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THE CAUCASIAN PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BTTHBO4C0MI1N PCBLI1HIKO OO SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 11.00 BIZ MONTHS,.. . .00 .IS TURKIC MONTHS... Entered at the Poet Offloe in Raleigh, N. C. as second-class mill matter COJtrBlhPTIBLB AMD nilREPUTlBLK JOURNALISM. A few days ago the Raleigh News and Observer contained nearly a column editorial under the head lng: 'Butler Repudiates Silver." That paper copied several extracts from the Congressional Record, be ing part of a debate between Sena tor Aldrlch and Senator Butler on the gold standard bill. That paper taking these quoted sections as its text proceeded to say that that showed that Senator Butler had re fused, when asked by Senator Aid rich, to say whether or not he fa vored the free coinage of silver. The editor of the News end Observer knew when he wrote that article and clipped that extract that . he was suppressing the truth and wll fully and maliciously publishing to his readers an infamous false hood. Whyl Because the editor of that paper had the Congressional Record before him, and right un derneath the extracts which that paper published there is in the Record a clear and explicit state ment made by Senator Butler in reply to the question dt Senator Aid rich, which is as follows ; "But I think to day to answer the Senator that the United States could open its mints to the free coinage of silver and absorb all of the silver that will come to us and still not Increase the circulating m dlum to an amount larger than the business needs of the country require." Further comment Is unnecessary, for every honest and right think ing man will condemn the dastard ly conduct of the News and Obsr ver In clipping certain extracts and skipping the one we have Just quo ted above, In order to try to mis represent Senator Butler. The News and Observer has been guilty of so many low, dishonest and contempt ible acts like this that no honest man who desires to know the truth can longer rely upon any statement that It makes. Now what are the facts? Sena tor Aldrlch had attempted to state the position of the people's Party on the money question, but had grossly misstated it by saying that the People's Party was in favor of an unlimited quantity of paper money and unlimited inflation of prices. Senator Butler arose and interrupted Senator Aldrlch and stated that he had totally misrep resented the position of the Peo ple's party and that therefore he demanded the right to state then and there what the position of the People's Party on the money ques tion was. Senator Butler proceed ed to do this, stating the quantl tlve theory of money for which the People's Party stands, that is, for a currency of gold, silver, and paper money, every dollar a full legal tender and issued direct by the government, and for the quantity of this volume of full legal tender money not to be left to accident of output of metals from the mines nor the paper money to be issued by the banks and contracted or ex panded at pleasure, but that the whole volume should be regulated by the government so as to in crease Its volume each year In pro portion to the Increase of popula tion and business, so that the pur chasing power of the dollar would' always be the same and the stabil ity of prices could be maintained, and that a contract if it , matured ten years from today could be paid in a dollar of the same purch asing power as when the contract was made. While Senator Butler was mak ing this statement Senator Aldrlch continued to Interrupt him by ask ing him whether or not he favored the free coinage of sliver. Sena tor Butler refused to be Interrupted or to answer his question until he had finished his statement, saying tothe8enator each time that he would answer him before he finish ed his statement for It would be a part ot his statement; and cone la ding his statement he did answer him in the language quoted above. The editor of the News and Obser ver knows this for he had the Con gressional Record before him. The editor of that paper, if he stands with Bryan on the money question as he professes to do, endorses the statement that Senator Butler made and ought to have been glad to publish the full statement to show how completely It answered Senator Aldrlch and set forth a fi nancial system that no goldbag can successfully attack. But Instead of that the contemptible character who edits that paper distorted the Record to try to misrepresent a man who was standing In the Sen ate battling against the gold stand ard and contending for the honest financial system that