Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-01
Mr.. JARVIS APPOINTMENT
His Position in Regard to the ReAlection
Of Senator Ransom.
Democrats in North Carolina Luke
warm-A Complex Condition of
Things in the State.
Of The Evening Star.

western part or the state, whence vance
| came. would be selected. Senator Jarvis
acted promptly in the matter of his inten-
| lions by announcing that he would repre-
| sent the Vance constituency only until the
legislature met, and would then contest for
| Ransom's seat. There Is no shrewder poll
tician in all the state than Jarvis. and he
| ought certainly to be gratified at the hold
| he has upon the people-black and white.
| A compliment was paid him never before
paid In the SOUTH, delegation of leading
negroes, OF both parties. called on Gov.
| Carr and urged him to appoint jarvis.
He thanked them for what they said, in
| formed them that Jarvis was the man
chosen, and then they hurried to the lat
ter's hotel and congratulated him.
| Senator Jarvis has written second let
ter, in which he says that the statements
| rhat Gov. Carr gave him the appointment
| as a personal reward are entirely untrue
and unjust. He denies that he has thrown
| down the gauntlet to Ransom, yet in the
| next sentence says that the latter has held
office twenty-five years and that any man
has a right to succeed him. Jarvis says he
| Is willing to leave either to the democratic
primaries or the convention the matter Of
| whether he shall or shall not be a candi-
| date for the Senate
| Now. all this is unusual and extremely
| interesting. 1t shows how formidable IRAN
SONS competitor Is. The alliance papers
| claim that the governors appointment Of
|
| Is alleged that the mass of the country
people are for Jarvis. Yet Ransom has
wonderful strength and power of recupera-
| tion His friends really regard him as in
vincible. Many office holders are under OBJ
| legations to him for his efforts in their be-
| half.
| Will Bring Out the Democratic Vote.
1t is the belief of many well-informed per-
| sons that this very contest between these
| leaders win do more than almost anything
else to bring out the democratic vote. The
! one great bugbear of the democrats this
year is not the detection of their people;
not their desertion to the populists; tut
absolute inertia; abstention from voting:
| carelessness as to what happens. And this
| Is the real danger to them. One can now
hear persons say daily that they do not
| care how matters go politically; that affairs
| could not be worse than they are. Cieve-
| land Is abused. Hill is denounced, Congress
Is cursed. One man of large means and
| great directness of expression declares that
| Congress. Coxey and the devil are running
the country. ..
| 1t Is freely said by democrats that IL Con-
gTess viii pass the Wilson bill and the in
come tax measure all will be well; but IL
| this Is not done they really do not see what
| their party can do this year to defend
| Itself. During the last campaign many
| democratic speakers promised to do so and
So They were asked by populists why they
| had not already done these things, and said
| because they had never had control of the
Presidency and of both branches of Con-
| sress. They then asked the people to give
| them one more trial. Some speakers car
| ried themselves so far in their earnestness
as to say they would vote with the popu-
| lists next time IL the democrats failed to
| carry out their pledges made in 1892 .--..
| III the democrats are harassed, one may
| be sure the two other parties are having
trouble too. The populists are not making
| gains. 1t is alleged that they reached their
| high-water mark in 1S.2. The republicans
| are also not making gains. Here is where
the danger, insidious as II is, of demo-
cratic apathy comes in. Both popuists and
| republicans will certainly poll their full
| vote.
The breach between the northern and
southern democrats is wide and widening
| Inc former are distruSted now This is the
frank expression of fact The change in
\ sentiment has been brought about by Con-
gress. and may be, perhaps, never Grad
icated. Hill has come to be regarded as the
| personifcation of northern democracy His
being read out Of the party would please
great numbers of earnest democrats in this
| section.
A white republican, who read what the
| negroes said on the subject of their vote
being this year an unknown quantity said
that he regarded the negro vote as pur-
chasable in 1871. This means that some
white republicans have acquired a con-
tempt Tor the very vote which put them in
power year after year for nearly a decade.
| Civil Service a Burden. ....-
Civil service is great burden to the DEM
! ocrats. They feel the pressure, the grip of
1t. postmaster now does not know how
| rar his authority goes. Those persons who
| hold positions under civil service rules are
half fearful. yet half defiant. and talk of
what they will do If any democrat attempts
to displace them. Some negroes say they
will watch democrats and see IL they dis
place negro office holders, and intimate that
II this is not done they win not act in an
unkindly way toward the democratic party.
This means that the negro, who never gets
many offices. wants to hold on to those
given his race. 1t goes to show how easily
the color line can be broken by the demo-
Gratis If they care to break 1t. And this it
Is which moved the same republican who
! declared the negro vote to be purchasable
to say further that he expected to see
negroes on democratic tickets in few
years-for legislative positions, not those of
| profit. OF course no democrat has been
| heard to say such a thing. But this is a
decade full of surprises. and the unexpected
often happens.
To-Day is the birthday of L. l.. Polk, who
was the most influential president the Ma
| tional Farmers Alliance ever had and
whose death here in June, 1892, was the
| greatest blow the populsts ever suffered.
| The populist papers are now printing many
| Of the things Polk used to say. 1t would
hardly have been believed in 1890 that the
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many things which the alliance was then
only beginning to urge, or rather to hint at
! An ultra-democratic paper signs as 1t la
ments over the fact that little is left the
! democratic party these days but its name
The alliances all over this state and in
| other states held meetings today in memory
of Polk and raised money with which they
/ propose to rear monument over his now
| unmarked grave In a cemetery in this city
There is no sign of any truce between the
| two factions of the republican party. 1t Is
said by some that the prospects of getting
| money from the north for campaign pur-
| poses are rather better than usual There
are come who say that in years past much
of the money given or allowed for this pur-
pose never applied properly and that
is the true reason why there is so little dis
position now to send any national commit
| tee funds here.
The Fight on Simmons.
The slowness of the confirmation Of F.
NJ. Simmons revenue collector of this
district has been cause of much feeling
Senator Vance antagonized Simmons, who,
| as you have been informed, is the chair
man of the democratic state committee.
Some Of Simmons friends say they doubly