The state chronicle., 1892-10-14

Trinity College long and prosperous |
career.
THE Legislature of Michigan passed an
act providing for the election of Presi
dental electors by Congressional dis
tricts. The constitutionality of this act
is now apparently being tested in the
| Supreme Court of the United States, and
the Attorney General of the United
States, appears as one of the counsel for
the contestaut-the republican party.
Mr.. Miller says that he appears in his
'private capacity but such a thing is
totally unprecedented in this country.
The case ostensiby is contested upon
constitutional grounds, but it is really
political in origin and effect, and the
whole country must view with amaze
ment and disapproval the utter absence
of proper appreciation shown by the
Attorney General for the proprieties of
bhis high Office, and the readiness with
which he prostitutes it for partisan ends.
THE republican nominee for Congress
In the first district, Judge c. c. Pool,
has withdrawn in favor of the third
party nominee, Riddiok Gatling, ESQ.,
The formers letter of withdrawal and the
latter's letter of acceptance appear
in DR.. Johns Carolillian for this week
Our democratic friends must not neglect
their congressional and legislative tickets.
+ The republicans and third partyites have
evidently combined to defeat the demo
cratic nominees for Congress and the
Legislature, and it can only be prevent
8 ed by vigilance and untiring work.
We want our people to have a reform
, of their present financial system, but tt
o secure it they must elect democratic
q Congress and President To elect . re
4 publican Legislature would retard tn,
Q progress Of North Carolina for ten years
. Not a Campaign Lie.
a The North Carolinian.
is In the second issue of the North Caro-
j. tinian, there appeared copious extract
from speech delivered in Congress b
Gen. JOS Wheeler, of Alabama. W
n printed the following quotation whlc
d Gen. Wheeler made his speech from tn
ID National republican.
a "With the Lodge National electio
- law in full force over the South an
III various democrtic strongholds up NORTH
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state of political affairs than now exists
no New York city will then return sewers
more republican Congressman that
'o present, while more than twenty Deg1
rt representatives from the South, will rel
Id der the republican control of the futu
to Congresses absolutely secure and saf
AS Mississippi, South Carolina and Flo
ida contain large majority of negroe
IL and as there are enough white republ
ks cans in Alabama, Arkansas, North Car
re- lima and Louisiana, acting in conce
~ with the negroes, to put these States i
to the republican line, we confident
ISL look in the future for seven Southe
ed States to be reliably republican. TT
ed means gain Of fourteen Senators al
in at least twenty representatives to t
republican party
cu when through the operation of t
Lodge National election law, six or sew
fe- Southern States shall discard democra
our rule, we shall look confidently to s
.u some measure Of justice done the blscl
''5' who have so long been defrauded of tn
nto rights. Heavy taxes should be laid M
He the property of the whites to develop a
the extend the public school system in tn,
States"
The quotation was copied in the d.
MI vile Register, STATE CHRONICLE, Ch
inal lotte O6sercer and other papers, At D.
r of vile certain republicans denied that
National Republican was in existence
i0Se the time of the publication of the extra
TED and the Register, Observer and other
line pers apologized to their readers for m
ors ing this supposed mistake.
A.. We know that the publication
'ne made in good faith, and we wrote
OF Gen. Weaver, stating the facts. He
lad piled in the following we'll timed LEI
arly "nich We take pleasure In laying bel
o.:. our readers:
WHEELER, Ala, Oct. 2. 159:
Il 10 JosEPHUs DANIELS, Esq, Raleigh, N
lib My DEAR SIR have lust recei
In your favor. | do not know who t
line SloPho" iioA w ashluBton 10 tne DanN
Register, but assert from my own
au sonal knowledge that the National Rel
Used tican was being published in Washing
on July 3, 1890, and that it contained
editorial which l read from the pape
the halls of Congress in the summe
1890, and it appeared in the Cong
great sional Record just as it appeared in
uous speech No one then ventured to d
'rres- its absolute correctness Just before
mind election of November. 1890 when tn,
sked publicans found that editorials of
ng character from republican papers in
Black Gus to their cause, some republican
nsion pers denied that such an editoria
were peared in the National Republicans, /
and do not think any of them went so f,
vn on to assert that such paper did not
npor at the time.
on on For the last ten years there have
haor | txUn WI Of bo +,