The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-20

ing fitted up. The central commlstee
is composed of Hal W. Aver, of Wake;
DR.. Cyrus Thompson, of Onslow; Capt.
A. s. Peace, of Granville; j. B. Lloyq,
of Edgecombe; S. Ohio Wilson, OF
Wake; w. X. Pigford, of Sampson. NO
member of the committee, except Mr..
Wilson, will be stationed at headquar-
ters during the campaign.
S. Ohio Wilson will have his head
quarters in rooms adjoining Chairman
Ayers. Mr.. Wilson is State commit
teeman, chairman of the Fourth Dis
trict Congressional committee; chair
man of Wake county Populist eXecu-
tive committee; chairman of the COM
mittee for this Judicial District, and
chairman of Swift Creek township and
Rhamkatte precinct committees. Mr..
Aver says, FAfr. Wilson will also take
a prominent part in the Populist State
campaign"
The Populist committee have had
engraved big fac-simile Of the face OF
a silver dollar, and this will be placed
at the head Of the posters announcing
their speaking appointments.
Chairman Holton and Secretary
Hyams were yesterday installed in
their new quarters on the second floor
of the Academy Of Music building. The
offices are handsomely fitted up. Maj.
II. t. Grant, ofGoldsboro, was on hand
Yesterday, and Maj j. B. Hill, Jim
Young and other local Republicans
called. Capt. Bill Day called looked
around and threatened to bolt the
headquarters on account of the pecu-
liar shade Of cuspidors with which the
rooms are equipped,
A prominent. Democrat from the
county said yesterday that a good
many Populists out his way had ex-
pressed a determination to vote for
Sewall rather than have Bryan defeat
ed in the State.
Writing of the nomination of Dock
cry for Lieutenant Governor by the
Populists, the Lumberton Robesonian
says: "Then, too, we understood all
along that Dockery was a "sonnd
money" man and opposed to fusion, ex-
cept, possibly, on the electoral ticket,
while Russell was in favor of silver and
>of fusion from start to finish. This
action" on the part of Mr.. Dockery
must be the result of a trade. to be
operative in case of Populist success
7at the polls in November. This trade,
in all probability, would make Dock
cry Governor and Guthrie United
States Senator"
New things continue to leak out
about the recent meeting of the Repub
lican Executive Committee. 1t comes
to the Winston Sentinel that when
Judge Russell called upon at the
late meeting in Raleigh for his opinion
he spoke freely and gave the committee
to understand that he was in the race
to stay, regardless of the views of the
committee or anybody else.
The Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, it is said, went on to say that
the Democrats and Populists were de-
termined to fuse on the electoral tick
eft. though it might not be found out
before the day of the election; that
in consequence of such cooperation
the Republicans could not hope of
carrying North Carolint for Mckinley.
Hon. Cyrus b. Watson, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, spent
yesterday in the city, leaving on the
west-bound train last evening. He was
just. from Carthage, where in superb
speech he opened the campaign, and
was in fine trim. His speeches remind
one of Zeb Vance," said a griZzled old
Democrat yesterday. He spent part of
the day at Democratic headquarters
in conference with Chairman Manly.