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5..1ST.
FOR CONGRESS.
Sixth District John D. Bellamy,
New Hanover.
FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES.
First District Hon . George H. Brown,
, of Beiufort.
Second District Hon. Henry R. Bry
1 an, of Craven.
Fifth District Hon. Thomas J. Shaw,
V ..of Guilford.
S,ixt)v District Hon. Oliver H!"AHen,
of Lenoir. -
Sf.oiitli District Hon. Thomas A.'
McNeill, of Robeson.
Eleventh District Hon. W. Alexan
der Floke, of Lincoln.
FOR SOLICITOR.
S3 i x 1 1; District Rodolph Du ffy, of
Onslow.
S :
THUXOAD WAS TOO HEAVY.
Sohiu time ago Chairman Sim-,
mons of the Democratic State Ex
ecutive Committee wrote a letter to
the present Superintendent of the
. Penitentiary, asking for a repoftof
the penitentiary management for
the year 1897, which' should have
been made by law by the 31st Of De
cember. Instead of receiving the
report or a respectful answer, his
letter was replied to ill an offensive
diatribe published in a newspaper,
which was the first Mr. Simmons
saw of it. The answer was so rude
and so offensive that it was gener
erally supposed that it was inspired
or written by Governor Russell and
that all Superintendent Mewborne
had to do with it was to lend his
name as a signature.
In that letter one of the reasons
assigned by Mewborne f0r not com
plying with Mr. Simmons' request
was that he did not have the clerical
force to furnish a copy, thus con
veying the impression that the re
port was in his hands but could not
be conveniently copied. But the
fact, is that report had not been
made and as far as known has not
been made yet. i
Governor Russell knew when Mr.
Simmons asked for that report that
it had not been made, and he knew
that by law it should have been
made by the close of last December,
but instead of then asking the ques
tion why it had not been made he
trumped up or helped Mewborne to
trump up 'reasons for not complying
with the request of Mr. Simmons
and thus became privy to the decep
tion practiced on thei public when
the effort was made to create the
impression that the report was in
his hands. That was not a very
nice business for the Governor to be
engaged in but that is precisely
what lie did when he fabricated that
reply to Mr. Simmons, which ap
peared over Mewborne's signature,
or by his inaction and silence, if he
didn't write or inspire that letter.
Bu t knowing that this report had not
been made, and believing or professing
to believe that John R. Smith was not
only incompetent but corrupt, he
removed him from the, penitentiary
and made him Commissioner of Ag
riculture, making a swap with Mr.
Mewborne whom he put in Smith's
place. lie did this knowing that
Smith had discredited the office of
uperintendent to which he had
been appointed by him, and was
also evading a mandate of the law
which required an accounting for.
his stewardship and fOTjhe-prop-erty
of the StaJa-whTch had been
placed in his charge. He was thus
not only condoning the offence, but
still showing gubernatorial favor to
the offender. This virtually makes
the Governor particeps criminis both
before and after the act.
At the same time that Mr. Sim
mons wrote to Superintendent Mew
borne and received his insolent reply
through the newspapers, i he wrote
to Mr. Claudius Dockery, chairman
of the Board of Penitentiary Direc
tors, asking for the report. Mr.
Dockery replied courteously saying
that he did not have a copy, but
was informed that it would be in the
hands of the Governor in few days
and referred him to the Governor.
The logical and natural inference
from this was that the report had
made, and that there is no irregu
laraity. Dockery as chairman of
that Hoard knew 'that this report
should have been made nearly eight
month ago, but he, too, took no
interest in the matter and never
opened his mouth about it until he
replied to Mr. Simmons, and doubt
less that
report would never have
VOL. XXIX.
been mentioned if Mr. Simmons had
not forced them to speak.
The refusal to show up gave
grounds for the belief that there was
"I66V4 x" nwujJiipi xuv
Governor couldn't stand the P
sure. John C. bmith and the re- '
port that didn't come were too much I
for him to carry and therefore he
concluded to dump the load, and
relieve himself of the responsibility
for Smith's shirking, or of further
complicity in his violation of the
law, which he proceeded to do in
the following letter addressed to Mr.
Claudius Dockery:
1 'State op If obth Carolina.
"Executive Department.
"Raleigh, August 2nd, 1898.
