North Carolina Newspapers

-THE- T vrin 't A: Pittman, Proprietors. tf B ' . "PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAJT WHICH IS GOOD." VOL. V. DUNN, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, JUNE, 19 1895. i $1.00 Per Yeir In Aavapco. i, . r ; : NO 23 I j tug SiiiiHtfiM , V ON AN DOYLE. the twitch of his lip that V. 'rufjrle g-oing- on within I iv , very important matter, i. at last.- 'You must not Tit: ; ! anyone about it, ann I :: ;tr:iin boon.' i later he and his friend came to my hut in the - i.iirht with a lantern. - ..u just to let Capt. Mor- ;. t story from your own . siii he. ! it as I had told it before. - mu-, eh?' said he. 'It's i t act upon?' 1 : -fan nodded. :. re. Sinall,' said the major. . . u talking- it over, my -jud , and we have come to ii that this secret of yours ivcrniucnt matter, after ;i private concern of your , cf course you 'have the .-i..sinf of as you think ; 1 ! question is, what price . .. k for it? ..We might be in-.ik- it up, and at least look could agree as to terms.' .. "-peak in a cool, careless h i- t ves were shining- with .uiil greed, j :i t that, gentlemen,'. I an . '. n;r also to bo cool, but feel iv.l ;i he did, "there is only :t which a man iu my posi "i ;ikc I shall want you to . ,n v freedom, and to help my ..anions to theirs. We shall you "into partnership, and a lifth share to ! divide be laid he. A fifth share! t vi ry tempting-.' .ii Id come to fifty thousand M I. i ..v can we g-ain your free . t .know very well thai, you risibility.-' T.v. I v. . an li-': -I n ; It I ! v:. Ta''' j.'i H' 1 .1. . !.:!!"' :,t..i. I.-tri.-i .ay. , .vtr-''. !' nr i-:nv ;.n c;i"t us- ' IT'.' -'.' ! It'.V.V.li v Il'iiri Oat i: "it -v il'err. -. r.n- ! Jl.ciIU . 1 ' k ;ni in of the sort,' I answered. Lav.- lh..u.urht it all out to the last de tail. Tii- only bar to our escape is ihat iw .-an ret no ooat nt for tne voy- anl no provisions to last us for so a ii:ii.-.. There are plenty of little yachts- and yawls at Calcutta r Ma ir.i 'u hicli would serve our turn uvil. 1 you bring one -over. We -hail tM!Lrt'c to get aboard her by i.L'ht. !u..l if you will drop us on any lie in nan coast you. win huvi; , o i. i y :-..j)c your part of the bargain.' J "If Mn-rc were only one,' he said. , i ,ir M.ic or nil, i ;i navv ci i-u. tic have sv...rn it. The four of us must al- act I";'.-; iii-r.'- " ! . 'V.'ii i'i.'. M..r-t;in,' said he, 'Small is a !iri u i f hi word. I'lti.-li from his friends i He does not 1 think w liki v v. ry u i 11 t rust him.' - If Mvcrt-'i wniM v.in.-lv. "Y, must. I i flirty business,' the other au "Vct, as you say, the money ave our commissions har.d- Small,' said the major, 'we pose. try and meet you. We miM lit yur Mo hid. ai.a and 1 :. of course, test the truth of . Tell me where the box is I shall get leave of absence u k to India in the monthly n-Ii. -f -hoat t- inquire into the affair.' '"Not o fast," said I, growing colder a"s he is., hot. T imist have the con-i-ent of my three comrades. I tell you that it i f. ur or none with us.' -N'.iix'tisc'." he broke in. 'What have three Mack fellows to do with our ili.Teenicnt'.'" ': T.la't k or blue,' said I, 'they are in with ui, . and we all go together. "VYi li. the matter ended b3 a second raeetin r. at which Mahomet Singh, Ab dullah khan and Dost Akbar were all present. We talked the matter over Vain, an.l at last we came to an ar- ninee-u. -nt. We were to provide both hV nfl-f.-r with charts of the part of the'Ajrra fort and mark the place in the wail where the treasure was hid. Maj.hoiti.' was to go to India to test our story.. If he found the box he was t leave.it there, to send out a small va;-ht provisioned for a, "voyage, which "asto-lie ,it Rutland island, and to ,vhii :h we were ii make our way, and finally to return to his duties. Capt. V .. . . m , M ti.wa men to anpiy ior leave ui to moot us at Agra, and there- to have a final division of the he taking the major's shar a--his own. All this we sealed R- Well b' tii, min.i ,., Kit ir. snd all re'a', -that ar. l R1V 1,:. frh-n.i LU- xi it a- Vl, '. most solemn oaths that the uM -think or the lips utter. all night with paper and ink, morning I had the two charts 'y. sirr-ned with the sign of four of Abdullah, Akbar,Mahomet M-'.f. Lrentlemen. I weary you with -Murv. and I know that my Mr.' .Jones is impatient to get ly stowed m ehokey. I'll make ii -it as I can. The villain, went oil to India, but he never !aek again. Capt. Morstan ;ne his name among a list of r-ev. vtrv 1 ha.!,.', h: , to tr! frtrw that tl : '.tv in one of the mail boats rtlv afterwards. His uncle i. leaving him a fortune, and he '' the army, vet he could stoop tive men as he had treated us n wont over to Acra shortly an!s. and found, as we expected, -e treasure was indeed cone. The un.irel had stolen it all, without tarry uut cne Gj lne conditions on "-h wo had sold him the secret. irr,na that day I lived only for ven- -- ;. I thought of it by day and I t'--rd h by night. It became an over Per:i:g, .absorbing passion with me. ca'f d nothing for the law nothing To escate, to track h t t. ' V. n, i. liofiil ,-lfwrTI tl 1 c v 4 a 1 lH va-s m- one th0110- .Even y ;-ra treasure had come to be-a fcfaar';-" thing in my mind than -the of sholto. - .. . i ' - r . I have set my mind on many J;1-- in this life, and never one which n.