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RPRISE VOL. VII. ALBEMARLE, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1898. NO. 1. THE STANLY X Shall It Last Longer Carolina ? in North CRAVLVS HLACK OITICKKS, ISAAC II. SMITH TICKET. In In n Negro Hlth nn Infamous Itcrortl k a Korirer ami a Usurer -A Vllo Whit Mini Kuiming for Clerk of Ilia Court - Tha County Court House Look l.lk a ftvgra Wrltluic School, So Th irk are tlm Negro Clnrku A While l-mly of Non heru Nhteil In I he Pure hy a Ni-Ern VSlio llil'l Crowtled Her Into Iho Hlreet The Ni'gro TW-kH For County Ollleern Will inilouliteliy be y.levtetl In Craven. Correspondence Charlotte Observer Ni:wiii:iin, Sept. 0. The hinds of tlir county of Craven arc among tho iiiohI fertile in the country. For the lust tie cade thousands of dollars worth of truck have been sold on the Newborn market Lands that wcro once considered worth' less have been converted from swamps to productive fields. However, in tliu last year or two, this trucking business hiva not progressed as rapidly as it Initio fair to tlo live years ago. Thero has been an obstacle placed before the wheel. The people that compnso the popula tion, amounting to about 4,K00 nro 2, 0V0 white and 2,800 .colored people. There are no better people than the white people of Craven county. They aro of the best class of men and women. They are intelligent and kind-hearted. l!ut within the last two years they have been thrown from power and a low class of white men and ilcgro politicians put in their stead. That is why the county is not what it once bade even to be. Tim class of white men that belong to the republican puity in this part of the Stale are nut as good as the averse ne gro. Some of the negro cHierrs here are well moaning men, but they arc not competent. Heine, Uon the whole, the government oi III county affairs is in the hands of a bail crond. Unless there is something done within a year year or two the property here will fall low ia value. Good white citizens were not made to be ruled by a few incom petent white men andnegro politicians. Dut at present the case seems a hope less one here.' The Republicans have put out a ticket that is sure to bo elect ed. There is no way to prevent it now, unices the earth cracks open and pwal lows about 1,000 negroes. NEGRO LOOKS LIKE A NEGRO WUITINO-8CII0OL. ( ' ComeariCi "gfJ with' hie to my county courthouse of Craven and see what is . "thfcco to be seen any ly in the week to glance at the place as a whole you would at first take it to bo a negro writing-school. The first ollico to the right belongs to the sheriff and his crew of deputies. Jogeph L. Hahu, a white man with a black heart, is thesberiff. By his side are four negro deputy sheriffs: Northern A. Cobb, who is nlso the jailer; J. II. Fisher, Wallis Tetlipher J. K. 1'iiyno autfC. K. Khyne. There nro other negro deputies throughout the county. Not a white man is on the list. THE KKQUO "rRESSING THE BUTTON. Two doors below tho sheriff's office, and to the left, is the register of deeds John B. Willis, colored. He has for his clerks two negroes A. W. Witber- lngton and ono of his own brothers. VVithenngton is the negro that made a bombastic speech in the Republican convention here the other day. Being elated over the progress the negro has made in Craven county within the last fow years, he pictured in glowing terms what the negro was now able to do. Among other things, he said : "In l.H'.Ml, we pressed thebuttton and . behold John B. Willis, register of deeds, came forth ! Again we proseed the but ton and Robt. Mopeley, county commis sioner como forth ! We pressed the button and deputy sheriffs came forth ! t We pressed the button and magistrates came forth ! "And now, in this convention, we '. ' have again presmsl the button, and be hold, C. C. Roach, for county treasurer, ". 'it before you, and with the past and present before us, what ahaJl the future , give to us?" This was meant for a cut at the white Republicans. The negroes want all. li-ey should have all the Republican pat.y can gel here, for there are but . about 63 white Republicans in the i county. . As a special force to list the taxes for j? the register are three negro bucks on t , the second floor of the court house, pre- vt lring the tax list. , Hahn and Willis are candidates for i sheriff and regiftcr, resjiectively in this ! campaign, THE CANDIDATE FOR CLERK. In tho Republican convention held .'re a few weeks ago, the following Vet was nominated. - For clork of the Superior Court, E. , W. Carpenter, a whit man. I would 1 rather be any negro in Craven county, than to be Mr. Carpenter. He ia an v old seasoned carpct-baggerr Of all the candidates in the field he ia the most egrdod. For yc he has lived with v a negro woman and to-day she has a ouse full of children that every good