"Claudius Dockery, Esq., Chairman
Board of Directors of the State's
Prison, Raleigh, N. C:
"Dear Sir Chapter 219, entitled
'An Act for the Government of the
Penitentiary,' ratified' the 3rd day of
March, 1897, provides in section 9
that the Board of Directors shall make
an annual report to the Governor,
showing 'the financial condition of the
institution bv inventory and accounts
,rrv ftn fWf 1
of the superintendent, and also the
condition and residence of the con-
ts,' together with other require
ments stated in said section :
"No such report has been received
in this office from your Board. I
have been informed from time to time
that the report would soon be in. It
looks like time enough, or more has
passed. I can see how it might re
quire a considerable time for the Board
to prepare the report after it received
the reports and inventories from the
superintendent and I understand that
under former administrations the re
port has come in several months after
the end of the fiscal years; but I must
say it seems to me that your report
ought to have been in before this
'Ton will please inform me when it
will be delivered to the Governor's
office. jyJ
Very trulv yours, -D.
L. Russell,
Governor."
TO which Mr. Dockery replied as
follows:
' ' Roc kino ham, N. C, Aug. 4.
"Dear Sir your favor of the 2nd
inst. to hand. At the last meeting- of
the Directors, a report showing the
condition, etc., of the penitentiary, as
prescribed by law, was made by ex
Superintendent Smith. It was ex
amined by the Board, and the clerk
was ordered to have it typewritten for
transmission to your office. The re
port is now in the hands of the clerk,
and ought to be ready by this time.
At any rate, I am sure it will be re
ceived at your office inside of two or
three days. ' ?
"Very truly yours,
. ' "Claudius Dockkry,
"Chairman.
"To Governor D. L. Russell, Ra
leigh, N. C." ,
All this is interesting in view of
the fact that there had. been no of
ficial move made in reference to this
report until Mr. Simmons had called
public attention to the fact that it
had not been made, as required by
law. By his letter to Mr. Dockery
the Governor shows that he knew
the report should have been made
over seven months ago, yet in all that
time he never asked for it, but did
appoint Smith to another soft snap,
with less salary it is true, but with
the alleged understanding that the
difference in salary was to be made
good in some way,
As far as known this report has
not yet reached the Governor, as it
will have to go through some artis
tic manipulation before it will be in
shape for Gubernatorial inspection.
It is in need of repairs, as we infer
from the following which we find in
the Raleigh Post, in connection with
the two above epistles:
"On August 7th John R. Smith
came 'to town' and announced to The
Post with great flourish that the re
port would be furnished this paper
that night. When night came Jdhn
R. told the citv editor of this naDer
to call next day and he would cer
tainly have the mysterious document.
The next day came, and John R..
when asked for his report, sent the re
porter to Logue Harris. Logue told
the reporter to chase Claude Dockery,
stating that the evasive report was in
the chairman s hands. Dockery de
nied this, and referred the reporter to
John R.. who again referred the re
ferred the reporter to Logue, and thus
the reporter made the grand circuit
through these three distinguished citi
sens. It was a case of hide-and-seek,
and so well was that report shuffled
about that The Post has never laid eyes
on it.
"John R. admitted that 'some addi
turns' had to be made to the document.
The report was kept back with an ob
lect. It is now being held back for a
purnose. Doctors John R. Smith.
Logue Harris and Claude Dockery are
working onjWThey know the people
are demanding to it. They know.
lat it is in no condition to go before a
scrutinizing public. It has got to be
doctored."
And thus the hocus-pocus goes
on by which they are trying to fool
the people, but they are not fooling
them a bit. The people know that
where so much drubbing is neces
Bary to get a report which by law
should have been made nearly eight
months ago there must be some
crookedness that needs covering
SLIPPERY BUTLER
speaking of Rocky
In
Mount
Butler
Borne time ago, as a po
litical manipulator, we said that he
would betray any man or any party
to carry out his own schemes. Com
pacts are binding on him only so
long as they subserve his own pur
poses. All that he has ever
anhieved has been bv trickery, and
all that he ever will achieve will be
by the same thing. That we are not
alone in this opinion or influenced
in it by partisan prejudice, is shown
by the following which we clip from
Home Rule, a Populist paper pub
lished at Raleigh:
"We will put the most liberal con
Mr. Butler's idea of
' carrying out a contract or complying
HH ' W H H
with a resolution, and say that it is
iui jfcuiuiuess. it seems that he iorerot
Al A. 1 1 - 1 1 .
mai ub pteagea nis
, wowuui iiiwuwua resolution m low,
but forgot thai he had pledged the
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that all Popalists should bury their
llttle differences, and in the future be
a unit.
