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IL 1 JIJEL
VOL. XIV.
JEFFERSON
AND JACKSON
Homo Facts Which Show That
They Wero Not Goldbnga or
National Bankers.
Till; VIEWS AND OPINIONS
1 Imjr KntcrlaliiCfl Aim Whit the I'opulUU
Ailvnrnte To ilsjr-The (Iiarlottr Hsr
"Mnrrhant" nnl All Motor rail
Touts wnd MijIim k Kliut I I'.
Homo ignorant or unscrupulous
f cribbler ban put forth the statement
Mint I nomas Jefferson ami Anarcw
J.ack;o:i worn monometallism, and in
favor of tho fcinglo gold standard of
money.
It happens that no two groat men
wJiuho names are i'tn tififI with the
history of tho I'nitod States, wero
ho conspicuously devoted to the
vnitKO of a bi metallic currency as
the.so two, or ko pronounced in their
opposition to hank paper, as they
wcm. If there ho another hi metal
list, and enemy of hank paper, eua
ly distinguished for his services to
thtt country, by his services in tho
miiso of gold and silver, it was
Thomas Hart Benton, tho friend
aiil Mipporter of Je fferson and Jaek
:iti. Ah to monometallism, they seem
i i vcr to havo thought of it. In their
voluminous writings on tho subject,
it h always "the precious metals,"
ir "gold and silver'-never one
without tho other, except in a single
instance, in which (loneral Jackson,
in his last annual message, states
that tlm orieinators of tho lir3t na
tional bank, which was chartered in
171)1, managed to drivo gold out of
the country, which had tho effect of
substituting hank bills in its place,
and o? turning tho national bank
into a mint, for tho coinago of paper
into dollars.
Mr. Jefferson, in his voluminous
omspondonco and public docu
ments, wroto so often and so much
on this subject, that one in quoting
him is puzzled as to whoro ho shall
: top. Ho was the United States
Minister to Paris, during the years
I77, 'bS and '89; and while there ho
wroto a letter to a French gentle
man, M. da Rival, dated Paris, Jan
uary 17, 1787, giving him informa
tion in regard to tho money stand
ard, established by Congress, llo
aid:
"Tho iesolutions of Congress give
tho silver dollar at 373.01 grains.
Tim pound of silver was fixed at
lil.77 dollars, and tho pound of gold
at HOD. 77 dollars, which gives the
proposition of silver to gold as I to
l.VJ'Jf)."
It is seen that silver was made the
standard of measuring gold.
In a letter from Jefferson to Ham
ilton, dated February, 170'J, he says:
" Dear 8ir: I return your report on
1 lie mint, which I havo read over with
a great deal of satisfaction. I con
cur with you in thinking that the
''NIT MUST STAND ON r.OTU METALS,
that the alloy should bo tho same in
both, also in the proportion you es
tablish between tho two metals.
I 15$ to 1,1 with respoct to tho dollar.
It must be admitted by all tho world,
that there is great incertainty in the
meaning of tho term, and therefore
all tho world will have justified Con
gress for their first act of removing
tho incertainty, by declaring what
they understand by tho term; but
tho incertainty once removed, exists
no longer, and I very much doubt
A KK1I1T NOW TO CHANGE THE VALUE,
AND ESPECIALLY TO LESSEN IT.
Should it bo thought howover, that
Congress may reduce tho valuo of
tho dollar, I should bo for adopting
for our unit, instead of tho dollar,
either one ounce of pure silver, or
one ounce of standard silver.
Mr. Hamilton was at the time of
this correspondence, Secretary of
the Treasury, under (Jeneral Wash
ington, and Mr. Jefferson Secretary
of State.
In 1700, Mr. Jefferson, as Secre
tary of State, was .called upon by
Congress to preparo and report a
j'lan for tho regulation of coins,
weights and measures. Ho reported
July 4, of that year. In referenco
to coins he states that
"Congress in 1780, established the
money unit at 375.01 troy grains of
puro silver. It is proposed to en
large this by about the third of a
grain in weight, or a mill in value;
that is to say to establish it at 370,
(or more exactly, 375.089313), in
stead of 375.0 V grains; because it
will bo shown that this, as tho unit
oE coin, will link in system with the
units of length, surface, capacity
nd weight, whenever it shall bo
thought proper to extend the deci
mal ratio through all these branches.
It is to prescrvo the possibility of
doing this, that this very minute al
tcration is proposed."
Hut Mr. Jefferson thought thi3
highly scientific proposition not al
together practical, and instead, pro
posed: I quote
"Let it be declared, therefore, that
the money unit, or dollar, of the
I'nited States, shall contain 371.2G2
grains of pure silver." And this
is within a minute fraction of the
dollar to-day, which is 371.25 of pure
silver, and 41.2o alloy making 4l2.o.
In his autobiography, page 52. Mr.
Jefferson states that Robert Morris,
the financier or Secretary of the Treas
ury uDder the articles of confedera
tion, through his assistant Gouver
Ufnr Morris, made an able and elab
orate report, in the year 1782, on the
money current in the several states
no undertook to una a common
measure for all tho several curren
'ies, and to propose it as the money
unit, in silver. Mr. Jefferson thought
the plan ingenious but complicated
and impracticable; and he proposed,
instead, tho silver dollar, which was
adopted.
In 17S!), while in Paris, Mr. Jeffer
Rn, in a letter to Mr. J. Sarsfield, a
trench gentleman, explained the
r'Ugusu system of coinage, lie said
'I believe all the countries in Europe
determine their standard of money
n gold as well as silver. Thus, the
laws of Encland direct a nonnd trov
ot gold, of 22 carats fine, shall be
fut into 14$ guineas, each of which
s"all bo worth 211 shillings, that is,
j j
t:J
lato tMJ shillings. Thin cUblbhe
at 5.518 grains of pare gold to the
u"""K- ney aireci mat a pound
of silver, consisting of eleven and
one tenth ounces of pure silver, and
nino tenths of an ounce of alloy,
snail bo cut into 02 shilling.?. This
establishes the shilling at 85.03 grains
oi pure silver, and consequently, the
proportion of gold to silver as 85 93
to 5.513, or 15.57 to 1.
