The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-12

ment, but went straight ahead ~"
ing men thieves, with perfect oo1,
humor, telling what they stola 10y
Offering to prove 1t if furnished MI,
ga squire" with power tn SUNNI
witnesses. He was in no seaso
newspaper man, and judged nv an
newspaper standard there was nano,
such a newspaper writer. l. oftos
happened that the heading of an ed,
torial and the editorial itself bora =.
sort of relation to each other. 9bo,.
was a comical sameness ab0ut h.
editorials, day after dav, and N On.
occasion he rehashed all his aocDsa
tions and arguments and headed ii.
article "The Old Editorial"
There was never saoh a man Fl,
naming people. "Jav Bird J,nesn
was a Superior Court Jrdpa.
"Greasy Sam Watts was anotbe,
Superior Court Judge "Kildee La.,
sitter" was a Granville cOuntv mar
who tried to sell the State land m
which, to build the penitentiary and
for a farm-Turner had said che land
was so poor that the whole farm
would not support a kildee; Fat
Carrow" was the United States Mar.
shall for the Eastern District "Fat
Jenkins" was Aaron, son Of thu
State Treasurer and Chief Clerk in
his fathers Office Chicken Stew.
ens'' was a member Of the Lagisla.
ture from Cas well-afterwards hung
by men who we're never detected. in
a lower room of the court house al
Yanceyville while a political meet
ing was in progress up stairs-and
Turner gave him this name because
he said he was a chicken thief Col
W. F. Henderson was "WiLdy Billy
Henderson" because he tailed 80
much Maj. W, A. Smith was Blow.
Your Horn Billy" because during the
war he had hunted deserters with
hounds, and "Sugar-Lips" was DR..
Geo. W. Blacknall, proprietor of the
Marlboro House. He could ring the
changes day in and day out on a
word, a phrase or a sentence. John
Nichols and John @ German were
large job printers in Raleigh and an
influential firm. They had baen
Democrats and became Republicans.
While they we're in the. Transition
stage, Mr.. Turner had heard that
Governor Holden had oonfded to a
party friend that "NichOls and Cor,
are with u.s." What reader of
The Sentinel in those days but has
had the sentence burned into hisI
brain by daily seeing it? "N'ohoIsl
and German are with US" Some
occasion could be found for ringing
it into every editorial. Turner would
write all around his suhject-if he
to have any particular one
to make some reference to "John
Nichols, of whom Holden said
Nichols and German are with US >"
or to 81 I'm German, of whom Hol.
den said, etc.
His accounts of his street fights
the funniest things in G ntem.
'oraneous literature. Judge ". A,
Moore, of the Supreme Court, Laid"
for him n day, but in starting to
assault him slipped and fell. Turner,
greatly amused-if he could be
amused at anything, for he never
cracked a smile-stood over him and
punched him in the ribs with his
umbrella, and never got tired after.
wards writing about ''the man who
fell do wn at US" VIM. 81. Bal ey,
then of Salisbury, challenged him to
duel. Turner replied to she ohal-
lenge through his paper, signing the
name o. his Office devil, a boy named
Hall, to the letter. Hall was sup,
posed to take the difficulty off his
chiefs hands, and wrote frequent
open letters to Mr.. Bailey, inviting
him to mortal combat. Turner could
take the most trivial incident Of q
mans life, or the slightest peculiar
ity in his personal appearance, and
him a lnughinC stock.
In the progress of years he turned
~gainst all political parties and
against pretty nearly all established
things Some twenty years ago be
ran as an Independents candidate for
the Lower House Of the Legislature
from Orange and was elected d.
so dispbient Of alErules and ruL
inQs that Ii became necesAaTy 80 6G'