The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-09
ORGAN OF PRITCHARD
HON. THOMAS SETTLE THROWS SONE
LIGHT ON ITS METHODS.
Sent it a Copy of His Letter to Linney But it
Has Fail d to Publish and Has Pretended
Not to Have Received It.

The Hon. Thomas Settle, of Greens.
boro, is in the city. When seen last
night with regard to an attack upon him
| in pritchards organ, the ASheyille Ga
zette, Mr.. Settle said he did not care
to discuss the. matter particularly. He
| said. however. that he had sent a copy
of his open letter to Mr.. Linney to the
| Asheville Gazette at the same time that
the Greensboro correspondents sent the
| letter out to the Democratic morning
| papers.
This throws food of light upon
| journalistic methods of the Gazette, if
| they were not already sufficiently adj
vertised to the people of the State The
Gazette sometime ago publicly extended
to Mr. Settle an invitation to use its
columns ut anytime he wished to state
his position with regard to the amend
ment; | say publicly" at least it pub
ished the invitation. But it has not
published Mr. Settles letter and has at
tmepted to make the impression that it
has not receKed a copy of the letter.
Nor is this all that the hand organ
has done. 1t has had the effrontery to
publish garhled extracts of the letter for
purposes of comment and in order to
give color to column of hOg-wash says:
when in Asheville recently Mr.. Settle
stated this clearly, expressing the firm
belief that the fifth section of the
amendment could not stand" The
quintescence of gall could not be more
finely distilled. As a plain matter of
fact Mr.. Settle, as has been already
published, refused to talk to the Gazette
for publication; it faxed and printed an
interview which Mr.. Settle repudiated
in the press the day it appeared; and
now this exponent of negrophilism
placidly proceeds to quote from the in
terview cooked up in it's own office and
branded by Mr. Settle as a fabrication.
this to strengthen it's assertion that
the amendment will disfranchise the un-
learned whites.
To be a tool of Pritchard and the reve-
nue. doodles and negro-heelers seems 10
come as natural to the Gazette as
though it had been fulfilling that mis-
sion all of its uncertain existence. 1t
has made a splendid beginning.
The letter of Mr. Settle has stirred up
the Radical ant hill; it's in wild com
motion. The Gazette dared not publish
the letter for fear of losing it's stipend
and broke out in columns of frantic
nonsense. Chairman Holton shut up
like clam and refused to discuss it.
Linney has not seen fit 10 grab up the
cudgels. Pritchard has not spoken in
proper person, but only through his
morning megaphone, while the doodles
have scampered for their holes.
Just as Il curiosity here is the sort OF
pangs the letter is giving 'em, this from
the organ"
MIR. Settle asks how this law is to be
brought before the courts, and suggests
all sorts of difficulties in the way or
doing So How it will be done is of little
interest; that it will be done has been as
serted by the Republican executive COM
mittee. We have sufficient confidence
in that body to believe that they will
be able to fulfill their promise that the
matter will be tested in the courts when
the time comes to do so. We regard
Mr. Settles communication, with the, ef-
fort to magnify ii into an important CON
tribution TO the defense of the Simmons
election schemes, as only another evil
dence of the extreme weakness of the
position of the politicians who are at
tempting to fasten 1illmanism, Goebel-
ism and Louisiana political methods ON
to North Carolina"
h As demonstration that if the fifth
clause is knocked out the Republicans
will not be responsible this is a mirth-
provoker. Then too the Gazettes solicl-
tude for North Carolina is sweet and
thrilling the Gazette which has not
been planted long enough to get its tap
root through the woods mould