The banner-enterprise., 1884-08-09
WILMINGTON, N. c., AUGUST 8, 1884,

Raleigh, revenue officers received their in
structions frcm revenue headquarters to OF
ganize county conventions, and have them
selves sent as delegates to she State cor
vention in the interest of York, and alE> owe
the State, from Currituck to Cherokee, Gler
uty collectors, storekeepers and guager
were securing the country, organizing count,
conventions, procuring delegations and
proxies for themselves, the result being 6
convention largely composed of revenae
officers, the outcome of which is the hybrid
| candidate for Governor, sore-headed Dem
ocrat crossed on a revenue officer. But
when we come home to our own section OF
tho State, how many Western Republicans
can take the bitter mixture of wermwood
and gall prepared for them by the afore-
said convention, and survive without the in
slant aid Of q stomach pump, surpassess
common understanding A revenue officer
is said to possess copper-lined stomach
and might survive the dose, but if there is
any truth in the science Of Materia Medica,
it certainly is dead shot to an ordinary
Republican.
AN ENEMY TO THE WEST.
When our very existence depended Oh the
Western North Carolina Railroad to this
beautiful and fruitful section of ours, and
were all striving with one accord for the
mnch desired end, Dr./York voted in the
Legislature for ap appropriation of one dol
lar and against proposition to appropri-
ate $4,000 for the extension of the road
west of the mountains. II he could have
his wish, the W. N. c. Railroad never would
never have been built, and all the people
west of the mountains would to-day be liv-
ing in land of isolation, transporting their
necessities across the mountains in wagons,
instead of enjoying the benefit of railroad
and the blessings of thriving, prosperous
community, on the highway to prosperity
and wealth. We have nothing to thank
DIR. York for in this matter. This is not
all.
NO PITY FOR THB INSANE.
When our unfortunate insane were being
carried away to Raleigh and literally packed
into an unhealthy asylum, made so by its
over crowded condition, for want of room
in the asylum. York-this noble-souled |
generous, philanthropic York-opposed any
further appropriation to finish the asylum at
and proposd to sell out the ma
terial and abandon the work altogether, and
with it, our poor unfortunate insane, to go
where Ball said Republicans might go who
refused to support his champion, York.
HuMILIATINa spEcTAcLE
And yet, Republicans East and West arc
'sked to cast their votes to make such an
me Governor of the state he has tried to
lisgrace, and people he has outraged, and
or refusinfi to do so, the North State, the
eading York organ, by grace Of "govern-
nent pap" denouces all such as so many
Painted Devils. What humiliating spec
acle is this for Republicans Have we
l25,000 Republicans in the State come to
his? OF that number there not one wor-
hy to be our standard bearer, and we are
ompelled to take q soreheaded Democrat.
'all, Assistant United States District At
orney said so in his speech at Asheville.
hat was his excuse for nominating York;
o Republican could be found worthy of the
lace. / don't believe it. It's not true.
is false. In the name of 1875 900 Republi.
an voters of North Carolina l hurl that
lander upon their good name in his teeth.
he convention insulted tho Republican par
Y of the State when it nominated York, and
all added injury to insult when he made .
nat declaration. Ball was in the convention .
lat nominated York, as misrepresentation +.
the Republican party of the grand old
,unty of Guilford, and this is his excuse
-"no Republican worthy" Save us from ,
II friends / am proud to say that know :
any of the Republicans ofGnilford county, !,
I'd truer Republicans and men of sounder
'inciples, are not to be found in the state, :
I'd just as sure as November comes, just so !,
ire will they rebuke this outrage on their .
'od name.
HOPE vANIsHEs INTO THIN AIR. Y
There was no necessity, whatever to bur- a
n the Republican party with an objection t,
lie candidate for governor like York in
G approaching election There was omono