The news & observer., 1897-02-05
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IF Senator Grant could annahilate
Senator Move by a contemptuous and
seornful look. the Pitt Senator would be
annihilated. Having fed upon RepubE-
can campaign meat last summer, the
Wayne Senator has grown so great that
no thinks in the words of Shakespeare:
ssUben I sneak let no dog bark" Moye,
of pitt. hasn't as much opinion of Grants
right TO domineer as Grant has, and so
There is perpetual conflict between these
two distinguished statesmen. They are
drifting anart, and as the chasm grows
wider and wider Grant gets madder and
madder. Somehow Moye has an inno-
cent way of nagging Grant that infur-
ates the Wayne Senator, but in way
that nobody can find ground for such
irritation Grants sc0rn came out yes
+ardav in a debate on Moye's bill to re-
onire school committeeman to run
four months school ON the amount of
money they had whether much or little,
and providing chat private subscriptions
might be secured to help. Grant Thought
Il was a fool bill Aioye said there was
snch a law i'm Kentucky, and it made
a FIVE months school Grant is too wise
and Move too ignorant, or Moye too wise.
and Grant too ignorant for these two
great lights to shine together harmond-
ously.
1t came out in the Senate yesterday
that Republican aud Populast officials
(think of IT'D are contributing money to
hire lawyers to lobby against the bills of
the Retrenchment and Reform commit
tee cutting down the fees of county Of
ficers. Senator Moye stated that the
clerk of the court and register of deeds
of Wake county had sent out letters to
these officers asking for one dollar to hire
lawyers to fight any and all reduction.
There was no denial. And yet these very
men who were elected to those Of
fees denounced lobbying! And the leg
iSla tors promised to cut down fees! Mr..
Mccarthy voiced the sentiment enher-
tanned by most of the new members
when he said: ''The Democrats have been
getting these fees. Now / am IN favor
of letting our crowd have a swing at
them" The example of the Reform
county officers and the Reform" legis-
lators is not unlike the man who was
elected register of deeds of Duplin coun-
ty on a poem which began something like
this:
30 it is rotation
That's the cry of the nation"
When, after four years term, the
same poem defeated him, the Duplin
man wished that he had never written it,
Yesterday was the weekly time for
killing the bills introduced by Senator
Lee Person, the colored Senator from
Edgecmobe. He is a prolific bill draft
er, and it takes at least one day in each
week in the Senate to kill the bills he
introduces. Yesterday was the day. But
some of Persons Republican friends,
who are getting tired of the weekly
roasting given them by the colored Sen
at0r, wish they could persuade him to
De as silent as Henderson, of Vance.
This is particularly true of Grant, of
Wayne. and Mccarthy, of Craven. Meth
er of them would be here except by negro
votes and they are sensitive about it,
and flare up when the colored Senator
demands that they shall be true to their
constituents. There was more than one
spat yesterday between Person and his
two white Republican brethren. Person
thinks that inasmuch as his race furnish
ed 1000 of the $4,000 votes received
by Russell, he ought to be recognized as
the Republican leader OF the Senate, and
the crowded negro gallery agrees with
him. Grant thinks because he command
ed a negro regiment during the war, he
ought TO be the unquestioned leader. The
spats between Grant and Person arise
out Of jealousy, each one wanting to
have the leadership. Up to this time
Grant has the best of it, but Person is
determined to supplant him, at least I'm
the estimation of the party outside the
Senate if he cannot do it in that body.
In the consideration of the Mecklen-
burg contest cases yesterday Dr. Craven,
the Populist member from that county
voted against the minority report (which
kept the Democrats in their seats,) and
afterwards asked leave to withdraw his
vote, and upon the motion to adopt the
majority report Seating the Republicans
he didn't vote at all.
Senator McCaskie will not want to
tackle the colored Senator from Edge
conlbe again soon All of a sudden, Nc
Caskie is in a great hurry to do business.
Person wanted a certain bill read. Nc
Caskie said it was d4latory tactics, EN-
plos ed TO kill time. Person retorted by
saying that IF the Populists had spent
less time over the obsequies of the last
campaign and more in attending to busi-
ness, there would be nothing behind
now"
,'Curfew shall not ring tonight" That
was the message the Senate sent yestes-
day, with dull, hard thud, to the Sem
ator from Edgeeombe, who wanted a
curfew law i'll North Carolina. And
for children it wouldn't have been bad
idea, come to think of it.
w. G. Pearson, a Populist of Riggsbee,
Chatham county, writes the Chatham
Citizen:
Seeing nothing in your paper con-
demning the action of Mr., j. II. Bryan
in casting his vote for Mr. Pritchard, ]
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