Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-10-22
THE BATTLE is NOW ON.
Let Democrats Buckle ON Their Armour
and Forge to the Front.

Let Democrats Buckle on Their Armour
and Forge to the Front.
Friday the county canvass
opened for Wayne county that
leads up to the polls on the third
day of November. The issues Of
the campaign are now all outs
lined and the opposing candi~
dates are all named and in the
field. It is for the people to
Judge Of them and their cause.
The battle is between Democ-
racy and good government on
the one side, and Populism and
Republicanism, and all the evils
that those two parties represent,
on the other. The issue is sound
county and State government
against the misrule, extrava>
gance and dangers which the
triumph of the fusion ticket in
the county and Russell as Gov
ernor of the State would GER
ta;nly bring on. It should not
be difficult for the citizen who
has the welfare of his county
and the State at heart, who loves
the peace of home and appre-
ciates his immunity from the
terrible experiences of the recon-
structlon period, to decide how
he will cast his vote on the third
day of November next. II he
votes the straight Democratic
county ticket and for Hon. G. B.
Watson for Governor and the
balance of the straight Demo-
cratic State ticket he votes for
the continuance of good govern
ment in the county, the preser>
walton of North Carolina's credit,
the stability of her institutions
and the protection of our most
sacred rights as free white men
against the encroachmentS of RAJ
pacious negro rule in the State
and equity headed by D. L..
Russell and J. Frank Dobson.
The white man in Wayne coun-
ty who casts his vote for ]. Frank
Dobson to be chairman of the
Board of county commissioners,
for D. L. Russell for governor or
for the fusion county and leelso
lative ticket, registers himself as
favoring a return to those dire
full conditions that tried all true
mems souls in the dark days of
;68, as favori1g an extravaganza,
reckless and unstable govern
ment, a corruptible, heterogen>
eous and incompetent legislature,
such as the State witnessed to
her shame two years ago, and a
situation of affairs in county and
State that will destroy North
Cardinals credit, drive out cap
ital and threaten ruin to every
interest.
The issue is clear and should
not be misapprehended. A sol>
emn duty rests upon every Dem
ocrat and lover of good govern
ment and white supremacy, and
that is to get to work and work
increasingly for the success of
the entire Democratic ticket.
County State and Nation. We are
to win, but Democrats must
not be too confident. Not a vote
must be lost by Indifference, nor
must the opportunity to convert
an undecided voter be neglected.
The duty of Democrats is clear.
To fail of its performance is to
prove disloyal to your party, to
your State and to your family.
Republican speaker we
have heard during this campaign
has attempted to rally the ne
gro to the Republican and fusion
by drawing the color
line and appealing to their race
prejudices. Is it not time, there
fore, fer white men to stand to-
gether? Let every Democrat,
therefore, buckle on his amor
and forge to the front.
The Democratic State Execu-
tive Committee have made fire.
guent and broad and liberal
Overtures to the Populist State
Committee fora fusion
whereby white supremacy might
not be endangered in the State.
They went as far as men could
90 with honor-and even so far
as to cause many Democrats to
feel Inundated; yet the members
Of that committee are true and
honorable Democrats and bad all
the lights before them--but the
refused their every
ov%artu1e. 1t is now tiuIe, there
lore, for every white mao in
Carolina to stand up for
and vote the straight,
lntrammeled Democratic ticket.