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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President:
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
Os Indiana.
For Vice-President:
LEVI P. MORTON,
Os New York.
REPUBLICS STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR:
OLIVER H. DOCKERY,
of Richmond county.
roll LIEUTENANT—GOVERNOR :
JETER C. PRITCHARD,
of Madison county.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE :
GEORGE W. STANTON,
of Wilson county.
FOR AUDITOR OF STATE :
CHARLES F. McKESSON,
of Hurke county.
FOR STATE TREASURER :
GEORGE A. BINGHAM,
of Bowan county.
FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION :
JAMES B. MASON,
of Orange county.
FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL :
THOMAS. P- DEVEREUX,
of Wake county.
For Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court—to fill the vacancy
caused 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 CONGRESS —SIXTH DISTRICT :
CALEB P. LOCKEY.
Republican Comity Ticket.
Senate.—ll. E. McDonald.
House.—J. M. Creighton, Eli
Hinson, F. D. Davis.
Register of Deeds.—R. 11. W.
Barker.
Sheriff.—M. A. Dulin.
Surveyor.—D. C. Flow.
Coroner.—C. A. Frazier.
Tax Collector —W. G. Ford.
KITCHEN TALK.
When we hear things we put but
little faith in, we often say it is
“Kitchen talk.” We had some gen
uine, sure enough Kitchen talk last
Monday night, or talk from a genuine
Kitchen man. We do not vouch for
his talk more than the ordinary
kitchen talk. While Col. Dockery
talked to thousands of democrats and
republicans in the Mint yard, Mr.
Kitchen talked to about 150 white
men in front of the Central hotel.
After Col. Dockery had finished, a
few others stopped for curiosity and
swelled his crowd much. His friends
seeing this urged him to go on.
Mr. Kitchen has the appearance of
a country preacher and his voice
reminds one of an animal they say
Balaam rode, and he uses it in regular
old time Methodist style. He has
check and lungs and prejudice to make
a thorough going bourbou
But few colored men heard him,
we are sorry to say, for if any colored
man could vote a democratic ticket
after hearing him speak, he should be
sent to Goldsboro for safe keeping.
He said God decreed that white
men should rule and he never intends
to submit to Negro rule. That it was
the intention of the republicans to
benefit the Negro and the republican
par ty by enfranchising the Negro but
the democratic party is benefited by it
to tine extent of 48 additional Con
gressmen and electoral votes. That
“we lave them by the heels and in
tend to maul the life out of the party
with the Negro vote of the South.”
He argued that the colored man is
incapacitated to govern, after working
in the fields over a hundred years.
He said the white man will protect
the colored man but the colored man
would not protect the white man.
We wonder if he ever heard of a
civil war in this country and if he
knows who protected the helpless
women and children of the South, and
fed and clothed the Southern soldiers.
He said it would take time for the
colored man to become educated and
capable to govern—and seeing him
self in a box here, he said it was a
question whether the Negro will be
exterminated or absorbed. We would
like to hear Mr. Kitchen discuss how
the Negro is to be absorbed. He
said the blacker we keep and the
whiter the white man keeps the more
we honor God. How does he recon
cile this thing ?
He said God created the Negro with
black skin, kinky hair, flat nose, thick
lips and long heel for a purpose.
That the white man is the natural
superior and ruler of the Negro. He
knew nothing commendable of the
Negro. He then had the audacity to
appeal to colored men to vote for his,
the white mans’ party. But oh no,
he didn’t mean to raise the color line.
lie said he was ashamed of the
nine democrats who voted for the
Blair bill. That not an honest demo
crat was in favor of it. That it was a
mere scheme to tax white men to
educate Negroes.
Colored men can you vote to sus
tain such a party! Will you by
negligence stay away from the polls
next Tuesday and thereby keep this
party in power? We think not. No
honest, no decent colored man will
stay from the polls next Tuesday, or
hesitate to vote the full republican
ticket from President to township
constable. Let the Kitchen talk go
for its full value, and don’t be dull
in comprehending the intents of the
democratic party. I ote early and
vote straight.
THE BIGHT TICKET.
Next Tuesday is election day. It
is important that every voter gets the
right ticket and secs that it is put in
the right box. Don’t let your dem
ocratic friends fix up your ticket; for
he may weigh your bacon right, and
measure your cloth straight, but
voting is something else, and many
men say all thigs are fair in polities.
Sec that you have on your tickets the
names that you sec in this paper.
