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to Meet Demands. Five Copies Caucasian 3 Months For $1.0012 Copies 3 Months $2.00 .Now is the time for action. The enemy ia sowing tarea. Let the n,iU80w good wed. Kite copies of the (,'au apian 3 months for 1.. Twelve copies 3 months for j.'."". S-nd a club 'puck. i m CA KtetybnJj pit .Welder to the wb. o. Tb nldbere are A k sow in r th roentrt dwn with their iJ!iej l.tratar. IiV! awel Itm. td ll.w fa fit VOL. XIV. RALEIGH, N. G TIIUKSDAY. JULY H, i80. NO. :".. New Offer ITHF N j cop o ia tirritai j wc BRYAN AND SEWALL ARE THE NOMINEES. The Work of the National Dem ocratic Convention Peoples Party Platform Stolen. SILVERITES IN CONTROL. A KatlllnK tight l.aatlcic He ) Vhl h. It.l. rry TatieM Now llrrlnrnl t l Truth aud .limUc. H th. F.oi.lc. I'artjr Kiirmj .lu.llC Walter lark Urf Only 4l VotM Fur Vlr. Fr.al.l.nt. K.K pHJCalUKMT, H II I 1AM .k.N.MNOH IlKTiV, of Nebraska. Fob Vif K-l'KrsiDKN ) , A m i h u Skw -am., of Maine. Tlieae are tbe nominees of tli. na tional democratic convention. Williams Jennings ISryan, of Lin coln Neb., wan born in Salem, Marion county. III., March ;, Ihihi; attended public Hchool until fifteen yearn, spend ing bis vacations on t lie farm; in t tie l.ill of I;.-, filtered Whipple Academy, at .lackHotiville, III.; entered Illinois College, Jacksonville, in 177; com pleted a classical course arid wan grad- uated with the highi-Nt honors in InsI ; attended I'nion College of Law, Chi-' cago, III., for two yearn, during which time he wan connected with the ofiice of ex-Senator l.yman Trumbull ; began the practice of his profession at Jack sonville; removed to Lincoln, Neb.. October I, Ikn7, and became a member ol t lm firm of Talbot V I'.ryan ; never held an elective otlice prior to his elec tion to Congress; was elected to flu ! ifjyce onil and re-elected to the JOAINr N allot A I. MASK 5UIIH, "Conjure tlot." J. a t'.e iion-'f t.i coifi and iu ftK.r,.-, . m,.l I'renideut Ja knfi i!et lar.-"i hv i) ':- r ei;i: Id ii'jt !pi- ilflf'Htc ! : r4 1 Tat jiir. r-r iri dic i'i'in'. "We therefore r. M the !!- ai:c. of note inter 'l.-d !i t ircu ! e a inoii-j I.", nati'irit.! '.t.k-, in !-r- gat i I t !i" infifid 1 1 ' a! lga) 1 1 i r J ht, ami wl to t h- I nitei' the goveri.i atid "li-.t'.t If i ' I'M ( r i'. I. i ! II 5 l"ll. fi which I . recei V4 hte halt be 1 f l'..e I tit." ; Wi; de ti,i!r a J-r t vite r -r dot s -ijed bj ! S t a t f , :t tb:e I ! I-1 V V :i I bird ('ongresA as a democrat. Mich an a hninitrt:fti of the r!c will aflcrd rqual ill tifite(! of ac-rtained and i Arthur Sewall was born at I'.ath, Me., November '."i, I sun. lie has been chain.tii.o of the Maine democratic Slate coiim ittee l'cr many yearn. Ilin renidenc? in t.- N vwall estate, in I'.ath, which ban been in jiosne.ssidii of the Sewall family since I7', when his great-grandfather took the title, only thrice removed from a grant, by King ieorge. Mr. Sewall married in Is.V.i. Ilin wife wan I'', in ma l. Crookes, of Itatli. There are two children Harold M. and William l. Harold M. was ap;iointed during Mr. Cleveland's first administration I nited States Consul Oneral at Samoa, but has since gone over to the Republican party. Mr.Sewallis president and princi pal owner of the I'.ath National I'.ank. He was president for nine years of the Maine Central railroad. He was at one time president of the Kastern railroad, and lias still considerable in terest in railroads and railroad-building. I'lHllurm. We, the democrats of the United States, in national convention assem bled, do reatllrm our allegiance to those great essential principles of jus tice and liberty upon which our insti tutions are founded, and which the democratic party advocated from Jef ferson's time to our own freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, the preservation of per sonal rights, and equality of all citi zens before the law and the faithful observance of constitutional limita tions, during all these years the democratic party has resisted the ten dency of selfish interests toward the centralization of governmental power, and stolidly, maintained integrity of the dual rights of government estab lished by the founders of this republic of republics. Under its guidance and teaching the great principle of local self-government has found its best ex pression in the maintenance of the rights of the States, and in its asser tion of the necessity of confining the general government to the exercise of the powers granted by the Constitu tion of the United States. "The Constitution of the United States guarantees to every citizen the right of civil and religious liberty. The democratic party has always been the exponent of political liberty and religious freedom, and it renews its obligations and reaflirms its devotion to the fundamental principles of the Constitution." MONEY lil'KSTIOX. "Kecognizing that the money ques tion is paramount to all others at this time, we invite attention to the fact that the Federal Constitution names silver and gold together as the money metals of the United States, and that the first coinage law passed by Con gress under the Constitution made the silver dollar the mouetary unit and admitted gold to free coinage at a ratio based upon the silver dollar unit. "We declare that the act of 1873 de monetizing silver without the knowl edge or approval of the American peo ple has resulted in the appreciation of goiu ana a corresponding fall in the prices of commodities produced by the people; a heavy increase in the bur den of taxation, and of all debts, pub lic and private; the enrichment of the money-lending class at home and abroad; the prostration of industry, and the Impoverishment of the poor. "We are unalterably opposed to mo nometallism, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrious people in the paralysis of hard times. Cold monometallism is a Jiri t is h policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London. It is not only un-American, but anti-American, an J it can he fas tened upon th United States only by the stifling of that spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our political independence in 177, and won it in the war of the devolution. f KKK COINAliK AT lti TO 1. "We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 10 to J, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be of full legal-tender, equally with gold, for all debts, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal-tender money by private con tract. "We are opposed to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by -the govern ment of redeeming such obligations in either silver coin or gold coin. "We are opposed to the issuing of Interest-bearing bonds of the United States in time of peace, and condemn the tratlicking with banking syndi cates, which, in exchange for bonds -We In. id 'ii-i ' in:! !liie- .ii iuii be levied l f J ..rK - - i-f H V l He, Mich iluliert to be Mljll-'. 