The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-30
HOW THE SOUTHERN
REWARDS SERVICE
Chief Legal Plum Bes-
towed On New Recruit.
CAPT. PRICES PLACE
Mes srs. F. H. Busbee, Clement Manly
R. r. King Put Aside for Col. W.
B. Rodman, Who Was Slated
for Position Six Months Ago.
The Irony of Devotion.

II has been definitely settled that
tn, successor of Capt. Charles Price
as attorney in. CHIEF for the Southern
Railway in North Carolina, will be
col. w. b. Rodnrm, formerly OF
Beaufort county, out lately Of Char
Iotte and representing the Southern
Railway for what is known as the
Charlotte division.
Colonel Rodman's salary has been
$4,000 a year in the position to which
he was elected last January as Cap
tain Prices successor his pay will be
probably the same as lie received
$1,000
1t is understood that ut The time
Colonel Rodman moved from Wash
hcton TO Charlo%.. it was with the
definite agreement that he should have
tho place OF Captain Price upon his
death or resignation. Their" was
great surprise expressed throughout
the State at the time If Colonel Rod
mans remo"a. from Beaufort, since
he was : leader Of lha bai ,,nd cn-
jcving fine and growing practice IL
The first district, AMI wa; easily one
nf the best equipped ALL most success
ful men politically in the Eastern pl1t
of the State. That Il Comparatively:
young man. of wide influence and
great success as lawyer among MS
own people. should suddenly move to
4 city i'm which he was relatively
unknown. even when he appointment
IS division attorney a. It's two thouS-
and dollars salary bec.IIiic known. Was
long matter of perpleXity to
those who had no means OF knowing
of the further agreement that went
with the Charlotte appointment. the
fact that he succeeds to the import
ant position of Cantain | rice makes
this point very Clea~
Now, as far as the Southern Rail
way is concerned, tie appointment OF
Col. Rodman S a move by no means
To its hurt. He IS Il man i'm the prime
Of life, an able lawyer aud u politician
par excellence. His serVicc to the
road vii, he performed in a Kramer
which will put his salary on the credit
side of the ledger. As an attorney,
he is resoUrceful, perS::;t"n- AM &c
voted to his clients; as political
diplomat he was in his district the
equal i'm affairs CONGO ming North Car
ollna. of Martin, yam Buren, or Samuel
j. Tilden in thH Untel States. SO
far as filing Captain Prices place
with a man adequate to its RESPONSE
bilities IS concerned. thu Southern has
made no mistake.
There is a phase IF this appoint
ment, however. which will appeal u
the public with great force as .ndi-
eating a lack of Justice and a callouS
ness to obligation on the part of tho
road. which is entirely in line With
the trend Of the corporate policy cf
utter selfshness. of which the great
Southern system is a conspicuous @x
ample That phase is shown i'll the
men over whose heads the legal APP
pointmcnt was made. men of at loast
equal legal ab;l ty with colonel BOD
man and his superior III point of ex
Deriencc as counsel for the railroad
over whose State legal affairs he has
been placed at the head.
Faithful Men Passed BY.
There are three of these men whose
names will instantly occur to the peo-
pie: f. II. Busbee of Raleigh; Glenn
ent Manly, of Winston-Salem: r. r.
King, of Greensboro. OF these. the
one entitled by seniority. by faithf1l
performance of duty to the promotion
To Captain Prices place. is Mr.. Bus
bee. OF Raleigh. There is no man in
this or any other State better fitted
than he TO attend to the affairs of a
railroad corporation in legal matters.
BY nature of brilliant mind, he has
studied through practically a life
time every detail of railroad practice.
For more than twenty-five years he
has given to the service of what is
now the Southern Railway, devo-
ton which has marked him as one
apart in ingenuity, in steadfastness,
i'm enthusiasm. Today he is at the
height of his career as great cor
poration lawyer. In every respect he
is Colonel Rodman's equal as an at
torney. He has served the Southern
twenty-five years, at 1t $4,000 salary,
against Colonel Rodmar's six months
employment by the same corporation.
Why--and the question looms large
IN the mind which loves fair play
why at this day, when the promotion
for which he has made many sacri-
fees is justly his. is he incontinently
turned down?
Next in line comes Mr.. Clement
Manly, of Winston. elegant in the attri-
butes of gentleman, above criticism
rs an able and industrious lawyer
lie, too. is passed by.
There is Mr.. r. r. King, of Green's
boro. faithful, able, fearless and de-
voted legal servant of the Southern
for many years. He too must stand
and cape while new selection passes
over his head
Why. this peculiar treatment OF
men to whom the Southern railway