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nard, Jim Sears Super! a-
tendent -Iewborne Charged
HimlVilliMarder.
Raleigh Post, 10th. '
Aterrible story of cruelty conies from
the State farm at Northampton,' which is
managed by Lewis SuiDmerill. No
weired story front ths Black Dungeon of
Mnnila was ever more brutal and Inhu
man. - Y . :
James Lowe, of Tunis, Hertford coun
ty, a white convict who was sent to the
Northampton farm, was beat so unmer
cifully and so brutally that ha died
shortly afterwards while at work in the
field. ; ..- . . P
jm Sears, a white guard, is charged
with having inflicted' the inhuman and
brutal punishment.
Application has been made to Justice
Walter Clark for a bench warrant charg
ing bears with murder. The applica
tion was made by J. F. Mewborne.the su
perintendent of the penitentiary, at the
instance of Governor Russell. Last night
the wires were at work for the arrest of
the man.
Such brutality has never before been
known among the State's convicts. It is
said that after Sears!inflicted the terrible
punishment upon Lowe, he (Lowe) was
sent to the fields to work, and thathedied
while at the plow.
The eyidence against fears is very
strong. The charge is made by Dr. Fer
guson, physician t ) the convicts, who
held a post mortem examination upon
the body. In a letter to Superintendent
Mewborne, Dr. Ferguson stated that
Lowe died from the effects ot the terrible
punishment administered hint.
James Lowe was a young white man.
He was brought to the penitentiary by
the sheriff of Hertford county in 1898 to
serve a two-year term of linnrisonment.
He was convicted ot murder in the sec
oud degree. Lowe had not been at the
prison long before he was sent to the
Northampton farm. At that place the
poor devil was murdered by a paid agent
of the State. -
This is not the first instance of outra
geous, punishment that has been given
convicts at the Northampton farm. It is
stated that Lewis Summerill himself is as
brutal as his guards. Every convict that
comes from that farm has some terrible
story to tell. A penitentiary official told
The Post that Summerill and his tools
were working and beating the conyicts
under him in a most outrageous manner,
and that it would be better for them if
they were dead. He said thatTie could
not talk, and that some of the high offi
cials were afraid to talk, because Sum
merill has such a strong pull with the di
rectors. My informant intimated that
Superintendent Mewborne knew in
stances of cruelty which he was afraid to
make public.
The inhuman punishment of convicts
at the Northampton farm has come to be
public scaadal. Nothing short of a
full and public investigation will satify
the public. '
It can be truthfully said that "Warden
Ru3sell has been very considerate and
hu.nane to the convicts under his care
here at the central prison.
NEGRO RULE.
I'RAVEM'S BLACK OFFICERS.
"Prof." Isaac H. Smith on the Tick
et He is a Negro with an Infam
ous Record as a Forger and Usurer
A Vile White Man Running for
Clerk of the Court The County
Court House Looks Like a Color
ed Writing School, So Thick are
the Negro Clerks The "Button
has been Pressed" and will be
Pressed Again.
H. E. C. Bryant in Charlotte Observer,
written from Newbern.
Come and go-with me to the county
court house of Craven and see what is
there to be seen any day in the week to
glance at the place as a whole you' would
at first take it to be a negro writing
school. The first office to the right
belongs to the sheriff and his crew of
deputies. Joseph L. Hahn, a white man
with a black heart, is the sheriff". By his
side are. four degro deputy sheriffs: Nor
thern A. Cobb, who is also the iailer;
H. Fisher, Wallis PettipherJ.E. Payne
and C. E. Rhyne. There are other dep
uties throughout the county. Not a
white man is on the list.
THE NEGRO PRESSING THE BUTTON.
Two doors below the sheriff's office,
and 10 the left, is the register of deeds
John B. Willis, colored. He has for his
clerk two negroes A. W. Witherington
and one of his own brothers. Wither
ington is the negro that made a bombastic
speech in the Republican conyention
here the other day. Being elated over
the progress the negro has made in Cra
ven ounty within the last few years, he
pictured in glowing terms what the ne
gro was now able to do. . Among other
things, he said:
"In 1896, we pressed the button and
behold John B. Willis, register of deeds,
came forth! Again we pressed the button
and Robt. Mosley, county commissioner
come forth? We pressed the button aid
deputy sheriffs came forthl We "pressed
magistrates
and
came
Vance 011 The Sirgro.
