Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-10-06

- dF0W Js ODAW seventeen 019lg sea
tering. On the second ballot Suite
got eight votes aud Shaw TWENTY-FIVE,
three scattering. Shaw was declare
nominated. Andrew J. Shaw was il
dicted in she Superior Court of Bli
den for stealing a hog from a negr,
but the jury after remaining out Il
twenty-four hours. returned verdi,
of "not guiity?" White men an
colored:smen of Bladen will you gi1
your votes for q man who has tn
record =?
So far as we know or were able I
find out, only one single man who ws
put in nomination, by a white. E. Sin
gletary put in nomination for Sheriff
John w. Wallace, but Wallace di
not receive single vote.
Mr.. Frank Wilkeson was nominate,
for Coroner by. reclamation, but b
told US afterwards that he would n.
| suffer his name to be run on the ticket
| Hugh @. McCallum was nominate
for County Treasurer. Mr.. McCalluU
| is Democrat. al honest man, and VI
| have no doubt will decline th
| honor CD
Mcdonald had left the chair and
big, black. buck negro now filled it.
James Cashwe had received fou
votes for Treasurer Che Is the Cash
we'll who justified on the bond of w
IL. Skies, ex-Radicai Sheriff and de,
fauiter for over $13, 900, for So, 600 OIL
$40, GOO, but out of whom the Sheriff
could not collect one cent?, ard moi
liking this, he came forward to make
speech. He called himself the father
Of the Republican party in Bladen,
and said it was a little thing he had
asked, considering he had sacrificed
his property his character and his
good name for the party. He no
doubt told the truth-his own word
on this particular subject ought to be
authority. But scarcely had Cash we'll
commenced his speech, when he was
called to order by the chairman last
above alluded to, whereupon the
chairman got up himself, amid the
tumult, and proceeded to address the
Convention. entreating them not to
act like barharians and wild animals,
when some one IAN old mulatto named
axe Sutton) replied Vars, go
head, God d-n you"
The tumult subsidized somewhat, Nc
Donald took the chair, and Ohm M.
Benson was nominated for Register of
Deeds. Mr.. Benson ia a clever and
honest young man, and he, with the
exception Of Mr.. Nc alum is the
only name. 80 far, put forward which
respectable men, white or black, ought
TO support.
The committee came together this
at about IL o'clock, and at
t:3O this evening they had elected the
Register of De. ds. After which they
attempted to elect their County Com
At IL o'clock tonight
hey | ad not elected single candi-
late, but had dropped them and were
slecting an Executive Committee.
About the time [ left the Convention
left the chair, he said. be-
cause Of physical arrangement, but if |
lie was not drunk, then pat me down |
or DO Judge but how could the man
lelp being drunk? How any white |
nan, brought up in a civilized coun- |
ry, can associate with such a motley !
rev, be compelled to act with them, |
md fail to get drunk, is beyond my
Feilowscitizeus CT Bladen [ have |
rled to bs faithful to my subject and |
know L HAYS not Overdrawn it; no |
zen, no picture could fully describe
he pOw-wOw which has selected a |
icket of Republicans and now place |
before you, asking your votes.
How such men as Castine Martin, |
W. Tatom, : Psit and others who, |
o-day, were delegates in this Conven- |
ion, can go home to their wives and |
hildren and ask their love and re-
pect after mingling with such associa-
ions, is more than any man in whose |
ems flows the Anglo-Saxon blood, in
he name of decency ought to be able |
D tell
If you have one iota of manhood in |
GU, l ask you to call to your mind
his fact: that only one white man
1ade an attempt to raise his voice in
his Convention to-day, and that he
1as called down by Bill Devane. an
snorant negro; that he (Bill Devane)
hight dictate to you the course you
hould pursue i'll managing a govern
lent which belongs to you.
Do you know that these very asso-
iates which you have chosen in poll
les look upon you as "scum and
rash ?" If you do not, you have only
D call to mind what Burnett said to
on in his speech, and the igncble part
layed by you i'll the Convention.
And can you support, as honest men, |
nd with all approving conscience, |
len whose records are stained by in
ictments for perjury and larceny?
At this writing, l o'clock p. NJ, Oc-
Ober LIST, the Convention has adjourn
d. having nominated f " county COM
lissiouers w. D. Pridgen. white, Mil
on Jones. coIored, j. S. Cain, white,
William Devane, cOlored, and w. A. |
Itkinson, white.
After calling over these names, y hat |
1ore can honest men desire, as an ar
ument why they should not be voted |
or T.?
And poor duped aud enslaved ne
70, you have had the Conventions all |
our own way, you have had lowered |
nd Observation-Disclosures twenty of |
on ct time, you have cursed and fumed |
nd made threats, but your shrewd |
'hite friends have given you what I?
'vo county commissioners. Think of |
lis, what did you get, two county |
And these not your |
hoice, but packed upon you by ABB |
oft, Eldridge, Skies and others-and !
Tho the more sensible among you,
UGH as James Daniel, Stith. Fonville, |
annot subscribe to.
During the sitting of the Conven-
ion, one of the delegates, Patton wills
ans colored,. was arrested, tried and
ommittcd on charge of stealing
olt of cloth from the store OF Messrs. |
sinaldi & Co.
Patton Williams only last June re-
1rned to Bladen from the peniten> |
larry, having served a term of three |
ears for stealing pair of boots from
1r. j. 81. Smith. Such is one of the |
elegates who have put forward a
cket and now ask honest men to vote |
Or them. Yours, &C.,
EPSILON.
Elizabetbtown, n. G.
Tor the journal
CATHARINE LAKE. Onslow