The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-17
A Card From Editor Bailey.

To the Edtor:-I regret the necessity
of writing this letter and of requesting
you to print it.
/ desire to say that l have made
no threats whatever. / have courte-
Ously written some letters to gentle
men with whom / am acquainted, saying
earnestly that hope the race issue will
not be raised in this or any future cam
paign, and that in my opinion if it shall
be. it will be hurtful to the Democratic
party and to our Commonwealth. I say
this to you and to all men. These gen.
tlemen answered me satisfactorily. You
may be unaware that Mr. Chairman Sim
mons answered me publicly, and that his
utterance was printed in the same dis
patch with mine in the New York Sun
and other papers. You reprinted what /
was reported to have said in that dispatch
but you stopped short there, leaving your
readers ignorant of Chairman Simmons
favorable reply to me- l wish you would
print it. Were / inclined, / could at
tribute your Suppression OF it to de-
sire to misrepresent me; but prefer to
hope that you were yourself misled by
some strange fortune. i think you were
out of the city at the time. | doubt if
you would have suppressed Mr.. Sim
mons answer and have undertaken to
make the impression that an unfavora-
BILE reply from him was foregone. This
was done in the headline that your as
sistant gave the clipping from the Sun.
Indeed one may construe that headline
as an effort not only to suppress Mr..
Simmons answer, but to make new and
quite different one for him.
My reason for writing these letters is
this: That in advocating the ratification
of the amendment l declared that so soon
as it should be passed the race issue
should be relegated. You printed my ut
terance, and it was right generally APP
proved. BY this l stand. And Mr.. Ed
itor, / hope you will yet recognize the
obligation and the desire CT your party
and perceive the wisdom and the duty
of conducting the campaign in North
Carolina upon the momentous issues that
now confront our nation. We have a
duty here, and we must look we'll to it.
/ say too, that we must have no more
political intolerance in North Carolina-n
this cradle of freedom-no more physical
or social terrorization. 1t is nobler and
will be mere effective to magnify the
excellence of the issues upon which ones
party stands than to endeavor to heap
contempt upon and intolerantly abuse
one who differs with his fellow-citizen.
This will lead us into intellectual liberty,
and to this we must come or lose the
heritage for which our fathers lived and
died.
do not regard my course as of suf-
ficient Importance to be announced to
the public. / do regard it as important
that any citizen be suffered to vote ac-
cording to the dictates of his judgment.
Since the race issue has been settled.
/ hold that we must take up larger and
nobler questions, and for my part l will
In so doing gladly share my liberty with
every man. Long enough have we all
abandoned our political duties to one
issue An end must come or we are
lost.
l regret that you saw fit in your ed
itoral to say some things of me which
must deny do not advocate the meas
ures that you say / do, and why you
should say so in the light of my course,
which is an open book to at least 10000
honest men and women, l cannot under
stand. Your personal references, too
are unworthy of this better day in which
we live. You yourself have held office
and members of your family have held
offices under both Democratic and Re-
publican administrations; but | would not
for a moment insinuate that your course
has been altered on this account. We
all live in glass houses. Mr.. Editor. and
for this reason, were there no other, it