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l; 1 ii- A "'ii THE CAUCASIAN PT7BLI8HXO EVERY THUE8DAY. bt run Caucasian rcBUi co. BfaKION MTLIR. rraaldeat. AL ATM, Maalac Miter SUBSCRIPTION RATES, tHK YaUO. .42.00 BIX MONTHS. . . .80 . .85 THREE MONTHS. Interad in tha Port Omoa at Raleigh, N. C, as Second Claaa Matter. FECIAL RrijlMTI TO OIU fKIKNDH Please write short, pointed com munications. Thia office it now flooded with lettera of such leogth as to preclude the possibility of pub lication unless the paper can be doubled ia site and its receipt of cash alao doubled. a a I'leane do not Bend us atauip in warm weather. They gnu and atick and muallj pro? to be almoat wortbleaa after having come through the uiaila. Pleaae request the secretaries of your various county conventions to end na AT okck the names and post office addresses of tLo delegates elec ted to Con grettaional, State and Na tional contention. ' "County chairmen aro bRpecial ly reiueated to send the nawea and poatofilce address of towesbip chairmen for the year 18!G. KKPUHLIOAN riNAlfCIAt. UYMNA. TICS. Republican conventiona have been held In forty Mtatea. Twenty-two of theae contention declared for the fold standard. Among these ia the "Black and Tan" Republican conven tion of Texan. Ten of the conventions like to have broken their backbones and split themselves open by what is known as "straddling" the issue; and to an hon est man theae "straddles" are inex pressibly disgustingand contemptible. A good specimen is shown in the plank adopted by the Republican convention held in Kaleigh last week. Among theae "atraddling" conventions is the "Lilly white" Republican crowd of Texas. Seven of the conventions declared for ailver at the ratio of 1! to 1 and aaid what they meant, and we hope meant what they aaid. Two conventions dodged the ques tion completely, saying nothing about the financial question. a We believe only one State among those that declared for silver has shown any consistency. That State is Colo rado. The convention there told their delegates to follow the lead of Sena tor Teller, and he has declared that he would walk out of the national con vention if it declared for a gold stand ard. a Some strong Republican advocates of ailver in othT States will probably bolt a gold standard platform, but no other convention instructions have been given to do so. As a rule the States declaring for the gold standard endorsed McKinley for President. The silver States also, as a rule, endorsed McKinley. All the "straddling" Statea endoraed McKinley. He ia himself, a weak, cowardly, wobbly "straddler:" and his platform is what was brought be Tore the Republicans of North Caro Una by Senator Pritchard and adoDt ed by them under the leadership of mat senator. a Now take the facts as they are stated above, and they are taken from the actual records, and see what can be made of them. Will Senator Pritch ard continue to assert that the Repub lican party is friendly to silver? Will he continue to try to make the people of thia State believe he is a supporter or free silver after having cut a dozen syntactical somersaults in trvins: to aay he i$ and that he m not at the same time? Ia it possible that a man, who haa been sent from North Carolina to to the United States Senate, has so little aense aa to think that becauae he baa fooled the people once, they are going to be such "cussed" fools as to allow him to do it again? We hope he does not think so. If he does, Th Caucasian desires to aro on record aa saying here and now that he will be lift. The power exists among the people of this State to select, as their national representatives, men who are not arraid to declare for and support principle in unequivocal language and action. Men who will do this are not wanting. Arid It shall be onr aim and purpose to see, so for as consist ently and honorably lies within our power, that the power which exists among the people shall be exercised to the repudiation of any man or party that has not the courage and honesty to declare for a vital principle in terms that admit of no double construction. "IT HAS BE Elf OrriCIAIAY COMMU NICATED," C. TJhe Republican convention cap ped the cHmax, of inexpressible ab sardily by adpping in its order of business the following: "It has been otlcially communica ted to the Republican convention by the Populists that they favor co-operation with the Republicans on State, Congressional and local affairs in aeeordance with the proposition submitted by the Republicans." The proposition referred to here is that one made by the Republicans at the meeting of the Peoples Party State executive committee held in Raleigh, on April lGth and 17th the same proposition which was based on spoils and plunder with not a. vestige of principle or common de cency in it. Now, no man or set of men, that can get any sort of recognition from The Caccabiax as PopnliaU ever aent any such communication to the Republican convention aa it claims to have received. And while we cannot speak for the Peoples Party State convention in advance, it is nevertheless our firm conviction that thoso men claiming to be Popu lista. and who made the proposition the Republicana claim to have re ceived, will be looked upon with the gravest suspicion by the Populist conveation, and i! they intrude them selves there in anv war or form. they will come without being wanted and without welcome. A number of Populists in the State receivod, soon after the