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IS-WE!~ r %row( ETBIHD16o*NEWBEPip-yli. . TJTTRSDAY9 SEPTEMBR3-19.__PIEN15lAYA DEFECTS OF THE DEMANDS. A Dispasslonate Discussion of the Ocal Platform-Some Practical Suggestions It Would be Well for the Peo ple to Consider for Themselvet. fProf. R. Means Davis, in the Winnsbxro New aDd Herald, August 25.1 I have read with interest the Ocah platform, printed in your columns a the request of the Blythewood Alliance As you say, it raises burniog questions and should be read with the greates care, not only by all voters, but by al who have a cent of property or an ioti of patriotism. It will not do either t< accept or reject these demands as i whole without earnest study of them. Some of them raise issues that hav( been mooted a long time and are stil 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. Eacl reader of your paper can answer the i for himself. (A.) After .11 is not government s compromise? There is scarcely an good measure without its attendant evil, a truth that becomes more apparent the more it is studied, and the wisest legs lation is that which secures as much good with as little evil as possible. More than this carnot be expected. The statesmen who is cock sure on any measure often meets with disappoint ment when theory is pot into prac tice. National banks have their good pointr 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 rapidly 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 r,emoving the obnoxious "feature" altogether. Then arises the question whether the system, guarded as it is against fraud by stringent laws, or the deposit and disco A Fountain P*W*4it be swept away befote Bookstore. 4 are es tablished? For it must red that those people who are n'oT nate as to come in under the sub-trt' 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 t.he 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 g(.es 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, ouight not the Governmeid 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 privilege of borrowing at 2 per cent., when an equally estimable neighbor has to pay 30 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? How shall all this money be kept in circulation after the farmers pay back their loans to the Govern ment? If, as is claimed, the price of c>mmodities depends on the amount of money iu 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 elastic currenicy has been covered hack 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 wve 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 b er of men in trade in Charleston or New York? What allowance may he made for the use of banik checkh as money? Is it true that only 3 per &,t. of trade in England, and S per cent. thbe United States is transacted in mon~ y, and the rest of the checks and book~siement? Does this teach that, ir'stead of much more Govern ment money wve need many more good banl:s in which peo pIe may make deposits and check~ against them, allowinig one check tc pass through several transactions, by which means the people can regulate their own business wi,,hout calling on the Government to stretch its powers to a very dangerous extent, and can secure practically that elastic mnedium w-hicha the 4overnment cannot furnish,. it seems, without going into the broker age bpsiness? 2. The trade in futures has been car ried to a great excess and has often ijured business. So far as it is used for purely speculative purposes, it is a great curse. But 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 sell his crop to him in the fall at a fixed rate? Shall a farmer be prevented front securing advances in Charleston on the promise of shipping so many bales a: such a price, and then, if he prefers, pav ing the price instead of delivering the cotton? Shall a manufacturer not be per mitted to contract .o 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 Vall 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 al1 calculation, as, for instance, this year; but it can easily be seen how much wider the speculation would have been 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 cot5n at Winns boro and New York. What is the difference to-day? When we choke off the "gamblers" we throw the burden of collecting facts on the Government, or on the producers themselves, 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 cause a lot of speculators have been caught in future and are bulling the market to save themselves from ruin? Otherwise, there is no special reison 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 aiolutely bombproof as to prevent all future-ales whatever, it will find some loophole escape. It is a dangerous stretch of power in a government to tell a man he shallItt buy anything for future delivery. La too, may be imperative, but unless up ub licclpinion, juries will not enforce Would it not be better to endeavor to regulate such sales than forbid them? 3. The present Silver Act of Congress does these things: First, it keeps the silver dollar on a par with the gold dollar, when the bullion in it is 25 cents cheaper. Second, it adds about $70, 000,000 a year to our currency. Third, it uses all the silver that is mined in this country. Fourth, it gives the Gov-, emrnent, that is the public at large, all the profit arising from coining 75 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 "demanded" would take the profit of coinage from the pubIc and give it to the silver miners, and allow Europe and Mexico to "dump" their surplus silver over here at a bigb profit and then run the risk of having our gold leave the country, a le . of sil ver dollars remaining with us, which the world refuses to conside1 as worth a dollar when we go to pay, for our im-~ ports, would this be a much better law* than the onie that has been "con demned?" This is what very many of the world, even of tho'se who are not "goldbugs," believe would be the effect of free coinage of silver in the United States. 4. Alien ownership of land is becoma ing an evil, that is to say, ownership of large tracts of land. We may consider whether it is better to have 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 carital to build and own it? If an Englishman comes along and offers you ten dollars an acre for a farm which you have been unable to sell to a fellow-citizen for tiye dollars would you think the law fo.bidding alien ownership of land a good or a bad thing? A fter a syndicate had developed C'atawba Falls would you be willing to tax yourself to enable~ the State to acquire it by sale from alien owners? D)o 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. It is well to understand it. 5. The fifth plank is admirable in general and in detail. It condemns class legislation, the fostering ot one in dustry at the expense of others, and a high taritf: and( it demandsa graduated incomie tax and economical govern menit. Thbe only objection to an income tax is that people will not tell the truth to the tax-gatherer, and cannot be caught at their fibs. This is a very deplorable charge.k}ghis almost fatal to the plan. Are we all sure that we would reot our incomes truthfully? If there is any cheating, the biggest rascal gets off thel lightest. 6. The demand for Governneut su pervision of railroads is ajust one. They enjoy great privileges and owe a proper service to the public. The value of all the railroads in the Union is put at about $9,(N0,000,000 this year. The cen sus of 1880 gave the value of all in the Union at MOP,0,00,wo0. Their pres ent value I have not seen s!ated. It can be seen, however, that to purchase the roads, therefore, would require al most the full farm values of the- coun try. At 3 per cent the interest on this purchase would be $270,000,000. Would the railroads after paying all costs of management, return this? How many railroads pay dividends to-day? Would they bring more money to the Govern ment than to the stockholdors, when the object of owning them is to make rates cheaper? Would the Government appoint managers for business or po 0 t litical reasons and change them with every election? Would the South Caro lina Republican leaders manage our 0 r roads better than Inman, McBee or Andrews? Which of these would Har rison appoint. r 7. Why should United States Sena- e tors be elected directly by the people? To prevent bribery and corruption, of course. Will this evil be prevented by throwing the election into the hands s r of the people? In what way? When Stanford or Jones or Stewart wants a seat in the Senate, it matters little to r him whether he buys enough votes at the polls Ea elect him directly or enough c to elect legislators ivho will elect him indirectly. If a voter will send a bribe taker to the Legi0ature, what will pre vent him from sending a bribe giver to the United States Senate? The elec tion of Harrison, it is claimed, came c through a purchase of voters at the b polls, not of Presidential electors. Stan ford must now contral the whole State u of California. It would be easier and r cheaper for him to be able to confine e his efforts to his own election alone. Is it not easier to corrupt a State nomi- a nating convention, whose members as- t semble for a day and then di :solve, than to corrupt a Legislature? Where public opinion sanctions corruption P does.it matter in what form the elec tion comes? If any one examines the Constitution a and the debates of the Constitutional ) Convention he will see that the pro vision regarding Senators is a funda- r mental feature of our Governmeat. P The Senate represents the Stat6Tn its t corporate capacity, the House repre sents the people. The State elects through its Legislature, the people choose their representatives directly. The seventh demand. of the Ocala plat form would wipe out this recognition of State rights. Is it worth while to make this change when there is no cer tainty of attainining the desired end, P which is secure a purer form of elect n Let me nderstood as oppos- Y ng all the measur J o which I have g shown objections. B" t since there are so many orators engage3d in portraying0 the brightest features off/the Ocala plat- t form, it is well for somg , one to call at tention to some of its tssible defects. s ft The President Prepare to Wave the 1 Bloody Shirt.