Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-10-13
..uE 8EAUr5KT E AGLE-CAHA
nay,
Tha JoURNA1 was in error III su

nba Jo17RNAI was in error III sup
,o.;,o the Eagle had not given IN ia
aa,a.ion to the county ticket in Beau
ct The error arose from the fact
.hat the county ticket was not pi ced
A. be.d of the editorial Columns
whare the other tickets supported by
the Eaqlc appeared, but was placed at
the head of she local columns OF that
.nor The mistake ought not to have
occurred. doubtless, but, nevertheless.
Il did occur. aud having occurred we
Cool b,nnd in honor to correct it, and
thereby to undo any injury We may
bavo done the Eagle. Not even tie
discourteous diaregar d of editorial de
eaucy and propriety by the Eagle can
prev mt the JOURNAL from repairing
any wrong it may have Inflicted with
out just cause.
But the JOURNAL was not in error as
to the Eagles position i'll regard to
Colonel WApDELb The Eagle refuses
to support Colonel WADDELL. T..
Of er words, it bolts the nom nation
fairly and honestly made by she l"w
fully constituted convention of it's
p.rty-a convention i'll which tho
E00Ec admits its editor sss as a del
gate. There can be but one opinion OF
the course of the Eagle among men
who have at heart tie good Of the
party. If the Eagle pretends to be
party paper, the preto1ce will hence
forth b. considered of but little value.
II, however. it doos not pretend 10 be
Democratic paper, bat avows itself
10 be a free lance, independent of
party ties, and party affiliations and
party bshests, why, then in refu.iug
to support Colonial WADDELL it does
but exercise right belonging 80 evety
citizen, that is 30 say. the right to vote
as he pleases. It is difficult, however,
if not impossible, to understand how
any man who claims to be member of
the Democratic party can refuse to vote
for its regularly nominated candidates,
or how a man who refuses to support
the nominees can call himself a Demo
crat.
The Democrat who will not support
the nominees is a very poor Democrat.
The more members the party has Of
that sort the nearer defeat it is
But in spite of all this, there
il one thing to be said in extcnuation
of the course of the Eagle, and it is
this: There WAS never a time in the
history of the District whom refusal
to support fhe nominee will do less
harm than now. Canaday's candidacy
10 both absurd and contemplate, to
say nothing of it's impudence. It has
been proved that CAnadsy does not
hesitate to eat at the same table at the
same time with nsgross upon terms of
squality-this same Canaday that is
now a candidate for Congress-and
this fact il we'll known to the whole
District. This is 0! itself sufficient to
render his candidacy in District with
5000 white majority most silly per
Torrance, but this is not all the record
Mr.. Uanaday has.
We repeat, therefore. that if there
was ever time when refusing to sup
port she nominee would do no harm,
now is the time. There is no danger
that our District will inf1ict such a
shame and disgrace upon the Old
North State as would overwhelm her
il such man as Csnaday should be
sent to Congress by a white con>
sttuency. Possibly the Eagle con-
sidered this whea it resolved upon it's