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THE Times. PUBLI8BEB EVERY WEDNESDAY AT RALEIGH, N. C. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: O*a year, . . - - $2.00 Six Months, . - - 1.00 Three months, - - - .50 Address all oommunications to “THE TIMES,” Raleigh, N. C. RALEIGH, N. C., AUGUST 9, 1882. Col. Dockery’s Appointments. Col. Oliver H. Dockery, candidate for Congressman-at-Large, will ad dress the people as follows: Greensboro, Friday, August 18. Salisbury, Saturday, “ 19. Lincolnton, Monday, “ 21. Shelby, Tuesday, “ 22. Rutherfordton, Wednesday, “ 23. Columbus, Thursday, “ 24. Hendersonville, Friday, “ 25. Asheville, Saturday, “ 26. Marshall, Monday, “ 28. , Tuesday, “ 29. Burnsville, Wednesday, “ 30. Bakersville, Thursday, “ 31. , Friday, September 1. Boone, Saturday, “ 2. Jefferson, Monday, “ 4. Sparta, Tuesday, “ 5. Trap Hill, Wednesday, “ 6. At each of these appointments Col. Dockery will be accompanied by other speakers of the Liberal Anti-Prohibi tion party, who will also address the people. W. M. Cooke, Ch’n Lib. Anti-Pro. State Com. J. J Mott, Ch’n Republican State Com. Coalition Nominations. Congressional Ticket. FOR CONGRESS—STATE-AT-LARGE : OLIVER H. DOCKERY, of Richmond. FOR CONGRESS—THIRD DISTRICT: WILLIAM P. CANADAY, of New Hanover. FOR CONGRESS—FOURTH DISTRICT: THOMAS P. DEVEREUX, of Wake. Ojfeert' Clast No. 2.—The members of Congress for their respective dis tricts [and, constructively, for the State-at-Large] shall be voted for on one ballot.—Chap. 275, laws 1876-’77. Judicial Ticket. FOR JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT : GEORGE N. FOLK, of Caldwell. Nor Nidges of the Superior Court: FIRST DISTRICT: CHARLES 0. POOL, of Pasquotank. SECOND DISTRICT: JQHN A. MOORE, of Halifax. THIRD DISTRICT: FRANK H. DARBY, of New Hanover. FOURTH DISTRICT: WILLIAM A. GUTHRIE, of Cumberland. FIFTH DISTRICT: LEONIDAS C. EDWARDS, of Granville. sixth district: LEWIS F. CHURCHILI, of Rutherford. Nor Solicitors: SECOND DISTRICT : JOHN H. COLLINS, of Halifax. Officers'' Class No. 3.—The Justice of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Su perior Courts and a Solicitor of each district shall be voted for on one bal lot. — Chap. 275, laws 1876-’77. Solic itors shall be elected by the qualified voters of each district. — Chap. 327, laws 1881. Legislative Ticket. FOR SENATE— 18TH DISTRICT: THOMAS R. PURNELL. FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES— (Wake County): EDWARD M. BLEDSOE, JAMES H. HARRIS, JOHN O. HARRISON, JAMES A. TEMPLE. Officers' Class No. 4.—The members of the General Assembly for their re spective counties and districts shall be voted for on one ballot.—Chap. 275, laws 1876-’77. Wake County Ticket. FOR CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT: CHARLES D. UPCHURCH. FOR TREASURER: JOHN B. NEATHERY. FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS! WILLIAM W. WHITE. FOR CORONER: RUFFIN B. ELLIS. For sheriff: JEREMIAH J. NOWELL. Officers' Class No. 5.—The county officers for the respective counties * * * shall be voted for on one ballot. - Chap. 275, laws 1876-’77. MR. KEOGH AND THE NORTH STATE. The attempted reply which the Greensboro .North State makes to our criticism of the course and con duct of it and its managers, which we published last week, renders its rule or ruiu policy only the more evident, and still further justifies us in ex posing its hypocritical and perfidous action towards the Republican party. It seeks to create an impression that we are using “the machine lash’’ to berate it, and borrows an epithet of the Bourbon Democracy in term ing us a “ring organ.” It complains that it is in “bad taste” for the “or gan at the centre” to attempt to dis cipline an ‘‘old soldier” like the North State, and thinks we are lack ing in courtesy in alluding to Col. Keogh, who, it claims, “has retired from all connection with political affairs.” The North State does not, how ever, deny the charges we distinctly made: that it and its managers were and are now seeking to promote dis cord aii^ division in the rankstof the Republican party, and to defeat at least some of its nominees on the State ticket. It does not deny that it has given aid and comfort to our Bourbon Democratic enemies — that it has praised the Democratic candi dates now before the people and dis paraged Republican nominees of a convention in which its managers participated, and in whose choice they pretend to acquiesce; nor does it attempt to excuse or explain its erratic effort to make the payment of the special tax bonds an issue of this campaign and to covertly create an opinion that the Republican party is in favor of such a measure. It is not the simple attitude of the North State in the present campaign to which we object. We concede its right to electioneer for whatever men it chooses, and to advocate any measures it may feel inclined to favor—but not under the false and assumed character of a Republican. It pretends to be a party organ — loyally Republican—but is “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” While so pre" tending it is lending aid and com fort, and giving cheer and encourage ment to the life-long enemies of every Republican principle - and iu.