meet- ng of the State committee, a circu lar letter signed by Messrs. Amos and Oill. of Vance countv. The purpose of that circular was to have a meeting of Populists in Raleigh when the Republican convention nut to arrange for fusion on any tkhum the Republicans might name, provided, of course, that Messrs. Amos and (Jill should be retained by Republican votes in the little county offices they now hold. "We have got Vance county just like we want it" seems to be the only reason thev af have ever advanced for this course of proceedure. Leas than twenty people respond ed to thoir call, though it is reported that they claimed to represent sev enty counties. The truth, so far as The Caucasian could ascertain it, w&4 that only two counties had del egates present who represented any body. These wero Vance and Mont gomery, and about one-fourth of the whole number that attended the meeting were from Vance county. The "convention" sent a commit tee to the Republicans to arrange for "fusion." The "convention" de manded that the Populists be ac corded the nomination for Oovernor. The Republicans said "nit." Then most of the "convention" withdrew from .'tself. In fact the largest part of those who attended the meetint; were present for the purpose of try ing to keep the callers of the "con vention" from doing anything foolish or wild. When this element withdrew, there were only about seven men in the "convention" and four or five of these were from the county which Messrs. Amos and Gill had "just like they wanted it ! ! " a This "convention" of seven (if there were that many) then sent word to the Republicans that they would accept tho proposition made by the Republicans to the State com mittee on April 16th and 17th; and this this pronunclamento from the mighty, imposing, colossal irresist ible "convention" of five from Vance and "one or two from some where else, is the basis of the asser tion by the Republicans that "it has been officially communicated," &c. a a Now it further appears that in consequence of this "official commu nication" the Republican conven tion left open five places on the State ticket to be filled by sotne other convention. In case the Amos- Gill convention shall decide to fill it for the Republicans, it will take nearly every member of the Amos Gill convention to do the filling up. a The Republican convention must have felt an appalling need for vo ters, since by its action it showed it was willing to give a big office for one and two-sevenths of a voter, while at the same time the whole voter would have to take one of the offices or rather, try to get it. SENATOR PKItCHAhD AHD SILVKK. Senator Pritchard, the North Caro lina champion of McKinley, the irold bug and monopoly tool, still claims to stand for silver. Kut he won't say so in plain terms, lie will not have an unequivocal declaration for silver in his State platform, lie could declare for silver in a few words and be under stood, but no I He is such an admirer of McKinley, that McKinley must be imitated; and the way the Senator de clares for silver is a great game of beating the devil around the bush. Ills silver plank ia a disgusting dodge and a disgraceful straddle. It is an "affair'' that may be considered and construed in any way that may be demanded by a goldbng. Senator Pritchard may know his crowd, and may be convinced that he can fool them, and perhaps he can. .But the day of equivocation and atraddling has passed with honest and intelligent men, and the failure of sen ator Pritchard to say in plain terms mat lie favored free silver at 1G to 1, or rather his use of a hundred words or so to declare for silver when be could have done so in seventeen words. stamps him as a '"straddle" bug, which is even worse than an avowed goldbug. Read the plank in the platform else where. THEBESASDtHK WOKST. The best thing the Republican con vention did (if it means it) was to d- clare in favor of taking the office of Superintendent of Public Instruc tion out of politics. This suggestion was publicly made bv Mai. w. a Guthrie two or three weeks ago. The worst thing the convention did Was tO PUt Ull a. atrartrtla ftn.n.;.i . ---- uuauuiBi plank. How a party with anv sort f sense can have the cheek to trv to fool the people with "straddles" to-dav ia beyond our comprehension. A nart that persists in treating the people aa mougn mey were a conglomeration of infernal fools, ia a party that will not do to trust. At a meetine nf th men of Raleigh it wi ,i...a.,. they would support no own for the legislature who would not pledge him self to vote for Oliver H. Dockery, of Richmond, for the United Htarna 1..- ate. D02VTBB DECEIVED ACAICT The Democratic machine is sow making more fair promises. "Give as another chance we will keep onr promise this time;" is what they are now saying. "Just try ua one more time, we will not fool yon this time." Any man who will be fooled again by this machine party deserves to be fooled. "But," says another, "w will put op an honest silver man for Preaident this time." We don't care what you promise at your convention, you can't prom ise any more thia time than you did before. You can keep your prom iaea or undo the wrongs that you have done. The' people have no confidence in your party or promises. You can't fool a single man into joining you. Besides thousands will leave your ranks this year, no matter what you promise. The Democratic party can not win. The people will not trust it strain. Let every