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i . I ! . t 1 i -i - i , Official Org- of tne United States. You cannot register on election day. The day. election will only be held one Of&c, la the "Standard buUdiag, Bast Bid of rjtttnn street. j THURSDAY, JUIiY 11th, 1872. Gov. Caldwell and his friends gave the mechanics and laborers of this State the first lien law they ever liad. W. M. Itobbins, Democratic candi- REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS, date for Congress, sold his vote for twenty dollars in the State Senate. For President: j UI-YSSES S. GRANT, of Illinois. Fob Vice President : j HENRY WILSON, Massachusetts. ELECTORAL TICKET. FOB THE STATE AT LARQK MAnCt'S KIIWIX, ml ISiuiemTe RA3IUEL F. PHILLIPS, of Wake, j - I FOU TUB COXORESSIOITAX. DISTRICTS: 1. Eiward Bamom, ml Xrrrell. j U. William F. Loftln, of TLeoolr. j 3. Fm A. Guthrie, of Cumberland. 4. Th. at. Arro, f Orar. 3. Stephen A. DengIae, of nocliinffliam. . Willljun 8. Urn am, of Lincoln, j 7. Jamee C Ramsay, of Howin. j 8. Jane M. Justice, of Rutherford. In 18G8 we had a white man's party in North Carolina. Now we have a white hat party. Fizzling out, ain't it? Judge Merrimon, Democratic candi date for Governor, volunteered as a Commissary in 18C1, before the State seceded. lie soon retired to a bomb proof. J i. Judge Merrimon and his friends told the people of this State in 1808, that ev ery vote for our present Constitution was a vote for negro supremacy "Was their assertion true ? STATE TICKET. Fob Governor: , TOD XX. CALDWELL of Darke. . , For Ijetjtxnant Governor CfJIXTIS.il- DIZOCDEW, of Wayne. For Secretary op State: WJI. II. HOWERTOX, of Rowan. For Auditor: JOIIX R LILLY, of Cumberland. For Treasurer: DAVID A. JOKIAS, of Caaton. j For Sup't. of Pub. Instruction JAMES RLID, of Franklin. J. H. Separk, Democratic candidate for Superintendent of Public Works, volunteered as a lieutenant in 1SG1. -He stayed one year, but left the wool- hat boys after thaUw -, - How can the Republicans punish their thieves, if the Democrats contin ue to elect prosecuting officers to release them for six cents in the dollar ? Judge Shipp answer? Will Is it not about time The Sentinel had corrected Mr. Moore's statement about Mr. John W. Graham secured the nomination, for State Treasurer be cause fie is the son of his father, because he "fit" for the Confederacy and allow ed jNorthcote to be murdered like a dog atid lastly, because he introduced a bil to grant amnesty to .every Ku Kluxf Democrat who had whipped, outraged, or killed a Republican to ad vance the cause of Democracy. Reduction of Taxation. of the State t i , . . Under the acts of May 1 and Juno 6, 1872, adopted V for. what end were they 4 i" 5 "I Judjje Merrimon and his friends, in 1868, slumped the State against our pres ent Constitution. Gov. Caldwell stump ed the State . for the Constitution. If JudgeIerrimon had succeeded in de feating the adoption of the Constitu tion, "j-where would your homesteads be ? I Who proved himself your friend, poor! pen oi JNortn uaroima, Caldwell or Judge Merrimon? the estimates of the reductions of taxation hare been made by Commissioner Douglas. The total reduction of customs duties un der act of June 6, 1872, (and on tea and coffee under act of May 1, 1872,) on the principal dutiable articles and manufactures .and on articles transferred to the free list amounts to $31,172,761.38. Of this sum the reduction on tea and coffee also amounts to "$15,893, 856.67. In addition to this there is a total reduction of internal taxes of 0,651,000, making a grand total of 31,823,761. Chron. All this is the work of the Republi can party, under Grant's Administra- Let every voter beware. Let him register before the day of election. CANNOT NOW REGISTER THAT DAY. - : ; He ON ; 'Democratic Extravagance, ' . Facts and figures speak for them selves. The expenses paict by the State on account of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind for the year of 1871, under Conservative management were Nine Thousand Dollars more that ffcore than thy-were for the year 1870, under Republican management. , Money in the Treasury Dec. 10th, 1870 VJ. AA iUUUt V Am't of spoc'l tax fund, 198,5G;4r Am't of literary fund, 257,083.13 special deposits by Sheriffs, for the year 