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• PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT RALEIGH, N. C. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, - - - - $2.00 Six months, _ - _ 1.00 Three months, - - - .50 Address all communications to “THE TIMES,” Raleigh, N. C. RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 10, 1882. State Convention of the Republican Party of North Carolina. Rooms Rep. State Ex. Com., ( Raleigh, N. C., April 18, 1882. J At a meeting of the State Execu tive Committee of the Republican party, held this day, it was unani mously resolved that .a State Conven tion be held at Raleigh, on Wednes DAY, THE 14tH DAY OF JUNE, 1882, in accordance with the plan of or* ganization of the Republican party, for the purpose of placing in nomina tion a candidate for Congressman at large, a Judge of the Supreme Court, for the ratification of the nomina tions made by the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, Sth and 6th Districts for Judges of the Superior Courts, the appointment of a State Executive Committee, and to consider other matters materially affecting the success of our cause and the final overthrow of Bourbon De mocracy in North Carolina. J. J. Mott, Ch’n. J. C. L. Harris, Sec’y. Important to Committeemen. In order to insure uniformity of action and legal representation in the State Convention, the State Execu tive Committee has prepared extracts from the Plan of Organization, ac companied by suggestions, as follows : TOWNSHIP OR PRECINCT CONVENTIONS. The Republican voters of the town- ship or precinct shall assemble upon the call of the chairnjan of the town- ship committee for that township, and shall appoint or elect three Re publican voters as delegates and three as alternates from each town- ship in the county, and no more. Each precinct in a township, and each ward in a city or town number ing over three thousand inhabitants shall be entitled to the same repre sentation, viz : three delegates and three alternates, and no more. In townships where there is no executive committee, the Republi cans of the township may assemble in meeting and there elect an execu= tive committee and choose delegates and alternates as above set forth. COUNTY CONVENTIONS, County conventions shall consist of three delegates and three alternates from each township or precinct in such county, duly elected by the Re publican voters thereof, under the plan and rules of organization of the Republican party of North Carolina, and no more. County conventions shall be organ, ized by the chairman of the county committee, who shall call the conven tion to order and act as temporary chairman until a permanent organiza tion is effected, with power only to appoint, and receive the report of, a committee on credentials. The certificate of the chairman and secretary of the meeting, setting forth the regularity of the primary meet ing of the township or precinct, and the election of the delegate and alter nate thereat, shall be accepted, when uncontested, as good and sufficient credentials for such delegate and alternate. STATE CONVENTION. Delegates and alternates to a State Convention shall consist of two dele ¬ gates and two alternates only for every member of the lower House of the General Assembly, and shall be apportioned in the several counties accordingly. Delegates to such State Convention shall be by a convention of delegates elected under the rules and plan for the organization of town ship (or precinct) and county conven tions, after due notice and publica* tion of not less than fifteen days, of the time, place and purpose of such convention, and not otherwise. See plan for organization of town- ship and county conventions. No executive committee shall have power to elect or appoint delegates to any convention, whether township, county or State. Form of Credentials. It will be noticed that credentials are required under the plan of or ganization. We present below a form. Should the delegate not be able to attend the county conven tion, he will place the credentials in the hands of his alternate. This paper is to be taken to the conven tion and surrendered when called for by the committee on credentials : County. This is to cei tify, that at a primary meeting of the Republicans of precinct, township, held on the , 188—, said meeting having been regularly called, in con formity with the plan of organization of the Republican party, was duly elected one of the three delegates to represent said precinct in the county convention, to be held in , on the day of , 188—. It is further certified, that ■ was, at the same meeting, duly elected alternate to the above named delegate. Witness, the signature of the chairman of the said meeting, and that of the secretary thereof, the day and year first above written. , Ch’n. , Sec’y. The Times makes its appearance to-day without its coming having t been heralded by flourishing pros, t pectus and glowing promises to 1’ arouse and excite the expectations of i the reading people of the good Old c North State. S We come to the front and form a I line of battle, and our aim and our ( determination is to fight back the J hordes of Bourbons who, vampire u like, have been for years destroying I the vitals of our Republican form of r government, and rapidly drifting it c into a system of despotism, abhorent c to contemplate, repulsive to every s lover of free government, intolerant f in conception, and the legitimate off- f spring of hatred. c In detail, from time to time, we £ shall unearth the so-called laws of | this Bourbon party, and hold them i up to the gaze of our readers. We t shall show by existing facts the iron ( manacles with which they have t bound, hand and foot, the free people ( of our State; thus stifling the popu- ( lar voice by depriving the people of j the free exercise of opinion through - the ballot box. ; Aggression shall be our watch word; canister, hot grape and no i quarters shown, our policy. The i gilded palaces of the political auto- ; crat, built upon means fraudulently ’ obtained, shall crumble into dust, ’ and North Carolina once more free, shall take her place among the sov- { ereign States of the Union. • We shall have the co-operation of 1 the good and the true of the State. 