In a letter to Col. Monroe, dated
Philadelphia, July 10, 1791, after
telling of the rapidity with which the
stock of the i irst National Hank was
subscribed for, Mr. Jefferson said:
"Thus it is that wo shall be pay
ing thirteen per cent, per annum for
eight millions of puper money, in
stead of having that circulation of
gold and silver for nothing. F.xpe
rience has proved to us that a dol
lar of silver disappears for every
dollar of paper emitted, and for the
paper emitted from the bank, seven
per cent, profits will be received by
tho subscribers fc r it as bank paper,
(according to tho last division of
profits by the Philadelphia bank,)
and six per cent, on the public paper
or which it is the represantative''
IThis "public paper" is tho seven
milliona of stock subscribed for bv
the United States.)
And here follows something apro
pos to an income tax, of which Jef
fersonian Democrats should take no
tee. In a letter to "N. 13." dated
Philadelphia. February 2. 1800. Mr.
Jefferson says:
"A tax on public stock, bank
stock, &c, is to be proposed. This
would bring one hundred and lifty
millions into contribution with the
lands, and levy a sensible proportion
of tho expenses of a war ou those
who are so anxious to engage ns in
it."
On tho constitutionality of bank
charters, and of other corporations.
Mr. Jefferson, January 15, 1809, just
beforo retiring from tho Presidential
office, wrote as follows:
"It has always been denied bv the
Republican party in this country,
that the constitution has given the
power of incorporation to Congress."
lo 1 nomas Cooper, January 10,
1814. Mr. Jefferson wrote: "Every
thing predicted by the enemies of
banks, in tho beginning, is now com
ing to pass. Wo are to bo ruined
now by the deluge of bank paper,
as wo wero formerly by the old con
tinental paper."
lo Joseph C. Cabell, Mr. Jeffer
son wrote, January 17, 1814. sug
gesting tho gradual retirement of
bank notes, by the Btates, in order
to bring metallic money into circula
tion. September 10, 1814, Mr. Jefferson
wroto to Thomas Cooper, as follows:
"The crisis, then oi tho abuses of
banking is arrived. Between two
and throe hundred millions of dol
lars of their promissory notes aro in
the hands of the people, for solid
produce and property sold, and they
formally declare they will not pay
them. This is an act of bankruptcy,
of course, and will be so pronounced
by any court beforo which it shall be
brought."
I might quote much more from
Mr. Jefferson, showing his devotion
to a metallic currency, and his oppo
sition to banks, both National, State,
or individual, and especially his op
position to bank paper, issued as
money. Uut l desist, and instead,
will draw attention to a substitute
he proposes. It is as follows:
llo suggests to the Stato Gov
ernments "to relinquish the
power" of establishing banks.
"This," ho says "would not, as it
should not, have given tho power of
establishing them to Congress. But
Congress could then havo issued
treasury notes.payable within a fixed
period, and founded on a specific tax,
the proceeds of which, as they came
in, snouia oe cxcnangeaDio tor tne
notes of that particular issue only,
Congress may now borrow of
tho public, and without interest, all
the niouey they may want, to the
amount of a competent circulation,
by merely issuing their own promis
sory notes, of proper denominations
for the larger purposes of circula
tion, but not for tho small. Leave
that door open for the entrance of
metallic money. And to give the
readier credit to their bills, without
obliging themselves to give cash for
them on demand, let their collectors
be instructed to do so, when they
have cash; thus in so mo measure
performing the functions of a bank,
as to their own notes."
In a letter to the celebrated Po-
liticalEconomist, Jean Baptistesays
Mr. Jefferson wrote, March 2nd,
1815, as follows: "The Government
is now issuing ireasury JNotes tor
circulation, bottomed on solid
funds, and bearing interest. The
Banking Confederacy (and the
merchants bound to them by their
debts) will endeavor to crush the
credit of these notes; but the coun
try 13 eager for them, as something
they can trust to, and so soon as a
convenient quantity of them get into
circulation, bank notes die. History
repeats itself."
In a letter to Mr. Gallatin dated
October 10th, 1815, Mr. Jefferson re
peats his opposition to banks, and
his support of a greenback currency.
When Mr. Jefferson wrote, eighty
years ago, the country was poor and
undeveloped. Its credit had been
exhausted by the war with England;
and he felt that it would be neces
sary to bolster up the Treasury notes
by special taxes imposed for their
redemption, with interest. But if
he lived now, when the United States
has become the richest country in
the world, he would see that neither
tho tax nor the interest is necessary
to their credit. He would see that
the simple promise of the govern
ment to redeem them when presented,
would bo all sufficient to sustain
them; and with silver acknowledged
as the equal of gold, by the law and
the administation, that nobody would
prefer hard money to greenbacks,
The consequence would be, that mil
lions of notes would wear out in the
service of the people, and never be
presented for redemption.
GENERAL JACKSON.
