DOCKERY .

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF OLIVER HAR T DOCKERY—fi'

A COLO R ED NAR RATIV E .

It is well,now and th en at least

,to trace the careers of inen W ho have attained

eminence,good or bad

,that ambitious youth may l earn therefrom how to reach

sfam e on the one hand o r avoid shame on th e o ther . Imbued with this patrioti cpurpose

,we give a brief sketch of the p r incipal events in the l ife of a man Whose

name is now upon e ve i y one’

s lips .“ That man i s

OLIV E R HAR T D OCKERY .

To begin Wi th,our hero i s no slo 11ch -

,no horny handed son of toi l

,no poor

boe k ra of any sort , but a son of a leading politici an , arich man’s son

,W i th means

as We ll as the incl ination to gratify hi s every whim . Born W i th a sil ver spoon inhis month

,as the saying is ' and eio th e d in purple and fine l i nen

,he began his

e arth ly ex istence about the year 1826 in the county in W hich he now lives . Suri ounde d by every com fort and luxury that weal th could command

,with slaves to

-do his every bidding , \h e grew apace . In t ime

,l ike other rich men ’s son s

,he

Wen t to schoo l and learned.

a l i tt le Latin and less Greek .

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In 1846 he wen t toChape l Hi l l ; what his career was there tradition doth no t te l l

,as in the case of

Johnston Pettigrew and Matt . Ransom ,W ho we1 e his sen iors by a y ear . Satfice

it to say, however , that he graduated in 1848 by the skin of his t eeth , o r the

toughness o f h is chee '

,k or i n some other way

,and proceed ed to study law under

that good man, Judge Battle . O f his caree r at the bar that treacherous j ade ,

“ t radition,again f ai ls to say anything . W i th his great voice and his unli tnite d

cheek he oub

gh t to have succeeded , bu t the re 18 no evidence that he did .

And then he became a “ plante r . They were planters , not farmers, in thosedays

,and

,inde ed

,plant ing was not such a bad thing W ith a lot of n egroes ,

wenches included,and a pushing overseer to drive them . The science of plant

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. ing was niainiy i n picking out the o v e x se e r,and i t may be that our hero , with

th e help of his father , was success ful i n that . Tradition , howeve r , sti l l treacherous

,th ro ws no light on the si tuation

In the winte r of 1858 he went to the Legisl ature and distingu i shed himse lf ,

“there by his effortsto oompe l free negroes to leave the S tate or become slaves .And then the war came o h . Now

,though a valiant man

,our he ro was not

eager: fo r the fray . He feared from the be ginnirig he w ould l ose his niggers ,‘and he was fond of negroes then as he 1s ‘

now,h 1i t W i th this difference

,note ; as

sl aves then,as voters now . But emancipatio n and the surrender were a long way

off at the beginning of the war,and our hero

,W i th a company of his young

frie nds and neighbors , became a part . of the 38 th Regime nt of North Carolinai t was

,especi al ly a fter our he ro l eft i t Had

to le ave the serv i ce just before the figh tincr‘

be

ended d ifie r e nt iy . Possibly Meade and Grant

figh ting about to begin in e arnest,W h e h he fai led to be r e elected as was r é

q11ir§d . Le aving h is young friends and neighbors to stop Yankee bullets , heonce more hied’ him“

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ciacnd , j ust here , we pause in admira-ktion of the many uses to which ne gibes,

‘ine ludfi ng cwe ne h e s, can be put . U nder

th e Confederate law tw e nty negr o e s” w 'ou ld keep even an e x ~ lie u te nant colo

ne l out of the war . No wonder some people love negro'

es so wel l,for gratitude

sti l l lives .x

We hear no more of our hero as a mi li tary man un ti l the Holden Ki rk war ,when he was commissioned as a brigad ier general . He d id not reach the

,fie ld

ev en in this war , however . Its duration was short . It wi l l“

be see n,therefore

,

that Circumstances which our hero could no t, or at least did no t, Contro l came

between him and success as a mi l itary man,just as they d id i n hi s othe r efforts .

Afte r the war our hero rested upon his l au r els o r some th ing else fo r a time,r e

eruit ing from his w ounds as i t were , i n a so rt of Chrysalis state ; that i s to say ,i n the i n termed iate stage between th e o ld fashion e d white grub j wo rm and themodern co lored Rad ical “

butt e rfly . But by 1868 , , just about th e t ime Federalbayonets converted negroes into ‘ vote rs

,o iu r hero bloomed ou t as a ful l -grown

adical . fo r h e'

then saw hi s way c lear ' before. him . The t ru th is,there is no

man inAme rica who can put negr o e sz no t excluding even the wenches, to m oreuseful pn

—rpose s

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th an ou r hero,fo r he is as good a j udge tod ay of the Value of a

negro,whether a smart buck or a l ike ly W e nch

,as any other t rader ever was be

fore the war . If the negro be a buck,he has av ote ; i f a wench , sh e i s good to

point a slande r with,and o f both h e ‘

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pon occasion .

But it must not be suppo sed th e money expe nded by our hero ’s fath e r on hislegal education was money thrown away . Our hero Was’ a lawyer of the oldschool or he was n ot a l awyer at al l . Some people say one thing and some saythe other H is strict. adhere nce

,howeve r. t o amaxim o f

xth e old school law books

for tifie s us in the be lie f fthat he was a lawyer “o f that i lk .

” Throughout hisentire career , when our hero could not get e xactly what he wante d fh e has take nthe nex t best thing to i t he coul d get . This do’e tr ine was cal led in t,he ,

o ld books ,i f we reco llect aright

,the cy p r esCon struction , o r , as we would say i n the common

talk of the day t th e doctrine that half loaf is bette r than no loaf . Accord ingly,

after the surrende r came “ with al l the words imp l ied ,” as Mrs. Tilton remarked

about Mr . Beecher,and he fully realiz ed that negroes coul d no

x‘

longe r be workedto advantage on plantations

,bi s quick black eye st r ain ay

‘saw that the next best

p lace to wo rk them was at the polls,and th e r e

\h e -h

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as been working them fo r al lth e y ar e worth ever Since . This invo lve s t h e loss of the wenches in part, but notaltogether, for they are e x tremely useful i n ‘

wh00ping th e bue ks up to the polls .Accord ingly , in April , 1868 ; by the help of the b ucks an d the wenches ; and

Canby ’s bayonets,h e was ,

“ elected,

”se -cal le d

,to Congress fo r t he then unexpired

term,the being counted in Charleston

,South Carol i.na .

\

It is an easything to be “

e lected when the negro bucks and wenches an d Federal b ayonetsare dn one side and disfranchised whi te p eople QIJ the other and the returningboard in Charleston . In August of the same year he was

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“ elected.

” for a ful lte rm of two years . In fact

,our he ro always did his bes t running w ith Federal

bayonets at his baok . t

In 1870‘

h e was not “ e lected,” fo r that year . they‘ were short of Federal

bayonets and Col one l 'Waddel l sat down upon him,and

,

they do say therewas scarcely a “ grease spot .” left of him . In July , 1870, at Fayettevi lle

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,

duringthe d iscussion there between Colone l D o ckery and Colone l Waddel l , the n

opposmgwcandidate s for Congress in the Cap e Fear District , while Waddel l wasspeaking Colonel Dockery rose and , int e r rupting him ,

said int his biggest voice andmost bully ing

, browbeating manner : “ If the statement the gentlemen has j ustmade i s e ver repeated I shal l reply to it with a monosyll able ,” and thereupon r e

sumed his seat . It is said fh at had a‘ pin fal len i t would have been heard , so great

was the si lence that ensue d . Everybody saw the crisis . What th e resul t wouldbe no one could tel l— pe 'rhap s bloodshed and no l ittle of it . Wadde l‘l was slenderand youthful -loo-king and by no means a match physically for the burly Dockery,but he wou ld have p lenty of friends if he showed figh t .

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,W n u ld ~l ~e do i t The

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r esul t wil l tel l .When Dockery sat down W adde bl rose and , addressing the crowd in h l Ssoftesttones

,said

,smiling as he did so z “ Fel low-citiz e ns

,you h ave heard what (J o lone l

Dockery has j ust said,and you know what it mean s . It means that l i I repeat

wha t I have said he wil l de noune ep it as a lie , and you knowo

what that 111593 1133 3Turning then to Col onel Dockery , and approaching h im unti l he could almost

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touch him ,he repeated th e stat elrne ntword f o r swbficf a

ing hisfinge r 111 Dockery ’s y e i' y face , he said : “ And now,Colo ne lDockery

,what

are you go ing to do about i t Q To the surprise of every one Colonel Dockery’8

rep ly was,sti l l keeping his seat

,Oh ! pshaw ,

Waddell,I don ’t wan t to have any

pe rsonal difficul ty with you . And then such a shout of laughter and derisionwent up as made the very welkin ring . And no “ monosy l l able was uttered andno blood was spil led .

During the same campaign at the place for speaking near Li lesvi lle,in the

county of Anson , Colone l Dockery stated that owing to vio lent sickness th e nightbefore h e was physical ly unable to take part in the discussion and he hoped thatunder the circumstances hi s “opponen t would declin e to speak . Colonel Waddel l

,

in reply,said he di sl iked to dis appoint the people

,but as there was much ln his

speech about Colonel D ocke i y , and as he could no t strike a Si ck man,he would

not speak . The people,much dissat isfie d and displeased

,insi sted that Waddel l

should speak anyway,but he abso lutely refused to do so , and left the ground and

went to the house of a frie nd some four o r fi ve mi les 011 to get hi s d in ner . He

had barely gotten there,howeve r and been made comfortable

,when a messenger

rode ll p ln post-haste and announced that Dockery ha'd sudden ly“ recove red and “

was speaking away for dear life , making all sorts of misrepresen tations Wad e

del l at once returned to the speaking ground and,they do say gave the burly

Dockery a scoring he would remember to his dying day i f his hide wasn ’t so thickand his memory so bad

,using more polysyl lables and all sorts

of sy l lables , than were eve r before heard t o fal l from the l ips o f so soft spoken ,mild -mann e red

,slender buil t and Christian a gentleman in the same length of

time . And the valiant Dockery,l ike oth er lambs generally

,when led to the

slaughter,opened not his month . This incident is re lated les t Judge Fow le also

be taken in by D o ck'

e ry‘s cry of being “ sick .

”

The trend of our hero ’s gen ius,however , does not seem to be toward states

manship . Two speeches that he go t permission to print , and th at he might haveprinted without perm ission

,and not a word of which he del ivered , consti tute

the sum total,so far as this biographer has seen , of th e Co ng1 e ssional efforts o f

our he ro during his three yea 1 s ’ service at Washington— of course,we mean e ut

sid e of d rawing his pay,which

,i f we mistake not

,was somewhere near $25 ,000.

