The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-18
The "SHIPMAN WING"
Surprising Utterance of Charlotte
Observer Regarding the Sug.
gestion Of Peace among North
Carolina Democrats.

The following Remarkable editorial
appeared in the Charlotte Observer on
Sunday April 7th:
Mr.. n. L. Shipman, Assistant Com
missioner of Labor and Printing, has
writ q piece and backs it up with en-
dorsement from others, saying that the
folks want peace and shat the news
papers will greatly oblige the people by
desisting from an apparent effort to Gre
ate dissension and division in the ranks
OF the democratic party" There will
be peace whenever Mr.. Shipman induces
the wing OF the party with which he
acts to allow it; but as long as its repre-.
sentatives continue to blackRuard the
other wing, to try to bully and bulldose
1t, he may cry peace, peace, but there
will be no peace. He doubtless expects
them to lie Down and permit themselves
to be walked over and to submit in sill.
enc 70 all the detraction and whatever
else may be visited upon them but they
n not 80 lamb-like, as everybody
should know by this time. Submissive
ness is not Q North Carolina character
istic, and while Mr.. Shipman and his
crowd can have peace whenever they
become peaceful, they can depend upon
it that their assaults will continue to be
met with assault. All the warfare shall
not be permitted to be waged or one
side.
Speaking of peace, the State was
promised hat as the result of the adop-
ton of the constitutional amendments.
But no M were the Republican par
ty and the negro out of the way than
the Shipman wing of the Democracy
turned upon all that element of the par
fu ~hiah WOnld NOT hnW the knoo tn IL
and has waged upon ita meaner, more
maleYolent warfare, than was ever wag-
ed upon the Republicans and the ne
groeS, so that since the adoption Of the
amendment North Carolina has been
rent by strife and has resounded with
conflict as never before. The ante-Ship-
wing of the party has not been res
ponsible for this and Is ready to play
quits whenever it is let alone. But not
before.
In its issue of the 18th inst, the OBJ
server contained the letter below ac=
by the first article to which
its editor had previously referred. The
latter has already appeared in the Hus-
tier, week before last. I
''To the Editor of the Observer:
/ enclose copy OF the article to which
was taken in the leading
editorial in Sundays Observer and will
be obliged if you can give the same
space in your paper, since my motive in
writing it has been questioned. If after
the "piece" your readers on
clude that the observations of the editor
last Sunday are justified, ! shall be
The purposes Of my communi-
o.kIor uuaUa nf q oonoral oh roofar opd
criticism Of any particular individual
or newspaper was made or intended.
Your reference to''the Shipman wing''
of the Democratic party is most wonder
full as "that wing'' exists only in the
fertile (?) Imagination Of the Observers
brilliant and versatile editor. When
wing OF the party refuses shelter
for any Of its members it will be time
to take to the woods" Ny point Is
that any effort to foment strife in our
ranks should be discouraged, whether
the same shall manat from radicals"
or conservatives. erstwhile" bOlters,"
any combination of whatsoever kind.
The suggestion that the writer is act
ing with any wing of the party, having
designs upon another is far fetched and
uniustihed. While 1 have always had
the habit of submitting to the will of
the majority, a plea of mot guilty. is
rendered to the intimation that
1 am afiliating with any faction, clique
or combine" Barring the sure der
Of principle, which l shall yield to no
man, or set of men, | am perfectly
that my wing CO shall be clipped,
II the interests Of the Democratic party
will be promoted by the operation"
However I do not admit that there is
division in the ranks of the masses and
the folks will take charge of their bus
at the opportune moment and give
the high bounce to all d~isturbers, who
would divide the party into two raving
20 as to get rid of big bosses
and have plenty of small ones. Senator
Simmons is still at the helm and no
other leader is needed until he u
renders the banner. There is nothing
10 divide the democrats in this State
md they are not going to submit to q
ROW" growing out of little differences
between q few members of the recent
General Assembly,
II. L. SHIPMAN