The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-21
PASSING POINTS IN POLITICS.

| Bailey of North Carolina got back
from ST. Louis yesterday with a long
green badge ON the lapel of his coat
and a voice as hoarse as a ravens
croal< ''When Mckinley was nomi-
mated / yelled for thirty minutes" he
said, my throat won't get straight
in a month. 1t was Mckinley and
Hobart, just as | predicted and it is
the greatest ticket they could have
put up" Bailey was in high feather
and said Mckinley and gold would
sweep North Carolina. But he was the
only enthusiastic prilgrim that passed
here yesterday coming home from ST.
Louis. George H. White, the colored
nominee for Congress in the Second
district; John n. Hannon,W. S. Hagans
and Butler, of GAINESVILLE, were all on
the Southern east-bound train yester-
day, going home from ST. Louis. They
showed little enthusiasm over the
nomination of Mckinley, and seemed
discouraged over the gold platform
They expected the "straddle'' to be
adopted, and seemed to know that
the extreme single standard plank
would meet with scant favor here.
"All of us but five voted against the
money plank in the PLATFORM said
White, "but when it came to the
adoption of the platform we had to
take it as whole" How did the
colored delegates fare at ST. LOUISE"
l asked White. "As for myself" he
SAID, Il stopped with a colored family
OF my acquaintance because / preferred
it to going to hotel. Some of the
hotels refused the colored delegates.
la
took them on the same plan they took
the white delegates. They were
forced to this by the Republican Exc
cutve Committee. Dan III. Young will
return from st. Louis this morning.
1t will be recalled that Marshall
Mott, the North Carolina member Of
the committee on resolutions, voted
against the gold plank in the meeting
OF the committee. And now the West
ern Republicans who have left their
party claim that some of the North
Carolina delegates to st. Louis will af-
filiate with the new silver party soon
to be organized. They claim the only
thing that kept these delegates from
boiling at ST. Louis was their aversion
to marching out in open convention.
In this connection it may be noted that
DIR. j. j. Mott, chairman of the Nation
al silver executive committee, is father
of the young man who threatened to
bolt in st. Louis.
Nearly every North Carolina dele
gate when he left for ST. Louis pre-
dicted that a ''bi-metallic" platform
otherwise straddle-would be made
Minister Ransom has returned to
his home near Weldon after his trip to
New York and Washington. His con-
ference with Col "Jim'' Murdoch and
German and Whitney at the residence
of the last named in New York has
excited wide comment. 1t is known
that Mr.. Ransom is very close to the
administration.
Mr. Whitney has taken charge of the
administration forces in the fight for
gold platform at Chicago and announces
that the campaign will begin to-mor-
row. He claims to have his lieutenants
in every State in the union. There are
many inquiries as who Whitney's lieu
tenants are in this State.
Senator Butler, chairman Of the Pop
ulist State Executive Committee, will
not issue the call for the Populist
State Convention until after the Dem
ocratic State Convention.
Mr.. Z. w. Pou, of Johnston, the able
solicitor of this judicial district, is
prominently mentioned and widely
endorsed for the nomination for Con-
gress from the Fourth District. The
convention meets here Wednesday.