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VOL. IV.
PLYMOUTH, 0., FMDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1892.
NO. 24.
T
Directory.
' - STATE GOVEltNMENT.
Gevernor. Thos. M. Holt, of Alimauce.
Secretary of State, Octavious Cuke, of
TTaks. .
Treasurer. Donald W. Bain, of Wake.
: j Auditor, Geo,. W. Banderlin, of Wayne
Superintendence! ruonc instruction
Sidaev M.Finater. of Catawba.
Attorney General, Thoo. F. Davidson, of
uscembe. - "
OUNTY GOVERNMENT
Skeriff. Levi Blount.
Deputy Sheriff, D". Spruill. '
Treasurer. E R Latham.. t
Superior Court Clerk. Thos, J. Marriner,
..V " .mm . tl'll! . . J
Ki8ter oi uoean, o. i . iimiiim.
. . Ceininissioners. II. J. Starr, W. C. Mar
- riser. B. D Latham, Jos. S kittle tharpo
and H. A. Lietchfield.
x Board of Education. Thos. 8. Armistead
a T. L Tarkanton J. L. Norman
, ..' v y Ssperiuteudent of Health, Dr. E. L. Cox,
- . Banerintendeot of Publio Instruction
Rev. Luther Etioni. .
,-r.Jt r' -:'. city; "
Mayor and Clerk, J- w- Bryan.
" Treasurer, E. It. Latham.
Ckirff of Police. Joseph Tucker.
Canucilmen. E. R. Latham, G. R. Bate
' mm. O. o. B:inklev. J. F. Norman, J. W
J..IL, Bmitb.. Sampson Towe and
-Alfred Skinner. ; ;
' Methodist- Rev. W.' B. Moore," pastor
8ervioos every Sunday at 11 a' m., and 8
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
aigkt at 8. Snnday school at 9 a. m., J
T. Gorman, Superintendent
'Baptist Rev. J F. Tultle, pafdor, servi-
et every 181 ana iru ounuaya num. m.,
aad 7:80 p. Prayer meeting every
Thnrmia niht at 7:JJ0. Sunday school
- very 'Sunday , at 3.30 a. ,iu.t J. VV. Bryan,
-. superintendent. 0 ; . . , ,
"'''EDiBoiual Rev. Luther' Eborn, rector
Rarvinca verv Sd SiuiduV at 11 a.' ill., and
T:3 : m.- ' Bumlav Vchool at 10 a. in., L.
I. Fagan, superintendent.
MEDICAL SOCIETY.
. Meets Tuedy after the first Monday of
caen lasntk. Dr. 11. r. MUnay, chairman,
' XA DGE3.
C. of H. Plymouth Lodge No. 2308
meets 1st and 8d Thutuday nights m each
Blcntil; ' i VY. U. tiampiou . jjiciaiur,
u. ' ' ''' X-' B; Yeager. Fin". Reporter.
. : 1 K'A
li.t of 4 H. Roanoke LodgeMeets
4th Thursday nights iu each month
. Sd and 4th
- , j. F. Nor man tf rotecior,
.? .j,; 13 YfcHger Secretary.
10 0 F. Enperanza Lodge, No. 28 meets
very Tuesday night at liuuch's nan. J
W. iJryan, N. G , L. T. Uoastoa, J-cct'y.
COLORED,
, OHUKCH., CERVICES
. vl)esciple -'Ki4er A B Hicks, pastor.
Reivtcrt.. every Siinddy' at. 11 a. rc., 3 .p. ax.
mi 8 to Ixi .V'SundaY school at 9 a. ui. 'Jfi.
Mitchell Supfcriuiendeut t-'.z.'-n
Methodist Rev. C. B, Hogano, pastor,
Serviees everv 1st and 3d Sundays at 11 a.
m., and at 3 and 7 W) p. m. bur day school
at 9 a. m., 8. NVigginn, supeiiutendeut ; J.
