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ADVERTISING RATES: -tSiSSa-m SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 28,1890. A List of Pledges Presented to'Can didates-Cot. lones’.Refusat to Sign. Charlotte Chronicle. Yesterday L: M. McAlister, Sec retary of the Farmers’ Alliance oi Mecklenburg county, waited on Col. II. 0. Joneg in his office, and handed a printed card with flix“de . ri.inds’’ and six pledges to.be sign ed in''toe presence of or witness',; s lining being provided on the card for the signature of the witness. Col. Jones took the c^rd, and told Mr. McAlister that he would write whatever he might have to say. The card is as follows: The Demands of-the National Far mers'• Alliance and Industrial Union as Ratified hy a Majority of the Sub-Alliances 'in North Carolinat 1. That we demand the aboli tion of national banks, and the substitution1 of legal tender treasury notes in lieu of" national bank notes, issued in sufficient vol ume to do the business of the coun try on a cash system, regulating the amount needed on a per capita basis ds theu business interests; of- the country extends, and that all mon ey issued by the government shall be legal tender in payment of all debts, both public and private. I approve of the above demand, and if elected to a seat in the United States Congress will endeavor to have it enacted into a law. . (Signed)- « - Witness - - * !i. That we demand that tJon gress shall pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in futures of all agricultural and me . chanical productions: preserving a .j stringent system of procedure in trials, as shall secure the promp cpnvietinn, and imposing such pen alties as shall secure the most pert: feet compliance with the law. 8. That we demand the free and Unlimited coinage of silver. A. That we demand the passage! of laws prohibiting the alien owner-' ship of laud, and that Congress take darly steps to devise some plan to obtain all lands now- owned by ' aliens and foreign syndicates: and that all lands now- held by railroads Ond other corporations in excoss of Such as is actually used and needed by them, be reclaimed by the gov ernment and held for actual settlers only. 5. Believing in the doctrine of “equal rights to alt and special privil eges to none,’1 we demand that tax ation, national or State, shall not be used to build -up one interest at the expense of another. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible with the people, aud hence we demand that 411 revenue, national, State or coun try, shall be limited to to the neces sary expenses of the government , economically and honestly adminis tered. 6. That Congress issue a suth cient amount of fractional paper currency to. facilitate exchange through the medium of the IJnited States mail. I approve of the above demand, find if elected will endonvor to have it enacted into a law. I also ap prove of the purpose of the bill in troduced into the U. S. Senate by Senator Vanco, and known as the Sub-Treasury Bill; if it is not shown to be unconstitutional, theu I will introduce and advocate a bill to abolish bonded warehouses for whis key, etc., and also a bill to abolish National Banks in accordance with the first demand On this card. (Signed) - - - - VVitpe THE BACK Of THE OAKD. On the revenue side of the card is the following statement: This card is prepared for the pur pose of pledging the candidates for humiliation anu election to legisla tive offices, to support these de mands, which huve been ratified by a large majority of the subordinates in North Carolina. • Politicans have so often deceived ns by their vorbal promises, which they break and then deny having made, that we have decided for the future to take the>r pledges in black End white. ij. i-liu uaumaate - to whom ' tins eiird is presented for/ his signature signs it, then the person wlio pre sented it will immediately send it to the secretary of the State Alliance to be kept for reference, so that if any constituent of said candidate desires to know if he favors our de mands he can get information from the State Secretary. If the candidate refuses to sjgu this card, then the person whypre sented it will immediately "report that fact to the tterretarj of the State Alliance. " If the candidate signs the obli gation to support a portion of ‘ these demands and refuses to agree to support the others, then he can, if he chooses, give his reason, in wri ting, for sodoing, and they will be forwarded to the secretary and filled with the card; or if a candidate who refuses to sign any of them,- desires to give his reasons for so doing, if he will reduce them to writing, they will be forwarded and foiled with the notification of his