I turn now to refute the statement
of tho ignoranmus who represented
General Jackson as a gold monomet
allist. I prefer to regard the man
who would cut forth such a state
mcnt as an ignoramus, rather than as
a wilful falsifier. In nis last annua
message, dated December fit a. lS3fi,
ueoerai dacXHOa said:
it it apparent from the whole
contest of the constitution, as well
as the hiEtory of tb times which
gave birth to it, that it wa the pur
pose of the convention to establish
a currency eonsinting of the precious
metals. The. from their pe
culiar properties, which rendered
them the standard of value in all
other countries, wero adopted ia this
as well to trKiabliih its commercial
standard, iu reference tc foreign
countries, by a permanent rule, as
to exclude the use of a mutual me
dium of exchange, such as of certain
agricultural commodities, recognized
by the Statutes of eome States, .as a
tender for debts, or thetill more
pernicious expedient of a' paper cur
rency. The Iast, from the experi
ence of the evils of the issue of pa
per curency during tho revolution,
had become so justly obnoxious, as
to suggest the clause ia the Consti
tution forbidding the emission of
billu of credit by the States, but also
to produce that vote ia the conven
tion which negatived the proposition
to grant power to Congress to char
ter corporations, a proposition well
understood at tho time, as intended
to authorizo tho charter of tho Na
tional Bank, which was to issue a
currency of bank notes, on capital
to be created, to some extent, out
of government stocks."
In tho same message President
Jackson states that
"On tho establishment of
tional Bank, it became tho
est of its creditors that gold
be superseded by tho paper
bank as a general currency.
a Na-inter-should
of tho
A val-
ue was soon attached to tho gold
coins which made their exportation
to foreign countries, as a commod
ity, moro profitable than their reten
tion and use at home as mosey. It
followed as a matter of course, if
not designed by those who establish
ed the bank, that tho bank became,
in effect, a substitute for the mint of
tho United States.
"Variableness must ever be the
characteristic of a currency of which
the precious metals aro not tho chief
ingredient, or which can bo expand
ed or contracted without recrard to
tho principles that reerulate the
value of those metals as a standard
in tho general trade of the world."
April 27, 1830, Mr. Benton, of
Missouri offered the following reso
lution: "Resolved, That from and after
the day of in tho year 183G
nothing but gold and silver ought
to bo received in payment for pub
lic lands; and that the commit
tee on public lands be instructed to
report a bill accordingly."
President Jackson directed the
Secretary of the Treasury to issue an
order to tho Receivers of pay for the
public lands in conformity with this
resolution, which was done on July
11, 1S30. And tho President in his
next and last annual message from
whieu I have already quoted, said
of the operations of this order, that
iho effects of an extension of
bank credit and over issues of bank
paper have been strikingly illustrat
ed in the sales of the public lands.
From the returns mada by the vari -
ous Registers and Receivers in the
early part of last summer, it was
perceived that the receipts arising
from the sales of the public lands
wero increasing to an unprecedented
amount. In effect, however, these
receipts amounted to nothing more
than credits m banks. The banks
lent out their notes to speculators;
they were paid to the Receivers, and
mmed lately returued to the banks
to be lent out again. Those credits
on tho books of some of the western
banks, usually called deposits, were
already greatly beyond their imme
diate means of payment, and were
rapidly increasing.
The safety of the public funds and
the interest of the people generally,
required thatthese operations should
be chocked; and it became the duty
of every branch of the general and
State governments to adopt all le
gitimate and proper means to pro
duce the salutary effect. Under
this view of my duty, I directed the
issuing of the order, which will be
aid before you by the Secretary of
the Treasury requiring payment
for the public lands to be sold, to be
made in specie, with an exception,
until tha fifteenth of tho present
month, in favor of actual settlers.
This measure has produced many
salutary consequences."
The view of these last words of Gen
eral Jackson, upon a subject which
his whole public career shows him
to hava been consistent, will close
the mouths of all truth-respecting
monometallists who have been led to
believe that the hero of New Orleans,
for a moment, lent his 'great name to
the idea of demonetizing silver. And
editors who have given currency to
that falsehood, if they respect truth
more than party allegiance and
party success, will hasten to cor
rect the error into which they have
been betrayed.
Jefferson, Jackson, Benton two
of them born in North Corolina and
all of them devoted to a bi-metallic
currency, and the enemies of bank
paper. Let no monometallism no
apostolic follower of John Sherman
take shelter under these great
names. Daniel Goodloe
QUITE RIGHT!
Neither Can Any Other Honest Measure
Get Any Farther Than the Pigeon Hole
In This Congress.
A Populist Congressman from
North Carolina, Shuford, wants the
House to investigate the extent to
which Federal patronage is being
used to control legislation and cor
rupi ine puouc service, mis is
about the hardest iob that has been
seriously proposed for Congress, as
there are some 200,000 Federal offi
cials, scattered not only throughout
the length and breadth of the land,
but to the four winds of heaven.
But there is good reason for believ
ing that Mr. Shuford's resolution is
a bit of unadulterated buncombe
This is his first session in Congress
and as he has not performed any
conspicuous public service, he has
taken this method of impressing his
constituents with the belief that he
has done something to merit the
honor of occupying the seat so long
adorned by the able John S. Hen
derson. The resolution will not be
RALEIGH. N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 189G.
likely to proced any farther than a
committee room pi ceo a bole "
The abofe bit i from the Petr-
burg Itidcx-AppeAlore 1 1 thee
Democratic paper that tloea not
know "where it is at." Bat we etc
pnt it right in one or two mittem.
Mr. Shuford has amply icipre nncd
his constituent with the belief that
HE has plenty of ability and that he
merit the honor of occupying the
seat once held by a Clereland-made
goldbag. But his eocrtituit are
mindful of tho fact that more people
like him must be sent to Congress
before anything can evr be done
for the people.
That paper is correct a to about
how far the bill will go, and it can
say fnrther with all certainty, it is
jot about as far as anj- other decent
bill or measure will go while the
scandalous majority gang now in
the Houfo continue to hold down
the seats.
LIBERTY'S SPARK
STRUCK AGAIN.
The Action of The People's Par-
... - ...
iy tommmee snows mere
Are Patriots Yet,
Al Socii pitriemt win Not stii PriKifie Fr Sah-
RtpubiicQ. iMzea Pri.dpu Tke--A du Tht
DocriiAtTfceSiiCTCo.veti8a
For The Caucasian.