In 1875 he again left his crops and came up to Raleigh as a member of theConsti tution al Conven tion of that year . W hi l e i n th at

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body he d1stingu ish e dhimsel f by h is opposition to e v e i y effort to disown and disclaim the specia1 taxbonds . In 1876 he was candidate for E lecto r for the State at large

,and defeated

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and again in 1880,when he was again defeated .

In 1882 ou r hero pre posed to resume business as a statesman,as Congressman

at large,but Colone l Bennett hav ing gotten in hi s way

,he concluded to remain

at home .

And now,h aving once more wearied of the delights of rural li fe

,in Spite of

its many attractions,he proposes to come l to Rale igh and be our ‘ Governor

,an d

natu ral ly enough,perhaps

,fo r farming with free niggers

,who are also voters

,

is neither p leasant no r profitable to a man accustomed to i planting ” with slavesa nd bull whips

,one too

,who i s a supplican t fo r thei r votes and who has the

further d isadvantage of knowing nothing about ti ll ing the soi l . I t 1s admitted onall hands , so his neighbor s say , we believe , that our hero is p e rhaps the poorestfarmer on the Pee Dee . O rdinarily

,indeed

,as the old saying goes

,the master ’s

tracks are the best manure he can put on his '

,l and bu t i n the case of our her o i t

i s not true,as his plantation

,i t i s said

,i s_by lon u odds the better for his absence .

There is one crop, however, that he can beat al l creation raising and that i sgrass ; making two blades grow where only one grew before i s an easy thing tohim— in fact

,a half doz en is h is usual crop , they say , but the deuce of i t is, he

grows his g1 ass along wi th h is cotton and corn , and they do say that is badjudgmentBut our hero s desi re to come to Raleigh is not on ly natural

,as we h ave said

,

but it i s on ly carrying out the doctrine that half le af i s bette r than no loaf . He

trie d to go to Washing ton ; the National Capi tal , and cou ldm’t,and now he is

trying to get to Rale igh , the State Capital , as the next best thing . Next year weexpec t to hear he is try ing to ge t to Rockingham as mayor, his coun ty townbeing nex t in order to the State Capi tal

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But no bibgiaphy psccenapiet e w ith oi it some so r t co f an analysis,more o r les s

metaphysical , of the characteris tics o f th ec

h e rogahd this we attemp t for 0111 heroas fo llows :1 . He has more cheek than any man in North Carol in a

,e1ther native or of the

carpet bag persuasion2 . He h as as much brass as cheek . N . B .

-Th is -distin 'c tion between brass andcheek 1s purely metaphysical .8 . He is by nature bo ld to rashne

'ss,that i s to say , when the enemy is weak ,

ignoran t o r di stan t . But he IS no t half,

so dange 1 o ris 1n close quarters as h e l ooks .As yet no man’s blood 1s on his hands

,no t even a Y ank s

,no twithstandinu th e

bound less possibil ities he has enj oyed in that l ine . He is n o man for “ deadcorpuses of his own make .

4 . He is a ready man,and can furn ish more testimony and bette r fitting tes t i

mony on shorter time,from his own imagination and by his “ own unaided e f

for ts,as General Grant used to say . g iving chapter and verse , than any man i n

th e State . In thi s matte r the truth never stands i n his way5 . He is by unan imous con sent admitted to be a_ thorough p r oficie nt in th edialectics of demagogy of the grosse r grades . H is ski l l as a

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demagogu e is conside r e d -very wonderful .6 . H is powers of obser vation and generaliz a tion are fairly good. In proof of

this may be cited the reply he made to a Northern member o f Cong ress whenasked what was r e allv the effect of emancipation in the South It s wel lenough

,said be , “ fo r niggers

,but it ’s hel l on bu ll yearlings . For terse ness

of e xpressi on and yet for comprehensi ven ess o f t h e si tuation this is no t of ten excel led .

7 . O h the othe r hand , his j udgment of men , that is to say , o f whi te men , i sn ot always good . For in stance

,he thought he had a soft th ing of i t when he

met Colonel Waddel l ln Faye ttevi l le in 18 70. This was a mis take in j udgmentin which he has ever sin ce had our sincere sympathy . We deeply sympathi z ewith any man who undertakes to bul ly A lfre d Waddel l , thinking he has a

'softthing 111 band . O ur hero made tha t mi s take . H is j udgmen t of a negro , however

,i s infal l ible .

8 . Another defect ln his mental make -up ,if, i ndeed , i t be a defect , is a vai ia

ble ne ss of memory that m l arge measure affects his statements , so that at timesthey not on ly fai l to be consistent with each other

,but fai l also to be consisten t

with What may be cal led the paren t facts , o r , in other words , th e truth‘ This

id iosyncrasy,wh ich 1 51 so marked a characteristi c of our hero, would be a source

of mo r tification to one different ly constitu ted . This also i s metaphysical .

9. There is a certain moral obl iquity that Obscures hi s inner vision at timesand disables him from distinguishing between decency and indecen cy . Thisleads him in to bad habits ; the slande 1 of women, for in stance .

10. H is mind general ly 1s slow to act,exce pt when the inventi ve o r imaginative

qual ities are cal le d into play . For a fact,fiction is his fo x te . This

,too

,is pure ly

metaphysical .With such mental characteris tics and the physical gifts he p ossesses, hi s wealthof cheek and voice and brow ,

our hero Could not fai l .o f em1ne nce -o f one sort01 another .And thus endsour sto ry . If we have

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fai led to chr'

onicle bi illiant succe sse s‘

th e

fault isnot ours ; we have done the best we could with the materi al we had . And

i n this connection we note that our hero ’s nearest approach to success has beenwhen he had either slaves o r Federal bayonets at his back

,and neither of these

are now here .

Another word and we have d one . It is said his health always breaks downbefore a j oin t campaign come s

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to a natural end . S e lah .

’ We shal l see what weshal l se e

DOCK E R Y . 5

DOCKER Y AND THE NEGR OES.

Colonel Dockery did not begin his po li tical car eer with the presen t campaign .

Thirty years ago he was a prominent member of th e Legislatu re , and upon theJournal of the House

,of which he was a member

,left a record that 18 not with

out interest now .

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51‘h e time s indeed have changed since that day , and the val ian t Colone l has

changed with them . This was, perhaps , to have been expected . But _wh e th er

to ' be expected or 110 1, the change has come and is so strik ing that we inv i te ‘

especial attention to one part of his record that o thers also may take i t in .

To day the doughty Colonel I

1s cheek by j owl with h isbeloved negroes,and.

unlike Judge Russel l,who‘ says the negroes are “

s avages,and “ no more fit to

govern than are their br e th 1 e n i n African swamps or so many Mongoli ans dumpeddown from pagan Asia

,he th ink s they make del igh tful ci tiz ens

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and when metin conventi on constitute ‘

fas noble a body of m e n as ever assembled in ourState . Then he could abide them only as slaves ; then a po

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o 1 free negro W as astench i n his nostri ls

,so revo lting and so 1 e pulsiv e to hi s instincts as a bow slave :

holder that he sought by act of Assembly to drive every one from the State orfo rce him to become a slave . Well

,perhaps

,too

, that was natural , for Dockerywas b orn a sl ave holder , educated a s lave holder , and for about fo r ty years liveda slave holder

,and even now

,afte1 mo x e than twenty years of fr eedom

,the

slave holder fee l ing i s so strong i n him that he talk s abou t the negro women as

negro “ wenches . We ven ture to say that there are few men in th e State besideColonel Dockery who use the term .

O i course we do not expect negroes to be affected by this change in thei r champion ’s views in regard t o people of their colo r and race ; nor wil l i t afie ct themto know‘ that during the war h e advised i n a public meeting i n R ichmond countythat i t ~be proposed to Mr .

,

Lincoln to end the war if he would allow negroes tobe

’ held as sl aves for five years longer ; nor wi ll it affect them to know that evenafter the war

,and while he was a member of Congress at W ashington , he refused

to vote fe r the Consti tutional Amendment that coc

nfe r r e d upon them the right ofsuffrage and the other rights of citi z enship . None Of these things give them anycon cern . Like Gal lio o f

0

old,they care for none of these things.

1Poo r,simple

minded creatures,savages though they be as Judge Russel l cal ls them ,

andutte rly unfit to 1 gove rnment , present affiliatl on and association wi l l atone for thesins o f a li fe time .

It matters n ot what Colonel Dockerythought i n the past , i t matters not whatJudge R usSe ll thinks to d ay

,the one may cal l them savages and the other talk to

them to their very faces about the ir women as negro wenches,if an election

was to hold to morrow there would no t be one hund r ed negr o voters in al l theState (and there are near 1 10000 of them)who would not vote fo r both Dockeryand Russel l for any position for which they were candidates .But to Colone l Dock e ’ry s re cord .

In the Legislature of 1858 in the House of Commons,a bi l l was introduced

“ to removeb

fr e e persons of color from the S tate . The obj ect of the bill, as isplat f1om i ts ti tle , was to ge t rid of all free negroes . The indefinite postponement of the bi l l was moved

,which if done

,would kil l the bi ll . The yeas an d

nays‘ Were cal led and motion to indefini te ly postpone was carried , thereby kil lingthe bill . But Olive r H . D ocker y

footed agatnst p ostp onement. See House J ou rnalpages 86

,452 and 458 .

In the same Legislature , i n the House of Commons , a bil l was in troduced toen fo r ce the col lection of debts from fi e e neg1o e s. In this bi l l was a p r ov 1s1onto put up free negroes to public hi re for fiv e years Or l ess— practically a sale forthe te rm for which he was bid ofi— to the lowest bidder . It was moved to ihdefini t e ly postpone the bi l l and thus to ki l l it , but Colone l D ocke r y voted against

the motion.

It was then moved to kil l the bil l by laying i t upon the table , andMr .

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1)oc7ce r yagain

footed 710 ! See House Journal, p ages 250, 5 18 , 514 and 5 15 .

DOCK ERX.

So much for Dockery and free negroes . N ow for Dockery and sl aves .In ' the House o f Commons of the same Legi sl ature a bi l l was introduced “

topreven t the emancipation o f slav es by will .

” A motion was made to ki l l the bil lby l ay ing i t upo n th e table .

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D 007ce r y e e ted against the motion. A motion W as madeto i nse rt in the bi l l a p rovis ion au thoriz ing free negroes to become slaves

,and

D oche 7 y votedf o r the mot ion,and when the bi l l came up on itsfinal passage it was

defeated,bu t D ocke ry votedf or i t . See House Journal

,pages 229, 497 , 498 , 499

and 500.

