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MONTANA MINER'S VIEW.
fl , - .t 16 to 1 Prcponal Would Result
in Certain Ruia.
. ha, Nb, Aug. 19. Henry
K .';. ' ' rf f';;i!;'5--r of the Hecla
: crd Mining and Smelting
; ; :; -i1-, Hon., haswrittcn
;,'vri ug letter to a friend:
'GLKrDALK, Hon., Aug. 11..
My Dkar Friend: Your esteemed
f .vor of the 9th inst., is at hand. The
pp. portion of free and independent,
'. vi.'i'ited coinage at the ratio of 16 to
fi' ii the commercial value is 32. to
l, i dishonest and must result in ruin.
'j r. -sy or ciaim mat oy legislative
c- i iou yuu can ' create values is an
r,?or; that hiory, experience, and
.. liii tcii fens contradict. If the
,i- jtSm be true, then the law of sup
. d demand is a fraud, and our
r rid has L'en .for 6,000 years
! ljusixi?s of a f .Ise basis. i
IMbis assertion be true, then we
. ( . at 1'ist found the key that un
!. ae door, and henceforth by
.1. i ;f Congress, signed by thePresi
Unit -1 .tatef, vater shall
:: hill: the law of t gravitation
forever be suspended; k ing
,-!! ' :v,qirg ic '. Ji ; jvery man sh-U
r- a ithout -,-v id loners I'.'-d
; !ie;y sumi bring ilenty and
, r, i ,; r;pud'.?.?on honorable
-i egrity. is a fraud.
.:icle i'5 to I question i hu.ed
. -. nipt2'.n. I g net know of t.
. r .t:oTi on earth that claims that
nation oy our action could or
n.dce the commercial value of
v go up "to 1.25- per ounce. Tin
!i't:on is p-iteiiN-d y the ilvr
the Un;fi states.
Hkynv ks."irrEMKU(4.".
t 9 r.itof Nominate. ' ' Si.ata
Ticket at Pucbli.
. Co!., Ancr. 20. Colorado,
jvnatK .expresd their, choice for
u v' lr.te- for the several State offices
!.;y, i iLjirc' to t be action of a con
rj:'o ooKjmilU-e of eleven of the
: ;v prominent 1 democrats of the
; .v.... l ie Jiucavor to arrange
fusion with the People's and Silver
. '; '!-. of c-:..iub?
f(M rnlidntps frr the ofP nn-
; u.f-d h Democrats will b tlm
i "0 by the c-nvention to day for
?!: t .' tioV.s.
' ri Pre.-idi'iitiid electors a fusion
t' v. noniinaTid, consisting of
'.Tli.-t, on-.
olver P.epjiblican
t!i i t wo IVpTtiCK-ratf. The full ticdet
K imnaTeil i?:. For (iovernor, Alva
A l ;:u . Vuebio; Lieutenant Governor,
! ! v M. Kllis. Denver; Secretary of
-i l ii. -H. Vliipplc, I.eadvilL ;
.'or. W. A. Kovran, Ouray; Trcaa
ur r, tJ i j y Nent il, Denver, and At-
. . :. v Vieneral. Albert L. Icse,
i''ii(-. It fusion is not elbn-tetl the
ih ticket will Ptend. '
At the iSecond District linocmt
' Vnrressional Conventiau thiseveniug
J .In-Cv Bell, Populist, of Montrose,
v ,v iiulcri-eil for renomination, sub
i t to the action of a conference eom
tuit;; of feven. the policy purt-u u ly
th'e 5?tate Convention being followed
u.t ARin,t l rjj South re.
liALKltill, N C, Aug. 21. W. H.
Denver, of Asht-villa, brings 5uit
agauist tae Soutiifin Railway to ttt
the legality o( hauling express on
Sundays in North Carolina. The suit
is based upou the'section of The Code
which provides that no railroad shall
permit any cais to run on Sunday
save such as are to transport United
States mails, either with or without
passengers, and those exclusively for
livestock, fruits, vegetables and per
ishable freights, .Sunday is construed
'to be between sunrise and sunset.
The Southern Kail way will handle no
express save perishable articles on
Sundays until this question if settled.
The penalty is $5C0 for each train in
each train through which the railroad
runs. It is stated that under literal
construction of the act dead bedie
cannot be shipped that day.
The State Liquor Dealers Ajsocia
tion has been in session atFayetteville
this week with & large attendance.
