Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-05-22
For the journal.
Radical POw.WOW at Point Gas
well.

chair to see much OF the uemOralZa-
ton of the Radical campaign which has
been going on for several weeks i'll the
country townships of New Hanover.
We had seen notice. OF these gather
ings i'll other sections of the county
previously, but the first of the season
in this township came off here to-day.
Few persons who have never attended
one can form correct idea of Il Ratli-
cal pow-wow. If you haze ever heard
! the story OF the Iot&iIks i'll their rolii-
cal meetings, you can form s me idea
f the thing. A Radical pOw-wow APP
pears to be an asseinblage III which
all are allowed to say and do rs they
please, and the dlr.lest dog is gencr-
ally the hero of TIE occasion. We can
not learn that these meetings are cali
! ed by authority of the party, but they
ST EN- TO e a sOlt OF busiIw hachinr war
+ fare practiced by certain rnterprising
I candidates in order 20 t0rastail and
| control the action of the party i'll al
vance of regular omirations and Tins
kill off opposition before the regular
! campaign opens, IT l. Amusing to Oh
serve the etfronttry f these hush
whackers in arrogating party authority
and the airs they assnme-as they de-
liberate proceed to read one another
ont OF the party.
According to Heaton no one can be
long to the party who was mot flat
out in opposition to the new county,
and Who does not now favor his aspir-
alton for Clerk Of the Superior Court
of New Hanover county. According
to General S. H. NJ, no one who las
been recently baptized into the party,
as Esquire Gardner, should seek office
at least he should wait until his hair
dries from his recent baptism into
Radicalism. Tom retOrts that the
aforesaid S. III. NJ, (sham) sold out to
the Democrats in the last campaign,
and needs another dipping before lie
can Justly claim that the right
hand of party fellowship should be eX
tended to him again, ana even offers
to produce the evidence of such bar
gam and sale. He shows up the Gen
eral, so-called, that in n recent public
meeting he admitted that he (the
said S. II. NJ dill sell ont to the
Democratic party, bnt that it was done !
with a view of deceiving said party. .
Tom makes good thing OF this and
shows that S. II. NJ, (truly sham is a
hypC critic and not worthy to be trusted !
by uny party. The General seems 10
have boosted in some of his speeches, I
dollars $40, O0O) worth of bacon, -four,
molasses, meal, &c, and therefore he .
is entitled to the confidence and sup
port Of the people. Tom retorts that
all this looks very pretty but that It Is
best to see if there may not be cat III
this big meal tub. He thinks the
General would perhaps like to retire
from his present business, to wind
If ND. and collect his debts,
and no place would be 50 suitable for
this as the Sherif"s office. Just ink
of it , The collection of forty thou
sand dollars $40, 0O0) for himself
would furnish him a good job to com
mence on. Now vote for him, says
Tom. and make him Sheriff and the
Old slv cat in the tub will soon wake
ND and be prepared to make a spring.
Tom is sure That the SherJtfaity viii
fall 20 himself or to the General who,
on the contrary, does not regard Ion
as formidable to any one.
Duncan Holmes IS assured that HIM
self or Birney will be the next Sherlff;
The present Sheriff holds that as all
the aforesaid contestants cannot be
elected it may be as we'll to settle the
dispute bv retaining him in Office, and
refers his claims alone to the people.
Sam Larkins, one of the Magistrates
of Lincoln township spoke against
Heatou for Clerk Of the Superior
Court thinks that tallow-faced,
tessabov, Archy Walker, deserves all
the credit of the defeat of the new
county, because # he had not gone to
Raleigh and walked up Heaton, 1t
would have passed just as the city
bill passed. He thinks Heaton needed
waking up when he voted to cheat the
people Of Wilmington ont Of the cleo
ton Of Mayor and Aldermen the lst
of May. He might make tolerable
representative ii some one would al
ways wake him up at the right time,
but for Clerk of a Court, lac thinks he
is a poor excuse.
Ropublican authority asserts it, that
of the sixty six county Candidates IN
the party outside of Wilmington for
Commissioners, only about five can
read or write their naples. And Of the .
seventy Republican candidates Tor
Register of Deeds III this county only .
about two or three can tell l. from 8
bulls foot.
Duncan Holmes advocates the cleo
ton of George Bourdeaux for Register
Of Deeds, and declares that he can
write his name as good as Blylns, who
went down from home at the end OF
every month, Duncan declared, drew
his l,av Of two hundred dollars, pad
off his hands and returned home, his
pockets stuffed with grceubachS, on
which to grow fat, be happy and TO
have a good time generally.
Now Nessrs. Editors from the above
sketch you can begin to prospect the
political situation in New Hanover.
suppose you taEe some fifty OF sixty OF
these black and white asplrants who,
with such hungry mas, are n1ewlihG
around the county for County Com
miseioners, and put them INTO big
bag marked 'EOnventlon and shake
out five OF the best Of them, what else
can be expected Of them than that they
will guaw greedily at the vltals OF the
county and quarrel over the spolls dur
, ing the next two years 1t would De
infinitely better for the tax paying clt-
liens of the county tolmport CannlDais
from the Fejee Islands to take charge
al the important and responsible man
agement Of the public affairs OF the
/ county than to elect Board OF those
now so loud and constant in clamor1ng
to he made County Commissioners
The Radical party in this county
usually pre- sents this strange anomoly
. that those most deserving and capable
of holding the most responsible POSI-
tions are often thrown aside as Wofth-
less rubbish, and the 'brainless and
most triHing demagogues of the party
are taken up and Substituted in their
nIoces. No wonder that the good cltl-
zens Of all parties in the county manl-
fest so much solicitude as 10 who may
be- finally elected to fill the various in,
portant public offices of the county
IS it not time that in these local offices
for which there is such disgraceful
scramble, the true men of all parties
shonld come nearer together and APP
DIV more rigidly the Jetfersonlan test
to office seekers, viz: is he honest? IS
he capable? is lie faithful?
Po1ST CAswE1L, May ~, 1874: