Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-07-26
The President.

A lot OF good things which
the President has said and done
have come under public observa-
tion lately. His manner of deal
ing with the strike has met the
appreciation and won the unre-
strained praise of all the law re-
specting people of the country.
His whole course in this
connection was uneXceptionable,
and saying this we have in mind
his brief reply to the long pro-
test of the Anarchist Governor
of Illinois against his sending
Federal troops into that State to
quell the riot then in progress.
1t was, in brief, 1--WE will restore
order and controvert afterwards.
The language was temperate and
diplomatic but in it's last analysis
that is what it meant. But, the
strike aside, we have in mind
again, the recent conversation
between the President and Con
gressman Maddox, of Georgia,
as told by the latter:
We'll, Maddox" said the Pres
ident, "how is everything down
in old Georgia? l suppose they
are cussing me down there ?''
Well, replied Maddox, they
do not like your financial policy
Il know that, Maddox, said
the President, but they are not
a bit more anxious for silver
than l am. l tell you that un-
less | am badly mistaken we will
have the crowned heads of Eu-
rope at our feet and asking for
our terms before two years are
gone"
There is no intelligent Ameri-
can citizen, who is himself hon
est. who does not believe in his
heart that the President is an
bonest and sincere man. What
right has any one to doubt him
when he says the people of
| Georgia ''are not a bit me re
anxious about silver than he is. -
And who is wise enough to say
that the President is badly mis-
taken" in his belief that eve
will have the crowned heads of
Europe at our feet and asking
for our terms before two years
are gomez"
But nothing recent is more
characteristic of the man than
his reply to Col. w. G.. Oates, of
Alabama, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of his State,
who begged him to sign the
Bland seigniorage bill as means
of re-uniting the party. HE
told me very positively" said
Col. Oates ''that he thought the
party could live on it's princi-
pies instead of being hired to do
right
1t is impossible for anybody
who is not hopelessly blinded by
prejudice to keep from admiring
tlman who takes such ground as
hiatt, whether he agrees with
a m or not.
It was gratifying to learn that
the Democrats of Huntersville
township, this county, in their
primary last Saturday, adopted
a resolution cordially endorsing
the administration as to every
thing except it's financial policy
even though they went so far as to
express their cordial disapproba-
ton of that. It is doubtful if,
six months ago, a resolution Civ
ing the President any sort of en-
dorsement could have passed a
Democratic primary at Hunters
vile. The people of North
Carolina and of the South gen
orally are coming around to him.
They are not nearly ready to en-
dorse his financial policy and we
have never been in favor of
crowding them upon this point,
though the Observer itself has
endorsed it outspokenly except
as to the veto of the seigniorage
bill. We are quite well aware
that it is not wise to crowd
them with it yet, but it is per-
fectly safe to say that before the
world is many years older, it will
7 be seen that the Presidents policy
has been altogether a wiser one
than many of our good people
are yet willing:to admit.
But silver, or no silver, he is {
4 great old man.-ChurlOtte Obser
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