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C ASIAN
VOL. XII.
GOLDSBOKO, X. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2:5, 1893.
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EDITOR'S CHAIR.
r.PSON OF THE EDITOR ON THE
iSUES OF THE DAY.
J'eople's party is in favor of
..verntnent issuing its own notes
f(r 1 ' :r-'Ula 6 "tv""" hiwc
. i. ,. .AnlA an Vinnpuf. miinpv
(j, P" uic i""!"" v
nd vt Kreat coet an1 0PPressioD to
in K" witu the moneJ gamu,er8
Ik; their rule instead of issuing
fm.,.a -ks, the government issues
n! J- These n(la WW to Shj
l,rfk. I,e deposits them with the
,v.-rn.ueiit, to te held in trust
rn,;. ,im kindly endorses Old Shy
lockV ""tea tu tne amount of 90 P61"
tHJt. of the face value of the bonds.
'IVw !"''-'B Shylock takes home
.;th h.ru and loans out at usury, all
tiK vv:tv from eight to twenty-four
per
Ure.
True, be payi .tv or, these
,f one per cent., but this 18
tot-S
mwviv to cover the cost of engraving
nl pinging of the notes. In the
meantime h'u bonds on dejKisit with
t,e gin. rnuieut is drawing interest,
au,l brides they are non-taxable.
o vo.nder Old Shylock considers
the national banking system the best
(llr n oi id ever saw for him it ie,
ffn-i without saying, But Uncle
j-ain nii'ht better issue his own notes,
ami f.ue millions upon millions of
interest. Watch the present Demo
cratic congress and see if it wipes
ut this curse.
During the last thirty years wealth
has i iic reused in our nation at the
rate of j'MJOO per hour, or $70 per
8econl. Vet we are suffering all the
Uleful consequences of hard times,
the jieuple are in a state of destitu
tion, and live million tramps till the
(ami. Had laws have produced this
condition. By whom were they made?
I'.oth democrats and republicans are
equally responsible for the evils now
oitrHiaing the people. At the next
election the people will give a party
"a chance" that is not in copartner
ship with the gold bugs and monop
olists. The people whose labor has
made the country rich, will no long
er vote for a party that will allow
that wealth to be stolen from them
through had laws. Vote the Peo
ple's ticket and enjoy what you earn.
One of the objections that has been
given against the editorials of The
Caucasian and the speeches made
by the editor is that they keep the
people restless and dissatiefied. In
the name of high heaven we want to
know if they should not be dissatis
fied with injustice. Those who fight
injustice are patriots. Those who
try to cover it up and persuade the
people to suffer it,are traitors and ene
mies of the people. The first right
of a free man is to kick like steers
against injustice. Only those re
main slaves who deserve to be slaves.
Some one from Monroe signing
himself "a friend" has written us
giving the names of the contemptible
curs who threw the Dermer in the
courthouse at Monroe. If the per
w who wrote the Jetter will give us
tw name we will publish the names
of the pepper throwers. We never
publish anonymous communications
unless we know who the authors are.
The CA ucasian will never know-
mgly do any one an injustice, there
fore we never make a charge till we
tave good authority for doing so.
FREE TRADE ENGLAND
Mi. Moreton Fremen, a prominent
"tmetallist from England,is in Wash
lngton, 1). C. In an interview with
'ta Post the reporter asked him :
4re times as baa in your rural
as in your torj?.
he replied :'
"Yes every whit as bad. The com-
H winter will be an anxious one,
lndeed. In Essex durin? Sentember
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the farmers met and agreed to
ltle lowest rare of vrara since 1849.
