The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-15
Slde-Lights on the Republican
State Convention.
NOTHING BUT SPEECHES
Everything Waiting For Com
nittee on Credentials
HOW GAPS WERE FILLED IN
Or. Long, of Ohio, Takes Up Large
Space in Detailed Account Of His
Private Affairs--Hoola Boom
Dares the Democratic
Press

Press.
Up to ! o'clock this morning the Re-
publican convention, which met in
Metropolitan Hall yesterday at noon,
had done nothing
The delegates had been called TO
order by Chairman H0lton in his most
determined tone.
The rows of seats in front on either
side OF the centre aisle, were so many
octaYes Of color from horse-cake to
ebony
Now and then there were some white
keys IN the shape Of AnglC-Saxon Re-
publican patriots, who constituted the
sharps," who were running things.
Whtle the negroes We're the FLATS" on
viii be before the whites get through
with them. The galleries We're filed
up as packed as coal-banIzs.
The first key on which Chairman
Holton struck was a black delegate
from Orange, who gave forth no nm
certain music when Chairman Holton
read out the committe on credentials.
all but at least two being Doclyerv
men alter his own heart.
What right have a man." shouted
the delegate from Orange, ito appoint
a committee on credentials without he
get authority"
Chairman Holton squelched this
brother in short order, and hustled the
convention toward adjournment until
4 o'clock in the afternoon. But there
was one heroic soul who did not pro-
pose to leave the hall until he had
found out that he was not among the
delegations that were contested. Al
though the arrangement was that the
committee should remain alone I'm the
nail, the ex-would-be Judge from War
ren, e. a. Cooke, remained firm, while
Jim oung nearby was tearing the
63hShsh language into rags, saying
1hat two men on the COMMITTEES on
credentials were against MIN yester-
day, and therefore, they could not
consistently be for him to-day. They
were f. G. Jones, of the Fourth dis
trict, and r. B. Russell, from the sixth
district. After denouncing these COM
mitteemen in appropriate and charac-
teristc language, Jim exclaimed: "No
party can't survive that can do such
work as 0hat."
Little-brother Sam Holton hopped
up on chair and made some buzz-sayv
remarks. The disgTuntled members
were gradually quieted while the com
mittee went to work on the platform
with their heads together.
-Four o'clock camel No report vet.
and 1T was announced to the conyen-
tion that it would have no report until
O'Clock, to which time Sne convention
adjourned.
But because the credentials committee
had been pulling wires all day which
later were to galvanize a hitherto dead
convention, was that conclusive that
there was no lively chord Il twanged?
inns chord was soon in sight and in
reach. He is an aeolian chord who
makes his best music when whistIed
upon by the winds from the Crags of
Cherokee. His music has been heard
among us before. 1t is the same music
that broke the phonograph of the
News and Observer last winter when
he was a member Of the Legislature
from Cherokee.
Hoola-Boom turning around
to the members of the press denounced
them as towards and shrielzed: "Thev
will not pen down thar what saw
here to-day. They are towards" Mr..
John Caldwell of the News and Obser-
YER came in for part Of old Hooley's
denunciation. He declared for gold
though Jim Young had muttered dur-
ing the morning, we niggers for sill
yer!' They are going to fuse con-
tnued Hooley and we will elect Re
publicans and Populists and have an
other Confusion Legislature" The
Governor was not here as a delegate,
because he said he was a Reed man:
he was only electioneering for his
Murphy Bulletin.
Among those sitting on the plat
form were Senator Pritchard, Con-
gresham Settle, J. Wiley Shook, M. I.
of Winston, Ed Johnson, Jim
Young, Editor Goslin, Mai. H. L.
Grant, John Nichols, Hoola-Boom
Marshal Mott, G. f. Debnam
(colored) J. f. Wray, Tom Devereux
and Zeb Vance Walser.
But what was the committee on Gre
dentials doing?
The hall was filled and it was nine
o'clock, and something had to be done
in the shape of fire works, and Mar
shall Mott filed the bill Marshal
told chestnut on Grover Cleveland
and fired salute to Senator Pritch-
ard and sat down wrapped in the
smoke OF his oratorical personality.
Senator Pritchard came forward
and told how he had something great
coming to-day but would fill in the
cracks with gentleman from Ohio
DR. ID. A. Long, Professor of Antioch
College. DR.. Long proved equal to the
of filling up cracks. He
filed up a large vacuum with touch
ing thumb-nail sketch of his early
mission work among the ne