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ESTHBHSISD ; fix 1SLS2 -Ki;NT VERNON W. LONG, Editor and Publisher. A NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER FOR NORTH CAROLINA PEOPLE, IN THE STATE AND OUT. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $.SO PER YEAR. S and Vol. xxxii. jSTo. 14. WINSTON-SALEM, K. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1888. m. NEEDS OF THE NATION. DISCU&SED BY SENATOR ZEBU LON B. VANCE. More of the Kobber Tarlffan.1 Its Op pression of the People. The Fallacy of Protection Exposed. From Vie Baltimore Sun. ARTICLE II. Having shown that a tariff levied not to raise ievenue for the govern nient'but to increase the price of man ufactured articles to the consumers is -unconstitutional and contrary to the accepted ideas of a free government. I will next consider it with reference to its justice and morality. v e be lieve that our representative democra cies are the best iorra ol government in the world, because the most just justice between man and man being the essence of liberty, equality, order, and everything else that is excellent in government. The old watchword of the French revolutionists, "Liberty, fraternity and equality," though somewhat shorn of their beauty by an association with the violence and blood of that unhap py period, yet contain the sum and substance of democratic libetry. Cen turies ago our ancestors made war against all forms of legal exclusive privileges and class distinction, and the fight was kept up by each succeed ing generation. When our fathers, in the continuation of that struggle, threw off British supremacy in 1776, :and established the American Union, by our constitution, they thought they 'had thrown off also all the ideas and institutions of aristocratic Europe which tended to create artificial and "unnatural distinctions among men. Theoretically they did succeed in bringing about the equality of all be fore the law, but they did not provide for, because they could not foresee, the encroachments on popular rights of the spirit of greed which has in mod ern times convex ted the very instru ments of democratic equality into the means of class advantage. "The pos session of wealth Confers such powers and privileges a3 makes its attain ment the ambition of all. In the struggle for it the law should do no more than give all men a lair start and an equal chance. In no case should it lend one man help against another. There will soon be ineqauli ty enough, at best. The strong man will soon overcome the weak; the man of brains will circumvent the dullard ; the diligent the temperate ; .the industrious will soon forge ahead -of their rivals. As soon as one ad vantage ia secured the capacity to se cure the next one is doubled ; for in the business world the increase of pow er is in arithmetical ratio to the in crease of wealth. Hence, without a line of legislation according to the course of nature, the inequality of our .society caused by the unequal distri bution of wealth are sufficiently great - to cause much misery. There ia no -.subject which causes greater anxiety to the humane statesman. Yet, when csuch things come about naturally, as the result of superior thrift, industry or ability, no one can justly complain. It is the fulfillment of a great moral law, but what shall we "Say of that character of legi-lation which hastens and increases these deplorable inequal ities ? Which creates them where, ac cording to the moral law, they would not exist ? By which one class of our people, however industrious temper ate -and thrifty, are, yet ao weighted down with restrictions and taxation in favor of another class that they are left behind in the struggle ? Law i represents the supreme power of the State. -With us that power is lodged in the people, and law is the expres sion of the will indicated by ; the ma jority. There can , be : nothing more cruel and despotic than to bring the collective will of the majority, or su preme powers of the State to the point .of taxing or confiscating the property - of the minority, or, which is the same -. thing, giving the one a ' legal advan tage of the other which enables the : same result to. be obtained. Yet such ' ia the effect and intentions of a pro-' tprfiveTafiff." "Its- avowedrobiect is to enable the home manufacturer to make money, and aa it rejects " the idea of . foreign trade and shuts it out altogeth- er, tie only persons off of whom he can make it are his own countrymen. The. element of moral wrong in such legislation is radical, and unmistaka- " tie. No matter by what -ingenious, far-fetched and roundabout arguments tbey attempt to show the taxed man . that in the long run ; he is benefitted, the wrong remains. W may' not do - evil that good may come, even if it were sure vf coming. Whilst the tax ed man may or may not get back his . money in the long run, we know of a certainty that the manufacturer gets j nis money every time iu iub rnort run. - Wherever natural causes have opera ted to give one section or class of our people an advantage over another, the man who is either wise or - humane icrMili! tiav at. rrt(t ttint. if t.hft T.pcrtalnt.. ure interfered