The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-07-10
ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRAT.
Issued by the Democratic State
Executive Committee.

t;opA, OF THE Demo CRATIC STATE
EXEeurn + COMMITTEE,
RsLEroH \. e.
II FL LmoratfJc .ofers n
.No,ti turolint
Ata meeting Of the Democratic
state Executive Committee, held
in this city Oh the 10th inst, il
wa resolved that the Democrat,
ic state Convention be held in
the city Of Raleigh on Wednes
day, the goth day of August
1890.
1t will devolve on this conven-
ton to nominate for vacancies
now filed by appointment of
the Governor, a chief justice
and one associate justice OF the
Superior Court for the first,
fourth, fifth, eighth and tenth
districts; also, judges Of the
Superior Court for the second,
sixth, seventh and eleventh dis
tricts to succeed the present i'll
Cumbent5 whose terms expire.
The convention is called to
meet later than in 1888, to suit
the convenience Of the great
masses of Democratic voters, so
that fuller representation, re
Hecting a more general senti-
lnent, may be insured.
The Democratic party CON
graduates the people of the
State upon the material and
moral advancement made under
the beneficent administration of
affairs, and. having redee med its
pledges i'll the past, presents its
claims to them for q continuance
Of that confidence to which it is
justly entitled, feeling assured
that they will be recognized and
the interests OF all classes thus
SubservGd.
The term for which Hon. Zeb-
ulOn B. Vance has been elected
to the Senate Of the United
States will expire next March
and the Legislature to be chosen
this year will be called upon to
fill it. 1t beh0oves Us to.see to
it that I'D Republican is elected
to the Senate from this State.
The committee most earnestly
requests a thorough early organ
ization in every township and
| callty in the State. 1t is es-
aential that this preliminar y
work shall be done at once, so
hat we may be ready for an
active, energetic campaign as
-oOn as the convention adiourns.
t will not Go to assume that our
opponents, because they are
Inactive now, have no life. They
AN orIuuize with celebrity and
-tand ready to take advantage
- any apparent ietha@gy on oar
art, and Il we wish to prevent
opposition, we must demon
~trate by our organization anG
strength, its futility.
In 1882 our confidence anC
apathy nearly resulted in the
'Oss OF the State ard again il
1886, from the same causes the
control Of the House of Repre-
5en.at,Ves Of the state was los
to the Democrats and given tt
orr opponents. Such a result
must be carefully guarded
against this year.
1t is important that the vari
Gus county conventions be called
! at such times as Will best sui
the masses of the party to tn
end that a full and free choic,
Of candidates for the offices ma,
be had and no discomfort be en-
, gendered.
The Republican party Of to
day is the same as in the darl
days Of reconstruction, and oDl,
awaits the opportunity to inflic
upon our people the same dis
grace and humiliation.
Its action in the Federal Con
gross indicates too plainly tina
it is the party of force, withou
respect for law or order.
The despotic usurpations o.
the petty tyrant who has beer
placed by them in the Speaker,
chair, only to dishonor it; the
deprivation of legally elected
Democrats of their seats in boil
branches Of Congress and tn,
, seating of Republicans in thei
stead, with out the least vestigt
# right, for partizan purposes
and the efforts to perpetuatt
themselves in power by the
passage of a Federal election
law, by which the control o.
Congressional elections will bt
transferred from the State au
thOrities to the hands of ire
sporsible agents appointed a.
the dictation of unscrupulou:
partizans at the national capital
thus striking a serious blow a.
our cherisl ed institutions anC
the rights of the sovereign
StattS the reckless annrnnria