The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-10-20
What Honest Men and Gentlemen Know and Say
About Some Democratic High "Muck-a- Mucks.
AN OPEN LETTER TO HON. W. R. ALLEN AND OTHERS.

AN OPEN LETTER TO HON. Y
see You are a candidate for cleo
ton TO the next House in the county i
Of Wa. n. / am also q candidate i
for election TO that House from the l
county Of Baden. In this one re-
spect you and | happen to be alike.
/ suppose you hope TO be member
of the next legislature. | am very :
certain that shall be member Of
that body, If | live so long. fully
and col fidently expect to be elected
have been honored many times by
election to Office by the people of
my Co.nty. You have held Office in
your county, it is true; but you were
never elected theretr; you simply
stole q seat in the Legislature; you
stole it by swindling the voters in
the good old county Of Wayne. l
am plain sort of man myself, and
| deal in plain way. / an opposed
to stealing, because know as we'll
as l know anything, that a man
who will steal vote and so get him
self into the legislature, is not q lit
man to be in the legislature. Now,
notwith standing your shameless
theft of seat IN the legislature
from Wayne county, you have the
impudence to come before the Popu-
lists and Republicans Of that county
and ask them to elect you to the leg
islature. You, the man who robbed
the m Of the r rights, and sat in the
legislature by shameless throwing
out of their lawful votes. If you
were at all sensitive to circumstances
Of shame, you could never have the
hardlhood to ask the voters of
Wayne county to elect you to any
thing.
/ see by the s)andering machine
newspapers that you have started
new raid upon Governor Russell. Of
course Governor Russell does not
need me for his defense-he is abund-
antly able to defend himself, but
then, the Governor is my friend, and
Ihave concluded to show you up to the
people of Wayne county since your
recent and vile attack upon the Gov
ernor furnishes me suitable occa-
sion. While l am at it, will take
in your confederates in inlquity:
Simmons, of the Democrat machine,
of Secret Circular infamy; one Joe
Daniels the chameleon editor of the
News and Observer, and his brother
the other Daniels, that you have put
up for the Senate from the counties
of Wayne, Duplin and Pender. l
not only owe you this exposure in
defense of the Governor and in the
interest { f decency, but l owe your
associate and leader, Simmons, an
evening up of an old score. When l
was sheriff of Bladen, Simmons tried
to pull me for his own pocket. He
brought suits against me in the name
of others upon charges that we're
who lily false. It is true he busted on
that Job, and did not realize any
thing from it. l have been Informed
that the people whose names he
used as plaintiffs to bring the suits
had no interest whatever in the mat
tiers, knew nothing about the bring
ing of the suits. If he had succeeded
in robbing me. he would have gotten
the plumber for his own pocket.
think it we'll, therefore, to class you
and Simmons and the Daniels to-
gether in what shall have to say.
Your last attack upon the Goyer.
nor is about a pardon granted to
negro by the name of Freeman Davi:
in Duplin county. will leave tina
aside for a moment and take 1t up {
little later.
You have many counts IN your ar
ticles of impeachment against tn
Governor. The first one is baset
upon your failure to loot the Treas
ury of the State in leasing the Allan
tic and North Carolina Railroad to I
combine of which you were the at
torney. So soon as the election o
1896 was over and you and you
crowd knew that you had lost con
troll of the State, you set about tn
work of putting up job to leased tn
Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad
for less than its value; for less thai
it was earning at the time; for les
than it has paid to the stockholders
and for very much less than was al
forwards offered by the Souther
Railroad; and for very much les
than it would bring to day. Tn
Governor broke in upon your littl
arrangement; you could not get you
job through. and so lost fee of on
thousand dollars, that you confident
ly expected to make while assis
ing lot of sharks to rob the pei
pie of the State. This is the fir:
count in your articles of impeaci
ment against the Governor. 70
can never bring yourself to the mas
nanimity of forgiving man wh
has stood between you and the PEI
pie, when you we're planning Il
public plumber. The Governor hi
done this, and now he is to be in
peached. In this little scheme
lease the Atlantic & North Carolir
Railroad you would have robbed Il
State of hundreds of thousands
dollars, and all the tax payers
Wayne would have been cOmpell(