1 We invite all who desire a liberal, : fair and just government to join us. 1 The Times is not, and will not be, : the political organ of any man or set of men. It will speak for the peo- ! ple, and exert whatever influence it ' can command in protecting them in ' all the rights to which they are enti tled under the laws of the country. It has no favorites inside of the party lines, but will cheerfully sup port for office those who may receive the endorsement of properly consti tuted conventions and are put forth as the standard bearers of the great principles enunciated in our party platforms. That the Democratic party of North Carolina belies its name and its professions of devotion to the rights of the people, no one can doubt who knows the record of that party. Since obtaining control of the legislative branch of the State government, more encroachments on the rights and lib erties of the people have been made in the interest of their party leaders than was ever before known in the history of the State. Some too are so flagrant as to cause many an hon est man in the ranks of that party to blush for shame. The rank and file of that party, no doubt, believe they do right in supporting these leaders, but they have been deceived, im posed upon and blinded by appeals to their prejudices. The devil, we are told, quotes scripture and trem bles, so these leaders profess great love for the people, shudder at sup posed centralizing tendencies of the times, and immediately set to work to devise schemes for the perpetuation of their rule by encroachments on popular rights. Under the party lash, every city in the State has been shamefully gerrymandered, that ward politicians of the party might control these municipal governments in spite of large Republican majorities. A Democratic vote in one ward is made to count more than a dozen Repub lican votes in another ward. Even other and worse devises have been tried, such as commulative suffrage. The Senatorial and Congressional districts are manipulated in the same manner, but the consummation was reached in the passage of the county government bill and the Prohibition act. The large majority against the last act; the only one ever submitted to the people, is proof positive, that the rank and file of the party do not endorse this policy of the party. How long though will the voters stand this dictation of the autocratic few? The Prohibition act is dead— the men who procured its passage, and the passage of the acts of the same spirit, are active and still awake to their purposes. Let the voters of the State assert their manhood—let them be independent of these Bour bon leaders and think for themselves, and their liberties will be safe But can these leaders, who have done so much for their own good, the reten tion of the offices, and so little for the good of the people, be trusted ? What one of our rights they will next attempt to take from us, no one can tell. WE call attention to the speech of Hon. John A. Logan, delivered in the Senate of the United States on the proposition to appropriate the revenue derived from distilled spirits to the education of the children of the country. We invite a careful perusal by our friends. It will be found highly interesting. PURBLIND Democratic journalists throughout the South are holding up their hands in holy horror, and are loud in their expressions of virtuous indignation at the government prose cution of the election thieves of South Carolina, whose trials are now pending in the Federal Court at Charleston, S. C., presided over by Judge Bond. According to their code of morality, it is the acme of tyranny on the part of the govern ment to institute suits against these collossal rogues, and the deepest- dyed villainy for any judge to pre side at the trial and carry out the forms of law necessary to expose the flagrant violations of the election law of which these indicted parties are guilty. That they are guilty is patent. In fact, previous to the an- nouncetnent of a determination on the part of the government to prose cute, the election frauds were admit ted, the results were gloried in, and the perpetrators were the subjects of praise and honor. What booted it to- the Democracy if the Federal laws were defied and disregarded, and the will of the majority of the electors defeated, so it was victor rious! It was boldly proclaimed that “the end justified the means,” and the only plea they offered in ex tenuation was that of expediency— that the former slave oligarchy of the State must continue to rule and govern the State. This plea and this defence has not only been made in conversation and in the public prints, but has been announced time and again from the rostrum, and pro claimed by Democratic leaders even in the halls of Congress, such was their confidence in their ability to set at naught, through the machinery of the courts and the passive acqui* escsnce of officials, the statute laws of the nation. The passive and con* ciliatory, and as many of us think, the subservient and time-serving policy previously pursued by Federal officials, had braved these political buccaneers to continue their ne farious election practices until ap peals to popular will at the polls had become the merest farces.