The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-12-14
WANTED---BY THE PEOPLE!
A POPULAR PRESIDENT OF THE
A. n n. c. Il. Il.
Nr. Bryan's Term Will shortly Expire.
The People Want a Man OF Ability and
Tact to succeed Him.

NEW BERNE, n. G., Dee. 6.-Everybody
here talks about the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad and its management
The road was built largely with money
paid by the people from Goldsboro to
Morehead. It is the chief hope of the peo
pie of this section. 1t furnishes them an
outlet. Naturally, whatever policy is pur-
sued in regard to the road deeply concerns
the people, not only of the city of New
Berne but all along the line Of the road as
well.
When Governor Scales became the Ci.lef
Executive of the State he had warmer
friends nowhere than in this section of
the State They looked to him to consult
their interests and their desires in the
management Of the railroad. His first act
was to slight them by going to Chatham
county to secure a State proxy. Mr.. I. B.
Womack, who was made the State proxy,
is one of the wlsest and best Of our public
men and | have the highest regard for
him, and no complaint was made against
him. 1t was against he policy of going
in the business of the road TO secure the
proxy that was complained of. The peo-
pie of this section felt-(and justly, |
think that as they were most deeply
concerned in the road, they had the right
TO expect the appointment of a gentleman
living along the line of the road as State
proxy. There are no more patriotic men
in North Carolina than those who live IN
Wayne, Craven, Lenoir, Carteret, Jones,
Onslow, Greene and the adjoining coun-
ties. If should start out to find excel
lent business men, able lawyers, or capa-
ble men to do anything, | could find as
many of them in these counties as any
where in the State. After giving tie State
proxy 10 a gentleman from Chatham, the
Governor further incensed the people by
appointing Directors from Raleigh. The
gentlemen appointed are worthy and we'll
qualified, but the practice of taking all
control Of the ruad out Of the hands of
the men most interested in it met with in
dIonant protests But the Governor cid
not stop with these slights Of the people Of
this section He caused to be elected as
President of the road Mr.. Washington
Bryan, gentleman without business or
training, and man thoroughly unpopular.
His appointment vas not desired by any
respectable number of people IN Eastern
North Carolina 1t took them by com
plete surprise. If the Governor had ap-
pointed Nj Bryan ticket agent at Newport
Or La Grange. OF made him conductor, or
clerk in the President office, it would
have been ar appointment in keeping with
his capacity, but his best friend never
dreamed that Mr.. Bryan was bnilt on a
scale broad enough TO make Railroad
President He is small man in big
place He is a TUm-tit President
The result Of All these Sights and i'm
/ piled distrust of Eastern men, and the un-
| popular management of the a. y n. G. r..
| r., is that to-day the administration of
! Governor Scales is denounced by these peo-
/ pie in severer terms than has been the
administration of any other Go,ernor the
Democrats have given the State The peo-
| pie feel that Governor Scales has shown
them no consideration and that he has fol
four years subjected them to humiliation
and wrong They are not slow to expires;
their sentiments. Wise as Governor Scale:
has been n most matters connected witt
the administration of public affairs, (an'
have seen many things in his official life
to endorse and commend) he has bee!
he ha, lYlt
in dealing with this railroad. His polio.
has been one calculated to aliepate th,
people Of this section, and to make then
feel hat he distrusted them. He has pu
the road in the hands OF a man who, eX
cept in a clerical way, is wanting in tact
capacity and breadth. The people her
did not want Nj. Bryan appointed, ant
they do not now want him as President o
the road, and yet the Governor keeps him
| | regret that Governor Scales, in the face o
the known unpopularty of Mr. Bran, ha
weakened his administration by stlckin
to Mr Bryan. 1t is unfortunate for hin
as it is likewise unfortunate for the Eas
tern people.
iot yC1lo lhS pOOpiN VI N'iee'SLi -iee '
been under the cloud of negro rule. The
have always given large Democratic vot
and they are entitled to at least some con
sideration at the hands of Democrat
administration. Governor Scales has nc
given them the consideration they desery
ed. They now look to Governor elet
Fowle to aid them, and they will ask hil
to do three things:
FIRsT-To appoint a gentleman wh
lives along the line of the road as prox
2 for the State;
r SECOND To appoint Directors who Ii,
in the same territory;
THIRD To put Washington Bryan OF
: as President and to put in his place
D broad, we'll equipped, able and populs
/, man ENDORSED BY THE EASTERN PEOPLE
: They think (and never did people hay
t greater right to hold such an opinion) tn;
s Governor Fowle, an Eastern man, ougl
> to he interested in the development of II
East, aud that in appointing man TO tt
o Presidency of the road HE OUGHT To A
/ POINT THE MAN THEY DESIRE. No living ma
a with thimble full of sense, doubts NJ
9 Bryan's unpopularity. 1t is the height (
ahsur6itv tn saw that no other man ca