debt-paying money for nations and men. To-day while tney are boasting of the $600,000,000 of gold we have in this country they are im porting gold from Europe to plug up h. hniM in the cold reserve aod keen it solid, and they are ing- inz pans, at every announce- mmnt that more srold is- com- Ing. The fact is mere eold ' enough in this' country to meet the demands opon it for forty-1 eight hours if the gold basis were strictly adhered to. : As an illustra tion of how inadequate the gold sup ply Is the ninety-two banks in North Carolina, as shown in onotner col umn of to-day's Star, can show all told only $900 in gold. ; Whatever the stock of gold in the country may be. whether $600,000,000 as claimed by the gold men,or less than half that sum, as contended by others, it is hoarded by the banks In the money centefs, where it is held for specula tion and for the profit that comes from hoarding it when those who need it have to pay a premium on it. LnA or if niwavs will be while this country is on a gold basis. ' With the exception of the incident at New Itaven, where Mr. Bryan was interrupted by the Yale students;, he has no reason to find fault with bis reception in New England, for his greetings there were as' warm and enthusiastic as they were in any part of the country which he has visited, culminating in one of the largest meetings" he has ever addressed, in the city of Boston, where the crowd that packed the streets and sur rounded the stand from which he spoke was estimated-at 75,000. No other man now living has ever gath ered that many.people around him to hear him talk. Curiosity" may have had something to do with this, -but that , curiosity was 'not the moving cause is shown by applause with which his utterances were received wher-eyer- he spoke.;-The speeches de livered in that tour were among the very best he has made since he has started put on - bis campaign, every one of them being brim full of points ', to set the people to thinking and so phrased that the simplest could un derstand. These meetings, in their gigantic proportions, were probably as much of a surprise to Mr. Bryan as they were to the gold; advocates i who harbored the delusion that free silver had not gotten a foothold in JNew England, it tnere were two months instead of one for campaign ing that wonld be debatable ground. Mayor Strong, of . New York, showed his partisanship and : his churlishness when be refused 'per mission to erect "a stand near Tam many Hall for Mr. Bryan to speak from. Heretofore public- speakers have had no trouble in securing per mission ' to erect such stands, and Mayor Strong is coming in for some harsh criticism, not only by Demo crats, but by Republicans, for draw ing the line on Bryan. s ' The Washington Star represents the Treasury officials as entertaining the belief that "the troubles are over for a season." For a season. As long as the banks agree to keep up the reserve. .But what, tnen, 11 McKlnley shonld be elected ? The Washington correspondent of the ' Philadelphia Ledger 1 says the Democratic committee is going put a lot of speakers in the Stat ites between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and make the campaign hot there. That's business. I The Philadelphia . Record, gold -Democratic bolter, does not expect to elect Palmer and Buckner, but is supporting them f eeling assured that this is the best way to defeat Bryan and elect McKinley. It is throwing off on the Decoys, who will not make a print in the sand.' A Tennessee man was determined that McKinley shonld take the stump and sent him a hickory one from his State. Mr. Mc has had it planted in his front yard and uses it to ad dress the bands of "pilgrims" that Mark Hanna sends along, j j A gold organ remarks that "the indications are that the importations of cold will be keot no , for some time." Probably until after the elec tion, when it will begin to got the other way. J 1 1 The Republicans of Chicago are going to raise flags in that town as they have done In New York. This Is perhaps to keep their flagging spirits' up. But Mark: xianna says lie isn't "skeered:' . . The Republican machine man agers are going to. bring Tom Reed down to Washington to make . a speech to "offset" Bryan's speech. J if they put' Tom up for that kind of worjt je win have his hands full. They say there were no 50-cent Democrats in the Palmer-Unckner mMtinor in New York. Maybe not. Bat there were lots of the Hanna- scent kind there. . " ;.