refusal-. COL. JONES REPLIES AND REFUSES TO SION THE CARD AND GIVES HIS REASONS THEHEFOR. When Mr: McAlister presented the card to Col. Jones, the latter said he would reply to the secretary in writing; and yestenday evening Col. Jones-mailed a letter to the Alliance, of which the following .is a verbatim copy: Charlotte, N. C., June 18,1890. L. M. McAlister, Esr.: Sec. Mc-ckleuburg County Far mers’ Alliance. Sir: I have earfully read the de mands in the shape of a declara tion of principles submitted by the | Alliance and respectfully decline to sign the same. In announcing rny ; self as a candidate I distinctly sta ted that'I did so subject to tile de i cision of the Democratic Convetion i to be held at Laurinburg on the 29 of July., If nomineted I shall be the candidate of that party, stand ing squarely upon its platform. My first allegiance is to thy party wuuae czuiaiunie i aspire ro ueeoine. To it, in my opinion, this country owes whatever of liberty and good government it enjoys, and whoever undertakes to set up a standard of political principles independent of it, is disturbing its harmony and de stroying its efficiency. It is the party of the people. As a proof the ■fact, it succeeded on yesterday in 'securing the passage through Con gress of a hill providing for the free coinage of silver, which I notice is Cue of the measures demanded by the Alliance, and it is engaged at this very moment, in a struggle against the great evil of class legis lation in the shape of burdensome tariffs, subsides, &c., which is anoth er of the evils of which the Alli ance complains. Can not the peo ple safely trust this great party to labor for it in the future as it has done in the past? But there is anotheer objection which I have to signing the pledge which you present in behalf of the Alliance. I am reliably informed that of the twenty-five-hundred farmers in this county, less than twel ve-h undred of them are connect ed with the Alliance, and that in this Congressional district less than one third of them belong to it. Now you have excluded.these non Allianee men from your delibera tions as you have excluded me; yon have not given us an opportunity to hear your discussions of tliese measures. If elected to Congress I will recognize this fact, that a large majority -of my eousituents arc farmers. I hope I should labor for their improvement, but I certainly would be liable to be greatly em barrassed if I were to pledge my self in advance to that one-third of them constituting the Alliance with out waiting to hear from the two thirds majority for whom the Alli ance does not speak. It seems to me that the Alliance has erected one-third of less of . the farmers into a speciul class, and is demanding class legislation in accordance., with their peculiar views. Is not this' doing what the Allianee itself condemns? The white men of this State cannot af ford to divide or risk division. The Republican party has commenced a new crusade against the South in the shape of a Federal election law that proposes to set up over us at the polls supervisors, creatures of its owpi to rob us Of theinestimable right of a free election.. It has not' abatedone particle of its hostility to our people and in such a crisos Ood forbid that you or I or any other white man should imperil that unity, ill the ranks of the Democrat ic party which has, been our only .Salvation in the past. Respectfully yours, H. C. Joses. * . li.?.: • -I alliance candidates. The Farmers’ Move in Politics in this State. C'ajft. John It. II asmey in Notional Den oc rat. At the threshold of the campaign the Democratic party is confronted with a new factor in State politics It Is needless to disguise the fact the Farmers’ Alliance', with-a mem bership of over 100,000, |is a power ful ami dangerous political organ ization in this State. It is a non political organization, they say, but how is it that in every county where the organization has any foothold Alliance men are candidates for of fice? How is this claim consistent with the fact that the President of tho State Alliance, the ex-president, two or more of its chief lectures and its treasurer are candidates fur Congress in their respective dis tricts? The Alliance newspaper in this State urges the election of Al liance men to office without past political affiiljations. The air is full of' attempted and prospective com binationswith the Republican party. It is not known what the Alliance aspirants, who may be defeated for nomination in a regular Democratic convention, may do. It is freely talked that they Will not accept its decision if it does not suit them to do iL There has been no formal an nouncement or public avowal on the part of any Alliance candidate of his