North Carolina Newspapers

trr TRTTRft THNfESL CHARI"W p naY MAY U 1896- SILVER THE BATTLE CRY. What Senator Tillman Says of His Tour Tlirousli the West. BLAlRHUKN FOR PRESIDENT. CarlUle Will H ve a Formidable Aivcr.a ry. Senior Tillman is enthused with , bena or blhckburn, or ivenruchv, the siivr prosj ects this year. "J is the latest Democratic presidential am more confident than ever," he candidate. To carry Kentucky for said to a Star reporter, "that the gold, the administration people put Democrats will he in charge at Chi- out Carlisle as one of their favorite cago. Everywhere I have been I son candidates. To neutralize this, found that silver is the battle cry. the free coinage men have launched At the meetings which I addressed I Senator Blackburn's boom. They took hand primaries, and they show- did it at Frankfort ai d Senator dthat the masses of the people Blackburn's friends think the Ken want silver." tucky convention will declare for Senator Tillman's "hand primary" Blackburn and five oinage. This is original with him and was intro- will make the right, in Ker tucky the l;:ced in his first campaign for gov- most interesting in the I nion. I he . r, tl r. ,. w rp, , great inaes of the peop'e or the lue raor n South Carolina. Ihe plan we foj. fmj coilll but is to call upon all in the audience officeholders and the Louisville riug who favor a certain ih.ng to hold up are for their right hands. Then he cailed j All the prominent. Democratic ora- i . i. it.. . i i. upon those opposed to uo uie same tors ,.f rne country on both tnm This up f.n s a nana nn- niiirv. Iu South Carolina the can lid:'e$ stump the Stair together. Vi;n Senavor Tillman was running for governor tdx years ago he and his oy li-i't, .Judge K'r'e. woubl make c'.iims as k earning a c-r'ain c :i:i t . . When the campaign meeting i-;is held in that county Tillman T. uld call upon all who intends to !-. for huii to raise their right 3a a j ds. His supporters would raise ti :r hands with a shout. Then he Autkl call upon his opponents to ?i:-ge. their right hands. On mv way from St. Louis to OwenshoroV ? said Senator Tillman, "I talked to an audience at Ceotralia, Ilk. having received telegrams from All along the line asking me to stop over. I found the farmers of both parlies solid and enf hi'siastic for silver. " 'Do you think all of the States nest of 'the Mississippi will send sil ver delegations to Chicago 1' , . r-r-t t i t i j " I "ihe oulv aouotrui states are Iowa and Minneota. rl'he Demo cratic party in Minnesota was swal lowed up by the Populists; that is, the free silver part of the party " "Do you think there will be con testing delegations from any of the -Southern States. "Oh, there will be an effort to "bamboozle the silver men and to elect traitors to the national conven tion. They will try to send contest ing delegations from many States, so as to get the national committee, which lias a majority of gold bugs, to seat the bogus delegations." "Wouldn't this cause a split ?" "I wouldn't care if there was a split. I am tired of keeping house with any such a set anyhow." Senator Tillman's mail is filled each dny with inventions to speak in different States. He has decided to make a Southern tour, but has not fixed upon the datea. He will likely speak in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas. - sides of the question will tiAe put in the campaign. Senator Vest, of Missou ri, will 'probably be the first five coinage orator to invade th- stale. Senator Blackburn feels very eui tnhntof t tie result in Kentucky. He ex pec s to aet.wly enter the camoaign in a few days. McKINLEY'S POSITION ON SILVER. This Declaration Was Printed Last Spring and Denied. The Times-Herald prints this conclusive statement as to Major McKinley's position on free coin age: "A year ago in Thomasville, Ga., Major'McKinley when offered the delegates of the three Southern States if he would declare for free silver, said in the presence oi the editor of this journal: "If the Republican platform de chues for free coinage, I will not be a candidate, I would not run on a free coinage platform.' " The editor of the Times Her ihh it will be remembered, is 11. II Kohlsfiat, one of Mr. McKinley's most intimate friends, and who nexi to Maik llauoa, is generally under stood to ?e most competent to speak for th.