The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-27
THU KIND OF OFFICE HOLDERS
WE ARE GETTING.

IL There hardly passes q uay with '
deficient official rs not removed to make
places for politicians Of the dominant
barty. The Democrats holding pubic
bfice expect to give place to their VIC
torious political opponents, but the tax
tayers were promised that men mt 10
hi the places should be chosen. WIN
a mere handful of exceptions, the he
publicans have not men as capapie as
have held the positions under Demo
cratic rule. but they ought at least to
mt in the best material they have, ana
men they have not publicly denounced
as .srascals." Instead of doing so they
are intent upon rewarding some polltlcal
henchmen who, in most instances, are
unfit for the nositions to which are elect
ed.
The most delicate, important, and res
ponsible work committed to the Board
of Agriculture is the inspection OF FER
tilizers. Men have heretofore been chos-
en- because they knew something about
fertilizers, and could protect the farm
ers against imposition. How IS 1t now!
The new Board of Agriculture, passing
over the application of farmers and 9TH
ers who are qualified, picks out the negro
nolitician of Raleigh, Jim Young, and
makes him Chief Inspector, and gives
white men positions under him. And
they call this Reform! We shall see
later from the Treasurer's books how
much increase the new Board will make
in the salary, for Jim is high priced
negro. He was not selected because he
has any fitness for the place, but because
no and Loge Harris manipulated the
Wake county convention for Russell last
year when the county was really for:
Dockery, and because he carries the ne
gro vote in his pocket
1t is a disgrace to the State to convert
the Agricultural Department into
dumping ground for political strikers
when it was established for the benefit
Of the farmers The Governor knows
of the unfitness of Young for this or any
other place in the public service as is
evidenced from the following letter. writ
ten by him as follows:
Wilmington, N. c.. April s. 1892.
Mr.. A. Brady, Charlotte, n. c.
Dear Sir: / hear that you and Col.
Myers were named by the Jim Young
Locky gang at Rockingham. The de-
cent Republicans at this end regret that
men of character like yourself and Col.
Myers should be yoked with a gang OF
scoundrels. with whom not one single
respectable man in this region will af-
filiate. of course you may answer that
they are just as good as such scamps as
Gordon and Company. 1t seems that the
ra seals are on top at both ends. We
have made up our minds not to be bound
by hoodlums and thieves. / hope Col.
Myers will not permit himself to be hui
inflated and degraded by running on the
same ticket with Jockey. OF course we
would like to support him for anything
he wants, but we can't stand the combi-
nation We think the thing to do is to
put decency in charge or break up the
concern. I had supposed that Col. Ny
State ticket or any county ticket in the
negro counties except where respectable
white men were in control.
Yours truly,
D. L. RUSSELL.
Z. S. please show this to Col. Myers.
should say that all the presumptions of
| title are in favor Of Gordon. The Ne
groes generally go with the rascals 1t
g. lxo4
Mecklenburg is an exception to the rule"
If Young was a scamp" a ''scoun-
| drel," and a rascal in 1892, as Gov
ernor Russell stated over his own sigma
ture, what has he done since that time
to make him worthy to be Chief Inspec-
tor of fertilizers, to be put over white
| men in the protection of the farmers?
| ANOTHER DEFAMER OF THE ST.