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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-19
The Scribe A-wing
over Petersburg
WALTER F. JACKSON

nerves suddenly relaxed and both
minds and bodies began keenly to feel
the need of repose
Well, the week was closing; but
with it came Saturday and its rush of
work on the Sunday Supplement-
everybody flying around like a shot
cat with it's head in jug and appar-
entity achieving Just about as much.
And this Saturday--or rather it's
night-was particularly rank" Eyes
were just about half-mast high. There
Has a mule-race on between a tagged
staff and an equally tagged set of
Mergenthaler operators
cor course you understand that the
distinguishing feature of a mule-race
is that he who trails in last gets the
prize. At least so / was informed
many years ago by my then teacher,
Capt w. Gordon McCabe, of Peters,
burg, Virginia. And certainly Capt
McCabe had every facility for know
ing as he watched this embryonic
Scribe and others of like mental
calibre ambling around the misty
goal.)
The machines, too, seemed to have
become infected. Every now and
then one would strike a Snag, and oc-
casionally, keeping time, time, time,
in a sort of Runic rhyme" to the
sharp blows with which the operator
sought to knock out a "stuck slug"
there would float deskwards sounds
not altogether as devotional when
grasped in their entirety as when
caught on the wing in detached frag-
mentS.
Well, at half past twelve the press
began humming and throbbing under
the rush of the first edition. and the
acting foreman of the composing
room sauntered in to announce with
Il CLINT of grim humor i'm the roll of
his eye, that there were yet eighteen
columns of type to set before all
dead matter" could be dumped into
the 'hell box"
At this the Scribe gasped feebly
fixed this dread apparition With Il
CLASSY glare, wrote With wandering
and tremulous hand, Eighteen Butch
cred to Make a Marco BozZaris Fur-
key Pie" awoke with a jump from
his nightmare, tore up the extraor-
Continued on Page Two.)
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Judge Brooks Opinion.


We have repeatedly denounced Hol-
den's State troops as unconstitutional
unauthorized by law and wholly un-
necessary--that the organization OF
such a force is conspiracy against
the State-a conspiracy against. an at
tack upon the peace of society-an
outrage upon common humanity and
fraud upon the public treasury. The
whole affair is a monster evil. Every
possible means should he employed to
squash the thing at once.
Judge Brooks at Salisbury, did not
have the question of the lawfulness of
but he incidentally decided the ques-
ton very fully He decided that any
parole given by or pledge made to
Kirk, was neither legally nor morally
binding upon any one. for the reason
that he had no authority to grant a
parole. The decision is no doubt cor
rect. Governor Holden has no lawful
authority to organize State troops. to
clothe or equip, to arm them. to feed
them while in service or pay them q
dollar out of the public treasury. No
claim against the public treasury of
North Carolina or against the State,
for clothing, or for commissary stores,
or for horses or wagons or provisions
of any kind for the State troops is a
legal claim. If you choose to credit
Governor Holden. or Kirk, or Clarke,
or any of their subordinates. for any
thing for the use of the State troops,
you will do it on their personal respon-
Sibility, as the State is not bound to
pay a dollar to support these troops.
We give this warning to the people.
Let them heed it. Don't credit Hol-
den. or Clarke, or Kirk, or any of their
subordinates, for q dollars worth of
provisions or anything else, expecting
to get it out of the State. We tell
you that neither Governor Holden nor
Mr.. Jenkins, the Public Treasurer,
has the right to pay out a dollar for
that purpose. Judge Pearson and all
the Judges know this. They have
sworn to support the Constitution of
the United States and they know that
this very force is forbidden by the
L. S. Constitution.
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Lawless Arrest of The Editor of This
Paper.

The above telegram announces the
fact of the arrest of Mr.. Turner. edi-
tor of this paper, by order of Governor
Holden. No cause for the arrest has
been assigned. indeed. none exists.