? , lu mf- , uu?r was present
and consented to all, and even the
next day, in a speech at Wadesboro,
forgot what he had done and publiclv
denouneed 4he minority Populists.
Later in the National Populists Com
mittee at Omaha, one of the conditions
of compromise was. that the National
Ohairman nor any of the committee
was not to interfere with the Congres
sional districts in any of the States. A
glance at the Caucasian will reveal
that fact at once that Mr. Butler has
forgotten the purpose of this resolu
tion, and is now trying to dictate the
name of every man that should run
for Congress on the Populist ticket in
this State. The neoDle could stand
an occasional oversight 'but when it
gets to be an everyday business -they
Will lira afioi. ararViilo
No honest, sincere man could co
operate with the Republican party
and with the Democratic party at
the same time, but that is precisely
what Butler and his crowd did two
years ago, co-operate with the Dem
ocrats in the Presidential election
and with the Republicans in the
State and Congressional elections,
and having failed to form a fusion
with the Democrats this year, he
will fuse with the Republicans, when
he can, although he professes to be
opposed to fusion with them. But
-although he may pretend to be op
posed to that if he can further his
own interest or tighten his political
grip he will favor it secretly. Our
Populist contemporary has sized his
"forgetfulness" up about right.
Marion is a stale egg.
STUMPING FROM THE BENCH.
Judge Spencer B. Adams pre-r
sided over the Columbus courirlast
week. The Judge, yebxrfiails from
Caswell counyisone of the drift
which floated to the surface when
the Republican-Populist Fusion
pool was stirred, having become a
Judge without having gone through
the preliminary process of being a
regularly made lawyer. He may
have learned some law, for he was
clerk of the Caswell court long
enough to have learned some, but
whatever knowledge of law he may
have acquired, he never acquired the
acumen to discover the impropriety
Of talking politics from the bench, if
it be presumed that he knows the
difference between a political speech
and a grand jury charge.
The Whiteville News of last
week, gives the substance of his
speech or charge, and prefaces it
by saying that the reporter had
been in the habit of reporting
court proceedings for the past six
years, but never before struck such
a unique charge coming from a
Judge to a jury.
He first paid his regards to people
"who go up and down the country
abusing people for the way they
vote." As this was said while dis
cussing the offence of intimidation
the inference, of course, is that he
meant Democratic speakers, who are
about the only people who are now
going up and down the co untry
abusing people for the way they
vote," for the Republicans haven't
hopped into the hustings yet, and
besides you couldn't with a maul
and chisel, get it into Judge Adams'
head that Kepu blicans "who go up
and down the country" ever in
timidate anybody.
He came to the defence of the
last legislature and commended it
for the law in regard to embezzle
ment by public officers and fiduciary
agents, which he said was worth
more than all the legislature cost.
He ventilated bis views on another
matter which we refrain from in
corporating in this article, because
of the coarse way' he expressed him
self, and we couldn't accurately ex
press his- views without using his
language.
But the most strikingly, unique
and original part of this speech-
charge was when he went Rocky
Mount Butler one or two better and
entered into an indirect defence of
or apology for rape. We give what
he said on this subject in the lan
guage of the Whiteville News editor:
"Froceeding to tne question ot rape.
he ararued to the jury that it was a
lesser offense than seduction because
the only difference was, he said, that
one was committed by force and the
other by fraud. it required some
couraore for the former. He illustrated
his position by saying that he had
rather his purse was stolen by the
highwayman than by deception."
We do not know whether this
Judge haever shown any signs of
mental aberration, but we assume
that he was not suffering from any
thing more on this occasion than a
woeful lack of a sense of propriety,
for the reporter of his re
marks says that with the exception
of the political parts of his charge
it was "very good" and that his
conduct since had made a favorable
impression. It would have been a
mitigating circumstance if when he
thus spoke he had been suffering
from some mental ailment, for
surely there is no excuse for a
Judge on the bench so addressing a
jury and thus attempting to lessen
the enormity and the offence of one
nf the basest crimes known to the
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WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1898.
I V I
law, which in law ranks with mur
der and in the estimation of the
people ranks so much worse that it
is outlawed and the man or rather
fiend who commits it is regarded as
forfeiting his life without the for
mality of judicial proceeding.
