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THE CAUCASIAN PUBLISHED EVERT T HUBS DAT BT THE CAUCASIAN PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES. THE LETTBR FROM BEAUFORT COtSTTf. 9NB YKAK... BIX MONTHS,. THRKTC M0NTH8 ....11.00 .60 .25 Rntered at the Pott Office in Raleigh, N.C. as second-class mail matter KORKIKDAIIOCT CANDIDATE FROM THE COMMON PEOPLE. The following editorial appeared In the Charlotte Observer of last Thursday: Tbe low level to which public office has been reduced in North Carolina ia the gravest charge that can be brought against the Popu list?, Kepubllcans and Populist Democrats of the most dignified office. The Observer has some ac quaintance with the men of the State, and is a tolerably close read er of Its exchanges, and yet it fol emnly avers that there are on the bench now throejudges or whom it never heard, whose names it never saw in a newspaper, until they were scheduled for the high and respon sible offices they now hold. At this time there are candidates for judi cial and other positions In the State who would have been laughed out of court fifteen years ago, because they are Incompetent for the posi tions to which they aspire. It is a humiliating fact that of late years we have degenerated very much in the character and competency of our public officials." We are not sure that we know to what three Judges the Charlotte Obnerver refers. Juc'ge Starbuck, Judge Bowman,. Judge Tlmberlake, and probablv other judges now on on the bench, all of whom have made fine and enviable records, were not prominently referred to in the newspapers before their nomi nation, neither were they candi dates in the common acceptation of tho term. But the significant thing about this editorial is the fact that the Charlotte Observer declares that It is now worried about the number of candidates In the Democratic party that have sprung up from what might be called the common people, or the rank and file of the party. It seems to be greatly wor ried and irritated, if not outraged, that any one should presume to be a candidate for nomination before a Democratic onventlon unless that person had been fortunate enough to have himself puffed fre quently in the columns of the Dem ocratic organs, or was fortunate enough to be the son of a colonel or a general or some one of the "old est and best families," commonly known as aristocrats. It seems that the grievance which the Charlotte Observer has against tho People's party is that that party has aroused laudable ambition in the breasts of the sons of some plain farmers or mechanics or ordinary merchants or of simple country doctors. In deed, as the Obsorver says, tho worst offence that the People's par ty is guilty of is that It has broken down that awe and reverence which tho common people had been taught to have for a certain set or ring of office-holding aristocrats of the State. The Peoples' party has incurred the lasting displeasure of the Charlotte Observer and that class of autocrats by arousing In the breasts of the plain rank and file of the Democratic party a laudable desire, to hold positions of honry A ana trust. In another column will be found a communication from Beaufort coun ty which is very interesting and significant. The writer states st'a sample of how the people stand in Be&ufort county that a recent jury in Washington, composed of ten Democrats, one Populist, and one Republican, was polled as to how; stood on the amendment, and that there were ten against the amend ment and only two for it, one Demo crat and the Republican. In short, nine out of the ten Democrats were opposed to the disfranchising scheme. If there is any one who doubts the truth of the facts contained in this communication, we want to say that we are ready to furnish the name of its author, though it is signed by the non de plume "Beaufort." The author of this article is one of the most prominent citizens, not only of Beaufort county but of the east ern part of the State, and there is no man in the State cf higher character. We trust our friends in the differ ent parts of the State will follow the example of this Beaufort corre sponaeat ana write us the tacts as they are for publication each week. We cannot believe, and do not be lieve that the good people of North Carolina will endorse and support the men who gave the people of the State their solemn pledge in the last campaign that if they were put in power they would not attempt to disfranchise any man, white or black. Mr. Simmons and his com committee officially pledged the people of the State that they no only would not do such a thing, bu further, that they would spit upon any man who would dare to suggest such a proposition in a Democratic legislature. Can brave and honest North Carolinians, who believe in honesty in politics as well as in pri vate business affairs, who scorn liar, today support the men who basely deceived the people of th State, who stultified themselves and violated their most sacred pledges sq. xnis is sumcient ground on which to repudiate Simmons and his redahirt ballot box stuffiing machine hop. Will the people ef North Carolina tolerate itt We believe they will not. Let every eitizen of the State who condemns such methods and who believes in free speech, honest