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ADVOCATE THE RK8T0 RATIOS OF tor XfU ADVOCATE Mr.vF.K A3 PRIMARY MONEY Asl. THE FREE AND UNLIMITED i 1 1 1 N A E OF SILVER AND GOLD X I no; RATIO OF 1C TO 1. CAUCASIAN rti numrinoi or mtrsorLi's unum ruon COarOaAnOS AID OXOfOl.Y POMIMAnOJI ASP A intu TO Jufaawiiab tzimariM. XsS THti VOL. XIII. THE ALLIANCE. Drj ti ed Opposition to the Leasing ,,t the State's Railroad Thanks Tendered to Pa pers That Opposed It. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS . lilt thr Kraults of Vicious l-rglsla- I Ihs t hirf Ktrcutive Dictate iimtr llllrr and Ilerelve the Peo- i.ri's Ss to our Friend's "Stop i i in k " Mae Wo not Told Ton i in' Trulli-V ninth annual tension of the Alliitnre which ws held at Csry, -IV- -ituiing August 13th, proved l In lnoAt Hiithutiaticand t amest n,,. inikr f that body ever held in the m ,ir. i-eveiity delegates representing :, in :i 1 1 3 i utilities were present. lining matter of interest discussed u .i- i prupimit ion to establish sub-AI-ri in towns of Mnnt population mil utiiliT. The proportion was de- i, after iii ii h rotiMiileratioii and . I . ! 1 1 KUIKMAD I.KASK. I In-Alli:nire wa much interested in tin- nr iai!4l lease of the North i .tr.. mm r.iilro.nl at this time and 1 . . I t ! tin- following resolutions re lit iw to Iliat matter : Uiih kas, there are reasons to believe t :,:t tin ilireitors of the North Carolina K i IimhI re seriously 'onsidering the ad- . 1 1 i I ii v nt leasing ti.e stud road for a long I .-r.o'l i'i I line; and hi i:k in the opinion of thi tody no .ii. r calamity eon Id liefall our beloved M.iii iliantoput tliis, with one ezceptiou, ii, . i, nly railroad of any importance remain-,iu- iii the handi of it original stockholders, un lr; the i ontrol of foreign corporation; uvi iituK, there yet remains si years i.i fore the expirution of the JresLt lease, im in,.; ample time for the submission of this kii'.it ipieNtion to the iieople of Nortli Caro Ini i I'.r their derision at the ballot box. VjW, lie it Ifi-oi.vn', hy the North t'arolina Farm irs .--i.iie Alliance, a.veiubld" at Cary, that Af protct against uny lease of this road be l itt submission to the people of North i .irolunt, as unwise, inexped ent, and an n il ru :i' upon the rights of freemen. IU- u vni J, that u copy of these resolu te ill" he lor w unlet I to the Governor of North i u ilina, ami to the 1'resideut of the rsortli i .1 ro 1 1 1 1 it Kailroad. both of whom aerefor-nit-rl v the honored heads of this Order, and tu I he Hun. I has. I). Mclver, State proxy tor North Corolina, and who holds in trust t u the whole people of North Carolina a iii, ijurity of the stock of said road. i:roi.v ki ;!. that the thanks of this order are hereby tendered to The Pro- -r.--.-ise Farmer. News and Observer, ami ail other papers within our State s ho are oppoing this lease, and that tlie are requested to publish these n-olut ions. C. Thompson, John Graham, J. T. Ii. IIoovkr, V. A. (rKAHAM, .1. M. Mewboksk, K. A. Moyk, Committee. I I h it resolution, so far as It relates to the Mute nroxv. Dr. Chas. D. Mclver, was ilrawn and missed under a misapprehension Hie Mate nroxv. as we have since learned. r-pn-xeiits the Mtate in a ftoec holders' meet in.', hut has no voice or authority in a di- ivitiirV mietimr. The lease twhioh was inn-unlimited at Hurlington on last Friday) .i made in a directors' meeting. Dr. Mc lver was not present at the directors meet- iiu in I ha. I no authority to auenu saia meet ili ) C. THOMPnOH, President N. C. F. S. A. W. S litHNKS. Sfc'y-Treas. N. C. F. 8. A. August 17th, lsyj.l I UK SfAfK OKU AN. Uesolutioiis commending the Fro-m-essive Fanner, the State Alliance "r'au were adopted, and the members ot the body pledged their personal eilurt- to increase its circulation. Various other matters were acted iitioii.au account of which will be uieu h t he Cai'Casian from time to time. .1 usf before adjournment, a letter was rerctxe. hv t he M a vor of cary, express inc unreserved appreciation on the part of the citi.ens of that town, for the ireiieral work and character of the Alliance, am declaring that many miiiual ties of friendship had been formed which, it was hoped, might inner be sundered. A cordial invita tioii was extended to the Alliance to el in the town again; to establish an) enterprise there With the assur ance t hat all the aid and energy of the iieoiile would be at the call of the or ganization. Th rreaiiltiut's Address. The annual address of the President, Mr. .1. M. Mewborne. was read on Tuesday evening, and was as follows I'kak liKErHRES : The Father's liatnl has kept us and guided us till this our ninth annual session. II is love and wonderful benelicence have been aain shown in the prosperous crops throughout the ereater part of our be- luedMate. For this and all other b!esinsr we otter our trrateful thanks. We have assembled for counsel for wise and peaceful counsel to make l.iiis for the amelioration of our brotherhood and to take steps for their xjieedv consummation. We are met here in the town of Cary '') special election of your Executive oiiimittee to view the surroundings l this railroad junction, and to take into immediate consideration the ad inability of establishing a manufac turing enterprise here. This is a great and crave undertaking, but you have 'lie power to do it if you so desire; others have done it and are now bask- ir-ir in the wealth produced by you our peoole at home expect the otH ers and delegates to do more than routine business at this meeting. They knew from the first that they were in a w ilderness, and are now ; and for this reason they organized themselves into mis great brotherhood to relieve tnem ; 'hey have learned, and learned it tlirou;h great tribulation, that they have