This Judge practically pronounces
the law that punishes that crime
with death, a harsh and a cruel law,
and an unjust law, for it punishes
even a more heinous offence sim
ply with imprisonment. Could a
jury thus instructed from the bench
be expected to literally carry out
that law if there were any possible
way of getting around it any pos
sible doubt that they might use
in favor of the accused, although
his guilt might be fully established,
provided they were influenced in
in their view by his judicial' inter
preter. Out of the more than 1,600,000
inhabitants in North Carolina he is
the first man we have ever heard of
to assert that any "courage" whs
required to commit a dastard crime
like that, to lay in wait for some
lone, helpless, weak, unprotected
and unsuspecting child or woman,
tako her by surprise, strangle her,
accomplish his purpose, perhaps
climax the outrage by cutting
her throat and then betake himself
to cover to escape the punishment
ment that he knows will surely
come if he be caught. This re
quires courage does it, rape-extenuating
judge? Courage to attack
a child or helpless woman in a lone
ly place, beyond the call of friendly
help! Is it courage when the blood
thirsty, hungry Wild beast lays in
wait for its unsuspecting prey,
jumps on it and devours it.' it
may require some courage for a
highwayman to hold up a man in
the road, because he confronts a
man, and possibly a brave man who
may be armed and defend himself,
but that highwayman would be a
hero compared with his fiend whose
jurage" this late-day, ermine-
befouler tells a jury is an extenua
tion of his crime.
And he is one of the "non-parti
san judiciary" that floated to the
surface during the stirring of the
waters. His party likes him so well
that he was, with the aid of negro
votes, renominated at Graham, Sat
urday, 13th inst., and it is expected
that by some fusion deal the Popu
lists of his district will support him.
But wc venture to say that while if
he be elected at all it will be by the
votes of that element which is most
prone to the commission of the criine
which he from the bench indirectly
palliates, he would not, if he
were to go upon the stump,
make that speech in hie dis
trict. He would not have the
shameless effrontery to stand before
his own people and make it.
There are two things which we
sincerely hope will be settled be
fore .the peace commission gets
throngh with its business, that is
whether the name of that Spanish
admiral at Manila was Montejo,
Montijo or Montojo, and whether
that fugitive Governor-General is
Augusti or Augustin. Neither of
them made their names illustrious,
but still it would be some satisfaction
to know what they really are.
What is said to be the heaviest
railroad train ever hauled by one
locomotive, was recently drawn
from Altoona to Harrisburg, Pa.,
over the Pennsylvania road. It
consisted1 of 130' loaded coal Cars
weighing o,4i'4 tons, drawn by a
locomotive which weighed 104 tons
The distance, 132 miles, was made
in twelve hours. The train was
about three-quarters of a mile long
FORTY NEGRO MAGISTRATES
Republican papers and speakers-
are trying to create the impression
that there are so few negroes hold
ing office, even in Eastern North
Carolina, that the question is not
worth considering. Well, let us see
how it is, and we will begin with
New .Hanover county, which in
eludes Wilmington, the largest city
in the State.
The county of New Hanover has
Fortv Negro Magistrates, all duly
commissioned and having jurisdic
tion and authority over whites and
blacks alike.
The county of New Hanover has
six school committees, and on these
committees there are six negroes
whose duties are not confined to the
negro schools, but extend to white
schools also.
The county of New Hanover has
four or five Negro Denutv Sheriffs
whose duties bring them constantly
in contact with the whites. The
only constable for the city of Wil
mington is also a negro.
The city of Wilmington has. Four
teen Negro Policemen, including
three substitutes.
The county of New Hanover has
a Negro Member of the Legislature
and a Negro Register of Deeds; and
the next Republican nominee for
County Treasurer, it is generally
conceded, will be a negro.
The City of Wilmington has three
Negro- Aldermen, and all the Health
Officers, (four) are negroes.
KLY
The Collector of Customs of the
port of Wilmington is a tfegro, and
in the several departments of the
Federal government here there are
at. least twelve neerroes holdinir
positions.
Forty Negro Magistrates in , one
county! Think of that) white men
of North Carolina! And think how
many more there will be unless ihe
Democrats control the next Legis-
ature. It is New Hanover
that stands at the head of
the list in the number of Negro
Magistrates now. But if the negro
votes elect a maioritv of the mem
bers of the next Legislature other
counties will be humiliated too.
