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VOL. IK.
DUNN, HARNETT CO., THURSDAY, M Alt OB 16, 1893,
NO. 4
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WASHINGTON NEWS-
INTEISCSTIXO ITE3H FROM Till! NA
TIONAL CAPITAL.
Washington. D. C, March 9.
Secretary Carlisle this morning au
thorized the announcement that he
would exercise all pwcr arid dis
crction vested in him to uphold the
xrrdit or the government, and to
.main pun the parity of gold and sil-
-ver. This statement was made to
brush away the endltss string of ru
mors that have gain circulation about
what' he contemplates doing :-s to
maintaining the gold reserve intact,
as to issuing bonds, or as to paring
U. S. note and U S. Treasury notes
in silver, whcii the free gold wa ex
haunted, etc. The examp'e of Den
ver. Col,, in cftcring $1,000,000 in
gold yesterday for Treasury notes
was soon followed by Chicago bank
orv, who today offered $500,000 in
in "gold for U, S notes at the Treas
ury Department, it is thought
bankers in other cities will do like
wise. There is a feeling of relief as
to ihe gold balance at the Treasury,
and unless exports of gold Saturday
are unusua'ly heavj, of which no in
formation has yet been received, the
Trcaaury Department will" hare am
ple gold to supply demand.
The President. today sent the fol
lowing nominations to the Senato :
Josiah Qulncy, Massachusetts, to be
Assistant Secretary of State; Robert
A. Maxwell, New York, Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General; Isaac
"1, Gray, Indiana, Envoy Extraordi
nary and Minister of Plenipotentiary
of the United States to Mexico;
Patrick A. Collins, Massachusetts,
Consul General of the United States
"at London; Kdward Mansfield Shipp,
Virginia, Assistant Saryeon in the
Navy,
The Senate has resolved to adjourn
from loday to Monday, Meanwhile
ttjere is a controversy in progress as
to the propriety of receiving bills at
this special session.
Assistant Secretary oi the Navy
Soley, Admiral Ghcrardi and ' Coin
mondore Rum soy, a conference
lids morning at. the Navy Depart
ment regarding changing the date of
the naval review, and decided that the
rendezvous should take place in
Hampton Roads, April 17th. April
24th the fleet will sail for New York,
where the jeyiew will be held on the
27th oi April.
Secretary Carlisle today appointed
Ids sou, Logan Carlisle, Chief Clerk
of the Treasury, vice Stocks, resign
ed. The one great feature of interest
in political circles today is the visit
of Senator Darid 13. Hill to his great
est political lival, Pres:dcnt Cleve
land. Senator' Hill, cams to the
White Uouio this morning by &p
pointment, presumably arranged by
Congressman Rockwell, of New York,
during his visit to Cleveland Tues
day, That his visit was more than
the "mere perfunctory call is evident
by the length of the interview. It
lasted twenty minutes, and during
that time Mr. Cleveland received no
cards from the waiting politicians in
Cabinet Room,
Mr. Hill came early. The flow of
of office-seekers bad not begun to
flow into the White House whoa lie
arrived. Ho passed rapluly through
the hallway, in the public part of the
mansion, into ths room of Private
Secretary Thurber, who evidently had
been poatQ. for be ushered Mr. Hill
into the adjoining Exesutiyo office
without a momenl'ii delay. When
Mr, Hill entered the President's room
word was ssnt to the door-keeper to
ihe effeot that Mr. Cleveland was
very busily engaged and could not
se" tiny visitor for some time. As a
consequence, arriving delegations
soon fil'ed the Cabinet Kooni.and by
the time Mr, Hill li ft the ' White
House there were taore men than
seats in the apartment,
The interview was or course of a
strictly private character, but from
the facL-tkai ii -had previously ar
ranged, and from i:s length, thsre
can be but little doubt that it was of
more than a meie official or social
character.