been wronged and terribly w roriired bv adverse legislation, and t hat lav orable legislation will ultimate ly restore them to their former con ilitiop. They have found out by the "I i- ai ion they have received through : organization, which has been vtri tieit by actual experience and pro claimed by wise and learned states "ien. that when the government issues troin its treasury a given amount of tiuiiiej which is only a medium of the exchange or wealth to circulate among it's people to be useful to them in their business, it should be in sufficient Volume; no more and no less. Nvith this sufllciency the people buy and sell: nromise and receive proii,i,,.; make all manner of d' hts unit receive all manner of debts, and all are contented and happy in 'a "uiiling land." If by legislation gov- fritmei.t reduces that volume ot cur ""eiiey, just in that proportion the man Who umde the nromise is robbed bl the man who made the debt by the man who received the debt, and gov ernment ii the instigator of these out rages, through vile and vicious legisla tors, either for self-interest or some body else's interest. They have learned through the Alliance and by unrelent ing toil as well, that, if the volume of currency shall be reduced one-tulf, then the remaining half must do what all once bad to do, and that the price of tlv produce of the farmer and the hire of the laborer is reduced one half nd the products of all other en terprises are in like manner reduced unless sustained and upheld by nefari ous and unlawful combinations. That by reducing the price of products and labor one half, the conditions have teen so changed that it will require twice as many pounds, twice as many bushels, twice as many day's labor, and twice as many products (save and except those up by unlawful trusts) to pay the debt that it once took, thereby doubling the energies of the man who promised the debt, and to the man who received the debt the-value thereof. Was there ever a crime more criminal or a coun try more corrupt? They have learned also that, by de monetizing silver, the conspirators were only furthering this criminality against the commonweal, and to give honor and credence to a crime, they have made the Chief Executive of this nation the standard-bearer of a gold standard who says to his subordinates "you shall!" and to the people "you will J ' Dictator to the one and deceiv er to the other. These lessons cannot be unlearned. They are indelibly nxed. The friends who are opposed to the Alliance call it politics, and it may be o; but it is the truth, as well, and all truth shall be told. We have told it In love, and time and sad experience have demonstrated it to all. Shall we not kindly say to our friends, be done fighting us! Have we not told you the truth, and nave you not received it in spite of your opposition? The Philistines are upon us. Gold, crowned and sceptred and panoplied with the paraphernalia of a mighty warrior, defiantly and in advance bids us to worship at his shrine. Instead, let us warn the people. At Gold's altar there are bonds, and places vacant for more bonds; In the present ones there is a sad and weary story; a large por tion of your once plentiful currency has been taken from circulation and transformed into these quietand unre lenting bonds which increased your in- debtednessand by funding your money it nas rendered you less able to pay. Bonds, disastrous bonds: was it not "denominated in these bonds" that they should be paid in coin? Have not the gold conspirators struck down one- half of your coin, thereby doubling the debt? These have bound your country and you. and the -'places vacant" when they shall be filled, will be bonds for your children, and they will be bondsmen. Shall we not continue to strike at this monster, and worship only at our country's shrine? It has been well said by a former President that "The two corner-stones on which the Alliance was founded and is standing to-day, are : First, social and moral development; second, intellectual development, followed by co-operation in business efforts and in dustrial pursuits." Our "social and moral development" bave been wonder ful, and civilization, as well as religion, have been advanced since the advent of the Farmers' Alliance. Its intel lectual development, especially in the science of government, nas been so rapid that the world wonders why it is so; but these, I fear, bave not been Kfnllnoiaii hv i'A.Atuntmn in husinoaa efforts" as they should, and "industrial pursuits" bave not teen even nominal ihese latter t nines, at tnis meeting, ought to be duly considered. If such goods as are generally used by tne Alliance are not sold to its members through the Business Agency as cheap or cheaper than otherwise, it is because the Alliance has been discriminated against, and it is in your power to use your organization to us uiiuost uunuj to manufacture such goods for your use. When we shall bave advanced as far in these "industrial pursuits" as we have in the "science of govern ment" the world will truly say that this organization is most wonderful, and Alliancemen and women will de light to praise and honor this great inuusiriai union lor us luimeuiaie benefit to them. While they have learned to love our demands, and will stand by them to the last ditch, they demand of you that you shall preserve their organization by doing sometning along the lines indicated in this ad dress. I thank you for confidence reposed in me lor me last cwo years, l wisn could have done more than I have. I now surrender the badge of otlic to another, and will promise you that I for one will ever be ready to obey the commands of the man who wears it. TO BOOM THE TARIFF. A rand of One Million Dollars Raised for tbo Purpose of Soaping the Prrss. Associated rress