at all it should oe to help ine weak and tide them, over the thoals of their situation There is no nobler function of,, law "than this What is a protective tariff, then, but a tax It vied ou A to support '-. B f 1 If it be so, then it is morally wrong. In the abstract, no man will venture to deny it. The sophistries ; and subter fuges resorted to.Jn the attempt to show that it is n ft a tax levied on A, or, if it is, that he receives it all back again, are unworthy ot serious consid eration in mis connection, it s a tax, 'r it could not increase the cost of the articles on which it is imposed ; it is paid by the consumer, for there is no one else to pay it ; it does support the manufacturer, for he clamors for it and says he cannot live without it. Otherwise we would have the strange spectacle of a manufacturer begging for a duty on goods which nobody was to pay. which did not enhance the price of anything he made to sell, and which he would die if he didn't get, and that man still at large outside of the lunatic asvlum ! buch are the arguments, analyzed. The chief equitable ingredient of a contract is mutuality ; there must be a givinsr as well as a taking. Now how is a farmer to be recompensed under a protective tariff ? Where are the mutual benefits in a deal between him and an iron or woolen manufact urer ? He goes to the iron master to buy his farm implements ; the price is faxed by the cost of the foreign ar tide plus the tarifl duty : in other words, he buys in a restricted market. To pay for his purchase he sells his wheat or his cotton in a free-trade market at a price fixed in London in competition with all the wheat and cotton of the world. He sells in the cheapest market and buys in the dear est market, reversing the economical condition which his interest requires. Is it beneficial to him ? Is it honest or just to force him to sell for the lowest price and buy for the highest ? No man will say so ; and the only an swer is a denial of the fact by attemp ting to show that when tht foreigner is kept out, domestic competition be comes so great that prices become low er than they would be without any duty at all ; and, therefore, so far from protection being a tax upon one class for the support of another, it is, in fact, a benefit to the man who is sup posed to be taxed I Stripped of its verbiage, this simply means that the manufacturer is a greatly maligned man ; that he has no idea of taxing the consumer by placing a high duty on everything consumed this he does for the purpose of reducing the prices to the consumer and that his anxie ty for a protective tarifl is because it is the surest and most direct way ot reducing the price of his own wares tor his neighbor's benefit ! A plain man, unaccustomed to the logic of protection, would naturally suppose that the manufacturer could put down the price jof his own goods, if he wish ed to do so, without an enabling act ; but it would seem not. If he could only lower his prices under the force of competition, it would appear at first blush that the competition of a foreigner would answer the purpose quite as well as that of an American. But again, it seems not. Domestic competition alone can enable the home manufacturer, with the aid of a high tariff, to so lower his prices as to prove a blessing to his neighbor. Such being the effects, and therefore the ob ject of protective tariffs, its advocates resent with much scorn the idea of there being any moral wrong in thus striving to benefit their neighbors. But the wrong is apparent to the com monest understanding, and the ab surdity of the defense only serves" to emphasize it. It is a bald and naked system of using the taxing power of the government tor the unjust purpose ot enabling one class to enrich itself at the expense ot another. It can no more be justified in morals than in economy ; for it is happily true that good morals and good economy agree well together. Woe to our world if it were not so I It is the true glory of freedom that her institutions are based upon great moral principles, recogniz ing all the essential rights of man. In no other manner have these rights been bo commonly violated as in the matter of taxation. Law and advan cing civilization have long since stop ped i he seizure ot men s property ly the strong hand. The mailed plun derers of the middle ages have all pas sed away, and so have the grosser forms of monopoly and class privilege. But the spirit which animated them the fierce desire to get riches by reaping where others have sown still remains, and will remain until human nature is changed. It is this which still troubles our Israel. It is the old foes under new faces. It was the custom of the wives of the old bor der robbers to serve up a covered dish with a pair of spurs inside whenever the larder was empty of beef Upon this hint, the husbands with ' their clansmen organized an armed foray in to the pastures of the lowlands to drive off cattle. They1 had one virtue in their lawlessness, however ; they told no lies about their motives or; the re sults of their conduct. They confessed that they lived by these levies upon their neighbors; they did not declare that