Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-06-09
Those Resolutions.
BEAUFORT, N. c., May 20, 1892.

IN. VI, May 70, 1892.
Editor Argus: A self-appointed
committee, of four, met at the Court
House a few days ago and proceeded
to inquire into the political standing
OF certain persons calling themselves
Democrats. The first to command
the attention of the committee was
w. s. Chadwick, Esq, chairman of
the Democratic executive committee.
After a careful examination of his
case the committee decided that Mr..
Chadwick be required to appear be-
fore them at their next meeting and
answer the charge of failing to per
form his duty faithfully to old Car
teret, In that he allowed an ex-citi-
zen and ex-mem Der of the Legisla-
ture of Carteret to capture the late
Democratic convention of Craven
and have resolutions adopted, in
tended, as we think, to damage the
good name and fame of Carteret.
After some further inquiry as to
the standing of some others, whom
We will not now mention, the COM
mittee adjourned to meet again at
the call OF the chairman.
At the next meeting Of the COM
mlttee n thing that will claim
their attention will be the necessity
of making railroad presidents, or we
should have said, the necessity of
building a sufficient number of rail
roads to have one for every citizen
of Newbern, New Bern, or New
Berne, or Newberne, who believes in
his heart that he is, of all men, the
man who ought to be president of
"The Old Mullet." The lack of
money will be the only difficulty in
the way of carrying out this much
needed and greatly to be desired OBJ
ject. The above referred to reselu-
tions may reach the eyes and ears of
the "Gold Bugs" CT Wall street and
thereby prevent us from negotiating
the necessary loans. If this mis-
fortune should overtake US we will
apply to President Polk of the Ma
tional. Farmers Alliance, when he
gets to be President Of the United
States, and "Uncle Sam" owns all
the railroads, to make up the de-
ficiency either in railroads or plum
der.
Another matter the committee
will consider with deep concern, will
be the question, Why the city of
Newbern is losing ground so fast in
the number of her statesmen and
philosophers? We remember when
quite young to have heard it often
that Newbern was the Athens
of North Carolina. However, re-
cent developments show concluslvely
that her great men, especially great
Democrats, have all died out. This
must be so, because at their late
Congressional Convention they had
to take a recent convert from the
Republican party to send to Chicago.
We sympathize with them in their
decline in this particular; but we
are glad that the Republican party
could furnish them with the neces-
sary brains for a DemocraticN National
Convention, otherwise they might
have had to come to Carteret, as they
did in the case of their resolutions.
Their decline on this line, it has
been suggested, is caused by the fact
that they have of late years turned
their attention wholly to paying their
debts and raising railroad Presidents,
and it is believed by some that the
Athens, of yore, could supply every
railroad in the United States with a
| frst-class President, and then the
supply would not be near exhausted.
ONE OF THE COMMITTEE.