The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-12

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Southern Railway, supporter of Nc
! Kinley. and would-be political boss OF
the State. and it is to be run in the
way that will best advance the inter
ests of Col A. b. Andrews, and the
Mckinley sentiment in the State.
1t is we'll known that during the
campaign of 1896. Col. Andrews not
ONLY voted for Mckinley, but blatant
" announced his belief that Mckinley
would carry North Carolina, so conf
dent was he that the political corpora
ton influence, plus the negro and
white Republican vote, would give the
| electoral vote to Mckinley, that on
the night of the election he put up
money to back his judgment. The re-
| suit of the election caused nina TO
lose all the money he had wagered
on North Carolina, but he ard other
so-called Democrats had the satlsfac-
ton of seeing a Republican inaugural
ed Governor of North Carolina and
| President Of the United States. Hap
! DIV 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 welcome
the new Republican Governor 20 Raj
eigh with such social attentions rs
had never before been showl 10
| newly elected Governor Of the Stale.
The election of a Republican Coy
ernor and Republicans President, how
ever. did not fill the tuo Of happiness
TO the brim of this Republican boss
and railroad manippl4;or. though lie
did not disguise his happiness a. the
result, and as one way Of exhibiting
his Joy. Col. Andrews EFF his 5isi-
ness to become the social lion of the
capital city long enough 10 &c lie
new Governor (R1Ssc'n !: reception
and an ovation that 1n;',le The hono'S
to Vance, Jarvis, Scales, EpWle, In:t
and Carr pale into insIyGiicance.
Though absolutely controlling The
Republican party as II it was his rri-
vate property, though buying con-
tingent of the Populist 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
1895. 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
decai, the jew, sitting at the Kings
gate" Elated by the election of a Re
publican Governor and Republican
President. this Modern Hannah felt
that these things and the adulation
of a free pass brigade awaited him
nothing so long as The News and Or
server came into his presence daily,
and '.bowed not, nor did him r"ver-
ence. Then was Hannah fri OF
wrath He decreed the death OF
Mordecai very much after the fashion
| of Hannah of old. He meditate1 upon
the best method of executing his ven
geance. The political corporations
and corruptionists, having boughr 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 Mordecal
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-
| lican writer's, heralded as trained
journalists" came to Raleigh and
with a great blowing of trumpets be-
| gan the work of destruction. Prating
of its devotion to 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 its every issue. When
everybody learned that it was nothing
more nor less than a railroad organ
| it lost whatever influence it 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 lemon that had
been fully squeezed.
Mordecai was still. sitting at the
Kings gate"
Mordecai must be destroyed. The
| first effort had been 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 a 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
gushing 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 Nc
Kinley. Though not giving up the
right to appoint Federal office-lrold-
ers in North Carolina under his friend
Mckinley, Col. Andrews had a long
enough head to see that he must not
flaunt his gold and protection faith
and his McKinleyism in the face of
an outraged DeODIe If he was to de-