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TUU XY. SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 26,1890. No. 60. THE YOUNG MEN’S AID WANTED. r"; ’ -——* The State Exeoutfve Committee Ex pects Good Work From Them. The ’fallowing correspondence will be interesting to ; Democrats throughout the State, and explains itself: ' ; " I ■ Durham, N. (X, July, 17th 1890. To the N. C. State Association of * Denooratic Clubs. ^J^PTWMEN: With great pleas ure i lay before you a letter from Ed, Chambers Smith, Esq., Chair man Of the State Democratic Exec utive Committee. It was received in response to my tender of the As sociation’s services for the oncom ing campaign and reads as follows: Rooms of the State Dem. Ex. Qom. ) Raleigh, N. C., June 21,1890. j J£b.J.S,CaeePeesiijent N.C State Ass’n o^ Democratic Clubs, Dur ; ham, n. c. , jL/bab die:— I our letter or the 7th insfc. tendering to the State Demo cratic Executive Committee the cor dial assistance and co-operation of the N. C. State Association of Dem ocratic Clubs in the approaching campaign lias been received. ;' This committee realizes the great service that the association can ren der the party; composed at it is of loyal, active Democrats of all ages and conditions throughout the State and constituting an organized army of opposition to Republican ■ princi ples and negro domination, if their youth, which constitutes the mighty lever that is moving and directing ; the world to-day, is guided by the conservatism, experience and wisdom of age. ' Upon the young men of the party inust necessarily devolve the larger part or the political work in a cam paign and they always do it uncom plainingly. TJieir action is usually unselfish, and they seem to feel well repaid if success follows-tlieir efforts and they receive the approbation of their political elders, thus, rendering themselves very valuable. ; Clubs will hereafter be a factor in political battles. The facility with which they can be formed and the means which they furnish of Collecting valuable information will render'their organized action a ne cessity to political ‘managers, and their admitted fealty to constituted authority make them exceedingly “ valuable adjuncts to the regular or ganization. It is difficult to praise too highly their efforts in the ^>ast, and much more difficult to estimate their value 1: ip the future when they shall act as an organized Compact body instead of as individuals. ; . '■ The committee acccepts the tender of aid made by you,- therefore, with 'pleasure, and will be glad , to offer to the Executive Committee of said association," or as many of them as may be properly designated, head quarters with the State Committee, to the end that eoncert of action may be insured. The printed con stitution of youti association, which T have by me, leaves"nothing to be added in regard to the relations which exist between the association and • tjiis committee. ‘ Thanking you tor your aia, ana believing that the action of the State Association of dubs will re-, doundtothe good of^ the party, I am, Very .truly yours. Ed. Chambers Smith, Chairman State Dem. Ex. Com. ."In inviting your consideration of the chairman’s flattering and appre ciative letter, I would especially call your attention to the expectations he "bases on your efforts. Permit me to ' add for myself that! am sure he can realize on those expectations for the faith of the believer and the zeal of the apostle are natural to those who cherish the gospel of free dom. Nowhere is Democracy purer, Sounder, stranger than in those home . organizations of the people where neighbor is banded with neighbor m jealous support of these liberties on ly to be earned and paid for in the sterling coin of eternal vigilance. becomes my ^welcome duty u your President, to cull you Once aguin to the helm, to invite you anew to those patriotic labors in which is found the very reason of your ex istence. Presently our great party will have nanied her standard bear ers and her color guards in whose defense we. march—presently anoth ' er struggle for Democratic suprem acy—another urgent need for the defeat of Republican ignorance and , corruption and misrule will hr upon I us. There is work to be done, work in behalf of a cause dear taall of us.: It is for us to see that our share is well and faithfully performed. I therefore call upon all Demo cratic clubs and societies through out the State to meet in their acus tomed places, to reinvigorate- their organizations, and put them on a war footing. -I-urge the formation of new clubs and societies iu all towns and townships where none now ex ist and I ask all to report for enroll ment as rapidly as possible. Already a large number of clubs are carried on the roll of the State Association. coining more is needed to make any organisation a member than to report its officers and address to B C. Beckwith, Esq., Raleigh, N, C. The time and place for a repre sentative meeting of the clubs is now being considered in our execu tive committee. At some early day the decision will be anhouuced. It is our hopes that by that time our roll will