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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President:
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
Os Indiana.
For Vice-President :
LEVI P. MORTON,
Os New York.
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REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
ton GOVERNOR :
OLIVER II DOCKERY,
of Richmond county.
FOR 1,1 El TENANT-GOVERNOR :
JETER C. PRITCHARD,
of Madison county.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE :
GEORGE \V. STANTON,
of Wilson county.
FOR AUDITOR OF STATE :
CHARLES F. McKESSON,
of Hurkc county.
FOR STATE TREASURER :
GEORGE A. BINGHAM, *
of Rowan county.
FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PURI.IC
INSTRUCTION :
JAMES B. MASON,
of Orange county.
FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL :
THOMAS. l>. DEVEREUX,
of Wake county.
For Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court—to fill the vacancy
caused hv the death of Thomas S.
Ashe :
WILLIAM A. GUTHRIE,
of Durham county.
For Associate Justices of the Su
preme Court under amendment to the
Constitution :
DAVID M. FURCHEB,
of Iredell county.
RALPH I>. BUXTON,
of Cumberland county.
■ For Presidential Electors for the
W Statc-at-Largc:
JAMES E. BOYD,
of Guilford county.
AUGUSTUS M. MOORE,
of Pitt county.
W. S. O’B. ROBINSON,
FOR THE OIST CONGRESS —oh DISTRICT :
of Wayne county.
For THE 51st .CONGRESS — sth district :
JOHN M BROWER,
of Surry county.
FOR THE 51st CONGRESS —s*l) DISTRICT
HENRY P. CHEATHAM,
of Vance county
FOR ELECTOR—2I> DISTRICT :
JOSEPH J. MARTIN,
of Edgecombe couuty.
FOR ELECTOR ITU DISTRICT :
WILLIAM A. ALBRIGHT,
of Durham county.
SIXTH DISTRICT :
RICHARD M. NORMENT,
of Robeson county.
THIRD DISTRICT:
OSCAR J. SPEARS,
of Harnett county.
EIGHTH DISTRICT:
JULIUS B. FORTUNE,
of Cleveland county.
POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
The National campaign is about
opening in all the States, licnjamin
Harrison the republican nominee for
President is not magnetic as the great
statesman from Main, yet no candi
date has ever been known to draw go
permanently and steadily the support
ami sympathy of the |>eoplc. It is
fairly conocedcd this early that he
will sweep the country. The vote
this year may not he so large as in
1881 from the fact that Blaine’s
magnetism drew out ihc full vote of
all parties.
Mr. Harrisou is a wise aud
honest statesman. Ho is a ohris
tiau gentleman and takes an
active part in the workings of his
church and Stahbath School. The
indications are now that he will carry
the State of New York by fifty thous
and that New York city and Brooklyn
will not givo Cleveland more than
twenty thousand majority, thus giv-!
ing Harrison thirty thousand in!
Now York. The wisest and best
posted democrats in this city concede
to Harrison Indiana, Connecticut, New
Jersey and West Virginia. They also
concede North Carolina to Dockery.
No one pretends to say Harrison will
not hold all the States that Rlainc
carried. In short, it may be put
down that Harrison will carry about
the Garfield vote of 1880.
Every republican is saying the
nominations this year were provi
dential. O. 11. Dockery is much
stronger in North Carolina than any
other man or party, lie will bo
voted for regardless of party affiliation
ar.d will be elected by a rousing big
majority. All over the State as iu
this city, every republican is satisfied
with him and scores of democrats are
coming out and declaring for him,
while hundreds of others are swearing
they would not vote for Foivle under
any consideration.
The issues of the campaign are so
much against the democrats, that at
their own ratification meeting in -a
place like Charlotte, they cau hardly
get up a yell for their candidate.
Dockery will run ahead of his ticket,
hut the entire republican ticket will
be elected. The republicans will
have a majority in the lower house
and reduce the democratic majority
iu the senate. There seems to be
apathy in the democratic party in all
parts of the State, while the republi
cans and prohibitionists are enthus
iastic aud hopeful.
