Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-09-14
"WHAT Is 1T TO USY

We regret to find an article under the above head
in the last number of the Raleigh Press indicating
by its tone, even more than by its precise words,
feeling of hostility to Gov. Ellis the ostensible
ground of complaint being that the Raleigh Register,
an opposition paper, receives favOrs at the hands
of State Executive. while the Press, democrat
ic paper, does not. We have said that this is the
ostcnsble ground of complaint because, unless some
previous irritation had existed, some tendency to
find fault been the moving power, slight examine
ton would have shown that no such cause of COM
plant 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, or We might say to any
paper was the advertisement Of the School Dstribu-
ton which was advertised in the Standard and or
dered to be copied into other papers, the Register
among the number, on the nth day of May last, at
time when the Press not even in existence, 1t
having first appeared about the last of May or the
first of June. Some bank notices were also insert
ed in the Register by order of the commissioners OF
the Bank of North-Carolna, owing to the fact that
"a large number of the stockholders i'll that insttu.
ton belonged to the opposite party and had right
t, 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 hut one. This Could not
be regarded as State printing.
So far as inserting the advertisement Of the School
Distribution in the Register goes, it was uniformly
done by Governors Reid and Bragg, without any
complaint being made or thought Of
by the way, it is little strange that such qner-
rulous reference should be made to Governor Ellis,
whose course, when examined, is not amenable to
ensure, even under the test applied to 1t by the
Press, while no reference at all is made to Mr..
Courts, the State Treasurer, who has during the
year inserted four five notices in the Register and
"not in the Press" and We might add, not by way
of complaining, not one in the journal either, dll-
ring bis whole term of service.
We do not refer to this matter the especial de-
tenders of Gov. Ellis but simply with view to
h,ving attention called to the facts of the as
they really exist and in the hope of undeceivng the
Editor of the Press upon whose mind an impression
has evidently been made that it has been unfairly
treated We aude to it also under the painful con-
victon that, however quiet things may appear on
the surface there still unpleasant elements at
wcrl about the centre Of the State-inhuences opc-
rating and aiming to array and classify leading De-
mocrats the heads Of opposing cliques and to
list Democratic voters under the banners of or
other of these cliqucs. The party must get rid of
such things, if it would prosper. 1t may lie said
tina, the disputes or differences between cliqnes at
the centre matters of which papers at distance
cannot fairly take cosnizancc; but surely matters
relating to the Executive of the State possess an
interest not confined to the Capital even to the
Metropolitan district. Neither can Democratic or
CANS in that district assume to cast ccnsure upon
those of other districts in common with their own,
and then claim immunity from reply upon the
ground that they arc simply dischargng their duty
to the democratic party of their own district, as
does our worthy friend Of the Warrenton Nems. 1t
will not to to Mcssrs. Shaw and Scales to-
gcher with all others who do not approve the poll
cy Of the thirty million BILL and expect that persons
out of the district any than those in it. should
remain silent Perhaps the Raleigh Press and the
Warrenton Ners may ask in the terms of the cap
ton CT this article, "What is it to U.s." We think,
by this time, we have shown that it is much to us,
and that We have right to refer to these matters
without su1jecting ourselves to the charge Of Off
cious intcrmeddling.- VII. Journal