Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-02-22
THE FINGER OF E
TINY POINTING TO
HALE
KINGSBURY THE PROPHET
JOSH JAMES The VERIFIER,
HALE THE VICTIM.
LET US HAVE PEACE.

If Maj. Hale, "the greatest living
editor IN North Carolina" has a
friend who, as the Shakespeare-quot-
ing editor of the Messenger would
say, has still "a stomach for this
fight" that friend, we are sure, will
greatly regret that the distinguished
MAJOR has developed into a child of
destiny to verify the prophesy of
DR.. Kingsbury-aud it now devolves
upon the confused Major to cry ont,
somewhat in the spirit of Wolsey-
Spare me, spare me from my
friends And that the genial and un-
assuming Josh James, of the
sprightly Evening Review of Will
%mington, whose neighborly relations
with DIR. Kingsbury, Of the Will
mington Messenger are ~proverbial
should ~insenslbly become the instru~
ment of verifcation of the Doctors
prophesy and point the finger of re-
tributive justice to the 'teat seeker,
who ID exceeding wroth and sorely
disgruntled, is an apt illustration of
Shakespeare's aphorism that, "There
is a destiny that shapes our ends,
rough-hew them as We may"
Anr0nOc rs fho ohoro 49, 49,
from an editorial of DR.. Kingsbury
in the Wilmington Messenger of Jan
uary '93, the following singular
prophecy:
The country is so big and
there are so many hungry Office
seekers he (Cleveland) must disap.
point sections of the country and
hundreds of thousands of teat-seek-
ers. Many Of them will curse Cleve-
land and swear with ugly oaths that
they are sorry Harrison was not
elected. Now that wiU be the exact
size of their Democracy. Give
Cleveland a chance, office or nc Office.
Without commenting further upon
the aboYe prophesy of Dr.. Kings.
bury, which had slumbered in our
recollection till touched by the re-
vivifying finger of brother James in
the Review of Monday evening, when
the public, with ourself, was startled
by the recognition that it was indeed
prophetic, we copy the article o,
brother James as follows, in which it
will be seen that he discovers that
there are OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
and that among these, pining far from
the coveted udder, is editor Hale, Of
the Fayetteville Observer, held back
with a calf rope round the neck by
Chairman Simmons. But it now
behooves Maj. Hale to "small up"
and fall in line, or else have the
"eaact size of his .Democracv" meas.
ured by DR.. Kingsbury's standard
and part company. too, with Josh
James and the rest of us old line
Demo Gratis.
But here is what the Review says j:
Our good friend of the Fayette-
vile Observer is informed that the
extract referred to by him was not
published in the Review during the
editors absence but by himself. 'pres
ent and in person." In doing SO
however, we had no intention of
publishing anything detrimental to
Maj, Hale. It was simply a para
graph telling what somebody else
said, clipped as such and inserted as
such, aud bearing no editorial en-
dorsement. :
The incident gives us che oppo,
tuniry of saying, however, that while
we have the strongest regard fol
Mai Hale and a sincere admiration
for his record as a soldier, a citizen
and a man, and although we en-
dorsed him warmly for the position
to which he aspired, yet we are not
With him in this fight. It has been
carried too far; it ha eady inter.
fered seriously with the peace of the
Democratic party IN this State and
is now threatening its prosperity,
The figures Of the last election show
ed plainly that we are not so strong
that we can at the same time face
dlssensions IN our own party and the
foes attacking US from without. We
cannot afford to do anything at this
time which will imperil Democratic
ascendency in North Carolina. Maj.
Hale remembers, as we'll as We do,
the fruits of Republican rule in this
State too we'll to consent to risk its
recurrence. He is, we know, above
all things, a patriot, and we hope
that he may be brought to see the
matter in the same light as it appears
to us. But, if he does not, aud il
be still forces the fight, we shall be
compelled to array ourselves against
him.
Mr.. Simmons erred at Clinton, il
is true, and the Review was the first
paper in the State to call him down,
We spoke then as we thought
and felt, and we speak now as We
think and feel. His error was of the
head and not of the heart and, be.
sides there is something, which did
not occur to us at the time bu,
which we have thought Of since
and that is that he had an excellent
/, precedentfor his endeavors to placate