SANFOBB, NOBTHOAEOLINA,'WEDNESDAY. OOTOBKR is IRflft
A BRIEF
of the. Force Bill that Passed the
■ 0i .,..;0r- House, %,0, jv,»
Seif'S nnd Observer..
The Supervisors and Deputies
bye;* - “ t r * " ..
■ 1; To attend to all registrations.
1 To challenge the right of any
person tp register and the right of
any person registered to continue
to register and to requite the officer
.. having4p9^ol^JiS~Igg'Sl.r4 bogk
to mark the name of a person chal
lenged. 0 ‘
3. To inspect the lists of voters
in cases where registration * is not
required to be, made personally, and
all papers pertaining thereto,' and
to make foil copies oi all papers
-relating thereto. ■■■■’-■ ■ .
4. To attend wherever - electors
personally appear for registration
and to keep full, record of all pro
ceedings and be present at all places
where elections are holding and
votes ate counting.; *'*» *•'.." 1
: „&l To inspect and ' hold 1 Under
strict scrutiny - all registry books,
check lists, tallies, returns, and all
S other papers connected with regis
tration or election', and to affix tlieir
signatures to every page of such
Mf, papers whenever they,.deem it l.taM*
M essary to do so, in such a manner as
« will enable them subsequently to
detect and expose the wrongful re-'
| uiovat of any itame or nanvet
0. To verify registration in cities
hati^5,000 or more inhabitants
by house-to-house canvass.
* 7. -To pass upon the qualfica
tious Of challenged voters, whenev
er State officers refuse to do it, and
]n case the State officers refuse, to
receive the ballot of any person
judged by the supervisors to be
qualified to vote, the supervisors
: arc to receive such., vote and put
into the ballot box, making a ree
• owl In each case.
8. To personally inspect ballot
boxes before polls are opened , to sec
that they are empty.
9. To keep poll lists of those
voting, the list to - be -made when
registration has occurred by cheek
ing names of voters upon the regis
tration book; to keep record of voles
r ' rejected by local officers; to receive
- -such rejected ballots as may be ten
dered thehi, and to carefully mark
' Pnd preserve them. “-r,; ,J, ,;^r y,;
> fO. To make, certify, .and tot-.
.> ward all statements, certificates,
i: -Jtnd returns^ provided for by law,
ft : and those called for by the Chief
Supervisor, ^ '
11. To make, iu. cities of 2Q.OOO
or more inhabitants, houre-to-house
canvasses, when ordered so to do,
V ‘"and to return full lists of all the
male inhabitants, with statements
of the qualifications as a voter of
W each,'" .
S-s* ‘ id?* To make in such cities, when
k.:brdqfedso*tc do, full," lists of pH
|' naiufalized persona ’ and all the
1 s.. facts pertaining to the naturaliza
35 tionofeach,
13. To show voters into what
>• —boxes ^ballots for . Congressmen
" s'nouldbe placed. ‘;
3 ,. ‘ Id. To watfeij^'natnraiization and
r;-.^.id in preventing fraud therein, and
' ' to have, at all times, free access to
;*■> all rooms where, naturalization is
f going on. This specification np
only to such “discreet or spe
cial supervisors” as may be selected
for the duty in towns or cities hav
ing 20,000 or more inhabitants, but
it may, in the discretion of the Chief
SupervisoMjirt;: apply > in', smaller
. filaoest'
. Elaborate directions are given for
Sf Clhe counting of votes. The -ivotes
are to be counted both by - the looal
; >1 inspectors and by the Federal super
pervisors. When the two sets of
officer*; agree' on announcement of
the recall it tb fie made. .,!& the
o;!; oyent of a disagreement the in
spectors ahull state that there has
: : been a disagreement,- bat that by
_ their computation the_resiilt is sc
and so. TArsEatemcnt must then la
made by the supervisors - ehoWmjj
they compute the result to be.
i :;No c8ftAfr§at$ Dor/ ^tujpjv ; O&the
findl result of the cast ’foj
% CongreeeuipnjiMjJbfi. made' mtf
the final count ahull have been.com
pleted on all the ballots cast for
every other officer, and if local in
spectors fiud ballots for Congress
man in other boxes than the one
set apart for Congressman ballots
they, are to deliver them to the 'su
pervisors, who are to put them at
once into an envelope, with a state
ment upon it showing . whence the
ballots came.
