The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-08
APPEALS TO DEMOCRATS.
Mr.. Nash Says Judge Clarke is Attacked Be-
cause.-the Won't be Tool.

the defence of Judge Clark. in reply TO
Mr. n. A. Page. l wrote then and
write now without the knowledge OF
Judge Clark I have had no motive in
writing, but desire to see Justice done.
When this effort to ruin one of the
purest and ablest iurists of our grand
old State was first begun, | had no idea
that 1t was deep laid scheme of the
railroad magnates and monopolists to
force the court of last resort in North
Carolina to do their bidding or be de-
stroyed
But recent developments have turned
flood of light upon the subject.
Mr.. Page having failed to accomplish
the work of the railroads. Major ]. w.
Wilson and eX-Gov d. L. Russell are
brought forward to do the deed. 1t has
been shown beyond a doubt that J, w.
Wilson and Ohio Wilson held such a re-
lation to the Southern Railroad that
their continuance in office was a stencil
in the nostrils of such a man as d. L.
Russell, whose olfactory nerves had not
been sufficiently blunted by the odorifer-
Gus smell Of one hundred and twenty
thousand negroes and their white allies.
to stand the fragrant violations of law
and decency practiced by the copartner-
ship existing between the Wilson's. Rail-
road Commissioners and the Southern
Railroad. But the railroad magnates in
some way, succeeded in winning His Cor
pulency over, SO that the unholy alliance
between the commissioners and the rail-
roads began to smell as pleasant as the
verdure of a flower garden on a May
morning, and by way of atonement he
was ready to gather together every scrap
OF paper that ever passed between Judge
Clark and himself. and put them into
the hands of the railroads to be used in
any way they could to compass the down
fall of the man they hated without cause
l have carefully examined everything
that has been published on the subject
and all l see in the case is this: Judge
Clark thought the railroads ought to be
made to obey the law as individuals and
pay their part of the tax to support the
government. and he showed willingness
| to aid so far as he could to compass this
end. There is no evidence that he ever,
did anything that he did not have a right
to do as good citizen, and a sworn off,
Ger in the service of his State Yea
more, everything they have proven on
him goes to show his devotion to his
a perfect right to do all that he did as
an Associate Justice or Chief Justice of
The Supreme court.
If he could not have done what he
did and sit on the cases if they had come
before his court, no magistrate could
issue a warrant for the arrest of a man
and then try the case. Neither could
any Superior court judge issue bench
u,orr nd tru bo
Judge Clark's answer in his letter to
Mr.. Holt is perfectly frank ard honest.
Great effort was made to make capital
out of the instruction to burn the revised
draft of the summons after the Governor
had determined not to use it.
Judge Clark knew that he would be
misrepresented, and he knew that if it
fell in the hands of the railroad officials
and Republicans he would be attacked as
he has been and they would try to make
capital out of his efforts to make the
railroads obey the law. They did
this through the treachery of
him to whom the Judge did not
think he had any reason to apply the
language OF Christ to Judas when he said
What thou doest, do quickly. If the
Judge did use the expression which he
has forgotten, it is deeply significant.
For baser betrayal of confidence, and
baser piece of ingratitude has never
been perpetrated since that band was
led out to Gethsemane and the Son of
Cod was betrayed with a kiss.
l make the assertion that the majority
Of those who are opposing Judge Clark
are at heart not Democrats, and most
of them refused to support the last Dem
ocratic nominee for President, and there
fore are not even qualified to vote in the
Democratic primaries, and are now at
tempting to dictate to the Democratic
party who their nominees for office shall
be.
But my countrymen, it is not simply
the interest of our able honest, and
capable Judge that is at stake, but the
judiciary itself. Let this conspiracy sue
coed and it is a declaration that no man
who will not become willing tool in
the hands of the money power can hold
office in the court of final appeal in
North Carolina, and it will not be long
before every other office in the State will
be invaded and every man who will not
how to the mighty trusts and corpora
lions will pay the penalty by the for
fixture of his political life.
The facts of this case are in your
hands, and 1 am persuaded that the men,
and sons of the men, who were first at
Bethel, went farthest at Gettysburg
and were last at Appomattcx, will not
now in these piping times of peace. pros
perity commercialism and monopolies, so
perity, commercialism and monopolies, SO
far forget the best traditions Of our past
the right. Judge Walter Clark belongs
to family of heroes and heroines. His
ideas are too high for those who would
have everybody bow to their will and