The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-18
KICKERS STILL KICKING.
But the People Think for Themselves,
And VIII Not be Deceived by Them.

And VIII Not be Deceived by Them.
Having, by plain and straightforward
declaration of facts, swept away the
false statement put in circulation by the
handful of Office-seekers, the Democratic
candidates yesterday found everything
coming their way Those citizens, who
| had been deceived by the assertion Of the
kickers. FASTENED to- declare that they
would have nothing to do with any cause
that sought support by misrepresenting
facts. and their bold declarations drove
the Jim Youngites into almost frenzy
of despair.
They had calculated upon making
division in the solid ranks of the Dcmoc-
racv by injecting prohibition as ON issue
in the campaign. The promptness of al
mon who want good government in re-
nudiating the plan to divide them in or
dor that IRRESPONSIBLE rie-huntcrs could
get places at the public crib startled and
stunned them 1T would tickle the Radi-
calls and their allies to make division
upon some matter that i not now OF issue
so that they could slim in between two
factions of warning honest men. Bu'
their little game was too transparent.
The snake was quickly scO'ched.
There could be no better Illustration Of
the difference between the Demcorati"
candidates and their oTrnonents than IL
state that the Democratic nominees wero
nominated by primaries composed CT
1O74 of the best men in Raleigh. and the
ticket of the kiclers was PANIED Ivy
handful Mt n meeting held in Frank
Strenach's store. over which Harry Rob
erts presided He is the same Harry Rob
orts who participated in the Democratic
primaries, and in a speech h0asted of the
ronrth Of time he bad neon voting the
Democratic ticket. Before Roberts smoke
n that nrimarv. resolution he'd been
passed declaring that every man who vot-
ed in that primary was honorably hound
o surrDnrt the ticket It was of such
men that tho little convention Of kickers
was composed.
A rood many things hanTen these DAVIS
70 add to the humOr ard gayetv Of the
times. One Of these things happened
Yesterday whom some Of the little c0teTlH
If so-callpd INDEPENDENTS found them
selves stranded high end dry nv the de-
o,arations Of the Democratic city eXecn-
i've committee. ard the Democratic
nominees for aldermen.
Thor nrornnt correction OF the false
minors put ont by these sO-called inde-
~erdent and printed in Yesterday morn
:ne's News ard Observer, stranded the
little craft on which the Radicals were
drifting. and It was FUNNY Yesterday to
see them trying to null for the shore
Pit the funniest thing of all was the
method finally adopted to get the little
sinking skiff afoat again.
'''rhev did it because they were
| scared" said ono. and in half IN horr
the handful of kiclers were rolling this
md KINDRED phrases all over the city, and
their little skiff was making some
frantic efforts to heave ahead.
Put it was no go. The wind had been
| taken out OF the sails by the mere state-
ment Of facts, and the disabled skiff
went on drifting TO destruction.
"They never said word until they had
| word about our big inderendent meet
ing" said one OF the boilers. "Then
| they got frightened and went to passing
| resolutions"
This was the funniest OF all the chap
| ters in the DAYS proceedings.
IT was really too funny.
Think of it! A dozen honorable, loyal
natriotic. honest men named as candi-
dates for aldermen and city officials in
| DTlDldTpS III WHICH I.OIf OF IDP DeSt
citizens Of the town took part. getting
| frightened because a few dozen kickers
| and office-seekers got together and listen
cd to speech Of Jim Carroll declaring
himself an independent candidate for
Tax Collector! How funny that these
mon should get scared because the same
crowd that has been meeting every night
or two. For n week or more, met again
hast night. The idea of these men. whom
LOLA of the best citizers of Raleigh
named in an open and perfectly fair
manner, getting frightened because Jim
Carroll had finally broken the cords of
partizanship and declared that he was o
full-fe1ged. free, indenendert and IN
limited candidate for Tax Collector for
be it remembered that according to most
reliable reports, CAROLS announcement
was the only new thing that happened
at Friday nights kickers' caucus.
A good MANY funny things happen
these days. This was one OF the fun
NEST of them all