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New Offer to Meet Demands. Five Copies Caucasian 3 Months For $1.0012 Copies 3 Months $2.00 No id the time foraction. The I ,n, rny ia sowing tares. Let the !' jijlf how good seed. Kite copies ' uf tbv t'u aUM 3 months for i !.". Twelve copies 3 month for i-.'0. Send atlub imck. wwt ow. TU pUdkwg I lilH UfUU ASIAN o tag IW ewwntry V I 2 l" mfmvn litersinrw. I.. taert Iba. ?4 t.- f- it I tag liter4rv !. $ "l S VOL. XIV. SOVEREIGN'S NEW PARABLE A Strong Contrast and a Deadly Parallel X Rays on the Situation. LET EVERY VOTER READ! RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL i, 1896. SO. pbilantf money t III rnualreU of lb Ol.l I'artle Seek Tra.la nn Iba Hanaatr af lha Father llegenerala Noaa at Kubla Nlre - Walling luattr lloaa Not Nlaep. IJtlow in an extract from a power ful pcevh delivered by General Master Workman Sovereign, before the National Asembly of the Knight of Labor. It shows that the uK'tubem of that organization will vto right thia year: "The leaders and candidates of thutwoold parties are continually , rating about the glorious record of tht ir imcestors. The early history ;iti I accomplishments of the Demo (r.itic and Republican parties are )t.M up before tho voters as the shin in trophies of political victory. Sow, my friends, if I should commit willful murder in this community to night and escape the minions of the In w, mill after twenty years a fugitive from justice I should return, every oiiiMit you would demand my arrest, conviction and punishment, lou would not give nio my liberty on the ground that a quarter of a century a'o I wa. an honest man or on the claim that I had reformed. You would not accept a new platform or , . 1 11.- . ei.iK 01 rosoives or pieuges ior goou t hani' ter in the futuro in the exten uation of the crime I had committed. I ini'ht prove by sworn evidence in court that I had a father by the name of Jefferson who was the most ifitect embodiment of honor this country ever had, and that I had an unrlu by the name of Jackson who was rovcred by every honorable cit izen in the nation for his good char acter and integrity, and that I had a brother by the name of Lincoln, who.; life was a star of the first uii'iiitudo in the galaxy of national honor aud love of mankind, and that WVbster, Clay, Calhoun, Seward, Sumner, Chase and a long line of the nation! most honored sons were all my relatives. But the court would rule that such evidence was incompetent, immaterial and irrele vant, and all tho people would de clare that the honor and virtues of une man or of a thousand men could not condone the crime of another. The good naruo of n dead philanth ropist cannot become the ransom of live criminal. The two old parties committed wmtal murder more than twenty years ago and have been repeating the crime every day from that time to the present. I will not equivocate or excuse. The political parties that have given the homes of the people to the, tew, bankrupted industries, driven thousands to suicide and turned three million laborers and mechauics in the streets to starve for want of employment are guilty of cold-blooded, premeditated inur- ikr, and you know it. Hut those same red-handed crimi nals come before the great bar of the public each year with adroitly written platforms.claiming they have reformed and demand a new lease of life and power because of the honor and patriotism of statesmen who died many years ago, and the great public jury goes to the ballot-box and votes for liberty and acquittal. I sH'ak to the shame of this great pub lic jury, they have been intluenced by the virtues of an almost forgot ten past to mitigate and excuse the crimes of the present. But, thank heaven, waiting justice does not sleep; the day of retribution is at hand, the old parties have been call ed before the bar of judgment and the great public jury is hearing the merits of the case with less prejudice thau ever before. The honor and justice of a Jefferson, a Jackson or Lincoln will not be accepted in palliation for recent old party crimes. The evidence of guilt leaves no room for doubt and the better element of both old parties are turning state s evidence to re ?aiu their standing and escape the wrath to come. Not long ago I heard a leading Re publican declare he would support the Republican party if it had only a last year's almanac for a platform and a yellow dog for a candidate. A Democratic candidate for the gov ernorship of Arkansas said in i speech a few days ago that he would support the Democratic party if ios then lid wrote the platform and -ie evil headed the ticket. My 'rieuds, I ieave it to your candid .aJ.'ment if that Republican and that Democrat did not express the only reason that can be given for supporting either of the two old par ties. And my friends, if that kind of reason had prompted the acts of Washington, Jefferson and the other revolutionary patriots they would have died shouting for King George nd there never would have been an American republic. , u every human being who ever 11.1 a.. .a,. .a "Tea nr.d been guided by the same md of reason, every act of the hu in family would have been bad qu there could have been no good the world between the murder by J-aia and the sale of bonds by Car 'sle. That is the same kind of rea o that beheaded the reformers anded the cup of poison to the philosophers, and kindled the fagots tne feet of the martyrs. io you know, my brother, there is "vi a politician who would dare use saca argument or boast of his will agness to sacrifice the interests of People and the life of