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rUSUSMBD AT - WILMINGTON. N. C .1 r1.0U AJ YEAR. IN ADVANCE. 8888888888888888 SSggSS8gft8gS2 IV l ggS8888888f 88888 8888888888888888? ' - 8888888888888888 8288888888288888? 888888888888888? 8S88S88S88888888e 888888888388888 . ? .. . Si n s 3: the Post Office at nmtgton, N. Second Class Ma er.1 C. SUBSCRIPTION P CE. The subscription price of the We o!low: Single Copy 1 year, postage paid i" omontas i" 3 months " DEMOCRATIC T1CKBT. FOR CONGRESS. Sixth District John D. Bellamy, of New Hanover. FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. fjrst District Hon. George H. Brown, of Beaufort. Second District Hon. Henry R. Bry an, of Craven. FiftlLDistrict Hon. Thomas J. Shaw, of Guilford. a: . 1 : . . . ... XT rM TT A 11 Oi - L 1 1 L'lail lut HUH. VUVCl JJ.. -THiCXJ., of Lenoir. Seventh District Hon. Thomas A. McNeill, of Robeson. EWtMiili District Hon. W. Alexan- ikr Hoke, of Lincoln. FOR SOLICITOR. ? : District Rodolph Duffy, ,of 'Onflow. Forjudge of Eastern Criminal Circuit: Dossey Battle, of Edgecombe. cw Hanover County. FOR STATE SENATOR. - Tenth District W. J. Davis, of Bruns wick. HOI SE OF REPRESENTATIVES. JosT. Kerr and Geo. L. Peschau. Sheriff Walter G. MacRae. Treasurer H. McL. Green, lerk Superior Court Jno. D. Taylor. Register of Deeds W. H. Biddle. Coroner Dr. W. W. Harriss. . , Surveyor Jos. H. McRee. Commissioners Roger Moore, John Harry, W. F. Alexander. Constable (Wilmington Township) Wm. Sheehan. Sr. ' RETRENCHMENT. Whftrt Ihe Republican and Popu list stumpers were going around the State in and 1890 one of their campaign cries was "Retrenchment." Tiny ililated on the hard times, .how hard it was for the people, especially, the farmers (in a whom they take such a touching interest) with thfir low priced products to bear thq burdens that were upon them, and declared that there mast be a lei action of expenses all along thf line, and the State and county govern mentis be conducted on the bediiocR ; of economy. They ar raihged tlie Democrats who preceded them because they had notcutdown salaries to correspond with the re ductioiT in the selling prices of Gbt- ton artq for not charges other farm products, and cutting down the freight on railroads, and every where else where it could, be done by legislation. 5 Having, said all this the reasonable inference was that if they got into power one of the very first things they would do would be to begin on retrenchment and keep at it until they had all the departments of the flovernment on such a basis of economy that there wouldn't be any dollars wasted. The people kept on looking for the move in this direc tion, for a reduction of salaries of State officers and employes, and in the pay of members of the Legisla ture, but with alt their looking they haven't seen it yet, although the economizers and retrenched have had three years to make the move ment and do something, f They did say something about cutting down charges on the rail reads not on freights oarried, but on passengers. They were perfect ly willing to squeeze the railroads, but then it came to cutting down their own pay retrenchment didn't go quffcj that far. That wasn't the -kind of retrenchment they were although thev scored their after, Democratic predecessors loudly and often for not cutting down their wn pay and lessening to that ex tent the burdens on the "oppressed payers." - The Democratic party held full control of the State Government eighteen years before these "re erVLesme into power. A fonfparison of the figures for the tot U, , yearg Qf J)emocrati0 afl. frustration and the past three years of Uep-Pop-Fusion adminis tration standi thus: DEMOCRATIC. "PS i tet rnn on lOrio fl,Ua(,VOO.DU iw,5 ioiAjoin mi l,01i),01D.lU 1,195,620.25 Total .$3,573,201.95 .$1,349,335.65 . 1,246,566.27 , 1,364,048.29 REP. -POP. 1895 1896. m. Total SThese Auditor ........ $3,959,950.21 are the figures as given by r man's reports for the jears 1 , v, M'.U KJ LtUlWl yers reports, for the past three J641"- A uTKtoT Ayer does not ques 10n Auditor Furmatt's figures, and ne 01 coil ran v,n J Tr . V.U I- UVUgt) UIS UW1I - IB therefore, compelled to admit,, m' mongrel party now in power ij ShI . : SOB .XXJX. has spent in its three jret'fctuje, so far, f 386,'748, 26 more than tSs& icmuutawt mu in tne tnree yearns of Democratic "extrtvaganeo,"orjrjptjE 916.081 per year or HI 3.19 pet day, JlpSisoraiting hd&ys. Hal Ayer -admits bis figure. ! own wjitjfctho out of extravagance by conte that the' increase in expenditures was properand necessary. If it was necessary, it was proper. But neither Mr. Hal Ayer: aor any of the other explainers or apologists have shown the necessity, nor have,, any of them explained how it was or why there should have been an in crease of nearly $129,000 a year in the expenditures as soon as the mongrels got into-nower If it was necessary to spend, so much more mqne.y annually to keep the govern mental machinery' running, then their Democratic predecessors, whom they had so loudly charged with ex travagance, must have been con ducting the Government on a fear fully economical basis, and yet North Carolina made a pretty respectable showing under the skinflint admini stration which the mongrel orators denounced as extravagant, so good that she was pointed to by some of her sister States as an ' exemplar in successful administration and man agement. But if this increase of nearly $400,000 in three years was really necessary, as Auditor Ayer says it was, isn't it a confession that they were slandering their Democratic predecessors when they charged them with gross extravagance, with squandering the people's money, with unnecessarily heavy taxation and with the failure to reduce their own salaries to help the poor, strug gling, tax-ridden people ? Isn't it a feather in the Dem ocratic cap that they could conduct the State government for $129,000 a year less than the mongrels now in power can? And doesn'tit show more ability to govern economically and well? As to the necessity that is legiti mate necessity that does not ap pear anywhere except in the asser tion of explainer Ayer, for we have not seen any new State buildings erected or old ones enlarged, we haven't seen moneys expended to aid in the construction of railroads or in liquidating standing indebted ness. There ought to be something te show for the "necessity," which is not in sight. - Perhaps if they had cut down salaries and run things on the economical -basis that the Demo crats did the increase would not have been necessary, and they, might then assert that they are as competent to administer the Gov ernment as the Democrats are, but as the figures stand now, with the nearly $400,000 difference in favor of the Democratic administration, the mongrels have one of two alter natives either to admit their in ability to manage as well as the Democrats did, or that a good deal of the money has been needlessly and unwisely if not corruptly ex pended. ANOTHER OBJECT LESSON. We are having numerous object lessons these days showing the re sults of negro rule in North Caro lina. They are apparent to every man who walks the earth with his eyes and ears open. Lee Person is the negro candidate for the State Senate from Edge combe county. He was in the last Senate, was a very active and aggres sive member of that body, and a persistent agitator for the recogni tion of negroes in the distribution of appointive offices He was a hard man to keep down, for he jiked to talk, and liked to hear himself talk. He is a candidate for re-election, and like the negro Congress man White, he welcomes the race issue, goes further and defies not only white men but the law and the officers of the law whose dttty it is to execute, the law, and boldly counsels his negro following to arm themselves with pistols and if they cannot get pistols, to carry rocks and clubs and if attempt be made to arrest them for any less offence than larceny or murder, to resist arrest. This is substantially urging the negroes to kill, if necessary to escape arrest, "the officer attempting to make the arrest, for bo advises them to go armed and prepared for resistance. With such advice coming from a negro leader in whom they trust how easy it will be to incite to blood shed in a county where the negroes f . . .. 3 . 1 L i.1 are in the maiomy ana wnere pney applaudingly listen ' to such incen diary speeches. And this firebrand poses as a representative and leader of his race, who is to go to Raieigh to make laws for North Carolina. There others just like him. One of the South American Re publics wants an experienced ex ecutioner, whose salary will be $3,000 a vear. Here is a chancef or some of the Republican decapitators 1 Hk BCNHjED TO VOTE POK HTJC In his -speech at Kinston last Saturday the negro Congressman, ; White, of the Second district, said the Populists rtare bound in honor" rto vote for him. This is a sort of "honor among thieves" style of hohbr;' but omitting the hqspr The favors negro party and ex- j pecs votes from negroes, is bound n good faith to vote for negroes, as they bW been doing. WJien the Populist ag to fuse with the Republicans he knows he is fusing wit& V .party composed of four negroes tof one Vrhite man, and he knows that, the fusion would not amoj&t to a continental with- out the support of these negroes. Me,- therefore, goes into the fusion to secure, ttieji support - for their Populist candidates and is bound by,the agEemnt,to reoipro- cate by supporting and voting for negro candidates for" any dmce for whichthey may be