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The North Carolina Republican.
JAMES H. HARRIS,
Editor
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 1880.
Republican National Ticket.
For , President -JAMES A. GARFIELD,
of Ohio.
For Vioe-Fresident CHESTER A. ARTHUR, of
of New York.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
For Electors of President and Vice-President :
STATE AT LABGE :
OLIVER H. DOCKERY, of the Sixth Congressional
District.
GEORGE B. EVERITT, of the Seventh Congres
sional District.
V DISTBIOTS :
JOHN B. BESPASS, of the First Congressional Dis
trict WILLIAM 8. 0B. ROBINSON, of the Second Con
gressional District.
SAMUEL W. WATTS, of the Third Congressional
District.
GEORGE W. PATTERSON, of the Sixth Congres
sional District.
JAMES G. RAMSAY, of the Seventh Congressional
District.
WILLIAM R. TRULL, of the Eighth Congressional
District.
Republican State Ticket.
For Governor RALPH P. BUXTON", of
Cumberland.
For Lieut. Governor RUFUS BARRING-
ER, of Mecklenburg.
For Secretary of State RICHARD M.
NOKMENT, of Robeson.
br State Auditor RILEY H. CANNON,
of Jackson.
For State Treasurer AARON D. JENK
INS, of Gaston.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction
ARCHIBALD R. BLACK, of New
Hanover.
For Attorney General AUGUSTUS M.
MOORE, of Chowan.
"Republican Congressional Ticket.
' Fob Conoriss 1st District CYRUS W. GRANDY,
'Toi Cohqbess Third r Distbiot WILLIAM P.
: CANADAY, of New Hanover.
Fob Congress 4th Distbiot MOSES A. BLED
SOE, of Wake.
Fob Cokobess Sixth Distbict WILLIAM R.
MYERS, of Mecklenburg.
Fob Cowgbess Seventh Distbict DAVID M.
FURCHES, of Iredell.
7 '
, Republican Judicial Ticket.
(To be voted throughout the State.)
' For Judges of the Superior Court.
FOB JUDGE FOUBTH JUDICIAL DISTBIOT :
VOB JUDGE TXFTH JUDICIAL DISTBICT :
JAMES H. BEADEN, of Chatham.
ELECTION Tuesday, November 2d, 1880.
Subscribers failing to receive their paper
regularly will confer a favor by notifying us at
once. The illegibility of the names is frequently
the cause of error on the part of the mailing
clerk. All names, therefore, should be written
in a plain, legible hand.
The Democratic Senate of North Caro
lina and the Democratic Magistrates of
Pa.1 quo tank county both elected colored
men to office. Now ceasa calling the Re
publican party the negro party. It is the
party of the people, and is pledged to res
tore to the masses the rights stolen from
them by Gen. Oox and Gov. Jar vis in 1875
Democratic challeugers, under Chair
man Mason's system, will be instructed to
look for discrepancies between the registra
tion and the poll books. To make it plain :
if the name "Marcus Jones" appears jn the
registration book, and the clerk of the
election in 1878 entered on the poll book
the name "Mark Jones,' this is to give rise
to Democratic "chin music," to kill time.
The Election Law. Id the abstract
of this law there is an error, which the in
telligent reader will correct. Under the
sub-bead : of Registering and voting,"
instead of the words, "following excep
tions," in first line of the second paragraph,
read9 "foregoing exceptions," and substitute
a comma af fe-r "exceptions,77 instead of a
colon. Get the abstract, read it and
govern yourself accordingly. File away
the paper containing , it, so as to have the
election .law ready for reference and use,
during the canvass and on the day of elec
Uon, ; "i A " - : .
MAJ.BLEBSOE'S CANVASS,
Maj. Bledsoe, Republican candidate for
Congress in the 4th district, is making a
splendid and most effective canvass Every
where he is greeted by large and attentive
andiences composed of both parties His
speeches are masterly and convincing, and
while exciting Republicans to the highest
pitch of enthusiasm makes disa-trous in
roads upon the ranks of the Democracy.
His competitor, Gen. Cox, is but a child in
his hands. To say that he has in every en
counter completely vanquished that gentle
man is a mild form of expression for the se
vere punishment which he has invariably
ir.flicted upon him. Maj Bledsoe is, with
out doubt, one of the besc atnmp speakers
in the country. He has not bis qaal per
haps in the State. He is eminently a man
of the paople. He understands their con
dition, he knows their wants and sympa
thizes with them in all that pertains to their
political, educational and material interests.-
In the present straggle of the people
against their tyrants, Maj. Bledsoe is natu
rally fuund on the fide f the former, prov
ing himself one of tut most efficient cham
pions of their cause. Being so thoroughly
identified with tne masses in thought and
feeling he knows how to address himself to
them in a manner to be understood and ap
preciated. He is well known throughout
the district, and has tbe confidence ot the
laboring classes, white and colored. They
know that he is no demagogue, but that
his utterances are tbe honest convictions of
a mn who is acquainted with the charac
ter and record of the Democratic party, who
perceives its despotic policy, its dangerous
tendencies and the direful results that will
inevitably follow its continuation in power.
