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THE CAUCASIAN. PCBUBHID EVERY THCRHAT MARIO BUTLEI?, Kdltor & Propr. Entered in tbe Post-Office t Clinton X. C, as Second-Class Matter. Show this Paper to your neighbor and advise him to suDscnue. Buhcriptlon Price f LOO per year in Advance, CLIXTON, V. C, JAX. 12, 1893. AS DREW JOHNSOS DK3IOCKACY. Shall the currency of the country be legal tender issued and Us volume controlled by the government, or shall it be non-legal lender issued and controlled by banking corpora tions 1 EDITORIAL BIUKF8. Congress has started off well. It has squandered more of the people's money by passing an other pension bill. Mr. Watson, of Anson, said he had to run his hand down in his pocke and spent over five hundred dollars to carry his election. No Banks of issue, State or Nrtional. Andrew Jackson. What does the present Gen eral Assembly think of that old fogy kind of Democracy I One Democrat congratulated another and said : "I am more than glad to see you. for any Democrat who has come from that Butler section has just es caped from Hell." Governor Holt's message to the General Assembly is long, very long, tedious, and much of it irrelevant. The man who got the job to write it must have been paid so much a column, without limit. Daniel. Webster received 14 electoral votes in 1836, having carried only one state. The first time Thomas Jefferson ran for president he only got four electoral votes. Gen. Weaver has 29 electoral votes. Dr. Fish, who is arranging to write up Congress, and with whom we have made a contract to have The Caucasian fur nished with all the possible in formation about the inside do ings of thatf body, writes us that he will not be ready to send out his first letter-before January 20. Two P. P. men went into the office of the Secretary of State and asked some questions of in formation, when Capt. Coke told them that he would do anything he could for a Democrat, but nothing for a damned People's party man. That he thought more ot a Radical than a damned People's party man. Daniel Webster made the remark once on a time that 'when all our paper money is made payable in specie on de mand, it will prove the most certain means that can be used to fertilize the ricn man's field Dy tne sweat 01 tne poor man's brow." But Grover Cleveland says that all paper money must be convertable into coin (gold.) Which is correct? We must ask the indulgence of our readers again this week for being a day behind with the paper. The present arrange ment of having the paper printed elsewhere is veryv troublesome. We hope to be able to buy a press and fit up an office of our own in a few weeks, when the paper will be issued on time. This is the first year we have ever failed to get out an issue on Christmas week, and would not have missed this time if we had had an office of our own. Crvnxs er caxoui, to.i r.r r.m. A tie the official reports of State officers the personal pro perty of tlie man who hap pens to hold the office? We see a copy of the auanors re port contains a slip that it is sent with the compliments of Geo. W. Sanderlin. But this office has not been favored with a copy with his or anybody elfe's compliments this year. A ScBBaaiins want to know why e put our best editorials in last week's issue on the 4th jmge of the paper. We suppose our friend refers to the editorkl aKnit the self-constituted organs. In the first place we did not know it was the beat editorial, and in the next place what we put on the fourth page we consider as important as what goes on the other pages. Our paper has nearly all been editorial since we vere forced to reduce the size after the fire. The R. G. Dun & Co., and Bradstreet Mercantile Agencies, in their recent advices to mer chants, report that the North Carolina Farmers' State Alliance has assigned. This report is wholly false, and could be clone for no other purpose than to damage the Alliance, and espe cially its Business Agency. Who reports to those agencies in Raleigh? Dun and Bradstreet should be called to account. The Electoral College for North Carolina met in Raleigh on last Monday. Mr. C, B Ay cock, one of the Electors-at- Large, was made chairman. Some long stereotyped speeches were made nominating and sec onding the nominations of Cleve land and Stevenson. Mr. Glenn, the other Elector, was appointed to take the official returns to Washington, and deliver the same to the President of the Senate. It is amusing to see a blind partisan monopoly-controlled pa per declaring that the party must carry out its pledges faith fully and honestly with the peo ple, and that if it does not, it ought to be condemned by the people, etc. Papers that try this confidence game on the people will get left this time. The peo ple know that such papers are not honest, and that if the pres ent Congress and the