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4 cbc press ant* Carolinian. THE l'iiE-l- \M.. • ■ Thanwlar t.y 'II e Hickory Printing Company. TKBM> "F s! !'.« KII'TM'N . - Ai>". > • • o:•' oj > Or V. sr. ' _ in.- ' »i|>\ , -is ' 0 . • , Ti." M . '■ ■ cicrV f-iflfi .Jf \ A ! j. i'. MruuiJ.. r Kni«»rf«l at tin- !*•«* ortW* in •! ( r»l .t. fi -- ' I(OUCMt> 'I lit* !'Oll C> i Much t!*;iu«ls «in 1 tMiiijK'i - inu' with th * * ballot ln>.\t's in the hist election luis been charirei I hy hoth We llOpe Democrats IIMVC not been guilty. I! they have \VC hope t i MM" will I"' 011 U d out ;um! punished and the true utml honest result he made known. We entirely wit h the Asll ville ( it i'/en, when it snys: -If the «•( mt i' >l of t he next House hv the (lenioernts de pends upon the Ravnor 1 is t rirt ) i Maryland and the Rates dist riet of Tennessee, then the republicans ought to control. Where a result (••in only he changed by a mere teehnienliiy and 'i di rect 1 isregan 1 ot the\'otes of 1 he people, no changeshould tnke plnee. When f'rnucl can he shown at a hox. orballofs with wronji' unities have been cast, such boxes should not he counted, nor such votes so cast t>r one man counted lor another. It may he true that tVaud has defeated en on nil democrat ice« uigress liien to give Ihe eont rol of the House to t lie repuhli cans. \\ e are satisfied this district w as earned I>y lraud. l»ul if i his cannot he so es tablished as to prevail.] let not the democrats win Iby HM'i e terhnicalit ies. The re publicans w ill sutler lor mere, ha vintr gained their triumph as they have. Let them ha \ e full rope. liie pet >p]e will wipe t hem out t w oyears hence. The New York -b nirnal ot 1 'ommerce. the orpin of the business ctmimunit y ol that city. ;iuii politically. Deino cratie. declares in an elabo rate leader against the pro posed eont muance *> 1 the tariff agitation, and tiroes the 1 )enn>crais to join ihe Republicans in abolishingall lut* i*iia 1 reN'Miue taxes. Let a bill In? in' roduced t lii- w»■••k t a repeal t lie wln >le internal v>t»• in and s ewhowi 11 \ >t• for it. I'ut "em i >n record. I Hood will i«*ll in men as well a> in horses. President - * 1« ct 1 lan ison can claim de scent on his mother's Mde iVom famous \nnc Poleyn. lie i*- al>o (*t kin' to .1 ohn 1 landolph. ot Loam>ke. II is a!s(> aid he is relat d lo .Jefferson l>a vis, but this had bet tcr be kept quit t un til after he is inaugurated, as some »t Nort hern -upp(>r lers mitJL'ht yet tr\ f» hi ve him ounted mil In iTottciion Democrats l>oc tr int* ? No. IJrother Webster, we are not evading your plain talk. When the'Mmtwisted paper reaelicii ns last week (>ur editorial spaee was lull, but now we will have the promised brotherly "talk leek."* No evadinir in this ease, brother. N\"e are too Sad of the opportunity it alVoriN for #, more liu'iit. ii iere is m ueh i n your "make up ' t houiiii known »nly t hr«mlib reading* t he pa]»ers. that we admire, and many tuesti«ins on whieli weentire ;\ ae'i'ee. We both claim to be I lemoerats. and we both advocate the entire repeal of ih" internal revenue. We ji!_»• ree as to th? "worth of Hon. S. .1. Randall's public services to the South if we do not arree"that 'honesty and -patriotism are a pair of charaeteristie virtues which would alone prevent any man from becoming a Republican." Your inference on this point is not what we intended our words to de clare. Some weeks back we said "on the great question of a tariff for revenue only Mr. Randall is not a Demo crat." You say. "To doubt Ihe soundness of Mr. Ran dall s Democracy is to argue on's self undemocratic.'* It is agreed that Mr. Randall is a protectionist, that lie favors a tariff for protection and not "for revenue only, and this narrows our discus sion down to the simple ques tion above stated, or is Mr. Randall a Democrat? We doubtless agree that Presi dent, Polk was a Democrat, and do we disagree as to his 1 )emocracy when he said: -In levying t a rill* duties for the support of the govern ment tlie raising of revenue should be the object, and protect ion ihe incident. To reverse this principle and make protection the object and revenue the incident, would be to inflict manifest injustice upon all other than the protected interest. This seems to us the de claration ot the great first principle oi Democracy —the "irreatesl good to the great est number. 