The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-01
THE VISITING STATESMAN" lis
DEIl SION.

Recently while Elk Governor Jar
Wis was in Raleigh, the News and Oh.
server interviewed him at length.
That paper was apparently delighted
with his interview, and picked out
one sentence which it called gem"
and with great flourish of trump
cts used it as a text for a leading
editorial under the heading of "a
True Indictment"
The "gem" sentence of the inter
view is as follows:
1.-THE Repubicau-Populist fusion
experiment in North Carolina has re-
suited in a general letting down Of
the aspirations of the people,
Governor Jarvis.
This is not the first time that Ex-
Governor Jarvis has mistaken him
self for the people. In fact, Mr.. jar
Wis and men of his class have hab-
it of considering themselves the peo-
pie. When with their hypocrisy and
double dealing they can fool the
people into putting them in office so
that they can draw the salaries and
at the same time serve the railroads,
then they proclaim that the people
are prosperous. When they fail to
fool the people and get in Office, and
when there is soma danger of the
corporations being brought to justice
and put on an equal footing with
other people then they loudly pro-
claim that the State is going to the
dogs, and that the people are on the
road to ruin.
When the honest masses over
threw the monopoly machine and
took charge of the legislature in 1891
this same man Jarvis then thought
the State was gone to perdition. When
that legislature passed the Rail.
road Commission law, and further
passed an act providing that the At
lantic Coast Line should not have the
charter Of the Petersburg railroad
renewed unless they agreed to pay
their back taxes and to list thei,
property at a fair valuation, Mr.
Jarvis and all of the monopoly or
gans denounced the legislature as q
body OF anarchists who were destroy.
ing the property rights of the people
soaring capital out of the State AND
bringing disgrace upon the people
The railroad corporations were de
lighted with the hyprpcrisv and dem
ogoguery OF men like Jarvis, and a
once made deal with them to capt
ure the next Legislature in the inter
est of the railroads. 1t will be re
memtered that the railrJ ads were 8
little afraid Of Elias Carr, who wa.
then q candidate for Governor, bu
when Mr.. Jarvis went out as his we
nurse to conduct him over the Stat,
and to coach him, they were salts
fed. The corporations put up tn,
money to help carry the State for tn,
Democratic marhiue.
What was the result? Carr wa
elscted, and before he had been il
office two months there were strons
signs that the railroads owned him
In the meantime Of course, Jarvis
continued to coach and nurse tn,
"me too" Governor. The Dem ocrati,
legislature of 1893 met. This was tn,
legislature that could force the At
lautic Coast line to pay q million dol
lars back taxes and to list its prop
erty at true valuation or refuse t,
resharter the Petersburg railroad
viii n was essential to the life of tn,
Atlantic Coast Line system.
What happened Before the legis
lature met Mr. Jarvis was sent fo
by the officers of the Atlantic Coas
Line. He quietly slipped down t,
Wilmington, the carriage Of tn,
President Of the road met him at tn,
depot. he Was taken to the residenc,