J"o in the county who knows him and hit career would aay are bis. It is a no torious Uct, In former days Carpenter was a fiisir a(rpnt But he has been flistwrrod from the practice before the Tension Department on account of fraudulent practice. He now acta as agent through m negro named E. D. Cox. This is the character of the man who it going to be elected to the office of clerk of the court in Ibis county. Dr. W. L. Laamter, a negro,, is the j - present coroner of Craven county, and j ho was nominated the other day for re election. ClIUISTOniER COLUMIIUB. ROACH. The man Christopher Columbus Roach, ryferred to in his speech of Witherington as being nominated for treasurer of the county, is a salo -n-keeler. He is a thoroughbred negro. The white lady school teochors that teach in Craveu County next year will have to tlraw their pay from Roach. Ho is going to bo elected. llio stanuartl-Keeiier of the county is James Dudlco, colored. And for county surveyor nobody was nominated There is not a Republican in tho county that is cnpablo of being surveyor. R I'. Williamson, John Bittle and Bob Moseloy, colored, arc the commissioners of the county. This town has ten Councilmen, seven of whom are white and three colored. Five of tho white men were apiKiintcd by Governor Rus Bell and the other two were elected by the Democrats of the town. Tho three negroes were elected. They are: James K. Shepherd, a drayman: William H Johnson, a bartender, who has been in dieted in court for selling whiskey on Sunday, and KhaB Hayes, a carpenter R. W . Williamson, colored, now a can didate for solicitory of the second judir ial district for the Criminal and Sujier lor Courts, is the city attorney. Jutlg 1' Stanley, colored, is constable of thi township. Ho has wrested a number of white ladies and taken them to no gro magistrates for trial since coming into ollict). A H.AOIjE OF NEGRO OFFICIALS. lu tho township there arc three no gro road overseers Georgo Cooper, A B. Kooncc and C. H. Smith. Lach has white men to work the roads under him. Craven county has twelve negro school committeemen H. C. Dawson J. A. Dixon, Jr., W. D. I'ettipher, T, L. Moore, James Hargett, W. F. Mor gan, fsoro Uroom, John it. Holland Jesse Brook", Robert L. Davis, W. W Lawrence and R. W. Williamson. The colored police force of Newborn arc: Isaac Jiichardsori, 11. U. JJaKor. lb nry Pastiier. A. A. Bryant and Ron ert Mosoley. These fellows do not givo much trouble. They serve in the black precincts. It is the colored magistrates that do the work here, any way. The mayor's court is a slim affair. Craven county has hor share of ne gro justices of the peace, ihere are 27 of them. They are: H. E. Daw son, W. D. Pettipher, JesBe P. "Godott, E. W. Fisher, David Ambrose, Dock Cooper, Abraham Dennis, Alonzo Pol- ham, Washington Kpirey, .lames K. Hooks, Albert Foreman, Alexander Pelham, A. A. Bryan, Lewis Ham, W, W. Lawrence, Robert G. Mopolcy. Thomas O. White, John 13. Willie, M W. Chapman, W. H. Green, W. H. Burton, Fred Douglas. I. W. Eu banks, Dennis Perkins, Frank Rasbcrry, John A. Boons, W. A. Rountcll. "rROF." ISAAC It. SMITH Prof. Isaac H. Smith, the Republi can candidate for the Legislature from this county, is tho greatest freak of na ture that this campaign has brought out. He is a negro, a politician, money-lender and a swell "society' man. Truly, he is the Mark Hanna of this section : the Shylock of New- bern. and the Bean Brummcl of the negro population of North Carolina, In the "society" world he has tneaS' ured swords with George H. White, the negro Congress n.tu of the second district. And next year he claims that he will bo on the turf for Congress He has skinned the toughest of dead- beats, and he has outwitted the shrewd est of politicians. Professor Smith wields a facile pen and uses an oily tonguo. Truly, he is a smart negro He is unique in looks and in character In business he can tleece tho pertest of men. Many are the men that he has skinned alive. True, he has done deeds of kindness. He was one of the first men to contribute to the Vance monument fund. He did it because Vance had worked for the educational interest of the negro. I saw Professor Smith at his office- The first time I called I asked: "Is Smith, Isaac Smith, inT" A big, burly, looking fellow, answering to the de scription of Smith, told me that he was not in. I then asked when he would Lbe, and was told'that it would be the next day at 10 o'clock. I left at once and returned at the time named. I found the same man in the chair behind the desk, but this time asked if "Pro fessor" Smith was in. He said: "Yes, he in in. I am "Professor" Isaac Smith. The trouble before was that I had not called him "professor." I said to him: I have heard that you were coming down from the ticket here in Craven county. Is there any truth in it?" His reply