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ISOBSCSIPTIOI $t.fit Cut,. OL. XIX. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1900. NO. 21. " O AwROixisr-A., O-Aitoi-iisr-A., S-ETEisr 's Blessings .A-TTEJsrr) Her. A GOLOIIN DISCOVERY. J The fai..- K'.oii'likc f rt-!':o;i is not ot vrosiH-ctors ;;'r lrot anl li- of i . . i.' f 1 hunger fatitnie . . t-r fni;,:ii' the precious metal. :: t:i-'t "'' ions tilings of life are r : I ;ilt i infinite exertion and in sc:rch. M.itiy a man and looking vainly for health almost v th- waysiihr ln-fore the j?oMcti f rt lief is at last discovered. ! ! w. !v st rrs ;e" f-nys o. s. Cojx-n--i -i M t nil. !i. liuiuiiitoti Co., ' i. n!.- il-i-ii with :i Jiain in the - .m i. h wlii .'i u:is so viol nl 1 couM -t .i.-ht. It v.niM jrw ia'r(- severe ' ur.l-il.r:ih ;iml vomiting of a ii .v.- !:-i.t. r I i onsulu-il a iihvsician ! )i:i I a i'Tiii of ilyjw psia. airl im -.ijt nn.iitlis with 1ml little I le J.: ttiu so weak I coulil r, fi'-'t ain.tlifr jiliv-irian and lie toM v ; v.:s i.ut ol i.i.lcr :ui'l that I hri'l in ':'.n lit- ;:av-- me a t ! :it iilt-ut anil 1 fot i.'!. : l.,;t i.mTv fur a short time. I then it:-. ''.. oiif .vio vii'I 1 lial ehronii- hull . ill. : iti-.ii of : ii.- ! :.iiiu' of the stimiaeh : i. r ..i 1 Ui.'i:. v a.luln.M. He tre:itel i . . than war au J I felt much better ii -' 1 i I . -i I r .-. ;:in'.- -.ever-i! widely advertised !r mi - .ui r . ived r.o more than i ' i . f while iiini.' I then tried Ir. . iiiriti.nii. UMtiv; hi-. olden Medical ! ..:i. the - asaut r.Hets.' and in . I :;ne I was let liiij; Letter than I h id ir-'.'i'.i-- 1 1, tn tnilhriillv sav I)r. lierce's :-e - d;d liif: mor- 'jd than any X had ' k ' 11 ; yiiti are one of those discouraged in the lolly; and wearv search for i v.tite to I r. R. V. l'ieree, of Btif i. N. Y. He will send yon friendly :!.: that mi ill not cost vou fine cent. oiiVLipalioii, nothing is efjual to !'it ree's Pleasant l'ellets. I li CIT"irM Guaranteed Under Rea I'UJI 1 Aonabte Conditions. i'ir f.u iliiies for Becarin;r txisitiuna and tho j ii ucy f'i our graduates arc ten tiniua more i ii '.v endorsed by bankers and nirrchan i. ..hi 'h.. .M.f othertollces. Send for catalogue. DRAUGHON'S j9 J?7 ( I ittle K'ock, Pythian Bldjr. 5th sc Main Mirtv. .irt. I.a Ft. Worth, T M. I. mi's. Mo., Galveston, ft .Vmhviile, Tenn., r Savannah, Ga . ati l...ard. Car fare paid. No vac; Tera Texa... Ga. nl. Car fare paid. No vacatim:. I 'iti rnnv time. !est jiatronized in the South. r.okkeerini;(5:ior?hand, Iitc.tatiirht by mail. Vile for Di'iec li t Home Studv. Scholarthln I ne by t'.oiii a litilc writing at jrour humu. Look hi Your Mirror I'o you sco r.pnrklincf eyes, a healthy, tint i d s!: in, 11 sweet expression and a grace ful form f '1 licse attractions are the result of Koo.l lieulth. If they lire absent, there Is ne.-i! lv always 1.01110 disorder of the dis tlnetlv feminine organs present. Healthy menstrual organs mean health and beauty everywhere. Wine of Gardui makes women 1x:aut:ful and healthy. It strikes at the root of all their trouhle. There is no menstrual dis order, ache or pain which it will not cure. It is for the hnddiii"; girl, the l'tisy wife and the matron approaching the change of life. At every trying crisis in a woman's life it brings health, strength and happiness. It Costs 4 1. 00 of medicine dealers. For advice in cas3 requiring special directions, address, giving symptoms, " The Ladies' Advisory Department,' The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat tanooga, Tenn. , MKS. BOZF.N.V IK AVIS, of Oenavllle, Texas, a:iy: "I was troubled at monthly int- rvaU with terrible pat.-is in my head and t'.ii k, but have been KiiluViy relieved by Wlos of l rdnl." and COLDS Ca:i.. dv for all I Throat and Luns: Affections. Larc I'otrtles, 25 cents. HAMS LAH KI'MX (()., I.imiud, 1'ro; j l rr .- l'avu' IVKUlcr. New r .. Moutreiu. (BCt CMICHCSTER'S ENCLIM Pehnyroval pslls E .""v OHclaal und OnW iiraular. V' ,"4.'NsArE. A'w.,.r.h.t.'(, l.adl-. a I'miflrt (. U .A CHlt llKSTF.irs KNGLISH rr-VafVv a UED an 1 t.ull mrl.lw: torn with bl nl b..a. Take BO uthrr. KcfUW L' Ian -"I all It.(, fhlrheatai- t'kaaalaaj Co Uadlwa i'Mj-L, I'll 111., FA. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clevise and beAatifies th blr. Promote A Inxurinl fTovth. ticver Tails to Bestor Gray II air to its Youtbful Color. Cure araip dinuec M bur taaiiug. 