the gov "meat on the altar of his politics P4tty if it were not that mil ''?ns of working men have been ap r-a-uingsuch sentiments and vol ' 'or the men who utter them? "oyou know, my brother, that politicians who have nttered ?y, will not spend tiro, and Pg to persaade the Ubo' orgftniztwans that they ought to stay out of politics. They are will ing that yoa shall devote all your efforts to shop rules, labels and in significant trade questions, but when you rnle to vote to over thiow robbing combinations that are ennlaving labor, they runh to your rescue with the apparent love of a mother rescuing her drowning child, and beg uf you for the sake of your great and g-od organization to lay out f polincs. You have taki n their advir and you have lost. With all the labor organiza tions that have operated in the country daring the past 2-jyears, the wealth of the country has gone to the idle rich and there are more half paid, more homeless, more idle, and more hungry working people is this nation to-night than ever before Fealty to party right or wrong is treason to humanity. The love of justice has been so weak and party prejudice so strong that labor or ganizations have peaceably submit ted to the enslavement of their mem bers for fear of division and disrup tion if they made a stand atrainst the arch enemies of the common peo ple. But the lines between the clasHes and the masses are now so closely drawn that there is not re maining a single grain of neutral ground on which to stand. The la bor organizations must choose this year between the claims of human ity and the demands of gold bugs and plutocrats. The money power and the monopolies suDDort onlv such parties and candidates, as will protect their interests and the labor organizations must do likewise or surrender to the despotism of arro gant capital. LETTERS FROU THE PEOPLE. Various Matters on Which The Popular Opinion is Express edAll Sections Interested. LIVING ISSUES FORWARD. TbaKaokaad Vila With Iba C auraaiaa- Iha Panpla Vata for Frlarlpla Why fart) bags Abaaa Haaalur Uutl.r-Hop Hoaril Vatara May Ciat Togatbar. Tha Kank and t'lla Mtabd With tha Cauca sian. For The Caucasian. Bryson City, March 24. I want to endorse the position which yon have taken. The People's party in this section will stand by you, and, we are growing each day. A few men who care more for Borne little office than they do for principle and the relief from financial distress are raising all this cry about fusing with the Republicans on any terms. Don't be uneasy. The great mass of the People s party who went into thi3 fighj for principle and for better times are with you. We want to fight the goldbags straight, and we want a Populist for governor, and we will not trade this off for a few little offices and revenue jobs. Stand firm. Yours to the right, W. Why tbe I'arty-HuRa" Jtutler. Abuaa Seuator TWO WHALES For The Caucasian. Dallas N. C, March 28. I no tice that neatly every Republican paper in the State is now abusing Senator Butler. I am jrlad to see 4-u& i :n . . : Ar 1 cK A JUIN All tention to them than he used to py me democratic papers, ine demo cratic papers abused him because he Whimsical Whiffling Of a exposed their schemes, and warned NOAH RABY, 124 YEARS 010. Itra la WarUt Carallaa. Waa atUllar mm Wa Ltv.a la m X.a Jmrmp fmmr Msar, Xi ltat'x ick, March 20. Ac cording to hia own statement and I lie people of I'iaralaway and hbeltun liave fuli ooulltlenc in bis veracity Noah Kabr. an inmate of the 1'iacaia- way Poor rarra, will pa bis one hun dred and twentj-fourth year mark hould he live to ee next Wednesday. He i therefore the oldest man in the Htate. ilenrv i. Hummer, overseer of the farm, has known the man for m rej than fifty years, aad hehiiuaelf is firm in his belief that ICabj is far past the cenrury point. As he sits in an old- fashioned armchair before the fire in i Mr. Hummer's house tbe old man looks every bit a centenarian. "lode Aoah" is short and much bent. Sometimes his eyes sparkle, but me j are stgnuess, as tie became blind about ten years ago. Although his shoulders are somewhat contracted. ine muscles ot his legs and arms are as firm as they were thirty years ago. lie is toothless, and in talking he gives vent to a weird whistling noise. But his voice is strong and clear, and his laugh is hearty. His accent is of tbe South. General good health has blessed the old man since a serious illness at the age of eighteen, ilis mind is wonder fully alert, and he has an emphatic way of saying "Certain, sir." Fearing a rush of blood to his head he sleeps sitting up in a chair. On pleasant days he goes to the well in the yard, guiaeu ny a wire stretched from the back door. Boiled fish or rice, or some bread ana muK, constitute ine old man's simple diet. Lie weighs orly about one hundred pounds, although at hit best he seldom averaged more than 130. Xoah has developed a fondness for an occasional glass of rye whiskey and downs it like a connosieur. He says ne was born, in r.atontown, Gates coun ty, N.C.,on April 1. 