The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-06-17

standpoint. To prevent a recur-
renee of impressions thus conveyed,
the editorials written hereafter by
Senator Butler will be signed IN. b."
scUKRILOUs NEWSPAPER.
a little over two years ago the peo-
pie Of the State demanded and Sc
cured n change Of political admins
tration Of its affairs. The editor Of
the News and Observer was then in
Washington eating piece Of 2oldbug
pie-yes, plea thing at which he
screeches now as though it were a com
bination Of cholera-morbus and de-
lirium tremens because there is none
in sight for him. lie announced that
he left that pie to come back here
and save the State" for his people
lt looks, however, as though he was
not wanted, for his plan of salvation
was most disastrously rejected. Ac-
cording to his idea the State was Gun
saved"tw years ago by n majority OF
twenty thousand; and when he came
down to sase it the state took a notion
to remam "unssved' by about forty
thousand majority. II he will con-
tinue to press his plan of salvation
and the members of that political
party with which he processes to aflili-
ate do not take some step to show that
he Is in nOwise u representative of
that party, THE CAUCASIAN can prom
Use the people that the State will be
"unsaved" next time almost unani-
mously.
Failing to perform the salvation
act, the editor Of the News and OBJ
server apparently turned his atten-
ton to an effort To damn the State cd
its people. He and bis paper have
been guilty of more attempted SIAN
der and viliiication of North Carolina
and its people during the past few
months than any person or journal
that was ever permitted tn stay in it.
it just 80 happens, however, that
neither a plan of salvation nor an eff
fort at damnation from that source
amounts To the slightest degree of eff
iioiency.
IL is unnecessary here to bring into
evidence any of its low, disgusting
drivel. IL is sufficiently well known
to permit the statement that it is in
tensels partisan to the extent of its
capacity, and that it exerts every eff
fort Of which it is capable to make
anything 1t may choose to call parti-
san on the part Of any one else ap-
pear to be movement to send the
State to perdition. In these efforts it
has made the grossest misrepresenta-
tions and been as vile and scurrile as
1t knew how To be. We are mention
ing these matters, not because any,
body that We know now cares individ-
ually about what the News
and Observer ever has said
or ever can say, under its
present management, about them,
but because we have always resented
and condemned any lie that may have
been uttered about the State and the
people Of the State. In this respect
the News and Observer can be annoy
in the same sense that an significant
and contemplate gnat can annoy a
lordry lion.
We do not hope to be able to say or
do anything that will stop the despi-
cableness of the News and Observer in
this particular. If it were capable of
comprshending anything, it would
understand something of the contem ut
1t is held In by all sorts of people of
all parties, and might make an ATTEMPT
to improve; bat it is very we'll set
tied fact that the Ethiopian cannot
change his skin nor the leopard his
spots
The latest explosion" of the News
and Observer was concerning the ac-
tion of the Board of Trustees of the
College of Agriculture and the Me-
chanic Arts. We give some samples
of this explosion elsew here in this is
sue. In it's frothiDgs it sought to
make generous conservatism look like
rampant destruction, and handled the
names of some men in such a way as
would have inspired them to do some
thrashing il the editor of the News
and Observer had been thought worth
that much attention. But what would
have been the user He has already
been cowhided by Capt. s. A. Ashe:
he has been slapped or punched in the
face by Capt. w. II. Day; he has been
rolIes in the DIRT and sat upon by
U. ~. Carroll; Walter Henry
wrote him a lett.. telling him he was
. liar and then published the letter,
and 1t has come to that point when a
gentleman cannot walk up to him and
slap him over without disgracing him.
self. What is there that can be donep
Though thou shouldst bray fool in a
mortar among wheat with a pestle.
yet will not his foolishness depart
from hin."
The author of this scriptural prov
erb could not have had a clearer illus
trstion Of its truth than is
Afforded to the people of this
State by the editor of the News
and Observer to-day. This thrash
ing cannot be always continued
It 10 very like the continual whacking
" stupid jsckass, and is too much
Ike cruelty to animals.
Now, II so happens that in every