The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-10
THE TRUSTs-TO THE RESCUE.


pushes into the fray to the aid Of Mr..
]. Elwood Cox. whom he assures his
readers this paper has woefully sland-
cred and maligned.
To accomplish this feat Mr.. Bailey
has discovered what no one else had
dreamed of-scarcely Mr.. Cox him
self, we warrant-that the News and
Observer had 'impugned'' his motives,
'disgraced" him as far as it was able,
accused him of giving testimony not
pass lin other words called him liar)
made him the butt of ridicule and
contempt denied" him his patriot
ism and "besmirched" his good and
honest name. I'VE refer, of course"
says Mr. Bailey. ito the articles, edi-
torial and special. in recent numbers
of the News and Observer"
And after making such deliverance,
Mr.. Bailey makes a colorless state
ment of the fact that he differs with
Mr.. Cox on the rate question and with
that as climax piously observes that
he believes in battle, but that he can
fight without engaging in personalities,
or ,tainting motives and asks in con-
clusion whether in an age in which
civilized nations have abandoned poi
soned bullets, the peaceful pen"
might not "omit the envenomed shaft
and the despicable innuendo."
Certainly it might, but evidently Mr..
Bailey has not progressed to the point
10 more than put forth the suggestion
Of a millennium of soft yet candid
words Doubtless he is willing to let
his opponents throw pillow cases in
battle; for him the dunn dunn bullet
and the glittering snickersnee.
Because. when Mr.. Cox went TO
Washington and testified that i'm his
opinion. the railroads should be allow
ed to fix their own rates (not that
there should be competition as Mr.
Bailey misquotes him) this paper took
issue with him; because it pointed out
that he was a director of a branch
line of the Southern road; because it
showed that he had a pass; that peo-
pie generally at High Point esteemed
him as the representative of the
Southern: because it pointed out his
Inconsistency in going to the Corpora
ton Commission to compel the Sea-
board to give him rate in North Car
olina and then testifying before the
comittee that the government ought
not to assume The power he had him
self asked the State to assert; be-
cause we. suggested that in view OIL
his connection with the road and che
inconsistency of his acts, his testi-
mony was valueless as indicating the
opinion of the people most concerned
as shippers Of freight; because oil
these statements it is suggested by
Mr.. Bailey that the News and OBJ
server is of class given to "Pn-
lOrying" good men with contempt.
scorn and false witness"
The News and Observer rang clear
on Mr. Cox as it generally does when
it goes into a fight. Several things
have been said about and against this |
paper-as they are generally said In |
every fight-but it has remained for |
Mr.. Bailey to discover that the at
tack was made from under cover and |
by innuendo. Every body else under
stood. Mr. Bailey, pretending to I'M
derstand, first charges the News and
Observer with saying things about Mr.
~ IA
mated, and launching his attack from
that false breast-work. sets UP a pill
Tory" himself We feel that Mr. Bailey
has taught us how a pillory feels. 1t
is uncomfortable and we suffer, though
still unconscious of our crime. Is that
candid enough? Any innuendo there?
But we will rest the case on what
we have said about Mr. Cox and what
Mr. Bailey has said about us. That's
fair enough. isn't it? If anybody has
called Mr.. Cox a liar, it was Mr..
Bailey's reading, not our act. But here
is what he says about it all in fun:
"A Modern Instance of Freedom in
North Carolina.
I'VE have recently been treated to
capital example OF modern intolerance
and persecution in North Carolina
We do not protest against it. 1t mat
ters not at all. Calico was free 10
speak his mind even If the ecclesias-
ties confronted him with dungeon,
rock, and block. So men are free in
North Carolina today even If a certain
set pillory them with contempt, scorn
and false witness. A man should not
care
Mr.. J. Elwood Cox, citizen and
of High Point. one of
the State builders, went to Washing
ton, and as witness declared that he
did not desire the government to in
terfere with freight rates. but pre-
ferred competition
1T was just his opinion as a manu-
facturer and business man, witness
on the stand. But behold, day after
day his motives have been impugned.
So far as he could be disgraced by a 1
newspaper, he has been disgraced. He
has been accused of giving the testi-
mony not for truth. but because he has
d pass, etc. He has been made the
butt of ridicule and the object of con-
tempt. His patriotism has been de-
MED. and his good, honest name be-
smirched. We refer. of course, to the
articles. editorial and special. in re-