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E E. HILLIARD, Editor and Propiretor.
VOL. VIM-
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o. Mcdowell,
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late of the county of Halilax, N. C,
notice is hereby given all persons having
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RYLAND & LEE,
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SCOTLAND NECK. M. 0., THURSDAY.
ZEB. B. VANCE.
HIS LETTER TO THE PEOPLE
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
ALL WILL READ IT.
In response to the following let
ter from Mr. F. M Simmons, Senator
Vance issnes the accompanying ad
dress to the people of North Caro
lina :
Raleigh, N. U, August 10,92
lion. Z. B. Vance, Gombroonj Nt U :
My Dear Senator : In common
with all the people of North Caro
lina, I greatly deplore your inaoility
to take part in the pending cam
paign. It is an inestimable loss to
the party and the people, for I need
not tell you the confidence and af
fection which the people of North
Carolina entertain for yon would
secure for you from them a hearing
such as they would accord to but
few in the State.
It occurs to me, while your health
will not permit you to meet the peo
pie face to face upon the stump, a
letter from you, reviewing the whole
situation, ana discussing the ques
tions which are uppermost in the
minds of the people, especially the
causes of the agricultural prostra
tion now existing, and the relief
which would be afforded through
the enactment of such tariff and
financial legislation as the Demo
cratic party propose, would be
carefully and considerately read by
all the people of North Carolina
and would do a great deal of good
at this time.
Such a letter, I am persuaded,
wonla have immense weight with a
large number of people who are
now honestly wavering as to what
course to persue id the coming elec
tion. Of course I do not want to
overtax you, even to do this great
service to the party and the people.
I trust you will not undertake it
unless your nealth is fully equal to
the task.
Sincerely joining with all the peo
ple of North Carolina In their anx
iety about your health, and in the
earnest hope that you may be speed
ily restored, I am, yours truly,
F. M. Simmons, Chairman.
My Fellow Citizens :
For many years past I have been
in the habit of visiting you in per
son during important campaigns
and addressing you upon the polit
ical issues of the time. Being on
this occasion prevented this privi
lege by the condition of mj health,
and earnestly believing that the
questions to be decided by our No
vember elections are of vital impor
tance to the public welfare, I am
induced to contribute in this way
my share in the discussion of them.
I regard the situation as most
critical.
Since 1SG0 the legislation of onr
country has been almost exclusives
ly within the power of one political
party. Naturally it has ceased to
be general in its beneficence and
has become local and partial in the
extreme. The law-making power
has become the fearfully efficient
implement of such classes, corpora
tions, cliques and combinations as
could by fair moans or foul obtain
control of it. It has been made to
subserve purely personal ends. In
divers ways the taxing power of
the government has been perverted
from public to private purposes,
money is levied thereby to enrich
manufacturers, to suppress rivalry
m business, and in every conceiva
ble way to help the favored few at
the expense of the many. The va
ried corrupting influences upon the
business world arising from this
legislation produce their natural ef
fect. The classes whose business
was thus favored flourish apace,
whilst the unfavored have experi
enced In the midst of peace and
plenty all the losses and hardships
which are commonly felt only in
times of public calamity; and the
extraordinary spectacle is presented
of a nation whose aggregate wealth
is rapidly and vastly increasing,
whilst the individual wealth of its
chief toilers and wealth-producers
is diminishing in proportion there
to.
From the Republican party, with
its disregard of the limitations of
the Constitution and its natural
dependence fo& support upon the
money Df the people whom it had
enriched, all of this corrupt Iegie
lation has proceeded. Whithout it
there was nothing evil done that
was done.
It follows as an undeniable truth,
. , tt , zn::rzzz
that whoever directly or indirectly
upholds, helps or support that
party is a friend to the corruptions
which it ha produced, and is an
enemy to those who would repeal
that legislation and reform the
abuses founded upon it. There is
no escape from this.
The Democratic party, on the con
trary, believes m the stmt limita
tions of the Constitution, and has,
a3 a party, steadily opposed all
abuse of the taxation power or any
other power of the general govern
ment for private purposes, and has
unceasingly advocated the most ab
solute and perfect equality of all
citizens in the legislation of our
country.
There is not a single wrong or in
justice of which complaint Is made
in our laws for thirty years past
which can justly be charged to the
Democratic party. Not one. It has
even been a break-water against the
tyrannical tendencies of the Repub
licans; and though in a minority
has been able to prevent some of
the worst legislation ever attempt
ed, and to modify other laws which
in their original iniquity would
have been intolerable.