The present crisis demands leaders of
Mj. Bledsoe s stamp. Tbe people will fol
low him because they see plainly that Dem
ocratic supremacy means the destruction of
free government and the extinction of their
liberties. Hundreds of Dr mocrata only
need the impulse of Maj. Bledsoe' pow
erful appeals to induce thjHn to brnak from
their party and vote the R publican ticket.
From all parts of the district comes the
gratifying intelligence that tbe publican
ranks are swelling by accessions from the
Democratic camp. It requires some courage
on thepart of a life long Democrat to throw
off his party allegiance and go oyer fo the
opposition. The man who does this id North
Carolina subjects himself to misrepresenta
tion, ostracism and abuse. , :Ience the f
men are renouncing their connection with
the Democratic party ' and pledging ihen
"selves to Buxton and Bledsoe, gives evi
dence of a growing spirit of independence
among our citizens that foreshadows the
triumphant election of Maj. Bledsoe to Con
gress. FORE W ARND ! FOREARMED!
The county of Wake is Republican. No
man outside of an asylum for the insane
will assert the contrary. Mr. W. 8. Mason,
Chairman of "The Central Hancock, Jar
vis and Ccx Club of Wake county" a
body that provides in its printed plan, for
ascertaining "who can influence any" color,
ed voters ('tell it not in Gub: publish tit not
in the streets of Askelon') "to vote the
Democratic ticket'"- knowing that his
party is in tbe minority, has been busy, for
several weeks, copying the registration
books of the various precincts and matur
ing a system of challenging, whereby the
colored voters may he put to much trouble.
E irth will roll as usual that short Novem
ber day, and the Democrats have made
their calculations that, by challenging
(for the Constitution of Chairman Mason's
Club provides for this work on election
day) many votes will be lost to the Repub
licans, the sun disappearing before the
Democratic challengers cease asking their
time-killing questions. Colored voters ! see
to it that you have friends at the polls to
identify you, but first see that your name,
is correctly written on the registration book.
Democratic Apathy One of the
Democratic papers published in New Berne
complains of tbe apathy prevailing in the
ranks of the Democracy of that section.
There is nothing strange in this. The
people of Craven can not be very enthusi
astic in the support of a party that has
stolen from them most of their rights The
Magistrates of that county; were so mod
est (1) that, in electing a Board of County
Commissioners, tljey ignored all material
from which to select except their own body.
It was a bad day for the freemen of this
State when Gen. Cox telegraphed to Robe r
son; ' : '
Let all attend the Colored People's Fir j
wnicn opens op toe tn ipst, .
- 4 , t J-"'
" All the Intelligence. One of the
reasons given by the Democracy for rob
bing the people of the right to elect Mag
istrates, - is, that in some of the eastern
counties r ignorant meu were sometimes
elected. Let as see : In one of these sam
counties, on the firwt Monday in August,
the Justices met with the Commissioners
and actually iorgot to levy any tax on the
poll! They are all Democrats, in the
choosing of whojh the people had no voice,
because of thefcMpg of that telegram of
Gen. Cox's. 1
A very aged and good old gent, standing
near the corner last week, shouted as he
said : "I belong to de army of de Lord."
A mischievious lad over the way replied
by saying : "Sorry to tell you old man,
yon7re far from head-quarters."
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
w . ...
To the Editor of The Republican ;
WASHINTON, D. C- Sept. 6, 1880.
If these articles, the 13:b, 14th and 15th
are not the results of the war", what are the
results of the war f
Those who took up aims in 1861 were
from the South as well as the North; no
Masou's and Dixon's line divided them.
They dwelt in thtf slave S tates aud inhabited
the free. They fought to defend the Union.
"The Union must and shall be preserved,"
was the sentiment that animated the
brasts end strengthened ti e arms ot every
Union soldier.
The Union was what they fought for to
f s ablish on a surer ba-Ms.
To construe the constitution as a sup
porter of "Liberty,'' to establish "Justice,"
to promote "the welfare," and to establish
the Union on a firmer and lasiing basis.
These are the leults of the war.
