The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-01

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hich ar. owned and controlled by
he Atlantic Coast Line did not men
ion JARVIS trip to the city. The
rhole thirg was k"p, quiet, and q"
,u- III IN. sta. knew 81 the mst'e'
inul later. 10 a few weeks the lsgi,-
AZURE must take up the q iesI 'u'
back taxes Of the Atlantic Coas,
Lime, SO the u.X week Nr. JARVIS
turns up at Raleigh. AS room A. he
lhe city ne has himself In-
terviewed by the News aud %
server and other Raleigh papers. He
stated that his WRIT 10 Raleigh wss
as a friepd OF the State, 10 advise
the Governor and the Legislature.
about certain i'm por'ant matters IN
the ibteres, vi the State. The Raj
e. h newspaper editors referred
to hun as the great visit
ing statesman" who had kindly
come up to Raleigh to give
the Governor and the legisla-
ture some little bits Of his mighty
wisdom about settling certain mat
ters b' fore the Legislature. Mr..
jarvis cali. d on the Governor and
fixed him III he was not already
| fixeU and then went before com.
mittess Of the legislature and
advis. d them TO compromise witt
the Atlantic Coast Line, by which
compromise the State was cheated
and the Atlantic Coast Line pock
eted a vast deal of money belonging
to the State. Before the committee
Mr.. Jarvis testified that he was no
there as an attorney, but he wa
there as the friend of the State an
the people. 1t developed later tina
he was hired attorney of the A,
lantic Coast Line in advising thi
base surrender Of the States right
All OF this as far as Mr.. Jarvis wa
concerned was for his own person,
profit, and yet the visiting sate
man thought he was doing it ft
the people; that is he thought tn,
anything TO bis profit was to ii
peoples profit, though the poop
were robbed in the transaction
What was the net result of tb
: transact,on' Jarvis by hypocris
e and duplicity helps the Atlant
Coast Line to rob the State, at
then Mr.. Jarvis gets part Of Il
; money that he has helped to r.
from the people, and the corpor
; tiOns get the other.
1t is not known whether or not Il
visiting statesman" advised the en-
too" Governor to betray the int
:. ests of the State by making the i
famous midnight deal, known as Il
!. 90 year lease of the North Caroll
Railroad, but he would have dol
> so if the railroads. had employ,
. him to do it. Mr.. Jarvis, howeve
IA was to get further pay for his b
trayal of the people and his servic
in helping the railroad corporatio
to rob them. He was to be appOir
= ed to the Senate if Senator Vane
# who was then quite sick, should di
- Unfortunately, Senator Vance d
die, and Mr.. Jarvis was appoint
< to that high office where he cou
l. serve corporations to even great
+ advantage.
D. What happened next9 The peoI
} of the State who were tired of t
d sabserviency of the Democratic m
% chine to railroad corporations f
70 twenty years, and who we're d
d gusted at the wholesale ballot b
S, stuffing and prostitution of the sar
le tity of the ballot, co-operated
10 overthrow the machine and pass
ID honest election law and further
10 pass a six per cent interest law viii
20 the Democratic machine had pro
b Used for twenty years and had fail
D. to do.
le The people won.
le Mr.. Jarvis was defeated for OLE
ton to the Senate.
r Again the Visiting statesma
ia mistook himself for the people a
IL bewailed their misfortunes at his T
ut being elected to the Senate.
N further remembered that ne "
IL elected Governor by fraud, and VII
or he saw an honest election law pass
T. ne knew that it meant honest ell
le tions in the future, which meant t
"a death of the Democratic monop<
" machine. Again the visiting. stat
lr man. mistook himself and mis- n
r. nopoly machine for the people, a
r. at once set up great and load
a mentation on behalf Of the PEG
y at the adjustment of bull pens q
e, ballot-box stufiing.
10 Yes, there has been "a gene
9. letting down of the aspirations
O. visiting statesman Jarvis q
n men of his kind, and of course
at and they considering themselves
u people keep up mighty howl abe
r the misfortunes of the people.
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