nominated I rbm Governor down. The bargain that binds a fusion negro to vote for a Populist candi date, binds a fusion Populist toi vote for a negrd candidate, for by virjtue of the fusion the negro be coiut's bis candidate just as much as if he had sat in a convention and voted for his nomination. Fusion is nothing but sj"oint stock company, as "Prof." Ike Smith, (candidate for the Legisla ture from Craven county) says the Republican party is. The co-partnership is formed for the offices and is as binding upon one as much as upon the other. The fusion Popu list is by virtue of his own act pledged to vote for negroes. They have been doing' it. Hal Ayer, one of the high-cock-olorums of the Pop ulist party and compiler of that "handbook" romance, voted for Jim Young, negro, for the Legislature from Wake, against. Mr. Xeedham Broughton, one of the most respect able and reputable white men in the State. Hal was keeping up to his part of the agreement, and if he lived in the Second district would vote for White, the negro, for Congress. " THEY CATECHISED HOWELL Yesterday we wrote something about the Republican convention which performed in Goldsboro last Tuesday. Yonng Oliver Dockery, Pear Spears and the colored "dic tator" from Duplin (not Pender,, as we inadvertently stated) were there and lent gaiety to the proceedings. Nathan A. Howell (white) was also there, but not to add gaiety but to stand an examination to see whether the colored bosses would let him stay up or pull him down. He is the Republican nominee for the Legislature, but it seems that his orthodox Republicanism had come under suspicion and therefore they brought him before a caucus and catechised him, thus : . "Did you vote for (Songreesman White (negro) at the last election?" "I voted for Mr: White," he an swered. "Did you vote for Bryan or Mc Kinley for President?" . - . "I voted for Mr. McKinley." "Will you vote for Congressman White in the coming election?" "I was born a Republican, and was rocked in a Republican cradle, and I will vote for Mr. White in the coming election." Howell stood the ordeal without wincing; they put the mark of their acceptance on him, and young Oliver Dockery, who was present, went into a paroxysm of delight, and pounded the floor with his feet at the immi nent risk of bursting the only pair of shoes he had on. Howell was evidently a fellow after Oliver's own build, who could stomach and get outside of any dose they might throw at him. There is a moral in all this. The negroes are on top in the Republi can party of Wayne, and before they support a white man for office they want to know-whether he will sup port a negro. If it be so in Wayne now will it not soon be so, if it is not already, in every county in which the negroes are a controlling factor in the Republican arty? The race issue is on, and they are not only welcoming it, but are fore ing it on their white associates. The U. S.. commissioner of educa tion states in his last report that there were at the" end of the last fiscal year 16,255,000 pupils in the schools and colleges of the country. This is about one in five of the popu lation; and shows that this country believes in teaching "the young idea how to shoot." Economy is the road to wealth. An old Paris beggar dieel suddenly a few days ago and in a belt worn around his body there were bank notes to the value of $300,000 francs. There is talk of McKinley drop ping Alger. Perhaps McKinley would like to. But Alger is like a lump of hot wax- He sticks and burns, and isn't easy to drop. Weekly WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, NEGRO EICEERS. ' Some time ago the RepubHerrji convention of .Halifax county met tod en dorsed the fusion job. which gave the Populists nearly all the offices in that county, This eansed a kiek by the oolbred contingent who want some of these offices them selves, and hence tfio following pro- clamation signed by nineteen of the "insurgents." "To the Republican Voters of Malif ax Comity: ' 'We thaTandfirsi orisd Rami hi irans of Littleton, ButterwooaTEnfield awH UrmkleyviHe townships, in a mass meeting held September 14th, 1898, at Panacea, feeling the imperative neces ,y ui currecung me outrage perpeusn 4 uPbn the Dartv bv the recent Re publican convention through McM. Furgerson. the pretended chairman of the Republican county executive com mittee, do hereby call upon eyery true and loyal lie publican of Halifax county to meet us in the town of Hal ifax on the 1st Monday in October. 