Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-18
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REPUBLICANS HEAR SOME
THING DROP WITH A
SICNENING SOUND.
It's KarrisOn's Declaration: Nc
KinIey ShOuters Feel That
The Jig Is About Up I'm
less Something Desper-
ate Can Be Done.

Indianapolis. Ind, Oct. 12.-Ex-
President Harrison's statement is
Enthusiastically big disappointment
to Indiana Republicans. They had
looked for something more to their
liking,
Evidences Of The disappointed feel
ing were seen wherever Governor
Roosevelt went to day. Notwith-
standing that the Roosevelt demon
stration was occupying the minds OF
the Republican managers, they
showed that they expected more
from General Harrison than they
received.
The State Committee thought it
had satisfactory assurances that the
President would make at least
one important campaign address and
had planned to secure several short
speeches besides. The plan was to
have his principal address made at
Fort Wayne, or Lafayette and to
take him 20 the place selected on
special train which would make a
number Of stops, SO as to give the
Republicans series of rallies. This
was the arrangement followed in
General Earrison's campaign tour
of 1896. His declaration that he
would make no speeches this year
has upset the State Committee pre-
mature arrangements.
Publicly the Republican leaders
say General Harrison's course is
sssatisfactory." Some of the news
papers republish his Carnegie Hall
speech OF four years ago, in which
he criticised Bryan. This, however,
does not meet with the expectation
of Indiana Republicans, which was
for a new speech from General Har-
rison that would cover new ground
and compel discussion and refuta-
ton by the Democrats.
The Democrats bad been counting
on campaign deliverance from MN
which would be one of the strong
Republican influences in the last
weeks of the campaign and had been
prepared to meet it. They are reliev-
ed by his mild Endorsement of his
party's position on a few points and
are making mucn of his denuncia-
tion of the Porto Rican bill.
The Republicans would have beer
grateful If General Harrison coulc
have been persuaded to say some
thing about the flag in the Philip
pines. Their greatest disappointment
is over his silence on this subject
Some of them say that when he re
turns home and sees how the Dem
ocrats are making capital out of his
brief utterances he will make
speech to his neighbors, but tF -,
own wishes are the only basi q f.
their belief
To state the fact bluntlv the r,
publicans of Indiana VIII s,n,,oo;ol
the political situation -. ~es.od ;,
yond expression. W; 4nass tho uor,
of leader who is .,ak;. croot :
forts to capture 4ba fa-rnar,a vot
anu ieneaooei that unless McKinl'
Indiana:
- 1e first place the India,
aore s. vote is as two to one col
-. d with the city vote. Whe1
ii you that the Republican poll
the city vote shows a loss of 40
votes in Indianapolis alone, you "
understand that Mckinley is beat
unless we make corresponding gai
in the rural districts. Now, in Is
Bryan was strong in the rural
gions of Indiana, and we must g
six to eight votes in every coun
precinct before we can win. We
sure that Bryan has gained in nea
every town in the State, and nat