Takroro, N. C. May 2. The stand
taken
i. iu. 11 l k a
"J i" eopie s i ariv com-
umieo upon me question or fusion or
PA.nnArtiAM in 4 1.-. I .i
iaiiuu m iiK'iL vouierciico nu
4U Iui: ...... . - .
me iveiFuuiK'itii counuiuce in iirn
on April IGth, was noble and glori-1
ous, because when thev put tho test
of principle to tho Republicans as a
oasis ot co-operation, they rejected
it, and only offered Kpoil3, thereby
putiing inemseives on record as a
party of spoils, A similai test of
principle was also put to the
Democrats in the September silver
conference, when thev. too.
declined to enter a convention
of their own callinc and ioin
with the Populists upon what they
claim lo be a cardinal nrinciDle of
their party, and is tho leading issue
to-day. Representatives of the Peo-
pie's Party were then ready and hon-
estly willing to bury differences, and
join with them in the effort to restore
silver to the people of this country,
thns demonstrfttinrr tlint tVio PoAnlo'o
h U W A W k' . V O
Party is the only one that stands so
unequivocally upon this question day. On, the McKinley conven
that the offer of office cannot tempt tion, adopted a ringing sound money,
them to sacrifice principle for cer- protectioa platform, and determined
tain gain of spoils to the politicians to put a straightout Republican
and office-holders, to the detriment ticket in the field, headed by Gen. J.
and expense of the great body of the W. Burke, of Calhoun. The other,
people who want no office, but who composed of all the anti-McKinley
want relief from this spoils system, factions, adopted a platform declar
i racticed by and through machine ing that all other issues in Alabama
methods of the two old parties, and
which haa corrupted and is under- tious aad, therefore, all issues ex
mining our body politic, by estab- cepting this were avoided in the
lishing civil service lists and perpet- platform. Sound money and protec
uting an office holding and ruling tion are not referred to in ia it.
class, which is repugnant to and con- A resolution was adopted by the
trary to the spirit and purpose of our
government. By the act of tho Peo-1
pie's Tarty committee iu rejecting
the offer of spoils made them by the
ltepubiicans, they have s-hown that
in these degenerate days, there are
yet patriots in tho land who place
country and welfare of humanity
above tho temptation of party spoUs,
and who are to initurl their banner
of "efiual rights to all and special
privileges to none," and make battle
in tne name or Jefferson, Jackson,
liincoln, and our lamented V ance.
in the effort to restore this govern-
ment to first principles.
Tf the fi.nancination nn.l li ; or
civilization of the human race. which
is the essence of Christian civiliza
tion, means anything, who can stand
before the people when they aro
marshalled and go forth to proclaim
peace on earth and equal rights to
all.
Oh ! ye God-fearing and liber ty-
ovmg patriots, bestir yourselves
Old Liberty's Bell was taken down
and passed around this country for
a greater purpose than mere display.
King it from tho mountains to the
seashore. Ring it from ocean to
ocean. Proclaim it from the top
most peaks that America shall in
truth be the home of the brave and
and of the free, and by the help of
God, truth, justice, and right the
bonds and fetters which have been
so insidiously welded by Shylock,
tories, and British Lords and bond
masters, through the instrumentality
of traitors in the two old parties to
enslave the Industrie and
wealth-
producing masses, must and will be
broken, and the proud banner of the
people again float triumphantly over
ands and seas, proclaiming to the
oppressed and enslaved multitudes
of the world that Bedloe's Liberty
Torch burns with
a more radiant
glow, and means a
higher civiliza-
tion and still gi eater development of
Nature's bountiful resources, held ia
reserve for the amelioration of the
human race in the twentieth century.
The spark of patriotism kindled by
the little band of patriots in Meck
lenburg ia 1770, which swelled and
swept British oppressors and unjust
taxes from our shores, was rekindled
in tb Canital Citv of this nod old
mother State on the 16th of April,
and in the name of God and right,
.
will strain flash like the electric
srmrk. rekindling a flame of liberty
and arousing the sleeping conscien- actual Populist and Republican ma-1 to endorse any man, who is a gold
os of the neonle to sneh a love of jority of twenty-nine in the legisla- bug, for offiee and expect the Pops
nniiamm fnl
man
with ballots. Luke the snow
flakes they will go together in the
supreme effort to regain this country
from the power of the gold and bond
masters, and drive traitors from high
places. Men of America, this Gov
ernment is by inheritance yours
Will vou reclaim and purify it t If
peace, contentment and happiness,
which are the supreme objects, of
life, are to be ptomoted, it must be
restored to first principles. Baal's
God could not stand against JUijah's
God. JNeitner can Mammon stana
against Christ. In His name; in the
name of countrv and humamtv:
fV,n F hnma anrl WraaiAa- in
- - - . - ' .
Iu. " ri,r,Tr T7ir
tue uamo oi. uoipiooa muo u
wnom you are siruggung, ana w uie
v I li i il
mtmeof nosteritv. instice. and riffht.
7 fj.r: " V"M Aiir oeiua -u.uut i
xrniflH in too Deuer sense anu rail-
son of the American voters who are
ak
not seeking office, but who want) ston will probably recover.
good jrtreromeat, to lay ';d per v '.
Frejwuree, and a.rt yaor tnnti
and is4epesdtnre, aad join tfc
ver ror in the (apreue boar of :
trial a&ifimt th i.lr,'.!,,,
shipper, and fcelp reUre tt white
metal cf peace, prosperity. hUrty,
and haepiaees to the jrreat t:''.-
whose leader will I chosen f th.
St. Loci convention oa July 22nd
next.
W. K. Focntais.
the Populists
IN ALABAMA
A Conibination Formed With
Anti-ilffKinley Republicans-
A Fight For Fair Elections.
