Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-02-01
AS WE SEE II.

LII AhGUS we puUliSA al dfIIClc
from the editorial columns of Sun
days Wilmington Messenger, pur-
porting to reply to some genuine
Democratic doctrine e~nunciated in
these columns last week, below an
article published from the Messenger
headed "Jan 1t Be So" in which our
venerable friend of the Messenger
reflected on Chairman Summons,
Senator Ransom and the entire Denis
ocratic organization, as he does likes
wise in the article published from
him in this issue, and elsewhere, Sc
riously, in the Messenger Of Sunday.
In fact, the editor of the Messenger
seems to be misunderstanding is
he persistent, in p%rostituting party
organization and eadangering party
success and in attempting to relegate
our best party leaders contumeliously
to the rear in order to soothe the
rufhed feelings and appease the
thwarted ambition of "my good
friend Hale" the "Major," who
wanted to get a fat Gonsulship, a
second time, but failed, because
Mr.. Simmons, as Chairman of the
State Democratic Executive CONS
mittee, preferred that he should not
receive such recognition beyond his
desert.
And note with what ipse DIGIT, ee
cathedra "gusto" u venerable
friend of the MESSENGER proclaims the
fact, (?) that Maj. Edward J. Hale
is "the ablest living editor in North
Carolina" Why does he do this in
the face of the fact that the reading
public concede that Mr.. Joseph
Caldwell, of the Charlotte Obseru,
is the ablest Hving editor in North
Carolina, and as he is publishing by
far the best paper, in every way,
that the State has ever had it is, ergo,
safe to assert that he is, Withoat aay
exception, "the very ablest", living or
dead, our State has ever known. And
as to what Mr.. Caldwell thinks of
this whole affair, we invite our read.
ers to peruse ga very clear, able and
convincing" article from his pen in
Sundays Charlotte Observer, which
will be found On the fourth page of
this issue of The ARGUS.
The venerable editor of the Mes
senger eschews any knowledge of
"Third party parlance" and has not
read a Third party paper s'since
1892" Perhaps that is when he im-
bibed all that knowledge he is now
giving forth about Mr.. Simmons
tremendous management of the
campaign in 1892" which was in
deed Colossal, monumental, fatefuP'
to the Third party in North Caro-
lima. Will the venerable editor Of
he Messenger tell us what Demos
cratic papers he is reading now in
the State that sustain him in his
onslaught upon Collector Simm ons
and party organization in the State
other than that edited by "my good
friend Hale"-the Fayetteville Oh
server? And this question is asked
for an W
1t will be observed that We have
spoken in this article of the editor
of the Messenger as venerable, not in
a spirit of levity but truthfully, be-
cause Mr.. Simmons and 'sJe editor"
are getting up in years ourselves,
and yet he asserts that he began to
fight the battles of the people of
North Carolina when the editor of
The ARGUS and the great Simmons
were in swaddling bands 'muling
and puking in the nurses arms
This does not sound very nice, to be
sure; but it is Shakespearean, and,
doubtless, true withal. And as for
ourselves, personally, we are not
~averse to the imputation, for it is
"ferfectly natural that, when I
was a child I spake as a child, l felt
as a child, 1 thought as achild", and
acted as a child; snow that I am
become a man I haye put away child
jsh things" And We low express
the earnest hope that should we be
permitted to live to our second child.
hood, and still WELD the editorial
pen, We may do no "muling" SC. in
the arms of the grand old Demo
cratic party, or seek to disparage the
men whom she has honored with
leadership and who have lead her te
signal victories.
IF fighting Democrats AS the edi'
tor of tine Messenger is doing in com
pany with Ihirdpartyites and Radi.
cals-is the test of true Democracy
then the editor OF the Messenger and
his beau-:deal, "she greatest living