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Vol. Xf L
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY JUNE 27. 1901.
No. 28
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LETTERS OF
THE PEOPLE.
SOMK COMMENT ON A CRY
WHICH IS CONTRASTED
WITH ACTION.
WHAT DOES ALL THIS KEAI?
CEATI 191 AN AVALAKSSE.
. Jillu s. Carr u
r. . . I . swaawp Bin. WOT
" ' " Jaierview ! WklCB be
Machlae. Will be be Whipped Back Keyeri W. a., June 18 An
latoUMf avalanche unparalleled la the West
New York Time, 1Mb. I irgial mountains occurred Ut
One of the firmest believers In the nIgnt ftt Hopeville, Grant county,
possibilities of a new South In f!ni d8 mile "oua here. Great section
I A SANER
CITIZENSHIP.
WHAT ABOUT DISCUSSION NOW.
Kuisrh About a "Hop" That Preserve
Our l.lbertles-Some Political Changes
Probable In the Kut-An Office Made
Kor Man.
WMK CHANGES IX POLITICK.
Hath, N. C, June 17, 1901 En-
clnM-d you will 11 ml amount for sub-
wription for 1001. I cannot do
without the jaiier. The last issue
w;n extremely Interesting, especially
thHO Bible texts so much truth In
them. F. J. Cahoon.
I. H. From the way people talk,
I think there will be Rome changes
in politics In this community an
other year.
WHY M.I. THIS FUHH ABOUT NOHT1I
CAROLINA
j uuan o. uarr, or Durham. He was
at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday,
having returned from Philadelphia,
where he represented Govornor
Aycock and delivered an address on
North Carolina and her lieaources."
Col. Carr 1 one of the wealthiest
men In the South, and Is Identified
with many movements, calculated
to benefit the Southern states.
"in me content now going on In
of the mountain side along the Po
tomac river for two miles rushed
down into the the beautiful valley.
Thousands of tons of forest treat
i i ...
immense roc Jul anu earth came
down, and the home of Mrs. An
drew Ours, a widow, was complete
ly wrecked. The twenty-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Ours was killed
and Mrs. Ours is in a dyine condi
tion. A little grand-child who was
WHY EVIL TOO OFTEN TRI
UMPHS OVER THE GOOD IN
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT.
A COLD AND TNOUCNTFUL ADDRESS.
South Carolina," he said to a Times "I111111 the night wilh Mrs. Ours
Kelford, N. C., June 20, 1901
After this manner, the Governor In
his New York speech, repeats the
ry of let us have peace." What
manner of peace would he have,
when in the next breath he declares
lie is ready to send 200,000 men
that never missed a squirrel to force
New York back in the Union If she
nhouM dare to be guilty of an ajt of
cession? Is secession thus to be
repudiated and stamped out, that in
time pant was justified, glorified and
defied by the dominant party? We
were told that the few that signed
the ordinance was to be preserved
in the coming ages as a memorial of
that great event, which cost the
lives of half a million men, and en
tailed upon us a debt that can never
be il(l, but must be carried upon
the backs of unborn generations - of
laboiing men and women with a
great and bitter cry.
But 1 must nay what the Governor
very well knows that the worn
out thunder of the Vatican Dis
cussion must not be tolerated"
issuing from the machine in Raleigh
and rolling down east to the ocean
and over the hill toiw and mount
ains westward to Tennessee, is still
reverberating, and this is the fuss
that he hears as the days are passing
by the death knell of political,
social, and religious liberty in North
Carolina.
The conspirltors know that the
law as accepted and laid down by
the electoral commission was that "a
sovereign state must control Its own
elections and preserve Its own liber
ties," and that the truth at expressed
at the ballot box by the 109,543
majority of white voters in the state
must be choked, murdered and kill
ed in order that they might render
themselves Irresponsible to the peo
ple in the coming years and fatten
upon their labor under the pretext
of taking care of them. Though
sworn to support the 14th and 15th
amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, we behold the
spectacle of the lawyers of the state
claiming to De as ignorant ot con
stitutionality as Adam was of geol
ogy, or a justice of the peace of the
law of our state, who never read the
12th chapter of the Revised Code. By
the aid of a rope 50 feet long, an
automatic machine now preserves
our liberties for us, and puts in a
ticket for Mr. Simmons when the
voters back is turned who had asked
for a ticket for Col. Carr, after they
had been stolen away. Let the rope
that preserves for us our liberties be
preserved with the secession pen.