-A S ech to the People of Ve ont MONTPEL LIER, Yer font, A ug. 26. - b President Harrison s 'ent the night at u St. Albans and reai.ched here at 11 s. o'lock this morninig. He -was in tro- a duced to the Assemt bly, which was in I session, and spoke4 briefly in ackn ow-b ledgment of his w,elcome. He spoke at \ greater length to an open air assem- a blage. s The followin is an extract from his speech: "Im a great thing to be a citizen of c the United States. The association of t< the States is a geographical necessity. b We can never consent that ho.rtile 'T boundaries shall be introduced with all tl that such divisions imply. We must t< be one from Maine to California, one si from the Lakes to the Gulf, [applause,] h; and everywhere in all that domain we b must insist that the behests of the f( Federal Constitution and of the laws n written in the Federal statute book tl shall be loyalty obeyed. [Applause.] p A statesman of one of the Southern bi States said to me, with tears in his sj eyes, shortly after my inauguration: nl 'Mr. President, I hope you intend to d give the poor people of my State a cance.' I said in reply: 'A chance to o do what? If you mean, sir, that you I shall have a chance to nullify any law b and that I shall wink at the nmullifica- o tion of it. you ask that i nich you li ought not to ask for and that which I b cannot consider. [ Applause.] s "If you mean that obeying every r< public law and giving to every other ti man his full-rights under the law and p Constitution they abide in my respect ri and in the security and peace of our institutions, then they shall have so 11 far as in my power lies an equal chance lh 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 lawv upon a the statute book, we may endeavor to si repeal it, we may challenge its wisdom, but wvhile it is law it challenges our ~ obedience." [Applause.] s "Some years ago Ayer's Cherry Pec-I toral cured me of asthma after the best medical skill had failed to give me re lief. A few weeks since, being again a troubled with the disease, I was n' prom ptly reieved by the same reme-t dy."-F. S. Hassier, Editor Argus, BUTLER HITS lACK. rhe Senator's Plain Talk About Dr. Stokes -Strong Denial of Statements About the rrosperity Speech--Doubled Teamed in Spite of an Agree ment to the Contrary Dr. Pope's Mistake. [Charleston World.1 AsiEVILLE, N. C., August 24.-Sen Ltor Butler arrived here yesterday vening from the North, where he has )een since the day after his Prosperity peech, in attendance on the session of he naval committee of the senate. ;upposing he had not had access to the ;outh Carolina papers, your represen ative sought an interview with him ouching the echoes of the Prosperity neeting. Senator Butler w:ts asked : 'Have you seen a copy of the Cotton >lant with a criticism by Doctor tokes, the editor, of your speech at "rosperity ?" "No, I have not, but a gentlenianon he train from Washington yesterday, old me of It, and promised to send mne he paper, w!0h I hope to get on my eturn to Edgefield to-morrow. From that this gentleman said of the edito ial I should say that Dr. Stokes could asily and successfully aspire to the >osition of prince of-well I will not y liars, because that would not be arliamentary or decorous, but I will ay an adept in perversion and mis epresentation. However, I will be etter able. to speak of it after I have ead it." "Here is a letter from Dr. S. Pope opied in the Charleston World of Lug. 22, from the Cotton Plant in hich he says among other things: "General Butler begged the question. le was told by Captain Talbert, when e was referring to the appointment lause of the Vance bill, that it was a ill doctored by Governor Vance after was sent to him in order to make it npopular and that it was unfair to fer to it as the sub-treasury bill. Gen ral Butler replied that be took it as he )und it and insisted on presenting it s the bill. General Butler also referred > men who wanted to borrow money t 2 per cent. per annum as men who esired to borrow but did not intend to ay back-and yet the government at Vasington is to-day borrowing money t 2 per cont., the great State of Ohio t 2.65 per cent. and the State of New ork at 3 per cent. or less-yet when idividuals at the South desire to bor >w money from the government at 2 er cent. based on cotton as a security iey are told that men who desire to orrow at 2 per cent. on this security on't expect to pay what they borrow." "Is that a fair representation of what ou said in your Prosperity speech?" "Let me see the whole letter," said ie Senator. After reading Doctor ope's letter, Senator Butler said: "Now, I am very, very much sur rised to see such a statement from octor Pope, for I have known him lost pleasantly for a great