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WE ADVOCATE THE RR8TORATIOW 01 SILVER A3 PRIM A RY MOXIT ANDTWEFREB AND UNLIMITED n,lNOKOF SILVEK AND OOLl) AT THK RATIO OF 16 TO 1. THE ADVOCATE TV! UABCIf ATIOX or CAUCAS1 m ream's umm rao CORTOaVATlOJI A1P MOXorvLT MWtBATlOB AD A S11CXB TO Jmuioiitx ruianu AN VOL. XIII. LETTERS FROU THE PEOPLE. A Ringing Warning and Call From The EastPlutocrats Fear Votes More Than Strikes. P0PS ABE GAINING GBOUND. (irttlng Fight t-r ! The Ctltwltl Oeght te One 20 OUU Mew Hubaerlberi It Tarn on the Light An Old Pop .i,il.r'i Penalen "A Hlrans-e Look- luK Hrxl on hli Hhauldare." A Hinging Call from The KaaU Forth Caucasian. I IIoKt'CKBM, N. C, Ang.2G. Shout the tflad tidings; proclaim the good neWS. Shout until mountain and Tsleahall reverberate with the joyful intelligence. Let it ring from the rice tieliU of northern Maine to the orange groves of topical Florida that prosperity has returned." Let the great, glad news be caught on the waves of the stormy Atlan- tic, and be conveyed to the placid bosom of the sleeping Pacific that America is once again blossoming as the rose; that her sons and daugh- ters are happy and contented!! This is the news one may read from tne great dailies. This is what is being fed to the people to lull them to sleep that they may be the more easily led.in the great fight for indus trial freedom in 1896. "Prosperity has returned!!" Let every farmer and mechanic etery laboring man who has to gain I his daily bread by the ecnptural in- is go plain and simple that a way junction, ask himslf if tbis is the faring Democrat, though a fool, need case. Watterson, in the great quadrang ular debate, he being the ehampion of Democracy (t) defined what a la boring man was, saying that the banker clipping his coupons until he calloused his fingers, was a laboring man. I leave it with the sturdy sons of toil to say what a laboring man IS. Ana 11 is to mesa avua wi iuii, to those who must from earliest dawn to the setting of the sun work to eke out a scanty subsistence that this great cry of returning prosperity is addressed. Addressed to you to lull to sleep that inward monitor, which it telling you that something is wrong, that you may be duped in boosting into office again a set of men who will press you harder and harder until your spirit will be brok en and you give up in despair. Then will they establish a government in which the money lords of to-day will be dukes and nobleman, and you laboring men serfs and slaves hew ers of wood and drawers of water You to-day are almost to that road which leads .to a monarchical gov ernment, and nothing but the com bined effort of the yeomany of our land can avert the fall of what 'was once the grandest government on the globe. Like causes, produce like effects, and the causes which were instru mental in producing the fall of other governments will, if not avert ed causes the fall of ours. The la boring man must assert his manhood, know his rights and then dare main tain them. Evarts said "The laborer must cease to be a mere laborer, that he must cease to be a machine, and be a man; that is he must become a part of our free government." What is the condition of the labor er to-day T The condition is such that they must toil from early morn 'till dewy eve, for the bare neces saries of life without time for any self culture, or mental improvement. Lassalle says: "You believe per haps, fellow laborers and citizens that rou are human beings; that you are men speaking from the stand point of political economy. You make a terrible mistake; you are nothing but a commodity." If you will only take the time to read you will see where they that must labor are drifting. Read what the plutocratic press has to say. If you are so unfortunate as to be com pelled to travel in search of work please listen to what Scribner' Monthly is reported as saying; "He has no rights but those which soci ety sees fit to bestow. He has no more rights than the sow that wal lows in the gutter, or the lost dog that hovers around the city square." Comfortirg language indeed tor him whose necessities compel him to go in search of employment. But et ns go a little farther and see what is DroDosed bv them who wouia make - . yoa slaves, worse than the erf of of Russia (where the Czar's worn is absolute) or tne gaiiey slaves of France. Senator Sharon said that "we need a stronger government. The wealth of this country demands pro tection. Its rights are as sacred as the rights of the paupers who are continually prating of the encroach ments of capital. Without blood. and rivers of it. there wih be no do- litiesi oktiiM nf ailminstration. To avert frfn1 r-lnndshnd. a atronff ntral government should be s- tablished as soon as possible." Think nf it. ta snns of patriotic ... t a . J i l V7R ""w!8: 'f 7 mina go oaca to your aires, pare oo, ieviK si. m T7 t SZ ESl 'fil-ft?.1 ftS ta are of eivil and rAlitrinns libertv If th f ah Jiul Mn View from tnnrl.r wnrM nf shades the scenes of earth, they must view with contempt thei? offspring, froamng under the lash of political tjraata, without manhood enough to nae and assert their rights. Is the Pirit which acuated our sires deadf Were the lives lost at Bunker's Hill nd Brandywine lost in vainl Was tts bloody war for American free dom from under Briton's iron hand jmt a farce! If not, ye Sons of Amer arise, awake throw off your leth k,fyand resolve once more to be Ir. Lav aside prejudice and par- , k - f,i 7 juunDi.o. -. . uu.ua mere is sirengui, wuu 'member that plutocracy don't ad