The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-02
STILL AFTER DOCKERY
Republican Headquarters Still Receiving
Letters Asking that He De Taken Down.
LIVELY RUSSELL.ARTFRUSSELL ROW
Republicans Have n Breezy Time
Organizing n Club mt tho Court
Irouse-I7owever, Pritchnrd Says
the Party Was Never Moro Nnr.
m%onious Rev. DIR. Bobbitt Dead.

RalelGh. N. c.. Sept. 1.-(Spcclal)-
Letters are being received at ltepubli-
can HEADQUARTERS here asking that i'm
mediate action be taken in striking the
name OF oliver H. Dockery from the
Stale ticket.
1t is now thought that John Il. Ray
will decline the position of principal of
the State Institution for the Blind here,
TO which he was last week elected.
The members of the Republican State
Committee say ii will meet mex week
and will certainly take Dockery down.
IL. l.. Grant. of the committee. says its
endorsement of Dockery was To force
the latter TO show his hand aud prove
himself a traitor TO his own party. or to
PoDulists.
The Russell and ~anti-Russell factions
of the Raleigh Republicans had II lively
met TO form a Mckinley Club. when
there was an invasion of the hall by the
RusSellites In force. Some fights fol-
tcwed AS n result the ants formed a
Mckinley Club and the Russeilites
formed a Mckinley and Russell Club,
and there the matter stands. John
Nichols as president Of the Mckinley
Club II Bailey, of North Carolina. of
the Mckinley and Russell Club. And
vet Senator Pritchard says the Rcpub-
lican party In the State is united; more
so han he has ever before known it.
Y SeIdlOE ITllCHdfo Is III u very EN-
barrassing position. 1t certainly does
not appear that there is any prospect
of his reelection. He must believe one
of two ~things-that he has split the
Populist party or else that all hose
PoDulists who left the Republican party
will return to the latter. Congressman
Pearson also seems to be in Il bad way.
He counted OF getting Populist endorse
mcnt in the Ninth District In return for
his work for Harry Skinner In the First,
but somehow the Populists failed TO en-
dorse. At Democratic headquarters 1t Is
limited that for three weeks past Pear
son has known he would be beaten.
The Ashcville Register. Senator Pritch-
ards paper. says that perhaps 1t would
he best to take d. L.. Russell and Rough
Henderson candidate for Auditory
down from the Republican ticket. This
marks i change in sentiment, which is
interesting.
Rev. DIR. ]. b. Bobbitt dice here early
this morning. at his home. For many
years he has been q great sufferer
from asthma. His G was 20. For
MANY wears he was a well-known minis
ter of the NJ. L. Church. South, In the
North Carolina Conference. and for a
long time he owned and edited the Ra-
leigh Christian Advocate, the organ of
that Conference.
Editor Ramsey. of tho Progressive
Farmer. refused to be reconciled to the
BRYAN ticket or to Senator Butler. In
his Daper to-day he declares he will not
endorse the st. Louis Convention until
he sees one ticket and that Bryan and
Watson. and even then 1t will be n
bitter pill for a man who loves his coun-
try"
Populist State Chairman Hal. Aver
said this morning when asked what the
Populists would do If the Republicans
withdrew their endorsement of Dock
erv: We will do nothing. He is our
nan now. He was put on the ticket
without reference to what the Republic
cans did or what they do now"
A letter from T. *. Brewer, secretary
to the Board of Agriculture, says tina
while at Maneto Dare county, he fell
into n boat and hurt his knee so badly
that he will have to remain quiet there
for some days.
Miss Lalla Carr. daughter Of Col.
Julian S. Carr. was thrown from q
buggy at Blowing Rock during a runa-
way and badly. but not seriously, hurt.
No bones were broken.
John b. Burwell, for many years
president OF Peace Institute here, is
elected president of Statesville Female
College.