Oxford Public Ledger.
Zeb Vance, in a memorable speech in
the United States Senate four years before
his death, January 30, 1S90-, in speaking
of the negro as a citizen and office holder
ia the South, said: -
"iince their admission to citizenship
they have been elected to bath branches
of Congress and. have occupied almost
every position nnder State authority
They have controlled entire States, coun
ties and municipalities, and in every case
their rule was marked by failure and rain.
It was a war against property, intelligence
and respectability. The few years of
their misrule in the South' will be foreyer
rememoerea in our history tor their cor- i
ruption, retrogression, and will consti
tute a damnable blot on those who- au
thorized it, and who looked on wk m-
placency so long as the thieves
Kepubhcans, the victims were
crats.
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the button
forth!
''And now, in this convention, we have
again pressed the button, and behold,
C. C. Roach, for county treasurer, is be
fore you, and with the past and present
before us, what shall the future give to
us?"
This was meant for a cut at the white
Republicans. The negroea want all.
They can have all the Republican
party can get here, for there are but
about 63 white Republicans in the county.;-
; ...
As a special force to list the taxes , for
the register are three negro bucks on the
second floor of the court house, prepar
ing the tax list.
Hahn and Willis are candidates for
sheriff and register, respectively, in this
campaign.
TUB CANDIDATE FOR CLERK.
In the Republican convention held here
a few weeks ago, the following ticket was
nominated:
For clerk of the Superior Court, JL W.
Carpenter, a white man. I would rather
be any negrj in Craven county, than to
be Mr. Carpenter. He ia an old seasoned
carpet-bagger. Of all the candidates in
the field he is the most degraded. For
years he has lived with a negro woman
and to-day she has a house full of chil
dren tuat every good man in the county
wlio knows him and his career would say
are his. It is a notorious fact. In for
mer days Carpenter was a pension agent.
But he has been disbarred from the prac-
before the Pension Department on account
of fraud uleut practices. He now acts as
agent through a negro named E. D. Cox.
This is the character of the man who is
going to be elected to the office of clerk
of the court in this county. .
Dr. W. L. Lassiter, a negro, is the pres
ent coroner of Craven county, and he
was nominated the other day for re-election.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ROACH.
The man Christopher Columbus Roach
referred to in the speech of Witherington
as being nominated for treasurer of the
county, is a saloon keeper. He is a thor
oughbred negro. The white lady school
teachers that teach in Craven county next
year will have to draw their pay from
Roach. He is going to be elected.
The standard-keeper of the county ia
James Dudley, colored. And for county
surveyor" nobody was nominated. There
is not a Republican in the county that is
capable of being surveyor. R. P. Wil
liamson, John Bittle and Bob Moseley,
colored, are the commissioners of the
county. This town has ten councilmen,
seven of whom are white and three col
ored. Five of the white men were ap
pointed by Governor Russell and the
two were elected by the Democrats of the
town. The three negroes were elected.
They are: James E. Shepherd, a drayman;
William H.Johnson, a bartender, who
has been indicated in court for selling
whiskey on Sunday, and Elias Hayes, a
carpenter. R- W. Williamson, colored,
now a candidate for solicitor of the second
udical dis tn 2t for the Crim! nal and Su
perior Courts, is the city attorney. Judge
P. Stanley, colored, is constable of this
township. He has arrested a number of
white ladies and taken them to negro
magistrates for trial since coming into of
fice. "PROF." ISAAC H. SMITH.
Prof. Isaac H. Smith, Republican can
didate for the Legislature fron? this coun
ty, is the greatest freak of nature that
this campaign has brought out. He is a
negro, a politician, a money-lender and a
swell 'society man. Truly, he is the
Mark Hanna of this section; the Shylock
of Newbern, and the Beau Brummel of
the negro population of North Carolina.
