' >TV Yol. III. SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1888. No. 4 MORE QP OUR HERO. oockery’as;a farmer. He Voted for t Negro Lawyer in Pref erence ef a White Farmer. .(Wrinejijjy CoL W. L. Sauuders.) Tlie greatest fraud of the present day, so far os we know, is the pre tense'Col. Doftkery makes of being a “plain farmer,” a "horny handed son of toil,1’ who digs his living out of the ground. He tells the people ~ that he is nothing hut a plain far mer,dragged away from homeagainst his will, tlmt had a brother farmer, Captain Alexander for ills tan ee been nominated by the Democrats, noth ing could hawe induced him to bean -opposing candidate. This is the veriest twaddle in the world, and no man that did not have the cheek of a rhinoceros would be guilty of it. Instead of being a plain farmer, making a living from the soil, be is the worst demagogue in the State and a thorough-paced, bro ken down Radical politician of the lowest kind. If any one doubts this, let him look at the man s record since the war. Iu 1808 he rah for Congress twice. Twice in one year1 is pretty fair for a plain farmer averse to pol itics and happy' only when watehidg Iris growing crops Mn 1800 he show ed his love for his crops by staying in Washington City; and so ill 1870, when he ceased the bitterness of his grief at his absence from those same crops hy another race for Congress. Bat this Was not a good year for Radicals, and as Dockery was beaten and in 1871 he wont back to his be loved crops. And then the Demo crats changed the makeup of his district so that lie had no showing for Congress any more. But for this little circumstance, he would have been running for Congress ev ery two.years from that day to this. Not to he idle, however, in 1870 lie was a candidate fig Elector for the State at large and was defeated, and again in 1880 he was a candidate for the ,sume.place and1 waa again defeated. In 1882, when by aeci •dent, as il were, there was .a Con gressman fof tho State at Large, and the election coming on ip an off year, lie made race, and, as well all know, was beaten. Since then there has been no opening for him' for Congress, his district boing over whelmingly Democratic, and so, having run down on his farm, he now seeks to lie Governor. And this is the man who is para ding the State as the farmer’s friend! We know just the kind of farmer he is. Thgre is at least one of that sort in every neighborhood in the State, as the commission merchants know to their cost. They farm on supplies and advances from commission mer chants, and make cotton and buy corn and work poor mules. This sort of farmers know it all, hut somehow their crops don't put out well. They can tell a poor neighbor who drops in of a Sunday evening just all aljout it, hut that same poor neighbor, who knows nothing about scientific farming, hut plants right straight along in the old way, will sell twice as much cotton to the acre. , -• leu.wm hear a ”tarmer nae Col'. Dockery, ex-member of Con gress, almost any th-12th; Wel don Fair, October 410th, November 5th; Rocky Mount Fair, November 14th»lflth; Catawba Fair, Newton, Sftpt. 18t-h-21si;-Elizabeth City Fair October 10th-18th;Alamance Fair Association, Darlington. October 10th-12t.h; Siler City Agricultural Society, Ootolier 24th-20th; Cjibar rn» Fair at Concord, October Oth-' 18th; Cumberland County Fair,Nov. Ht.h-lflth; Warren ton- Fair. Oct. 10th-12th. The colored Industrial Fair will lie held in Raleigh Sept. 21th-28th. Wilmington will ■ have a giBiud gala week Oct. 2;)rd-27tl». WE WILL TELL YOU. ORGANIZATION AND PARTY DISCIP LINE. Our Prosperity Rests Upon Democrat ic Supremacy. (Written by t'ol. W, L. Saunders.) Amlnow a word^to you, fellow citizens in conclusion. If it be true, as we liave shown you from the] record, that under Radical rule North Carolina went nigh to ruin, and that under Dem ocratic rule she has steadily improved and gives good promise of contin uing to improve; in other words, if we have shown you that the welfare of the State is dependent upon the continuance of the Democratic par ty in power, what then? The answer is easy: Every man ought to goto work to help that party secure the victory in the com ing election; soberly, seriously, ear nestly, from a sense of duty and in the fear of God. The lives, the lib erties and the properties of over a million and a half of people arc at stake. But liow are you to work? you may well ask. We will tell you. A political campaign, to be suc cessful, is no mere holiday affair that can be left to take care of itself. If we would win the victory we must work for it, and to work to advan tage we must work together. Sys tematic, persistent, organized efforts is what we must have, and to accom plish this no better machinery has been found than that to which we have keen accustomed, that is to say, the system of Township. Bounty, Congressional and State Executive Committees, And of all these