II. P. IlARBELL
reporter, "Senator Tillman may, for
the time being, be successful, but In
the long run Senator McLaurin will
succeed Just so sure as the sun rises
and sets, because be represents the
right principle.
"I have grown mighty sick and
tired of seeing small pollticlns run
North Carolina and other Southern
states. I suppose hide-bound demo
crats will say I am abandoning dem
ocratic principles for dollars and
cents. Let them. It Is high time
that the business or commercial men
of the South tried to run the South
ern states on broader lines. And we
Intend to get out on a broader beam.
We have had all we want of Bryan
Ism, aud God knows I supported
him loyally.
'North Carolina is making rapid
strides in a commercial sense, and as
one of her sons I want to see her
keep In the forefront In business de
velopment. The best interests of
the country are more to me than the
personal success of any politician.
Senator McLaurin has the right idea,
and he is bound to win. I favor
expansion and the Nicaragua Canal,
and I am sick of Bryanlsm."
Col. Carr some time ago refused
the democratic nomination for Gov
ernor of his state. He has given
largely to educational and charitable
institutions and the Carr dormitory
at the University at Chapel Hill is
one of the handsomest structures in
North Carolina.
The Charlotte Observer reproduces
the above interview and comments
editorially on it as follows:
A notable Interview with Gen.
Julian S. Carr appeared In the New
York Times of Saturday and is re
produced in this paper. He says he
is sick and tired seeing small politi
cians run his oWn and other South
ern states and that he and others are
middling tired of Bryan and Bryan-
ism. It doesn't matter that Gen.
Uarr is the State's most generous
and most valuable citizen this talk
of his heretical, "intolerable and not
to be borne." It is time he were
called to the captain's office and in
formed that he must shut up or quit.
The Raleigh News and Observer
has been for weeks vigorously at
tacking Senator McLaurin and read
ing him out of the party each day
will that paper now attack Gen. Carr
and read him out of the party too?
But he will not. The ass knoweth
his master's crib. Ed. Caucasian.
was grabbed by her when the first
warning came, but escape was Im
possible and when found this morn
ing the grandmother was buried to
her waist in the debris, holding the
child In her arms above the chilly
. A
muu ana stone in wnicn she was
fastened so tightly that after many
efforts neighbors found it necessary
to pull the bruised body out leaving
her clothes buried. The child only
will recover. Miss Our's body was
found during the day. All day
hundreds of visitors have gone to
the' scene and others from ' far and
near are going by carriage and horse
back, there being no nearer raib oad
point than Keyser to visit the scene
of the most remarkable mountain
occurrence the State has ever known.
Charlotte .Condemns The Revenue Act. t
The Charlotte Chamber of Com
merce declined to endorse the action
of the Fayetteville Chamber, de
manding a special session of legisla
ture to repeal the revenue law. But
it adopted the following resolution:
'That this chamber of commerce
places itself on record as being op
posed to the unfair assessment of
corporate property and the inquisi
tional exposure of private business.
And this chamber would ask as
sessors to have in mind the Inequal
ities for valuation and for taxation
between corporate, personal and
realty property."
APPROVES POPULIST IDEA.
SENATOR BURROWS WANTS SENATORS
ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE.
Itlch
A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.
Story of a Man Who Could
Thing by Thinking-.
Do
AN OFFICE FOR A MAN.
Correspondence of Chatham Citi
zen. I notice that you call attention to
the fact that the office of Immigra
tion agent has been abolished be
cause it did not pay. This recalls a
little interesting history of this of
fice of immigration agent its es
tablishment and abolition.
Some two years ago, when the
Democrats regained control of the
offices in the state they planned and
schemed faithfully, no doubt, to re
ward at the public pie trough those
who had worked so zealously for
their party's success. It seems, how
ever, in the round-up, that John W.
Thompson who had done much par
ty service and had been ' without an
office for some time was still left un
taxed fur and there was no office left
for him, at least none which would
fit him. So, instead of hunting a
man for the office they seek an office
for the man and the office of Immi
gration Agent was created with
duties and salaries to fit John W.
Thompson. . True,' the duties had
before this been performed by the
Commissioner of Agriculture and
the clerk to the board as is done
now, but it was at that particular
time not so much the needs for an
office as the needs of the man for
whom the office was created.
