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ESTA-BLISHIED'1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY,_SEPTE.MBE3,19.___PRC$L0AYA DEFECTS OF THE DEMANDS. A Dispassionate Discussion of the Ocala Platform-Some Practical Suggestions it Would be Well for the Peo ple to Consider for Themselves. [Prof. R. Means Davis, in the Winnsboro News and Herald, August 25.1 I have read with interest the Ocala platform, printed in your columns at the request of the Blythewood Alliance. As you say, it raises burniag questions, and should be read with the greatest care, not only by All voters, but by all who have a cent of property or an iota of patriotism. It will not do either to accept or reject these demands as a whole without earnest study of them. Some of them raise issues that have been inooted a long time and are still unsettled problems among the leading economists and statesmen of the world. I propose simply to ask some ques tions in order to attract attention to the significance of these demands. Each reader of your paper can answer the n for himself. (A.) After all is not government a compromise? There is scarcely any good measure without its attendant evil, a truth that becomes more apparent the more it is studied, %nd the wisest legis lation is that which secures as much good with as little evil as possible. More than this cannot be expected. The statesmen who is cock sure on any measure often meets with disappoint ment when theory is put into prac tiee. National banks have their good points and their bad ones. For those who de sire a redeemable bank carrency, the system of national banks is the best that has ever been devised in this coun try. It was copied from the New York law, and it might be applied to this State, if Congress would abolish the tax on State State bank circulation Its power to control the money market is rather an Incident of capital than of special form of banking. The repeal of the tax on State banks would destroy the monopoly, without closing the banks as banks of deposit. The redemption of United States bonds is rapidiy reducing national bank circulation, so that their bills are even now but a small part of our currency, and will probably ere long practically disappear, thus removing the obnoxious "feature" altogether. Then arises the question whether the system, guarded as it is against fraud by stringent laws, might be retained for the deposit and discount business- Should it be swept away before good State banks are es tablished? For it must be remembered that those people who are not so fortu nate as to come in under the sub-treas ury plan must have somewhere else to borrow from. (B.) Can the Government loan money at 2 per cent. when individuals cannot without loss? Who must bear the loss? The people at large?. But the people at large are not allowed to borrow. Must they bear loss where they reap no bene fit? Why then not let everybody in the land borrow on the same terms? If I have a gin factory full of gins, ought not I to have the right to raise money on them as well as on the cotton that gces through them? Ought not the merchant be allowed to borrow on his stock of goods in order to tide over a tight time instead of pressing pay at 10 12per cent. when the Government, or which is his Government as much as anybody else's is supplying his neigh bor at 2 per.cent? If I teach school, or sit on a jury, and receive a warrant on the county treasurer which is empty, because the people are not ready to pay taxes, ought not the Government to discount this public claim as well as advance money on private property? Is a "plan" that does'nt cover all these clas ses of persons consistent with that fun damental and best plank of the whole platform, "Equal right to all and special privileges to none?" Is the pria-ilege of bor-owing at 2 per cent., when an equally estimable neighbor has to pay ]0 or 12 for his loan, a special privilege or not? I ask nothing about the practical working of the sub-treasury plan, for I have not been able to learn exactly what the plan is that is now advocated instead of the bill. (C.) Why should we demand $50 per . capita in United States currency? Is t his to be in addition to the S1,000,000, 000 advanced through the sub-treasu ries? Howv shall all this money be kept in circulation after the farmers pay back their loans to the Govern ment? If, as is 'claimed, the pre' of commodities depends on the amount ot money in circulation, will a cow be worth $100 in the fall, when all this money is afloat, and only $50 in the spring, when half this elastio currency has been covered back Into the treasury? This is a very pretty question. If England, the richest country in the world, gets along with about $2 a head, why do we need more than twice as much? Why should the relation any how be between dollars and men, in stead of between dollars and business? Do 9,000 colored rice hands on our coast need as many dollars as the same num her of men in trade in Charleston or New York? What allowance may be made for the use of banik checks as money? Is it true that only 3 per cent. of trade in England, and 8 per cent. in the United States is transacted in money, and the rest of the checks and book settlement? - Does this teach that, iznstead of much more Government money we need many more good banks in which peo ple may make deposits and check against tV-mn, allowing one check to pass through several transactions, by which means the people can regulate their own business without calling on the Government to stretch its powers to a very dangerous extent, and can secure < practically that elastic medium which I the Government cannot furnish, it seems, without going into the broker- j age business? 