The Durham daily globe., 1890-07-24

anu SenllencH, TO take YOlL-''''e
est confideneo, 4Iot me into your
1ehUe-don't misunderstood me il
the very beginning, please-for it is fal
from my intention to attempt to work
the coincidence game" here tonight
The fact is, the impression is abroad, but
very unjustly, l dare say, that a buncc
steerer never stoops to work an editor.
In profTering to take you into my full
est cOntidence-to be dead honest with
yOu-it is not 50 much as a compliment
to you, as it is to give myself the OppOr-
tunity to put a so per cent. excuse on my
effort this evening, in hopes thereby to
bring it up to about par, with ''market
easy and no demand"
When ! accepted the honor Of address
ing the North Carolina Press Association
on this occasion, l had not expected that
"this occasion" would be in the metrop-
oils of Durham (where the finest Carr
works in the world are, may mention
in passing). Indeed, [ had anticipated
that the Association would meet way off
yOnder, where it would perforce flock
considerably by itself; and in that event,
| felt that it would not be unbecOming in
me to talk to the gang just dry so.
Imagine my surprise, then, when the
executive committee announced that the
convention should be held in Durham
not that did not want to come to Dur
E. T i
acquit myself with credit, or do credit to
the editors of North Carolina in a set
Grafton. You may be sure that I lack
none Of the common stock Of vanity
inherent in man, and cultivated in woman
by mans flattery.
When / was fully aroused to the fact
that | had to appear before a Durham
audience, rest assured that sophomore
ambitions tempted me. There were mo-
ments when the worthy desire to cleo
trify this audience by my eloquence,
almost crowded me into the vortex of
fatal effort and | heartily congratulate
you upon my escape from myself in that
hour of temptation.
| was encouraged by the meritorious de-
sire to take you by storm" foiled by my
own incapacity, | longed for that torrent
of eloqucnce that is perpetually on tap in
my brother Deal, Of the Wilkesboro
Chronicle; and in the tumult of which |
myself barely escaped with sound bones,
last year, at Lenoir.
You will, feel confident, pardon my
envy in earnestly casting about for a
topic to discuss before you, and after it
was found, for ideas upon it, that
yearned for the splendid tinesse Of that
"fine Italian hand that so brilliantly
and so skillfulIy directs the Raleigh
News and Observer. Yet, even then, |
was not totally lost in envy, for | remem-
Der we'll that there was an hour when |
seriously contemplated initiating the
broad charity and the generous good
feeling that permeatcs the columns OF
the Raleigh Chronicle, when had hoped
to spring a subject on so broad plat
form as the whose will' of my brother
Daniels.
In soberer moments, | had dared to
think of climbing the constitutional par
apcts of the sub.treasuTy bill, and survey
ing all the world at one per cent. and free
storage; and in that | was only deferred
by the dread that should encounter that
maker of constitutions, my most worthy
brother Eldridge, who presides over THE
DURHAM GLOBE, and is high priest of the
North Carolina Press Associations con-
stitution.
Had |, however, have followed the
worthy editor of the Durham sun,
should have concluded these remarks
even before now; you have doubtless
observed, though, from my rambling and
desultory remarks, that there are no Old
Hurrygraphs in mine.
AT one time, | had almost concluded TO
write a state paper on that nebulous, and,
perhaps, slanderous per sc, subject, The
Alliance in Politics. and had | that
directness of purpose and true Jeffer-
sonian simplicity, and, may l add, in its
best sense, Jeffersonian brutality of truth,
that characterizes the editor of the States
vile Landmark, whose likenes. to the
first and greatest Democrat president
even goes to the physical proportions,