-t carry out. But it was weary CilTi U rjre-mr time cjime -Ihavo told you tEat T "hadpicked upiome-thing- of medicineJ One day when Dr. Somerton was down with a fever a lit tle Andaman islander was-picked up by a convict g-ang in the woods. He was sick to death, and had gone to a lonely place to die. I took him in hand, though he was as venomous as a snake, and after a couple of months I got him all right and able to walk. He took a kind of fancy to me then, and would hardly go back to his woods, but was always hanging about my hut. I learned a little of his lingo from him, and this made him all the fonder of me. "Tonga for that was his name was a fine boatman, and owned a big, roomy canoe of his own'. I When I found that he was devoted to me and would do anything to serve me, I saw my chance oi escape. I talked it over with him. He was to bring his boat on a certain night to an old wharf which was never guarded, and there he was to pick me up. I gave him directions to have sev eral gourds of water and a lot of yams, cocoanuts and sweet potatoes. "He was staunch and truewas little Tonga. No man ever had a more faith ful mate. At the night named he had his boat at the wharf. As it chanced, however, there was one of the convict guard down there a vile Pathan who had never missed a chance of in sulting and injuring me. I had always vowed vengeance, and now- had my chance. I was as if fate had placed him in my way that I might pay my debt before I left the island, lie stood on the bank with his back to me and i his carbine on his shoulder. I looked about for a stone lo beat out his brains with, but none could I see. Then a Queer thought came into my head 'and showed mo where I could lay my hand on a weap on. 1 sat ttown in the darkness ana un strapped my wooden leg. With three long hops I was on him. He put his carbine to his shoulder, but I struck him full and knocked the whole front of his skull in. You can see the split in the wood now where I hit him. We both went down together, for I could not keep my balance, but when I got up I found him still lying quiet enough. I made for the boat and in an hour we were' well out at sea. Tonga had I STRUCK HIM FL'LL. brought all his earthly possession! with him, his arms and his gods, Among other things, he had a long bamboo spear and some Andaman cocoanut matting, with "which I made a sort of a sail. For te a days we were beating about, trusting to luck, and on the eleventh we were picked up by a trader which was going from Smga pore' to Jiddah with a crowd of Malay pilgrims. They were a rum crowd, and Tonjra and I soon managed to settle down among them. They had 01 good quality they j let you alone and asked no questions. "Well, if I were to tell you all the adventures that my little chum and I went through, you . would not thank me, for I would have you here until the sun was shining. IJere and there we drifted about the world, something always turning up to keep us from Lon don. All the time, however, I never lost sight of my purpose. I would dream of Sholto at nicrht. A hundred times I have killed him in my sleep. At last, however, some three or four years ago,"we found ourselves in Eng land. I had no great difficulty in una ing where Sholto lived, and I set to work to discover whether he had real ized the treasure, or if he still had it. I made friends with some one who could help me I name no names, for I don't want to get anj-dfie else in a hole and I soon found that he still had the jew els. Then I tried to get at him in many ways; but he was pretty sby, and had always two prize-fighters, besides his sons and his khitmutgar. on guard over him. "One day, however, I got word that he was dying. I hurried at once to the garden, mad that he should slip out of my clutches like that, and, looking through the window, I saw him lying in his bed, with his sons on each side, of him. I'd have come through and taken my chance with the three of them, only even as I looked at him his jaw dropped, and I knew that he was gone. I got into his room that same night, though, and I searched his papers to see if there was any record of where he had hidden our jewels. There was not a line, however, so I came away, bitter and savage as a man could be. Before I left I bethought me that if I ever met my Sikh friends again it would be a satisfaction to know that I had, left some mark oi our na tred; so I scrawled down the sign of the .