the Township Committees are the most important, for upon them rea'Iy de-! volves the work and labor necessity to he done to insure success The difficulty we have had to contend with in North Carolina has been to induce the pimple to register and go to the polls. Once there, they are sure to vote right. Especially is this true of people iu the. country pre cincts. In the towns and cities the act of voting involves hut little trouble and hut little loss of time, and through the newspapers and the current talk of the .streets every vo ter almost is brought to realize the importance of exercising the highest right of the citizen; that is to say, the right of selecting his rulers. Not so, however, in the country. To bring out a full vote there, men must be seen and talked to especially and individually—must he warned of the time and ylace of voting, and the danger of not voting. Provi sion must he made for securing the the attendance of the lame and the halt alul the sick who have no means of transportation of their own. In different men and eareless men must he roused to a Sense of their dutv to their parly ami to their State, Tickets must be- provided -and- -dis tributed, challengers must he ap pointed, and the registration hooks must he thoroughly inspected. All these and other things, too, must bedone if we carry the day. and they must be done by the mem bers of the Township Committees. No organization can Is- efficient that does not rely upon these local com mittees, each one operating in a small territory' and conseijuctly fa miliar with every part, of it, its mem bers knowing and known to every qualified voter in it. If there ho a full and net ive Exe cutive Committee in every township the work can lie done easily mid smoothly. Every mini in the town ship can he seen and prevailed upon to (jo to the polls. Everyman will he regietered in due time and illegal regis (oration will he guarded against. On the day of election our ehallen* gel's will have lists of the registered Democratic voters and will cheek off all who vote, and. when one o’clock comes it will he easy enough to send for those who have not pnt in an np pearanee. If matters ho arranged j in this way there is no need for us to lose a single vote unnecessarily. | I’lildic spoeelies are ail very well in their way, newspapers are all very well in their way, and so afe formal county canvasses; but they are only means to an end and that end is to bring out the voters on election day. They serve a useful and necessary purpose in furnishing the local com mittee with the facts and arguments to use to stir up indifferent ami unin formed men upon the great issues of the day. But if the work stops with the making of speeches and the cir culation of newspapers, the work is only half done, and the smaller half at that, for the great mass of the people in our sparsely settled country and with our limited mail facilities' and our limited means of transpor tation, will not be reached. It will he the worst madness iri the world for us to sit still and rely for victory upon the shout that come to us from the busting. The men who go to hear the candidates speak will not constitute one-half of the voters of the State, and are mainly men who have already made up their minds how they intend to vote Let us bear these things in mind and go to work. A good town ship executive committee is worth nil the speeches that can be made and all the newspapers that can Ire cir culated in that township between now and Christmas. J he present is no time for bicker ings and heart-burnings and squab bling and quarreling; no time for divisions and dissent!.,ns and discord, but a time for standing shoulder to shoulder, to give succor to our friends and destruction to our enemies. Per sonal animosities and person al preferences should all be lost sight of and the common good of the party constantly kept before us. The enemy is already in sight and .must he fought. Those who are not with us are against ns. All in dependents are disorganizes, and disorganizes are enemies. Time was when we ail*'worked together, •because -we all saw it was necessary. Nor can any true man look hack to the darlc days of Radical robbery, and remembering the strength there was in unity then, fail to appreciate fully the strength there is in. Ik mo >'ratio unity now, and the lieeu for putting it forth, TVithJthe experience of the past to guide us, we may lay it down as a safe proposition that the Democrats will always win when a full vote is polled, and that they will always be in danger of defeat if a small vote is cast. Our object, then, should be to bring out a full vote, and to do this requires work Remember the nar row escape we had in _ 1882. The vote was. small that year and our majority scarcely-- anything less than, 1,1 HHi. Take warning. PROTECTION AS SHE IS A Knock-Down Argument—The Big gest Speech of the Campaign. J’-wgPtiBHivo Farmer.) Pkak Sir: I noticed