In the "society" world he has measured
swords with George II. White, the negro
Congressman of the secon district. And
next year he claima that he will be on the
turf for Congress. He has skinned the
toughest of dead-beats, and he has out
witted the shrewdest of politicians. Pro
fessor Smith wields a facile pen and uses
an oily tongue. Truly, he is a verysmart
negro. He is unique in looks and in
character. In business he can fleece the
peartest of men. Many are the men that
he has skinned alive.
THE FUN. CHEATED OUT OF SMITH.
Smith has been convicted before juries
twice for forery, but on account of tech
nicalities he was let off by the Supreme
Coirt. The first time he got off because
the Mhcitor in p.osecuting the case had
abused his privilege in using the fol
lowing language ia addressing the
jury.
"The defendant was such a scoundrel
that he was compelled to move his trial
from Jones county.where he was kne wn,"
And, again: "The bold, brazen faced ras
cal had the impudence to write me a note
yesterday, begging me not to prosecute
and threatening me that if I did he wonld
get the Legislature to impeach me." Seventy-fifth
North Carolina Reports,
306.
He was again conyicted and appealed
to the Supreme Court nd was allowed a
new trial on the ground of the - variance
between the bill of indictment and the
evidence expressed by the Supreme
Court as follows:
"On the trial of an indictment for for
gery charging the defendant with having
forged an order for $60.07. Evidence that
the defendant had forged an order for
any other amount (the two orders in evi
dence in this case being for $60 and $70.27,
respectively) is not admissible." Seven-,
ty-eighth North Carolina Reports, 462.
Here ia a case that ought to kiadle the
anger in any man's heart. For a year or
more Mrs. Geo. S. Gaskill, of this town,
has had a 12 year old colored orphan
girl for a nurse. The girl was fond oj
Mrs. G&skill's baby and the baby was j
fond of her. An uncle and an aunt of the !
girl, without consulting her, went to the
clerk of the court and had her bound to
them. They at ouhc went to Mr. Gaskill's
to see about tile child. Mrs. Gaskill was
at home, but Mr. Gaskill was np street
at his drug store. The colored girl heard
her uncle talking to Mrs. Gaskill, became j
alarmed and fled to the drug store where !
Mr. GaskiH was. When Mrs. Gaskill
called to her, she was not to be found.!
The party of negroes, consisting ot tha
uncle, the aunt and three others, demand
ed the girl. Mrs. Gaskill stated that the
girl had run away and was not to be
found in the house. But the negroes did
not believe her statement. They were
impudent to her in their demands and
even started in the house to make
search.
In the meantime Mr. Gaskill had been
to see the clerk of the court. He found
that he could do nothing for the girl.
Hence, he paid her off and told her that
she might go. The negroes again went
to see Mrs. Uaskill and charged with ab
duction. J. E. O'Hara, a negro lawer of
this place went to see Mr. Gaskill. They
had some hot word after which O'Hara
advised the parties to swear out a war
rant for Mrs. Gaskill for abduction. The
warrant was issued by W. H. Green, a
negro barber who does business ia a set
tlement known as Five Points, the most
disreputable, the dirtiest, filthiest part of
the town. He tries his cases in his ne
gro barber shop, a room about 23x7 feet.
This is where Mrs. Gaskill was to be tri ed.
The'warrant was put in the .hands of the
the negro constable, Stanley. He went
to Mrs. Gaskill and read the warrant. It
frightened her out of her wits and she
ran away and hid. The constable emld
not iiad her, Mr. Gaskill went to the
trial Instead of nis.wife, Mr. L. J. Moore, '
an attorney of thU place, represented
Mrs. Gaskill. He waived examination
for his client. But the justice of the
peace demanded that Constable Stanley
go and bring Mrs. Gaskill into his court,
whereupon Mr. Moore got up and made
a threatening speech, saying, among
other things, that the white people of the
town would not bear such treatment:
He said there would be blood shed.
This and nothing else savd Mrs. Gaskill
an innocent white woman, from being
dragged into that dirty dive for trial. She
was bound over to court. The case was
dismissed by the solicitor ; without his
even drawing up a bill.