'I :i t" operate equally throughout Mie country, and not il.icriiiiii,(!t e between i la-- or sec tion, and t bat t ax a! ion clinuid lie lim ited by the need of the government, honestly and economically adminis tered. "We denounce, a !it orbing to hus irich. the Kepulilicun threitt to restore tfie McKii.ley lav, wliii has twice been oiideiiricd by the people in na tional flection?, iiud which, enacted under the taNe pica of protection to home induitries, proved a prolific breeder of trusts ai.d monopolies, en riched the few at the expense of the many, restricted trade, and deprived the producers of flu- great American staples of access to their natural mar ket,. IM'lOl K TAX. "Until the money iue.-.tion is .set tled, we are opposed to any agitation for further cha.iges in our tan ii' laws, except such & are necessary to meet the deficit in revenue caused by the adverse decision of the Supreme court on the income tax. Hut for this decis ion by the Supreme court there would be no deficit in the revenue under the law passed by a democratic Congress in strict pursuance of the uniform de cisions of that court for nearly lot I years, that, court having in that decis ion sustained count itutlonal objections to its enactment which had previously been overruled by the ablest judges who ever sat on that bench. "We declare that it is the duty of Congress to use all the constitutional power which remains alter that decis ion, or which, may come iroiii s re versal by the court as it may hereafter be ( (instituted, so that the burdens of taxation may be equally and impar tially laid, to the Hid that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of the government. ritoTKCTioN or I.AIIOK. "We hold f hat the most eflicient way of protecting American labor is to prevent the importation of foreign pauper labor to compete with it in the home market, and that the value of the home market to our American far mers and artisans is greatly reduced by a vicious monetary system, which depresses the prices of their products below the cost of production, and thus deprives them of the means of pur chasing the products of our home manufactories, and as labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage o syli laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights. "We are in favor of the arbitration of differences between employers cn wwo.i i. interstate commerce and their employees, and recommenu such legislation as is necessary to carry out this policy. CONTKOL OF RAILROADS. "The absorption of wealth by the few, the combination of our leading railroad systems, and the formation of trusts and pools, require a stricter control by the Federal (Jovernment of those arteries of commerce. We de mand the enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, and the addition of such restric tions and guarantees in the control of railroads as will protect the people from robbery and oppression. "We denounce the prilligate waste of the money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation, and the lavish appropriation of recent Republican Congresses, winch have kept taxes big' while the labor that pays them is unemployed, and the products of the W y l O yW A UIL VH.'lt " t V III FI 11 j till they no longer repay the cost of production. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which best befits a democratic government, and a reduction in the number of us less oilices, the salaries ol which drain the substance of the people. and civil righto to fltllfK'. A.,A!N1 7I1IE1 HKMK. -We declare it to be the unwritten Ixw of lhi republic, established bj the custom and ijig or i-'J years, samtionrd by tf.- example of Zre&tert fcliU Wlst nt Ol t liOe WHO lounded and have maintained our gov ernment, that no man should be eli gible for a third term uf the presi dential ofiice. "The Federal (iovernment should care for uiul improve the Miisttippi river am! other great waterways of the republic, to as to secure for the in terior Stale eai-y and cheap transpor tation to tide-water. When any wa terway of the republic is of sutlicient importance to demand aid of the go v ment, such aid should be extended upon a definite plan of continuous work until permanent improvement is sec ii red. "t'onliditig in the jutns of our cause and the Density of its success at the polls, wsAfJnit the foregoing dei ".aration of principle and pur poses to the considerate judgment of the American people. We invite support of all citizens who appro them, and who desire to have them made effective through legislation for the relief of the people, and the res toration of the couutrj's prosperity." How It Wan llooc. 1 he National democratic conven tion met in Chicago on Tuesday, July 7th. If was a noisy, boisterous, tumultous assemblage of large proportions. It was what democratic papers call an "enthusiastic convention"; but the same behavior in a Republican gath ering would be called by these papers a "how ling mob" or a "conglomeration of savages." In fact it was an exag erated edition of the lawyer conven tion recently held in Ualeigh, except it had more harshness arid bitterness in it. We shall not attempt to describe the. features of "monocracy" which pre vailed at times. Hisses and jeers were lavishly indulged in. A delegate had an open fight with a policeman who tried to keep him from entering the hall. A fool yelled "tire" one time and like to have createJ a panic among 17,ooo people. Ex-Governor Weedock, ot Michigan called a man a "liar". This was a gold delegate from Michi gan who was denying that the gold men had "stolen" or bought the State. Atone time the convention was in a solid roar for twelve minutes. This was when New York cast its solid vote against seating the silver delegates from Michigan. 