number of ears, and while I have always re arded him as an earnest advocate of hatever he thought right, I had the pinion that he was an honorable, fair ian;-Would strike right out from 2e shoulder; but this letter of his 0ws that he either did not hear or >mprehend what I said, or has wil illy perverted it. 1 should be very riy to think the latter, and shall, 2erefore,inquire of him if he is correct represented. "As to the sub-treasury bill from hich I quoted, having been 'doctored y Governor Vance' to make it unpop lar, Doctor Pope will pardon me if I ty I do not believe one word of this cusation against Governor Vance. [e is an honorable man, and w ould not e guilty of such a trick. But Governor 'ance is ab)le to take care of himself', ad doubt less will do so if this charge 1uld be brought home to him. " 'General Butler also re ferred to men ho wanted to borrow money at 2 per nt. per annum as men who desired >borrow lbut did not intend to pay ack.' This is what Doctor Pope says. ell General Butler said nothing of e kind; nothing that could be dis rted by any fair minded man into ich an expression, and no man in that Lrge audience ought to have known it etter than Doctor Pope. I must, there re, conclude that he misunderstood te, for I am not prepo red to believe 2at he would intentionally misre resent what I said. -Fortunately, I ave preserved the notes from which I oke, and I believe full sten n,raphic otes were taken of the speech, and in u time I will refer to them. "As to the other portions of the letter Doctor Pope, I have nothing to say. have no knowledge of any 'applause' aving been manufactured for one side r the other. For myself, I care very ttle for such things, especially if I ave anything of a serious nature to i: and I thought the introductory marksof Doctor Sligh on that subject mxely and appropriate, andi I so ex ressed myself in the opening of my marks." "Is there anything further you would ke to say in regard to Doctor P'ope's "Well, let mc see: yes,[here is a re tarkable and startling announcement: 1 "But Captain Talbert in the after oon utterly demolished the arguments f our distinguished Senator. Yet, range to say, there was not a news aper reporter there to report his1 reech nor was General Butler present hear it, although the general and >me of the reporters returned to Co imbia on the same train with Captain3 albert. Why was this? Were they fraid that the captain's speech would 2ar the glittering generalities of ie general? Gentlemcn of the press, "Now, the less said on that particul subject the better it will be for some < Doctor Pope's immediate allies. L4 me state what occurred at Doct< Langford's house, whose hospitality enjoyed the nigh I stayed at Prosperit3 Mr. Hardy, chairman of the committ( of arrangements, called on me at Do< tor Langford's the evening before tb speaking and informed me that Doctc Stokes and I would be allowed an hou and a half each; that Doctor Stokc would open the debate in an hour 3peech and reserve a half hour of hi time to reply to me. I readily assente to this, whereupon Mr. Hardy r( marked that the three hours occupie by Doctor Stokes and myself woul lake up the time before dinner, an that after dinner W. J. Talbert woul leliver an adddress on alliauce matter. [ asked Mr. Hardy if he thought i mtirely fair, after inviting me there t ;pea :, to give two advocates of th 3ub-treasury the opportunity to repl to me, and that if Mr. Talbert referre, to my speech I should claim the rigb :o have a half hour to reply to him NIr. Hardy assured me more than one hat Mr. Talbert would make no r( erence whatever to the debate betweei Doctor Stokes and myself. "A fter.this assurance, officially made did not remain to hear 'Mr. Talbert peech. Possibly Afr. Talbert was no tware of this assurance and agreement ?ossibly Mr. Hardy may not have beei Lble to control or direct the characte )f Mr. Talbert's remarks. One thingi! rery certain, the agreement was vi3 ated but I do not know that I shoul iave referred to it but for this talk an< >alder dash about my 'running away ny 'arguments being demolished,' etc Chey must mean this part of the pe ormance as a joke. The next time: nake an agreement of this kind, i ihall be in writing, and the next tim, correspond with Doctor Stokes I wil :eep copies. He read his letter to mi o the Prosperity meeting, but neglecte< o read my reply. He also gave hi etter for publication and refused t< ive my reply, as I was informed b: ,he reporters, so you see it stands in n hand hereafter to preserve copies. General Butler is looking well, an< ill be in full trim for the speaking a 3atesburg which is on the card fo eptember 18th. He leaves here*to norrow for his plantation in Edgefield here he will spend some time, an< vill probably remain in Edgefield unti he ,Batesburg .meeting takes place Phe-General's family, who have beei iere for some time, leaves to-morrov or-Highland, where they will spen< he rest of the summer. iENATOR BUTLER'S STINGING REPLI TO THE COTTON PLANT. (Special to News and Courier.] ED;EFIELD, August 26.