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(Concluded from 1st page ) and Alaska; if the cultivators of the inheritance transmissable to their 1 farms in Ohio and Dakota, of the descendants. The enlightened mo plantations of Georgia and Lou- derns seek to make it the common heritage of all. They search for al the specimens of mind, even to tin shreds of it found in the imperfect souls of idiots, and cultivate all these. Why ? Because every mind is an element of power. Private in dividuals ransack the streams and the mountains for particles of gold and offer them to the world as an addition to its wealth; but a nation finds honor in discovering minds and offering them to be used in all the duties of life. Des Cartes was ac customed to say: “In the universe there is nothing great but man, and in man there is nothing great but mind,” an expression afterward con- densed and improved by Sir William Hamilton thus: “In the universe nothing is great but mind.” Onr systems of public schools give emphasis to this idea, and justify the search alluded to. A nation may honorably seek power; indeed if it will live it must seek and retain power. Those who are to be the power of the nation are the children scattered in the palaces, garrets and cellars of cities, and in the homes and cabins of the country, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific shore. Whatever power there shall be, therefore, to do or direct, must be found in these children. Their tide, growing with every advancing year, must supply for the future of our nation, all its wealth, all its science, all its power, all its honor. It may be assumed that as the present generation shall receive and educate its children, and welcome the annual swarms of immigrants crowd ing to our shores, so will the land in crease in all that makes a people worthy of everlasting remembrance. And the same conditions which se cure this will also establish our coun. try in all that a free people can de sire: power, honor, comfort, intelli gence and wealth. What some of these conditions are it is not hard to declare, for knowledge universally diffused is so clearly the great force that even a statement to this effect is unnecessary. That “knowledge is power,’' is a truism now denied by none. What is of so much worth as chil dren, even reckoning on that very low plane, their simple cash value as prospective laborers? A fine climate gives effect to every interest and in dustry of a land; a fertile soil at tracts population and enterprise to cultivate it; mines afford opportunity for the poor to gather wealth and scatter it abroad throughout the world. But none of these are of any more worth than a desert without hands to improve them; and what are hands worth without minds to direct them? A hand with an edu. cated brain behind it is worth more than treble an ignorant one. Give the finest climate earth can show, the fattest soil the continents lift out of the sea, the richest mines the moun tains contain, the safest harbors that border the sea or indent the land, and let a people be ignorant of their own capabilities, or the resources of nature and her mighty agencies, and what are all these worth? Africa to-day has ten millions square miles of soil as fertile as lies beneath the sun. She has a hundred millions of people. Yet the little island of England, with only about sixty thou sand square miles and forty millions of people, produce annually, in a climate almost of the polar circle, more articles of food and clothing raised directly from the earth by ag ricultural labor alone than all that continent; and if you count in the manufactures which her machinery yields, she does the work of ten times the whole population of Africa. How is she enabled to^ do this? Simply because the educated mind of England can multiply her hands by a thou sand fold. Nature lends her gravi tation ; even enslaves her sun and harnesses her ilghtning, so that they afford hands and feet to run and la - bor for those people who have learned how to use such agencies. The same thing is seen in any enlightened country, or at least where education is widely diffused. And yet in En gland less than half the common people’s children are educated in any suitable degree. It is mind which has accomplished all these wonders ; and minds are found in almost equal numbers in all ranks of society.* The child of the peasant is often as full of genius as the child of the prince, with a stronger body and less ten* dency to habits of vice or reckless ness; and if he can be found and educated the nation certainly derives the greatest possible benefits; and if a nation, is to be raised to its highest degree of efficiency every particle of its mind must be utilized. isiana; if the herders of the ranches of Texas and New Mexico, can all be rendered intelligent enough to see the excellence of virtue and be made noble enough to practice its self-re straining laws; if they can "be taught wisdom enough to appreciate the ten thousand advantages of a national Union embracing a hundred climates and capable of sustaining a myria-f of mutually helpful industries, freeh interchanging the products as acting on each