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TO ; TIDVETJSEIFIS: Jf you mnt t reaeh Me masses, advertise in The Mer ciirijA It is read' by twice as : many people; as my paper in this section. A trial will con vince you. j j - BOOK AND JOB WORK The Mercury Publishing Com pany is now prepared to do all kinds of look and job ' work in the neatest manner at low prices. Give us a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed. . THE GREATEST VOL. IL HICKORY, N. C.; WEDiSDAYi SEPTEMBER 21, 1892 NO. 26. Tinn 5." S : ' ' .. . ' - y v I - ' - . . . ...... , . . . - : ; """7""""""" ""T"""""""""""""" O-OOTD d?5 I'HE GREATEST NUlBEB.'. : . i. ..j'''' '--; : ; 5 ' Jf -TT . H III r vr ! WEAVER AND FIELD. What Dr. Talmage Has to SdjrWnt tie Candidates of ithe People'a Part7 in Hi Newspaper f We clip the following about the People's party and jits candidates -from the last issao of the Rev, Xte Witt Talmags paper, the Chris tian " Herald and 'Signs of Our Times: u A movement that has attracted widespread attention among think-in-men all over the Union is the action i the People's party, at its recent convention held,in Omaha, in placing candidates in the field --for the .Presidency and Vice Presi dency. ; ' . I - "Genu James B. Weaver of Iowa, the nominee for-President, is a . gentleman widely known in poli tics, arid who during the past few years 1 lias belonged to wHat is known, as the " new movement,'1' directed against the Iwo great po litical parties. He was the leader of the fcrreenback party in 1880. He is an earnest, able, and forcible speaker, and' in tli0 Omaha con vention was practically unopposed after the announcement that J udge Gresham would not accept a nomi nation. There was jonly one bal lot, Gen. Weaver receiving 995 votes, as against 275 for "Senator Kyle of South Dakota. - " James Baird Weaver was born in Dayton, Ohio, June 12, 1833, his father being a farmer. He studied law and was practicing his profession when the civil war broke out. He enlisted in the , Second Iowa Kcgiment and quick ly rose to be Colonel, and was aft erward breveted Brigadier General in 1SG5 for gallant conduct. When the war ended he laid aside the - sword and returned to his profes- , sion. During a busy life he has found time to contiieute much to the literature of the new move- " Jamqs Gaven Field, candidate for Yicej President,' was born in . Virginia! in 182G Educated for the- legal profession, he has held various public offices in his own State, being successively Cbmmori- wealth. Attorney, County Judge, anu state Attorney yrenerai. ur- ing tne war no was in tne uontea- erate service, anu lost a leg at tne I battle of Cedar Run. Since the war he has engaged n the practice of law, but for many Years been active in politics, although holding no office. The lives of the two candidates, it- will be observed, run in parallel linesto a consider- able extent, both being able yers and gallant soldiers. aw- ""v:ti. n. wr i ship, and especially in view.ot thd. ..tendency of the times toward a re adjustment of the I relations be tween the people and the govern ment on the one hand and great corixrations on the other, there is a wide field of economic service open to the People's party, even if it cannot yet hope rto succeed in placing a President j in the White House, i The moral influence of such a movement is beyond ques-. tion, and if wisely conducted, as.it sepms likely to be, it may be a fac tor in bringing about some notable reforms! as the dominant parties cannot q,ffcrd to overlook ,the in lluenceJit has ialready shown itsjelf capable of exerting, especially in the Western States.? - As a party it is committed to free silver coinage arid the nationalization of railroads and other I'great public corpora lions, questions with which the older organizations are more or less smuggling. There are not wanting thosp who believe tha$ the People's party is the jjarty of the- future, which will yet super sede the others as the chosen channel whereby the people will express their will in public affairs and secure a measure of progress ive reform, impossible of realiza tibn under existing political con ditions." . f " It. is estimated' that in the Uni ted States the annual expenditures for public charitable institutions is fully 125,000,000, and no less than $300,000,000 Us invested in buildings and equipments tor c&t rying on the