- .DOSS A. W xia, m BW rises to remark that "the people are Voting for or against, a gold stan dard." That's the size or it ana tne people so understand! it. J t . j - - .1 . The Chicago Tribune , wants the town authorities to boil the' water the people drink. It thinks if they, have to swallow snakes, eels, fish, &c4 they ought to have them cooked. WAYNE COUNTY, Pamoeraiio Convention Nominations tea County Omoert. 1 : ' : Special Star Telegram. Goldsbobo, N. C. Sept., 56. The Wavne County Democratic. Convention for the selection 'of county -candidates was held here to-day .and the following nominations were made: For Sheriff, B.F. Scott Register, Geo. C Kornegay; A..T. Uzzell: Coroner, Dr. Thomas Hill; Hall of whom' were nomh nated bv acclamation. 'AIso, for 5ur Vevor. H. F. Price; House of Itepriesen tatives. T. B. Parker and Rev. J. F. Hill; Commissioners, I. E.f Peterson, M. T. Johnson and G. li Grantham.' ' ' F. A 'Daniels, of this city, was recom mended as one of the Senators from the Ninth Senatorial district, which is m hold its convention at ;Warsaw next Wednesday. ir';. :0-: .AjlN A large and enthusiastic crowd was present. The; Democrats have bright prospects for jcarrying "the. county, de spite the Rep.-Pop. combine. - v K CUTTiNQ SCRAPE - . VMM - ' Oae of the Bailors cn : ibe Bveaoe Cutter . HorrUl Bsversljr In j and. -' - "' List night about 10 o'clock police offi cer C. D. Gore, while on duty on Front and Market streets, was sent" for by the officer in charge of the revenue cutter Morrill, sow in port, to get a disorderly sailor off the ship Office Gore, accom panied by officer Holmes, went .dbwn'to the Morrill and arrested a sailor named Chat. E. Williams, who-had been Jpat in irons. Williams was.very drank and had to be carried to the station boue in a hack,While he was being searched at the station, officer Gore found that Williams had been cut. -. The cat was on the left -side, and was about two. inches long. Dr Harriss was sent for and examined the wounded man, - and as the sufferer was a sailor, ordered him carried to the Marine Hospital.: : At the hospital Wil liams' wound was sewed up and dressed. Williams said the gunner, E. J. N 00 can, on board itie MorrilZ, cat him . Officers tioimes and uore aain" yiaittdjhe cut ter and,, arrested Noooan and carried -him to the guard, bouse. Noonan says that Williams was so drank and dis orderly on beard the cutter that be had to place him in iroaa. - In thescuffla he supposed Williams cat himself with a razor, which he was .flourishing around. Noonan has a cut on one of his hands.! anq says tnat Williams also bit him on the leg. 7' ... CRUISER RAUEIGH TESTIMONIAL On Szhibttion m - the Banking Homo ot -Katehlson ft Co. , -The punch bowl designed as a testimo nial for the U. S. cruiser RaUiih arrived yesterday from Raleigh and is on exhibi tion at; the banking . bonse of Messrs. Marchison & Co, d - '.'' i The committee, consisting of Mr, H. L. Stevens, Mrs. F. A. Olds and Col. Kenan, who were appointed by Gov. - Carr f to select -,a design and make the necessaty arrangements preparatory to the presentation, deserve great credit for the taste displayed in thi .selection of this handsome teiti- mohial. . - . - ' : ' . . The punch bowl is of solid silver, twenty-four ' inches in , diameter and about eighteen inches high. The out side is oxydized,-while the interior is gold-lined and polished. One side bears a splendidly executed engraving of the cruiser Raleigh; on the reverse is the in scription. "To the U. S. Cruiser Raleigh from the Citizens of North Carolina, 1898." Between the engraving and In scription are two raited medallion seals of the United States and North Carolina. The. ladle is of . solid silver, the spoon gold lined, the shank massive and heav ily chased and at the base of the shank is a heavy raised medallion of Sir Walter Raleigh. The base upon which the bowl rests is of . ebony, j with foundation 01 green plash. iir-"-irr't!n ' - The, testimonial is strikingly hand some, one that will do honor to the citi zens of the Old North State, and that cannot but be appreciated by the officers of the ship for which it was designed. The testimonial will be presented to the Ralefetn soon as the Secretary of the Navy sees fit to order her to South- port. CURRENT COMMENT. - While VBryan mingles with the people to encourage them in their effort to throw off the yoke ot op oression. as Moses did the children of Israel, the Republicans visit Can ton to worship the golden calf. Macon Telegraph. : Mr. Mark Hanna, it is re ported, "is greatjy encouraged Over : 1 c . enn.l. it I epulis rctcivcu liuui iuc uuuiu. xi so, his head has probably been so turned by bis political successes that the does not know the points of the eompass.