1898, for the purpose of filling such va cancies upon the Republican ticket as will retain to the Republican party the political machinery of the county, and thereby redeem the Republican party from the clutches of the most dastard and - criminal political thraldom to which 4,200 hundred negro voters ha ve been delivered by McM. Furflrersbn. in tbe manner hereafter set forth: . ' '1st. We are still in favor of fusion Upon just and equitable basis and we are ever ready and willing to reward tbe Populists, for any good that may have been accomplished through their loyalty to fair elections and good gov ernment, but not to the extent of sur rendering our party and principles, and even the election machinery but whereas the terms of this self -constituted committee gives to the Populist party the Senate, clerk of the court, treasurer, two members of -the board of county commissioners, and survey or which division places the election machine absolutely in the hands of the Populist party, and we will be at the mercy of that party to get our votes counted hereafter; we therefore, in the name of the Republican party and the perpetuity of its principles, denounce as foul and revolting the methods and influence used by McM. Furgetson in thwarting the will of the party and wreching from our hands the last vestage of right to cast one ballot and have that counted. ' 'We further denounce and brand as an eternal enemy and traducer of the KepubJican party, the vender who has stood upon the merchant's block in this county, and for paltry considera tion sold into political bondage 4,200 negro voters who must bow to the sceptre or the ropunst ana democrat ic parties, or take their political portion with the felon and the chain gang in Georgia." Aside from being a pretty vigor ous kick this is an entertaining pro duction, which hot only" 'protests against negro votes being bartered off in that style, but also shows that the colored "insurgents' have no confidence in their Populist asso ciates. This is pretty rough on the associates. . They are perfectly willing to "re ward" their associates for any ser vice they may have rendered by co operating with the negroes, but they do hot propose to give the aforesaid partners the meat while they gnaw the bone. They have got tired of that thing. Business is business in a "joins stock company, ana wmie they do the voting that wins the offices they insist that they are en titled to their share of them, and in Halifax that means about" all. ANOTHER ENDORSEMENT. The Republican county, conven tion of Nash county was held in Nashville on Thursday of last week. The preponderating element in it was black, of course, as might be expected. There-were some speeches but the principal speech was made by one Jordan, to which the Rocky Mount Motor of the 21st inst. refers as follows: "One feature of the convention was jjae speech of Jordan, negro law yer or jvraniciin, wno sara tnat ne fully endorsed all that Manly said about prostitution among North Caro lina white women. The Republican politicians and their Populist allies have tried to make the impression that this vile slander by the negro organ was not endorsed by negroes, and some of the Populist organs have gone so far as to insinuate, without openly as serting it, that Manly, the editor of 4he Record, is a mere nurseling of Democrats and that' this slander was inspired by them and published at their instance. Manly has in dignantly and emphatically denied this and protested against this re flection on his party fealty. Will these organs insinuate that this Franklin negro lawyer jras in stigated by -Democrats to thus pub; licly endorse that slander ? The only condemnation of it that has ever appeared from Republjjoan quarters, black or white, came from the Republican committee of this county and that was only for politi cal effect. From the frequent mention by some of the Anti-Bryan journals, and their sneering way of referring to him, the presumption is that the conductors of those esteemed jour nals are rather sorry that Bryan didn't go as far as Cuba and get shot. The JNew xork aun says "we had to rush the Porto Rico cam paign lest peace should come before we were ready . for it." Such ad missions from an organ of the ad ministration do not look well, to say the least. It is an admission of .grab. HYPOCRITES JJKmm In Jacksonville, rasm county, recently, Senator Marion Bntler characterized the Democrats as "hypocrite ' nr liars. " Cy Thompson, Hal Ayer and other Fusion Populist Stumpers -and organ grinders have a large stock of epithets whiofr they hurl at the Democrats, and they do it as, if they were in down right earnest -and had a; horrid loathing f&r these '''hypocrites, liars, tc. In the iomtr d i srsusai on at Concord with Cy Thompson, Hon. C. B. Aycock hit them between wind and'water thus: "You have lor six years viHft Democratic pasty and aR: JfeS the called-them villains a&d looiuidrels. ha. and bull pen builders and ballot box stuffers, and siill three months ago, with your tongues yel.pta-ohed and your lips red with these vilifica