The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-03-28
PERFIDY AND
FAITHLESSNESS
Personifed by the Ideal Of North
Carolina DemoCracy--GrAd
Promises Broken.
OPEN LETTER TO RANSOM

A white Gentleman snubbed---Wh lille
grops---Ihe Tiatt.ring Froth of "A Fraud.
RRrTrI ~ do believe these ap-
applau~cs are
For new houor- that are hcaped on
CAESAR
CA--rr. why, man, he doth be-
stride the narrow world
Like "A Colossus. and We petty men
Walk under hi- huge lrgs, and peep
about
20 nud ourselves dishouorablc graves.
Age, thou art ~ham'd,
Rome thou hast lost the breed Of noble
hlUOd~,
When went there by an age since the
great Hood,
But it was rau'd with more than one
mani
Now il il Rome aud room enough
" hen there is in it but onc only man
IIEHDERsoN, y g., Feb. 2S, 90.
Sc,alor w. ". HoH>0m, WoShugion,
n. T.:
DEAR Six / have "a letter this
morning from "a distinguished North
Carulnaian now in Washington, to
whom wrote u few days ago, re-
questing him to see you and learn
positively what you proposed to do
with my application for federal office.
His reply is before me. He says:
70 be- perfectly candid with you,
do not think there is any chance for
your appointment. senator Ransom
SAYS hc has done everything in his
n power for yuu and that he will continue
To- do his best for you but sees no chance
to- get You an appointments. To be
n perfectly candid with you, | Will say
that do not think there is any chance
II for your appointment. Your services
4 to the party cntitle you to place and
will aid you in any way can.
In Il letter to you on March lst
said 81 desire to be just. Please an
n swer this question. Why have beer
selected for sacrifice? The most or.
dnarv Justice gives me the right tC
ask, and | demand to know The
eason for my non appointment Tt
|his letter you did not reply. Or
March 9TH | sent you copy of the
letter | now publish, fearing yor
might be called away before coulC
cure publication, and knowing tina
i sent you copy ! could publish
v letter at my convenience.
You say you see no chance for m,
ppointment.
Two yrars ago ] placed in YOU
hands,at your question: my papers o
endorsement for the Consul General
ship at RIO de Janeiro or some othe
NJ place. This morning they cam
I# back to me. They are now befor
me. 1t is necessary to an apprecla
" ton of what | am to cay that | cal
your attention to the magnitude o
my endorsement.
The printed index to my paper
\ will show that was endorsed In tn
most unqualified terms by the Stat
Ar Democratic executive committee, tn
North Carolina members of Con
- kess, the president of the Stat
Democratic clubs, by both branche
II the legislature, by all the Stat
6flicers, by the president and eS
president of the University, by th
electors at large, the district elet
tors, the speaker and ex-speaker G
the House of Representatives, tn
MI judges of the Supreme court, Judge
MI Of the superior courts, the member
of the railroad commission, pres
dents of trunk line railroads i
North Carolina, by letters fro,
most of the editors of the State, /
editorials in all of the principal p'
pers in North Carolina, by Hr
hlHdred letters from prominent Den
ocrats of the State, by petitions fro
most of the counties, by petition
from the tobacco boards of trade
North Carolina and Virginia, by p
titions from Petersburg, Richmon
Lynchburg and Danville, by lette
from Senators Walthall and GeOrg
of Mississippi, by letter from Sen
tor Vance, and by letter from e
Governor Jarvis, afterwards Senate
1t is proper that | should set for
the substance of u few Of my e
X dorsements, which indicate t
W character of the whole:
Hon. Elias Carr, Governor
North Carolina, wrote on Novemt
23d, 1894:
Mr. Henry is a lawyer of ability, a
after fourteen years practice at
bar, has added to his justly earn
reputation rs a lawyer, that of bein:
powerful campaign orator. He has
peatedly CanyaSsed the State in the
terest of the Democratic party.
lSS2, 80, 'SS, 80, '92 and '9i he ma
each year canvass of the State in
interest of Democracy and wherercr a
Wheaerer the party needed him
< cheerfully gave his services to the b
interests of his party. Thus far he
<6W had no recognition, when other n
have been appointed whose labors
the party could not equal Mr.. Henr
If party service and ability and z
are To be considered when federal p
ronage is to be bestowed, then |
that he is justly entitled to some pt
tion under the national gOvernm
commensurate with his ability /;
lab bors.
Hon. Charles NJ. Stedman WI
on December L4th, 1894:
take the liberty to add my name
the list of those who think Mr.. He
is worthy of much higher place Il
the one named (Genoa.) have knC
him well for years. He is eminen
a lawyer and orator, is a gentleman
the highest moral character and
serves, by virtue of his merit and of
political services n high reward
strange to me that men like Mr.. He
(and he is the most conspicuous eX'
pie | can recall to mind) should
passed over. No name has been $
gested from the State of North C
ina Aore worthy of recognition t
he of Mr.. Henry.
The Hon. A. G. Avery, Assoc
Justice of, the Supreme Court