- terest. It is covertly aiding those who have fought the Republican party with bullets and bayonets as well as ballots, tissue and otherwise, for over twenty years; and who are now making a desperate effort to re" tain power in this State which they secured by fraud and treachery while one of the owners and managers of the North State was a leader of the Republican hosts. If the North State and its controllers think the petty differences that divide Republicans in this State are paramount to gr eat party issues and Republican su premacy—if it believes the aspira- tions of individuals to control party management are of greater moment than the defeat of the Bourbon De mocracy in November next—let it array itself openly and boldly against the party and flaunt its true colors, and we will be content. It is its in" sidious and treacherous course to which we object. While pretending loyalty and obedience to party be hests ami commands, it is seeking to produce insubordination and disloy alty, and would, if it could, induce a mutiny that would destroy the party. It will not be our fault if the Republicans of the State are not made aware of its malign purpose, and we shall treat with proper con tempt its miserable subterfuge of Bourbon epithet to cover with a thin veil our exposure of its designs. The North State alludes to its past Republican record and boasts that it is an “old soldier” of the “grand old party.” Benedict Arnold,‘the chief traitor of the Revo* lutionary war, was an “old soldier” of the “grand old” Continental army, and it is related, boasted of bis loy alty and devotion to the American cause even while trading for the sur" render of the liberties of the Ameri can people. Jealousy at the promo tion of more fortunate brother offi cers was the moving cause of his in famy; and so, too, in the treachery now displayed by the North State and its managers,—it is the grip which Col. Keogh, its chief manager, has lost as] a leader in the Republi can party, that has placed the North State in its present attitude of sore- headed opposition and duplicity. This statement is no empty asser tion. It can; be proved conclusively by the acts and assertions of the dis gruntled chief manager of the North State. The bald and unfounded declaration, which that sheet makes, that “Mr. Keogh has retired from all connection with political affairs,” is too thin to deceive the most credu" lous. Col. Keogh evidently had no intention of severing “all connexion with political affairs,” when, as we are credibly informed, he lately, in the c ity of Raleigh, openly declared, with an oath, “that he intended to defeat the [Republican] ticket by twenty thousand majority, and show his enemies that he yet had some in- Jluencef When we heard of this declaration, we took it to be simply the ebullition of momentary chagrin— induced by the refusal of the Repub lican convention to continue him as its chief leader, and because it failed to choose him as one of the State Ex ecutive Committee—which would soon subside. But his chagrin has J become chronic. The columns of the North State,—which he manages and partly owns—has given weekly evi" dence that he is aiming to make good his boast. And this is not all : Re ports from all sections of the State demonstrate that he is actively en gaged personally in fomenting divi sions and promoting antagonism to the Republican ticket. We hear of him in secret conclave with disaffected individuals in the mountains, and lately in Charlotte, vainly attempting to organize opposition ; anc^w^. are also informed of his private confer ences and understandings, relating to State politics, in Washington City, with Vance and Ransom and other Democratic leaders from North Caro lina. With a knowledge that more injury can be done our ticket by him self and his organ through covert means than by an open assault, the tactics illustrated by the course of the North State has been adopted. It is our duty to expose this strategy and treason, and we shall not be de terred therefrom either by the “bad taste’’ the duty engenders, or from any false “sense of delicacy” attri buted to us by dissembling marplots and traitorous disorganizers. The Bourbon Democracy who howl so about the revenue law had control of Congress for six years and did not even attempt to repeal the law. Not even Senator Vance has had the temerity to introduce a bill in Congress for this purpose. They always promise to abolish the system during a campaign but never do any thing in that direction when they get in the fat offices. This, however, is not the only pledge the party has made to the people and failed to fulfill. AND STILL THEY COME! Read the able letter of Hon. J. M. Leach, written to Col. Charles R. Jones, of Charlotte, giving his reasons in brief for severing his connection with the Bourbon Democracy. Mr. Leach may now expect the vials of Democratic wrath to be poured to emptiness on his devoted head, and he will no longer be no ticed by Bourbon newspapers as the “eloquent and patriotic North Caro linian.” It will now be simply “Jim Leach,” with a significantly sound ing sneer appended to this abbrevia ted given name. But