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State 8 THE HERALD I BEST ADVERTISING WEDIUH 1 PIUB3IT SECTiOI. f - isnrs tods ; Job Printing TO . THE HERALD OFFICE, FIrst-Clasi Work tt Lowest Prices. VOL. XV. NO. 51: MORGANTON, N. C . THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1900. 01 a Year, in Advance- D 6NB If the Democrats Persist in their Determina tion to Disfranclhe the Negro. CHUR.MA SIMMONS REPLIES TO 1 be Republicans, and Says That If Trouble SbouM Come, the Pec pi a Will Kaow Where the Blame Rest. ?i"vial Ralegh C:.rmpoJre. The political i!:Qjt!oa la very; rapid iy becoming lively. I;. is certain fc break the l3s recrrd when the cab Tmm get la fall :t;. Republlca:. .u: Chalr-sia Ilor.aa is charge-d wl: Latlcg io::xi:J thit Federal troop will bare to be ?n: ta this State. No 1.M at.;at. Swncer Blackburn, 'i char-re 1 hating tf a bow-sao: ranter by tajitg that a.oi-iat:o3 u ahead or isae rTe:ti..-Ti or demvrau 'Who la tie Ruor men boa the R--p-ji!:cars bar trtarlcJ as tier did la Kentucky? la aa ia:en ie ca this subject Chair a S.maoas r a'.J: "I bite read th uoount of tbe i,-fh delivered at New f o Lt eek be AtxUtant United Sates DttrL-t Attorney lUarkbora. ia wa'.h. after referring to the recent at w:citioa cf Goetxl. the DcmocTatlv noTraor-elc--t of Kentucky, by tbe fol lowers of Goen.r Taylor, tbe Repo !U-an ucrper. be said: 'Let tbe D-mu-orrat i Nsrth Carct.&a tike warcics from tbe fat of William Goebeb "Mr. Blackburn I very cloee to Re pidkaa State CJirmoa Hoi too: Ilol utj I raltet ?titos dlotrkt attorney of tb ura district aa4 Blackburn U fc.a Mi.il.jkai ta that office ani be U a protege cf Snitcr Prittaard. "air. Blackburn's warning to Demo rraia of wlial they may expert If they peritat la thtlr purpe to disfranchise tbe negro U I at j repltitlcn of tbe threat cf Ttoleo.- re-ently male la 1jt:trtcn by bii Vrf. Mr. lloHoa. tbe o-ly d.eertn.-e brlns that Black psrn u more spe.-isc than vi a Mr. H?la and boMJy predl.-t murder ar I rji.:aa:Jia cf Imx-rat. -Vij Dntl?r. the recent meeting f the Popallft executive committer, ppeetrj to the flrht.'uc Qvialitle of bU followers snd asked them to Jain band wXh the R?usUcans (four-Sftha ne groes) and drlre the hi:e supremacy gxag cut cf the Sate. I said in an In terview that his purposw seemed to be ta f.'.r up and Incite the negroes to i!ct resistance of the lawful purpos- of tue mb! e people. Ilolton's threau. kbara's warning. Pritchard s at te?Ep: to M-.-are Federal aid. Linney's h;f:t to pa; a. force bill election law tsrji.-rh Ccsgrraa, the utzi i-n?un: asiaolt upon white women, the Krttl and mys:er.ous activity of tbe revmae dxlers and the recent 3isia outbreak of negro insolence and law cere not only conflrm that cp.n ica but arauea a itroag o?picSoa that the fui.oa o.fice-bcMers are engaged la onje dangrroc r: Lex and that. In carrying It o:t. tbe nrgro Is being .rt!y ncatliej sad will be use J as & tool. It would fecm that the ca&?:- rrors hate dlcueed over their programme and pec-icred violence ao , much that their mini- hive become taorooghly sjturiud with It. under tbe heat of exritemen:. tiy It drop hints t-t iu dark purport. t'Ddcr thee cir cu33tance crdlnary praderce dktatca tiia: the ii:t people be ca their guiru acl witrh errry moresnt cf the ne. r.xi Ml t white emj-wxrics who miy be engaged In secretly orgxniiic? ' I hope there may be no trouble dur tie caxpaiga or at tl. election be ten the whites an J the blacks and wiil exercise reoAjnable forbesu jce. but If It cemte. we will know wbo litigated It t J who Is reapooilbl-f-r It. We are trjllt pf x-efolly an I ia the way p.-cili. J by law t amend the coc'tKnUun an J the attempt to In lixl late and d:cr t by threats of fcrre scd murder. h.le It proves all we hate ewer charged concerning the ehara.-ter of the Republican pixty on this Ftate snd Its leiderv. .:i make the todiact J bat Iiw-ablding white people cf the State more than ever !- t ermine 1 to remote forever the un-j tarab ricdlsloca wMf h hsr irj i earh tiinji potsible la Ncrta CarA- 1 zm. 1 Sccator Pritchard declares positively I thst he will ca co account become have It for the snkicg ia case Ewart U . , "... I ibp nurr fwa in, , - . . si give u Jirne reasoa. uii no wUhes to iwrve out his term. As the days pass. It become clearer aad clearer to aa observer thst person al work and canvassing on tbe part of I'ex jcrata will be mere thsa ever ne eary and effective la this campaign. Th Republicans an J these PopulUUl ji-s xuuiMiu.; who are ,helr al!s are dating them- elves to the work of trying to fill th minds of the uneducated white voter, with doubts, appealing to their fears by ntlsrepreeecUcns. They e tell. J ina them nrlrately snanr things which are to utterly untrue. Personal talk, explanation acd argument from their neighbors ani friends will be found the most effective way to - remove the un founded doubts and fears In this way created In the mtad of the uneducated. This class of voters have confidence in their honest neighbors snd they knoa they have no designs upon them and would not pcrpcsely mislead them. The Populists are preparing for lively session at their Slite convention. Senator Butler and his Republican an nex will try to fcrce upoa the conven tion aa official- declaration of opposi tion to the Constitutional amendment and thus put the party in antagonism to that mort important measure. Men who have been ra the Pop-allst party ever since It was founded say they will not -Jbn:t to any such uictation and that their party must leave this ques tion to Individual opinion and action. It U wry slgnlS.a&t that Northern Republicans are to a very large degree supporters of the Amendment. They have observed, since coming fcouiX tne doaatfoL Pritchard refusing, it seems ction od .tJ!T2S thst James E. Dcyd U next la line of thit secrloo providing any r 1 . xi v . 