dispatches say that a large fund has been sub scribed for the purpose of purchas ing or subsidizing newspapers in the interest of McKinley s candidacy for the presidency and with a view of advancing the cause of a high protective tariff. The movement, it is stated, was beaded by John Wan namaker of Philadelphia with a syn dicate of eastern manufacturers who have in the past contributed liber ally to the Republican campaign fund with the understanding tntt the duty on their products was to be maintained or raised. "It is reported that Robert P. Porter was elected as editorial man ager, and that at least one promi nent and influential newspaper was to be secured in various States, while those already in sympathy with the Mckinley idea were to be furnished with financial assistance. For this purpose, it is asserted, a fund at least $1,000,000 was raised. Mr. Porter was to establish head quarters at Cleveland, Ohio, from whence literature of the proper kind to aid the high tariff cause was to be forwarded to the papers interested in the scheme, with editorials espe cially prepare.! to fit the various localities and calculated to show that McKinley was the coming man. Mr. Porter has secured control or the of the Cleveland World, and this was stated to be the first step in the movement. It is understood that the manufacturers have been made to understand the situation, and that while the fund pledged to the news paper scheme may be partially with drawn it is with the understanding that the tariff idea must be crowded to the front whenever possible, and that the party organs must not be come apathetic on the tariff issue. Recent expressions of the leading ReDublican papers indicate that their editors have already received a tip at to what is expected of them m this reapect. "IH THE PARTY" GANG FIASCO. Lobbyists and Boarding-Home Keepers Hold a "Convention" in Washington. "WILL VOTE 'ER STRAIGHT." Amazing Kcsdobm to th Oall of tbo Mem- phU Bolton "Wo nro Lost," tbo Captain Shouted Democracy Is Doomod Only Two Western Statos Koprosontod. Special to the Caucasian. Washington, D. C, Aug. 17. "The national Democratic silver con ference" here this week settled the important fact that whoever the President nominee may be and what ever the national platform adopted. both the candidate and the platform WILL BE SUPPORTED by the Democratic party. That was the object of the conference. To that extent it was & success. What appears in the "address o the peo ple" and the "plan of organization" is meaningless. It is a concession to the western silver leaders, made under threats of exposure and disruption of the conference." Southern delegates dominated the "conference." ONLY TWO WESTERN STATES were represented. They made a vigorous minority opposition, openly and boldly charging Harris, Turpie and Jones (who participated in the Memphis conference) with treachery and cowardice. The Harris-Jones policy contemplated an "address to the people" of meaningless plati tudes, with the hope that it would END THE SILVER AGITATION in the Democratic party. Harris and Jones both attempted to defend the policy and vehemently opposed any "plan of organization" as disastrous to the Democratic party. They both declared their determination to sup port the Democratic Presidential nomination. They assented without reservation to complete submission to the national Democratic convention. "Suppose Cleveland should be nomi nated," suggested a Missouri dele gate. "I WILL VOTE FOR THE DEVIL if a Democratic convention demands it," was the indignant and wratby reply of the Ancient Tennesseean, Harris. And he meant it. So the southern delegates present feel about rt. bo do the southern leaders feel about it. With the western dele gates the silver sentiment was higher than party obligations. They said so, and compelled the adoption of "the plan of organization." Possibly some feeble, spasmodic effort will be made to put it into execution, but not where it 'vill SECURE INDEPENDENT ACTION or menace Democratic interests. To say that it was a representative gathering is ridiculously misleading. senator Daniel, of Virginia, ex-ben ator Jarvis and Senators Harris, Jones and Call were the only Demo crats of national prominence in the caucus. States were represented by LOBBYISTS AND BOARDING HOUSE KEEPERS. Yoder, lobbyist and ex-Congress man, living in Washington, repre sented the great State of Ohio. Col Trentlaw, a boarding-house keeper, answered for South Carolina: two- thirds of the Virginia delegation were Washington residents. Ex- Senator Ransom was not present, but was ably represented by "Plun ger" Barnes as official custodian of the caucus. From the material at hand it was found impossible to make up an executive committee. That important matter has been left to a correspondence bureau. What It nil Means. What does it all mean anywayf was propounded to Congressman Cox of Tennessee. "Well, it means," he said, 'hat we are lost DEMOCRACY IS DEAD. We can't win the fight. The tide is against us, and the party is hope lessly divided." Then, suggested your correspond ent, the election of a Domocratie President is impossible. Entirely so, as things now go. Our conference may result in one possible good. It is possible,by agitat- mgthe silver question, we may be strong enongh in the national con vention to nominate a western man under a pledge not to veto silver legislation, and compel the eastern Democrats to bolt the nomination. In that event we would lose the Presidency, but we might secure the lower house of congress and possi bly secure the senate. The nomina tion of a gold man ends all hope of Democratic success in 1896. The people demand a bold, open declara tion on the silver question, and, speaking for Tennessee, no leader or set of leaders can CHANGS THAT