Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-04-09


months. Striking out that section permitted
violation of the Constitution. squlnder,ng OF
the school fnnd and fraud upon the cnlidten o.
the State. AS much as he desired fee SCHOOLS,
and as much as his constituents needed them, he
| never could vote for the bill. j.,
M-. Hayes said that when great man died,
the ags were put ct half mast, and the bells
were toed in respect to departed greatness AZ
the II was the death of all weak kneed Repuhli.
cans, he hoped that the flag on the capitol would
be put at half mast, and that tie bell would be
toIled to let the people know that those Republl-
cans were in dyirg condition, and would in
political sense be placed wis re they won ID cease
from troubling and where til II weary aouls would
be at rest. Laughter
Mr. French aaid that as the Republicans were
absent. and the bill failed to provide Tor the pro-
per educational wants Of the people, he hoped
that its passage would be put down as Demo
cratic triumph. &c.
The Rutherford Star and the Whining
ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad
Company.
The editors of the Rutherford St(u, in
their issue of April LIST, instant, call upon
us to answer certain questions with regard
to the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther
ford Railroad Company, which we are dis
posed, Of least, to try to answer We de-
sire to say, however. that sce do not profess
to be able to ans Uer for This Company. The
Board of Directors are business men and
they pursue their business according to
their best judgment. and they keep their
own counsel. The President of this Com
pany is our warm, personal friend. Per-
sonally, he would do as much for us, and
we would do as much for him as any man
we know; but, though we have called
upon him once or twice to give us infor-
nation which would enable us to answer
certain slanderous articles, which nave ap
peared in this same Rutherford Star, he
has positively refused to give 1t to us,
saying that the Stockholders of the Com
pany could command any information from
him which they desired al the proper time,
and in the proper manner; but he would not
say anything to us, or to any body else which
| was likely to lead him or his COMPANY into
a newspaper controversy. We say. there
| fore, that what We write IS written upon
our own responsibility. according to the
| best information we have and he have no
information of which the editors Of The
Rutherford Star could not hare availed them
seEces If Mey had chosen to do SO.
| We cay, first, that if these editors had
published the whole of an article which
lately appeared in our paper upon this
very subject, instead of publishing an ex-
tract, garbled to suit their own purposes,
there would have been no necessity for
several of the questions which they pre-
tend to ask in the issue of their paper to
| which we allude, for that part of our article
| which appears to have been purposely
omitted, contains an abundant answer to
these very questions. And we say, second,
| that if these editors had read as they ought
to have read, and made themselves fully
acquainted with the reports of the officers
of this Company, which were submitted to
the regular annual meetings Of the Stock
holders, they would have found an album
dant answer to all their questions, and
there would have been no necessity for the
several articles which they have published
with regard to this Company. If it will
suit their purposes TO have their questions
answered, and then to leave the multifa-
rious matters connected with the manage
ment of the Company to the tribunal to
which it properly belongs-that is to say
to the Stockholders of the Company--we
will greatly rejoice at it, and with the hope
that we may contribute to this end, we will
answer their questions as fully and as
frankly as We can, and then, for the pres
emit, at least, we are done with the subject
The inquiries of these editors may all
be comprised in the following, taken from
their own paper
"What else could be expected whom other
roads were going ahead, nearing completion, and
the officers of this road lying their oars, re-
| ceivng handsome salaries, refusing to accept any
appropriation to complete the road, the President
affirming that he had enough money to build it,
and still not spade stuck in the ground p
The answer to these inquiries is simply
this The other roads to which the editors
J; allude are going ahead entirely upon the
credit of the State. They have received
millions of State bonds, while this road
has been compelled to rely entirely on its
II own credit, which credit, as often as it has
been established, has been broken down
by the efforts and the Misrepresentation
of the Radical party who are determined
| to control the road, to hold its offices, to
dispense its patronage. or to destroy IL. This
has been apparent in all of their actions
and the editors of the Rutherford Star have
assisted in the work. This road cannot
even collect from the State thousands OF
, dollars which the State compelled from
them in the shape Of forced loan, and
then disgracefully repudiated it (; and
though it is true that the Convention en-
: dorsed one million of dollars OF the bonds
of this Company, yet the Company has
3 been required to pay the interest on these
= bonds, and has paid it regularly This is
: more than the State can say of it's owr
{ bonds. The charge implied in the latte,
: part of this question is too ridiculous fol
notice. Everybody about here knows tina
= the officers of this Company are not lyin,
) upon their oars, but that they are hare
2 working men, and that their salaries are DO