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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President:
ISEN.J AMIN HARR ISON,
Os Indiana.
For Vice-President:
LEVI P. MORTON,
Os New York.
republican State ticket.
FOR (10VERN0B :
OLIVER II DOCKERY,
oT Richmond county.
for lieutenant—governor :
JETER C. PRITCHARD,
of Madison county.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE :
GEORGE IV. STANTON,
of Wilson county.
FOR AUDITOR OF STATE :
CHARLES F. McKESSON,
of Burke county.
FOR STATE TREASURER :
GEORGE A. BINGHAM,
of Bov,'an county.
FOR FERINTENDEST OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION :
JAMES B. MASON,
of Orange county.
FOR ATTORNEY-UENSRAI. :
THOMAS. I>. DEVEREUX,
of Wake county.
For Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court—to fill tbc vacancy
cussed by 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. FURCHES,
of Iredell county.
RALPH P. BUXTON,
of Cumberland county.
FOR CO.NOKESS —SIXTH DISTRICT :
CALEB P. LOCKEY.
Republican County Ticket.
Senate.—lt. E. McDonald.
House.—J. M. Creighton, Eli
Hinson, F. I). Davis.
Register of Deeds.—R. 11. IV.
Barker.
Sheriff.—M. A. Dulin.
Surveyor.—l). C. Flow.
Coroner. —C. A. Frazier.
Tax Collectors—W. G. Ford.
FORD vs. COOPER.
The republicans of Mecklenburg
county have been troubled with three
candidates for tax collector. The
favorite candidates are W. G. Ford
and T. S. Cooper. McMatthews is
running in the lower end of the coun
ty, but it is not thought he will carry
off many votes.
Mr. Cooper was put ou the republi
can ticket as an independent democrat,
and that offended Mr. Ford and a
number of old line republicans, and
Ford was persuaded to run as an inde
pendent republican. He has the sup
per: of aeh republicans as Col. W.
K Myers. Judge W. P. Bynum, A.
Brady, Gen. R. Barringer, H. B.
Kennedy, J. M. Goode, L. P Perry
and J. T. Sehonck. Mr. Cooper has
he new converts and the professional
politicians, who are for Cooper for j
revenue only.
We have favored Mr. Ford from j
■ : < beginning, but preferred to keep!
ir ~ut of the paper for the good of the j
party. We have thought much of the I
situation ami as the time has come for
to take u rtand on one side or the
• ••it r, wo freely and unhesitatingly
boeisrn for W G. Ford.
Mr. Ford has been a life-long, con- ;
' nt republican, nod because he is;
j poor man. was slaughtered in the 1
convention by Cooper money. Many
slanderous false charges have been
created and brought up against Mr.
Ford, some of Cooper’s canvassers
even going so far as to charge him
with being a murderer. Such lios are
disgusting to thinking men and arc
making votes for Ford.
We are told that we should sup
port Cooper because ho is on the ticket.
In the first place there was a distinc
tion in the fraudulent convention when
the ticket was made. All wore nomi
nated except Cooper, and he was en
dorsed. Calvin was emphatic in read
ing the report. Then Cooper was not
a republican at that time, and when
republicans are ignored, voters arc
left to select such democrats as suit
them best, and this paper prefers to
make no choice of democrats, and
when there is no republican to vote
for we vote blank, as we have done
heretofore. In this case we have
selected an old line, true and tried
republican to vote for against two
democrats.
It is urged by Cooper’s republican
friends that it will injure the State
and National ticket to vote for Ford.
This is not true. The canvass for
the two candidates has only served to
arouse and bring out a fuller republi
can vote, if it has had any effect. It
will take no votes from the Legislature
or the remainder of the county ticket,
for Ford will not trade with democrats
by having his name on any except the
republican ticket.
The canvass on the republican side
has been a factional one; and while
the county candidates have been
forced by the ccouimittcc to ignore
Ford and all his friends, and while
Ford’s friends work for the balance of
the ticket, all who do not fall in line
for Cooper at the behest of the boss,
is branded a democrat and the like.
We will not be driven out of the
party by men who force democrats on
us contrary to our wishes and who are
in the hire of the democratic party.
We are sticking to the republican
principles and republican nominees.
When Harrison is elected, as he will
be on next Tuesday week, we will
be satisfied.
When we see the best republicans
in the party revolting against Cooper
and the policy that put him on the
people, what can we do but stand by
our own record and by the true men
of our party and by the platforms and
principles of our party. We could
not support Cooper if we wanted to,
after holding him up to the people as
we have the last two years.
What is Cooper’s record since the
colored people of this county elected
him sheriff two years ago ? llow has
he treated prisoners ? How has he
treated white republicans and how has
he treated colored men ? When has
he ever appointed a colored man on
jury or deputy or anything else he
had an opportunity to do? He has
had the appointing of several venires,
the tax collectors, baliffs and the like
and how does he deserve the support
of the republican party ?
Cooper does not deserve the colored
vote and we advise all colored voters
to vote the republican ticket from
Harrison down to township constable,
hut in this county vote for W. G.