Clear lbtr Far Victor;
iuc idimiisi oiaie eocveuiion or
t t ... ...
Alabama must havo been a splendid
body of eicn, for even the "Associa-
"'I' Pk ,f il T,or? tiiy. partv;
U 18 lliehrst u th.at th A. P. hasUilver ,. :
ever dor e such
a thing aDTwhfre.
"""J"'
4 v m r. , xia., .iM' n-, ."J. I
j.oe i-upuiisi convention, which
met htroto day, was a much larger
represeniauye ooay man Hie most
. ?r , ,. "l"-vieut u mei
lat McDonald s onera bonne, nlmnt
500 strong, went to work in an or-
derly aad business like manner, or-
M i i I
Kuum iruia niy, nau appointed all
tneir commuiocfl, tne principle onelhave their eyes to-a now.
I tuiuiuuiro uu couierencei
I .u i i i: I
I hntn " " ......... t I
nu mo iii'uuuuvaas as 10 lusion.
The Populists nominated for Gover-
nor, by acclamation, Congressman
Albert O.Goodwin. The Populists
divided Ue balance of their State
ticket with the anti-McKinley Re-
puDiicans.
iiesoiuuons were adopted eulogiz
ing United btates Senators Allen
and Chandler for their recent inves
tigation resolutions presented in the
oenate relative to Alabama elec
tions.
A resolution was unanimouslv
adopted congratulating CaDt. J. N
Pharr and the Louisiana Populists
on their recent State fight."
The sane day was set for holding
the Repablican State convention.
and of this wo havo tho following
account:
I "The Rennhlirnna i-.f Alal.amo
I J- -m . w m u u V m.
held two State conventions hero to-
were suVervient to one fair elec-
anti-McKinley forces that tho Re-
publicans fuse in this State election
with the Topuhsts, allowing the lat
ter to name tho nominee for Gover
nor, Congressman Uoouwin, and
dividing the balance of the State
ticket between the parties. The idefa
is toco-operate with the Populists
and secure fair elections in Ala-
bama.
The anti-McKinlevites had crreat
trouble in securing a place of meet-
ing. ino tneatecs declined to ro-
ceive the convention on account of
the rule not to permit negroes to en
ter the parquette or dress circles
Ihey finally met in a cotton ware
nouse near tne river, and continued
their proceedings while standing,
their beine 110 chairs. The chair
man presided from the top of an
empty dry goods box. The conven-
tion nominated the following dele
gates to bt. Louis: Lx-Gov. W. H.
Smith, for. Ouay: Judge J. v . Mc-
Duffee, for Allison; A. J. Warner,
(colored), for Morton; A. H. Mixon
(colored), for Reed.
Both factions will have delegates
to the national Republican conven
tion.
THE ALABAMA ELECTIONS.
Senator Chaadler Furnishes Fnrther Fig
ures Against Senator Morgan.
Senator Chandler last week made
a supplemental report 01 the Com -
mittee on Privileges and Elections!
on the Alabama election of l'J4.
rtw " .a V 1
xne repon recites me siaiemeni
made try Senator Allen, 01 ISebraska,
in his speech in the Senate on Feb
ruary 11, 1S93, charging that 34,000
fraudulent votes were cast for Gates
in the fifteen black belt counties,
which, being deducted, would over
come Oates' apparent majority and
snow mo ticuuu vi n-um uy auoui
1 I 1.1 1 4: C LrAk .La-11
W0 majority.
xne report aiso claims mai a ivoio
legislature was also in fact elected,
"that in four black belt counties
two ivoiD senators and seven ivoio
Representatives were chosen, and in
fourteen white counties four Koib
Senators and twenty-four Kolb Rep -
resentatives were chosen, but that
m aU these cases the Democratic
candidates were fraudulently de -
I 1 3 1 A 1 1; A
ciarea eieciea, making an apparent
Democratic majority of forty-five in
tne legtsiatnre. Uiiimiaaung tnesei
frauds there was, it is asserted, an
tare, making Senator Morgan's elee
MASKED MEN THRASH AN INFORMER.
He Wa Lashed In Tarn by a Hundred
Men, bat Will Recover.
Salisbury. X. C- April 27. While on
his way home Saturday night Lee
Pinkston, a respectable white farmer.
livine near Braddv's distillery, four
miles from this place, was held up by
a hundred or more masked men, taken
faAm his vrairrkn nlarArl nn a trpA-
8tamp, and cowbided. EjH?ry man in
i the party administered erne or more
lashes, and Pinkston was left, thought
in I to be dying.
I t 'ra i i : i .
five barrels of whisky at Braddv's dis-
I HBTeuue uiuters iisusciku iscmi
.;ua, mnA Tir.Vsrnn wrss cTtiaeovil
I llliery. aim fiusstvu
.fh -.-. rf-.- the information.
wiL" "Zl t"t d
k.t it ha Hii nnt .in rh. ominrv
ten days he would be banged. Pink
1 . s
LETTERS FROM
THE PEOPLE.
Various Matters on Which The
Popuhr Opinion it Eiprtn-
w All Sections Ictmswd.
LIVING ISSUES FORWARD.
Mar l n4 irHni.kii.ML. .L.
IV...I. .r -ulB Ta t tay tm Tit
"Mr. M-t t,r-r, fal -
Wn.soy, X. c., Msy 2 ijt p
pi are very niuch rure cheerful
now tln 11
and derided
ie our rorntnif t tu't
our rit-ii. V f-l
that we are mantcr f unr aeiiea,
an J hope wo tan hare all, at lrt
all vtk
in people. tf aU cits,
ftr cur riirLt. ai.d with
t Ui!;to
t'Ki judgment ui our
oirtating.
the ailrtr
The Ptople'a PatIv i
aut no better. !-t all
i,.ii..:.i..i.... .. . ..
"l'rt fur..
