The Raleigh Signal from Raleigh, North Carolina • Page 2

NO STATE TICKET. party aud appoiut two ignorant ami uniei i fools enough to do, lcaum Umv ai ixiin their "howlers" to' talk altout 'NVgru Kulu" and "Force 1 Neirro rule would be bad, but how innrh rhe Raleigh Signal. I J. C. L.

HARRIS, Kl'XTOfc. Crll coininanicatioiw intended for publication the office by Thumlay morn-int letter, wd revive c. i 1 UK DKiJ A-U i tli ft offlo for traiwmuion ih! com- inC under rate. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1.

1692. 1892! FOH PRESIDENT: BENJAMIN HARRISON, OF INDIANA. roa ncz-PErsiirxT WHITELAW IlEID, Of New York. DEAD FOH ALL TIME." i Tliia was the exclamation contained in the mm one end of toe UV ucncpp- runtrT to the other when the Republican Senate defeated the "Force Bin." It was ac rprtainW br the Eemo- craU, and by those Republicans who favored mime National law, to protect the National elections only. Besides this very class of Re publicans, there is another large class of Re- publicans in the Northern States, who are de- cidedly averse to a National election held by the Federal authority.

The thoughtful Republicans, therefore, of -ii Mtli rirard to the meas- til lUBUCa -13 ure. feel that it is at an end so far as legisla- tion br their party is concerned. I Of course the platforms of the Republican party will continue to dectare for honest elec. tiona. The Republican party dea favor hon.

nnpl Grant, while recount- ihg its achievements, his great qeart stirred in love and admiration of it; said, to its lasting, under the authority of UCakUltxw 9 the llepublican party, a Democrat could freely tote, and have his vote counted in every bam let in the land. The writer feels that the political forces at Alabama, and other vt stitfoa tnd to the cultivation of a aentiment among the Democrats, toward a Na iional election law. Doubtless Republican feeling will settle down to the br lief that the TmnfrU themselves will be the next to in. kroduce legislation into the National Congress, to protect the communities they have ruled from the methods they have inaugurated. TUP.

llFPnRT.TfiAN PARTY HAS HAD rUJLMlJU 1U UJ IXII IX. It is a notorious fact that the rank and file of the party are having nothing to do with the YirimnnM and nominating conventions in this State for candidates in the coming canpaign, Office-holders are giving out a little money such persons in the different townships as they see fitto select and the mere forms of com i plying with party law are being enacted by two three individuals getting together for the ran il purpose. in voice oi meparcy is as bwu as death. Can there be any honest enthusiasm or effective work come of anything done after this fashion No, certainly not The only recourse the party, has is to rebuke at the polls this exercise of machine politics by refusing to endorse any man for an office whom the Federal office-holders have taken the pains to set up, and who is known to be under their influence. This will stop it and until it is nLnr th of the ReDublican nartv I in North Carolina will be a by-word and a re ri i proach.

THE JJOURBONS PERSIST IN HAVING A REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Bra. Caldwell, of the Statesville Landmark, evidently has Chairman Eaves under his wing. The Landmark not only tells us em rhatically that there will be a ticket, but names the men to go on it One would think from the person named for the head of the ticket that the Landmark man had a hand in making it, and got first choice. He wanted something to ki ck, and he has got it With Boyd the candidate for Governor, aud Eaves with a new set of "Reliables" circulars, and his old razor to perform another surcrical I operation on the ticket, the Republican ship can head for the bbxaeers, and the iSourbons will be happy.

Hurrah for the Grand Old Party in North Carolina. DISLOYALTY TO THE PARTY. la opposition to the Republican State ticket to be put out on the 7th of September disloy- tun.rt.f I The present organization of the Republican V. wwta J.VL. I through the control of Federal patronage.

coupled with the use of the color )ine in secur in? delegates to the State convention. Some of the underlings in the internal revenue office I i worse would it bn than some things u- ha-got, for iustauee, it seems that we hate Judges who have grown so fat on oiir Uh that they cut up capers because, the Farimrb' Alliance dares to ask them polite epilations about their attitude to the mouojx)lists. Seventy-five thousand farmers of North Carolina sent a polite letter to a Judge who is paid out of their earnings a big priee for, small l. 1 1... himself to be.

