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"THE HOUR HIS COOL'
this necessity; and in place of em-elaring that be ia a goto, standard
cloying banks to borrow money fori man. Ia tbe Weat lXeKinley agent
the government, be pointed ont, at are declaring he ia for free silver,
tbe elose of tbe war of 1812, when This proceeding is not accident. It
tbe treasury needed replenishing, is design. It remains to be seen
that "Congress may borrow of tbe whether Me Kinley's opinion Uiat the
people, and without interest, all the American people are a set of fools
money tbey may want, to tbe amount and asses holds good or not. Most
of a competent circulation, by mere-1 emphatically we think not.
ly issuing their own promisory notes,
of proper denominations for the
larger purposes of circulation, but
not for tbe sms 11. Leave that door
open for the entrance of metallic
money."
Tbe qnestion raised about the
right of Congress to issue treasury
notes, is the work of tbe banks. They
are anxious to get tbe greenbacks
out of the way, in order to make
room for their notes; and it is la
mentable that they have been able
to enlist the Democratic President
of tbe United States in their cause.
SBII. BOILER'S
BOND BILL
Agent of the Gold Combine Fear
follj Wrought Up
(her It.
; eraUe party aad seearo the lectioa t
a Demoeratio President to prevent
the voters froat slam pedis to the
Peoples Party. lie also showed that
the gold combine pat ap a tremendous
campaign rand to eeeare me nomiaa
Uen of Mr. Cleveland, and then hired
newspapers to declare that he and his
platform stood for tbe free coinage of
stiver, and tbat tbe Democratic speak-
AM
ELOQUENT. RIM6IN6 ADDRESS
FROM CHAIRMAN MOTT TO
THE SILVER PEOPLE.
"1IAKI TIM KM" AND THK CAUCASIAN
-A FLA IN STATEMENT.
It ia not for us to assert that The
Caucasian deserve anything at
the bands of the Populists of the
State, but we know and do assert
that it needs more consideration at
their hands and more support than
it is receiving. II it is tbe wixn or
desire of the Peoples Party that its
present size be maintained, that de
sire must be expressed by some
other method than mere words dur
ing the next week or two. We fully
believe our friends aie justified in
pleading "hard times," but that
plea affects us as well as them; and
if the "hard times'' are to continue
the same conditions as exist now,
then we must know it so we can
"cut the garment according to the
cloth." Thin is a plain, simple, busi
ness statement and assertion.
In bis last annual message tbe Pres
ident proposes tbe withdrawal of the
United States notes from circula
tion, and states that the bonds be is
issuing to buy gold, to redeem green
backs, and pay interest on bonds,
may become tbe basis of bank note
issues. It is true that the green
backs, and the bonds, and the bond-
interest, are all redeemable and pay
able in silver as well as gold. But
it does not suit the bondholders and
bankers of Europe and America,
that silver, thongb a legal tender,
shall be recognized as such, and for
this reason the President has ni
ne Taaala U SoaaU4 Ta. CaaflUrt
Will Vat Wal-IaaUaa Maaaa Dfrt
Md DwU-SOtw M.a Mas Hat Walt
Far tfca Frsblaasatleal AeUoa of Aay
Tarty.
IlKADQCABTKBS XaTIOXAL SlLVSS
PaaTT,
Washington, D. C, May 30, 96. To
tbe Friends of Silver: Since tbe
founding of this party, on January 22,
1816, toe work or tbe organization bas
beta steadily but quietly pursued, and
the country has been aroused to a
pitch of excitement unknown since
tbe civil war. Silver is on all lips
throughout the land. It is echoed and
re-echoed from the gilded mansion to
tbe lowly cottage. As each hour
passes it becomes more apparent tnat
a political conflict, the like of which
has not been seen before, is just at
band
It must be clearly understood at
once that nsrty lines cannot with
stand this conflict, and so fares tbe
friends of silver are concerned, they
must not. The party leader who puts
Or Ik riaaarUl Cvuplrmcy tuimm CiUaa
ay Saaatar BetUr Taa lmlUal Va
Iom tba Rlvar aad Harfc-r 1 - It WU
frataM fwm Uvav Hit t at.
Special to Tbe Caucasian.!
Washington, D. C Jan 1. .