The arrest has been made with a two
fold view. One to crafty the ma
lignity and vulgar vanity of an up
start who is Governor of the State by
accident, and the other. to suppress
the voice of this press in its exposi
ton and denunciation of the crimes
and outrageS of Holden and his CO.
conspirators against public and pri-
Vate liberty. This is intended as a
blow at Mr.. Turner, personally, be-
cause Holden hates and fears him, and
at public liberty, by putting down the
press.
The Governor has not the preteXt
that Mr.. Turner belonged to the Ku-
I<luX; he knew he did not, indeed,
that he never belonged to anv secret
society. So far from belonging TO this
society, or any society like it, he has
denounced it and it's outrages with
unsparing hands. and at the same
time he denounced Union Leagues and
their crimes and outrages. The object
of this arrest is that suggested above.
and it is as coWardly as it is mean
and revengeful
We tell Mr.. Holden. he is shoulder
ing load he will find it tolerabiy hard
to carry, and unless we mistake the
measure of Mr.. Turner he will sue
Mr.. Holden according to law, unless lie
is assassinated. which is not impro-
bable. In that event, he will have
behind him friends who will vindi-
cate his memory and the rights OF his
family--reSt assured of that. Mr..
Holden.
Another thing you may understand,
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Daisies Billowing miles of daisies,
A deluge. a world. universe of
daisies, Before such a picture let
towering hyperbole itself hide it's di-
minished head!
And this worn-out Scribe, if one may
SO designate the bedesked individual
who slashes and pastes and blue
pencils Associated Press and "Spe-
cials" and cOnjureS up "dime novel,
headlines Gas some of the boys are
fond of calling them) for The News
and ObSerVer-this weary entity
known to the staff as the Telegraph
Editor and to myself as 'I'' feels his
chest begin to expand and his tired
eyes actually a-sparl<le.
Daisies! Oh, blessed, white-rayed
stars of earth shedding abroad a sub
dued, celestial lustre! His WEAKNESS
is forgotten. His soul thrills to the
touch of that fioreal light. Back
back come flying sweet visions of the
by-gone. Into his heart leaps this
music of Wordsworth:
"There was a time when meadow, hill
and stream
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a
dream
A dream in sober truth it seemed
to the Scribe. He was again among
the scenes of his later childhood,
youth and early manhood. How he
came here he hardly knew. He re-
membered dimly that the week had
been filed to the brim with arduous
ef1ort. 1t had been a history making
epoch Two of the most extraordinary
legal dramas the Commonwealth had
ever seen were being enacted before
the eyes of the people. The pressure
of matter upon our columns was
something terrific. The directing
force of the establishment, our Chief.
was absent the central figure of q
trial upon which the public hung
a-gasp. The State seethed. The air
was electric. Small wonder that when
the curtain fell OH that magnificent
climax in the Federal Court room and
the Press arose Il modern Samson
swapping the withes with which the
foes OF free speech had sought To
bind it's resistless might, many tense
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all time, never to be washed out by
any subsequent acts of their lives. The
reasons which prompted their arrest
the manner in which it was affected
and the treatment which they have
received from these prosecutors will
be recorded in history and remember
ed when the perpetrators shall have
had their full reward.
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Brooks states that from the reports
received at Stedman headquarters Il
| liberal allowance must be made for
them. Just what figures are credited
to Davidson and Turner by the Glenn
managers | am not at liberty 10 state
and Mr.. Brooks prefers to give no
positive figures at all as to any of the
candidates. From my conversation
with Mr.. Brooks | became impressed
that he thought that Mr.. GlennS
friends are and have been making ex-
aggerated claims as to their strength,
which they would never be able to
live up to. On the other hand Geo.
p. Pell, of the Glenn forces, states
that their estimates are very conser-
vatiVe.
In Winston 1 found Glenn head
quarters one of the busiest places in
the city. StenOgrapherS and type
writer's were grinding out letters by
the score answering the various COM
municationS to the friends of the can
didate.
