The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-03
PAGE OF UNFAMILIAR HISTORY.
Some Incidents in the Holden Impeachment
Trial Recalled by the Case Now Pend
ing Before the Senate.
HOW HISTORY IS NOW REPEATING HERSELF

seems determined that the people of the
State shall believe that they. the Demo-
Gratis, are totally incapable of doing JUS
tice where a political opponent is con-
cerned. The action of the House
yesterday in passing the resolution de-
claring that they would impeach the Gov
ernor, was gotten up By men who are
controlled by their passions and not by
their oaths as representatives. +"
There was no evidence whatever before
the House and yet sixty members voted
TO prefer articles! What could be more
conclusive OF the charge we have re-
peatedly made that the Democrats are
incapable of doing justice to a political
opponent?
Or this from the Standard of Deem
Der Goth, which one might easily mis-
take for the recent "Let-us- have peace"
editorial in the Winston Republican,:
Let us have peace" Let this General
Assembly consider it-their headlong rush
toward revolution and the upsetting OF
| all law and order in this State is calcu-
lated to produce strife, contention and
| uncertainty. The people are tired of
! strife. Let the people of North
/
United States has taken this matter in
hand-and SOON WILL BE HEARD
FROM. THEY HAVE MADE A NEW
NORTH CAROLINA AND THEY WILL
MAINTAIN TT. WE KNOW WHAT WE
SAY.
Have not the people of North Caro-
| lima recently heard threats similar 10
this? Has Pritchard not been beseech-
1 49, TR~ff .A1 rat
to let itself, "be heard from in North
Carolina?
When Holden was about to be inn
peached President Grant sent TO the
Senate special message giving infor-
nation" TO that body relative to out
RACES in North Carolina"
AS parallel to this, Pritchard is now
engaged in sending forth from Wash
ington resolutions containing lot OF
abolninable SANDERS and following
them up with lengthy TRADE in the
Senate against his people and his State.
But the resemblance does not end
here While the Holden Impeachment
resolution was pending, Gov. Vance, to
use the words of the Standard at that
time, was knocking at the door of the
! United States. Senate and we lind Il
Washington correspondent Of a paper
in another State writing:
The impeachment of Governor Holden
| in North Carolina has weakened what
| little chance Governor Vance had of being
seated in the United States Senate. The
movement, which is regarded as Demo-
| cratic revenge, has intensified the bitter
ness of the Radicals in Congress
Pending Impeachment of the judges
we witness the spectacle of the Repub
iicans in Washington now announcing
that Mr.. Simmons, our duly elected
United States Senator shall not take
his seat, while Pritchard rises in his
seat TO falsely declare that the Lee1s
lature in its treatment of many public
questions has displayed a spirit of par
tisanship that ought to put TO blush the
checks of every conservative citizen Of
North Carolina, of whatsoever party.
Nor is this all. When Holden was
about to be impeached there We're, to
use the language Of newspaper of that
time, ''rumors of warrants TO be issued
by Federal courts for arrest of several
Senator'S upon the charge OF holding
office when barred by the Fourteenth
Amendment as their disabilities had
not been removed"
Today we have the wholesale arrest of
registrars all over the State and the
charming advice from 4 Radical paper
That the accused and their party friends
had better hasten to make peace with
Holton, the Republican State chairman.
But why pursue these reSemDl3nceS
Of the two cases further 1t were easier
TO point out the particulars in which
they are unlike.
The most notable of these, perhaps,
is the position occupied by Gov. Jarvis.
When Gov. Holden was impeached, Jar
Wis was Speaker of the House, aad one
Of the leaders in the movement. He adj
vocated it on the floor and signed the
Articles Of impeachment Now he is
counsel for the defense and as strong in
opposition to impeachment as he was
eloquent in advocacy of it thirty years
ago.
Mr.. Jarvis was a young man then and
some of the older heads and lobby mem
bers tried to argue to him that the step
was not wise.
by the eternal Gods he replied
Holden shall be impeaehed. He has
violated the constitution and laws OF
the State and he must be made an ex-
ample of to warn future officials
Now he undertakes the defence of the
judges and grayely declares that his
party will have to answer FOR their inn
parchment at the next election.
But it was not only the Impeachment
of Holden that Young Jarvis favored
in these stormy days Ct '70 and II; he
seems TO have been equally thirsty for
the official blood of two superior court
Judges. Mr. Jarvis raised the psalm
and all the Legislature sang after him
to tie tune of ''Jerk-up- Jaybird-J Jones
ann Greasy Sam Watts"
After the close CT the Holden i'm
peschment trial resolution was adopt
ed in the House by a vote OF rs To Il
impeaching Judge Jones. The resi- of
the story is taken from the Daily SEN