The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-25
GIVES A BIG BOOM
Something for Little VIII
lies Xmas Stocking.
Baptists are Declaring Their Approval
of the News and Observers Po-
siti0n in the Most Practical
Way.
(Staff Correspondence

On the Road, Dec. pa want to thank
]. w. Bailey for helping TO increase the
number of new subscribers to the cold
Reliable" If he had only signed his name
Josiah William, could have done much
better, for some of his friends were not
sure it was really our own Hector Josiah
William.
A good old farmer said to me today:
Il want your weekly. Wish l could get
your daily and all L have to say is every
time they Int at Joe Daniels they make
him bigger man."
| Another fine farmer, who stopped the
News and Observer a few years ago and
a few months later his son subscribed
Tor three months, seeing Tie stand of
the "Old Reliable" on the Bassett -Kilgo
and Massee episodes and agreeing with
| it, as do 80 per cent of the good people
OF the State. he said: My son, you did
right, | will stop the paper that eats it's
own words and one OF US will take the
News and Observer regularly"
Another farmer, who Is not bully or
man given to buster, says: "Tell Joe
Daniels just to continue to pour into
,
for 1 am with him and Will shed every
drop of my blood for him and the cause
he is advocating if necessary"
These are three of the best farmers In
Wake county-all Baptists-and l might
add Democrats, II necessary.
A good. successful business man said:
Yes. have always known the News and
Observer was a better paper than the
pai
Post eating its own words has made me
decide to take the News and Observer.
Here is $500; send it to me for six months
and continue until l think Booker Wash
ington is the biggest man born in tic
South in an hundred years, save r. f.
Lee la Bassett."
Another. and one of the most success
full business men in the State, said: "You
send me the News and Observer and tell
Joe Daniels for me | am with him.
heart and soul. A few years ago, on a
question of finance, l differed with him
and took the Post but now, when l see
that papers position on questions that
strikes at the very root of our civliza-
ton. as well as our moral ana social hap
piness. of course / stopped it and am
proud to again take the News and Obser-
yer. and fight side by side with Joe Dan
iels again. The plots that are being laid
to suppress him and the great cause for
which he and his great paper stands, will
fail. Tell him to fight on for they that
are with him are a thousand times stron-
ger than those who are against him. -
l could add much more. but this is
really more than / intended to give him
and if his little stocking won't hold it put
| it in a pair of old pants of the man who
| is almost as big as the devil and send
| it. w. NJ, ROGERS.
1.-THE other members of the News and
Observer staff. who are on the road, sen
who have in the past differed with the
News and Observer, are sending in sub
scriptions and sending words of good cheer
and hearty endorsement. The men who
think that the people of North Carolina
will follow the lead of Bailey and Kilgo,
Bassett and Massee, in tearing down the
do not know the a b c's of the spirit that
dominates this great State. The people
are all right. They cannot be cajoled o.,
driven. The attempt of the Southern
Railway and the Cigarette Trust, aided
| by Kilgo and Bailey, to destroy" tn
News and Observer is proving a boomer
ang. Instead of injurng this paper, it Is
helping it. The people wish a journal at
Raleigh that defies corporate and eccle-
classical usurpation. They know that
the News and Observer has no source of
income except what it derives from sub
scriptions and advertisements. They are
aroused and will not see it destroyed
The editor and all interested are pro-
| feundly grateful for the flood of endorse
ments and kind letters, and for the inflow
OF new subscribers. This paper is in
deed rich in having the support and the
endorsement of the truest men and women
in North Carolina, God bless them
Editor.l
THE DOCTORS AGREED.