The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-17

passed. Tine GOuNGMblOlt anu WIKI S11A
WINGED of that fact, he subsidized.
The contest for Auditor was as spir-
tied as nything could be in SD listless
a handful of tired delegates. The nom
nation of the ''Coon-Skinner from
Wilkes by one majority, had the eff
feet of making that gentleman happy,
even lie it did not cause Marshall Mott,
who put him in nomination, to grow
hilarious If Ruff will repeat. some of
the speeches he made in the last Leg
islature. he will at least be an amoozin
Gus as Artemus Ward would say
MR.. CLAUDIUS DOCKERY INTER
VIEWED.
Claudius Dockery was asked last
night what he thought of the result
Of the convention proceedings.
S'WelI. we are satisfied. Our fight has
been an open, manly one. We never
struck below the belt. The showing
we made has. been very gratifying tony
father. His friends stood nQbly by
him, and their earnest and sincere sup
port will always be a source of graft
fication to him. The result, too,
shows that my estimate two weeks
since of the comparative strength OF
the candidates was practically correct,
and but for that unholy alliance which
ruthlessly and by mere force of supe-
rior numbers, without show of right or
justice, threw out twenty-odd of Dock
ery's votes, Dockery would have been
nominated on the first ballot
No man with any sense of justice,
after hearing the facts, can say that
Wake. Mecklenburg, Cumberland, Cra-
ven, Perquimans, and other counties,
did not belong to the Dockery column.
Yet the Dockery delegates from these
counties were stood aside, and the COM
mittees report, made after a "a hours
consideration, was voted down by the
convention, without the least knowl-
edge of the facts.
The honorable Judge Buxton, who
has spent his life i'm the service of the
party, was turned aside without the
least investigation into the claims he
brought with him. These We're thrown
out not to nominate Russell, but to
defeat Dockery. The e3r 's.-c stuck m
the coulter a little TOO deep. In their
effort to even him ua win Dockery,
they gave him az advantage they could
not overcome. Tbs III what defeated
D0ckery.
He was asked il his father would sup
port the ticket.
81 have heard him say nothing to the
contrary. He has never yet bolted a
convention or scratched a ticket"
THE COMMITTEES ORGANIZED.
The executive committee was organ
lied regularly yesterday morning.
Pritchard virtually kicked Holton opt,
though he permits him to retain the
name. Holton, no doubt, feels like say
ing, in the words Of the opera:
perhaps it was well to dissemble your
love,
But Why did you kick me downstairs p
The campaign committee Of five,
named by pritcha1d, Is really the ex-
ecutive committee, Holton's crowd
having nothing to do but call a conyen-
tion bi-ennially, and go on dress pa
rade Pritchard's committee is: II. l.
Patterson, chairman; James III. Young
(col.), Tyre Glenn, John G. Dancy
| (coI), and I'll. i. Grant. As secretary,
Mr.. j. w Hyams. Of Mitchell, was
chosen. j. G. J.. Harris said he wcR Id
not accept the seeretaryship If Holton
was to remain even as figure head
chairman. Russell is quoted as saying
to Pritchard: "Holton is not my friend
and you must not let him be chair
| man." Pritchard managed to fix it By
leaving Holton chairman in name only