Nothing of interest has transpired in
the House daring tbe past week ex
cept tbe bill of impeachment against
President Cleveland offered by Con
gressman Howard. No one questions
that every charge and specification
contained in tbia bill of impeachment
ia true, but tne House, tbougb KepuD-
licau, is so wedded to tbe gold stand
ard and so thoroughly endorses the
position of Mr. Cleveland on tbe
money question that they cannot
agree to impeach him for doing just
wbat Joliu bberman did bitnc elf when
be was Secretary of tbe Treasury. If
tbe House were to present a bill of
impeachment to the Senate against
tbe President, tbe proceedings before
the Senate would at once assume an
importance of the first magnitude. No
party has a majority in the Senate,
and it is now in a better position to
act as a non-partisan court than it bas
ever been since tbe foundation of tbe
government. Tbe specifications in the
bill or impeachment as drawn by Con-
ted to a deserved seclusion. There is
no time for compromising differences
between men who do not agree on this
ready increased the interest-bearing Bidered , bow those who do agree can
public debt, by f'JG'J,000,000, in the get together. They who say tbey are
purchase or gold for the gratifica- ' llKw. "d
. , , plead for the unity of parties, are not
tion of these classes. The President the friends of silver and the suf-
expresses the wish in his last annual fering people. The unity of old par-
lies is me. ueaiu ui stiver, as ever'
In his time mending party lines while gressman Howard are as follows
the silver cause suffers will be relega-1 1. That he bas sold or directed the
message to be clothed with authority
to redeem all outstanding United
States notes and treasury notes, by
a further issue of bonds amounting
to five hundred millions more; the
effect of which would be to treble
the interest-bearing public debt
above what it was when he assumed
office, March 4, 1803.
KEEF IT IIEKORK THK PEOPLE.
There are men party leaders
mostly in the Northeastern States,
who claim to be JefTersonian Demo
crats, while they reject and de
nounce every principle of public
policy to which he was devoted. He
was intensely opposed to monopoly,
to banks, and bank paper. These
modern, pretended Jeffersonians are
bound, hand and foot to the money
power.
There was no public concern in
which Jefferson felt so much inter
eat after the government was organ
ized under the Constitution, as in
that of maintaining a sound curren
cy, consisting of, and based on the
precious metals, gold and silver,
lie was opposed to the protective
policy, as it is now held by the Re
publicans. Be was in favor of a lib
eral commercial policy; but he rare
ly wrote on the subject, as no one in
his day pretended to claim the right
to impose tariff taxes for protection,
and not for revenue. He was op
posed to spending the public money
for internal improvements, not be
cause he was opposed to the im
- provements, but because he saw no
authority given in the Constitution
to spend money on them. He, there
fore, wrote little on that subject
IN 18U3 AND IN 180O.
In 18!)2 there were over forty thou
sand Alliance Democrats in this State
who refused to vote for Governor Carr
because lie declared his intention to
turn bis back on the principles that
he believed in to support a goldbug
and monopolist for President. Theae
men were in the Democratic party
when Mr. Carr was nominated for
Governor, and they would have voted
for him for Governor if he had stood
by the State platform on which he was
nominated; that is, over forty thou
sand of the best men in the State left
their party in 1802 and went into a
new party before they would support
for Governor (even though he was an
Alliancenian and for free silver) a man
who sacrificed bis principles on the al
tar of a party machine to support a
goldbug for President. That was in
the last election for Governor, and
since that time thousands upon thou
sands of men who have seen that we
were right in forming the Peoples
Party have left the old parties and
joined our ranks.
body knows.
Those who look to coming years for
a peaceful settlement of this matter
mistake the condition of the times and
the temper of the people. There can
be no delay. The conflict will not
wait. The hour has come.
Tbe secret of success in this conflict
consists in tbe lining up for the battle
Those who compose the line must be
friends, striking tbe same blows for
the same object. This breaks party
lines, and party lines once broken sil
ver will be free.
That meeting of earnest men on the
22nd of January, 1896, marked an
epoch and will live in history. The
convention which grew out of it, to be
held at St. Louis on the 22nd of July.
will undoubtedly be one of tbe most
important conventions and notable
gatherings ever assembled in this
country. Upon the wisdom of its acts,
and that of tbe Peoples Party conven
tion, to be held at tbe same place and
time, depends tbe vital question as to
whether we can have a just settlement
of this money issue in our generation.