2. The trade in futures has been car ried to a great excess and has often I iNjured business. So far as it is used for purely speculative purposes, it is a great curse. Be t is the evil inherent in the system itself, or is it but an incident? What special harm is there in a farm er's making a contract with a buyer to I sell his crop to him in the fall at a fixed rate? Shall a farmer be prevented from t securing advances in Charleston on the I promise of shipping so many bales at t such a price, and then, if heprefers,pav ing the price instead of delivering the cotton? Shall a manufacturer not be per. mitted to contract to deliver a certain number of bales of cloth to China in six months? These are in principle pre cisely the same as the transactions on Wall street. There may be a sharp set of rascals in Wall street, but may there not be an equally sharp set of rascals, perhaps, with antagonistic interests to watch them? Each crowd has its corrospond ents through the land gathering crop statistics. Between the two most accu rate reports are obtained. And the Fairfied farmer can, if he inquires, learn as much about the crop as any body else. The price, after all in the long run is regulated by demand and supply. Sometimes the yield baffles all calculation, as, for instance, this year; but it can easily be seen how muci wider the speculation would have been t if there had not been this systematic collection of statistics. Years ago there was at least fifteen cents a pound differ ence in the price of cotton at Winns- t boro and New York. What is the t difference to-day? When we choke off i the "gamblers" we throw the burden of I collecting facts on the Government, or on the producers th2mselves, who have ( other work to do. It costs money to get crop reports and the people must pay either directly by tax or subscrip tion, or indirectly through prices. Fur thermore, in view of the present great glut of cotton, is it not probable that the price is kept where it is only be- I cause a lot of speculators have been caught in future and are bulling the maket to save themselves from ruin? Otherwise, there is no special reason why cotton now on hand should be sold at all. Here is proof again, it seems that even an evil often has its compen sating good. To prevent the sale of.futures alto gether would be to paralyze all credit transactions, for unless the law be so absolutely bombproof as to prevent all future sales whatever, it will find some loophole for escape. It Is a dangerous stretch of power in a government to tell a man he shalt not buy anything for future delivery. Laws, too, may be imperative, but unless upheld by pub lie opinion, juries will not enforce them.i Would it not be better to endeavor to regulate such sales than forbid them? 3. The present Silver Act of C" gress does these things: First, it keeps the I silver dollar on a par with the gold I dollar, when the bullion in it is 25 cents I cheaper. Second, it adds about $70, 000,030 a year to our currency. Third, it uses all the silver that is mined in this country. Fourth, it gives the Gov ernment, that is the public at large, all the profit arising from coining 7.5 cents worth'of silver bullion into a dollar coin. What is there in all this to "condemn?" Suppose the free coinage of silver, which is "deman.ded" would take the profit of coinage from the publc and give it to the silver miners, and allow Europe and Mexico to "dump" their surplus silver over here at a big profit and then run the risk of having our gold leave the country, a lot of sil-1 ver dollars remaining with us, which the world refuses to consider as worth a dollar when we go to pay for our im ports, would this be a much better law1 than the one that has been "con demned?" This is what very many of the world, even ot those who are not "goldbugs," believe would be the effect of free coinage of silver in the United States. 4. Alien ownership of land is becom ing an evil, that is to say, ownership of large tracts of land. We afy consider whether it is better to ihave no market for land or to sell it to some foreigner. For instance, is it better to leave the Catawba water power undeveloped or sell it to an English syndicate? Had we rather do without a railroad in Fairfied than allow foreign capital to build and own it? If an Englishman comes along and offers you ten dollars an acre for a farm which you have been uable to sell to a fellow-citizen for five dollars wvould you think the law forbidding alien ownership of land a good or a bad thing? After a syndicate had developed Catawba Falls would you be willing to tax yourself to enable the State to acquire it by sale from alien owners? Do you desire to in crease your taxes to enable the General Government to "take possession" of millions of acres of alien and railroad lands in Colorado and Wyoming? This is what the fourth "demand" means. 