Year: 1876


is before the people of the State. TIE
Convention was the largest, most i'm
posing and most distinguished political
gathering ever held in North Carolina.
Its influence must surely be felt
throughout the length and breadth of
of the State. The earnestness, the
spirit of harmony, the unparalleled
industry, the very great enthusiasm
which characterized its session, as we'll
as the acceptable ticket which it nomi-
mated, will certainly commend it and its
labors to the thoughtful citizens of the
old State.


We have already, in an extended
article, referred to the nominee Tor
governor, Hon. q. B. VANCE. And too
he is '.known of all men," Indeed the
enthusiasm which the mere announce
ment of his name created, and the
unanimity with which he was noml-
mated. showed plainly that he was the
great popular favorite. and any other
result would not have been acceptable
to thepeople, and the Convention would
have been pronounced failure. His
triumphant election by good major
ity seems as certain as that tho zones
of November will come. His clarion
voice will be heard throughout
the entire State, and he will arouse
our people to a degree of enthusiasm
seldom Witnessed in political cam
paign.


The nominee for Lieutenant Cover
nor, Hon. T. J. JARVIS, of Pitt, IS we'll
known to the people of North Carolina,
Entering public life as member OF the
Legislature of 1868 and 1869, he was
the foremost of that devoted little
band of Conservatives in the body,
which watched with jealous care
the interests of the people, and which
was enabled finally to check the reck-
less extravaganza and unprecedented
corruption with which the Republicans
were wasting the substance and bring
ing debt and dishonor upon the State.
For his brave service then, he was
selected Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives at the meeting of the Gen
eral Assembly in November 1870, and
served in that capacity with dlstln"
guished ability, commencing himself to
both parties by the intelligence, the
impartlality end the dispatch with
which he discharged the duties of his
high trust. In the summer OF 1871,
he nvassed the western portion of the
State in favor of the call of the Con-
vention, and to the impression which
he then made, and the friends he at
tached to him in that canvass he owes
his success now, in a great measure.
MIR. JARVIS is one of the finest speak
ers in the State, and will add strength
to the ticket.


When we come to speak of MIR.
ENaELHARD, the nominee for the hon
orable office of Secretary of State, we
feel that we possess scarcely the ability
to restrain ourselves in expressing our
opinion of his singular fitness for the
position. In speaking of him cotem-
porary says that sin the dark days
when men of craven hearts and tremb'
ling knees held their hands in idleness
while Radicalism was defacing every
landmark of a glorious ancestry and
former civilization, he, besides crying
aloud through Ethe columns OF the
Wilmington JOURNAL against the
plunder of his State and the outrages
upon the liberty of his countrymen,
met the scandal-mongers and carpet
baggers face to face, and exposed
their infamy, aroused to action the
timid of his own party, and thus
helped to rescue the State from the
utter destruction of the reconstruction
vultures and thieves.


The people of this section cannot
forget the sagacity displayed by Mr..
E.NaRLHARD, when, as chairman of the
Congressional Executive Committee,
all others having about given up the
field, he brought out Col. Wadden to
oppose Dockery, the great lion OF
RadicalisIn, and thus put III motiou IN
this District the golden Car OF triumph.


The people of this section will never
forget that to Mr.. ENGELHARD Is prln-
cipally due the thorough organization
of the party; an organization which
has steadily held in check the growth
of abuses and corruptions in those
counties where the Radical majorities
ruled the hour; an organization which
has steadily contributed to its own
strength wherever it's influences have
been felt.


But it is notnow of the services which
he has rendered the Democratic party
that we wish to speak, but of the
strength which we believe his name
gives to the ticket. He is well posted
in all the minutest details as to
the political historyi of the country,
we'll known throughout the State and
universally popular, of the finest abil-
tiles and attainments, a most indefati.'
gable and successful canvasser, for
chile and effective debator, of such
vigorous health as to be equal to the
task of canvassing the entire State,
and we know of no man, as we have
heretofore said, who by his name, by
his character, and by his ability in the
canvass, could give more strength to
the State ticket.


THOMAS S. KEENAN,, ESQ.,, of Wilson,
the nominee for Attorney General, is a
native of Duplin county, and descend
ant of one of the oldest families of that
section. He represented his native
county in the Legislature of 1S66-67,
and was regarded as one of the most
able and influential men in that body.
His labors in behalf of this portion of
the State will not soon be forgotten by
our people. Soon after he removed