other as mutual forces to stimulate every one to its highest capacity of rival endeavor, then we would be sure of a stable Union and an immortality of glory. Is it not now easy to see that the education of the young, a common plan with one common purpose, the people’s children taught by the peo ple themselves, in schools made by the people themselves, yet in some noble sense patronized by the nation and supervised by the nation in some proper manner, will aid in making on this continent a nation what we hope to be and what the foreshadow- ings of Providence seem to indicate we ought to be, the one great and mighty nation of the world. We have the same glorious Constitution. Let us all from highest to lowest, from richest to poorest, from blackest to whitest, learn to read its words as they are written, and then we shall be most likely to interpret its pro visions alike and administer its en actments alike in justice and honor. We all read the same Bible and claim to practice the same golden rule. Let us instruct all the youth whom the beneficent gives us, natives of this land or born on other shores, in grand principles of morality which it inculcates, and in all the science which it has fostered. We all inherit from our motherland the same inval uable code of common laws and institutions. Let us, if need, be careful all to obtain enough knowl edge to read and understand the laws which the Legislatures of the several States shall make and the decisions in accordance with that common law which their courts shall render. We have received from our ancestors and from the present generation of phil osophic scientists a body of knowl edge and wisdom the worth of which even genius can scarcely estimate. Let that be given to every child that breathes our atmosphere, in substan tially the same spelling-book and primer, in schools as good among the snows of Aroostook as in marts of New York, Boston, or Charleston, as free on the shores of Puget Sound as on the prairies of Illinois, and as well taught in the rice-fields of the South as on the hills of Connecticut. Then we shall be, “ One and in separable, now and forever.” NORTH CAROLINA POLITICS. Signs of Impending Defeat for the Bourbon Democracy. that the lives of her father, mother, brother, and sisters be spared from death. The spies answered, “Our life for yours if ye utter not this our business. Mnd it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.” And the spies told Rahab to bind the scarlet line of thread in the window, by which she had let the spies down outside of the town wall, and that she should gather her fam ily into her house, and when Joshua came with his people and they ob- served the scarlet thread bound in . ihe window, they would remember her kindness and their oath, and she and hers would be protected. The spies departed, and Rahab bound the scarlet line in the window of her house. It appears that the Federal sol diers understood the meaning of the “Red String,” as it was called. Whenever they saw one hanging in a window, the inmates of that house suffered no harm, and their property was protected from injury. When the war ended it was thought that the Union men would at once resume control of the State without protest or opposition. In June, 1865, Pres ident. Johnson appointed William W. Holden Provisional Governor of North Carolina. For many years bafore the war Gov. Holden had been the editor of the leading Dem- cratic paper in the State. He came within two votes, in 1860, of being nominated as the Democratic candi date for Governor. He was strongly opposed to the secession of the State, and only gave the Confederate cause a lukewarm support during the first two years of the war. In 1862 a peace movement, based upon the re turn of the State to the Union, spread like wildfire all over the State. This movement was heartily sup ported by Gov. Holden in the Stan dard newspaper, and upon this plat form Col. Zebulon B. Vance was elected Governor in 1862 by more than 30,000 majority over the seces sion candidate. From this time until the close of the war Gov. Hol den was the avowed enemy ol the Confederate Government. His office was mobbed by Banning’s Georgia Regiment, and for two years before the war ended Hondea scarcely ever- slept a night in his own dwelling for fear of being killed by some Confed erate. Goy. Vance soon went over to the war men, and in 1864 Holden was a candidate for Governor against Vance, and was voted for by all the Union men of the State who had the courage to vote for the Union candi date. Vance was elected by the free use of the bayonets of Jeff Davis’s troops. These things made Holden exceedingly distasteful to the men who had thrown themselves heart and soul into the Confederate cause. As soon as Holden was appointed Governor, President Johnson* com menced to grant pardons for com plicity in the rebellion upon the re commendation of Gov. Holden. In order to ascertain the policy of Hol den in this respect the ex-rebel leaders made haste to apply for par don. Ex Gov. William A. Graham and a number of men who had been prominent in the rebellion sent in in 1868, 1869, and 1870, together with the terror