11 .n.iof the Amendment ahaI become or gro question carefully and tee what Und express thej We cl .If ..... . i. .i 1- . . 1 . n t ine Decpie. BUk siae iron negro are decUring iheir view, in fiata t 1 WHS the Democrats, candidate .re! It Is Lime of . art ia the bark-ground. II 1EI oeMuree. cot mea." Out the party 11I eboose good men. Tbere laflnema terlaL Tbe asplraau are tnodext. are aot posting tbenuelvee forward, ani are lr:Uns "tbe AatefrtaraT aJaya t-al flni. (to tblft excellent plan of conduct there t ceaeral aad eompli. mrattry eoaimeat. Tbe orraaltatioo of "White Sapreaaa tf clabe ts making ood prczreM. Ia oai co qe ilea tbere la eJready one la earh township. fa ebla county la: Situnlay out of 1 to: era -no were raUiered at a et tala point la tbe county, all aare to declared the mael res aopporter of the Amendment. Th! ia an excellent ex ample. fc. . . a in nrvo vc.rni are nifing iea r than trer before. Any refereare by them to politics la bow rare, tare po.tty la tbelr church c. It baa al ways beea the cu;cm amocx tbea to get political advice from tbe polpn and tbe white RepbrVans have always l.b- rUy utnixd tbe cecro preacher. Koowicx tau pwer or the nero preacher over bis flock, a smart sberiS of on of tbe Eoatern countless made a profitable icrestment by peytor each of four preachers 1 1-SO to tre u oat" that eerroee who did not pay their taxes tbla year eovU oerrr aieoln vote. The preachers gxre It out and the re tail was a nuh, ereryxdirkey wli mocey on tilm. The white republican can bo longer flna tbe Begro prrurb ers profltable to them. They know tbis year marks the cIom of tbe thirty odl years doricg which they hire ibrlTea by manipulating tbe nrgroe Whea they drop the darkey, they drop him hard. Mr. Simmons has just recHeJ a let- ter from a very prominent and cooler- Tatire democrat of tbe Sth DUrict. In witlch be soys: "1 fcare J oat read yoor latenrlew ta the Charlotte Observer and I hare reons la addition to thoee glrea by you to btliere that your con clusion is correct and that tbere 1 a deep laid scbeme on the part of our op ponents, through their revenue ofScers i and otbers, to raoae trouble aad tIo- I lenre and In some sc-tlotu they will at- ; tempt to bulldoze.. I venture tbe as sertion that there will not be a public speikicg of any Importance in the Wett In which armed revenue ofarer are not roasplctiously present and mak ing themselves generally obnoxious to th Democrats." -Why docs (naming a prominent revenue officer of the 6rh DUtiict) "hare so much business re cently la so many Ciffereot counties oulck. hasty visits) met (t'lmcUmes st heart) bj prominent republicans and I the deputy collector of tbe district and other revenue officers." 4 Proposed Changed Amtndm:at. firmer. I see from the newspapers there la some talk about tbe Legisla ture at Jts aJjcard se-ioa Ii Jnne amend'.ns: the 4th and &th sections so that even a Republican Court by a par tKin decision ceuli not to conatrue thrai as to declare cne section uncon stitutional wlthaut striking out the other section." fiusineas Man. "Yes. thst bis been practically agreed upon, and when the fulature meets It Is certain it will 1!Bml chere sect iocs. It Is perfectly clear from the Amendment Itself that the Legislature would not have passed one of tbee sections without tbe other sai thai the people would not ratify either without tbe other, and the ootlts racnot fail to see la the Amendment It M; tbis Intent cf the Legislature aud the people. Under these circuaosUn-i ces any lawyer would tell you It would be the bouaien !uty of the coot is to carry out tats clesr Intent of the people an J either apholi both section! or strike both down. For the cooiu not to do this would destroy government by the people and set up la Its place government by tbe courts. But tbe KepublX-ane are trying to scare the un educated whites by threatening tan their coarts will either not see this In ter t of tbe people or. seeing It for par tisan reasons, will overlook It and o construe the AmeoOflDat as to take faom them their rotes. "To remote all fears and doubts or the eui ptrioa of a Coubt In tbe mini of man. toe LmocTis. ween tee Legislature meets, wilt write this inrtni of the Legislature and the peo- pie in the Amen imect Itself. aJ there-' by mase 11 impju. r in tissu Republicsn ..THfni ce of thoe sectl ooe ltt jtrlklii I . ..... .411 -4- ikU k that tne irgts 'aturv w , " nnftifir titm 4th and 5th secLoas In one r - - - - , v ... ,..1 . to part or be declared uuccavatu'looaj cr vow me where of It shall at once become Bull and void and of no effect. .-With that plain expression of the will and intent of the Legislature and the people, no court can possibly up hold a port of the Amendment without nKni4:n h whole, or strike out a . ... ,,.-,I, a. psrt. 'Y? Zini 1 "ia 7,n, todolhie. not ' JTZZ n hil every uneducated whUe nn ln hi. vote, but to prevent .isi. rtrmb-s caused by the Repub lican threat to disfranchise uneduealed white people through a partisan decis ion of a Kepuoc Farmer. "I see" Butler and txls Cau ...ii.n aar that this change would not do any good, because ft would be mere ly an Inst rue iron 10 ia ww. piiifi Man. "O. well, nothing; wM .... r ti,!rir and the Caucasian. Fur a long Urn they said the Amendment .te hi hcen all right If the Legis- ! lucre had pot the two sections togeth er and they pretenaeii cae hod purposely separated them to dis franchise white. Now. when tt is pro posed to put thetn together, they say that went do any good. The truth is. Butler aad the Caucasian were simply trying to get up a ware-crow, and they ttoreght their had one. No one knows better thsn Butler and the Caucasian that their talk about Instructing the Court Is simply nonsense. Anybody 