DETERMINATION." In the event contemplated, will you support the Democratic candi date? "If I voted I should vote the Dem ocratic ticket. I have voted that way nearly iorty years, l was an elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket before the war. But vote or not, I shall take no part in the campaign. I will not stultify public record and subject myself to pubhc contempt, by advocating WHAT I DO NOT BELIEVE." Asked how the rank and file free silver Democrats will regard the nomination of a gold man. he said "Nine out of ten, in my opinion, WILL NOT VOTS THE TICKIT." A great many will not vote except in the local elections. What pro portion may vote the Populist tieket will depend upon tne nomination ana piauorm. a strong nomina tion and the adoption of a bold American piauorm on tne eurreney and tariff will attract a great many dissatisfied Democratic voters. The drift is that way now." B LEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, SIBLEY The Echoes Of A Throughout STRONG, FORCIBLE PRESENTATIONS Ot Conditions That Exist and the Remedy CARLISLE AND SHERMAN One the Great Worshipper of the Arch-Traitor of THREE TIMES THREE MILLION MEN GOLDEN But Will Tfaoi Crank Tbo Imago By Unitedly Attacking It gpooebos By M Mewborne, Graham, Thompson and Senator Bntlor. Thursday, August 15, was a day of ' note and importance for Wake county and North Carolina. It was the date for the great Alliance picnic at Cary, when men of prominence in State and nation discussed the issues of the hour. It bad been announced that Hon. Joseph C. Sibley, Senator Marion But ler and others would speak and great interest centred in the event. The day opened threateningly. Dull, ominous clouds hovered near the earth, and many people were prevented from attending the meeting on account of the very forbidding aspect of the weather. Under these conditions the attendance did not reach reasonable expectations. But early in the morn ing vehicles of all descriptions began to roll into the place and by 11 o'clock there was an assemblagle of from fifteen hundred to two thousand peo ple in the town of Cary. There would have been five thousand or more people under more favorable conditions. At 10:30 o'clock a special train from Raleigh arrived on which came Sena torButler and Mr.Sibley with about one hundred attendants, among whom were Congressmen Stroud and Shuford, Mai. W . A. liutnne, ur. j. j. ioit ana and other prominent people. A short time was spent in greetings and ac quaintance making, and then on popu lar demand, STATE SENATOR J. M. MEWBORNE, ex-President of the Alliance, took the stand. He made one of his characteristi cally earnest, clear and conscientious addresses in wmcn ne iaiu special stress UDon the importance and value of Alliance work. MR. W. A. GRAHAM. Mr. Graham was the next speaker. He made an earnest talk in which he emphasized the necessity of further upbuilding the Alliance. He referred to the work it had already done as an educator, and the severe opposition it had met with from certain sources. He announced the right and necessity for farmers to organize for mutual benent, and illustrated the value of the educa tional work it had done, and in doing this be said: ' When we started the Alliance we said that you might regulate every thing else, but until you fix the money question the country will never be prosperous. The question is not how much a thing is worth, but what you have to buy it with. The Alliance has always taught and pri ached that. You might as well be a goldbug, as to use your influence to put the goldbug in power. We must get together. In the revival of the Alliance is the hope of North Carolina." DR. CYRUS THOMPSON, the new President of the State Alliance, was next presented. His remarks were not extended but they were pithy and and forcible. He said among other hin.?a: . .... .... "We are irequentiy asKea ii me Al liance is still in politics. The Alliance was primarily a political organization and is now, to the extent of being an educator in political economy. If it were not, it would have no reason for existence in a republic It is in poli tics to stay, and it has been and Is now educating the people on economic questions, its work and purposes nave from the beginning been opposed and fought in the legislature, by tne press and on the stump, and frequent declarations have been made by those who opposed us that we were dying. If we are dying, it is taking us a long time to get off; and we are not trying to gain a lease on life by changing our methods or living, we are teacmng now what we have taught all the time and we will live to continue the same teaching. There is more eating crow in North Carolina today than any otner diet. The Alliance is here to stay and is never going to die offIn spite of hard times we nave naa one oi tot most iu tellisrent and enthusiastic sessions ever held. The genius of this organi zation is essential Christianity, made manifest 'in love toward His creatures here on earth.' " f Here the speaker told the beautiful story of Abou Ben Adbem, who, by asking the recording angel to write him down "as one who loved bis fellow man," saw bis name stand first of all in the great record. "When tne church fully comprehends its mision, the men at the altar will crowd the Alliance. The church today stands where it has always stoodon the side of human slavery and not on tne side of liberty. I thank God that even the pulpit is learning that we must live now as Hereafter. SENATOR MARION BUTTER was next presented and was greeted with applause and cheers. His was the pointed, logical convincing address for for which he is noted, and was inter spersed with vivid and witty illustra tion. While speaking a vigorous shower began to fan, and he paused and looked as though he