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BETWEEN THE CENTEAI HOTEL AND THE JOMM 4 iSHaviDg just reced il-om . obnsisting-dleautinil iirie of spring and summer prints, Cas?i iners, FlaiJlsSh a wi. Alamance, Bea 'DomesticrAtpabas, BoDts aud SUcWlen s and- 1307s wool (Groceries 6tm MM!teJwpmwy the Best C0FF&. SUB.ltf l&riBlCKto much eruj, jxiuaacu u.uu all of whilJiSilI be sold at HARD Hardware Thanking our Jfrien.ds and Jt'atrohB ixr ineir nii ouuput in the past, we hope tmerit a continuance ofiheihpatroridge. In the future bFair Dealing and Low Prices. CALL AND; EXAMINE JSIUtli Ailli l'llivw BJBaBlBJBBJBMHBSBBBBiHKiM' j. Tte ' STATBSVB Eh .;" J i It; WEBB SON, ,.4 B experience in the MARBLE businci,rW are enkwed;to do With many yci MONUMENTS, -IIEADSTOiSES, TOMBS & ? JIARBLE ci f IuNMliME .: :&ffi4erW -intoned at'short notice and at the Jo west prif 0 U'i Work secofev (xjxe fo, pnoe I,a3gris. I StatesviUe, P7 r1. la? ?? f u' 1.-4 0 s.' iUc'i i4 ', ;!.(. Jr. 3 i v - 1 -f?(iii oRt'itM tawv- I il-i J h ll-i - .I ,F. . . -, ." . ... etc. ing cer- (Our terms comp tition with conn1 3 : - 4 ' trnJ NEW GOODS! IlOiSK. ' Ithfe KORTH, a fultlffie of vytMVy c '"o" ' TIME prices for cash' or barter. C. B. Webb. all jands ' of work in C BjBwOl ttfjj m vellng 0 fiEGS CARtTFOR, 1' t " 'a :f 1 LV.:. V . ; . :" - ; . -J. . .. .' ,! ... . f ." , . fc - ; , (Carry try (Bikerv AtlUL , In the secKLsioa of my remote mot n .tairj homej&t the foot of .the Grafid- and I hate not seen, an .article., which ;s'orae Isortliern ikpir tihto i'th'e News and 0b8erveri of Raleigh; io wbfch r was named, Amon other men of much mote prominence idNortUj CarblVna?! as having "embraced the-kbees:of the President beaongiitliis smiles on their efforts to obtain office;' v The absurdity: ofr'ibe? charge, if it bad been that I had stofen a sheep, would. I hope, have relieved me of the task of noticing' it through fthet press. 'But to the shame i of the outb, the 'greed 'for office and its staoluments has corrupted so many : mW among us who had been true to thefsouth 'dur : ing all the fierce trials of the war, and whose patriotism was held to be above susplcio that souie distant Wfend, readine this of me miiht think with a sigh: "Alas I one more mail in whose honesty in politics I had confidence has yielded to -the temptation of prof fered office, and 'croofced the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning. ', Let me say that tliere is Do ground lor such a 'suspicion of me.! if I uh tierstand the present design of the Republican party uponf,N6rth Caro hna, they propose to split the Demo cratic party of the State on the issue of repealing the act of the 'legislature which provides hat the justices of the peace shall be appointed by the legis lature, instead of being elected direct ly by the people ; and to use the pat ronage of the Federal government as a mean's to accomplish ttiis end' Though llie present county govern menu are working well, I would pre fe.r, if ihe western portion of the State were the whole State, that the mais' trates should be elected directly by the people. lret I cannot! shut ray eves to the the fact that the effect of the proposed change at this time, on the eastern portion of the State, would be to put the county governments there asain into the hands of the col ored people, who have not y et acquired experience enough in conducting popular government to use! prudently a power so easily abused,; and the abuse of which is so fatal to the prosperity of the counties and of the State. : The bad consequences of 'such a change may be best understood by a retrospect of our progress during the iast few years. A few years since., under the working of the . county governments which the Republican party purpose to i estore.' incompe tence, extravagance, and (corruption had, in many of the eastern counties; so ruined the county finances that the county claims and bonds were althWc worthless and the burdeo of taxation almost intolerable. The property holders were almost in despair,- and an exodus of the white peopldf was fieriousiy discussed, and, thelr only refuge friJm " want arici I wretched ness. The ' West with) the dead carcHss t of .the East .'