€ 82^ >r S.lS S. S' « 8 S S & S s Ci I IIIISI? <£ o t 5* S -v . 02 ■ *» « V |V «m‘ • «• . :>v>-•*•;: »-* <*i ** S 115 i(J iff ij ft r, r. r4 09 <0 O'* • - *"V*S, • • U ~ 4'- * w-! '■ /is ^V- wt ■ *3 * ■3 ? ' '» P* %■%$% ■ z 2 I a S s’llll < r-; _ E <3 .■< a o §< 1 E± O £ m ■« w ® s’ I w & X « H: Vol. IY. ~;V'". SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9.1890. 5 .8 JF. Nn. K1 . • : SOUTH. CAROLINA’S ROW.- - . Ben Tillman, the Farmers' Candidate ; for Governor, Calls 'the First Fam i - lies Rats—Red Hot Times, and Hot IV for Coming—Negroes Helping the y- Farther*,, ~ ' u New York Star. ;:-1. Charleston, 8. u^W;^^Nev 2.:. er, since 1861, has jfafc been so ; excitement ambug the people. : of this '^fcate t^ttiyndh .it is hoped' that thesp means will lie*euccessful,ii>5'is^.:.^v.v. In order that the people of the country outside of 'South Carolina ■ : may fully understand the present political situation in this State, it is necessary to go into history a little. There have been dissensions in the ^ .Democratic party- here , ever since aa/o, ;wnen general■ martin w. Gray, “the old bald eagle of Edge field,” began a revolt. In 1880 lie ■was the candidate in the Democratic Stats ■Convention for Gubernatorial *•; nominee, but he' was beaten by Gen eral Johnson llagood. General Gray died of chagrin, but his friends, njany of them farmers, remained, ,nnd have ever since been disaffected. : Finally, in 1886, they aud others, discontented .w.ihhJjie rulers of the Democratic party here, organized the State Farmers' Association,'in i* which Capt. B. H Tiliman soon came " to the front. The Association spread into every county, and became a disturbing element in every Derno f -Cratic Convention. March 27 , of . that year the farmers met in State % Convention atlColumbia and nomi nated a full ticket for State officers .. to be submitted to the regujar Dem ocratic State Convention for~consid eration, pledging themsel ves to abide !*> by the result,.of that Convention. J Thecal! for this Convention was ■ •" made by G. W. Shell, President of the Farmers’ Association, and was a most bitter arraignment- of the .; Democratic administration of affairs ' in South Carolina. The nominees were Capt. B. B. Tillman for Gov ernor and Col. J. C. Coit. for Lieu tenant-Governor,. Col. Coit ref used to accept the nomination, but Till * man agreed to stump the State. ' The canvass of the State ordered ' by the regular Democratic Execu tive Committee opened at Greenville on June 10. General John Bratton and Attorney-General Joseph H. Earle appeared as candidates for Governor in opposition to Tillman, An icpmanse audience was present, but mostly from the9, country. The town people seenJTj to;. be disgusted with the noise, and—stayed -trwnjT Tillfuan was taken out ^o the speak er’s stand in a carriage drawn by four horsos and decorated with pro ducts of .theTorm. tte was cheered as his carriage passed through the streets, and on bis arrival at the place of speaking he was greeted with the wildest yells from his en thusiastic admire's. The other can didate! were treatod with a coldness that one would oxpect to be shown to a stranger whose views they dis approve, and not to South Carolini ans well known and hitherto greatly respected. % General Bratton, the he : ro of a hundred battles, was listened to with respectful silence,, but not a cheer did he receivo, When Tillman VK>se to speak the. cheers were deaf ening. For five minutes he could not 'make himsolf hoard at all, and through his speech he was mterrupt ’■l ,ed with yells of approval. W hen General Earle rose- to speak he was groeted with cries for Tillman. J; he began to attack THlmab-aod his 8bSr:.. method* of getting control of the party he was jeered by Tillman's fol lowers. '• Whfen candidates, for other'placed mi thp ticket rose to announce their candidacy they were asked by the crowd: "Are yon for Tillman?" If an affirmative answer was given all was well, but if a negative the poor candidate “had a hard road to trav el." - . . : , • , This o, ening meeting ,was typi cal ol: all the others, only that at each succeeding, meeting the excite ment and bitterness lias grown. It is almost incomprehensible, how so many have been held without blood shed. - At several knives and pistols have been drawn bat fortunately the row was averted. The danger is great, and many,are calling upon the Executive Committee to stop the campaign. The meetings have ceas ed to be of any good. *;The sppakrjrf cannot appeal to reason on accoun t of the excited feeling of- the people. They are wild, and will not hear anything opposed" to their views. They try to hoot down the. opposi tion speakers. The campaign has about narrowed down to a running debate between Earle and Tillman in which personalities takes the place of reason. ~ - The. Tillman wing are doing every thing intheir powe^to- inflame the passions ahd prejudices of the rural and ignorant population.. Secret cir culars are sent all over the State to their secret clubs,, One "of these has fallen into the hands of the straight out Democrats, and it is presumed that it is a fair specimen of the oth ers, :• It raids: t"r' .