01 ordltury senee, can tee thst there is no attempt to ta. struct the Court, but simply to declare that there Is no JWtf. to f 3lB.M or rrerybody ntJerstsnds that .ni making a oeed era will. rtMker cannot Instruct the Court how It shall eosetrue It, yet be can express hie Intent clearly In words and tb court most ccsttroe it occorngty t: his Intent ao expreeoeo. Nothing 1 more commoa than for a deed or will to contain a condition, upon tbe hap pening of ablch tbe whole or any pa-1 thereof shall become void, as for In stance, if a widow man-lea, etc -Noir. euppoee with this provlo the Amendment the Court should aj we will strike out the CranuTxJei clause act atop right tbere; thea in stoutly the balance of tbe Amea&nec: would become void and iaoparare, be cause the rrcTUo, which Is a part of tbe educational clause ae well as the Grandfather clause, ears that if th courts strike out the Grandfather clause, ail the balance of the Amend ment (hail Instantly become void and of no erect AMENDMENT IN FILL. Aa Act To Amend the Constitution of North Carelias. To the General Assembly of NortA Car oliaa: Section L That' Article VI of the Constitution of North Carolina be. and the asme Is hereby, abrogated, and la lieu thereof ttull be substituted the ' i following article of said Constliutloat AHTICLE V. Suffrage std EUg.billiy ta Offlce Qual - Iflcatlon of an Elector. Section 1. Every male peisan bora It the United Stite. and every nale per son who has been natarallxed, twenty one years cf age and posc!cg the qualification set out in this article, aholl te etc! tied to vote at any elect iou by the people la tbe State, except a herein otherwise prorWed. See. 2. lie shall hvre resided in the State of -North Carol Ids for two years, ta Che couaty six motiths. and la the p res! net. word or other clo.t.lon dii trict lt which he offers t vote four moods next precevlJcs; the election rrorlded. that remavsl from one pre cinct. ward or other election district, to another la, the tune county, (hall cot operate to deprive any person of the right to rote In the precinct, ward or other election district from which be has removed until four months after such removal. No perton wbo has been convicted, or who has confessed bU guilt In open court upon Indktmect of any crime, tbe punishment of .whicn now is. or may hereafter be. Imprison meat in the Stste prison.. shall be per mitted to rote unless the sold person shall be first restored to ciUteoabip in the manner prescribed by law Sec 3. Every person offering to vote shall be at the time a legally registered voter as herein prescribed and ln the manner hereafter provided by law. and the General Assembly of North Caroli na shall enact general registration laws to carry Into effect the prqrUloE of this article. t Sec. 4. Every person presenting hisn self for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Con stitution In the English language; and before be shall be entitled to vote, he i hail nave paid, on or before Che first day of March of the year In which he proposes to rote, his poll-tax. aa pre scribed by law. tor he previous year. Poll-taxes fholl be a lien only on as sessed property and no process snau is sue to Id force the collection of the I naw except sgalnst sinsseJ property. Sec. 5. No male person, wbo woe on January 1. 1867. or at any time rrior thereto, en tilled to rote under the law of any State ia the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such person shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this State by reason of hi failure to posts the educational qualification prescribed In section four of this ankle; Provided, t shall have registered in accordance with the terms of thl itctioa prior to December 1. I. The General Assembly hall pro vide for a permanent record of all ixt sons who register un-ier tills section, on or before November first, one tho-osaLd cine Iraadred and eight; and all such persons shall be entitled to register and vote In all elections by the people In thks State, unless dlsqualinej unur Xwo of u,L article: Provide.!. such persoa shall have paid their pull tax aa required by law. Sec. . All elections by the people shall be by ballot, and ail elections by ih Ger nl Asembly shall be viva "voce. Sec. 7. Every Toter in North Caroli na, except aa in thi article d!vnia!lfld shall be eligible to office. Lu; beforeen tertcg upon the duties of the office he shsll take and subscribe the folio ing oath: "I d solemn. Iy swear lor affirm) that I will support and maintain the CoruL".atiou and law of the United tute and the Oocwstltu lion and laws of NctJi Carolina, cot lncoa!ftn: therewith, snd that 1 wl'l fsiihfully discbarge tbe duties of my office ss So fc1 c,oL Sec . The foHowlcg eiasw 01 I" 1 M be uUsquallSti for office r; avt.htr God. Second, all i .tt wrVI at all tstllT l.lf persons wtoo whall nave been convicte - MnfM-Ml their rullt n Indictment rw..-- and ahether sentenced or not, or udier Judgment euspexded. cl any treason or felcny. cr of any other crime for which the punishment may 4 imprisonment in the penitentiary. since becoming citliens of the Lnted State, oe of corruption and malprac tice in offlce: unless each persoa shall be restored to the rights of citizen so !p i muwr nr escribed by law. Sec 1. That all of the provisions of the OonttWClon relauag to suaraga. rirariou and elections, aa contained In thi act, amending the Constitution. shall go nto effect ta tne nr uj July, 1902. If a majority of the quali fied voters of the Stare ae declare at t Ha mi' rmnml election 1 This amendment shall be aub- mlUed) at the next general election to the qualified voters of tbe State. In the same manner ana unaer va? u and reguooCitms as is provweu in o law regulaUns; general elections In this State, andr In force May 