-o r. ,
;1&pt shillings a week. Think of
fntjio community, men with
lilies, condemned to Rt.rnircrle
through a winter in such a climate
w our's on $2 a week ! And the
Pitiou of Essex is more or less the
Position in fully two-thirds of the
English counties.
lea we bimetallists have been
clea calamity 'howlers, these six
:8 nast. h,,f t t
ftfs been only too fully borne out by
iue event I :. Tiji
u is not your xjauu uib
l oa"oiau acts. It is the mone-
faJI th tiou of 187 wbich closed
I I the mluu of the West- to free
C0JDge of silverthat is what is
for the" fall of prices
")Dere and fnr th innreasinc-
Son . '
uy of goia on every bourse in
ue wealth producers of England
. not taxed by a high' protective
nil. Thfn lir.... :a j.1
re snff . fc Vua',' lurj lV"
fci.; "6 1 hey have been euf
2 for bo r . . r '
pfconl ' ; iKX mae a11 woruing
ri 'lj uiuo mc icn ojjcuu
COMPTROLLER ECKELS ON BONDS.
The Jtepublicau bankergof Boston
who put up money to elect Cleveland
last fall invited" Mr. Eckels, Mr.
Cleveland's comptroller of the cur
rency to run up from Washington
last week and make a speech before
their Bankers' Association. Among
other things he said :
"The commanding position which
the banks or this country occupy in
our financial world cannot be defined
nor the importance of our banking
institutions over-estimated. Estab
lished upon a safe basis and honest
ly conducted upon conservative lines,
they are the greatest of all agencies
for the promotion of a people's pros
perity, but stripped of safe-guaids or
dishonestly managed, the injury
which they bring upon a people is
only limited by the extent of their
opportunities. The supreme func
tion which they fill is the distribu
tion of the people's wealth, so as to
make it a never-end ng source of
benefit to all.
'Their prosperity is the prosperity
of every other business interest, and
their activity is the activity of every
line of commerce and branch of
manufacture."
While the above language shows
that the government lg on its knees
to the bankers, yet the admission
therein made that the bankers con
trol our finances is important com
ing from the man who is comptrol
ler of the currency for the govern
ment, and who is supposed to man
age the currency in the interest of
the people. It proves that there is a
necessity for that demand of the
Alliance, that the management of!
the currency of the country shall be J
taken out of the hands of bankers
and restored to the government!
where it rightfully belongs. i
Mr. Eckles admits that the injury
which bankers can do is limited only!
by their opportunities. They have'
no limit of opportunity now, for they
are controlling dear currency and
making congress and the President!
do their bidding. J
Further on in his address Mr. I
Eckles denounced the charge that!
the bankers created the panic of last
summer and charged that the people
themselves created it. In short his
whole speech was a plea for the
bankers and a defense of their heart
less course. Mr. Eckles is simply a
representative or rather an attorney
for the bankers at Washington. But
the people pay him a big salary to
help the bankers to manipulate the
finances of the government as the
bankers may desire. If yon claim to
be a Democrat and think you are a
Democrat, get "Benton's 30 years in
congress" and read an account of
President Jackson's great fight
against the national banks, and then
decide whether you are a Jacksonian
Democrat or a Cleveland Democrat.
If you are the former then there is
no place for you but in the People's
party.
NOW'S THE TIME TO WORK.
The most important election ever
heW will occur next year. The crime
of 1873 has been re-enacted. The
democrats, who have denounced it
in the most unmeasured terms for
twenty years, have, upon their ac
cession to power, turned right
squarely around and put their seal
of approval upon it in the most em
phatic manner possible, by their
votes. It means the end of silver
unless the country rebukes the crime
by the election of a Populist major
ity in congress next year. The ene
my is firmly intrenched in power.
Nothing but a concert of action all
along the line will ever dislodge
him. Before it can be done millions
of converts must bo made. There is
no wav so effective as by the circu-
ation Populist papers. Men will
never know' what is hurting them
till they see our papers. The Demo-
Keps will immediately switch them
off unto a bogus tariff reform and
the federal election laws, and the
question of money will soon be lost
aio-ht rf. unless we keen it at the
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front.
