The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-18

oI,t,c Al xoses all Around the
State

-Tho-. l.. oakley announce himself
m independent ior the Legislature n
Orange and Durham counties
Republican nominees, IN "atne :
Or. John Il. Person, and john Il. smith
for the House; y. T. Grady Tor clerk /;
y. &. Holland Treas.
DR.. ". II. ~Ilowertau. 81 Warm
~pr.n.> Hotel. j. sad 10 =. an Indcptn-
dcnt Republican candidate lor tie Lexis
lauurc i'll Madison.
Mr.. ". q. Means, II Concord,
withdaw> from the race Tor solicitor 81
thi~ district and viii work aud vote Tor
Frank Osborne.
Democrats Of Greene and Lcn"tr
nominated Col. II. {. l. Bcamon. oil
Speishts Bridge tor tn, euatc
Hugh +. Murray. t>q. announces
himself an independent Democratic can-
didatc Tor the Legislature in Wilson
county. He opposes the Legislative
masistracy, or county governments;
also Prohibition.
David y. jenkins, ESQ. has print
ed another letter, in Gastania @'Hss'tt
advising the straight ont Republicans T."
vote the Democratic ticket ~ Way 81 re-
buke to the Notifies. Truly extremes"
90 meet"
Conservative old Hil~h"ro, socially
and politically White" had a straw
last week when Lisbon berry. a icons
ed Attorney 1T Law took Ms seat within
the Bar IT the Court House n a p%ractc-
ing lawyer.
Rowan Radicals nominated Or. J..
G.. Ramsey for the senate, Geo. 4.
Bingham for the House. W. IachcN,
sheriff, :. II. Wiley, Tss~., !. y. Boy
den, Clerk, a. Murphy, Register.
The Wilmington Star says: Mr..
Willis Jenkins, of Granville, has accept
ed the Republican nomination for Nol,ci-
tor in this CD Judicial District. lie Is
an old time Democrat. We Witnessed
a fight in the Oxford court house be-
or twelve wears ago, all because. II We
remember correctly, jenkins accused
Edwards of "conoodling" with the Rad
zeal trying To get a United States Judge
ship. II in error we viii correct it, And
now both Edwards and Jenkins are Rad
zeal candidates for Office :"
The crop of independents for
county offices promises To be the largest
YOU ever seed III North Carolina nee
the war. But ii will be very unwi-r in
the Democrats to assail them. for many
of them are rs true men, and as true
Democrats as any i'll the State; and
while il may bc desirable to keep up "A
strong party-organization IN State and
National politics. we are inclined To
think ii will be well for all concerned
when the man, rather than the 'nomi-
nee takes the field for county offices.
The elections III the Northern States.
last week were, when taken collective
". a notable event. and viii be referred
to hereafter as-'Thc year OF the bic
comet, and the Democratic earthquakc.'
The historian will note them (with the
corroborativc vote Of the Southern
the influence of the Civil Wharf.-The first
time that Radical bitterness failed to
work its charm" upon natural preiu-
dices the first time that the PEOPLE
refused to follow the Dcmagogues.
The result Of the elections with others
to Gomez vcrilies the remark OF the +.
& NJ. i'll January last, that the key to
the solid North" was the Bloody
Shirt" and that the key to the solid
South,'-was Negro Rule Let either
section lay aside these shibbolcths. or
'~slogans.' and Immediately the stirups
OF power shoot from under the LEGS of
the Leaders, and the latter become I'M
horsed in a twinkling, To their infinite
amazement and disgust.
The Republicans took up a State issue
in Maine, i'll 1880 and were badly beat
en-. The Democrats in Virginia did
ditto in 1881, and got ditto, The Re
publicans in California raised the Rail-
road question and were raised u %
their boots. The Democrats of North
Carolina took hold Of the Liquor ques-
ton and were licked like a postage
stamp.
And now the Republicans have upset
their powder keg and blown themselves
out Of house and home, in both State
and, Nation, by a single act Of folly. to
wit,-laying aside the old "Bloody
Shirt'-"Ku KluX-"Plotting Traitor''
war whoop and allowing the election
to turn upon a local is.uc,-a great
moral question:" so-callcd!
Briefly stated, the Republicans, with
a boldness that we admire in Them
took up the Banner Of Prohibition. no
doubt believing that it would carry Ohio
as it had done Kansas and Iowa. The
result was that the State reversed its
10000 Radical majority and went for
the Democratic ticket by upwards Of
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