(To be Continued.) Simple TVay to Sterilize Water. A very simple and efficient method of sterilization of water is highly rec ommended by M. Meillere," chemist-in-chief of v the French Academy of Medioine. Four drops of the tincture ofjodine sterilizes in a few minutes one quart of spring water, all patho genic micro-organism being destroyed. Northwestern Christian Advocate. An advance of twenty-fire per cent in the price of leather is predicted. FRIENDS OF SILVER 2,500 SILVER MONEY MEN IN MEMPHIS. ! A Great Gathering at the Bl-Metallla Convention. The Platform in Full. ! The Memphis BI-Metallio convention was called to order at 2 o'clock Wednesday after noon. W. N. Brown, ot Memphis, as chair man, of tbe central bi-raetailic league oi Shelby county, Tenn., "which eent out the call for the convention, rapped the assemblage to order. j On the platform were the following Thomas Scott,Secretaiy of State of Louisiana; M. J. Cunningham, Attorney General ot Louisiana ; Joba Fitzpatriclc, mayor of New Orleans; A. J. Waroer, president of the American bi-melallJo league : Gov. J. P. Clarke, Arkansas ; W. J. Biyau, editor of the Omaha World-Herald ; Senator Jajaes Berry, Arkansas ; Senator jKewart, Nevada ; Anson Wolcott, Indiana ; Senator I. G. Har ris, Tennessee; Alex. Delraer, California ; Representative II. D. Money, Mississippi ; Senator J K. Jone3,Arkansa!;Senator Marion liutJer, North Carolina Senator J. Z. George, Mississippi, Er-Govemor Eagle, Arkansas ; Gov. L. Bradord Prince, New Mexico ; ox Gov. Benjamin R. Tillman, South Carolina ; Gov. John Gary Evans, South Carolina. From start lailnish the convention was one of great enthusiasm. Every pronounced free silver utterance was the signal ior pro longed applause, and wheu the various persons well known in pubJio life, appeared on the rostrum, each received an ovation. Conservative estimates place the number of delegates at 2,500, and the visitors who at tended horn inierest hi the movement to hear the ppeecb.es exceeded 10,000. Col. Casey Young, of Memphis, jn welcom ing the assemblage, spoke in part as follows : . "I salute the representatives of this con vention as the advance gnard of that mighty force in every land to do battle for the over throw and destruction of a power more ruthless, and rapacious and more hurtful to human happiness and prosperity than any despot that ever shackled liberty and op pressed mankind. I greet you, representa tives, as the forerunner of countless legions now gathcrering from the field of labor and industry throughout the world to demand the restoration of that financial system ap proved by tbe wisdom and experience of all the centuries of civilization. "Wheu only a few days ago the object and aims of this convention were denounced from this stage by a distinguished public man, as rebellious and revolutionary, he proclaimed the truth a sublime as ever fell from the lips of man. The sturdy, hone&t yeoman of the laud, the busy toiler of the fields and shops, the patient artisans who are building up the nation's wealth and greatnes3, are ia open rebellion against a despotism, cruel and remorseless as any that ever brought Borrow to any member of the human family. The forces of ibe grandest revolution that ever hurled a despot from power are gath ering for an outset that will sweep every enemy into the dark sea ot defeat. The in vincible legions which lead it will never halt or waver until tbeir standards are planted on the shores ot every sea and their banners float in triumph over old England herse!f. They will never lower their flags nof sheath their swords until the conflict is ended and a glorious victory won ; not until all vbe temples o! Mammon are turned into sepul chers for tbe burial of greed and avar ice and let us hope for the sake cf suering humanity that no angel of resurrection will ever uuseal this tomb. "Can these thltrgs be brought about? In the beginning ot the etruggle which gave separate nationality to the American colors, our ancestors gave to the worid a declaration of independence that rang like a bugle call through every land and awoke the slumber ing spirits of liberty among 'people. Tbe descendants of these heroes and patriots are about to send forth auotber declaration of independence to al! the nations of the world in fixing tbeir own financial system and in legislating for the good and happiness oi their people." Senator Harris then introduced Senator Turpie as perumneat chairman in the follow ing words : "There is no more able and truer bimetallist in ihe United States of America than David Turpie of Indiana." Mr. Turpie addressed the convention Iu sub stancef as follows : "Coined money h'is always been and yet is initselin thing of value and ths va'ue is of two kinds the metallic or bullion value and the monetary worth or legal value ; the latter is always a matter of law the bullion value is always one of estimation and opin ion. The bullion value of 3ilver and gold here and elsewhere has always repted and rests today upon tbe conception; i.pon the one opinion, upon one single and t'mpleitem of beilef, that a? there will be in years to come no departure of either cf such raetals, which as to the quantity shall make them comparable in value with any other material suitable for the use of mankind es money. There has always been a difference between the commercial or bullion rtdue of the two metals and the legal or coinage value. According to the tests of tbe enemies of bi metallism, that the legal valua of coined tnoney must be the same as the commercial or bullion value cf the metal Ja it, nothing could be more dishonest. According to that test there is not and can not ba an honest dollar of either silver ov gold. The use of silver or gold money Las added very greatly to their commercial or bullion value. "Although every friend ot humanity re jolces in tho destruction of exclusive govern ment ownership of the precious ores, and other metals, yet