-On Senato 3utler's return to-day fron. ,ttendanc, >n the naval committee of the Senat, rour correspondent handed him a cop, >f the Cotton Plant of the 8th instan ontaining Dr. Stoke's editorial criti ism of his Prosperity speech, and als he Cotton Plant of the 1.5th with th :esolutions of the Snell's Alliance, an nquired if he desired to sayr anythin, a connection therewith. After reading both Senator Butle aid in reply: "I have lived to very little purpos or something more than half a centur; n South Carolina if it is necessary fo ne to vindicate myself against snel isgraceful falsehoods as those cot aincd in these two papers. I had neve net Dr. Stokes until the Prosperit; neeting. He appeared to be a wel] nannered, fair man, and I treated hin s such; but this performance of hi bows clearly that he is devoid of prin iple and honorable qualities. H3 nows full well that I did not utter th entiments he attributed to me, or any hing approaching them. He heart very word of my speech and had: talf hour to reply to it. Why did hi ot then and there in my presene ebuke such sentiments? Why did h tandI mute and permit the farmers vhose specirl champion he assumes t e, to be villified and denounced i 1is way? Why does he sneak to hi anctum and ten days after deliberate]; en this editorial, bristling with pcr -ersion and falsehood? Why all th :ircumstances convict him either o elf-stultification or, what is worse vilful falsehood. "I never uttered such sentiments c .nything approaching them, and Dr tokes knows it. "A s to the Snell Alliance resolution have nothing to say, further thai hat they do me gross injustice. The ear the ear marks of Dr. Stokes, and f course, are predicated upon the fals nformation he deliberately palmed of n the merabers of this Alliance. Iti itiable to see a man, who claims to b ntelligent ,guilty of such disgracefi nethods to carry a point, but he shal ot practice them upon me if I cai each the ears of the people he is seekini o influence and poison against me b; alsehood and misrepresentation.I here is anytbing the people of thi tate detest and despise it is a sneal ud ax liar." Senator Biutler will be at Batesburg un the tith of next month, the day he public diseussion at that place, an vil be glad to meet Dr. Stokes an< 'epel his accusations face to face. Sufierers from indigestion, loss of ap eti te, liver or kidney complaints, rh eu natismi or neuralgia, would do wvell t, ive Ayer's Sarsaparilla a trial. Fo il such disorders, no medicine is s dtiective as this, when faithfully ani erseveringly used. An Ohio lady was so frightened by make that her glossy black hair turne< -bite as snow. It wa soon returne< o its original color by Hall's Hair Rh f APPALING RAILROAD DISASTER. A Train Plunges From a High Bride Ft ifty Feet Uelow--Twenty-Three Per sons Killed and Twenty-Five Others IrJured. e CHARLOTTE, N. C., August 27.-A dreadful wreck occurred on the e Western North Carolina this morn y ing, two miles above Statesville, at r Jo'clock, at the long high trestle over s the Catawba River. A rail had b-en s removed at the entrance of the bridge, is precipating the whole train into the d river. News from the scene is meagre, . but it is certain that between twen d ty and thirty people were killed and d others injured. Auditor Sanderlin of d this State is reported among the pes d sengers. The bodies are being taken to Statesville as rapidly as they can be re t covered. Much anxiety is felt in this o city as friends and relatives of many e here are returning from the mountains Y every day. a RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 27.-Eighty t five passengers were on board of the t train wrecked at Statesville. Killed e already brought to Statesville are re ported as follows: Percy Barnett and Charles Barnett of Hendersonville, Sam Gorman of Asheville, William West of Salisbury, a fireman, a lady s unknown, Julius Phifer, a drummer; t a porter unknown, Charles Webber of Carson, Conn.; a colored man, un a known ; an old lady, unknown; Mrs. r Poole of Williamston, N. C. ; W. J. 3 Fisher of Campobello, S. C.; a white - man, unknown; W. S. Winslow of j Asheville, N. C.; William H,;ton of Greensboro, Wm. Davis of Statesville, J. B. Austin of Hickory, Rev. J. M. Sykes of Clarksville, Tenn.; Doc Well, (porter) of Louisville, Ky. ; Mr. Mc I Cormick of Alexander, Buncombe t County. , State Auditor Sanderlin, was hadly 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 a posed many of them were killed. A LATER ACCOUNT. CHARLOTTE, N. C., August 27. 