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HAS A ARQER CIRCULATION THAN ANY TvVo WEEKLIES PUBLISHED IN THE STATE. THE Circulation of Thk CAr casian exceeds that of any 'I two weekly papers in the State t' combined. It is read by people J; in every county in the Stale It is the arrvat paper of the tODle and ITHE TTIE p-rrWwboart troeorjv A ardBBomry iafot cFV CASIAN. m4 aw tWt Unry alk ta aim wit taw fevwa tin 4. FjreatJStatej xx aa art fiftus for it CAU i VOL. XIV. DEMOCRACY VS. FREE SILYER Why Free Coinage of Silver Can not Be Secured Through the Democratic Party. RECORDS, FACTS, OPINIONS, WM. h Xh.iw tho Kalalty and HTIocrla) f DrtiKxTKlle I'ritftMvlona aad Pla f.irtn. Th. Vl.wa of the Foaplo no th (Juetln of tho lltjt-Wktt They Kdui nt What Ther Think Under this head will be presented communications competing for 'the cu-h prizes announced wlsewhere for the best article on "Why the Free ari'l Unlimited Coinage- of Silver On not Be Obtained Through the D mocrati l'arty."J ( Le Free and Cnllmi'ed Coinage nf Ml r" runnot be obtained through the i i'Mx rutic party for the following ri'.iin : I. The Forty-ninth Congress wan divi'h-d politically a follows: In the ll.iu-c 12 Democrat, IK) Republicans, . National and I vacant, giving the l,.inocratn a majority of During thi Congress a bill for the free and uiihinited coinage of silver at a ratio of liitol was introduced, and wan HII.I.Kl H Y DEMOCRATIC VOTK8. ;. The Fiftieth Congresi was divided ,MIVit ii Hy a follows: 170 Democrats, .M Keptiblicaiin; Democratic majority, 111 No free coinage bill was intro j'uVed. In the V ifty-Hrt Congress the KeputilicaiiH ha1 a majority in the Unlike of 17, and a majority in the Sen ate of 10. No Tree coinage bill was in I reduced. ;i. The Fifty-second Congress was divided politically as follows: ftloDem orrsK nm Republicans and !) Alliance nien, giving the Democrats a majority over the Republicans of 117. On March l, Is'.i-J. a bill for the Tree coinage of nilvcr was KIM. Kit HY 'I'll IS DKMOCKAriC CONOKI8H of 1 is majority. 4. July Li, ls:2,this same Democratic t'uiigress w ith a majority of 1 17, killed another hill Tor the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of lt to I, after it passed a Republican Senate. fi. The Fifty-third Congress was di vided politically as follows: 218 Dem ocrats, 127 Republicans and 11 Popu lists; a Democratic majority over the Republicans of ill. This Congress t ailed an extra session, and defeated n bill for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of hi to 1, BY A TWO- 1HIRI VOTK, the 11 Populist voting for the bill. There were 217 Democrats in the ..ii-ie. When the vote was taken 101 voted for the bill, and lit. voted against i' il. This same Filly-third Congress of 1(1 majority voted on live separate bills in one day for the free coinage of sil ver, v i. : at a ratio of 10 to 1, 17 to 1, is to I, lt to I and 20 to 1. Thus it will he seen that live bills for the free coin age of silver WKKK KIM. KI IN A DAY by the Democrats. They voted down every bill for free coinage of silver, and voted lor a single gold standard. on November 1, lMKi, the Fifty-third Congress, with its Hi majority of Dem ocrats, defeated an amendment offered hy Mr. Llatid to a pending bill, which amendment provided for the free coin age of silver at a ratio of 10 to 1. s. On October 27, lS'.Cl the Senate, WITH A DKMOCKAriC MAJORITY OF THREE, defeated Senator Stewart's amendment to a bill for the tree coinage of silver. l. In 1V.I2 the Democratic party held Mate conventions in thirty-six States. In twenty-three of these States the Democratic party declared in their plat Tonus for the free coinage of sil ver at a ratio of 10 to 1. Rut when these Democrats, who were elected on these free silver platforms, got to Con gress, Til ICY lONORKD THKIR VI.ATrOK.M9 and voted contrary to what they had promised the people in the campaign. 10. Again, we turn to Mr. Cleveland's letter of February 10, lS'.U, in an swer to a letter from E. Ellery Anderson, inviting Mr. Cleveland to attend a meeting of the business men of the city of New York. This meet ing, he says, was for the purpose of voicing the position of the city on the free coinage of silver in the United States. Mr. Cleveland said, in answer to Mr. Anderson : "Surely, it cannot be necessary for me to make a formal ex pression of my agreement with those who believe that the greatest peril would he invited by the ADOPTION OF TI1K8CUKMK embraced in the measure now pending in Congress for the unlimited coinage of silver at our mints." Mr. Cleveland says "it cannot be nec essary to make a formal expression of my agreement." What agreement? An agreement that no free silver bill shall ever come THRO 1'OU THK DEMOCRATIC PAKTT. -very one who read the Democratic nituj iru. f PluoUnt wrote that letter denounced JMr. Cleveland in ... - - x mot bitter terms, lsut wnen ine uem noratic convention met in Chicago on June 21, 18!2, Mr. Cleveland was nom inated .and elected President. The Democratic papers that ha1 been so lud in their denunciations against Mr. Cleveland FELL INTO LINE, s they were forced to do, and said and did all in their power for his election. 11. What do the Democratic conven tions of Kentucky, Ohio and Mary land indicate? They have declared gainst the free coinage of silver, and in fav.ti. f u critl.i cf 'in Hun! 12. Hoke Smith, John G. Carlisle, i'an oornees, jiatr. itansom ana eli sor Gorman were loud in their pre tention for the free coinage of silver I . .a -a v v n me campaign oi isaa. Jiut now they are under the DOMINATION OF MR. CLEVELAND, ml they are no longer for free silveri k.. . . 1 1 . i i uui are as louu lor a goiu sianuaru. These are straws that point the direc- :.. . . .... 'ion me wind blows: 13 All nh.v diiumlurl th lilrrr rnn Mention called by the Democrats to Heet in Raleigh on tht 28th of Sep tember, ls'J5, tan but remember the ac tions of Ex-Governor Jarvis, S. A. Ashe, and others. Think of the re marks they made In the caucus in the uayor s otlice on the 2-Uu. I ney TUEY DID NOT APrEAB THE NEXT MOKR1NQ. They did not appear at the convention " hut H. hl niuanf Vn ttu sin. fere in tli fall for the convention? We link E. C. Smith, Mr. Beckwith and Keith were sincere in the call. WitVi .1... fc k. . . .... . . 