- When there is auexcessive hum
•issrTsnaiwfer^igigf^iSirn?
the ballot box, the box is to be well
shaken Up, after which as many
ballots are to he drawn out as are
excessive, a blindfolded1 supervisor
and a blindfolded inspector alter
nating in withdrawing the ballots,
the whole performance to be public.
The canvass of the Votes complet
ed, each set of officers is . to make
up its returns according to the law
governing it. The supervisors will
make up their returns in duplicate,
forwarding one set of papers to tile
chief Supervisor, the other to tile
clerk of the the court. Xu prepar
ing their returns; tlie supervisors are
required "to exercise great care, and
to ruttjce rftalty precautions to pre
vent subsequent.attempts at fraud;
Before sending-off; their returns
they are to compare all of fbeir
statements and certificates with
those prepared by the inspectors,
and to.note any differences which
may appear. The returns forward
ed to the chief supervisors are im
mediately opened and tiled in ■ ■■ his
office; the*other set remains, in the
office of the circuit cleric, sealed,
until it* is called for* by the proper
canvassing board.
• To make provision for’ cases of
failure upon'the part of local , offi
cers to open polls it is ordered that
whenever at any place polls are-not
opened witlim fin our of the time
when they should be opened tlm su
MU^efw-sbfttl procecdtS hold an dee
tfdft for Congressman, conducting
it in accordance with the state laws;
except as to those respects in which
the state law is superceded by Fed
eral law.
It is provided that on or before
Sept. 1st of this year each .Chief
Supervisor must cause a judge of
the Circuit Court within the juris
diction* of which hist Sphere of duty
lies to be necessary for court io be
opened to consider matters pertain
ing to congressional elections, and
the court must he opened on or be
fere Oct. 1st, and- must within ten
days of its opening appoint for each
State within the judicial district
three persons to be known as the
United States canvassers of the con
gressional vote witlim an for the
State for which they are appointed.
These are to remain in office so long
.as faithful and capable 'and no more
than two shall be of the same partju
They are to receive $15 a day while
actually engaged and $5 . a day for
their personal expenses, and may
have a clerk at $10 a day and expen
ses. *,'*;• 'UUU .V*
, These canvassers are to convene
November 15th, unless that day
falls upon Sunday, in which ease
they witj convene one* day later
They will canvass and tabulate the
returns from the supervisors, and
the determination fvhich they may
arrive at as to each Congressional
district shall be at or.ee made pnh
lic, and a declaration shall be made
in triplicate, One to be filled with
the Chief Supervisor under whose
direction the election was held, one
to be forwarded to the person found
to be. elected, the third to he sent
to the Clerk of the House of. Rep
resentatives. •'-W‘
• vv nen tnc persons aeciavea to tie
elected by the Federal. canvassers is
,n<Jt • lie person found .to be .elected
■by the State canvassers, the Clerk
or the House of Representatives is
required tft place upon the roll of
the House the name of the person
declared elected by the Federal
hoard,"and is subject tb both line
and imprisonment if die neglects to
do tbisi; - ■ - ----- • f. - ;
'J'ii:' —;'«*■ r:jgr.T -I.
Why the South is Fooft
oh<( ObietoFt. -
There are many drains upon the
Smith that contribute tothcimpoY.
"erishnient of her. people.; Anioiip
them is the amount we pay for man
ufaetured articles that are not, made
at the South; These articles are the
products of Northern factories, and
when we pay for them we pay not
merely the cost of the raw material,
the freight and the profits of "the
manufacturer and the merfclianty
hut also the cost of mnnfactnrerlng.
This latter embraces the' wages of
the operatives,. These wages aver
age, say two dollars a day, or $50 a
month, while the wages of our
Southern bands average teu dollars
a month. To be sure the South,' as.
a section, losses money heavily- by
that operation. There is another
drain. We pay our part of the Fed
eral taxes and get but little bach,
while there is disbursed at the North
not only what that- section • pays,
but also a large part of what we pay.