cover every community in the State. Wherever sound Dem ocracy has a foothold, wherever pa triotism is encouraged as a virtue, the people should be organized, so that in deed and truth ours shall ever remain a government of the people, by th%people. I have ; the honor to be, gentlemen, Respectfully yours, &c,, J. S. Cams. Pres. State Assoc. .Dera. Clubs. A Letter From Commissioner Patrick. Jfjcprcs# Correspondence. Raleigh, N. C., July 15, ’90. An importaut feature of the Grape Fair and Alliance. Farmers’ Encampment to be held at Mt Hol ly, N. C., July 2$th to August 2nd, will, be the organization of a league, whose members pledge themselves to use as far as possible the produets of Southern manufacturers of every kind. At every fair held in the South this year, such an organiza tion should be made. Manufactur ers of all kinds of , goods should place samples at all of these fairs and show the people, how much the South herself produces for the ne cessities of her liome life. ^ We are receiving daily, samples of all kinds of goods from) Southern1 manufacturers to be exhibited at Mt. Holly fair and Alliance Farm ers’Encampment. Please aid us, by the influence of your paper, and press upon the peo ple the • importance of sustaining their home manufacturers. Draw upon the manufacturers the impor tance of showing the people what they can produce. .... A'oura truly, Jno. T. Patrick, Com: A MILLION DOLLAR' FIRE IN NEW : YORK. . Partial Destruction of the Headquar ters of the Western Union Telegraph Company. ; 1 _ A frightful fire occurred in New York early Friday morning, result ing in the partial destruction of the immense seven story building of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The crossing of two electric lights wires is thought to have been the cause of the fire; conflagration was attended with some exciting scenes, four men and three women being forced to take refuge on the roof of the seven-story structure, and the flames threatening every moment to claim them as vietiiiis; two br'uve firemSn, amid the cheers of thous ands, succeeded iu effecting the res-, cue of the imperilled people; the fire caused considerable interruption to the telegraph service, and the loss is estimated at over one million do! lars. : .. v.- . e;.. A BIG COLORED CONVENTION To be hield in Raleigh August 19th.. State Chronicle. \ Jno. II. Williamson, the colored politician was here yesterday look ing after matters in connection with a great convention of colored people to be held here next month. Williamson did some plain talking ip a political way. He said the con vention would be held in Raleigh August 19th, and that every section of the State would be represented, lie said the object of this conven tion was to organize the colored peo ple so they could escape from the long “bossism" of the Republican party. “We are the Republican party in this State,” said Williamson. “No white Republican ever got an office in any county or place that we did not help him get. They "have beeri riding on us into easy-places for a long time now, and promising to give us some of the plums now and then, but we don’t get any. In fact, we don t have anything offered us except some knotty, rotty. measley little plums that a respectable man wouldn’t pick up off- the ground.' Now we are just tired of this sort of business. We are going to show the party in this State that wlienev j er a Republican is elected to office in this State we are people who do the electing. If we withdraw from the party in the Fifth District, Mr. Brower won’t stand a ghost of chance for re-election. If we don’t help the party in Ewart’s District, Mr. Ewart will certainly go under. We do nearly all thf voting in the Second District, and if we leave the white Republicans to light alone there, they can’t make . themselves felt. Now you see these are the matters we are going to loot after, and [ tell you we mean business. Some of us are subject to the party lash yet, and I know the Republi cans have emisaries all over this State now trying to break op and defeat this proposed cenvciation; butj they Won’t do it. 1 I have letters from everywhere colored people a mous for the eq posed., | All of us feel disgusted at the way we have been treated by the administration. Why, President Cleveland treated ns much better than does the present administra tion, winch managed to secure the nomination, and theteby rise into office o:i Odr shoulders. Mr. Harri son has appointed a few colored men to office, but he was forced to do that. He has not made one sin gle voluntary recognition of our people as a factor in the party. But 1 don’t mean to blame him entirely. I know he is subject to party influ ence, and what we want to do most is to break the power of- the Re publicans in this State. These “bosses” are the ones who have kept us dowu. They went to Washing almost, and the re nearly unani Avention ■ as pro ton aud.told tne rrosident to ap peint white Republicans to every office, "they said, ‘Mr. President you need not pay any attention to the demand of the negroes.: They’ll vote all right anyway. They are solid, and will stay so. Give ev erything to the white Republicans, and let the negroes go to the ——. And the President has done just about as they told him to do. Col lector White of this . district has three hundred men under him, and only three of them are colored, and oijly one of those three get as much as nine hundred dollars a year.