1 n. 1 nff In fllil Actions of tha Democratic party, we see cieany mac we canuun prwutc he free coinage of ilver through the -aiuwaue party. Jqum Bkaot. THE TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE. Horn Comment tb Tlwa t J Walter Clark, of th North Carollaa Htata Uoprrm Court On tbo Oorcnv m nt Owncrnahlp ofTboM luatltatlon. San Fraocuoo KxamiDar. The ouestion of Government owner ship of the telegraph and telephone linen of the country it the subject of an able and convincing argument in the latest number of the "American Law Review," from the pen of Judge Walter Clark, a member of tha Supreme Court of North Carolina. The con clusion of the jurist that it it the doty of the Govvrnuient to take upon itself tha telegraph and telephone service of the United States is supported by legal and business considerations of over whelming foroe. So far from sharing io the doubts of corporation lawyers in regard to the constitutional power of the Govern ment to undertake these services, Judge Clark asserts the strong doctrine that "it is unconstitutional for this es sential branch of the postal system to be operated by a private monopoly, or in any other manner than the Govern ment. This proposition is supported with much force by arguments drawn from the law, and backed by history. The Constitution placed the postofflce in the hands of the Government. The power given is exclusive. And, the jurist argues, "the bestowal of the ex clusive right and duty to operate the postolllce carried with it the exclusive right and duty to use all the agencies that woui4 make the postofflce most highly efficient, as such agencies, from time to time, shoul4 he improved or invented." The geverament has acted to a degree oa this theory. It has never hesitate to insist en the exclusive use of the steamboat and the railroad to farther the mail service. The Supreme Court has, by a unani mous decision, declared that the tele graph is one of the "instrumentalities of the postal service." The Govern ment itself was of the same epinien fro n 1M44 to 1847, when it constructed and operated the first telegraph lines in the country, and only by a caprice of administration abandoned thie im portant service to private companies. There is no question that the Gov ernment oiFers a more efficient postal service, so far as it goes, than would or could be supplied by private enter prise. Yet this service is now con fined to the most bulky, slowest and least paying part of the business. The best paid part of the business is abab doned to corporation enterprises, wi'h results that cannot be considered of benefit to the people. The argument of judge Clark on the business side will appeal to the common sense of every one who is not bound to the present order : The Army and Navy and the Department of Justice are departments of exclusive gov ernmental functions, in the same manner and to the same extent as the Postofflce. Rut suppose that same branch of the De partment of Justice (as by turning in the tines, penalties and tax fees), or of the War and Navy, could be made a source of reve nue, would it not be singular to turn over the revenue-paying part of those depart merits to a private monopoly, leariig the people to support the non-protitable part? Vet that is exactly what is done with the Postofflce Department. Tboneh tue Post otlice is as exclusively a governmental func tion as the Army and Navy, or the Depart ment of Justice, the Government operates onlv the slow, antiauated. non-pay ine Dart of the Postofflce, leaving the tax-payers to make up an annual aencit or six or eignt millions, while the rapid, improved, up-to-date part of the postofflce; the rapid or elec tric mail is operated by a private monopoly, and pays a heavy dividend on its watered stock of 1150,000,000 ten times the actual value of its plant. Besides, this system is unjust, for the private monopoly naturally selects the best paying districts, and a large part of the people are denied the advantages of a modern poatoffice. In every country save ours alone the power of the monoply has failed to maintain a system so unconsti tutional and so opposed to the best interests of the public. Hence in every country ex cept ours the telegraph and telephone are constituent parts of the postofflce. with the double result that tne postofflce facilities of the telegraph and telephone are extended to the country postofflces, and the postal revenues show a profit instead of a loss. It is to be observed that the question nvolves no new experiment in govern ment. It isnot.liketheGovernmentown ership of railroads, new matter for de bate. We have the postofflce already, and no one advocates seriously that it should be abandoned to corporate management. It ii therefore but a question whether the work that the Government is already doing shall be carried out by the most modern, most desirable and moat proniaoie agencies or not. The maioritv of the people will agree with Judge Clark's declaration that "this privilege of carrying mail for hire, whether sent by electricity, steam or stage coach, or on horseback, is an exclusive governmental function, and no corporation or monopoly can le gally exercise any part of it. It is the duty of the Government to do it, and to do it in the quickest and most effi cient manner, and at the lowest possi ble rate consistent witntne eosi. What Congress Will Do. Advocate J A prominent Kansan, well posted on political conditions, has the following to say in regard to the work of the npit cnnirTess : "Mi nrediction is that the next con gress will be the most corrupt and pro tligate tnat we nave naa since tne pHit.Mnhilr steals. Cleveland will recommend the issuing of $500JJOO,000 of bonds to retire me ajws.oua.ouu oi . a. a VA AAA filf M greenbacks ana me ioo,ouu,uw oi truaaupv notes. The Pacific railroad will engineer the scheme to defraud the government out oi its ueDts. tne manufacturer will he on hand to re store the tariff in their special interest, and the banas to get complete control of the issuing of money. If the issu-ta-i kqo.OoO of bonds furnish $8.