1 1 was a desperate ef fort of the goldbugs to stampede the convention. Time and again the convention look ed like infernal bedlam let loose. Two strong bands of 100 brass lunged pieces could no more be heard than the croak of a tree frog in a raging thunder storm, delegates mounted chairs, ciimbed upon each others, shoulders, gave Indian war-whoops, and did everything that a wildly en thusiastic and halt crazed crowd of men could think of. The galleries helped to increase the demoniacal din. Women smasbeu and ruined parasols, spoiled their hats and took a lively hand m tfie general melee. JJuring the nominating speeches the wild yahoos in the galleries had to be warn ed that they would be cleared out. dis order and confusion and parliamen tary insurrection were supreme. It was an indescribable commotion. l'rominent silver Democrats and gold Democrats had been on the scene for several days before the convention met and had been arranging for the coming battle. W hen the delegates all arrived the silver men were very largely in the majority. They made their head quarters at the "Sherman" Ilouse, and this hotel was derisively called the Lunatic Asylum" by the gold men The silver men were not long in let ting it be known that they proposed to have eveythiug their own way. The goldbugs were llatly notified that they need not expect any quarter. '(iOVhtt.MIKXT BY I.WlTNC I ION. denounce arbitrary iuterfer- " W e euce by the Federal authorities in lo cal affairs as a violation of the Consti tution of the United States and a crime against free institutions, and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dan gerous form of oppression, oy which the Federal judges, in contempt of the laws ot the states and the rights ot citizens, become at once legislators judges, anu executioners; ana we ap prove the bill passed at the last ses sion of the United States Senate and now pending in the Ilouse of ltepre sentatues relative to contempt in Federal courts, and providing trials by uiry in certain cases ot contempt AO discrimination should be in dulged by the Government of the United states in favor of any of its debtors. We approve of the refusal of the r Uty-tlnrd Congress to pass the l'acitrc railroad bill, and denouuee the etlorts of the l'resent Kepublicau Con gress to enact a similar measure. PKNSIONS. "Kecognizing the claims of deserv ing i ii i on soiuiers, we neariny en uorse ineruie oi me present t oinmis sioner oi i ensions mat no names shall be arbitrarily dropped from the I pension-roll, and that the fact of enlist ment and service should be deemed conclusive evidence against disease and disability before enlistment. "We favor the admission of the Ter ritories of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arizona into the Union as States, and we favor the early admission of all the Territories having the neces sary population and resources to en title them to Statehood, and while they remain Territories we hold that the officials appointed to admin ister the government of any Terri tory, together with the District of Co lumbia and Alaska, should be bona lide residents of the Territory or dis triot in which the duties are to be per formed. "The democratic party believes in home rule, and that all public lands of the United States should be appropri ated to the establishment of tree homes for American citizens. We recommend that the Territory of Alas ka be granted a delegate in Congress, and that the general land aud timber laws of the United States be extended to said lerritory "The Monroe doctrine, as originally aeciareu, anu as interpreted by sue ceeding Presidents, is a permanent part of the foreign policy of the United States, and must at all times be main tained. CUBA, "We extend our sympathy to the people of Cuba in their heroic strug and at an enormous Drofit to them- gle for liberty and independence selves. supdIv the Federal Treasury "We are opposed to life-tenure in the with gold to maintain the policy of I public service. We favor appointments gold monometallism. 1 based on merit, nxea terms oi otlice THE OPKN1NG SKIRMISH. I'he silver men were practically un der the leadership of Senator Jones, of Arkansas, backed by Senator Till man, Senator Blackburn, ex-Congressman I'.ryau, Governor Altgeld and oth ers, i tie goiu men were leu by wm. C. Whitney, of New York, with Sena tor I). 15. Hill, Comptroller Fckels, ex Governor liussell, of Massachusetts, J no. K. Fellows, of New York, and other shrewd politicians and manipu lators. The nrst clash came over the temporary chairmanship. The national democratic committee has, for years, been accorded the right to name the temporary chairman. But this time that right was nullified. A majority of the committee were gold men and they insisted on naming a gold man for the position. The silver men told them that nothing would be approved by the convention but a silver man, and it tne committee insisted on naming a gold man, the convention would turn him down. The majority oi the committee, however, named ben ator 1. IJ. Hill,ot New ork, lor tem porarv chairman, senator mil was begged by many silver men not to al low his name to be presented, because as democrats they did not want to vote against him, but were afraid to face the people if they allowed him to be elected. Hill refused to withdraw. l .ie goiu men matte sometning HKe a threat to bolt the convention if Hill was turned down. In reply to this the silver men told them to bolt and be d d ; that the States which the gold men came from were Republican States anyhow. ine silver men on the national com mittee were in the minority, but they named Senator Jno. W. Daniel, of irginia, for temporary chairman. Na tional Chairman Uarrity called the convention to order, and these two men were belore that body as candidates I' our years ago Daniel stood before the national Democratic convention and in one of the strongest and most eloquent speeches ever heard, nomi nated L). Is. Hill for l'resident of the United States. He was hissed by the Cleveland crowd then, ow be stood fighting him in a political battle royal Jiany speeches were made by the supporters of each .candidate, lasting over tnree nours. Lx-Governor Waller said. "Turn down David li. Hill !" "In God's name is this a Democratic convention?" ne irieuio appease ine silver men by intimating that the speech Mr. Hill would deliver would not be offen si ve, out wueu ue asivea. "will von turn him down.