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testate jMpal
RALEIGH, N, C;
THUESDAY, ..... . .. . . . . . . . AUGUST S, 1882.
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" We should stand upon the principles of the
National Democratic party. Aews and Observer.
"No Sumptuary Laws." National Democratic
Platform, June 1880.
" On that question Prohibition the Dem
ocratic party has no kecobd." News aiul Ob
server.
" No Sumptuary Laws.
'National Democratic
Platform, June 1880.
" We believe that its Prohibition's ratifica
tion by the people will place the
CHBISIAM AND 2IOBAL ELEMENT Of OUr people in-
a position to give complexion to the public af- 1
faibs of the State." Address of the Prohibitum
Utate Contention, 1881.
Separation of Church and State for the good
of each." National Democratic Platform, June
1880. a
"The question of prohibition which was sub
mitted to the people was non-political." Nerrs
and Observer.
This liquor question is strictly a political ques
tion, but wo to that party which shall declare
against it." W." in Spirit of the Age.
While I do not want to carry politics into tem
perance, I am for carrying temperance into
rlitics; and after this time, party or no party,
will vote for no man and no measure who is
not sound upon and which does not square with
the prohibition movement. (Loud cheers,)
VapC.T. W.Ii. Bell at the Raleigh Prohibition
Convention, April 27th 1881.
Y The liquor sellers did not forget to claim in
their resolutions that they represented the
cause of temperance, of course, but they said
nothing about Prohibition being a Union of
Chubch and State that is, a union of mobality.
with government. North Corolina Presbyterian:
Separation of church and State for the good of
each. National Democratic Pkuforra, June 1880.
" The question of prohibition which was sub
mitted to the people was non-political. News
and Observer.
Ten days ago the politicians of Virginia were
astounded at the presentatien of a list oi 21,M,H
voters who declare their intention of casting
their suffrages only for those pledging them
selves to local option on the whiskey question.
This is a new feature. It means something im
portant. It is the exhibitionJiaf--hDaTanee
power in Virginia politkwr'and it points to
' victory for local optionists. It will probably
become necessary to follo w this example in
North Carolina in the matter of prohibition
We will in all probably want a list of 38,000
votes, pledged to support the prohibition can
didate in all elections, town, county and
State, ALWAYS, NEVER VARYING. Wivr en-
ton Gazette.
I
Anti-Prohibition Liberal Platform.
"The iollowing is the platform adopted by the
State Anti-Prohibition Independent Liberal Con
vention, at Raleigh, June 7th, 1882:
" We, the Anti-Prohlbltion Independent and
Liberal people of North Carolina in convention
assembled, having witnessed with alarm th'e en
croachments that have been made upon and
k still threaten our liberties, do resolve ourselves
with the Liberal party of the State, and invite
all persons without regard to past political affil
iation to unite with us in maintaining and de
fending the folio wiug principles:
"Taxation withont representation is unjust,
oppressive and violative of the fundamental
principles of American liberty, therefore we are
opposed to the present system of county govern
ment, whereby the rulers are placed beyond the
' control of the people, and earnestly demand that
all county officers be elected by the people, the
rightful source of all political power in a truly
Democratic form ot government.
"As all just powers come from the people and
by the people and for the people we demand a
free ballot and a fair count m all elections.
"While we are opposed to intemperance in all
its forms we shall resist all sumptuary laws or
class legislation and therefore demand the repeal
of the unjust act of the last General Assembly
known as the Prohibition act.
"We regard the education of the masses as es
sential to the welfare of the people, and we favor
a liberal system of public instruction both by
the State and National governments. To that
end we urge the application of all funds arising
n from the tax on distilled spirits by the general
government to the common schools of the States
the same to be disbursed by State officers. -
Anti-Prohibition Liberal State Executive
Committee.
; - State-at-Large Wm. Johnstok, Charlotte; J. E.
O'Haba, Halifax; Chas. Pbice, Salisbury; C. G.
Bailey, ; Ed. P. Powebs, Fay-
etteville. -
1st. Diet. W. A. Moobk, Plymouth.
2d " - Daniel Johnson, Warrenton
3d "
4th " J. H. Renfbow, Raleigh.
5th " W.'F. Henderson, Lexington.
6th " J. A. Elliott, Charlotte.
7th "' T. N. Cooper, Statesville.
8th " W. M. Cocke, Asheville.
W. M. COCKE, Chm'n.
Republics State Executive Committee.
State-at-Large J. J. Mott, Statesville; J. H.
Leaky, Fayetteville; I. J. Young, Vance.
1st. Dist. Palemon John, Elizabeth City.
2d " Willis Bagley, Jackson.
3d " W. P. Cannady, Wilmington.
4th " Jas. H. Habbis, Wake.
5th " W. F. Hendebson, Lexington.
6th ' W. R. Myebs, Charlotte.
7th " T. N. Cooper, Statesville.
8th " J. B. Eaves, Rutherfordton.
J. J. MOTT, Chm'n.
ATTENTION! OFFICE-HOLDERS
The people, "whose servants you are,
demand to know why you were not at
your posts last year when they needed
your services on the Prohibition questiori
; and why you did not answer when called
for. You are now required to answer
without fail, except such of you as can
afford to treat the people with a little more
silence.
