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The Senatorial Primary.
MANNER AND METHODS OF HOLDING THE
ELECTION.
Who Shall be Considered Entitled to
Voteon theQuestion of United States
Senator A Member of the Platform
Committee at the Democratic Con
vention Writes in Response to Cer
tain Questions and States the Facts
Brifly for the Information of Those
Interested.
(Luiulx;rton Kobesonian. )
It. Ii. Clark, editor of the States
ville Landmark-, wlio was a member of
the platform committee at the Demo
cratic State convention in April, has
written to the Charlotte Observer with
reanl to the question as to who is
entitled to vote for Senator at the
primary in No vein her. People every
where are interested in the matter
and we jjive the letter below. Mr.
Clark writes:
Statksvii.i.k, X. C, Aujr. 8, rJOO.
Kmtoii Oi'.skkvku: With reference
to your correspondent's iiujuirv in to
day's paper and your answer that you
do not know the details of the Demo
cratic Senatorial primary, which is to
take, place at the November election,
I will state the facts briefly for the in
formati on of thoso who aro inter
csted. The platform committee of the last
Democratic- State convention, April
11th, adopted the following in the
platform, which was subsequently
adopted by the convention:
We hereby instruct the State
executive committee to make provis
ion for the holding of a primary on
the lir.st Tuesday of next November
for the selection of a United States
Senator by the Democratic voters of
the State, at which every elector who
has voted the Democratic ticket in
the State election shall be entitled to
cast one vote for one man for United
States Senator, and the candidate
who receives the majority of the
votes sf) cast in the whole State shall
receive the support of the Democratic
members of the Legislature; and if no
candidate shall receive a majoity then
the committee shall hold a second
primary at which only the two high
est candidates shall be balloted for.
and the one receiving a majority of
the votes so cast shall receive the
support of the Democratic members
of the Legislature.
"Provided, that if any third can
didate shall receive at the first prim
ary so held within 2,500 votes of the
second highest candidate, then in
that event the three candidates shall
be balloted for at the second primary,
and the one of the three receiving the
highest number of votes shall receive
the support of the Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature for United
States Senator."
This is the whole story. Mr. Larry
Moore, of Pitt, member of the plat
form committee, who presented the
draft for the Senatorial primary plan
and insisted upon its adoption, had
drawn it to read that all who voted
for the electoral candidates at the
November election should be entitled
to vote for Senator. This idea was
vigorously combat ted by a member of
the committee, who pointed out that
many persons would probably vote
the Democratic ticket at the August
election who might not vote at all in
the November election or who might
refuse to vote for Mr. Hryan, and this
member himself served notice that he
would not vote for Mr. Bryan on a
fusion ticket similar to the arrange
ment of 18. It was further pointed
out that if, in advance, those who
might refuse to accept the national
ticket were to be excluded from the
Senatorial primary, they might ex
clude themselves from the August
election. This view was readily ac
cepted by Mr. Moore and the other
members of the committee and Mr.
Moore then changed the clause to
read those who voted the entire
Democratic ticket in the State elec
tion" shall be entitled to vote in the
Democratic primary. The .member
who objected to Mr. Moore's tirst
draft asked him to strike out the
word "entire," which he also agreed
to do in order that there might be no
contention as to whether a man who
scratched a candidate for constable or
coroner should vote in the primary.
Kverv man, then, who voted the
Democratic ticket in the August elec
tion is entitled to express his prefer
ence for Senator in the primary at the
November election, no matter how he
votes in November, or whether he
votes at all.
These are the facts as they were
understood by the platform commit
tee of the Democratic State conven
tion. K. K- CLARK.
THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.
This paper has never pleaded the
cause of the suffrage amendment.
But we nevertheless regret
that there is so little forbearance and
that such a considerable body of men
the majority of whose leaders, after
years of grappling with the suffrage
problem in North Carolina, should be
subjected to so much calumny. Cer
tainlv much of it is unwarranted.
There are men who to-day represent
North Carolina districts i"n Congress
as Democrats, with sympathies and
tendencies distinctly Republican.