Some time during the spring a German ,
by the name of Habischt, and hi3 wife,
came here to live. They came direct
from New York. Mr. Habischt began to
work for Mr. William Calligan, a bar
keeper and a Republican. He became
angry with Habischt and his wife and
tried to drive them from his saloon. They
live in the saloon building. Some time in
May he went to Fred Douglas, a negro
magistrate of the town, and swore out a
peace warrant against Mrs. Habischt.
Stanley, the negro constable was sent to
her. He brought her before Douglas and
in short and disgraceful order she was
uuuuu over 10 Keep me peace under a
bond that she could not give. Before she
was hardly aware of it, she was a poor
innocent woman, was being escorted to jail
for no cause in the world that she could
see, by a negro constable. Some white
gentleman met the procession and was
astonished. v He investigated the matter,
went on the woman's bood and had her
turned loose.
Every day some white person is ar
rested and tried here in this town by ne
groes. It seems to be fine fun for the
constables and magistrates. But this
cannot last always. The negro is riding
too fast. He Can't stand prosperity.
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A Letter Full of Interest lor
Sunday School Workers.
Recently a lady of Anson county, who
is interested in Sunday School work,
wrote to Mr. James B. Streater, of Black
Hawk, Miss., asking for a small dona
tion towards repairing a church, and for
a statement of his methods in conducting
a Sunday School. Mr. Streater, who
was born near Wadesboro in 1845, wrote
the lady a very interesting letter in reply,
which letter we have been requested to
print. Here is the letter:
Black Hawk Miss., Aug. 529, 1898.
My Deab Sister. It affords me great
pleasure to comply with your modest re
quest, but I will have to draw on my imag
ination in order to give you an account of
that part of my life spent in Anson county.
Sufficient to say that those were the hap
piest and most innocent days of my hie,
being free from care and anxiety, and hav
ing nothing in the world to trouble me,
save an occasional attack of infantile colic.
1 was born near Wadesboro on the 27th day
of Sept., 1845, and on the. 2nd day ot Dec.
following, I started to Mississippi in a two
horse wagon, and after spending five weeks
and two days on the route camping out
every night we reached this State ana set
tled down about SO mile east of this place
and remained there eight years, and my
father then moved within a mile of Black
Hawk, where he still lives in his 77 tb year.
I hear through him and an old nncle of
mine, who lives with me, that your grand
father Medley adtninUtered on the estate of j
my grand-father Htreater,' both of whom j
were very warm friends, aud Methodists, j
My grandfather on my mother's 'side was
Brooks Uinson a man known by almost
every oody in Anson county; be lived to be
90 years old, and died in this country only
a few years since. When I was only 10
years of age, I enlisted as a soldier in the
civil war. where 1 remained for more than
three years, and was eugaged in a great
many regular battles, besides several skir
mishes, but was never wounded until the
last battle in which my command was en
gaged I. e. the battle of Franklin,
Tenn. Here 1 was shot in the right arm and
since that time have bad only partial use of
it, the fingers of my right hand are badly
drawn, and 1 was so long recovering from
the effects of the wound that 1 had to learn
to write with my left hand, and this letter
is being written with that band. After
my wound healed entirely 1 found that -1
could still write with my right hand, and
so I take turn about with them keeping
my books with my left, and doing the most
of my correspondence with the right.
During the battle of Murf resboro, Tenn.,
while engaged in the thickest of the battle,
we were ordered to He down, and while
lying there with my face to the ground aud
hugging it as close as possible, and the
shot and shell flying all around ns like a
hail storm, the dead and dying all about,
and expecting every moment would be my
last, 1 promised the Lord that if he would
spare my life, 1 would join the church and
and devote the remnant of my days to his
service. God heard my prayer, and spared
my life, but like too many have done be
fore and since, when the danger passed
away 1 forgot my vows until 1 was again
thrown in apparent danger, then 1 would
renew it, and then forget it, but "God is
ever merciful and kind" and his loving
kindness was still extended to ine.and I was
not cut off in my sins as I justly deserved.
Our God is a God of great patiencej but
''ho usill nnt Iroan hia a r rror baav ?