Right here we want to appeal to
every true Populist reader of The
Caucasian to do some work now for
the cause. Now while the honest
democrats are sore over their betray
.1 vir fhir rpnresentatives is the
c J - 1
time to urge them to take the paper
Lend them your copy, get them to
read the aricle in this issue about
the impossibility of reforming the
Democratic party. Lend tliem books
suck' as '.'Metallic Money and Hard
Times," ''Bond .Holders ana jsreaa
Winners," "The Political harth
auake," "Seven Financial conspir
aces," "Ten Men of Money island"
and "Points for Thinkers," Any
one of the above named hooks, is. an
pye opener, ana reaa in ponueenoi
with The Caucasian ought to make
a Populist out of any honest demo
crat or republican. Tell them they
can get the paper from now on all
during the next campaign and till
the election is over for $1.00. and
that it will be worth a f ld.QQ note.
The perpetuity of free government
i in the balance. The vote next
fftU decides whether we will be in
dustrial slaves or free men, Who
will help to increase our list to 20,-
000?
SENATOR STEWART ON THE RECENT
ELECTIONS.
"AIXTHE!KOI'U:C4 I1K DECEIVKI
SOMETIME. BIT AIX THE PEOPLE
CANNOT E DECEIVED ALL THE
TIME."
PEOPLE KNEW CLEVELAND
THEY STRUCK AT HIM.
AN'I
In Cleveland Hu Exhibited All that I
Hatfol to GMd Government In Him
the People Raw EgotUra, Contempt for
Law, Gold MobotnetallUni, Lave of the
Kleh, Hatred of the Poor, the Servitor of
the Creditor asa the Kuein J of the Poor
Iebtor Clam o the people Condemned
Grower and Mriurk Him They Will Cat
Oft the Chala of the Gold Conspirators.
The Washington correspondent of
The lioeky Mountain News (I)em.)
writes:
".Senator Stewart returned to the
city to-day fr-i a brief absence.
The News correspondent saw the
etnator at his rooms to-night and the
inquiry as to what he thought of the
result of the recent elections, he re
plied as follows:
"Executive usurpation was so con
spicuous that the people could see it
through the tog; of falsehood of the
venal press and rebuked it at the re
cent election. Thev did not know
who created the autocrat, who sub
jugated congress and gave the world
an object lesson of distress, but they
knew (J rover Cleveland was the re-;
sponsible agent and repudiated him.
The people have known that they
were hurt for many years, but they
have not known who hurt them.
THE PEOPLE SAW IT.
"Each political party has declared
the other did it, and both told the
truth, because each is the subservient
tool of gold standard contraction.
Both parties used the fatal drug of
contraction, falling prices and hard
times one labels the drug Republi
can, and the other Democratic. The
gold trust furnishes the medicine
and each party deceives the public
with a lying label. There is but one
remedy for the deadly poison of con
traction, and that remedy need not
be disguised. It is more money and
consequent prosperity. The gold
trusts of Europe and America have
determined that there shall be no
antidote, but what the people shall
have less money and more misery, so
long as the gold trust can administer
the drug of contraction by labelling
it Kepublican or Democrat,
"All the people can be deceived
sometimes, but all the people cannot
b deceived all the time,' aud the
time is not far distant when the peo
ple will refuse the fatal drug of con
traction however labeled, and take
the only antidote which ever has or
ever can cure financial distress
more good money. Cleveland was a
shining mark. In him was exhibi
ted all that is hateful to good gov
ernment usurpation, egotism, con
tempt for law, gold monopolism, love
of the rich, hatred of the poor, the
servitor of the creditor and the ene
my of the debtor class are character
istics so prominent in him that those
who ran could and did read. The
people have hit him. Next time
they will hit his backers, the London
and New York gold trusts. Public
rejoicing is coufined to politicians
who contributed nothing to the re
sult, but private satisfaction among
honest people alike, Republicans and
Democrats, is universal. The spell
is broken and it is quite possible
that members of the two houses of
congress will at the ensuing session,
have the courage to represent their
constituents,"
TAKE NOTICE!
Congress met and paid its debt to
the gold bugs and then adjourned.
When it meets in December for the
regular session, the bosses will have
a lot of bogus reform legislation cut
aud dried to pass to try to cover
their tracks aud for use in the next
campaign. There has never been a
time when it was more necessary for
that body to be watched and its bo
gus work promptly exposed. Now
is the time to see that your neighbor
takes the paper so that he will be in
formed as to the trie situation as
the figb,t proceeds. Let every sub
scriber try to get at least one more of
his neighbors to take the paper.