Mecklenburg and Union, Anson and
Richmond, Robeson and Columbus,
Brunswick and Pender will all drink
of the bitter cup. The negroes cast
120,000 votes for the Republican
ticket in this State. Thev know
their power and they will assert it.
We aBk every Populist in North
Carolina if he ever dreamed that in
voting to elect a Fusion Legislature
he was voting to make Forty Negro
Magistrates for the county of
New Hanover No, there is not an
:ionest Populist in the State
who believed that his vote was
contributing to the degradation of
the white race, and now that they
have been convinced of their mis
take these Populists will join with
the Democrats in electing a Legisla
ture that will undo the great wrong
that has been committed.
xne time has come when every
decent white man in North Carolina
should show the stuff of which he is
made. He must decide now whether
he prefers white rule or negro rule.
The Democratic party is the white
man's party because it is composed
of white men. The Republican
party is the negro party because it
is composed mainly of negroes.
Forty Negro Magistrates in New
Hanover county! -Let every white
man in North Carolina know this.
POPULIST DISINTEGRATION.
A Nashville telegram to the Wash
ington Post, under date of the 18ch
inst., announces the fact that when
the Populist State Committee met
in that city it was without a quo
rum and therefore unable to do any
business, the lack of a quorum
being caused by the resignation of
three of its members. In! a joint
letter they gave the following sea
sons for resigning:
' 'Realizing the impossibility of bring
ing about the reform for wmcn we
have heretofore labored with the party
in its present disintegrated and dis
affected condition, and havinsr deter
mined to support the Hon. Benton
McMiUin for Governor of Tennessee,
we feel that the honorable course to
pursue is first to resign, and we hereby
tender to you our resignations.
Mr. J. H. McDowell, one of the
three, who has been the most in
fluent ial Populist in Tennessee since
the organization of the party, and a
member of the National Committee,
said in explanation:
"The Po du list Part v has absolutely
no hope because of disintegration of
State and national organizations. The
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uemocrais nave nominated a man lur
Governor in whom we have Confidence
Just what he says, we believe he will
do. , We believe his pledges of reform
will be carried out, and have the ut
most confidence in him."
These three gentlemen have done
iust what thousands of honest and
disgusted Populists in North Caro
una have done and are doing, gone
back into the Democratic party,
where they see a better prospect for
the reforms they desire than they do
in a rapidly disintegrating party,
split up into warring factions, led
bylittle, narrow-minded leaders who
are trying to climb by pulling each
other down.
It is so in .North Carolina, so in
Tennessee, so in Georgia, so in
Texas, in fact it is so in every State
where the Populist party has an or
ganization. Even the national com
niittee is composed of the represent
atives of these warring factions,
who carry the warfare into the na
tional organization, where several
would-be leaders are contending for
supremacy.
No wonder that thoughtful, hon
est men who are working for prin
ciple8 and. not for the promotion of
the schemes of ambitious or mer
cenary leaders are becoming dis
gusted, and are abandoning a party
which is thus made a foot ball of
men who prate of "principle" and
"reform," while working only for
self. .
Every white man should under
stand that in voting for Dockery for
Congress he votes for a Republican
who has accepted a nomination- qn a
gold platform, and that the Repub
lican party in the Sixth Congres
sional District is composed of about
fourteen thousand negroes and one
thousand white men. Every white
man should remember, too, that
Dockery has repeatedly voted for
negroes in preference to white men
fot office, in one election supporting
a disreputable negro rather than
Vote for a one-legged Confederate
soldier of irreproachable character.
It may be incidentally noted that
Admiral Dewey didn t ask for any
"instructions" until he had taken
Manila in. .
Star
MINOS MENTION.
The Hand Book, prepared and is
sued by the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, is an inestima
bly valuable publication, which it is
to be regretted cannot'' be put in
the hands of every white voter in
the State, for it is not only an elo
quent exhibit and defence of Demo
cratic administration, but a com
plete exposure of the incompetency,
corruption and hypocrisy of the
Fusion rule, from which the State
is now suffering. As a whole it is
an unanswerable argument for Dem
ocratic rule, bristling with facts and
figures that no honest, State-loving,
self-respecting white person can
read without a feeling of indigna
tion and a resolve to wipe out the
shame by routing the parties and
the combinations that brought it
upon North Carolina. It is an ad
mirable production, full of valuable
information as compactly and briefly
presented as the subjects discussed
would permit, and it is to be re
gretted, we repeat, .that a sufficient
number could not be printed to put
one in the hands of every white
voter in the State. The gentlemen
who prepared it are entitled to much
credit for the good and valuable
work they have done.
