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F0 CONGRESS.
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District John D. Bellamy,
of
New Hanover.
FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES.
KiVst District Hon. GerirgeH. Brown,
of Beaufort.
Second District Hon. Henry R. Bry
an, of Craven.
Kiftli District Hon. Thomas J. Shaw.
of Guilford.
Sixth District Hon. Oliver H. Allen,
of Lenoir,
"dentil District Hon. Thomas A.
McNeill, of Robeson.
--euth. District Hon. W. Alexan-
der Hoke, of Lincoln.
FOR SOLICITOR.
Ji .n District Rodolph Duffy, of
Onslow.
FORTY NEGRO MAGISTRATES.
U.-nublican papers and speakers
are u ving 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
Xe Hanover county, which in
i liuh's Wilmington, the largest city
in the State. ,
The eounty of New Hanover has
Forty Negro Magistrates, all duly
commissioned and having jurisdic
tion and authority over whites and
bhu ks alike.
The county of New Hanover has
six school committees, and on; these
confMtteeg there are six negroes
whose duties are not confined tefthe
. negro schools, but extend to white
ji huoljs also'; r:
Tluf bounty of New Hanover has
four w five Negro Deputy Sheriffs,
whose duties bring them constantly
in contact with the whites. The
only constiible for -the city of Wil
mington-is also a negro. ' ,
The city of Wilmington has Four
(ew XegjO policemen,., including
fhiee -itbatitutes.
The county of New Hanover has
a Negro Member of the Legislature
anil ;t Negro Register of Deeds; and
the ne,xt Republican nominee for
tounty Treasurer, it is generally
; onceil.ed, will be a negro.
t in. Lity of Wilmington has,three
Negro Aldermen, and all the Health
Officew, (four) are negroes.
The Collector of, Customs of the
port of Wilmington is a negro, and
in the several departments of the
Federal government here there are
a least twelve negroes holding
positions. ,"
Forty Negro Magistrates in one
county! Think of that, white men
of North Carolina! And think how
many more there will be unless the
Democrats control tho next Legis
lature It is New Hanover
that stunds at the head of
the list in-the number of Kegro
Magistrates now. But if negro
votes elect a majority of the mem
bers of- the
4
next Legislature other
counties will be humiliated too.
Mecklenburg and Union, Anson and
Richmond; Robeson and Columbus,
Brunswick and Fender. wil all drink
pf the bitter cup. The negroes cast
120,000 yotes for the Republican
ticket, in this State.,,, They know
their power and they will assert it.
We ask eyery Populist in North
Caroljua if he ever dreamed that in
voting to elect a Fusion Legislature
he was voting to make Forty Negro
Magistrates f6r the county of
Nfw Hanover. No, there is not an
"honest Populist in the State
who believed that his vete was
contributing to the degradation of
the wlpttt race, and now that they
have tidefr convinced of their mis
take these Populists will join with
the Democrats in electing a Legiala-
re that will undo the great wrong
Witt has heen p.nmmit.fcfwl-
fe 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
f white men. The Republican
party is the negro party because it
V composed mainly of negroes.
Forty Negro Magistrates in New
Hanover county! Let every white
man ' North Carolina know this.
tthe white men of North Caro
i J!na win the next legislature, Qoy
JjusseiliipU be like a bump on
1 iog.big enougr) to attract attention
bt not to do anv Wm. '
VOL. XXIX.
RTJTNTNG TEX SCHOOLS.
The last Legislature in its desire
to pander to the negroes struck a
hard blow at our public schools when
it passed the laws by which negroes
can become school committeemen
and thug have a voice in the govern
ment of white sohools. White peo
ple will not, if they can help it, send
their children to schools which are
governed, by negroes, or where the
negroes have a voice in the selection
of the teachers who are to havn
charge of the children, and teachers
of abilitv and resnectabilitv nonn
others should be employed) will not,
unless forced by necessity, go before
a committee on which neerroes sit to
y .
make application, or stand an ex
amination for the position of teacher.
This may be called "prejudice" by
some, but it is a fact nevertheless,,
and it is with facts we have to deal.
It is a fact that is recognized by
thoughtful Republicans one of whom
is State School Superintendent Me
bahe, who in his official report
speaks as follows: I
"I think we should have an amend
ment in regard to the township com
mittee. Instead of having five men as
we now have, who have charge of all
the public schools of the township, I
think it better to have six men three
white men for the white schools and
three colored men for the colored
schools of the township.