tions, you came and proposed to fuse wun vmams, loucome up and say: 'For a few offices' we Vili deliver up to your villians and scoundrels and to your gold and monopoty-ridden party these thirty thousand voters of ours.' add then because, we don't aeree to barter, your rush to the Republican camp and say: 'Give us some offices and take our voters,' and then vou talk of hypocrisy and say that it is a wonder that Goo don't blast the Demo crats for their hypocrisy." .... With this lifelike picture of the Populist f usionist would any ne find it difficult to decide whichwe the "nypocrites ana liars rr SOLID BLACK SOLID WHITE The Charlotte Observer a f ew days ago made a very pertinent inquiry, with some eqfially pertinent com ment, which we quote as follows: "We recur to the question asked a week or two ago, 'Why is it that the white people of North Carolina will stay divided while the black people are solid? If the blacks think that in this solidarity they have a community of interest, why have not the whites a like interests in standing together? The black people will not come over to us for the accomplish ment of any i political, purpose why should j we go over to them? The Democrats are charged with drawing- the color line in this campaign and a great outcry is made about it. Butit s not the whites but the blacks' who have drawn the color line. Congressman G. H, White, col ored, of the Second district, said in a speech before the Republican State convention, referring to the color line, 1 invito the issue. This was a misuse of terms. He did not really mean that he invited the issue, for that wodld im ply acceptance of a challenge. The fact is that he and . his people made it and it is the whites who are the chal lenged party." 1- TJntil about six years ago the white men of North Carolina with the exception of about 20,000 who associated politically with .the negroes were solid for white rule and North Carolina was safe, for he negro cohorts with their small white contingent were powerless to cope with the Democratic party, which was white. It was not until disappointed, ambitious office-seek ers who had been Democrats but failed to realize their ambition within that party withdrew from it and organized the so-called Populist party that the black cohorts and their white contingent became suffi ciently encouraged to make a deter mined effort to carry the State. They took advantage of their oppor tunity, allied themselves with the new party thus formed, and accom plished what they had been vainly trying to do for eighteen years, the capture of the State. The leaders in the organization of that new party doubtless saw this, but they didnt I care. They were after the offices,' which some of them got. The honest masses who were deluded into following them didn't see it; but many of them do now and they are going back where they come "from, to j the white man's party, "wiser from the experience they have had. As between thel Democratic party and the Republican"br negro party for they are convertible terms in this State, as they axi in every Southern State the color line always has been drawn. It was drawn by the negroes themselves, who bould never be per suaded to erase it. As a race they fight the .Democratic party, as viciously to-day 'as they did when they were first j turned loose with ballot in hand and were taught to regard the Democratic party as their implacable foe. With very few exceptions they have neverbeen known to vote the Democratic ticket no matter what the issue might lie or who might be nominated. It was enough for them to know that it was opposed by a Republican ticket and it didn't matter to them what that ticket rep resented or who was on it, if he was as unprincipled as Belzebub and as immoral as a dive-keeper they would vote jfor that ticket as zealously and Solidly as if they were discharging a patriotic and sacred obligation! Why was this?; Why was it that the negro who worked for the white Democrat by the week, month or year, could never be persuaded to vote with that white Democrat but would listen to tmy ragamuffin who called himself k Republican and vote with him every time? Simply because- the belief has been ingrained in him that there is a color line in. politics, that tne uem- ocratic party is the white man s St a R 1898. party and tho RepBblon. party ! thfBk np.OTo's -narfcv. find ihprfifnrA if. w to ms interest asFit? is. ihs incli nation to go with the. negro party. He nai beeni thby'il' white men who for purposes of their Sfeiuft politically wfth him as tux as the leading negroes are on corned there is soiwNtrrth in $ni& for they s tan d some 6$jjpe tting pflicej in the Republican party while they would stand no (jjB of getting office ih the Dem dctttic party. This" the principal reason why