The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-18

brick fFom the IeuiSeay
brick ward, ETC.. ETC. Can these things
he provided. and hauled. and furnished,
without cost? Nor is this all!
For, let US suppose the Palace to be
erected at a cost of $4,000. or even as
low as go. 200; does not every ialr-mln-
ded person know that the full cost Ola
public building is double the mere cost OF
erecting the edifce!
a $4,000 palace will need $4,000 FOR
furniture and furnaces. An ornamen-
tai iron fence; a sewer for drainage; q
stand Of flowers and shrubbery, with a
salaried gardener TO arrange them.-will
cost 10000. Insurance, lightning rods,
stables and numerous other furnishing
and furnishings will. as we said, very
likely swell the total to 800, 900.
Of curse when the Palace Is COM
pleted. the Governors salary will have
to be raised. To put a $4,000 Governor
II a 500. 900 palace would once o
shock the dignity" of those who think
a Governor has no dignity unless he
cuts a swell, in gorgeous array, feathers
and trippcries. brass bands and York
town uniforms,
Raise tile Governors salary, and all
the other state officers must soon fol-
low. True their pay at present is not
e~xiravagart; but do you know why
politics are so corrupt at h North !.
Answer: Because the salaries are SO
hugh. the palaces so luxurious, the
perquisitcs OF office so gre,t-that every
State capital is surrounded by PROBES
sional PoliticianS."-men who never
earn a dollat at any legitimate employ
ment. but who by means OF rings, bri-
berry. intrigue. and combinations with
Railroad or other monOpolies, keepcon-
troll Of the offices year after year. The
Cameron ring controlled Pennsylvania
for 20 years tile Blaine ring controlled
Maine tie Conkling ring controlled
New York the Talbot ring controlled
MasSa i.usctts. the New Haven ring
controlled Rhode Island, and so from
State 10 State. We have in North
Carolina men who have held office ever
s.ncc tie war; and have become yir-
uually professional politicians" who
would scarcely ear their salt if turned
uut ut office.
For our part, we see 10 need for a
Governors Palace. The very idea. is a
relic of the old Colonial days when the
Provinces had Royal Governors - and
all public affairs revolved around him.
NORTH Carolina as a free commonwealth
las a government composed of the Exec
utile. the Legislative, and the Judiciary.
They are co-equal IN honors, and dis
tinct III powers.
If the Governor is to have a Palace,
then the Ju tees of the Supreme Court
ought to have one and all the judges,
aud perhaps the Secretary OF S ate, and
oth1r Ulcers, each of whom In his
sphere is the equal of the Governor, and
distinctly independent of him.
We object to the Palace because it
will ruin every poor man who is chosen
10 the Cfflce, and many of our ablest, no
hlest, aud most deserving people are very
OR. 1t is a singular fact that for twenty
-"ars no Governor of North Carolina has
seen at to live IL the Governors Man
sion. They all preferred to take the
u.n.ture and the rent $500 a year, and
live IN IA private building, or hotel. 1t
has been laid the old palace is unhealthy
get COO children of ali ages are occupy
ing 1t, IN al sorts of weather, year after
year!
We have said that the idea of a
Governor, Palace is uu-Republican.
un Democratic, and ought to be dis
tasteful to North C~arolnians. of all PEG
pie. Perhaps some of our n
readers have forgotten that one hundred
year, ago their grand-iathers arose In
arms to oppose an extravagant Governor.
La 1867 the editor Of the Farmer and
-1fchm M it.n.>d d >ke'ch of the ola
: Pa,ace' ruins, viii IA may still be seen
Ou INlHS otOi &c 'tlCtt- ~ NDSIu f, anu
as tie circumstances nay =, int a moral
for the Democratic party at this juno
ture, we give an extract just as written
10 years ago -
IN 1865, O.. VIM. Tryon was APP
pointed Royal Governor OF the Province
If North Carolina. This man. who uni
ted the character of the soldier 60 that
Of he politician in a mos, consumate
manner, proved a despot by nature, and
a coxcomb in fancy
The scheme of erecting a palace which
should eclipse ali other edifices In the
land. seems to have seized hold of his
imaginati Il the moment he was inaugu-
rared, and all the energies of his mind.
and all the influence of his position, were
immediately given to this project with
such success, that within a year he
succeeded ID obtaining an appropriation
from the Legislature Of 50 900 to build
a Government House. ia Newbern.
TryoD was by no means backward in
spending money which did not. come
from his own pocket, and accordingly
laid the foundation for a building of very
extensive dimensi )ns. Indeed SO great
were his preparations TO tuild, that the
entire amount was expended before the
foundations were complete. They COW
cred two acres aud still exist.
Tryon accordingly went to work to SC
cure a second appropriation. All the
influence of his official capacity, and even
that of the King, III an indirect way. was
brought to bear upon the General AS
sembly then in session in \, wbern, while
every Establishment of society was exert
ed by the ladies' ofthe Governors house
hold to win over individual members.
Lady Tryon and her sister, Miss Esther
Wake, were both gifted and accomplish
cd to an extraordinary degree, and are
said to have had greater influence in
political circles at that time than the