- 000,000 of a steal, how much will $500,- 000,000 furnish? Tne money power, the banks, the special tariff, corpora tions and the Pacific railroad interests can furnish a boodle fund of $100,000, OtO to carry out their schemes. In ad- dition to tnis, mere win ne auumer powerful lobby to obtain more ship contracts, subsidies, etc., and increased compensation for carrying mails. Be sides, there is hardly a corrupt old salt in the Kepuoncan party, irom tue At lantic to the Pacific, who was not res urrected in the upheaval of last year, and is now ready for business." WhataSlWer Republican Says. Senator Teller, a leading Repub lican of the West, said: "It looks as though the Eastern SStates would d;ta.t.A the nomination of the next Republican Convention. If they do they will name a gold man. In that w - II A A. " event 1 shall not rouow tne party in its folly. I believe that the selection of such a candidate would be op to the beat interests of the .Anntrr and that it would tend to the subversion of the liberties of the people. Hence I could not consis tently support such a man and would T vnnld rasifra mv seat in the Senate before I would give my alle giance to an avowed gold standard candidate aa retire anally treat pel- LETTERS FROTJ THE PEOPLE. Tb.6 Caise of Reform Is Growing All the Time In Eastern North Carolina. A CALL FROM COLORADO. The Voter An Looking- at tbo Rocord of tno Old Partleo aao Roaolta of Tbwao Rorda A ffoiUri County la For rroe SUvar, and Will Got Tbert 1U latoroatlnf Motoa from Boaafort Tbo T mm of Koform (irowUg. For The Caucasian. J Miniola, N. C, Mov. . The cause of reform is growing all the time. I have just returned from a trip through this and Pamlico counties. On the 9th inst. I left home n r0uU to the Couuty Allianc, which met at Aurora. We spoke for about one hour about the necessity of the free coinage of silver, 16 to 1, and the abolition of national banks, and showed, we believe, to the satisfaction of all present, the utter impossibility of our ever secur ing the above reforms through the Democratic party. There were some present who a year ago were the est bitter Democratic partisans who, a year ago, would not listen to a Populist speak. They paid the strictest attention to what we said, and after the speeeh, comphmmud it. We have many good and noble workers at Edwards' Mill. The Connty Alliance met at the hall of Aurora Sub-Alliance. We had a good meeting, and much business was transacted. We spoke also in Pamlico county, at Kershaw, to a crowded house ot enthusiastic reformers, with a very small sprinkling of "because my daddy was a Democrat." One left before we closed because he could not stand sound doctrine. But this class is "few and far between." We showed the record of the two old parties from 1873 up to the present, and all went home declaring that it was well for them to have heard what was said. Returning home we found that some sneak had burned up the barn and larce stock house of Mr. R. F. Hodges, of Mineola; several barrels of corn, a lot of fodder, several thousand pounds of hay, thirty or forty bushels of peas a total loss of about $600. The miscreant who fired the house opened the stable door and turned out some mules. A cow, one hog, and all the poultry were burned. God bless you in your grand work for the masses. May you live long to wield the pen in the interest of humanity. The Caucasian is doing the work. All of us endorse what Dr. Thompson said at Cary. We see the truthfulness of his remarks every day of our lives. We want Walter Henry, W. H. Kitchin and Senator Butler, one of the three to come to our county, and the people are anx ious to hear them. H. E. Hodges. Do They Think Tho Voters Are Foola? For The Caucasian. 1 RUTHIREORD, N. C, Nov. 9. Your paper is received in ourcounty and read by all. The voters are look ing at the past promises of the two old parties which have not been kept, and wonder at the cheek of the old gangs in wanting another ''chance." Some Democrats say they are for free silver within party lines. Do they think the voters are foolsf Have not the Democrats re cently finished a long session of Congress with a Democratic Presi dent and cabinet? They killed sil ver. They involved this nation in a debt which our grand children will not live to see paid. They brought upon us a panic, the effects of which was worse than the civil war. Peo ple have gone almost naked and nearly starved. Our property has been depreciated in value and is be ing sold for taxes. Good farming land is going at one dollar per acre. We cannot pay our debts, and all this was caused by Democrats when they were in control of the affairs of the country. Can we live long and be a free people under such an admin istration as this! Will we continue to stand it! No! There will be re pudiation or revolution if an attempt is made to continue this state of af fairs. People will not bemade slaves We are too proud for that proud or country, our homes, wives and chil dren. I will just say that old Rutherford county is for free coinr.ge of silver at the ratie of 16 to 1. We are going to "get there Eli" and not within old party lines either. The old party is dead! dead!! dead!!! D. S. Wilkin. lot Urn Bo BTreo. For The Caucasian. Hollvoke, Colo. Oet. 12. Thinking the readers of The Caucasian might be interested in knowing what Popu list are doing out here in the West, I write you from this place. The State went .Populist in lsyj. Last fall half a million dollars was sent from New York and other eas tern eities -to "redeem" Colorado and they did it; but the "redemers" are having redemption to their heart's content. The first thing our new Governor did for the people was to veto the seed bill thereby preventing farmers from getting the grain they were needing so much. Next, all saloons, houses of ill-fame, gambling dens, and every other bell-hole that it is possible for a Urge city to have were opened up in Denver and are