Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-07-05
TIE C0NGR ESSi0N1L CANVASS.
WNddeII and Mckay at BeHufOrt-NO
Kitchen and No ParIOr Candidate
Used Up-Carteret All Right
REA1rFoRT. n. C.. June 20. l

| Kitchen and No ParIOr Candidate
Used Up-Carteret All Right
BEAUFORT, n. c., June 20, 1872.
| Dear Journal Some three hundred of
! the sturdy men of this county assembled
here to-day to listen to the discussion be-
! tween our eloquent Congressman, Hon. A.
! M. Waddell, and his Radical opponent,
Colonel (militia) Neill Mckay. Some fifty
negroes and 4 half dozen white Radicals
were all that graccd the occasion with their
presence. So Mr.. Mckay, although this
was his appointment, was indebted to Col
onel Waddells popularity, and the desire
to hear him speak, for an audience.
| BY an arrangement previously entered
into between the candidates, Mckay led
off in a speech of an hour and half. Col
Waddell replied for the same length OF
time, and each had rejoinder of halt all
hour.
Colonel Mckay was introduced to the
crowd by man by the name Of Boushal,
l believe. This man in 1870, was all al-
| dependent Conservative candidate for
Sheriff; this year he is the regular Radi-
cal candidate for the Legislature very
natural sequence.
Mckay began by stating that he had
| been unanimously nominated by his party
Convention for the position for which he
was a candidate-a position he very well
knew other members of his party i'll the
district, were better qualified to fill, and
whom be would much prefer to have seen
selected. dust here the speaker threw his
hands down, and seized the legs of his pan
falcons, giving them violent and ungrace-
full Jerk upwards. From one SO accustomed
to public speaking as Mckay, this school
| bow GESTURE somewhat astonished me. But
as his speech progressed, L thought L dis
covered the cause, OF which you shall be
duly adviSed.) He modesty confessed
that if he failed to convince his hearers, the
fault was not with the party or its mighty
principles, but with himself. lie was not
| finished. chaSte, ornate, or even correct
orator like his honorable competitor, Git is
singular that some men waste SO much
time in stating seIf-evident facts, OF which
the most ignorant of his hearers could east
| ly judge , that he was sort of a backs
woods lawyer-a poor boy, sclf-educated,
(here came another jerk ofthe pantaloOns);
that he had TO walk to his courts when he
first began the practice of law.
Mckay then began review of the histO-
ry OF tue Radi al party i'll North Carolina,
showing the vast benefits (?9 conferred by
the party on the people Of the State. (In
this portion of his speech found out what
| the awkward jerks of the pantalOOnS indi-
Gated. Whenever Mckay made any VIC
lent and untruthful statement, or concealed
some great crime of his party, his consci-
encc had to have some outlet, so, ooZing
| out of his bosom through the ends of his
! fingers, found temporary resting place in
the bottom of his boots. And, indeed, one
could easily judge the degree his con-
science was affected by the violence, aWk-
wardncss, and number of the jerks given
his unoflending, but severely punished pan
talOOns.) ts.
Mckay referred then, in rambling, dis
jOinted sort of way, to the proposed
amendments to the COnstitut iOn-the
hOmestead-the liberty of the citizen-thc
peacefulness and prosperity of the State
denounced Greeley and complinented
| Grant, and with many and violent Jerks at
his pantalOOns, gravely said that the credit
| of the United States was better now than
under the Administration of any Presidents
from Washington down. lie thought the
Constitution ought to be amended, but not
nOw-the people were too poor, and
couldn't stand the tax. lie said the defeat
of his party would endanger the Home
stead. (IIere there were sllndry jerks at
his unfortunate pantalOons.)
Mckay denied that the resolution en-
dOrsing. Holden was part of the platform,
| but it was 4 'EStray resolution which some
how crept in, giving q kind of endorsement
to Holden" He did not approve of IIol-
den's acts, but Immediately made violent
onslaught upon the Legislature for spend
ing so much money for his prosecution.
| Two or three times he pitched into the
! Legislature for this expenditure.
Mckay condemned the Loyal Leagues,
but thought their members ought to have
been punished by the Courts if they COM
mittcd crimes, and not put down by the
klu-KluX. lie again pitched into Horace
! Greeley, more particularly for being an old
man than anything else.
Mckay prctaccd his denial of his decla-
ration in Clinton, that with the success Of
the Radical party there would be NO
| KITCHEN AND NO PARIOR, by stating that
he thought every man should be in his
right place, and that the negroes had all
their rights before the law. He said
that at Clinton he did say that if we
succeed in this election you would no
longer hear that the kitchen was good
enough for niggeIs and scalawag3 and
the parlOr for Conservatives and Demo
Gratis. He proved that this was his exact
Language by Mr.. Denard Rlmley, of your
4 city, and some other man of the same ilk
unknown to me. eve viii wager that Mr..
Rumley, who so swiftly testified to the ex-
act language used by Mckay on the oc-
casiOn cannot, to save his life, give the Ian
guage, if he can the idea, of any other SEN
timent used by Mckay on the occasion,
and further that he will not go to Clinton
ana deny that Mckay used the exact Ian
| guage as stated in the certificate OF the four
Sampson gentlemen. We did not believe
that Rumley, weak as he is, could allow
such shallow use of himself. 1t is use
less to say that during all this denial Mckay
was tugging at his pants with the vehem-
ence of sailor reefing the main sail
The Speaker grew eloquent over the
sutterings of his political friends in con-
finement in the Penitentiary, because they
were not as well fed as Littlefield and the
other Republican thieves outside.
lie then drew q narrowing picture of the
war, the conscript oficers-the poor mans
fight and the rich mans war. AS for him
self he acknowledged that he did make a
few foolish speeches in favor of the war,
but he was too smart to go in himself; ac-
knowledged that he got his young friends
in Fayetteville to go in; that he bore the
muster-rolls of his company to Gov. Ellis
in great haste, fearing others would be be-
fore him, but, said this valiant patriot, 81
knew there was danger, SO Invent to Ar
kansas to settle up some business, andthen
ran for the Legislature, and being beaten
the second time, / ran for Clerk of the
and I am T0rOud to GO that T ,1eoI