The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-19
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THE opposition to the dispensary at
Greensboro have urged that the passage
of the bill will hurt the Democratic par
ty. If they mean that it will be better
from a political standpoint for the Gen
eral Assembly not to pass it, | beg very
emphatically to differ with them, for /
believe it will hurt the party great
deal more if the plain command of the
white people should be disregarded. The
white people have spoken in the pri-
mary. and notwithstanding the fact that
the opposition, fearing to expose their
weakness had announced that they would
not vote, 531 qualified white voters came
through rain and snow and sleet and
voted or the dispensary. Do you sup
pose such men as Senator Wilson, who
has spent the best years of bis life in
the service of the party, and Representa-
tives Bunch and Kennett, as well bal
anced men as you can find i'll the State.
would support this bill if a majority of
the white voters did not favor it?
eve have a great temperance county.
there not being bar-room in the county
except at Greensboro. and / am thor
ouehly satisfied that large majority
of our people will be drawn all the more
closely to our party.
Eve are staunch Democrats and eX-
pect to allow nothing to dampen our ar
dor for Democracy, but we insist that
majority should rule. We will in my
opinion lose very few votes on account
of the passage of this bill. The head and
front of the opposition. Mr. Moses Cone
is not citizen of our county, and re-
sides. L believe in New York. Some of
the bar-room men may vote against us,
but | believe some of them will be too
patriotic not to submit to the will of the
majority after the smoke of battle clears
away. and the rest of the opposition
will not. / feel satisfied. he swerved
from their allegiance to Democracy. 1T
is not a question of whether it would
not have been better for the people to
have waited. for when the people are
stirred as ours are, you cannot make
them wait 1t is Il condition not
theory that confronts us" and our duty
is clear.
81 wish the members of the Legisla-
ture could have seen the masS-meeting
last Wednesday night in the court house.
AS the Daily Record said. it was worse
than crowded. Standing room was at a
premium and the enthusiasm was I'M
bounded. No, sir. you can put Guilford
i'm the Democratic column in the next
election"
1t was under the chairmsnShip Of Mr..
Scales that Guilfnrd gave the BIGGEST
Democratic majority in the history of
tho county. He knows rs much about
ralitics in Guilford as anvhodv. and pos
sesSes much of the nnlitical wisdom of
bis distinguished uncle.
Writing to the Whiteville News Mr..
A. J. Maxwell saws:
"We wrote week or two ago of the
prominent position taken by Senator
Brown in the Legislature His con-
stituency will be gratifed to learn that
the impression which he has made upon
his fellow legislators is taking shape
in proposition to elect him Railroad
Commissioner. His qualifications for this
responsible position is pre-eminent. He is
above all things a practical man and
we confidently believe could give more
substantial relief to the people with less
consequent injury TO the railroads than
any man in the State 1t is well known
by our truckers that he has in the past
three years. as a representative of their
combined interests. saved more money
to shippers engaged in this, the largest
single industry, perhaps, in Eastern
North Carolina, than the entire Railroad
Commission has in all its romantic his
tory As pioneer both in trucking and
in the immigration business he has
given much study to the vexing question
of railroad tariffs, of this and other
States, and has special information on
this question which would be of great
value to a Railroad Commissioner. And
more than all he has that supremacy es-
sental qualification for a Railroad Com
missioner-a backbone. In this position.
as in all others, he would diligently
search for the right-and then he'd do
it.
IF the Legislature will give us n
Railroad Commission composed of such
men as J. A. Brown, it will perform
an important duty to the State"
So the legislature will reinstate both
J. W. and S. Ohio Wilson and pay them
for the time they have been deprived of
their salaries since deposed as railroad
commissioners by Governor Russell. The
Legislature could hardly have done less
than this, since the Governor so signally
| failed in proving his charges. But it
would not be wise to re-elect either of
the Wilson's as railroad commissioners.
| Commenting on the above paragraph
! from yesterdays Asheville Citizen, Il
! prominent legislator said: "We have
not reinstated the Wilson's yet. Neither
one Of them, from the report of the
committee, would have been competent
! to sit on jury when the Southern Rail
way was a party to a suit That being
I true. were they competent to sit as jul
rors? If sit is not wise to re-elect," is
it wise to say that they should be re-
instated for two months as to one and
two years as to the other? If | vote to
reinstate them | might as well vote to
re-elect them"
Pie is a disease not wholly confined
to Fusonists, as the Marlboro House
register for the past month would doubt
less demonstrate to the satisfaction of
a fair jury. We claim no voice i'll the
slicing, though we did some fairly good
work hereabouts to help bake the pie.
If it is not positively impudent in one
who thinks all the wisdom OF the State
was not sent to Raleigh to make a sug-
gestion, we rise 10 observe that Mr..
| Rem T,acy the former Commissioner of