THE Standard.

wednesday, October %, Is45.

DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
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s A Democratic State Convention will be held


in this City on the eighth day of january, 1916,


for the purpose of nominating candidate for,
Governor, and for taking such other steps as the


party may deem necessary to insure organization,


energy union and, as the object of all this, de-


mocratic victory in the ensuing elections We


make this announcement as the result, in the opin


ion of all our friends here of the wishes and pre-


ferences of very large majority of the democratic


party throughout the State; and we seize the first


occasion to call upon the democrats in all quar-
ters to hold Meetings as soon as practicable, and
appoint delegates to the Convention. The impor-
tance of having in the Convention full repre-
senation of the party, is, to our mind, too appa-


rent to require any thing like an argument to
support it. The more delegates we have in at
tendance the wider will be the scope of their in


fuence as well in the fruits of their deliberations


here as in their respective counties, when they


shall have returned to the bosom of the people


Many minds and many hearts coming together
and uniting in one common design-the redemp-


ton of the State from Federal msrule-will Gre
ate an enthusiasm never known to small assem-


blage, and will send abroad a torch of political
and intellectual fire which no efforts of our adver-
saries, into the midst of whom il shall be hurled,


will be able to extinguish. In the multitude of
counseilors there is safety" The safety which
energy creates-the safety of right designs and
prudent counsels-the safety of strength, before
which federal weakness and corruption must tot
ter to its final fall. And what democrat is there
who will not give one week to the noble work of
regenerating our glorious old State2 What de-
mocrat will refuse to turn outrand go to the Meet


ngs, when the object to be accomplished is so i'm
portant and so dear to his heart2 Who will dis
pute about men, when PRINCIPLES are to be raised
from the dust of former defeats, and established in
the high places of the State2


Democrats of North Carolina, would that we


had the experience and had seen the hard services
of forty years, that experience and the respect
due to such services might give power and tone
to our voice Would that we were older, that


our very earnesness might sink deeper into your


hearts under the weight of years. We have never
deceived you. We are proud of this 1t nerves


US for the future. We will not deceive you now.


We tell you that a mighty e6Ort-a united onset


upon Federalism, such as yow haze made, and


such as yOw can make again, s0iU give yow the
ascemdancy In North Carolina This is no idle
assurance You know, as we do. the triumphs


which have crowned democratic efforts in other
States; you saw, as we did, not twelve months
the Chief of Ashland, breaking down his trained
bands, scattering his sycophants, walking the
and the powers of Banks and corpora
tions, and elevating to the Presidency democrat
sound and able in all our doctrines, but who, in
the outset, was sPurned and scofed at by the op-
position, as unworthy to be put upon the field.
In that contest moral principle, the Constitution
and democracy won the day. You have been
witnesses of subsequent results. You have seen
Maine and Pennsylvania coming forward to swell
their former majorities for the Republican party
you have seen the enemy shaken in Vermont
and you have looked with pride upon Maryland
and Tennessee throwing off their bonds like
Sampson in his strength, and taking their stand
by the Constitution Of the country More than
this You have been prominent actors in these
brilliant scenes. Your own State-oId North
Carolina, where Mr.. Clay made his great speech,
and from which he sent out that same Texas let
ter, fraught with his own and last defeat-your
own State, at the late elections for Congress, gave
the best possible indications for the future We,
have now two-thirds of the delegation to Congress-
and our opponents can boast of but one as the
of the Whig party proper, General
Dockery and Mr.. Graham having been run in by
both parties, in the face of regular nominations
You have witnessed not only this general defeat
of our adversaries, but you have seen the Texas
question and Revenue Tariff, to which all of US
are pledged, daily gaining popularity, while the
Jealous but just feelings of our people in the West
even IN the whig strongholds, have swept Aboli-
tionism and its defender with the bosom Of politi
cal destruction. Everywhere the Administration
is popular The charges fabricated against it by
leading whigs-men who live by such work, and
who tremble when they see the whig people doing
justice between party and party-these charges
have melted like dew before the sun, and the par
ty of progress, of safety of the Constitution and of
equal laws moves forward in its calm strength,
defying the attacks of selfish and prof1igate men,
and distributing its rich blessings on all alike Is
there nothing in all this TO encourage you2 Hear
you no voice from the tomb of JEFFERSON, warn
ing you against the dangers of the money power,
and exhorting youto hold on, now and forever to
the Declaration of Independence which he wrote