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Vol. a VIII. RALEIGH. NOBTH CAROLINA, JULY 12, 1900. No. 32. Why He Runs. SWAIN POPULISTS BECT. AS ltalatioa Agro Tlaha Will Dvfaot Tho mut hr m Aim Majority. Special to Caucasian: Bryson City, N.O, July 8. The Peoples Party convention of Swain county was held here yesterday. There wu a good crowd out. Fu sion with the Republicans was ar ranged, and the following ticket, which is composed of some of the best men in the county was nomina ted: For Representative John Bur nett, Rep.; Sheriff, 8. A. Dellart, Pop.; Reg. 6f Deeds A. J. Wadkins, Rep.; Treaurer, T. II. Parrish, Pop.; Coroner, Dr. R. L. Davis Ind. Dem. Surveyor, Oilmore Welsh, Rep.; Commissioners, W. II. Queen, Pop., John Worley and T. O. Chambers, Reps. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted by the Peoples Party convention: "The Swain county Peoples party in mass convention assembled in Bryson City on the 2nd day of July 1000, do endorse and' declare our allegiance to ' the State platform as adopted and affirmed in the Peoples Party State convention at Raleigh on April 18, 1900. Akotolhe princi ples of the national platform. 'We commend the" present State administration for'lts high personal and official integrity, and "challenge a comparison of its records with any and all of its predecessors. "We condemn the Democratic leg islature of 1899 for Its extravagant expenditure of public moneys. amounting to 1, 594,765.6s in 1899 as opposed to $1,283,971.11 expend ed by the preceding legislature, an excess of $310,794.65, not including the sum of $300,000 for public edu cation, hftr the $63,250 for purchase of State farms. "We denounce the machine lead ers of the Democratic party for sub mitting the disfranchising amend "We denounce them'for violating all of their solemn and sworn pled ges mane io the people In the cam paign of 1898. "We demand the repeal of the f IT WILL faTEElST YC3- C,. D..u. ru1UNn,nM if, c;MmnA H. i..AMtr M n.k.. L.t H. r: present Infamous, unjust and inlqu OCIIdlUI DUHCI UiaHCIIKS IIII OIUIlll 111 dllU llll. H1UUUA IO O JUNIl UCUaiC, UUI mi. dllll- Hoiis election law and a fair and mnns Ilfir.linp.s. Thp.v am Afraid tn Mfip.t thp. Ppnnlp.s Paitv nanrfiriatps in .hint nknircsinn equitable law in its stead. . . " ' . . "We most earnestly endorse the iney ara Afraid t3 let tns HanK ana his ottnsir own nrty Hear tns rruin.nhicntnsy Know splendid course and wise and ami the Cannot answer. Hence they are Forced to Mow trh White Feather. AnTI AMENDMENT OlMOCRAT. Omwtt to Oppoaa tho Simmon Maehln mnd W nitlla1a. Th policy of the Democratic Iwd'Ts in the Btate at .present is not oniy to rotten fcgg tlieir opponents whose arguments they cannot meet, but to crush the influence of any of their own party who dare opiose F. M. Simmons and his methods. In the recent legislature this was evident In the discussion of a bill to give Brunswick county extra "unty comipiss'oncrs: "ir. McNeill iwrti-tl that the I'opIe of Brunswick wanted to elect thei- own county officers and to jass the bill would injure the Democrat ic party an 1 its candidates. 'Hay made a spirited speech in defense of the bill. He asserted that McNeill's wishes should not be re garded, as be opposed the constitu tional amendment, thereby affilia ting with Republicans and negroes. At this point Keinhardt, of Lincoln, 'interrupted and Ray remarked, "Here's another of the same stripe " "Dr. MeN' ill, replying to Ray, stated that he (McNeill) represented as honest jeople and as white ieople as Ray; that he and Bernhardt had opinions oi their own, were men enough to maintain them, and would vote as their conscience dictated. 'e have stood bv our pledges and ONLY iWd HUNDRED PRESENT. At Chafe Lake froa Ooaoty, ttnai Disappointment. Si iMal to The Cancanian. Roxboro, N. C, July 4th The Democrats had advertised for a grand political rally at Chttib Lake, near here to-day. The Raleigh band was n gaged to furnish the music, which i it did well. Rut the crowd consisted of about two hundred, counting women, chil dren and all. The speakers were F. R. Aycock and W. II. Kitchen, most they talked about was rapes, etc. The crowd and enthusiasm mani fested was a grand and sad rebuke to the ballot-box stuffers. Person coun ty has a majority of honest men in it who will not endorse frnud and theft in this year of grace, and the mn or men who atte'irfpt it, will be marked and branded for all time to come as cowardly scoundrels. Now these are the facts. It was telegraphed to the News and Observer that there were one thousand present at Chub Lake. This is the same kind of false reports sent out from all their tizzies. In the same issue of the News and Obser ver, it reports that Senator Butler's crowd at Statesville consisted only of one hundred negro men, two ne gro women, one hundred Repuhli- ' I 1 A . . I 43 IV . 