Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-06-18
EITHER CESAR OR NOTHING.

Thomas b. Reed Indignantly
declares that he will not except
nomination for the vice-presi~
dency. Either Caesar or moth
ing" is his characteristic motto,
and his friends are not far as
tray in considering him a bigger
man than Major McKinley; but
it is not always the bigger man
who gets the nomination.
Meanwhile, the Ohio candidate
continues to invite his rivals to
''come to Canossa," i. e., to Cam
ton, propitiate the 1uler who is to
be--if he get the nomination, and
if the nomination be followed by
election; two big 'ifs" with many
a but perhaps in the way.
For there r many side issues
to be met and overcome, or ever
the bogus Napoleon shall sit in
the White House. There are the
Populists, who claim to have A.
900, 900 votes, the same number
claimed with equal credibility by
the A. P. AS. There are the
Silverites or Bi-Metallists, who
hope to influence the result by a
judicious use of coin, silver or
gold as the case may be, provide
ed enough of either he used to
reach the conscience of the venal
delegate,
The silverites are in the main
honest, and cannot be bought;dit-
to the Populists, in So far as they
are not identical with the A. p, |
AS. AS forthe latter, the man who
would spend much money inpur~
chasing their support would buy
rabbits for shipment toAustralia,
or ice for the Greenland market.
Breckenridge has come out for
Congress. It doesn't need a crow
bar to make a Kentucky man
open his mouth.
Hanna having a private wire
to Canton is singular. It shows
that Mckinley is nor willing to
talk over iron and copper than
over gold and silver.
Every day some other branch
of trade complains about the BIZ
cycle hurting it. Still, the
wheelman probably runs over
the list without noticing it.
Spain is said in some quarters
to be spelling for a fight with
these United States. If the re-
port is true, she must be spoii>
ing, at least.
Tine Bermuda's owners have
decided not to use that vessel
any for fllibustering pur.
poses. They find that fllibuster-
ing costs nor than it comes to,
so to speak.
ADJOURNMENT is not exactly |
the end for which Congress was
sent to Washington, but under
the circumstances it is a praise
worthy one
AS Mr.. Speaker Reed had to
give way to Ex-Governor Me-
Kinley, SO will every Republican
silverite have to give way to a
goldite. The st. Louis conven |
ton has nothing to do but lay
down a platform. It has already |
selected it's nominee for Presi-
dent. How preposterous to look
for the Republicans to go farther
in defence of silver than the
Democrats!
The popularity of the Repub>
lican concern about the WE'LL
being of the negro delegates al
St. Louis is that it is wholly pol
litlcal. So far as appears, 40
Republican resident of the
Mound City has undertaken to
entertain in the bosom Of his |
own family one or more of these
colored representatives, and yet
the average Southern white Re
publican is not over nice.
The public censor of individ
uals, literary movements, or
methods of government should, |
speak Or write against the back
ground of the highest standards,
moral, literary and political. He
should be ~impersonal. The mos
ment he proclaims himself as the |
standard of measurment, he neu-
tralizes the value of those points |
in his criticism which were true
and we'll taken, and makes him
self ridiculous besides. MI. Will
liam Henry Thorne, Editor of the
Globe Review, imagines that the
mantle of Brownson has fallen
upon him. 1t is we'll that it has
not, for he would be smothered
under its ample folds.
JOSEPH PULITZER, of the New
York World, was given a ban-I
quet by his English admirers last
week, and made a speech in
which he recounted his services
on behalf of peace when PRESS
dent Cleveland was so vigorous |
~ abused by him for the vene-
zuelan message. Mr.. Pulitzer
became positively eloquent in
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