The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-02-28

Of THE Legislature, for shegave Demo-
cratic majority. The other eoi1Hties in Z
thu Senatorial districtiaareo responsible
for sending such a. man to Raleigh TO 4
help enact laws for our State. There
is no telling what kind of damaging bills
he wouldgget through il 1T were not for
the conservative and ever alert James
A. Leak who keelSs lIs eye en- Odo1n
and calls attention tor the dreachery in
Odoms hill Had 1t not been for sir.
| Leak, 1tile law controlling the saie OF
seed cotton would have been repealed,
through Odom's instrumentality, and
thus our eolored population would have
seen tempted, as aof yorcsA to visit VIE
cotton patdhA by nightsaITd sd thsirA title
bundle of seed early olrsthe fAlgsvipg
morning. OF course it is easy to see
that Odom's purpose in trying 10 secure
the repeal of the law, was to 10 Some
9thing that would please that part 6f our
population, who are void of honesty app
who aressalways ready te,steal sto. make
living for it, is from Iris class De sx-
poets tA set. hissyotes In the fninrey tits
truet hat Senator Gdom succeeded in get
ting the legislature to appoint cotton
we:gheas for Wadesb0fo, Morven and
ILIesv i}e, but mot until MFR. Leak had
done everything he could against IT and
almost defeated the measure We say,
Hurrah for pluclly Jimmy Leak!-Wades
boro Courier.
1t seems to be understood now that
after all the gusto regarding indepen-
dence of rexeeutiyeg influence bsses. be4tipgl
pops are content to let Governor Russell
! of
the Constitution I'M the matter of doctors
for the several State inst.tuttoHss~& SUCH
persons are officers proESdedi fbrsaili the
Constitution as has been expressly held
and calling them special trustees in am act
of assembly does in no wise alter their
character as the too eager pie chasers
may yet have drllesl into Them by the
courts.
1.-The Biblical Recorder Thinks it would
be good idea to require members of the
General Assembly not to hold office,
whether they resign or not, during the
term of two years for which they are
elected. In our opinion a law of this
kind would do good The reason why
! the present Legislature has done so little
his because the men who compose it have
| SpCHL Na1efIf fb4lutA lhflHt7rJf5 ofNt O1hSts
/ They seem to have forgotten the promises
they made 10 the people last fall in their
mad scramble to get up to the pie-counter,
Some unnecessary offices have been ereat-
ed for the sole purpose OF giving men
| jobs.-Sanford Express.
49,
On Thursday of last week Messrs.g w.
II. Young and w III. Quick were put to
work in the Enrolling office Of the Legis-
/ lature. These two gentlemen are the
1 colored men that exEnrolling Clerk
/ Swinson "swore by all the gods that
made him" that he would not appoint
fclerk OF his office. Neither did he APP
point them SWANSON even hatcs d negro
so bad that he suffered himself to lose a
SIS a day job before he would appoint
one This is something that don't hap
| pen every day.-The Gazette, edited by
Jim Young.
/ Reynolds and Hilenan have been
claiming all along that Swinson was dis
charged and his Office abolished because
he permitted too much extravaganza in
his office We have shown time and
gain that the sole reason for Swnson's
decapitation was his refusal to appoint
the two negroes selected by the Republi-
can caucus. The negroes and everybody