-CAarleston News Courier, Jjetn. "Democrats, the fight for the jfree silver dollar is more than forty (years old. We won it once against the national banks, unaer tne teaaoi Old Hickory, and by his bones we 11 win it again." This is what John M. Paimer, the flopper candidate for President, said in his speech in janu ary. 1878. That was almost nine teen years ago. The fight is now about sixty years old, nnd has been Catherine in volume all this time. The crisis is,at nana Cincinnati in quirer, Dem. ' Ex-Gov. Thomas M. Waller, of Connecticut, is an ex-Democrat, who, bavins the courage of his convic tions, and firmly believing that the defeat of the Democracy is indispen sable to the honor and prosperity of the Republic, has decided to vote for McKinley. Holding tne opinion tnat he entertains as to the gravity of the situation, his decision is alike honor able and sensible; but we think-he errs in Claiming 1 that he is still a Democrat. ' He may have been a Democrat last year, and he may be in and of and for that party next year, ..but no man who Doits me Democratic Jf residential ticxec ana platform of 1896 is a rDemocrat this year. - Ana any man wno sappuits McKinley is a -gooa enougn js-epuo, .... r. . . . j . 1 - ,, trr z.. ucan ti'i arter election, .waiww' ton Post, Ind.' TWINKLINGS. Brown I shall have a cold din ner to-morrow. , r . Tnnes How do vou know 1 1 l- Brown My wife went to cooking school to-day. Town Topics. - "What makes Ponsonby so jolly nowaday ?" . " wnv, nis wue nas .laxen to wgbuuK high collars and she lets him swear for her when the button rolls nnder the bu-reaa.'-4V. Y. Commercial Advertiser. American Heiress (to her com ing husband, a count, while on a visit to the latter! ' old castle) How grand! How magnificent! What an attractive old pile this is!" .-, J . Count it very commonplace 10 mc compared to your father's pile. Harlem Life., . ' "Did you know this was my hirthdav?" asked Eve. Is that-so?- reDlied Adam, "let- me tee, how old are you IS ?" . . : "You hateful thing. I'm only 9, and you know it." Indianapolis Journal. , .tillman ATGOLDSBQRo. The " Pitohfotk " Sanatar Addressed : a Larga Ottharlag cf Oamoerftts at tbi rJ- ' Opera House. ' -i -- - Special Star Telegram - J Goldsboao, N. C September 24.4- Senatbr Tillman, of "Pitchfork", fame, poke at" the Opera House to night to a packed audience.' Many ladies were pre sent. His speech lasted for fifty minutes, on pare Democracy without the combi nation attachment: His abuse of Cleve land, Hill and the Enter n Democracy was terrific and -while TIt pleassd a few the majority of the' audience did- not seem to relish-it. He considered the present political state of affairs in North Carolina, "a genuine cariosity," and gave counsel how to combat it; not by abuse, but to talk kindly and reason with those who had strayed off from the" Democratic told into the Populist camp, and thereby neip to elect Bryan with '.'sixteen to one or bust. r.- , ' f NEW COALING STATION. Norfolk May Soon Have a Nearer Bival In .the Atlsnuo Coast Traded. ' ( Norfolk Virginian, Sept. 34. . Mr. W.' T. Gallagher, I a., prominent New York' fiaancier; who is interested In Southern development, told a Vir ginian man: yesterday same interesting facts as to a plan ' bow on foot ' aad which will prove interesting.- 1? Norfolk may soon have a rival in the coal trade. A little port to the south ward which is now scarcely known ex cept to the masters of coasting vessels, aspires to become a great Atlantic coal ing station, and unless rumors now rife in financial circles and all ' outward material evidences are incorrect, the aspiration of Southport, N. C, is backed by capital.. - The town ot southport is located at the mouth of the Cape Fear river, and for years past us only means of commu nication with the outside world was by water. -There was no railway be tween Wilmington and Southport, only twenty-five miles apart. ' Had such been built directly alter the war, the relative importance of the two places would have been reversed and Southport would have been the : metropolis ot the Old North State. A railroad- is now being constructed from Wilmington to Southport,and with the awakening ot a progressive spirit, the ambition of the place has soared to greater heights than has that ot any other Southern port except this. South- port wants to be a coaling station. Cap italists have long had their eye on the fine harbor at the mouth of Ihe Cape Fear, which they believe could be util ized as a coaling station with profit. The consummation of these plans would not hart Norfolk greatly, except in the case of steamers Irotn Southern ports