candidacy. County conven tions meet and instruct their dele gates to-the Congressional conven tions to vote for an Alliance man for Congress. ' Immediately the s atement follows that the Alliance | is not a political organization and that the action of the convention was not by any Alliance authority. They vote in the primaries as citi zens, not as Alliance people. It is true that, they all vote one way, and that is the, Alliance way, hut that may be only coincidental. Every known Alliance candidate up to this mujv its a lseuiucjui*. a nuy are iiitfu of ability and prominence. They are men of high political private in tegrity. Their good faith nobody questions. If they . jjermit their names to go before a Democratic convention, submissive to its decis ion follows, of cousre. Yet there is uncertain, indefinable unrest that makes the situation perplexing. It differs from the situation in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. In this State tire contest is over coun ty, legislative, judicial and Congres sional candidates. T The State convention meets only to ratify the judicial district nomi nations; The issue cannot be rais ed iu State convention as in Alaba ma, for the contest is, virtually over when the State convention meets. So the county, Legislature and Con gresssional district’ must settle the issue as it may be presented. In the counties where the Alliance is storng it will dictate the nomina tions. Where it is weak there is dh apprehension that it may combine with the Republicans and defeat the regular Democratic nominees. The Legislature elects a United States Senator. There is an overwhelm ing sentiment in the State in favor of Senator Vance’s reelection. It has been expected that he would favor the subtreasury bill. Will the fact that he does not favor the bill pro voke the Alliance Legislature to ig nore public sentiment and defeat his re-election. So the situation is anomalous and beset with irita ting complications. The Democrat ic leaders are cognizant of this con dition of things, and so far as dis passionate, conservative, harmoni ous, mature action can avert mis- I chief it will be done. i »■" AXLIANCE CANDIDATES. In the First District, now ably represented by Mr. jBkinner, Farmer Branch is the Alliance candidate for the Congressional nomination. The Alliance and anti-Alliance for ces are about evenly divided, and it wiil be nin And tuck between Branch and Skinner. In the Second, or ‘'Black District” now represented by Cheatham, the only negro in Congress, Mr. Elios Carr, president of the State Alli ance, is a candidate. Owing to Re publican defection and the negro ex odus the “Black District” is debata ble ground. The Democratic nom ination lies between Carr and ex Congressman Simmons. In the Third District Farmer Mc Clammy Is a candidate for renomi nation ; he is a member of the Alli ance, but that does not protect him againtt Alliance opposition, . Farm er and ex-.Congresswan Wharton J. Green, who is also a member of the Alliance “in good standing,” is a candidate. Mr. Aycock, an aggres sive and popular young politician slid lawyer, is also a candidate. In tlie Fourth District Bunn seems to have a walk-over. No op position to his renomiuation lias de veloped as yet' Captain “Baldy" Williams, an Alliance man but not an Alliance candidate,-seem s to be Welt ;4o the lead in the Fifth District. This dis trict is Democratic, but is enjoying the costly experiment of a'Republi can' Representative in Congress. Brower, the present iucumbcfit.jitm tMs tftir natty machine#^, n'i<rar de. spite the desperate efforts to the con trary lie_will Be renominated. The negroes in this district are in revolt. Ex-United States Marshal Settle, ex-Judge Gilmer and Mr. A.C. Bux ton, a prominent lawyer and banker, are candidates for the Democratic nomination. Settle is a hustler, aid “the boys” are looping for him. Gilmer is ff representative North Carolinian, and one of the most pop ular men in the State. Buxton is a solid man, mentally, physically and financially. There are a number of “tied-out’ candidates. The one point in the campaign is to beat Brower and redeem the district. He is a man of resources and luck. He voted for the Mills bill two years ago, and for the McKinley bill two weeks ago. He was repudiated by h1s party two years ago; yet he was re-elected in a Democratic district. He is a remarkable man, and strong as the Democratic nominee may be, the campaign will be interesting.