The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-31
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an exception, and we are not here to
assist the prosecution, but to answer
| to the charge of guilt when the gov
eminent says it has made out case.
That is why this case will probably
| last until Christmas. In the former
| big whiskey trials of Angle Sprin-
kle & Young. of Rockingham of Cas-
per, of Winston, and Arey. of Sails
bury. the District Attorney would
| have these wagon loads of books roll
| ed up to the court house, and as he
| would begin to dump EN- III the court
room and call his witness, attorneys
would either "lie down and say we
are not guilty, but cannot resist the
| government, or as in the Sprinkle
case, they would make a big fight,
and to save time would just permit the
government to present the books and
agree to tabulate the items togethCr
out of court, in that way saving q great
| deal of time, but in the end they were
| sentenced "to serve time" too, and in
| Jail or the penitcnt airy at that. So
| tho change of tactics in this case is
| giving the Dictrict Attorney no END
of botherment, as he realizes what he
| is up against in the way of expense
alone, not TO speak of the awful
wear and tear upon his and Assistant
District Attorney Prices physical and
mental capacities
Fortunately of HOlton.
There be few men, however, who
can stand more of this kind of strain
and stress and responsibility without
! tagging or fiinching than District At
| torney Holton. Had he lived in any
of the Northern cities, where no end
of printed palavar and big box type
is employed in parading the great eff
forts Of official prosecutors, he
would have been heraded all over
the country at the long fight in the
BIeese case, and the final victory as
one of the biggest district attorneys
in the country. Beginning this trial
after having been sick two weeks con-
sequent upon his first physical incapa-
down in the trial of Revenue Officer
down in the trial of Revenue officer
Samuels three weeks ago he looked a
sick man, but after week OF action
he walked out of the court room Sat
urday afternoon more we'll man
than before the weeks work began.
In all the other big cases he had the
Gblest lawyers in the State 70 contend
with at every turn, but he doggedly
stuck to his mutton until he knawed
ne bone and others bit the dust. No
Folk Or Robb ever showed more abil-
| ity, incorruptibility or half as much
industry, ptrtinaeity official courage
cold blooded disregard of what posi-
BILE or threatened overshadowing in
fluences might be invoked TO thWart
him. II he secures a scent of every
other distiller and rectifyer In this
district except by direct orders from
| the Attorney General, and these VIII
never come under the present admins
tration. BY the same process of math-
ematicaI estimate and comparison, it
can be demonstrated that no dealer is
"toting fair" with the government. If
this is demonstrated in the Western
district of North Carolina President
Roosevelt is just the kind of a man to
have an inquiry addressed TO District
Attorney Skinner as to why the same
condition doesn't exist in the East
ern district of North Carolina? Then
he would begin to look up and insti-
| tute inquiries into the big establish
ments in st. Louis, New York
Kentucky and Illinois. If ever that
were done there would be rafting of
| revenue and political dry bones that
would cause the President the night
mare with their din, and bury Holton
under a wave of anathemas for haV-
| ing opened the lid of this Pandora S
| box so deep he'd never reach shore
any more. There is an unqueStiOned
| feeling of unfairness to tackle one
distiller, one set of distillers or even
| all distillers in one particular terri
| tory when those out of that particular
| jurisdiction were permitted to carry
| on the same operations with impEEity
| 1t isn't fair to break up distillers
even all of them in Collector Harkin' 5
district and give a monopoly to Col
| lector Duncan's distillers any more so
| to break IN Southern men and leave
/ the Kentucky and great combinations
| North and West full license to con-
| tinue the same business. a prosecutor
| like Holton after the Beef Trust or
| the Tobacco Trust would play the dew
| il with them in less than six months