The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-27
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
BROWER ANDNICHOLS BUILDING
UP THEIR FENCES.

BROWER ANDNICHOLS BUILDING
UP THEIR FENCES.
Mebane, one of the Rival Negro Candi-
4 dates in The Second District Bought
Up for $2,5OO..
Especial Correspondence to The Sentinel.)
! WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 21.-
A singular state of things in the
Second N. G. Congressional District
has been reported here to the Con-
gressioDal Campaign Committee
within the past few days. As is we'll
known, Mr.. Simmons was elected to
Congress as a Democrat, because
there were two Republican negro
candidates in the field, Abbott and
| O'Hara. The feeling between these
two negro candidates was very bit
ter, mainly on account of the fact
that O'Hara was a mulatto and Alb
bott as black as the ace of spades.
The colored friends of the rival can
didates established a caste line on
the strength of these shades of color
and lost the District, with its Il, 900
Republican majority to that party
on account of it. The same status
quo existed until few days ago.
Two Republican negroes, Mebane
and Cheatham, were again in the
field, and Mr.. Simmons had fair
hopes of being returned to Congress.
But Mebane has just been bought
out by the Protective League, which
is acting as an auxiliary to the Re
publican Campaign Committee for
| 50, 500. This is a good price for
Mebane, but he leaves the field to
Cheatham, who will probably be
elected, unless some unexpected
complications and developments
occur. Mr.. Simmons and Senator
Kenna, both of the Congressional
Campaign Committee, say that they
have reason to believe that the Re
publicans are making especial efforts
in the Congressional Districts of the
South and have virtually given up
all hopes of doing anything as re-
CARDS the National ticket in that
section. Their object is to control,
if possible, the next House of Rep
resentatives. They are making des-
perate efforts in this direction.
Messrs. Brewer and Nichols have
both gone home to superintend in
person thnir campaigns Whnthor
they took any money along with
them is more than I can say, but if
Messrs. Kenna and Simmons are
correct in their surmise about the
object of the Republicans, in regard
to the Southern Congressional Dis
tricts, 1 should think that both
Brewer and Nichols would need as
much money as anybody. But,
Judging from all 1 hear, it will take
more money than Levi P. Morton
is suing North Carolina for to defeat
Col. Morehead and Mr.. Bum.
Both Senators Ransom and Vance
have recently returned from N. c.
and they speak in the most hopeful
terms of Democratic prospects all
over the State. Senator Ransom
tells me that Judge Fowle has made
a splendid canvass, and that his eff
forts cannot fail to tell in Novem-
ber.
Mrs. Tunis, the beautiful cousin
and ward of Col. Hoke, of Lincol
ton, was recently married in Europe
to Lieut.. Carl Mercer, of the U. s.
Navy. Her first husband was q
Frenchman of rank, who spent
r much of her splendid fortune and
) treated her badly. She was divorced
: from him without trouble. She ha:
l been entirely blameless in tine mat
ter, and it is hoped by her many
: friends that she has at last found tht
= happiness she richly deserves.
: #x*
The House caucus met last Tues
day night and decided not to mov'
: an adjournment of Congress unit
: after the Senate has done something
: definite with its tariff substitute bill
! The Republican Senators would b
0 only too glad of such an excuse t.
$ get out of their present dilemm.
e with regard to the tariff: Of co4rs'
n the Democratic House will no
!, ohlige them by affording them sucl
: a convenient pretext, as motion t.
I ! adjourn would be.
II A bill to establish an Agrieultur
al Department passed the Senate to
= !, day and now goes to a conferenc
i i committee. If it should BECOME
law, a Secretary. Asst seoretar
e and other officers belonging to othe
g Executive Departments will be ar
.e pointed. Senator Vance was one Q
,e nine Senators who voted to transfe
y the Weather Bureau to the Agricul
d tgral Department. This is q YER
e. wise provision.
q
The Medical Congress which hs
been in session here during the pa
+ week was a great success. A iare
s number of distinguished specials
es both from this country and EuroT