1869, 55,213.50 Specials deposits of - Sheriffs, for the year ' 1870, ' 20,354.22 was so unconstitutional that the Ciov- 531,231,21 el.uor had to refuse to execute itand the money spent and tune consumed in this folly was wasted. ;..: They then--passed another Conven tion Bill and put ' the people to the, All of mitted. Gov. a. - V t -1 Qlierry for the Honest Voter. Hdi can the Republican party pun ish theisewho have robbed and plun deredthe State.when, as in .th&case of Geo; 'W. Swepson. the Democratic At- torne General, Wm. M. Shipp, stops Square, the prosecution upon the payment' of He subscribed liberally of the money tion. Who says Itepublicans do not m Pom iavor xveveiiue wionaf V The expenses paid by the State on '. " . ' ; account ef the Insane Asylum for the Silas Burns, the iltepublican candi-lg7v were Twenty-one Thousand date for Superintendent of Public j)0nars more than in 1870, under Re Works, is one of the best mechanics in publican management. '- ; the State. ; , . 1 The Penitentiary ' cost the State He assisted with his own hands in Thirty-nine Thousand. Five Hundred building our State House at Raleigh, Dollars .more for the year 1871, under which is the pride of our people. u . Conservative rule than for , the year He, with his own liands, cast the 1870", under Republican rule. .. I iron fence which surrounds the Capitol! These three State Institutions, cost ' - , $531,213.21 which is respectfully . sub-W.-L. JjOVE, Chm'n. J. M. WORTH. The special tax fund of $198,562.45 collected under Republican rule was all used by the Democratic Legislature. ' Attention Voters ! Things t le Remembered. ; Registration is not allowed on the day of election. ..... ' . .Every voter should ascertain before the dav of election ;if his name is on v - the Registration books. -To vote for all the candidates,oir tickets must be voted, and every ticket must be deposited in a different box. i The tickets must be printed or writ- six .cents in the dollar stolen by the thief fom the State, provided however, that, he Shipp gets a handsome fee ? We psk honest voters to answer. made by the sweat of his brow, towards building the North Carolina Railroad. the tax-payers of the State , Seventy ten. or nartlv printed and partly writ- Thousand Dollars' more for tthe' year I ten, on white paper. v 1871, when the Conservative party had control of them, than for the year 1870, Jphi; W. Graham, Democratic can didate, for Treasurer, and John A. Woinack,' Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, both signed the Con- He" also subscribe T'herally to the when the Republican party hai control re-buikibrbf "frct'C of them. W ' 1, Railroad. He is moreover an intelligent and The Work Goes Bravely on Keep clever gentleman, and Was always a ; . the Ball in Motion, j Union man. , . .- I - We print to-day in another column an account of the large gathering at semtfve address of 1871, declaring that To the Ilepublican Press oi the Qxf d Granville county, on thef4th ineyjmusi; levy a tax 10 pay tne puDiic Mate. inst The meeting was addressed by debt resign or perjure themselves. Hon. Geo. S. Boutwell, Secretary of Senator Pool, Col. T. B. Long, Col. S. they didn't levy the tax, they did not the Treasury, has, consented to address T. Carrow, Maj. W. A. Smith and Col. j.i i i i - xi wiey perjureu ineraseivea as the people of this State on the 17th and I. J. Youne Our Granville friends rp i rrn that little "overdrawing?" He said j they'feciared they would, are they fit igth of this month. For Sup't. op Public Workh: KIl4.s llL'It.XJ, of Chatham. he had not "refunded." We published the record, and it cannot be truthfully denied that he did refund. For Attorney General. : j TAZ. TL. IIAItailOVE, of Ciranviu r CONG-IKSSIONAL. TiCICET For Congress 1st District! CL.lTOX I.. CODD, of Pjuqnotank. For Congress 2d District: C-IIARL.T II. TIIOMAS, of Craven. For Congress 3rd District? : IS ill I.I. JIcKAY,of Harnett. ' For Congress 4tii District: WII.I-.IA3I A. S7IIXII, of Johnston. f For Congress 5tii District: XIIOTIAS SirrTLE, of Rockingham. For Congress-Gtii District: OLIVEII II. DOCKEJIY, of Ilichmonf . For Congress 7tii District: DAVID 11. rCR CUES, of Iredll. For Congress 8tii District: W. d, CAJVDUGR, of Buncombe. Judge Shipp, Democratic candidate for