it was for the good ol the cattle breeders, and try to prove they got it all back in the- "long run." They wanted beef, and they went and took it, because they knew no other way to get it. . New England could have sbown them a more ' excellent way. She could have shown them how to get their neighbors' cows by law, and taught them to show how their trans fer, from the pastures' of their own ers to the larders of their' captors was no robbery, but a most admirable process of political economy. and a blessing in disguise I That it increa sed the quantity of beef, raised the price of beef, and reduced the price of beef all at the same time, whilst both robber and robbed grew rich to gether ! .No man goes out I on the highway to plunder hia neighbor now armed with pistols; the goes into a legislative lobby, and arms himself with a stutute. In the-m ine of pat ri .tism and the workingmrn he is au thorized by this statute to "collect taxes from his neighbors with wThich he can buy beef to his stomach's con tent. There is no show nf violence, no outcry, nor hot pursuit;, nor un seemly lowing ot overdri7e i kine; all is done decently and in oi'der. He has violated no law and fei rs no pun ishment. Oa the contrary.-he poses as the benefactor and best friend of the plundered man instead of a wrong doer. And vet the process is robbery pure robbery ; meaner tLda that of the Riever, because more cowardly ; baser than that of anv other, because right and justice and all th- noble el ements of law are prostitut: 1 and de graded in the service of sel.iah greed. In all ages and among all peoples tax es have been considered a hardship, and the laying of them reg ried with the utmost jealousy. They are the favorite and peculiar implement of despotism the time honored and dis honored means whereby an unscrupu lous ruler confiscates the property of the citizen under pretense of public necessity. And yet no Bourbon, Tu dor or Plantagenet prince ever extor ted a tax to support unjutl wais or pamper royal vanity more outrageous ly violative of private rights than the Congress ot free America now impos es on our people and refuses to reduce. Ihey at least had the plea ot public necessity to justify their exactions, whilst we are taxing our people thirty-three per cent, beyend the public needs to benefit private in Uviduals! Tke sum which we now collect over and above the public needs is greater almost double than the entire or dinary yearly expenditure cf the gov ernment for twenty years just preced ing the war. I his takes no account whatever of the sum estimated to be three times greater than tliu whole which goes into the public which ii paid in tariff duties into the pocket3of protected manufacturers ! if the test of a people's freedom be indeed their exemption from unju3t and unneces sary taxation, I fear we sL uld fall very low. Aside, then, from any question ot policy or economy, there is no kind of doubt in my mind that so-c: 'led "pro tective taxation" is wrong it. Worals as well as in law. That which is unjust, unequal and unnecessary, mast inevi tably be wrong. Z. B. VANCE. HE WHACKS BACK. THE DANBURY REPORTER GETS A DRUBBING AGAIN State News Items. The State convention of the Young Men's Christian Association will meet in Charlotte April 9th. Prof. Henry E. She herd, of Charleston (S. C.) College will con duct the Asheville Normal School in July. Josh Crowder, a colored trakeman, was killed while coupling cars on the C.C.RR at Hamlet Saturday. His eg was cut on by ; the train, and he died in a few hours. The directors of the Salisbury Cot ton Mills have decided to maaufacture a finer quality of cotton goods than is made by the majority of factories ope rating in the South. The Citizen says Jay Gould and Gen. T. Eckert, general manager of the Westerp Union Telegraj h Compa ny, have engaged rooms at the Bat-, tery Park Hotel, Asheville, - and will arrive there about June 1st. " A call is extended to the counties of Craven, Pamlico, Beaufort, Hyde, Carteret, Jones, Onslow and Lenoir to join together and form a jrermanent society tor the holding of i annual fair at Newbern. It is an important movement. ; Kev. James Weston, of the Episco pal Church, Raleigh, will next month begin the preparation of his book on P. S. Ney, the remarkable man who lived in Kowan and Iredell counties, and who, it is firmly believed by most persons, was no less a personage than Napolean's "great marshal." Raleigh Visitor: Yesterday Mar shal Bradley, of the Supreme Court, served upon Gov. Scales a copy of a complaint in a suit tor some $150,000 against the State, brought by Baltzer E. Taake, of Nw York, on account of iron sold the Chatham railroad company, in 1868. The case will be heard in the Supreme Court. . " - "Sketches "of Prominent Living North Carolinians" is the . title of a book written by Mr. Jerome Dowd, of Salisbury, which is now in the hands of the publishers, and wiil appear about May 1st. The book will con tain oyer one hundred sketches of prominent North Caroliniaas in eve ry profession and will be a work . of very great interest - A Raleigh letter in the Wilmington Messenger says : ."Your correspond ent ha3 in his charge the records of me x rm Carolina troops l the war ri 1812 and ia looking over them to day, observed a name so strange that it is worthy of note. It is j3 winfield Hell. He was a private in a company- from Burke county. One can im agine readily that, when he was wan ted, and a comrade called -out "Oh, Uell" it must have sounded odd." Warner's Log Cabin carsaparilla Regulates the Regulator. Best blood purifier. Largest bottle in the mar ket." Manufactured by proprietor of Warner's Safe Cure. Soid by "all druggists. . - ..