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:OMlM ! 'PRdvE All things; HOLD FAST iHAf . WHICH t3 G06D.1'' : VOL. V. Hi I NORT Multitudes of 5 nlhusiastic Silveriteo ftleet Him at Every Point. A GLOWING TRIBUTE TO VANCE. Said There Were Personal sons for His Visiting TAR HEELS CAUSED Asheulle made great preparation for feoeiviiifj wiiiiara Jeumngs xSryan. Tuesday evttirig and night the claDs ! t2nu t outlier from the highlands. fr--Ki every avmlable camping-ground i th-i environs of the beautiful hill it v. ctiup-fii'cs could be Been clowinc rltv:fii!l ;;i the cri p September air. thf fi"'iu;t tee entnusmg banjo was Lear-.l, v. hi'm the merry mountaineers re l .therea around it. taJKincr .Brvan r- , . - o R'j.l i'i v silvt-r at 16 to 1 and jubilat- u,ovt r ti'f croud times coming, alter the iijitiinrntiou of the xsebraskan on ihe lib i.f !:itoh next. U'Irik the 1'ryau special reached Ash-'. 5 i lit 2: 'to p. m.. it was met bv vc i Lit L:i-!.itie escort provided bv the x w neittio liiiiicombe county Demo rriitio (. .:. iiivi' c-.'mniittee. The Brvan ,.tit ni-rc u:,L.-rrd iuto carriages, and ii:e prcfessum formed. A mounted ts-jort el la -sfs and gentlemen, the la iiies u fnl r i) e lead of Mrs. Col. Rum L'b'irL ! il the way. The Bryan car les mine next, containing besides Mr. Brvsiu. Chairman Clement Manlv. r " ' f tne Democratic State executive com- William Jennings Bryan, Democratic Candidate for President. mitte; Chairman Hal W. Aver, of the Populist State committee; Chairman Frank Carter, of the Buncombe county Democratic executive committee. The test of the carriages came next and the mounted escort of one thousand horse men after these. Five hundred of these horsemen ealbfi all fhA -wav from Greene county, in east Tennessee, onngiDg three days rations. The line of procession from the Southern Passenger station was up Depot street to Patton avenue and thence direct to the Batterv Park. The streets were lined all along the way vith men, women and children, eager to weiae distinguished .Nebraskan. Flags flying from windows and porches and the people who viewed the procession uia nouse-tops and those who packed tbe available standing-places along the joute kept the candidate constantly iug nis nead. ihe 6tand from which Brvan sDoke aa erected in a curve of Southside enue as the street bends around Mo foweil Hill. The side of the hill had been a Pnrn Aa14 an3 Drought newspapers by the thousands "Pread them upon the corn hills and J4 upon them comfortably. The erowd ormed an exceedingly pictuesque "fftt, a gioup of color the women in Vir holliday attires-relieving the ?eser blackness of th nrnwdn of men. The acoustic rtronartias of the Jot were faultless. The hill, hich trended northward and south ard, curved, amphitheatre like, and X . o v uiv,o 00 t IIUO JJtes struck the hUl before him, re potinded and fell in showers of grace- Ortnv iv. 1 I. .... Jg8, who were behind him, tho "Und n 'iTAi i 1. a - -.iuiuK in two ue great orowu, . teetint? theRA n-Anaf irt nrnrtArtlM ttlA 5m eforet man' on the top of the I6C fftia tBU rvu.Vi n cr in nrdi. H CARDURA as Well as Political Re a North Carolina. HIS NOMINATION. nary tones of conversation at the bot tom of the hill. In this place 13,000 people were gathered. Some esti mates placed the number as high as 15,000 "The immense throng remind ed one of the pictures of the multi tude on the Oriental hillsides, which were fed with the loaves and fishes in the olden time. On the stand besides the members of the Bryan party were: Col. A. T. Dayidson, Maj. W. A. Guthrie, C. B. Watson, Locke Craig, R. U. Garret, W. W.West, J. 8. Ad ams, Prof. Eggleston, J. P. Sawyer indeed nearly all the prominent Dem cratio citizens of Asheville, as well as many ladies. As the Bryan cavalcade came in sight down the avenue, the crowd rose to its ieex anu oueereu. as me speaker mounted the stand, as high above the people's heads as an old-fashioned pul pit, the crowd again rose to its feet, cheering wildly, the ovation lasting several minutes, and the demonstra tion was repeated with intensified vigor after the candidate's introduction by Locke Craig, Esq. an elegant intro- duction, by the way, eloquent, grace fully delivered and just of the right length. After the prolonged outburst of wel come had subsided, the speaker be gan: He said :- BBTAN'S SPEECH. "I have a reason for coming to North Carolina which is personal, aside from my interest in the eleotoral vote of this State. It was the State of Carolina which at Chicago before I became a candidate, before my own State had taken any formal part in pre senting my name it was the State of North Carolina, which, by resolution, decided to give me ananimons vote' of the North Carolina