The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-16

cular are disclaimed by persons in this
section.
Yours truly,
r. w. LASSITER.
Oxford, n. c., June Is.
The circular enclosed is an argu-
ment against the free coinage of silver
of the regulation pattern. and is
signed, presumably. by all the gold
men in the State. 1t is entitled IAN
address of peculiar interest to farmers
and other producers" As there has
been some desire to secure a list OF the
gold men in the State for preservation,
we give the list signed to the address
which has been scattered broadcast as
follows:
Louis de Lacroix. c. f. Borden, Ed
ward Rosete, John d. Cooper, j. c.
Cooper, Jr., Joel G. King, b. G. Green,
W. f. Ashley. J. NJ. Horner, VIM. T.
Woodley, j. NJ. Currin, Fielding Knott,
+. p Hunter, w. X. Barham, a. S.
Davis. NJ. A. Gregory. j. A. Taylor,
John w. Graham, G. I. Patton. H. c.
Mcqueen, j. Fl. Davis, Ogdn f. Ed
wards, J. s. Brown, j. s. Hall, Il. NJ.
Collins. John A. Mcdowell. F. b. VIM
bish James w. White, w. Z. Gary,
Henry Bullock, A. b. Andrews, Jr.,
". d. Currin. Calder~Bros., A. L. Shell,
T.. w. Mcmillan, T. w, Stovall, g. Will
son. Wilkins Stoval, Melvin Dorsey,
j. P. Caldwell, w. D. Rogers, John l..
Curl. John Webb, J. f. Edwards, z. G.
Currin. A. B. Cayce. Herbert Aston,
Il. W. Jackson, r. Broughton, j, G..
McGaw, Jr., c. r. Lewis, John c. Tip
ton, George Rountree, G.. Fl. Faucette,
NJ. r. Lanier, J. S. Hickey James
Iaight. C. H. Parham, r. A. Heavlin.
ID. S. Owen. Sol r. Williams, r. p.
TAYLOR, H. A. London. G. d. Pittard,
Murchison & Co, c. Fl. lands, B. C..
Hilliard. W. S. Hundley, w. r. Taylor,
s. p. McNair. ]. J. Laughlin, A. s
Hines. C. n. Harris, John W. Stovall,
f. r. Gregory, J. w. Hitchcock, /. f..
Wright. L. Bieder, r. T. Smith, ]. f.
Finley, NJ. Crowley, Jr., J. S. Amis, T..
r. Ford. r. s. Currin, J.. C. Homer,
| 7. f. Duzzer, T. Draper, S. III. Allen, j.
G. Tarwater. w. S. Rice, Herbert Greg
ory, J. w. Knott, ]. ]. Fisher, W. III.
| Hunt. Samuel Harper, r. S. Usry, j. l..
| Palmer, w. H. Gregory, s. j. Curtin,
| W. Fl. Aycock.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
| THESE MEN.
This weeks Hillsboro Recorder an
| nounces that it will commence pro-
| ceedings against each of these gentle
| men for what it calls "a high-handed
| outrage" It seems that Mr.. De La
| Croix had this circular printed IN the
| form of a supplement" to many papers
containing this address" A supple
| ment on which was printed Supple
| ment to the Recorder was sent by ex-
press to that paper. The express pack
| age arrived in the absence of the edl-
| tor. and the young lady in charge OF
| the office, thinking the supplement
had come in response to an order
folded them in as is the custom OF
folding in supplements, and sent them
out to the world When the editor re-
turned and found it out, there was a
| rumpus, and the editor put off for Ok
ford to demand an explanation Of Mr.
De La Croix. The Recorder goes on to
say:
1--WE explained to him briefly the oc-
casion of our visit and asked to know
what was meant by such high-handed
| business. Mr.. De La Croix was bland
and naughty and indifferent,as though
shocked at the effrontery of little
| North Carolina editor calling down
such an august parsonage as himself
but upon our insisting that it was no
trivial matter with us he conde.
scended to say that he would set him
self right and pay for the damage he
had done the paper on his return from
the North. A telegram received from
him Tuesday, dated Boston, Mass. in
| forms us, however. that the matter Is
OF NO INTEREST TO HIM"
''To give some idea of the extent to
| which the mails are being abused and
the people imposed upon by such ele-
giant, kid-gloved Wall street agents as
the newly-imported Granville manipu-
| Iation. we learn that TWENTY-EIGHT
THOUSAND (28,000) circulars of SINH
lar character as those fraudulently sent
out with the Recorder, have been
mailed at the Oxford postoffice during
the past few weeks. And the mean
est, and greediest and most significant
thing about it all is that the parties
| (gold-bug Democrats) sending them
| out and claiming to be friends of the
working man, had not enough consld-
Grafton for the postmaster, whom they
compelled to cancel $4,000 postage
stamps for their benefit, to allow him
even the small commission he would
have made by selling them. The cir
culars were all addressed and stamped
at the North and sent to Oxford by
express. Tt was, of course, a matter
of very little consequence to these
Wall street Democratic money kings
how much the postmaster at little
country office like Oxford, N. c., sweat
and swore, so long as they could by his