Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-09-22

stamps as an infamous falsehood
the statements of DR.. Thompson,
and gives facts and figures as they
are and as they should be. Mr..
Cooke, according to DR.. Thomp-
sons own admission, is Chris
tian gentleman, and his word, as
Mr.. Aycock said, IS as good as
Dr.. Thompson's. A check from Mr..
Cooke to DR.. Thompson containing
the Iatter's endorsement, was ac-
knowledged by him. 1t covered, too,
an item Of $3.50 "seal fees" which
he has been recklessIy charging
were never accounted for. He
was evidently greatly surprised
when confronted with this check.
It was a flank movement he had
no. been looking for. 1t lost him
his only aggressive point OF battle
ana put him on the defensive.
Ard poor defense it was.
He did not even have time
to rally. He was routed. His re-
ply :, Aycock, after this, was in
CO. orent, illogical and rambling.
The doctor will hardly wish to
face such music as this much
longer. See if the Populists do
not yet call off these joint debates.
4 Populist cannot play within
bounds. Lnsinuation, perYersion
and false assertions are his sharp
est weapons MIR Aycock, With
the check rein of accuracy, kept
| Or. Thompson from taking the
s! DIT in his teeth and running away
with the truth. The Democrat
was forced TO interrupt the Pop
uii-t unce in the course Of his
pc, versions. Perhaps it was not
| Intentional. Both men had admits
ted that they had held passes.
Dr.. Thomp pson had not used one
since 1889. MIR. Aycock had held
one as attorney for the Winning
| ten & Weldon Railroad, with one
| also over the Southern, q con-
Meeting road. DR.. Thompson said:
"C1aries (the speakers are old
friends and referred to each other
as Charles and 'Cyrus9 said he
carried a pass because Gov. Rus
sell did" Mr.. Aycock stopped
and corrected him, He had taunt-
ed Thompson with the fusionists'
hosl about stopping the free
pass evil, while the fusionist
Governor ali along bad his pock
ct full of them He (Aycock) had
merely saio that he, with his
pass, bad ridden on the same
TRAN with Russell, also riding on
q pass. Thompson resumed and
ia his first sentence misrepre-
sented Ayoock again. He said;
"Aycock admits that he has car
ried pass on two or three rail
road systems. +" The truth was
that he had admitted no such
thing. He had only admitted that,
as its attorney, he had carried 9
pass on the Wilmington and Wei
don road, which entitled him to
a pass on the Southern as a con.
nection Of that road. This, as ar
Illustration Of the delicate shad-
ing of Populist misrepresenta
ton. They can't help it.
This suggests the fact that the
young man. Mr.. Reid, who edits
| The Salisbury Watchman, the
only Populst paper represented
at The speaking, took no notes
while Aycock was speaking, but
labored most industriously over
his notesbook while Cyrus the
Great war on the War-path.
DR.. Thompson's attack upor
the character of the dead is in
defensible. It was vile, persona
abuse that he INDUCED in. Ever
the heather philosophers o
Rome moralizsd thus: Nil mis-
bonum de mortuis. It remain!
for the highly moral, extra sober
reform Secretary of State @
North Carolina to set a new pre-
cedent in this regard in tLis, thu
; dawn of the twentieth century.
) Mr.. Aycock denounced as un
qualifedly false the statemen
of Thompson that Col. A. B
? Andrews had dictated the selec
tion of MIR. r. M. Simmons a
5 Democratic State chairman.
, DR.. Thompson vaguely refer
| red to somebody as "blear
eyed bIatherskite. 1t was said h
referred to the Hon. Buck Kitch
en-, of Halifax, the most homes
man who was ever temporarily
Populist. Mr.. Kitchen must b