- Ohio states. The Rainy Season in Cuba. In a long article showing how th. rainy season is expected to help Cut a in the war, a writer in -the Washington Star says, among other siimgs: There is another danger How it Stands In Virginia. A Dtficiemyof .l,irO.O0O The Secretary of the Treasury ln:s written a let:er to Secretary Allis n, chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, calling attention to an estimate d deficiency of $1,150, O00 for defraying the expenses of collecting the revtnue from customs for 186. The permanent annual appropriation for this purpose ;.s tfxed by the act of 187 L is $5,500,00o, not including fines, etc. The Secre tary points to the fact that notwith standing this provision was made twenty five years ago the appropria tion today is smaller than it was in 1871, while the demands upon it have increi..:cd lie says the expense of collect iig the customs revenues for 1895 was $6,900,281, whereas the receipts fr..m that sovrce amounted to $15'J,158;G17. The Secretary states Hi at much of the increased expense io .e to the increase of the number oi 'nspestors and th additional faciliii s estab lished f r landing passengers and baggage at night. This, he sas, is especially true of the port at New York, but there oiso has been an in creas . f ' expenses at Boston and A P culiar Light House. The moirt extraoidinary of all light houses h to be found on Arnish Rock, Sfornoway bay rock which is separated from the Island of Lewis by a channel over oOO feet wide. It is the Hebrides, Scotland. On this rock a conical beacon is erected, and on its summit a lantern is tixed, from which, nisdit after night, shines a light which is seen bv the tishe-men fur and wide Yet there is no burn ing lamp in the hm' rn. and no at tendant ever goes to it. for ihe sim ple reason that there is no lamp to attend to, no wick to trim, and no old well to replenish. The way in which this peculiar light house is illuminated is thie-: "On the Island of Lewis, 50 fett or so awav, is a 'light house, and from a window in the Jower a stream of i'ght is projected on a mirrow in the lan tern on the summit of Arnish Rock. These rays are reflected to an arran gement of prisms, and by their action are converged to a focus outside the lantern, from where they diverge in the necessary direction." Tne consequence is that to ;:11 in terns and purposes a light house ex ists t hich has neither lamp nor light house keeper, and yet which gives is serviceable a lightaking intoaccouut the requirements of this :;,;ality as if an elaborate and costly ' jht house, with lamps, service room, bed room. living room, store room, ail room, water tanks and all other accessories were erected on the summit of the rock. shown 1 ..o What a Woman Cn Do. Mrs Leland Stanford has mat a woman s woru is as roou her bomb When the endowment fund of $2,500,000 bequeathed by her husband to the University of California was released bv the rece it j decision of the Supreme Court of : he I nited States, she announced her in tention to pay over this eutire amount within sixty days. Financiers a id lawyers both laughed at the idea and ! declared that she would never be able to do this. However, the court's de cision was announced on the 2d day of March and ou the 2d of May in terest bearing securities to the full amount were delivered to the trus tees of the University. But Mrs. Stanford's generosity does not stop here. The three great ranches which formed part of the University endow ment are unproductive at present, under the management of men, and Mrs. Stanford has undertaken make them profitable Douhrh she will do so, and thus demonstrate afresh what a woman can do when she is in earnest uhidi threatens the Spaniards din ing the apptoach'ng seasons, a id ihatis famine. The Cubans will absolutely control the country be tweea the var'ous tjwns where the Spanish troops are quartered dur ing the wet sea sou, because the roads, which are now nearly impass able, ami which ;.re guarded by strong branches of the Spanish army of occupation, will become en tirely useless, save for the p issageof very small and very light convoys. It isapait 'f the Cuban plan of warfare thd coning summer to pay their attention almost exclusively to the destruction of these convoys, and thus cut off the supplies inteud- i e . j. i : i ii., il. eu ror tne garrisons auu uie oiuer Spanish soldiers occupying towns The Cubans are accustomed to trav eling in the wet and rainy season, and they are not bothered about the all important question of water. Thev are familiar with the loca tion of the various springs that dot the country and that sometimes bubble out in thj middle of the swamp, ana then thev Know tne value of the water vine, what they call the bejuco deagua. This pecu liar vine grows profusely in most parts of Cuba, and particularly in the low lying portions of the island, and the stem of a single vine when cut will produce about a pint of clear and crystal water, which, it is said, also has the properties of a mild tobic. The only healthy por tion of Cuba during the rainy sea sou is iu