— But the present. administration has determined to execute the laws, and punish their infraction, and as a con sequence the vendors of tissue baL lots, ballot-box stuffers, and red-shirt raiders, are at the bar of justice, and a howl of despair is uttered through put the State, because the govern ment has determined to execute the laws, and punish these rogues. Demo cratic journals are now exhausting the vocabulary in denouncing the government officials for doing their duty, and men who were yesterday pronounced good and worthy are to* day tyrants, demons and dogs. This is the usual Democratic tactics, but it will not avail. The political rogues who steal a ballot, or a precinct or a county, or a congressional district, ought to be punished as well as the civil thieves who steal a handker* chief, a bushel of meal, a bolt of cloth, or who rob a bank. These Jesse James'—these high-toned rob* bers—must come to grief, and we hope the government will persevere until the ballot-box banditti in South Carolina and elsewhere in the South will be as scarce as bank raiders are now in Missouri, since the James gang has been exterminated. In the eight Republican States of Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Min nesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wis consin, the Republicans, with 1,865,000 voters, have planned to take ninety Congressmen, leaving twenty-one to the minority of 1,640,000.—Democratic statemeat. This allows one Democratic Rep resentative to every 78,095 voters, and one Republican Representative to every 20,700 voters. In North Carolina the Democrats have ‘planned to take’ eight of the nine Represen tatives in Congress, which allows one Representative to 110,000 Republi can voters, and one Democrat to every 14,750 voters. Take the Southern States as a whole, and by the aid of tissue bal lots and “shoe string” districts, the ratio of Republican voters to Repre sentatives is still greater. Neverthe less, the above quoted paragraph brings bitter and scalding tears from the eyes of the average Southern Democrat. After an expeiiment of one hun-j dred years, are we, as a people, ca pable of self-government? Are we as happy to day as the sub jects of Victoria or the slaves of the Russian Czar ? Are we as secure with a republi. can form of government as those people who are under the rule of em perors and kings? History declares our experiment a success. All nations, known to civ ilization, look upon America as an asylum for the oppressed —and peo ples of every tongue are daily land ing upon our shores to take refuge under our laws, and beneath our flag. Progressive in evergthing that adds to civilization, we are admired and commended by other governments. But, alas! Among uS are a class who have become tired of our demo cratic rule, and long for the day to dawn when titles and office shall be come property by inheritance. They dislike the characteristic plainness of the American name, and would prefer lords, counts and noblemen to the unpretentious //'T^b—of our plain country. In the days of slavery the Bour bons would hurrah for the “ Stars and Stripes,” “freedom and liberty,” while their slaves cultivated their fields and built them smoke-houses and granaries with the product of their farms. All went well then. In the wisdom of Providence slavery has been abolished and all men have been declared “equal before the law,” and at the ballot box “without reference to color or previous condi tion.” This is the barbed hook that can not be extracted without tearing the flesh—and this, and this alone, is the basis of their opposition to the more liberal party—the party of or der and of law—the Republican party. Hence it is, all manner of laws have been enacted by Southern legis latures to cripple the newly-made citizen to that extent that his vote counts for naught, notwithstanding he goes through the sham of exer cising the right. Who will dare deny this? and who in the Bourbon ranks will have the effrontery to declare he does not prefer a concentrated or centralized government to our present form ? This is plain talk, but true; and the time has arrived when every citi zen, who Icjves^ his country, should assert his might and drive from place and position those men who are sap ping the foundation of the best, the purest, the happiest government that the sun of Heaven has ever shone upon. . The days of “Hold Robeson and save the State” are numbered with the past—but the remembrance of that turn in the political status of the State, seems to warn us that the Bourbon party of to-day are less scrupulous than at that time. Cast your eyes around, and you be hold Shackelford, occupying a seat in Congress that rightfully belongs to Col. Canaday—as Kitchen for years held O’Hara’s seat—and Gov. Jarvis now filling the chair of State that un doubtedly belongs to Judge Buxton. Honest men—and there are a few belonging to the so-called Democratic party—will not and do not claim these results as political victories— but political trickery—and there are of those, outspoken among them, men who declare they will not af filiate with a party so corrupt. It is only necessary to tell the peo ple in unpolished sentences of these frauds to win them away, and enroll them with the party that advocates a free ballot and a fair count. This is the period of Democratic victories - on paper. Just previous to the beginning