The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-14

the marking Of others The people should
purge themselves Of their intense politi-
eal hatred of one another, stand together,
net with wisdom and patriotism in Sc
lecting their best citizens for positions
0f public Importance and they will then
have Il reason TO be proud of their i'm
situations and their attainmrnts.-
bury Herald.
The Legislature had many disgrace
FIJI scenes In the House last week. That
body was almost riotOus III times and
members were restrained from fighting
NV officers. On Wednesday night two
i'y policemen were called in to preserve
r Friday the House broke up in
gracclul row and disorder and on
"V IL was a riOtuus mob all day,
l.. era calling each other liars and
other ep. bets, and broke up only when
Sunday came in and compelled them to
adjourn. No such scenes have ever been
Witnessed in the legislative halls of North
Carolina. 1t is well that the sixty days
have expired and this crowd Of Radicals
and Populist office hunters have to go
home.-Dunn Union
Persons who have kept an eye on this
Legislature declare it 10 have been even
more disgwceful than the memorable
camp of carpet baggers at Raleigh in
1868
The wrangle for office ms bern nm
parallelcd Scarcely anything Of public
good has been done In fact, the interests
Of the people seem to have been lost sight
of and the aim of 81 majority Of the body
seems to have been to provide places
for themselves.
What a pity that 'tHbunes" should
thus forget the peoplc-Ciinton Demo
crGf
Since the opening Of the North Carolina
Legislature two months ago, the dear
people" have been looking, yea, expect
ing, the enactment Of such laws rs would
affect their material interests but moth
ing has yet materialized They asked
for bread and have been given stone;
they desired fish, but have received a ser
pent; the first, gold-bug United States
Senator; the second. rowdyism. dnarch-
ism, deviltry and do-nothingness Men
went to Raleigh under promise to vote
against Pritchard and deliberately ac-
cepted brides to do exactly the opposite
Defeated negroes have been given the
commissions of honestly elected white
men, and rioting and debauchery have run
rampant. Competent managers of the
State penitentiary, and other Shate insti-
tuti0ns, have been removed and their Of
fees turned over to ignorant representa-
lives Of the Pie Brigade. French
Broad Hustler
There is not decent man ia North
C2ro,iua-be he Democrat, Republican
or Populist-wilo will not feel that we
haye fallen indeed upon evil times, when
be reads ol the disgraceful scenes enacted
il the House Of Representative last
Friday and Saturday when the North
Carolina Railroad lease bill came UP. Not
even in the worst days Of reconstruction
were such scenes recorded. 50 turbulent
did the House become that the members
of the Senate focked to the House to
ascertain the trouble Representatives
were cursing. shaking their fists in each
others faces and the atmosphere was al
most sulphurous.
And this is the disgraccful thing we
call by court ~ a Legislature-this howl
iag mob. Ii is positively Il disgrace 20
the State and unworthy the name of a
legislative body. May they return home
and sink into that oblivion from whence
the majority Of them sprang. Roanoke
News.
Since the Legislature Of 1SCS no such
Gisgraceful proceedings have been wit
messed in Raleigh as tae rioting in the
House Of Representatives at different
times during the session of 1897. For
twenty-nine years the representatives
have met in Raleigh in an orderly body
endeaYoring to carry out the wishes of the
people. After their work had been finish
ed to return to their homes still com
handing the respect Of their fellow man.
Wilson Advance
The Legislature of 1897 "broke up"
Tuesday evening. The very fact that the
Assembly is no more will be a welcome
relief to every North Caroinian regard
less of party. excepting only those who
were members, or who had connection
with it in some way or other. The Legis-
lature Of 1897 has fulfilled its mission, but
at what cost, time alone will tell. The
office-seeker has gained his ends, but at
a fearful sacrifice, one which must be
atoned for whether the day for it be
near or distant. The people have been
taxed and received nothing III return
Goldsboro Headlight.
There is large fortune in store for
thcN man who will exhibit the North
Carolina Legislature throughout the
country an an Aggregation of Gibbering
Apes and Hungry Jackasses.-Jackson-
vile Times.
The Legislature of 1868 has always
been regarded as a criterion Of legislative
nastiness; but '6S with its drunken orgies,
when the members were exuberant with
wine and turned the House of Represen-
tatives into a dance hall was a Sunday
school when compared to the closing
days of 1897, when traitors, blacklegs
and scoundrels reveled in yells and ours
es, when he who would engineer the most
damnable schemes was regarded as the
Diogenes of the legislature, when crime
was at q premium, when ignorance was
a virtue, and men of honor, ability and
integrity were ignored and the peoples
interests neglected and trampled under