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THE PUBLIC LEDGER. By JOHN T. BRITT, ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING OXFORD, N. C, SEPT.l 8, 1896. NATIONAL TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. BRYAN, OF NEBRASKA. FOR ViCE-PRESIDENT : ARTHUR SEWALL, OF MAINE. STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. c. GOVERXOK, B. WATSON, of Forsyth. LIEUT. GOV ERNOR, THOS. W. MASON, of Northampton. SECRETARY OF STATE, C1IAS. M. COOKE, of Franklin. TREASURER, B. F. AYCOCK, of Wayne. F. I ATTORNEY GENERAL,, OSBORNE, of MecKlenburg. AUDITOR, R. M. FUR MAN, of Buncombe. SUTT. rUBI.IC INSTRUCTION, J. C. SCARBOROUGH, of Johnston. ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF SUPREME COURT, A. C. AVERY, of Bnrke, GEO. II. BROWN, of Beaufort. CONGRESS FIFTH DISTRICT, W. W. KITCHIN, of Ferson. JUDGE FIFTH JUDICIAL, DISTRICT, J. S. MANNING. of Durham. FOR ELECTOR FIFTH DISTRICT : AUBRY L. BROOKS, of Person. 'Von shall not press ilonn tipon tbp brnw-nl'lalior Hi is crown of thorns. yon sliall not crucify iimu on across ol yoll. W. .1 Itrynn. feenator Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, will speak in Kinston on Tuesday, September 22d. Argument is all right, but nobody can be said to make a better stand for principle by getting on his ear. Seven Populists joined a Demo cratic club in Kutherford county, and one of them was made vice-president. FARMERS DEVIL FISH. Writers of Marino wonders . and many truthful sea-faring men have oft described the terrible death of those who have fallen within the erasp of the many armed Octopus, or Devil fish, of the great deep. With innumerable long arms, each provided with nippers at the end, and reaching out in every di rection at one and the same time, it crushes, kills, and devours every thing so unfortunate as to come within its grasp, and is a most apt object lesson of our highland Devil fish, the American Tobacco Com pany, which so easily disposes of all the small fry with its gold pointed tentacles and the farmers pockets shriek with pain. Here in Granville county, and all the fifth district and the tobacco growing section of the State, the ruin and destruction wrought by this miirhtv Leviathan of Evil is before our eyes daily. Look around vou and behold these mushroom cancers upon the body politic floating in the ease and luxu ry of illgotten gains-riding through the country in gold-plated chairots to behold the fair daughters of the South's best blood working sun burned in the tobacco fields to gloat over the fact that they are the Princes; their fellow men and wo- n men sens. Untrammelled it has stretched its remorseless arms free and far, and has gathered in its deadly embrace every tobacco dealer from the Hud son to the Rio Grande from the lakes to the sea shore from the Atlantic to the Pacific. We wish their pernicious influence ended here but it does not. It has a fast hold on all the Legislation of this coun try, and is grasping for the yery es sence of our civil liberty and the rectitude of our laws, so that, like the robber Barons old of England, they mav have a province of serfs who wear their collar and do their behest. This is no overdrawn picture. Not more than two weeks ago, the gal lant Cy Watson, the Democratic nominee for Governor, in a speech delivered in the court house at Durham, ''beared the Lion in his Den" and boldly told of their nefarious dictation of leg islation. He told the people that while a member of the Legislature he framed and "got through the lower House an anti-trust law that had no gaps or cracks in it, but the American Tobacco Company came to Raleigh as lobyist and defeated it in the Senate." It is not denied that the last Leg islature was debarred from attempt ing any anti-trust legislation be cause of the fact the American To bacco Company was largely bonds- man tor tne ropunst officers, and that farther consideration was given, Neither has the notorious rumor that members of this trust furnish ed Hon. Tom Settle in the last cam paign funds and are furnishing them now that they have expressed a wil lingness to spend $200,000 to de- " WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?" Mr. Bryan asks this pertinent question in his speech at Tiooli, New York. Each and every voter in the land may make this inquiry of him self, and settle it for himself, in his own conscience and best judgment. Are you ready to take sides with the trusts, monopolies and syndicates that are banded together for the purpose of controlling the govern ment, or do you stand with the peo ple for an honest government, ad ministered by the people, for the people? Democrats cannot hesitate. It is for the doubting Thomas to decide. RESULT OF DEMONETIZATION. In 1876 the Democrats won their first general victory. How did it affect the farmer? He got 07 cents for his corn; 1.24 for his wheat, 13 cents for his cotton and 10 cents for his tobacco. The country did not have a panic, although it was said that the government would be destroyed and the negroes put back in slavery. In 1892 after the Republicans had been in power for years of what they claim were years of great prosperity what did our farmers get? Let us see. For corn D5 cents; wheat $1.03; cotton 8.7 cents; tobacco 8.4 cents a pound. Demonetization had not .done its perfect work in 1876. It had in 1892. News and Observer, HANNACRAT A streak of lightning in Ken- feat Cy Watson for Governor, been tucky the other night was "shaped denied as yet. like a corkscrew." Probably