The action of the Populist State
Committee at Raleigh has settled
the question-of fusion with the Re
publicans as far as that committee
is concerned. There will be fusion
wherever the terms (which means
the spoils) can be agreed upon..
This was foreshadowed in the meet
ing held a short while ago, at which
the time was fixed for the meeting
of the State committee, so it causes
no surprise, in fact there has been
little doubt at any time that fusion
would be the order. Itv may be
noted, however, that this commit
tee, dominated as it now is by S:
Otho Wilson, ' Harry Skinner and
others, represents but one faction
the anti-Butler faction of the
party and speaks more for itself than
for the masses of the Populists
who will .have something to
say about the fusion busi
ness when the voting time
comes. Butler and the Bnt-
lerites were conspicuous bv their
absence because they knew they
would cut no figure in proceedings,
and they wisely concluded to stay
away rather than go there to be sat
down upon. As it was they came
near getting down on Butler by
ousting his paper as the party organ
and installing Home Rule, which was
prevented by , Harry Skinner who
thought it good policy to placate
the Butler faction, whose help he
may need in the coming campaign.
But Butler will doubtless come to
an understanding later, by wmcn
he can sneak in and join in the
f usion game.
A press dispatch from Houston,
Texas, published yesterday, informs
us that Marion Butler has tumbled
over into the Middle-of-the-Road
camp. This is no surprise, for the
fact is that nothing that Marion
Butler might do politically would
surprise anybody. He has within a
few years been for fusion with either
one or both of the old parties, and
has fused with both. He, within
the past year, tried to fuse with the
Democratic party, and failing in
that, played to keep the way open
for fusion with the Republican party
provided he could work the game to
suit himself. But his opponents
having secured control of the State
committee, and taken charge of the
fusion business, he was knocked out
and had to take a back seat, and
now he is trying to get even by join
ing the Middle-of-the Road ahti
fusionists, and declaring that there
shall be no fusion1, and that he will
call the convention together in time
to forestall any movement of that
kind. This is no indication, how
ever, as to what Butler will do, for
later on he is just as apt to be fusion
if he thinks he can make a point by
that, as against it. In tne mean
time he will observe how the wind
blows and When the time comes will
snread sails accordingly. Marion is
a mariner who sails with the wind
APPOINTMENTS FOR BELLAMY.
He Is Now Making a Preliminary Canvass
of the Sixth District
John D. Bellamy. Democratic can
didate for Congress, is making a pre
liminary canvass of the Sixth District,
and has accepted invitations to speak
as follows:
At a pic-nic to be given at Gibson's
Station, Richmond county, Thursday,
August 18th.
At Monroe, Union county (Court
week), Tuesday, August 23d.
At the great Croatan basket dinner
to be iriven at New Hone, near Pate's
Station. Robeson county. Friday. Au
gust 26th.
At Iiockwood's Folly. Brunswick
county, at the Democratic mass con
vention to be held Thursday, Septem
ber 1st.
At Burgaw, Pender county (Court
week), Monday, September 12th.
British steamer ' Moorby sailed
from Troon for Wilmington, N. C.
August 15th.
NO. 45
HARBOR DEFENCES.
Work on Fortifications at Fort
Caswell Will Probably Last
s Nearly a Year.
INCREASE IN ARMAMENT.
Mortar Batteries to Be Added Rapid-
Fire Guns The Garrison Torpedo
1 Cables to Be Removed from
River this Week.
Now that the war is over, people in
this section of the country are inquir
ing what Fort Caswell will be on a
peace basis. One thing is certain,
thsre will be no lull in the work on
the fortifications within a year. The
work on the emplacements for the
last two rifles are not entirely fin
ished, and there is plenty of em
ployment for hundreds of men
ahead in constructins S the mortar
batteries. No contract has yet been
made for the immense quantities of
rock to be used for this purpose, al
though it may be closed any day.
With four eight-inch rifles, two twelve-
inch rifles, six or eight mortar bat
teries, and some rapid fire guns which
are to be added later. Fort Caswell will
rank along with any fortification on
the South Atlantic coast, south of
Fort Monroe, so far as 'Its armament
goes, certainly.