1 1 iv 1 1 1 i 1 Lam anil uuiiovn ci nv uiij promises, j. nave iuiiv nunnu -- - - tnM ., ti,...wWir r,. crats, when ot a truth, the large .J... ; t w..m.. 'court honse waspacke!. Such lying inated and I represent Brunswick NEGRO SUPRcMACY. The linortfc Party Shoald Tarn ft Era and Sou Inward to fee and Smell Vrgto. Editor Caucasian : Denicrats. "Ray soke again, severely ar raigning McNeill. He declared it whs a choice between Senator Davis a triiH Democrat and Dr. McNeill, who was not on the 6ide of the, white (teople " McNeill and Reinhardt both voted against the amendment in 1899 and at the recent session. They have both leen renominated for the leg islature by their respective counties, but Simmons wants to politically ostracise these two men for keeping their pledges in ho"ety. Chatham Citizen. as they do, only weakens their own cause. Aycock at Monro Mr. Aydock, Democratic candidate for Governor, spoke here to day (Ju ly 4tM. His crowd was not near as large as expected, or as greeted him here two years ago. Considering the efforts made to get a big crowd, it was a failure. The orooasslon was not one-sixth of what they expected And the crowd not more than one- flfth what thev ftstimated It and re ported it, and then It was oompo-d of mostly women and children, and those who cannot vote. The laxm Hard oa Democrats Fiery Delegate (at Kansas City The Democrats of Fayetteville Keld their primaries Friday night, June 29th, which were very thinly attended. The most notcieable incident of the occasion was the presence of Sidney McQueen, a leading Democratic ne gro, in the primary with a few 'oth- ordinary er "big, black burly" niggers. Sid ney appeared to be the moving spir it of the primary, and was very ac tive in the nomination of magistrates and constable. During the balloting for consta ble, some of the white blacksu pbemacy gang, voted as high as fif teen tickets. No one dreamed that that "motley crowd" would try to stuff the hat for the nomination ol constablel The County Election Board met here yesterday Jn the office of H. L. Cook, Chairman Democratic County Executive Committee, to hear the petitions of Frank Carr, Chairman Populist County Executive Commit tee and Mr. A. H. Slocomb, who presented a petition from the Repub lican Executive Committee. "The petitioners asked that white men be appointed, but both were turned down, and Democratic negroes were appointed by the Election Board. The Board adjourned to meet at the Court House, but never met. It Is thought that they met in some underground cellar, as they -wen- hunted for in every part of town. The registration seemed to be mo ving without friction so far as we could learn, exceirt; in Cedar Creek Township, Blue Sand Hill precinct, where one W. C. Fieldg is registrar. This man Fields, we are informed through reliable sourees, has regis tered several votes by merely writ ing initials. We were also informed that the wife of this man Fields had registered tome dozen or two votes. Numbers of affidavits of thes ring efforts of Hon. 'Marion Butler in the United States ' Senatein be half of the rwhole',r'people"of the United States, and especially of the people of North Carolina. We point with pride that he is the open can didate of the Peoples Party for re election, having been formally de clared so by said party in conven tion assembled ."while the efforts of the Democratic'party is to cowardly keen their candidate behind the curtain until after the legislature has been elected, thereby requiring the members of the party to blindly vote for some man whoe name and character to them is unknown and of whose fitness for said office the voter is not allowed to judge. "We demand just and economical administration of our county affairs and, believing that the surest way of securing the same is to co-operate with the