The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-05
HOUSE DENOUNCES
MISREPRESENTATION
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the words that there has been in this
Legislature more or less brow beating
of the handful of Republicans in it
after the wards Lines referred to-" /
don't think, he said, that this House
wants to lenounce the entire editorial,
but merely that part OF it relating to
the brow beating of the minority
Mr.. Duls: l don't want to be un-
derstood as bringing up the question
of the Democracy or non Democracy OF
the Charlotte Observer This is the
poinr | want to make: The error this
body is about to commit is that IN
an unguarded moment they are about
TO pass a resolution which l consider
as undignified and hasty. Think of the
language Of that resolution! | don't
think my constituents should rest un-
der any such imputation. 1t seems to
me to be q very modest request that
the resolution be referred TO the Com
mittee on Judiciary
Mr. Morgan / wish to resent any
sort of iruHutation from the gentleman
from Mecllenburg or anyone else that
our action is undignified. 1t may be
hasty, but ! say that the tenor of that
part of the editorial condemned is just
as hasty and just as much without de-
liberation as any action this body is
about to take. l don't wish to censure
any man FOR thinking this editor is not
guilty of Misrepresentation. but he has
been guilty of such things for too
long time Too long has he been an
enemy to true Bryan Democracy.
want the sense of this body to be TAX
en- coolly and calmly. / have called on
the gentlemen he pretends to protect,
and not one of them has risen to en-
dorse what he says. If they even do not
thank him for his words, / don't see
why we should hesitate TO condemn
them. But / shall make no fight for
this matter further.
GOALS OF FIRE.
Mr.. Patterson, of Robson: | doubt
not there is a single member of this
House that will get up here and say
that the tenor of this House has been
to brow beat or coerce in any manner.
That being so, can we not afford to
heep Goals of fire upon the head of the
editor of the Charlotte Observer? Show
that, although he is wrong, we will
give him the opportunity to explain
himself If he does not do it, it Will
be due the gentleman from Mecklen-
burg as well as the rest of us to pro-
tect him from the imputation of one
of his constituents that he is party
to brow beating. / believe it proper
to defer action on this matter so as
to give this editor the opportunity to
explain himself
Mr.. Shannanhouse, of Mecklenburg:
When / read the editorial, | knew Mr..
Caldwell was mistaken on had been
misinformed by some one. The gentle
men Who are so hasty, and / mean moth
ing disrespectful by the word evil
IDENTIFY do not know the man. He is
free lance. Now it has crept out in the
discussion that there is some animus
back of this resolution. l am not here
to apologize for Mr.. Caldwell; but,
knowing him as / do, l know that,
when his attention is called to the mat
ter he will do the proper and gentle
manly thing. and / do not want this
House to make itself smaller than he is.
Mr.. Reddngield of Wake: l think
there is some courtesy due from one
member to another. Therefore, / am
in favor OF deferring to the wishes of
orr friends from Mecklenburg in this
matter.
Mr.. Morgan: In order that no one
will think / am hasty, l agree to leave
the resolution referred.
The question was then called for and
put on Mr.. Duls' motion, and the reso-
luton referred to the judiciary Com
mittee.