were about to suggest seeking shelter. "Go on; go on," exclaimed hundreds of voices, "the ram wont hurt." "Oh, its all right with me," responded the Senator. "I have stood worse things than rain, but I do not wish to expose youJo it." u(Jo on ; go on,' and he continued. the crowd called In his remarks he referred to Mr. Sibley. He said: "He is a rich man, and he belongs to the AllianceJCheenk) 1 1 went into the Alliance because I was SILVER Great Speech Ring The State. Therefor. HELD UP 10 THE LIGHT. Rothschild Halo The Other the All History. WILL HmaBE. NOT BOW OOWN TO THE poor something that any poor man will do unless he is a fool. provided he is eligible. But Mr. Sib ley, though possessing a large portion of all that is best on earth, whose per sonal interests under present systems would put him in antagonism with the principles of the Alliance, has so great philanthropy, Christianity and love for bis fellowman in his heart, that be joined the order and espoused its cause, though by so doing he knew he sacri- nced much that he could gain by a course of self-aggrandizemei.t and selfishness which he might easily pur sue. (Cheers.) When I began the fight as your President I was denounced as an an archist. All the great leaders were telling you that the tariff was what was the matter with the country. The men who told you that on the stump (1 have found by examining their tracks in Washington) voted more times on the financial question than on any other question before the country. They voted on one side or the other, but never would explain how they voted. They either knew or didn't know what they voted on. If they didn't know, they were unfit to represent us; if they did they were dishonest. They take either horn of that dilemma and perch on it till it hurts them. They Ibowled 'tariff.' These Congressmen told you you were robbed by tariff barons. Everybody knows that the trouble is with that thing which sucks the wealth out of the pockets of the producers. For every $1,000,000 made by unjust tariff laws ten times that many millions have been drawn by the men who fixed on you this financial trust. Every time a millionaire is created, a mil lion men lose a dollar each. If you bad been put in the garden of Eden where Christ was born and earned a dollar, above expenses every day, you wouldn't be worth a million dollars. If you had been born with Adam you wouldn't have as much money as the Vanderbilt estate. I am not quarrel ling with men of wealth because they possess the wealth. I denounce the system that permits the taking of wealth from those who produce it by tbose who produce nothing. We are not honest if we denounee the man who has a million. I know and you know that if either of us could make a million dollars to-day, we would do it. I wish 1 bad a million dollars and bad a heart as pure and a soul as great and grand as that of Joseph C. Sibley But millions are not to be accumulated in a lifetime by a man unless it be through systems which despoil many men for the advantage of one man. There is something wrong with the laws of a country where such condi tions exist. We all ought to wake up and study this question. An Alliance- man is a traitor if he doesn't vote for his principles. Here the benator explained tne principles of finance as taught by the Alliance, giving special attention to the demand for the free coinage of silver. He illustrated the disastrous effect upon prices of products by con tracting the volume of currency. He then asked : "Are we in favor of re storing the silver law that was killed in 1873, and are we willing to show our sincerity and intelligence in fa voring it by voting for it regardless of party affiliations and prejudice? If so hold up your bands. Let us see how we stand." Every? man in the crowd held up his band. You bave gone on making more that makes the country rich, but you have grown poorer all the time. If you could take a dollar and plant it. and make it produce more dollars, just as you plant corn and make it produce more corn, you could soon nave all the dollars you want. But you now pro duce what exchanges for a dollar. God didn't intend us to plant seed and raise dollars. He intended that you should raise products and send men to Congress tiiat would make dollars enough to exchange those products. Experience shows that the laws which tend to confine these dollars to gold alone will not make the exchange in an equitable and just manner. The gold demands more of your products than you can give and at the same time prosper. Let every man in this audience who has a piece of gold raise his band! (Not a single band raised.) Now I am advised that dinner is ready. You have just shown that if you bad to pay gold money for your dinner, not a single one of you could get any, and yet there are men who have nothing on earth who walk about like a poll parrott, talking about gold being the only sound currency. There are plenty of good things to eat on tbose tables to-day. But suppose there should not be any spring lamb and that you should say "I will eat nothing but spring lamb.' I am a spring lamb man. Just because you couldnt get that, you would back up against a tree and starve to death, and nobody would cry because it would lust be one fool less on earth. But yon wouldn't be any bigger fool than the man wbo goes about saying "I am a gold standard man," though he hasnt got a grain of gold and cant get it. "To-day your circulating medium is in the hands of greed. Will you break off the yoke of tyranny? Men in each party say they wont whip the gold- bags unless they can do it in tbeir own parties.' These men are the best agents and servants of the gold bugs and the devil that were ever born Our ancestors drove the red coats from our shores. The British are now on your shores