-"' there were cries of "We will." V ery well," he shouted, "turn him down, and we will hght you here and elsewhere." This unmasking of the position of the gold men was met with a storm of hisses, ana one or tne silver men shouted, "One vote for McKinley.' Delegate C. A. Ladd, of Illinois who spoke lor Daniel said: "No one doubts that Hill's speech would be a good one ; no one doubts mat ic wouia De a Dem ocratic speech and no one doubts that it would be a New Y ork speech," and at this sally Senator Hill himself was forced to laugh outright, while Mr. Ladd went on to delare that such a speech would have to be explained to the Republican throughout th w l de campaign. Thf roll wan railed. Tb srniunrc ment of the vote ."5i lo jJj iu laor of Daniel was received with a brief demonstration by the silvrr victor, delegate waved their hit.-. :i J the petatcr in the gallerie cheered. W hen New- York w cUU HtH l; not vote. WLen Virginia was ..r.; IiAfiitl voted for Hill, thu outger-r-aliiug I hat gent lemtti in cotirte-. Senator dan iel addrcs-d the n Vfntion in a speech, the kejnt'te of which was silver at 10 to 1 without re gard toaay international agreement. The convention then adjourned till Wednesday at 10 o'clock. VYerfn.Atl) . The silver men had boasted Hit day before that they had everj thing their own way and were going to rush things through at a lively rate. They boasted that nil the business of the conven tion would be finished on Wednesday. But the gold men showed them better. Though greatly in the minority, they battled for every inch and only gave way to superior numbers. The silver men were winning victory like Grant won victory over Lee not by gener alship, but by overwhelming force. lhey found themselves effectually stopped from making a "one day "con vention. Chairman Daniel called the conven tion to order at 10 ::w o'clock. The cui- mittees were not ready to report, and as usual prominent men were called out to speak. Among these were Gov ernor Hogg, of Texas, Senator lilack buru and Governor Altgeld, all of whom aroused great enthusiasm. An other speaker was Goerge Ired Wil liams, of Massachusetts. He had just become a convert to the silver cause in spite of his surroundings in gold bugdom. He had studied the question as a citizen not as a shylock, banker or money gambler. ills hrst sentence, " 1 his is not a sec tional convention," brought the silver men to their feet like a regiment an swering to the word of command, and when he declared that "this is a bat tle for the restoration of the union of the States," the shout made the roof rattle. "This is no transfer of the seat of power from the Atlantic to the Mis sissippi," he continued, and the cries went up "hear him. ' "1 speak ' he said, "in behalf of the honest capital of New England, in behalf of the hon est toil and iu behalf of the millions whose spindles now are silent. Our customers have been ruined," he de clared, and this new portrayal of the silver issue was received with marked approval. THK CREDENTIALS COMMITTK. The committee on credentials had two cases before it and on the action of that committee depended the im portant fact as to whether the silver men would finally have a two-thirds majority, and thus have full power to name a candidate as well as to adopt a platform. The contested cases were from Nebraska and Michigan, lhe Nebraska case was quickly disposed of by seating the silver delegation headed by Win. J. Bryan. The gold faction was a creation of Jackass Sterling Morton, who now sits in the otlice of Secretary of Agriculture in Cleveland's cabinet. AVhile the strains of "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" were floating over the convention, the Nebraska silver delegation came marching in, bearing on their shoulders their champion, Wm. J. P.jyan. A big banner accom panied the delegation. The Nebras kan was given a great ovation. The huge royal purple banner of the Wm. J. Bryan Club was finally carried to the platform and planted in full view of the audience. The convention then adjourned till five o'clock p. m, EVENING SESSION. during the recess the credentials committee had been wrestling with the contested case from Michigan. That State had twenty-eight votes in the convention. A majority of the members were gold men, and under the unit rule this majority could cast the entire twenty-eigh votes for the (y.lt fiillt. Whila tbie rarriairiu.1 en ta silver men could not have a two-thirds majority necessary to nominate a can didate. If they could take advantage of the contest to unseat four gold men in the Michigan delegation and put silver men in their places, then there would be a majority of silver men in that delegation aud they could swing the twenty-eight votes to the silver side. This would give the silver men more than the two-thirds majority so badly wanted. The silver men having a majority on the credentials commit tee, of course a majority report was made that lour gold delegates be un seated. A minority report was made in favor of allowing the gold delegates to keep their seats, And then there was a tight that lasted for hours. It was a notorious tact that when the State Democratic convention of Michigan met, it was thought to have a hundred and fifty majority in favor ot silver. But tne goia men captured it and there was much ado about it. During the fight over the committee's report there stepped to the front of tle platform a stalwart, blonde mous tached young man with a red rose on the lapel of his coat. Gentlemen, I am the man they say stole Michigan," he shouted in a tone that rang to the rafters. This defiant :lv. r :;ir r .