The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-02-22
COL. Mclean FILES PRO-
TEST.
Disputes and Refutes Charges
Made Against His Compa-

Disputes and Refutes Charges
Made Against His Compa-
triots.
| (From Charlotte Observer
To the Editor of The Observer:
There was a hearing the other
afternoon before the joint legis-
lative committee on counties,
cities and towns, and on the bill
to create the County of Hoke out
of Cumberland and Robson, and
the hall of the House was pack
ed and jammed' with parties in
terested on one side or the other.
Editor Representative Julian, of
The Salisbury Evening Post,
writes his paper of the meeting
that three personal encounters,
sixty two inkstands overturned
and one female spectator over
come by the oppressive atmos-
phere is the sum of the results to
this time
when the canny Scots bear
themselves thus unseemly, what
t can be expected of the Dutch,
the Scotch-Irish and the other
lesser breeds without the law?'
observer, February 18th.
1t is my purpose, Mr.. Editor, to
!, take up. seriatim, these charges
against my compatriots, which, in
all conscience, were bad enough
l when only inferentially made by
: my good friend Julian, but
which became intolerable when
> you gave them positiveness OF
statement.
k | was there, Mr.. Editor, | can
: not say magma pars fui, for this
d was a contest between anC
among my own people, and
= take up the claymoreo only agains
n the Saxon-but | was there, anC
am prepared to dispute and re
y fute your charges.
= First. There were three per
- sonal alterations. Clearly thes,
~ ~ were among the near-Dutch, the
e Scotch-Irish. The Scotch do no
have personal alterations
X they fight. And who, once
n n row was started, ever heard o
n only three fights where ther
Is were five hundred Scotchmel
70 divided into three hostile camps
D. for there was also a proposition
n to form the new County Q
North Robson?
tn Second. Nine hats missing
as Whose hats? If they were Saxo
,e hats, | have only to say serve
a, 'em right. The brave Highlan
e. laddies, coming down from tn
'ie1 fastnessess of Rockfsh, in Gun
IA berland, and Raft Swamp, in Rol
nd eson, marched across the borde
n. and, marching back again, ca
Z, ried these trophies of war, wrur
from the unworthy Saxon.
- But if nine Scotch hats We
TO missing, I wish at once to kno
g. who stole 'em, and I call upon tt
TO grand marshal of Raleigh, othe
IS. wise known as the chief of p
-or lice, to raise hue and cry amor
ad the Southrons till the headge;
et- of my fellow citizens and clan
MS men be found.
Third. Sixty-two inkstan'
We overturned. The near-Dut
os- again. The Scots would have flu
'aii all the inkstands in sight, O.
10 hundred and twenty, more
IN less,at each other.
to The last and altogether MI
OF serious charge is that zone"
lcn male spectator was overcome
am oppressive atmosphere" " T.
a may be considered from t
My points of view: First, that t
Vocc inhalations and exhalations of t
OF satmosphere''by the large GRO
aat present vitiated it; or, secor
!a,y that the chief disputants exhau
ltlee ed the atmosphere" " created
ana vacuum, so to speak, and hel
ak al the swooning of the lady.
the must suppose that the latter
THIS the charge intended to be ma
om- Small atmospheric density,
learn, is to be found forty-t
hat miles above the earth, and 0
lern disappears at distance Of alb
ions eighty miles, and the bare insi
YER alton that those bonneted Hi
new landers, Stephen Mcintyre
and Wilton Mclean ard those otht
and near-Scotch, Charlie Webb ;
lern George Hall, consumed so M
the atmosphere, " with consequ
red. tial distress of a female spe
;" tor" is not to be borne with
'09. protest, which | herewith file
N. A. McLeal
ltion
,om- Senator Phllander Z; X
bat will be Secretary of State
on President-elect Taft's Cabine
i T. | q oo1orx, of GO 000 uyhilo all