The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-09

napers about peace and party mar
mony'' upon the part of those papers
that opposed impeachment. So far as
such counsel is given by papers that
laud Pritchard, Boyd and Furches as
model public. officials, no heed need be
given to it. They advocate the sort of
peace which will lull the Democrats
into a sense of security while they day
in and day out praise Republican poll
cies and Republican leaders, thus SOW
ing tares while the good man sleeps.
But the real Demoerats-those who
honestly favored and those who honest
ly opposed lmpeachment-do wish 1or
party harmony and party peace that
all the energies of the party may pc
directed toward fighting the policies
of the Republican party. This paper
belongs to that class CT ilre-tried DEM
ocrats and is ready, letting the bitter
ness of the past bury itself, to have an
end of friction and assist to an era OF
good feeling.
There is but one way that it can be
brought about, to-wiL. by recognizing
the honesty and patriotism of the gen
tlemen who began the Impeachment
proceedings, the honesty and high
mindedness of the members of the
House who voted for the impeachment
resolutions, the disinterested and hon
orable zeal that characterized the
Board of Managers, tire honesty and in
tegrity of every one Of the thirty-nine
Democratic Senator'S. the twenty-seven
who voted for conviction and the twelve
who gave the judges the benefit of "a
reasonable doubt" and voted against
conviction. There is no basis of peace
outside Of the recognition Of the hon
esty of all parties.
The Chatham Record. whose editor
voted against conviction, recently said:
Neither the acquittal of the judges
by the Senate, nor the attempt to inn
peach them by the House will hurt the
Democratic party Unless Democrats
play the fool by ordinations and re-
ordinations.
Sundays Charlotte Observer, writing
on the impeachment trial, says: 1T is
all over and the matter should be left
at rest and then proceeds to do the
How art thou my ,1otLer?" act by
adding:
"That the instigation Of this proceed
ing was political and personal is beyond
doubt, but we do not believe that
these influences were permitted to en-
ter the Senate chamber or that they
had to do with the vote
Here we have it: The members of the
House, including Capt. Audrey and
Mr.. Shannonhouse, Ct Mecklenburg,
who were the fnstieation of the pro-
ceedings' were influenced by personal
and POLITICAL conside: atloLs beyond a
doubt" but the Sena sors did not per-
nit 'these influences to enter the Sen
ate chamber That is the basis of
peace that the Mckinley Pritchard-
Furches organ is standing upon. The
sixty Democrats i'll the House who
voted for impeachment will not submit
to have the matter settled upon the
basis of so base a reflection upon the
motives of large majority of the MEM
! bership of the House. That body was
, under the control of no man or set of
men, its own members originated the
,oco1,,4;o,, re i,1,y,aachr,ept and yotad for
or against it as thaiv conscience and
judgment dictated, and t. declare that
political or personnel motives in
fluenced their vote is as slanderous as
to say that he Senator'S voted corrupt
ly. There is no better man in public
life in North Carolina than Hon. Locke
Craig, who introduced the resolutions
for impeachment. He was actuated by
no motive except sense of his sworn
duty and desire to restore the judi
ciary to its former high estate. The
Board of Managers-Judse Allen, Judge
Graham, Mr. Rountrec, Mr.. Craig, Mr..
Spainhour, Mr.. Nicholson, Mr.. Shan
HonnouSe, MI. SeWalt- are as Honordple
and upright gentlemen IS can be found
in North Carolina. What political or
personal motive caused these gentle
men to vote FOR and to advocate inn
parchment"
There will be no honorable peace so
long as the motives of tile great ma
jority of the Democrats in the House
are impug1ed, and those who believed
/ in impeachment will not permit set
, tlement that does not recognize their
fairness, their uprightness and the
purity Of their motives
CASTORgA F@lnfans and Children.