inspired by the Ku - klux, enabled the Democrats to carry the State in 1870 and to elect a ma jority of the Legislature. The force policy of the national Government from 1865 to 1877, as administered by the Republican party, together with the Civil Rights bill as passed by Congress in 1874, with the inde« fensible record of the Republican Legislature of 1868, 1869, and 1870, induced the Democrats to stand closely together, and they have stood for the last 12 years as one man in order to prevent the Republicans from regaining control of the State. So long as it appeared necessary for the Democrats to hold together in opposition to the force policy, just so long was it impossible to make a break in the Democratic ranks. The pressure for self-preservation was so gr^at under the circumstances that no leader dared to bolt, no matter how much he was dissatisfied with the acts of his party. Then, again, the record of the Republican party in North Carolina was so disgraceful that it drove every young man as he became of age into the Democratic party. The intensely bitter feeling that existed between the parties from 1867 to 1877 p evented any thought of independent action on the part of Democratic Authority. The policy that has heretofore ob tained, of covering up the errors and rascalities of the Democratic leaders, has well nigh ruined us. For the last fifteen years we have had nothing but abuse and denunciation of radical thievery and radical misdeeds, for the reason that no one has been allowed to expose the rascality of Democrats. Every one who has attempted it has been pointed out as in sympathy with the “nigger party,” and denounced as a radical. Freedom of opinion has not been permitted; but judging from the number of Democratic papers that are now speaking out, ifwould seem that the party lash is not much respected. And we think good will result. We believe it will have the effect to purify the party by forcing it to get rid of dead-beats and time servers. It has reached a point that renders this rid dance absolutely necessary. Without such purifaction it is hopelessly gone. For years the youth and manhood, the brains and life of the party have been kept in the background. Such have been the greed and selfishness of the old fossils. Young men have stood no chance in the Democratic party. The old hacks must have everything. The people have grown tired of sup porting old fogies and sustaining sine cures for the offspring of defunct aris tocracy, so-called. —Salisbury Examiner. Organization It will be necessary to move iu ac cordance with the new plan. In those counties already organized under this plan, the first step to be taken will be the calling together of the county executive committee by the chairman thereof and the fixing, by this com mittee, of the time for holding the county convention Then it will bo the duty of the chairman of each precinct executive committee, after consulting his associates respecting line, to call a precinct meeting for the appointment of three dele- gates and three alternates, and no more, to the county conven tion. In precincts' or townships where there is no executive commit tee, the Republicans therein may as semble in meeting and there choose delegates and alternates as above sot forth. In addition to the appoint ment of delegates and alternates, these precinct meetings elect an ex ecutive committee. any class of men who then affiliated with the Democratic party. Then again, it wai held out 138 Electoral votes that with the of the solid The nine millions of children who daily march to the school houses of the North, the West, and the South, are better as a defense for the whole natiou than a standing army as large as all the armies of Europe. The quarter of a million of school teachers who daily drill these children in the school houses, are a better provision for training the nation in patriotism than all the statesmen and military officers of the Old World. Let every child of the nation be sent to a good school, and be trained by a proper method in broad, national ideas, and we never need fear either foreign ag gression and domination, or domestic insurrection and sectional strifes and jealousies. Strength, peace, har mony, prosperity, nobility of char acter, patriotism, virtue and happi ness would flow as from a perennial spring in the mountains, to fill the land forever. After paying a glowing tribute to the cause of education and portray" ing its great advantages generally, the speaker continued, as follows : If our people in the pine woods of Maine or Michigan; if those of the mines of the Carolinas and Virginia, in Colorado and Nevada, California REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS TO COALESCE —HOW THE DEMOCRATS GOT CONTROL OF THE STATE—THE EVILS OF CARPET-BAG LEGISLA TION— PRESIDENT HAYES’S POLICY PRODUCTIVE OF GOOD RESULTS. [Mr. J. C. L. Harris in the New York Times of January 31, 1881.J Raeeigh, N. C., Jan. 26.