work bf these insti tutions.! TH FORCE BILL. An; Editorial Wkiek Appeared In I'The Mercnry" Jmlj 27th and Repradmead hj Reqmest, It has been asserted and is plau sible enough to be true, that the Wall street element of both the Democratic and Republican par ties (who have ruled these party platforms this year) agreed to put the Force Bill into the platform so as to detract the attention of the people from the "gold standard contracted currency" financial sys tem, which' both parties have in dorsed in their platformsjsnd more especially in candidates pledged to Veto any measure changing this system. Thus, by arousing sec tional prejudice and fears, to cause the people to halt in the movement for reform in the financial system which now enables these Wall street elements to gather the wealth produced by the farmers of the dountryv No one is more opposed than f the Mercury to Federal interfer- -i ence in State affairs or to corrupt election methods, but we have got ten too old to run every time we hear a man say b-o-o. We have learned that many a supposed "hobgoblin" has disappeared on close examination . What probability is there of its passage? If we admit that the conduct of the present House of Representatives with its large Democratic majority has been such a3 to destroy the confidence of the people in Democracy, and they will spew that party out, it does not follow that they will return the Republicans. ' The prospect is for the People's party to elect members enough to hold the bal ance of power in the next House. No People's party member will vote for a Force jBill. Its teach ings have destroyed sectionalism eteja in JKjinfia anfi xgoaalml iha law distranchisinc r- U and has nominated a Confederate soldier for congressman at large. ,But admit even that the Repub licans can carry a majority of the House.- The bill will still have to pass the Senate. . Of the five Re- publicanswhovoted against it be- fore, four-hold over. Stewart of Xe'vada is sure of re-election. So that, would nrevent its nassae. In : addition to this, New York (thanks to D. B. Hill,) will send a Democrat in place of Hiscock.- Kansas, by the fusion between the Democrats and People's party, will send a Senator in place of Per- kiris,and this combination can give at least four moro Senators in the northwests all of whom would vote t 1 aerainst such a measure. An hon- est; view of the field certainly ren- ders the enactment of such a law exceedingly improbable and almost impossible. Suppose it is enacted, how can it turnany estate over to negro control. It could only apply . to th4 election of Congressman. "That is W far as the constitution confers any authority on Congress to leg isl4te.: Art. 1, Sec. iv., U. S. Con stitution. A State could have its election for officers for State and county on I a different day, as wardone by many States up to twenty years ago. No federal officer could have anything to do either with the tegistration or poll books, or in making returns of the election. The election of Presidential elec tors are appointed in such manner as the legislature thereof may di rect in each State. U. S. Consti tution, Art. 11, Sec. 2. Many of the States elected them byj the legislature up to 1840, and South Carolina so elected them up to 1860. The legislature of any or all the States? could resort to this measure if necessary to avoid federal inter ference. . r i ';, The measure is really intended as fa "scarecrow" to draw the at i tentiori of the people from the great question of financial reform. A Fiii missionary savs that 90 per cent of the Fiji Islands popu- lation, which is 110,000, is found inJ church on Sunday. This is much better than many civilized nations can boast DEMOCRATS- STARED Coalman l Simmons Issues Another ,OUe3? His Party. ( . Ch-j3eAons issued an other lo jb$Jo his party on the 13th,VjiCp,'hich shows that ttfm isjro Reared over the situaVbe up it Joere is trouble ahead forv'ax party. When the Democrats"have twenty speakers in the field to the Peo ple's party one, it is self-evident, from the tone of this address thatw Butler and his co-workers are do ing much solid work in the 'State and are carrying the pecple1 witli tbgm. This address simplyjgives the lie to all this bluster in the bourbon papers about the Demo cratic party making rapid 'gains and taking the day everywhere. Scared people frequently dolsome very