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MACUNE’S
ROTTENN ESS.
EXPOSED FROM~iL-
PBA TO OMEGk.
MONEY STOLEN FROM UN¬
SUSPECTING TEXAS FAR,
MERS, PAYS FOR THE
NATIONAL ECONOMIST.
$2,000 TI1K PRICE of his influence
IN THE GEORGIA SENATORIAL
CONTEST.
A COMMON THIEF POSING AS THE TRUST
ED LEADER OF SOUTHERN FARMERS-
‘DOWN WITH MACUXE AND
HIS SUB-TRKASURY CON-
FEDERATftS.
To Be The Watchword Of Hon¬
est Farmers.
W. S. McAllister, of Mississippi,
chairman of the committee from the
anU-sub-treasfiry alliance, expected
to prefer charges against Pr. C. W.
Maeune at the late Indianapolis con¬
vention but was not permitted to do
bo by that body.
lie has now issued an address to a
conservative pnblic.
Among other things he gives con¬
clusive evidence of the sale of Ma-
cune’« influence in the Georgia sen¬
atorial contesi, and has the follow¬
ing to say of the wily Doctor’s cas
rcerin Texas:
To do full justice to Macune’s
nipulatlons of the Texas Alliance
oxchange, covering a period of over
two years, would require several
newspaper pages, hut for present
purposes a presentation of the more
salient facts will suffice.
Tho Texas Allianoo exchange
flourished for a little over two years
and failed hopelessly in the spring
of 1880. Manager Macune’s first
balance-sheet shows its . financial
cial condition originally to have
been as follows:
Original amount of cash capital:
$76,000
Later cash subscriptions $17,500
Subscription in cattle 11,000
Contributed by the city of Dallas
65,000
Contributed by the city of Belton
— 12,000
Total subscription $183,000
- Aftor the failure in the spring of
1889 the exchange property and as¬
sets
Sold to pay its debts for
Loss borno by subscribers $148,000
What became of this $148,500
difference between what wae origi*
nally subscribed and paid in to cap¬
ital stock and what exchange prop¬
erty, including assets, etc. sold for
after the collapse of ’89. The com¬
mittee which investigated the affairs
of the defuuet concern reported as,
follows:
Macune’s salary as manager of the
was $292,50 a month.
Brown sr. and Browu jr, who were
attached to ibe concern, received
salaries of $212 and $0$
respectively. Riley, his assistant,
$170 a month. Terry and Tracy
were the exchanges traveling agents.
The former talked subscription out
of the farmer's poekets for $90 a
month and expenses, hut Tracy
came higher, lie was worth it, for
fifteen or twenty minutes was all
he needed to induce a school ma’m
or a widow to sell all she had and
invest the proceeds iu the exchange.
Traoy hadto*have $125 a month and
expenses. The exchange pay-roll
contained the names of nineteen
salaried employees, and cost the
fanoiers of Texas $1,894.50 every
month in the yeari .
