The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-14
PROGRESS AND POLITICS
IN BUSY GREENSBORO
Brief Review of the Magic City of the Piedmont
PIains-Col. Bill Osborne It's Aggressive
and Popular Mayor.
BY F.B. AREkDELL.
BY r. g.

, made many Of its longest and most ef-
~fectiye strides along the pathway Of
progress.
Col. osborne was elected mayor two
wears 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 a reasonable
and just recognition of his valuable SER
vices to his party and his people.
During his administrator 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 Dcmocracy's de-
fender and staunch adherent. He is a
rainstaking, careful and. / might say,
shrewd politician and his effective work
in behalf Of men and measures in which
his sympathics 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
Il tTlCt, where ne mas spent MS BUSY NE,
but ne is known and universally esteemed
by a wide circle Of acquaintance 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-
tiOn city of the State. His reelection for
a second term as Mayor of Greensboro is
claimed by his friends by a larger ma
jority and to a 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 demeanor
he is quiet and unostentatious, but
Whether he be found there, or behind the
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
upbuilding Of his city, his community
and his State.
| knew Col. Osborne best when he was
one of the managing directors of the
States Prison. and when [ was a~ssOcia-
ted with him in the management of that
IIouDItSOIlIc llSlltuUiOD, ana L hllCW Hal
when he voluntarily retired from that
position he left the imprint of his most
excellent business ability, his splendid
judgment and wise and valuable cCun-
sci. His effective aid in the rehabilitation
of that Institution will redown to its
good for many years to come.
AS the managing head of that great
mecca of the the uEfortunate-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 it's scien-
tiiic 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
70 time in it's 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
blenisheS but these will disappear as tho
city grows into more complete maturity
The drones in the busy hive-if there be
drOnes-Will be hurled from the hive anG
such eregetic spirits as Osborne's viii
be given full sway, and, impelled by their
conservative and yet aggressive momen-
/ tum, the magic city of the Piedmon
claims will push forward to a realiza-
ton Of the most sanguine hopes of its
livest and wisest builders I am fond o
Greensboro. l admire the grit Of hel
j, aggressive and busy citizens. / find here
:, always most genial and charming indi
, viduals to converse with and do business.
: with. | rejoice in it's wonderful growth
and development and l hazard nothing
III 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
at the head of its administration and witt
a Board Of Aldermen composed of live
progressive men, it can but achieve still
F, greater distinction among its sistc
cities.