The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-22
"Ad" in News and OBJ
server 0ffends PurneII.
PRlTCHARD'S REBUkE
After Business Had Been Taken Away
BY Mr.. Bushels Request and
Judge PurneII Had Sent For
ward the Letter With Approx
al, Pritchard Endorses Paper.

Having tried through contempt pro-
ceedings to iDiure personally the edi-
tor of the News and Observer and ig-
l.uminiOusly failed, it now appears that
the United States Judge for the East
crn District seeks to injure the Taper
itself by causing it 20 lose al. advcr-
Iisement which it had legitimately OF
tanned i'm the orderly conduct OF its
business.
1t is with d sad soul and chasten-
ed spirit that this paper is again called
upon to tell in a true story of engag-
ing interested the SOLDERING fact that il is
cut of favor With the United States
District Court for the Eastern District
OF North Carolina.
There was once a strenuous time
when this over-appreCiation, TINS
bounding regard Cor the publicity &C
corded through these columns to the
business and methods OF tie local
fountain of the Federal Court. md,ii-
tested itself in writs which sounded
with verbose sentences and rang With
god-like rage. Torn from quiet
work amid the clicking of typeWrlterS
marking down the~nameS of new SUBJ
scribers, from the ease and luxury OF
his accustomed seat amongst the ex-
changes, the "old man" OF this shop
was hailed quivering with bashfulness
into the lime-light of contempt pro-
ceedingS and enjailed for tGree sew
eral days in a room equipped with
down quilts and electro lights and
mahogany tables and push buttons and
blue paper on the walls. In those
days the anger of the Federal Court
was thing of regal magnificence. 1t
imprisoned like prince. The meas
ure of it's wrath was as august a"G
rolling and, withal. as laden with
sweetness as the coming of a sum-
lner's STERN. It's thunders rolled and
it's lightnings flashed in Il spectacle
that was as harmless as it was inSpiT-
ing. Safe in the shelter of room
twenty-eiSht the old man waited. his
soul attuned to the click of the type
writers in his modest Office adding new
subscribers, waiting for the storm to
pass
Tt passed and in its wake came a
stiffness, punctuated only by the glad
singing of the birds III the smelly
freshness of it's rain-drenched path;
and the old man sighed and, grabbing
his pen between his fingers, gave up
the royalty of the Jail he could no lon
ger afford, and took up his editorial on
the price of cotton where he had laid
it--down.
\ New Regard.
But now there has come another
evidence of esteem which strikes
deeper nerve, which is intensely prac-
teal. which lacks both the clrcunl-
stance of pcmp and the gratifying un
reality of a tragedy on the stage. Tir-
ing of it's thunderbolts, the Federal
Court has gone after the advertising
account of the paper. 1t would not
crush its servant at a blow, it would
suck the life-blood from its veins. IT
frowns with displeasure at the inser-
ton of an lad" 1t would choke the
voice that still piped It's hay above its
thanders by taking away its breath of
life. That is serious thing, which
must somehow be survived. Otherwise
there can be no more editorials on
cotton-ahd the price is still down!
The mighty hand that is used to jave-
Inns of light has come. to the cunning
of a business competitor. Who would
have credited the giant with this I'm
nesse? Yet. SO it is and here has
been the success which has cost this
paper some dollars! dollars lost
through the Federal Court. the very
Golfers Of the treasury, the prcyider
of palacial jails, the advertiser par
excellence The thought is almost IN.
thinkahle-but true.
SEEKS NNtc -AuNCfsiSci9iSiit'
Some months ago there came UP a
case-Forrest ct al vs. the Southern
Saw Mil Company, it was--in Which
il seemed to the court, Judge Pritch-
ard having assumed for certain reasons
gone into at length in the news col :
umnS of this paper the jurisdiction of
Judge Purnell, relinqu.shed, it will be
remembered. with apparent reluctance,
that commissioners should be APP
rc;nted to sell the property of the de-
fendant. To perform this duty there
we're appointed as commissioners, MIR.
Brook c. Empie of New Hanover, and
Mr.. Phillip Busbee, of Wake, both
competent gentlemen. Mr.. EnDie live d
near the situs of the property ANA
naturally he saw TO the advertising of
the sale, as provided in the order of
the court.
Mr.. BusEcc Protests.
Naturally. also, seeking as he did Il
wide publicity, he advertised in the
News and Observer. The notice Was
inserted and 1t was widely read, 1t
was seen even in the office of Messrs.
T. II. Busbee and Son, and strangely
enough ii did not meet with their APP
prevail Mr.. Phillip Bushes was to sell
the land, and the larger the price, She
greater his profits. he and his father.
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circulation of the paper and have a
good idea of its extent " by, then.
did Commissioner Philip Busbee set
in motion the chain of events. which
cost this paper some dollars and which
removed the advertisement OF his sale
fir. IN the s ght of thousands who other
wise would have seen and roted it?
For Mr.. Busbee did this thing.
The day after the advertisement APP
peared Mr.. BuSbee wrote to Mr.. En-
pie in protest. 1t was not proper. slid
he, that n Federal Court sale should
be advertised in n paper, which had
IersistentIy "siandcr..l' tho court and
its judge. He suggested that he should
l.ot be put in that attitude and he re-
quested Mr. Empie to remove the no
flee of sale. The matter meant little
TO Mr.. Empie and he wished to please
his o-commissioner. consequently Ii
countermanded the advertisement. He
thought no more of the matter.
Judge Pritci,ard Approves.
III few days. however, Mr.. Empie