1772. Uealsosavs he heard Washington speak in Norfolk, a. At nisi, time Jiauy was a sauor in the United States Navy. WEYLER AS A BUTCHER. STILL 10RE STRAOUIIHC ftatblag a.1 Kfaraa la OM Tmrty r4l -a a ad flat f arm. New Hampshire Republicans have broken the record. They held a Mate convention last week and not only adopted the usual "straddle" for a pisi form, but effected a sort of a "strad dle" as to tbe endorsement of candi dates. Heed and Mckinley were both mentioned in connection with the Presidential nomination and both of them were endorsed. SEED FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION. scratary Mart. Lata Caatraal far Ur Taa MllUaa rarhsla. Wasbikotov, March 31. Secretary Morton has let a contract for the lo, 135,000 packets of vegetable seed, to be distributed to tbe public under the recent act of Congress, to I. Indretb 4 Sons, of Philadelphia. Tbe price fixed is 170,000, the seeds to be deliver ed subject-to germinative testa, under a very carefully drawn contract, free of cost at the Department in Washing ton, ready for mailing. The contract for a million packets of flower seeds was let to I I May & Co., of St. Paul, Minnesota, at one-half cent a packet. lha Mambars o gpoal Cottua. Washington Times, 1 "Tbe question is often asked, 'Why is spool cotton numbered as it is, and why are figures not used in regular or der?'" recently remarked a Seventh street merchant. "The explanation is very simple. Tbe number on the spool expresses the number of hanks which are required to wind a pound. The very finest spinning rarely exceeds 300 hanks to' the pound, while in the very coarsest there is about a half pound in each hank. Tbe more com mon qualities, however, those from which sewing thread is usually made, run from ten to fifty hanks to the pound, and spools on which it is wound numbered from ten to fifty, in accordance." THE NATIONAL CONGRESS. Some Record of What the Peo ple's RepresesUtires Are Trying to Do. SHDF0RD AFTER BONDBUGS. HWtUTklMll taaawtlM W lib Thaaa Maad lasaaa Ultll(tl.taM Maallaa af Tha taaabl Sakatdv tal la Tha babata-fteaatar ItalUr ftraha Ta Stay, tiald Caatracta. Mosbav, HiM M av axty. Kleven penaion bill were Intro duced. A bill was pad appropriating 13,S4.J3 for the relief of some per sona who were inlurrd bv the exniua. ion of an ammunition chest on July 1G,1U4. Senator Pelirr moved to dicun the resolution providing for an invealiga- ion ol the bond issues, hut Senator Hill, who i now become tbe senatorial watch dog for rascality, was on the alert for his employers, and the mat ter "went over." The Democratic Newspaper Watch The Professors, How The Democrat Are Running- The Affair of Tha Plutocrat Their Great Salf-MacrlllcloK Advice Their St upend us belf-AbnegatloD Anent Their Own llnsrne. For the Caucasian.! Cary, N. C, April C Let us all . 1 Sk V a give tnanKsT naueinjan: Amen! or anything to express our great ap preciation of the unselfish interest unanimously displayed by tho Dem ocratic party in aiding as to run our own politics, hven at the sacrifice of neglecting the interests of their "dear old party" of whose grand and wonueriui past achievement' we now see and hear nothing, we find them so busily engaged in planning for OUR interests and our success that not even a high private of the Democratic party in the rear rank, on tne tan end ot that grand organ ization can- be found, who is not well versed in the various plans to be submitted and are being submit ted for our consideration. Some of them we find wanting as Populists to fuse with Democrats to save the State, in order to insure white su premacy, but in fact as this writer thinks to reinaugurate their old dia bolical plans and systems by rein stating themselves and gaining con trol of oar law-making powers. Bet ter watch this Professor No. I. some are trying to convince us that the Republican party with which opuhsts fused in lbU4 Is just about ready to swallow the Populist party and destroy it forever, just as the whale swallowed Jonah; bat to such we say, it is not a case of Jonah and liticians in suppoiting goldbugs and monopolists. The Republican poli ticians have been boasting for a year that they would soon swallow ap, or at least divide, the People's party. Some of them have been laying their plans to do this, and now they find that Senator Butler is on guard and in the way of their schemes, just as the Democrats found him in their way. Therefore, they abuse him also, but none of this abuse will have any effect on the people. They know that Senator Butler can bo relied on to uphold the cause of the people, and eee that the politicians do not betray them again. A SIXTEEK-TO OXER. Horrible Execution of Five Cu bans by the Garrote-An Awful Scene. POLITICAL P0T-P0URI. Condensed Mention Of What People Are Saying And What Parties Are Doing. Wef mnaf trat the whale, but it is two whales af- can ever defeat the gold conspiracy victim of !'.r7 bellows who are alwavs admon- oltnf i? workinK peoP1 to stay ou Miticsl You cannot find an ' r""iaa irom aiaine to Worm.. kv .I u. Proud of tbe Position Takeu by the Wes tern Republican Senator. For The Caucasian I. Faisok, N. C, March 27. I load with great interest in the last issue of the Caucasian the position which Senator Teller and the five Western free silver Republican Senators had taken. When they voted not to let a tariff bill pass unless a free silver bill could be passed at the same time, they showed more independence and patriotism than has before been shown in Congress smco the war. It is the highest statesmanship to take the position that the people shall not be further taxed until something is done to increase the ability of the people to pay taxes, as well as to live by patting more money in circula tion. Of course the six People's par ty Senators stood with them in this pesition: or rather these Republicans stood with the People's party. But I am surprised to see that no South ern Senator outside of the People's party took the same position. Every body admits that the south and together betore we ter one Jonan, and that Jonah is the Democratic party, and would advise Jonah that he had better