It was not until the war bad closed, and
1 had returned home, and gone .to school
one term, that I redeemed my vows by con
secrating my life to bis service in the year
186tt. On the 11th Jay of April, 1867, in the
providence of God, I was married to one
of the best women who has evei blessed
the earth, and she has.indeed, been a help
meet to me, and the Lord still permits her
to live and be a blessing to all with whom
she comes in contact Oh, the power there
is in the life of a good woman! It never
em be estimated in this world. I thank
God, my sister, that you have "chosen that
better part" and I pray God's richest
blessing on your noble work. I know a
community, where they could not find a
man who was willing to act a. Sabbath
school superintendent, but there was a
good woman in that community who,
notwithstanding she was rich and blessed
with this world's goods, took hold of the
good work, organized the Sunday .school
ana has lor several years gone four miles
in her buggy every Sunday morning to su
perintend the school. When I joined the
church, I determined to discharge my duty
to the best of my ability. In 1863 1 was ap
pointed Sunday school superintendent, and
I have been superintending the same school
from that time to the present, and with one
single exception 1 have never been absent
from my school except when I was sick or
away from home. -1 have been a very
busy man. There was a time when I had as
many as 2C avocations, and offices to look
after, but I have never allowed anything to
interfere with my duty to God and his
church, and my feeble efforts have been
remarkably bles sed.
The success that has attended my efforts
as a Sunday school man is due, mainly,
to my promptness and, persistence in the
discharge of duty, and not to any special
gifts or qualifications for the work. For
a great many years, I attended all .of the
County, State and Intemationrl Sunday
School Conventions, and was at one time a
delegate to the World's convention but fail
ed to get off. On one occasion I was going
lo a county convention In one of the neigh
boring towns, and an old friend ot mine
who unfortunately, had a weakness for
drinking whiskey, was somewhat under its
influence, and when be saw me coming, be
said, "yonder comes Streater; Ibelice if
there was aSundy school convention in
hell be would go there."
: My idea bas been to keep up with all the
improvements and appliances in the Sun
day scool work. No one but myself can
possibly know the trials and discourage
ments with which 1 bad to contend dur
ing my 30 years experience as superinten
dent. 1 have bad more trouble with those
whom I have seen fit to call (he four 8's i.
e. "The Sickly, Sentimental, Sweet Six
teens" both males and females than any
class of Sunday school pupils holding
their interest in tb preparation of the les
sons; taking part in thesinging and kneel
in prayer; having due reverence for God's
house. etc. The trouble begins to manifest
itself in the bys about the lime ft the
transition from short to long pants, and is
evidenced by their forsakiug the front seats
and sitljir where they can conveniently
look at the girls, and it begius with the
girls about the time the tncks are taken out
of their dresses, and they commence to re
ceive beaux. I trust you may not have the
same experience with the members of
your school. This labor ot love ia which
we are engaged is a glorious work, not
withstanding the discouraging things that
happen to ns, we are fnlly repaid for the
sacrifices we make; even in this life it
brings its personal blessings. "He that
watereth shall, himself, also be watered."
1 can testify as to the verity of this scrip
ture, and ever and anon I receive a long
letter from some member of my school in a
distant state, who has per haps, been gone
for years, and they tell ie of the good that
bas come into their Aves from having at
tended my school. Not only This, but just
fbiuk of our meeting redeemed ones in tbe
better world who have been saved through
our instrumentality! But my letter is
growing too loag. 1 enclose money order
for two dollars, one halt of this I contri
bute myself, and the other is given by a
man who is a comparative stranger to me,
and, who said after reading your letter to
me "1 want to contribute something," and
he did this without any solicitation on my
part He is a young man who has had to
work and. educate himself, and is now
teaching and prosecuting his studies at tbe
same time, a devout christian, his name is
A. D. McFarlane. I wish I could send you
one hundred dollars instead of one dollar,
but modesty forbids my telling you how
many demands are made upon my limited
resources, and what 1 have bad to carry for
a great many years in taking tbe lead in all
our local c'lurch and school enterprises. It
is a source of great comfort to me to know
that I have be in etiabled to contribute
something, however situll, to almost every
call that has been made upon in (or m we
than a quarter of a century. Tue only re
gret I have about this letter is, that in or
der to comply with your request 1 have to
write so much about myself. I now pray
God's especial blessing on you and the
members of your schorl, and will close
with the lines of poetry composed by an
Indian aud which can be sung to a common
metre tune.