Vf MoDoaald, secretary , . f
1st Baptist, New ChapeW Sejrvices eery
Sunday at 11 and 3. .ev b R Kuight,
pastor Sunday school every Sunday
2d Baptist, Zion's Hill - II H Norman,
pastor Freachibg every 4th Sunday. Sun
day school evmy Sunday, Moses Wynn,
Superintendent'
LODGES
Masons, Carthegian - Meets 1st Monday
Bight in each month. S Towe, W it., A.
Everett, secretary , ', - :
G U O pf O F Meridiau Sun Ixdge 1624
Meets ev-ry 2d und 4ib Monday night in
ech month at 7 o'clock, T. F. Beiubry,
K. G J W McDonald P. S.
Christopher A looks Lodge K of L NO-
Meets tVcry 1st Monday nigat iu each
month at 8 oVlovk
Burying Society meet9 ever) 3d Monday
night in each moalh at 8 o'clock, J ii.
Walker Becrvtary
Eoper Directory) . i
cnni.
Justice of the Peace, Jus. A. Chesson. .
Constable, Warren Cahoon.
, CBUBCHES.
Methodist, Rev. J. T. FinlarSon, pastor.
r-'Beiviceii every SnnUay morning
at 11
o'clock (except the first), and every Suuday
night at 7:30. Prayer meeting everyWed.
nesiay. pight Sanday school Sunday morn
ing at 9:80, L G- Roper' superintendent,
B. R- Lewis secretary.
Episcopal, Rev. Luther Eborn, rector.
Services every 2d Sunday tU 11 o'clock
a. m and 7:30 . in. Suuday school every
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, Thos. W.
Blount superintendent, W. U. Daily secre
tary. Baptist, Rev. Jo. Tinch. pastor, ,, Ser,,
yiees every 3d Sunday at Ila. niM and 7:30
p. m. .
f , LODGES
Roper Masonic Lodge, A. F & A. M. No
443. meets in their Hall at Roper, N. C, at
7 80 P. ni , lbt aca aa luesaays auer ji
Sunday. J. Jb. avage,
W. M.: R.
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New York Ledger,
THE GIDEONITES EX-
: POSED
THE SECRET POLITICAL BAND
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
LETTERS FROM 11KPUTABLE OENTLB-
31 EN" ' EXPOSING I S INFAMOUS "
1 an6 UNLAWFUL WOItKINOS
-s.
OTIIO WILSON AT
ITS BEAD.
Asheville, N C, Oct. 7, 1S92.
Dear Sir: I luivo your recent
favor enquiring about my connection
with tue order, Known as Oicleon s
Band, and in auswer would sny ; S.
Otho-j Wilson, initiated ma iu the
cader of, Gideon it es ut Qoldsljoro in
August, 1891, on my. retuin from
State Alliance, which met at More
head, lie kept the obligation 1 took
and I do not know its exact terms,
bnt -Aval assure you it was a regular
"raw ncad and bloody bones" affair.
was w ashamed oi it as soou as J
found out what it was, and have had
nothing i to do with tit since. . If I
lad known before hand what it was
would not have joined it. ; Bnt
Wilson told mo it was a good thing
and would aid the Alliance cause,
and being an earnest Aliiancemau I
joined.
As soon a3 1 thought about it after
taving learned what it was, I saw it
va3 a dangerous thing, and no hon
est man could have anything to do
with it.
f. Tonr Ld n g 1 pi d me tho other day
: 'NVas' thor cause -of tho Third party
being a failure up hero. I reckon he"
lau reference to my fail tiro to work
and fight in Gideon's army.
The plan of tile Uideon s Uand, as
remember it is about this. There
a State Chief, who was at that
13
time, as I understood, S. Otha Wil
son ; tneto is also a uniet in eaca
Congressional district ; and a sub
Chief in eiich county, whose tluty is
to obey and have executed the orders
of their immediate Chiefs, they get
ting their orders from the State Chief.
A failure to obey i3 made in the ob-
lgatiou a very serious offence, i here
are three hundred members of the
band in each Congressional district
tli,o number in each county 1 have
orgoueu.