. p to itiiiidnxe 1 urn Di'!i e)Cour
au'-d bv the or.-.l i..,.!.. in tt,
country. In cm town I . many
coi .red lmders working from dicta-
won oi l 'cir.o rat., andtUeir hope
ti nrr l. in ,.... , i.
ballot box an.Hrv .im. r.w ,.),.
of fraud again. Bat our i e ot.le
i . .
nave learned t t:M.n ir kn.
T t e. ......
' . 1.. I KYAU
' (ii.lflhaf; In Anj Vtia,
For The Caucasian. I
Ellerhe. N. C, May l.-In no
ease will we vote lor a goldbuc in
any shape or form. I find a great
many old partyites aying they will
vole for a silver man for President
that it is impossible to get free sil
ver inside of either of the old parties.
We must stick to principle The old
parties have nono to stick to.
Nelsov McAskill.
Kuilorwi Tli Action.
For The Caucasian.
Kinston-, N. C, May tador..
thf action of our eommitt in full.
E. P. IIauser.
Gufid I'eoj.lo Will :oiue To I'a.
For The Caucasian.
Bwsox City, N C, April U'J. I
could send you one hundred sub
scribers iu cue week if the people
had any monev. Manv of them
from all over my section como to
read my paper, and when they read
it they are impressed with the prin
ciples it advocates, and they become
coaverta to the doctrine of "equal
ngnts to all, special privileges to
noae.' I am an old Confederate
soldier, sixty-five years of age. I
have been an advocate of the People
1'arty doctrino for twenty-three
years aad joined that
parly wuea it
ws formed on this doctrine
Lverybodv endorses the stand
taken by The Caucasian' and S na
A. I . a . ...
tor Duner lor principle, fttav in
the middle of the road," and all good
people will come to us to help fight
the battle for reform. I havo talked
with a great many people both Re
publicans and Democrats-and they
sa3 they will not suppoit a goldbug
or a sirauaieoug lor rrcsident r.r
ay other office
W. C. Newtox.
Mure Ktnlomriui-iita.
For llic Caucasian. J
Clevklaxp, County, Atnl MJ.
We, the members of Klbethel Alli
ance, aNo. JU.iJ, endorse the action
of our State Exocntivo Committee in
tho staad they have taken oa coop-
ration for piiuciple.
B. Gofokth,
President.
M. L. Ware, Sec'y.
No Disapproval.
For the Caucasian. I
Beaufort, N. C, April 29. 80
far 1 hav nt heard a single I op ex
press disapproval of the action of
our committee on co-operation.
Ralph IIowlaxd.
Itlchnioml Populists Katlsfled.
Cor. of the Progressive Farmer.!
Elmore, N. C I fnlly endorse
what our State Execntive Com mi t-
1 tee did in the Conference at Ral-
eigh on the IGth and 17th of this
month, and I think all our Populists
I a a . a. . . .
1 down liere do the same, unless it is
I an office seeker.
John McLean.
Will Not Come To I'ass.
For the Caucasian.
uregox, ii. c, April jo. 1 am
not in favor of aiding anv Partv or
, 1 . -11 . . ...
1 anjyooay mat win vote ior a goiaoug
for office. We must stay "in the
1 middle 01 tne road ' and hold last to
I our principles. I am standing on
the People's Party platform and be-
I heve it is right, and by tbe help o:
the Lord, I will help carry its ban
I ner to victory
1 Can you tel! us why any working
people want to follow party instead
I of principle" Why is it that a man
1 can be lashed into party line with
I . a w a )!
tne old parties wnen u is piain 10 nis
eyes that they arc doing everything
they can against him T
I It is not worth while for any party
- 1 of Rockingham county to vote for
him. It will never come to pass. We
want a Populist for Governor and
why not get him from Durham in the
r ttt a -w a . aa
person oi Aiaj. w. a. uuxnnei
Vi. U. WALL,
Chairuian Rockingham Co.
An Opinion From New Tork.
For The Caucasian.!
Catskill, N. Y., April 30. Since
the first gun was fired on Fort
Sumpter I have been a warm friend
of the Southern people, (do not in
fer from this that I am, or ever was.
in favor of chattel slavery or white
slavery either.) but 1 look: npon
them (the Southern people) aa being
more humane, warm hearted, just
and up-to-date than
the .Northern
I "boodlers" who really precipitated
u . .. . , .
n uiu " w "-
- 1 willingness, and even a desire, to
I W SV . A a. S at aat aaaaaWai ABh aaaaat 1 B
I do :so
again; a strife which will
deitf tb
tfito l&i(fi;rpr
Tb :ei t. to ;j fc-
tae bm cf ha ritt to.! U
faa ar b.pb-ter r. ta
! JitTrvn aad !ikeu.B. tl bow
any .taJeet f l" t..ry ! ljr ef
Jt"Tica a ; p-t tb. m . i-r.J
the cetoprr h tiB et to t lair a
kali.
VJ ia thr. re..M. f th irt.!.-
With Hdr.j-l f !:.. M (. t
a aTirt to r.r a r.d I m t b !
yu to tl tid.
tiro. II Watt..
y.n The l"-i-ia I
'Maryana- Popuhit i'ljh
i;
o. . JuBhip,
i:ih,i oMic coimt, s. c. A.i:
J. Ai a wnntrr to Pabbe -atjm. i t
u KU'urpvu ior our .rtjfli,
I : I .
regard it ava uanifeatlj rtp thai
tue optLioas or U rank and file f
the Populiat force ahualj W made
known, in ordrr that roueiaMuui oi
at Tananoe with ur party jrinci
p'c inav b rlcely drawn and
Wfiehrnl with "fo trtion. n..t
luuon1 Palanrv. to axertua if I
pokitible the merit of uor t'atxtive
poBiiioai1, lLer-Iiro le it
utxil.Vll", That we unttninuunli
ecdorao the actioa of oar htate V.i
rcuuve Committee in dTlinicr to
co operate with the Republican f..
poil only
-nd. That we will not aurpotl an
candidate fur cflice from Tuin.ini
Constable to Preaidcat of the l'ntd
State who will not idedire himself
to the free and unlimited eomaceof
I. a .
Mirer ati gold at the ratio ! IU to I
I and naancial reform.
