The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-23
GOSSIP FROM GUIIFORD.
GREENSBORO MAKES RUN ON O.
LITICAL CONVENTIONS.

GREENSBORO MAKES RUN ON O.
LITICAL CONVENTIONS.
The Republic ans Conclave Saturday
Items IF Interest around
Greensboro.
Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
GREENSBORO, Sept. 21:-There never was
known such a run of Political Conventions
in the history of Guilford county. The Re-
publicans held forth Saturday, nominated a
county ticket and let off whole magazine
of powder. The attendance slim as
usual A good many Democrats and Third
Party men went in to see the show, and
about 1890 the music struck up. Mr.. A. A. |
Hinton called the house to order and stated
object of the meeting. On motion the Com.
of organization was dispensed with and Mr..
J. s. Murfow was elected permanent Chair
man and Mr.. A. A. Hinton permanent Sec
rotary. committee on Resolutions was
APPOINTED and retired and it was moved
that Mr. J. A Hoskins address the Conven-
ton till committee was ready to report.
Mr.. Haskins took the floor and in a series
of stentarion explosions denounced tie
Democratic party and all Democrats as a
gang of thieves, liars and villains. The
Convention now being in most beatifc
frame of mind the committee on Resolutions
filed in and reported as follows:
LIST. Resolved, That the Democratic Parry
has proven itself to be an organized fraud AID
a system Of false promises and pledges toistsd
upon the people.
Ind Resolved, That the Republican Parry
favors. the abolition of Democratic Administn-
ton.
3rd. Resolved That the Republican Parry
| is opposed to the employment OF convict labor
| as opposed to honest labor.
4th Resolred, That so far as any preference il
| shown, the Republican Party is IN sympathy
with the Labor class VS.. the Capital.
| 5th. Resolved, That the Party endorses the
| nomination of Brewer for Congress.
| The report was adopted amid considerable
uproar and vociferation among the negroes
who were considerably in the majority. the
whites were up to snuff and took care to
keep the negroes in good humor lest they
should assert their rights and take matters
into their own hands.
| Itwas now moved that the official dslesa-
ton retire to back room and caucus or
nominations, whereupon a member rose and
said he was opposed to all back room csu-
cusses and that he was in favor of dong
everything in broad day light. This FILL
like thunder clap on the Convention and
they evidently thought a black sheep had
got among them. The gentleman VINO
made the motion then tried to explain lis
position, but the other gentleman still hid
his post against all wire pullingand dark
closet manipulations. The Convention sat
for some time in silent conclave, when The
chair spoke up and remarked rather sar0s-
tically that he thought the Convention lad
better adjourn if it had no further business
to transact, and that although he was pa
ker, he was not in the habit of keeping
quiet only during quaker meetings.
The Convention thus restored to conscious
ness passed motion that the house pro-
coed to name candidates, and ballot, wien
| - H. COL Oh OF
For the Senate, J. 8. Murrow. For he
House, J. A. Pritchett. For Clerk, Ale.
Holton. For Register, J. w. Causey. Tor
Treas, C. w. Armfeld. For Surveyor,
J. E. Osborne For Coroner, A. A. Hmm.
The candidates accept the nomination in
short speeches and a committee was sen to
invite Mr.. Brewer, who was in town to
come up and address the Convention. Col.
BOYD entertained the Convention till Mr..
Brewer arrived, when Mr.. Brewer took he
floor and said pretty much every thing Col.
Bovd had said. Reid will beat Brover
so bad he'll think a lightning express ran
over him. The Democrats will maIial
their forces next Saturday.
Tobacco brought good prices to day 1
was told by Ware House man that he lad
the prettiest line of tobacco on his floor his
morning that he has had during the seaon.
Most of the farmers in the section are lis
gusted, however, and say this will be tieir
seriously effect the progressive interest Of
} the town. Tie tobacco enterprise in Green's
Dor has been of inestimable beneft-tlere
has been very appreciable increase in us-
mess interests, from year to year, since its
advent, as there necessarily is in every
town. This is nowhere better known tan
in Winston.
1 talked with Mr.. E. A. Small the otter
day, who represents the Duke cigarettes md
who h as just returned home from Canada
He has been in every State in the Union
within the past twelve months and says il
was a matter of establishment to him t
note the rapidity of development in .hs
South as compared with the North. HI
ssys that there is more business and en-
thusiasm in Winston and Greensboro ane
Charlotte to-day than in any Northern
town of the same size, and that he has o.
served as an unvarying rule that there
, a spirit of enterprise throughout Nort
, Carolina and the Southern States that h
failed to detect in a northern atmosphere
Mr.. Small seems to think that the Mort
has attained the limit of it's growth an,
stopped short in recognition of superio
advantages jim the South-that kind {
Indifferent conservatism has taken the plac
of Yankey khrifi and that the South i
gradually absorbing the oninsxs of North
ern vitality and becoming the central Me
: tropolis. Mr.. Smatl says the secret of tn
whole thing is the South is doing its ow
Manufacturing. Greensboro needs more G
it and Winston has enough already to fes
the effect Of its life giving pulses, an
, make her know that her future depend
ON it.
+ Greensboro is we'll fixed up now witt
, respect TO Public Institutions. The Com
missioners have just ordered new fir
engine exactly similar to the one in Wins
ton, 1 understand. There Is nothing tn
place needs more. We haven't had . de