The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-12

1.-THE Asheville Gazette, the Raleigh
Post and the Newbern Journal are OPP
posed to references in the National cam
paign to McKinley's appointment of ne
groes as postmasters and other Federal
officials in the South"
The Southern Railway organ in this
city (The Morning PosD grows very
angry and abusive because the News and
Observer thus chronicled the fact that it
was opposed to the introduction of the
negro question into the National cam
paign in North Carolina. Having gather
ed the information from an editorial in
that paper of Thursday, we printed it
Friday in the above half dozen lines,
without comment
By way of reply the Post yesterday
shrieked: "This is simply in keeping
with the general character and regular
resent" and went off into two columns
of Mysteries
The Organ had not gone far, however,
before it declared that 1.-THE negro as
an issue in North Carolina was settled
on the End inst. and no good citizen will
attempt to revive it, And a little
further on it asked what right the News
and Observer had .to blubbler at the Post
because it refuses to continue fight on
the negro
AS a matter of fact, we had not 'blub-
bered' or complained. We simply record
ed fact-a fact which The Organ itself
admits, after entering its usual claim
that it has been "maliciously misrepre-
sented."
But it was not to contradict the above
statement that The Organ was writing.
AS very plainly appears in course OF its
two column shrek, it's purpose was to
impeach the Democracy Of this paper
and abuse its editor.
We welcome impeachment from such
a source. While the News and Observer,
unlike the Post, does not assume to be
greater than the party and to dictate
it's policy, it is never ashamed to tell
where it stands
1t is against our present Hanna hand
led weakling in the White House; put
pin there.
Can the Post. railroad trust organ that
it is, say as much? If so its columns for
a handful of months back have belied it.
This paper is against negro post
masters, negro custom house officials, ne
gro revenue officers and negroes in any
Federal position.
Can the Post say as much? If so why
does it squirm and twist and grow red
in the face every time the matter is
mentioned, taking pains always to ex-
cuse Pritchard and apologize for Nc
Kinley.
This paper is for Bryan heart and soul,
and believes he can and will be elected.
Can the Post say SO much? If so why
doesn't it have the bravery to come out
H.,
and quit sISulking around predicting his
defeat and giving aid and comfort 10 his
enemies.
The News and Observer may have made
mistakes-it would not be human had it
not; but its mistakes have been honest
ones, and selling itself to the Southern
Railway and the Tobacco Trust is not
enc of them.
Can the Morning Post say as much?
The News and Observer will never fail
to set forth what it thinks and why it
thinks it. 1t will be explicit, though
it fail to flatter. 1t believes, and has
good reason for its belief that the Raj
eigh Post is the organ of the Southern
Railway and the puppet of the American
Tobacco Company, and being SO it's no
straighter politically than a dogs hind
leg.
The Post is no friend to Bryan, though
it has not the manhood to acknowledge it.
While pretending to advocate his cleo
ton, it is secretly doing all in it's power
to help Mckinley, the friend of the COR
porations it serves and the creature of
the trusts it encourages.
These be plain statements and frilless