strikes as much as votes. Vote wr no man who does not believe in lUitira tn all T. k-sha Kantnt . --aii, v uimi. whether in a common cause. Rv solve that America shall once again "use. Bare aloft th banner on whose starry frlds .hall b- emblaz oned that sentence that is dear to every patriot, -Equal rights to all, special privileges to none." Let it float and ware. Firmly resolve that it shall not cease until we hare a government of for and by the peo ple. Let us educate and agitate. Spread reform literature. Place the Caucasian in every home that it may warn its readers of impending dangers, and eduatc them, so that in 1890 they cast their ballot, not in favor of plutocracy but for home and honor, for political freedom, for all that freedom will bring. The Caucasian is doing a noble work. It is spreading dismay in the enemy's camp. Long may it live, and its noble editor, to battle for the rights of the American people. Let our watchword be "Onward;" our battle cry "For God, Home and Native Land. E. W. Spain. What I am A ad Why I Am. For The Caucasian. Currituck Court House, N. C. I Auar. 10. I am a Democrat, a 1!Iava- land Democrat and heartily endorse the course that Mr. Sherman has pursued. I think that covers the whole ground except what the Pops occupy. So you see that we have got a good foot-holt or platform. It u undoubtedly wise to use Mr. Jef fer son's name as a trade mark only, Don't understand me to coincide with Jefferson in regard to his views concerning silver as primary money, national banks &c. I am a restricted Jeffersonian. Notwithstanding all that we think it prudent to throw on an old coat of our ancestors' achievements to hide our nakedness. I have given you a bird's eye view of our play ground -or platform. It not err therein. I am a Democrat. 1st. Because our grandpas and grandmas were "straigb touts" and many of us have been "voting her straight" ever since we were 18 years old. This alone should occasion the greatest possible adhesion to th party. 2nd. Because the negroes vote the Republican ticket. 3rd. Because we have done so badly we think it struggling against fate to even try to retrace our steps. 4th. Because the yankees took our negroes and knocked Jeff Davis out of office, and it is our duty to vote the Democratic ticket at least one hundred years for spite. 5th. Because we are more highly esteemed for our treachery, perfid ity and deception than we would be in any other party, society, organ ization or elub. 6th. Because there is no place in the United States outside of Sing Sing that suits an anti-seratcher, em bezzler, defaulter and selected poll keeper as well as does the .Demo crat party. I expect to remain a Democrat until time is no more or I am no more, unless the head authorities see fit to call an "international confer ence" and all can agree on honesty. C.B. Mathias Jr. Getting Right for '96. For the Caucasian. Lknoir, N. C, Aug. 23. Enclose you will find a list of twenty-five subscribers. I have never known the people to be so eager tor good literature before. Things are getting right for '96. The silver men are on top. My best wishes are for the success of the Caucasian and the Populist party. R. L. Sherrill. Continue the Paper. For the Caucasian. I Whitaker's, N. C, Aug. 24 1 have just lost a two hundred dollar Imrn it t.h.AAo. hnt I have been too nntr in th. ajmisa to take the slierht- egt exception. Please continue my naDer. I send you a club or twelve subscribers. Start the club with w this week's issue so they ean get Sibley's speech. With best wishes for your paper and our just cause, I am, Very respectfully, J. M. Cutchin. Pop are Gaining Ground. For the Caucasian. Wilmington, N. C, Aug. 23. I have just retnrned from a trip through Pender, Unslow, Jones, Craven and down in Carterett. Corn crocs are fine. Fruit is splendid. Pooulists are gaining ground. 1 stopped in one township where they have been always voting the straight Democratic ticket ever since they voted from errand father d"wn, but th gay it is time to 8wap off Tney : i,.,,- . ,nr tht wnnt I D C T A, tuv? w ... . V mm mw - " work they think it best to swap, therefore I think they are coming. L. R. Mason. It Tnrna en the Light. For the Caucasian. J Buroaw, N.C., Aug. 23. Noticing your exceedingly low offer to send the Caucasian three menths for ten cents, in clubs of ten, I started out this morning to see if I could not get I up a club, and did so, and more with I verv little trouble, as you will see from the list enclosed. You ought to get at least 10,000 subscribers under this offer, and if every friend of the people's cause I m !. a liMla tvnnkla it renniroa ; M-JJ"""": - i:r; ' m TtheCA " devrrisT a'Sd6 numuug OK WOBO wuu uiius iua pou- I nlo ean be fooled all the time. A. H. PAPDISON. TA 8tr" "derS4 OS) His Shoul- I For Caucasian. ir,u.Tntf V !.. Anv. 26. I send you today twenty-four names for the .KhCACCAW 1 11.111 CSAVMS eV iwwm - was DUrnea Ont W IUW Kraai iuusiuui fire of last February and lost every thine I had. and as I am an old, wonnded Confederate soldier, I hare had alt I could do to keep the wolf from the door. The last legislature placed my name on the pension roll at full daws but it seems that the I m I, lUAl uaj, uul a m, wauv -- Auditor ot otate wants to put me the loVLTtk elM8f M he seems to be unable to determine what full pay ma.. Rome friend in Kinston emDloved a lawyer to draw up I r ?T.e . , . i Kill withnnr mv xnowieura: out " 7 IZ17 i,.'n.i. don't want (Ctettansd on fourth, ) ' ..J HON. W. H. KITCi Orseia Kinking t outraat Utwee the