it was looking for a distillery. These are the nights when the bankers and corporation lawyers lie awake worrying over the woes of the laboring man. It is so touching and pathetic. Mr. W. II. Kitchin, Populist, has written a lengthy letter in the in terest of all free silver men getting together and present a solid pha lauks in the battle against the mo nopolists and trusts and political liberty. We wish we had room in our columns for it, but we have not and all who desire to read it can find in the Carolinian, the weekly to the News & Observer. The Indianapolis Sentinel, writ ing of the ghosts lately there, says that its reporters found that "the delegates composed of 'railway offi cials, clerks in railway offices, cor poration lawyers, directors of banks, money brokers, etc.' The Sentinel says that nearly every delegate pre sent was either directly or indirectly interested in corporation. "In fact,' says the bentinel, 'the corporations ruled the whole outfit.'" mi. T:i l r i ine l-uuieai itecorcter says that the Legislature will be called upon to take steps towan withdrawing public tax aid from i i 1 i " . . . L 1 11 "I lugiier euucittiun, i,o estaonsn h re formatory for youthful criminals, t( i i rr. a i increase tne ewciency or the com mon schools (including the institu tion of a secure and incorruptible nlan of adopting public schools books) to pass an anti-saloon law to pass a law restricting fees of jus tice of the peace to civil cases. What does all this mean, and how are the people to help themselves.'' It means that the government itself and has been for some years run n the interest of a trust which takes care of its illegitimate offspring like the American Tobacco Company, and that redress can only come by a union of the votes of all the oppress ed for some Brutus like W. J. Brvan who puts love of country above the share of pelf which might be allow ed him from the corpse of his fellow- n, and some Cicero like W. W. Kitchin, who has the honesty and the manhood to point the finger of scorn at the Catalines and arraiin n them for their perfidy and perjury. In all ages, and in all countries, it has ever been the srreat uunur- msable yeomanry who saved the country when the crisis came. It is lere. Let the mnss of the people, Populists and Democrats who am striving for the same end, acting on their own volition and for their in dividual and united protection, dic tated oy no one, come to the front and all will yet be well. Mr. Settle and the governmental and other monopolies he represents, 1 P ii " it- nave rorgouen in tneir avaricious greed for gold and power, their fel lowship with their kind, and in their zeal to get and hold these, like the monkey who puts his hand through the hole in the sugar gourd, they 1 ii-i i .i nave granoea more tnan tney can pull out, but sooner than let any go hold on till moral and political deatl will make a stench in the nostrils of honest respectability. "the Republican to Groyer Cleve- CLEVELAND A REPUBLICAN. Clevel md and Carlisle have an nounced their allegiance to Republi canism after secrectly working in its interest for 4 years. They have en dorsed Hanna's dummies, Palmer and Buckner, want to defeat the 1 TTv t -I T regular JJemocratic ticket, in a column editorial the New York Journal reviews Cleyeland's work in behalf of the money syndicates proving himself a traitor to his party. It says party is welcome land to the whole of him, It is well for the Democratic party that Grover Cleveland is out of it as the party put him away at Chicago. It wTas by turning its face away from Grover Cleveland and his ut terly un-Democratic policies that the party rehabilitated itself in the esteem and confidence of the Amer- can people, and earned for itself a bright prospect of an honest Demo cratic success at the coming elec tion. "The Democracy wishes the Re publican party joy in its acquisition of Grover Cleveland. Thank God he off the Democracy's back." To which we say, Amen. the the WHATMCKINLEYISn STANDS FOR McKinley says: "No one need be in doubt about what the republican party stands for." To which the Topeka Co-operator makes reply: "No, if there ever was doubt it has been dispelled. "It stands today for all that American people do not want. "It stands for what benefits bond-gramblers of Wall street. "It stands for protection to Amer ican laborers' one day in the year, and then legislate against them the other 364 days. "It stands for the wealth con sumers and against the wealth producers. "It stands for 10-cents corn, 30- cent wheat and 5 cent cotton. "It stands for the policy of mak ing the poor man pay the bulk of taxes while the rich go free of taxa tion. "It stands for two kinds of mon ey one for the bondholder and gold gambler and the other for the far mer, mechanic and old pensioner. "It stands for high taxes and low wages. " It stands for a policy that has filled our jails and almshouses. "It stands for landlordism on one hand and pauperism on the other. "It stands for scarce money and low prices of labor's products. "It stands tor money as against the man. "It stands for the doctrine that the rights of property are superior to the rights of person. "It stands for financial policy which a trial of vears has brought the country to the verge of ruin." "It stands for gold monomental ism, a conspiracy which in the lan guage of Secretary Carlisle "will ultimately entail more misery upon ill i i n i the human race than all the wars, 1 "1 !! ill, pestilence ana iamines mat nave ever occurred in the