'The expenses of the government arc;
say $450,000,0(30, of 'which the
South pays perhaps $150,000,000,
and gets ' back say $25 000,000.
Here we “ha ve an annual drain of
$125,000,000, This is the interest
on a mortgage debt of two billion
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; ■'-And 'so the South is virtually un
der a governmental mortgage to
the North of, two billion of dollars,
and the payment pf the interest an
imal ly drains ns:; Hut -we never
had the benefit of the principal. It
is as if wepaid that sum as tribute
money.
And so we.arc hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the Northern
people to that extent. We assume
that Northern statesmen take that
view of the matter and give such
shape to legislation as wijl make us
bear the burden for the benefit of
their section'. This is wbut'wp have
called the Northern policy. It is
apparently kept always in view.--It
Is ilever lost sight of, but is pressed
further year by year. To illustrate
ho-iv itris’ SMJ®'fi»jiIIsiiWTeffiflSSeF Tor i
a moment the history of the pension
business. In 1877 tire pensions
amounted to 125,060,000. Of that
the South paid about one third and
got back about one tenth, , Since
then the pensions liave been gradu
ally jiicreased until next year They
will fife $i86,000,000; of which ’ the
South will pay one third, say $G0.
,000,000, and get back probably ?(>,
000,000. ~ :
In some Congressional districts
at the.North there will be distributed
among the peoplo ofthe district one
million dollars for pensions! Sup
posa now that there should be given
without any consideration whatever,
one million dollars to the people of
this Congressional district this year,
and every year! Just a donation—
pouring the money among the folks
in a constant stream! Don't you
know our people would soon be
come rich? And if they became
rich would not those who gave the
money become poor,- ,
So it materially is. . The South
pays more than $50,000,000 a year
tribute to the. Federal soldiers all
over tlie North and that keeps" us
impoverished. Let us see. We
make 7,000,000 bales -.of cotton
which at $45 a bale would be worth
$ai5,000,000. Now what profit does
a farmer make on his crop ? After
paying expenses does he have one
bale over out of six? If he make^
sixty Bales, can lie sell fifty and'pay
all his expenses and have,ten ovey
clear profit? We say ito; but sup
pose he cam V "N>., .
Then that would leave about $50,?
000,000 clear profit on our cotton
crop. Amt we have to. pay: that
amount to the North for pensions
to tb« Northern soldiers. We re
tain nothing as the result, of our la
bor. ‘ Such are some of the reasons
why the South continues poor; the
high wages we pay to the Nora,
them factory hands when we .buy
Northern goods, and the aruouut we
pay for pensions.
A careful consideration of the
subject will show that virtually the
South is struggling under a mort
gage of many billions
.North..:'.vj '.'‘..v..
l '-Nu won^er we never getTthead in
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NOT A POUTIAL DOCUMENT,
■ ' - ■. -' f • .
But Highly Instructive to Those Who
Think the Tariff is'not a Tax.
The only comment which it.seems
necessary to make on tjo? subjoined
eirculafis'that contained Jin tlie let
ter of transmittal, whijeh'the infor
mation' is vouchsafed -that ‘‘the
house was established |by the late
Wilder D. Poster, for miny years
from this district. Although dead
his name is still at the head of the
firm and his estate is a partner.” .«
XOSTER, STEVENS, & GO.
Oka fin Rapids. Mich., Sept. 9.—
Gentlemen :'As important and rath
er radical advances in prices in some
articlestn" the hardware line are
daily taking place we wish jto say a
few Words so you may more fully,
understand the situation and not
think that the jobber is overcharg
ing.
AXES.
There is not but one axe compa
ny in the United States, and that is
Called the American Axe and Tool
Company, with headquarters at
Pittsburg. This company has pur
chased outright every mfe factory in
'the country of any importance, and
thus controlling the prices on an av
erage $1 a dozen. This company
also Compose the manufacture of
axe polls, or the heads of axes, the
machinery of : which ~is patented
and this enables it to' keep ' * th.e
price on polls so high no . oue else
can: afford to-make axes. ■
6AWS—HARD AJSD CROSS CRT. i
In this industry the Seme forces
have beeu at work, and to-day there
are only two companies which man
facture hardware where there were
a dozen four months ago.’ Prices in
this line of goods have advanced
from-10 to 50 per cent. In cross
eiitslt is tlie same,' By « consolida
tion of interests prices have advan
ced from four to eight clnfs’a foot.
