The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-10-05
RALEIGH, N. c., FRIDAY, OCTOBER j. 1855
matter in the hands of an attorney ant
ordered suit brought

matter in the hands of an attorney and
ordered suit brought
| w. F. PELL
| Sworn aud subscribed before me August
| "a, 1888.
ID. REID UPCHURCH, J. F.
The natural query is. 'Why was not this
suit pressed:''
The answer is that Nichols pleaded his
discharge in bankruptcy The Board only
| brought suit to recover the money. and
when Nichols pleaded his discharge in
| bankruptcy, the Board thought it unnec-
essary to run the taxpayers to expense
| when the money could not be recovered
because Nichols was a bankrupt. He hau
been receiving good salary at the Insti-
tuition and been fed out of he State larder
at PUBLIC EXPENSE and yet he was bank
rupt when the State wanted him to pay
for his peculations
Against Nichols on this charge, which
he has not and cannot disprove, the peo-
pie have registered, in their minds, !. YER
diet of guilty. In November that verdict
will be registered in speaking tones in the
ballot box
Ill.
THIRD. The third reason why John
Nichols ought not to be supported by any
honest man is that he is the defrander OF
the poor and helpless. We quote again
from the STATE CHRONICLE of Sept 25th,
1897:
STRIPPED OF HIS MASK.
If John Nichols should be found guilty
of peculations when Principal of the Insti-
tuition for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. as
charged by the Board of Directors, it is
not the worst crime he has committed. 1t
is bad enough, if the charge is sustained,
to feed ones family out of the State lar'ier;
ii is worse to defraud poor deaf fellow
officer. When Nichols was Principal Of
rhe i II ;.ni t: Institution, receiving a
salary of : 500 a year, he borrowed money
about two hundred dollars, as we have
been Informed by a relative of the deceas-
ed-from Mr.. j. q. Hot, a deaf and dumb
man, who held a position in the 1nstitu-
ton and received salary OF $25. 90 a
| month. Has Nichols paid that money:
1t will not DO to say that he has not been
able to pay ii. because that would not be
the truth If he had desired to treat the
poor unfortunate man fairly he might
have paid it from his salary in the revenue
service in Durham; from his large salary
tn"t less than 81 500 a YEAR as poSt-mas-
ter at Raleigh. or from his salary as Sec
retarN of the Fair.
We have it upon the best authority that,
next to leaving his wife and children,
nothing troubled Mr. Holt on his deaf h
bed 50 much (he died last AugusD as
| Nichols, swindling him Gas he called it,
out of his hard earned money. In signs.
/ such as dumb men have to use. he talked
! of it on his death bed and said if Nichols
had not kept him out of his money, he
| could have something to leave to his de
| pendent and helpless family-doubly help
/ less by reason Of the fact that his wife.
! soon to be a widow, was, like himself, deaf
! and dumb No man who will refuse &c
I be perfectly honest. and prompt in settle
ment. in all dealings with the Ceaf and
dumb. afflicted of God, is fit TO be trust ed
/ to represent honest men. Nichols bOr
roWed the small accumulatlOns Of poor
deaf man who could neither speak mol
hear and who was an under officer whrI
he was Principal, and refused, up to the
time OF his death, to pay him. There may
be worse crimes but this writer had rath
er be any sort of criminal than de
fraud,r Of the poor and helpless And
! in the face Of this transaction NichOl:
! DrCCIdlfHS 0lmSeIl tue especial CHdIhplOI
of the poor. God pity any poor or help
less or unfortunate man or woman who
falls into his hands, or depends upon hin
for help.
At the last State Fair, as the editor o
the CHRONICLE was leaving the Fai
grounds, a widow, dressed in black, dea
and dumb. motioned tC him to stop. l
was the widow of Mr. Holt Her Objec
was to thank Us for compelling Johl
Nichols TO pay the honest debt due he
husband and which she had despa red 0
ever getting. 1t will always be a sourc
of qualification that in showing up th
character of Hypocrite we were abb
to secure justice for this lady who ha,
waited long, and, up to the public exposi
ton of Nichols's treatment of her hus
band, waited in vain. If the record 0
John Nichols's treatment of poor unfor
tunate deaf and dumb man, and afterwar
of his widow, is not sufficient to proven
men who hate taking advantage of thos
who are, b., reason Of nature, deprived O
some of their powers, from surportin
him, the CHRONICLE has not judged th
people of the Fourth Congressional DistriC
correctly.
~.
FOURTH. lie is an enemy to his ow
section and constituents, as is seen in hi