The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-05-21
RUSSELL Is
THE NOMINEE
He Carries the Convention By a
Combination With Boyd Forces
After Hard Fight.
81 SKELETON " TICKET.
Gaps Left For Some other Party tn Fill- A
Ridiculous StrAddle on the Nancy OGes-
tIon -Hoiton Elected Chairman Other

| tIon -Hoiton Elected Chairman Other
| Nominees on the Half Made Ticket.
The Republican Stat. convention
met in Raleigh, on Thursday. May Il.
The event brought together the lar
gest number of people that has atten-
ded convention Of this party in
| twenty years in this state. Every
white Republican Of any prominence
in North Carolina, or who has had any
prominence at any time since the war
and is still living, seemed to be pres
ent. Men whose names have been,
| are, and would be associated with
some office, either State or national,
were in ample evidence in the gather
ing.
As a matter Of course the c0nyen-
tiOn was "spotteG.' The fair faces of
the Anglo-SaxOu alternated with the
| multi-cOlOred hues OF the men of Afri-
can descent. But it was not 4 bad
| looking body of men as a whole. How
ever, the discoverer who might have
been seeking very fine looking body
OF men would have passed on and taken
the chances OF discovering it else
| where.
| During the two days on which the
| convention met at various hours, he
| body was at times noisy, demOnstra-
tive and turbulent, but there was
nothing of the mob about it, Aside
from the occasional out bursts of vocif-
Grafton and applause for the various
candidates, the business of the con-
ventiOn was conducted in order. This
does not mean, however, that ali the
business transacted could be consider
ed altogether fair and honest by an OBJ
server of the proceedings.
| The convention was called to order
by State Chairman IIoltOn at noon on
Thursday. All the counties except
Cherokee and Macon were represent
ed. There were cOntesting deIega-
tiOns from Craven, Cumberland, Edge
combe, Franklin, Mecklenburg, Per-
quimans, Union, Wake, Wilkes and
Wilson. The contests in each of these
cases were between supporters of Col.
o. Ii. Dockery and Judge d. S. Rus
sell, the two leading candidates for
the gubernatorial nomination.
The first business was, of course to
dispose of these contested cases, and
Immediately after the reading of the
official call for the convention, Chair
man HOltOn announced the committee
on credentials as follows:
, G. A. Reynolds, of Forsyth; Geo. II.
Smathers, of Haywood; Wheeler Mar
tin, Of Martin; j. j. Wood, of Halifax
j. ID. Holland, of Uarnett; f. D. Jones,
of Chatham; James f. Wray, of Rock
iDgham; r. B. Russell, of Robson, J.
w. Boyer, of Cabarrus.
This committee, it was alleged, was
: composed of eight Dockery men and
one Russell man; Wheeler Martin be-
| ing the Russell supporter.
The "disorganiZer" element and
a chronic disturbers, which are to be
y found to a greater or less extent il
! every meeting, seemed to be held wei
4 in hand by Chairman Holton on thi:
occasion. One "yaller" fool from some.
where jumped up and wanted to "asE
for information" He wanted to know
what right the chairman had to ap
point this committee before the con
vention gave it to him. The laugh al
this fellows combined brass and igno
rance was SO great that he was thor
= oughly squeiched, and he was no
heard from again during the two day.
q session.
g The chairman then suggested tina
: the convention adjourn till i O'cIOcl
|
a committee might report to the cOnven
ton.
The suggestion of the chairman wa
responded to by loud calls for SenatO
Pritchard. He came forward an,
urged that the suggestion to adjourn
be complied with, saying he would b.
7 glad to speak to the convention later
q The convention then adjourned til
= four O'Clock,
y A new departure was introduced a
: the beginning of the first session il
the matter of securing ard preserving
{ the seats of delegates, by issuing tick
cts of admission. Only delegates an
S newspaper men were admit ed to tn
d hall, and while there was scrambl
o and crOwding for tickets at the door
n when the delegates got in they Wer
+ not subjected to the crowding and jam
ming which has been so common a
~ conventions here.
The reassembling of the convention a
four o'clock did not result in tn
9 transaction of business. The com
l. mittee on credentials had made bu
e little headway, and it was soon under
d stood that it would not be throug
q with the work before the next morn
;. ing. After some calls for few "bie
y men who did not heed the call, tn
:. newspaper men called for Campbell
20 of Cherokee, editor of the Murph
y Bulletin. He responded in vel
Y. that made the listeners laugh, an
70 then the convention again adjourne
H. till eight o'clock.
n EIGHT O'CLOCK SESSION.
OF The meeting at this hour was
is barren of results as to actual busine
I'D as the afternoon session. The CT
va dentials committee were still peggi1
a away at the task before them. Th,
~ had had neither dinner nor suppe
~ but were hearing evidence all t.
" same. Of course the delegates want
We some entertainment and sought for
y, by calling out some star speaker
lv- Among those who responded we
Marshall Mott, Col. V. S. Lusk, c.
Boyd, Spencer Blackburn and il
c. Dancy. Senator Pritchard, "
called out. He appeared and cxcus
himself from speaking on the grou
80 that he had a severe headache, a
60 said he would like to postpone spea
RS ing till next day. He stated that r
to d. A. Long. president of Antioch C,
in lege, in Ohio, was present; that /
to. Long was friend of Mckinley, a
oI. 'as he is a native of North Carolil
l know you will be glad to hear hir
The reverened gentleman came f
ward, and of all the silly. ridiculous
forts ever made by man to make
speech on the issues of the day,
his must have been the most pronounc
ley He knew nothing of what he tried
at talk about. To the observer of n
'ad, and things he appeared to have r,
ear one or two loose pamphlets, issued p
the haps by some tariff league or by
"Bill" street reform club of New YO
red and was trying to remember what
ker had seen in them. He "bOastedn of b
dis ing had so big man as Senator Fo
A ker, who is a friend of Mckinley,
ted. his house to dinner. He showed h