The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-01

sand dollars in Southern Railway
vouchers. State John =
Drewry, or Wake county. yesterday
makes what ne calls "A full and franz
statement or his connection with sucf
vouchers"
The statement f. remarkable IN thai
II Is so poor a defense with the i've
days start. coupled with the fact thai
immediately upon the disclosure be-
coming public. Colonel a =. Andrew
had left for Washington City, pre-
surnably to the data for IN.
eagerly expected statement" the pull
lie was prepared for something adrolt
For the first time since this corrO-
boration OF public belief has beel
made clear, Drewry's position be
comes pitiabIe. He is forced 10 cor
fess that his paper was subsidized b..
the Vice-President of the southern
Railway. though he submits a lame
and impoteut plea in avoidance Of tn
seriousness Of his offense
Colonel Andrews and Mr., DreyVry
were both practical men. What was
the need of a contract between them"
1t will be noticed that Colonel An
drews did not take any stock-first,
because he did not desire that his
name be disclosed, and. second. be
cause he could stop the payments
when the paper did not do to suit
him. At the same time he had
Drewry's receipt-aad he knew that,
SO long as he had that evidence of
the connection which DreWry was 50
piously denying. Drewry would do
what he wanted done! And the
columns OF the paper, editorial, as
we'll as such clippings from other pa
pers as he cool. Andrews) might
Designate were such as to encourage
Vice-President Andrews to continue
to approve $4,000 vouchers.
According to Mr.. Drewry's statement
in the early fall of 1905, lie ZAP
preached Col. Andrews and asked how
he would like to see a large afternoon
in Raleigh, taking the full As
ISOLATED Press dispatches" He knew
at that time that Col. Andrews was
the political controller Of the Southern
Railway and that he owned or con
trolled the Morning Post then being
publioIlN'' buI opC III CIV ~ give
the full conversation between him ana
the railroad magnate? Was not the
substance of it that. as the Southern.
Railway couldn't make the Post go
as q morning paper, DreWry would
like for Co. Andrews TO back his
Times as an afternoon paper, and Col.
Andrews agreed, or his agents did, to
turn the Morning Post over to Drew
rvs Evening Times, upon condition
that Drewry's paper would print such
clippings from other papers as Col.
Andrews might Designate" provided
the Southern Railway would pay "a
few thousand dollars" for such clip
pings and advertisements and read
ing notices?' In pursuance of some
such understanding-(or the exact
agreement as stated by DreWry)-tha
Post stopped publication and the Ever
ing Times took its subscription list anC
material. and proceeded to advocate
the same measures always advocated
whatever side Of any question that
would suit the Southern Railway. II
anybody doubts this let them examine
the files of that paper after consolida-
ton.
Shortly after the two papers were
consolidated, the Times began advo-
eating a change of schedule, 50 that
the lao a. NJ. train should leave Raj
eigh at midnight. This was the spite
schedule" afterwards put into effect
by the Southern. This paper believed
tho 6I-ncany of ,,r IL ~ NO. -,
spired by the Southern Railway and
in its issue of December nth. 1905.
said:
Since the Post was consolidated
with the Evening Times eader of the
afternoon paper have found tina it
was not the Post that was swallowed
put that it is the Post under another
name that is published as an after
noon paper instead of as a morning
paper.
without provocation. it keeps up
the Posts hab of abusing The News
and Observer. though it's opposition
does The Old Reliable no more
harm than when the abuse was print
ed in the dull gray of the morning
instead Of in the waning of the after
noon.
Seeing that its abuse does not in
jure The News and Observer. the af-
ternoon paper is now engaged in an
attempt TO get the southern Halfway
to make a new schedule which will
prevent h News and Observer
reaching its subscribers west of Raj
elgh until it is a day old"
In answer to that statement the
editor of the Times assured the editor
of The News and Observer that the
Southern Railway, or any officer con-
nected with it, had nothing whatever
to do with the Times and tina it was
under no obligations of any sort to
that railway OF to any other. This pa
per accepted the statement. Later, in
order to convince the public tina tho
Times had no relation to the railroad.
he said on the goth of December
Not one dollar of the stock of tbs
Evening Times is owned directly, in
directly or otherwise by any man di-
rectly. indirectly or otherwise con.
nected with any railroad. The stock
books of this organization are omen to
those Who want additional proof OF
this statement, and when any man
says that it is the resurrected POST
or that Ii is controlled by a railroad
or railroad people. he is a malicious.
Wllful and deliberate liar"