Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-10-02
WARNER AND The sNEAks,
4 Member Of the Senate in 1907 Has
Something to Say About the Pass.
age Of Sneak BilI..-.Ihe
EIkin & Allegheny.

Capt. E. F. Lovill in Charlotte Oh.
server.
Some weeks ago, l saw an ar
ticle iu the Raleigh News and Oh.
server taken from the LeXlug.
ton Dispatch, in which the edi.
tor, Col. H. B. Warner, makes
some very serious charges aginst
many OF the best men OF the
State. He alleges that the acts
OF the Legislature granting aid
to the railroads in the labor OF
the cOnvicts, were sneaked thro'
the Legislature without more
than a dozen men in either house 9
knowing what was done. Having
myself been a member OF the Sen
ate in 1907, when the act was
passed chartering and granting
aid to the EIkin 4 Allegheny
Railroad, l desire to say that the
charge is without any founda.
tion in fact. was also presentin
the Legislature of 1909, when
the act was passed granting from
SO to- $50 convicts to aid in the
building of the Watauga 4 Yad.
kin River Railroad; in each case
these bills we're discussed before
a full committee, and were fully
understood by all of them,
and they were por e d
favorably by a unanimous vote.
In the case OF the Watauga &
Yadkin Riyer road, the bill was
introduced by Mr.. Smith Haga.
man, member OF the House OF
Representatives from Watauga
county. Mr.. Paul K'tchin W a s
chairman OF the committee, and
an entire evening was given to
the discussion before q full COM
mittee. There were at least 100
persons in the building and it
was discussed by Hagaman,
DoughtoD, B. B. Dougherty and
the writer, and besides other mem
bers of both houses of the Gener.
al Assembly and newspaper re.
porters were present. There was
not a dissenting vote against the
favorable report, and the proceed
ings before the committee were
published in the News and %.
server. Mr.. Morton, from New
Hanover, made a motion to re-
port favorably, saying that he
had been in this country an d
knew that it was a matter of alb
solute Justice to the country
This is the way these bills were
"sneaked" through.
Now, Colonel Warner, We would
like to haveyou tell who these
sneaks were; who those bold, bat
men, from Murphy to Mante(
that did conspire against tn
State of North Carolina to rusl
these bills through and despoi
the State. Was itDoughton, wht
has spent the best part OF his lit
in the service OF the State OF Nort|
:, Carolina? Was 1t j. C. Buxton
who was chairman Of the com
mittee? Was it Dowd, OF Mecklpn
burg? Was it Daniels, OF Hall
fax? Was 1t Webb of Buncombe
Was it Pharr OF Mecklenburg
: Was it Aycock OF Wayne? Wa
), it BpIlamy OF Brunswick? Wa
s it Drewry of Wake? Was it Hick
of Granville? Was it Holt G
GuiIord? Was it Long of lredel
or Kluttz OF Rowan? These ar
men whose services in the inter
est of the State OF North Carol
ma are known to all men, an
there were many Others not mel
f toned, who have always bee
i ready to fly to the rescue OF gu
State in every crisis, either j
war or peace.
|, Colonel, come out, have Tn
courage to tell us your convl
tions and who these men ar
= The Colonel seems to lie fond
that word "sneak," having use
r. ,h,oo or fOur times in his art