The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-06-17
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER
4 FllSIfIER.
SOME OF rs RECENT ELEGANT
REnARxs-AkD NOW THEY
ARE DENOUNCED.

Public 1Usti'u,soa Checked By
On Both sides.
To say that the News and Observer
Is a weu1d-be slanderer of the State
and its people, or To say that it is q
fairly Efficient liar would only BE-
10 echo the sentiments and opinion.
OF hosts OF people who have, for the lasi
year or two, thought il worth while
TO make any comment at al on tina.
paper.
We hardly think il worth the space
but now and then it may be We'll to
show the people some evidence of their
eminently correct opinion OF that pa.
per, and for that purpose aone We are
giving some tine aud space to that
most roundly contemplate j"urna
this week.
Elsewhere We give a report OF tn.
proceedings Of the Board Of Trustee.
of the A. Il NJ. College last week. ],
shows for itself. But with its usua
disposition to % something little and
say something mean, the News anC
Observer seeks to distort everythins
and leave false impression on any.
body who may be so hare Drained ant
gander-headed as to have any conf
dence in it. Thank the Lord, we fee
warranted in saying that there are
mighty few, if indeed any, people Of
that kind in his State.
Here are scme Of the choice" head.
lines and comments of the News and
Observer on the matter:
THE LOOTERS GET
IN THEIR WORK
The A, & NJ. College Parceled Gu,
Among the Wreckers.'
The State hiss received a blow from
which II will not soon recover. Its in.
dustrlal development and educational
advancement have been set back al.
most decade"
This Brutus stab has come from
the Governor of the State and the trus.
tees of the a Agricultural and Mecbani-
cal College. The lAtter institution has
been loc';! aud the Experiment Sta.
zion deStroA.d 70 I:,at.. (, scrs for no.
!i'l2al tnri.'H.G. tod men-schOl-
ars and :tnti-ts-hav- been DISPLACED
oy lnco nletehts and nincompocps."
In this nefar OIs work these men
were back d up on one side by lot 1
Ig"oramuses who know no law in the
mitter save the will of those whose
to''IS they are: on the other side by q
q werner whose only desire is to make
political jobs for those upon whose
backs he hopes to ride into the UrIted
States Senate"
Sdch base dwelling as this in the
face open fact, If it had any effect at
all, aroused the contempt of everybody
interested, and there was no hesitation
III expressing it. But the thunder
clap OF rebuke and denunciation was
from the faculty of the college itself
1t is gracefully worded. but it does not
require strong vision for anybody to
see that it is statement to the effec,
that the News and Observer is a SOUR.
rlle falSifier and that its vaporings are
unworthy of confidence. Here it is as
printed in the News and Observer:
A CARD.
To the Editor: The article in ves.
terday's issue of your paper MAKING
the sweeping charge that the trustees
OF the Agricultural and Mechanical
College had "lOoted" that institution
is, we think, unjust to that BODY. nm.
fair to us, and SO far from the fact,
that, If uncontroverted. it must do the
college great harm. While the board
had the power to change every officer
OF the institution, it so far from "par
ceiling the college out among the
Wreckers," changed in the faculty.
proper the head of only one deparf.
ment. and this we are assured was
done solely to effect a consolidation of
the agricultural work of the college
and of the Experiment Station. and
thereby to save in this Department
about seventeen hundred dollars nv
assigning to one of the professors the
work hitherto divided between two
The only change in the faculty was m
the adjunct prOfessOrshfp of mathe-
matics, and the addition of one teacher
to the official force.
While we, of course, cannot Int
deeply regret parting from men who
have been pleasantly and closely asso.
clated with Us, and whom we respect
ana esteem most highly, we, the un.
eerslgnea members of the old faculty
leel, IN justice to ourselves, to the
oaa.o Oh trustees, to the institution
tnat we nave served so long, impalled
10 deny That it has been looted" nor
can we be expected to admit with en-
t're good grace that 1.-THE institution
mas oeen turned over to incompetents
and nlncompoops"
we assure the people of our State,
ana especially the friends Of technical
education, that there is 10 cause tu
lose confidence in the institur ion. nor
IN It's competency to do the great work
Tor which it was founded.
Respectfully.
ALEXANDER Q. HOLIDAY.
- President.
w. F. MASSEY,
iIolessor horticulture and BOtaUy
w. A. WITHEss,
Professor of Chemistry
ID. Ii. HILL,
Professor of English.
w G. RlDDICK,
Professor Ma, hematics and Civil +,
gineering.
NA1HA>IEL X CRAIGuIIL.
'"'ess"F T., Mechanical Enxi. e-rirg
j. G. GRESHAM,
Iap'a'n Seventh Cavalry, Prof.sso.
Military Science and Tactics.
Comment Prom Otho s,,.
Editor Press Visitor:
| notice in today's News ard Oh.
server criticism in general OF tle.c
ion OF a. and NJ. college board srd
specially its sCurrilous attacks ~,
E. G RntIer, OF Vance county. II si.,
avs | am 'bilen IN the colla,, ahnu,
he displacement of my nephew. FG
Kelly. in the experiment. station
had expressed no opinion of the
after matter to any one, and was OUT
If town and the News and Observer
Of 'Sa