The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-10
0beys Orders and Uses
Naughty Words.
BUSTERS AND BRAGS
The Wheezy Old Railroad and Liquor
Organ is Black in the Face and
is Furious With the Venom
of its Own Brand of
Prison
Poison.

Driven to the use of language of slums,
language which self-respect among gentle
men prohibits the truly good" paper that
sickens it's casual readers by its everlast-
mig prating about how good and clean and
pure it is yesterday consumed nearly a
half column of space, the basis of which
was billingsgate, because its well known
pipe line connection with Southern
Railway officials was told of in this pa
per.
This was the Morning Post, the wheezy
railroad and liquor organ, that explained
that it waited for a Federal Judge to
come into its office at night to tell 1t the
news. An tnen on top OF 1t to boast OF
a scoop that emanates from Southern
Railway official Everybody expects it to
get those kind of scoops just as it gets
its orders TO run the wheezy old thing on
its "rotten cross-tie" schedule OF abuse
of the News and Observer That's what
the thing was begun for as a successor of
the Republican Raleigh Tribune, to yelp
at the News and Observer.
The Post says that its SCOOP" was be-
cause of the failure of this paper to get
the news. Why, bless your soul, sonny,
the News and Observer sought the news
in a legitimate way. It's representatives
went to the office where this sort of
stuff ought to be dished out without par
TALLY. but was told: There is no news
Even the next day after the representa-
tive knew of the injunction asked for by
the Southern Railway against the Corpor-
alton Commission, it was again told:
There is no news" And why
All, there's a story for you A rare
good one that shows that the pipe line"
was at work, and it is told by Judge Pur-
nell, who said yesterday that the clerk.
who did not give out the news, matter
of public record, was acting under IN
structions of Mr.. Fabius III. Busbee, the
counsel for the Southern Railway. There's
your Southern Railway way of managing
scoops AS 'scoopist' of Southern
Railway news the Morning Post takes the
cake, and also the stove in which the
cake was cooked.
But everybody knows that. The bloom
is off the rye when it comes to talking
about the Morning Post as a railway or
gan. That paper has become so used to
running on that schedule that it really
beats aloud its condition of servitude
whenever it is prodded a little and seeks
to cover UP its doings by such naughty
words as lie and "cowardly and scan
dalous audacity'' and all such terms.
OF course Judge Purnell told the Post
about the injunction proceedings. But
was he the first to do so? He left his
home to go to the office of the Morning
Post. Wonder if anybody had told the
Post people about the suit before they put
as to get news that had not been given
out from the public records.
In its running amuck" the Post drags
in the name of Mr.. Henry Bagley, the
Business Manager Of this paper, seeking
to involve him in the statement that he
had published one thing knowing another
to be So Mr.. Bagley had nothing what
ever to do with the article published in
the News and Observer He never saw 1t
until the day it appeared, and the writer
of it had no conversation with Mr.. Bagley
about the matter at all. Hence the Posts
amusing attempt to saddle double dealing
ON him falls fiat.
Mr.. Bagley was asked last night by this
writer to give statement of his interview
with Judge Purnell What he says is in
teresting reading, and here it is;
Il did speak to Judge Purnell about
the matter, but considered it more of
personal than business conversation
Judge Purnell is a personal friend of mine
and | did not wish to credit the reports
that he had secretly carried the news to
the Morning Post office and had kept the