all wealth producers desire. The Investigation of the Clark bribery contest in the Senate Com mittee is about concluded. The evidence is all in and at an early date the lawyers will argue the ease. We have not yet seen a copy of the testimony and therefore cannot give an opinion. TO BXMOTK THX XZO&O CRT TBOM j POLITICS. Webster's Weekly, in a recent editorial, said: "We are tired of the negro issue; we want it settled upon a permanent basis-" The Caucasian cheerfully and heartily endorses that sentiment. The opportunity to raise the cry of negro to raise race pre judice and call the attention of the people from great economic issue, has been a great stumbling block in the path of the State's progress. It has made it possible for politicians of the type of Mr. Simmons, who are without political convictions, or who, if they have any, are against the interests of the masses, to forge to the front on the cry of negro. It was politicians of this kind who repudiated the advice of Bryan and Chairman Jones in 1896 to unite the silver forces and make a large white man's majority for silver and mono poly. They knew that if the chance to cry negro was removed and the great enomio issues that effect the welfare and prosperity of the people were brought to the front, that they would be relegated to the rear. The choice with them was between silver and negro and they selected, negro because it suited their selfish ends best. We agree with Webster's Weekly; we want to see this question settled and permanently settled. If the proposed amendment would do that we would support it. Will it do Uf Look at the Louisiana State cam paign which opened two weeks ago, where a similar amendment has al ready been adopted. What is the only campaign cry raised by the Machine Democratic leadtref It is Nigsrer! Nigger! Nigget! The sup porters of the amendment in Louis iana promised the people that if they would adopt this amendment that they would then stop ballot box stnfflag and enact an honest election law. Did tbey do it No. Their last legislature made the law worse and opened new avenues for steal ing. The election law is so outrage ous that a combination of Democrats, Populists, and Republicans has been formed to try to overthrow the ma chine and enact an honest election law. All these elements have joined in nominating for Governor Donel son Caffery, Jr., the son of Senator Caffery. On the stump, eaoh day, he is denouncing the election law and appealing to the people to vote for a legislature to repeal it. Do the Democratic machine politicians at tempt to answer his arguments? No. Their only answer is to cry nigger! nigger! nigger! So it appears from the experience of Louisiana that eyen if the present amendment were constitutional that it would not remove the cry of ne gro. But, in spite of the experience of Louisiana and in spite of the many objectionable features in the amendment, if we were not fully satisfied that section 5 is not only unconstitutional but that the Court wonld knock it out leaving the re mainder to stand thus disfranchising fifty or sixty thousand white voters of North Carolina, we would be disposed to strain a point and sup port it. If the last legislature had wanted to effectuallyjremove the ne gro as a factor in politics they wonld have submitted an amendment to prohibit him from holding office, which would have been constitution al. This they were urged to do by prominent lawyers in their own party, but they refused. We are satisfied that it was the purpose of the machine leaders of the last legislature to draft an amend ment which would result in disfran chising these illiterate white voters, and in the next issue of the Caucas ian we will give some of the reasons that impel us to believe this. THE OPINION OF GREAT CONSTITU TIONAL LtWTIBS. There ha been great demand from the voters of the state for codIgs of the Caucasian containing the le gal opinions of such great consti tlonal lawyers as Senator Edmunds Senator Allen, and Senator Petti grew on the proponed Constitution al Amendment. We regret that we cannot supply back numbers to all of those who desire them, but we will try at an early- date to have these Opinions printed in pamphlet form so as to supply this demand. piext week the Caucasian will contain editorial leeal ODlnlons from other great constitutional lawyers. They ar clear and posi tive In their opinion that the amendment is not only unconsti. tutlonal but that it is clear that section five will fall, leaving the remainder to stand. SKNATOB PBITHARD TO SPEAK. Appointments are out for Senator Pritchard and Assistant Attornev- General Boyd, to speak at Elkm on March 