Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-09-01
ExUM'S WAR RECORD.
He Served His Country at Long Taw:
"Counse 'Ooten" Will Have to "Come
Again: Some knotty Questions Poo
pounded That are Based on Facts of
Record.

Editor Argus: / do not take the
Progressive Farmer, but my atten-
ton has been called to a commullca-
ton from G. S. Wooten, LaGrange,
n. c., in its last issue, in which he
extols DR.. Exum for his many vir-
tues and commends him to the sup
porters of the Third party as man
who sat the first sound of the tocsin
of war joined a Cavalry Company
raised by Col. Thos. Ruffin and fol-
lowed the fortunes of the Confeder-
acy till Lees Surrender We won
der where Mr.. Wooten got his infor-
nation. Was it from the Dr.? Per-
haps he did follow the fortunes of
the Confederacy, but it was at home,
until four or five months before
Lee'ssurrender, when he joined Ruff
fms Co., and few weeks before the
retreat from Petersburg began he
went home to buy a horse and did
not return to his command. but was
in this county when Sherman reach
ed Goldsboro. The DR.. possibly
can tell Mr.. Wooten what he was
doing at that stage of the war2 Since
the war the Company to which
Exum belonged, which was Co.
III. 1st North Carolina Cavalry,
has had several reunions and the
DIR. has never attended one of them,
and we do not believe there is one
member of the company now living
in this county who will vote for the
DIR. for Governor.
Mr.. Wooten speaks of him as "a
friend of the oppressed poor"
We heard of one of his neighbors
saying this week, and he was a Third
party man, too, that he will give $5
for every vote the DIR, gets in his
neighborhood, He says that he
(the Dr. refused to vote for CleYe-
land in 1883. About this we do not
know, our impression has been that
he did. We know however, that in a
Democratic convention held in Colds
boro in 1888 at which the DIR. was a
delegate, he began to abuse one
of the citizens of Wayne county and
he was Kissed to such an extent as
we've never heard man before.
Since then he has been lukewarm in
his Democracy, and we expect that is
the secret of his dissatisfaction. Col.
Harry Skinner in accepting the
nomination of the Third party con-
vention reserved to himself the right
to warn his supporters of any threat
ened danger to the overthrow Of
white supremacy in this State, and
we believe it was DIR. Exum who in
sisted that another horse be put up.
The Dr.. was that candidate, and
without reserve he accepted the
nomination regardless of any danger
of the overthrow of white supre-
macy. Did not Mr.. Wooten know
when he wrote to the Progressive Far
mer that the Dr's. nomination here
in this county, Wayne, had increased
the Democratic vote at least 800,
that throughout this county the DR..
was known as a braggart and blow
hard, and that he did not command
the respect of our citizens? We
would not assail a mans private
character, we do not intend doing so
now, but has Mr.. Wooten never
heard of the Dr's. assertion that he
had $500 goats on his farm, when he
only gave in 80 on the tax list? That
the fight in which the DR.. is bound
over to court arose about bet, that
he had on hand ], 1873 bales of cotton,
that he made wager that he had a
yoke of oxen that could pull 10000
pounds, and that it is commonly re-
ported that he bought white western
meat of firm here in Goldsboro,
smoked it on his farm and tried to
sell it to the same firm for N. G. ba-