.chained'' to its living body, could notlbe roused toworks.of enterprise and the whole State i sei ahd energy, ecmed to. be ?v -. s ; i, a . S3 t - it 'if si ""J Under a few years of the new county governments some of the' most , distressed of those eastern counties are already out of debt, s and their county Claims at par. Almost won-, derful and most gfatifyingl impulse has been given to the frosperity of j J.he 4 East. and of the wholcatate. ;' New railroads in every part? of the State are pushing rapidly on, cool- . metion, and still others are projected,' i ana asricuuure ana manuiaciores are a3 . growing -i ana A prosperous. The heart of every true North , Carolinian swells w(thr pride as he jontemplat e a prospierity; unequalled itt the history of the Sitate.'Jf TWZ. ' Far be it froni me to aidm; the overthrow of his ha'p'py; bondition of our State r to aid lit bringing so ter rihiev a disaster upon the .&as, arid through-tbe- Jast upon1 . tbe -whole State, as would in my opinion; result from patting in u operation ; agauviit this time,', the' late system f of county governments. All , Holding these views as strongly a r ha'vj; endeavored tb express 'tWaJJC' 1 i Bpite, or the Amaa ammtioa, . whose i dinate lov ;of,fiUhy, iqcreijthbase; ujulivo oi a price paia ior comimitingi , a crime, the motive! whrcti probably; j P . a . i.'at A" ' 1 'mo ved the dirty"1 fellVwrb6i waspaid? to lie, and, among many'ottiefswrbte " bins mi. me. If I could solicit or accept an office at the price of aiding in such a work oi rum to xNorin Carolina as x am . i t- , convinced that che proposed measure would, bring about., I could no longer i respect myseir, ana wou'a,. Know ray self to be unworthy of the respect'of -Others - ! ; rJUufl.'-.:j , But while these - are iny bbnest opinions, I condemn no one wLo as honestly differs from me in mere matters of opiniou. For such, though j I may think that5' tftey ! have been blinded by pr'ejuclice, or misled ' by falsi? information, I have no word of reproach, however widely , their , con victions may differ from mine. I can even appreciate and admire their de votion to what.they think their du-y. ' But tbere are men among fes who have intelligence and capacity er.obgh to observe and think for themselves, and to form their own opinions, in stead of borrowing them from others: who during the war were on the side of the Sooth and fought gallantly to Its close, with strong professions of' zeal and sense of dutf, to 'defend a tew abstract doctrines of State rights against the usurpations of the Federal government, no great practical issue being directly idyolved at the com -, menceroHnt but the secondary and comparatively unimportant one of the prohibition of slavery in the ' ttrrito ries; and who since the close of the war, during seventeen years of pro found peace, haire beheld the party which for the time administers the Federal government, not only .reck lessly Violating every right of a btate which' was any obstacle to its contii. nance iH power bi'it wi'th equal re'efe lelUness trampling under foot those great personal and much more vital rights for which the rights of the States were devised only as additional safeguards; the rights of freedom fcom arrest and search without war rant, of habeas, corpus, of trial by jury, of an independent jndiciar, a free press, free speech and free elec tions; rights -on which the whole fabric of personal liberty and tree Government is founded, arid the de liberate violation of any one of which, before the war, would have rilled1 every portion of the United States, from Canada to Mexico, and Irom ocean to ocean, with alarm anHr indignation ; who now see this, party preparing to prostitute the power and patronage of the Federal government to the base end of making a Federal officeihold ers' raid on pur State elections - who see this party, led , by i no ; higher mo tives to all this mad and revolutionary ' ' ' exercise ot power, those high crimes against the life of liberty,' than their determination to continue at all haz arus and by any means in power; and who, seeing all this, profess now 4 ttt approve the policy' and acts of this party.'.'a'nd support it'v ith their votes and influence. Iconfess that it requites Some ef fort on my part to believe' sUch men sincere, and only the victims of poiit leaf f blindness. AVhen ' 1 see their sudden and luarvelous changes Of opinion accompanied with the receipt could have no motive for, 'joining l iri J of a faV Federal office, the ra Aril tie of 4 ray charitv is not broad enough to cover tlieir sin, nor my loathing of it. It is with such creatures as these last that the slantfefbus article-of ' which L . t , . .. .'' . ' - -complain would classify me. v. Good Lord o'eiiver. rneand all who are dear to me from being justly, liable to such a . charge. 