If tbat issue can be clearly presented
to the voters of the United States,
stripped of all minor political ques
tions, and under a standard and leader
ship which will command tbe conn
dence of the people, it will be an over
wbelming majority
Our friends are urged to push the
work of organization witb all possi
ble vigor, giving no heed to those who
advise waiting tbe action of tbe old
parties tbat contain enemies as well as
friends of our cause. The power of
our organization to defeat the ambi
tion of Janue-iaced politicians is
being recognized by all parties, hence
ciean cut declarations iurur ngaiuai
silver are the rule by local conventions
era over the South and West proclaim
ea tb same doctrine on every stamp,
many of them going to tbe extent to
say that tbey would leave tbe DemO-
rral l Mrtv It it rt in ftnarr and did
AM EittAUSTIVE HISTOBY not give tbe people free coinage of
silver, lie tben proceeded to review
tbe record of that party after it had
got in power, having not only tbe
President but both Houses of Con
greaa. He showed tbat it not only did
not keep a single pledge that It made
to tbe people, but tbat it endorsed tbe
John Sherman Republican policy,
commencing where that party had
stopped and carrying on their infa
mous work of contraction ; tbat tbey
not only contracted tbe currency, but
tbat they out-Ueroded Herod by piling
up an immense bond debt to oppress
not only tbe present but also lutore
generations. Tben be asked bow could
tbe people trust the promises of this
party in tbe coming campaign. '1 be
silver men may control tbe Chicago
convention and nominate a so-called
free silver man for President, but
what guarantee will tbe people have
that their promises are any truer now
than tbey wer in ls.i Truly it is a
party of perfidy and dishonor. It bas
betrayed tbe people more basely even
than tbe Republican party. Tben
what greater calamity could befall the
cause of silver than for a party in such
bad repute to endorse silver and be
come its champion.
Mr. Butler tben proceeded to show
tbat tbe very finest politics tbat tbe
gold men could play would be to have
tbe so-called silver men to control tbe
next national Democratic convention.
ana to aeciare ior ire coinage. This
would place upon free coinage the
whole burden of Democratic treachery
would curse the cause of financial
reform with the bad odor of that party.
A a. 1 a . ... 1
nusappro-1 a soon as me goia men get tne Dem-
of said bond ocratic party to put up a free silver
candidate and a platform, they, tbe
4. That he directed the Secretary of gold men, will at once secretly throw
the Treasury to disregard the law!1'0 their influence and power in fa-
wnicn inanes Lnited States notes and I vor oi tne JtepuDiican candidate who
Treasury notes redeemable in coin. will be a gold standard man. They
5. Tbat he bas ignored and refused I will do tbis lor two reasons : First, to
10 nave eniorced tne "anti-trust law" maae sure oi me election of a cold
o. .mat ne nas sent united states uiau ior x resiuenc, wmcn n iiie su-
troops into the State of Illinois with- preme desire of both the gold Itepubl
ouiautnority oi law and in violation leans ana gom Democrats. Second, to
of the Constitution. make the Democratic free silver ticket
7. That he has corrupted politics (so-called) get as few votes in the
through the interference of Federal I electoral college as possible. Tben
office holders. I tbe gold Democrats will say to the
8. That he has used the appointing silver Democrats: "I told you so
atvsusg U say. a majesty of is sen
ate voted with hi am. Every IXp
Partv Senator voted ia favor or a tax
ea beer and every ivsaocrat and Ke-
fjabltean wno ia Known Mt i irwe
friend of silver and fleanrial reform
voted In favor ot tax oa beer. Sena
tor Teller and all of the silver Repob
lieana vboiMittbe easae of B asocial
reform above tariff voted in favor of
the Ui on beer. But a few of the pre
tended friends ot silver joined with
Senator Sherman in order to try to I
make the tariff tbe overshadowing it
sue in tbe cornier campaign.
Hon. Victor 1. Rarringer, a Xortb
Carolinian formerly of Charlotte, who
waa tbe first America a Justice of the
International Court of Appeals in
Alexandria. F-rrnt. died at bis rel-
deooe in this city, 1709 g St.. Ial
Wednesday morning. Senator l'rucn-
ard was one of tbe pall bearers.
Among tbe North Carolinians in
the city daring tbe past week were:
T. Ivey of tbe State Business Agency,
Hon. A. t . Uileman. and Solicitor moji.
It is tbe renerat impression here
tbat Conrres will adjourn about tbe
8th of June.
