The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-07
NEW CITY OFFICERS
Some Of Their Names Leaked
Out Yes ..;rday.
THE ALDERMEN ARE MUM
SWORN TO SECRECY ON A IA"
HEAD-OF CABBAGE.
noRxoop FOR cH,es OF POLICE

Four New Policemen F" IS ~
s.reat Rumor. Were Chosen
Perrin Busbee For City
Attorney.
IN NORWOOD, Chief of Police.
PERRIN BUSBEE. City Attorney.
Hos. G. BROWN, City Treasurer
RR LACY, Com. of Sinking FUND.
ANDREW JONES, Keeper of Market.
r =. SALE. Sanitary Inspector.
w y BLAKE. Street Commissioners
RORT. UPCHURCH, Auditor.
JOFN THOMPSON, Policeman.
JOUN RASHFORD, Policeman.
SAM LAMBETH, Policeman.
CHAS. LEWIS, Policeman.
This is the ticket that will be electnd
tonight. or I'm. very much mistaken
I yentured the prediction yesterday
morning that the slate made by the
democratic aldermanic caucus Wednes-
day night would leak out yesterday
We'll. it did leak-slowly. to be sure,
sort of an oOzing process, but 1t came.
The above is fhe result of this dripping.
If it turns out to be the real, genuine
Louisiana molasses, then | shall throw
myself a big boquet tonight. l think l
Will deserve it. Any man does who had
to westle with such close corporation
as that caucus seems to have been.
But there is one consolation TO the
whole thing: There is no danger of the
present Democratic aldermen ever, III
temporary fit Of insanity, Joinang the
Populist party. No man tnat doesh
tell all he knows and more too se'er:'i
times a day, acan never be a fopullst III
good standing. These nave no
more respect for a mans curiosity than
they have for a ham. sgt,e
Talk about your CLAIMS! They don
know the first rudiments about keeping
their mouths shut. Let them learn OF
the Raleigh aldermen. After sitting Tor
awhile at the feet of these Gamallels
they'll find out the meaning OF the word
mum
Nine men never kept their counsel more
completely than did these Democratic
aldermen yesterday. And that III the lace
of ten Thousand questions fired at them
an day. But marry" a word spoke they.
/ doubt if fley allowed themselves to
think for fear somebody would hear the
wheels go round and guess the riddle.
..Who was elected to this office, who
To that?" met them at every turn. But
they made no answer Tell ms. this and
tell me that" But they told nothing.
Inst give me some idea about this and
an linking of that" But theg had no
ideas. or if they did they We're not giving
them away.
All kinds of ruses were resorted TO.
all sorts of traps were set. The ruses
failed. the traps caught no game. Upon
the .ouesrOner the alderman would turn
a vacant stare. The face of the Sphinx
in the deserts of Hgypt is not more stolid
and INEXPENSIVE than were The faces
of these men yesterday.
II i, said that the cause of all this Sc
crecy was the holding of the caucus IN the
Odd Fellows hall; and there were JUST
1882 citizens in Raleigh yesterday who
having proceeded to find out something
and couldn't, proceeded to lift up their
voices and swear, by the eternal. that
this shall never occur again-hodlng
caucus in the Odd Fellows hall 1t IS
said that there, at the mystic hour OF
thirteen inmates to three. they all took
AN oath on a raw head-of cabbage-and
bloody bones, not to reveal to mortal
man any of the deeds there done or words
there spoken until after people ceased to
care what in the blank they had done or
said In other words. until after the
election by the full board tonight.
This oath, # it can be cut to INT any
sized Uranium. would mean fortune TO
the Republican party, for Use III Its leg
islatiye cauc,lses 1t beats the initiafiSe
and referendum all to hollow.
But they-these high and mighty al
dermen. VINO were tOting news around
all day Yesterday in their vest pockets
forgot TO administer this oath to the walls,
who are said to have ears, and through
them Yesterday, all day long, kept ooz-
ing the proceedings, like rosin out Of Il
smoke house on the sunny side. The re-
suIt of this OoZe is given above. No
doubt the process will be kept up all day
TODAY. and by the time the election comes
off. why, every fellow will know
whether to he present or not
The chief contest was for ehleI Oh
polce SO SAID the leak III the wall up at
Odd Fellows hall. On the first ballot the
vote stood: Heart. 3: Norwood, 81
Brooks. >; and Clifton, l. On the sec
ond ballot. Norwood had 4; Heart, =;
Brooks. .: Clifton, /. On the third bal
LOT thene was a stampede to Norwood ana
no was elected practically by ace:ama'
ton.
Now. / may he ii prophet, or may be
talking in the air However. the above IL
nv predictiou We shall see what we
shall see.