put under obligation to the Monopolists, or whether he so conducts hiiuw If as to be independent of them, and thereujon this criminal court, Judge Mearea answers by insulting the seveuty-tiv thousand farmers 9t iwirk CI Ait lit on irritviw aivircnui ouia vau a.uv.A4 vf pui uio body of politiciaYS and and 3 'i K. It letter to his high and mighty If. Ana then comes udge Mac Rao and others to say that Meares ought not to have noticed the Alliance as it is too contemptible to come within smelling distance of their nobility And these are the men who are the rulers and masters of the farmers of North Carolina It remains to be seen whether the farmer will continue to pull under their yoke. S. W.

Noble. The following card from Ex-Senator F. B. Rice, is to the point. He holds a place in the custom house at Editor of Thi Signal: Wilmington, N.

Aug. Mr Dear Sir As I have noticed in your col- umns that it has been intimated that all of th office holders of the State favored -the nomination of a State ticket, and were the tools of Eaves and others who favor the same for prestige in future appointments to office, I feel constrained to say that I lxlleve there are many in office, who have the success of the tarty at heart and are not led by men who appour as Judases in our midst I sincerely indorse the stand Tub Signal and others have taken in opposing the nomination of a State ticket, Iwliev-ing it to be the only course to succhh for. th Republican party in North" Carolina. We have failed too often in striving to obtain "The whole loaf when a loaf has imn within our grasp. Interviews with the leading men of our iarty.

in this section, who have led on to success for more than a decade show them, to be a unit against a State ticket under the present circumstances and with these men our arty, with, the exception of those who are for office for revenue only, will 1 As to the situation, it appears to me, that- if the Democrats.can lenefit themselves in a Republican's tate, as in Kansas, by a coalition with the People's party, would not our indorsement of the Third party ticket afford us a likfc advantage in North Carolina In the event that the Republicans of: this State indorsed the People's mrty State ticket and refrained from placing a ticket in the field the Democrats would find themselves crippled as to previous practices of fraudulent elections, a part of their machinery having been transferred to other hands, and once we would IaV able to See the spectacle of the. DEVIL FIGHTING SIN. There can le no favorable results by placing a State ticket in the field as it is a Presidential campaign, and our full vote will be cast ami perhaps Counted under the present circumstan ces, and on the 8th of Novemler we can ytom-ibly offer to Mr. Harrison the Electoral vote of North Carolina, or in any event keep it from Mr. leveland.

Yours truly. Fkkd. B. Rick, Ex Sen. Xii Did.

C. Washington, N. Aug. lGtb, 1892. Editor of Thb Signal 1 Dear Sin I certainly commend yourcourse in regard to a State ticket.

We do not want it, we must not have it. and in the langurgeof one eminent Republican in the' eastern part of the State. "It would be absolutely. suicidal to run a State ticket this year." Very Kespectfully," Geo. E.

Bucxman. Nobto Carolina. In the Superior Court, Raf ore Wake County, John W. Thomiwon, Clerk. Amos Lassiter, Administrator, against Samuel unchurch and others.

This is an action brought to settle the final account of Amos Lassiter. Administrator of George Fuller and Millie Fuller, It appearing to the Court that Peter OHva is a non-resident of the State of North Carolina. and that the Sheriff of Wake county, after exercising due diligence, cannot execute the sum-motions in this case on the said Peter Olive, it is therefore ordered that service on the said Peter Olive be made by publication in The Signal, a weekly newspaper, published in tha citv of itni. Mb ncea week for six weeks, notify- hid dcmu cici uinc ww mJmnkr VMSIOTV 4101111 W. Thompson, Clerk of Wake County Superior Court, and then and there answer th plaint which has been filed in the case, or de mur thereto, on the 16th day of September, 1893 And let him take notice that if he falls tn appear and and answer or demur, and defend the said action, that the plaintiff wilh the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint Jno.

W. Thozphon. CWW Aug, 4th 1892. North In the Superior Court, Before rtajkv vxjuniy, jonn w. i nompson, Clerk.

Abby Green against Freeman F. Tireen. This is an action brought to obtain from Freeman F. Green from the bonds of matrimony. It appearing to the Court tliat Freeman F.

