The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-05-21

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dorsed by the Senator. The Senator
declares himself to be friend Of sill
yer, but this friend OF his made or
tried TO make red hot goldbng speech
full of the rottenest goldbug lush ever
uttered. In fact this reverened gentle
man made Just such an effort AS is
common among sleek, we'll fed, we'll
paid ministerial hirelings of such
churches and institutions as are pre-
dominated by goldbug and monopo-
Nstic influences. To an honest man
he was disgraceful. to an intelligent
man he was disgusting, and to any sort
of man he must have seemed pitiful-
As an animated Uriah Heep, he would
take the blue ribbon.
When the speaking was concluded
the convention adjourned until 10
o'clock Friday morning.
The CONTESTED CASES.
ties heretofore named had been the
subject Of much work by the creden-
tiais committee. They began their la
bors on Thursday afternoon about three
O'Clock. They worked away till half
past two o'clock on Friday morning
and had not then gotten through.
They were at it again on Friday morn
ing by 9 30 o'clock, and it was soon un-
derstOod that they would be ready to
report by II O'Clock at latest. Around
the work of this committee hangs a
story that tells how the final result of
the convention was achieved. There
were from the contesting counties
thirty four delegates contesting. After
the committee had completed their
xrnpk THAR shnUa1 that fhnv
recommended seating eighteen Dock
cry delegates and sixteen Russell del
egates. But while they were working
up this report, there was other work
going on on the outside.
1t was apparent that among all the
gubernatorial candidates Col. Dockery
had the strongest following, and it
was possible that if the Dockery men
from the contestieg counties or the
larger part of them should be seated,
DOckery could be nominated on the
first ballot. Col. Jas. E. Boyd, of Gull
ford county, was a candidate for the
nomination. His only chance Of sue
cess lay in the contingency that the
fight between DOckery and Russell
should be so determined as to make the
nomination of either impossible, and
then he might get in as the ''lOgical'
candidate. If Col. Dockery, however,
should be nominated on the first ballot
this hoped for contingency could not
arise. 1t was therefore necessary to
prevent nomination on the first bal
lot. 1t is alleged, with good reason
that the friends of Col. Boyd and
Judge Russell formed a combination
for the purpose of preventing first
ballot nomination. Both combined
could muster a stronger force than Col
Dockery had single handed. So it was
arranged between them that if the re-
port of the committee should favor the
seating of enough of the contestine
delegates in favor of Dockery to make
his nomination dangerously close, they
would vote down the committees re
port, and by their combined forces
vote in the Russell contestants.
| SECOND DAYS SESSION.
the credentials committee was com
pleted, it recommended that eighteer
Dockery delegates and sixteen Russell
delegates of the thirty-four contest
ants be seated. This fact was mad,
known early on Friday morning, ant
it had been agreed to by Mr.. Wheeler
| CllC OAly lSuSSCll Iudu Ou Cu'
committee. But shortly afterward Mr.
Martin decided to make minority re
port. When he had prepared it, it re
commended the seating of thirty Rus
sell delegates and four Dockery dele
gates. Mr.. Geo. Smathers, of the com
mittee, made minority report in som
cases, but in every such case he SCENE,
> to strive to arrive at fairness and Jus
tice. In cases where the evidence wa
so complicated as to make it impossibl
' to arrive at actual knowledge, he ia
vored dividing the vote of the count
equally among the contesting dele
cations And so when the convention
was called to order at II o'clock on Fri
day, the report of the credentials com
|, mittee came before the body as de
scribed above, viz: majority repOr
favoring the seating of eighteen Dock
cry delegates and sixteen Russell dele
/; gates, and minority report (signe
by only one member of the committee
favoring the seating of thirty Russell
delegates and four Dockery delegate
10 adopt the ma jority report the nom
: ination of Col. DOckery on the frs
ballot would be made dangerOusl
! close, and here is where the combins
2 tion of Russell and Boyd forces e
e their work in. The incidents accom-
;, panying the carrying out of this pla
e were not specially interesting beyon
= the fact that the report of one man ws
t taken and approved by the con
bine against Dockery instead of til
t report of eight men. There were SON
e sharp words and tumultOus Occurrenc,
: now and then, but the work of the con
t bine was successfully carried out, an
: the Dockery forces thus material
b weakened. 1t took four hours to con
: plete this job, and to every fair minde
" man who saw it going on, it was di
e graceful and dirty job.
i, PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Delegates from all the counties ha
d ing been seated, the convention Or
d ceeded to the work of permanent O
ganization.
John G. Dancy put in nominate
for permanent chairman Senat
Is Prltchard. The Senator requested tn
ss his name be Withdrawn and it W
3 done. Marshall L. Mott and Virgil
= Lusk were then nominated. Mott W
y elected by a vote of al to 81.
r, J. G. L. Harris, John C. Dancy al
le j. L. Ellinger were elected permane
% secretaries.
IL SENATOR PRITCHARD ENDORSED.
20 Judge II. G. Ewart introduced t
~ following resolution:
~ "ResOlved, That it is the sense
~. this convention that the Honoral
oI Jeter Z. Prltchard be named, and he
81 81 hereby named, as the candidate of t
~ Republican party to succeed bims,
~ as United States Senator from ii
~ State, and that the delegates of Il
~ convention pledge themselves to ,
=. all honorable means to secure his
-; election"
~ This resolution was received W
"a, great applause and was carried b,
-. rising vote.
- Senator Pritchard came forward q
pleasantly and gracefully acknowle,
,is ed the compliment paid him, havi
a1 ~ first been presented to the convent