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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25

to radical and unconstitutional
measures, which, i'm my. opinion,
are unjust, if not cruel.
FRANK NASH.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25

Senator Buffers open letter to
Capt. Geo. Wilcox On the proposed
const ut on amendment and the
election law has been printed in PAM
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25

Men can be cured privately and pos
itively at home Of all weakness and
diesses. Write for new free book. DIR.
J. \. Hathaway, 22i., South Broad St.,
Ga.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
From Caucasian Oct. 49,

From Caucasian Oct. ly.-
The following affidavit made by
James IA. Pou, ex-Chairman OF the
State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, during the last campaign,
will be Interesting reading. Our
readers will remember that when
ever and wherever IL was charged
in the last campaign that IL the
Democratic machine under Sim
mons go' control OF the State, that
they would offer a scheme to die
franchise illitterate votes, that the
charge was Indignantly denied and
denounced by every Democratic
speaker As being UNANIMOUSLY falls
Even Mr.. Simmons, the Democrat
ic State Chairman, issued an ofiici-
al statement to the voters of the
State, branding every such charge
as false In toto; saying that that
campaign lie had been charged
against the Democratic party be-
fore, and that the charge was nov
so old and so false that no one
would believe IT,.
Mr.. James III. Pou, the ex-ChaIr-
man OF the State Democratic Com
mit'ee, In his speeches made the
same declaration. But IL seems
that in one OF his speeches In Moore
county, some members Of his audi
dience expressed doubt OF the truth
OF his indignant denial, and called
upon him while upon the stand to
know Ii he would make an afflda-
Wit to that effect. He publicly
agreed to do so, we are informed.
The result IL the affidavit below.
made at Raleigh, dated Oct. lsth.
1898. 1t will be noticed that Mr..
Pou, shrewd, slick and cunning as
he is, attempted TO word bis affida
Wit so as not to say explicitly what
he had said publicly on the stump,
and yet at the same time, 10 say
enough to make IL appear that his
affidavit had made good his cam
paign declaration, and fool the vo-
ters into accepting his statement
and voting for the machine.
The following l. true copy OF
the affidavit:
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
County OF Wake.
James n. Pou, being duly sworn
'leposes and saws:
81 have never said that, III the
Democrats regained control OF the
State, they intended to disfranchise
the negroes and illiterate W bite yo-
tiers. ] never have said anything
like this, and i know that such Is
not the Intention Of the Democrat
ic party. ! have never heard a sin
gle Democrat give utterance to
such a sentiment, and ] do not be-
lieve, II such a proposition coms
before the General Assembly, that,
IL would receive a single Democrat
Ic vote. i believe that a majority OF
the uneducated white voters OF
North Carolina are Democrats. The
Democratic party is appealing to
them FOR aid in preserving white
supremacy in the center west and
In restoring IL I'm the Eastern part
OF this State. They are responding
TO our appeal and to repay them for
their aid with a. disfranchisement
OF their votes would be folly and
ingrattiude indeed. The man
who makes these charges know
they speak falsely, but their cam
paign this year is run upon the
idea that the people OF North Car
olina would rather believe a false
hood than the truth, and they
would rather hear libels upon the
honored dead than tn he.r srgu-
ments based upon truth
Is gneuI
JAMES III. PoU.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this October LIST 1898.
lSignedl
GEO; w. THOMPSON,
Notary puhlfc
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25

II the Baby is Cutting Teeth
Be sure and use that old and well
tried remedy. MRS. wIxsLowS SooTu-
IsG SYRUP for children teethine It
scoshes the child, softens the gums,
alisys all pain, cures wind collie and
ls the best remedy for diarrhoea. Is cis
per bottle.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
POU'S CAMPAIGN AFFIDAVIT.
ONE OF HIS METHODS OF
POOLING VOTERS IN THE
LAST CAMPAIGN.