Green is a non-resident of the State of North Car olina, and that the Sheriff of Wake county, after exercising due diligence, cannot execute the sum -mom in this case on the said Freeman F.Green, is therefore ordered that service ''Freeman F. Green be made by publication in lux DIGNAL, a weekly newspaper, published in the city of Raleigh, N. once a week for six -weeks, notifying the said Freeman Green to appear before Wake County Superior Court and tnen ana mere answer the complaint winch wit i beginning, ami the end, and the aix. of party iteelf; but they are nofin.iawuiaoau, the party now. Learn these fellow- a Imson, by refusing to for a ticket worked, out of their machine.

If this is done, the -next campaign we have in this State will be run by the people. Vote e'm out. We hzabd a leading Democrat say one day this week that if the Democrats have a majority" in both branches of the next Legislature, they intend to submit amendments to the constitution as Mississippi has done, and that these amendments will -be ratified by the people, and that as a result not over ten thousand negroes will be able to vote in this State. The only way to prevent wholesale disfranchisement as in Mississippi, is to vote (or the People's party candidates for and Legislature. The colored' men should look out or they will wake, up some morning and find themselves without the right to vote.

NO STATE TICKET. The following letters ehow how the Repub licans stand on this question Williams Grove, N. Aug. 23, 92. Mb.

Login Harris, I am of the same opinion with you about running a State ticket. We can do no good at it. and besides it hurts Harrison. The Third party people are strong here, and they say they will help us in the East count our vote for Harrison, if we will help them elect their Congressman and State ticket Ibe Republicans here are nearly all in favor of it. I was talking to a colored man, Eleck Nichols of Williams Grove, the other day, trying to show him that it was best for us to vote for the Third party under this arrangement Eleck was very much against it believes in "stayin where he was at," he skid his "daddy an old fool was off on this Third party business," and that "mighty nigh every man in Williams Grove was for it," but he was not.

I finally, after exhausting all argument with Eleck, said to him, "if the Democrats wanted you to go certain way what would you do, his reply was would go right backwards. I told him the Democrats wanted a I'epub licau State ticket; and by going to town he could soon find it so. M. Macon, N. Aug.

27, 1892. was boru in 1858 with the Republican party, and into it. 1 Lave considered it here- toiore tne only party oi justice, ana nave con- sequently voted for no other. Although I have caught hell, or sheol that is to say, I have encountered hardship by so doing, of which it is said those words express the materialization. Nevertheless, I have peace of mind and solace.

I see no reason to vote otherwise, unless it should appear to me that the Republican party had left its tenets, or plyed away from its moorings. And such has not occurred to me. I have not seen a Republican paper, pub- Hoh witLin tLo State, thib year. So I trust I am competent to give an unbiased opinion as to the advisability of our putting a ticket in the field. I think we should not do so.

It would render the parties about equal, numeri cally, but I think would cause the election of J-'emocrac party, ana the aeleat or the itepu oncan electoral ticket, whereas, il no ticket is nominated, the People's party guber- atonal ticket wui be elected ana the Htpub lican presidential ticket. A nomination for State offices would certain ly weaken our presidential ticket. Let there be no nomination. B. J.

Eqekton, Jr. Fall Creek, N. Aug. 22, 1892 Editor or The Signal: Dear Sir I will take the liberty to write you a few lines on the political situation. I will tell you how it is this part of Chatham county.

The Democrats greatly desire to see the Re publicans nominate a full county and State ticket That is all their so I think the would do well not to have any ticket in counties that are any way doubt ful, and I do not know if it would not be the best not to have any State ticket I think it would be best to go with the People's party on both county and State tickets for this reason The Alliance Republicans will go with the TJ i iL 1 1 wpio a pariy, urn mai win leave US With a Republican soriy chance for success. I am a life-long and was against the Peo ples party until after they nominated their county ticket. They seemed to lean to the Republicans and divide with them, and the old is: That a half of a loaf is better than none, so I think that is our only hope in Chatham. What do you think about it? Please give me your ideas about it 1 would be glad to correspond with the leaders of the Republican party. Do what you can against any ticket in this county and all other doubtful counties.