5 V. and 9 1 IfitiSMBMMB ireif hre a source of comfort. They nre a source of care, also. If you care for your child's hcJ.tii, scud for illustrated Look oa Uic disorders to which children are 6uljcet, and which Frcy's Vermifuge Has curea lor 50 years. L'O totac by Kail Kir eeaU. E. A S. FRET, Bnltlmorc, Sid. IlilV t of Seed Irish Potatoes, at II. THOMASON'S. 71 !S VJ luKn MubaUlatioBa ud ItulUt 1 Pf UoBh Muy of y..or liruit. or eo4 4c ta I W aunpa fc, I'artlvaiar. TetlaiUU V Ip ud " Krllrf for UHr Mur. n. I Mall. lO.UIMirHtliiosiali. ia DF Populist Inconsistency. TWO PLANKS OR PLEDGES OF THE PLE'S PARTY PLATFORM PEO- Which Show the Utter Inconsistency of the Populist Position on the Amendment Question Would Allow the Negro to Vote But Disqualify Him From Molding Any Office, Be cause They Want all the Offices. (Pittsboio Kecord.) Two planks or pledges of the Popu list platform, adopted last week by the Populist State convention, de serve special notice. One of these planks proposes to place all negroes i tin: same class as convicted crimi nals by disqualifying them from hold- any olhce, and the other plank iledges the Populist party to disfran- lne to a certan extent not only lgno a ii t negroes but ai.i, tlie voters of erlaiu counties! This assertion, or statement, start- i ti ir as it seems, is strictly true, ami o prove it we will here publish these wo planks as published in the Ctu- rttsiun. Senator Hutler's paper. 1 he lirst of these two planks, after l'-elaring that The People's party is and has always been more distinctly hau any other party in North Caro ina a white man's party,'1'' proposes he following: "Amend Her I ion .". artirle (jt if tlir eon- i it lit ion of Norili I iiroliii'i, by uisiit iua: ituiiir tli- li.-iiu.ilifi(ilioiis for office uiliiM'i-iited therein, the following, viz: Ml m,L'l(i" ;llnl .-ill Ihtsous (it nejxro lescent to tlie third (feneration inclu-iv.;.'- Now, what Is seel ion 5 of article 6 if the Statu constitution which it is imposed to amend as above stated? It is as follows: "The following; elnsses ur p. rsons shnll e disqualified fur office: Pirst, nil per sons n Iiii sliitll lien v t lit- lieiiiiul AlnilLilit V od. Sreond,;i!l persons ho shall hnve en con viett-d of Ire.i-i.n, p'i jurv, or of in v ot her luminous none, si nee tieroill- iigciiiz-iis of the Cnited Stuti s, or of in;i!pl:ietlee in otlii'c, tin less Kljell ll)l 01l r'Ktorel to Hie shall have been fi;allv riuhts of eil ia''lislitli " So, here is the declared purpose of the Populist party to prohibit ai.i. negroes and all persons of negro de- seeni r me, third ireneration Irom hold'ni; any office whatever, and to put them all in the same cla-is with convicted criminals; Comment is unnecessary, and yet if ieh a proposition hail boen made by the Democrats what a howl would have been raised! l'he other plank or pledge of the Populist platform to which special attention is called is in the following words: " We pledge I he People's party to the lain l i nn lire of I lie s stein of local self- government in nil the white counties, towns and cities in the State as estab lished by the General Assembly of 1H05, and ut the same time to provide and maintain a legislative system of uount.r government for nil the negro counties of the State, so that there can never be any question I hat the white people shall al ways have lull and complete control of every county lit the State. Now, what was the system of local self-government "established by the (Jeneral Assembly of 1895?" "This ipiestion is answered by reference to chapter !. of the ptiblic laws of lSHo, the fifth section of which is in tht! following words: "Seeton i. That whenever as many as five electors of the county make affidavit before the clerk of tlw superior court, at any time after the election of the county commissioners, that they verily believe that the business of the county, if left entirely in the hands of the three com tuissioiiers elected by the people, will be improperly manured, that then upon pet ition of two hundred electors of said coiintv, one-half of whom shall be free holders, und so certified by the clerk of the superior court, made to the judge presiding; therein, it shall be the duty of the said judgeto appoint two honest and discreet citizens of said county, who shall be of a political party different from that of a majority of the board of commis sioners, who shall, from their appoint ment and qualification, by taking the oath required for county commissioners be members ot said hoard of commis sioners in every respect, aa fully as if elected by the people, and shall coutinue in oilier until the election and quahffca tion of the