Five hundred people are to-day
suffering from hard, times caused by
bad legislation where one person is be
ing benefitted, Of course the one who
is being benefitted wants the laws to
stay as they are or to be made worse.
Of course the five hundred want the
laws changed. These bad laws must
be changed by votes. Then why
don't the five hundred vo,te for a
change? Why don't they yote for
the party that will make the change?
"Nearly every man who has
advertised in The Caucasian has
taken the trouble to assure us that he
was highly satisfied with the results
ATTENTION KEKOKMEK !
Chairman Taabeaeek See in the Kert-at
Election Uriicht Prospei-ta for th
Peuple's Partr.
(Siiil to The 'At AiA i
Last werk's election provrs one
thing above all others, aud that i?
the widespread unrest and discontent
among the people. Since 18 the
people of the United States have
been surging from one old party to
the other, hoping to find relief by
"jumping out of one frying pan into
another." They have acted like a
horse mired in quicksaud, lunging
from side to side in the hope of strik
ing solid ground; but every time they
deserted one old party for the other
they have been sinking deeper and
deeper into the mire, which is now
ready to engulf them. This chitting
and surging of the voteis "to aud
fro" speaks volumes for the People's
party in the future. Every time they
shift, that number who don't believe
that any relief can come through the
old parties will increase, and the con
fidence of those who remain will be
shaken more and more every year.
They will become wiser at every
election until, like a landslide, thev
will drift into the People's party, as
they did into the Kepublican in S;u.
Nothing is plainer then that it is
impossible for the old parties to give
any relief by quarreling over the
tariff. Before our country again be
comes prosperous we must ha ye the
principles of the Omaha platform
enacted into law.
"Money and Tkaxsaoktatiox"
are the two great factors which con
trol commerce and trade, as well as
the distribution of wealth. As long
as the factors are in the hands of a
few individuals and corporations
they will use them to levy tribute
upon the people for "all the traffic
will bear."
The right tq "issue- money," like
the "right to govern," is a preroga
tive of the people, and they alone
have the right to exercise it. We are
just beginning to get into the fight;
and it is the ttiity of every loyal Peo
ple's party man and woman to stand
by our cause. We must not equivo
cate, neither vield one inch, nor re
treat a singje step. No compromise,
no surrender of principle, and no
switching from the middle of the
road, must be our motto.
II, E. Tatjbeneck.
LABOR IN WANT.
(National JVnthem j
Words by E. H. BeMen.
Tune ''Shabby Gentetil,"
(MEHLINDA SISINS, IIQRTON, MICH.)
Can you give any reason how it
comes about,
That my children are dyin' for bread,
When Pve worked all my life and
am nearly played out,
Tryin' hard to get somethin' ahead.
There is some folks I know of that
hai'nt done a tap,
And they ride in their carriage and
four,
And have got so much wealth they
don't know where they're at,
While the toilers are ragged and
poor.
Chorus:
To proved to beg, to honest to steal,
I know what it is to be wantin' a
meal,
When I ask for work, they call me
a tramp,
Or say I'm a Shabby Genteel.
When they foreclosed the mortgage
and took the old home,
It was sad to lay mother away,
And I couldn't keep from thinkin' of
what would become,
Of poor Bessie, and Bennie and May.
Por I'm gettin' old now and my
work's nearly done,
Upon whom will my darlins' depend?
Without clothin' or food, without
friends or home,
Will the millionaires care for them
thenf
Chorus:
There is somethin' wrong somewhere
as things are right now,
Thousands are out of shelter and
bread,
While the wealth they've created is
taken somehow.
By the trusts and the Shylocks, instead-
Nature's done its part well and the
toilers their snare.
For to make the world happy and
gay
Had the laws been preserved that our
Fathers prepared,
There is few would be wantin' to
day.
Chorus;
They have burned up our greenbacks
to make gold go up.
