The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-24

not accidental. Everybody in North Caro-
lima knows that Editor Bailey in politics
runs with the Charlotte Observer, the
Morning Post, and other anti
Democratic journals. In his recent ukase
against the News and Observer
he cannot refrain fling at it because it
gave loyal support to Bryan.
The Charlotte Observer was selected as
the medium for commanding Baptists to
destroy the News and Observer, because
the Charlotte paper and Editor
Bailey are political yoke-fellows, each
having given a stab to Democ-
racy whenever the occasion seemed to
either opportune. The Charlotte OBJ
server has for several years been the med
ium for the publication of anti-Democratic
literature. 1t was natural therefore, that
the command to destroy the News and
observer should have first appeared i'll the
Charlotte Observer. II was as natural as
that Prof. Bassett, when he first thought
of resigning -. Trinity College, should
have sent his resignation to Editor Bailey
instead of to the trustees of Trinity Col
lege.
But there was time when the Biblical
Recorder and the Charlotte Observer
now political Siamese twins-were not
loving brothers In fact there was a time
when they denounced each other Gin the
language of the bagnio and the fish mar
ket." to quote the Charlotte Observer. 1t
was not until after Bailey was appointed
to a State office by Russell, and the chief
owner and boss of the Charlotte Observer
was given a $4,000 job by Mckinley, that
these two papers forgot the harsh things
they said of each other and kept time in
the movement of trying to, undermine the
faith of Democrats in their party. Then
they both began simultaneously to hate
the News and Observer because of its un-
compromising Democracy. This accounts
for the present alliance, offensive and de-
fensive, on political lines of these two pa
pers, and explains why the Charlotte OBJ
server is Bailey's official medium OF max
ing public his anathemas.
1t was in the year 1897 that these two
papers told the people what each thought
of the other. There has been no change
in the editorship of either paper since
1897. II what the Recorder said of the
Observer was true then, it is true now
If what the Observer said of the Recorder
was true then. it is true now. Their pres
ent loving harmony is another proof that
when Southern men get ready to swallow
Republicanism they are ready to swallow
nauseating doses that would have made
them vomit before they took that step.
On the fourth of August, 1887, writing OF
the Charlotte Observer, the Biblical Re
corder said
WE HAVE COME TO CANNAE
1--WE print on the third page some
articles, which will show our readers
how their cause and its advocates are
treated by leading daily paper, the
Charlotte Observer. 1T HAS IN
SUITED EVERY BAPTIST IN
NORTH CAROLINA, and when Sec
rotary White and the editor Of the Re-
corder resented this, it replied with
e thets and accusations.
The Observer complains that we
have a paper, and that we ought to
make our replies in it, That is to say,
it desires to abuse our people to its
hearts content before its readers
WITHOUT LETTIN G. H E M
KNOW THE TRUTH. We under
stand from its last paragraph and It's
treatment of Secretary Whites re-
ioinGer that it will not allow us to
speak through it's columns again. Let
it go on its way All its readers
WHO ADMIRE FAIRNESS will I'M
derstand that 1T CANNOT BE HAD
IN THE OBSERVER Notwithstanding
its boasts. 1t is bad enough to be-
tray ones ignorance of school-boy his
tory. but it is infinitely worse to be-
tray ones purpose of MALIGNING
AND MISREPRESENTIN cause
which, to say the least, demands every
ones respect.
THE Observer says our replies to
its slurs were insolent attacks. Let
the reader say if Secretary White and
the editor of the Recorder did not
make respectful arguments for our
position, and no attack at all.
Such is the treatment We receive.
We certainly can stand it. We would
prefer DECENT AND INTELLI-
GENT argument for the sake OF edu-
caticn; but If there is no argument on
the side Of State aid, the Observer
can not be blamed for doing its best
with WHINING, PITIFUL ABUSE,
bad history, worse prophecy and
WORST MISREPRESENTAT
OF PRESENT FACTS"
In the same month-to-wit: in August,
| 1897-the Charlotte Observer paid its re-
spects in kind to the Biblical Recorder.
It's full editorial was as follows:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.
THE Biblical Recorder of this week
attacks the Observer charging among
other things that it insulted the Bap-
lists in North Carolina, and when Sec
rotary White and the editor OF the Re
corder resented this it replied with
epithets and accusations OF course,