Republicans of this county; therefore we endorse the proposition to unite with them in electing men to fill the county -offices who are honest, patriotic and capable. "We denounce th action of the Democratic leaders of this county in establishing a dispensary contrary to the wishes of the people." Messrs. Moody, Pearson, Candler, and Grant srxke to a large audience in the afternoon. The anti-amendment element in this county have an overwhelming majoritty. We are well pleased with The Caucasian and will send you a club. D. M. M. fraiea4 tonum, Th White Maxu- Louisiana In 1898 ceet 8X.S28 votes, South Carolina in 1898 out 28,159 votes, Miatisslppl la 1898 cast Z7,21 votes. North Carolina had a population, 1890, 1,511,947; Louisiana had t population, 1890, 1,118,589; 8outh Carolina had a population. 1890, 1,- ,151,H9; Mississippi had a popula tion, 1890, 1,289,600. Is comparison with North Caro lina (one voter for every five per sons) Louisiana should have cast in 1899, 228,717; South Carolina should have cast In 1898, 230,229; Missis sippi should have cast in 1898, 259.- 620. Louisiana must have had 228,717 men that should have voted. lees 3?225 men who did not vote, which leave 191,592 men who' were dis franchised. South Carolina must have had dis franchised the difference between 230,229 persons of voting age, less 28,159 who did vote, leaves 202,070 persons disfranchised. Mississippi must have had the dif ference between 259,720 of voting age and 27,621 votes cast or 232,099 persons disfranchised. North Carolina under her free and fair election law of 1898 cast one vote for every 6 persona. Louisiana under the disfranchising laws cast one vote for 84 J person. South Carolina one vote for 40 persons, and Mississippi one vote for 46 persons. We see by this that in Louisiana six persons out Of seven were dis franchised. In South Carolina thirteen persons out of fifteen were disfranchised. And Ml-slssippi seventeen persons out of nineteen were disfranchised. Now suppose we say that in Lou is! ana, South Carolina and Mississip pi that no negro voted; let. us see if any white men were disfranchised. Then the white men of voilng age, tking the census of 1890 and the same comparison as heretofore used, that one person in five were of vo ting age, then we find that Louisiana had white men in 1898 to the num ber of 111,879; substract from it the whole number of votes cast that year, 32,225, and we find that not less than 69,654 white men were disfranchised only one white man in three voted. South Carolina, under the same comparison, must have had 92,000 white men of voting age, less total number of votes cast in 1898, 2,8159 and we find that South Carolina had 63,841 dlsiranchlsed white men only four out of nine white men vo ted. In Mississippi, under same com parison, we find 108,990 white men of voting age; substract the 27,621 who voted in 1159 8 and we find she has 81,349 white men disfranchised that only one white man in three voted. Now let North Carolina adopt the amendment and endorse the election law in August, we will then have the same kind of machinery at work in this State as in those three States where the disfranchising amendment is at work. Taking Louisiana's loss as a basis, it being the least loss, (one out of seven voted) and we find one-seventh of 887,960, the votes cast in North Carolina iu 1898, will give only 48,280 voters for North Carolina after the Machine should get to its work. Now ad mitting as we did for Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi that no neerro should vote, then we find that North Carolina's white in 1 1 in i i w THfr CHINESE WAR. THE POST SORE. All Nation May Boa Involved Te Froepeeta Ara For a BlMly War. " We give below some reports from the war. It is impossible to give all. One day it is one way and the next a different phase presents itself. How a war of nations can be. avoid ed is very dark. On July 4th the following Items of news were received. The commanders of the allies in Tien Tsin inform the correspondents that it would be suicide to attempt to reach with the troops now availa ble In the fa-e of the colossal force of imperial troops and Boxers occu pying the country between Tien Tsin and Pekin. So far from tak ing the offensive the 12,000 interna tional troops at Tien Tsin and 8,000 others at Taku and intermediate