history of the u " WUI iu. The sun is the greatest "scorcher' of which we have so far heard. Fresh turnip eetds at J. P. $tedman'j. A real bargain in a second-hand Phae ton and Harness at Edwards & Win Bton's. sept 1L 2f. FOR CHILDREN TEETHING Panacea Water is splendid. Give the little sufferers a chance at it. Endorsed by intelligent doctors. Jiy24, DR. DE LACROIX'S ORGAN. Col. John C. Tipton, the talented p.iitor or tbft Rutherfordton Demo crat, who has bolted the Chicago nominees and allied himself with the sub-Hannacrats and trusts, mo noplists, etc., was in Oxford Tues day and spent the night with Dr. Lou s de Lacroix, the chief Hanna crat of the State and dispenser of McKinley literature in North Car olina. Our people will have to class him with the old moss back Radikill of New England, and has come down here to attempt to teach our people true( ?) Democracy., Dr. de Lacroix is an intelligent man and we like him personally, if he is so narrow minded and egotiscal politi cally, as our association was of a pleasant nature as long as we would publish his gold standard literature, but as soon as we refused longer to aid him in advancing the interest of McKinlev he suddenly ceased his visits and the place that knew him once knows him no more. Good-bye our once pretended friend, as your action proves your object was what you could make out of us in a polit cal line. It only took a little time to prove that Dr. de Lacroix is as rank a Kennblican as we have in our a. State. As Dr. de Lacroix is Chief of the sub-Hannacrats of the State and naturally one of Hanna's money dis pensers, he summoned the gallant Tipton to Oxford to perfect ar rangement for the publication of the sub-HannaQrat alias McKinley or gan in Oxford or some other point in the State, but we learn from Re publican source that it will be pub lished in Oxford, and that Dr. Louis de Lacroix has ordered the printing outfit. Of course the Republicans are happy, as they knew something was up on account of the long pri vate caucus the Slippery Doctor had with Slippery Tommie Settle at the Osborn House Sunday. TTT 11 't 11 St 1 fn f we taKe it tnat uoi. npton is to be editor the of paper, and as we admire him personally we had as soon see him soak down in his pockets a good wad of Hanna's cam paign fund as any man we know in the State. He is a good news paper man and fluent, bold aggres sive writer for the side he is on, and as he will be in Oxford until the campaign is over we trust our personal relations will be the same I 1 11 . 1 as heretofore, while at the same time we shall oppose each other on Congressman and the National ticket. The office will be in the Johnson building and the paper is to appear at early date, and we shall soon be able to find out those of our people who are against the regular Democratic ticket and in favor of Settle and McKinley. SITUATION IN THE STATE. The Election law Butler Talk, Popu lists Controlled by Republicans, etc. The Raleigh correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, dated Saturday in speaking of the situation in this State says: Your correspondent this evening had a special interview with State Chairman Manly, and asked him what he thought about this week's deal between the Republicans and Populists. He replied: "lean not say how long the people will let the action or managers stand. It is. helieved that in the Populist party there is a powerful element and a strong hand that will stop this sacrifice of their rights and repudi ate such trading and trafficking of their votes. 1 noticed an interview with Republican Chairman Holton, in which he chaims the State by 75,- 000 majority and that he says fur ther the Democratic party stole 30, 000 votes last election. Such boast ful statements are ridiculous. There is no basis on which such calcula tions are made. The small majority of fusion last year affords no such basis for such boastful statements. These statements and charges of Republicans are either idle vaunt- in gs of men who have a pocketful of Hanna's money or are started for a purpose. Look at the facts: Thirty five thousand Democrats who did not vote in the last State election will vote this year; 12,000 or 15,000 former Democrats who voted the fusion ticket in 1894 many have be come disgusted with the trading and sales now going on between their leaders and the Republicans over the spoils of office, and the utter and flagrant abandonment of the cause of financial reform. These men will this year vote the Democratic ticket. We will get out our full vote, and with these accessions elect our ticket, State and national, by a safe major ity. Candidly the only fear well-posted Democrats have about the result in North Carolina is the success of the well known scheme on the part of the Republicans to debauch the ballot box with money, being sup plied and to be supplied by Mark Ilanna and hi3 syndicate of goldbug monopolists. But let our people understand the truth. The charge of Democratic fraud is false and is meant to divert the public from these Republican fraudulent pur poses and practices. A deep scheme seems now to be laid by the Repub lican politicians. The rankest frauds and most corrupt practices will be attempted by them and are now ma turing. Look out for votes of ne groes under aliases, registering mi nors and voting ex-convicts. In the registration they propose to do their deviltry. By such corrupt methods the Republicans hope to count 25, 000 to 35,000 votes, but they are sowing what they will never reap. The people