Of course it is a matter of uucer-
tainty as to how many artillerymen
the War Department will keep at
Fort Caswell; but taking into account
that the standing -array is to be greatly
increased and that Fort Caswell is to
be protected on such an extensive
scale, it is fair to presume that
the post . will not bei permanently
weakened to any great extent, so that
the sight of bluecoats on the streets of
Wilmington, which up to last March
had been the rarest sort of thing for
many years, will continue to be a
familiar one. This will not be a mat
ter of regret, for the soldier, though
inclined to be the least bit convivial
at times, is not a bad accession to the
population. His money is spent freely
and the greater part of it right in Wil
mington. But far above the amount of money
that the soldiers will leave here for
months to come will be that which
Uncle Sam has spent, or will have
spent, in fortifications. Roughly
estimated there will have- been ex
pended by the time the fortifications
have been completed about half a
million dollars, not including the
money paid for guns, i
While Fort Caswell will be ready
at any time to open its heavy
guns upon any enemy that may ap
proach our shore with hostile intent,
the devices which were constructed
for the purpose of unexpectedly blow
ing up the enemy without letting him
know where he was hit, will have to
be laid anew when the emergency
arises. The engineer department
received orders yesterday to take up
the cables. Orders were received
some time since to remove the torpe
does, but the cables were left so that
the explosives could be taken out again
and attached on the shortest notice.
This week the orders last received
will be obeyed and the river will be
free from obstructions. The force of
soldier engineers which went to the
fort to plant the torpedoes when they
have completed the work of removing
them will go back to join their com
mand at Willefs Point.
DEPUTY SHERIFF DISCHARGED
Ed.
Bryant, Colored, Turned Down
Sheriff Hewlett Because of
Disgraceful Conduct
by
Ed. Bryant, the negro deputy sheriff
who was a few days ago bound over to
the Criminal Court on the charge of
assault with a deadly weapon upon
Conductor Furch, of the Street Rail
way, was yesterday dismissed from his
office of deputy by Sheriff Hewlett,
who came up from his home in Ma-
sonboro township for that special pur
pose yesterday. He said that he read
in Wednesday morning's Star of the
disgraceful conduct ot Bryant in
wantonly creating a disturbance on a
street car, and flourishing his pistol in
the conductors face Saturday night
and concluded that he could not af
ford to keep such a man in the service.
No successor has yet been appointed.
The discharged deputy says that he
guesses he can live without the job
and contends that he has done noth
ing for which he is ashamed.
MOST FIENDISH CRIME.
A White Woman, Her Son and a Colored
Woman Murdered by a Negro The
Murderer Lynched.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Macon, Ga, August 20. A special
to the Telegraph from Americus, Ga.,
ays: ' J
The most fiendish crime in the his
torv of Sumter county, or the whole
State, was committed at Friendship,
twelve miles west of here last night.
Mrs. James McGarrah and her son,
James Boone, were murdered by
negro man with an axe while they
were in their beds. After this double
murder the fiend outraged a negro wo
man. tied her to a tree in the woods
and mutilated her in a shockme man
ner. . She died, also, but not until she
had told the murderer's name. He
told other negroes that he had killed
three people last night, then borrowed
a horse and rode away.
The muidered people were discovered
by John Boone, a son of the murdered
woman and a crowd at once started
after the fiend. He was caught late
this evening and promptly lynched.
MRS. FELTON SPEAKS
She Makes a Sensational Speech
Before Agricultural Society.
Believes Lynching Should Prevail as Loaf
as Defenceless Woman is Not
Better Protected.
J. A.
Holman, Special to Atlanta
. Journal.
South Bend Hotel, .Tybbe, Ga.,
August 12. The feature of the session
yesterday afternoon was the address
by Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Bartow
county, in which she discussed at
length the public questions of interest
in Georgia at this time, and dwelt with
particular emphasis on the-lynching i
problem. She reiterated her plea for
co education at the State University.
Mrs. Felton spoke of the necessity
for the better education of -fanners'
daughters as a . protection from the
assaulter, and declared that instead of
bo much money being expended for
foreign missions it might be used to
even better advantage in educating the .
heathen at home, even in Georgia.
"I hear much of the millions sent
abroad to Japan, China, India, Brazil
and Mexico, out I feel that the heathen
at home are so close at hand and need
so much that I must make a strong
effort to stop lynching, by keeping
closer watch over the' poor white girls
on the secluded farms; and if these
poor, maidens are destroyed in a land
that their fathers died to save from the
invader's foot, I say the shame lies
with the survivors who fail to be pro
tectors for the children of their dead
comrades.
