The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-24


in Office shall receive or agree to receive
any compensation whatever, directly OF
indirectly, for any services rendered OF
to be rendered to any person either by
| himself or another in relation to any pro
ceeding, contract, claim, controversy
charge accusation, arrest or other matter
or things in which the United States is
a party or direct or indirect interested
before any department, court martial
lLureau, officer or any civil. military on
naval commissioner whatever. Any per-
son offending against this section shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
shall be imprisoned not more than two
years and fined not more than ten thous-
and dollars and shall moreover by con-
vichon therefor be rendered forever
thereafter incapable of holding any office
OF honor trust or profit under the gov
ernment OF thc United States.
Now, Mr.. Blackburn. you who are a
master in interpreting letters and
statutes, what say you? Did Commission
er Ierkes tell the truth? If so, for what
were you proposing to take that $3.50
check?
you did not get it, it seems. Suppose
while you were assistant district attorney
and l member of Congress that / had
taken check OF one dollar from a dis
| tiller in Wilkes for services rendered by
men before any of the government depart
ments, would you not have felt it your
duty to prosecute me under that statute?
| | cannot find it in my heart to charge
you, my brother Republican with 'stulti-
| lying falsehood,' even upon the letter
! OF an exalted official. a man who re-
ceives pay while member OF Congress
| Tor services before a government depart
ment is approaching dangerously near
the point where the law dresses him in
striped costume to break rock in the pen
itentiary. l rejoice that MIR. Private Sec
rotary did not step into the meshes Of
| the law IN this case. Are you not now
prepared to give up your logic applied to
me in the construction of the Carson let
ter?
Il cannot undertake to notice all the
contradictory statements in his truth
letter He claims to have met every man
since he was twentyone years old that
the enemy has sent against him. yet the
Carson letter, garbled extracts or which
he produces, prove beyond controversy
that Carson, Hon. II. r. Campbell and
Prof. Pool. all were unable to pun him
INTO II discussion with Mr.. Kluttz. Ac-
colding to Mr.. Blackburn he was omnipo-
tent in Congress. When, where and about
what. This dtstiller compromise is one
or the biggest things he can boast Of.
All your boasting about rural mail de-
livery YOU know 10 be mere wind The
legislation upon which rural mail deliv-
cry is founded was all passed before you
were a member of Congress-. Mr.. Kluttz
has got more men at work on these routes
than you have, | am informed. | have
no knowledge of the old Eighth ever hay
ing received one dollar Of appropriation
outside OF the $4,000 | obtained for a
public building at Winston
What became of it. Spencer? Did You
not destroy it? Have you not proposed to
certain citizens of Winston since your
term OF Office expired to so to Washing
ton as their lawyer for fee and have
your action undone?
Spencer INDUCES the imagination and
fancies himself hero in the war of opin-
ION charging the batteries OF the enemy.
What n hero
When the Hon. H. r. ampbell, Dr..
Carosn and others put cut the news that
our hero Spencer would meet KIuttZ i'm
IaylorsVllla many came to see my ex-
private secretary. Many ladies came,
some to look upon the lovely form of the
drummer boy
after hearing Mr.. Kluttz, who held
the Democratic battery alone, a lady from
iredcll remarked to me, / heard YOU. sir.
say that no clansman could meet a pa
t1ot in Joint debate, where is your can
Jdat. sir?'
said l, Wait until you see him, he
IS SO lovely you will applaud him.
Yes, was the reply, that NAV be
50, but he is a Plymouth Rock rooster
he struts and clucks splendidly, but when |
the little game bantam comes along he |
sticks his head in the bushes
How did our hero perform in charging |
the batteries CT the enemy al Statesville?
/ am told it was a wonderful perform
ance. The Democrats shouted themselves
hoaIse, and our hero fancying that the
drummer boy who never beats a retreat
was commanding the applause of the enc
my almost exhaustive in his physical ex.
ertionS and wild vehement gesticulations
dpon the stage. Say, Spencer, did not
John Barleycom play part in that per
torrance? Madam rumor has it at
Statesville that two colored ministers ad-
tnring the statesmanship OF our hero dis
rlayed s4R~his bill to place all the old
aL@Tes Of the South on the same footing
Hith a soldier by giving them a pension
went out TO hear him. Such was the
.haracter of the performance of our hero
hat they voted for Mr.. Kluttz.
Many other battlefelds en- which our
zero performed will live in song and his.
ory as proof that a hero may even do
'ettre when there is no enemy to face
nan otherwise. What Republican in the
hstrict is there that did not keenlv feel
ne disgrace and defeat thus thrust upon
Is?
Spencer, what can you expect by as
aillng every candidate in the field? Are
hey not your political comrades b whose
'otes you have been horored and pro
noted? Suppose one of them should be
harged with the duty of assailing scme
)emocratic battery occupied by a Demo
rat. would YOU not be on the defen-
iYe? Are YOU fixing to bolt and become
n nsurgent? '
Twice | have been troubled with in
urgents-they cut no figure. / ran S19 {
o;es ahead of President Mckinley in
he district when there were insurgents
'id YOU not run over 400 votes behind