The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-04-15

have confidence. Then pandemonium
began. DR.. Norment nominated H.
c. Dockery, who r" said was not in
The revenue ring, and was honest. He
said the west had had the chairman
ship for 20 years 1t was stated that
Dockery was not a candidate and Lusk
withdrew. He then declared Eaves
elected. Then there was an uproar.
Marshall Mott sprang to his feet and
said ''Yoa can't do that. You dare /
not" DR.. Mott walked to the stage
and told chairman Lusk that the mat
ter could not end thus. Oscar j. /
| Spears said that it must be clear TO all |
that a large number of tie delegates |
were opposed to Eaves and that the
views OF these must be considered He
then nominated V. S. Lusk, who he
said was as pure as any man in
North Carolina. Cries of "Lusk,'
and dawes rose into a wild
roar, and Spears leaping on piano
got upon the stage to speak, while DR..
Mott said ''He shall be heard if it takes
all night" Spears said tins action by
the Eaves men was madness; nothing
else. He was for the Republican par
ty. He said Eaves had cut Charles
Prices name from the tickets some
two years ago in Rutherford county
! Eaves walked up to the front of the
) stage, while revenue officer Powers
, said Mott had cut off the name of
Judge Buxton from tickets. The
worst row of the whole convention
; arose. There were cries of ''roli call"
while office holders said to the Mott
men "We will make you sick and then
, vote" DR.. Mott shook his fist in he
: face of the otfice-holders and defied
= them. He said to the chairman eli
, this thirg is kept up there will be a
split in the party. Marshall Mott got the
floor. He swore that he would be
A heard and that no man dared stop him.
S He proposed that Eaves should be
S heard. "As to himself, any man who
' refused to hear him was damned cow
f ard and afraid of his man" He wanted
: the question answered by Eaves as to
= the cutting of of Charles Prices name
Z on tickets in Rutherford county. DR..
S Mott rose and said, 81 have some of
n the tickets here" NOV" said Marsh
S all Mott, ''let Eaves answer that
S W. E. Henderson, colored, Eaves'
:. champion, said that if Charles Price
}, ever voted Republican ticket it was
e not until the last election. Mott cried
o out, was that reason for mutilating
d the tickets % "He was weighed and
g found wanting" said Henderson. L. p
Il Devereux appealed for harmony. He
l. said the convention wanted to know
y if Prices name had been cut from the
e tickets, and if Price had never voteC
5. the Republican ticket. 1t was grave
is thing to say that the party's chairman
a had thus "knifed' a convention
81 nominee Great confusion followed
n dozen men trying to speak at once
n Revenue officer Pope said he woult
ID never vote for Eaves unless h'
ee cleared his skirts of this charge
)" Eaves came to tie from
IN again, amid calls of ..answer,
a. but never answered word. The bal
n, loting then began. The result wa
as Eaves 167 votes and Lusk SO votes
Eaves was then declared elected. 4
as motion was made to make Eaves
er nomination unanimous DR.. Mot
as rose and shouted "Never!' Chairman
g. Lusk said the long struggle was no,
A. ended and moved to make the electio
B. unanimous. But the >conventio
ed would not do this, for many were tn
at shouts of "No!' when the vote wa
ed taken.
la The next business was the electio
,re of the State executive committe,
ite These are, by districts: D. II. Abbot
rd J. w. Lloyd, f. p. Powers, J. +
O. Williamson, D. G. Mangum, j. I
led Young, L. V. Walser, A. l.. Hendri:
on G. w. Crawford. This vote W;
nj taken at 1880 o'clock and after near
half the delegates hal left, after the b
nat Mott-Eaves matter was settled.
ere Six members of the committee fro
of the State at large were then electe
his as follows: Archibald Brady, A.
tor Middleton, John ii. Harmon, w.
big Henderson, T. G. Millikan; II.
on, Grant.
II. Half an hour after midnight Jam
ma H. Young moved that the conventic
having disposed ofits business, adjou
ors sine die. Chairman Lusk said he &C
the fdently expected North Carolina to
ssts Republican in November, and declar
rel it so adjourned.
at Some who Were In the COnventiG
The Among the veteran white Repub
ars, cans who sat in the convention, a
i'm, some Cf whom were in the legi-latl
Nj. 1S69-7O wer-: V. 5. Lusk, ii.
ith- Hunt, j. J Mott, }. b. Eaves,
and F. Henderson, w. w. Rollins, Eli
White, Palemon John, R. f. H;
old cock, J. NJ. Norment, John Nicho
ont H. C. Cowles, w. II. Brewer, w.
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