delegation in that national convention. (Great cheer ing.) I appreciate the honor which they have been willing to do me and therefore it gives me great pleasure to come among these people whom they represented, and what assistance I can, if any assistance be neeeded, to secure the electoral vote of this State for the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. (Cheers.) I am glad the canvas of this State opens in this county, which was the home of one of the grandest public given to this nation not alone by North Carolina, but the entire country Sentor Vance. (Great ap plause.) He -whom I delighted to honor and I am glad I stand among his neighbors and friends advocating the same cause he so eloquently advo vated and I cannot more than impress upon ' your memories the words he so often spoke.- Let me read yon a few words from it: "The great fight is on. The power of money and its allies throughout the world hare entered into this conspiracy to perpetrate the greatest crime of this or any - other age, to overthrow one half of the world's money and thereby double their wealth by enhancing the DUNN. N. . ss s bbs wmmmm sjaBBBaaaasa kj Talue of the other half which is In their ' hands. The money-changers are pol luting the temple of our liberties. To your tents, oh Isreal I" (Applause.) "He foresaw the struggle in which we are now engaged. He realized its magnitude when many others did not. Those words came from him as words of command. To your tents, O, Is rael. And the command was heeded by the Democratic party, and they en gaged; first in a warfare within the party to rescue that party and the party name from the hands of those who were using it to advance the interest not of Democracy, but of plutocracy. (Applause.) It was a great contest I venture the assertion that never before in the history of this country did any party have such a contest within its ranks as that whioh ended at Chicago. I venture the assertion that never be- xotft in the history cf this country have ! the voters themselves had so muen to do with a conten tion as did the voters of the Democratic party with the conven tion at Chicago. This question was submitted to the voters.. The Demo ocratio idea has been that the party is but the instrument of chose who com pose it, and derives its power from the will of the voters who number them selves members of that party. Yet it is often the case that the party machin ery or bosses have more to do with shaping the policy and making the nomination than the voters themselves. I am proud to be the nominee of a convention which represented no machine, no bosses, but the unpur chased suffrage of the voters of this country (Great Applause.) A few months ago the most sanguine Demo crat did not believe that success this fall was more than possible. The most sanguine Democrat felt that7 four years of gold standard administration had destroyed almost the possibility of suc cess, i But the voters of the Democratic par tv I determined to make one final fight and determined that if die the party must it should at least maintain the honor of those who believed in the right of the people to govern them selves. (Applause.) The result is just what it always is if people lay aside expendienoy and seek to do their duty and aooept consequences. In trying to right the Democratic party won a possibilitv of success which it never oould have hoped for if it had consult An ATncniRTinA. f A rent an a a 1 X, for one, said, whenever our oppo nents would bring a pledge that the gold standard Democrats would take, it would be time enough to ask free silver i Democrats to make pledges. I stated in answer to an inquiry that x wouia not support ior Jf resident a man who wouid in the Presidential chair continue the present financial policy and mortgage the United States to English bondholders. (Applause.) "I said it because I meant it. I may be wrong in my judgment, because none of us are infallible, but my judg ment is the only judgment that can control my conduct. (Applause.) Now when the Secretary of the Treasury de nounced me as a Populist and said I said I wouldn't support the nominee. 