the mountains, and these are entirely under control of the in surg n s. It will consequently be readily appreciated why the revolutionists are looking forward with such pleas ant anticipations to the rainy sea sous, which begins in this month ai d lasts, to a greater or less intensi ty, until September. The Spanish soldiers are weakened by expssure already and are unaccustomed to the fatigue of campaigning, as they are nearly all young men and volunteers and will not be able to withstand the constant inrotds upon their sjs- T7r silver. Gold btanaara. Bel ford, Halifax, Montgomery, Westmoreland, Loudoun, Greenville, Pulaski, Fr.mkliu, Charlotte, R:chmond, Sf ottsvivania, Gloucester, T':vHnna, I w oh tan, Ls'e of Wight, King & Queen Sussex Rucsel I, Gravson, King George Appomattox Lunenberg, Nottoway 0 Lynchburg JNews And still the Washington Post and Richmond Times '-estimates'' l hat she will be eqiully divided! ' How I'ojiulist Delegates' "Will lie Chosen. The Populists will not hold a Siate convention to elect delegates as their leaders think it would be unwise to call together that party in the State for any purpose until after thev see what the Democratic and Republican conventions are going to d . Then, the Populist party will a. ml shape its course accordingly. fll 1 A I plan oi organization is very fl'-x.b e, and has been adapted to the enn rirency. North Carolina is en titled to iiineiy five delegates. The executive committee elected the cen tral committee of six and Secretary Ayer delega'es-at large, and pro vided for the election of one delegate from each of the fifty senatorial dis tricts. The remaining: thirtv-tive are apportioned among the districts ac- 1" ..I f coraiufir to the vote lor weaver in 1899 "One of. the Finest" LP The largest piece of ,good tobacco ever sold fono cents .ana Tk CZ 1x4- VV S. ism, . I large as iou .set nf nfh0. high grades for 10 cents amoujr them Ph ili- ace phia. i If thb department is compelled to conduct the customs husine.-s during the remainder of the fiscal year with the $85,000 appro priated by the House, says the Sec retary, a reduction of $150,000 each month will be necessary. This can ml he effected only by a horizontal re duction of salaries and by closing customs houses at ports of delivery where the receipts do not amount to more than $1,000 per annum. The monthly pay aggregates $540,000, and such a reduction as would be necessary would mean a loss of 28 per cent on all salaries for May and June. Salaries are fixed bv law, and the ofials un- courts. o tne -c-eretarv says don lit Convicts to liuild tl Axbeboro Road. This morning sixty convicts were sent to Asheboro, where they have been engaged by Mr. A. F. Page to work upon the construction of the new railroad from Asheboro to Star. Next we k 65 more convicts will go to Aheboro making a total of 125 en-: gaged in the construction of the Asheboro road. Raleigh Yisitor. W(lrt. Always Right. The Rale'gh Ubserrer says: "Col. Waddell haa been on the side of jus tice and right during the whole of his political career. He is an able advocate of the free coinage of silver because he is Conscious that a great wrong has been done the masses of the American people by placing the currency of this country ou a con tracted gold basis Knowing this to be so, he could not advocate any policy that did not have for its ul timate object a risfhtinsr of this wrong. International Agreement. "We can't have the free coinage of silver unless by international agree ment,'' say some of the gold men. Here is one thing we want to kno-v. Did we have international agreement when the Declaration of Independ ence was proclaimed, or when the C onstitution was adopted? -Durham Sun. In a Nut She I. Tennessee sends a solid silver del egation to Chicago to be offset by the Massachusetts gold delegation. Ten nessee is always Democratic. Massa chusetts is always Republican. Here's the whole story of the cur rency fight in Democratic ranks. News & Observer. terns, so the fatalities t- U . . .. .. U i J A 1 iuis(ur may oe ex pec tea to De enormous. Yellow fever and dys entery will be the two great allies of the Cuban patriots from now until September. . Income Tax Returns. A special committee, consisting of Messrs. P V. Dolan, C. H. Ingram and T. M. Robertson, reported to Secretary Carlisle today that they had personally supervised the complete destruction by fire of all the income tax returns, and the records of every description appertaining to the en forcement of the income tax provi sions of the Wilson tariff law. Soon after the Supivme Court pronounced the income tax provisions unconsti tutional. Congress provided that all the records in the possession of the government relating thereto should be destroyed The greatest secrecy was observed in the matter, and the destruction of the papers wascon fided to the clerks whose duties had alreadv made them familiar there with. They did their work well, and there are no official records of the amount and character of the incomes of private citizens and cor porations. 