bound' for Europe, which would stop at the most Southerly coaling port where they could lay in a supply for a voyage. The Clieua It Coming;. Walter L. Main's big three-ring circus will arrive in Wilmington, Sunday, October 11th, 'and pitch its canvas at Hilton Park, preparatory - for two- per formances on- Monday, the 12th. Messrs. : Jno. Lowlow and J. H. - Rice were in the city yesterday making an necessary arrangements.' Mr. Lowlow was a visitor at the Star office yester day I afternoon. "Old John Lowlow," the world famed clown; his name brings back to memory those days of long ago. How well he is remembered with Tno. Robinson's cirens, : standing in the ring dressed in the custo mary clown suit, shouting,; "Bring in another norsei out tne one-ring circus has passed away, witn its oeep- red lemonade, clown songster, two-day stands and quality not quantity, and has left in its place a circus with three rings. Mr. Lowlow is a native ot Geor gia. He is tne most lamoas ciown the American people have ever known. He has travelled the world over,' having been connected with the Robinson cir cus lor tbirtv-three consecutive years. Six times to Europe and eleven times to California is his record so far.v B atone thing is certain, he "has contributed much to the happiness of his fellow-man, and what more can be said of anyone. Mrj Lowlow will: be here with Main s show. : "RUSSELL ADRIFT." I aaaamaaai aaaat. Some people' in . Wilmington, who have been 'wondering what has become of the Hon. Demosthenes Lycurgus Russell, will read the following with interest: The News and Observer yesterday re ceived from Hillsboro the following telegram: ."Two hundred to meet Rus sell by actual count." - - We have not tne heart to snicker at the fat and fatuous old man tumbling about the State : as 7 aimlessly as an empty rum barrel thrown overboard at sea. .This -figure is too distressingly true, for has he not been thrown over board by bis own "friends ?" Does he not know that .there was at the time of. the last Rep-Pop fusion a tacit under standing, according to which "the Pop ulists refused to be bound unless Rus sell came down ? If. he does not know of this "tacit understanding," it is time he were learning for we can furnish him the evidence any time he desires. ' A distinguished silver Republican who was here the night of the fusion above referred to, said at the Park Hotel : -l thought I was coming to my. own fu neral, and 1 find out that 1 nave come 10 life and it's another man's funeral. It is cruelty for Russell's friends to treat him in this wav. But there seems to be no remedy. 1 ne upshot of the whole matter will no doubt be. if the elements are merciful, that be fore long be will be tossed up by the surf at Ocean View right into the arms of his own bath-house, under the frost-bitten trondage of his own fig tree and scupper- nong vine. REP.-P0P. PTJSI0JT Iff WAYNE. The Fop. County Committee Endorse Nom inations Made by the Bepublioan Coun- . ty Convention.-. . . -Special Star Telegram. ' ' Goldsboro, N. C. September 25. The Populist County Executive Com mittee met here to-day and indorsed the nominations made by the Republican -Countv - Convention yesterday, which offices were left open by the ropniists at their recent Countv Convention. This means a Reoublican-PoDulist fusion in Wayne county. . Mr. Frank T. Mills and Mr. las. A. Montgomery will open a horse. exchange add sale stable at, Nos. 110, 118 and 114 North Water street, about the 10th of next month. Mr.! Mills is now out West purchasing stock; for the firm.' - !' - - - RALEIGH NEWS ITEMS. HON. R. B. GLENN SAYS HE NEVER SAW DEM 3CRATS MORE' EN" ; C , THUSIASTIC-, ", . ' udge Bnsaall and Mow Arranging Their Campaign In the IUit-Wks County Demooratio Convention A Proposi tion rose With Popnllita KtU- -" ed in Canons Bleetoral Viu sfon Sndoraed. '.. Special Star. Correspondence. - " RALSIOH, N. C.Sept. 86. Frank Howard, who. was sentenced to be . hanged to-day in Concord. " was- brought here to-day and placed in the penitentiary by Sheriff Simms. The Governor -yesterday commuted . How ard's sentence to Imprisonment, for life at hard labor in the penitentiary. 