To sum it al l up in a few words,then

,Dockery was qui te wil ling to mak e

sl aves o f free negroes,but utte rly unwill ing to make free men of slaves?now free

negroes are his chosen all ie s . Verily , water i s n ot the on ly thing that wil l hndi ts l eve l

,for Dockery has found his . But what a

- l evel ! with a l ot of freenegroes !

DOCKERY AND THE SPECIAL TAX BONDS .

Ou October the sp e c1al order i n the Consti tution al Convention w zas

An ordinance to ame nd Sec . 6 Ar t . 1,of the Con stitution

,providing for th e

r epudiation of the sp ecial tax .

.bondsTh e substi tute ofie r e d by the committee was as fo l l ows :No future General Assembl y shall levy any tax or raise any money to pay the

p rincipal or interest of any of the bond s of the State i ssued i n aid of any rai lroadcorporation under the authority of th e Constitution al Convention held in 1868, orby the authority of any subsequent General Assembly hearing date between th e firstd ays o f J annary , 1868 and 1875 , withoutfirst submitting the question to th e qualifie d voters of the State .

Mr . Durham offered a substi tute that the General Assembly shall have no powerto le vy taxe s for the payment or adjustment o f more than fiv e per cen t . of thespecial tax bonds , etc .

Mr . Jarvis moved to amend this substitu te by striking out the words “ morethan fiv e per cent . of —thus taking from the Legislature“ al l power to pay anything on the special tax bonds . 1

Mr . Y oung moved to lay the who le matte r on the table . The motio n did notprevai l . D oeke r y voted aye .

Mr . McCabe moved that the Convention now adj ourn . Lost . D o‘

eke‘

r y voted aye .

The question was put on Jarvis ’ motion to strike out the words more thanfiveper cent . , and th e amendment prevai led .

Th e ie ffe ct of this w as to take from the Legislature power to pay or adj ust theSpecial tax bonds . D oehe ry

footed

A division on the questi on was ordered . The question recurred on that part ofthe ord inance which pro hibited the General Assembly from levying any tax orraising any money to pay the new bonds , without fir st submitting the matter toth e qualifie d voters , and this part o f the ordin ance was rej ected . D e eke ry t ota l 720 .

That end ed th e matte r . Those who were opposed to repudiating. the specialtax bonds were in the maj ority . The measure fel l .

D ocke ry voted to lay 077, the table .

D ocke 7 y voted to adj our nD ocke ry e oted against Jar e ts

’amendment that the Legislatur e should kae e no p owe 7

to Ze e y tax es to p ay 07 to adj ust the sp ecial tax bonds.

And D oeke r y voted against the measw e on itsp assage and i t was def eated.

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Cont entwn Jour nal, p age 196 .

In 1879 the Democratic Legislature passed a bil l amending the Oonstith tion inthat par ticu1a1 , h owever, and it was adopted by .the peop le on November 8d ,1880.

No thanks to Dockery ! Nor to Morton !

DOCKER Y .

Suppose for a momch t that Dockery should be elected Govern or and thatMcKe sson should be elected Aud itor . What about the Speci al Tax Bonds then ?Let us see .The caSe stands thus in the Morton Temple suit in the Federal Court nowap

pealed to the Supreme Gou t t’

e t Washington . Judge Bond was of Op in ion.

thatthe State could be Sued by one of its own citiz ens . Judge Seymour was of Op in ionthat it could no t

,but Judge Bond being the C ircuit Judge his Opinion stands as

the Op inion of the court . The decree of the court,therefore , was that the State

should pay th e Spe ciafTax Bonds , and i t was from this decree that the appeal was

taken to the Supreme Court at Washington .

N ow suppose , suppose fo r a moment, we say , that Dockery should be electe dGove 1 nor and McKe sson should be elected Auditor and should withdraw th eappeal

,what the n ? Why , nothing sav e that the decree accmding to Bond

’s opinion wou ld stand as the unco ut r o v e rte d decision of the Court and

’ the nex t thingto do would be to send out_ the U nited States Marshal to col lect the bonds

,th e

Special Tax Bonds we mean,as best he might .

Ar e the people o f North Caro lina wil lingsb

to trust Dockery and McK e sson withthe power to ru in them on such short notice ? The whole powsr w i l l be in thehands of Dockery and McK e sson i f they should be elected . And Morton

,the

candidate for V ice -Presiden t , i s one of our main cred itors Let the people remember h ow Dockery voted in the Convention of 1875 about paying these bonds

,and

de cide !

DOCKERY AS A FARMER .

The greatest fraud of the presen t day,so far as we know

,i s the pretence Col .

Dockery makes to be a “ p lain farmer.” “ a horny -handed son of toi l,

"who di gshis l iving out of the ’ground . He te l ls the peop le that he i s nothing but a p lainfarmer

,dragged away from home against his wi l l ; that had a brother farmer ,

Captain Alexander fo r instance,been n ominated by the Democrats noth ing

Could have induced him to be an opposing candidate .

This 18 the veriest twadd le in the world,and no man that d id not have the

cheek of a rhinoceros would be gui lty of it . Instead of being a plain farmer ,mak ing a l iving from the soil , he is the worst demagogue i n

b

ths State and ath orough paced , broken down Radical pol itician o f the lowest kind .

If any one

’

doubts this le t h im look at the man ’s re cord sin ce the war . In

1868 he ran for Congre ss twice . Twice in one year i s pretty fai : for a plain farmer averse to po l itics and happy on ly when watching h is growing crops ! In1869 he showed his love for his crops by s taying in Washington Ci ty ; and so in1870, wh e n he eased the bitterness of his grief at hi s absence from th ose samecrops by another race for Congress . But that was not a good year for Radicals

,

and so Dockery was beaten,and i n 187 1 he went back to

C

his beloved cro ps . And

then the D emocrats changed the make -up of his district so that he had no showing for Congress any more But for this l i ttle circumstance he would h ave beenrunning“ for Congress every two year s from that day to thi s . - In

‘

1875 he was

a membe1 of thetD

Const itu tional Conven tion . Not t o be id le , howeve r , in 1876

he was a candidate for E lector from th e State at large and was defeated , andagai n in 1880 he was a candid ate for the same p l ace and again defeat ed . In

1882 , when by acciden t , as it were , there was a Congressman for the State atlarge

,and the election coming on i n an ofi-year

,he made the r ace and

,as

we al l know,was beaten . Since then there has been n o opening for h im fo r

‘Congress,his district be ing overwhelmingly D emocratic

,and so

,having run

down on his farm,he now seeks to be Gove1 nor

8 DOCK ERY .

A nd this is the man wh o i s parading the State as the fa1me 1 s fr iend ! Weknow just the kind of farmer he is. There i s at least one of the sort in everyneighborhood in the State

,as the commission merchants kn ow to the i r cost .

They farm on supplies and advances from commission me x chants,and make cot

ton and buy corn and work pom mules . Thi s so rt of farmers “ know it all,

but some how thei r crops don’t pan o ut well . They can tel l a poo r neighbor who

drops m of a Sunday evening j ust al l about i t , but that same pom ne ighbor , whoknows no thing about scie ntific farming

,but p lan ts right straight along in the

old way,wil l sel l tw i ce as much co tton

o

to the acre .

Y ou wil l hear a“ farmer ” l ike Colonel Dockery,e x member of Congress

,al

most any day now calcul ating how much cbt-ton he wi ll make ! There are somany hi l ls

,says h e

,in an acr e

,so many stalks to the hill

,so many matured bol ls

to the stalk,

“ certain,so many bolls to the pound

,and 400 pounds to the bale

,

and the result i s anywh e i e from one to two bales to the acre— and when i t i s a l lpicked out the average will be about 125 pounds o f l in t to the acre !That ’s the kind of farmer Colonel Dockery is . H is affected ly shabby dress andapparen t want of attention to his person do n ot p 1 ove him to be a farmer by anymeans . If this sort hing proves anything at al l i t i s the demagoguery of theman or the wan t of soap and water .But wh at a low estimate he puts upon the sense of th e people to su ppose that

such things as these wil l win their esteem and i e gard ! They may"catch negro

votes,but t hey will ne ver ca tch white votes . Negroes may think a man is nearer

their leve l because he i s sloven ly in his dress and x e gardle ss of the decencies ofl ife

,but white me n see no special vi r tue in a di r ty shirt when a clean one can be

convenien tly had , or in d irty hands when soap and water is conven ien t . Weventure to say

,without the slightes t fear of successful contradiction

,that (Jo lone l

Dockery has not hoed a doz en row s o f corn 01 chopped out a doz en rows o f cotton since h e was twen ty one years old .

To talk abou t a man being a “ plain farmer ” W h o goes to Qongr e ss wheneverhe can ge t a chan ce , who runs for E lector and for Govern or whenever he canget a chance and stays at home on ly when he can’t go anywh e r e e lse

,1s ah

surd . Broken down po litici an is the right name for him ,and that i s j ust what

O l iver Hart.Dockery is.

.

And this IS th e man wh o goes abou t the State pretending to be a farmer andtrying to stir up stri fe among the people . It i s no t ou r purpose here to make anydefence of th e l awyers ; they em a class o f people quite wel l able to take ful l careof themse lves and have withstood many ha1 der blows than Co lone l D ocke r y

’s

puny arm’

can” give them and need not fear anything th at a broke n down politi

c ian and b1 oken down l awye r can d o to thei r hurt .

He lo ves farmelrs he says and hates lawye r s . What are the facts? In 1884

1

the D embcr at ic candidate for the Legislature i n th e county o i ; R ichmohd was ahighly respected farmer

,named J . W . Sneed . He was a p lain

,s teady , unassum

ing o ld farmer,who was w e l l thought of byal l h is neighbors . The Repub

l ican candidate was a young_neg1 o lawye 1 , nnamed Wil li am H . Quick , who had

obtained his .lawlicense in February , 1884 . Now,here were the two candi

date S' fo r the vo tes o f the people of Richmond county— one an o ld, steady ,

white farmer and the other a young negro l awyer— and Dockery voted ’for thene gro lawye r lBu t this was more than the other Republicans of Richmond could do , for Sneedwas elected

,although Richmond 18 a Republican county .

Now when Dockery , wh o pretends to lo ve fa1m e rs so much,cal ls upon the

people to vote for him because he is a farmer and agains t Judge Fowle becausehe is a lawye 1 , ough t he not to be asked why HE voted against a W H ITE FARMERand for a NEGRO LAW YER? And will th e people l ike Dockery any the be tter because in ano ther case he voted fo x a youn o ' negro buck against a white Confede t ate soldier

,with one leg shot off .