The following officer were elected for
the ensuing year: Frank ODonnel,
Asheville, president: S. T. Smith,
Raleigh, first vice president; T. H.
Scoggin, Durham, second vice presi
dent, F. W. Ortman, Wilmington,
secretary and treasurer; E. V.Denton,
Raleigh, coires ponding secretary. :
PROTECTION !
HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1896.
BENT ON DUBOIS' DEFEAT.
)
Populists an4 DtmocrtU Agre to Fuse la
Idaho.
BoihB, Idaao, Aug. 20. After two
days, continuous session the Populist
and Democratic Conventions have
agreed upon a fusion programme. The
State now presents this condition of
affairs: Of the 28,000 voters, at least
25,000 favor Bryan and Sewall. About
12,000 of these are silver Republicans.
The silver Republicans offered, to agree
on a State ticket composed of all silver
parties and send all silver speakers
East for Bryan. The fusion ignores
the Bryan Republicans and gives the
.Legislature' to the Populists.
The Populists'secnre the Congress
man, the Democrats the Governor
and they alternate on the balance of
the ticket. This necessitates nomina
tion. of separate electoral ticket by
Bryan Republicans. This will make
the State the center of ona of the
greatest contests in the history of the
West, as the leading silver Republicans
have offered their services daring the
campaign to ineure - the rije ! ;-i of
Senator Dubois. The HcSinley men,
including Peator Shcup. are espiiJ
!y jubilant tc-.ight at the prospect of
defeat of S i ..tor Dub .:, . LThe Post
CANVASS OF TME WKOI.E COUNTRY.
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Supporter of fcXin'ey . .
Chicago, Aug. J. r;u-pi:t.i::iu
managers will endeavor to ihvl. out
every uepuoli :an wlio intends to vcte
for Bryan, and every iJemozvl who
ii'leinl- to W'i'-i for I-cKii! .). Ti.i.s
imraene'tik will be .-.ndertaken by
the 20,000 org.iiiizationiuf the A'ationai
.League of l!:publ!i:.n CI.'c. The
actual work will ' b-jin nest week,
aitlio;iHIi the cllioiais cf tlit nuticiaal
lyeadntnirterj of tho-ir; .'uVi !:c;c"
preparing for ;'. for sev ial luonth.
It is expected that this caivas wiil
cover every er.nty la the country,
and that when-it is completed fhe Ee
publican manuers will know exactly
where they stand on 1 'Lh ti e i-i oi;ey
and Presidentinl candidates. As a
Htartt-r, 10.00) letters vi inirouuetiou
will be .mailed to it.o a .v. 1L. . .'i-
ia. ?
r".t to vrork v
h-, And il
!
tabulated as soon as 'nev ,u k. .ir
the canvass progresses repo. .3 m ij
made to the 'Ni-.tiuna! Eiecnt'vc Com
mittee. Hoke Mnith Will Go.
Washington, D. C, Au
Hoke Smith is to retire from
iuV on or about Sept. 1st, LU re.-si'na-tlon
liM.ving b n ter lorI i :
ti?di and it is expected that AiJaLiuit
Secretary John M. Reynold's of the
In cr?cr .Depart m :rt, h
iii,2r of !'. tioid, V Lx:: y
vania, will
oe promoted to succeed him.
Secretary Smith dK,Jiri to talk
about the matter, but there is every
reason1 for believing that the statement
just given is substantially correct.
Secretary Si tith retires ol his own
volition ami I ause, having learned
that neither the P. -ti'I-nl i.tr auy
otiier :iH'iiibf: vi ihc cabinet vriii 4?up
port Bryan and S?v. ,Ui, he teeis thai
it would be embi rasping lor iiim to
remain in th ?.dmiuiotratitm, inas
much as he propo?en to carry out his
promise to support the iwn ty nomi
nees, though he cannot approve the
jvarty platform.
His personal relations with the Pres
ident and all tha members of the Cab
inet are most agreeable. Secretary
Smith had not intended to make the
announcement ol his retirement from
the Cabinet just yet; but the fact that
he was eloping up his administration
with the Interior Department, making
no engagement beyond the present
month in connection with his official
Dusinefts and having uis personal ef
fects packed for shipment to his home
in Atlanta, brought oat today the
definite news. Secretary Smith will
be very glad to be oat of office for per
sonal and financial reasons. He will
become the foremost Democrat in his
State by his retirement from the -Cabinet
at this time and he will get a
ranch larger income from ' his practice
and his newspaper than h ever had
before. He will take the stump for
Rjan and Sewall, although he will
continue to oppose the free c&inage of
silver, and he believes that ths Demo
cratic party will - come aronnd to his
position on that question.
INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE !
All Under The Same Hoof.
PJPOCRAT1C. 'POPULIST. AND
COMMITTEE ARE ONE.
WLVER
Oa Senator Faulkixr's InviUtlon They Do
Baslnos In Ttao Sra Rooms In Washing
Ion Handle ppJ by. Lack of FanJ
OovemaicDt Clerks riall
Speeches.
Washtjtqtow, Aug. 19 Chairman
Butler of the National Populist Com
mittee has been taken into camp by
what is left of the Popocratic National
Committee in this city. The Populist
Chairman has been here for two or
three days, making the welkin ring
with bis protestations that all the en
ergies of the Populist organization
should be devoted during the present
campaign to electing Bryan, and Wat
son, leaving Sewall to the tender mer
cies of the Democratic voters in those
States where the Pops are few and far
between and in which they have no
political organization. Mr. Butler de
clares that under n circumstances
wiiJ 7'r.iWiton be abandoned by his
Populist friends in any State,! He
a that Watson will not be embar
rtioed by being officially notified of
hi, nomination, and therefore it will
nol necessary for him officially to
accept or decline.
P' i ocij.ts in Populists have
nct:::ng in comnoi: in tins camra.'jm
Chauiiidn Buller ..bays so far the
Po' iLsi . ins ;t'H L-oucc-rueci, aul
li Ls f.y ei'dbosia'-tic in exurtSalii
the opinion that Wafson will get tht;
Having thus
d :fi
. .1 v
t KJ ,J U V .
gers, Hr. Bu tier placed himself in eloao
enimun!cHci4a 'with Chairman -Jones
of t!" Pep :,r" ii . National Committee
and engaged in a friendly coafitncc
v;I;h hiu. iliU iormng, so protracted
thrt tl'c Potv'I"?! CJliairman was corn-,
pell id to accompany.- ths Popocratic
Chairntari to the tmiu when he ijtar
Tot Chicno t-j v.-.-';tbIish the ' main
Popo'TfttK' headquarter . of the C iiu
paign committee. Then 3Jr. Butler
ca-IH :i Sciiaf -. r Faitlkner and ac
cepted the invitation of the latter to
featnbllsh his Populist Committee, in
$
T-'-.'! iiisley Hot
f . comm:ftv
Executive Cory-,-.
party, in e3sion
' ei lh- d y
lie
!!ke
invitation from
nd the Populist
and Silver organizations are now shel
toi.t iiuutr i, jo i"C o.-Ct ug 'ttij'.'. the
Popocratic committee.
Thi Hfiruon the Populist States
limii from Honc-ycutt township, X. C.
w?? seated in hi.- r.'".v quarters dr .- :
in his customary solemn black, with s
J. a u-j o' j. ; '.p covering his
l..-j ih'wV: -!r ar- !k'ng c-
ly as ever about the impociir.-ty
. e
.
.Ua any course ex
devotion t." Tom
c-: p; thut of de-ip
W'atron and his cause. Senator j -ler
i? 9 bout there is of the Populist
party and ha absolute control cf thr
work of its National: Committer. Ii
expresses confidence in his ability to
bring nhout fusion in every State on
the b-of votes for Watson "-rvor
ti.e Pp-iHst have a majority, aiu prt-fes-sti
to btllieve that .Watson vri'.' be
elected. It is worthy of note that in
ail the work and all the talk that is
being indulged in by the politicians
and campaign managers in Washing
ten, Cnndiditc Sewall is not consid
ticd. The Popocrats devote all their
r.crgv to Bryan and the Populists t
Watson. Mr. Sewall and the SUt. cf
Maine 3o not appear to be factors in
the contest. '
The Silver party having established
headquarters in the Wormsley build
ing with the Popocrats and Populists,
the committee are preparing to pool
their issues in the free silver campaign.
So far as the Popocrats and Free Sil
ver committees are concerned, their
vtork Mil! b devoUl largely to send
ing out literature, while Senator But
ler will devote himself to carrying out
bis apparently nebulous plan of bring
ing about f umoq in the various States
on the basis of Toni Watson's Vice
Presidential candidacy. The three
committees are handicapped, however,
by the same cause which is a lac of
funds.