Thev, as well as thousands of their
constituents, are convinced that North
Carolina will eventually receive a
o-reat impetus, industrially and politi
cally, by an educational qualification.
They have the welfare and prsstige
of their State as much at heart as
legislators and leaders in Massachu
setts and Illinois. The promoters of
this experiment do not merit misrep
resentation and abuse while they are
trying to bring about a better era.
Washington Post.
Lewis I wish I could stop playing
poker.
Mark Why don't you swear off?
Lewis I do. But every single time
I swear off I begin to win.
THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.
(F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Costitution.)
Here's a song for you, dear, in these rol
licking rhymes;
Here is Love, and the Jingle of dollars
and dimes;
And which will you have? These are
trrible time,
And the wolf's at the door iu the nioiu
inc! II.
Here's a song for you, dear ! Lillies
drooped on their stems.
And a glitter of jewels all beautiful
gems;
And poverty, darling, the whole world
condemns.
For the wolfs at the door in the
morning!
III.
Here's a song for you, dear; will-the
gold be as bright
As the eyes that look love in your own
eyes of light?
Will the gold give you comfort when
1jve says "Goodnight"?
But the wolf's at the door in the
morning!
IV.
Here's a scng for you, dear! Though the
darkness may be
As deep as the black storms that sweep
o'er the sea;
To the rest of the wreck you are going
with nie
Though the wolf's at the door in the
morning!
V.
A song for you. dear! If I knew you were
near
The cross of the world were a light thing
to bear,
With your loved arms to necklace me
what were the fear
Of the wolf at the door in the nioining?
VI.
A song for you! Lo, from the gulfs of
despair
You have lifted my soul to high heavens
and lair;
I am holding your hands I am kiss-ing
your hair,
In the teeth of the wolf in the morning!
VII.
A song for you!. . . Love is enough for
us, swe?t;
The old life of longing a new life shall
meet
When we rest with God's lillies at head
and at feet,
Afar from the wolf in the morning!
MR.
AYCOCK ON THE ADOPTION OF
THE AMENDMENT.
Let the adoption of the amendment
furnish us the occasion for a better
understanding one with another, and
while restoring to white men the
rightful superiority which God gave
them, let us in the assurance of bet
ter government learn, not toleration
only, but respect as well for the
views of those opposing us. In com
ing together for the common good we
shall forget the asperities of past
years and shall go forward into the
20th century a united people, striving
with zeal and in generous rivalry for
the material, intellectual and moral
upbuilding of the State.
May the era of good feeling among
us be the outcome of this contest.
Then we shall learn, if we do not
already know, that while universal
suffragis a failure universal justice
is the perpetual decree of Almighty
God, and that we are entrusted with
power not for our good alone, but for
the negro as well. We hold our title
to power by the tenure of service to
God, and if we fail to administer
equal and exact justice to the negro
whom we deprive of suffrage we shall
in the fullness of time lose power
ourselves, for we must know that the
(iod who is love trusts no people with
authority for the purpose of enabling
them to do injustice to the weak.
We do well to rejoice in our strength
and to take delight in our power, but
we will do better still when we come
fully to know that our right to rule
has been transmitted to us by our
fathers through centuries of toil and
sacrifice, suffering and death and
their work through all these centuries
has been a striving to execute judg
ment in righteousness. That must
likewise be our aim; that our labor.
C. B. Ay cock, Governor-elect of North
Carolina.
A Seasonable Pointer.
Garden seeds are usually planted
too deep. Small seeds require just
enough covering: to give them mois
ture and darkness. The soil should
be very line, so as to contain no
lumps. Some seeds, however, such
as peas and beans, should be planted
deep and the ground rolled over them.
Pressing the earth on seeds hastens
germination, and it also increases the
chances for the seeds of weeds, but if
the rows are made straight it will not
be difficult to keep down the weeds
until the crop gets well started.
Exchange.
So able and so influential a paper as
the Baltimore Sun has the following
to say of Bryan's notification speech
at Indianapolis:
It must be gratifying to Mr. Bryan
to see how the influential conserva
tive newspapers are complimenting
his Indianapols speech as the most
able expose of the evils of imperialism
ever presented to the people."
