The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-06
MULTITUDINOUS VINDICA-
TON.
Greensboro RecOrd.)


SERVER is i'm high glee. Recently
that paper had article after article,
and kept having them, about the tes-
timony before the Senate Railroad
Committee of Messrs. Cone and FL
wood Cox, claiming that the Inter-
State Commerce Commission should
not be given power over regulating
intra-state traffic or its present power
over Interstate traffic be enlarged. 1t
was especially concerned over High
Point, where Mr.. Cox testified the rail-
road was doing everything they could
to satisfy the shipping public and
everybody there was pleased with the
result.
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER at
tackled Mr.. Cox's position and sent
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 i'm arms because the case goods
shippers can't get their output to mar
ket for lack of transportation, and the
Corporation Commission has been app
pealed to to compel the railroads to
furnish cars, there being an alleged
shortage of 374 cars, and a tieing up
of over half million dollars worth of
manufactured goods i'm the warerOOms
of High Point case goods manufacture
ers. The Raleigh paper with propri-
ETY. calls this a "yindicatiOn" Of its
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 i'm this revenue district
to the Revenue Department, which
would have been something on the or
der of that Charlotte water works SUI
perintendent getting $500 a day to
inspect his own job, but has been
probing into things with a judicial, If
not judiciOus probe. THE NEWS
AND OBSERVER boasts another
''vindicatiOn' of its oft reiterated cry
of eighteen months and twelve months
ago, that i'm the Investigations and
prosecutions of the revenue frauds,
District Attorney HOltOn and Commits
sioner Yerkes should go .higher up
than the indictment and conviction of
u few small salaried gaugers and self
confessed Illicit distillers. Now that il
is announced that special term OF
the Federal Court is to be held in
Greensboro September 4th, not to try
eases, but for the grand jury to have
Il full swing at investigating charges
against all sorts of revenue officials,
and possible return indictments found
ed on evidence obtained by these spe-
cial detectives, THE NEWS AND OBJ
SERVER claims another ''vindica-
f;c..''
There Is no question but that the pa
per kept everlastingly at 1t, 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
tainiy entitle that paper for either
the credit of bringing about the ex-
posures or reforms, or at least inyesti-
cation into them, or its editor knew
when he was on a hot trail and kept
barking until something just had to be
did. Look at il either way, and our
enterprising and loud lunged and es-
teemed contemporary is entitled to
glory IN its "yarious and sundry vim
dications' of the past few months.
Truth about the matter is, our Brother
JOsephus is 4 red hot number.