He MAKES AFFIDAVIT THAT A PR"r,-
osITIoN To DIsFRASCHIsE ~
GRoEs AND ILLITERATE WHITES
WOULD NOT RECEIVE A SINGLE
DEMOCRATIC voTERIs THE LrGls-
LATURE AND DESoUNcEs THOSE
WHO MAKE THE CHARGE A. sPEAK-
ING FALSELY AND TRYING To POOL
THE PEOPLE.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25

mlttee or the Peoples Party on last
Thursday was one of the most har-
monious and enthusiastic meet
ing ever held in the history of the
party. The following resolutions.
which were unanimously adopted
set forth the action taken by the
committee.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
"Resolved, That the chairman of
the Peoples Party State Commit
tee be authorized and directed to
call State convention of the PeO-
pies Party to assemble in Raleigh
on Wednesday, April the 18th.
1900, and in connection with such
call he invite the assembling of a
general conference of mem bers of
the Peoples Party on Tuesday
night, April II, 1900; and that he
be authorized to extend a cordial
invitation on behalf of the State
committee to such citizens of the
State committee to address said
conference as may be decided prop
er and advisable by him.
"ResOlved, That while it does
not come within the official prero-
gatives of the State committee to
so direct, it is recommended that
county conventions called for elect
ing delegates to the State conven-
ton defer the nominations of coun-
ty and legislative tickets until af-
ter the meeting of the State con-
vention.
Resolved, That the letter re-
Gently written by Hon. Marion
Butler to Capt. George Wilcox, con-
corning the election law enacted
by the General Assembly of 1899.
and the franchise amendment to
the Constitution submitted by the
same body is entitled to the most
careful and fullest consideration of
all voters and citizens who favor
political liberty and popular gov
eminent, and that said letter is I'M
qualifiedly commended and en-
dorsed by this committee and that
the chairman of the committee take
immediate steps to effect the pub
LEGATION and distribution of fifty
thousand copies of the same.n
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.
"The executive committee of the
Peoples Party of North Carolina.
while holding the principles here
tofore declared in convention, feel
that it would be derelict in its duty
If it should fail to give a note of
warning to the people on the new
issue raised by the last Legisla-
ture. The election law enacted bv
that body is intensely partisan
and so open to fraud and corrup-
ton that all honest men who love
liberty may we'll view it with
alarm. The proposed constitutional
amendment, even if the courts
should sustain it would degrade the
poor, uneducated white men who
become of age after 1913 below the
educated negro. 1t would even de-
grade him below the uneducated
free negro who should become of
age prior to 1908. But no unbiasted
man who has education sufficient
to pass his examination before the
election boards for registration
who will take the trouble to read
for himself can doubt that the fifth
section of the proposed amendment,
known as the grandfather" clause,
Is in direct violation of the Fiji
teenth Amendment to the Consti-
tuition OF the United States.
mo lawyer whose pride of repu-
tation as a jurist has not been hum
bled by his ambition for political
preferment has ever said, or can
ever say, that this fifth or grand
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
1T Is an III Wind
That Blo7us Nobody Good. /"

That small ache or pain or
sUeakness Is the ill Svind'
that directs your attention to
the necessity of purifying
your blood by taking Hoods
Sarsaparflfa. Then your
suhole body recefOes good,
for the purified blood goes
tingling to every organ. It
IS the great remedy for all
ages and both SEXES.
Dyspepsia - Complicated Qnfh
lUer and kidney trouble, / suffered for
years from dyspepsia. eufh sepe7s pains.
Hoods Sarsaparua made me string and
hearty. 3. B. Eu1erton tubrrn, Ne.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
Notsrial Seal,
Go. W. Thomps ou,
Notary Public.
Raleigh, ". c.

Two five cent documentary rev
enue stamps ATTACHED.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
TATE OF NOTRH CAROLINA,
County of Franklin.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
County of Franklin.

COuuLy VI Edu Kill.
Ephraim Blacknall being duly
sworn deposes and says that he
heard Mr.. Plummer Davis Demo-
cratic candidate for the Legislature
in Franklin county say publicly in
the town Of Louisburg that nobody
need be afraid to vote for him, that
if elected, he would not vote to dis
franchise any body and he would
vote for no law that would be against
the interest of the colored race, and
in my OPINION such promises as this
was the reason WHY several hundred
colored people in this county voted
the Democratic ticket.
EPHRAIN BLACHNALL.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this the 10th day Of Dec. 1899.
H. A. FINCH.
Justice of Peace.
Of course everybody in Franklin
county, and in the whole state, for
that matter, is familiar with how
Mr.. Davis, at the dictates of Mr..
Simmons and his ballot box stuffing
machine, bowed to the party lash
and violated the pledges and voted
for the dangerous DISTINGUISHING
scheme that is now pending. Can
the people trust the new pledges and
promises made by men who have so
very recently violated their pledges7
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
STATE CONVENTION, APRIL IS.
THE DATE FIXED BY THE PEOPLES
PARTY STATE EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE.
Senator Buffers LIE ter Endorsed-An Adj
dress 1ssued-The Sentiment of the
Committee on the Amendment.