I will tell you that 1 am no Allianceman. All of the Republicans that I have seen are in favor of going with the People's party in this county and up to members of Congress. They will vote for Harrison for or nearly all lours truly, Ira Phillips. Lcmbebton, N. 29, 1892.

To the Editor or The Signal Sir: I am too busily engaged with the duties of my profession to write long letters. 1 heartily endorse your position in regrard to a State ticket, but can't endorse; your intemper- ate style in putting your case to the conven- 7 eson; tnattney are now and always i yn iv, i iuc uuuwuien 01 me State convention, that is to meet neit week Inrill nn4 1 l-i- will not be so unwise and impolitic as to noni mate a otate ticket There are several rea sons why they should not JbntsT The8pht in the Democratic party is yet incomplete. True, the wedge is well in, and the old log is cracking and openiner. but a little imprhdence on our pai 1 such as nominating a State will cause the wedge to fly out, and the old lug closes, never to open again vide 31ississippi. Second The election machinery is all in the hands of the Democratic returning boards they appoint the Registrar and Judges of Election they are now unwisely clothed with judicial powers they will apjxnnt as Judges rT 1 i JUtI the Democratic sido the Registrar and two oUn TV.Un.(n -II il mi I shrewd Democrats they will ignore the Third il i mnf Anlr and nnt ttlC is it in in to the irtirtT should support the urgauiianuu.

but it was an unparalleled act of injustice and cruelty to the nero race. The conduct n.l irrrtmutifiible represent uvea of the colored race in the last convention, tin lUUUtU t-- "J- mm mm der this influence and advice, relegated tl white men of the party who agreed with them to the rear in that convention. This goes to prove true the declaration of the Democrats that negro majorities under Republican rule means negro domination. The wiser politicians of the Colored race, rank and file, deplore this action, and are against it They know it is bad for the race. Besides, the colored people who have, paid any attention to it, know that Chairman Eaves as the principal instigator of this color line policy inside the Republican party was against the iliv until lie found out that I his influence with his 6vn race was weak with inn dianrwA of as Collector, he gave them nothing until the campaign for con vention delegates opened up.

As Chairman of the State Committee he secured tbein no places. His sudden, pretended interest in liv iift-ferrim' them to hlS OWH race (as one of the upstart negroes in the con vention said he did) is hypocrisy. The committee then created by the last con vention, under 6uch agencies as we have men tioned, is a fraud, and does not represent the untrammelled and unbiased opinion of the Republican nartv in North Carolina. Their ac- tion is morally and patriotically binding on nobody. Tn view of the fact that the course of the Committee in calling a convention and making a ticket is pleasing to the Bourbon edi- politicians and strikers' of the Demo- cratic party, and the additional fact that these people are suddenly very attentive and friendly th Iti-publicans on the Committee, is enough to show the disloyalty of the Coniiuit- tee itself to the 'Republican party, and its best interests.

Mr. R. H. W. Barker, of Grade, N.

writes that he thoroughly endorses the prop osition that the Republicans, ought not to nom inate a State ticket. REPUBLICAN AND BOURBON MONEY. It is given out from Kaleigh tuat "one Houghton from up North' was in Raleigh at the People's party convention, with Repubh- a money to back it up. This is the Bourbon for your He is always a liar and slanderer in politics. Mr.

Houcrhton is a member of the National Committee of the People's party neither a Republican nor a 'Democrat He may have had money to help his party, just as Mr. Ran- som has money to neip nis. we ao not 1 1 1 ll Jl 1. know. Hush your old Ueraocrauc slang; it is musty and worm-eaten, and counts for nothing any more.

Take your Democratic inonej- Mr. Bourbon, and go after the Reliables. Put up all the Republican tickets you can- Stop, howling Force Bill and nigger, and go for the Black Belt Shove off your nemesis, yet a little longer. The are whistling to keep up tjheir courage. They know they are.

beaten unless Republican folly secures victory for them. Their horde of speakers throughout the State are getting no crowds and are doing no harm; Whistling is cheap and is plenty about this time. scant attendance; The primaries held in the different wards of Statesville 3'esterday were very slimly at tended. It was doubtless the same way in all the townships ol the county. Ihere will be a i i ma light vote in Iredell for a Republican State or county ticket The majority of the Republi cans of this county will vote for Harrison and the Third party candidates.