1 ' lodge D. L. Russell, who arrived yes terday from the West, wilt remain until Monday. A new list of appointments is being at ranged for Judge Russell and Marshal Mott, who will close the. cam paign together in the East. L. Bert Alford. the cold bus candi date tor congress, followed Messrs. Stroud and Pou in their joint canvass yesterday in this county. Afford was sport for the crowd. K. B. Glenn says he never saw the Democrats more enthusiastic, end he never, spoke to larger crowds. Last night burglars entered a store on Wilmington street, here, carrying away a large amount 01 jewelry. The Populists here are saying that the fusion with Democrats of so-called Pop ulists in many counties is not genuine. They claim that the regular Populist or ganization nas not fused with demo crats but-in one or two counties. A leading Populist stated to-day: "We do not recognize any of these so called Popahst organizations that do not abide by the action of the head of the o'gani- zation." .. -. . . ' - . A poster has been issued in Rocking ham county calling "a non-Democratic Populists Convention to meet at an early date. The convention is called "non-Democratic Populist" because the regular Populist convention which met some weeks ago endorsed Kitchin. the Democratic nominee for Congress. . ine non Democratic fopuusts were defeated in their primaries and conven tion, but they propose to meet and en dorse Dolby, the Populist nominee for Congress. The name which this latter organization assumes wonld indicate that they are not Demoorats and not Populists, but Republicans. L-bairman Ayer was asked whom be wonld recognize and he replied that he would r cognize the convention that en dorsed the Populist nominee. . - Special Star Telegram.y The Democratic County Convention nominated a full ticket today-H. C Oli ver for the Senate, and F. A .Whhaker, N. B. Bronghton and J.A. Fleming for the House of Representatives. A reso lution to fuse with the Populists was killed in caucus. Electoral fusion with Populists and Silver f Party :s was en dorsed. - X- ' -r CRIMINAL COURT. Adjourned' to the Term Giand Jan's Be- .pji Highway Bobbery Case Con i' , tinned Until Next Term. The Criminal COBff adjourned yester day for the term, after disposing of the following cases :; ; State vs. Emanuel Silvey, assault and battery with a deadly weapon Verdict, not guilty. - In the case of John , Forbes, colored, charged, with an assault with an intent to commit rape, Mr. A. J. Marshall, Forbes' attorney, stated to the, Court that he had a physician to examine Forbes, as ordered by the court, to see if Forbes was non compos mentis, and that the physician bad said that that he thought Forbes' mind was impaired, but was doubtful if it was impaired to the ex tent specified by law. Forbes was sen tenced to ten years imprisonment in the State penitentiary. .. State vs. John Turner, selling liquor on Sunday. Mistrial. : At 12.80 o clock the grand jury "came into .court, handed in their report as follows, and were discharged : . ' September Special Term -i Criminal Circuit Court, Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 28, 1898, To the Hon. O. P.Meares, Judges The grand jury for this term hand you this their report. We have exam ined into and passed upon eighty-lour bills. We have found seventy-one true bills and twelve hot true bills, and made one presentation. We have visited the connty home and work house and find everything in very good order, clean and nicely kept, and no complaints from any of the inmates We would recommend that Andrew Peterson, one of the Inmates, be sent to the city hospital, where he- can have proper medical attention.. We would also recommend that Mrs. Annie Mar tin, one of the inmates, be examined by aboard as to her. lunacy, as we think that she shonld be in the asy lam, where she could receive proper treatment. We have also visited the connty jail and find it in very good order, clean and nicely kept and no complaints from any one. We would recommend that the female department in the jail should have proper ventilation as we think it is not properly ventilated, -it has been brought tp oar attention that one Dink Holmes, a prisoner at the work house, convicted at the last term of court and sentenced for, 12 months, for assanlt on T. P. Flynn. and ' having1 captured one Jesse'Smtth, who confessed tbnt he was the party and not - Dink Holmes who made the assault, we would recommend that the court investigate this matter; and if such is the case to use your influ ence and official capacity as Judge to have him pardoned.- Very respectfully, : 9 : ; John T. Keen, Foreman. In the case of Wm. Pearsall charged with highway robbery, as material wit nesses for the defence and the State were absent, the' trial was postponed until the October term of court Jno. D. Bella my,' Esqi, appeared for the defendant, and Solicitor Richardson and Mr. Her bert McCIammy for he State. - After disposing of the cost cases on the docket, the Court adjourned for the. term, -.