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THE CAUCAGIAtJ PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BT THB 01C01SI1W rOBLHalNO oo SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 3tfl YUB. ....... . rX MONTHS....... . .M THRKK MONTHS W as Enured at the FostOffloe in Raleigh, N. C. m second-class mail matter THOSE BROKEN FLED0E9. as la a reoant issue Tun Cawcasiai published several affidavits from voters who heard Democratic speakers and Democratic candidates for the last legislature solemnly pledge the people on the stomp that if they were pat in paws that they woald not attempt to disfranchise anr voter white or black in the State. That the Demoeratio or ganization, offlotally, in its State cam paign book and in official address by its 8tate chairman and by pledges from the speaker! and candidates of that partv from mountain to sea, made sach pledges is too well known to need any proof. In fact, not a single Dem ncratla sneaker or nolitiolan in the State has ever denied or attempted to denv that they made ucb pledges. There has been such great demand for extra conies of Ths Caucasian containing the affidavits above refer- ph tn tht we h decided to nublish a few more of such affidavits. The fol lowing: affidavit shows the pledge that Mr. Robinson, the Democratic candi date for the legislature in Cumberland, mad: Stats of North Caboliwa, ) CrMBIRLiKD COUHTT. ) n. K. Tavlor. belnar dulv sworn, d- pnae n1 nays: That he beard H. MoD Robinson, Democrat! candidate for the legislature in Cumberland onunty. say that the Democrats did not want the Louisiana disfranchising amendment to the Constitution; tht the charges made by the Republicans and Populist speakers that they, the Democrats, would disfranchise the negro and poor whites was false and only ued to influence their votes; that they also favored the negro con- trolh"f their own schools. D K Tatlor. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 27th day of January, 1900 W P. WSMTSS, J. P. When Mr. Robinson got to the legis lature on such pledges and promises he deliberately broke them, either with malice aforethought or else be submit ted to being whipped into line by the party lasb of the Simmons machine. We nublish another affidavit from Hertford county showing the pledge that lion. L. A. Daugbton, one of the State speakers, made : Stats or North Cabolijta, ) liSBTFOBD CODKTT. J A. W. Simons and Jack Everett, be ing duly sworn, depose and say : That they heard Hon. L. A. Daugb ton, one of the Demoeratio speakers, who was the Speaker in the Senate of 1893 and 189S, make a speech at Har rellsville in Hertford county, on or about Ootober 1, 1898, in which Mr. Daugbton denounoed the charges made upon the Democrats by Populists and Republicans that tbey would pass a francnlse law or a aisrrancmsiog soheme. He, Daughton, further de clared and assured every voter in the audience, both wbite and black, that tne Democratic party nad no aucn in tention and did not want to take any privilege from any voter, it made no difference bow bumble nor how illit erate; that if the Democrats got con trol of north Carolina tney sbould have their rights and they would soon see that all such charges were utterly false and no such things would be at- tempted; that the Demoeratio party would never attempt anything ot the Kind, ' I A. W. Simoks, J. P. JT" ' Jack Evbbbtt. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 29th day of January, 1900. J. H. Evans, J. P. Mr. Daugbton mr-de this pledge for his party from one end of the State to the other. Will he now endorse the outrage ous disfranchising scheme sub routed by the State legislature? Or will he stand by bis pledges and prom ises to the people and oppore it? In our next issue we will publish more of these affidavits. Clip them cut an1 take them with you when fhee speakers tome around to make new p'edges and promises to the people thi - year THK KKNiUCKY SITIM1ION. Law and order have not yet been ntured In Kentucky. he ballot box stuffors, having failed so far to steal the State, have threatened to go off and set up a separate State government of their own. A num br of efforts has however been made, It seems, on both sides during the past week to se cure some compromise or se tlement of their differences. It is noticeable that the one condition which the Republicans and antl- Goebel Democrats and Populists naveinsistea upon is mat tne in- lamousuoeDei election law snail be repealed, outrlgnt, and that a fair ana nonest law tnat wouia give all parties representation on elections woaua buvuiu iro ouaewju iu. lui stead. Up to date, the Goebel ma chine Democrats have refused to accede to this. It seems that thv ,, ... before giving up this Infamous, thieving election law by which they can stuff enough ballot boxes and steal enough votes to overturn the will of the people. There Is one thing that a brave, free people will not submit to, and that is to having their votes stolen and their verdict reversed by dishonest election offl- clali. This Goebel election law is the root and the cause of all the trouble that has occurred in Ken- tucky. From the present writing It seems tnat ll tne .Democratic Machine would simply agree have honest elections and let the people rule, that everything would do seiuea peaceaDiy ana quietly once. in this issue Mr. Nash ably re- pues to .air. uusoee as to tne won a i . r r a x stltuilonallty of section 5, Mr. Nash says mat ne wui vote against tne anieuumeub oeuautm it violates tne Federal .constitution which he has worn to support. . SZXATOB