1 replied that I did not expect him to support the nominee if he were a free silver man. The time came when he was put to the test, and the only dif ference between him and me was that I was candid enough to tell the people I would follow my conscience, and he tried to control a convention and then bolted when he failed to do it. (Great applause.) I have sent him no letter begging his support. (Great laughter.) The highest compliment he can pay is to opiose me, because then the world will know the Seoretary of the Treas urer whom I appoint, if I am elected, will be as amerent irom mm as x can find. I (Great applause.) "J. do not dispute the right 01 any Democrat to vote agaiust the Chicago ticket, if he thinks its success will im peril the country, but what I ask is that these men who have been pretend ing to be Democrats shall now. when the Democratic party has been rescued from the people's spoilers, leave the name and not attempt to take that name with them into disgrace. (Cries of "right. ') They call themselves true i Democrats. No true Democrat ever nominated one ticket for the pur pose j of voting for another. (Great applause.)" The speaker continued in a sarcastio vein to poke fun at the Indianapolis crowd, calling them "assistant Repub licans,' He made his previous argu menttbat the iiepubiican party was really in favor of silver and bimetal lism because it had declared for inter national bi-metallism. "Then you will hear that nnder free coinage we would be flooded with siL ver until money woultl be so cheap we would not have any use for it, and when you have been frightened as bad ly as you can be that way, they will tell you this cheap money will run the dear money out and it will take fifteen years, with our mints running at full capacity, to make money enough to take the place of gold, and that will make money so soarce'that a silver dol lar will be harder to get than a gold dollar. (Laughter). You can't have too little and too much all at once.' An opponent once put that proposition to me in a debate down in Alabama. There I was 1,500 -miles from home among strangers. I had to answer on the spur of the moment, and I just blurted out I would make more mints. (Laughter). He hadn't thought of tbe possibility of making more mints. After making that explanation a law yer told me he was glad I had called attention to it, as he had never thought of the possibility. In order that I may not leave any special cloud on the lawyer, I want to say, in another State a doctor made the same remark. You can understand how a great man might be unable to think of so small a thing as opening more mints.' Another ovation followed the close of the speech. Although the candi C WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1896 date was almost worn out, the erowd was so persistent at the depot that tney clambered into the car windows and insisted on fhaking Mr. Bry an's hamd. As the train pulled out the candidate, waving his handker chief, received another ovation. BBTX1T HONOKS VAKCB. At the special request of Mr. Bryan the train stopped at Black Mountain, because it had been the home of Vance. Mr. Bryan spoke to tbe people assem bled there and then asked to have Go m broom the Vance borne place pointed out to him. At Old Fort there was a large crowd. At Marion bonfires and tar barrels were burning, and 500 people were spoken j to by the candi date from the rear platform. . At Mor gan ton there were 1,500 people pres ent, many of them beir ladies. Hickory's Demonstration. It remained to little Hickory to sur pass any demonstration in the State so far in proportion to the size of the town. At least 10,000 people from all over Alexander, Burke and Caldwell heard Mr. Bryan speak' from a stand erected in the quadrangle near the ho tel. The enthusiasm was great nd Mr. Bryan spoke for nearly an houi. At Statesville Mr Bryan spoke to speaker's stand f om the train and 2,500 people. The was a hundred yards was decorated gaily in red, white and blue, and two immense bouquets of flowers were on either side of the speaker. The introduction 'was done in a neat speech of about ten words by W. D. Turner, Esq. The speaker was so hoarse here that utterance seemed really painful. Mooresville had a and bonfiies. The thousand people was so speaker tired and voiceless that he could only show himself to the disappointment of all j THE BBTAK ESOOST. On board the Bryan special were Col. J. S. Carr, Clement Manly, Hal W. Ayer, Chas. D. McIver, Geo. S. Powell, T. J. Allison, Evangelist W. P. Fife, Maj. E. J. Hale, Marshal O. J. Carroll, P. M. Pearsall, Lee S. Overman, B. L. Durham, Oapt. S. B. Alexander, R. L. Copper,' Theo. F. Kluttz, Walter B. Henry, E. L. Shu ford. Congressman A. O. Shuford, Jo eephus Daniels, F. M, Simmons, Judge A. C. Avery, Heriot Clarkson, Locke Craig, W. D. Tnrner, Dr. F. E. An derson, R. N. Hackett, W. E. Chris tian, O. T. Smith, Biblical Recorder. A. Boshamer, M. O.i Sherrill, W. B. Gaither, D. M. Boyd, J. N. Long, Spier Whitaker. Maj. Guthrie came down from Asheville I but got - off at Hickory. At Statesville, W. C. Dowd, H. Barucb, T. B. Robertson, Will Robertson, Dr. I. W. Faieon got on board, and at Mooresville ex-Senator Jarvis joined the procession. Bryau at Charlotte. Charlotte has had her Bryan day. He arrived