1st. 19: and at said election those persons de srrinc to vote fcr such amendment shall cast a written or printed ballot with the worJs: "Fcr Suffrage Amend ment" thereon; and these with a con trary opinion shall east a written ot printed ballot with the words. "Against Suffrage Amendment," Oereon. See. 4. The said election shall be held and the rotes returned, com pare-1, counted and canTaased, and the result announced, under Vhe me rules and regulation a are In force for return ing tirtnpariac oountiog and canvass- inr a rotes nr memoera ji v.u. ersl Assembly Kay 1st, 1893. snd If a m,wtT nt the "rotes cast are in favor of cae mil amendment. It shall be the drty tt the Governor of the S:ate to certify said Amendment under the! seal ot the taae. to the Secretary of State wno shall enroll the cold amend ment'so certified among the permanent records of his efflec i 5 nt set . shall re In force from and f t ratiicot'.on. In the General Aseemoly read three time and ratified this 21st day of Feb ruary, A- Dc, 1899. C. A. REYNOLDS. . President of the Senate. XI. G. CONNOR, Speaker of the House of Repress to- Uvea. SLANDERS OF WHITE MEN Of the State-VVhat the Nejro Manly 5sld. ...... - AV . A 1 fr' their women mere closely, as Mr. Fel ton ssys; thus giving no opportunity for tbe human fiend, be he wane ow OISCK. IOU INIB JVU1 fcwu. - doors and then complain because they are taken away. Poor white men are eareleta In the matter of protecting their women, especially on farms careless of their conduct to They are ward them, and our experience among poor white people in the country teachra us that the women of that rr are not anv more particular it the matter of clandestine meeting with colored men than are the white men with colored women. Meeting-. of this kind go on for some time, until the woman's Infatuation or the man's boldness bring attention te them and tbe roan Is lynched' for rape. Every nerra lynched is called a "big. burly black brute." when In fact many o those wbo bave been thus dealt with L-jJ whiie me a for their fathsrs an were iot only not "black- and "bur-1 Iy," but were sufficiently attractive for tbe white rirls of culture and refine ment to fall in love with them, as Is well known to all." Negro Manly, in his paper. The Record. Are tou aurorised that the white men of Wilmington drove him from tbelr city? Imitates Ths Negro Manly. Hut whr does the desire to elimi nate lgnorsnce extend only ta the ne- grof If lgnorsnce Is a constant men ace to tbe State, certainly It ought to be wholly eradicated and not stop a. the least offensive pert. The lgnor snce which disturbs the peace in this State is found among the whites In the Democratic party, and not among the negroes. If the negro Is unfit for tb- ballot try reason of his lack of learn ing, certainly the white man who I equally as Ignorant is also unfit for the ballot. No amount of sophistry can destroy the force of this argu ment." Ashevllle Register (Republl can). Linnsy and White. Republics n Congressmen Llnney. when ssked a questloa In Congress. yields the floor to negro Congressman Geo. II. White, who said: "I have Investigated tbe facts in re card to these lynching for the list two and a half years, and I say tha. less thsn seventy 'five per cent, of the lynchlngs which hare occurred In t un united .States wre chargeable to the cause stated; ana ir mere were- noi outrage and assaults committed not upon white women by buck men. but by white men upon black womeri. those lynchlngs would oe lese tnau uey r now." White is the type of negro offlce holders elevated by the Re-pop-II -cans. Is It any wonder that the white people are determined to end negro offlce holding in North Carolina? Extract From Caucasian. "The awful crime of rape, the con demnation of which should be prompt ed by sincere motives and honest pur poses Is used la a hypocritical mannr for base and . partisan . end3, and all ths time they are condemning tbe nature of the crime they are seem ly longing for more ropes, that they may better play upon the prejudices o the people. Senator Butler in- cau caslan. September 30th, 1S97. Senator Butler. "If colored men commit outrages the DemocratJ pretend to be terribly shocked In public, but when they get behind a wall they laugh until they grow fat. and if tbe outrages are not frequent enough they hire worthless negrof to comn;i inern. aiirion llutler in his speech at Rocky Moan. N. C October liih. 1S93. The men who certified that made this statement ia hii Mount speech are: . Rer. B. S. McKenzle, Dr. Thorpe. J. P. Daugbtry. R- H. Butler Roty F. J. Ricks. F. M. Drauhan. Isaac Levy. Rev.. A. D. Bctts. Wants Fed ral Aid. Chairman Holton Wants Federal Aid "Republican State Chairman A. E. Holton. of North Carolina, is in the city to discuss with tbe sdmlnlstrstion officials the proposed franchise' amend ment in that State. "This Is tbe llvest local State issu in the United States today, and party leaders on bcth sides are taking a keer interest in the fight. Chairman Hol ton will talk the matter over with Senator Hanna and President McKic ley today, and will Intimate it is said, that Tederal troops will Le necessary when the vote Is tsken. He will also urge prominent Republicans to go to North Carolina aud take part in tbe campaign. "The chairman is charging fraud, in timidation, desperation, lawlessness. many other things against tbe Den; ocrats in general and Chairman Sim mons In particular, and declares that riot and bloodshed will-Inevitably rc suit, as the negroes are determined to fight for and demand their rights. Washington. D. C. Correspondence of Atlanta .?uornaL Spencer Blackburn. "Goebel was shot down at the steps of the capitol because be was the arch perpetrator of this hellish -scheme. t was no more thsn might have been ex