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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-07

return. Cut up into small farms. they
are worked TO better advantage. ana
contribute more largely to the sene'ai
prosperity. ~ ,,s
The coai-mines and forests OF '"s
South are one OF the great sources OF
wealth. present and prospective. IL Is
estimated that there are 315.lS.sm acres
of woodland in the United States TO-
day. and that 1N. 1860 acres or n",c
than half are in the South-a ouahtl'y
sufficient to supply the who're ooun ,',h
for many years. OF coal, nine soue"-
ern States produced In 1884 ABOUT ~,
900 900 tons. of which almost exacuy hail
came from the mines OF west 'irsln'a.
In 1880 only 2,5a3.736 tons OF coal were
mined I'm the whole South. No STATISTICS
as TO the number of tons OF IRON ore
are given. but the increase must nave
been great. cs the production OK pig.
iron has grown from 50,o2 tons In 1888
to l.262,s3 tons in 1894, ana IL was All
produced from ore mined at nome.
We have space for only Few i'eh's
from the Times Democrats presentation
OF great facts, but they sunce 10 SNOW
a wonderful progress. And We, the WON
of DEVELOPMENT has scarcely begun. En-
terprise and capital will find great OPP
portunties in the Southern states LOT
many years to come, and the ahnudi
trade reviews will long continue 10 give
cheering reports of substantial gam III
wealth, and all other elements OF strehsuh
and prosperity Wa shing;on POST
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-07

considerable and exacting. He sees only
his own immediate. selfish ends. The
excited FREQ Silverite who has worked
himself into n fury and who imagines that
the Democratic ticket IN Kentucky can
be elected without the aid OF the sound
money vote would drown the still small
voice of common-sense by chorus OF
noisy penny-trumpets. The eager Re-
publican In Wisconsin who thought he
saw in the money wrangie precipitated
by one or two Democratic candidates a
sure victory for the Republican state
ticket is discouraged to find that fac-
tor so important as the Courier-Journal
does not carry the issue, serious as IL
admittedly is, to the bttG end or sacri-
ficing the many points OF agreement
among Democrats to the one point OF
disagreement. In all this the two par
ties are equally out of touch with the
plain and obvious facts OF the case.
The silver issue may result in gener-
al breaking up and readjustment OF par
ties. But II has not yet done this. ON
the contrary, the Democratic party Is
merely passing through an ordeal which
will presently overtake the Republican
party. 1t will be time enough for the
voters to determine which Is true ana
which is false to the money OF the people
and the credit Of the nation when the
Republicans have had to face the music
and to Show what mettle they are made
of. Meanwhile, 1t will be found safest
and wisest for warning Democrats 10
maintain among themselves an armed
neutrality, so to say, whilst keeping
sharp watch upon the common enemy.
Mr.. Hardin is not defeated yet. MIR.
Blackburn is not elected yet. The gen.
esal Democratic ticket, and other Demo-
cratic candidates. have some rights which
the Democratic rank and file are bound
70 respect, and which, whether they
are bound or not. they Will respect.
The Courier-Journal is sorry to dis
appoint anybody. II would ike no
please everybody. But. adnonished by
some failures in the past to placate the
implacablc and to silence the unthink-
ing. it will cen go its ain gait. trusting
that whatever it may lack in WISDOM will
be made good By the perfect candor of It's
proceeding and the manifest integrity OF
its purTose.-Lousyille Courier-Journal.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-07
"EPBEMERiL REFORfIERS -