—There are unmistakable signs of a coalition of Independent Democrats and Re« publicans during the present yeai that will undoubtedly defeat the Bourbon Democracy in this State at the election in November next. In order to fully understand the present situation and the change that is ap parently taking place in the political forces of the State, it is necessary to refer to a number of past events. At the first election in this State in 1860, upon the question of union or disunion, the Unionists carried the State by 30,000 majority After the call of President Lincoln for 75,000 troops, and it was then seen that a war could not be avoided, and not until Virginia had passed the secession ordinance, did North Car olina agree to cast her lot with her sister States. Four years of rebel-, lion, with all the attendant horrors and persecutions did not quench the Union feeling that existed in 1860, and continued to exist during the entire rebellion, among the men of North Carolina. There were thou sands of men throughout the State who most earnestly desired the suc cess of the Union armies and the alter downfall of the tyranny and despotism of the Davis government. These men were Union men from principle, and they never contribu ted one cent more in aid of the Con federate cause than they were com pelled to do by surrounding circum stances. From hundreds of windows and housetops did the Union troops in North Carolina, while on their march of subjugation, observe the Stars and Stripes floating to the breeze. This revered bunting had been hidden away for four years more carefully and secretly than gold and silver, because its discovery meant death to the man who kept the Abolition .rag concealed in his house. The secret organization of Heroes of America, or Red Strings, as they were called, originated among the Union men, with a view to their protection when the country should be finally overrun by the Federal armies. The foundation of that organization is based on the eighteenth and twenty-first verses of the second chapter of Joshua. Two spies were sent out by King Joshua into the land of Jericho. The King of Jericho heard of their arrival, and made search for them. They were concealed near the roof of the house, with stalks of flax, by the woman Rahab, who put the pursuers on the wrong trail and thus saved the life of the two spies. Rahab then asked a return of the kindness she l ad shown when the Lord had given the > laud of Jericho to King Joshua, ana , their applications for pardon Gov. Holden made a discrimination be tween the Union men and the rebels, and refused to recommend the pardon of Gov. Graham and others of like ilk. This action at once cemented the rebel leaders together as one man, and they set to work to obtain con trol of the State. A convention #vas called and a new Constitution was framed and submitted to the people, and was voted down by the united efforts of the rebel element. An election was ordered to be held in November, 1866, to elect Governor, Legislature, and Congressmen. Gov. Holden was distasteful to many Union Whigs because of his original Democracy. The rebel leaders in casting around for an available man to run against Gov. Holden, selected Jonathan Worth, an old Union Whig, who had accepted the office of Treasurer of the State from Holden. It was claimed for Worth that he was a better Union man than Hol den, and notwithstanding the fact that the whole power of the national Administration was wielded in favor of Holden, the rebels*were too strong, and Worth was elected by 6,000 majority. This was the beginning of the organization of the White Man’s Party in North Carolina. The next step that crippled the Union cause in this State and added great strength to the White Man’s Party was the unfortunate disfranchising clause as contained in the reconstruc tion acts, which made no discrimina tion between the Union men and the men who had been active in support of the rebellion. The friend and foe to the Government were alike fed out of the same spoon—banned and dis franchised together. This unwise legislation was fatal to the permanent ascendancy of the Republican party in North Carolina. It drove thou sands of men who were the friends of the Union during the war and who hated secession into the “Conserva tive Democratic Party,” as it was then called. It robbed the Repuh. lican Party in every county in the State of nearly all the Union Whigs who would have been the Republican leaders and left the party without enough white men of education and ability to officer the .State after re construction had been completed Consequently the way was thus opened for the “thieving carpet- bagger,” and the swarm soon left the Northern States and deposited large numbers in each of the Southern States. The negroes, who were then elated over freedom and suffrage, were partial to the men who had fought to free them ; consequently the carpet baggers speedily obtained control of the negroes and the high carnival of peculation, fraud, and thievery of the reconstruction period was entered upon in North Carolina to the scandal, disgrace, and defeat ; of the Republican party. This con duct of the Republican Legislature i South the Nation could be carried by the Democrats, and the over whelming desire to regain control of the Nation smothered, for the time being, all thought of breaking away from the Democracy. So that it was not until 