“Laurens, S. 0., June 4. “Dear Sib—The defeat of Kolb for Governor of Alabama, by a com-i bination of political tricksters, should 4eiadiAhB:Mehds of; Capt^ jillmau that ‘eternal vigilance is the price: of liberty/ Aa they value their lives, liberty, homes-aSd reputation, so should they be ready to guard against the insidious devices of their opponents. " . ‘‘Every township and neighbor hood in. the State should be through ly organized into Democratic clubs. The officers should be truly loyal to the platform of principles enunciated by the March Convention. f ‘•The battle cry of ‘Anybody to beat-Tillman’ must be kept constant ly in view, and every Voter must be lit his post firyt, last and all the time to controvert this hoped-for result, and none must be permitted: to pass unless they are properly vouched for.” Both sides have indulged in some wild talk about a split and an appeal to the negro. Titlraau has been en dorsed by the colored Farmers’ National Alliance and colored Union. The Pee Dee Ahiance of Bennetts ville has published the following resolutions! . “We, the membors-of Shiloh C. F. N; A. & C. U., are beginning to yield to wisdom. Therefore: , ' “Resolved, That we approve the iub-Tl’easurv pill introduced iii Son gress by Senator Viuica. . “Resolved, That we endorse the nctioa-ol tho. .Farmom’-^jConvolition held in Columbia on the 27th day of March, 1890, and their nominee, U. R. Tillman, for Governor.' -* . “Resolved, That wo disapprove of the very decided action taken by several newspapers in the State against the Farmers’ Movement, and that we will not support any paper that proves to bo an enemy to pur yust cause. V “Resolved, That we cordially- in viteany of our white Alliance breth ren to visit us who are in favor of the Farmers’ Movement. “In union there is strength. We all are children of Eve and Adam. Why not act so in principle? • There is one God, one Heaven, one Hell, and we must stay together in one of the {daces. Why not vote to gether for. ’Tillman?..V '-ej “A. K. Shaw, Secrr wry, yi. Bhioht,, v? ip'f,>y, “H. W. NEWioif, “John WalHacb, ” **£ \ •‘•V '/ *4Comihittee,^; Tillman, in his speech at.the cam paign meeting at Bennettsville, said that hi* opponents were ’.the cites who were looking to the npgro vote. He.further said: “If they ap peal to the negro we will beat them both, and God have mercy on the soul who fights the Democratic-par ty in November. His life would not be worth a snap of your finger in Edgefield or the up-country.” . The farmers whosupport Tillman look forward to the Legislature passing acts to regulate ' the prices of all staple commodities and light ening the taxes of the small farmers by increasing the taxes of ail cor porations. Tillman announces that he will see that railroads are assessed ata valuation at least equal- to the amount of bonds issued per mile. That means that railroads will pay three times the taxes they pay now. He has also announced that banks, factories, fertilizer companies and other corporations will he assessed at their full value. Farmers in ■South Carolina now are not assessed at more than, one fourth of .their real value. He will also try ter re duce taxation by cutting off all ap propiations to the militia and by re ducing the amount given to higher education. He will alsp try to se cure a Railroad Commission that will be given .power to .fix freight and passenger rates. .. - I in one or ms speeches he said that it was not the tariff imposed: by the Federal Government that was hurt-, ing the farmers, but the tariff im posed by the railroad companies. He has denounced the administration of the State's affairs by the Democrats,, and said that a political leprosy per meates the whole Governmental fa bric. He has accused legislators of being corrupt and perjurers.. He charges that the Railroad Commis sion has been tamed, and that taxes .have been unnecessarily oppressive Capt. Tillman, who is leading this revolt against the aristocracy of South Carolina, as he terms it, is a brother of Congressman George D. Tillman. 'He is a one-eyed man and a plain farmer. He runs a dairy and sells his own butter. He is a very forcible speaker, and just, the man to stir up the passions of the people. He has no respect whatever, for the past,- and daily shatters venerated idols of Carolina. He did not go to the war. He is an avowed candidate for the seat in the United States Senate held by General Wade Hamp ton. ’ He is out for a clean sweep and new deal. “The rats will have to get out from the State House,” he says. ■ . • ; The men who are leading the fight against Tillman—General John Bratton and Attorney-General Jo seph 11. Earle—are both representa tive of the dignified and courtly Cha plina 'gentlemen. General Bratton ignores Ti.lman, and pleads with, the people to stop on the brink of the political precipice before it is too late. ‘ General Earle, on the other hand, makes an aggressive light against Tillman. lie frequently in terrupts Tillman’s speeches and con tradicts his statements, so that the debate between them at times gets vety hot. But hot as times have been,-hotter are coming. Republi cans are the only cool people 'in the State.