The news & observer., 1897-02-23
Is the Song His Excellency is
Singing All the Day Long.
a BIG ROW IN THE CAMP
LAST NIGHTS CAUCUS HAD
DYNAMITE IN IT.
THE GOVERNOR sNueeEu
And Committee Appointed to Map Out
Plan to: Take Pie Matters into
Exclusive Legislative
Control
Control.

All Walter Henry lacks of being Judge
is a commission.
All "a hundred other pie-hunters lack
of having positions is commissions.
But these commissions are yet awhile
locked in dark and dismal uncertainty.
There is Il row in the camp; n regular
old-fashioned, rip staving row, and it will
not subside
A hundred of the faithful, tried all day
Yesterday to get some of the fins off the
fish, but every time they touched the
wiggling. slippery thing you could hear
an almost inautlible sqeal.
The bill to give Jno. Il. Smith control
of his special friends" in the peniten-
tia1y is hung up ON Lee Persons hook or
somebody else's hook in the Senate, and
John II. is not 0s gay as he used to be.
Senator McCaskey's little plan for the
little bakers dozen and a half of +. +.
P's to name their part of all the trustees,
directors. officials, attendants, etc. did
not strike any Of the Governors har-
monious chords, and it is said that his
execellency did proceed to read several
chapters of the riot act to the little boss
of the boilers bone-yard, and gave him
w uIAhEiStuitA tlAtlL 4lt ltAOHONCh W llttft
just a little something to say when it
come to exercising his rights as
the chief executive 1t is said
also that his EXcellency would just like
TO know a few of the wherefores of Mr..
Walter Henry's proposed elevation to
the bench TO say nothing of a hundred or
so other places that his Excellency natur-
ally imagines should at least pass some
where about the Executive office All
these things and more like them have
mudied the waters no little during the
past forty-eight or fifty hours.
Pritchard's spirit is everywhere, and
it is actively at work in an effort to put
a final quietness ON his Excellency. But
the Governor, is here in really, in real
flesh and blood large amount of the
former and considerable of the latter.
They each have their friends. Pritchard
has them by the score, every mothers
son of them expecting to be invited to
take a seat at the Mckinley Pie counter,
The Governor has soGne of the same kind
and he has others who admire his grit and
| frmness and there are lots of them who
know and who don't hesitate to say that
when Pritchard begins distributing pie
about four out of every FIVE are going to
get woefully left, and then the Governor
will have an inning and then the fur
viii fly from Marshall to Morehead City.
For these reasons and for many others
| the RAIDS had a caucus last night. The
+. T. P.'s. were not content to risk their
chances with his Excellency SO they
| sent a proposition to the Rad caucus that
| they desired to name their own men on the
| different boards and in the various other
| places.
So the Rad caucus discussed the
| knotty problem for an hour or so and
| finally appointed a committee to arrange
plans with the Pie Pursuing Pops, by
| which they could proceed with their pie
grabbing games without being in any way
under obligations to his Ecellency.
| The plan as virtually agreed upon is to
amend all the bills now before the Leg
| islature looking to a change i'm the man
| agement of the institutions take all ap-
| pxointments out of the hands of the Gov
ernor and name the boards asst hey go
along. This has increased the Governors s
| friends, and even some of the other fel-
lows are wayering and stepping about
az though they were treading on eggs,
and the merry war goes ON, adding to the
| gayety Of nations.