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We ' ' 1 Mom r -1 VOLUME I. NUMBER 13. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1892. PRICE $2.00 A YEAR. . . . . THEJIHTOirS DESK. SvU.TuosTEa" Ua word coined by Ham. the orator from the Georgia rnoun VAiU. a nojyguier n ue tinea as a "MK.w with an unquenchable thirst for ofEee with neither the iwwrr to rvt it nor capacity to fill it. JX THE election Do Vvtcr !hould fall to vote for the constitutional amendment providing for the election of solicitors by the entire people of the State instead of by each district. Thi i done to make the election of judge and olicitor uni form. Uos. J so. R. Webster ay in his pa per. Uter't Wetklg: "We have in our Pcioa a letter written to Mr. T. It. IitHl.ay. a brother of the Third party candidate, by CoL Polk in April in which he urppj that there be no interference in State affair. Is lfc0 there were in circulation in North Carolina over two million dollar m national bank notes. To-day there is ltkS than one million in circulation. The Democrats propos to take the 10 prr cent, tax off of State banks, and thus al low the people of North Carolina to in crease the circulating medium to meet the demands of business. Tberk are our country. two menacing dangers to one the use of money in elections ia order to secure special legis lative privilege, and the other the dan ger of secret political organization.-. The chief danger to Democracy in Connecti cut this year is in a secret political ocie ty called The United American Mechan ic. It is founded upon hatred of Catho lics and is an attempt to revive the spirit of know nothingim. Whittlaw Kxid in his letter of accept ance declares that the country was never so prosperous, the people never so rich, aad all things never sv lovely and serene. Why change all this f is his iuery. The I people want to change it because while our prvinty as a country was never x great, the nches have become mxvsed tn a f-w hands, ami now while RtiD and his rwh father-in-law have millions of money the millions are suffering for the mm- frtrt. That u why the people want ffcatjr. THE TRITH AltOfT IT. Mr. W. W. Watt, of Charlotte, was in Philadelphia a few days ao on busine. j While there he bad a conversation with ! a ncn. n.jfuy l-roiet .. uu, iu, r v, , w v:.L. .......: carpets, ami ne maaea remark "in cii M.xdeiJ. cruel, brutal candor" that miht to be heralded from Maine to Mexico. Ia a letter to the Charlotte Vbtmr Mr. WaTT SAJS: "After quite a lengthy discussion of the relative merits ami demerits of the aw a a-- a : McKmley rit 100 btll, I asked him the pmt-bUnk j , v mi t. how an increased tariff v. an increased pnee on the J ! jty. hsncv taanufactureii products of Ienaylvanb rofil.1 help, a farmer of North Carolina, rr of Kacrwa-v Uis reply sx pnmpt. oai and deftant. Farmers of North Camhna. farmrs of Kansas, Ik-ten ! And on November fth give yur reply, lie said: Amy farmer in .VorfA Carolina t-e in Kanats is a dti fuol who rrs Me fispuUi.an ticktt; but this it if af fair of nine. If k has no uurt stnst t.an to rule ajainst hit otrn inlertsts, I am rrrtainJf not foot enough to rtfus$ r yrvjit ty Ats Wjr." It is true that any farmer who votes fur Hirrx) or Weaver does vote raiat his own interest and helps to make the Philadclphian. who treat him with contempt, richer ami richer. We wiM h.J Kirr. a f.M .1 Vm11 S i ilo not like to employ harsh epithets. But , he is untrue to himself, his wife, and his j children. LETELASD AND PENSIONS. The New York Tribune says: "Mr. Clt vela nd'S phrases about the pension t roll of honor and his affected interest in j . k tn;.n a-.I.tiN milfTm n m fi n wortl I that butter no tartDira. When he was i ur v uo J " -- - -- - i in offct? be was not on shaking terras with the veterans. A large part of his time was employed in vetoing pension bills -nd in discrediting the motives of tboe who-e claims bad considered by Congress. been lavorabiy , i bb c diers know Mr. Cuctelaxo. It ts too late for him to ftsh foe soldier votes with any sort of bait."" And yet io the South there are men so ignorant or so base who say that Cleve land signed more pension bills than any other president. The truth is that Mr. Cleveland favor just and liberal pen sions without extravajptnee and without favoritism. It is scandalous that any voter anywhere should object to Mr. Clev eland's record along this line. COTTON and per Capita cir. culation. Gaatonia Gaiette. Our Third party friends tell ns that scarce money makes low cotton; that when, we had per capita cotton was S3 cents, now that we have only 25 per capita cotton brings only 6 cents. -Here i Senator Raw answer to the prop ortion that a kw circulation per capita males a low price of cotton. In North Carolina we have about 7 a bead, in Massachusetts $300, in England in France 13. in India, China, and Japan from tl.20 to tl.JW. and in Russia! 10.00. And lake off cost of freight, cotton is the same pnee. A B AJiT A R D L Y SENTIMENT. This ia a paragraph from the Philadel phia Vj. a ttraightout Republican pa per "If the Democrat had never been allowed to regain control of State govern ments of the Sooth. Northern capital wol4 never have embarked in the devel opment of Southern coal and iron; and the surest and speediest way to put a top b) this competition from men who re our political enemies as well as our eotnmercial rivals is to carry, through and enforv aMasurws like I L Lodge alsc- niT campaign so.;. The New York IWW ffered a prie of t-VK) to the i-erson who should write the U.t Ik-mocratic campaign song. Hundreds competed for the prize, and the committee made the award. It is mot singular that the winner is an office holder. He wrote to the World that he held a responsible and lucrative position under the administration, and that be could mn under any circumstances, per tuit his name to I made public, the inti mation being that he thought he would be bounced for furnishing Democratic campaign literature. The following is the song, and the Nortu Carolinian would like to hear it sung by a North Carolina choir: Air: "Benny Havens, 0."J To every terming city, to every town and village sent, To everv hop and mine and farm the thrillim; mrKMUKe went ; "We've got our old commander back, he'll Irad uit once attain '. He np and ready (or the fray, and quit you there like meu ; " And quit you there like men. and quit you there like men ; B up and ready for the fray, and quit you there like meu. He stands for all that's our fathers fought : dearest for which The people's right to rule tha land, for voten that can't be boutrht : He M mis fur lower taxes, for gold and sil ver, too. For equal rights and laws for all for eve rything that s true: For everything that's true, for everything that' trutt. For equal rights and law for all. for evo lving that true. He'n for the civil service, and not for sham pretends He's for the common people, and he's full of common ene ; He's brave and level-headed, and It's his unchanging plan. Whatever he may think is right, to say it like a man : To My it like a man. to ay it like a man. Whatever be may think Is right, to say it like a man. Our party know no -ct ions North, South or r jv-i or -t : The bltjudy shirt and baonct we heartily tirtesi ; We're dead agoiut the Force bill, but we're for toe church and school. And ever; wherv aud all the time we advo cate hfnie rule: We advocate home rule, we advocate home rule. And everywhere and all the time we advo cate home rule. We do not wih to regulat our neighbor's hur or drink. Nor do we want to interfere with what our ncightor thinks: The cntilultiu and the lawn decide oar every doubt, I Anil we re a!way good and ready to turn the ra'ai4 out ; To turn the raal out, to turn the rascals out. And we're always good and ready to turn the rajraW out. Then rir for Grover Cleveland a mighty, oral tealeulng cheer : WrU UuJ hm , ,b. White House safe & m tefre another Tear. No Ptnkrrttu detectives then to run our ibr anl mill: No billion dollar CongrewM with him to veto bills; With him to veto bills, with him to veto bilK No biUin-dtllar Congrm dm with him to veto bill. Then, up and at them. Democrat: Charge home tht ir wavering ranks! brvak.tbey ny.thedayisours,theyre roUlr, front and flank.; Monojxtly i on the run. protection don't protect. but think of kevrnty-six and swear elec tion shall elect. Klection hall elect, election ahall elect. Hut think of eventy-dx and swear elec tion, hal I lect. And when our oturdy captain comes to bis owu again He'll need a very different chair from that of little lien: We'll hunt him up the very one in which old Hickory at. And he'll lit it like a statesman, for he's a lrmocr.t; For he i a Democrat, for he is a Demo crat. And he'll tit it like a lateinan, for be is a Democrat. Gi:.. MCKLLS AGAIN. The Tammany Democrats have nomi- njltcl Gen. JMC'klxs for CoDgrcss. We ,aVc cused and discussed him of Lite. Whether a Iemocrat or not, Gen. Sickles , is not a pleasant spectacle, and we hate ' to see such trimmers and political traders honored. We are sick and tired of this business of having to keep men in the party by paying them to stay. But it is .just to Gen. Sickles to quote what he luis to say. He said : "1 felt constrained by the circumstance to accept, because I saw in my nomina- tl. .mi.irfnnitv trnuirt nrwfnrll i I l"tl v-1 . .- . - - - -, thc misn!,rvcntations of the Rcpubli- earw regarding tganling my alleged opposition to Mr. Cleveland. They. have studiously i'Liced me in a hostile position to the Amocratic National ticket, and have twisted all my utterances to suit their own puqxisses. Any one can talk, but w hen a man takes part in the battle there can be no further room for doubt as to his convictions. And this I mean to do from the jump. I never do anything by halves, and I will conduct my canvass on such lines as will convince the most skep tical that I am for Cleveland and Ste venson first, hist, and all the time. I will :rive proof of my loyalty. "There has U-cn absolutely no excuse from the start for putting mo in a false position toward the National ticket. It is true that I did not favor the nomina tion of Mr. Cleveland. But this was simplr on the ground of expediency. I considered that a man who bad carried the State time after time, as Mr. Hill lu's done, would be absolutely certain to carry it sea in. But personally I have the highest regard for Mr. Cleveland, and during all the years that I have known him our relations have been of the roost pleasant character. "And since the nomination I think that he has considerably strengthened his ltt ton. Lor instance, his letter of ac ceptance shows that he is not the enemy of the old soldier, as his enemies have soti-ht to make him out- I regard that lion of his letter referring to the ser vices of the men who fought for the preservation of the Union, as an accept ance of the established policy of the gov ernment to grant liberal pensions to the men who are entitled to them. I think that his utterance should be accepted as a declaration to this effect" Repnalieaa Doctrine. M. I Mott'peech at Asheville, Oct. IS. This so-called force bill f I call it an election bill- Yes, I'm for it. The bill imi4y provide that every man shall cast a fair ballot, and a Democratic or Ii-tmblican judge must count it, whether he wants to or not I am for a free bal lot and a fair count if it takes ten thou sand heads in North Carolina every ha4 ia tha Democratic party. SOME REFLECTIONS l'PO.1 THE POLITICAL PROBLEM OF THE DAY. Relief aad Delireraace Cannot Come by Making the Government Greater Than the People. Kditorial by Elder P. landmark. D. Gold in Zion's Baptists have always been noted for their conservatism or moderation. They are a sober-minded people. That is God has given them a sound mind and they are steadfast and unmovable, or not driv en, carried or tossed by every wind of doctrine or men or devils. They are slow to change their views. Indeed, when once they are settled in the truth, they are immovable. There is noth ing new under the sun. Hence Baptists abiduin one and the same perfect and un changeable doctrine. They are and always h ve been opposed to Secret Societies and