The state chronicle., 1891-02-11
THE ANIMUS OF CAPT. ASHES
TRADE.

newspaper live in Raleigh. The history
of daily papers here is that not one has
been made to pay unless it has had the
contract to do the State Printing or has
been supported by rich and powerful
men or corporations. 1t costs not less
than SIS, 200 year to print daily IN
Raleigh like the STATE CHRONICLE. and
when there are two morning daily papers
in the city, patronage is so divided that
both ends can hardly be made to meet
The News and Observer is an old pa
per. 1t has had every opportunity TO
grow long if it had gained the conf
dence OF the people. Its editor has been
State Printer four years; Postmaster
four years; and in addition to such party
support he has had the assistance OF
and financial backing of rich men, II
not of rich corporations. he has had
the undivided field for a daily paper in
Raleigh, and with all the rich and pow
erful Influences he has had at his back,
his paper has signally failed to become
popular and has every year become
more unpopular among the great
tody OF the people. The reason
for his unpopularity and the waning
power Of his paper is known Of all men.
He has assumed to be the autocrat Of
the Democratic party, and to be able "to
kill and make alive" He has sough to
give the entire management and control
of the party to a select coterie of ASHES
"four hundred" and to dictate to Others
what they should do. If they obeyed
his mandates, all was we'll. If they
assumed to question his authority to
issue DEGREES, he tried to drive them out
of the party. His policy has been mar
row, pulling, domiDeering and proscrip-
tive, and the Democratic party in North
Carolina would to-day be dead If it had
not repudiated his leadership and the
policy of his paper. Take the campaign
Of 1890. He was an impediment
in the way of the party's success,
and by his monopolistic, corporation
and proscriptive views came near work
ing serious injury to the party.
Every Democrat in the State knows
these things to be true. We should not
aliude tothem now but for the fact that,
day after day, the News & Observer, act
ing in concert with certain Republican
papers, misrepresents the editor of this
paper and tries to malign Democratic
Senator, and Representatives whose
characters are high above any injury
which his misrepresentation can inflict.
Why does CAPT. AsHE do this Why
does he malign the Legislatures Why
does he bolt Democratic CAUCUS
The answer is plain:
He and his hackers feel that they
must break down the State Chronicle
because it is an insuperabie impede
ment In the way of carving out their
plans for controlling the Democratic
party in North Carolina.
Do the people want Railroad Com
mission2 The News and Observer, true to
its love for the corporations and its hos.
tility to the people, flies in their face
and opposes the establishment of Rail-
road Commission. Do the people want
s. to impose tax upon railroads in the
name proportion as it is imposed upon
ali othersa They have no ally in the
News and Observer. Do they desire to
drive corrupt men from power2 Do
they, in word, desire any re-
form which selfish corporations oppose7
If 80, every chik' in North Carolina
knows where to find the News & OBJ
server. Its editor is always for the few-
the powerful few-against the interests
of the many. he has sought by every
means to drive out competition with his
paper, and not only would be willing to
do the printing for nothing but he would
pay for the privilege Of doing it if he
could thereby injure the CHRONICLE
That ls the motive that actuates the lusty
help the News & Observer is rendering
the Radical organs at this time.
The patronage of the corporations in
North Carolina in the way of printing,
&C., ought to be given to the News and
Observer in return for such friendship,
and 1t is amply sufficient to enable the
News and Observer to underbid q paper
that is fighting for the people, and has
no resource except its subscription and
advertisements and party support.
We respectfully submit to the people
OF the State, who are engaged in dead
ly conflict with monetary and corpora
ton power, the question whether it is
safe to be led by such an organ in such a
contest. Let them remember that the OBJ
ject of the News & Observer is to drive out
every rival and have the field to itself.
The people have as much right to an
organ such as the STATE CHRONICLE, as
the corporations have to an organ such
as the News & Observer.
The people understand the clamor
raised by the News l. Observer about the
State Printing. That paper thought to
deceive the Legislature by its misrepre
sentations. Failing in that, it now
seeks to malign them in the eyes of the
people of the State. Happily the great
body of the people understand the policy
OF CAPT. AsHE and they pay no heed
to his selfish, inconsistent, incoherent,
and false ranting. They are not yet
ready to strike down the only morning
daily in Raleigh that is friendly to their
interests and aspirations at the dictation
OF paper that never fails to work in
the interest of corporate power.
The issue In the State Printing contest
was we'll defined, and it was: Shall the
work be done by man and paper in full
sympathy with the Democratic party and
the rafQrma demanded hx tha ,,oe,nlo NJ