North Carolina Newspapers

C ASIAN Vol.- XV ILL RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 18, WOO. No. 45 o THE CAU SENATORIAL CONTEST. ; mvs. imm Ai) vaj:i ! i nltNKVS FOK THUsTS .1 I njfK Tin; LKuis LATI UK. f, WEBSTER ON JHE SENATORSHIP. ., , 'in. i ti,ul M r. aiiiiiiiiti4 rur i , i ) I'lm tn i f Internal ICctfnuni -li..ull not ri. Vnin'tt'4 t-rietil . t-i Him Tor ntrf A lf rtlncut btbr'B Weekly, (Democrat ) ; ir j.ople of North Carolina, for t .. ;', ml tiuiH iu their history, are to j n hrectly upon tho question of j mull represent theiu in the Uni- i ; ! ;-tte Henate. It is axiomatic 'j,-A the sfreat body of the people are !,,iutt ami patriotic and -want to do ru !;t. If they go roug, it is be- h i n they are mistaken and not be- v. 'f they want to bring evil upon !:riuitry. When they Bee their .)i r. r tin y have the courage and ii u;hf il to cortect it. We believe te people are less liable to make a iu -ttke in the selection of a public cr than a convention party oau i or legislature. Our reason for ti; t, kint? so i that influences can be brought to bear upon conventions. tiicuHes and legislatures tnat could not uiinlead the great balk of the pi-ople. Tnere are too many of the latter to bribe with patronage or in timidate with power. A delega'e'- o upieaentative's ambition pr cupidi ty may be appealed to, and cffi-e or the hope ot fliOH'may be ns d to in (!u'f"h:m to vote for the wnng man. The Senatorial contest in lb'J7 affords a utrlkrng oV j ct lessen of hi. S n ator l'ritchard was re-elected by the power of Federal patronage. The promise of a postofllae to one, a dep uty'n place to another,' a storekeep er's job to a third thepe outweighed the tense of dnty of fifteen Populi-' merabeiH of the legislature to he people aud they j lined with the 11 publicans in electing a friend ot Mark flauna to the Senate. Thi would have been impossible had the election of Senator been loft to th popular vote, or to the rank and file of the Populists. Since the people are to choose their Heuator, thoy are entitled to know the record of every man who solicits their support. If any one knows ant Kood reaaon wbv General Carr. Mr. SSirnmons, Gov Jarv s or Col. Wad df II Kiould oot be Senator; if tbre is anything wrong wi'h their Deai- ocract; it they have ever faltered in their devotion to the principles of 'MrorBon, Jackson and Bryan; If el tber of them wavered or was an un certain quantity when Mr. Cleve'and t rted to lead the party into the ene ray's camn in 1803, now is the time to apeak. It is not a question f su" porting the nominee. The party t as no .candidate lor the rienate, at Chairman Simmons informed 8na tor Butler last summer when chal lenged by the Popul'st Senator fr a joint discussion of the issues. The whole matter has been turned over to the people. Whoever they ct leo will receive the support or every Democrats member of the logisia ture and will be S jnator for the term beginning March 4'h, 1001. Wediscu-sed in our lust issu the claims of Mr -Himmbns upon the 8 -n atorahip, as set forth bv Ju 'g W mack, of Kleigh. Jne Womvk gave eleven reason why he though' Mr. Simmons should hve the place Hid fourth reason was what the newspaper craft would call a "scoop ' a piece of Important 4,nw- givn to the r nbhe for the first time. We beg to q'lou: '4. In 1304 md 1896 he b ddly and publicly, in tue State convention and elsewhere, "Hvocited pol cies op posed by the Pre d nt, declaring he would surrender his otn c oerora n would surrender his principles" As ata'.ed Ust week, we wer mmbfrofthe conventions of isl and 1890, but do not recall that Mr Sim mans was conspicuous for his op pot-i 'ion to Mrv Clve'and's poll cUms. ; The North Carolinian, a R eiffh naber. crve a full ret5ort of tb O a M M nrnoeedin&rs uf ttie convention rr 1804, a copy of which we have pre served, and we do not find a line or sentence showing'that Mr. Simmons opened his mouth upon bilver or the Sanatoria! primary, whioh were the h a line questions before the oonven tioa.' H s Bpeech in calling the con vention to order gave no indication of his position ppon these q ttons, being purely formal. How different from this year, when he male ring ing speech in opening the conven tion, declaring bis position upon ooth State and oaiioasl issues. Gjv. farvis' nquest.for a primary to set- 'b the S-joatorehip wts defeated by a large majority, at d that meant that Senator Kai.som, who followed Mr. Cleveland off the platform, was to g back to the Senate if a Democratic legislature was elected, of which there seemed to be no doubt at that time. Tne convention adopted a free silver platform, but the campaign was not waged upon that Hue. The whole power ot the Federal ratron age was used to re elect a Cleveland ite to the Senate. Oar speakers talked tariff and '68 and did not en large upon 16 to h Mr. Simmons had a discussion with Mr. Marion Hutler in Wayne county la Ooiobef of that year and in an extended re port of the debate found la one of our exchanges, and which we have preserved, he is credited with hav ing said : "I am in favor of blmetalism ; I am in, favor o! patting silver on an fqual' footing "with gold. ' And if tagland, Germany and other for eign countries, woehj-asreo to , it - we could uave free coinage here right away, but the time is not yet ripe for