Charlotte home and Democrat., 1886-11-19
Political Items.

IsMR BREWER ELIGIBLE.-Ift the charges
which the republicans Of Leaksviile
preferred against Mr.. Brewer, sRepubli-
can elect from the Greensboro dis
trict,) soon after bis nomination be true
and the allegations can be shownto be so,
Mr.. Brewer will never be congressman
from the fifth district-if congress has
majority of democrats in the lower house.
Dan VALLEY Echo.
IN There will not be single colored
man in the fiftieth Congress. O'Hara, OF
North Carolina, and Small, of South Car
olina, were the only colored men in the
last Congress; both have been defeated,
and the next Congress will be the first
purely white Congress since the war.
T Virginia went Republican by be-
tween II, 900 and 10000. It will be diff
ficult task to put it in the Democratic
columns in 1888. There 10 too much pro.
tection element in Virginia to make q
Democratic success
az We much regretted the defeat OF
Mr. III. A. London, of the Pittsboro Rec
ord, for the State Senate. He was defeat
ed by 81 votes. If Chatham Democrats
had done their duty he would have been
elected by handsome majority.
E There was the biggest sort of q
iolli6cation at Norwood, Stanly county,
over the Democratic success in that coun-
ty. A rousiDg supper, free as water, was
given. A grand torchlight procession.
and speeches by Messrs 8. j. Pemberton,
D. N. Bennett, Maj. Andrews, Capt. Jas.
M. Wright and Mr. A. s. Atkins. - WGdes-
6oroI Intelligence. .l,......
az The Republicans in Indiana are
still plotting to defraud the Democrats
and elect their man to the Senate. But
will the Democrats allow themselves to
be cheated?
THEY NEVER FA1L.-Mr G. B. Aycock,
q young lawyer OF Goldsboro who is q
man of education and mental parts, writes
to the Raleigh Chronicle as to the cause
of the recent reverse in our State. He at
tributes them to hard times, over-confi-
dence, and failure to draw the color-line.
Upon this last count he says:
"This lost us many thousand white votes
and did not gain US single negro. The
whites voted with much more independ-
ence than ever before while the negro re-
mained the same political slave which he
has always been. An Intelligent and
prominent negro teacher said to me re-
Gently that he wanted to vote the Demo
cratic ticket bat that he did not dare to
do 50 from fear Of being ostracised by his
race. A prominent white Republican de-
clared from the stump in recent cam
paigu that Democratic negro is q rascal.
By means like this the negro vote was
kept solid, while the white vote split"
B The campaign just ended demon
strated one thing: That the negroes
voted the Republican vote more solidly
than they have done in eighteen years,
and that the whites divided more than
since the war. The whites thought the
negroes would divide this year, but were
disappointed. The Chronicle thinks it
may safely say /: That as long az the ne
groes vote as one man for the Republican
ticket, the white men will stand together.
1888 will find the white vote united as in
1876, and the solidly of the negroes this
year will cause it. The Chronicle hasn't
drawn the color line in ths campaign. 1t
has not arrayed race against race. 1t will
never do that. It is the friend of the ne
gro. Itwants to help him. We but state
known truth when we say that there
can come, and ought to come, no division
of the color line as long IS every negro in
the State votes the Republican ticket.
This is said without endorsing color line
campaign. 1t is merely giving expression
to truth known of all men.-Raleiqh
Chronicle
H The Democrats have q majority
in the California Legislature, which will
elect Democratic United States Senator
in place of Republican.