1It is well to understand it. 15. The fifth plank is admirable in gneral and in detail. It condemns class legislation, the fostering of one in dustry at the expense of others, and a high tariff; and it demands agraduated inome tax and economical govern ment. 1The only objection to an income tax is that people will not tell the truth to the ta'ngaI haer, and cannot be caught at their fibs. This is a very deplorable charge, but is almost fatal to the plan. >ur incomes truthfully? If there is any heating, the biggest rascal gets off the ightest. 6. The demand for Government su )ervision of railroads is ajust one. They njoy great privileges and owe a proper ervice to the public. The value of all he railroads in the Union is put at bout $9,000,000,000 this year. The cen us of 18SO gave the value of all in the Jnion at $10,000,000,C0o. Their pres nt value I have not seen stated. It an be seen, however, that to purchase he roads, therefore, would require al nost the full farm values of the coun ry. At 3 per cent the interest on this >urchase would be $270,00,000. Would he railroads after paying all costs of nanagement, return this? How many ailroads pay dividends to-day? Would hey bring more money to the Govern nent than to the stockholdors, when he object of owning then is to make ates cheaper? Would the Government ppoint managers for business or po itical reasons and change them with very election? Would the South Caro ina Republican leaders manage our oads better than Inman, McBee or tndrews? Which of these would Har ison appoint. 7. Why should United States Sena ors be elected directly by the peop:e? o prevent bribery and corruption, of ourse. Will this evil be prevented by browing the election into the hands >f the people? In what way? When tanford or Jones or Stewart wants a eat in the Senate, it matters little to im whether he buys enough votes at he polls to elect him directly or enough o elect legislators who will elect him ndirectly. If a voter will send a bribe aker to the Legislature, what will pre ent him from sending a bribe giver to he United States Senate? The elec ion of Harrison, it is claimed, came brough a purchase of voters at the olls, not of Presidential electors. Stan ord must now control the whole State if California. It would be easier and :heaper for him to be able to confine is efforts to his own election alone. :s it not easier to corrupt a State nomi iating convention, whose members as emble for a day and then di.solve, han to corrupt a Legislature? Where )ublic opinion sanctions corruption Loes it matter in what form the elec ion comes? If any one examines the Constitution nd the debates of the Constitutional Jorvention he will see that the pro rision regarding Senators is a funda nental feature of our Government. [he Senate represents the State in its :orporate capacity, the House repre ents the people. The State elects rough its Legislature, the people hoose their representatives directly. he seventh demand of the Ocala plat lrm would wipe out this recognition >f State rights. Is it worth while to nake this change when there is no cer ainty of attainining the desired end, which is to secure a purer form of elect ng Senators? Let me not be understood as oppos ng all the measures to which I bree hown objections. But since there aae o many orators engaged in portraying he brightest features of the Ocala plat orm, it is well for some one to call at ention to some of its possible defects. HARRISON ON THE~ SOUTH. The President Prepares to Wave the Bloody Shirt.-A Speech to the People or Vermont. MONTPELLIER, Vermont, Aug.26. resident Harrison spent the night at it. Albans and reached here at 11 'clock this morning. He was intro luced to the Assembly, which was in ession, and spoke briefly in acknow edgment of his welcome. He spoke at ~reater length to an open air assemn >lage. The following is an extract from his peech: "It is a great thing to be a citizen of he United States. The association of he States is a geographical necessity. Ve can never consent that hostile >oundaries shall be introduced with all has such divisions imply. We must e one from Maine to California, one rom the Lakes to the Gulf, [applause,] Lnd everywhere in all that domain we nust insist that the behests of the ederal Constitution and of the laws vritten in the Federal statute book hall be loyalty obeyed. [Applause.] . statesman of one of the Southern tates said to me, with tears in his hyes, shortly after my inauguration: Mr. President, I hope you intend to ~ive the poor people of my State a ~hance.' I said in reply: 'A chance to o what? If you mean, sir, that you ~hall have a chance to nullify any law mnd~that I shall wink at the nullifica ion of it, you ask that which you )ught not to ask for and that which I annot consider. L Applause.] "If you mean that obeying every ublic lawv and giving to every other an his full-rights under the law and Constitution they abide in my respect md in the security and peace of our nstitutions, then they shall have so rar as in my power lies an equal chance with all our people. [Applause.] "We may not choose what laws we will obey. The choice is made for us. When the majority have by Lawful methods placed the law upon he statute book, we may endeavor to repeal it, we may challenge its wisdom, but while it is law it challenges our >bedience." [Applause.] "Some years ago Ayer's Cherry Pec toral cured me of asthma after the best medical skill had failed to give me re lief. A few weeks since, being again troubled with the disease, I was promptly relieved by the same reme dy."