This statement of the acts and
purposes of the two great political
parties cannot be truthfully denied.
Now what is the situation? What
Is it the manifest duty of our people
to do In the coming elections!
The two great political parties
into which our people are mainly
divided are once more in the field
with their platforms of principles
and their candidates, State and
Federal, thereon. The Republicans
profess all of their old doctrines
from which have come the evils of
which the people complain; they
glory in that abuse of the taxing
power which has made a few rich
and millions poor, and seeking new
fielda of injustice and oppression,
they openly declare their inteation
to take from the States the right to
control the election of their own
representatives, which is the chief
bulwark of their rights and liber
ties. The Democrats re-affirm their ad.
herence to the Constitution, their
opposition to the tariff robbery, to
banking monopoly and to corporate
oppression in all its forms; and
their desire to leave the power to
control elections where the Consti
tution left it and where it has re
sided for more than one hundred
years. Primarily it would seem
that no Democrat, and especially
no Southern Democrat, could hesi
tate for a single moment as to which
of these parties deserves his sup
port .
But a new party has arisen which is
endeavoring to make the people be
lieve that the Democratic party is no
loguer to be trusted. The argument
to prove this is a travesty on com
mon sense: That because for thirty
years they have ac a party steadily
opposed all abuses and have not
been able at any time to prevent or
reform them, therefore it is no lon
ger worthy of the support of those
who desire reform. The meaning
of this is, the .Democratic party has
been guilty of being in a minority.
Its sin consits in not having done
that which it could not do! 1 hen
let it be condemned, whilst the Re
publican party, which has had the
power and actually did all these
ngs, and still had the power to
undo them and does not, is acquit
ted. Nay, we will help it to keep in
power by betraying and destroying
its only enemy. Therefore, as the
Democratic party, with Its vast or
ganization in every State, county
and township in the United States,
with its control of one branch of
Coneress and comprising in the
popular vote a large majority of all
the people in the Union, has not
been strong enough heietolore to
effect the reforms for whicn it has
labored and wished, being without
the Senate and executive, they
claim the only chance tor reform Is
to vote for the candidates of thie
Third party, whose existence in the
national government and power to
control legislation are evidenced by
three or four members of the House
of Representatives and two in the
Senate.
Common sense and self-preservation
would seem to dictate that we
should help the Democrats, who
are almost in power, to get altogeth
C7
er in power, and trust them to cor
rect abuses as they have promised.
One strong pull in November next
would eive them control of both
branches of Congress and the exec
utive, and the long night of misrule
and injustice would buret Into the
SEITEM15KR 29.1892.
dtn of a tfw and better dy. It
wouM be time enoogh to leiTe tbem
atd form a new party wben they had
been tried acd proved faithlee.
Bat the lea ler of this new party,
falsely called the People?, Insist
that you should abandon the Demo
cratic party now and vole with them.
I am grieved to know that there are
qaite a namher of oar fellow-citzens
in North Carolina who propose to
follow that adrice. It strikes me a
the very extreme of unwisdom; and
whto done with a full knowledge of
the consequences it ceases to be
mere folly and becomes a crime.
For whatever may be the hopes or
the wishes of these men, they know
as well as they know of their own
existence, thtt tins party has not
only nochance of electing their can
didates at the polls, but also none or
throwiDzthe eiwetion Into the Home
of Representative, about which thev
appear to be most sanguine. Let no
man b deceive about this. The
handful of votei which will be capt
for Weaver in this State, be it a
lare as tbey can earnestly claim,
cannot wrest the electoral vote from
both Cleveland and Harrison, so as
to help throw the choice into the
House. It is absurd to hope so. But
thirty thousand (30.000) votes taken
from Cleveland nd given to Weaver,
will throw the vote not indeed into a
Democratic House, but into tb
hands of Harmon. This result Tns
so plain that the Republican lead
ers, notwithstanding their profes
sions Co the contrary, determined to
not let shp the opportunity, and
thev are now ready with full tickets
and a complete organization to avail
themselves of everything which the
dispersion ana folly of our people
may throw into their laps. Their
promises to run no State ticket were
manifestly rasde with the intention
of alluring a Third party ticket into
tae field, trusting that when men
got hot und bad blood prevailed ,
they might walk off with the prize
in both State and Federal elections .