Demo cratic party were to violate every pledge made to the people, that these papers would at the next election raise the old tune "Give us one more chance." Some one sent to the pa pers one day last week a sensa tional report saying that a ter rible battle betwen the sheriff and some lynchers had taken place at Bakersvilie, N. C, and that over thirty-one men 'were killed. It was sent out by the Associated Press, and was pub lished in every daily newspaper in America, and in many Euro pean papers. The whole thing turns out to be a lie. This must be the same man who has been reporting the National meetings of the Alliance for the Goldbug newspapers. Col. Thomas Strange, city attorney for Wilmington, N. C, has published a card relative to the back taxes due the city, and the coruse of the Messenger in opposing the collection of the tax, which turns some light on the railroad and newspaper bus iness in those parts. There is evidently now more than one who will agree with The Cau casian that the Messenger looks through monopoly glasses. It seems that its first allegiance is not to the city of Wilmington nor to the people of the State, but to the Northern syndicate, with a few local tenens, known as the Adantic Coast Line. - BLACK-DRAUGHT teacur.. Constipation. National - Bank - Government-Bond-Democrats in New York and Boston held meetings on January 8th, or rather on Sat urday night, to celebrate "Jack son's Day." They made speeches expressing admiration for the sterling integrity and pure Democracy of "Old Hick ory.' This shows how the re formers who believe in Jefferso nian and Jacksonian Democracy hae scared the plutocrats. If old Andrew Jackson could have risen from the tomb he would have felt like Christ did when He kicked the money changers from the temple. H would have said, ''By the eternaU, don't take mv name in vain. Yo: scoundrels and hypocrites! There is no more Democracy in you than there is blood in a tur nip. You who have bled the people through the National Bank tyranny, and are new pro posing to continue the came game under the more popular guise of the State Banks. Get thee hence, and stop masque rading under my name to fool the people Then we imagine we can see the old hero turn to the American people and ex claim: "My countrymen, what I predicted in my farewell mes sage is now at hand. Arouse yourselves! Eternal vigilance is tbe price of liberty!" A nunber of our State pa pers are just now "cussing our" Congress for doing nothing, or rather for extravagant and vici ous legislation, which is worse. These papers are now repeating the same charges that the editor of The Caucasian made last fall on the stump and through the columns ot this paper. They denied the charges then, and said we were'abusing the Demo cratic Congress as hard as any Republican could do it. Now why are these strong partisan papers taking up the cry of the reformers Does it mean that they are coming over, and wifl hereafter stand by the people? No. It means first, that the charges we made in the cam paign were true; it means sec ond, that the people were find ing out that we were right. These papers, saw their sub scription lists falling off, and the politicians and i monopolies be hind them saw defeat for the machine in the next election. In short they are trying to make a show of honesty to keep the people reading their papers. The politicians and local parti sans are constantly giving Alli ancemen advice, and harping about them reading "only one side." The trouble vith these fellows is, they read but one sid themselves. To test this matter, look around you and see how many of the, old party partisans you know who are read ing reform literature. Our experi ence is, that you will find very few. These fallows are overflow ing with ignorance, and are incapa ble of giving anybody advice; and it takes a large amount of igno rance and "government- 'mule cheek" for them to try to give ad vice, and to talk about reformers readingonly one side. The fact is there are double as many reform ers reading both sides as there are old line partisans. And if reform ers were not now reading both sides, they would still have this ad vantage, they have been reading what the bosses said all their lives and know the old story by heart! The best all-round informed men in America to-day are Alliancemen and othej reformers. Theie is, however, a goodly per cent, of those who voted with the old par tisans at the last election to whom this does not apply. Thev are honest and intelligent, and are try. ing to keep themselves honestly informed, and if something i8 Dot done by the present administra tion, these men will have the man hood to vote next time for I instead of for party. MORE "NEGRO D0MWATI05." "The silk banner presented bv Senator Vance some years ago to the banner Democratic countv, and which has