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DURHAM, N. C, AUG. 2Gth, 1SS4.
COMING INTO LINE. ;
The .Southron, of Gainesville Oh.r
'which has come oijt strongly for the
Kepublican ticket, and the promotion
of prosperity at hoiiie, finds sufficient
encouragement in the present temper
of the South to say: ' We should not
1io surprised to secjhalf the Southern
States go Kepuhlican four years front
now, if Blaine's administration is con
servative, American, comparatively
non-partisan and aide, as it no douht
will he. The masses of the people in
the South are heartily tired of feast
ing upon Bourbon sentiment and half
rations, living in l)g huts and wearing
ragged clothes. They have started
out in earnest to butter their condition
by adopting the methods of the more
prosperous States, which were clear
from the curse of slavery that so long
blighted this fair land, and they intend
to jealously watch anything in the waj
of their progress,
anything to their
'and eagerly adopt
advantage in the
line of progression toward independ
ence, comfort anc . equality; with the
more fortunate and advanced States
of the Union."
Cheerful Views jof North Carolina.
Ex-Congressman J. F. j Long, of
Georgia, is in the" city after a sojourn
in North Carolina, dining which he
met many leading men of the State,
both white and colored. lie was asked
by a Kepuhlican reporter last night
what the result of his canvass of the
commonwealth led him to think about
the prospects in povember. lie de
clared emphatically that North Caro
lina! can be carried for Blaine and Lo
gan, all that is needed being work and
organization in order to draw out the
full colored vote. If the colored vo
ters do their duty, and Mr.- Long
thinks they willj they, together with
the large number of democrats who
are tired of boss rule, caii carry the
State. They can roll up such a major-r
ity that the democracy cannot possi
bly count them out. Mr. Long spoke
very highly of Hon. Tyre j York as a
told and aggressive leader. Wash.
Rep-
Subscribe to the Republican.
WHO TOLD YOU SO?
Cant. Coke said in his speech at
Durjiam tliat "should t lie Republicans
com into Jxnver they will retain the
present sj-fstcm of County GoVerment."
That 'theV would never consent to
surrenderjthe vast power centered in
the isysteni. The Captain is not au
thorized to speak for. our party. The
remark wji en analyzed meaiis a great
deal, more of political j manipulation
amongst democrats than of protection
to t!he "nigger riddenK coiintiesof
East Carolina. To steal the rights of
our eitizehs to serve the democratic
party maj pass current for a while but
a day of reckoning will surely come.
Sooner or later these manifmlators will
be crushed between the hammer and
POLITICAL SMALL TALK,
The impression!
Horace White has
it. .
. There will be another '
prtfer, the same o
November.
lost cause' '
if they
d cause xr ill le lotarniin ini
gain 3 ground that Editor
found! a hole and pre-empted
the
anvil.
was pleasantly
ued dem-
The Republican
chatting yesterday with a va
ocratic friend, who hy the way favors
the present system of County Gov
ernment: said he there . is such a
thing as nght and any idea of protec
tion by tariff is a wrong. The Repub
lican theii asked, if he, believed in lo
cal elf government ; certainly he re
plied, but bur present system is founded
upon' self Interest, we dp not attempt to
de
end it otherwise; there is no prin
ciple of democracy about it. Are you
doing right in denying to the people
thjiir democratic right of home govern
ment? No, but - it is j a necessity to
our existence. Isn't a protective tar
iff a necessity to the existence of our
industries, our labor and oiir society
as now organized? Isn't it self inter
est that ive seek? Must we study the
bejst interest of foreign capital and la
bor andj as Americans take what is
left us wjthout complaint, simply to do
an abstract right oursel ves while others
discard this principle entirely? "When
the millennium shall nave come then
we may jexpect that principle to apply
but in this'year of grace 18&we pre
fer to raise the standard of our Coun
ty high enough for all to read our pres
ent policy. America for Americans,
Protection for Capital and Labor; for
ourselves Local Self Government. '
The true issue: Blaine and Protec
tion : Ycirk and Local liielf Government.
runnimg a narrow
track.
It is riot go very, 'on &in,cerhc Springfieldj
Republican called Mr, Cleveland a "fat-witted;
lawyer." Xow it'jis burning pots of incense un
dcr his nose everv day:
Soriie Democrats speak vaguely of the folly o
ion a broad guagej
guage man
Joseph Elfin McDonald, of
sisjs that Cleveland wil
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it jwith the air of a man
meal even if the picket
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the middle of next week
Injeany1, still in
be elected ;j)Mt he doe
on them permanently
that the Ilepublidan pa
Kvhi
should be knocked into
wouldn't miss at
The truth is that if the Democrats should sue
ceed in electing their President, the Kepublica
' . . Ill -I I 1 I 1 I . a
puny woum De reorganizes unuer me ie&u ant
It is easy to appreciate the anxiety of the
Democrats not to have the Dependents saddled
But if anybody supposes
rty is going to'bc reorganj-
ized as a Free-Trnde Club, hej deceives himself.
The Free Trader! . in the language of Scripture!
have gone to their own 'place.
it was their choice.
It will be hot, but
General Butleriis said to have declared within
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a few days that .HJira Blaine has a; nght by liils
training, elucation, experience and position ill
his party to aspire to the Presidency ; but thip
man Cleveland id ma!iine-made; he never tried
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a cause in the Co irtofj Appeajsof hisown Stater,
can't name all tlu foreign countries with 'which
we have diplomatic intercourse; and if he went
to! Washington, cou Idn' t j find the White House
door or the Treasury Department without a
guide-" j I : j
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Then ensued in the committee a struggle pf
many hours sa to frame a tariff plank that should
appear to say w lat mine said, and yet not sajy
it, and appear t( i the jcoiitrary, and yet not sajy
it : like the Western hunter who tried to shoot '
his rifle at something he: dimly saw stirring in a
bush, so as to ht . it if was a deer and miss it jif
it was a calf, Ben BtpXEii. j
Tlie campaign of the Independents in Massa
chusetts, appeals, to have completely slumpejl.
General Butler'i determination to run has knock
ed what little life it had out of it. and The! Spring
field Republican mournfully confesses that there
is now no hop of carrying the old Bay State
for Cleveland; : ''I-.. -
j Some one cruelly sas that the Independent
don't know enough io go in when it rains. iCat
why should thley when they can all get 'under-
the ame umbrella? i