The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-30

tend the Spring Hope train to Rocky
Mount, according to Mr.. Lacy There
would be no need to put on an extra
train.
Mr.. Woodland closed at half-past
four O'Clock, having spoken about an
hour and three-quarters
Mr.. Douglass Goldfish AristOcracy.
Mr.. w. c. Douglass, of Raleigh, fol-
lowed Mr.. Woodland, opening for the
defendant, the Atlantic Coast Line.
He commenced by saying that these
folks down there who were kicking up
all this disturbance were the kind of
folks that didn't want to get up in the
morning before 5 O'Clock. We were
not here to make laws for the nabobs
Of eastern North Carolina, or the
Goldfish aristocracy of that section. OF
course, if you sit up all night smoking
those Wilson cigarettes and eating
those COOLERS, you don't want to get
up till ~ o'clock. Talk about Mr..
Lacy, a State official ought to be
afraid to come up here and testify
against a coordinate branch of the
government. Coordinate corn-fodder!
The Corporation Commission! 1t and
the Pope are invincible, are they? But
you help me and the judge and We'll
see about that.
What would eastern North Carolina
have been without the Atlantic Coast
Line? A place where people went
bear hunting, and if you wanted to go
fishing, you'd have to walk.
The Southern Railway had got hold
of a little loose branch of the Coast
Line that was like little sheep path
that crossed the highway. The Cor
poration Commission had no more
idea of ordering another train when
they started than / have of flying
away right now. But you just had to
buck out and do something. That's the
way with these little colts. They've
got to do something to get their salar-
les.
Who broke that connection? The
Southern declared they couldn't get
their train to Greensboro, if they con-
nected with the fast train of the At
lantic Coast Line. And the record
showed they had forty-fve minutes at
Greensboro The commission let this
little hippety hop skip Southern Rail
way branch run up it's schedule
twenty-five minutes, that Southern
Railway that broke loose sometimes
and tore up a whole acre of rotten
cross ties. AS to those college boys
they were so peculiarly constituted
they couldn't sit up at night. Who
ever heard of a Trinity College boy
getting home before 4 o'clock in the
morning when he was in Raleigh. The
longer it took them on the road the
better satisfied the boy was Why.
he'd ride on a cross-tie to get here.
TcnderIoin From Bulls Neck.
AS to this order, it was like the tail
wagging the dog, and whenever the
tail wags the dog, the dog is going 10
object Let the Southern take off its
train if necessary. Take off your dirty
old freight train, we don't care. The
idea of a lot of lawyers arranging
schedule of trains. Suppose they were
to cut beef for you. They would try
to get tenderloin steak out Of bulls
neck. You know there's no tenderloin
in a bulls neck. But they say: Heres
Ben Lacy, he knows all about, and he
says it can be done" Suppose they
should change the schedule of the
Southern so that it should leave at II
in the morning instead of 2:25, then
those eastern nabobs couldn't stand it,
because their day would not have COM
menced then. But it might enable
those folks there in the east to get
their conviCts to the penitentiary.
That's a reflection on the penitentiary.
1t looked as if that sheriff was afraid
to get to the prison at night beeausei
he would have to wake up the guards.
AS for that man that sold those Wilson
cigarettes, I'd work hoodoo anytime
to keep him from getting to any town
that had BOYS in it and selling his
sinking, devilish little coffin nails full
of dope.
Look at that wreck the other day
right there at Lucama, on account O.
the congested condition of that very
track. That new train would have a
wreck in less than twenty-four hours.
| wouldn't ride on that train for any
thing in the world. From my friend
Busbee's examination ] believe he
thought trains had legs and could just
step aside whenever they met another
train. He must think it was as easy
to switch a train as to switch a two
year-oId boy. All you had to do was
to switch, and the trains passed. Tut
those eastern nabobs would never bn
satisfied till you gave them palace
cars free cigarettes every convenience
and a niger boy to help them on and
off.
And that engine does switching
duty. too. They'll say buy new en-
CINE. T suppose the road could afford
it. It's that same old populistic cry.
Get off the grass. I'm here! That's
the worst fostering sore that ever af-
ficted a people.
A Dirty Outrage.
The Southern had just broken the
connection here at Raleigh without
saving a word to the people But
that's all right that is the Southern.
There's not q railroad in the country,