Mr. Leach has counted the cost. Bourbon abuse and villitication is fast losing its ef fectiveness, and he, with thousands of other patriotic Democrats all over the State, are not to be deterred in shaking off their allegiance to the rotten and corrupt rule of the Bour bon bosses by the dulled arrows of ridicule and abuse. And still they come! We give them a hearty weR come. Keep it in your mind, that the Democratic candidate voted to give the proceeds of sales of public vacant lands to the University, in preference to the public free schools. THOMAS P. DEVEREUX. The Liberal candidate for Congress in this, the 4th District, endorsed by the Republican Convention, is a young man, about 37 years of age, a member of one of the most distin guished families of the State, and in every way qualified for and worthy of being the representative in Con gress of the Metropolitan District. In the late Criminal Court of Wake, Mr. Devereux was the prosecuting officer, and every member of the Raleigh bar who came in contact with him then found that the State was well and ably represented. We be lieve this is the only public position Mr. Devereux has held. As a Dem" ocrat we always found him wide- awake to the interests of the party he was acting with, but in every thing high-minded and’ honorable, ever discouraging the wiles and tricks by which some of the leaders of that party hereabouts, unfortunately, seek to gain power. When the rights of the people were threatened last year he made an effective canvass against prohibition, and has acted in the for mation of and acted with the Liberal party. That he will give General Cox a lively time in the canvass of the Dis trict no one doubts, and that he will be elected many believe. Let Re publicans and Liberals go to work, and T. P. Devereux will represent them in the next Congress of the Uni ted States. in a bomb proof position during its continuance, such as “had as lief hear the devil as a drum and fear the re- I port of a caliver more than a struck 1 fowl or a hurt wild duck.” In short “the cankers of a calm world and a long pea^e.” What good then do they do? The burden of the argu ¬ COMPLETE PROOF. The Bourbon Democrats avowed their att ichment ■ to the principle of ProhibitionPy nominating Mr. James C. MacRae, president of the Prohi bition State Convention, for Superior Court Judge. They emphasized this avowal the other day by renomi nating Gen. R. B. Vance for Con gress in the Eighth District. It is well known that Gen. Vance is the L head and front of the prohibitory | movement in this State. He was active in the canvass last year and has again been nominated and this time over men who were bold anti- Prohibitionists. What more can the Bourbons do in order to convince the people that the Democratic party is in favor of Prohibition than to nom inate and make leaders in this cams paign of the very men who were the Prohibition leaders last year? Mac Rae—then Vance; who next? The tree is known by its fruits. No leader among the Bourbons has yet 'been made to take a back seat because ofW support of the Prohibition bill last year, and none will be. Mark the prediction ! THE WASHINGTON REPUBLICAN SPEAKS. The Washington Republican of the 5th inst., after alluding favorably to the Liberal Alliance in this State/ thus forcibly States the plain duty of every Republican in North Caro lina. The editorial was doubtless inspired by reading the carping edi torials of the North State, which were written for the purpose of sow ing discord and promoting division among the Republicans of the State : The duty of all who love the Repub lican cause - is to slay its enemy. That enemy is the Bourbon Democratic or ganization—which is but the surviving and revengeful brother of Slavery, pursuing a vendetta against Fieedom. Is it a time for petty disputes as to what men did in 1880 for and against Republican aspirants for the Presi dency ? Is it a time for Republicans to complain because brave men, who had never beeu anything but Demo crats, came together in convention June 7, and defied the party they deemed no longer worthy of their sup port, without waiting for any assur ance of a coalition ? Is it a cause foi offense to any Republican that these new allies of ours named our own favorite as the r candidate for Con gressman at-large—Oliver Dockery,the only man talked of among Republicans as a candidate? Was it not a gen erous and a kindly demonstration ? Was it not met with a cordial and hearty response at our State Conven tion ? It only remains now for every Re publican' to rise above personal con siderations and deal his best blows to the enemy. No man can justify him self in holding back because his ad vice was not taken as to the best way of hitching up the team. Nor can he make a good appearance in endeavor ing to frighten the horses because he does not like the driver selected. Liberalism means to choose an anti- Bourbon to every place wherever there are enough Republicans and Liberals to do it. The Liberals ought to help the Republicans in Republican coun ties. The Republicans should support Liberals of Democratic antecedents in Democratic counties. The cry should be “anything to beat the