Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-07-30
The CloVen F0ot.-Wake County.

The last Register, whose Editor has degraded him.
self to play second fiddle to vile hireling sheet in
this City, contains string of charges against Messrs
Russ Miller, Laws and Afford from which we ouote
the following:
Keep the taet before tile people, That Messrs.
Bcdsoe, Jones' Busbee and Marriott for the purpose
OF allaSing and putting an end to the party strife
which has been and is still being cngendered in this
county by Mr. Holden and his selEstyled Copserya
i've !, party, proposed at Auburn to Mcssrs. Russ,
Miller, Laws and Afford, that each of the tickets
should select five friends, which ten friends of the
tickets, should select four out of the eight can
10 constitute ticket to be voted for by the
friends OF both the tickets This fair and patriotic
proposition to compromise and have but one ticket
has been rejectedS and Messrs Russ, Miller, Laws
ana Afford have determined that party strife shall
not cease IN Wake county, let the consequences
be what they may"
Whe is responsible for party strife in Wake Coun-
Not the reform candidates, for they were first
IN the Held Gov. Manly stated, at Auburn that
they were all good and true Southern men, Why
did not Messrs. Bledsoe, Jones, Busbee and Marriott
at once withdraw when Gov. Manly made that de-
ciaration? Certainly, the Reform ticket is com.
posed OF as able men as they are; that ticket was
hrst IN the tied and Gov Manly, who will vote for
them, (that is Messrs. Bledsoe, Busbee, Jones and
Marrlott) distinctly declared that the candidates on
the Reform ticket were true to the South as those
on the other ticket We repeat therefore, that if
there is party strife in the County, the Reform tick
ct is not responsible for it.
But in order to avoid the appearance even of
party strife, the candidates on the Reform ticket
agreed not to canvass the County any further
What then? Did that satisfy the spoils party?
Not at all. 1t was then they showed the clovcn
loot. They proposed to ignore the people entirely
to deny to them the right of choosing their own
representatives and vest this right in ten persons
to be chosen by the candidates themselves, And
this they call "a fair and patriotic" proposition
1t is not fair because the Reform ticket was first in
the field, and is believed to represent a large ma
ority of the people, and it is not patriotic because
it deliberately proposes to deprive the people of the
right of governing themselves. If ten men may
say who shall represent the people of any Coun-
ty, one man may say the same as to all the Coun-
ties for the principle is the same; and If this were
done, We should at once have oligarch or a king.
But not at all surprised at this proposition.
1t is in keeping with the conduct of some of the
very same men, in this County, IN May, 1861.
Then, Messrs Badger, Battle and Holden, who were
the choice of the people, were attempted to be COM
promised out Of the field. The former and the lat
ter did not canvass at ALL fearfu! were they that
party feeling would be evoked and Mr.. Battle mere
ly rode through portion of the County, because
he was not as fully known to the people as Messrs
Eaiser and ffutaca sss eas.!1zr.r---s.~.-gs
Messrs. Manly and Bragg-took The stump to ad-
vance their election; and some of Their friends
started the report and abored to induce the people
to act upon it. that Mcssrs. Manly, Bragg, and Nor
dccai composed compromise ticket, and that Mcssrs
Badger, Battle, and Holden had withdrawn from the
contest These facts are we'll known in Wake Coun-
ty. We can judge of the future only by the past,
and we now warn our Wake friends that the same
game may be attempted in this contest. We advise
them to pay no attention to any report that COM
promise has been effected between the candidates,
but to vote for Russ for the Senate, and Miller,
Laws, and Afford, for the Commons
Another evidence of dupllcity is to be found in
the fact, that the Register, speaking for Messrs,
| Bledsoe, JONES' Busbcc, and Marriott, and their
friends, has stated that compromise was proposed
to the Reform candidates, but at the same time it
suppresses their reply this proposition. That re-
ply is given below, and VIC venture to say it will
never appear In the two Stalled organs in this City.
1t is so conclusive in its character that they fear to
let their readers see it. Here it is:-
RALEIGH, July Is, 1862.
GENTLEMEN: The proposition made by you that
the two tickets now before ths people of the Comfy
shall select each five voters, and that the ten voters
thus selected shall choose from the candidates now
in the field single ticket for the Senate and Com
MONS and those not chosen Shall retire. has rccelv
cd from us the respectful consideration to which il
was entitled.
We cannot accede to it, for these plain reasons:
It was not of our own personal seeking that We be-
canre candidates. but in addition to the solicitations
of large number of voters privately made, we
1 were recommended as candidates by large, res
pectable, and patriotic meeting OF our fellow
zens. composed of men who belonged to both the
old political parties coming from different parts O
the County, and representing the various interests
thereof; and We do not believe it would be respect
full, or acting in good faith to them, showing
proper regard for the confidence thus reposci in us
TO aeeedc to any such proposition. 1t would be
giving ten men, not selected by the people, or any
respectable portion of them in point of number
but by us-(only eight in number)-the power t.
dictate ticket to the County, and thereby torestal
the wishes, or defeat the will of the people l
would certainly be establishing precedent OF very
doubtful policy or propriety, which we have no r'Sh
to assume the responsibility Of doing
The readiness with which we accepted the propo
sition to dispense with a canvass of the County
shows anxiety to prevent, as far as possible al
personal and political strife. And we think tn
people are as capable of judging who of the cand
dates now in the field should be elected, wlthou
the advice of the ten proposed, they are to vot
understandingly, without public discussion. The
are qualified to do both, and that too without undu
excitement No doubt you concur with US n thl
view. 10 them, therefore, We leave the issue.
: Most respectfully,
f j. P. H. RUSS,
G. H. Afford,
WILL. LAWS,
II. w. MILLER.
To Messrs BLEDsoE, BUsBEE,
! MARRIOTT and JONES.
FOREIGN NEws.-But little has transpired in Et
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