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THE OLEANER GRAHAM, N. C., AUGUST 25th. 1880. T. B. ELDRIDGE,) J.». KERNODLE, [ EdUor *' "NATIONAL TICKET. For Present, WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK, Of Pennsylvania. For Vice-President, WILLIAM 11. ENGLISH, Oi Indians. STATETKKET. • For Governor, THOMAS J. JAR VIS, Of Pitt. For.Lreutenant Governor, JAMES L. ROBINSON, Of Macon. - For Secretary of State, WILLIAM L. SAUNDERS, Of Orange For Treasurer, J. M. WORTH, Of Randolph. Attorney General, THOMAS S. KENAN, Of Wilton. For Anditor. W. P. ROBERTS, Of Gates. F®» Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. JOHN C. SCARBOROUGH, Of Johnston. Electors at Large, . GENERAL J. M. LEACH, FABIUS H. BUSBEE. For Judge of the Superior Court, sth District, JOHN A. GfLMER, of Guilford. For Congress of the sth District. ALFRED M. SCALES, of Guilford. For Elector, - FRANK C. BOBBINS, of Davidson. —m » . Alamance bas begun to boom. . t. Col. John N. Staples for the 'Senate. Who will be his associate on the ticket? The Green backers bad a big meeting in Wilmington last wat*. The Star •ays that there were noi much more than 4 doctfn voters in the procession. Notwithstanding the great snowing under tbal Weaver received in Alabama, be la still on the war path and expects to bn the next president. A rather Tain expectation, we imagine. The campaign haa opened In Indiana with a vigor and energy at meat upproc edentrd. On the 14th inat. nearly two hundred Democratic meetings were beld in different parts of the state. Mr. English is at the head of the state cen tral oootmittee, and is doing good work. Is the war over or not? that is the queatiota.. People who live at the South entertain an idea that it is. Perhaps it is a delusion. It not, then the Republi can party is very much deluded, or ia trying most shamefully to fasten a false imfresaion upon the minds of uninfoim% ed people. It is evident that the bloody shirt war in politios will never oeaee un til a Democratic President shall occupy , he chief plaoe in the nation, and restore harmony and brotherly love between the different sections of our country. VATT A*I«A«A AAV AUK ou * Prom all quarters, come the most j cheering reporte of the political situation. The Democracy allfort r the o nntry is ful ly slivh to the importance of active work. The campaign ia being push ad at every point, with excellent prospects of soo ca«. Every day brings tidings of lead ing Republican* who have given in their adherence to Htnoock, and still the good work mo vac forward. States that have hitherto been republican, are now conceded to be doubtful, while the en thusiasm of Democrats in Republican states, is unbounded. A Maasachnaetta correspondent of the national committee, tnitea that Democrats in that state are confident of gaining two or three mem ben of congrea". General Thomas L. Roaser of Minnesota says that he would not be furprised to see a political revo lution in his »Ute in November. Gen. Hancoek is weiy popular in Minnesota, having on* ho®** atationed at St. Panl. Illinois is fsr from beipg oertain for the Republicans. A member of Uie execu tive committe of that elate, aays that mifrm s inaction sets in before the Holt. Erwin & Holt want everybody to come and examine their large Stock of Ooods at J]ompany^Bhops election, it will go Democratic. Such are the reports that are received daily at the Democratic National head qnartera. To say that th£ prosj>ectß for carrying the election, is good, does fiot express the situation. The indications all point to a sweeping vi.t.ry for Han cock and English in November. Judge Buxton and General Barringer evidently think that a man louud guilty of a felony is entitled to some mark of distinction to elevate him above the level of oidinary men. It leemß that they regard exemption from taxation as proper reward for the services that felons render the state. We reproduce below, extracts from the public records with remarks by the Charlotte Obse\~ver. "No persons who, upon conviction or confession in open court, shall hereafter be adjudged guilty of felony or' any other crime iufamoua by the laws of this ■State, shall be entitled to a vote .at any eleotion under the laws of this State, unless such person shall be restor ed to the rights of citizenship in a mode prescribed by law.