free silver, it it had been Cleveland and the last Congress would have iven it to yon." Tbw was not Clevelandits in neth8,ha, WMreK-d h&6 fQDd U0U .1.. b,lnTDons was in no un!?' lD hi8 J0b for uttering hocu wonments He continued : My frten.l, r are alt in a gd 0 it w (,nly knew it. We bav gat .ore r ey today than any other ''untr ept France. Fre-s.lver can'i do much for yu toy av. for Col. Pol said it would only me, ease the circulation at thir ty ceiit h head. W la Mr. S mmons' opinion th" tim mn not ripe for free silver: he people ere m a gocd fix if they only kntw it; and besides, there w. not mach it. tree silver anyway. Yt the Unmncratic party of Nortn Carolina ir;"V'.I1,iCV1 "ambled Auguat 2 104. hnii t 1-mnlv dolarel "KmU 1 J l,t we realhrni t, l'M:trir.e f the party a enuin:i ted by Um- hit-HKo 4nviition of l-y- anil oeire to sitrnifv f..n "nirrtirtiori placed b us upon thi I on thereof relating to silver, viz : nei;- Ve h . Id that it is the duty of the law--naking department of the govern ment, now in the handt of the Democ racy, to fake immediate neps to restore by legis at on he equal privilege of -liver w.ih gold at the mints, by the free and unlimited coinage of toth gold and Mlver at the ratio or Id to I. st.ch being the ratio of coinage which here tofore ha held in the United sta es " We do not say that Mr. Simmons it not for tridependent bimetallsm now. A. man tnig t to learn a great deal in nix jear Judge W. mack having urg ed .his opposition to Cleveland's policy in as well as in lnyij as one of the reahori3 why he should be Senator, we submit that the. people are entitlel to know all the lacts. I he truth of the matter i that Mr Simmons was regar ded as a t st and firm fr end of Senator Hansom in 1894, and was indebted to him r,.r the col ectrship He will no deny that whatever influence he pos sessed was giver, to re-elect Senator rtansom.who sto d by Ul-iveland on the money quet'on. fermtor ance opposed the confirm ation of Mr. Nimmous as oollectur of iu- irernaiTevenue in BS.. now tne ex- collector't friends are ren-atinc the ayin of the o d Itomun that the horse ! that, pills the plow should have the j odder, ir enai or V ance had a reason or oppugn him for collector, it is in- umbent up .n Mr Simmons to show oat it would not be sufficient for Vance's friends to urge against bis election to the Senate. The Weekly thought in 1893 that Mr Simmons services as chairman entitled him t the collectorship and advocated Ins cause Wedidnoo see the matter rorn -enatir Vance's standpoint. He saw more c' early than any man in iNorth Caro'ina that Cleveland hid de- ermined t crush out the silver senti ment in the party. He saw in Mr. Simmons a shrewd manager and a re markable organzer and tnought him a dangerous man for Cleveland and Kan- soin to have on their side. Time has show n that Senator Vance did notmis- udge leveland's intentions in trying to con vert the party to the crerd of tohn Sherm-n Mr. Mmmons can tell etter than any on else whe' her the iatr nage of the collector's office was given to Vance men or Kansom men; to Democrbts who believed in the free coinage of s lver by this country alone r to those who tavored waiting for Europe to come to our relief. Mr. S mmons in an open letfer pub lish din the Kaleigh papers i uesday denies that he was a lobbyist for any corpora ion or m erest during the st-s-si n of I he Legi-lature m 18V9. He is unfortunate in being yoked together with "unbelievers" in this particular It is a notorious fact that the law firm of Simmons, I'ou & Ward, of whi.-h he is a member, did a large business in representing trust clients who wer in terested in bills before the Legislature of 189; Atone time, it is said, th- Kaleigh office had more work of this onaracter than could be hand ed and it was necessary to bring the Newbern member, Mr Ward, up to relieve the pressure . We recall that Mr Jas. II. Pou was represented by the News and Observer as having antagonized certain features of the Stevens anti-trust bill b 'fore the Sena e committee and being remii.ded bv the an nor that he was satined with them at the other end of the Cap itol, answ-reu that it was true, but b Wissp aking for his clients. I hat was the day Sena orilr-nn,of Forsyth, ask ed if he declaration of the party in this State against trusts was not a "mer echo of the na'ional platform. The dictionary defines an "echo'' as a "reflecte i s mnd." The following from the News and Observer rep rt of the Senate Commit tee's hearing shows that Mr Pou wsa star performer on that intere-ting oc casion : Senator Fie'ds : 'Wlth the amend ment whom would the bill reach?" II rt.. . . It A . .n.l in h fcltof n " Mr. Steve is: " That w mid make fie bill a null ti. wou d it not, Mr. Boun- tree? ' Mr Rountree: "It looks very much 1 ke it." Mr. Hicks: " I he bill looks like it was aimed at foreign trusts, but lets in j State rusts " Mr Pou: "I do not think there are anv trusts in ihe State " We will. qui te again from the same report : Mr Stevens saiu ne was surprisea that Mr. Pou should oppose the bill, be -au-e he bad agreed to the bill as it passed the House Mr. rou saia nawas acting in behalf of clients. Mr. Mmmons nas not yet ai-avowea the "client" id a of his partner for ur ging and. with Senator Glenn's help, securing the adoption of amendments to the Steven' anti-trust bill which in the opinion of Mr. R untree, of New Hanover, an able lawyer, maae uanui-litv.