The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-10

dent was he that the pOIltlcdl corpora
ton influence, plus the negro ana
white Republican vote, would give the
electoral vote to Mckinney, that OH
the night Of the election he put up
money to back his Judgment. Inc re
sult of the election caused nina 70
lose all the money he had Wag9red
ON North Carolina. but he ard other
so-caIled Democrats had the Satiefac-
ton of seeing Republican inaG2 GfIt-
cd Governor of North Caroline and
President of the United states. Hap
nv in the belief that the Republicans
would carry out to the full the doc
trines of protection and the gold
standard. which he warmly adVOcat-
ed. Col. Andrews set about 10 NN>icDma
the new Republican Governor 20 Raj
eigh with such social attentions rs
had never before been shown 10
newly elected Governor If The Stale.
The election of Republican Gov
ernor and Republican President, how
ever. did not fill the cap Of happintSs
to the brint OF this Republican boss
and railroad manipTla,Or. thou2l lie
did not disguise his happiness a the
result, and as one way Of exhibiting
his Joy, Col. Andrews !af5 his 1lNi-
ness to become the social lion of the
capital city long enough 10 X.,C abe
new Governor 0R1EsciD Il reception
and an ovation th.tt made The h0notS
to Vance, Jarvis, Scales. FpWlc, l:"!t
and Carr pale into irsiyG'iicance.
Though absolutely contrCiinE the
Republican party rs II it was ms III
vate property, though Duylng II con
tingent of the Popriisr party, and
though having well known agents to
do his bidding in the ranks of the
Democratic party, which party he had
tried to destroy in the campaign OF
1896. Though "all the Kings serv-
ants, that were in the Kings gate
bowed and reverenced' the WOuld-be
political boss of North Carolina, he
said unto himself. Yet all this avail
eth me nothing so long as ] see Nor
decai. the jew, sitting at the Kings
gate Elated by the election of Re
publican Governor and Republican,
President, this Modern Ham2n felt
that these things and the aduIation
of free pass brigade avai}el hjm
nothing so long as The News ana o.
server came into his presence daily,
and bowed not, nor did him r,v1r-
ence Then was Hannah fUI OF
wrath He decreed the death Of
Mordecai very much after the fa"hinn
of Hannah of old. He meditatei lpon
the best method of executing his ven
geance The political corporations
and corruptionists, having bought tie
election for Mckinley. believed within
themselves that political virtue had
gone out of the people, and that they
had the Federal and State Govern
ments in their grasp for a generation,
the North Carolina Hannah, glowing
in his faith in the permancy of Re
publican rule, thought that a Repub
lican daily newspaper equipped with
the best machinery that corporation
money could buy. would be the best
method of either destroying Mordecai
or compelling him to make daily
obeisance. and incidentally Of con
trolling the action of the Legislature
in the interest of the schemes Of the
Southern Railway. \ staff OF Repub-
lean Writers, heralded as trained
Journalists, came TO Raleigh and
with a great blowing of trumpets be-
gan the work of destruction. Prating
Of its devotion 10 Republican princi
pies, it soon developed $50 that the
most ignorant could see) its real
character as the organ of the South
ern Railway and all other trusts and
monopolies, advertising its own cor
ruptiOn in it's every issue. When
Everybody learned that it was nothing
more nor less than a railroad organ
it lost whatever influence il might
have had as paper speaking for the
Republican. When the secret own
ership of the Daily Tribune was eX
posed, Col. Andrews saw that it would
do him more harm than good, and he
threw it aside as a lemon that had
been fully squeezed.
Mordecai was still sitting at the
Kings gate"
Mordecai must be destroyed. The
first effort had been a scandalous
failure. Col. Andrews and the trusts
that joined him bought the dear eX-
perience of Col. VIM. A. Smith, of
Johnston, who, after trying it, said,
You can't run a paper for party
that can't read"
But a man who flatters himself that
he ''can kill and make alive" never
stops at one failure. Col. Andrews
had still other strings to his bow. He
saw that the daily exposures in The
News and Observer of the corruption
Of the State officials. whom he had
indicted into office with brilliant So
cial functions that made him the
Ward McAllister of Raleigh, was dis
gusting the people. He saw that they
were resolved to drive them from
power in disgrace at the first oppor-
tunity. He also saw that scent cot
ton had been the only result felt in
North Carolina of the election of Me-
Kinley. Though not giving up the
right to appoint Federal office-hold
ers in North Carolina under his friend
Mckinley, Col. Andrews had long
enough head to see that he must not
flaunt his gold and protection faith
and his McKinieyism in the face of
an outraged people. If he was to de-
stroy The News and Observer, still
sitting at the Kings gate he saw
he would have to pursue a different
method. The plan he finally adopted
was to put his free pass brigade and
handful of fawners, to saying that
The News aud Observer did not
preach straight Democracy" and to
oraginze company to publish
straight Democratic paper He
knew that if he was known as a stock
holder his new paper would share the
fate of The Tribune. Stock was So