The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1891-08-18
THE EDITORS At WORK
IN THE TW|N-C|TY,
Elect all the Officers for
Next Year and Dele
gates to the Ma
tiOnal COnven-
ton.
ton.
AND kXCURT TO STONE
VILLE
The Bomq,tet Last Night ,cas q
Superb 4fair-We Editors Go
to WaHesboro TODAY.
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Especial to the Chronicle
WINSTON, Aug. 12.-Winston
Salem are entertaining the Nortl
: Carolina editors handsomely, ane
it is an honor. She is proud t.
own them. Thrice welcome to tn.
North Carolina Press Association
is the greeting that the Twin-City
extends to every member that comes
within her gates.
The nineteenth session opened in
Browns Opera House this a. m. al
the appointed hour. President Cald
well called the Convention to order
and said:
| Brothers of the North Carolina
Press Association 1 greet you in
the spirit of progress and enterprise
which the Press of North Carolina
is trying to foster among her peo-
pie without further ceremony.
call you to order.
Secretary Sheriff. then called
the roll and found that there were
about forty members present
Hon. J. C. Baxton next followed
with an interesting and practical
address of welcome. He spoke of
the honor he had just ten years ago
| of welcoming fhe Association to
Winston, and gave a number of
facts and figures relative to the
rapid progress made by Winston
Salem during these years. He also
paid a high compliment to the eaily
and weekly press of the State.
At the conclusisn of Mr.. Bur-
| TOMS remarks, H. A. Lendon re-
sponded with acceptable address,
which was highly complimentary OF
our towns progress and hospitality.
This afternoon President Caldwell
read his annual address, and every
body who head it passed upon it as
an able ana practical paper.
At 4:3O the editors were driven
over the city in carriages.
To-night's programme was the
annual Grafton by E. E. Hilliard
and the poem by H. c. Wall at the
Salem Female College, followed by
a magnificent reception rendered
the Association by the principal,
Rev. j. II. Clewell, and a musical
concert by the Salem orchestra.
Several editors arrived on the
the noon train.
Numbers of others are expected to-
night.
To-day the members of the Asso-
citation are interviewed as to their
preference for the Presidency and
the speakership. President Cald-
we'll said he was for Cleveland for
President; that he always had been
a Cleveland man. He also favors
Crisp for speaker. About three
fourths members preferred Cleve-
land. Others were non committal.
WINSTON, N. G., Aug. 13-
This was the second day of the
North Carolina State Press Con-
venticn, and bright and happy
one it was too, for both Winston
Salem and her guests.
The Convention assembled this
morning and after routine business
elected officers:
Orator for next session-Mr.
Scott, of the Lenoir Topic.
Poet-Mr. Marshal, of the Gas
tonia Gazette.
Historian-Mr. Williams, of the
Newton Enterprise.
The following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this Associa-
ton urges the Board of Managers
of the Worlds Fair and its officers
to use every proper effort to secure
hearty representation of the State
at Chicago and that it would
regard failure on the. part of the
State to take her place in the ranks
of her sisters on that occasion as a
calamity"
A similar resolution was adopted
relative to the Southern Exposition.
The convention met at 2 p. m.
The principal business of the after
| noon session was the installation of
| officers.
At four, this afternoon the Edi-
tors went out on an excursion to
Stonevile on the Roanoke and
| Southern Railroad.
Tonight Mr.. j. A. Thomas, of
the Louisburg Times, was elected
President; E. E. Hilliasd, of the
Scotland Neck Democrat, Jerome
Dowd, of the MecklenburgSTimes,
and R. A. Deal, of the Wilkesboro
Chronicle, Vice-Presidents j. B.
Sherrille, Secretary and Treas
! urer. Executive Committee jose
phus Daniels, S. A. Ashe, H. A.
London, Thad. r. Manning, II. A.
Latham. Delegates to the National
Convention: J.P. Caldwell, Josephus
Daniels, D. j. Wichard, Thad. R.
Manning. Alternates: E. E. Hill