PKTTIGRKW OH THE AMENOMHMT. On the front page of this Issue of The Caucasian will be found a legal opinion from 8enator B. F. Pettigrew, of Soath Dakota, on the proposed suffrage amendment. While Senator Pettigrew does' not write as full ande laborate opinion Senator Alien, wnose opinion was published In the last issue of Thx Caucasian, yet he is equally clear and as positive that section 5 is not only unconstitutional, but that the Courts will declare it void and sustain the remainder of the amendment. He says that the well established principle of construction which the Court follows will make It necessa ry for it to take this course regard less of any attempted instruction to the Court by the Legislature. Senators Allen and Pettigrew have no partisan Interests to warp their legal judgment. .They are great lawyers and they look at this ques tion from a purely legal standpoint, and therefore their opinion will have the greatest weight with men who want to know the truth. There has been such a demand for extra copies of the last issue containing Senator Allen's strong and forcible legal oplnllon that the issue has been exhausted. In order to accomm6date those who have not been able to get the last issue of Tub Caucasian, we will try to find room to publish Senator Allen's opinion In the next issue. Send in vour order now for extra coDies Thev will be furnished at one dollar per hundred copies, and we can mail them direct from the office to any addresses that may be furnioh- ed us. THST ARE TWO OF A KIND. We notice that the News and Ob server charges that Senators Pritch trd aid Butler, in their speeches in the Senate, have misrepresented Senator Vance's position on manhood suffrage. If they have done so, why does not the News and Observer publish exactly what they did say and Ut the people see for themselves f We challenge the News and Observer to do this. That paper dare not do it, for if it did so it wouid prove that it was misrepresenting them and Senator Vance also. Besides, it does not lie in the mouth of the editor of the News and Observer to attempt to be spokesman for Senator Vance. The editor of that paper was holding a fat joo at the Cleveland pie counter at the time that Cleveland and Ran som were persecuting and misrepre senting Senator Vance. And the editor oi tnat paper, wnne being fed with Cleveland pie, joined them in I licit subscriptions for the Cauoa their infamous crusade. Indeed, the sian in every township and in j ealt0r of that paper tried to justify Ransom and Cleveland in repealing the last silver law on the statute books, as the files of his paper will show. Vance's opinion of the editor easy to make from one to five dol of the News and Observer was no lars per day. Write for further in- doubt on a par with the opinion he expressed in the United States Senate of Mr. Simmons when he denounced him and defeated his confirmation for an important office on the ground that he was unworthy to hold a posi tion of trust or profit. They are two of a kind. INFAMOUS ELECTION LAW PASSED TO CARRY THE AMENDMENT. When the amendment was pre sented to the legislature the Wil mington Messenger said that it would not exactly satisfy manv Democrats, but it is the best that can be obtained under the circum stances." And it will be remember ed that the Messenger during the OQ ..mr..r. ,1 in i j faced Populist lie" that the Demo crats would disfranchise anybody. The Asheville Citizen comment ing on the amendment when it was preser ted, said : ' The suffrage amendment to the onstitution, which will be sub mitted by the present legislature. will carry in North Carolina by 50, uu majority, lr it is votea ror un der such an election law as that body should not adjourn without passing. The object of the amend ment is to eliminate the negro vote, and thert is no doubt about it ac complishing its object unless the courts declare it unconstitutional." So the election law was passed with the deliberate purpose to carry the amendment regardless of the opposition, at least. The following editorialfrom the News and Observer of Feb. 26, '99, removes all doubt their object in passing such an unjust election law. "j . w liey onooK nas written an - open letter against the amendment. If J-Wiley does keep quiet we may noz xet mm vow aSaln " Mr. Shook can "read and write" yet, the election law is to be used to disfranchise such men who will not vote for the amendment. necenuy mr. witnerspoon, a lawyer of Newton wrote an article I submitting some strong argument aml reasons why it was not safe to adopt the proposed amendment. At once the.mud-slinging mill started UP and Mr. Witherspoon got a vast amount of abuse but no answer to bis argument. Within the last few aays.mr. j. nomas j. uiCKman, a to Democratic lawyer, of Henderson Vllle- has come out in an article (which we are sorry we have not at rwui w puuusu in wus issue; giving arguments against tne re- strictiOn of suffrage and sayiner he would rathtr see suffrage extend I - ed than restricted. Of course he will be met with, abuse and denun elation and mud-6linglng, but no I one will attemut to answar hla I argument. We notice that some of the ne gro calamity-howling organs In this State have said that the ne gro was the cause of all trouble In Kentucky. What are the facts! There are only about forty thou sand negro . voters in that 4tate, at pi while there are about 7 white votes for every negro vote. Indeed If the proposed amendment were adopted eral in North Carolina and were sus tained as constitutional there would still be more negro voters in