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vVr. V. Wood, of Winsron. in an ar
i -le in the Xcw and Observer strong
y advises against p mting much to .
baeco this year. He says there is
enough now on hand for eighteen
months work :n the factories and
one acre ought to be planted this
year where eight were planted last
for prices nex fall will be ruinous.
Judge White-
On Monday, Feb'y 19th, the Pres
ident nominated Senator Edward
J). White, of Louisianna t be Asse-
tie Justice of the United States Su
preme Court. The Senate ar. once
c virirmed the nominal ion. Justine
White is forty eight years: old, a na
tive of Louisianna, and served two
years upon t he Supreme Court bene
oi that Stare. He entered the Sen
a e .March 4th. 11)1.
Senator White is young able, up .
riuht and has had experience as
Judge, all ofwbich aie favorable to
1. is success m his new position.
Judge Brown
Judge It. H. Brown, of Washing
ton, is be:ng mentioned for the Sen
a e to succeed Senator K-iiisoin.
Judge Brown has a very high order
of ability and bt sides is full of virile
maul ood, untiring energy and in tus
try m the performance of any dut
assigned him. As a Senator wo be
lieve he would reflect giat credit on
his State and rejueseut the people
according to the pledges of the ph.t
form of his party.
Kick Them Oat Or Ge; Out-
The speech of A. S. Hewitt, a mil
lionaire plutocrat, of New York, (b.
virtue of his marriage to Peter Coop
er's daughter) to the Southern so
ciety last week, was highly insolent,
insulting and maliciously unfile. It
lavs every evil under which the com.
try is suffering at the door of those
Southern Senators and Representa
tives who voted to carry out the
pledgee of the Democratic party at
Chicago.
Hewitt's speech is of a kind with
the conduct -of New 1'ork lepresen
tives who voted against silver, who
voted'agaiust the Wilson Tariff Bill,
who voted against, the Income Tax,
who are now with Sickles and Cum
mings at iheii head making of the
House a bear garden, and. wirh Cleve
land and Hill, the Democratic or
ganization a hissing aud by-vorJ.
It is high time the true Democrats
I of this country we e getting togeth"
t-r and kick these pestiferous breed
ers of strife, confusion and political
treason out of the organization.
They seem to have no political prin
ciple, except that, die ated by corpor
ite. pecuniary and (ffiical greed,
Stat.- and National, and if the gn a
Democratic party whose platform
they openly d'-fy, submits longer to
thefr dictation, all self respecting
men, will and ought to spuin whh
con empt those betrayers of a sacred
ii-usL and get out.
Breakers Ahead.
It was bad enough for Mr. Cleve
land to punish Senators who would
not choose his will ins ead of obe ing
the mandate of the Democratic plat
form. It was bad enough to havet
stand Senator Hill's Haunt of the
bio)dv shirt at Senator Morgan last
summer. It i bad enough to be
told that the principles of tariff and
financial reforms to wh'ch we have
jeeu trained since childhood and to:
whijh our fathers fought under Sev
nou r, Hancock, Tdden and .Cleve
land (before the demon of- great
wealth possessed himj tire all lot and
nOonshiue but when old Sickles in
riie house can shamefully viola'e its
rules and on being called to order
shout back to a Southern Speaker
"You coiil I nor call me to order at
Gettysburg." and Abo Hewitt, r:ch
by virtue of the millions made oy hi
daddy in law, at a meeting of South
ru Democrats, reads the riot fCt to
: he statesmen and people of the
South, it heumsto hok as if some
bodv would bo excusable for etupii r j
:Ug "ft'here ;0'e we at" without bring j
ealh-d a di-oi gabizer. niaicontent or
bolter.
Tne edit yr of flu? fDi;s is a Dem
ocrat from principle and a Southern
man from blood and instinct, hue it
looks to bun like the ship ot Democ
' ac is going stern - foremost to t he
JeVil and he is getting tired of being
Mrs! scared to d.i-aih ao-.l rhen mad to
death, scared o! being swamped and
mad at 'his own crew deliberately
taking po;iessiou of h:s craft to do
it wkh.
Ind-:nal Co operation.
We call attention to J:;dge Clarke's
article showim: how ea-y it is to
lleece the far ;n o;,t ,f his profits
on a crop ih.o .s worth three times
ivhat lie s,-l is, k at. This thought
occurs to us. As a rule it is diffi
cult to teli how a truster combina
tion directly affects the pi-ires ot our
products on first sale. Take cotton
for instance. Some sav it is lowr on
account of over prodm.", i-ni, some be
cause of the high tan d; some because
of Liverpool aim New York dicta
tion of prices and gambling opera
tions, othci s on account of financial
legislation in favor of the speculator
and against the producer.
No two will agree as to the real
cause. This being so, it is difficult
to know for certain what remedy to
apply. The same may be said of to
bacco. In the last legislature a bill
was introduced by Mr. Watson, of
Forsytne, whose object was to de
stroy the tobacco trust root and
branch in North Carolina. When
lo and b hol.d anv quantity of evi
dence was produced before the com
mi t tec to show th.it the tobacco trus
actuall.V kept up the price of tobacc .