This paper, by the way, supported
McKinley in 1896, but like the Courier
Journal and most other Democratic
papers of influence, it is now giving
its earnest support to Mr. Bryan, and
with the Baltimore Sun and the
Courier-Journal in line Maryland and
Kentucky may be placed in the Dem
ocratic column. Cearlotte Xews.
The election is now over and the
amendment adopted by a large ma
joritv. We want to predict that the
Constitutional amendment of North
Carolina will never be taken to the
courts for construction. If it is, who
will take it to them? Not the Demo
crats. Then it will have to be done
by the Republicans or Populists.
They cannot afford to do it. If they
do, "they will give the lie to all their
speakers on every stump in North
Carolina, for they have everywhere
proclaimed that thev were for white
supremacy. Greensboro Record.
The less a mau boasts the more true
worth he possesses.
Brighter Day Dawning.
THE PRACTICAL ELIMINATION OF THE
NEGRO FROM POLITICS.
It Was an Iniquity and Injustice Prac
ticed Upon the Helpless People of
the South to Give the Black Man the
Right of Franchise at the Time and
in the flanner it Was Done A Wrong
Which is at Last Being Righted.
(Newpoit News Herald.)
On more than one occasion the
Herald has declared itself in favor of
an educational qualification for the
voters. The Herald has not been in
the least mealy-mouthed about it and
has not hesitated to say in the plain
est English at its command that a
demand for an educational qualifica
tion meant the practical elimination
from politics of the negro, or to be
put in yet plainer English, the dis
franchisement of the negro voter.
The editor of the Herald has always
believed that the enfranchisement of
the negro was an iniquity and an in
justice practiced by the power of
might upon the helpless people and
that in time eternal justice in the
hands and under the guidance of om
nipotence would, by human aid, wipe
out the wrong and do justice to the
elect the Anglo-Saxon race. "God
moves in a mysterious way, His won
ders to perform."
Slavery, we believe, is and ever has
been an abomination in the sight of
the All-wise. In His own mysterious
way He removed the shackles from
the ignorant bondman of an inferior
race in this so-called land of libertj'.
To do this it may have been necessary,
seems to have been, was necessary
for a time to, in a certain way, en
slave those who were once masters.
It was slavery in a very mild and
merciful form. It was only political
slavery. For thirty odd years the
white people of the South have been
these political slaves. The constant
fear of negro rule, negro domination
and a return to African methods, has
kept the white men of the South in a
line that has not always been con
genial to them, nor always in strict
accordance with their inate ideas,
freedom of thought and independence
of action.
But, in the wisdom of Him who
errs not, the emancipation day is
surely dawning. The first rays of the
dawning day were seen on the banks
of the Mississippi, and Mississippi
and Louisiana emerged from dark
ness, and then came South Carolina.
Now old North Carolina has pnlled
the negro out of the woodpile, and
next will come Virginia.
What do our Northern friends think
about this thing? Let a paper in
rock-ribbed Connecticut answer. Read
the following from the Hartford
limes, which is pointed and to the
point:
"Whatever else may follow from
the election in North Carolina, there
can be no doubt about what has hap
pened to the Populist party there.
There will be only two Populist mem
bers of the next North Carolina Leg
islature, and the party which is rep
resented by Mr. Marion Butler in the
United States Senate will cease to be
a political force in that State. On
the other hand, there will be merely
twenty Republican members of the
Legislature, out of a total membership
of 134. It look3 as if a good many of
the white Republicans had tacitly ac
cepted the suppression of the negro
vote of the State as inevitable, and by
no means undesirable, in the long
run. Indications are not Wanting in
South Carolina, Mississippi and Louis
iana that although they may not call
themselves Republicans some, if not
all, the Representatives of these States
in Congress will soon range them
selves openly and decisively on the
side of the ideas represented by Mr.