«And! all this notwithstanding the fact that without us, the party couldn’t make an audible noise in this State. Some of us went to Washington to ask some kind of recognition for our services. -We were told time and again that there were no vacan cies, and twenty-four hours afterwads some worthless, no ac count .white man would be given a good place, blit if I have • got to clean spittoons and sweep and scrub windows, I had rather do it 'here than go to Washington and do it as the lneuiai of the government. We 'nave alt had pretty much this same treatment, and that’s why we are s;oing to have a convention-if*nd a big one too. We are going to have an understanding. I don’t want to reveal the line of policy we have mappedout just yet, but I can say that unless we have more recognition than we have had, the Republican party in this State will practically die. We aredjj the humor to put a colored ticket in the field, not with any hope of winning, of course, but for the purpose of breaking the strength of that or ganization known as the Republi can party.” In some other talkjWilliamson ex pressed his unreserved disgust at the' way the party was acting in State and National affairs, and vowed that he had rather see • the Demo crats keep control of the State than see it fall into the hands of the Re publican party as it now stood. The New Treasury Notes. National Democrat. The President and Secretary Windora have approved the de signs of the new Treasury notes provided for by the new silver bill, which were recently prepared at the Bereau of Engraving and Printing in anticipation of the passage of the bill. These notes will be of eight different denominations, as follows: 81, 82, 85, 810, 820, 850, 8100 and 81,000. While each note has dis tinctive design outside of its* value designation, they will all .resemble in torn and general characteristic the present legal tender note. They will be printed in black on the face and in green on the back. A new feature of the notes, intended to prevent raising or alteration, is the printing of their value in big black letters across the back. This will be done in the case of the ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties and fifties. Black figures will be used in the case of the §100 and §1,000 notes, as the width of the note will not admit of the use of letters of the desired size. The notes will differ from all previous issues in bearing the words “United States of Ameri ca," instead of (simply “United States.” They will say on their face that they are redeemable in coin, and on their backs they are le gal tender for all debts, public and private. Portrays will be displayed on the different notes, so far as se lected, as follows: Ex-Sectary Stanton on , the ones, ' General Thomas on the fives, General Sheri dan on the tens, Admiral Farrngut On the one hundreds and General Meade on the one thousands. The vignettes for the two, twenty and fifty doliar notes have not yet been decided upon, but is probable that they will contain portrays of Gen eral McPherson, ex-President ffin. Henry Harrison and ex-Secretary Morrill, respectively. The vig nettes of Thomas and Sheridan will be placed exactly in t he centre of the face of the notes, all file others being placed on the sides of the face. . Tried to Run Away. ,r* Greensboro Workman. ^ The News and Observer of July 18th has art account of an attempt nyide by three youngsters of Raleigh to evacuato the city and seek advent ure in -the wide, wide world. They had crammed ■ their clothing in guano sacks, and in another sack they had a fine supply of “cold ham, corn bread and other provender.” One of the boys had a fiddle with \yhich to drive away dull care, and another had at least 500 packages of cigarettes. - _. When the train was about to move the fathers of the boys, each with a policeman, came up and cut short the adventure, and the little company marched back to a settle ment. - - - Miss Winnie Davis is not, as is by some people supposed, the only sur viving daughter of the Confederate leader. Miss Winnie has an older sister, Margaret, who is the wife of J. A. Hayes, originally a Mississip pian, but now a Danker of Colorado Springs. , - ; - / **~ ' ; * . .S' ■' AGAINST THE SUB-TREASURY BILL. The Caldwell County Alliance Declares Against it and'Formulates a Plat form. ■ Slate Chronicle. Lenoir, N. C., July 18—T en close an extract from the Lenoir Topic, containing the proceedings of the Caldwell county Alliance. I think that the readers of the Chron icle will be interested in the proceed ings of the Alliance. It is the only one that has the courage to repu diate the sub-Treasury bill, and the only one that has had the ' boldness to formulate aplatfprpa. I think our platform is the practicable plan to obtain the great object