The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-16
REPUBLICANS NEED NOT
READ
TrIcksters Need not try to Hec-
tor the Party and Drive out
Those who Rebel

Men of sense accord to others wha.
they claim for themselves latitude Of
thought, and free lom Of speech. Ihi.
must necessarily be so 10 the adoption "a
any party policy that appeals to popular
sentiment tor endorsement and support.
The Democratic party l. a party of the
people, its policy must be in accord with
he people and IL principles must be as
hey have be, ~. for he good If the PEG
lie. Tncre i, lite dffeIcucu u opinion
as to principles but very much as To
policy and herein comes that independ-
ence Of thought and freedom Of speech,
necessary TO the purity and success ot
any party organization.
Ii a few men Ia. say what j. party
policy and tie great ma are r-gUirad TO
give in 4 sort of mechanic. endorse
ment to what thetr judgements 10 not
a%Ylrove, There MI &c apathy, soon fol-
wei o. defeat.
These thoughts have sprung from
reading and hearing reflections upon the
fidelity Of men and editors in this State,
by other men and other editors who
claim, like Holden of old, the power,
politically speaking(''to kill and to make
alive" Many good men have been
driven from the Democratic ranks by the
persistent and unjust charges Of dis
loyalty made and repeated by a hungry
pack Of small fry politicians without
either the sense or honesty of the men
they SANDER and prescribe. We pub
lished last week what Gov. Brcgden said
of the ruin this practice had worded to
the Republican party path. Just crit
clsm, by a Democrat paper, of any act
of a Democratic administration, is look
ed upon by the selI-constltuted party
guardians I'VE did not say Bosses as an
evidence Of lntidelity to, and a purpose
to injure tue party.
We could name BALI a dozen of what
We consider the very best Democratic pa
pers In North Carolina that are now I'M
der the condemnation OF the wouldbe
dictators OF Democratic thought and ac-
ion.-Hickory Cdrotintdn.
How true the above Hundreds and
thousands of the purest Democrats
wrest the State from carpet-bag misrule
having ceased TO cooperate with the
present Democratic party, because of
the hypocrisy, abuse and vile ISLANDERS
of the men who assume TO lead and
speak for the party. Salisbury Ecdmt-
her.
There S a good deal of bullying 10
politics iu this state. You are expected
To justify all that your party does-to
swallow every splinter in the platform,
however hastily prepared and hastily
adopted and badly understood, of a Dem
ocratic convention. or you are mot or
thodox. We despise such hsctoring
as that, We are Democrats from prin-
cipie, and neophytes in Democracy can
not bulldoZc Or read US out. Ii is a
part of the principles OF true Democracy
as expounded by the fathers and as de-
hvered by National Conventions to favor
the abolition Of the tax on those expen-
sive luxuries, tobacco and whiskey. We
call no man or set of men bosses az
we mean to think for ourselves, displea,e
whom 1t may. Wilmington Daily Star.
The brother is ''emInently" correct,
We are glad to see a Standard (Star) with
frmness enough to lick. To the article
-ADren -Guidsboro BuUetin.
The facts and figures show that
North Carolina Democrats barely pulled
through last fall, although it was the
time of a Democratic tidal wave. The
tact Is that there is not q Southern
State which is safely Democratic unless
our Democracy becomes more real-more
the party of the masses Of the people
and less the entailei property Of a few
leaders. The sooner our newspapers
understand that and preach it, the safer
we will be. '-Greenville Is. ca Neus.