The news & observer., 1897-02-09

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/ Busbee had passed the vernal equinox
when he was so full of enthusiasm. Capt.
Day didn't intend for anybody to hide
/ behind the name of General Hoke and
proceeding, he paid an exquisite trib-
ute to General Hoke, the fash of whose
sword he had seen and whose
/ colors he had waved in the
crash of battle (There was a slight
applause). But General Hoke in this
lease had not done what the owners of the
stock represented, desired. An
eloquent contrast here between the help
lessness of the people and the tyranny of
aggregated wealth-and took up the Cobb
incident Why was it that Cobb got
scared so suddenly? Why was it that a
| New York lawyer happened to be there
just in time to write the ''retraxit'? Did
the Seaboard scare him? The North Car
olina Railroad? Who had the motive to
do it,? The agents Of the Southern Rail-
| way did it, The Capt was contemptuous
| when he repeated-"the Southern Rail-
way Company. MS Nathan said unto Da-s
vid,'' he said, thou art the mantle
Southern Railway-but behind Cobb
were 100000 people who claimed their
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Coming to the first section he said it de-
lmanded that the interests of these 1,600,-
1000 be protected-but here came an alien,
Ewho demanded that they bow their neeks
land be its abiect slave He referred TO
1.-THE campaign and defed anyone to show
1 him a Democratic speaker who said this
was right The Populists had the man
hood to denounce it in their PLATFORM and
Il inct tod tfny1tl tha Ra4Auhli1as,c had
not the manhood to denounce it, Isn't
lit time to say, Behind me party allegi-
ance; this is not a political question, but
one that goes to the heart Of her institu-
tions and integrity" The first section sim
ply required the Southern Railway 10
abide by the judgments of the North Car
olina courts. Who else claimed exemp-
ton from such responsibility except the
Southern? What Too august, too sa-
! cred to respond to those laws. when
must respond with my life This alien
| in our midst--a Virginian?
No they are bone of our bone, and
flesh of our flesh, blood of our blood, moth
ing against the Virginians. Who is it?
/ An American? No; it is a Rothschild
Is it A. B. Andrews? No. He bears on
his body to-day the scars received in de-
i the power that is foreign The question
is whether we shall surrender to the pow
er of aggregate corporation He referred
TO the Pacific Railroads which if put
in the hand of Rothschild, farewell
a long farewell to the dream of the south
ern exit via the Nicaragua canal.
/ What makes the alien corporation stay
in North Carolina? Money And yet
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But they say that this first section is
unconstitutional. They fail to draw a
| distinction between the license tax and
the license to exist. Do understand that
! North Carolina has not got right to say
the Southern cant come here? Where is
brother Busbee (No reply. Col. Hen
Iderson do | understand you to say that?
Co. Henderson: Il haven't said, but /
should not say any such thing as that"
/ Col. Sutton asked Capt. Day just here
to clear up the distinction between the
/ Doyle and Leloup cases. Then he read
the act Ito license foreign corporations"
on which the Doyle decision was based.
Mr. Burton interrupted: do you think
such power should be in one mang'
Yes; the power Of life and death lies
in the Governor"
/ BuTIODs but IHaI Is aIIer ITldl.
| Day: YES; but the final power has got
to reside somewhere, and why not in the
/ Governor ?They object to everything and
offer nothing. He read (94 u. 81. if the
act of the State was legal 1t was not un-
constitutional
SO much for the first section. He, too,
would like sometimes to get into the Fed
eral Court as in the Daniels case, but
| it was North Cardinals business and
what did any other court have to do with
lit? They appeal to the pride of the Re
Ipublicans by saying that it reflects on the
Attorney General. You are giving too
much power to the Governor, but
Iyou are not giving too much power to the
Attorney General when you say that he
and he alone can decide whether this
action can be brought.
They say the Seaboard road is in this
devilment, and is insolvent, when you
make these amendments, Hoffman's con-
dition are removed-all these things are
denied. He maintained that the fight
of the Seaboard road was the fight of
competition and safety TO the interests
of the people OF the State. Two years
ago the Seaboard road was bottled up
and resolved TO break the cords that
DOullu anu SudIlGu IdlG-WdI lOl It's
very existence; the Southern went to the
Federal court-its old time friend-they
went to the commissions OF South Caro-
lima and Georgia and North Carolina and
they enjoined They say our road is a
pauper-it has never been in bankruptcy.
Here he read from the North Carolina
Railroad Commission-and a spat came
with Mr.. Busbee, who said that Judge
Avery had said ON Saturday that the
Southern had not lowered the local rates.
Judge Avery denied using the word
"locaf' and said it was question Of
veracity between him and Mr.. Busbee,
who said he thought he did. Capt. Day
read on and called on Mr.. Busbee to an
swer what was meant when the violation
of the long and short haul clause was
referred to. Mr.. Busbee didn't know.
Capt. Day asked Maj. Wilson; he an
swered that the Southern was meant Mr.
Bushee contended that he didn't want
Judge Avery to say Saturday that the
Southern had not lowered local rates and