factions or parties that originate or snnncr from Societies. Jesus their master never taught in secret but always taught openly and publicly, and no scripture is of any private inter pretation. Jno. 18:20. Secret Societies are unfair. They do in secret what they do not want known by the public. For he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds maybe made manifest that they are wrought in God. Secret societies array one class of men against another and cause hatred or sus picion and gender strife. This is wrong. As Secret Societies are wrong their pro ducts or fruits are wrong. They conceive in mischief and bring forth that which is corrupt. Baptists are a people that regard their obligations and prove their honesty by paying their debts, and keeping their word. They hold that it is a duty to pay tax to whom it is due, and tribute whom it is due, or to submit to the powers that be because thev are ordained of Got! We are not to speak evil of our rulers, but to pray for them, or for those in authority that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Jesus did iot come oa earth to over throw national governments. His king dom is not of this world. The kingdom of God is not in meat and drink. That is what worldly kingdoms are for. But the kingdom of God is-righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy Ghost. Whatever political government his people are under they should render honor to whom it is due, for the proper ends or aims of earth ly governments are the protection of all classes of law-abiding, peaceable citizens, and the punishment of all violators of the laws of the governraeut they are subjects of. Every man, however bnmble and helpless he may 1 is as much entitled to the protection of the law, while he be haves properly, as any other citizen is.. All good cart hly governments are found ed on the principles of right as set forth in the bible. In that lok coveteousness is forbidden. The rich is not to take away the poor man's property. But each is to resect the pocieions of the other. The crazy, corrupt notion now floating in the brains or imaginations of so many men, that every man should bo compell ed to give up what property he has, and divide it with all others is forbidden by the bible, and every principle of common honesty. The desire for the government to owu every thing is equally as foolish and dangerous. A government ought to own as little as possible in order to ad minister its functions for the general good. To put all things in the govern ment's hands is to sell ourselves as slaves to thc government which would soon be came the bitterest engine of oppression. For instance, if any oue party in power possessed all the railroads, lands &c it would manage to perpetuate itself in power indefinitely; for give it all the wealth or ownership of the country and it easily will hire men enough to vote for it and retain its power, and it would make the people its servants and hold them in perpetual bondage. An instance of this is related in the bible concerning the country of Egypt. During the great famine when Joseph ruled the Egyptains sold their cattle, their land and them selves (see Gen. 47.) and they became servants, vassals or slaves, and to this day Egypt is a base kingdom prostrated and under the power of their rulers. But Israelites should not be so. Israel was to be a free people, every man having his home or inheritance, every one being free born was to be in terested in the government. Every Is raelite should resiect his manhood, and have freedom, should have his own house or home. It is to the interest of the gov ernment that every man should have self respect and courage or virtue, and honor the law, and not be a vile, grumbling slave. When the Israelites in the days of Saul rejected the counsel of God and desired a king to rule them, the Lord told Samuel to set forth before them the manner of that king. (See 1st Samuel 8th chapt.) The king would take the best of the flocks and herds, their fields, their or chards for himselt, and the best of their sons and daughters to be his own servants and then Israel would cry out in their distress bwcau.se of their oppression, and tho Lord would not hear them. Are we better than they? Which is better to have one man king or a host to be your king. American liberty our fathers fought for is fast flying away, and these degenerate sons ana foreigners are aes pising liberty, aud we are about to sell our birth-right fur a trifle. A govern ment is an agent, or should be, for the people, and its officers should be public servants, held accountable to the people. Hence thc people should be the masters and the officials the servants. But if we surrender all to the government these of ficers will become .the masters and we will be the servants. What would you think of borrowing money from your agent t What would you think of surrendering all your pro perty to your agent ? You would become a slave. All powers not necessary for administering the gov ernment should remain with the people, and all reserve rights should remain with the people, and only enough power to en able the government to execute the trusts committed to it should be delegated. Whenever you entrust all into the hands of the government, and you become a borrower from it you furnish all the op portunity corrupt men want to enable them to grasp dictatorial power and be-, come exceedingly rich, and yourselves correspondingly poor and wretched. We have been blessed with a good gov ernment But liberty must be guarded and highly prized if we would preserve and enjoy it But the cry is, we are in great distress, we are in debt and cannot pay out, our lands arc mortgaged. We must have re lief. Like a man in great pain and some quack that does not know the cause of the disease nor the remedy proposes brandy, making the patient drunk who is already - flighty with fsvsr, and making him feel for a short while that he is rich and well, but leaving him far worse off, there are political quacks deceiving the people, and making them think the gov ernment can take every thing