of a campaign, their voting prophets are bridled, saddled and trotted out in leading editorial columns, and by a beautiful array of figures, Democratic victories in the in the future are foretold beyond peradventure. Democratic readers peruse, re-peruse and gloat over these columns, and highly enjoy this brief triumph of imagination. But, the illusion is always dispelled on the day of election, and barbers charge an increased fee to shave Democratic faces for a month there after. It is ever thus. The political religion of the Bour bon party has but one objective point—but various roads and by- ways leading to that point. That haven of happiness constitutes their political heaven, and their shouts of joy only arise when they have suc ceeded in trampling upon the intent and meaning of the State and Fed eral constitutions. They chew, as a precious morsel, the hardships and privations by them entailed upon our people, by the oppressive county laws forbidding the election of county commissioners and magistrates by the popular vote; and when the people complain, they congratulate each other and heat their blood with fine wines. Cities have been laid off into zig. zag wards so as to embrace into one or two wards all the Republicans, and the remaining portion of these cities cut up into several wards, with an unfair aldermanic representation, thus securing to themselves a Bour bon mayor—and when the people complain, they again congratulate each other, and imbibe! > These Bourbon couuty commis* sioners, (elected by Bourbon magis trates, the creatures of a Bourbon Legislature,) appoint Bourbon poll holders and Bourbon returning boards, who, obedient to their Bour bon masters, and without the fear of the law or the powers of high Heaven, count out the elect and put Bourbons in their places; and when the people complain, they laugh and shake hands over their fraud and imbibe more furiously. This enormity the people cannot and will not submit to longer. The people have become disgusted with this trifling with their constitutional rights, and this year they have de termined to be heard through the ballot box. No longer will fraud be tolerated! To many of Gur readers the intel ligence of the death of Richard C. Badger will be startling news. On the morning of the 22d ult., after a long and painful illness, this dis tinguished son of North Carolina breathed his last. Few men were his equal in intel lect, and in a social capacity he had no equal. He had held high and responsible positions, and discharged their varied functions with marked ability. His views were of the most liberal caste, and as a political de- bator his arguments were unanswer able. He has now gone to his rest. IT is still in order for the Sir Oracle of the News and Observer to write another leader expounding constitutional law relating to the trials of the election thieves in South Carolina. Choice extracts from Blackstone and sapient and long- drawn conclusions uttered in its usual Solomonic diction would doubtless delight its readers. Attention is directed to the letter of Mr. J. C. L. Harris, as taken from the New York Times, which appears in this issue. There are two more of these letters and they will appear in their order. “Ordered, That the clerk of this board be directed to have posted on or near each bridge in the county the fol lowing notice: Every person is hereby forbidden to transport over this bridge anything weighing over three tons or 6,000 pounds.” The above order passed missioners of is a true copy of an by the board of com- Wake county on the 6th day of September, 1881, and is a fair sample of the working of our present sy stem of county government. The commissioners are elected by the magistrates, the magistrates are appointed by the General Assembly, and this county upon the recommendation of the Chairman of the Democratic Execu tive Committee. The natural result of this is that the chairman and his friends dictate a government to the 50,000 freemen in Wake county. Think of it ye tillers of the soil !— the Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee,—autocrat of Wake county, — naming your magis trates ! — (of course he don’t name any enemies,) and through them con trolling your commissioners, your school committees, your poor and work houses, and in fact every gov ernmental function in the county. What has become of your proud claim in your Bill of Rights, that all political-power is vested in and de rived from the people? Where is that representation which of right .ought to go along with taxation, when the taxing power in the coun ties is responsible to no one, save the pliant mouth piece of a partizan caucus ? Gov. Vanoe once said that there was retribution in history. He was right. Retribution has overtaken the ballot-box stuffers of South Car olina by conviction in the United States Court. There are indict ments of this kind in the Federal Court of this district. It is expected that our new District Attorney, Mr. W. S % O’B. Robinson, will press for a trial of these cases in June next in order that the people may understand whether they are to be protected in, their right of suffrage by the Nation al government. Then the retribu tion of history ought to be fulfilled by ample sentences to the Albany penitentiary. Fraud and rascality may be necessary to furnish office and emoluments to Democrats who cannot earn a living by their own exertions, but the time has arrived when it must be understood by virtue of the same means that this govern* ment is not to be destroyed by sap* ping the foundation by fraud upon the ballot any more than it was de stroyed by the outrages