The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-06
THE PASSING OF MR.. BROWN.

The following is a copy of letter re-
Gently received from an Orange county
Republican subscriber, who was post
master of Hillsboro under Harrison:
"Hillsboro, n. c., Jan. 2.
ITO the Editor: Enclosed you have
order for ninety-fve cents, balance due
ON subscription to January list. Diseon-
tinue paper and oblige.
The Police Gazette is more worthy
of decent patronage than your paper.
yours, ETC.,
IN. w. BROWN"
The same Mr.. Brown, we believe,
who, when Mr.. Bryan passed through
Hillsboro, in 1896, made such speeta-
ele of himself as to furnish a part of
the Police Gazette stuff that the News
and Observer is busy printing these
days about other Republicans besides
Mr. Brown.
Mr.. Brown has thus been preserved
to posterity by the News and Observer
of September 18th, 1896, the day MI
Bryan passed through Hillsboro:
"Of course, Chairman Manly had no
idea of passing over historic Hillsboro,
and there was crowd of some 400
there. In the midst of the crowd there
rode up on a ginger-legged nag Big
Ike By the name, it was said, Of n. w.
Brown. He was sashed in yellow, and
around his jade's neck was yellow
band stamped Mckinley. He rarred up
all around the rear of the platform,
seemingly trying to 'out a Ggeer,' but no
notice was taken of him, until finally
some chap ran up and snatched fhe band
off and ran away with it. The Knight
of Rozinante yelled something about
you Bryan men steal the poor mans
money and was jeered down by the
crowd
It is well that Mr.. Bryan and the
North Carolinians in his party were
discriminating enough to separate the
eaperings of Mr.. Brown, on that day,
from the historically established courtesy
of the cordial old town OF Hiilsboro.
The record of Mr.. Browns party
during its Belshazzar orgie of negro out
RACES and white incompetence and reck-
lessness and corruption is not one calcu-
lated to harmonic with the aromatic
instincts even of Mr.. Brown. He has
taken the proper course, namely, to-
shut out the only medium through
which the exposure Of the dis
graceful regime fully reaches the
public. II he choose thus to
wrap up in napkin his aesthetic talent.
he may keep that untainted from the
world for the small sum of 90 cents,
cheap for the money. But Mr.. Brown
will not know the news.
And yet when it is considered that the
soul of Mr.. Brown had its full efful-
gent development on the day of his
Roman-candling antics at Hillsboro, one
would not have it now smeared, even
BY the smut of his own party doings
While we would press him to our
editorial bosom a while longer, in the
hope that while the lamp holds out
to burn we will not despair. The
bcmOcGdLlc party Will soon ne IN the
saddle again, Mr.. Brown, and then
beatitude will hover over our homes,
and your heart. so bursting with the
sense of the beautiful, will alight on
telegraph wire at the Hillsboro station
and sing like a canary-like nightin-
gale-like knocking -bird-like a thrush,
be it, like all the wood-throatster For
you will have renewed your subscrip-
tion to the News and Observer-pro-
vided you shall have sent more %
centses-pardoning its Democratic policy
for it's record, so grateful to your ma
ture. Of cleanliness and happiness and
peace.
Until then, Mr.. Brown, to a nunnery
go, and prepare yourself for the shock
that you might otherwise receive at
reading Of State government adminis
tered with intelligence, unpolluted by the
rancid and fostering foulness of your
debauched Republican gang of adven.
turers and mountebanks.