' ' - ' ■ LEAD. t
Everything made of lead has ta
ken a decided advance, owing to re
cent decisions oil the ad witting of
.Mexican ore into this country, as
well as by.couibiuatio.ns of manu
factures. Shot, lead pipe, pig,, lead,
solder, babbit metal have all ad
vanced, and may go still higher.
The passage of tlve silver bill
SlSo affects all articles made of or
coated with silver. _ In the hard
ware line plated knives and forks,
spoons, &c., will be affected and ad
vances made. . .... .
. ns.
T lie preseu t tariff on sheet tin is
one cent a pound and the McKinley
tariff bill, which, will no doubt pass
both houses of Congress,“'advances
the dutry to 2 2-10 cents a pound.
This must, of course, advance tin
from $1.25 to $3 a box, according
to the weight of said box. This ad
vance on sheet tin will affect all ar
ticles of tinware, and advances will
be made all along the line. ?
Tin-in New York has already ad
vaneed-from 50 cents, to $1 a box
and is growing stronger .each day,
as the certainty of the - passage of
the McKinley tariff bill becomes
more assured. Not ft box of tin is
.made in this country, notwithstand
which tin has declined in price
from $1.50 to $4.75- a box during
the last twenty-five years. -; -j
. i GLASS. ■' •( .
The window-glass market of this
country, fa practically in the hands
of two‘large companies, who work
in harmony ns to prices, which lias
resulted in a steady advance for the
last year, averaging‘10 percent; -
ZINC OR STOVE BOAEDS.
The A (Ituis & Westlake. Company,
A. 1. Origgr, Sidney Shepard. & C’o„
Palmer »Manufacturing4-JConipany,
H. Uendlorf & Co., Central Stamp
ing Company, W. H. Swwney Man
ufacturing Company—aft j of the
above named firms were animus for
Our business last year,Jbi;f piMV they
have all sold out' to the l.-Vine^ican
Btove Board, Company, vfiMi offices
•iii New York and Chicago,*; and a
general advance on -ail times has
taken place, JLaat. ycar
buy a 28-inch Square paper-lined
zihte for 36 cents. This year the
same' thing costs you, 72 cents—an
advance of 100 per cent.
AMMUNITION. -
Tlie price is controlled by a com
bination, and you have! to'pay the
price or go without.
POWDER. .
.The same—but one price, and
that nearly double, wliat it was., two
years ago. __ . j .
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' .. 6UHM ARX, . ,J .
We call your attention to these
matters so you vyill understand why
on nearly every invoice you get you
will find something higher than it
was before.
The tendency of the times seems
to be consolidation, . thus enabling
large corporations to produce the
goods cheaper and sell them at a
higher price. ” We fail to find,
however, in all the consolidation of
various lines of-goods a single in
stance, notwithstanding the ad
vance they put on goods, where
they have-advanced the pay of
labor a cent. If the consumer who
purchases last does not pay this in
creased cost we do not know who
does.- If he reaps any personal ben
efit from it we would like to know
where it comes in. This is not a
political document, but a fair state
ment of the condition of certain
lines of business as we daily come
in contact with the
.jFosTEB, Stevens & Co-,
■■ Hardware Merchants.
Look on That Picture and Then on
This .. *
-Vettf Torts Herald.
A gentleman writes tq the Herald
in the following strain:—
“I am a poor man; one of the des
pised Knights of tabor. My op
portunities for study have been few
and my opinions on matters as com
prehensive as the McKinley bill
are therefore without weight.
Won’t you kindly answer these two
questions:—Will the effect of that
bill be to restrict the market for
American products? And if it will
be, is not that an injury rather than
a benefit to the country?”
Mighty-important questions these,
but they are easily answered and
the answer wall not.be favorable to
the hill. / _
KinsT - If you raise the price of a
given article you thereby decrease
the demand for it. If people can
get it at a cheap rate they will hoy
it; if it is dear they will manage to
do without it. This is one oi the
axioms of supply and demand.