SENATOR RANSOM,
SENATOR VANCE,
Representatives
Latham,
Hubbs,
Shackelford, ' '
Cox, I
Scales,
Dowd,
Abxfield,
Vance,
Gov. Jarvis,
Lieut. Gov. Robinson,
Sec. of State Saunders,
j Treasurer Worth,
Auditor Roberts,
i Supt. Pub. Instruction Scarborough,
Attorney-General Kenan.
Of the foregoing Congressmen Senator
Vance told Rev. Mr. Abernethy he was for
prohibition; Representative Vance stump
ed his district in favor of prohibition, and
every other TJongressman was silent and
refused to let his constituents know where
he stood on the . question. Of the State
officers, Gov. Jarvis made a public speech
in favor of prohibition, and all the rest
treated the people with dignified, silence,
except Superintendent-of-Public-Instruc-tion
Scarborough, who stumped the State
from Macon to Pasquotank, in favor of
prohibition, and came to within 118,000
. votes of carrying the State ! assisted, it
is true, by Prof. Kerr, Prof. Gudger, Capt.
Stamps, Prof. Ray, Deacon Polk, &c, all
in the service of the State.
J.V POLITICAL MANHOOD,
Than a dog and a gun, says the Nor
folk Review, we know of nothing more
unprofitable to a young man, as an in
heritance from his father, than his pol
itics, - v;'-
But few men who are old enough to be
the fathers of voting sons are capable of
giving their sons political advice; and for
this reason: such fathers were educated
in head and heart forty years ago, under a
peculiar condition of Southern life, which
has forever died. The political ideas of
that dead past are utterly insufficient for
the present or the future.
The Bourbon party of to-day has in
herited certain views as to human rights
and political franchise from the old Dem
ocracy of forty years ago, which are un
just, impracticable, and in eternal con
flict with the genius of the age.
It is pardonable for these old gentlemen
to appear on election day with tickets in
hand better suited to be cast in support
of extreme states' rights and the divine
right of human slavery, than for the ad
vancement of a community where all men
are free and equal before the law; but for
a young man to go into the old political
graveyard of the dead past and dig up
and pot on the political winding-sheet of
his grandfather and wear it out on elec
tion day, that is ridiculous if not gro
tesque. The only possible apology for
such conduct is, that in the immediate
circle of many young men there may be
enough of these political mummies to
make grave-costumes fashionable.
But the first political duty of a young
man is self-assertion. We live in a coun
try and in an age where, more than in
any other, public opinion domineers over
the minds of men.: Americans generally
dread singularity in sentiments and opin
ions more than in dress; so that, if they
cannot quite reflect public mind, they
modify their political clothing sufficient
ly to avoid attracting the attention of the
boys. We dread o appear in a long-tail
coat when a boy. We dread just as
much to appear a little in advance of our
political family or comrades.
The men, especially young men, are
comparatively few who are wil
ling to take the responsibility of the full
assertion tjf their political personality;
who. will insist on being themselves, or
even what that is equivalent to being, sin
gular. It is a bad day for any young man when
he permits his immediate personal sur
roundings to mould his political future
into shape, bad enough, and unfortunate,
during the past, and which will bring
him in inevitable conflict with his age in
the future.
In times of conflict there are certain
numbers", too, who are invariably found
on the fence. There'are in every commu
nity a considerable class who have spent
all their best years on the fence. Such
men always affect candor, dignity, and
freedom from prejudice, but they are in
variably shirks and cowards.
On the other hand, going always with
one's sect in religion, with one party in
politics, or with one's clique in social life,
is only less mean than to occupy the
fence. A man who buries his personality
in a sect, circle or party, because he is
afraid or ashamed to stand alone, is quite
as much a coward as he who endeavors to
preserve neutrality. A bully with back
ers is quite likely to be the poltroon of
his company, and quite likely to be a bul
ly because he is cpnscious of his own
cowardice and wishes to prevent other
people from finding it out.
Keep it "Before the People, that Col.
Bennett and the office-holding generals,
colonels and majors propose in the .next
Legislature to tax the people of the State
two millions and a half dollars per year
for pensions to keep themselves inroffice.
THE GREENSBORO " NORTH
STATE. "
The course of the Greensboro North
Slate is leading to the belief that its edi
itor and proprietor, Col. T. B. Keogh,
is working in the interest of the Drunken-Craze
Democracy, and that he has
" 'sold out," for money or revenge. This
is freely discussed here in Republican
circles, and the Prohibition Democracy
blandly smile. We have no opinion on
the subject, except to venture a doubt of
Col. Keogh 's disloyalty to his party. And
yet, we cannot reconcile the course of
the North State with our crude notions of
fair dealing. All there is in it, in bur
humble judgment, is that Col. K. is very
sore over Dr. Mott's signal victory over
him in the late Republican State Conven
tion, (brought'about no matter how,) and
he is showing his temper. It would be
a mistake to suppose that the Colonel
can induce a following on account of his
petty personal quarrel; and as to the ef
fect produced by the Drunken-Craze De
mocracy's use of the stuff the North S ate
is furnishing them, why that is simply
bosh. -.
j -"
Bennett's Pension Scheme. Two and
a half millions per year more taxes by the
next legislature.
