Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-10-11

SEVERAL gentlemen from the
country who attended the joint
discussion between Hon. F. M.
Simmons and Mr. Marion But
Ter at Jordan's Store Thursday
said, yesterday, that Mr.. Marion
Butler failed utterly to meet a
single issue or answer a single
point presented by Mr.. Simmons.
They said that Butler made a
perfect clown of himself. and
that awfully sick attitudes, wry
faces, twisted mouths and dis
torted eyes were the common
staple of his exhibition. One
man remarked that he could pull
his lower lip down further than
a horses. If this be true he had
better order a pair of suspenders
for that under lip with which to
hold it up after the November
election, otherwise it will drop
so low it will break his back.
THE State election is over in
Georgia and that State has gone
Democratic by about %, 200 ma
jority, This seems a very small
Democratic majority for Georgia,
but it must be considered in the
cold light of facts and not in the
glare of rash conclusions. It is
manifestly unfair to compare the
vote of Tuesday with that of the
State election two years ago,
when Gov. Northen was elected
by over 20. 600 majority. In that
campaign the Republicans did
not put out a ticket nor did they
formally indorse either of the
State tickets. Still it is a we'll
know fact that the bulk of the
Republican vote and the influence
of that party in the State was
thrown to the Democratic party.
Governor -Northen's popularity
among the negroes carried the
bulk of the colored vote. In this
campaign the Populists had the
organized Endorsement of the
Republican party, and all the aid
they could possibly get from that
source. The Georgia Democracy
faced a combination of all it's
enemies and the fact that it over
came them by a substantial ma
jority proves that Georgia is
safely Democratic beyond all
peradventure.
For changing of candidates
and changing of base-including
principles (O and ''demands"-
the Populist party takes the
cake. The ''trade winds" can
hardly keep pace with the trad
ers in politics that constitute the
machine" that manipulates the
bargains. and takes down and
puts up candidates for the Peo-
pies party to vote for. Why it
was ever called the Peoples
party is a mystery, unless it was
because the people don't have
any say as to who the candidates
shall be. 1t would be useless to
attempt in brief notice. or even
in several columns, to note the
changes of candidates, princi-
Piles GU demands and purposes
that have marked the Peoples
party's brief caree from the
start to the present, Their lat
est change is the taking down of
Church disturber' Maxwell off
the Senatorial ticket in this dis
trict and the putting up Of
Major IL. +. Grant in his stead.
The Major was the fusion candi-
date from the Republican side of
the combination in this county
for the House of Representa-
tives, and is enfeQffed Is Nh: Ma
rion Butler fprthe z. S. Senate.
according to the articles Of the
RepublicanPopulist fusion trade,
and as his defeat for the House
in this county was certain
Damon Butler took the last
dying chance and had "Church
disturbera Maxwell to come
down off the senatorial dis
trict ticket and Puthids Grant
substituted. Damon thinks to save
his Pythids in this way, a. Dup
lin and Pender are considered
less conversant with Grants re
cord. But the handwriting is OF
the wall for the confusionints
Who will be Grants successor OF
the fusion Legislative ticket il
this county is Aot Yet given on
by the Machine" But it make:
little difference, as to general re
suits in November. They will al
be beaten.