7 One of -the most disastrous rail I road wrecks known in the annals of t this State otcurred this morning r 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, 1 which is made up at Salisbury pulled out on time (a. m.) loaded with pas 2 sengers. It was composed of a baggage V and mail car, second and first class S 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 r last night was no exception. The run to Statesville was nade 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 Sing death and destruction with it. Twenty passengers were killed out right, nine dangerously injured and r about tweLnty badly bruised and shaken up. eThe scence at the wreck beggars de scription.. The night was dismal, rand to add to the horror of the situa rtion the water in the creek was up. It was only through the most heroic refforts of those who had hurried to the rscene of the wreck that the injured were not drowned. The accident was caused by the spreading of srails. TIhe bridge was not injured and trains are running on schedule etime. The dead bodies are now lying ein the warehouse at Statesville. The injured are having the best of care at Sprivate residences and hotels. Follow Sing is the list of the killed: eXWm. West, engineer, Salisbury, N. e C.; Warren .Frip, fireman. Hickory, SN. .C.; H. K' Linsler, baggage maser .Statesville, N. C. ; Win. Houston, Greensboro, N. C.; P. Barnett, Ashe Sville, N. C.; WV. E. Winslow, Ashe Sville, N. C.; Charles Bennett, Hender Ssonville, N. C. ; W. J. Fisher, Campo bello, S. C.; J. B. Austin, Hickory, e N. C.; T. Brodie, drummer, New York ;J. M. Sikes, Clarkesville, Ten n.; Mrs. Poole, Williamston, N. C.; Jule Phefer, traveling salesman ; Doc Wells, r colored Pullman porter ; John Davis, .Statesville, N. C.; Mr. McCormick, Alexandria, Va.; A. S. Lind and wife, sLexington, Ky.; B. N. Estes, Jr., 2 Memphis, Tenn.; John Gage, Ashe ville ; R. E. Johnson, newsboy, S. C.; Conductor Spaugh ; Sleeping Car Con Sductor, H. C. Cleeper, and F'agman rShoaff. s Among those who escaped with inju e ries more or less serious are: Cole B. 1Cameron. Northampton County, N. C.; 1Otto Ransom of Norfolk, Va.; Worth Elliott of :Hickory, N. C.; Geo. B3owle of Atlanta; Col. O. WV. Lawson of Louis ville, Ky.; Miss Lewellan Poole of Wil liamston, N. C.; Mrs. R. C. and Miss SOphelia 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; anothber is a lady with a ticket in her po'cket wvhich reads : "Mrs. Georgc SMcCormick and mother, Elm wood, N. C., to Alexander, N. C.'' The third is also a lady. Upon her finger is a ring engraved "T. H. W. to M. R. R."7 It .is th6ught that all the bodies have not 0 been taken out of the debris, which is r piled up so high that it is impossible to make a thorough examination. Crowds have flocked to the scene all day and the accident has cast a gloom over the a entire community. Not a soul came d out of the sleeper alive. Miss Ophelia d Moore of Helena, Ark., died after being ttan nnu- of the wrek. A MISSIONARY AMONG THE SLAIN. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 27.-Among the killed in the accident on the Wes tern North Carolna Railroad to-day was the Rev. J. M. Sykes, a graduate of the Southwestern Presbyterian Uni versity, of Clarksville, Tenn. Dr. S-''es had just been assigned to mis sionary work in China and was to have left for that country on September 26 next. He was married. SLIGH AT SARDIS. He i Amnsed at the Newberry Editors and Booms the Subtreasury. 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 introduced 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 the oppressed farming inter ests of the State, and a much and popu lar gazetted orator and Allianceman. 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 more than the people of any i 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 invo*.ved in this great warfare against the w:rong, I t should be at your feet learning raore of the source of this great revolutionary upheaval 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 i a revolution, it is on us, it is in our hearts; and it must, it shall come. It will not be smothered until it has ac complished its purpose, as sure as 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 peace at last. There Is no class of men under the blue canopy of i 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 I and set the people to thlnking for the public good. I am right well amused at the editors, I especially those of Newberry. They always cry out against a man when the farmers put him forward as their leader. These same editor- you see, wants to boss the job themselves. They want the high places ond the fat of the land. A Westernl speculator will say, it's an1 overproduction of corn, or wheat, that causes low prices. Over one million of bales of cotton are on hand yet await ing bette1r prices; but who bnows? It may be caused by underconsumption, a lack of business to tahe up and con sume the cotton that causes the present deression in prices. Myself and family would use more of cotton goods if we had the money, but how shall we get it? The Allian :e wants the farmers to have more monty; there is nhot enough money in circulation. Others talk about what thte farmers ought to do to avoid overproduction of cotton. I want to know whether or not the p)resent state o: things came of overpro duction. Whoever heard of overpro duction coming from a lazy man? Thbe farmers are often dubbed "lazy" when he goes to town. The