"We must dp all we can to avoid
race prejudice. The mixed committees
give the enemies of public schools and
others something to object to. We
must remove all the objects we possi
bly can m operating our public
schools.
"We have two distinct races and
must have two distinct systems of
public schools, as far as possible with
out injury to the general system of
the State."
During the twenty years of Democratic-
rule there were no mixed
committees, and the public schools
improved year after year, not only
the whitebut the colored schools,
which received their share -of the
public funds and were provided for
without discrimination. The white
people paid their taxes willingly for
the support of there public schools
but they will nqt pay taxes willingly
for the support for either white . or
colored schools if negroes have a
voice in the government of the
white schools. '
WHAT THE FAST TEACHES.
The well-disposed colored people
of this State never had a better friend
than Zebulon B. Vance, of honored
and sacred memory. As Governor he
showed a deep interest in their wel
fare and was ever ready to encourage
then in every commendable move
ment by his presence when desired,
and bv his counsel when sought. He
inaugurated the first' colored agricul
tural and industrial fair ever held in
this, State and perhaps the first ever
held in the United States, and spoke
to them only as a man having a sin
cere interest in their progress and
welfare would have spoken.
But he knew the negro better than
the negro knew himself, and he
talked to him as a counsellor who
knew him, knew his deficiencies and
his needs better than the negro
knew himself, his deficiencies
or his needs, and hence he
fought negro domination uncom
promisingly and persistently while
endeavoring in other ways to pro
mote the negro's progress and wel
fare. He knew what negro rule
meant not only for the white man
but-for the negro and told it in the
following extraot from a speeeh de
livered in the Senate of the United
States:
"Since their admission to citizenship
they have been elected to both branches
of Congress and have occupied almost
every position under State authority.
They have controlled entire States,
lumnlio anil mn n iri nnl it ifs and in
I WWMMuo ,
every instance their rule was marked
by iauure ana ruin. j.t was a wur
against property, intelligence and re
spectability. The few years of their
misrule in the South will be forever
remembered in oqr history for their
oorruptiqn, retrogression, and will
constitute a damnable blot on those
who authorized it, and who looked on
with comnlacencv so lonar as the
thieves were Republicans, the victims
were Democrats."
There is no honest ROpubJioan in
the North now who .does not can
didly admit that enfranchising the
negroes in a body, as they were, was
a. . blunder of the worst type,
and there are but few of them who
now care to discuss it. They admit
that it was not only a failure, but a
horrid failure, and that is the very
thingnegro domination that the
mongrel party nowjn power has done
all it could do to subject
Carolina to a second time.
North
Last week -the Monroe Enquirer
entered upon its twenty-sixth year,
and has well earned the liberal
patronage it has received. It is a
good paper, a good gleaner of the
news, and ably and sprightly edited.
It has always been an outspoken de-
,i- n Democracy, but in adai-
tion to this is now doing splendid
service for white supremacy. We
present it the Stab's compliments
and good wishes.
If the negroes had an absolute
irresistible maioritV in North
Carolina, how many white men
would be in office ? This is a conun
drum we would like some of thp
white skins who are working to put
the negro over tne wmw
take a pass at. '
The
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NEGRO RULE IN GRANVILLE.
Granville is another of the coun
ties in which the colored citizen has
been asserting himself and waltzing
to the front. The following is the
roll of negro officials in that county
as it stands up to date:
Board of Education 1
School Committeemen .. 18
Magistrates ... 17
Constables l
In Legislature 1
Jailor . . . . . 1
In addition to these there are
from three to nine negroes oh juries
Of courts.
Geographically Granville is not
in the East, but central, but there
are a good many negroes in it, and
they are strong enough, to assert
themselves and make themselves
heard. There are'other counties in
that section, such as Person,
Caswell, Vance, Rockingham, Guil
ford and others where they
are strong enough to assert them
selves and make themselves heard
so that this is notan Eastern ques
tion at all, but one in which the
whole State is interested. It is
simply a question of white or black
supremacy in which Buncombe or
Cherokee ceunties are really as much
interested as New Hanover or Cra
ven, the only difference being that
out there they do not see so much of
nor come into much close contact
with the negro as we of the East
do, but they will be governed by
him all the same if this thing
goes on.
RETRENCHMENT AND REFORM.