The meeting of the State Com
mittee Of the Peoples Party on last
Thursday was one of the most har-
monious and enthusiastic meet
ing ever held in the history of the
party. The following resolutions.
which were unanimously adopted.
set forth the action taken by the
committee,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
OiD-TIME zsB VANCE DEMOCRAT

In Representative HargrSve Of Haywood
County ssys That he L. Against the Pro-
posed Amendment-Hes Says ID f. Uni a. &
and UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and That Senator
Vance Opposed Such n Disfr.nehi-Ing
Scheme.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
MIR. DAVIS PLEDGE.

1t is well known that a majority
of the Democratic members of the
last legislature. in their campaign,
pledged the people, on the stump,
that if they were were put into
power they would not disfranchise
anybody, white or black, and they
further denounced as a campaign lie
every charge made by the Republi-
cans and Populists that they had
any such intention. In a recent
editorial the CAUCASIAN suggested
that while this was we'll known, it
might be well for a few affidavits to
this effect to be made by some of
the voters OF the respective counties
that heard Democratic candidates
make such pledges. In response to
this suggestion the two affidavits
published below have been sent to
us from franklin county. They are
as follows:
STATE OF NoTRH CAROLINA,
County of Franklin.
J. j. Wheeler being duly sworn,
deposes and says: That he heard
Mr.. Piummer Davis, Democratic
candidate for the Legislature In
franklin county, denounce as
false any and every charge that the
Democrats would, if they got the
Legislature, attempt to disfranchise
anybody, white or black: or that he
would favor making any property or
educational qualification to disfran-
chise any voter.
(Signed j. j. WHEELER,
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 18th day of December 1899.
(Signed) III. A. FINCH,
Justice of Peace.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
hoods SaasqboaM
Ilza7; lEila5lElD

! Hoods Pins cure liver ms; the nonIrrit.ssne ana
only e..hart.c Q axe Eit5 Ao2d's seEs.PslilIz.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
n1ETIRGuF TINE EXECUTIVE cuunIr.
TEE OF VANCE COUNTY.

Resolutions Were Pss.ed Esasrslng s.n..
ter Buffers Letter TO Mr. wGto~s.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17
The Fatal Cigarette.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct 90
Firemen called into the residence OF
Mrs. Efie Cawthon, a widew, this
morning, broke open the locked
door OF a bed room and discovered
the dead body of Clifford, the Is
year old son of the widow, lying
on the bed in a pool of blood, his
head literally hacked to pieces,
with a Ratchet which was lying
near by. 1t was evident 1t once
that murder had been committed
during the night and the building
set fire for the purpose of con
cealing the crime. Detectives with
bloodhounds are working on the
case.
Mrs. Cawthon, the mother, con-
fessed at . o'clock this morning
that she committed the deed and
that it was her intensiOn to kill the
whole family. She said the reason
she killed the boy was that he was
bad and smoked cigarettes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17
Farmers Must Stand and
Deliver.

The formation VI the Agricultural
Implement Trust is openly an
noanced After January l, 1901,
every piece Ut machinery used by
the farmer must be purchased a.
trust prices.
Every factory in the county has
been captured together with oil the
rights and patents. A number Ut
factories are to be shCt down ana
prices Of agricultural implements are
- 6e braced ~.
Thousands II travelling men and
aycn,s in Charge of agricultural inn
plement dcp"ts, have received notice
u look for other employment, that
BY March fret none ii their services
would be- needed
The trust schedules ii pricee are
being arranged now and will 60 into
effect after the big monopoly takes
hold.
Nearly Ill the big implement firms
Of the country have agreed to pool
their Issues in the lruet. 1t means
that every piece 1T machinery. pillow,
harrow, ruler. pick, shovel, hoe,
rake, Soy the, etc., must be pur-
chased through tie trust at trust
p,ices. There will he ND remedy.
1t will he = case Ut stand and de.
liver.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17
ClaimantfOr the Ameri.
can Throne.