1877, after President Hayes had refused to use the Army in order to keep the Republican party in the ascendancy in the. Southern States, that Democrats began to see and believe that in their State poli tics they were to be no longer menaced by the United States Army, and that they were to be left alone to work out their own salvation. Then, again, it was demonstrated in 1876, and again in 1880, that the means used to make and keep the South solid furnished the material whereby the North was made solidly Republican, and that 138 Electoral votes cannot beat 231. And thus the pressure that had for 10 years forced unity and rudely suppressed every independent political thought was removed, and the leaven of independent thought and action began to rise and swell until it assumed proportions that finally culminated in the recent victory in Virginia. Now that Virginia has opened the way, it will be compara tively easy for North Carolina to throw off the Bourbon yoke. There are more white men who belong to the Republican party in North Car olina than in any other Southern State. There are also a large num ber of men who were forced by cir cumstances already mentioned into the Democratic party who have never been satisfied with their po litical affiliation, It is this class of men who are now preparing to break away from the Bourbon Democracy and who intend to coalesce with the Republicans during the present year, and endeavor, in November next, to defeat the Bourbon Democrats, horse, foot and dragoons. The resolution introduced in the Ca nadian House of Commons declaring that Canada ought to have the right to negotiate her own commercial treaties without the interference of the British foreign office, was defeated re cently by a vote of 58 yeas to 104 nays. The 107th anniversary of the De claration of Independence at Char lotte, N. C., is to be held this year with great eclat. The proper anniver sary is the 20th of May, when military processions and drills, rifle shooting, a fireman’s tournament and much pub lic speaking, will take place. The city of Charlotte is to be the centre of op erations. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, has accepted an invitation to deliver the oration. Everywhere in the Mississippi delta are to be found traces of the engineer ing skill of the myst«”ious race vaguely called. “Mound Builders.” Artificial elevations, miles of canals and long stretches of low, protecting levees are to be seen in nearly every county bor dering on the river from Cairo to New Orleans. The Memphis Avalanche asks: “Would not modern -engineers do well to study carefully the system which these ancient people no doubt found to be an efficient remedy for devastating floods?” The first Hungarian-American Colo nization Society has been incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. Its President is Paul O. d’Esterhazy and its Vice-President Wm. H. Guion. It proposes to secure at first 100,000 acres of land in lots of about 20,000 acres each. These lots are to be laid out in villages and farming lots adjacent of from 50 to 150 acres each. 1 hey are to be sold to worthy Hungarian emi grants at cost, payment to be made in easy annual installments. Ihe com pany reserves for itself the ownership of each alternate building lot in the villages and all unallotted farming lots lying between the villages and the al loted farming lands. The capital of the company is 8100,000, in shares of 8100 each. tees are not allowed to fix the time for holding the precinct meetings for the election of delegates to coun ty conventions, this being among the duties of the precinct executive com mittee. Representation in Conventions. Below will be found the representa tion of the counties in Republican Conventions. This is according to the plan of organization and based upon the last apportionment of members of the lower House: Counties. Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, -Brunswick, Buncombe, Buake, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Delegates. Alternates. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Republican District Convention. The Universal Language. A literary journal of New York recently had this paragraph : The English language is now spoken by over 100,000,000 people, while neither the French nor Ger man can claim 50,000,000. Mr. Walter, editor of the London Daily Times, concedes that the United States will have a population of 200,- 000,000 in the year 2000 A. D., and this estimate is in accordance with those of other statisticians. English certainly has a good prospect of reaching the pre eminence once occu pied by the Latin or Greek, as an universal language. From the standpoint of the En glish-speaking race, all Ihis appears well founded. But it is vehemently disputed by the French and German; by the former on the score of collo quial excellence of their language, which has constituted it the medium of diplomatic communication all over the world, and by the latter, on the ground that the language of Luther, Goethe and Humboldt, is the cosmo politan vehicle of all philosophical and literary expression. To this it may be replied, that the English language is