24th, and Sparta on Marh 26th and at Carthage on April 3rd. Certain Democratic newspaners and politicians in this State have been doing all that they could to secure the confimation of Mr. Ewart for the life judgship to which he was appointed by Mr. M'Kinley in spite of the fact that he has been twice unfavorably reported by the sub -com mittees which had the investigation in charge and also by the full com mittee on Judiciary. Now that it reems probable that their efforts in Mr. Ewart?s behalf are unavailing and that he will probably fail of con firmation, they have begun to charge that his defeat was due fo his vote on the force bill when he was in Congress, a statement they know to to be false whsn.they make it. ANOTHER PUEDGE TO fcTOP BAXXOT- box srerruro. In another column see an edito rial taken from the Washington (D. C.) Star on the Louisiana campaign. It quotes from the opening speech of Hon. Donelson Caffery, Jr., the candidate of the allied forces for honest elections, and comments in terestingly thereon. It will be no ticed that while Louisiana has al ready adopted exactly the same amendment that is proposed in North Carolina, that yet the Dem ocratic machine Is still stuffing bal lot boxes and stealing votes to de feat the will of the people who are left to vote under that amendment. In this connection we wish to state and call attention to what a prominent member of the last leg islature told us soon after the ad journment of that body. He said that immediately after the Sim mons ballot box stuffing election law was passed, which denied rep resentation to opposing political parties and opened wide the gate to fraud, that he went to Judge Allen, a member of the legislature, and asked him how he, as an hon est man could favor and support such an outrageous law. He told us that Judge Allen's reply was that he knew the law was unfair and was prepared to commit fraud but that he would favor it for this one election until they could get the amendment adopted, and that after the amendment was adopted he would be In favor of an honest election law. This member of the legislature then asked Judge Allen if that was not a confession that a majority of the people were against the amendment and the onlyjway to adopt It was to stuff ballot boxes and steal votes to overturn the will of the people. He says that Judge alien evaded this question and passed on by saying he would be In favor of an honest election law here after. Now, overlooking the fact that Judge Allen Is In favor of fraud and perjury and corruption to steal this election, can he and his party be trusted to even give us an hon est election law after they have stolen this election, if they should succeed in stealing It? The Louis iana machine Democrats made the same pledge that Judge Allen makes. They have broken their pledges. W ill Judge Allen and his machine followers do the samef In this connection, let the people take note of the pledges made by the Democratic machine in the last campaign that if they got in pow er they would not try to disfran chise any voter, white or black. They brazenly broke that pledge ; would it be any worse for them to break and violate this second pledge? IT IS TRUE. The Raleigh Post in reporting a speech delivered by Hon. C. B. Ay- cock in Greene County has him de clare that the Democratic machine intends to rule North Carolina and have the offices at all hazards and then quotes him as using the follow ing language: "There are three ways in which they may rule: by force, by fraud, or by law. We have ruled by force. we can rule by fraud; but we want to rule by law.'' We cannot believe that Mr. Ay cock was correctly reported. We will not comment upon such lawless and bloodthirsty language at pres ent, but will wait to see if there is not some correction made. 25 OENrS TIIX AUGUST XXECTION. We have been urged by many of our subscribers to make a campaign rate for the Caucasian till the State election next August. They say that they could get many per sons to subscribe m clubs who do not take the paper with a low spe cial campaign rate. In response. to these requests we make a 25 cent rate for the State campaign, provided that they are sent in clubs of not less than four. That is for $1 00 we will send four copies to any address till the Au gust election. With this very low campaign rate the friends and supporters of honest elections of liberty and manhood suffrage should send us at least ten thousand new subscribers within the next thirty days. In another column of the Caucas ian will be found a notice by Major Outhrie of a bill that he will ask the legislature to pass to wind up the business