last LegtaUtere aad i!a Predeceeaers The Iieutm-ratie Party Ctder a Cloed It II a broken the rUcord at I y ag, lion. W. H. Kitebin bit- the nail square on the head in the following: One would think after reading the Democratic history of the last legis lature, if he had any faith in news papers and politicians, that the leg islature was composed of pilferers, plunderers, Libbers, thieves, buz zards, polecats, minks and hyenas BEST LEGISLATURE IN 20 TEARS. But fortunately for North Caro lina and the truth of history in this case, not one honest, well informed man out of a hundied believes one word published in a partisan sheet, or written or spoken by a partisan. The last legislature did some foolish things. It made some blur dera and mistakes. It did some good things. But its real work pertaining to the good of the State, is more than equal to that of any legislature since 1878. DEMOCRATS SMOTHERED THEIR BLUN DERS. The difference between the iefcis lature and its predecessors is this: Former legislatures composed of Democrats did not have Democratic critics to watch, and Democratic pa pers to publish, and Democratic liars to report to Democratic papers. But, on the contrary, ail blunders, mis takes and wrongs, and they were many, and always will be in legisla tive bodies, were condoned, covered up and kept from the public. THEY MAGNIFIED THE MISTAKES OF THE LAST LEGISLATURE. But in the case of the last legisla ture, all the Democratic ho'o-uob-btrs, conductors, so-called leaders, officials, newspapers yes, all the defeated, disgruntled, disappointed Democrats, and all the Democratic foxes, minks, buzzards, ghouls and hyenas where set on the last legisla ture like so many blood hounds to destroy the party or parties in con trol, and to make it and all its do ings odious. No such effurts since the foundation of the Colonial gov ernment in this State was ever made to annihilate a body of men politi cally and socialiy, as were made by the Democratic leaders, speakers, papers and Democracy in general, against tne recent Legislature; BUT IT HAS FIZZLED OUT and the lofty, soaring eagle has left his political heavens and come down into the mud and mire, and all their Herculean efforts at slandering, ly ing and defaming have come to naught, and the same resisting ob stacles stand in front of the Demo cratic party. Their fieht in the fu ture is an uphill fight. Their am munition is exhausted and most of their big guns have been spiked or surrendered to the enemy. DEMOCRATIC PARTS' UNDER A CLOUD. The party is under a cloud. They confess that they have deceived the people and have been deceived them selves. They know and confess 1 hat the near future is all darkness and blackness to and for them, unless some Moses should come forth to lead them out of the wilderness, and yet they are so constituted that they cannot, or will not learn by experi ence. They are as plucky as a bald eagle, bold as a lion, indiscreet as an ostrich, and as devoid of political wisdom and political tact and skill as a ground hog is of Christianity. IT IS WANTING IN SENSE AND PATRI OTISM. if all parties and all men were tomorrow, to voluntarily surrender to the government with its depart ments including the army, navy and both houses of congress into their keeping, with full power to make all laws and repeal all laws and do their will, they could not manage it They have neither patriotism, state craft or common sense sufficient They would open negotiations at once with goldbugs of America and Europe and sell out within ninety days, or they would surrender to Johu Sherman & Co. In fact, they have already don both. This is the opinion, so far as it can be learned. of the leaders of the party. KENTUCKY POPULISTS. They Have a Platform That all Befonn Force Can Volte on IVeCaa Win on It In 1896. Commenting on the platform of the People's Party of Kentucky, which has attracted unusual atten tion from the entire reform press for its strength and wording, the North Dakota Independent, one of our ablest edited exchanges says: "The Kentucky Populists in their platform paved the way for the union of the reform forces that has so long agitated building a platform upon which any man who believes in financial reform can stand, and so happily worded as to keep the faith with our former utterances and yet not offend the most fearful of conservatives." On the same topic the Brocton Diamond, whose talented editor, E. Gerry Brown, is the People's Party nominee for Governor of Massachu setts, says: "III the Kentucky plat form suits the conservatives, it might be well to discover now near to "conservatives" is the sentiment of the whole party, with the Ken the test. Ken- tuckj h.paved the waytfor a union of forces in the nation next year. with the Louisville platform basis Kentucky Populist. as a 1 The Situation In Kentucky. New York Sun, I The Kentucky sound money Demo crats are between the devil of f,n. I " - Hardin (Democrat) and the deep sea 1 of the Republican candidate, and the - 1 devil of party defeat and the deep auv iuiuw cud uom ecu uio sea of lien. Hardin. The coming Nation asks: "Are the churches neglecting the poor? And then replies : o, most of the churcn- es are promising the poor a borne in heaven if tney will only do without m one nere and .jl tne ricK WDom christ condemned, to have the palaces, if they will suffer the political and social wrongs heaped upon them so the the I rich will be able to pay big pew rents. :il Vnn ctnrplvnn tha i-hnmhix nnt tn to neglect the poor they are the guard iti - - I ians of the poor