was: "Who are you?" I told him. He then offered me a chair and began to talk. He said: "No, I am not coming down unless the people want me to. They nomi nated me and they can take me down if they wish to do so. But I am going to run, and I am going to be elected." In conversation Smith is a very enter taining talker. He ia smart, shrewd and mean. Many of his own people curse him for bis method of doing busi ness. He lends money and charge outra-cous rates of interest for it. For instance, he loaned a negro man tlO and made him pay 1 a week for it till the Principal was paid back; and in this case the time was over six months. He has let out $10 and collected as much as 100 ft it These are hia methods. Indeed, he is the boas usurer of the Stata. He looks at everything from a business aUndpoint. He was heard to tay the other day that thia Republican business waa like a stock company, ine white Republican were talking of tak ing him down. He said: "This is a stock company. The negro haa 95 per cent., and the white man 6 per cent. 1 Who shall say what I am going to do?" THE TEN. CHEATED OUT OF SMITH. Smith has been convicted before juries twice for forgery, but on account of technicalties he was left off by the Supreme Court. Tho first timo he got off because the solicitor in prosecuting the case hail abused his privilege in using tho following language in address ing the jury. "The defendant was such a scoundrel that he was comtielled to move his trial from Jones county, whore he was kuown." And, again: "The bold, brazen-faced rascal had the impudence to write me a note yesterday, begging me not to prosecute and threatening me that if I did he would get the Legislature to impeach me." Seventy-filth North Carolina Reports, 300. He was again convicted and appealed to the Supremo Court antl was allowed a new trial on the ground of the varian. between the bill of indictment and the evidence expressed by the Supreme Court as follows: "On the trial of-an indictment for forgery charging the defendant for hav ing forged an ortler for fbO.07. Evi dence that tho defendant had forged an order for any other amount (tho two orders in evitlence in this case being for 100 and $00.27, resiicctively) is not admissiblo." Seventy- eight North Carolina Reports, 402. . SMITH S OWN RACE ABOMINATES HIM. Smith has been indicted for skinning people iu various ways. Some time last year Congressman Goo. H. White, colored, had some newspaper controversy with nmith. After accusing Smith ol erasing his (Smith's) name off of a note on which he was co-endorser with White, the litter said, among other things: "In conclusion, Mr. Editor, permit ino to say that I may not be the 'social equal' of a man who has boon convicted antl sentenced to the penitentiary for forgery. I may not be tho 'social equal of a fellow who has cast off his lawful wife and innocent children, who are now struggling for existence in another State, while tho father and the husband is trying to buy his way into the socioty of decent people. I do not wish to be the 'social equal of a man who has been indicted for forgery and como into court while I was a solicitor and begged me to allow him to put in a pica of nolle condendero, and let him off by paying the cost to escape the penitentiary again, "But, why need 1 go further? The dockets of Craven county will tell the rest. "God forbid that 1 should ever be the social equal' of a man who lives by skinning tho poor, gullible unsuspecting pconlo of tho community whore he lives." Congressman White is not the only negro that has roasted Smith. Every body in this town knows of bis meanness. This is the man that will go to the Legislature from this county. A STURDY DAND OF DEMOCRAIS, Tho Democrats of Craven county are active men. They are on the alert tc see that their rights are respected, Truly, it can be said that they fight every inch. It is a plucky set. Ihey are well posted on the misdeeds of the crowd that now governs them. And if it ever comes to a conflict to a finish the best men of the town and county will come out victors. They are outnum bered, but they still have courage and determination. Where this reign of incompetence and insolence goes on the middle class of whites are the ones that suffer at the hands of insulting negroes. And, too, it can be said, as a rule, that it i not the well grown negroes that are guilty of gross impudence. It is the negro youth that give the trouble. There are several cases where white girls have been shoved from the sidewalks. One case that took place just the day before I came here is hard to believe, but the facts are known to be genuine. A young lady of good family met on the sidewalk three negro boys, sne was forced to the fence and then she was struck by one of the negroes as they passed. Being thus insulted, she turned and made some