having lull sway, contrary to the wiahee ef the beet people. We have as corrupt a ring right here in Holyoke as exist any where outside the city of Washington. Our connty officials have been run ning affairs to suit themselves. Some of them were brought to trial last summer, but the judge that $1,500 of Chicago's Armour helped to elect saw the case was going against them and dismissed it Thus it is the people are shown no justice. might mention a score of instances ia wkMk Veloraae has Ma "re RALEIGH, N. 0., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER deemed" at a great loss to the peo- pi. Fellow citizen! patriot!! do yon not want to see justice established? Don't you want to be fret You Ioto your fair country. Do yon want to see that state of things ex isting here, in whieh there are a few masters and many slaves! It has almost reached that point. Al ready the money power is preparing to rivet the last chain that binds as. Can you, oL! will yon not aee, ic time to save yourselves! For the sake of our homes and little ones, foi the sake of all that is dear to as in this life and all we hope for in the next, let aa unite in one great effort and wrench ourselves from the power that binds us and be fre once more Mrs. . E. Teio. THE LATE LANDSLIDE. Democrats Repudiated Every- where. The People Think Anything Else Better. Son ( the Retail mm Smk PitoaMlitles mi Ibt l heaval ftMslM It Roafkiy Rrpdnaated StraMk mm4 Brakes Praalsca arc Na Laager Taieratco. Special Washington Correspondence. Washington. Nov. 9 The over whelming defeat of the Democratic party in Tuesday's election is only significant of the drift against fait leadership and general Democratic mismanagement. National issue were discussed only in Ohio, where the Democratic tariff cost the party nearly 40,000 votes. The adoption of a gold platform, at Brice's dicta tion, by the Democratic State con vention swelled the Republican ma jority to 115,000. The Democratic campaign was pitched on the low plans of demagogery and defama tion. The Republican maioritv i unprecedented. The immediate na tional result is the election of a Re publican Senator. Corrupt ring rule has at last com pelled a Democratic revolution in rock-ribbed. Democratic New Jersey The election of a Republican Gov ernor and Legislature in that State is a great morai triumph. It is in no sense a Republican triumph, and no claim is made that it possesses any party significance. In Maryland the issue was GormanUm. Driven to the point of toleration self-respectinir Democrats revolted and with the aid of the Republican party revolutionized the State. An overwhelming victory resulted. It is not a party triumph. The elec tion of a Republican legislature means the election of a Republican Senator, but that alternative was not considered . in the desper ate purpose to smash the Gorman machine." So Gorman follows Ransom. His leadership has been repudiated and his seat in the Senate will soon follow. With out Democratic alliance, strong enough to overcome Democratic election methods, such a result was impossible. Republican Governor elect Lowndes concedes this, and says the victory will be treated as a non-partisan triumph. Credit tor Democratic defeat in Ji-entucay is due entirely to administration influences. The gold Democrat-Re-publi-can Alliance elected a Repub lican Governor and probably a Re publican legislature. This combina tion, aided by government offices holders and unstinted administra tion patronage defeated the hybrid silver tieket. Hardin's course dis gusted and alienated honest silver men and enraged the administra tion followers in the State. There was enough of subterfuge and hy pocrisy in his advocacy of silver to make his candidacy obnoxious to the silver people and his election a matter of indifference. Notwith standing this apparant weakness in the Democratic ticket its defeat was accomplished only through the most desperate efforts of the admin istration. .Successive Republican victories in New York unmistakably indicate the permanent loss of Dem ocratic - prestige in that State. The Legislature elected his week is so largely Republi can that nothing short ef a political revolution in 1896 can pre vent Hilrs defeat lor re-election to the Senate. There was nothing in the issues presented that gives the election any national significance apart from the speculative retire ment of Senator Hill. With the exception of the 18th 111. Cong, district the silver question was not made a square issue. The free coinage candidate was defeated by the same combination of gold Demo crats, administration patronage and Republicans that defeated Hardin in Kentucky. The loss of nearly 1UU per cent in the Iowa Democratic vote is traceable directly and indis putably to the adoption of the na tional Democratic gold platform, at the dictation of the administration. So, on the whole, Tuesday's work shows that the people are tired of bossism's, machines, politics and ad ministration dictation and means another important step in the revo lution that promises to convulse the country in 1896. There need be no fear as to the result. It's the peo ple's movement, and it means disas ter and annihilation only to faithless and corrupt leaderships. From the politician's view point there is the wildest speculation. After the dis astrous election in 1894 Democratic politicians said that Democratic re action would immediately follow bus iness revival, which they predicted was inevitable. Every reputable Democratic leader was repudiated in that election, and now the elimation of Gorman, Brice and Hill commits the party to the leadership and con trol of Grover Cleveland. Its master and inspiration, now and henceforth, is the man who hunted squirrels on election day. Par Mobile Fratram. Peoples Party Paper.! John Sherman and Grover Cleveland are the only Americans whose pictures hang in the bank of England. Sherman's nictnre was huntr there alter ho lcaicBetize4 silver so adroitly " -'1 - . that lea than a half dozen of tie trick till Ion afterwards. presume Cleveland's picture was orarea . arter be accomplished the grwu