-rr ! ;ruSd to nilvtrr, xr! t i ;u''T in It - -llIr. i I W'cn S"W ork vo'.l l..-r 7; .!-, IU ,Tur li e ff.'U O.irA'.e., lit- ; mu'TUCU W IVi' Of c!erri"? broWe i.v.r ' the assembly. The firt t!or' of l,r h& rmin to reprr th- nurisf etatfou , by '.be c.' gvrl re i.u-i t r j rouuter-deniotistrntl'.ti n tie part f, the rold drleg-dte., who, ri;t i. J i turning tt-e:r ha knt- il -hA ra jn ; and their far to the imit.-iie r.wtj in the gtlleric, waved halo s.nd hsi i kerchief and f-too.l ru tb.ir ;.,, and gest'.culated. Toe a'ler.es, ev i - ilently rtrorgly at.ti -iiver in -n?i-j men!, wvT iut iow to respond ai d unearthly sound from ii,!"1 throa!-; filled even the va-t space of the i.-rr! j hall. The Tammvi) yell v?. l 'a1 1; ly , heard in every temporary lull. T1-, band tried in vain to compete with' the bubel of noise. F.very rap o! t he chairman's gavel al-o etr.ed t" t..rt it again as it began to quiet ! uti Shouts for Hill, cat-ca!N ;u.d shrill w ill st le a Hcil to t be con t us' on. I I.-n j the silver men I.ejian to hi anlj stim'it t heir feet. R nd thi le -oat-1 ttrs ii::nitely worse. etiat.T Daniel's! powerful voice, ii.uch worn wilii iist HO TRIMMING THE PLATFORM The U.-aJu BeciiKttien Mus! otatd .i CourEt I". It A Ki3:cal It IffipeiAliv-8. THE ISSUES ARE VITAL. l-and. Trmu.pvrtalloa .m f teM Ii,( to IU. V lhti Al .Iff Sale I'l.tfartn. July M.-wi -ai A i..at.cemp m service jestercay. called t'.e i exi State, "North Carolina." "North Carolina decline to vote tiil she can he heard." replied the chair man ! t he delt-ga ion. For The t a:ica.ian. 1 I'i-Ai ! rows. N. C i oa five nn ongiuai Au.aucemn an: l'opuast the usef your rolutni tor tre ex pres.-ion or opitu-n some what at variance w.th those of kkiih of our political lenders who advie conservative action, and wish t trim down the Omata platform. It may bo well t'.r u io t'o down once more to lock I ottom, iuu in tho licht ef j "ct. a,t t b aave tin. ietrtj tec M monofoli cb!J l a. Davie. m to try to til a ta with tr tb-r a iig joJ to th bottom. Th:ak now, u.y brother. vo Ho ih to ahortn otr jltfora. Tii eily Joe. Ttm oa moid "aati reonopejy. eipreSaea Try demand in ana ovtile th Omaha platform D?-ay totbiih jatu amour u. Writ thi upon oar taaJari -.Ll Lew totba lie. sd th froeaur of exirtinf conditions will oon dnri the -to pie- to our Lelp. Land. trn pottat;on. money, tuanuf actoring and S-giUt:T0 monopolies mutt all ato Jown if we would mt th Amer ican pevp'e from poverty and slav ery. l.ook M tfceproe. Th pca-s-vaion of th i-aourc of Bator art .- v. trachiaery lT tit r . m to rontri vu v t. i bey iiliUJ. Vlf I W r ot. kmr. lit .U lata aVMlaJ rpteaenttire. U. SHOI re.;i?e money wu . v ai i , aval to but leaTl- - - " a 1 LBTTBRS FROtl THE PEOPLE Virion lUlUrt on Wbich tbt Popular Opinion is Eiprtu 3 All Section Icteritvi. UVIK0 ISSUES FORWARD. a a . raiifc m aa .a.-- TV. i ASK YOUR O introduction caught the funny multi tude, which sent up a great shout of laughter. "Name, name," the galleries cried. "Stevenson " the young man veiled. His full name was Eliot G. Stevenson. he is the law partner of l'resident Cleveland's friend and one time cabi net aide '"Don" Dickinson, and the man who is accused by the silver men with rounding up four hundred Fed eral ofiice holders to swin the Dp- I'KKMANKN I OKtiASlZ l I !.t. The co!!im:it e i ii p"r;iat"-iit organ ization reported Senator Mepheil M. White, of California. f-r j . rnianetit chairman, and Tho- .1. llogan, of ihio. for permanent secretar. .senator While made a I rid' s;eech. and then the convention adjournal until Thurs day. The "'one day" convention of the sil ver men was getting to We a very long day. Thurdy. Thursday proved to be platform and nominating day. The plat form above was adopted by a vote of lijs to :!U. The gold men made an effort to sub stitute an anti-silver idank for the sil ver plank. The substitute was ottered by Mr. Hill in behalf of a niinoritv of the platform committee, and was rs follows: "We C.eclare that our belief that the experiment on the part of the I'nited States alone of free silver coinage and a change of the existing standard of value independently of the action of other great nations, would not only imperii our finances, but would ret lrd or entirely prevent the establishment of international bimetallism, to which the efforts of the government should be steadily directed. It would place this country at once upon a silver basis, impair contracts, disturb busi ness, diminish the purchasing power ot the wages of labor and inflict irre parable evils upon our nation's com merce and industry. Until international co-operation among the leading nations for the free coinage of silver can be secured we favor the rigid maintenance of the ex isting gold standard as essential to the preservation of our national cred it, the redemption of our public pledges and the keeping inviolateof our country's honor. We trust that all our paper and silver currency shall be kept absolutely at a parity with gold. The Democratic party is the party of hard money, aud is opposed to legal tender paper money as a part of our permanent financial system, and we therefore favor the gradual retirement and cancellation of all United States notes and Treasury notes, under such legislative provision as will prevent undue contraction. We demand that the national credit shall be resolutely maintained at all times and under all circumstances." Senator Hill al?o offered the follow ing amendments to the platform and moved their adoption : "But it should be carefully provided by law at the same time that any change in the monetary standard should not apply to existing contracts. Our advocacy of the