Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-03-21
THE NIGHT Is PASSED.
And The Sun of Democracy is in the AS
eendant.

| eendant.
The Rep-Pop Fusion legisla
ture that for more than it's con
stitutio-al limitation sat in Ra
leigh, petered out at midnigh1
Wednesday night, sine die, an6
yesterday morning the sun OF
Democracy with healing in its
wings, and shedding comfort ir
every ray to the hearts of the
faithful throughout North Caro-.
lima, rose upon the scene and
found that the enemies to GOOD
government and constitutional
rest aints had fallen upon one
another and slew themselves in
the night. They are gone-the
motly, unprincipled fusion crew
OF ''refawmers' s'-and the places
that knew them will know them
no more, henceforth forever.
Such is the calm Judgment of
THE ARGUS, based upon our es-
innate of the calibre of the peo-
pie of this grand old Common
wealth, some Of whom permitted
themselves to be fooled into fol-
lowing the Peoples party into
the unholy alliance with Repub-
licans, thereby merging what
little of principle their party had
INTO the rotteness of Radicalism
and they called this Reform
"Retrenchment and Reform.
by their fruits ye shall know
them Where is the retrench-
ment'? Where the reform?
have they reduced taxation? !?
No; they have largely increased
lt-and taxation is the burden
under which the people complain
most.
Not only have The; not p~ac-
tised retrenchment-not onIv
have they increased taxation. but
they have increased appropria-
tlons all along the line. save to
the State Guard and the Univer
slty, and they have absolutely
lnaugurated new appropriations
IN large sums, thereby making it
impossible, even under their in
creased tax rate, to accumulate
a surplus in the State treasury
on which to base the hope of fu-
ture relief.
Deliberately. we defy the Flu
sion Legislature to point to a
single instance Of retrenchment.
other than the State Guard and
the University-two of the most
worthy institutions in the State
while the instances of their
squandering of the peoples
money is legion. And this is
'RETRENCHMENT.
Well, how about their "re
form?
True. they appropriated many
thousand dollars to the establish
ment of retormatory for young
criminals, and many thousands
more for its endowment-mere
gush and sentimentalism, without
the sanction Of the people, and
SO grave in its sweeping grab of
the peoples money that it should
have been submitted to the voters
Of the State, as constitutional
But what cared
these ''reformers" for the consti-
tuition?
What other reform did they
enact? An election law. They
stole it almost bodily from the
Democrats-honest and fair
with only the partisan changes
that the ''reformers" made in it.
What other reform? The county
bill? Well, what is
it? Is it whit better than that
Of the Democrats? It is inf
nitely worse.
But all these measures will
themselves when they
go into effect, and the people
will con them we'll before the
November. election Of '96 rolls
round. They cannot thus early
be instilled into their experience
the medium of newspa-
pers. They will work them
selves out in good time.
AS to those other reforms.
showing the manner and nature
Of the ''Refawmers", such as the
eliminating from their delibera-
tions the spirit of patriotism and
common gratitude, as evidenced
by their refusal to adjourn in
honor of Washington and Lee,
and the deep depths of degrade
ton which they touched in their
in honor of miscege-
nationist Fred Douglas, we refer
our readers to the report of the
committee published in another
column of this issue.
But the record is with the peo-
pie, and it cannot be gainsaid:
and THE ARGUS will see to it
that it shall be made familiar
learning with our numerous read
ers as the days go by, and the
weeks and months that lie be-
tween this and the election of '96.