The news & observer., 1897-02-19

| dignity, and instead OF cdllAHS AeepASSC.,, =,
| tative Howe a Sc d scoundrel,
| he might have gently remarked that ne
| was a mercenary, venal, purchased, pack
| ed and delivered toter of vote Tor the
| Southern combine. This wouldn't have
| been so harsh, there wouldn't have been
any undignified profanity in it, and 1t
Wouldn't have amazed Representative
| Howe as much as those chunks OF cuss
words did when they were so unexpect-
| etlly and suddenly hurled at him at q dis
| tance of only few feet in the Governor S
office. We sincerely trust that if here
after the Governor may have occasion to
| to rebulze amy of the colored Solons, or
others, he may revise his expletives and
select terms of disdain that would har-
| monize more with his official altitude
Wilmington Star.
The programme as to changes in Con-
gresSional districts has been settled
upon as follows:
First District-No change
Second District-Put in Craven and
transfer Wayne to the Third district, if
Grant don't kick.
Third District-Add Wayne.
Fourth District-Add Durham and Or
ange and take off Vance.
Fifth District-Add Vance and Surry.
Sixth District-No change.
Seventh District-Add Cleveland and
CASTOR, in place of Davie and Yadkin,
which are to be carried to the Eighth.
Eighth District-Add Dayie and Yad-
kin, in place of Cleveland, CASTOR and
Surry.
Ninth District-No change.
1t is possible that Davidson win be put
in the Eighth and Randolph in the Sew
enth.
This arrangement is to be made in order
to make the Second, Fifth, Eighth and
Ninth districts Republican: to keep Harry
Skinner in Congress as payment for sup
porting Pritchard; to kill Strowd in the
Fourth and Shuford in the Seventh, be-
cause they opposed Pritchard, and 30 put
the Popuhsts in the other districts at the
mercy of the Pritchardites.
The prevailing motive for all these
changes is to punish Strowd and Shuford
because they wouldn't bow the knee to
Pritchard. So far as the Democrats are
concerned, tney are going TO elect seven
Democrats to Congress in 1898, anyhow,
even 6f all precedent is destroyed and the
State is redistricted midway between tax
ing the census.
When the Republicans of North Caro-
lima were out of Office and dying to get
it, nothing so narrowed up their yirtu-
Gus souls as to have an official appoint
ed. They. yearned for elective of
fees with a yearning that nothing could
satisfy except the offices themselves.
Now that they are in, appointments by
the Governor are good enough where
thc1e is a chance, as in Asheyilla, that
the people would select a Democrat. F,c
instance, the Governor is to appoint for
tha people of Asae, ile. 4 pcl'ce justice
to serve for the ensuing year, though he
could as well be chosen at the election in
May by the people.-Asheyille Citizen
Among the visitors to Raleigh this week
it has been pleasant to meet Mr.. Carson,
of Sparta. The Wilkesboro Chronicle
gives him away by telling the object of
his visit. The Star says:
Editor Carson, of the Allegheny Star,
spent Sunday In the city. He was on
his way to Raleigh to get a bill passed
For the Relief of Editors which pro-
yides that editors shall have special rates
ON marriage license. He viii also work
against the bachelor bill, as his main
honey has firted with him.
North Carolina has one OF the most
economical systems of State government
to be found anywhere in the Union.
Nevertheless, under the pressure of the
unprecedented hard times, she is forced
to practice retrenchment, and bill has
been introduced in the Legislature re-
ducing the salaries OF State officials one
fourth. Charleston News and Courier.
But the bill will not pass. The promises
of reduction We're made to get in on.
A committee OF prominent citizens OF
Fayetteville will be here to-day to protest
against the passage of the bill to put
Fayetteville under the control of police
board to be named by the Legislature.
The committee is composed of Maj. Il. j.
Hale, III. r. Horne, S. c. Rankin, III.
w. Lilly, A. A. McKethan, A. B. Will
liams, J. B. Smith, w. L. Holt, III. L.
Cook, w. S. Cook. N. A. Sinclair.
In the House yesteray Mr.. Cathey re-
ferred TO the lease as having been made
for $4,000 years. Everybody laughed.
Mr.. Cathey turned the laugh by saying:
1T is all the same so far as we and
our children are concerned as IT it had
been made for $4,000 years. A lease for
80 years is equivalent to a sale.:9
Senator Buffers paper speaks of zone
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia." as the
''most active and meddlesome Populist
in Pritchard's interest" and says n. A.
Dunning was the "go-between from
Watson to Pritchard." Senator Butler
also says the Republicans are offering
positions to the majority Pepulists "as
hush money"
Mr.. John Robinson, q leading Popu-
list and Alliance man OF Catawba coun-
ty, informs us that ne has met many
Populsts during the past month, and
not one of them indorses the action of
the bolters. All are standing firmly by
the Populist majority-Hickory Mercury.
Yesterday the two negroes whom Mr..
Swinson refused to appoint were put on