Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-02-08
Bring Out the Facts.

this weeks issue of TIE WEEKLY
ARGUs,-which l presume appeared,
previously, in your DAILY ARGUs,-
to 'sthe venerable editor of the Mes
senger," was keenly relished by me,
and number to whom l have read
it, who readily recognized the. apt,
ness of your criticism and the Justice
of your cause in behalf of party Or
ganization and good government.
DIR. Kingsbury has for years pres
sumed to indulge in gross and often
sive personalities: setting himself Mp
as public censor, until the people
have grown nauseated. IF he was a
man of great talent, of admitted
superiority of judgment and dis
elimination it might be tolerated in
some degree, but while he is known
to be man of some learning, no one
as is known by everybody, has any
confidence in or respect for his judg-
ment or knowledge of men or things.
His weakness in this respect is pro-
verbal and the subject of ridicule and
jest.
am not indulging in rersonali-
ties, [ am simply answering him.
He assumes in his conceit and arc.
gance to treat the young men of the
State as fools. And upon the slight.
est provocation he vents his spleen
against them in coarse aud offensive
personalities. He must understand
that men 35 and 40 years old are not
children and they do not submit
to that sort of purile treatment with
out just indignation.
His age must be respected, but
when the impatinence and intoler-
ance of mental decay leads him to
splenetic and scandalous assaults,
without evidence, upon honorable
men he must expect to hear to what
cause the public ascribes his eccen-
trio conduct. 1t will rot do for him to
say that he has nothing personal
against Simmons.
Every word and line he has written
about him is full of spleen and per-
sonel vindictiveness. It is worse than
personal. 1t is an attempt to iniure
personally an innocent man, against
whom he has no just cause of com
plaint,in order to help friend Hale)
out of an ugly dilemma.
There is not in North Car
olina journalism more dis
graceful and dastardly attempt than
this to injure the reputation of
an honorable man against whose
character there is not the breath of a
suspicion, by vague intimation and
inuendo Of chcaa-s which he does
not name-begeuse they do not exist
1t is dirty business. We have
heard no other view expressed of
DR.. Kingsbury's attack on Simmons,
affecting his character. Mr.. Sim
raons says he has no information of
any such charges, and says he can
find nobody who has, and he asks
that Mr.. Kingsbury, who says such,
will tell him and the public what
they are. But does the doug hty sDoc.
tor" tell? No: but on the other hand
he seeks to drop the subject and goes
off into rigamarole of ''Hale's Clin-
ton Convention" nonsense.
Is this decent? and under what
code of honorable warfare Can it. be
defended?
But this is not all. He now says
there is ''something shsdey about
81 n, r,o,, q, aofoooJo,te, WL,t - :, .
Mr., Simmons has been in public
life ten years aud no one has ever
heard anything to his discredit, and
his character is as high as any
mans in the State-Mr. Kingbury's
or Senator's or any one else.
If there is anything wrong about
Mr.. Simmons why don't he tell what
it is?
DR.. Kingsbury continues to assert
that he has no personal feeling
against Mr.. Simmons. Does DR..
Klngsbury think the reading public
are fools that he makes ouch
statement in the verv teeth of his
besmirching epithets against Mr..
Simmons, such as "the great Sim
mons" "the mighty Simmons" aud
''his grand, magnificent, glorious, tre-
nendous management of the cams
Lalgn of 1892?
The Democrats are satisfied with
Mr.. Simmons management of the
campaign of 1892; and if DR.. Kings
bury ard Mai. Hale don't like it they
better 60 over and join the Populists
and Radicals, who don't like it either,
and who, besides this particular duet
of editors, are the only maligners of
Mr.. Summons, personally and as the
official head of the Dem ocratic party
in North Carolina.
A Young DEMOCRAT.
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