One of the campaign cries of the
Republican-Populist stumpers and
papers was retrenchment and re
form. They charged the Demo
cratic party with extravagance and
a waste of the public moneys, and
succeeded by their loud and inces
sant iteration and reiteration in
making a good many people believe
it. They promised in the event
they were entrusted with power to
change all this, and to give the
people retrenchment and reform
and economical government. As far
as the "change" is concerned they
have kept their word, not by re
ducing expenses but by increasing
them.
In his speech at Pittsboro, Chat
ham county, Hon. C. B. Aycack
told the kind of retrenchment they
have given tfs by quoting from the
Auditor's report, showing that the
last three years rule of the "re-
trenchers' ' had cost the people
nearly $400, 000 more than the pre
ceding three years under Demo
cratic administration.- The figures
stand thus; -' '.
Expenses for 1892. ...... . $1,057,933.60
Expenses for 1893. . . . 1,319648.10
Expenses for 1894 1,195,620.25
Total for three years. . $3,573,201.95
For the last three years:
Expenses for 1895 $1,349,335.65
Expenses for 1896, ....... 1,246,566.27
Expenses for 1897 1,364,048 29
Total for three years. , .$3,959,950.21
This shows that the retrenchers
spent in three years $386,748,28
more than the Democrats whom
they charged with the extravagance
spent in the same time.
What has become of it? They
haven't been erecting any Stato
buildings, building any railroads,
making any turnpikes, clearing
swamp lands or any thing of that
kind. The increase in thr number
of office-holders, depar 3nt at
taches, &c, will account f rsome of
it, but there still remains a great
deal to be accounted for. As re
trenchers thev are daisies.
HE PROMISED HIS PA.
Filial devotion is, an admirable
thing. It is beautiful to behold,
especially when it attains the age
of maturity and is ahle to strut be
fore the public and talk for itself.
The Charlotte Observer quotes that
exemplary son of his father, Hon.
Office Hunter Dockery, as saying
in his speech at HuDtersville,
Mecklenburg county, last Monday,
"Nobody need fear I am going back
on silver. I pledged my dying father
never to go back on silver, the poor
man's money."
Generally speaking dying people
have something else than silver to
think about, but it is really touch
ing to be told :how this venerable
citizen clung to silver so tenaciously
and called his son to him and
pledged him never to "go back" ou
it, which pledge this filial pledgeist
then and there tqqk without nental
reservation whatsoever
If anybody doubts this haven't
we the word of the dis
tinguished gentleman himself, who
surely would not parade a death
bed scene for the purpose of
fooliner somebodv into the belief
o .
that he would never, no never,
while the blue canopy bent over the
green earth "go back on silver"
It may not be quite clear what
Hon. Office Hunter means by going
back on silver. His understanding
of it does not seem" to prevent him
from running as a candidate for
Congress on a gold standard plat
form, nor for repudiating the free
silver pledge which he made the free
silver Populists and Republicans who
nominated and supported him for
Weekly
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1898.
Lieutenant Governor two years
ago. He may have some cute way
of harmonizing all this with the
pious pledge o' made his pa,
even if the man of average intelli
gence can't see it. But perhaps it
means that this dutiful son would
never refuse silver for a bale of cot
ton.' The Huntersville anecdote is,
however, touching, although some
what belated.
ASSERTING HIMSELF IN RUTH
ERFORD COUNTY.
Rutherford is not in the East, it
is in the West. The whites are in the
majority, but the negroes constitute
the bulk of the Republican party
and therefore they are beginning to
realize their importance, to assert
themselves, and to demand their
share of the county offices. John
F. Carrier is a colored citizen,
believes that "the horse.that pulls
the plow should have the fodder,'?
and therefore addresses a letter, to
the white bosses from which the
Western Vindicator publishes the
following:
"We have always been together for
-the past thirty-three years in politics.
Have we not? And we negroes have
been true and loyal to the party. There
have not been more than ten out of
1,367 negro voters but who have voted
a straight .Republican ticket Because
you have fooled us the first time we
were permitted to go to the ballot-box
to stick to you and stay with you. And
that is what we have always done ; is it
not? .Yes, sir. And that is what we
always will do. We mean to stay with
you, so if you hold office we will,
and if you don't we won't. J3o, if you
will not reach down and catch us by
the hand and pull us. up with you, we
will reach up and catch your hand and
pull you down with us, for we must
stay together, for that is what you
have always said to the negro, and we
have always stayed with you, and now
you must stay with us. We will put
out our own ticket in this county, and
we know we cannot elect ours and you
cannot elect yours if we can't get our
man in you shan't either."