independent, free coinage ot silver being based on belief that such coinage will effect and maintain a parity betwengold and silver at the ratio of Hi to l,we declare as a pledge of our sincerity that it such free coinage shall fail to effect such parity within one year of its enactment by law, such coinage shall thereupon be suspended The substitute and amendments were opposed by the silver men under the leadership of Senator Tillman and Wr. J. Bryan. They were supported by Senator mil, Senator ilas and ex Gov. Kussell. Mr. Bryan's speech is reported to have reen a marvel of elo quence and oratory. It aroused the convention to the highest pitch of en thusiasm and practically stampeded the convention in his favor as the presidential nominee. Hill's substitute and amendments were voted down by a vote of WJ to 303. One amendment offered by Mr. 1 1 ill was as follows : "We recommend the honesty, econo my, courage, and fidelity of the pres ent democratic administration." Senator Tillman offered as a substi tute for this the following: "We denounce the administration of President Cleveland as un-Demo cratic and tyrannical, and s a, de parture from those principles which are cherished by all liberty-loving Americans. 1 he veto power has been used to tnwart the will of the people, -- iuauon or car rovctou'Bt m.'y -r a UTi m favored in eieV OMtk i . .. . . i - 8e.j ..a. S. Jalf 10. '.;. V r, ut tai pan of Hovt county tr. 1 a4or iho of oar t.t iv-rt aaimmi"rr n V ppa4 lo fuaioa with C-c old parti tr.pt on as expressed by their Kepresentatives in Congress lhe appointive power nas been useu to subsidize the press to debauch Congress, and to overawe and control citizens in the free exer cise oi ineir c.onsiuunonai ngnts a9 voters. A plutocratic despotism thus sought to be established on the ruins of the republic. We repudiate tne construction placed on the finan cial plank of the last Democratic na tional convention by President Cleve troit convention for eold. Defiantlv land aiid Secretarv Carlisle as cnntrjirv be told the convention that it had no to the plain meaning of Enc-liah ngin, to iurn out aeiegates ctiosen by worus, ana as being an act of bad a sovereign State, that by doing so it wuuiu esbaonsn a precedent that would return to damn it. and to those declarations were returned cries of right you are." J. W. Blake, of Texas, made a vio lent speech in favor of seating the sil ver men. xxe cnargea that it was no torious that the Michigan convention naa Deen pacaea and manipulated by office holders. The whole infernal delecation should in my opinion be turned out," he said earnestly, and many of the sil ver aeiegates on tne floor seemed to agree with him from the manner in which they received his sentiment. Delegate McKnight, one of the Michigan silver, delegates, replied to Mr. Stevenson. He said that it was notorious that the silver men elected a majority of two hundred to the Michi gan convention. "As soon as the administration at Washington ascertained this fact," he said, "Mr. Stevenson was hastily sum moned to Washington for a confer ence with the Great Chief." "It's a lie," yelled Mr. Stevenson, mounting a chair and facing the delegates." And so tne "scrap" and din went on until a vote was bad which resulted 558 to 368 in favor of seating the silver delegates. Tbus the twenty-eight votes of Michigan were turned from faith, deserving the severest censure rn t I i i . .. j.ne issue oi Donas in time ot peace. witn which to buy gold to redeem com ooiiatious payaoie iu silver or gold at the option of the government, ana rue use oi tne proceeds to defray the ordinary expenses of the govern ment, are both unlawful and usurpa tions of authority deserving impeach ment." Senator Hill's amendment was de feated by a vote of 564 to 317. Senator Tillman srot on a chair and withdrew his resolution of censure. "The vote just tafcen," said he "is equivalent to a vote cf censure. Where an amrmative proposition is negatived its converse is affirmed. A brave man never strikes a fallen foe. I with draw the resolution of censure." The galleries were "packed" with gold men and they kept things lively by eternally calling for Hill and cheer ing evertning the gold men did while hissing nearly everything done by the silver men. The convention then adjourned till eight o'clock at night NIGHT SESSION. xne third day of the convention had nearly gone, but as it faded away into the fourth day the climactical period of interest was reached. Evervthinj? had been cleared away for the begin- niug oi nominations, incident upon tii.- natural rights ot man, t.na tue "l-giti.i"ite powers and duties of gov ernment, rt consider our pMtion. It is literally true that Goi created man 'the physical niau) out tf tbc dust of the fjirth. It is equally true that tins vi ry hfo dejn r.ds n;n tl: sus-t ii-.t: e draw n from the bosom ot mother earth. Plainly, then, if wo tolerttte conditions under which S'ltui mm ow n nioro land than, they nud, or can cultivate, while others find it impossible oven to own a home, wo reduce the landless to the alterna tive of starvingor selling thtins-lves into slavery. And as the land owner will nevtr pay Lis wage-slave the full value of the, product of his toil, it follows that the tlavo must pay his master for tho us. of land of which ho has himself been roV.ied icy societv. Land, air, and water are od's free gift to all who wish to use them, and 1 would lik to see t5o photoerapu of the mau who claims for himself or his government the right to stand between any man ind God's title deed to enough land to supply his reasonable needs. OoJ gave the Israelites a law, which com pelled them to give every man a just share of the land and decreed that it should never ha taken from him. Io could not even sell it except un der certain conditions ana for a short time only. Uive a man land and ho can secure himself against ant. Deny him this and under no condition is he secure. Let no trim mer, therefore, lay unholy hands on our land plank. In importance it overshadows all our other demands and has the approval of common honesty and the (Jed of all truth and justice. Now supposing that we have given 11 men free aeees.i to land, it will be found that the different sections e,f our vast country can each produce some oi tho tones or common use better than any other section. A division of labor will also be found convenient and economical. Here, then, an exchange of products will lecome necessary; and while money is a great convenience in enecung exelianges, yet this could be accom plished without it by establishing common tieposuoi'ies wnro eacn could deposit his products and take outothorsof equal value. It could not, however, be e-ff-cte-d without transportation. Transportation, then, is second in importance among eletnands. Given free access to tho resources of nature, and transporta tion at cost, moderate industry, if rotcetcd against robbery, will la- sure prosperity. Next comes the m;ney question Wht is the el'tiee of money t It is to keep accounts where tho direct exchange of commodities is impos sible. It is a system of portable and transferable accounts. I possess a dollar, either of gold, silver or pa per. This dollar is niv account against the public. If 1 have ob tained it hones-tly it shows that I have given one dollar's worth of labor to the public, and may there fore wuhdraw that amount from the exchangeable products of the country. You give me a bushel of wheat for the elollar. 1 am now paid have had the dollar redeemed, and yon hold th account against the public. 2so one, ceitiinly, will deny that paper is tho most co venient material with which to keep these accounts, and it would be just as reasonable to require book accounts to ba kept on silver or gold leaf as it is to require transferable accounts to b9 thu kept. But how about a basis for paper money? It must be based on something possessing intrinsic value. Certainly. What is a basis! It is that which causes or makes neces sary the tLing resting upon it. The necessity for an exchange cf pro ducts neceFsitates a medium of ex change, and the necessaries of life are the basis. Are gold and silver cf any usa to mankind? Hardly. They may plcg a tooth but amalgam is better. Of very limited use in the arts, perhaps, but not indispensible. Among all the commodities offered for exchange it would b the last to find one more useless. E jonomy would foTbid the waste of time required to secure them. "Ob, but there is a great de mand for them." True; but by whom, and for what purpose! It cannot bo denied that under the great law of compensation thoy have served the dude in- the external dec oration of his person, and thns gain ed for him the admiration of the vul- only, saved our p frc. pey I desnuciion. railing in the v'""""! st ttlemenu. the vast public don. alt lurnisbed them free homes in th new. Westward they continually wended their way until the mighty Pacific forbade farther retreat. How at last, they are compelled to face the advancing foe. The public land have all been taken up. The one afety valve of the republic ia cloaed. Millions of our citnens have become tramps, and f-tarvation menace tunny an humble home. The people are Minding at Pay and rnllenlT brooding over their wrongs. Al ready the gory fpectre of revolution loouis far above the western horizon, aud tit ill, upon every avenue of ap proach, plutocracy bloodhounds are pressing upon them, and still our well fed law makers are oozing in their cushioned seats and prating of ons-ervative action; even of going back to the days of the fathers and doing as they did. Well, then, de stroy all the railroads, all the labor saving machinery, and all the large fortunes in the country and redact our population to three millions, and you can safely, for a time at least, do as the fathers did. Ah, the fath ers also hlept while the enemy sowed tares. Had they been wise and watchful they would have promptly adjusted constitutions and laws to the demands of changing conditions, and prevented all this trouble. Too ato now for conservative action! No free silver plaster will heal the terri ble cancer that is rapidly eating the uo out of the industries of the coun try. The radical must come to the ront, and we must fight for all or nothing. Never mind the insane cry ot Socialism. All honest gov ernmcnt is socialistic, but we need not think of that. It cannot be wrong to follow where Justice leads the way, and if it leads towards so cialism who can help it! We mcht follow oi deny the Just One. Now let us be honest. v e all pre tend to favor the rule of the major ity. We all know that this nevkb HAS liEEX AND NEVER WILL HE perm anently established under govern nient by representatives. Then why waste time! Let us have Direct Legislation, the Initiative and Re ferendum. Let this be the one plank in our platform. This ia the only possible way to unite all reformers, and this gained puts everything uu der the control of the people, stops the purchase of legislation, and es tablishes the rule of the majority. J. A. Tkakson. 1 LV PttOl IL IIDf PMllut f iv .d pirtie that an 14 lrib- at bad of th trarhr at a tain church in thia rota tu unity. II a a a - waa noiainir a Protracted B,Mf;n. and aeeing the old son of Ireland in the back end of th charrh Oahile the usual crowd wet shontie. in a high key.) h concluded to $ o tr and give th old Catholic a personal invitation to th mercv arat. Th a a. old tnan looked nn and aai.t faith and l CbriM; gt nrLt eft" from here, for you're the father of this whole d- n row. With Maj. l.uthhe for (ioveruor we can make it warm for Wataon and KaMtell. We are delighted with your paper. It strike tquar from the shoulder every tini. J. J. Kl'W AkI.h. fclWer la M.rl.4. For The 'aucaaiaa.l F.'KE.ntvii.LK, Prince ieorge Co . Md., July 10. n.m;.a wonderful change of nentitnent has taken place in this State in favor of silver. Th people, crushed by (iormau ma chine, have not been allowed to Lear anything. Hat the light is breaking fast and we have even chancea to carry the State x. If the silver feeling eontinnes to increase any thing like it has done ia the pat three months, we will Lei EkTAlNto carry it. Wm. Ma x Com