The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-16
WILL c. R. PUCH
BEPOSTMASTER?
DIR. Pendleton's Term Expires
Next July-Pugh's Crouch
Must Be Relieved

VIII c. Royden Pugh, the
young Elizabeth City lawyer
whose ambition was to "quietly
organize the forty some thous-
and Negro voters in North Car
DINA IN the interest of Republi-
can success" in the last election,
be the next Post Master of Eliz-
abeth City? This newspaper has
a hunch that he will be, unless
some one prefers such charges
against him as will make the
party hesitate to give him such
resignation, even as the party
hesitated and finally refused to
let him actively participate in
the campaign in this state last
Fall.
Elizabeth City. He has made his de-
mands for this particular berth Every
body else is being taken care of or has
been taken care of. There is Col. Ike
Meekins with a job close to the cabinet
in Washington. Kohloss has been made
Prohibition Commissioner. Frank Lin
ney has been given a District Attorney
ship.
The Post Master at Elizabeth City
at present is DR.. A. L. Pendleton who
has served for eight years. His second
four-year term of Office expires next
July. By all the rules and traditions
of the Civil Service he should be re-
appointed. But rules and traditions in
the hands of one party do not apply
to the subjects of another party. DIR.
Pendleton will be pried out of the Eliz-
abeth City post Office next July. Re-
publicans say so. DR.. Pendleton him
self expects it. And e. r. Pugh ex-
poets to land in his shoes.
But will Col. Isaac NJ. Meekins who
has had Pugh swapping at his heels for
the past eight or ten years and who
pounded him numerically in the party
councils last summer, permit Pugh to
walk away with the post Office appoint
ment at Elizabeth City? Most certain
ly he will. Col. Meekins will not have
a word to say about it. Col Meekins
is a loyal Republican. He listens to
Washington. Washington has said to
the Republicans in North Carolina,
''you boys must get together and pull
together; we shall tolerate no division
in our own ranks" If the post Office
will satisfy Pugh and he will abandon
his fight on Col Meekins, Pugh will be
assured that Col. Meekins will make no
further fight on him. When Will Hays
and w. G. Harding speak, Col. Meekins
is going to listen. He will be so busy
handling the legal problems involved in
the governments administration of 800
million dollars worth of alien property
that he will not be bothered by a little
thing like Pugh getting postof6ce job.
It is a safe bet that Col. Meekins will
not lift a finger against Pugh now.
There are several in Elizabeth City |
who want the post Office. Jerry Wilcox |
wants it. Pooley White wants it and
s hot for it. His family has been vot-
ing straight for two generations with |
put recognition. They probably never |
cared for recognition. But Harry does. |
He thinks it's time a. Kramer came in |
for something. But Pugh is a better |
wire pulIer than Mr.. Kramer and Pugh |
has a crouch. Pugh's crouch is his /
greatest asset right now. Every Re |
publican with a crouch must be relieved |
Of his crouch in the interest of Re
publican harmony. The post office will |
relieve Mr.. Pugh's crouch. Very well
then, he shall have the post Office. Mark !
his prophecy and see if it doesn't come |
true.
The Office of Post Master at Eliza |
beth City pays a salary of $1,000 {
year.