emphatically the language of commerce. It has been asserted, withuut contradiction, that a man may transact business in the English tongue in every trade centre in the world. All large business houses in non-English countries have an English speaking clerk or corre spondent, as a necessity. As a mat ter of fact, it is further affirmed, that no one speaking only English, can “stop at f> any hotel in the civilized world, of any consequence, without finding some one who can understand and interpret his orders for service. The Republican District Conven tion for the nomination of a candi date for the Forty-eighth Congress fiom the fourth congressional dis trict, the appointment of an execu tive committee of one from each county for the district, and the trans action of such other business as may be deemed for the best interest of the party, will be held at the city of Raleigh, on Wednesday, August 2d, 1882, at 12 o’clock, noon, the repre sentation in which will be as follows, and no larger: The county of Chat ham, four delegates; Franklin and that portion of Vance taken from it, four delegates; Granville and that portion of Vance taken from it, four delegates; Johnston, four delegates ; Nash, two delegates; Orange and Durham, conjointly, lour delegates; Wake, eight delegates. The coun ties as named are entitled to the same number of alternates as they will have delegates. Chairmen of county executive committees are requested to convene their bodies at an early day, for the purpose of fixing times and places for holding county conventions to appoint delegates and alternates to the district convention, of which times and places at least fifteen days’ notice must be given. Under the new plan of organization, to which attention is directed, credentials will be required. The co-operation of the liberally- disposed in all parties is invited. By order of Congressional District Executive Committee: C. L. Harris, Ch’n. Republican County Executive Com mittee. More troops are pouring into Ire land. The London Times, Tory or gan, calls out lustily for sterner measures. It recommends that agita tion should be crushed out at every cost before milder measures are thought of. Ex-Gov. William Smith, of Vir ginia, now in his 75th year, made a temperance speech at Baltimore on Friday last. He is President of the Virginia Temperance Alliance. The Sun says “he stands erect and sp.-ales with all the vigor of former times.” A dispute about half a dozen egg’s in a Philadelphia market between a The members of the executive com mittee of the Republican party in the county of Wake are requested to meet in Raleigh, on Saturday, the 13th day of May, 1882, for the pur pose of fixing the time for holding the county convention that will ap point delegates to the State conven tion, to meet on the 14th of June, and to the congressional district con vention, to assemble on the 2d day of August, next. Should other matters be considered and definitely acted upon, they will be made known in the call. W. W. White, Ch’n. lady and a New Jersey farmer, been carried into the courts, and cost so far $200. - The lady was feated in her claim of damages has has de- for slander, and she intends spending more money by carrying the case to a higher court. Rooms Republican Dist. Com, ) Wilmington, N. C., April 20, ’82. j At a meeting of the Republican Committee of the Third Congressional District of North Carolina, held this day, it was ordered that a District Convention be held at Elizabethtown, in the county of Bladen, on the 8th day of June, at 12o’clock, noon, for the purpose of nominating a candi date for Congress. The Convention will be held under the plan adopted by the last Republican State Con vention. 0. II. Blocker, Ch’n. E. R. Brink, Sec'y. Catawba, Chatham, Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Graham, Granville, Greene, Guilfo’d, Halifax, Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hertford, Hyde, Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, Martin, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Montgomery, Moore, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 2 4 4 2 2 4 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 6 2 2 2 2 4 4 2 Orange and Durham, 4 Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Polk, Randolph, Richmond, Robeson, Rockingham, Rowan, Rutherford, Sampson, Stanly, Stokes, '-urry, Swain, Transylvania, Tyrrell, Union, Wake, Warren and Vance, Washington, Vatauga, Wayne, Wilkes, Wilson, Yadkin, Yancey, 2 2 2 2 4 2 4 2 -4 4 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 8 4 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 Plan of Organization. 2 4 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 4 2 2 4 2 4 2 2 2 4 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 4 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 6 2 2 2 2 4 4 2 4 2 2 2 2 4 2 4 2 4 4 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 8 4 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 We give below the plan, the party law which will guide us in the ap proaching campaign. The words in italics, separated from the text by brackets [], make the construction which has been accepted by high au thority. Committeem n should read carefully : RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF NORTH CAROLINA. I.