successors of said board of county :ommissioi. is, and that no money shall be pai I upon tlie order of said board, or official bonds accepted nor shall any d br be incurred, except upon the concurrence of as many as four of said board. That nil motions con certiini; financial matters shall be taken upon an are and no vote, ami recorded upon the minutes. So that the Populist State conven tion soleiuuly pledged to re-enact the above section 5 of chapter 135 of the laws of 1X95, which is copied above in full, so that our readers mar know exactly what tho Populists have pledged to enact. According to the above section 5 whole counties may be disfranchised or their votes nullified in the election of their county commissioners, be cause the two additional commission ers which may be appointed by the judge, have a veto power over the acts of the commissioners elected by the people. In other words, one man living in another county (the judge) can appoint two commissioners to have as much power as the three elected by the people. Is not this nullifying the votes of the people whose commissioners are thus con trolled? And upon whose petition may these two additional commis sioners be appointed? Can they be appointed upon the petition of any of the voters of the county? No; but only upon the petition of 200 voters one-half of u-liom suiUOc JrecJtoUlers. tu:. : .1 : ,i:.,t;.,-,.; I , u . . u i ferenno between voter who own Wild those who do not own land, and ore- scribes a qualification that no Demo crat would presume to suggest. So odious did the Democrats make the above quoted section 5, that the next Fusion Legislature of 1897 re pealed it. Yet the Populist party in its State convention is pledged to re enact it! These two planks in the Populist State platform proves conclusively that the Populist leaders do believe that there is danger of negro demina- tion in North Carolina, and therefore show the necessity of adopting the proposed suffrage amendment. AT MY MOTHER'S GRAVE. BY CEO. D. PRENTICE. The trembling dew drops fall Upon the shutting flowets like souls at rest; The stars shine gloriously, and all Save me are blest. Mother, 1 love thy grave! The violet?, with blossoms blue and mild. Wave o'er thy head when shall they wave A hove thy child? Tis a bright flower, yet must Its bright leaves to the temDest bow? Dear mother, 'tis thy emblem dust Is on thy brow. And-1 could love to die, lo leave untasted Hies dark, bitter sti earns liy thee, as erst, in childhood, lie. Ana cnare tuy dreams. And I mut 1'ioner here. l'o stain the plumage of my sinless ears And mourn the hopes to childhood dear, v iiu outer tears.' Aye, I must linger here. A lonely crunch unon a withered tree. Whose last frail leaf, untimely sear. went flown with thee. Off. from life's withered bower. In Mill cuiiiiiiuiiioii with the nnst.I turn. And gaze on thee, the only flo.ver, in memory s urn. And when the evening pale isows nice a mourner on tha blue dim wave, stray to hear the night wind wail Around thy grave. Where is thy spirt flown? 1 vazeu above, thy look is imaged there. I listen, and thy gentle voice is on the air. O cuine, while I thus piess .ny diow upon my grave, an 1 in tuo-ie mild And thrill iug tones of t-uderness. liless, bless thy child. CONSIDERATE AND HUMANE. How The B-iers Treat Prisoners. ( Washington Post.) It becomes more difficult with every day to make honest men believe that the Boers are "tilth v, brutal and in human savages." When the war lirst broke out, thousands, nay, millions, of Americans and Englishmen had been educated in this false and wicked creed by the Khodes-t.;namoerlain newspaper combination. The minds of both countries had been for years ever since the Jameson raid sedu lously poisoned against the Boers. Intending to rob them of their homes, their lands and their liberties event ually, these banded pirates began by robbing them of all human sympathy through the vile agencies of slander and false witness. The Boers beijan the war, then, as objects of horror and aversion, and well-meaning people throughout tho English - speaking world regarded their extermination with truly Anglo-Saxon complacency. But the falsehood did not bear the strain of practical inquiry and experi ence. Honest and lovai ingush gen tlemen began to see for themselves how the Boers treated those depend ent on their mercy, and found them chivalrous, as they were valiant. Winston Churchill, after a period of captivity, spoke of British South Africa as "this land of lies." Hun dreds similarly informed by