in its hand and issue an untold amount of money, and make us .all rich, and the trouble will be over. The deluded people readily swallow this poisonous opiate thinking it wonder ful. Can a government even print mon ey without a basis or reserve fund of gold and silver, and make that money good any more one man can f Do you remem ber what the Southern Confederacy tried to do in issueing money, and how soon it became so worthless that it died. Sup pose I am worth one thousand dol lars, and I conclude I will become rich and I issue promissory notes for ten thousand dollars, and get men to take them as money. Pretty soon some one holding one of these notes wants the gold or silver for this note, and finds I am ut terly unable to pay it, what becomes of my notes? They die or become worthless. buppose a town concludes it will have water-works, electric lights, parks, pub lic buildings &c, tc., and issues one mil lion dollars worth of bonds for that pur pose, it it can sen tnem tor money men what ? Must not a big tax be laid on the citizens of that towa to pay thenterest on these bonds, and soon the bonds fall due and must be paid. For a town or corporation must pay its bonds or debts as much so as an individual. Then what? Distress and bankruptcy follow. Govern menti must also tav their debts as well as individuals and the citixens of the gov ernment must be taxed to pay their debts Our government had a destructive wur about 25 years ago, and it contracted a debt of millions of dollars. To pay this a great tax is levied on the people. Then millions besides must be paid out in pen bions to soldiers and their widows. Be sides this, enormous expenditures by Con gress must be paid by the people. Also no one knows how much the people pay to protect American factories against for eign competition. Besides this many of the people buy their flour and pork and nearly all they eat and wear, and what they produce does not sell for muoh. For instance, cotton, which, is the chief pro duct grown in the South for money, sells now at 7cts per pound, and pork, which we buy, at 1 Octs per pound. Farmers say- though it is cheaper to buy pork and pay fur it m cotton, or that tney would rath er grow a pound of cotton than a pound of pork. But will a pound of cotton buy a pound of pork ? Suppose it costs you six cents to grow cotton, and jou sell it for seven cents, then how many pounds of cotton must you grow to enable you to buy a pound of pork at to cents per pound? Answer, ten pounds of cotton. But suppose it costs you seven cents to produce cotton then you eon Id not buy a pound of pork if you should produce 1000 bags of cotton. No wonder the people are in debt and distress. The love of money turned the attention of farmers away from produc ing bread and meat just after the war when crrtton wsus high. We have not been afraid of making debts. Extrava gance also followed and now wretched ness stares us in the face. What is the remedy ? Is it to listen to quack doctors who counsel an increase of public debts by issueing so much more money, and recommend that the govern ment shall own every thing o, that is no remedy. The remedy must come slowly. For the patient is sick and can not get well in a day. If I am in debt honesty says my property if .necessary should be used to pay my debts. I should change my method of living by making bread and meat at home, and cease buy ing so much, and sell more. I should also cultivate good will toward my neigh bors by seeking to wrong no one, not tak ing anything from any man unlawfully, but should have good will toward all men. Let me do that which is right toward all men. Let me above all put my trust in the Lord and do that which is right. Let mo not seek to lay up treasures on earth, but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and pray for the eace of Israel. Let me do nothing to offend my brethren, but honor the Lord Jesus and abide in the doctrine of Christ. He is my King and let me serve him. De light thyself in tho Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. I have written the above because I de sire to see Baptists abide in the doctrine they have been taught and not depart therefrom, and thereby bring reproach and shame on the worthy name by which they are called. ' Every man has a right to vote as it seems to him right, but let every one of us seek to think and act according to bible principles. FREE RAW MATERIAL. How it Has Helped a Manufacturing Town. From the Charleston News and Courier. W. L. Douglass, the Massachusetts shoe manufacturer, whose picture adorns so many of the newspapers in this coun try, knocked the McKinley tariff out in one round at Brockton the other night. Rising Sun Morse, who made so great an ass of himself at the last session of Con- fjress, said some time ago that Mr. Doug ass "was getting so prosperous under the McKinley tariff bill that he could not afford to run" for Congress. In his speech at Brockton, Mr. Doug lass informed Mr. Morse that "the Mc Kinley bill had nothing to do with the prosperity of the shoe business, as I can prove by an examination of my books. The McKinley tariff went into effect No vember 14, 1890, and for three months following my business fell off 30 per cent. How did I regain it?" continued Mr. Douglass. "By doubling my force of salesmen and increasing the amount of ray newspaper advertising." Mr. Douglass discussed the free hides 3uestion and its relation to the shoe in ustry. He said that Brockton's prosr perity was duo to free raw material and what was good for the shoe industry was also good for the iron, building and wool en industries. Quit the Alliance. Shelby Aurora. We hereby announce our withdrawal from the Farmers' Alliance. We are Democrats, and this secret organization has departed from its constitution and gone into partisan pontics. ' W. Kim Hardix, N. A. Jackson. . These two are prominent citizens of Cleveland county and successful farmers, who now see that this secret organization, formed for a noble object, and to help the agricultural class, has become, in North Carolina, a Republican tool to help elect Harrison. These two believe that the Alliance leaders are in the em ploy of the Republican party and are de ceiving the honest yeomanry ot Nortn Carolina. , FOR ONE DOLLAR. Yoi eaa get The North Carliaian for oae year for 1 1.00 if jom abscrife by Not. 1st. THE NEW YORK FIGHT. 