Slavery, as contended by all, was sec
tional; it was also contended to be true,
that liberty L National. The blood of mil
lions has been devoted to Liberty; on its
altars have ben sacrificed the purest and
best blood of mankind. (Should the poor
est of to day present a more fittiag sacri
fice to liberties behests?) Can slavery
boast of such martyrdom ? It wa-i this
sectional feeliug that caused the war, and
tbe results of the war are the promulga
tion of these trutbs, "That the constitu
tion of tbe United States aud the lawn
made in pursuance thereof is the supreme
law of the land." To construe the consti
tution as a supporter of Liberty. We know
while tbe Government wa in the hands ol
the sectionalists it was governed ia their
interests. For example, there were the
Dred Scott decision a id the Fugitive Slave
Billjthe latter caused and tbe former given in
the interests of: the sectionalists Their doc
trine k was that - the constitution could not
interfere with their rights as States In
other words tt a Srate law in the State
. . l(flvvi m t tut?
State, was ajL Ve th constitution of the
United Statesf and tl ar the constitution ot
tbe United Sisates applied only to the
United States as a whole.
The constitution secures to all the bless
ings of liberty; now wht-re the blessing of
liberty is to be established, the curse of
slavery must be destroyed. Slavery was
abolished b fore the end of the war; it was
not wrested from the South as a pun ah-
menr; it was as mucn a war measure as
any that was adopted during the war, and
to reenter the union, which the States
sought to destroy, tbey had to adopt the
constitution then fxisting before enter
ing it.
One of its results was to establish ms
tice. Now what is justice! Is it to bind the
manacles of slavery on the limbj of our
fellow man ? to make them more galling?
Is it to say that because one man's skin is
darker than another's, therefore he in not
entitled to breathe the same air, aud to en
tighter skin is allowed to breathe and en
joy l 'lhat the penal law of the former
must not be applied to the latter, that tbe
idea ot (quality before tbe law is a mvth t
JNoi sncn is not justice.
Justice is to give to tbe weak what the
strong can demand by force, to protect the
weak against the strong, to have tbe laws
impartially enforced, and to give to uli th
Fame right to lite, liberty and tbe pursuit
of happiness.
One of the results of the war is also to
promote the welfare of all No class legis
lation must be enacted. The constitution
says that a citizen of one State was a citi
zen of every State; before the war a citizen
of New York was not considered iu a
Southern State as a citizen entitled to all
the privileges of a citizen of that particular
State; now, no matter what State a citizen
is from, whether the cold bleak winds of
Maine have blown upon him,or the hot rays
of a. Georgia sun have burnt his skin, he
po88essss the same rights ot an American
citizen and carries them with him wherever
he goes.
These are a small part of the results of
the war. Are not these rights among those
enumerated in the constitution , and inde
pendent of tbe 13 14 and 15 articles of the
constitution ? And as it was stated before
are they not confirmatory of those , rights
contained in the original ? r
The rights ot the States are not oblitera
, ted by tbe war, but the rights of the people
are more understood. The Uiiion as pro
mulgaib! by . the fathers, is not a rope of
sand, falling to pieces by its weight, but a
bundle of bars of iron made op of States
wedded together in the fires of adversity
and brought therefrom a Union of States
with strength to stand the storm of battle
and the elements and the march of time.
J. A. H
THE OHANDE6T STEAL OF THE AGE.
Frrm The Raleigh Sigral.
It is generally believed that tho pretended
sale of the Western North Carolina railroad
by Gov Jarvis to W. J. Best, was the grandest
steal ever perpetrated on tho people 01
State. Let us examine the facts as they are :
COST OP TILE ROAD. ,
The original appropriation of bonds under
the act of 1854-'55, to the Western North
Carolina railroad was $4,000,000. Of this
amount $957,000 were retired by exchanges
.with other companies for stocks or bonds since
the war, under authority of law, leaving the
amount of bonds now outstanding $3,043,000.
The appropriation for . this road, in special
tax bonds, for which Gov. Jarvis voted in 1868
was $4,000,000.
From the time the road was bought in 1875,
by the State, to the date of the pretended sale
to Mr. Best, the State had paid out $1,300,000
in buying and constructing the road.
In addition to thesa expenses by the State,
the counties of Burke and McDowell each
subscribed $50,000 for stock in the road, and
these counties have been heavily taxed to meet
the interest on these bonds.
Now, what has the road cost ?
