Show E editorials da T OM A if S SOME pretty hard things are paid of the north carolina election and if the half is true we may with reason exclaim 0 temporal amores Om 0 mores ores ofes one oue of the most moat popular of new now york papers the herald says there has bean no election of late in which from all appearances there have been such gross irregularities and tampering with the ballot box as in the recent election in north carolina lna that the politicians there beat those of eld eid tammany in unscrupulous nebs nebb and bold dishonesty of ballot box manipulation that they know how to keep the ballots locked looked up and uncounted in certain localities carrying the boxes home with them till they learn what number of votes are required to accomplish their object that the law requiring the authoritative public announcement from the court house door of the vote cast for all the candidates within a specified time after the election has not been complied compiled with in several localities that in warren county t the b e poll holders contrary to law carr carried le d home nome the ballot boxes and did not count the votes till the day after that in the first congressional gresS lonal ional district the boxen were held till tilot it was found convenient to count the ballots that in several republican coun countie tiek tiei the vote cast exceeded the voting population that in duplin county the voting population is put down at 2959 and the number of votes reported is 1 l and so on in cumberland ya V frankiin franklin ra u I 1 ih halifax Hali hall tax lenoir nash robeson Eo beson and other counties that the mass of illegal and fraudulent votes polled appears to be in the counties where the negroes are most numerous and have the political power that under such a state of things the ballot box is a farce that the legislature when it meets will undoubtedly investigate the matter and that merrimon may after all be declared governor by a handsome majority the administration is warned not to interfere but to leave the local authorities to decide upon and control their own affairs here are some grave charges which for the credit of the country it is to be hoped are not true WHAT a dreadful thing it is for the rising generation to have politicians for their parents parental it Is computed that 60 per cent of the boy babies of cincinnati born since sines the cincinnati convention baar boar the name of horace greeley to say nothing of the per in other cities towns and villages wont many a boy of all that army of boys yet wish he wasa was a girl besides the venerated name of the benevolent sage will become so common as to fall decidedly below pail the man who becomes politically famous incurs a fearful responsibility one cannot wonder that poor colfax was so pathetically importunate to be permitted to retire to private life when the throng thronia of little retrospective spec tive and prospective for whose existence he was not responsible are called to mind with calculating consideration SOMETIMES it pays more handsomely to contest a seat in the english parliament than it has done to contest a seat in the congress of the united states in this country it wal wai the custom for both contestants to have their expenses liberally liquidated by the government and the successful contestant not liot only secured the seat but the back pay that might have been drawn by his bis rival rivah in a late contested case in great britain the unsuccessful contestant did far better than that captain nolan recently ousted from his sent beat in parliament as the member for galway by mr justice keogh found contributed tri buted by public subscription to defray his hla No nolana ians lanb expenses As the members of parliament ait sit without pay one would imagine that it may be made a better thing for candidates for a seat to contest and not sit than to run and sit WYOMING has been holding two political conventions one republican at green river aug 14 and another democratic at laramie city aug 15 the latter sitting three days andone and one night bight and having says the cheyenne leader a very stormy time the republican convention col downey president informally gave J judge u dge jon jones es fi fifteen teen voies voles and col downing seven for delegate to congress for the territory judge wm T jones the present Da delegate legate was waa then formally and unanimously nominated delegate the convention adopted resolutions endorsing the philadelphia platform and the action of delegate jones the following is the JR publican territorial rit orial central committee for the en ena suing two years G W corey chairman S B hl downey thomas camphell campbell orlando north P J downs J J fosher J J H nason W ii ash james france and E P snow the democratic convention on the ballot chose for delegate W B R steele attorney of the union pacific railroad in the territory and a two year ear old democrat his opponents being murrin and sheeks |