Attorney General, volunteered as Captain of a company during the late war. He soon got tired and went home, leaving his company to fight it out. Bear in mind that the Democrats are still cursing Gov. Caldwell for standing by our Constitution, although the peo ple at the polls have endorsed that act. I.Thes men are not willing for the peo ple to rule. A. S. Merrimon, "the present Ku Klux candidate for Governor, was a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court in 1868, and every man on the Supreme Court ticket, save one, got more votes than he did. to bq further trusted ? Hon. Columbus Delano, Secretary of I I the Interior, has consented to address Thete was no American Flag raised the people of this State on the 24th and over the capitol of North Carolina on 25th of this month. the 4th .of J uly as has always been the Republican papers will please insert ability, energy, capacity for labor and are confident of large gains and claim 800 for the whole ticket. State, Con gressional and county. . Senator Pool is doing much service Republicans should' not touch or re ceive tickets from Democrate-but only from . true and tried Republicans. Democrats JSvill give you the wrong tickets. - , v . -. . Be sure and deposit your ticket for Governor and State officers in the box designated for State officers. Be sure and deposit your ticket for member of -Congress , in the box desig nated for member of Congress. ' . Be sure and deposit your ticket for State Senator and members of the House of Representatives in the box designated for members of the Legisla ture. w Be sure and deposit your ticket for Sheriff, County Commissioners, Treas- WWil . " - x - . trouble and expense of holding a geni eral election. The people refused to have such a Convention by nearly ten . . - . -' mi A . thousand majority ; rno uiousands spent in this revolutionary effort to overthrow the Constitution was wast-. They raised the salary of the only i Stato officer," who was a Democrat, fr-r si r.no to 4.800 so that their At torney General should receive nearly twice as much as the Supreme Court , Judges. But their Attorney General instead earning his increase of salary w TM-nvMitinf? rosijes and bringing of-. fenders to justice, managed to have Swepson turned loose, upon his paying back six cents on the dollar of the wn ey he had stolen from the State. Tin m nn nv snent in increasing the salary of such an officer was therefore waited. To hide this wasto of. the public money, they 'raiso a hup and cr' lx cause the Republicans did set up and build from the bottom rail a new gov ernment, after thjo war, witli.adepro elated currency, for as small a sum ns a government already established Bhould be run With a currency at par In 18G8, Judge . Merrimon and hi friends attempted to defeat our while Constitution by asseiting that the white and colored men would bo forced to muster in the same militia companies. Gov. Caldwell and his friends denial this. The Constitution was adopted -Have, white and colored men been forced to muster together? jWho told you the truth and who did riot? since his arrival among us. His great urer Coroner,. Register of Deeds, Sur custon. Cause: -The Keeper of the and keen standing the following an- capibf asked the late Democratic Leg- pointments for the above named fen- tlemen. Arrangements will be made, if possible, for extra trains at reduced rates for the convenience of those wish- islatute to purchose a flag for that pur- posq.lND THEY REFUSED. . The Deniocracy have no honors for that flag,! but plenty of rotten eggs. Unin people of North Carolina think of these things ! 1 NcVice About Tickets. .1 Democracy means: Secession, conscript laws, ruin, lawlessness, and j Tiefs for 0yipg to the lateness of nominations and ihe slowness of our friends to send us tl different county tickets, we now find if will be impossible to furnish county tickets from this place for the whoe1 . State. The various counties should immediately make arrange mentsj with their local papers to print the tickets for candidates for the Leg- war, ! islatiire and county officers. the candidates for the ing to attend. - I - Hon. Geo. S. Boutwell will address the people at Greensboro on theinth July. At Charlotte on the 18th. i ; Hon. Columbus Delano will address the