- His attention has been called to it by the Weekly more than once, but 7 . j U ne nas rem-iiiieu umuu as au ujsrei, . . . ? : il . . . . 1 ,KA T aivielarn which he tells us he exerted in behalf ne iau ujuueiicc im uciiomwi r. of the amendment and the election law Whv did he not urge the Legislature to enact a stringent anw-irusb iawr The neode of North Carolina would like to know what fel owship hath light with darkne s; wht agreement bath Democracv with attorneys who mock at the complaint of the people aga nst trusts, savinar there are none in the State, yet declaring the bill they amen ded to deatn win rea ;n mem every one , what encord hatn the Democrati St ite Chairman and candidate for the Senate with a firm that lobbies for Cor portions before the State 1 egis ature? Can two walk together except they be agreed? itf Let us De unaerstoou in mis raaiurr. Our only motive Is to see that a man goes to the United States Senate from this upon whom Mr. Bryan, if be is elected and we pray God he may be can rely in any and all emergencies." Federal penslonsiiave been granted the following residents ofJNorth Caro lina: Weight Hammond, New Berne, 8 per month; William L. Thurber, Addie, $8 per month. ; A large amount of ship-building is rpnnrted as sroinfiron at Newport News The steamship Main, recently damaged In the Boboken fire, will be rebuilt at I i r . .Sfc Sif AAA ' that port at an expense oi fow,vw. TO BUILD NEW BATTLESHIPS. -Many N It turn lu Pot in Ultl.- Arthc (.lflirt-liiiou AuuiBr Sbii. knlU.i. Wa-,binKton, I). C. There prom ises to lm a live ifjujititli for ouiMing thu nt-w battlhii, an.J crulneri. and M-verl ( thA thir. hUihUijg ujtlurftri-s already have i their representative here swuring the bperiric-atitjiH for the -hips pre paratory to submitting hUU. Thte include Home yards which have not thus far done any goveruuient work. The present low price of teel is ex- ,,,.,,1 i . , M , , , tcteil by naval official, to result in o un.iuiunii in.- s'nau-; tage ol Iw bids. The builders t state that steel shape ami frames eu be lought now lor 1.7 cent per pound as against 2 a short time ago, and this, lu the aggregate, make a very large Item of font. NINE HUNDRED CLERKS TO RETIRE. Electricity to Take Their Place in th ( emui Office. Washington, D. C. During No veujer nine hundred of the tempo rary clerks employed iu the census bureau will go out of office. These clerka were mostly engaged in tabu lating work in connection wtth the population division, and the intro duction of electric machinery in ver ifying the reports makes the work much shorter than has been required in past censuses. The full census re port will be ready to submit to Con gress in December, after which the entire force will be gradually re duced. THE PARTY RESPONSIBLE. Why Didn't You Condejuu It Before the Auguit Kleetlon. Hickory Times-Mercury. You hear good men admitting that it was wrong for drunken Dem ocrat roughs to go around and try to terrorize the people, but say the Democratic party is not responsible for it. When they escort the Dem ocratic candidate for Governor around from place to place, when the fact was advertised by the Demo cratic papers, and when it was not condemned by a single Democratic paper in the 8tate, and received the approval of Chairman Simmons and his State candidates, even llev. Dix on, their candidate for Auditor, no one can say truthfully that the party Is not and ought not to le held re sponsible for it. Killed hy the Crew. Norfolk, Va. Capt. Evans, of the oyster schooner "Graham," of Cris field, Maryland, was murdered yes terday in the harbor by eight negroes composing the crew of the vessel, who mutinied and killed him, pikI then deserted: Evans had trouble with the crew Wednesday, after he had advanced them a portion of their wages. Another member of the crew had been sent ashore to make purchases and when he returned saw Captain Evans lying on the deck, his head crushed, his pockets rifled and the eight mutinous members gone. Ev ans had considerable money on his person. Goes Too Far. Phlladtlphia Record. In the benevolent view of Bishop Morrison, of the Methodist church South, China should be dismem bered by the holy armies of the Christian world From which it would appear that there are relig ious fanatics in civilized as well as in heathen lands. When Simon De Montfort informed the bishop of Toulouse that he had a number of prisoners, some of whom might be of the true faith, the pious eccle ciastic is related to have replied: Burn thm all; the Lord will know His own !" Heavy Shipments of Gold. Chattanooga, Tenn.. Oct. 10 Havy. shipments of gold from Dhloneg are being mide to the evern men t mint at Charlotte, N. C. fhrough this city. One pig sent through this week weighed eighteen pounds and was worth $5 000 A Dortion of the stamps in the 120 stamp mill ara now steadily in opera tfon and the clean ups show that the percentage of gold to the ton Is greater than had been expected. Ills Indiscretion. In one of Chauncy Depew's stories he tells of meeting a man as funny as himself. "One day." said Mr. Depew, "l met a man who had been wounded in the face. He was a Union man, and I ask ed him in which battle he had