9 We think not .The fact is Dockery i s a p erfect fai lu re . He failed as a l awyer , fai led as a

p lanter,fai led as a so ld ier

,failed as a politician

,and now having fai led at al l

these things,sets himsel f up as a farmer ' The wonder i s he has never set up fo r

a newspaper man But i t takes some thing more than si xty ye ax s of fai lu res ;Spent in ease and luxury

,tomake eith er a farmer 0 1 a newspaper man !

As a s landerer of respectable , honest women however, he i s a success .

DOCKERY 9

CE R TIFICATES OF H IS N EIGHBOR S

LAU R INB U R G, N C., Se p te rnbe r

I se e that in the j oint discuss ion at Hi ll sbo ro O.

“

.H Dockery i n h is rej oinderasserted

,

“ that th e Democrats of Ri chmond county had nomin ated a negro forthe Legisl ature

,he decl in ed to run

,they th en nominated anoth er negro

,and he

was beaten by. a Republican .

This was news ” to e y e r y man , woman and chi ld in Richmond county, andthere i s not anothe r man in the county who has such habitual dis regard of thetruth as to j oin “ my son O l iver

” in the charge,no r will h e

,with al l his cheek

,

go before any country squire and make affidav it that i t is true .

He poses as a farmer and im p- ose s also in that

,as the fo llow ing letter to Emery

E Raper,Chairman Cleveland and Fow l

I

e Club of Lexington , Davidson coun ty,I

who wrote to this county to .know what kind of a farmei he W as,wi l l show . It

was written yesterday and signe d by his neighbors who were attending ourCounty Democratic Conven ti

'

,on v iz

R OCK INGHAM , N . C.

,September 12

,1888 .

Eme fr y ,EfiR ap er :

DEAR s — W e,th e undersigned

,who l ive in the same township with O l iver

H . Docke ry ,'

and some of whose farms adj oi n his . have known him intimately ,the most of us

,al l of our l ives

,and

‘

we he r eby ce r tif y . th at as a farmer . i t i s w e l lknown not only in our own ne ighbo x h oo

I

d,but in the who le county

,he 61 dead

f ai lur e , and that he has never been and i s not now ,anything but a professional

pol itician :W. F . BR OOKSHIR E ,

R . R . LITTLE ,

T . F . STANBACK , N . G. NICHOLSON,

J . P. LITTLE,J R .

,ALFRED BALDWIN,

C.

‘

C‘

. CAPEL,

D . C. S TANBACK .

These men are among the best of ou r eit i'

z e ns and the best farmers o f the PeeD ee country . O thers o f hi s neigh bors say that his crop thi s year w i l l n ot compare with that o f “ the average negro cr Oppe 1

” of this n eighborhood .

It is true he was born and 1 aise db

and has always l ived upon a farm,but he has

never been suspected of being a farmer— no more than a mule .

He resembles a farme i Only “ as a mist resembles a r ain .x Par don the para

phrase . Y ours,&c . , W . H . MCLAU RIN,

Pwesident Lawm'

nburg C lub O Zee amZ-Fawle D emow’

ats.

DOCKERY AS AN ALLIANCE MAN .

If Dockery 18 to be which he is not,there are two far

'

me x s’ organs

and mouth pieces in North Carolin a— himsel f and the Al l ian ce,and they don ’t

agree . From his own showing he i s a mighty Al l i ance man and a powerfulfarmer . The truth i s

,he is neither an A ll i ance man in principle , nm a farmer 111

practice , but 1s simply a broken down Rad ical po lit ioian ,fraudulently parading

himself as a farmer and falsely professing undying attachment to the Al liance ,between whom and himsel f there 1s a wide gul f yawning and impassable .

But actions Speak louder th an words . Le t 1i s see how Dockery and th ose withwh o ui he is associated are acting .

The Al li ance in its publishedD

p latfo rm openly opposes1 . Class legisl ation .

2 The tyr anny and oppression of monopolies and trusts .3 . Excessive taxation .

4 . Lavish expendi ture of public money .

10 DOCKERY ;

5 . Protection for -protection’s sake,be lie vmg that th e tar ifiough t to be reduced

to a strict ly revenue basis,the heavi est burdens put on the luxuries and the

l ightest on the necessaries of li fe .

The above may be said to emb1 ace the V i tal issues now before the country,and

about the posi ti on of the A l l iance i n regard to them there 1s no doubt .How does Colone l D ockery stand in regard to them 23 W e wil l consider them

i n order :The Al li ance l s opposed to class legisl ation

,and so is

“

the D emocratic party .

W ith Colonel D ockery and his party,as the record shows

,class legisl atio n has

been the constant practice . Look at the “ protection ” given to i ron manufac

turet s,to cotton goods manufacturers

,in a wo1d to m anufacturers of all so rts of

goods Look at the favoritism to . the bond holders for twenty y ears past , at thefavoritism to rich m e n generally as shown i n the repeal of the 1ncome tax a taxthat the A l l iance expressly dem ands shall be r e enacted . And yet ColonelD ockery pretends to be a great Al l i ance man -so much 1n love with it

,i ts princi

ples and its members,he says

,that he could notfind i t i n his heart to oppose one

of them fo r any o ffice h e m ight desire . And yet he finds i t i n his heart to figh tthe whole O rde r upon one of i ts leading princ ip les .

.2 . The Alliance Opposes the tyranny and oppression of monopolie s and trusts ,and so does the D emocr atic party . In the’ l as t State platform the D emocraticparty expressly declared it self “ against the monopolist and in favor’ of a j ustdistribution of capi tal ,

” and demanded “ the enactmen t of laws th at would bearequal ly upon al l .The national p latform declares that “ the in terests o f the people are betraye d

when by unnecessary taxation t 1 usts and combinat l ons are perm i tted and foste x e d ,which“

,whi le unduly enriching the few that combine , rob the body of our Ci ti z ens

by depriving them of the be nefits of natural competi tion- On the othe1 hand

,M1 1 Blaine , the acknowledged le ader o f Colone l Dockery’8

party,openly declares th at m onop ol ies and trusts

"are large ly private affairs,

w ith which ne ither Mr . Cleveland nor any private c itiz en has any particular rightto i nterfere .

And ye t Colonel Dockery , who”

voted for Mr . Blaine fou1 years ago and wouldbe his supporter again to day i f he was a candidate , parades himse lf before thepeople as a farme r and the special friend of farmers , and boasts of be ing a mem

be r of the A l liance !W as the tyranny and oppressions of monopol ie s and trusts ever greater than i t

i s to day 2 Remember the Coffee trust It has not been twelve months since evenwel l to do famil ies fel t obliged to stint themse lves i n e dflfee because the trust hadraised th e price ti l l they were no longer able to pay it . Look at the sugar trust .Look at the cotton “bagging trust . And yet we are told that nei ther th e Presiden t nor any private citiz en has any particul ar right to interfere with these monopo lie s and trusts . Perhaps

,however

,i t will tu1n out that a D emocratic Congress

has a very.

particular righ t to interfere in the matter ! W e advise our A l l iancef i ie nds to look wel l after Colone l B ocke1 y and sueh members, if, i ndeed , they bebonafide m embers . D angerous members they be who public ly Oppose the v i talprincip les of the O rd e 1 to which they belong ; that 13 to say , unless a house maybe d ivided against it se l f wi thout danger of fal ling .

31 The A l li ance opposes exce ss i ve taxation. Th e D emocrati c party does so ,too

,and m i ts p latf01ms declare s that “ unnecessary taxation i s unjust taxation .

’

How is i t wi th the Radical party on this point ”

U nder Radical legislation thegovernment is to day co llecting some $10,000,000 a rnonth i n the shape of taxes ,more than i s needed for i ts uses ; but i t must be col lected , for the law is upon th estatute book

,placed them by a Radical Congress

, and must be obeyed . If thecol lecti on of more than $120,000,000 a year over and above the needs of the gove rnme nt be not excessi ve taxation

,what amount can be called excessive And

y e t the Rad ical party j ustifies the legisl ation , and so does Colonel D ockery ; ihdeed

,the Colone l i s proud of i t as “

W i se and benefice nt l egislation , that i s, i fhe i s to be bel ieved i n what he says i n his le tter of acceptance .

And al l thi s time D ockery i s the farmer s friend and an humble , devo ted mem

be r of the Al l i ance ; that 18 to say , i f he 1s to be believed ! O f course , howeverno man who boasts that the legisl ation which forces the col lection of $10,of taxes a month mo re than the governmen t needs is wise and benefice nt can beeither an honest m ember of the Al l i ance or a truth te ll ing one .

DooK ER Y . 1 1

4 The Al li ance opposes a lavish expenditure of the public money . So doesthe D emocrati c party, as i ts record shows . The record of the Radical party

, on

the other hand,shows expendi tures l avi sh beyond belief almost E verybody

knows how i t was in the State when that party had cont 1 o l of affairs . Norwas i t much be tter at W ashington But they are not at a ll ashamed of thei rrecord

,for in thei r last n ationa l platform they set forth a schedule of appro

p r iations to be made when they ge t in power that 1s truly appal ling Here 18 thel is t of app r opr iatiOns : i

‘Fo r the early rebui lding of our navy (or the construotion of coast fortifications and other approved modern means of defense for theprotection of our defence' less har bors and ci ties ; fo r the paym ent of j ust pensionsto our soldiers ; fo r necessary works of n ational impo r tanoe i n th e improvementof the harbo rs and channe ls of intern al or coastwise and fore ign commerce ; forthe encouragement of the shipping intere

‘s t of the Atl an ti c,Gulf and Pae lfie

States,as wel l as to 1 the payment of the maturing public debt .

W i l l that be a lavish expenditure o f publ ic money or not 9 W e rather thinkit wi l l

,and yet that IS what Colone l D ockery and his pa1 ty are in favor o f . How

,

then,can he be a member of the A l li ance l n good standing 9 Can a man belong

to an O r der,be a m embe i i n good s tanding and figh t i ts vi tal p rincipl e s at every

tu1n 9 ‘Th e Alliance says publicly i t i s opposed to l avi sh expenditures o f thepublic money . Colonel D ockery , however , who claim s t o be a m e 111be r

,is i11

favor of enter ing upon the expenditure of unto ld m i l l ions, mil lion s upon mi l lions ,the end of which no chi ld now born wil l . see , and yet h as the assurance to?claim to be a member of the All iance ! W hat a con tempt he must have for theunderstandings of the m e n he thus seeks to deceive !5 . The All iance opposes pro tection for protection ’s sake b e l ieves that the

tariff ough t to be reduced to a strictly revenue basis as far as possible,and that

when any di scrim in ation i s made i t ought to be in favor of the n ecessaries ofl i fe and against luxuries . This 1s every

c

day talk of D emocrats and 1s to be foundin thei r platform s

,both State and National

,as fam i liar as household words .

