The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-12-24
ONLY SIX VOTES SHORT.

be from the testimony alone.
Error. The judgment is ARE sted.
ONLY SIX VOTES SHORT.
| National Secretary Walsh Says That IL
| West Virginia Could Havo Been Saved,
Bryan Was Elected-Frsuds In Indiana
| and California.
Des Moines Gazette.
While in Dss Moines recently, Chas.
A. Walsh, of Ottumwa, secretary of
the national silver Democratic com
mittee, was interviewed by a Leader
reporter as follows:
| "He expressed himself as especi-
ally pleased with the result in Iowa
and pointed to the large number of
20 es poll d for Mr.. Bryan; larger
number, he said, than had ever been
polled for any Republican candid ate
IN the State.
Il have repeatedly heard since
the election" he said, "that silver
is dead. This is the same story that
We have heard for many years past,
but the facts are that the longer it
has been agitated as great issue,
the stronger it has become. McKin-
ley's administration cannot mean
prosperity, because prosperity is not
possible under gold standard. 1t
is true the papers are full of fac
tories opening and prices advancing,
but all the stories that are printed in
the papers are not necessarily true.
In the Des Moines papers l read of a
/ fo n, oh
IS ablished in Ottumwa Immediately
as result of McKinley's election.
AS matter of fact, 1t has only been
established on paper, and there is
no probability Of its becoming es-
tablished in fact. also read that
another one of our factories will add
two stories to its buildings, as a re-
suit of McKinley's election. The
truth is that it will be impossible to
add half a story to its building with
out crushing all the walls. All the
factories which have been opened
since the election were closed for
political effect and nothing else. l
Ii notice the papers say nothing
about the reduction in pay and
force which have been made on many
of the railroads since election. The
Chicago & Alton, l understand, has
made cut of twenty per cent all
around.
i We had the odium of four years OF
Cleveland's administration to over.
come. Then the tremendous inf1u
ence Of the money power; and the
: daily press was against US. Do you
know that for month before the
: election we positively refused news
paper men admission to the silver
headquarters The Chicago paper!
would take statements which WI
gave them, re-write them to sui
: their own purposes, and then quot.
US as authority for them.
The fact is, that until West Vir
glnia slipped away from US B1yal
was elected. If Mckinley had no
D carried West Virginia we woult
have saved both California and In
I diana for Bryan. We could prov
I frauds in both of these States suffi
3 cient to carry them against McK,n
ley: but in the face of the result il
West Virginia no good end coul
have been served by doing 50. Il
3 many of the counties in Indiana, fo
instance, the Populist votes were no
!. counted for Mr., Bryan; and We vii
:, prove this"
: But the Country stil Seems to Be Full G
Fools.
A statistician has learned that tn
annual aggregate of the circulatio
+ of the papers If the world is estims
r ted to be 100000, 900 copies. T
I grasp the idea of this magnitude W
IS may state that it would cover no fewe
N than 10,450 square miles of surface
n that it is printed on ISL, go tons {
70 paper; and, further, that if the nun
9 ber Q2, 900, 900, ,00O represented, il
IL stead OF copies, seconds, it woul
g take over 333 years for them
% elapse, In lieu of this arrangement
le We might press and pile them vert
Il cally upward to gradually reach OF
10 highest mountains. Topping a
d these, and even the highest Alp
the pile would reach the magnifceI
< altitude of 400, or, in round nur
1e bers, 500, miles. Calculating tn
as the average man spends five minut
3 reading his paper in the day (this
IL u a very low estimate), we find tn
NJ the people OF the world altogeth
S aSs annually occupy time equivalent
70 1OO, ,OO0 years reading the papers.
= Plenty of Churches with No Women
y Current Literature.l
~ 300. CHURCHES AND NO WOMEN:
lr- came across recently a reference
"the land where there are thousa
it. churches and no womey ?, Is the
in such a country? Can "Open GU,
in tions" tell me anything about it:
,or Sceptic, New York City.
~: The peninsula of Mt. Ath.., in T,
us key, is q body of land about fol
'os miles long and four miles wide, viii
ast Xerxes converted into an island,
pi- cutting a ship canal across its neck
ed, described by Herodotus. For cen
- ries, this peninsula has been Occup
INT only by hermits and monks, menti
on of its "hOly men" occurring as early
'cn the wear $50. There are nearly tn
Is, sand churches and OratOries on it,
ord the use of about three thousand mi
Iiss hut. for ages, no woman has been th'
or and the rule of female exclusion is
the forced even against the lower q
Iiss mails.
l.