"I do not discount foreign mis
sions I simply say the heathens are
at your door, when our young maidens
are destroyed in sight of your opulence
and magnificence, and when your
temples of justice are put to shame by
by the lynchers' rope. If your court
houses are shams and frauds and the
law's delay is the villain's bulwark,
then I say let judgment begin at the
house of God and redeem this country
from the cloud of shame that rests
upon it!
"When there is not enough religion
in the pulpit to organize a crusade
against sin ; nor justice in the court
house to. promptly punish crime; nor
manhood enough in the nation to put
a sheltering arm about innocence and
virtue if it needs lynching to protect
woman's dearest possession from the
ravening , human beasts then I
say lynch ; a thousand times a week if
necessary.
"The poor girl would choose any
death in preference to such ignominy
ana outrage, ana a quics oeam is
mercy to the rapist compared to the
suffering of innocence and modesty
in a land of bibles and churches.
where violence is becoming omni
potent except with the rich and
powerful before the law.
The crying need of women otftne
farms is security in their lives and in '
their homes. Strong, able-bodied men
have told me they stopped farming
and moved to town because their wo
men folks were scared to death if left
alone; ' . 1
"I say it is a disgrace in a free coun
try when such things are a public re
proach and the best part of God's crea
tion are trembling and crying tor pro
tection in their own homes. And 1
say, witn due respect to all who listen
to me, that so long as your politics
takes the colored man into your em
braces on election day to control the
vote; and so long as the politicans use
liquor to befuddle his understanding
and make him think he is a man and a
brother when the propose to.defeat the
opposition by honey-snuggling him at
the polls, and so long as he is made fa
miliar with their dirty tricks in politics
so long will lynchmgs prevail because
the causes of it grow and increase."
Mrs. Felton is one of the most
distinguished women of Georgia, in
tellectually and socially. She is the
wife of Dr. W. H. Felton, a former
Representative in Congress, and
takes a prominent part in everything
pertaining to the advancement and
protection of her sex. Editor
Star. J . ,
POLITICAL NEWS
i- FROM
RALEIGH.
A Strong Ticket Nominated by the Demo
crats of Wake County John R.
Smith's Penitentiary Report
Special Star Correspondence.
Raleigh, N. C, August 20.
The Lippards & Shealey Manufac
turing Company, at Concord, for the
manufacture of cotton goods, was in
corporated to day. The capital stock
is $50,000.
The Democratic primaries through
out the county were largely attended
J'esterday. The ticket will be Wil
iara Buss for clerk; B. P. William
son for treasurer; W. H. Hood, Sr.,
for treasurer; M. W. Page for sheriff
and N. B. Broughton for one of the
candidates for the House if he will ac
cept. This is the strongest ticket ever
named in Wake.
John R. Smith's report hasfat last
been received. John R. says he found
the penitentiary farm in terrible con
dition, had endless things to contend
with, and then concluded the season
with a net balance of over $2,000 in the
treasury. His report has caused a
laugh even among the Populists and
Republicans.
Carl Duncan states that Republican
headquarters will be opened first of
next week. Chairman Hoi ton and
Secretary Hyams were expected this
week, but did not come.
It comes from pretty good authority
that Gov.J'.Russell is earnestly tor
Dockery in the Sixth district, and
that he is pressing Norment to come
down, The Governor may make sev
eral speeches in the Sixth district.
The Populist county convention
meets to-day. The delegates are com
pletely controlled by the Republicans.
Hail Ayer says that the Pop. cam
paign hand-book will be short and
contain only facts. Claude Dockery
has been here working up some cam
paign material several days.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Monroe Journal: Mre, W. H.
Austin, of New Salem township, died
August 9th of pneumonia. She was
about 50 years of age.
Littleton Reporter: Prospects
for good corn and cotton crops are en
couraging, while tobacco crops are
said to be on an average equal to
those of the last few years.
Monroe 'Enquirer: Mr. F. P.
Saunders, who lives in the eastern
portion of Marsh viUe township, .says
that he has been making trips from
his home to Waxhaw for several years
and that crops are far better now
along his line of travel than he has
ever seen them.
Goldsboro Argus: There are
more cattle sold in Goldsboro in a
week, the year round, than are sold in
any other town in the State in a
month. These are pastured and fat
tened by the purchasers and then
shipped to Northern markets in oar
load lots. The farmers are the beneficiaries.
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