The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-17
B. S. Kearney Rises in De-
Tense of Judge Clark.
WE JUST DOM { BELIEVE IT
He Who Was Once the Soul of Honor
Has Not Degenerated.
ENvlOUS SPIRIT AC'UATEs THE TRADE
Warm Words Of Admiration and Denfense From
an Old Soldier Who Fought With Major
Clark in the Days That Tried
Mems Souls"


Mems Souls.
To the Editor: Please allow us space
ia your columns to tender the thanks
OF long suffering public to our Bishop
Kelley and the Atlanta Constitution for
their recent scathing productions in its
behalf, regarding Our Miles-Roosevelt--
and our onliest own. and loving Jeter.
All honor to those authors and their
assistant transmitters down the line to
an appreciative public. And while their
respective products were somewhat ham,
pered by the littleness of their subject
will and executive power behind them.
And as in the case of Longstreet's pugi-
list from the dark corner of Lincoln,
how they could have handled the subjects,
if worthy of their efforts!
In addition to the above, We also de-
sire TO say a few things, regarding the
yelps and snarls being perpetrated
against Judge Clark.
Which yelps and snarls remind us of
a somewhat similar procedure enacted
in the sanguinary season of the sixties,
with our Jubal Early, of Confederate
fame, regarding lot of brandy away
up in the Valley of Virginia.
An envious spirit, more than patriotic
motives, was perhaps the principle fac
tor In the crusade against old Jubal in
the brandy business.
And the same cause doubtless actuates
the TRADE, now being perpetrated against
Judge Clark. And. while now as then,
their capers may create some little eX-
citement in the minds of simple people,
still the outcome of the matter will per-
haps amount to about the same. For
in the case Of Early, in spite of the
vehement efforts of his moralizing enc
mics old Jubal and the boys in gray, who
were wandering around with him in
those Tarts, got the brandy.
Just as Clark will doubtless get the
political plum from his party, unless his
friends THE EMMY, have a stronger
hold upon its machinery than is gencr-
ally conceded. From religio political
standpoint, the Clark Wilson umbraglio
is no concern of ours. inasmuch as us
and the Judge are not of the same church
creed, nor do we drink at the same wa
tering place in politics.
But for all of that, we are q strong
Clark man. and have been. from times
along ways back, being as we were,
kind classmates, during the now some
what ancient unpleasantness between the
States. He then holding commission
as regimental major, and us a certificate
of low private in our company A.
In the comparison he, of course, out
ranked us in official position, still ours
being the first company in alphabetical
order, entitled us to some kind of an
equality in classification. Hence, our
claim as above made. From the news
papers we see that Mister Wilson is also
dubbed a major.
The title was conferred, perhaps, for
meritorious conduct performed, or the rea-
sonable expectation that it would be.
But whether consummated with old Jubal
in his brandy campaign in the valley,
as before stated, or in the more lucrative
service of the Southern Railway, we
know not
Now Mister Wilson, or the major
Gust which is the most right and pro-
perl may be a very truthful man, ordi-
narily.
But regarding his charges of Judge
Clark's hobnobbing with the sprigs of
Populism and Republicans of the Caylus
and Daniel type, I'VE JUST DON'T BE-
LIEVE IT." For in the days of Dixie,
Clark was too much of a martinez, both
in bearing and practice, to engage in
such common place sport as that.
And if he has changed any since then,
it must have been produced by the
malignant influence of professional asso-
citation.
In which event. he has our respectful
sympathy for the affiiction of being thus
reduced to the common level of his
envious and malicious traducers. And
may the Lord have mercy ON his SOUL
But whether Judge Clark licked salt
with the Republi- Poplico cattle or not,
from Mister Wilson's own statement, it
is a clear case to us-that he has. For
if not from whence does he desire his
stupendous array of evidence, so plainly
bearing the Caylus and Daniel COM
pany's patent trade mark.
And If the evidence was thus secured,
is he, or any one else of like status,
competent authority to specify the
metres and bounds of the Democratic
party, and dictate to it the course of
conduct it shall pursue, just as did old
Fred. Douglas to the national Republic
cans in 1884.
But, however that may be. it is their
affair and not ours. and is for them to
determine. And if they make a mistake,
the consequence is with them, as it was
with the Republicans in the case of their
Frederic the Great
Our object in writing this article is to
evidence the estimation that the boys
who carried their muskets in the days
that tried mems souls (as only the clash