The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-29
GRANTS OFFICIAL BEHAVIOR
WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Some days ago, Maj. Hiram L.
Grant, Clerk of the Federal Court
went to Goldsboro and presided over a
mongrel convention that nominated a
ticket OF unfit men for Office. The
Goldsboro Argus skinned the major
and showed up his malodorous politi-
cal record. That article, with appro-
pirate comment, was printed in the
News and Observer. 1t Infatuated the
Radical boss Its the hit dog that
hollers." A day or two thereafter
when a member of the staff called at
the public office of Grant on his daily
round to get the news, he was told that
there was no news He happened to
know that a very important paper had
been filled. He asked to see it, as he
had a right to do, and it was handed
over to him Then Grant, with an in
solent air. told him he should not read
t and dared" him to print it. The
dare" didn't scare and the document
appeared in the next issue of the News
and Observer with appropriate com
ment local and editorial. That MUIR
lated Grant more than ever, and so
when that afternoon the writer Of the
article called to again inquire for news,
the Federal Court Clerk angrily asked:
Did you write that article?" and be-
'Mg answered in the affirmative showed
again that he had the manners t.1at
CharaCteriZes those long trained to
holding negro political night meetings.
Again his conduct was duly recorded
and properly characterized in these
columns. Yesterday morning Grant
printed an advertisement" in Raj
eiah paper. No decent paper should
print anything from his pen except as
an advertisement. From the "adver-
t,sement' this extract is taken
"A man whose heart is SO brutal and
lips SO vile that he could utter the fol-
lowing wish: '"That a bomb had been
thrown under the table when President
Roosevelt took that lunch with Booker
Washington, aud both sent to hnE " Is
beyond the pale of even a notice from
any one worthy the name of a North
Carolinian.
Association with such a one breeds
anarchy, the fruit OF which was the
assassination of President Mckinley
GAS q result of incandIary articles
of this character my property has
twice been set on fire Gin 1891 and in
1880, my business destroyed and my
loss over $4,000. Would the News
and Observer like 10 see the GOOD
WORK go on?"
The card" is evidently written for
the Department of Justice and the
President before .ghom Grant must an
swer for his conduct on Tuesday and
that Mr.. Gray. or The News and OBJ
server used the incendiary language
quoted about the President, whereas
it was used by an Albanian and is in
conflict with the view expressed in
these columns, has never been approx
ed by Mr.. Gray or this paper. The sug-
gestion that Grants property was de-
stroyed by reason of the advice or ut
terance of this paper is utterly without
foundation. This paper stands for law
Grant helped to bring about in 1894
1t stands against all incendiarism, in
Guiding the political incendiarism that
Grant and others of mis- ilk brought
ABOUT in North Carolina in 1895. 1t
demands that public officials shall
treat newspaper men with courtesy,
and Grant will learn before this Incl
dent is closed, that, as usual, The
News and Observer will not hold up
until it succeeds in this, as it has the
habit of succeeding, in putting an end
TO official misconduct.