— In the Sixth District now repre sented by Alfred W. Rowland, one of the best and purest men in public life, the Alliance is malting a desper ate effort to nominate Captain S. B.' Alexander. Alexander has had a' taste of public life and has many; times been an unsuccessful candi date for public office. He was elec ted president of the Slate Alliance at its organization, and is-still regar ded as one of its ■ trusted leaders. The Alliance made an unsuccessful attempt to nominate him for Gov ernor two years ago and subsequent ly for United States Senator. lie is again brought to the front, and an other failure means another effort at vindication. There is Alliance opposition to Jphn S. Henderson in the Seventh District, but it is local and Compar atively feeble. William A. Graham, treasurer of tile State Alliance is a candidate in the Eighth District. Browers, state solicitor, a strong and popular man is the straight-out Democratic can didate against Cowles, the presfut incumbent. It is reported in the district that Cowles approached Tom Reed in the chair, shook his fist in his face and threatened “to cut his d—d tljjpat’’ if he “persisted in his infants and tyrannical course as Speaker of the house.’-’ It will be bard to beat a man with such a report as this in circulation concerning him. The Ninth District is safely' Dem ocratic, but has a Republican repre sentative in Congress. Local Dem ocratic dissension produced this re sult. It has been a costly experi ment and its repetition is not appre hended. Asheville, the world fa mous North Carolina Sanitarium, is located in the district. Ex-Con gressman Vance, a farmer and mem ber of the Alliance, is the most prominent candidate. He is close to the people and it will be hard to shake his hold. Colonel Frank Cox the public—spirited owner of Ashe ville's mammoth summer and win ter hotel, is also mentioned. Who ever the Democratic candidate may be, nomination means election. ' J. B. H 4 Harrfeon is Tired* Atlanta Constitution. Washigjwn, June 20.—There is no longer any doubt of the .accura cy of the stateinent contained in these dispatches lasc Tuesday that the President told an intimate friend a few days ago that he intended to retired to the practice of law at the end of his present-term. The statement comes to your cor respondent this evening in such shapes as to impart to it absolute verity. James H. Woodard, the Califor nia agent of the Wabash, railroad, and ah Old personal friend of the President, called upon turn,! and while silver was under diseussion the President defined his position as unalterably opposed to free coinage* and added substantially that per sonally he had nothing, to gapr by acceding to the demands for free coinage, as he intended to retire at the end of his term. T T:r The President, it is understood, has made the same statement to oth er friends within the past week. THE FEDERAL ELECTION BILL. Radical Republicans Want'll to Go*in to Effect Before the Fall Elections. Wajihinfftou Cor■ y. r. Herald. The Extreme Republican- Sena tors intend that the pending Feder al Election bill shall not only pass at this session, but that it shall be come operative before the Congress ional .elections next autumn. Their programme is to allow tin democrats a reasonable time in which to debate the proposition. They think that thirty days ought to be sufficient for this purpose. If at the purpose to continue. the dis cussion indgfinitely the Republicans will put through a motion to cut off debate and place the bill on its passage. This motion, it may be stated, will apply only to a national election law, but^ the radical Republicans say that the'hill must pass and that any attempt to extend the discuss ion beyond a reasonable period will be regarded as an extreme phase, of filbustering which they will net permit. They say also they cannot afford to let the House pass the bill without similar action on their part. Their failure to do so might not have any material effect upon the .political completion of the next .house, but should the Democrats, ;as it is expected, control it, the Re publicans of the country would hold the Senate Republicans responsible, and this, the latter desipe to avoid. North Carolina Census- Figures. Raleigh 2if*c8-Observer, Just a hundred years ago the first census was taken—and North Caro lina by population ranked as the third State in the Union. Virginia came first with 746,610, Pennsylva nia next with 435,373 and North Carolina third with 393,751. Massa chusetts had' fifteen- thousand less and New York fifty thousand less. The next census New York went np above North Carolina, and kept on going up until in 1820 she took the lead which she has since maintained. North Carolina retained her plaae as the fourth State until 1830 when she dropped one being passed by Ohio; and in 1840 she dropped back two numbers and she has kept on drop ping back ever since. But although she had more ag gregate population than Massachu setts and New York