elections, and man hood suffrage keep cool, but at the same time be determined. Let every such citizen stick to argument and to facts. Let them ignore lying and abuse. Let them cooly and bravely appeal to the judgment, the heart and the conscience of the peo ple of the old North State. The masses of the people of North Caro- ina can be trusted to maintain their ghts when they know the truth. Ltt the facts and the troth De tout in anite of Mr. Simmons and his redshirt mob of violence and anarchy WHOEVER EXAM1NENS THE SIM MONS ELECTION LAW WILL FIND IN IT THE SCM-TO-TAL OF POLITICAL VILLAINIES been the of North THE ROOT OF AN EVIL- "There is talk of repealing tho Fifteenth Amendment. This would eet at the root of an evil wipe It out." Winston Sentinel. The Caucasian wishes to say to the Winston Sentinel that if that proposition were submitted to the people of the State, or any other proposition that would get at "the root of the evil," that we would cheerfully suDDort it. The called meeting of the Democratic Legisla ture, which meets in June, can offer such a proposition instead of the dangerous and unconstitutional that It has offered, and if it will offer 6uch a proposition The Cau casian will support it. There is no one In the. 8tate who wants to see the time come, and come quick, more than The Caucasian, when every citizen can have free speech. and when every great economic proposition of vital interest to the masses of the people can be dis cussed on every stump without hav ing the tricksters and designing politicians of the Simmons stripe to raise the cry of nigger, behind which to hide their records and with which to divert the attention of the people. The Caucasian will go as far and do as much to see this day and to accomplish this result as anyone else in North Carolina, but we cannot and will not take the risk of disfranchising fifty or sixty i thousand white men in supporting to say nothing of the great danger a doubtful and dangerous scheme. tnat lurKs behind this amendment, and to say nothing of the dastardly attempt to rape the ballot box and overturn the will of the people, as provided in the Simmons election law. THE EMPLOYER AND THE EMPLOYEE. Certain Democratic newspapers in the State are now denouncing and ridiculing one M. F. Dowling, who was captain of the redshirt mob in the Wilmington murder in the last campaign. We have been informed that after Dowling and his redshirt mob succeeded in break . ing up several election precincts, stealing several election booksf alsify ing election returns, and after the murdering of a sufficient number of negroes, that this same Dowling was presented with a cane and publicly thanked for his great services Since then Dowling was summonsed to Washington to testify in the Bellamy-Dockary contest. Whether he told the truth in his testimony or not, we do not know; but we do know not a single Democratic news paper in the State has pointed out a single statement in his testimony as HOW ABOUT OTHER STATES? being false. Apparently he told in , I S'araightforward manner what hei ZJHJ ' 1 1 . ... We can understand thorough!! ... .'d. mar. r n i a ia an tfho hnf ta o a-yr IO US V Ck m J CiJ The News and Observer of March 24th says : "The bad negro, as a rule, is afraid to commit outrages when the White Supremacy party is in power." The 'White Supremacy" party is in power in the State of Virginia, and last week a negro was lynched tor com mittiDg the nameless crime. The "While supremacy" party is m power in the State of Georgia and there is scarcely a week that passes that the papers do not chronicle the commission of a horrible crime of one sort or another. The "White supremacy" party is in power in the State of Mississippi and the disturbances between the races are so frequent as to become not only re volting, but exceedingly tiresome to read the harrowing details as narrated in the daily papers. The "White Supremacy" party is in power in all of toe Southern States and there is scarcely a day but what we read of some horrible crime which clearly proves thatthe "White Suprem acy" party, though in power inlg States, has not prevented 07- removed this trouble Bu iVu'surprising to 8?f... -8'ew8 and Observer stoop to such low. base and contemptible means to serve its party this is truly char acteristic of that sheet. NO. 1. IKTKODCCTORT. Editor Caucasus. 1 What, heretofore, has guaranty of the people Carolina that their elections would be free t and does that guaranty still exist? and whence was it de rived ? The answer to these questions is written in that provision of our State Constitution, which is both briefer and more expressive than any other, and is as follows : Art. 1, Sec. 10, all elections OUGHT TO BE FREE. This provision however was no new declaration. It is also found in the Constitution of 1868, from which it was copied by the Conven tlon that revised and amended that instrument in 1875. But it is of far nobler origin than this. It is in fact a part of our history. It is a portion of the inheritance, which we derive from a heroic an cestry, who purchased it with blood and inscribed it. in crimson letters, upon the very linten and doorposts of the temple of our liberties. For this declaration is but a literal trns cript from that great Bill