of the Durham Black well Tobacco Company. Since this notice was given, the American Tobacco Company, which recently bought out the Black well Tobacco Company, has had a Receiver appointed with a view to checkmating the efforts of Major Guthrie. If the last legislature had passed a proper anti-trust law, what Major Guthrie is attempting to secure would al ready have been accomplished. Mr. Simmons, the Democratic State Chairman is straining every nerve and catching at every straw to appeal to passion and prejudiee in order to stop discussion of the dangers lurking behind the consti tutional amendment andof the in famy of his thieving election law. He never loses an opportunity to re peat the base and false charge that Senator Butler in his speech before the People's Party executive com mittee declared in favor of driving certain persons out of the State. He knows that what Senator But ler did say was that all good people who believe in manhood' suffrage and honest elections ought to join hands to drive such men as Mr. Simmons and his ballot box stuJTers from power. He has never attempt ed to answer Senator Butler's argu ments, but strives day and night to appeal to prejudiee and passion by misrepresenting him. It is a bad cause that has to be supported by such methods. Mr. Simmons has to be supported by such methods. Mr. Simmons has not grown any better since Senator Vanee defeated his confirmation for Collector and denounced him as being unworthy and unfit to hold a position of honor and trust in the State. A subscriber writes and asks us this question : "If the next legis lature will put sections 4 and 5 in one section would not that make It certain that if the court declared the ''grandfather clause" uncon stltutional that then the whole amendment would fall?" To this Ths Caucasian unhesi tatingly answers no. The United States Supreme Court and the State Court of every state in the Union, so far as we know, have uniformly held that the constitutional and unconstitutional provisions ofa statute may be even contained in the same section and yet be so sep arate and distinct In their purpose that the unconstitutional part of the section will fall leaving the constitutional part of the same section to stand. In short, they have said repeatedly that the grou ping of parts of a law into sections Is purely artificial "and that the court takes nonotlce of it. Every great authority on Constitutional limitations lays down the same doctrine. Cooley in his great work on Constitutional Limitations uses almost the exact words we have ust-d above, and every lawyer in North Carolina whose opinion is worth listening to knows that this Is so even if he should deny It. Why did Mr. Daniels join Gorman and the middle-of-the-road Demo crats in fixing a late date for the Democratic convention! It will be remembered that when Mr. Daniels had a fat iob at the Cleveland pie- oounter that he joined Ransom in helping to repeal the last silver law on the Statute Books, and also joined Ransom and his heelers in misrepresenting Vance. So to that . . - extent ms present record is consis tent. The Porto Rican Tariff Bill has aroused a storm of disapprobation over the whole country. It is to be hoped that the Senate will amend the House bill so as to declare for free trade with that possession of the United States before the bill be comes law. The gold standard financial bill passed the Senate by i vote of 26 to 44. The gold ring and the bankine ring now have complete change of the nation s finances. The people and Congress no longer have any thing to do with it. Webster's Weekly continues to call upon Mr. Simmons to know why he and his law firm sold their politi cal influence for money durinsr the last legislature. As yet there has been no answer. Notice. If you are not a subscri ber then this is a sample copy, and is an invitation to you to subscribe. For $1.00 we will send four copies of the paper till the State election in August. The settled policy of the News and Observer is to lie and to stick to it. Indeed in this respect only has it been consistent. Popallat-ConTentlon. The PODUllSt State HnnvonHnn meets in Raleigh on the 18th day of April, 1900, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Gov ernor and other State nffli-om nA electing delegates to the National convention. The Granville conntv f!nn tion is ailed to meet In OxfnrH Friday, the 30th day of March. 