The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-03
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, SUNDAY MORNING, 1896

Russelhtes 10 get the delegates. We
Twill meet the Russellitts at Phillips
THE DoCKERY CONVENTION.
The Docllery wing, after leaving
| Metropolitan Hall, headed by Leak,
Nichols, Johnson and others, assem-
bled in what is know as Hoover hall.
on Wilmington street, where they inn
mediately organized by the the election
of W. ii. Martin chairman and VIM.
Graves secretary.
f. A. johnson stated that they had
assembled NOW as men and as Repub-
licans, not as free silver party disor-
ganizers, that no opportunity had
been given them to register their
choice for delegates in the other hall,
and that they were determind to pro-
claim to tn world that there was still
some manhood and principle left in
the Republican party of Wake county.
He favored cooperation on reason
able terms with the Populists, but he
was now and forever opposed to sur
rendering to any party his allegiance
to the Republican party. Nor was he
going to surrender at the behest of
man or faction his support of the Ma
tional Republican organization and
principles it enunciated, and they
were now assembled to rebuke an eff
fort on the part of some to do this, and
they would proceed in an orderly way
to the business at hand. There were
seyenty-four by actual count in the
Dockery meeting, fifty-nine Of whom
it was claimed were delegates which
was, if true, a majority of the dele
gates Of the county. The. following
delegates were then elected to the
State conventions:
John Nichols, VIM. Graves, J. p. H.
Adams, r. TT. w. Leak, e. A. Johnson,
and w. 7. Suit. The following were
elected alternates: H. r. Goodson, J.
T. Anderson, S. j. Bennett, Jno. Tur-
ner, J. S. Mangum and G. w. Mat
thews
Delegates to the 4th district Con-
gressional convention: d. A. Johnson,
L. N.White, III. r. Jones, Henry Christ
mas, w. w. jenkins and Geo w. Mas
senburg. A1ternates: Seree Adkins, J.
A. Temple, Fletcher Lockett, T. p.
DeyereuX, T. M. Sorrell and Samuel
Clements.
The convention then elected J. P. H.
Adams chairman Of the county execu-
tive committee, passed q resolution
that the chairman should appoint a
committee of five to confer with the
Populists with reference to county
fusion, and adjourned.
STDE-LIGHTS ON THE SHOW.
Tom Devereux was the only white
man called on for speech, and he
wasn't allowed to speak until all the
star negro speakers had been heard.
He had to sit at the second table.
81 am for cooperation upon fair
terms" said Leak 81 don't want no
more of it, yelled delegate.
In Leaks marriage illustration, he
made the Populist party the bride of
the Republican groom. There seems |
to be divorce from bed to board with
proceedings for complete divorce.
II am talking to some delegates, men
on the floor, who voted the Demo-
cratic ticket and have used Democratic
money dramatically said Parson
Leak. ''Name 'em, name 'em," was
the cry, and for five minutes the up
roar riyalled that at Babel.
''Sober him and take him out" call
ed out Jim Young as a drunken dele
gate made his presence known. He |
is drunk on Russell whiskey, and you
ought to take care of him, was shout |
ed back.
Washington Louise will please come
forward" called out the secretary. |
Everybody laughed. 1t turned out TO
be Laws
''The man who writes that the ne
groes always go with the rascals hath |
no claim on the negro race. "-Parson
Leak.
II tried to indfct Judge Russell for
libel because he wrote a letter about |
Jim YOung's gang NThe lawyers said |
it was not libellous. Jim Young.
Revenue officers didn't trouble us, |
it is the State affairs that come near
est. / would give up the Federal gov
eminent to get control of the State |
will compel fusion. We will make |
J. C. L. Harris. you hayseed, called |
out a city negro.
Judge Russell has paid for Wake |
county. 1t remains to be seen whether /
the goods can be delivered. Men have /
gone around the county and drawn |
the color line, and shut ont white Re-
publicans from the primaries. How |
can you succeed by excluding the I
white man? Why did they exclude |
white Republicans? To nominate a |
man who called you sayages and in |
suited your and my wife and mother. |
You are untrue to the francise Cod has
given you if YOU vote for Russell. |
There are 10000 negroes who viii |
never do it. Ed. johnson.
A negro by the name of Burgess, |
with the blacklist face and the whites5 |
shirt front, made gyration in the air
to accompany his incendiary remarks. |
There are too many muskets and too |
many men willing to spill their blood |
for the negro to submit to wrong cleo |
tion laws" was one of his utterances. /
''The greatest catastrophe said |
Graves (colored) of Oberlin, would !
be the division of the negro vote"
THE Dockery men had majority |
of the convention" said Chairman j |
G. l.. Harris, after the Dockery dele |
gates had withdrawn, "and If they
had stayed, they would have selected
Dockery delegates"