Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-22
Of The Evening star.

Correspondence Of The Evening star
RALEIaz, n. C., August %. 1899.
The campaign has In the past three days be-
come more personal The democrats are max
ing charges against several OF the third party's
candidates. One Of these is that one candidate
eloped with his married sister-in-law and went
to Canada. Another is against the leading can
aidate, and surely /: is the oldest ever brought
Ii Is that the man bought from q merchant a
lot OF western meat-the white and salty meat
so familiar in the southland that he smoked IL
thoroughly and sold it as home-cured meat. the
man who had sold it originally buying ii back
again thus disguised
The third party has. according 20 democratic
statements, lost its grip. lite chance for sue
cess appears to have passed and il is losing
members rapidly. The alliance. the backbone
OF the third party. has also. it il asserted lost
heavily in membership. For the first time the
officers have this year declined 10 state the
/ strength Of the order or 20 give to the public
any news regarding its business The order has
state business agency and an agency of a
similar character in nearly every county. The
business OF the state agency u wear ago when
the last public report given The public
was s4si.00o. The alliance membership twhite)
was then declared TO be 20. 900. year before
! 100000 was claimed TO be the figure.
on NOVEL PLATFORM.
! John II. williamson a mulatto who brides
himself greatly upon his white ancestry and
who is certainly sharp politician. has done
something absolutely novel. He has Just an
4 nounced himself candidate for Congress in
this district independent and on n plat
form having only a SOLITARY plank. That plank
| Is payment for eN-slaves; $500 head. oue-half
/ 10 the ex-slaye, one-haif 20 his ''oe masSa.
Was there ever such a platform?
o. $aA.a Ia. =. A.
! laughed at Williamson and the platform. Will
hansen. however. declares that il will prove a
vote getter and that he has many Endorsements
az to his plan from white and black people. some
outside the state. His candidacy is formally
| announced. He Is good speaker and has
served many years in the legislature. His first
speech will be carefully reported by reason Of
its entire novelty.
What is the strength of the negro vote in This
state? Generally $4,000 is named as the figure.
This will leave only 20. 900 for the white voters
OF that party. There must be more OF them II
the latter supposition be true more negroes
than are generally supposed 20 do must vote
the democratic ticket. republican declared
today that in the part of the state west of
Raleigh there are between 10000 ard 10000
! white republicans. That section is their
stronghold. There are few in the counties in
! the east and democratic sentiment against
them Is stronger. In few counties the white
| republicans have always outnumbered the white
| democrats. these being in all cases the ones in
which a negro is a rarity.
CONGRESSIONAL SoMINArIoSs
The third party convention of the sixth dis
trict has nominated A. Maynard of Arson
county for Congress and W. ID. Edmunds of
Eobeson for elector.
| The democratic convention of the seventh
| congressional district meets at Salisbury day
after tomorrow. John y Henderson will
be renominated, no opposition to him having
been heard Of
His nomination will complete the list Of the
democratic congressional NOMINEES.
Those in the other districts are as follows
First, W. A. ID. Branch; second, F. A. Wood
ward; third, b. F. Grady; fourth. b. II. Bum:
. fifth. A. III. A. Williams: sixth, &. b. Alexan-
der; eighth, W. III. Bower: ninth. W. I. Craw-
ford; OF whom Woodward and Bower are the
only new men.
/ The most aggressive republican in the state
at present is Thomas Settle, the congressional
nominee in the fifth district He is out in circu-
lar attacking Williams his democratic oppo-
nent. and alleging that Williams has not made
the usual number Of joint appointments t.
speak: four TO each county. Settle takes n shot
( at Williams by saving that perhaps the latter il
trying TO run with both the democrats and the
| third party. Some of the democrats who have
| always been straight and who distrusted the
| Farmers Alliance have charged William. with
pandering too much to the alliance.
MR.. srEvESsoN's TOUR OF THE STATE
| Mr.. A. L. Stevenson date for speaking here
! is September 16. The state mass meeting of
democratic clubs is accordingly called to be
held here that day. Mr.. Stevenson will have a
| private car. furnished by the committee here.
for Use in his trip through the state and he will
have good company and the best cheer the
state affords. He speaks at six places. the
others being Asheville. Charlotte, Fayetteville.
Goldsboro' and Wilmington.
Three or four thousand people is considered
a large political gathering in this sparsely
settled state. The demonstrations are. n a rule,
| inexpensive affairs. and the great gatherings
| common in the north and west. even in The
/ smaller places. are unknown. while uniformed
| parades have never been seen in the state n
white hat and a badge usually composing the
I outfit.
| There is as yet doubt as to whether Harry
! Skinner will accept the third party's nomina-
1 ton for elector or William A. Guthrie that for
the position Of associate justice. Neither has
so Signitied.
BopSD TO sUPPLASr caves.
Your correspondent is advised of some pretty
sensational developments concerning the re-
! publican state convention here September z.
and these are now for the first time made pub
lie. The Mott faction of the party will make a
/ desperate effort to revoke the action Of the
convention last April, remove John b. Eaves as
! iildlf put III Il new man not enlalgltl
in any of the internlinabe quarrels between
/ Eaves and Mott. To make such a change viii
be a thing unprecedented, but the people
who are moving in the matter say their
party has fallen SO low politically in
this state that it cannot get lower. and
they claim that any change will be an improve
ment. To this end. therefore. the Mott men
are willing TO join hands with any element and
put Eaves down and get rid of him. Eaves will
seek to get the nomination for governor. He
claims much strength and his friends say he
will have powerful influence in this las. fight,
wherein he has 10 meet some elements which in
April were antagonistic. 1t stand, to reason
that the republicans will put up the best men
they have. One Of the congressional conven-
tions has Endorsed the putting up of q
! full state ticket. and il may be said
now that the chances of the conventions
| placing one in the field are as nine to one
| Sfranpe 10 say the negro Ia the halanca Of