Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-05-18
american victory"

.s n tine not long past, Wneh POAA'1Oo
TO- ;to the local elections in the town OF VIII
nv Ston when the administration OF our munlc'pa
-a.irs was openly conducted 1or the gooo VI tne
LoIo nv men chosen upon GROUNDS totally lrrespec
- tbo;r notcal Ieanings. Divided IN other
oots Of homo at least, in the management OF our
-r J,n, attic affairs, we were one people. tickets
W. commissioners were made up of three Demo-
80. ond four Wings, or three Wings and four
y9.u,ooro+o as the case might be, and even at the
.,hor our nartv was most triumphant, ere the
srobtest temporary check had even Tor moment
yoakared its ascendency, no Democrat ever dreamed
If making our local elections party issues
Need we saw how the case is now changed. From
the bighestt functions Of our town government down
70 the useful but slightly unpopular duty OF dog
killing and hog-catching, all must be discharged
upon strictly Know Nothing principles Every once
from the highest to the lowest, must be arranged tof
IN {, CounciI," and ticket brought out under the
apsn;ces f the secret conclave. This is something
new A thing beneath the former ken of parties
A Thing from which the regular and open organlza'
tons abstaned most scrupulOusy, and still ABSTAIN
being unwilling to enter the arena for such con-
test. AS general rule our local elscu0"' n"'o
thus gone by default, and have been proclaimed as
N. victories,
condescended to enter the field against them The
truth is that they have poled even the
vote of the old Wing party, nor ever been aOle 10
brig on anything like majority OF the Legal voters
of town.
AS an instance Of how these bogus victories are
manufactured for political effect, we may reler 10 'e
election here on Monday last for Commissioners ~
Navigaton a thing never before mlXeo up WIFI Pc1'-
W
tics. nor ever dreamt of being so mxeo up IL
times gone by there used to be Peoples IlcKetS'
Citizens ickets," Old Tickets" and " New lick
ets," but not party tickets. Two or three days be-
fore the late election ticket came out headed
American Ticket" Uhe K. Ms are sick OF their
old and expressive name) Some OF our citizens
disliking to be thus dictated to, without any pre-
yious organization or concert of action, chose
10 vote for ticket of their own, without much
bone of carving it. but mainly with the view
Of soaring the conclave, and learn that they
did 10 that most efectually. They rode and
thew rann They sent round the fiery CROSS like for
a Highland muster, an Indian war-party, ana thus
succeeded in mastering for the highest name on their
ticket 357 votes being nearly hundred less than the
Wing vote for Henry Clay over ten years ago, when
the town was much smaller and not equal to the 1ul
Wing vote Of the present time.
With the getting up of the opposition ticket, the
Democratic party had nothing to do. No organiza-
ton of that party has yet been made with refer
ence to municipal elections. But that there may no
longer be any misunderstanding upon the subject we
feel authorized to say that any success in muncl-
pal or local. election hereafter obtained, will be quite
another matter. If the new order has chosen to in
troduce this disturbing element into our domestic al
fairs it must abide the consequences, and take the
responsibility. The Democratic party, and all others
willing to corporate with it in crushing out this
shirt of ofcious party interference, must and will
hereafter organize openly and fairly with reference
to this obec They and they will carry their
ticket in eve " case clean through, and, to do this,
thew ought to spare no honorable exertion and they
will snare none This is fair and open Warning
There is nothing of the dark lantern order about It,
From this last specimen of X. N. victory " here
proclaimed abroad by the X. N. organs, we may
Judge of the character of such VICTORIES elsewhere
and understand what value to attach to the accounts
of such victories
The Democratic party is reluctantly forced to this
course with the view of rbukng this ntolerant po-
Itical interference in our local affairs, and 1T will be
rehuked.
WHAT AN IDEA.-A gentleman yesterday suggested