Many of the reading men of this
county don’t know to-day who to vote
for to cast the vote for Harrison. In
other words they don’t know the
difference between Harrison and
Cleveland electors. Be careful to
look at all the tickets before they arc
deposited. Be sure you vote the
republican ticket straight through.
The republicans favor protecting
American labor and American indus
tries. They favor educating the
masses. They favor reducing the
tariff on the necessities and raising it
on the luxuries. They favor abolish
ing the internal revenue tax. They
favor repealing the present system of
county government and allowing the
people to elect their own county
officers, school commissioners and
justices of the peace.
Be sure you vote the republican
ticket with W. G. Ford on the county
ticket for tax collector.
PROHIBITIONISTS WAIT.
There are a few colored probibi-
I tionists in this county and elsewhere
; who read this paper. We want to
say to them, in our judgment it is
their duty to vote the republican
' ticket this time aud wait till next year
: to show the country how strong they
) arc. That is all they hope to do.
They don’t expect to elect anybody,
i but their votes taken from Dockery
1 ! may cause his defeat Don’t you
1 ; remember Dockery was beaten for
i Congressman at Large six years ago
, b, only 400 votes ? He is stronger
i now than then. Your votes may be
i the deciding votes. Yen know well
i Mr. Walker cannot be elected. Then
1 1 suppose you give all your strength to
Fisk, from whoso vote the estimate
will be made any way, and vote for
Dockery ?
It is important that the republicans
redeem this State government. We
have great hopes of doing so now,
but our friends should not desert us
in this hour of need, simply to gratify
an ambition in a fruitless fight. Wc
appeal to colored prohibitionists to
think. If you will not : vote for*
Harrison, give us one vote for Dock
ery. Don’t throw away a when
it might count so much by pasting it
another way. The prohibition votes
may be all that is neoded (to elect
Dockery. We know Mr. Fisk to be a
great and good man and do mot ask
now for more than your vote for
Dockery. Haven’t you thought al
ready? Lend us your aid colored
prohibitionists and we hope to he all
together in the next two years. Vote
for Dockery now.
CAMPAIGN MONEY.
Both parties seem to be in hard luck
here for money to inanagethc campaign.
The democrats aro quietly begging
and collecting every day. The office
holders are assessed as in republican
days and Mr. Cleveland and other
big ones set the example early by
giving §IO,OOO each.
The democratic press is having much
to say of the impropriety and the sin
of Northern republicans sending money
here to he used in this Campaign. If
it is necessary for democrats to use
money it may be necessary for republi
can to use some also, and as the dem
ocrats have all the offices and republi
cans are generally poor their money
must come from another source.
Some money is needed to help repub
licans make a successful canvass in
this State. If the necessary and legi
timate expenses of this campaign could
be properly mot, the republicans
would carry this State by a good ma
jority. Mecklenburg county can be
carried if properly managed.
It has been said by many that
money has been sent to this county to
help the republicans. If that be true
we can learn nothing of it though it
is badly needed.
FALLEN ASLEEP.
The Angel of Death has never rid
den and snatched more constantly and
rapidly in this community, (except in
times of disastrous epidemics) as lie
has for the past few weeks; and, on
Saturday morning Oct. 20th, at 1
o’clock, while the world with its busy
and heavy cares seemed sleeping, the
home of one of Wilmington’s most
trusted and loved citizens, Mr. J. K.
Sampson, Register of .Deeds for New
Hanover county, was visited and the
beloved wife of many years was called
from suffering to happiness—from
earth to Heaven.
Never was a greater gloom cast
over one little city than that caused
by the loss of this estimable lady; for
since her advent to this city as a bride
from Charleston, S. C., her quiet, yet
great deeds of love and charity have
been innumerable.
To know her, was to love her ; and
though of the old, artistic and refined
family of Deßecfs, in South Carolina,
and connected with an equally highly
respected family (Sampsons of North
Carolina) she was never too busy, too
much engaged, or weary to listen to,
sympathize with, aud help a follow
creature, as was testified by the large
concourse of mourning friends of both
races, and all grades of society, on
the day of her funeral. Men and
women from the higher walks of life,
inerehauts and laborers, wives and
widows, well dressed children and
I street waifs, sheriff and criminal alike
crowded around her resting place feel
ing the same great and painful loss,
shedding the same sincere tear, and
j using the same meant expression,
I “My friend is gone.”