The senseless twaddle from the Stras-
burg Free Lance closing with. III the
honest-eection movement is the spawn
Of Malone, we want none Of it, Is on a
par with the bile thrown off by The
Richmond Times, and other ephemeral
reformers, in refusing TO support the
"fair-elections bill" because Malone
helped 10 frame it. The bill is first
class, and would make an ideal law. and
they all say they favor such law, but
can't support what they admire so much
because Malone was at the conference
that promulgated 1t. Such rot. Every
one Of them would rejoice If Malone were
on his sde.-The State Republican
Ephemeral reformers. That is what
The Times, and all others who are for
honest elections. but not for Malone. are
called by the State Republican.
The standard. then of inhexible. I'M
varying. unresting political integrity set
up by the State Republican is-Mahone
And all who do not dance TO his music
are mot in it,! Wen, if the accession
of Malone to the ranks of any party
should be a cause Of rejoicing to that
party, it certainly is not the party of
election reform, for which The Times has
been praying and preaching.
The Times has never said it would not
support the bill proposed by the Peters
burg conference. We have not care
fully examined the bill. and not being
fully advised of its import, cannot say
whether we will support it or not.
1t certainly has some excellent features,
which we hope viii be adopted by our
incoming Legislature. But, like all Nir-
ginlans who nave reached mans estate.
we are struck by the grotesqueness Of
Mahone's sudden apparition as the pro-
moter of honest elections In Virginia.
The Democratic party is, and we trust
will remain in power in Virginia. To
it we must look for the speedy relief we
require in our election methods. The
Democrats throughout the state know
General Malone, or have so heard of
him that they utterly mlstrust him. ii
is useless to deny or argue agains. these
facts.
The question plainly, then, Is, Shall
we promote the cause Of honest cleo
lions or the cause of William Malone:
The State Republican prefers the cause
of Mahone-The Times, Of honest cleo
tons. That is the difference.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-07
THOTBLE BREHING FOR H4WAfI.
Consul job Thinks He Has Discovered n
plot 10 Overthrow the Government.

CHICAGO Sept. 6.-Consul job of the
republic Of Hawaii. thinks he has dis
covered a plot to overturn the Republic
Of Hawaii and either restore Liliuokalam
TO the throne or set up 2 new govern
inent Filibusters, says he, are being
recruited in Chicago for this purpose. 4
private detective asc.cy Is said TO he
tracing the leaders Of the nov .ment, and
at the first attempt on their part to
mike 2 hostile demonstration they VIII
De arrested.
Since his appointment as consul fer
Hawaii Mr.. JOB has been sounding pup
liz opinion as to its attitude toward the
struggling republic. In connection With
some colonization schemes which the re-
public proposes to set ailoat IN Chlca?o
ard other American cities at an early
date, he discovered that men or some
prominence in Chicago and eseWhere had
already inaugUrated a plan to organize
here a body of men 10 go 10 Hawai- and
ov, rthrow the present Government. They
were TO be recruited in Chicago. shipped
TO various points on the Pacific coast.
gradually gathered into one or two large
vessels. armed. and TO set sail Tor ha-
wall. The recruiting had gone so far
that an ex-COnfederate army officer had
been offered "A commission in tme army
to be formed.
Dispatches from San Francisco indicate
that the formation OF the army in Cnl-
cago had already been learned there, ana
Charles F. Wilder, Hawaiian consul, VIII
keen close lookout for filibusters who may
attempt 10 embark from that port. The
prompt action of COiisul JOB may squelch
The movement without the attention OF
this Government being called TO IT,
Other adyices than those of Consul JoD
are TO the effect that Hawaii is on the
owe of a revolution. 1t is predicted that
ii annexation does not OCCUR there may
be an uprising.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-07

Congressman Joseph L. Washington, or
Nashville, Tenn, was in Washington
city a day or so back. and lie made the
following statement to a reporter:
"Our people have been much wrought
up over the financial question, and az one
time the advocates of free and unlimited
coinage of silver appeared 10 be IN the
ascendant. But after Secretary Carlisle 5
great speech before the sound-money con-
vention in Memphis the tide turned. IT
set our people to thinking. and the more
they thought the more convinced they
became of the correctness OF the doctrine
advanced by the Secretary of the Treas
ury. And if the question was now put
to a vote Tennessee would be found in
the sound-moncy column. I think it can
be safely said that Tennessee will send
a sound money delegation to the next
Democratic national convention"
And so the news continues TO come
from all parts of the country. A year
ago, Tennessee was as hopelessly COM
United to free silver as Virginia then
was But Mr. Washington Is not the
only person from whom we hear that
there has been a total rcyulsion OF opin-
ion there. We have never known any
thing like the change that has taken place
in Virginia within the past few months.
When our convention is held next year
to choose delegates to the National Dem
ocratic Convention, we predict that a
sound-money delegation will be sent. II
that convention had been held six months
ago il would have been solid for free Sill
vor The heresy is dead. and we DOUBT
If it will even be mentioned in the next
National Democratic Convention.
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NIass-ilcefing in Floyd.