of-Rights, which was first formulated . by the Convention of Halifax over which Richard Caswell presided In 1776, and was afterwards re-affirmed by the Convention over which Nathan- el Macon presided in 1S35. This guaranty therefore is coeval with our free institutions, and descends to us with all of the increased val ue which long possession has add ed to an undisputed title. This freedom of elections is in truth the basic principle of popular government. Without it the will of the people is enslaved. With out it thflr voice is silenced. And without it there can be no freedom of any kind. For the right of suf frage is that one right which is preservative of all other rights, and embraces them all as the acorn en closes the oak. A right so fundi- mental as this ought to be inaliena ble and was meant to be inviolable And to protect it from violation the Intelligent reader knows, that each member of the General As sembly, before he can be seated, must take a solemn oath to sup port that mandate of the Constitu tion by which It is secured. What then must such a reader think of the present General Assemblv. which in defiance of that mandate, and in disregard of that oath, has devised an Election Law which hampers and obstructs the freedom of elections, in so many ways, as to add the sin of sacrilege to that of perjury! This Election Law makes quite a little volume, covering 30 pages, and containing 89 sections. And yet, in the adjustment of all of its parts, there is the most perfect uni ty of design. To dissect it there fore in such away as to unravel its many intricacies, would be so large an undertaking that any review of it must be incomplete, fortunate ly for me, it is now being widely distributed in pamphlet form and is easily accessible. And whatever else may be said of it, its value as a campaign document cannot be overestimated, it deserves to be read by men of all political parties, and all who read it will affirm, that no political party has ever before published such a libel upon itself. In considering a measure, such as this, the question of authorship tonlshed that the Charlotte Obser ver should be so ingenuous as to admit and complain openly that some more of the rank andjjfj the purty dared to aspire 1 dldatesfor position of honorand; trust. 1 HEaUCAsiax wag simple enough thlnk that one of the PIQfouest things to the credit of the i party was that It had broken the domination of this false aristocracy and liberated the plain people of the State, no matter to what party thoy belonged, and made it possi ble for the son of the humblest cit izen in the State, if he was honest and worthy, to aspire to the high est honors. Of course we can un derstand that the members of the oligarchy should naturally consider this the greatest offence that the Peoples' party has been guilty of. ANOTHER LIE MAILED. Recently the organs of the ballot box stuffing and redshirt machine announced thatthev were authorized to state that Attorney-GeneralWalser would condone the theiving election law and support the disfranchising scheme. The Attorney-General at once wrote the following card and sent it to the papers that had mis represented his position. To the Editor of the Obseverr: My attention has just been called to the statement in the Charlotte Observer that I would support the pending constitutional amendment. I will thank you to state that I will not support the constitutional amend ment. Thanking you in advance for making the correction. I am yours very truly, Zeb V. walser. Lexington, N. C, March 7, 1900. Borne ot the papers referred to above have failed to publish this card. Why! Because their motto is to He and to stick to it. ce that time Dowling h'?-'un arrested on the cha.-of attempt. "K-ennan in Washington V.pocket-book. He is now be ing denounced by certain Democratic newspapers in this State. They do not denounce him for the evidence he gave about the Wilmington mur der, but they denounce him for be ing caught in attempt to rob a man's pocket in Washington,and they say farther that his evidence should not be believed on this account. Now what the Caucasian would like to Enow is this: Which is the greater crime, to rob ballot boxes and steal a man's vote and falsify election re turns, and be a partv to murdering innocent citizens, or to be simply caught in attempting to rob a man of his purse. Of course a man who would do what the captian of the redshirt mob in Wilmington did could be expected to commit almost any crime in the catalogue. It sim ply shows the kind of men that the Simmons machine selected to do their dirty and infamous work in the last campaign. That is all. Hon. C. B. Aycock has not yet denied his boast that he Is deter mined to be Governor by lawful means if possible, but by force and fraud if necessary. This statement was reported by the Raleigh Post, a Democratic paper. If Mr. Aycock was misrepresented Th Caucas ian will gladly make correction. LET THE PACTS AND THE TRUTH BE TOLD. The head of the redshiri mob and ballot box stuffing machine in this State is quoted as saying that it is time to stop argument and to pro ceed to action. That statement coming from the head of a party machine, five months before an election, means that that machine is afraid of argument and free speech. rrt . J tl? mm , xnis is natural, we aid not ex pect anything elese. Nothing could be more fatal to Mr. Simmons and his ballot box stuffing machine than discussion and argumnent and free speech in the press and on every stump in the State. Mr. Simmons realizes that free speech must be stopped, or the people will see the danger and infamy of redshirtism and vote-stealing, and decide to cast their votes in August to condemn such men and such methods. There m ' 1 mm. lore tney nave resolved to at once appeal to prejudice instead of reason. They have decided to deal exclusive ly in lying abuse and to organize early the redshirt mob of violence and anarchy. This is their only 25 CENTS TILL AUGUST ELECTION. 