Owing to the fact that candidate
Bryan has announced far and wide
that this is to be a campaign of the
poor against the rich, or for aoroe
equally powerful reason, tbe Popocrat
ic committee have not as yet been able
to collect any cash beyond what has
PROSPERITY !
ben contributed by candidate Sewall
and the few wealthy men who have
been selected as members of the Na
tional Committee, largely because of
the fact that they are wealthy. The
publication of an alleged letter of
Chairman Jones to a friend In Chicago
expressing his annoyance and disap
pointment at his failure to collect con
tributions, was widely talked of today,
but no one at political headquarter
was able to state whether or not the
letter was genuiue.
Tbi is important, however, as it is a
matter of general knowledge in Wash
ington that Chairman Jones has been
from the beginning very much wor
ried at the poor prospect of liberal
campaign contributions and the cer
tainty that very little cash would be
forthcoming was one of the chief rea
sons why be was opposed to the estab
lishment of committee headquarters
at Chicago. The business men of that
city, like those of other cities, are en
gaged in the sound money movement
and have nothing to contribute to the
free silver cat:e. Mr. Jones, felt that
the campaign could have been run
much ruore economically from Wash
ington, where he and the other Na-tio.Mi-l
Committeemen have homes
and where the committee could have
bejn :::;iij,o! on a less aectiohal ba
sis than- elsewhere. So far the com
iuittx h..c hCkd no occasion to spend
luuuey ciccjjt u. the lulling of cam
paign iitst.ittir.1, and this liaabeencar
aitnl on iit- imall expenditure. When
the i.tamp orators begin to demand
th-ir puy, . how,tfver, and' it becomes
coaitvract the effect of
r
ii.: .V wj. which will toon
h .gin to ij-akr itself felt, the Popoerat
i7jair' v i
oon need money, and
loU of it, nnu they
are unable to ee
how they arc going to get it.
The v wi '-: cf sending out speeches
aru c Iilt:iaturc ii bung carried on
at a i:iiui;uum of erense. The ma
jority of ibo f'vch"3 b'nn1 font out
were delivered .in Congress ' and ' an
thvis rr;rial'e. They are- as a rule
printed i he G-overnment printing
ofTlcoV whrre n discount is given and
the ork of folding and mailing them
is being done-bv the voluntarv labor
of entiriistie young t'opocrats, most
of vh on Vre eieployees 'of "Uncle Srm.
A smal' an.ry of these ciUlceholdeis ar
at work every evening at Senator
Faulkner's headquarters in their ea
gemcsi? to nsi'-t the Pcoc:ratic cam
paign mnnagery. This has become
so c "r !-)!ero'JS ih.t the quest "on has
b.;en rui-ed whether or not it is a vio
cf ih-. Civil Service law for these
Go: f "X i 't
o!erk8 to spend their
'r'r; political work and
V
. l. .
-o." to it tidenr uieve-
I.-u-dV ' 1 .r;il civil s?rvice ordr
..ft. oTnnvi ve partisans. The Popocrat
. j -,r a ..re u d-gnantly, repel the in
riji:;it t'n--f hat tisi hort of voluntary
com piign w-ork. could be a violation of
c:..n s,:rv'co ri'Ies, and chiefs of bureaus
in ib vurious departments said txbiy
whfn th !P"ttor was brought to their
..t!Tt:r-n, t.!.t.' ir their opinion, the
Government had ro right to , criticise
the manner in which Government
ciorV sperit their vnfn'g9.' Tbe Sec
iti y f the Civil Service Commfssion
i?so ?id that tbie kind of political
work on the part of Government clerks
did not, n hi? opinion, constitute a
violation of the Civil Service law. It
would hardly be possible to muster
such an array of volunteers in Chicago
as can be recruited in Washington
from the Government department,
and Senator Faulkner and Represen
tative MeMilllc, ecd others of the
eoEuuiitte officials say that they will
protect these employees of Uncle Sam
if any carping Republican dares to
question their right to devote their
service fter office hours to the good
of the free silver cause.
Durham is to be congratulated on
having a son whose personal merit
has obtained for him the political
prominence of the nomination for the
vice presidency of these great United
States, and The Herald is happy that
It has the opportunity of giving first
to the people of North Carolina Mr.
CoutbgaU formal acceptance cf tbe
distinguished honor conferred upon
him. Free from ad alation we prefer
that tbe clear cut English of Mr.
