The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
NOTES By THE WAY.
THE EDITOR HEARS
pEOpLE TALKING ABOUT.
rotL. VIII Talk, Often Forgetting the
u,,im "A Chiefs Aman@ We Takin'
>nt,~ and Faith he'll prent it,

r-a he viii be elected Speaker in the
uaa-e Rowan will contest for the cham
fga representation.
-1r the CHRONICLE don't succeed among
III men who are not fit for treason, STRAIT
,asn and strife, I'll be mistaken" sad a
Worth Carolina school teacher day or two
,ure Why do you put it that wayI'
Ieuered We'll, he replied, :. was at
ra. Teachers Assembly at Black Mountain
aaa your Mr. Arendell was there and at
night he would sing the most beautiful
,,nes. Later | have chanccd to meet your
Mr. Hardy and he can get more music out
ef a harp than any man | ever read about
and his mocking bird whistle will attract
ANYBODY | mean, continued the gen
tleinan, that you have started the right
way to get all lovers Of music to take the
rHRoNIcLE and that us all who don't love
music are fit for stratagem, &c, you'll soon
hlye all the good people in the State on
your list.
a was at the Judicial Convention at
smithtieId," said Johnston county man,
and was impressed with what Mr. f. A.
Daniels, of GoldsborO, said of Judge Clark
and the more | think of it the more am
convinced that it was true. He said, in
effect that while we had other Judges who
had performed their duties with faithful
ness that he verify believed that in the
few short months Judge Clark had been on
the bench he had done more to deter peo-
pie from crime than any other Judge
had done in ten years There are other
Judges as learned and as honest, but
none Of them had so fully made the peo-
pie believe that swift punishment would
follow conviction as Judge Clark. tell
YOU. continued the gentleman, ''that is
The truth every word of it, Look at the
tight the law breakers and their abettorS
make on him. They are trying to Kill him
but they can't succeed the people are with
him
See that man smoking there said a
Gentleman as we were waiting the ap-
lroach of the train. "Who is he, queri
ed He is Hon. Mr. -, a thoroughly
good man. He has a brother who is the
meanest man on the face of the earth.
an you explain to me, sir, asked the
Gentleman with energy, why in one fam
iIy is SO often seen brothers who are so un-
ike. | told him didn't have the time
if possessed the knowledge, to go into
an explanation and application of the laws
Of heredity. The gentleman walked off
and ! opened my n. y Start is the best
Democratic daily in America and the first
paragraph my eyes rested upon was, The
Democrats of Tennessee nominated Hon.
Robt. l.. Taylor for Governor on the 18th
ballot" | recalled the fact that some
days ago Hon. A. A. Taylor-a brother
had been nominated for the same place by
the tennessee Republicans. recalled the
inquiry of my friend and involuntarlly
found myself specializing As to the causes
that 30 widely separated these brothers. a
hot them KynulI a
interest and probably excite bad feeling.
The funniest speech on record said a
prominent Eastern man, lis the one
made 10y the newly nominated Coroner of
county. After he was nominated
the earnest true blue Democrats called on
him for speech. He had never before
e,sayed to ''speak in public and it was
not to have been expected that he would
do otherwise than fall below the other
great orators of the county. But, like a
Roman, he would not shirk duty and
came forward to make his speech. 1t
was something like this:
Fellow -Citizens:-l am proud to thank
you for the nomination for Coroner of the
'.glorlful old county" of . | isn't
used to speech making and will ask you to
ScuSe me from making one | will say
that, as you all know, when Jesus Christ
was on the earth the greatest miracle he
performed was TO raise a man from the
dead. When | am elected Coroner and
set on the dead bodies and raise them up
/ Will then perform my greatest miracle.
He retired with applause, never dreaming
that in the comparison he had made he
had been sacrilegiouS. An honest sort of
man he is and as the ''intention' and not
the act constitutes the gravamen of an
olfense, his allusion was probably no sin
Il am Il convert and want to be enrolled
on the list of Civil Service Reformers,
said Young lawyer of ability who attend
ed the Congressional Convention of the
Third District at Clinton last week | was
surprised, for this young gentleman had,
some months ago, told me that he didn't
believe in it and thought Cleveland was
wrong. when were you converted. give
IN your experience" | answered. ''lr
the Congressional Convention of the Third
District there were five postmasters-
maybe more and they were all active Greer
places and they felt bound to exert them
selves to secure his denomination. Their
there was another class of men in the
convention who had no business there
men who had been turned out of office by
Green They were ready to do anything
to beat him and were not competent to bt
fair representatives Of the people. Whel
saw these two classes Of men at the con
yention-some of them the most active
said to myself | want to put myself OF
record against a recurrence of such {
thing | believe now that Cleveland Ii
right and honor the CHRONICLE for stand
ng up to him. | don't believe Congress
man ought to have single office in hi:
power to give to anybody, or to have ;
single package of seed to distribute, or {
public document to give away. All these
things tend towards corruption in politics
don't think Col. Green used them to hell
himself more than any other Congressman
bat no man has right to use public place
Or public documents or seed to retain him
self IN office. Put me down hencefortf
as Civil Service Reformer." And we've
got him on the list"
ou editors," said prominent Nortf
Carolnian to the CHRONICLE editor a few
days ago, ''have way of bringing all YOU
personal quarrels and differences before
llIe public iii a way that don't like. Why
should you have any more right to tak'
'he public into your differences with othel
hen than | should? | believe in imper
soha journalism. believe that editors
ought to discuss principles and measures
d not allied to or related to men. The
Tariff ought to be discussed as an abstract
luesnon-not from the standpoint of the