From thu above statement it will
be seen that Maeune wms pac ing
more than 12 per cent, of the entire
capital invested in annua? sal tries
alone- *
Latterly these exorbitant salaries
proven to be frauds perpe'.rat-
cabyM»cunc upon tho tlookhold-
ers va hie i • -a . effo ts t ac*
GARNE SV 1 LLE, FR* NKLIN COUNTY GA TUESDAY DECEMBFR
count for the fund* that passed
through hi* hands. The actual sMa*
ZXZZS
the investigating committee tinder
oath. * :
By the autumn of 1888 the origi¬
nal fund subscribed to operate the
Exchange had been exhausted, and
Maeune set to work devising schemes
to secure more funds. The investi¬
gating committee says, “He got
thousands of farmers to club to¬
gether and give joint notes for pro¬
curing provisions to be purchased
as needed in the future. The ac¬
counts of the Exchange show that
$420 004,95 worth of notes secured
by mortgages, had been placed in
Macune’s and that
84. woith of them had been pledged
as collateral for crash loans and as se¬
curity for the payment of amounts
due for cotton compresses, cotton
gina and other property purchased
by Mscnne for the Exchange, Tbi*
left$72.809.11 worth of thewe notes
which Maeune utterly failed to ac¬
count lor. But those who signed
them have since had to pay them •
These notes were given upon the
written, signed and witnessed condi¬
tion that they weie not to be parted
with. Maeune signed agreements
not to let them go out of the custom
dy of the Exchange. The following
to a Houston banker'will show Low
wall he lived up to his agreements:
W. O. Ellis:
I hereby?.authorize and empower
you to self s’t'public auction before
the court house door, to the highest
bidder for cash, any and all collat¬
eral I may deposit with you, either
for loan or accommodation paper,
after giving tehi day’s notice by
publication in sGme newspaper in
Harris county, and apply the pro*
cc «ds to the payment of any indebts
edness that I may now owe you, or
or any indebtedness that I may from
time to time owe you as manager
of the Farmers Alliance Exchange.;
Signed C.'W. Maeune,
As above stated, over $300,000 of
such collateral-was put out by Ma*
cane. Offen the amount loaued on
it was ridiculously small, and in
hundreds of cases those who made
the notes got only a very small part
of their face value in goods from the
exchange, Then when the holdei J :
of the collateral offered it for salo
they wcie obliged to buy it or'suffer
further extortion from those who
would buy it on speculation, One
small farmer near Dallas wtis pars
Pcularly unfortunate, He gave
note for $1,500 and before he
drawn against it at the exchange
more than a lew dollars’ Worthy.he
was notified that it was for sale
among others at public auction.This
little transaction cost him ore? a
thousand dollars A document
similar,to the one quoted above was!
given by Maeune, together with.
$4,000 worth of these joint notes, as
collateral security for the paym ent ofj
a $8,000 note.
.On July 10th, about six month* af»
ter the collateral was handed orer, t
Ellis announced the public sale of*
fifty*five joint notes, signed by 425!
farmers, aggregating neatly $21,000,’
and they were sold to satisfy Ma-i
cunes debt of $6,000
The facts in the case further show
that Maeune attempted to offset and
account lor his enormous
by turning over various and sundry
accounts, which upon investigation J
were found to be b >gn» and fi ditto a j. •
In many instances the parties prov-]
edthat tliey never had any transac'
tions with the exeh ingc.and in other
cists r.o such persons were found to
exist as those named in the accounts! :
Then again, accounts were fumed
over against parties who hafl ‘ exhib¬
ited receipts acknowledging * pay-
mont m ra , ,l.”
Hon. B. J. Kendricks, ‘one,of the
early fathers of the Alliance,’ chair-
of the Texas State Alliance execu-'
tivc committee, daring Macune’s!
management of the exo »auge, and
one of the committee that hives 1 *as
ted us .affairs after it collapsed, 4o:<i
the writer last summer that ‘There
has never been committed in this
country a more monstrous fraud and
swindle upon an unsuspecting people
than Macnne perpetrated upon the
m^mOers of our order while maih~
ger ol our exchange, and there arei
portions of Texes where, if he dared'
to P ut * * oot f tbe outraged people
"'“"I'l would ri ahorse ’ c "P and thief mob hun outlaw, as they
or an
«p 0 8 h 0w the effect
the Alliaucemon of Macune’s p!un-
der of their exchange, the following
*
and mg statement, are here presented
are conclusive
March, August, 1889 male members ... .100,000
1889. male membtra. ... 49.000
Decrease in four month*...... .60,000
In the spring of thrf Iv.fase
that Maeune built bad cost the Tex¬
as Alliance more than $400,000, and
after its final collapse lie fled to
Washington City, started the Na¬
tional Economist amd had himself
made chairman of the National Ex¬
ecutive Committee,
A significant fact which wonder¬
fully serves to explain what became
of the shortage in the Exchange, is
found m the fact that the Economist
property is conservatively estimated
to be worth about the sum it cost
Texas to get rid of Maeune and
learn that the Exchange did not pay
Thus is presented the picture of a
man at once brutal in his piratical
rapacity, pusillanimous in the venal¬
ity of his practices aad incorrigibly
infamous in the fertility of his mey*.
ecnary scheme ami designs; who
through falsehood, trickery and
fraud in manifold and subtle forms
.
has stirred up a degree of economic
heresy and fanaticism hitherto un¬
known to this country, and is daily
striving to displace in popular confi-
denca the time honore 1 tribunes of
the people, with vermin of his kind.
