National Republican., 1882-09-30
PRESIDENT ARTHUR
Anxious for the Success OF thc Coalition
Ticket in North Carolina.

G H. COOKE, Esq.i
SIN: You have done me the honor TO send me
your published "card to the voters Of tho seventh
Congressional district OF North Carolina" In
which you announce yourself as an independent
candidate for Congress My only object in ad-
dressing you this public note is to correct an error
in your card. You make an appeal to stalwart
Republicans against the Coalition ticket and say
TO them:
honestly believe that the so-called, Liberal
movement was conceived and organized by that
class Of men who have induced few broken
down, disappointed Office seeking Democrats 70
join them, expressly for the purpose OF prevent
ing North Carolina from contributing her lnnu-
cnco in furtherance of the nomination of Stall
wart candidate for the Presidency in 1854 They
they have nominated a Bourbon democratic Ku-
Klux sympathiZer, "You must vote for the nomi-
nee; the administration is IN favor Of 1t, and the
never get an Office If you didn't" Ny country
men, be not deceived by such miserable clap-
trap. There Is no truth III such statements.
OF course you are right in denying that the
President has ever authorized any one TO say that
he would punish voters by non-appointment TO
Office He does not use the public offices ns re-
wards or punishments. But when you deny the
statement that the President is In favor of the
coalition nominees and each ofthem, you are mis-
| taken. To guide You to knowledge OF the truth
in this matter. and that is what believe you de-
sire, will say to you that on Saturday, the 23d
|
sons, of whom l was one, at his resi-
| dence in the city of New York, that he
was not only earnestly for the Liberal
movement in North Carolina, and anxious for the
election of the whole Coalition ticket (Which, OF
course includes DR.. York;, but that he did not
wish his position on the subject to be doubted OF
misunderstood. This is not, OF course, any reason
| why any voter in North Carolina should support
the Coalition, but it is a good reason why the
weight Of President Arthur's name should not be
thrown into the scale against il. You would moi
be willing party TO a fraud, and the information
herein conveyed will save you from the mortifca'
ton of being an unwilling one If any voter IN
North Carolina should desire to know how Presi
dent Arthur would vote If he was citizen OF tha
State, you can safely assure him that he woult
vote for the Coalition ticket throughout.
As TO whether the Republican nominee for thu
Presidency in 1884 shall be "Stalwart" of1SSO, ol
an equally reliable friend of equal political right
who was not then so designated is not now Thu
issue. Whether honest majorties shall be repre-
scented in Congress and in the next electoral col
lege instead Of Bourbon minorities is of mucl
greater consequence. The men who stood by Gran
in lSS0--and / shall always be proud of havini
been one of them-cannot better exhibit thei
continued devotion to MIN than by co operating
heartily and generously with all who will uphol
what he then insisted upon, viz: 1.-The right Q
every citizen to vote just as he pleases, and I
have his vote counted just as it was cast.
l hope shall not give offense by expressing thu
hope that you will yet decide not to aid in tn
election of the Bourbon candidate in your disiric
You cannot but agree with me that his party j
North Carolina never survive If once the free
dom aud integrity of the ballotbox can be assured
Dr. York is committed to Liberalism, which mean
fair elections, free schools. home rule and gcnuin
restoration to the Union. Besides, If you help tn
free trade Democracy to abolish duties on import
internal revenue taxation will have to be perpetr
, nted and Increased. How can you abolish intsrn
revenue taxes by indirectly aiding party whic
4 is pledged against erterndt taxation? Taxes MT
v come from some source.
:. Pardon the freedom with which l have replie
to the circular you sent me, and believe me to b
v very respectfully, yours GEO. c. GoRHAM.