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Tmg CAuvAsIAx The Raleigh
News and Observer did nj 10 couid
through it editorial columns TO keep
the students nj the State University
from inviting Senator Marion Butter
10 deliver The address 10 The stu
dents at their commencement ban
ques, bat when IL iailed Ia that.
those, who read the payer. had .
right 10 expect that 10 would st least
publish q truthful, IT not . full, re-
port OF what happened at the Com
meueement.
The commencement has come and
passed, and what did we learn from
the News and Observer about tho
banquet and the Commencement .
It published q great deal about what
occurred at the State University on
June 4th, but IL did not give Us .
line about the important students
banquet or O word about the speech
made by the orator invited for the
occasion. Those who wanted TO
know something about what oc-
Cured and what was said had 10
learn ii from other newspapers.
The next day after the students
banquet the Alumni and Faculty
banquet was held. 1t seems that the
same speaker who addressed the stu
dents banquet along with some 9th.
ers was invited to address the alumni
and faculty banquet. The general
concensus of opinion, as this writer
has learned 1t, Is that the most stir.
ring and practical speech that was
made at that banquet was not re-
ported by the editor of the News
and Observer, although the editor
was present In person. 1t Is need
less to say that the speaker referred
to (who was ignored entirely by the
News and Observer) was former
Senator Marion Butler, and II Is also
proper to state In this connection
that the POSTMASTER, Mr.. Busbee, of
Raleigh, took occasion to endorse his
speech In full. Mr.. Busbee, when
introducing Senator Butler at the
banquet referred to him as the one
man who had saved the University
In its darkest hour. Neither was
this published In the News and OBJ
server.
This Is not all. When the banquet
was about to adjourn Senator Butter
arose and moved that the banquet
should not adjourn without taking
steps to raise the remaining $1,000
which the President of the Univer-
sity had reported was necessary to
secure the Carnegie gift of $50, 900
for q hundred thousand dollar H.
brary. He further moved that this
$1,000 be raised and used as a me-
mortal of the late DR.. John
Manning. This motion met with
most hearty applause and unanimous
approval. Was this fact reported by
the News and Observer Not one
word. 1t simply reported that q
movement was made to raise this
money and that q good start was
made at the banquet.
| AS stated above, the editor Of the
News and Observer was present In
person and he did not report one
word of the above, but In his report
took occasion to quote an uncompli-
mentary reference to the speaker at
the students banquet the night be-
fore, which he clipped from another
democratic newspaper.
A newspaper ought to be news
paper, regardless of how unfair and
and biased its editorials may be, and
If it cannot give the news regardless
of whether he likes q man or not,
then it is not enough Of newspa.
per for fair people, who want to
know the truth, TO read 1t. 1t is
clear that If q man reads that paper
that he must also read some other
newspaper in order to know the
truth. In short, a man who wants
the facts for himself and cannot af-
ford to take more than one paper,
cannot afford to let the Raleigh News
, and Observer be that one paper.
Yours for fairness and for the truth,
FARMER.
P. S-The News and Observer
also said that Senator Butler referred
to leading Republicans like President
Grant, Speaker Cannon and Presi-
dent Roosevelt as examples to young
men, but did not refer to any South
erner or any Democrat. Everyone
who heard his speech will remember
that he used the lives Of General
Grant and General Jackson both to
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