The news & observer., 1905-12-17
is THE PROPHECY TO BE Full
FILLED q?

Ten days after the suspension of the
Morning Post, and it's absorption by
the Raleigh Evening Times. a gentle
man said to the News and Observer:
"Watch out now for a blow that the
Southern Railway crowd thinks viii
kill The News and Observer. In its
expiring breath the Post gave vent to
it's malicious hatred of your paper.The
Post has not been discontinued. The
plan of action against The News and
Observer has only been changed. The
Radical organ at Greensboro and the
evening paper at Raleigh are expect
ed to do The News and Observer more
damage than the discredited Morning
Post has ever done. There really was
no field for the Greensboro Radical
morning organ and the Post. for the
bulk of the Posts subscribers, who did
not also subscribe for your paper, were
Radicals and mugwumps and brindle-
tails and so when the Greensboro or
gan started up the crowd fighting The
News and Observer decided to take
the evening field in Raleigh and then
i'm the interest of the Radical organ ut
Greensboro. change the schedule of
the westbound night train so that the
News and Observer cannot reach I.s
Western subscribers until it is twenty
four hours old. That's the pro-
gramme and before the New Year you
will see that steps will be taken to give
to The News and Observer a blow that
it is believed will knock it out"
The reply of the writer was: "That
train has been held in Raleigh for a
quarter of a century and during that
time it has carried the Raleigh morn
ing papers to the people West of Raj
eigh. The Southern Railway will not
change the schedule. over two thous-
and people living along its line depend
upon that train for a morning paper
from the State Capital. AS long as
the Morning Post. which always advo-
Gated what the Southern Railway
wanted, was published there was no
suggestion that the schedule be
changed. Do you think the Southern
Railway would gain the i'll will of
Western North Carolina readers and
advertise it's desire to injure The News
and Observer by changing the sched-
ule now that the Post is no longer
published in the morning? l do not
believe they will do any such thing,
and if they should be so short-sighted
as to consider doing it. do not believe
the Corporation Commission would
permit a schedule twenty years old to
be changed merely to deny Western
subscribers the right they have en-
ioyed by prescription of getting q
morning daily from the capital of the
State
That was about month ago. Since
the Post was consolidated with the
Evening Times, readers of the after
noon paper have found that it was not
the Post that was swallowed. but that
it is the Post under another name that
is published as an Afternoon paper in
stead of as a morning paper. With
out provocation, it keeps up the Posts
habit of abusing the News and Obser-
Old Reliable" no more harm than
when the abuse was printed in the dull
gray of the morning instead of in the
waning of the afternoon. Seeing
that its abuse does not lnJure The
News and Observer. the afternoon pa
per is now engaged in an attempt to
get the Southern Railway to make
new schedule which would prevent The
News and Observers reaching its sub
scribers West of Raleigh until it is
day old. In its Friday issue it pub
lished what it called an interview with
"a travelling man" denouncing the
holding of the Southern train which
carries the Raleigh morning paper
West. and with that statement by
person whose name is not given, the
Times Cor the Post) says editorially:
"A BAD SCHEDULE.
sIn our local columns today we pub
lish a kick from ii travelling man
against the habit of the Southern Rail-
way in holding it's night train in Raj
eigh from 11:43 o'clock until a. M
Many complaints against railroads are
unreasonable, but this appears to be
one which is we'll founded. AS we see
it, there is no reason why train
should be held in Raleigh for two
hours, at an inconvenient hour of the
night, and with the attendant lncon-
veniences and delay to passengers. 1t
ought to go right on to Greensboro,
and if such were the case. persons
could leave Raleigh at midnight and
reach Charlotte in time for an early