National Republican., 1882-04-17
Nnrth Cnrniinn Pnlitics.

North Carolina Politics.
Orall the Southern States none gives
better promise of discnthralment from
Bourbon rule than North Carolina. Its
redemption is to come through the genu-
inc strength Of united Republican pariy,
supplemented by the unconditional aid
of citizens not hitherto Republicans, but
anxious to overthrow the party which, in
order to strike down its political foes,
blindly struck at the liberty of all the
people Of the State.
The miserable wrangles in the Rcpub-
lican party Of the North State over ques-
tions of no consequence will not, we feel
sure, be carried to an extent dangerous to
party success.
The warfare which preceded and fol-
lowed the Chicago convention must not,
of course continue. The Grant men felt
that they had been deeply wronged, and
their resentment was very strong. the
Sherman managers were conspicuous last
summer in the opposition to the prohibi-
tory law, which had been submitted
to the people by Democratic
and Republican votes in n
Democratic Legislature. The measure
being overwhelmingly defeated, some
Grant men who had favored it, and
others who had objected to the party
being committed for or against it, were
led to believe that certain antagonists
who had sustained Sherman would seek
to feed the old Chicago Convention
grudgo, under cover of the prohibition
question. This begot an intense feeling,
which vented itself in hostility TO the
managers of the anti-Prohibition Asso-
citation, from which the other side claimed
to hope much aid
The most prominent representative
men in all this were Colonel Thomas
Kcogh, the leading Grant Republican of
the State, late secretary of the National
Committee, and long the chairman of the
State Central Committee, and DIR. J. j.
Mott, the Sherman manager and present
chairman of that committee.
There has been much talk of "a lib
eral movement in North Carolina. The
friends of Colonel Keogh have secuted
! the idea of such fact or such neCeE-
sity. If by such a movement is meant a
repetition of the Virginia coalition pol
icy, they are right North Carolinas
sixty thousand white Republicans have
no need, as they have no inclination, to
countenance any other Liberalism than
hearty welcome to all who will cooperate
with them and sympathy and encour-
agment to all Democrats who, unwill-
ing to act with them rs party,
choose for any reason to prefer, even for
Il single State campaign, Republican over
Bourbon candidates. This only is the
Liberalism The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
has favored in North Carolina. The Re
publican party has no voters to exchange
for Democrats or Independents. But the
prohibition Republicans should do moth
ing to repel recruits, or even temporary
aid. The question of prohibition need
not and should not be introduced
into the State convention in any
form whatever. If it is not
why cannot the Republican party in
North Carolina be united If it is so in
troduced those who do it will be respon-
sible for any want of harmony which
follows. If there ever was purpose tc
keep alive the prohibition question in
North Carolina we are convinced that il
has been abandoned. If any independ,
ent support shall come to the regular
Republican candidates it will not be
through any fusion or coalition. If any
Democrats erect the standard of revolt in
North Carolina we believe it will not be
on the exploded issue of prohibition, but
on the subject of the local governments
destroyed by the Bourbon oppressors o
the people.
With n regular Republican State con
vention ignoring the liquor question, and
putting forth good candidates with an
entirely Independent corps of free.
fighters firing into the Bourbon ranks
on their own hook, and with q revival Of
patriotic feeling taking the place of the
old internal contests, what element o.
success is lacking?
The Bourbons have fondly hoped tc
see our party divided. Let them be dis
appointed,