Make woolen goods, for instance,
so plentiful'that they come within
reach of everybody’s purse and ev
erybody will buy them, because
woolen is necessary to health in the
winter’s cold._Make tliemso Scarce
that they become dear and you at
once put tbeni out of reach of the
wage earning class, which is the
largest class in all communities.
Second;—If the demand is light
because the goods cost too mucin
then the manufacturer very natur
ally and properly—for he doesn’t
pretend to bn a philanthropist—runs
his mil 1 on three q 11 after tim e' a mi
consequently on three quarter wag
es. He can’t afford to pile up a loss,
and so informs fifty per cent of his
men that ho doesn't need them any
longer. ■ ", — " - ' . - 1 :
I here y<jn liavn, say; five hundred
men thrown Out of work because
the price of woolen goods (is so dear
that people will do without them
as much as possible.
Third—Now extend the range of
high prices. Make the general cost
of. living clearer. A Settle more
must be paid for this) that and the
other article, of household comfort,
a few more cqnts more for every
kitchen utensil, a few shillings more
for the. bod blankets, foe the baby
chothes, and sb forth and" so forthi
up til the whole domain is ..covered,
what then?
. Why, that a thousand, manufact
urers limit their product, for there is
HD“SetrsWTfficrna profit in flobdihg
the market. . Then these' . same
.manufactures discharge a- part of
their working force, and the unem
ployed are found, ih every jnpoV" and
corner, of the country,-.—
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That is precisely the. effect of the
McKinley bill, and yon caii it
with- pne eyes shut.!-:
Now, took at the other side, gap
pose the Democratic policy -of -d
world’s market for American man
ufacturers were established, what
would happen ? We could undersell
any country in Christiandom,£or we
hate the machinery, the genius, the
enterprise and the educated labor.
The motto would then be cheap
goods, large sates and small ’ profits.
• Start tip all your mills, for what
you make is within everybody’s
reach. lion them long- hours.
Dduble the number of hands, for
thebe is brisk trade and. a heavy de
mand. You can afford to pay fair
wages. The great army of idlers
who are wilhug to work, but can’t
igatdt todo, are eomfo i table, weil
housed, well fed well clothed, happy
and contented. This everlasting
warfare between capital and labor
settles itself, for all the men in the
country are so busy that they can
not stop; to grumble. ' 4"
A big market, plenty of work f01
all expect the criminal and lazy, a
general bustling, rustling, hurrying,
scurrying time—what more do men
want, and what is there better on
the the planet to have.
Can you get such a condition of
affairs out of the McKinly bill, with
■its huge proh'its for the trust and
monopoly and all creation full of
unemployed men ? As well try to
squeeze sunlight out of a cucumber.
But giye us cheap goods and plen
ty of them, fait wages and work for
alt, and you are as close to .mellcn
nial prosperity as circumstances per
mit. You can’t have these things,
though, under Republican admin
istration. 4
Livingston Still Holds that the Sub
Treasury Bill is Feasible.
Cor. Wll. -Messenger » '• t. - -
Your correspondent yesterifay
afternoon heard a part of Col. Liv
ingston’s! speech on the Alliance
questions. It was almost entirely a
sketch of the sub-treasury plan,
i Livingston said he would vote for
no man, not even his own. father,
who would not support a sub
treasury bill. A sub-treasury should
be. in each State! The- farmers’
should put the products in their
own warehouse or else utilize those
built for them. Money should be
lent by the Government, at 1 per
cent, a year on these products thus
stored. He defied his auditors - to
show anything undemocratic in a
bill which carried out the ideas of
Jefferson, Calhoun, Abraham Lin
coln, S. P. Chase and other great
Democratic and Republican leaders
for fifty years past. The bill be
fore Congress is the outgrowth of
this plan.' If that bill will not an
swer the purpose another should
be drawn.. But the Alliance will
not give up the plan, and if a betT
ter bill is not put forward it will
fight the present one right through
Congress just as it is. He called on
all classes to help the farmers and
buuiu bu uispei any prejudices-;
they Might have against the Alliance.