been in jured." '"In the last nat'ie oi bum kuo, sir, he replied " 'But h w cou'd you get bit in the face at Bull Run?' I asked 'Well, sir,' said the man, half apol ogetically, 'after I had run a mile or two I gv,t careless and looked back.' " Youth's Companion We are of the opinion that the Carolina farmer's wife ought to share some of the prosperity of ten cent cotton. During all these years of low prices she has economized and j worked hard and done more than her part to keep the wolves of debt and poverty from the door. She has worked and waited patiently for better times, and now that they have come she is entitled to have some of her desires granted. Too Far Behind. Milly I utderstatd that Miss Elderly is setting to be very fast. Willy Yes ; bat she'll never make up the time she has lost. Smart Set. -- --v--- . Says the Virginian-Pilot: "We infer from the sundry exchange that a little Judas Iscariating is b ing done in the Tar He Senatorial race." WHY HE OPPOSES MR. SIMMONS ! The F.tlltor uf Ibe -ratil Ci4Btly lKin't Kij ery Far. Davie Kec(rd. " Krat were urpri,ea to fiefir a lnw way on ir tr-et jestorday ihat ilwwM ftitar.t feiniinon far :en&tr bwaue he had carried the (at election . hy "t'i kerj. " The election whs fair and nun- far a w knu. I hi is a wlander, not upon M r. bimrti'jtu. but upon every registrar and poll b l!er iu the t l- -tit but au echo of the Mount Holly f eerh Herald I Ultj wfj clipiJJ from the H-r-1 laid, lilted by W. X Coley, formerly of Ul)s pUt. r tM deVotlnJ a; jjirav'j-aiipi ins pce w iu :iue Of ' M mirnoni, tb.- arc h perp rator of the gigantic. leal and rape of the ballot b x hi Augut. "I his 1) mocrst j who is opp.oed to .sirnmuim on amount of his t ii-kery, is too hoiitst to be in j such a crowd, and is 'o be commended j for expressing his honest convictions, j I he shame of the w bole tnattT is, that i so many registrars anl o!l holder-i Willi ll l I hf fllittllt t (Willi lf tlita a r.'li ! coDspir tor. F. M. Simmons, aeain-t the rights and liberties of the people iuc iemocrair wio ua tue nonesty anr. ! matiho d to denounce the rn-irm it v iif i his party h uld rot be d-nouneii as a j slandert--, for he told the truth and ! nothing but i he truth No honest man wno will express ins rwnn' views on the recent election will say that th election whs honest an 1 fair. If it was honest and fair in the east, and espe cially in such counties as Halifax, New Uacover, Craven and Edgecombe, why is it necessary to disfrancise the ne-groe-? he Democrats got their ma jority in the negro counties, a- d they either got i by the n gro voting the Democratic t'eket, or by fraud. If the negro votes th- Democratic ticket, then North l aroliua, (according to Demo crat c contention!)) will have negro democratic domination for the nxt fourye rs If you take the other horn of th dilemma, the State will be gov erned by a -et of men wh were not f-irly el cted, but whose certificates wreak with fraud and infamy. Which? A RIOT AT MANTANZAS. A CubrfU l'oliceinan Interfered With a Cavalryman General Kia-lit Knsunl. Havana, Oct 11 At Matanzas yes terday a ' uban policeman interfered with two members of the Second Uni ted Mnles cavalry. The quarrel culmi nated in a general fight between the po'ice and soldiers, who arriv d upon lb-" scene simultaneous')'. After the police had rdiot Trooper Turey, of Troop D. ne other soldier and one civ ilian, a nuo.ber of troopers of Troop D, tried to break into the gun room to get their weapons, but the quick action of Captain Foltz of Troop 1, in form ing Troops I and M in order made it impossible for tin excited cava rymen to pss. i.ieu enant Wil ard is said to have been si ghtly hurt while endeavoringto quiet the men. The troopers declare that they will have revenge and Colonel Noyosbas or d red a'l confined to barracks. The feeling is very strong between the Cu bans and cavalrymen. Interesting Exhibit. One of the most interesting of the exhibits in the rotunda of the hall at the recent meeting in Cin cinnati of the American BaptM Mis sionary Union was in charge of Rev. T. G. Fields, of Elyria, (., the sec retary ot that union for the States of Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. The field of action of this body of missionaries is in the following countries: Burma, Assam, India, Siam, China, Japan, Africa, Sweed en, Nor w a y, Germa'ny, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Finland, Den mark, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Hou- J mania, Belgium and Switzerland. There are over 200,000 living con verts scattered throughout 21 coun tries, the union having made 12,021 baptisms in 1899. Their converts, in turn, become missionaries. They contribute (including our mift-don churche-s in Europe) $400,000 an nually. There are more than 1,500 Sunday schools, In which over 100,- 000 children are taught. It nas to day 472 American missionaries, 3,480 native preachers and other workers, 596 self-supporting native churches, 1,507 out-statlons, 206,746 church members, 1,436 mission schools, 36,317 pupils, 1,500 Sunday schools and 100 scholars. To Control Price of Cotton Seed. A Jackson Miss., dispatch states that numerous conferences are being held by the cotton oil manufactur ers of Mississippi with a view to controling prices to be paid for seed. The mills are now paying $16 per ton and as the crop is fifty per cent short, It is the general belief that the prices will advance to at least SI 8 within the next few weeks. The manufacturers say, however, they cannot afford to pay more than the present price and that they are losing money on seed products at the prevailing figures. Many of the mills are holding their oil in the expectation of an advance. It is thought two-thirds of the mills will be ciosea aown uy viirisimas uu ne . . i : . . . . . .