Since Congressman Wliite (black)
made that defiant speech in the Re
publican State Convention at
Raleigh, and gave notice that the
negroes (who really constitute the
Republican party in North Carolina)
were entitled to more offices and
must haye them, the negroes
throughout the State-have become
more assertive and aggressive, even
in the central and western counties
where heretofore they had nothing
to say, but submissively voted
solidly l for the white bosses who
reaped I all the benefits. The
changed attitude of the colored con
tingent is rough on the white bosses,
but the colored allies seem disposed
to bring them to taw.
LOOK TO THE LEGISLATURE.
Since the days of reconstruction
there never has been an election that
approached in importance to the
people of North Carolina the elec
tion to be held in November. It is
of the utmost importance because
then a Legislature will he elected, on
the character of whioh tho future
weal or woo of North Carolina will
depend, .:
Unfortunately, we oannot oust the
present incumbent of the Guberna
torial office, for he, through the in
scru table decrees of fate, is fastened
upon us for two years more, and we
must simply submit to the affliction,
as trying as it maybe, with all the
s n
patience we can. rortunately, as
the occupant of the Governor's of
fice is without a veto, he can do the
State no material injury without the
co-operation of a Legislature. He has
done her harm, inestimable harm, but
it was because there were men
enough in the last Legislature to
agree with him and carry out meas
ures inspired by partisan scheming
or by personal ambition. We can
not relieve our State of the Wight
of Russell, but we can elect a Legis
lature which will protect her, tie
Russell's hands, make him power
less and a cipher for mischief
Four years of Russell is pretty
rough, but with a Demooratio
Legislature we oan stand Russell for
two years more, for then it will be
simply Russell without the Russell
ism which for the past two years
has given North Carolina such an
unenviable notoriety.
If we elect a Legislature this Fall
it will be a comparatively easy mat
ter to elect a Democratic Governor
two years hence, for it will repeal
the election laws which made it pos
sible for the party,- or rather, party
combine, now in power to pack the
registration hooks with imported
negro ballot-box staffers and carry
elections by frauds the most stupen
dous ever perpetrated in this State.
There is enough to arouse the tax
payers of the State to a determina
tion" to rescue her from the infliction
of another Legislature like the last,
if by . courtesy much strained such a
mob can be called a Legislature, f 6
the people have had to meet the ex
traordinary appropriations, as hard
as the times were and are, made
by these squanderers of the public
funds, who spent in the three years
they h.aye had control nearly $400,
000 more than the Democratic ad
ministration did m the three pre
ceding years. This should be rea
son enough why the people should
rise against them and rebuke them
for the trust they abused after mak
ing such fine promises of faithful
and conscientious stewardship.
When the owner of a plantation
employs agents to attend to the
business of managing his plantation
and at the end of the year he finds
the expenses of operating im
mensely increased without anything
to show-for it, does he employ that
agent or those agents for another
year or get rid of him or them and
seek the services of men who had
previously done better work and
more of it for much less money?
This is what everv planter with
sense enough to keep out of bank
ruptcy or a lunatic asylum would
do and this is what every business
man no matter what his business,
employing managers would do.
Why then should the tax-paying
people who have to pay the expenses
of running the State government
continue to-employ incompetent and
faithless stewards, to manage their
business when they know their
money has been squandered, and the
burdens made heavier upon them,
without anything to show for it?
A hundred and thirty-three thous
and dollars a year is no small sum
or the people to put their hands
into their pockets and pay, with six
cent cotton and other products
which they had to sell correspond
ingly low, especially when such an
extra tribute upon them was entirely
unnecessary and without any shadow
of excuse.
While this mongrel legislature,
or mob, was doing this, adding one
hundred and thirty-three thousand
dollars a vear to the cost of con
ducting the affairs of State, . they
ooked with an eye single, and
with a scandalous greed to their
Own interests, and scrambled with
an almost ludicrous energy forevery
position that had a dollar in it
Since the days of the sickening Rad
ical orgie just after the war, when
soulless adventurers and hungry
native renegades raided the treas
ury and stole everything in sight
there never was. seen such a dis
gusting and greedy rush for places
large and small as was witnessed
during the last legislature when
the bartering of office was
the order of the dav, and every
man who belonged to the mongrel
combine became a scrambler for
himself or for some ward, or depen
dent or henchman. A i hungry
tramp begging for a cold snack
would pose as a gentleman com
pared with this gang of legislators,
in their run-over and scrouge-out
race for the pie counter.
