Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-15
Chm. Elk. Com. Granville CO. Ag. So.

1t is a noticeable fact, and we would earnestly
commend it to the attention of those Democrats who
may think or may have thought that the /" order
would promote them, and that, through it's portals
was the direct route to Office and preferment, that
not one former Democrat has been elected in North
Carolina but that the former Wing K. Ms have
been. Reid, Latham, Shepard and Stowe have been
thrown into the breach and, politically speaking,
slaughtered. Paine Reade and Puryear no doubt
elected. Don't you see how it is You Democrats
are put in front ranks to break down the Democratic
party without any chance for yourselves but where
there is a chance, mark the difference! Not one of
you is thought Of Don't you and feel the secret
influence that works the wires? Don't you see and
feel how you are to be used? To rising young men
in the Democratic party the appeal is made to come
oversee how you served when you do come
over. Is it any place for Democrats? We have no
doubt that many who make these appeals are per-
fectly sincere but Just look at the facts-the pract
cal workings of the affair as planned out by the
hidden hands that held the wires. The fact is that
it could not well be otherwise. The case of the four
former Democrats put forward to be defeated as con-
trasted with that of the three former Wings who
have been elected is pretty hard one, but 1t may
be useful for instruction. 1t may teach lesson -
The masses of all parties are honest-who can deny
i.-but the operation of a secret society like this
cannot be the proper machinery to carry out the
honest intentions of the Masses and it has not
red them out, and it canpot.-WiL jour.
We learn from the New Orleans Delta, that ex-
Senator Foote late of Mississippi, OF California,
has connected himself with the Know Nothing par
ty in the latter State This is just what we expect
ed to hear. Mr.. Foete has lost the confidence and
respect of the old parties and he attempts to take
position in the one matter of self-defence.
He finds himself in extremity to which many
gamester has been reduced-one in which he mag
win and cannot possibly lose by a " hazard of the
die"
The Know Nothings will scarcely add any thing
to their strength by the accession of ex-Sena-
tor Foote AS politician, he has been consistent
only in inconsistency, and successful only in acqu
ring an ephemeral notoriety 1t is doubtful wheth-
er he can influence single voter in the Southern
States
"Here is my note at four months, " said delin-
quent boarder to landlord, aged Hibernian.
Can't you give me an endorser on t?" asked the
landlord. The drawer of the note answered in the
affirmative, and accordingly went out to look, he
said, "for rider" After great while he returned,
and presented to his host the paper, with the
of his friend written in large letters the back
The landlord seized it, and on observing the outside
inscription, exclaimed, with Hibernian emphasis,
" In the Of America and St. Patrick, wasn't
the paper bad enough without this endorsements"
In all kindness would ask, is not Know Moth
ing paper " bad enough" without the endorsement
of ex-senator Footef Montgomery ,Adcertiser.