The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-26
HE COST PER AIG' IN NORTH
CAROLINA AND IN ARKANSAS.

III SoSI HFER AlG' IN X
CAROLINA AND IN ARKANSAS.
The nomination by the President
for Federal Judge of Mr.. Seawell.
whose chief reputation is that he is
the only public speaker in a genera
tlon who made so bitter and insult
ing a speech that he was rOtten-egged,
mas raised the question of what sort
OF compensation should be given to
a person thus insulted. Mr.. Seawel
was mt by two eggs and for the in
dignity sued the SeabOard Air iii
Railroad and recovered $4,000, or 81
25O per aig." That verdict removed
all n mental anguish he suffered
ana once more seems to have been il
Illustrated the truth of Tennyson's
statement about the Jingle Of the
guinea healing the hurt that honor
feels
North Carolina therefore set the
price Of being rottcn-egged at .$2,25O|
per aig' if the boys threw the egg at
a politician who had bought a rail
road ticket and was on the company's
property when the eggs were hurled.
II the egg is thrown at any place ex-
cept on railroad property, the ~penalty
to the party throwing it is a nominal
hne. Mr.. SeaWell. the rings second
cholce candidate for Judge Grape ex-
~tenuatIng Judge Adams being the
first favorite) has reaped great pro1it
and fame from being rOtten-egged. 1t
enabled him to get reputation as 4
martyr for the cause of Negro Rule,
which he advocated with 4 voice that
flNdled that of q certain animal with
out pride Of ancestry OF hope of pos.
terity. He got several rcceiverShip
obs from Judge Purnell that made
him rich in addition to the $4,000
from the Seahoard Air Line Railway
Tor the rOtten-egging. And now the
Shelby uncomfortable experience has
landed him in a nomination for a
Judgeship once held by Brooks and
seymour. Neither of them was ever
~rotten-egged or compared Democrats
to "Jackasses' or Waller Dogs" but
they We're otherwise well qualified for
the positions they filled with ability.
In their day It was not necessary for
a winning candidate for the Federal
bench to have delivered a rape eN-
~tenuatinS' charge to a jury, or to
have called Democrats ".Jackasses"
and Waller Dogs to be considered
for appointment. 1t was expected that
they should be Republicans, but more
attention seems to have been paid to
their legal learning than to their
vicious and mean partisanship. In
this day, according to the Duncan
Pritchard recommendations, very lit
tie knowledge of the law and very
much partisan malice constitute the
t qualifications, and the ountry is
cursed with a President who accepts
!, such recommendations.
> But to return to the proper com
pensation for being rotten-egged.
, North Carolina pays a higher price
for it than any other State. When
Seawell was the Populist candidate for
observation-disclosures, qualified to IL
as a Populist by his long hair and his
loud voice, he got himself rotten
2 BILE. vindictive and atrocious utterance
ever heard publicly in shelby" That
z is the way a prominent Shelby lawyer
characterized his speech. He was not
= only the Populist candidate for Lien
= tenant-GoVernor but also the Repub-
Hcan candidate for that place. TIL,
POpuliStS first wished TO make hin
+ Acknowledgement. but when the Re
+ publicans heard his speech in favor o.
: keeping the ballot Of every ignorant
: negro in the State they wished him
on their ticket, too, and SO he was th5
Joint candidate of both parties. Il
y he had been running only on the Pop
ulist ticket when ne spoke in Shelby
candidate SeawelI would not hav fell
= it necessary to call the Democrats
both YalIer Dogs and "Jackasses.'
e But he was speaking as the Republi-
| can candidate also and therefore hat
. to pluralize his anathemas. As tbs
II Populist candidate he declared "th'
Democrats are Jackasses' and as tn
Republican candidate he hurled thu
q term Yaller Dogs" at the Democrats
thus meeting the high expectations o
: b~iningsgatc from his audience. 1t wa:
u something of q strain to have to eQua
t The most vile Republican Spell-binde,
and variegated bile Of the Populist
s but ScaWelI was equal to the emer
gency. He did himself proud as
n double e~Xpounder of billingsgate ant
got his reward in $4,000 for a rotten
n egging, big tees through favOrltiSm
g and the Judgeship which is still hang
e ing on the limb just beyond his reach
! II the Senate requires a big lawyer
Seawell is as near the Judgeship a
he will ever be.
But to return. How much ought
man to be paid as compensation 70
the AMmen-egged? In North Caro-
- Hstorisble-5arrelled candidate TO
Wxa.sAtS9 Governor got $4,000. Tn
}6rice does not seem ~ ft 50 iifgf
kelsewhere as the following telegram
t Elbows:
Little I:ock, jan. 14.-One dolla
nd costs is all it costs to throw al
s &gg at u. S. Senator Jeff DAVIS Whel
i Phe was stumping the state in tn
+ g~ubernatorial campaign IN the inter
: est of Acknowledgement KIRBY
Walter Cantrell threw an egg at
= Bellefonte rally, intending it Tor tn
Senator, but it missed the mark an
hit a man ACCOMMODATING DAVIS. :,
J Young Cantrell was arrested. II
: was found guilty TO-DAY ana l!Leu oi
dollar and costs.
o Think about it. A real United State
Senator in Arkansas is less considers
than a defeated candidate Tor Lieu
II tenant-GOVernor in North tdlollh"
Are our eeps affected with more OdOr
Or are our candidates more bespat
tered? Here it is: You can go to Ar
kansas and brow rotten eggs an "a
at Senator Jeffries Davis ana II ON
costs you one dollar a throw. bul
if haDnens on railroad property /
Shelby. if you throw stale eggs at
double-barrelled candidate lot Leu
N tenant-Governor, it will cost the Sea
board Air Line Railroad S-.-oo ps
Ne Carolina and Arkansas is alto9ethc
10 too great. Think of tin \ortn aaI
h olina it costs a railroad $3.50
1t throw a stale egg at a r~anlankelou
IN political spell-binder whereas = On,
m costs one dollar in Arkansas to hui
1y a like odoriferouS egg at d oli'e
~ States Senator