And these were the patriots, the
loud-mouth "reformers," who osten
sibly went to Raleigh to attend to
the business of the people, who paid
them for it, and paid some of them
more than they ever before received
in the same time or ever will again
No people endowed with ordinary
sense would, after such an experi
ence, ever think of again entrusting
such a discredited and disgraced
gang with the management of their
public affairs, and this from a
purely businesss standpoint.
But there, are other and more
vital reasons why the people should
look to the Legislature," to which we
will refer later.
THEY ALL DO IT.
.We clip the following from the
Monroe Enquirer:
"I have said that I would never vote
a fusion ticket again, but I swallow
fusion now, negro and all." Those
words were uttered by Jas. A. Marsh
in the Populist convention last Satur
dav when he was nominated by that
. m . 3
convention ior couniy commissioner.
"I swallow fusion, negro and all."
What a word for a man to utter when
white supremacy in our State hangs in
the balanoe. Mr. Marsh may swallow
"neero and all" now. but there comes
a time when the white people of Union
county will show him that the man
who makes such an utterance will be
repudiated. We have heard a num
ber of good citizens express surprise
and regret at Mr. Marsh s utterance,
but thev don t know Mr. Marsn as
well as we do. Mr. Marsh will swal
low a great deal for the sake of a little
office. He is built that way,"
As far as we know the swallower
herein referred to has not achieved
much fame outside of his immediate
locality, but he stands as a
sample. Every white- man who
swallows fusion swallows the negro
too. It was that swallowing of the
negro which has so much reversed
the conditions in this State and
made the negroes as assertive and
aggressive as they are. The Popu
lists who have voted for fusion have
"put life into the dead hulk of the
Republican party," as Populist Sena
tor Atwater, of Chatham county,
says, and that put life into tne negro
contingent and brought it to the
front.
These fusion deals were mado by
the Populists machine managers,
who have just made another at Ra
leigh, with a full knowledge of all
this. They are willing to swallow
the negro for the offices they may
get by the swallowing, "and they ex
pect every Populist who will obey
them to do the same. About the
only difference between Mr. Marsh
and other white-skinned men who
vote the fusion ticket is that he has
the candor or the cheek, whichever
it may be, to own up and stand a
self-confessed, unprincipled spoils
hunter.
Star
THE TRADE CLOSED.
As anticipated by those who have
kept up with the movements of the
engineers who are running the
Republican and Populist machines
in this State the trade by which
they pool their issues in the coming
election was closed by their respec
tive committees at Raleigh Thurs
day night, or rather Friday morning,
for it was one o'clock in the morning
before they closed the deal. As this
was simply a trade for - the offices
the people of either of, the parties
were not supposed to be interested
and were therefore not consulted.
The Populist committee which
participate in this deal had pre
viously submitted a proposition to
the Democrats accompanied by cer-
tain conditions upon the acceptance
of which they were willing to fuse
with the Democrats. Practically
this proposition embraced accept
ance of the Populist platform and
an agreement to give the Populists
all the offices, federal and
State which they now- hold.
VeTy properly it was promptly
rejected by the Democratic State
convention to which it was made.
The question may now be asked,
did the Republican machine mana
gers swallow the whole thing or.
only the part of it which provideT
for dividing the spoils.
The sum and substance of this
whole business means that these
Populist dickerers who profess to be
in favor of free silver, against trusts,
monopolies, &c, agree to support
goldbng -candidates who are in favor
of the gold standard, trusts, monop
olies, &c, and the Republicans who
favor the gold standard, trusts, mo
nopolies, &c, agree to support can
didates who are opposed to all that
and to nearly everything else that
they believe in, and yet these merce
nary traders in votes have the brazen
effrontery to talk about "principle."
'NO TIME TO TALK ABOUT
PRINCIPLES,"
That is what S. Otho Wilson said
when Mr. Wynn, an anti-fusionist pf
Wake county, said that f usion with
goldbug Republicans was against
the principles of the Populist party.
