Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-03-06
ANOTHER V0LLEY.
Ar. Vanuerford Calls Attention to Some
Serious Things. Are They True?

impartially enforced.
There should be no distinction
Between the rich and the poor,
between the powerful and the OBJ
scure.
Every man accused of wrong
doing should have a fair and i'm
partial trial, and equal Justice
should be done to all.
These principles will govern me
if 1 am elected Mayor.
Has Mr.. Boyden violated these
principles, Or any of them?
l propose to answer this ques-
ton, by giving a few glaring in
stances, out of a great many, of
tis unfairness to those he styles
'his people," his mis-manage-
ment of City affairs, and his par
tiality to the rich and strong.
while careless of the rights ofsthe
weak and unfortunate.
A young white man, % years
old, Of good reputation, (proof of
lis good character is in my pos
session) a cotton spinner in his
blue ~overalls, and perfectly sober,
was arrested for vagrancy, taken
to the calaboose, kept there all
night and by Mr.. Boyden's order,
was sent to the chain gang, with
out a: trial, and kept there for
over 30 days, IN chain 8 and
stripes. He demanded a trial,
BUT NEVER GOT TO SEE MR..
BOYDEN.
This young man was POOR,
HUMBLE, AND OBSCURE.
Again, a prominent and wealthy
citizen, from a neighboring town,
was arrested as drunk and disor-
derby, and was so violent that he
had to be taken, by two police
men, late at night, to the City
Hall. M. Boyden came there,
and directed ono Of the City fire.
men. (paid to stay there and an
swer fire calls, to leave his post
Of duty, and escort this ''drunk
and d~isorderly" hom on t he
train.
THIS MAN WAS WEALTHY,
PROUD, AND PROMINENT.
Uncle Sam is rich and power
full. His retail liquor laws are
respected. No one can sell whis-
ky in Salisbury or elsewhere with
out paying him a $25 license. Two,
and perhaps three, bawdy houses
in Salisbury, pay this government
license.
The City of Salisbury, compar-
ed to Uncle Sam, is poor and
weak. Her laws, it seems, are VIC
lated with impunity. These baw-
dy houses pay no City license
It is of common information that
whisky is sold in nearly all the
bawdy houses in town, every day
and Sunday too, in violation of
the City ordinances. The saloons
pay lice.:s SO These bawdy houses
do not. The majority of our peo-
pie are in favor of high license.
and want the saloon men protect
ed IN their business. To be con-
sistent, Mr.. Boyden should either
make the bawdy houses pay Ii
cense, or exact no license from
the saloon men. Does Mr.. Boy
den know this? He has been re-
peatedly appealed to, in person,
to put a stop to the sale Of liquor
i'll these houses, and has paid no
attention % these requests. Will
he deny this? If so, let him
name time and place, AND THE
MAN WHO MADE THESE RE-
QUESTS WILL CONF
HIM.
One more Instance! A locomo-
tive engineer, poor and unfortu.
nate, who had been working at
Whitney, Was locked up in the
calabcose a few nights ago. When
searched, $81, rs was found Oh him,
and this money the police officer
carefully counted, and placed in
the prisoners pocket. He was
then locked up in a cell, where
both he and his money we're pre-
sumably safe. The next morn
ing he was there, but thirty dol
lars of his money was gone.
When he told Mr. Boyden, in the
police court, of his loss, the only
consolation he received was:
If you have been robbed, you
had be fer leave town.