The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-20

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porate existence of thirteen years We
have never had a passenger killed nor
seriously injured and but two employees
killed. In all that time We have had but
one personal injury case before Judge
clarks court We have never had but
one complaint OF any kind, lodged against
US with the Railroad Commission, and
that one was for failure 10 furnish cars
IN time of a car famine. We have spent
most OF the money the road has earned
IN extending the line, and developing the
resources Of Moore, Montgomery and
Randolph counties. and am quite sure
the citizens of these three counties Will
readily testify that the management OF
the Page road" has been neither SLOW
nor niggardly in its cooperation with
every movement tending TO the better
ment of this section.
9TH. One word, for Judge Clark's benefit,
as TO how my<money has been spent. I.
personally paid the job office of the
Charlotte Observer twenty-seven s27)
dollars for printing the pamphlet Judge
Clark does not like. The only money
ever paid TO any campaign fund by the
Page road, or any of its owners. was
during the white supremacy campaign OF
1900, and those payments were as follows:
500 to Mr.. w. G. Hammer. Asheboro.
\. C.; 5000 to Mr.. L. L. Spence. Car
thage, y. c.. and 5000 to Mr.. c.. T.
Luther, Troy, y. G.. These contributions
We're solicited by the gentlemen named.
to be used in helping to carry the three
close counties Of Moore, Montgomery and
Randolph for Governor Aycock and the
amendment. The high character of the
gentlemen named is sufficient guarantee
that the money was properly used.
1t is true, as charged by Judge Clark
that | voted for Mr.. Mckinley in 1896
and 1900. 1t was done openly and pub
licly; there was no secret about it,
nothing to destroy nor burn" and |
am not seeking a confessional yet. More
over in 1896 | persuaded some thirty
other Democrats to do likewise. | was
surprised to find that the world did not
burst when l scratched the Democratic
ticket. SO, while [ greatly prefer to
vote the Democratic ticket entire and
complete, | have fully determined that
| Will never again vote for any man on
any ticket whom | believe to be unfit for
the office, or whose moral character is
not above reproach. That may rule me
out OF Democratic councils, but it cannot
force me into any other party, nor can
l be prevented from voting the Demo-
II Clt ~ NhtH l WALT ". HAVING
spoken thus plainly, l want to say fur
Their that these are my own views and
intentions, and that they do not apply
to any other | do not want you,
my dear Mr.. Daniels, to get me mixed
up with my brOthers-it is not fair to
them. AS you know l have four, three
of them associated with me III the man
agement of our little road. | am proud
to say that | should esteem it an honor
to be mistaken for any one Of them, but
We think and act each man for himself,
and we differ in political matters as in
other things.
Now let me call your attention to the
Clark-Russell letter No. Z. Permit a
suggestion. 4 4 < Send w. G.. Doug
las today to Solicitor Pou, inform him of
what he heard of Page and have,a bill
VS.. Railroad sent for hauling freight
one-half price. Summon Page and freight
agent there with his books, and the
party whose goods We're hauled free tor
one-half price,. He cannot refuse to
testify, as he is not indictable, only the
common carrier. < x 3 A very little
trouble will get bill as to both above
transactions and it is worth it. Destroy
after reading Mr.. Lacy says of this
letter: "Unsigned and undated" He
does not mention the fact that it is in
Judge Clark's handwriting. | am in
clined to the view that the last SEN
tence, destroy after reading" should
be held to be the full signature of Judge
Walter Clark. This letter was certainly
not written in response to the Governors
request for information, as he claims
some of them We're" Permit q sugges-
ton" ne says. Send w. C. Douglas"
MIR w e DOup19S W1S tho counsel Of
the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad
and in such capacity he learned that |
had moved some goods at half price. He
became Governor Russells
counsel in the tax cases, and by some
chance word this information reached
Judge Clark through Governor Russell.
Send Pages counsel to Solicitor POu,
and on his testimony get bill against
Page That was "plOWing my heifer"
with a vengeance, don't you think?
Now my dear Mr.. Daniels, suppose Gov
ernor Russell had been as anxious for
revenge as Judge Clark was: he orders
Douglas to go. Then suppose Douglas
had been as mean as the pair of them?
he goes before the grand jury and the
true bill comes up. Page goes there and
defends the case; loses it in the Superior
Court; appeals to Clark's court. Just
imagine Clark Winking to Pages counsel
ditto Clark'S WitnesS) when Brother
Douglas rises to make his argument
Funny? Sure. If they had only let me
into that scheme I'd be willing to risk
the result to get the fun.
But | must not forget what my fragrant
violation of chapter 800, section 4, Acts
of 1891 really was. A young man at
Asheboro, superintendent of a mill, had
typhoid fever, a long hard seige of it;
aud before he was half over it, his saw
ings were gone. The good people of
Asheboro came to his relief. furnished
him and his family with food, nursed
him.. cared for him until he was ready
TO go 10 work again. In the meantime
the mill had moved to Troy. thirty-fve
miles away. Some of my friends in
! AshcbOrO informed me of the situation
and | sent him a pass for himself and
his family, and a free order for his
household goods from Asheboro to Troy.