The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-17
"Ad" in News and OBJ
server 0ffends PurneII.
PRlTCHARD'S REBUKE
After Business Had Been Taken Away
BY Mr.. Bushels Request and
Judge PurneIl Had Sent For
ward The Letter With Approx
al, pri.chard Endorses Paper.

al, prisChard Endorses Paper.
Having tried through contempt pro-
ceed.ngs to iniure personally the edi-
tor of the News and Observer and ig-
I,uminiOusiy failed. Ii now appears t;ia;
the United States Judge for the Fast
crn District seeks to injure the Taper
itself by causing il 10 lose al. adycr-
I;seineTt which il had legiti,nateiy OF
tanned In the orderly con6ac: of its
business
1t is with {, sad soul and chdSt=n-
ed spirit that this paper is again called
upon to tell in true Story of cnCag
ing interested the SOLDERING tact that II is
cut of favor with the Cnired States
District Court for the Eastern District
OF North Carolina.
There WAS once a strenuous time
when this misrepresentation, this
bounding regard Cor the publicity ac-
corded through these columns to the
business and methods OF tie local
fountain of the Federal Court. mdi.i-
tested Itself in Writs which sounded
With verbose sentences and rang With
II god-lke rage. Torn from his quiet
work amid the clicking of typeWriterS
marking down the names Of new sub
ScriberS, from the ease and luxury OF
his accustomed seat amongst the ex-
changes, the ''old nan" OF this shop
was hailed quivering with usefulness
into the lme-light of contempt 9ro-
ceedings and euiailed fer tGree sew
eral days in a room equipped with
down quilts and electro lights and
mahogany tables and push buttCns ana
blue paper on the walls. In those
days the anger of the Fedora! Court
was a thing of regal magnificence. 1t
in. prisoned like a prince. The meas
ure of its wrath was as august ant'
rolling and, withal. as laden with
sweetness as the coming of a sum-
lEer'S storm. It's thunderS rolled and
its lightnings flashed in a spectacle
that was as harmless as it was inspir-
irg. Safe in the shelter of room
twenty-eight the old man waited. his
soul attuned to the click of the type
writer's in his modest Office adding new
subscribers, waiting for the storm to
pass.
1T passed and in It's wake came n
Stiffness punctuated only by the glad
singing Of the birds III the smelly
freshness OF it's -drenched path
and the old man sighed and. grabbing
his pen between HIS fingers. gave up
the royalty of the ia he could no lon
ger afford, and took up his editorial on
the price of cotton where he had laid
it-down.
n New Regard.
But now there has come another
evidence of esteem which strikes a
deeper nerve, which is intensely prac-
;ical, which lacks both the circunl
stance of pcmp and the gratifying un
reality of a tragedy on the stage. Iir-
ing of it's thunderbolts, the Federal
Court has gone after the advertising
account of the paper It would not
crush IT'S servant at a blow, it would
suck the life blood from its veins. II
frowns with displeasure at the inser
ton of an "ad." 1t would choke the
voice that still piped its lay above its
flanders by taking away its breath of
life That is a serious thing, which
must somehow be survived. Otherwise
there can be no more editorials on
cotton-and the price is still doN II!
The mighty hand that is used to jave-
Inns of light has come to the cunning
Of business competitor. Who would
nave credited tho giant with this fin
resse? Yet, SO it is, AMI there has
been the success which has cost this
paper some dollars! dollars lost
through the Federal CONT. the very
Golfers Of the treasury, the prCyider
of palacial jails, the advertiser par
excellence! The thought is 'LTnSst I'M
thinkable-but true.
Seeks VIDE Advertisement.
Some months ago there came up
caSe-Forrest ct al VS.. the Southern
Saw Mill Company it was-in Which
il seemed to the court, Judge Pritch-
ara having assumed for certain reasons
%one into at length in the news co!
umns of this paper the jurisdiction of
Judge Purnell, relinqu. shed, it viii be
remembered, with apparent reluctance,
that commissioners should be APP
pointed to sell the property Of the de-
PENDANT To perform this duty there
we're appointed as commissioners, Mr.
Brook CT Empie. of New Hanover, and
Mr.. Phillip Busbee. of Wake, both
competent gentlemen. Mr.. EniDie liv I'll
near the situs of the property ami
naturally he saw to the advertising of
the sale, as provided in the order of
the court
Mr. Busbee Protests.
Naturally, also. seeking as he did a
wide publ. city, he advertised In the
News aud Observer. The notice Was
inserted, and it was widely read. 1t
was seen even in the Office of Messrs.
r. H. Busbee and Son, and strangely
enough it did not meet With their APP
prevail Mr.. Phillip Busbee was TO sell
the land, anG the larger the price. the
greater his profits. he and his father,
Nr. F. II. Busbee, both know we'll the
circulation OF the paper and have q
GOOD idea of its extent " hy then,
cid Commissioner Philip Busbce set