Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-01-12
BY THE NORTH CARO-
LIMA ELECTORS YEsTER-
DAY.
DAY
The Solid it, ofthe Old North State
Cast for Cleveland and Stevenson
and a Messenger Appointed to Garry
h Returns to Washington.
Raleigh News-O Observer.

yesterday in the Senate Chamber
at II o'clock, as provided by law
to cast the vote of North Carolina
for the President of the United
States.
Hon. r. B. Glenn called the
meeting to order at 10 o'clock, and
nominated for President of the
North Carolina Electoral College
Hon. @. b. Aycock, of Wayne, MI.
Aycock was unanimously elected,
and Mr.. John A. Ba,ringer, of
Guiltord, was unanimously elected
secretary, The roll Of electors was
called and it was found tn t all
were present, as follows
Electors at large @. B. Aycock,
of Wayne, and R, B.GIenn, of For>
sytb. First district, L. L. Smith,
of Gates; Second district. N. j.
Rouse, of Lenoir; Third district, j.
G, Shaw, Of Cumberland; Fourth
district, E S. Abel. of Johnson;
Fifth district. Jno. A. Barrenger.
of Guilford. Sixth district. Sol. c.,
WE'LL, of New Hanover, Seventh
district, A. Leszar, of Iredell;
Eighth district. j. R. Lewellyn, of
Surry; Ninth district. Locke Craig,
OF Buncombe,
The electors then came forward
in three successive groups and took
the oath pledging them to the
faithful discharge.of their duties,
which was administered by
Associate Justice Walter Clarke,
of the Supreme Curt Bench, al
ter which all subscribed TO the
oath,
Chairman Aycock then an
nounced that nominations for Press
ident of the United States we're in
order, when Mr.. Shaw arose and
said.
Mr.. President In obedience to
the wishes of the people of North
Carolina and in Compliance with
the dictates of my own heart, I am
here to place in nomination for
President of tue United States the
name of the greatest of living
statesman; the purest of modern
politicians, the honorable Grover
Cleveland of the State of New
York.
Nj, President, we have met to.
gether, surrounded by peculiar cirs
cu1nstances. [ verify believe that
when our work has been complete,
that it will be nothing more or less
than a reaction of the work CONS
pleted by the Electoral College Of
North Carolina in 1883 and 1885
respectively. That when orr vote
has been cast that it will become
a matter OF history for three times
in succes sion the electoral vote OF
North Carolina has been given te
one and the self same mantle
man whose name have Just mems
toned. True, Mr.. President, ths'
after having given our common
country a fair, an honest, and ar
Impartial administration as Presi'
dent, extending ove a period o.
four years, be was defeated
and the principles he espoused ane
the doctrines he inculcated were
for the time being overswept b
wave OF disaster. But, Mr.
President, while men may b,
defeated, and men may perish
princip.es never die. And althoug!
the people of this Union failed t.
realize the immensity of the prin
Piles involved in 1888, neverthe
less, when those principles hat
been incorporated into the plat
form of the Democratic party il
1882, and Grover Cleveland wa
again chosen as the leader of tina
f party then it was on the 9Th da,
November that the honest geo
many of this country--the old ant
the young--the high and low-th
Fl rich and the poor-were alike {
be seen in every State. county AM
. town, bending their footsteps t
their respective polling place
and there with the slogan cry O
. Cleveland and tariff reform upol
their lips, and with hearts over
t flowing with patriotic devo
t tioa to right and duty
they then and there i
| the power of their majesty, repre-
senting the intelligence of the cit
{ zenship of America-put dow
that god of the Republican party
that child of monopolists Gale
h Protection, and declared by thei
votes that now and from hence
forth the administration {
this government must be upon
fair and honest and economics
basis.
- Mr. President, the life and char
acter of Grover Cleveland is we
worth the study and considerable
of the youth and young men I
America. possessing the patrie
tism of Washington, the states
manship of Jefferson and the cou
i age of jackson. From the hun
: bier walk OF life he has arise
r with giant strides and to-day
dstands forth in the dazzling ligl
offame and distinction, andwhere
Ter the Anglo Saxon bloc
a. courses through the veins of Il
le people of any country, there h
b name is known-there it is homo
3 ed and esteemed, and in the ga
ID axy of all the i~lIustrous names