The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-01-18
OHIO A WARM BABY.

FROM News aIC ODSeFEcF, IAN. 10
Ohio Wilson was yesterday what the
street urchins would call a warm baby.
This is no unusual condition with the
Gideon, but yesterday his thermometer
registered just a few degrees higher
than it has since he was kicked out Of
the Democratic party.
And it all came about from two
things he learned on reading the News
and Observers ccOunt of Thursdays
proceedings before the Railroad Com
mission: One OF these was that Gov
ernor Russell was talking of having
him indicted for denying that he got a
special rate on the fertilizer sent to him
at Round Knob, and the other was
that Chamberlain was the man who
is thought to have peached on him.
These things vexed the Gideon's soul
much more than did the fact that the
Governor had made a sworn statement
before the Commission branding part Of
his evidence as untrue. The Rham-
katter was out for vindication-a busy
man. lie had no time now for suaye
smiles, mush and milk talk. Wher-
ever he went there was a smell of sui
phur and a color Of indigo blue.
lie came hurriedly into the Var
borough House lobby, with a piece of pa
per III his hand. Read that" he said.
dropping the end of his cane upon the
floor, pushing back his broad-brim hat
from his forehead and firing a stream Of
tobacco juice at 4 ne%ighboring cuspidore.
Examine that he repeated impressive
~ as he settled himself against a post
land tell me- he slowly drawled-S'tell
me who is the liar, Russell or myself
Nrn,t,7;1,or +1.1 L,,rroA4,1. ~ u -. IL
not, as | was in easy reach Of his cane,
be safe for he to DO so, l examined the
paper.
1t was the way bill for the fertilizer
shipped to hin by Chamberlain while he
was at Round Knob. The way bill
reads as follows:
Southern Railway, April o, 1897.
Caraleigh Phosphate Works:
Five SKIS. Spec. Guano, 1000 lbs,
$1.S5.
To S. @. Wilson, Round Knob, \. G..
No. Way-Biu 293.
Paid 4-3O-94.
r. /. POTTS, Agent,
Per G..
This shows continued the Gideon,
that the fertilizer was shipped by the
phosphate mills here and paid by them
at this point.
The bill was due for the fertilizer
November 1st, but it has never been
presented to me. I've been hunting
Chamberlain all day, but I haven't been
able to find HIM. Let them bring their
suit for perjury. III stand by every
word said. | answered their questions
frankly and told all, and I'm not going
to back any water on my testimony
either.
a newspaper man asked me today
who | thought were the biggest politi-
cal tools III the State. | told him I'd
start With Dan Russell being the tool
of Marion Butler. And in that connec-
ton | further told him l heard a gen
tleman remark last night that he. rather
thar be any mans tool, would be a
buZzard egg and sucked by a sheep
killing dog. He expressed my senti-
ment.'
All Of which is very funny-especially
when | tell you that the Gideon had
hardly passed out the door and pulled
his long coat-tails after him before some
body remarked that he had no more
backbone than IN a~ngleworm. and But
Ter and Russell could have him back in
three days just where they wanted him
If they would just toss him another
bone in the shape of an Office.
He's in the political shop-wind0w, and
a small job will land him in RusselIs
lap, and he'll be Mary Armies own darl-
ing little boy again."
That's how this hard-headed old coun-
tryman sized up the Gideon.
A snake does not climb a tree or brush
by coiling around it, bat by holding on
with the nnIntC of its ccaIoc n 10