The Demo crats have encouraged the Republicans to bring out tickets, and are in close fellowship with the llepublicans, who favor it, aud cor respondingly distant to those who oppose it The best test of a Republican, is' Democratic opinion in time oi a campaign. The Democrats are always down on the man who stands the steadiest, and does the most against them. They "plow our heifers." Watch them, and watch the heifers. Mr. Jaxes E.

Botd is spoken of as the can didate for Governor by those who favor the nomination of a Republican State ticket. No Republican in the State has' been abused by me jjemocrais more man Air. ixya. it is passing strange that a man of his sense should for a moment think of permitting himself to be used as an annex-Democrat for the purpose of defeating Mr. Harrison and destroying the Republican party of North Carolina.

Before the campaign is near over Mr. Boyd will wish permitted himself to be made a tool of by I rt nr. .1 very much from his reputation if he heads the Dominicker ticket" When the day of elec TV 1 .1 I'f .1 tion comes Mr. Boyd will be denuded of every feather. VOTE AGAINST THEM.

Vote against them or not at all, is the thing for the Republican party in North Carolina to do, and let the world understand that there are Republicans, in the State, who will not sup port a management which looks to nothing, and thinks of nothing but office. There are office-holders in the State, who are good patriotic men, and regard office as I I on ioroA normioa for Iha 1itn1ilirftil TIlwV Will have two reasons for this. One to rejel the white Third party man from voting the other, we can fool iniin counting. They fvill have a majority of Judges at every precinct in the State, and every returning board will unan imously Democratic. The electoral ote of North Carolina may elect Harrison, and by not nominating a ticket we would be in a splendid position to swap State for National Totes, with the contending factions, which would most certainly, without a doubt, give the electoral vote to Harrison.

Suppose the fusion of the Deiucrat with the Third party in the West should carry a State or two for Cleveland or Weaver. North Carolina would save the Nation. Hold North Carolina and save the Nation. This course if there is any fear, and I don't believe there is, of negro rule, would disarm the calamity howlers and quiet the mind of any one weak- or foolish enough to believe such nonsense. It would- silence the main anrument of this herd of "Demothenes" that are over-running the State.

The very fact that the Democratic party are encouragiug the nomination of the ticket ought to convince Xhe public that their fears are groundless and is nothing, but, a political trick. If they are why the 1 did so alarmed about the negro they not let Peg Leg Wil- liams carry theni offf. Why did they stop 3 him, by statutes aniDosiBir -neavv nnes ana imprisonment aud threateu Ivuchintr? If they are really alarmed, there are two ways for them to escape either to join the Republican or Third party, and I will guarantee their safety. If our leaders are not blinded by a desire to be known in Washington City as the Republi can party, so as toj control Federal patronage, they will not dosaon an impolitic ana unwise act as to nominate! a State ticket If Harrison is defeated by a failure of the vote of this State these men will be ueld re sponsible. R.

M. Nokment. COLORED VOTERS OF MISSISSIPPI. THE NEW CONSTITUTION EFFECTU ALLY DESTROYS THEIR MA- JORITY. ALMOST A COMPLETE DISFRANCHISE.

MENT. Only One in Seventeen Allowed to Vote Out of of Suitable Age Only 8615 Eligible. Specia 1 Dispatch to The Philadelphia Press Jackson, Aug. 14, How effectually the new Constitution of Mississippi has squelched and destroyed the neerro vote in the State is shown in the registration just completed, which has cut that vote down from 147 20o to ,615. Just think of it, 8000 voters for over 600,000 pop ulation.

