Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-05-13
TO THE PUBLIC.

TO THE PUBLIC.
| Mr.. EDITOR In your issue of
May 9th appeared card from III. L.
Grant, in which he makes an effort
to reply to a speech [ made at a
meeting a few nights after the Dem
ocratic convention which nominated
the Mayor. Mr. Grant is misinformed
as to the facts of which he writes
| The meeting was not meeting to
consider the holding of local option
election in the city, but was for the
purpose of helping to get out a good
| ticket for Aldermen for the late cleo
ton. Some parties were advocating
an independent ticket and my speech
was in opposition to the course of
those who proposed to act outside
the Democratic party, and warning
| them that there was no reform to
be found among the enemies of De
mocracy, as our only hope for good
| government was in the good people
of our community abiding by the
Democrats promises. / said in my
speech that we could not trust the
Republicans: for in the last Legisla-
ture the people were not faithfully
represented That while | did not
know Mr. Grants record of my own
knowledge, yet [ was told by men
who said they contributed money
for the purpose of buying up his in
fuence to kill the Dispensary bill
that he himself had introduced, the
details of which I will not got into
now. I was then speaking as citi-
zen to hold our people together for
the common good. I repeated the
statements I had heard, and SO eN-
planned, and I would not have re
peated them if | had not believed
they were true. Two men told me
to-day that they contributed money
with the understanding it would be
used to buy off Mr.. Grant; and such
talk has not been uncommon since
the Legislature adjourned. I don't
say he did take bribe [ don't
know. But anybody is at liberty to
inquire, and they will find that I
have not spoken of hearing so very
new a story.
I wonder if he denies telling two of
our best citizens that he was offered
a roll of money in Raleigh to kill the
bill? Did he expose the would-be
briber? Did he resent the insult. if
he considered it an insult? Would
not any decent citizen have consid-
cred it an insult by an offer to bribe
them?
/ He admits that ''there is an un
written history about the failure OF
that bill, which in time may be made
public, when the truth will not re-
fleet upon the Senator from Wayne. y
Why should there be an unwritten
history about any bill which so much
concerns the people of Goldsboro
If he is not a party to this unwrit-
ten history, why conseal his knowl-
edge from the public? Is not this the
time they should know? He is not
on trial for bribery, and why shall he
wait to throw the burden of PROOF
on others to show his skirts unclean.
when he is innocent ? Why not en-
tighten the people he pretended to
represent He is the Senator from
Wayne and owes the people here an
accounting for his conduct. He in
troduced and caused to be passed
through the Senate this important
measure, when he did not even men
ton it in the campaign previous tc
, the election; and under the slim pre-
, text to enforce it, he gets through
, the Senate, on the brink of the close
of the session, an obnoxious police
commission bill that stunk in the
nostrils of every decent citizen who
loves local government; and, too
/ without giving our people chance
/ to even consider it, or be heard be
) fore the committee of either house
Can Senator who will so misrepre
sent his people, be above suspicion
| And while [ don't know about the
: bribe, I cannot easily exclude from
| my mind such things as hear, anC
. I feel it my duty to warn the people
4 live amongst not to follow th,
: party that follows him. I had NJ
e axe to grind, and was not a candidat.
4 for Office when I made that speech
/ but was only asking my friends t.
l stand to the party 1 love and no
Y join it's enemies, for [ believe w,
!, stand for our neighbor's good, fo
S our country, for humanity and fo
: God.
4 In his referring to his past polit
e ical record of twenty-five years, h
e must have been indirectly talking t,
MS 1f1endS away from nome, as III
record is well known here, and no
> favorably Judged by forgiving AM
: magnanimous people but when tn
3 unwritten history of that bill shal
s have the opportune time to make cor
e rect history, I hope our people vii
o have one charge less against a maj
g that they have tried to think some
/ thing of. D. M. HARDY.
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