The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-01
AND STILL ANOTHER.
!. "A, SMITH OF NEWBERN JOINS
RECORDERSHIP CONTINGENT
He Announces ttis Cand dacY by Ask
ing a Conundrum of One
of His Rivals.
w ashington Post.)

The scramble among the colored poll
ticians of the States for the position Oh
Recorder of Deeds for the District OF
Columbia is growing more Interesting
each week. Candidates are not only
multiplying, but devising novel means OF
announcing themselves. The latest
spirant for the local Joo
is Isaac H. Smith, THE Original Nc
Kinley Man. of Newbern, \. c.. 1t
may be a gross injustice to Mr.. smith
to place him in this attitude, but the in
ference seems a fair one in view of the
following circular just issued by him over
his name and under the striking caption
Important Question Put; Would 1t be
Right
IF Mr. Fitzsimmons had won fine
house in Washington city as IL result OF
his triumph over Corbett, which rented
annually for $4,000, and John Smith had
been the original true friend of Mr.. f1tZ-
simmons and VIM. Dancy had been an
original true friend of Mr.. Corbett; If
either, which one should live in Mr.. Fitz-
simons house without paying rent at the
pleasure of Mr.. Fitzsimmons?
IF. in a case, where a nomination is
equivalent to an election. when VIM
Dancy bitterly opposed candidate up
to and including the nominating conven-
ton. is VIM. Dancy entitled TO an office
in and under that administration, which
never would have existed had things
gone his way?
HAS the colored race any unit of organ
ization saving and excepting the min
istry?
i tV-n son
church by chance We're applying for the
same office in Washington city, and
should Wm. Dancy find John Smith be
unanimously endorsed by all the bishops
OF the A. NJ. +. Zion church of America,
having one million souls UNDER their
Cody watch care, and other endorse
ments equal to another million of people,
should VIM. Dancy or vice-versa under
take to undermine John Smith by asking
the endorsers of John Smith to come off
petition of VIM. Dancy, would the one
guilty of such, he fitting and worthy, TO
hold an office over the cultured and re-
fined people of Washington city?
rs not the President entitled to the
profound thanks of the country for hold
ing to the popular doctrine that all Presi-
Dental appointees hold office during their
commission?
do you not understand the rule TO be
that when a chieftain triumphs, that all
his original friends triumph also? If this
be not the way, would not such one
be rewarding his enemies and furnishing
his friends, and would not such a person
go down in history as being a first-class
migrate?
Mr.. John c. Dancy, OF Salisbury, n
c., is kindly invited to aswer these Ques-
tons through the press of the country.
''tSigned) ISAAC HI. SMITH,
1.-The Original Mckinley Man, Newbern,
n. c."
The device of concealing identities by
altering first names is not so very bewil-
dering. but; that the average reader can
discern in ''Wm. Dancy" the redoubtabe
John c. Dancy, who early announced
himself as a ''dead-sure candidate for the
RecOrdership,' or John Smith as the
ingenious propounder of the queries As
a springtinle conundrum. therefore, the
Important Question is not as great
a success as fresh and entertaining
contribution to the history of the great
rush from North Carolina for the office
Supported solely by the citizens of the
District of columbia