remarks, whereupon the negro turned around and slapped her in the face. Such a thing could not happen in the western part of the State. Nothing waa done by the party in mwer here. Kindred cases occur fre quently. No one is safe from the in solence of this crowd of young negroes, made so by seeing the negro in power here. It is the same old story give the necro the majority and he becomes offensive and unruly. They Don't Care for Incoonlitenry. Charlotte Observer. Sava the Caucasian, this week: "The People's party was desirous of co-operating with the Democrats in this campaign to secure a victory lor me white man and white meiai, ana matie them a proposition to this effect, which waa turned down by the Clevelandite and McKinley Democrats who controll ed the recent Democratic St-vte conven tion and captured the organization of the nartv." And this made the traders oi me . . . .. . . ... People's party so mad that they straight way went off and got up a "co-operation" with the Republicans in order to beat the while man and the white metal and secure a victory for the gold-bugs and the negroes. In view of their last trade it occurs to us that the least inese houses have to say about their effort to make a previous one, on wholly differ ent lines, the better for their record for consistent couduct. It U OUMfptlb' Caucasian, February, MB7. The co-operation of the Populists and Republicans in this State haa been t dismal and disastious failure. Only the contemptible pie-hunters see any good in it." HUMAN EV:LH 1W COMMAND. What Fusion Haa l.ronifht About A Kelgn or Indolence, luilolencp. Incompetence antl Corruption Nome UlnHtriitlonH of the Htate of AITalraiii U llminuton. Cor. Charlotte Observer. Wilminoton, Sept. 5. The following stories will give an idea of what is going on in the town of Wilmington. Every thing is controlled by tho police force and tho mayor of the city. If they be worthless, then the town has no protec tion. Such is tlic use now. Tho white men iu New H:i? river comity and the. town of Wilmingt mi that are put iu office by the vote o. tho negroes in the county are meaner than tho negroes. I doubt if the State has a more reckless, careless, worthless man than John R. Melton, chief of the police forco of this town. Ho is a white man of low degree. With such a chief no forne could be agoodone.- Abont the 101 h of August the house of Mr. -Vr. M. Harris?; cx-mnvor of Wil mington, was entered from the back way and ransacked from lop to bottom. Mr. Harris was away. On his return he found $:S(H) worth of :elothiiig and other wearing apparel gone ; also, a gun gui! ar and a banjo. Jt was four day n af ter tho robbery before he found it out He at ouco went to iolico headquarters and reported it. Tlmy seemed to take no notice of tho affair. They never even promised to make ail investigation. Mr, HarriH has a brothorwho is a physician iu tho towu. IIu heard of the robbery and told some of His patients, ono of whom hail heard (if a negro boy trying to sell a gnitar at lus house the day bo foro. A trap was Set by Dr. Hiu'ris He seilt tho negro boy word to bring the guitar to his house, as he wanted to pur chase it. An engagement was mode for a certain night at au appointed hour to meet tho negro. Mr.jW. M. Harris had himself and thrco of his. brothers sworn in as special depntits and arrested the negroes. The gnu, tho banjo and the guitar were found, bfit the clothes were not. The negroes ivoro tried before a magistrate and bound over to the next term of criminal court . One of tho boys stated that ho had parsed by a party of five policemen on tho- street with a gun on his shoulder. He, was trying to sell it all tho time. This is ono of many coses whero tho citizens of the towu have had to act as officers in order to catch thiovos and robbers.. Mr. Harris does not hesitate to say that if ho had taken this case before tho mayor of tho towu that tho robbers woulrl have been turned loose. j NEGRO JURYMEN A TRAVESTY ON JUSTICE On tho 7th of February, 18!)(, a little 10-year-old colored givl walked into the store of Mr. R. F. Hammey, tho hatter, of Wilmington, and askod if he had red Tam O Slmuter bat. Mr. Hammey was writing at tho dc;nk iu the back of tho store, He auswiii d no, and contin ued his work. After looking about for sonuiimtes, th" wi. -ssi jji a rather mthirtmut tone : ww, -can t yon snow mo isomo hats?" Mr. Hammey arose from his seat and went to tho front and showed her hat after hat, but she saw nothing that exactly pleased her, How ever, sho liked a rod yacht cap and left, saving that she would see her mother and prcbably return and get tho hat, Mr. Hammey went agaiu to his work at the desk aud the girl stood near the stove for a short while and thou left for home. Nothing moro was seen of her till about 1 o'clock. She cameiu aud Mr. Hammey said : "I