Now John W. Thompson has a
job in Philadelphia so that he no
longer needs the office and all at
once it is found that it has not paid
and is promptly abolished.
While the office has not paid the
state there Is another view to take
of it: John W. Thompson has had
tnlce salary of $1,000 or $1,200 a
year and has enjoyed traveling ex
tensively at the state', expenses.
Ob&ebvxb.
Washington Post.
We have a man out in our town,"
said Mr. Georee C. Tomlinson, of
Kansas City, at the Arlington, "who
is a most remarkable character.
Without any original capital, and
though still under forty, he has con
ceived and carried out some of the
most gigantic business enterprises in
that section of the country. He
built a long railroad without any
capital but his brains to start with
and completed it during the panic
years. He is of indomitable indus
try, and has the greatest amount of
self-poise I ever knew. Nothing
shakes his confidence in his own
ability to attain success in any enter
prise upon which he may embark.
But he has a peculiarity which
is in constant evidence. He is a
Hla New Plan to Prevent Vacancies In
The Senate la Also in 'Harmony With
The Constitutional Plan of Government,
lie Declares.
Washington Post.
'I have noticed with a great deal
of pleasure," said Senator Burrows,
of Michigan, last night, "that the
Virginia people are suggesting the
Incorporation into their new consti
tution of a clause which will provide
for the election of Senators by the
people. This is a subject which has
always been near to my heart, and I
feel certain that the day is not far
distant when Senators will be elect
ed by the expression of popular
will."
But the Constitution," It was
suggested, "says that Senators are to
be elected by legislatures."
"That is true,'.' was the reply,
"and until the Constitution is amend
ed even the Virginians will have to
intrust the election of Senators to
their legislature, but they can rely,
of bourse, upon the ratification by
the legislature of the popular choice.
I appreciate the difficulty of securing
an amendment to the Constitution,
but when you remember that no less
than thirty-five out of the forty-five
States have already expressed their
approval, by resolution in State con
vention or State legislature, of the
election of Senators by the people, I
am encouraged to believe that even
an amendment to the Constitution
is not beyond the range of possibility."
Senator Burrows will at the next
session of Congress propose an
amendment to the Constitution
which will offer a solution of the
Senatorial vacancies. It will pro-
Appeal for Independent Party Tboag-ht
And Action -The Best IlsaMaU of So
ciety SboaM go Into the Primaries and
Conventions and Overcome XvII or Have
The Courage to Vote Right at the Polls
The recent commencement exer
cises In the state at all of the col
leges were noticeable for the live,
thoughtful and forceful addresses
which they brought forth. Our at
tention has been called to an address
of Mr. Frank S. Carden, of the
graduating class of Trinity College.
Without attempting to dissect the
address and point out the parts
which we would especially emphaize
or the parts which we might qualify
editorially, we publish it in full
without comment. To say the least
it is worthy of being read and con
sidered. It is as follows:
"It is a glorious privilege to be
alive in this the first year of the
twentieth century, and it is a high
and responsible position to be a
citizen of the greatest republic in
the world; to live within the bounds
of these United States just at the
time in which all the currents of a
new life are pouring in upon us.
There is nothing greater than to live
in and love a great and just republic.
There never was a time in which
there was as much to inspire the
patriotism of Ameiican manhood as
there is today, and there never will
be an age in which the hungering
cry of a nation for a stronger, purer
and braver citizenship will be more
distinctly heard than that yearning
plea which should reach the mind
and heart of every honest and loyal
American.
The highest type of patriotism is
demanded; not one whose existence
is thoughtlessly averred and reck
lessly proved; but a patriotism which
burns and glows in every deed and
in every action, one which is not a
mere expression of love, but love
itself.
There is a false conception of
patriotism abroad in the world. Let
the drum sound and let some n.en
scent the smell of powder and they
at once become brimful of love for
their country. Stump orators ex
pound upon the greatness and power
of the nation; young men don uni
forms, shoulder guns, and the peo
ple are ablaze with fervor and ex
citement. The soldier is looked
upon as the highest type of patriot
because he has been willing to lay
down his life for his country. Now,
no one will depreciate the soldier
and his principles, but there are
nobler principles and higher degrees
of pariotism than those which in
spired the breast of your sleeping
soldier.