190ft for the DUrDOSe Of SAlap.tlncr Holo. gates to the State Convention and ior sucn otner purposes as may be deemed proper. ine primaries in each tmwlnnt are requested to meet on Saturday. . .f 1 CtJ.1 A A a a . l uiaruu zin, at Z O'ClOCK p. m., at their usual dace of meetlnc nri select delegates to the County Con- veuuun na aiso percect their or ganization. All Who are ODDOSed to rlanriv. lng white men either now or after 1908 of the right to vote. ATmnt f crime : all those who favor fat election laws and a government of tine people, oy tne people and for the people : and all thorn vhn Ho. sire to perpetuate constitutional uoercy as nanaea down to as by our ancestors, are invited to attend the primaries and County Conven tion. J. R. Buchanan, Chairman J. W. Brown, Secretary. Call of PapuUst ConTeatlon la Bortla, The Peonle'a nartv man in Tt.iA - E r w M uiv county will take notice to meet in vuuiibjr vAiaveauon on Wednesday the 4th dav of Anril nrrt in r XT' au UUU town of Windsor, Bertie county, to elect delegates to the People's Par ty State Convention and Senatorial Convention, and to perform such other business as may be deemed proper. All true People's Party men will be recognized as dele gates in said Convention. By order of the Executive Com mittee. This 6th of Itoh 1800. DCIN6S IN C0N8RES8. Aldrica Gata His Sat Pert Bleaa Bill la Ua Saaata. Washington, D. C. Special to Thb Caucasian. The House, in the contest of Aid- rich Bobbins, Friday seated Ald- ncn. Tnis is the second time that Aldrlch has been legally elected to a seat in the House, but had to con test in order to get his right to a seat. It was shown that Aldrlch carried five of the six counties in the district, and that in every one of the five counties that he carried there was an overwhelming major ity of the white voters, but in the single county, Dallas, that went Democratic by a large majority, the negroes largely outnumber the white voters. It was the same old story the Democratic party saved from defeat by the negro vote which was skilfully manipulated for them. The Election Committee No. 2 of the House have devoted consider able time to hearing of argument by counsel in the contest of Dock ery against Bellamy. The commit tee have not made any report in this case yet, and no idea can be given as to their decision and rec ommendation to the House. In the discussion of this contest be fore the committee the counsel for Dockery went Into the methods of the Redshirts In intimidating, mur dering and banishing the votera. These methods constitute one of the crowning infamies of this civil ized and enlightened age. The Porto Rican bill is now being discussed in the Senate, and it will be debated at great length before final passage. It is stated that the duty of 15 per cent, is placed on Porto Rican products so that a test case can be made before the Su preme Court to ascertain if the pro visions of the Constitution requir ing uniformity of taxes in all the States and Territories applies to Porto Rico. If the Court so decides then the products of the Philip pines will also have to be admitted free of duty. Then begins compe tion with American products and American labor. This question is one of paramount importance to tne wnole country. It is believed now that Congress will complete the work and adjourn about the first of June. THE LOUISIANA CAMPAIGN. Democrats, Populists and Republicans Join la Nominating; Senator Caffery' Son for Gorernor In a Fight tor Honest Elections. The Washington (D. C.) Star. The Caffery Democrats, the Re publicans and the Populists of Lou isiana have united forces in an ef fort to carry the State against the Democrats at the April election. Their candidate for Governor is Donelson Cafferv. ir.. a Dfimnorat who, in his letter accepting the nomination assails the election law of the State and pitches the campaign in the key of opposi tion to that measure. He points out the overshadowing importance oi tne issue in tne ioiiowmg terms "Under our erovernment nfmninr ities without votes we have learned that there mav be a mom nriinna form of oppression than taxation without representation, and. An. tering this campaign with the threat before us of denial of repre sentation at the polls, we 'appeal from the politicians to the people, and announce our purpose of main taining our rights at the election and after. We have no concern now with national issues. It would be vain to discuss them while the ballot-box remains under the influ ence of witchcraft. "The powers filched from the peo ple must be restored to them. The ballot-box must be made sacred." It would appear from this that the elections machinery in Louis iana is as much under partisan con trol as is that In Kentucky. As Mr. Caffery puts it, the ballot-box is "under the influence of witch craft." That is to say, the polling piaces are omcerea dv DemncrAta ior tne Denent or