Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-11-21
POLITICAL,

NORTH CAROLINA.
The Mecklenburg County, IN. G. Repub-
lican Convention adopted the following,
pithy, and vigorous platform:
Resotoed, LIST. That we go forreconstruc-
tion.
.. That we go for amnesty, for all those
not opposed TO reconstruction.
B. That we go for universal suffrage.
4. That we go for universal education.
8. That we go for modification of the
State and Federal tax, especially the tax on
whiskey, cotton and tobacco.
Q. That we go fora uniform currency, the
national banking system, and speedy re-
turn to specie payment.
Z. That we are opposed to confiscation If
our property.
$. That we are opposed to public or pri-
vate reputation of Indebtedness, State, ma
tional or individual
.. That we go for Gen. u s. Grant for
the next President of the United States, and
for Horace Groely for Vice President
The Raleigh Standard, Ex-Governor
Holden's paper, says 1T Is well known
here that Gov. Worth and Mr.. Pell have
done all they could to induce the colored
people to go with them. Mr.. Pell, not many
months since, sent for Mr.. Harris and other
colored men, and asked them to confer
with him in his own parlor on political sub
/ j
had. The colored men thus tempted stood
firmly to their principles. Nothing that
MIR. Pel could say or could offer could
swerve them from their fixed purpose to op-
pose MIR, Pclls so called Conservative party.
MIR. Harris was offered the very handsome
place of Minister TO Hayti, with salary of
five thousand dollors per annum, in gold,
but even this did not move him.-He told
Mr.. Pell and the other tempters that he was
poor, and would be glad TO have some hon
orable employment form which he could re-
alze something for himself and his family,
but that he would not, for any consideration,
abandoned his principles by taking office at
the hands of his opponents.
KANSAS.
Official returns of the election in Kansas,
from 81 counties, and the reported vote in
six others, show a majority against negro
suffrage of 1868, and against female suffrage
OF S455 The majority in favor of disfran-
chising disloyalsts is $50. The Senate will
stand 20 Republicans to . Democrats, and
the House probably GO Republicans to % De-
mocrats
The Kansas Legislature is after the usual
pattern, heavily Republican. Returns near
ly complete show for negro suffrage, 1851,
against III, IA for woman suffrage, $3.50,
against lG,3G2 for DISTINGUISHING disloyal-
lists. $50, against l0,2S8.
MARYLAND
The complete returns of the Maryland cleo
ton are now reported and are for Governor
Bowie, Democrat, $500; Bond, Repub.
lican, 81 $50; Democratic majority, 4l,7l2,
in a total vote 81, 1872. The other State OF
ficers nominated on the Democratic ticket
have about the same majorities.
! GEORGIA.
The official canvass of the voting in Geor.
: gia shows that 1885, CAT names were register
ed, of whom LOG, 40 voted. Of these, 1902
2s3 were for a Convention, and 4, 1877 oppo
sed majority for the Convention, 9S, l5G
, There were about $500 white voters fol
. the Convention.
NEW YORK CITY.
Three candidates for Mayor have beer
. nominated in New York City-Wm. A.
Darling, Republican; Fernando Wood
!, Mozart Democrat; John T. Hoffman, Tam
, many Democrat, and present incumbent
) 1t seems to be supposed that Wood hal
! the best chance
! A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gasett,
! is at the Montgomery Convention. Of tn,
/ members, he says:-
: The quiet style in which they proceeded
. to transact their business the utter absenc,
of any effort at display in what they did
Iho oioso attention cucn one gave 10 tne pro
/. cecdings of the Conventions the wisdom o
the different measures proposed; the straight
! forword, earnest style of the remarks mad
q in explanation the evident desire to b,
. right in oil they did these convinced me
had mistaken the character of the delegate
!; before land that they were in reality wha
| at first feared they might not be-entirel,
Z fitted for the great work imposed upon then
: by the American people, and for relayng, OIL
f the broad principles of loyalty and Justice
: the foundations Of the State.
NORTH CAROLINA.
In Wake county, james H. Harris Repub
lican, (coloreD candidate for the Conven
: ton, is stamping the county with his whit,
t Conservative opponent, General Fowle, ant
, Mr.. Blake. They speak from the sam,
. platform, and Harris maintains himself sue
cessfully.