The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-29
Life Long Friend Writes
of Clark.
CONTINUED from Page Nine.)


OF fidelity and rectitude, Judge Clark
can and be Il said to his honor.
am no LAWYER inrist hut I am
a citizen OF great State and born in
Il. and am interested In the faithful.
just. righteous administration of law;
am interested In all that enters into our
civilization, that concerns the science
OF government, the maintenance of So
ciety. the prosperity and glory and honor
of the State. Having known so long
and so intimately Justice Clark-now
quite forty years. know him to be a
man of integrity and worth, a man of
benevolence and sobriety (Which cannot
be said OF many judges who have flourish
ed in North Carolina-save and defend
the people from drunken judgesD-a man
of rare abilities and accomplishments, a
man of vast energy and wide patriotism,
North Carolina indeed owes him great
debt of gratitude. His services to the
State have been many and important.
No man yet born in North Carolina ever
made such personal sacrifices as he has
without reward of any kind. His massive
and mastery work in five volumes,
edited by him without a cents pay, filling
five large octavos, necessitating the
writing of 5000 letters with his own
hand to secure the great many writer's
necessary to prepare the work, occupy
ing much of his time for seven years to
complete it, he having to read and edit
all the manuscripts, and to read the
proof. and superintend the publication
of the gigantic undertaking, was
marvellous task, monumental work.
and should be remembered by every
patriotic citizen, by every surviving
Confederate soldier, by the sons of every
man who wore the gray with honor. The
noble women of North Carolina will not
forget the devoted son of the Old North
State in war as in peace, and will offer
many prayer for Gods blessings upon
him, and that He will "lead him in
plain path because of his enemies"
Judge Clark has published a volume
OF addresses, ETC.. that show his remark
able gifts, his industry. his amplitude
of mind, his unbending devotion to duty
and the right, his unbroken, invincible
fidelity to the people always and every
where. He has contributed by invitation,
within two or three years, to a law pub
LEGATION, the joint work of several emf
nent lawyers from many States. They
met in New York city last summer to
hold consultation and to read the
proofs. I believe that Justice Clark's
own contribution exceeded 100 octave
pages. l have understood that his learn
ed associates in the important work
thought highly of his part. OF his many
legal decisions / may not write ex
cathedra, not being of the legal profess
sion. So far as ] have read them they
appeal conyincingly to my understand
ing and sense of justice and propriety.
| heard within twenty days one of the
foremost lawyers of this city say that
he would defy any lawyer to point to
any decision of his with regard to cor
porations that was not good law, sound
sense.
He is no enemy of railroads or the
industries. Not a line from them indi-
Gates hostility. He is too broad, too
enlightened, too fair to make war upon
the most important public carriers as
well as the greatest developers of the
country, enhancing the price of lands
While helping to build cities and towns.
In letter written recently to a gen.
tleman, but not for publication, Judge
Clark said. and all who know the man
know he writes the truth
mot word that l have ever spoken
nor line that l have ever written JUS
titles the charge that 1 am opposed to
corporations or our business interests.
L have stood for them and for every
thing else that will tend to build up our
state. Every intelligent man knows
that modern development is very largely
by means of corporations and would be
impossible without them.
Nor have / ever had the slightest op-
position to railroads as such. They are
indispensable in developing our State
and the more of them the better. What
| have opposed is not railroads as BUSH
ness enterprises but as political bosses.
TO Interfere in election of public Off
Gals. l have opposed their excessive
passenger rates and freight charges,
which retard the development of this
State and l have favored their paying
fair share of public taxes. This is
the whole front of my offending"
plain, emphatic, convincing state
ment which no fair man can successfully
controvert. He stands just where every
fair-minded, honest, faithful man must
stand Great Britain is wiser than the
united States are-it taxes it's wealth
ana not its poverty, a huge difference
Judge Clark has two sons who are at the
heau VI Two cotton mills In this State
having been educated for such, and he
VIII have two others educated for cotton
milling also. He owns stock himself
and his sons own one-half of a cotton
mill. Men do not fight their own invest
ments and interests if intelligent and
prudent. / have. extended this commune
cation already too much At another
time, some weeks hence Cd. W, 1 hope
to refer to other points. Holding him
in highest possible esteem; confiding
implicitly in his purity, goodness. truth :
1ulness, manliness, uprightness ard
patriotism; having known him so well
through so many decades, even from This
fresh green days of life's fair sprin g. y
from "boyhood's blossom hour" land
through his strong, buoyant man full
hopeful days when his face was race ant
with the sunrise he intently watched. -
down to this year of Grace 1902. vyher
he has reached his meridian 1,sI o.
activities and with hopes undim' ned OF
unfaltering, l an old man loving him for
ms virtues and admiring him .,or his
distinguished gifts, could not do less
than to engage in this free, uns' aggested
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