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PUBLISHED EERY OPENING EXCEPT SUNDRY, Vol.. IllNo 86,. ,, KINSTON, N. 0.. MONDAY. JULY 16, 1900. . Price Two Cents. : ' : -I : : : ? ; 1 : 1 - "THE WHITE UAH." More Lies by That "Low Down' - Sheet Exposed. A South Caro linian Angry Over a Fusion Lie. Raleigh Post, July 13. Sitting in front of the Yarbnrough last , evening was a drummer a South Caro- liau by birth and residence, when he is at .borne. He had been examining for several minutes a sheet which turned oat to be one of Abe Middleton's and Butler's and Holton's "campaign circulars," which had fallen into his hands by some means. '. "Is there," he exclaimed, turning to The Post man, "a white man in your town or State foolish enough to believe such a lie as tnis r 'The Palmetto state man was evidently disgusted clean through. "It beats all!" he continued. And then he read the display type lie in question It went on to say, in effect, that if the "poor" white men (as though poverty or riches had anything to do with the amendment) of North Carolina, believe 1 the proposed amendment would not and could not disfranchise any white man, . then they (negro Abe Middleton and the negro editor of the paper, personally) would point them to South Carolina, where the negro has been eliminated from politics in a similar way, for proof to the contrary. . , And then with much gusto. The Circu lar proceeded to declare that several thousand less white votes have been cast of late years than when the negro , voted in that state, concluding with a query like this: "Isn't this proof positive that some of the white men of South Carolina are also disfranchised?" Turning to me, the South Carolinian Baid: "You know, of course, why a less num ber of white votes are now, sometimes, actually polled than formerly?" I replied -that I presumed it was because the votes of all white men (nearly all of them being in the Democratic party in his state) were not needed to defeat the few negroes who could still vote and the less than .1Q,000 whites of the opposition.' "Exactly," he replied; "and because of take the pains, to go to the polls." "This latter fact,'? he added, ,"is largely due to the primary system in our state, by which we nominate all our officials, from governor down. These white men attend the primaries thousands of them, who do not go to the polls to vote for their men after nominating them, are always on hand at the primaries, espe cially when there is a division of senti ment and more than one candidate for a particular office. "And at these Democratic primaries the humblest and poorest white man in South Carolina has just as much to do nitu uuuiiubuuk iu inuuiuawn iui guv ernor and all other officers as the wealth lest and ablest man in the state, the Bocalled 'poor men' have much more influence in nominating and electing -our state and county and municipal officers than they had before the negro was eliminated, and when nominations were made by conventions. , "There is not a white man in South Carolina disfranchised as this lying sheet declares, and the negroes who . edit it 4ni'. an a PR A a t t. ftfm Anv Ana aov ing he has been deprived of his vote un- , less be has been convicted of a felonious crime and served a term in the peniten ' tiary. "It will be exactly the same way here in your State," he .continued, "after you . adopt the amendment, for I am told the Democratic State' convention in April made preparation for the legislature to M l 1 IS J f T i I- proviae lor legtuizeu primaries ia . norm Carolina also. ; "No white man, especially a poor white man, can vote against your amendment without injuring himself and his fellows incalculably. It will be of more benefit to them than any other class, I assure you. . . "The elimination of the negro from politics in South Carolina has proved this, as all of na there know. The hum v ble white man will really just be enfran chised good wben the negro's vote is Villori inr tha fnrmpr will than hnn 1nn. ble value. And wben he walks into your funmaries to vote, he will hare as much nfluence and as much to do with nomi nating every candidate for office as the richest and smartest man in North Caro lina. This alone ought to cause all each to be more thoroughly in favor of the amendment than all others to say noth ing about the 'taming' effects disfran chisement has upon that animal called 'nifrger.' The poor man's wifeanddangh ter will not have half "the cans to fear the csrro brutes a year after the adop tion of the amendment that they justly entertain now." White laboring man, ponder over what thi truthful South Carolinian says above, and do not allow the infamous lies of the ene mif of the amendment (gotten up at Iiepubliran liPad-iiiarter by a ne pro named At &'idd!eton, who defeated a Confederate solder for doorkeeper at the (W.