The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-09-07
SOME REMARKS CONCERN
ING THE COMMUNICA-
TON OF T. L. NORTHOP,
M. D.

We regret CnaL owing 10 lack +
of space we could not publish in n
Thursdays Robesonian the reply .
we prepared for that issue to .
DR.. Northrop's communication. =
As we remarked, however, there \
was nothing to what DR.. Nor =
throp wrote; it was merely an
effort to draw attention from =
more important matters. How
ever, we see no reason to change
materially the remarks we could
not publish last Thursday for
lack of space, SO we give them
now. =
He wants the law which for
bids the county commissioners
to trade with themselves. Here
it is, Section 1872, Revisal of
1905:
If any person appointed or
elected commissioner or director
to discharge any trust wherein
the State or any county, city
or town may be in any manner
interested, shall become anunder-
taker, or make any contract for
his own benefit, under such au-
thority, or be in any manner
concerned or interested in max
ing such contract, or in the
profits thereof, either privately |
or openly, singly or jointly with
another, he shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor."
i 1t will be seen that the law is
very comprehensive. There is
no dispute about it; it plainly
states that the commissioners
shall not trade with . the county.
;, To briefly refer to some of DR..
Northrop's questions: He might
just as we'll ask why Col. Nc
Lean did not have the law pro-
vide for the investigation to go
back as far as the memory of
: man runs. The investigation
7 had to have some limit, and it
took long enough, in all con-
) science, to make an investigation
= covering the time for which the
= law provided. Surely DIR. Nor
c throp does not keep himself in
, formed, else he would not have
: asked some of the questions he
$ wants answered. The board of
e audit and finance did go into the
matter Of that fee, and on page
n 90 of the report of that board it
h is plainly shown that Col. Nc.
d Lean did not receive a penny fol
t the work of his firm in drawing
It up the road law.
Il We are beholding to the doc
h tor for his statement of what VIZ
n are due our readers. We rather
e suspected that it was our duty tt
% give the facts, and that is Wha
# we have been trying to do; it il
/ real comforting to know that DIR.
It Northrop agrees with us as tt
Is what we owe our readers. AM
at yet that seems to be just wha
" the matter is with DR.. Northrop
1T Inc does not seem to like the facts
10 In one sentence he states tina
" we are due our readers the fact
at and in the next he tells wha
he believes. Shucks! we dom
as care what you believe; W
ed get information from man
err men and from no certain crow
D. and we have the report of tn
nd board of audit and finance.
nd is no concern of ours how muc
he DIR. Northrop denounces tn
,ol men who do not sign their name
nd to their communications. W
We are violating no newspape
M ethics in publishing the articles
to we know who is responsible #
tn them and that is all we are col
in cerned about. AS to his belle
nv about where those articles orig
if mated, we are Indifferent. "
do believe they did not origina
ITO in a certain law office" ar
he since we know who is respons
BILE for them our belief is &c
,il- tainly worth as much as tt
to belief of T. L. Northrop, M.
at AS far as that is concerned, v
ate have heard men say that the
out believed nearly all the sign.
Nv articles in favor of the commi
C sioners originated with a certa
SOL other crowd and that the m,
Nc who signed them were asked
ay, do so by their authors. We ca
lool nothing about that, either, b
for we believe there is as much
all the one belief as there is in t
ers other.
ain Again DR.. Northrop sho,
Nc that he does not keep up.
and The Robesonian of August 10
tell was stated that A. w. McLe;
ing and J. A. Currie were the on
My ones who voted against tn