The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-05

Il Deaf Clli- chi' "A'NAN
evening.
Then like wanton boys who have ven
tured too far out on sea of glory"-his
bladders burst beneath him, and-well, he
was drowned ina food of votes.
Poor Frank, he trusted too much to the
tongue of fattery. Had he not died 50
young politically he would some day per-
haps have learned that politics, like cor
porations has no soul.
Great pity it is that Col. Stronach did
not have some of the Rev. HalleluJah
Ayers political hard-heartedness l asked
the Auditor what he thought Of the re-
suit Of the election. "Well," he SAID, L
amt bought no Grape and l don't know
that it has advanced in price in conse-
uuence of the defeat Of the lndepend-
ents."
Now this is brazen indifference worthy
| of a man of many battle and vanant
| deeds. Evidently the Rev. HalleluJah
is trying to pretend that he didn't mean
| word Of that Guy Barnes letter, after all.
| 1t seems that he. too, wanted us to
think he was just writing for fun.
| Though the Auditor may have gotten
some fun out Of it. Sherwood Upchurch
I didn't. He took it seriously and bet ac-
| cordingly. He made his wager with Ed.
Scarborough. He bet that the Brindle-
| Tails would win-Scarborough bet they
wouldn't The loser was to roll wheel
| barrow from the Carpitol to the 1arbo-
rough House. while the winner rode in 1t;
eat such a raw onion the winner
should select. smoke the meanest cigar he
could buy and take a long" of the
rankest corn whiskey on the market.
J There wasn't much fun in this, but Mr..
| Upchurch carried out his contract at
| noon Yesterday. Nearly thousand peO-
| pie witnessed the performance as the
| chariot" passed down the street. The
| winner, Mr.. Scarborough, one Of the
Third wards best Democrats, sat in the
| wheelbarrow. bearing aloft a banner on
which was inscribed THE jolly Third"
| Mean whiskey, mean cigars. raw onions
| and rolling wheelbarrOw-this, If pos
! sible-was worse mixtry than was the
Rrindle-Tai ticket. But Mr.. Upchurch
carried out his whole contract like man.
uttering no word of complaint except
that hereafter when Frank Stronach
runs for fun, and Hal. Aver writes for
! fun. he wants them to say so.
That was a pretty sight in the First
ward Monday afternoon when Mr. Pey-
| ton II. Uzzle, one of Raleigh's best citi-
zens. walked up to the polls and voted,
followed in line by four of his sons-strong
Democrats every one Of them. But this
is not all. Mr.. Uzzle is better Demo-
crat even than that He has two other
! IN Enurtb an1 tb
more living in the country-all of whom
vote the Democratic ticket every oppor-
tunity they get And what is better still,
neither Mr.. Uzzle nor any Of his nine
sons have ever asked for an office.
| \ StrOnach wagon went out to Cara
eigh Mills Monday to bring in Stronach
voters. 1t brought in twenty-five OF
| these. twenty-one voted the Democratic
ticket and refused to let the one who
voted for Stronach go back with them.
| 1t can no longer be said that there are
no colored people in Raleigh who know
, when the city is well governed and appre-
ciate IL good city officer. The manner in
| which they voted for Mayor Russ and
the other excellent officers with him on
the ticket has demonstrated this beyond
/! all question They voted for them on
/! principle-because they considered them
good men. and were unwilling to swap
| them off for men of whom they knew
| nothing: For this they cannot be too
| warmly commended.
| 1t was better than reading Il comic
F, edition of Hoola- Boom's paper. the Muir
ply Bulletin. to hear the Brindle-Tails
yesterday explaining how they were so
0badly beaten.
IL Tom Bailey said the landslide was
itcauSpd by the course Of Governor Rus
lkell.
Loge Harris said nobody but the candi-
| dates took any interest in the thing
| He added that he did nothing except lend
his approval 10 putting out Brindle-TaiI
! ticket as last resort for beating the
Democrats
Peter Cobb said it was because the
| Democrats had the money.
Frank Stronach said it was because
the negroes did not do what they prom
ised
Ed Denton said Leak and his crowd
| did it. and did him worse than anybody
! else.
| Every Brindle-Tail had an excuse and
! no TWO OF TneW agreed exactly.
! The public generally. though, seemed
I to be pretty well agreed that it was be-
! cause they didn't get enough votes by
some six hundred odd.
! THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
/ Mr.. John Birdsong Appointed County
! Student to the A. and NJ. College.
| Nothing but routine business claimed
/, the attention of the Board of County
. Commissioners yesterday.
! The reports of DIR. p. r. Hines, the
! county Superintendent Of Health, and
G. B. Ray, Superintendent of the Work
! House and County Home, were received
, and vouchers allowed. Rays report
! showed that during the month of April
the County Home had cost $793.
/ A petition was presented by Capt. Il. +.