A 'twould buy twice aa much as be
fore,
They are tryin' hard now to knock
silver clean out,
So't our debts will be twice as much
more.
Had the works of ou,r Fathers, and
Lincoln's remained.,
Shylock'a greed would have never
had birth.
And the Nation would lived as at
first it was framed,
Until Freedom encircled the earth.
Chorus;
It will be equal rights or else slav'ry
and serts,
It is hard tellin' which, way 'twill go.
For the gold bugs are fig'rin' to fence
in the earth,
And to own us both body and soul.
But we'll have rights for all and give
priv'leges to none,
Or we'll march, like our Fathers, in
blood,
And beneath the same flag we will
work, pray and vote,
For our homes and our children
and God.
Chorus:
TO THE POINT.
HAYSEEDER "RO0ER CK ' MAKES SOME
1 MLY H!TS
nv l It that the l'rti.an I'm la.
not MUrrprrwnlrd the l.l.juor UealerV
AM.HiatiUi -h Mill Prire. tio
if You are f..r tree SiPr,
What U Vur Outy? Kodrrirk a He
Heard Aji-ork Promise to Join the
Peup!e' Party Viut.ir( irr of ,,,.
. M A Iteverie.
Mk. Editor; I am glad to be able
to iuform you that while you do not
hear from Iioderick very often, that
he is yet living, thinking and observ
ing. Notwithstanding the Demo
crats promise! us last fall if we
would elect Mr. Cleveland that the
prices ot cotton, turpentine, Ac,
would advance, Uoderick yet set s cot
ton sell fur ? cents ir jound and
turpentine for .l.;o jer barrel.
What does all this mean'r We can't
(Tnderstand it. Do you tell me that
theiKEATand glorious Democra
tic party has violated its sacked
promised
Democrats tell us that they are
not responsible for the bad laws
from which we are suffering. Have
they not had charge of this govern
ment since the 4th day of last March
and have they not had time to have
repealed every bad law that oppress
ed the people?
Tell us, oh, do tell us, which way
that wave of prosperity that the
Democrats told us last fall would
follow the election of Mr. Cleveland,
has gone.
Dear voters, what have the Demo
crats been telling you was keeping
down the price of your cotton? Did
they not tell you that it was the tar
iff? Did they not tell you if you
would elect them that they would re
peal the tariff? Patient voters, what
are they doing on that line now?
The great Democratic leader of
Xew York, (Mr. Cockran), says that
the Democrats will repeal the Mc
Kinley bill, hut will copy one from
it and pass it Fellow citizens, what
diffeience does the name make?
Wher- are those speakers who
told the people last fall that the dem
ocratic party was in favor of free
silver? Were they mistaken or try
ing to fool the people?
J . eiioerauc eu;tors are bow aayincr
that Cleveland has deceived the peo
ple. Kind friends, do you not re
member how the followers of the
Populist party were persecuted last
fall because thev dared to tell the
people that Cleveland would fool
them if elected? Has Cleveland
alone deceived you? No, my friends,
the democratic party has deceived
you; for the majority of the demo
cratic party is believing aud acting
with Mr. Cleveland.
Are you in favor of free silver? If
you are, why don't you unite with a
party that is in fayor of it? Why re
main the defenseless tail end of the
democratic party when you see that
the policy of the controlling part of
that party is opposed to silver?
liemeniber, kind voters, that every
Populist congressman has stood like
a stone wall in defense of silver and
the people; while a majority of dem
ocratic congressman have sought to
slay silver and the best interest of
the people.
Listen to the exhortation that so
many Southern editors are giving to
congressmen. They say give us free
silver or the Populists will carry the
next election. Why don't they say
give us silver because it is right?
Dear Editor, why do yo.u try to
scare your congressmen with the Pop
ulist party? Do you think these
measures are right? If you do, why
don't you join in with a party that is
in favor of enacting them into law?
Why do you try to frighten the peo
pie away from a party that you in
directly acknowledge will give them
justice?