-w- - : ; Cotton Beeelpta at Wilmington. . The receipts of cotton this week at .Wilmington' were 18,625 bales, against receipts the corresponding week, last year', 9.593 bales. Receipts since Sep tember 1st, 1898 84,423 bales, against 14.850 for the same time last year. v Exports since September 1st, 15,183 bales, of which 14.931 were- to foreign ports and 1,003 domestic. Ci v - v stock at tnis port, 10,704 oaies, against 14,124 at tame date last year. . BRYAN AND SEWALL. THE PRESIDENTIAL . CANDIDATES TOURING THROUGH MAINE. ' SntbutlaitlcaUr Beoelved at All Points Ten Thousand People Assembled at - Portland Speeehea by Xto. Hawaii ' ' : . and Mr. Bryan. ' : - By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ' Lowell, Mass., September 26, Mr. Bryan's train arrived here at 9.13 and departed .at 9.18. Bryan and Sewall stoodjn the baggagecar door-way. Mr. Bryan said "Fellow-citizens, fihave not' time to discuss any question of poli tics, but I am glad to see you." " " ManchesterN, H., September S3 William, J. Bryant advent to New Hampshire began in an interesting man ner at Lowell, which city he reached at 9 IO.5 Fully 7.000 people wore gathered in the big train shed and in and around the station to see the candidate. . Mr.' Bryan and Mri Sewall made their way to ! the - baggage-car audi stood in its broad door-way, "arm-in-arm, in full view ' of the cheering throng.' - Ar rush was made to shake hands with the two candidates and this took up so much time that no opportunity was afforded Mr. Bryan for a speech. I. have no time to discuss any questions," was all he managed to say, and then as the train palled oat he shquted : "Bat I'm glad to see you." Another cheer went up as the train disappeared. A number oi New England politicians accompanied Mr. Bryan and Mr. Sewall on their jour ney.-:-; :::'-.: - '.z'- '- -,, .r-- Another big assemblage greeted Mr. Bryan at Nashua function. It numbered at least 8,000 and showed considerable enthusiasm. Mr. Bryan was cheered and made a speech. . Mr. Sewall also saidLa few words. Both candidates were cheered and were mnch pleased with the reception. ,The Manchester committee, beaded by Judge John P. Bartlett, boarded the Bryan car at Nashua June-, tion. ':l ;r. At Nashua, Mr. Bryan said: ' "I am glad to observe that from the indications there are, more silver Democrats here now than there were 'at the time your delegation was sent to Chicago; and I trust that on election day there will be more advocates of free coinage everr than there are to-day. (Great applause.) Oar cause .is growing. . It is growing be cause the -people believe that there can be no j permanent prosperity in this country until silver is put back where it was and enters the mints on equal terms with gold.'.' :.-':;,-' Mr. Bryan then , introduced the nom inee for Vice President, Mr. Sewall, who spoke as follows: v.-. - I Fellow-citizens of New Hampshire The silver issue, the zeal contest to-day, extends from Maine through the West to the Pacific, and every day the senti ment is growing, and I believe ! that b7 November 31 it will be declareditbat the great bulk, the great majority of our people, are in line for honest money, for the people's money, for money ; such as our fathers used, such as they prospered under land without which, unless it comes back, there, is no prosperity for as. The gold! standard Is characterized by permanent depression and impover-, isbment and suffering to day, and it will go on, it will continue every year if you permit it. Bat you are not going to permit it. You are going to maintain your rights and you are going to have a government that will - represent 95 per cent, of the country as against five per centwbo -control it"t3-day. I thank you."' (Great applause.) . ' v t. This is Mf. Bryan s itinerary for Mon day: Leave Bath Sunday at midnight, reach Boston at 6 a. m , go to the Amer ican House for breakfast and leave for Lynn at 7 a. m. Speaks there twenty minutes, returns to Boston and takes 9 a. m. train, (short line) for Rhode Island; reach r Providence at 10 05 p. mH and leave j at 11.01; reach New London at 12.17 p. m., and leave at 1.05; arrive in New York at 4,80 a. m. Speaks that night at Newark, Paterson and Jersey City. '-;.. '-,:-, A-,-, ... Lawrence. Mass; September 28. In his short journey from ' Manchester to Lawrence, Mr. Bryan was cheered by two hundred people at Derry, N. H. He was presented by William U. N 01s ol the - People s party electors in New Hampshire. ' - wi -i' - Salem . turned out a small oart of its population to see the nominee. Tbe Free Silver Club at' Deny gave Mr. Bryan a silver hat." a rough felt affair with a siver cord about it. He first appeared in it at the town of Metbuen. where a number of small boys viewed It with ad miration. ; - , Exeter, N. H., Sept. 25.