The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-26
A F|GUREHEAD, EH2
Douglas Nota Hot Enough
Partisan?
Talk OF the New Republican Daily En-
tertains Greensboro. The Tar Heel
Begins to Look Like a
Weekly.
Especial to News and Observer.

morning is principally of the forth
News. AS has been stated before in
| this correspondence, that drift here
all the time has been towards the In
| dustrial News crowd, as that corpor-
| alton has had nearly all the Republi-
| casn of financial and official promi-
| nence in it's list of stockholders and
| promoters.
Without exception people here are
| pleased at the selection of Hon. Robert
| ID. Douglas, as editOr-in- chief. Besides
| being one of the foremost aiders in
all industrial and public betterment
| movements, Mr.. Douglas has never
| been recognized as a bitter partisan
and when public improvement ques-
| tiOns have come up, as between that
and some political advantage, Mr.
Douglas has always chosen the side
| of public improvements. In the cam
| paign for a county bond issue for good
roads, as chairman of the Republican
| county organization, he did not hest
| tate to cooperate with Hon. A. M.
| Scales, chairman of the Democratic
| organization in organizing the county
for it. and making speeches for it.
| This from the leader of a party large
| ly in the minority and naturally in
| clned to take advantage of every pos
tive commitment by the majority
| party, is unusual, and is to Mr.. Doug
| las credit.
There are plenty though who are
saying, that Mr. Douglas is editor
| only IN name, and that he Will con-
tinue to be goOd-natured and anna
| BILE, and will advance the industrial
department of the paper, while men
like ex-Editor Butler and that past
master in partisan writing, c. A. Rey-
nOldS, of Winston, will DO the political
stunts, adding Greek fire for Mr.. But
ler's roasts of his enemies in and out
of the party, and for Mr.. Reynolds
roast of every body and everything
out of the party, whom he conscien-
tiously believes to be enemies of his
country. Reynolds is built that way.
Butler Hypnotizer.
A Republican this morning said that
Mr. Butler had completely hynotized
the crowd. He gave an instance of
this a talk he had last night with
an influential director. Said he, John
aren't you afraid this mixing with
Butler will get you into trouble? Do
you realize that Democrats and Re
publicans alike in North Carolina, who
might forgive him for his political
sins of deception and stiffness Will
never forgive or forget his betraying
the State as its Senator into the hands
of South Dakota"
For answer John said: well you
say what you please about Butler, |
wish you could have been in our bust
ness conferences. Why he was by far
the smartest man in the bunch"
Smart, h. OF course he is smart
er than all of you put together or
he would have never got you tOgeth-
err" was the rejoinder
Some of the visiting directors
seemed inclined last night to crow
over the Tar Heelers. especially its
two chiefs. President Grant and Com
mander Blackburn. Upon being told
that President Grant had stated that
first class weekly would reach more
country Republicans and proselytable
Democrats anyhow than a high priced
daily a leading ROllins-Butler direc-
tor is reported to have said:
What you fellows want is to print
| a semi monthly magazine with raised
| letters. Then your blind readers can
keep informed, as all who can see an
| inch beyond their noses are informed
as to Spence's object already and have
come over to the Industrial News"
Another unkind remark was that in
reply to an enquiry if there was any
| hope of a consolidation with the Tar
Heel: consolidate, how can we con-
| soldate with something that amt,
never was and never will be. All that
| Blackburn and Grant ever had was
| fuse, and interviews with the Green's
| boro correspondent to the News and
| Disturber. The correspondent keeps
a-going but the fuse busted before they
could touch it off.
The Tar Heel Lip
| On the other hand there are Tar
Heel Republicans here doing some
| talking too Their principal animus
RI hl n GA N ex-senator RntlRr.
| and what they call the office-hOlding
| element One of them who is very
| prominently connected with the Tar
| Heel proposition said this morning to
an Industrial News brother I'VE
have claimed all along that you office
holders were determined to keep the
party in the State just as big minor
ity party, and the Democratic party
| just as big a majority party as you
possibly can, and that's why you have
Ftaken Butler in to run your party pa
per and prevent the establishment OF
q true Republican paper whose mis-
sion would be to make the Repuol-
can, a majority party in North caro-
| lima. You are determined to nave
just as little competition for Federal
Offices as possible and just as few as
prants for positions as delegates to
| the National and State conventions
as possible. You know very well that
| no Democrat will come to Butler an
other time in this life, and that nun
dreds of self-respecting Republicans
will leave the party in disgust. That
was pretty hot firing, but both gen
| temen laughed as if they We're used
to eating pepper and liked the taste.
| Another anti-Butler zap was this.
- said that - --
said that Sam Bradshaw said that he
| left the Democratic party because But
| Ter was running it, and it looked hard
| that now he mad nowhere to go, with
Butler coming over and taking possess
sion of the Republican party, for
dummed if he'd submit to his dicta-
ton or guidance-anywhere or any
how.
If all reports are true, the Tar Heel
will be run as a red hot weekly so a
weekly it shall be until Mr.. Black
burn returns and DEGREES otherwise
A Great Big Invention.
| Sometime ago DR.. r. X. Gregory,
the inventive wizard of Greensboro,
was reading in a railroad magazine
paragraph to the effect that the
man who could invent a knock down
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