Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-11-01

are being prepared for burial.
pieces and this necessitates Spears
to print his own tickets and con
duct his own chances for votes and
election. Spears is ''down''on fus-
ion-and while he does not use
''cuss" words, he has no hesita-
fancy in saying that fusion is
the biggest piece of devilment
ever instigated in politics."
HON. c. B. Aycock, U. S. Dis
trict Attorney, went down to
Wilmington yesterday, where
his court convenes to-day.
THE Pops are on the run. 1--WE
got 'emn' But Democrats should
not cease to work until the polls
close at sunset on Tuesday next.
There will be plenty Of time to
rest and rejoice afterwards. Now
is the season of work.
The ARGUS has seldom re
ceived a communication that it
appreciated more than the brief
but interesting and truly meri-
torious report of the State Fair
published in this issue, and sent
to us by our little friend and
ARGUS reader Miss Zelda Smith.
daughter of MI. and Mrs. Claude
Smith, of Selma, Johnston
county.
The county Democratic candi-
dates were at Pikeville yesterday
and are at Stony Greek to-day
and then at Goldsboro next Mon
day-the day before the cleo
ton. The county has been thor
oughly canvassed and Democ-
racy has been ably sustained by
our county standard bearers and
we have the enemy-fused, con-
fused and combined though they
be-by at least three hundred
majority. All that is needed is
for the Democrats to do their
full duty on next Tuesday at the
polls. Go early and stay late
and work all the time. and vic
tory is assuredly ours.
WHO would have thought that
they would live to see the day in
Goidsboro when Maj. H. L.
Grant, Marion Butler and the
notorious negro Abe Middleton,
from Duplin, would publicly band
=. themselves together in a po-
I litical compact and secretly
! consult together for political
! success against the Demo
cratic party and find enough
men ready to follow them
and obey their behests to cause
the Democratic party to fee
: alarm in this good old county OF
Wayne? What a trio! And al
of them interlopers. Abe from
Duplin, Marion from Sampson
/, and,Hiram from-well, where did
. he come from, anyway and how
did he come? and when? and
, what has he always been?
; In the Simmons-Butler debate
Z. Nh. Simmons had twenty min
! utes to reply and Butler fifteen
for a reioinder. Each consumed
7 his time and no more. Yet But.
, Ter gives what he says was Sim.
mons reply in forty or fifty lines
in the Caucasian, and then pub
/, fishes a speech it would probably
: have taken him two hours to de-
liver as his fifteen minutes re
:. ioinder. What a cheat and fraud
n it shows Butler to be. The truth
is, he was SO badly hacked by
the castigation Simmons had
d given him that his rejoinder was
empty and fell fat eve upor
l. his own party friends, and he
d dragged along through his ff
teen minues and seemed greatly
relieved when his time was up
In an address to the Republi
L can party of Iredell county
Capt. A. D. Cowles, of States
L vile, takes strong ground agains
|. fusion. Capt. Cowles is a life
d long Republican and has bee1
l. for several years, until recently
Ii the chairman of the executiv,
y committee of his county. TIL
7. position he takes is not a strang
n one, but the only natural one TO
y a man who really believes wha
" he processes. Capt. Cowles is
+ man of weight with his party
~ not only in Iredell but Qthe
counties and his deliverance
apt to awaken Republicans VIII
are such from principle to
sense of what is due their ow
Is self-respect in this fusion ma
Va ter.
We have three days left i
al which to settle the question 70
to all time whether the mongre
rs confusion combine, withou
tn principles, platform, consistenc
re or honesty, shall control Mort
1gCarolina and Wayne county. c
be whether the Democratic party
n, the party of the people and fo
Mt the people, that has given Mort
d. Carolina honest, economical
e equable government and brougl
On her high up in the sisterhood {
ne States, shall still prevail. 1t
is a question for the voter to d.
ut eide. The men and the mea
~ ures of the Democratic part
by and the men-the mongrel crew
lis and measures of the Repro
en- combine are before the peopl
&C. What shall their verdict be?