The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-15
Lee County Bill Gets a
Knockout
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thage. so much so that cases were
not pushed and criminals went I'M
| punished to avoid the trouble OF GONG
there He claimed that Lee county
| would prove greater success ti'ah
Scotland county.
Mr.. e. J.. Spence. of Carthage. spoke
against the county. He held that
| there was really but little inconven-
fence in getting TO Carthage, that rall-
! road facilities We're good, and that bet
fer service could be secured from
the Seaboard. He said that the new
county would cut off the richest sec
ton of Moore county. leaving a.
barren waste of sand. Mr.. spence
read from an old paper that ten years
! ago Moore was q place of desolation,
and that Judge Avery had said then
4 that God has not yet made manifest
for what purpose he created Moore
/ county" AS TO Moore ~half of it is
! sand, and the Yankee is teaching our
! farmers how to make it grow. He
! held that with the territory to be cut
| off Moore could not care for it's roads,
that the county would be crippled.
! LET us alone for ten or twenty years
| and We will be all right, our county
/ win be one of the best in the state.
Mr.. b. G. Pearce, of Sanford. next
spoke. He told of the prosperity of
sanford. of its mills. factories and in-
|
grown from $50 TO 5000 population,
! that the people We're energetic and
were determined some day to have n
new county As to the Carthage sec
! ton he said that they did not have
enough children there for graded
! school Come and see what we are
| doing" he cried out. As to poor lands
| in Moore he said that on a quarter
| of an acre hes had raised enough cab
! bages for six in his family. give away
some and sold $102.50 worth. Jones'
! boro was next door and in few
years sanford and Jonesboro would
| have a population of 1o,002. Plenty
! of, pretty women were there ana
general invitation was extended to
! those seeking wives TO come as the
| girls could cook victualS, milk cows
| and entertain in the parlor. Incl
dcntally Mr.. Pearce told of moving
! to Sanford from Pitt and getting his
| wife He said any name would do
| for tho county, Ransom. Vance, Petit
| grew, Grimes, or Lee. He told of the
! bad county roads on which to travel
| to get TO Carthage and said IF yoi
! take one, before YOU end your journey
| you viii wish to God you had gone
| the other Give us the new county
or we will knock year after year till
| we get it.i
Hon. II. A. London spoke for Chat
ham and against the bill. He said
| 4 he lived in Sanford he would ia
vor ii as the people there would get
| the best Of the bargain. He declared
| il would not be right to Chatham, that
! an outrageous thing had been done
| Chatham when Sc miles of its terri
tory had been cut off to give to Ala
nance in 1895. The bill would cut
| off the best of Chatham, would take
| fifth of the taxable property. He
| opposed new counties and said that
| people could get TO court easier from
| Sanford than from parts of Chatham.
He urged that with the property cut
! off Chatham would be burdened with
| q bridge tax.
| Mr. A. A. +. Seawell, of Jonesboro.
spoke for the new county. He said Il
| was needed 3s getting 10 Carthage
| court was q hardship and that court
Was the only interest Jonesboro and
| Sanford people had there He de-
clarcd he was sorry that Mr.. spence
had given such u pitifully moor name
| to Moore county. that this was not
| correct. He disagreed with Judge
/ Womack about the right TO take Il
| representative from Sampson. lie
urged no hardship would come TO
/ Chatham or Moore by creating the
new county and held that the principle
was for new counties.
! Mr. X. Fl. Hayes, Of PittSboro, spoke
against Lee county. He did not agree
with statements that Moore was eth
| er poor or rich. and held that the
| hardships in getting TO conrt were not
! so great. He spoke OK traditions keep
| ing the old places, and of the expense
which those left in the counties Would
| undergo for bridges, saying that from
Chatham Is per cert of territory, -
per cent of taxable property and the
| ,,f h,fl q
| taken.
Mr.. Olren Chilholn, of Sanford,
! spoke for Lee county and said that the
| Chatham territory taken in WAS the
poorest according 10 tax returns. re
urged that no injury would come TO
Moore aud that the distance to Car
thage court ought to be rcmcdied by
creating the new county
| Mr.. Duncan Mclver, Of Sanford,
! spoke for Lee county. He declared it
would be self-sustaining, that it was
desired not alone by .JoneSborC and
| Sanford, but by nearly all the voters
! in that section. 914 of the 1,15G polls
| having pctitioned for it. He urged
| the difficulties in getting TO court at
| Carthage and PittSboro, SAID that Car
! thagc is u nice place and tnen Geciar-
! cd that he was ashamed to have heard
| Mr.. Spence traduce the name Of the
grand old county of Moore by dcclar
| ing it barren and dcsolate. He held
| that congestcd dockcts and delayed
cases We're resulting from present con~
| ditions and that as counties are creat-
Cd for the convenience Of. people, this
rev ono should be made as the pco-
pie wanted il and were willing 10 pay
for it. He held that for ninety years
Moore and Chatham had got along
we'll with less population and less
wealth than would be left 10 them, and
that it WAS all nonsense to talk OF
running them, THAT Judge WGm 1ck
was cxtravagant in his terms. AS to
{; Representatives why il they could
not get one till the next census. they
We're willing to co without one. ana
that the bushes men should be heed
Cd AMI gircn the county.
Mr.. W. G. Petty, Of Carthage tx
planned the service of his railroad and
said the trip was scheduled for an hour
AMI five minutes from Sanford to Car
thage. twenty miles an hour. AS to
courts, the Scotch people OF Sanford
and that section had little use for
courts. He spoke OF his interests lii
Sanford and in opposition TO a new
county.