The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-08-17
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that the reason there - lad grating
i'm North Carolina - t-cause there l..
nothing In the State u steal. lIsif
and bonds are proverbial TO D'-iii''
cratic rule and the Herald Is about
right There In nDthin. left Ia tempt
-r their OWN nests.
The Durham Herald /. very much
mistaken when IL says that there Is no
grating in North Carolina. because
there Is nothing here Ia steal In my
opinion there IL NOT a State In the
Union where there Is not more or less
grating. which Is made palmer and
palmer every day by the disclosures In
different States. notably: Pennsyi-
yania. Missouri Arkansas Kentucky
and in nil the large cities.
But the particular method adopted
in North Carolina IL more In the form
OF le:alized robbery. For instance.
the Democratic Legislature which I'M
dertook To impeach our Supreme Court
Judges because they had rendered a de
cision saying n legally elected officer
was entitled To the salary which per
tained To his office. used the argument
TO sustain their attempt at this i'm
reachment. that they were saving the
State from certain class OF grafters
and spectators. yet this very same
body created four more Superior Court
Judges and four more solicitors. and
took the places themselves in nearly
every instance, thus costing the State
more than ten thousand dollars. by
reason of this law they passed, and
they claimed they were trying to save
the State which had suffered by the
decision Of the Supreme Court whose
members they attempted to impeach to
the extent only OF thousand dollars
or So This is one system Of graft
ing
The extra County Commissioners
which have been appointed in different
counties all over the State. were ap-
pointed for the express purpose of
taking charge Of the little Offices in the
county. and thereby regardless of the
expense to the people. put Democratic
officers in these places. This is an
other species Of grating.
The appointment Of various officers.
such az tax collector in Henderson
county. Is another species of grating
which takes from the people the right
to control their own officers. The ap-
pOintment of Justices of the Peace all
over the State il another species of
grating. The extra amount Of in
crease in the salary in many depart
mpnts such as the inspector Of the
North Carolina Railroad. last week
are other forms Of grating.
Another sample Of grating is in
such performances as we see ut Char
lOttp in the water works arrangement.
Another species of grating is the ap-
pOintment Of an excessive number Of
directors in the different State insti-
tutiOns. such as the appointment of 81
directors of the penitentiary by the
Legislature of 1890 while the Repub-
licans had only nine before that.
These directors get mileage Of 10
cents a mile and $500 per diem every
time meeting ia held. Another spe-
cies of grating Ia the extra amount
Of offices in all departments Of the
State. Every time the Legislature
meets. new Offices or new clerks are
put in Office ut good salaries. Another
species Of grating was the Atlantic
& North Carolina Railroad in the
method of which it was conducted
For instance. Josephus Daniels who
runs the principal organ Of the Demo
two of his staff directors on that road
By virtue of this dictatorship they had
free passes all over the State. The
law says no man can he director who
does not own 500 worth of stock in
this railroad. but still these men with
out owning dollar were made direc
tors to be taken care of at the expense
of the people. But this is only sam
pie of the hundreds of grating
schemes of that road, such as the road
buying oil at three or four prices from
local parties and the president in eff
feet, buying wood from himself. Such
rs running the Atlantic Hotel at the
expense Of the people for the benefit
of the politicians of the Democratic
party in North Carolina.
Now while no man can be indicted
for these things because they are done
under the form of law. still they cost
as much money as if the whole thing
had been stolen. so that the people of
the State are being taxed and being
robbed and being made to bear exces-
sive burdens. simply because they do
not take care of their own affairs
Another system of grating is the free
school system, and some day or other
the people will wake up and find out
that they are under the excessive and
useless burdens laid upon them by
the Democratic party to raise money
to take care of their partisans
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