The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-25
DR.. THOMPSON DOING 1T
FACTS PRESENTED AGAINST FALSEH0oDS
The Old Watch Dog Of the Treasury" Re-
plies to DR.. Cyrus and Exposes his
Reckless Representations.
(Asheboro COurier.)

| determined several years ago no lon
ger to take any active part in political
campaigns, but simply go to the polls
and vote for such men as / believed TO be
honest reliable and Democratic upon
principle, and for such only. This de-
termination was caused by the fact that
| had observed that Il few 'pie hunters"
had assumed to control the organizations
of all the parties and run them in the
interest of certain individuals and classes,
without regard to expense to the tax
payers and the interests Of the great
masses of the taX-paying citizens But
circumstances sometimes render a change
of the most deliberate determination
proper.
On the 10th instant, in his speech at
Asheboro, DIR. Cyrus Thompson. for
merly a physician, now transformed into
Il political pill driver, had the effrontery
to charge that /, in the General Assem-
bly,, in 1877, with others, voted to APP
point negroes justice of the peace. /
was not present when he made the
charge, but only have been informed of
it. My information, however, is corrob-
Grated by the Political Pill Drivers
speech at Clinton, which is now being
scattered broadcast over this county by
some of the radical and fusion ring of
pie-eaters here, and copy of which is
now before me. Had | been so far for
getful of the Anglo-Saxon blood that
courses through my veins as to knowingly
and wilfully cast such vote. | should
have deserved the scorn of all decent
white people But how such a vote cast
by me and others, had It been done,
which | deny, can justify Cy Thompson
and his fusion crowd in openly, unblush-
ingly. and shamelessly bounding ON me-
gro government over the people Of North
Carolina. and especially Eastern North
Carolina, is beyond my conception and, L
take it, the conception of all decent and
self-respecting people everywhere. That
one or several mems sin can justify other
men in committing the same sin is n
doctrine that / apprehend can find no
place in the code of morals of any person
but Cy Thompson and his pie-eating and
pie-hunting crew.
The facts in regard to the appoint
ment of justices of the peace in 1877, are
these: The appointment of all the jus
tees all over the State, amounting 10
thousands, was to be made by that Gen
eral Assembly, and joint committee OF
able members were appointed to make
and present a list of names for justices
of the peace; to the General Assembly.
The committee adopted the rule that in
counties represented by Democrats, they
wv nd fhn
scented by these members for their respec-
tive counties, and in the counties repre-
scented by Republicans they would per-
init these representatives to suggest one
third Of the names, and the remaining
two-thirds they would obtain from Dem
ocratic sources in the counties The
lists were made up and reported to the
| General Assembly accordingly. When
the question came up in the Senate, of
| which body | was "A member. | voted
for the list so reported by the committee,
but not without sundry exceptions, as did
many other Senators, as is shown by the
Senate Journal, pages 76S and 100. and if
there were any negroes on the list they
were doubtless thrust in by the Republi-
can members in the one-third of the mem
| bers they were allowed to suggest with
out marking on the lists or suggesting in
any way that they were negroes. And
| if | voted for any negro, which | do
not admit it was caused by the cunning
and intrigue Of the Republicans who thus
coverty put in their names; and | never
heard the charge before. 1t seems to have
been reserved for this Political Pill Dri-
yer, after the lapse of twenty odd years,
and after he had gone to bed to these
same tricky Republican manipulators
with a public pie in his mouth, put there
by them, TO make the wonderful dscov-
cry. There is something quite as mystic
rious and as inexplicable in his pretend
ed reason for going to bed to these
tricksters, as the foregoing and on which
You may hear from me again. but ] " i,
not prolong the present communications.
M. $. ROBINS.