ANOTHER CONORESSAUN.
Paine's Celery Compound. The Great Spny
Remedy, made Him Well.
sale of bunds without authority of law.
l. that ne sold or aided in tbe sale
of bonds at less than their market
value.
3. That he directed the
priation of tbe proceeds
sales.
ana proclaim to tbe country that the
poor showing that the Democratic
party bas made proves the weakness
oi the cause oi silver. This is a fine
scheme on the part of the gold men. but
iii is w oe uopeu mat mere is too mucb
patriotism and wisdom among the sil
ver Democrats to allow themselves
tbus to be hood n i nked and ued as
tool by t heaven i i;.e iitnliM.-i.jJUs
conspiracy. it. very man with com
mon sense knows that the only war to
j ? i . i i . . . j
ueieai me goiu conspiracy in the coir
ing campaign is for the true friends
of silver in all parties to unite on
common platform and under a com
mon oanner.tooraw the I me squarely
between the gold gamblers and the
people, and to fight the battle for lib
erty and prosperity to the bitter end
I. . - - ... . . .
r or me irasui.s ieil MUOVe 11 IM -.-ar
these forces cannot be united in the
Democratic party. The bilver Renub-
i : n f 1 1... nr...,.- .i... i-
ntniis ui me i, rsi, nm Huver Demo
crats of the South, and patriots from
everywhere must join hands with the
Peoples Tarty on independent giound
at St. Louis on July 22nd, in order to
make vit-.tnrv for tlio mumlu nt a
In the first place the money thus feat for the gold combine certain. In
short, there is but one thing that will
make the election of a goldbug for
President certain, and that is for the
silver Democrats to nominate a so
called silver man under the Demo
cratic label, refusing to ioin hands
with the other silver forces on Julv
power to influence legislation detri
mental to the welfare of the people.
THK PRESII'MNT VETOES THE RIVER AND
HARBOR BILL.
On last Friday President Cleveland
returned to the House the river and
harbor bill with his disapproval. He
vetoes it. on me specious plea that be
is in favor of economy. This reminds
us of the case of Satan quoting Scrip
ture. The man who has oiled ud on
the country two hundred and sixty
two millions of debt without a single
material thing to show for it: a debt
created simply for the benefit of the
bond holders ; an interest bearing: debt
placed upon the people and future
generations, borrow gold which was
in effect presented as a free gift to the
gold combine, now prates about econ
omy, while the expenses under this
river and harbor bill will not be more
than ten million for the next year.
There is no way in which this Con
gress has appropriated money that
will be of more direct benefit to all
classes of our people than the money
appropriated in this river and harbor
bill.
appropriated will give employment to
laDor, will cause the scattering and
circulation of money among the peo
ple; and in tbe second place, every
river that is now improved is a lasting
benefit to the farmers and people liv
ing along the banks or near that river,
TflK noD BILL rASSKU.
8;ca!rr Butler's bill to prevent
the furtUr issue of bonds was passed
by the Ftnate on last Tnetdsy after
noon at 7 o'clock. A vigorous fight
was ma?e tgainst it by such men a
Dill, (Dim.) and Chandler, Burrows,
AUisjp, Morrell and others (ail
Keps) who ruihed to the rescue of
Cleveland, tbe Democratic Presi
dent. But tbe young Senator from
North Carolina met them at every
torn, and after a vigorous fight a
fight that lasted all day long and
which was perhaps the greatest and
most important fight tbat ever occur
red in the Senate since Senator Bnt-1
ler was born, the bill passed by a
vote of SI to L. The vote was as
follows:
Yeas Republicans Brown, Can
non, Dubois, Hansbrougb, Mitchell
of O regon, Pettigrew, Pritchard,
Tel'er, Warren, Wolcott-10. Dem
ocrats Bacon, Bate, Berry, Chilton,
Daniel, George, Harris, Jones, of
Arkansas; Mills, Morgan, Pasco,
Pugh, Tillman, Turpie, Vest, Wal
thall, White 17. Populists Allen.
Batler, Jones, of Nevada, Peffer,
Stewart 5. Total 32.
Nays Republicans Aldrich, Al
lison, Barrow, Chandler, Cullom,
Davis, Gallinger, Qale, Ilawley,
Hodge, McBride, Nelson, Piatt.
