Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-04-01
A u TOMBWARD.

bdliy puts cup Oh lls
shoulder for the ARGUS by reason
of an editorial of our esteemed
friend and contemporary the Will
mington Messenger, which we re-
produced, with due credit, in
these columns one day last week.
We published the editorial in
question without q line of com
and, therefore, we + at a loss to
know why the Tribune did not
take issue with the Messenger in
the first instance, instead of with
the ARGUS, a week later, and at
second hand?
But this query is not indicted
for the purpose of Sinking any
controversy with the Tribune or
shifting the responsibility for the
editorial in question, which we
published from the Messenger in
full and which we endorse as fully
and more So, if necessary.
Commenting or the editorial in
question, the Tribune says:
$50 far as the Executive Of the
State is concerned, there is a
modicum of truth in the above
extract; but SO far as the Repub>
lican party is concerned, there is
not an atom of truth, sense or
reason in it.
$50 far as the laws enacted by
the late Legislature go, we are
free to say the bulk of them are
wise and the best ever made by
any Legislature Of North Caro-
lima.
''There were laws enacted that
are not approved by the Repub-
lican party, but will the Argus
be as honest as we, in admitting
that no Legislature that ever sat,
failed to pass laws that were or
could be approved by all the peo-
pie?
s'This last Legislature did pass
such laws, but they were few
comparatively speaking, and will
be corrected by the next Legis-
lature.
"We do not all see things
alike, and a law that Republicans
believe to be for the best inter>
est of the people, may be consid>
cred by Democrats bad.
"That is a matter of State and
political opinion; but to charac-
terize the Republican party as a
gang of rascals. ETC., is so con-
temptible. mean and low lived
that it is hardly worthy Of a res
spectacle newspaper to call at
tention 10 it,
Governor Russell has made
many mistakes in his appoint.
ments. 1t was right that he, or
any Governor, should have GER
tain power in the State, but the
Governor has gone out of his
way; he has displeased his party,
but it is to be hoped that these
men thus appointed may fill the
offices economically and honests
"; but many of them are not Re-
publicans, and the Republican
party cannot, and will not, be
responsible for their acts.
1.-The Republican party stands
for good government, for honest
and economic government-govs
eminent for and by the people.
It represents the best interprea
tation of statecraft, and while
there may be land it is unfortu-
nate) differences among its mem
bers if wrongs and mistakes are
made, they must fall upon the
hoads of those in authority, and
not upon the Republican party
for to a certain degree they have
broken away from that party and
set up shop of their own; but the
grand old party will remain true
to its principles and steadfast in
it's effort to better the condition
of the masses of the people"
In reply to all this WEIGHING in
and wiggling out OF the Tribune,
the ARGUS has simply to say, that
next to Populism in power we
consider the Republican party in
power the greatest curse that
could befall the people of the
State. And we will be 9'just az
honest as the Tribune" and say,
in the words of the Caucasian,
that the late Legislature was the
& most damnable disgrace that
ever afflicted our State.
The Republicans and Populists
fused for pelf and pie. Both are
without principle when Office is IN
sight. We regard neither as le-
liable for the government of a
people, and both as to be feared
and fed from as the deadly pes
thence that stalks at noon day.
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