-F. S. Hassier, Editor Argus, Tale Rock, Nebr. BUTLER HITS BACK. The Senator's Plain Talk About Dr. Stokes -Strong Denial of Statenents About the Prosperity Speech-Doubled Teamed In Spite of an Agree inent to the Contrary Dr. Pope's Mistake. [Charleston World.1 ASHEVILLE, N. C., August 24.-Sen ator Butler arrived here yesterday evening from the North, where he has been since the day after his Prosperity speech, in attendance on the session of the naval committee of the senate. Supposing he had not had access to the South Carolina papers, your represen tative sought an interview with him touching the echoes of the Prosperity meeting. Senator Butler was asked: "Have you seen a copy of the Cotton Plant with a criticism by Doctor Stokes, the editor, of your speech at Prosperity?" "No, I have not, but a gentleman on the train from Washington yesterday, told me of it, and promised to Fend me the paper, which I hope to get on my return to Edgefield to-morrow. From what this gentleman said of the edito rial I should say that Dr. Stokes could easily and successfully aspire to the position of prince of-well I will not say liars, because that would not be parliamentary or decorous, but I will say an adept in perversion and mis representation. However, I will be better able to speak of it after I have read it." "Here is a letter from Dr. S. Pope copied in the Charleston World of Aug. 22, from the Cotton Plant in which he says among other things: "General Butler begged the question. He was told by Captain Talbert, when he was referring to the appointment clause of the Vance bill, that it was a bill doctored by Governor Vance after it was sent to him in order to make it unpopular and that it was uhfair to refer to it as the sub-treasury bill. Gen eral Butler replied that be took it as he found it and insisted on presenting it as the bill. General Butler also referred to men who wanted to borrow money At 2 per cent. per annum as men who desired to borrow but did not intend to pay back-and yet the government at Washington is to-day borrowing money at 2 per cont., the great State of Ohio at 2.65 per cent. and the State of New York at 3 per cent. or less-yet when individuals at the South desire to bor row money from the government at 2 per cent. based on cotton as a security they are told that men who desire to borrow at 2 per cent. on this security don't expect to pay what they borrow." "Is that a fair representation of what you said in your Prosperity speech?" "Let me see the whole letter," said the Senator. After reading Doctor Pope's letter, Senator Butler said: "Now, I am very, very much sur prised to see such a statement from Doctor Pope, for I have known him most pleasantly for a great number of years, and while I have always re garded him as an earnest advocate of whatever he thought right, I had the opinion that he was an honorable, fair man, ..4-would strike right out from the shoulder; but this letter of his shows that he either did not hear or comprehend what I said, or has wil fully perverted it. 1 should be very soy to think the latter, and shall, therefore,inquire of him if he is correct ly represented. "As to the sub-treasury bill from which I quoted, having been 'doctored by Governor Vance' to make it unpop ular, Doctor Pope will pardon me if I say I do not believe one word of this accusation against Governor Vance. He is an honorable man, and would not be guilty of such a trick. But Governor Vance is able to take care of himself, and doubt less will do so if this charge should be brought home to him. " 'General Butler also nrferred to men who wanted to borr3w money at 2 per cent. per annum as men who desired to borrow but did not intend to pay back.' This is what Doctor Pope says. Well General Butler said nothing of the kind; nothing that could be dis torted by any fair minded man into such an expression, and no man in that large audience ought to have known it better than Doctor Pope. I must, there fore, conclude that he misunderstood me, for I am not prepared to believe that he would intentionally misre present what I said. Fortunately, I have preserved the notes from which I spoke, and I believe full stenographic notes were taken of the speech, and in due time I will refer to them. "As to the other portions of the letter of Doctor Pope, I have nothing to say. I have no knowledge of any 'applause' having been manufactured for one side or the other. For myself, I care very ittle for such things, especially if I have anything of a serious nature to say; and I thought the introductory remarks of Doctor Siigh on that subject timely and appropriate, and I so ex pressed myself in the opening of my remarks." "Is