The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-30
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p. S.-We trust that you can get
some other parties to take sub
stantiaI number of shares of stock in
the paper and enter on this list. But
if you have not the time, or IL the
parties live at a distance, please give
us their names and addresses and the
amount of stock for which you think
each could or should subscribe.
Approaching Political Millennium.
Truly, now, here is a howdy-do, the
political millenium's approach. Think
of it. my countrymen, Marion Butler
has not only eschewed party politics
but is burning with desire to come
back and organize a paper which Will
laid the industrial development of the
State. and aid it by the almost
Almighty industrial help of State
Chairman Thomas S. Rollins, mention
ed as THE Republican State Chairman
is one of the leading spirits behind the
establishment of this (industrial?) en-
terprse." Ye gods and little min
nows! 1t was the late f. M. What
taker, who when he retired from rum
ming the anti-Clarke, anti-Democratic-
pro Charlotte Observer independent
Democratic-Rep annex cam
his organization, described it as com
posed as Marion" describes his crowd
now "of high class, fearless, independ-
ent brave, steady yeomanry.' Steady
there Marion. When the lamented
brother Chairman Whitaker descended
from his high perch after the ballots
had buried him and his double party
so deep they never kicked again, he
was going to start a high class indie
pendent Industrial paper too, and at
Greensboro, too. and he said heSwas
going to start one $50 high class it
would be like the Charlotte Observer,
independent and industrial" And the
Observer has been tickled to death
at this compliment ever since. And
now you are going to quit politics,
dear boy, long enough to launch this
independent industrial paper" which
will be so independent Chairman Roll
Inns and yourself, and d. l.. Russell
will condescend to run it. and so in
dustriaI you have combined all the
leading hack politicians, office-holders,
has-beens, third-termers, and anti
third -termers, thrown in the names
(without their consent, we wager), of
men like John w. Fries, Charles
Price, w. A. Blair, George II. Brown,
j. H. Holt and j. n. Williamson, to
make it a thing of industrial beauty
and joy forever. Selah.
Like the Charlotte bscrver?''
On only Sunday, THIS little choice
bit appeared editorially in the much
praised Charlotte Observer:
"The Caucasian, of Raleigh.
which used TO be if it is not yet
ex-senator Buffers, paper, and
which, like him, used to be .
Populist but is now a Republic
can, enters feelingly into the dis
cussion about a proposed Repub-
lican paper at Greensboro, say
ing, among other things:
Eyes there lis not only a
need, but there is a demand,
for such a paper and such
a demand as would make 1T
financial success. Then why
is it that such a daily news
paper has not been establish
ed? Who can answer
Possessed of this faith, which
is strong enough to. remove
mountains, why don't you buck
the proposition yourself?"
No doubt when the Observer reads
the choice literature Marion" has
been sending out about establishing an
Independent industrial paper just like
at" it will then understand what
Marions Caucasian meant when it
published that little plant, for be it
known that besides being a past mas
ter in dealing in hot air, liquid air and
SIGH Marion is something of pro-
moter also likewise, Lawsuits against
North Carolina a speciality, and that
little squib was just a little delicate
advertisement of the racket he was
working in Bond Building" he's some
on bonds, Washington city. Now all
the above has been more or less of a
reverie suggested by coming these in
teresting documents. The polite prom
inent politician was again sought to
unravelled tangled skein. The News
and Observer representative sought
him high and low, and found him low
i'm spirits He, too, had become con-
fummoxed as he realized that hap
DIV dream was apparently over.
1.-THE Plant of the Railroad?' this
''Wherefore art thou sad? this
News and Observer reporter quoted
to him.
'I'Il tell you" he said; had 1T oc-
CURED to you that Spence Blackburn,
Fairbanks, we Tar Heel Club fellows,
and all of us who had hoped not only
for the establishment of a great Re
publican paper in Greensboro, and
also hoped to have few of the pres
emf holders of Federal jobs for more
than two terms to step aside while
and let some of us outs get a bite
must have been hoo-dood, or bun
coed p"
Remarkable occurrence again, !"