The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-16
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF AMY NORTH CAROLINA DAILY

II challenge this vote." roared an
other young man who shot like
rocket from the back of the stage 10
the foot-lights. II challenge this vote.
There We're two votes cast for the
county of Dare when the delegates
from Dare were not present in the hall.
This young man was Tom Settle.
Just then young Duncan came for
ward prancingly, and said he was q
delegate from Dare as well as from
Carteret and that he cast the vote.
Mr.. Moody's kick! He said the rep
resentative Of Grahamhad east the vote
of Swain. All this time, the mntter-
ings increased, throats were hoarse
with indistinguishable words, and
there was almost pandemonium. Then
came forward the chairman shouting:
"Mr. Moody wishes TO sag that he was
wrong"
NO / don't!' answered Moody de-
tesrminedly, but i will say that Mr.
Patterson says he lives in Swain and
was elected from Graham!" Moody
had all the while been standing and the
gavel had been falling like pistol shots
! upon the table. a
And the 119 81 stood unbroken. But
the Dockery men were a solid phalanx
against the decree. The accusations
went thick and fast through the hall
from lip to lip. Some said that Chair
man Mott had openly left the stage,
gone down in the hall, and changed
the four votes of Wilkes which would
have nominated Dockery Others LASH
ed Pritchard with changing the vote
of Buncombe.
For III must be remembered that
Dockery received 116 votes.
So when Spears, standing there all
the while, and all this happened in a
few moments, made the motion to
make the nomination unanimous, he
was swept back, high up on the beach
by the noes that came like angry
+ breakers against him. His words were
I anwelcoTne and ne fell back powerless
| to renew the attack. ,Fhe motion was
! never put. The ott-Russeil-Har-
ris-Pritehard crowd were content for
the moment with the 10 81. They
/ had to be- And in the midst Of the
vengeful glances and interchanges,
There were barbarie pictures of glee,
/ Loge Harris almost dancing a break
down with big Russell buck negro
who had run up on the Stage and
seized both his hands.
/ 1t mattered not, il Spears afterward
came forth with the usual oratorical
pledge of feaDty TO Russell whom he
| had fought, nor IL he was followed by
/ Boyd, negro Dancy and Moody, who
could hardly get the words out, the
devil was in the Dockery people, and
even candidate Russell, who was a
| few moments later pressed up the
hall through the packed aisle could
not allay the hell-fire that was abroad
/ The rest of the proceedings were
merely formal, but tl1e curses of the
| Dockery men, who sWarnled the streets
| this early morning, were entirely in
formal and might be paraphrased by
the utteranee Of a prominent negro
| politician which rang out on the night
air like a bright blade in the back:
''We'll beat the d--n seoundrel by 50,-
| 600 Yolsesi"
And think Of such a wicked remark
| from him when just a few moments
before Russell had been telling how bis
| rotundity might have proceeded from
| the great amount of nutritious milk
| that he once was said to have taken
from the breast of his old negro nurse
The good people of this State will
| behold the man and the words will
come to them: ''The arm of the Lord
is not shortened that He cannot sayen