there anything further you would like to say in regard to Doctor Pope's letter?" "Well, let me see; yes,;here is a re markable and startling announcement: "But Captain Talbert in the after noon utterly demolished the arguments of our distinguished Senator. Yet, strange to say, there was not a news paper reporter there to report his speech nor was General Butler present to hear it, although the general and some of the reporters returned to Co lumbia on the same train with Captain Talbert. Why was this? Were they afraid that the captain's speech would mar the glittering generalities of the general? Gentlemen of the press, "Now, the less said on that particular subject the better it will be for some of Doctor Pope's immediate allies. Let me state what occurred at Doctor Langford's house, whose hospitality I enjoyed the nigh t I stayed at Prosperity: Mr. Hardy, chairman of the committee of arrangements, called on me at Doc tor Langford's the evening before the speaking and informcd me that Doctor Stokes and I would be allowed an hour and a half each; that Doctor Stokes would open the debate in an hour's speech and rrserve a half hour of his time to reply to me. I readily assented to this, whereupon Mr. Hardy re marked that t' *hree hours occupied by Doctor c sokes and myself would take up the time before dinner, and that after dinner W. J. Talbert would deliver an adddress on alliance matters. I asked Mr. Hardy if he thought it entirely fair, after inviting me there to spea z, to give two advocates.of the sub-treasury the opportunity to reply to me, and-that if Mr. Talbert referred to my speech I should claim the right to have a half hour to reply to him. Mr. Hardy assured me more than once that Mr. Talbert would make no re ference whatever to the debate between Doctor Stokes and.myself. "After this assurance, officially made, I did not remain to hear Mr. Talbert's speech. Possibly Mr.. Talbert was not aware of this assurance and agreement. Possibly Mr. Hardy may not have been able to control or direct the character of Mr. Talbert's remaris. One thing is very certain, the agreement was vio lated but I do not know that I should have referred to it but for this talk and balder dash about my 'running away', my 'arguments being demolished,' etc. They must mean this part of the per formance as a joke. The next time I make an agreement of this kind, it shall be in writing, and the next time I correspond with Doctor Stokes I will keep copies. He read his letter to me to the Prosperity meeting, but neglected to read my reply. He also gave his letter for publicition and refused to give my reply, as I was informed by the reporters, so you see it stands me in hand hereafter to preserve copies." General Butler is looking well, and will be in full trim for the speaking at Batesburg which is on the card for September l8th. He leaves here to morrow for his plantation in Edgefield, where he will spend some time, and will probably remain in Edgefield until the Batesburg meeting takes place. The General's family, who have been here for some time, leaves to-morrow for Hihland, where they will spend the rest of the summer. SENATOR BUTLER'S ST. UING REPLY TO THE COTTON PLANT. (Special to News and Courier.] EDGEFIELD, Ar-ust 26.-On Senator Butler's return to-day from attendance on the naval committee of the Senate your correspondent handed him a copy of the Cotton Plant of the 8th instant containing Dr. Stoke's editorial criti cism of his Prosperity speech, and also the Cotton Plant of the 1.5th with the resolutions of the Snell's Alliance, and inquired if he desired to say anything in connection therewith. After reading both Senater Butler said in reply: "I have lived to very little purpose for something more than half a century in South Carolina if it is necessary for me to vindicate myself against such disgraceful falsehoods as those con tained in these two papers. I had never met Dr. Stokes until the Prosperity meeting. He appeared to be a well mannered, fair man, and I treated him as such; but this performance of his shows clearly that he is devoid of prin ciple and honorable qualities. He knows fdll well that I did not utter the sentiments he attributed to me, or any thing approaching them. He heard every word of my speech and had a half hour to reply to it. Why did he not then and there in my presence rebuke such sentiments? Why did he stand mute and permit the farmers, whose special champion he assumes to be, to be villified and denounced in this way? Why does he sneak to his sanctum and ten days after deliberately pen this editorial, bristling with per version and falsehood? Why all the circumstances convict him either of self-stultification or, what is worse, wilful falsehood. "I never uttered such sentiments or anything approaching them, and Dr. Stokes knows it. "As to the snell Alliance resolutions I have nothing to say, further than that they do me gross injustice. They bear the ear marks of Dr. Stokes, and, of course, are predicated upon the false information he deliberately palmed off on the members of this Alliance. It is pitiable to see a man, who claims to be intelligent, guilty of such disgraceful methods to carry a point, but he shall not