Bennett and Jarvis Bubst. Bennetfc
and Jarvis went to Elizabeth City recently
to engineer the governor's nephew-in-law's
renomination for Congress, and both made
speeches. The Carolinian says of their
efforts:
We did not hear Bennett and Jarvis;
but many who did tell us both failed to
meet public expectation. That Judge
Bennett is an able man is conceded, ' and
that he am make a good speech is claimed,
but he did not "fill the bill" last Thurs
day. Many went away disappointed. The
audience manifested such; little interest in
the speech of Gov. Jarvis that long before
he was through more than half of the
audience had dispersed. The leaders sig
nally failed in starting the expected
" boom " at Elizabeth City.
Hon. O. H. Dockery has opened the
campaign in a manner to command the
admiration of his friends and strike terror
to his foes. Judge Bennett has f been,
hauled off, it would seem, and to carry
him through the campaign he is sand
wiched between the big Indian Jarvis and
some small-fry orator. Dockery, like a
proud old rooster, has the field to himself.
Bennett dare not enter upon a joint dis
cussion. .
MESSRS. JAMES AND ASHE.
Some weeks ago Mr. Josh. T. James,
Editor of the Wilmington Review, saw
proper to treat his readers to an illnatured
paragraph personal to the Editor of this
paper, calculated, if not intended, to injure
our business; and being of that character
and tendency it was "copied" by the
Editor of the News and Observer, and he
was the only Editor in the State, we be
lieve, who did copy it. But in copying
the paragraph, the News and Observer
man, true to his instincts, garbled it, as he
did the letter on county government of
Hon. C. C. Clark, Judge Manly, &c. Mr.
James while charging that we are working
in the interest of the Republicans "thinly
disguised as a Liberal newspaper," play
fully remarked of us, " He is a good, force
ful writer, and has done some valuable
work for the Democratic party in past
times;" but the envious soul of Capt. Ashe
prompted him to strike out these compli
mentary words, omitting the asterisks
( ), which are provided for the ingen
uous writer with which to indicate that
he has omitted something. In our opin
ion the paragraph of the Review and the
copying, not to .mention the garbling, by
the News and Observer were both unpro
fessional, there having been no provoca
tion. Therefore, in retaliation for Capt.
Ashe's unprofessional act we recently
copied the stinging personal article on
that gentleman from the Newbern Journal,
to be found re-produced to-day for the
edification of such of our readers as may
have overlooked it; and in retaliation for
Mr. James' little paragraph we copy an
article from the Wilmington Post, which
will amuse some of our readers. Taking
the Post's statements as facts, there would
appear to be this difference between the
Editor of the Review and us: vie publish
what we are in the face of all men the
Editor of the Review sailed under false
colors and whilst publishing a Democratic
paper wrote for a Republican sheet. The
folly of a man inhabiting a glass houss
inaugurating a war of rocks, was never
more clearly exemplified.
. Keep it Before the People, that Col.
Bennett and ' the office-holding generals,
colonels and majors propose in the next
Legislature to tax the people of the State
two millions and a half dollars per year
for pensions to keep themselves in office.
Dr. J. J. Mott, chairman of the Re
publican State Executive Committee, hav
ing seen the great Investigator Vance out
in Washington, is now in Raleigh getting
the campaign earnestly going. Now it is
Dr. Mott's turn, and Senator Ransom
will be the first to feel him, and next will
come the turn of the Investigator, and
the U. S. Senate that knows so little of
them will soon know them no more ferev
er. Dr. Mott has his headquarters at the
Yarbrough House, and at the Law Build
ing he has a corps of clerks and book
keepers and an edequate contingent of
fighting men. His bank account is doubt
less ample, his deposits being by the
barl. Our word for it the Doctor is pre
paring to make things lively.
Only two millions and a half a year for
pensions for the generals, the colonels
and the majors! 1
Fourth Congressional District. At
the Fourth Congressional Republican
Convention, held in this city, on Wednes
day last, Thomas P. Devereux, Independ
ent Anti-Prohibition Liberal candidate,
was endorsed and is now in the field as
the coalition candidate for Congress.
Writing at the moment of going to press
we have time only to say that Tom De
vereux will be elected. We claim his
election over Gen. Cox by fifteen hundred
vutjority. Watch the Professor.
B ennett's Pension Scheme. Jarvis,
Coke and other Drunken-Craze Democrat
ic leaders urged Judge Bennett to pro
pose his grand confiscation measure of
wringing two millions and a half of dollars
per year from the tax-payers of the State
for pensions. The proposition fell like a
thunder-bolt upon the audience it was
made to and from that day to this neith
er Bennett, "Jarvis, Coke nor a single
Prohibition newspaper of the State has
said " Pension." But lookout for the
Legislature. Prohibition and Pensions
are in tbe future.
Bennett's Pension Scheme. Two and
a half millions per year more taxes by the
next legislature.
