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VOLUME I. NUMBER 13.
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1892.
PRICE $2.00 A YEAR.
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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.
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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'
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