The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-07-27
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

i doubt the prOprietyof the ''Third
Party" movement. Prohibition, and not
Office is what we want Rev. r. N. Price
in Holston Methodist.
B. II. Bum, Democratic candidate for
Congress from the Fourth district, and E.
W. Pou, Jr., Democratic candidate for
eector in the Fourth district will address
the citizens Of Benson on August :.
e. w Pou, Jr, Democratic candidate
for elector of the Fourth district, and T.
b. Womack, Esq, will address the citi
zens of Johnston county on the political
issues of the day in Cleveland township
on July 31st; in Selma August 1st.
The Charlotte Chronicle says Capt. S.
B. Alexander cannot accept the nomina
ton for the Senate in Mecklenburg this
year. Private reasons render It impossi
bic for him to do so, and no one regrets it
more than he.
The Kinston Free Press reports that
Mr. w. ". n. Hunter. q strong Republ-
can and ti-Prohibitionist, is distribute
ing Third Party Prohibition literature
The Press says that this is another evil
dence that the Third Party in North
Carolina is 'Repubican annex
Last week Rev W T. Walker, Prohi-
btion candidate for Governor, spoke at
graphed to Hon VIM NJ Robbins to come
and meet him. He came, he saw, he con
quered. Ali the reports agree that he
gave Walker the worst ''Scathng any man
ever received. "
Gen. Robt. B. Vange made a speech
at a Democratic meeting in Asheyille last
week when he gave the audience his own
contribution of original campaign poetry.
Here is a part:
From the rolling Susq quebaua,
From the State of Indiana,
From the broad and green savannah,
Well eat the Cleveland mama.
And. scouting, wave the red bandanna.
Mr. T. NJ. Vance, Democratic nominee
for Presidential Elector in the Eighth Dis
trict and Mr.. r. L. LinneE. had joint
discussion at Newton yesterday. Mr..
/ Vance is reported by credible auditors as
having been fully equal to the occasion.
! Mr.. Linney neglected another opportunity
/ to give the names of the two damned
scoundrels' whom he says are on the
/ Republican State ticket Statesyille Land
mark.
/ Mr. John 7. Nichols, the Democratic
/ nominee for the House in Durham, is out
! IN card in the Plant denying a charge
that he was made to wear a barrel shirt
during the war as a punishment. Mr.
/ y NlCDOIS puDllSlSS CtftiS from I'i 'tlS-
som and Mr. c. n. Allen, of Wake, cap
tains of Co. D., 30th \. G. regiments, and
NJ v Rogers, Lieutenant, and J. c. Fer
rell. member Of same company, all agree
ing that the report against Mr.. Nichols is
not true. Mr.. Allen pays Mr.. Nichols a
high compliment as "a prudent and faith
full soldier in Gen. Lees army
"A friend informs Us that a gentleman
! told him recently that he knows an old
man in Fayetteville, N. c., good Demo
crat who had announced his purpose to vote
for Col, Dockery because the Colonel was
a Prohibitionist. ''Angels and ministers
of grace defend ust' Dockery Prohibi-
ZIONIST It is one of the richest things
among the humors of the campaign so
far, inasmuch as it is a matter of hist ory
that Col Dockery not only wrote a long
letter to the Wilmington Star against Pro
hibition but, III the campaign Of 1891,
canvassed portions of the State against it,
and actually made bold enough to draw
argument from the Bible in support of his
positions. = Rockingham Rocket.