1 am thoroughly impressed with
the idea that this is a dangerous or
der if it is being worked in North
Carolina. About this I don't know,
becuiise, as I eaid, l concluded to
lave nothing to do with it as soon as
learned what it meant, and as I
came out strong for tho Democrats
oon after I; was initiated by, Mr. S.
Otho Wilson 1 suppose they became
afraid of me. At least Wilson did
not send the papers he said ho would
send me. "Yours truly,
M. L, Heed.
Ion. F. M. Simmons, Raleigh, N. C.-
. . Bell Cross, Camden Co., N. C,
. . October 12, 1894.
Ion. F. M. Simmons, Chairman,
Raleigh, N. C:
'My Dear Sir ; Answering yenr fy
vor of recent date, in which you ask
me to give joujoj-tpivblication what
1 know aoout me existence in xorm
Carolina of an order known as the
Gideon Band," I would say, at
Gatesville, in Gates county, in De
cember, 1891, Mr. S. Otho Wilson,
in; the j presence of Mr. James B.
Brinson, of Pamlico county, (Dis
trict Lecturer for the r irst District),
then being State Lecturer, propo
sed to me that 1 should become a
member of tho said order. I replied
to Mr! Wilson that I could not con-
Bent to connect myself with the Band
nless ho would hrst reveal tome
the character and purpose of the or
der. This he consented to do upou
my promising secrecy. Mr. wnson
tar iir i
tnen read mo tno oongauon wuica acnug logemer in secroD unaer com
bo wished mo to take, and outlined I mon orders and to a common end
the general objects and purposes of
the order. -
The obligation was a very rigid
one, and according to my best recol-
lection the penalty of a disclosure oi
the secrets of the order was death.
The plan of organization was as
follows : A National Chief, a State
Chief, a District Chief and a County
Chief. The State Chiei. received
his orders from the National Chief,
tho District Chief from tho State
Chief, and the County Chief from
the District Chief. The membership
in each Congressional District was
300, and in each county, I think, no
more than 30. This thirty were to
be especially selected for their effi-
cioncy and influence, true and tried
men whocould bo relied upon under
all circumstauces, in all meetings,
etc.
It was the duty of theso chiefs and
members to obey aud execute all or-
ders emanating from their superiors,
Mr. Wilson stated that tho object of
the organization was to aid aud pro-
mote tho Kciorm movement. The
initiation fee was $2,00. This con -
versation took place after Mr. Wil -
son's return from the Indianapolis
Alliunco Couucil.
After Ml. Wilson had revealed the
whole thing to me, I told him I re-
garded the movement, as outlined by
him, as being a very dangerous one,
and that I thought it would -result
in the destruction of thoalliancc and
the defeat of the reform movement
then proposed, and I positively re-
fused to have anything to dowithit.
Mr. Wilson then burned m my pres
enco tho obligation which ho had
read to me, and pretended he was
merely considering the advisability
of organizing the order, although I
have since learned he had initiated
Mr. M. L. Reed, of Buncombe, dn
ring tho previous August, and ap
pointed him chief m the 9th Con
gressional district." '
During this conference Mr. Wil
son stated to Mr. Brimson that he
had selected him to be chief in tho
1st Congressional district.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed)- J. JS. Bell.
Mr. Editor : lhrongh tho medl-
um of the press I desire to by before
the people Of Worth Carolina two let-
ters recently addressed to me by Mr.
M. L. Reed, a member Of the pies-
nt House of Representativea and a and ideas of free, opn and honorable po
prominent member of tho Alllauco, iuicai action. If he was hiuuelf imbued
und Air. J. 5. ieu, a memuei oi ine
present State Senate, and recently
Slate Alliance -Lecturer, disclosing
the existence in this State of an un
lawful and ditngerous secret political
society, whose chiet is to. Utno Wil
son, the official head of tho People's
party in North Carolina.