patriot in the two old parties join the Peopfes Party. IMCLIMEO TO TAKE CAKE OF THEM SELVES. We note that the State Democratic convention of Tennessee has declar ed, in its platform, for two special features which are now interesting the people of North Carolina, and which were suggested by two promi nent North Carolinians. One is to prevent discriminating contracts. This is in line with Senator Butler's bill to prevent the making of gold contracts. The bill was introduced into the Senate and Congress is ask ed to enact it into a law. If this fails the States have a full constitu tional right to prevent such con tracts by State legislative enact ment. a m The Tennessee convention also de mands laws, State and National, making gold and silver legal tender. This is in line with the suggestion of Maj. W. A. Guthrie that a State has full conititutional rights to make gold and silver coin full legal tender by State legislative enactment if Congress should fail to do so. The suggestions of these two prominent tar-heels are gaining favor every where, and are foreshadowing an in clination of the various States to protect themselves from impositions which may possibly be put upon them by an administration owned and controlled by plutocrats and monopolists. WHERE ANDREW JACKSON STOOU. The goldbug Charlotte Observer has the cheek to claim that Andrew Jackson was for "sound money." This i a brazen insult to the great and patriotc dead. President Jack son not only fought and defeated the banks, which were then, as now, trying to control the currency of the country, but he stood squarely for free silver at 1G to 1. In 1831 Andrew Jackson signed a bill which provided for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 10 to 1, independent of the action of any foreign govern ment. The act of 1834 (as to silver dollars) stood until 1873, when it was repealed without public discus sion before the people, and the ad vocates of free coinage are simply trying to restore to the statute books the Andrew Jackson law. "A SCHEME THAT WILL, BEAT WALL STREET." We clip the following from the editorial columns of the San Diego Daily Vidette, a leading daily paper of California, of May 2d: "Senator Butler, of North Caro lina, has introduced a bill in the United States Senate making Mexi can silver dollars, Japanese yen, and the trade dollar equal in value and full legal tender for all debts public and private. Senator Butler declared that if the Federal govern ment refused to make these coins legal tender the States had tho power to do so, and that he would advise the State of North Carolina to exer cise its Constitutional rights in the matter,,, and he hoped other States would adopt the same course. Dur ing the civil war California had a statutory law which made the Mexi can and Spanish silver coin a legal tender for all debts, and notwith standing the national paper cur rency was repudiated by California and was not in circulation as money, we had more money for bnsiness purposes in the hands of the people, than any other State in the Union, making California the most prosper ous State of the republic." "THK NEW ERA " We are glad to welcome "The New Era," published and edited by Mr. B. F. Keith, of Wilmington, N. C. It is a seven column, all home print, clean, and strong weekly paper. It boldly takes a stand on the side of the people. It puts financial reform and good government above any party. It says there is no hope for relief fiom either one of the old parties. We clip the following from its salutatory: "The Democratic party at Chicago may declare for the free coinage of both gold and silver, and upon the parity of 16 to 1, but the party is hopelessly divided upon that issue, and the people will not trust it. Its usefulness as a paity organi zation is gone. It has gone before the people pledged to policies sanc tioned by the people only to be be trayed by its chosen executive and a pmall section of the party until De mocracy is a stench in the nostrils of the people." , Send for a sample copy. Address "The Kew Era," Wilmington, N. C. OUR FOE At AKK4 KUN. If the effort to hold a Populist con vention here last week bad even made a showing, our Democratic trends (the enemy) would have lauded it to tb skie, and aent broadcast over the country reports that the Peoples Party waa split. But the affair was each a fiasco that even tbe political enemy apeaka of it witti contempt. The New and Observer apeakiog of It aaja : "Tbia rump concern, representing a few ofilce-aeekera, gives it oat that it appointed a committee to confer with the Republican leadera, and that an agreement had been made for fusion on the terma proposed by the Republi can executive committee. On all aidea yesterday, the Republi cana aaid : "The Populist have given up to us, surrendered and come to our terma. They will accept what we will give them. We have made arrange ments with their representatives, and the thing ia fixed now, and Rutler, the Progreasive Farmer and The Caccas ias can come along or not, juat as they please." The Populists may or may not fuse with the Republicans. It ia a matter of no concern to us, but the fretense that there was a meeting of 'opulista here this week ia the great est fraud of this day of frauds and shams. The little coterie of office holdera presented a farcical fiasco only that and nothing more. a a The Raleigh correspondent of the Charlotte Observer speaks of the "rump"' convention as follows : "Senator