fact, bore testimony to the same efrect. And now we quote from a letter to the London Daily News a letter from its rogular correspondent at the seat of war, who was wounded and taken a prisoner, and who ran the whole gamut of experience in that connec tion. It is dated "Bloemfonteiu Hos pital, February 22nd, 1900," and it says: "For a day and a half I lay at that laager while our wounded men were brought in, and here I should like to say a word to the people of England. Our men, when wounded, are treated by the Boers with manly gentleness and kindly consideration. When we left the laager in an open trolley, we, some half dozen Australians and about as many Boers, all wounded, were driven for some hours to a small hospital, the name of which I do not know. It was simply a farmhouse turned into a place for the wounded. On the road thither we called at many farms, and at every one men, women, and children came out to see us. Not one taunting word was uttered in our hearing, not one braggart sentence passed their lips. Men brought us cooling drinks or moved us into more comfortable positions on the trolley. Women, with gentle lingers, shifted bandages, or washed wounds or gave us little dainties that come so pieas- j ant in such a time; while the little! children crowded round us with tears running down their cheeks as they looked upon the blood-stained khaki j clothing of the wounded British. Let no man or woman in all the British Empire whose son or husband lies wounded in the hands of the Boers fear for his welfare, for it is a foul slander to say that the Boers do not treat their wounded well. England does not treat her own men better than the Boers treat her wounded British, and I am writing that which I have seen and know beyond the shadow of a doubt.'" These are the people whom Cham berlain and his gang of Shylocks would have us regard as bestial savages, ob stacles in the way of progress, enlight enment and human happiness, who must be exterminated like vermin so that the nobler and the higher civili zation may move onward to the V 1 1 T - V.a l. o l- f 111 tVo f (iawninr t last. . . itf ! me luuie csinri.iaiM fe.ui f and chivalrous English gentlemen ! e . o sPread lts nobIe diance- A Gentle Reminder. Wash and Nora had been engaged to be married for fifteen years and still he had not mustered up courage enough to ask her to name the happy dav. One evening he called in a peeuli to sin ar frame of mind and asked her, r sompthincr tender and tnneh-: ing, him.' sang something that would "move - - , . She sat down at the piano and Darling, I am Growing Old." THE PHILIPPINE WAR. VBE SITUATION AS BEPOBTED DT QEIKBAL OTIS. OVC Four Hundred Fillplaoa Slangba tercd In One Week by ibe Ameri can Troops Organised Resistance to American Control In Hnnlln and the Provinces North of It Virtually Ceased. Washington, April 24. General Otis has cabled the following account of re cent engagements in the Philippines: "Manila, April 24. Early on the morning of the 7th, several hundred Tagalos and Vizayans attacked a bat talion of the Fortieth Infantry at Caga yan, north coast Mindanao; our casual ties were two killed, eleven wounded; the enemy lost fifty-three killed, eighteen wounded and captured in city, beside other losses suffered on retreat. General Young reports from north western Luzon several hundred natives influenced by Aguinaldo's bishop. Agli pak, attacked his troop3 at several points and in turn had been attacked. Their loss in attack onHatcc on the 13th instant was 106 killed, and during the fighting 15th to 17th 333 killed: our loss during the period was two killed and four wounded. General loung has plenty of troops and will have little further opposition. Affairs at other Luzon points are improving, local presi dents and inhabitants of towns giving information 'and rendering assistance, troops now taking possession of in terior small islands." Washington, April 24. The military situation in the Philippines as shown by the latest mail advices received at the War Department is summarized in the following statement, which was made public to-day at the depart ment: On the 1st of January, 1900, the insur rection in the part of Luzon, P. I., embracing the province of Manila and the provinces to the north of it had collapsed to the extent that organized resistance to American control had vir tually ceased. A different state of af fairs existed in Cavite, Batangas, La- guna and Tayalias, the provinces lying immediately south of Manila. In this territory, the richest and most populous