-MOD of the fjhion P-cWature) inf. a-; e tci Bffiiniit Tf:f r-n n ujfert end ' t' f t -', r w. - j. lit'!--." I'- a 1 jr.! V a w L.te r. :li c.-r.r-j r . 1 t::.-':i n. 1 '! r t i V") tr,i"'." : V r.,'! f: !i -. :: r (!,! under vour feet, and tell the negro an thors that, instead of essaying to teach you your duty, you mean to make him keep his place. And that place does not mean either social or political equality with you and your fellow white workingmen. ' And whea the negro voters are disfran chised, then all the white voters wil really be "free" exercising a greater, more influential and healthier degree oi political freedom than ever before since Lincoln and congress put the ballot in the negro's hand. .... , , ,; r ,: PALLING CREEK ITEMS. ' " July 16, 1900. ' Miss Mena May, of Beston, is visiting Miss Elvira Wood. Mr. D. E. Wood, and sister, Miss Mabel, visited at Institute Sunday. .- Mr. T. J. Herring visited near Coa homa Saturday and Sunday. ' Miss Bertha Whitfield returned Satur day from visiting at Kinston. ' Miss Emma Sugg, of near Snow Hill, is visiting Miss Bessie Parrott. Misses Martha and Jennie Rayner, of Kinston, are visiting Miss Lottie Wood. Miss Ollie Hill, of Hugo, who had been visiting Miss El vina Wood, returned to Kinston today. Mr. A, V. Parrott, Jr., of Kinston, is spending this week at his, father's, Mr, G. F. Parrott's. . Meps. Sugg, Temple, Carraway, Shaw and Bouse spoke at Sutton's store Thursday. They all made splendid speeches, and much good is being done for the amendment. Week of Prayer. Mid-summer prayer meetings will be held at the Methodist church each even ing this week, from 8:30 to 9:30 o'clock, conducted by the pastor. The devil is doing a thriving business just at this season, and "soldiers of the cross" need to be on duty to hold the fort. Soul tonics are' needed to strengthen the weak in this time of many, temptations. All persons interested in salvation . work in vited to be with us. The unsaved spe cially invited. The lesson for tonight is contained in Luke 4:40-42. A sweet scene in the life of Christ: healing the sick and casting out devils. Tne true and tne false separ ated concerning healing as taught in God's word. The devils that need to be cast out these days: liquors, cigarettes, Sabbath breaking and many other dev lis. le good people of Kinston let us come together, and do something for our Lord s cause this week. 2 Kings 6:lo to 17. D. H. Tuttle. FOREIGNERS ANNIHILATED. The British Legation Set on Fire by Chinese Guns. ; New York. Julv 14. A Shanghai dis patch, published here today, says: "Prince SDeng, the director of, tele- trraphs, has communicated a message to Tn fnotfthe consuls here announcing the murder 01 me joreigners iu x ekiu, auu laying tne blame on the anti-foreign general, Tung fun ttiang. "The message says that Tung, enraged by the defense made by the British lega tion, ordered the heavy guns to fire, de molishing the legations and setting the ruins aflame. Tne result was the annua lation of the foreigners." . ;- Horrible Atrocities Practioed. Chicago, July 14. The Record prints this morning what purports to be a St. Petersburg dispatch of July 11, in which It says: ' f "The. czar has received a cablegram from Admiral Alexeiff, at Port Arthur, confirming the "assassination of M. De- Giers, the Russian minister." The dispatch adds: : "The admiral declares that the Russian envoy was dragged through the streets by the Boxers, insulted, beaten, tortured and then thrown into a great kettle and boiled to death. Then the remains were thrown to the dogs. While Debiers was being disposed of the frantic mob danced around tne cauldron. "Madam DeGiers suffered a fate worse than death and was beaten and tortured with sharp sticks until life was extinct. The legation officials are said to have been tortured fiendishly until death ended their sufferings. DeGiers and his legation officials resisted desperately, and his brave body guard killed many of the at tacking mob. In the midst of his tortures the envoy is said heroically to have pro claimed his faith in Christianity, encour aged by the wife who so soon shared his martyrdom." v DEFEATED BY GEN. NIHIL Reported Disaster to the Rebels . Under Tuan, Near Pekin. Brussels, July 13. M. DeFabereAU, the minister of foreign affair, has received a tdrgram from M. DeCartier de 1! arch ion ne. secretary of the Belgian lesration at I'etin. dated at JShaDgbai, stating on the authority of a Cbinee source, that troop faithful 10 Gn Nieh Si Chats; bare defeated the rebels near Pekia, and that they ircosrnizd the authority cf Prince Chins and Uen. Yrnig Lu, ho hare ar rived to ' nf the Luropeans. Tts C;it Fm crt;tici fsr Cbllli ft i f frrt I C. it (jrm. o f - Sot:', of Giovw'i TArtnm Cxm rr-: 'y ioo mii q-.:: ire ia m luf lot 9 fT- STATE HEWS. Interesting1 North Carolina Item In Condensed Form. . The poetofflce department has ordered the establishment of rural free delivery service at Smithfield, N. C, beginning July 23. , v v The report that Mr. James G. Stead was the registrar in Montgomery county who was forced at the poiut of a pistol by negro voters, was an error. The out rage happened 20. miles from the home of Mr. Stead ' s: A dirty Reo.