The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-08-02
JOSEPHUS DANIELS.

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make alive" II wzs said and al
niitted that the Governor hesiiatesi
Ia determine important matters OF
state until Mr. Daniels vas consulted.
IL il believed Thai fear Of being
held ur 10 ridicula aud criticism by
him ia his paper Of the largest cir
eulstion In North Carolina" has
prevented many q man frou s~Isoal=-
ing the cause and pursuing The
course hls conscience dictated. Ger |
tain IT Is that his spirit If intoler-
ance, harsh criticism and fenuneta- |
ton, have been felt very severely |
by all those who dare Ia differ with !
| him in matters OF slate policy and
in many eases judges and juries
whose decision did not conform tn
| his views have been censured and
condemned.
Friends and weli-wishers, who see
good in the man and realize that he
| occupies a position in which he may
serve well the State, have remon-
strated with him, aud invoked for
those opposed TO him the spirit Of
tolerance and moderation, but 10 no
effect.
He received a short while ago, a
the result of his fearful atiscks upon
Judge Purnell, a forceful lecture
from the strongest editorial writer
lamong us, in part as follows:
"We trust that we have a due
sense of the rights Of the press and
a due appreciation of the dignity of
the editorial profession. Yet, accus-
toned as We are to look at both sides
! of all questions, we cannot lose sight
} of the fact that official servants and
private citizens have rights also, and
that one of these is the right TO pro-
lection from venomous attacks and
aspersions OF their characters when
they have done nothing corruptly
wrong. The liberty Of the press is
one Of the safeguards Of the people,
but liberty is one thing and license
7 another; and any honest man, priest
or layman, who is persistently and
with bad intent, held up to the
execration of the world, is en-
title1 to redress, out of the hide
of his detractor, or otherwise. Judge
= Purneli could hardly be expected TO
submit forever to the detraction OF
Of Mr.. Daniels, which was of such
sort as to bring him into contsmp.
and his court into disrepute. The
red fire, the hurrah, the glorification
n aud the free advertising are incl
dents of the case. The proposition,
q however, that the liberty of respect
4 full criticism is one thing. and the
i the license of abuse another, holds
: good"
But instead of Improvement hi,
conduct grew worse, his censure:
O more severe.
s The organization of the Daily In
f dustrial News was heralded to the
i world by the Democratic press with
the single exception of Mr.. Daniels
8 as good thing for the State, and its
= appearance was greeted with pleas
t ant and complimentary mention
t and it has been encouraged by the
IS press in such tasteful and graceful
: manner as becomes gentlemen OF
f "The Fourth Estate" BIT Mr.
Y Daniels has persistently and contin-
: uously, aud falsely charged that il
g was organized as a part of frludu
lent scheme to collect some Old fraud
t ulent and repudiated bonds of tbs
: State, the collection of which has
Y not been and will not be attempted
q and which the constitution of the
8 State declares shall not be paid OF
G collected.
8 He has more recently been en-
g deavOring to arouse in the minds OF
= the people a spirit of hostility to
: corporations, by continually assert
Q ing that they have been and are now
e attempting to control the less nu-
4 merOus branch of our General AS,
G sembly. His assaults upon the
4 Southern Railway manager in this
7 State have been continuous and /
: may, I think, with rhetorical pre-
cision, say, vicious. When it de-
clined to run its trains to suit him
and when the United States Court,
as his own lawyers admit, justly
compelled the Railroad Commission
to abandon the erroneous position
into which he had led them, his
wrath and denunciation of said Fed
eral Court knew no bounds; for he
had been told during his sojourn in
Room %, that nothing he could say
outside of the personal presence Of
said court could be punished. Ye.
, when judge nd jury of the State
Court fined him or his paper heavily
for libel upon a good citizen he
paid the money and kept his peace;
for he knew the currency Of his IL
belous pen would be a contempt of
the State Court. From all which it
.appears that Judge Purnell may say
to Mr.. Daniels, as did the wolf to
the goat who cursed him, from the
roof of the house: mot you bat the
roof curseth me-"
For several months last past the
"more than 10000 subscribers" of
the News and Observer, have been