The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-04
Spirit of the Press.
Multitudinous VindicatiOn.
Greensboro Record.

| Greensboro Record
The Raleigh News and Observer is
! in high glee. Recently that paper had
article after article, and kept hav-
! ing them, about the testimony before
the Senate Railroad Committee of
Messrs. Cone and Elwood Cox, claim
| ing that the Interstate Commerce
| Commission should not be given pow
| er over regulating Interstate traffic
or its present power over Interstate
traffic be enlarged. 1t was especially
concerned over High Point, where Mr..
Cox testified the railroad was doing
everything they could to satisfy the
| shipping public and everybody there
was pleased with the result
The News and Observer attacked
Mr.. CoX's position and sent a special
representative to High Point and
! Greensboro to give the other side Of
the transportation question For this
the paper was criticised and called
a stirrer up of strife and an enemy to
the railroads for the. sake of a sensa-
ton. Now the whole of High Point
| is up in arms because the case goods
shippers can't get their output to mar
ket for lack of transportation, and
the Corporation Commission has been
appealed to to compel the railroads to
| furnish cars. there being an alleged
| shortage of S74 cars. and tieing up
Of over half a million dollars worth of
manufactured goods in the warerooms
! of High Point case! goods manufactur-
ers. The Raleigh paper with prOpri-
| ETY. calls this d 'Nindication' of it's
position on the Cox and Cone evidence
before the Senate committee. 1t does
| sorter look that way.
| Next follows the. announcement that
the Department of Justice at Washing
ton hasn't left the ferreting out of
revenue frauds in this revenue district
| to the Revenue = Department, which
would have been something on the
order of that Charlotte waterworkS
superintendent getting $500 a day to
| inspect his own job, but has been
probing into things with judicial,
| if not a judicious probe. The News
and Observer boasts another .'Vindica-
| ton of it's oft reiterated cry of eight
cen months and twelve months ago,
| that in the Investigations and prose-
cutions of the revenue frauds, District
| Attorney Holton and Commissioner
Yerkes should go higher up" than
the indictment and conviction of a
few small salaried gaugers and self
confessed illicit distillers. Now that
| it is announced that special term of
| the Federal court Is to be held in
Greensboro September 4th, not to try
cases, but for the grand jury to have
a full swing at investigating charges
against all sorts of revenue officials,
and possibly return indictments
founded on evidence obtained by these
special detectives The News and OBJ
server claims another "vindication"
There is no question but that the
paper kept everlastingly at it, on the
ABOVE two propositions, and that many
people got tired of it and said so, but
the events of the past few days GER
tainly entitle that paper for either
the credit of bringing about the ex-
posures or reforms, or at least inves-
tigation into them, or it's editor knew
when he was on hot trail and kept
barking until something just had to be
did. Look at it either way, and our
enterprising and loud lunged and es-
teemed contemporary is entitled to
glory in it's various and Sundry vim
dications' of the past few months.
Truth about the matter is, our broth
er Josephus is a red hot number.