Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-09-02
RUSSELL AND BUTLER.
They Join Forces to Fight for
the New" Party Organiza-
tiOn: Russell is Going to
Gust the Two Wilson's,

tIOH huSSeIl Is OOIHS 10
Gust the Two Wilson's.
Daily Argus last Thursday.
In yesterdays Caucasian, Ma
r;on Buffers calamity howling
organ, appeared two letters of
like tenor, the one addr. ssed to
Maj Jas. Wis IN, the other to
s. Ohio Wilson, over the official
signature Of Governor Russell.
AS both letters are Of the same
tenor we give bit one of them,
as follows:
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
RALEIGH
Aug, 25th, 1897
To JAMES ". VIII son Esq, Member
of the Railroad Commission of
North Carolina
SIR BY Section First of the
Railroad Commission Act, ratified the
fifth day of March 1891, it is made
the duty of the Governor to suspend
from office any Railroad Commits
sioner who shall be the holder OF
''any stock or bond of any railroad
company; or be the agent or employee
of any such company; or have any
interest IN any way III such company;
or IN case any one of them shall be
disqualified to act It is alleged that
you are the joint owner with Col. A.
B. Andrews, the First Vice-Presi-
deut of the Southern Railroad, gen
eral political manager of the same
for North Carolina, of a certain
piece of hotel property, known as
Round Knob, situated on the line of
the said Railroad, that said hotel
property IS worth little OF nothing
except as hotel and that it is worth
less for this purpose excep. when
designated and patronized by the
Southern Railroad as an eating
house for their passenger trains;that
said hotel property has been unoccu-
pied and unused for any purpose for
several years past and has brought
III no revenue to you as one of its
owners; that it Is impossible for you
to use, rent or lease said property
unless some understanding agree
ment or contract could be made with
the Southern Railroad Company to
designate and patronize the said
hotel as a railroad clearinghouse; that
you and the other owner or owners
of said hotel property have secured
some agreement, understanding CT
contract from the Southern Railroad
Company to abandon other eating
houses and designate Round Knob
as an eating house; and that by vir-
tue of said arrangements with said
railroad that you have been able to
lease said hotel property to S. Otho
Wilson, or to his mother, through the
said Wilson, for profit.
1t is further alleged that you have
son i'll the employment of the
Southern Railway Company at Nor
canton, that he was appointed to
this place by the Southern Railroad
Company at your request, and that
he was appointed over others en-
titled to the place by promotion un-
der the practice of the company, and
that this was done for your accomo-
dation and at your request.
These allegations have been made
to me by many persons and / think
publication of them has been made
in the public press. If they or the
material substance of them be true
as to which [ am expressing no opin-
ion-then the questions to be deter
mined are as follows:
First: Have you acquired any in
terest in any way in such Company
in violation of law?
Second: Have you become dis
qualified to act as fair Judge or
Commissioner?
Under the law the Governor has
not only right but is required to
suspend a Railroad Commissioner
who commits breach of the statute,
which has been cited, and this he
may do, as in other cases of Execu-
tive removals, without notice to the
party Interested; but I shall not pass
judgment or decide this matter until
you have had full opportunity to
be heard by way of denial or explain
alton or justification OF other de.
fense. You will therefore please
show cause in writing, on or before
Wednesday, the first day of Septem
Der, 1897, at the Executive office IL
Raleigh, why you should not be sus
pended from your said Office and 6
report thereof made to the next Gen
eral Assembly according to law On
the return day of this notice, yor
will please make answer and proofs
in writing, and be there in person o.
| by counsel, at your election
| DANIEL L. RUSSELL,