1IOW IT LOOKS TO A TAR HEEL ABIDING IN GOTHAM. Cleveland and Stevenson Will Win If Boodle Does not Control as it Did in 1888. Special Cor. to North Carolinian. New iork, Oct. 2.). lhe decisive battle for the Presidency, as usual, is be ing fought right here in New York and there is no use to disguise the fact that at this time the greatest doubt prevails at the headquarters of both parties as to the result. I have talked with men who are on the inside at Chairman Harrity's bureau and at Chairman Carter's bureau. They do not quote these gentlemen, lut they say that neither is certain that his party will carry New York. Up to this time there has been Jess noise and less betting than for years I The Republican leaders have from the out-set found their party much harder to arouse than the Democrats have. They have met with more misfortunes and suffered more desertions from their ranks and their whole course up to this time has been one of defense aud a feeble de fense. Their defense of the Force bill is always half-hearted and evasive. I have heard two or three Republican speakers hissed at Cooper Union for defending t his bill, but while all this is so, Carter's bu reau has unlimited means close at hand and within the last week he has succeed ed in waking up the rural population of the State and the prospect now is that every Republican vote in the State, bar ring a considerable number who do not understand the Australian ballot system, will be cast. This system will cut down the vote on both sides, but will hardly affect the result. I The registration reports from: all the interior counties and cities where Repub licans cast large majorities show that the party has lost its apathy and is preparing for one of the fiercest struggles in its ex istence. The Democrats have just dis covered that their opponents are coloniz ing both negroes and white men in Brooklyn, Long Island city and other places. This game will be effectually checked. i But while their opponents are making such a fierce struggle, the Democrats of New. York were never more together. The nomination of Thos-.- F. Gilroy by Tam many for Mayor is a good choice for Cleveland'and Stevenson, for Mr. Gilroy is one of the most popular men in Tam many Hall while the county Democracy which has nominated Mr. Quinn is quite as defunct as a mummy. That consum ate tactician and diplomat Mr. Whitney has succeeded in uniting the Tammany aud Mugwump element. It is remarka ble to see such papers as the New York I'imes and Evening lst, either silent or praising Tammany's nomination for May or, but they do. lne force Dill nas cemented the party through and through. Go down on the Bowery or go up in Har lem, go to any Democratic massmeeting in the city and you will hear the speakers pleading for the supremacy of white gov ernment in thc South and telling the as sembly how much New York citv is detendent upon order and prosperity in the South. Down on the Bowery the other night a speaker told the assembly that a joor white man in New York was to be disfranchised because he happened to vote the Democratic ticket while a Southern negro was to be placed in power because he voted the Republican ticket. It struck the crowd with great force and if there is any Force bill it will not be the fault of the Democrats in New York City. The Italians and Russians and Pol ish Jews who have become citizens have been made to understand the Force bill. They have all been sufferers and victims of oppression in their native countries and Democratic speakers have only to mention Garibaldi's great struggle for liberty to reach Italy in New York and the tyrrany of the Czar to arouse the Hebrew voters. They all understand the Force bill when it is put in these res pective lights. But as I said in the out-set the election in New York is going to be too close for fun. The Republicans now count on coming down to the Harlem river with 100,000 majority for Harrison while they say tnat Cleveland win receive only 85,- 000 majority in New York, Queens and Kings counties, the Democratic mathe maticians at Chairman Sheehan's head quarters say that it is not possible for Harrison to come down to the city with more than 95,000 and that New :York City, Brooklyn and Long Island city will meet'this vote at the river with a cool 100,000 for Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland has been in the city for nearly two weeks, but he is very seldom seen on the streets. Sunday night about twelve o'clock, he stood at the w indow of his hotel, the Victoria, looking at a fire across Broadway. The crowd saw him and set up a cheer, and he pulled down the curtain. The unjust criticism of his conduct at the Columbian celebration and the necessary absence of Mr. Harri son was most painful to him. His politi cal enemies said that he had taken ad vantage of Harrison's absence to make himself conspicious and furthermore that he had deliberately left the stand to avoid reviewing the grand army men. There is not a "touchier" and more undeservingset than these grand army men, take them all in all. Many of them who live here in the city are able bodied unwonnded mendicants. Some of them never were in battle, but they spend their pension money m gambling dens, brotneis and beer gardens. They may be seen in these places with their grand army uniforms on any day or night, it is such fellows that complain when Mr. Cleveland Jis called away from the grand stand to meet an important engagement. j New York has an unusual number of persons out of employment, many more than for years at this season. Ex-Mayor Grace says: "We are suffering hard times, and it is due to the McKinley tariff which has already so oppressed the V est and South, and especially the latter section, whose merchants are not able to buy goods." In a recent interview