this state than there are to-day in Kentucky. No, It is not the negro that is the trouble In the state of Kentucky or the troub'e in North Carolina. It Is the desire of a lot of politicians to get office by stuff ing ballot boxes and stealing votes and overturning the will of the people. The ballot-box stuffer is a thief and an anarchist. He is the greatest possible curse to any state and the greatest enemy to law and order. If there are any who doubt the solemn pledges made by the Dem ocratic organization in the last campaign not to attempt to dis franchise anybody white or black, let them drop a postal card to Sen- ator Butler, Washington, D. C, and get a copy of his speech delivered in the Senate last week. In that spaech he gives the facts, quoting the exact language and pledges made from the Democratic hand book, from Chairman Simmons' official circular, and from speeches and affidavits, etc. If you have any I i i- i i . ..i j i : i ueiuuura w wmmi wuum I j i r a. i : i a. 10 nave a copy oi mis tspeecu seni, send in their names and post office addresses to Senator Butler at Washington and he will no doubt mail them copies. The gold standard financial bill, which has already passed the House, will be voted upon in the Senate to-day. Senator Butler has offered a substitute for the bill pro viding for the free coinage of silver and gold and the issuing of full le gal tender greenbacks in accord' ance with the People's Party, posi tion on the money question. This substitute should of course be adopted, but it will of course be vo ted down. ,i A On the front page of this issue we publish a brief report of Senator Butler's speech In the Senate on the Constitutional Amendment, clipp ed from tho Washington (D. C.) Times. The Caucasian has not yet received a full copy of the speech and so publishes the Times' report We want an active agent to so- every neighborhood in North Carolina. We will tav a liberal commission to those who will so to work actively. It will be formation. If you get a bundle of sample copies of this issue you are reques ted to distribute them among your neighbors and try to get a club of subscribers. If you will send In a club of ten subscribers, we will send the ten copies for a year for $7.50. The Caucasian learns that sev eral prominent speakers of nation reputation have been invited to ad dress the Populist State Conven tion which assembles in Raleigh on April 18th. If you are not a subscriber and you get.a sample copy of this issue it is an invitation to you to sub scribe. Send us a club of five sub scribers and we will send you the paper free. The People's Party National Ex ecutive Committee meets on next Monday at Lincoln, Nebraska to fix a time and place for the next National Convention of the party. "WA'HINGION NFWS lOTKS. Mr. Parson tiata Favorable Report. Col Dockary'a Hsarlag on 19th Other Notes. Special to Thk Caucasian. Washington, D. C. The Committee on Privileges and Elections in the House have report ed in favor of Ex-Congressman Pearson in the contest against Mr. Crawford. Colonel O." H. Dockery was here last week to attend the hearing be fore the Election Committee of the House, but as that Committee could not have a continuous hearing of the evidence in the contest they de cided to postpone action until the 19th instant, when the case will be acted upon. The Senate Committee on Fish eries has reported favorably. Sen ator Butler's bill to establish a ma rine lfibratory at Beaufort, N- C. The remains of General Lawton, who was killed In the Philippines, were brought here and buried with military honors at Arlington Fri day. The military displays was very magnificent and imposing. The House has passed four of the appropriation bills, and there seems to b a disposition on the part of Congress to adjourn as soon as all these bills (13) have passed. This is national election year, and all parties desire to enter the campaign as early as possible. Some of the prominent members think Con gress will adjourn early in June. The Financial bill has occupied J uring the attention of the Senate most of This measure will be voted on Fen latn. The President gave a reception on the 14th to the officers of the Army and Navy, and as usual, it was a most brilliant function. - In Montana women who pay taxes vote on all questions submittsd to tax payers."- . - Popuiut state Co.rue- taer In pursuance to a resolution of the I ited State Executive Committee, adopted shall east the vote of the county. I 1 its meeting regularly called and neiu in mis city on me xoia instant, i cuniuu ui iuo tmivu vvuuty VOU The State Convention of the Peoples ventions to eertify to the list of del- Party in North Carolina is hereby legates that may be eboeen for th called to assemble in the eity of Ral- different District, and State Conven eh on Wednesday, April the 18 th, tiona and forward list of State dele 1900, at 10 o'clock a. m.; and a gen- gates tn the State Chairman! conference of members of the I party is caild to assemble in tne j present naaneiai system or oar gov id city on Tuesday night, April, I eminent, who are in favor of the 17ch, 1900. free The Convention vni nominate ean- at didates for Stati effiees and elect vor delegates to the National Convention besides transacting each other basi-1 ness as may properly come before it. I While it does not come within the province of the committee so to di-1 rect, it is recommended that County Conventions, called for the purpose a choosing delegates to the State and Distriot Conventions, defer the nomi- nation of Legislative and County