There come times when a com
monwealth is gravely threatened,
not by armies and navies, but by
the silent and stealtly forces of sin '
and corruption. Then it is that
volunteers are needed by the thous
ands and the uniform to be donned
is honesty of purpose and intellig
ence and the weapon to be used is
the ballot box, under the guidance
of a deep Insight into the demands
of good government and justice. We
do not have to wait for opportunities
of war in order to render service to
our country. Every breath we
breathe, every moment we live and
every day which passes over our
heads is teaming with rich and
golden opportunities of rendering
true and unselfish service to our
country. More life and not death,
firm believer In the superiority of pose that if a legislature shall fail to
mind over matter and that the hu- elect a Senator, the governor of the
man will is infinite in its capacity State shall issue a writ of election
and power. I worked for him once for the choice of a Senator to fill the
a few years ago, and he mixed as vacancy, thus giving the people the
freely with the workmen when oo- opportunity to overcome the dere-
casion required as any of their num- liction of the legislature and insur-
ber. There was a telegraph' opera- ing the State a representation in the
tor who had one leg shorter than the Senate. "In framing the Constitu-
other, and the promoter took an in- tion," said the Senator, "the fathers
terest in him and his infirmity. He arranged that if there should be a
questioned the operator about his
affliction and its cause, and was told
that when the victim was a youth
suddenly and without any apparent
reason one of his legs ceased to grow,
while the other continued to length
en with the rest of his body until
he was left with one leg about two
inches shorter than the other.
"I can remember that all right,'
said the promoter, just put your
mind on that leg and determine
that it is going to grow, and I will
fix it.' The operator asked how he
could do this, as the promoter was
returning at once to Kansas City,
but was assured that it would be all
right, his leg would grow. I went
back to Kansas City with the pro
moter and worked in his office.
About five days after pur return he
received from the operator a tele
gram which read like this:
" For heaven's sake quit think
ing about my short leg. It is long
er than the other one now.' "
vacancy in the House of Representa
tives an election should be held for
a member. They also provided that
if the electoral college failed to elect
. . -m a O O O 1
a resident mat auty snouia aevoi-
ve upon the House of Representa
tives. It did not apparently occur
to them that a legislature might fail
to elect a Senator, and so they did
not provide for that contingency.
My plan simply remedies their over
sight. It gives the legislature the
first right to elect a Senator, thus
preserving the orginal idea of the
more men and fewer graves, more
work and less talk build up and
maintain a noble history, a great
people, and a strong government.
Laying the fruits of obscure toil and
earnest thought upon the alter of
service is a much richer and more
acceptable sacrifice than the last red
drops of an ebbing life. That man
who puts more of his life and being
into the life of . his country shows
for it the deepest love,' renders to it
the highest service, and gets out of
it the greatest benefit. The United
States is something vague, indefinite
and lifeless to' too many of her cit
izens. They do not understand her
problems; they do not feel the pulsa
tions of her throbbing heart; and
they do not recognize that they are
a necessary and vital part of a great
and living whale.
There is a false idea prevalent that
office-holding is the : requisite for
service and the badge of patriotism,
that office-holders are the only ones
greed, averlce and wealth are ruling
the election today must be laid at
the feci of American citizenship and
no where else. Thai Clark and Quay
are members of our most dignified
and honorable legislative body U
not so much a disgrace to that body
as it is a dark and shameful blot up
on the citizens of Montana and
Pennsylvania.
If we are going to let the glare of
wealth blind us to our duties as
citizens and seat its representatives
in oar legislative halls, we had bet
ter quit pretending to be free citizens
of a free republic and acknowledge
that gold Is our king and that wealth
and not honest and Intelligent man
hood is the supreme ruler of our
land. The fault lies with the cit
tlzenshlp and not with the wealth.
Every citizen should feel the heavy
responsibility which rests upon him
and should know that If he betrays
his trust for the greed of gain he Is
a much a traitor as that rentlnal
who sleeps upon his post of duty
thus endangering the life and safety
of a vast and sleeping army. Every
citizen is a sentinal over his nation's
welfare, yet many of them have
slept through long nights of pollt
leal corruption and are sleeping still,
although the stars are gone in and
corruption and fraud stalk up and
down under the glare of the noon
day sun. How can an honest intelli
gent man remain dead to his coun
try and her problems? How can a
good and brave man remain indif
ferent when there is evil to over
come and wrong to be vanquished?