200,000 Acres Sold Under Mortgage. Mr. R. T. Gray is now in Dare county. He went there to foreclose a mortgage on 200,000 acres of land. The mortgage is field by a New York company, for which he is the attor ney. Thousands of acres of swamp lands in the eastern counties have been bought from the State by Nor thern parties. These lands are held in vast tracts. Raleigh News and Observer. In November. Republicans think they have got the Presidency grabbed, and McKin ley begins to dream o' nights that he has jot the Pepublican nomination grabbed, to speak in the vernacular of the Populists. And yet, the one obtrusive fact of the political situatiou, glaring as the noonday sun, is that the vast majori ty of Anur can voters do not det-ire a reversion to Republican politics and methods of government, and will not stomach another dose of McKinley protection. The g. o. p. may run against a sur prise before the dial on the zodiac gets around to November 3. St. Louis Republic. PIANOS 9 9 Snccesa Depends Upon Labor. What does the average politician care for the farmer and working man. w it our success in business or in agriculture depends upon the labors of the politicians, no matter of what party, we will not realize much on net results. The sooner we under stand this thoroughly the better it ' m will be. What the country really needs is a restoration of confidence, better business methods, and a free dom from agitators. This and a willingness to earn an honest living by a little oi l fashioned hard work will beat all the financial theories ever expounded. Durham Sun. A Sensible Gold Man. "I am not a silver man," said a delegate to the meeting of the Koyal Arcanum yesterday, "but lam firmly of the opinion that North Carolina can be carried by the Democrats if a silver candidate is nominated for President I want to see it do e be cause I'd rather have the Governor and Legislature in Democratic hands than to have any National victory. The neonte are for silver and T sav let them have it if it will keep North in Mecklenburg and adjoining Garolina out of the hands or the ne On Easy Installments, $2 to $5 per month for an Organ.. $0 to $10 per month for a Piano. $35 to $40 cash will buy a good Orpan. right fr m the factory. NEW, UPRIGHT PIAM $200 I P. 2F"Write for Illustrated Catalogue with ful paiticulars. luddeu & Bates SOUTHERN BOUSE, W. M. WHEELER. MANAGER. I? very Farmer gro party." Raleigh Observer. Gom All Around. Hurrah! for North Carolina! To ship from Wilmington 00,000 worth of strawberries in three days ' is n very big thing and will do to crow over. Up in Western Carolina a far mer 74 years old raised 137 bushels of corn on one acre. His name is Benjamin West and he too is hard to beat. Wilmington Messenger. country that spends cash for his Hardware, will jo well to see our stock of cotton hoes, Dowlaw cotton planters, trace On Waves of Beer and Oil. One of the Boston papers, in com menting upon the liberality of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, of Chicago, in his recent handsome donation to Vassar college, says: "Mr. Rocke feller, of Standard Oil celebrity, nrOOOSeS to o-ive $100 (100 to Vasaar college. Vassar was founded and chains, plow stocks, etc. endowed on the proceeds of a big brewery. Certainly, that excellent institution, when floating prosper ously on a deep sea of mingled lager 1 j beer and kerosene oil should have narclware, tinware, cast no difficulty iu liquidating its bilis. We have a general stock of iron Delegates to the Columbia Convention. Anderson, S. C., May The county Democratic convention to se lect delegates to the Columbia con vention assembled here today. Editor D. II. Russell oil'ered a resolution instructing the delegates to vote for free silver at the ratio of 1(5 to 1 and it was carried. A motion was made protesting against having to endorse Tillmanism, but it failed to carry. If you would a ways be healthy, keep your blood pure with Hood's Sarsanaril la, the One True Blood Purifier. ware, barbed wire etc. We hive the goods that you want and the price? are right. Call and see us. FARMERS Bring us Your HI our Tannery is now reacj for Them. If you need anjthii line come and see us Harness, Co lars, Sadd Whip j. a. Weddioeton 1 Co 29 East Trade Street. Bicycles In fact everything will be found in our on Fourth Street. in ne w no 1- SHA W- HOWELL HAR$ CO. inc our -I