The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The plank Incorporated in the State
Republican platform in favor of re-
moving the Office of Superintendent of
Public Instruction out of politics, was
a suggestion of Maj. w. A. Guthrie,
says the Durham Sun.
"AH negroes are natural born
thieves. They viii steal six days in
the week and go to church on Sunday
and shout and pray it of. This is
what Daniel L. Russell said about
them when he wasn't bidding for
votes,
The Greensboro Record corrects
the statement that Judge Ewart is the
first Republican to participate in POI
1itieal conventions, saying: Judge
Watts, Republican judge, did the
same thing years ago, until chased off
the stump by Gen. Cox
Rev. r. r. Nichols, colored minis
ter of BERTHE county, after attending
the Republican county convention,
writes letter to the Windsor Led
ger, saying: ''We have tried politics
long enough to realize the necessity
Of religion, education and truth"
Every Democrat whom we have
seen expresses pleasure at the nomi-
nation of Russell. Without excep-
ton he is regarded as the very weak
est man in the field and it is believed
that he can be beaten by a good Dem
ocrat.- Herald.
North Carolina should never safer
such calamity as placing Daniel L.
Russell in the chief executive Office
and we believe his nomination will
tend to solidify the Democracy and
arouse, it to a supreme effort to avert
such a stigma upon the fair name of
our Winston Sentinel.
A man was divorced from his wife,
and she married again, whereupon
husband 40. / inquired of No. q:
"What relation are you to me?'
None that know Of.
eyes, You are said 10 j. "You are
my steprhusbaRdI stepped out and
YOU stepped n.''-Peoria Transcript.
A BOYS Reason-''Whcn grow MP,
said little Jack to his father, I'm
going TO be just like you, papa"
That's sweet of you TO say" said
his father.
seYYen, i mean it, said Jack What
a snap YOU do have with mamma
around TO wait on you! Harper
Bazar.
At Southern Pines men Of sense are
actually planting out pine trees, nurs-
ing them as one would rose bush.
They have learned the value Of the
pine, and are seeking to in part fill up
the gaps made by the saw mills. 1T is
possible to get timber constantly from
q forest without ever running it, Mr..
Vanderbilt has shown how to use a
forest scientifically on his Biltmore
estate; but the average saw mill man
would rather strip a small forest com
pletely than to take his timber from
wide acreage and leave fine
growth to draw upon.
Referring to the speech OF Locke
Craig, Esq, who was unanimously
recommended as elector- at-Iarge ~
the Ninth Congressional district con
vention. the Asheyille Citizen says:
1T would be impossible to report Mr.
Craig's speech adequately except by
printing it in full, and then the spiri'
and fire which made it thrill and en-
tluse the great crowd in way nevel
seen except while under the infuenc'
OF the born orator, would have beer
absent. it is simple truth to say tina
Mr. Craig's speech was not only thu
event of the convention, but was pro
noanced by many to be the best spsei
men of political oratory heard in Wes
tern North Carolina since the days O
n. n. Vance. The old men wept undel
his words, and the young shouted
themselves hoarse as the young orato
poured forth his sarcasm, inyectiy'
and anecdote, and at many points h
fairly frenzied the audience with en-
thusiasm." - 81 VI rFfafA