For the honest, sturdy, toilworn and
oppressed producers of this country
we have only aeepseated syrapath y,
and strive with unrelenting hand to
secure them timely, substantial re¬
lief; when they band themselves to¬
gether in secret oath-bound political
societies—harboring theives and
whitewashing - confederated seouu*
drels—they at once become false to
themselves arpi their past history,
retard the relief so needful, and are
but disturbers of the public peaces,
and rank enemies to their country
and its welfare. Such societies
must never be sanctioned or tolera¬
ted in this free ^country where the
ballot is the arbiter, for in their mys¬
tery bound copela^ves treason lurks,
communism stalks with brazen front
and anarcbj' unmasks its gory face.
Against all such societies togeth¬
er with such lepers as Maeune and
his visionary schemes of finance, we
the Anti-Suit-Treasury Alliancemen,
declaie unflinching war, and shall
contiuue battle in the field of pub¬
lic debate, untit the order is purged
of its impostor^, rescued front its fi*
nancial heresies, and restored to its
original purity 4i)id usefulness.
Signed Wm S. McAllister.
Chairman N ationai - AntUSub-treas*
ury Executive Co nmittee.
fcot tfp to tlie Standard.
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Mr. Bingo—I want to give my wife a
Christmas present of ft pet deg
Stealer ! display ing liandsome spoct
‘then)—Wliat do you think of that feliowl
Mr. Bingo ^promptly) — Not
•nongo.
A young lady who had taken part fa)
sk Aorpl hyqmotfring performances and
brought permitted r.zrier hcreelf tho repeatedly to bo
meusieric iufluenca
was thereby thrown into a state of pain*
ful nnd pitifnl nervous prostration, from
which reeevory is difficult. It H danger¬
ous business, f his being hypnotised for idle
curiosity, and it ought to be generally die-
eiuraged. ’That phyricians claim can
be a valuable therapeutic agent can also
be need readily for mining the health
Hid wind, like so tnanv other valuable
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■ BllLY PATTERSON.
-A FAMOUS MYTH.
WILLIAM rATTERSONS WILL.
Continue! jrom last week.
3rd. I give and devise to each and
every ono of my grand children that
may be in being at my death all my
Baltimore «fe Ohio Railroad stock to
to be equally divided among them
share ard share alike, the dividends
and profits to go to their use imme¬
diately after my decease, but tliey
are not to have the discretion or con¬
trol of their shares i1tc.I 1 each of
them respectively shall have attains
ed the age of twenty five years,and
they are hereby restricted and pre¬
vented fi’om selling or parting with
their shares of said stock unless to
one or moie of the family of my
bloed, for I (page 11) have had
much trottb’e and great ekpetase to
bring this company and its concern
to the State. I shall leave it and
believing that the longer it contin¬
ues in the family, the more profitas
ble it will bo from the growing tvade
in that,direction.. .
4th, By the second paragraph of
the second codicil to my Will dated
1st September, 1832. 1 willed and
devised to Matilda Summers the sum
of $2,000 dollars iu money and hav¬
ing paid that sum on a mortgage of
real estate at .Gettysburg for her use,
the sai 1 intended Legacy of $2,000
dollars is considered as already paid
cancelled and settled.