in possession of your gov ernment and are now fighting you (Continued on foorth page.) 1895. SILYER RALLY AT CONCORD. Butler and Tillman Speak to Three Thousand People Silver Sen timent Surging. A GOLDBUQ PAPER'S REPORT. TTse Charlotte Obs.sf.r Adamite she Crwwd Bat Tries tbo "Oeateamee rung nt It -Tbo Speaker Carried la a Wmmw Horse "Shaj"-A room pealed by One Hand red Horsemen. Special to the Charlotte Obearrer Concord. Aug. 13. There were between 2,500 and 3.000 people in Concord to-day to bear the apostles of free silver, Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, and Marion Butler, of North Carolina. Tillman came in on the vestibule from the North, where he had been speaking in New York 8tate, and Butler arrived later, about half-past 11, on the fast mail, having come from Raleigh. Both were brought up to town on a buck board drawn by four bay horses. Butler was accompanied to town bv an escort of 100 or more mounted men and driven to the 8t. Clond Hotel, where he joined Senator Till man, who had been resting there since his arrival. The cavalcade then proceeded through the princi pal streets of the town and brought up at the court heuse, in the yard of which the speaking was to be held. In the carriage with the two lions of the dav were Sheriff John A. Simms, Messrs, Marshall White, M. H. H. Caldwell and J. M. Burratra. c THE CROWD. There was not much enthusiasm evident. There certainly was not much smack of triumphal procession in the march through town. The 'rebel yell" was heard only once. When the speakers had mounted the platform erected in front of, and extending from the court house portico, three cheer were proposed for Tillman. It took them a long time to come the fuse burnt d a long time before the explosion came and then it was not terrific. Bat it wa. the hungriest crowd for here sies met up with in a lone time. Tillman and Butler fed it in the amplest manner on the rankest toadstools of Populism and when it seemed as if it must have been satisfied, there was one long, wild, Oliver-Twistian cry for more. Till man professed to serve his menu on a Democratie salver, a piece of plate that had been in the family a long time, while Butler handed out hislcratio party, we may have to take! mush and milk on a new Populist I tray. But it all tasted the same. It was a iree silver dish. Tillman fin-1 isnea aDout 1:JU, but the crowd 1 1 J a t : . r. . jouou lur aim 10 go on. outier tried to conclude several times, but his auditors would not allow .it, and wnen a thunder and rain storm came along, they insisted that he should continue in the court house, so that it was nearly 4 o'clock when be wound up There was quite a d ifferencc in two newly the manner of these elected United States Senators. pushed so prominently to the front in reeent political upheavals, and on whom the eyes of the conntrv will be fixed for the next four voars mm - 1 . . i iiiman, qaicK, impassioned, Serf, bull-dog like; Butler, slow almost to tedious, cynical, sneering, and as sarcastic as Voltaire. th smelt r,p a vrw ..tTV 1 8MI'Ij 0F A NIW PARTT- mere was the smell of new party - ism in the air I In. nM :r : . - -". vuiu biiiuh iu iU u uut, aizsiDK woras oi nil- uiau an u uuncu mem. use A BUOW - uroco ou an siaes; tne scent of . I ii i .1 it was sulphurous as one of Butler's SlOW-fUSe bombs burst everv llOW ana men. Ana tree silver was thalof ininniinn, i. L.jl.n..;..i ;nr,.. .it .L ; ... ... - . , nucleus of the new party alignment proposea. Amman saia he wanted W-v . - - a, aw oas v i a A A OD1UCU1. Arum I lie .,"uo yTl " ne co"a get mm mere; n nor, even irom the ranaaoi i-opuiism, in spite of its crary leaders and crazy notions; euuer saia patriotism must be placed - - - mwm w arsirvw above partisanship, even above Pop ulism, m placing an honest (free silver; man in the White House. TILLMAN'S SPEECH. After an introduction by Mr. M. IJiVh 5? I ' T-mman w" krreeted With lond fthAamnov Tka fi,.tk XSdiiu! . c-h,ennsr' 80010 Honaires can steal because they have i"I ly submitted to the Attorney-Gen-Carolinian said he was e-lad to eome I uu -. I Ti e : from the North, reeking with slav ery and corruption, to be with thi .... people in the South poor but hon est. "We down here are In-all v free but nationally slaves." The Democratie party, so long held to gether in the South by the fear of negro'domination, was disintegrat ing, because there was no longer to- prehension from that cause, but new issues were coming to the front. The great fight ahead is how to keep aown poverty ana that oppression -BB z a. mm wuicu consisiea in maung money for some other man to enjoy. The nnanciai conditions were sueh as to favor the Northeastern section of the country. The Democratic party stood pledged to right "the crime of '73," the demonetization of silver. but when we had a majority in both houses, there was a President's veto in the way, and so the crime of 73 remained unrighted. The Republl can party was the tool of the money power, las iemoe ratio party had always been committed to bimetal - lism, but when it did not fulfill its pledges, the Alliance eame along Alliance eame along fct we would no longer ana taught that we wonld no longer stand by Demoeracv nnl.. i A.A something. The speaker blamed the free silver "reform" element in the other , southern States for not capturing the Democratic maohinerv miueir owes, as was done in Sonth Carolina. "The Alliance and Polk had the Democratie party in North Carolina in their breeches noaWt. but you went out and lost. Bnt the Solid Sonth W& broken nr. 1 h last election. Jarvis and Ransom went over the StAto trvinr in .at.h the senatorship, bnt this young man ipoinnngto Duuerj eooned up up tree, got the persimmon and away 1 n ml... , . AASB mW Hia nil ninnieiVIBSl But with the