The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-10-25

0--o DSOhN repeatedly charged in
0~eenVlIIe, ane | think is believed by
dhG II governor Jarvis was put
dodge it. O VI
NOW, everybody in our town knows
GhaG n colored policeman has never.
arrested white man: that in fact his
OuGles have been mostly in keeping the
streets In order; and when was mavOr
us instructions were not 60 arrest any
Whlte persons, but to report any dis
sDance and the white policeman
aid and did arrest.
Ehe COlOred assistant is \ man Of
ne property, a good and inOffensive
AAen, and prominent Democrats of
town say he is one Of the best Off
rs the town has ever had.
WIN TINS information / would stop
u Orth fact that Gov. Jarvis went
out Of his way to attack me. He saws
mat L paid 43 cents town tax on prom
erty and the eOlOred policeman S.. "a.
Ihe tax list of Pitt county shows that
In 1885, after Jarvis was Governor. he
paid only S1.96 taxes for State, county
and school purposes. If he paid any
town tax while Governor he can say so.
His general and special State and c0un-
~ taxes in 1882 was the enormous
amount OF $5.45, and two dollars of that
amount was on his poll; so in the mat
ser OF paying taxes on property the
Ts2ro policeman seems to have the bet
? of him.
When the Democrats ruled the town
..4J Governor Jarvis was the attorney
Tor the county commissioners, some
body got up suit about an old market
mouse, a SUIT OF the town against the
county The Democratic commission
erS employed some resident Democratic
lawyers, and when the Republicans
came into power we found a bankrupt
treasury, some large outstanding debts
And other evidences of Democratic mis-
management. TimeS-Were very hard.
business duh, and the lawyers had to
live, L suppose; but in addition to his
salary of $500 per year as county attor-
-" the Governor got another pull at
county funds for services in a suit
/ was finally dismissed, and never
brought in good faith.
ii Gov. Jarvis write another letter
tell us how much the town was
up for by the Democratic LAWYERS.
80 they were, and how much did he
have h county commissioners pay him
cor that suit? Let him tell us also how
much the Democratic cOunCilmen paid
&F a secondhand and worthless old
hre engine that was never worth
freight, and how much of that debt
Gas left by the board to be paid by the
- 50 hlicans?
Another charge made by Governor
&AFViS was that was indicted for gam
Rlng and plead ~guilty-but the gam
ming was before l was elected mayor.
Why didn't the Governor state that at
the same court about fifty Democrats
were indicted for gambling and sub
mitteda Why did he conceal the fact
chat some of them were Democratic
lawyers and personal friends uf his,
and among them was my successor in
office, a Democrat, and the a of
TarbOrO, also a Democrat? Why didn't
Governor Jarvis say in his letter that
last year one of the Democratic cOun-
ciimen of Greenville voted for a negro
for town clerk? Everybody in town,
including Jarvis, knows the fact.
l don't make any pretensiOn to re-
igiOn, n DON'T pray in public like
Gov. Jarvis, and, therefore, L probably
ought not to Criticise other peoples
conduct, but as he has called public at
tentiOn to me, | will allude to certain
things that may interest the public.
. The Governor will remember one Z.
A. Wilson. q former Democratic sheriff
of Pitt county, who embeZZled the pub
tic money and fed from the State. l
= II q boy at the time, but have often
aIl II SldGGu III JuO OdCh EtOul VI
gWyer Jarvis office the sheriff lost
be most of that money at poker, and
the Governor and Others won it. j
Isve very recently heard that the day
GoFe he left the State he and Coy.
RVis and two others gambled in that
Jam. Will Governor Jarvis deny that
2e next day he said In Greenville,
Sd. Wilson has gone and will never
me back?" Will Governor Jarvis
deny, on oath, that he frequently gam
bled with Wilson and won money from
him2 Will he tell Us how much money
he borrowed from Wilson. and has he
ever paid it back? Will he, on oath,
deny that he advised Wilson to skip
the State, and will he tell Us whose at
tOrney he (Jarvisl was at the time?
Will he deny that he was attorney for
khe county which had been defrauded?
And as we are on the subject of gam
oIiHg. will Jarvis deny hat when he
was Governor he frequently gambled
at Morehead and Beaufort? What was
he doing the night the Atlantic Hotel
was washed away? There is another
matter the Governor can explain. How
much special tax bonds did he vote for
as q member of the legislature? Was
Got a man named PiCkereI1 The railroae
an who was to handle these bonus!
.idn't Governor Jarvis borrow slow
1m PickereII on his note and without
,surity, and was he (Jarvis) insolyent
Z the time? Has he ever PAID tha1
ioney back; and if so, where did ne
nav it? Or did he compromise the ueOGi
md for how much? Will he tell us all
sbout these mattersl The people are
jntarested in knowing; and when a
man parades himself before the puGilc
ne ought TO stand fire and answer IKE
man. .
Now, when Governor Jarvis wan
bo write about officers in GreenVliie
and Pitt county, let him tell about the
time when Hill Henrahan ana jim
brown. COIOred men, were policemen
F1der democratic rule in GreenVllle,
n Lewis Cox, a negro, was nominated
county commissioner by the DemocraV-
10 convention in Pitt county.
1 have not sought this controversy
hut when Jarvis has answered my ques'
tiOns, l may have a few more TO put u
- JAMES w. PERKINS.