Quay, Wet more, Wilson 10. Dem
ocrats Brice, Caffery, Faulkner,
Hill, Lindsay, Mitchell of Wiscon-
F. :.v- ye-&isx dXis?
V
sin; Palmer, Smith,
on
Vilas-9 Total
The liivf r and Harbor bill was
passed by tbo House over the Presi
dent's veto.
This year we will have another elec
tion for Governor and President. Will
the 47,000 men who voted agair.st Eli
as Carr for Governor, and the twenty
odd thousand who have joined our
ranks since then, agree now to vote
for a Republican candidate for Gov
ernor who will support a Republican
goldbug candidate for President ? No.
There are less than one hundred of
them in this State who will now do
the inconsistent thing that they then
refused to do. Those who are ready to
take this step are heading for the Re
publican party. The quicker they get
there, the better for the Peoples Party
and the cause of financial reform.
For every one who leaves the Peo
pies Party for this reason, there will
be two recruits to take his place, and
swell the ranks of tbe one party that
stands up for principle and for the
rights of the people under all circum
stances. It is a homely saying but a
true one : "That if there is one rotten
potato in a potato hill, it will rot
the whole hill if it is not gotten out."
That is, even one rotten potato will
cause potatoes tbat are sound to begin
to rot. The moral is clear.
Senator Butler, proceeding showed
of all parties this year.
m iii vat iiaoa a r a n nirn i rw m nr.inn nana iibq ir fri rno rna -vswk w s tt a t- i Aj-tm i . w z i . .
vui uui pvoc so wv uuibc iui nw" I &avca vuc ucuuic natCl v"u I HL nl. IjfJIllH (1111. 1 1 s 1 fl C TtatP ma
all believers in the restoration of free petition against tbe railroad com-1 chinery and efforts to divili inatp.fi
a a . a . m 1 m. I J -V i a. i . . I . .
silver ana prosperity. xnis cannot oe pames, idu enaoies mem to secure low l of uniting the opponents of the single
me pare oi our irienas. net. l may oe mac Mr. (jieveiana
Tbe .Republican party is committed nas vetoed the bill at the request of
to the gold standard through the plat- the railroad companies. At any rate,
forms oi so per cent, oi tne state con- it is aDsura ior mm to say that he bas
ventions, and any straddle tbat may done so on the ground of economy. It
be made in its national platform will is very probable that Congress will
pass this bill by a two-thirds majority
over tne iresiaent s veto.
But bis eight volumes of corres
pondence abound in letters to gen- the statks and finance.
tlemen at home and abroad, on the 1 The bills introduced into the Sen
subjects of national cnriency and late by Senator Butler, and the arti-
banking; and they all breathe the cles of Maj. W. A. Guthrie, touching I nomination
deceive no one. Tbe Democratic
party must not expect the country to
accept any candidate it may name ac
quiesced in by the gold wing of that
party.
Tbe question of vital importance is
for silver men to name a candidate for
President whose nomination will be
readily acquiesced in by all believers
in monetary reform.
Friends of silver, look to your inter
ests and organize now while the fruit 1
is ripe for plucking. Do not wait on
the problematical action of any party.
jjk. j.j. jhott, vnairman.
Silver the Issue.
Ralkigh, June 2, '96. I don't
know when it was that I read a po
litical manifesto that pleased me so
well as that I read by Dr. Mott from
the Silver League in Washington,
yesterday. He strikes the key note
in saying that "There is no time for
compromising differences between
men who do not agree on this ques
tion. The only thing to be consider
ed is how those who do agree can
get together."
It now seems highly probable that
the silver Democrats will have
a majority of the convention
which is to meet in Chicago.
Bnt this is not enough. A
by the party is not
same spirit. Tbey consist of his life
long protest against banks and
banking, and his persistent clr.im
that the currency should consist of
gold and silver, as the basis, with
United States notes, properly se
cured, against depreciation.
a a a
Mr. Jefferson bad Constitutional
authority for proposing Treasury
notes as a currency. For there is
fthe elause in the first Article which
empowers Congress "To provide for
the punishment of counterfeiting
the securities and current coin of
the United States." The nature and
form of the securities is not defined,
and they may as well take the form
of Treasury notes, or United States
notes, as that ot bonds.