Alas I that want of reflection or pa
triotism should render this scheme
a probshle success. Indeed, it is to
plain that Lo intelligent man can
fail to see It or honest one deny It,
that the only probable, not to say
possible, reaalt of the Third party
movement in North Carolina this
fall will be to elect a full Republi
can State ticket and to aid in tbe
electiop of a Republican President
and House of Representatives. What
is to be gni.ied by that result I need
not ask. How the reforms which
they profess to desire are to be ob
tained through Republican pucceas
is something which surpasses human
conjectu-e. No true friend of this
commonwealth, I am sure, will con
tribute to this result. It is reported
that a prominent candidate on the
ticket of the Third party says be
had rather submit to neBro t any
kind of rule thait such as we have
at present; but I am forced to bes
lieve ttiat, if this be true, tliere are
very few otner whitt men of North
Carolins who are outside of tue pen
itentiary and who ought to be out
side, who entertain sentiments so
foul and brutal . Our people know
that under Democratic rule tbey
have had goo i laws, low taxes,
e-onomy, and purity in the a Imin
istration of their atfiirs, and I hope
and believe they will not lightly
risk its overthrow by casting use
less or hopeless votes in November.
The class of our people who have
had createst cause to complaint of
vicious legislation is the agricultural
Tbe party which has steadily resis
ed thi. and continually declaimed
against it on th.-. huntings ar.d Live
struggle 1 manfullv to repeal it in
the hall f I'-ii-latiop, ia the Demo
crat!':, i u win t ear me witness
th.t ur'TiiLiUicsly since I have been
your representative in ibe Senate I
nave both spoten and voted against
that unjust legislation. At home,
as you know, I never ceased to ex
pose its inequalities aod to advise
the farmers to organize for resistance
to it. Wlicn they did begin to corns
bine they had tbe sympathy and
good wishes of almost every just
man in tbe United States who was
not in some way the recipient of the
plunder arising from thi3 abuse.
Never was there a political jiove
ment of our people founded upon
better grounds or more reasonable
complaint. Bat that which I feared,
and agalnfrt which I earnestly warn
ed tbem, ion came to pass. Men
who had little interest In their own
fortunes, aspired to be its leaders.
Often men who had failed to obtain
office from either of the old political
parties concluded to farm tbe far
mers and raise personal crops of
honor and proSt out of them. Tbey
pressed to tbe front, thrust '.be real
farmers aside, and involved the Al
liance in the wildest and mont im
practicable propositions ever heir 1
of amon sane mer, and in deSance
of their cooatitntiot soon converted
it into a mere political party com
posed of tbe discontented and tbe
disappointed elements of society,
professingfao fixed political princi
ples or regard for the Constitution
of their country, bat striving only
to obtain the very worst of clasa
legislation, whioh it their sole idea
of statesmanship. Their proposition
to purchase red control all tbe line
of transportation and telf graph in
the United States at tbe expense of
many billions of dolllars, and of rt
fanding to the soMiers the diiTdrence
between paper and joli at the date
of their payment, at least a billion
more; of loaning people money on
real estate at lower rates of interest
than the market rates, and kindre I
schemes, art so preposterous, that
to aroe them serloosly m a slander
upon our civiliaation; and tho advo
cacy of such measures for tho hitLt-r-
to most consirvativc element of our
society is a notification to all the
world that we are approscbiu? that
stage of demagoguism and common
l?m which marks a people as mflt f r
self-government.
My unfaltering confidence U In the
true farmers of North Carolina, who
as members of that Alliin will,
I trust, not permit thler nohlo Order
and their just cause to be tbu? per
verted and debased. Rest assured
that no real friend of that noble
class of men who, under the provi
dence of God, give us our daily
bread, will ever consent to this de
gradation of their caase into the ob
sequious tool of unscrupulous, am
bitious men, forfeiting sympathy of
all moderate people, making tte
very name of Alliance to stink in
the nostrils of justice and common
sense. I can but believe the good
jedgment of our farmers will enable
them to see where these leaders are
taking them, and that their native
honesty will impel tbem to draw
back in time to save their country.
Many of our people, it is true,
have objected to Mr. Cleveland, nnd
preferred that he should i,ot bate
been nominated. I corfenn that I
was among that number. But an
individual preference before tbe nom
ination of a candidate is one thin?,
and tbe duty of a true man after that
nomination has been fairly mile is
another and very different thir)g in
deed. In the one cae a nreferenco
may be indulged in properly, without
danger to tue principles in charge;
in the other case we endanger both,
and falsify our pretension", by con
tributing undeniably to the success
of our adversaries. If we refuse to
abide by the voice of the majority of
our fellow-Democrats, freely and
unmistakably expressed In friendly
convention, there is an end of all
associated party effort in the gov
ernment of oar country ; if we per
sonally participate In that consulta
tion or convention and then refuse
to abide by the decision of the .rib
anal of our own selection, then there
Is an end of all personal honor a
mong men, and the confidence which
Is necessary to all comhlned ffort
Is gone forever. The man who bets
proposing to collect if be wins and
to repudiate If he lose, is in all
countries and among all classes uf
people considired a dishonest man.