It Must Come. A subscriber (J. M. J.)
at Fremont writes: "We want county
government that will be cheap, meet the
demands of the people, give justice to all,
make taxation equal,, and be constitution
al." To have such government, every
county officer must be elected by the peo
ple and be responsible to the people.
There must be no officers independent of
the people no magistrates or county com
missioners to snap their fingers at the
people. And this must come.
"Another Ex. Reb." and "J. R."
from Ransom's Bridge, must excuse us
this time. As a work of art, crowding
half a column of matter into a postal
card is admirable, but as copy for the
printer it is anything but that; and the
editor being minus a microscope and out
of spare time, settles the matteri' The
cards are deep down in our waste basket.
We must have copy we can read.
Fanatics to the Front. Gen. Bob
Vance has once more manipulated a re
nominatiou for Congress in the Eighth
District. Gen. B. was an open-mouthed
prohibitionist and stumped his district
for the infamous prohibition law. And
prohibition is dead, is it? Now We will
see how the matter stands. Bob Vance
will not go to Congress this trip.
Old Franklin Moving. We invite at
tention to the call for a mass-meeting of
the Liberal Anti-Prohibition Democrats
of Franklin connty, at Louisburg, on
Saturday, 19th inst. There is no better
stock in the State than the Liberal Antis
of old Franklin. See calL
Public Speaking Hon. O. H. Dock
ery, CoL Wm. P. Canaday, and Col. I.
J. Young, will address the people at
Carthage, Moore county, 6n the 8th inst,
-first Tuesday of court
PLAYING BABY.
Capt Sam Ashe is mad with the Editor
of the State Journal and has stricken us
off his exchange list We are very sorry
for having made little Sammy mad and
don't mean to do so any more. There,
now, it must be a good boy and it shall
go a ridy-pidy in a coachy-pochy to 'see
its nanty-panty.
But we must have Sammy's paper and
we have subscribed for it, as the annext
copy of our receipt will show; Three
months is our term of subscription, and
that is just about as long as the News and
Observer will live, for it and Jarvis have
murdered .the Democratic party and it
and Jarvis and the party will be buried
together the first week in November:
Raleigh, N. C, July 31, 1882.
M State Journal
To THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, Dr.
For subscription to D News and Observer,
from 31 day July 1882, to 31 day of Oct 1882, $1.75
Received payment,
SAM MILLER,
For News and Obsebveb.
Keep it Before the People, that Col.
Bennett and the office-holding generals,
colonels and majors propose in the next
Legislature to tax the people of the State
two millions and a half dollars per year
for pensions to keep themselves in office.
In the last Legislature there where more
Republicans voting for the prohibition
bill than there where Democrats, and we
believe that a majority of the vote cast at
the polls by the people for the bill, were
cast by Republicans. RoanoNews.
The people must watch tejrunken
Craze Democratic press. In the last Legis
lature 36 democrats and 4 republicans
voted for prohibition in the Senate, and
55 democrats and 17 republicans in the
House, and yet the Roanoke News says
more republicans than democrats voted
for prohibition in the last Legislature.
Watch the Drunken-Craze Democracy.
Catawba County whose voting popula
tion stands three democrats to one repub
lican, has ten aspirants for the Legisla
ture, seven for superior court clerk, two
for treasurer, four for sheriff, none for
coroner. Nearly half the democrats of
the county voted for prohibition, and
were disgusted with the result, and curse
Jarvis for leading them into the trap.
In Catawba boss rule is at an end.
Speaking at Durham. Thomas P. De
vereux, our candidate for Congress in this,
the 4th District, will address the people
at Durham, on Tuesday next, 8th inst.
Thomas R. Purnell and James H. Harris,
both of this city, will also speak on that
occasion.
Keep it Before the People, that Col.
Bennett and the office-holding generals,
colonels and majors propose in the next
Legislature to tax the people of the State
two millions and a half dollars per year
for pensions to keep themselves in office.
ANSWER TO THE " STAR'S " LITTLE FKANK.
There was an old lawyer named Ruffin, .
Who from the old Bourbon party got nuffin ,
So he bolted and run
And is now a big gun
Is this great Independent they're puffin'.
Ex-Reb.
Bennett's Pension Scheme Two and
a half millions per year more taxes by the
next legislature.
No. 1. The indomitable Col. Bunt
ing is out as an Independent candidate
for Superior Court Clerk in Wake. This
is No. 1. See his card.
Only two millions and a half a year for
pensions for the generals, the colonels
and the majors!
Voice of the People.
We make the following extracts from
business letters to the Editor:
New Hanover: "I need not caution
an old stager like you against the froth of
the Wilmington press. Tbe Liberals are
here."
Alamance. "If good men are put forth
throughout the State and the Liberal
campaign is carried out in good faith,
with good management we will have
another glorious victory."
Halifax. "You ought to get the Ex
ecutive Committee to send out numbers
of the State Journal. , It is doing good
work wherever circulated." Our chief
reliance is upon the people for the circu
lation of our paper. Almost every man
can afford fifty cents to pay for the paper
for the campaign. Ed.
Hertford. "I am proud to see your
paper advocating the Liberal movement
I hope it will be a success; I see no
reason why it should not."