"Co on, go on, go on, go on.
Go on, go on, go on,
Go on, go on, go on, go on.
Go on, go on, go on."
Yours in the bonds of christian love,
Jas. B. Stkeateb.
The Fnets are History.
Biblical Recorder.
Now we are prepared to consider the
question of facts: First: Is there' a negr
on the Board ot Directors of these (white
and colored blind) instiutions: James H.
Young, negrowas a member of toe
Board until this summer, when he re
signed to take a place in the volunteer ar
my. Second: Did this negro inspect the
institution for the white children? He
did; there is a certificate signed by him
certifying that he did.
We are glad that these facts are past
history; glad that no negro is now on the
Board. It would not -have been abhor
rent to have one or more negroes, intel
ligent and of good character, on a board
govering an institution for negro chil
dren; and it may be said that Young was
made a member of the Board in ques
tion in order to look after the institution
for negro children. But the fact stands
bald that he had equal powers with the
white members of the Board in the con
duct of the institution for white children ;
and those who know him know that he is
not slow to try to assert such power. If
there must be a negro to look alter the
institution for negroes, let there be two
boards. But there exists no such neces
sity. Tbe people of North Carolina had bet
ter giye the negroes once for all to under
stand that, though politicians may cater
to them for their votes, the negro race
must;keep to its place both for the good
of the race and the welfare of the State.
When the Anglo-Saxon becomes inferior
to the African, then we may consider the
necessity Jof. putting negroes on boards
under which Jare both white and colored
children. Meanwhile the sensible ne
gro, the unselfish negro, will recognize
that it is better, infinitely better, for him
and his children to have white boards
and white committees to look after their
welfare; but the demagogue, both while
and black, will continue to harrangue
the negroes about their "rights" and
"recognition," seeking, of course, an of
fice, not for a moment caring, never hav
ing dreamed of caring, either for the
State or for the negro race.
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IX MlffRERM ALSO.
The Colored People are Get
ting; Insolent Insult to ss
White Cilrl.
Newbern Journal.
One day last week, young lady
of this city returning home on one
of Newberu's public streets, came
to where three young negro men
8tood on the sidewalk in each a way
as to obstruct the way. They ai.ide
no effort to move so as to let, her
pass. Xo white man was within
seeing .distance. The intention of
the negroes was probably to compel
the young lady, who is indeed but a
girl "standing with reluctant feet,
where the stream and river meet," to
pass between them. She chose to
leave the walk in order to pass
around them. As she did so and
reached a point opposite the three
negroes, one of the brutes, seeing
what he considered" "airs" in the
young lady, stretched out and slap
ped her in tbe face!
She reached home as quickly as
possible and told what had occurred.
To make the matter more appealing,
if possible, the young lady is an or
phan and has no natural protector.
Is there a white man in North Caro
lina who does not wish he was near
when the blow was struck?
To be Quietly Considered.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Elsewhere" there appears a clip
ping from The Newbern Journal,
detailing an occurence on the
Btreets of that town. Upon the
incident itself there is no need of
comment. Every man can supply
the comment for' himself. The in
cident is not an isolated or an unusu
al one. It is only different in man
ner and degree, not in kind, from
things that occur every day in every
town in the State that is cursed
with negro rule. Can anv honest
man doubt that such things are the
direct result of uegro rule? Has
any man heard of or read of such
incidents on the streets of Ashe
ville, Charlotte, Greensboro or
Statesville?
The meaning of such things is
too plain to need pointing out.
The ultimate result of a condition
that bears such fruit cannot be mis
taken. It is purely a question of
time. The white man who cares
anything for his State, his family
or himself has two months yet m
which to make up bis mind whether
he will be a partner to two" years
more of such an unspeakable degradation.