the color line is kept up by the colored leaden.. :; - jtb ii it, i8 w we interest oi 1 mass of the negroes. to go With tine spUblican party, because - it is a negro party, isn't ft to the interest of the mass'of the white men to o With the Democratic party, which is the white man's party? If there is any reason at all for the first, for negro solidity there is as much or more reason for the Second', for white. solidity. If the negroes stand together to win, tp promote their race advantage, so should white men stand together to promote their advantage, especially when this negro warfare is made upon them year after year and with as much pertinacity now as it was I - ft W . -4 thirty years ago. ; But the negroes, emboldened by- the progress they have made in com manding recognition since this mon grel party has been in power, not content with having drawn the color ine as to the Democratic party are drawing it as to the -white men in their own party, and are boldly de claring that they will be no longer content to play a subordinate part in that party at the dictation of their white associates, as they had been doing. They now demand that these white associates shall "bow down to the will of the mairity" and when the majority nominates negroes for Congress, for a State Or county or town office, they shall support them as loyally and submis sively as if their skins were as white as their own. So they draw the color line and having a black ma jority nominate black men,' in some counties giving their overwhelmed white associates but faint recogni tion, and contemptuously spurning the poor white Populists who have been "co-operating" with them for the sake of the offices got by co-operation. In the county of Edgecombe there is but one white (skinned) man on the ticket. In the Second district there is a negro running for Con gress, a negro who forces the race issue, which he calls inviting it, and who talks so arrogantly to the Populist f usionists that he tells them they are "bound in honor" to vote for him. Two years hence we will have another negro candidate for Congress, the odorous "Prof." Ike Smith, of Craven county, who is now in training. Later on we will have others, for they are j running the color line for all it is worth. The white tepulists that is the the self-respecting ones have seen too much of this and in disgust join hands with the men of their own race and blood, but there are still white Republicans who have not had their eyes opened yet and will keep on voting with the negroes while the negroes crowd the white Republicans out when they can, and put the negro at the front and On top. . ; '- Jk: There is really in North Carolina now only two parties the white man's party, and the negro party Can any decent white man hesitate as to which he should belong? The negro doesn't hesitate, and neither should the white man. . ENEMIES, NOT FRIENDS. THEIR THEIR We clip the following from the North Carolina Baptist,- religious, non-partisan journal: "The placing of the negro in office i an injustice to the whole negro race. There are occasional examples where thev have been acceptable, but the rule is to the contrary, and for their incompetency and undesirable- ness the whole race is made to suffer Political office for the negro just now in the South means the very worst thine for the negro race as a whole. They need industrial training rather than the reins of government. The Anglo-Saxon has brought them thus far, and they may trust to the good white people of the. South to give them what they deserve in the admin istration of justice." This is a verv conservative and a" very sensible view of the situation and of the efforts to thrust the negro to the front ' and to put him into positions for which he is fitted neither by experience nor education. There worst enemies are the un principled white men who have been encouraging them to expect offices, d-thenegro who have been urging them to agitate for and de mand them. By pursuing- this course they eet the cream of the offices and give their dupes the skimmed milk, and they stir up race feeling and hurt the negro by steal ing his time from labor, making him fritter it away in attending political meetings, listening to incendiary speeches, drinking bad whiskey and getting into trouble, when they are NO. 50 deserted by the white and colored bosses and left to shift for them selves. pfu ijfclfe a few of them who thoughtful and sensible enough !