The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-03
RAlEtGH'S NEW DAlLY--M0ROECAl STILL
"SlTTlNG AT THE KINGS GAZE"

The Raleigh Daily Tribune is to be
revived under new name and with
an avowedly different political faith.
It is said to be organized to preach
straight Democracy" but it is to be
controlled by the same agencies that
controlled the Tribune.
.Raleigh's new morning daily, an
nounced to appear about the middle Of
this month, was born in the brain of
Col. A. B. Andrews, the political man
ager of the Southern Railway, supporter
of Mckinley. and would-be-political
boss of the State, and it is to be run in
the way that will best advance the in
terests of COL A. B. Andrews and the
Mckinley sentiment in the State.
1t is well known that during the cam
paign of 1896, Col. Andrews not only
voted for Mckinley, but blatantly an
nounced his belief that Mckinley would
carry North Carolina. SO confident
was he that the political corporation in
fuence, plus the negro and white Re
publican vote, would give the electoral
vote to Mckinley that on the might Of
the election he put up money to back his
Judgment. The result Of the election
caused him to lose all the money he had
wagered on North Carolina, but he and
other so-called Democrats had the salts
faction of seeing a Republican inaugur-
ated Governor of North Carolina and
President of the United States. Happy
in the belief that the Republicans would
carry out to the full the doctrines Of pro-
lection and the gold standard, which he
warmly advocated, Col. Andrews set
about to welcome the new Republican
Governor to Raleigh with such social at
tentions as had never before been shown
to a newly elected Governor of the State.
The election of Republican Governor
and Republican President, however, did
not FIJI the cup of happiness to the brim
of this Republican boss and railroad
manipulation, though he did not disguise
lis happiness at the result, and as one
way of exhibiting his joy, Col. Andrews
left his business to become the social
lion of the capital city long enough to
give the new Governor reception and
an ovation that made the honors to
Vance, Jarvis, Scales, Fowle, Holt and
Carr pale into insignifcance.
l Oh IL Aha De-
publican party as if it was his private
property, though buying contingent Of
the Populist party, and though having
well known agents to do his bidding in
the ranks of the Democratic party, which
party he had tried to destroy in the
campaign of 1S96-though "all the
Kings servants, that were in the Kings
gate, bowed and reverenced" the would
be-political Boss OF North Carolina, he
said unto himself, "Yet all this availeth
me nothing so long as see Mordecai, the
Jew, sitting at the Kings gate"
Elated by the election of Republican
Governor and Republican President, this
modern Hannah felt that these things
and the adulation of q free pass brigade
availed him nothing so long as the News
and Observer came into his presence
daily, and ''bowed not, nor did him
reverence, then was Haman full of
wrath" He decreed the death Of
Mordecai very much after the fashion
of Hannah Of old. He meditated upon
the best method of executing his ven
geance. The political corporations and
corruptionists, having bought the cleo
ton for Mckinley, believed within them
selves that political virtue had gone out
of the people, and that they had the
Federal and State governments in their
grasp for generation. The North Car
DINA Hannah, glowing in his faith in the
permanency of Republican rule, thought
that a Republican daily newspaper,
equipped with the best machinery that
corporation money could buy, would be
the best method of either destroying
Mordecai or compelling him to make
daily obeisance, and incidentally of con-
trolling the action of the Legislature in
the interest Of the schemes Of the South
ern Railway. A staff Of Republican
writer's, heralded as trained Journalists,
came to Raleigh and with a great blow
ing of trumpets began the work Of de-
struction. Prating of its devotion to
Republican principles, it soon developed
(so that the most ignorant could see) its
real character as the organ Of the South
ern Railway and all other trusts and
monopolies, advertising its own corrup-
ton in it's every ISSUE" When every
body learned that it was nothing more
nor less than a railroad organ it lost
whatever influence it might have had
as a paper speaking for the Republican