Mr.. Eller is confident He is sin
cere and earnest in his work and he
has handled Captain Glenn's cam.
paign in a mastery manner. He
talked freely of the situation as he
opened reports from various sections
of the State from friends of his can
didate.
The Glenn Claim.
AS an authoritative statement, Mr.
Eller said:
1--WE have been very careful not to
overestimate the strength of Mr..
Glenn nor underestimate the strength
of his opponents. The figures today,
as reliably reported to u.s. show that
Glenn will have Non first ballot not less
than 576, while his highest opponent
r,s.f l,.A
he may be nominated on the first ball
lot"
There is an air of confidence about
the Glenn headquarters but when l
struck Stedman headquarters in this
city | found them wearing a smile of
especial satisfaction.
Mr. Brooks has been directing the
campaign. 1t has been managed
handsomely. He has at hand for
ready reference reports from every
county in the state and when Mr.
Brooks looks over the sheets his ex-
preston is radiant-just like a girl
graduate at her school commence
ment and just like Mr.. Eller. I'M
like the school girl, however, Mr.
Brooks refuses to tell all he knows.
He must have some information that
he doesnot care to give out at this
time and the nearest estimate to fig
ures l am able to get is simply an i'm
preston that he thinks the first ball
lot will be very close.
The Stedman Statement.
For publication he made this state
ment:
''The situation is eminently satis-
factory TO Major Stedman and his
friends. AT no time since the contest
Continued On third page.)
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To-Day at Salisbury BY Judge
BrOOks-llOn. Josiah Turner, Jr.,
Discharged.
This morning at 10 o'clock, the par
ties arrested by Kirk & Co., in Ala
nance and Caswell, and Mr.. Turner,
of Orange, Except those for whom
writs were issued by Chief Justice
Pearson), were brough before Judge
Brooks, at Salisbury, and on exami-
nation, nothing appearing against
them, on motion, were honorably dis
charged.
This news will be highly gratifying
to the numerous friends of Hon.
Josiah Turner. Jr., and his associate
prisoners. The decision is alike hon
orable to His Honor Judge Brooks,
and to the arrested parties. So far SO
good. But this does not atone for
the indignity offered to the offended
law nor for the outrage upon civil IL
berty in the Old North State. in the
persons of her innocent and injured
citizens. Never before was the soil
of our good Old North State. so dis
honored, never was right SO trampled
upon, as in the forcible arrest of the
worthy citizens of the State, by the
order of Holden and executed by Kirk
and his brigandS. Had there been the
shadow of a shade of reasonable ex-
cuse for these arrests, had there been
the smell of crime upon their gar
lnents, then there might have been
some palliation for their arrest, but
from first to last, there has been
none, nor could any man show before
Judge Brooks, even a good military
reason for the outrage.
The perpetrators of this outrage de-
serve the severest punishment. They
already meet with a whiting con-
demnation from the people of the
State from Cherokee to Currituck.
Henceforth they will be the objects of
the scorn and contempt of our whole
people. Their names will go down
T" posterity lowered with shame and
disgrace.
Their infamy will stick to them for
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(Monday, August IS, 1900
Chief Justice Pearson.

1t is with no pleasure that we feel
called upon to say of this dignitary
that the opinion has been growing up
and is now almost universal, that in
Continued .on third page.)
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(Friday, August 10, 1900
Holden Kirk Prisoners All Discharged
To-Day at Salisbury BY Judge
BroOks-llOn. Josiah Turner, Jr,
Discharged.
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(Friday, August 5, 1900
Hillsboro. ~. c.. Aug. 5, 1870.
Mr.. Moore, Sentinel Office.
l was arrested by Lieut.. Hunney-
cutt this morning.
J. TURNER, JR.
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FROM
The Raleigh Sentinel.

you can't stop this press-it intends,
at all hazards, to expose your crimes
and outrages and hold you UP to the
scorn and contempt of an outraged
people.