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 in clubs who do not take the paper with a low spe cial campaign rate. In response to these requests we make a 2o 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. The state of affairs In Kentucky is horrible. It will be a long time before the blight on its good name name is removed. Just who has been responsible for the many law less and outrageous things that have been done, it is difficult, if not impossible for us or anyone to say ; but one thing is certain, and that Is this: Had it not been for the dis honest and thieving Goebel elec tion law none of this trouble would ever have occurred. A free and brave people never have and never will tamely submit to a brazen rape of the ballot box. The Caucasian receives with sor row the announcement of the death of Hon. H. E. Taubeneck, ex-Chair man of the People's Party National Committee. 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 Saturday Evening -Post has given its readers a new version of the mother Goose stories. X A. 1 A- A a is me ursi to present ires; A-nA that by common coiSnt has been attributed, Jfesvlr. p. M. Simmons, JSjftlaecause of this and his other demerits, now aspires to a seat in the United States Senate. But jus tice to others compels me to sav that the whole credit of this thing is not his. For it is simply impos sible, that so complex and mon strous an invention, could have been the work of a single inventer. It is in fact the product of many minds, long laboring together in the same dark labratory, and with the sole object of manufacturing major ities without votes. This however is said in no spirit of detraction, so far as he is concerned, since there will be left for him, after deducting all that is due to others, enough. of glory for any one man. For he has borrowed nothing from others, that he has not improved, while in the adaptation of his means to his ends he has shown all the skill of the true craftsman. But it is, as a compiler, that his industry is most to be commended. For in gather ing his materials, he is believed to have ransacked the election laws of all the states of this Union, un til whatsoever things are false, and whatsoever things are dishonest, and whatsoever things are unjust, and whatsoever things are impure, and whatsoever things are hateful, and whatsoever things are of evil report, are all embodied in this Law, which taken as a whole makes one consistent and compre hensive scheme, the purpose of which is to shackle the limbs of a free people, and to erect upon fear and fraud the rule of an arro gant, an insolent, and a merciless minority. And this is true, wheth er we consider the instruments of which the election machinery is composed, or the methods by which the work of registration is per formed, or the manner in which the election is conducted, or the agencies by which its returns are certified, or the ultimate tribunal by which its results are declared And now let us turn to the Law itseir. it is entitled "An Act to Regulate Elections," and its title is more than usually discrlptive. For if It is taken in sufficient quantity and is allowed to operate with full effect, It will ''regulate" them, and with such drastic force, that among the many "true medical discover ies" with which political pharma cy Is already farmiliar, not one will be found more prompt or reliable than the one which will always be known as "Simmons-Ballot-box Regulator." It is powerfully diu retic and specific and is warranted to kill or cure see Testimonials 1 Aught not all therefore to give it a trial who are needing a purge? Or to confine it to the sick of his own po litical household, might not tne Democratic Negro, with his prover bial fondness for strong medicines, be induced to take a little of this? Or If he should refuse may it not be because he has not yet "recub bered hlsselt" from the debilitating effects of the sugar-coated bolus, that was administered tohimby this same doctor on or about Sept. 25, 1S9S ? that being as nearly as I can remember the date of the pre scription. The object of sections 1, 2, and 3 is to restore to us. In all of its hoary antiquity, the old and discarded August Uectlon for State, County, and Township officials. This sepa ration of State and National Elec tions is declared to be permanent. And since it doubles their cost, it will soon be seen how patiently and how long, a tax-ridden people can be made to drag so heavy, and so needless a burden. Section 4, in like manner, levies its contribution upon the past, by setting up a State Board of Elec tions, fashioned in the likeness of the one that was seen flourishing in great vigor a little more than 30 years ago. It consists of 7 "dis creet persons" biennially, chosen by the Legislature and is substantially a copy of the "Canby-Returnlng Board" for which we were original ly indebted to Gen. Edward Canby commanding District No. 2. Of the 7 Canby ites constituting this Junto at present, 5 are Democrats, and all of them are so exceedingly "dis creet," tnat it is doubtful if o more adroit partisans could have been found in the State. Section 5 empowers the State Board of Elections to create, in the express image of its creator, a sep arate Board qf Elections fer each County, to be composed of 3 other persons, who are required to be equally "discreet," and are expected to be as rankly partisan as them selves. Section 6 provides for the meet ing, organization, and pay, of this State Board of Elections. Its Chairman has power to call It to gether, whenever and wherever, he chooses, and must do so, at any time, upon the written application of any two of its members. The compensation of each of the seven is $4,00 per day and his travelling expenses. So that we shall not be astonished to see this migratory Jnnto of Canbyites itinerating the State, after the manner of the Smelling Committee consisting of Osborne, Travis, and Newland, with whose expensive, and malodorous, performances a tired public has been sufficiently regaled. Section 7 empowers he County Board of Elections to appoint ail registrars and judges of elections. Section 8 authorizes the State Board to remove a member of the County Board "for any satisfactory cause," and that is equivalent to sayinc: for any cause that is "satis factory" to themselves, thereby making him the creature of their own will. Any ordinary vacancy occurring in this utterly depend ent Board, is to be filled by its sur viving partners; but 6hould- the vacancy be created by removal, it can only be filled by the State Board, this exception being made with evident intent to keep the County Board as rigidly partisan as it was in the beginning. Section 9, in like manner, author izes tne L-ounty Hoard to remove registrars and judges of elections, "for any satisfactory cause," which makes them also removable at will. If in the office of registrar a vacancy be caused by remo val it is, elsewhere, provided that it shall not be filled by the Board which appointed him, but bv its Chairman alone ; nor can it fill a like vacancy in the office of judge of elections, for that is to be done by the registrar, with whom this judge, of his own selection, is af terwards to sit in judgment as one of the Precinct Board of 3, having absolute control of the ballot box: all of which evinces "most jeal ous care that!i3"bne link, that is rrr4-r' ! it a. i 11 t. v baiter man anoiner, snail ever De come a part of this endless chain. 1? or the present then let this suf fice, as a sample only, of this infa mous Election Law. And with this, as a sample, let the reader prepare himself for what is to follow, as this discussion proceeds. While this much alone ought to be, enough to show just how much re spect a Democratic Legislature cherishes for constitutional safe guards, as well as the estimation in which it holds, both the free dom of elections, and the sanctity of oaths when taking which the forsworn members of that august body did not, in the chaste and rev erential language of The News and Observer, suppose that they were doing anything more than "lick ing leather." Fair Play. MRS. BREWER RECOMMENDS PERU11A : FOR GRIP AtlD FEMALE CATARRH The Ilome of Mn. Llxzle S. Brewer at Xtte Ij, R. I In a letter to Dr. Ilartman concerning the merits of re-ru-na, Mn. Brewer writes, among other things : Wksterlt, R. I. " Dear Dr. Hartman I find Pe-ru-na a sure cure for all catarrhal affection so common in this part of the country. It cures a cold at once. There is no cough medicine that can at all equal Pe-ru-na. As for la grippe, there is no other rem edy that can at all compare with Pe-ru-na. "I am among the sick a great deal in our city and have supplied many in valids with Pe-ru-na, simply because I am enthusiastic in my faith a.s to its re sults. I have never known it to fail to quickly and permanently remove that demoralised state of the human system which follows la grippe. " In all cases of extreme weakness I use Pe-ru-na with perfect confidence of a good result. In caes of weakness peculiar to my sex-1 mu Mire that no other remedy can approach in good re sults the action of lV-ru-na. It meets all the bad symptom to which female subject. The irregularities and ner vousnese. the aMmv ana miseries hich afflict more or les the womeD from girlhood to chance t-f life, are one and all met and overcome by this ex cellent remedy. I wUh every young lady In our city could read your book. - Mr. Litzie M. Brewer." Pe-ru-na will cure the w orst cases of catarrh. Ls grippe acute epidemic catarrh, for which Pe-ru-na Is a clfic. Mrs. J. W. Il-ynold, Hew Lisbon. Ohio, suffered for many years with chronic catarrh of the lungs, head and throat; continuous cough ; many physi cians failed to cure. Permanently cured by Pe-ru-na. Thou.