pected." Then drang himself up to bis full height he shouted: "North Carolina Democrats may take warning from the. fate of William Goebel." Extract from speech of U. S. Asst. District Attorney Blackburn at New ton. Tbe Goebel referred to by Blackburn In the above harnAigue was the Dem ocratic governor-elect of Kentucky, who was foully murdered by the fol lowers of Governor Taylor, the Repub lican usurper of the )Jce to which Goebel had been elected, because he dared to contest before tbe Legislature In the way provided by law the right of this usurper to tbe office of gov ernor. Blackburn la very close to Republi can Chairman Holton. Holton Is Unit ed States District Attorney of the Western District and Blackburn Is his assistant la the office. He is a protege of Senator Pritchard, and the nbor threat was delivered from the same platform from which Pritchard had Just spoken. Geo. 1L Wtlte. "I am not the only negro who holds office. : Tttre are others. There ara .plenty mote being made to order to hold offices. We don't hold as many as wc wllL The DemocntUJlalk about the color lino and the negro holding office. I Invite the Issue." These were the words of George H White. Republican member of Congress from the Second district, the only ne gro member of Congress In the Uulted States. He was addressing the 1898 RcDublican State convention in Ral eigh, and he was cheered to the eoao by ths delegates to that convention. He was the Uon of the occasion, and bis speech was THE speech 02 the convention. Descended From Slaves and Felons. A convention of negroes has ;Bt I been held In Washington City, to pro- test against the amendment to our constitution and against lynching. Toey appointed a committee, which deliberated over the matter and re ported to tbe convention, among other tMnga the following, which we copied from the Washington Post "We are willing that our genealogy b compared with that of those white p ople whoe ancestors were brought over from tbe prisons of England by shiploads and made slaves for a pe riod, after which they were permuted to become citizens on equal footing 1th their former masters, from 1610 to 1623.' in the Carollnas and Virginia. We only ask for the same generous treatment, slnco we have become free citizens, that was bestowed upon this class. WHO NOW COMPRISE THE GOVERNING ELEMENT OF THE SOUTIL Senator Butler in his speech before the Populist executive Committee at Its late meeting eaid: "We hare got to fight and we bad aa well make up our minds to do 1L" "The Republicans are In this fight to the death. Let us Join hands with tbem and help them whip this gang out of the State. Let us announce to ths world that North Carolina will no longer hj ruled by anarchists. red shirts and a little gang of toadies men who hare betrayed everybody and everythlng.- The Republicans are willing for us to take the lead, go ahead and hold a convention and name a ticket. They will help us elect It." MAklNO WAR IMPOSSIBLE.' 6evelstiea Wrsaiht by ths Marazlae RiDe, Saokeless Pswser sss Artillery. The invention of the magazine rifle was the beginning of the end of war. Tbe modern rifle is not only more rap id but It has greater precision and wid er range? ' It has a range from three ta four miles, and Ibis Increases Its ef fectlveness Immensely. In the last great war it was necessary to sight tbe rifle high so that it had no effective ness letween tbe muzzle and the point wlere it ajjpmached tbe ground again; the modern rifle missile proceeds at tbe same distance from tbe ground lor more thsn a mile, and will kill or vmund auy living thing it strikes in its course. At a near range it win ga through a file of soldiers. Tbe rifle of to-morrow will be forty times ns effec tive as tbe Cbasepot of the Franco Prussian War. With this rifle a soldier can carry five hunareu ana seveuiy- flve cartridges where he carried only elghVy-four with tbe eld style. The' invention of smokeless powder is cNiually Important. It demolishes the screen behind which human Deings hare fought and died. Every soldier in the fighting-line will see with fright ful distinctness the haToic being made In the ranks by tbe shot and shell of tbe enemy, causing an Immense strain upon tbe nerve- and morale of tbe army. An army on tne marcn, wimuui hearing anything, will be apprised of the proximity of the enemy by seeing men drop, killed and wounded, mere will be nothing along the whole line of the horizon to show whence t.v death-dealing missiles come. Tbe artillery branch of the service has made even greater advance. The French gun of to-day Is one hundred and sixteen times as effective as that in use twenty years ago against the Germans. By the use of range-nnaers a great savlug In time and In ammuni tion bns been effected. -bne tne rauge lias increaseu. rue niwuo power of the projectiles has enormous ly developed. It Is estimated that 11 a force of Ion thousand men. aavau clng to an attack, had to traverse a distance of one and one-half miles un der the lire of a single battery, tbe urstlnjr of shells thrown by that bat- terv would scatter two hunurea aua .aa w seventy-five thousand bullets in frng nients over the line of advance Ar gonaut. "Tsarsiy" y tbe Acre. If a civilian were rskcq now mucu space upon the veldt a battalion of our infantry would occupy .when marching, be would In all probability make guess which would be utterly wide of tbe mark. It requires an expert to tell bow a bod.r of moving troops are dis tributed over a 6tretch cf country. A Itsttallnn is rrenerally about- 800 strong, aud when In colnmn of route it (wcnnlen about SM rards. When the marrh has been continued for more than an hour, however. 