of the island, the birthplace of Agui naldo and the rebellion, the insurgent troops were still intact had, in fact, been strengthened by accessions from the nort?. and as regards equipment. discipline and cohesion were equal, if not superior, to any that had been raised in support of the insurgent cause. General Otis committed the task of the destruction or dispersion of the forces within this district to two expeditionary brigades, commanded, re spectively, by Brigadier-Generals Wheaton and Schwan. In and about the two towns of Ba coor and Imus, in Northern Cavite, there were and long had been insur gent bodies of considerable size, some of which had actually besieged our gar risons in those towns. These insur gent bodies, General Wheaton's com mand attacked and completely routed on January 5th, 7th and 9th. The fur ther disintegration of the remnants of this force giving it, so to speak, the 'coup de grace' of suppressing the in surgent troops in the remainder f the four provinces and of restoring, if prac ticable, peace and order therein, fell to the lot of General Schwan's brigade. In the course of its campaign his troops covered 650 miles, fought thirty-three combats and established permanent garrisons in twenty-one towns within this district. It set out on January 4th and its work was practically finished on February Sth. Not that all hostili ties had then ceased. On the contrary, our troops have had and still have fre quent conllicts with the robber bands that were formed from the disinte grated insurgent military organizations and who emerge periodically from their hiding places in mountains and thickets to pounce upon inadequately guarded wagon trains and small parties. But concert of action and co-operation, save on a very limited scale, was ended by the latter date: the control exercised by the insurgent leaders, except over their small immediate following, as mini mized, and their power for mischief materially reduced if not wholly bro ken. In the principal towns or centres of trade and municipal government military forces, generally . battalions, have been placed. These forces operate within their several spheres under their majors, for -the most part energetic young officers holding lesser rank in the regulars, and whenever necessary co operate under their colonels for the bat talions of a regiment are grouped in neighboring places. On the whole, the outlook for the pacification of this district and other parts of Luzon Is favorable. In their conflicts with our troops the Ladrones are universally woisted. Their defeats will become more and more serious as our troops gain the confidence of the in telligent and property-owning class, and when the latter become unwilling to submit to the robbers' exactions and become willing to guide our troops to their retreats, their d om will be sealed. To accomplish this object may take time, and it is possible some of the robber bands may be able to maintain themselves during the coming wet sea son; but their eventual destruction is regarded as ceitain. PLANS FOB T1IKKE NEW BATTLE- sh:ps. Washington. April 24. The naval board on const i uetien to-day finally approved the plar.s for the three bat tleships authorize! by the last Con gress, and gave irsti m-tions to have the specifications pi part ! at once pre liminary to callir u f. r bids from the shipbuilders. Tl.e beard has settled upon a design vei y sinn;ur to the plan originally proposed The ships will le enlarged Iowas in type, with the rec tangular suptrsti ui ture, and the two turrets, bow and stem, on the main deck. The turret cutis will be 12-inch calibre like the Iowa's guns; there will be a turret at each curnt-r of the super structure carrying two S-inch guns and twelve 6-inch rapid-firers will be dis posed along the sides of the central cit adel. To carry all this armament the armor and the engines and boilers, to give the ship nineteen knot3 speed, will require a displacement of about 15,500 tons, making these new ships by far the largest :n the United States navy and as big as the latest type of British armored cruiser. As the constructors are limited in the draft by our shallow harbors to a little over twenty-five feet, and as sevenjy-five feet represents about the greatest beam consistent with speed, it will be necessary to provide for the weight by giving the ships more length then the Iowa class, and they will be a'.irutt 440 feet Ions A woman may be read like a book, ! but she cannot be shut ap so easily. AMERICA'S Greatest Medicine 13 Hood's