$o understand this, but they are very ffAtand these few are not the kind who are seeking office. They are attending to the business of earning an honest living; to bettering heir material condition, to deserving the respect of their white fellow citizens, and they do it. Sensible, . honest negroes know that as a race they ate hot -competent to laondttct public affairs or to minster the laws for themselves or for white men, and that when they attempt it the negro will suffer as well as the white man. Fate has thrown him with the. white man and he can'turt the white man without hurting himself. THEIR EYES ARE OPENED. ABE ( Many of our State exchanges, es pecially in the Eastern and Central parts5 of the State, publish from week to week letters from Populists who . have had their eyes opened withdrawing from the Populist party, joining the Democratic party and giving the reasons why. We have published some of them, but they are. too numerous to publish all, and some of these are. too lenethy. But they all give reasons, and;good reasons, for their action and show their sincerity and their courage by thus . publicly confessing that they had been deceived. But these are not all; there are hundreds of others who have turned their hacks upon the Populist party, and its mercenary, tradiner and treacherous leaders, and are going back to the Democratic party quietly, but as fully resolved to stay with it and fight the battle for white supremacy, better and more respect able government, as the most out spoken are. If the withdrawals from the Popu list party continue at the rate at which they have been going on since the campaign opened there will not be votes enough cast on the 8th day of November to identify the corpse. The traders have doubtless discov ered by this time that they might fool some of their people all the time, all of them some of the time," but that they "can't fool all of them all the time." A DAISY CANDIDATE "Prof." Ike Smith, negro, of Newbern, is a candidate for. the Legislature from Craven eounty? He gives his attention to running the politics of his county and to several other things, among them to lend ing money in small sums to other ne groes who are pressed for it, and have collateral to put up. . Ike makes his own terms as to the interest to be paid, and the borrowers have to come down or go without the cash Several of these transactions have come to light showing how Ike fleeced his victims, but his latest is told by the Newbern Journal of recent date, substantially as follows: In 1897, one Nelson a butcher (whether black or white is not Btated) being pinched for money borrowed $15 from Ike on which he agreed to pay one dollar a week in terest until the principal was paid Nelson paid until he had paid $17.00 interest but . the prin cipal still remained unpaid. He needed some more money and borrowed ftlO more on the same terms. He continued to pay and to borrow until he had paid $20 in in terest and the amount borrowed amounted to $50. A short while ago Nelson received notice that Ike held his note for $82, secured by a mortgage on his personal property and that he must have the money at once. Nelson consulted a lawyer, and fearing to go into court with the usury law staring him in- the face Ike compromised for $40. This is the daisy that the Repub lican party of Craven county pro poses to send to the Legislature to help make laws, and white, Republi cans and Populists, who are so bit terly opposed tdiftury, are expected to vote for him. In preaching on the results,of the war with Spain Rev. Edward Everett Hale said, "In one hun dred days God has set forth the civilization of the world one hun- dred years?" We believe, that is true, but the Republican leaders claim that it was the Republican party that did it. The Augusta Chronicle reminds the cotton growers that they don't get any more money for a crop of ll,00Q;O00 bales than they would for a crop of 7,500,000 bales. But then they have lots of fun raising pthe additional 3,500,000 bales. Jockey Maher, who gets a salary of $10,000 a year for riding races, weighs ninety-four pounds. If he weighed as much as Gen. Shafter he couldn't get $2.50 a year. In this business a light weight draws a heavy salary. CLIFTON CHAPEL, HENRY NJSWBoLT. This is the Chapel: here my son, Your father thought the thoughts Of youth, Vr AMheasjt the words that one by one The touch of Kfe has turned'to truth. Here in a day that is not far You too may speak with the noble ghosts, , Of manhood and the vows of war You" made before the Lord of Hosts. ' To set the Cause aboye renown, To love the canifs bevond the nri;i To honor While you strike him down , xne roe tnat comes with i earless To counUhe life of battle good, And dear tne land tnat 7 gave you And dearer yet the brotherhood . That binds the brave of all the My son, the oatbris yours: the nd is His, .Who built the world of strife, Who gave Mis children pain for friend, And Death for surest hope- of life. To-day and here the fight's begun, Of the great fellowship your's free; Henceforth the school and you are one And what you are the race shall be. God