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me where this wedding is to take place, and what
company is to be there.
Quickly Aunt Dorothy related all the particulars of the
coming wedding; and when she had done Jonathan said:
Good. ! know the house from garnet to cellar;
and its location is lonely and far from any body of
soldiers, and near the river. Give sweet Mistress
Betty my most devoted love. and bid her be OF good
cheer. If | live there shall be other than the invited
guests at the wedding tomorrow night. And. good
aunt, pray most fervcntly that this wild storm holds
past the wedding hour. Now | have tarried longer
than | should, and must go. Never shall | forget
this nights kindness. Good-by."
The storm still ragged ticrccly, yet Jonathan did
not feel the bitter cold of the wind. nor the sharp
sting of the sleet against his face, as he again plunged
into the darkness of the night. His blood was on
fire. and every nerve tingled with the thought that
Mistress Betty loved him and vet would be compelled
to wed another man on the morrow if he came not
to her rescue: and with this thought was mingled
the cver-fcarful one OF his present mission. and what
his capture would mean to Washington and the pa
triot cause. and to the nuptial plannings of Mistress
Betty and himself.
Possibly in the lovers anxiety he lost something
of the patriots caution, for suddenly. when all except
the outmost line of pickets had been passed safely.
from the darkness directly in front OF him came the
sharp challenge of a sentry. and he saw not ten feet
away. dinlv outlined, the guard with his muskct
pointed straight at his breast. and he heard from
behind a second challenge. and felt the sharp prick
of a bavonet pressed against his back.
Don't shootl For Gods sake, don't shoot"
cried Jonathan, throwing up both hands, and be-
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alone. 1t would be the blacklist dishonor for me to
do otherwise. But, and his words came from be-
tween his shut teeth, tomorrow night | will return.
| vowed | would wed Mistress Betty, if she would
have me. though the whole British army stood be-
tween us, and that vow | will keep, even if in the
keeping | find death. But how can | know that
Mistress Betty is still minded that | should be hus-
band to herr"
Her own sweet lips told me Yes not longer ago
than early candle-light of this very night, and begged
me to get word to you that you might come and
rescue her; for, - and Aunt Dorothy smiled, she
has faith that Big Jonathan Delvin would fight
his way safely to her through the whole British army
if she but called him. Truly she is heart-brokcn,
and | much fear that death will be the bridegroom
tomorrow night. if YOU come not.
I'm come, " said Jonathan grimly. Now tell
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ginning to tremble so that his knees clapped together.
I've been to see my sweetheart in Boston, and it
was SO dark and stormy that | thought | could sneak
through the lines and get back on the farm. Ouchi"
and Jonathan jumped a foot in the air, stimulated
by the point of the bayonet behind him. Don't
kill me! III surrender III do anything! Ill"
Shut up!" said the sentry in front of him. pressing
his bayonet against Tonathan's breast. Don't move,
or me an Iackll spit you on our bayonets. " and by
way of emphasizing his words he brutally labbed
his bayonet in until the point broke through the
skin of Ionathan's breast.
Thus held up between the two bayonet points.
and with teeth chatering and knees trembling, the
corporal of the guard found Jonathan.
Lord, he's big e%noughi" said the corporal. as
he placed Jonathan between two soldiers and marched
him to the guard-housc.
There was a fire blazing at the guard-house, and
around it were Crouchcd half a dozen soldiers, shivcr-
ing and c1rsing the cold and the rebels who made
such hardships necessary. These all laughed loudly
at the sight of Jonathan, who looked the picture of
a great country gawk half-dcad with fright. as he stood
trembling between the two soldiers and stammered
out his explanations to the officer of the guard as to
how he had come to Boston to see his sweetheart
and wanted to get back on the farm in time for the
mornings milking, and thought he could sneak by
the guard on account of the darkness and storm:
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81 am a stranger. VIII you direct me to a good inn?"