iu 1790, as she had 105'000 negro population, both of those States had more while pop ulation than she had. She ranked fourth in j colored population " and fifth in ) white population. She maintained rank in colored popula tion very well, but in white popula tion she eventually fell behind the great white commonwealths pf the Northwest. one nas always been a State lrom which there was a raigraiion to the new lands of the West and after the opening up of the Alabama and Mississippi lands the stream west was very great. Indeed she gained only 12,000 population, which was not three per cent, in the decade be tween 1830 and 1840, and only 3,000 of negfo population which was only about one per cent. It may be the census of 1840 was not well taken. Beteewn-1860 and 1870 she gained less than nine per cent, but that census, it is well known was incor rect. In 1870 the census reported her as having 1,400,047—and this year we expect her population will prove to be over 1,800,000. Had their been no emigration from North Carolina her population would benow 8,000,000. , But we have largely contributed to building up the Southern States, and there are dearly as many persons of North Carolina lineage out of the State os in it. We aye glad to believe that migration has almost entirely ceased so far as the whites are concerned. The Southern Railroads and their agents, Peg Leg Willaims and his brethren, it appears, propose to keep it up among the darkeys indefinite ly The, Farmers’ Fight. Charlotte ChrMtiote. -r*-:. Under the above cajUiou this week’s Mecklenburg Times, the Al liance organ, published a card sign ed Mecklenburg, which in full is as . follows:' ■ » | “I am myself not. a member of the Alliance uar do I furor secret sne^lies or any sort of class legisla tion, But I am a fanner and a neighbor, of CoptS. B. Alexander’s ana L lielieve that the fight he is is making to secure for agriculture its just nghta and influence ove rides all other questions, and I write this short note to say that Capt. S. B. Alexander is entitled in all the relations of both private and public life to the encouragement and sup port of the farmers. ,.0n the certain lines he is strongly conservative. But because of his advanced views on finance, trust transportation and other business reforms, he is oppos ed by all the mowers of money and monopoly. Let good men of all classes rally to his nomination for Congress.” There is absolutely no evidence what ever of Capt. Alexander’s be ing opposed “by all the powers of money and monopoly.” The fact is there is little or no “money power,” as known in politics, in North Car olina. Anyhow, as to money power, the greatest financial institutions in this State are the national banks, and until recently Capt. Alexander tfus-a stock-holder and a director in the First National Bank of Carlotte, and as an evidence that he is notop* posed to national banks, and is not enlisted in a crusade against them, he sold his stock to his sister. Why should “Mecklenburg” de clare that he is not a member of the Alliance? What has that worthy farmers’ society got to do with politics, anyway? Politics is contrary to its constitution; and the effort to drag it into politics is the unworthy work of enemies to the true interests of the farmers. The Mecklenburg Times heads the communication, which it places at the top of its editorial column, “The Farmers’ Fight.” What fight? Who is fighting the far mers? There is not a city or town hi this district that is not made up of farmers or of farmers' sons and farmers’ direct blood kin. Surely these people’s interests are the in terests of the farmers their kinsmen and the FarmeTs’'interests are theirs. What fight? Capt. Alexander is not certainly opposed by any “money power” or “monopoly”; and this effort to make a-martyr of a worthy citizen, is un becoming in the friends of Capt. Alexander. Capt. Alexander as candidate for the Democratic nomination, will have a fair field and no favor, that is exactly what so gallant a gentleman as the Captain is, it is safe to assert earnestly desires, and he desires nothing more. Our People Will Stand Together. Statesville Landmark. We do not share the apprehen sion of some, that the staid, think ing farmers of North Carolina will allow themselves to he led off by a man who comes down here from Pennsylvania, assumes to put him self at the head of the farmers of this State, and advises them to dis regard the color line and to turn their backs on all those candidates for their favor except the few whom he may name to them as fit to be trusted. Our people are essentially homogenous. They have lived here together from the beginning, fol lowing their various avocations and cultivating the spirit of