The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-23
PARTISAN POLITICS
RUN MAD
Republican Resolution on
Cone Mill Dam Case.
Lawyers on Both Sides Disgasted by Effort to
Ipj<ct Partisan Politics lnOa
Pending Trial.
Especial to News and Observer)

tSptCldi " NEWS anu COoNi hNA'i
Greensboro, N. c., Sept 22.-To say
that the lawyers on both sides of the
Cone Mill Dam Case were disguised,
Mortified, astonshed aud indignant at
the unanimous adoption by the Rcpubi-
can County Convention here Saturday OF
the following and only resolutions would
be putting it mildly,
Whereas, There is now pending in
the Superior court of Guilford county a
suit claiming that a certain pond of wa
ter owned by the ,,essrs. Moses II. and
Caesar Cone breeds malarial diseases
and is a nuisance,
Resolved by the Republican conven-
ton of Guilford county now assembled,
do not believe that such charges are true;
that said prosecution is unjust and not
warranted by facts, but has assumed the
form of persecution.
I'VE demand that said prosecution be
withdrawn, or the parties who are re-
sp0nsible for the same become RESPONSE
bic for all costs in the case"
To add to the offense against all the
pr0prieties and make it come closer to
the realm of contempt of court is the
statement made at the time OF Offering
it by 0. A. Starbuck that the resolutions
had been carefully considered and agreed
on in caucus Sitting there, among other
prominent men, was Hon. w p Raglan.
lawyer nominated by the me body
for State Senator, and a prom1 figure
also was the eX-Attorney &C 4eral OF
North Carolina, Hon. r. d. Douglass
elected chairman of the Campaign Execu-
tive Committee. The resolutions were
unanimously adopted. When il is re-
membered that this case is an indict-
ment found by a grand jury, and the case
is now pending in the Superior court for
trial, the full measure Ct foolhardness
and gravity of this overt effort to in
ject partisan politics into trial pending
by the Republican organization can be
better understood. 1t is viewed here
by all sensible people, regardless of poll
tics, not only with disgust, but alarm.
"Populism, in it's rankest stages. never
attempted such a puerile partisan thing
as that is the way one lawyer, land he
is anti-ClarlI too), put it, The case re-
ferred to has been up for trial twice, and
it is an open secret that the prosecution
and the defendants had come 10 an
amicable understanding some weeks ago
owing to the fact as the solicitor him.
self has stated. that the cause OF COM
plant the improper draining and conse-
cuent sickness had been removed since
the Indictment was found more than a
year ago.
Rumor is also rife. to the effect, that
Chief Justice Adams. who left this morn
ing to hold his Chickasaw ChOctaw court
in Indian Territory was the adviser, if
not the author of the resolutions.
One thing is certain: the white people
of the county and of the city who al
most universally have been determined
to see that the Cones should be given
every encouragement and sympathy in all
laudable undertakings, more than 1000
of whom voluntarily signed an assurance
10 this effect six months ago, feel that
these resolutions are insulting, conf
IDENTIFY expect TO see them denounced and
repudiatcd by these gentlemen.