Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-09-20
NORTH STATE NEWS.
THE COMING SILVER CONVENTION
STILL THE TALK.
various Opinions ON the Subject
yShnt II Is Thought the Gathering
VIII Lead tO-butIer's suppose"
Gnme-NOtcs.
Gnuie-NOtcs.

RALEIGH, n. c.. September 19.-tspe-
cial)-An ex-Democratc chairman said
to-day regarding the silver convention:
TT appears 10 m" mat our party ~
smashed for years to come In this state.
This is the hardest blow IT ever got We
Will have to preserve its organization with
what may be a handful
a silver man, once a Democrat. but
now wholly for silver. made n bold state
ment saying: 81 will tell you the truth.
The silver baby Is born In North Caro-
lima. Is II not strange that the signers
of that call cannot see where they are
going? Some Of them do see. The great
body OF the people of North Carolina
have made UP their minds 10 vote for
things. not men. The convention VIII
not pledge anybody. 1t is not party
convention. and hence has no authority
to- pledge. II will hold no man against MS
will. You never in all your HE saw
time when the party letters were so loose
as at present. Democrats who signed the
call thereby declared their independence
Of party questions"
DEPLORES THE RESULTS.
A Democrat who declares he is for
silver. but only inside his party organiza-
ton. says he deplores the result OF this
convention. He said: Look at II as you
will. 1t is bound 10 result disastrously
TO us. Butler will, I believe, insist on
resolution pledging silver men not 10
vote for any one who is not for silver.
Many Populists. perhaps all Of them.
e. hot. hA
Will have "A clear majority in the conven-
ton. The Republicans Will oppose such
resolution. so will the Democrats, or
most of them. The Republicans as
last resort, will not allow themselves to
he recorded against it. but yet will go
out and vote their State and national
ticket But the Democrats will not thus
vote. There is the danger. The Repubii-
cans will do it because they feel sure
their national ticket will be elected
Democrats do not have that hope. The
Populsts have their organization Of silver
clubs. which are really the sub-aliances
of the Farmers Alliance. ! take 1t they
have temporarily organized these. By
these means Butler has a power and a
means of information which the Demo-
cratic chairmen never have had. me
Populsts are of one mind In all things
ElltDT AVER, Ol tHt OIhiiSN f"fN''
says: IF this convention matter COM
mends Itself to the gang they will come.
If 1t does not. they will not attend" That
is all he would say.
AMICABI.Y ADJUSTED.
The trouble at the Fayetteville colored
State normal school growing out of the
appointment Of teachers by both the local
board and the State Superintendent of
Public instruction is amicably adjusted
the local board giving way.
Six years ago five students were sent
here to the Shaw University from the
Congo Free State. one went TO Wash
ington, and there died. The others leave
tomorrow for their old home. in Africa.
One was married at Warrenton this eve
ming There Is one female in the party.
All will be missionaries
Great tobacco breaks will be held here
on the 18th instant, the date Of the silver
convention.
John Wanamaker has taken great
interest in the Waldensean cOlonists In
Burke county, and sends a specialist there
to teach them how 10 grow small fruits
etc.
Cicero NARROW. n young white man OF
Wilkes county. shot himself in the pres
ence OF his mother. and may die.