Wilmington journal., 1859-09-09
IS What is n tn Us go

ssWhat Is TO go
We regret to find an article under the above head in
the last No. of the Raleigh Press indicating by its
tone more than by its precise words, feeling OF
hostility to Gov Ellis the ostensibe ground of complaint
being that the Raleigh Register opposition paper
receives favors at the hands of State Executive,
while the Press, democratic paper, does not We
have said that this is the ostensbe ground OF COM
plant, because unless previous irritation had ex-
isted or some tendency to find fault been the moving
power, slight examination would have shown that no
such cause of complaint as that set forth by the Press,
could properly be assumed.
The only printing or patronage that the Governor had
to give to either paper, might say to any paper
was the advertisement of the School Distribution which
was advertised in the andar and ordered to be copied
into other papers, the Register among the number
the 7th day of May last, at time when the Press
was not even in existence it having first appeared about
the last of May first of June. Some bank notices
were also inserted in the Register by order OF the Com
mssioners Of tie Bank of North Carolina owing to the
fact that large number OF the stockholders IN that
Institution belonged to the opposite party and had
right to have these notices placed in some OF their own
papers, as they paid for them out of their own private
funds at least thought the Commissioners, of whom
the Governor is but one This could not be regarded
as State printing.
So far as inserting Tthe advertisement Of the School
Distribution in the Register goes, it uniformly done
by Governors Reid and Bragg, without any complaint
being made or thought of.
By the way it is little strange that such querruoCs
reference should be made Govenor Ellis whose course
when examined not amenable to cCDsure, under
the test applied to it by the Press while no reference at
all is made to Mr. Courts the State Treasurer who has
during TIE year inserted four five notices in the
Register, and "not one in the Press" and we might
add not By way of complaining, however, not one in
the Journal either during his who'll term of service
We do not refer to this matter the especial defen-
ders Of Gov. Ellis but simply with view to having at
tenton called to the actsof the they really exist
and in the hope of undecevng the Editor of the Pres"
upon whose mind impression has evidently been made
that it has been unfairly treated. We aude to also
der the painful conviction that however quiet things
appear on the surface there unpleasant elements
work about the centre of tie Stae-infuences opera
ting and aiming to array aud classify leading Democrats
the heads Of opposing cqnes and to enlist Democrat
c under the banners OF the other Of these
cliques. The party get rid of such things, if it
would prosper 1t may be said that the disputes or dit
erences between cliques at the matters o
which papers at distance cannot a take cognizance
but surely matters relating to the Executive Of the State
posses an ntest confined to the Capital even
to the Metropolitan district. Neither can Democratic
organs in that district to cast upon those
of other districts N common with their OWn and ther
claim immunity from reply upon tie ground that they
are simply dischargng tLer duty to tue Democratic
party of their own district, does worthy
friend of the Wanenton Nears. 1t will not dc
to censure Messrs Shaw and Scales together with all
ouers who do not approve the policy OF the thirty mil
lion bl and expect that persons out of the district any
mere than those in it, should remain silent Perhaps
the Raleigh P,esS' and the Warrentom Neecs' may
ask in the terms of the caption of this article hat
is it to Us? We think, by this time, have shown
that it is much to u.s. and that have right to refer
to these matters without subectDg ourselves to the
charge OF ofic0us intermeddlng.