Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-11-15


sists on the policy which it has pur-
sued during the past two campaigns
it will continue to fail, and sooner
or later must degenerate and die.
Lord Lansdowne, who is slated
for the head of the British Foreign
Office, appears to have been born to
the purple. He has been in public
life about thirty years, and during
that time has been Lord of the
Treasury, Undersecretary of War,
Undersecretary of India, Governor
General of Canada, Governor Gen
eral of India, and since 1895 Secre-
tary of War, and yet he is rated a
man of moderate talents and is
tremendously unpopular with the
people.
It has been successfully demon
strated not only that horses and
mules can be transported to the
Philippines, but that a majority of
them arrive there in better condi-
ton than when they were loaded on
the Western coast of the United
States. Having reached the Philip
pines, experience has shown they
stand the climate as well as that of
our Southern and Southwestern
States, and the mules thrive better
than they do in the more varying
temperature to be found in America.
Never again need nation hesitate
to send along with it's advance guard
an equal force of horses, Or to ask
the question, "Can a horse stand on
his legs forty days and land alive?"
The student who is watching polit-
ical currents will turn away from
the clumsy and misleading electoral
tables to the popular vote, and when
this is ascertained in about a weeks
time, he will compare it with the
vote in 1896, and then he will be
able to say what the tendency in
this country really is. For this
purpose he will also need the Debs
vote, and all the rest of the eccentric
list. In 1896 Mckinley received T.
1O7, 1922 votes. Bryan received, on
two tickets, 6,511,O73 votes. Out of
total vote of 14,O73, 1885,. Mckinley
received clear majority of 284,771.
His plurality was 586,747. These
are the figures that must be met and
studied this year, ard we will not
know what the drift is, Or it's extent
and scope until we can do this.
One curious revelation of the new
census is that the center of popula :
ton has moved but slightly since
ten years ago, and it will require a
nicer calculation than is yet possible
to determine whether it has moved
westward Or eastward. For long
period it has been steadily moving
westward, and by the last census. it
was found to be a little west of south
of Greensburg in Indiana. By this
census it appears that the states
wholly west of the longitude of that
point have increased almost precisely
the same as the states lying wholly
east of it, about 100000 each. The
remaining $4,000 increase is in
states which the meridian passes
through, and not until the increases
in the east and west parts of these
are determined. will it be know1
what and in what direction the
change is.
It is announced that Rear Admira
Silas Casey, who will soon complete
three years of service as Command
ant of the League Island Navy Yard
will be transferred to the Pacif,
coast or to China, and will be sue
ceeded by Rear Admiral Georg'
w. Sumner, now in charge of tn,
Port Royal Navy Yard. It is no
publicly known whether Rear Ad
miral Casey will be assigned as chic
of the Pacific or Asiatic squadron
Rear Admiral Casey is one of tn,
unknown and unrewarded heroes O
the Spanish war. It came when b.
was on land service after havin.
made brilliant record at sea, AM
his duties as Commandant at Leagu
Island were vastly more importan
to the success of the navy in tn
war than any service that was rer
dered by commanders in naval bal
ties. Tt was his task to fit out mos
imperfectly equipped navy for