-. count of the seed shortage. Waddell in Charlotte., Charlotte People's Paper. The acting mayor of Wilmington, one Waddell, who made a reputation two years ago that none of us want, thank God, harrangued a few people in tbe court house here on the night of the 2nd. Be was rot introduced not withstanding the acting mayor of this city was present it aiu not set wen on the old fellow s s omacn to nave to introdoce himself, but be got there in some style, and then told them how he had fit, b ed and was often mortally scared for tne dtar old party and ev erything else in sight He failed to tell about the negroes that were 8hotintre back and under nouses in w umington two years ago, but they were tust ne arroes you know and would not vote right. Nothing wrong in killing them. All in an, ne um n-1 cm mucn i a ng ure here and will cut less at the prima Of the awards at the Paris Exposi tion the United States received 2,775; Germany, 1,826; Great Britain, 1,725 and Russia, 1,493 The United States leads not only in the grand t tal, but also in all grades of awards from grand prize to merely honorable mention. IMPERIALISM AT HOME. 'u f-U-., LA 1 1 llUL I U1L UNDENT of THK HUN HI). THEY ARE 0WHIKC UP PUBLICLY. C harlotte "MTvnr a t Im NfrM d!4 Xot Vm ti LHorrauchit TkriniU lujierals Hv Vuliifi.-l the l'rtn-plc of UovwDinfiil tn Nurth C'arullna-llaJ-iTai the liaonr Democratie County, Hat 1 brr.- Vfriwi to one Whlt. The following was the leading ed- ltorial iu the Charlotte Observe r of (the 5th lot. 5th lot. We don't Intend to get in the at- t1" of dt feuding tbU thing which, for lack of a nioro formida- blon-na. Is called "imperialism." Weareiu favor of giving tho Fil llpinos an independent government of their own as soon as they are ready for it, just as we promised the Cuban we would them. But it is impOHhiblo for us to keep eyes on jut one phase of this question We uold that this government can not, with any sort of regari to Its obligation, with any degree of telf rcSwect, or with any hope of main taining tho respect of the world, withdraw from the Philippines un J til tho islands are pacified, and that j after that we must, as a matter of i Christian ci vilizat ion, govern them, j as wo have Cub-i, until they are able to govern thems lvt s We are told ihAi this would be government without tho co line ut of thu govern ed and that his is at variance with every American principle; and yet we have not been able to see that this has not been the practico of tho United States in Its dealings with the American Indian, the Alaskans and liawaiians, and that this is not now iho practice of t ie Southern States with regard to the negroes. Our valued contempora ry, The No-folk Virginian-Pilot, while dumb as to the Indians. Alaskans and Hawaiiacs, does not at all see as we do, that the Fillpi nos and our negroes are in the same boat, but reasons out the ditL-rence thus: "There is no promise whatever held out to the Filipino, and no means provided, that he may be cora : an American citizen, with a j citizen's rignts and privileges ; ev ery Southern negro who can read and write intelligently is an Amer ican citizen, witn all a citizen's rights and privileges. If the South ern n gro can't read and write, he has but to learn in Ktatt s where the suffrage is qualified, to have all a citizun's rignts Scuools are provl dod by the Si ate where the negro children can fit themselves to com ply with the law qualifying suff rage, wnich is the only limitation on the negro's rights as a citizm. The Filipino, though learned as Socrates, can't be a citizen. The door ot opportunity shut in the fa ces of all alike? Mot much. There s but one Filipino who is au Amer ican citizen ; there are forty thou eand n groes in North 1 arolina who can vote under the new amend meat." As a matter of theory these proposi tions are unexceptio nable; as a matter of fact we of North Carolina know that the tb ory d es not work out- We grant that every Soin hern negro i c read and write int lliirent y is nom inally an American citizen, with all a ci izeu's rights and privileger, but of wh t value are these rights and privi leges if he can't exercise them and he cant. In N-w Hanover county, em bracing the city ef 'V lunngton, at the laso election, even when the s ilirage amendment was being v ted on, there were '"Hst oely three Kepublican vote-, yet New Hanover has many mo.-e ne gro than whit- v ters. in Halifax county, which is credited with three neg oes to une white man, the Demo cratic majority at he Augu t election was 5,741. 1 1 is c rtain that the New Hanover a d llaMfax negroes did n t vote io di.-franci ise themselves; it is equaoy ce.