- ' By "Democrat." The Daabury Re porter at tact Confesses That Only from MieDemJcrats Will Kelief Com" From Internal Revenue Oppression. Editor Danhuri, Reporter. My Dear Reformer: Y. -"u have favored u&gritb, another ai.H,'; and ;ve will not depart irom our cm torn always to answer those who write to us. Your last i like unto yur others. Your ideas are so vngr.o, and your command of the Queen's Enj''5'1 so imperfect that it would baflle the proverbial wisdom of a Philadelphia barrister to fathom what you arc dri ving at. You beat the devil around the stump and say a great deal in saving nothing. The fact of the Lnsi ness is, you have done wrong, ar.d it makes you mad to tell you so. If the truth cuts you like a two-edged sword, the whole truth would cut you like a two edged razor. If you want the whole truth, press the matter. If you want to run into personalities, crack your whip. We will accept any kind of contest you may offer. You seek by remote innuendo to divert the pub lic mind from our charges, but we are going to keep them under your nose until they "smell like burnt horn." You ask what yourcabbage patch, Camaca, &c, have to do with your politics? Nothing. We never would have mentioned them if you had an swered us in a spirit of manly discus sion. Our first article had nothing "personal" in it. You answered it by insinuating that we paid for -the pub lication of our statements, and that we were a delinquent or not a sub scriber to-your paper. ... If you think we are the former, present the account and if we can't cover it with your re ceipt, you can get the mouey. That dodge won't do any longer. You have never come to the point or answered us. After your evasive style, yo.'.i r-2-fcr us to the files of the Reporter to ascertain your political complexion. We have neither the time nor iueliua tion to search old Reporters for your politics. If we did, we would hardly discover a Democrat in them if you ha?e been correctly represented by Republican candidates during the last several nampaigns, orby Republican papers more recently. Buch a search might show you up as a Republican. In fact, we never heard you accused of being a good Democrat. If you area good Democrat, it makes Republicans" mighty scarce and lonesome. If you doubt this, deuy it, and we will adduce the proof. If we don't let you alone, you threa ten to "get too big for your breeches and run tor constable or road over seer." Unless you change greatly you would not get the nomination in the Democratic party, and Bill Hall would beat you to death in the Repub lican. An occasional recollection of this fact ought to keep down your am -1 bition and prevent you from outgrow ing your old pantaloons. You should not beg the question by telling the editor of The Sentinel, he could find other news more inter esting than our letters. No doubt other news would be more interesting to you. But whenever your assistance is desired iu running The Sentinel, very likely a pioposition for your services will be submitted to you. But as you are so little adapted to edito rial laborwe take it that you and the Reporter will jog on together, and for a while longer "lag superfluous on the stage." Your conception of the func tions of a journalist and your appre ciation of the popular taste for news are wide ot the mark and several cen turies behind the age. The success of modern journalism i3 not attributable to the publication of antidotes for the destruction of "ticks, fleas and rats." As to your future abode we have but little concern. We would be glad to see you go to heaven if it were possible And if you are bound to go below, it would be a good idea to take the Reporter with you. It ha3 been said that h 1 would be a good place to run a Republican newspaper. You and the Reporter could fill the bill in that new field of journalism. . You persist in asserting our criti cisms to improper motives. Was the Wilmington Star "actuatsd by per sonal hatred" when it mopped you against "the earth so unmercifully? Mr. Kingsbury had no personal feel ings against you and he knew it was not the "other quill driver" that was writ ing those "thin, vapid, pointless" ef fusions. Your articles bear internal evidence of having emenated from a mind replete with ignorance. Ibe re verse is the case with the "other quill driver's" articles. According to your rule, you must have great personal hatred tor the Democratic party Much more strongly does it apply to your case since that parly has done nothing to merit your unjust cen- sure. . - y . But your mind seems to have un dergone aslight change since we first took you to task. You now say, true the people in the