Pritchard said that it look ed to him like that there were two or three hundred of these Populist who wanted fusion; that at every turn he met one who said : "How do you do, Senator? I am with you for fusion." Your correspondent suggested that these amiable Populists were numer ous just as the cow horns were in the Xew England trade. The seller sold the horna at the front door of the store, while his accomplice stole them out of the rear door, thus keeping up a con tinuous circuit of the same horns." KDITOUIAL COMMENT. The Caucasian learns that while the tight was going on, the Russell supporters industriously circulated the report that Russell had an under standing with the Populist State com mittee, Chairman Butler &c, and that if he were nominated, co-oneration with the Populists would be certain. When Russell came on the stage after ne was nominated lie said : "We will appeal from the Populist committee to the Populist men. We may not fuse with the leaders; we will fuse with the voters whether they want it or not. lneiaettbat a committee rejected it does not show that the people have rejected it. Your executive committee ought to have authority to fuse. The Republicans stand for great principles, and are not to be absorbed by the J'opulists or any other party." This shows that Russell's support ers had been lying, if they circulated those reports, and it also gives the lie to certain statements made in Demo cratic papers that Butler and Russell had an understanding looking to iusion. "Talk about war; why, my dear reader, if the teeming millions of these Northern States really thought that there waa danger to-day of free and unlimited coinage of silver, an army for gold could be raised in 24 hours that would have more fighting men in it than any army ever seen on earth before." New York correspondent of ijnanotte Observer. Talk about sedition, treason and an arc,hy I Here it is dressed down and polished. And the teeming millions of the Northern States will fight for gold, will they? Yes, we have no doubt that the men who control such damnable hirelings and tools as Cleve. land and Carlisle would precipitate war if they could before they would accord to the people the justice and rights of which they have been robbed. But this sort of brutal bluff will have no weight with the people. This sil yer question is up for settlement, and it win never be settled until settled right. If its settlement involves bloody revolution, then the revolution is inevitable, for the settlement must come and will come just as sure as joa reigns. Last week we announced that Col. Jas. H. Holt. .Tr. who h a (1 olrootTQ hoon a Democrat, would go to the Republi can national convention as a supporter oi iuciviniey. ne was elected a dele gate by the Fifth district congression al convention. But at Goldsboro last Saturdav h saw a TCnaaii-Mnirinio,r demonstration which seems to have maae mm sick. lie wrote a letter at once, declaring he was aroinc hank to the Democrats. A party that can't L. 11 1 . . . liom goou recruits can't nope for much success. Moral: When you want to get away from fraud, don't jump from one old party to the other. You don't gain by it. Come to the Peoples The action of President Cleveland on last Thursday, in putting the whole force of the governmebt by one stroke of his pen under the civil service, re calls the bill which Col. Skinner in troduced a month or more ago to re peal the whole civil service law. The majority of the people of North Caro lina believe with the late Senator Vance, that this civil service affair is a mammoth humbug and a fraud ; and it certainly is as managed by the last two administrations. What will be the result of this last sweeping order of the President, only time can show; but it may be before long that the peo ple will demand of their Representa tives that they pass Col. Skinner's bill to repeal the whole outfit. Some time ago Senator Pritchard voted for a bill in the Senate to give hundreds of thousand dollars of the people's money to big ship building corporations and steamship lines. His people, or the people who vote for him, x -R?1 ?WL any thinff bout this. A either did they catch ou to his shrewd scheme to have the State platform de clare in favor of protecting ship build ers and ship owners. The "protection" means voting them money, and now the Senator can vindicate himself to his constituents by pointing to the platform they so blindly adopted. See? There seems to be danger in the pro fessions and pledges made by the old parties. There is a big risk in believ ing either one. For instance, the Re publicans have been "whooping her up" for honest elections; have been cryine out for an honest ballot and a fair count, and yet the very first thing they did in the convention was to begin to filch and steal votes from among them selves. Lord deliver us from any such honest ballot and fair count system as this. The Dockery men were not a bit phased with their defeat. The on looker can testify that they made a square, open, manly fight. They had no deal no collusion. If they could win by virtue of their own strength they wanted the victory not other wise. When cnmhiimtinna against them they opposed their own miiuniuijiuiueioe, ana when they were defeated they had the satisfac tion of knowing- thev wont a orably and with their colors of true uiue waving 10 me last. When the vote was announced that nominated Russell, Mr. O. J. Spears, who had been an ardpnt nn.fc.