Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-10-31

Gu 'lle eultor last Friday evening
by Deputy Sheriff A. NJ. Rice. It
is self-explanatory:
North Carolina,
Rowan County.
To
VIM. H. Stewart:
You will take no.
tlce that a criminal action will
be brought against you for the
malicious publication, in the edi-
torlal columns of The Carolina
Waterman, a newspaper publish
ed by you in Salisbury, Rowan
County, North Carolina, of the
following false, defamatory and
and llbelous matter of and con-
cernlng the undersigned John M.
Julian, to wit:
In the issue of said PAPER of
date September 18th, 1906, name
ly:
"Indeed, why should any
capable young man want to go to
Washington and bury himself in
a little clerkship when he can get
the salary and stay at home? But
such would be just plain stealing
from the people, and yet the Dem
ocrats OF Rowan are expected to
vote this fall for a man who is
accepting a $4,000 salary just
this way. Great is graft"
In the issue of said newspaper
of date September Goth, 1906,
namely:
THE chap, with the s75,-
90 per month garft, will wish be-
fore this campaign is over that
the mountains will fall upon him
and hide his little egotistical,
pzesumptuous soul beyond the
fingers of scorn and eyes~efhon-
est men,"
In the issue~of said newspaper
of datg October 18th, 1906,
.hamely:
What a colossal hypocrite
what q superlative egotist, what a
!. megalomaniac. what an abund-
tough cheek is necessary
5 per month CRATER to go
enouncing graft, to jmag-
self fit above other mel
sfree people in the leg
islatuieY Of the state, to believe
his qua1ifcations are sufficient to
eope with matters of state when
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,
Davis and Gladstone are known
to have made errors, and to stand
up before an audience of intelli-
gent citizens of Rowan with no
better plea, than service to a boss,
for the elective franchise of free
men. But of such is the social
ed Democracy of Rowan now
burdened."
In the issue of said newspaper
of date October oath, 1906 namely
"Did you know that n of
tne so-cSlled Democratic candi-
dates for the legislature. lower
house, owns stock in a saloon and
has been indicted forssthe dispo-
sing of mortgaged property? Did
you? Look before you leap.
Think before you vote. If you
have the good of the county and
State at heart don't you believe
Rowan should have clean, decent
men in Office.
This the Goth day October, 1906.
JOHN NJ, JULIAN.
TIE public expects, and has a
right to expect, information con-
corning the fitness, or unitness,
of men who seek public positions,
and, no paper that has not the
courage to express it's convictions
is worthy of the support of good
people. Hence, THE WATcHMAN
has, for the public good, printed
from time to time statements that
1t had good reasons to believe
were true, and it has failed pur-
posely, to call names, for the
reason that 1t was attacking can
didates for public positions, not
private citizens or the private life
of citizens, thus hoping to avoid
personalities. But, as J. M. Ju-
lian has seen fit to presume that
all illusions made in this paper
referred to him, he has taken &C.
sasion to "~serve" notice, and
consequently starts the ball roll
ing in a different direct / 0 n,
Bluffs will not go down: We
have no fear of the outcome and
nothing to retract that the facts
will sustain, while Oh the other