The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-05-27

would ne be candidate, and while h
Will not write letter formally maxim
sucn announcement he will not writ
one declining the nomination as ha
oeen reported he would do. Mass.
chusetts IS all for Blaine, there appear
to be Blaine cyclone; the republican
OF the whole country appear to deman
his nomination."
'oi. Skinner and the Third Party
Special Cor. State Chronicle.
IARBoRo, N. c., May 26.-On m,
way home from the Raleig Oh convention
l heard the rumor that Polk had Col
harry SINNERS written consent t,
head the delegation from this State +,
the Omaha convention. This repor
was being circulated by out-spoker
third party men on the authority o
Col. Polk. In view of Col. Skinner
utterances in the democratic conven
ton, and in private conversation will
myself as late as midnight Thursday
denounced the report as untrue.
had this statement relative to the
matter from Mr.. W. w. Farmer
OF wilson county. He said he was ia
the office of the Progressire Fa,me,
about 8 O'Clock Thursday evening OF
convention week engaged with the ed.
ltor OF that paper when Col. Skinner
came in and went at once into tn.
private office of Col. Polk. That in
the course of an hour they came out,
SKINNER leaving the building. In the
course OF conversation, very shortly
thereafter, Polk expressed himself well
satisfied with the progress of affairs
and remarked that Skinner would head
the delegation to the Omaha conven.
tlon. Farmer replied that he could
not believe 1t after SINNERS speech in
tne democratic convention. Polk re-
plled, swell, you cannot doubt it after
tnls, at the same time holding out a
paper writing, the contents of which
armer did not read, bearing Skin.
ner,s signature. Immediately after
learning this | sent the following tele-
gram:
~Aa,4v-', y. -, Anay 1v.-Oul.
Harry Skinner, on board train Hen
derson, n. Cit is said on board
train that Polk has your written con-
sent to head the delegation from this
State to the Omaha convention. Wire
me denial at Rocky Mount
10 this | received the following re-
ply:
"MIDDLEBURG, n. c., May 20
Rocky Mount, n. Cit is
a lie. HARRY SKINNER"
Subsequent to this the chairman of
the peoples party publishes the list of
the delegates to the Omaha convention
and Col. Harry SINNERS name is at
the head What does all this mean?
1t is an attempt on Folks part to boil
ster up his cause by the use of unau-
thorized names. You are at lib
erty to use this when occasion requires.
Mr. Nckesson's Lecture at Louisbur..
Special Cor State Chronicle.
LoUIsBURG, N. c., May 26--Mr.
G. +. McKesson delivered in the
opera house here last evening his lee
ture on "The Poets and Poetry of the
Bible" 1t is a great theme, and the
speaker treated it in mastery way.
The imagery of the old Heprew pro-
phets was woven into the lecture, and
it was in itself poem. Mr.. McKesson
is gifted with singularly felicitous COM
mand of language, and this coupled
with the grace and ease of practical
orator, gives to his lecture charm that
few speakers can exercise. His diction
is graceful, ornate, and polishe, but never
florid. His gestures strikingly few but
one feels that one gesture more or less
would mar the symmetry of the whole.
In the arrangements of the lecture, the
speaker has maniferted an acquaintance
with an insight unto the Bible that i:
little short Of wonderful. 1t is not {
recital of the beautiful thoughts anc
sentences of the book; it is philoso
phical analysis of the inspiration, ant
purposes, and motives of the writers
of those thoughts and sentences
He points out wherein lie
the charm of David's singing, and O
Isaiah's poetry. The lecture is full
of deep systematic thought and il
clothed in lanuage as chaste and beau
tiful as a varied and extensive acquain
tance with the classics can supply
The effect Of the lecture is to awake1
in the mind of the listener profoun,
reverence for the grand old book
whose message to humanity is eve
new. No man who hears it can bu
say ''there are stores of hidden wealth
in the book that l have not dreame,
of BEFORE
Mr.. McKesson has always been al
orator of considerable power, fluent
powerful and affecting, and we ar
glad to see how highly his efforts il
the lecture field are appreciated. W
are gratifed to hear that he intends t
make tour of some of the Westerl
and Northern cities. Our best wishe
attend him.-ED.