In 1880 there were 130,278 colored vo ters, a colored majority of 22,064. To-day the colored males over 21 years of agre, who would be voters in any cbther State, number 147,205, and the colored njajority is 37,205, but the new Constitution changes all this and cuts the 205 voters down to 8615. Only one colored man in 17 is allowed to vote. Th late Constitutional Convention of Miss issippi was called for the avowed purpose of disfranchising the negroes, so as to render Missis sippi Democratic under all circumstances. Senator George Warned the Mississippians that the negroes were igettmg more numerous were in an actua.1 majority already, and increasing their majority evjery year; and he advised them now that it was possible, now that they had po litical control of the State, to make such changes in the law as would render it impossible for the negroes to ever get in power again by any combination, such as that recently made in Al abama.

QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. Senator George) won his fight. The Convention met and set to work to cliange the electoral franchise.The first change was to limit the vote to those whoj could read and write. This, however, was not (sufficient It left some 37,000 negro as these voters are increasing in number, as the number of educated negroes is steadily increasing, the chances were that the colored vote would soon become a danger. To still further cut down the number of colored vo- ters.

a clause was! inserted requiring voters to pay a heavy poll tax for the support of the schools. This tax must be paid long in advance of the election or the voter loses his electoral franchise. The Democrats argue, and with rea son, that the negroes wouia oe careless in tne matter of paying this tax or preserving the tax receipts. Again, the provision disfranchising illiterate persons disfranchised 10,000 whites, many os them old Confederate soldiers. In or der to find a loop-hole for them, the so-called "understanding clause was inserted in the Constitution.

By this, an illiterate voter is granted the franchise if he can understand and explain any clause of the State Constitution read to him. This can, of course, be easily "worked in the interest of the white voter. The register reads a simple paragraph to the illiterate white applicant who easily explains it but the negro applicant gets a harder nut to crack: about equity and chancery courts and is rejected. WHAT THE FIGURES 8HOW. The net result of the new Constitution is the following registratidn Over 21 years' Registered of age.

voters. ...110.100 68,127 147.205 8,615 Total .......257,805 76,742 The new Constitution has struck off 180,563 voters from the registration and converted a negro majority of 37,165 into a white majority of 59,512. a change of 97,617. One negro in seven teen is registered, two whites in every three. The white registration would be larger, but for the fact that there is nothing to fear from the neCToes, By ehminating the negro vote, the Mississippi Constitution has induced onethird of the white citizens not to register, and the white registration is less than ever before.

Every county in Mississippi nas a white ma jority. Last year had a majority of ne erro votes, to-day it is white. Thirty-three conn ties have less than 100 negro votes. Yazoo counties, with 6000 negroes of voting age, has only nine registered, or one to each W7. is even worse, with four colored voters, or one to franchise was similarly restricted in fnvrl tv ra I linrr AtT.nTinr Trt Tfift raftr.

thnr irtha vflV that Stote would Have but seven voters. and Rhode Island only five. In Lowndes the negroes do slightly better, but even there, there only one colored vote to each 310 men. In the Southern tier of counties on the Gulf, about one negro man in eight or ten is registered, which is the best average. The new Constitution of Mississippi renders impossible for the negroes, notwithstanding they are in a majority in the State, to elect a Constable.

They cannot poll a thousand votes any Congressional District except the celebrated Shoe string District," composed of the necTO counties along the Mississippi, and inten ded to be given to the Republicans, so as to save the other six districts lor tne democrats, and tner six aisincuj ior me xjnutuvrnti, ana 11 1 1 even tnere tne negroes uaimui puu iwu nuiiureu votes. Elections have become so certainly Democratic! Mississippi under the new Constitution, that register, and one-third of them have forfeit 1 the electoral franchise for the approaching 1 even tne wiuies uo uui nxi mwiraicu euuugu 1 Presidential election. The following letters show how the Republicans stand on this i Kiso's-MocsTAEt, N. August 20,1892. Editor of The Signal, Dear Sir: I am for the People's party with all my heart, mind and strength.

The Bourbons are trying to belittle the People's party convention and its candidates I regret their getting in the tangle over Skinner; but the Democrats cannot much com ort out of even this crumb. If the Republicans act with any creditable degree of discernment, the old rotten concern will be mashed into smithereens and buried in a flood of ballots so deep that consternation will seize its blind followers, and our dear Old North State will realize a blessing incalculable. Yours truly, J. W. Brows Edenton, N.