-t in that they did not hb- ,-tain rom voting in order that triey might wit'i the more certainty bedis Iranehissed by the white men. Our con tent por a y cou d not et one of thef-e neeroes to say that hi ignorance is "the only limitation' on ' bis rights as a citizen," for neither ignorance nor intel lgence cut any hgure, under the law. in that election. To the conclud ing assertion of our contemporary that "tbereare 4U,ouo negroes in Aorwn ar ohna who au vote under the new amendmen ," we reply in its own lan guage, "not much " I h- consent of the governfd argu ment is good in fcome parts of the Li i i ted States but it will not go jn North Carolina. Fer the. good of all concern ed we have nii'lifi-d that pr nciple of overnment d wn here and have made I . . -. . - no concea ment aouut iu. it is iroe we have gone about it by indirection, but tne eua nas oeen accompiisueu jusi iue same, and we cannot, with any face, be heard to apply an argument in bebtit of the Filipinos which we have reversed in our owi practice. IheCharlotte Observer might in clude in the above a number of white men in North Carolina who were de prived of their right to vote in the Au gust election. Behind Time. Atlanta Constitution. "What! two days after the polls have closed, and still count u votes?" "Yes: we hain't got our man in yet!" North Carolina apples , took first premium at the Paris exposition. This favorable recognition of merit will give our apples a good name in the general markets, and ought to encourage farmers to plant larger orchards. - Begistrationja New York is re ported to be unusually large. TRYIKC TO RIOICULI POPULISTS. Vr4 I -y ar IWt-r 1m4 o lul!tMa 1 Awt Itawarm. Hickory Tinie-Mercur-. 1 iw Spartanburg Herald, a IW-mr- ftti.. ..... . . . . I . r jsn-irr. m "i iiiKiiiAiA in North t art.llna ho rv oP1.,l tuth Fo-l..-oih lofantry. United ! Tev-n-on h 111 vote for Hrrin fur i f,f,,M V,luotr, tatIontd la tb ! Preidei:t and MrKinley fir VI f Philippine with txdjuanr at Pnidem, that IVikiIUu know aa j ft"?'" lye ow of bla , I i f ' 1.. .l..nt , aUiut politics that Its reported that ome are -till voting for Jel DavU and Ale I lucid it." I HM!K-rat called ippr quote the above uith a -mile f provul. The Charlotte News and 1U i-everal wste-lat-ket, pie-counter pa !ers quote It, and add: "Thai's hard to believe, but tfoniM an hi ud here have no choic in Ihe matter." Now that's the way theu "w W and "Christian" ipn talk. It easier for theiu to luisreprenont and belittle, that it i t answer fkcta. The 1'opultBN of North Carolina are not fooln. They are better jted on io!illes than the average heuiu crat. Aud their leaders fcre o well It-d that the leaders in the Demo cratic rty dare not meet them in joint di4'u-doit. Ayeock was afraid to meet Thomjmn. Democrat were j asked to do. so and tacked down. The only way Democrats could meet I'upuli-ts In North Carolln was with rotten egg, and organized bands of drunken ml rdilrts aud by threats of murder; ar.d they were ho afraid uf Populi-.t argument that they would, with drunken roughs, pull their !-p"akerH down off the plat fcriu, go into their bed rooms, arm ed, and take them by force out of town under threat of death, etc. FOUND SEARCHINC FOR HIS CAP. l.oni.-j Front a Train Mot in ! I bo lUte of o Mil. an Hour Withuut Kt-viv-In any M-riuu Injury. Lkbanon, I'a , Charles Rosen berg, r, aged twenty years, member of tho Rescue Fire Company, of York, this morning leaped from a KoAding express train, running a mile a minute, midway between Atinville and Lebanon, and was on ly slightly hurt. He 1 apod after his cap, which had been blown away, and his absence Irom the train was not noticed until It got here. Then a special train was sent back for his body. Itoseoberg er was found searching for his cap. His injuries were three slight scalp wounds First I arire Khipnieot of Florida Oraore Jacks. invili.b. Fla., October 10 The first solid car of oranges for tho season was shipped from Flor ida to-day in a decorated car con signed to a Chicago house. The oranges were shipped from Klssl- mee. i n Osceola county, and were gro.vu in groves that had entirely recuperated from the freeze of 1831. The car contained three hundred boxes. BraTton Medlln Will not Hang-. Gov. Russell has commuted the death sentence in the case of Bray ton Medlin, of Gaston county, to life imprisonment. Mediin, who is a white man, killed William Brown, who was floor man ager of a cotton mill at Gastonia, N. C. The prisoner and his little daugh ter were em ployed there. On the evening before the homicide the prisoner and Brown had a quarrel ovvr the number of days the girl had worked and approbrious epi thets were interchanged. The next lay the prisoner armed himself with a pistol and went to the factory They exchanged shots at sight, the prisoner shooting first. After he withdrew deceased fired on prisoner who nred in return. killing Brown. Petition for the commutation were elgned by nine of the jury which convicted Mediin, by eight or ten hundred citizens, of Gaston coun ty, by two of the State's witnetsses and by several ministers of the Gos pel. Five Boy Babie9 at Once. LiCross, Wis., On. 12.-Mie. St. Charles, residing Here, gtve birth to five boys today. She nas had s:x- tix:u children in seven years, lets and twins predoaiintte. Trip- Herself to Blame. Lena I d du't think you'd let a mau kiss ou on such short acquaiLt- ance. Maud Well, he thoroughly eop- viDc.d me that it was all my own fanb that 1 tada't met him sooner, Smart Set. The Prisoner's Construction. Atlanta Constitution. 