gnoss you have como for tho hat?" Sho said nothing to this. At this time in stepped iu her father, R. F. Holmes, ono of tho rogularJioUccmeu of tho towu. Ho had ou his badge and his uniform, but did not have his club. He said to Mr. Hammey: "You insulted my girl this morning." Mr. Hammey denied the charge indignantly, but be fore he had timo to think the negro knocked him down with a brass knuek, cutting three deep gashes over tho right eyo. Mr. Hammey, being a very strong man and a very plucky ono, sprang tc his feet aud made for Holmes. Several licks passed aud Holmes tried to draw his pistol. But by this timo Tony Asho, a negro deputy sheriff, ran iu and arrest ed Holmes. Ashe had accompanied Holmes to tho door beforo the fight. He was waiting outside Iu tho Superior Court Holmes was tried for assault with a deadly weapon. There wero several negroes on tho jnrj and they voted to acquit him. Hence a mistrial. The sec ond trial came and tho ono negro on the jury made a mistnal.Aud tho third at tempt for trial failed. The solicitor uol prosscd the caso aud said that a white man could not get jusrico iu Now Han over courts. Such is tho state of affairs in New Hanover as to trial by jury. There are always negroes on the jury and they will not convict a negro. CHIEF Or POLICE A GAMBLER. Mr. R. C. Branch, yardinaster of the Atlantic Coast Liuo depot, has a donkey for his small boy. Tho boy was riding the donkey in tho streets of Wilmingtou some time ago, whon another donkey frightened the boy from his steed. A policeman arrested young Branch's don key and made him pay for impounding it, while the donkey that did tho mis chief waa not troubled. This kindled Mr. Branch's auger. He did not love Chief Melton anyway. So . somo time after the donkey affair Mr. Branch walked into Rhode's saloon on I Vine street aud found Chief Melton witness ing a game of cards. In some way the two men got into a conversation. Mr. Branch proceeded to curse the officer in unmeasured terms, whereupon Melton arrested him aud took him to the station house. Ho was not going to allow Branch bail of any kind. But Branch, being the wronged man, declared that ho would not be locked up. Then Mel ton allowed some one to go oc his bail. The trial came before a magistrate. The magistrate was of the same stripe Melton. He at first tried to convict Branch for insulting an officer, but find ing that he could not, he changed the barge to disorderly conduct and bound him over to court. In this caoe it wus developed that Chief Melton was a fre quenfer of the bar, a gambler, aud that iu time past he had kept funds of tho city that ho had collected for "bonds." ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN. Sometime ago there came a telegram from the chief of police of Mullens, S. C, to tho chief at Wilmington. It read like this: "Bob Dauiela for murdering his father-in-law." Wilmington has a respectable citizen by tho uamo of Bob Daniels. Chief Melton sent two men to this Mr. Daniels' house at 1 o'clock in the morning .to arrest him. Ho was sleeping after a day's work, when the door-bell rang. In tho face of strong protest from Mr. Dauiels aud his wife he was hauled out and carried to the station house and locked in acell. Day light came, and Mr. Johu D. Bellamy, Jr., Mr. Daniels' lawyer, tried iu vaiu to get his client out on bail ; tho sup posed murdered brother-in-law went down, looking as live as a spring moru iuu. to tlir Mi. Dii.:,i'j,' bail, but no. Finally some fellow from Soiil h OlvrolilJ.0. came along and said that he knew the man wanted and declared tho nmu ar rested not tho man in question. Mr, Daniels was released. A BRUTAL AND UNJUSTIFIABLE CLUBIIINO, This morning I attended Mayor Wright s court at the city hall. One E D. Mellheimy, an inoffensive, humble. white man, was up for resisting an off! cer. Lnst Friday uight tliis man, who had been sick for some time, came out of his room aud sat down ou the steps of the Wilmington National Bank, a place removed from tho iho sidewalks. Ho, being weak, fell asleep on tho steps, Officer Temple, one of tho white officers of the town, punched Mcllheuny and told him to move. Theslceper was slow to get aroused and the policeman jerked him off tho steps into tho street aud hustled him oil' to tho station house. Tho prisoner pretexted, but in vain Ho asked to bo allowed to go to his room Ou reaching the city hall steps tho de scending steps lead to tho cells, aud tho ascending stops to tho mayor's office, Mcllhenny lnodo a step to go up tho lat ter and iu a jiffy tho police officer club bed him across tho top of tho head so hard that the club wout through tho hat aud mado a wound two inches long on Mcllhonny's head. Tho lick was heard for somo distance. Tho caso was dis charged this morning without trial There wero several eyo witnesses to tho whole