The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-05-14
CARLIsLE'S CHANCES.
JOHN NICHOLS ADVOCATES 4
FEDERAL ELECTION LAW.

Republicans Seem Bent Upon Keeping
up Sectional FeelinG--It is the Grist
of Their Outrage 1fi!l---W hat sem
ator Vance Must do Alone.
Special Cor. Of STATE CHRoNICLE) =
WASHINGTON, D. c., May l3.-Mr
Carlisle has announced himself a
candidate for the Senate, and the poll
ticians here think he will get it on at
| least the second ballot The uncertainty
about Mr. Carlisle's future has caused
Speaker Reed to delay filing the impor-
tant vacancies on the committees on
Rules and Appropriations.
! The Republican Executive Committee
is on the eve of a big row. The less
| conspicuous members of the committee
resent the long continued bosship of
| that notable trio, Quay, Dudley and
| Clarkson. Quay is catching it On ali
! sides as he is the most audacious and
| and presumptuous member Of the
| triumvirate These three want to
| arrange matters SO as to appro-
pirate the Southern States for their fu-
| ture purposes. Some of the others rea-
lize that the war is over and that the
] time for coercing the South with bayonets
has gone by. In furtherance OF the
| triumvirate's plan there was union
meeting Of the various republican State
| associations in the ci+- ttiG wnnk. The
object Of the meeting was to cousl,:er an
! election law By which there should be 4
| "fair vote and fair count" The
| Lodge election lazy was discussed at
length. Hon. John nichols was one Of
! the speakers on the occasion. he
| advocated al election law strongly. lie
| wanted the necessary supervision at
the polls to insure an ''hone8t vote"
The villifier and traQucer Of
the land Of his birth !-ED I
| asked him "How about letting EVERY
BODY vote under the australian ballot
| system?' He did not think the system a
good one. WIlereupon | told Inn that
/ did not blame him, for when bis party
bought votes, as if did, there must be
2ome better guarantee Of good faith
than the pledge Of the ''hin0 OF coons"
the G. O. P had TO det.: with. 70 made
a laughing reply bat be knows the state
ment was correct | have found
out what defeated him for
public printer. The President and
Cabinet had virtually agreed to appoint
Alm when the Grand Army Of the Re
. public got hold Of 1t, ard protested SO
vigorously that Cousin Ben" got scared
and backed out This is so. He had the
strongest local and Northern backing
: you ever heard OF, and Cousin Ben was
undoubtedly of the opinion that be De
served 1t. But toe G. a. r, urged that,
as the &. O. Z. was the general "0umn-
ing ground" for the ''yete' ans WHO
could not pass the civil ser
vice law, it would NEVER %
60 put a Southern man IN SO important a
placa. So brother Nichols missed il and
now be is actually making speeches il
favor Of an election law TO give such
frauds as defeated his own ;sm j. ions 4
continued lease of power Verify q South
ern scaiaWag can swallow auything
Even worms sting when trodden Oh.
However, brother Nichols has {. partial
reward in s., 500 place in the Treasury
and he thinks ne can afford, presume,
: to advocate al election law, the object OF
which will be to cbett his own State.
After Nichols made his talk a crank
named Carpenter got up in the meeting
+ and declared that he wanted bayonets
advocated the passage Of most strenu-
Gus election law. This is also thought
I to be Quay's plan, and it is known to be
SO wild a scheme that there is serious
I talk of retiring Quay from the E1eou-
Mailed Hand is playing too rash game
> even for his own henchmen, but
he is game enough to swear he
-
/ This shows pretty state of things
g But let them fight. If the "writing Oh
l. the wall'' made legible in the light Of
/ recent elections, is not misleading, 1892
will record an overwhelming Democratic
= victory. The people of this republic
d will not sanction ''bayonets at the polls
e in these piping times of peace, when ;
IL Vanderbilt builds his palace in the Lane
u Of the Sky, and a thrifty Yankee turn;
i. Bald Head into q summer resort
IS when jeff Davis's daughter mar
e ries the son Of a Yankee aboli
~ zionist and Lees monument is admitted
'e free of duty and Southern papers scol(
"a the Empire State of New York for allow
y, ing Grants tomb to go unmarked! Thi
at looks like "bayonets at the polls
Messrs. Nichols, Quay, Carpenter, &c.
will have to trump up some other rem
ne edy to infuse new life into the decayin
old party that now enjoys the brief re
1g spite Of seeming convalescence tha
as usually precedes the rapid inroads of
~ fatal disease. The pension lists and th
w rascally subservience to monopolists an
re s'rings" that have been incubated by thl
al Congress are enough alone to kill the G
D O. ?. There are other sins to
answered for already committed, an
40 many breach of good faith and recl
ne lessly broken promise which comm
oe legislation will expose.
% When this Congress convened it W.
understood that the three republca
members of the North arolina deleg:
tion expressed themselves as being o.
posed to any form Of federal electio
50 law. Yesterday Mr.. Brewer said
poGi thought one would pass, and mentione