in the "Queen City" last Wednesday night, and was greeted at the Southern passenger station by an immense crowd of admirers. The pro gram was not carried out as scheduled by the committee, owing to Mr. Bryan's request that there should not be any demonstration on his arrival. In spite of his request thousands flocked to the station to see the next President, but the Pullman palace sleeper was side tracked on the outskirts of the city, where it remained oyer . night. Early Thursday morning an engine brought the car into the station and the inevi table crowd was there. As Mr. Bryan appeared under personal escort of Col. H. C. Jones, a shout arose that was heard up town. He and his party were escorted to the Buford Hotel, where an elaborate breakfast was served. . At 8:40 the escort cf honor, the Uni form Rank Knights of Pythias, and the Second Regiment band had been drawn up in line in front of tho hotel, while the carriages waited at the Fourth street entrance. A mighty cheer from that side of the building annonnoed the coming of Mr. Bryan. The band struck up a lively ! air, the corps of mounted marshals cleared the way and the march to the park was begun. In the handsomely decorated carriage, drawn by four black horses, were seat ed Mr. Bryan and Gov. Elias Carr, Mayor J. H. Weddingtou and CoL Julian a. Carr. On arriving at the postofiee corner, Mr. Bryan and escort alighted from the carriage and in sin gle file made their way slowly through the narrow lane that had been opened to the speaker's stand. Promptly at 9 o'clock Wm. J. Bryan stepped upon the platform, escorted by Maj. Robertson and officers of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias.. After Mr. Bryan had shaken hands with all who were on the platform, among whom weie! Gov. Elias Cara. Col. Jule Carr, W. R. Henry, and rep resentative citizens of Charlotte and the State, and several ladies. Major Robertson stepped to the railing fac ing Mint Street and in a few words in troduced Gov. Carr. j Governor Carr spoke briefly, as the crowd was clamoring for Bryan. He said: 'I have the pleasure of intro ducing to you today! William Jennings Bryan, the next Democratic Presi dent." The crowd j here interrupted him and said, "say next President." He amended his words by saying: "He will be the next President, be cause he will receive a majority of all parties. (Cheers). I will not keep you waiting, as this is Bryan's day, and not my day." He took his seat and Mr. Bryan rose amid pro longed cheering, j Mr. Bryan stood and quietly sur veyed the crowd, and instantly they quieted down. As soon as all was quiet he began by saying: 'Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens: I think I can make myself heard as the advocate of a financial policy which ia independent of any foreign power. .1 stand on a platform 'which is a second Declaration of Independence, and t feel that here in this county it will be recognized because of your having made a Declaration of your own. I may find in other places those who want to accept a financial policy made by foreign powers; but the people of Mecklenburg county believe that tbe United States' can make a financial pol icy of its own. (Cheers.) Pointing to the hornets nest, which was suspended near him, he said: "Here the enemy will find a veritable hornets' nest. I am not speaking against any for" eigner. I would despise any English man, German, or any other foreigner, who would submit to the United States dictating a -policy governing them in their domestic relations. The Republican platform sets forth a policy never openly set forth before.. They do not advocate the gold stand ard, but have pledged themselves for a double standard aa soon as the" for eign powers will help them. If they came out boldly for a single standard we could meet them but they do not do so. The gold standard advocates never made an open fight in their lives, but do their work after night. (Cheers.) There is a great deal of talk about the two yard-sticks. I do not mean that it is mentioned in the Republican platform but it is beiiig used in the campaign. A yard-stick measures length and cannot change, but a dol lar measures value and may change. You all know that a piece of iron is shorter when it is at zero than when it is red hot. So, if you ,had a yard stick that would be twice as long when it was red hot as it was when at zero, you would go to the store and want the merchant to measure your goods with your red hot yard-stick, but he would step to his refrigerator and take out his zero yard-stick and measure your goods. So, as it is necessary to have a yard-stick of uniform length, it is necessary to have the dollar uni form. At this point there were calls from the