The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-12-28
AS TO HIS

letters signed petroleum '. Nasty, and
dated at "Confedrit Y Roads, witch is in
the staff of Kentucky" and which were
by few very obtu persons apprehended
to be the genuine sentiments Of some
| rebel, there has been a no more lldiCrous
case oil misconstructiOn than a portion o
the press of to day, particularly soldier
papers, and notably the American Til
bune, Of Indianapolis, places upon the
editorial utterances of AL FAIRBRoTHER,
(by courtesy, COLONEL FAIRBROTHERl,
the editor of that good republican paper,
THE GLOBE, published at Durham, North
Carolina.
The Only difference between FAIR.
BROTHER and Nasty" j. that the former
spells his words correctly. In all other
respects his championship Of the demo
cratic party and proclamation of ultra
rebel sentiments are on a par, in the way
satire, with the famous letters Of "P. NJ i,
witch is postmaster
1t may help out some Of our brethren
Of the press to state that "COL0NEL"
FAIRBROTHER was for nearly all his life,
and until some three years ago, 8 resi-
dent Of Nebraska, and a quite prominent
journalist. He started the Sioux City
sun in 1887 and the Lincoln Call about
a year later. Selling out the Call, lie WAS
engaged in journalism at Omaha until
offered a "snap" to conduct Tue GLOBE
in the interests Of millionaire candidate
for the republican nomination for gov
ernor of North Carolina.
The Record has ~unbounded admira-
ton Of the genius, to say nothing Of the
gall and grit, that enables "CoLONEL"
FAIRBRoTHER to run such a red. hot re-
publican paper among the unrecon-
structed tar heel rebels of North Caro-
lima. But his path is made smooth by
the honest criticisms of such papers as
the American Tribune.
The above is from the Grand Army
Record, of Sioux City, Iowa The ass
who wrote it and the ass who printed it
and both are asSeS-are uncommon
liars. Common in the sense that they
have no scruples, and uncommon in the
sense that they heed no ~scruples.
The record of this Old Man is plain,
and it is forever clear, and is as follows &:
There is no courtesy in the title which
the editor of this paper wears. He is a
colonel in all that the name can imply.
Since the dark days, since the days
when over all this land the mailed hand
of ]desolation turned its ruined raid
the colonies Of the war have been many
in their graves, but that makes no differ
ence. But this particular colonel pro-
poses to wear his uniform OH this side of
Mason and Dixon's line just SO long as
the thieves and bummers on the other
side wear theirs. The only difference is
the blue coats are robbiHg the govern
Nix. FAIRBRoTHER desires TO state that
in the year Of 1880 he was in the state Of
North Carolina. lie tried TO purchase
from MIR. w. A. DAVIS, OF Oxford, now
Of Richmond, Va, an interest in the OK
ford, North Carolina, Turchlight.
He went his way rejoicing, Mr. FAIR
BROTHER did, and wound up in a Ne.
braska town, where he established and
rln with profit a paper which he called
The Torch!ight. From there lie drifled
California, where he lid newspaper
work. Then he returned to Nebraska
and in & city Of respectable size he con
trolled and edited s morning newspaper
for some time. Disposing of his interest
there, he returned to his native heath,
the State Of Ohio, and in Cincinnati, did
newspaper correspondence; and after.
ha'bS CSNdDliSLtu Il paper vi dis own,
which he sold with profit to himself
Upon solicitation he left Ohio and went
to the Omaha Bee, upon which paper he
was a special correspondent. Called from
that field, for \ long time he did editorial
on the Omaha Bee. Having been
given a vacation Gu that paper he estnb
the SUN, at South Sioux City, Ne
braska, which his brother afterwards con
lie returned 10 Omaha, where
he did editorial work upon The Bee and
resigned his position. He purchased by
telegraph a daily paper at Eureka, Hum
boldt county, California, but for reasons
which no honest man would question, he
that field and came to North
Carolina, the adopted home Of bis wife,
and where her parents lived.
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