20 per cent muni" be allowed to this estimate. for straggling. A field oattery upon tbe march occn- I pies about 240 yards, but as horses do not lag as men do only m per cent, need be allowed for straggling. Cavalry, when marching in sections thai l. four abreast occupy as exact ly as possible as many yards as there ore men in the force. Tbe rates of march of the varions troops are as fol lows: A small body of Infantry can travel at three miles" an hour, or. at a I'lncb, tbe rate can be Increased to about throe. antl a half miles. Cavalry walk four miles an hour. trot nine miles an hour, and gallop fif teen. Artillery walks at three miles an hour, trots eight miles, ana wnen galloping Into action tHeir speed can not be definitely estimated, it de pends almost entirely upon the type of gun and the kind of ground which it has to traverse. It must not be forgotten, however. that Just as the weakest link of a chain represents its true strength, how ever strong the other parts may be, the speed of a, combined force upon the march Is no greater than that of tts slowest arm. London MalL I KENTUCKY IS AGAIN Dangerously Near the -Vcre of CivD Conflict BOTH PARTIES CROW BELLIGERENT Taylor and Beckham Each Order Out the MIMtJa State House Grounds Agnlo Surrounded With Troops. FlWbrt, Ky., SpeciaJ. The ebtu et&aa (here that? reac&et& a point, of ex citement almost aponooohilnK that ol tie Etlrriag thntes tamediateay follow. jlnc he eeeassIniaitSoD of Goetoel. The neflnstatement of the military power ht complete cofcitzrol cf the State executive buIW-ng -and the refusal of the mllitarjl 4 1 A . 1 HA.. '. , . ' iuuiuiwa vj tuivw uie wen ponce and! civtt. officers to enter the building for the purpose of arresting Seoretiarjj oc otaoa uaieb Fowere and C&pt. John W. Davie, chaa-ged wuh being acces sories bo tthe Goehet assassination, and the protxibility of a conflict (between the civil and mdiitaxy authorities baa made the sftuaffton look serious. Satur. day tnorning Oity Marshal Rldhiardeoa applied et the executire buildiimg and demanded to be admitted for Che pur pose of arresting Powers and Davis, but was turned tuck araJ the warrant. were thea turned over to Sheriff Suter. The latter also presented idmself at the executive btcildirug and demanded admlbtancei. He waa referred by the officer in charge to Col. .Morrow, and tibia Latter being found!, eaidT "I aot worry, Mr. Sheriff, but it is against Gov. Taylor's orders to let any one into the building." Sheriff Suter them held a consulta tion with County Attorney Polcgrovo, Conimonweu&iih Attorney Franklin and other officials. .Meantime the police force bad fceen doubled- and: a detail gujamded eaidb of Che entrances to the State House grounds to - prevent the men waxiJed from escaping. At the conference between- the officials it was decdd&f that the Sheriff should eirm mom a large retterve force of (Deputies, to be called into use la the event it was tfaedded bo attempt to enter the building: by force to make tho atresia, and In pursuance of tola, the sheriff swore in 60 oven, wlho were ttatloneti in the neighborhood of the sheriff's office daring the afternoon. Sheriff Suter made another attempt to get an au dience with Gov. Taylor 4n the after. ooont but was uaasir-eoajsfuk Ine Bisects were fairly blocked: with people in bhb vicinity of the State HVuse, but there was no open demonstration, though, it was evident that the popu lace was on the side of the civil au thorities. At 3 o'clock Sheriff Suter, having failed to get any sort of under stAndfcng with, the military authorities, as to the arrest of tbe . partic?, sub mitted the cfute& on to Democratic Gov. Beckham to decide to what extent ths clvtl officors should go to gain ad mittance to the building for the pur pose of irra-fcing the arrests. It is eaid that Democratic Gov. Beck bam will not give aa answer to Sheriff Suher'a reauest for Instructions till sosDcftline later sat the week and since the escape of Powers and DavLa ha may tfacAde thai the changed conditions of affairs does cot necessitate the giv ing of instructions on his part. The Triplett resolution authorizing the expenditure of $100,000 in arming and eauioDine a Soate guard under Gov. Beckham and Adljt. Gens. Castle man, will -fame up In the house Tuesday, and, it Is eaid Chat Got. Beckhaanl has de termSnedi to wait untiil after the pas sage of the measure, when. If mei wanted by civil officers were still bar. ricaxSed in the State bouse, he would call on AdJtrGeiu CUstlraxm aa-I au thorize him to muster in enough men to take find prisoners. Since the est cape cf Powers and iarvis. nowever, the coafiijt.lona have changed, and what will be done cow depends alto gether ujjor their future movements. The events of the day served to 8 ho y very forcibly that the State gnard aa at Dreient orMolzej does not unan:- naously recognize Taylor as govenici-: Lieut Sparks refused to muster in tha London company in response to a telei gram from Gov. Taylor ordering aim ta brii? the comoanr there, and bits jjexlngfton companies also refused, xfiai Tint KeamtodT of one of th Lexington ocrrnpandes, came here and personally teautored to Gov. Beckham the services cf the Third- tattalion ol the Second resflment. He also stated thai 50 men are iruardlng Che com pany's armory and will recognize only BeckCiam as governor. No Chromos With Cigarettes. Washington, D. C, Special. Com missioner waiaon, of the internal reve nue (has deoidlejd to proceed agalmt the inanuJaotHirens of tobacco . and cigar, .ettee miho vioiate section 10 of the act of July 24. 