a a a
equivalent to an election. The cause
of free silver will need the support
of every friend of free silver of
whatever party; and that fact must
be kept in view in the nominating
conventions. Whatever differences
upon the constitutional powers and
rights of a State with refeience to
finance are attracting wide atten
tion and study. Tbey have stirred
the enthusiasm of the neonla alone
the Gulf and Rio Grande. The Pa- exist other than.ithat. V&ng "l
. , . . . . . . . I ver on an equality with gold, at 16
cuiouup ia arousea into interest te , shonld be laid aside for
Approval comes from the territory the present. What they call "hon
of the St. Lawrence. The best est money," was secured to the gold
thoujrht of the "Kevstone" State de- cnamPlons J frud and Wyj
clares that tbe people of the States
have been effered the solution of a
great problem.
a -
From our own State inquiries are
being made of men whose opinions
may be regarded as final decisions.
In this issue we print a letter of in
quiry from Mr. J. H. Pearson, of
Morganton, to Senator Wm. Stewart,
and no necessary amount of bribery
will - be found wanting in the nomi
nating conventions, and at the polls,
to keep it. Therefore, no honest,
earnest believer in the double stand
ard of gold and silver, should for a
moment be hampered by old party
attachments.
Daniel R. Goodloi.
and Mr. Stewart's answer. Long,
It is to be considered, also, that persistent study and consistent ae-
while the States are denied the priv-1 tion have established for Senator
ilege ot coining money, and of issu- Stewart a position and reputation as
ing bills of credit, and while they an authority that is not safe to ques
are forbidden to make anything but tion. Let bis opinion be carefully
gold and silver a legal tender, none read and studied.
of these restrictions are imposed by
tha Cnnstitntion nnnn th ffnTm.
mt nf thm TTnitad Rtstsi; W1i. aro aD1 10 Present tO OUr
" . '
on the contrary, has the right "to
eoin money, regnlate the value there-
OCR CARTOON.
are able to present
Republican conventions have now
been held in all tbe 45 States of the
Union. Opponents of McKinley still
cling to the hope that tbe "field" has a
majority over the Napoleon of Fi
nance," but McKinley's nomination is
conceded by the great majority of the
press of the country. There is. how
ever, a growing demand, East and
West, that McKinley declare his posi
tion on tbe money question. First,
the New York World sent a reporter
to him witb the question whether he
would guarantee tbe present money
standard if elected President. After
to
of, and of foreign coins."
a a
It is sow the policy ot bankers
nnd their supporters, to keep out ot
view these provisions of tbe Consti
tution, while tbey dwell upon the ne
cessity of banks aj fiscal agents of I
the government"; Jefferson denied
some hours of waiting tbe reply came :
CadLtwran wmv AAmnlimnnti tv fha IV sm1j1
. . . JI IT V MMJ WWsirtialVai W W WMV WW VI
readers the cartoon on the first page but I have nothing to say." Then tbe
through the courtesy of the Silver I New York Herald tried to secure a
v- v, i , ., I statement from him but with no bet-
" , " " p.u.uuu. 8UCCegS the reply was, "I am not
It tells a true story. The friends called upon to make a statement at
and champions of McKinley are act- th" time I have nothing to say."
ually doing just what the illustra
tion describes.' In the Northern
States, and in communities domi
nated by the influence of Wall
strett, McECn ley agents are 'de-
Hnh 1 Thea Wa'ra Lart.
Hickory llercury.1
The female edition of the Char
lotte Observer must have been edited
bv old maids. It declared for a sin
gle standard
AGENTS OF THK GOLD COMBINE TERRI
BLY EXERCISED OVER BUTLER'S ANTI
BOND BILL.
It is safe to say that there has not
been a bill introduced in Congress for
the last twenty years that has created
as much excitement and caused as
much consternation among tbe gold
gamblers and their hireling agents, in
Washington, as Senator Butler's sim
ple little bill of three lines, which pre
vents the further issuance of bonds
without the advice and consent of
Congress. The gold Senators have re
sorted to all of the parliamentary tac
tics possible and to all of the cunning
devices known to the older Senators,
not only to try to prevent the taking
up of this bill, but also to outwit Sena
tor Butler and to sidetrack it since it
has been taken up. Having failed in
all of these efforts and realizing that
they, the gold men, were getting the
worst of the argument, they went to
Senator Butler on last Friday and told
him that they were willing to stop de
bate and take a vote, whereupon Sena
tor Butler agreed that tbe vote should
be taken on to-morrow. Between now
and then the gold men will make des
perate efforts to make converts to their
side, not by speeches and arguments
on the floor, but by other influences,
and in a different manner. As soon
as the time was fixed to take a final
vote on the measure, Senator Butler
took the floor to speak at length in
support of this bill.