watch the whale while we watch this Professor No. 2 All of them are equally as good 'silver men" as we are and even better, but we have failed to find any frait on that tree they ought to remember the fate of the "barren fig tree." And if so be that they are sincere in their declarations only let them lay aside the fetters that have so long bound them and ally them selves with the avowed silver party of the land. Let this be the proof of their sincerity otherwise we will be compelled to watch this Professor ISO. J. Again we find those who say, well ours (the Democratic party) is the patty of culture, of intelligence, of brains &o., respectability &c. &c. and can't afford to leave it. But brother, with becoming reverence to all your "brains and resDetabilitv" nave we not managed our own af fairs so far very successfully with what little brain we have! When The Affair Ws Miserably Bflcs ky the Fsbmss Hesiiaas, Valtstlac Rail, ass ss Asslstaat, ass Ik CmScmbc Me Were Slowly Tart art ta Deatk I Great AfMy-Prua Official Tarae DeaJIjr Pal at Ike Herrlfjlag SpecUcI. Havana, March 31. A startling exhibition of bungling in the execu tion by the garrote of five Cuban prisoners took place to-day. The men were recently sentenced to be garroted, and at 7 o'clock this morn ing a strong force of infantry was drawn up in the form of a square around the spot where the garrote had been erected. The instrument of execution, a chair with a post behind it, and an iron collar and screw, which, when turned, strangles or breaks the neck of the victim, was set up by the fa mous executioner, Valentine Kuiz, who, for some reason not tally ex plained, acted upon this occasion as the assistant to his own assistant, instead of as the principal execu tioner. At the hour the troops were drawn up the five prisoners were still in their dungeons receiving the minis trations of the priests. One man confessed himself to be guilty of the crimes charged against him, and as serted that his companions were in nocent. The latter stoutly main tained their innocence to the last, prayed that their deaths might be avenged upon those who had falsely sent them to the scaffold, and then the whole party was escorted inside the square formed by the soldiers. The man selected to be the first the strangling machine Bird's Eye Tiew of Kvent s Pictured by tha Press Kxpraaaioua of Opinion by Some People Who Know And Soma Who Think They Know. The Caucasian last week gave a letter written by Chairman Ilolton to Congressman Skinner, which we thought exceedingly cheeky. Con cerning this letter the Richmond Dispatch had the following: "I saw Mr. Skinner this morning. He said he had received the letter. 'WTliat will K rnn r rortlwf" "There will be no reply," said he. "I will have the people to do the replying." This was very gratifying to the Caucasian, and approximated what we thought Holten s impudence de served. But there teas a reply; and it was an unqualified disappointment to the Caucasian to read it. We have seen the original. It is as fol lows: "I thank you very kindly for your letter of the 21st (relative to alleged fusion of Populists and Democrats in Tyrrell county.) This county gave us trouble two years ago and then ran three tickets. My informa tion is contrary to what you repre sent. I will investigate thoroughly and let you know the status. I am satisfied you are in error." And now everybody is laughing at Col- Skinner. We regret it, bat what else could he expect from such a coarse as thisT ' af I a . . . and restore good times. Why do not qmetiy ana coolly mounted the steps tt, SnntViom Rn5tm-s sflizfl this. ot- leading to the death chair, took his nortunitv to join hands with the "a in an unconcerned manner, and Congressman Downing, of Illinois, thinks the Democratic xtauona Convention at Chicago will declare unequivocally for free coinage "After making a careful survey of the situation I am convinced that there will be at least 600 delegates in i'a i. uuiv f ..w jv. " i . , ., ' i mere win ov ai nsu uw uciclaicdiu noble Senators from the West! acfua ly seemed to smile .as the cap the Democratic convention favorable Where was Senator PritchardT He is the only Southern Republican Senator; and I am greatly surprised to see that he did not stand up with Teller and the other Western Sena tors on this vital question in which the State and the whole South is so deeply interested and concerned. We are glad, also, to see that sena tor Teller says that he will not vote for any gold man for the Presidency, even if his party nominates one, as it surely will. Our people dowi. here would be glad to vote for Teller for President. He is the kind of a free silver man that the people can follow. A Straight Populist. was placed over his head, after the iron collar had been adjusted. The man acting as executioner then twisted the lever or screw-handle controlling the garrote, but he was evidently terribly nervous, and this rendered him so weak that his hands slipped repeatedly from the lever. There were horrible, smothering, ehoking cries from the scaffold, and it was only after a long period of agony for the condemned man and almost torture for the spectators that the Cuban was pronounced dead. The executioners, priests, soldiers, and prison officials present turned their heads away in horror, and be came deadly pale as tho stilled sounds came from the sufferer. But this was only a beginning of the terrible performance. The second victim was brought to the front and led up the steps to the scaffold by the priests and assistant Upon reaching the Hope II out st Voter May Get Together. For The Caucasian. Dillard, N. C, April 1. I send one subscriber which is the best I can do on account of the work of the "goldbugs." I have tried several who we need outside heln to manan onr would like to take your paper, but executioner party affairs we will ask for it. And they have not the money many of platform the unfortunate man made don't it seem to be poor judgment to our farmers can not make both ends an effort to say something to the a " I awaa aa . a a I . 