Bonds under act of 1854 '55, $3,043,000
Special tax bonds under act of '68, 4,000,000
Paid by State since the road was
bought by the State,
Private subscriptions,
Paid by Burke and McDowell,
1,300.000
1,000,000
100,000
Total, $9,443,000
Here are nine million four hundred and forty
three thousand dollars, without counting inter
est paid by the State from 1854 to 1861,
on the first appropriation in bonds, without
counting the sum received from the sale of tbe
special tax bonds and the interest paid thereon,
and without counting the interest on the county
subscriptions. In round numbers the road, at
the time it was turned over to Mr. Best, had
cost the people of the State TEN MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS.
ITS MANAGERS SINCE 1874.
The road was bought by the State early in
the year 1875. It was managed by the Demo
crats for five years, and at the time of the pre
tended sale to Mr. Best, the road was abso
lutely worn out and the State, according to
Gov. Jarvis, Treasurer Worth and Secretary of
State Saunders, was bankrupt and could not
complete the road.
THE STATE BANKRUPT ENORMOUS TAXATION FOR
THE YEAR 1881 1
The amount of money that would have been
required to be raised by taxation for the fiscal
year ending September 30 th, 1881, on account
of the ross mismanagement of the Western
N. C. railroad and the extravagance and in
crease of expenses in running the State gov
ernment, by Gov. Jarvis and his administra
tion, according to the published letters of Gov.
Jarvis, Treasurer Worth, Secretary of State
Saunders, and Mr. J. W. Wilson, President of
the Western N. C. railroad , would h a ve been
SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY
I ti.ivv J " uvuulvuvj - vuvj -;
State Treasury lor the fiscal year
ending September 30th, 1880, $250,000
Ordinary expenses of the State .
4 ' government for the fiscal year ; . '
ending September 30th, 1881, 657,000
Interest on consolidated State debt
due and payable January 1st,
1881, 160,000
To continue work on the Western
North Carolina railroad, 260,000
To repair Western N. O. railroad
with iron, engines, road-bed, 500,000
Total taxes for 1881, $ 1,727,000
This would have been more than three times
the amount of tax paid for the fiscal year ending
September 1880. This was the point to which
Gov. Jarvis and his administration had brought
the State, which made it necessary to sell the
Western N. C. railroad to prevent the over
whelming defeat of the Democrats in this State
in November next.
THE ROAD ACTUALLY GIVEN AWAY 1
The act ordering the sale of the road to Mr.
Best actually gives the road away. This prop
erty has already cost the people of the State
ten million of dollars, and when completed to
Paint Rock, and connections made with the
great Western States, will be the most valuable
. piece of property in the South. It is the key
to the Mississioni Vallev, and is the nearest
,
route from Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and
other great cities of the Western States, to the
Atlantic ocean, and will be the cheapest route
to foreign markets. EmineiO railroad men
are of the opinion that the road to Paint Rock
when completed would have paid sufficient
dividends to relieve the people of the State of
all taxes for State purposes,, just as tho
Georgia State, road paid that State f money
enough for many years to do away with all
taxation for State purposes. Now what is
the State to receive for this invaluable proper
ty ? It would be supposed that if the work
already done cost ten millions of dollars, that
at least that sum ought to have been paid the
State for property that when completed will be
valuable beyond measure. Not so. The State
is not to receive one ' cent in money for . the
road. It is provided in section 12 of the act,
that Mr. Best shall deliver to the State $550,
000 in first mortgajge bonds, and when this is
done the lien held by the State upon the road
will no longer exist. Was there ever a greater
fraud perpetrated upon any people? These
bonds have not been delivered yet, and when
delivered will not be worth much more than the
paper theV-'toCprinted upon. Such is the
record. Sw. rJhe shameful and unwarranted
giving awayNrfi the most valuable piece of
property owned by the State, and which, when
completed, would have paid all State expenses
and relieved the people of all taxation to raise
money to run the State government. For
this act Go?. Thomas Jordan , Jarvis and his
administration are solely responsible.
NO NECESSITY FOB THE SALE.
There was no necessity, for , the pretended, or
actual bona fide sale of the road. Both par
ties were pledged to complete the road. The
people would have made any reasonable sac
rifice to have completed the road. The State
has the convict labor. They must be fed and
clothed; they could have been employed on
the road until it was all graded and ready for
the bridges, cross-ties, iron and rolling stock.
For these articles of superstructure the State
could have paid the ready money out of the
Treasury, and thus retained the ownership and
control of the road, and would have been tho
recipient of every dollar of dividends earned
by the road, except the small amount going to
the private stockholders. The manifesto of
Col. Walter Clark, so fearfully demoralized
Gov. Jarvis and his ring, that they sold the
road as the only means of preventing the utter
rout and defeat of the Democratic party. The
success of the party was the only thing that
was thought of. Utter ruin may be visited
upon the people hereafter, as the result of the
sale of the road, but this was not cared for,
provided the people could be deceived so as to
enable Gov. Jarvis and his ring to carry the
State in November next.
