The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-21


such as money, soreheads, Populists and
Republicans"
While there is no direct charge the
plain insinuation is that the opponents
of Mr.. Simmons are influenced by money
or are soreheads, Populists or Republic
cans Men everywhere who love fair
play and open fight will resent this utter
ance of MIR. Simmons manager. They
have treated as unworthy of notice The
personal revilings and Industrious circu-
lation of idle and untraceable rumors af-
fecting the reputation of one of Mr..
Simmons opponents that enc may hear
upon the street corners, for it is incon-
ceivable that they could have been au-
thorized or encouraged by Mr.. Simmons
or any one near to him. but when so i'm
portant a parsonage as the manager and
prompter of Mr.. Simmons comes before
the curtain into the glare of the foot
lights and makes an announcement. it as
sumes an Importance that the audience
cannot ignore and they must either APP
plaud or condemn.
All who have noted the campaign on
the part of the candidates opposing Mr..
Simmons, particularly free as it has been
from personal bitterness in view OF the
provoking assaults that have been made
upon General Carr especially, will resent
Mr.. Busbee's arraignment as uncalled Tor.
1t will be deprecated (as it has been IN
the hearing of the writer) by the gener-
Gus friends of Mr.. Simmons. The people
will resent it for General Carr and the
large number of his friends and supper
tiers who have thus been unjustly criti-
cised and branded will resent it for
themselves 1t was not a generous - ote,
and the friends of Mr.. Busbee Gin de-
votion to whom the writer will not yield
precedence 10 any who know him to be
an upright gentleman and a fair oppo-
nent, Though he will sometimes say
cutting" thing will regret that in the
heat of the campaign he has permitted
himself to sound it! And l believe that,
on consideration, he, too, will regret it,
Just think of it! Has it come to such
a pass that no one can prefer another
than the chairman of the Democratic
State Executive committee as an aspi-
rant for Senatorial honors without having
ones Democracy called in question and
without having it insinuated that he has
been influenced by money or is a sore
head or Republican or Populst? Have
such men manning only few in Wake
and Major Crenahaw and p. w. Johnson
and w. B. Dunn and P. A. Dunn and SIR.
Horne and William and Sam Watts and
T. B. Holt and W. H. Penny and ]. II.
Sears and Walter Parrish and Henry Cole
and A. f. Glenn and Len Register and DR..
Carlysle and s. d. Coley and A. r. Hodge
and Charlie Hinton and j. B. Johnson and
Bryant Smith and hundreds of others
equally good and honest ard earning their
living without office and not pining for
office in the future-have they been
bought with price or influenced by mon
ey TO support General Carr's candidacy?
Are they soreheads? Are they Populists or
Republicans? q,
What is the matter with such men as
Ashley Horne and the Bordens, Bene-,
han Cameron, Gus Graham Col. Bill Var
borough Sam Vann, DR.. Meadows, l.. c.
Zollicoffer, John and Dave Cooper, Charlie
Holt, Joe Morehead, Nun Reese, bred
Peacock DR.. McIver, John Wilson, Bill
Osborne, Cy Watson, Cam Buxton, Buck
Lewis, Jake Long, Badly Boyden, Kerr
Craige, Lee Overman, Charles Tillett,
VIM Maxwell, Tom Guthrie, Col Ham
Jones, Platt Walker, Captain Odell, viii
Odell, Judge Bennett, Jim Marshall, Frank
Bennett Captain Wall, Watt Steele Maj.
Sully, DR.. Lilly and thousands of others
like them? Have they been seen" and
touched? Have they heard the jingiing
of gold or been daZZled by the promise
of it? or have their heads been made sore
By the Intellectual butting against the
doors of office that would not open to
them? Have they ever been seen 'scroug-
ing to get pull at a public teat or to
geft their noses and up to their eyes in
the official trough or swll tub and are
they squealing because there is no room
for them? Do not their lifelong devo
ton and services to the Democratic party,
rendered cheerfully and without reward or
the hope of reward, exempt them from
charge not directly made but made by
implication that they are venal or soured
or Popuists or Republicans?
For what service is raised this pre-
sumption of right to the. support of Dem
ocrats that Mr. Busbee would state by
elimination? Is it the fact that any one
man, elevated to the craftsmanship of the
party, may claim as a right any office
at the disposal of the party after VIC
tory? When did this rule go into effect
and since when has it become a right
eous act TO denounce and malign all Dem
ocrats who venture to be opposed to such
a program? Did the party rush to ele-
vate Mr.. Battle to high office, Captain
Ashe or Ed. Chambers Smith or Judge
Whitaker? Did those chairmen demand
of the people as a right or property
the highest office? And did they not WIN
victories as stubbornly contested as those
won under Mr.. Simmons management?
If such a rule is established what is the
use of Senatorial primary? Would 1t
not be more to the point and fairer to
all men OF ambition to have primary
for the craftsmanship in the beginning?
Mr. Simmons friends have banged this
key rather too constantly. The people
are tired of it. The Senatorship is too
high an office for any man to claim it as
a right or as a fee for service done. II
it is to go as a reward for the winning
of the campaign of 1898 who would have
the best claim? Would it not be the
fiery Waddell the Paul Revere of 1898
whose speeches at Goldsboro and Will
mington, those masterpieces of impetuous
defiance that touched off the mine of the
pent up resentment of the people against
negro rule and rang like a fire-bell from
the sea to the mountains, who would have
first call rather than Mr.. Simmons?
Would NOT Governor Jarvis tho author os