Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-10-25
SOLID REASON.

UuIO dlO11G, DIS t10 IdN IldhiuS
power, is of vital Importance to
the conservative people of the
State, even if there was nothing
else involved, and there were no
magistrates, no county commits
sioners, no boards of education,
OF of finances, 70 railroad com
missioners, no educational or
charitable institutions to be con-
sidered.
With a rattle brain, revolu-
tionary Legislature more harm
could be done in one session Of
sixty days than six years of
level-headed, conservative legis-
lation could undo, for it would
take many years to restore the
confidence which would be shat
tered by the election of such a
legislature. We can judge of
the effect in this State by what
the effect has been in other
States where this revolutionary
element have been in the as
tendency and held power. They
have blighted the prospects Of
every State where they have
made their power felt, and 50
would they blight the prospects
Of this State if they got into a
position to put their revolution
airy, progress destroying policies
into effec Give This revolu-
t-onary combination control of
the law-making, law-interpreting
and law-enforcing departments
of the Government and it would
be worse for North Carolina
than if a cyclone or a c~onfagra-
ton swept over it from the sea-
shore to the mountain-crest, for
these would sweep over and
leave desolation behind them,
but the people would rebuild
their levelled or burned homes,
and find peace and content I'M
der their roofs, but with the hell
this combine would be neither
peace, nor content nor safety
under any roof.
Is this an eXaggeratlon? Look
back a couple decades and by
what has been judge what may
be when power passes into the
hands of men as reckless, daring
and INSCRIPTIONS as were the
men who in the midst of peace
| set the civil law aside, brought
ia hireling soldiery from an
other State and declared martha
law, to intimidate citizens and
hold the power which they hac
abused and felt slipping from then
grip.
Is there nothing in all this t
excite alarm and arouse the pat
riotism of all true State-loving
North Carolinians? VIII we SEE
Iinperilled, without o ~resolute at
tempt to save it, all that the mel
tof twenty-four years ago, witt
heroic effort won in the face o
hireling soldiery and martha
despotism? The liberties of Nortl
Carolinians are really in more
danger now than they Were
twenty-four years ago when TIL,
issue was made between a mill
tary despotism and the ~resolut'
courage and fearless ballots 0.
men determined to rebuke that
dcspotism and be free. The
did. They saved North Caro-
lima, crushed the conspiratort
who sought 10 crush them, ant
drove the gang from power
some of whom retired forever Il
the obscurity from which the,
sprang. others sought pasture.
in more congenial surrounding
and others, loaded with plumber
refugeed to keep out Of the peni
tertiary.
But the next Legislature vii
elect two United States Senators
If the combination wins Their
will be one Republican and on
Populist, for that is the bargain
entered into between the bargain
ers. The loss of two Senator
would deprive the Democrats Q
the control of the Senate, whicl
would put an end to all legisla
ton Of a Democratic character
There would be no more tarI
Legislation, no financial legisla
ton, no more pension reform
for the hands Of this Democrat
administration would be absC
lutely tied. and it could do moth
ling which did not meet with tn
approval of the small humble
which would hold the balance 0
power. With the Senate as clos
as it is are not two Senator
worth fighting for? that is, if W
want the work Of reform to g
on.
The combine is pIaying for bi.
stakes, not only for the Legisls
ture, but for the judiciary, TO
the control of the counties, 70
i Congressmen and for two Sens
TORS, and they are playing thei
game for all it is worth. If the
win they will be we'll repaid fo
the fight they are making: if "
lose no man living can tell ho7
long it will take to recover til
loss. Wilmington star.