The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-08-09

The Ransom cuckoCs are now ma
king serious charges against Senator
Ja Wis. Ransom the other day voted
for the $4,000 subsidy for the
Richmond L DanyiIle Railroad lnou
/ Southern RaiIroadJ, Jarvis voted
against it. Jarvis friends at one,
began to use this card IN his favor
and against Ransom. This aroused
the Indignation Of Ransom's friends
They reasoned to themselves a. fol
lows: "Jaryls has been Just as much
"a tool of monopOlies as Ransom, and
1t Is mean IN him now to expose Ran
som to try to get the votes of the best
element Of the people. We will ex-
pose Jarvis" Aud so the fun be-
gan. The Ransom organs at once
and for the first time published the
facts about Jarvis helping the Legis-
lature of 1893 to sell out the inter
ests of the State to the Wilmington
q Weldon Railroad.
The CAUCASIAN exposed the deal
when 1t was made, but not single
Democratic paper in the State said "a
word. If "a fight had not occurred
inside of the machine between Ran
som and Jarvis, the democratic org
ans would never have published the
facts. And if The CAUCASIAN had
not already exposed them, we doubt
if they ever would have done SC.
The files of The CAUCASIAN show
that on Feb. 23rd, 1898, (while the
Legislature was in SESSION. our
Raleigh correspondent wrote as fol-
lows:
GA LEGISLATIVE DRAMA"
There was an attempt by the bosses
to work Il dodg" on IA grand scale
here few days since. 1t was when
the proposition of the Wilmington
y Weldon railroad was before the
Legislature, or rather the committee
for consideration.
Scene /. There were a number Of
paid attorneys of the road here lob
bying in favor of the proposition
But there was in Raleigh one man
who walked about grandly and had
himself styled 10y the daily papers as
''a visiting statesman"
Scene Z. There was some hints
that it was just possible that he was
an attorney of the W. q W. railroad
and was here also in its interest
This was Indignantly denied by the
daily papers next morning. They
asserted that he was di8interested
party and that the Legislature should
feel hOnored at the presence of the
visiting statesman.
Scene 3. The committee met to
consider the proposition. 1t was an
nouhced that the ''dl8interested Wis
lting statesman" would appear be-
fore the committee by request and
give them his views as to what it was
best to do for the interests of North
Carolina (and certainly that is what
the Legislature is sent here for, to
look after the State) The said
"visiting statesman" appears before
the committee to donate to the State
a chunk of patriotic wisdom. He,
of course, advises the committee to
accept the proposition of the railroad
and then declares himself that he is
a DISTINGUISHED party and that he
has nothing to conceal This sound
ed little suspicious, though coming
from one so grand, 50 reverend, SO
wise and so patriotic. Whereupon
one gentleman present W no had more
sense than sentiment, who knew a
few things, asked the "disinterested
visiting statesman" a question. The
question sounded something like
this: 'DId you not 90 to Whining
ton recently and consult with the
Wilmington & Weldon railroad au-
thorities about the very matter, and
are you not up here now in their pay
to influence the Legislature to accept
this proposition ?" The "disinter-
ested visiting statesman" was thun-
derstruck. He saw that the man
who asked that question, asked it
from knowledge of fact, that it
were folly to deny. He was done
for. The halo of patriotic and dis
interested wisdom that he had hung
about him, fell with sickening thu@ =,
and there was nothing left but the
writhing hypocrite in all his naked
less. Out of mercy We let the cur
tain fall. One more word. The
now ex-"disinterested visiting states
man" had a conference with Gov.
Carr Was it part of his mission
to influence the Governor as well as
the Legislature ?"
In the same issue of The eau
cAsIAN the following editorial COM
ments on our Raleigh letter was pub
! lished:
"Our Raleigh letter was very short
last week, but our correspondent
makes it all up this week by sending
us the best letter he has written
His description of the exposure of
the "disinterested visiting states
man" is tragic and pathetic. Be
sure to read it. We suppose he re-
fers TO ex-Goy. Thomas J. Jarvis.
We noticed id the Raleigh papers
that he was there while the W. & W.
proposition was up, and the papers
referred to him as the visiting
statesman" If he is the man and