people at Raleigh on the 24th July. At Fayetteville on the 2oth. hi3 telling hits at the rotten democracy has awakened the" vecfom of The Senti nel man, and The News in its endeavors to out Herod Herod and gain the confidence of its party, joins in the Vile attempts to prejudice the public mind veyor, in the box designated for coun ty officers. " 8 Candidates should make the people familiar with these points of the elec tion law. ; The Conservative party went into against our Senator to counteract; his -power to 18J0 pledged to retrench and great influence in North Carolina. They reproduce the vilest slanders against him. But he is too well fixed in the hearts Of the loyal people of this State to be successfully maligned and traduced by corner grocery and bar room slander of either Neics. State Pride. room slander of either The Sentinel ox We notice that one of the' first dis tinctions at the Annual Commencement of the " College of New Jersey," was j Public Schools. given to Richmond Pearson, son of the During Republican rule the 'public money could only be paid to L.KGIHL.ATIVE TI CKKT. Ku Klux violence. Republicanism means : . Union dom, protection, law, peace. Choose between them. free- FtoM J9KrB 10tu XrTiixcTr JTAJIE-S II. II Alt II IS. ! t For House of Representatives -Wake County: J It ic hard C. Iladg-er, Stewart Ellison, j John C. Gorman, ( ICobcrt S. Perry. fc I State offices and members of Congress will be furnished from this place. ThctDemocjtic Public Printer has In this connection what a disgrace did the old Democratic trustees entail upon our University by running it down and spending all the funds, and worse still, borrowing $100,000 Confed erate money jfrom, apankJJWned.by The Democratic party say the people ought not to have the right to vote for magistrates and Judges. The Repub lican party say the people are. the set ai example to his party by refund- this old clique, and mortgaging the ing what he '""overdrew" from the whole property, which will -probably school money could only be teachers who had actually taught pub lic schools. When the Democratic Leg islature came in, tlie law was changed so as to pay the public school money direct into the County Treasuries. The I XemoGrsLtio preeeee and orators axe ntrH endeavoring to show that more money was paid out by the Democratic party for public schools than was paid out by the Republican party for the same pur pose for. the same period. reform, and here'e the way they did it : The books "of the Auditor's and Treas urer's offices show that the impeach ment trial cost the people of the State the enormous sum of sixty-one thou sand five hundred and forty-eight dol lars and fifty-five cents. Here are the items : Three extra lawyers, 44 days, 3,000 00 Reporting, 1 man and staff, 44 days, 4,375 00 Printing and stitehing, 5,615 51 Paper, . 2,840 40 Pay of witnesses, 5655 20 Pay of members, 170 at $5 per day, 37,400 00 Pay of clerks, doorkeepers, fcc, 2,464 00 Fuel and lights, $24 00, 44 cords wood, 176 00, , 200 00 Reduction of the National Jeil mi tlor the Administration of President Grant. ; , On the first day of March' lSGi), the public debt of the United States, les the amount of cash in the treasury, ac cording to the official, statement then published, was $2,523,2G0 01. Suppos ing that during the first four days of the month the debt; was reduced 'by $25,573 10, which is four-thhticthit of the reduction for the entire month, the amount of indebtness. less cash in the of. March, j On the first JWlcl, tor Md for the lawyers, messenger .61,548 00 350 00 And we have . . $01,898 00 Gov. Graham, Gov. Bragg and Judge Merrimon received at the rate of $22. 