practice them ripon me if I can reach the ears of the people he is seeking to influence and poison against me by falsehood and misrepresentation. If there is anything the people of this State detest and despise it is a sneak and a liar." Sena,tor Butler will be at Batesburg on the 9th of next month, the day of the public diseussion at that place, and will be glad to meet Dr. Stokes and. repel his accusations face to face. Sufierers from indigestion, loss of ap petite, liver or kidney complaints. rheu matism or neuralgia, would do well to give Ayer's Sarsaparilla a trial. For all such disorders, no medicine is so efective as this, when faithfully and perseveringly used. An Ohio lady was so frightened by a snake that her glossy black hair turned white as snow. It was soon returned to its original color by Hall's Hair Re n3wer_ APPAILING RAILROAD DISASTER. A Train riunges From a High Briige Fifty Feet Below-Twentiy-Three Per sons Killed and Twenty-Five Others Injured. CHARLOTTE, N. C., August 27.-A dreadful wreck* occurred on the Western North Carolina this morn ing, two miles above Statesville, at 3 o'clock, at the long high trestle over the Catawba River. A rail had been removed at the entrance of the bridge, precipating the whole train into the river. News from the scene is meagre, but it is certain that between twen ty and thirty people were killed and others injured. Auditor Sanderlin of this State is reported among the pas sengers. The bodies are being taken to Statesville as rapidly as they can be re covered. Much anxiety is felt in this city as friends and relatives of many here are returning from the mountains every day. RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 27.-Eighty five passengers were on board of the train wrecked at Statesville. Killed already brought to Statesville are re ported as follows: Percy Barnett and Charles Barnett of Hendersonyille, Sam Gorman of Asheville, William West of Salisbury, a fireman, a lady unknown, Julius Phifer, a drummer; a porter unknown, Charles Webber of Carson, Conn.; a colored man, un known; an old lady, unknown; Mrs. Poole of Williamston, N. C. ; W. J. Fisher of Campobello, S. C.; a white man, unknown; W. S. Winslow of Asheville, N. C.; William Houston of Greensboro, Wm. Davis'of Statesville, J. B. Austin of Hickory, Rev. J. M. Sykes of Clarksville, Tenn.; Doc Well, (porter) of Louisville, -y. ; Mr. Mc Cormick of Alexander, 3uncombe County. State Auditor Sanderlin, was badly hurt. But few of the people on the train were saved. The Asheville fire company, returning from a convention at Durham, was aboard and it is sup posed many of them were killed. A LATER ACCOUNT. CHARLOTTE, N. C., August 27. One of the me t disastrous rail road wrecks known in the annals of this State occurred this morning about 2 o'clock at Boston's bridge, two miles West of Statesville, on the West ern North Carolina road. Passenger train No. 9, known as the fast mail, which is made up at Salisbury pulled out on time (a. m.) loaded with pas sengers. It was composed of a baggage and mail car, second and first class coaches, Pullman sleeper and Superin tendent Bridges's private car. This sleeper, which comes from Goldsboro, usually contains a good number of passengers from Northern points, and last night was no exception. The run to Statesville was made on time, a distance of five miles; but just after leaving Statesville there is a high stone bridge spanning Third creek, and down into this creek plunged the en tire train, a distance of eighty feet, wrecking the whole train and carry ing death and destruction with it. Twenty passengers were killed out right, nine dangerously injured and about twenty badly bruised and shaken up. The scence at the wreck beggars de scription. The night was dismal, and to add to the horror of the situa tion the water in the creek was up. It was only . through the most heroic efforts of those who had hurried to the scene of the wreck that the injured were not drowned. The accident was caused by the spreading of rails. The bridge was not injured and trains are running on schedule time. The dead bodies are now lying in the warehouse at Statesville. The injured are having the best of care at private residences and hotels. Follow ing is the list of the killed : Win. WVest, engineer, Salisbury, N. C.; Warren Frip, fireman. Hickory, N. .C.; H. K- Linsler, baggage master, Statesville, N. C. ;'Wm. Houston, Greensboro, N. C.; P. Barnett, Ashe ville, N. C.; WV. E. Winslow, Ashe ville, N. 0.; Charles Bennett, Header sonville, N. C. ; W. J1. Fisher, Campo ello, S. C.; J. B. Austin, Hickory, N. C.; T. Brodie, drummer, New York ; J. M. Sikes, Clarkesville, Tenn.; Mrs. Poole, Williamston, N. C.; Jule Phefer, traveling salesman ; Doc Wells, colored Pullman porter ; John Davis, Statesville, N. C.; Mr. McCormick, Alexandria, Va.; A. S. Lind and wife, Lexington, Ky.; B. N. Estes, Jr., Memphis, Tenn.; John Gage, Ashe ville ; R. E. John~son, newsboy, S. C.; Conductor Spaugh ; Sleeping Car Con ductor, H. C. Cleeper, and Flagman Shoaff. Among those who escaped with inju ries more or less serious are: Cole B. Cameron, Northampton County, N. C.; Otto Ransom of IR orfolk, Va.; WVorth Elliott of