Democrats, and all other candida.t-.aR h chance. Presumably the law will be administered in this way at the coming election, and. if so, what Chance Will Mr. Cafferv h winning out even if he has a ma- A a ma . joriiy oi tne votes behind him? A a m m m a dux, even n ne is aereated he will not have made his race in vain, it Is only in this wav that attantlnn can properly be called to these out rages on the suffrage. Wherever partisan election law exists they should be fought with vigor and persistency. They are an often sa against freedom. The Goebel law probably the worst of the whnin vile variety has broken down after ne pounamg administered to It uuring one energetic campaign, and all laws elsewhere that, in r.ho loam degree resemble it should be simi larly disposed of as speedily as pos Bible. Mr. Caffery is a vouncr man who Inherits both his pluck and his aDinty. ms rather in the Senate has exhibited Qualities of strength ana luaepenaence in dealing with PUbllC QUeStiOllS. Fathnr and ann j . . , . . o are standing together in this local A A m a contest. isotn are Southern born. Both are Democrats. . Rnr. both have come to see that neither tne interests of the South nor thonn of the country at larcre can ARRiinA disaster unless elections in the South are rescued from the clutches of party rinsrs and are normUtH tn reflect the unintimidated sentiment or the people as expressed by their oaiiois. About The Infamous Goebel Ktectloa Law. - The following extract is from the Wahlngton,(D.C ) Times of March 10,1900: "The warnings against the Goebel law in Kentucky are having their euecb upon tne minus or the Dem ocratic national managers. The danger of the Kentucky electoral vote being thrown out or reversed in favor of the Republicans by the House next March, if the Presiden tial contest should be close enough to make such a high-handed proce dure necessary to the re-election of Mr. McKlnley is being pointed out. Undoubtedly the House has the powei indicated under ' the Tucker act of 1887- On high political and legal authority The Times called attention to this danger when the troubles in Kentucky were at their height. But the dominant element of the Democracy in the RlnAvraaa CSste seems set against any modifl ealon of the Goebel law. The plain ME YOU IYSPEP8JA? fUl In gscnscE calls it CaVTUtsn of the sTomcn 1 0 ' 'C MISS PAPE 8TEQEM MIm Dade Stegeman, Superintendent of the Chicago North Side Woman' Club, of Chicago, in a recent letter to Dr. Hartman, speaks of Pe-ra-na as follow: MPe-ru-na has often been used by the members of our club in cases of stomach trouble and gti eral debility also re cently In cases of la grippe, and always with the most beneficial results. I think a great deal of Pe-ra-na often recom mend it to my friends, and am glad to say all who have tried it speak a good word for it." Mrs. Emily S. Carson, Austerliti, Mich., says : Dr. S. B. Hartman Dear Sir: I had been troubled with dyspepsia and indi gestion for many years, and was very much reduced in flesh. I could not eat anything with out the greatest distress after wards. My food would come up and my stom ach became very weak from fasting, as I preferred to go without food rat her than suf fer the conse quences. I could get no rest by day nor sleep by night. I tried every remedy advertised for the cure of dyspepsia without the least benefit. At last I got a bottle of Pe-ru-na. I confess I had no faith in it, as I had been so often disap pointed ; but in a day or so I felt much Improved. Food did not distress me as before. I continued its nse, and, after using a dozen bottles, I was a well Woman. I can eat anything without the truth is that Goebel was not the au thor of the set of laws which bear his name. They were framed by others and placed in his hands for championship because he was the ablest and most influential mem ber of the Legislature at Frank fort. These facts are notorious in Kentucky. The average Kentucky Democrat, like the average politi cian of every party everywhere. places a higher value upon the local offices than upon the National Ad ministration, rnereiore it is pre dicted that the so-called Goebel law will not be repealed by the Legis lature now in session at Frankfort. The majority of the statesmen there assembled care not what be comes of Kentucky's electoral vote, except in a sentimental sort of way, so long as tney can reel secure in their control of the local and State offices. In view of the real danger, however, it Is said that the national managers of the party are prepar ing to take hold of the subject and endeavor to have the Goebel law radically changed or entirely re pealed before