va. To la -a..a)4 t'..l. For Tbe Cauc&aiau. I will say that the Popalit party is on top in this section. We can count ten every time the two old parties count one, and I think that Cleveland county will pol! a large majority for the PopuliaU this fall. We all heartily endorse Senator Butler's courso. I for one am not in favor of fusion with any party unless it is on principle; for when I joined the Populist party I joined it from pure motives and 1 do not want the Peoples Party adulterated. J. W. McMJlNNJS. THOSE PERSON POPULISTS DECLARE FOR UNADULTERATED DOC- TRINE AND DEMAND THAT THE COURSE BE "MIDDLE OF THE ROAD." Vmt'm W.rk T(thr. For The Caucasian. Bcxk Level, N. C. -inly s. The Peoples Party in this section is gaming every day. hvery move ment of our party brings in new comrades, crying for free silver. We do not care to fuse with either of the old parties for one is as bad as tbe other. The Democrats and Republicans held their primaries in May. Seven attended the former and four tbe latter. It looks as though we Pods must do the work, although our lines are open. W e extend to all a hearty welcome to those who will place principle above party to join as in the all-important work that lies be fore ns. T. II. IiLAIXX K. 1 IMc None Hut Am.rlrana oa Ciaard" la the Mogan Endorsement of Itamoerata I-or Preshleot or Viee-rrealdeat Km-1 phatirally Opposed (iathrl. Tor Uav erunr. At a convention of the Peoples Party of Person county, held at Roxboro, Monday, July Ctb, IKJG, the following resolutions adopted and reported by the committee on resolutions were unanimously adopt ed : V a itesoived. mat we declare our steadfast adherence to the principles of the national Peoples Party enunciated in tbe Omaba platform, every plank in it. Especially, we are in favor of a sound, honest dol ar; a dollar worth neither more nor ess than 100 cents: a dollar that is as good as the nation's credit and as untarnished a its honor; a dollar as good in tbe hands of tbe poot as in tho tills of the rich; a dollar worth ! Iarall. la Katlu For Tb Caucasian.! Nash County. The Democrats. its luco valuo in tho products of la-1 after advertisement at every public bor; a dollar that speculators cannot I place in Nash county, held their corner; a dollar that will pay debts! primary on Jane ISth. Bailey's and taxes; a dollar that will be good township bad TiikEE Demi and two as long as the republic endures. We Pops to watch. Jackson's had two favor bimetallism and to that end Dem and one Pop to look on. East we demand tbe free and unlimited I Fessels had not a man. I haven't a.aaa m .k.I m M - a .a a - coinage of both silver and gold atlneara irom tne other places, bat the ratio of 10 to 1 as standard j "appose they went the same way. money with equal legal tender pew-l lhe county convention bad only ers independent of the action or ad-1 hand lull. (Continued on fourth page.) gar, at d divided atte ntion from tbe absence of intrinsic value in tae way of brains, in lliat animal. lint we pay too much for our whistle when we allow the interest of a few worth less dudes to overshadow the vast commercial interests of the useful citizens of our conntiy and of the world. No, silver alone must not be the issue in the coming campaign. It would, of course, under existing con ditions, give temporary relief. Mem beis of the old parties might even help us to elect a President and se cure free coinage. B it tbey wonld go' with ns no further, and the vast monopolies would soon swallow up silver as they have gold. The bil lionaire would soon be upon us: To increase our supply of money with For Tbe Caucasian. Rockv Mount. N. C. Jalr 10. '90: I would like to present Dr. ii. U. Person, of Wilson, N. C. to the consideration of the voter" of onr Congressional district. If nomina ted I have no fear bat he will be elected. Dr. Person is a rood man for that place and a fine speaker. I know he can, and will nobly defend the oppressed masses. lie was swindled out of his seat in the last legislature, and I know be will be a terror to those miserable frauds in this campaign. I think he fwould add great force to oar ticket. and if nominated and elected, we will see that he is seated. J. B. Bakxe. vice of any other nation on earth. W e are tbe pioneers in the fight for the free coinage of silver. Free silver coinage would increase bust ness, wages and demand f 3r labor. Free silver coinage would doable the volume of money. The Peoples Party is tbe only trae silver party in existence, having ad vocated the free coinage of both sil ver and gold at the ratio of 10 to 1 without waiting for the consent of other nations since its organization. we oppose tne endorsement ol a Democrat for President, Vice-Presi dent or Congress, even though that party should declare for free silver and nominate free silver men. The Democratic party is honey-combed with goldbngs, has had its chance. betrayed the people, violated its I saw a Democrat the other day who said if things did not get better he should vote the Republican ticket. I told him they had split opea. "Then I shall stay at home, he said. This man is one that wants a "dollar good in Europe. bo yon see we have them demoral ized and in November will have a walk-over. M. N. Bissett. Taay Ar rr Oatarla. For the Caucasian.! Kelford, July 8. 9C. Oar peo ple are for Guthrie for Governor, and will yote for and co-operate with no party that goes for a gold standard. At for the overtures of the Democ- aj v thaw am lint in tnw "Ib iatA promises, demoraliz-d silver, killed my plor said the spider to tbe fly" ""uih uui vwiw avAi?r it i namor at ail jost now. It wonld be had passed a Republican Senate).! ,. .nir i,.Uat.L.i,..t;..t bonded the present and future gen-1 aether. erations, piled up the public debt by SJW.wu.wu in tune or peace, pawn ed American credit to alien syndi cates, produced shrinkage in values! H. P. HAJtEEI.T.. Continued on 2nd page YOU CAN ENC9U&USETKZ CAUtZ CF REF0R3 1Y CUSSCSSIXa TO TKE. CAUCASIAB-ILCO A YEAS.
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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