in your last paper that if a man buys a suit, of clothes for $22 he pays $i) for pro tection. This is notliino in compar ison will, inrexperience', ['hare an overcoat sent from England, eo;(t cost $10; the freight on same was $2. When 1 went to the custom house to see if there was any duty to pay, imagine my surprise when I found it hud to pay/my/mi rtollurs. L said I could not afford to pay this price, and asked to have same ship ped under bond to England again. I was informed I could leave it'ulone, and that it would be sold at some future date at public, auction. These are just the absolute facta, and when a man can buy an over coat. in America shipped from En gland for $12, which in America cost one hundred per cent., more, ; why shouldn't he have this benefit, instead of having to pay $11 for protection? Yours'truly, Howard E. Strudwtok. , Auburn, N. C. Sept. 5 '88. The latest, tiling seen at tli.e -sea side bathing was a girl in diamonds with a cork corset on, THE NOBLE OLD ROMAN. MORE OF HIS PLAIN TALK Extracts from Judoge Thurman’s Speech at Newark. BOMB OF THR ISSUES. Now, iny friends, passing these general observations, allow ^ne to come to some of the issues that are most sharply marked in this cam paign. One thing of vyliich I wish to speak is this. Many people, and Republican newspapers in particular, have raised the cry that Democratic principles m the present Campaign and the Mills bill mean free t rule. Why my friends, they must not have studied the measure. It is one of the most conservative tariff bills that was ever introduced in Congress. They say that it is opposed to Amer ican industries. 1 say that it is not. Isay that it will benefit America in dustries. It does not mean free j trade in any way, shape, or form. Those who cry that the Mills bill is a free trade measure apparently do j not know what free trade is. Free trade is the unrestricted ] commerce between nation and nation You have a very intelligent illustia- j tion of it in this country. There are thirty-eight States/which go to make this vast and glorious ItCpu blic. Be tween these thirty-eight. States, which form a part of this -. ast uni ty, there is absolute free trade To bring the subject nearct nomo 1 might state that when good.- are manufactured in your mills hen at Newark they can he transported to Minnesota, to Maine, to Texas or to California without the payment of any duty. Between these thirty eight States and the many Territo ries, which it is unnecessary for me now to mention, there is absolute free trade. lint there is no such tree trade between this country and Great Brit ain or any other country. There has never been free trade between these two countries, and the possibility is is far distant. There never has been in the United States anything ap proaching free trade except as I have mentioned. Any man who speaks of the Mills bill as. a free trade I measure is wither an ignoramus or a rascal. What an absurdity it is to con sider it in any way at all a free trade measure. The present rate of tariff to date is 47 and a fraction per cent. That is the same on every article of dutiable goods,47 per cent. Now, the Mills hill reduces that tax to 42 per cent., or thereabouts, making a reduction of less than 10 per cent., and yet this reduction is called free trade by our Republican friends, al though it leaves a tarifE at from 40 to42 per cent., or twice that which 'it was at the beginning of the late Civil War. Why, my friends, this tariff is nothing but a tax upon the resources of the country. The pres-, cut tariff, on an average, assesses 17i per cent, of the articles entered into this country. WIIO PAYS THE TAX? i Now, who do you suppose pays the tax? Is it the manufacturer? Not much. In the first, place, the importer of the goods, or whoever may act in his place, fulfills a part of the duty. He must pay the tax before In' cnii^ake the goods out of the Custom House. Of course he must inereaes the duty when he sells to the wholesale dealer to cover any little expenses which he may have had ill entering his goods. The wholsale dealer necessarily adds to these charges when he sells lo the retail dealer, and the result is that the user of the goods not only pays for them, hut must pay the whole tax. If I were a schoolmaster and could not make a child of 13 under stand the tariff, I would quit keep ing school. It is ope of the simplest yet most unknown subjects of mod ern science. You should nil study it nmh as an old man, 1 think you would all lie benefited liy it." My triends, 1 now hold in my i hand some statistics which may prove # " - , of moment. I find upon looking at them that the exact amount of the surplus down to date, or, to be ex act, down to the 1st of. August of this year, was $133,430,0(59.87. Drawn from the pockets of the working people, who in all this great laud will deign to say that this great tax was necessarily drawn from the workers of the New