far mers lost much more time last year attending political gatherings and learning about the condition of things than in any pre vious year, and they made last year the largestotton crop of record. Imme diately after the war there was plenty of money; cotton sold at from S to 20 cents per pound fifteen years ago. There was no troublt.uo make money then; but now we are growing rapidly from 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 becom ing scarcer every day, no p)roperty wanted, no prosperity in the country, your home mortgaged, and that to be foreclosed giving the shylock leader a title. And a general loss of co,ifidence all round. Very few men, including our Congrss men, know much about the financial condition or problem. After the war there was about S.->0 pLr capita: more money in circulation in '436, '4i7 than in '91. The 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 Subtreasury 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 3,5300 national banks in the United States; 53 pen. o+fn the people hwa the nrivi lege of enjoying the fruits of the u tional banking system, while the other 95 per cent. suffer the consequences. The national banking system will be a thing of the past if the Su passes. Thy - - the enemies of the bill kieki:~1Ia against the measure. The Alliance wants to issue $50 per capita, and will io it if we press on to success. The Democracy of New York is in sympa thy with John Sherman of Ohio be 3ause he is for the national banking 5ystem and against the Subtreas':ry. The speaker declared solidly against 'he third party movement. "Don't go >ut of the Democratic party," sa!ud he, 'you can't do it and look your wives md children in the face. Stay in the grand old party that redeemed South 'arolina in '76, we cannot afford to eave it for all time to come. There is io third party in the State. Mr. Has cell and a handful of followers tried to nstitute a third party last year-they ,vent 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 kn,wing at he time that there would be a lack of pace in our columns, we only short ianded a brief synopsis. It was abun lantly instructive. PRESIDENT POLK'S DILEMA. le Must Fight a Duel or Lose His In"r ence in the AlMe. RALEIGH, N. C., August25.-There is pen warfare between the Democrats .nd the Fai mers' Alliance. The Dem cratic machine leaders have been of he opinion for several months that the peeches, acts, and deeds of President olk were rank treason to the Demo ratic party, and so expressed them elves, but, as a matter 'of precaution nd to prevent the organization of the )eople's party throughout this State, he Democratic press and politicians iave refrained from making atta:!ks on )olk and the Alliance. In Polk's paper, the Progressive 'armer, of this week there appears a ut representing a Confederate soldier n one side of the bloody chasm and a ederal soldier on the other shaking .ands across the chasm. In the ,e;itre re the worde: "People's party." Right mnde the Confederate soldier these vords: "A solid South for fear of ne ro supremacy." Under the Federal oldier are these words: "Asolid North or fear of Rebel brigadier rule." he bottom of the cut are these words: 'Anticipated twenty years ago by Hor Lce Greeley. Taken up now by the Farmers' Alliance." Then follows a ong extract from the speech of Polk at )cala. Because of the appearance of this cut he general belief is that the People's )arty is here and has come to stay. The same issue of Preside o's >aper makes a bitter attack o A.she and Jernigan, editors of the News nd Observer, and publishes a circular etter sent out a year ago by Ashe, vhich stated that the News and Ob erver advocated the sub-treasury bill. ?olk then denounces Ashe and Jern ~an as guilty of a wilful attempt to de cive the farmers, because the News Lnd Observer holds the sub-treasury >ill to be Unconstitutional. He says that such conduct shows that ashe and Jernigan are totally depraved bnd arc unworthy of the confidence of tny honest and respectable person.. In reply Polk is denounced as a cow Lrd, a traitor to the Democratic party, failure and humbug as a farmer, as lishonest in his transe.tions with sev ~ral individuals, and a "feather-leg" in ~very particular. J. L. Ramsey, an issistant editor of Polk's paper, is also leneunced as a vulgar coward. Messrs. Ashe and Jernigan intend to orce Polk and Ramsey to resort to the .ode for satisfaction. If they fail they vill try to break Polk down by making aim contemptible by holding him up every day as a "feather-leg," which is miserable, abject coward, a pitiless coundrel, and a poltroon of the mos lisgusting character. No one believes that Polk will fight. Ashe and Jernigan believe in settling lisputes according to the Code. Ram ey is absent, and his friends say he vill show fight as soon as he returns. several offers to act as seconds nave een made to both narties. Polk arrived here yesterday, and to lay he held a council with his friends. 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