The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-05-04
AS rs WRITTEN.

things-it is willing to yield point--it is
willing to do right-it is eager to
make reparation if it has done harm.
But in this RYDER case we are not going
to eat any words. The other day it was
announced with a great flourish Of trum-
pets and general statement that civil
suit was to be brought against certain
parties for saying that RYDER had been
seen in the company of some of the cheap
prostitutes of Smoky Hollow. 1t was an
neunced that FULLER & FULLER and
BOONE & PARKER would prosecute the
base fiend who had set this wild rumor in
motion; that COLONEL RYDER felt deeply
grieyed to know that he had been SO un-
Justly accused and that a court of justice
would be called upon to prove that the
base aspersions were as false as he'll and
as malicious as bale of hay. THE GLOBE
has some decent sympathy for man who
is wropgfully accused, but all this fuss
and feathers in the RYDER case makes US
tired. There are men in town who have
said before witnesses that, if brought into
court, they would swear that they saw
RYDER in company with prostitute.
There are other men who say they will
swear that they saw RYDER motion to
prostitute and that she followed him into
the woods This is the story with the
bark off-and there is no use to longer
monkey about it A newspaper must
print the newsstand RYDER is making the
history-we are recording it. We say
men will swear, or say they will swear
they are boys-but large enough to visit
such places and they do. For all intents
and purposes they are men.
1t is our wish and hope that RYDER
will proveais innocence. But the fact
that he brings in men who are of his
brotherhood from other towns to deter.
mine his guilt when all the witnesses have
not been examined; the fact that this
makes two attempts to prove his inno
cence when he himself has been the prin-
cipal accuser-as the record runs-be-
cause he has invited an investigation, will
cause people who have an idea of the
world and who know the miserable n.y.
pocricy and deceit and roguery which
lies, mot dormant, in about half of the
church members who profess great things
at home and raise hell away from home
that the thing is a whitewash business.
1t is not for men who do not visit such
places to render a'verdict and say that
some man is innocent when the witnesses
have not been examined. We are told
that this preliminary skirmish yesterday
was simply to adduce evidence to bring
before conference. That is all right
but what about the great civil suit which
was to have startled the world?
We get it pretty straight that the peo-
pie of East Durham are very much dis
satisfed-that it was a committee from
the Carr church there that brought the
charges before DR. YATES and that there
is lingering belief out in that neighbor
hood that something has been going on.
In this discussion THE GLOBE desires
to distinctly state that it has no use for
any scandal-but when a scandal becomes
public property and when it is town talk
we propose, in our own gentle and beauti-
full style, to say what we think about it,
and if it hurts the feelings of people our
business office is to the left as you come
up stairs. There will be found gentle
manly and obsequious clerks and beauti-
full women who will wait upon the multi
tude which desires to stop its paper.
AT RANDOM.