-JT- ' porter, took the stage and moved to uiaa.e me nomination or Kussell unan imous. A thandprincr ionim, v- of "noes" greeted his motion, and it was bu eviueub mat mere was no unan imity, the.chairman never put the mo tion to thfe house. The Wichinirtnn . of the .News and Ooserver savs ... i Senator TtllHor inina1 tWa Tr o cl " " -Ejyiauopai cm here Sunday, and his son, Marion waa nsnt.iTart at f h. o : church m vw oauic ume. REPUBLICANS ENDORSE TELLER He Will Go to St. Louis at the Head of the Colorado Delega tion, Instructed to Bolt if a Goldbug is Nominated. THE DUPONTCASE SETTLED. Tk mt DcIIm Afklul lb OtUwut Claimant by the Karrvw Vt f 31 tm 30 SUr 8Uml la th Soath mm Wt '""MM -Coacr CckrU ( T m. U an I la a Card t HU C'aaaUtaaata -Montaaa aad I1 aba Hava Klct4 Vr Silver DaUfatloas to SL UiU ta Staad With Taller Jski Shartaaa ta ba Sac-ra-taaj- of lb Traaaar BaMar ffatlea That Ua Will Call up HU UUI ta Tmmut Farther i4 .f Hand WhIi With a Vij'.iuiia 1'rotaat Saualxr it III A Hhunirnt ft. li.u.r.U KaaH aad - Durham rub.tr Kalld'ag. Sj- i.tl t The Vu asiah. VV . - 1 1 in s ton. May 1 , ISCni ; l n last Fri J. i , wn iIr il by & vote of thirty -one to thirty I hat HtM.ry A. Dup'Mit. who was ootiteitiii,ij lor a seat in the I nited States Senate from the State of Delaware, was not entitled to a seat. This matter has been discus sed in the Senate, olf an on, for over a month, and has attracted no little at tention. Mr. Dupont got exactly one half of the votes of the joint assembly of the Delaware legislature. Not hav ing received a majority, the legisla ture declared that be had not been elected. The legislature was dead locked, and adjourned without elect ing anyone. Mr. Dupont claimed that one of the persons voting against him in the legislature was not entitled to a seat in that body, and that if that person had not voted, the vote which he received would have made a major ity. The member of the legislature, relet reu to, was none other than the President of the State Senate of Dela ware. In Delaware, there is no Lieutenant-Governor. The I'resi dent of the Senate is elected from among the body of the Senate, and, is, therefore, a Senator. The Constitu tion provides that in rase of the death of the Governor of the State, that the President of the Senate shall tempor arily exercise the ollice of the Govern or until a Governor can be elected. Di this case the Governor of Delaware died, and the President of the Senate was acting as Governor, but also acted as a Senator and voted on the question' or electing a senator. The whole question turned upon whether or not the President of the Senate, while temporarily cn ising the otlice of Governor, had the rrgLi io vote otiany question comiriir hefortthe leyUlaturi. There was a :iuiilar rate in North Carolina uu itr iu I.I Constitution, which, like the Coiuiiitiuii ,f Dela ware did niit provide f.ra LieiKeuanl Governor, but provided that the Presi dent of the Senate should temporarily exercise the otlice of Governor in case of the Governor's death. Warren Wins low, a Senator from Cumberland coun ty, was President of the Senate when the then Governor of North Carolina died. Mr. Winslow at once began to exercise the office of Governor, but also continued to exercise the duties and functions of a Senator. The question was raised as to whether or not he bad such a right. The matter was ably de bated in the Senate by such distin guished men as Governor Graham and other members of that body, and the State Senate of North Carolina decided that Mr. Winslow, though temporarily exercising the office of Governor, was still a Senator and President of the Senate, and had a right to preside over the Senate and vote on all questions. This exactly covers the Dupont case, which has just been decided by the United States Senate. The argument made by Mr. Warren Winslow on that occasion was a very clear and powerful one, and Senator Gray quoted from it in his argument on this case in the United States Senate. COLORADO ENDORSES TELLER AND TURNS DOWN WOLCOTT. In addition to what Senator Teller said recently in the Senate, setting forth his position for the coming cam paign, stating positively that he would not support a gold man if his party nominated one, but would stand by the people and financial reform under all circumstances, he sent a few days ago an official statement to the Chairman of the Republican committee of his State, saying that he would not go as a delegate to the Republican national convention unless his State endorsed his position, and authorized him and the delegates to withdraw from the convention if a gold platform and a gold candidate, or a straddling plat form and a doubtful candidate were put forward. He closed his letter with the following sentence : "If this course puts me out of sympa thy with the Republican sentiment of the State, as a portion of the Republi can press allege it will, I accept that result with all of its logical conse quences in preference to an abandon mrnt of principle and a stultification of my record." - It will be remembered that a rv weeks ago Senator Wolcott, the other oenaior irom tjoioraao, sent a letter to the chairman of the Republican committee of hia State. Mvivtfr that Iia would stand by the party and support iuc uuuuuee, uu uiauer woo ne was or what the platform was. News comes from Colorado that at their State con vention on last Friday, the State convention endorsed the position of Senator Teller, elected him