— Journal oftke Con vention of 1875. Wilson Cary, a colored delegate, offered the followed proviso: Provided, That no person or persons disfranchised under the provisions of this ordinance shall be required to. pay public tax. Buxton and Barringer voted for this proviso. With the unlettered African it was a question of protecting his own race and colar. "Exemption from tax ation" is an "exclusive privilege," in. hibited by the constitution of this State except for "eminent publio service." The effect of C»ry'« proviso was to make theft an "eminent public service," entitling the thief to "exemp iou from taxation." The benighted African did not have the intelligence to comprehend this. How was it with Buxton acd Barringer? We pause for an answer." Nlm* Ncllwal I'MruiMH. -p.. - ——— [From the N. T. Journal of Commerce.] The Treasury Department is lending itself to tbe promotion of aectionalism. It is making odious comparison* between the North and the South. It is seeking to show how much poorer in all materi al resources M the South than tbe North, it throw* out this information as a cam paign document. There is no proteose that the alleged facts and figures given to the public iu this way were put forth to satisfy legiti mate curiosity. Mr. Sherman was .re quested by Mr. McPherson, Secretary of the Republican Congressional Corns I mittee, to answer a string of questions : expressly propounded to disparage tbe South iu contrast with tbe North. Every question—eighteen in number—has this design plainly stamped upon it. Only such inquiries were made as every body knew would put the South at a disacU vantage io the comparison* instituted. For example, concerning railroads and internal oommerca. imports and exports, revenue* collected acd paid to the getters *1 government, manutacturos, mines and bauka. These interrogatories all relate to tangible wealth. And to each and every one of them answer is easily made that the South is less rich and prosper ous than the North. But we aH knew that beiore. Tbore was no need of puts ting the whole staff of tbe Bureau of statistics upou the task of discovering faots, which proved when produced to be of universal acceptance and which tho South herself has never sought to conceal or disguise. Since the war the South has pleaded her poverty frankly. She has uever ceased to tell the world how much she was injured by accession. This known poverty, from which she is now but slowly emerging, has beon Due of her best claims upon the iorebearing treat* ment of the North. It was a good and sufficient resasou why Foderal legislation should not have been directed to crush ing out the spirit ot aolf reliance and re covery wherever she showed it; It WM a reason wby carpet bag government should never have been allowed to op press and rob the Southern people under Federal protection. It was a reason wby Congiess sboulcl have developed and encouraged, by every practicable mean*, a healthy Union feeling al the South. Considering the terrible losses sufierpd by tbe South duriug the war oft tbe rebellion and tbe era ot misgovern? ment whieb followed it and the reoent business depression which afflicted her in common with tbe reet ot the eountry, we think she ha* no reason to be asbaoa. Ed of the exhibit made tor hcc by Secres tary Sherman. She is much better off than the thought the would be fliteen years ago, at tbe ciooe ot Are year* of war, which left her wasted and worn. But, whatever tfae degree of her poverty nay now be* His no proper subject for official oommeut. Poverty may not be a merit. But it is not a crime. That is .very bad breeding which can find in tbe straitened condition of a mau or commas nHy material for Jokes or imffammatory : sampaten documents.. Such manners •specially need correction when they are fcnnd in the head of a Federal departs ment. Mr. Sherman is An officer of tbo i nation— net of the North or the West— and it is a pure impertinence and a gross discourtesy ou bio part to use liis official position to run down the South, to hold her up to tho discredit not only of tlie North and West but also of the whole world. This is n case covered by the proverb about the kind of bird that fouls its own nest. The Secretary intends to limit ihe injury of his publication to the South. Bat to far as it shall be read and and believed abroad, it will do damage to the whole country, impairing foreign confidence In our general resources and retarding immigration to every part of the United States. The point of the document—that for which the unnecessary questions Were asked and answered—is to show that the South, being so much poorer than the North, ought to take a much humbler part in national affairs. Under a form of government like ours nothing could be sillier than this reasoning. Men, not money bags (ought to) make our laws. A man's fitness to go to Congress or be President of the United States should be gauged by his brains and moral?, not by his bank account. What has the present condition of her commerce, or finances, or mines, or manafaclurers lo do with the capacity of the South to supply men qualified to take intelligent part in pub* lie aduira and legislate judiciously ou questions of national concern? Nothing whatever. To assert the contrary it a mere assnmptioa. LANDL9BD AND TKNANT ACTA. [Correspondence Lexington Exchange.