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

and the Clerk 70 do the wrltLhG LOT tas
ruler.
In North Carolina, whenever Vice
President A. z. Andrews, h Boss o.
the Transportation Trust. caught sub
~sidizing newspapers or using railroat
money TO hire lobbyists. desires to be
amused, or to defeat any candidate
who does not wear has collar. or L
abuse some gentleman who has ex-
posed his political methods. this mod
ern King sends for his combination
Jester and Clerk and commits TO him
the duty OF b~uroonery n abuse
That Jester and Clerk. as everybody
knows in North Carolina, is Mr.. Henry
A. Page, the President Of the Aber-
deem and Asheboro railroad. He has
made the sides of the Big Boss laugh
till they would shake at his witticisms
directed at the men marked for
slaughter by the Big Boss. And this
same jester and clerk. with a pretense
of having no personal interest and as
q representative OF "a little road" has
been pushed or has rushed TO the
front to make the public fights for the
Transportation Trust.
Did the Southern Railway wish to
evade just taxation, to charge what
rates it pleased, did its Boss wish to
dictate judicial or other nominations
did Vice-President Andrews then come
out in the open and show his hand?
No. He subsidized newspapers to do the
ordinary work of printing such clip
pings as he should designate" n to
hurl mud, he dispatched such OF his
lawyers, whose pay was given more
for politics and lobbying than for legal
services, to TAX up his fight and vent
his spleen upon such newspapers and
public men as stood, like Mordecai at
the gate, and refused to do him
obeisance.
When the matter was n important
enough to cause the Big Boss to mark
for slaughter Chief Justice Walter
Clark thai mission was entrust-
ed to Mr.. Henry A. Page. Jester and
Clerk Extraordinary. How well he
performed the work and the estimate
the people placed upon the railroad
campaign he waged is eloquently told
in the vote in the Democratic County
Convention in Mr.. Pages home county
Of Moore where, almost unanimously,
the delegates were instructed to vote
for Judge Clark for Chief Justice, in
the proceedings of the Democratic
State Convention where he was nomi-
mated by such an overwhelming ma
jority as to astonish eve his friends,
and in the NOven Der election returns
where the people of the State gave
him q majority of more than sixty
thousand over an ex-Democrat who
received the sold Republican vote and
all the votes tina Col. Andrews, Mr.
Page and certain other railroad poll
ticians coi:!d control. 1.-THE mountain
was in labor and brought forth a
mouse"
And now tina Vice-President An
drews has been caught red-handed in
substituting State Senator Drewry's
Evening Times, again the Jester and
Clerk is pushed f~orward-or rushes in
to do what? Does he demand that
this corrupt use Of money to influ-
ence public sentiment be punished
and h a an end be put to it? Does
he come as the champion Of Pure
Politics and the foe Of a Subsidized
Press? On the contrary. his
purpose is to try to minimize the
of Vice-President Andrews and
Senator Drewry by vainly trying to
hesmirch the character of the editor
of Thc News and Observer, OF the
Governor of North Carolina and the
Democratic party of the State. Sup
Mr.. Page could prove the SANDER
Gus insinuations against the editor Of
this paper borrowed from the defunct
Norning Post-suppose he could prove
his insinUations against the Governor
suppose the Democratic party in
1888 or some other year accepted a
contribution from the Southern Rail-
unworthy Of Mr..
Page, who ought to present the owl
dence if he has any and not try to
damn gentlemen by his insinuating
Guestions)-what would all this prove
as to the Southern Railway? 1t would
establish the act that the Southern
Railway is doing exactly what
has been charged-running political
SoAN dpCIS, 1
and putting up railroad money to be
used to carry elections.
The situation in the railroad camp
has grown desperate. Disclosures have
been made which prove that the
Southern Railway, after 1t spent many
of dollars in the vain at
tempt to make a morning railway or
gan go, spent thousands of dollars to
Senate Drewry's paper
and thousands Of dollars in lobby
ing or having" The people and
the pres with one voice have de-
nounced these corrupt methods.
What is the answer? Sena-
tor Drewry confesses that vice-Presi-
lent Andrews subsidized his paper and
with the vouchers approved" by him
Vice-President Andrews is dumb as an
oyster. L this emergency Jester and
Clerk Henry A. Page rushes to the
bearing a dirty rag, and says:
He has found the answer.
What is it? He will ask a series Of
insinuating that the mon who