The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
HOH, IT'S NOT So
VERY WARM I"
Rather Like Champagne With
All the Sparkle Out.
OTHO'S FIRST HhYSEEOER
EILLED WITH A COLD AND VERY
STALE REHASH.
x.cED UP WITH CHOICE eplTHETs

ne First Ten Thousand Edition Falls Rather
Flat on the Market, But Better and
Warmer Things Are Promised
Next Time.
Days roll along, and Otho's wounds are
heapd,
But not his pride; and hate no more
concealed:
He il man of power, and Buffers foe,
The friend of all who seek to work him
woe.
Adapted from Byron's Lara.
The 11:30 train was on time.
SO was the Hayseeder.
So was Sotho.
SO was I.
I suppose people gathered in the towns
NIL along the line between Winston and
Raleigh expecting to see lurid moving
blaze of ''hot STUFF on wheels.
AS the train proceeded into the sta
4ion here there was manifest commotion.
Farmer" Bunch was seen to dodge
behind a pile of trunks and Bob Lums-
den dropped a mail bag, and if he had
been eight feet further there might have
been danger of his catching fire, ignit-
ing the Gideon and burning off FIVE or
six yards of his coat tails.
But the Gideon held his ground. Some
thought they caught in the CLEAN of
his eye a faint resemblance to the boy
who stood on the burning deck. Others
charged that the authorities had not
done their duty, because they had failed
to have the fire company on hand, ready
to turn on the water in case there was
spontaneous combustion while the
'Seeder was being unloaded. But there
was no such catastrophe, and the mouths
of the murmurers were soon busy COM
planning of lack of caloric in the bun
die of papers the Gideon had opened for
free distribution on the platform.
"Oh, it's not SO warm!' That was
the universal comment on the much-ad-
vertised "Hayseeder' as it made its
bow before the public. AS result of
this verdict its editor, S. Ohio Wilson,
went home last night with dropping
spirits. The iron of disappointment has
entered his soul He has laid aside his
ante-bellum beaver, and his Walter
Henry coat bears crest-fallen appear
ance. It's skirts droop nearer the earth
ahan has ever before been known in their
dark history.
ALL SEED AND NO HAY.
The trouble was that the Hay
seeder had seeded and it was nothing
but seed, and few in the pod at that
The long-promised hay was not there.
It seems to have turned out to be a
case of much-cry-and-little-w Peo-
pie looked for exposures and found
none.
Believing that the lurid prospectus the
Gideon had thrown to the breezes was
n true intimation Of warmer and more
sufphurous things to come, many per-
sons here-Otho says several hundred
had subscribed, and this initial issue was
awaited with much interest.
But the warmth and sulphur were
lacking. The only suggestion Of any
zeal sensation was q repetition of the
promise of future exposures OF Butler
and Russell, and few profane quota
Sons.
When asked what the trouble was, the
Gideon said he was only laying the
Foundation OF what was to be said in
future-that it was necessary first to ex-
plain his position, and in doing so he had
to print the legal documents in his case,
and legal documents have never been
accused of making thrilling reading. In
doing this he consumes sixteen of his
twenty columns. Two more columns are
devoted to telling what the Hayseeder
wiH not be, what its editor is going to
tell on Butler and Russell as soon as he
gets. time. The remaining two columns
are taken up by a signed editorial en-
titled "a Conspiracy In this he gives
an alleged private conversation between
himself and Governor Russell.
In this editorial the Gideon claims that
in certain conversation in the Execu-
tive office, Governor Russell, DR.. Alb
bolt and himself being present and dis
eussing the rate question, Wilson said
that he thought that the better class of
railroads should be made to reduce rates
materially; but the reduction should be
made equally on freight and passenger
fares. To this, he says, Governor Rus
sell replied: What in the - do you
want to help the fools who won't
help you forT
"In explanation of this" the editorial
continues, che said that to reduce freight
fares, those benefited would see it in
the papers, but as there were so many
classifcations and variations in amounts
of bills, that. like the tariff tax, he would
soon be unable to see how he was bene-
fitted and it would do no good politically,
but to make the whole reduction on pas
senger fares, the reduction would be so
large that the whole travelling public
would be whooping for us politically"
BANKRUPT POLITICS.
If is at once mournful and encoura o.
ing that the Gideon has determined to
bankrupt North Carolina politics by run
ming Butler and Russell clean out
of it. But such is the condition of af
fairs and the Hayseeder has been chosen
by the Gideon as the weapon with which
he proposes to drive this Adam and
Eve out of the Middle-of- the Road
Eden. No doubt is left on this score in
the opening editorial. In unsheathing his
avenging blade the Gideon makes the
FIRST swipe Mt the Caucasian. He says:
1.-The Hayseeder enters the field of
Journalism because the cauSe II renre-
santS needs panar OF tho Canifnl an n 4