11 is the same as t he --gn at quest ion" of a tariff for revenue only, and mly for revenue, as we tin derstand the Democratic pol icy of the day. It is the only manner of levying tariff du~ ties authorized by a strict con si ruct ii >n of the ' msli tut ion and Democracy de mand-* a strict construc tion of that instrument. Ymi ask, -where were the people when the "LTl*eat question." iof a tariff for . revenue only » was "axed ! then i ? We answt r, they were in the national heinoeratic i convent it -n w lm h nominated iSeymour in 1 v bS and at the poiU the same year when they gave him I^->. V U4 ma jority of *he popular vote PRESS AND CAROLINIAN, DECEMBER 0. over the great Chieftain,: ("irant who had "saved the Cnion. ' Thev wore in the % convention which nominated Greyly in 1872. and at the polls the same year when he received 7-t.o7 s majority of the popular vote over the same Chieitain who had also filled the Presidential chair neailv four years. They were at the polls in 1 S7> and gave a majjrity of 1.11 5 .- 4>) to Tilden and in IWO when they Hancock a majority o! 1.101, 2• >, and : again in I V S +- when they «»a ye Cleveland a majority of ( .). - U.74(). It" the ]>eople did not give Cleveland a majority at the : last election it was because of protection hoodie rather than a fear of tariff for rev enue only. If we accept the voice of the people as evi dence on the '-great ques tion" we have got yon l>y a ••big majority." The opin ions of the Richmond Whig; land Atlanta Constitution j are no more than two ot our I tariff reform. Democratic papers and so settle no ques tion. If you say protect ion is a Democratic doctrine. nve us the testimony and > ♦ | the argument, brother. We | are open to conviction, or we | i will endeavor to enlighten® I von. i Disabled Soldiers. The disabled Confederate I soldiers of the state will meet in Raleigh during the j next sitt ing of the legislat-. Jure, and endeavor to secure a more substantial acknowl ■ edgemen t of their services than they have been receiv ing in the past. 1 htise de siring information, etc, will correspond with K. K. Teu ton. Wadesboro, N. C.—Kx. We are not informed ot the "more substantial OCKUOWI | edgment desired, but there is one help it seems to us t he | State should render to one class of our disabled soldiers,« , and that is to give a sub-' ; stunt ial art iiicial leg in place of those that were lost in t he service. L"hese artificial legs cost very high to single indi viduals —beyond the reach iof man v. but 111e Sta te m igh t | make terms with a manulac | turer and get them much , lower, llut out >id» of the . | question ot cost ll is but j just that the State should. |as far as is possible, restore i this seri»US !)s>. The annual report ol the i State Railroad ommission \ 'in South t arolina shows ;iii I increase in the mileageof t He railroads of South t arolina of \) per cent during the pn|t : ! vear. and the remarkable in-' crease oi *>s per cent in th"ir net earning, the year having; been an exceedingly prosper ou one. Ihe gross receipts increased nearly a million! dollars, while the expenses increased about three hun dred thousand. At this rate it will not take many years for the Railroad kings to buy the whole country and run it as t hey do t].»»ir .pi e«sent ] >OSSe«*M ills. i ) Tl«e Vote of New Vork. A careful inspection of the returns from New Vork shows a peculiar state of facts. Harrisons plurality over Cleveland is 1 .'UUM: Hill's plurality over Miller is 1 5 .12b. Hill's vote is IL\- 7i. 4> , more than Cleveland's and ( le\ eland s is .more than Miller's. Harri son got > ( .H; more than Hill and 15.522 more than Mil ler. Cleveland gets \ 2-> more votes than Miller, but is WM) behind his opponent. And Hill, who tails >or> be hind Harrison, uets i more than his opponent. Hill, with the Democracy • solid for him and backed by the strong liquor element of the State, runs behind the Republican nominee lor Pres ident, but still defeats his opponent by a