-i&nd of testimonial could be produced. A valuable treatise on catarrh sent free by The Fe-ru-as Medicine Company, Columbus, O. POU'S CAMPAIGN IFFIQITIT. ONE OF HIS MKTHniis FOOLING VOTERS in TlIt LAST CAMPAIGN. EE MAKES AFFIDAVIT TH at v fr, k 0mOX TO IIrRAS II t fr GROM AND U.UTCKsTt u a.rrt, WOrLt XOT RtCKtVS A DEMOCRATIC VtTF.R IN -TV. t.,u LATURE AXP DENOl-Vr- THll4 WHO MAKE TBI CHATU.r. A- ltl. ING FIELY ANDTKYSN.. 1 , , M . the rtoru1-. From Caucasian Oct. 1.- The following affidavit ma tt Jamt-e II. Pou, -x-Obalrxr.an r . State Iemocratic KmcutU.- , . mltbf during tb lat an ; .i .-t will be intentlnjr nadir.;. reader will n memU-r that 1. ever and wherever it w h. i !i ir., In the last caraiairn that Democratic machine ur.l.r moce got contnl of the tite, they would offer a cb.iii- t-. i. franchise mineral vow, n.- x charge indignantly d ni! r.: 'Ik THE PEOPLE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY , OPPOSED TO THE AMENDMENT. Nine Democrats est of tea on Rent Jury in Tbat County Iee!sred Them elves as not Only Opposed to the Dan gerous Amendment, bnt Also to the Dc ceptlvJMthcd Which Were Practiced by the Machine to Get Into Power and Betray Their Pledge. For the Caucasian Edwards, N C, March 13, 1900. It is singular how so many errone ous statements find their way into the press. The local papers here nave just given out that a certain gentleman. now of Washington City, recently vis ited this section of the State, and up on his return said tbat the white peo ple here were almost a unit fur the the Constitutional Amendment. Sure ly be could not have made a greater mistake. Let me relate an instance that is a straw, showing which way the wind blows. A jury of 12 white m-n cboseu from a venire from all psrts of the county, sat in the murder trial of State vs. Green in the February term 1900, of Beaufort county auprrme Court, this jury was composed of 'en Democrats, on Populist ard one Ke publican; during one of their recesses they without their knowing, each oth er's politics, polled the amendment sentiment among themselves with this reeuls. Ten were unflinchingly opposed and two in favor of the scheme. I be two favoring were, one Democrat and one Republican. The opponents not only declared against it, but also against tboie who promised to dis franchise no one and who are now ad vocating its adoption. It may be safe ly said, tbat this jury stood eleven t6 one, for doubtless tne Kepublicaji'g ad vocacy was prompted by hisdesire to see about fifty tbcusajylDemocrats disfranchised, (and. .was of course wil ling to swap onefaegro for one white man.) victimrof their own folly th a is tne oniy amendment Republican he-lf-a ifom in this county. The Popu lis's are not organizing as a partj against the trick, but we have yet to see one not opposed to it, and if this locality is any criterion by which to judge of the rank and file Democrat the Simmons machine bad as well first as last, io counting noses, deduct 25 per cent of their hard fisted follow ers whom tbey fooled in the campaign of '93. As fast as tie people become acquainted with the suffrage scheme, they conclude tbat section 5 will be re jected by the courts, and section 4 left applying to the v bite as well as the black man, nor does Judge Brown's rescue section, although endorsed by Simmons, impress them otherwise than another dodge tocatcu the unsuspect ing illiterate white. The people are reading and thinsing for themselves, and apart from the opinions 01 great Constitutional lawyers, they are form ing their own opinions, which, any man that can construe an JLnglish sen tence may corr ctly do, in this amend ment matter. There are in our State about sixty thousand plain common- sense voters, who occasionally shoulder their hips and turn down the politi- THE PEOPLES' .PARTY CONVENTION. Call iMOfd y the 'atioaal OmmlltM mt The Peoples' Pkrty for The People Party National Conveatica at Steam Falls May 9th. The National People's Party Com mittee, having met In the city of Lincoln on the 19th day of Febru ary, luuu, nas appointed vea.rje- day the 9th day of May as the time, and chosen the city of Sioux Fall?, South Dakota, as the place, for holding the National People's Party Convention. Bach State Is entitled to re pre sentation therein of two delegates at large and ono additional dele gate for each two thousand votes or major fraction thereof cast for Gen eral James B. Weaver for President in 1892, or for any State officer since that time to the present wherein an increased vote was shown; each Territory is entitled to three dele gate?, except wherein said Terr! tory has had a direct vote upon any officer, and in such Territory the basis hall be the same as in the States: Provided that the District of Columbia be allowed two dele gates. Under this basis of represents lion each State and Territory will be entitled to the following num ber of delegates In the Conven tion: Alabama California . . Connecticut Florida Idaao 7 Indiana 17 Kansas 84 Louisiana 9 Maryland 2 17 7 10 Quick Wit Added S4.90 to the Collection. A man came up to me one day after service in a frontier town, and was pleased to address me In this manner: "Say, Parson, that there service and sermon was grand. I wouldn't have missed 'em for five dollars." When I sug gested that he hand me the differ ence between the amount he had put in the collection basket and the figure he mentioned, for my mis sionary work, he stopped suddenly, looked at me with his mouth wide open, and then slowly pulled from his pocket four dollars and ninety cents, which he handed to me with out a word. Her. Cyrus Townsend Brady in the April Ladies Home Journal. Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don't Know it. How To Find Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with vour water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set tling indicates an '01 Ul J wuuv tion of the kid neys; if it stains your linen it Is evidence of kid ney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it or pain in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every wish in curing , rheumatism, pain In the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every jart of the urinary passage. It corrects Inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day. and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have tho best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonaertul discovery and a book that tells more about It. hnth enliS2r?"! USOUWVtrMhvmo jjj. J J rv rw 1 uurcas yjt. rviimer at Ham. of Swampoat, Ccs. Binghamton. N. Y. When writing moo- taw reaaing uus generous otter in Uus paper. Michigan Mississippi . . . Montana Nevada New Jersey . . NorthCarolina Ohio 20 i Texas . . Pennsylvania. lzA'ermout. South Carolina Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington 45. Georgia 50 28 Illinois 32 3,Iowa la s.Kentucky 14 Maine 4 5 Massachusetts 10 Minnesota: 46 Missouri 23 N'ebraka 44 N. Hampshire. 2 New lork Id North Dakota II 1 a o ,-rejjon i 2 Rhode Island. 2 77 South Dakota. 20 121 2 3;w. Virginia.. 4 I4,Wiftconin IS a a . . w . denounce! uy every imii.. speaker as being lnfamu-H K'eu lr. Mmmons, tu i m Ic State Chairman. iiiuii an al statement to the vot-r State, branding event urh as false in toto; saying that campaign . lie had tm-n 1. against the I)-mccratic party ?k fore, and that the charge a- :. so old and so fale that i: wouH believe it. Mr. Jame II. Pou, the ea-4 ! man of the rotate iVmorratlc Va. nilttee. In his p,-chi m.!.- : game declaration. Hut it -r " that in one of !iUijcIi in M county. Some member f bU au I dlence expreti-d doul t cf the trut; f of his Icdignant denial, and :;. upon him while uioa the ".un, know If he would ruak an nZz vit to that effect. H Ji.:;, ? agreed to do so, we are liif. rtixi The result is the affidavit l- i made at Ilaleigh, dat.d Ck t. U:t f 1S148. It will bn notioil thtt r Pou, shrewd, llck and run: he is, attempted to word h : vit so as not to say explicit 1 !., he had said publicly on th- iu:;. and yet at tho same tlni.-. t 1 t , enough to make it apjo-.ir tiut L. affidavit had made gxI hi- -tl I paign declaration, and flt!..-w ; ters Into accepting bU t;it4 :! . n: and voting for the machim. The following Is a true vy c the affidavit: State of North Caiiousa, Count v of Wake. James U. Pou, being duly furt deposes and says: I have never aid that, if V.- Democrats regained control ! t State, tbey Intended to di-frai.r):i the negro" and illlt.-rat.t whit v.. ters I never have cild anjtbu.r ike this, and I know that m. U i not the intention of the iK-m.x r:- ic party. I have never h-arl n .o gle Democrat give utt-rain.' : such a sentiment, and I do n-.t -lieve, if such a proportion vtw before tho General As-emhly, th! it would receive a single I .-in crit ic vote. I believe that a majr:ty" the uneducated whit. vt. r- ' North Carolina are Democrat-. I.- Democratic party I apiiJi' u them for aid In piervln sfjJt supremacy in the center w t nut In restoring it In the Kat-rn of this State. They are reion1 v to our appeal, and to r.-pay thixi ! their aid with a dUIrant hi rr ni of their votes would be folly and ingrattiude Indeed. Tb man who makes theo charge kn they speak falsely, but th ir cam paign this year is run ujon th idea that the peopls of North Car olina would rather believe, a fal - hood than the truth, and ihv would rather hear libel upon th honored dead than to iMr ercu ments ban-d upon truth." l&igneuj 3 , riiona 4 Por. 8 New Mexico 12 Oklahoma 10 Wyoming 6'Alatka 3 Arkansas 14iDiet.;o)ambia 2 Colorado 38 Ind. Territory 3 Delaware - 2! The State Committee of each State and the Territorial Commit tee of each Territory Is hereby charged with the duty of promul gating this call in their respective I States and Territories, and of fix- ! f James II. Sworn to and ubrriLd me this October 1st lb'J. Signed Jeo. W. Thojj rwv. Notary Public. Notarial Real, Oo. W. Tiompioi, Notary PuWic. Kaleieh, N. C. cians of any party, and it seems that thH sra nhiects of Mr. Simmons' am bition, as well as the unlettered negro! log the time and place and method whose domination no sensible man, of choosing delegates under this tears. iu peopie &uuw vut wuue su premacy is, and has always been estab lished and forever will be, and that Two five cent "documcLtiry rv enne stamps attached. 