revenue-cursed sec-' tionswhether Democrat or Republi can, are with ns in reeling and are looking to the Democrats to repeal the obnoxious law." ; Only a brief while since you were charging the Demo cratic .party with breaking their promises to the people and loudly d claring that, at the next election, "many would not vote at all, or, if they did they would vote the Kepubiican ticket." You seethe Democrats are in earnest, eh ? If you would lay the facts and records of the two parties before the people instead of your wild predictions and foojish arguments, they would vote intelligently, and jus tice and truth would not demand these letters from un. You express the wish that we "had given you a cold potato" before we iet you go. We regretthat we have iio cold potato lor you. Nevertheless vrt might give you some fine collard f J ants to put in your patch. They are a fine variety and would furnish news for the Reporter all the summer. We are not making a specialty of "tha general repair business," but if yoa arau nted of repairs we can put you up a good job. If you doubt our skill, put it to the test. We have good toola and ample material. Ver bu.ii sqnenti satis est. A Democrat. HON. W5I. DORSHEMERDEAD. A Prominent Figure in Natlnal Pol itics Expires Suddenly ;in,the South. Governor William Dorsheimer, of N. Y., editor and proprietor of the New York Star, died at Savanna, Ga., Tuesday. , Very few of Mr. Dorsheimer's friends knew that he was sick. It was only a few day3 ago that he was in his office iu good healfh and spirits, and was planning an active political cimpr.ignfor his paper. His sudden illness wa3 probably due to overwork, which made him an easy victim to an attact of pneumonia. Mr. Dorsheimer was a consptcous figure in New York, physically, professionally and socially. He was" known as a most intimate friend of Ex-Senator Conklin, and through the influence of the latter was' made United States district at torney for the northern district of New York. He was appointed to that po sition by President Johnston in 1867. At the beginning of the war Mr. Dor.b.o!mer had been appointed maj or rn-lhe 'staff of Gen. Fremont, and at the close of the Missouri hundred day' campaign he returned, to civil life. Iu the Greely campaign he de serted the republican party, and a yt?r.rhit:r became a full-fleged dem ocrat. He was a member of the lib eral republican convention held in Ciaeiuati iu May, 1S72, and also of the democratic con veniion held in 1S76, a member of the committee on rea ouitious ia the latter body and report el the platform. Mr. Dorsheimer was one of the founders and original officers of the Buffalo Fine Arts Acad emy and the Buffalo Historical So ciety. He was a giant in stature, belp.g about six feet four inches ia height and weighing over 300 pounds As a lawyer he posseted fair abil ities ; as a speaker he wa3 forcible and eloquent; as a conversationalist he was witty and entertaining, and as a writer he was thoughtful and grace ful. He was born in Lyons, Wayne county, N. Y., just fifty-six years ago. He graduated from Havard, and studied law in Buffalo, where he prac ticed with financial success tor sever al years. He married Miss Patchen, a member of ak wealthy Buffalo family. In 1S74 he was elected ljeiutenant Govcrnor on the ticket with Governor Tilden, and he wras Tilden's personal representative in the convention that nominated the "Sage of Gramercy" to the presidency. Mr. Dorsheimer went to New York in 1880 and entered in law partnership with David Dud ley Field. He was elected to Con gress from the seventh district of N. Y. city in lsoz, ana in i5a he was appointed by President Cleveland to be United States district attorney for the northern district of the state, lie resigned that position " one year after ward to assume the control of the Star. Mr. Dorsheimer was a hard working journalist and author of a biography of f resident Uicveiana. Ilii death leaves a vacant editorship iu metropolitan journalism which will be a tempting plum to a good many pohticians who think they, have a lit erary knack. . " . . President Cleveland is averse to the kissing of babia3 and he avoids it when ever he possibly can at his noonday receptions. Now and then he has t succumb, however, and he would per haps add to his popularity with his Cabinet if he would do as: Aadrew Jackson did delegate kissing to them. Jackson on on 3 of his tours was hand ed a dirty-faced baby by a very proud mother. Secretary of War, Eaton, was standing beside him at the time Jackson held the baby up aad said : "Here is a beautitul specimen of young American childhood. JNote the bright ness ot that eye, the strength of these limbs and the sweetness of these lips !" Here he pushed the baby into the face of Gen Eaton . and said without a word of warning, "Kiss him, Eaton !" and of course Eaton had "to do so. . ' On the tenth of May the good peo ple of Washington will unveil a beau tiful monument erected to Ibe mem ory of the Confederate Dead. Upon that occasion Hon. Daniel G. Fowle, a native of " Washington, will deliver r- "JT . TT. . - . an appropnaie aaarss. liis reputa tion as an orator will attract th latgest crowd that Washington La seen since J udge t ewle spoke there tu 1876. His memorial address ... wil t be one of the ablest and most eloquent efforts of his life. ; Gen. W. G. Lewis, of Goldsboro will act as Chief Mar shal. IMPOSING CEKEM0NIES. FUNERAL. SERVICES .OF CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. I' Congressman Mills Sick. ?Ir. Rau:l".:i. Tariff Forecast. The Coming C-u-i- S paign. v Stedal Correspondence cf the Sc it 'r.d. Washington, D. C. -March-30.