Southgate, published elsewhere in
this paper, shook! speak for Itself, as
it does, in a manner to command the
adiidration and respect of all lovers of
pure thought and pareEnglih:--Dur-hamller&Jd.
NUHBEH 35
THc BROWN 'cfTLKCH SCANDAL.
Sas Fraxcisco, Aug. W.-lfiiU?
Overman, who fgurtnl conpicucu
ly and unenviably intl.e Drown church
scandnl has madt rt coi5fvij2 :ii
which she declare tliat t.he is a terju
rer and that Dr. Brcwn is all his ene
mies represented him to be.
This startling; luimlssion of Miss
Overman, made after months ot sil
ence and after Dr.V Brcwn has taken
up a new home In a "h w field, has re
opened the entire case. The woman
confession has been fully considered
by the ministers and laymen that form
the trial court Mr. Tunnel! ha gcao
before the member of the Eccle1a?ti
cal court and has corroborated all
that Miss O firman cj, Jessed.
The memb of council could
listen to the startling story but as a
council they could do nothing. MLss
Overman's confess-on was placet! in
the custody of the Fecretaxy i thu
Bay conference. A rejo!utiou asking
the Bay confertint to tar action :a
the matter was adopted by unanimous
vote. The confer. nee wili therefore
niGet without delay in.-special t -..-icii.
The Rev. Dr. C. O- Brown wril I t no
tified of the new tarn in his arlairs
and will be ordered !o appear, ir. per
son or by repre?eirHtive to show cause
why tbe judgment - of- sapcusiou for
m ind-Cnit pcrli i tin? iciutty
sl'.a'l not be inikde aie-otutfi and penxia
n-nt. expulsion. Dr. l!rown mut an
swer to the Bay ronference or be ex
peUed. PRGGkESS IN VIRGINIA.
The Wfwbtlcfta CcsRtr.itt Counts the Mate
for McKlnley.
Si'tH iai to Tbe I"ot.
TiiCf'Mosiv-ViiC, Aug. iitK
Wid'rn Uamb, Edward WaddiU, Ju.,
Park Agnew, S. B. CiUT.ey, Geoigd K.
Bowd -n, and J. D. lirady, members of
the Virginia" Republican Camiaigii
CeuiTLitfee, invt at Slate headquarters;
to-day. Reports showed that the
ojx ning work was progreAiing finely.
Ths couraitte--;lei.c.v0 that the State
will ro for McK!c!ey and Hobart.
There ?K.iiiv tSi't ti.e
Republican bdrjrLrtf' t"dr.v.
On ; of Cob . Umb'n friends Kiid Xl
three of the metnhcrf of the i'tate
Committee elected Ly the Eighth Dis
trict convention yesterday and two o(
the-thrce chosen ir ! s.e Ninth District
are L.unb men. ' T!:L gives Lamb at
Ifajt twenty of the thirty mcmNin,"
he uldetl.
Col. Lamb confcired vith fcome of
the Republican
.'...tier?.
Among
tiifbe whom he r-; .vrd went; W. S.
Tyler, the . noudreV for Cougr in
the First Ditrct, and Congressman.
Thorpe, ouu." of- th nocInet.j in the
n-rt t!rif unon thf f:i?t that the rir-
euLirsent out announcing that Re
publican headquiiiiers have been
opened in Richmond was not signed
by Cot Lamb. On the Colonels re
turn from Culpepcr to day signed tho
pper, and the original circular was
withdrawn.
It ws announced from Republican
he idqunrters to-n!;ht that Dyer and
Gee were out of the race as Republi
can candidates for Congress In the
Second and Fourth DUtrlcts respec
tively, leaving only one Republican
candidate In each district. It was
the factions had been settled by the
National Committee.
Fear Tickets I Cofaraio.
DE3TVKR, CoL, August 23. A cret
conference of leading Populitts of the
State was held here yesterday. It de
veloped that the sentiment was nearly
onanlmoas against fusion with the
Democrats upon the plan outlined by
the latter, at the Pueblo convention,
they preferring an dependent ticket.
This course pleases the silver Repub
licans, who hope thereby to win the
State on a straight party ticket. It
now seems that four State tickets axe
inevitable.
Professor Frederick Williams Nichols
Crouch, of Baltimore, If d., the re
nowned compoeer, to whose genius the
world is indebted for the soul inspir
ing rtraicg of the Irish .serenade
'Kathleen Mavosrneen," died very
I 1 t. ..... 1 . . T W A . . . .a
Me.
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