The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-10-20

party to elect Democrat and II wa
good policy to hay. the negro elected
This has been repeatedly charged IN
Greenyille. and I think - believed ny
many. and IL Governor Jarvis ua- put
on oath h. would probably admit "r
lodge IL.
Now, everybody in our town know
hat the colored policeman has never
crested n white man: that in fact hi
iuties have been mostly in Keeping tn"
streets in order; and when | wa mayor
his instructions were not to arrest any
Shite persons, but To report an! dis
turbance and the white policeman
rould and did arrest.
AThe colored assistant L. man Oh
some property, good and inoifen-i'r
ritizen, and prominent Democrats of
he town say he j. ON" of tn" best ON
rrrs the town has ever had.
With this information | would -top
out for the fact that Gov. Jarvis went
out of hi. way to attack me. lie says
that paid ~ cents town tax on prop
.rty and tn. color.d policeman 1919.
The tax list Of Pitt county shows that
n 1886, after Jarvis was Governor, b"
paid only 90 taxes for state. county
and school purposes. II h" PAID any
town tax while Governor he can say 80.
His general and special State and coun-
w taxes in 1852 was the enormous
amount Of 81 IS, and two dollars of that
amount was on his poll; 80 in the mat
ter Of paying taxes on property tn"
negro policeman seems To ha'" the bet
Ger Of him.
when the Democrats ruled the town
and Governor Jarvis was the attorney
FOR the county commissioners. some
body got up suit about an old market
house, n suit Of the town against the
county. The Democratic commission
~rs employed sOrac resident Democratic
lawyers, and when the Republicans
rame into power we found bankrupt
treasury, some large outstanding debts
aud other evidences of Democratic mis-
management. Times were very hard.
business dull. and the lawyers had to
live, ! suppose; but in addition to hi
salary Of $500 per year "a county attor-
ney, the Governor got another pull at
the county funds for services in suit
that was finally dismissed, and never
vas brought in good faith.
will Gov. Jarvis write another letter
and tell ia how much the town was
held M for by the Democratic lawyers.
who they were, and how much did he
have the county commissioners pay him
much the Democratic councilmen paid
for a secondhand and worthless old
fire engine that was never worth
freight, and how much of that debt
was left by the board to be- paid by the
Republicans
Another charge made by Governor
Jarvis was that | was indicted for gam
bling and plead guilty-but the gam
bling was before | was elected mayor.
why didn't the Governor state that at
the same court about fifty Democrats
we're indicted for gambling and sub
mitted? Why did he conceal the fact
that some of them were Democratic
lawyers and personal friends of his.
and among them was my successor IN
office, a Democrat, and the mayor of
FarborO, also Democrat? Why didn't
Governor Jarvis say i'm his letter that
last year one of the Democratic cOun-
cilmen of Greenville voted for negro
for town clerk? Everybody in town.
including Jarvis, knows the fact.
don't make any pretensiOn to re-
igion, and don't pray in public like
Gov. Jarvis, and, therefore, probably
ought not to criticise other people
conduct, but as he has called public at
tentiOn to me, | will allude to certain
things that may interest the public.
The Governor will remember one r.
A. Wilson, a former Democratic sheriff
of Pitt county, who embeZzled the pub
lie money and fled from the state.
was boy at the time, but have Otter
heard it stated in the back room o
Lawyer Jarvis office the sheriff los
che most of that money at poker, ant
the Governor and others won it.
have very recently heard that the da.
before he left the State he and Gov
Jarvis and two Others gambled in tina
room. Will Governor Jarvis deny tina
the next day he said in Greenvillt
ED. Wilson has gone and will neve
come backi' Will Governor Jarvi
deny, on oath, that he frequently gan
bled with Wilson and won money frOI
him? Will he tell us how much none
he borrowed from Wilson, and has h
ever paid it back: Will he, on oatl
deny that he advised Wilson to ski
the State, and will he tell us whose a
tOrney he (Jarvis) was at the time
Will he deny that he was attorney *
The county which had been defraudeC
And as we are on the subject of gan
TLiug, will Jarvis deny that when
was Governor he frequently gamble
Mt Morehead and Beaufort? What W.
he doing the night the Atlantic Hot
was washed away? There is anOth'
matter the Governor can explain. HO
much special tax bonds did he vote f
as member of the legislature? w
not man named Pickerell the railro;
man who was to handle these bond
Didn't Governor Jarvis borrow $1.5
from Pickerell on his note and withO
security, and was he (Jarvis) insolve
at the timer Has he ever paid tn
money back; and if SO. where did
pay it? Or did he compromise the del
and for how much; Will he tell us
about these matters? The people 2
interested in knowing: and when
man paradeS himself before the pub
he ought to stand fire and answer Ii
a man.
Now, when Governor Jarvis wal
10 write about officers in Greenvi
and Pitt county, let him tell about t
time when Hill Henrahan and j
Brown. colored men. were poiceu
under Democratic rule in Greenvi
and Lewis Cox, a negro, was nomina
county commissioner by the Democr
ic convention in Pitt county.
j have not sought this controver
kxIpt tn.A.N Il