Sarsaparilla,because it pos sesses unequalled curative powers and its record of cures is GREATEST. OEN. T. F. TOON. All Educational Forces Will Find Him an Able Co-Laborer. To the Editok: The nomination of Prof. Thos.F. Toon fcr the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, places before the people of North Caro lina a man of so much genuine worth and of such excellent capacity as an educator, that I cannot resist the im pulse to express for the thousands who know him the highest gratilica tion at his nomination. General Toon graduated with honor from Wake Forest college with the class of 1861. He entered the Confederate army im mediately after graduating and by commanding qualities and magnetic leadership rose rapidly to the Col onelcy of his regiment, the 20th North Carolina Infantry, and before the war ended he had attained the high rank of Brigadier (Jeneral. His life has been devoted to the cause of education, having taught with great success at Whiteville, Fair Bin IT and Lumberton. The enthusiasm manifested over his nomination is due in no small de gree to the earnest and active admi- l ration of his old students and of those who knew him and his work as a teacher. His strength as a candidate and his success as an administrator in the high office to which he will be called is the fact that by nature, by training and by association he repre sents the strenuous appeal of a situa tion for a man in his high office whose face is toward the public schools who w ill stand for them, their exten tion, their improvement, as the para mount duty of the present hour. All our educational forces in the State will lind in (Jeneral Toon a fair-minded and able colaborer who will deserve and command their respect and sym pathy. JNO. E. WHITE. News and Observer. Have a Garden. A vegetable garden is a necessary feature of the home. A farm without a well protected and managed garden may be a place to sleep and work and whereat to exist after a fashion, but there can be no living like a lord of the acres without an abundance of vegetables and fruits in their season or out of season. A fourth of an acre away out in the field is a slovenly and poverty-stricken makeshift, which would defraud the chickens to feed the rabbits. The garden spot should be located close to the house, ten yards from kitchen door to garden gate is a convenient distance, though it may be less than that. The plat should be, for economical reasons, a parallelogram, the width being half the length, so that all the plowing may be done in the long way; it re quires less waste land where the horse turns. The garden should have a rabbit-proof and chicken-proof fence all around it. Palings five feet long set on an eight inch baseboard is about right. The palings should not be farther apart than two inches. Besides the entrance gate near the house there should be, for a large garden, a large one whereat wagons loaded with manure can be driven in. As this will not be much used, in stead of a hinged gate, a movable panel will answer the purpose. This can be easily arranged when the fence is built. Half an acre, 210x106 feet, is large enough for a large family, and besides garden vegetables will afford all the early potatoes needed. One-fourth of an acre or about lo0.70 feet will be found large enough for the average farm family. Haul a plenty of manure early in the season, plow it and harrow it smooth and you are ready for business. Ex change. The Telephone. (Charlotte Observer.) The telephone has taught us a les son in patience. It used to be that whenever one called up a number if the answer was not quickly given at the other end, an impatient wrangle was started with the operator at the central station. It would seem as though the least rellection ought to have shown that the operator could do nothing in the way of hurrying up the fellow at the other end of the line. It took cjuite a little while for human ity to become accustomed to this fact, but now with those who regularv use the "phone the lessou of patience has been fairly well learned and the les son that impatience cannot accom plish anything has also been learned there are ol course yet a lew people, not much accustomed to use the'phone who allow themselves to become im patient when trying to get a call, but the great bulk of humanity has come to know that it is no use to blame the central station operator when there is delav in getting quick replies, because of the impossibility of getting the man at the other end. There are of course some phases of the telephone