Orange. "We are all solid here and
will roll up one of the oldfashioned ma
jorities for the coalition ticket"
Nash. " There is no division in our
ranks, as the Prohibition-Democratic
press would make people believe. Wait
till November."
Buncombe. "The Liberal movement
is booming in every county this side the
Ridge. We must control the men who
govern us."
Wilson. I am well pleased with the
Journal, and hope you will exert your
best efforts (as you are now doing) to se.
cure the election of the ticket nominated
on the 7th of June and ratified on the
14th. The Prohibition Democrats say
that Prohibition is dead, and they will
carry the State by 10,000, to 15,000 ma
jority for their ticket I tell them the
people say it is not dead, and they will
find it out in November if not before.
The people are aroused at the course the
Democracy has pursued for the past few
years, and demand that Magistrates and
County Commissioners shall be elected
by them. There is a change in this
County favorable to our cause, and we
believe that with a fair election and an
honest count, the Prohibition Democracy
will be defeated here, who are now the
enemies of true Democratic government
Work on, the people are with you.
We could make like extracts from
twenty to thirty other letters, but the
foregiving must suffice.
Bennett's Pension Scheme. Two and
a half millions per year more taxes by the
next legislature.
For the State Journal.
Jarvis, Gudger, McRae and Vance, '
Four doughty Bourbons as e'er bore lance,
Did with Williamson and Price, two negroes jine
To fight prohibition off the colored line.
They now with Jim Harris are very irate,
Because he invited them in a joint debate
To make a canvass of the State.
But when Jarvis and Price' were " cheek by jowl,"
Not a Bourbon organ raised a howl,
And as within each others arms entwined
Oh! where then was the Bourbon " color line?"
And the handsom boquets and smiles so nice
That the Bourbon ladies shower'd on Price,
And the plaudits, wild, as hand in hand
He appeared with Jarvis on the standi
We looked at this the dawn of day,
When the ' color line " was to be laid away,
And all the prejudice of race or caste
Fair North Carolina had seen the last.
But alas! alas! for human ken,
See it now; revived in them;
Exclaim to yourself " can such things be!"
And apostrophize Consistency.
Now the dawn is changed to night,
And the line is drawn 'tween black and white,
And all the smiles and speeches fine
Are swallowed up in the " color line."
Ex-Ueb.
Wilmington, N. C, July 28, 1882.
The Egyptian War. The following . is
the latest from the Egyptian complica
tion. As yet England stands alone and
is satisfied Turkey is playing false. Eng
land has demanded of Turkey that Arabi
Pasha be declared a rebel. While re
sponding to the British demand to send
troops to Egypt Turkey does not seem
anxious to outlaw Arabi, and it is now
understood that without this is done the
British will not permit the Turkish forces
to land in Egypt. In the meantime Eng
land is strengthening her position and
active operations may be expected.
Only two millions and a half a year, for
pensions for the generals, the colonels
and the majors!
"The Fayetteville Gleaner " is the
title of semi-monthly sixteen column pa
per jiroposed to be published in Fayette
ville about the middle of the preseut
month, by Wm. Hastings Brooks, should
he receive sufficient pecuniary encourage
ment. Education seems to be its sole
platform. Price twenty -five cents-, per
copy for six months. We wish the
scheme well.
Only two millions and a half a year for
pensions for the generals, the colonels
and the majors!
Fresh Fruit the Year Round. Mes
srs. Tatum, Sims & Co., Opelika, Ala.,
have a preparation, splendidly indorsed,
for keeping fruit, grapes, eggs, vegeta
bles, etc., in a perfectly fresh and health
ful condition for over 12 months, with
out any cutting, heating, canning or peel
ing. Fruits, &c, saved for ten cents a
bushel. Recipes for making the prepara
tion, only One Dollar, sent on receipt of
price. Honorable citizens, prominent
officers, endorse them. For Agents' terms
and particulars write them.
The Voice of Bertie. At a mass con
vention of the Republicans of Bertie,
held at Windsor on the 15th ult,
following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That the Republicans of Bertie
county are in full accord with the origi
nal and present design of the Republican
Party of the State and Nation, and be
lieving it to be for the best interests of all
the people, we hail with pleasure the Lib
eral Movement of North Carolina, and
promise our hearty support in the next
election.
Out With It.
"But then Judge Merri
mon was never a candidate with an un
derstanding that the Republicans should
support him, or vote for him. He never
counted on Republican votes. He never
expected Republican support."
News and Observer.
The editor of the News and Observer
has either a very short memory or he was
not very deep in the counsels of his law
pardner and friend of 1872. We will not
betray political secrets unless the other
side should reveal part of them for the
purpose of deceiving a confiding public.
If the Neics and Observer makes the above
announcement after consultation with ex
Senator Merrimon we would be very glad
to know it. And weput,the question di
rect to the editor of that paper: Were
you authorized, Capt. S. A. Ashe, to make
the above statement by ex-Senator A. S.
Merrimon? We ask you this question
from the fact that, should you answer in
the affirmative, we will then feel at liberty
to give the names of the Republicans who
visited Judge Merrimon and had a square
understanding with him before he was
elected to the United States Senate in
1872, and we will also give you the names
of leading Democrats who consulted and
assisted in making the combination by
which A. S. Merrimon was elected to the
Senate. And for the further information
of Capt. Ashe we will state that it was ex
pressly understood by the Republicans of
the Legislature of 1872-73 that Capt.