President Cleveland this morning
sent to the Senate a message ' with
drawing the Hawaiian treaty, which
has been pending In the Senate,
Posimaster-General Bizzell is ac
credited with the announcement that
no local business men need app'.y
for post offices under his administra
tion. He objects to commissioning
local business men as postmaster for
the reason that the actual duties are
performed by irresponsible and often
incompetent clerks and substitutes.
Postmasters under Bizzell must
promise to devote their entire time
to the work and personally keep
st rict effijo hours.
Representative Springer, of Illi
nois, who was one of the President's
callers today, asked him if the rule
of not appointing men who had held
office under him four years ago was
to prevail as reported. The , Presi
dent replied in the affirmative and
when asked if the rule was inflexible,
Mr. Cleveland responded that it
would be so substantially, There
might be exceptional and extraordi
nary circumstances which might
cause some departures from it, but
he could not call to mind many pos
sibilities to justify a change from the
policy decided upon. Sir. Springer
asked if the rule was also to apply
to fourth class postoffio3. Mr, Cleve
land's response was that he had not
thought about that, but he gave the
decided impression that it would pre
vail to as great an extent as possi
ble with these Senate postmasters.
" Washington. March 9- Immed
iately after the adjouinment of the
Senate the Democratic caucus com
mute retired to th room of Senator
Ransom, ami remained, in session
until 3 o'clock,) at which time they
adjourned until tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock. It was reported today
that a general party caucus would be
held Saturda, but a member of the
committee said this awfternoon that if
the committee did hot make better
headway than it was now doing, there
would b5 no caucus on that day, as
the committee wuld have nothing
to roport. It is possible though that
the Committee on Privileges and
Elections may be determined upon
first, so that if there should be any
contests it can get to work nnou
them ss rapidly as" possible. There
was also a story out to-day that the
committeo intended reporting in
favor of a plan which should take all
patronage from the elective offices;
of Senate employees and cause all ap
pointments of Senate employees to
be made by the caucus direct, In re
lation to the matter, however, it is
known that the committee has lad
all it could do to consider the im
portant subjeoi of committees with
out going into the other matter of
the organization of the electvo of.
fleers of the Senate, and the reorgan
ization of the clerical and working
force. It may b3. though, that if
good result grow out of tomorrow's
session, the committee may call the
caucua together Saturday and make
it report. Nominations are now
being laid ove , and the new. mem
bers of the executive, branch of the
("Govern me -it cannot ha s ora in uin
jtil they hive bed confirms.!; and
cannot be confirmed until the -Senate
has organized its coram i Hoes.
Judging from the number of ap
plicants "for the four Assistant Post
master Generalship there will be a
hot fight for each of these positions.
The nane3 two more applicants for
'Te of -these Tifflces were presented
to the President this morning.! . Re
presentative Pearson, of Ohio, .poke
behalf of Ross J. Alexander, of
Bridgeport, Ohio, member of the
Stale Legislature, and introduced
Mr, Alexander to Mr. Cleveland.
Representative Washington, :of',' Ten
nessee, filed papers eulogistic of Col
onel James D. Tillman; of Shelby?
ville, Ttsnn. -
Editor Gill Shanklin.of the Evans
Ville, Indiana, Courier, called on the
President to'enter a protest against
the nomination of ex-Gov. Gray for
the Mexican Mission. It :s unnec
cessary to state that Mr. Shanklin
went away dissatisfied with the re
suit of his interview.
Robert A, Maxwell, nominated to
be fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, is a citizen of Bolvia, N. Y
and a man of means, having amass
ed considerable money as a nialster.
from which business he retired some
3T?ars ago. For twenty years he has
been prominent in, the politics of
New York, and Is recognized as a
Democrat of the old school, Max
well was one of the leading spirits in
the anti-snapper, convention, and has
long been a warm personal friend of
Cleveland and Postmaster Bizzell.
