Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-04-06
SENATOR RATS0H.
His Great Parliamentary Triumph
Let EiiininC -on Keen Cool.

Just at the time when Senator
Ransom, the superb, has won the
greatest parliamentary triumph of
his life, and one unparalleled in the
history of any other Senator, he
seems to be regarded with disfavor
by certain of ourWilmington friends.
Ransom, for the honor of North
Carolina, espoused the candidacy of
General W. r. Cox for the Clerk
ship of the Senate. When he began
the initial steps, resulting finally in
the nomination of General Cox by
the Democratic caucus of the Sen
ate, more than half the Senators, it
is said in Washington, were pledged
Il writing to L. @. Washington.
But Ransom's influence ia the Sen
ate is something marvellous.
When Senator Hill, of New York,
in the caucus, questioned tie state
lent of Senator Ransom touching
the record and qualifications of Gen
eral Cox, Ransom arose and Senators
who had never heard him speak be-
fore maryelled at the wonderful
power of Ransom as he handled the
New York Senator, in defence of
his State and his candidate, Gen. Cox.
When Ransom had finished, his
triumph was complete; Cox was
nominated. and Senators who had
never before had an opportunity to
hear his oratory rushed to him and
shcwered congratulations on him.
And yet it is said in Wilmington
that if Senator Ransom should de-
feat our esteemed friend Kerchner
for the Col!ectorship, who for per-
sonal consideration we hope will
succeed in his candidacy, that his
(Kerchner's) friends will overthrow
Ransom-or attempt it, at least-ln
the next General Assembly, two
years hence, when Ransom's present
term expires. Shame upon such a
threat from any faction in any mere
section of North Carolina, this great
State of ours, that this great man has
served his life long SO we'll, SO nohly,
so heroically-on the field of battle,
on the hustings, IN the Senate that
he has ever so signally adorned, until
he is now the recognized power of
that body. And of all sections of
the State where mere faction might
reach such height of folly as to at
tempt to driue Senator Ransom by
such unseemly threats Wilmington
should be the last place to be heard
from, for what would her present
proud eminence and prosperity as
d commercial coltre-due directly
to her magnificent port-be to day
but for the tireless and successful
efforts of Senator Ransom in secur-
ing liberal appropriations for her
harbor. Can the Wilmington peo-
pie forget all this in the heat of a
mere factional fight over who shall
be Collector for the port that he has
been chiefly instrumental in creating?
1t is true The ARGUS differed
with Senator Ransom as to the ex-
pediency-nay, the necessity Of
nominating Mr., Cleveland, but, the
nomination made, he yielded grace
fully and threw himself into the
thickest of the campaign, and left
it not till brought down to deaths
door by overwork, being stricken at
Statesville; but not till he had
almost finished the fight; not till
he had stirred up the Democracy of
North Carolina by his great speech
es, the greatest ever heard on our
hustings, that will be forever
gratefully remembered by our peo-
pie and that have enshrined him as
never before in their hearts. They
k7aow he has ever been true ito
North Carolina, that he loves so
well. In the field with the sword
he was her defender; in the Forum
of the Senate he has been her advo-
cate; on the hustings in our cam
palgns he never tires in teaching
her people Alright.
North Carolina, outside of Will
mington, will take no interest in
that city's factional fight, except as
distant individual citizen may
prefer one candidate or the other for
the Collectorship, just as we would
gladly see Mr.. Kerchner promoted.
But let it be understood, we speak
for North Carolina, that whatever
may be the result of the contest in
Wilmington, growing out of Sena.
tor Ransom's influence over the sit
uation, that Ransom, himself, will
remain the idol of the people for
whom he has laid his life living
sacrifice upon the altar of his coun-
try in time of war, and for the in
tegrity of whose Democracy he has
never ceased to labor and which he
has never allowed to be questioned
with impunity.
Let US have peace and harmony in
Wilmington.
Ali honor to Matt Ransom
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