' I TM - - . .
uiu, iuii w uaruiv cadorm onr
.eaator.the Hon. Marion Butler, for
the course he La pursued ia onr Na-
iioaai l ongre.
III. TL . ...
tiu, luaiacopvoi ite Iet-f,nut' I
oeseni iiicui caman (r t ublica-
tiou by order of the Club.
C. II. Srivav,
l'rrmdent.
J. B. Bakxem. Act. S c'y-
Are Mill Mlrkl.( la .
For The Caucasian.)
Colcmuia. X. C, April JJ. It wa
in Ib'JOaad D'.! we made our demands
of the law-makers of thia euus.tr
for what we believed to be the iietd-
cd financial reform, and only broke
off from our oriiriual x-artv alillia-
tiona whea we found the leader to
be against a and our iaterett. It
i no child's play with tbe great niiu
of wealth producer to continually
have right after right, aad privilege
after privilege wienclied from tlieir
hand by a greedy horde of men
whose aims seem to b t in thing but
selfiahne. We arc- opposed to the
goldbag monopolizing intlueare of
both old parties, and pledge and re
pledge ourselves not lo vote for a
goldbug for anything, fusion, or no
fusion. We are "in the middl-i of
the road" aad do intend to be de
coyed oat of it by friend or foe. We
are there to stay until w are kicked,
kaocked or pulled out. We ap
prove of the course of Senator But
ler aad the avowed seatimeat of The
Cavcamax. The seatimeat advo
cated and produced ia The Caucasian-
of tbe IGth iast. by Kitchen, ia
the seatiment of the Poparts, of Ty-
rellcoaaty. It is true that a few
u eajivuMMi our principle ana de
mands at first, have uut been so
ealou as might be expected, for
we often Gad men who seem willing
to adhere to anything that will give
their own selfish motives a boom.
he Populists of Tvrell eouoty are
composed of farmers and laboter
and are not deviating from therrin-
iples set forth ia tbe Ocala de
mand, sol will simply pay that such
commnaicatioas as ba.x, or may be
between Mr. Ilolton and Mr. Skinner
will have no weight with a. We
are waiting and watchiar aud in
time will sec how many will give aa
affirmative answer to the ouestion
Would I this day. for aiuall or crest
Mr own pursuit I onto.
To lighten by afeatbrr Wright
1 lie mans or humane wor-r
T. L. Jo vex.
Ikemorraoiantl Kspabllrsas Will Mai Vat
rr UelJkags.
MlXE0LA,N.C.,Apr.23. AlUf a
favor co-operation on iast and hon
est terms. I do not think there is a
Ponnlist in this e.onntv that will
vote for a gold standard man for
any oiace from I'rosident down tol
M as a.. . .
Constable. We want co-oeration I
on the lines as laid down by TiiEl
Caccasian and Senator Boiler. I
hear Seaator Butler comtdimeated
almost every day by Popalist. lte-
publicans and Democrat on hit
fight in the SenAte of the United
States in behalf of free silver, and
the stand he has taken in behalf of
the forest neonle of Vnrth Par.tins
and also in trying to unite the peo
ple of all parties on free silver lines
to whip tbe old enemies, tbe go' i
bug plutocrats of both tbe gold
parties.
I talked .with several prominent
Democrats and Republicans not
many days since and they said they
would never vote for a single end
standard man for President. They
admitted that both "the old parties
would put oflt goldbug or str a idle
bugs, and if they d d, they would
vote for the Populirt or free silver
tbandi'date. Now, in tbe face of all
Uhis how ran wo have Repablican or
jjemaeratic goidbu? lusion on an'
ticket. We all cad tr so whi
Kitcbin said al )sg this lise in tire
April IGth issue of Tut Cacca??.
It looks to ns like thTre aro low
men in the State who want fusion
for the offices or spoils, and to all
such we aay tie sooner they get
square into the goldbug, Rothschild
parties, the better it will be for re-
form, free sUyer and the great mast
...
of the people. For eight yean I have
denounced the BriUsh rold aUnd -
ard from an Alliance . atadpoiat, and
for four years as a Populist I have
denounced the gold standard and! .. '. ,, r.tiAAr ie 1. 1- 1.
me demoneUzationof silver; and bow
for me to repudiate all I have said, I portation and to protect the pradae
and said too ia good faith, is some-1 tion and tnanararture of cotloa witbia
thing that I will never do. I am not the I'nited htatea.
in the fight for omee bnt for prin -
ciple, and will contend fox the right
though the heaven fall.
n. P TTr
three months for $1,00
NO. 2;.
THE NATIONAL
C01IGRESS.
Soac Rocori of Wlut lU
pie. rwepr a Utitft Art
Tryitj to Do.
TELLER TELLS S0XE TRUTH
at.
. a paal t. -a an.