There is none better than the Red Lion, " answered
the tall man in a deep, mufied voice.
Instantly Jonathan placed the packet in the hand
outStretched to receive it. and at the same time was
handed a similar packet in return. Without another
word-he had hardly paused in his walk-the tall
up in the darkness.
Jonathan heaved a great sigh. The half of the
desperate enterprise had been safely accomplished;
but his excrtions had been p~rodigious and he was
soaking wet and chilled to the marrow. He felt
as if he must have an hours rest and the warmth
of a fire and the strength of good food before under
taking the return. and he knew that he could get
the three at his Aunt Dorothvs. Aunt Dorothy
was his mothers only sister, a maiden woman who
lived with one old servant in a little house not four
blocks away from where he then stood. He believed
her loval to the American cause: hut even if she was
not he felt certain that her love for him, to whom
she had been like a second mother, would be his SUI
ficicnt protection. Then there was another reason
why the dcsirc was strong within him TO Sc his Aunt
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wv 'i ti' icIIhS VI NIiNh I' po9I vas AdlI'ii'b
"Lights," shouted Lieutenant Wilton. wild with
rage. ITO the boat, A hundred pounds to the
man that will bring him in dead or alive! He cannot
csCapcl The man does not live who could swim the
Charles River tonight"
Some of the soldiers seized torches. and rushing
to the river bank, held them high above their heads
for their comrades to shoot by their light; others
sprang into the boat moorcd near at hand. and pushed
out into the turbid waters. The tlarrng torch-lights
showed the river filled with great cakes of ice: and
even the hardened soldiers shuddered as they heard
the groanings and the crunchings of the ice. and
thought of the daring swimmer. Once the soldiers
on the shore caught sight of a dark object, like a
head, bobbing up and down between the ~ice-cakes,
and fired shot after shot in its direction; but the
darkness was too great to know the result of their aim.
The boat was soon forced to return to the shore,
with its sides nearly crushed in by the ice.
After a couple of hours constant searching with
lanterns and torches up and down the banks of the
river, Lieutenant Wilton returned to the guard house.
confident that Jonathan's life had gone out in the
cold waters of the Charles River.
The sight of Jonathan Dclvin coming from Boston
had sent a chill through Lieutenant Wilton's heart.
Had he seen Mistress Betty? Did he know of the
wedding tomorrow night? From the first Lieutenant
Wilton had feared the daring American. with the
strength of a giant in his great frame; but he need
fear him no longer. Now he would have a pleasant
story. the tale Of the capture and the death of her
rebel lover. to tell Mistress Betty on her wedding
night. Lieutenant Wilton was happy. as a man
should be on the eve of his marriage with the woman
he loved.
AT nine O'Clock the guests began gathering in the
great house on the hill overlooking the Charles River.
where Goodman Landys had lived with his daughter
since coming TO Boston. The rain still fell steadily.
and the cold wind seized and hurled it in sheets of
sleet against all who venturcd out into the inky black
ness of the stormy night.
In her room sat Mistress Betty. dressed in her we'd
ding finery and attended by her maids. 1t had seemed
like a sacrilege to clothe herself in these garments.
Continued on page I6)
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bring him some fresh butter and eggs
and a bag of potatoes and a couple OF
chickens as sure as his name was
Jonathan Dolvin, the most dangerous
spy in the American army" said a sheer
ing voice, and Lieutenant Wilton stepped
out into the light OF the fire and con-
fronted the prisoner, a triumphant smile
on his lips.
At sight of the hated face jonathan's
huge frame Strengthened up like a steel
spring. and with the bound of a tiger he
seized the musket from the guard at his
right side, and swinging it around with
such tremendous force that the officer
and two of the startled guards were hurled
s~cnselcss to the ground sprang over the
fire and vanished, with the speed of a
terrified stag. into the darkness beyond.
The next instant a great splash told the
astoundcd soldiers that the daring man
had plunged into the waters of Charles