business that are calcu lated to excite impatience, and very justly so. Ibis is when it is evi dent that the fault is entirely in the central station and one of the frequent happenings in this line is being cut off while in the middle of a conversa tion. When the central station opera tors become a little better educated in respect to this and one or two other points, and the public becomes thor oughlv accustomed to know that it is impossible to talk to a fellow at the other end of the line until he can be gotten to the 'phone, the whole ser vice will have become immensely im proved. No," said the haughty maiden "your pleadings are useless: I do not even care to talk to you. "I know you don't,'" replied the rejected suitor, "and that is my prm cipal reason for wanting to marrv you." uescuer "Jliss rronerieigh. give me your hand." Drowning Maiden (preparing to sink for the third time) -Oh, Mr Stone, this is so sudden so unex peeted ! You will have to ak ma." Simmons to Butler. POPULIST CHAIRMAN ASKS DISCUSSION FOR JOINT Between Democratic Candidates for State Offices and Nominees of the People's Party, Which Request is Promptly Turned Down for Reasons Given Butler's Little Scheme Clear ly Seen Through. (ItalebUi Post.) The attempt of Senator Butler to get the Democratic candidates for State offices to engage in a joint de bate with the Populist nominees in the interest of the Republican party has been promptly turned down by F. M. Simmons, the chairman of the, Democratic State Executive Commit tee Mr. Simmons gives Butler the trim ming that fits him. The correspond ence, which is given herewith, makes nteresting reading Raleigh, N. C, April 20, 1900. Hon. F. M. Simmons, Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Cornmittet, Raleigh, N. C: Sik: The candidate of the Peo ple's party for Governor, and the candidates for other State offices, and the candidate of the People's party lor united states senator, desire a J oint discussion with the candidates ' i tue uemocraiic party ior-saiu posi- i ion, respectively, in order that the oters of the State, who must, in next August, cast their ballots in ap-1 proval or disapproval of the pro posed Constitutional amendment, the lection law and other issues in the State, may hear the facts and argu ments that can be presented by both sides, and render their verdict ac cordingly. If your committee and the candidates of your party will agree to such a joint discussion, I will be glad to confer with you at once, with a view to arranging a series of appointments to begin immediately after the close of the list of appoint ments for j'our candidates already announced, extending to and includ- ng May th, 1900. Very respectfully, (Signed) MARION BUTLER, Chairman People's Party State Exec utive Committee. Raleigh, N. C, April 21, 1900. Hun. Marion Butler, Chairman People's Party Slate Executive Committee, Raleigh, N. C: Sik: I received this morning your letter of the 20th inst., in w?ich you ;gest a joint debate between the candidates of the Democratic party for State offices, and the candidates of the People's party for like posi- ions. The question to be presented to the eople for their approval in August, and around which all other questions centre, is the adoption of the Consti- utional amendment. Ibe Peoples party in its late State convention. while urging objections to the amend ment, declared concerning it, "We do not make it a party question," and expressly said that it "must be determined by the judgment and conscience of each individual voter." In your letter you ask for a joint debate upon the amendment, there by disclosing a purpose on the part of the organization of your party to commit your party to a position which it has expressly refused to take in its State convention. This attempt to raise an issue not made by your convention is manifestly the result of a secret understanding with the Republican party and in line with the action of your party or ganization since 1891, which has been employed to foster schemes of co-operation with the Republican party and to prevent the individual voter of the People's party from partici pating in the naming of candidates or dictating the policy. It is a mat ter of common knowledge in North Carolina that there is a perfect un derstanding between the leaders of the Federal office-holding element of the People's party and the Republi can party, and in pursuance of this understanding thev have secured the a. nomination of a State ticket and ask ed for a joint debate in order to divide