August 15, 1892. Editor or The Signal, Dear Sir: As a member, of the District Executive Committee I believe I voice the sen timent of the people of my county, and I have conversed with many of them on the subject, when I say that it will not be wise to put a State ticket in the field at this time, nor this year. I believe bv triviiu? UP the fiffht for I Governor and his staff io the Democratic and People's parties that we can carry the district for Pool and Abbott besides electing a good many representatives and county In our county we have a recognized majority of 125, yet we fail every year in carrying the county. It is evident to my mind that the People's party being hostile to the ocratic party will give us a fair count, 'recog nizing as they do the supreme and sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, na tive or foreign born, black or white, to cast one free ballot in public elections and have that ballot honestly counted And I believe that they will unite with us in demanding effective legislation within con stitutional limits to secure the integrity and purity of election. throughout the State.

This accomplished, I can safely say that Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan, Gates and Hertford counties will go strongly Republi can. I unite with Dr. John, Bernard and Buckman in saying, don't put a State ticket in the field don't. Respectfully, L. Griffin.

Wilmington, N. Editor of The C. Augr22, 1892. Jjear gir have been requested to give my views on the political situation to The Sig nal: As to that so called interview with Judge Russell, we Third party people don't- care much about his controversies with his own party, but in the dialogue between the Judge and himself he outlines the situation correctly. ne said "that it the itepubiicans put up a ticket thousands of the People's party would go back to the Democrats," and this is just what Skinner s'ays and proposes to do.

As for Skinner, we propose to vote for him for Elector, unless he sees a "nigger iii and runs away so fast that our votes win never catch him. As to Elias Carr, he is not the kind of far mer the great body of farmers who constitute the Alliance want; he is satisfied with the profits of his farm and with the Democratic party. He is so successful in farming that he does not need any relief or reform. It seems that while the rest of our farmers are getting poorer every day, he grows rich by, superin tending a farm. He is not the kind of a man we are looking for, for relief.

If he is so sue cessful and so contented, what did he go into the Alliance for? We thought the whole pur pose of the Alliance was to get relief for the poverty stricken farmers of the country. But Carr is so well satisfied with himself and with the situation that all we can expect from him is to keep things as they are or make them a little more so. As to Alexander, the Democratic candidate for Congress in this District, the capitalist and banker, who espoused the cause of the Farmer's Alliance to bring himself, to politi cal honors, it seems that he his legs enough to stand on three platforms, all at. the same time. In his answer to the chairman of the County Executive Committee aud his other manifestoes, he got on three platforms all in the same month, and our folks are regretting that they did not get another letter out of him so as to give him another platform for his fourth leg, and then his photograph would have been seen in that beautiful animal, father of all mules." Brother Alexander now has got a new Alii ance--he is yoked with the Jews.

The 'Demo crats have forced forward this thrifty, shrewd and financial people for political honors, their object being boodle, but we don't believe the people-will so far forget theii religious training as to vote for men who deny the divinity of Jesus Christ We don't want either Harrison or Cleve land, but if there is any difference between them, Harrison is a little nearer to popular principles. Cleveland is the bitterest man in the United States against free silver, financial reform, cheap graduated in come tax, and against eveithing that the 'J people favor; besides it be remembered hat the Republican Senate passed a free sili ver bill, a bill that was free silver all oifcf, not an "if" nor "proviso? in if Wn't iniir luteiv free, an unhmitri minacronf Bii,) A WUDU ituu the Democratic House of Representative witli 'J munij i more tnan twjrthirds MotWH House of the same sort an 1nJ nn lir A tl Al- 11. iciudcu iw pa iu iiuw mey warn t'5'to elect ut Cleve- land of it let I- in Washington assisted in the manipulating of ia no doubt about this, and it was an infa mous outrage an impudent interference by people who did not live in the State, and whom it is said could not be elected ward delegates at their own homes. 'The use of the color, line policy by Chair- m-n Eaves not only destroyed, all claim that be filed in the case, or demur thereto, during the term of Wake Superior Court which commences on the 24th day of October. 1892: And hhn take notice that ifhe fails lo appear and answer or demur, and defend the said action, that the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint Jno.

W. Thompson, Clerk. August 18th, 1892. on top it: All this they thi: we are.