The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-25
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
The EXPECTED HAS HAPPENED
TO DR.. o. REID PARKER.
He is Left Out IN the Cold Again.
Asked For an Office and Was
Given a Promise.

L
tcrday morning at o o'clock and elected
the officers and transacted th, business
Indicated in yesterday morning paper.
| The only change in the program, was
| to succumb To the pressure for ols,rp and
| create two new oncs-special fri i,.zcr
inspectors and give them to -. g.
| TrOglen, of Rockingham, and F!prrl4
Bobbitt
| This makes the list of officers yesterday
| elected as follows:
Commissioner of .Agriculture-.I. VI.
| Mewborne, of Lenoir.
| Chief Fertilizer Inspector-Jamcs III.
| Young (col.), of Raleigh.
| Assistant Fertilizer Inspector l..
| Kelly, of Vance
| Special Fertilizer inspectors Ed
| Shoup, of Davidson; James Shcek, of Da-
| vie; w. Il. TrOgden, of Rockingham, and
| Fletcher Bobbitt.
| George W. King, of Raleigh, was elect
| ed hight Waterman. and S. f. Williams
| COLI of Monroe, janitor of the building.
| j. ID. Mautsby was made permanent
| chairman of the Board, and the following
| committees were appointed: Finance
III. r. King, chairman. George
| E. Flow, Howard Browning, James NJ.
| Allen and .Jno Brady. Executive. G.
| l.. Harris chairman: John Graham, J. e..
/ Ray, w &. Sprinkle, J. ID. Maultsby.
The Beard stands in great fear of I"
| decision of the United States as 10 ble
| tonnage tax, which it now has under con-
sideration. and which. if declared mcon-
| sttutional, will practically wipe out the
| Agricultural Department, as soon as the
| $40, 900 now collected and in its treasury
is exhausted. Indeed, there is now only
| $1,000 in the treasury, as the Board yes
terday agreed to advance $4,000 to the y.
and NJ. College to be used in building the
hospital contemplated by the Legislature
| and to put in new boilers. The money
is to be replaced in October. The Board
ia lles the Warrant of the College on the
| State Treasurer for this amount 1t
| was appropriated by the Legislature. but
is not now available, as Treasurer Worth
has declared he will at present pay only
the regular appropriations.
| On account Of the uncertainty in regard
| to the tonnage tax. the Board also decided
not to make an appropriation for an ex-
| hibit mt the Nashville Exposition, which
| opens in May.
And so Mewholne is the Commissioners
and Dr. u. Reid Parker didn't get the
| price of his flop, after ALL lie asked for
an office, and they gave him Il promise
Not this time Doctor: some other time:
Won cannot leave old Randolph yet;
You'd better bde Il wee. SO has
| said the Board to DR.. ID. Reid
| Parker. the Pritchard- paired Populist,
land the.c;lueus nominee of the three little
| his sss.4t -. s.t, .-
Walter Henry can tell you how it is.
Dock. YOU and Walter are in the same
boat: you can just take a little sail up
Salt River. and talk over the matter as
ron glide rfp stream Ef3
Oh. YES, YOU did the Pritchard act,
| but You made bungling mess of it.
| Mewhorne knew how do it, He knew
how to keep his mouth shut in Asia
| Spasia and Spanish, and he has lander
| twice times to your nit
He landed in the Enrolling Clerks of
fee. vice the bounced bee raiser, and now
| here he is again landed while you,
poor doctor. are stranded; aye. stranded.
| Hard old world. Dock; hard old world.
| Mewborne was IA Prtchard man. Oh.
| yes. so said, but he rs a wheeler from
| Wheelersville, and can wheel Outsof one
camp into another SO fast that You can't
| tell that he was in the other at all
! You wheeled from Thompson to Pritch-
ard. but gee, what Il bunglesome job
you did make OF it. Why. the whole
legislative shooting-match could see your
| No, los when they hit the ceiling as
| YOU turned, and Walter Henry's No. lbs
| hit just about the same time, and how
| see where you both are? Out in the
cold world, chilled by the Ainds of cruel
! disappointment. tegs
Didn't you both know. Dock. that
| that little bunch of lower case his
| couldn't carve that pie to. suit all you
| hungry fellows? And didn't you know
| that your Uncle Dan. was going to do
with the dishing out of these nice, juicy
slices? Why didn't you nail Pritchard
when you had him? Didn't you know
that if he would go back on silver for
Hanna and then go back on Hanna for
silver that he would go back on you.
| unless you got some. as Ashburn called
! it. col-lat-terral, with the accent on the
| RAJ?
No, Doctor, you will do very well to
fuss about and fuse about and get your
self and some other L. L. P's. in the
Legislature, but as a successful dealer III
political green goods you are a regular
bump on log; you are Il sort of last
years birds nest; you are driving the
hack, Dock, catching the political La.
Grippe, while the other fellows have
the other grip on everythin in sight.
Sorry for you, Dock, awful sorry; sorry
for Walter Henry, too; sorry for poor
old man Ruff Henderson, but can't help
it, Dock. Such is life. In the midst
of life we are in debt. On le:t
Keep-a-fussing, Dock, keep-a- fussing,
and if you fellows can keep fooling the
folks, your time will come bye and bye.
Ii you can keep hoodwinking the boilers,
and be silver man one day and vote
for gold bug the next day, and il the
poor misled voters. will keep standing it,
you may yet see d. Reid Parker written
on payroll every month, and maybe
some times twice a month. 1 elI