nnanctal feat of selling mortrag- ea oa the American people atlu4 when they were quoted in the market at $1.22. Itoth are alike in one respect. While woraing ior ibemeelvea tney remained poor, but while workine for the teoile they have accumulated millions. BUTLER VS. SHERMAN. Senator Butler's Plan For Re organizing the Senate Warmly Approved. Thai tat Sitorliaa Shall Attfa Atmtaat tat OaMn-gs Taa OiKaap Win fta tntar lb .1 lirnMa al Jaa. Shamaa. Evening Dispatch, Wilmington, X. C. We publish in today's issue an ac count of an interview bad with Sena tor Marion Butler at Raleigh on the 2ith inst., in reference to the organiza tion of the United States senate in the interest of fre silver. Senator But ler's position on this question is wie and timely. The contemplated action of the goldbug in the organization of tne senate must be met by counter ac tion on the part of the free silver ad vocates and thwarted if possible. If the free silver senators of all political parties, constitute a majority of that body and they live up to their profes sions, there is no just reason why tbey shoald not band themselves together and organise the senate for a free sil ver fight. If they do not do this they will prove recreant to their professions. If ther divide ud in Dartv factions and allow John Sherman and bis crowd to capture the senate when by united ac tion they can prevent it, they will show that they are no longer to be trustee. Ibis is no time for trifling. The prosperity and happiness of 70,000- 000 of people are involved in the settle ment or this financial question. On one side of it is the gold standard with its millions of paupers, tramps. deserted homes and abandoned farms. stagnated business, strike, lockouts, trusts, combines, and misery and want of every kind, class and description, and on the other side is an opportunity to regain, at least in part, much of what das been lost during the past twenty years by the money panic caused by the degradation of silver. It is quite true that Mr. Cleveland still occupies the executive office and stands ready with his mighty veto to kill any financial legislation that may be enacted for tbe relief of the people, but even Mr. Cleveland, like every thing else of an earthly nature, iqus go under with the lapse of time. On tbe 4th day of March, 1697, bis rule of ruin will come to a close, and if tbe good common sense of the masses of this people is properly exercised be tween now and then a president of more liberal views and a broader bene volence may be chosen to succeed him. In tbe meantime it bebooves tbe friends of free silver and financial relief to or ganize as thoroughly as possible to meet the exigencies of the future and nothing is of more importance in this connection than an organized senate, and no plan so far suggested under ex isting circumstances is better than tbe one offered by Senator Butler. Montgomery (Ala.) Tribune. Senator John Sherman has presented the case squarely to the Cleveland men in the Senate. He proposes that tbe gold men unite to organize tbe body, elect a President pro tern in place of lsham i. Harris of Tennessee, elect a Secretary and organize the Commit tees. Senator Jarion Butler of North Carolina meets this Sherman-Cleveland policy with a counter motion that the silver men, who are in a clear maj ority, if they stand by their records, shall organize the Senate. If the Sher man-Cleveland policy of organization prevails no silver bills will ever come out of the Committee rooms. If the Butler policy prevails we ehall see sil ver kept to the front. What will Sen ators Morgan and Pugh do? We shall know it all now. All honor to tbe young Populist of the tar heel State! AN OPEN LETTtR In Which tho Paat Good Booord of "Capt." Jarvis la Referred To And In Whieh He la Aakod Some Qaoatlona. StovaIiTi, N. C, Nov. 9, 1895. Capt. T. J Janit: Dear Sib. As we were comrades of the late war, I take the liberty of writing you a few words in regard to our connection with it, and also more fully to get your status on the present financial question. My in timate and long acquaintance with you warrants me in saying, that you were a braveJtrue and gallant soldier and always obeyed orders promptly. Now that onr country is passing through another war, financially, I had hoped that Capt. Jarvis would again take the same patriotic stand in opposing our common enemy the money power. And when the recent non-partisan silver convention was ealled to meet in Raleigh and signed by Jarvis and others, I rejoiced to see that yon had enlisted again ro the wib. But alas! when the com- mand.was given to form a line for action, some one whispered, the ar tillery is charged with gold, gold, British gold yon first hesitated, then halted and beat a hasty retreat. Capt., you say that yon want free silver, but it must come through the Democratic party. This is very much like the Dutchman who would not have religion unless he could get it at a "Habd Shell Baptist revival." Now, tell us Captain, when the Democrats nominate a goldeug for President, and the Republioans do the same, and when the Populist nominate a true silver man, pray tell us in whieh corner of the "woods" will you be f oundf "An honest con fession is good for the soul." Can't you repent, and place patriotism above party and join such men as Kitchen, Skinner, Butler, Guthrie, Henry, Thompson, Stroud and thou sands of others who are taking such a bold stand for liberty? Now is the time for you again to show your independence and cour age. Will you do it. We will see. Respectfully, A. H. Gregory, Of the 8th N. C. Regiment. Two Good Workers Loot. The People's party has lost much by the recent death of two of its best and ablest workers Mrs. S. E. V. Emery, author of that matchless little book, "Several Financial Conspiracies; and ex-Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska. Both were noble hearted and true, and labored incessantly for tbe cause. "The old guard may die, but they never sur render." 