and divert the attention of the white people while their Republican allies are engaged in their scheme of at tempting to again fasten neirro rule i on thes State. Later on, by these same tactics, the People's party will undoubtedly be led iuto fusion with the Republican party upon the legis I 7 C7 r lative, county and congressional tickets in all counties ami districts where it is thought that fusion will do anv good towards the defeat of I the amendment and the perpetuation of negro suffrage in North Carolina. Under these circumstances it is im possible to consider the organiza tion of the People s party, as now constituted and controlled in North Carolina, as having any existence separate and independent from that of the Republican party. Until the organization of the People s party in this State proves its right to be treat ed as a political entity, separate and distinct from the Republican party. by refusing to fuse with that party upon State, county, leg igislative and s, the Demo - conyressional candidate cratic party cannot consider your proposition. Concerning the suggestion contain- ed in vour letter as to a ioint debate betwe'en vou and the Democratic can- didate fo'r the Senate, you are in - formed that the Democratic party! has no candidate for the Senate, and j that it does not propose to discuss or ' consider the Senatorial question until after the question of whether North Carolina is to be governed by the j white man or by the negro has been settled in the August election. From that paramount and all absorbing question the Democratic party does not propose to be diverted, either by a Senatorial contest, sham tickets, or cunningly devised schemes to "play politics." Yours truly, (Signed) F. M. SIMMONS, Chairman Democratic State Execu tive Committee. PRECISELY SO. In speaking of the proposed fusion of the Populists with the Republicans against the Constitutional amend ment. Rev. Baylus Cade, private sec retary to Gov. Russell, says: ""If the Populist party shall array itelf by utterances in it platform or other wise against the proposed amendment to the Constitution, it action iu that re gard will be inevitably interpreted to mean that it intends to lend itself, a a party, to the work of perpetuating vm trro domination in certain sections iu this State. It will lie nothing whatever to the purpose for the irty to nay it means to do no such thing. It will lie charged with, and convicted of, actually being engaged in doing that very thing.'" Rev. Baylus struck tho nail on the head square. When Marion Butler was making that dicker with Senator Pritchard, agreeing to line up his fol lowing against the amendment, he knew that the result ot his work, if successful, would be to fasten negro domination on North Carolina and put a number of Eastern counties under negro control, and all the talk ing he might do from now until the end of time wouldn't convince any one that he doesn't know this and that he is not deliberately pursuing his game with the full knowledge of it. To carry out his selfish scheme he would degrade North Carolina and help, as he is doing, to put the negro on top. Sensible Populists realize this, and that is why so many of them a protest against this bargain with Pntchard and notify Butler that he can't use them as tools to further his own schemes -Wilmington Star. Democratlc State Ticket. For Governor Charles B. Aycock, of Wayne. For Lieutenant-Governor William D. Turner, of Iredell. For Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes, of Pitt. For Treasurer Benjamin R. Lacy, of Wake. For Auditor Benjamin F. Dixon, of Cleveland. For Attorney General Robert D. Gilmer, of Haywood. lor Superintendent oT Public In struction Thomas F. Toon, of Robe son. For Commissioner of Agridulture Samuel L. Patterson, of Caldwell. For Commissioner of Labor and Printing Henry B. Varner, of David son. For Chairman of the Corporation Commission Franklin McNeill, of New Hanover. For Corporation Commissioner Samuel L. Rodgers, of Macon. For Judge of the Tenth District William B. Council, of Watauga. For Electors-at-Large Dan Hugh McLean, of Harnett, and Lee S. Over man, of Rowan. Delegates to the National Demo cratic Convention J. S. Carr, of Dur ham; E. J. Hale, of Cumberland; W. E. Moore, of Jackson; Thos. A. Jones, of Buncombe. Alternates Theo. F. Kluttz, of Rowan; W. S. Parker, of Vance; B. F. Aycock, of Wayne; J. G. Hackett, of W'ilkes. She And what would you be now if it wasn't for my money? He A bachelor. 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