--Daring a short visit tp " Lawrence this afternoon Mr. William J. Bryan had luncheon and made a brief speech from the railway station, when h S special car arrived at 12.40 p..m. Mr. Bryan was taken to the Essex House with Mr; Sewall and a banquet was served there, but it had to be curtailed to enable tbe candidates to go to the City Hall, where speech-mak ing took plase. The crowd, numbered between 5,000 and 8.000 and showed by its cheers a decided! partiality for Mr. Bryan, in nis remarxs Mr. cryan paid a tribnte to Jeremiah T. O bulli- van, . 01 Lawrence, tne . young iree coinage advocate. Mr. Bryan wore bis new . silver tne at the meet-. lag and .returned to the train with it jammed down over his ears. The train , left Lawrence for Exeter, N." H., at 1.80. After leaving Lawrence a stop of a few minntes was . made by ; Mr. Bryan at Haverhill, but. too brief: for a speech. The head of the ticket and bis running mate from Maine were cheered loudly at the station, where more than 2,000 people formed two square crowds, one on each side of the track. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Sewall had time only to make a few bows before the warning signal was given, and the train went ahead. Portland, MEh September 26. The Phillips' v Exefter, Academy ' bays ' gave their "rah as! Messrs. Bryan and Sewall stepped on the rear platform of their special car when their train arrived at Exeter at 8.10 this aiternoon. 1 ne crown at tbe station numbered 800 and was composed ; largely of workmen who shouted hurrah with, a vim. The halt was short nnd Mr. Bryan did not speak. Mr. Bryan had - another experience with pickpockets at Rockingham Junc tion, where , he 'detected some of the light fingered gentry at work and be shouted a warning to their fntended vic tims.: the pickpockets making their escape. '. , . :. . j Several hundred people surrounded the train at this point. ' Mr. Bryan's speech was briefr - .v ,; ,rf n Stops were made at Rollinsford and Salmon Falls, N. HJ and North Ber wick and South Berwick. Several hun dred people composed these gatherings, and many shook hands with both can didates. The North Berwick crowd wel comed Mr. Sewall to - his homestead with three cheers. ; Mr. Bryan was also cheered at each "place, but .did - not speak. ?cvi i-C jf. vi.::;;- Three cheers for the lion-hearted leader of the labor cause." ; was. the shout that greeted Mr. Bryan at Kenne bunk. The knot of men there followed this sentiment with three cheers. ' Mr. Bryan said that he could ! not make a speech because he was saving . his voice. , U 1U saw . a ,. a l r-r- a v.. i) C, 1 Absolutely Pure; " A Cream of tartar baking-powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. Latest United 'States Government Food Report. . - RQYAL BAKING POWDER, Col,; - New York. Biddeford's welcome to Bryan and Sewail came from a thousand or. twelve T hundred people. The special car stopped : short ot where the crowd was gathered and a frantic rush was made along the tracks, many of the people cheering'' wildly. Mr.-Bryan spoke briefly and got more cheers. , . ' Bath, Me:, September 25. Arthur Sewall's home town is delirious to-night in tbe presence ol Mr. Sewall's colleague on the National Democratic ticket,. Wo. I.' Bryan : of Nebraska. Everybody turned out to see the two Chicago nom inees, and the local population was t augmented by large numbers of excur-' slonists from near-by communities. A crowd of Bowdoin College boys came up in a special train from Brunswick, and made their, presence known as s6on as they reached Bath.: People tramped up - from the railway station by the hun dreds on the arrival of the train and helped to swell the gathering thousands in front of the Custom House on Center -street, where the speaking took place. The candidates were met at the station by a big v crowd, placed in a carriage drawn by fourborses and escorted to Mr. Sewall's residence by free silver clubs and a number of local Democrats. . From the Sewall residence; to tbe Cos- , torn House four bands preceded the Bryan and Sewall Clubs that led the way. -The model of a ship built by Mr. Se wall's firm was a feature of tbe proces S.orr. . ; ? ' , - - I.