The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-16

country which every business in
terest requires. The party Is pledg
ed to protection and will hardly
prove false to the pledges and the
power which lifted it into ascend
ency.-Concord Times.
Indications are not waiting that
the present Congress will do nothing
for the relief of our people from the
expressions of the present tariff.
The Republican party is commit
ted to protection, and neither the
cries of distress nor the appeals of
reason have any effect upon the
Moloc III of party.-New Berno Jour-
nal.
Farmers. like other people, want
fair chance to get the highest price
for what they make-not ''what they
have averaged for the past five
years" The Chronicle has no desire
"to protect the middle men or
spectators. We don't believe in
protection to anybody. anywhere OF
anything. What we tight for is an
equal chance for all maintenance
of tue old rule Of "competItion is
the life of trade ;" and, we may add,
the gnarantor Of fair prices; and a
suppression Of all Trusts and Cons
binations made to control prices and
place the producer in the power of a
few wealthy .-Stute Chr01a-
icle.
There has not been 8 national Re
publican administration in twenty
years that the party in this State
has not been di2i led into two or
three or more factions all quarrel
Ing about the spoils and indulging
in elimination and recrimination.
Would not party which cannot en-
JOY peace in its own ranks except
when the national party is out of
power cut figure administering the
government of the Statc?-States-
vile Lun0murL.
We do not believe that in the end
rascaIity triumphs. We have seen
it thrive for few years and then
come to grief. We hope that no
part of the Democracy in any South
ern State will stand up for cheating
in elections, for ballot stufTing or any
other method of ringsters and tricks
sters. The upright men of no State
will agtee to such leadership. The
bes! interests of all will be found IN
ballot Teform-in the substitution of
the Australian system for the meth
obs of the past,-WIlmington Mes
sengeT.
The Richmond DiSrutch has come
out against the Australian system,
nor arc the rest of the Southern
journals to be hurried into so great
reform without careful con sldcration.
Senator Barbour, of Nirginiss said
that Virginia should De satisfied witG
system that gave that State forty
thousandDemocratic majority. There
is lot Of mother Wit in tina: state
ment. On the one hand it NAV be
said that negro, alone with his
ballot, would be helpless, but Re-
publican heeleEs could copy the
ticket and easily instruct the negro
as to the places for Republican
scratches. We are frank to saw here
the whole truth-we want no system
that can give negroes q chance 10
rule the State. we are not ready
for the bill In North Carolina, and
this State should not regard this rot
that is going the rounds OF the press
that we must do so and so. Let us
be patient, examine. thoroughly this
system as applied to our home gov
eminent, and do nothing which will
in sny way jeopaEdize the protectors
and prOprietOrS of the South. The
Australian ballot system, as far as
the South is concerned, can safely
wait awhile.-Charlotte Democrat.
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This will be an active. busy, push
ing. and we trust, prosperous year.
Congressmen,members Of the legisla-
ture, Sherif's, Register of deeds, clerks
of courts, cOnstables and other offs
GERS are all to be elected The alliance
will graphic with the trusts and
throttle them, and many ether mat