197. This section; pro hibits placing in or connecting wtttJh packages of smoking tobacco and) fine cut chewing and cigarettes and article or thing wtoaibsoever other than the manufacturer's 'wrappei-e and labels. and excludes aSl gifts, prizes, prem iums, etc. or orders for the eanm To day the irxaTDtrndssSoner sent toleeranhie irustlnadtaonB to collectors or sncernai revenue that thts act must be stxtotly observed- British Losses. London, By Cable. The tateet offi cial figures of casualties' in South Af rica trhow that the Dritlslhj total in killed, wounded and rtfissing is 14,36 to which, about 70 aire addtaibis. Ac oorddng to cJhe latest official figures, of 565 officers and 7,108 men woundieid, only 347 died; And of a total of 2,900 deaths only about 800 .were due to dis ease. Queen's Visit Ended. London; By Cable. Queen Victoria brought her visit to London to a close Saturday evening and returnied to Wlndisor after an inspection of two ba'tritaLfona of the guorda. Tbroughout the day vast crowds gathered outside Buokicgham palace and along, the ad TOrxaed route to the ratatoad station, and when the royal ceirrlage flnaliy started! for Hyde pork, on its way to Paddln-rton, tffie enthusl-asm broke out Into eneers. wnioh almost was un bioke-D until the train departed. , . . ARP VISITS CANTON. fie Te,,s About 1,,e Prosperity of the People. WN PLACE- LONG TIME Made a Trip on Horseback from Law- rencevllie to Canton, Seventy Miles, In One Day. It looks like every township and county and section has got something peculiar to Itself that is valuable for human purposes and helps to sustain the people and make tbem prosperous. I was ruminating about this because I hare Just visited Canton, a small re tired village of 2,000 people. I have known. Canton for fifty years and have a good reason for remembering it. Soon after I was married my father in-law, Judge Hutcbins, asked me to ride over there and deliver some im portant legal papers to the clerk of tho court. I was to ride his fine eaddle horse "Lee," and he told me where to etay all night. So I kissed my pretty youngrwlfe goodby and made an early start for the thirty-fire mile Journey. I was a good rider and Lee was a fret traveler. Up hill and down hill and on the level stretches he never broke his easy pace, making about seven miles an hour, and it was Juat twelve o'clock when I reached: Canton. While I was feeding the horse and rubbing him down I began to think how lonesome it would be to stay there all night and how lonesome. my young and pretty wife would be all solitary and alone by herself and nobody "with her to com fort her. I looked at Lee and he look ed like he, too. would rather go back to where he came from. So about I o'clock I remounted and set his ears toward Lawrenceville. He seemed all right for many miles, but slacked up when afew miles from home and we got there Just as the family were sit ting down to supper. I Baw my wife's smile of pleasure and I saw, too, the Judge's look of surprise and displeas ure. iHe rose from the table and went out to look after his favorite horse. I then began to realize that seventy miles in a day was a long ride for a horse and that I had done wrong. Next morning I was up by daybreak to look after Lee. He was all right and as game as ever.. The Judge never said anything hard, but he looked grieved. (He. too. went out to look after his horse and when he-came back eaid: "I reckon I had better give you that horse or never let you ride him again, for if you are to kill him I would rather he would ibe yours than mine. That is all he said, and it was enough. Some time after that he did give him to me and he was the gamiest, proudest and best horse I ever owned." But I never rode him seventy miles in a day any more. I never think of Canton now but what the memory of that episode comes over me. Well, 1 would ride a hundred miles in a day now to reach my home and my wife, but . it would be on a railroad. Canton is the county seat of Chero kee a 1rge county, that was the borne ofthe Cherokee Irfdians u-ntil 1836. The name came from Chera, which means fire, and the Cherokees were known among the tribes as the nrophets of divine fire. There were sev era! Indian towns in this region and their chiefs were known as Stop and Chicken and Laughing Gal. The region around Canton is rich in minerals. Gold and copper and iron and marble abound in her hills. Some of these have enriched many men aa 1 the pursuit of them have ruined many more, but lately new processes or mm Ing have made the results more certain and now northern and English capital has given fresh vigor to the work of digging, crushing, quarrying and re ducing the ores and finishing the mar ble, -Marble work is especially being extended and new quarries being opened.- I was told that only a few years ago Judge Gober and a fewf as sociates bought a marble quarryf not far away for $3,000 and were recently offered $23,000 for it and refused it The Georgia "Marble Finishing Com pany have planted near the depotH-ery extensive works that employ over 100 oands, all white and all Georgians, and xnost all of them young men. Mr. Brady, a very courteous Boston gen tleman. Is the manager and said he was pleased to say that these Georgia boys were Just as ready to learn the art of working and finishing marble and just as quick and skillful as any he ever controlled. I watched them at work In the different -departments and was proud to see their progress. This is a large plant and the marble was seen In all its stages from the great blocks Just from the quarries to the most beautiful of finished monuments and 9 UL We represent the leading companies of the world, and write policies M tha lowest rates. Among the companies we represent are: t ! .iKSulhe.Ats. the Continental, .the Hbf- Phcanix, the Lancashire, the Caledonia tbe Virginia f"Xouna Virginia State, the Delaware, the Pennsylvania, .th0'"' Home-all first class firs companies with assets W'41" X 'ft Wlalso represent the Penn Mutual Life the PbcEn.x Life, and I the .C. 8. Fidelity and Casualty Co., and Standard Accident Co Can writo jotf ,ny kind of Insnrance jon wsnt to any amount; anu we .. - --p Guarantee, Companies that wiu write an ui. i .T,trnriL receivers, bonds to sot amount Call on us for rates or other information. 