The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-04-18
pEAY is THE WINNER
That + | p TO the Hour Of Going
to Press.
rhri,tian Will Come in This Week with
Ticket.
r WAS 4 VERY LIVELY EVENING
,.ouIr who Come and GO--Brief Brevi-
tir, Of Interest to All Readers
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of The Globe.
The first skirmish in the municipal
o,cr,i0D is over. The court house was
comfortably filed last night There was
rpprcrentatiVe gathering of Durham's
citizens. Not much interest was mani
tested in the beginning-it being pretty
generally understood that the crowd was
for Pcay anyhow.
Charley HerndOn called the meeting to
orderand Mr. V Ballard was chosen chair
man, and the press Of the city made sec
rs,arics Colonel Hackney went up and
did the recording angel act.
Nominations being in order, Lucius
Green nominated Capt. T. L. Peay.
i This point G. G. Farthing arose and
announced that Mr.. Jasper Christian had
not been informed that this was to be
mas, mceting-a motion by Busbee hav
inc prevailed that it was a mass meeting
and that if the convention would ad
iourD for three days he would come into
,amp and abide the decision Of that au-
gust body.
This announcement was received with
nrofound, if not painful silence. Captain
ink then moved that the convention
adjourn until Thursday night. About
q half dozen supported this motion, and
Albert Kramer nominated for mayor MIR
Walton Bushce. 1t was then that Tom
Darlington arose and addressed the mul
titudc--yet lie Spake not in parallels. He
simply stated that he had been author
ilcd to say that Mayor Angler would
not be a candidate this year, and IN nked
lhc people, for the mayor, for their kind
recognition in past years.
CAPTAIN Parrish here arose, aud said
that he would like to see the work done
his night, well and wisely done, and he
took pleasure in secOnding the nOmina-
ton Of Mr. Thomas Peay. He was a
cool headed, calm, dignified and compe
tent man man who would well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the of.
lice, man who would give equal and
exact Justice to the lowest as we'll as to
the highest, rich or poor-white or black,
and in short a man who could be and
who would be elected, and he wanted
him nominated And the nominations
closed +. B. Fuller, Thomas Caring
ton, h. {. Cox and Lucius Green were
appointed telers, and the ballots were
prepared, resulting:
Peay, 1856
Busbee, 70
Link, 2
COrbc't /
Total, 232
Showing that Peay led the crowd by
:, majority. Mr.. Busbee, upon the an
nounCement Of the vote, moved that
Peays nomination be made unanimous,
pledgng his hearty support and the sup
port of his friends to the successful can
didatc
The first great burst of laughter was
when it was discovered that Tom Car,
ringtOn and the chair had failed to vote
The ballot was ClOsed-but Tom slipped
IN his ballot and it was allowed. Then
OF course Mr.. Peay had to say something
he thanked his fellow citizens from the
bottom of his heart for the nomination
Busbee was an honorable gentleman, and
IN defeating him he had seen an expires
sion of his friends. If elected, and he
thought there was no doubt about that,
he promised but one thing, and that W. S
That he would be mayor for the who e
people of the town of Durham. He un
derstOOd that there would be one if not
two candidates against him, A. ID Mark
ham and Judge Christian. Both good
men-Markham a new hand like himself,
but Christian had been long in politics
yet even for all that, if the friends there
would stay with him he would defeat
them, and thus we will win another
YiCtOry'
Then came the fun. The nomination
ol CommiSsiOneTS-seven 10 be chosen
he following were placed in nOmina-
llon l.. G. Cole, Z. G Lineberry, Leo d
Heartt, II. J. Bass, V. Ballard. w. A
Slater, &. II. Norton, T. B. Fuller, w. II.
BFanson, 5. r. Darlington, c. NJ. Hern
uon, John w. Pope, NJ. II. Jones, J. s.
Mangum, c. A. Jordan, L. J. Parrish
and here was the widest break ever seen
ana shouts and screams, and for three
minutes the noise was deafening. Par
FlSh arose and attempted to decline. The
crowd would not have it, and after vainlY
Tying for full two minutes to talk, Par
'ISA yielded and obeyed the hundred
shouts to sit down. Then some one
moved that Parrish be nominated by &C
CamatIOn, and when the motion was
put another deafening yell rent the air
ana the Captain truly had honor thrust
upon him. Then Leo ID. HEARTS name
was proposed for universal acclaim and
no dissenting voice was heard. Then
came the proposition TO do the same
win /. b. Fuller and cheer followed the
TWO latter.
lhen the attempt to rush Sterl Car.
,Ington through in the same way brought
ioFth few noes" and the chair decided
nc was not elected. Then they started
20 try it on Bass, and this brought DR.
hooerts 10 his feet. He was not in favor
o1 such business. The town had too
many from one section. lie had nothing
against Mr.. Bass, but he was opposed to
such way of doing business. He had
,oted no each time for that reason.
SoIonel Carr insisted that it be done, and
Fandemonium reigned. Here it was that
cotonel Carr talked and DR.. Roberts
EIS1Aed-and then, in that excitement
SSapt' Tom Lyon got the floor and for
1--WE minutes talked, and walked and
"! ung his hands and did high tragedy.
men that ended the business on accla
~'auon by motion from Roberts. Tom
cCfsIflngton swore by all the tabled gods
Vi war that the thing was not being done