The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-08
HoLTON'S FALSE SECRET CIRCULAR.


25th, signed A. E. Holton, Chairman of
the Republican State Executive Commit
tee. which contains the following para
graph:
1.-THE News and Observer, in its
issue of August 18th and 10Th, on
its front pages, had cartoons repre-
senting James II. Young entering,
in the night time, the bedroom of Il
white lady teacher i'll the white
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum,
with vulgar suggestion and vicious
comment"
This is a false paragraph, prompted
by impotent rage. No such cartoon
ever appeared in the News and Observer.
and the suggestion that anything that
appeared in these columns had 'vulga
suggestion and vicious comments" is as
low and vile as it is infamous and false.
The cartoon that appeared in the
News and Observer had no comments, y
except an explanation of article four of
the bylaws, this bylaw requiring ''the
committee of inspection to visit each
department of the institution twice every
month, and make written report to the
Board as to their condition"
Not content with false statement in
his secret circular, Chairman HOlton
prints the garbled interview with Mr..
John e. Ray, Superintendent of the
institution. On the very day that Chair
man Holton dates his circular the News
and Observer contained an interview
with Mr.. John e. Ray in which he re-
pudiated every material statement CON
tanned in the Progressive Farmers so
called interview. Instead of printing Mr..
Rays denial of the Progressive Farmers
statements, Chairman Holton sends out
a secret circular containing the repudiat-
ed interview. The secret circular is thus
a falsehood from beginning to end.
The News and Observer stated that
the law gave Jim Young, the negro poll
tician, the power to inspect all the de-
partments of the white blind asylum.
Chairman Holton's gang raised a cry
about "a Democratic lle.'
When the bylaws were printed and
they were cornered, they cried out that
if this were true techically, Jim Young
had never been appointed on the Inspec-
ton Committee, and Mr.. Ray was quoted
as saying, HE never served on any com
mittee of inspection of the white de-
partment." Mr.. Ray never said any
thing of the sort, though his memory was
not good.
When this paper printed that Jim
Young had been appointed on the inspec-
ton committee, then Holton's gang
cried out that Young 'was appointed
only to inspect the colored department. ="
Then when they began to lie so brazenly
there was printed the report, with the
autograph signature of Jim Young, the
negro politician, telling of an official
inspection he had made of the white
institution.
Did that fact have any effect upon HOl-
ton and his cohorts? Not a bit. They
began to send out secret circulars full
of falsehoods and repudiated interviews
and to set up cry of Democratic lie''
in order to hide the truth.
If Mr.. Holton is an honest man and
wants the people to know the truth he
will issue at once another circular con-
tanning the official report signed by
Jim Young and the interview with Mr..
John Il. Ray in which he gives the lie to
every material statement published in
the Progressive Farmers Interview
which Holton circulated after It's false
statements had been publicly exposed.
The people will soon see whether Holton
will let the truth, even in long boots,
follow the falsehoods he has sent out
in a secret circular.