there was one consequence which followed the private ownership of the same much to be deplored. For a long time the equilibrium was maintained by law be tween the two parties,but at last the holders of gold, being the same as the holders of debt, in large quantities, especially national debt, succeeded in having the government interfere by law in this strife. They said we will not dispute any longer about relative values. Silver must be barred out. When we have killed silver for tbe u?e in coln it will be worth less and less. "We can buy and sell it at our own price and the ratio will be an idle Action of the past. The syndicate of gold Is of no country, age or creed. Bimetallists are not against gold. We are for silver and Justice. Much has been written on tbe stability of the value of silver and gold, concerning which it may be said both these metals are variable in value. Each changes in value from time to time,like Other eommodi?Je3,but they vary in value infinitely less than any other commod ity. It is said that if we restore silvec to free coinage, gold will leave us. This is as serted as a principle under what is called "the Gresham law or rule' where two or more kinds of money are circulated together, the inferior will drive out the better curren cy. This rule, save in very rare instances, has no application to coin." But what party In our country is seeking to debase its coin? The loss of our gold.'the departure of our gold will, as some opponents . say, bring about depression. Yet gold taid with us from the beginning in usual quantity and proportion until 1873, when we ceased coin ing silver. "From 1373 to 1S7S, while silver was not coined,, gold touched a low ebb. When, in 1878, we began to coin silver again gold re turned in larger sums than ever and stayed and increased with us. Since we eeafed the coinage of silver ia 1893,during 1894 35, gold has left us again. Tho faith of the advocate of a single gold standard is. compounded of one truth and one pernieioui error. That coined standard dollars should be of equal legal value is true, but that the metal in them must be of equal bullion value is a fallacy so contrary to our common sease and exper- fence that It cannot be astich aided by proph ecy. Let us, as bimeta'lists remember that we are American citizens of tbe great repute lie dealing calmly and deliberately with our own highest interests. Let us take counsel of faith and hope. Let us go forth with the manly hearts without fear, believing in ail confidence that the silver and gold dollar of our mints, the money of the past, sound, t ried and trie, t.ha!l also be and remain the money of the future." Thenominatlon of E. B. Wade.of Tennessee, for secretary, followed, and at tbe suggestion of Senator Harris ell the newspaper men present were made assistant secretaries. Resolutions were pa-wed ibai each State should name a vice president end a member of the committee on resolutions. A roll call of States followed. Amid enthusiastic applause Senator Harri.3 was then named delegate at large from the United States. -Senator Stewart, of Nevada, presided at the night session. Congressman Joeph C Sib ley, of Pennsylvania, addressed the conven tion in substance as follow: "I believe that there are going to be two parties at the coming election. One of them will be tLe monometa'libts and the other the American people in their majesty. Tbe gold" standard Las. been ere ted raasy time? beore. Once hlim t frt. 1.(1 o ffnUan lm)4A 1 it i WQI not a success and once Nebuchadnezzar set him up one and said whosoever refused to bow down and worship it shonl l straight way be cat into a flery furnace and burned up. Without mearJug to make any invid ious comparisons, I respectfully refer you to urover Cleveland's letter to Governor Stone of Mississippi. . , There were three men who refused to wor ship this image and Nebuchadnezzar ordered the furnace to be made straightway seven times hotter, andfbad tense men cast In, but they waJked uprfght amid ihe names and came out brighter and happier than ever. There are a good macy Nebuohadnezzars in this work yet, but they do not cut much of a figure. If you will just read along a little further you will find that Nebuchadnezzar ' found his level aliright. For seven years bo had to eat grass. We silver people have all all the logic and all the law on our side. The Secretary o! lh Treasury spoke to you in this hall the other day. I do not know what to quote Mr. Carlisle when he said that the demonetisation ot the white money would mean misery and imhappinew for half the people of the world ; ihen John G. Carlisle was the tribune of people. now be i3 the high priest of the temple of Mammon. Mr. Carlisle :ne piernan and Mr. Carlisle the aristocrat, are two very different kinds Of people. But I do not want to com plain of Mr. Carlisle. Every word ho iiai fcaid about the demonetisation of cilver has come true "The Tresident says he is afraid the silver dollar will depreciate, but the only way the aouarcan uepreciate js ior prices to rise. Thi3 is equivalent to an admission by tho President that he is afraid prices will rise. If the President would divide bis anxieties more equally between the persons who produce wealth of the