The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-06-13
GugERSsr0RlAl rKsROGsIRGs

partisan Democratic paper.
This was brought on by pompou~
attitude concerning the planting of
telephone pole aud running Of wi-c-.
The telephone company put some poles
along the sidewalks running by the
Governors mansion. The governor
ordered the company u REMOVE them.
and when the company refused Ia de-
IT, he ordered some men to cut them
down. The men appeared with aNr>
hnt al the same time some biz police
men came on the scene and said the,
had been instructed by Mayer Russ To
arrest the first man who stuck an axe
in pole. And then began an absurd
aud ridiculous coiloiuy between the
governor aud the mayer a. towho was
boss of the streets around the man
sion-the mayor claiming that all the
streets Were under the special iuriSdic-
ton of the city, and the governor
claiming the ri int of eminent domain
over the streets near the f..s,-,,,.y'.
HaHSion. The row into which thes,.
two Democratic WORTHLESS have gotten
into over this matter would be amusing
If II were not disgustingly devoid Of
| common sense.
Tins and SOME other matters in which
the executive has become ridicuIuu-ly
entangled has led a correspondent of
the CAUCASIAN 10 make tn. iollowiuy
observations:
Elias Carr, Governor of Mort II Car
| DINA, by the cowardice of the Demo
cratic party, treachrry to the Farmers
Alliance. faith. II wet nursing by
.)aI lis, secret circular of Avery. and
| manipulation of returns under orders
from = nmons, to the disappointment
Of everybody not of the immrdi .tc
house of Carr, has. again put his foot
IN IT. As the freshman said he never
opens his mouth that he does not put
his foot in it.
Now he has raised an issue with the
city of Raleigh as the poles of he cleo
tric railway, light and telephone com
panies on the curbing around the
Goyerndr.- mansion. The governor in
Sists these poles must be removed.
Russ, the mayor, says they shall not he
removed, and has ordered the police To
arrest any one who attempts To carry
out the orders of the governor. This
state of defiance has existed for several
days and the poles still stand. What
prerogative Of the governor, as afore-
SAID, these poles encrOach upon. no
. one Is able TO discover: but then Elias
Is the great original discuye .cr of
executive prerogatlv"s. and any VEN
ture 10y an unlicensed citizen on this
line would be an infringement on his
reserved rights. Holt, Fowle, Jarvis
It 0d omHe.>let the poles be put there
: and stand. They discovered no eXecu-
tive prerogative on which this was an
encroachment. tnless il barks the
gubernatOrial legs or catches the
executive muStache, as the present in
cubis of the Office perambulates to and
!. from his meals, it is past finding out
what prerOgatIve these evidences of
progress in the city interferes with
These are not the only pol1) yes Carr
has tried to interfere with though. and
it may be he will meet with no better
success now than he did OH former
occasions.
The fact is the city owns the street.
in fee and has granted franchise e
these companies To put their poles III
the curbing. An ordinance forbid.
any one setting poles in the gutter
The control of the city is from "build
ing Line to building line" and tn,
= prospect Is the governor (as aforesaid
will have to bite that mustache or II,
dust therein.
But our Governor, as aforesaid, is
great discOve~er-Of prerogatiyes. II,
and Coke and Osborne, As members q
the returning board, discovered tia
it was their prerogative TO ignore alb
sOlute proof that an outsider ha.
changed returns and declare electe,
/, Solicitors two IF their partisans
whom the people had rejected. But tn,
courts sat down on this capable trio a
soon as the cases could be heard, an,
c even the recipients of the eXecutiv
r favor wouldenot appeal.
y Then the Governor, as aforesaid, dis
, covered, that Notwithstanding TIA
> convention of 1875 changed the consti
e tuition for the express purpose, an
: the Legislature had exercised the RICH
for eighteen years, with the concur
renee of Governors Vance, Jarvis
!, Scales, Fowle and Holt (and of Car
u when Democrat was elected i'm 1892
f when the legislature undertook to ere
E ate "cOurts inferior to the SuDrem
court" and TO elect officers thereof,
was an encroachment on his prerogs
n tive. A unanimous supreme court d,
eide that the Governor. as aforesai,
l. had not made much of "A discovery
,, that literally the mountain ha,: Lahore
and brought forth a very small nous
is and the Governor had no right To fl
# these offices except in ease of v;
= cancy. Reading between the line
the decision means what everybo
g knows, that Vance, Jarvis, Scale
~ Fowle or Holt knew more than Cal
s, could discover in ten years--hard stud
+. In the shades of the executive mu:
tache, upon what meat does this, o,
Caesar feed, that he hath grown .
great?
Is These and, other,matters of like natur
:. such as appointing a kinsman exc,
! utIye clerk, securing the appOintmeI
~ of keely son as Pharmacist for the il
sane, calling meeting of the :ruste
it of the library several months earii
f. than such meeting had ever been. he
- before, that he might defeat the acti,
e' of the Legislature and the will of q
people by the appointment of one
n. his henchmen; lobbying with mel
a. bers of the legislature for an appr
- priatiOn to furnish the executive ma
y sion that he might look more like
r. big bug in silkworm's nest than eve
or trading with Republican members
On the legislature for appointments
Office and breaking faith after the ira
was made will make interesting rea
ing in the sweet bye and bye, if a
!: competent, impartial scribe shall wri
them up, and the public shall not +.
. it too much of radiance to read an
,s) thing Of our little Governor, IA afor
,er said. He is the smallest man. FIR,
-. any standpoint, ever called Govern
al in North Carolina
nd To give the devil his due, sect
there is very little due him, il must
said his declaration when nominate
that he was good overseer, was tr
He has rooted out the wild onions