1 1 1 ..a let your own party suffer for want of meet. The goldbugs Know this and peopie surrounaing mm, out the ex- have made it so in order that a little ecutioner s nana was placed over his campaign money will go a long ways. mouth, he was hastily bundled into Give them Hail Columbia every time and "cry aloud and spare not." Hoping that all honest voters will get together for financial reform. J. G. a. Mitchell. to free coinage," Mr. Downing said as he danced through a note book he held in his hand. The total nam ber of delegates is 930. a The Republican executive commit tee of the Fifth Congressional Dis trict last week called the convention to meet at Darham on Tuesday, May 12th, and passed the following reso lution and adjourned: "The Republican executive com mittee, in session at Durham, this 30th day of March, 1890, hereby en dorse the course in Congress ot our Representative, Hon. Thomas Settle, and recommend his re-nomination and re-election to the voters of the district." Resolutions were offered by Mr. White, of Alamance, endorsing Pritchard,McKinley and Beyd, and were voted down. Uaaea. pension bill wer intro- THE PEOPLE ARE AGREED trvdK4 a rsnlntUasi to ljtift Iba rrnt aaW ml Ua4. TWa val tioa rrita that eharfee . a4a that ajntsir sa4 pfrWat-4 I adtantafas Hat a -4 by rrvaidastt t I-l4 s4 "w-rr-tsr arUJ to arvrtai eaaxlat is4h-t lura.L4 l X k VS i t m.1 char Ha t r aa4 iwlOa tht Qatlticn tf Yt Cvi&aft I'rri4ra( sad NfUfj arliW la r- I fc.. . trara t tb rrrv a i bu4 tile surrit I vioum ui UMtUliUt' tha aaa at 4xal arrv-4 snarly bail or lb bwhd laaaa la a at r sa s stier. Tbs r-olutica tba-a ir ida tlat a rvcBBaitte of lis b arpM!r-4 bj lbs pca,er to aala aa intratlf ati I eta all the- Vtrrwmatanraa rrlattrc U tha lat t tr- iaawvs .f bund and rr port lo I La HtMt. Appropriation bill rra dira-4 during tb daj. ditie&a cf Soccrts. THE rEOTLE KEEP ASt'SDlR Aa4 as a-aw '..-e - t Skl Caeadla WtJ.eie Ta lod-tnapoUa New J rnatur Chandler stick to it. II thinks it dors not lawk wall fe tha protected manufacturers to "rbin In to help nominate ee mi, while all tbe raodiates are eiuallj atmad in tbe faith. After the burci nation ia made it is uuit a different matter. Then their contributions are thankfully re celtrd for "legitimate" etprnaes in de- leaiing tbe wicked Ieroorrata. Hut tt is altogether indefensible. caadalMs, Immoral, wicked, what ioi will, for protectionist to use money to help nominate one protectionist in prefer- ence to other protectionist. aueuuuu wuue you are onering so much kindly service towards engi neering oursT And is it not in bad taste tool And does it not show to ns conclusively that you, as a party, only hope to accomplish your own purposes by confusion of the oppos ing forces, ropuiists cannot be so blinded as not to observe the "writ ing on the wall" and hence we will watch this Professor No 4. Uar watchword is WATCH! our pass word is watch:. We do not expect to be deceived. The tracks in the Democratic paths tell us the way to destruction they all seem to be going in one direction. There .. A A ll A are no iooi-prinu teuing ns oi any escapes. The toes of these foot-prints all point the same way. We quote from the rtews and Observer. Wed nesday, March 18th. "Will the Pop ulists submit win they con- . a a . 1 tinue to waia wun tnose who sneer at their declarations and despise their principles! We shall see.' ies. we shall see. None have de spised and sneered at the Populists half so much as Democrats, and yet in the great fertility of their brain and soul we are being begged and counciled "to walk" with them. But Professor No. 5. we can't do it, and so we will watch you. We can't take any chances to loss our cause. J. (J. WILLIAMS. the deadly chair, and in another mo ment the iron collar was around his neck, the cap was over his face, and the first turDs of the lever had been given. If the actual executioner was nerv ous upon the occasion of the first killing he was ten times more so upon this occasion. He fumbled and fumed, alternately turning to a death-like whiteness and flushing crimson with excitement. The re- Gettlna; There. For The Caucasian. Gastonia, N. C, April 3 We are "getting there." All we need is for somebody like Butler or Allen to AnrrtA thrnnch horo and mafc-a speech for ns. Your paper converts fm was m?re 8low Ie"ul strangn- every body that we can get to read 1?uon.BUU. BUUiaer uomoie expe- it A. A. WAOSTAFF. I " lut "f" uy in is time ine prison omcials, Ho Fusion Except on Principle. I the priests, ana tne omcers in com- For The Caucasian.! mand of the troops had endured so Pikeway, N. C, April 4 Down much that they openly denounced liora in tha snnth-wAftt e.nrnAr of tn I the acting execuuoner and get the following from the Washington Post: "McKinley," said Senator Pritch ard, yesterday, upon his return from North Carolina, "will have sixteen oat of the twenty-two delegates from my State. I have nothing to say against Mr. Reed. On the contrary, I admit that he has sone strength in the State, but the truth, neverthe less, remains that neither Mr. Reed nor any other Presidential aspirant can