The western sentinel., 1892-08-18
A RIP ROARING RUMPUS.
Negroes Tell White Men How to
Behave Themselves.
SHERIFF TEAGUE COMES IN HANDY

He Undoubtedly Saves the Shedding
ofRcpublican Blood-Charlie Rey-
nold's Wanted to Fight Chairman
Lehman and Eli NIulIican-N Negroes
Blush for Their White Brethren
Ine Forsyth county Republican
| Convention was called to order at one
o'clock Saturday evening by Chairman
II. I. Lehman, who madca big speech.
!! lie denied the report. in better terms
that he was a candidate for Sheriff
leagues place. The only thing |
am candidate for. said Mr. Lehman.
rs unity in the Republican party"
| After concluding his remarks he an
nounced the convention ready for bus
| mess.
Every township in the county was
| found to be represented. The chair
/ man then arose and stated that he
hoped tOdaN'S convention would pass
of without wranglc, but as the out
| look was not very favorable. he would
| have to appoint committee on Gre
dcntiaIS. Charley Reynolds bobbed
| up and opposed chairman Lehman's
ruling in bitter language. The chair
man gave Il deaf ear to Reynolds by
j. /
he committee. The committee re-
tired and Reynolds sat down foaminr
at the mouth. While the committee
was out Reynolds went to the chair
| man and whispered in his ear. Sud
| denly Reynolds drew back his slcdge
| hammer fist and was in the act OF
. striking the chairman whom he un-
derstOod to give him the lie. For IL
few minutes Il bloody fight looked inn
| minant Horny Shields ,,,.i,, ,UI,,,
has the reputation of not being afraid
to tackle Il circular saw. became angry
and was in the act Of playing Il second
for the chairman when Sheriff league
came to the rescue and restored order.
After the storm had passed over
Rev. G. l.. Davis. (colOrcd) arose and
| asked the convention to harmoniZe.
lie said it looked like. if the negroes
could harmOniZc, the white folks
could: that if there was any wranglc
| in the county the white people alone
| would have to bear the responsibilities.
He added that the negroes did not
want to be leaders Of the Republican
party but desired only to get Il few of
the crumbs that fall from the white
mans table.
The Committee on Credentials re-
ported in favor of the delegates from
ClemmOnSvillc township who were
members of the Wheeler faction.
Reynolds opposed the adoption Of
this report and there was another
wrangle. y vote was ut last obtained
which resulted as follows: 26 against
adoption and - for.
Reynolds moved to nominate W. J
Ellis as permanent chairman. Post
master Shore favored the present in
| cumbcnt. Lehman. Another big
wrangle followed. Eli MuIlican arose
and spoke his sentiments. Charley
Reynolds replied to some of his qucS-
tionS. Muliican said to Reynolds: Il
know What you want and that is Il
fuss, thing you started ten years
ago in Greensboro" Reynolds replied
that he did not want any pen
sion money. This raised a yell.
Mullican replied to Reynolds saving
that he (Rcynolds) wanted $ll3 from
the Government. This irritated Rcy-
noldS WHO raised his fist and went to-
ward MulIican stating that he got
the S1l3 and if MulliCan said it was
not honest he would knock him down
This caused great confusion and
Sheriff league had to come in again
and restore order.
At this junction some one in the
crowd said: 'Teaguc. if YOU are
Sheriff why don't YOU act like one
Rev. G. l.. Davis took the floor again
and said he did not like to be correct
ing the white men but found that he
! had it to do.
\ member of each of the two CON
testing delegates, Alfred Phelps and
Eli Mullican, We're then allowed to
give their respective sides of the qucs-
tion.
Phelps scored MulIican and stated
that lie was no good Republicans: that
he (Phelpsl was the only legal chair
man of the township.
Mullican arose and poured hot shot
into Phelps. lie charged Phelps with
crOOkcdncSS in some school mon
cy. saving that he (MulIican) shoul-
dcred his gun and went through the
war: that Phelps shifted around
among his relatives Phelps popped
his fist and called Mullican liar
1t seems that Phelps. of the Rey-
nolds faction, and Mullican, of the
Wheeler faction, both claimed TO be
chdirmcn Of the ClcmmOnSvillc town
ship committee. Both had called
primaries which had both appointed
delegates to this convention. Hence
the row as to which delegation should
be seated.
Reynolds then nominated w. j. Ell
lis for permanent chairman of the con
vcntion. John Fits, colored. nomi-
mated Lehman. The vote resulted in
Ellis election. This was a great vic
tory for Reynolds. Ellis made a
speech thanking the convention for
the honor.
Reynolds read the call made by
Mulican and made a motion that the
Phelps delegates be seated. Mulican
said that any man who said lie wrote
or knew anything about the call be
fore it was posted told a lie
II. +. Clement, colOred, got up and
said that he was a delegate from the
Third ward. but that this was his
T last time in Il Forsyth Republican
; convention if he lived one thousand
years: that he was used to asSociatng
, with intelligent men,: that if the
, white men could not conduct the con
vention as it should be it ought to be
: turned over to the negroes: he was
not used to men in convention pulling
off their coats to fight.
As vote was taken to dccid {
whether the Mullican or Phelps dele
CATION was entitled to Il voice in the
convention. The vote resulted % fol
Phelps and % for Mullican.
: During Ellis speech the eX-chair
man arose and asked Ellis if he voted
e in the last election. Ellis replied that
2 he failed to register.
: 1.-Two tickets were put up for dele
| gates to the Congressional Convention
at Wilkesboro; one headed by G. A