S. Otho Wilson is the leader of the
anti-Butler faction of the Populist
party. He has been a trader from
the" word go and thoroughly un
scrupulous as to his methods to
attain his ends, Such a man is not
expected to have anv regard for
principles or to have any patience
witn people who may have more
conscience than he has, or who.
object tq bartering principles at the
dictates of greed for office.
b. Utho has played his game so
long and with so little opposition
that he has come to regard himself
as a sort of mogul, and expects Pop
ulists to quietly let him and others
in collusion with him fix up thejobs,
and then endorse And vote for them
without question, because that
means a stronger pull on the Repub
lican party for Otho, and a chance
either to be elected to some office
which he wants or to get some fed
eral job later if he should fail in be
ing elected. Like Senator Pritch-
ard, if he ever had any principles.
he holds them "in abeyance" until
he sees how the office-grabbing busi
ness pans out. When deals are on
it is "no time to talk about princi
ples," which, to say the least of it,
is candid on the part of S. Otho.
Republicans Will Nominate.
The Republicans of the Third Con
gressional district have decided that
thev cannot stomach Fowler, and will
hold a convention at Fayetteville,
Sept. 29th, to nominate a straight Re
publican candidate. S. H. Buchanan,
of Moore, and A.. H. Slocumb, of
Cumberland, are aspirants. The can
didate, however,, ought to be a negro,
as the negroes poll nine-tenths of the
Republican vote of the district
Bellamy at Pireway
John D. Bellamv. the white man's
Democratic candidate for Congress in
this district, will address the people at
Pireway, Columbus county, Wednes
day next, Sept 7th. He will discuss
the great issues of the day, chief
among which in North Carolina is
the supremacy of the white race. As
ireway is almost on ine line neiween
Columbus and Brunswick a large at
tendance is expected from both
counties.
ENTHUSIASM FOR BELLAMY.
His Visit to Richmond County Has
Worked Wonders.
Lauririburg Exchange.
Mr. John D. Bellamy, the white
man's candidate for Congress in this
district is gaining strength every day.
His visit to old Richmond has put
new life in her and it is not consid
ered a thing impossible for him to re
ceive a majoritv vote in it
His speeches and house to house
campaign have worked wonders and
he bas received pledges of support
from many that have never cast a
Democratic ballot.
The Star, received by Ex
press last night a basket of 1 use ious
grapes from the garden of Miss Kate
Ochiltree, of Fayetteville. And we
take occasion to say now that we had
previously received from Miss Ochil
tree the earliest ripe Scuppernong
grapes seen in Wilmington this sea
son. 1
NO. 47
DIRECTORS' MEETING.
New Charter Read and Accepted Other
Natters of Importance.
The Board of Directors of the East
Carolina Fruit and Truck Growers'
Association met yesterday morning at
11 o clock at lne Urton. inose pres
ent were J. H. Moore, Chairman; T.
J. Armstrong, Secretary; J. AS.
Brown, J. A. Westbrtfok, J. S.
Westbrook, G. W. Westbrook, S. H.
Strange, W- J. Hollings worth, W. J.
Boney. D. W. Fussell, and M. P.
Taylor.
The meeting was for the purpose of
reorganizing under the new charter.
Mr. J. H. Moore, of Burgaw, was re
elected chairman, and Mr. T.,J. Arm;
strong, of Rocky Point, was re-elected
secretary Mr. Armstrong was also
elected treasurer pro tern.
The charter was read and accepted,'
and some of the stock was taken. The
directors were authorzied, on motion
to solicit subscribers to stock and re
port at the next meeting.
Messrs. J. A. Brown, C. M. Stein-
metz and W. J. Boney were appointed
a committee to prepare a set of
by-laws.
- The meeting adjourned at 1 :30 P.
M., to meet again in Wilmington on
October llth.
BLADEN COUNTY DEMOCRATS.
Met in Convention Wednesday and Put
Out a Strong Ticket.
, Special Star Correspondence.
Clabkton, N. C, Sept. 1.
The Democratic County Convention
met in Elizabethtowh yesterday and
nominated a county ticket. Notwith
standing the heavy rains and almost
impassable swamps, there was a large
attendance. From every ,part of the
county comes the news that the stray
sheep, Populists, are comine: back into
tne fold. Old Bladen will do Her
share in redeeming the State next
November.
A good ticket was put up by the
convention. Mr. Geo. H. Lhirrie was
nominated for the House of Represen
tatives.
Masonboro Yesterday.