with him, he said it was his opinion that the Southern trade had fallen' off fully 20 per cent, within the last two years. Such a de cline in trade is bound to have its effect here. There are some unmistakable in dications that money is not plentiful with the average man. At many of the best theatres and houses of amusement, poor and cheap plays have the preference and draw the crowds. This fact is due not so much to the change of taste as to down right necessity.'" A good play costs and it does not now pay well in "New York. Both Modjeskae and Joseph Jef ferson are playing to large houses this week, but their seasons are short and their reputations are commanding, while Lottie Collins, the Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-a singer, of London, fills the house at prices ranging from 50 cents to $1.50, and can do so all the winter. Tha longest telephone lis in tha world is that between this city and Chicagoone thousand miles. ' The other day a party of a hundred New Yorkers assembled in a room on lower Broadway and conversed with a party of eighty Chicagoans about the opening exorcises of the World's Fair. The New Yorkers distinctly heard the music and the moving of the parade on Michigan Avenue in the windy city, and the Chicago people declared that they heard distinctly the roar and thunder of commerce on Broadway. Other lines will be constructed and the two greatest American cities can have something to sav to each other during the World's Fair. 1. F. St. Clair. THE TAX OX fcTATE BANK NOTES. Baltimore Sun. A corresiKndeut is informed that the issue of notes by State banks is older than the constitution. The Bank of North America and the Bank of Massachusetts existed before the Federal Constitution was formed, and there is no limitation placed by the Constitution uonthe pow er of the States to grant charter to State banks. It was so held by the Supreme Court in the case of Briscoe vs. thc Bank of Kentucky. That decision declared the power to charter banks belonged to the State as an incident of sovereignty. The Democratic party, as the defender of the reserved rights of the States, has long favored a reduction of the tax of 10 per cent, upon the notes of States banks, im posed by the act of March 3, 1865, and reimposcd by the act of July 1, 18G6. The object of the tax of 10 er cent, wasto compel the btate banks to buy govern ment bonds and become national banks, since the ownership of government bonds is a prerequisite to the issue of notes bv national banks. The purpose in fact was to force the withdrawal of States bank notes by by making their, circulation un profitable, not because they were not sound currency, but because the conver sion of State banks into national banks would create a large demand for govern ment bonds. In the case of Ycazie vs. Fenno the Supreme Court (reversing for mer decisions) held that Congress could restrain by its act the circulation of State banknotes. That decision, however, like other recent decisions, was dictated by political considerations, and it expressly conceded tho right of the people to de; ni;;nd a return to the State bank system. The volume of national bank uotos in circulation is by law proportioned to the amount of government Iwnds held by the national banks. Bonds being very high, some of the national banks do not issue notes, finding sucli issue unprofitable. As the national debt is paid off the banks are compelled to surrender much of their circulatiou. The volume of national bank notes is rapidly decreasing. On October 1, 1880, there were 2,090 Wion-' al banks which held United States bouds to the amount of $:3.j7,800,000 as securi ty for their circulation and had $317, 300,000 of notes in circulation. On September 25, 1891, there were 3.677 na tional banks a large increase but their holding of bonds to secure circulation had fallen to $150,000,000 and their notes in circulation were but 131,300,000. Evidently this is a contraction of theeur rency which it may be desirable to pre vent if a safe means may be found. The total interest-Jx'aring debt of the United States on July 1, 1880, was 1, 723,993, 100, but 'on "August 31,1892, the total interest-tearing debt aggregated but $585,031,080 a great shrinkage of the basis uon which national bank notes are based. It is evident that if government bonds continue to be paid off at anything like the rate of the last twelve years there will soon begone of them left to base the notes upon. It will be borne in mind that the government's obligations are not all of a kind to be available for the use of the national banks.. At the close of August last, for example, there was a government debt of $379,658,574 that bore no interest. There were in the hands of the public certificates and treasury notes to the amount of $615,455,530, against which the government had in its vaults as an offset cash to an equal amount of the total liabilities of the gov ernment, aggregatingll, 582,681, 949, but $585,031,080, as already stated, bears interest, and is, therefore, of a character to be desired by banks as a basis for cir culation. There is undoubtedly a pretty general demand for some sort of safe circulating notes to take the place of national bank j notes as the latter are withdrawn. Some of our most conservative financial jour nals have recently advocated the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax and the revival of State banks. There is a partisan) cry that the notes of such banks must necessarily be bad, but that cry fails to take account of facts. Under efficient Federal or State inspection the notes of State banks can be made perfectly safe. The "vvildeat" banks of sixt years ago were, it is noted, in "wildcat" communities. New States, frontier life, &c, favored "wildness" generally- The conditions nowadays favor more conservative methods. But, i as Mr. Cleveland well says in his letter of acceptance, "whatever may be the form of the people's currency, national orState whether gold, silver or paper it should be so regulated and guarded by govern mental action or by wise and careful laws that no one can be deluded as to the cer tainty and stability of its value." It is objected that the notes ot State banks would not be suitable for inter-state commerce; that they would be subject to discount outside the State where issued. To this the answer is made that State t bank notes would be extremely useful within the States, and that for interstate; business the people would have the greenback, the Federal Treasury note. &c. According to Daniel Webster "a currency emanating partly from a na tional authority as broad in its origin as the whole country and partly from local banks, organized as our banks now are and issuing paper for local circulation, is a.better currency for the whole peeple than ever before existed. Each of these classes of institutions and each of these kinds of currency has its own proper use and value." In 1876 the Hon. Charles B. Roberts, of Maryland, introduced a bill in the House to reduce the tax on the circulation of State banks to 1 per cent, the existing tax on the circulation of na tional banks. The idea is not a novel one, but has long been advocated by con servative people as an act. of justice to communities which flo not own govern-; ment bonds, but would be benefited by the issue of well-secured notes by banks subject to efficient inspection. "Republicans, the skies are bright. Vote solidly for your ticket this year. The Third party claims 50,000 votes; but if they get only 25,000 votes in the State rr means REPUBLICAN success in No vember." Judge Furches, at Morganton, Oct. 4, 1892. FOR OSE DOLX.tR. Yob can get The North Carolinian for one year lorfl.OO if you subscribe by Nov. 1st. 3FDo you want $100.00? on second page, v See offer ELECTIONS BY HOUSE. WHAT THE TO SAY CONSTITUTION HAS ABOUT THEM. Two Instances Only Since the Govern ment Began Circumstance of the Je Iter son and Adams Contekts 1 Provisions as to Vice President, j ; The possibility seems to be admitted by almost erylody who dabbles in iol- itics that some electoral votes may be cast this year for another jerson than Grover Cleveland and .Benjamin Harri son, the Democratic and Republican can idates for the Presidency.! The admis sion of this possibility carries with it the suggestion that the 'electoral votes may be so divided among three men that none may have a majority. That would mean no election by the people and a reference of the candidates' claims to 'the National House of Representatives, with jwwer to act. Failure on the part of tho people to elect a President would, in all human probability, be accompanied by a failure to elect a Vice-President, but in such art event it would not fall to the House fo elect a Vice-President, but rather to thc Senate. The provisions of the Constitution in accordance with which the House and Senate would act in electing President and Vice-President are these: CHOICE OF PRESIDENT BY: THE HOUSE. Says the Constitution: ; "The President of the Senat .shall, in the presence of the Senate ami House of Kepresentatives, open all the certificates sentin trom tlie several status), and the votes shall then be counted ;. the person' having the greatest number of yotcs for President shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole nuiii ber'of electors appointed ; and if no person have such majority t&en frOm the persons having the highest numbers, not exceed ing three, on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Kepresentatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President the vote shall be taken by states, the rep-, sentation from each State having oue vote. jA quorum for this purpo.se bhall consist of a person or persons trom two-thirds of t he States, and a majority of -all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever t-he right of choice shall devolve upontliem'before-the4th day of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in case of death or other constitutional disability of the President."! " Applying this lw to the ease in hand, Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Harrison and proba bly Mr. Weaver would be the eligibles from whom the House would be compell ed to choose a President, and, as a mat ter of course, Mr. Cleveland would be elected. There seems to be nothing more than a possibility that the House will Ik: called upon to act in this matter; there is every indication that Mr. Cleveland will receive a handsome majority of the electoral votes, but all the samejt is in teresting to note that he has two chances of election, while Mr. Harrison has but one. If there should be no choice of President by the people Mr. Cleveland would certainly become President by the act of the House. For Mr. Harrison, however, everything' is to be decided at the election next month. AS TO THE VICE-PRESIDENT. Following close upon the directions as to the choice of President by the House, comes this: ! ; "The person having the greatest number of votes electoral votesj as Vice-President shall be Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of elec tors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest num bers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." ' In accordance" with the constitutional provision, in the event of no election by the people this year, the Senate would undoubtedly elect WJiitelaw Reid Vice President. . . : Discussion of what may hapjen this year starts inquiry as to what has taken place in former years. One naturally inquires how many instances of no elec tion by the people -have occurred, and wishes to know the circumstances of each case. . It will surprise some of those who are talking so glibly about elections by the House to be informed that there have been but two such elections from the beginning of the government down. Those elections took place in 1800 and in 1824. In 1800, when the electoral votes had leen counted the candidates stood as fol- lows: New Hampshire, Vermont, M assachusetts, . , Rhode island,. . . , Connecticut, New York e;. A: i, i STATES. 5 t o :, ! c 2c; g -.2 c.. J H -i i H i 12' 12'.... j......... . r. - i ; 8i 7! ....:.. S 3.,.. r; i 5: 5! 