The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-08-13
BOLD THREAT AGAINST THE PUBLISH
ERS OF THE STATE.

ERS OF THE STATE.
We had a call Tuesday from one d.
J. Carter, who said he was represent
ing the Southern Newspaper Union. of
Charlotte, n. G. His visit ostensibly
was for the purpose of inducing US to
adopt the use of the ready print sheets
c'patent outsides,''O printed by his
house. We told him we preferred to
print our paper entirely at home. aud
that he could not be of any service to
US, giving our reasons therefor in a
plain, polite and unprecedented manner.
Whereupon the burly buffer from Char
lotte proceeded to threaten and bull
| dose US in a manner that would have
been resented in way quite different
from what it was had the interview
| occurred outside our own Office.
Said he: "All right; if We can't do
business with you now, we will have
you with US inside of two years. 1t is
our object to have at least one paper
in every town in the State with pop
ulation of 5000, or over. We will
supply an opposition paper and give it
oW uuLll VIC VI Can uOWu tuC OlO OtlC
| or force it to use our sheets. We give
you the refusal and if you do not want
| some body else to get ahead Of you, as
a sensible man you can see what is to
your interest,"
This and lot more of the same sort
Of talk the fellow INDUCED in and at
first we were disposed to take it as a
| I0lo Ri1t no in, q
discovered later. Still, we thought
proper to pass it by unnoticed until he
went to take his leave. Then he asked
| US to give him a personal notice, add
ing that if we could conscientiously
say anything in behalf of himself or his
house to do so and send marked copy
of the paper. We told him if we said
anything at all it would hardly be Of
complimentary nature, because we
could not conscientiously write in
commentator of man who had the
brazen effrontery to sit in our own
office and tell US to our face that he
was going to adopt boycott methods to
freeze us out of business or compel
to patronize him; or Of house that had
such man in its employment.
At this he became very penitent and
undertook to apologize for his conduct
by saying that we misunderstood him
and begged that we say nothing about
him at all. When his language was
repeated to him he was forced to admit
it but tried to get out of his awkward
predicament by saying he did not mean
what he had said. We told him that
we took him to be an honorable gentle
man, and in our private office he had
received the treatment of gentleman;
but it was fortunate for him perhaps
he had not been at the foot Of the steps
instead of where he was when he made
the bulldosing threat he did; that he
must certainly know the force of the
English language and that we had no
desire to have him stay to explain or
apologize further. Whereat he left.
The only way we can account for the
fellows conduct is that he is a South
Carolinian. las he informed us) where,
under the Dispensary law, red liquor is
not so easy of access as it in some
North Carolina towns; and he had
chung OUT oftener than he should and
tarried longer than was good for him
at a certain place after striking Hen
derson before his visit to the GOLD
LEAF office. If Carter is fair speci-
men Of the men the Southern News
| paper Union has on the road the sooner
it calls them in or muzzles their mouths
(or the purpose of keeping them from
talking or guzzling bug juice to excess)
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