Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-10-04

10 IdIbll1u1lsS W oCI We. iC USi |
minstra ton of our State Govern
ment under Democratic auspices
has merited the public approval.
CONFUSION WORSE COMPOUND
The GRANTEES are Routed and the
Straightouts Hold the Conven-
/ ton.
According to previous de-
sign Mai. H. L. Grant called his
Republican Populistic conven
ton yesterday to make up his
half SHELF of the confusion
ticket, which half shell the Pop.
wing will convene to-day to pass
upon, and say whether it is fit to
associate with their half SHELF
or not.
The movement on the part of
Grant ct id, &C., to fuse with the
Pops has not met with favor
among the large majority of the
Republicans in this county. The
old line leaders like Giles Kor
negay, W. A. Deans, Jno. c.
Rhodes, Napoleon Hagans, Geo.
T. Wassom, E. E. Smith, Rev. G.
billiard and others, who stand for
the organization and principles Of
their party, are opposed to fus-
ion, and yesterday when Grant
convened his meeting he found
[ himself without sufficient fol
lowing to accomplish his nefar
ious treachery against his own
party. and finding this to be the
J case ne resorted to high handed
measures. He called the delegates
t into caucus, but the majority Of
the caucus was against him, and
: although he pounded upon the
table with broken chair round
3 vigorously and endeavored to
: drown the voices of those de
e manding to be heard in the inter
} est of party organization and
: principles, he could not succeed
n they would not be downed:
e Finally he vacated the chair, and
t going down to one of his trust
), ed he gave him the ''Slate and
) told him to ''get up and nomi-
: nate that ticket, he then hurried
l. back to the chair; his ''trusty'
: rose and put IN nomination
J. Moses b, Farmer for Sheriff: j
l. F. Dobson for Register of Deeds
k H. L. Grant for the Legislature.
Chairman Grant seconded anc
put the nomination: about II
l. voted aye, and then, withou
putting the negative, withou
it adjourning the caucus or resolv
is ing it into a nominating conven
3 ton, he declared the motion car
l. ried and hastily and angrily lef
Ie the meeting. Some few of th'
n delegates followed him, but
IS great number remained, and thes
. with other Republicans VINO wer
l. waiting for the convention t.
e. open-thatn never opened reso,v
ID ed themselves into a Republlcal
at mass meeting. Col. Geo. 1
e, Wassom was called to the chal
and Bizzell Stevens acted as sec
n retarv, and this meeting, afte
to listening to a stirring Republ+
Of can speech by its chairman, pre-
le ceeded to unanimously nominal
d. the following straightout Re
el publican ticket: Moses B. Fal
yir mer, sheriff; Stephen Herring
SIS superior court clerk; Jno. |. Mo
Id lingo, register; Geo. T. Wasso1
al and Will S. Hagans, Legislature
OF Giles Kornegay, treasurer; d.
5ic r. A. Smith, coroner; - Bum
e. surveyor.
es Every Reput lican rese It az
of participating in the conventlo
of pledged themselves to the SUI
es port of this ticket and the COZ
or vention adjourned.
ais All the leading colored men
ID the county, and, we believe,
Be- majority Of the white Republ
go cans are opposed to committin
ln- their party into the care al
as keeping of Damon Butler al
of sPythias'' Grant, in their unho
M alliance for personal gain.
De- Even the Pops declare tn
ar Grants high handed measur
as yesterday ia dealing with b
of wing of the confusion" NOV
ment were reprehensiye in t!
I'M extreme and altogether over-rl
the ing the views and wishes OF Il
'sh delegates and the masses of b
ers party in the convention. But
lor has over-leaped his ambltl
un and is this morning a poor, pl
liza full and forsaken specimen OF t
ag- fate of any man who attempts
ION this day of enlightenment to c
ek- liver the negro vote where
on. does not want to go. He mig
of do that in '68 but he cannot in !
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