Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
EDITOR HiLDERBRAND DEKOUNcES COX.
Republican Nominee forG0vernOr is notSup-
ported by the Only Republican Daily.

The following letter from Edi
tor Hildebrand, of the subsidized
News, gives to the public the rea'
sons why with Editor Rilderbrano
in charge the subsidized News can
not support J. Elwood Cox fol
governor:
HERE Is THE LETTER.
Greensboro, N. c., July %, 'OS.
Mr.. G. A. Reynolds, Winston, N G,
Dear Sir: Upon my return here
after spending. Sunday in Ashe
Vile, found letter from you sug-
gesting the wisdom of nominating
J. Elwood Cox for Governor. It is
very rare-in fact, it has been
only once or twice in my life,
I believe, that I have allowed
my personal feelings to enter into
my newspaper work. In this in
stance I have found it to be men
tally impossible to lay aside my
prejudice against J, Elwood Cox.
If either you or any other stock
holder should insist upon the pub
lication of a letter urging his
nomination, I suppose I would
print it, but if heed should be
given to the advice and he should
he nominated, some body else
would have to write the editorials
supporting him.
When l came to Greensboro it
was not the understanding that
the duty of financing this busi-
ness, which [ found in horrible
shape should devolve upon me.
[ have, however, done good
part of this work, thus relieving
the stockholders apd directors.
Shortly after I came here I was
told that J. Elwood Cox would
help us as he has frequently prom
ised to do SO. I made a trip to
High Point and he told me that
he would give US one hundred
dollars fer stock. This was about
the tenth Of December. He said if
| would draw on him on the 18th
he would honor the draft, but that
if I could wait until the first of
the year he would appreciate it.
His relative, Snow, also promised
to help US out on the first of the
year, I went to High Point again
about the second or third Of Jan
uary and was astonished, upon
walking into the bank owned by
Cox, to be told by him that he
did not have time to talk to me.
AS he returned to his private
Office I remarked I was not after
an audience but check,
but he made no audible reply.
He knew that if got near him he
could not decently get around
keeping that promise so he in
decent!y closed the door in my
face, and after cooling my heels
ON the outside of the bank for an
hour or SO caught the first train
back to Greensboro. Cox had
broken both his engagement and
his promise, couched in the terms
as definite as the English language
could make it When he broke
that promise, and I got my snub-
bing, I was not working in my in
terest, but in the interest of the
Republican daily paper published
in this State, and I do not mind
putting it in black and white that
if Elwood Cox should be nomi-
mated for Governor I would vote
for Kitchln, for whereas, I have
always regarded Kitchin as a good
deal of ar anarchist, I have always
found him to be g gentleman in
his relations with his fellow man.
Cox told me he was not asking
any favos s Of the Republican
party, but he lied about that, be-
cause he got his nephew appoint.
ed postmaster of High Point when
every Republican in the State
knows that the Office should have
gone to W. F. Ragan. Cox got this
appointment through false pre-.
lenses. He led the Republican
leaders t.: believe that with his
money he expected to aid the party
and this paper, But whether OF
not he has in the past asked favorE
of the party he Is hot after some
favors right now, and I propose
to make it my chief end in life to
see that he does not get them,