The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-30
BRYAN AND GOlDBUGS.
The MISTAKES or The LAST lE6IS.
lATUPE.

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t,. Endorsed -sn,iou- to Sc. the New
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TicEoEY, y. c., Mar, ~, 1899.
The many recent heavy rains have
Mt ouly put farmers behind, but re-
t,rded business generally. The roads
are so bad IL is slu ost impossible to
travel through them with empty,
much loss loaded teams.
Tue fruit crop, "a well as that Of
wheat and oats, have hem damage
by the coli. Ia many places, there
will VOC no peaches. And while the
low lands have been food d, the up
hands have been washed into gulleys.
y vel have our people ia this part
Of IN, STATE been 30 late preparing
the land and gardening. Some have
planted potatoes, peas, etc, but the
ground is 50 cold and wet, they say
the seed would better oat Of the
ground.
Business generally is dull. Mer
chants have no trade. The farmers
can yet 10 tOwa. Our wood manu-
factur,rs manage to run most of tn.
time. A good many laborers are out
of employment, and those having
jobs, get scauty wages.
Our people are auxlous to see the
new laws come out. They want to
learn how many grievous mistakes
the wise men in the legislature
did make. If the reports be true,
they made more mistakes than any
legislature tn at ever met in the State.
That revenue act is plumb hon
ey, Wac got that up, any howl
Didn't they bust though, on their
graduated tax on banks The idea
of making bank with $40 900 cap
ital pay AS much as one with $25 900
capital. Suppose illusion gang
rad done such a thingY Why, you
would have never heard the last of
it. 1t would have been "incompe.
tency." What is it now
Bat that's not all. How about ma
king the orders of Kn gifts of Honor,
Knights of pythians, Royal Area
nam, etc for the same taxes as the
old ljne insurance companies, which
go into the business for profit and
pay their Off GERS big salariesP They
say tits was n mistake. Suppose
the "fusiouiSts' bad done such a
thing, what would the Democratic
papers have said? How they woald
have tried TO array these orders
against them.
Then how about that Gold sboro
charter to give white rule" in that
town. lbs said they made bull
PEN OF ii sure enough. Democrats
are great sticklers on the subj ct of
voting. They know asst how to fix
it-tco wise to make mistakes, you
know. It's reported that the new
charter reads: ''Al! voters for
mayor must be put in one box, and
all voters for aldermen must be put
in another box" They meant
votes 1t will take rrJtty big box
os, won it, to hold all the m negroes
and white voters7 Bat how they eau
put one voter in two boxes, We cam
not see. Perhaps they will prepare
b)xos just large enough to hold the
Democrats. Even the negroes can't
help bat grin when they hear of this.
Just suppose the "fusionists' had
made such mistake; why, they
could not go anywhere without every
little boy thro wing it in their teeth.
Then they We're so auxions to pro
vide pie for the boys, that they
actually issued out rations for sixty
two weeks in year instead of fifty
two. Why, the years are not long
enough for Democrat, when he is
at the pie counter. In granting court
weeks for the various counties in the
western criminal districts, they act
ually gave each district, with only
one judge, 81 weeks of court in {
yesr. Two or three judges and al
the lawyers have been working sew
ersl days to figure ont some plan tt
change the calander. Tney dom
want to put on night force. Tina
might interfere with their game o
Whist. That's the criminal distric
they cursed the "fusionists' for ere
ating, and said it was not needed
That's the way they repealed it
tackled on ten more weeks in yea
to il.
No one, so far has been able to ex
plain that "honest election law.
Some say 1t will disfranchise all owe
70 years old, one-legged soldiers an
others who do not pay poll tax. B'
cause this law requires them to sho
their poll tax receipt before they ca
vote. l asked Democratic lawye
about it. He said such perso
could prove his age. We asked hi
If this same "wise" Law did not sa
ne must prove his age by two Twin
witnesses, and if he was challenge
on election day without any previor
notice on what grounds, how man