The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
H0LYS FRIENDS REMEMBER
A Dozen Candidates Now In the
Field.
ElIRBR0THER TALKS OFT

Field.
ElLRBROTHER TALKS OFT
It Seems That Col. Julian S. Carr
Proposes to Chase on and For
ever the Phantom Hope Of Be-
ing Governor Of the Tar Heel
State.
Upon arriving in Durham
from Hillsboro, where we last
week issued the Recorder, we
went to the Yam Farm and
found Colonel Fairbrother in
bed, where he had been for q
week, suffering with a severe
attack Of acute pneumonia. On
top OF that he bad pleurisy pains,
and he confidentialy informed us
that upon one or two occasions
during the week he had almost
witnessed the White Horse of
Death riding in. We asked him
"why in the name Of common
sense he had not sent for us
why he wanted to lie there in
agony and be eaten up with a
fever when he should have had
attention? ?" He looked out on
the blue sky and said:
"Ihad rather have the mumps
and the sweeny and the heaves;
| ] had rather have chilblains,
tuberculosis, scarlet fever, small
pox, ingrowing toenails, the
nomination for governor on the
democratic ticket this fall any
thing, and suffered ten thousand
times ten thousand agonies 1 did
suffer, than to have missed see.
ing you get out that Recorder.
I knew that it was work. ] be-
Ilieved that ] was not restrained
in Orange county, but still j
had learned enough by tho mode
Of procedure to know that there
would be no better sport than
to catch my lily white hands 10
the bear trap. / knew youcould
print the paper and could write
lie. ! knew that the people OF
Hillsboro wanted it and Iknew
that hundreds in Durham coun-
ty wanted it--so ! sat or rather
laid in the cleaning and didn't
care what happened. I'm far
tfrom all right now. l did ex,
pect TO be Obliged TO visit Hills
boro though, on that scarlett'
Norwood case, as you, i believe,
told me the sheriff wanted me
Well, he couldn't have gotten
me this trip, ] guess, rs ! wai
actually as weak as a kitten.
"But, colonel" I'VE interposed
"you talk too much about moth
ing, II you ramble that way
will wager that no one would
ever think Of restraining you
but might eject you from th.
premises. Why do you speal
] so sadly of the democratic can
didate for governor next year
You rather indicate that th'
chance Is not much better thar
, the chance of a spring CHECKER
at a free lunch counter, D,
, you know any news about pol
itics!
, And then the colonel, VIII
3 was always wildly at home il
! state politics, and who was ono
regarded as q sure prophet Of
: general results in territor,
: which he had known and stud
, led, frightened up like q wa
|, horse at the smell Of powder
: and said: "Rnow anything ne,
about politicsl There neve
was q day, my dear girl, sine
0 Adam ran for mayor OF th
: Garden of Eden and Eve got u
q her dander and wanted 10 vot
y for him.. but that there wa
/ something new in politicI
q Nothing Of o newsy nature, 20
!. might say, but what l mean
new situations, new hopes, ne
combines, new rings 70 dow
this fellow or that fellow, ne
y liesinvented TO spring just whe
d they will have deadly weigh
10 new anything-almost an entil
8 change Of programme ever
day in the year, and you ms
put Il down for your own info
nation that there is the I'm Sc
!. SON but no "ousn season Of pol
J tics-yet there is for politician
, Newspapers make many pc
a iticians. They want o rails
!. They want a favor. They viii
q per something into the ear
! the vain and ambitious plau'
i bility, even without the shade
Y Of a hope, and he thinks he ca
4 see himself taking the oath
ls Office. But as I talk more sea
d tering than I write, l will n
!. attempt any delicate distin
!. tions with words, but general
d give you some peinters whit
q YOU can write out II you wa
q 70 or can remember II you wa
q 70. Politics in North carolil
Il Is a most too forward Gro
!. The fellow who wants the pa
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