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knows how to fight and he is not afraid
to fight His coming back may be taken
as legal notice to all whom it may con-
Germ, that no pains will be spared to re-
turn the Democrats to power, in this
State, in 1896. Indeed, in his announce
ment made a few days ago, he tells the
public what his purpose is, in plain
words. He throws down the gauntlet to
the Co-operationists and evidently ex-
poets them to take it up. He will not
be disappointed. We take it up. We
take it up, with something OF
THE stern joy which warriors feel.
In foemen worthy Of their steel"
And, while We do not make boast Of
our prowess, we feel too keenly the JUS
tice of our cause to permit us to be a
laggard in the fray. We promise, Mr..
Daniels, please God, to be present at the
death, as the hunters say
There is one part of Mr.. Daniels can
nouncement" which we think in bad
taste; and which might very we'll have
been omitted We refer to his expressed
determination to redeem the State That
is sort Of high assumption, that might
be the prerogative of angels, If they were
not too modest; and which tempts per-
sons of much humor to indulge in i'm
moderate laughter, when they see it af-
fected by mere mortality, and mere
Democratic mortality, at that.
By the redemption Of the State, we
suppose Mr.. Daniels means the taking
of North Carolinian public affairs out Of
the hands of the Fusionists in 1896. Mr..
Daniels may be able to do this. But if
he shall accomplish it, we shall be ready
to admit, that something greater than
the most difficult of the seven labors of
Hercules has been accomplished by
mere man. And, in that case, We shall
regret the richness that would have ac
crued to the story Of Greek Mythology,
had Mr.. Daniels lived two or three thou
sand years earlier.
Mr. Daniels undertakes his task with
splendid courage-a courage which seems
all the more splendid because Of the abb
sence of some other qualities of the thor
oughly furnished warrior. indeed, Mr..
Daniels courage reminds us strongly of
the story of the bull and the, locomotive.
Mr.. Daniels intends to redeem the
State. He means to take this old Com
monwealth back into the hands Of the
aristocratic coterie that have held it, and
selfishly used it, for the last twenty
years He means to subject all men and
question, in this State. to the machine
methods, which have been employed for
twenty years. He means to have our
elections so conducted in the future that
there shall be no possibility of ascertain
ing what the will of the people upon any
question is--that is to say, he means to
govern this State by the will of a min
GRITTY. He means to put the appointing
of nearly all the county officers into
the hands of a few Democratic executive
committees.
He means to redeem the State We
same sense, in trying to persuade the an
gels to quit their innocency, and join him
in his bad rebellion against all good.
We assure Mr.. Daniels that we shall
be present at the redeeming The people
will be present too, and have something
to say about the matter. Never fear for
that! "A . g u
EaXctly eight years have passed A
er the men who then derided the predic-
ton of the News and Observer that the
men who had obtained power by appeals
to prejudice would be driven from control
of the government of this good Common
wealth. No one factor-no dozen men
no single influence produced this revolu-
ton. But the daily revelation of the