The white men of Masonboro town
ship met yesterday afternoon at Mel-
ton's store; near Whiskey
creek, and,
Organizer
with the assistance of
Brooke Empie, formed a White Gov
ernment Union, with a large number
of members. Among the members
was a former Republican, a former
Populist and a gentleman .who had
not cast a vete in ten years.
MARRIED IN CHARLOTTE.
Wilmington Young Lady Becomes
the
Bride of Mr. Ira B. Andrews.
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Charlotte Observer.
Mr. Ira B. Andrews and Miss Lisette
J. Bonitz were married last night at
Tyron Street Methodist Church by
Rev. Dr. Chreitzberg.
The groom is an agent for the Im
mediate Life Insurance Company, of
Baltimore. He came to Charlotte from
Wilmington about seven months ago.
The bride is the daugnter of Mr. J .
H. W. Bonitz, of the Bonitz House,
Wilmington. She has been visiting
for a short period at Mrs. Calloway's,
who moved here a year or so ago from
Wilmington. Mr. Andrews has many
friends j among the life insurance fra
ternity, where he is best known.
They will make Charlotte their home.
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THE RIEDSVILLE MEETING.
Ponr or Five Thousand People Attend the
Great Democratic Rally and Barbe
cueThe Country Aroused.
A gentleman who formerly resided
in Wilmington but who now lives in
the West in a private letter gives th
folio wine encouraeine news unde
date of September 2 :
"It was my pleasure to attend the
great Democratic rally and barbecue
at Reidsville, September 1st. They
had the best order I ever saw, and if
any one thinks the people in this part
of the State are not interested, they
ought to come and see. I talked with
one old gentleman 82 years old who
said the last Populist had disappeared
from his neighborhood, and every one
I spoke to about the matter wouia say
the Pop? are getting back where they
used to be. During the last ten,-days
I have been in Moore, Harnett and
Chatham, and unless people are tell
ing lies, there will be a change up this 1
way in JNoVember. Ue gentleman,
always a Republican, from Chatham,
told a friend in Greensboro, last
week, that Chatham county would
go Democratic fas sure as there
was an election, l talked, witn
a minister to-day who was at
the speaking, and he said if the State.
at large was as it was where he had
been, t was bound to be redeemed. I
have been following up the campaigns
since vance ran tor uoveraor in iat
and I never saw the people show the
interest and the determination they
are showing now so long before the"
election. I'll tell you, Jarvis. Watson,
Brooks, Kitchin and others made the
people think at the mass meeting at
Reidsville Thursday. It has been a
long time since I saw such a political
gathering there were four or five
thousand people but if I live, I ex
pect to see another next Thursday at
Asheboro, Randolph county.
GOLD IN THE
TREASURY.
The Total Reserve the Highest on Record,
Amounting to $220,916,282.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Washington, September 3. The
gold in the Treasury is steadily climb
ing upward, and to-day again broke a
record with the total reserve jot $220,
916,282, the highest in the history of
the reserve fund. United States
Treasurer Roberts, speaking of the up
ward trend of the gold in the Treasury,
said that out of about $40,000,000 yet
to be paid in for the new war loan, it
is likely that $25,000,000 or $30,000,000
will be in gold. It would not be at all
strange, he said, if, before the tide
turns, our total gold will be consider
ably over $260,000,000.
REP'POP CWJFEREKCE
Plan of Fusion Arranged by Com
mittees Representing the
Two Parties. "
MANY POPULISTS REPUDIATE
Middleof-theRoad Men Preparing
Straight Ticket for Wake County
Norment to Be Pulled Down
Other Raleigh News.
- Special Star Correspondence.
. Raleigh,' N. C, September 2.
It was after 1 o'clock this morning
when the Populist and Republican
conference committees submitted
their report to the Republican ex
ecutive committee and had it ratified
by that body. The agreement is as
follows:
The agreement was written by
Auditor Hal Ayer. After being rati
fied by the Republican committee, it
was given out by Chairman Holton
as follows i .
The conference committee ap
pointed by the People's party State
Convention and the People's party
State Committee and the conference
committee from the State Executive
Committee of the Republican party
met! in Raleigh on September 1st,
189S. The conference resulted in a
unanimous and harmonious conclu-
sion
to the effect that it was advisa-
ble
and necessary to effect a com-
plete
co operation of the two parties
in the election of 1898, the details pf
such co-operation to be arranged iu
deference to the expressions of the va
rious conventions of the two parses.
