The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-03-19
The Governorship.

| i"ouiHpeut 81 the Suberna
TO- iai chAir we entertain the highest
personal regard Gov. Holt has civ.
en- the State an admin stratioa cIear
nonest and digaiiicd. lie has warm
trends in every section # the State
who would rejoice 10 STE him nom;na-
ed. He has strong advocates here
| IN burke who still believe that he Is
the man whose name should head ,he
ilc let. That We differ win these
men On this question is not because
We 90 not entertain high regard
Tor Governor Holt and the many
STERLING qualities of mind and heart
Which ms administration has dis
closed. But in order to win in North
Carolina this year we must present q
united front to the enemy. and the
enemy Is not only without but within
our ranks. Our old foes, the Repub
Tic ms, are moving heaven and earth
to overthrow Democracy and intrench
themselves in every department of
the State government. Besides this
there are men within the Democratic
camp who would sell the birth right
OF {. Clean State government for the
savory pottagc of office. These men
arc melt Ter tue Aliiancemen nor
true Democrats. They do not repre-
sent the masses of the Democracy or of
the Alliance. But they have a GER
an following, small we hope, but
large enough it may be to turn the
tlo1 OF battle in favor Of the Philis-
tines without the gate. They are
anxious y waiting for any excuse to
raise the standard of revolt and make
common cause with TIE Republicans
against us.
lG hay be very brave to defy this
element, and very wise to say that
the party will be better off without
1t, but jingoism has often been MS
taken for bravery and the trueSt DO
n0cal wisdom has been held by
some savants to consist in getting
every vote possible and holding
every vote possible just as long as
| possible, where it can be done with
out the sacrifice of principle.
TO us it seems better to deprive
Of amy excuse those who are waiting
for an opportunity to leave the old
flag, by putting up man like Alex
ander, on whom every faction can
| unite and who will make for the
State as fair and impartial, and hon
est and as honorable chief execu-
tive as any.
Apart from the element above re-
ferred to there are throughout the
State thousands of farmers, who
have born the heat and burden of the
day with the Democracy, who have
gone into every campaign with fervor
and whose, ballots always falling on
the side of right, have won for us
our victories and who have asked in
the past only that the State govern
ment be economically and honestly
administered. These men in the AL
lance have been filled with an hon
est desire to elevate the farmer and
10 improve hrs condition. To effect
this end they have been taught that
the farmer should take more active
part Ia political matters, that more
farmers should be sent to the leglsla
lures and to Congress and they be-
lleve that to put farmer in the
gubernatorial chair once in while
would lave a mere wholesome effect.
These men are neither cranks nor are
they effected with third partyism.
They are Democrats pure and simple,
and they will vote the ticket that the
Democracy puts up. But with a
man like S. B. Alexander at the head
Of the ticket, they will, we believe,
be filed with an enthusiasm that Will
be infections and zeal which will
sweep everything before it.
The Democracy can, We think,
lose nothing by paying due regard TO
the preference of this '-old guard
of the party's army in making their
nominations in the May convention.
I-Morganton Herald.