'I have to report," said the sher iff, "that the ary is hang." I kaowed.trom the looks of 'em, whispered the prisoner, "that they orter bt!' Alas, Too True! Little Willie Papa, who is the besr; man at a wedding! Mr. flennypeck The best man is tne chap who-sees the other fellow gt the worst of it, my son. Smart St. State Mine Inspector J. DeB. Hoop- er, of Birningham, estimates that t e er..tmitm.t.nf Alabama f..r thi ver will approximate OOO.OUO tons, an in . . . create over last year's prodnction iw.uuu iocs. The fair at Greensboro lat week was attenaea Dy isrg - crowus i ne xnio- it.nfli.a afjvlc Areata fmtinilT0. etabl-swere lare. Tue r.ces were equal to tte average North Carolina horse trot. The fair was in every wsy a success. D.r ?. ? Msger; of Wayne .count maae eignt naie oi wtwa ou acres this year. CUT OFF 001 SOlCltt SIAU. cmofiw KlUlat f MU N.Y.rn. Frlecd of Serc-ani Fjw!r, of! - -i imuuinwnurD la mr C "lUsj Stat. of srfrinti Barton and Zim rufrrma o Koh-r r,c I in -oU Mr Kuwter i th 0ua uf -oig0- Kow- er, of vv Ul jo.' L. I. II rvetl Miv..uniii.r thruuh tb Sji- f lh American war and rotU?dj la tbt I'bitasl btatr trvtc bpt 15. lry Iteraaw of hU eipertonc j ad tmrkmsathip h rt appoint .sj -s-rtf. nt and a.algard tocouui oy C II irioo and Ztmtuermaa y that Nigeaat tmWr luuidietln-: guUhesl hlmlf In bltl. U hot and killed a young natlv llutni antnameil Marcu andcapturvd h:a sword. Lteu'mant Marcus father. Mar cvii us mat ui, a man of eltn, on receiving iirwi of hi voo'i death,! organlzrsj a troop or threw thousand I ram and offered to pay UJ for the Not - itbetandicc tb fact that lft ar uf any member of the Forty m Mt of th war nera from Houtfe eveoin K giment. Sine, th.n r Afr,c. c.m from BrllUh -our, ery Anierl. an killed near whtow Ihe . . n . . ' Fortv-evtnth U .tationwl baa bet-n mnd 11 u - BrttUk fouLd with the left ear mudog. ' IVpartinmt ia doing IU Uast ' toeuppreaa all Information nafn- BRI0ECR03M SHOOTS &.REMA0E1S. Uorable to th. llrltUb. nout h rw- J llalde Dft leak througtt th can- Uruou Trii;sM Hria r-fustr ! aora' ofllce to abow that lha tkwra n- afaod sri, uum4. ar tld fl.htt-c bmv.Iy and per. N w H un.wich, N.J., Oat.ll.--t.lit,nU furDj d moaUal John W .nt-, of Kmgttoa, hot and w . . . , . ... amfollv ujared Toomu Sullivan i th Nutu African war U far from and W.il atu L gaa inn night while ' loK r- 1 c-ptum of In they, wi h a .umber uf other. wre j Urjr on Oct 31 of noonvoy of llrll tendtilcg bim a jo?k Mrmade. gll l(aa, and IU -cort of nitty hite, anon twenty seven year, j mount.! man In thu nvDlLeaaUrn c.ki. ten town a lew oat ao-a with B. eeTenty-foar Tri ' old. with the aTOwed intention ot marryitg ner. au me minuur latkice ol Ihe peace in Hrnrawick had refuted to marry the c.jui'i-. ihe coaple retarded Inst uigbt and said the ceremony had been performed. A erowd nrronnd ed tbetr none and jeered unmerci fully. nite loadni a sbotgnn with tack and nails and tired into the erowd. SalliTan's body and arm were badly torn by the taekt and nails, l.ttraawns nit in tne bead, and his nose and one of bis ear were badiy lacerated. The it jirt-d men were auenaea oy a pnyaieian j . . . . The crowd fcattered for the time i being, but when White lett his boose later he was aUatked b? a erowd of townspe p', who baodld htm roughly. lis finally man god to es epe and tl d front the towu. In ad dition to being "e-eniy-four years old, Mrs Tice or Wnite is said to be deaf and partly blind. SHUFORD NOMINATED FOR C0NCRESS. l'opullal Mert at alUtury and NomloaU- a ( wnan-Mionat llchSt. The Populists of the Seventh Dis trict met in convention at Salisbury on the 5th hud., and nominated Ion. A. C. HhufonI, of Catawba county, for member ol Congmw. lie port ing the convention, the Hick ory Times-Mercury says: "Mr. Shu ford has the confidence of the Populists of the district. He has represented this dirtrlct in Con gress two terms ki'l so far learn ed his official acts have never Ijeen questioned. Capt. James H. Sherrill was elected chairman of the district. It was also agreed to send delegate, or recommend to the counties in the district, to send delegates to the Middle-of-the-ltoad State convention in Itileigh, and assist In putting out a full electoral ticket, provided It did not iuterfere with our present State organization. "It was urged that Populist of the district stand by Mr. Shuford and thereby rhow their faith by their ballots." ldfe Sentence for Tom Smith. Tom Smith, who en December 2S, 189S killei Iewi C 'awthorn, sod mur derously assaulted Graham Garner, in a drunken row, nar .-elma, Jotiuston c unrT. and who has beu trl d and convicted of the crime with which he i charged and sentenced to pay the extreme penalty of the law at twj trials in different counties, ban bad bit sentence cbtnaeJ by the Governor to life impr nment He was taken to t e penitentiary n Saturday, where be will erve out his life term, lne su- preme 1A urt ided with the prisoner, virtual' r c mmenaing io itie tover nor that be exercise executive clemen cy in the c e. For Practicing -Medicine" Wlth- out ucene. " New B .kk, .C. October 1-th The grnd jury to-day males nreaentment airalnat Mlas Hatch er Ilarribon, the Christian Scient ist, for employing the "Healing art, ' or practicing medicine la this State without a license. The mat ter grew out of the death of Harry Parsons, whose taking on has cans ed wide discussion of the Christian Science claims and dogmas. As the matter now stands the present- ment goes to the grand Jury of the February term of the criminal I court, and it will rest with them whether or not they shall flni I trie bill and the case be tried at the February term of court. A Wilmington paper report that cotton In unprecedented quantities has been pouring Into Wilmington, the receiDts each day being far In ex L r ht tho worn Ul voir. . ,. -jL, a,li- All the co m presses are working I an I A. A t . 