Boston, Nov. 4-rhc activities
Of full -hedged royalist party in
America have just become nantes,
in business through the publication
of the Royal Standard, which is to
support the II. r. II. Robert,
Duke Of Cornwall, and eldest son
of Mary, Queen of Bavaria, as the
rightful heir to the American
throne. This title, it is SAID, de-
scended to Prince Robert IA Stuart
from KING Charles IL, whom Will
liam Berkeley, who was Governor
Of Virginia in l649, officially de.
clared King of Virginia aud the
colonies, while Cromwell was lord
protector.
The yellow rose chapter Of the
Aryan Order of ST. George is pre-.
pairing royalist reception in Rich.
mond, Va, next year, which
Prince Robert will be invited 70
attend. The Royal Standard says
of the pretender. to the American
throne that .she is ,. candidate iu
whom Americans can take pride. =
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17

An ordinance TO carry INTO effect
Articles pol, etc, OF the COnsti-

An ordinance TO carry INTO effect
Articles pol, ETC., OF the COnsti-
tuition relstive to public roads.
Section /. BE Il ordained by the
Police Jury Of st. Tammany Parish,
Loulsiana, That the Parish Of st. Tam
many IL hereby created into . road
district.
Sec. 2. BE It further ordained. That
In order to raise funds for the purpose
Of constructing, maintaining and re
pairing the public roads and bridges OF
this st. Tammany Parish, besides the
two mill tar heretofore levied and set
aside, there shall be imposed . pei
capita tax OF one dollar per annum upon
each able bodied ,uals inhabitant Of tie
parish between the ages Of Is and 81
years, and an asnual vehicle license:
including bicycles kept and used fol
lOc0motiou over the public roads ~
follows tO-wit.
One horse vehicles and bicycles, 25cts
Two horse vehicles, 50cts.
Big wagons, 81 20.
Sec. 3. BE IL further ordained, That
the Police Jury member from each ward
shall hire competent and reliable road
oversecrs for their respective wards
That It shall be the duty Of said over
seeRs 70 hire competent and able b0diet
laborers to work the respective road,
In each ward, which said roads shall
be deslgnated by the Police Jury member
That the said ovcrseer shall call hi
mes out and work his or their allotted
road or roads whenever necessary. pro
L a. T. Lat 90 do
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17
Ohicial.
AN ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE.
An Ordinance u carry into effect
Article POI Of the Constitution,
aud to levy . per capita tax.
Section I. BE It ordained by the
Police Jury Of st. Tammany Parish, La,
That for the purpose Of constructing,
malntaiuing and repairing the public
roads and bridges Of this parish, there
shalt be imposed . per capita tax Of one
dollar upon each able bodied male in
habltant of the parish between the ages
of eighteen and fifty.hve years.
Sec. ,. BE IL further ordained, etc..
That IL shall be tie duty of tbs Sheriff
to provide book and keep strict ac-
count Of the names Of the parties -
well g the per capita taxes paid, and
he shall receipt the party for the same.
Sec. 3. De IL further enacted, etc..
That the per capita tax shall be paid be.
tween the lirst day Of January and the
first day Of March. 1901, and each year
thereafter, and that any person falling
to pay his per capita tax ~ above levied
In Gee. l, be shall be fined In the sum Of
not lees than o. or more than SIS, and
In default Of the payment Of the fine
and costs, he shall be sentenced 70
work on the public roads for . period
Of time not 70 exceed 80 days, at the
discretion Of the court.
Sec. 4. BE IL further ordained, That
said prosecution shall be conducted be-
fore the District Court
Adopted October II, 1900.
GEO. KOEPP, JR.,
President.
W. G. KENTZEL,
Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17

Darlington county, it IL reported,
will sell nearly 100000 pounds
of tobacco tins season. One far
mer has sold the crop from one
acre for $500. Another has made
a $500 crop on ten acres, as his
first venture with the plant. The
crop generally sis holding its own
even with ten-rent cotton All
of which should be interesting in
formation to counties aud farmers
which do not regard the new crop
as worthy of their attention.
Charleston News and Courier.
Fine tobacco is raised IN 81.
rammany Parish, on a small scale,
and we believe It would pay our
farmers 10 devote more attention to
this valuable crop.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17
Poll Tax Requirement
After 1900.

All persons under 60 years, who
wish to vote at any election after
the expiration OF the present year,
will not be able 10 do so under the
constitution Of 1898, unless they
pay their poll tax before tue 3lst
day of December for the two pre-.
vious years. Those who fail TO pay
tlIis tax before the close OF Deem
Der this year and next year will not
be permitted to vote in tine election
in 1902. Pay your poll taxi before
the last day OF December and pre-
serve your right to vote.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17
Peanuts, Cowpeas, Sweet
Potatoes vs.. Corn.

