The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-12
MordeCai Still Sitting
At the Kings Gate.

Tribune but now printed under the
alias of the Morning Post--not con-
tent with daily defense of trusts and
taX-dodgers, seeks to lecture news
papers that do not wear a collar. In
it's issue of last Sunday appears an
editorial filled with hillingsgate mani
testify addressed to this paper and its
position that the nomination of Cor
poration Commissioners should not be
dictated by the Southern Railway
Company. This paper cannot follow
the example of the Tribune or Post
Republican or Democrat as best serves
Vice-President Andrews--in the use
of language, appropriate only to the
slums, and in making statements that
are not true.
The News and Observer in nothing
that has appeared in its columns has
impugned the character of any gentle
man whose name has been mentioned
as a candidate for Corporation Com
missioner-it has simply stated fact
which is patent, that there is an or
ganized effort, Matched in the office
of A. B. Andrews, the political man
ager in North Carolina for the South
ern Railway, to control the Corpora
ton Commission. We have warned
the people to be on their guard and
thwart this conspiracy against the
taxpayers. Pretending to defend the
character of good men, who have not
been assailed, the organ of the South
ern Railway, unable to contradict
what everybody knows to be true, des-
cends to such kind and measure of
abusive language as should shame the
man who wrote the editorial.
The News and Observer, when a
gentleman it esteems highly, express
ed the idea that the editorial was in
tended to reflect upon him and other
candidates, promptly and gladly made
this statement:
''1n sounding the note of warning
we did not intend any reflection upon
any of the candidates for Corporation
Commissioner. We printed the fact
that the railroads were trying to con-
troll the Commission upon the author
ity of a statement made by one of the
leading railroad attorneys in the
State. 1t can not in jure any man
who is willing to tell the people
where he stands upon the question OF
the tax assessments which the rail
roads are seeking to set aside
1t was after this editorial was pub
lished that the railroad organ declar-
ed that the News and Observer had
sought to convey the impression that
certain upright gentlemen, naming
candidates. were dishonest. 1t was
a cheap piece of trying to hide its
ownership behind the self-chosen
championship of men who do not need
any letter or credit from a railroad
organ.
The News and Observer stands by
what it has said on this subject. 1t
is believed now that the exposure
made by this paper has prevented the
success of the effort which has been
made clandestinely and with sly and
secret trickery. at is the hit dog that
hollers." The squeal of the Post
Tribune is the cry of the railroads
who thought they could succeed work
ing in the dark and who are mad
when caught in their dark lantern
methods. In making the exposure
of such methods we have conferred a
distinct favor upon every honest can
didate and upon the tax paying people
of North Carolina.
The Democratic party will not com
NIT q fatal mistake upon the invita-
ton of the newspaper controlled by
a. B. Andrews, who stood in 1896 as
Mckinley Republican and who now
seeks to come into the ranks of the
Democratic party temporarily for self
ish purposes. The Democratic party is
in for another twenty years of unln-
terrllpted power if its policy isasbn-
.trolled by taxpayers and not by the
taN-dodging corporations that now
profess Democracy only to use it for
their benefit and to its own undoing.
Il am a Democrat in Democratic
district; Republican in Republican
districts; but Missouri Pacific rail
road man all the time" said jay Gould
to a legislative committee. The motto
of A. b. Andrews and his organ is the
same, il Southern Railway be sub
stituted for missouri Pacific
In this connection, we republish be-
low an editorial which appeared in
the News and Observer short while
before the Tribune was revived UNI
der the name of the Morning Post
Not statement made then has been
denied because nobody connected with
that paper, which is run on Southern
Railway schedules, has dared to make
denial. In the light of events this
editorial has proven to have been
wonderfully prophetic.
RALEIGH'S NEW DAILY.xMORDE.
Cal STILL SITTING AT