- They believe they have every thing to gain and nothing to lose. r H is Badly Needed! Tlie Chronicle believes that to-day the greatest need of- the pople of North Carolina fs an .efficient sys tem of public schools. This need is particulary felt in the country districts where often' they are,, so poor as to be almost os bad as no Schools. In some .districts ’ the public school fund is supplemented with individual contributions and the school is} made of great valuer. We are glad to/see that in some sections there is an awakening upon this need—greater by far than the reform of the tariff or the increase of the volume of the'-currency,-for without education no people can make the'progress ,that is possible to them, Several Alliances have spo-. ken, and we are glad to-dav to pnnt the following resolutions of the Lin coln county Alliance: ; - . .Resolved,-That the State Alli ance soon to meet at Asheville, N. C.,\be requested to memorialise the Legislature to double the tax for Public Schools. - ’■*.* i „.v'. :»*v- ■ • * . .**■ , •*} OHIO'S PROTEST. V| The Force Bill Denounced as a Revo lutionary Measure. If f Thousands of people assembled iii tbeState Ho«3e grounds at Colum bus, Ohio, Saturday evening, to hem the speeches made at the meetingte protest against the passage of; fli. Tiodge Federal Election bill. The Hon. Allen G. Thurman found rat the last raoinent that he could not be present, and Mayor Back, who presided in liis stead, read the fol io wing letter from him: “CoHMBUs,'- Ohio, August 2. - Messrs. Fritter, Hyneman, Duri and others—Dear Sirs: I much regrdt that severe illness that confines me closely to my house prevents my ac ceptance of your polite invitation to attend and speak at the meeting of citizens of Columbus to be held at the State House, to-night to give ex pression to their views of the Lodge bill, so called* that was passed by the House of Representatives in Congress and is now pending in the Senate. I would esteem it a great privilege to be permitted to say to my feliow-citizous what I think of that bill, and am sincerely sorry that I am prevented from deing so, either, orialiy or by writing. I must content myself by dictating to my amanuensis a tew brief sentences! and hope for a more favorable oppor tunity herefater to speak more fully. I have endeavored to study the hill carefully and impartially, and the more I have studied it the more ob noxious it seems to meb f do really believe that it is the worst measure bn the subject of elections ever in troduced into an American legisla ture. Under the pretense of purify ing the elections it provides an elab orate machinery by which the will of the people may be overthrown and the choice of their so-called Rep resentatives bo- made by a set of hire ling and irresponsible Fodoral oili cials, chosen without any agency of the people and acting under the or ders of a superior set of dictators, whose terms of office will be practi cally without limitation and who will of necessity be a body of irre sponsible partisans. And tosujpport this machinery an immense fuud, which it is said, ‘ may amcjiuit to millions, is ' to be created,-|o be drawn from the pockets of the poo ple—and to be Used as a bribery or corruption fund to ; perpetrate the rule of the party in power.' -f “Then the bill, if euactod iiilo a law, will serve to intensify #n4 per-, petuate sectionalism and rdefe preju dices, and to. undo much that may have been done to put an epd ta those deplorable evils. The jouhl ful, to say the least of them, Consti tutionality of some of the most im portant provisions of the bill and the immense and unprecedented stretch of Federal power involved in it can not fail to strike every student of tho Constitution, and alarm all ' who believe in the teachings aud the prac tice of the; fathers, - . “ ‘F Ffc F " “I am aot without hope that the bill will fail in the Senate.'* I sin cerely pray that thus a baneful revo lution in our government will be averted, I.-am, gentleman, with great respect, your friend and servant, ■ ' “Ali.es G.. 'Ehukman.” He also read the following letter: VMarion, Mass., July 13.—Lin coln Flitter, Esq.