candidates until after the State Con vention. Cyrus Thompson, Chairman P. P. State Ex. Com. Ealeigh, N C, Jan. 30th, 1800. Plan of Organisation of the People Party. COMMITTZIS. Section 1. Each township shall be under the government of an Executive Committee of five members, who shall elect their own Chairman; said Com- mitt-e shall be elected by the voters of said Township at the primaries called to elect delegates to the county nomi nating conventions, under oall of the County Chairman. Provided that those Townships which are divided in to precinots or wards snail nave a separate Committee for each preoinct or ward. bxc. 2. Each County shall be under the government of the County Execu tive Committee, which shall consist of the Chairmen of the several Town ship, ward or precinct Committees This Committee shall meet at the same time and place when and where the county nominating conventions of the Peoples Party of any year are held and elect a county chairman woo may or may not be a member of its own body. In case it shall appear at said meeting of tne county Executive Committee, that any township, ward or precinct has failed to take action in accordance with Section 1, the said County Executive Committee shall be empowered to appoint said committee or committees. Sec. 3. The Executive Comm;tee for the various Congressional, Judi cial and Senatorial districts shall con sist of the Chairmen of the County ExecutiyeCommittees of the counties that compose the said Congressional Judiesr-and Senatorial Districts. The Con grftflMonal, J adi cial and Sen I attn4iaaiami5isaSSKast at the same wmeTtfiffawace that theS&ayen- meet to nominate tneir respeCiisilj,;" , 6 " candidates, and shall elect araTiC! or P"us servitude. At tive chairman for said committees who may or may not be a member of their body. Sec. 4. In case any above named committee fails to report to its con vention while in session as provided above, it shall be sufficient proof that there is no proper organisation, and the convention shall thereupon pro ceed to elect a chairman of the com mittee. Sec. 5. The County Executive Committees, Congressional Executive Committees, and Judicial Executive Committees shall report their action, as provided for above, to their respec tive conventions while in session, for their approval or disapproval. If not approved, then the convention before an adjournment, shall elect the chairman of said committee Sec. 6. The,State Executive Com mittee shall consist of twenty-four members. The State Convention shall elect one member for each Con greasional district, and six members at large. The members so elected and the nine chairmen of Congres sional Committees shall meet during the session of the State Convention ana recommend, to tne convention a person for State Chairman, who may be or may not be a member of the committee so elected. Should the State Convention not approve the recommendation, it may, proceed to elect a State chairman or the State Convention can delegate this author ity to the full State Committee. But each State chairman shall serve un til bis successor is elrcted. The six members at large of the State Com mittee shall constitute the Central Executive Committee. Sec. 7. All executive committees shall have the power to supply all the vacancies occurring therein. Sec. 8. A quroum of the various committees shall be as follows: The county and Senatorial committees a majority; the Congressional, Judi cial and State one-third of the mem bers of said committees Sec 9. The Executive Committees of the Senatorial, Congressional and Judicial districts, respectively, shall, at the call of their respective chair men, meet at some time and place in their respective districts, designated in said call. And it shall be their duty to appoint the time - and place for holding conventions in their re spective districts; and the chairman of said respective committees shall immediately notify the chairmen of the different county exeeutive com mittees of the saH appointment, and the said County Executive Commit tees shall at once call conventions of their respective counties in conform itory to said notice, to send delegates to said respective - district conven tiontione. Sec. 10. That in ease of failure of any primary or convention to elect delegates, the Executive Committee shall have power to appoint, and certify the proper number of" dele gates. The chairman, or m his ab sence any member of the County, Senatorial, Juaicial and. Congress ional Committees, shall call to order their respective Convtntions, and hold chairmanship thereof until the Convention shall elect its chairman. conventions. Sictton 1, Each township prima ry of the People's Party shall send to the County Convention three del egates for every twenty-five votes and majority fraction thereof cast for the People's Party candidate for Governor in 1892. And when a town ship is divided into precincts, wards or other sub-divisions of a town ship such sub-divisions shall sendtj5 here is to disfranchise the negro the County Convention one delegate at large nd one additional delegate for each 25 votes or majority frac tion thereof . Sec 2 Each County Convention shall be entitled te send to each of the other Conventions two delegates at large, and one additional delegate for every fifty votes and majority fraction thereof cast for the People's Party candidate for Governor in 1882: Provided that every Convention shall be entitled to rend as many delegates as it may seet&i and pwvid fus thit the number of dulv aeered. delegates in any Convention TVft