’
5th, I will and devise to Polly
Patterson (wife of my eon John) in
case she shill survive me,during li 3 r
natural life the rents and emolu¬
ments arising out of the Store or
Wai chouse on the East ride of South
street,foim arly purchased of General
John Strieker, whieli warehouse I
willed and Revised to Matilda Sum*
piers by my original will dated 20th
August 1827,but certain tmurasUn-
ces having since taken place as to
my views for her future destiny,
which renders it unnecessary to
make so large a prevision for her as
wds then intended. I do therefore
revoke and auDul th i said grant of
the said Warehouse and lot as in«
for the said Matilda Sum
mers, and I do hereby will and de¬
vise ihe said wirehause and* lot af¬
ter the death of the said Polly Pat¬
terson (wife of son John) to my son
Edward for an 1 during the term of
his natural life and from un i after
his decease I will an l devise the said
property to the child or children of
him my said son Edward share and
share alike during their and each of
their natural lives, and from and af¬
ter decease I will and devise the said
property to their heirs ot my blood
forever,
8th, The State of slavery in this
country liai ofteil engaged my at
tention and given me much concern,
for we know not what to do with
unfortunate people, and how
to get-rid of-thani, useful to them-’
selves and without too much sacri¬
fice to tli-iir owners, nevertheless I
have as re^pects myself concluded
that all the slave* I die possessed of
shall be set free at my decease on the
following terms and conditions, viz:
all oyer i hirty years of age to be tree
at my death, all under 30 years of
age, male and female to serve until
they shall attain 30 years of age
pective'y, mv two female house ser¬
vant -1 Violet 1 and Susan to be free
at my decease, and provided they
survive they are to be allowed a
pens ; oa out o! my estate of fo.ly
dollars i yeat each to be paid them
by my Exeeulois half j'early duri «g
their natural lives.
7th, I w ill and devise to my four
socs Joseph, Edward, George ana
Henry all the propeity I may have
acquire 1 in any w ay since the date of
ray Will of 23:h Augint 1827 on
the same ’term3 and oa the same
conditions .as is particularly express¬
ed by the.-fourteenth paragraph of
my said tyill:
la testim my whe .*2 >f I the said
WiliiaTi, P.fttarsan, the testator
have h .‘reuata set my hand and aE
fixed my seal Baltimore in the
State o* Maryland this ninth day
of October 1834, in the presence of
the subscribing witnesses, the said
testator William Patterson
declared the present writing to
his thiid codicil to his last Will and
Testament dated 20th August 1827.
[Seal] Wra Patterson.
Signed, sealed published and pro¬
nounced m our presence and in the
of each other.
John White
Sam W. Bowly,
A. Y. Claggett,
Juo. P. Miller,
Baltimore County , Md. On ike
12th day of 3835 came
Samuel IT. Bosley, Alfred Y. Clag-
gett and John P. Miller three of the
subscribing witnesses to I be afore¬
going third codicil to my last will
and Testament,of William Patterson
late of said county deceased and
made oath on the Holy Evangcly
of Almighty God that they did see
the testator sign and seal this codi-
eii that they heard him publish pro¬
nounce and declare the same to be a
to his last will and Testa ¬
ment, that at the time of his so
doing he was to the best of their ap¬
prehension! of sound ind disposing
mind memory and undertanding and
that they together with John White
the'otkor subscribing witness thereto
subscribed their names as witnesses
to this codicil in his presence at his
request and in the pie-enco or each
other. Swam to in open Court,
Test: D. M. Perine, Register of
Wilis for Baltimore county.
In the first place I want to increase
Mary B. Pattersons annuity from
five hundred to six hundred, dollars
a year, as long as she lives. I waut
Violet and Silsan to have an annuity
0 f fifty dollars a year, each, as long
as they live,instead of forty dollars,
I give to Sarah Wheeler and to Jane
Wheeler,each, a legacy of five bun*
dred dol'ars in place of « thousand
dollars each as mentioned in the
Will.
Wm. Patterson.
Baltimore, Feb. 0, 1835.
Witnesses.
A M Morris,
Anne Spear,
L & Itollingswott h,
T H Morris,
Jane Crawley,
jane Scott.
Balittriore County, Md. Oa the
12th day of February 1835 came
A M Morris, Anne Spear. Lydia E.