Pie ..a HJj. atraj
Mr. lilsj rr, alstlSat d.aa
f tfce taal ar..r.-riata Ull
fiil t ki swnJiMki rsdaltaftaa
la tpUytettt f V. K. Xs-ad
c-r by erpnatio f wrwvUiaf
that alter Jcse lv;7. 4t ..ji w
olawful f. aatsl farar t tsk.,
iv-e Witb tutrriii fareiskisf
rtau. r other -iaipaeat fr tl
ITovrraiwxent. H ai4 the prt
of all iwiBcretiral aaval aersw
tLr fuuiths ta tiitr Ussi
vice cf eoalrartora drthrg witk tWe
rovsrameat wa very jetKa able.
rtis .Sirfs bad fsrilltMs ft
knowing what was cc at U
Navy drpattcntct. aaJ it was ias
ptopcr that lr. to Ka f !-at
aad . rvir t- eutitrartrs akoaUl
ran together.-
111. TiUasaa sp.k is. sar-faust f
the auotiduietif. it Urmar the bist
time be Lad alJiard the rVal
in. ebi turtnorabU s--L tL
finance. said this rasesaeal to
a tnattt r of tast. on wLrb t
had a nrhl ti d.ffrr. As a mmit
of th Natal romtuitt a Lad fal
lowed this u jrMt with ibtetest. IU
had trra two f tk ablt naval
bfiicrr tduratsd by the cveriiuaata
rrtiUaT tbe rontraetora fr naval
armor, who were tLe eaetutss of tke
govrtnrneat- their iatrrest tite
antagonntie to those of the vera
meat. While ia fall sjruipatay fvr svry
eacoaragenieat of American tatet
est, tbe Senator said Le diJ at l
liere in having this sentiment
to f arth-r enri-h a !! f roillinaire.
The at in or nianufaeturrr were
charging UM n-r ton for ats.ar
n-d by the L'nitrd States and at tha
am time furaishiog armor to l( as
sis at .'km er ton.
I stu unwilling to - thei sail
lionaire grow richer by thinstinr
their hand ia the pock, t of L'n1r
pm, drc!arrd Mr. Tillman.
Mr. Hal, rw.iated oat that the La
reau oflleer who took pait ia makiBg
contracts for armor wa able to look
ahead to the time bo woe'd bo ii,a
retae-d liat, and might enter into the
M-rvice of the contractor.
Iu siiarr lo a csioa Mr. HaU
aaid the taperla lafforo t ba Naval
commitUe bad shown that tho xt
of r'm action for armor wa f!Vl ir
tea.
Hoi as.
Kiathteen -nion tolls introdaecd.
The main eabjrt for desruaatoa
daring the day wa the IVkler ea
sioa bill, h.vea this iM-Bsiia rraU-
TLJ ilio
,,r.ion; of ,
bing House wss.brid.-d oa tho bill.
loawastasfd uikib two
Lo lull, one of which
makes es Va feds rates tensiosable
who servrxl ninety days in the Can
Army pt ior to tho eloso of tbo war.
and the other prori'le for psyuteat
of pension to deserters whoteea
listed. Those opoMd to tbe pro
Tisioas believe that this bill will
throw dowa tbe bar aad pat desert
er aad ex -Cob federates oa aa txjasl
footing with the men who served
from beginning to end ia the taioa
Army as loag a 1he war ls4d.
Many x Confed-rate. it is l.U.
withia uinety dsys of the ond of tbe
war, were driven into the t'aioa
Army by shortage of rations and
seir-iaterest, while the bill farts
enables Iroaaty-jumperfand mee who
deserted, aot onee, tint repeatedly, to
eome in now anl recire the same
benefits as "loyal anion men.
Mr. Canaoa said thtt as one of the
I.VJ majority he favorod tbe bill. 11
bad voted for the act of ISW, tie ud,
which bad placed 400,(nj dw bame
oa the pension roll.
Mr. Miles (Democrat), of Varv-
land, denoaneed tbe tun rbodssrt-
trom Confederate army to iota
r.Va. ...L. .1 al 1 . . I aS a
' t toe nose oi tne
war,as mere mereeaaries who loagut
'or fold and honored no flag.
Tne bl11 l'd. It provide
far lnsioaiBgeverjtbiac aad very-
?T wh?.w.M Ter IB 'Ct or Lar-
,nf 01 1 n,on "?.an4 utt aetasl-
1 I aQ . t a " a s a aa
IT aia rrom
JfW.VW to Mj name u the pen
K,o0"J nd I-!d will foot
I the OUI.
Taw4ar, April T- wawala.
Mr rsiTciisan presr-titd a rHitiw
of sundry citiseas of Xewbrrae, s.
tprsjingtbst an spproprtatioa I
made to provide for tkr erdira of a
clock tower end clock with IIImmm.
nated dial, o te plsoed v;tm lh pub
lic building now tring roatm4e4 im
thit city.
Ma. IIitlkk inlrodo'd a bill to rro
vide for enlsrjring and inuprria; the
I'nited .ts court and pastorale at
(jreenaboro, N. z. The bill approgari
a ted 2S,(M. A -coa panting tbe bill
fenator Hutler filed a rr-purt of tbe
grand jar which dart ate the aaflu
ne and iaadqaary of tbe prearnt
buildinc for tire oars to wbicb it is put.
Several peafioa bills aad grab Te
liefbill were paMed.
Senator ('handler's ameodavrttt to
prevent I'nited htste aaral oflWn
from becoming employees of cor purs.
lion was passes.
Then tbe ttenatecsm? fo fbefealere
of tbe naval appropriation bill srbirti
providr for four battleships to cost
3,7iO,0(Jtl each, for three 20-kaot tur
pedo boats at lnKRi.and for tea tor
s en an 11 raarawi r ss as k ia s
JTT. '.ZtVJTCrZ
pedo boats at whiu. Tbi was die-
I
l vt , "?.V" .
2?Jffifl2TS-
I . VJr-rr.'ilir.T 17"'" ?7.
I fold reserve: to reralste tbe .
1 w a as a ay. aau ae, a a.
I Five pension bills,
I The naval appropriilloa bill casae
I vp again. Mr. Teller speakiag of tbe
Iamouot appropriated took occasion
to refer to tbe fact that old J oh a Kber-
(CwlUBBliSaUiTW
aa. r-i.j in. - 4
a tun) 1 v4 f .I.,,
.alaiaf nm lat,...,!.., t-m,
- aa .a. n.tla. am