The daily Caucasian. (Raleigh, N.C.) 1895-1895, 1895-01-30

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MIX. DANIELS RESIGSATIO>
The CAUCASIAN intended to notice
Mr.. Daniels Resignation some davs
ago; but was let hitherto. 1t will
not be untimely to notice il now.
Mr.. Daniels has evinced good
deal Of unselfshness in this action.
lie has given up good position and
n good salary to harness himself TO
the hard work and poor pay Of daily
journalism IN North Carolina. Such
acts Of unselfshness are not numer-
GUS amongst men who hold good pO-
sitiOns in the Federal administra
tion-indeed, they are not over nu-
merous amongst any class of the
people.
Mr.. Daniels is newspaper man
of good gifts and long experience.
He knows how to fight, and he is not
afraid to fight. His coming back
may be taken us legal notice TO all
whom 1t may concern, that no pains
will be spared to return the Demo
Gratis to power, IN this State, in
1896. Indeed, in his announcement,
few DAYS ago-he tells the
public what his purpose is, IN plain
words. He throws down the Saunt-
let to the Compartments and evil
IDENTITY expects them to take it up.
He will not be disappointed. We
take it up. We take it up, with
something of
THE stern Joy which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.
And, while we do not
make boast of our prowess, we feel
too keenly the justice of our cause
to permit us to be laggard in the
fray. We promise, Mr.. Daniels,
please God, to be present at the
death, as the hunters say.
There is one part of Mr.. Daniels
announcement which we think in
bad taste; and which might very we'll
have been omitted. We refer to his
expl essed determination to redeem
the State. That is sort of high
assumption, that might be the pre-
rogative of angels, if they were not
too modest; and which tempts per-
sons Of much humOr to indulge in
immoderate laughter, when they see
il affected by mere mortality, and
mere Democratic mortality, at that.
BY the redemption of the State,
we suppose Mr.. Daniels means the
taking Of North Carolinian public
affairs out of the hands of the Flu
sionists in 1896. Mr.. Daniels may
be able to do this. But if he shall
accomplish it, we shall be ready to
admit, that something greater than
the most difficult of the seven labors
Of Hercules has been accomplished
by mere man. And, III
that case, we shall regret
the richness that would have accrued
to the story of Greek Mythology, had
Mr.. Daniels lived two or three thou
sand years earlier.
Mr.. Daniels undertakes his task
with splendid courage courage
which seems all the more splendid
because of the absence of some Othe1
qualities Of the thor oughly Furnished
warrior. Indeed. Mr. Daniels cour
age reminds us strongly of the story
of the bull and the locomotive
Mr.. Daniels intends to redeem
the State. He means to take this
old Commonw wealth back into thu
hands Of the aristOcratic cOterle tina
have held it, and selfishly used 1t. TO-
the last twenty years. He means t(
subject all men and questions, II
this State, to the machine methods
which have been employed for twenty
years. He means to have our cleo
tions SO conducted in the future tina
there shall be no possibility of ascer
tanning what the will of the people
upon any question is-that is to say
he means to govern this State by thu
will of a minority. He means to pu
the appointing of nearly all thu
County officers into the hands of I
few Democratic Executive Commit
tees.
He means to redeem" the State
We think Lucifer would use tn
term in the Same sense, in trying t.
persuade the angels to quit their in
nocency, and join him in his bad re
bellion against all good.
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