-Pop. scheme has just been exposed at Charlotte. The fusionists have had hirelings, under, the mask of labor organizers, at work among cotton mill operatives. The scheme is exposed by the Mill News, a paper published at Charlotte in the interest of mill bands. Greenville Reflector: Will Page, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Joe Everett, near Oakley on Thursday, was taken before S. A. Gainer, justice of the peace, at Bethel and given .a, . trial. . He was bound over to September court and brought here Friday evening and put in jail. Since the negro has been in Jail he admitted to the charge: and says Mrs. Everett told the whole truth. Vtreenville Reflector: : JVow let , some body else swear out a warrant against a registrar and see what roes with him. The Winston negroes 4who adidthis at the instance of Holton are in limbo. Hoi' ton is the man who ought to be in jail, But that is the way of it the mean white scamps put the negroes up to deviltry, and when trouble comes the ignorant negro catches it and his white coaxer slips on. Mr. R. T. Gaitly, a Democratic poll- bolder of Richmond county, was snot by a negro last Thursday. It is believed by many that fusion bosses put the negro up to assaulting Mr. Gaitly. A promi nent fusion politician harbored the negro after the shooting. This politician was visited by red shirts,-wbo - informed him that he must, in the future, either behavo himself or leave the county.- He pro mised to behave himself. ,. . Charlotte Observerf lh conspicuous advertisement in The Sampson Democrat the White Supremacy club, of Clinton, offers "100 in cash to any native born white man in Sampson county who will be disfranchised by the amendment be cause he cannot read and write," and tells where the money is deposited. This is getting at the marrow of the matter and is a guaranty of good faith which cannot be called in question. It is a per fectly safe proposition,, as those who make it know. There is not a native born white man in the State, however ignorant, who will be disfranchised by the amendment and those who assert the contrary are lying and they know it, FEDERAL IMPUDENCE. Radical -Federal Marshals Think They Can' Bluff Registars. At tempt to Intimidate a Registrar At Asheboro. t Asbeboro, N.C July 14-Several days ago the registrar at Asheboro refused to register Sam Bowden, an imported negro, who now lives with Deputy Marshal J.B. Free, telling him to get up further testi mony as to age, identity, etc. Free then went to the registrar and with oath said: "I want to register . my nigger. If s a damn shame that a man can't register from one county to another," and in Va rious wave tried to intimidate the reins- trar, who remained cool but firm in nis determination not to register the negro nntil satisfied as to his qualifications. Free and the negro have been back a time or two and insisted that his negro be registered, at no time producing any testimony. Today Free came again with the same negro and demanded that be be register ed. He also brought with him a crowd of negroes and a few white men, tools and workers for Milikin and the revenue crowd, who bad organized and brought a crowd of negroes who are not elegible to vote with, the purpose 01 overpower ing J. A. Blair, who testified for some of the negroes but their testimony was of an uncertain character and was not satis factory to the registrar and the .negroes were told to get up further testimony if they desired to register. , 1 ree in a ewagsrerwg way called on the audience to note the testimony and asked them to remember it, speaking in a de fiant and disrespectful manner ontil a bystander told him that be must not further intimidate the registrar; that the registrar would bear and consider any testimony offered, but that the presence of a United-States marshal and revenue officers who were there for the purpose of coercion or intimidation would not be tolerated or permitted. . . i ree was respectful alter that, but soon left wben he found that be could not induce the registrar to register ne groes who are cot entitled to vote. The ngTO Sam Bowden afterwards went up the street 'and got a gun and walked around cnrsing and lying about