72j per- day each for their services to WAICE COUNTY TICIOCT. For County Treasurer: William Id. Drown. For Register of Deeih: .. William W. White. For County Surveyor : Thoiuaa C Smith. . For County Commissioners William Jlnka, Henry C. Jones, Kamuel Ilaynery IT1oe- G. Toddy Itobert W. Wynne. For Coroner:' Albert ITf ag:nln. For Sheriff: Timothy F. TLee. ' The Era, until further notice, will Ik? under my control. j J. C. Ixxjan Harris. State Treasurer. The Sentinel calls on be sold to pay good money to those old Gen.!C9ingman to "refund "what he got stockholders. fronrSVepson. and we call on Judere This is the condition in whirh th source of all power, and might as well Shippjj the Democratic candidate for University was found by the Republi- vulo uircvi, uu uiffiB quKsuous u oy Attorney General, to "refund "what he can board. Without a doUar, in debt, proxy. cot for recommendiner Swepson's re- and mort?ao-Pd tothiaold rlinne . Ts it Arni TT,, TVn,n, rLiafo leas1 follow the example of your or- wonderful that it rundown? Yet their --- AAMM'WWf -B-' V, M V-k ViiiUlUU(V I A m . j 1 . I ' 1 Q for Lieut. Governor, fousrht thfoue:h 6 . v .: "c,t" " . " B " P"ui unaig iu wimre ou wnicn naa Deen couecteu unuer ixe- lars of tnis money was wasted or given ; i What is tne trutn v xne nepuoncans help seven other leading Conservative paid out the money to teachers of pub- lawyers, appointed by the House, to lie schools in actual operation. prosecute Gov. Holden. Seventeen The Democrats paia out tne money thnnsnnd pia-ht hundred and thirtvdol- the entire war with a quartermaster's commission in his pocket. , Gen. Grant resolved himself into an Auditor and settled Maj. Hughes' quartermaster ac count at Appomattox Court House. t juuge jviernmon ana nis mentis are and always have been enemies of our State Constitution. They opposed its adoption, worked hard to cheat poor men out of their homesteads last sum mer, and are still working to repeal sa much of the Constitution as possible. Can you trust them ? with its arms too deep in the Treasury and was ordered to " refund" it did so. Go and do Jikewise. . the Republican party, where is thy blush? Let it bo Known. That W. M. Shipp and J. B. Batch elor, while members of the late Demo cratic Fraud Commission, and drawing $5 per day for services as such, signed THE NEWS. In 18G3, Judge Merrimon and his mends asserted that if the present State Constitution was adopted the white children and the colored Children wouia oe forced to attena tne same schools. Gov. Caldwell and friends Gen. Trochu has resigned his scat in tho French National Assembly. J The two oppoeltiou papers to the present ad ministration In Peru have been again suppressed, the editors imprisoned and. tho offices put under guard. The uovernment or uuatcmala has or dered the confiscation of all "he property of Jesuits in that State, and Nicaragua has or dered their expulsion from her frontier The Pope lias signed a bull directing what shall bo done at tho election of his successor in tho event of European governments iin terfering in the - Conclave. The Italian Kailicals insist that the Papacy shall die with Plus IX. ' - I It is understood in Washington that the Emperor of Germany, to whom was refer red the question of the San Juan boundary, will decide in favor of the United States, and that sneh a decision is anticipated j by fireat llritain. ' j The United States Signal Service will, shortly place an observer upon the summit of Pike's Peak, 14,000 feet above the sea level, and more than twiqe the altitude of Mount Washington. A telegraphic line to tho summit is in contemplation. ! The Spanish Government exhibits its an xiety lest the peace of tho kingdom should be again broken by internal quarrels! in many ways. Tho latest is in Its sending large reinforcements to the troop now in Catalonia, so as to be readiness for any dis loyal demonstrations which may be made. The Third Auditor at Washington, D. C, has disposed of nearly three fourths of the claims of Southern loyalists referred to him for settlement. ; In one case it was found that a party having a claim for $360 was au thorized to receive fcl.GOO, and in another, where a claim bad been partially canceled, the claimant was an tltorizcd to receive tho full amount of the original claim. The suggestion of the Third Auditor in settling this class of claims, has already saved the Government oyer f4,W0. ' denied this. The Constitution adopted. Who told the truth ? was Ho can A. S. Merrimon ask a peo ple to; vote for him when he has aided his friend Swepson and others to rob and plunder? i rive ta ti imqi i iiHi n n m xu nna i f'(i i i .. .. -v,,! ---"j v. irom an rjrosecutions on nis returning Northeote to be murdered and sneaked six in the dollar, AND THESE off to shirk the responsibility ask any SAME COMMISSIONERS RECEIV christian and civilized people to vote Er THIRTEEN HUNDRED AND for him? Yet