carry the State against Mr. McKinlev." . "What has eaused the Mcluniey boom!" "It is simply that the people of North Carolina want a protective tariff, and they look upon McKinley as the embodiment of that principle I could name hundreds of men in the Congressional district in which I re side who have been Democrats all their lives, but who now intend to vote the Republican ticket because they see that the Democratic policy called I, i , : - , tu .. . I nnrTK iiiHi r iiiihiiihkh i ii if. e nsut. A iio State the people seem to be a unit P S scar- t development of manufactures on the free silver question-not one aud let another man take Jh for the gold standard. Wc .have but B,,'timent, and then the Southern people one white republican in uoiumbus I want protection for their raw mate- county. That one, 1 hear, is for muuumuiium, iiwauoeaau, gold. The fire-eating Democrats are wno trom lonS experience, is looked as dumb as sheep before the shearer; upon as being an expert in his line, "they open not their mouths," par- to 801,18 d nelP nim out of the diffi- ticnlarly in my township, which is eulty. Bug Hill. We, the Populists, fully Ruiz, however, was almost as endorse our chairman in jhis action nervous and excited as bis assistant, in calling the convention, but we de- and fumbled badly- as he handled nounce fusion with any party, except the third Cuban. But Ruix suceeed- want protection for rials." Senator Pritchard denied most emphatically that he aspired for a Dosition in McKinley s cabinet, shall be content to be returned to the Senate." said he. "and I am in the Senatorial race to stay." The Press-Visitor says this: (Continued on fourth page.) (Continued on fourth pagej (Continued on fourth page.) Thirty duced. In the coure of the consideration of the sundry civil bill, attempts wrre made to amend it, to increase tbe ai propriation for the salary of the su perintendent of the Coast and tieode tic Survey from $.," to .; to trike out tbe appropriation of ta.tajo for detecting and punihiiigiolalions of the internal revenue laws and to strike out the appropriation of ll'.V.Vx) for food, fuel and clothinir for the ndians on the Pribjlov Island. Alaska all of which failed. An amendment to strikeout of the bill M.OOO for detecting and brintrinir to trial and punishment persons guilty of violation of internal revenue laws was made by Mr. I.innev. of North Carolina. This amendment led to considera ble discussion some of which was acrid. Mr. Savers, of Texas, wanted the ap propriation ana saia : "1 he Commissioner of internal Rev enue, reported that in the last six months of 1S9., OS illicit distilleries were seized in the lifth district of North Carolina. "What were these men' doing?" inquired Mr. Savers. Making a hell of the fairest portion of tbe country; turning into illicit whiskey corn that they should use to feed their families violating the law.' jtesiaes tne distilleries there were seized within the district in the same period 558 fermenters, and 32,o gal lons of beer were seized and destroyed in the Mh district of North Carolina there were 100 distileries,75 ferment ers, s,utH) gallons of beer and II.immi gallons of spirits seized and destroy ed." Mr. Savers then paid bis attention to the ninth district of (ieorgia. In the past six months there were seized and destroyed in that district TM il licit distilleries, 3,615 gallons of spirits and 21)2,000 gallons of beer. -And how does Virginia stand on this mat ter?'' asked Mr. Sayers. "The Mother of Presidents, the State of Jetlerson and Madison, and represented on this tloor by gentlemen of character and ability?" The reports showed that in tbe fifth district of that State h3 dis tilleries, 8,ooo gallons of spirits, ooo fermenters and 75,mnj gallons of beer bad been seized and destroyed in the past six months. "Gentlemen," he continued, "must not imagine that the only violations of the law are in tbe States named." A particularly flagrant case in New York city was named by Mr. Sayers, wherein the violaters paid to the government $12,00 in fines and penalties. Mr. ayers said that hardly a week passed without the publication of the murder of some man shot through the window while sitting at bis fireside w hen inquiry was made as to the identity of the assasin it was found that some one suspected on "moon shining" had disappeared from the country. Mr. t.mney advocated striking out the f 50,00". He said that no similar amount of money was ever the cause of so much corruption as this appro priation of 5o.0CO. Opinion denounced tbe spy system which the appropria tion fostered; it was against publi policy, and ought not to be continued. Mr. Swanson, Democrat, of Virginia, favored striking out tbe 50,nsi, as did also Mr. Skinner, of North Caro lina, and Mr. McCall, Republican, o Tennessee. Mr. Layton, Democrat, of Ohio, said that otiicial reports showed that on distilleries bad been seized and de stroyed in the past six months under tbe operation of tbe provision in the present law and be believed it had better be continued. The House de clined to strike the amount out of the bill. TUESDAY, MAKCH 31 8EXATK. Twelve pension bills introduced. Mr. Tillman, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to wbom was referred the joint resolution donatiug a con demned cannon and some shells to tbe Guilford Battle Ground Company, near Greensboro, N. C, reported it without amendment. Another grab or steal game is on foot in the Senate. In 1891 a "subsidy" bill for steamships was rushed through Congress on tbe last day of tbe ses sion. This bill provided that certain