The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-07
THE ANALYSIS
of FERTILIZERS
Under Control of a Leading
Manufacturer.
ODpOpTIlNlTY For FRAll0
OPPORTUNITY FOR FRAUD
CARALEIGH SIOChHOl-DEhS
CONTROL THE ANALYSIS.
THE AGRICULTURAL CAMPAIGN FUND
Some More Ways in which the Taxes Levied
on the Farmers for Fertilizers are
Wasted and Used fer Po-
nicaI Tnds.
lhical Tnds.

In yesterdays paper the public was
given the news as to the employment Of
snecial campaign supervisors or inspec-
tors by that VIGOROUSLY weak ana gen
orally incompetent gang OF pie-huntefS
who assumed to conduct the grave and
rasnonsihle duties heretofore performed
by n board of Agriculture in promoting
the best interests of the farmers III Nofth
Carolina. These mongrel politicians
have had no conception from the start ol
the duties of the positions they hold, anu
in this particular the officers chosen
bv them are as blissfully ignorant. If
If were permissible for the public to have
access to the records of this department.,
rs was formerly the case. more startling
still would be the revelations. But some
facts have leaked out and it may be
well to review them.
When the fusionists for spoils only
took charge of the department there was
a general sfakeup. All of the places
then held by Democrats were promptly
filled and this was expected. Had they
stopped there, aside from the notorious
incompetency designated to do the spe-
cial work, no criticism would have been
just. But they began the ''stuffing' pro
cess at once Two members of the
board were given clerkships. Hill IL.
King. Populst for office only, succeed
ed ty-dollar-a-month clerk and he
now draws 81 200 year for what form
erly was done for S120. Then James
Allen, a Republican, who could be de-
pended on to do the bidding of Russell
and Chamberlain. was made mailing
clerk Mt one thousand dollars a year. No
such office existed under the Demo
cratic administration. as the mailing was
done by the two regular inspectors. On
mailing days--once a month-a coored
boy was employed four to six days mt 30
cents a day to assist with the mailing
machine. So at the maximum rate it
was So a month or $50 a year. This is
against the one thousand dollars paid to
Allen.
Then there was an influential negro
in another part of the State who had
done service for the party and the spe-
cial pet of some member of the so-called
board, who must be rewarded and he
was made assistant janitor at $50 or $50
a month-a new expenditure.
Then--but the station crowd will be
treated of later.
Since these notorious friends of the
discovered that the compensation paid
by the Democrats was entirely insuffi-
Gent to maintain life. hence there has
been a general advance upon the treas
ury all along the line. We have but re-
Gently told that the commissioner, that
famous penitentiary expert, known as
John X. Smith, has been advanced from
$1,000 a year to $4,000. The Profess
ing Farmer" the Russell-Ramsey-s sheet,
has seen fit to assail ex-Commissioncr
Robinson and to intimate that Smith is
as good as he. Col. Robinson's character
was never assailed for mismanagemert
or for squandering the peoples money.
He was economical and prudent i'm his
management of the department and his
only crime was poverty. Had he been
paid $500 a year instead Of $500. he
might have made a much better showing.
But his character is. snow white when
placed along side that of John X. Smith.
How much Ramsey the calamity
bowler. now draws from the treasury
the records alone know. and he says they
belong to the board. not to the public.
Then the contrast between Ramsey
and such a man as T. X. Brnner! Ye
Gods, let us draw the curtain.
Now to recapitulate the supervisors
and inspectors are drawing PIP from the
innocent breast of Treasurer Worth by
the following measure:
Per
month.
John Brady, We gods, Supervisor of
Inspectors $500
Howard Browning, ghost of Gaze
sar, special inspector .......... 1900
j. l.. Kelly, brother-in-law of Ohio,
regular ..................... 1888
w. b. Henderson, negro, regular, 1888
ID. A. Shook regular ....... 1900
j. l.. Sheck. regular ....... 1900
w. Il. Trogden regular, (conyen-
ton striker) ................. 1900
$541.GG