Superintendent George Ross Pou of the State Penitentiary, who had a fight with Mr. Jonathan Daniels, a member of the News and Observer staff, said the newspaper had been telling lies on him. Mr. Pou did not specify what the lies were. If he means that because the News and Observer has had something to say about the big deficit that has accumulated in the penitentiary’s financial affairs under his management that therefore it lied, then he might as well include a lot of folks and newspapers, too. It has been a matter of common knowledge for many months that the penitentiary is running in debt all the time. In referring to it, the News and Observer has done nothing more than its duty. Mr. Pou is just like a lot of other public officials—mighty friendly as long as they are getting praise, but very indignant when any thing critical is published.
From the editorial page of The Beaufort News, Thursday, July 30, 1925
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