- - ' The funeral of Chief Justice WaUe in the Hall of the House of Represen tatives on Monday of last week was one of the most imposing I ever wit nessed. The servica of the Enisc opal Church, of which Justice Waite was a member, was read by Bishop Partt, who entered the Hall accompanied b six white-robed priests. Behind the bpeakersdesk sat Mr. (Jar'isle and Senator Ingalls. On the lefc of thV.o were the members of the Senate ai; l House. On the right, the members i the Diplomatic Corps, and -othr ciiii- cial bodies. Immediately m iront f the Speaker's desk is a raised dais, ou which the officiating clergymen stood. In front of them was the casket. The front seats were occupied by the Pres ident and Cabinet, the Associate Jus tices of the Supreme Court, the pall bearers and members ot the lamily of the deceased. , I noticed among the distinguished throng the strong aud handsome head of ex-feolicitor General Philips, formerly of Chapel Hill, who was Solicitor General for years, 'and an intimate friend of the late Chief Justice Waite. This gentleman, as you know, is the son of the late Dr. Philips, of Chapel Hill, and is a most creditable representative of one of the most scholarly families our State can claim. General Philips is yet iu his prime, and any stranger would have noticed him as a gifted mau, eveu in the group ot distinguished men of which he formed a party that day. Near him, I noticed another head, which, from an artistic standpoint, is one ot the finest I have ever seen. This belonged to Hon. Samuel J. R,m- aaii. xo me, tni3 man s i-u o i. u ; study. If I was a painter, I wo,;' 1 j put his features on canvass uiitil I na.l it as it is. He is very hau.ls irae, h.ii i there is a magnetic power and rcsolat -determination in the face that irresist ibly attracts. His lips arc thin, hh eyes large, dark and expressi ve, hi.; brow broad, high and white, o.s nse, long and beautifully chiseled. As a ; sat not far from Mr. Carlisle, his palo face wore a serious expression which did not change during the brief ritual readby Bishop l'aret, nor while the low, sweet requiem was beinj, ehaniul by the choir in the opposite gailery. I could not help wondering wh.it !i- r he was thinking of his own hii; : schemes and changeless ambitions .r of the inevitable fate which awaits ai! mortality at the summons of- the A u- gel of Death, whose giTm shadow at that moment had fallen on the scene on which his calm gaze rested.' Nine tenths of the people of that vast assem bly knew that the obstinate opposition of this one man was impeding legisla tion which might affect for all time the destiny of the party to which he owes allegiance. With a handfull of organized followers, he has stood up during this session and the last, against a Measure favored by a major ity of the House, the President ot the United States, and undoubtedly by the majority of sixty thousand of his lellow citizens. And yet, hi3 iace was as inscrutable as that of the sphinx, as handsome as Apollo s, and as full ot magnetic force, as he sat within the circle of the men he was fighting, with all his wonderfuJ power of brains and will. The President was in front of him, Mr. Carlisle was near him, and all around him were tariff reformers whose constituencies will refuse to re turn them unless the plans of that oi:o man are thwarted ! 1 forgot, a v.; i dering what he was thinking al: i'.u, the shadow of the Dark Ango!, the fu neral chant, and the familiar word-i f the burial service. Stronger than the tierfume of the wreathed flowers, the ireathoflow, sweet music, the pres ence' of. the representatives ot tlri.i great Nation, and even the silent re mains ot the illustrious dead, was a surmise as to what were the thoughts of this cold, impassive autocrat of the House ! His ambition h to be Presi dent of the United State., and he is. just the maa to sacrifice everything to that ambition. I disapprove his meth ods, and regret his disposition to repel a spirit of compromise, but I cann-.t help admiring his ability and p;rslf.t ency. The outcome of the strugg e no man can forecast. Mills is sick worn out with the work on the tariff bill, and what is worse, the uncertain ty that envelops it ! Randall is as well as ever, and is serene as a May morning, although his followers are said to be deserting him. Speculation is busy with the namc3 of those who may succeed Chief Jus tice Waite. Those who are best in formed think it will be a north-western lawyer whose name is . probably not known outside of his profession. The South does not stand a ghost of a chance in this appointment, and it is useless to pretend that she does. ... . Hon. V. S. Barnum has been in this city several days. It is possible the coming