eountryand the limited few e the wwho absorb them, he would make a better chif executive. The magnificent patriotism ol Mr. Rothschild, who, although an alien, was willing to come to this country and save it for the paltry consideration of 9,000,000 which the people of the United States lost and which he gaine'l, is worthy of note as is also the magnificent patriotism of Mr. Cleve land in thus helping to savetbe country. But ii these two men could save tbe country tbey could also wreck n ."With the mints open to the unlimited coinage of silver and gold there will be no more talk ot a fl)Ty-Cent.doHar. They say our shores? would be flooded with silver if the mints were open to free coinage. Now tht is not true, and if Jt were Irue we would pimply give them sometbiagto have rather than tor something we would rather have. l"Banker Cornwall of Buffalo, made a speech in Chicago the other night to a lot of bankers and the next day a reporter showed J me the article and asted what 1 thought of iti I told him if he would have a number ot copies printed, and distributed to all the voters in the United States I would never make another speech on the silver question, but would rest my case on his argument. He tells the bankers tbey must keep their thumbs on their customers. We have felt tbe thumbs of the bankers heavily in the last few years, "We must win this fight ia 1896. If we do not win it then it will be too late. There will be two avenues open to the people after 1SD6. One win be repudiation and the other revolution ?-jd both I dread. If the Eng lish wera to land iu New York you would help to drive them out, wouldn't yon? The English are in New York ; they have been there for ye.T ra. Will you drive them out, even it porfy lins nave 10 oe dropped J. H. McDowell, of Tennessee, a well known State Popuust leader, in an. impassioned speech demanded that tho Third party men be given better representation on the com ir.ittee on resolutions. Only one Populist, he declared, Mama lmtier, or North Carolina, was now on the committee. The Ponulists had been assured by tfcose in charge of . this convention tbat if t'uey handed a list of names to the see.-etnry lhey "would be placed on the committee. Tbislit was now in the hand.1 of the seercary, bnt had not been read. Were the THui party men to be ignored? The eon veutlon ordered that the Populists be placed on Hie committee, ihe conven tion then adjourned for the day. A large amount of speech makicg occurred on the second day s .session, after which the following plauoroi was adopted ' Although' nothing was said in the resolutions about abolition of party lines as proposed by Sibley, Stewart and others, the speakers of the day almost without exception took care to assert their Democracy and to repudiate any affiliation with either Republicans or Populists. The resolutions follow: "Silver and gold coin have in all ages constituted the money of the world, were the money of the fathers of the 1 . ' t lS J repuDiic, ine moqey oi msiory anu oi the constitution. "The universal experience oi man kind has demonstrated that the joint use of both silver and gold coin as money constitute the most stable stand ard of value and to have a full amount of both metals is necessary as a medium of exchange. "The demonetization of either of these historic metals means an appre ciation in the value of money, a fall in the prices of commodities, a diminu tion of profits of legitimate business, a continuing increase in the burden of debts, a withdrawal of money from the channels of trade and industry where it no loneer vields a safe and sure return and its like accumulation in the ibanks and the ereat money centers of the countrvi "There is no health or soundness In a financial system under which a hoard ed dollar is oroductive of increase to its possessor while an invested dollar yields a constantly diminishing, return, and under which fortunes are made by the accretions of idle capital or destroyed by a persistent fall in the price of com modities and a persistent dwindling in the margin of profits in almost every branch of useful industry. Such a sys tem is a premium on sloth and a penal tv unon industry, and such a system is that which the criminal legislation of lS73.has imposed upon this country. "The bi-metallic standard of silver and gold has behind it the experience of ages and has been tested and proved by the enlightened and .deliberate judg ment of mankind. The gold standard is a denarture from the established policy of the civilized world, with nothing tn commend it but 22 years of depression and disaster to the people under extraordinary accunmiawyn wealth in the bands or a few. There: are some facts bearing upon this ques tion, recognized and admitted by ail candid men, whether advocates of bi metallism or of a single gold standard. Among these is the fact that the very year that marked tbe change irom bi-metallism to the single gold standard 19 the very year tnai mamea me cnange from a condition of risine prices, laree profits, general contentment and great prosperity, to a condition oi tailing prices, diminishing profits, insecurity, of investment, unemployed labor and a heavy depression in all branches of trade and industry, it is not