14, 1895. THE PRACTICES OP THE PRESS. How Knowledge Came Aboie the World's Horiion and liade Light For The People. CHOW IT IS DARKENED. J i ho riatooratlo Crooa of To- boy Tho praaoo mt raeta raM for W hot a Big Editor told at a naao Oooao BVo aanrka Cooooralaa: tho DoanooroOo froa of Worth Carollaa-And What It Ha lall.d to Do. "In thousands of years the aun of knowledge was below the world's hor izon, and only the very top of the social pyramid could catch its beanie.' The invention of printing was the world's sunrise, which drove the black shadows well down tbe aide of the pyramid, but left the broad, lower strata of society atill wrapped in the darkness of ignorance. Knowledge was confined to the few. Monks, in their cloisters and cells, and noble and scholars, held the lever which Ixird Bacon said "is pewer." Iter. politi cal leaders led the niaaoes, even aa sneabvrds led their flocks alonr the fields and along tbe mountain-aide.. in tbe daysof Jeffereoa and Hamilton. Calbouu, Webstar and Clay, they thenght for millicas, who were devotee at the shrine of their respecti ve schools. I act is abanred now. The better sort of the oresc. has fleoded tbe dark places of earth with light. Millions are drinking at the crystal fountain a. il naa given voice to an immense cum of the population, who before were a mere inert mass, nut who contribute powerfully to the formation of public opinion, and who in their majesty will force loose policies and the adoption of laws deemed accessary to the wel- iare or tbe country. Shortly ago, with the old band-pres.t two men coald make only two hundred impressions an hour. The great Hoe presses now print, fold and paste, a sixteen page paper at a speed of twenty-four thousand per hour. I he farmer, tbe workinar-man. savs John Swinton who have been tbe bond slaves of wealth and power these giants, upon whose shoulder rests governments and empires, have begun to think! They hate Uarntd read! And now, since the masses and we speak particularly of Americana are reading and thinking for themselves, it is more importaut than ever that the Press should be pure should be free, in fact, and not a base slave of faction, a servile tool of party that it should perform its great function, '-without fear and without reproach." What is the function of tbe Press? SaysGrimke: "The Press is a com ponent part of the machinery of free, government. It is the organ of public opinion, and tbe great office which it performs is to effect a distribution of power throughout the coantry. Its business is to distribute knowedge, to blazon truth, and to diffuse a common sympathy among tbe great mass of the population. Says another : "If the Press were an nihilated, if truth was thereby sedu lously concealed, if it were to substi tute partisanship for principle, free institutions would be in danger, knowl edge of real conditions would be con fined to a few political "bosses," and usurpation would be heaped upon usur pation." Says Remehn: "When DeBow de clared that tbe Press constitutes the gis of American liberty he used a misleading ngure of speech: for the Press is a danrer as well as a shield; and both for and against lib erty, according to the hands it is in, or tbe werds and manner of its employ ment. Like all educational agencies, the Press is beneficial only to the de gree to which it is rightfully devel oped, organized and used. Mankind bas made bitter experiences on this point with its Churches, and it would be a pity if America were to repeat them as to its Press." Let us see if the Press of America and tbe Democratic Press of North Carolina measures un to tbe grand purposes above set out. Does it "distribute knowledge, bla zon truth and diffusesympathyf Who dare say that it does? Does it not at tempt to cover the corruptions of party. and protect the powerful against the poorr Does it not place "party above principle, and sedulously conceal truth" whenever it suits its Duroose?" Is it not a "danrer as well as a shield" for and against liberty, ac cording to the hand it is in? If a pure Press brines light, a cor rupt Press must bring darkness. If a l res iree from servility and opores- aion means liberty, a truckling,onscru- puious rress win neip to forge tbe fet ters of industrial and intellectual slavery. cursory examination of the Preas of thia country, and of the so-called Democratic Preas of North Carolina. will show that the larrer part of both are either subsidised tools of the money power or cringing sycopnanis ana slaves of party. T be metropolitan Preas of tha na tion is, to-day, with one or two excep tions, but hired eravos with poisoned daggers to slab tbe troth and the in terests or the people at the nod of . millionaires, ana our pnaroab at the W bite House. The Press is a terrible instrument of arty corruption and oppression, and n me nanas oi ine caiirula at Wash ington it is a mighty battering-ram against the Constitution and the insti tutions erected by the Fathers of the Republic. At a creat Press banauet in Nw x orx nor. long aro. a speaker said "There is no such thing as an inde- penaens trttu in America. Yon know it and I kaow it. I am paid SIM a week to keep honest opinions out of me paper oi wmcn l am now editor We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are intellec tual prostitutes." Not only this, but the Press is. in too many cases, tne means by which tbe blood-sucking Trusts and Monopolies of tbe coantry accomplish their thiev ish and infamous purposes. When one oi tnese nanas or highwaymen start an expedition against industrial freedom and the bread of the people, the first tbing it does is to entrench itself be hind tbe Press. One case will illus trate this point. The city of Toledo aesirea io own us own gas pipe line. A great gas monopoly objected ; and at once purchased the Toledo Dailv. This paper had previously sustained tbe city with the greatest power, de nouncing the gas compa-jies aa a gang of thieves. As soon as i' became an in strument of tbe monopoly it turned upon the city with the ferocitv of a tiger, and declared that the city Fath ers were blatant demagogues, con spiring and howling against the good men of the oil combination. Articles attacking the city's credit