to keep them tractable I for fie rich skinners." - RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. AUGUST 29, A DEADLY ARRAIGNMENT Of The Democratic Democratic HON.IV.R. HENRY'S Of an Organization Severs Long WILL STAND FOR COUNTRY The Record of Grover Cleveland Matt. W. THE FAITHLESS, INCOMPETENT AND THE PEOPLE AGAINST Party Before Principle la Political Poltroonery The Maaeee, When They Move Are Mightier Than Monarch or Moaey The Principle of Jefferson hk Protection in the Bosom of the Toung Giant. The People's Party. Others withdrew from the Demo cratic party long since because they thought it would prove corrupt and false to the people. I have remained with the organization, and to the ex tent of my ability have helped to fight its battles, until I KNOW THAT IT 19 FALSE until it has shown itself false until there is no longer room for doubt or hope. So confident was I of the integrity and fidelity of the Democratic party and its intention to convert the pledg es of the Chicago platform into law, that I, together with other Democratic speakers, told the people in the cam paign of 1892, that if the Democratic party did not keep its promises, I would leave the party. The Democratic record 19 made up; and it 19 a record or incompetency or corruption, and largely of both. I now ( 8KVKR MY CONNECTION with the organization called the Dem ocratic party, and think it proper that I should state at some length the rea sons that impel me to this course. It is not without regret that i part politi cally with many of those who still cling to the so-called Democratic par ty, for I know that the rank and file and many of the leaders of the party are men of the noblest type and pa triots of the loftiest impulses but they have been unable to "break" "the machine" and to convert party pledges into law, so much needed by a suner- ing people. In taking this course I am iully aware that part 01 tne Democratic press, especially some miserable penny-a-liners of the towns and cities and scribblers with cross-roads environ ment, will endeavor to lift themselves temporarily from obscurity by assail ing me with cowardly insinuation, villihcation and misinterpretation 01 motives. So far as integrity and char acter are concerned, I stand on a pin nacle built of the Democratic endorse ment of THREE GREAT COMMONWEALTHS, far above the falsehoods and unscrupu lous partisan endeavor of such con temptible creatures. So far as politi cal work is concerned, I will simply say, I have sweated enough for the Democratic party to drown some or my calumniators. I feel that it is un necessary for me to assure those who know me that I would in no event leave the Democratic party if it had KEPT ITS PROMISES to the people, or if I saw any prospect of its doing so. This 1 wrote to prom inent leaders of the party as far back as fourteen months ago. On the 18th day of June 1894, 1 wrote one of the most prominent Democrats in this State these words : "When I find that the Democratic party is false to the people, then, and not until then, will tnere be occasion for supposing that I will leave the party, should 1, in the future, see cause to change my party affiliation. neither the hope nor proffer of office can influence me one way or another. 1 believe in the Democratic principles that were formulated and made glori ous by Thomas Jefferson, and that have been , DESPISED AND BETRAYED by Grover Cleveland." Tne effort will be made to obscure the facts and charges of my address, by an unjust and cowardly attack up on my motives. The voters of this State are not concerned about my per sonal grievances, nor have my person al wrongs aught to do with my politi cal course. The people desire infor mation. They demand truth and not falsehood and vituperation. They will wish the Democrats and the Democratic press to ANSWER THE FACTS of my paper. I defy them to do so. 1 have asked many of the most promi nent Democrats in this state to give me satisfactory answers to the follow ing questions. I have told them of my present views on public matters, and begged them to justify, if possible, the deeds and omissions of Cleveland and his COTERIE OF CONSPIRATORS. They have one and all declared they could not do so. I am satisfied that it cannot be done. The following, among others, are the questions 1 have asked prominent Democrats, which have left them in every rase, with all the symp- torn, of pohtfeal paralysis : SOME QUESTIONS. First. After criminal delay, resulting in the passage of an inadequate and undemocratic tariff law, why did not a Democratic Congress, as pledged by the platform and promised by the rep- - 1 resentatives of the party, still further reduce the tariff during the short sea- w a . 10J?1 ?rt2J nnt I cogresTpass a free a Democratic Congress pass a free coinage bill as promised by the platform of 1893? 3rd. Why did a Democratic Presi dent veto the Bland seinorage bill which would have put in circulation about $52,000,000 in silver? 4th. Why did the Democratic Con gress fail to repeal the 10 per cent tax on State banks to which the party was pledged? 