Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-09-25
PUBLIC UTTER
ANCES.

According to recent press dis
patches from Atlanta, Governor Can
dler, of Georgia, sees blood spots on
the moon in connection with the
withdrawal of Speaker Henderson
from the congressional race. Gov
ernor Gambler is quoted as saying:
"Henderson is fleeing from the
wrath to come. He sees the hand
writing on the wall and he is anX-
ious to get out. There is going to
be a revolution of sentiment in this
country against the Republic an party
and its oppressive measures, and if
that revolution is not successful, and
if the Republican party continues in
power and continues its oppressive
measures, allowing the trusts to
dominate the country, there is going
to come a revolution of blood, one
that will stir the country from one
end to the other and one which the
world has never seen the like Of or
heard of. The people are tired of
the trusts and Republican domina-
tiOn."
There is very little doubt that
Speaker Henderson is Efee1ng from
the wrath to Gomez and has seen
"the handwriting on the WALL" fig
uratively speaking. Men do not
throw up positions of broad influence
carrying high public honors without
some better excuses than Speaker
Henderson has so far given. He is
an observant man, and a politician,
and he has been in public life long
enough to be able to interpret such
signs as were recently manifest in
his native State. He was compelled
to realize that the storm of public
clamor for relief from the highland
ed methods of the monopolies under
Federal protection is rapidly gather
ing force as it sweeps along, and that
even in the Republican party there
is very nervous sort of uneasiness
over the situation. Nobody saw any
more clearly than did Speaker Hen
derson that he would pursue the pol
icy of prudence in getting down and
out before he was forced to it, and
he was guided accordingly in his
decision.
But wild and incendiary talk
about revolution of blood" is an
other thing entirely. Such utter
ances are not only distressingly un-
wise, but they tend to incite to fool
ish and even criminal deeds a GER
tain lawless and disorderly class
from which America has been SO far
free. Americans are as
as any people on the
globe. They are, too, level-headed
and conservative, and they are cap
able Of settling political questions
like those now agitating the nation
without resorting to force and with
out violating the Federal laws. If
the present tariff law in its attitude
towards the monopolies is wrong, as
the ARGUS believes it is, let the peO-
pie go to the polls and legally and
in order vote for such candidates for
the House of Representative and in
for candidates for the Senate
as are in favor of amending the law
to meet the demands for relief. But
in Heavens name let all rubbish
about a revolution of blood" and
such incendiary talk be suppressed.
There is no truth in it, to start with,
and it is not only uncalled for but it
encourages a spirit of communism,
the very name of which all true
Americans abhor, as was lately
proven by the almost universal senti-
ment in this country on the assassi-
nation of President Mckinley by a
anarchist. It is the duty
of every influential citizen with the
welfare of his country at heart, and
every man who by reason
of any high Office he may fill attracts
the public attention, not only to re
frain from utterances of this kind,
but to promptly discourage them in
others.
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