Mrs. Sampson has been ill for some
time and those who knew and loved
her, hardly thought that she’d ho
restored to her accustomed place
around the fireside, in church and
society, and yet —and yet—we had so
earnestly hoped and prayed for her
recovery; and yet we would not com
plain, for wc “Know what o’er befall
cth, Jesus doth all things well.”
Mrs. Sampson was about 50 years
j old, and spent tho better part of her
i life “Going about doing good” in
] thu city of Wilmington.
' Her funeral ceremonies was held in
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Sun
day October 21st, 1888, at 2:30 j
o’clock, P. M. A touching and j
effectual eulogy was paid by Rev. C. I
Coerr, which melted every eye to 1
tears,,when his great tributes to her
wifely devotion, sinccro friendship
and ehristion graces were paid, and !
through ail that great congregation, j
though not a sound was heard, not
even a groan, every man aud woman’s |
silent tear proved his sympathy for |
the deeply afflicted husband. Several
times did the scene become so effect
ing, and the feelings so moved that
great pauses occurred in the sermon
because of the Rev. Coerr’s over
whelming grief; yes—all understood, j
The lady was a great lover of
nature, and never did Wilmington pay
greater homage with beautiful floral i
tributes, than on this occasion.
Oh, what a great life. What a [
beautiful close ! What an exemplary, j
womanly example to so live that when !
our summons comes to transport us to j
the great and blessed Beyond, we
have simply to fall “Asleep in Jesus,”
and the world arises and call us
blessed.
M. L. Whiteman.
Wilmington, N. C., Oct. 25, 1888.
TO EDUCATE THE NEGRO.
Noble Gift of a Wealthy New Eng-j
lander.
New York, Oet. 25. A New
Haven, Conn., special says : Daniel
Hand, an aged man and wealthy resi
dent of Guilford near this city, has
given to the American Missionary
Association of New York city tho sum
of §1,000,000 to ho held in trust by
the Association and the interest to ho
devoted to tho education of colored
people in the old slave states of the
south. Tho association is to have un
restricted charge of the expenditure of
the interest except that it must be de
voted to the education of such colored
people as are needy and indigent,
and such ashy their health, strength,
and vigor of body and mind give in
dications of efficiency and usefulness
in after life.
Mr. Daniel Hand, the donor of this
noble gift, was a grocer in Charleston,
S. C., before tho war, and being of
northern sentiments was forced to fly
to the north when the war broke out,
leaving all of his property, of about
§130,000, in charge of George W.
Williams, his confidential clerk and a
southerner.
Mr. Williams used the property
profitably during the war, and, by in
vestment in southern pine lands, be
came very rich. Six years ago Judge
Luzon B. Morris, counsel for Mr.
Hand, advised the latter to seek a
settlement with Mr. Williams.
Mr Williams came to New Haven
and honorably paid up the originnnl
sum and interest amounting to §O4B,
000, sending on the last instalment
two years ago. This amount, with
the accrued interest, forms tho great
bull; of the sum now returned to the
south by Mr. Hand. Under the
terms of the trust not more than §IOO
is to be expended for the education of
any single colored person.
Cleveland’s Failure as a Reformer.
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.
There can hardly he a doubt that
the success of the democracy in 1884
was due to the belief of the inde
pendent voters in this and other States
that Mr Cleveland would faithfully
carry out the pledges lie made to en
force the Civil-service Act, and make
capacity and integrity the supreme
test in all appointments to office.
These pledges were positive and em
phatic. They wore without qualifi
cation of any sort. How have they
been kept? One or two illustrations
will afford a sufficient, answer to tl.is
question. Mr. Cleveland has been in
office three years and a half, and out
of 50,230 postmasters who were in
office when he entered upon his duties,
; 42,942 have been removed for partisan
reasons. Take another branch of the
public service. There is not a custom
house collector or a customs surveyor
who was on duty when Mr. Cleveland
took his seat who is in office today,
and out of all the collectors ofjntcrnal
j revenue in tho country when he as
j sumed the duties of President, hut
one remains. Now, these wholesale
removals have not occurred by acci
dent. They are the result of a dc
i liberate partisan policy—a policy
which subordinates the publie.itiforests
to partisan end*. It goes without
! saying that no man who honestly
i desires to hasten the divorce of our
i public service from politics, and
! stamp out the odious spoils system,
can vote to continue an Administration
which, in violation of solemn pledges
has enormously increased the difficulty
: of achieving that result.
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