5th. Why did Democratic Chief Justice Fuller, of tbe Federal Supreme court, and Democratic Associate Jus tice Field vote against tbe income tax law, when either of their votes would I havn saved ir. . ...... j, . - How do you justity the spectacle ot I the Democratic Chief Justice writing the opinion that - Administration And Party. SCATHING REVIEW With Which He Connection. - Yl GOLD CONSPIRATORS The Character and Career of Bansom. CORRUPT DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS THE PLUTOCRATS. NULLIFIED THE INCOME TAX LAW, while Republican Associate Justice Harlan voted in its favor and declared that he feared that the nullification of said law would prove the "first step towards the submergence of the liber ties of the people in a sordid depotibin of wealth, that the decision of the court in tbis great case is fraught with im measurable danger to the future of the country, and approaches the propor tions of a natioual calamity;" and while Republican Associate Justice Brown voted for the law and said : "This decision may well excite the era vest aoprehf nsion. It strikes at the very founda tion nf national authority in that it denies to the general government a power which is or may at some time, in a great emer gency such as that of war, become vital 10 the existence and preservation of the Union." Said another great authority : -"Tbis decision i anotheF victory of ererd over need. Great and rich corporations by hiring the ablest lawyers in the land, have secured the exemption of wealth from pav ing its just share towards the support 01 the government that protects it. The people will not ACCEPT THIS LAW A8 JUSTICE." "No decision can make wrone rieht. It is not right that the entire cost of the Fed eral government shall rest upon the misses. 11 is not ngnt mat waaitn snail pay no more than poverty towards the support of the national administration. Democratic principles are violated in the moat flagrant manner, when a man worth $10,00,0000 pays no more in gross than the man who is worth $100,000. or when the man with an income of $1,000 is called upon for substan tially th same amount as the man with an income of $100,000." Mr. Thos. G. Shearman, in the No vember Forum, 1889, says that "the average annual income of the richest one hundred Americans, cannot be less than $1,200,000 and probably ex ceeds $1,500,000 per annum. If oue hundred working men could earn each one thousand dollars a year they would have to WORK 1,200 OR 1,500 TEARS to earn as mucn as tne an nual income of one of these one hundred richest Americans. And if a working man, could earn $1,000 a year, be would have to work until be was 547 years old and never take a day off before he could earn as much as some Americans are worth." If this be so, and it has never been de nied, how about the Western farmer with wheat at 60 cents and the South ern planter with 5 cent cotton. The wealth or Uroesus was estimated at $8,000,000. but there are 70 Ameri can estates that AVERAGE $35,000,000 EACH, and there are 1,400 millionaires in the two cities of New York and Brooklyn whose fortunes range from one to two hundred million dollars. Last winter in New York at the Metropolitan Opera House was seen one of the most magnificent sights ever presentea on tnis continent. The fashionable women of those two cities under the blaze of electric lights, glis tened and scintillated with the sparkle and flash of $29,000,000 worth of dia monds. Ana s2,rHAi,uuu,uuu were pos sessed by the men who owned the grand tier of boxes Last winter nrty capitalists bad a supper in .New lork City ihat cost $15,000. In the centre of the banquet table, was a crystal lake thirty feet in diameter, on which swam superb swan, fenced in with filagree work. Miniature valleys and mountains bordered the lake, while around the table were golden plates and golden knives and forks, with luxuries from all quarters of the globe. Hamburg f rapes at ten dollars per pound, and rst Florida strawberries, fourteen in a cup, at four dollars per cup. Out side the banquet ball, a woman shiv ered on the pavement with a STARVING BABE AT HER BREAST, and beyond her were the millions of the unemployed and the suffering men, women and little cnudren of this land. The People's Party alone, declares, n its platform, that those who live in such kingly magnificence, ought and should pay to the government an in come tax in order to lessen the tax burdens of the people. The Demo cratic party being in power, and fear ing the growing sentiment of the voters of the land, passed an. income tax law, which, while far short of what it should have been to equalize taxation, was nullified by Democratic Judges. How can this be defended? 6th. Why has this administration failed to prosecute the Trusts which are sapping the life blood of the Re public, and which the Democratic party was pledged to annihilate? 7th. A new York Democratic daily de clared not long since, that "when Dem ocratic speakers were telling the peo ple in 1892, that the Pension System was costing tne people, niter "J years of peace. as much per annum as the people, after thirty it required to support every standing army in Europe promising tbat the Democratic party would reduce it to a just and honorable basis there were 700,000 pensioners. Now, more than two years after the Democratic party came into power, there are more than a minion- on tne roils." What has this Democratic admin- istrationdone to mitigate and to cor rect the infamous Pension robbery so bitterly and so justly denounced by the representatives of tbe party? stn. (a) wny are iorty per cent of tbe Republican officeholders still in office, to tne exclusion ot tnose who have worked all their Lives for the Democratic party, and, the ascend ancy of its principles? I 1895. LZIH FREE SILVER. A la teas a. Totle la a rew Word Why Ho Oyaa the SAsAd Staadard aad Why Urn Favors the free aad rallaaltod Cataaae of IUw. The t York Mercery of a recent date contains a communication from Captain Joseph F. J oho it on, of