The prohibitionists do not hope to
elect their Statu ticket, hut theirs is
a now party and they want amd intend
to make a good showing, for they hope
to suceeed in a year or two. They
have good Christian men on all their
tickets ; such men ns should govern
the affairs of State. These prohibi
tionists may hurt the democratic
party here and the republican party
there, but that is no excuse for abus
ing them. It is neither right nor
safe to abuse them. Let them have
their way. All should be allowed to
honestly differ from any party, and
then when the prohibitionists get in
we have nothing to fear.
The present outlook is Harrison
and Morton will he inaugurated Presi
dent and vice President on the Ith of
next March and our own Oliver 11.
Dockery .will be inaugurated Governor
of this State on the Ist of Jauuary.
Let republicans keep quiet and go to
the polls on the Ith of November and
vote the republican ticket straight.
That is the way it looks now.
TIIE CENTRE ABLAZE.
Tho people iu the central part of the
State are being treated to oratory aud
instructions, as all are pleased to bear
at all times. Colonel Dockery is fair
ly settiug the woods ou fire and burn
ing up all hope of democratic success
in counting out the republican ticket,
lie is enthusiastically received every
where.
Col. Dockery aud Mr. Dcvereux
spoke at Pittsboro on Wednesday of
last week, aud at Moncure on Wed
nesday night We met them at Cam
eron on Thursday and heard two as
able speeches as one could desire.
Mr. Dcvereux led off and was lustily
ehocrcd all the way through. Colonel
Dockery followed and for about au
hour he entertained the people with his
eloquence, logic and sound doctrine.
Though the notice was short there
were over three hundred people
out, mostly whites, aud when they
left, they were nearly all Dockery
men.
llis arguments were so strong and
the facts so plaiu they could uot be
disputed. Doekery is the laboring
man’s choice. They don’t want a
lawyer for Governor. They waut a
government that will abolish the in
ternal revenue aud this county gov
ernment ; one that will protect Ameri
can laborers and American industries
All this the republican party will do,
and Dockery i» the best representative
!of the republican party. On Thurs-1
! night these gentlemen spoke at San-!
ford. On Friday they were at Jones-1
boro, where a large crowd met them
and returned home well pleased with
1 what they had heard. There were
l about five hundred out hero and about
J equally divided between whites and
j colored. Mr. O. J. Spears, tho rising
I republican of the State, introduced
tho speakers.
On Saturday they were at Fayotte
i villo, and spoke to six or seven hun
dred of the honest voters, represent
ing all classes. There were two or
three hundred whites out, and they
gave special attention to Col. Dockery.
Saturday night. Col. Dockery spoke
at Hope Mill, Cumberland county.
As an eye-witness we do testify that
Col. Dockery is making a very fine im
pression on the voters, which indi
cates that ho will be elected, and so
declared by the State canvassers.
Col. Dockery is filling two appoint
ments a day, and will start on the
joint canvass with Judge Fowle at
Monroe on the 27th.
THEY ARE MAI).
“Whom the gods would destroy ;
they first make mad.” The democratic
press of the State is mad. In their
wild rage they charge that Rev. Mr.
Walker the prohibition candidate is
“the hired tool of party managers to
do their dirty work,” that he is “to
receive SI,OOO for making the can
vass in North Carolina,” We be
lieve Mr. Walker is a poor man and
don’t doubt that his party pays
his campaign expenses, which all
parties admit to be right. He is
making the canvass for his party.
What democrat will dare say Col. j
Waddell is not paid to make the
canvass in North Carolina for Cleve
land'? He makes the canvass for
his party and they say it is honorable.
Mr. Walker scores the democratic
party severely and he is not sparing on
tho republican party. He is after
making votes from both for his own,
aud he is succeeding. The demo
cratic press in its frenzy is driving
good men from its own party to
Walker. Republicans and democrats
will vote for Walker because his cause
is a just one. It is a pure Christian
ticket and a party made up of honor
able men. Let. us not abuse it for
doing things we do ourselves, hut
let us once vote our sentiments free
from passion and prejudice. We shall
vote for Dockery aud advise our
friends to do so, yet we have no abuse
for Walker and his party for they are
honorable men.
The democratic press and politicians
see defeat staring them in the face and
it makes them mad. They sec the
handwriting on the wall. They have
been weighed and arc found wanting.
Political death awaits them in No
vember.
CUMBERLAND CROSS ROADS.
