The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-08
Eight PopuI,st Candidates
For His Place.
WILL WORK FOR LESS
RAYS CONVERSATION SCHEME
FINDS FAVOR.
JUDGE wHITAKER'S SON A CANDIDATE

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Who Want to Move into Raleigh
| Township and Spend its
Road Money.
The County Commissioners were in
session all day yesterday. and will meet
again this morning at 10 o'clock.
To-day's session will be one Of special
interest. Several elections are to he
held. Mr.. J. C.. l.. Harris will be re-
elected county attorney without oppo-
sition. Mr.. G. Il. Ray will also have
an easy thing Of getting his place OF
superintendent of the County Home
again. But Mr.. w. c. McMackin, the
excellent supervisor of the public roads
of the Raleigh road district viii prob
ably be defeated. Certainly he will not
be reelected if the board decides that
| they can get along without him.
| The plan is to give G. b. Ray, Popu-
| list. the keeper of the County Home and
lWorkhouse. the supervision of this road
district and then let him hire man.
| If the board can find authority it will
do this, or else it will Gust McMackin
and put in a cheap man at $40 or 500
a month. McMackin gets 500 a
month. and he has thus far been worth
it. There are, besides Ray, no less than
seven candidates for his place-all Pop
ulsts-as follows: Debenier, Whita-
ker. son of Judge Spier Whitaker: L.
j. Buffaloe. of Milburnie; X. j. Smith.
Of Panther Branch; Z. G. Penny. OF
Barton's Creek: J. J. Penny, of Oak
/ Grove: w. I'll. j. Goodwin, of Swift
Creek; Lonnie NJ. Green, of Wake For
est.
All of these. ! am told, are willing to
work for much less than Mr.. McMackin
is now getting. What difference does
1t make whether or not the work is
well done, just so a Democrat does not
draw the salary?
+ But just here it might be pertinent
to inquire whether Or not it would not
be well to consult the wishes OF the peo-
pie Of Raleigh township in this matter.
They pay all the money that is to be
spent by this supervisor. The people i'll
Raleigh alone pay nine-tenths of the
tax. They ought to have something to
say as to how or by whom it is to be
spent.
Certainly the Commissioners have no
right to 90 out of the district to get
man 10 sIenu IL "heh one 80 ~
Qualified Tor the work, so experienced
IN IT as Mr.. McMacklh can De lo'ilu
right here among the people VINO pay
the IaA'
bu', lhen' you AnoW' Pie-ii''lisei
must nave ilaeeS--oe they competent u
Incompetent.
ne bofds OF me county oAleers aft
also to be examined to-day ana renewed
~ +ha baa mi shni1}d consider Il uepgs.
sary.
The following committees we're m
pointed 70 examine books aud Offices o,
the county officers and renort back I,
the full fo2rd- Clerk Of Superof court
w. II. Chamblee; treasurer. ]. u. Till
register Of deeds. Rufus Barhee; sheriff
Rufus Barbee and ]. !. J.. Harris.
me f5iiow.a@ jury was drawn yes
terdaE for the January term o. Max
Superior court. FIRST week:
ltalcigll-N. q. Whitfield, i. /
BridEeford tcol}. II. a. Bland. T. i
Wyatt :. +. Mallett. Frcd 1cargai
tcol@. W. II. Buffalo, d. w. Royster, "
ii. Bunch, Alexander Taylor tcoi.l.
Barton's Creek-N. III. Ray, Jr., III
i. Thompson.
. White Oak-li. III. Rains. Z. Is. Pass
more, 4. \. Suggs Rufus Lassiter tcolJ
Aaron Scott tcol.1.
Marks Crpek-William Martin, ]. i
Medln, Albert High (col.). II. L. Talton
Il. b. Richardson, X. Il. Richardson.
Cedar Forks. G. House.
Mangum.
st. Mary's-Fonnie Stevens, Icanny
Pool.
Panther Branch--C. r. Rand, Aubry
Williams tcol1, ;. $. Turner, Jr., L. IL
Turner. ;. j. Rhodes.