The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-29

| tpeJ AePt uuIil IL Rot ola and juicy
and 80 good 1t made you wish your
throat was IS long ~ the Erie ca.
nal. Bat that apple brandy. be
said, was nothing to compare to
q good office, and for this reas or
the Democrats did not want to be
turned out.
Mr.. Aycock declared that the leg
islatures of 1895 and 1897 came into
power under the promise distinctly
made to reduce expenses.
Nov said he. 81 call upon Dr..
Thompson to show you what salar-
les they have cut down and what Of
dees they have abolished! He will
be compelled to admit that they have
increased expenses"
Referring to his charge of An in
crease OF expenses he said that he
had noticed that some man was
handing around in the crowd an op-
en- letter from j. w. Denmark to
himself in which Mr.. Denmark stat
ed that he had the figures wrong.
Picking up q copy Of the report Of
Auditor, Le said:
Here is book issued BY q man
Who cannot tell lie, Hal. W. Aver.
Well, Aver published this book, and
here are the figures as he presents
them. II it is a lie it is his lie,
it is not my lie. He got out
this book, got his name on
the back of it, and it is the annual
report Of the auditor of the State of
North Carolina, and l am going to
read you these figures. Here is the
sum total Of the complete record in
North Carolina, and no man can
deny it and no man will refute it.
What does the report showi Let me
read you the last three years of
Democratic rule. The Democrats
spent in 1892 81 ,057 .933. go; in 1893
$l.319 648 10; in 1894 they spent
$1;l95, ,620. %; or total for the three
years of So, ,573, POI 95. And since
these people that we're going to show
US how to legislate came into power
(and they have been in power for
three years., the first year that they
got the legislature they spent ST.
349. .335 Is: in 1898 they spent ST.
566 q; in 1897 they spent $1,364,-
20: or total for the three years
of $3,959, ,950.2l. In other words,
they spent more in the three years
that they were in power than we did
during the previous three years by
1886 .748. 8.26. Now in fairness to
them they ought to be credited with
$65, 900 for an extra legislature. DR..
Thompson says they ought to be
credited with $4,000. l say $65, 900
because that is what the previous
Democratic legislature has cost for
the last few years. But the first leg
islature that met in 1895 (after
they came into power spent
some seventy thousand dollars
for running the legislature. l have
got the figures here of what it cost
to pay the Senate and House en-
ployees in the legislature of 1897.
The Democratic legislatures of 1891
and '93 cost $128, ,994.79. The fusion
legislature of 95 and 81 cest $143,O27.
49. In other words, they spent more
to run their two legislatures by
$14 ,O82.70 than we paid, and they did
that in the name Of five cent cotton
and forty cent wheat. Now listen.
The Senate employees in the last
session of the legislature of North
Carolina, the men that they en-
ployed to wait on the Senators and
there are only about fifty Senator's
cost the state of North Carolina
$l1 ,592 %; the House employees cost
$10.195.N.'
Continuing his comparison of the
expenses under Democratic manage
ment and Populist management, he
said:
II have got the average figures
here of the cost of the Democratic
government in North Carolina. We
were In power for twenty-four years
in North Carolina, and during that
twenty-four years the average an
nual expenses of the State were
1858, ,585 81. Under the three years
Of Populist rule the expenditures
have been $1319, ,983. 40. In other
words their average annual expense
has been $3.50, ,O97.73 in excess of
the average annual expenses under
the Democratic government.
With reference to the legislature
of 1897 he said:
II am getting down now to the
legislature of 1897, and when q man
gets down there he has gotten down
mighty low. | never do feel real
mean except when I think about the
legislature of 1897, and when 1 think
about that legislature I do feel lit
tie and mean and sorry and good for
nothing, because that was as good
for nothing body as any people ev-
er were disgraced by having in ses-
sion.'
In this connection he read the edi-
torial which appeared in THE CAU-
cAsIAN during the legislature con-
demning the action of the men who
had betrayed the people. He also
read editorially from the Progressive
Farmer along the same line. Re-
ferring to the action of the boiling
Populists in voting for Pritchard he
asked: "Now, Doctor, did they buy
themf They succeeded in beating
you although the Democrats had me,
in caucus saying they would join in
electing free silver man to the
Senate.
Mr.. Aycock declared that under
the resolutions passed by the Pop
ulist convention Offering CO.
operation with the Democrats thai
DR.. Thompson was q usurper wher
he assumed authority to fuse with
the Republicans. He read the reso
lutions offered by the Peoples Party
to the Democratic party, and with
out one word of apology for the
Democrats for refusing such an EN-
inently fair proposition, he declared
that they gave authority to cooper
ate only with some party or faction
, Of party that endorsed these prln
ciples, and then asked if Chairman
Holton had rewritten the Republi
| oau ME ffopysn that - a~l~~,a2 thnnI