the November elec tion comes. Kentucky's thirteen votes may be the determining fac tor in the Presidential contest, and the national managers are wise enough to appreciate the ne cessity of removing all tempta tion for the Republican majority in the Fifty-sixth Congress to steal the Bluegrass State's electoral vote." The enactment of the Goebel election law in Kentucky was the cause of the revolt in the ranks of Democratic party in the State : for its avowed object was to steal the State, and this Infamous law is the cause of the trouble that exists in the Bluegrass State to-day. Many of the best men in the Democratic party of the State joined hands with the opposition to defeat their own party on ac count of the extremely partisan, infamous and unfair law that d Is graces its statute books. Now. let us quote extracts from Democratic papers in Kentucky in denuncia tion of this election law. The Bourbon News, in SDeaklncr of its Iniquitous provisions, said : A Din more fraught with disas ter and degradation to the State of Kentucky has never before entered in the Kentucky Legislature," The Interior Journal pronounced it a measure 'utterly subversive to free institutions as well as Demo cratic principles." Tne Winchester Democrat ram fcIt is a force bill scarcely less odi ous than that which the Republi cans at Washington tried several years ago to roist upon the people of the whole country. It may give temporary advantage to the party in power, but will eventually prove iiB ruin." The Versailles 8un eharacterlzAri the Goebel law as the "worst mea sure ever put before the Kentucky Legislature mi. - T i ihb ueximrxon Areonaut spvAm. iy denounced it, and said; The passage of the GoehAl aw tion bill will prove to be a subma rine mine, and blow the Democratic party into otter nothingness." jlub uwingsvme Uutlooksald: "It Is a force bill as had that. fought in Congress by the Demo. cratic party In the past. Nothing as bad has ever been attemntad AN, OF CHICAGO. least distress, sleep well, and, instead of the living skeleton I was, I am now a healthy, fleshy woman. This was la 1889, and I have continued well evei since. I have not been without youi remedy in the house since my recovery. I advise all sufferers to do as I did and be cured. Mr. John F Schmidt says: " Pe-ru-na has saved my life. For five years the beat doctors had pronounced me lncur- able. I suffered with a complica tion of diaeasa palpitation of the heart, nervousness, weakness and dys pepsia. A few bottles of Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin cured me. Pe-ru-na oannot be beaten. I give your medicine to Mr. J no. F. Schmidt. varvnaga, Ualo. my children for the various little all ments which annoy little one, and the result is that they are never sick, but always strong and healthy. I have gained forty pounds since taking Pe-ru-na." So many people have what la called dyspepsia without having the slightest suspicion that catarrh of the stomach is the cause. Such people take pepsin and a thousand other things, vainly hoping to get well. But the catarrh remains, and of course the dyspepsia remain. Pe-ru-na cures these cases permanently by removing the cause, which is catarrh. P ru-na has cured more cases of dys pepsia than any other remedy in the world. Address Dr. Hartman, Colum bus, Ohio, for a free book. j against honest elections in Ken tucxy since tne war. ' The Owensboro Inquirer fired the a a . . ... same not, knots at it as follows: "If the election bill becomes a law. and the State croes ReDubllcan In '93 by 23.000. we don't want to hear anybody say that Mark Ilanna stole It." - The election law now on onr stat ute books was copied from the Goo- Dei law in a great measure, with more Infamous features added thereto. Let all honest men who want a triumph of Justice, honest v. decency and good government vote together ana aereat men who are responsiDie ror this crowning in famy. COLD STEEL OF. DEATH. "There is but one small chance to save your life and that is through an opera tion," was the awful prospect set be fore Mrs. L B. II ant, of Lime Ridge. " is-, oj ner uocior alter vainly trying to cure her of a frivhtrni .. stomach trouble and yellow jaundice. ue uiu ut eouui un ioe marvellous Dower of Electria Rittpa tn ..... - - ' aw a v r Stomach and Liver troubles, but he nearu oi is. cook seven hitti. wholly cured, avoided surgeon's knife. uww nc'ir un niori ana lt la nrt ever. Its nositi - - m " a naaKucru 1(1 cure Stomach, Liver and Kidney ucfnuuBjijuiiBH. I rice 60o at all drug -tores. DO YOU (SET UP WITH A LAME BACK? Kidney Trouble Makes Ton Miserable Almost everybody who reads the new.. papers is