The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-29
NORTH CARoLINA'S LONE SENTI-
MEL.

them under my wings, put '1Aey "ooio
notI"
THAT is about the quality of the
low moan or rather the fussy
cael1le that the Charlotte OBJ
server is uttering now over the al
legged tendency of everything else IN
the State. but IT, toward the alleged
bow-voyys. Cannot we in the light OF ITS
utterances of the last few days see
every patriotic Democrat in the state
down on his knees trying to douse
the glim of the hearthstene "llle
the Observer. with the turkey-wlng
Of truth. is flaming for dear life lest
nothing be left but the clnders Oh
once proud commemorative AlaS'
every Democrat in North Carolina has
fallen into a sleep of selfish inditfer-
ence. but we can hear in the midst oil
the moonlight obligato of the frogs
the heroic monotone of the Observer;
81 will guard the camp tonight! see
with what consistency it snuffs the wick
and fills the lamp that keeps the viz
tue of the State visible object
And vet it does not seem to be
getting full credit for its sacrifice Hear
its motherly cluck to the brood OF
county and city papers in the State
but somehow they do not make any
rush TO get their heads in it's feathers.
We have printed already nearly three
columns of State press opinions APP
proving the action of the Democratic
committee and this morning PRINT
nearly two columns more. The Obser-
yer must begin to think that its chick
ems are all ducks and de own ducks"
at that. 1t sees them all 60 into water
and hear it cluck ''you will drown
my chicks, if you go into water The
ducklings hear but they do not I'M
destand.
No, for the benefit of our readers we
have. without personal feeling or per-
sonal reference, put before them our
contention as to the electoral union,
and we have tried to meet the argu-
ments by which the Observer came to
conclusions different from ours. 1T
is useless to continue these arguments
back and forth. Enough has been de-
veloped to show that the Charlotte
Observer will advise all ''its following"
to scratch the Populists on the new
electoral ticket. So we will have to
accent this as a fact, however deplor-
able it may be.
Up to yesterday the Observer follow
ing the good example set by the News
and Observer kept it's temper and did
the best it could; but yesterday it
flew into a passion in a way which
plainly showed that it's liver is in need
of fall-scraping. They do say that
when man flies the track of an argu-
ment in order to make unpleasant and
untrue personal references that he is
becoming conscious of the weakness
of his own contention. Be this as it
NAV, the Observer manifestly went
out of its way yesterday in it's unjust
and unworthy reference to the editor
of this paper. AS if its defence of
it's own position were not enough, it.
forsooth, strives TO couple the position
of this paper on the electoral union
with hope of personal preferment on
the part of its editor. This, it strikes
us, is low order of argument. Nor
has it a shadow of fact as basis,
and the Observer knows this.
We do not like this kind of dispute;
we do not question the sincerity Of the
editor of the Charlotte Observer, nor
have we questioned it, Tt would be
pretty mess and one in which we
would not put our fingers to insinuate
aught against the personal honor of
the Observers editor, which is his by
right of his record. But suppose we
were to say that the editor of the
Observer was guided in his policy both
for gold and against the electoral
union by the viii of his co-owner and
co-publisher, Mr.. ID. A. Tompkins, who
owns a part, or the greater part, we
know not which, of the Observer?
Would that be true? Tt would be just
as true as the uncalled for insinuation
that was SO viciously hurled at the
editor of this paper, who is with Mr..
Bryan, now, as printed IN the Char
lotte Observer of some days ago, only
as National committeeman and at the
invitation of the Presidential candi-
date, as the Observer well knows. No,
it is unworthy of the Observer, and
seems a fair warning to the rest of
the editors of the State that they will
not be allowed to espouse with the
majority of their fellow journalists
this electoral union unless some craven
motive shall later be spied out by the
Observers little eye.
BY the bye, who is the editor of the
Observer now, since the name of Mr..
Caldwell as editor has disappeared
from the top of the editorial column,
Mr.. Caldwell or Mr.. Tompkins?
And a sleezy, slimpsey layout it is
that the Observer gives by way of
press opinions under the head of "clear-
cut utterances, etc" There are twelve
of them in all. The Wilmington Mes
senger has said that it will not now
advise Democrats to scratch" as does
the Observer: the Monroe Journal does