The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-02

They cannot bully him. They know
they cannot buy him. II 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, hen railroad lawyers
and agents can say, as they will. Re
member, young man, the Southern rail-
road 'downed' Judge Clark. Are You
stronger than ne was?" The people
do not stand by their friends. Come
with us and nave an easy time. The
people are made TO be plundered. None
but fool 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 Caro-
lima, 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 convention, and to the Green's
boro, Convention, on free passes, on
attorney passes on
tickets" for the purpose of defeating
Judge Clark and choosing a supreme
court that will do the will of the great
corporations, even az United States
judges do it. There is big money in
it-for the corporations. There is over
one hundred millions of dollars of rail-
road property today in North Carolina
untouched by the tax gatherer. while
all others are taxed TO the throat-latch
and the great corporations demand q
court that will keep this 50. The con-
federate soldiers lack pensions, the in
sane asylumS lack funds, the children
lack education, and for this lack the
number Of voters will be lessened IN
future, but the corporations will save
over half a 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 a hundred battle fields lave
none, the insane have none, the poor
have none, the children have none.
Have the people themselves no in
huence in their own convention? We
shall see at Greensboro.
1t is on record that the Southern rail-
road contributed a quarter of a 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
Carolina 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 Pennsyl-
vania for his Roanoke property. Does
not every one know that the expense is
being borne by those steady contri-
butors to the republican campaign
tunds-the Southern railroad and the
American Tobacco Company, and are
not the latter's agents mailing a CODY
to every preacher in North Carolina?
The Wilson pamphlets being address In
The same handwriting as the Page
pamphlets showing 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 q similar offence in another coun-
ty2 There are honorable lawyers who
represent railroads, but they confine
themselves to their legal duties. 1 nave
referred only TO those who sell their
political and personal influence and
who lobby legislatures and judges and
seek to control conventions and nomi-
nations In the interest of these great
a~ggregations OF wealth. The public
know well the difference between the
two classes.
Judge Clark mas been an able ana
faithful public servant. Nc one has
charged that he is incompetent, cor
ruptible or lacking in devotion to the
public welfare. 1t is exactly because
he is able and I~l'corruptible, and stands
for the rights .! the people, these re-
peated n slanderous attacks are made
by the great corporations in tAeir eff
forts to tear him down because he
stands in the way of their free license
to plumber. If they can remove such
faithful guardians of the public well
fare as he at their will, our condition
will be worse and more unbearable
than under the carpet bag regime of
unhallowed and damnable memory.
As an advocate of the right Of the
people to select their own public ser
wants without the corporations dicta-
ton or control, I submit these facts,
which are known to all men, or the
proof Of which is available to all, to
the candid honest masses of my fellow
citizens, who know that there Is moth
Ing which will affect them more closely.
vitality and injuriously than the pack
ing Of our supreme court with mea who
can be swayed by corporate influence
| That influence will be great il the new
Judges, who are yet untried, can be
pointed to the fate of Judge Clark az
an instance of the peoples ingratituds
and forgetfulness of their friends and
OF the power Of the great corporations
20 destroy a judge who withstands
them. For one / do not believe that
the people of North Carolina will for
get Judge Clark nor abandon him 10
the tender merCies Of the enemies he
has made solely by standing up for
their rights
Respectfully.
W. p. BACHELOR.