rash deeds, and should be closely watched. Let every re former watch, take courage, and work. Remember when you got one scared, you have the victory if vdu can prevent the enemy fcrom faking ah underhand scheme! Watch the registration ttooks, the ballot box, and the victory will Delong to the People. Adlal Stevenson's RocordJ There is documentary evidence in abundance as to the " coj head " record of the Democratic candidate for Vice President j In cluded in it is the sfbrn statement of Mr. William B. Ijiffen, Editor and proprietor of tl county pem ocratic paper,-who witnessed Stev enson's initiation into the Knights of the Golden Circle, and met him several times at meetings of that order. Then there is the state- ment of Rev. G. B. Snedeker, a clergyman of the Methodist chuich, and a former townsman and neighbor of Stevenson, as to the part the "General" took in rWh who were charged with its execu tion ; the affidavit of Parker Gard ner of Wabash, Ind., that Steven son and his present partner; pro cured revolvers and furnished them to the disloval element to 'resist the draft, and the statement of S. H. Taylor, an officer of the 154th Illinois Infantry, in corroboration; At one time Stevenson made a feeble attempt to deny theseigrave accusations, but he hallow totally subsided. I Since he yas caught and exposed in an impudent; false hood denying that he had ever been a Greenbacker, wheri Con gressional records showed that he had not only been elected as a Greenbacker, but that he had avowed himself such and voted for Greenback measures this " General " has been significantly silent as to his past career.-! Ex change. Shoo ling Affray at "Wa&osboro John Tyson, col., on the 10th inst., had retired for the j night, when he was aroused by some one throwing stones into his house He arose and went out with his cun. xle saw a man coming out of his garden; ho hailed him and told him ho would shootl The man (Calvin Little, col.) told him to shoof. John Tyson -theh fired. Little received the whole load in his hip 'and side. It is t that he will recover. Bo lought :h men had cuns. Domestic troubles were the cause bf the shooting. Joint Discussion. Hon. A. Leazar and A. 0. Shu- ford met at Louise, in this County, on tne lotn. lur. .ueazar maae about the same speech there as everywhere. Shuford had no troublo to meet his arguments Mr. Leazar would not getj on the national platform. There were only about -40 present. All could see that Mr. Leazar realized that he was on ! the wrong side, jand in stead of doing good his caijtvass in the county, hurts the Democracy. ! : . Fimal Result of Vermont Election. Return of the election have now been received from the State. Fuller, (rep.) for entire gover- nor, has 39,190; Sniaileyj (dem.) 19,526; Allen, (pro.) 1,650. Fuller's plurality 19,664 and majority 18, 014: Campared with 188Sj this is a republican loss of 9,265, a demo cratic loss bf one, and a Jprohibi tion gain of 278. THEjcCSrSPraACY. Intended to efrand and Enslave SENATOBEWAx'S SPEECH. The gold combniation that' has enslaved thai?ple of Europe' is the trust thaictates the legislal tion and a&ahustration of free America. They say Reformation is impos sible unless te ee voters of , the United States will assert their rights and rcauonetize silver, , and break the mney corner that the gold trust has on the world. It i$'n inj<tothe intelligence of the i Amlkcan people to ask th em to acce the ' Rothschilds as the headrfb'3 nation to yield their grdsp mjn this nation until the money' trust shall exercise mercy. ? ; They tell us the LTnited. States would be flooHed with silver if its coinage were free and unlimited.1 From whence , fwpld it come ? Where is the .surplus of silver? It does not exist. They have no more silver in Europe than they need for exchange among the peo ple. Germany has sold no silver for years. Fully half and perhaps more than half of all the silver coin in Europe is" held by France. Certainly Fracce will not send it here. I can ive you a reason why she would not. When France and the Latin Union entered into the compact to suspend the coin age of silver in 1875 they further agreed that in 1890 each country should redeem in gold all the sil ver held by any other member of the union, It must be understood (hat the union composed of France Italy, Spain, Belgium and Swit zerland five nations had the same coins