5fflce in mSSul Building.. AVERY, EBVIN k CO., A gen ta. -Hrww-rrww - BURKE - COUNTY - BANK, MORGANTON, N. C. RESPONSIBILITY ATT V?1f PVT Cl T? TT"T s7T? TJsMj?avit' VaibiUbiiA Uajlail .. avomvv . . . K. C. JIENZ1ES. Yice-PreBiden , X -sds, . ,etc, Jryle and . Jaii order. Does a Ge in 1 columns an'4T)uiI3Tng blocks. "There were hundreds of them and were all to fill orders, principally from the north and east It takes forty-eight hours to run the gang sajvs through one of those huge blocks. The saws are of the hardest steel, but have no teetx'. They are moved rapidly by steam pow er and work through sand and water. Some of the men are working with mallet and chisel and some turning marble in. turning lathes and some are polishing on the horizontal planes of Immense revolving wheels that are flooded with water and sand. Every thing there is up to date and is a great improvement on the old methods. ."Up to date" is now an expression that heard everywhere concerning machin ery. I heard it at Ensley at the iron and steel plants and I heard it ia the cotton mills of South Carolina. All machinery now must be up to date or it will be rejected. The pay roll to the workmen in this one marble plant is $500 a week,- and most of this is spent in Canton. Just so It is with the gold mines not far away. The gold mining "companies are making money by up to date processes . and Canton, gets a good share of that. It is now certain that a otton mill is t be built right away, for an order has been given for the looms and spindles, all up -to date, and as soon as tbe spring opens the worK 01 Dunaing-me mui will begin Mining forgold and silver is, I reck on, the oldest Industry In the world, outside Of agriculture. Moses tells us, that in the Garden of Eden there was . gold, and It was good. Gold and silver; . very soon began to be a bimetallic cur-j rency. Abraham bought a burying .,' ground with 400. shekels of silver that was current money with the.merchant , and it is remarkable that a silver shek-l el was worth 50 cents and a gold; shekel was worth $10. That isent very far from 16 to L Maybe we had better fall back on those ancient scriptural, relations of the metals and make ours 20 to 1. They had both silver and gold in great abundance, for ZachariahT salth: ' "They heaped up silvtr as tha dust and gold as the mire 1 in tha streets." And Moses saith Abraham was rich in silver and gold. 7 In' the long ago I used to know the a good people of .Canton, but they have' all passed over the river.' The Mc Afees, McDonnells, Wheelers,' Grish ams, Tates, Brooks, Rusks, MullinS and Dyers. Some of their sons and -daughters are there still and gave me generous welcome, and I was pleased to pat their little ones on the head and say be a good boyv. and mind you" mamma. ;; , i -I I saw the bid time-honored Canton home of Joe Brown, the place where he lived when, like Cinclnnatus, ne wai called on by a committee and Inf orat ed that he had been nominated To 1 governor. Old Joe made his start Tight here Canton teaching school. Years ago jl' met General Ira Foster and . he 6ald: "Yes, I knew Joe's parents before hB was born. They were very poor. Hia Aunt Sidney did my washing when! was a young man living inDahIonega. .Joe cultivated a little patch of hillside land with a pair of bull calves and tfvery Saturday hauled something to town to sell and take back something to the family. In 1839 I was riding to Canton In a buggy and overtook a young man walking in a very muddy lane. He had a striped bag hanging over his shoulder and looked tired, jl asked him if he'would not get up and ride with me. He looked down at ha shoes and said he was too muddy.-But I insisted and he broke off a splinter from a rail and cleaned the worst df the mud off and got in. I learned from him that he was tha same Joe Browh and was going to Canton to get some thing to do. And he did. They made him up a school and he taught It. II have kept my eye on him for forty years and he is still a wonder to mej" - As I surveyed the time-worn prem ises I ruminated on his eventful life. How he rose and rose and rose agaia , and never felL Everythin&.thot Midas -touched turned into gold, and Just so I every political effort that Joe Brown r made was a success. , I recalled his long controversy wii h Bob Toombs and how finally he , d an nounced' Toomibs in the press as a liur and a scoundrel and Tooms sent a friend to ask him if his church rela- , tions would prevent him from accept ing a challenge, and old Joe replied : "Go tell him to try me," and ToomJs never , sent it I -recalled the time when Henry Grady was discussing wjlt Toombs the advantage or disadvant age of a young man having a collegiajte . education and eaid: "There wejre were some very great and successful men who never had any 'education jto . . speak of. There was Patrick Henly and Henry Clay and Tom Benton and there was Joe Brown, who was so poor, in his youth he had to plow a bull," "Plowed a bull, - you say," sail Toombs. "T never heard that of hlta. but if it was so you may set that don to his credit Henry, but It was a dis grace to .the bull." ' Fire Insurance. Life Insurance Accident Insurance Steam Boiler Insurance Employers Liability Insurance- aiuiu w -; . and all persons wbo hare to givs a Fresh MEATS. t5grNew supply of Buckwheat I Jour. x 1 resh water-ground meal alwajs on Land. fSBig supply of seed Irish potatoes to arrive soon. fSPHighest prices paid for cattle.
The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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March 15, 1900, edition 1
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