The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-29
The Way of the Transgressor is Hard

II thank thee, Roderick, For that word"
From the editorial columns (dpd in
passing | will say it was written, | sup
pose, in the same eitorial rooms where
the letter was written asking Capt. Baker
to report the Pritchard meeting az Louis
burg, N c., of Saturday mornings rost,
! take the following:
"Once upon a time" the lave Col. Ike
Young was asked now he thought his
Republican party could maintain itself
and carry the State in the then pending
election. His Characteristic reply was,
Lie like h-ll and stick to it
The Post has put into my mouth a
word ! hate to use, especially when it
comes from the same editorial" room
that asked its Louisburg correspondent,
Capt. Geo. S. Baker, to send in a report
of the Pritchard meeting and then would
not print it for it was written from a
Democratic standpoint, thinking ii was
for Democratic paper. But it did not
suit Pritchard & Co.. and doctored re-
port by their agent. was submitted and
passed fire and in fifteen minutes was
ready for the press when they could not
give according to their own statement
the report from their correspondent,
which was shorter in one hour and forty
six minutes, and why? Simply because it
was a truthful one, and Being truthful,
favored the Democrats.
Poor Post poor Post what a predica-
ment lying for so many masters !
Why it has lied so much and so per-
sistently that it's own masters are Sus-
picious of it, for when the Southern Rai:-
road wanted Russell (whose administra-
ton was SO full of corruption ana SLAM
der that his own party in convention as
sembled would not in the slightest way
endorse HIM to appoint himself Chief
Justice it Lied like h-ll and stuck TO
il" that the bar of the State strongly adj
vocated it, when everybody knew it wss
not the truth. When Prtchard and his
crowd wanted his Louisburg meeting
doomed he dropped into this same 'ct-
torial' room, or perhaps had his friend,
Col A. B. Andrews do so. and left his
speech in manuscript and forthwith from
this same editorial room went our 10
its reliable correspondent, Capt. Baker,
mot to bother to report the speech of
Senator Pritchard as that was already
in hand, but did not say Us it should
have done, if it had wanted to deal hon
estly with him, that if your report suits
us and friend Pritchard we will print it,
their departed friend Col Young's method
to Lie like hill and stick to it," and
to this awful sin they have added the
dastardly one of slandering aad casting
aspersions upon an honest man and their
cwn correspondent, Capt. Baker, by
charging that he had fallen unler "evil
influences" and herein lies their manner
of warfare. Whom they cannot make
serve, they try to destroy, and this is Inc
sole cause of their spleen towards the
News and Observer, for they cannot crush
it as they made their Erags 10 me they
would do or make it serve them. All the
members of the News and Observer staff
would die rather than bend the pregnant
hinges of the knee" that thrift might
follow fawning, or sell out the great write
mans porty of North Carolina TO the
Roosevelt Pritchard Booker Washington
crowd as the sell-out sheet is attempt
ing to do
The Post did not print about Rocse-
velt's inviting Booker Washington to din
ner-the blow that almost killed that
Radical organ-until three days a',er all
Democratic papers had printed it, and the
News and Observer had severely criticised
and condemned President Roosevelt f5.
having Booker Washington to ane with
him. 1t has convinced the honest people
of the State that it is simply trying 20
| masquerade as Democrat, so that the
| white people of the State can ia some de-
| gree tolerate it and allGw it
| in their homes and now they arc finding
| it out, they are kicking it out the back
| door. for they see it's treacherous purpose
| Of trying to betray and turning over to
| the Commercial ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| Booker Washington crowd the Democratic
| organization of the State and this has
made the contemplate sheet stencil in
| the nostrils of the honest Democracy OF
| the State. A-
| Now in conclusion, Mr.. Post, will you
| let the same evil influence Jnder which
| you charge your honest corresponds
| Capt Baker, fell. cause you to tell why
| it is that you must adopt your deported
friend. Col. Young's, method, viz: Lis
/ like hill and stick to it.
w. Nj. ROGERS.