Pursuant 10 a call issued by 5. Ii. Nc
Neil. the citizens of Floyd county met IN
mass-meot.ng at Floyd Courthouse Satur-
day. August 3lst. 5. II. Mcneil called
the meeting 10 order. and on motion ID.
L. Eller was elected temporary chair
man, and A. Z. Thompson secretary,
with j. T.. Profit assistant. On mo-
ton, the temporary organization was
made permanent. V. NJ. Sowder. NJ. Il.
Hilton. J a. Whitlock, Peter Cannaday
Henry Quesenberry T. Ii. Potter
a. l.. Vest, and S. II. Mcneil were ap-
pointed a Committee on Resolutions. and
reported the following. which were unani-
mously adopted
I'VE, the voters of Floyd county, who
favor the repeal of the Walton election
law. and the passage of a fair and nom
partisan election law, in mass-meeting
assembled,
Resolved, First, That We favor the
repeal Of the Walton election-law, and
the passage of a fair and non-partisan
election law.
Second, That we call upon the voters
of Franklin county, who favor the re-
peal of the Walton election law, and the
passage OF a fair. non-partisan election
law lsuch as that proposed at the Pc
tersburg conference. to meet us In a
to be held at Rocky Mount on the 2lst
day OF September. 1885, for the purpose
OF nominating candidates for the Sem
ate and floater for the counties OF
Floyd and Franklin.
Third. That this meeting name twelve
delegates and six alternates TO represent
Floyd county In said convention, and
that they, or such Of them as attend. be
authorized TO cast the vote 10 which
Floyd county may be entitled In said
convention on the oasis OF representation
TO be agreed on in said convention"
In pursuance OF the foregoing resoiu-
tons. the following delegates and alter
mates were appointed.
Delegates-John Earles. W A. Rus
sell. G. w. Vest. A. T. Sowder. r. II.
Potter. Jackson Mulberry. ID. l.. Eller.
III. W. Simmons. G.. II. Akers. NJ. b.
Hilton. w. A. Poff, and A. L. Vest.
Delegate at large-S. III. Mcneil.
Alternately. NJ. Sowder. John l..
Boone. u. W. Slusher. ]. A. Whitlock.
Nathan Phillips. and Peter Cannaday. 4.
J. w. Simmons offered the following
resolution. which was unanimously adopt
cd:
Resolved. That S. T. Turner, OF this
county. Is the choice of this meeting
for the noater delegate In the next
General Assembly"
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Henry WattersoD.

From every quarter of the Democratic
camp we hear nothing but fierce and
harsh criticisms OF Henry Watterson
and his recent course.
IL is mournfui fact that the kentucky
journalist is now training under the very
standard which he should be fighting,
but the money kings and the inside foes
of Democracy will find him anything
but a willing ally. He has probably been
driven to the ranks OF the gold SHARKS
by circumstances over which he has
no control, and in his heart OF hearts
he is probably the same old Henry Wat
terson.
The new Watterson Is the creation OF
the business office; the old Watterson
was a tribune of the people with the
courage OF his convictions.
The editor OF the Courier-Journal is
not it's owner He is powerless to direct
its course when he is hampered by the
business office. He has made brave
struggle but slowly and surely the in
terests and influences of the busints SO
office have coiled around him. until the
strong man staggers helplessly uno.r
hfs burden, without the power 10 striic
a blow for Himself or for his people.
1t is the irony of fate. Here is man
who but yesterday was willing to dare
everything for the PEOPLE against the
money power. and to-day he finds him
self the slave OF that power. But he
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-07
LETTER cARnfERs IN POLITICS.
Tho Civil Service Commission Makes n
Few Suggestions.


WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.-The civil Ser
vice Commission was recently asked by
certain letter carriers to decide what part
they were allowed under the civil SER
vice law to take in politics further than
merely to cast their votes. The commits
sion has decided that any SPECIFIC ques-
tions should properly be submitted to the
Post-Office Department. but called atten'
ton to the executive instructions or the
President Of July IA, lSSS, which, 1t Is said,
are yet in force, and had been made
part OF the postal rules and regulations
by the succeeding Administration and re-
promulgated by the Postmaster-General
Nav %. 1894. "for the information ana
guidance of all officers and employees in
the postal service"
In this declaration the President warns
Office holders against the use OF their
official positions in attempts to control
political movements in their localities"
"Office-holders should scru-
pulously avoid, in political action as well
as I'm the discharge Of their official duties,
offending, by display Of obtrusiye parti-
sanship, their neighbors who have rela-
tons with them as public officials.
The influence of Federal onice-hoders
should not be felt in the manipulation of
political primary meetings and nominal
ing conventions.
individual interest and activity In po-
Iitical affairs are by no means condemn
ed. Ofiice-holders are neither disfranchis-
ed nor forbidden The exercise OF political
privileges; but their privileges are not
enlarged, nor is their duty to party in
creased TO pernicious activity by Office
holding"
The commission further said: 'The
present Postmaster-Genera1, in an adj
dress delivered before the Convention OF
Letter Carriers at Philadelphia, Septem-
Der "a, used the following significant Ian
guage:
mo one rejoices more than do. Dotn
on principle and on the lower plane OF
selfish convenience, that every free de-
livery post-ofiice of the country IL now
under civil service rules; that the gate
way TO employment therein is no longer
partisan influence political or other
pulls but the free and open road OF
personal merit, and that the tenure OF
that employment no longer depends upon
anything less than individual merit, ana
individual fidelity.
''Those who enter the classified civil SER
vice upon the ground of ascertained merit
as established by the ciyil-scrvice rules,
and are pratectod therein. should be quick
TO recognize the reciprocal obligation
thereby imposed and avoid any acton
which now or at any future time could
reasonably subject them TO adverse polltl-
cal criticism"
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what II was about when 1t announced
week or 20 back that Martin would be
.or free silver. Its rhetoric was a iittIe
turgid, and It's metaphors somewhat mix
cd. but IL knew what q was talking about
all the came. The Richmond corresponds
Ont OF the Baltimore Sun wrote that pa
per day or SO back that 1t was wen
understood Martin had Joined forces with
John Ds MEL. and was doing all he couiu
10 get "ho1d-over" State Senator's this fall
who would vote for Daniel for the SEN
ate This CORE. pondent knows what
goes on In that camp as well as any man
in Virginia. You may set 1t down as
fixed, therefore, tfat Tom Martin Is go
ing to train with Daniel. free silver ana
all
THE first fight is going to be on f1tz
Lees nomination for Governor. You VIII
And that Daniel and Martin VII be back
ing Hoge Tyler for the nomination, ana
they will have with them all OF the old
time barnacles and mossbacks In the
State. But they will be powerless 10
stem the tide. The new movement VIII
be founded on hope. vigor. and the new
life. In the death grapple. the muscles OF
its adversary will turn out to be all dead
wood, and that adversary will go to the
ground 10 die IN that general Golgotha
that 1t is always telling us the whole
world is"
We give our friends forecast for what
II Is worth.
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No Reason for Secrecy,

Some things are done In Baltimore in 4
different and we think. a better way
than they are done in Petersburg. When
election JUDGES and clerks are appointed
here it is often with great difficulty that
the newspapers can get an accurate list
for publication. In Baltimore the cleo
ton judges. clerks. and ballot-clcrks are
given the utmost publicity by an official
publication In the advertising columns o.
the sun. For the ensuing year the lis,
makes nearly four columns. why there
should be any secrecy about such appoint
ments is one of the things that no honest
man can find out.-Petersburg Index-Ap-
peal.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-07

Public attention in Virginia was very
distinctly called In the trial of the Mas
sey suit at Norfolk to the abuse of Wit
nesses permitted by the court. IL derived
peculiar emphasis in that case from the
general interest growing out of the pr0mi-
nence of the parties TO the suit, but we
suppose we 90 not oyerstate the evil when
we say that II prevails more or less in
every court i'm the State-and possibly In
every other State, especially among the
lawyers Of least repute in the profession.
The Advance Reports Of the Pennsylvania
Legal Inteligencer show that the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania intends to
bring to an end this dlsreputable practice
of brow beating in that State. That
Court. by a decision filed by justice
Green. May 30. 1895, in the case OF Holden
vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
unanimously decided that the abuse ana
insult Of witnesses or lugants, IN argu-
roents to the jury, furnish legal ground
for an exception on the record 10 De
reviewed by the Supreme Court. In TINS
case the Supreme Court not only sustain
ed the exception as based on good lesai
grounds. but reversed the Judgment OF the
court below distinctly on the sfouiAus
therein stated
IL is not infrequcnt that the attorney,
in default of having impeached the wit
ness by evidence, proceeds TO impeach
him on his own account by attacks on
his yoracity, honesty, and general char
actar. which attacks often serve, as tney
are intended, TO create the impression
with the jury that they are founded on
something more than the audacity OF the
man who utters them. This impression
Individually sways the ordinary Jury IN
making up it's verdict. The decision Oh
the Pennsylvania Supreme court Is,
seems To us. based on common sense,
as we'll as a desire to elevate the pro-
fassion above a role that ill-befts the
better class OF It's members.-Staunton
\indicatOr.
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Two Feet of lee on Deck.