THE OVEUXUKTS KEPOKT
It Places the Condition of Cot
tou at 79.8 m Decline or II
Points Daring the .Month
Xorth Carol in Fell Ofl 6
Points.
Washington, Sept. 10. The returns for
cotton to the statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate an average
condition of 79.8 on Septemqer 1, as com
pared with 91.2 on August 1st, a decline
of 11 points during the month. The
average condition on September 1, 1S97,
was 73.3; on September 1, 1896, 64.2 and
the mean of September averages for the
last ten years is 79.4.
The decline during August by States
was as follows: North Carolina 6 points;
South Carolina 8; Georgia 11; Alabama
15.7; Mississippi 10, Louisiana 14; Texas
16; Arkansas 4; Tennessee 2; Oklahoma 8
In Indian Territory there was slight im-
provemenL
complaints ot excessive raintall, re
sulting in shedding and other unfavorable
condition, are general east 01" Mississip
pi river, while the boll worm aud Mexi
can weevil have been very destructive in
Texas.
The average condition in the differ
ent States i3 as follow: Virginia 91;
North Carolina 84; South Carolina 81;
Georgia 80; Florida 73; Alabama SO; Mis
sissippi 7S; Louibina 76; Texas 65; Arkan
sas 89; Tennessee 95; Missouri 94; Okla
home 90; Indian Territory 90.
Co 111 ins.
Monroe Enquirer.
Mr. M. C. Austin, of New Salem town
ship, was in town last Saturday and told
us that his township, which has always
had a large Republican vote in it, is
swinging into the Democratic column.
On last Friday a number of men who
have not voted a Democratic ticket since
the war, participated in the Democratic
primaries and pledged themselves to vote
the Democratic ticket in November.
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PROMISED HIS PA.
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Wilmington Star.
Filial devotion is an admirabl-j thing.
It L beautiful to behold, especially when
it attains the age of maturity and is able
to strut before the public and talk for it
self. The Charlotte Observer quotes that
exemplary son of his father, Hon. Office
Hunter Dockery, as saying in his speech
at Huntersville, Mecklenburg county,
last Monday:
"Nobody need fear I am troinsr 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 touching to be told
how the venerable citizen clung to silver
so tenaciously aud called his son to him
and pledged him never to "go back on
it," which pledge this filial pledgist then
and there took without, mental reserva
tion whatsoever. -
It anybody doubts this haven't we the
word of th2 distinguished gentleman
himself, who surely would not parade a
deathbed scene for the purpose of fooline
somebody into the belief that he would
never no, never while the blue canorv
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 uuderitaadiag of it does . not
seem to prevent him from runnine as a
candidate for Congres on a gold-standard
platform, nor for repudiating the free
silver plelge which he made -the free
silver Populist and Republicans who
nominated and supported him for Lieu
tenant Governor two years ago. He may
have some cute way of harmonizing all
of this with his promise to
his pa, even if the man of average
intelligence can't see it. Bat perhaps it
mcaus that this dutiful soa would never
refuse silver for a bale of cotton. The
Huntersville anecdote i3,"however,touch
ing, although somewhat belated.
Fusion Economy.
Raleigh News and Observer.
No Pcpulist platform used to to be
complete with out a "ringing plank
denouncing Democratic extravagance."
No township meeting could adjourn and
go home without resolutions condemn
ing the Democratic party for "squander
ing the people's money." These thun
derings were usually sandwhich between
a denunciation of trusts aud a few choice
references to "bull pens." ' The one
thing that was always essential to pop
ulist beatitude was a demand that "State
expenses be reduced to the basis of 5
cent cotton and 40 cent wheat."
On these and other demands the fu
sion ists got control of State affairs. They
got both houses of the Legislature and
all State offices. There was then noth
ing to provent the long desired reduction
being made. Was it done?
Carefully compiled figuies.the accuracy
of which have not been and cannot be
questioned, give the expenses of the
State government under Democratic
rule for the three years of 1S92, 1893, and
1S94, as J3.572.201.95.
During the next three years, under
Republican-Populist jule, the expenses
were just $3,950,950.21. The difference
in favor of the Democrats was about
$125,000 annually.
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