amounts shoold be paid to steamships carrying the American mails. For in stance a first-class steamship gets four dollars a mile for each mile travelled; a second-class steamship two dollars a mile and so on. Thus tbe govern ment pays a first-class steamship which carries the mails $12,000 for one single trip across the Atlantic ocean. At tbe same time the steamer carries its re gular cargo and its passengers at the usual rates, mis out was rusneu through under the pretence of encour- . aa anner American snip nunuing ana making taster man time, nut u nas not accomplished this. In discussing this matter Senator ilas said : I think there has been gained not a single line, not an hour's expedition, not a particle ot advantage to tne transportation of the mails by tbe sub sidies which were provided for some years ago. while the increase of charges a. a a. l m. upon me posiai service nas oeeo sooui. tl,300,000, as I remember the figures." That is to say tnat tne government is paying a lot of steamship companies 11,300,000 for nothing. And now an other steamship company, ranning from San Francisco to New Zealand is trying to get the government to pay them sso.ouu a year simpiy necaoae they carry the mails. They will make no more trips, nor wm tney go any faster, but this is a Republican Con gress and that steamship corporation will probably get that money. Tbe people will have it to pay. Hoaaa. Seventeen pension bills were intro duced. Mr. Shnford, of North Carolina, in- TOOK NIS WirC'S HOMY. Mm Sank farallaa Wiau Boaaaaaaa U aWaa4 ta JaaeW. WixsTon, N.C.. March 31.-1 rank 1 Webster, a leaf tobaocw broker and prominent citiien of Madison, who mjsteriously disappeared from that town several weaka ago, baa brea ar rested in Klrliuiond. K v . on a warrant charging him with abandoning hi wife. Webster will be brought back to Hockingham county for trial. Hi wife says be got ber to trn a paper to sell their property claiming he wanted tne money to use In his buainess. lie got the money and disappeared. THE FIAT OF THE PEOPLE Is That No Goldbuz Must Elected President in 18 Battle of The Ballots. Be Tk btlMaraai CaaracSjr f The 01 Sank Staas-ftaaa-trf Fraa Tk Sum Ska Baa Taaas la Tk fniaety af Vktarraa Bar ltilii Beaar. For the Caucasian. I The whole atmosphere of the pres ent age, is surcharged with the dis covery of the fact of human slavery, end the bondage of tbe masses to the classes. It might be well for all true patriots to read tbe lessons of history and recur to tbe beginning and completion of the enfranchise ment of six million slaves. It began LIKE A SMALL hPlTK n the horizou under the agitation and leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beerher Stowe and others. This was tbe beginning of an agi tation that resulted in tbe freedom of six million blacks, who were held as property. It will not be forgotten that for years this agitation was held in high c-ott tempt even in New England, and not a few of tho pioneers in tie movement were subjected ta the scorn and derision of their fellow- men in puritan Boston. bouth of Mason and Dixon s line the revolution to strike cf7 the shack els of slavery was NOTHING LESS THASf HIGH TREASON. After much opposition, discussion and bloodshed it won the laurels of success, and met the enlightened ben ediction of all mankind. To-day there are between sitty and seventy millions of people in the toils of oppression, and in tbe b jnds of a much worse slavery. Let it be remembered that this later slavery is a far worse iniquity, and a more galling yoke than the former, from the fact that it fetters are about the necks of tbe blood, tbe brains and tbe brawn of time's eff spring of tbe ages, the descendants of those W HO WON THE FREEDOM of this country from British despot ism. The incredulous, the indifferent and tbe armed enemies of tbe foes of African slavery sneered at tbe ptophecy of freedom for six millions of people. Its modern equivalent is the ndicnle poured lortn in the press of the country upon the FRIENDS Or THE NEW REDEMPTION of the toiling masses as theorists, cranks and fanatics. And just so sure as the resistless progress of the movement to free the nepro from tbe injustice of his bondage won a tri umphant victory, may the weary millions of tbe now slavery of wealth and aggrandizement and gold des potism, look to tbe near f ature for tbe overwhelming revolution whieh the BATTLE Or THE BALLOTS will wage and win in their behalf. Led by such men as the lamented L. L. Polk, Senator Allen of Ne braska, Peffer of Kansas, and the brilliant young Senator Butler of oar own Bute, leading the great co horts of the voters, why should any itatitoM A.avaa at a. 4 Ylaal.,( F. Tb faaraa KaiBi.n. V C. A.l 1-IVfks at a I lata m tb a4 t..afy f the - wars- tb -af a4 Naatb Car. tins, and f IW aMtfc, aa kiir I erktlaw M kwa any la a I be y ar at jceat atlk erfi ra.a t ba free raiRifrvf ilr at IW ialM 4 l to I of U. 1 ! f t, tf.! of tbe tirv rt -a are acreW lb leaWt. J regard tt aa . asiMint U alt 4Im ; s4 art tbay al le u!4 part J allrLet f keep them ituaJer, an 4 iba ta defeat I in lb great rvaitttua Mtruaa I tary hate In lie. t blikath I Hjlti padM-iea regard tBf Iba Urld f aleawbetber I bey bould be impuae-4 Vilb retrerex-a ta prvtee-Uoei. . Mterrty far ftlfkM, which are a o)4 a lb (uerkii, and will last a If a lha -rr tre raising take in tbat way eueili . tbe ailte-r atin ta r a. . It rati bawk bl tnenty )nr, ia4 skeseel. lied. It Will be ae-ttW-d Anally 1 bare Will be Ho renewal f tt rtraeek, and a H I a4Mtia 4 flrat rsi lea portauce.lt should beaettled nuw lhe present year, at