The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-07-23
THE POLITICS !
Weaver. Cleveland, Harrison and
Other Candidates.
What Colonel Nann Sees in the POlltI'
cal Horoscope.
BUT HE LOOKS AT 1T IN BAD SHAPE


"Summum bOnum est suprema lex. .
This proposition is one of those pleasing
but Geccptive axioms that We often meet
with in both moral and political PhiIoso-
phy: but this cadaverOus proved pro-
fessOr Of s~auscIit has, in his moments OF
profound meditation, discovered that a
very wide and discretionary margin is
attached TO its application, and that, like
some other good things we know Of, is
more honOred in the breach than in the
performance. In cur cOntcmplatiYe mo-
mcnte, however, we flattcr cur vanity,
Just as others before US have done, by
glancing along the line Of good and pious
maXims-thOse Cranial dcwdrOps Of wis
dom-and approve Of the ]aphorism, as
above succeed to the head of this article,
and then repudiatc it when a remote or
nearby test is among the possibilities.
This is an indcllible trait in the Character
Of the genus homo, and is owing, doubt
less, to the missing link in the Darwinian
theory.
The "summum bonum'-the chief good
is always a cherubic and welcome yisi-
tant TO every son Of man; this is why so
many good men, just now, are willing to
sacrifice their peace Of mind and all other
physical o. imaginary comforts to serve
their Gebased compatriots in the capacity
Of president of that portion Of North
America known as the United States.
W, In.l Ir,,,r n,1 .,.r1o,,l tbn ,Ii1.p
thropic man or woman who f0rsakcs all
the good things Of life; who slips off from
the dOwny lap Of luxury and stOOps from
a higher plain to the level Of penury and
want, and who there sOothes distress or
pins up the rayeled front Of the dying
hour with words of good chcer-heaven's
portals stand wide open to receive them
Ger they have shufled of the mantle of
mortality. But what need of praise is
due those champions of the people who
so Yalliantly step to the front in the
present crisis and beg to be permitted to
bear, upon their own brawny shoulders,
the great national burden for the next
four years They will, doubtless, in that
great day Of final reckoning sit on the
front stoop Of eternity, with the martyrs
crown upon their brows, and modestly
receive the plaudits and bencdictions Of
the procession Of the ages as it passes by
We do not see any reason why each Ct
the political parties should not have a
president in the national capital by all
800 - 800, ,.-l i IL. 1
at Uncle Sans cofrers-they are plethoric
and can stand the strain.
When Clevc and Steve, Weaver, Tip
pecanoc the third, and the nameless
other independent hooters who are after
the shekels and national glory, all get
settled down TO business, just after II e
fourth Of March, then we may unhesi-
tatingly expect that long prayed for
cvcnt-the millennial age. Soon after
the Inauguration Of that delightful period,
kGclCy's occupation will be gone, as
there will be no more whiskey nor
d%runkardS to be found in all our wide
domain. The prohibitiOnists, tariff re-
formers, the advocates Of the force bill,
and the hOwlcrs for free and unlimited
coinage of silver-all will find them
selves minus a job; from the fact that
they will have gained their points, there
fore without employment. We would,
in our humble way, suggest that the par
ties just named, then turn their power
full energies in the direction of some
til. g.. -. - II
now. Why not tackle that troop of jan.
i~zarics, known as Pinkerton's Detective
Agency, and wipe it off the fair face of
nature? After doing those thugs up to
the public taste, then get up a crusade
against the use of tobacco, or grape cul-
ture in California. Two wide and fast
growing evils that should be Immediately
suppressed, or we are forever lost. Don't
sit down with folded hands and let the
rust of inaction eat up the wheels of
progress, after you have placed them
upon the right track and put the heav-
enly momentum behind them. DO, this,
and we will have nothing further to
wish in this life; We can thcn sit under
u vine and liz tree, u children
then can browse round with the lamb
and lion, and in shirt-tail hilarity gather
pansies along side the gate of Eden with
out fear OF molestatiOn. The peoples
party and the numbcrless other so-Called
parties that have recently sprang into
existence, are going to wreck both the
democratic and republican hords in No
vembcr, and why: The reason is plain
enough TO ali who have eyes to see, and
are not too far gone in their insane
prciudicieS TO allow common sense-that
rara ayis-to have a seat in their ban
quoting halls. Both of the old time
honored parties have, in their blind zeal
10 pcrpctuate party principles, o'erstept
the bounds of prudence and party integ-
rity, but political integrity is one Of
those pleasing nondescripts which is so