the reg istrar. Feelinjr is hisrh here. When yon want a modern, urv-to-date fcysic try Charrdrlaia's hf" ?i and .aver TaUtt: Ti cyare m?j to tkeand r!ea-antinef-ct. Price, cents. b"am:!s irp at J. 1 Hood's dru,; store. . - A DIRTY SPEECH By Congressman Kelly, of South Dakota. Speeoh'by J. M. Mew boorne. Fusion Candidates For State Senate. The Populist senatorial convention and the Republican committee of the 8th dis trict met in Kinston today. The nominations were made in secret caucus and ratified by the convention. The Republican committee agreed for the Republican party not to make any nom inations for the senate but to support the Populist nominees, who are G, JU Hardison, of Craven, and W. R. Dixon, also of Craven, but formerly of Greene county. At 1 o'clock Mr. J, M. Mewboorne spoke about half an bour, making a speech that displeased the better part of his hearers. , The audience was composed of over one-third negroes. There were more Democrats than white fusionists present. Mr. Mewboorne introduced Congress man J. E. Kelly, of South Dakota, who made the most violent speech against the white people of North Carolina ever made by a white man in Leuoir county. He said that when he came to North Carolina, he, came for the . purpose of speaking in the interest of W. J. Bryan and upon national issues, imperialism, trusts, etc. He said be found that the people of North Carolina were not in terested in these issues. He found that the issue had been raised in this State of white or black supremacy. He abused the Democratic organization in North Carolina and said the issue was not white or black supremacy, that there is nor ever has been any danger of black supremacy in the State. He said that the counties in which be had been that were controlled by the Democrats were the only counties dominated by negroes. He said that the amendment was not aimed at the colored race but was aimed at the' white race, to disfranchise the poor whites. He said the 5 th section 'of the amendment would be declared un constitutional, and that the Democrats knew this and wanted it so that poor whites would be disfranchised, that this was their mimosa and they didn't want it to be otherwise. : r He claimed to be for Bryan, and to fftvnr t,h Demoemtift nartv. but honed that God would deliver him from Democ racy of the North Carolina stripe. The speaker eulogized bryau highly, but bis negro and fusion auditors gave him no aDDlause: a sin could have been heard if dropped; but nis negro and fusion audi tors cheered lustily wben be made his vicious and lying attacks upon the Dem ocratic organization and white people of North Carolina. It was a mean speech, calculated to stir up bad blood among negroes. Mr. Kelly plainly showed bis hatred of the white people of the south, tie did not try to twist and bend the facts to suit his purpose, but told plain, downright lies. He has intelligence enough to know he lied when he said the 5th section of amendment will be declared unconstitutional- and the remainder allowed to stand. The legislature at its extra ses sion fixed it so that it all stands or falls together. He also, lied when he said that the counties in the State under Demo cratic control were the only counties in the State dominated by negroes, and he knows he lied when be made the assertion..",- - ' -x. "' i . - ' No such speech would have been made by any southern white man, with per haps the solitary exception' of Marion Butler. 'Mr. Kelly was brought to the State by Senator Butler, When he came he announced, that he knew nothing about the amendment, tie seems to have learned nothing, except to repeat fusion lies and in the language of a south-hater. Mr. Kelly refused to divide time with Hon F. I Osborne, thus showing that he was afraid to have the light of truth thrown upon his false statements. The cause of White bupremacy will not be injured by Butler's importation from the west. A REGISTRAR THREATENED. Two Insolent Negroes Beaten for Trying to Intimidate Him.. Wilson. N. C July 14. At Lucama last evening the registrar was notified that a crowd of negroes would come to register today, and . if they were refused there would be trouble. Citizens prepared themselves today, but there was no trouble until late this even ing, wben two negroes became yery inso lent, using oaths, trying to run over the registrar. They were pretty severely cracked over the head, but were not very seriously hurt. There" were ten extra police on duty tonight. Further trouble is not expected. ' .... Ilia. Sayposltion. . . - A phIlaDthroplc lady of.. .Pacific eights, one of the sort of superior slucn raisers shown up in "Fables Id Elans." met on one of her tours a lit tle boy who was swearlas roundly. She seized tlm at once -and