as a dele gate, and Dut him at th? noin nf rha Hi- egation to the Republican national con- veuwwa, ana mat it reiused to endorse Senator Wolcott or to send him as a delerate. Thia shows that th iuahIo of Colorado are in earnest and propose tft atanrl hr thS- : A Din.., men bvuviGuvus Luis year and vote for their own interests and the welfare of the South and West, no matter what party conventions may do. Inasmuch as the Peoples Party will be the only one that will take a square stand for financial reform and the welfare of the people, it is abso lutely certain that the electoral vote of that State will be cast for the Peo ples Party candidate for President. OTHER WESTERN STATES WILL FOLLOW. The Republican State convention, of Montana, has declared for free silver and against the gold standard under all c.iroumstnn - aa.u mJCaO ClCVim OCU ator Carter, Senator Mantle, and Con- grcosuiau xianman of mat State as delegates at large to the Republican national convention. Senators Carter and Mantle signed that noted silver resolution which was signed by Sena tor Teller and fifteen other free silver ReDUbllC&n Kpnafnra Tf-io Irn... they will stand by that resolution and take the same position in the national convention that Senator Teller takes. iuauu iias sent senator Dubois as a delegate, and he will also stand true $p silver and will follow the lead of Senator Teller. Tho Krara nf w.:- vi If JUUIIUf and other Western States are expected to take the same position. It is to be hoped that the Republican delegation from North Carolina, under the lead of Senator Prifoharrl whn aio ,; that resolution will join hands .with these western States when the su preme test comes, and repudiate any goldbug put up by the Republi can national nnnvanf inn 17 DavnnA admits that it is absolutely necessary for the South and wat and make a fight before we can ever aojtnwA 41 t . .... . golden opportunity for uch a con summation. cojraaK as i oca kill, or Tstaa, rates oct. RprrnUtive Cock rail, of Tcuu, who has for a long time barn a tnatn ber of the Ilouae, and wbo ia a brother or Senator Cocarrll. of Miaaoari. ha writtra a letter to the people of bia district in Tela declining to b the Democratic candidate for rongreaa unleaa he ia nominated with the un derstanding that be will not vote for the nominee of the Wmorratic con vention for Preaident. il that nomi nee is a goldbug or a stratf ilebug . lie aaya that be ia determined to be free to do what he thinka ia right and best for his people irrespective of rrtr- 0 closing his letter he aaya : The gold standard once recognized by law and backed by the wealth of the world, nothing abort of a bloody revolution could wipe it out and bring relief to an over-burdened people. The people must take a stand for their liberties. I, for one, am tired of para ding under a Democratic banner which has been so foully besmirched by men who claimed to be Demon at, but who are agenta of the Iritish gold trust." This shows that the spirit of inde pendence and patriotism i growing in the South as well a in the Weat. V.irh day the outlook grows brighter that the patriots of all parties will unite wi'.h the Peoples Party at M. I .mi is. 0:1 July ".'J, and join hands in redeeming this country from the rlutrfc ( the I.ritish gold hug and their American Tory allies. WATiii rata, silvek ?) iotoli-i. There are in Congress a certain class of silver Democrats and silti-r Republicans who, on nearly every questiou where there is a con test between the peoplaf and railroad corporations, or other monopolies, vote against the people and with the monopolies. It may be questioned whether or not eucli men are at hvart true ailver men. Their votes on other questions, besides silver, would give strong color to the belief that they simply voted for free silver because the sentiment is so strongly that way among their constituent, while at heart they are the other way. A man who stands for the corporations and monopolies against the people is cer tainly at heart a gold man, just at all gold men naturally stand in with all the monopolies and com bines. We make thia prediction, that those Congressmen and Sena tors wbo claim to be silver men, yet who always vote, with the monop olists on other questions, will Ik the kind of silver men who will stick to their parties no matter who ia nomi nated or what kind of a platform he is on. It is the silver mail who ia not only for silver but also against trusts and monopolies wbo will stand square ly by the people when the test comes, and put principle and country above party. In abort the best test for a true friend of the people ia the posi tion which Congressmen take on ques tions relating to corporations, monop olies and trusts. We expect, at some future time to publish the votes of the members of Congress on certain ques tions where there was a conflict be tween the interests of the people and the greed of the monopolists, and show which so-called silver men voted against the people. TWO DANUKROrS KILL". Senator JI ill has reported from the Judiciary Committee a bill creating two classes of contempt cases. The bill makes any refusal to obey the or der of the court, or any disrespect of the court committed in tho presence of the court, a direct contempt. It pro vides that when any of these offences are committed beyond the presence of the court that they shall be known as indirect contempt. In effect the bill creates a new class of contempt cases not heretofore