ancf the coin, of one country was a legal tender in all the others; so that .AAP.ll P.l mil lASi i i . a r VII :ijyfirn eu. iu-. una ic- demption France held of the mon ey of these nations, 600,000,000 francs, about 120,000,000 of which she had a right, under the com pact, to have redeemed in gold at $1.33 an ounce. She however made no such demands and she holds it still. The reason why she does not sell her silver for $1.33 in ounce is obvious. She has about the same amount of gold and silver in circulation. The sil ver coin in circulation among the people is a full legal tender; it has not been degraded. All her pa per money is redeemable in either erold or silver coin. If she should sell her silver she would disparage t that metal -and .violate- her time5 honored principles of bi-metallism disturb her finances; and she therefore refuses to do it. If she would not sell her silver for 1.33 an ounce to her associate nations it is not very likely that she would bring it to the : United States in : case of free coinage and sell it for si.29. " If the United States should buy silver all other nations would fol low. If we led in the wrong, why should we not lead in the right? Where is this silver coming from ? It cannot come 'from Europe or Asia. Will it come from the mines? Ifis doubtful if sufficient could be obtained from them to meet the demand for any consid erable length of time. Butdoe want more money? John Sherman says we do and the finance committee with the ap proval of all the bankers of New York reported, a bill at the last session of congress to increase the circulation $225,000,000, provided they should bo aiiowa to issue credit money and aljow the bank ers to take toll out of it. But everybody knows that it would be impossible to obtain in five years that amount of silver in addition to our present purchase under free coinage. The whole output is only about 150,000,000 ounces. I doubt if it reaches that amount. There could be a rise in the price of silver and the voters of America would be liberated from the thraldom of competition with the Asiatics in producing sil ver. Now my fellow-citizens, on friends who are throughout the West and the Siath who are earn estly with us, who desire to break the corner, who desire to liberate this country from gld domination wish no other renfedy but free coinage. Anything less than that is paltering with the subject. To! ask for the coinage jof the Ameri-j can product only is selfish. -"vAny limitation on the coinage of silver keeps the white mefal a' commodi-; ty. Unlimited coinage breaks the corner and nothing jelsei The suggestion that we can't getl free coinage of the American pro- duct easier than wei can get free' coinage comes frorfi the enemies of silver. No bill clan pass except a free coinage bill in the next con gress. I venture to sar it would be; difficult to find a farm in England or America imaffecf ed by demone tization. It will se;ll for 50 cents on the dollar of wht it would have; sold for some time ft go. j Will you desert he free coin-j age advocates? Nol If you admitj that the gold men Jare right, and there must be a limitation on coin age we arej destroyed. I beg of you hot to do it. (Stand by the principle that silver' shall be mon ey equal with gold lmd shall have equal privileges. - The Force' BilL We suggest tof those of the Cleveland persuasion that the bug; aboo of "negro Supremacy" is getting to be worn fa little thread bare and needs patching. The figures of the census, without motive to lie, may be believed. In this case the motive which would influence a partisan false count lies the other way. I The count is, beyond any doubt, sas favorable to the colored race as t can be made. The figures show that as a whole the white population of the Uni ted States is increasing twice as :fast as the colorejd. They show tpat in one State! only, 'to wit, exceeaea ore"qualed the white They show that i in numerical progress the race is rapidly reach- ing a standstill, na win at nol distant day begin o receed. They show a rapidly increasing drain--age of the negro population from i s t it the rural districfe toward the cities and towns, and this means an increase of the death rate and a decline of the biiHh rate for the race. Every knowii fact tends to establish the conclusion that a dream of "negro supremacy" even who bill" they local is a