Voters, watch the democratic edi
tors that have recently been so clam
orous for free silver and see if now
that the democratic party has gor.e
on record as being opposed to free
si!ve; if some of these 6ame criug-
ing, iawning cowarus iion t trv to
teach the people that free silver
wouid be againstthe best interest of
the country,
They say Grover Cleveland has de
ceived the people. Who warned you
against Cleveland before it was too
late my friends? The much perse
cuted Populists. Watch these little
fellows that have gotten office under
Mr. Cleveland. Not one of them
savs that Cleveland has deceived the
people.
It is alarming to know what a
power ignorance is in the hands of
demagogues. V e heard a poor be
nighted ignoramous remark the other
day that he was opposed to free sil
ver because it wouldn't pas.3 in other
countries, and u cheap money and is
no good and the .vrnnie-nt, by it
suauij-, uii i nijic 1 1 gfXHi. in a le
, . . . . . 1 t m
minutes afterward! he wanted to
know why it is that Con federate mo
ney will not jiass now a well a it
ever did. This man is a gold hug
democrat that is well trained to vote
as his bosses tell him to, while his
clothes are ragged and his stomach
is emptv. t
'
The Uiaits of democrats that "we j
beat you once aud can do it again," j
reminds me of the old fellow w ho i
found two turkeys on a roost. He
took the gobbler and remarked that
he could get the hen the nevt night.
Democrats, you have gotten the gob
bler, but you may find sentinels when
you go for the hen.
Democr-its told us 'rt fail that
they were voting for principle. Tell
us what principle, please. It seems
that your party can't decide what its
principle is.
a
You remember how the Kaleigh
News and Observer ha beet: clamor
oring for free silver and saying that
(irover Cleveland has deceived the
people. Now the News and Observ
er says that Virginia is safe, (l'lVr
rall is elected. It U known that
O'Ferrall is a gold bug. The Rich-!
niond Dispatch, (dem.) of the iuh i
inst. says: "The administration of
(irover Cleveland has been approwdi
in Virginia." Suhe th'w rebus, will
youf
What do you think of a fool that
will clamor for a money that will
pass in Europe when he hasn't any
money to pass at home? I'rovide for
home and then we will look after
Europe.
When did the democrats of Samp
son county give that big barbecue
that they said they were going to
give right after last election? It it
true that they would not give it be
cause they were afraid they would
have to feast the colored brother?
Mr. Editor, please give the name
of that consummate ass that said
Mr. Ay cock did not say on the last
campaign, that if the democratic
party got in power and didn't give
free coinage of silver he would leave
the democratic party. Mr. Aycock
dare not deny it; there are thousands
of neonb in North Carolina who
heard him say it.
You may lose sight of C rover
Cleveland, John Sherman and other
great men, but we like to know what
has become of that one who is rreat
er than them all. We refer to Tobie
Stevens, of Wayne county, N. C.
Do you remember how Senator K.
II. Cooper went over Sampson county
last fall, claiming to have a monopo
ly on information, wisdom and fore
thought, and telling the people if
ClevelandVas elected President that
he would give the people free silver
and an immediate reduction of the
tariff ? He said Cleveland was the
biggest and best man in America. It
is amusing now to hear how he is
abusing Cleveland for not carrying
out his (Cooper's) policy. Certainly
that great and glorious Cleveland
that he described last fall has not
gone back on his promises. We think
the great aud learned Senator must
be mistaken now, Ierhaps the Sen
ator is in a kind of reverie when he
says Mr. Cleveland has fooled the
people. We hear that he does get in
a reverie sometimes. Some people
think that he also belongs to Gid
eon's Band. They say he has been
seen walking the streets and making
strange signs. We don't think
though, that the Senator does belong
to Gideon's Band. We think he is
just nervous over the way his party
deceived him. Life is full of disap
pointments and we regret that the
Senator takes on at such a rate about
the way King Grover has deceived
him,
a
The whiskey association which
met in Charlotte the other day drew
I up resolutions thanking the press of
Noah Carolina for the impartial
manner in which they have been
treated. Why is it the farmers could
not have been treated impartially by
this same press? Did not the farm
era of North Carolina have as much
right to bind together for their pro
tection as the whiskey dealers of the
State? You remember these whiskey
dealers have said in their association
that they expect to vote the democra
tic ticket- The whiskey dealers get
not one word of abuse for their ac
tion while the farmers are abused
without mercy for standing together
for the same identical purpose, viz
mutual protection, oo-caileu min
isters of the gospel, who have spnt
a goodly portion of their time in
abusing and ridiculing the farmers
f ,r ivmbiniti together .irv m mum
ja oren oa thi. alliance of whisker
i ,
j ueajers.
