The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-03
CAMPBELI...PHILLIPS SOBER

CAMPBELL..PHtL SobEh'
Strictly Business Yesterday--Ihe Ar
rington Committee in Session All
Day in the Senate Chamber--Dis~
trict Attorney AycOck up as witness
1.-The Seasons viii Continue To-Day
and Probably Come to an End by To-
Morrow Night.
Yesterday. it was different with the
Honorable Att Campbell, of Cherokee,
and the Rieht Rev. J. T. Phillips, of
Pitt. The both woke mp, and found
themselves famous}y sober after the al
coholic pauses of last week, and, after
giving their pin feathers good shaking
out they tapped their wings and crowcd
in a new day in the history of the Peedy-
bee Committee.
For Attorney Purnell was on hand;
witness O. B. Ay ock was on hand; and
what was better, Campbell aud Philips
were on hand ready for the business on
hand, whatever that business may be.
At any rate, the tribunal assembled
in the Senate Chamber, and Hoola Boom
was Judae High Cockalorum. There
was no foolishness. The session lasted
from yesterday morning until yesterday
afternoon, and witnesses were put on
the stand in the persons of U. S. District
Attorney O. B Aycock, Mr.. Conyers, of
Nash, and Mrs. P D. B. Arlington.
The day was consumed mostly with an
examination of the property rights and
divorce matters of Mrs. Arlington, and
the testimony was mostly documentary
Mr.. Aycock was asked last night what
might be the tread and tendency of his
testimony. He turned the question over
to Mr.. Purnell to answer, saying that he
was in the dark both as to trend and
tendency.
Mr.. Aycock will remain in the city
until to day at one o'clock, and may be
put on the stand again. Meanwhile,
other witnesses are expected to day, and
the investigation viii proceed in order,
the session beginning this morning at 0
o'clock, and it will be pushed till late
this afternoon. Attorney Purnell said
last night that they hoped certainly to
get through by Wednesday night, if not
sooner, and, yesterday morning, he said
the doors would be wide open to the
public, so that to day the Arringtonians
may, Cd. Y. be seen at work which
will be sight worth seeing.
Hooley said last night that Phillips
had stated openly that he would never
take another drink.
81 told him, said Hooley, that such a
statement was nonsense that no man
should make such promise to the
world that it might be temptation to
take drink on the sly. Now say
don't you know addressing those
sitting about him in the Yarboro lobby
that kiss you steal from girl is twice't
as sweet as eff she had give it to you, it's
ies SO with a drink. AS fer myself,
| kin stay drunk on quart of likker for
four days-and | make no such promise
but we are goin' to work now. Why,
say want to git back home-Ive
got watermelons up on my place in
Cherokee as big as one o. them hand
satchels there, and I'll git to work on
one ov' EN- befo' next Sundays gone by"
So that the public that has been so
long painting for a final solution of all
this Ia ra-ra Boom-de-ay are promised
an early vacation. Then, too, the model
conduct of the two committeeman yes
terday is all the more virtuous, because
of the cruel improbability at present of
their receiving any money for
their services It is said that
such is the opinion of the
Attorney General-and that Campbell
and Phillips are cognizant of that opin-
ion. If this be true, the sooner they
get through, the more money they will
negatively get, or the less they will posi-
lively lose.
Meanwhile the end grows nearer of
the ridiculous fasco.