Le t us see how the Rad icals talk about it . The State p latform adopted atRaleigh the 24th of last May

,declare s the tar ifl"‘should be so adj usted as to

protect American industries and l abor . The national pl atform adopted atChicago the l t of l ast J une says “ w e are uncomp

‘

i omisingly in favor of theAmerican syste in of protection The pro t ecti ve sys tem must be maintaine d .

”

How any man can stand on the Radical tariff “ platforms,as Co lone l D ockery

does avowedly,and say he i s an honest

,true son of the A l l iance passeth all

understanding . Can there be a greate r varian ce,a wider difference than there

i s between the Al li ance and the Radical party in the matter of tariff and tar iflf

r eform ? And yet i f O l ive r Dockery be an Alliance man he has straddled theyawning gulf between them ! Is i t possibl e for mortal man to straddle that gul f

,

to bridge that chasm 9 Is it possible for mortal me n even to shake hands acrossit

,1nuoh less to stradd le i t 9W hat a contempt he must have f0 1 the understand ings of me n whom he seeks ~

t o ,cheat with such chaff ! The matte r i s too i l e iu for argumen t , and we conclude as we began

,that O li ver D ockery is ne ith e 1 an A l l i ance man in p 1 inciple

nor a fa1me r in practice but a broken down Radical poli tic ian,attempting by

his accustomed arts to deceive the people

DOCKER Y

W HAT THE ALLIANCE sAYs.

TARIFF RESOLU TION S ADOPTED BY

THE FARMERS ’ STATE ALLIANCE AT

RALE IGH,Aue usr 15 ; 1888 .

W HEREAS,As m e nibe r s of this-State

J urisd i ctio n we\are pledged to secure

ch e ape r' l iving for '

the farmers ; and

whereas,one of the le ading,r methods

to secure for ourse lves this Cheap l iving‘

has been decl ared by the Nation al All ia

‘

ne e to .

“ consi st i n such a revision ofthe tariff as wil l l ay the heavies t burdens on th e lu x ur ie s and the lightes ton the necessaries of l ife and as w il lr educe “the i ncomes fro rn

' imports to astrictly revenue basis ” ; and whereas ,the demands of our fraternity requirethat we should be vigi lan t and activein sgiy ing force and effect to this de i111a of our National A l li ance : andwhereas

,i t i s the bounden duty of

every true A l li ance man to stand to andabid e by th is

'

de c lar ation of the National A ll i ance ; now there fore be i tR esolved

,That we d o hereby ren e w

our obligations to'

abide by and giveeffect to this decl arati on o f_principlesas announced by the N at ional A l l iance .

R esolved,That as true and steadfast

A l l iance me n w e pledge . ourse lves togive neithe r aid , support no r com fort ,no r

,to oote for any person or persons

who cannot and wil l not co-O peratew ith thi s Alli ance in standing by andgiving practical effect to the demandof said National Alli ance

W HAT THE RAD ICALS SAY .

Fr om'

Gene r al Har r ison ’sLe tte r of Ace ep tance

Assaul t upon our protec tive system isOpen and defiant ; protection i s assai ledas unconstitutional in law or as vicio 'usi n p rincip le , and those “

w ho hold suchyl ews m ere ly cann o t st0p short of anabsolute e l imin ation from our tar ifilaws of th e principle o f protecti on .

Th e D emocratic party wi l l , i f supportedby the country

,place the tariff l aws

upon a pure ly revenue basis .

‘

The Republ ican party holds that ap rotective tar ifi1 i s constitutional

,

wholesom e and necessary.

Fr om th e National R adical

l

Platform

W e are uncomprom isingly in'

fav o r o f

the American system of prote ctionW e protest against its d e struction . W e

accept the i ssue and ,

confide ntly appealto th e ‘

p e ople for thei r judgment . Thepro tect ive system must be m aintained .

Fr om th e State R adical PlatformAl l revenues fo r th e suppo r t of the

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Federal governmen t (ih time of peace)should be col lecte d from custom s due s ,and thei r col lection should be so ad m

j uste d a s to protec t American i ndustrie s and labo r.

Fr om Colone l D oeke r y’s Le tte r of Accep tance :

They attack ou r tariff system wh i chhas bee n the main - spring o f our wonde r ful developmen t . I am Opposed toDemocratic tink ering in that di rection .

In v iew of the above,we ask how any honest A l liance man can vo te for D ock

e r'

y . The Al li ance is p ledged not to v o t e fo r any man who i s i n favor of proteoti on . Colonel D ockery constan t ly avows him

‘self on every stump to be in favorof pro tection ! The case is too pl ain fo r argument , and

'

Co lone l Dockery is forcedto say th at h e

,ne v e r

l

h e ar d before that the All iance entertain ed such views . Itwas news ” to h im

,h e

'

said ! Anothe r bad case of bad memory , or worse !

Colone l D oehe ry hr ags ve r y much abou t be ing a member of the A lliance aizcl sayshe wou ld not opp ose a br other j

’

arme r f or any ofile e , but when p r essed to the wall by

J udge Fowle'

wfl th the p r oof that the A lliance opp oses and denounces p r otection,whi le

‘

he (D ocke r y)f avor s"i t

,he says he had not heaml of the

’Allia'

ne e fr e solwt 'io'

ns oh the

subj e ct bef or e . Docke r y knows'

h ow that they d enownee p r otection and de clar e that no,

membe r of the Or de r must vote f or a man who f avor s p r otection . W hat wi ll he do“

abou t i t ? W i ll he abandon the A lliance will he abandon“

p r otection”

and ga itthe cane assf oo

‘ Gooernor ? O r will he go on'

tr y t’

ng to f ool the p eop le w tr ying, as the

saying 2'

s,to p ick blaehbe

frfr z

'

e s on both sides of the f ence at once .

9 Make him answer!

DOCKERY . 3

DOCKER Y AT THE LOW EST DEPTH.

It has long been the boast ih our Southern l and that we did not fear m e n orslander women ; that with us a wom an ’5 fai r fame was a sacred thing . But whatshal l we say to see a man born upon our_own so il , as was his father be fo re h im ,

having enjoyed al l the educational and social advan tage s that wealth and high socialposi tion could give h im , b1 e d to the bar and. for a time a practitione r there , aprom i nent member of the O ld Line W hig party , embracing as i t d id so m any m e n

of the highest rank intel lectually,moral ly and 1a every other way

,a prom inent

representat i ve of that party i n the Legisl ature , and,i n a word fo r near forty

years connected in every way with the best people in the State ; what shall'

be thought , we say , when from the l ips of such a man is heard a vi le slander ofan honest

,respectable wom an 9

It i s a shameful case i ndeed ; but we must make up our m inds what to say aboutit

,fo i i t i s j ust the case now before us, as O l iver H . D ockery , Radica l candidate fo r

Governor,i s the slanderer and Mrs . C leveland

,wife o f the President of the U nited

States , i s the s lan‘de red woman . It matte rs no t

,however

,wh e th e 1 th e sl andered

woman be the wi fe of th e President or the wife o f the humblest ci tiz en in theland

,provided on ly she i s honest and reputable , and this no man who knows herr

,

of whate ver p e litical creed ; wil l deny Mrs . Cleveland to be .

But to the slander .

“

Colonel O live r H . D ockery , Radical cand idate for Governor,i n his publ ic

speeches charges that Mrs . Cleveland,a reputable white woman , so far d e bases

and degrades hersel f as to “ kiss negro wenches Now be i t known,les t i t be

suppose d 0 1h e r wise,that Dockery is a white man

,a South em born whi te man

,a

born North Carol in ian , we are especi ally ashamed to say,who understands fully

the vile reproach involved in the ch arge to which he thus giv e s the sanction of

his n ame . No man better than this same D ockery understands the odiumIand ln

famy involved in the statemen t for which he has thus become sponso rI

and towhich he thus gives curren cy , to wit : that a reputable white wom an i s gi ven tokissing h egr o wenches , a char

‘ge that,i f t rue

,would shut i n her face every r e

spectable white door in the State . W e say Colone l D ockery understands fullythe force of the vile calumny he is ci rcul ating , for in hi s own antipathy to negroe she went so far when i n the Legislature as to favo1 drivingevery free negro fromthe State

,01 forcing h im to become a s lave . N o negro

,he thought

,was fit to r

anything but s lavery .

W hat, then , shal l We say about i t 9 For one , we say he ought to be disownedby every white man

,wom an and chi ld in North Caro lin a

,and

,l ike Stanton and

the wr i te1s and o th e r ’ signe r s of th e horrib le Legisla t ive Address , consigned toeverlasting infamy . W ith such m e n he has mado

c

his bed,and upon i t he must l ie .

But what a warn ing al l this ought to be to any one thinking about j oi ning theRadical par ty ! If D ockery

,with al l his soci al , educational and other advant

ages’,be brought to this low

,di rty leve l by his assoc iation with his negro and

othe1 Radical all ies,what can other me n hope for 9 If -a man with D ocke r y

’s

antecedents i s brought to open slander of an honest woman,what may be ex

p e cte d of any other man who goes in to the Radical ranks 9 Can any man touchpitch and not be defile d 9 Can any man be conie a Radical and not be dirty 9A l as

,poor di rtyD ockery ; how you have fallen from your fonner high estate !d this 18 the man who is pai ading himse lf before the farmers of the State as

afarmer of farmers and their speci al champion and friend ! W hat say you, ye

white me n,far 1ne r s of North Caro li na ; Wil l you o wn h im 9 W e think no t .

And this i s the man who 1s going about over the St ate asking white me n tomake h im thei r Governor

,their chief magistrate ! W hat say y01

I

1, ye whi te voters

of North Carol ina , who have wives or daughters or sisters o r 1n o ;th e rs wil l youVote for him 9 In God ’s n am e

,no

,say w e .

If the wife of the ch ief magistrate of this great country cannot escap e theslimy . drippings from unc lean l ips what woman in al l the l and is safe ! AndColonel Dockery says Mrs . Clevel and k1sse s negro wenches , with all the vi le wordsimply ! Think of al l this when you go to the polls, fe l low ci tiz ens !

DOCKERY.

ABOU T THAT' WENCH—KISSING.

W ASH INGTON ,D . C.

,August 21st .

