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in holding out for the BERTHE location
from Plymouth to Edenhouse, with
Beaufort, Martin, Washington, Chow
an, Perquimans and Pasquotank
counties favoring the location select
ed by the State Highway and Public
Works Commission, the result may
be no bride at all, those familiar with
the background of the entire Abe
marie Sound bridge movement have
reason to believe. For there are a
great many who regard any bridge
across the Albemarle Sound as being
unnecessary and a waste of highway
money collected from highway users
for the most part in other portions
of the State. There are others, even
in these eastern counties, who believe
the highway department could much
better build more roads in these coun-
ties rather than spend from $1,250, 900
to $2,800,000 in building bridge. For
mer Representative George E. Davis,
of Hyde county, frankly admitted at
the bridge hearing here Friday that
he and most people in Hyde county
would rather have more roads than
new bridge, even if they could get
the bridge at the Tyrrell county To-
cation, although Davis was supposed
to be speaking in support of the
bridge location favored by G. w.
Tatum and his Tyrrell county delega-
:ion.
If the bitter antagonism and intra-
county factionalism continues half as
bitter as that exhibited here Friday
as a result of this bridge squabble,
and regardless if any bride is built or
not, this same antagOnism is likely to
extend over into the coming session
of the General Assembly, many obser-
verS believe. This in turn is likely co
mean the senator's and representa-
tives from these various Albemarle
counties will try to cut each others
political Threats and seek revenge for
whatever happens to the bridge by
knitting the proposals of the delega-'
lions from the opposing counties. It
has already been openly limited that
Tatum and Tyrrell county now are
deliberately trying to delay the build.
ing of the bridge except the one they
want until the General Assembly
meets in order to make it an issue in
the assembly. There have also been
limitations that if the highway COM
mission does not build the bridge
where the different factions want it,
they will seek to spank the commits
sion, if not to strangle it, in the next
session of the assembly, in spite of
the external claims that no politics
is involved in the bridge matter.
The Piedmont and western coun-
ties, however, are sincerely hoping
that all of these things will happen
in the 1887 General Assembly and the
eastern counties get into such scrap
with each other over this and other
bridges, that they can gain the bal
ance of power and force to enact
rnent a redistricting bill. If they can
do this, the eastern counties will lose
at least three state senators and five
or six representatives, or enough to
give Durham, Mecklenburg, Guilford
| counties a senator each and Bun
combe and several other western
counties an additional representative.
| The First, Second, Fourth or Sixth
Senatorial Districts in the eastern
would be the ones which would lose
a senator, while an umber of eastern
counties which now have two repre-
sentatives would get only one. If this
should happen, the Piedmont and
west would be assured of controlling
the future legislatures for years to
come and would no longer have to
take dictation from the east.
| So In fighting over a piece of high
wap pie-the Albemarle Bridge-the
east may lose the whole bakery as
well as the pie and be the tail wag-
ged by the dog instead of the tail
trying OF wag the dog, observers point
out.