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, Sept. 6.-ihe
Bristis ship Mackrihansu, capt. sanhd-
ers, arrived Wednesday night. ~ DAYS
from Swansea, with n cargo OF 2oh tons
OF coal Nearly every vessel which mas
reached here in the past week has had
thrilling story of battles with the eie-
ments, but the experiences of the Mack
rihanisu were the worst. In June she
was hove 10 for five days off the horn
during which time heavy seas swept her
from stem 70 stern. smashing her Doats
and sweeping everything movable into
the sea. A tidal wave buried the vessel
at one time, filing her decks, and at
another time blizzard froze her rig
ging and running gear so that the snip
was lulmarageable. Ice clustered about
the vessel in some places TO thickness OF
two feet and had to be broken with ham,
mers in order TO get at the ropes.
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Progress Of the South.

Among the good things that come along
v,ith commeadable regularity at the
time Of the harvest moon are the an
nual trade reviews in various enterpris-
ing Southern newspapers. one or the
most accurate and comprehensive OF
these reviews is that OF the New Or
leans T,mes-D Democrat, which includes
returns from that city and LOUISIANA
and the thirteen Southern States. Deia-
ware, Maryland, and missouri are Hoe
Included they being regarded as more
Northern than Southern, when an ar
bitrary distinction must be drawn.
The DEVELOPMENT of manufactures is, or
course. the topic of leading interest IN
a business view OF the South. Exact
figures cannot be given. but the estima1cS
of the Times-Democrat are as nearly
accurate as unofficial figures can DC.
The comparison IL makes is between 1870
and 1886 a period OF fifteen years. IN
that time the number of manufacturing
establishments in the South Increased
from 1856 TO 59.l76. and the capital IN
vested increased from sl79, 1920 10 $780,
1880. In 1850 the hands employed IN
the mills of the South numbered 2i5,Ao,
while in 1855 they had grown 10 $500
or considerably more than doubled, and
the wages pad increased from S62.itS,S,2 10
xoDi SIS 800 or more than trcbled.
The amount OF cultivated land has in
creased n about the same proportion as
the volume and value OF the crops. Fiji
teen years ago there were "a .619. l45 acres OF
land under the Ylow, while In 1895 there
are 50. 4s2,5.2 cultivated acres, or an in
crease OF si7s3.5T acres in a decade and
a half. The total value of all farm
products was estimated at $sll.6S9. las in
isD. while this year IL Is placed at Sss6.-
r.a n IfffiQ than
one-half. or nearly the same as the in
crease in the amount OF cultivated land.
one of the most Encouraging exhibits
is the comparison OF the number OF
farms in 1850 and 1895. In the first
year there were l.735.4S. while In the
second year there are 2+02.s72. The old
plantations are disappearing. never to
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-07
Itates from intermediate points In


ConmnA: Tickets Will be sold Septembero
and T.. and daily from September - 20 Dccem-
Der u. 1895. inclusive, with final limit January
T. 1896.
Column y: Tickets will be sold dsily from
September is 20 December Is. 1895. inc uslNe,
with final limit twenty 3Ol days from daie OF
sale.
Column G.: Tickets viii De sold daily from
September II 10 December 90 1875. inclusive,
with final limit fifteen 40 days from dstc OK
sale. No ticket TO bear longer limit than Janu-
AIRY :. 1896.
Column ID: Tickets will be sold on Tuesdays
aud Thursdays OF each week from september
II until December q, 1895. Inclusive. with final
limit ten 10 days from date of sale.
Column T. Tickets will DC sold daily from
September ID TO December ~. 1886. inclusive,
with final l.icit seven % days from date Of sale.