crowd on the south side of the stand and Mr. Bryan stepped to the railing and repeated in a measure what he had just said, and added this: You can make a dollar purchase a great deal more by making them scarce and on the other hand make the purchasing power less by makiDg them plentiful. It cannot be disputed that the money must keep pace with the population and indnsJVies. Mr. Bryan produced some typewrit ten manuscript and read some extracts from a speech of Senator Sherman, made on June 5, 1890, in which he ad vocated increasing the circulation as the population increased, but now he had forsaken that policy and. was the leader of the Republican party and that portion of the Democratic party who want to elect a Republican presi dent. (Cheers.) "Senator Sherman favored increas ing circulation at the rate of $54, 000,000 per annum and according to his policy we should not have $250,- 000,000 more money in circulation than we have now. The circulation tbe 30th of June, 1894, was $1,660, 000,000 and has decreased each year since until we now have $1,506,000,000. notwithstanding Sherman said it should inorease. I am not surprised to find Republi cans on this platform with me today who have changed and are going to votetheJDefnocratio ticket. They want an increased circulation. "In North Carolina tbe Republicans have made more capital by denouncing this administration before this last platform was made than-out of any thing else, but now they are standing sponsors for the same administration. Henry Clay is the only candidate for the Presidency who ever came to your State and spoke prior- to my visit. In a speeah on Jan. 20th, 1840, he said that a diminuation of the currency would make hard times, and people could not pay their debts. Have you ever had this condition in your life time? Cries of yes, yes ! Clay said that a diminished currency made purchases scarce, and that in turn caused falling in prices and fall ing prices make hard times. Yon must stop falling prices to make good times. I must close as there may be need of speeches in other places. He here paid the late Senator Vance a glowing tribute which i was greeted by prolonged cheers. 1; He spoke of the last speech' Vance made in which he favored free coinage and said: I know tbe people will be true to his memory. We appeal to the masses to support the ticket and we know they will do it. t He closed with a few words as the time was up, and although the people cried for more, he was quiokly escort ed from the stand to catch the train. 25,000 at Greensboro. At Greensboro the largest crowd that has met Bryan was at Greensboro. There were about 25,000 people there. The streets were jammed. Three or four bands were there and hundreds were on horseback. At Concord. ' At Concord fully 2,500 people met Bryan. He was escorted to the stand and made a brief address. At Salisbury. At Salisbury a crowd of 5, 0D0 "peo ple shouted their welcome to Bryan and applauded his speech. -At Lexington. At Lexington Bryan was met by 4.000 neonle and made an address. A gaily decorated platform had been pre pared. The Gadgrlnd' system Is the Ideal system in adVertalng "facts are the things wanted. aadVthc advertiser mn& novr them." " - At HurHngton. At Burlington 1,500 people greeted the candidate, who spoke from the platform about twenty feet from the depot. It was one of the neatest short speeches yet made. He created a laugh at the outset by saying that it was the general custom in presiden tial campaigns to send the audiences to the candidate, but the j Demooratie party, under these hard times brought on by the gold standard, had adopted tbe policy of sending the candidates to the people. jj j . i At Ilillsboro. j ; h At Hillsboro 400 people were briefly addressed from the rear platform by Bryan . A spectacled, smart Aleck by the name of Brown, a book-seller there, rode a horse caparisoned in yellow paper in front of the car. A Bryan eeoort man !; slipped up .and snatched all the McKinley I tapestry-off the horse, leaving the gold-bug foam insr with rare. : . At Durham. ; A crowd of abouj 4,000 greeted the speaker at Durham. ! Mr. Bryan, after his rest at Col. Carr's, was introduced by R. B. Boone, and soon had his audience cheering wildly under the spell of his oratory. j Demonstration at Raleigh. The demonstration at ' Raleigh, whioh was reached at 7:10, was mag nificent. The Bryan party reached from the depot to the stand in Nash square through a long line of torch lights, led by the band. The crowd was hard to estimate in the darkness, but it was immense and the sea of faoes viewed from the platform seemed endless, as it stretched away in the darkness. It must have been over 10,000. Floods of light made the platform