campaign will be engin eered by Hon. W.' L Scott and Sena tor Kenna, as the leading spirits. As yet there is no organization and no work accomplished. - . The old barnacle of ; sending -out long-winded campaign speeches, and I't-iy -' ' '- A dry aa-dust compaign books, which, like the July fly, come along the lat ter part of the summer ought to be scraped oiTthe bottom of the cam paign committee. i iuve a good idea. Suppose, in istiici, you send out some blight tpeakcr young Jim Leach, i .r iiuoj.ie, and pay him 8500 to si.uaip ;t i'poiu end lo end next sum mer. Mr. Leach holds a 82,000 place in the Treasury Department here, but So! .au-r 11 fhsom can get him off long i'g'o i stir up the farmers. I men tion young Mr. Leach, because I have heard he got his place here as a reward for some thrilling campaign speeches be made during the Scales campaign. I have my doubt3 about this, but I h.urv y. i:-i,r Mr. Leach has a remark-abi-i "git's of the gab." He can talk t.r.;hio? ov anything else right straight on lie cjn overwhelm any farmer ia Ncth Car ilina in twenty five min utes v, ith such a "least of reason and flow of soul," ' no matter what the theme is, that he will carry his point. Moreover, alter the head of the house is converted, my young Demosthenes can make himself solid with the "pow ers bohind the throne," especially if the old man has several daughters ! He is good looking, and can sing like a Compiuini ! He knows at least two dozen pretty love songs and serenades, and he would not hesi tate to sing the same song with the very same expression to a thousand young daughters of as many farmers whose votes were needed to swell the Democratic majority iu 1838. Messrs. Busbee, Ileartt, Graves, Rogers aud Womble spent Saturday in this city consulting with Solicitor General Jenks, Comptroller Trenholm .and Secretary Bayard about the course they propose to pursue with re gard t" the fugitive Presideut and (.::. of I Wj.:t tri:-' t; u Went t! N exliv. gory ii-.-i-;- to li Thin ".'.I' the State National Bank, .a' .' .'u Saturday night Mr. rciurued to Raleigh. Dis '..o.T:v ttusbec," accompanied by hor gentle men mentioned above, I o Toronto. They secured from tr' Department the necessary Ikion papers"", as the crime off'or- be clearly proven ou the s. They expect to return V with them about next Granville. can -Kltai IJ.Y.NK CRASH. I'ariieul of t lie Robbery. How they f iot Ar,-ay. Personal History of the r- f. Caught at fjust. : r, ;.. n n i.i. ;:isc wecK gave a bri- ft--;; ::;-: ;i ; of th robbery of tho Sis": X: .:h,aal iiunk at Raleigh. '1 h;? v c-k we give a lull statement of il-.o wl:.v.i', carefully gathered from ali the papers, and an account of the capture of the boodlersin Canada. A week ago, last Saturday evening, White receipted for .$20,000 that came by express, this, with the other cash on hand, amountedto over $42,000 White and Cross took this and a large suniwhich they obtained by hypothecat ing the bank's paper, packed it in two valises and left Raleigh, saj'ing they were going to Chapel Hill to see a sick relative or White's. They left iu the bank $3,500 in bills, and over $11,000 iu silver. The lat ter they could not carry off. The bills were fir the teller for use Monday morning, so as to avert suspicion. A police- officer said he saw Cross and White taking the train Saturday at 0 o'clock. Behind them was the negro janitor, carrying two satchels. The negro is named John Griffiiths, He was the janitor of the bank. He told his wife he was going to Apex for Raleigh 0 o'clock Satur buying tickets to Greens' Price 5 Cents. J I At Greensboro a railroad man iok- io'y remarked, "It is fun uy to see a bank Cashier and President going off together, you look like you were going to. Canada. Yv lute . answered him carelessly. They travelled all night Saturday right, all day and night Sunday and eoon after the bank opened Monday morning, apnearantly in good condi tion, they crossed the Cauadiau line, Monday evening rumors of the rob bury spre ad like wild-fire and Tuesday 1 morning, tho Aacs and Observer pub lished a card from the directors saying the . fi'ecis had absconded and that the bank would bo turned over to a iro !;. oineer. The Comptroller of the Currency, at Wa-hiagton, was telegraphed, and he telegraphed S. M. C. D. Tate Esq., bank examiner, at Morganton N. C, to take charge. Bark Examiner, Samuel McD. Tate, reached Raleigh Wednesday morning and formally took charge of the Bank. He went to work at once. All the parties who had private val uables in the Bank were allowed to identify and claim their property. It had"been feared that the absconding officials had taken the private valua bles with them, but that would iaake them guilty of theft an extradition able offence and they were too whe to be guiltjr of an offence that would pro cure their capture.' Col. Tate gives his opinion, from the examination so far made," that the depositors and cred itors will receive 75 percent, of their deposits. A Receiver will shortly be appointed who will wind up the affairs of the Bank, sell the property and pay all that can be paid to the depositors and creditors. About two weeks ago five shares of one