Birmingham, in answer to the ques tion. Why I favor free ail vert Captain J. F Johnston is piofcndlv versed on financial and economic question and baa perhaps a much iuveated in banking as has any man in the south, lie is a patriot, how- ever, and rrefer to make his profit out or a prosperous ratner man a poverty-stricken people. The fol lowing is his communication: "I favor the free coinage of silver because I am opposed to falling pticea for wages, commodities, and land and property; because I favor preserving the parity between money on the one band and property and labor on the other; because the aver age annual increase of the world's population reaches 10,000,000, and th entire prod net of both silver and gold, available for mon-y purposes, would not give more than $15 per capita for this increase. "In the United States w hare about $400,000,000 of gold. Against this, paper money in the shapa of treasury notes, certificates, national bank notes and other paper indebt edness, redeemable now in gold ag gregates nearly or quite $750,000,000. In other words, there are about two paper 'dollars now demanding, or authorized to demand, gold to where there is one dollar to anwer that de mand. No wise man would increase this unequal struggle for redemption, and therefore no paper currency can be bad to support the legitimato de mand for money. "1 oppose the gold standard he cause it would require the world's product of gold (available for money) for ten years, added to our own stock to pay the taxes alone demanded an nually of the people of the United States. 'No country ever prospered with a small circulating medium. The United States, being an undeveloped country, requires more money than England or France. There is not enough gold money in the world to pay the debt of the railroad com panies of the United States. "I favor the coinage of silver be cause I believe that the very day our 11 ints were opened to it, every silver- producing and silver-using country in the world would commence trans ferring their trade to the United States, and that we should witness a tremendous development of our manufacturing interests, and that demand for our products would bring widespread and lasting pi osperity to our country. "The people of those countries would prefer to trade with us be cause they could pay in their own money, and not be forced to sell it for gold in order to settle their debts. 'I Jfavor free coinage because I believe it will enhance the value of our products and the wages of our e. a ar.. laborers, and because 1 believe no pet manent or healthy growth can be I had when the producing classes cannot get reasonable rewards for their labor and skill. Joseph F. Johnston. How can a man holding these views Btny in a party which i owned and run by the goldbugsf Will he join the People's Party and vote his convictions as expressed above, or will he vote for a party that wyl pass laws to make a "poverty-stricken people." Ed POSTMASTER LYONS' EDITORIAL. Ha Called Cleveland a Second Keuedlct Arnold and Was Removed. Washington Post It does not pay to speak of Presi dent Cleveland as a Bened'ct Arnold. That is what Walter C. Lyons, post mister at Selma, Cal., has discover ed. When the issue of the Irrigator, of Selma was shown to Postmaster General Wilson, containing Lyons' editorial on the President, he for warded the copy to Senator White, of California, asking him to name a successor for Lyons if he thought the editorial warranted the post master's removal. White recom mended the appointment of W. S. Staley. The editorial in question is as fol- follows; " Western people at least demand the lesto ration of silver and paper money and will be content with nothing else. They feel tbat the President has sacrificed their inter ests to those ot eastern capitalists and hate him coidially. The situa tion as regards the President is somewhat similar to that of Benedict Arnold after he deserted the colonial for the royalist canse. He is said to have asked a colonial prisoner one day what they would do to him if they caught him. 'Cut off the leg that was wonnded at Saratoga and bury it with the honors of war, was tna iinnAr 'Th a at F vitn lkal would hang.' The principle, advo- . - jw- .-v. eated by the President during bis first administration ought to be in dorsed and blazoned upon the oanv banner, bnt western Democrats will brand those of tbe second adminis tration as traitorous to his con stituents and meet them and their advocates as political opponents." Sense tales; te Oat afOaw. From the New York World. 1 San Franeisco is dumping canta loupes in the bay. Atlanta is glut ted with grapes and melons, and in Florida thousands of bushels of fruit are going to waste for lack of a ket, while New york U I r" . , . full of Esople who cannot afford fruit. We ave learned a good deal sinee the invention of the steam motor, but it is clear that in some things we hare hardly begun to learn at all. Government ownership of rail roads is the only remedy. Ed. Cau casia w. Tha Wlastaa Kleters. . Seventeen of the Winston negro rioters were sent to the county roads. three for twelve months, eleven for four months, and three ' for three months. One was fined 50 and costs, and three were discharged on payment of costs, Several ne groes pleaded guilty during tho jirojtagf. of tho trial. RICHARD RAZOR CR TRE ROH. ttmt Maaalag ta Thlae he es. aad What he a ye A For The Caucasiaa). I'HAkLomt. N- C. Aug. 24. I was a delegate) tot ha North Carolina Stat Farmer' Alhaaro that sat in the town of Cary on Tuesday, th 13th. I took not k4 bad fally intended to writ apMhe aioeting, the town, the good rations; ay something about tbo ugly men, tb pretty ejomro, Ac ; bat before I could grt my niittd cowpoerd, th rob Web cut f tar a.ti aav nan. etl sharpened, overybody had written up tb wbI fix aud had it pub lished and in fart had stvlea all my bunder. The only thing left for sa to say is that "ary furnished the rations and quarters, and the State Alliance) furnished 10 to 1 appetites without "international agreosaoat." We were invited to attend the an unal pirnie of Smith Crk Alliaorv. in Warren county, on the 16th. and as the Stat Alliance was uot in that, we have a State right on that "write up" and we will use it- We left Cary at 11:30 a. m. by th S. A. L. route; arrived at Kidgsway at 2:30 p. m. From Kaleigh to hidgvway wr made eleven stops Five of the stop ping places, to-wit: Wako Forest, Franklinton. Kittrrll, Henderson, and Middlrburg a. flemishing towns. The otbor six w found to be just wide places in the road. The most of them have plenty of laud for I bnildine a town but have not aeon I proper to build up to the prvsent writing. Some of the land on the route ap pears to be good and fertile. Judg ing from the growing crops, some of the land is too poor to raise a row or an umbrella on. In fact we saw some land near Hab-igh that is too poor to make brick without asing fertilizer in the mud. We were met at the depot at Ridge way by that big-sou led, warm near ted. Christian gentleman, the Hon. W. II. Firming, president of Warren County Alliance. We found Ridge way to be a bean tifull ittle town, pretty much scat tered. They mix their farming there as badly as th Democratic party mix their politics, but they are much more successful. They raise eorn, wheat, oats, cotton, tobacco, giapes, dewberries, strawberries, blackber ries, peaches, apples. &c. Friday morning, the lGib, in com pany with Maj. Fleming and his family, we were driven to the pienic ground", about two and one-half miles distant. Smith Creek Al liance owns four acrrs of land and has erected a building on it for Al liance purposes. They meet once a year, between the 10th and 20h of August, bold aregu'ar Alliance love feast, and judging from some things we saw with our off eye closed. there was some, "sure enough," love feasts at that day's meeting. No makeshift about it; and I will saj I don't think the boys could help it. A young man wao could stand off and not offer to talk to young girls fa - - A AT a I AT- wno were as pretty as May, deserves to be severely punished. We came 1 very near saying that he should be made to join the Democratic party or at leat one branch of it but we still have some fellow feeling left and will not say that, Well. I have gotten side-tracked. 1 1 will say that this was their fourth annual picnic and they always se lect some good looking man from a distance ach year to make a talk; hence 'our reason for being away from our office on this occasion. At 1 o'clock dinner was announced. The grove was dotted over with tables, loaded with the best of food, melons, peaches, apples and grapes, and the crowd that surrounded the tables was estimated at between six and seven hundred. More than twelve basket full were taken np. Among the prominent Alhanee men we had tb pleasure of meeting were Bros. It. F. Rose, G. II. Flem ing. H. B. Hunter, Rev. L. C Perkinson, J. H. May field and many others. We have never seen better order. We will go this one better" and say we never have seen as yoi i order where such a crowd was to gether. We forgot to say tbat Bro. John Graham, the newly elected vice resident of the State Alliance, is a citizen ot Ridgeway and is at the head of a high senool in tbat town. May the shadow of the citisens of Warren county never grow less. At the last election in Warren county modern Democracy was "not in it." At the next election they will not black the board. They will not have any more showing than a bare-lipped boy at a whis'Jing match, or a male's daddy at a daneing school. Richard Razor. SILVER IN NEBRASKA. Silver Mea Caatral m ! eratle I ua oeMg Saiit oc The Nebraska State Democratic . : . a. r t . t icodtchuoli mei ai untoa on ui 21st. Silver men carried it with a whoop, and then the goldbugs Doitea ana win noia sv convention at Lincoln on September 5th. You ean get it in the party. yu see! Don't you! The following resolutions were adopted: "We, therefore, declare, ourselves in favor of the immediate restora tion or the free and unlimited coin- nA m.mA - 1 - .A- of 16 to , .eh existed prior to 1873. without wait r - aw . a - ing for the aid or consent of any other nation, sueh gold and silver coin to bo a full legal tender, for all debts, public and private. A delegate attempted to place the following before the convention as the minority report: "We commend the admisustratioB of President Cleveland as being able, patriotic and honest and reaflrm the platform adopted by tho Dosso- eratie national convention at Cat eaco in 1892." Scarcely had tho first word been uttered whec tho whole convention was protesting. Tere was sueh a roar that order was not estsbtished for ten minutes, when tho resolution was tabled without int. But two weeks longer aad eeat osor will be witftcrai NO. 4.5. TILLDAU ' AT C0IiC0RD- WUt H$ Stji to the Thirtj Fits Hoadrvd Peoplt Who "WE MUST OCT TOGETHER." I rta aa4 Umat V- (.