McKinley and Mr. Hanna. The ad
ministration already has the support
of Senators McLaurin, of South Caro
lina, Morgan, of Alabama, Sullivan,
of Mississippi, and McEnery, of Louis
iana, for its Asiatic schemes, and iu
view of the very large manufacturing
interests of North Carolina it will be
likely to come into harmony with the
other Southern supporters of some
features of the Republican party pol
icy. "This will be all the more likely to
happen if the Stale ollices shall for
the present be controlled entirely by
the Democrats, who have put them
selves in control of the whole politi
cal situation by obtaining an appar
ent net majority of 59,553 votes for
the Constitutional amendment which
permits illiterate white Republicans
to vote but excludes all illiterate ne
groes, and places other obstructions
in the path of the negroes who may
persist in attempting to vote. Mr.
McKinley has no diliiculty in main
taining amicable relations with most
of the Southern Democratic Senators,
and probably he would prefer, if the
truth were known, to have a Demo
crat in the Senate in place of a ram
pant Populist like Butler. The other
Senator, Pritchard, is a Republican,
and he will be displaced, also, when
his term ends. He voted for the cur
rency bill which Congress passed in
March, and is a man of some ability.
We shall be surprised if the business
men of North Carolina do not put a
better man in his place under the new
regime.
"Mr. Butler and Mr. Pritchard may
unite in an effort to have the recent
election investigated by Congress, and
perhaps they will try to prevent the
electoral vote of the State from being
counted for Bryan. It is reported
that Mr. Butler has already declared
that the electoral vote shall be count
ed for McKinley. But they will get
little aid or comfort from the Repub
licans in their effort to review or up
set the recent election. The Repub
licans of the country feel but a lan
guid interest in the woes of their
party brethren in the South, or in
fact of the colored voter. The Repub-
licans of Connecticut, for instance,
have got all through shouting for the
rights of the black man. An era of
brntal frankness has set in.
"Thirty years ago Oliver P. Morton
and the other leaders in the Senate
would have made short work with the
results of such an election as was
held August 2nd. No electoral vote
would have been received from a
State thus controlled, and United
States Senators chosen by such a Leg
islature as has now been elected in
North Carolina would have sought in
i vain for admission to the Senate.
, But next year no Republican will
make objection Xo- anything that has
: been done in North Carolina, except
' possibly to propose the reduction of
I the (tuoto of Congressman, on ac
count of the exclusion of negro vot
ers." WHY SHE DIDN'T SING.
Superstition Kept Her From Broom,
iiiff a Prima Donna.
"I have come across a great deal of
foolishness of varying degrees and
kinds in my life," said the man who
teaches singing, "but in all my born
days I never before met anybody as
hopelessly feeble minded as a young
woman I have been taking an Interest
in lately. She is a stenographer by oc
cupation, and I happened to hear her
hum a popular song one day when I
was in her employer's office. Of course
the production of her tones was all
wrong, but her voice was as soft as
velvet and big and deep and clear as a
cathedral bell. It was a voice such as
a teacher doesn't get a chance to work
on twice in a lifetime.
"I went to her and asked her to let
me try her voice. It proved to be bet
ter than I had hoped. It was magnifi
cent. I wanted her to begin studying
at once. She had no money, but I
didn't want money for bringing out a
voice like that. She hadn't much time
either, and she told me she was too
tired to sing In the evenings after
working all day. I told her to get up
early and practice an hour or two be
fore breakfast. I thought she looked
odd when I told her to do it, but she
didn't say she wouldn't.
"Weeks passed, and her method con
tinued as bad as ever. I couldn't un
derstand it. Each lesson found her
just where the preceding one left her.
At last one day I asked her if she were
she wouldn't practice before breakfast
flushed and then broke down. She
said she hadn't dared to sing before
breakfast because it Is bad luck.
" 'Sing before you eat, cry before
you sleep,' is the saying, and that Idiot
of a girl believed it so implicitly that
she wouldn't practice before breakfast
even for the sake of that glorious voice
of hers, and as before breakfast was
the only time she had to practice the
result was well, I gave her up. She'll
live and die a stenographer when she
might be a prima donna, and It will
serve her precisely right. She hasi sac
rificed her future to an Idiotic super
stition." Washington Tost.
A SERENADE OF WOLVES.
How One Was Started In tlie Na
tional Zoo at Washing!, n.
