The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-23

grace and to the credit of his foes in
order that | might arrive at just and
proper conclusions.
Very little could be got out of the Gov
ernor himself-in fact | only said very
few words to him and they were tremu-
lousy commonplace remarks about the
weather, hog island, the price OF milk,
which side he would take in the book
fight this year, and / backed out of the
door la Fred Rice feeling that the Gov
ernor's erebus and reredos and general
awful presence was too awe-inspiring for
one who was not on hunt for that sort
OF inspiration. / was painfully impressed
however that it will be Governor and
also that it will venture to be North
Carolina. The only thing in the way OF
the latter catastrophe is Vance Walser,
who was elected General-Attorney, as a
gold-bug, while under q secret pledge
at the silver shrine.
Those famous railroad lawyers, Pritch-
ard, Price and Boyd, had already gone
hence, whether gleefully or saddened,
could not learn, but one of the cooks told
me the matter would all depend upon
whether the anti-lease pronunciamento
would act both ways-scare the railroad
company and fool the Pops into electing
a gold-bug to the United States Senate.
In this case the Governor would revise
his mind and explain that he did not
mean what he said. Nobody supposed
that these great railroad lawyers went
to Russell for pie. They are bigger than
he is. They made Mckinley, and
Hanna having known Boyd ever since the
Kirk war, the Colonel will undergo no
difficulty in getting both Mexico and
Honduras-cactus and logwood-for him
self. The long, arduous and eminent
services Of Col. Price in behalf Of Radi-
calism places him where he need not ask
for something, but will nevertheless sure
~ be made the receptacle of something
nice.
Should hell break loose here instead of
in Georgia, the smooth and spacious
manners of Captains Keogh and Wheeler
will enable them to get hold of the bone
Of contention and then the Southern rail-
road will be happy in being safe from
outside interference. The State ought
through the last Legislature, to have
made the aforesaid mild and modest pair
present Of it's interest in the North
Carolina railway and had done with it
The Atlantic and North Carolina railroad
TO escape the paw Of the relics OF 1868
is to be exploited, and put into the
hands Of bona fide Carpet-baggers of ap
proved business methods and temperate
habits. Perhaps this property ought tc
be presented to Mr.. Duncan in remunera
| ton for his condescension in being born
| But pie: Mr.. Chadbourn, the Russell
Hanna, who can look you so straight in
the face and see you is slated for the
Collectorship of the port, providing he
succeeds in staving off the Inaugural
ball. Russell is not a good Walter any
how. With this place out Of sight, jim
Young is headed off from the same place
that Russell whipped him at once before
| COL Shaffer and others are to be per
mitted to run for the Raleigh postofffce
but Jim Young viii get it because OF his
| flop from silver to gold at a critical perioG
of the campaign. A failure OF confrma
ton will lay him out and make it easy
for a white man to be postmaster. Il
somebody will make up his mind fol
him, Judge Purnell may have the Agri
cultural Statistics again or DR.. Black
nails place in the brandy department
Grant is to receive what was left Owe