The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-08


Also emphasizes the fulfllment of the
prophecy and indicates that the Peoples
| Party was decidedly at the mercy of the
Republicans.
But the prophet is especially strong in
his acknowledgment of the fulfillment OF
that part of the prophecy in reference to
putting the management of the State IN
unworthy and incapable hands. We quote
editorial from the Caucasian Thursday
February 4th, 1897, as follows
"COOPERATION \ DISMAL FAILURE. 2. y
80 then, for all practical purposes and
in all essentials the cooperation of Pop
ulists and Republicans in this State has
been a dismal failure. Only the con-
temptible pie hunters" see any good in
it,"
Again, from editorial in the Caucasian
of February %, 1897:
about ten more days remain of the
legislative session. Unless there shall
be within this time an almost miraculous
change. the record of the Legislature will
| be nothing-absolutely nothing. All it
will have done when it adjourns will be
the spending of sixty or seventy thou
sand dollars of the public funds, for which
nothing will be returned"
"Of course there are some good men
here who cannot, in justice, be held re-
sponsble for the record, but we are
speaking of the record of the Legislature
as a whole; and unless that record shall
be phenomenally changed within the next
week, it will be the imperative duty and
we think it will be the pleasure of the
people to see that such a crowd is never
sent UP to make laws again"
The various committees to whom bills
are referred seem to be composed OF men
who are either generally Indifferent or
pitifully ignorant 1t is almost Impossible
TO get their attention to any bill that does
not carry some job with it. OF course
they will read a bill, and then make mo-
ton TO report either favorably or unfaVor-
ably. and thus get rid of it without know
ing or caring what the bill is or what
it contemplates.
"Up to this date the Legislature is
damnable disgrace to the State"
Again, from editorial in the Caucasian
of March 4, 1897.
LAS to the Legislature of 1897, the one
now in session, We have to say as fact
that it has won the contempt Of the peo-
pie generally of all parties, and we have
to say as an opinion that We do not
believe that it can overcome that con-
tempt in two years time, and hence can
not get the approval of the people
The Legislature of 1897 must have been
foreordained in order that no jot or little
of the prophecy should fail. 1t does not
require that one should have been stu
dent Of prophecy in general that he might
see how subsequent events fulfilled the
predictions made Thin and hollow eyed
students consumed with enthusiasm have
pored over the prophecies contained in
the Scriptures and have with doubt and
hesitation pointed out certain events
which they believed fulfilled the prophe-
cies. Sometimes their conclusions have
not been accepted by the world at large,
but surely the man most innocent OF the
gift of Interpretation cannot fail TO lind
in these selections from the Caucasian
the proclamation of the fuliillment OF the
predictions made in July, 1892 What more
can the prophet say as he contemplates
his prophecies and their fulfllment, than
that the Legislature elected at the suf-
ference of the Republican party and by its
aid was at it's mercy? What more can he
say upon the prediction that the cause
of reform would receive a heavy blow, and
the MANAGEMENT of the State be put in
the hands &C wa cmfwyp cmfwyp cmfwmf
unworthy and incapable hands? He re-
cords it may be with sadness and regret,
on February %. 1897, that up to that time
the Legislature had done nothing except
spend 900 or $40 900 of the public
funds; that unless the record should be
changed in a week it would be the pleas
ure of the people to see that such crowd
should never be sent up to make laws
again; that the committees were COM
posed of men either generally Indifferent
or pitiably ignorant VINO would not give
their attention to bill that did not
carry a job with it, and concludes with the
statement that the Legislature of 1897
has won the contempt of the people gen.
orally of all parties, and that UP TO that
date it was a damnabie disgrace to the
State.
But after all, a strange thing in the
career of this prophet is, that having seen
so clearly into the future and having
warned his people against the results OF a
certain line of action, he should have
abandoned his own honest convictions and
organized the separate party and aided
in the nomination of the ticket, the cleo
ton of which could only have resulted as
he had prophesied; and stranger yet that
he should have joined hands with these
Republicans Of whom he had so much
fear and aided them in capturing the
State, in giving many blows to the cause
of reform and imputing the management
of the State in unworthy and incapable
hands; and more astounding still that,
having seen the results of such a course
of conduct, and having set forth in his
newspaper the entire fulfllment of his
prophecieS that he should today, in vio-
lation of all his convictions and in oppo-
sition TO Anglo-Saxon rule and good gov
ernmenit ally himself with the forces of
negro rule and bad government for the
purpose of fastening upon the people of
| North Carolina the evils from which they
are struggling to escape.
! What can be the secret of such a course
of action? Can it be that he is one of
, ''those who want office more then they do
REFORM" Is it possible that this prophet
| has become one of those described in the
| "Causasian" of February 4, 1897, under
| the odious name of contemplate pie
| hunters and that the chance of a term
| in the United States Senate, by the aid
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