’

DE AR SIR z— I am i n receipt of yours of t h e 18 th i nst .,stating that “ Colonel

D ockery , the Republ i can cand id ate fo r Gove rnor , ,ih a speech a few days sin ce

,

at you1 place , stated that the President had invited Fred D ouglass and his whitewi fe to dine wi th him

,and that at such dining one was seated on his right and one

on his l eft,that negroes were received at the W hite House on t erms of in timacy,

and that on one occasion s Cleveland kissed a negro wench . It seems tom e that these charges are beneath the d igni ty of any one

’s notice

,but for your

information,I W i l l say that none of the charges are t i ue .

Respectfully , D . S . LAMONT,

Private Secretary .

To T. B . W omack,E sq.

,Pittsbar o N . 0.

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DOCKER Y AND TR U TH—W HAT STRANGER S THEY BE !

D ockery has perhaps th e worst memory of any man i n North Carolina . Somepeople would say _h e was a most almighty story te l ler ; other people would perhaps use other te rm s . W e content ourse lves

,however

,with saying he has a very

bad memory,that i s to say

,fo 1 a man not yet enti rely i n his dotage .

As usual we don ’t ask peop le to take our word fo r what we say, but only toread the fol lowing passes ” between J udge Fowle and the Colonel at difie r e ntp l aces and see i f what we say is not true . Colonel D ocke i y wil l .no t deny theaccuracy of the reports of these

‘ passes .

He r e’

s the way i t m n at Ashbor o :

Col . D ocke r y Z— The Republican party has always h ech in favor of the Blai r

“ J udge Fow le .

— How comes it , then , that on 25 th August , 1888 , Mr . Wise ofV i rginia , replying to Mr . Vest , said in the presence

.

of the Republic an leadersin Congress

,th at th e Republican s were in the maj ority in both Houses i n 1880

and might have passed the Blai r bi l l then,but they di d not , and they lied when

they said they wanted it,and the Republ ican leaders were dumb .

Co l . D ockery .-There was no educational bi l l before Congress i n 1880

J 116ge Fowle .

—W h o was the representative from Randolph counhy i n 188 19 Ishe in thi s crowd 9 !Voice in the crowd , what do you want with h im ,

J udge 9]‘ZJ‘udge Fow le .

—If there was no educational bil l be fo r e‘C ongr e ss iii 1880

why was i t,0 ! Representati ve of Randolph , that you , on the 3 l st d ay of Jan

uary,1881

,helped adopt the following resolu tion (for which see Senate and

House J ournals):‘R esolved

,That our Senators and Repre sentatives 111 Congress be requested to

Support the bi l l now before Congress known as the ‘educat ional bi l l‘Be it f ur the r r esolved

,That i f said bi l l does not provide for the application

of the fund to primary schools exclusively then our said Senators and R e p r e se ntativ e s are hereby re quested to urge the ad option of an amendment to thate flfe ct .

’

Bad memory , wasn ’t i t 9

This is the wayi t was at S itar Oz zy .

Judge Fowle .—W i th the fal l of county government there wil l be a return

,i n all

probabi li ty , to the Republ ican mode of the election of judges by districts and not

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by the Stat e at large In that even t the Second District w i11, most probably, e lect

” a negro j udge,and how wil l the people of the Piedmont section feel

,particularl

ythose wh o are good , honest , conscientious Republicans , when his sable h ono r i s

dispensing j e stice from the seat once occupied by a Gaston and a Pearson 9Colonel Dockery .

-When I was a member of the Convention of 1875 I assi stedin amending the Consti tution so as to preven t the very evil suggested ,

and I amsnrp r ise d tha t my distingui shed oppon e nt is not aware of th e fact that our Superior Cour t Judges must be elected by the State at l arge .

Judge Fow le .

— My distinguished opponent commi ts an error in asserting thatthere is any such provi sion i n the Constitution , for in section 21 of Article IV ,

i t i s provided that the General Assembly may , fr om time to time , provide , by law ,

that th e j udges may be chosen instead of by the voters of the whole State,by

the vo ters of thei r respective distri cts .Was that bad memory or was it worse 9 It looks yery much l ike a story .

”

Again at 19526? City .

“ Judge Fowle .— Another argument in favor of the presen t system of coun tygovernment is that , in case of its repeal , negro county superintendents o f publi cinstruc tion wil l be elected 111 Hali fax

, Crav en and other negro coun ties,and the

young white girl teacher's of Eastern North Carolina wil l have to be ex aminedby them l n order to obtain ce r tificates o f qnalification .

Co lonel Dockery .-There is no danger of the e lection of negro coun ty super

int e nde nts. My opponent cannot poi nt to a single n egro county superin tendente lected under the old system .

“ Judge Fow le .

-The 1 e ason none was ele cted was because there was n o sucho tfice unti l 1879 —after the present system of county government wen t into operation .

And how 1s that for bad memory ”9 How is i t for a sto ry ”? Doesn ’t i tlook l ike a “ story ” and “ bad memory ” very much mixed— what some peoplecal l a“‘dur ne d no Such of a thing ”9

This swe e t li ttle thing occur r ed at R e idsville

Colonel D ockery .

-I did study l aw at Judge Battle ’8 one te rm,but when I

found that by pursuing the law I w ould go to he l l I left it .

Judge Fow le .—My opponent left the l aw and became the most expert poli tici an

of his party . Some people may not think that be increased his chances for Heav enby going from the law to politics But however that may be

,in his magnanimity

,

although he himsel f h as avoided the path which he avers leads to hell , he has,I ’ have be e n informed

,induced a favorite sonto take that fatal road and apply

for hi s l ice nse in October . He thinks he has saved hi s own bacon , but his boymay go ahead on that road .

This 1s perhaps the “ cheekiest ” o f a11. D ocke ry studied l aw m 1848,or there

abouts (h e graduated at Chapel H i l l in J un e , 1848), and no t unti l 1888 , i f we arecorrectly informed

,did he j oin the church

,forty long years afte r he says he

left the law to keep from going to h e 11. D o e s any one beli eve a word of it ?Does he believe a word of it ? If he did , would h e \ make h is son a l awyer 9 But

Dockery is possibly a member of the church on the same schedule that he is“a member of th e A l l i ance— that he doesn ’t hold himself bound to fol low e it

‘h e i its

precepts or i ts practices .Oh

,Do ckery ! but you are a sweet sto ry t .

- el ler

16 DooKER Y ;

TW O AND TW O !

Mr . Robbins , a delegate f xoni Watauga coun ty to the State R adical Conv e ntion

,says that

,though he had been a Republ ican

,there was so much negro in

the Conven tion that frequen tly i t was impossible to r a white man to get theflo o r or to obtain a respe ctfu l hearing . The resul t was that Mr . Robbins stomachturned and he threw up al l the Radicalism in him forever .Mr . Loftin,

fo r years a prominent R epublican x in Lenoir county,has quit his o ld

party because,among other reasons

,there was more “ negro ” in i t than he could

stand . H e‘

says i t iso

p e r fe cdy cle anthat i n negro coun ties the negroes are,

de termine d to rule . The resu lt i s that

,l ike Mr Robbins h is

‘

stomach tu rned also andhe threw u p al l the R adioalism in him foreve r .

Judge Russel l was also a delegate to the State Radical Convention, and ran forpresident of the body

,was nominated by it for the Supreme Cour t B e nch an d

sent to the Chicago Conven tion as one of the d e legates from the State at la1ge ,but no amount of “

negro ” will turn his stomach,

1”

although he says the negroesare largely ‘

h

‘savage sf

’

Colonel Dockery says th e Convention was as nobl e a body of men aseve rassembled in our State . It was ful l of n egroes . He was nominated by a n egro ,and without th e negro influe nce h e would no t have been nomin at ed . Tu1n about

,

he thinks,i s fai r p lay . Negroes vot e for Docke ry and Dockery votes fo r negroes .

He voted for a n eg1 o lawyer again st a whi te farmer and he voted for a bucknegro against a one

D

le gge d Confederate so ldie r ln his own coun ty . There 1s nosuch thing as too much negro for Dockery .

Negroes,even though savages

,don t turn the s tomachs of Dockery and Rus

se l l . Not much ! I t takes something worse than negroes,

“ with all the wo rd s

imply,

” as Mrs . Ti lton said , to turn thei r stomaohs. In fact,i t may wel l be

doubted W hether a sufficient political 1p e cac for that purpose has yet been discovered

J J . Ha111p to'

n,a Republican of twenty fiv e years”. standing

,of Bat Cave

,

Henderson county,has a le tter in the Asheville Citiz en announcing

.

his wi thdr awal from that party with the reason , among others , that there 1s too much negroin it for his stomach . How

,he asks

,

“ can a thinking man vote the Republican ticket n ex t November , when he kriows that eighty out of every one hund red vo tes cast fo r that ticket are cast by negroes9” .

,How indeed

,we ask in

turn .

“ Do as you please , gentlemen , Concludes Mr . Hampton,

‘fbut as for me

and m1ne we wil l vote with‘the n ine ty and nine white me n.

”

DOCKERY AND HIS NEGR O NOMINEES .

Dockery makes no bones ” of te l l ing the people he votes fo r negroes agamst

the best of white me n every time they are the nominees of his party .

Here is the lot he voted for on the county ticket in Richmond county in 1884,according to his own shameless admissionTo represen t the public 1n the Legislature he voted for Harvey Quick , a negro

lawyer, against John W . Sneed,one of the best white farmers of Richmond

coun ty .

For Coroner , he voted fo r Fel ix J acobs a negro man,against Danie l Gay

,a

one legged Confederate soldier.For Register of Deeds

,he voted for one N . W . H ,

arl lee a negro man , again stAlexander L. McD onald

,a white man competen t to fill the office and un iversally

esteemed ln the county for his courte ous bearing .

What do white people think of such a man ? Will they make him their Gove rno r 9 We think no t .

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shal l buy , prov ided 111 cle ar and unmistakable te rms that whisky o r brandy shali 1

no t be bought from our own people J ar they shall 7207 7777777 17 77,but from others

ou tsid e of our State lines Here °

you discover neither home rule nor h omemanufactu re , but foreign ru le and fo reign production . Othe rs beyond our borders and al ien s to our commons e alth

,are to be en riched at the expense of 0111 1

so wn people , W hose p‘

r ope t t'

y i s to be confiscate d . The board of e omm1ss1one r s

constitute one body of men of ‘exclusive privi leges ? over the people sh uancas. Now , another monopoly of , equal potency must be constitu ted of th eJdoe to r s druggists and apothecaries to superin tend

,designate

,di rect and abso

lu te ly e ontr o l,Without popular responsibi l ity, “

the appetites,de s i res and even

ai lments of our people . Sumptuary laws are hurtful andI

inimie al to the gen iusof our go y e rnm

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e nt . 1ntempe r ance (a great evi l I admit) e an’t be Cured by an y

such Compu lsory process . Such legisl ation 1s pern icious and should be checkedat once .

