The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-09-01
JARVIS AND CARR
SPEAKS TO A FAIR AUDIENCE
IN CLINTON.
Carr Simply Talked From Notes.
Jarvis Speach Did Him No
Credit and His Cause No
Good

st Jarvis Speach Did Him No
Credit and His Cause No
Good.
Ex-Governor Jarvis and Mr. Ella
Carr were first billed TO speak i,
Clinton on Wednesday, the. gath
and the notices were SO published bs
the chairman of the State Executive
Committee. But fearing that the
crowd would be small, they after
| wards changed it TO Friday, the 26th,
the day for the meeting of the Coun-
ty Convention. Still fearing that
that the audience would be srnall
considerable effort was made to inn
port crowd from neighboring
towns. Faisons was appealed to for
help and get upa town crowd to
come over and help whoop up War
saw, Magnolia, Burgaw, Mt. Olive
and even Wilmington were also ap.
pealed to, The Wilmington papers
stated in advance that their town
would send up delegation. A bar
becue was prepared, in fact, appa-
rently every nerve was strained.
Yet after all, the crowd was the
smallest that ever greeted Govern
Or and candidate for Governor in
Sampson. Not small portion of
the audience. belonged to the Peo-
ple's Party. The County Conven-
ton of the remnant of the Demo-
cratic party was called to order and
the delegates seated around the
the stand. Then the speakers, Jar
Wis and Carr were invited to address
the Convention and the on-lookers
present. We do not know it posi-
lively, but it seems as if this was
done to prevent any division Of time
or any possibility Of reply. For
the minute the speakers finished the
Convention proceeded with its wnrk.
Take note of the fact that the
speakers addressed the Convention,
that the Delegates remained in their
seats tabled by townships while Carr
and Jarvis spoke, and proceeded i'm
mediately to nomidating ticket af-
ter the speakers finished.
Mr.. Carr spoke first. He read
from manuscript. The whole bur-
den of what he said was the tariff.
He labored long to show that it was
iniquitous and wrong in principle.
That it was tax, and that any tax
that laid heavier burden upon the
poor than the rich was wrong. If
this is so, and we believe it is, then
why should Mr.. Carr Or any man
who claims to be friend to the
poor, who is in favor of common
justice, be in favor of any tariff
at all? But you say we must have
enough of it to run the government.
We would like to ask Mr.. Carr if he
is in favor of taxing the poor more
than the rich to raise revenue for
the government. ga tariff for reve-
nue. only" is nearly as bad and may
be worse than tariff for protection.
They try to fool the poor by talking
against the tariff in this way, yet in
practice they are both in favor Of it.
After Mr.. Carr had been talking
tariff for ne:.rly an hour he said,
"There is not a man in this audi
ence in favor of the TARIFF If that
was so, why did he not talk about
issues that the people were divided
ON, issues that the people were in
terested in and wanted light on?
In his annual message to the State
Alliance at AsheviIle he said:
GA repeal alone of this unjust
measure (the present tariff law
would not relieve the present dis
tress. II would not lift a single
mortgage. The one thing needful
in the present financial condition of
the people, is a debt-paying system
of finance, in comparison with which
all other questions sink into utter ia
signicance."
Further on he said:
"When the wisdom of the acts OF
the St. Louis national meeting,
(1So9l like leven, begin to work up.
on the masses of the people, tben'
and not till then, shall we have
peaceful and happy solution OF al
our troubles"
The demands of the National AL
lance as adopted at st. Louis in 's'
will be found in full in another col
umn of this paper. They are prac
tically the same as the st. Louis &c
Imands Of 1892. They are practical
Ily the same as the platform of thu
Peoples Party as adopted at Omaha
The three cardinal principles: Land
Finance and Transportation, are ex
lactIy the same. He endorsed the:
principles then. He held up deb
paying system of finance as the over
shadowing question. He said thel
that the st. Louis platform was wis
and the solution to our troubles. Il
his speech here on last Friday h
Idodged every one cf these issues.
| But these issues he lodged. /
/ Iu short all those issues which b
Eneld up in his addresses, while Pres
dent Of the Alliance as of the creates
/ importance he has deserted, an
| now talks only tariff and force Il
, at the dictatiOn OF the Chicago PHI
tocratic convention. Ihe peopl
Il Ar Tarr