World? It is admitted by alt that this surplus must be reduced. It is drawn from the people of fife land and there is no postive necessity of collecting such a vast amount. There are three ways of getting rid of tLa^rouble. They are, first, extraff^un expen ditures by the Governmeni; the abo lition of internal revenue, and the reduction of. the tariff. We as Dem ocrats advocate the latter. It' is for the voters of the country to say whether we are right n not. My friends, I must bid.yon good night, (study well the question and give your decisions at the polls'. CAMPAIGN SHOT Twelve Reasons for Believing That a High Tariff Does not Make High Wages. The '‘Tariff i’rimer’li>f tlie Tariff Reform League of Boston will be out next week Below are Hie twelve tariff reasons; (1 Because ti say mar wage earners, as .* bod v can*in crease their wages is by paying high tariff ta\es which fall inainW upon them, is tendeiit on a high tariff. ('■•) Because a high land upon raw materials raises file cost of mau facturiug, restricts the market for goods ami prevents the mutifucturer from (Hiving as high wages as he wouht have to if his materials were free. (10) Because the rate of wages increased faster in this conn fry in the low-tariff period between hSet) and IStiO than it ever has since un der a high tariff. (11) Because wages wom high in the United 'States compared witli those paid in other countries before rt ever had a high tariff or any tar iff. (I'd) Because Blima lias enjoyed for thousands of years the full bene fits of high tariff “protection," wtiile her wages for shilled labor is 20 ecu Is u day. and Chinese imigratiou in search id' higher wages has be came a menace to American wage earners. CLEVELAND ON TRUSTS. Extracted From his Letter of Accept ance. The platform adopted by the late National Convention of our party contains the following declaration: “Judged by Democratic principles, the interests of the people are be trayed when', by unnecessary taxa tion, trusts and combinations are permitted, and fostered, which, while > uuduly enriching the few that com bine, robs the body of our citizens by depriving them as purchasers of the benefits of National competi tion.” Such combinations have always been condemned by the Democratic party. The declaration of its Na tional Convention is already made and no member of oiir party will be found excusing the existence or be littling the pernicious results of these devices to wrong the people. Under various names they have been pun ished by the common law for hun dreds of years, and they have lost none of their hateful features be cause they have assumed the name of trusts instead of conspiracies. We believe that these trusts are the natural offspring of a market artificially restricted; that an inordi nately high tariff, besides furnishing the temptation for their existence, enlarges the limit within which they may operate against the people, and this increases the extent of their *, power for wrong doing with unal teraMe hatred of all such schemes wo .count the chocking of their base n*l operations among the good re sults promised by revenue reform. While we cannot avoid partisan ruis represntations our position upon the question of revenue reform should he so plainly stated as to admit of no misunderstanding. We have en tered upon no crusade on free trade. The reform we seek to inaugurate is predicted upon the utmost care for established industries and enter prises; a jealous regard for the in terests of American labor and sin cere desire to. relieve the country from injustice and the danger ,^>f a condition which threatens evil toad “the’peopJe of tht) land. We aro deal ing with no imagiary, Rs existence lias been repeatedly confessed by all political parties, and pledges of a remedy have been made on all sides. Yet, when a legislittive body where, under the Constitution all remedied mease rs applicable to this subject must originate, the Demo crats' majority wore attempting with extreme moderation to redeem the pledge common to both parties they were met-bydetained opposition and obstruction and the minority refus ing to co-operate in the House of Representatives or proposing anotli remeily iave remitted the • redemp t u of their party pledge to the doubtful power of the Senate. d he people will hardly bedeoeived by their abandonment of t he field of ^ legislative action to meet in a politi cal convention and flippantly declare • oi their party .-platform .that our con servative and careful effort tt'i relieve the situation is destructive to the American system of protection. State Treasurer Bain, in reply to inquiry, lias given tint following statement ol'the amount of State money in the State National Bank at the time thy hank was closed: Of the general deposite there were $lt, 11 't.fiT. and eashley's cheek for Ifcb >00 on account of partial settlement lor taxes to sheriffs. The general leposit, was the remainder of $3(),