PEOPLE NOT RELIEVED OP TAXATION.
Gov. Jarvis and his ring said that the sal (5
of the road to Mr. Best would relieve the peo
ple of more than half the taxes they were pay
ing for State purposes. If this had been true,
the relief ought to have commenced as soon as
Mr. Best took charge of the road. But such is
not the fact. Each property owner paid twenty
four cents on every hundred dollars valuation
of hi3 property in 1879, the same rate is levied
and will be collected this year. The Legisla
ture, at the extra session in March last, mado
no reduction of this tax. The road has been
given away to Mr Best, and the people are now
required to pay the same amount of taxes as paid
by them when they owned and controlled tho
road.
NOTHING HAS BEEN PAID BY MR. BEST.
Mr. Best has paid nothing. The floating
debt of $30,000 has not been paid. The $550
000 in bonds have not been delivered to tho
State. The State is still boand for the $850,
000 in bonds, with which the road was pur
chased in 1875. The State is still bound for
the $3,043,000 of bonds issued under the act
of 1854-55. The State is morally and hon
estly bound for the amount of money expended
on the road received from the sale of the spe
cial tax bonds, for which issue Gov. Jarvis
voted. The State is now feeding, clothing and
guarding the convicts at work on the road, and
yet Mr. Best has not paid the dobts owing by him
and has not relieved the State of her liabilities
on account of the road, and has not relieved
the people of any portion of their taxes for
this year Was there ever a more deliberate
and premeditated swindle perpetrated upon a
civilized people ? For it, Gov. Jarvis and his
ring are solely responsible.
BEST BANKRUPT AND DESERTED.
We are informed that there are judgments
against Mr. Best docketed and unpaid in Ca
barrus county, on debts incurred by Mr. Best
when he was engaged in the mining business in .
that county. Mr. Best is, therefore, bankrupt,
othorwis tko-Slierims or the State would eoll
his property and pay his debts. That Mr. Best
cannot carry out his contract, and that he has
been deserted is proven by the fact that Messrs.
W. R. Grace, James D. Fish, and J. Nelson
Tappan, who were the original contractors with
Mr. Best, have withdrawn from the contract
and now have nothing to do with Mr. Best and
his railroad swindle. These men doubtless
found out that they were being used as tools to
effect the election of Jarvis and his ticket, that
the railroad would not be completed, that a
grand swindle was to be perpetrated on tho
people ot the otate, and they, being honest men,
withdrew from the contract and ceased to have
anything to do with Mr. Best and Gov. Jarvis
and his railroad ring.
THE ROAD TO DUCKTOWN NOT TO BE BUILT.
It is generally understood that the road to
Ducktown will not be built. It is not believed
that Mr. Best ever intended to build that lino
of the road. The completion of the road has
not progressed one inch toward Asheville since
Mr. Best took control of the road. No work has
been done beyond Asheville towards Paint
Rock. Nothing has been done on the Duck-
town line and nothing will be done.
NO DAMAGES RECOVERABLE.
The 11th section of the contract as signed by
Messrs. Best, Grace, Fish and Tappan. pro
vides that no damages shall be recoverahl
against them or either of them for any breach
of their contract. The people may be defrauded
and swindled, the road may languish and
not be completed for years, and for all this
wrong and injury to the people of the State
there is no remedy. Was there ever such a
contract entered" into by .sensible people?
Was fraud, peculation, rascality and swin
dling, ever more apparent in any transaction ?
Gov. Jarvis and his ring ticket are responsi
ble for all this. They deserve to be buried so
deep, by the hand of outraged public opinion,
that the trumpet of resurrection will never
(a) waken them. The sturdy yeomanry of tho
mountains ought to see to it that they aro
beaten fifty thousand in November next.
' THE CLIMAX.
To cap the climax, we reproduce the follow
ing from The New York Herald, which shows
that Mr. Best is behind in his payments as
Receiver in New York City :
WAKE UP MR. BEST I
New York, August 20,1880.
To the Editor of The Herald:
Pardon me if I should wish to take up a
few lines in your Herald Complaint Book. I
am in a fix with the Mechanics and : Traders'
Savings Institution, of which Mr. Best is Re
ceiver, mit I have not received a penny sinco
the 15th of March, 1878. I would only like
to know if ever I will get any of my- hard
earned pennies, which are still due me, or has
that department gone to sleep forever ? Am
I together with other losers, to whistle for tho
balance of our money? Mr. Best's answer
is usually, when J see him, "Can't tell; wait
till the Court decides I " Is the Court dead
too? Sufferer,