The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-08-09
A RISING YOUNG CAROLINIAN.
.Osephus Daniels's Prominence and
Popularity.

The Washington correspondent Of
the Richmond Times, writes 70 that
paper as follows concerning Mr..
Daniels:
Mr.. Josephus Daniels, Of North
Carolina, seems to have wonderful
pull here, if accounts are true. He
was very we'll known in his own State
before he accepted an official position
under the present administ. alton, but
very few people who made his ac
quaintance after he first settled in
Washington had any idea that he was
such hustler. Indeed, they rather
looked upon him at the Interior De-
partment as a sort of green "Tar-
Heel.' Shortly after arriving here
he was made appointment clerk Of
the Interior Department, and he was
SO quiet that he struck the average
Republican hold-over as being
mighty nice and easy one to get along
with. But Mr.. Daniels was not as
quiet as they thought. He fairly
made things hum, and so valuable
person was he to Secretary Hoke
Smith that he soon had him transferred
to even a better position in his depart
ment He is now, and has been for
many months, the chief clerk of the
department. There is better pay in
it, and the duties give Mr.. Daniels
larger scope for his work. He is
power in the department, and it is
said that the Secretary thinks worlds
of him. Secretary Smith is Of North
Carolina ancestry. The Hokes and
the Smiths are more numerous IN North
Carolina than they are in Georgia,
and a feeling of friendship Tor Daniels
was but natural.
There was some talk of making Mr..
Daniels Public Printer, and it is
believed that Secretary Smith favored
it. However, the old Public Printer,
Mr.. Benedict, was appointed, but Mr..
Daniels appears to have a great deal
of influence also with that official, who
has SO many positions at his disposal,
and who is not hampered by civil
service regulations. And the surpris-
ing statement is made that Mr.. Daniels
has been able to put more people into
the Government Printing Office than
any two Senators or Representatives
from North Carolina. 1t is actually
stated on what to be good authority
that on the list which the Public
Printer keeps of his appointments, the
credit for large number is given to
Josephus Daniels.
Some people may not like this, but
I generally speaking, there is very great
admiration here for this young North
! Carolinian, who has managed to do
so much, and it is freely predicted by
many of his ardent friends and admi-
rers that if ever Mr.. Cleveland is
+ President again, or if the latter has
any influence with the next man who
is President, Mr.. Daniels will have a
position in the government that will
simply make the balance of the Demo
Gratis green with envy.
These same friends of Mr.. Daniels
insist there is nothing narrow or sell
fish about him. He not only has
done we'll himself, but he has put in
some splendid licks for his friends,
and he has gone in heavy for North
Carolinians. They conten that a
man who thus sticks up tor his friends
is bound to succeed, and they look
! forward to the time when he will get
up many notches higher himself in the
service of his country.
, The Railway Commission make:
the assessment of the railways in the
State S24,72S.ooo, an increase oI
100000. The assessed value Of the
property of the steamship lines il
$4,000, decrease of $4,000. o
new lines the Wilmington, New
Berne and Norfolk did the onl,
building-fourteen miles. There wer'
built by other roads about fiv'
miles of side tracks, etc, Th
commission increase the valuation
$500 per mile on the Murph.
branch of the Western North Caro-
lima railroad; the Northwester,
North Carolina railroad, from Greens
boro to Winston, and the Roanok
and Southern. The commission de
clines to grant the request Of the VIII
mington and Weldon railway for re
duction of the assessment on its prop
crty.
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