he does it after intro- THIRTY-THREE DOLLARS AND ducinijja bill in the Legislature grant- SIXTY-SIX CENTS FOR SO RE ing arflriesty to every Democrat who COMMENDING. These Democratic Fraud Commis sioners generously allowed their friend and brother ; Democrat, Swepson, to RETAIN NINETY-FOUR CENTS ON THE DOLLAR OF ALL HE HAD GOT FROM THE STATE FOR Oh shame, publican rule to County Treasurers in bulk. THE MONEY HAS NOT BEEN PAID. OUT FOR SCHOOLS AT ALL, BUT IS NOW LYING IDLE IN THE COUNTY TREASU RIES. 1 The money paid out by the Republi cans went to pay teachers who were treasury, on the fifth day 18G9, was $2,525, 427.GSG 91. day of June, 1872; the tbtaV public in debtness, less cash in tho treasury, was $2,193,517,378 94, showing the enormou.i reduction of $331,910,807 97 in tho amount of the debt since the fourth of March, 18G9. j ! It thus appears, that during a; little more than three years of J President Grant's administration tho public debt existing at its commencement has been reduced by nearly one-seventh of Us 'entire . amount. European journaeomnicn t ingupon this achievement, have spoken of" It with astonishment,' as something wholly unparaldled in financial his- tory. To appreciate its full value to the people, however, we must consider the immense saving which it involves in our public expenditures ; for tile in terest on the debt existing on the first day of June, 1872, teas less by $22,002,519 year than that on the debt existing on the first day of March, 18G9. Had the aVl-- away to party favorites. Three thou sand of it to extra high-priced lawyers ministration adopted the policy of iost to help seven others appointed by the House who, it seems, couldn't help themselves.; Twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars for making a book of the proceedings and speeches in the case, a recommendation to release Swepson teaching public schools for a period of which th people will never see, unless from all prosecutions on four months. i The money drawn out of the Public Treasury by the Democrats was col lected by the Republicans, and is now lying idle in -; the hands of County Treasurers. poning the payment of tho debt han indefinite time in the future, as soma persons have censured it for not '-doing, this twenty-two millions a year would still have to be drawn out of the pockets of the people. The money they would thus be compelled to sink forever the lie Printer. had K Kluxed a Republican. 4 t- -'It' 1 !11 I uvujuniiny, your sins win ue re membered by the honest voter. Th Wesfi ti would lii says the people of the listen to Gen. Clingman's Democratic harrangues with more com placency and satisfaction if the said Gfn fllinp-mnn would turn nvpr thr flf- Who told the people of Wako last teen aolIar3- he got from How they Lie. i During the campaign of 1870, the Conservative-Democratic party charged that there was no money in the State Treasurythat even the School Fund had been stolen or squandered by the Let the people of North Carolina re member that i A. S. Merrimon, Demo cratic candidate for Governor, tried to raise money to test the constitutionali ty of the Homestead clause in our Constitution, in the 'Supreme Court of the United States. summer tnat li the convention s was voted down, they would have tojpay fifty dollars tax on every thousand dol lars worth of property ? Answer. Judge Merrimon. ' The Convention was voted down, who is paying the tax ? Can you trust a man who tried to deceive you ? It is an old proverb that " the tree is most pelted which bears the best fruit," whilst one of which tho product is in different, innutritious, or tasteless, may stand a longtime in the highway itself, Dori't The Sentinel also think that Judge- Jjhipp would be listened to with more satisfaction if he would turn over the SlXjHUNDROED AND SIXTY-SI DOLr IA.RS HE RECEIVED WHILE FRAUD CXDMMIf5lONER FOR RECOMMENDING THE lilRLEASE OF HIS FRIEND SWEP SON ?rj. The people think so. HIS TROUBLE, upon condition that Republicans. they receive the above mentioned sum. j As soon as the Legislature met at the W. M. Shipp is the Democratic can- session of 1870-71 the Senate appointed didate for Attorney General. Why a committee consisting of Dr. Love and How the Democratic Legislature Wasted the Public Money. The impeachment