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PRJUSS: OGTOB 3-K 24. l3i)5. jre5S and aroiinian PrBLiHD Every Tbcesuay bt THE HICKORY PRINTING COMPANY, Hickory, North Carolina. THE FAKE REPORT GOES VISITING. In The Nashville Amf-rie&u, The LouisriUe Courier-Journal and other papers which print th news service of tha Associated Press we find repeated the fake report that the Farmers' Nation al Congress, recently held in At lanta, defeated the resoluion de claring fpr the free coinage of silver. Basing its statement on this fake: report, The American and othej" Associated Press pa pers, which do not publish the resolution adopted, head the can ard which they spread as follows: 'Their Forces Routed, Farmers' National Congress Declares Against Free Silver. Resolutions Favoring Such Policy Overwhel mingly Defeated. Fight Was Squarily on the Merits of the Question." Now, these papers are not to be blamed for their misleading headlines. They had received the fake report from the Associ ated Press, and relied absolutely on the accuracy of that concern, notwithstanding some of its re cent experiences as, for instance, the report that the British yacht had won in the first race for the cup. We do not see what the Asso ciated Pre?s has to gain in thus lending itself to the circulation of news that is absolutely false. At the rate thai things are now going the public will be justified in doubting every piece of news that is sent out under the auspecies of the association. It is natural, of course, that an oc casional mistake should be made by those who gather the news for the press associations; but the matter to which we refer is not a mistake but a dliber&te misrepresentation, having for its purpose a desire to belittle the movement among the people for the restoration of silver as a mon ey metal. What the Associated Press may or may not do is no concern of ours; but, as a part of the pub lic, and in behalf of fair and hon est methods we may be permit ted to regret that the concern in question allows itself to be made an instrument of misrepresenta tion. As the Constitution pointed out yesterday, the Farmers' National Congress did not declare against silver, but declared in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of the white metal. The resolution in which the .declaration was made is as conservtaive as it is emphatic, and is as follows: Resolved, That we favor the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at an agreed ratio guarded by an import duty upon foreign bullion and foreign coin equal to the difference be tween the bullion value and the coinage value of the metal at the date of importation, whenever the bullion value of the metal is less than its coin value, i When the Farmers' National Congress declared in favor of "th'e free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at a ratio to be agreed upan," it announced a platform on which every true friend of the people can stand. If, as the cuckoos and gold-bug organs say, the resolution is "a declaration against free silver," they ought to be willing to en dorse it. Constitution. John Sherman says Ohio will CT o Republican by G0,000 this year; Got. McKinley says it will go that way by 40,000. Meanwhile Brico is spending as much mon ey, and Campbell is doing as niucli stump speaking, as they would if both thought Ohio would go Democratic tbis year. SPANLSM Pf-RTINACITY. c. . opiums com iatiour aif threatened .between the United States ami Spain over matters that are growing out of the in surrection in Cuba. By a treaty entered into between the United States and Spain in 1877, the American consul at Havana was vested with diplomatic authority. That is. on emergency questions requiring immediate settlemout, the American cousul deals with the governor general of Cuba di rect, the same a if the governor general were the king of Spain and the consul president of the United States. Since the " out break of the present insurrection, quite a number of individuals, claiming to b American citizens, have made themselves seriously amenable to Spanish laws, both civil ard military. These people, as a rule, are either directly or indirectly identified with the in surrectionists, and whet they fall into the hands of the Span iards, there is, of course, a desire to dispose of them summarily. Generally, however, there is an appeal to the American consul, and the action of that official al most invariably interferes with the programme of the Spaniards. A few weeks ago, the governor general of Cuba notified United States Consul WilHa 21s that his diplomatic authority would no longer be recognized. Consul Williams immediately transmit ted the information to Secretary of State Olney, and that official has just notified Senor Canovas, the prime minister of Spain, that if any American citizen t in Cuba should be tried by court , martial, or should Consul Williams be ignored in any case requiring prompt action, the circumstance might involve serious conse quences to Spain. This is not exactly the shape in which Secre tary Olney 's message was trans mitted; but this is what it means, and if Spain does not back down, the probability is that she will have to fight. TURKEY AND THE ARMENIANS. Recently, England, France, Germany, Russia, Austria and Italy united in a note to Turkey warning that country that she must put a stop to her fearful persecution of the defenseless Armenians. Turkey's reply was not altogether satisfactory, and as the result, England sent a fleet to the entrance of the Dardan elles and Russia sent a fleet to entrance of the Bosphorus; but it seems that Turkey is not se riously alarmed. The sultan has ordered the placing of torpedoes in the Bcrphorus and Dardan elles, and is continuing to do with the Armenians pretty much as he pleases. If is wdl known that there is a great deal of jeal ously on the part of the powers in regard to Turkey, and no one of them is inclined to run any big risk of allowing any of the others to get very much of the advantage. Turkey understands this fact well. She believes that the powers will put politics high above the blod of the persecuted Armenians, and for that reason she chooses to continue to run the doing as she pleases. The situation, especially in view of the length to which matters have gone, is growing extiemely inter esting. A goldbug poll of the House of Representatives in the next Con gress shows 21G opponents of free silver coinage, 88 who favor free coinage, and 52 who refuse to de clare themselves. Of the free silver Representatives there are 51 Democrats, 30 Republicans and 7 Populists. Should the uncommitted Representatives all voto for free coinage, there will