points can barely keep up communi cation fighting incessantly with over whelming numbers, using far more numerous artillery pieces than the allies. Later. Tien Tsin fell between 7 and '8 o'clock on the morning of June 30th. The Chinese losses around Tien vote of Tsin are between 7,000 and 8,000 ac- the legations on that day. They were repulsed with loss. The Em. peror and Emprem Dowager are there surrounded by their personal attendants, all Boxers. The imperi al princes have erected an altar in the nalace where Boxer rites are ner- - formed. I "The attack of the allied forces upon the native city of Tien Ttdn began at 8 a. m., Juno flOth and the city was taken at 2 p. m. The main object is the destruction of the city fort, from which the foreign settl ment is shelled. "The total of Japanese troops em barked is 1 5,0on and that a further force of 30,000 has U-en mobilized and is ready for embarkation." THE RINI II AS r ft OF 0RAN8E C0UN TY "RBE FORESISaT" 1898, 221,076, less the votes that would be cast, 48,280, and we find that 177,796 white men will be dis franchised, while if every negro is disfranchised there would be only 116.884 of them, making the dis franchisement of the white men as to the negro in the proportion, three white men to two negroes. Bryan and Fra Of era were not in it. hardly Just town ring. Monroe Dotter. the facts can be procured. D. Convention) Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer the following resolution i an addition to the declaration of principles already presented for adoption : "Resolved, That this convention, ver mindful of the ceaseless conflict between liberty and despotism, and burning with indignation at the en croachments of absolute monarchies upon the rights of man, does hereby extend its hearty sympathy to the jfople of. Poland In their heroic struggle for indendence, and we hereby demand that the government of tlie Unltec States shall immedi ately and resolutely interfere in le half of the these, our brothers, who WHAT LOUISIANA DEMOCRATIC SENATORS SAY. SENATOR M EN RY'S OPINION. Washington, D. C, March 17, 1898. To the Times-Democrat. In answer, I say that section $ is GROSSLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.. I have submitted the same to some of the ablest Democrats of the Senate, who are able constitutional lawyers. They all concur in my opinion, that If adopted, the effect will be to lose our representation in Congress and the electoral vote of the State. S. D. McEneby. SI NAT OR CAFFERYS OPINION. Washington, D. C, March 17, 1898. To the Times-Democrat. Section 5 of the amended suffrage amendment is unconstitutional, in my opinion, because it establishes a privileged class of voters for three generations without qualifications, while it imposes qualifications on all other citizens, and because, in fact, it discriminates against the colored people of Louisiana. D. Caffeby. are- The Chairman -The gentleman will jardon me for interrupting him, but Poland disappeared from the map filly or a hundred years ago. Delegate (sitting down) Maybe you're right, Mr. Chairman. I never heard of the country till the other Ten Copies For One Dollar For ONE DOLLAR w wiM 8end R u en Subscribers until the election In August. Now Is the time to act. Populists are requested! $p go to wor ,and send in clubs at once. CAUCASIA PUBLISHING CO. it Evidently is Nt for Stiver. The Raleigh Morning Post is not much of a "Bryan man" and is no friend to the "free silver (?) craze." rt Is afraid, however, to say so right out in meeting. You must read between its lines to sire it up. To prove what we have stated, we mote a few editorial noteslrom its issue of July 6th. Thay explain the sore: "Judcre Avery. North Carolina' member of tho platform committee, i-ertainly represented the real Dem ocrat of his State by his vote on the the financial plank. "That section of the platform which refers to the Chicago plat formit will be found away down the column was drawji with, ex nuisito and refreshlne wisdom. If such Judgment could only prevail throughout! "After getting the platform in better shane than we were led to expect up to yesterday evening, and nominating Mr. Bryan, the conven tion adjourned until this morning. "We feel much encouraged from the outcome yesterday to expect something 'equally as good' today. "Mr. Br van's new norch. lust