send you future: yet be sure, Among the li. lights that gleam and You'll litre to follow none more pure man mas wnicn glows on yo truer brass: "Qui procul hinc," the legend's writ Be frontier-grave is far away "Qui ante diem periit: ed miles, sed pro. patna." onr spectator." SUNDAY SELCf IONS. The ever new life should ever create the school anew. You cannot teB bv the size of the tree how the apples will taste. The gift of silence i& Often more valuable than the gift of speech. If Christ needed to retire for prayer, how much more do we? Repeat only tjie good things you near; that will be doing a little towards making the world happier. It not our failures that ruin us, but our tear and tardiness in mak ing new beginnings after failure. The- influence of ' civilization; His Little Son (in the Indian tongue) Here is the pale face, papa. Wouldn't you like to burn him at the stake?'' "Stewed Doe (the; chief) "No; but I'd like to work him for a drink" Puck. H . A man is what his heart is his faith and hopes and purposes. These are himself, both the foundation and the superstructure of bis per sonality. As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Dwight. Mr. Drummond made' a -mis take when he called love the 'greatest thing in the world. Righteousness, or moral character, is the greatest thing. Without it love is apt to run to excess or to wrong-doing. With righteous ness love becomes the greatest grace in character". Christian Index. The temperance I plead f Or is not only religiously, but' politically good; it is the interest of good govern ment to curb and rebuke excesses ; it prevents many mischiefs, luxury brings effeminacy, laziness, poverty and mis ery ; Vat temperance preserves the land. Wm. Penn. ' There has been wonderful progress in China in missionary work in the last seven years. The number of converts in 1889 was 30,000, and, J. Hudson Taylor says there were, in 1896, 89,600, an increase of 300 per cent. But China is a mighty empire. In those seven years there were 8,000, -000 births in China. Baptist Argus. All growth in the spitual life is connected with the clearer insight into what Jesus is to us. The more we realize that Christ must be all to us and in us, the more we shall lean -to live the real life of faith which, dying to self, lives wholly in Christ. The Christian life is no longer the vain struggle to live right, but rest ing in Christ and finding strength in Him as our life, to fight the fight and gain the victory. Andrew Murray. CAPE FEAR CAMP U. C. V. i ' Adopts Suitable Resolutions Expressing Condolence to the Mother of Miss. Winnie Davis. ' Rev. Dr. James Car raichael and Col. A. M Waddell, the committee from Cape Fear Camp of Confederate Vet erans, to prepare suitable resolutions of respect to the memory of Miss Winnie Davis, yesterday gave out the following: Cape Fear Camp, No. 254, United Confederate Veterans. Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 22; 1898. This camp, an organized segment of the survivors of the Southland's un daunted army, in her struggle for in dependence, who recognized President Davis, in life, as a heroic chieftain in whom were especially incarnated the principles for which they fought, and who revere his memory as statesman, soldier and Christian patriot and martyr, tender to his honored and bereaved widow their deepest sympa thy in the loss of her beloved and cherished daughter, the adopted child of the Confederacy. Verily, she has gone hence longed for by her friends and lamented by her countrymen. James Carmichael, f - A. M. Waddell, Committee. Wholesale Grocers. Mr. Bollie O. Stone has resigned his position as travelling salesman for Corbett & Gore to enter a copartner ship with Mr. R. Melton Wescott in a wholesale grocery and commission business in this city. Mr. Wescott has turned ever his real estate business to bis son, Mr. Robert D. Wescott. Both -gentlemen composing the new firm are well known and deservedly popu lar. They will doubtless receive a good share of the patronage of mer chants in the territory tributary to Wilmington. Mr. Robert D. Wescott has just graduated from Bryant & Strat ton's business college, Baltimore, and is, therefore, well equipped to take charge of his father's real estate business. iBW - Colored Republicans. Thursday night there was a mq meeting of the colored Republicans of the Third Ward at the Good Samar itans Hall, Samuel S. Bennett was chairman and L. Sweet performed the duties of secretary. J. O. Nixon, colored was recommended to the county convention for nomination for representative in the legislature; E. M. Green colored, .for treasurer, and James K. Outlar, colored, for coroner. Raleigh Netos and Qbservtr: "The Morning Stab is 'thirty-one years old. It was never so good as now. Long may it shine."