Nobody really believed this but an
way the bill passed the lower bouse,
the tobocco counties, except. Pitt, vo
ting against it, and it was s Mothers'
in the senate, tht$ committee never
coining to a vote
Now as' we said there is no certain
known reason in the case of cotton
and tobacco w'he.iV&c, why the price
is so low when the maker and the
toiler sells it and so high when he
buys it back. J idge Clarke's article
shows the farme why he gets notb-.
ing for peanuts, and points out the
ivino ly. Like mm v other reforms,
that remedy is in t e armer's bauds
Some co-operati n and a little capi
ral it seems would settle the matt r.
Stump speeches won't do it. Abus
ing this party or that party won't do
it. Let the farmers get together ot.
rhis peanut platform awhile and see
if r hey cannot beat Congi ess or the
Legislature m looking out for thir
interests, so far ;is this crop is Con
cerned. As an object lesson aloae i
would be well wor. h trying.
Pass It
N' Catchmgs 'Ja.- intiodn?ed a
Bill in Con gi ess, pio iding that a
member present, and refusing to vo:e'
shall have a pile of dollars struck
from his sabn-v. Now if he would
amend the Bill, so th.it a member
should iorlell nis salary, and mile
age, while absent attending to
vate business this Co i gross would
accomplish the business oft e cotin
f-y-
Don't Die.
Congressman Wilson is very
sick with typhoid fever in .v.ex
ieo, where he went. for rest after
the passage by the house of his
tariff bill. The Governor of the
province in which the town is
located has forbidden bunds o;
music on the streets aim locomo
tives are not permitted to whis
tle in the town limits while Air.
Wilson is sick.
This is a gratifying recogni
lion of a man whose nobility of
political principle prompted
nin) to stand by a measure of re )
form his party was pledged to,
alt ho' threatened anl abused by
the rich corporations of his own
State. May the Lord spare him
to his country.
Bland Bill Passed
The Bland bin, providing for the
coinage of the seigniorage, passed the
house yesterday, uy a vote of, 108 to
i o
This bill if passed by the Senate,
and approved by the President, will
increase the Volume of silver circula
tion, $50,000,000, and do a little
sonietmng towards righting the
wrong of the gold legislation, last
Fall.
President Cleveland and his
ducking party with Secretary of
State Crresham are expected in
Washington, N. C, to-night.
The Grand Old Mar.
Gladstone has resigned the
Hremiership of England on arA
count ot failing health. The vis
cant post was offered to Lord
RoseVjerrj", who declined and
then to Earl Spencer who acceu
ted it. Mi. Gladstone is one of
the most remarkable charac :ers
of this remarkable century. The
title ' Grand Old Man," whiclr
is given him wherever language
was never more appropriately
used It is wonderful how ven
satile is his genius. From wood
chopping to shaping the desti
nies of one of the greatest na.
tions on earth, he never has been
mediocre in anything.
Born in 1S09, entering public
life in 1832, he has, for ovei'xsix
ty three years been foremost in
statesmanship, lo'it'c:, science,
religion and belle-iettres. His
last great speech at eighty rive
yoars of age, was a wonder of
logic and oratory; eloquence
and force. The limits of the
Istdex forbid any further refer,
eicetothis neble image of his
maker, except to say that- when
he leaves the-world, untold. mil
lions wiii mourn his loss.
The Senate of the present Congress
i .1 i . -'
aas nrotfen tne record tor obstinate
contests over Presidential nomina
tions. Tne first right was oh the
"in nation of Van Allen as minister
Itnlv, aim was won by the 'admin
istration. After a piotracted strug-
le, lie nominee was confirnitd Oc
to.be 2d, only ty resign later on.
Xrxt came the attack on Ilornblow -er,
e tilting in his rejec i n on Jan
uary io. 'The Committee on Com
merce was next supported by tbe Sen
ateJauuary J 7, in the rejection of
J. Scott Harrison, nomii.ated to be
surveyor of customs for Kansas City,
Mo., both the .Missouri Senators op
posing the Executive. On the same
day Kope Elias, nominated to be col
lector of internal revenue lor the
Fouih North Carolina district,
against whom Senator Vance made it
tight, was withdrawn, he having pre
viously declined the appointment in
order to restore harmony. His suc
cess r, Mr. Carter was p o aptly con
f r ueu. Against F. M. Smunons,
nominated for the other North Cai
olina district, Senator Vance, assisted
tiy nie Republicans, is waging a re
ient1ress war with the probability that
the nominee will be rejected or lorced
to withdraw. On February 13, Ben
jamin Leiithier, nominated to be
consul at Sherbrooke, Canada, was
rejected, to be followed three day&
later by the rejection of Wheeler H.
Peckham ii the second bout OAerthe
Supreme Court vacancy . WasJiing
ton Poit.
JohuB. Hussy in the "Cau
casian" reports Tom Skinner as
expecting Simmon place, Harry
'Skinner for Congress and Ex.
Gov. Jar vis as hard at work for
the Senate.
He quotes Major Latham as
saying, kiPublic sentiment is
rapidly chrystalizing into a pe
riodic resolution which makes
the overthrow of 'machine pop.
tios' and it's twin monstiosity
'bossism' necessary to self pres
ervation and the vindication of
common manhood.'