11711111 THE R ADICALS REPEAL THE INTER NAL 1111171:

W e have said that i f left to the Radical pa t ty the repeal of th e int e x nal' revenue

system W ould not come unt i l “ the day afte 1 j udgment .

But we do no t ask any one to take our word for the proo f . We do ask eve ryo ne howeve r

,wh o doub

‘t- gs to read what General Harriso n,the Radical candidate

for Presid en t,says . H e

“

. says i n his letter accepting the nomination for the Preside ncy dated no longer ago than the 11th day of this month :

“ A pmp e r r educt ion ofo

the 7I

e 77e 777ze does not mecessztate,677772 shou ld 7707

‘suggest, an

abandonment 07117777177777ment of the 77 0tect771e system . The me thods suggested by 077 7

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to be e x haus ed 7 77 07de r to effe ct the necessar y 7 educt7’

on. W e

77 7 17 7707 177717131170 he

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called up on, I 77777777 , to mahe the p r esent choibe be twe en a sur r ende r

of ou r 47 71077 117777 system and an entir e 7 ep eal of the 7

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gency ,777mew of the p r esent 7 e laz’ 7077 of 77197 7117777 7“ to 7 07 1777770

,78 7 777707171

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DO W E PAY TAX ON HOME—MAI

DE GOODS ?

Col onel Dockery says We pay . no tax on anything made°

inthe U nited StatesLet us se e h owthis

°

is,fo r Colone l Docke ry s word , unsupported

,is not to be r e

l ied upon .

We assume that he means that we pay 110 tariff tax,for , of course , i t would be

too manifest a falsehood to make such a statemen t l e fe i r ing to in ternal 1 e v e nu etax . We take i t that not even the low estimate Colonel Dockery puts upon the

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t e l ligence o f the people o f North Carol in a would induce h im to say that w e payno tax unde i the intern al revenue l aws .But h 0W

°

is i t under the tariff law9 It may be we pay no tariff t1‘

ax,th 11t i s 11;

say , no impost duty on articlesmanufactured in the U nited States for th e simplei e aSOn that t‘ar ifitaxes or impost duties are levied and col l ected at th e water ’sedge

,so to speak, on goods as they come in from f01 e ign shores

,and home .

made articles are onthis side of the water line from the be o inning .

DOCKERY . 19

does Colone l D ockery s statement tel l the whole t ruth Or the hal f of i t"eve n Is i t true that on home made goods we pay no higher p 1ice than wew ou ld pay was i t n ot fo r t h e tar iff l aw 2 Not at al l . In both case s we pay anextra p1 ic

'

e ; inone case we pay it to the government whe n foreign -1nade good s arelanded and

“ cal l it a tariff tax 01 impost duty ; 1n the o ther we pay i t to the manufacturer and i t i s cal led a bonus short .The only difference 1s that th e e x ti a price whatever it may h e

,goes i n to the

pocket of the manufacturer instead of th e Feder al t r e asui y But the tai iif byth e tax on the admission of foreign go

'

ods,e 11able s the home niannfactur e r s all the

-s'a1ne to con trol th e home marke t . Buyers must pay thei r price or go wi thou tfor the re 18 no co ‘

rnp e titidn from abroad at Iower figur e s than foreign“ cost and

tariff duty'

adde d . So that whethe r your goods are home made o r come fromabroad

,w e

,that 1s to say

,the consumers pay the ex tra price ei ther as a tariff tax ,

i f they be foreign made,o r as a “ bonus by way of “ protection ” to the manu

fact_ ,urer i f made at homeIt is true that sometimes

,owing to hard times and dul l ma1ke ts o r over

production and glutted markets in home manufactures,certain ar ticles can

be bought at prices more o r less below foreign cost with tari ff tax added,

sometimes below the tariff tax alon e , e special ly W hen the tar iif tax i s intended to be prohibitory .

‘ But th i s i s the excep t ion and n ot the rule and i t i sthis very state of things that the huge trusts and monopolies of modern times ,W ith their vast aggregation s of capital , are intended to preven t .So i t wil l be seen that , although there are no tariff tax gatherers going aroundmaking collections and no col lections made at the water ’8 edge on hom e madegoods ,

C”

the tariff law gets money out of the pockets of the people al l th e sameand a pl enty o f i t

,too

,and for on e dol la1 of this mon e y that goes into th e

Federal treasury five dol lars go into the pockets of the manufactu x e r s.

nd this is the way Dockery attempts to dece ive the people . U nder the tar ifil aw

,! combination and not competi tion i s the rule and Colonel Docke ry knows i t

,

and without competition the consumers are at the mercy o f the manufacturers ,and Colone l Dockery knows that , too .

Just look for a momen t at some of the articles fo r whi ch consumers a1 e obli t r e d

to pay any price those home manufacturers choose to ask and a ll because o f th etariff 1aw : Che 1nicals, dye s and drugs , clocks and W atches certain manufactu res of cotton clothing

,stockings , hose , &c .

,e ar th e nwa1 e and china , fancy arti

c les,flax

,hemp

,j ute and texti les

,bags and bagging

,glass and glassware

,i ron

ore,Cotton ties

,t in p late

,steel

,machinery

,leather an d manufaotm e s ther eof ,

salt,l11mbe r

,wood and manufacture s thereof, woo l and manu factures thereof,

clothing,dress go ods, flanne 1s, shawls , &c .

,&c .

,&0 A r e none of these th ings

m ade or produced in this country ? The list o f such articlesas are made 1 11 theU ni ted States and ye t are taxed is eno rmously long , and hence we have the various and innumerable trusts— the salt trust

,the lu

c

mbe r tru st,the i ron trust , th e

steel trust,the bagging t1 11st the paper bag trust

,the envelope trust

,and so on

almost ad infinitum ,fo r the purpose of keeping up the price s o f common neoe s

sariea of l ife or of business under the licen se to p i llage,which i s c al led proteo

tion,afio rde d by the Republ ican high tariff .

Co lone l Docke ry makes his misstatement with the idea that none o f his hearersknow What he IS talk ing about . If he had any shame 1 11 h imhe would hide hisface from the sight of honest men .

110011111111 AND HIS H OME MARKET.

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The progress of the campaign develops the fact that Colonel Dockery r e u e s

enti re ly upon the g reat n ame o f Henry Clay for argument and au th01 ity on th etari ff question

,and’ natnrall y enough , perhaps , for he “ was reared a Hemy Clay

W hig , ” as he te lls us i n his lette r 01 acceptance and drank 1n Clay doctrin ewith h is mother ’s milk ; as he tel ls‘ the people i n his speech es wherev er he goes.

Ge he rally.

thi s was pe 1haps‘afl ood enough raising and good enough die t , that 18 ,

DOCKER Y .

to 1 most folks about that time , but someh oW it don ’t seem to have agreed w ith“ou r Colone l D ockery ,” as his friend s of the mercanti le profession wou ld say .

Possib ly he w as overfed,fo r he has been a greedy body from h is youth up .

But whether the trouble comes from his liver or h is brai n i t has “ sot h im backso much that he is now j ust about where -h e was when he started—at leasto n the t ariff question . The times have changed

,but he has not changed wi th

them The world has m oved,but D ocke ry

b

i s j ust .wh e 1 e he was forty yearsago . Eyes he hath , but they see not ; a mouth , too , and a tongue , bu t al l he cansay on the tariff que’stion is “ I ’m a Hen ry Cl ay W hig .

Now,i t has been nearly forty years s ince Henry C l ay died ; i t has been forty

four years s in ce he ran for President and some si x ty ye ai s since he made h isg 1eat figh t fo r protection to the infant industries of the country , urging thati f that

c3

po licy were adopted i t would make home markets for al l the produceo f eve ry kind in al l the land .

Chicago , w i th i ts l imitless supply of corn and meat and its equal ly l imitlessr ai lroad

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facilitie s, was then no t invented . Factories then helped no t merely t oprov ide labor fo r ope ratives, and pr ofits for bosses , bu t they made a bigo e rand b e tte r m arket for fa1n1 e r s by i ncreas ing th e number o i. people in the communi ty w ho ate w i thout producing farm

b

p r oduce . But al l this has be enchang e d . The very world i tself

,as i t were

,h as‘change d and w ith that change an

e nd has been put t o home mar’

kets— and steam and e lectricity have done thework .

But w e have facton e s l n our midst,even here in N01 th Ca1 olima ; successful ,

money mak ing ones, t oo , w i th all the home marke ts they can create . How dothey W o r k? D o they, w i th al l thei r non producing operat ives , advance theprice of the product of th e surrounding country or not ? How is i t i n R ichmond county , Colone l D ockery

’s own county 23 How i s i t i n A lamance county ?How i s i t i n Gaston county Let the farmers an swer. A r e the goods you buyany cheaper , or i s the produce you se l l any higher, because of the factories0 1the home market ?E ve i y th ing, we say , has been changed , but of cou1se we except Colonel Dock

e ry . He is st i l l d reaming away about Henry C lay and Home Markets fo i

ge t ful that r ai11o,

ads steam boats,telegraphs , te lephones, C leveland and Thur

man ar e now al l the go . B11t i t never occurred to us ti l l this moment what i sthe m at ter w ith the man . The t rouble is that in one of h is half wak ing momentshe h e a1 d some one talking about Harrison being a cand idate fo r Pres ident ande ve r since then has be e n

b

d reaming of“ 1840

,Tyle r and Tippecanoe, hard

c ide r and l og cabin s and when there was not 100miles o f r a1l1 oad in all the State .

W‘i l l J udge Fowle be k ind enough to w ake the old fe l low up and remind

h im that th e candidate for Presiden t i s not the old Indi an figh te r , General Harrison

, bu t his l ittle grandson,Bennie ; that the o ld General i s d ead , that Tyler

is“ dead

,that the log cab in s have gone beyond the Rocky Mountains

,and that

hard cider i s as soa1ce as hen ’s teethP lease tel l him

,too

,that Henry C lay is dead

,and that the Home Market the

o r y i s dead , also ; died of too much corn , too much wheat , too much“ hog ”

and too much rail road in the great Northwest . D ead,d e ad , dead ! Let i t

be buried , w ith D ockery as chief mourner .

TR U STS-e—COMBINATION Vs. COMPETITION .