nCTInPff AM V PIITlFS dec. a. it snail be the duty of the Qf Sko 4 All who are opposed to the coinage of both silver and gold the legal ratio of 16 to 1: who fa a farther increase of .oar letal tender currency, without the inter- vention of banking corporations; who favor a graduated income tax and farther necessary legislation to reduce and equalise taxation and who are in favor of a free oallot and fair count, and of guaranteeing to each political party the right to rep- resentation on all election boards, which shall be of their own selection. to prevent disfranchising rotors by partisan election boards; who' are in favor of a more eeonomte adminis tration of oar government, eeanty, State and National; rho are opposed to having Exeeutive and Legislative branches of our gorernment domi nated and controlled by trusts, com hint, a n rf mrniAiiA i,i and whA M wilHnr tft rwn.ratA 'with th. Pr- pie's Party to secure these reforms, are invited to participate in all Peo ple's Party Primaries and Conven tions, Mr. Kuh BopllM to Mr. Bos !' Arga- ment a to Section 5. The gist of tnat argument, it seems to me, is this: Section 5 would be plainly nnconstitutional if it imposed the educational qualification npon ex-slaves or their descendants alone, but as it applies likewise to other classes (which he specifies) it is con stitutional. The first class he men tions are foreigners who had not voted before 1867 and their descend ants; the second, residents of the va rious territories. He illustrates his position in this way. I copy what he says because therein is the answer to bi whole subsequent argument: "To illustrate, let us see .what would be the effect of a provision identical with the proposed amend ment, if adopted by another State. In JNorth Dakota, for instance, there is a large foreign population, many of them well educated Scandinavians, living in communities of their own, and many of them unable to read or write the constitution in English. There are very few negroes. The number of white free-born persons who would be excluded by the edu cational test and not admitted by the exempting section would be many times greater than the number of negroes. Could it be seriously argued that in Minnesota the few negroes who were affected had their right to tt"vt O Vivii) ivAii nn aAAriMw nf fli aid me rui of TJJeBomo .repetition, lei it esome be kept in nuth that not only must the light to voteo-bxi musi ue BDriageaon account or raoe 1.1 i a . color or servitude. And if the amend ment would not be adjudged invalid in Minnesota, can it be unconstitu tional in North Carolina! As it seems to me, the - fact that the abridgement or failure to exempt from the operation of the abridging section applies to all foreign -born citizens and their descendants, unless the ancestor was naturalised before 1867, is a decisive answer to the po sition that the educational qualifica tion is prescribed on account of race, color or servitude." There are two controlling fallacies in this argument 1st, that the con stitutionality of section 5 is not to be determined by the conditions as they are in JN orth Carolina; but upon con ditions that might by some remote possibility be in the future. 2d. That if seetion 5 should be con stitutional in North Dakota or Min nesota, it would be in North Caro lina. i propose co connne myseii to a refutation of these ideas, and 1 will admit at the ontstart that section 5 would be constitutional so far as the negro is concerned in both those States, and for the same reason that Mr. Busbee gives,, that is, that the uumber of alien voters in those States (36,314, two-thirds of all the voters in North Dakota, and 221,309, not quite two-thirds again, in Minnesota) is so large in comparison witn tne negro vote (100 in North Dakota, 2,009 in Minnesota) that bere could be no color for the eontention that these negroes would be disfranchised on account of their raoe, color or previ ous condition of servitude. Then, it would appear upon the face of sec tion 5, interpreted in the light of sur rounding conditions, that the disfran 1 1 . m i cnisement or tne negro was a mere minor incident to the great eon troll ing purpose to disfranchise the alien. Now let us apply this principle (Mr. Busbee admits that it is a correct one) to conditions in North Carolina. Taking the census of 1890 as a basis. as I have done heretofore, and there are 109,346 negroes of voting age in the State. Let us knock off 5,000 of these as negroes who were not slaves or are not descendants of slaves, and this leaves 104,346 nerroes in the State to whom section 5 will apply. There are 2,081 men of voting age in the State of foreign birth. Some of these, of eourse, voted before 1867; now many it is impossible to esti mate, so I let the figures stand. I suppose that tere are not a dozen white men in the State who could be put in Mr. Bastaa's second class, that is, those born in the District of Columbia or any of the Territories, who themselves, or any of their an cestors, have had an opportunity to vote in any of the States; but let them go to balance the foreigners who voted befor 1867. Now the date January 1, 1867. was adopted for some purpose. Was it to apply an educational qualification to for eigner t If so, why not adopt the 1st of January. 1884 or 1899! Why go back to that particular date if it were not that thereby the education al qualification should be applied to every cx-sIata or descendant of such slave 104 346 while it is removed from 230 000 white men acd left in force on only 2 001 foreigners! If we apply, then, the prineif les which we applied to North Dakota and Minnesota to North CroLna. it is not perfectly apparent that the great controlling purpose of section beeause he is a negro, with the dis franehisement of a few foreigners as a mere minor incident. 