SENATOR BUTLER CLOSING THE DEBATE
ON HIS BOND BILL.
Senator Butler began his speech on
Friday and will , deliver it in install
ments continuing to-day and finishing
to-morrow Before he closes bd Will
go into a thorough and exhaustive
history of every bond transaction "en
tered into by the officials of this gov
ernment 6iuce the late war, and he
proposes to prove conclusively tbat
tbe demonetization of silver was
brought about under the influence of
a hired lobby at Washington, employ
ed and sent there by the bond holders
to secure tbe demonetization of silver
in order tbat their coin bonds might
be made payable in gold alone. He
will show that it was the bond holders
who had the act of 1878 passed, which
first changed the contract and made
bonds which were payable greenbacks
payable in coin ; 2d, that it was the
bond holders who then proceeded to
work, through devious and various
means, to strike down one of these
coins and to appreciate the value of
the other coin in which their bonds
would have to be paid. His speech
will be the most complete and exhaus
tive exposition of the whole financial
conspiracy tbat bas been carried on
against tbe people of this country, by
tbe gold combine through the officers
of the people's own government since
the war, that bas ever been made. In
beginning his speech on last Friday,
Senator Butler reviewed the present
political situation in a very interest
ing manner.
VBXK SILVER WOULD BE ENBANOERED
BY DEMOCRATIC ENDORSEMENT.
Mr. Butler showed that when the
TT Un a. -a
Acpuuiicsu party nau oecome so
that the same organization of bank
rs ana gom gamblers which put up
the money to nominate Cleveland in
1892 have now put up a tremendous
campaign fund to nominate and elect.
McKinley in 1S9C. They have decided
to 1-se the Kepublican party for the
next four years to carry on their in
famous robbing conspiracy just as
they have used for the last four years
tne ieinocrauc party ior this purpose,
lie snowed that tbe gold men always
combine when the interest of the gold
trust is at stake. lie appealed to tbe
millions of American people who were
roooea ana Dieu oy the present infa
mous linancial system to show tbe
same common sense, to unite their
forces for common protection as well
as for the preservation of a Henubli
can form of government in the coming
campaign.
a vote win De taken on this bill to
morrow. It is not yet certain how the
vote will stand. It is believed bow
ever, that the bill will pass by a small
majority, but the agents of the rold
trust have not given up hope and are
using every possible effort to defeat
tbe bill.
Mr. W. II. Davis, of Vance :ounty,
announces in the following uninue
way that he wants a nomination : I
hereby offer my name as a candidate
for nomination as State Senator to all
the people of Vance and Warren coun
ties, regardless of race, eolor, or previ
ous conauion i parly servitude. I
have no oflice itch; I bow the knee to
none but Cod and the will of the peo
ple. My politics are JefTersonian
Democracy, Abraham Lincoln Repub
licanism and 1.. L. l'olk Populism con
centrated. Ms B nance is legal tender
greenbacks, silver and gold; tbe silver
dollar as the unit of value; abolition
of national banks; allow no gold con
tracts; equal justice to all. United
we stand, divided we fall ; the many go
down, the few go up. May God and
the good people save our country."
A congressman is a pnblie servant
in tbe full sonse of tbe word.
He is responsible to his constitu
ents, to his party, to himself the
honorable office is full of hard, thank
less work, and heavy responsibility.
Congressman William W. Grout is
grateful to the friend who directed
him to Paint's celery compound,
when prolonged official work had
w 11 nigh exhausted his health and
strength. His letter read;:
Committee on Expenditures the
War Dept. 1 louse of Representa
tives, U. S.,
Washington, D. C. Feb. J8, 18.
I found relief in Paine's celery
compound for insomnia. Its action
on the circulation and digestion was
also beneficial.
Very truly yours,
William W. Grout.
There is something wrong when
one feels "tired all the time." It is
contrary to every condition of good
health.
There ought to be no necessity of
drumming into the ears of tired men
and women who feel they are broken
in health, and are every day losing
in weight and strength, tbe urgent
need of taking Paine's celery com
pound, now 'tis spring, to restoie
their spent nerve force and purify
their blood.
