The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-29

turnlsh bale OF cotton to every Superior
Court Judge so they could get some rest
from the everlasting jawing of lawyers. l
tell you Robinson is hummer and Re-
publican to the core. You needn't fool
with him, for he is a buzz-saw when his
mouth begins to work..
Burwell wasn't near through his ques
tioning, but Abe was getting more and
more uncomfortable and Burwell more and
more searching" in his questions. You
can't go yot," said Burwell, Il want to
ask you some more questions"
+ And Abe, standing first On one foot
and then on the other, seeing he was
in for it, continued to stay and continued
| to sQuirm.
81 want to know" continued Burwell,
something more about this man Robin
son whom Cappen Bilday says told him
that the Governor had agreed to prevent
any prosecution of McBee. Is this the
same Robinson who wanted to make Rus
sell Chief Justice of North Carolina
! you remember the time when the Morn
ing Post and Southern Railway officials
got so mad when the News and Observer
blocked their game. Is this the same
Robinson who figured in that?"
The very same" replied Abe, 'Eand
it was a bad day for the Republican
party when the News and Observer
knocked the scheme into FINDERS
| is he the same man" went on Bur
well, who was Judge of the Superior
court in Wayne county when a man
named Hatch, the leading Republican of
that section, who had been made Mayor
OF Mt. Olive by the Legislature of 1897
plead guilty in open court OF substituting
sand tor lint cotton in the cotton of q
customer"
THE same" admitted Abe.
''Is it true that this same Judge Robin
son, after his Republican pal had plead
guilty IN open court, directed the clerk
of the court to strike out the submits
sion and enter a plea of nolo contendere
and suspend judgment on payment OF
costs?"
1T has been printed in 100000 papers
and never Denied" replied Abe.
AT that same term OF court pursued
Burwell mercilessly, did this same
Judge, when a man named CHM mad
been convicted of selling liquor to minors
on Sunday near the Presbyterian Church,
point his finger at him and say: I will
lot trust myself to sentence you now,
ST.. for | don't know what | would do if
l were to meet man in the road that
had sold one of my boys liquor. especial
ly on Sunday. l will pass sentence on
You later And is it true that in con
sidering how much punishment TO infiict,
Judge Robinson learned that CHM was a
Fuslonist and worked to put his gang in
power. and suspended judgment on pay
ment of costs?'
Il have read that statement many
tirp,nc
son to doubt its truth. l know it is the
same Judge Robinson who presided over
that term of cOurt.H
AT the same term of court continued
BurWel, Il want TO know if il is the
same Judge Robinson, who, when a young
Democrat, the only son of widowed
mother, was convicted of knocking man
down with a beer bottle, sentenced this
young Democrat to four months impris-
onment in the county jail?"
1T is the same" said Abe, "and it
served the young Democrat right If
Republican Judges had put more Demo
Gratis in Jail when they had the power
and set aside the verdtcts against more
Republicans, the Democrats would never
have carried the election and disfran-
chised the negro"
rs he the Judge Robinson who told
Carpen Bilday an agreement had been
made, the same Judge Robinson we have
been talking about?" was the next ques-
ton.
The same" answered Abe, and he
started to go.
Hold on" cried the whole crowd, who
wanted a little more information. They
conferred together little and then other
questions were fred at Abe by first one
man and then another about as fol
lows:
Question: What did Governor Aycock
say about the matter?'
| Answer: He said that he had never made
any agreement or had any understanding
with anybody to stop the prosecution
Question: well, did anybody say he
didn't tell the truth?''
Answer: mo, but Judge Robinson said
that he had understood that the Governor
GiGr't want McBce sent to the peniten-
tary, and he had regarded it as an agree
ln,ent, but he said when he came to tes-
tify, that in his statement Governor
Ayccch'S statement was substantially cor
lrect
Question: well, then, what is all this
hollahaloo about them"
Answer: Governor AycoCk told Rob
insor that having uncovered the fraud,
h was not vindctiye or blocd-thirsty,
you know me as we'll as any man and
know that / do net pursue any man
who throws up his hand and surrCnGcrs.
And Governor Aycock says he told him
that the State administration did not in
tend to prosecute the matter further.
The Governor also sWears he said: /
cannot and will not make any agreement
with you about the matter In the first
place it is in the hands Of the court, and.
in the second place, as Governor l would
not make any"
Question: did anybody dispute the
Governors statement
Answer mo. Judge Robinson said ii
was substantially what took place"
Question: "Then how is 1t that McBee,
Finch and Capt Bilday and the Radicals
lat Raleigh say they have caught the
Governor doing something wrong?"
Answer: 81 don't know row myself,
but the way they told it to me on the
steps of the revenue Office made it sound
so bad that all of the opponents of the