affair and I heard ono say that it was a disgrace to civilization. Hnndreds of such stories can be traced to rock bottom in this town. I know the details of many more. Tho facts given above wero collected by mo from the principal partices canccrued. OBJECTED TO A NEGRO GAUUER. Wilmiugton has one man that has pluck to defend his principles. That man is Mr. W. R. Bradshnw, a diKtiller, Siuce May, 1897, ho has run his distil lery, four miles from Wilmiugton, with out ceasing up to somo timo in June of this year. Mr. Robert Daniel was his store-keeper aud gauger. Iu Juno Mr. Daniel was transferred to Snow Hill, Mr. Bradshaw thought that the man in Snow Hill, relieved by Daniel, would be sent to him. Ho went to tho train to moot him, but no one camo. Mr. Brad shaw returned to his saloon on Market street. John Sutton, a white Republi can, met him there aud introduced a ne gro by the uamo John T. Howe. Howe extended his haud, but Mr. Bradshaw declined the honor aud went on behind tho counter. Howe walked iu, present' ing his papers from Collector Duncan of the eastern district, assigning him as store-keeper and gauger for the Brad shaw still near Wilmington. Mr. Brad shaw wired Duncan that he would not run with a negro aud began to ruu out his beer to shut down. Ou tho last day of Juue ho suspended operations. But on the 5th day of July he made applica tion for a store- keeper and gauger to be gin on the 11th of the mouth. No answer was received. After several applications Mr. McKoy Diukms, of Vanco county was sent to him. Tho still is how mu uing ou full time at No. 3,233, fourth district. Mr. Bradshaw is not a politician, but a plain business man with strong con- victious aud the courage to back them. H. E. C. Bryant. A Voluntary Vindication of Ur Kllgo. Special Cor, Morning Tost. We, the undersigned, beg to submit that we were present and heard the lecture of Dr. John C. Kilgo, delivered here October 30, 1896. The Doctor was here by siiecial request, and his ad dress was a purelv literary one. We were highly entertained by bis ablo, lea rued and polished discourse. To the diamond nng egisode, shout which so mach has recently been published, we confess we tooc no exception. If there was any part of his speech disre spectful about ladies we didn't hear it On this and the many other occbsions we have had the pleasure of hearing Lr. Kilgo, judging by tho lofty senti ment of his speeches and what we know of the man himself, our opinion of him is that be would be about the last per son in the world to say anything derog atory of woman. ( Signed ) Mrs. R. I. . Eeatherston, Mrs. J. A. Long, Miss Anna Webb, Mrs. 8. B. Winstead, Mrs. N. E. Col- trane, Miss Maggio Long, Mrs W. H. Hams, Mrs. J. 8. Mcmtt, Mrs. L. D. Chambers, Miss Jessie Webb, Mrs. E. Thomiieon, Msss Evie Street, Mrs. W. E. Wei, Miss Fannie Sergeant, Mrs. Hugh Woods, Miss Bertha Field, Miss Mollie Brooks, R. I. Featherston, Mayor of Roxboro; J. M. Winstead, Cashier of Farmer's Bank, J. A. Long, Presidents root .lea' Bank: J. . Brad- shier, Cashier of Peoples' Bank: J. S. Merritt, R. E. Long, W. R. Hambrick, W. II. Harris. Both regular and volunteer troops will be sent to Cuba for garrison duty. It is said that the military governorship lies between Generals Merritt,. Brooke and Wade, of the regular army. THE DUTY OF POPULIST VOTERS, Atlanta Constitution. There is every indication that the Populist organization is falling to pieces. At tho recent Cincinnati convention even the middle-of-the-road men broke into factions which are irreconcilable In Georgia, the activo effort of the lead ers who are left to unite their followers with tho negroes has proved to bo the last feather tkat breaks the camel i back. Antl no wonderl The clement that has given character to tho Populist party in Georgia is precisely the elo incut that lias most to fear from th evil results that are sure to follow hard on tli'e heels of a coalition -with the negroes. The white people of North Carolina now deploring tho false stcii they took, when, to feed the greedy ambition of thoir leaders, they con sentcd to form a coalition with the Re publicans. Tho negro element in North Carolina is less important AortH. Car-. than in Georgia. We mean by that that the- white Republi cans aro more numerous and perhaps stand higher with the people than most of the white Rcpulicans in Georgia. Nevertheless, the nogro is a very im portant factor in North Carolina, and tho coalition brought him to the top, Ho is in practical control of many of tho counties, and the importance which tho coalition gives him need not be de scribed to thoso who know tho negro character. It is enough to Bay that he is patronizing the small farmers and tenants, whom he alludes to as "the poor whites," and in his newspapers lie is asserting that the real cause of so many lynchings