Bourbons." The Old North State must second the Old Dominion’s motion to break the Solid South. We appeal to our per sonal friends in North Carolina, who stood with us in 1880 for Grant, to be foremost now in the work so dear to the heart of that great Patriot and Leader—“the right of every man to cast a vote just as he pleases, and to have it counted just as it was cast.” CUI BONO! Every one has doubtless noticed and wondered at the “Confederate Re-unions” lately held in different parts of the State. Why this mar tial spirit should break out at this particular time and tlie love of the generals, colonels and majors for the private soldier become so suddenly demonstrative, is a subject of re" mark. Then, too, at these soldier’s unions the colonels and majors who are so sure to take all the offices at an election, preside, make speeches, get the choice cuts of the barbecue, sit on the platforms in shady places, while the real old soldier squats on the ground in the sun. Seventeen years have elapsed since the war ended by the surrender of the Con federate forces. Most of us who were in Virginia had enough of the war there, and we have nothing to say against the old soldiers getting together and talking over the old camp life, telling the old tales and renewing their acquaintance with each other. But it is only during a political campaign that these re unions are so prominent, and instead of being for the social enjoyment of the old soldier they look very much like political meetings for the ad vancement of Democratic aspirants for office. As managed, for what good are they held ? Do the speakers talk old soldier/talk ? Not a bit of it. Most of them are not acquainted with that lingo but have acquired military distinction since the war or ments is Democracy • and these re unions are nothing more than a trick of the politicians to get men to hear them talk politics. Well, thus far the assemblies at these “re-unions” have been small. The Confederate privates do not relish these re-unions and this year propose to think and vote for themselves. They are tired of being made instruments of by the colonels and majors and surrendering the rights of their manhood for the good of the few men who desire to rule them always— they are begin ning to see into Bourbon plans and will assert their independence as they have not done for some years. The men who smelt powder during the war, the privates, are coming to the Republican and Liberal standard by hundreds and thousands. MISSED IT AGAIN. The News and Observer with its usual knack for misstating facts at tempts to make capital by an article on the Statesville American and the revenue, saying “of course Brother Drake favors the revenue as he is shown by Vance’s investigation to have been a ^storekeeper for several years.” Now, if the Observer man had looked at the head of the column of the American from which lie quotes, he would have seen that Wm Pitt Drake is editor and proprietor of the American and not Mr. E. B Drake, who is in the revenue service, and who the Observer man attempts to make the impression is the editor. This is about in keeping, however, witu the other statements made by Democratic papers in the State ab»ut what was proved in that farce of Senator Vance’s. The whole thing was a break-down and a contempti" ble failure. Everybody knows this who knows the facts, and it is about time for Democratic papers to stop trying to mislead the people by garbled quotations from the testi mony. IS PROHIBITION DEAD! As a prohibition organ our advice is to keep the question out of politics if possible, but by all means to elect Prohibitionists to the Legislature where it can be done.—North State. If the declaration in favor of special tax bonds and other matters referred to in our editorial of last week failed to convince any one that our quandam colaborer was bent on injuring the Republican cause, this advice will probably furnish another circumstance in this direction. “ STYLE AND PEDIGREE.” We commend to the voters of the Third District the following little incident which came by word-of- mouth from Washington. Senators Ransom, of North Carolina, and Vest, of Missoori, were in the cloak room talking and spinning yarns, when the following was told by Sen ator Vest : “Senator Ransom, you have a re markable set of people in your State. A man from North Carolina was in St. Louis a short time ago with a very handsome, stylish horse for sale. At tracted by the fine appearance of the horse I approached the man and asked him what he asked for the horse. “Five thousand dollars,” he an swered. “He is a great racer, probably,” said I. “No,” said the man, “he could not head a yearling in a lane.” “Then,”! remarked, “may be he is a trotter.” The man shook his head and said: “Never trotted a lick in his life.” “Perhaps, then, he is a good saddle horse,” said I. “Saddle horse, the d—l,”rep,ied he; “he would churn butter in less than half a mile.” “Perhaps, then, he is a superior draft horse,” I remarked, “No,” said he; “he would balk at a tater-hill.” Then I asked: “Well, my friend, what is your horse good for ?” He replied, with great gusto: “Pedigree and style, by G—D, and ins name Is Matt. Ransom!” We