still be a majority against it of 70. All th more necessity for harder work if the poll be a truo one. MORE OF THB SAJ1E SORT. It is reported on good author-it- from Washington that the President and the Secretary of th Treasury are thinking about putting a tax of a dollar a barrel on beer and a stamp tax on bank checks as a means of replenish ing the vacuum in the Treasury which has been produced since Mr. Cleveland took office. No doubt the money can be raised in this way; but it is worth noticing that this measure is in line with everything that they have done concerning the rev enue during the past three years. The Democratic platform of 1892 laid down thelaw when it de clared that "the Federal Govern ment has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of reve nue only." On this platform Mr. Cleveland accepted the nomina tion, made the canvass, arid was elected, Mr. Carlisle keeping with him through the whole tran saction. Biit after the election, neither Clevelend nor Carlisle has ever proposed or endeavored to pro-, cure a tariff for revenue only. Instead of that, Congress enacted a tariff for protection. Mr. Cleve land approved it, and it has pro duced a deficit; and now continu ing in the same course of ignor ing the Democratic platform and trampling upon its great princi ple of raising revenue, they are going to tax beer and bank checks to make up the necessary sum that would have been furn ished by the tariff had they made one according to the platform they were bound by. A worse case of political false pretence and of humbug prac ticed upon the voters by the highest leaders of a party is not recorded among all the tricks and humbugs of the lowest and basest politics. N. Y. Sun. A correspondent of The Pall Mall Gazette gives an account of the trial of the Chinese suspeeted of implication in the massacre of the missionaries at Ku Cheng re cently. The witnesses "would be brought into the court room one by one. They were always hand cuffed, and would invariably open the proceeding by swearing that they knew nothing of the matteT whatever. No sooner was this testimony delivered, than at a signal from the judges, the pris oner would be seized by the sol diers in attendance and put to torture. The man would be com pelled to kneel with his bare knees on a coil of chains. Then a pole would be laid across the calves of his legs and a heavy man would get on each end of the pole and press the poor fel low's legs down into the chains. Nothing would be accepted as evidence except a confession of guilt, and if the man was some what stubborn at first, it did not generally take a great while to force him to a conclusion that it would be a good idea to confess guilt, whether he was guilty or not. The foreigners in attend ance on the investigation, pro tested against these methods, and instead of in open court, the prisoner was thereafter taken to a private room. If, however, he should deny what had been ex torted out of him after being brought before the judges again, he was at once threated with an other taste of the chains. This is the way the Chinese prove any thing they want proved. . 5. 1. III K 4 1 . - -J--; r.u.viu. u T Jn- toin5u-b .'.,: t.-r:i. P? Vermifuge t has been success fully cued I J tor a half century. I j . On. h,ci t auis for S&e. -J- f I E. Jt . FEET. E J!:--r. I I -V A - - TilE SENATE SILVER ME,N. It is the avowed purpose of the senators who are in favor of free coinage to reorganize the senate in accordance with that policj r A very prominent silver seuator : says that there will be a strong j and he has no doubt a successful effort made to bring the free coinage men of all parties into caucus together for the purpose of arrautriug for the reorganiza tion ot the senate as against the cnld bnexe e Q The same authority says that there are enough free coinage men in the senate to accomplish this result with several to spare. The Washington Post, whick chronicles the foregoing informa tion, sajTs that hardly anything will prevent this but the promise of the eastern republicans to take their nominee for the vice presidencf from the silver states. Of course he will have to be a dyed-in-the-wool free coinage man. The free coinage men have a considerable majority in the sen ate, and if they cannot accom plish any positive legislation they can at least block and shelve any bill that has for its purpose the perpetuation of the single goUl standard. So far as the house is concern ed the republican will be ina very ticklish position so far as the sil ver question is concerned. They will have to go on record one way or another, unless the Reed rules are employed to stifle the matter, and this will not be at all agree able. The Mormons intend to hold on to Utah. A majority of tne can didates nominated by both par ties to hold the first offices in the new State of Utah are Mormons. Both the Republican and Demo cratic candidates for Governor are members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, while m the Democrat's candidate has been a missionary of that cnurch to the Sandwich Islands, and for years has been high in its councils. Both of the Senators from the new State will probably be Mor mons. Tom Watson, the red-headed and redmouthed Georgian who has been, twice defeated for a a seat in the Fifty-fourth Con gress by Maj. Black, announces himself a candidate for re-defeat in 1896. Meantime he proposes to amuse himself contesting Maj. Black's last election. Watson is no Solomon, but he is as gme a cock as was ever gaffed, though his courage Is largely in excess of his discretion. T?mes. Deafness Cannot be Cured bv local aunlications as thev wnnnt reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. J)eaf ness is caused by an inflamed con ition of the mucous lining of the Eus tachian Tube. When this tube is in flamed. you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is en tirely closed, peafness is-the result, and unless the inllamation can be ta ken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is noth ing but an inflamed -condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure. .Send for circulars; F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. riTold by Drurgist, 75c. -10 4 1 When Hayti was a Spanish pos session Spain exterminated the native population and reduced the country to a waste. If means are not taken to put a stop to the ravagement of Cuba by Spain, the story of Hayti may be repeat ed in the unhappy island which lies adjacent to it. Rather than continue to bear the Spanish yoke, the Cuban patriots say they would perish amid the ruins of their beautiful native land. 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