the Sppruarlwag I 'rea. idebtial and ucigrr-Mlwaal elertiaat. It are-m I If ob iwa JI1 a' a of ruaaramea aenae that tlieaa different art tea. w In are tbunrug My agreed tt p. . tbe ail er question, should cttur together xiw In a spirit of frankneaa. it mil l. tm tain tl at they aland a!if.eb rie hoping that the H,le will ruat ta) It. wbMeihej make war iMn earbaaibr and Widen ttia breach lalsres theSM. This isjuat What tbe gold arty dejigtl lo are. It la Incredible that a gold party ran win in the Nuutb ndrr aiy circuoitlanres; but disrniwtis and diviaions In the rst.k uf the silver men, although one faction ImmiI4 carry the elections, tnuat Inevitably weaken the cause in tbe ut ler Mates la the West, particularly, where itiseaaen. tial that lemorrats and HrpubUraus who favor free coinage rvsie toge-tber and Vote togettier. A untte-d silver party in North I'arolina and tb ith Would inpire confidence in the Heat and bring together every element f parties favorable to t he eauae. lemucrala flatter tttetnarltea (list tliey may have a majority of drlegatea in the national tioimnating runtr. tion, that t bey may dictate l be plat form and nominate the candidate. Itut to do all this to make tbe ioi nations, at any rate, they must have two-thirds of the drlegatea. W hii hie impossible. The two-third rule tnay enable tbetn to retent lite nawtui tion of gold men if tlee rlaa of dele gates who go there from every !out b ern Mates ran te relied tipon to resiat tbe allurements that the millionaire of the North and Kat will place before them. I'.ut in no event an tbe eauae of silver ront by the results of the liemorratic National! on ebt ion. Kas tern and Northern lieuiurrat will -der no rirrumtaor-, support silver candidate on a silver platform. Tttey will sooner see the triumph of tbe lie publicans, with McKinley, Iteed, Alli son, or any 4her high rotertoniat, on a gold-motioneetalltr platform, than a Iemerrat on a free at Her platform. Northern Iemorata the ew tit rolling class among tliera are quite as morn in earnest in support of gold-mono-tnetallim as tbe outbern ftemocrats are in favor of tbe free coinage of sil ver. Tbe strength of tbe 'opulisl ime out of the I lemorratie. party, and they ran do nothing without tbe co-operation of all tbe rVutbern free silver element, 1 bey are eaaentla! to each other in this struggle for free coinage; and if they stubbornly ater it in their local squabeles, they may as well give up the roMroversy and al low gold monometallism to be nettled as the permanent policy of tbe roan try, with low prices, low wages, and dull. hard times in perpetuity. Tbe Kepubllcan bimetal nla of the Western Mates are ready and ansioos toco-operate with the hoetbera ! tnorracy and ropuiists in sup port of free silver. Tbe ablest men among them have abandoned the Republican party soh men aa Jones and Mewart of Nevada, and Teller of Colorado. They are ready to ebordi nate other questions to this essential one of fres silver. Tb- existing tariff originated with tbe Pernor racy; but was no mucb changed In character ia the Senate, tbat President levelaod declined to approve it, and allowed it to tmcome a law wilocut bis signature. It aaay be regarded as a hybrid, halt Hen. cratic, and half Republican half lrv baii otnerwiae. bo let I it stand for tbe present, a ntil tbe more essential Question ot bimetallism is lectionist and e present, ition of settled. It fails to produce sufficient revenue aod pleases oebobody, bat be amended in tbat respect by the mutual agreement of parties, bimet allism is to be tbe singleissue of tbe campaign. Iishiel ILCoontjoc. RCPUBUCAM POLICY. Ta Be Tbe 014 Cry Of rarlsT. TarlsT, TarlsT. WJlUk Aa44ag SHe4Ua. McKinley, at Chicago, outlined the K-yublicau campaign .That part will make iti own iatur, and that will be tariff! iiriiC and noth ing but taxifC Krery E publican mouther will whoop op tht tariff If anv one talki It everywhere. If any one one doubt the certain overthrow of I money, or ail rer, be will talk just as t . . at .til . m as. a tne oppression ana tyranny oi " " I McKinlev did. alter the following fashion: "Honest money aud m much from street and waahington, in shorter time than tbe war Garrison to Lincoln. Or who can FALTER IS THE RAXES; with the indomitable courage dis played by the Cheralier Bayard of the United States, vewr et mm rs- vrocht. tha noblest Boman of them chance V earn it by honest toil, fur a currencY ol gold, ilveT od pajr with which to measure our exchaogrs, that shall be as sound as tbe govern ment and as untarnished aa its hoiior the best mmrj ever known gol , silver aad paprr and XO GQLDBUO CAJT BI ELECTXO President. all Ran Tillman nf Klntt. r.mlintt I crnCal th WOrld OTtT. The wrong done to the people by I That's tbe sf-ff tbe g. o. p. will the demonetization of silver in 1S73 Ian ye yon, and you've got to take i; wui oe rigniea in isvu. ins ust 01 1 .oa mln not be aiiowru w nave sujj the American people has gone forth, I thia !,. You mtut take all the and I . . . i I Ola IKMuUms, mr vute-w. w- rjounded by tbe mtdicine men of the . - A r nnder which von haTerrava Any other issue is a delusion and T . . or TOB wUj U a snare, it remains lor tne voters r , nm tn (K- of this State and nation to rally to PBn WUi"cM" " this unchanging and unchantabU I roptixisx. - , vwwil verdiet of tha people! Tne ireei wen, com t"s -eoinage of silver is the last refuge of I enough for all in the 1 epulis party. nawnrtla. whnaai MvmrmaasTnt has 1 Thn IB no room in the C a Ik made an assignment to the lloTganjcept for plutocrats, golobngs and IOOU OK every aegrm . '.,