recognized by law, and, besides, denies to the men accused the right of trial by jury, except with the consent of the court. Tho this bill ia to make legal the very things which Federal Courts have been re cently doing without any warrant of law; notably, when the courts bad Debs arresieu anu imprisoneu without any trial bv iurv. because, as the court nl. leged, he was guilty of contempt, tuuugii u was not claimed mat the COntemDt alleged U,- pnmmittvil in the presence of the court. It is safe 10 say mac tnis mil will not be allowed to pass the Senate unless it is amended so as to at least guarantee to every man a trial bv iurv. Senator Allen h-i al. ready introduced an amendment to l. : . I 'M I- Z a mis urn iiiaKing Mien a provision, anu aiso maKing oilier material amend ments thereto. The second bill is one renortixl Li the Commerce committee which pro poses to repeal that section of the preeui imer-siaie commerce law which makes the nunislnni-ni in n-tn. ingto testify before the court either fine or imnrisonmenr. nr hntn ti,u bill limits the punishment in such cases 10 simpiy a nne. 1 ne object of this bill is to protect rich mononnlies ami th. managers of trusts who do not unt to be forced to testify before the courts, anu who are wining to pay a liberal fine, but who seriously object to heinc sent to prison. This bill will be vigor ously jougni ny tne l'voples Party en ators. aided, it is honed. l ui men in ine oiu. parties. a It is trenerallv conceded that if .au-v.amau.j O IKf U 14 a'fT II U f II I 1 1 3, 1 tU BDI .1 I T .a . . t- VZ nlar nKnnU l.A : a . a a r-ieneu i resiuenr, mat .lohn Sherman would be his Secretarv nfTroaanpv fn short, every man who votes fnr Mwin. ley for President had just as well vote loriuuii ouvrman, ior ne win inspire and control the action of the adminis tration on all financial questions. Governor Matthews, of Indiana, who ubb oeen posing as a tree silver man. auu who Mas oeen taiaeu or by the free silver Democrats as a probable candi date for the Presidency, is out in an interview in which he hedges and Straddles On the manor rmoilinn i is hard to tell from his interview juat where be stands; but one thing is plain, and that is that be is opposed to free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Thia meana mai tne inaiana delegation to the Na tional Democratic Con ventinn trill nr.t etand squarely for silver, but will be ready to hedge, straddle and dodge. - - uvw is wist, ioe goia men will control the delegates from Kentucky to the National Democratic Convention. A BILL TO PRIVIST A FURTHER ISSCR OF BOODS. On last Friday Senator Butler called attention to the fact that the adminis tration had started up the "endless chain" again, and was drawing gold from the treasury at tbe rate of over one million dollars per day. He showed that over fifty million dollars had been drawn out from the treasury since the first day of List February without a single thing to show for it. He pointed out that, at this rate, Cleve land would be sure to issue more bonda during the preaent summer, therefore, that it was the dnty of Congress before i-.,nrnedtoPM8 bia bill, or some bill like it to prevent further issue or bonds without the consent of Con gress. Senator Butler then asked unanimous consent to fix a day when the Senate would vote on this bill to preyent tbe further issue of bonds. Senator Hill promptly objected, whereupon, Senator Butler gave no tice that as soon as the present appro priation bill was disposed of, he would IrlflVal t"a f-ai lr aa MW W... aWtll a . ins uiii iur COO sideration and action. It is probable that the light over this bill will come Senator Butler has succeeded in pas sin? thrnno-h tha Cii.t. i.- u . uvuc uis ui ii ap propriating ten thousand dollars for the erection nf th ,,..... . n - - uivu uucuu iu unr af,'GenaeraU Flnci Nash and William Lee Davidson of tbe Revo lutionary war. nr a- a port from tb committee pablk IlaildiBga and Ground on hia fell pco v idiot: for the erection of a public building io Durham. The conrmittee, bowevtr. en tbe recommendation f the Government Architect, reeom tuended that the srpropriat ion be cut rut down to l:S.tu BEFORE AKD AFTER. flaw Kaaaall TaJaaa JaaaaJaatlaa - Uea II Ha far Ma Cat taa a Valkad A fiat m m. ft .T IT. "I entertiin a sentioicnt of dr gratUude to the necro: I believe in i'reservine rropTtJ right a. t i f!l known that I d not te lieve in putting property undrr control of tte tn?n wbo do not !o?d property. 1 stanJ f.r the rlgbts snJ liberties and p portunities .f the tirKToea, ..... 1 Lave teen told th.t when I was a bahy I aii. kcd the breast of a tirirro woman. I judge from the aJuIt de. e!pn rlit that the milk Hiu-t tixe teti nulri iuand ho'.eann.e. tratt trotn IC.i ell's ;-tc1i uc CepTin Iki III 111.1 tion for ;irri''r. May 1Mb. UEX WB llt'l UUI IT. The negro is a free riliten. I was disfranchised by the Ikmorrtt with the tieToe. 