The letters show conclusively that
this society did exist in this State
but recently, .and if it has ceased to
exist, tho amy oi snowing mis met
rests upon the men rvho it is shovn
introduced it.
In exposing this dangerous scheme
to tho liberties of the people and the
neace and good will of society, these
gentlemeu but discharge the plain
duty of good citizenship. The facts
which they have disclosed char the
mists from the present anomalous
political situation in North Carolina,
and explain many things connected
therewith, otherwise unaccountable
because so radically at variance with
all the known characteristics of our
people. It accounts for the refsa.
on the part of many of those suppo
sed to bo under the influence of i his
society to hear discussions upon ini-
portant questions affecting vitally
. ..Li.. ' - "
their highest interest.; n accounts
for their refusal to road literature
not having the Stamp and sanction
of the leaders in this movement; it
accounts lor tneir oaa temper ana
the absence in their polit ical conduct
of that independence and conserva-
tism which has ever been a distin
guished characteristic of tho North
Carolina "breed' wherever found ;
it accounts for the automatic and
subservient manner in which in their
political evolutions they movo and
uct : it accounts for tho remark we
frequently hear coming from the
simpler but more hoijest of these
people to the effect that they cannot
do what they know and admit to be
their political duty because they are
sworn to do otherwiso ; and it ac
counts for the humiliating fact that
a people hitherto brave and free have
apparently surrendered their inde-
nendence, ictterea tneir consciences
and ceased to act as free men.
I need not go into an explanation
rf how theso results misrht logically
flow from the means employed, for
every intelligent man will jeadilv '
unaerscana now easily a lew men
may shape and direct the actions of
a multitude, each individual acting
for himself.
As the existence of this secret so-
ciety, acting upon and directing the
political convictions of these people
accounts for the eccentricities which
have marked their rocent conduct,
so that conduct corroborates and enp-
ports the evidence I now lay before
the people of its active existence in
our midst.
The presence here of the Band of
Gideon recalls all too vividly tue
union .ueague,or neroes or Amen-
ca," that nightmare of 1868, which
in the name of charity aud in the
form of benevolenco became the so-
cret auxiliary of a corrupt, political
party, ana urougnt every nome ana
hreside in the land under the shadow
of a hand which neither the laws of
God or man could stay against the
inexorable command of its mvisable
chief. It will beiecalled how under
the fostering care or mat party this
terrible organization gained such as-
cenuency nere tnai it requiroa a coun-
J ter secret society jand all but revolu-
j tion to break its hold upon the liber
ties of our people.
It was thought both of these societies
and all similar organizations admittedly
dangerous in a free country like ours,, had
been crushed out in North Carolina never
to return again. Tne rigorous law ngaintt
Lecret political arsocialions now upon onr
statute booke wme nlaced there with the
XDerience of those davs fresh in the minds
of our Deede. and exnress their dBtermin.
Uoa neTer 0aia to tolerate in our midst
annh a ln iihirK.
Bota o thege 80cietie8. thVoue aCninst
which this leUlatioi was aimd,
and the one wLich now defies it are of for
eign inception, and were born of disorders
and agitations from which we are happily
exempt.
The Union League" was of Northern
birth, begotten of tho troublous limes
which immediately preceded its iutroduc.
tionhere. and the "Gideon's Band" is the
offspring of that wild recklessness which
charaeterizes the iucongruous nationalities
which constitute the lower strata of Wes
tern metropolitan life, and which now and
then breaks forth in Hay Market riots and
Mafia butcheries.
a man better acquainted than Mr. Wil-
son with the sentiments of our people
would not have attempted to transplant
and iutroduca here aa uisututiou soob.
BOxious to ur most cherished ooncentions
with the witd T,fiarit8 aiiA methods of the
Orders and Uu1od" with which he was
throwu in contact on his vioit to the West
immediately preceding his overtures to Mr,
Bell, his better jadgment should have
taught him they were out of jaint with the
pre conceived notions of our people, abd
could only result in injury to the cause he
wished to advance.