It is respectfully recommended that
the counties and districts p rooted to
nominate co-operative tickets on mu
tually agreeable conditions and the as
surance is authorized by the com
mittees and hereby made that their
best offices and assistance will be
given in any! matter necessary to
effect the co-operation above recom
mended and advised.
Cyrus Thompson,
Chni'n. People's Party Ex. Com.
A. Et HoiiTON,
, Chm'n. Rep. State Ex. Com,
The above report was unanimously
adopted by the full Republican State
Executive (Jommittee.
"2. E. Holton, Chm'n.
w.
S. Hyams, Secretary.
Sept. 1st, 1898.
Congressman Skinner was expected,
but did not arrive". The Populist
conference committee was the same
old crowd Thompson, Ayer, 'Schul
ken, Garrett and Peace.
Some of the Republicans want
Lloyd to come down in White's favor.
A Pritchard Pop said to-day, -'No;
Lloyd will not come down. I think
it is to White's advantage for him to
remain in the race."
The chairmen of the executive com
mittees will arrange the Lockey and
other matters. -
The Republican committee is in
session at Its headquarters this morn
ing, discussing questions of party
policy.
The A. & M. College, of this city,
opened yesterday with a fine atten
dance', One hundred and sixteen
students were present yesterday at
noon.
The middle-of-the-road Populists are
preparing to put their straight Popu
list county ticket out this week and
claim that many Populists will re
pudiate the Republican deal and vote
witTi them.
' 'A Republican officeholder J said to
day that there is much dissatisfaction
over, the delay in opening the cam
paign "This nigger racket is going1
to play thunder if something ain't
done, he said. J
Mr. Richard Young, of Henderson,
is mentioned for the Democratic Con
gressional nomination in this district.
The Republicans openly declared
last night that Stroud and Fowler
could not get anything like the full
Radical vote.
An un authenticated report says that
the State committee will certainly take
Dr. Norment down! but not before
October. The Governor, so Dockerys
friends .say will assist if necessary
in lowering Norment's congressional
colors.
, t Special Star Telegram.
A Washington special here says
the Second regiment' is ordered to
Raleigh and will be here in its in
tirety within ten days.
The Republican executive commit
tee adopted a resolution requesting all
Republican candidates to hold no
joint debates, with Democrats. The
resolution further advised union meet
ings and speakings between Populists
and Republicans when possible.
THE SECOND REGIMENT.
Wiil be Mustered Out and the Wihning-
ton Boys Wiil Soon be at Home
Again,
The Naval Reserves have hardly
gotten here before the news comes
that Company K is also to be mustered
out. Reference to the Star's tele
graphic news will show that among
the latest army orders is one directing
the mustering, out of the Second North
Carolina Regiment with headquarters
on St. Simons Island. The regiment
will go to Raleigh to be mustered out
i With both her Reserves and Light
Infantry back again, Wilmington's
cup of joy should actually run over.
BRUNSWICK DEMOCRATS ;
Met in Convention Thursday and Pol Oat
a Strong Ticket Telling Speech
by Jno. D. Bellamy.
--
Special Star Correspondence.
Supply, K C, September 2.
The Democratic county convention
was called to order at Lockwood's
Folly by;Dr, D. B. McNeill; Mr. Frank
Gore was made permanent chairman,
and Mr. Jno. H. Mintz secretary. The -.,
following are the candidates nomi
nated for the different offices of the
county: For Senator, Capt W, J.
Davis; Representative, Dr. D. B. Mc
Neill; Sheriff, David Ward; Treas
urer, A. S. Kirby; Register, J. J.
Pigott; Clerk of Court, Wij O. Mc
Keithan County Commissioners, A.
M. Moore, Warren Murrill and Chas.
Frink ; Coroner McD. Turner ; Sur
veyor, Jno. H. Mintz. The ticket is a
good one, and can't be beaten. There
was much enthusiasm and perfect
harmony throughout the meeting.
Jno. D. Bellamy, Democratic candi
date for Congress, made a strong and
telling speech here yesterday to as
large an audience as has assembled at
this place in years. He is a fine ora
tor. 'He held his audience spell-bouird-for
more than an hour and a half. His
speech has done lasting good. He is
in Boone's Neck to-day, and speaks at
ShaHotte to-morrow and Shingletree
Monday. 7!i
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