majority lar ger than Harrison defeats 'leveland. This looks as if t he Repub licans sacrificed Miller in or der to elect I larrison. If so. Hill was elected by this means. If Miller had got the same vote as Harrison |he would have defeated Hill by () ( .M> votes. Miller is only r. o. tlio behind Cleveland, still i Harrison carries the State by nearly three times that i ' * much. If the Republicans, without any trading, could have se cured nearly a thousand more votes for Harrison than llill got. if looks as if i they could have polled a much larger vote for Miller. As we said before, it seems to us the Republicans saw ; that if they made a square fight they would lose the State for both tickets, so they swapped Miller for Har rison. ('leveland says (iovernor « 11 ill was true to him f hrough out . Tnis may be so, but it looks very much as if his friends took advantage [of the plight the Republicans found themselves in to secure his election at Cleveland's expense. — 1 )urham Plant. Opportunity. Since Ihe elect ion the ex i pressions ot the Southern people prove beyond a doubt their readiness to wipc nit all sectional lines in this country, and to give the in coining Republican adminis trati ui due credi t f >r what ever it may do to at tain the desired end. 1 his brings t ien 11 an ison face t > fa«*e with a great opportunity. 1 Thefir>t great stride toward perfect reunion has been ' * • ! made bv a 1 )emocrat ic ad i ministration. headed by Iro ver leyeland. This i> al ready a part of history, and hist ory cannot !»•* cli;inged. Cleveland has proved the practability of doing justice to all sections. and >inc»» No vember *»r ] i the Southern people have -'ill further con- firmed the proof, Harrison s opportunity thus becomes next to necessity. The ex cuses for injustice have bee a swept away, so that unfair treatment of the South wouhTshow either irross in eompetency or wanton ty rannv. Harrison ma v choose «. *• between-the course on this subject whieh has marked (Irover ( leveland lor tuture irenerations, or he may re ject opportunity and drop into a position neither better noi worse than that of theother Republican Pres idents since tlie war. By the first plan lie mirht win the name of a wise ruler; by the other he stamp him self as merely a blind politi % * cian. The choice is his; let us hope be will choose well. I iifit"* or«it>le To Morton it Co. v Kven though Levi P. Mor ton is elected to the \ ice- Presidency of the 1 nited States it would seem from a decision just handed down by the Supreme court toucli iinirthe doctrine of States* rights, that the iraudulent N. P. bonds that beholds for speculation will-be likely to remain in statu quo forever. The case in question was de cided Nov. l?*)th, affirming the com])lete power of the individual States to pass laws iee-ulatinjLi* the collec tion of debts and the distri bution of debtors' estates. ' The case under corsideration was brought from thePourf of Minnesota. The joint at ; issue was the const itnt ion a I power of the legislature ot Minnesota to enact a law permittini;' a debtorto make an assignment for the equal benefit of all his ereditors 3 after an exeeution has been issued against, his property by one of them. The Feder al court sustained the con 'st itnt ionalit vof the law, once more deciding that within its own proper do main the State is supreme. Tlie People Are 1-or Kaimoin- All intelligent and patri otic people with whom we have spoken about thesitua t tion. ajrree with us that we jneed Ransom in the Senate now more than ever. A i miiiiher of farmers and other of our I'at.awba citizens in Newton. Monday, who fav ored Alexander for (lover jnor. say it would be unwise to send a new and inexperi enced man to the Senate t now instead of the man whose experience. ac quaintance and popularity with the ways and leading men of the Senate will be of untold value to our State and the whole Sou-h during* ' the next four or six years of Republican admiiiNtration. If the wishes of the people are re> pee ted I'an-om will b»» ret urned. W anted. A f-mart. en'-rgf-tic tor, »- ! tun the- print#- \s traJt A. i a ihi*
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