did not learn the name of the great grand dam of the ninth gener ation of this celebrated nag, but per haps an application may be found in the Third Congressional District, where the Democratic Bourbon can didate consumes an hour at a politi cal meeting, telling his pedigree and about his great-grand-mother of the ninth generation. Rose and Troy trotted out the “Green horse” at Fayetteville, but the only good qual" ities shown were “pedigree and style.” We do not know what relation Gen. Cox, the Democratic candidate in this District is to the “Green horse,” but we can certify that he is some on “style and pedigtee,” too. What is the relationship ? Tiie National Republican thus aptly puts the question—“The asser tion that the Republican party aban dons its distinctive principles when it goes into a coalition with any of the anti-Bourbon elements of the South is a transparent falsehood. Do the pastors of the various churches go back on their respective creeds when they hold union meetings to pray for the good of souls? Is the Baptist any less a Baptist for praying and working with a Methodist ?” COUNTY GOVERNMENT. The grossest burlesque upon the Sple that this is a government e people and that the people and control, is to be found in ection of commissioners for the sev^l counties throughout the State tlv^Kiek. These five men who levy tl^^Biunty taxes and disburse the thus collected from the tax payers, are now elected by the Jus tices of the Peace, who owe their ap pointment to the dominant party in the Legislature. The Justices of the Peace are not responsible to the peo ple; the five commissioners are re sponsible to the Justices of the Peace and not the people; and yet, the county governments of this State are sustained by Judge Bennett and the Democratic party. Our revolutionary forethers rebelled against Great Britain because they were taxed and were not allowed representation in ^he body that levied the taxes. The people of the several counties are now without representation in the boards of commissioners; they are taxed by men who are not responsi ble or amenable to them in the slightest degree; and for any ex- trayagance or corruption by the com" missioners the people are totally without remedy. And thus it is, that the monarchical principle which allows taxation without representa tion, and without responsibility to the people, has been re-established in North Carolina by that portion of the Democracy who are hostile to govei nment by the people. “M Quad” writes that during his en tire Southern trip he failed to see one drunken young man.—Exchange. Per haps “M Quad” was not in a condition to see.—Nat. Republican. Or he kept good company by asso ciating only with Republicans and Anti- Prohibitionists. WHO originated the plan for hiring out the penitentiary convicts to sup plant the labor of the honest free working man, as is now attempted? They chop and pick cotton, dig base ments, and bids are made by the au thorities for other classes of work that competes with honest free labor. The original design of the peni tentiary was to punish offenders and make the institution partly self- supporting by manufacturing within the walls of the penitentiary. A Democratic Legislature changed this and provided for hiring out the con victs, and we are told Col. Bennett, the' Democratic Bourbon candidate for Congressman-at-large, originated and advocated the measure. 1 Others besides the poor and honest laborer are feeling the results of this policy. It is a question that con" cerus the grocer and merchants as well, who are supported in a measure by the wages given the free laborer. But the policy is in keeping with Bourbon methods—benefit the rich planter and contractor, to the injury of the laborer and mechanic—make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. “How long, oh Lord, how long,” Ac. ASSESSMENTS. As the Democratic Bourbon press is in high dudgeon because of volun- iary contributions asked of office holders for campaign purposes we give herewith a note written by the late Chief Justice Chase while Secre" tary of the Treasury. At a later date, while Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, he did not feel it beneath his dignity to take an interest in the success of the principles of his party on which he believed the welfare of his country depended, as the follow" ing letter will show: Washington, June 26, 1867. Dear Governor: I make it a prac tice, out of my limited income, to give something from time to time to our cause, and now send you a small check to aid in the circulation of your “Ap peal to the People.” With true esteem of your faithful patriotism, and earn est desire that your health may be fully restored, I remain, faithfully your friend, S. P. Chase His Excellency William G. B.ownlow, Governor of Tennessee. The “Appeal to the People” re." ferred to was published by Governor Brownlow as the candidate of the Republican party for re election as Governor. It defended the princi ples of his party, urged the election of candidates for the Legislature who would vote to ratify the needed amendments to the Constitution, and denounced the Bourbon- Democracy in the style peculiar