gave blra a good shaking, adding: "You ocgbt to be ashamed of yourself! I never beard inch lanznae since the day I was bornr The boy iDto whose desolate borne sbe had Jnst fcecn brinjlns. l.'gbt pulled blcself loose. TSc'a." he sa.Id, I s'pose dcre was .a gooJ.deaKo" cnssla. de day you was bora." Saa Francisco' Wave. " -' GENERAL MEWS. Blatters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. St. Paul, Minn., suffered a 9200,000 fire Friday. Three people were killed as a result of an 011 cane explosion at somerville, Mass., Friday night. Senator Gear, of Iowa, died in Wash ington Saturday, very suddenly. He was apparently well a few hours before he died. Secretary Hester's statement of the world's visible supply of cotton shows the total to be 1,578,569 bales, against 3,455,843 last year. ... Four men, charged with two robberies of Illinois Central trains, have been cap tured. The officers had a bloody fight with one, who finally escaped. V It is now estimated that the wheat crop in the states of Minnesota and North and South Dakota will reach 185,000, 000 bushels, against 210,000,000 last year. It was estimated a few weeks ago at only 75,000,000 bushels for this year. Dr. It. W. Habercom,' who was hereto fore connected, with the Republican na tional and congressional committees as manager of their German bureau, has re signed therefrom because he cannot sup port the administration in its imperial istic policy. He will support the Demo cratic ticket. A man registering at the Capon Springs, W. Va., summer hotel . as "Mr. Zon, of Washington, D. C," committed 'suicide there Friday morning by taking mor phine.. Despondency was the cause of the rah act. Zon was of Jewish descent and an atheist. He was formerly a southern cotton buyer. . , The office of Lewis G. Tewksbury & Co., produce exchange brokers, of New York, was closed Friday on an attachment against the firm by W. Browning John son for 112,472, said to be deposited with the firm. Mr. Johnson stated that he secured the attachment because he be lieved the firm was going to pieces. A dispatch, July 13, from Norfolk, Va., says: John N. Vaugban soldBarbes &Co. a large quantity of cotton on September 29 last, the sale being based on the fake quotations from Liverpool sent over this country by wire that day, which consid erably increased the price of cotton. Bar bee & Co. subsequently repudiated the sale and Vaugban sued. The case was heard about two weeks ago by Judge Hanckel, sitting in the court of law and chaucery, and it was today decided in favor of Barbee & Co. The first evidence in the Powers' case for the murder of Goebel began at George town, Ky., Friday. In Col. Campbell's statement of the case for the prosecution he said that Caleb Powers was the most aggressive among those who sought to settle the contest by violence and that to him largely was due the importation to, Frankfort of the band of mountain men, 175 of whom were retained in Frankfort regularly. He charged that a majority of them had killed from one to seven men each, v He claimed that it will be put in evidence that on January 28th Powers made the statement that "Goebel has not as many davs to live aa I have fincem on my nana. , BASEBALL. . o National League Games. Saturday. Philadelphia 1, Boston 0. Brooklyn 1, New York 0. St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 1. Chicago 1, Pittsburg 6. . STANDING OP THK CLUBS. Woo. Lost Per Cl Brooklyn............... 43 24 .842 Pittsburg....- 88 Philadelphia..............37 32 82 32 86 85 37 42 f I o .536 .529 .485 .469 .439 .333 Chicago .....'...............86 Cinci nn ati..................34 St. Louis.... .. 31 Boston.............. 29 New York,.--..... 22 State League Games. ' Sattkdat. ' . Raleigh 6, Tarboro 1. " Wilmington 0, Charlotte 0. STANDING or STATU LEAGUE. - Won. Lou. Pr Ct. Tarboro ...M..10 5 .642 Durham .............. 7 5 .583 Raleigh . 7 .515 Charlotte.......... 7 .416 8tatesville ......m.. 3 . 5 ..375 Wilmington 4 .7 .363 Question Answered. Tea, August Flower still hasthelanrest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thought of using anything else for Indi gestion or BiliousneMt Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of Appen dicitis. Nervous Prostration, of Heart failure, rtc" They ut-ed ugust Flower to clean out the system and stop fer mentation of undijrted food, regulate the action of the liver, stimulate the nervous and onranic ac tion of the fvs- tera, and that is all they took when feel-' ingdaM and bad with headache and other aches. Ton only need a few dos of breen s August t lower, in liquid form, to mate you satisned tnere 1 riotlHr serious the matter with you. For sale by Temple-llarston Ih-ug Co.
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