The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-10-04
STRAIGHT TICKET.
FORSYTH REPS. AND POPS. WILL
NOT FUSE.
The Two Parties Unable to Agree on
the Offices-Both Want Too Much
-Popmlists Name Their Ticket.


The Forsyth County "Populistic''
Convention was held in the court
house September 26th. Their actions
proved that they would take no fusion
in theirs: that the Republicans might
do as they pleased.
The leaders and other members of
the ''faithful" began tG arrive in town
early that morning. There was con-
siderable stirring around before the
convention met. They discussed the
situation in all OF it's phases. The
Alliance store and the Office of the
Union Republican appeared to be the
headquarters.
IT was 20 p. m. when Chairman j.
w. Speasj called the convention to
order. He asked the convention to
elect another Chairman. His request
was granted by the selection of Jesse
Marshall.
Before selecting Secretary the new
Chairman called upon the convention
to say whether a full ticket-from
Legislature to COnstable-should be
nominated, or to stop with the nomi-
nation of Legislative ticket A vote
resulted in 20 for full ticket to
against.
A call of the townships showed that
eight out of the fifteen were repre-
Sented.
Messrs. J. A. Transeau and J. w.
SpeaS were nominated for the LegiS
lature. No other names were men
toned.
James Lowry was placed in nomina-
tion for Sheriff, but the brother OBJ
lected, saying that he did not want
his name run for any office.
A. w. Bevel was next "trOtted out"
but he kicked tOo-saying he could
not attend to the Office if elected. r.
toned, but he kicked almost as hard
as Messrs. Lowry and Bevel.
Chairman Marshall refused to ac-
cept the objections made by the three
men. He asked the convention to
cast their ballots in his hat and there
by decide which one of the three
should ENTER the race against his
wishes. A vote by ballot resulted in
the selection Of Flynt, he receiving %
votes, Lowry and Bevel 7.
E. n. Pfaff was nominated for Clerk
of the Superior Court without opposi.
tion.
w. w. Orrender was nominated for
Register of Deeds by reclamation.
E. G. Anderson and E. A. Conrad
were nominated for Treasurer. The
latter, who is eX-chairman of the
County Commissioners, got there by d
vote Of 43 to 4.
Surveyor-MessrS Binkley, Medearis
and Anderson. Binkley was declared
the nominee.
William Cox was voted upon for
Coroner but he objected after the
vote was taken. He was persuaded,
however, to let the nomination
stand.
After the nominations were made
j. w. SpeaS announced to the cOnven-
tion that he could no longer serve as
chairman of the county. The duties of
for him to keep and run for the Legis-
lature. He nominated the former
chairman, j. J. Marshall, and he was
elected. The latter accepted and urg-
ed his friends to stick to the Omaha
platform and work for the principles
of the Peoples Party.
j. A. Transeau accepted call for
a speech. He said that he never
wanted his party to nominate any
man who sought the office; that they
tried that two years ago and now
that man was doing all he could for
the Democrats. Mr.. Transear then
went on to say that his party could
not nominate d man who wanted or
sought office less than ''me." He
claimed to be far from being an office
| seeker-but it.waS noticed that he did
| not utter a word of objection when
his name was placed in nomination.
| The speaker went on with the usual
stereotyped abuse of the Democratic
| party. He had no harsh words to say
of the Republicans.
| J. w. Speas, the other candidate for
| the Legislature, followed. He made
''speech" of abuse of the Democrat
ic party. He said that he would not
consider the tariff question until the
money question was settled. He
wanted more money; said give
him the money and he would buy
both goods and the tariff. He also
claimed to be a Thomas Jefferson
Democrat today.
After his "oration" Mr.. Speas asked
the convention to name or recommend
candidate for the State Senate. Il
J. Ketner, of Lewisville township
was endorsed.