Hickory; N. C.; Geo. Bowle of Atlanta; Col.O0. WV. Lawson of Louis ville, Ky.; Miss Lewellan Poole of Wil liamston, N. C.; Mrs. R. C. and Miss Ophelia Moore, Helena, Ark. Mrs. Poole was drowned before aid could reach her. Three bodies have been identified. One of these these is an old lady; another is a lady with a ticket in her pocket which reads : "Mrs. Gieorge McCormick and mother, El!mwood, N. C., to Alexander, N. C." The third is also a lady. Upon her finger is a ring engu. ed "T. H. WV. to M. R. R." It is thought that all the bodies have not been taken out of the debris, which is piled up so high that it is impossib.le to make a thorough examination. Crowds have flocked to the scene all day and the accident has cast a gloom over the ~entire community. Not a soul came out of the sleeper alive. Miss Ophelia Moore of Helena, Ark., died after being toakn out of the wreck. A 31TSSIO-VARY AMOYfl THE SLAIN. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 27.-Among the killed in the accident on the Wes tern North Carolina Railroad to-day was the Rev. J. M. Sykes, a graduate of the Southwestern Presbyterian Uni versity, of Clarksville, Tenri. Dr. Sykes had just been assigned to mis sionary work in China and was to have left for that country on September 26 rext. He was married. SLIGH AT SARDIS. He is Amused at the Newlerry Edito.s and Boom the Subtreasuty. LClinton Gazette, August 27.1 At 10.30 the chairman, Capt. J. Andy Jones, came forward and announced that Dr. F. M. Setzler would open the proceedings with prayer. This done, the chair intZoduced as the first speaker of the day, Rev. J. A. Sligh, member of the House of Representatives from Newberry, a widely known agitator in behalf of 'he oppressed farming inter ests of the State, and a much and popu lar gazetted orator and kllianceman. Mr. Sligh's address was lengthy, elo quent and full of soundness of princi ple. He by way of prelude, made some most flattering remarks respecting the noble qualities of the good people of Laurens County. He said: "You of Laurens County have done as much, if not n.ore than the people of any other county in the State to redeem and uphold the fair name and welfare of grand old South Carolina, Instead of my coming among you to teach you regarding the situation and to lay before you the issues involved in this great warfare against the wrong, I should be at your feet learning more of the source of this great revolutionary ,ipheaval that is now quaking the foundation not only of South Carolina, but of the whole country. The people are beginning to think and to act for themselves; the people are learning fast and are the faster asking for more in formation, for light, for truth; and you ought to do it for your own benefit. It ir a revolution, it is on us, it i in our hearts; and it must, it shall come. It will not be smothered until it has ac complished its purpose, as sure .s na tions have their rise and fall. Mark my words, it will end in a peaceable revolution and then, and not until then, will there be peaee at last. There Is no class of men under the blue canopy of heaven, superior to the farmers in pa triotism, loyalty, honesty, and truth fulness. And when we as a class rise up in our might and majesty as one mighty man, restless, and will not be silenced, thsre is a cause; there must be a remedy. There is a cause; cause produces effect. The opposition blame Tillman, Shell and others including myself, for the entire restless condition of things in the State. Well, Tillman and others did start the ball rolling that opened the eyes of the oppressed and eet the people to thInking for the public good. I am right well amused at the editors, especially those of Newberry. They always cry out against a man when the farmers put him forward as their leader. These same editors, you see, wants to boss the job themselves. They want the high placL o nd the fat of the land. A Western speculator will say, it's an overproduction of corn, or wheat, that causes low prices. Over one million of bales of cotton are on hand yet await ing better prices; but who bnows? It may be caused by underconsumption, a lack of business to take up and con sume the cotton that causes the present depression in prices. Myself and family would use more of cotton goods if we had the money, but how shall we get it? The Alliance wants the farmers to have more money; there is not enough money in circulation. Others talk about what the farmers ought to do to avoid overproduction of cotton. I want to know whether or not the present state ec things came of overpro duction. Whoever heard of overpro duction coming from a lazy man? The farmers are often dubbed "lazy" when he goes to town. The faimers lost much more time last year attending political gatherings and learning about the condition of things than in any prc vious year, and they made last year the largest cotton crop of recoird. lImme diately after the war there was plenty of money; cotton sold at from 8 to 20 cents per pound fifteen years ago. There was no trouble to make money then; but now we are growing rapidly froa bad to worse. Property was worth more a year ago than it is to-day, with cotton selling at 6 cents. No money in the country, money