is that the daughters of the poor whites fall in love with the negro bucks, and when this is dis covered, the chargo of rape is made and the negro is sacrificed. This is what tho Populists of North Carolina have to stomach. Tiioy have acknowl edged the importance of the nogro by making an alliance with him, and now they are reaping the bitter fruits of their own folly. For tho purpose of securing office the Populist leaders in Georgia are no doubt willing to sacrifice their followers to the sinister results of a coalition with tho negroes. But the Constitu tion believes that tho honest and solf- respocting Populist voters of this state will refuse to countenance a courso so desperate and dangerous. If thev do, they will ruo the day when they per mitted thenisoIveB to bo so vilely misled. Let them contrast the men who are seeking their votes by means of a negro alliance with the Democratic candi dates, and mark the difference. On one side those candidates are sneaking away from their arms around the negro, are ready to indorse the gold standard, protection and anything else that promises to place them in office On the other side the Democratic side the- candidates Are standing boldly on the platform which contains the saving principles of the party, What part of that platform is objec tionable to any reasonable voter in Georgia? What principle do the Popu lists object to? We say that if the platform were full of objectionable features though it is not if the can didates themselves were objectionablo though they are not it would still be better for the Populist voters to vote for the Democrats rather than suflbcato themselves in the arms of a negro coalition. The Constitution has never attacked the motives of the Populist voters in Georgia: on the contrary, it has defend' cd these voters against thoughtless at tacks. It has admitted that they had a grievance when they first drew away from the party; but it advised them then to remain in the p.rty and help reform it As a matter of fact, that re form was bound to come, and it came at Chicago. It came in the fullest de gree when the party wrote into its platform in a manner not to be mis understood, a doctrine that it had been advocatine for twenty odd years. For these reasons, we advise the Populist voters of Georgia to return to the ranks and support the Democratic candidate for governor and the Demo cratic candidates for congress. What sacrifice will such a course entail? Surely not one of such sinister import as that which they will have to make f they indorse the negro coalition and accept Republican doctrines which they have bitterly opposed all their lives. Their choice lies between a negro coalition and the party with which they formerly acted a party in whose principles they found both hope and comfort. Repeal the War Iu. It seems certain, says the Detroit Free Press, that pur national treasury is to be embarrassed with an excess of riches. This will be better by a great deal than to be embaraased by a lack of resources. But the situation should im pel Congresi to relieve the people at the earliest possible moment of an un necessary burden. Unless some un oreseen financial stress should entirely change the situation before the first of December, it wil be the obvious duty of Congress to reduce taxation by abating many, if not all, of the special taxes now being paid by the people- Such action would not only afford relief from a vexation form of taxation, but would aid materially in avoiding an excessive and troublesome surplus. The fusion effected at Raleigh last week between Populist and Republican politicians waa expected. It has. excit ed little interest for the reason that it does not signify as much as such a deal once did. Time was when this trade would have meant the deli very of a cer tain number of votes by either party, but it signifies no such thing this year. The politicians may dicker, but the voters are going to take the bit in their teeth in this year of our Lord. Char lotte Observer. STATE MEWS. J. A. Marsh,-Populist, is the fusion nominee for the House in Union county. Ho was origually opposed to fusion with the Republicans and made a speech de nouncing it. After being nominated he made another speech in which he said he would "once more swallow fusion, negro and all." Mr. Marsh seems to realize what his medicine is made up of. Mr. Louis Correll, of Mt. Vernon, this county, died suddenly Tuesday of heart trouble. He had gone out to the stable to hitch up his horse for the .pur pose of bringing his daughter, Miss Fannie, who stays at Mr. G. W. Whit lock's, to town when he dropped dead. He bad been in good health and on the morning of his doath was as hearty as ever. The interment was made Thursday. A terrible story of cruelty comes from the State farm at Northampton, which is managed by Lewis