- 1ha ! -W ay tH 1st mtft fleet vhe ? See UwA M at the Myanio ASa4 freeAe. IWlow la a rrporl of th i--rh f sVMtwr Till sss n at th I'otKonl snert lag. 1 be Charlotte (Wn rr tgA4 buf IVm.) as) that ttierv rrr trm 1W to JSM pr.i.te prwrnl. "It Nrwt and OiaMrn rr (silt rv I v ti.) thai Umpt was not m than ra-tt hundred prevent. lUth are -kailm" iK-tn. papers. henator Tlllanaiisaid : !atjuifroM N'rw York Willi Im-t millions .f prvpU aud billion of wraith. I toadr thivr perches Ihere but itut on litir, I Stu f lad to grt hark muU ttrne are pur but honest. New York U reeking with rurruptioa ai4 .re sion. Me are loralli free. Are we to rem In aof U feel like hoiue !-rr like talking to l illmanitra. Wr arr of the sante blood ftttrtj I 1m- ane people. I be separation 1 gettTspkl- rial. 1 ne routliru people are Ufat N'cth la full nf homoevnious. T im foreigners utongrrU, not Ai.clo haxoos. We are Urn and bred tiere. We love our past and our tradition King Mountain, Guilford Court House and Camden. lute uprrniar) lias been the paramount toaur; it la what has held whit tofetlw-r ajralntt mongrels. Theolid .utb" la n separating and tireakiug up. lite South bad alwaja held to t he I eiuo rratic party beeaua Northrrn Ienio rrats alone kept Republican front putting us under the heel of former slaves. The lletnorralic parly in h.C, mesne only while urenia-y. The cause leading to failing aJW-jttanr to the Democratic party lathe ret-ognMed fart that attempts to I or re negro su premacy will always K rtaina; that there are issues a th.uaud fold mure important. Men are realising Ihey do not get tlie benefit of their labor. rtMM-hfJjr else gets it. The AlliaiM-e ha a been the means of educating lite H-ple. It started In the West aud plead like a 1rairie fire (South and Kast. Mm mut 00k to their own intereMa, not to I hoe of party. Money lias been wrung from the outh and West for the benefit of tlie North and East. The lrtuocratiR party of the south has always been for free silver but has been powerless and wronged. The outrage of 73 HAS KKMAlKKD t'KKIOHTEO. Republicans have pretended to fat or bimetallism but have been tlie t of tlie money power. Tlie Alliance taught men they must leave the lem ocratic party unless it would fight for the interests of lite people. You left it in N.C. We had been tea hi ng pe plein 8. C, and when th Alliance came the ground was rleared and pre pared; we sowed and gstliered an abun- a4Dt, crop. We swept and enthralled Our Alliaticeoien are 8. C. (cheers.) good Democrats but they preed for ward to control the Iviuwratic party and did it The Alliaiiornuea sloughed off in N.C. InH. i we made oiber fellows slough. We were two-thirds of the party and controlled it : you left the party and got whipped. 1 h ma chine was too much for you; you got beaten throughout Sooth eacepl in South Carolina. The bourbon arislorrsey left us and set up housekeeping for theuiseltes; we are the only original, solid. aiuon pure Democrats (cheers.) IHuw racy means a rule of tlie people. There has never been any other party in South Carolina. You had W higs and It gublicans and Populists. We hate split in the middle but have tio Whig gery. I said to th people in lMz lb nomination of Cleveland wocld at a raoentrTioK of the Iieniocratlc party. I went to Chicago and fought him to tlie last. I was beaten ; ram borne aud found the people indignant and eager to leave the party. I persuaded them to stick to It. 1 could not turn Mark-leg 1 a A sa a a. i . m f?? 'BWZ "1 ' Y?IX' t ID iiiiuuiruuvii, n j too; only 200 men voted for ester in the State. We earned the Hat for Cleveland, lie turned down Sooth Carolina Congressmen . and labelled tbem Pops and poor fools, lie tried to buy them with a few public offlce and failed. You coulu hate controlled the Democratic party in t tie whole South if you bad stayed in it, tut Polk car rid tb Alliance out of the party . in bis breeches pocket. You sliould hsv stayed In the party aiid gotten hold of the machine, but y oo went oat and got licked. Last fall you gave the "dyed-in-wool," "never to learn," "never t forget" crowd a lesson. Whit J art is and Ransom were quarreling over tbe Sena to ial nomination, this young coon, Butler, shinned up th tree and got tbe persiinnion. (Cheers and laugbt'r.) There wis tbis advantage in leaving tbe party however. It has bbok a V ma soup bostbj by breaking tbe Solid South. While tbe South remained solid, tbev press of tne North kept up tbe cry . i ou must ?CT.""r.7.i Zi u . i. . I Dsoers are responsible for all the trouble. Thyr are owned by men w be keep up tbe cry : "bland by old par ties." I have stood by tbe Id party, but so help me God I will not follow rascals, so 1 kicked them out. (Cheers aad cries of r1gbt,") Tbe cause dri v- Bp?iZ parties asunder Is self Inter- ine: people out of the old parties and Tbe best definition 1 ran give of patriotism is enlightened self in teres. olf interest alone drives ssen. It is alright if you dont try ty rob the other fellow. Rascals have control of our govemBMnt and tbe Issue la: Shall the people oovecji roa nut ivrcxcsr, or asoney Tor interests of the money power. As true wea, our duty is te follow where our interests lead. The Pari tans have ,bu running this . goveranseat on oae dogma to which there are two parts : lex, The world was created lor saints, Sad. We are tbe saints. - That Is tne theory which this luiifaawst has been rua for thirty years. 1 b.ve read everything worth reading on the money problem. Tbe gold awg side Is all sophistry and bad reasoning. And 1 htve a good opin io of myself; I knew 1 aaa bewest if a fool; aad ssaay asea are fools . ABB OT aUBBWT RtTSUKS I wish I had come oae to sweet sm la tbis fiBnnesliia. some snonooietojiisf. 4 ( SI i II