and the it lidity of its bonds were published and ecBiea aroam paper to paper. The aonds were characterised aa 'chrw. ohbj- and Toaea err." A paper that poke io favor of tbo city was e.ild a-inai aged, afitiukxia addle-pete, the (Dooarj-eyed. Boelr j-bruwed caobo- gram ut aarra.m, and pidr-hankd. Cigeoo-witied public arold. Major itrewater Uickham and his tawa. biting. black-mailma patent tne4iiae directory r-aUed the JoornaL" An old editor and honorable citiaea. who wrote an article fr .b citt. waa drbivuuced as a "brutal falsi B.r," hoary old reprvOaU." and a "nrrviu old liar." The editwr wl the aaouatiol? tarama an bis aeautanu were naily lodUted for criminal libcL la eotirt they ad vaserd bo 1 unification, Tbey had stmpl been Indulging ia Bttliagvgmtc and ilea fur a purpoee. They were put io jail and lac paper eospeaded, for watiiof patronage. This is bo t one of the tsaey ra- that might bo sighted whore the Pro is prvutu!ed tu the purpose of the vampirea that arc destroying the pan pie. , America ha been railed the newspa per nation, and the lrUbman was in point wben he aaked. -H briber the country belutigrd lu the newspaper, or tbe uewt wir tw the country. in orth 1 arolina tbe larrer part of the Democratic Pre, instead of hear ing eoine aemblauce. at least, to the uti of rn ilixatiuh, i a will o'-tbe wtap, dancing over the rotten bg and tut rasaea of iHrmocracy, endeavoring to deceite and mislead the unwary. Say a a great writer : I hee ta in mwi of tbe counties and rttiea of tbe I'nioti some bad. shrewd Preas lords an rue man who eels himaelf up aa the !te deemer of his people) who attempts to dominate the good men of bis rommu nity or Mate, and in whom tbe wieked rejoice." In North Carolina the party that poces as the Iieatocratie party, haa al least two of three Preee lords, whoee editorial columns are tbe boaooo-ligbta and sign-boards for most of tbe "rue, Hawthorne presenU a scene in which the inhabitants of tbe world hurl vari ous objects into a vast boni re. When it comee to burning the libraries and papers, tbe decree of tbeir literary ex cellence is shown bv the lenrth of time tbey withstand the flamea. Say he "Milton's works sent up a power ful blaze, gradually reddninr into a coal, which promised to endure lung er than any other material of the fire. r rom Miakespcare then rushed a flame of such marvelous pleudor that men shaded their eyea as against tbe eun'a meridian glory. Itut when the paper of the Amtricau Metropolis were thrown into tbe tnirhty blaze thev were consumed in tbe twinklinr of an eye, leaving behind nothing but fitful and lurid gleams and gubes of black and ill-smelling oit." I be Democratic editors of North Carolina, or tbe most of tbeni, limp ing aiong aru-r tneir press lords, and tumbling over each other for the crumbs that fall from lhur master's ineaial tables, would see their in substantial, partinau fulmiuations. tbeir William Street Goldbur litera ture, and tbeir slanders and vitupera tion of honest men, changed to vapor in tbe mere hot air of such a fire aa that depicted by tbe great writer. ine lHfoiocratic party pratinr of Anglo Saxon supremacy, tbesvnonym of political religions, and intellectual liberty, neveribelea keeps a larre part of lla press like so many blood hounds, to run down and denounce any man who dares to exercise that liberty, tbe birthright of every Anglo baxon. Upon a man who dares change bin party affiliations, they pitch; "As a cloudy swarm of summer flies With anary bum. and slende lance, baaet The sides of some hutre animal, so do Tbey buzs about tbe learleaa man." These Demagogues of the pen. prac tice tbe most contemptible arts of that creature so graphically described by Coleridge in bis Second Iay Serm on, l ney ought to have learned ere this, that ridicule, sarcasm, falsehood and abuse, cannot stay tbe onward march of an oppressed and outraged people. Tbey might as well attempt to stay the torrent of the Mississippi with broom sedge, as to try to atop the economic and political revolution with paper pellets. The people de mand argument, logic, truth. The song of the goldbug or the wiles of t lie partisan slaves can no longer fool tbe masses. The people know that the press does not concern itself to hound down po litical opponents, unless it fears them. desiring to break tbeir influence, and deter others from following their ex ample. Wben we speak of tbe Preas in this article, we have reference to tbe major pari., not io toe wnoie, lor tbeir are good and noble men, even of tbe Dem ocratic Press. We would not be un just. But tbe patriots of tbe Preea of to day, are fur the moit vart confined U the Reform Press. The very cause of tneir existence, is to expose tbe the methods and concealments of the party i zed, aubsidized Preea of the old parties. If tbe Press is the Sun of Civiliza tion it is now in a great eclipse, tbe neiorm tress oeing tbe glorious cor onna beyond tbe darkness. rne papers of this country are as amenable to censure for failing to de nounce anuses, ana to expose the rot tenness of this Administration, as it is tor a en Derate nea. or support of open enemies. Tbtmas Jefferson said of tbe Press of his day : "It is a melan choly truth that a suspension of tbe press coma not more completely de prive me nation oi its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution U isisenooa." Lt us for a moment review tbe work of tbe Democratic Preea for tbe last three or four veers : 1st. Are tbey not flgbtinsr each otb er, ana logeiner eacrinciag toe peo ple on the greatest issue of the cen- turiea wnue tne rrese of tbo Peo ple's party is a unit for bimetallism and silver at tbe ratio of 16 to 1? 2nd. Are not some of tbe moot now erful papers of the country and State, with unblushing front, supporting tbe Wall Street Republican Policy of Grover Cleveland? When did tbe Democratic organs, with one or two exceptions, denounce Cleveland for violating the Constitutor nullifying pablic laws, spurning tbe Chicago platform which be promised to sup port, and lashing Congress into sacri ficing the interests of the people aad me party r trd. They shout, "Anglo Saxon su premacy" and talk "nigger" as tbeir only reason for remaining: in tho Dem oeratic party. How many papers io North Carolina have published tbe fact, that Cleveland, with the concur rence of a Democratic Senate, appoint ee nve negro consuls, ana a negro as Minister tof, White Republics' How many of them have told tbe people of tho negro policy of our Czar at tbe iapiaoj, aa aeen in tne various depart ments? 