uch tnotigm and rrlig-
ion !. Grange to
Koderuk. What
does this whiskey alliance in North
Cam in a p'edged to support the dem
ocratic party man anyway? Ij it
l.ssibl? that wean- about to have a
"Tammany Hall" organised riht
here in North Carolina?
ou nay that a good many demo-
crat who were thcN-d to office litst
fall hau- deceived the itvplc. 1
chal!
enge you to chow uie a single
Populist who wu4 elected to otlioe
that has not i-tood firmly by eerr
pledge that he made to his nsuti
ent.". j lie?s your weet oul, don't ou
! ever think that lioderiek hit rtop)el
writing. Whenever any charge that
he makes i publicly denied, be will
give his real name aud stand in-radial
ly reejxjnsihle for it. If any man
wants to know who Koderick is let
him deny our charges. We hoje
that no man has been fool enough to
think that Kodcrick could U- intim
idated is why we haven't written in
some time.
I wonder if some Mdi!ieiaus won't
want to resort to shot guns aud bull
dozing in the next election to coer
up their lying hvptK-racv and rascal
ly records?
The Sampson Democrat wants the
South and West to unite. It s;ns
there is no democracy in Northeast
ern democracy. Isn't that exactly
what The Caivaman has been tell
ing the people all the while. We
hope that since the Democrat has at
last opened its eyes that it will not
shut them again but will remain
with the people. What need wecarc
for name.
lltlUKIlli K.
GOOD ADVICE FROM AN UNFRIENDLY
SOURCE.
The old line politicians who are
trying to make the people satislied
with the hard times has been offer
ing some rood advice. They say
"make every thingyou need, stay at
home and eat and wear it and you
will be alright." This is good ad
vice, but it was given to convince the
fanners that if they would follow
this course they would have nothing
to grumble about. We want to say
to the farmers that the best thing that
they can do is to follow this course,
not because it is right that they
should live this way, but because it
is necessary. That is, it is neces
sary as long as present conditions
continue to exist. But no patriot
will ever submit to such a course
without striving with all of his
niiht to change it. This advice re
quires the farmers to step out of the
line of progress, to refuse to avail
themselves of the industrial improve
ments of the niueteenth century,
turn back the wheels of civilization
three thousand years, become a her
mit and have nothing to do with the
outside world. If he will follow
this course, it is true that he can
stay at home and eat and wear what
he makes, and not be effected by
panic or low prices. As it is now, if
a farmer makes something to sell,
puts it into money, and then takes
the money to buy tho products of
somebody else's labor he gets wors
ted, he does not get value received
for his, nor does the laborer at the
other end of the line fare any
better, the profit is gobbled up be
tween the two. Those who control the
instruments of commerce money
and transportation stand between the
wealth producers, and get a large
share of the profits of their labors.
Here we have a rich country,
made rich by wealth producers, and
yet the men who have created the
wealth are to day poor, growing
poorer. Ihey have made themselves
poor by coming in contact with
the instruments of commerce the
agencies of civilisation. These
wealth producers to-day must
follow the advice of the politi
cians, for if they dare to come
in contact with commerce they are
robbed by the agencies of commerce.
So under these conditions w e say let
u s buy as little as possible until money
can be issued in sufficient quantities
to do the business of the country,
and be controlled in a manner so as to
give every wealth producer an equal
showing with the other citizens of
the country, also until the high
ways of commerce, (that are now
held by greedy corporations) are run
at cost, without discrimination, in
the interest of the people. When tha'
is done, then the farmers can ..take
that which he can produce best,
turn it into money and buy t he pro
ducts of another man's lab -r wh can
produce another article bet'.-r ih-tn
he can. This we could do t.o v if
soulless corporations did not s-nl
between the wealth producer of
the different sections of the coun
tiy and bleed them coming and go
ing. It is pretty hard to follow the
advice of th politicians, but it is
about all that is left for us to do, and
if we fallow it, it will so n teach the
country a lesson. In the meautiiue let
us use our votes to have the instru
ments of commerce controlled in the
interest ot the people, and then we
will show the wot Id how farmers
should aud can live.
SHAME ON THEM.
THF 3SVOCRATC C
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Washington, Nov. IS, I demo
crat affect a great deal of jubilation
and hilarity om t "the great Demo
cratic victory in Virginia." They
look to Virginia a the oaii in the
tiLsl HT ok DKUtM'KATir WKKf'K.
Proudly do they Hint to "thr
magnilicent triumph of Demicracy"
in that Slate. The Pcpuluta have
U-en "routed, horw, foot and dra
goon." What the Democratic ma
jority is nobody knows and. nobody
but the "iMsses" will know until the
lallot-hov manipulators complete
their count. NoImhIv .jmntioiu that
Democracy triumphed in Virginia
last week. It wjui a characteristic
Democratic ictory, and when the
truth is known every lament max on
Virginia soil will have cause to hang
his head in shame.
How IT WAS WON.
The w hole jMiwer of the Federal
government was Uhind the Demo
cratic candidate for governor. It
was used in the most bhameUss man-
ner.
Rut the tide of revolt was too
strong, and two weeks before the
election there w as every indication of
Democratic collapse. The jeril was
imminent and the leaders were quick
to nee it. Then followed the lesjer-
ate "inlluencing" of the negro vote.
The colored man and brother voted
almost unanimously with the "O'Fer
rall machine." Here and there in
spote, in different parts of the State
few negroes voted the Populist
ticket, but O'Ferrall and the Demo
cratic State ticket owe their their
election to the negro vote. What
the size of the majority shall Ik de
pends wholly upon "the counting
machine." It is just as easy to make
it ?:i,()(K) as 10,000.
WHAT THK KI.KCTlON MKANS.
Its chief significance is the fact
the negro vote was counted a it was
voted. 'I his is something startling
new under the sun. For the first
time since the emancipation of the
negro has his vote been counted in
any Southern State election. When
he votes the Democratic ticket the
negro is a patriotic, intelligent citi
zen; when he votes the straight Ile
publicau ticket it wasn't counted.
And this is what is heralded over the
country in appalling headlines aa "a
great Democratic victory!"
THE f'OI'ULIST CAMPAIGN.
It was without management, or
ganization or leadership. The move
ment swept the State of iU own mo
mentum. Its champions were men
of nerve, courage, character and de
termination. They fought against
stupendous odds and had fairly won
the light until overwhelmed by the
negro allies of the Democratic party.
THK CONING CONFLICT.
The Virginia election marks an
era in Southern politics. Henceforth
the negro vote is to be an important
factor in Democratic calculations.
What was done in Virginia will be
attempted in North Carolina and
other Southern States. The revolt
against "machine politic" in the
South haa driven the Bourbon Dem
ocracy to the negro voter as an ally
in future elections. In some places
the negro may be handled by the
Democratic machine. He may be
influenced by a tempting corruption
fund, where there is no Republican
organization or Republican candidate,
but the Democratic scheme to buy
the negro vote is an insult to the
race and a menace to honest govern-
liejlt.
It bT infinitely better from the
stau Ipoint of common morality and
infinitely safer to the perpetuity of
free government that "the machine"
!io-ld adhere to the present policy
of stuffing of ballot boxes, suppress
ing the negro vote in the interest "of
Son: hern civilization," and enacting
dec; ion laws that encourage and le
galize fraud. Sooner or later the
people will rise in their wrath and
finite the scoundrel who, if common
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