Holliugworth, T II Morris, Jane
Crawley and Jane Scott, the six
subscribing witnesses to the afore¬
going codicil to my last Will and
Testament of William Patteriion
late or said county deceased,and A
M Morris, Anne Spear, T II Moms,
Jane Crawley and Jane Scott made
oath on the Holy Evangely of AN
mighty God and Lydia E. Ilollings
worth solemnly declared afid affirmed
that they did see the Testator that
they heard him publish pronounce
and declare the same to be the
third codicil to his last Will and
Testament, that at the time of So
diinghewasto the b33t of their
apprehensions of sound and dispos¬
ing mind meniory and understand¬
ing and that they subscribed their
names as witnesses to this codicil
i i his presence at his request and in
the presence df each other ,
Sworn and affirmed- ’to in Open
Court .
Test: D M Perine, Register of
Wil's Baltimore county.
Iu testimony that ttie aforegoing
is a true copy taken from the origi,
nul filed and remaining io the office
Rigkler of Wills for lial-
tim >re county,
I life eunto subscribe my flame aad
Mtlix th • *eal of my office this twee-
ty eighth d »y of February in the
year of our Lord one thousaad eight
hundred and thirty five,
Test: D M Perine, Register of
Willi for Baltimore county.
Continued next week.
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THE FIRE KINB
IN CARNESVILLE.
devastation tn his track.
MRS. McENTIRE’S ELEGANT
HOME IN RUINS.
O. L. little’s GROCERY STORE nCR-V-
EC TO THE GROUND.
THOUSANDS IK ASH£S.
The cry of Fire ! Fire! broke into
the slumbers of the citizms of Car.,
nesville this morning about 6:09.
While these lines arc running in¬
to type the glare frem a heap of
smouldering ashes marking the spot
where Mrs. McEntire,s elegant home
stood on yesterday, shines in at our
office window.
O. L, Little’s grocery store, with
its eutire contents is in ashes.
The south side of the public
square which Was the prettiest resi¬
dence portion of Carnesville is a pic-*
turc of the devastating work of the
firo king this morning.
The fire originated in the grocery
store of Omar Lit’le and was discov¬
ered by Miss O3sio Burruss. The
alarm was given immediately* But
the fire was already
through the front doors of the store
iTnm, it was evident that it caught
in the front portion of the building
and that no e irthly power could save
111 © 5tore . and every effort was du
reeled towards saving Mrs. MoEn-
tire'fr residence, but the flames soon
passed beyond iho control of the
bravest.
Men, women, children, the school
boy?, fought bravely to arrest the
11 imes*
Glossy Sheers
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» It by almost superhuman ef
* was
i ^preventad fort that McConnell's furniture store
from burning, and m sav*
ing it the east end of town was saved
There was no insurance cn any
of the buildings.
It is not known how great the
is but several thousands were swept
away.
Mrs. McEntire’s was the loveliest
home in Carnesville, noted for its
quiet elegance.
Mrs. McEntire’s drygood i store
was burned to the ground lest year
at a loss of $3,000.
Death has many tima3 stalked ins
to her home and claimed lier best bo
joved, and misfortune has been a too
visitor there.
The fire king is always terrible,
but never more majestic in liis ter¬
ror than ibis morning when his hol
breathwas on the walls wherein
sorrow had been nobly borne and mis
fortune met.
Mrs. McEntire’s household effects
were saved- Omar Little lost eyery
thing, including several hundred dol -
lars worlh of groceries and his books
and accounts, with the books and
accounts of Charley McFnUre and
the firm of W. C MeEntir© <tad Co.
It is not known how the fire ong*
inated. Certainly uot fi-om any fire
that might have been left In the
-•tore yesterday, else it would have
broken out earlier than 3 this morn-
ing. Omar Little closed bis store
before 10 last night. He passed
through our office, where we were at
work until after 11 o’clock, on his
home. Unqestionably it would
j, iave broken out earlier if it had
caught from fire left in the store,
Carnesvillrt needs a nurht watch'
man an.l fire department.
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