of the Alliance men. If our State Alliance could be in duced to take some such course it would go further to help the farm er, and to reassure all classes of the conservatism of the order than any thing that could be done. The fol lowing is the official report of the resolutions as published by order in the Lenoir Topic: \ A PLAN IN PLACE OF SUB-TREASURY. The paper known as the “sub-; Treasury”, bill, which had been sent |down to the sub-Alliances for adop tion or rejection, coming up as un. finished business from the April meeting of the county Alliance, a motion was made to adopt. After an able discussion of the bill for and against, a vote was taken and the motion to adopt was lost. Dr, It. L. Iteall then ofEered the follow ing paper, „ which was adopted, viz: - Believing in the the fundamental principles of our constitution, viz.: equal rights to all and special favors to none; to constantly strive to se cure harmony and good will among all mankind; to suppress personal, local, sectional and national preju dice; and having faith in the intel ligence and conservatism of our fel-! low citizens, we offer the following plan as a remedy for existing public evils, not oi'ily to our brethren in North Carolina, but of the whole order, and would (irmly but respectfully askall candidates for the Legislature or Congress a public acceptance of the same. First. Such a modification of the tariff as will allow the products of our farms not only to reach the free markets of the world, but to get in exchange for our products this manufactures of a free market without unjust restrictions. Second. Such an economical ad ministration of national finances as shall leave none of the people’s money locked in the government vaults as a surplus above the needs of the government, thereby eon-: tracting the currency, or acting as a temptation to corrupt schemes, Or wasted on needless public buildings and unhavigable harbors and rivers. Third. A modification , of the national banking act, so as to pre vent a needless contraction of the currency; the repeal of the tax on our State banks; and the free coin age and remonetization of silver. | fourth. A cessation and repeal of unconstitutional, centralizing, sectional and partisan legislation by Congress, thereby promoting a feel ing of national brotherhood, andj confidence in the justness and sta bility of thn-government Which , is THB BASES OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY. Fifth. A proper control of the railroads, which are but the high ways of the people for purposes of travel and commerce, in such a manner as not to deprive the rail road companies of _a reasonable profit on their in vestment and at the same time protect the people from unjust discriminations and' re strictions on trade and travel. Sixth. Stern opposition to the usurpation of powers not granted in the constitution and reserved for the people. ' . •j_- ■ . . - \ ■ , I wish ever£ Allianceman in North Carolina would give thought ful consideration to these resolu tions. They embody, as the mass of the Caldwell farmers .belic.V, the true plan to secure tiro needed re lief. ■ AuAAKOSSiAif. - Webster’s Great Speech. Ralt-iyJt A’ctcti and Olnurret'r. Col. IngerSpll recently stated in the Philadelphia Press that the great speech which Webster deliv ered in reply to Hayne was different from| the speech afterwards printed, lie says: “The speech which we read Inow, is not in form, though it is in spirit, the address which Webster really delivered. He spent many days in carefully revising and writ ing out the speech, and the publish ed speech is Webster's revision and not the actual speech heard in the Senate chamber.” Referring to this Calvin N. Lewis writes from Boston to the New York Sun that the stenographic notes of the speech taken by Mr. Gales are de posited in the Boston Library, ahd that the report of the speech as written out by Gales from his notes is also there; and this report differs most radically in form from the manuscript draft of the speech as prepared for the press (a great part of which is also there)—so radically in fact that it is almost impossible to collate, in some instances, para graph by paragraph, the one ver sion with the other. The speech was delivered Jan uary 126th and 27th; it did not ap pear until Febury 27th—a month later. Mr. Lewis says that Ingersoll is certainly right in saying that Web ster spent many days carefully revis ing and writing the speech. Whatev er Ingersoll’s object may be in bring ing forward this question, certainly Webster’s fame as tjhe most power ful orator of this country is too well established to be shaken; and while the delivery of this particular speech carried him np to the zenith of his greatness,'yet he would have occupied a niche to himself had he never delivered it at all. Hayne’s speech was also a gr<\ut one. We have heard that in view of the polit ical situation it had been determin ed that such a debate should take place, and that Senator Iredell, of North Carolina had been solicited and was expected to make the ar gument against Webster, but sick ness prevented and Hayne