been held by Catawba, vill now move east, and strangely enough, to Halifax, a former strong Republican party. Press and Carolinian. The largest negro county in the State now the banner Dem ocratic county! What party is suffering from negro domina tion now ? SPEEDY TR1AI.S UPON TIIK 31 E KITS. Attorney-General Davidson, in his able" and exhaustive re poit to the Governor, recom mends that a statute be past making two degrees of murder, and that all objections to indict ments, which now may be taken by motion to quash, motion to dismiss, motion in arrest t f judgment, or by demurrer, shall be made by demurrer or motion to quash before the jury is sworn and not thereafter; and that every court before which such indictment or charge shall be pending, and motion or demur rer filed shall, if it be necessary, cause the indictment or charge to be forthwith amended in such particular, and thereupon the trial shall proceed as if no such defect appeared. State Chroni cle. At the last session of the Gen eral Assembly Senator Butler, of Sampson, introduced a bill, which was drawn by Senator Allen, to enre this defect, but i the rush of railroad legislation and other important matters that engrossed his attention, the bill failed to become a law. CONVERTED (?) Two years ago Governor Holt as President of he Senate used his influence against the passage of the Railroad Commission bill, and cast the deciding vote to kill the six per cent, interest bill. In his message to the General Assembly he says the commission "has accomplished much good," and that "six per cent, interest is sufficient, and the cry of the people for lower rates than tjiey have been re quired to pay is reasonable." We are glad to see that the Governor is converted, or at least forced to admit that the Alliance Legislature was work ing for the best interests of the people, while he and others were trying to thwart the will of the people. Much of the Gover nor's message sounds as if it were written by an Allianceman. It would not suprise us now if he were to apply for member ship. WE WILL SEE. The question is, now that the democrat has the white ele phant, what will he do with it? Senator Colquitt, O'Ferrall, and many other democratic fore men, are clamoring for an ex tra session. They say that democracy got there, by repeat ed pledges to give the country immediate relief from unjust and partial legislation. Which is true. The leaders of the party made the promises, and they know that thousands of honest democrats voted with them "just once more," and that they will hold the bosses to their pledges, and that just so sure as tne day dawns and the pledges are unredeemed, just so certain will they fly to the peoples party for succor and relief. The democratic wheel horses know that the wishes of Wall street must be complied with, and that when their desires are satisfied, the people, the masses, are left without a hope to cling to. The cry was before election, ''give us a chance;" now the wail is uttered, -'give ua more time." Great West. This is an interesting situa tion. The Caucasian will watch for the i im and tell you about it. FIOURES-THK FACfS WA.u via ICMlIai., Dnr 11 in. - . mm mm m Y. Looking over the auditors - report We nOUCe lllttv . iron) rmid to Armsted 1 icca " x Jones October 1S02 for2,50 1.. Itnsbee A Bnsbee Octo- ber 1832 for$2,5oo. As a pub- , lie journalist we would iikc iu ask what service these men j rendered the State that 5,000 f of the peoples money should , be piid to them. They were employed in the case of the State vs. the Seaboard & Ro noke R. R., but the amount col- ; lected from this road according to the same report was only 7, 500. How long did these law yers work for the State? The salary of the Attorney Gener al for a whole year is only 82,000. Did Mr. Jones work a whole year for the State on this one casefand did Busbee & Busbee work a whole year too or even a half a year. And if they had would not 2,000 the same amount paid to the Attorney .General have not been an enormous fee? In our innocence we had thought that the people elected an Attorney General to do such work as these men were employed to do. Again we notice that the State Guard cost the tax-payers of the State more thon 16,000. Can the people afford the luxury of a State guard at these figurers? Now since the money power has recently had a bill passed making the State guards a part of the U. S. Army would not it be well for the State to either abolish the Guard or let the U. S. Government foot the bill? Again we notice that the bu reau of Labor Statistics cost more than 3,000 a year. Can anybody tell the, people what good this bureau has done? Or is it just a plan prepared to give an office to some good worker for the party?