1 . - - Steaauy, out mey are uiaaaug umy ol slizht headway. There are about thirteen hundred cars of cotton on the railroad waiting. The. glut of cotton interferes with the receipts f j packages of vk "" " the Utter are stored away among the cotton In the unloaded cars. Several large factories have been rrmanentlv cloned bv the trusts at j, indUv 0hio throwing 1.760 men iur i - - , . - out w empioyum. BOERS STILL FIGHTING. U H rilKTlUNsWAl. AND nlU.NUK Him: UL ITBLIC. , HOftS QI JOIIICi lATlfifl W1U iiTEIFltt. ----------- ! jhtMMiit - iw kHua T -- t- ' 4 iw Nr.- T- i.va i ! -nrta r.if vvWM w. ....... i . m ! . inm nvr 1'n.lurl. nutln. nak. .lderabl. lot of ilf and lb Uaiila with tien. K-lly Kenny near Boll rout, in. In which Ave li:tiln offi cer, were wounded, whlla one ta uiUtiog. duplay the dUr ruina tion of the Boera to carry on in flgbt tot h laat ditch. IilsaUUml on good authority that It 1 oot now afe fur a BrltUner In any part of tht Tranva.l or Orauga Fre Hlate. In the latter country tn Brillsk bate evacuated I wo thirds of tb towns they occupied early In tna eo. and Ber raiding parti have again appeared In lha north- Mrn dUtrlcU of Cnn Colour. tendon arwial dte4l Oct. 11th .ut4, th,t lhtt o-Dt.ral lw Wet had a three day' fight with lha British mounted lof.iotry at hUlU bcrg. and made a aaf retreat acruaa the Vaal river. Gen. Robert reports therw are several larga force of B jers, both in the Tranavall and Lb Oranga Kreu State, and that they have thus far foiled the British In every attempt made to surround and capt ure them. A train conveying British i up pi lea was recently derailed near Kaap river aud threw men were killed aud fifteen Injured. An en gine conveying two royal englnewr vdYioers and fifteen men from the rtlakfonte'o garrinon proceeded to Ascertain the nature of the dama ges. Tne Uoeni were lying in wait tor the party and opened fire. On hearing of tbe attack, Capt. Htewart and forty men of the Rifle Brigade, went to the aupport of the engin oers. Htewart and one private wern killed, two officers and five men wre nerlou.ly wounded, and cne officer and ten men wre imprison ed. The lUf-r atill infest tb vicinity of Johannesburg, and are nonalaotlj "cniping" tbe UritUb outpuaU Tor wes-k I'elarey ha been baratamg tbe ftrilih ment of frotoris. General Bo tha, tbe IUer commsuder-iri-cbi.f, ha been ill, and General Viljorn tempora rily in command of the Keder.l army. Botha army bs gone north and I preparing for an a-tive campaign. BtiTiH "orrici-." k . The Urllikb report of rtiu title la tbe Boer war up r-ept. U show that tbe hl i icrjwing large, even up.n of ficial idmiMton which la tar below the actual count, l b- total loe are giv en at 10,075. of which Xl.llrV are per bona ent home a inva-id, 2t4 offlc-r aud 1.718 men killed in action, M o Ca rer and 7D7 men died of wouoda, 14V officer aud tuen die J of diaeaae. S oQicer and ffi men era ml-iog " or iu captivity aud 3 ofUcet ai d 107 rsen arre killed in accideuta. tver week uoe up nearly htlf a reainjeot. Jn the week endvd ept IS, for eiample. tere were 24 oCicera and 4K men killed, wouujed, died of diea or invalided home An many an 110 died In Mouth Africa of di-ae during the week men tioned Iberrwere l,e?S officer and 13,001 men wounded during the war. I'tie Britiab taken priner, or miaa ing, were t4 o nicer and 7M men. of whom V offlrera and 6,441 meo bar been releaa-d -r have eacaped. 1 b-ae were !oe, of an army aggregating about 2J0J0OO men. including oowniaU. I be totd ot 40.0T& caauaiUea, it will be ob erved, about equal tbe aggregate of B er a-ldier of tbe Tranavaal and Orange Free Ute. - J Dlapuadetrt Mu ftkauta hla mam i Co-aa-lta aatdtfo. New York, Oct. 11. Alexander Howard, an Insurance agent, forty- nine years old, shot and killed his son Leigh, eight years old, and then committed suicide at bis boms La Brooklyn to-day. Howard had been very dtspocdent of late tn cause of 111 health and poor business, and this morning he said to bis wife that be was tired of working. Later In the day be sent ber to ths boons of a friend, and when she was gone bs killed tbe boy and himself. Hosrdwas the inventor of a child's toy from which he expected to gain a fortune, and disappoint ment over the failure of these hopes added to bis disappointment. Early Snow in Tei Austin. Tex. Oct. 12 -Parties who arrived here to-day from Sanderson, Texas, located aoutbwe ot ber about three nondred miles, report that the s-etion was visited by a heavy fall of snow yesterday an l thi night previous, t be weather was remarkably cold and tbe .now remained on the around for sometime It is tbe earliest fall of inaw tvr kaown in that reftwu 1 i 'i 4. . i