The fight is between the money:
power and the people; not between
the farmers and the lawyers and
merchants. Every effort of the
Alliance to improve the condition
of the farmer has Been successful,
as the two years’ work plainly
'shows. The mosses of * the people
are better informed, they take four
times as many newspapers as they
did in the Sooth three years- ago;
they have paid more debts in the
past two years than in sir* years
previous; and there is a notable in
crease in the val ue of property in
every county in North Carolina.
The lawyers and the wholesale mer
chants of Georgia "“are coming to
the Alliance views. There are three
parties now in Georgia—the Demo
cratic, Republican and Alliance—
and the Alliance party1 will sweep
the State like- a cyclone, while actu
ally the Republican party will there
get more votes than the Democratic.
In conclusion he argued the Alliance
men were neve^ to “brag” oil what
they had done and anil do.. Ue
V* Vf
was sorry for them if they did so,
lor it would be their ruin. The >
only tear of tjie Alliance is of diss
ension in its own ranks. #ol. Liv
ingston is the lecturer of the Na
tional Alliance. ■
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The Wall Street Hobgoblin. J
the Oxford Day, of Monday, after
noon, these remarks are taken: “A
reporter of the /kty heArd just, one
remark in Col. Polk’s speech to-day^i V3
It was about this: ‘Brother- Alii—,
anc&men, the issue of this campaign.
is the people vs. Wall street and its
monopolies.’ And truer words were v
never uttered.1*. , _ . , \ '' *%
Why should the people be against i
Wall street? Wall street simply
represents the money centre of the
nation, and it is that only because it $
is the market centre also. There ,
must needs be one great market
centre, and it will have consequent
evils; but for that,'there is no good
reason why the people should be
educated to wnr on that market, or
capital. ■■
Charlotte Chronicle*
Prom that really excellent
Whilst a majority of the capilalits*
of this nation are Republicans, it is
not the principle of Democracy to
wage-war on capital or capitalists; y
and it is unwholesome politics to un- ^
dertako to day down a gauge between
labor and capital.
The advantages that capital re- i
ceives in this country to the hurt of1
labor, are in the tariff bill;, don’t
war on capital, for that’s what the j
poorest of us are striving for, bat
turn your guns on the party that
passed the McKinley bill. Somepeo- '
pie in Wall street helped to pnt in
power the party that passed the tar
iff hill, but W all street did not. As
the market and money centve of tlwr
country, there is nothing the matter ; w
with Wall street.
Mr. Wilkinson is a Gentleman.
Syracuse, N. Y., Oct., 7.—Alfred"
Wilkinson was-seen today in regard
to the statement that his engage
ment with Miss Winnie Davis bad \}
been broken. - ;>■:
Mr. Wilkinson said that as he'
had not read what the newspapers ,
had said about -the matter, ha was ^
not competent to reply, and' fur
tlier. than that, if he had, it was a.
subject on' which he could not be
interviewed anyway. He added, '
hesitatingly.
“If Miss Davis has broken off the . *|
engagement, I have no doubt but
that she had good reasons for do
mg SO. y
He then changed the' subject of
conversation. • > .
(We do not think that it was
wise in Miss Davis to have enter
tained the idea, of marrying and !iv«
ing permanently at the North. Else
where her course in life would be
like that of any other woman; at
the North, the daughter of Mr.
Davis would bje a rose in a bed of
lilies—liardly a lily on a bed of
roses!)
- Personal Items.
The Goldsboro Argus learns that;
the Hon. l?. M. Simmons, of New
Berne, ex-Congressman from the
second (or black) district, is going
to Winston to locate and practice
law.-.- ! - . ,
Gen. Johnstone Jones, late Adju
tant General of North Carolina,
moved, last year, to San Diego, Cal.,
and was last week nominated there
as the Democratic candidate for dis
trict attorney. -i
Judge Thurman, of Ohio, will b£
77 years old on the 13th of Novem
ber, when a banquet will be given
him by the Thurman Club of Cleve
land. Ex-president Cleveland has
accepted an invitation to be pres
ent;
It is reported in Waahingtou tjhat
ex-Presidentr. Rutherford B. Hayes
is to be married to a Virginia lady
whom he- met» few months ago
while she was on a visit: tor Ohio;
She is a widow and a remarkably
handsome woman. • '
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