—Dear Sir: Your letter inviting iue to attend a mass meeting to be held in the city of Columbus for the purpose of puc iioly protesting against the passage of the federal election law now pending in Congtess has been for warded to me here, I have made positive engagements which pre vent my accepting your invitation. I do desire, however, to be entered as one of the protestants. I wish the indications Were not so n omerous that we have reached a stage of congressional recklessness* in •which the protests of the people have little weight. „2,‘ " d: \ "\| SyS "* “Yours very truly, .JJ'Jf -7: . “Groves Cleveland.” | "The following resolutions were adopted:. , 7 " ' vS-. * ,Jd <' S ' •r:‘P “Whereas we, as citizens of the State of Ohio, regard local .self-gov ernment and the control of our own elections as one of the cardinal and distinctive features of a free people; and believing it was never intended by the framers of the con* stitution of the United Sta'tes .that Congress should "in ally way inter fere with or uttempt " to regulate congressional elections when such gegulationa have already been made by the State; and ■ - “Whereas we believe that any such interference by Congress with the customs of our people that have remained unchanged for a century will be fraught with the greatest danger, Calculated to, lead to the alarming and dangerous conse quences, inevitably tend to dimin ish the belief of the people in their power to govern themselves, and thereby endanger the .stability and permanency of our institutions; 'agd- ; ■ " . - *r- r Whereas we believe that tbe L.Odge bill, lately ’passed by the national House of Representa tives and. now pending in the Unit ed States Senate, has incorpor ated in ite provisions all of these dangers; and ' f: Whereas we believe that, instead of insuring fair elections and an honest count, it is a measure under which the' most outrageous and hearfaced frauds are certain to be perpetrated to promote and perpetu ate? party asCeudency; and • ' “Whereas, If enacted--into a law and enforced, its provisions cannot help’but Interfere with and put un der control of partisan United States appointees all of our local elections, promote sectionalism and not^cormtr^but Tmiy - intensify, election frauds and thereby .be sub versive of institutions'; and . r:: I “Whereas webelieve that the ap pointment of United States'officers to .control these elections,' whose' tenure of office is for life, and who are not in any way responsible to the people, is such a radical depart ure from the taditious and customs of our • country, that such officers 'should simply be considered as ser vants of the people, that this provis ion of the Lodge bill cannot be too seyetely condemned; and ‘ ‘‘Whereas we believe , and de nounce as villainous that provision of this bill ‘which dispenses with our system of choosing impartial juries, and substitutes for it a, sys tem by which partisan juries may be chosen;’and “Whereas we believa that the leg islative, executive and judicial branches of our government should always be kept separate and distinct, we look with horror, upon a measure which makes both the legislative and executive branches dependent upon the judiary, and the judiciary made an instrument of partisanship, oppression and corruption; and, fur ther, we believe that no interference whatsoever with our state elections oy the general government should be countenanced.by any true-friend of our political institutions because of the dangers alluded to, and be cause that we most firmly belieue that ‘the intelligence, patriotism and discriminating justice of the American people’ in the States both North and.South, will, in the future, as have done in the past ‘ be the most powerful instrument that can be employed for remedying any evils that may exist in our election laws; therefore be it Resolved, That we denounce 'the passage of tips bill by the House of Representatives, and mosb-earneatly protest against its enactment by the Senate,” Hon. George L. Converse was the first speaker. He made a careful analysis of the bill, reading it by sections ahd explaining the provis ions of eaeji.. He was strong in his denunciation of the measure, which he characterized as one of the. most insidious atttempts to control feder al elections ever attempted by “any party in*the history of the .conntry. fie was followed hr Cupt, A, E-Lae, a prominent Republican, -whw' Op posts'the Will, A). D. H’irter «iiii Guv,\vh >ci spoke ill ») lung language j>ga,nst the 1,10 posed laW. ' - / ' % ■ - j Julian S. Carr 'er Governor.-. ..... Express Correspondence, »; In travelling from Chapel Hill to Hillsboro tlie writer had pointed oat to him a grave marked by handsome stones erected .to the memory of a Sunday school teacher of" an old Orjiiigexh«roh-hy * -pupil*-Julian S. Carr. The story of this charac teristic act has reminded me of some ideas which I have long entertained, and a vast number of North Caroli nians will endorse and welcome in print. While the Republican party through crime and reckless folly are giving us materal for a telling campaign, it is' impossible for the thinkers in the Democratic party to refrain from wondering who will ]handle them in the .campaign, and these cogitations, even thus early, ; materially shape the election of the mcn.# Julian o. (Jarr is htte not exist. Why - did not Col. Polk go on and state that whis key is placed in bonded warehouses because there is a tax on that ar cle.” ■ - . - Tire News and Observer has ta ken it.