Ashe was a friend and supporter of Mr.
Merrimon in his candidature for senatorial
honors.
But we will await a reasonable time on
Captain Ashe to answer the question
above before we say more concerning this
matter. Wilmington Post. k
Out with your revelations, Colonel
Canaday, for you will never draw Capt.
Ashe out. His is an awfully bad memory
at times. Er. State Journal.
For the State Journal. ;
Public Speaking at Oberlin.
Thos P. Devereux, , and other distin
guished speakers, will address the free
men of Wake, at the hall of the Oberlin
Friendly Link Society, Oberlin, on Mon
day evening 7th inst, at 8 p. m. A
large turnout may be expected,
S. T. Hill, Ch'n.,
W. C. Graves,
A. J. Ivey,
advertisement.
To the Voters of Wake County.
Please take notice, that I announce my
self a candidate for the office of, Superior
Court Clerk, and that I trust none of my
friends, especially my Republican friends,
will pledge themselves to vote for any
other candidate till they shall have heard
me on the stump, as I have many things
to tell them. Yours respectfully,
J. N: Bunting.
Panther Branch, Aug. 4, 1882. 2t
The Times, State Journal, Evening
Visitor and News and Observer copy two
times and send bills to advertiser.
The colored people have been granted
the use of the grounds used for their fair,
afc Camp Russell.
From our Charlotte Correspondent. I
COL. JONES' GALLANT FIGHT YATES SNUBBED
FOREIGN BRAINS SOUGHT JUDGE SETTLE
WITH VANCE'S TAIL IN A SPLIT STICK, -j
Charlotte, N. C, July 25. 1882.
Mr. Editor: Things are waxing warm
in this political Hornet's Nest. Of course
the Bourbon leaders are after Col. Jones,
and they spare not. They pretend to ig
nore him, but their desperate efforts to
put him down and stop his paper show
they fear him. It is characteristic, too,
of these leaders, that while they proclaim
from the housetop and swear by the Bible
that there is no persecution for opinion's
sake, here they are seeking to crush out
the very life and living of a noble but
poor self-made, young man, for no other
reason than because he dares to think for
himself and to tell the people the simple
truth. But Col. Jones is equal to the
emergency. It is i cou ceded on all sides
that he got the better of the Merrimon-Fuller-Ashe
Independent organ at Ral
eigh. So, too, he will silence and sweep
away iheXHome and Democrat if necessary.
But the Bourbons do not like the stuff of
which the Home and Democrat is made
Yates was once a poor printer boy and
Strong is a Northern man; so they effect
ually ignore the H. & D. in their efforts
for a new Daily with which to crush the
Observer, and have gone to Statesville and
Monroe for editorial brains.' Some say
that at heart the . & D. is with the Ob
server on the county government issue,
and that while , brother Strong talks of
" bargain and sale," the now silent Solo
mon' of the " Western Democrat " says
the voice of the people ougl-t to be heard,
and whispers of the trade by which Ran
som and Vance secured-their present an l
expected lease on the United States Sen
atorships. j
Speaking of Vance, by the way, parties
just from Washington give highly amusing
account of Mott's investigation committee.
Among other witnesses, Vance put Judge
Settle on the stand; and wholly failing to
make anything out of the campaign of
1880, he at last put on a very loyal air and
asked the Judge to say if their joint cam
paign of 1876 had not been made without
the least show of violence and without
the presence of Federal soldiers or a Rev
enue official. "Certainly," said the Judge,
" excepting your own appeals to the mob,
which once forced me to turn to you and
declare that if you did not stop such scenes
of disorderly outrage I would hold you per
sonally responsible." This prompted Sen
ator Mitchell, a Republican member of the
committee, to ask the witness to describe
the kind of appeals Gov. Vance had made
in that canvass, when Judge Settle went
on and told all that the re-constructed
Senator had said against the Government,
the Yankees, the outside world generally,
and especially the "grasshopper scene,"
in which Settle declared that Vance "had
exhausted the English language " in de
nouncing Congress and the Federal offi
cials! Northern men all listened 1 with
amazement to the recital, while the wily
chairman saw himself fairly outdone, hung
his head in shame, and realized what
Father Yates once said of Joe Turner
" he was too funny to be either truthful
or great." And thereupon the grand Polit
ical Fizzle came to an end by being ad
journed to the ides of November next.
Did you ever!
. I had intended telling you of the storm
raging ail over, this section of the State
against the arbitrary actionof the Boards of
County Commissioners in numerous. coun
ties, in utterly ignoring the wishes of the
people in regard to Retail Licenses, the
Poor-houses, the Public Roads,Public Offi
ces, School Funds, School Committees,
&c, but I reserve that for another letter.
1 only add, the Courthouse Rings are with
out exception badlr scared.
COOHLTM. ,
For the State Journal.
Mass-Meeting id Franklin.
