The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-02
ON To WASHINGTON
Tina: is the Cry Now in North
Carolina.
To TIE NATURALIZATION
TO THE INAUGURATION
A GOOD DELEGATION FROM RAJ
EIGH WILL ATTEND.
MANY PERSONS ALREADY GONE
Gov. Russell will Not Attend But His
Personal Staff Will Represent
Him. Three Military
Companies.

ION to Washington" is the cry. AL
ready the exodus has begun. Even Sat
urday and Sunday visitors to the inaug
ration went by ones and twos. Yester~
day the capital-ward stream widened to
parties of dozen. To-day a sort of
immigration movement toward the Dis
tTict of Columbia will begin, especially
among the Republicans.
North Carolina will this year send more
Of its citizens to the Inauguration celebra-
ton than ever before. And of this num-
Der Raleigh will furnish her quota. A
large number of its citizens are getting
ready to debouch into Pennsylvania ave-
nue. next Thursday about the time things
begin to get interesting
The Tar Heel pilgrims are going to
take no back seat either, at this great
National event. They are going TO take
along with them bands and banners, brass
buttons and flashing helmets. Three
military companies have made prepar-
ations TO go-the Governors Guard, of
Raleigh; the Concord Rifles and the Ma
val Reserves, of Wilmington. There may
be others who will yet decide to go.
On account of the white elephant he
has on his hands in the shape of a Leg1sla-
Sure, the Governor cannot go, but his staff
will mead the procession toward the Ma
tional capital to-day. The party leaves
here this morning at IL 80 on the Sea-
board Air Line for Norfolk, where they
will take the Bay Line boat for Washing
ION. In addition TO a number of ladies and
invited guests, the party will consist OF
Adiutant General Cowles, Col. Marshall
l.. Mott, Col. Eugene Holt, Col. John
Hey Williams Col 2. III. Lybrook, Col
s. S. Batchelor, Col. T.. G. Harrell and
Maj. r. M. Hayes.
This party will make their headquar-
tiers at the National Hotel They go
early so as to get there and be well settled
before the great crowd arrives. The
troops will have Headquarters in the In
terror Department building, as has al
ready been Published in this paper. The
headquarters viii be draped with State
and National flags.
All the troops will start Wednesday.
The Wilmington company Will leave there
Wednesday morning on a special train
and reach here that night. They will be
joined here by the Governors Guard.
They will reach Washington on the morn
ing of the Inauguration. The Concord
company viii go by way of Greensboro
on the same day.
These three companies cannot make
any grand display, but they will most cred
itably represent the State among the mill
tary organizations that will be there. The
State Guard is hampered for lack of
funds. The State has not the money to
spend, and the individual members OF the
Guard, being young men who work for a
living and serve the State for love, can
scarcely afford TO pay for such al excur-
sion out of their own pockets.
The companies that do go. however,
will go in style, though entirely at their
own expense, and have Il conspicuous
position in the parade. On the reviewing
stand the State win be represented by
General Cowles, Col Mott and Col. Holt.
The Republican members of the Leg
islatnre have intended all along TO attend
the Inauguration of Mckinley, but now
they find this impossible, so far behind is
the work of the session. Everybody Is
afraid to leave for fear his neighbor
may do the same thing, and the quorum
be broken and the whole business collapse
right here at the end.