sure to know of the wonderful cures made by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the preat kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It Is the great medi cal triumph cf the nine teenth century; dis covered after years of scientific research fcy Dr. Kilmer, the emi nent kidney and blad- wonderfully successful in promptJy curinr lam KV .A ii.ji . r .. "'I CT L' "r. unc acu trou bles and Brirht huu m,Mt. - .u . - . . . " H uk worst form of kidney trouble. ur. rviimer s 2wamp-Koot is not rec ommended for everrthinr but If vou hsv V n ney. liver or bladder trouble it will be found Just the remedy you need. It has been tested In so many wava in hosnitsl nrk i. practice, amonp the helpless too poor to our chase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this naner who have not already tried it. may have a samBle bottle aentfrMhv.n -i.. - Z r teUlnc more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble, wnen writine mention raaiin hi r ww m uui paper and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co..Binr hamton. N. Y. The reruiar iutv cent and k- dollar sixes are sold by all food drufxists. mi FOLKS IFEFS jaSBSaaa as i ii as s POU'S CU1PAIGH AFFIDHij. ONE ' OF HIS METHODS r - (UUiiiiiu vvs&xuxv) I Til? LAST CAMPAIGN. HK MARIS AFFIDAVIT THAT A r&c N ositiox to nxsnusciiisi tv GROES AND ILLITTRATk MHrrrj WOULD NOT RKCEIVK a ijkCLt DEMOCRATIC VOTER IV THF. lXs LATURK AKD DENOUNci WHO MAKE THS CHARGE AS fri4t. f ISO FAL6ELT AND TRYING To rj, j THK PEOPLE. From Caucasian tct. ly. The following affidavit mad b t James H. Pou, ex-Chairman of tv, State Democratic Executive c,a. I mittee, during the lat campaiM 1 will be interesting rtadinjr. OsJ readers will remember that wbn. f ever and wherever it was charjr in the last campaign that ;f th. Democratic machine und.-r Sl. I mons got control of the State, u tbey would offer a scheme to Ji. franchise lllltterate votes, that ths 1 charge was Indignantly dcnli and t denounced by every IK'mocratle speaker as being Iniamously f Even Mr. Simmons, the Democrat. lc State Chairman, Issued an ,ci. al statement to the votera of th State, branding every such chtrg as false in toto; saying that th&: campaign lie had been charrd against the Democratic party be fore, and that the charge was to so old and 60 false that no on would believe It. Mr. James II. Pou, the ex-Chair, man of the State Democratic Com. mittee, In his speeches made tb same declaration. Hut It eeemi that in one of his speeches In Moon county, some members of bis audi, dlence expressed doubt of the truth of his Indignant denial, and cai!4 upon him while upon the stand to know ir he would make an affida vit to that effect. lie publicly agreed to do so, we are Informed. The result Is the affidavit below, made at Italelgh, dated Oct. I4tk. 1838. It will be noticed that .Mr Pou, 6hrewd, slick and cunning aa La is, attempted to word his afflda vlt so as not to say explicitly what he had said publicly on the stump, and yet at the same time, to mj enough to make it appear that hla 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 ef the affidavit: State of North Carolina, t Count v of Wake. i James H. Pou, being duly woni deposes and says : "I have never Bald that. If ths Democrats regained control of tLs State, they Intended to disfranchise the negroes and Illiterate white vo ters I never have said anything like this, and I know that such is not the Intention of the Democrat ic party. I have never beard a tiin gle Democrat give utterance to such a sentiment, and I do not be lieve, if such a proposition com before the General Assembly, that It would receive a single Democrat ic vote. I believe that a majority of the uneducated white voter of North Carolina are Democrats. TLs Democratic party is appealing them for aid In preserving whlttX s supremacy in the center west and; In restoring It In the Eastern part of this State. They are responding V to our appeal, and to repay them for their aid with a disfranchisement of their votes would be folly and ' ingrattiude Indeed. The man ' wbo makes these charges know, they speak falsely, but their cam paign this year is run upon ths Idea that the people of North Car-, oiina would rather believe a false hood than the truth, and tbey wonld rather bear libels upon the I aonorea aeaa than to dht argn ments based upon truth.' Signeuj Jahes II. Poc. Sworn to and subscribed before me this October 1st 1898. Signed Geo. W. Thompson, Notary Public Notarial Seal, Geo. W. Thompson, Notary Public, Raleigh, N. C. i Two fire cent "documentary rv eauo stamps attached. 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