Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-01-26

the late hign tariff unpleasantness,
that the scarcity of oysters must per
force lessen the amount of raw ma
terial entered.
One of the disadvantages of sleigh
ing is that the hand must be held
out in the cold to drive. Being so long
in this position IS perhaps what
makes it so painful to put it in the
pocket after coming back to the liv-
cry stable man.
What, in fact, have the Kansas
Democrats got out of the fusion !?
They have pulled lot of Populist
chestnuts out of the fire, and they
have weakened their own organiza-
ton. "We want nothing more to do
with your crowd, says the Hon.
Jerry Simpson. Mr.. Simpson. can
be assured that the dislike is mutual.
''Two years from now, cries the
philosopher of Medicine Lodge, eve
will lick both the old parties Well,
Jerry, just wait and see who will be
the licker and who the 1ickee. Your
sweet little party started as fool
and seems resolved to end as a scoun-
drel, and an unsuccessful scoun-
drel at that.
Among the most conspicuous of the
Senators whose terms expire with
the present Congress are Eugene
Hale, of Maine, and George Gray, Of
Delaware, both of whom were re-elect-
ed Tuesday. Senator Hale, though
still on the sunny side of sixty, is
getting to be one of the seniors at
Washington. He had been twelve
years in the House of Representatives
when he was elected to the Senate,
in 1881, to succeed Hannibal Ham
lin, this being his second reelection.
Mr.. Gray first came to the Senate
eight years ago, when Mr.. Bayard be-
came Secretary of State, and two
wears later was reelected for the full
term, so that this is the third time
the Delaware Legislature has shown
it's good judgment by electing him.
He is one of the soundest lawyers and
clearest-headed statesmen in the
Senate, and, though still one of the
juniors, there is no one whose judge
ment carries more weight. Senators
Cockrell, of Missouri, and Bate, of
Tennessee, both Democrats, and
Davis, of Minnesota, and Stockbridge,
of Michigan, Republicans, have also
secured their reelection.
The death of Rutherford B. Hayes
was sudden and unlocked for, yet it
will cause no shock, for Mr. Hayes
had already passed out of public re-
membrance. He was the only sur
viving ex-President of the United
States, with the exception Of Mr.
Cleveland, who has been recalled tc
Office; but he recognized, when he
had served his term, that his official
career was ended. And this was not
from any fault of his. While not g
great man, he Was clean, honest, pa
triotic and capable; he surrounded
himself with able men and strove to
make his administration honorable
Had he been freely and fairly elected
there is every probability that ht
would have succeeded and he might
have earned an illustrions place il
our history But the stamp of frauc
was upon him. Though the country
acquiesced in the robbery of the elec.
toral vote from Tilden, it never real
ly accepted the result. Mr.. Hayes
himself was innocent of the frau6
and accepted the Office o1rly when il
was thrust upon him; but the sir
was visited upon his head, and wher
another President had been lawful,
elected he returned to the obscurit,
from which he had been drawn. Her
ne lived a quiet, dignified life, takin.
a modest part in various natrioti
and charitable works and filling th
measure Of his duty as citizen with
out ostentation and always with hon
or, which will follow him in tn
kindly repose of the grave.