The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-08

the same rates and accommodations
given TO competing Virginia cities
Mr.. Pare knows there 10 10 analogy
between them ard directors OF the
state-owned railroad. and the trans
portznon they receive By virtue OF the
contract and appointment by the Gov
ernor. And every wcl,-!nformed man
knows IL. too. so much for mares
nest No. one
g Next Mt. Page ~ins!naates hat
h News and Observer, while Mr.. st
John was President of the ScasoArd
Air Line Railway. received amounts
for advertising IN excess OF reason
able rates. and asks for an itemiEei
statement OF such amounts received
from the Seaboard Air Line for sdve--
tising and special notices from 1922 TO
1909.
Mr.. Pages letter was received after
seven o'clock Wednesday night lie
was advised tina a day or two's de-
lay was desired TO examine the books.
and he was asked whether he wish
ed a day or two's delay for the infer
nation or wish your communication
printed without the information you
ask for?'' His reply was. Il wish TO
have article published on Friday
morning. Figures and answers TO
questions can be gfyen later" Exactly
so. Mr. Page wished his insinuations
and taseiess questions 10 be printed
Immediately without being eccompa-
MED by the truth so his railroad crowd
-~lxa tho s". nraE
sion that the editor of this paper
couldn't answer charges rejecting
upon him at a moments notice HOW
ever, EXCEPT as 70 figures, 1t was as
easy to answer every statement made
by MI. Page in an hour as IN a year.
In one breath he was assuming an ar
of earnest inquiry after facts; In the
next breath he shoved his desire TO
circulate slanderous in~sinuations, un-
ACCOMPANIED b. the facts he pretcnds
he wants.
There is no man now connected with
the business office who was connected
with the paper during the years tor
which Mr.. Page desires Information.
but the entire business force got the
books out OF the basement yesterday
and below Is furnished the information
Mr.. Page says he desires:
The total amount Of cash received
by The News and Observer Publishing
Company for advertising schedules,
notices of rates for special occasions.
stockholders meetings, excursions, re-
sort advertising. freight notices and
subscriptions to papers during the ten
years from January 1, 1897. to Janu-
airy /. 1907, in the Daily News and
Observer, The Weekly North Carolin-
and The Farmer and Mechanic
been an average of s235 a year,
which is more than 500 less than the
contract of Mr.. Pages hotel
at Jackson Springs for advertising in
The News and Observer alone.
For the years 1897 to 1903. inclu-
sive, asked for by Mr.. Page, the aver
age was less than s210.
1t he has any doubt that it is cor
rect he has the permission of this pa
per to obtain and print every item
and voucher for every dollar paid this
paper by that or any or all other
railroads.
8. Wniie it was yet alive, the Morn
Post printed a false statement to
the effect that The NeNs Ii Observer
had entered into a deal with the Cen
Eral superintendent of the Seaboard
Air Line to coInmi a fraud by pao-
ding the mails. Mr. Page evidently
did not see that this ape character
.zed the lie as it descr.ed. and ne re-
lamps IT in the form OF a question.
Nobody ever bought DID News AID OBJ
servers TO send through the mail for
my purpose at any price. The only
foundation for the slande lies in the
'act that in 1896 a former citizen of
then connected with the Sea
BOARD Air Line. subscribed for II GER
ain humble of copies of the North
Caroiilian for one month to be sent
o suGh addresses as he should
The papers were sent out as
he directed by a clerk in the office.
The editor never saw the names to
lues had gone out, Mr. H. T. Gregory.
Post Office Inspector. called at The
news and Observer Office and asked
I an extra large nurnCer of NOrII
were being sent out. He
vas told by the editor that there were
md the name OF the party wno had
ordered them Mr.. Gregory stated
he had asCertained that they were
sent out to pad the mails SO as
o increase the revenues of the rail-
DAD. Immediately an order was
,iven to canoe the subscriptions. AS
Don as Mr.. Pages letter was receiv-
d on Wednesday night it was ascer-
aimed that Post once Inspector
was in Greensboro and he
requested to make a statement
{ the matter which he does as fol-
oWs:
Greensboro. N. c., Oct. 3, 1907.
If. Josephus Daniels, !,
Editor News and Observer. :
Raleigh. n. c.. !,
" Dear Sir:
In esponse to your inquiry with {
to my interview with Won In !,
.pril. 1896. regarding the mailing or +,
IN pie copies of the North Carolinian.
uTing weighing of mails on the s. A {
/. Railway, l have the honor TO trans {