The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-02-28
FROM OUR RALEIGH CORRESPONDENT
RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. "a. 1895.

LII PoI1tlceJ III -EoAh Val ioAin0, H0o
changes this year are startling and puz-
zling at tho same time. What occurred
a week ago is old, one might almost say
useless. Do the politicians know all that
is going on, or that is likely to happen9
1t seems they do not. The most infuen-
tial negro in the state says h. race will
not support free silver; that they regard
it as "wildcat money" and do not want
any free coinage of it. This is plain
talk. 81
On the other hand such an earnest sill
yer democrat as Maj. James W. Wilson
declares that three tourths of his party
are for free coinage and that the silver
men will absolutely dominate the demo-
cratic state convention. He is estates
rights democrat" and thinks the state and
not the national convention paramount.
Chairman F. M. Simmons, who is also
for silver, thinks the democrats will have
two tickets in this state. He says this
with deep regret. 1t seems that the party
will go to pieces for year or two and
then get together.
Ex-judge Spier Whitaker is of opinion
that after all that has been said the pop
ulists and republicans will again fuse or
cooperate on tho basis Of 1894, and that
the populists wifi name the governor.
John Nichols, republican, says this is
absurd and asks whether the republicans,
with $4,000 votes will allow handful
Of populists to dictate to them.
There are two classes of democrats; one
straightout and unwilling 20 make the
slie htest concessions to the popuIists; the
other quite willing to do anything to win
the popuIists back. The latter class say,
"do not do anything which will irritate
the populists bnt rather support them in
the fight they are making against the
republicans"
But does any of thic do a particle of
good? The populists and republicans
| have already fused, it is declared. practi.
cally. The plain statement is made that
majority of the populists are repubi
cans at heart and cannot be induced to
separate their fortunes from those of the
republicans.
Associate justice Walter Clark denies
positively that he is candidate for the
| gubernatorial nomination and declares he
coould not accept it even if it were ten
dered him.
| Gov. Carr is urging the U. S. agricul,
tural department to suspend, until the
legislature can meet, the operations of the
national law against the shipment of cat
tie from the south to the north during
six months of each year, unless such
cattle are to be Immediately slaughtered.
The state will pass local quarantine
law which will restrict the shipment of
cattle from states south. This Virginia
has Just done. The quarantine is to guard
against the much dreaded splenetic fever.
| The supreme court grants q new trial
to Wilcox, republican who shot dem~
ocratic registrar of election in Pasquotank
county, in November 1894 The lower
court had sentenced Wilcox to fifteen
years in the penitentiary.
Of the Peabody fund $4,000 was re
ceived last Saturday by the state. >Oi
this, $4,000 is for the state normal and
industrial school at Greensboro and 81 LOG
for the six colored normal schools.
The directors of the coloIed agricul-
tural and mechanical college have made
an investigation of the charges which
President Crosby and Prof. rDellingel
make against each other and as result
both will resign. They do this for The
good of the institution, though the
charges were not proved.
Drs. Hubert Hay ward, Julian M. Baker
S. w. Battle and r. S. Young are ap
pointed to represent the state guard at th'
national convention of military surgeon
which meets in Philadelphia, May IL.
Col. A. K. Mcclure, the veteran edito
of the Philadelphia Times, who has in 81
many ways proved his regard for tn
state, will be here March 13, as the CUES
, of Gov. Carr. He always gets, as b
| deserves, a hearty welcome in Mort
, Carolina.
, Gov. Carr will urge the legislature t
= appropriate $1,000 as North Carolina
, part of q statue TO be erected It Colum
3 bia, S. c, to the memory Of that gran
, American, George Peabody, who CAV
r "a, OOO, 900 to education in the south.
= The republicans have precious littl
= use for DR.. J. J. Mott. They do nc
d class him as a republican, say he is
d sorehead and that he went with the 81
:. YER party because be had lost power an
= influence in his own. They even say b
is mot even a silver republican"
Rev. Baylus Cade, at one time edite
of the Progressive Farmer and later I
q the Caucasian, gets q 81 500 place for lit
, at $1,000 year, as chaplain of the nj
# tional penitentiary at Leavenworth, Ka'
d sas.
o The annual report of the state audito
q now in press, will show that the decrea
d in the valuation of the property in Il
: state, as compared with the last previo'
- assessment, is only $5,049, 900. This
', much less, than was expected. The il
. crease in the value of farm lands in Nee
I'd lenburg is $35, 900 and in Wake $44, 90
n The decrease in the amount of tax
70 raised will be Sc, 379.
Il. An executive reward of 800 is offer
W for Nathan and Francis Jones, who q
m sassinated Mark Britain in Henders
to county, and who are believed to ha
taken refuge among their friends alo
the South Carolina border. A'reward
q, 500 is offered for the capture OF w.
90 Hampton, colored, who brutally murder
the night watcbman of the Southe
railway at Statesville one night last
IN cember, The murder was for the purpe
in of robbery.
he Capt. S. A. Ashe, who has had so 10
%. and so severe an attack of sickness,
again at his desk in the Office of the RI