Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-06-28
Entered at the Post Office at Colds
bOro, N. c., as Second-Class Matter.
DEMOCRACY UNDEFILED.

We have fallen upon strange
times here in North Carolina.
The State seems dessolated Of
her great men, and we who sat
under their teachings and heark-
ened to their precepts in the
days of their leadership are now
brought to confront the direful
spectacle of supercilious, self-con-
stituted leaders rushing in where
these great men once strobe with
thoughtful mein and patriotic
concern for the welfare of their
people, and the doctrine that
these leaders enuntiate is strange
ly out of time with the precepts
taught US by our fathers and the
public men whom they followed.
There are few Of US, if any,
who do not readily eoncede that
the safest deliverance from these
troublous times is through a
speedy return to the fealty we
once bore the grand old Demo
cratic party in the days when
such men as the late lamented
VIM. It. Dortch was the exem-
plar of it's principles and the
chosen leader of his people.
VIM. T. Dortch still lives, and
will ever live, in the sublime hero
ism that characterized him as a
great commoner in the frey Or
deal of war, when he stood in the
forefront as a statesman and
champion of his people, and was
as a stone wall between them and
unrighteous and oppressive leg
islation in the days of reconstruc-
ton; he lives in the gospel of
Democracy-the creed of the
greatest political party that ever
existed on earth. and in the eX-
ample, that all just men must adj
mire, of a pure, simple life, the
loftiest patriotism and long ca
reer devoted to the welfare OF
his people; and he-great and
good man that he was, trusted
statesmen and beloved leader
died in dense ignorance of the
kind of magic possessed by these
latter day theorists and would-be
leaders whereby they can formu-
late a government to cure all
human ills and make men equa-
BILE and happy and prosperous,
whether they will or not,
Some who once acted with the
Democratic party and needed
his precepts and followed his
example while he moved upon
the stage of public affairs, have
wandered off after these strange
political gods and have become
infatuated with the ephemera
doctrine that, like the fablec
sirens song, will surely lure the
ship of State into seething com
munistic waters and wreck i
upon the hidious rocks of an
archy if permitted to prevail.
But the great Democratic party
in the mass stands in principle
and in action where it stood il
the days of the late VIM. T
Dortch. It stands in the broad
est sense for the liberty Of thu
Individual in all his movements
and resiSts all fancies that mel
can be broken to a common
mould; it stands for the sanctit.
of the home and the indepen
dence of the family against al
doctrinaries of woman suffragist
and meddlers ; it stands for tn
sovereignty Of the State in al
its reserved power; it stands TO
taxation, however raised, limit
ed to the expenses of govern
ment economically administered
and it stands for a hearty, broth
erly union of all our people in
government of the people, by
the people and for the people
for equal rights to all and spe
cial privileges to none.
Such is Democracy as we I'm
derstand it, and as it was laugh