There will be a Mass Meeting of the
Liberal Anti-Prohibition Democrats of
Franklin county.in the' town of Louisburg,
On Saturday, Aug, 19, 1882, to organize
for the coming campaign. All Democrats
opposed to the rule of the Bourbou
oligarchy are requested to be on hand and
participate in the meeting.
In connection with the above notice; it
is perhaps well to state that a favorite
weapon to be used by , the above named
geniry, and one with which tLcy expect
to defeat the Liberal j movement, is the
charge that we have gone over to the Re
publican party a charge made only ' by
those who last year were rampant for
Prohibition, or else were cousfticuous
against it only by their silence, and is a
brazen imposition upon your credulity,
by which they expect to continue: in
power. . But be ye not deceived by such
lying accusations as these, or deviate from
discharging the duty that is' incumbent
upon you as a citizen of the American Re
public, -in perpetuating for future genera
tions the principles of Jeffersouian Demo
cracy, the heritage of independence be
queathed unto us by the patriots of 1776.
For welj the oligarchs know that when
those principles (a government for, the
people, and by the people, and of the
people) prevail their occupation will then
be gone, and that those paying places and
pleasant positions, now scarcely occupied
by any save themselves and the satelites
of their society, will then be known ; by
them no more forever. .
To those who favor home rule and local
self-government, we say you know your
rights,- and knowing, dare maintain them.
So come out, and direct the affairs of
State, for when her troubles arise, you,
who are the bone and sinew of the soil,
the hewers of wood and drawers of water,
are those who ever have to bear the brunt
and burden in her defence. i
Mr. -Prank H. Darby and the Raleigh,
4 Observer.
We intended to have answered the Ob
server's article concerning Mr. F. H. Dar
by and the frauds of 1880 in our last, but
having to leave the city, we, failed to lo
so. The Observer b&jb in substance, that
our Mr. Canaday charges that he i lost
during the last election 1050 votes by
fraud; the Observer concludes therefore,
that Mr. F. EL Darby was responsible.
We take verv great pleasure in exhonerat
ing Mr. Darby from all blame. We did
at thattime, and published a blacklist of
most of the men who where guilty of : the
crime of defrauding the Republican can
didates of 1050 votes. We had the evi
dence Of the. men who conspired to de
fraud Us, they could not get Mr. Darby,
who was chairman of the Democratic com
mittee do their dirty work, therefore they
took the matter into their own hands.
Mr. Darby was appealed to, to take hold
and manage the matter, but he indignant
ly refused to play theraseal for them.
Mr. Darby has always been in favor of a
"free ballot and a lair count," and in
favor of local self-government The Re
publicans have never ceased to respect
him, and they are proud of an opportun
ity to show him that they appreciate hon
esty and ability.
IThere is not a Republican, either white
orcolored, in North Caroliia, wlio will not
vote for him, knowing he will administer
his office with equal justice to alL Not
like some of the, Judges of our state who
will send a negro to the penitentiary for
ten years and a white Democrat, charged,
with a parallel case, to jail for three
months. WiL Post. ... j
The Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, have
put two new elegant sleeping cars on the
night frieght train from Raleigh to Ports
mouth. : . t - ' -
very well for v. .
James to say that the charY W
lot te Observer that he
WHO il 1
a Republican paper is a lie,
the facts in the case? We'wiii k
to give nothintr except rkin BW.
, v.uv.u, " v nil. V fllit!N Will
or if he does, can be proven l'1
peachable testimoney . Mr. JCKi 7 t;
was employed on the Wilmi 1 4
during the years of 18G8, a
uaiutTUCUJi-ui, auu. a yieai Jjait o()
usines's manager,
mnager uuriug that ;!
supported;by poiti(,
Post was
ments on
cal
tne omceuoid..r8
paying an assessment each week
Mr James or his subordinate,
sent around for the purpose of h
each
ror.ine iruiu oi me auove u
Mr. Robert Kennedy, who was e3
at tne time on tne paper as a 'v
Mr. Samuel G. Hall, who
time foreman of the office
Mr. Joseph C. Hill, who was purtVv
lime Mr. James collector, ah .fr.
witnesses are men of the
Of i n
verybig
tef.nty,
Mr. Josh. T. James remained t
paper until Mr. vj. i. urailv puroi 1
in 1870. Shortly after thatMr. a?N cu 1
ices were dispensed with; since "
he has written some editorials for t; I c
for th truth of this statement We I1111
Mr. Robert Kennedy, foreman V(.
Mr. Edward B. Sanders, who V
While Mr. James was local editor r .
Wilmington Joumalhe wrote set rf
torials for the-, Post, one of wuj1 VoCi
Wilmington Star. For the tmti.