nightmare. Those father the notorious "force may be political faints, as profess to be, but they are de luded saints if they hope or ex- pect to establish : "negro suprema cy and through negro suprema cy," permanent or i durable, party supremacy anywhere in the conn trv. j-bis wuteri entertains nd doubt that the Davenport-Lodge iioar Bill is the most lnramoua legislative measure ever concocted in this country1 rjy that or any other combination of politidali saints. But the irffnmy of it 'aid the danger of it lief, not in "negro supremacy," nor hi' any threaten ing industrial prostration or so4 cial decadence bf sitlie South. Iti can not be made a local question end the attempt id make it such by the politicians! and pretended statesman of the country is to weaken the defence of the people against this mostl damnable plot ever yet hatched! by plutocracy with intent to cqnfuse, bewitchi and divide the iieople on falsa issues. This "foice bill" busi ness is a hideous int to draw the attention of the people awny f ron schemes still more diabolical than any force till. ' i Ten times moredeadly than nl political schemes nd all the -force bills, hatched or hate liable Dy ai the saints in New England, anc New Yorh, in Boston and ir Gotham' tlii3 Shlrman-Cievelant finnnpinl : fonsnirdev aerainst the Tprml rCor. National Watch rv"r - l. man. " j The average length of life it greater in Norway than in any other comntry on ihe globe. This is attributed to tie fact that the temperature is cold and uniform throughout the year. i Morganton hasa military com pany, with.L. A, Bristol captain. TOM ALLISON LYNCHED. The Murderer of Brown Token from His Cell ly a Mob and Housed. A correspondent writing to j the Crjarlotte Observer from Mt. Airy under date of Sept. ,13 gives this acpount of the lynching of Thos. Allison : ,. ' ; j ' ' ' Thos. Allison, the murderer of three men one in Sullivan county, Tehn., one in Statesville, N a, the last one, W. H. Brown, on the streets of Mt. Airy about three weeks ago, was found early th;s morning hanging from a white oak tree two miles this side of Dobson, our countv seat. He had been taken from the i jail by a masked mob and lynched. ''At the. last term of court his case was. postponed and a number of our best people became enraged, bejlioving that he would fail of the gallows. Last night about 1 o'clock about twenty' men went to I the jal,: pretending to have a prisoner, and upon the jailer's opening j tlte door they went in and overpowered him, securing the key to the cell. They took Allison , out in his night clothes and despite of his pleas, swung him up to the tree. There is little regret expressed by any one of the affair, as he was undoubtedly guilty. There is no clue as to- who composed the posse that did the work. Plenty of horse tracks could be seen . but could hardly be- traced. Your correspondent learns of a number of horses taken " from different stables last night and found this morning loose hi the stable yards with bridles on. The body of Allison was Itaken down after the ccjroner's inquest and will bo sent to' his people at otatesville to morrow." i Tom Allison is well known in this section, and always had the. reputation of beind a bad maiw :"V "l: mm,-. wWKiml. I Nannie Gaines, daughter of FJem - Gfaines, formerly of pavie conhtyr itis wife died several months ago, leaving two small children. Ed. Mercury. Clevoland and Mis3 Da?l3. After a careful examination of i i i ic . wasumgton, iticnmona,: ana New York jiapers with reference t6 the reason why Mrs. Cleveland lid not accompany the ex-Presi dent on his visit to the Virginia State Fair in October, 188G, there is but one conclusion. She did not attend because Miss Winnie Davis was there, a guest of Gover nor Lee's, and was to have taken part in the Governor's reception to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland. . In- itations had been extended and cccptedfand Governor Lee had &pent both time and money m preparing for the occasion, when, abqut 11 o'clock on the night previous to the day of reception he following curt letter was re ceived from President Cleveland: , Washington, D. C, Oct.' 20, 1886. Gov. FUzhuqh Jee. Richmond, Va. 1 Mrs. Cleveland and the ladies -Will not accompany me to Rich mond, and my engagements .are made to return to Washington at an early hour. I regret that I am obliged to forego attending a reception at your house on the occasion. . (Signed) Groves Cleveland. , Rumor at once took up the matter, and it was openly charged that Mis3 Davis's presence was the cause of Mrs. Cleveland's re maining at home. In fact it is said that the matter became so serious as to form the' topic of a Cabinet meeting, and that meas ures looking to a pacification were Vigorously appliod. Mr. , Cleve land never denied it, and when Dan Lamont was questioned, he replied that "Mrs.. Cleveland did not eiioose to attend." .