Politics have been too long de
graded by bad men; good men have
too long held themselves aloof for
fear of soiling their hand". They
forget that the welfare of their
country is at stake and that "when
bad men combine the good must
associate; else they will fall one by
one an unpitled sacrifice in a con
temptable struggle."
It has been a long accepted law
that preachers should not enter the
dirty field of politics. They must
keep their hands clean, must remain
neutral and pour the oil of healing
upon a politically divided congrega
tion. If the preacher happens to
touch upon a political problem some
good brother of opposite views in
the audience becomes ruffled and
creates a disturbance in the - fold.
In the name of common sense what
is Christianity and when must we
wear Godliness if it is too pure to be
carried into all the walks of life?
God never performed a great and
noble work by any man who was
afraid to soil his hands in the up
lifting of any phase of human life.
A sensible preacher has views upon
all questions which concern the wel
fare of his state, and If he is a man
of independence and "action, and not
an incubus on society he will express
those views when it becomes his
duty, if by so doing he drives every
member out of his church and has
nothing left but empty pews to
preach to, and those pews will absorb
more of the real gospel of service
than a narrow and intolerant congre
gation. That preaching which is
mere thronging and not a projection
of righteousness into every phase of
the life of a people has a deadening
influence upon civilization and dis
regards that duty which "demands
and requires of all good men that
what is right should not only be
made known, but made prevelant;
that what is evil should not only be
detected, but defeated."
A great and good man who enters
into every detail of the life of his
country and makes a practical ap
plication of his religion to our na
tional problems is Dr.Lyman Abbott.
"Where duty renders a critical situa
tion a necessary one he keeps free
from the evils attendant upon it,
but does not flee from the situation
itself." In him we find a love for
God, a love for mankind, and a love
for his country all combined into
the unity of perfect manhood and
intelligent citizenship. He does not
hold office but his voice is one of the
most powerful in our nation and his
words are words of wisdom and un
derstanding. '
Now, if good citizenship is to
mean anything, all good men who
believe In the same way upon the
great leading, general principals of
government must act in union. As
Burke says, "No men can act with
effect who do not act in concert; no
men can act in concert who do not
act with confidence, and no men can
act with confidence who are not
bound together by common opinions,
common affections and common in
terests." A man if he believes in
his own politics must put them into
effect, and this can be done only
through parties. But the trouble
with too many men in America to
day is, they allow their parties to
swallow them, mind, soul and body.
They are not democrats and republi
cans from principles, but by birth.
They allow politicians to do their
thinking for them and they had just
THEYUILL
FIGHT OH.
A PORTRAITURE OF MEN
WHO FORMED AND COM
POSE THE PEOPLES
PARTY.
TKT HAVE COT TIT YlEIXXD.
sea lc:s rca rim
A Mao WMaood aod Moo Oot of
as rr Tr? tax ( oa la
They Ars la The Flelds-Ia The
la The Towas And They Win Tat Bo
neard Frosa All Over The. Land.
In a recent issue of The Texas
Mercury there appears the following:
. One of the most truthful por
tralteurs the American dulighu to
honor is found in the following ex
cerpt from an exchange which we
take pleasure In reproducing. Read
it and ask yourself if you can claim
to be one of those whom the writer
so forcibly describes a true Popu
list: The true populist is the man who
heard the groans of suffering human
ity; who saw the cruel and unright
eous oppression of those in power;
who saw the burdens laid upon the
weak, wnlle the privileges and fav
ors were given to those who bore
no burdens. He is the man who
saw the blackened-browed man as he
dug down deep into the earth from
day to day and never bathed him
self in God's blessed sunshine; never
heard the sweet singing of the birds
and never viewed the bright flowers;
but whose life was one long weary
day of toil and misery, and yet re
ceived not one-half enough wages.
He is the man who hoard the sobs
and saw the tears of the poor sew
ing women who were compelled to
work far Into the night to barely
receive enough to keep the faint
pparks of life burning in the depen
dent ones. He is the man who
heard the plaintive song and saw
the drooping shoulders of those who
were compelled to dig and toll, toil
and dig from year to year, and yet
the earnings of this toil went to en
rich some other man, and brighten
some other home, while the tolling
man's own pockets were empty and
his own home desolate. He is the
man who saw that the old parties
were fighting sham battles over
imaginary wrongs, while all these
things went by unheeded and un
heard, add the troubles were grow
ing worse as the years rolled by.
