Wilmington journal., 1876-08-11
BOsS Much M NIAJOlkITY ?-WIIAT
- SAY CA AR1EEe Is'G A ~ ID III A R N EFT
AND MOORE

HArnett aud Moore and 1892 in the
other counties IF the District. In 1872
Colonel Waddell carried the District
by n majority of 1887 votes, of which
Carteret gave II, Harnett 90 and
Moore %. in all 1874; that is to say.
Carteret, Harnett and Moore with
white majority of 2428 contri 'uted
barely tenth, while the other
counties with only 1892 white MAORI
~ contributed nearly nine-teuths OF
the majority 10y which Colonel Wad-
dell was elected. 1t Is plain therefore
that If these three counties had done
aei we'll nA the others did for the canse,
they wnuid have contributed not mere
~ 134 votes but 1869 votes to swe!i
our majority and would thereby have
Increased It tD 2S22 in tho D:atrlct.
Those are facts undeniable aud ill.,.
iisputable AS the records show be-
vOnd AL doubt.
what say our friends in Carteret
Harnett ard Moore Do they intend to
former one+?Will they be content to give
only l3l of their $500 white una nrity,
not six votes in the hundred. for the
party of honesty and reform that IS now
asking til" people to put 1t III power?
1t is not because the white men In
these counties have voted the Radical
ticket that suc'i small showing has
been made, bat because they have not
voted at all. They have taken no in
terest in the election and have not
gone to the polls.
In those counties, as In others, the
| bulk of the Radical vote has been cast
| by negl oes. In Harnett there were
| not over $50 white Radicals and
in Moore not over $50. In Carteret
| the white Radical vote was less than
100. The balance of the 1887 white
voters in these three counties who did
not vote the white mans ticket, over a
| thousand in number, remained at home
and did not vote ut all. Cannot they
be persuaded to give one day to their
country in November?
We cannot believe that in an cleo
| ton in which go many and such mo-
mertous issues are involved, that our
white brethren in these counties will
be content to remain idle and indiffer-
ent spectators of the great conflict
Twenty -tive hundred is the very small
est majority that we ought to get
nearer what we are fairly entitled to
expect for such a ticket as ours is
for if there was white ma.
iority in 1870 of 412O, the white
majority now, siz years later, ought
to be at least 5000, taking into con.
sideratinn the diminished number OF
negro voters brought about by emf
grafton and other causes and the Ma.
tural increase of the whites whose
numbers have been reduced by no such
meane.
There is no reason why a single
white vote should be lost otherwise
than by sickness or unavoidable acci
dt Mt. We have ample time to make
all necessary arrangements. Every
white voter in every township in the
District ought to be visited and al
auch as are Indifferent or luke warn
ought to be aroused to a prop
er appreciation of the great i'm.
portance of the struggle for power
now going on. All the peo
pie want is information. correct, re
man of what is at stake in the coming
election, is to create in him an earnes
desire for the success of our cause il
November. -
But everything depends on the char
acter and efficiency of the members O
the Township Ex cutiye Committees
and the zeal and activity of the Tilde1
and Vance Clubs, and we therefore
appeal to our friends in Garteret, Har
nett and Moore to see to it that il every
township there is at once an active
|
executive committee and we'll organ
lied enthusiastic Tilden and Vance
Club. Let them make up their minds
resolutely that their counties shall nc
longer lag so far behind their sisters
in the great work of redeeming the
State from the sin and shame of Radi-
cal rule-for it is both sin and 9
shame for white men to permit this fai,
land to be cursed with Radical rule.
In the other counties too we ought to
do better than we havedon We ought
to increase our majority in them at least
400 votes. Everybody has his ambition.
1t is our ambition to be able to boast
after the election is over that our dis.
trict has given large. maj jority &C.
cording to its white voters than any
district in the State. Night and day
we shall labor for this. Will ou,
friends all over the district join us in
the effort? All we have to do to secure
this proud result is to work regularly
and systematically. Let every man
tiud out how his neighbor feels about
the election and what he intends to
do. Let no man be overlooked. We
have the siren 9Th if we will only put
it forth on election day. Let us only
work for $500 majority and we will
surely get it.
A very grave complaint has been
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