There have been many rumors and
whhperings of the existence here of thU
dangerous "'Baud," bnt until the letters of
Messrs. Bell and Reed thero was no tangi
ble evidence: and 1 now "tubn.it these
Prcofs witu fall confidence that tho con-
seryaiims of our people will not be slow to
repudiate it, and fittingly rebuke the des
perate agitators and demagogues whodarctt
iut educe it.
F. M. SiMuoys
Chm'n. Dem. State Ex Com.
TO THE VOTERS OF THE SEC
OND SENATORIAL DISTRICT.
I was very unexpectedly to myself nom
inated in the place of Mr. Rolliuson, de.
clined, by the Democratic Executive Com-
mittee, on the 30th day of September, 1892.
one of tho candidates of the ixmocratio
party for the Seu.te. As the canvass of
mv assoc'ute. Mr. Petticrew. had already
then progressed to a considerable extent
throughout the diotrict.it wilt be impos,ib e
oT me t0 continue the canvass along with
him at the appciutmeots already made for
us, and, also, to go ' over the territory ha
has already canvassed. I propose to con
tip.ue the canvass already mapped out by
the Executive Committee, aad iu the coun
ties of Dare and Pamlico, -and such other
territory as I cannot reach between now and
the election I must trust my fortune to the
care of the earnest i'em crat3 cf these
counties,
I want it understood, however, by all
that I stand squarely on tho Democratiu
platfurm, and I believe sincerely that the
welfare of Eisteru North C-irolina especial
ly, is iodisolobly connected with the success
of the Demooratio party. Wa have more
to lose than any other section if the Repub
lican party again gets eontrol of this 8tate.
Ihe los of the next General Assembly by
the Democrats will entail unutterable woe
upon the entire State which will requhe
years of steadfast work to remove. Repub.
i
licah supremacy in this State means a re.
peal of the present wise system cf County
Government and repeal of the judicious
Railroad Commission legislation enacted
by the 1 st Legislature, the saddling upon
the State the millions ef Special Bonds now
he'd by Levi P. Moitoa aud ether million,
aires, and crushing us with an enormous
tax; it means again the supremacy of the
worst elements in the Legislature. Let
those who are iuclined to vote for the Peo.
pie's party eaudidite3 pause aud consider
before jeopardising onr State'd interest.
The People' party candidates fcannot hop
to poll murelh.iu a few hundred votes iu
the counUes in which it has candidates.
They cmnot possibly hope lo control the
Legislature. The consequences may rsault,
which a protecting Providence forbid, that
we miy havo repeated the days of 1800 '70,
which are a blot upon the fair name of our
good old State. While I shall endeavor to
hIp elect our Lsgislativ ticket, wherever
I go I shall not neglect our national ticket.
1 believe earnestly in Tariff reform As I
am a larmcr, not a manufacturer, I feel the
heavy hand of Protection Taxation every
day I live. I know that my actual annual
expenses are increased full forty per cent,
by it. I know, that it is tlie incubator of
Trusts and Monopolies, and is rapidly
making millionaire iu one section and pau
pers iu another. I b9g you to remember
that the Democra'.io party has been fighting
this monstrous wrong fjr twenty years.
During that period it has never had entire
control of the Katiooa Government. It
has had a majority ia the IIouso peveral
times, but its measures of reliif for the
people were defeated in the gcmtle. It
elected a President twica ia tnat time, but
the firt time, iu 1S75, the great Tilden was
hamefuliy cheated out of the fruits of his
great victory, and in j834 tho great Cleve.
land was, met by an adverse Senate, Let
us pull together, fellow citizens, and en.
doavor to right the . ereat wrongs under
which we suffer, acd throw off tha burden
under which we stagger. " It can only be
done by a united effort, United we are iu
Tincible in our mother State; divided, we
fall a prey to our enemies. I have been
asked regarding my views upon the Oyster
question. When I had the honor of being
a membor of the Houseju 1889, the oyster
question was not before that body, I hav
been so suddenly and uaexpectly put on
the ticket that I have cot bcou able to cU
full information, eo as to be able to form a
well considered opinion upon this impor.
tant question. 1 Lve iu a town aod section
cot interested iu it, and I have no personal
interests to serve. I pledge myself, if elec
ted, and any further agitation iu iho ' next
General Assembly is likely io occur, to g t
all the inform it iou I cau from the Oyster
CoiiiUiiusiouers and from all other sources
aad to study the question carefully and lo
endeavor, as far as auy man can, to ascer
tain aud act iu acoor;Uucs with the wishes
and interests of my constituents interested
ia the matter.
Respectfully, your obedient servaut,
James S. Marsh.
Bath, N. C, Oot. 15, '92.
'1. I.I. , 14 J1.UIJM
COLORED VOTERS
CLEVELAND.
FOR
EX C JKSUL-GENEUAL ASTWOOD TELLS WHY
na won't bcppout hakiusjn.
N. Y. World.
Henry C C. Abtwood, an active Republi.
cau all his lif', for eight years Consul
General to San Dcmiugo, aud one of the
best known aud most prominent cJoied
men in the couatry, has coma to New Y rk
:o Btutnp the 8:ate for ClevUud He is a
forcible and eloquent speaker und gives
many excellent reasons why he has deserted
the Republican party and joined issues
with the D?moerai.
4 1 wsb boru and educated in tho West
Indies," ho Bail yesterday, ,land never! was
a slave. I came to this counliy after tho
war and settled in LouUiin.y where I
tanght school. In 1876 Mr. Leonard, of
Lake Providence, undertook lo run lor
Congns. Wc had the Force bill iu vogue
then.
. "On the face of the relurc s the Democrats
oarritd the district, but I suggested to the
Republicans a plan by which . Onchita
might be counted out. 'lhw, was adopted
and the pirifbes were counted for Hayes. I
beggsd the committee then to do something
for my race. They informed meTihat the
Governmint had decided to withdraw the
troops from the South, and advised that the
color, d people make friends with the whites
and gst along ea peactably as possible.
Since then I have can tinned to think that
the best thing the black man could pdssib'y
djwastJ make friend with the white
folks. . ;,.
"Cleveland came in and wa had fewer
coufl cts thau ever. It was the best Ad
miuisti atiou for the colored race we havo
ever known. ;
"Harrison got into Li head au ambition
for re-election, and he began to placate the
tearo voters hi eivin them cfilces and
making tLem delegates to tue National Cou
veutions. I refused to have anything to do
with his mtcLine schemes, ani favored the
nominaiien of Blaise.
' I firmly believe that Cleveland will ba
elected, and I look upon his election as the
salra.ion of the colored race. Looking at
it from a commercial and business stand,
point, I think Mr. C.eveland's views on the
tariff best for the country. The Force bill
is the most daugcrous Fystsm we caa hav
in this couutry.
"If Cleveland is elected his election will
go farther towards solving ; the difficult
problems wehuvs to contend with in thf
South. My co.orud friend are discussing
thi mp.tter and I feel certain that Democrats
will this year get from ihtf colored race a
vote that will surprise and dismay the Ret
publican party
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The following is the State Demo
cratic platform ns adopted by the
State convention assembled May 18 :
Eesolvkd, 1. That the demoeracv of
North Carolina reaffirm the principles of
the democratic party both btate and natio
nal, and particularly favor the free coinage
of silver and an increase of the currencv.
and the repeal of the internal revenue)
system. Aud we denounce tho McEinley
taritf bill as unjust to the consumers of the
country, and leading to the formation of
trusts, combines and niouoDci.ies whiaU
have oppressed the people ; and especial! v
do we denounce the unnecessary and bur
denawme incroase iu the tax on cotton ties
aud on tla, so largely used by the poorer
portion of the people. We likewise de
nounce the lnequitous forco bill, which is
not yet abandoned by th republican party,
but is being urged as a measure t hm
adopted as toon as they regain control of
tb House of Representatives, the purpose
and collect of which measure wiJ bo to es
tablish a second period of rcconstraotion ia
the Southern States, to subvert the liberties.
of our people and inflame a new race an.
tugonitim aud sectiocal aniniouit.es.