Summerill. No weird story from the Black Dungeon of Manila was ever more brutal and in human. James Kowe, of Iuuisrlert- ford cottyr-a hhV convict who was sent to the Northampton farm, was beat so unmercifully and so brutally that he died shortly afterwards while at work in the field. John D. L. Kluttz, of Rowan county, who has been serving a term in the State prison, was pardoned by Gover nor Russell last week. Last December Kluttz aud W. II Huff, both guards on the county chain gang, became involved in a difficulty in which the latter named was kUled. At the February term of court Kluttz was tried and found guilty of monslaughter. He waa sentenced to a term of five years in the penitentiary. Cabarrus Mine. Southern Floltl. The Little Fichy Gold Mining Com pany and tho Honey cutt Placer and Lode Gold Mining Company, which own adjoining gold mines in Cabarrus County, N. C, about three miles from Gold Hill and near the Southern Rail way, have joined in the erection of 60-stamp mill, of which 40 have been running for some weeks., and the other 20 are about ready. Mr. Fred. Belts, the president of the two companies, writes: "We have been saving our free gold on plates and concentrating our tailings and have a number of hundred tons of concentrates on hand. The companies are also now putting in four-furnace and two-barrel lheis chloriuation plant similar to that in operation at the Haile mine in South Carolina. This is being rapidly com pleted and will be in operation about September 1, 1898. .The plant will, when completed, be of substantially the same size and capacity as that at the Haile mine, and there is every indica tion from what has already been done and from the character and quan'itv of our ore that we shall be able to make as much or more gold. We have three shafts on llho vein. The distance be tween No. 1 shaft and No. 3 shaft is 1,405 feet. No. 2 shaft is between these. The deepest shaft is 170 feet, and we are still sinking. Ore drawn from tho shafts is dumped from a chute in cars holding about 1 tons each, and a mule hauls two of these at a time to the mill on a side hill by the creek 2,000 foot from the farthest shaft From the cars the ore is dumped into chutes and runs over grizzelies, the fine falling through them directly into the ore bins. The coarse ore is run through the rock breakers and then into the bins. From the bins the ore falls into self-feeders for the stamp mills. The ore is crushed in the mill so as to pour through a 3d mesh screen. It is then run over plates and the free gold saved and the rest run to the conoentratidg room, where the tailings are concen trated about 8 or 10 to 1, and the con centrates saved for treatment by chlori- nation as soon as our cblonnation plant is complete. The vein is on an average about four feet wide and is of laminated talc slate mixed with some gray quart. It carries some free gold, but the great er part of the values is found iu the sulphide of iron which is saved by con centration and is to be treated Dechlori nation. We have been engaged in mining and developing about fifteen months." E. L. Woods, formerly of Pueblo, Col., is the secretary and treasurer of the companies. Front Seat at the Table. News and Observer. The pie-eating Populists try to deter the silver Populists from returning to the Democratic party by saying that you can get in only at the back-door." Of course this is done merely to try to keep the Populists from acting with white men for white metal. To show how false it is we quote the following from the Plymouth Beacon, referring to one of the Democratic nominees for the State Senate in the Second district: J. W. Miller, Esq., of Pamlico, is a hard working farmer who has the in terests of the farms and laboring people at heart. He was, up until six years ago, leading Democrat, but at that time, he, like many of his friends, became discouraged and in his eager ness for financial relief, sought that relief in the Populist party. He, like the masses of that parly, believes that the only hope of reform waa in the overthrow of the Democratic party, but after two years he saw his mistake; he saw that the new party had met its fate; that by its leaders the party had been sold out, and that instead of giving relief to the down-trodden farmer, it had -given life to Republican sm and made matters worse, and when his party fused and his leaders elected Goldbug Pritchard to the Senate, be denounced the action and returned to the Democratic fold, and has since labored as sealously for its success u he did for the success of the new party. He is a man of ability, and of character hich no man can question, and if elected his Populist friends will find in him a representative worthy of their confidence."
The Albemarle Press (Albemarle, N.C.)
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