-Mr. Cleve land would like to use the solid South, but he proposes to have it keep strictly "off the grass." Still on the Roost. While Stevenson, Field and Weaver are making a vigorous can vass th roughout the country, Cleve land is still on his roost at Buz zard's Bay. He doubtless ,thinks the war is still raging from the stars and stripes that are afloat in the ; breeze.' Ho will fly down on -the 8th of November when the sunlight of freedom pours in upon him. POLITICAL NOTES. , Kansas has 185 People's party newspapers. Ask Senator Hansom how much he got as a "fee" in the Swepson case." r -' '.';;'. . V Gen. Weaver spoke to 8,000 peo ple at San Francisco L recently. California will be carried for re form. - '- . A correspondent writing from Union, Hertford county, ays the Alliance is alive and doing well in that vicinity. . .1 ' ' ' Chauncey Depew says: "The People's party must hot be left out in'-calculating the results of the next election." ' ' Fifty .thousand Virginians , have left the old parties since the con ventions. Many had done so bo fore. They are for reform. European capitalists are so well . organized that they can dictate the course of the American Con gress by a single telegram, y Harrisoh says one dollar a day is enough for any laboring man. Well, wonder if 2 per day isn't about right for a President? "We (editors) are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes," said Whitelaw Reid a few years ago. Wonder if people will vote for a self-confessed "tool?" We have seen it stated byf the dailies about every week for the last two months .that - Hill would canvass New York for Cleveland, still he does not seem to material ize,, '' , New York City contains 1,000 millionaires, 500,000 people in good circumstances, more than 500,000 very poor and 500,000 paupers. Every time you vote the old way . you add 200 millionaires and200, 000 paupers. ' ; ' The Governor of North Carolina 1 --, --- Tilt 1 I iirrin ni ivu mill u mi Minn i if it don't look biuo for us fnoney crats, though the Republicans have put out a ticket to help us kill out those fool hayseeders." : Mr. Henry Villa rd is one of the mugwumpian gentlemen engaged to raise funds for Cleveland's ben efit. The gentlemen who wfo "in" with him in the Northern Pacific and Oregon Trans-continental railroads will see the point. Congressman Cobb has been re nominated in Alabama. , His con stituents, remembering his famous inquiry, "Mr. Speaker, where was I at?" rallied around him and Xhtccd him on the ticket almost without opposition. A Democratic statesman who becomes befuddled and inquires where he is at while jogging down the slippery paths of Bacchus is certain to find many adherents in Alabama: State Politioa. Madison county is alive for the reform party. Wilson county People's party . put out a good ticket and expect to win. ' We. learn that negro poll holders arc being appointed in Nash, Le noir and other counties. A Weaver and Emm Clnb with - 38 members has been formed at . Orange Academy, Orange county. Every township was represented . t- -r- r i il in tne r. i . vonvenuon recenny heldatKenansville, Duplin county. Mr. E J. Barnes, of Wilson. county, writes that the People's party is a "whole horse" in that county. The Weaver and Field Club in Bethel township, Pitt county, has 1G0 members. ' Butler and Aycock spoke to a large crowd at Mt. Olive on the 2nd inst. Butler won thi laurels and the People's party is on a boom there. . - . ' - The Moore county People's par ty convention passed resolutions thanking the News and Observer, Carthage Blade and Sanford Ex press for the good work they have, done for the new party. . The wealth of the -Russian Church. is almost incalculable; it could pay the Russian national debt Csome $3500,000,000) and would then: be enormously veal thy. ; - (L 1 i
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