to the late Gov ernor of Tennessee. The present road law is oppressive and burdensome to a large class of people. It ought to be amended so as to compel property owners to do their full share towards keeping up the roads, and not force people who only use the roads as a foot-way, to keep them up entirely. The Repub lican party is pledged by its platform to this policy. This is another at" tempt of the Republicans to rid (he laboring men from the workings of a law that is unjust and discriminates against a majority of the voters of the State. .ORGANIZE ! Every Republican has an import ant duty to perfoim in the coming contest. Prepare, then, Republicans of the “Old North State.” You have never yet faltered ! You cannot now falter when you have as your stands ard bearer the gloriousDockery, who never surrendered. Arouse, then, Republicans, and move on, deter mined to be victorious. Labor for Dockery as you labored for Giant. In private, in public, at your public gatherings, at all times, everywhere labor for our chieftain. Have dis trict meetings, organize clubs, hold county meetings, and assemble in masses for the advancement of the ticket. Work for your candidates, the pe >pe’s candidates, and you werk for the cruse of your country. You strive for no mere party advantage, fhe peace, the honor, the integrity of the Union are at stake, and all de" pendent upon your efforts. Remem ber, Republicans of the Old North State, what is incumbent on you! Think of the gloiious victories you have achieved in by gone times, an 1 * let them inspire you to put forth all your strength and energy to rescue our State from the domination of Bourbon Democrats, and restore our Constitution to its original purity. Du all you can ; enlist the influence of all patriots of every name, for the cause of the country is a common cause. Let us be active and vigilant, and it is needful for us, if we love the character of our good old mother, to make use of all honorable means in our power to not only carry the State in November, but to carry it by a majority that will convince our brethren elsewhere that North Caro lina is still actuated by the same high and noble spirit that influenced her sous in the past. Give yourselves no rest, cease not your exertions till the going down of,the sen on the 7th of November, and as sure as Dockery is our candidate, will it s t casting a broad gleam of light upon his victo rious banner. “CRANKS.” Capt. Tom Arrington, the great circus man, is now taking subscrip tions for a Crank hospital. If Capt. Tom is pu-sisteno in his undertaking maybe lie could get Col. Burnett to advocate it as a twin undertaking with his scheme to pension the Con" federate soldiers by the State. This would only require three millions of dollars, and»double the State tax, and might be paid for out of the same fund. There are as many cranks as Confederate soldiers in the Demo* cratic party—the cranks, however, have the leadership and enjoy the offices in the gift of the party. Can anybody produce a copy of the annual report of the Superinten dent of Public Instruction for the last scholastic year. If .it was made, the close corporation of State officials have kept it for their exclusive use, and no tax payer has been able to get a copy, though frequent application has been made. The people want to know what has been done with the. public schools. Let us have the re port. The Democratic press cannot be too careful how it receives eveiy rej orc as to the apos'acy of pominent members of the party. The Radicals are start ing all soits of falsehoods concerning Democrats in different sections, and certain Democratic papers take them for truth amt immediately begin to assail the paities thus referred to. Better wait and ascertain the truth of such reports before assaults are made. — Oxford Free Lance. The above is a sharp thrust at the News an# Observer (we take it) of this city. , But, is it not better that the News and Observer represent especially in this particular the facts as they exist ? How would it look for the News and Observer to deny tho position of Hons. C. C. Clark, Clingman and Price, politically ! It is bad enough for so-called Dem ocratic papers to fight against free suffrage and a fair count. It is the cream of wickedness for the said party to advocate prohibition, in the extremest sense ; but what should we say of the Democratic press if, as suggested by the Free Lance, they should deny the fact of the many de sertions from their ranks. The Radicals start no “ false" hoods,’’ as the tnithful(!) Free Nance suggests. If the people wait to get the “truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” from any Democratic source (politically) known to them, they will die without it. WE are informed on the best au- » x thority that Gen. Cox is not entitled to the credit claimed for him for pro curing the mail arrangements, daily,, for Chape] Hill. The authorities of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, Col. A. B. Andrews and his efficient assistants, effected the ar^ rangement. Will Mr. Editor Ashe make the correction and give the credit where it belongs ?
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