About a year ago Maxwell was; re
moved from the office of State Insur
ance Commissioner by Governor
Flower, and at that time it was
charged that his removal was due to
Maxwell's friendliness for Cleveland
The post he will fill will be similar to
that formerly occupied by Vice
President Stevenson, and now to be
vacated by K. G. Rathboue, of Ohio,
Congreesmen Cutchings and Allen j
of Mississippi, brought with. them
Capt.Joc Johnson and Mr. Robins,
of Alabama, and Col. .Win. M, nge,
of Corinth, Miss.J They spoke a
good word f r CoL Inges' candidcy
for the Guatemalan mission. Ex
Congres man Owen Scott, of fill.,
who defeated Mr, Howell, one of the
authors of the Federal election bill,
appeared in his own behalf. Illis
name has been mentioned in connec
tion with a number of positions, j but
he ia concentrating )iis ; en?rgiesj on
the office of public printer,
A few minutes after 12 o'clock Mr.
Cleveland went down into the "East
room and shook hands with several
hundred people.
THE UNDEMOCRATIC
M0CEACY . H
The legislature of North Carolina
a few days ago, engaged in the un-
democratio act of 'electing magis
trates A great list of about 1 3000
names, prepared by the committee.
was placed in nomination. In all,
there are about 4.000 magistrates in
the State. chosen in the same way
An inpreceptflble percentage of this
army of office-holders may belong to
some party other than the Democrat
ic party, but substantially the .whole
mass are Democrats.
They are elected by those who
have no personal knowledge of the
men, or their character and qualifl
cations. This would not perhaps be
so important were not 'the magis
trates chosen to transact Lome . bual-
teas. Their duties are iuriant
an J multifarious. They are close o
g vw... j jwj-.v ...
ingt.,Sayin their seleetum. Tbey
are appointed by membera of the
v.,v44 n-uuu, po.ii
committees, lhq legislature does
no more than to ratify nominations
made by irresponsible politicians.
The law which permit these things is
intolerant and undemocratic
Mr. Vance introduced a bill into
the lower hoiue to elect the tnagis
trates and commissioners of Bun
comoe county, by the people. He
said the members of the Alliance
favored its passage; but on a motion
of a Mr. Lowell, the bill was tabled
by a! overwhebning majority. The
Wishes of Air, Vance's constituents
were contemptuously ignored and he
was sat upon. Yet there was . really
no reason jsly the people of Bun
combe shou'd be favored any more
than those of any other county.
Before another general election
takes place the magistrates of Bin
combe, and of every other county in
North Carolina, will cbose new
county commissioners. These will
all be Democrats. The commission
ers will appoint registrars in eyery
precinct of the State, who will all be
Democrats, .The Commissioners will
also select judges of election for
every polling place. The Demo
crats will have control of-e very reg
istration book, and of every election.
board, in every precinct in ninety
six counties.
Under the operation of thif unjust
system, another General Assembly
of JDemocrats will be elected or rath
er counted in in 1894, Thst legisla
ture, under the direction of local po
litic1. ins, will elect 13,000 more Dem
ocratic masistratos. The new set of
magistrates will help to elect a new
set of Democratic county commis
Moncrs and 6o o, and so on. Thus
tiie Democrats hope and aim to re
tain possession of the State govern
ment, and of the local governments
nf the counties. All of this is elear
ly undemocratic.
In spite of these infamous laws
the People's party, in North Caro
Una. polled 47,00(Tvote3 in the late
election, that is. the canvassing
boards permitted them to be counted,
anddt was so announced. If any
votes were suppressed by tho Demo
cratic election officers.it is known
in tue various precincts. With this
one sided election machinery, in the
nanus or ueinocratie oji.ciaiv u was
possible to suppress votes; aud it was
done by the wholesale. '.
But in spite of unjust laws, the
People's party, if true to itself, will
grow and wax exceeding strong and
will never give up the fight until
Home Rule shall be established.
The time will come when bills like
that introduoal by Mr. Vance will
not be tabled "by an overwhelming
maJoIity.,, There will be a free bai
lott and a fair count in every county,
town, city and preclnot in North
Carolina, The peoplg will do fight.
The Democratic machine may take
warning, Clinton Caucusian.
A E0MAHTIU UABEIAGE.