He is the man who had the courage
and manhood to step out of the ranks
of these old parties, break away
from the accepted theories of the
times, and join and build up a new
party, a party to side with the weak
and oppressed, to fight the evils and
wrongs. He is the man who stood
by this young yarty in its infancy,
when its enamies clamored for its
life with all the power they posses
sed; who stood by it when its lead
ers were rotten-egged and called
demagogues, when its ranks were
scorned and called demagogues and
ignoramuses. He is the man who,
although the clouds of defeat may
hover darkly about him, and the
storms of adversity may howl
around him, calmly and serenely
views the future; realizing that he
is fighting for the right, he looks
beyond the clouds to the sunshine,
beyond the storm to the calm. He
is never discouraged. Many times
his way has been hard, many times
the paths have been rough; many
times would he have gladly stepped
aside to seek easier tasks but ever
duty would unveil her star-lit face
and say, "tired feet and the oppor
tunity will come with it, when you
will be able to lift manhood out of
the valley of despondency and place it
on the sunny summits of peace and
prosperity."
Cfcmdccn Ark, Jan 1 . Tom
Watoa,who with hU tft morr
that lht dto WUl Hoary bod com
muted an aisaaall oo Mr. Watmrn,
was takro uot by a ramtntttee of
citizens of Camdra U4 tdghl and
riven 400 Urbra. The afBdavit of
Watem and hU wife wa the uratxs
of Ilumtry ha vine been amtrocvd to
hang, but about thrr wrcka ago
Mrs. Watnoa made a writ tea state
meot confraalog that abe had twurn
falirly against Uuory. On learning
this Governor Davis usproded the
sentence IoijxmnI on liuwary. Wat
son's wife swore that she was com
llld by her husband to testify
against lUuwey. At the eotictuaion
of the lashing Walflon was placed on
a train and given lnatructluna not to
stop In Arkansas.
A School Teacher Keren ge.
Montgomery, Ala., June 17. At
Dothan, Ahu, the principal of the
public schools nominates the faculty
and the board of education confirms
or reject. Last week the principal.
Prof. George McNeill, nominated a
faculty, but left off Professor Rank
in, one of the teachera, and the board
confirmed McNeill's selection. Rank
In spent Sunday trying to get the
case re-opened, but getting no en
couragement he came to the school
house this morning bent on revenge.
Finding McNeill, he blew his brains
out and then shot himself. Rankin
was a young man unmarried, and
came from Peacola. McNeill waa
nearly fifty years old and leave a
wife and three children. He waa
prominent in educational circles and
had held similar high place as prin
cipal in the schools of Lafayette and
Talladega.
G0VEE1NT
oirasciip.
THE PEOPLE SHOULD CON
TROL THE THREKOREAT
NATURAL lIO.NOPO-L1FX
Aa urncYinr crra bcatcs- emu.
Will no Kojor.
Accounted For.
Smrt8et
She Thobo two people in the far
corner appear happy. Are tney
married?
He Yes. but not to each other
other.
DEPRIVED BY DEMAGOGUES
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Constitution, but provides that if who have any vitaL connection with
the legislature fails in its duty the
people, who created the legislature,
shall see to it that the State is not
unrepresented in the Senate. As a
matter of fact, I do not believe that
the last resort would be often in
voked. The legislature would elect
a Senator rather than experience the
rebuke of an appeal to the people to
fulfill the task, which it left unac
complished." -
Senator Burrows who will dur
ing the recess prepare an ehVborate
reoort upon the question of election
Af RAnatnrs bv the people, will be
the government. This iea has been
deadenine in its influence and de
grading in its effect upon our polit
ical life. The life of a nation is the
life of her citizenship, or it is noth-
ing at all; the strength and the
purity of a government is the out
growth of the purity and the honesty
of the manhood of her exuzens, or
else it is weakness. The responsi
bility of a republic's welfare rests
not so much upon the office-holders
as upon the ; rank and file. That
sham and hypocracy are found no
where to be a neater extent than
the chairman of the Committee on iirpolitics; that demagogue and party
Privileges and Elections In the next Dosses are corrupung inejmrny ui
Senate, which will give his -views public life and degrading ttte high
eiMiHnnni imnnrtance. standard of true statesmanship; that
A Desperate Murderer Captured.