becomn ig scarcer every day, no property wanted, no prosperity in the country, your home mortgaged, and that to be foreclosed giving the shylock leader a title. And a general l'r' of confidence all round. Very few men, including our Congress men, know much about the financial condition or problem. After the war there was about $50) gr capita; more money in circulation in '00, '07 than in '91. TIhe population has doubled since then and there is less money~to conduct the business transactions of the people. Tho remedy for all these evils is the Subtreasuiry plan. It is called a hum bug and its friends are called fools by the opposition. The Subtreasury bill that we want and must have is not the old Senator Vance bill, but a better one. We want relief, if not by the Subtreas ury, we must have relief from some source. The farmers have hit the nail on the head by suggesting something as a remedy for the evils, and if the Subtreasury is not what we want, it is something like it. There are 3,500 national banks in the United States; 5 pe cet. of the people have the privi lege of enjoying the fruits of the na ticnal banking system, while the other 95 per cent. suffer the consequences. The national banking s. stem will be a thing of the past if the Subtreasury bill passes. They know it and that is why the enemies of the bill kick so hard igaiLst the measure. The Alliance wants to issue $50 per capita, and will lo it if we press on to success. The Democracy of New York is in sympa ,hy with John Sherman of Ohio be ause he is for the national banking ;ystem and against the Subtreasury. The speaker declared solidly against .he third party movement. "Don't go yut of the Democratic party," said be, 'you can't do it and look your wives ind childrin iu the face. Stay in the grand old party that redeemed South "arolina in '76, we cannot afford to leave it for all time to come. There is no third party in the State. Mr. Has kell P.ad a handful of followers tried to institute a third party last year-they went to the bottom never again to rise. -o third party, no, never!" We would be pleased to publish all )f Mr. Sligh's speech, but knowing at ,he time that there would be a lack of ipace in our columns, we only short banded a brief synopsis. It was abun lantly instructive. PRESIDENT POLK'S DILEMNA. Ele Must Fight a Duel or Lose His Influ ence in the Alliance. RALEIGH, N. C., August25.-There is >pen warfare between the Democrats md the Farmers' Alliance. The Dem >cratic machine leaders have been of he opinion for several months that the ;peeches, acts, and deeds of President Polk were rank treason to the Demc :ratic party, and so expressed them ;elves, but, as a matter of precaution Lnd to prevent the organization of the People's party throughout this State, :he Democratic press and politicians 2ave refrained from making attacks on Polk and the Alliance. In Polk's paper, the Progressive Farmer, of this week there appears a :ut representing a Confederate soldier >n one side of.the bloody chasm and a Federal soldier on the other shaking aands across the chasm. In the centre Lre the words: "People's party." Right inde the Confederate soldier these words: "A solid South for fear of ne ,ro supremacy." Under the Federal ioldier are these words: "A solid-North ,or fear of Rebel brigadier rule." At 'he bottom of the cut are these words: 'Anticipated twenty years ago by Hor tce Greeley. Taken up -ow tye Farmers' Alliance." Then follows a Long extract from the speech of Polk at - Dcala. Because of the appearance of this cut the general belief is that the People's party is here and has come to stay. The same issue of President Polk's paper makes a bitter attack on Messrs. Ashe and Jernigan, editors of the News and Observer, and publishes a circular letter sent out a year ago by Ashe, which stated that the News and Ob server advocated the sub-treasury bill. Polk then denounces Ashe and Jernm gan as guilty of a wilful attempt to de ceive the farmers, because the News and Observer holds the sub-treasury bill to be unconstitutionaL. He says that such conduct shows that Ashe and Jernigan are totally depraved and are unworthy of the confidence of any honest and respectable person. In reply Polk is denounced as a cow ard, a traitor to the Democratic party, a failure and humbug as a farmer, as dishonest in his transactions with sev eral individuals, and a "fea.ther-leg" in every particular. J. L. Ramsey, an assistant editor of Polk's paper, is also denounced as a vulgar coward. Messrs. Ashe and Jernigan intend.jto force Polk and Ramsey to resort to the Code for satisfaction. If they fail they will try to break Polk down by making him contemptible by holding him up every day as a "feather-leg," which is a miserable, abject coward, a pitiless scoundrel, and a poltroon of the most disgusting character. No one believes that Polk will fight. Ashe and Jernigan believe in settling disputes according to the Code. Ramn sey is absent, and his friends say he will show fight as soon as he returns. Several offers fo act as seconds have been made to both parties. Polk arrived here yesterday, and to day he held a council with.his friends. 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