hrae. kin- n th South eame the breaking of the solid x ii nsiia dv xemoeraev It pannes itself, bat III herer faj. lew thieve and raaetls. i&e old arraeseats of t&e silver men were gta over, that prieee fell because f striking dowa silver, that silver era detaoaetiteU by eaeakiag legislation ta 1S73, that the paste of T3 was the result. The aatioaal bank qaeetioa was diecaaeed. The speaker asked if governoseat bonds ere so good why woalda! a little flat paper be , toot Boads themselves were fiat, he naid aoth- " prvsminn to pey. raper is not oesirable investment," My the goldbug. "Ah. that is where the shoe pinehes. Clevelaad and Carlisle came in for abase for ar ranging the last bond issue, and let ting England dictate the terms of it There is not enoagh money ia the eoantry. "Metallie money silver has been stricken down and until we get it back we will seek the hind teat that has got no milk ia it." Laughter and applaaae.1 It is the doty ot the people to eoa sider carefully the financial lasae and to follow where their interest led them. The old Puritans and their descendants, aetiag oa the principle that "the world was creat ed for the saints and we are the saints," bad governed this coantr long enocgh. Mr. Til'men then went into a lone- discussion of what monev is. Car lisle says that law can't affect the value of a metal. That statement is absurd. Talk about fiat money. Gold is as much flat money as any other and because the law makes it ao, and silver bullion can't be carried to the mint and coine-1, as gold is. simnlr a ..at m a . wer oeciuM me iw loruuis. Democratic politicians howled fori?, we we I a long time about the tariff iniquity. I! m s a WeT fiu -wieveiana call congress to gether to repeal the tariff t No to repeal the Sherman law. What is to be done! Can the Dem ocrats of the sooth and the Populists of the west get together! Will they Ietaby-gones.be by-gones and fight to gether against Wall street! We have only eighteen months to work, and . " w i v Mum m m i it tne stiver men of all parties donnlr" V. wa.nm- come together within that time, we will have oar hands fasten.! in th. shackles; we will have rold bonds forced on ns and be tied hand and foot for, veneration M. IA I orkto bave his State put oat an am . -v m eves otwbsYbu electoral ticket which wonld cast its vote lor a dyed-in-the-wool silver I man; a man east of the Mississippi I ll. S . era. ... I woman i oo. western ttepablieans I hate the name of Democrat; south- era Democrats hate the name of Re-1 publican; we can't j iu the Populist party because yon have too many cranks at your head. We are here to consider bow to get together. If we in South Carolina can't ret a ail Ter man frr President in the Demo- one from the Populist party. I wonld rather have Populism with its cranky leaders than to follow the false lead-1 ers in the old party who have proven I. . . i T. .. l traitors. aoitq carouna is over whelmingly for silver, as South Caro-1 lina is. They must stand toeether. Their interests are identical. SENATOR BUTLER'S 8PEECB. Mr. Butler said he came to hear rWS-11 in-ii Amman, unman was a Democrat. I He was a Populist, now and forever, j would without end. "But," he asked, uv u.u; &rvuiw,e,ie sr lll A ill- manT Unng them up. I want to shake hands with them. No matter what label he bears. Tillman talks the principles of Thomas Jefferson. I. J f , v - . I -tuurew wacneon ana am useoin na makes them his, and he (Mr. Butler) wonld like to see Tillman, or Isome man with tbose principles.! r resident or the United btates. That is the remedy for the legislative and 1 financial evils oppressing this conn - I w im.V. k AH tk ; uvusn buo rrnr uai. l I ninct Htiino i ....t the root of the oppression of the - was mi people. To every man who had made a million nnt tk. I I - . w. J J inivy 1 jaw, icu usui made a million by reason of an an- Most money system. "They eaU it I 'Rrirnmniirinrv' mm mmm atiaa 1 1 eel Vjh jm A .A I se-as.M1, oi VSkOUVSklij; 11 is stealing. There are 4,000 million- Aires today. Not a one of them ever earned a cent of tbeir money, No man can acanire a million dollars without getting the money somebody else made. "If you had been bor.i the same day as Jesus Christ, 1,895 years ego, ana coma nave atarted to saving a dollar the next day, and had saved a dollar every day since, you would not be worth a million dollars today, lid 1 1- , . i,jnrr.u. iiTirr 11-na a. mil. honaires sprouts up in the north million men down here lose a dollar." T .W ft. . , u iu whin vi uia iweecn. osusr saiauwas saia cieveLand expected to carry this State because he had named his baby "Mary Ann." Laughter. l would vot for the i.tk.lA.V:l J ' " V . - in discussing or 'cussing the gold bugs, Mr. Butler said: "Now I want you reporters to take down what I'm going to say: I can go tomorrow to every bank in the State, take every casnier ana put tnem in a row and not one of them will know as much m . S m e oz tne unsocial Question as thee farmers. If they deny it let tnem get together and face me. I'll get the f Arm ers together, and have a school and teach them finance. Most bask otneers don't study this Question. They think they know it all and will not study it. "No preacher can endorse the na - tional banking system. Talkabont 1 Pners not taking pArt in polities! Why Chrit walked into polities, and J06-"tthat 4-P I oe' loe into it that deep l unBsT 5 hU band. He droi urin W1UI ni" "na-J drove the money-changers out of the temple. I Cnmt wa? ernend because he went 1010 pontics necanse He dAred to vV- money-changers, and the I money-changers erneifled Him. I I J eny - uuer saia y the m An wbo puts I PariT aoove principle is the best tool I " goldbugs have, and the devil nTe.r hd better servant than a gOldbUg. I "Every bond this government owes I