became Webster’s antagonist. That some of the finer passages of Webster’s speech were not utter ed in the debate only adds another to many similar occurrences. Patrick Henry’s firey speech, with which all are familiar—“Give me liberty of give me death”—is understood to have been the compo sition of William Wirt, who wrote his biography. And John Adams’ famous appeal to the Continental Congress for action looking to Inde pendence, “Sink or swim, survive or perish,” Webster himself tells us, if we remember correctly was never delivered—but was composed many yeers afterwards by some one else. Yet it is certain that both Patrick Henry and John Adams made speeches on the line nt those as cribed to them, embodying the same thought, though different in language and arragement. And we may mention in passing that the speech of Logan, the -Indian*, the friend of the white man, often cited as an example of Indian eloquence is ascribed to an English traveller in this country, a’Mr. Ashe. Such pious frauds, however, are by no means a new device. They are on the line of those admirable speeches which Thucydides puts in the mouths of the Athenian command ers in his history of the Poloponne sian war—very stirring appeals, but certainly never uttered. The Cabarrus^, county Alliance would allow nlTdiseuisTou of poli tics. The Charlotte Chronicle says that the Alliance in Mecklenburg will take no part. in politics, and that any attempt to ride into local ofSce on the shoulders of the A’ lianee will result in the injury of the party attempting it. THE SOLDIERS’ HOME. ii Comniissiens to be Issued to Ladies to Solicit Subscriptions. Raleigh Neip* and Observer. Mr. W. C. Stronach, Secretary of the North Carolina.Confederate Vet erans’ Association, furnishes the Neirs and Observer the following announcement for publication: Raleigh, N. C., July 21st, ’80. To Presidents of County Associations of the Confederate Veteran#1 Asso ciation of North Carolina: We are now ready to issue tom-' missions to the ladies you may de signate who will work in the inter est. of “North Carolina Soldiers’ Home.” Please send in names to the Secretary and he will forward commissions immediately. W. C. Strok ach, J. S. Cabs, Secretary. President. Mr. Stronach showed ns a copy of one of the commissions, which an very tastily and handsomely gotten up: It is embellished with colored lithopraphs of the Confederate flag and the flag of !North Carolina and bears the names of _ President Carr and Secretary Stronach and the di rectors, Messrs. A. B. Andrews, S. A. Ashe, T. L. Emry and P. H. Busbee. The State papers are re quested to copy the above announce ment. iM ■m r, -■ late NEWS NOTES. -J.il The Allocate says that the Wo man’s Missionary Conference (Methodist) for the Raleigh district will meet in Ilenderson 'Tuesday, July 22d. The Georgia, California and Northern Railroad leading out from Monroe has now reached a point seventy-four miles south of the starting point. Work is going on at the Rogers mine on Col. Heck’s iron property near this place, driving a tunnel in to the ore seam.—Danbury Reporter. Rev. J. E. McManaway has com- " pleted a series of revival meetings at King’s Mountain which resulted in about ODe hundred conversions.— Mecklenburg Times. The Durham Globe says- that 8 gentleman of that city has a watch S made of gold dng in Chatham coun ty, less than thirty miles from -here, _ in 1825. Six watches were made at that time, and his is one of them. -71 “Lex” writes from Chapel Hill that there are twenty-one students in attendance upon the Summer Law School and that four States are represented. Thirty-three law stu dents were in attendance during the session of 1889-00. > - Winston is to have an ice factory and a canning establishment. The capital has already been subscribed. In a few years ice will be selling at a quarter of a cent per pound. Gat7 1 ling says it can be made at one tenth’5?’ of a cent per pound. The work of grading the streets of the North Carolina Steel and Iron Company’s property is being done rapidly and well. There' are.- *; eighty-two miles of streets, twenty miles-of which are already graded - and the company wants everybody to use them.—Greensboro Patriot.' 1 tie next convention of the Souther Dentists will be held at Morehead August 7th, 1801, It In proposed to have nHorae where den. - tists can spend the Summer and an effort will be made to have it in. North Carolina. Dr, V. E. Turner was elected as one of the Executive Committee. ' Durham Sun: A white buzzard wo never saw' before, but yesterday 1 morning one was flying rwith a flock of black ones over the western part of the city. The colored people in' that vicity claim it as a bad sign, and say something bad is gwiuft ter hap* pern, Whether the' black buzzards thought it was an enemy, or else they didn't believe in social equality' we are unable ' to ■ say;- but they would keep darting at it ns if intent to klll ™ d'lve it.away. , The 7#*^ seen ot it it was making u straight::: shoot in the direction of South Caro from Cre WC SUppoM il -migrated u -
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