The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-02
A MODEST LAWYERS VIEW
A Way to Stave OF the Des-
truction of University.
BUTLER SAVED TT IN 1894
0Ar,ocrats Should Use Their Vantage
Ground Toward the State Highest
Good With Utter Abnega-
ton of Reward.

News and Observer with the following
statement on the future policy of the
Democratic party in North Carolina lie
writes
i am an attorney in active practice IN
one If the smaller towns Of the State,
not politician in the usual acceptation
Of the word. Democrat of the Bryan
school Of thought, and brought, by reason
OF my business in daily contact with Pop
nrsts Democrats and Republicans.
Il venture, through the columns of your
far-seeinc paper, 80 suggest some rehee-
tons addressed chiefly to the Democratic
contingent tor it is but contingent, IN
the new Legislature. He serves his party
best who serves his country best, is Il
true and honored precept.
Let US apply it to the case in hand.
THE Democratic party is certainly
friendly to the University and the cog
nate schools, which rise or fall with 1t IN
the matter of State aid.
Il shall not stop to argue that this po-
sition is wise or patriotic.
These schools are to undergo attack,
bitter, prolonged, provincial attack, If
there be truth in current threats.
What show for safety have they III
the unaided efforts of the excellent forty
four gentlemen who will occupy our par
rvs seats in the halls over Governor Rus
sells chamber
THE Democratic party has veritably
fathered all the States great charities,
which shelter those who have no friend
save our common mother, North Carolina.
On every stump for a generation past we
have claimed for the party the noble
honor of founding and literally caring for
these great works.
Hungry henchmen of the fusion forces
make open proclamation of their purpose
TO treat these institutions as they do the
postoffices and collectorships of our Uncle
Sam. and they profanely quote Vance's
expression of the plough horse and the
fodder in warrant of their selfishness.
II shall not stop to argue the evil re-
suIts-incurable some of them-which will
ensue if these persons are not baked In
their designs.
sCan the forty-fou good and lawful
men, as / admit them to be-can they
stop this raid?
"The question answers itself.
1.-THE railroads Of the State are always
interested in the complexion of a new
General Assembly. In Pennsylvania and
New Jersey they have more than once
elected a General Assembly of the exact
complexion desired by them.
1T has not been so here since 1868.
'The Democratic party, without be-
ing subservient to corporation influence.
save in a few marked individual instan-
ces, which belong to the past. has upheld
railway development and expansion,
la -,
This regulation is a curb, and is so
recognized by the tethered. 1t is not
drawn tight, but under proyocation it
could be, and we were a long while get
ting even this moose on.
1.-THE railroads never threaten, and
hence their purpose appears only in the
act They always want some sort Of leg
islation, either of positive or a repeal
ing character, and while not unduly sus-
picious OF their good faith, / opine that
our forty-four friends could hardly stop
any well planned move OF theirs, backed
by the leading fusionists. 1t is not init
mated that they, who now own every
thing in the State worth having, want
more. I only point out that the forty-four
could not prevent, if they took that notion.
Our excellent friends, the Baptists, to-
gether with other advanced thinkers
among us, are especially solicitous for the
establishment of a reformat0ry school
for young criminals This appears wise
upon it's face; but what is more to the
purpose, a large number Of intelligent
Populists have the scheme much at heart.
The Republicans, for obvious reasons,
do not so much favor it. Here would seem
to be a Providentially provided peg on
which the higher schools might hang
the hope of being let alone; but the forty
four are not tall enough to reach the peg.
They can compliment and advertise some
Of their number by farcical votes for
speakerships and senatorships of the Null
berry Sellars type; but this and other prac-
teal pegs on which high and lasting hopes,
redolent of good to us and our children,
might be hung-these they cannot reach
without a step-ladder. Such a step-ladder
they have in the ambition of Pritchard TO
succeed himself at Washington, in the
lust for minor place Of those relied upon
to send him there, in the conflicting ambi-
ton Of Butler to have the State truly
represented in finance questions and in
the unquestioned loyalty of the average
Populist to their young and versatile
Senator. whose quick accumulation OF
renown'-let it madden whom it may
is without precedent in the State
Butler saved the great charities in
1894. and has never received so much as
good boy, well done,' for his pains. |
know this to be the fact and have put
it on the record for contradiction, if such
offers.
''Why not. them use the step-ladder?
.'Richmond pearson's smile in 1894, OF
the two rats with their tails intertwined
reaching for the preserves while grossly
and absurdly descriptive Of the political
deal then made, l was ever led TO think
unfortunate, by reason Of it's rank truth
fulness.
my suggestion of the step-ladder is on
the contrary, consonant with the highest
motives which can mark men-a wish to
nreserye unimpaired the BRIGHTEST land