Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-05
WILMINGTON, n. C:
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1874.
FAYETTEyIILE AND KINSTON-
DISC RD AND MONY-
TAKE HEED II HE JUDGE

DI sc O R d AND HARMONN-
TAX f. HI e ID II H e JOD'E
RUSSELL!
Our Radical friends have been con-
graduating themselves upon the mar
mony attending the nomination OF
their candidate, Neill Mckay, Esq, Mt
their late Convention at Fayetteville,
but we hear no such talk in regard to
the action of the Judicial Convention
held at Kinston about the same time.
At Kinston the harmonious Radicals
voted for two whole days without any
result, and then on the third day adj
iourned to meet again on the 23rd OF
June. Possibly they will have better
luck next time.
At Fayetteville, Mr.. Neill Mckay SO
fragrant with the odor of emo parlor
and no kitchen" was nominated at the
yerv outset. If there was any one
formidably contesting the honor with
him. his name has not as yet come to
light. Having neither parlor nor
kitchen hung to him, Mr.. Nell Nc
Kay walked over the course with ease,
if not with grace. AS candidate Tor
Congress in this District and against
Colonel WADDELL, Mr.. Neill Mckay
was good enough for the negroes and
good enough for the whites then
present.
At Kinston there was three candi-
dates for the nomination to wit: Judge
Clarke, the present incumbent and the
martial hero, who during the late
Kirk Holden-Pearson war, for the
third time buckled on his sword, Mr..
Faircloth an ex-Confederate soldier,
and Mr.. Seymour, carpet-bagger
from Newbern Ella New York. For
two days the triangular fight went on
among the harmonious Radicals IN
Convention, and on the third all the
forces were drawn Oft.
Why this difference /! Why should
it take two days and an adjournment to
make a nomination at klnston and not
two hours to make one at Fayetteville?
This is a civil question, and 1t is SAID
civil question demands a civil answer.
We make our answer however, civil
though it be, with great dlffidence for
we do not claim to speak by authority
for our friends, the enemy.
But to our answer We beg leave
deferentiany to suggest that probably
the difference in the harmony prevail
ing at Fayetteville and that not pre-
vailing at kinston, arises from the
fact that nomination at kinston
means something quite different from
a nomination at Fayetteville. The
nomination at Kinston is something
substantial and tangible, admitted on
all hands to be equivalent to an cleo
ton. The nomination ct Fayetteville
meant nothing under the sun save the
emptiest of emf = compliments. 1t IS
one thing to be ::adical nominee Ior
Judge in District tl.at has a Radical
majority OF thousands 9. votes, and II
is quite another thing to H. a Radical
candidate for Congress in District
with over seven hundred Consel valve
majority and WADDELL for an oni O.
mont Radicals f1ll IF natrit1teIl
and quite willing to sacrifice them
selves on the altar of their country
when they can be elected, but when
they can't be elected they magnalli-
monsly content themselves with har-
mony and the sweets of domestic life.
Let Judge Russell bear this in mind
of bis party to be held at Magnolia
this month unanimously in favor Of
his denomination. His Honor VIII,
we trust, not take offence that as ami
cus curiae we make this suggestion.