as light as day. Mr, Bryan was greeted with a splendid ovation. He said his North Carolina trip had been so well man aged that he felt better than when he first entered the State. His mention of Vance's name was wildly cheered. His rebuke of the Republican party! attempt to array ministers of the Gos pel against the cause of free silvar was scorching and eloquently severe. Ra leigh's demonstration was altogether worthy of the capital city. 1 ; j Bryan was giv!n an elegant supper at the Park Hotel after he spoke. Many ladies lined the stairways to see him as he entered. Hal Ayer made the speech of introduction, and a good one. At Selma. Bryan spoke to 400 people at this point, wnere bonfires were burning. J. T. Ellington introduced mm. At Goldsboro. ! The Bryan special rolled into this city on Thursday night amid the boom of an anvil salute, and a blaze of elec tric lights. The candidate barely showed himself and then retired to rest. At 10:30 o'clock Friday morn ing the speech was made from a high stand on East and West Centre street A solitary soldier of the Goldsboro Ri fles stood watch near Mr. Bryan as he spoke. With bayonetted gun at par- aderest, he stood motionless through out the intense and soul-stirring bursts of oratory as useless, as ! ornamental and as patriotic a factor as the sentinel who perished in tbe freshet of ashes at Pompeii. But he did his; duty. Mr. Bryan was so completely! rested here that his voice had regained much of the church-bell strength and sweetness with which it'ratg through the utter most galleries of the Colisseum at Chi cago, uathered around tbe stand was between five and six thousand people. At VVilsou. j ' ! At this beautiful elm-shaded city he briefly addressed 2,500 people who in tensely absorbed in the words of the speaker. j j Farewell at Rocky Mount. Mr. Bryan and his party reached Rocky Mount, the last place at which speaking was to be held in North Car olina, at 12:45 p. m. last Friday. He met with a royal reception. The same feature that characterized the Asheville demonstration the processional was employed there. Two dozen carriages and 500 horsemen escorted the candi date to the fair frronnds. where ha spoxe irom a piattorm, similar to a race track judges' stand, directly facing the grand stand, the latter being packed with 1,500 white-clan, fan-fluttering la dies. Some 6,000 or 7,000 enthusias tic Tar Heels heard the speech. . The representatives of the press went to Mr. Bryan shortly before reaching Rocky Mount, and asked him if he had any last message for the people of North Carolina, Mr. Bryan, reclining as usual, smiled and replied with alacrity, "Yes, tell them this: I have had a very pleasant time iu your Stats and while I have spoken at a number of places, the trip has been so nicely arranged that I could rest between times and am not at all! fatigued.! I have not only enjoyed the trip but also my association with the silver jnen whom I heve met from time to time. "I go out of the State feeling confi dent that those who believe in free sil ver will llnd some way of consolidat ing the vote so that we will present a solid front to the gold j forces in the coming election." j I - j The Virginia Bryan rpjeial was in waiting at the above point, aud as soon as he finished his speech- the special steamed out for Richmond, where he addressed a large assemblage of Dominion free silverites. Old Fire Lots for JoJy. j July's fire loss in the United States and Canada amounted to f9.033.250. Though generally a fiery month, and although it be gan very fiercely, the fire loss , during its course this year was less by 151,750 than in 1805, while in 1894 the loss in the month iuet gone by was 16,307,000. The year to date hows a similar aggregate or losses than (or the same period of laat year, being t82.92. 800. axalntt 475.582,000 in 1895 and 1 77. 920, tSOinlSM. : . NO. 39. 1I0RTH STATE BRIEFS ELECTION LAW. T1i Chairmen Agree ok he Constrne j tlon as to Registration. ' : : The following has been given oub by Chairman Manly, and is signed by him, Chairman Holton and Chairman Ayer, as official: -;m h ' "It U agreed by the undersigned that the following is the proper con struction of the election law pf ; 1895, act S3, ehapterl59, and we request the members of our respective parties to follow the same: ! i "1st. In construing sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 18 and 14 of said election law. "That all persons I are entitled to register on Saturday, September 26th; on Satardayr uctobeTSd: on Saturday; Ootober 10th: on Saturday. October 17th, sad on these days only, between the hours of 9 -o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., except as herewith pro vided. "On Saturday, October 