Al the south Catalina expert
menl station an exi pertinent has
recently been carried ON ~ deter
mine the relative value Ut cowpeas
peanuts and sweet potatoes - pro-
ducers Of pork in comparison with
corn.
The following conclusions and de.
ductiOrs are the result ~ the ex.
pertinent
On lani Ut the same character
corn yielded Is bushels per acIe.
Spanish ground peas tpeanuts
30 bushels per acre.
Cow peas 10 bushel. per acre.
Sweet potatoes 200 bushels per
acre.
The cost Of production Ut these
crops, assuming that they are to Oe
harvested BY the hogs, With the ex.
ception Of tire COW peas. will be
practically the same.
It requires COZ ID. corn 70 pro-
duce l ID. pork.
It requires 4.43 lbs. peanuts to
produce ! ID. pork.
1t required 32.47 lbs. sweet r,-
tatoes to produce l ID. VI polk.
1t required 4 81 lbs. cowpeas to
produce ! lb. pork.
One acre OF cowpeas will prod uoe
1916 lbs. pork.
One acre Of corn will produce
1895 lbs. pork.
One acre OF eweet potatoes will
produce $685. It's, pork.
One acre OF cowpcas will produce
1928 lbs. pork.
At the foregoing rate of yield aud
pork production, aud estimating
pork 1t SC pound:
Corn Is worth per acre &6.95
Peanuts are worth per acre
$24.37.
Sweet potatoes are worth per acre
4lS AZ.
Cuwpeas are worth per acre IS II.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17
The Raz0rback.

The Farmer, in speaking Ut the
numerous breeds Ut swine in the
United States, says: There 10
much sport made VI the Southern
razOr-back 1t the present time, and
yet il may prov. true that the same
raz0r.back may be developed into .
type that will ad.nirsb bly, meet the
needs Of the Southern farmers aud
OF Southern farming, and that will
also meet tie conditions Ut Southern
climates It further goes ON to
speak Of the value Ut viyvr and
stamina which the razor-ba:x pos.
sesses to NJ nnpai allsled degree.
Speaking for Texas, the Journal can
say that generally over the STATE
tue razor-baLks are unknown, and in
the timbered section where = few
are still raised they cost their owner
almost nothing to make better meal
than any other breed. They were
used, perhaps, almost exclusively
20 the foundation stock in begin.
ming the improvement Of swine
breeding in Texas. but 50 extern
slve has been the use Of pure.beed
bears that the conformation Ut the
original stock has been almost en-
tirely lost, while tie Immunity from
disease which Texas swine havs
generally enjoyed has doubtless
been due to an inheritance Ol
stamina and viY0r mentioned by th'
Farmer. Perhaps it il just - vel
to remember that the choicest bscO,
raised in tbs country IL that Ut tn,
Smithfeld. Virginia.. producers,
made from razor back hogs.-Tsxa'
Stock aud Farm Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-11-17
To License the Sale of
Pistols and Cartridges.

This week we print House bill
No. lis, enacted by the last State
legislature, which bears unmls-
taxable evidence of a desire on the
part Of our law making body, to
curtail the sale Of fire arms through
the State IN the future, and II pos
sible, to discourage the popular use
thereof. We also publish the Act
that the dealers in fire arms may
know the penalty for indulging in
the sale thereof as follows:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Louisiana, every wholesale dealer
in pistols in this State shall pay
a license tax of One Hundred and
Twenty-Five Dollars, and every
wholesale dealer in pistol cartridges
in this State shall pay a license tax
of Fifty Dollars, to be collected by
the tax collectors of the various
parishes of the State ia the same
manner as are collected the other
licenses, and are to be paid into the
State Treasury as other taxes are
paid.
Section 2. Be it further enacted,
etc., That every retail dealer III
pistols IN this State shall pay q
license tax of Fifty Dollars, aud
every retail dealer in pistol car
tridges in this State shall pay tax
of twenty-five Dollars to be col
lected as provided for in Section l.
Section 3. Be it further enacted
etc, That this Act will go into
effect January LIST, 1901.
Section 4. Be it further enacted
ETC., That all laws or parts of laws
III conflict with this Act he and the
came are hereby repealed.