The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-03
CAN'T PUT 1T ON POLITICS
''HE DOTH PROTEST OVER MUCH.
METHINKS."
A PAGE OF REPUBLICAN, POLITICS
Dick Williams, Republican Member from
Craven in 1895, Replies to Hancock
and Washes Some Dirty
Party Linen.
Newbern, n. c., Feb. 1, 1898.

NCWDeFI, ~. III, II GU. L, 1870
LET the Called Jade VINCE
He doth protest over much methinkS. .
To the Editor: In the News and OBJ
server of January 30, 1898, Robert Ham
cock protests against the Scorn and in
dignation expressed against his licen-
tiousness and baseness by your Newbern
correspondent, and charges the 'fellow
he publicly chastised" and myself as
being the cause of his exposure. | am
at loss to know who it was that he
publicly ehastised." Is it the gentleman
who, in one of his maudlin fits of drunk
enneSs, he assaulted in a public bar
room In this town, for which he was
forced to answer IN tine police court,
or some other victim of his spleen that
ne assaulted while king alcohol was his
master?
In his protest he alluded ito me as the
notorious Dick Williams" As to my no
toriety and has character for Hcentious-
ness, | invite the Judgment not only of
the people of Newbem but the people
of the State. lis this the pitiable plea
upon which he hopes to escape the
scorn of all the good people? / think
not; they will not condone conduct so
heinous by an excuse so flimsy.
Again, he charges me with being a
traitor to the party. What in the name
of decency has politics to do with the
matter, unless it may be to sooth the
ear of the Governor. A little politics
must enter and a Cry of Il am pursued
by my political enemies pleaded to gain
Executive conformation and clemency,
-if not words of approval"
L was not a candidate before the
Republican county convention of 1896
for the Legislature and had told my
friends prior TO the assembling of that
body that / was not a candidate for that
position; therefore, Hancock's avowal
that he defeated me for the nomination
is false, absolutely false. At this same
convention, without the consent of my
self and friends, Hancock, with words
of praise and laIdation of my Repub-
licanism, placed me in nomination for
the position of Commissioner of the
county. Did he lie then or does he
lie now, when he charges me with I'M
fealty to the party? / was of the opinion
then and ann now, that his purpose for
having my name ON the ticket was to
returns SHOW that mt that election
received three thousand and seventeen
votes, and Hancock received two thou
sand eight hundred and fifty; THE votes
cast for nle being the greatest received
by any candidate on the Republican
ticket. But | again ask what has poll
tics to do with the charges against Han
cock? The unfortunate lady who made
f.Ia Of .ec,
and / take it his personal and political
friend or dependent Hancock being
driven TO such strits to save not his
character but his position as president
of the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail
road which he holds by the grace of
Gov. Russell; that l should not be
surprised TO find HIN trying to make
decent people believe that some one with
whom he has had bar-room brawl or
fstcuff, instigated and pursuaded the
unfortunate relative of his wife to make
this serious and damning charge against
him, or that some political enemy caused
him while in his cOys to call to his
aid two colored tools ON tI6 school COM
mittee to assist him in the discharge OF
the lady's sister from the position of
teacher in the white public school of the
city.
j am mo MANS enemy, but if at any
time / may by Gods help be enabled to
help the poor, betrayed, oppressed and
msulted females of my race from the
wrongs and oppression of their seducers,
shall not shun the duty, but will pei
form it to the best of my means and
ability. Let the CALLED jade Vince.
r. 7. WILLIAMS. +