Ford for tax collector. There is a
chance of electing Ford. If he gets
the hulk of the colored vote he will
be elected; for democrats will vote
for Cooper and he will thereby cut
down Torrence’s vote. Let republi
cans rally to Ford and he will be
elected. \ /
schools, i
j| church, like a race of people,
should not he content till its institu
tions and general conditions arc as
near equal the best as is reasonable to
hope for. One church should not
depend Upon another any more than
one man on another. Taking this
view of the matter, nearly all the
different denominations in this State
have church schools The Baptists
have Shaw University at Raleigh; the
Presbyterians, Biddle University at
Charlotte for hoys, and Scotia Semi
nary for girls, at Concord; the Epis
copalians, St. Augustine at Raleigh;
the M. E. church, Bennett at Greens
boro; the A. M. K. church have
theirs at Kittrclls; Zion church, Liv
ingstone College at Salisbury.
Only the Presbyterians have sepa
rate schools for male and female, and
for that reason alone nearly as many ;
girls attend Scotia ns all the other
schools combined. They are not all
Presbyterian girls, but many of them i
become Presbyterians afterwards.
Many Methodist parents send their
daughters to Scotia because they do
not believe in the co-education of the
sexes. There is a difference of opin •
ion on this question, and while we
may not discuss it here, wo do not
hesitate to say that it is a fact that
many of our best men think that way
and many of our best girls arc getting
away from us because we will not see
the facts as they are.
The one fact that the white people
with their great advantages of homo
training and race pride, have but few
mixed high schools, is evidence to us
that it is not well for us in tbc face of
our undisciplined mixed society. As
a race we*nced all the safeguards we
can possibly have thrown around us.
Separate schools are not only safer,
but better and cheaper. A girl has
more time to study and less to spend
in writing notes and in socials, when
she is at a separate school. It does
not take so much to dress a girl nor a
young man at a separate school. We
will not discuss the matter here, hut
ask Zion ministers to prepare the way
for a female seminary in this State.
DOCKERY’S CHANCES.
Dockery’s chances for election arc
brighter than any republican’s has
been in this State since 1872. So far
as the votes being cast is concerned he
is nil right. He will have 25,000
votes to spare and if he is not declared
Governor, wo have the -worst lot of
thieves and ballot box robbers in
the country. Wo do not believe
that, We believe the honest white
men of North Carolna will see to it
that the choice of the people as ex
pressed by their votes on election day
shall bo properly registered. We do
not belcive that the honest white
men who vote for Dockery theiSselves
will abandon the fight until the votes |
are properly/counted and properly re-1
corded.
In all the papers, in all Our cone- j
spondcnce and in all our travels we |
find a great uprising for Dockery. He
is personally strong with the people, j
He is running against an unpopular
and weak man in his own party, and
if every republican will go to the polls
and vote for Dockery he will surely he
elected. The white men of central
North Carolina are about equally j
divided between Dockery and Fowlc j
and democrats vote for Fowle simply ;
because he is the party nominee. !
They abused him roundly before he j
was nominated. Fowle’s connection j
with the Raleigh batik and the special j
tax bonds and other matters the people j
of Charlotte know of makes him weak j
and unpopular. Dockery will be
elected.
A Nut For Fowlc to Crack.
I have never owned a special tax
bond, nor had any interest in one either
directly or indirectly. I am to-day
opposed to their payment, or to any
negotiation or legislation looking to
any future arrangements whereby they
may be paid or their value in any way
enhanced.
If elected Governor, I shall use all
my influence, personally as well as offi-;
cial, to defeat, by any honest means,
the present suits brought by special j
tax bondholders against the State.
and should others be instituted, I shall
defend the state against them with all 1
the vigor I have.
I have never seen or had any inter
course with Hon. L. P. Morton, or |
any one else interested in these suits.
In fact, I have no recollection of ever
having seen any of them at all, except,
it'may be, Mr. A. 11. Temple, the ;
North Carolina plaintiff who, by the
way is a democratic Federal official. I
may have been introduced to him.
While upon this subject, let me call
your attention to the fact, that there
is not a single republican politician
whose character was besmirched by the ,
corruptions of that rank epoch, hut
who has been relegated to the
shades of private life, and most of
them are insolvent.
That there has not been a campaign
in tho State siuce then including the
present, in which the democratic party
has not delighted to honor men who
have handled and owned hundreds and
thousands of these corrupt bonds, i
and whose names have attained a had 1
preeminence in the reports of the
Bragg committee and fraud commis
sion. That United States senators,
judges of tbc Supreme Court, mid
governors have been made, and are
still proposed to be, out of such ma- ,
terial. I repeat: I opposed the
issue of bonds under it lam opposed
now. and shall continue to oppose any
negotation or legislation, looking in
any way to their betterment. T have
never, in any way, lawful nr unlawful,
honest or dishonest, given them coun
tenance or support. Can and will my
competitor, Mr. Fowle, say the same?
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