The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-08-20

Df. Thompson akked 1ol- satnnef III
be was not satisfied, since he had seen
bow things had turned out Great
laughter lie called upon Skinner TO
get up and say If he Was not much
pleased laughter Thompson
pledged himself 20 the ticket. and pre-
dicted . great victory. skinner was
called for and said:
You may know that any ticket that
has Cyrus Thompson OF it meets my
approval" (Cheers.l
suPEkIsTKxpESr or PUBLIC IssTKuc-
TioN.
The following nominations were
made:
Prof. John Graham, of Warren.
DR.. N.edham Il. Cobb, of Sampson
Prof. John W. Woodey, Of Guilford.
Prof. Chas. II. Mebane. Of Catawba.
The name Of DR.. Cobb was with
drawn.
The roll was called and the first bal
lot resulted as follows
Mebane, Col So
Woodey, 20
Mechanics nomination was made
unanimous.
STATE AUDITOR.
Mr.. Morrison Caldwell, of Cabarrus,
nominated John A. Sims, Of that
county.
Mr.. +. +. McCaskey, of Martin, nom
mated J. Y. Hamrick, of Cleveland.
Solicitor SeawelI, of Moore, nOEi-
mated Hal. w. Aver.
The roll of counties was called and
vote taken, but before announcement
there were some changes, and Aver
was nominated by acclamatiOn.
During the proceeding of nominal
ing the auditor an amusing, indeed a
ridiculous, incident occurred. A dele
gate from Montgomery county, under
some sort of inspiration managed
to get up sufficient cheek to nominate
Mr.. Henderson, whom the Repub-
licans had already nominated
for auditor. As soon as he men
toned the name of his candidate he
(the delegate) was greeted with an out
burst of cat calls, whistles, squalls,
boots and yells. He tried to make
himself heard in the din, and the con-
yentioH ironically encouraged him by
yelling out "Louder: IOuder!! loud
er.". He tried to talk louder and the
| hail got into a tempestuOus uprOar, but
| the delegate had his say despite the
effort to cry him down. He was final
ly overwhelmed by "main strength
of lungs, 80 to speak, but he died game.
Somebody made motion to adjourn
at this point, but tornado noes
burst forth with such force that it al
most knocked the hall on its beam
ends.
| ATTORNEY GENERAL.
The chair announced that the nOmi
nation for AttOrney-General was neXl
in order.
There were many calls for l.. C
Caldwell, of Statesvilie, and the con.
vention showed a hearty disposition
to nominate him if he wanted it
Senator Butler came forward, and il
strong, vigorous and eloquent speech
nominated Z. V. Walser, of Davidson
county. This nomination was greete,
with applause Senator Butler declar
ed that the delegates to the convention
had been sent here to nominate tick
ct that would win, and said that will
Walser on the ticket, it would attrac
. support that would make it win.
Col. Skinner came forward and oh
, jected to Walser, and made a speech il
which he sought to show inconsisten
, cies in the declarations of Senate
Butler and the CAUCASIAN and tn
, present course of Senator Butler. MI
Nat Macon, Capt. w. H. Kitchen, Nj
.. others got into this second muddl,
A motion was made to send commit
tee To ask Walser to come to the ha
and state his position. Lots of tai
was going on and the convention cam
: peri]Ously near that state of mobOcrac
: that had predominated the Republica
= and Democratic convention previousl
held in the city. Senator Butler mad
a motion to adjourn accompanied b
some remarks. Mr.. WOodsOn inter
rupted Butler to ask if he believed thu
the nomination of Walser was nece
= sary to victory. Butler said for reason
q best known to himself he would nc
answer that question but asked for AZ
e iournment till 8 80 o'clock on Frlda
{ morning. The motion was put ar
y carried. 1t was then 2 80 o'clock a. L
FRIDAY MORNING.
t The delegates began assembling {
= early as 8 80 o'clock. The Oppositio
s which had been shown to Walser
e few hours before seemed to have die
t and his nomination was about to
IT. ulduc ny dCClduldUlOU. "A ulOllOu LIZ
:. been made to that effect.
3 J.. G.. Caldwell moved that the M
, ton to nominate Walser by acclaim
e ton be laid on the table. His motto
+ was carried.
81 Mr.. Caldwell then made the motto
,e that the offices of Attorney-Gener
le and one Justice of the Supreme ecu
V be left open until a more conveniel
l hnr hox CHI In, r
# Executive Committee.
n. Capt. Kitchen was recognized. l
k said his suspicious of last night we
o confirmed and it seemed evident tn
II some of the bosses were trying to tut
over the Populist Party to the Repu
N licans. 81 protest against this scheI
and | warn you not to vote for Walls.
n. That gentleman stated in my pre-
in ence this morning that he was a r
re publican. We can't afford to nal
I'd him. If we are going to join the "a
icals we should do so openly"
Senator Butler appeared on the Pill
t. form and he was given an ovation.
of said:
st 81 made a motion to adjourn /,
lie several gentlemen who had seen \
or Walser since l had seen him. !
Walser has requested me to witbdr
at his name from this convention beca,
er his political integrity has been gu
d. toned, and l do so at his request"
ed The previous question was ordert
he the motion of MIR. Caldwell to les
the nomination of Attorney. Gene
e- and one Justice of the Supreme CO..
de open, was passed. Chairman Skim
is said, in putting the motion, that
He was in the line of right. His sta
mert was applauded.
v, JUDGE MONTGOMERY RENOMINATE]
Ole On motion of Walter Henry, Just
Walter Montgomery was renOmina
by reclamation for Judge of the
preme court.
OK GARRETT FOR ELECTOR-AT-LARGE
cry On motion of Ohio Wilson Z.T. G
ate rett, OF Vance, was nominated as
an, electOr-at-large by reclamation.
en- For the other elector there "