Jon i
nett
plac
your
Wiie
Fayc
coin :
statement we reier to iur. ri
ward P .
ders, who was at that time
Post.
editor
All the' witnesses to the stat.
above refer -d to are gentlemen nfX
tional integrity. Mr. Robert
Li!
ty lias rm a i,h
his own account for twe ea,r4,
Joseph C. Hill is a colored nuu)l-ven5
character having been elected Vy tli
pie to fill the following offices: in
stable"; second, register of deeds; t
magistrate: 4th, to the legislature,!
on account of his high character and!
itv a Democratic legislature am!'
i- r 1 1 i L ,,!
uim one oi tne uiagisii-utes oi tnu
Mr. Edward 13. Saunders is alaVre
the brother in law of lion. 1). L.
i a:
rodl
We are th us particular about this
Wisd
so if any one has doubts of the trrflpnt
any of the above statements they caiF Jrj
ify them by seeing or writing to.thestjnade
nesses. but i
It was a credit to Mr. James toiriem
been employed and allowed to contbitio:
Republican paper, and why lie sleight
deny it no one can tell, for it is oucicand
acts that he should be proud of; hhad i
had considerable to say of late 'it wi
political assessments, and has evidin: t
forgotten that froiw such meaiis he
his weekly pay for a very tonsidt
time, and if not honest and proper
ime
i'tYC
1 1 rc
ir ceitr.miy could not have been at p
time.
We state these things as a matter
tice to all concerned. We have
other important disclosures to ti
which we may be called upon to pnl C j
though we hope not.
The Post has not been run as antf
holders, organ since Mr. James's ser
were dispensed with.'
i " ' -
Coalition Mass Meeting.
On Saturday, the 5th August, lSBayii
o'clock m., at the Court House iner
ganton, there will be a Mas Meetinjorinf
Convention of all the liberally cliiEave
voters of Burke County, withoiKtltO tl
to past political affiliations, who ar ponsi
posed to the present system of t'o.ind
Government, to Sumptuary Laws, C'liou
Legislation, Machine Polities nAt' c
petuation of a Bourbon Aristocrucy
claim the right to lord it over the pe .
by inheritance, and who are intavor
government of the people, by the j5 ,
and for the people, election of the Coil
Commissioners, Magistrates and S-io C
Committeemen by the people nttheloif
box and "a free ballot and fair cocfrca i
are requested to meet at above specihat
time and place to ascertain the cboiofhat
the people for candidates for the Lelinc
ture and County Officers aud to orgipoo.
for the campaign. Let every vott:2an
tend whose views are in accord with'.'ftrifl
sentiments. Srace
J. H. HallybotJ a
Chm, Ex. Com. Liberal Party Burgoo
E. S. Walton, Pat
Chm. Re Ex. Com.
Ikrave
it.
LFrom'tlio HilMKr"ObHirihei
HiLtsBono, July 21, j?1.11
Mr. Editor: In reply to Mr. Jp1
Long's letter of explanation, or hi
answer as he calls it L'will do himtlL
tice to say that the correspondence f j .e
lished by me on the l5th inst. wascaf Alt
on through the mail without any pr '
of secresy; but oh the 11th of June If
ceived two letters from Long by am&j
ger who reached here Sunday ahouti
in one of which he positively decline
be a candidate; the other hehaspubfcvV
in the last issue of the Obsekveb. I iriTj .
him the letter published iu your lasti " ,
in which I promised that our correv
dence should be strictly private; and-p0(
mained silent for five weeks, mentiopaij
the matter to no one, not even my i
intimate friends, white, on the otlier0
political capital was being made off jE
my letter to Long, who, himself,
have divulged it. So without co-ja r
tion. with any one, and regardless ft fcl..
suits, I determined to "let ont thetl.; i
and shake the bag. in t.
Very respectful lv, ben.
2, J."A. CHChe
Digest of Supreme Court Deeaid
.' (- JOOV
From Advance Sheets of the SCthV1, , ;uai
. Carolina lteporta.J j, ,
Mebane vs. Lay ton: . , .I.-,.
1. Creditors affected by the dl
common debtor in the conveyance oi t
property, have the right to ioin.V''
tion to subject the same to the pa.? j
of their debts. The complaiut heret
therefore demurable for uiijoiIU'er: fy;
2. Judgment upon the claiuis n,
necessary to give the right to hnng ;,
suit, u&txk vs. .narris. o v., -
Im
proved. iK3-iv .
3. And whatever may be the 110I
ded the court of equity has jarisd. jn
Fisher vs. Webb, 64 N. C, 44, anJ rJnu
cited. Ur;.;
Siler vs. Gray: itVfc
The general rule, .that a person blai
sentative of a deceased person i8 ing
to perform all his contracts, or ni!ie. )iia
peusation out of the estate in case ,pp
performance, is subject to the xCful(
that where such contract requir9 i'
thin a to be done bv the contracting!
in person, as Here, and he dies WiVjA
formance, the personal represent0.. J
uuv jiauw to .in action ior ww
same occasioned by his death. .
Love vs. Rhyne: i
.11
peace for a sum due by note an"
Vhis jurisdiction, it was Iteld that
claim consisting of an alleged B AJf
ness arising out of unadjusted Pl
"shin rl palings betwapn tho rjai'U3"' J
not be allowed the jurisdiction to j
such matters beinc in a court of! ..'
2. The principle announced ia
vs. Neill, b2 N. C 221, and Boy"1
Vaughan, 85, N. C, 363, approved-
Augusta, Ga.', lias 6,000,(XX)
It is all
of the Post: Mr. Samuel G. i j
lisher in this citv has rim a Luai i'-:
in manufactnries.