England today or any other conntrv or "dividual " payable in either a, I Vl cpuon 01 uie government, ana it says so on the ' I fee of the hmiil ri 1-J ! S va ee m m SBSV B ASS gome to England to get gold, whan I nw WttAU Py " oonas in surer, lie if 1 rrvn.,-. t . NO. 42. RAIISOtI IS HOT UIIIISTER. Hit Appointment to tlexico Ptm Void bjCcnrtitntictal Viola tion BUT HE MAY GET BACX. aoe Waiatvero. Air. ! n w.tt W. iUaaom, of .North Caroline., is ao longer Minuter of the Tatted 8tatee to Mekieo. That oflce was Practically declared vacant to-day a decision re a de red by Mr. Holmee Conrad. rWintor ieerl of the Uaited States sad Acting At toraey General. Mr. Ransom's in cumbency was declared to ! con trary to the Federal eonsiitatioa and the acting Attorney General sus tained the action of Mr. Tk.ti.si BoleomK. A editor Of the Treasure for the State IVoattment. in t-l... ing to pas favorably upon Mr. Uaa som s vouchers for salary nd ,t- The decision of the artier Attoraev Oeeeral was based on a uuMims raised by Auditor llolrorsb to the legality of Mr. Ransom's ap pointment to the Mettren mission. ' a w "w, I,,,,nce of eectioa e. a i urie w, oi ice constitution. which declares that "no Senator or Representative shall, daring the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil .flce under the authority of the I'tuted htats nlch shall Lave been created, or the emoluments whereof abnll bave been increased darter suck time. 1 fj!1"00 fluently fitted the Iswss. sadb st.v mi e .. a? a. ,. . P"1 bT. jrrmdm Cleveland and w-Br,BW 7 innate I lore Lis !?rm.of o4 M e!r f North v."na BM tr"J during " the SAlary Vt the MrSICSB - 0 d int reaeed o.tK a Tar sr. Kansom was elected to the Senate in 1S72, and anted contin- 1 sf A aa.l - 7 irom April sin or that year BDl1 '""nary 23rd. Ibl5, when his aommation to the Mnirta mission I was sent to the Senate and immedi. ately confirmed by that body, and aetil the 4th of Vlareh rhen his term eitmed and his OOm mission sa Minister " Meiieo was feigned by the I' ident. tie was a member of th i Senate when the diplomatic and eon- nlr appropriation bill e as pssaed. vnten contained provision raising I Pt ot Minuter to Metico from I - : : - a .1 . . I mHB oi ine secopa class to a mission of the first class, and in I creasing the salary of the office rom S12.500 to 917,500 a year. It is doe to Mr. Ransom's occupancy or a seat in tne Beuate chamber nt I that time that he is to dav rithont I - mm a . . . . I an omee and that be is tet Lnica.il v a I debtor to the government for the amount of salary he has drawn since I UipiomSIIC Mel. I Whether or not he voted in favor of I the increase is of no consequence; the fact that be was a member of I the Sen ate when it passed the diblo- I , . - . .. Biue bdq consular bill as stated. operated against him in holding in a legal manner any Federal civil office which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall bave been increased" dnrinr the tin.. fr 1 which be was elected Senator. In . . . soon after Mr. Hansom's appoint- ment to the Mei etn mission there MiiiM.nk . JI.U. "-- w.wwbvivu iu ue newspapers and among public men as to whether hi. inenmbene t the I rmm ... Tl.. i p. . .ww waiirr was vvaara:c u.ui uj iu i real- dent and members of the cabinet, but no formal question on the subject I tstrsa at vaiaawl Bias eh on en . emt .v& . A 1 I mMm smsejvw WI BAi VaAAfr Ut lUV eminent, the status of Mr Ransom was not impaired. So far as can be ascertained Mr. Ransom continned I to draw his aa.la.rv of 117 'm a ,Mr. but it was only recently that Auditor I Holeomb. when he came to naes nton the accounts, found himstlf enable I to decide whether be could a j; prove I payment or Mr. Kan soars Mtlary, I ia view of the fact that be had been I member of the Senate when it was inereaaod. The matter was accord- . ....... ... vrsi ivi en vuiniun. al The Jscuinn rndrt tswt.. v. tk. acting attorney general also diancm I . . - . 01 another mAtter in arhirh Ur. Kan. I son was peeaaiarily interested. Nearly three months sgo ho returned to the United States qaite id, having obtained sixty days leave of absence. In . I ne spent most 01 ine time recnoer- - 1 ating in the lSorta Carolina moan- I . - . m.m I tis d then obtained an additional I for thirty days. Under the I regulationsjef the diplomatic servieel I ' ataneom was entitled to sixty I sixiy aays annual leave and to thirty I days sick leave additional, a total of esnM I ninety aays. a here is no provisions I for a farther extension for any reason and diplomatic or cost alar I oia.ee rs who have exceeded this qaota, I have not received pay for the period I they remained away from their posts. I Hr Hansom's ninety days are nearly I up and last week he came to Wash- l J?.? ? " his eon tinned maawtn wouia n nim a I rBt"r ' (luUon isruisr cunuioa wim pay. Anas not disposed of and " "L.1: I Z 17 - r ,eMt V- etu,a' Attorney Gee- erars decision disposes ot everything relating to his emoluments. The constitutional provision through which Mr. Ransom has been deprived of ofleo does not bar him from being reappointed to the Mexi can mission. He could have been ap pointed without violation of the law or eonstitation at any time after the hoar of noon on March 4th. lest. when his senatorial term expired. One dollar will carry The Cauca 8XAJT to ten new rabacribers three At . At n mm e - 1 jwa Huaa uswi- an I wrai toat, aee that ten new lire eent Dom your community tX Cloenlnnd ttere Site lee StnUs Bsaali Bol (be e ee t rtnulu shiae; rersbee ' e Absents Os A want ml -W the man who received the promise, and m a 1 1 " esssn BjssmmsB. I
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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Aug. 22, 1895, edition 1
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