a matter oi uis nnte. even am on or the honest advocates of thegold standard, that general pros perity came to an ena wun tne aesiruc- tion of the bi-metaluo system and that barri time, fallinpnrices. idle workine- men and widespread depression came In with tbe gold standard ana prevails to-day wherever the gold standard has been adopted. "Every international monetary con ference that has been called, every de mand in this country and in Europe for an international agreement to re establish the bi-metallio standard, is a confession that the demonetization of the system was a blunder if not a crime: that its consequences have been disastrous and that the conditions that it has wrought are full of menace and of peril. The logic of facts establishes beyond intelligent question that the destruction of silver as primary money by a conspiracy ,of selfish interests is the cause of the widespread depression and suffering that began with the geld standard. There can be no restoration Of prosperity, no permanent relief from prevailing conditions,, until the great cause has been removed by a complete restoration of silver to its proper place as a money metal, equal with gold. "We believe in a money of stable value: we believe, least of all. in an ap preciating standard; it is only through the practical operation oi Di-metainsm that a stable standard of value can be secured A standard constituted of money constantly increasing in value is not a sound, a single, nor asiaoie stand ard, but a constantly changing, stand ard. The effect of gold mono-metallism is to establish oue standard for the creditor and another for thedebtor; and there can be no more dishonest mone tary system than that which gives short measure to the borrower ana long meas ure to the lender. "Under the policy prevailing prior tc 1873 there can be na violent change in the Te'ative value of the two metals, for a rise, in-valnp. of one metal is counter acted by a decreased demand and a fall Jn value by an increased demand, un der the operation of this beneflcient Jaw a stable relation was maintained be tween them in spite of the most extreme changes in relative productions. Urom ihe first period of our history up to 1873 the right of the debtor to choose whet pr he should pay his debts in silver oi gold coin was always recognized. The subsequent policy has been to transfei this right to the creditor, thus tending jto constantly increase the value of the jdearer metal and destroy the parity be tween them. Believing thai it is abso- Intel v npcessarv to reverse this iniaui- tous and ruinous policy, we therefore Resolve, ' j "That we favor the immediate resto ration of silver to its former place as a full legal tender, standard money, equal jwith gold, and the free and unlimited Coinage of both silver and gold at the katio of 16 to 1 and upon terms of exact equality. "That while we should welcome ths po-operation of other nations we believe Viof tVio TTnitorl Rtatoa cVimilH nnt. moil Loon the pleasure of foreign govern- Vnenta nr the consent of foreign credi tors but should themselves proceed to reverse the 'grinding process' that is destroying the prosperity of the people and should lead by their example the inotinne nf t.bo pnrt.h: L "That the rights of the American people, the interests of American labor and the prosperity of American indus try have a higher claim to the consid eration of the people's law-makers than the greed of foreign creditors, or the avaricious demands made .by 'idle holders of idle capital'. The right to regulate its own monetary system in the interests, of its own people is a right which no. free government can barter, sell or surrender. This reserved right is a part of every bond, of every contract and ,of every obligation. No fcreditor or claimant can set up a right that can take precedence over a nation's Obligations to promote the welfare of ithe masses of its own people. This is a debt higher and more binding than all other debts and one which it is .not bnly dishonest but treasonable to ig nore. I ThA NATIONAL COMMITTEEJIEX.. following national committeemen were chosen by the State delegations iiir.lanno with the resolution pad in at tlu afternoon session of ih 'jonventioa: Alabama John W. Tomii.on. Arkansas Charlos Coffin. California-Alexander Dslmar. Colorado A. W. Ru. kr. Georgia Judge N. W. Lougley. Kentucky A. J. Parker. Louisiana Senator RUuchard. Missouri J. C. Cage. Nevada C. S. Nixon. Nebraska C. J. Smyihe North Carolina SI. B Elliott. Ohio F. G. S-.-ott. Pennsylvania A. J. Hopkins. South Carolina J. A. Stokes. Tennessee John R. Gyolwia. Texas F. H. K?aau. Virginia 31. II. Brandon. New Mexico L. Bradford Prince. Utah E. J. Kimvali. Th committer i.-tei John K. O lwtn At Mmrh U trrr-n.-.rnrv .