In The Century Ernest Seton-Thomp-son,
who used to be known as "Wolf"
Thompson from his familiarity with
this particular form of wild animal,
tells how ho started a wolf serenade at
the National zoo in Washington.
While making these notes among the
animals of tho Washington zoo I used
to go at all hours to see them. Late
one evening I sat down with some
friends by the wolf cages In the light
of a full moon. I said, "Let us see
whether they have forgotten the music
of the west." I put up my hands to
my mouth and howled the hunting
song of the pack. The first to respond
was a coyote from the plains. He re
membered Ihe wild music that used to
mean pickings for him. He put up his
muzzle and "yap yapped" and howled.
Next an old wolf from Colorado came
running out, looked and listened ear
nestly, and, raising her snout to the
proper angle, she took up the wild
strain. Then all the others came run
ning out and joined in, each according
to his voice, but all singing that wild
wolf hunting song, howling and yell
ing, rolling and swelling, highland low,
in the cadence of the hills.
They sans me their sons of the wcst,the west;
They set all my feelings aglow;
They stirred up my heart with theirfartlcss art
And their song of the long ago.
Again and again they raised-the cry
and sang in chorus till tho whole moon
lit wood around was ringing with the
grim refrain until the Inhabitans in
the near city must have thought all
the beasts broken loose. But at length
their clamor died awayand the wolves
returned, slunk back to their dens, si
lently, sadly, I thought, as though they
realized that they could' indeed Join in
the hunting song as of old, but tht-ir
hunting days were forever done.
He Was Admitted.
Fortunately when red tape! comes In
contact with common sense.it is red
tape which goes to the wall. A good
story is told of a military official who
devised a sj-stem which compelled ev
ery one who went on business to Gen
eral Banks to procure a ticket from a
member of the staff, the presentation
of which at the door gained his admis
sion. One day a burly colonel came to
the door of the private office at. head
quarters and requested that his' name
be given to the general.
"Have you a ticket?" he was asked.
"A ticket!" echoed the colonel, with
scorn. "No, sir, I havent."
"You can't enter here withoutone,"
was the reply.
"Sir," said the colonel, "when Gen
eral Banks becomes a puppet show,
and I have 25 cents to spare, I'll buy a
ticket to see. him. not before." Ile-.was
admitted.
The Sleepless Seven.
"There were 6even of the 12." said
one of the discharged jurors In 4 speak
ing of the matter next mornings "who
didn't want to sleep themselves and
wouldn't let the rest of us sleepy When
ever we dropped into a doze, they came
around and shook ns till we were wide
awake again."
"And yon had to submit,, 1 suppose,
for they constituted the majority?"
"i'es, they were the rousing majori
ty," said the hollow, eyed juror, with
a pensive attempt froe facetious.'
Greater Seoboard Railway
A STRONG, COMPACT SYSTEM UNDER THE
RE-ORGANIZATION.
Combination a Measure of Self-De-
fense as Well as Proflt-The Axe of
Death the Remedy Proposed by the
Men Who Cry for the Disintegration
of Corporations What This Vast
Railway System Means for the South
Honor to the Man Who Can do
Two Noted Railroad Men.
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(Raleigh Biblical Uecorder.)
We were in Richmond when the
celebration of the reorganization of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway occur
red. The system known by this name
has been made up of a number of
more or less helpless roads lines
that in a former day could stand by
themselves, but now could be of lit
tle value or service separate and alone.
Combination is as much a measure of
self-defence as it is of profit, and the
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men who crv for the disintegration of
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corporations propose a remedy not
porations propose a remedy
unlike that which Walter Raleigh
found as a cure for all ills tho axe of
death. These several roads have for
years been combined in a system
reaching from Portsmouth to
Atlanta, with branches running to
Wilmington and Charlotte. But this
combination did not prove sutliciently
large for the best work indeed,
though the system has held its own,
its rivals having more far reaching
lines, have required it to light desjer
ately to do so. If we are right, .the
only trouble with the old Seaboard
Air Line was that it had to make its
way in a day of greater combinations;
a trouble that has become or is to
be common to all industrial enter
prises, and woe betide that business
which in idle effort to propitiate the
demagogs endeavors to stand alone.
