The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-30

are now trying TO capture that. For
years their attorneys and agents have
been whispering slanderous destinations
to undermine and destroy the well earn
ed confidence which the people of North
Carolina repose in Judge Clark. 1t is
fortunate for him that they have now
had the rashness to make their charges
in the daylight When made specifically
in the Page pamphlet they were promptly
met and answered by his friends. In
this Wilson pamphlet there was an
adroit suppression of specific charges,
and an invitation to him to come in and
| purge himself hoping thus tC draw him
| into personal controversy in the news
| papers.
From the day when boy of II he put
on the Confederate jacket of gray, down
| to the hour that now is. this man has
trod the path of duty and of honor, with
| his face ever turned TO the foes of his
State and country, and ever upholding
the rights of the people. He has been
and is assailed by the vast power OF
| the money of the great corporations,
who demand that they shall not stand
on an even footing in courts of justice
with The humble saitors against them,
and who desire judges who shall con-
strue the law favorably to their specific
interests, as in the United States courts.
| Alone, unaided, a comparatively poor
man, lie has withstood all their ISLANDERS,
their attempts to intimidate him, the
reiterated assaults of their newspapers.
They cannot bully him. They know they
cannot buy him. If he goes down, what
public man in North Carolina for long
years to come will dare to stand for
the rights of the people and even handed
justice, when railroad lawyers and
agents can say, as they will, "Remem-
| Der, young man, the Southern Railroad
downed' Judge Clark. Are you stronger
than he was?" THE people do not stand
by their friends. Come with us and have
an easy time. The people are made to
be plundered. None but fools think
otherwise. Clark thought otherwise, but
he knows better now"
This is the lesson which these indus
trious railroad agents will point out
to aspiring young men of North Carolina,
if they can defeat Judge Clark at
Greensboro. These great corporations
have unlimited money and no scruples in
using it. Men will be hauled to the
County Conventions, and to the Green's
boro convention, on free passes, on at
torney passes" on donated tickets" for
the purpose of defeating Judge Clark and
choosing a Supreme court that will do
the will of the great corporations, even
as United States judges do it. There is
| big money in it-for the corporations.
There is over one hundred millions of
dollars of railroad property today in
North Carolina untouched by the tax
gatherer, while all others are taxed to
the throat-latch and the great corpora
lions demand court that will keep this
SO. The Confederate soldiers lack pen
sions, the Insane Asylums lack funds, the
children lack edIcation, and for this lack
the number of voters will be lessened in
future, but the corporations will save
over a half million of dollars annually
of taxes which they ought to pay. The
great corporations have influence in the
/ nominating conventions, the worn out
veterans of q hundred battle fields have
none, the insane have none, the poor
/ have none, the children have none. Have
/ the people themselves no influence in
| their own Conventions? We shall see at
| Greensboro.
1t is on record that the Southern Rail-
road contributed q quarter of million
of dollars to the Republican campaign
fund in 1898 and again in 1900. 1t is
we'll known that the Page pamphlet was
! distributed in shoals all over North Car
DINA and the same has been done with
the Wilson pamphlet. Does not every
one know that James w. Wilson has
not paid for this out of his own pocket?
/ He is an overseer for Senator Don
Cameron Republican, of Pennsylvania
for his Roanoke property. Does not
every one know that the expense is be-
ing borne by those steady contributors
to the Republican campaign funds-the
Southern Railroad and the American To-
bacco Company, and are not the latter's
agents mailing a copy to every preacher
in North Carolina? The Wilson pam
phlets being addressed in the same
handwriting as the Page pamphlets
foring the identity of their origin What
do these corporations care for
the integrity and propriety of
conduct of judges? Was not one
of the Southern Railroad law
agents" sentenced to Jail by Judge
Brown for trying to bride a juror in
Iredell, and did not another almost
break into Jail for a similar offence in
another county? There are honorable
lawyers VINO represent TallTOduS, DuL
they confine themselves to their legal
duties. l have referred only to those
who sell their political and personal in
fuence and who lobby legislatures and
judges and seek to control conventions
and nominations in the interest Of these
great aggregations of wealth. The pub
lie know well the difference between the
two classes.
Judge Clark has been an able and
| faithful public servant. No one has
charged that he is incompetent, corrup-
tible or lacking in devotion to the pub
lie welfare. 1t is exactly because he is
able and incorruptible, and stands for
the rights Of the people, these repeated
| and slanderous attacks are made by the
great corporations in their efforts to
| tear him down because he stands in the
way of their free license to plumber. IL
they can remove such faithful guardians
of the public welfare as he at their will,
| our condition will be worse and more I'M
| bearable than under the carpet bag
regime of unhallowed and damnable
| memory.
| AS an advocate of the right of the