The farmer and mechanic., 1903-09-15

..,.t.I at the star once Dy |
,.rav. son Of Rev. Thomas
... proprietor and editor of the
-.... vi h.cn was published on Sal
....... .u an old building that has
..rote8 Of late years, and become |
.. -ao2. ] cannot now remember the
I'll. -Mlcroyosm," the paper above |
.... .u. bat suppose, a3 / now think
.t.+ il VAS about the size OF u sheet
..... IL discussed such matters as
. ....la-t boys and girls. but the
.. Hois the earInarks OF more ex-
...... journalism than Lcomdas,
,.# very smart boy, was supposed to
I5ut. an experience OF over forty
.g the printing business has long
established i'll me the opinion that
.~ three years IN the old time print
attire. would develop even the devil"
s-.nt smart boy, at an early age.
. , he stuck To his business closely he
~-...s average a long way, IN the course
...r-s above the more fortunate boys
..|. .rent their first years at school, and
#t not have to play printers devil.
~tare-.re ] am prepared to believe that
r~.ns Lemay, young as he was. dia
.a.. ar the work. mental and mechanical.
.a that bright little paper which once
4H.7 80 large Q place among the youth
,.R.Ie.gu and the surrounding country.
m course. at the time OF which | am
writing. there We're the very ably edited
-arers in Raleigh. to-wit: The Raleigh
psg.ster.' the Raleigh Star" both Wing
,r rgItics. and the Raleigh Standard" !"
democratic. Of which latter paper the late
ev-GoEeruor W. w. Holden was the edi-
+.r having purchased that paper from
rtras Loring. Esq, Immediately after
the Van Buren defeat in 1870
II is not my purpose to write anything
Ike Sketch of Governor Holden's career
a. editor Of the Standard; were l to at
temp. such thing | could not do it bet
ter than to say he made a splendid editor.
and was, from the time he became estab-
Eshaa in the editorial chair until about
1873. when he began to aspire to Congress
gmai and liubernatorIal honOrs, the king
maker Of his party, and because OF the
sg.Dnlid services he had rendered that
party he certainly was entitled to prefer
mear 1t the hands of those whom he had
helped TO make politically. At the Demo
cratic convention held in Charlotte in
l,1 to make a nomination for Governor,
Judge Ellis received the nomination over
Governor Holden, because one man. who
held proxies FOR nineteen western coun-
les voted them sohdly for Judge Ellis
Wake county sent a large delegation the
wl,er among the number, to that con
yeutlon.. instructed to vote for Holden,
which they did. The Standard supported
Judge Ellis for Governor, but it was un
delstood that the editor had become very
greatly sOured on his party because of It's
m-rstItuue to him. At that time and foI
some years previous thereto, Frank /
Wilson, Esq, was associate editor of the
Standard and did good service in the in
teresJ Of Nj. Holdens aspirations for of
fee, and WAS wI,Aal a good writer and g
yegy clever gentleman. He went to Har
pers Ferry, Va, to see old John Brown
the murderer and the inciter of negro in
slrrecuon, hung, and brought home with
him as a relic, which was priced very
highly in the Standard office, a piece o
the rope that broke old Johns neck. L
vas stlI on exhibition at that office a
The beginning and during the war; bu
since cid john has got 20 be a saint ant
Ls soul keeps marching on, it would b.
aproler thing to place that section of rope
1t Is still III existence and can be iden
lGtl IN the State Museum, with 4 tag
attached giving a short history of Old Johl
and MS murderous career, and especial.
4" the attempt he was making at the tim
De vas arrested and hanged, to brln:
about a wholesale rising of the negr
population OF the South to murder tn
whites. That, or something Of the sort
should be done, for our children are re
Clre5 to study books that speak of OLE
OolH as a martyr who died for his coun
w. and make those who took part Il
Inc arrest and hanging of him a set 0
--ilereEs. Our children should know tn
@1,A, and the truth is, John Brown wa
murderer, and was justly hanged; and
LIE either a fool or an ignoramus of tn
S1t Loveugood stripe who tries to max
SAINT Of that fomenter of strife an
o'9ls1el- But. no more of that now
.~'~gh later l may take up the matte
a-an.
sad there were three ably edited pa
r7- The Raleigh Register established b
2a Gales, was perhaps, at the tim
"I--1 / write, better known and NOR
-1--Dy read than any other State paper
',a eI1loT was Western r. Gales. ma
great popularity, both as editor an
1-.'@-e citizen, and whenever on th
se- A" was sure to be the centre of
'"- %. gentlemen who floclled abOU
.' because Of his amiableness of cha
ana cheerfuluess of disposition. Il
o-cat big heart that vas easil
'7' :" deeds o charity, never lettia
opportunity pass to act the goo
.s2, even II it took the last din
i.7 own pocket. and he lad to bol
, money from some one else to con
'.15 LIE work begun.
'@e old Register office was Il bric
D.Ire which extended from near Sal
s,. street.. east toward Fayettevil
ra and ON the north side of that bull
mf. Was very popular meeting pla'
na- marry q political campaign W;
As. ana many good yarn was spu
t,- '.A5al boy I stopped there, many
p. " -a'en to @uch men as Badge
v. Gales, Bat Moore and others WI
af d. "'11 10 congrega'e there On cl
r4. occasions 4 fellow and his 81
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