5 .... 21 21....!....'.... 8. h 4 4 .... hi 8;.... i 4..:. 4, 4,.. ..)....'...., 3!' 3 ... L..-!,... j l f ; 1 T3: ff 151J New Jersey, Pennsylvania, lelaware, Mhryland, Virginia,. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Total, One Maryland elector did not vote. - Jefferson and Adams had been the candidates for the Presidency, Burr and Pinckney for the Vice-Presidency, but under the Constitution, as it then stood, Jefferson and Burr having received the same number of votes, there was no choice for President. The Constitution said this: - ' " "The person having the greatest number of votes shall be President, if such num ber be a majority of the whole number of the electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have' such a majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Kepresentatives shall imme diately choose by ballot one of them for President. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the. greatest number of vote of, the electors shall be Vice-President." To the surprise of the country, when the election got into the House, Burr, who had been, as stated, candidate for the Vice-Presidency, developed into a candidate for the higher office.- It took thirty-six ballots to defeat the scheme of Federalists to elect Burr President, to whidh he was a party to the extent of ac quiescence. 1 Curiously, it seems, an Adams' figured prominently in the next election of Pres ident by the House John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts. The standing of the candidates after the count of the 'electo ral votes was as follows: ' ' , 1 A STATUS. Maine, New llmiipuliirf ,. Vermont Massachusetts, . . Rhode Island Cnnueeticut New York,.. New Jersey Pennsylvania,. . ;. Delaware, Maryland Virginia.. North Carolina,.. South Carolina,.. (' corgi a, .: Alabama, Mississippi Iouisiana, ,.V. Kentucky, Mi.ssouru. ...i Teuncssef ....... Ohio, ... .' Indiana, Illinois, Total 7!.. 15.. 4 .. A- 3Ki... l . 15,. Ilj. 8 . :i. '1 T'in n a; i 84 41 3T There had lieen a choice of Vice-President, John C Calhoun having received a handsome majority of the electoral votes, so that the only matter unsettled whs the Presidency. Under tho amended Con stitution there were three eligibles--Jackson, Adams and Crawford. In spite of thefact that Jackson htl Adams by fifteen votes iu the Electoral College, th Massachusetts man won in the Hoius. By a combination of Clay's forces and his own Adams managed to get the votes of l!l States out of the 34 that partici pated in the election just enough to give him the office. There has beii no failure on the part of the people to elect a President since 124, but there have been several instances' of a division of the electoral volesamong more than two candidates. The instances are as follows: 18U2 Andrew Jackson. 2111; Henry Clay,' 49; John Floyd, 1; Win. Wirt, 7. 183 Martin VanBuren, 170; William II. Harrison. 73; Hugh I- -White, 20; Daniel Welwtcr, 14; Willie 1 Mimguni, 11. 1858 -James Buchanan, 174; JohnC 1 Fremont 1 14; Millard Fillmore. 8. 1800 Abraham Lincolu, 1H0; Stephen , pouglas, 12; John C. Breckcn ridge, A : John Bell, 3!t. 1872 1' lyases, S. A. 'Hendricks,' 42; Charles J. Jenkins, Grant, 28ft; Thomas B. (Jratz Brown, -18; 2; David Davis, 1. Mil. II AItUlTV'S KNTI.M ATK. He Predicts that Cleveland will Have Seventy-Three Klecloral Vote i More than Harrison. j Chairman Harrity, of the. Democratic i National Committee, after carefully go- ing over he riorts received at headquar ters from every State in tho-(.'nioii, has made an estimate of the probable electo ral vote for the 'National ticket. He llg ti res that Cleveland, will receive 245 elec toral votes. Then will Ihi.4 14 votes in the next elect urnl college, and 22U will lie necessary to a choice. Counting the 15. Votes of Indiana, Mr. .Harrity thinks the Democratic ticket will jkiII 245 electoral votes. If Indiana goes Republican tho Democrats wiW still have seven votes to spare.' The following fable gives the probable result of -tint-elect ion: STATES. u u Alabama, Arkansas, . California, Colorado, . Connecticut, . Deleware, . Florida, . Georgia, Idaho, . Illinois, Indiana, . Iowa, . Kansas, . Kentucky, . lyouisiana, 11 8- 4 ft 3 4 13 24 15' 13 i 8: 10 Maryland, Massachusetts, . Michigan, . Mississippi, Minnesota, . Missouri, . Montana, Nebraska, . New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North. Dakota, Ohio, . Oregon, . Pennsylvania, . Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, . Texas,' . " .'. Vermont, . '.' Virginia, 'TJ Washington, . West Virginal, Wisconsin, .i Wyoming,' . bV. 8'. 0 - I . . .. 17 i i ... .i 10 3ft 11 3: 23 4 32 4 12 15 12 12 3 Total,. j 215 172" 27 Cleveland' majority overall, 7ft; plu ralty over Harrison, 73. THE FCSlib.N l MINNKKOTA. ' i Meaning of t Re Combine He t ween the Democrat and Populit. ; Sf'. Paul, Oct. 12. The action of the Democrats and Populists in w vera!" pacts iof the State to-day makes plain what the four Weaver electors were put on the Democratic National 'ticket for. At Rochester two .candidates 'for the Legislature were nominate! by the Popu lists, and the Democrats promptly cn--dorsed thetii. Tlje same thing ,wasdone in three other counties. The. scheme- is to bring about fusion In every part of the State. The Popklists will withdraw all their candidates in St. Paul and Minnea polis, and in return the Democrats will withdraw all their candidates in the Alli ance stronghold. The plan as laid out contemplates the control or the lower House, with the view of sending Michael, Ioran, Democratic National Commit teeman, to the United State Senate to, succeed, Washburn. . '. ', . ; 1 1 A Sample Radical Lie. Newbern Journal. ;' Mr. Respass. the Weaver elector in the first district, said at Winfall in Perquim ans county, that it was said, and believ ed that Mr. Simmons paid Eaves $20,000 to bring out a Republican State ticket. No honorable man believes any such thing. ' . f' FOR OXE DOLLAR. Yon can get The North Carolinian for one year lor fl.OO If yoa subscribe by Nt. 1st.
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