and murders of the Kuklux. The result of the ^outh Catalina trials w^^not be without effect in this State, but a few convictions by Mr. Robinson at the June term would have a very wholesome effect in securing a free ballot and fair count in November next. , Municipal figures make the Dem ocratic government of Raleigh the model of economy and excellence. A comparison with the expenditures of the Republican government of seven, eight and ten years ago, is flaunted before the eyes of the people. But figures arrayed by interested parties sometimes lie outrageously. Facts cannot be hidden, and the average citizen will think occasion ally. If the Republicans collected and spent $50,000 eight years ago, surely, with the great increase in value of property since that time, $60,000 ought to be collected now. It is all spent. The treasury is empty, and orders are at a discount. No new streets have been opened and paid for. No public buildings or grounds have been recently pur chased. The whole great corpora tion is a positive brick-hole the winter through; and still, all the money is spent. What in the deuce goes with the spondulicks, and where is the economy exhibited, when the tax levy is the same, an increased amount collected, and every dollar expended ? Yanceyville, April 27.—Ex-Sena tor George Williamson was joking Felix Roan about being a Republican postmaster when they got mad and Roan cursed him out. This evening- at Yanceyville George Williamson, Jr., and Nat. Johnson, a nephew of Wil liamson, armed themselves and came down the street to tackle Roan. Roan came out with a double-barrelled shot gun and told them not to come any nearer, but they would come, when Roan shot Johnson, killing him in stantly, then Williamson fired at Roan, hitting him in the calf of the leg. Roan then shot Williamson in the head, mortally wounding him. Roan gave himself up, and is now in jail.— Greensboro Morning News. Well, if Roan was a Republican postmaster, why should the jokes be so serious as to lead to the killing of one man and mortally wounding another? But they seem to be used to it in that town. One Mr. Stephens wasjoked there a few years since. IN an article under heading, en titled “county government,” the Newbern Commercial, the leading Why is it that we are not allowed to travel the public roads of the country with such loads, regardless of weight, except our power to move them, as we may see fit? Who gave to the commissioners or any one else the authority to say to any citizen of the State^top here and weigh your load before you cross that bridge built by public money, and a part of the public highway ? Where is this thing to end? Will the Democratic party ever be satis fied so long as the people have the right of self government? Demo cracy passed the Prohibition act— the people killed that. Democracy passed the autocratic county govern ment act, and the people will slay that as they slew the Egyptian on yesterday. Mark it, ye autocrats, and tremble, for the day of your power is well nigh spent. IT is proper that Democratic mem bers of Congress and office holders should endorse the county govern* ments as at present constituted. One of the “statesmen” at Washington has spoken. Let the others toe the mark and when all have given their reasons for this high-handed measure they will be laid before the people. How do the voters of the counties like to be told in effect they are not competent to select men to manage their home affairs? We shall see. Comment on the Democratic howl now raised because of the prosecution of the election thieves in South Car* olina : “No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.” Democratic journal of Eastern North Carolina, thus candidly gives its opinion : . “We assume as a fact, beyond all controversy, that the present system is undemocratic or disrepublican; that it is a system which deprives the majori ty of its voice in the direction and control of public affairs, and we recog nize the impossibility of perpetuating such a system in American politics. A change is inevitable and demanded by the very nature of our system of gov ernment, the great underlying princi ple of which is home rule—local self- government.” “And, so, Col. T. N. Cooper, the Distiller, the recent chairman of the Liquor Dealers’ party of North Caro lina, is confirmed as the successor of Dr. Mott as the Collector of the 6th District. And Senators Vance and Ransom did not vote against the con firmation. The telegrams do not tell us how many barrels of his corn whis key Col. Cooper has had shipped to Washington for the benefit of those Senators whose hearts are with us but whose stomachs arc against us.”—Spirit of the Age. The editor of the Age seems to “know how the old thing works,” and being a Democrat himself, is probably not a bad judge of the price of Democratic acquiescence. • The average Democrat always did have a weakness that way, and who knows but what Cooper has taken advan- Old people recollect when the Nullifiers of South Carolina, and their allies elsewhere, denounced the government of Jackson for doing what Arthur is attempting now— executing Federal laws in the sacred domain. The howl of the Nullifiers of to-day has the same familiar sound Ias of old. “The pup has the bark of the old dog,” and may soon have his teeth. The present system of county gov ernment is the un-handy work ot the Bourbons. The people are disgusted with it, and toleration for a longer period than is absolutely necessary to repeal the odious law is the limit. S^ 10 Oxford Torchlight, a Bourbon journal, publishes the following from a correspondent *"who signs himself “Citizen.” We transfer it to our columns because it appeared first in said paper: “The sovereignty of the people is a conceded point, and the right of suf frage is dear to free born citizens of our country. It is a light our citizens ought not to part with without a struggle for its existence. Encroach ments on the rights of suffrage ought to be manfully resisted at every step. The rights of our citizens have been ignored to too great an extent already , and some have been placed in power regardless of the people’s wishes in the matter. Why is it that the people of North Carolina to-day cannot elect their magistrates and county commis sioners, clerks and judges of their In ferior Courts? Is it beesuse two or three men in the little country towns of the State have more sense and in terest in the government than the sov ereign people of the country ? Why should chairmen of executive commit tees, or any one else, exercise the right to recommend and have appointed by a partisan Legislature such men for magistrates as w*l subserve certain purposes? The right of suffrage, in the language of the founders of this Republic, is one “ formidable to tyrants only,” and it is a right free men should exercise in hurling from posi tion those whose growing insolence renders them distasteful to them. Is it right, or in accord with Repub ica:.’ principles, that our people should not know who is recommended for the office of magistrate until the appoint ments are made by the Legislature ? A farmer employs his servants and pays them as long as their demeanor is such as to meet his approval, but re serves to himself the right to turn them off whenever they become inso lent and think they are the masters. That is a right he ought to have. But the people of the counties have no right, through the ballot box, to se? lect or remove those appointed to fill the important positions in the county government. Suppose tho citizens of the townships were to meet and ex press their preference for certain men for magistrates, is there any evidences their wishes in the m.utor would be regarded? Official- selected by cliques for cei-tain purposes, distasteful to the sovereign people, are not the kind of men we_want in power. The voice of the people should be. and will be, heard in assertion of their rights at the ballot box. The descendants of fathers that hurled the British lion from our country in defease of their right to govern in their sovereign ca pacity, cannot sit calmly by and see the ballot box ignored or sustained just as the interest or caprice of de signing aspirants may dictate. No, let the voice of the people be heard, even if it shakes the foun lation stone of our court houses, and se^ds forth old gray and long fed rats in terror from the scene. Men have no right to push them selves in positions of trust to which they could not be called by the suf frages- of the people they profess to serve. If the people don't want them, and they have no modesty in the mat ter. the ballot box should be the me dium through which the people could speak. This is a question we must meet in the next campaign. Let none be allowed to remain in positions of trust the people did not select or want. The great principle of self-government cannot be kicked aside for partisan promotion ” The Liberal Movement. The following preamble and reso lutions, offered by Hon. James H. Harris, were adopted by the Conven-. tion of leading colored men of North Carolina, which met at Goldsboro on the 29th of March, 1882 : Whereas, The Democratic Legis lature of North Carolina has taken from the people the right to elect their magistrates and county officers, contrary to the spirit of our free institutions,and the American system of local self government; and whereas, The tendency of legislation since the Bourbon Democracy obtained control of our State government, has been to favor the few autocrats of that party at a sacrifice of the popular rights of the people; and whereas, by a shameful gerrymander of our large cities and Senatorial districts minor ities are allowed to rule majorities ; and whereas, by a shameful gerry mander of our Congressional districts one hundred and twenty thousand Democrats (according to the election returns) are given seven of the eight Congressmen to which this State is entitled, and the one hundred and thirty-seven thousand Republican voters only one representative. Therefore, Be it resolved by this Convention-. 1. That while we do not favor the abandonment of any of the principles of the Republican party which have done so much for the education of our race; and while we heartily endorse the administration of Presi dent Arthur, we hail with pleasure the unmistakable evidences of a liberal movement in North Carolina founded on popular rights as against Bourbon rule, class legislation, and tyrannical monopolies. 2. That we will hail such liberal movement, founded upon such prin ciples; and are ready to receive those liberal men who have hereto fore acted with the Democratic party who are not blinded by the narrow prejudice of a by -gone age, and who are willing to bury the dead past in an earnest and joint effort to build up a new North State, to make the burdens of government bear equally upon all citizens, and guarantee to all equal rights and privileges, under just and humane laws. Mr. Blaine is not going to Europe. The report that he would do so grew out of a chance remark by him when Senator Harrison and a delegation from New Albany, Ind., waited upon him with an urgent invitation to de liver the Decoration Day oration in that place.
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