Greensboro Patriot.
Louis Myers, the most desperate
criminal in North Carolina, was
jailed at Wilkesbore a few days ago.
Last year he murdered a United
States deputy marshal. He also
murdered Madison Hawley. He
assassinated Hawley in cold blood.
Myers has for years been a daring
moonshiner. He is charged with
six murders besides that of Hawley.
These include two women in Vir
ginia,' said to have been killed to get
money; two men in North Carolina,
a man in South Carolina, and one in
Tennessee. The latter was the
sheriff of Union county. The re
wards offered in four states and by
the general government for Myers
aggregated $2,500. He was captured
a .s w - a o o
near MiaaiesDoro, i&y Dy onenn
Lee Turner and a. posse. Hawley
was killed in Wilkes county, and
B Goateed ColonelsShabby Politicians
Bed Shirt Thaaaters aad Hoctlooa
Demagogs ea Prevoated The Mow
Hickory Mercury.
Much Is being said and done In re
ference to pensioning old soldiers
and their widows. This Is right.
We are sorry that all who need it
cannot get IU And they could If
the office seekers and office holders
would decrease their already high
salaries, instead of increasing them,
aud creating new office to take the
surplus taxes. They always come
around at election times and shed
big tears over the old soldiers.
Then they want their votes. When
they get them, no big effort is made
to help them. In fact, they are so
afraid some of them are getting a
pension who ought not, that they
have changed the law at a big ex
pense, so as to find out who they
MBS a a - 1 fl.A
are. rni is me omy xoouve in re
quiring all to make new applications
and undergo new examinations.
Then perhap, this all gives some
one or ones a fee or paying Jobs If
no one else, it will the State printer.
Senator Butler, while In the
United States Senate, took the right
step when he asked the Federal gov
ernment to pension them. This
would have helped the old soldiers
and put millions of dollars in the
South. And were it not for some
hot heads in the South especially
politicians the hot heads In the
North could be overcome, and these
pensions would be granted. It is
fact that the great rank of the pri
vate soldiers in the North would
not object. But the few politicians
here and there, whose only chance
to ret office Is by a reusing sectional
feeling with the old bioody-anm
racket, don't care what becomes of
the old soldiers and their widows,
so long as they (the politician) can
get office by keeping up the war
prejudices. Butler Is the only man
in the South so far who has risen
above all this and come to the de
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W a tat he Sooth
of too
eooth tribe
rTashiaftoa Poet
Hrnator Butler, of North Carolina,
who la la WaaUngton, 14 Wrv the
Pop! party will ahow narh
greater strength la the next Cuo
greauooal aod lYraldectlal ttartlaas
than heretofore,
"The platform of the IW4ea
iarty In the next election, he aaid.
will declare fur government owner
ship of all natural tnooopolka, and
the flirbt will be made altxt tfela
line. I :m confident that coo-half
of the people of the United Hta tea
favor such a poller. Mr. Unroln
waa the candidate of a third party.
and be wa elected. Iftbenvw who
favor truat and monopolies can be
divided between the candldatasof
the two old partloa, then the people
can win." The lotullt rartr. he
declared, waa far from being rele
gated to the rear.
The Democratic tarty to-day,
continued the Senator. i full of
moanbacka, and I do not believe that
It will amount to anything until a
new generation grow op to replace
the ultra-conaervatlve leaders who
have control of It at the prawn t
time. The future of the party lie
with the young men, who must out
grow the reactionary doctrines which
they have been taught, and which
has made the party one of chronic
grumblers and kickers.'
"The government should control
the three great natural monopolies-
money, transportation, and the con
veyance of intelligence. This b the
doctrine promulgated by Jefferson.
The government now control only
one part of the method of transmit
ting Intelligence, the poat-offioe, but
It doe not control the telegraph,
which, by Its very nature, U one
(art of the postal service, nor baa It
made any attempt to gain the man
agement of the tram portal! on trust.
And benide the money of the coun
try, the life blood of commerce and
the measures of all value 1 not
half controlled by the government.
The so-called gold standard law I a
jankers law, and If the present great
output of gold should stop, then the
banker would be In control of the
volume of our money.