^ Tbe recent Republican Slate Conven tion at Raleigh adopted a platform in which they denounce the laws known as the"laulord and tenant acts." That party had a similar plank in its platform in 1876. These laws were denounced at two different «ouyentions of tnat party, and by its press, (which is calculated if not intended to prejudice one class of people against another), I feel it my duty to call tbe attention ot the public to certain facts which seem not to be known. Tbere aro two landlord and tenant acts now in force, on our Statute books. One in Battle's Uevisal, chap. 64, page 552. The othcr.in the laws of 1876 '77. The Republicans passed iho for tier, the Democrats the latter. I take it, they are denouncing the latter as they would hardly denounce their own law. Now, le» us examine the act ot 1876-77. When the Legislature of that year met, quite a number ot bills on that subject were in» troduced, among them ouclby myselljand all referred to tho Committee on the Ju diciary, of which I was a member. There was a great contrariety ot pro visions in these bills. Tbe Committee re ferred them all to me with the request | that I report to it a substitute for all of them. 1 bad a hard contested case in my practice under tbe act of 1874-75, which developed its defective machinery. 1 determined to assist ail I could to cor rect it. 1 fell much interost in the sub" ject and gave It my careful atttention, spaiing neither pains or labor for several weeks. I studied tbo bills, examined the acts on that subject in various States, or file in tbe public libraries ia the capi tal. si drew a substitute aud reported it to the Committee, which reported . it to the House of Representatives without amendment. It was reached on the calendar, March Ist, 1877. I fully ex plained each and every section, frequent ly answering questions from Willis Bar ley, Esq., and other Republican a (which quesiiuns seeuied to Be asked simply for for informatin and not by way of autago onizing the bill) to their satisfaction. The vote ou it was taken by ayes and noes, when 88 voted tor the bill includ* ins every Republican both white and colored. And 10 yoted against the bill, every one being Democrat». it then passed its third and last reading" without objection." See House Journal 1876-77 pages 660 and 661. la tbe Senate Ibe bill was referred to tbe Committee on tbe Judiciary, wbicb reported tbe 7tb section as an amende dment* When it was reached otr tbe calendar it passed its several readings without objection, division or calHng the ayes and not*— llepabiicaus and Demo crats alike voiing for it. See Senate Journal 1876-77, page 774. It repeals tbe act of 187-4-75. Tbe law ia plain, simple and perfectly fair to both laud lord and tenant—lessor and lessee. Tbe first and secSlid-sestioDßgire each party tba remedy of "c"aim and delivery" against tbe other in case Ibe other took tbe crops and ret used to divide. Tbe 8d and 4th sections give each a plain action in caee he preferred h, against tbe other iu Justice's or Superior Coort, according to the amount involved, lit case ot appeal, each protects the other by bond according as be is appellant or appellee. Tbe 6th provides that in case neither aires tbe bond tbe Sheriff sella the prop erty and "holds the proceeds subject' to the decision of tbe Court." In tbe da* peri or Coort tbe return terns is made tbe trial term, in order to give each a apeedy remedy. This is tbe case in no other notion in JSforM) Carolina. The 6th seciiou makes It a misdemean lor tbe lessee, or any other person to re move the crops from tbe Isnd without complying with the term of the lease. This in all tbe bill provides fon m. it. rwxix. GARPIELD THE PBEHIDHI" HA I. FKAUO. {From the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Farmer.] Not even the nomination of Ilayes himselfcoukl have brought the great fraud issue more prominently before the people than did Ihe selection of Mr. Gar field. Ho was one ofthe visiting states men to Louisiana and as such partici> pated in the arrangements and consum mation of the gross frauds by which the Tilden majority in that state was oblit erated. He went to-New Orleans with a very definite Idea of the dirty work ex pected of him, for he wrote to his intimate friend, President Ilindsdale of Hiram College, as follows, before he slarted: - "Last evening the President telegraph ed me from Philadelphia requesting me 'to go to New OrlcaNS and remain there until the vote wns counted, acting as a witness of the count. I wns a good deal embarassed by tho request (or several reasons. First, Ihe .President has no power In tho case, and I could only act in a personal and irresponsible way, with the danger that I might be con« sidercd an intermedler; second, I did not know who else was going, ai.d 1 might find myself associated with violent partisan