ad ded to his home in Lincoln, is not only attracting national attention, but commendation. It was built to permit him the better to receive his friends who call on him. "Having built a new and better platform for himself to stand on at his home, it. may be questioned whether he should have so persis tently refused to permit th national convention to follow its own Incli nation and good judgment and con struct a new and better one for the nartv erenerallv to unite and stand on." INTERESTING STATISTICS th Congrrsnlonal Election of Thio llfrn.hiluic St m. "In a speech delivered at Elmlra, N. Y., recently the Hon. John T. McDonough, Secretary of the Btate of New York, gave the loiiowmg statistics of the Congressional elec tion of 1898 in three diaf ranching ktate: "Total vote in Louisiana, 82,226 ; average in districts, 5,632. Total vote in Mississippi, 27,621 ; average to districts, 2,910, Total vote in South Carolina, 28,- 159: average to districts, 4,082. Total vote cast in three States fbr twenty members of Congress, 88,- 005 average vote in each Congress ional district, 4,632. "The total vote In the 84th Con gressional district of New York in the same year was l,84Z,4d; tne average vote in each Congressional dktrict being 39,483. Commenting on this condition of affairs Secretary McDonough says : . " "As many votes were cast in the I6th N. Y. Congressional district as was cast in the thirteen districts of Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. . You will also notice that the average number of votes cast in each of the twenty districts of the three Southern States is only 4,632, or in other words, nine times more votes are cast in a New York district than in a Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina" district." On the basis of the votes cast in New York, these three Southern States would each be entitled to but one member of the House of Repre sentatives, or a total of three instead of twenty." cording to official estimates. The Chinese have been guilty of horrible cruelty towards the wound ed and captured, subjecting them to what is known as ling-che. or the slicing process. Under this hideous practice, the bodies of the fallen have been mutilated. The Russians are retaliating by the wholesale shoot ing of natives. The situation according to the Ex press' correspondent shows sigin of drifting Into barbarism and sav agery. One hundred and forty thousand imperial troops are stationed be. ween Pekin and Tien Ttdn, whll the total of the ailed forces whic h can be concentrated at the pranenr barely numbers 20,000. It is said that the rooms of the Legation were filled with tick and wounded, the killed lying nnburled In heaps. It la believed that many members and officials of the Tsung Li Yamen perished when the Ger man guard, maddened by the mur der of Baron Von Ketteler, the Ger man Minister, set fire to the build ing. That the foreigners at the Chi- i . j a. - nese eapiiai nave oeen antnuuuu m their horrible rate seems no longer open to doubt. Advices from Shanghai f o-day re port continued fighting at Tien Tain, white the German Consul at Che Foo telegraphs to Berlin confirming the report of trie renewal of hostili ties. He says the foreign settlement at Tien Tsin is again surrouded and that the women and children are to be removed. ' That I ho Dmorota Shonld So That Tholv Amondnt'nt Wld M4 Kimlr ?. "It was a 'rare foresight,' indica ting clear perception of the risks they were taking from the stand point of their own political suprem acy for the legislature to perceive as far back as February, 1899, that It might be necessary for them to do some reiIr work on their constitu tional amendment, but that they should have been forced to acknowl edge that the amendment, as It would affect the rights of illiterate white roan, Is all that its opponent have declared and proved, is a disas trous confession for these advocates of a limited suffrage." "Now withdraw your threats, pull off your red shirts, lay aside your hot guns-, recant, atone as far a NIb!e for the violation of your ilinn pledges by repealing your disfranchising scheme when your legislature im-ets in July, and save t he good name of the State by enact ing 'fair and Just election laws," which will !nure to every qualified elector the right to cast the 1IM and have the ballot ormnted as