The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-25
AT LAST.

Ting Tor "rpf0Ffn WIFI ECoi
without knowledge" and a knowl-
edge non est.
| Last week they held their state
convention in Raleigh and nomIna>
lied for the various State offices.
| Flom reliable reports of the pros
|ceedlngs "eoniusion relgned su>
ipreme" and the harmony So loudly
tboaste.i OF bv the ''retOrm" ~ pa
lUers was not 80 harmonious.
| Col HAIRY Skinner created Its
it,r episode. He was nominated iof
lGoveruol and In his speech OF ac-
iceptaucs, o! tie nomination /" tie
high trust which he said he MAJ
inot only not sought but had tired t"
lavoid. he reserved the light to vote
1.-THE democratic ticket If the Tepubll-
leans should attempt to divide tn"
Iwhite vo,e. This was not tne kind
lot Il candidate the Thnd-party mfn
1
that would stick to them "through
lthlck and thln,' as one put 1t; SO
they asked him to come down and
llet man he put up who would be
a Third party man to the end OF the
ichapter Col. Skinner came back
Ito explain, but the more he explain
led the worse grew the mlsunder-
istanding, until Col, Skinner with
idrew his name and promised to
Isupporu the man the convention
tmight name for Governor.
DR.. ". P Exum of Wayne was
Nominated for Governor.
DR.. l.. n. Durham of Shelby was
Nominated for Secretary OF State.
DR.. L. b. Long WIS nominated fOE
tAuditor.
Capt. r. H Lyon of BIaden was
Nominated for Attorney General.
Rev. J. W. Woody of GuiItOrd
college was nominated for >n
perintendent of Iubllc Instruction
w. Guthrie of Durham wa
nominated Tor Associate Justice
lot Supreme Court.
Marion BntIer and Harry Skin.
fner we're nominated a. electors 3
large
r. a. Cobb of Burke was nomina
ted for Lieutenant Governor,
II. Worth was nominated fo
Treasurer.
Step by step this thing has beer
flushed cautiously but persistently
lat first the friends to the Third
D party said they desired Third
Iparty only as to the National ticket
Estate issues would not come III
they said. But now what do the,
lsayf
WIN, they say the extreme posi-
Ition taken by the democrats nav
ldriven them to this their last an
toniy resort.
Did not democrats oppose tn
plan of national Thlrd-laIty tick
ct as strongly the first day of Ma
az they did the first day of August
Did the democrats change their al
Ititude towards this wild clanOr dl
ring that period ? Every one know
We they did not. Then why Is the Of
be position on the part of democrat
ty considered any more extreme nov
81 than W hen the national Thlrd-pal
I'D ty idea was first mentioned ? Th
RS truth is the democrats of the coul
ss' try have not changed at all; DU
Fst the movers OF all this tronbIe Sd
". that the time was ripe Tor a succcs!
We full stirring up of the dissatsfle
re- elements, mostly in the Alliance
ne. and they made up their minds t
be leave no stone unturned until the
'se should get certain class peEman
ut emily dissatisfied.
They succeeded. And Mr.. Car
at the democratic candidate for Co
RS, ernor, was the man not only to max
cir a good Governor for North Caroline
zee but the very man to satisfy the reg
do less portion of the Alliance, so d
'ur thought. But despite the fact ths
On Mr.. Carr had been an honore
We member of the Alliance ever sine
sy it's permanent establishment in til
he State, and was worthy the honor {
ds our nominee for Governor both as
,rs democrat and an AlliaDceman, the!
do was a certain element that ba
made up their minds to be dlssatis
lat fed with anything that dtd nc
nd show up n favor OF a Third-pa1t t,
to So in less than ten days after NJ
DIV Oarl's nomination there wei
Ike growlings of dissatisfaction, not b
the true democrats In the Allianc
but by those who had made up the
minds to be dissatisfied with any