1 fv,??fts this cry of negro ascendancy is false and "peciou9,the real object being to reach the pie couDter. As coming events cast their shadows before them, so does danger lurk be hind the proposed educational amend ment which if ratified at the polls in August next, the people believe will be followed by a property qualifica tion, just so sure as night follows day, indeed this future intention of the Simmons machine is tbey say, already secretly and confidently whispered. Tbis additional qualification would about clean up the negro and take an other fifty thousand of whites leaving tbe State forever under the control of a political aristocracy. The denunci ations of the Goebel-Simmons election law are hereabout bitter in tbe ex treme and common to all classes and parties if not amended at tbe ad journed session of the legislature in June next, so as to insure tbe people a free ballot and a fair conns, there wilt be a net time in tbe old State about Au gust, and some one will feel called up on to exp'ain bow it all happened. The oosom of tbe native Tarheel still glows with tbe fires of 76, he still loves tbe old Mecklenburg cradle in which his father was rocked. Tbe great plain people, as Lincoln was p" jased to call them, will some time suffer themselves to bo driven to the wall, but wben oi ce tbere they never tail to turn and crush the foe tbat oppresses them. BSACFORT COUSTT. call. All citizens of the United States, Irrespective of past party affilia tions, who are opposed to tbe rule of monopoly, and who are In favor of the rule of the people, and who can unite with us in the effort to to restore the fundamental princi ples o. t'oid government for which Jvtu-ron, Jackson and Lincoln stood, are invited to join us In send ing delegates to the Convention. MARION BUTLKR, Chairman. J. A. ElXiEKTOX, Secretary. If lb Baby ! latllfec Trrlfc. e sure ana u tr:ati? stid w tried remedy, Mas. Wixiiiv'n mt t mo Svac for children titiijT " soothes the r.tild, Mft'-r ti.- c allays all ain, cu wir.J 'tr is tbe bet rrojedy fr disrrb'e L" . per bottle. ' . WHY ' DR. HATHAW ' CURES. rr Reasons for Ills Marvelous Sucre! RED UOf FROM THE fiVS. Was tbe ball tbat hit G. B S'eadruan of Newark, Mich., In tbe Civil War. It raueed horrible ulcers that no treat ment helpt-d for 20 year. Th-n Bock len's Arnica ralve cured htm. Cures r-utP, oruises, burns, bnile. fe'nni. corn. kia eruptions. It f ile c ire on -artn. z cts. a box. Cure guarao ieea. oia by all drurri-t. His New, Tree IWWv 1 1 : race in tl w-X fj s)v rTrtl- l f r f mm.m .11. .. , f r 1 " 1 11 "THE BETTER PART Of valor is discretion," and tbe better part of tbe 'reatmeut of disease is pre vention. Disease originates in Im purities in the blood. People who take it at this season say tbey are kept healthy tbe year round. It is be cause this medicine expels impurities and makes the blood rich and health-giving. Oar Cirsatest lpdaUl. All Pills. liver 25c ills are cured by Hood I In the Revitw of Reviews fcr April tbe methods of industrial train ing pmsaed at Bxmpton Institute, in Virginia, are dt scribed by Albert Shaw, whose ttxt is illustrated from a series ot forty photographs recent ly taken by Miss Francis Johnson, of Washington. 4 Fcr 20 years Dr. J. Newton HtL away has o fcurces'f ully treat d chronic diaas tbat he is atknoml edgrd to-day to stand at the head of his profession in ths hoe. (lis x- elasive melhxl cf treatment for Varicocele and Strietur without aid of knife or eauterv eur-s in 90 per cent. -f all cntwt. In the trat- metfc of loss of Viral Forces. Nt- vous Disorders, Kidney n-I Urinary Comp'aiats, Paralyse, U!. d P.s' I ing, Riiumtifm, Catarrh :i'1 Di l sdast a pit culiar to wmcc, li-. u q i si 's successfully. Dr. 'Ha havty a I practice is more than donb' that f 1 ny other specialist, c-s-s i-r.--i tonnc-d copti as ny o'aer pnvsic- Uns. readily yitld to bis treatmeor. Write him today fully about your J case, lie makes no chirge for ev entration or advice either at hie office or by mail. J. NiwTOK Hathaway, M. D. 22i South Broad St., Atlanta, Oa. Ukl-4 frmo Mm rtmuT sud if e4 hi twdM-al stid f cal eidurmlMja by Klre tM;ial iiriM K tarlT la hi iraiuufcl cur be tiutO C" I eries vrUca iU(4 Dm t II- Unu! U hi !f f mm w wyrm.. I it. lJ .1 .Liu. i mi " J kxtovnai prlTate !'- of dmw aa4t i. This SYsten of tr stiuot he has more and t f perfected each year uutU t "Jar Lis currs a: UTanaUe as to lie Ut inarm ot Una profession. EDjoyto- the lar-t rafljce f acjr tpm In the world be still maintain a fytAtTm of I sal fees vfctcu makes tt fCMUjte for a& Uoi his serDoes. Dr. Ilathsvrsy treats sad cur- Looot of Mt Varicocele, frtrk-tare, Kiond I'oImjoIux la ousoeMS. au maimer of Vrlnary Omit 14 Ulcers, Sores sod Bkln IKm-im. I.rithu 1 . V sad all form of Kldix-y Trouble, liitim.: I tor aodertooed raeo restore kt f tulirr i 1 mases toe pauroi a htouk. u. tootou -s Varicocele aad Stricture wltlioct the aid of U I or cautery Is phenomenal. The j3rjjt 1 tM f oj Uus method at his osrn home without pi! I toss of time from busloess. TU 1 lOkiO vt f) only treatment which cure without aa oDer lit. HathawaT caCs to particular aOentS sufferers from Varicocele aad Stricture to r ? . - .4 , m VI.. - V V. . vft mjm UC7W UUUK, JI -Maallaes, Vbjur. Uealth," a eojj of whic be sent free on aiHUcatVn. Write today fur free book aad sympbaa mentioning your complaint. 2! J. sewtos Hathaway, al Eta. tUUuwar A Cm as i BowtJk mY " rfilk V: -1 -t
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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