TUB BELLS OF A MOUTH CAROLE! A
TOWN WXDS A LOTOIAiilAK.
Among the arrivals at the hotels
In this city rtcantly was a cospls
who registered m W. B. Turcrja tscl
wife, of Farmervllle, La, Thsre wsj
aoroathlng saggestlre of a rom&ccs
In their comp&nionkUp, aid cpoa
inquiry the story, which Is rather &a
intereiting one came oat.
j TIse bride fur such she
j Kiama ,rjvlWt of QId Forlf y
sae u a h!.,r.d.', m-niaietrical In
iTorin aU4noautfiu iu fiuro; w
educated, and wa? for some years a
1 bene of the viU.v-e. She could eaaU
ly have had her pick of the young
beaux of the placs, (Kit she was too
-romantically inclined to be coatsnV
with a courtship of the ordinary
kind and turned deaf car to til.
thsir protestations. She " decide ?
some six months ago to ad
vertise in a matrimonial newspaper
for a husband and received replies
from a number of men, all of wbsa
sent their photographs, in coxapllanca
with the request of lllss Emma.
From among the hundreds or isor?
who answered her. ad rtrtissaeat sha
selected two, with whoa the esrres
ponded. To all the others cha rd
turned their p let art o end ' ro
further ccrrtspondence tocit pltcs
The two favored men. were tv. U.
Turntge, of Firtaerville, La csd
Lewis Lf agness, of Cleveland. cat&nty
N. Cr It appears that bstwesa jthesar
two Miss Cm ma did not know clicb
one she preferred, judginj frco thsir
letters and pbetograpbs, Bh did
not se either until Saturday Itst, tta
10th iasU
The two suiters seen to have besa
of the tarns mind and to have cone
to the same cdnelcslon to pay thsir
fair coi respondent a yitit at the came
time, and bowh were on tbs came train
and arrived in Old Fort oa Saturday
last. They did not know each otfear
nor did they become acquainted as
they traveled together. Both called
on Miss Bradley shortly after they
arriyed in Old Fort and were Identi
fied by their photographs prsviouily
sent.
When they fcasen upon the object
of thtir correspondence both were
deeply smitten, and each urgtd his
suit with all the force be could com
mand. Miss Emma was in cucb dis
tress of mind and could not dserds,
Mr. Tarnage is fifty years old, slight
ly humpbacked, and sot by any
means a bandsorae Dan, Mr. U agness
is twenty-five years old and htpd
some. '
Both were left in doubt during
Saturday night.. Mis Kmraa ia said ,
to have deliberated much of the
night. In the morning eha first seat
for Mr. Magnets and told hi in that
&le had prayerfully considered tho .
addrce.of himself and Mr. Tar
nage and decided to uarry the lattf rK
Mr. Madness wa overwhelmed with
grief, and bis disappointment was sa .
great that be took the first train tbiy
dsy for the far West, Instead; of ?f'
turning to his hoc ia Clvrl&ti
county i
ft
Mr. Turnge was then csnt to tcij
was informed by Miss EtstfVr
bad concluded to carry Ua " clisc--
ever he desired. The happy ' cC.
named that very day, and to ti
ternoon they took the train ibr thlL
place and stopped at tha Erjle
Hotel. II i m Bradley ia well known
here, and It wte csca tscTn tbrt d3
was to be msirird. Tta llzzzzi cia
readily obutcM end tio Her, Dr.
11. II. iidrca. cf Xto UilLX
church, ctrritd tben la th3prtsv
ecce cf e Ui3 ccsbtrcf ptcb zltif
bid ftsesbled, Oa tl3 csrt ttfi
tha brfda aad brtdrjTa lift tzx tj
kc3 ct t9 triircca, d Fcrr
TWe, Ia, t-ll tho terra cf rclrJra
asd a tbowcr cf rise.
Thsy c peat a fnr diyt In tha city
aad thsa ccatlactd thsir Jssrss7 ta
thtir futcre hosf-lTftr Orhisa
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