fraternity and good neighborhood—one man being as g< pd as another so long as he behaved |himself.' We need do crusader coming among us to sow strife; to teach that some one class or another is a people all apart to itself, the enemy of every other class and every other class its ene-* my. The farmers of North Caroli na will not enlist under this new banner, in the ~*hands of one ua? known to them, until they get ready to belie all traditions of their font fathers. * v The Girl For Us. ■Concord, Standard. - • • v.. Some times a man looks, around among the fair sex to see which one he thinks would make a companion through life, who could share every joy and help to cheer every sorrow. We have never made this prospee ting tour yet, but if we were to we M‘i have our course already marked out. It is one of the noblest efforts of the age to teaah-girla the imprtsnceof- ■ knowing what to dound*^ to do it. The girl who- sits up tin o’clock and reads “The Duke’s ae cret” and then sleeps till her old worn-out mother has got the break fast and finish the house - work, is good enough for the siralen-headed spike-legged dude,'because he ^ to starve to death, and, we think x'*' this the most expeditious way to ac*-'; \ complish- this blessing, but when ar man waists a wipe he ehoosed one* ' from-ther ranks of the workers; \ We are not advocating female* slav ery but we believe in girls knowing' how to work and doing some of it, ’ too, and we feel a thousand times more kind towards the sewing girl, . , than towards that little pale-faced> ; puny form that don’t know whatS < vigorous exercise is, only in some1 ball room, and never took a genuine, sun-shine bath in all their life.. Air Editor Who DM His Duty; Av&usta (On.) Chronicle. Colonel Screws, the veteran edi— .tor of the Montgomery AdvertUer,. continues to receive congratulations* not only from all points in Alaba ma, but from other States, on the gallant' and successful fight he made i'j the cause of pure Demo cracy in the heated gubernatorial ^ race of Alabama which*has just en~ ded in thei triumphant nomination of Hon. Tbos. G. Jones. , The fight was against Commis sioner Kolb, the Alliance candidate, it being claimed that the selection of a man in a secret Alliance meet ing in which the general people of the State had no voice, and outturn: hiih forward as the man for whom, everybody must vote,, was arbitrary undemocratic and' dictororiah Though Kolb went into ' the'- C9H-\ vention with nearly enough votes to insure his nomination, and ~ though all the strength and in—. ■ fluence of f the Alliance was brought to bear on the members of the convention to secure the needed majority, he was defeated in a straiglitout Democratic fight, and in the name of pure Democracy. It was so strongly urged that hirirom ination would mean disaffection in. '' the Democratic ranks arid encour agement to the Republicans, that at - last all the anti-Kolb Democrats united on one man and nominated' Jones. In the fight against undemocrat- , ic methods Colonel Screws bore leading part and deserves the con- 1 gratulationshe is receiving, while the manly manner in. Commission er Kolb pledged h» support to the nominee after his own defeat’ made him many friends, and establishes his Democracy, even though he diet come before the convention by: undemocratic methods. . The Democrats of the South can not afford to wrangle amang them selves and open the way for the • common enemy. Let Southern, men cling to the methods of pure Democracy, and not be divided among themselves. In hoe■ sitjno. vimes. N. C. Crops. Eastern District. The weather in this district has been very warm with plenty sunshine. Rain-fall has been hadly ditributed, very lit tle falling iu some places and too much in others. Average rain-fall ' this week 1.10 inches. Heavy rain did some damage to crops in Bladen comity and probably in Rotjeson county. Heaviest amounts report ed, 8.03 'inches at Lumberton on two days; 1.20 at New Berne; 1,10 ;at Garysburg. Central District. The rain-fall has been about the average in this district, but not well distributed/ At Clayton, Johnston county, heavy rain and high wind on the 17th did considerabla damage to oats and cotton. The temperature, was ahove the average with plenty of sunshine. Crops are “booming,” Western District—Unusually heavy rains are reported in McDow ell county, doing some damage to crops of all kinks. The average rain-fall for the week in this da-1' trict was 1.00 inch, but was also badly distributed. The largest amounts reported were 1.45 inches at Davidson College, 1.02 at Mt. Pleasant, 1.37 at Statesville, 2.88 at Dallas. Heavy rains also occurred in Rutherford eouty. The general crop prospects continue excellent.—