1 Ironor the race and rejoice in their proaprrity. I want to aee them edu cated and taking their aland alone side of their While brethren I never called the negro aavage. I said there were white savages and there were black savage If I am elected ,ocr nor I promiae jou ( the audience com posed al uoat solely of tiej-roea i that t be nac w ho put me I her" t-hall liae all the o.its and lodder tin re to give." I! tract from fee,h of Daniel I.. Kuell, in Metropolitan Hall, April -'. l.,i l ;. Maarf; Oaittlvai haiM. The following letl.r hu ad dressed to DaniH l l:nt h : "llox. liMtt I.. i:rii : "Will you I" . kin.! i iaii-ir the follow ing question : 1. Did you vole ti e Mite and Na tional KepubSican ticket nominated in the year of gra-e, !n by the Re publican part) : "2. Did jou ote ihe Mate a n l Na tional ticket of the K mHc an. party in the year of grare, I v., a iimiiistei by the Republican convention of North Carolina? J ah. M. Miu." Mr. Kuasell has not answered the questions as yet. UNIVERSITY COMKEKCEMINT. I'rogrimtna or favrrlara ,IUraaa I. a V Ire-l'rrafUrnt Maveaaoa. The eercies of comiiienceineiit will begin with the Itaccalaureate Sermon on Sunday. May 31. in derrard hall, by Bishop Kdward Rondthaler, of the Moravian Church. The annual meeting of the Dialectic and Philanthropic literary oocietiea will be held Tuesday night, June '.at s o'clock, in their halls. On Wrdnm day, June 3, the board of trustees w ill meet in Person hall at noon: the .Sen ior Class Day Kxercisea will be lie Id at 5 o'clock p. ni. in Memorial hall: the annual contest in oratory between the representatives of the Dialectic and Philanthropic literary societies at o'clock p. in. in Memorial hall, and the Faculty Reception at lo o'clock p. m. in the gymnasium. Ihursday, June l,i commencement day. The alumni association will meet in Cerrard hall at lo oVIN-k. The commencement exercises will lie held in Memorial hall at II o'clock. The graduates will deliver their 'ora tions, present their theses and receive their diplomas. Vice-President Adlai .Mevenon will present the diplomas and make an ad dress. A public reception will be given the Vice-President, so that everybody may greet him and shake his hand. In tbe alternnou a game of bane-ball will be played in the athletic Geld. The Glee Club will give its aiiMial concert at 8 p. in. in ;errard hall. Reduced rates will be given on Ihe railroads, and fpecial trains will lie run on Thursday, June I, fcomitience inent day.) Everybody ia invited. 'F.oliCK T. Wixsn.yr, President Ninth Iliatrlrt Ilrmmiat.. The Ninth district Democratic con vention was ht-M on tLe 1 4b. a verv large number of !-Jo!Ut.R present. Judge Geo. A. Hmioid ELKIN WOOLEN MILLS. YOITR VO(H, THIS YEAR TO The Chatham MTg Co., Elkin, N. C, A4. fM. w bp o r 5 CTJ CO ea as cu s. C3 Tllaa-r U a a. m, 1 CHRfrtrri Ka.: : --asfc wvuicu uiuiiu me mate. Tbfr do IL aM7 AaAVH I fin 1 Frfft r" A.l aa - ava MUJiri. iUSr TITO AMS, CD fl t ar psini, II r Pjmrr attrt ttt : zY.. Calu and Fillies, fine as split silk. Yon - J A OCCONEE w.u chairman. T.trrx . . . . reprearEteJ. Two l a'j esaary t a eboiee of a f. .r, ' ' candidate Joacpb s. .. :yt Ashevili. ci. tha ,, Adaota 171. Ioeke ("ra. e :. ; , N. Vaoeo 31. :!' Tor elector il 1. ;:3;.t , wood waa era! j t ' The rvBTfBMM lo; ted " rea-!st.a. atd rB.i. t.f.; ;'.' Kay, of Mac ce, f.r z.t- ." ,X1 rnor. ' Asocial tlrk-ia? ,. . lotte tbrvf r ar CoLrvtt.fs i!aj 12 - l Democratic ruBH:'.i:,, in the taoonta tiu to the State c r !. le;j;b wb:ch nn-'3r..- ! uit quiicl;- titr ; for It A alertrd. 4 :4 THREE Uth MUID liaSaaa. 1 be toil-r in tli Mrawburg I.ua.tr . . 4".. rj?-d-.t Ti.; . o'clock, iliatatttl) kiii:,- I.i:hlii. are -1. at J , , snd latall ttcu!dii I.. , all colored. Mrljiuchliu ta I. n part ol hi dire ti's. of e . I , , and tcaldml. Itliailia died w re otit and lit ! r t i M r. Mil. 1 itt-a. and ".atiacr of tl.e iu::. fv 'lite fjing t r .-. !-g on which he was ,i fc. i "- a V i ' it I r-.u iiioirf i. mi at : thinj t.Jt aat. ID- 4 tti.u-S .ittirj: i it a i. man, Mc.auj;t.l.ii, w 1 .. iii.it.Clcd. 1 lie mill ! ! v:- .r.. . ti e ?ler rit-i, .a.t . . I.t ce.t tho-e at ..l- is i i rty if r a" J"il Itl l:-W ! llrfa a! i t. ;--5s ' IS ENDORSED OY. a. A PREACHER. A tu very tow Ii ,.! d llle-trH)ae. Mj to-rtea a t i tion have creatly utii.r.i.. stand twice a much rtirtital i, i am growing in health dail). w had gotten it smiiicr. lin.tv. Ant at UlL.H,, unmi-ril!. . -. A MERCHANT. I think the ll-ctrcxii-e a itv thing and that everybody ahou'd j , , 'ie. Pari. . ; ti artiiej , - , A BANKER. Would dot do without the I.., f. l"'se. Clllirs I'niMt. Pre. IUnk of the l.'eput.l. . At hen. A LAWYER. I do not hesitate to Ti-cowu -t,,l (t , anv one wlm is sufferinc with i-i.. t.. sia or itiuiffcsTton in an y lorin. It i -. . . . . . ' good investment in any famiU II. P. Win i",.. Kulh, i. A JUDCE. in the two years who h I hate !,! it it has saed its cost evral time in doctys aud druc bills, and baa mat ) imitn avarueu .n nines, f an al recoiti if it it. vtiiliM riui, Associate Justice .:. fur u... our!, Kaleigti, N. . A OOCTOR. Have been iisiug it on injseif at.d patients for the lat three years wj, good results. Yoti can use my i.ai:,r. J. T. Jiis.o, M. !.. Hickory, N. . BOOK IKU.IXi; A I.I. ABOI I n WITH III NDRKDS i.P II. -JI-MM.NI AI.S 1 ROM Al l. SI . M. FRKi: I nit Till: ASKIi. GRAHAM & DuBOlS. Electric BIdg. Atlanta, Ga. Ui ro C3 Z a 1 4. - a. - m-m. Iftr-ert boy f vt a (aa7jaaaafyS Headquarters f orihe Oest, Only Tim ivujowuiGYAmiW''' ltsiuimai Braaaje skx) WhibB TTrfaawl Ti. i Light BrahxiMa, indjsa tad pfe nawir tiirr n 7 oTItnporw Bred Kack ty Imported Ct Royally OaijrU I CHEE FARM. DURHAM. N. C ECCS FOR HATCHINC. STOCKrFOR SALE FP.OM High Scoring Thoroughbred Poultry. We also breed Itabbita. Guinea Vis and other pets. Omplete Cataka;u on application I'll ICES IXIW. Alamance nii c so lid in , r"c. c. J.P.KERR, Manager 5 si it M t uuuui reiorm, anu cms is the nea gotten a favorable re- BAQS L HOLT, Proprietor. O 11 . S