Kill the railroad monopoly and
the trust qutiou will be solved.
Moreover, until the rail roads are
owned by the government the Irani
will continue to grow In strength,
and soon It will have become too
late to rope with their Immense
power. This, in a word, will be
what the Populist party will stand
for In 1901."
Senator Butler also discussed the
tariff question In It relation to the
new South.
"As a good buAlnes principle the
Sonth 1 growing every day to recog
nize the benefit of a proper tariff
a a necessity In the commercial life
of the section. Kvery bualnevn man
realize that the industries of tne
South cannot be built up, cannot
successfully cope with the long
established Industrie of the North,
fense of the old Confederate soldiers
and their wdows, and they have be
gun to realize it, too.
there Turner delivered his prisoner
as wll allow party bosses to do their I and got a double reward.
voting for them. They have de
graded the party from a high and
noble means of patriotic service into
a huge and corrupt machine for the
production of gain and; political
aggrandizement. No wonder the
good are shocked and hold , them
selves aloof; but they must recognize,
sooner or later, that parties there
must be, and that if they are to be,
what they should be, independent
and intelligent manhood must be
come the dominent element in them.
Just as long as parties are lead .- by
We Kow gaffer Trom Xvila
Asbenlle Gazette.
The Fayetteville Chamber of Com
merce in appealing to all like bodies
to petition the governor to call a
special session of the legislature to
amend the revenue law, shows evi
dence of recklessness bordering on
desperation. Let us rather choose
the evil thit we have than fly to
those we know not of. The nn-
Dr. Klacborys C
Hickory Times-Mercury.
The Wilmington Messenger seems
to think the meeting of the South
ern Industrial Convention, which
met in Philadelphia last week, was
a farce, and wind up it little
righteous soul by saying: "May
real good come from the pow-wow
ine and so-c-." The Messenger sea
no jftod in anything except preach
ing in time'of war and killing neg
roes in times of peace.
Fortunate Ignorance.
Smart Se. '
Bibb No man know himself.
Gibbs That's so. He would lose
hi best friend if he did.
without the same kind of protection
that the North ha enjoyed. In five
years New England, in my opinion,
will send men to Congress instructed
for free trade.
"The industrial outlook In the
South not only In North Carolina,
but throughout the aectlon, hat
never been brighter than It I now.
We are beginning to build our own
factories for the manufacture of the
good which we consume, and Instead
of sending our raw prod act North
and buying them back a mannfac-
tured arth lea, we are now eupplylng
the demand ourselves. The people
of the South dalm that the north
ern Industrie were assisted by the
government while they were being
started, and desire the same treat
ment themselves. The manufac
tories of the South are the only In
fant industries In the country today.
The policy of the South on this
question ha been abort-sighted, and
Southern legislators in Congress
have voted year after year, decade
after decade, for a policy which was
deterimeutal to that section."
When asked whether, In his opin
ion, Mr. Bryan would be the next
democratic nominee for Preside t.
Senator Butler said that Mr. Bryan
having urged the gold democrats to
stand by the party, the inference
was that Mr. Bryan could not do
otherwise than support the regular
democratie nominee. ' He rrcarded
Mr. Hill or Mr. Gorman the lexical
candidate of the Democratic party,
which he believed would revert to
It position of 1892.
paralleled capacity for mischievous
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aHvantnrAra and make that most I Diunoenng wrapped up iu iuo nww
detestible andjoorrupt spoil system Carolina legislature of 1901 made its
ftiAlr nnliro- inst on Inner will violent i auiwiuicu wiuo -
party prejudice and narrow intoler- P"per occasion for bonfires, brass
on Mind th onfnfflm holders bands nd a general holiday for "re-
to the administration of Justice, and joicing. xne Bugsi
mem logeuier again is uauut wiua
(Continued on fourth page.)'. I peril.
Dr. E. Detchon's Antl IMuretic
Mar be worth to you mors than
$100 If you have a child who soils
bedding rroa lseonieaeaet oi wa
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UJs&fl, Dmfjict.
The saddest story ever told. The
Tramp (between moctinua) "1
wuz wesst a wealthy carried man,
mum, bat I am peanUsss now."
Kind Lady MYoa poor csrtsato
man! Why didnt yea p& year
fortune In yocr wis csxr The
Tramp MI did an' Prcsd ter
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