STEPHEN PEARSON,


Wake county, n. c..

COMMUNICATIONS.
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For The North Carolina Standard.
have been not little amused at commu-


nication from the Charleston Courier, re-publish-
ed in the Raleigh Star, over the signature of
" "Onward''


:" 1t will be remembered" says Onward. "that


in the elections which took place before the
great Whig Harrison Reform. the Van Buren
party carried almost every State, Kentucky'.
New York and Vermont. excepted" Again,
alIuding 10 the recent glorious ;riumphs of the


Democrats he says "ther victories now. like
their victories then, are but the sure precursors
of final overthrow"


This is certainly a strong game-aImost as
strong as open and shut. When the Democrats
lose the elections. the FederaIists, Editors and
all, throw up their hats, and with deafening
shouts proclaim, "ihe Locos are as dead as Ju-
lius Cesar-lhis is a final ocerthro10." In
Orange, they sometimes change the phraseology,
and as they are returning homeward, cry oui
along the road l." EVe'Ue caught old Santa Anna
atlGSt" Meaning one Of the favorite candidates
of the Republican party. When the democrats
on the other hand, carry the elections. they say,
Yes, it is very true, you have carried the cleo
tions, bot what Of that your cietOries are the
precursors Of Il final 0ve1thrOao" This is GER
tainIy very comfortable doctrine; those who be-
lieve IN it. need never despair. But am yet to
learn. that victory a0on in November. 1910.
and lost in Al. IS 10 be denominated final orer-
throao. II may be an excellent Wing infer
ence," and do for those who call consolidation,
State rights. Bu: Democracy. with her thou
sand victories. laughs at those who say her de-
feat last fall was .JfnaL or that her triumphs in
; 80 was " the precursor Of a final OrertbrOac."
= While upou this subject let us for moment
recur to the history Of The two gFea, parties OF
this country, not to go further back Than 1928,
the end Of the administration of John O. Adams
the second and thank God, as yet the last but
one, OF the Federal dynasties. Then. there soas
ian overthrow" that may we'll be called final.
1t continued for twelve years, when at an ill-fa-
ted moment. portion of the great Democracy OF
this country. under the tfluence of false State.
ments, false promises. and base misrepresenta-
tions, Welded TO the seductions of Whig ggery, and
restored to federalism its long lost power