£<>r granted that all of our North Carolina people are familiar with the modus operandi of tlie in ternal revenue system, and fully understand what weight is to be given to the argument drawn: from the fact that spirits are stored in bonded warehouses. The .govern ment imposes a tax on whiskey about three times its value-, but it does not collect that tax until the article enters into consump tion. The whiskey is mndc under government supervision. . The tax is imposed, but it is not paid until the manufacturer gets ready to with draw his whiskey from under gov ernment supervision. Col. Polk calls that the government lending money to the manufacturers. The boot is entirely on the other leg. The government won’t let a man make spirits except under its super vision. After it js made,’ the gov ernment won't let him take it away until he has paid the tax, and it re quires him to pay the tax in three rears. The tax is three tihies as much as it costs t.o make-the stuff. Where the lendpsg comes' uy, we ion’t see. The government does not iolleet the tax as soon as the whis rey is made. That is all. Perhaps; ;he Colonel thinks the law imglrl so be that as soon as a distiller runsK nit a gallon of stuff, he should pay 1 ;he tax. Rut nevertheless there is ro fending of money in the tran^ iction. 4. THE 52N0 CONGRESS. Will the Democrats Have Control of it? Correspondent of Atlanta Journal. - - Washington, D. 0., August 1.— Them is a good deal of speculation about the officers of the next House just at this time. The presumption is strong that the Democrats w*l * contol that House, but tlieuitreduc tion of a number of Alliance mem bers may put it in the power of the . fatmer Representatives" to dictate* *® both the officers and the organization ■ 1 of committees. Every wheel works within a wheel in Washington, ort to use a very homely axoim, “kissing ; • goes by favor." The best opinions give the next House to the Demo crats, but these best opinions are all tiie while adding the Alliance- vote in'the Democratic columns, whereas _ the members may take it into their heads to. act independently and . run'- . a mower and reaper of their own. Indeed, it-may be inferred froth what the leaders the Alliance - ■ movement say that they feel bound, ; to no party, and that^hey propose to further legislation that no Democrat mm or Republican, either, of the present; Congress, will for on instant entor taiu. It is than to be presumed that the Democrats of the existing Congress, who may be returned tp the next, will change their views and , vote for a sub-Treasury bill or is it" to be thought that the Alliance men fresh from the hustings and flushed with victory are going to put away their pet schemes and drill with, their old allies? Neither proposi-: lion seems to be remarkable, and as . there i’s no middle ground, what course can the farmer representativOa purse if they do not assume the at titude of a third party, or independ- .’ 1. eat voters? 4;,v' These are questions that the wis- - est Democrats are asking themselves to-day. It makes no difference if the Democratic Executive Commit tees of the several districts meet and. ' > endorse the Alliance; nominations, as they are now doing in North Caro lina. That procedure is all well ' ~ enough, but each Alliance member of Congress, whether he be from the' \y North or from the South, will come ^ here impressed with the feeling, and rightfully so, that he is primarily and wholly indebted to his uiWn - J, constituency for his high seat, and his fii-st and last effort must be- ex- l pended in the interest of such legis- _ / lation as they may approve. . ^ It in the rule here that members who participate in caucus meetings must abide caucus decisions. How then can an Alliance member, fore warned as he certainly will be, enter nto caucus with the members “of * either of the old parties? This is a very serious reflection for the Demo crats; for a party that cannot count ¥ -i; \ a majority of nOses ip its ^caucus meetings cannot, as a matter of fact, ■. claim to organize the house or given ■;i|; 3 dirfcctfonito its business. The mem- ' burs of the Alliance legislative com mittee in this city assert that they- - will be able to muster forty voters at roll call of the fifty Second Con-. gress. They are modesty . men, I must say, and they hav.e been guilty „ of nO bragging so fay. If they are correct iu their estimation, or even ' partially correct, they will just as ' ; certainly dictate the organization of the noxt House of Congress as they ’! , are certain to dictate the organiza tion of the next House of Repre sentatives in Georgia. Their* meth od may be different but ‘ the result will be assure. E. P. Speeb. Csmes Out for Fiee Trad^. The Daily Champion, of Atcbi son, Kan. founded by (g^dited by the late Gov. John A. Martin, r.-,. i has come out squarely for free trade- : For thirty years it- has befu a stal wurfe Republican organ Jhe ac tive defender of the pro&SIS- idea. While still drmintaimug its uftpub mw ptjfp0le» ■dt says that i.j r • use .for- protection,, $?1fSet.--ealeru farmer, it ■ soye, ' no interest whatever fa a pro-, v , ive tariff. His interest ties in tVS direction of free trade, and v uvess to all market . wherever h'u .iV oroducts. msf hein. dpmam.1.”-- *. , . v,.-C A# ’■ •• -ylt • 4’Sfni: