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St a' Library CAUCA THE CAUCASIAN t. KADI SO WEEK I. T IS SORT It c a nous A. , i r btt 1 over 4.'iU.( 00 copie in H xj't-'t t punt and the present year cir- MILLION COPIES vol. XII. GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 17? 1894. NO. :.. SIAN kTnii IV I 1 v. Ill USE A .1111) IN I !; TO I.I. A V K Till. , it ii mi mm ai:kv I .! i 111 I" It. VI I M.N. I r I A- ' I . h V K I . A N ! ) itll.OM, i 1 !! K :S KY l''VI.I:. i j.i I i l llif l'riii-iilc 14-- r . . 4 While 'I lli y llohl I 41 t !l ; in 4- I 1 1 - I'l iipll'. Su IpMTV if lit ..... r:ti ( liilllkn li.l-. 1 1 4 i 4' 1 1 III! . it'ir t l'i ral Mif I' ui iiphx if t lie i . !:ii. 'I he i4'i:tiM-r;il ii- riii'41 i.i i : i4- I ulaimttiH than the Ke)otMi (rime .it I Si 'I In ilsmi Tiirin 1 . I .i I rami and a II iiiiitintr. 'I he ll - .it. JHi lotve 1'i-t ra. 'l Mi.. l'eole I'ur 'si.iitaiiil tin O.'Iiiim r;i I s il ii the a in. ii,n: tin- I irt (liaiii.- 1 liiy ; -t . 1 1 'till lint 1 1 . fur 'I Iiiim u Imi I'n ir I. .mil i . -. i-r n in. ii I to I11II4M tli.' I..a4l.-rs nf h. I ii-linn-ra I i 1- I'arly any I.4iiii4'r. 1 1 4 .1 I i 11101 rat, Tlicrelurc II.' -an mil -; iv 111 tin' I'arty au.v l.in;;'r. 1 'In- I h-mocratic party i.s ;i wondcr ! organization in .sonic re.-pi cts. . ;- v- is nothing original about it. : i. irk.-, tin: courage of its convio -. Its intention.-) and good pur- pnsr.s are always right. Its declara tions art- always sound and patriotic. A.- a minority party, it lias accotn-j.ii.-ln-d great things and achieved uoiidt 1 fill success. It has been as a h.ilam-r wheel to the government for more than twenty-live years. Rut tor this organization and its resist ance to the aggressive infringements I righteous indignation rebuked the ! in 2 11 If ..,. : -r.. u: ... i 1 1 01 private life, and re-installed the republican party in power. At the ih.ii I In Democratic Part) is expiration of four year3 the people x Mircev When out of j '-re again disgusted with the nial- I'iiVMT 0nl. j administration of the republican i party and determined to make a 1 change. For the third time Cleve ,EN T GETS ; hn-d was forced upon the party, by the Eastern and .Northern democra tic molded kings, with his record on silver, the national bankd, and civil .-ervice tomfoolery as well known as now, and the dirt eating democrats I from the Ninth, accepted him with- l Tin, PARTY A-i out a t-rotest. Thev hsul i,..t r.-ii.v- i 1 J ei'.d from their scare .since IS'".. At this time the majority of Un American people vere disgut-d with both Cleveland and Ilarri.-oii, liiit one or the other had to be swal lowed. liich was the least of the two evils? Hither was more than anv hotx-st' man could btoniaoh, ex cept j'- ;t choice between evils. A pitnaiitv, not a majority of the peo ple accept.i d Cleveland, upon the as surance of the leaders of the demo cratic party, that he had become a lenioirat cilice his experience as incident four years and his defeat for the M-cond term, ami that he would give the country a pure and simple democratic administration. If he has performed but one demo- ratic act since his election, the coun try has not heard of it. He approv- d the law or act repealing the in famous election laws. 1'his was leniocratic. He has surrounded him elf with personal friends, mug- 1 1 11 w 11 nips and republicans, regardless e ii 1 r i i. 01 i ne liooo 01 ine country or me party that elevated him to power. lie has given the country a personal administration instead of a democra tic administration. In his first term, he attempted to destroy Un democratic party and place the American people at the tender mer . 1 1 1 iiit cies ot tiie bankers, oond-noiders, money-changers. In this he partial ly failed, and sought a second nom ination at the hands of the democra tic leaders and received it by accli mation ; and was defeated by accli nation by the people. Still bent upon the destruction of the party and the subjugation of the people to the will and pleasure of trie monied power of the North, he the third term sought the nomination at th hands of the same democratic lead ers, but this time in conjunction with 1 he combined monied power of th of the organic law of the land by the brpnblican organization for the last twenty-five years, the power of the government wow id have long since been changed. It has stood like a rock wall between the oppressor and the oppressed. It has made more piomises and pledges to the people and stood by TH KM more faithfulk than any other political organization in the country for the last twenty- five years, and mad'" them in good faith and convinced the American people that, if intrusted with tin government and its admimstratioi all promises ami pbdges would be as earnestly and as faithfully kept as made. As a minority party, it was ; . r . 1 .fraiid and tow (ring success. ltedu- cated the oroide. It taught them 1 their constitutional and U as well a:- the natural, inalienable and indefeasable rights. It advo cated individual Liberty and individ ual citizenship, and educated tin I citizens up to the full measurement of his citizenship. It opened tin eves of the great warriors of the peo ple, to the w rongs and outrages com mitted ly the b'epublican party against their inherent ami national rights. It has educated the people up to a knowledge of their constitu tional rights, it has exposed and made manifest to the most unletter ed, the injustice, the miouty, and inr.juality of the protective tarill system. This once great party, has thoroughly instilled in the minds of the American people, that both gold and silver are money metals and that both were used by our ancestors a. inouev, and that the fram. rs of the constitution and the builders of th.s government so recognized these two metals and made them money metals in the oriranic law of the land and declared that the States should make no other money but gold and silver 11 legal tender in the payment of debts. Yes, this party has been the Teat educator, the great instructor ami defender of the natural and constitutional rights of the people from the foundation of this govern meut until the year of our Lord 1SS 1 From that time until this hour the democratic party has been departin gradually from the faith of the l.'sithurs. As a minority party it uiu utire North, South and West. Un der a mortal protest more than a million democrats voted for him He was, as stated above, elected by a plurality. At once he began his devilish undemocratic work. Three davs after his inauguration he began to plot, scheme, and intrigue against the then existing, lawful and con stitutional gu.verutnent of the Sand- witch Islands in open violation of the constitution of his country which he had just sworn to support, and in pen violation if all international laws and civility between civilized ami christian nations. Fortunately for this country and . i T- i - i i 11 its honor he tailed in ins wicKeuanu unrepublican endeavors. His next move on the political chess board, was a conspiracy with the combined monied towers of this country, Eng- md ami ( iermany to complete the COALITION HtTWKEM 1K MOCK ATS AND KfcFl'BLICANS. Senator Morgan ST lhat the Money Pow er wa the Go.l-father wf both the Democratic and l'.epu tll u Convention. Very little haa been said in the machine japer8 about Senator Mor gan' charge that the gold bugs are running both parties. The follow ing is an extract from his upeech: "Knowing that the people were aroused and would demand their rights, these conspirators, as an ad vance movement in the campaign of set about to capture the con trol of the veto power, no matter w hich of the great leading political parties should eleet the President. They directed their supreme efforts to the nomination of the candidates for the Presidency by each party who they knew would use the veto power when needed to prevent restoration of silver as a full money metal equal- v with gold. They succeeded, and in doing this evil, they inflicted upon the people a wrong as novel as it was stupendous, and by means that threaten the utmost danger to the republic. Money, which is their power. their only power, was used in enor mous sums to control the two nation al conventions as to their member ship and the nominations. How much was used no self-respecting American is willing, it seems, to lu- luire. (Is this a slander agaiust the I )emocratic party ? They were both included? If it is a slander against either, it is a slander against both, not one.Yrhe subject lSxforbidding. There are men who know these facts, but there are none who are willing to disclose them. The result was that the control of the veto power, as a reserved force to check silver legisla tiou, was secured to the minority on these questions of finance, whether the Democrats or .Republicans should elect their nominees. "They had no bargain or under standing to this effect ; they did not iced this, but they nominated men for the 'residency who were com mitted in public and othcial utter ances to the stenest opposition to a return to the free coinage of silver, and whose recorded opinions would be their platforms. J heu in the na tional conventions thev toot care that in the pledges made to the peo pie there should be a great show of friendship for silver, resounding pro mises, glittering generalities and de ceptive flatteries which could be com plied with as the party fraud in the second section of the Sherman law is complied with by a total subversion of the plain intent ot the law. "It was a sight to inspire mirth among the dead tenants of the cata combs to see two Presidential candi dates striving to grasp the sceptre o the veto power that they might wield it for the destruction ot silver money, and yet professing to be the friends of bimetallism. They l?d opposing and beiigerent forces in joint cam paign against silver. In those cand idates and in those platforms the co alition begau which is now being con sumniated in Congress tor the Ueieat of the will of the people expressed in . 4. i 1 ,4- everv leniocratic victory at, leaoi, since that began to have a history HOW YOUR HOXEY GOES. SOME ITEMS TAKEN FROM OFFICIAL REFORT THE SHOW INC. HOW CONiKtS SPLMX VOl K MONEY. work begun during his first term. The over-reaching and all-absorbing issue in the campaign, was a reduc tion of the tariff to a revenue basis, the next, the second great issue, was the restoration of silver to its con stitutional functions as money on a basis with gold. These two issues were to be settled once for all in favor of the people if Cleveland aud a democratic congress were elected. 1,0th were elected. For the first time since the war the democratic party was in full control of the law making and law-repealing power of the federal government, the party was pledged to a tariff for revenue only, denouncing as unconstitutional the nnncinle of protection. It was also pledged to the free and uulimi Sav that tne reuiif mmum ...-.. Ti.'kets Everywhere-. more to maintain the rights "of the ted coinage of silver, to both gold people and to preserve their liberties then the majority party, in iaci ii stood like a rock wall, against the encroachments and us'urpations of the republican party, and but for its powerful and patriotic resistance to the usurpations of that party.it real ly seemed that life would not be worth living in the South. The truth is the American people began to believe in and trust the democra tic partv to such a degree that in 1884, they repudiated the republican party and drove it from power and installed the democratic party in power m the executive branch of the trovernnient and in one branch of the legislative department. The peo ple trusted the party to that extent. At the expiration of four years, they were sadly disappo nteu ana lernoiy disgruntled at the experiment. They learned to their sorrow, that they had selected a leader whose opinion of his own greatness made him not a servant but a master. He became at once wiser ami greater than the par tv, and dominated and dictated its policy. His four years adniini.-tra-tion was used for all it was worth to defeat the will of those who made him president. He used the powers of the government and all its patron age to disorganize and break down the two great political parties, and to build upon their rums a peisonai partv. He was by nature and sur roundings an enemy to the laboring millions and a fiiend to the monied power of the country. The monied Kings and Lords "of both parties stood by him, it is true, undercover. The people measured the man, they understood him, but he was in the hands of the Northern monied kiugs and so was the leaders of the democratic party, and they forced his nomination on the party the second time. lint, the people in their C 11 A I K.MAN TAUBKSECK and silver as the standard money of the country. The people thought, judging from the platform of the party aud Cleveland s position on the tariff in his message to congress his first term and hi3 letter of ac ceptance that if the party was fully restored to power, an extra session oi congress would be called early in the spring ; and tley had a right to think so. Congress ought to have come together as early as April or May, for the purpose of giving th oeon e the reliet demanded ana promised for more than twenty years. and for the purpose of rtmonetizing silver, or in plain English to give the country the unlimited coinage or silver 16 to 1. This was the mean in or of the platform. This was the meaning intended to be conveyed to the voter. And if this had been carried out faithfully and speedily, the country would be prosperous, happy and contented to-day. It was expected. To accomplish that, the party was restored to power. The people demanded it. The country demanded tariff reduction, silver restoration, retrenchment aud re form. They demanded aud expect ed a reconstruction of the financial system of the country from bottom to too. 13 tit instead of doing these tlrngs and doing them quickly, what was done ? Every man in the United States with two grains of sense above an idiot, knew that, the importation of goods would fall off, and of course rliat. the revenue would decrease as soon as it was ascertained that the democratic party was restored to power. And all knew equally as well that the manufacturing estab lishments in the country would work up the same material on hand, and Editor Caucasian : Headquar ters is in receipt of a number of let ters asking this question : "Is it worth while for the People s party to nominate congressional, legislative, md county candidates this year, where our strength is not sufficient to elect?" This idea is erroneous and it will not do for the People's party to follow it at any cost. In 1892 we had a ticket in every State in the Union : we polled over a mi' lion votes, aud became a factor in proportion to the votes polled. The same will be true this year, if we fail to nominate tickets in every congressional and legislative district, as well as in every county, and our total vote decreased on this account, it will be construed that our move ment is receding and our forces dis integrating. No Populist can afford to cast his vote for any of the old parties, or remain at home on elec tion day. It matters not how a voter may talk between election days, his voting alone tells to what party he belongs. It is imperative that the State com mittees insist that every congression al aud legislative district, and county nominate a full ticket this year, so that our total vote will swell above hirh water mark, because we will be come a factor in politics after the next election, in proportion to the votes we poll next November. Ne Ponulist can afford to cast his vote for any other party, or to be forced to stav at home on account of having no ticket in the field. Therefore it is the dutv of our committees to see that candidates are nominated for ever office to be filled, regardless how small the vote may be. The last thirty days nave been fnl ones, more recruits have come to our ranks than during any six months in the history of the par ty. H. E. Taubexeck. H.tw Much They Spnd For I.e. Bay-rum, Uiuum, Cologne, I'oud-lilly Vnh. and Other Luiurie. The Story Told by a MriulMT of Cungrrw. (Hy Kx-CongTessmaii Tom Watson. 1 At no time since the late Civil War have the people of this country been in a better frame of mind to ex amine into the conduct of their rulers. Party tyranny has been rudely shaken bv its own errors. Partv bosses have presumed too ar, anil the iieople who were blinded by passion in ls'.t, now realize that the keeping of a certain set of profes sional politicians in office is not ne cessarily synonymous with the salva tion of the Republic. Believing that the time has come when the honest citizen, whether )emocrat or not, would like to know- how his taxes are being spent, I have been looking into the official reports of the disbursing officers of the louse and Senate, with a view to telling the tax-payer some things which his party bosses and their lireling newspapers will never tell urn. These reports give an itemized ac count of the moneys spent by Con gress in salaries, supplies, incidental expenses, etc. Of course most ot the expenditur es are authorized by law and are free from criticism. But the people have been so negli gent about these matters aud the temptation to be liberal with some body else s money is so strong, mat many an item, involving many thousands of dollars, has crept in to these accounts to the utter vio lation of law and to the disgust of all the better class of Congressmen. Remembering that every dollar thus squandered, without authority of law, comes out of your pocket, let us examine the items ot the ac count. First we will take the report of Mr. Kerr, Clerk of the Democratic House over w hich Mr. Crisp presi ded. It appears that he paid out $425 for a coffin and fixtures for Gen. Spinola, a wealthy New Yorker, who diea wnne serving a teim iu vuu gress. For silk gloves, carriages, telegrams, embalming, etc., connec ted with same funeral he paid out J $123 75. For other telegrams connec ted with same funeral, for Pullman cars to New York the funeral party, etc., he paid, further, $224. The widow, it appears, stopped at the Westminster Hotel, in New Y'ork three days, aud the Government paid the board bill of $43.00. Paid it out of your money. The same Hotel was paid $62.40 for the board of the funeral committee, al so. The Government also paid the New York undertakers $252.20 for their services. Paid it out of your money. All this you will find on page 114 of Mr. Kerr s official re port. Now turn to page 302 of the Stat utes at Large of the United States for 1891 to 1893, aud you will find that Congress paid Gen. Spinola's widow an additional sum of $o,000 . A whole year's salary was given the widow of this wealthy New Yorker who died before he served you a sin gle dav of his term Gen. Spinola was a Democrat, and the House whose concurrence was necessary to the passage of this appro priation, was overwhelmingly demo cratic, On page 93 of the official report of the 50th Congress there is a state ment of the funeral expenses char ged up to you for the burial of the " i ii m i it ' Hon. Sam. J. Kanaau. me comn and fixtures cost you $525, the em balming $50; the black silk sashes $84; the white silk sashes $104; b ack silk gloves $lo; white siik gloves $22.50; draping the church $125; and a few other items which run that part oi me ona up lu 9.1,-039.50. Then came the expense of carry ing Mr. Randall's family to the fun eral and back; also the expense of the committee to Philadelphia and back. Total cost of going to the funeral and coming back $877.10. Eighty one persons, including the family and committee, were carried to Mr. Randall's lunerai at your ex pense. The porters on Pullman cars good many men to w,ait ou him, and ' h?lp him sustaiu the arduous re sponsibilities of his exalted sta tion. Henc-f CoDgre&s supplies him with an official culled "Clerk to th Speak er." This gentleman discharges no pub lic duty hatever. His sole task is to pull the Speaker iu the newspa pers, and to scarify and traduce the .Speaker's etiemies. Fur this service he is paid about $l,G.o i-r year. Out of your money. The "Clerk to the StH-aker" at this happy K-riod of the world's history is "E. W. B." and his puffs of the Sj-aker regu larly apear in that crazy-)uilt of journalism, the Atlanta Toustitu tion. But "E. W. B." is not the only candle-toter to the Speaker. He is also supplied with a "Private Secre tary." at a cost, to you, of $2,ouu per iri'.num. Then he is likewise furnished with a "Clerk to the Speak ers Table," cost $2,oot per year. Al so with a "'.Messenger to the Seak er," at a cost of $l,ouo per an num. Thus you will observe that Mr. Crisp is supiorted, buttressed, armed and equipped in the most ela borate and costly style of red-tapery. At your expense. If you should go through these of iicial reports, page by page, you would see many things which would as tound you. You" would find our Statesmen fit- tiug up Bar-ber shops on a costly scale, in order that they may be shav ed inside the capitol buildintr. No 1 rent is charged the barbers. No re venue to the people comes from the investment. Several thousand dol lars of your money is simply squan dered in order that a lazy Sta tesman may have a conven ience. Turning the leaves of this pamph let, you would be surprised to find how many curious directions your money takes. You tind yourself paving Hen ry Burmeister $25 00 every month for winding up the Senate clocks ! And by the time you catch your breath after this item, you find your self paying Henry $123 in a lump, for repairing sundry clocks. (See page 129, Senate re port.) Then you find yourself paying $800 for a marble bust of Chester A. Arthur. Then Henry Burmeister gets hard up again, aud you pay him $50 for winding the clocks in the Senate chamber from. Jan. 1, to Feb. 29, 1.i2. You lind youself buying 4,900 pounds of ice in January, and a like amount 111 February; and you begin to tremble to think how much ice the Senate will want when summer comes. At this stage of the game, Henry Burmeister rolls up again and de- mauds $25 for wmdiug the clocks of the Senate from March 1, to March 31,1892. To cool yourself off after paying a man one dollar per day for winding two clocks, you whirl in aud buy , 59,881 pounds of ice. 59,000 pounds of ice for less than 100 Senators dur ing March 1892! That makes 590 pounds for each for one mouth. Divide 590 by tht' number of work ing daye, and you have more than twenty pounds of ice for each Senator consumed a day in a winter month. The Senate rarely sits more than four hours per day. Hence each Senator ac cording to the official report, make away with live pound of ice each hour! In the winter at that. (See page 137 Report Sec, of Senate 1892. Recoveriug yourself as well as you can, proceed to page 141 and see yourself paying the inevitable Henry Burmeister $2o for winding the sen ate clocks during the mouth of month of April. Passing by the statements of ex penses, for the funerals of Senator Plumb and Senator Barbour (several thousands of dollars) you observe on . i. V,.,. page no a curious ilciu. uu that you are charged $03.35 for a lunch prepared for the benate com mittee which accompanied Senator Barbour's remains. In looking oer the report you constantly find yourself buying com mittee room furniture regardless ot cost. Ou page G4, you pay for one chair for the committee on the District of Columbia $05.00 ! Enough to furrish a modest cot- 1 111 ll t.K !.. . I To Mrot ia H ahlBKlui. l. t .. M ?ia.l Office of the Pn American Bi-M-ta!lic AssocUtiou, 319-32 Boston Block. IXuver, Col., April 2 1 Believing the pre-nt an auspici ous time to accomplish eK-mething substantial for silver, thereby restor ing prosperity aud contentment among the ptple, confidence iu our rukrs and institutions, and confer ring untold blessings ou the human race, a meeting is hereby called to assemble iu Washington, lb C, on the 22nd day of May, proximo, com Ksed of representatives front the Cnlted States, South and Central America and Old Mexico, and all the Mates thereof, to memorialize the Congress of the United States to re re silver to its ancient right at a ratio not to exceed 10 to 1. At the bidding of a jxiwer that has blotted out civilization in all ages, the law-making and executive brun ches of the government have stricken down one-half ot the metal money, and debased and partially demone tized the paper currency, comp iled the people of the I nited States to pay unnecessarily iu the past 25 years $20,000,ooo,ooo "in interest, principal and discouut, and by vicious laws have burdened the nation with a real eStaU; mortgage debt of $20,000,000,- 000 and other debts aggregating as much more, and now seeks to reduce the country to a gold basis, and ex pect the people to pay $l0,ooo,ooo, 000 of debt with $5oo,0oo,ooo in gold, to pay $0 of debt with $1 in money; reducing the price of farm products 00 per cent., aud taking from the debtors the power to pay debts. The census says there are $05,ooo, OOO.oou of property iu the I'uited States. The gold oligarchy has de preciated its value one-half, render ing the nation insolvent for $7,5oo, 000,000; 20,000 people already own ihree-fourths of the property of the nation; 10,000,000 people are invol untarily idle, or unprolitably employ ed. The property of the nation is rapidly being confiscated ; fields, fac tories and mines are deserted ; every industry is stricken as with a plague; strong men, reined women and inno cent babes are starv ing in a land of plenty ; our rulers are rioting in lux urious living and saturnalia; fren zied with their success in the past, they are inventing new schemes of robbery and plunder. When Greece, Rome, Kgypt and the Netherlands went down about 2 per cent, of the people owned practi cally all the wealth. Are we not fast hastening to the same end? Is there not patriotism, manhood and womanhood enough among the peo pie to call a halt from our rulers? lx't the brain, brawn aud sinew meet at the capital of the nation Let petitions be circulated in every precinct of the land and forwarded to the convention, until the voice of 40,000,000 of people shall resound in the ears of congress, that we may as certaiu whether this is iu fact a gov eminent of the people. Our demands should be respectful, but linn. No written credentials will be required, and anyone favoring the objects of the association or the call will be re cognized as a delegate. This is a great and patriotic task. If we but seek Divine aid and guid ance, our efforts will be crowned with success. By order of the executive commit tee, A. C. Fisk, Pres. - M II T t.K It tMSi , . , i Husk tilttag tarapfclr taJ 4buIl kaiutu.iT of 1 ! I'rx-l st I ti I'lnrtt (utgrra ai Uilt. 1 Washington Past j During the V thene has n held in this city meeting of the military surgeons. Among the dele gates as Dr. A. E. McCt,!los of I'auburg. Dr.MCaad!t is U n. r. known aa Ma j. Met 'andle.vi as suev sheriffof Alleghany Couutv. Rumor i avs that Dr. MeCandltsji is to Ik- the' uext Mayor of Pittsburg, but tlut i! farther along. The doctor is an in-! veterat- wag. lie n eurgeou in du I ' f Pennsylvania, and the ineinU rsof' the order testify to his love for any ; thing that takes the shaj of ;t prc-! tical j ke. It was during the m-fsiou of the Senate Yesterday, the military sur geons having adjourned, that Dr. Mct'uudlesS decided to pay a viidt to some of his friends at the Capitol. After talking to several members of) the House, he called tohimt hufj I'age Stewart, w ho is a brother of! Weather Observer Stewart, of Pitt- i burg, and a personal friend of Dr. j Met audless, with a jKrfectlv svriotis air Dr. McCandless drew from his HK'ket a little pamphlet and handed it to Stewart, saying: "Will you please hand that to Sen ator Ouay, with my compliments?" The bok was perfectly innocent in HpjH'arance, and was entitled 4 What Congress Has Done." Stewart took the I took and started off. Dr. McCandless slipped over into one of the galleries and watched Senator Ojiay receive the h.xik. Senator tjuay opened the book, and as he glanced from pag- to page his face relaxed into a smile, and as he went on he broke into a hearty laugh. The tears rolled down his face, ami after a few moments be calle I a page and told him to take the Imok to Vice-President Stevenson, presiding. I he boy did as bid, and w hen ice 'resident Stevenson looked at the over he opened it eagerly. He 1 . glanced through it hurriedly and then, as Senator (uay had done, he beiran to lauirh heartily. He shook lis tinger at Senator (Juav, mid, call ing the boy back to him, sent the book down to Senator I enVr. 1 he gentleman from Kansas looked at the book lor an instant and then he laughed quietly behind his beard, lb- passed the book to Senator Hale, and so it went the whole round and was greeted everywhere with a hearty laugh. hen some one picket! up the book after it had been returned t6 Senator Quay and carefully deposit ed bv him on the desk where he would not. lose it, th curious one was sur prised to lind that, although the book had a carefully worded cover, the in side pages were perfectly blank. The joke was irresistible, and he laughed as heartily as the grave Senators had done. 1 AM' .110 .1 cum n A CO I 1 t.HKAT MIKTll CAKOLIMASS VV1IKKK ARK WK AT.' tage. (Continued on Second Page.) Not Fihtinsr. Mother Horrors You naughty boy! You've been fighting. L;ttle Son No'm. "Then how did your clothes get torn and your face scratched!" "I was tryin' to keep a bad boy from hurtiu' a good little boy." "That was noble. Who was the good little boyf "Me." Crush the machine and save the State. alwavs expect "tips" from travellers; that is, little presents 01 a aime or a ouarter. On this funeral train this custom was strictly adhered to. The porters got $5.00 in "tips." Your mnncv. See nacre 94 of the re- 0 port. Remember, also, that Mrs. Ran dall got an appropriation from Con ffress similar to that 01 -Mrs. opi nola. On page 301 of the Statutes at Large you will find appropriations of $5,000 each for the widows of Mes srs. Ford, Gamble, Houk and Lee, all of whom died just after election and never rendered you a day's ser vice. To each of those gentleman a successor was immediately chosen, and '-his successor also drew full pay covering the same term for which Congress paid the dead men. Out of your money. The Speaker of the House is, as you may have heard me remark, a very high and mighty potentate. In other words, one of the biggest of the big bngs. Naturally, therefore, it requires a Another chair for the same com mittee costs you $45.00. For another committee room you pay $32 for one chair, and $75.00 for a lounge! No wonder you Statesmen are lazy. It cost you $177 50 to carpet one of these 6mall committee rooms; $127 for auother; $246 for another; and $355 for another. One Smyrna rug cost you $23; a Brussels rug $75; another $00, and so on. A couch for one committee cost you $75; the pillow for said couch $3.50. Dear me ! The Committee on Appropriations wanted a looking glass. They bought a "gold frame mirror" which cost you $40. To carpet a room for the repor ters of the uewspapers cose you $220. The Senate Committee on Agri culture carpeted their room at a cost to you of $192. Committee on rut lic Lands struck you for $322 for a carpet Secretarf'a -oom cost you (for carpet) $274. To carpet the Continued on fourth page. Her IistiiiK"isliMl JlonH Who Hitve lleli Hiyh OtHes in the Natn. VlRdlNlA A. And M. COL LKUK, BLACKSBUBG. To the Editor of the Dispatch : Coder the head, "Great North Ca- j roliuiuns," 1 saw a tew days since that the Providence (R. I.) Telegram was ansvvf red for saying that .North Carolina has never furnished a President, Vice President, President of Si nate, Speaker of House of Rep resentatives, or a Justice of the Su preme Court. Now, "Tar Heels" don't like to attack so small a State as the Tel egram represents, neither do we re card New England people as very ignorant beings, but certainly it was sheer ignorance that allowed such a statement as the aKove to go before the public. (I hope not prejudice) To disprove its statement, however. I will mention some ot the tacts as 1 recall them. As you have said, three Presidents were born in North Carolina Jackson, Polk and Johnson- The first left the State before becoming a man. The second grad uated at our university, The third grew up an orphan in Raleigh, stu died law. and removed to Tennessee. Indeed, all went to the daughter Mate to be elected. The Old North State has furnished two Vice-Presidents, William R. King and Andiew John son: two Presidents of the Senate, Jesse Frankhuand athamei Macon; and James K. Polk; two Supreme Court Judges, James Iredell and Al fred Moose: Cabinet and diolomatie officers to numerous to mention, but in the Cabinet I will mention one William A. Graham on account of his valuable service in the South American exploration of 1852. And bv wav of comparison, I notice that North Carolina has furnished cand idates for both presidential and vice presidential offices, while Rhode Island has not so much as put for ward a candidate for either since 1824. if ever If the press of any State could speak as that of Rhode Island does 1.- .1 : it woulu oe tne press 01 irgiuia or Massachusetts. 1 hope the telegram'; statement will be answered by some older North Carolinians, who can no doubt, inform the worthy lourn al a! great deal further along this William E: Dodd. The I'arty wf Itrukrn Iromi..- I.iOiik to 1' !'' in Kvery Oimrter. (Washington Post, Dem.) The triumphant column that en tered ashiugton a year ago with (i rover Cleveland at its head and took complete possession of the exec utive and legislative branches of the government with such loud-sounding promises of reform and prosperity, is already on the eve of a panic that may end in a rout without a parallel in the political history of the coun try, aud the promised land into which they have entered be turned over to their old enemies. Divided counsels and an army of stragglers are working the dissolu tion. The Minnesota Democratic com mittee issued a proclamation realing out of the party eight .Senators head ed by Gorman, Hill, and Price. Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, serves notice on the Washington De mocracy that he is done with them, and that a new Democratic party will be organized without New hng- aud and the Eastern Middle States. Ex-Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts, at the head of the Democratic army in New England makes a raid on Senator Hill and his friends that means a war of extermination. Seuator Voorhees' organ at India napolis, declares that 1P11 is a hypo crite and a pretender, a Democrat no onger, and the most unprincipled pology for a statesman since the davs of Aaron liurr. lirother Dana in the Sun that shines for all, says that Mr. Cleve- and is destroying the Democratic narty bv making war on its regular organizations, and is trying to build up a Cleveland party. That staid and Reliable .Sun that shines in Baltimore says that there h a reaction going on in the country against Democratic methods aud in condemnation of Democratic cowar dice, imbecility, and incompetency, especially as exhibited in the con duct of the Democratic majority in Congress. From away out in Montana, when it was supposed the Democracy had an intrenched camp, comes word that the Democrats are going to fight under the Form list banner here after. I wa: Boy and Dog Nature. Littb Dick What did you run away from that dog for? Little Johnnie 'Cause afraid he'd bite. "Don't you know if away frora a dog he'll vou. an' if vou run at scoot!" "No." "Well, it's so. Dogs is just boys." you run run after him he'll like TWO DEMOCRATIC PLATFORMS. 1892 Give us a chance. 1S94 Give us another chance. C TY TO CAm CJT Th NSTRUC T CNS ThJ STRIVE C V V w V. A MIMdKMI 1iitii(.KI1(Ml iK-tn tin ti rhi- M ((iitnH Ntlil.al lliaa. National Trt A r -raugrtnrat. ii.uri . mu.t I ftt-r -How llh Hln.lt.! lii(iiUainHi ootM r r-t 1 oiun.llt.r . tM.lntrJ (m - t K. ul an.l utl,4rr (i.lia(laiia at .ul. Juki I 1 1 W - - 4 I. ar I r uf alivnal tlll.urr AuiarUilf.l. H'U.'lit At. I OKK 1 l"0 PK OU Wahin-ton, D. C. My 12, 1 he National Executive Commit tee r presenting the Supreim- Council of the National Fanners' Alliance and Iu ltiMrial I ti ion. hits Utn in pet ion here mice Vcdiic.dav. After a four day somou the coiiunittiv adjourned thi aftern.oti to inert in TojH-ka, Kan-as. June Uth. Many important inatt.ru were considered and acted on by the CommitUf, among tin in (portions which the ( onimittee were fiven iH-eial in- r, - s ... trnction on at the last meeting of the Sitprfiiit'- Council la.t IVhni.tn. The following iiiemlKTs of the Com mittee were pit -wilt : Marion I'.utUr, chairman. North Carolina; Col. H. C D-mining, pv relary, Puinsv lvania ; I. K. Dean, New Yoik; .Maj. Mann Page, Vir ginia. II. 1 4. I y. on ks. uf South Da kota was pot able to be present. Col. I. P. Duncan, National Secy-Treua-nrer of orgaui..tt ion, w.n present w ith t he Committee dm ing its delib- erat loll.-.. CU SKS OK V'.Rp t I. II UAI. PKI'lthS- MON ASK Id MM.-..-) STAUN AIIOS. The Committee having received information th.it th House Commit tee on laiborhad reported favorably a resolution to appoint a Congres sional Committee to in 'pi ire into the causes of the present dcprcMied con dition of the industries of our coun try, prepared I lie following address and laid before the House of Repre sentatives, urging the apjHiiutincut of the Committee : 7b the Ilononihh- tin- Sjmikii' uml M in furs uf the imsu of Hi r a - (tttivcx uf lititnl St litis : ill v iew of Jie iieinliiig n-Milulinii to ) iioiiit a joint i oiioiiitn-i! uf (In- iSi-tnie u.nl your hoiioralilf lo.y to i oiiiiilrr tin tuun- wliieh have iroilti el ttiu .ieru iil 1i-j.iva-i1 i omti.ioii of the in. Jut! rial uitt-rexLi of tins country, we 'IcMre to miImioI ii few tm jt uul com lusiuti.s ly die way of iirin iti uilou tion. 1'liat the K-oiile of lliin country urc in Ii naiii iul iliMro-i, tin; im ica.-' of liunm-ia failure.'., Iian k mot. jc, mortae f.ini lu- urea, defalcation aii'l coin !iicr lal wreck, furiiialj uinnlii an,i coiii'icte evi'li'iicf. That jKiverty or jiar.-timo uoui e nin.iiiy hat luiuii noun tlii-iii, the ever-iiicre.iMiij' liol of un employed working men and women who till our htrccU and thoroughfare", the ut amount of idle machinery m-i-ii on every hand, and die uu-.old uud conM-'iueiitly iiii-u.-cd irodin li tit the held and I at lory idling the fiheive.i of oiir in. r hanl-n or moulding in great rtorchoti-e.i ln-.ir Hilent yet conclu sive te.itiiiiony. 1 hat die iroliii oik lanM-.i arc iiidu.itrioii.s the volume of jrodin lion is HUllicieiit proof ; an I that the jironi-l.-es of a kind i'lov ideiice i 1 M ill with lhi:m, the rich and aixiielaut liarvr-t luliy de elarcs. Yet in the face of hard toil, ril'l economy, and thin aluding tet uf (iod's hounly, many (aluij-'cther loo many of our lieopiej Maud in hunger at d 111 r.ii.'H, amid lu rating e,ra:iari"t and cro de 1 w an-ho'iv. '1 he irt'ople arc not to Maine, for thc-- un fortunate and difitreiMljj,' conditloim. J'hey huve a.i a whole, jiei lunned lln-ir part fully aud well. H it, the more they lahor the lim remuneration they receive, and the inure they hrmg to market the lesa Jiejney comes to their inickets. In l-yj'eacli acre-of wheal drought tZ'iM'i, in li;j it hro'iht only ;.!';. 1 n l-i7 ea. ii lure of corn brought fl.t.-ii", in M'J.S it brought hut fl.U'l. In 1;; each acre, ol oats drought tl'i.0-1, in H i it drought only (.!M. lui-:!, 1,7.' ,oo.l hale- i,f ottou hcought e-Mll'lO"); while 111 l.ii, ! i.Uo hale drought only J.'l, i'M.o i 1. in !: farm an nuals in the l,ni!el .Stan-, vvei.i valued at i.'.Vir.ii.i'itiH. In ihey a:.- valued al cJ.IT'J.M'i.T.O. The wealth of the- nation in January, Hi:j, wa.i eiti mated at t7),ii 1.1 !,' n, vi nee that date, however, it is aU j eliiua'--I that thin wealth liai ducreasuil fully JM.'io i,''WO,HO.. If this estimate is correct , and ue U.-lieye it is conTvative, it disclo-ies the f urlher fai-l that the dehts and money of the ij.ur.try have incre'is.-'l in their 'powc.- to opprmt" fully '.) cr cent., if not more. Dunn,; lliin peri'xl there were over niort.';i foro- cloMires, and more than ."ij.nuj .-omruercial failures, wliieh have htunateii all hu-tiiies- and laid a paralyzing hand uin all produi; tive industries. Tii conditions are not the creatures of a moment, l.ut the steady K.owth of many years. Killed w ith hot, the jn-ople have hat tied courageously to heat bai k This increa.-iny tide of want, misery aud diiftresM. Now, however, in many sections of our country, hope is waning- As an evidence of this we see large lodies of unemployed men from laany jiortioua of the country march ing to Washington. We deplore thin ac tion on their part, as we deplore the causes that have male such ac tion possible. We are glad to ee that no such movement has develojed in the South; but the same causes are there at worn. There are there idle men, depreciation of values and demoralization of business, which, if unchecked, will inevitably produce the same result. It is simply delayed, because fewer men are employed in manufactories and other pursuits that made them dependent for existence upon daily wages. Besides the Alliance is ver strong in the. South, and haa appealed to the intellect of the people, and urged them to bear with oppressive condi- Continued on second page.
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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