The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-29

good, and he threw it aside as a lemon
that had been July squeezed.
Mordecai was still sitting at the kings
gate
MoIdecai must be destroyed. The first
effort had been a scandalous failure. Col.
Andrews and the trusts that joined him,
bought the dear experience OF Col. WnG.
A. Smith, OF Johnston, who, after trying
it, said: You can't run q paper for Il
party that cant read But a man who
f~atters himself that he can kill and
make alive never stops at one failnIc.
Col. Andrews had still other strings
to his bow. He saw that the daily ex
| pcsures in the News and Observer of the
! corruption of the State officials, whom
he had indicted into office with brilliant
social functions that made him the Ward
McAllister of Raleigh, was disgusting the
| people. He saw that they were resolved
to drive them from power in disgrace at
the first opportunity.
He also saw that fve-cent cotton had
| been the only result felt in North Carolina
| OF the election Of Mckinley. Though not
giving up the right to appoint Federal
office-holders in North Carolina under
| his friend Mckinley, Col. Andrews had
| a long enough head to see that he must
not tlaunt his gold and protection latin
| and his McKinleyism IN the face OF au
| outraged people.
If he Were to destroy the News and
Observer, still sitting at the kings
| gate he saw he would have to pursue
| a different method. The plan he finally
| adopted was to put his free pass bri-
| gade and handful of fawners, to SAYING
| that the News and Observer did not
! preach Straight Democracy and to or
| ganize a company to publish a Straight
Democratic paper
He knew that if he was known as a
stakeholder his new paper would share
| the fate of the Tribune. Stock was So
| licited, certain gold Democrats, who had
| stopped taking the News and Observer,
because it declared that they could not
| pose as Democrats and vote for RepublI-
| cans, gladly subscribed to blocks of stock
to organize a paper for straight Demo
cracy."
1t is even said that a big owner in the
| cigarette trust, lifelong Republican, who
| ardently supported Mckinley and Rus
sell, was so anxious for "a Straight Dem
| o~cratic'' paper that he also SUBSCRIBE!
| for a block of stock.
In addition to these, some true and
| tried Democrats, not knowing that the
! paper was to be a creature of the gold
| Bugs and the monopolists, took a small
| portion of the stock.
These are the subscribers who are re
lied upon to give the paper standing in
| the Democratic party.
Col. Andrews will soon find that the
Democrats of North Carolina cannot be
| induced to deal in green goods" and
! the "Straight Democrats will have moth
ing to do with a paper established witt
the purpose of controlling it tor the mon
! opolists and gold bugs, or failing to do
that, &c seek to keep the State and the
Federal Governments in the hands of the
Republicans. He will find that his policy
of pretended Democracy will avail him
nothing in his audacious attempt to die
tate the policy of the party he helped
nightly to defeat in 1895.
He will also find Mordccai still Sitting
, at the kings gate"
! Neither he nor any Of the rest Of the
gOld-bug protcctioniStS and McKin!eyites
can enforce obeisance; buy the editorial
utterance; or prevent the exposure Of
this attempt to be a Democratic cafnr
after his public support Of McKinIeyism
IN 1896.
straight Democrats" do not bend low
the knee to give eclat to a Republican
governors inauguration, nor bend ali
their energies to put Mckinley in the
! White House.
And they do not intend to accent die.
tatl0n from men whose Democracy is OF
that stripe, no matter how much they
may suGarcOat the dose.
SIX years have passed. The prediction
that Hannah would not hang Morder,i
has been fulfilled. Mordecai is "stil1 eft
ting at the kings gate" Hannah has had
other help-creatures of the Cigarette
Trust and religio-political world-bc bosses
But Mordecai is still sitting at the
kings gate"