Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-03-11
GRANTS LATEST INFAMY,
EVEN HIS COLLEAGUE MAN
WELL TRIED TO

ate OuG11 Vuf C1ClZ0nS SOuIO DC
Heard. But Grant Said No, and He
Bosses the Senate and Its Presiding
Ohcer, 1t. Gov. Reynolds.
Our readers are already famll-
lar with Maj. Grants latest in
famy-his Police Commission bill
for Goldsboro and just how it
was r~ailroaded, rough-shod,
through the Senate, is best told by
the reporter of the Raleigh News
& Observer, who was on the scene,
and tells of it in yesterdays
paper. Here it is =
yesterday this snivelling hyp-
ocrite committed his daily mean
ness and fraud by making false
representations in regard to a bill
he has introduced that ought to be
entitled an act "To make Colds
boro a pocket borough of Hiram
L.. Grant, and disfranchise the
people of hat town." And by
false pretense and false misrepre-
sensations, induced the Senate to
pass this measure. He dared not
trust the light of day that would
expose his false accusations against
Goldsboro, just as Senator Scales
exposed his false entry on the
election bill.
The bill that passed yesterday
provides for turning ove the city
government of Goldsboro to him
self and a few of his political
henchmen. The bill provides for
the Appointment of a police board
composed of H.. L.. Grant. S. w. Is
Ter, u. L. M. Jeffreys, Jno r. Smith
and J. D. Spicer. This board is ap-
pointed to hold Office two years,
though Goldsboro holds a city
election this spring. The bill gives
the board power to appoint and fix
the salary of the chief of police
and all policemen. They are au-
thorized to act with the aldermen
in the election of the mayor. The
aldermen arc given no voice in APP
pointing or fixing the salary. The
new board elect a finance commit
tee, and virtually control the city
government against the wishes of
the people of the city.
But bad and infamous as is this
bill, we are not discussing it now
The infamy of the bill is stamped
on its face.
But it is Grants false argu-
ment before the committee with a
falsehood, saying that the only
reason why he had introduced
this bill was because he wanted to
have protection to the dispensary
which is to be established in
Goldsboro.
He did not want to control the
police of Goldsboro to get jobs
for his henchmen Oh, No! He
wanted to advance the cause of
temperance.
Uriah Heep in his meanness
was a saint compared to Grant!
There is not a man in Gotds-
boro. who does not know that the
elected officers of Goldsboro will
execute the law. whatever it is.
To charge otherwise is to SLAM
der John H. Hill, the mayor
one of the best men in the State
and his associates. Grant
knows this as we'll as anybody.
He knows that this is nothing
but a scheme to get for himself
the control of the town of Colds
boro. The pretense that it is done
in the interest of dispensa airy is a
piece Of hypocricy of basest sort.
If Grant should say plainly:
''The Republicans want to con
troll Goldsboro, they cannot do
it by a vote of the people. Give
us the offices by this BILL" there
would be objection to such a
travesty on local self governs
ment. but it would not make
honest men indignant at the by
pocrisy of the Wayne Senator,
and show him up a sneaking by
pocrite.
When the bill came up yester>
day morning OUT OF ITS REGU~
LAR ORDER (see Grants manip-
nlationO Grant got up and said
that it was thought by the friends
of the dispensary that it could
not be conducted fairly without
this bill. (The bill to establish a
dispensary has not yet passed
the House.) at is for the sole
purpose of making a fair test of
the dispensary that we expectuto
have in Goldsboro that [ have
introduced this BILL" He then,
with a negro-driving air, demands
ed the previous question,
Mr. Maxwell, Grants colleague
in the Senate from Wayne and
Duplin, requested to be allowed
to say a few words before the
gag law was put on. He had not
given much examination to the
bill, and, as explained by Grant
had been inclined to favor it, But
he requested Grant to let the
matter go back to the mmittee
so a delegation from Goldsboro
could have a hearing before the
bill was rushed through. He was
not antagoniz:ng the bill, he res