The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-07-14

for future reference.
OuTKAGEs UPON THE TRUTH AL
READY BEGUN.
The News and Observer OF the stb
inst. informs its readers that one, John
ID. Bellamy, Of New Hanover county,
vas nominated for Congress in the
9Th District the other day by the LAW
YERCRATIc party, hitherto more or
less-lately rather less than more
honorably known as the Democratic
party In North Carolina.
The News and Observer thinks Mr.,
Bellamy will "preach" the "princlples' p
OF Democracy enunciated at Chicago.
We reckon the News and Observer
must have made a mistake when it
used the term, "prlnciples" in connec-
ton with Mr.. Bellamy's "preaching."
We think this mistake must have been
made by our learned contemporary
for q good reason, viz: All the read
ers Of the News and Observer do GER
tainly know, that that paper never
mOnkies with "principles" except by
mistake. We think Mr.. Daniels must
have intended to use the term, policy,
in place of that Of principle, for the
further reason, that he at once quotes
from Mr.. Bellamay's speech, statement
after statement unsupported by any
shadow OF truth-sts tements SO reck.
lessly false, that there is no way to &C.
count for their having been made at
all, but by reference to the known
policy OF the LAwYERCRArIc party ma
chine in North Carolina to never
tell the truth under any circum-
stances. We want to examine
some Of these shamelessly false state
ments made by this representative of
the Lawyercratic party in North Caro-.
lima. We examine these false state
ments with no hope whatever of re-
forming these perverters of the truth ;
we set them forth simply to exhibit to
our readers the enormous capacity of
this LAwYERCRATIC machine for avoid
ing all contact with the truth.
O. "During nearly twenty years
our State Government was economi-
cally and honestly administered"
This is Mr.. Bellamy's statement.
These are the facts: For sixteen
years, from 1881 to 1897, the State
Treasury received from the State De-
partment $477,314.O2, an average of
$29,S32.l3 per year, or $2,4s6.13 per
month.
The State Treasury received from
the State Department for the first if
teen months of the present admins
tration $l45. 3Ol "a, an average of $116.-
24l.65 per year, or $9,6S6.79 per
month.
1t is to be said that there have teen
certain increases in license taxes on
insurance companies that the present
Secretary Of State has had the adyan-
tsge of that former Secretaries did not
have the advantage Of. But these ad-
vantages have not produced sums ex-
ceeding $4,000 per year or $3.50 per
month. Thus it will be seen that, after
making allowance for all advantages
to the present Secretary of State, he
has paid into the Treasury $6,45O.7S
more on an average per month
than was paid in per month by his
predecessors during the last sixteen
years.
Gay. "For nearly twenty years our
schools for both races were literally
encouraged"
This is Mr.. BellamyS statement:
The fact lie, that more money has
been provided for the schools of all
grades, and for those for both races
since 1894 than was ever provided for
them during any like period of Demo-
cratic rule since the war; and it is also
the fact that the schools of all kinds
are more prosperous and more efficient
now than they have been at any time
within the last twenty years.
t3) just as soon as the legislature
assembled many of the faces and names
which figured conspicuously as prom.
inent actors before the Fraud Com
mission of 1868 were seen cropping in
the lobby and galleries-and fraud
and corruption even stalked through
the legislative halls"
This is Mr.. Beilamy's statement-pe.
culiar English and all.
This is the fact: the majority of
hose who made regulations before the
Fraud Commission of 1868, and who
appeared in the Hobbies and galleries
'f the last legislature were Democrats
Dr. the sons of Democrats. We have
access to the report Of the Ship Com
mission, and will verify our statement
4 Mr.. Bellamy wants US to do so.
(D "Drunkenness and incOmpetencv