of the State understand this. And I can say to our enemies, beware of trying the scheme. It such deviltry is attempted it will not be successful. The Democrats of North Carolina do not propose that a handful of white men shall so manipulate that part of the ne gro vote of which they will have ab solute control in this State as to de bauch the ballot and cheat the white people of the State out of their votes by offering them false and counter feit ballots. The Democrats have never been more in earnest. The party will cast this year more votes than before in its history. The state ment is verified by information com ing from every part of the State. The following was given out by Chairman Manly, and is signed by him. Chairmans Holton and Ayeras official: "It is agreed by the undersigned that the following is the proper con struction of election law of 1895, acts 9o, diaper 159, and we request the members or our respective par ties to rollovv the same: 1st. In construing sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of said election law "That all persons are entitled to register on Saturday, Sept. 26th; on Saturday, Oct. 2th; on Saturday, Oct. 10; on Saturday, Oct. 17th, and on these days only, between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. except as herewith provided. "On Saturday, October 24th, no act shall be done in regard to regis tration except the right to challenge between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m and 4 o'clock p. m. any elector whose name may appear on books. "On Saturdav, October 31st, no act shall be done in regard to regis tration except to hear and determine all challenges made on October 24th. lhe hearing shall be had between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. in all precincts except those in incorporated towns and ities, when the hearing shall be had until 9 p. m. "That any person who comes of age between October 1 7th and elec tion day or who is entitled to .regis ter by reason of his residence in the State or county, being of sufficient time required bylaw, which time ri pened after Saturday, October 17th, shall be entitled to register on elec tion day and yote, and such persons who oner to register and vote on election day may be challenged and such challenge be heard on election day." Chairman Manly says the election law is complicated and contradic tory, but that it is the purpose of the Democrats to see what the law truly means and to act upon it. While it is not of the Democratic making, but the work of Populists and Republicans, he willingly con sented to act with the other chair men in the effort to see what is the true construction of the act. A Democrat from Edgecombe county says that there the Populists are carrying on their canvass under the auspises of the Republican com mittee, on which there are several colored members. The posters an nouncing speaking appointments are gorgeous affairs, two feet square, headed "Protection and Prosperity." borne prominent Populists say they admit that Butler was beaten and couldn't control his State committee. They say he will now "try another racket." The Farmers' Alliance has made a sale of $3,000 of the bonds of the shoe factory at Hillsboro, Treasurer W. 1. Worth tells me. Otho Wilson says the most strenu ous efforts will be made to carry this btate tor Bryan and Watson. A Populist demand for the taking down of Sewell may be expected. lhere is no doubt that there is an increase in opposition on the part of the Democrats to electoral fusion with the Populists. The Populist in their newspapers", as well as private ly, never cease to charge Democrats with unreliability and say they can't be trusted. The Populists may as well know that this sentiment is re ciprocated with interest by vast num bers of Democrats. R. O. Patterson, of the Republi can State committee, said to-day that "the Populists will "vote just as their committee and their party tell them. They will vote for McKinley men on our joint ticket, and of course we vote for Bryan men put up by them on the ticket." Patter son was asked whether Butler had not come out at the "small end of the horn." He smiled and declined to answer. He merely said. "I think Butler is acting in good faith." He then added, replying to Butler's state ment yesterday that there was not fusion: "There is fusion as far as it goes. It does not go far as we would like to haye it go. I don't think it will go any f urthtr. Pritchard, I sup pose, is opposed to Russell's coming down. He will not engage in any thing of the kind." At Washington yesterday Senator Butler said that there was no fusion on Congressmen in this State; that there probably will be a Populist nominee in each district; that if the Republicans support any Populist nominee because Populist support Republicans for county offices. But ler says he is determined that the Democrats shall not get the State administration or the Legisiat'ure. He adds that he is also determined to carry the State for Bryan. His final words were: "Whatever may be said of the Populists, it cannot be said that they will support Mc Kinley." But they support McKinley men. Populist "principles" have been filed in the archives of gravity, just as the party organ said last week would be the case. COOK runt vc. ip... Not one pound of Scrap irr,n is ever used in thes gl)0lsa DURABLE, CONVENIENT and ECONOMY All Modern Improvements to it , Housekeeping Cares. 'Sliten Twenty different sizes and kin(H. 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