- We notice that there is an ex tra 1,000 drawn by, the Aud itor himself for extra clerk hire what is the extra work done during the last year for which this jnoney was paid? Will the Auditor, the servant of the people, explain? We also notice that there is i,000 for extra clerk hire paid to the Secretary of State. What extra work was done in that of fice during the last year? We remember that when the Colo nial Records were being gotten by Col. Sanders, that in recog nition of his services to the State in preparing the valuable documents for which he charged the State nothing, that the Leg islature authorized the payment of $ 1,000 extra to the office for an extra clerk. Is it possible that this $1,000 a year extra has been continued ever since? Let the people have the truth about the matter. The Cauca sian will turn on the light if the people's servants do not. RALEIGH LETTER. The Ddlnss of the General Assembly. (Special Correspondent.) Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 10, '93. By WednesdQr night of last week nearly all the members of the General Assembly were in Raleigh, at the Democratic cau cus that night the following were named for the Senate : ' OFFICERS ELECTED. Hon Jno. M. King of Guil fordcounty, Temporary Presi dent; W G. Burkhead, Princi pal Clerk; George P. Pell. Read ing Cleak; W. V. Clifton, Door Keeper; D. McMatheson, Assis tant Door-keeper; Hartwell S. Blair, Engrossi ng Clerk. FOR THE HOUSE.. The officers of the Houe are Hon. Lee S. Overman, of Row an county Speaker; J. M Brown, Principal Clerk; H. A. Latham, Reading Clerk: A. H. Hayes, Engrossing Clerk Da- Kilpafrick, Aii,.lnvj keener. hi Mr. A. K. Smith I Enrolling Clerk. I r N tempt to give to vour r JT 4 full list of the bills lff will name only ?Ucj, a5 Hj general interest under U;m 1 ilea a 01 "noies ' I will jnent upon m hat i: inside workings and thit'.M 1 IMPORTANT r,iu In Senate. Mr. Atwater intndiW bill to amend chapter ;i , 9 Code. This make.- u,e of unlawful interest a iav"i meanor, and gives the ti recover four times the am"." ' so unlawfully takeii. 4 j Mr, Cooper introduced 4 J olution to repeal the tea. cent tax on State banks. ' Mr. Sherrill: A bill aa: J zing of State banks, with , er to issue notes. ' Mr. Abbott introduced a 1 to amend chapter 102 of laws of 1891, relative to probate of deeds, where ci4 of the Superior Court are h;j ested, as follows: After word "court" and before word "and" in line six of 1 section tbe following: And certificate of probate of t such deed, mortgage, or v) instrument made by arivju: of the peace of the couutj which said clerk resides, or J officer authorized by law to 14 proof of deeds, mortgage, jj other instruments may ber.? ed upon by any judge of Superior Court or justice oh lina. i Mr. iucas, a on i rec: ing the county commissioner! designate some bank for z deposit of the funds of :J 'ounty Dy the Treasurer, rl requiring the Treasurer to rrj der an itemized statement e;t month to the commissioner; 9 the amount of each separ.j fund to his credit in bink,i: also a statement from thebu each month of the balance; his credit. Referred to the " nance committee. i Mr. Patterson introduced bill to establish within 4 penitentiary a department ! the care, treatment and ru dy of the criminal insane, T bill provides that all per! accused of crime who mayy come insane after cointni;: crime, or who were insanf the time the time the crisf committed, and such p who may become insane u. develop a disposition for T '. sonal violence, shall be sen't this department. j Mr.- Pettigrew introduce bill to repeal chapter 532 of laws 1891. i This bill relates to thee: of lands under water and kj upon the oyster industry. Mr. -Hears introduced a f authorizing the appointmea'jl three commissioners to d;.t and eodify the laws of the including the laws enacted this Rlirn f It r mmKrf'. a v- f 111 V W 111 IJ I 1' to be allowed a clerk at : j per annum, and each oi l commissioners to receive ! per annum, and to report f next General Aseamblv. Mr. Sandifer introduced H to regulate assignments bj quiring the assignee to 4 bond in double the value (; property included in the f ment, requiring a report F t made to the Superior Court that all property shall be so public auction within 1 ffi from date of assignment, f liy Mr. Cjatlincr, by req-t to restore to the tax Kf lands which have not been on for three years and to cof the taxes on the same. j By Mr. Cooper, making J misdemeanor for nnv ner50" v - 7 I f be drunk or intoxicated public place and giving &h trates jurisdiction to fine ai prison and put the persons victed to work on the P' roads. Referred to commit Propositions and GrievaW Mr. Leatherwood introt --. a series of resolutions requf f nrc n n A P onrpsentSvf in Congress to vote for a F't ate income tax ; to put j and mechanical implemeH the free list ; for the free onunuea on miru y
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