The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-01
SAUNDERS NAILS LIE

Here is a mean, venOmOus,
unfair blow beneath the belt
which the editor of this news
paper can not permit to pass un-
challenged. l quote from the
Hertford Herald, issue of Friday,
July. 25. But before quoting,
word about The Herald may be
in order. The Herald was es-
tablished in Hertford by one
Jack Wells, a printer who drift
ed into Elizabeth City from
somewhere out West, a little
more than a year ago. Mr..
Wells runs a print shop in Eliz-
abeth City and undertakes to
publish a paper in Hertford.
A few months ago Mr.. Wells began
| to change the date line on a few copies
of his Hertford paper. Instead of it
being the Hertford Herald, it became
The Herald, published at Elizabeth
City. These papers have been circu-
| lated free among the business houses
| of Elizabeth City. About the time this
trick of The Hertford Herald began to
be worked there was incorporated
under the laws of North Carolina a
concern known as the Linotype Pub
! fishing Co., Elizabeth City, N. G. The
S,,0o f0T- Of hot
4 Jack Wells, @. ,R-ssPugh, Martin b.
Simpson and Phil. Sawyer. What they
have to do with the publication of The
Herald is a matter of conjecture. It
is no secret that Messrs. Sawyer and
| Simpson are hostile to THE INDIE
PENDENT. I will now quote the edi-
. torial from the last issue of this Her
aid, headline and ALI
: THE FEREBEE HIGHWAY PROJECT
Why is it that when a certain type OF
., man once gets into politics ne either
gets something he can never get rio
: of again or loses something he car
never regain? This is noticeable in the
case of our esteemed contemporary
the Elizabeth City Independent. Fol
e years the Independent has championeo
an interstate highway through Nortf
, Eastern North Carolina to Norfolk
f Last year the talented editor of thai
= newspaper was elected to the lower
s house of the General Assembly IRON
e Pasquotank county. It was reasonable
= to suppose that the interstate highWa!
t would be the first care of the budding
= statesman from Pasquotank on taking
his seat.
i But, the history of the measur'
S which was introduced in the Senat
e and. not in the house and bears tn
r name of Senator Ferebee of Pasquo
n tank county, has been most disappolnt
: ing to those who have followed tn
It arguments of the Independent an
: MANY of whom have been Influenced b,
them. The Pasquotank county repre-
o sentative professed the most unquall
n fed approval of the measure while L
= Raleigh. But when citizens IRON FER @
o ouimans county heard the bill ma
!. been killed and went to the capita! I
IS see what could be done about It, the
g found Representative saunders oppos
1t ed to reviving the measure because u
= objected to the man from his count
named on the district highway com
mission. AS a compromise, anothe
name, which he said was satlsIactoI
to him. was substituted, and the pl
passed both houses was signed ana ~oe
~ came law. --,,;o1, !, .
- Since that time the name which ma
X occurred more frequently than eve
that of the versatile editor OF lhe II II
dependent in that newspaper mas pee 6a
ID the ''Ferebee Bill. But lnGe fo
10 II The bill has been found wrong 0
= +ha Tndependent in nearly all thlne
y that could all a legislative measur'
r. has been stated and reiterated tna
the highway cannot be built unoee ~, ~,
Ferebee Bill; that the fa1iure "a ~ ~
E,erebee Highway project, etc; 9nstat
- defects are found in the Ferepe
lg R;u and everything that could dlscouI
le age the friends of the pro1ect nay
"a either been limited at or oeIlnlIe'
If stated. -,,,,.v ,oea s,1re ORIG
mated in the senate m Tarehea anu m of Eli
- oJath ~ City and not in the mouse q
Ponresentative Saunders, editor OF "a
Indanendent Is it possible tnat tns s
. statement explains the lndePeIluen. enr
ohiections to the measure anu us 80 ~.
tinual obstruction as far as q o1,e 80
naner can obstruct a pupnc Inplotkt ~
pap19 p,.+9 The measure had to pass tl
ho11se as we'll as the senate: II LIZ LIZ
mere defects why should not the Eas
r o,1otank county repreSenIat1Y y
been as astute in noting them as
was in objecting to the persoiinei
the commission! e4,o,o1 mol
+iosa Has the Elizabeth City sena.e
offended the Pasquotank representa- y
~ tho lower house, and does the Ailu'
nendent wish to defeat the lIitelsSa So.
highway in order to 1n1ure she 81 a
tor from the same city! Sone --.
has happened to that spieIaiu aii+ir
naner since it's editor entered potlelI -
f NAV saw editorially that 1t faVors u
Interstate highway, but its hrst pas
ref,1+es the claim in almost every lssu
II is not for the highway and II 1
implicitly can defeat it it will do s
What is the reason?
In the foregoing The Herald