The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-29

O0u8tOt we
disparsgemsnt to the Others, ior they
have all been proven able and Wiling
to work for tue good of the Stat ana
her p.ople, and they have never been
DETAINED by an anonymous loo
whose motives arr 1T least open TO
question.
Senator Ransom voted to confirm the
nomination Of Conkling, and for retir-
ing General Grant. II Senator Ran
so m should ever see fit to explain those
votes it will be easy enough to Under
stand and appreciate his motives"
Revenue Collector Geo. B. Everett
of the 5th district publishes in the States
vile American, . frey retort to 4: b.
Keogh, who asserted in the North State
that he-(we quote) "gives his patron
age to Democratic papers, has Demo
Gratis in Office and who is backed tor MS
place by democrats! There are probably
upwards of q hundred Internal Revenue
officers in this District, and among
them but one colored man appears aud
he is not assigned to duty. Our posi-
ton on this question is we'll known .,
Everitt a y he scorns these foul
attacks" but goes on to say that when
Keogh was in Office he didn't appoint
q single negro; whereas he ,Everitt)
has several now serving under him. AS
for Democrats, he did appoint Mr. Chas.
E. Shober, brother of Frank Shober,
the Senatorial Secretary but he a
brother. in-law of ex>CollectOr Wheeler.
and it don't count.
Everett then fires at the bulls eye In
this style. From these facts it is evi
dent that Mr. Keogh is interested not
so much in behalf of the colored men,
as he is anxious to mIsrepresent me TO
the Republicans of North Carolina.
When be wrote the lines above quoted,
he must have imagined himself once
more seated on his suffer stool, writing
copper-head letters to the "Milwaukee
in behalf of the enemies OF
General Grant and the friend of the Re
bellion or. it may be, that like a pc
litical mercenary he was, seeking to
control the patronage OF this District
Let me tell you. Cassius, you youself
are much condem'd, to sell and mart
your Offices for gold to undeservers.
Keough can we'll say
i III CuC a OOoo VI II oC~O03
And a man whom oil do hate,
For l sold my favors SO carelessly,
And traded on the honors of the old
party,
That now I'm now nothing but an
Ex-bossee.
The Republican party will never be
successful in this STATE until Thomas B.
Keogh and his cabal naked and power
less, is driven from it's leadership ard
then and then only will our heart and
brain and Drawn find in Republicanism
a safe protection and golden rewards for
oil their labors and for al their suffer
Meantime, the Washington RepubH-
can, organ of Arthur, raps botn sides
over the ear in this style, Tin a leading
EDITORIAL: 1--WE hear of the Liberal
movement in North Carolina, and We
near Of Republican protests, against it.
Then We hear of movements by Repub-
licans of prominence in that State against
each other. There ID, in fact, a very
bitter feud among them, in which
neither side is wholly blameless. There
are all sorts of pretexts on which men
are a%ntagonizing each other, chief among
which is the prohibition question. The
introduction Of that question into party
politics, as parties are now constituted,
is Is inexcusabie as would be the intro
duction of the T~hirty-nine Articles or
the Darwinian theory. The existence
of q strong temperance element among
the Republicans was known, and Dem
ocrat, VINO cared nothing about it pre-
tended to favor prohibition. The latter
we're simply driving at the politlcal
power supposed By them to be welded
by the Republicans through the Internal
:evenue Officials. A~convention OF pro
hibitionists last year seat y committee
80 confer with a legislative committee.
The Democratic members outwitted the
genuine prohibitionistS, and reported a
OWL to prohibit the manufacture, but not
tie sale, of liquor in the State. This bill
Was passed, but not to take effect until
ratified by the people. The State Cen
trail COMMITTEE of the Republican party
was divided between the two factions
arrayed against each other the previous
year at Chicago. Some sharp practice
had been alleged In the organization o;
the committee. There was a full meet
ing OF the State committee, at which it
was generally understood that temper
ance question should not be made a par
ty me At a subsequent meeting 3
minority of the committee. but a ma
jority Of the quorum present. resolved
that the party ought to oppose the pro
hibitory law. The measure was beaten
by 10000 majority. less than 60, 600
being cast In its favor. Now each
party Is trying to cast upon the other
Odlum OF the measure, and in oul
party ambitious and strong-headed men
trying to utilize the question in an
tagonisms within the parry. The Re
publicaus who voted for prohibition
declare that the majority seek to drive
them to the wall by an appearance of a
coalition with disaffected Democrats on
an anti-prohibition platform. This is
their understanding of the Liberal
Such is not u under
standing. Any effort to wound and rem
der uncomfortable the twenty thousand
more who voted for prohibition, and
the still greater number who would re-
sent such an attempt, could only have
the result to disintegrate the Repub,i-
IAN party. That could be done. II
would be the height Of folly to disband
army in Nor Carolina in an effort
to recruit.
The Republicans who last summer
advocated making opposition to prohi-
bltlon a party measure did not and had
10 power to make it thereby a party
est. No Republican was bound by any
order of the State committee on the
subject We think this is not claimed.
Their object Was to get as much credit