trial of Gov. Hol den cost $G1,000. This much for the protection of the Ku Klux. They then raised a Committee to in- don't The Sentinel call On him to pay pr. Worth (both Democrats) "to ascer- vestigate the stealing of the State Prin back that money? Four Ballot Boxes. The-sixteenth section of " an act con cerning the election and registration in rhrt xreir nf our Lord one thousand and remain unmolested. How appli- e!f?nt hundred and seventv-two " is as cable is this to the treatment of Hon. --nUT . fSecv:I6; Thebtate ouicers, viz: uovern- or, Lif titenant-Governor, Secretary of State, John Pool. But all the contrivances of Democratic abuse return to plague the inventors." AuditjT (Treasurer, Superintendent of Pub- lie Iniitriiction, Superintendent of Public. claims to be the special cruardinn of the I votedJjbron one ballot. The members of "Lost Cause." And yet they didjnot nominate a single man on their State ticket who carried a musket during the late war. They did not nominate a single 'one who stayed with the army during the whole war. The New Democratic Election Law If not to deceive and cheat the illit erate voters of the State, will some Democrat inform the people why the late Democratic Legislature introduced the following requirements into the election law? 1 I. Each man to vote in his own Township, in order that should not by concert assemble cient numbers to protect ; themselves against intimidation and violence. II. To vote on four separate pieces of paper, and in four boxes j in order to confuse men notable to read, and enable Democratic poll keepers -to put votes in the. wrong boxes, and thus have Gen. Lea venthorpe arrested poor wo men in 18G4, because their husbands refused to fight for Jeff. Davis and his slave oligarchy. He dragged them off from their little childen, to his bull pen, and denied them even a moment's privacy. The Daily News of this city says he was nominated by tho Demo crats at Greensboro' as a reward for his war services. CoHgrbsi for their respective districts, shall be voted for on one ballot. The members of tho Cfepral Assembly for their respective count(es jand districts" shall be voted for on one ballot. The ounty officers, viz : Treas urer, Ilegister of Deeds, Surveyor, five Coioir issioners, Coroner, and Sheriff, shall be vdted for on one ballot. The ballots shall ld on white paper, and may be printed or wtitten, or partly written or partly printepj and without device." -lyery voter snoma oe ramiiiar withjhis section. Voters should be carefitto deposit their ballots in the ; TT 1J - -9 m 11 . nsmtvpox. .aaiiots aepositea in tne tain the amount of money in the Treas ury " and they reported as follows : ! I The committee created by a resolu :tionofthe Senate, adopted December :8th 1870, entitled a resolution to "ascer itain the actual amount of money in the iTreasury," . report under three dis tinct heads, to wit : "... ; li Amount of general fund i 1 2. Amount of special tax fund; j I IS. Amount of Literary fund, colored voters Treasurer $531,213.21. , Of this sum emble in suffi- $55;213.60, are special , tax deposits of j Bneriffs on account of taxes for the year 1869, and $20,354.23, special deposits of Sheriffs on account of tax for the, year lb7U. ; ' Tnese deposits $75,566, 73,iare not available because they can hot be apportioned among the several funds, until these Sheriffs pay in their several balances. ' Your committee further find that $484,859,69, were col lected under ' the " special" tax acts them rejected. : III. To vote on white paDer, in order during the Autum of 1869, and paid in that thosft who rannnf rpnd mav ho to the Treasury. That under authority mwIidrittS witnesses,, who were obUged with credit at home and abroa.l, a,l kf u rrn- , a. x I ' cheated by slipping wrong .tickets into rv?Vf TKiSLSSS barking cur. The Committee examined . . . .a w . . i j - w - - - -... - tiicxx nanus. tvujr. uub niiuw - ctu;u arty to have tickets on colored paper so colored as to enableevery man to know how he is voting? IV. To have no device on the tickets by which an illiterate voter can dis- they buy it from the Conservative Pub- payment of. interest, -would, in ten years, witnout compounding, amount to the enormous sum of $220,000,000, and in twenty-five years would exceed one-fourth