-hairnia-i. and J. H VI ' . - - Aoklon r.f Nas-hviSW temnorarv secretary. The committee will met in Chicago in Juiy, o-raot timf. "ri.na not been fixed, and tner choose permanent officers and delegates. fewest Thin? in .Photography. The newest thing in photography U the invention of a process by which ljOO.OOO photographs can be printed in one dar. An automatic device rirints direct from photographic nega tives by artificial light on sensitized paper. A continuous roll of papar ia fed under the .negatives and the light ii switched off and ou for the con secutive exposures. -Iew ork Llail and Express. Clgarettts nuiea ur. rope. Dr Alexander Pope died at his aome in KewYork City on Wednesday. His deatn Was sudden, and an autopsy mid did not entirely account for it. He was an inveterate cigarette 3moker, and bis friends say toat tbis was the direct cau5 of his death. He was 33 vans I A Chinaman on a bicycle J3 one d the sights of Eaatporr, Me. WHAT THE LAW IS. THE REGISTRATION ACT STATED - : ' i ' , ! An.l fin(r Detrition Exdalncd. Tht Negroes Co nplaln That They' Cannot Kaslly Comply with it. A diflpatch from Columbia, sayif. The registration laws were passed by the legislature of South Carolina in 1882. They provide for the registra tion of all voters by a supervisor Of registration, one of whom is appointed for each county. All male citizens who wish to vote and are not disquali fied by reason of having been convic ted of crime, are requirod to register with this officer their names, places of residence, occupations and ages. The law as passed in 18S2 required that unless all who were then twenty-one years of ago should register before the next general election they could not register thereafter, and became forever disqualified and that those be coming of age at any time after the passage of the registration law, who did not register before the general election next after Incoming of age; would be forever j barred from regis tering. I The supervisor of registration would issue to the voter a certificate of rej gistratioii corresponding to the entries made upon his registration book!, authorizing him to cast his ballot at the polling place iu the district ih which he lived. In case of chaDge qf residence or loss of certificate a certain method was prescribed for obtaining a new certificate. When the voter wished to cast his ballot on election clay lie had to present his certificate of registration to thp managers of election at the precinct at which he was registered, or without it be would not bo allowed to cast his ballot. The friends of the negroes claim ihat this law bore most hard upon the ueeroes. in that as they irequentiy changed their residence, or would lose their certificates and fail to get new ones, many of them were deprived nf the norht to vote. The state con tended that the law nppliod to white and blacks alike,, and that the negr wnnii niva to sunar ior uis own neclicrence or migratory habits. It was also claimed ihat the days on which the office of the supervisor of registration was open were too few to accommodate V f mi m hero Tvh o Tjclclipd TO reflKtlF. iUO U It IL V. . . ' ... w - (-) The office was opened so many days ih each monttf preceding the election, bnt vea.fi not onened on the days lni mediately preceding the election. This was claimed to be another de fect in that voters would neglect to attempt to cet registration certificates tintil the election was near at hand. It was also claimed that there were various devices whereby the white men were registered that were denied the negroes, and that the whole law was aimed at the disfranchisement of the negro race. THE AMENDMENT OF 1891 At the session of the legislature held in December last the law of 1882 was somewhat amended and the -f olio wing was passed : "Section 7. Any elector who shall havje been entitled to register at tho general regis tration in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred eighty-two. or at any timje subsequent thereto, and who failed to regis ter at such timo as required by law, and who shall make application under oath, in accord ance with a printed form to be prepared by the attorney general, setting forth in each case the fact, to-wit: The full name, age, occupation and residence of the applicant at tho time of said general registration, or at any time thereafter when the said applicant became entitled to register, and the place or places of his residence since the time when he became entitled to register, which affidavit shall be supported by the affidavit of two reputable citizens who wjre each of the age of twenty-ona years on the thirtieth day .of June, anno domini eighteen hundred an; I eighty-two, or at the time the said applicant became entitled thereafter to registeiyor ay elector who bus become a citizen of this ttate by moving into tho same, according to the constitution of the state, and who shall make application under oath statfug the time of bis moving into the state and his plaee 6f residence since living in the state, which ap plication shall be supported by the affidavit of two reputable citizen? Tho were twenty one years of age at the time the applicant became a resident of this siate. such appljt- itnt ehall lx allnwnil to rofi-icr aa A votfr and to have issued to him a certificate as a duly qualified elector in tbe manner and form now provided by law and be entitled to vote at said election for the delegates to said con vention As can be Been this law provides fory tbe registration of all who were of age in 1882 and who failed to register, and Of those who bad become of age since 1882 and who failed to register. The friends of the negroes claimed that the provisions of this act were too severe for