Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-05-18
The Election in Wake.

The Election in Wake.
twill he seen by the official vote that the old
.Let has been elected to the Convention from this
County.
Tire circumstances attending this election, and
the means resorted to to defeat the old ticket will
No, ory Justify, but they require few words of ex-
planation
Nessrs Badger, Busbee and Holden were elected
IN February last by twelve hundred majority Mr.
Rnsbee having volunteered to fight the enemy, could
MT he a candidate. Before Mr. Battle was announ-
rod an offer was made by some of the friends of
Messrs Badger and Holden to support Gov. Bragg
as the third person the ticket and thus prevent
marty strife in the County. If Gov. B. had accepted
This offer and had exerted himself with his friends
N nrevent the nomination Of new ticket we should
have had no strife in the County; but that gentle
man thought proper to pursue different course,
and thus showed that in crisis like the pres
emit he is incapable of rising above the little inu-
ences of party. Gov. Bragg having refused to iden-
tify himself with the majority of the people, and
having deliberately and selShly chosen party strife
in preference to the best interests of his country
Kemp P. Battle, Esq, who had received the next
highest vote to Mr.. Busbee in the mass meeting in
February last in response to many calls, announced
himself candidate
Soon after this meeting of the Squads was called,
mainly by the efforts of Judge Saunders; and some
forty or fifty men, for the most part party hacks
whom the people had repudiated in February, pro-
ceeded to make nomination and to attempt to die
tate to the County. The ticket presented was COM
posed of clever and respectable gentlemen, to wit,
Thomas Bragg, Charles Manly, and George W.
Mordecai. Cos. Bragg was nominated to catch the
old Democrats, Gov. Manly to catch the old Wings,
and Mr. Mordecai to catch the conservatives gener-
ally. 1t was strong ticket ingeniously gotten up.
The two Elk Governors made speeches in the County,
and Mr.. Battle not having been candidate in Feb
ruary visited portion of the County. Messrs.
Badger and Holden did not canvass.
If the people had been left to themselves, the old
ticket would have been elected by five hundred ma
jority But the most monstrous falsehoods Of all
kinds were invented and circulated In the face of
facts to the contrary it stated in all parts of the
County that the old ticket had withdrawn in favor
of the new one, which was called compromise
ticket"-that Messrs. Badger and Holden were in
favor of Central Confederacy THAT they dis
that, if elected they would endeavor to upset the
Constitution deprive portion of their constituents
Of rels ous liberty, and generally and specially ruin
every body and every thing! So far as Mr.. Holden
was concerned, nearly the whole power of the
State government, in all its ramifcations, was
brought to bear against him also, the State Jour
nal, the organ of Gov. Ellis the Register, the
new decency organ of the Squads and the organ, to
some extent, of the old Wing party-and most of
the leaders of the old Democratic and old Wing par
ties. That dangerous man Holden therefore
triumphed over all these influences, without can
vassing the County. He is satisfied.
One of the monstrous falsehoods used, we under
stand was that if Messrs. Badger and Holden should
be elected there would be draft for troops IN three
days!-leavng the inference that this call for troops
would be made by Lincoln as the result of their
election!
We do not charge that any of these falsehoods
were originated by the new ticket They were the
work of their friends-of men lost to decency and
TRUTH and who live, and move, and have their being
in the filthy atmosphere of party.
The vote polled on Monday is some seven or eight
hundred less than that polled in February. Weare
satisfied, from our knowledge of the County, that
threefourths of the unpolled vote would have been
cast for the old ticket.
Party has been used to crush US, but we have no
disposition in crisis like the present. to retaate.
We shall not pause to crimnate when the country is
in danger. War is upon us, and the war must be
fought out Let the party hack be marked and re-
menbered, but let US not spare the time, at this
Juncture, to pursue him. If public affairs are mis-
managed if injustice is done; if favorites without
merit singled out and honored while the honest
and worthy are kept in the ranks and if party is
substituted for country even in the midst of civil
war, let US either bear it like men, above it
for the sake of our State. So far as We are con-
cerned our course is plain. We shall strike back,
when assailed, and shall expose falsehood,
whether uttered against friends or ourself; but
we shall not be diverted from the great business
Of encouraging the people of all parties to resist the
aggressions of the common enemy. He who thinks
chiefly of himself of his party in this crisis, is
unworthy of North Carolina.