Some of the earliest good results
noticed from taking Paine's celery
compound during these spring days
is a regularity of the bowels, a better
appetite, sound sleep, and good
digestion. A healthy Llood supply
is regulated by tie berver. and
these vital tissues become latfi
and badly nourished, the baj y
is seen in failing digestion, dirr-a
ing, ringing sounds in tbe ran. dJ
spells, depression, neuralc;a J
lassitude. Spring days affoid
one the opportunity for rbakitfd
old weaknetses and persutett l
orders.
Physicians ot every school l,
been from the start urred to i&q-.,
into tbe formula of Paine's rt
compound, that they might aaL
themselves of its wonderful po-J
making the sick well. Prof. Ks-a?
E. Phelps, M. D.. LL. !., at ti
he presented Paine's celery )
pound to his fellow pbyaiciati, V
always anxious to have tbe iBVifvj
ator tried in eases that had reels'
the nsnal methods of treat mf tit. tJ
he might prove tbe troth of eH
claim made for his newly diacoreMi
formula for Paine s celery ce-mpock
Tbe great remedy always gave trial
and in V0 cases ont of 100 rnsJe
pie well.
ar
raine s celery compound ratar
be judged by the standard of ar
ordinary medicine, sarsaparills
nerve tonic. It is a great mooea.
scientific discoveiy, singularly u
like any remedial agent that U
ever aimed to effect a aimilar pr
pose to make people well.
l ain s celery compound is tW
one real spring remedy known todr
tbat never fails to benefit. Ot
Paine'ssTflery compound, and ot
Paine's celery compound if jon
w w well. .
The Charlotte Observer of May 2!th.
says editorially :
In this morning's paper the names
of Judge Clark and Col. Julian S. Carr
are mentioned in connection with the
Democratic nomination for Governor.
We have it indirectly from Judge
Clark that be could not think of ac
cepting the gubernatorial nomination
from any party, and within the past
few days we have peen a private letter
from Col. Carr in which be begs a per
sonal friend to do all be can to divert
attention from him as a probable nom
inee. While we do not know and it is
none of our business to say tbat either
of these gentlemen would decline the
nomination, we feel perfectly assured
that neither of them wants it and that
either would be very much embarras
sed if it were offered him."
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ELKIN WOOLEN MILLS.
SHIP YOUH WOOI,
SHERMAN AND HIS ALLIES PUT IN A
HOLE.
On at least a dozen occasions during
the present session of Congress Sena
tor Sherman has taken great pains to
try to prove that tne only trouble with
the nuances ot tne country was
want ot revenue, ne nas said repeat
edly mat mere wouia be no necessity
for tne issuance ot bonds if the tariff
was raised, lie bas repeated tbis state
ment in the face of the fact tbat Pres.
ident Cleveland himself has admitted,
in i wo or inree messages to Congress,
that it makes no difference how much
revenue wa raised it would still be
necessary for him to sell bond to
buy gold in order to pay the obliga
tions of tbe government in gold. This
is, one statement made, by President
Cleveland tbat every fair minded, in
telligent man knows to be true. Mr.
Sherman himself inaugurated this
policy of paying the coin obligations
of the government in gold and refus
ing to pay out silver. Mr. Cleveland
h- k- pi. up 1 1.; policy, and as long as
it is maintained at regular intervals
bonds will be issued to buy gold, be
cause the government does not receive
gold in payment of customs or tariff
duties; therefore, the government
might have a thousand million of
greenbacks or silver collected in pay
ment of customs, duties or other taxes
due the government, but still it would
not have a dollar of gold except by
the issuance of bonds to buy gold.
But inasmuch as Senator Sherman
has persisted in making this statement
for campaign purposes, in order to fool
tbe people into believing tbat all tbat
was necessary to bring prosperity was
to elect some high tariff goldbug like
McKinley for President, it was decid
ed by a number of the friends of the
money of the Constitution to put his
statement and professed sincerity to
a severe lest, xoe opportunity came
when be offered his Filled Cheese bill,
which be claimed would help to raise
revenue to run the government. As
soon as tbis was done Senator Allen
and Senator Dubois both offered an
amendment to the bill to place a tax
oti beer of seventy-five cents or a dot
lar per barrel, which wobld be certain
to raise an increased revtmae of from
miny to iorcy niyion aollars per
year. Tbis put Senator Sherman in a
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