The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-01-20
| WORTHLESS DoTARO AND DEAD
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A lying sheet at Wilmington has had
something TO say about 90 Official Of
tie States prison counivinE ., the es-
cape of two convicis vbo promised 60
go and paint hts house in the county
of Robson. OF course this lie 10 too
stupid and absurd TO be worth contra
dieting. an informed thHf Was the
person referred TO.
| am not writing this for the pur-
pcs~ of exposing and cenounciux the
lie. but thu liar.
Of all the stupid scrIbblers that exc
cut sorry existence by scratching for
the columns of worthless Newspapers
the most utterly msusiin and contemp-
,ible and ignorant is the blatant old
dossrd kingsbury Of tn Wilmington
and wsidon railroad Mss.. It Is
incredible that any Intelligent er.on
should regard him n anything else
than a blatant as. The ignorant crra-
lures who control that So called news
paper. probably do think that he Is 4
scholar. As 10 them, he Is, because he
can read without spelling out tn. hard
words ard can quote loetry witE the
aid of a poeiisal dictionary.
Ibis cad Tool has been the Laughing
stock Of the State among intelligent
men OF ali parties for twenty years.
The Democratic politicians who stoop
to use him are aiwsys laughing 81 his
stupidity and his de nse ignorance To
keep he old ape swing for them, they
have only L. iced him on tiattery. This
they give HIM and then go off aud
| laugh about il.
! 1 lie oglrIo, tts Teen expressed fire.
| uuently that ti.r- tre not twenty liv-
| ing MN who Rad his editorials. lie
| has stock of val gar epithets which he
| fiings into his Mess without dis.
elimination and without sense enough
| to so connect them together as 10 make
them count for genuine abuse. His
strongest point is in his habit OF try.
| ing to be abusive. Any ordinary hood
| lum in the alleys can beat him at that
| His ignorance and stupidity have
long been the talk of such Intelligent
men as have noticed him and have
amused each other by narrating var
ious incidents indicating an Ignorance
that verges on idiocy.
A certain editor in ridiculing the OLE
humbug, said his writings were so IN
structive that the faculty Of Chape
Hill shou'a adopt them rs part 0
their curriculum. The idiot took thi
ridicuie in ali seriousness and consld
cred it q genuine compliment.
In some issue of his paper he wa
raviug shout a proposed law that va
pending in the Legislature and Yu
the climax on his seDseless jargon b
, saying that the Governor should vet
,, II. He thought Of he was capable OF
thought that the Governor of Mort
. Carolina had the veto power.
!, In some of his empty rsntings. n
= wrote that Mckinley ought TO TAX
, care of the North Carolina Republ
cans aud used words which evidentl
: indicated that he thought that Mort
Carolina voted for Mckinley.
There are some points about this o.
. blatherskite that may be written U
; hereafter. Such, for example, as II
= various churches where ne has tried
strut himself into notOriety and out
which he has been kicked. For I'll
present [ have not time to attend
y. him further than to remark that l.
y kllgc,r roi ably overrated him, when
- branded him as scoundrei. lie DO
not really seem TO have sense enoui
~. to rise to that degree.
" He begged Mr.. Duke for money {
le a little chur which he set up after
- had tired and disgUsted about ali
other churches in the neighbOrho'
a whose members objected to his as
~ citation. Mr.. Duke sent him ten d'
le lars. The church may have got II.
e. e. so, it was lucky church. Then
q. turned on Mr.. Duke and abused b
sT with his foul and filthy pen.
~ There are incidents in the life of Il
~ old dotard, bastard and dead beat II
nS ought to be written up. There 8
~ some men who want to do it. w
Ms you open your columns?
US THOMAS B. RUSSELL