It appears that about two years ago
Mr. John Skelton Williams, a young
man of proven ability to promote en
terprises, saw this situation and set
about to make a big system of the
Seaboard Air Line. The task before
him was to, lirst, consolidate the sev
eral minor lines from Portsmouth to
Atlanta, which had previously been
merely coordinate. This required
the purchase of large amounts of
stock, the price of which immediately
took a rise, and the revision of chart
ers, which was opposed in the Legis
lature and Judicial halls to the last;
and above all, it required ability to
command the confidence of the men
most interested and most able to help
in the achievement of the task. The
second object, on the consummation
of which the value of the first de
pended, was to reach the Florida
coast in the South and Washington
City, and connections there for the
North and West and, of course, to
reach these points by lines as short
as they had been reached. To do this,
two short-cuts had to be built one
from Richmond, Va., to Ridgeway,
N. C, the other from Hamlet, N. C,
to Columbia, S. C; and the Georgia
and Alabama and the Florida Central
and Peninsular, in the South, were
acquired, while arrangements were
made to reach Washington over the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto
mac until a line may be constructed.
There were numerous obstacles, and
unusually vigorous resistance, and
immense credit was needed; but it
appears that Mr. Williams has suc
ceeded. He declares that so far the
work has been done by Southern men
and Southern money.
In the week ending June 2, the con
summation was celebrated with as
tonishing magnificence. Two spendid
trains traversed the system from
Richmond to Tampa, carrying the di
rectors and their guests in superb
luxury, every meal taken the form of
a banquet: when they returned to
Richmond, the last spike of the road
was driven, an immense crowd cheer
ing on every hand, and the Governor
of the State welcoming Mr. Williams
and his aides from the steps of the
famous capitol.
We saw this, and thought. The
world honors itself when it honors
the man who can. As old Carlyle
says the able man is the king "the
canning man." We admired Virginia
for her welcome. No sane man
would hold back his applause for a
man, young or old. who has fought
to victory. We saw this, and we felt
sorry for the men who have; made it
an object of their lives to pull down
the men who do things, who when a
man has risen to power or built a
great business, go about whispering
that he is to be dreaded or hated.
We saw this, and thought of a rail
road man in North Carolina, who has
lived all his life in our State, who has
had a great part in the making of one
of the great railway systems of the
world, a system that reaches from
Washington to Florida and from
Memphis to Norfolk: and in the light
of Virginia's royal treatment of her
son, we felt constrained to come back
and tell North Carolinians not only
of Virginia's honor to her son but of
their debt to one of their own fellow
citizens, who life is an opeti book
before them Col. A B. Andrews,
First Vice-President of the Southern
Railwav.
But this aside. Mr. Williams has
not finished his task. He has much
before him. He has bonds to float;
and stock to make profitable. The
new Seaboard Air Line is to lie capi
talized at 1100,000.000, -of which1 j
according to the United States In- j
vestor, "there is to be issued now j
(including the $18,000,000 to be held j
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in tne ireasurvi z,o'r,voo, uiviueu
into $25,000,000 preferred stock, 37,-
j , 500.000 common stock, and in 4 per
r. i cent, eold-bearing bonds $62,500,-
gold-bearinc bonds $62,500,-
.., i7 -.iUi iVu'l r.f n-kifh la tr u
I F'.'V . 'J J ) v. . l. u . - '
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held in tue treasurv. inese are im -
mense amounts staggering in any
time of the world but this: we are not
expert in railroad finance, and can
not pass upon the value of these is -
snps. but we wish the Seaboard, its
- - &
young ana aggressive president, anu
thosewhb invest in the property, the
largest success, both for the sake of
themen who can and for the sake of
North Carolina and the South, to
which above all possible profits and
dividends, this and all other railroads
! in h.er r" render incalculable
service.
BUTLER AND BRYAN.
, M o our Sule exchan ge9 bave
: expressed the opinion that tte result
of the election will be the political
'death of Marion Butler. They are
', badly mistaken. Should Bryan be
elected President, Butler will "bo the
! "biggest dog in theboueyard." Why?