24th, no act shall be done in regard to registration, except the right to challenge between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. any elector whose name may appear on the books. "On Saturday, Ootober 31st, no act shall be done in regard to registration except to hear end determine all chal lenges made on October 24th. The hearing shall be had between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. in all precincts except those in incorporated towns and cities, ; when the hearing shall be had until 9 o'clock p. m. I : -. ;i ! ' . j ;'!! That any person who comes of age between Ootober 17th and election day, or who is entitled to register by reason ef his residence in the State or county, being of sufficient time re quired by law, which time ripened after Saturday, October 17th, .shall be entitled to register on election day and vote, and such persons who offer to register and vote on election day may be challenged and such challenge be heard on election day." Chairman Manly says the election law is complicated and contradictory, but that it is the purpose of the Demo crats to see what the law truly means and to act upon it. While it is not of the Democratic making, but the work of Populists and Republicans, he wil lingly consented to act with the other chairmen in the effort to see what ia the true construction of the act. i M ' ! COTTON, 63 PER CENT. 1 I ' . .-hi r State Report Shows a Remarkable ... 1 Falling Oflt ... ' - .. ""' The September crop report of the State department of Agrionlthre has been made up, The most notable showing for 'months is the falling off in the condition of the cotton rop. The percentage in the August report was 90 4-5; at that time the extent of the damage by drought was hot taken fully into consideration, ,as the effect was not known at the time the corres pondents made up their reports; the report stated that the condition of cot ton then was several points lower than reported. The reports received this month told tbe havoc wrought by the long dry spelL The average is now only 63 per cent. In 1895 at this time it was 78. : j The other figures are: Cora 79, against 90 in August and 95 a year ago. Tobacco, 76 now, against 85 1-2 in August and 90 in September, 1895. Bice, 77; peanuts, 79; sorghum, 855 sweet potatoes, 82; pastures, 74; apples, 32. i - The crop of apples is about as near a failure as it has ever been. The peach crop is so small that no special report is made this month. Last month the average was only 32 per cent. 1 Regulating Railroads. . The Board of Railroad Commission ers of this Stite, met in Raleigh last week to look into the matter of regu lating railroads. It appeared that the fourth section of tbe Interstate Com merce Act, known as the long and short haul clause, was violated by one at least oi the corporations interested. This commission has no jurisdiction to remedy this, bot ior each offence re ported will see that it is properly brought to the attention of the Inter state Commerce Commission and ask for speedy action by it. It is ordered that all railroad companies doing busi ness in North Carolina who have or may put in force cut rates to and from points in this State to and from points outside shall so arrange their local freight tariffs that the 6ame relative re duction shall be given to lpcal business as has been or may thereafter be given to through business.' It is also ordered that the standard passenger rates shall be in force on and after the 24th day of September, 1896, as sol lows: First class, three cents per mile; second class. 2 cents i a mile. All parties interested will be heard as to the reasonableness of these rates on September 22d. All exceptions to be filed oa or before that date. . j -The plumbers strike at Asheville is off, the men returning to work. The strikers ! accepted V the old scale of wages, but with the understanding that they shall be given the increase asked when there is a corresponding increase in business. This Republican Campaign. The Bepnbllcan national committee has decided to send campaign speakers of na- fional prominence oat through the silver producing States and the racino slope, ine ad ranee of these exponents of Bepublloan principles will be ex-Congressman Batter worth, of Ohio. He will speak in Wyoming September 28th and 29tn and in Colorado September 80tb. From there be goes to Ore gon, where he expect to deliver three speeches, and thence to California. Other speakers are being communicated with and will be seat West when negotiations are eompleta. v V:
The Democratic Banner (Dunn, N.C.)
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Sept. 23, 1896, edition 1
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