8if section 5 would, tfe constitutional ia the first two States, it must necessarily be un constitutional in this State. " Mr. Busbee is too broad-minded a man and too excellent a . lawyer to indulge in the piddling that appears in the question, "And if the amend ment would not be adjudged invalid in Minnesota, ean it be nnconstitu tional in North Carolina f .The loth Amendment could not be ww ""' ww Two Prominent And WtllXfiOVB People. A Catarrh Cure That Cores. Uim Dade Stegeman, superintendent of the Chicago North Side Woman's Club, of Chicago, In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman speaks of Pe-m-na as follows t Chioaqo, Jan. 28, law. Pe-rn-na Dreg MTg Co, Columbus, O.: Gentlemen Pe-m-n has often used by the mem bers of our club In oases of stomach trouble and general debility ale o re cently In cases of la grippe, and always with the most bene- r5. ficiary results. I j&N think a great deal of Pe-rn-na otten rec ommend it to my Dd stegeman. friends, ana am giaa a ur all who hare triad It apeak a good I word for it. Dade Stegeman. j Pe-ru-na has become to be ao universal-1 t i..t.i a. nuilfla enri for Car I Urrh, acute or chronic, coughs, cold. i -vim- ft la amaelnor that anr I one should continue to Buffer on with I found Pe-ru-na to be a wonderful rem rifih a terrible malady, neglecting to edy. I only ned it for a short time and take a course of treatment with It. Of lam thoroughly aatunea mwiu men., oourse it mar be that some people have I cannot find word to exprees my grati- 4 - vnm of thia srreatlncation for the reeulu obtained. As a iatarrh remedy, but it ia strange that it should be ao after such multitude have been cured by it and eo many papers I have heralded it from one end of the I oountry to the other. But the news I travels faster and faster every month, i and no one can fail to see that the time J is not far distant when Pe-ru-na will be known in every household in the land.) applied uniformly throughout the whole country unles the courts paid some hed to the different conditions and different populations in the va rious States. In a former part of his article in the Post he very candidly, very prop erly and very correctly enunciates the following principlea : "But if the effect of the provisions should be to exempt all white per sons, or all free born persons, from the educational test, and should leave only colored persons, or former slaves and their descendants, to bear the burden of the abridging section, then, it seems to me, the legislative intent would be so manifest, and the opera tion of the amendment so clearly in opposition to the letter and spirit of the fifteenth amendment, that tbe abridging section would be void. It would violate the constitution as clearly as it it had piovided in ex press terms, instead of indirectly, that it should apply only to negroes, or to those who had been in a previ ous condition of servitude, and their descendants- But if the exemption is restricted in its scope, and if not only colored men and ex slaves, but otuer classes, are left under ll restriction of the abridging sectia Yftnwonid seem tnat to amendment""s8ej?8titutionaL. The abridgment of the righto vote, or. more accnrateiv. the taiiuT&v empt from the operation abridgement, must not only include all former slaves, but it must also clearly and unmistakably be on ac count of their race, color or previous condition of servitude.'' These principles are correct. But it seems to me that he errs greatly in the application. If, says he, in effect, tho date January 1, 1867, ex cluded only the 104,346 negroes from the privileges of section 5, it would be unconstitutional, but as it also excludes 2,081 foreigners, it is con stitutional. Now, from tbe insignificance of their number, it is apparent that these foreigners could never make a ripple upon the suf ace of North Car olina politics. They could, therefore, furnish no motive for section 5. They could not affect the schemes of the Lecislatnre in sucrcrestincr their snl frage provision. Tney share none of the privileges of section 5, simply m a. ay m a from necessity and not from a set purpose. How different, however, are the 104 346 negroes. So as these are the only two classes who have the educational qualification imposed npon them, it is the negro who fur nishes the motive and purpose and intent of section 5. His suffrage right is abridged on account of his previous condition of servitude or his race or his color, for if it had not been for these, he or hie ancestor would have voted in some one of the States before 1867. With an educa tional or property qualification, or both, applying uniformly npon all citizens, it would be different though every negro should be disfranchised, for they would be disfranchised not on account of race, color or previous condition, but on account of their lack of proper education or sufficient property. More particularly is this true thirty-five years after they had attained their freedom. And it would make no difference what was the actual intent of the legislature, for the provision acting uniformly npon all classes, the negroes would not be disfranchised on account of race, etc. So the intent wonld be immaterial. Bat where an arbitrary date is selected as in section 5, it is somewhat in the nature of a latent ambiguity, and it requires both in terpretation and construction to as certain what it means. So the intent there is material. Both Senator Morgan and Senator McEuery disregard these distinc tions, as does Mr. Davidson of Ashe ville; and just there is the fatal de fect in all their arguments. Of course, as I have said before, this intent is the legal intent inherent in the seetion, its If interpreted in the light of surrounding conditions and history I have seen nothing yet tht has in the slightest degree shaken my very earnest conviction that section 5 is clearly nne institutional, and as no honest nan, haying taken th oath that I with many others have taken, and having this conviction. could vote for the amendment. 