The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-12

ar Glenn Wright as well as | do and
admires them as much as l do will
marvel at the fact that they each have
strong supporters among their neighbors
and friends. Mr.. Wright is a popular
young man, a leader in all that pertains
to his citys upbuilding, genial, popular
gentleman, and under ordinary circum-
stances l opine that his name would be
almost invincible in local politics.
But in this instance he is measuring
popular men in Greensboro and one Of
the safest, wisest and most progressive
mayors the city has ever had.
Col Osborne has been mayor for two
years and it is not stating too much,
even for an outsider, when l say that
under his administration the city has
made many of its longest and most eff
fective strides along the pathway of
progress.
Col. Osborne was elected mayor two
years ago to succeed that brilliant and
aggressive young leader, Mr.. Zeb Vance
Taylor, and he has been such a worthy
successor and such a prudent, careful
and successful chief executive that his
friends are earnestly asking that he shall
be endorsed and given another two years
term, which they claim is reasonable
and just recognition of his valuable SER
vices to his party and his people.
During his administration he has i'm
pressed the public with the fact that
he is education's staunch friend and
helper. He is a successful promoter and
manager of business affairs. He is hon
est, able and conscientious, societys pro-
tector and promoter and Democracys de-
fender and staunch adherent He is a
painstaking, careful and. l might say,
shrewd politician and his effective work
in behalf of men and measures in which
his sympathies have been enlisted inside
the party councils, have been felt in more
instances than one.
Col Osborne is favorably known not
only in Greensboro and in the Fifth dis
trict, where he has spent his busy life,
but he is known and universally esteemed
by a wide circle of acquaintances and
friends from one end of the State to the
other His extended acquaintance among
men of prominence and influence through
out the State has been of material aid
to him in his. efforts and the efforts OF
other popular and prominent citizens OF
the city, to make Greensboro the conven-
ton city of the State. His reelection for
second term as Mayor of Greensboro is
claimed by his friends by larger ma
jority and to casual on-looker Os-
borne's victory at the approaching pri-
mary is in the busy, bristling Green's
boro air.
He does not always stand in the glare
of the footlights, because in demeanof
he is quiet and unostentalous, ou'
whether he be found there, or behind tht
scenes his friends know that at all times
his good judgment. his ripe experience
and his wise counsel are enlisted in what
ever pertains to the advancement and
upbulding of his city, his community
and mis- State.
| knew Col Osborne best when he was
one of the managing directors OF the
States Prison, and when | was associa-
ted with him in the management of that
troublesome institution, and l know that
when he voluntarily retired from that
position he left the imprint of his most
! excellent business ability, his splendid
| Judgment and wise and valuable coun-
sci. His effective aid in the reha
| of that institution will redown to its
good for many years TO come.
| AS the managing head of that great
| mecca of the the unfortunate-the Kelley
| Institute of Greensboro-he has made it
| one of the foremost and most firmly
| fixed institutions of this day and time
and planted the good effects Of its scien-
! tiic treatment in more than four thou
sand homes in this and adjoining States
In the opinion of those who know Col
Osborne best, the city of Greensboro hon
ored itself when it placed in his hands
| a commission as it's chief executive. In
nc time in its history has the busy city
| made more rapid strides along every
avenue OF Industrial, commercial and
educational progress than it has during
| these two years of his administration
In a city that has advanced along pro-
gressive lines as rapidly as Greensboro
has for the past few years there are
necessarily some instances where enter
| prise and progress have not yet touched
there are some unpaved streets and other
blemishes but these will disappear as tho
city grows into more complete maturity
The drones in the busy hive-f there be
drones-will be hurled from the hive ant
such eregetic spirits as Osbornes vii
be given full sway, and impelled by theil
conservative and yet aggressive momen
tum the magic city of the Piedmon
rIains will push forward to a realiza
ton OF the most sanguine hopes of its
Invest and wisest builders. / am fond o
Greensboro. l admire the grit of he
aggressive and busy citizens. | find here
always most genial and charming indi
riduals to converse with and do business
with | rejoice in its wonderful growth
and development and I hazard nothing
in predicting for these active and ener
getic people a still more glorious achieve
ment in the great work of city building
and with such men as Col w II. Osborn
ar the head of it's administration and will
Board of Aldermen composed of live
progressive men it can but achieve still
greater distinction among its siste
cities.