4th. Have tbe Democratic papers of Aortn carouna, witn tbe exception of the Fayettevile Observer and one or two others, denounced tbe treachery and warned tbe people against the -poesism" oi m. w. .Hansom. Have they shown tbe people tr Minister Ransom draws 117,600 per NO. 2. TROLLIIIGER TALKS TR0DBLB. The Goldbsp Hire Domd tUt tbe raratrs U art G Bat Don't Soj Where. TALES OF SPRIS0 ADD FALL. Who the fi Want so Uoaltaaal, Monopoly t a got the lahtee 0w t last, feeding bias on a hurt retlee edetothipg hit ia rag. I supply aad demand gwera prices' Net aJwtia Wb.i. the lead crope-f c4lon sold for lit t.4 tli e4 to be aine saillioa belee hlle I be V&rrop le placed at att.s tlliott and it i ela aoed that tare lliioa bole, were carried over abating nine million atrt ta sight, and th rld crowded With cheat, .lw4o manufactured rood to th .at i... of the t.lai.ler c.4iu i. nta. Now all the. oote tut apveata io tbe hands of anerrt.anta aad ..t.tM a nd manufacturer and will be i,r. wa tbe niartet Io uh the la.i t he farmer haa left. This adveoee oa cotton did n.d oo aceoeiit of a ah.rt erMp. neither inrvagn ainaneec to the pmdwrer. This is the Bret crrvrtunit tho ufacturers hate had to enncb thoea. aeitec and at the aaoue time all.tnr.t to chow that through a gold stcndaM money; aad it Will bo prosperity to t ! aba started it. The crop could he booght at all rente loot aa easy aa at toe. fr the planter has to cell, null the far. mer is glad like the old lady who prayed for bread. "The iWa sent II If the devil did bring it." ow, you ere what these fellow lite on and feed to their hands Has ur apvaerep, - but ia declining. Cora at twectt-fte cent: potato IV tr huahol: aainlaa. ee aolow the cant afford to terre it . . .. . op; ia iijere not as niueti demand lor heee thing as there ia for cotton Nest year cotton will he eome loeer no doubt, but monopoly will reap big I rou i a i rom tnie Doom roa t-tva vaaaa to cost. While the larger portion of arooda are made of ig ,-nt cotton they will aim mat and lor, cotton done It all. Well the poor man's wool has ad vanced and will leave him about aama a last year' big crop. He is shearing nis sneep in tne ran, but tb I wool he ray roa wis ciora hen it is sent hark to him? He will have to pay for it with ) cent cera and l& rent potatoes. -tin, you say "where Is his cotton money?" Well, I mutt tell you where that ior will be by January lat,u. taxes, jexaa boreec, fertilisers and last tear' mortgagee will absorb It all and leave bia old pasts csraio with intereet. Old farmer, you must go. "Fall la line,"aay the gold bugs, 'and vote for a gold elandard president In "M, and tbe good times will continue and you will get good prices for all you have to sire.' My friend, if you do thia.all yon will have will be despair. But Buddy, do just as Mr. Ransom telle you. lie is next to Cleveland: He is your enslga bearing your Sag into the City of Mexico, at voBTT-riva poLLaea raa Par. while tbe fellows who yell for him wont clear five dollars a year. But that iaall right! lemocrats think a great deal of a monied man. for ther expect through him to get eome little oftiee. Tbe best tbing the Democrats coald have done would have been to have railed that silver convention for lien ocrata only. Then they (the macbioe) could nave abown that tbe oilvbb cbazb was bbpbp. But alas for them! I know the deU is sorry. Thy did not get Lis lob io. it vexec mm. but North Carolina Is going for free silver. feenator Burrows, of Michigan, (aa published by tbe Daaville Regieieri Is quoted as sail tig: If a European owed this government for imports iujau aoiiara ana we naa free coinage of silver he could come here atd buy nve tnousand dollars worth r silver bullion and carry it to our mints and have ten thousand eilver dollar made and pay bis debt." Now, any man with a thimble full of brains knows, that no owner of eilver would permit any oe to make eu b a trade as that when be could have It coined and MAES TBB riVB THOCS.BO HOLLAS by so doing. Editors who peblish such gusb aa that have not much room for brains, except in tbeir bellies, and only hog brains the e. They cannot succeed by telling the truth. Decep tion is tbeir stronghold. Goldbug claim that free coinage would run all the gold out of i his country. I u n der ate nd that eome one in the eilver con vention at Raleigh requested all who had gold in their pockets to bold tip tbeir hands, but no ab'pc wbbb cr. Oat of that picked assemblage not a man bad a gold dollar. Hetbiake many of them nave not seen a twenty dollar geld coin in tbe paat four years or more. Shea gone from North Caro lina, and sot much of any kind in cir culation except what is cent here to boy tbe cotton crop, and that must go back by January 1st, M6. This thirty cent corn that 1 tell yow of will to a large extent go into tho bands or the distiller. It will tak lot of whiskey to keep eome men ooa valeccent enough to vote a goldbog ticket in 1898. If you want to sell corn or most any article of food, ask your merchant what it is worth. He smile aod rub his hands and tell yon eo and so much in trade. But you tell him yon want money for it. He will turn about, look you eo pleasantly in tbe face, and tell you TBxaa i no pbjjaxp for your produce, but when you have traded out and have some thing to buy in tbe spring, and speak of bard time and no money, be will look very stern, and tell you if yon had aorne tbing to sell, yoa coald get tbe money for it. Alas, poor farmer! Ho may work and sweat, uae and blowall tbe same be has to go. J. It. T BO LXXBO CaUrrh can bo sacceesfnlly treated only by purifying the blood, aod tbo one true blood purifier is Hoed 8r-saparilla. aam itioe."