thousand dollars each, of tho bank' stock was sold to the following named parties and they were elected addition- directors : . Rev. C. T. Bail v. Messrs. H.Lee, G. E, Leach, D. E. Av- era, and M. 1. is on is. These new directors gave notice that they had been induced to become stock-holders and directors of the State National Bank by the fraud ulent misrepresentations of C. E. ross, President, aud Scm. C. White, Cashier, upoa which they relied, the iraud and laleshood were not discov ered by them, until night of Monday, March, lb, I860, and that they intend ed to resist any and all liability on their part respecitvely on this ground. Alter the notice above was given, M. T. Norris, C. T. Baily, D. B. Av era, G. B. Leach, in behalf of them selves aud Ed. H. Lee, who Is absent from the city, but represented there by cousel, averred that at the time they agreed to accept directorship iu. " the State National Bank, they hud 110 reason to believe that its condition was not good and as represented by its President and Cashier, and had no reason to tLiink otherwise till the night of Monday. 26th. March, 1888, that their assent having been obtained by fraud, they are advised that in aw it was no assent, and that they have never been directors. Since the above Dr. Baily has pub- ished a card in which he has reached the conclusion that he ought to hold himself responsible to all claims and demands incurred as a nominal di rector of the State National Bank. The capital stock of the Bank was $100,000, owned as follows : $1,000 each by Messrs. W. S. Primrose, S. C. White, G. xl. .Leach, Kev. C 1. liaily, E. II. Lee, M. T. Norris, and D. B. Avera; 4,000 by E. R. Stamps; $30,- 000 by Chas. E. Cross; and $49, 000 by the John G. Williams estate. All the Directors ot the UanK up to mouth ago were sons-in-law of Mrs. Williams except Cant. V lulu, who is her brother. Mr. Chas. E. CVo:-s, the absconding President, is a native of Gates county, and is about thirty years old. lie has a wife and three childrcu, tho youngest being only two weeks old. He went to liaieigli several years ago as Chief Cleik iu the Auditor's office. Some years ago he married Mis3 Mag gie daughter of the late John G. Wil liams.JEsq. About two years ago he was elected President ol tiie IjAiik:. One year ago he was elected a Cit Alderman. As president of the Bank- he represented the stock of Mr.. hams, his mother-in-law, and in run- . 1 . 1 . 1 . .A. mngaway with lae money ,10 u ti on ly became a thiol but an ri-'raii-wf' was made all that he way riaa.ieiany, by Mrs. Williams, and in return for her kindness, he brings ruin not only upon the entire community, but upon the family to whom he owed so much. Mr. Samuel C. White, the abscond ing Cashier, had lived in Raleigh ma ny years. He was the brother of Mrs. M. C. Williams. When Mr. White was a mere boy, Mr. Williams took him into his family as a member, educated him, and gave him a posi tion, and afterwards made him Cash ier of his bank. He had held a re sponsible position in the State Bank a number of years aud wa3 trusted im plicitly. This confidence wa3 placed in him by reason of his many years' faithful service, and the fact that he was an official member of Edenton street Methodist Cnurch, and a teach er of a Bible clabs in that Sunday School. He had held the highest of fice in the Kuiphta of Pythias in the State, and belonged to several benevo lent orders, in which he held responsi ble positions. He was a friend of the late Capt. Randolph A. Shotwell, and when an association was organized to build a Shotwell Munur.K ,-iit, Capt..' White was made Treasurer of tho fund. This one trust he did not vio late. Bad ns he proved to be, he wa3 still true to hia friendship of the lamen ted Shotwell. The monument fund had been placed in the National Bank of Raleigh, and is therefore safe, THE ROBBEU3 AREESTEH. The following dispatch was sent by Mayor Thompson on Tuesday : Raleigh, N. C, March 27. Chief Police, Buffalo, N. Y., and New York Citu: Arrest, for embezzlement of funds of the State National Bank of Ral eigh, C. E. Cross, aged 02 years, height about five feet and eleven in ches, weight 100 pounds, round face, fair complexion, heavy drooping eye lids, speech deliberate and lmv-toiied, habit of smacking his lips when talk ing, sandy hair, black eyes, and walks with a swinging gait ; also Samuel C. White, aged about fifty-six, height about five feet and nine inches, weight about 140 pounds, light sandy hair and whiskers, thin face with promi nent thin nose, wears No. 5J shot, walks with toes turned in and steps short and quick. Alp. A. Thompson, Mayor of Raleigh. 1 Nothing was heard from the above dispatch till Thursday, the following was received by Chief Police Ileartt : Toronto, Ont., March 29. Chief Police Raleigh: Do you want absconding President and Cashier of State National Bank ? If so send description and particulars. Think they are here. V H. J. Grassett, . Chief Constable. T It is supposed from the above that the Chief Police of New York advised (Concluded on second page. UNEVEN PRINT
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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