The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
The Old Man of the Pee Dee
Heads off the Committee.
COMMITTEE ADJOURNED.
To Meet Again This Morning at
Nine O'clock.
WILL RUSSELL COME DOWN 2
His Friends Claim that He Will Stay If
He DON'T get but One vote--Has
He Abandoned His Campaign?

The Republican State Executive com
mittee met yesterday afternoon at 4;5o
in the rooms of the Republican head
quarters at the Academy of Music. Al
ter a few moments, without having
taken any action, it adjourned unti
this morning at nine o'clock'' -:
The members wanted more tune 10
mix together. and. then, as usual the
whole outfit seems to be helpless in the
absence of action by the Popullsts.
Therefore. it was natural for the Re-
puhlicaRs to wait until to-day when the
populsst State Executive committee
will meet.
& prominent Republican being ask
ed as TO the rumor about taking Rus
sell down said, There is nothing in
il. il was all started by Tom Settle
who told these fellows in the Fifth
District down about Durham that he
would be willing TO see Russell come
down and 10 take Guthrie in his place,
and with a wink and smile the Re-
publican added: You know what that
means. Russell Will stay on. II he
don't get but one vote.
The same gentleman said that Dock
ery.s resignation had not been pre-
sented. in fact the committeeman had
only met and adjourned.
They had come TO take Russell down.
Uncle Oliver hadn't done anything
al all but just send in his resignation.
Being from the Pee Dee section, he
sent il in p. ID. quick, too quick for
some of those who hoped TO have the
arhoulish glee' OF taking him off.
The Park Hotel is the homing- place
Of the Republican State Executive car
rier-pigeons. If Senator Butler comes
10 town on business for his own party,
unlimited. these Republican pigeons
turn loose their wings from mountain
and seashore and never stop until they
finally get roasted at the Park.
Pearson had feather or two out of
his wing when he was taken in, and
some Clay and Macon county frost
was found. yet unmelted near his wish
bone. Danny Russell who has not been
long enough in training to be reliable
was given the goodbye somewhere
near Bakersville, and went away out of
his course, and was caught at Wash
ington. ID. G. He flew in national
Republican headquarters window, and
his foot and leg were examined. There
was a gold tag on it with the following
inscription: Danny Russell-Brood
of 1868, N. c." After an exchange OF
kilograms Washington released him
and he came in among the first with
wings badly broken, and large min
ority of tail feathers. Around his
neck was a note dated Gudgers
Gulch, Western North Carolina" 1t
said: picked up disabled Whose
Bird is hep" Marshall Mott had more
ginger in his pinions than any bird
that turned up. He flew in so hard
that he smashed window-pane, and
perching for a moment on the bed-post
of roost number AZ he forgot for the
moment he was only a cock-pigeon
and tried to crow like chicken-cock.
Marshall swore that if anybody tried
to take Danny Russell off that ticket,
he would run independent for Governor
himself, and Marshall meant il. Mar
shall had said as much as early as the
day when Russell spoke at Henderson,
vile. but he had never meant the state
ment to be made public until yester-
day. So it was kept in confidence by
the reporter of the News and Observer.
Moreover. Marshall said that he could
put up the money too, and carry 49,
900 Republican votes with him. In the
same conversation, the dashing looking
Young solicitor took occasion to say,
in connectionrwith the charge by Oliver
III. Dockery that he was treacherous to
him in the convention, that the vote
against Doclxery in the Wilkes conn-
ty convention had been So to IL, and
that the last words of a speech he made
there was in substance a declaration
that he would down Dockery, and he
had done only as it had been under
stood he would do.
Besides those already mentioned,
there were circulating about the Park
Hotel lobby other Republicans OF State
prominence, Zeb. Vance Walser, with
an Attorney General cut to his back
hair, which has been trained long anu
legal-looking, Jim Cheek, of Orange,
with his lips Theoretically sealed, as us
nal. Jim Young, of Wake, Tom
Settle. who got in on the afternoon
train Yesterday, with his handbook
bloom, Carl Duncan, of Beaufort, j..
NJ. Millikin, of Asheboro, Wiley Shook,
and Pritchard, two faces that smile as
one. A. FL. Slocumb, of Fayetteville,
who is trying to get the Congressional
nomination from his district. Three
others should not, for the moment, at
least, be classed with the above, Sheriff
Smith. Z. f. Long and Settle Dockery.
All of Rockingham.
Even before all these statesmen had
come together for business, there were
all kinds of rumors among them, the
rather startling one that fusion had
been effected all down the line, State,
national and county. This rumor came
from a source to be relied upon, and
vet, there was a strong suspicion that
somehodv had been misinformed some
where.
All these rumors tended towards
some new arrangement about Russell.
And, strange to say, it looked like Rus
sell had been pacified in some way.
For it was quite patent that he had
abandoned his campaign The people IN
4hc ANes.tarn mart of fine State have fnL