1 most decidedly will vote against it, if I am alive and able to vnt. Fbaxk Nash. Cblekaaa g Heme to Kooat. Times-Mercury The Committee in Congress on con tested elections have decided in favor of Pearson agalnt Crawford. Our Democratic friends cry out and aay it was done unjustly. Bless their sweet souls! The committee only threw out the precincts which tbe Democrats threw nut in tbe legislature to out Senators Soother and Eerlay and to put in tbeir Democratic oponent. See, it makes a difference whose ox is gored. , DROPSY CVKXa with Knuijj Have many taooaaaw oaaaa (M aopalaaa. lata of all raaaoaaaaa aaaaav Oaoaral 8. H. Toder. Oanarml 8. S. Yoder. ex-Member Coormi from Ohio, In a recent latter to Dr. Hartman, speaka of Pe-rn-na a fol- iows: WABHIKOTOK, D.C Pe - ru - na Drug MTg Co, Columbus, O.t Gentlemen I deaire to aay that X have catarrh cure I ehall gladly recommend uwau sunerera. & our- ""Ji S. S. Toder. Pe-ru-na not only cures caiaiTn, ou prevents it. Every household should be auppiiea wiin mm src coughs, colds and so forth, A free book Ion catarrhal diseases sent Of vr. xtar man, Columbus. Ohio. "Trlaaaph of PallUalaaa.- I ... - - . In an editorial undr the above haadinir. from the New Urlans Times-Democrat of March 25, 1898, we mace the following extract: "After themselves disowning and fiercely denouncing section 5 a ma jority of members of the Constitu tional Convention yesterday passed that offensive section, offensive to Democracy, to political honesty and to Americanism; and the Conven tion too, has passed this offensive section in face of the fact that tbe ablest Democrats in the United States Senate have declared it to be unconstitutional. Senators Caffery and MeEnery have protested against its passage, and have declared that it contravenes tbe Federal Constitution- In this opinion they are joined by such stalwart Democrats and un compromising: States righto Senators asTurpie, of Indiana; Lindsey, of Kentucky; Vest, of Missouri; Berry, of Arkansas; Walthall, of Mississip pi; Turley, of Tennessee; Pvttres, of Alabama, and McLaunn, of South Carolina, and many members of tbe House of Representatives.'' With the opinion of these Senators that the "grandfather clause is un constitutional, it should eause all men who before voting, take the oatb to support the Constitution of the United States to vote against the infamous measure, which was sn a "triumph of politicianswin our ature that forcea its adoption and auplBif8100 to tne People. J Victims to wn,aci), liver a&nkld ney troubles as well as women, and all feel tbe results in the loss of appetite, poisons in tbe blood, backache, nerv ousness, headache and tired, liatleaa, rundown feeling. But tbere'a no need to feel like that. Listen to J. W. Gard ner, Idaville, Ind. He says: "Electric Bitters are jont tbe thing for a man when he is all run down, and donl care whether he lives or dies. It did more to give me new strength and good appetite than anything I could take. I can now eat anything and have a new lease on life." Only 60ots at all drug stores Every bottle guar anteed. Who la Dae-eroua ? i Times-Mercury. ; Who is tbe fellow that it is dangerous a. ... a a. a m . . to put toe Daiios in tue nanus oir Why the fellow who if he can't win that way he tries it by intimidation, ostra cism, buyingotber votes, Using lipuor and orgamaingMred shirts" and shoot ing men, white men. These are tbe an archists of the age, that all christian men and true citizens condemn andre fuse to vote for and with. ' MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY. It is certainly gratifying to the pub lio to know of one concern in tbe land who are not afraid to be generous to tho needy and suffering. The propri etors of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, coughs and colds, have given away over ten million trial hot. I ties of this great medicine; and have tne satisfaction or knowing it has ab solutely cored thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness anu an uiseases oi tbe throat, cheat and lungs are surely cured by it. Call oa all druggists and get a free trial, bottle. Regular size 50c. and $1. Every bottle guaranteed or price refunded. Saaator Albart J. BaTaridg-a. In bis famous speech in tbe United 8tates Senate, told one side of bis ex periences in tbe Philipenes. The other aud more personal side what he saw and heard of. The American Soldier in tbe Field. He will tell exclusively in an early number of Tb Satuaday Evening Post oi Philadelipba. The Eminent Kidney and Bladder Specialist. Ta PUorvcrtr af twaay-taat at Wart la Ds Lakaratai7. There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because ao decep tive,. Many sudden deaths are caused by U heart disease, pneumonia, heart (allure or apoplexy are often the result of kidney disease. If kidney trouble Is allowed to ad vance the kidney-poisoned blood win attack the vital organs, or tbe kidneys themselves break down and waste away cellbycelL Then the richness of the blood the albumen leaks out and the sufferer has Bright Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's 5wamp-Root the new dis covery U the true specific for kidney, bladder and urinary troubles. It has cured thousand of apparently hopeless cases, after all other efforts have failed. At drazjfiAs la fifty-cent and dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free by mall, also a book telling about Swamp Root and-tta wonderful cures. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co-. Binghamtoav N Y snsntiontfeUptgab ieir braveTtJLall. fcj'S couen affidavit. ONE OF HIS METHODS r rOOUNQ VOTERS IN THE ULST CAMPAIGN. HK IfiaTI AFFIDAVIT TH AT A Pftf.e. osmosr to disfbakckisi sn. GKOES A!fX ILXJTXRAT WHIT fa WOULD HOT BXCBIVX A DIM OORATTC VOTER W THK IlG;a. IUTUB A YD DgXOCXCXS TH.kt WHO MAKE THI CHARGE AS rt4l IXQ TALSELY AND THYING To xi. Till PEOPLE. From Caucasian Oct. ly. Tbe following affidavit made by James II. Pou, ex-Cbalrman of tfcs gtate Democratic Executive Com mittee, during tbe last campaign, will be Interesting reading. oor readers will remember that w hen ever and wherever It was charged In the last campaign that if its Democratic machine under six mons got control of the State, ti at tbey would offer a scheme to di- franchise illltterate vote, that iL charre was Indignantly dnid and denounced by every Democratic speaker as being Infamously faW Een Mr. Simmons, the Democrat ic State Chairman, issued an i-Clci-al statement to the voters of th State, branding every such cW as false In to to; saying that that campaign He bad been char?d against tne Democratic party l. fore, and that tbe charge was cow to old and so false that no vn would believe It, Mr. James II. Pou, the i-x-Ch air man of the State Democratic Com mittee, In his speeches made ths same declaration. But It twmt : one cf hjg speech 6 In Moofa I 1 LI. J I county, boeuo uwmw uui dlence expressed doubt of the truth of his Indignant denial, and ealld upon blm while upon the stand to know If he would make an affida vit to that effect. He publicly agreed to do k, we are Informed. Th result Is the affidavit below, made at Raleigh, dated Oct. 14th. 1898. It will be noticed that -Vr Pou, shrewd, slick and cunning aa he is, attempted to word hs afilda vlt so as not to say explicitly what he bad said publicly on the stump, and yet at the same time, to say enough to make It appear that his affidavit had made good his cam paign declaration, and fool the vo ters Into accepting his statement and voting for the machine. The following Is a true copy at the affidavit: Statk of North Carolina, ( m ... tir w - i James H. Pou, being duly swora deposes and says: "I have n-vef said that, If ths Democrats regained control of the State, tbey intended to disfranchise the negroes and Illiterate white vo ters I never have said anything like this, and I know that such la not the Intention of the Democrat ic party. I have never heard a sin e uemocrat give utterance u ch a sentiment, and I do not be- such a proposition comes . a a a a befonTne uenerai Ansemoiy, mat would TBceive a single Democrat e mat a majority oi aa At f v. Jua wnite voters oi North Carollna?J!n,ocra;Vl Democratic rjartylPP150' .1' them for aid In prssdf" b,uJ supremacy in the center anj In restoring It In the EastertS of this State. They are resrwnouSV" to our appeal, and to repay them for their aid with a disfranchisement of their votes would be folly and Ingrattlude Indeed. Tbe man who makes these charges know they speak falsely, but their cam paign this year is run npon the idea that the peopls of North Car olina would rather believe a false hood than the truth, and they would rather bear libels upon the honored dwad than to hex argu menta based upon truth. Signeu j James H. Pou. Sworn to and subscribed before me this October 1st 1898. Signed Oxo. W. Thomfsov, Notary Public Notarial Seal, V ( Geo. W. THompson, ) ! Notary Public, Raleigh, N. C. Two five cent documentary rev enue stamps attached. If tha Baby to Catting Toot. Be sure and use that old and well tried remedy, Mas. Wixslow's 8ooth to Stscp for children teething Is soothes tbe child, softens tbe gums, allays all pain, cures wied eolie and is tbe best remedy for diarrhoea. 33 els per bottle. I THE SICK AI1E UADE WELL, And tho WoaA ora Beaters to foil Tlw and Steeact at tha HoaMta of tkta CraaA oat Heater of Matters TUaaa. m mm. . Ha Tm any aala r aQj or ar a i ror w Uund mbam lint Kmuu. - - A m. 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Cored, i4col.ar to aues aad Um i-vu us DuTMbn, save cv Cktarrtu ao4ailf t W u. ii, ae vprnj ttam. k idnrr CMu.lala. i "w taocm nc ad rtmucdMMen. Varicocele vr. liatliaeayv aore ta V WafefjlalB"abA asf Y at Wat eraAal aaa PtrletlarS). ltrirteramaaetUiaeMrkrt rr rtirl tt It lamnnenial Tt rat" tetM tU,mi nrOjod at k oars br tt-rt na or Ireanf tine frnoi 1 in Tiiel tnmr4r ta only traetment aruirh rare wnk oat a w-ratioo. rr. IlaUMwaral)a U paruruew atara line egrra fmta artcowte ai4 Hnram V re2UfCMIaM tl ct bia new anna sraica anil si gtfaj l Psaa ?tTm aT4ioaOoo. Treated. "tar-" "Dw h" rwnlwnm' .. W7Tmm aattreadteaedrT . ! . toe paraataad aeatOi and aU trnra etgal teaan yUm of irteeem. a . -Batbaaasak udani "t adnoa. ettaar at aw eleea or raaa o-tMaaeaaa taataaa XsaVrrosi hathawav, sa. a. TTv SATS IjaaSaaoaarm .8.1k.
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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