raxt." "And once adopted ft is then too late to think of undoing the deadly work. Twenty or thirty tbowand good, loyal lalorlng white men who were in the Confederate army In their youth Instead of being In school will be disfranchised. If the law la enforced, which we take for granted most be done. This is rank fraud." Letthepeeple pass this amend ment which so binds and fwtters their liberties as to render all future resistance out of the question, then what may they expect?" The White Man. Ao4 ran Sofcr f HlHWro y a Taroagtt I ha CirtMf mX m Lt ml krthoS yi'grm Vtra. To the Caucasian. The ring master of Orange county stated to an anti-amendment Dem ocrat on the 26th day of Juno, 1900, "We Democrats do not propose to disfranchise any Demorrat, If we can help it." All mulatto will U allowed to vote' without an educa tional qualification, fieeau all white men could vote prior to 1 R67, and a mulatto's father Is naturally white. When Informed that Drk Cheek was a mulatto, whose mother an white and whose father was an un known negro, th little ring mas ter became excited and mid: "Dork shall vote. We will see that lie Is never dlstranchlserl. It make no difference whether be ran prove that his ancestor voted prior to 1867 or not." "He's a Demorrat I" If yon could see thla half wltted mulatto you would have a faint conception of democratic hyporracy. Hon. W. W. Kitchen remark! to a Republican on nor street: "flay, how many of thnw Jioy do you nr pose would have voted or registered two years ago? There seems to be several who are aboo eighteen fl8) year ol," point In o a dosen nc trro lounger st a negro store. The Republican replied. "All of them have registered ami voted the Dem orrat Ic ticket, Vxeept mf, and he win offered ten (t 10.00) dollar to vote It, and refused. One of them. I know, ww paid to vat yanr tick et. Mr. Kitchen smiled sweetly and aid your negme am better than nor. I have no flzht against them on that score." Strang" to ay, hut troe. that ont of I be eleven negroes who were referred to a voting the Democratic ticket, bnt on or two will be d!fmnehled, with the old 1 1 m negm, who refied to accept the bribe of ten f St 0.00) offered to him by a Democrat for hi vot. Another oernlar dem ontml Ion of the worklnim of th "D!franchMng Arvndnent." ThI I as true as hnlv writ, and we can iwvrre that more than one negro has been bribed In Orange to vote the Democrat le ticket. CD. Trsns. hs tnm - JEALOUSY AMONG THE NATIVES. The entente between the powers Is rather shaky, especially between Russia and Japan and England and Russia respectively. Russia strongly opposes Japan's acting for the pow ers and Japan wants assurance thai her efforts will not result as they did In 1895. . The following Information has been communicated to me from a trustworthy quarter. It was brought by a special couries, who left Pekin Jane 27th. He . states that 15,000 Boxers and Chinese troops attacked CIIbb41 mmm Co4a4 Twm George Vanderbllt will build a dairy and barns on his place to cost $80,000. News from Oxford Is .that Albert Alton, a visiting negro, who Insul ted a lady there June 20th was found dead next morning, with six bullet , holes through his body. A coroner's jury found party unknown responsi ble. Democratic papers say : "A color ed man. Sterling Jones, who lives near Conetoe, will vote for the Amendment.. He voted the Demo cratic ticket last election." How dd you know he will get on the regis tration book? Ana. Because he Is a -Dimmicrat." w - The Populists In the Rowan-De-ddson-Foryth district have nmnl nated Hn.GeoTrs) E. Hunt, of Da vidson, and J. W. Spear, of For ythe, for the Senate. Jndge Hunt l" a troe PopulM, an able, conscient ious Christian man. who will stand firm In defence of the people" rights, regardle of what others may say or do. We neel more mrft men a Jndge Hunt tntheRtat Senate. The people of hi district could not have selected abetter man. We are not acquainted with Mr. 8 peace. Ex. A r-e'! J. O. 3IcIntosh,of Lincoln coonty. Populist nominee for Mate Senator In the 29th District, Is a gentleman I of high standing In hi county. He was for seven 1 years chairman of the Lincoln county Populist Executive Committee ami ha long been Iden tified with the People's party. Times-Mercury. ' I; day. Chicago Tribuue. .. . nr 4
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