2. that we demand financial reform
and the enactment of laws that will remove
the burden cf tho people relative to the
existing agricultural depression, and do-
full and ample justice to the farmers and
laborers of our tout: try.
o. mat we demaLd the abolition ef
national banks, and the substitution of less!
tender treabury notes iu lieu of national
bank notes, lSuued in sufficient volume to
do the bubincss of the country on a etth
cystei, regulating the amount Heeded our
a per capita basis as the business interests
ot the country expaud, and that all money
issued by the government shall be legal1
ttiidrr ia payaieut of all debts, both publie
utd private. .
4. That we demand that Congress shall
pans suoh laws as khall tffectually prevent?
the dealing in fulun.8 of all agricultural
and mechanical productions; providing
suca stiingeut systain of procedure in trials
as shall secure prompt exuviation and im
posiug buch penalties as shad Bccurs most
perfect compliance with the law.
G. That we damaud the fre and unlimi
ted ouiuae of silver.
G. That we demand the passage of laws
prohibiting the ahau ownership ol landt
nnd that CongreHs take early stps to devise
some plan to obtain all lands now owned
by alien and forigu syndicates ; and that
ail lands now held by railroads and other
orporntionx, in tXcess of such as ia actu
al y used aud needed by them, be reclaimed
by tho government and held for actual
settlers only,
7. Believing in tho doctrme of "equal
rights to all aud special privileges to noue,"
we demand taut taxation, national or State,
shall not be useJ. to build up one interest
or class at the expense of another. We
biliwvs that the monty of the country
should be kt pt as Uiuch as possible in the
hactls ot the p- opto, and houce we demand
that all r-Vcjiue imtiunal, State or county, .
h.itt be limited to the necessary expenses
of the Kr,Vf mineut eojnomioally and hon
estly ad:uiuiht-red. -
8 That U .iigrsj issue a suffioient
amount cf fractional paper carreucy to
faciiiuto tLe exchange turf ugh the medium
of the Uuitcd fefates u.ail.
Uksolvzd, That the General Assembly .
piss bticu taws as will make the publi
reboot system more effective that the bles
biuga ot ecluoudon may be extended to all -tho
people cf ihe State alike. -
that we demand a graduated tax on in
comes.
TISE DEMOCRATIC PLAT
FORM ON THE FORCE BILL.
''We solemnly declare that the need of a
return to the fundamental prinoiplea of free
popular Government, based on home rule
ad individual liberty, was never more
ur&ent than now, when the tendency te.
ueu'.ralizj all power -at the Federal capital
has b-.come a meiuca - to the , reserved
rights of the States that strikes at the very
roots of our Government and the Consti
tution as framed by the fathers of the -
repub.ic.
"Wo warn 'he people ef our commea
oountry, jealous for the preservation ef
their free institutions, that the policy of
the Federal control of eleetiona to which
the Republican party has committed iUelf
is fraught with gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous than would result from a
revolution practically cutabliehing monarchy
oa the ruins of the.republic. It strikes at
the North as well as the South fad isjures
the cuiored citizen even more than the
white. It means a 1 orde ot deputy mar
shals at every polling place armed with "
FuderU power; r turning boards appointed
and controlled by , Federal authority ; the
outngo cf the electoral rights of the pee
pla iu the several States ; the subjugation
of the cclovcd'peopl to the eontrol t the
party in power, and the reviving of rsc
antagonism, now 'happily abUA, of th
uimost;peril to the saiety and bar, :..ei.s tt$
ail a laeaau re deliberately and i s Uy de-.
kcubtd by a leading KepuWican fLntor r.4 .
"the most infamous bill that evtr cro-aci
thu tl.r.fcholJ of the Stuste,"