Republicans who mean to count our side in per fas or -tie fas. Itjj that case I should be called npou to assent to the injustice or to make a report which ' would call down upon me all the pas. I sious of this passionate hour." He foresaw the situation very accurate but did not havo the courage or the honesty to face "all the passion'' of his party by reporting tho truth. Ho aided the fradulent work of tho returning • board and signed fhe lying report writ ten by Sherman. That infamy completed he returned to engage in another. On the Electoral Compromise coming before the house, he was one of those put for ward to deceive the Democrats into its adoption, by asserting that it provided for a review of the fraudulent counts in Louisiana and Florida. His language was as follows: "It (the Compromise bill) assnmes the right of Congress to go down into the eolleges and iuqnire into all the acts and facts conuected with their work. It as* suraes the right oi Congress to go down into the states, to review te act of every officer, to open every ballot box, ind to pass judgmeut ou eyery ballot cast by seven millions of Americans." Plainer or more emphatic language could uot have been used. It placed Mr. Garfield on record as asserting lhat tbe bill authorized the electoral commission ers "to go behind .the returns," the privilege forwbtch tbe Democrats con tended. Mr. Garfield was afterwards appointed a member of the electoral commission, and thus had au opportunity of applying his own interpolation of the bill to the law. The Florida case first came belore the commission, and full evidence was proffered that the Tilden electors had been chosen by the people, but counted out by the canvassing board. Then came the test of Mr. Garfield's honesty, and it failed him, precisely as it had in Now Orleans. His vo;e was one ot the eight whish excluded the proffered evidence. lie denied, by his vote, his own previous interpretation of the bill. One of two conclusions must be reached, that be is so thoroughly as not to hesitate at even perjury, or that he is so weak as to be totally incapable ot honesty when urged to dirty work by his party'B managers. But whichever is accepted, it is certain that he is response ble in a very great degree for tbe perpe tration of the great fraud. At two stages it was in his power to have prc> vented this great wrong npou the people and the republic. He was too dishonest or too weak aud cowardly to seize either opportunity. Such material is uot presidential timber. CArT.BAI.PII P. BUXTON, LaTM OF TUB CONVKOER/ TB ABIT, ! __ (Raleigh News,) I It will be remembered that in the re ports of the speeches wf Judge Buxton during the campaign, he has bad a great deal to say about the war, whu brought it en,about flighting against the Union, the destruction of a million of lives, &c. It waa kuknowu to tbe Governor, aud probably to the neonle generally until last Saturday at Carthage, that the Judge ever bad ever taken any part in fighting agaiust the Union, but infbnraiioii came in poMetslon ot tbe Governor that early hi the wa Judge Buxton was engaged in raising a company for service in the Confederate army, but before bis corns pany waa ready for a fight, he resigned his taptaiucy, turned bis c muand over to bis nephew and went to Greensboro and engaged in tLe manufacture of salt petre to make gunpowder for tbe boys to shoot the Union with. In consequence of ibis valuable service rendered the Confederacy, in trying to destroy tbe Uuiou. Governor Jar vis turned to tbe Judge and introduced bhn to tbe audience as CAPTAIH HALPH P. BUXTOH, late of tbe Confederate army, but more recently of tiwSelpetre Bureau. le is utterly impossible to describe tte effect this au nouncement made upon tbe audience. Tbe spplause was tremen dous, the Captain simply smiled one \of those peculiar smiles when the Governor gets tbe dean wood on bira. Tbe Governor urged tbe Captain to coutinuo his joint oanvals and not to leave him, but he said his Executive Committee bad made other and different j arrangements and be bad to obey. * * WISH 111 UB ' • BRICK WAREHOUSE, Durham. N. C., / Is selling more tobiiceothan every other warehouse in Durham and is the only in Durham t*hat ever made a special sale for the & ■ - , FARMERS OF ALAMANCE. We now have demand for 100,000 Pounds of Good to Fine Fillers. . 200,000 ' " Smokers. 50,000 w " u " Wrappers. 25,000 " " " «Fancy « In tact we are buying all grades Very largely. Come along and brins all YOUR NEIGHBORS and try us with a load of GOOD TOBACCO and we think yon will go home satisfied. 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We ask the people to call and aee for tpregt> and then to buy from as or not. as in their judgment will bes* wr»e „ e A r^)vTT _5.3.80. HOLT, ERWIN 4 HOLi.
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