Mr . Clay ’8 theory w as that under th e influe nce of “

protection” factories wou ld

Sp ring up al l (117 131 the coun try and give every community a home market ; that thec omp eti ti on that wou ld ai ise among them would enable farmers to buy mah ataotu r e d goods di1 e ctly from them as cheap ly as they could be bought elsewhere , sothat in t ime they would be amply r e wa1de d for any temporary! sacr ifice theymigh t have made i n the p remises .W hat Mr . Clay re lied upon to carry out h is the o ry was what he called the

be nefice nt principle o f competi tion Speaking of this“ be nefice nt principl e

he says : Q

DocK E R X .

Of al l human powe rs operating on th e afiairs of mankind none 18 greaterthan th at of c ompetition . It is action

“and reaction . It operates between indiv iduals of the

~same nation and between different nations .”

E xperience h as proved , however , that _Mr . C lay greatly m iscalculated the re lative s trength o i -the “ powers operating on the affairs

“

ot mankind .

” For example ,.h e did not see that combination was a power no t mere ly much greater than competition

,but utterly destructive of it . Competition

,he thought

,would be

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“theruling power

,a be neficent power,” t hat would adjust fairly the confl icting

inte r ests of mankind ; Instead of that we se e that combinat ion ,the enemy and

destroyer of competition , i s an d has been the ruling power . No matter whichw ay , we turn we see monster combinations , “ trusts

,

” as they are called,control l

ing the production or the sale of some article of necessary or general consumptio n .

But w hat i s i t th at thus emasculates . competi tion , and what i s the secret of the ,

enormous destructive p ower of combin ation ? Let us see .

Mother Nature ,-whi le she has been we think

,very generous to thi s fair land

of ours,and whi le she may . have given i t the

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advantage over any other one count r y, has by no

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m e ans given i t the advantage over al l the other countries of theworld combined . The number of arti cles of general necessity to mankind to behad at first hands only in the U nited States i s very sm al l . W i thout tariff legisl ation

,except in the few rare instances in which the U nited States alone of al l -the

count ries in the world produce an article , th e momen t a'

trust or combination o fowners would attemp t to limi t the supply or fix the price of an ar ticle at e x orbi

tan t rates,other countries producing the same artic le would at once rush thei r

p roducts i nto our po r ts se l l them at reasonable p rices, and thus ruin the comb ina ti on .

tar ifilegis lation i s the order o f the day,and under the

present law the government must collect 47 per cent . of the value of all foreigngoods before permi tting them to land on our soil . This Operates practical ly as arefusal to al lowthem to l and at al l and a complete protection

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for the trusts againstcompetition by foreign countries . Thus

,protected

,by l aw from foreign competi

t ion, they ar e easily able by combination to protect themsel ves from home compe

tition .

By tariff legislation , therefore , c ompetition as a be nefice nt principle i s emascu late d and sen t to the rear

,and combi nation

,or the princip le o f trusts , brought

to the front as a suprem e fo r ce . 1

Thi s i s the whole of i t . W i thout th e tar iiI l aw effective combin ation againstcomp e t ition,

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e ithcr from abroad or at h ome,would be simply impossibl e .

There i s n o need to dwel l upon the effects o f such combin at ions .Look at th e great sugar trust . Six teen of our large sugar r efine r i e s, furn ishing

the bulk of al l the sugar co nsumed in this country , j oin ed in atrust a few monthsago

,with a capital of Almost s imultaneously with thei r combi n a

tion h y e of these r efine r ie s shut down and ceased to produce . O ne was sold for aci ty park ; another, one of the largest , was d ismantled . A lmost immediatel y th emargi n between th e price of r aw and r efine d sugars began to

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widen . At onetim e i t had reached a cent a pound ! W

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e consume three thousand mil l ion poundsof sugar

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ih this country yearly. One cen t a pound above ord inary p rofits wouldth eanSimilar trus ts are spr inglng up constantly in the articles protected by the

tariff ‘and beneath its favoring shelter". The lates t trust i s the cotton -

baggingtrust, and of that every cotton grower wi ll~ learn much more than 1h e wishes toknow and much to his sorrow long before frost

,and this is only the beginn ing .

-Th e way these monste r combination s work is both simple and effective . To thep roducers o f

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their r aw material the y dictate prices,for there is but one purchaser .

To the consumers of what they sel l they dictate prices , for there is bu t one se lle r .A trust, then , i s the creature cf the tariff , and the tariff i s the creature of Fed

e ral l egislation. And yet Mr . Blaine,the man whom the Radical party of North

Carolina , i n State Convention assembled , l ess than n inety days ago , ordered theirdelegates to their n ational conven tion to vote for as the nominee of the party forPresiden t of the U nited States

,publ ic ly declares that trusts owe thei r o rigin

solely to State laws , and that they “ are largely m atters “

o i private concern,w i th

which neither President Clevelan d nor- any private ci tiz en h as any particular

right to i nterfere ?

VVflh iCh do our people prefer,Mr . E l aine ’s ,

doctrine or J adge FoWle ’s?

DOCKERY .

DOCKERY ’S PR OTECTION PLEAL

Protec tion fo r i nfant i ndustri es is W hat Mr . Clay asked. Protectionfor pr o te ction s sake is Co lonel D ockery s cry . Protection for whom o r fo r What9 Let u sse e . Thip gs ar e very diff erent now from what they were sixty or seventy yearsago and in nothing IS the differen ce more marked th an i n the manufactures o fthe country . Then

,according to Mr . W e bste r

,A1ne r ican manu factm e s m eant

a l ittl e capital m ixed with m anual l abor . But the wonderful deve lopment o fthe i nventive genius of the century has changed al l that . Y ear by year

,day by

day , almost , we m ight say , human labor has bee n displ aced by machine l aborunti l to d ay one man in a factory

,and frequently a chi ld

,tending some great m e

ch anical i nvention , produces what in Hen ry Clay.

’s day would have taken the l aboro f ten o r even twen ty m e n. In a Word

,our stati sti cs show that to do by human

laboi° and horse power,the work now don e by power and power

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machinery 1n

our mechanical industries and upon our rail road s would require m e n representing°a population of 227

,500

,000; that i s to say , a population of mor e than

we now have and yet while Mr . Clay was w i l l ing to comprom i se on a tariff o f

20 per cen t . to p rotect fle sh and blood , the demand to d ay is 47 per cent to protee t m achinery .

To day Ame 1 1can manufactures do no t me a13 to us as they d id to Danie l iVe bste r

,manuel labor m ixed W ith a l ittle capita l . Ou the contra1y

,they mean great

capital m ixed wi th a l itt le manual l abor.

But l e t us go a little more into detai l . To do the work now accomplished bypower and power machinery. 111 Our mechanical industr ies and upon ou 1° r aih oadswould requ i re 21 , me n ; and i nstead of me n being engaged i nthese pu rsu l t s there are actually less than 4 ,

250,000 persons e ngage d

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l n them . I t

w i l l be seen,th e 1° .e fo r e that only one fifth part o f th is labOr i n the country i s

human l abor,flesh and blood

,and that the other four parts are m achines .

Admi tting,then

,that protection does p rotect somebody

,the question arises ,

t o are the happy men9 Adm it that some 4 , persons the human labore 1 s,

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fle sh and bloo d opei atives , onefifth of the whole , get thei r p roportion ate share o f.the protection , who gets the share for the other four fifths, the machine laborers 9Can it be pretended that any one save the bossmanufacture rs , get it9 D on ’t theyown the-n1ach ine s9 And are not th e machines capi tal9 And is not this the very1° °

e ve i se o f “ much labor mixed with a li ttl e cap ital ”9 Is it no t much capita lni ix e d with avery l i ttle lab01 9 And if this be so can i t be pre tended that prot e ction be nefits not the manufacture r and his machin e l abore rs

,bu t the flesh and

blood l aborers ?And i n the s lang of th e day

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“ Jones pays the freight That is to say the farmers foot the b i ll . W hatever bonus goes into the pocket o f the manufacturercome s out o f the pocket of the consumer and the farmers constitute the greatbody of consumers . “ Pa1me r ” D ockery , howe ver, does no t seem to have foundout that th ings are not as they used to be . H e sti l l talks as i f manufactu i e s we1 est i l l “ a l itt le cap ital m ixed with human l abor ” instead of being,

° a l itt le l aborm ixed w i th a heap of capital .Ah d yet

,wh i le Henry C lay was con ten t w i th 20 per cent . for infant industrie s

and human l abor,“Farmer ”D ockery is not conten t w i th 47 pe r cent . for a jumbo

monopoly and machine labor . He says in effect that whi le 20 per cent . was wel lenough for an infah t industry

,nothing less than 47 per cent . w i l l do foi° a ful l

grown one . Mi lk,h e thinks, w i l l do fo r babes, but ful l grown men must have

meat .The li ttl e matter of difference between human l abor and machine l abor i s no

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thimg°

to him . SoYar as he i s concerned l abor is ~labo r,whether human 0 1° machine . It

i s th e boss manufacturer that his bowel s of compassion yearn fo r .

No rth Caro lina State Uhrar

W OMAN SU FFR AGE.

Are our iPr oh ibition fx i'

e nds w i l ling to go the whole hog , woman suff rageand al l 9 If no t

,i t i s about time for them to stop and consider . The fol lowing . is

t h e 7 th resolution i n the National Proh ibi tionist p latfo rm ,b i nding upon al l S tate

and subordinate organiz ations . It reads thus :7 . That the right of suffrage rests on n o mere circumstance of race , color ,

SEX ,o r nationali ty

,and that where

,from any cause

,i t has been withhel d from

ci ti z ens who are of sui table age and mentally and moral ly qualifie d for the e x e rc ise 01 an inte ll igent bal lot i t should be res tored by the people through the Legislatur e of the several States on Such educational basis as they may deem wise .

The effect of this resolution , i f the Third party should succeed ,would be to

add ful ly negro women to the l is t o f voters i n North Carolina .

W hat say our Prohibit ionist friends of D emocratic antecedents 9 Ar e y ou

t e ady fo r thi s“

.9 W e are Sure you are not .

CAU TION .

Both p ar tie s agr e e on the amendment ine r easinJ the numbe r of Sup r eme Cow t

J udges, but all the same i t is imp or tant f or D emocr ats to vote for the amendmentLet them also be sur e to oote f or the D emocratic nomine es f or J udges as we ll

,Zest i t

happ en,that the amendment be car r ied and D avis

,Ave r J and Shep he r d be beaten.

The R adicals wilt be sur e to t ote both f or the amendment and the t°

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nominee s f o7J udges.

The D emocrats mast tahe no 7 ishs th is 07°

any othe r matte r on e lection day .

Take warning f r om the R adicals,and as they wi ll be cer ta in to t)0t6 f or the amend

m ent and the t r men, be saw that you vote fm° the amendment and your men—D ams

A 71e 7 y and Shephe7 (Z . D on tf a zl to vote f o7 you7 nomine es.