of the entire national debt. The true economy, of the policy of prompt payment adopted by President Grant and his excellent minister of finance is thus made manifest. Already it has produced an annual saving, as we have seen, of more than twenty-two million dollars, a monthly saving of $1,833,543 25, and a daily saving of $611,181 08. Other plans of relieving the -people from taxes, which have, from time to time, been put forward, have been mere temporary expedients, whose sole effect would have been to prolong the period, and greatly' aug ment the aggregate amount ot taxa tion; but this plan brings permanent relief, andTis accompanied by no haunt ing thought of evil days to come. Moreover the process of a reduction is still rapidly going on', and every year the diminution of the amount required for interest, renders it possible to apply so much the more to the payment of the debt. Even the twenty-two mill ions a year already saved, if dep6sited annually as a sinking fund, at five per cent interest, compounded semi-annually, would alone suffice to pay ofT the entire National debt in thirty-six and one-quarter years, and compounded at six per cent, would pay it in thirty three years. Well might jPrcsidenl Grant cherish the sanguine jhope, ex pressed fn his letter of acceptance, of leaving to his successor,, whether at the end of this term or another, a country ter, which found the charges true, but they refused to remove him. The thou sands spent in,, this investigation was therefore wasted. ' --. - ' They then raised a Committee to in vestigate the starving of the prisoners in the Penitentiary, and the pocketing the difference between what ; whole some and sufficient food would have cost, and what musty meal from Bled soe's mill and rotten fish did cost. The Committee reported the charges true, but they refused to remove the Com missioners, and still have the prisoners subject to their barbarity. The thou sands spent in this investigation was therefore wasted. They then, raised a. Committee to investigate Senator Pool, with whom they had no more to do than with the man in the moon, and who regarded them just as the :moon regards the General Assembly to make further pay- to know the whole affair, but as it did ments. 'mat or tne residue $276,389,69, not turn out as thev wished, and as a he was directed by acts of the General Assembly, ratified March 12th and 28th 1870, to borrow and use $250,000 of said sum for certain purposes specified in Without embarrassing questions., to threaten its' future prosperity, ..... report from them would have silenced the lies and slanders with which their press was teeming against the Senator , Bear in mind that the Verpen who were so much opposed (o Vlie adoption tinguish between the ticket he wishes said acts, and replace the same out of they put themsel ves in contempt of of our Constitution in lbvS aro tho very to vote and the one with which it is ijy- the body which appointed .them, by men who tried to , uproot it by uncon- proposed to cheat him. What possible porations orof taxes heretofore or ere not reporting ati all. Apart from Uie stitutional means last summer, and good in refusing to allow the American after to be levied. , Of this sum so used infamous unfairness of a refusal to re- they are the same men who aro now Flag upon the tickets which is the de- $172,172.76 has 'been replaced in the port in a matter involving imputations clamoring for its amendment. I - 1 m j i . - - n?r W will not iw mimM: Tijr2 xrir harinf- o-otioiiitt otci w iTeasury, irom tne sources mentionea "V",-- -T' ' , O f .-v,.vr.w fowAijr jcvw AKnim Unin-Sa m't 77 OD7 OI istrarsjand' inspectors of tho election Itepublicans? If these requirements ,f th rSurKf should see to it that every ballot is do- were not meant to afford the means of aforesaid; Your Committee sum m as posit wl in the right box. - . j cheating the illiterate Republican voters follows: "..'.i'.' rY ' j upon private character, the thousands spent in ; this contemptible farce was therefore .wasted, i . . : They passed a Convention Bill which i If you have not already registered, you must, do so before election day, or you can not vote. Hi
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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