4.; jr! i. : '.f:Vir.i: .. mlr I hope the reader .will : excuse me fur noticing a .much smaller thing-. The Neics and Observer X: t am told, accompanies the slander on me copied nto its colnmns ; with'-' the comment . that I could perhaps control one vote: The license of the press fn' discussing pubUe mert andmeasures, the heat bf political stnfeT 3 and custom; '-'which . would be Vmore honored in the breach than in ,thel observance." ni ay be so roe palliation for throwing suchi flouts at those who take an; active part In polU .ties..; whsluiam4 -Xi- W. ' have, Ls fiingieo ,oui oy name 4 rom : among tie ;nas8r ot tnereVoters tofbe f twitte, ! a a ' ." tm '"' La'-" tuus who my want oi lonuence'in ine elections r ;ir one vote -pesides my, I . wuafc 19 prooaoiy an ox?resumaie : q,. imyjibfluerice. He -iotiiuate ifnorpj 1 than1 T baVe ever tried!t; dol; To trv ' it.i . if M I before" the elections to learn how L .ought to vote, and at .the 4 elecMons, quietly .to deposit :my vote's,- has, from my jrduth upvbeVn therekient of my . activity. at the bkl lot, boxes: t! Ti Jmve i never sougui or ueta noiuicai ornce, and when solicited , have always reu ... i . . - ; - . fusecf to allow (myself to bo put in. Imjmiriattofl forioherp I ;iam too ' old now to change my'course in0 this' re- spept. j In m wild frabun tain, home I J am living .in the istrictesi : retiremcHtt; with my time ana thoughts fully Oc cupied withmy own affairs, 4 liov ts , it,'thenj that?n6voause ' I haVel Oeen, stabbed in he dark by ..lurking, foe I should receive this rqde slap t in the ifaOe from the house of my frlerids ?,J I hope that I will be 'excused for thiMking and saving that the fling at , me in the News und Observer was un called for, apd that it would have been more becoming to have omittefl it. ; 5 w; W. L&oik. Slmll's Mills, Watauga co.. ft. C. May 20th. 1882. ' , 1. ; V t)EMOCEATiO OKGANIZJLTIOIT. Rooms Demochatic Cen. Ex. Com.. :"f RALEioii, Mav 20,1882. , This cbmratttee hereby, publish the plan of organization . of the. Demo- icratio party compiled frera the ' rules arid1 amendments heretofore adopted bv th State Deoiocratic executive J - .t - .i.- ,- " r j t committee : . i ' TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION. . ' 1. The 'unit of county organisation shall be the township, fn each tow ri ship there' shall be an" executive com mittee to consist ,of ,riye active Democrats, who shall be elected by the Democratic voters-of the - several townships in meeting's"called by the county executive committee, l And said committee so elected shftii elect one of its meiribers as chairman, who -.shall preside at all said committee meefings. f 2. The several township executive committees shall convene at the meetings of the several county; con( ventions, or at any ' time and ! place that a majority of tiiem may 'elect, and khall yect a county1 executive committee, to consist of not less than five members, one of whom shall be designated aS chairman, who 1 shall preside at - all. of - said committee meetings. j . 5. In case there shall be a ' failure on the part of any township to elect its executive committee fur the period of thirty days, the county executive cbramitteo shall appoint' said qom .-mittee from the Democratic voters of said township. ! ' ; f ' ' - 4. The arembers of the township "committees shall elect to anyj vacancy occurring in said committees! V r : n 5. The county executive committee shall call air necessary county con ventions by! giving at least' ten1 days.; , notice by public 'advertisement in 'three public places In each towiishfp, at the court house doof,f and in' any Democratic newspaper that may "be publisbe in said county requesting all Democrats of the county'Jor; meet in conventipn in ; theitrtSpective ttjwnshi()s." on a common day1 therein stated, which said day shall 'not oe less than three days before-the' nieet. ing of the county conventiopV for the purpose of "electing their delegates lo tlie county conventions. s That ther'e' upon the conventions so' held shall elect their delegates to represent the townships in the county ' conventions from . the voters of the respective townships,tvhich delegate,! or such of them as sliall. attend, & ? vote I the full Democratic strength: of their , x t n t repecnve Townsinps on.ajr tjuesMuuw tuat mav come peiore.me. saiocouni-y conyeot'ofts. t That l u case r l.nq ? .con. vention shall be held in any tow riship in pursuance of said call, or no elecj' tfon-'siialf" be madp;jTtlie. township executive f co jiuiittee ; Shall appoint such delegates. ,r:,: t iv.p. ,1 tt i ... 6. Each township shall be entitled to cast in the county convention f.onij , vote for every "twenty five: Demo-. L craticbtcVand'oatvatcfcfractions hfee.n?mbctiS,y t. . . i ... k f tMaM? jcase here , .townships ' Pc,n9K?WPW be YSns, apd shaltctstf iprt i W1? ?9arPart of its tp wyfslijps vote, basejl jpon the , last precedri yote v)5,tThtor?ftherpurp MfjBve.. jcpmmitteei 'lehari continue jn. office, until their succes- ' sp,rsjr are ejected, under tljis system, i and.sliall exercise all, Ihe;!, functions petainipor to said ,oflic'e.,t under Mthis system i. of . organization.,. -, , .. , 9 'rhe. chairman of township com mUtes,a8ha)l. rcjside at allj .towjiahip .cnveaqna; iri , fthtir; absence (any -.other member. , of .said , Com.mjttees may preside. . ... -..t v ,4 1 0; .Io; cases here all thetovnsaip p hi ,excc;itiye corjiLijee arej required to meet , for the purpose fo, electing county .executive committees, said meetings shall be .deemed lo have a . qnoTiuu when : a majorityA.of;it such towpships shall be represented in said feting, , .v,,,: COUNTY AND DISTRICT CONVENTIONS. 1. The several- county conventions shall beentitled j'to elect' "to'1 their; Seriatoriai, J udicial arrtl Cbngressl6ba conventions one?' delegate 'and 'oie alternate for 'every fitty 'Democratic Votes, ( and one delegate' for' fractions over twenty" five Democratic votes cast at the last preceding gubernato rial election in their respective clpun-? ties, and .bone but delegates or alternates" So elected shall be' eutitled to seals in said convention : provided, that every co'nnty'hdll have "at least or.'e vote in eajcti of -said conventions. 2.1 The onafriniaQ,3 or iriuhl$'-,kb8enIce any member Of the county, Senitbrial, Judicial and Congressional committee shall call to order'1 their respective conventions", an 3 hold the ' chairman ship thereof until the conventiou shall elect itUh'airman ; ' : hiu' , ;.'' 3. TttV executive committees of the Senatorial, Co"ngresioriai 1 and '"judi cial. districts, fespecilveiy, iail,' at the call ' of ihefrfesjiective chairmen, meet at some tinie and place in their ' respective districts, designated in said call. 'And It shall ! be their diity to appoint the time and place ior noiuiug conveniions in .yueir, respective districts ; and the . chajr men of said" respe'cMve' ' ' committees, shall immediately notify the cliair- men of the different counlv executive coiamiuecs oi saiu appointment, ana tlie said cbunty'execiitivecoraniittees. shall forthwith call : coriventions cf their iespective counties in conform My to. said, notice toj&end delegates to said resrjecii ve1 d istrict con veniioris. '." ' STATE CONVENTIONS. ' "l.'The State convention &all be 'composed of dplegateS Eppoliitedj! by the' severaV county bmventiorisl Eaefi county shl be entitled to elect ''one . delegate and one, alternate; for-every, one. : huodreJ aojr fifty , Detriocratic voles rf,caat,7 and' ; oper delegate fgr "fract;ns over seventy five Democratic rots ca?it"thereiri i' the, laftt pfeceed' ing guber-ritotfis Selection ' and nbbe but delegatei or alternates so elected shall be, eutitled to souts in- said convention, provided that jevery count ty shall bave at, least one vote In said GENERAL RULE3. y' 7 1. Such delegates (or alternates of absent, delegates) s. may,, bef present at any peulocratic corjvntiQn , shall be allowed tir cast,tbe whole ;vote to rw hi cii tlieir township Or ' cou sly may be entitled. . . ' r , 2 In al'i coiiyentiona provided, for by. this ysteiri after a vote is castj jthere shaft be no change In such vote natil the(.rinaVresn1t of the bairotshnl pe, announced, by the chairroau of said ' coiventioiuj, y!,8 , ut.r.M.-, ;.-.:.v r 3 All Demncrotic Executive Com-'-mittees shall Ta ve the power .t .'fill, any vacancy bccurrf n' in ' their re spective bodte, - 'u , .4.,, That tlie cbairman of. the differ-i ht countycouventious .h 11 certify, foi JlsVof; delegates and alternates to. Un different district and Sute con ventions. ' And a certified list of isairf delegates and alternates to the State, conventioiia shall be. sont to ihe wc; retary of the State central cun mittee! For the committee. . , Oct. Cokr, Chairman,, V , J. ' J. Lrreii r o i;i, Secrtturjf. jD. CJ fir A;:?;;.P::;i.Aost.pi LAOCI-.PMIA r
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