1 Siniplv because he is chairman of the
National Populist Executive Commit
tee to which Bryan owes his nomina
tion and to which he is indebted for
every office he ever held, and we are
commanded now to lock shields with
the very people whom Butler led in
the fight just closed, and vote for
Bryan. Cyclone Davis and the other
imported spellbinders who recently
stumped the State against white
supremacy at Butler's request, are,
like Butler, close to the Bryan throne.
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and with him will distH?nse the favors,
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Ihe only way to crush Butler is to
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defeat Brvan. All this stuff about
Butler throwing his influence to carry
the State for McKiuley is the veriest
rot and is being told for the purpose
of getting votes for Bryan. As we
have before remarked: Butler is the
same sort of a Democrat as Bryan and
Bryan is the same sort of a Populist
as Butler.
Thus sayeth the Lincolntou Journal,
a paper which -did not support Bryan
in 189G, nor will it do so in lUiMi.
Further comment is unnecessary.
flUST CARRY OUT THE PLEDGES.
Our Goldsboro correspondent quotes
Judge Allen, just re-elected to the
House from Wayne, as saying that
the party is specially due great con
sideration to those illiterates of our
party who, under great pressure to
the contrary, maintained their con
fidence in their party by voting for
the amendment, and that the party
should, as it no doubt will, fully dis
charge its duty by the strict observ
ance of every pledge made to them.
This is eminently true and timely,
and we are sure tho Judge voices the
sentiments of every Democrat in as
serting that this course will be pur-!
sued. By no act of the white people
now entrusted with the control of af
fairs will any white man be disfran
chised on account of illiteracy or
poverty. Nor do we believe it can
be done by any other tribunal. This
amendment will be carried out ac
cording to tho pledges made by its
advocates in the strictest good faith.
And just here we will say that all
other interests will be protected and
promoted by those just elected by
equally good faith. Not only will the
material interests and industrial en
terprises be promoted and treated
justly because this victory means a
rebuke to Butlerism wherever it may
exist but every assistance will be
given the colored people to improve
their condition and work out their
salvation. A New Era of good faith
as well as just laws honestly admin
istered, has dawned upon us. Ral
eigh Post.
CREDIT TO WHOM IT IS DUE.
It appears that the Statesvillc
Mascot has good cause for liling this
respectful complaint:
"We are glad that some of our work
has been appreciated by our con
temporaries, but would have been
still more rejoiced if they had had
the kindness to give us credit for it.
After "Governor"' Aycock spoke in
Statesville we gave a report of his
speech in the next issue of this paer.
We prided ourself on its accuracy
and completeness. One of our con
temporaries in another county took
this report, word for word, as
Aycock's speech in that county, but
said not one word as to where they
got the report. In our last issue be
fore the election, we wrote a lengthy
editorial calling upon white men to
do what we conceived to nt their
duty. This a daily paper in another
county published as their leading
editorial the day before election. No
mention was made as to the editorial
not being its own production. We
have no fault to find with our breth
ren, the stuff is not worth that, but
we simply call attention to this mat
ter, and say that it would hav been
better to have given credit for the
Itorrowed material."
An editor who will crib the work of
another outright is a peculiar speci
men. A man who writes a bright
article ought to be given the credit
for his work if any one else wishes to
use it. This is liis right as well as
his write, and the man who would
appropriate another product to his
own use deserves the contempt of the
fraternitv. We prefer to bone that
such men are exceedingly rare. It is
just a trine trying to turn out t
article and have it appropriated bv
some one and the next week see ft
going the rounds of the papers
credited to the offender.
Would it not be well for the State
Press Association to consider this I
question at its coming meeting at
Henderson ville? Asheville Citizen
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upon to enact a good libel law io
El ace of the present antiquated law
earing on the question of libel in
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In the Senate the editorial profes
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Ixmdon, editor of the ("hatha
j and N. B. Broughton. publial
.Biblical Recorder, while Mr.
of the Chatham lieevrd.
her of the
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VA Vir .1 ri ! Senator from Wilson, was
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