tbe negroes to comply with, and that it was impossible for the negro to cet two credible persons to swear where he had lived since 1882, as the neoTO probablv could not tell all the places himeelf. These were the matters that were brought to the notice of Judge Goff. judge goft's DECISION. The -decision of Judge Goff was very voluminous and discussed the four teenth and fifteenth amendment to tbe constitution of the United States in their relatiors to the limitation of suffrage, and the guarantee of suffrage they gave to the colored voter. Coming to the registration laws of South Caro lina be said: "It u not the intention at this time to btate in detail tue re quirements of and effect of each section of said registration law, but simply the result that I have reached" after a careful scrutiny of them all, aided as X have been by the exhaustive analysis of. the same made by counsel. l nnji v. n wawamt in tVto rtna.itntlnn ffiT" tb certificate required by the Tegistratii n law to be issued to the voter, the pro duction of which is reauired at the polls or bis vote is to be reiectad. This is not registration, which is ti-nply the entering on the books or lists oi voter?. of the names of those qualified under tb roriRtitntion to vote, but is an tional requirement to those mentioned in the organio law, not intended, I I am constrained 1 to oeiieve, to ! facilitate the full freej and legal exprerfion of those entitled to exercise the right of suffrage. Such 1 . 1 . - knMAn. reqmremenv is unreasuiiuuic, . some and harassing, and clearly it im- pedes and abridges the ngnts oi tne constitutional voters of the state to east their ballots. ' "I was asked, in case any ptTton of the1 said registration law should be found invalid to eliminate the part so found, and decree that the "remaining part Bhould stand. I have not I been able to make the separation, for I find it all so interwoven as to render it iin- practicable so far as results aroj con cerned, and 1 cannot winnow wnero- there is no grain. In behalf of those so treated, all interested in ttieweuare of their country and desirous of seeing its laws enforced should protest in or der that public sentiment snouja no lontrer be dormant, but may by its ac-- tivity rouse the , community that has long suffered by 6itch outrages to too realization of their cause, and jto-an appreciation of the results to be secur ed by the abolishment of the sVstcm that has caused them. ! TL reversal of -Judge GofTs decis ion; by tho court of appeals leaves the law as it was passed by the last legisla ture,' and only thoso'who have Regis tration certificates will.be able t6 par ticipate in the election of delegates to the; constitutional convenuou. lie Rapped the Gold-IJugs. Ex-Governor Tillman, of South Car olina, at the Memphis Silver Cogven tion spoke as follows: ji 'fl shall open my remarks byj1 con gratulating you upon tho representa tive character of this gathering, pome threer four weeks ago there assem bled injuscity a body called to jteach the; 6outRrn people the mcanipg of 'souDd money.' After putting in mo tion all the secret agencies and tl)C use of their illimitable money and drum ming up delegates from this chamber of commerce and that bank thy as sembled to tell us what was the glean ing: of 'sound money,' and after having tbe people of this city whose loans from the banks make them subserving to the banking interest tiirn out they, succeeded in drumming up a large gathering and they had the ccrctary of the treasury here to tell us thej dif-. ferince between sourid money now and sound money in 1878. And, Go save theni, by request of the president they had three cuckoos, who sold their pi rth rights for the mess of pottage jtbreo congressmen only, and I taw in the paper that there was not a solitary farmer m that party in this southland, where the proportion between the og- ricultural interests and the rest isj seventy-five farmers to twenty-five of all other occupations. 'What is sound monevr Is it that mniiCT which renuires two pouh ds of cotton, two bushels of wheat to get the same quantity that it did a few years back? I claim that such a ooi(ar as that is a robber dollar of 200 ients. They tell you about the 50-cent dollar. Let us fling into $heir teeth tne 2UU cent dollar. There was some talk in congress last winter by Mr. Carlisle, who presented a bill of a nnanciai scheme lookincr to the giving of some measure of relief (that poor congress. that Pitiful democratic congress ma have the saving grace to reject it but the scheme is still on fodt) as pr omul- ... . . - . . . --.-'i.a.i crated bv the Danuers' convention Baltimore that tbey shall have greenback retired; that the silve cer tificates shall be retired; that the gov- srnment shall retire from bankin and that they shall have the issuing of all the paper money of this country jn a gold standard at that." and The averace for a public telepbonl is 835 to each, subscriber in uerinauT, $37.50 in England, 824 in New Zea land, from 824 to S1G in Switzerland and only $40 in 'Sweden. i IT 13 ABSOLUTELY The Best SEWING MACHINE MADE AND SAVE' MONEY WE Oil OUR. DEALERS eH ii von machines eh en per than yon can i letelMwhere. 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