But if the considerations of good
faitn do not influence men's actions
in bucq a cae as this, surely tboe
hlch pertain to the public welfare
oognt to be dcisive. If not satis
fied with Mr. Cleveland, it seems to
me an honest man should balance
accounts, pro and con, in this way :
Cleveland agrees with me in dsiir
ing to reform tbe oppressive tariff
taxation, to restrict the abuse of
corporate privileges, to repeal the
tax oq Stats banks and thereby to
exnand the currency, and above all
i
be i9 vehemently opposed to Force
bills and all similar attempts to de
stroy the rights and liberties of the
States. In all essential reforms be
agrees with me except in the single
matter of the free coinage or sliver,
and In respeot to this there is rea
son to hope that the same candor
and vigorous investigation which
brought him io full sympathy with
hU nartv on tbe sreat question of
i j "
tiriff reform will sooo bring nim to
see the absolute necessity of maiR
taming both of tbe precious metals
on a nar to meet the urgent net-ds
of the currency of tbe world. Har
rison , on the contrary, agrees with
me in nothing ; there Is no change
or reform which I desire that he i
wTlpllo tl.AO pT ami.
NO. 18
not liiturly opposed to, nl hie
par'.y with bira. Vhv. t heo, mould
I hes:taUf Hither tny vote f-r We,
ver iU help Harrison and Injort
C'eve'ind, or it will not -It rn nut
avu! Weaver f,.r fce has no chanc
whatever, will probably not carry a
single sute ; why, ihto, tmai l I
rik doing a dmae to the eandl
dte who wual 1 do roott for rot,
though he doe not promise to do all,
sod contribute to the election of tta
one who protDi ma nothing bat
to indefinite costioaanc of existing
wrongs and an toolot threat of
other and greater wmoga so soon as
he has the power to perpetrate thaml
It seems to me, fellow citlf ns,
that the path of doty w never
more plain or trie riecea)itr t,f walk
Ing in It more imperative than It It
at this moment. Let roe leg your
earnest eonaideration of the ltaat!on
before you vote in November, an ! be
fore yoj cut looae from the old con-
Utotiona! Democratic party, wt!c
in times of our eitrme peril baa ao
often brought as fortb nut of tbe
hopo of bondage, and abandon its
aitlnlnir. lunnori to follow reckless
and Incooipetrut n,r-i into the wil.
derness of tli.'ir unreal aoln-mea.
Think well of t ho puma'.' rful? of
your action; bo i n it . to destroy,
how hard to r-hulld. 1 recently cot
down m n. y mountain home, in
about five bourn, a tree that bad
taken live ben Ircd years to grow.
Tro I ).Tri"'ratlc party is strong
and nMf nud willing to help you;
it arm i- not shortened that it
cannot nave you; to cherish and
uphold it is the dictate of patriot
ism and common serse.
Your fellow citizen,
.. B. Vasts.
(Iomhkoon, Sept. 17, 1R9'J.
"f llnrl. unil.rr."
Tins is he slighting rrnark that ia
often npplitrt to women who try to
seem vounK, though thev no longer
look so. Hornetimes nppenrsocrs
are deceitful. Female weaknh,
.fanctional trouble, displacement
and irregulait ies wil! ndd fflcen
years to a woman's look. These
troubles are removed by ll e imc of
Dr. Piere'a Favorite Pr'-r;i t:on.
Try this rem ly, nil yo-i whuo Oeau
ty anl froh ii'hh i fn-lHig fro;p wucti
cause, mi 1 no longer li.nrii in socie
ty as a ' hack num'iff" lt'- guar
anteed to give satisfaction ta every
ease, or money paid for it rturned.
See guarantee on bottl wrapper.
y c want ad iho la Ii-H to know
that .J. I'. Futrell wil 1 rco p mi or sit jut
October 1st,
A comr lrto linn of our latent. tvl'M and
d?nigris in
Ladies' Shoes
Eevery Pair Warm tod-
La Jies who like anl will w-ar uith
pn but goo'l tits will h soitt'l
by seeing thee good at
shove place.
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