— County Organization. The election precinct shall be the unit of county organization. Each precinct shall have an executive committee consisting of three active Republicans They shall be bien nially chosen by the Republican voters of the precinct, [the voters to meet only upon the call of the chair man ; in precincts where there is ro executive committee, the Republicans of the precinct may assemble in meet ing and there elect an executive com- mittee,] and shall elect one of their number chairman. They shall con vene together at such time and place as the majority of them may elect. They [a convention of all the precinct executive committees] shall biennially elect a county executive committee to consist of not less than five mem- b is, who shall elect a chairman from their number. Vacancies in precinct committees shall be filled by the voters of the precinct, and in county committees by a convention of the precinct committees duly called : Provided, That in case a vacancy occurs within thirty days prior to an election, such vacancy may be filled by the vote of the remaining mem bers. IL — Congressional, Judicial and Senatorial Districts. There shall be a Congressional, Judicial and Senatorial District Committee, composed of not less than one member from each county, not less than seven members, bien nially elected by the several district conventions, each of whom shall elect a chairman from their number : Provided, That a senatorial district committee shall only be elected in districts embracing more than one county. Vacancies occurring within thirty days of an election may be filled by the vote of the committee. III-—State Executive Committee. There shall be a State Executive Committee, composed of one memb. r from each Congressional District in the State, to be designated by the district delegations in State Conven tion assembled; two members at large, to be elected by the State Con vention, »nd the chairman of the convention at which the election is held. They shall be biennially elected at the State Convention, shall choose one of their number chairman, and shall elect a secretary who is not a member, who shall reside at Ral eigh. IV. The chairmen of the respec tive county, district and State ex ecutive committees shall call the r conventions to order and act as tem porary chairmen until a permanent organization is effected, with power only to appoint, and receive the re port of, a committee on credentials. [Precinct meetings are called to order by chairmen of the precinct executive committees, who preside until the election of a chairman and a secretary of the meeting ] V. No executive committee shall have power to elect or appoint del egates to any convention, whether county, district, State or National. VI. No member of an executive committee or delegate or alternate duly chosen shall have power to dele gate his trust or authority to another. VII. —Representation. Representation in county conven tions shall consist of three Republi can voters as delegates, and three [ Republican voters] as alternates from each precinct in Hie county, and VIII. Representation in Congress ional, Judicial, Senatorial and State Conventions, shall consist of two delegates and two alternates only, for eveiy member of the lower House of the General Assembly, and sha’l be apportioned in the several counties accordingly. IX. Delegates and alternates to county conventions shall be elected only by a vote of the Republicans of each p-ecinct in precinct meeting assembled; and delegates and al ternates to district, State and Na tional conventions shall be elected by a convention of delegates duly elected and sent by the people for that purpose after due notice and publication of not less than fifteen day?, of the time, place and purpose of such convention, and not other wise. X. The certificate of the chairman and secretary of the meeting, setting forth the regularity of the primary meeting or convention, and the elec tion of the delegate and alternate thereat, shall be accepted when un contested, as a good and sufficient credential for such delegate and alternate. XI. This plan of organization^and procedure shall continue in force until changed or abrogated by a sub sequent Republican State Conven tion. Adopted in State Convention, July Sth, 1880. A. W. Shaffer, J E. O’Hara, Geo. W. Williams, T. S. 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Our Continent “In that New World which is the old.” A new illustrated weekly journal devoted to Literature, General Infor mation, Art, Science and Humor, con ducted by ALBION W. TOURGEE, Author of “A Fool’s Errand,” “Bricks Without Straw,” “Figs and Thistles,” etc., assisted by Daniel G. Brinton and Robert S. Davis. Published February 1, 1882. For sale by all Booksellers, News Dealers and Postmasters. Terms: $4 a year; $2 six months. Published by “Our Continent” Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Penn.
The Times [1882] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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