- . : . Bryan talked about . a' flood of monev and referred to the use of silver money u Ch na.Japdn and India, substatially as in previous speeches He made an. eloquent speech At the conclusion of .1 the : s-ecch tbtre '-. was a wild scene. ' M.m ssuog their hats and shouted thtms:lwes b -arse. A rash to shake haecfi uh' the ' lirwdtr-. of the ticket was made, but Mr. B yan e'oded the. onslaught and eacipe 1 with Mr.1' Sewall. Bands and' police it organ n tiona fell into line, and the candidal-' were escorted back to the Ut:ei's home. NATIONAL EILVER PARTY. i STATE HEADQUARTERS. - f Wilmington,-N. C. ept. 24. '96. To the Independent Silver Voters HT it. S . T 1 of- iMortn ,arouna : 1 As Chairman of the National Silver : Party I address' myself to the voters of North Carolina, calling your attentft to the great cause of financial reform, uu uii uuo,t ui. wmcuuuu UCIWCCU all the political forces of this country. m. uc vuiu BLauudiu - cbb eurewiexii.i'f 1 lue mt. the Republican Party. The tree coirpge of silver upon a parity of 16 to 1,and ' entirely independent of. what otha" pa tions may say or think, hs beenand is the. doctrine of our party; ' ThpfDemo-' cratic party adopted it at Chicago. The People's party has held . this doctrine since its beginning. 1 1 , - Both ot. these parties recognize tbe doctrine of the National Silver party as ; the chief subject of popular discussion, and, with us, are for silver as a money of ' fina redemption and have at last' come to the rightful conclusion that this great cause should be tbe first subject of na tional legislation, and all 'other matters should be relegated to tbe rear until this great cause should be sustained. - So the watchwords Of the three par- -ties are "silver and freedom." which go hand in hand, recognizing as their standard bearer that magnificent Ameri can, William Jennings Bryan.' : On the 21st of September the 'Dem-. ocratic and Populist parties, through their executive committees, met In Ral eigh and, having the demands of tbe " in at local ouvcr party ociore mem . in considering the r representation of tbe several parties upon the State electoral' ticket,, adjusted the same upon the fol lowing basis, to-wit: Democratic party, fin lrtnral vnta- PnrMiliat mrlv lim electoral votes:- National, Silver party, , one electoral vote. : : . This ticket is in every way worthy of ' your: support and confidepce. Every man on this ticket, if elected, will cast bis vote for. William J. Bryan for Presi dent of the United Stales, and for the respective candidates for Vice President of the three parties. According to the constitution of the United States no man -votes directly for; President, but .men ot different political parties wish ing to vote for the same man find it is ( necessary that a ticket be arranged for' this purpose.' ? . j V This- has been done. AH obstacles have been removed and j now I can say to the voters of North Carolina that every man who wishes to vote for Wm. J. Bryan for President! of the United States and for the cause Of silver can confidently cs. his vote for the electoral ticket just as arranged between the parties. ' " :,' , ' v. ; I now call upon all tht voters of North Carolina interested in tte t uss of silver to rally to the suppot 1 01 ih gr at cham- 1 call upon all independent men, inde pendent cf parties cr party tics. bo di Sire financial reform, to rally tj tte tu-' port of our elector! ticket in Nc vein ber. ' -v.'-:-:" ";:-'i--r''. '- I call upon all tbe voters to work in season and out of season for the great object, and success will reward Oar vigi lance and effort, v. ' , ': .. " Let -every man beware of . goldbng tempters wha stand in our midst, say ing to the Democrats the Populists will not support the ticket, and to the Pop ulists, the Democrats- wIi not support, the ticket -Men of this kind are ene mies of the silver cause are trying to defeat the .ticket by insinuating distrust in oar honest and honorable purpose, and are themselves the creatures of pelf who wish to defeat the people at the polls in November. , u ,: . ' . I urge upon you not to abate your zeal In tbe cause of free silver, prosperity and progress, and that every man constitute himlelf the trusted agent of the people on the day of election and until the polls Let us prove to the world that the right of franchise is too sacred to become the subject of bargain and sale, and al though plutocracy . has millions to be staked on the possible corruption of the people, let us watch', the polls and the emissaries of : corruption and drive the tempters from the.temple of freedom. Let us prove to the world that a ballot in the hands of freemen is more precious than gold. 'H- r-:v '-.'v yLst us prove to the world the Ameri can people are not for sale. - . . ; - . ' B. F. Keith, State Chairman National Silver party.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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