Editor .Vr**e»jrr —All at the Roads
is quiet at present., anil everybody on
the quiery for news.
Domestically everything is moving
oa smoothly
If we had something of a literary
character among our young men and
young ladies it would help much in ;
making the Roads :t little lively.
We shall have something to say be
fore long in regard to the mental de- j
velopiuent of the race.
We heard from the democratic
meeting in town on the llith ult.,
and wore told that notwithstanding
the extensive advertisement by the
Y. M. D. C. the expected crowd did
not put in its appearance as antici
pated. There were, we understood,
about 400 in all. It is said that the
candidate for governor failed to come
up to his former reputation as a speak
er.
The great (?) democratic show was
not altogether what the democrats de
sired.
They started out in the campaign
to make tho colored man the main
issue but somehow they have found
out that it wont take at all times, so
when a Mr. Daniels lot the cat out of
tho bag, showing the democratic atti
tude toward the colored race, it did
not take worth a cent, and many
demnrrats becoming disgusted left
the meeting. This speaker said
during his speech "durn the nigger.”
We understand the local demo
cracy were not at all pleased with the
speech of Daniels.
Politics is still in such condition
in tho couuty that it is bard to tell
which way the eat will jump. All is
not lovely in democratic circles, can
didates for all the county offices arc
multiplying every day.
Each section is demanding recog
nition as well as the different combi
nations.
The democratic laboring men are
knocking at the door and members of
the Farmers Alliance. Whether the
moss back aristocracy of tho demo
cratic party will allow this class to
press itself on them remains to be
seen.
By the way, it is rumored in these
quarters that there is to bo in Bal
cigh the 14th inst., a meeting of
laboring men, for the purpose of
considering the formation of a Labor
Union Party in North Carolina.
What does this mean ? Does it
mean that the poor white laboring
man has just found out that the old
bourbon democratic parly has no love
for him and is opposed to universal
education, local self government and
protection to American laborers and
mechanics ?
Tho fact of the matter is, the poor
laboring white man is becoming to
see that the democratic party is no
friend to him, and his only hope is to
make a strike for the liberation of
himself and family.*
So we welcome the Union Labor
Party, and trust that courage, wisdom
and principle may characterize its
movemeut. And it may be that in
all this rise of parties the God of hosts
has His Hand in it, and in the end
the black man may receive that justice
and protection he is entitled to un
der the constitution of the State and
Nation.
Well, we have been startled again
at the outrageous murder of a young
man of color at Asheville a few weeks
ago.
What a blot on the fair name and
fame of that delightful section of the
grand old State. We are often put
to it to satisfy our mind as to the
civilization and christanity of some
people. The worst of the matter
was the hanging of the wrong man,
we were told.
This state of things cannot last
forever. The colored man has suffered
much at the hands of those who
interpret the Bible for us and who
wrote our theology, and who pretend
to keep the commandments, one of
which says : “thou shalt not kill.”
Wc arc a firm believer in Holy Writ
and would direct the attention of i
these violators of law that it is written
on the pages of tho sacred volume,
“He that shodeth man’s blood, by
man shall his blood be also shed.”
See the truth of this in South Caro
lina where a white man was lynched
by colored men.
With the continual increase in
education of the race and such staunch
friends as Dr. Haygood of Georgia,
the day of lynching colored men in j
a wholesale manner will soon come to I
an end.
Ethiopia shall soon stretch her!
hands unto God, and His justice will j
not sleep forever.
Let colored men stop fawning and j
stand erect in tho full statue of;
American manhood and go in to make
for themselves character and have a
proper regard for virtue, aud in all
their dealing with their fellow man
let honesty be uppermost.
Last week was court week, his
Honor Judge Shepherd presiding.
The State docket was quite large but
no capital cases. Court did not last
but three or four days, leaving the
docket still heavy laden with eases of
violations against the law of God and
man. If people would pay more
attention to building up the homes
and the commandments observed more .
closely, there would not be so many
of the character of the cases tried at [
this court. However Utah is ahead, j
Yours, Sam.
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mothers for their children. During the process
of teething its value is incalculable. It relieves
the child from pain, cure* dysentery and diar
rho*tt, griping in the (towels, and wind-eolic.
By giving health to the child It rests the
mother Priee 2Se. a bottle.
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